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GOD-BYE to the one-room school.





It is a sad farewell for many. of.





us, but a happy-"One for others.

Fifty thousand of the little red and





white buildings that once dotted the,





landscape of the open country are no

more, or with barred windOWs suggest

that they no longer are the scenes of

readin’,‘~'writin’, and ’rithmetic, empha-

sized by Iiberal applications of - the

hickory stick. Instead the boys and

girls go. to fine up—to-date buildings,





tev’ery‘ bit as good as their city cousins,

riding in automobile busses, a thing





which not so many years ago would

have been thought impossible. ' .



' Those of us who live in states where

the consolidated school is a new devel-

opment would find the progress that





has been made in many of our more





fortunate states almost incredible and

indeed difllcult to believe. Indiana has

more than one thousand of these new

kind of schools, Ohio more than nine

hundred, Iowa more than four hundred





_consolidated schools, either erected or“

and Minnesota





under construction,

more than three hundred, while Color-

ajdo, notwithstanding the mountainous

character of that state, has more'than

one hundred such schools. About fifty

thousand of the little one-room schools





have been abandoned the country over~





to make room for the twelve thousand

fine, modern buildings, in which these

boys and girls receive high school ed-

ucations, just as good as the city boys

and girls;



', It'does not necessarily follow that

theseconsolidated schools are located

invtown. A very large number of them

are set right out among the farms. In

a great number of cases the people in

the tiny villages and the surrounding

country have gone together and erect-

ed a school, thereby securing eduCa—

tional facilities far better than could

have been obtained if they had each





-:day the schools of





.the state were in Farmer.

session. "In that tI'EWeled

state, approximate





maintained their own schools. In prac-

tically no cases are consolidated

schools located in large cities.



It does not necessarily follow that in

every case a consolidated school

should be erected and one-room schools

abandoned, but in thousands of places

in this state and in the surrounding

states such schools afford practically

the only solution of giving the country

boys and girls an adequate education.



Iowa is remarkable in the develop-

ment of consolidated schools. It took

approximately seventeen years for

Iowa to secure its first seventeen con-

sdlid'ated schools, but it took only six

years to secure the next three hun-

dred. During the.





township school is one of the most im-

posing country schools to be found any-

where. It is set well back from the

roadway with five acres of grounds,

well laid out in front with shrubbery

and trees. The school building was

erected in 1916 at a cost of $52,000.

A home for the janitor and a residence

for the superintendent have since been

built. When I visited this . school

some months ago, there were two hun-

dred and forty -four students enrolled.

Out of this number se‘venty were en-

rolled in high school. Before the con-

solidated’ school was established there

were ten little country schools with a

total enrollment of one hundred and



forty. There was





 





 





last school year ap-

proximately 0 n e

n e w- consolidated

school district was

formed for every





Editor’s





1y three thousand

one-room rural

schools have been





 





 





._ Note. -'— This

is the first of a series of

five articles dealing with

consolidated ruralschools

written for the Michigan

The author has



approximately

ten thousand miles study

ing the best rural schools

in America and gathering

material for

He is recognizedas





no high school

work offered in the

township either,

and perhaps only

fifteen or twenty

boys would leave

the township each

year for further ed-

ucation. The school

district itself em-

braces thirty-eight

sections and twelve

busses are used for

transportation. The

high school boys





these arti-





on this sub-





 





 





 





 





closed, and more gliséuthofity

than fifty thousand ject.

children are being



transported every



day to these up- -to- date consolidated

schools.





Those who are acquainted with only

the little one-room schools would cer-

tainly be amazed at many of the mod-

ern school buildings in Iowa. The first

place that we shall visit will be the

Orange township community near Wa-

terloo, Iowa. Here is found not only

a fine consolidated school, but also per-

haps one of the most elaborate country

churches in the United States, and a





community life and development that





is remarkable. Probably the Orange





 





furnish teams and

are employed as drivers at salaries

from $50 to $75 a month.

Community Spirit important.

The community spirit that prevails





in this township is one of its remark-





able features. The school house is in

use nearly every night in the week for

some community entertainment or

meeting. The community library so-

ciety meets every Friday and everyone

takes part in the program. The Or-

ange township band of thirty pieces is

an important organization. The last

day of school, even when the district





E ONE- ROOM SCI-IO





EN T ER“ T fie Modem Scion/far Camztry Boys and Girls—By R P. Crawfbrd





school were in operation, has always

been made an important celebration,

with picnic dinner, games for adults

and Children, and the base ball game.

Each fall the harvest picnic is held on.

the banks of some stream, when the

men and older boys teach the younger

boys to swim. Here and there is also

a community banquet when new-:omv

are are the guests of the town.



Of course, the church plays an im-

portant part in community life. It was

erected a few years ago at a. cost of

approximately $40,000. It is heated by

steam, lighted by electricity, and has

an air pressure water system with hot.

and cold water throughout the build-

ing. There is a well-equipped kitchen,

large dining-room, twenty small indi-

vidual Sunday school rooms and a rest-

room Where the little children are cart

ed for during the church service. The

church has about three hundred mem—.

bers, and the average attendance at

the morning service is about three hun-

dred and fifty, and at the evening ser-

vices about two hundred.



This township is remarkable in that

farmers when they retire, instead of

moving to town buy a little acreage

near the church and school and settle

down there. Along the country road,

one will see a row of fine, modern

homes, comparing favorably with any

in a city, but it is in no sense a town;

since there are no stores Pr places of

business. It is simply a little country

community. The teachers in the school

never have trouble finding boarding

places, because the homes are always

open to them. The story of these oth-,

er features of the Orange township

community life is told here, because it

shows what can be accomplished.



Readers who would like to know just

how good a village school may be, are

invited to take a little trip with us to



(Continued on page 259).





 





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VOLUME CLVI. NUMBER NINE





DETROIT, FEBRUARY 26, 1921

CURRENT COMMENT





S the period of re-

adjustment p r 0 -





The Future gresses, a more gen-

Econom’c eral and pronounced

Balance note of optimism is to

be heard in business



Circles. This is especially true in the





eastern section of the country, which

was first to feel the stress of general

readjustment and liquidation. It is just

beginning to be true in the central

areas, where the general condition of

unemployment is being gradually re-

lieved, but according to current report

has not yet reached the western areas

which were last to feel the full force

of general liquidation.



In this connection it is significant

that this note of optimism is most gen-

erally voiced by those who have the

best opportunities and facilities for a

comprehensive economic analysis of

the situation. The opinion that busi-

ness conditions will soon be stabilized

and begin to improve is constantly

finding more frequent expression in ev—

ery quarter, and as soon as this opin—

”ion becomes general. practical results

of this kind are sure to follow. How

soon this will occur and 110w it will

affect the business of agriculture is a

subject 01' great interest to every farm-

er, particularly at this time when plans

are being matured for the season's pro-

duction campaign.



Farm pioducts we1e first to feel the

full effect of the readjustment piocess,

for obvious reasons. The season’s

crops were matured during the early

stages of the period, speculative hold-

ing was discouraged by the general

and urgent necessity for liquidation, by

the general restriction of credit and by

the lessened demand which always ac-

companies a general condition of un-

employment. As a result prices for

farm products suffered a greater de-

cline than prices for most other com-

modities. This fact is clearly illustrat-

ed by price figures recently compiled

by a committee on economic research

maintained by Harvard University,

which is doing some ve1y significant

work in studying the general trend of

commodity prices and business activ-

ities. ’



Figures recently compiled and re-

leased by this committee show the

present level of prices for farm prod-

‘ucts to be thirty-two per cent above

the pre- ~war prices which obtained in



’, 1914 while the index price for all com-





'_ modifies is seventy-seven per cent





ohmic the prewar level, and individual

‘ modit’y prices range as high as 184





. .- figure





   





given

goods. .,





While there is always considerabh"





variatibn between the index prices of

all commodities and the prevailing

price of” individual commodities, this

difference is always less pronounced





. under normal business conditions than





in periods of business disturbance and

adjustment. It is thus logical to dock

for a narrowing cf the spread between

commodity prices with the progress of

readjustment and the resumption of





more normal business conditions; This





movement may be in either one or

both of two directions. It may result

from the advancement of prices for

commodities which have suffered the





Farm Bureau’s





for: house furnishing :1





their late statement: “The heavy liq

uidat‘ion which has heen forcing down

commodity prices is apparently at an

end, but buyers in certain lines believe

that further concessibns are to be gain--

ed by holding off a little longer.” - '





which have suffered “least. The spin.

ion of the Harvard committee is ex-

pressed in the following excerpt from





 

 





accused in this movement H 2





Viewed 1mm this standpoint it is 12 .-,~ "

reasonable conclusion that“ this road. ’





tion will be inofit Med in futilre





prices for farm product'sw And if the





conclusions or the Harvm committee

and the general opinion in business cir-

cles is correct this reaction may begin

to be apparent during the spring





The logical interpretation of this imonths





statement, which we believe fairly r‘ep- '





resents general business opinion is that

the general drop in- commodity prices

has been stayed, and that while furth~

er readjustments will tend to level the

wide spread between these prices, the





N cw Secretary





Executive C ommz’ttee Selects M r. Brody





HE Michigan State Farm Bureau



has a new secretary. Clark L



Brody, the very efiicient and suc-

cessful agricultural agent of St. Clair

county, was the choice of the execu-

tive committee. _Mr. Brody after care-

ful consideration, has accepted the re-

sponsibility and will start upon his

new duties March 1.



No one seems to know of an agricul-

tural leader better qualified to take

up the exacting duties and to fill the

diliicult position of carrying on the

work of this great organization of

farmers. Mr. Brody has just finished

six years of service as St. Clair coun-

ty’s agricultural agent. He is largely

responsible for the organization of

2.350 St. Clair county farmers into

twenty-three cooperative marketing as-

sociations, ninety per cent of whom

were made farm bureau members; for





 





How the Newly Elected Secretary

Looks on Sunday.





raising the number of farmers’ clubs

in his county from five to twelve; for

the introduction and adoption of a

practical scheme of tile draining the

flat lands of St. Clair county; for the

launching of a campaign looking to-

ward the elimination of 'tubercular

cattle from the herds of the county—-

these are some of the outstanding

things on Mr. Brody's record of these

past six years of work.



In but few counties of the state are

the farmers as thoroughly organized

for marketing the products of their

farms as in St. Clair. Mr. Brody went

about the matter in a business—like

way, insisting that each cooperative

association be incorporated separately

and placed on a sound financial basis.

These associations now number twen~

ty- -three. There have also been estab-

lished four local markets for the dis-

posal of surplus milk, cream, eggs and

fruit.



While Mr. Brody’s success as an or-

ganizer has without question been his

greatest. accomplishment. ‘- '





 

 





.cow in the county.





 





the tile drainage project mentioned

above, has received the widest pub-

licity. Throughout the state and na-

tion the story has been told of his suc-

cessful effort to persuade the farmers

of the level areas in the county that

their first important act in the pro-

gram of production is the construction

of an adequate system of tile drains.

The results from the six hundred and

more acres drained during the past

two years has converted whole neigh-

borhoods to the necessity of soil wa—

ter control. Although an expensive un-

dertaking the farmers and the county

leaders have become so convinced of





the value of this work that they. have .





engaged a county tiling engineer to

work under the direction of the County

Farm Bureau.



Another activity in which this pro-

g1essive agricultural agent was the

moving spirit was the ridding of St.

Clair county of tubercular cattle. Out

of more than one thousand cows tested

in 1920 from five to seven per cent

were found to be reactors and were

destroyed. To complete this work the

farmers of the county are now arrang~

ing for an expert tester to test every

The Port Huron

City Commission has recognized Mr.

Brody’s work for better milk by re-

quiring that all milk sold in the city

be from healthy cows.



The attitude of the board of super-

visors of St. Clair county toward their

agricultural agent has been unus-

ually generous. Beginning with an

appropriation of $1,000 the supervisors

have shown their appreciation of Mr.

Brody’s work by each year increasing

the appropriation until in 1920 it had

reached the sum of $5,000.



No person could be in closer sympa-

thy with all phases of practical farm

life than is the new secretary of the

Michigan State Farm Bureau. He was

born on a farm in St. Joseph county

in 1879 and was graduated from the

Michigan Agricultural College with the

class; of 1904.

after Mr. Brody worked his father’s

farm and during the last three winters

of this period he served his alma mater

as extension specialist. He left the

farm in 1915 to take up his work in St.





‘ Clair county.





Through hard but careful work and

the constant devotion of his efforts to

constructive lines, Clark has won

the fulest confidence of all who'have

come in contact. with him. In the

words of one of his associates, a for-

mer county agent, and one who work-

ed along with him in the State Farm

Bureau organization movement, “Mr.



Brody is a quiet, rather reserved man

who wears well. He inspires confi:

dence wherever he goes, and the long

or. people work with him, the better

they like him.”



We bespeak for Mr. Brody the (full-





test cooperation of all those construc-

tive agencies leaking for the develop-

mentor a; efiiciont farmers’ can ..





 





 





For eleven years there—’





, Yerflitfiw 1.1





Certainly. business conditions are

likely to become better stabilized and

at least nearlyapproach normal dur-

ing the present year, whichprospect

warrants the immediate resumption of





normal..a.ctivities. by...the farmers of ‘





Michigan and the country. ‘Agriculture

is the nation’s greatest some of new

wealth, the benefits of which Will first

accrue to the farmers who create it,

just as surely as the full burden of re

adjustment was first felt by them. '





News of the Week





Wednesday, February 16.

EPRESENTATIVES of every bus-

iness factor in the industrial world



are sitting in Philadelphia to consider

ways and means of putting the build-

ing industry On the road to normal

activity—The Canadian government,

according to recent information, will

hereafter select its own governor-gen—

eral.—American sugar production in

1920 broke all records, the aggregate





being 2,605,174,000 pounds, or a twen-





ty-flve per cent increase over the pie

vious record.





Thursday, February 17.





HE United States Senate passes



.the Fordney emergency- tariff bill

by a vote of forty-three to thirty, and

the bill now goes back to,the house for

amendment—Japan “is coveting the

new Chinese port of Hulutao which is

being developed by Chinese'merchant-

men—March wheat advances 281,4

cents in three weeks. —Mi_chigan 1e-

publican state convention convenes at

Detroit, nominating James B. Moore

of Lapeer; Joseph Steere, of Sault Ste.

Marie. and Howard Weist, of Lansing,

for justices of the supreme court; W.

H. Sawyer, of Hillsdale, and Victor M.

Gore, of Benton Harbor, for regents

of the university; Frank F. Rogers, of

Lansing, state highway commissioner;

Thomas E. Johnson, of Goldwater, for

superintendent of public instruction;

Fred A. Jeffers, of Painesdale, member

of state board of education; John A.





Doelle, of Marquette. and M. B. Mc-‘





Pherson, of Kent county, members of

the state board of agriculture.





Friday, February 18.

N agreement is apparently reached

between the United States and

Great Britain in the Mesopotamia oil

controversy—The American Farm Bu-

reau Committee of Seventeen votes to

recommend the formation of anon-

stock, non-profit corporation to be.





-known as the National Sales Agency





which will handle themarketing of

grain after it leaves the producer.~—Im-

provement of trade with the Orient is

noted from reports of transportation

companies—Twenty states will join

with Wisconsin in challenging the

right of the Interstate Commerce Com-

mission to regulate state railroad

rates under the transportation act.





Saturday, February 19.

LOYD-GEORGE declares in -the

House of Commbns that the Brit-



ish should not expect Germany to pay

all that is being asked of her by the

allies. —-In six hours the senate passes

appropriation bills aggregating more

than $860, 000, 000. -——According to a

statement of the Michigan Tax Com-

mission, there was paid $30,000,000

more into the state. county and city

treasuries during 1920 than in 1919.~

Because fifty per cent of her popula-

tion is on farms, France has been able

to weather the unemployment situa-

tion better than most other European

countries.





Sunday, February 20.





FORMER JUSTICE HUGHES ac-





cepts President-elect Harding's of

for of the position of secretary of

state in the next administration—The

.senate passes on immigratiOn bill





which will pennit 354 000 foreigners to ’





land in the United States during the

year 1921.—-James R. Angeli, son or

Dr. James B. ell. tor year's





 





   

 

 

 





president of the 11119111111 “o Michi- V

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. continent.

'out of farming,” is the slogan in all.





 





GRICULTURE now promises to

beéome the dominating calling of ‘





the _twentieth century on this

“Get into politics or get





the provinces of C'anada. Agriculture





has filo-status in any country. History 1 . C ‘ K





will be searched in vain to find a clear

definition-or recognition of the class

which cultivates the soil. Denmark,

Belgium and Britain are breeders and





' exporters of stock, but these countries





do not class with Russia, the fUnited

States, France or Canada; as grain:





. grewing nations. In the days of George





and Martha Washington, a young man

could not be classed asga “gentleman”

unless he belonged to the learned pro-

fessions or enlisted in the army-or

navy. Such was the rigid standard of

citizenship laid down during the reigns

of the Georges and Henry VIII. In

more recent times in‘old Britain, suc-

cessful distillers, brewers, landed gen-

try and promoters, made up the most

exclusive aristocratic circles.



The United States was probably the

first among the great powers to recog-

nize agriculture in their international

treaties and tariffs, since the Civil

War. Many of our Canadian governor

generals, since confederation in 1867,

were men of wealth, who owned fine

herds, deer parks, landed estates and

many! saloons in London. Lord Duf-

ferin had great admiration for the

American republic and when Viceroy

of the" Dominion in the ’70’s, had al-

most decided- either to go into mixed

farming in Ohio, or fruit growing in

California. The great estates in Eng-

land, Scotland and Ireland, of the Clan-

ricards, Devonshires, Lansdownes, Der-

bys, Greys, Marlboros, and others such,

can be traced to the days of religions

persecutions and land confiscations.



The rapid growth and achievements

of the agrarian movement in Canada

have no precedent on two continents.

Old Europe can point to kingdoms be-

ing swept by a brilliant personality or

a. popular war cry, but they are no

parallel. The populists of the western

states of the American nation in 1893,

and the free silver parties, both looked





' formidable in some sections about thir-





ty years ago, but faded quickly. The

Granges and the Patrons of Industry

in Canada loomed large 'on the political

horizon in 1893-4, but they never got

anywhere. It is not a prophecy but an

established fact that four of the larg-

est grain-growing and mixed farming





fiat tée Orgamsm' Farmers A re Damg A cross Me Border—By Jo/m Gladstone Grace





 





 





provinces or states of the Dominion

today are successfully governed by the

cultivatorsof the soil. Over seven bil-

lion dollars is the estimated capital in-

vested in agriculture in Canada. The





progressive party~farmer, labor and.





soldier—base their claim to national

recognition 'on the grounds that this

enormous sum of money and the legion

of producers involved, have practically

no voice in the government. The same

is practically true of Washington. Sas-

katchewan is the foremost wheat-pro-

ducing province in the British Empire,

ranking next to Siberia in the grain

lands of the world. Canadian farmers

realize that our war debt must be paid

from the top six inches of the soil, and

not by bankers, brokers, promoters or

lobbyists who own administrations

while temporarily in charge of; the

treasury.



At its birth the new movement had

many transplanted American "farmers

to stand sponsors at the christening

of the “Grain Growers' League,” and

like a patch quilt it soon covered the

provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan

and Alberta. The eastern statesmen

neither at Ottawa nor Washington

heeded the l‘armers’ organization. This

I may say, is made clear by the late

Sir Wilfred Laurier’s attitude while

prime minister in 1910. Going along

through the prairie provinces in a C.

P. R. special train, a flag in the dis-

tance was the signal to stop to hear a

delegation. Mr. Tom King, the famous

Toronto journalist and nephew of Gen-

eral Sherman, who was Sir Wilfred’s

closest personal friend, would call out:

“Another grain growers’ petition, and

another speech, Sir \Vilfred.” The aged

Chieftain and the whole party joined

in the laugh. Premier Laurier would

say; “These grain growers are very

persistent, but they will vote Liberal

or Conservative on election day in the

same old way.”



That was before the farmers found

the young school teacher, Tommy Cre-

r’ar, who gave up the classroom to re-

turn to his father’s farm. At the big

farm conventions the grain brokers,

market manipulators and the whole





plant of middlemen were there with

bells on. In ringing tones young Crerar

told the convention that the farmers

were only wasting their time. “You

must resolve to be farmers on election

day, as well as the other three hun-

dred and sixty-four days of the year.

Otherwise you might as well dissolve.”



H. W. Woods, from Missouri state,

was new in the west then, and‘ young,

but he endorsed Crerar. The problem

was solved. The basis of an organiza-

tion was formed which today is nation-

wide in its usefulness and influence.

Mr. Wood is president of the farmers

of Alberta province, and many of the

leaders in the agricultural development

of the Canadian West came from Penn-

sylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota,

Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin. Michigan.

Unlike so many of the foreign ele-

ments, the Americans brought with

them trainloads of stock and modern

farming implements. They made a. de-

posit in the nearest bank, and without

further ceremony went to work as full-

fledged citizens. The late James J.

Hill, of St. Paul, who was Ontario~

born, was heard at his best when he

recalled the relations between the

troops of Minnesota and Manitoba

when they exchanged visits about fair

time, after harvest, in the old days.





London, Washington or Ottawa were





never consulted.



Ontario dominates the official and

political life of the new provinces of

Scotch, Irish and English extraction,

but the next house of commons of Ot-

tawa will have a good-sized contingent

of transplanted American farmers who

will be nominated by the agricultural

constituencies of Saskatchewan, Al-

berta, Manitoba and British Columbia

provinces. in the provincial legis-

latures elected within the past few

months are several former citizens of

the United States.



In the county and municipal bodies

of thefianadian West the Yanks of the

younger school are given a preference.

They are all advocates of the state or

provinces controlling the natural re-

sources—~vast coal areas along the

Rocky Mountain foothills; gushing oil





 





 





wells; timber and water powers. They

argue, for instance, that it was a con—

tinental miSfortune that the Pennsyl-

vania coal fields were not appropriated

by the state or nation when first dis-

covered. The laws, customs, climate

and traditions of both countries were

so similar that the settlers from the

great republic who took up land were

never strangers. In the Civil War in

the early ’60's the Canadians, disre-

garding British sympathies with the

south, were strongly allied with Lin-

coln, and forty-five thousand men,

chiefly of Irish extration, the records

show, fought in the northern battalions



Underlying the agrarian movement

in this Dominion is a strongly develop-

ed “Canada first” sentiment which is

manifesting itself in the insistence of,

a Canadian embassy at Washington,

and reserving the right to veto here-

after the appointment of governor-gen~

erals who are known to harbor impe—

rial 0r jingo leanings. What are the

farm-labor—soldier leaders demanding?

Better laws for the producers; cooper?

ation in purchasing farm implements

and equipment; the abolition of the

middleman in feeding the masses; bet-

ter rural roads; exercising more care

in the selection of seeds and sires; im-

proved facilities for marketing or with—

holding from speculators the grain

crop and live stock for export; cooper-

ation in household work, such as wash-

ing, milking, baking and a general

lightening of the burdens of the farm-

ers’ wives and daughters. These are

only some of the reforms, but the chief

aim of the new progressive party in

the federal house of commons, is to

see that the “invisible government” to

which the Borden Union administra~

tion surrendered after being returned

in 1917, and which is still in control, is

dislodged and banished as a pirate and

war profiteer. llon. T. A. Crerar, M.

P., of Manitoba, is the accredited fed~

eral leader of the farmers and will be

prime minister of the Dominion.



Our only war heroes are our private

soldiers. The Canadian publicity bu-

reau at New York, acting under in-

structions from the regency at Ottawa,

and the press propaganda, are tireless

in their efforts to make Americans be-

lieve otherwise. With the restoration

of peace, I believe all patriotic Cana-

dians share the view that we should

enter upon a new international era of

industrial development with a new

charter.





 





 





 





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Gregg. Wayne; C. B. Cook, Oakland; Stanley F. Wellman, Lapeer; L. V. Benjamin, Baraga; H. V. Kittie, Clinton;





-Murphy, Macomb; J. V. Sheep Shiawassee; A J. Hutchins, St. Joseph; Arthur C. Lytle, Otsego; E. S. Brewer, Presque Isle;





F. S. Dunks, Livingston; William





C. P. Milham, Ottawa; H.





.DennisOn, Shiawassee; L. T. Pickford, Oceana; H. S. Osler, Washtenaw; Frank Bennett, Barry; C. O. T. Scheetz, Alpena; E. E. TWing, Kalkaska'

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'JOHN A. DOELLE.





 





HE Michigan Farmer has asked



me to give a sketch of John A.

Doelle, nominated for member-



ship on the State Board of Agriculture



I at the republican convention inDetroit

on February 17. I suppose that what

the readers, of the Michigan Farm‘er

.will particularly wish to know is the

significance of Mr. Doelle’s nomination





to the 'Michigan Agricultural College

and to Michigan agriculture. Does he

possess a first-hand knowledge of

" farming and of school methods and

problems? What will be his attitude

towards the Agricultural College and

the other members of the State Board

of Agriculture? What kind of a per-

sonality has he? Is he a politician or

a constructive worker in the cause of

better education and agriculture? How

is he regarded in the upper peninsula?



Mr. Doelle learned agriculture in the

most practical school of agriculture

that the state possesses—a Michigan

farm. He was born on a farm near

Yale in St. Clair county, just long

enough ago to place him now in 'the

prime of life. He helped clear that

farm, when yet a mere boy, and he fol-

lowed the plow, swung the ax, did the

chores and whatever else belongs to

life on a Michigan farm in the pioneer-

ing period.



After his graduation from the‘Uni-

versity of Michigan. a score of years

ago, Mr. Doelle followed the profession

of teaching. I say “profession," for he

made teaching the serious business of

life. He believed in it and worked at

it with all the energy that belongs to

him—~and Mr. Doelle is always a very

enelgetic man.



His first school job was at. Benton

Harbor as high school principal. Then

he took the long jump to Houghton in

the copper country, where he soon be-

came superintendent of schools. The

Portage township school system which

centers at Houghton, covers a district

containing one hundred and seventeen

square miles, served by thirteen sep-

arate school buildings under one man-

agement, This is a township school

system, quite characteristic of the



' northern peninsula of Michigan, and it

would be well .if it were more characa

teristic of the southern peninsula also.

The district comprised an aristocratic

residential section on Portage Lake,

several mining “locations” chiefly pop-

ulated by un-Americanized Finns. Dur-

ing Mr. Doelle’s superintendency the

district adopted many progressive

ideas in education, such as free text-

books, domestic sCience and manual

training, employed busses to bring the

pupils living at a distance to school,

and built up a personnel of teachers

that was freely conceded to be one of

the strongest in the‘state. As an edu-

cator, Mr. Doelle's principle was, to

secure the best talent that he could

find and then meddle as little as pos-

sible, leaving the teacher free to make

or break, being answerable for results

only. Strong teachers liked his atti-





to do better, and it was only when on

rare occasions that hopeless incapac-

ity was manifested that resignations

were called for.

Near the southern extremity. of his

district dwelt the Otter Lake settle-



, 3‘ ‘ ments of Finnish farmers. Its agricul-

. 51111-111 methods were primitive. In their



‘ midst the school district, under Mr.

Doellc’s leadership, erected the well-

‘ ,known Otter Lake Agricultural School,

the parent school of somevthirty simi-

r schools now established in Michi-

' 3 T110 building had the construc





 





—-—in this state equivalent to election—'





. sula, with office at Ishpeming.





 





Ml] Undouétedly 01200.16 T flare Me72 At





in the better sort of city schools—-

electric lights, flowing water, modern

lavaro’ties, laboratory apparatus, and

It also stood

on a tract of forty acres adapted to

field work in agriculture, and much of

it was eventually putgto this use. This

school has wrought a. revolution in

What

was good for Otter Lake seemed good

for the rest of the state, and since

such schools are performing a service

in the cause of improving rural condi-

tions and agriculture to the benefit of

the state as a whole, it was deemed

well to encourage their erection gener-

ally throughout the state by securing

,Mr. Doelle,

L. M. Geis-





hygienic surroundings.





rural conditions at Otter Lake.





provision for state aid.





with the assistance of.Mr.

mar, agricultural agent of Houghton





county, and of Mr. J. G. Stone, a cor-

interest‘ed personaliy





poration lawyer





 





Northern Michigan’s Nominee for

Agriculture Board.





in agriculture and a member of the

township board of education, drafted

the law which, with amendments, is

now the statute under which some

thirty rural consolidated agricultural

schools have been established in Mich-

igan. I had knowledge of the proposal

before it was presented to the legisla-

ture of 1917, and I can say th t not

many people besides Mr. Doell , had

faith in it or took it seriously. Few,

including the then superintendent of

public instruction, believed it would

pass; lbut the Grange got behind it,

and it went through and surprised

most people by instantly winning favor

in the rural portions of the state. It

required some amendment at the hands

of the experts in the department of

public instruction, but since its re-

enactment in 1919, it has taken its

pl'ace as one of the most constructive

pieces of agricultural legislation in the

history of the state.



While engaged in building up his

“pet” school at Otter Lakewyr. Doelle

manifestly was becoming" more and

more interested in the problems of the

upper peninsula agriculture and devel-

opment. In 1917, he relinquished his





tude. Weak teacheis weie encouraged superintendenCy of the Portage town-





ship schools, to take active charge of

the work of the war industries re-;

sources committee in the upper penin-

'This

work ceased soon after the armistice,

and, the secretaryship of the Upper

Peninsula Development Bureau becom-

ing vacant. Mr. Doelle was appointed

to the position which he still 1101113.

This position has °aiforded Mr. Doelle

full opportunity for investigating and

experimenting in relation to the net--





oral resources and agricultural possi- 0318 01’ Red Rock wheat

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'members of this body.





   





   





Spnng Elect1'o72





public affairs. For several years back '

he has represented his township on the

board of supervisors and in that capa-

city has championed the rights of the

rural folks on a county board with a '

very large city representation. His . l,

sympathies are broad. He is at home

among all classes of people and has

the ability and the courage to stand by

his convictions. 1

Those who} know Mr. McPhersazi ' '

well have confidence in his ability and 1, .

believe he will make a valuable man _ . l"

on the board to which he willf'be elect-

ed, without doubt, at the “April elec-

tion. Those functions of the college

relating directly to practical agricul-

the Otter Lake school for a visit of ture will receive his very closest at-

inspection. Mr. Doelle believes in not tention.

trusting to hearsay in regard to mat-, ---—————-—-———

““5 entrusted to his charge LATEST FARM BUREAU news.

STATE income tax to supplant the





As a. member of the State Board of

Agriculture, he will inform himself A

present intangible tax on bonds

and mortgages is favored by ninety- '





fully as to its needs and performance.

Yet he is not the meddlesome, hard-

driving, ruthless executive. After four one per cent of County Farm Bureau

years Of employment under Mr- Doelle, officers in fifty~two counties making re-

I do not know any master I would rath- ply to the State Farm Bureau question-

er serve. He is extremely sympathetic naire on that proposition. The farm

towards all Who are aSSOCiated With bureau stated in its questionnaire that

him and .extremely anxious to be 0f Gogernor Groesbeck has informed the

service himself. He has the spirit 0f legislature that real estate was paying

cooperation in a very high degree, and eighty per cent of the state taxes and

in no sense does he seek to dominate. that personal'property paid but twenty

He 1‘5 very much alive, however, and per cent. Proponents of the state in-

if he can do anything to vitalize the come tax plan argue that the present

work of the college, make no mistake, intangibles tax is easy to evade and "‘

he will do it. is evaded

His interest in Michigan agriculture The Michigan Hardwood Association

is not confined to the upper peninsula. has appointed a committee of three,

His early career and present RSSOCia' headed by M. L. Saunders, of Cadillac,

tions assure concern for the Whole to work with the Michigan State Faim:

lower state, but he is particularly anx- Bureau in effecting corrective legisla-

ious to have the college function for, ti'on with lespect to Michigan timber

the development of northern agricul lands A yearly tax based 0114119 bare

ture, WithOUt curtailing its present land with a deferred tax on the timber

when it is marketed is favored. The

present taxation system‘taxes the tim—





work for the southern counties. He



has had to undertake expeiimental

ber each year, a condition which caus-_

es the lumbermen to lumber off their





work that properly belongs to the up-

,holdings as rapidly as possible, bring-





pe1 peninsula station at Chatham. He

is deeply interested in the state soil

survey and ClaSSificatiOD, and the de- ing about the evils of overproduction

velopment 0" our_cut-over lands, in and an undue depletion of the state’s

land colonization and rural credits. supply of lumber, according to F. H.

. I know 01' no man in public life W110 Sanford, of the 'Farm Bureau Forestry

1s freer from purely selfish motives or Department.

who is Personally less, col'l‘uptible- Inequalities in freight rates between,

That he should become one Of the six Michigan and southeastern territory . ,

members 0f the State Board Of Agri~ and those between eastern and south. }

culture is well, bOth fOI‘ the 0011689 eastern territory, said to give eastern ‘

and for agriculture in Michigan—C. agricultural shippers an advantage ov-

er Michigan producers shipping into

the south will be removed, says the

State Farm Bureau Traffic Department

in reporting that the railroads have

agreed to make concessions and pre-

part new rates on middle west agricul-

tural shipments into the south.

Shipments of seed may possibly be

accorded the stop ovei privilege on .

tiansit freight says the Farm Bureau .‘

Traffic Department. Seed has not been





 





 

 





in it. Not everything .which he has

tried out has proven successful, but

the bureau under his leadersmp has

promoted every" promising develop-

mental idea, and it is quite likely that

the district owes the newly aroused

public interest in its possibilities to

Mr. Doelle’s tireless efforts. ‘



Mr. Doelle seemingly is tireless. He

is the best illustration of the human

dynamo that I know of. He is particu:

larly likely to be working when and

where most men take a rest. At

Honghton we were quite sure that, if

the day Were particularly disagreea-

ble, Mr. Doelle would choose that oc-

casion for the long sixteen miles to





   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





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M. B. McPH ERSON.





 





HE second member nominated



for a position on the State Board



of Agriculture by the Michigan

state republican convention at Detroit

was M. B. McPherson, of Vergennes

township in eastern Kent county. As

with Mr. Doelle, this nomination means

election—the election of a man unusu-

ally wen qualified to discharge the im- accorded this piivilege

portant duties incumbent upon the . Manufacturers are absorbing mugh

wool from the Michigan State Farm, 1 ,

Bureau wool pool. Sales made recent; . . 1’

ly bring the sales total to approximate

1y a million pounds. Of the remaining

2,500,000 pounds over a million'pounds

has been graded. The grading work 1

is progressing at the rate *of 20,000 » \

pounds a day. The farm bureau now

has two factories manufacturing blank-

ets and auto robes.





 





M.1 McPheison does not need to be

introduced to things agaicultmally fo1

he is a real farmer, having been born

forty-four years ago on the farm he is

now working. He is a graduate of'the

Lowell High School and of the Grand

Rapids Business College.



His efforts at farming have been at-

tended with' unusual success. on the

two hundred and twenty acres of land

which he oWns and operates, the pro-

duction of tree fruits and pedigreed

grains has been carried to a high de-

gree of perfection and according to

Mr: Carr, Kent’s agricultural agent

Mr. McPherson is a very strong anyov'





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In last week’s issue the announce-

ment was made that A J. Rogers. of

Banish, tanner member of the egocu—g '

tive committee, was appointed score. ' "1

tary pro-tam of the Michigan

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Here Two of the Old One-room School Buildings Are used as Homes for the

' Janitor and Superintendent.





- Ex1t—One-Room School





(Continued from first page). ' study of the Orange township and the

the 0 er side of Waterloo, Iowa, and Jesup schools just mentioned. He first

visit t e consolidated school in the vii- found that the cost of one hour of

lage of Jesup. It is an unusually fine schooling under the immediate direc-

building, the total cost of which, in: tion of a teacher in the one hundred

eluding building, ground, and equip- rural schools of Black Hawk county

ment, was $110,000. Here there are was twenty sch en cents per pupil per

about four hundred pupils in attendJ hour. In the Orange township school

ance,.half Coming from the country and the cost was eighteen cents per pupil

half from the village. Approximately per hour, and the Jesup school twenty-

forty-eight sections are embraced in four cents. The tax levy for the run-

this consolidation and eleven-one- -room ning expenses of the Jesup school was

schools were abandoned twenty- three mills and 1‘01 the Orange



The school grounds embrace approx- township school 23.3 mills. The tax

imately eight acres, furnishing a splen— levy for the running expenses of the

did Setting of grass and trees fer the one hundred one- room schools in that

school building. The building itself county averaged 11. 6 mills, while the

has an extreme length of one hundred levy for the Waterloo city school was





, and fifty-nine feet, and a' depth of nine- 32.2 mills. Consequently it will be seen





ty-eight feet. A‘ very noticeable fea- that the consolidated schools cost more

ture is the wide coriidors approximate- money than the one-room school, but

1y sixteen feet wide. The building has are really cheapeI when one, takes into

three floors, the lowest floor being consideration what one gets for his

nearly level with the ground. The first money.

floor takes care of. the two lower ple get on with a smaller tax than in

grades, the manual training depart- the city. If a farmer was offered twen-

ment, the gymnasium, the shower ty acres of stump-covered, marshy

baths and locker rooms, and a lunch land "for $1,000, and twenty acres of

room off the gymnasium. On the main the best land in the world for $2,000,

floor are grade rooms,’and quarters for he would probably buy the latter, and

the agricultural department and a sew-’ call it a bargain. The same thing is

ing room. 0n the third floor is a mod— true with schools, and Iowa fa1me1s

e1 house—keeping suite consisting of seem to be finding it out. g



kitchen, dining-room and bedroom. However, just because the schools

There is a tile bathroom off of the ‘we have described are elaborate and

bedrdom. The dining-room has a fire- represent a. good-sized investment, it

place in it. The kitchen is equipped does not necessarily follow that all

with a large gas range and a built-in consolidated schools have to be large

refrigerator. There is also a dumb- and imposing buildings. There are a

waiter running to the lowest floor so number of splendid examples of coun~

that some things may be cooked up- try schools in the state 01‘ lbwa where

stairs and sent down to the lunch good types of brick buildings halve

room. The idea here is to give girls been erected in the open country at a

practical experience in keeping up a. cost of! $20,000 to $25,000. These

home of their own. On this floor is schools are especially desirable where

also a suite of rooms for the various it is not advisable to tie up a large

science departments. There are also amount of money. We shall visit two





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“You can ’1 beat Hercules 20% Low Freezing Extra

when it comes to getting out stumps. Just watch

this. one split up and come out—root: and all. Why,

this land will be as smooth as a floor 1n two months.

I tell. you, John, it’s 8 a cheap job and a quick one





when ou use

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“Of cOurse, I have to use more powerful stuff for

ditching and boulder blasting— Hercules 60 % straight

nitroglycerin dynamite. But for stumping I get the

work done better and cheaper with the Hercules 20%

than with anything else I’ve ever tried.



“Write the Hercules Powder Co. for their 68-page

book, ‘Progressive Cultivation’. It’s full of informa-

tion about the use of dynamite that’s right

to the point. What I learned from that book



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four‘recitation rooms on this floor. The such schools.

scfiool is provided with a good auditor- Five miles north of the town of Alta,

ium, opening out into the corridors, Iowa, is the Fairview consolidated

and as many as six hundred and fifty school. Buena Vista county, in which

people have been accommodated at one this school is located, has numerous

time. splendid consolidated schools, and this

In fact, one might say that this school is only replesentative of anum-

school building is equipped as well as her of others. 1

any city building in every particular. In fact, approximately three-fourths

There are telephones connecting the of this county is consolidated.

office with every room, a large vacuum Fairview school is a good type of small

. cleaning plant in the basement, and a. open~country consolidated school. Thir-

clock

room operated by one central clock. new district and ten 01 eleven schools

Outside the building there is a covered were abandoned in 1915 when this.

dr"‘eway so that the children can be school was built. There are approxi-

unlbaded from the busses in stormy mately one hundred students enrolled

weather without ’getting wet. in the school and about a fifth of these

Cost of Running Schools. are in the high school. The buildingfl

Professor Macy Campbell, of the a small two-story structure, cost about

Iowa State Teachers’ College at Cedar $25, 000. On the first floor are a largeI

Falls, completed a. very interesting assembly room, domestic science room,





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fr fruits and 1e {eh-1111;,u .:
. culture. on the second floor are five

"classrooms. The building. is heated

. with steam and a pressure water sys-

: tent is provided. Near the school is an

eight-room modern home provided for

the five teachers free of charge. The

expenses of‘running this school are

between $12,000 and $15,000 a year.

The cost of operating the seven bus

routes is between $650 and $700 per

month.



A unique feature of this school is a.

three months’ short course in the win-

ter for farmers and farm boys who

have left school and desire to do some

extra work during the winter months.

During one winter, for instance, a

week was devoted to traction engines,

another week to farm accounts, anoth-

er to stock feeding. and still another





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nary medicine. sometimes a mm is

hired for the shmt course, but last

year an instructor was sent item the

Iowa State College for each week of

the course. ‘ ~



Another good open-country cmsoii-

datedschool in Iowa is the Okobojri

consolidated school near Milford. This

school has about one hundred and six-

ty pupils, with a third crimes: in the

high school. The cost of this school

was $25,000 and the cost of mainte-

nance per year is about $12,500. A

unique feature in connection with this

school was the moving in of two of the





old school houses to serve—after being





remodeled—~as homes for the teacheis

and janitor.

In Iowa a consolidated school dis-





week might also be devoted to veto 3”





 





trICt in ynle a petition With the coun-

ty superintendent asking for the can.

solidation. Objections may also be

filed with the same officer. Theso find-

ing fault with the county superintend‘

ent may make an appeal to the county

board of education. The law then pro-

vides that an election shall be called

after the preliminaries ‘have been de-

cided upon. Village and country peo-

ple vote separately and if a majority

vote is not secured in both village and

country, the consolidation cannot take

place. Of course, this applies only

where it is proposed to consolidate

with a village, and not where the pro-

posed distiict is entirely rural.



Iowa's record with the consolidated

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years ago were nointe'd out as being

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the future some of the consolidated

schools will eclipse anything to be

found in our cities as far as the school

plants are concerned. Today one finds

many of the school buildings far in ad-

vance of those in any neighboring city.





 





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American Farm Bureau Will Sell Grain

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LANS for handling the grain crops

P of the United States through a



national, tanner-controlled sales

association, were adopted last week by

the Farmers’ Marketing Committee of

Seventeen at its meeting at Kansas

City. This plan. which is the result of

five months' intensive study of cooper-

ative marketing by the committee, will

now go to the various farmers‘ organ-

izations of the grain belt for their ap-

proval. In the meantime a special or-

ganization committee is making plans

to put the new grain marketing sys-

tem into effect. The committee expects

to be able to market part of the 1921

crop through the new channel.



The national grain sales association

will be organized on the non-stock,

IIOIl-[ll‘Ofit basis. Its members will be

actual grain producers. and it will be

controlled by them through a board of





directors. Under the control of the

sales association will be several sub-

sidiary corporations. Various sales





companies will be established to hold

seats on grain exchanges and sell grain

through the usual channels for the

present. An export corporation will

find foreign outlets for surplus grain.

A warehousing corporation will pro-





vide facilities for grain storage, clean-

ing and conditioning. A finance cor-

poration will issue debentures based

on warehouse receipts to assist in

financing grain movement. ‘



The existing system of farmers’ ele-

vators will be made an integral part

of the new system. The only require-

ments are that these elevators be co-

operative, the stockholders be mem-

bers of the national sales association,

and that only grain producers can be

permitted to hold stock. Farmers’ ele-

vator companies that do not now meet

these requirements will be given a rea-

sonable time to change their form of

organization, and even after that time

will be taken into the organization any

time that they do change.



Where there is no local elevator

company meeting these requirements,

local members of the national sales as-

sociation will be organized into a grain

growers' association, which will pro-

vide for handling and loading their

grain, either by contract, with a local

elevator company, or by buying or leas-

ing an elevator.



Growers will contract with the coop-

erative elevator company or grain

growers’ association to deliver their





surplus grain to it for a period of five

years. The local elevator company can

purchase its members’ grain direct for

resale, it can ship it for them on com-

signment, or it can pool all grain lo-

cally by kind and grade.



The local elevator companies will

contract with the national sales asso-

ciation to sell all their surplus grain

through it for a period of five years.

They can ship this grain on consign-

ment, in which case the sales associa-

tion will simply act as a commission

house, or they can pool with one or

more other local elevator companies.

In the latter case the sales association

will provide funds to make advances

to the growers, and will take title to

the grain, disposing of it when and

where it sees fit. When the pooled

grain is disposed of the entire amount

received,»less overhead costs, will be

paid to the local elevator company for

distribution to its members“



An important department of the na-

tional sales association will be the sta-

tistical department. It will collect and

interpret complete world statistics re-

lating to supply of grain and prospec-

tive demand. Thus farmers will have

information on which to market grain





intelligently, which they lack now.



Following are the principal results

the plan is expected to achieve:



1. Stabilize the movement of grain,

regulating available daily supplies to

the daily demand. °



2. Prevent or greatly reduce daily

fluctuations in price, and greatly les~

sen variation in price from season to

season.



3. Meet organized buying with a cen-

tralized selling agency which will have

the fullest possible information about

world conditions affecting supply and

demand.



4. Handling all the exportable sur-

plus 'through one channel.



5. Eliminate waste and excessive



costs in grain distribution by handling

grain through one central sales agency.

. 6. Provide adequate capital, farmer-

controlled, for marketing grain in an

orderly manner.

‘ 7. Eliminate waste and excessive

costs by regulating grain movement,

by controlling exports, and by opening

new outlets for surplus grain at

home and ,abroad, add substantially

to the not price received by the farmer

without any material increase in the

price to the consumer.





~ ~ What Is HappeningAt M.A.C





ECENT advancement of upper

R peninsula farmers in improved

crop production work, to which

the excellence of their exhibits at the

potato and crop shows at M. A. C. in

connection with Farmers Week bears

witness, has caused the Michigan Crop

Improvement Association to recognize

this section of the state by including

one of its residents on the board of

directors—Veryl Gormely, Newberry.

Upper peninsula farmers winning

prizes at the Michigan Crop Improve-

ment show were Murphy & Gormely,

Newberry, first in Rosen rye; W. B.

Stevens, Newberry, fourth on Rosen

rye, and John Dunbar, Rudyard, sec-

ond on ‘Wolverine oats. '





Potato growers of Cloverland also

showed their products to advantage at

East Lansing. In all cases it was evi-

dent the growers had been very care-

ful in their selection. C. R. Millar, of

Manistique, exhibited samples of cer-

tified potatoes of the Russet Rural and

Sir Walter Raleigh varieties. He also

furnished samples of “’oodbury White

’Rose. Bliss Triumph and Russet Bur-

bank. .,



The Whitney farms, of Whitney, fur-

nished a very fine exhibit of the Rue-

set Rural, or Late Petoskey. These

~ potatoes were remarkably uniform in



.. size and shape and were of excellent





Alphons Verschure supplied samples

of the Green Mountain variety that

were inspected for certification.



During the last year approximately

five thousand bushels of potatoes were

certified, practically all of them Green

Mountain. Counties that led in the

work were Baraga. Delta, Mackinaw

and Schoolcraft.



The future promises a wider field for

the veterinary profession in Michigan

than it ever held in the past, it was

indicated at the annual meeting of the

Michigan State Veterinary Medical As-

sociation held at M. A. C. from Febru-

ary 8 to 11. Something of the optimis-

tic Spirit prevailing may be drawn

from the fact that the meeting was at-

tended by one hundred and fifty dele-

gates and their wives, fully fifty per

cent more than Ever before.



Although the doctoring of horses has

declined, there is a continually widen-

ing opportunity in the treatment of cat-

tle, and in fact, yeterinarians today

are turning their attention more to.

ward cattle than horses. It was pre—

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the country, the number of veterinary

freshmen is the smallest in history,

will not continue to exist long.



At the same time it was reported the

horse is again coming into his own.

Now that the first wave of enthusiasm

for .the tractor as the “beast of all

work" has ‘passed, farmers are settling

down to a realization of the place the

draft horse must hold in the Michigan

farming system. It has been demon-

strated that the tractor is not profit-

able on farms of less than two hundred

and fifty acres, it was said.



Most of the addresses were techni.

cal. Out-of-state speakers included Dr.

David S. White, of Columbus, Ohio,

president of the American Veterinary

Medical Association, and dean of the

veterinary college at Ohio State Uni-

versity, and Dr. T. H. Ferguson, of

Lake Geneva, Wis. 1‘



A tuberculosis conference was held

in connection, the state and national

departments of animal industry and

the vete1inary depantment of M. A C.

cooperating.



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kins. of Detroit; secretary-treasurer.

Prof. R. A. Runnells, of East Lansing;

directors, Dr. E. T. Hallman, of East

Lansing; F. M. Blatchford, of Bright-

on; Dr. E. B. Cavell, of Northville; Dr.

A. McKercher, of Lansing; Dr. H. M.

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HE sheep industry of the United

States is the most hopeful of

those whose conditions today

are in the midSt of disaster. We are

exporters of grain, beef and pork, and

the dairy industry" is dependent to a.

certain extent. upon foreign markets.

Cotton must be exported, while wool





1 is used at home.





Our normal wool production is ap-

proximately 282,000,000 pounds and

our im‘pOrtaticn's' in 1920 were ' in ex-

cess of 427,000,000 pounds At the

close of the year these later figures

would probably require some additions,

as the difference in exChangeand as-

surance of a duty on wool afterthe

election in Nevember stimulated im-

ports. November imports alone were

over 12, 000, 000 pounds.



The sheep owner in the United

States then has an assurance of a con-

dition not vouchsafed to other farm

products, viz: a duty on imports and

only about fifty per cent of productiOn

at home. In addition to this the best

estimates of sheep decrease is about

2,000,000 over the high water mark in

this country. The possibilities of the

range have probably been reached in

sheep pioduction, and the farm flock

is the promise of dependability in con-

tinued supply.



The work done by the Extension

Service in Indiana covering approxi-

mately one thousand sheep in twenty

flocks in 1919 shows the' cost of keep-

ing sheep pei year to be $8. 64, ave1a‘ge

fleece 7. 9 pounds,

United States tariff commission basis

to secure the wool cost would be 62.5

cents per pound. These figures are

reasonably correct for Michigan flock

owners to apply and use as a basis of

calculation. I



The question then arises, what is a

fair price basis for wool? A reason-

able allowance for profit should make

Michigan wools worth sixty cents per

pound as a base rate, with some spread

for grade and quality. How to adjust

the import duty to build up the flocks

in Michigan and the United States is

then, a very pertinent question. .Un-

der present conditions this duty would

have to be over one hundred per cent.

But this starts on a base line which is

depressed approximately fifty per‘ cent

by reason of difference in exchange. In

fact, the tariff schedules will have to

be written with the expectation of re-

vision.



With the close relations of the great

wool-producing sections of the world

to Great Britain and their enormous

war debts public and private, the Unit-

ed States tariff schedules on wool can

not be permanently made. It is doubt-

ful if parity of exchange can be estab-

lished for several years, hence the wis-

dom of expert knowledge is minimized.

To meet these conditions on 1 the

ground, wool buying houses are send-

ing their representatives to Australia





1 and New Zealand to act quickly and





with exact knowledge. Also the wool

growers of these countries are estab4

lishing great wool pools for their pro-

tection and to facilitate quick action.



The first move in this great chess

board of international conditions which

reaches out to the remotest sheep own-

er in the United States is how to write

a. tariff schedule that will meet ,the

needs of the Wool grower on cost of

production, and meet elasticity of ex-

Change with flexibility cf duties A

flat rate of duty per pound would be a

constant menace and invitation to in-

crease the difference of exchange

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the agreement to use forty-eight per

cent as the. wool cost based, on annual.

sheep maintenance.‘ For example. In-

dian'a wool cost would be $.525 and Illi-

nois 3.534. Now to apply this new

type of advalorem duties based on wool

production costs in the United States





is really the most scientific approach to





equalize difference in labor and ex-

change costs that has ever been made

in the application of protective duties.

The Federal Tariff Commission would

each year determine the base, viz., pro-

duction ’costs, and then apply the co-

efficient of equalization. For example,

the London price of Australian fines

would be forty—two cents—United

States money—and .. the American .

standard cest of production determin-

ed by the Tariff Commission was six-

ty-twb cents f. o. b. Boston, then the

duty would be'tWenty cents. From an

administrative standpoint all wool

would have to be on a classification

agreed upon or determined by a board

of wool men. This method would have

its limitations and might become ap-

plicable after a. period of several years,

or when production in "the United

States would have become stable.

About the same results would now '

be reached by applying the percentage .

of duty to make up the difference be-

tween the present 'market price of

three-eighths Ohio staple, viz., fifty-two

or fifty-three cents. However, another

year this base would have disappeared.

The proposed plan is suggested‘for a .

period of three years, or until ex-

change becomes stable. Today the dif-

ference in exchange is a bounty 011

wool imports, and considering that

flocks are being sent to the slaughter,

a reasonable encouragement could be

safely extended to the sheep industry.

The approximation of production

cests for weal with a small profit

would increase the _fiock wealth in

Michigan within the next four years

around $25,000,000 without any serious

displacement of any other farm indus

try. A living wage and return from

investment would be 'morally guaran-

teed by this form of tariff revision, and

at an absolute gain to the consumer

if congress should take the next for

ward step in enacting the Truth-in'

Fabric bill. If the wearer of a suit of

woolen clothes were to actually pay

$1.20‘more for the day wool and be as‘

sured his suit was virgin new wool,

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ident called an international confer-

ence on disarmament. It was stated on

the floor of the house that the appro—

priations for the expenses of-the army





and navy for the next fiscal year would





total $610,000,000, which is more men-

ey. than was appropriated for the en-

tire expenses of our government’prior

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PRESUME that no one takes‘very

Iseriousiy the Wisconsin proposal to



invite the upper peninsula. of Mich‘

igan to unite with the Badgers. It is

recognized here that such an arrange-

ment would at the outset involve an





. amendment to the Michigan Constitu-





tion which fixes the present boundaries

of the state, and that it could hardly

be expected that‘lower state voters

would approve the loss of such good

taxing values, if they were careless

about any other aspects of the scheme.

Wisconsin’s invitation is undoubtedly

a good talking-point. One quite fre-

quently hears it said here that our

problems and connections more closely

associate us with Wisconsin and Min-

nesota than with southern Michigan.

Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota

are in the same latitude with northern

Michigan, and latitude signifies much

as regards climate, industries and ag-

riculture particularly. It has seemed,

too, that Wisconsin is officially more

alive to the needs of the north country

than is official Michigan. This applies

especially to soil classification, for-

estry colonization and conservation. It

must be understood that so far as time

and money are concerned. we are

much closer to Milwaukee than to Lan-

sing and Detroit, and that counts for a

good deal; while many of our" young

people are trained in Wisconsin edu-

cational institutions. Still I find very

little real secession sentiment, but I





upper Michigan get its full share of

official attention and good treatment.

It is this consideration that is back of

the proposal to put an upper peninsula

man on the state board of agriculture.

It is felt that; agricultural development

in the upper peninsula can better be

promoted by the agencies of the Michi-

gan Agricultural College, if a member

of its governing board is in a position

to call attention to our peculiar needs.



Miss Cora B. Hall, of the Michigan

Children’s Home Society, with head-

quarters at St. Joseph, spoke to the

classes in government and sociology of

the Northern State Normal School last

week. At present twenty-four upper

peninsula. children are receiving care

under the supervision of the Michigan

Children’s Home Society, which is a





non-sectarian, voluntary organization,





licensed by the state but maintained

by funds contributed by various coun-

ties and municipalities and private

agencies in both peninsulas, and which

operates throughout the state. Mr.

Frank G. Bell, of Negaunee, is chair~

man of the upper peninsula branch of

the society, and Mayor Harlow A.

Clark, of Marquette, is its secretary.

The main feature of this work is to

place children whose parents-are un-

able to 'give them suitable care, in good

homes to board at the expense of the

society.

Crop Reporters Needed.



Mr. V. H. Church, Agricultural Sta-

tistician of the Cooperative Crop Re-

porting Service, Lansing, informs me

that he has had some difficulty in get-

ting a sufficient number of. correspond-

ents in the upper peninsula, to furnish





WisconsmWants Cloverland . :

And 0t/2er Upper Peninsular [vim—”B, L. 21.. cease‘





do hear expressions of a desire to have





Mr. Church, after the publication of

the census‘reports on" upper Michigan

counties; which, should not. be much

longer delayed in relation to agricul-

ture, hopes to have full monthly re-

ports from every county and he ought

to have them. i ' .





. - New Type Snow Plow.



The Alger county road commission,

says the Cloverland Farmer, of Munie

sing, is constructing a large snow plow.

to be drawn by a caterpillar tractor.

and to be used in keeping the county’s

roads open in the winter. The plow is

tWenty feet in length and‘will clear a

road twenty-two fect.wide, while the

rear wings have a. spread of thirty

feet. It is said to be planned with ref-

erence to over-coming such obstacles

as have formerly worked. against the

use of plows here on roads in winter.

Both forward and rear sets of runners

have separate steering apparatus which

is said to obviate the turning in a

curve when necessary to take the side

of the road. By using both steering

levers, it is stated, the plow can be

turned off with a side movement. Upon

each runner a plate of movable iron is

attached to_ prevent skidding. These

are regulated with set-screws. The

front plow can be raised or lowered by

aglever as occasion requires. The plow

is built so that it can be propelled

either by pulling or pushing from the

tractor. The cost is given at about

$1,000.



Advocates Rest-room.



A writer in the Eevning News, of

Sault Ste. Marie, after some investiga-

tion of the subject, advocates that the

city maintain a rest-room for the farm-

ers of Chippewa county, and particu-

larly their womenfolks, for their use

and comfort while in town. This would

be a place where they can hang up

their wraps, use a phone, get warm,

attend to children, etc. As a matter

of fact, although many people do not

know it, the establishment of what are

designated “public convenience sta-

tions” in every city and village are re-

quired by the laws of Michigan, but

this statute has seldom, if ever, been

observed.



Activity in Road Building.



Mr. I. H. Davis, district highway en-

gineer for the upper peninsula, pre-

dicts great activity in road construc-

tion in this territory, next season, ac-

cording to The Soo Times. Contracts

have been let, or'will be let, for sev-

some three hundred miles of state

enty-five road jobs, and he figures that

trunk-line highways will be under con-

tract in the uppervpeninsula. this year‘i

Mr. Davies stresses the coming “Pike

Tour” as a promoter of highway devel-

opment in the upper peninsula.



'From various points come reports

that robins have remained in the up-

per peninsula all winter. The very

mild weather is the cause of this.



The announced dates for the Goge—





.bic Couny Fair are September 14-15-16.





The Gogebic Range Poultry Asso-

ciation plans to hold, a poultry show

at Ironwood the first week in March.

It is planned that extension specialists

of ’the Michigan Agricultural College

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district. My own opinion is that such

reports would be helpful rather'than

detrimental to the agricultural inter-

ests of the district, and it; is to be

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and timothy seed and 200,000 pounds

of commercial fertilizer for members

of the farm bureau of his county, for

use this spring, says The Escanaba

journal of February 11.



Ironwood reports the trial of a. new

snow-motor in that vicinity recently, as

having been very successful. The mot-

or is said to work on th‘eprinciple-of .

admin with a. spiral’arrangement that“

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A, f ping-of a tractor, over in Smith’s barn-





1 it is a sure sign of loose bolts or hood.





representatives to discuss ways and





‘President J. R. Howard has issued a

‘ call for such a meeting to be held in





”elation will be held at Michigan Agri-

mama Gdllege, June 22- 23. Care will

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.. easing along the road one

.. nby as spring I heard the “pop-





>Iot. It was yet too early in the season

for actfve farming operations and I

grew curious enough to go over and

see what he was doing. “



“I’m tuning her up fer the spring

plowing,” he informed me.





I noticed the smooth easy-ninning '





engine.





“She seems to be in tune now,” I





remarked. g . ‘

, “Yes,” said Smith, “but I’ve spent

theigorenoon in getting the result. I

found three loose taps, and a mixture

of dirty oil and bearing cuttings in the

engine._JAfter that was remedied, I

,located a rough spot in the cylinder.”

I watched while he went carefully

over the tractor.

with a wrench, oiled the bearings and

mopped out the grease cups with a

coarse cloth. He found a twisted rod,

and removed it.

“I’ll get this fixed tonight,” he said.

“It’s not serious, but some day when I

am busy it will break, unless it is rem-

edied. Afterward Smith explained his

plan.

“Each spring, before the cropping

season comes on, I take a day off to

tune up my tractor.

care, some rust is sure to gather, and

such places usually cause trouble later

on. Grease and oil which was not re-

moved in the autumn will become

hard and troublesome. Then, too,

slight breaks occur during the sum-

' mer, and were probably forgotten. This

'tuning day brings each one of these

.defects out. I provide myself with an

instruction book, a wrench, oiler and

several strips of sandpaper.

the engine—and listen. I have trained

my ear to observe the sound of the

'motor. If there is a “knock" I begin

with the rings and cylinder. If the

explosions are muffled, or sound dead,

I look for filth, dirty oil or rust. Some-

times smooth bearings develop rough

spots, these should be noted and re-

paired at once.”

I notice when the machine rattles,





Loose chains will also cause the trou-

‘ ble. Sometimes, when the motor does

not pick up as it should, I run kerosene

oil through the bearing surfaces. This

cuts away rust and cleans out filth:

If there is trouble which I do not un-

derstand, I stop and study the diagram

of the machine, in my instruction book.

, I trace each part and leazn what work

it performs. In many cases I can lo-

cate the trouble without tearing the

whole 'rig apart. “Another thing,”

Smith cautioned. “When tractors look

old because they are not painted, I find

it a good plan to give my machine a

coat of good paint each season.”





FRUIT GROWERSf CONFERENCE

CALLED.





 





The fruit growers of America have

requested the American Farm ‘Bureau

Federation to call a conference of their





means of advancing their interests.





the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois,

on April 5. The Department of Coop-

erative Marketing will have the meet-

ing in charge. Each State Farm Bu-

reau Federation has been requested to

send at least one official representative

of the fruit growers of its state.





 





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ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD CRED-

ITORS. ‘-





I sold a neighbor a cow a little over

a year ago, taking a note for $80 sign-

ed by the man and his wife, note bear-

inginterest at six per cent. Now the

note was due in November, 1920, and

he refuses to pay. Also he bought





_wheat and other things until the debt





amounts to $129.50.~ This man is a





' renter and has two teams, the cows





and other stuff, including baled hay,

but he has sold the cow, and is selling

off everything as fast as he can so he

What

steps can I take to get payment on the

note before he leaves? I understand

he has done the same trick with 0th

ens—Subscriber. ‘





Affidavit to the fact that the defend-

ant is disposing of his property to de-

fraud his creditors would entitle the

creditor filing the affidavit to an at

tachment of such property as is not

exempt from execution, and hold it till

judgment could be explained and ex.-

ecution could be obtained. The debtor

would be entitled to two cows, five

hogs, a team, tools, and provisions for

six. months from execution; but the ex-

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$250. Plans and efforts to sell exempt

property do not constitute grounds for





‘ attachment—J. R. R.





DRAWING LAND CONTRACT.





Can you give me some idea about

drawing up a land contract? I halve

sold properly in California, the buyer

making a down payment of so much,

and then a. certain amount each year

until the last payment, when he is to

receive the deed, he to pay the taxes

and interest each year.



It would not be safe to draw such a

contract without assistance of a lawyer

familiar with the law where the land

lies. It would be best to have a lawyer

in California draw the contract. The

little saved in making the contract

yourself. The little saved in making

the contract yourself is poor economy.



J. R. R.





 





GROWING ARTICHOKES.





I would like to know how to raise

artichokes for market. What kind of

soil do they need, and at what depth

should they be planted?



Van Buren Co. J. O. C.



I am not sure from your letter wheth-

or you refer to Globe artichokes or

Jerusalem artichokes. The ‘Globe va-

riety is grown but little in American

gardens. The edible part of this arti-

choke is .a. roundish cluster of closely

grouped leaves which are called

chards'. This edible portion is formed

at the base of the flower heads and re

sembles to some extent, a large cone.

The flower head scales must be cut

when young and tender. They are gen-

erally eaten raw, although theymay

be boiled and served in the form of a.

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_ The Globe artichokes are hardy but

require some protection drring the win-

ter in some northern sections. It is

propagated from seed or suckers, or

by the division ’of the roots. The seeds

may be sewn under glass in march

and young plants pricked into pots be-

fore setting in the field. This will en-

able the grower to cut edible heads the

first season. If the seeds are sown

in the open they should be sown in

beds where they can be left through-

out the season and transplanted into

the field the following spring. Plants

propagated from suckers show much

'less tendency to vary than those grown

' fromaseeds. ,... '

This :vegetable grovvs best» on a rich

metal, but welldrained soil. "use rows





 





 





 





and the plants spaced two feet in the

row; For the best results the planta-

tion should not be retained more than

two or three years. In some cases

they are kept but one year.‘ When

maintained for more than one season

the old plants are cut back to the

ground in the field and mulched with

five or six inches of coarse manure. In

the field started from suckers or pot-

ted plants edible heads should be pro-

duced from early in, the spring until

frost in the fall. . ‘ '





The Jerusalem artichokes are pro- '





duced to a very limited extent for the

American markets. It is native to the

northern part of the United States and

,to parts of Canada. The tubers which

resemble small sweet potatoes, and

which constitute the edible part, are

rated as equal to potatoes in nutritive

value. The taste is not relished by

most people. They may be served

boiled, pickled or cooked for salads.

They are considered valuable for stock

feeding, especially for hogs. When

grown for this purpose, the hogs usu-

ally do the harvesting of the tubers.





This vegetable can be grown in a

variety of soils from a rather poor

sand to a rich sandy loam, or any

loose porous soil. Under favorable

conditions the plants often yield five

hundred bushels per acre and some—

times more. The tubers may be plant,-

ed whole or cut into one to three-eye

pieces in a. similar manner to the way

Irish potatoes are cut for planting. The

tubers should be planted very early in

the spring. The rows should be about

three feet apart and the cut pieces from

fifteen to eighteen inches apart in the

row. As soon as the tops are dead the

crop may be dug or it can be left in

the ground through the winter without

danger of injury from freezing.



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SOY BEANS FOR HAY.



Last spring I planted some soy

beans. I drilled them in twenty-eight

inches apart with a grain drill and cut

them for hay, but I found they grew

almost too rank and the stalks were so

large the cows would not eat them.

Would it be advisable to drill them the

same as wheat and oats? If so, when

should they be sown and how many

per acre? What variety Will mature

and ripen in Michigan?



Hillsdale Co. ‘ ‘ L. G. R.



Soy beans can be drilled in broad-

cast with grain drill, like wheat and

oats, and then harvested for hay by

cutting them with mowing machine.

The only trouble is that on weedy land

the weeds are liable to get a start of

the beans and make you trouble. Again

if the land is clay and inclined to bake

after a rain the beans will not do well

if we have a cold wet season. This





kind of land should be cultivated and



loosened up for beans if you want them

,to grow readily. I think you would get .

just as good results by adhering to '-





your system in planting in rows twen-

ty-eight inches apart and drill the

beans in thicker. If cows once get to

eating soy bean hay they will eat the

stalks even if they are pretty course,

they «seem to like them; so will sheep

and horses. ‘ '



Any of the early varieties .of soy

beans, like the early green or early

~black, will ripen in Michigan. For hay

I would prefer the medium green or

even the late yellow,- as I think you

would get a. larger yield of hay per

acre.—-—L. ' ’ '





 





Quality, accompanied “by size. 3 is ,

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. milk on this ration, for two reasons.





' dairy cows if you had hogs to follow to





- expect them to eat all the stalks. I





o‘I' , ,_ corn-onvthe stalk.

'afiafzamixflfle 7, try}! .and‘ clover hay.

. may pmmne‘wrong on :us, that is,

three hays.fi'rherest are heifers com-

_ Qan'you advise

uswhat‘thegtrouble is with our ration

and howrw<a may rectify it? We have

no silo up at present, but will have one

before another winter. M. G. B.



I don’t think it would be possible for

.cows to give ‘a maXimum ‘amount of





It is.'altogether too bulky and it is

quite deficient in protein. When you

feed corn on stalks you do not get full

value of the corn.

people feed steers in this way, but you

must have hogs following or there will

be a great loss and it'would be permis-

sible to feed the corn on stalks to





take care of the undigested corn, oth-

erwise this corn should be run into a

silo to soften it up so that the cows

‘ can digest it readily, or husk this corn

and feed stalks to cows and grind the

corn. Corn stover and rye .and clover

hay are all right for cows if you feed

them liberally, so that they can select

the best of the cornstalks. You cannot





would suggest in addition to the ration

which you are now feeding, that you

would feed two pounds of oil meal .to

each cow per day and enough bran in

addition so that each cow would get

enough of the bran and oil meal to

make one pound of grain for every four

pounds of milk they p:oduce.-—L.





VARIATION OF BUTTER-FAT IN

MILK.





 





A neighbor claims that milk at the

end of the lacteal period is richer than

at the beginning of that period. Is this

so? We have been using milk from a

cow that will freshen March 1. We

have been unable to make butter from

the cream since October. We have

taken good care of the cream. Why

will it not churn? I have always un-

derstood this was because the parti-

cles of butter—fat were smaller and few

er in number at the close of the lac.

teal period. Am I right? Which breed

of cattle holds the world’s champion-

ship for amount of butter-fat produced

in one year? ‘ A. E. B.





When. a cow freshens she gives rich-

er milk than she does a little later in

the“ flush of the period of lactation.

But when the flow of milk begins to

lessen it gradually becomes richer in

butter-fat. Then at the very close of

the period of lactation when she is

what is termed a stripper, she gives

richer milk than at any other time.



Because your 'butter will not come I

do not think it due to the fact that

the cow is due to freshen in March, but

rather to the way that you handle your

cream. It should be kept sweet if pos-

sible till you have enough for a churn-

ing, then should be warmed up to sev

énty degrees for twenty-four hours, or

until it is properly ripened, and in win-

ter churn at about sixty-two degrees.

If you do this I believe the butter will4

come.



The Holstein-Friesian brer d of cattle

have the world record for the largest

amount of butter-fat produced in a

yearn—C. C. L. '





PUTTING SHOCK CORN IN SILO.





 





Do you think it practical to put un-

husked ,corn in silo at this time of

year? The corn is.a good crop, going

about 100 baskets to the acre. I was

thinking of putting in silo and wetting

while filling. P. H. S. ,



It is getting to be quite a common

practice to put shock 'corn innSilos.

Many people fill their silos in the fall

and'cut and shock the rest of the corn,

then when the silage is fed out suflia

ciently they ' fill, ' again, with shocked





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money. I mean those letters that -Fail- it’s too good a scheme. There won’t him. But he made it at last. And by

ing found on the ridge. I'm through be any witnesses then to yell around the time he'had crawled one hundred

fooling, Lennox. Dan learned that long in the courts. What if I choose to set feet over the snow crust, the whole

ago, and it’s time you learned it now.” fire to this house?” structure was .in‘ flames. 7The red

"Dan learned it because he was sick. :‘It wouldn’t surprise me a great tongues spoke‘with a roar.. _

He isn't sick now. Don’t presume too deal. It’s your own trade.” Lennox Cranston, the , fire-madness on his

_ and your crowd stole the supplies from much on that.” g shuddered once on his place on the face, hurried to the outbuildings. There

the forest station last winter—~and that Cranston laughed with harsh scorn. ’floor. . - be repeated the work. He touched 3.

probably influenced me to give the or- “But that isn’t the, questilm. I said ‘ “I wouldn't have to worry about match to the hay in the'b'ei; ,gandxhe

ders.‘ I'didn’t want thieves around my I’ve wasted all the time I’m going to. those letters then, would I? They are wind flung the flame thro“ "it in” an

house, and I don’t want them now. I You are an old man and helpless, but somewhere in the house, and they’d be instant. The sheds and other outbuild-

' don’t want coyotes, either.” . I’m not going to let that stand in the burned to ashes. But that isn’t all ings were treated with oil. And seeing

.. And I don’t want any such remarks way of getting what I came to get. that would be burned. You could may- that his work was done, he called once

out of you, either,” Cranston answered They’re hidden somewhere around this be crawl out, but you couldn’t carry to the prone body of Lennox on the

him. “You lie still and shut up. and I house. They wouldn’t be out in the the guns, and you couldn’t carry the snow and mushed away in the silences.

suspect. that sissy boarder of yours snow, because he’d want ’em where he pantry full of food. You’re nearly Lennox’s answer was not a curse

will come back, after he's through em- could get them. By no means would eighty miles up here from the nearest this time. Rather it was a prayer, 1m.

bracing your daughter in the snow, and he carry them on his person—fearing occupied house, with two pair of SDOW- uttered, and in his long years Lennox.

'find you in one piece. Otherwise not.” that some day he’d meet me' on the shoes for the three of you and one had not prayed often. When he prayedj

.. ' _ . . ,, ridge. He’s a fool, but he‘ain’t that dinky pistol. And you can’t walk at at all, the words were burning fire. His



If 1 were in one piece, Lennox an- , , , , , , , ,

, _ ‘ ‘ . . much of a tool. Ive watched, and hes all. It would be anice pickle, wouldnt prayer was that of Samsonfthat for

swered him very quietly, instead or 6‘ had no chance to take them into townnit? Wouldn’t you have a fat chance of a moment his strength might come





“You did say that,” was Cranston's

guttural reply. “But you see I’m here

just the same, don’t you? And what

are you going to do about it?”



“I probably felt that sooner or later

you would come to steal~just as you





bundle 0f broken bones that can t 11ft I’ll give you~just five seconds to tell getting down to civilization?” back to him.

Its arms, Id get up off this couclli‘ml‘ me where they’re hidden.” The voice no longer held steady. It .

armed as I am, and stamp on youl ly- ‘ “And I give you,” Lennox replied, trembled with passion. This was no CHAPTER XIV-

VVO miles across the ridges, Dan





mg 1195;" . , d“‘one second less than that—to go to idle threat. The brain had already seiz-

But C’ranston 9“” laughed and “6 mazes!” - ed upon the scheme with every inten-

Lennoxs feet With a cord flom the Both of them breathed hard in the tion of carrying it out. Outside the blowing between the trees. They

window shade. quiet. room. Cranston was trembling snow glittered in the sunlight, and didn’t recognize itlat first. It might be

He went to “fork V911" systelnalical- now, shivering just a little in his arms pine limbs bowed with their load; ov- flne snow, blown by the ‘wind, or even

First he rifled Lennox‘s desk in and shoulders. ,“Don’t get me wrong, erhung with that curious winter silence one of those mysterious fogs that some-





and Snowbird saw a faint mist‘





ly.



the living-room. Then 11“ ”(med 0“ “11 Lennox,” he warned. . that, one felt, returns often in dreams. times sweep over the snow.



the manlels and l‘ansaCked the cup— “And don‘t have any delusions in re- The wilderness lay stark and bare, “But it looks like smoke,” Snowbird

in me. either,” Lennox replied. stripped of all delusion—not only in said.





boards and the drawers. He was Iaum- gard

ing and 031m at fil'St. B“ as the mo- “I've stood worse pain from this acci- the snow world outside but in the

ments Passed» his PaSSion grew “PO“ dent, than any man can give me while hearts of these two men, its sons. too wet to burn."

him. He no longer smiled. The rodent I yet live, no matter what he does. If “I have only one hope,” Lennox re- But then a sound that at first was

l-eatul‘es became intent; the eyes new you want to get on me and hammer me plied. “I hope, unknown ,to me, that just the faintest whisper\ in WhiCh

.« rowed t0 curious, bright SW5 under the in the approved Cmnston Way, I can’t Dan has already dispatched those let-‘neither of them would let themselves

dark lashes. He went to Dan’s room, (lefend myselfv—but you won’t get a tors. The arm of the law is long, believe, became distinct past all deny--

searched his bureau drawer and all the civil answer out of me. I’m used to Cranston. It's easy to forget that fact ing. It- was that menacing crackle of

“00119“ or the “Dales hanging in his pain, and I can stand it. I’m not used up here. It will reach you in the end.” a great fire, that in’ the whole world

Closet He upset his trunk and pawed to fawning to a coyote like you, and I Cranston turned through the door, of sounds is perhaps the most terrible.

among 01d letters in the suitcase. Then, can‘t stand it.” into the kitchen. He was gone a long They were trained, by the hills, and

stealing like some creature 0f- the WH‘ But Cranston hardly heard. An idea time. Lennox heard him at work: the neither Of them tried to mince words.

(1913953: he came bRCk t0 the living- had flamed in his mind and cast a red crinkle of paper and then a pouring They had learned to face the truth.

1'00111~ glamour over all the scene about him. sound around the walls. Then he and they faced it now. ,

Lennox “'35 110*: on “10 divan where It was instilling a poison in his nerves heard the sharp crack of a match. An “It’s our house,” Snowbird told hfin.

he had left him. He 133’ instead on the and a madness in his blood, and it was instant later the first wisp of smoke “And father can’t get out.”

“001' near the fireplace; and he met. searing him, like fire, in his dark brain. came curling, pungent with burning oil, She spoke very quietly. Perhaps the

the passion-drawn face With entire Nothing seemed real. He suddenly through the corridor. most terrible truths of life are always

calmness. His motives were perfectly bent forward, tense. “You crawled from your couch to spoken in that same quiet voice. Then

plain. “9 had 3‘15" made a desperate “That’s all right about you,”'he said. reach that gun,” Cranston told" him both of them started across the snow.

effort 10 procure Dan‘s rifle that hung “But you’d be a little more polite if it when he came in. “Let’s see- you crawl fast as their unwieldy snowshoes would

0“ tWO 38‘ 0f deer horns over the fire- was Snowbird—~and Dam—that would out now.” ‘ permit.

place. and was entirely GXIMUSled from have to pay." Lennox's answer was a curse—the “He can crawl a little,” Dan called

it- He had succeeded in getting down Perhaps the color faded slightly in last, dread outpouring of an unbroken to her. “Don’t give up, Snowbird mine.

from the couch. though wracked by Lennox‘s face; but his voice did not will. He didn’t look again at the glit- I think he’ll be safe.”

agony, but had be?“ unable to lift him- change. tering eyes. He scarcely watched They mounted to the top of the

sell‘ 11}? in 1‘93011 0f the gun. “They’ll see your footprints before Cranston’ST further preparations: the ridge; and the long sweep of the forest

Ci'anston read his intention in one they come in and beready,”Lennox l'e- oil poured on the rugs and furniture, was revealed to them. The house was

glance. Lennox knew it, butlle simply plied evenly. “They always come by the kindling placed at the base of the a Singular tall pillar of flame, already

didn’t care. He had passed the point the back way. And even with a pistol, curtains. Cranston was trained in this glowing that dreadful red from which

where anything seemed to matter. Snowbird’s a match for you." work. He was taking no chances on firemen, despairing, turn away. Then

“Tell me where it is,” Cranston or- “Did you think that was what I the fire being extinguished” And Len- the girl seized his hands and danced

dered him. Again he pointed his rifle meant ?” Cranston scorned. “I know a nox began to crawl toward the door. about him in a mad circle.

at. Lennox’s wasted breast. way to destroy those letters, and I’ll He managed to grasp the corner of “He’s alive,” she cried. “You 'can

_“Tell you where what is? My do it-—in the four seconds that I said. the blanket on the divan as he went, see him—just a dot on the snow. 'He

money?" unless you tell. I’m not even sure I’m and he dragged it behind him. Pain crawled out to safety.” ‘;

“You know what I want—and it isn't goin' to give you a chance to tell now; wracked him, and smoke half-blinded She turned an sped at a breakneck





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S the preacher wandered in and

out among the exhibits on Farm-

ers’ Week, he'was much impress-

ed. There were the apples—dark red

McIntoshes, Wolff Rivers, as big as

musk melons, piles" of Grimes Golden,

our good friend the Baldwin, Seek-no-

furthers that our grandmothers loved,

and many more. And there was the

potato exhibit, worth any man’s going

to see. The grain show “was enough

to rejoice the heart of the farmer, or

anyone who likes corn meal muffins or

oat meal for breakfast. But one ex-

hibit was not there, which would have

been an addition to the whole thing.

That was an exhibit of the country

church. -



It would not be easy to assemble

such an exhibit, but it could be done.

The church exhibit might start off

with a photograph gallery, showing the

pictures of eminent men who halve

been the sons of country preachers. At

first we might put in the photographs

of one hundred heads of corporations,

each one of whom is a. millionaire, or

a. multimillionaire, all the sons of coun-

try preachers. Next would follow edi-

tors of great dailies, literary men like

Henry Van Dyke, Richard Watson Gil-

der, at least three presidents, Arthur,

Cleveland and Wilson, such statesmen

as Clay, Morton, Beveridge, Dolliver,

Hughes, and a long list of notables of

the present day, who are listed in

“Who’s Who in America.”



Then it might not be a bad idea to

have some models of modern country

church architecture, such as are begin-

ning to be found here and there in pro-

gressive communities. But before leav-

ing the photograph gallery, I would

have a picture of that preacher in the

Ozarks who has faced ruflians when

they came to break up his meetings,

and has arrested mountain bootleggers.

It might be well to have a picture of

the large city church in Michigan,

which said to a young minister, “You

go to such a town, where the church

is dead and buried. Dig it up, and

breathe some life into the corpse. If

the people there don’t pay your salary,

we will.” He went. The big church





~ did not have to pay his salary, not a





cent of it. -

' The model of a large “demonstration





. parish" would be good, also, such as is





being tried out in Michigan now, where

a large town church has two or three

ministers and 'a. lady worker, and With

this force five or six rural churches

round about are served ina most hap-

py way. There could be more to our

country church exhibit, but it would

take too much room. Howe‘ver, we

might finish up with a. chart, that

would give city church folks a'poplexy.

The chart would show that if the rural

churches should be closed allover the

land, hundreds of city Ichurches would

have to close, in afew' years, and if

ministerial candidates. from, the coun-

try should, cease to appear, the short-

age of ministers would .close many

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the sense and science of these pro-

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are card indexed, with name, species,

habits and street number attached.

There are the coddling moth, the 839'

sy moth, the Japanese beetle, the Eu-

ropean corn borer, the rat: the crow,

the English sparrow, Cooper’s hawk,

and many more. The "descriptions of

some of these enemies are almost ter-

rifying. One might almost say to the

farmer, “The worst» is yet to come.”

Foreign foes are invading the Ameri«

can farmer's fields. Much was said

last summer about the advent of the

European corn borer. If he should pay

a visit to the corn belt, he would re-

ceive more attention than would a. visit

of the President of the Republic. We

are told that the Japanese beetle is

just nicely getting under way, and

marshalling his forces for efficient de-

struction. We may hear more of him

later. And there is our old friend the

rat. 0n the rat exhibit it stated that

one pair, if unhindered, would increase

in five years to nine hundred and forty

billions. After reading that, the preach-

er turned around andwent back to see

if it was millions or billions. Again,

this listing and charting and card in.

dexing of your enemies is wise. It is

shrewd, scientific and Sound. By‘the

time some of these recent arrivals are

ready for work they will find the mod-

ern farmer armed to the teeth with

sprays and poisons and preNentives.

And then your preacher asked him-

self this question: wIs the church as

wise as the farmer and the agricul-

tural professor? Have we made a chart

of the enemies of religion? Do we

know who are the foes of the soul,

those who hate us, and our children?

For that is what it means. Those who

oppose God are the enemies of man.

What would we list as such enemies?

Indifference. The indifferent and stu-

pid farmer is the baneof progress.

The indifferent and stupid minister,

and church, officer, and congregation

stand in the way of all advancement

of the Kingdom. Another enemy in our

list would be the abuse of Sunday.

Still anotherrwould be the salacious

moving picture screen that has sent

more than One lad to prison. And then

there are particular enemies in one’s

community. The grasshOppers last

summer came to certain counties, but

other counties hard by, were not visit-

ed. One may have to make a special

chart of local enemies.‘ But the idea

remains. When one is shooting at a

target, he knows what he is shooting

at. Too often the church fires-off its

ammunitiOn into the air, hoping some

foe may be brought down, but no en-

emy in particular. As Roosevelt said,

“The only shots that count are the

shots that hit.” The farmer is fast

learning that. The church is also learn-

ing it. And the enemies of religion are

of greater importance than the ene-

mies of the farm. If the. coddling moth





should carry off .the entire apple crop. .





we could survive. ; If. foot-and-mouth

disease slew- the method-animal. 411W

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the North Fork, even if we could get

across; The nearest help is over seven

miles.” , _



“And Snowbird, think! Haven’t any

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“You know Cranston and his crowd

robbed the place last winter. And the

telephone lines were. disconnected

when the rangers left.”



“Then the only way is for me to stay

here. You can take the pistol, and

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through. I’ll grub. wood for our camp

meanwhile, and you can bring help.”

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“I know it does—~but mine doesn’t

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am speaking from my own desires

when I say I don’t want to make the

fight. Snowbird would never make it

through alone. There are the dolves,

and maybe Cranston loo—~the worst

A woman can’t mush

across those ridges four days without

food, without someone who loves her

and. forces her in! Neither can she

stay here with me and try to make

green branches burn in a fire: She’s

got. three little pistol balls—and we’d

all die for a whim. Oh, please,

please—”



But Dan leaped for his hand with

glowing eyes. ‘Listen, man!" he cried.

“I know another way yet. I know more

than one way; but one, if we've got

the strength, is almost sure. There is

an ax in the kitchen, and the blade

will still be good.”



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' too.”





Lennox seemed to be studying his'

wasted hands. “It’s a chance, but it

isn’t worth it,” he said at last. “You‘ll

have fight enough, without tugging at

a. heavy sled. It will take all night to

build it, and it would cut down your

chances of getting out by pretty near

half. Remember the ridges, Dan—”



“But we’ll climb every ridge—be-

sides, its a slow, down grade most of

the way. Snowbirdwtell him he must

do it.” (Continued next week).





Sunshine Hollow Items

By Rube Ruéiron '





John Munday and Stella Friday were

married last Saturday by Rev. Sunday.

They will leave Tuesday for Eaton

Rapids and be back Wednesday or

Thursday.



Melvin Hogan says that its fortunate

we can still get quite a parcel of edu-

cation after leaving school. Melvin

went to a university but says it isn’t

his fault because his folks sent him

there. But Melvin got right out after

graduation and learned a business

from the basement to the attic. He

was’nt afraid of getting his hands

chapped. So he makes a good “living

in spite of the folks that said he was

wasting time buying book learning.



Automobiles have spoiled the bath-

room 6ver to the Jones farm. Bruce

Jones drove nail holes, in an old milk





 





pail and hung it on an apple tree limb.

Then he poured it pail of warm water

-in it after dark and stood under and

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NE of the most encouraging signs



of the times to forward looking



women is the step in the right

direction towards educating girls. We

women, for instance, who sat, down

with the first baby and wrung'our

hands in hopeless ignorance, why were

we taught everything except the one

thing a girl should know, how to feed

the baby? What difference did it make

to us whether the sum of the angles

of a triangle equalled two right angles,

whether Caesar conquered Gaul or

Gaul conquered Caesar, when the baby

was dying because we could not fur-

nish nature’s food, and none of the

artificial foods we blindly offered were

of any use?



Yet if we had demanded from the

schools—or from our mothers—in those

good old days, that girls be taught the

science of motherhood if the science of

mathematics had to go neglected, we

would have been considered quite be-

yond the pale. For a girl to even think

she might be a mother some day was

so immodest, it wasn’t even decent.



But the world surely do move. If

the modern girl with her abbreviated

skirts and silken hose and no under-

wear, who is quite beyond the under-

standing of us mothers, has succeeded

in shaking off the .shell of false mod-

esty that hampered us, and has made

sages and savants sit up and take no‘

tice of what women really want and

need, more power to her. V





All this is a long ways from what I

started out to say, however, that the

board of agriculture in deciding to re—

quest the funds for a building where

experiments in feeding of infants can

be carried on, has asked the greatest

thing they could do for the state. The

day has gone by when correct feeding

can be looked upon as a fad. We must

know what to feed the new baby, for

seventy-five per cent of the mothers

simply cannot feed it naturally. It is

not a question of refusing, it is abso-

lute inability. That in itself is an

alarming situation, and its cause should

take up the time of another set of

specialists.



But the main thing is'to find out

what to feed the baby. Modified cow’s

milk is, so far, the best substitute, but

scores of babies are unable to take

cow’s milk no matter how it is modi-

fied. Then begins a search for some-

thing that will turn the trick. If you

are lucky and find it right away, all is

well. If the baby proves hard to suit,

there follow weeks of wretchedness for

mother and child, physical suffering for

baby, mental suffering for the-mother:



I don’t know 110w it struck other

mothers, but when I went through the

ordeal with my first baby, I was im-

pressed with the fact thatthe doctor

was just as ignorant as I was. In fact,

he was even more ignorant.

I had learned in a home economics

course something about the chemical

analysis of foods, the doctor didn’t

seem to have heard that'there was

such a thing as sugar, fat, or protein,

that foods might be analyzed, and that

you might go about the problem or





manner.





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ity instead of a dream, we can all know

what to do someday. ‘For experts

will carry on studies and expe1iments

in the new laboratories, and eventually

they must reduce the thing to an ex-

act science. Girls going out from the

school will spread the knowledge, and

the extension department, with its

workers and by bulletins, will place

the formulas in the hands of every

mother. .



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through the hell of caring for a baby

suffering from mal-nutrition can under-

stand what this means. But the num-

ber of. such 'mothers has grown so

alarmingly in the past fifteen years

that their united voice must surely be

strong enough to carry the day. We

want to know what to feed the baby.

And if a new building at M; A. C. is

needed to furnish us this knowledge,

let us by all means have the building.

' DEBORAH.





Patchwork—Old But New





HE aprons here

shown illustrate

an easy and at-

tractive form of decor-

ative work which can

be applied to all sorts

of garments and house-

hold diapexies.

These apions are of

black and white strip-

:edv percale, the ap-

pliques cut out of ore-

tonne and buttonholed

on in black. The re-

sult is two smart ap-

rons which otherwise

would have been plain

utility "pinnies." Chil-

dren’s bibs and little

girls’ aprons may be

brightened with cut-

out animals.

Unbleached muslin

with out-outs of pink

roses, yellow chrysan-

themums—or even the.

gay parrot on the an

row—make cheap cur-

tain material and give

the room a diessed- 1115

air. Cushions, buffet

scarfs and table runners ale quickly

made with this “patch work" applique.

Any girl' who is contemplating a

change in the color scheme of her bed-

room this spring may achieve pleasing

results with curtains, dresser scarf and

cushions and even a bed-spread of the





finding the right thing in a scientific

With the doctor it was a mate ,

ter of trying this thing today and ,that

tomorrow, while the baby grew feebler ‘





whim Room 12 x 14, 9 53$





same material, decorated with such de-

signs and colors as may suit her fancy.

Where several articles are for the one

room, it will be found that the best

effects are obtained if the cretonne se~

lected is composed of small, dainty de—

signs rather than the larger patterns.

One store is asking



fifteen dollars for a



bedspread of un-



b l e a c h e d sheeting,



with center and cor-



ners decorated in this



simple fashion. All



that is needed for the



.work is a. pair of sharp



scissors, artistic sense



to pick out appropri-



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ors, good needles, and»



patience. ' :



But the patchwork



idea is by no means,



confined to bedroom



furnishings and kid:



dies’ clothes. Shops



specializing in g‘ar—



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' lem confronting the home dress-



maker is that of designing and fit-

ting dresses for herself. The excellent

patterns furnished by pattern manu-

facturers are necessarily made for av-

erage proportions. Individual women,

however, are not all built according to

these average measurements. It is of-

ten found that a pattern bought ac-

cording to bust or waist measurement

may not fit at neck or hip.



When copying a design from the

fashion book, trimmings are hard to.

adjust, drapery may not look as it did

in the picture, and skirts are difficult

to hang. A long mirror is a great help,

and will be found useful to the home

dressmaker, but it does not entirely

fill the bill. The dress form really

solves the problem many times and

makes sewing for oneself much more

' satisfactory. '



There are various types of dress

forms on the market. It is not at all

necessary to. buy the highest priced

one, in fact, many prefer the least ex-

pensive ones. A'tight lining, carefully

fitted to the individual, should be used

with any form- There are inexpensive

bust forms which sell for a few dol-

lars, which may be made into a satis-

factory model with comparatively lit-

tle work.



The form should be bought tWO inch-

es smaller than the bust measure. If

the bust measures thirty-six inches,

buy a thirty—four-inch form, thus giv-V

ing leeway for variation from average

measurements. Hips and waist too

small may be padded out, but if too

large, the form is of little use. Take

a snug bust measure, keeping the tape

well up across the back and over the

fullest part of the bust in front.



A standard on which to mount .the

form may be bought for a small sum,

or the handy man around the house

can mount it on a broomstick or .a

pieCe of wood of sufficient strength,

securely fastened to a base on which

it may stand firmly. See that the

height of the form, from waist to floor

is just that of the individual.



The fitted lining is best made of





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No. 3178.—~A Simple House Dress.

Cut in seven sizes, 34, 36. 38, 40, 42, 44

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No. sane—A Popular “Cover-ail” a

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27-inch material. Price 120.



. .No. 3354.—.-Glrlsf.Dress. ,. Cut in four



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heavy unbleached muslin, as it will

not stretch. A fitted waist pattern

with side front and back seams, with

the pieces coming well down over the

hips, should be used. Baste the seams

securely. fit with seams turned to-

wards the wearer, or fit with seams

out and then turn and try on again for

any changes needed. Few persons are

just alike on both sides. ‘





The lining should be very tightly fit‘

ted from neck well down over the hips.

It should be sewed up the center of

the front‘and left open down the cen-

ter of the back. A tight-fitting collar

should be sewed to the neck. Fit all

seams carefully, trim to about a half.

inch wide, and notch on curves to al~

low stretching. Try on again to be

sure the fit is right. Mark the waist

line, the line for fastening in back, and

a line for the armhole, later stitching

with colored thread for a permanent

marking.



When the lining is ready, slip it on

the form, noting the points where the

form does not fill it. out. Pad out the

form where it fails to fit the lining,

making it fit snugly. Cotton batting

may be used satisfactorily for padding,

and when this is completed, haste or

carefully pin the lining in the back,

and the‘form is ready for use.



One complete sleeve may be made,

fitted and then stuffed with the cotton,

and enclosed at top and bottom with a

circle of the muslin. When it is desir-

ed to fit a sleeve, this arm may be pin-

ned into place on the form, after which

it can be removed and out of theway

when not in use. This sleeve form is

especially useful in fitting a coat

sleeve. 1 ' ’



If there are two or more women in

the family, lining may be made for

each, and providing there is not too

great a difference in size, the form may

be used for all. though the padding

will probably have to be changed.



The woman who has had many dis-

couraging hours trying to make her

dresses look‘ well, once she has used a

form, will never try to sew again with

out one.





 





No. 3368.——Girl’s Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 6, 8. 10 and 12 years. A 10-year

size will require 414 yards of 36-inch

material. Price 120.





 





No. 2932.—Girl’s Dress. Cut in four

sizes. 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. ‘Size 10

requires 3% yards of 38-inch material.

Price 12c. '





No. 3506.~—.Girl’s Dress. Cut larger?





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By Uncle Ed





bought a lamb he had. The way it"





GOOD story comes to me from



’way out in California and I will



pass it on to our boys and girls,



becausel'am sure it will be helpful to

everybody.



There is a. little town out there of





perhaps six hundred people in the vi!-





lage and the surrounding community.

It used to be until quite recently a very

dull, slow-going place. Then some boys

and girls thought up the plan of hav-

ing a pig club. The girls were just as

much interested as the boys in the

plan, and they took just as good care

as the boys did of their little porkers.





And because the young folks were in- '





terested, the old folks were,. too. New

life came into the homes all round that

village. Not long ago they had a great

day for the boys and girls.





the town gathered together to look at

them and see which was the best. The

result was that a. spirit of enthusiasm

has taken possession of everybody.

Even the people in the churches seem

to feel the difference and are working

together unitedly for the best good of

the people. And it all came about

through the Boys’ and Girls’ Pig Club.

I wonder if the pigs do not know the

difference, too, and feel like doing their

best for their little masters?

Better Than a Pig Club.



In speaking of the Boys’ and Girls’



Pig Club in the California town, we





 





 





 





011p presented by the Michigan Bank-

ers' Association for the state corn

club champion, which was won for

1920 by Forest Beddell, of Flint, Gen-

esee County.





The pigs .

were brought in and all the folks in ’





nght Start





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canie about will interest you. The?

bOY’s grandfather kept a. good many

sheep, and he had seven boys and girls

of his own. As these children one af-

ter another married and came to have

boys and girls, as-sOon as the boys





 





 





Theodore Stenson, of Covington, Bar-

aga County, wins the cup offered by

the Michigan Potato Growers’ Asso-

ciation for the second year.





 





 





were old enough to care for it, the

grandfather gave them a nice ewe lamb.

for their own. This boy whose lamb

brought him the five dollars took fine-

care of his lamb and finally'it had a.

lamb of its own. That was the one-

that was sold. Since then lambs have-

soid for a good many dollars more than

he got for his. But this gave the boy

his start. He opened up a. savings

bank account and put the shining gold

piece in as his first deposit. In after-

days he had quite a nest egg, all gain-

ed from the lambs the first eweraised.

and the wool which was sheared from

them. But the money was not the chief





thing. The boy had a. great deal of joy





caring for his sheep.‘ I am sure it gave

him a. better outlook on life to have

this interest in sheep.

A Little Dog and a Shep.

The principal of the academy where

I used to go to school when a young

man had a story he liked to tell us





. about two boys, one of whom spent all





 





 





have not spoken of the best part of it





lall. The young folks took a great deal





of comfort growing their pigs, and sure-

ly the pigs must have felt more com-

fortable, being fed and washed and

groomed so well. The club brought

some more money into the homes of

thosewho had them to sell; but the

fire in the hearts of the boys and girls

awakened by this new enterprise was

the best of all. You cannot tell how

much better farmers the boys will be,

and surely the girls will be better





home-makers than they 'would if they.





never had been members of the pig

club; for you cannot do any one thing





well, without being afiect‘ed for the bet- a

- ter in every other way. Some of the





boys who raised the pigs may not be

farmers; they may go into other lines





of business, but whatevei they do, they,

will do it more successfully because-10f .





their experience growing tine pigs. And





this is the way the world gets to be .





better.

“ AeBoy’s Lamb.





his spare time training a. little dog to'

do tricks. The dog got so it would do

a good many pleasing things, but the

boy never did anything very wonder-

ful in later life. He wasted his time





 





 





 

   

   

   

   

   

 





 

 

 

 





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‘The’other boy spent his spare mo-

merits working in a shop and he got so

he could use all kinds of tools, so that

when his course in the academy. was

done he was able to go out and get a

place as a mechanic. Little by little

he advanced until he finally became a

mastér workman in his chosen field.

The professor’s lesson for us boys was

the value of time well spent as com.

pared with hours frittered away.





All Work—No Play.



But shall it be all work and no play

with the young folks on the farm? Oh.

no! To make the life the best possi-

ble there must be a combination of fun

and business. A good many things we

do have thé‘imuality of interesting us

while they have something of profit

about them. There is a public market

not. far' from where. Uncle Ed lives.

Three times a week the farmers from

the surrounding country bring in all

sorts of things for the folks of the

town of eleven thousand to buy. One

day this week a couple of boys came

bringing two raccoons and sold them.

for five dollars each. That started

other boys, and they say they will

have raccoon on the market next time

they come. The boy Will have plenty

of fun hunting their raccoons, and

there will be some money in it for them

after all. Boys and girls who have be-

longed to a pig club or a calf Club or

anything of the sort know that it af-

fords them a great deal of pleasure,

besides adding. something to their

treasure of money. The best kind of

life is the all-round life, some work,

some study, some sport.



You Be the One to Start.



' “There are no clubs of any kind

near my home.” It may be some of

our young people say that. Why not,

then, be the one to start something

along this line? Think it over, talk

with father and mother and see what

they think would be most apt to win

out. Then go round and interest your

chums init‘ and push it with all your

might.





 





 





STRONG CHICKS THRIVE.





 





N raising chicks it is very discourag-



ing to start out with a flock con-

taining many puny specimens. They

do not thrive under the best of.care

and a high mortality rate is apt to re-

sult. Thrifty chickens have bright

beady eyes. They are alert and stand

in a sturdy manner. The shanks and

toes are not weak and spindly but well

built and suggest vigor. The beak of

the vigorous chick appears short and

stout.



Good quality chicks have medium

long and bi'oaLbacks and the fluff is

clean and rounded. They are the kind

of birds that scratch and sing and im-

mediately show the results of good

food by growing rapidly. The wings

staylclose to the body as if the bird

had the strength to keep them neatly

folded. Weak chicks are apt to lag

about the brood coop and try to stay

under the' hen at all times. If arti-

ficially brooded they are the type that

hugs the source of heat.





When once obtaining a flock of

strong chicks a very high per cent of

them can be raised if proper methods

are followed. In buying day-old chicks

it pays to try and obtain stock that

correspond to the vigorous type. Some

men who run incubators seem more

skillful than others in obtaining plump

vigorous chicks. Much of their suc-

cess is due to the quality of the breed-

ing stock. We find that eggs from

year-old and two-yeanold hens produce

plumper and stronger chicks than eggs

from. pallets. . Hens that 11an been

heavily fed fer, winter eggs do not pro-





 





   

   





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I would like to know how to make a

home-made oat sprouter.



Missaukee Co. E. B.



An oat-sprouter can be made by

building a rack and several wooden

trays which will slide into the rack.

The oats should be soaked two days

in pails of’warm water and then spread

out on the trays to the depth of an

inch. The oats will sometimes mould

but this can be prevented by placing

ten drops of formalin in each pail of

water in which oats are soaked. The

wooden trays in the oat sprouter can

also be sprayed to destroy mould.



The oats must be sprouted in a room





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that is sufficiently warm for plant . ' ,-





growth at all times. Poultry keepers

who do not have such a room conven-

iently situated often buy the commer-

cial oat sprouters which are heated

with a lamp. There are many styles

of them advertised in the poultry jour-

nals. Oat sprouters can be made of

any size, depending upon the needs of

the flock. by simply making the rack to

hold the necessary trays.



One commonly used sprouting rack

is made seven feet high and two feet

square. It can contain seven trays.

The temperature in the room should

not be less than sixty degrees F., and

the oats should be about ready to feed

on the seventh day. A square inch of

the growth per bird per day is com;

monly advised. Oats that are sprout-'

ing must be thoroughly sprinkled

twice a day as they require much,

moisture.





 





 





THE WORLD'S GREATEST CANAL

TRAFFIC.





 





The annual report of the Lake Car-1'

riers’ Association, just received fromi

their Cleveland office, makes possible,

an interesting comparison of the frat:

fic' passing through the Panama, thei

Suez, and our own St. Mary's Ship

Canal. We pride ourselves very much

on the Panama Canal—and its great,

work. But here are the figures: The

freight passing through the St. Mary’s

Ship Canals, in 1920, was 79,282,496

short tons, most of which went through

the American Canal. The 1920 figures

for the Panama Canal are 9,374,499.

The 1919 figures for the Suez Canal——

the latest at hand—~are 16,013,802 tons.

That indicates the relative importance

of the three canals in the world’s com-

merce. And yet when the question of

making a land grant in aid of the Mich-

igan big ditch was up before congress,

just after the Mexican War, there were

some who doubted that there would

ever be enough traffic to make it pay;

but from the time the, St. Mary’s Ship

Canal was opened in 1855 it has been

enormously important in the develop-

ment of northern Michigan and the

great northwest. In aid of its con-

struction the United States granted to

the state of Michigan in 1852, 750,000

acres of land, which, in turn, was turn-

ed over to the company which built the

canal as payment for the work. Of

this land grant, the company selected

252,000 acres in the upper peninsula,

of which a substantial amount is still

held. a





 





 





PLANTING. FISH.





 





The official bulletin of the Stam-

baugh Township Development Bureau,

Iron county, announces a project for

stocking local lakes with fish. Through

the cooperation of the Development

Bureau and the Bureau of Fisheries of

Washington, D. C., a consignment of

pike. brook trout, pickerel, and lake

trout is to be received in the early

spring at Stambaugh. Lakes Chicago-

an, Indian, Hagerman, Brule, Camp and

Golden will be planted. and also some

streams. The Stambaugh Township

Development Bureau is publishing a

periodical bulletin which, among other

things, listsg farmers ‘with live stack





 





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Road building is one of them. ‘





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Farms and Farm Lands

McClure-Stevens Land Co.





We have for sale;l.">000 acres of fine unimproved lands

well located. joming well settled locality. on my

terms: A tract of 160 acres, 5 miles from Gladwln



on dnily marl route,all fenced with woven with 20 more;

under fine state of cultivation. 6 acres in fruit. A

Sheep Bunch of 310 acreaall fenced, well grassed over.

living water, 70 acres cleared. 30 acres under fine

state of cultivation with fruit. ood buildin a, 250 head

of shoe . 4 stock ranches wefi grassed. enced and

waters with 111711;! water. .



MoOLURE-STEV NS LAND CO. Gladwin. Mich





High Class Dairy Farm For Rent





160_ acres fertile land within one mile of town, Good

buildlnsfi. burns to house, 100 head of stock and feed

for same. “'111 rent on share for term of years to

good dalryman or stock man who can finance one-half

of herd of an to 30 cows and furnish teams and tools.

Address Box .1115. care of Michigan Farmer, stating

experience and financial ability in first letter.





$250 Secures Farm With

Cozy Dwelling





Overlooking beautiful bay: 10 acres in famous resort

section: on good road, near beach, convenient olty~ 8

acres tillage.ideal vegetables and tropical fruits;orai1-

ges. guavas. etc; srtesian well; owner unable occupy.

n‘iakes low Ertce 51.000. easy terms. Details page 55

(‘atzllog BR 1t. STROUT AGENCY, 1210 E. T.

(:ruhum Bldg" Jacksonville. Fla.





FARM BARGAIN





120 acre Farm sandy loam clay bottom good soilto

raise any kind of crops. Large house with basement

good well. large barn. metal lined granary. silo. Will

sell with or without stock and machinery. 85 dollars

per acre. Requires down payment of three thousand

dollars. Edward Hesse. 1996 Gratiot Ave. Detroit.





FARM FOR SALE





20 acres Kent County, Mich. on State Highway, has

she frontage. soil level and fenced. Good two story

house. two barns. silo and tool shed. Price 810.0)

or acre—vane half cash. balance reasonable terms.

This ad will appear but once. dress owner. care

Michigan Farmer. Detrort, Mich.





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360 Acre farm on shares at Port



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water, large silo, level heavy soil. Write



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For Sale fl acres all under plum 2 horses. 1 cow 3

hogs. flock of chickens. all farm tools. dd-

lnss. Orchard. A bar sin at 82100. Easy terms. Writ.



JOHN OONA '1‘. Grand Haven. Michigan





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United Milker Will Double

Your Dairy Dollars.





The United Milker, the simplest, most practi-

cal, most sanitary, efficient milker made, will

increase your dairy profits. You can keep

more cows, and do the work with the same

labor or less. Double your herd, if you wish,

and make more money accordingly. A boy or

girl can operate it. Big time and labor saver.





Has the Famous “See- Thru” Teat Cup.





An exclusive feature of all United Milkers. One piece,

transparent, clear as a crystal. Tell at a glance what

each teat is doing. Rubber top and pump pulsator

action, giving complete vacuum release on teat—imi-





tates nose action of calf. Cows like it and let down





their milk freely.





Ask Your Dealer or Write to Us



Uniteds are furnished' in units for five cows



or more. Your dealer will give you com-



pjlete information pr write to us. All ,,

nited products are rant t.eed They »'



must make good orwe W111. Investigate now





UNITED ENGINE COMPANY

Dept. 37 hissing. Mich.





 





 





RAW 1111151





WE pay the Market’s Highest Mark.

Are absolutely reliable—established

1853-capital,l§l, 100 000. Write at once

E celaist and Booklet,





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“ Successful Tripping. "





TRAUGOT'I', SCHMIDT 81 SONS





153 Monroe Ave.





 





Security





Security in buying a horse comes

from your long experience with

horses.



Security in buying a suit is as-

sured if you sake advantage of our

75 years of experience in‘rnaking

clothes.



You will know the most de-

pendable fabric for your clothes-—

year in and year out.



You will know the styles that

as: right—safe and sane’— that will





 





Postal will do.





Detroit, Mich.





 





and TRRCTOR BUSINESS



. Earn $150 to $400 a Month

v Thousands have learned herein lites



,. \ weeks and are making big money as

repair men, drivers, and superin-

tendents. Many own garages making



$500 per month.

mum sermon. Dept. 2595

Kansas City. Mo.





be right as long as you wear the

suit.



For wear—service—looks—

most-for-doilar—you can’t beat

guaranteed Clothcraft Serge

Specials—tested by over a half

million wearers.



These common—sense clothes

are made in the largest single

clothing plant in the world—

where We make the greatest





Big Book Free.





Clnclnnatl .0.





 





number of Serge Specials—and





 





Pioneer

Dog Medicines





 





BOOK 0N





DOG DISEASES

And How to Feed





Mailed free to any address by

the Author

H. CLAY CLOVER CO., lnc.,

118 West 3lst Street, New York





sell them for less.





I Actual samples of these sergea—

free to you—in a little folder with

a big message-facts that will

I give security to your clothes





 





 





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GOOD story comes to me from



’way out in California and I will



pass it on to our boys and girls,



because-Yam sure‘it will be helpful to

everybody.



There is a. little town out there of





perhaps six hundred people in the vil-





lage and the surrounding community.

It used to be until quite recently a very

dull, slow-going place. Then some boys

and girls thought up the plan of hav-

ing a pig club. The girls were just as

much interested as the boys in the

plan, and they took just as good care

as the boys did of their little porkers.

And because the young folks were in-

terested, the old folks were, too. New

life came into the homes all round that

village. Not long ago they had a great

day for the boys and girls.





Right Start





bought a lamb he had. The way 'it’

canfe about will interest you. The

boy’s grandfather kept a good many

sheep, and he had seven boys and girl's

of his own. As these children one af-

ter another married and came to have

boys and girls, ass'oon as the boys-





 





 





The pigs .





were brought in and all the folks in '





the town gathered together to look at

them and see which was the best. The

result was that a spirit of enthusiasm

has taken possession of everybody.

Even the people in the churches seem

to feel the difference and are working

together unitedly for the best good of

the people. And it all came about

through the Boys’ and Girls’ Pig Club.

I wonder if the pigs do not know the





difference, too, and feel like doing their





best for their little masters?

Better Than a Pig Club.

In speaking of the Boys' and Girls’

Pig Club in the California town, we





 





 





Cup presented by the Michigan Bank-

ers’ Association for the state corn

club champion, which was won for

1920 by Forest Beddell, of Flint, Gen-

esee County.





Theodore Stenson, of Covington, Bar-

aga County, wins the cup offered by

the Michigan Potato Growers’ Asso-

ciation for the second year.





 





 





were old enough to care for it, the-

grandfather gave them a nice ewe lamb

for their own. This boy whose lamb-

brought him the five dollars took finer

care of his lamb and finally it had ’a.

lamb of its own. That was the one-

that was sold. Since then lambs have-

soid for a. good many dollars more than

he got for his. But this gave the’ boy

his start. He opened up a. savings

bank account and put the shining gold

piece in as his first deposit. In after

days he had quite a nest egg, all gain-

ed from the lambs the first ewe raised

and the wool which was sheared from

them. But the money was not the chief





.thing. The boy had a. great deal of joy





caring for his sheep.’ I am sure it gave

him a better outlook on life to have-

this interest in sheep.

A Little Dog and a Shop.

The principal of the academy where

I used to go to school when a, young

man had a. story he liked to tell us





- about two boys, one of whom spent all.





 





 





have not spoken of the best part of it

all. The young folks took a great deal

of comfort growing their pigs, and sure-

ly the pigs must have felt more com-

fortable, being fed and washed and

groomed so well. The club brought

some more money into the homes of

thosewho had them to sell; but the

fire in the hearts of the boys and girls

awakened by this new enterprise was

the best of all. You cannot tell how

much better farmers the boys will be,

and surely the girls will be better





his spare time training a little dog to'

do tricks. The dog got so it would do

a good many pleasing things, but the

boy never did anything very wonder-

ful in later life. He wasted his time





 





 





home-makers than they 'would. if they .,

never had been members of the pig,





club; for you cannot do any one thing





well, without being affected for theb’et- '





a ter in every other way. Some of the-

boys who raised the pigs may not be





farmers; themeay' govinto other lines





of business, but whatever they do, they"





will do it more successfully becausegof '





their experience growing tine pigs. And





this is the way- the world gets to be





better. _

A Boy’s Lamb.





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{9* things that ‘were really

.‘The'other boy spent his spare mo-

ments working in a shop and he got so

he could use all kinds of tools, so that

when his course in the academy, was

done he was able to go out and get a

place as a mechanic. Little by little

he advanced until 'he finally became a

mastér workman in his chosen field.

The professor’s lesson for us boys was

the value of time well spent as com-

pared with hours frittered away.





All Work—No Play.



But shall it be all work and no play

with the young folks on the farm? on.

no! To make the life the best possi-

ble there must be a combination of fun

and business. A good many things we

do have thihguality of interesting us

while they have something of profit

about them. There is a public market

not far' from where. Uncle Ed lives.

Three times a week the farmers from

the surrounding country bring in all

sorts of things for the folks'of the

town of eleven thousand to buy. One

day this week a couple of boys came

bringing tw'o raccoons and sold them_

for five dollars each. That started

other boys, and they say they will

have raccoon on the market next time

they come. The boy will have plenty

of fun hunting their raccoons, and

there will be some money in it for them

after all. Boys and girls who have be-

longed to a. pig club or a calf Club or

anything of the sort know that it af-

fords them a ,great deal of pleasure,

besides adding something to their

treasure of money. The best kind of

life is the all-round life, some work,

some study, some sport.



You Be the One to Start.



' “There are no clubs of any kind

near my home.” It may be some of

our young people say that. Why not,

then, be the one to start something

along this line? Think it over, talk

with father and mother and see what

they think would be most apt to win

out. Then go ‘round and interest your

chums malt and push it with all your

might. ~





 





STRONG CHICKS THRIVE.





 





IN raising chicks it is very discourag-

ing to startout with a. flock con-

taining many puny specimens. They

do not thrive under the best of.care

and a high mortality rate is apt to re-

sult. Thrifty chickens have bright

beady eyes. They are alert and stand

in a sturdy manner. The shanks and

toes are not weak and spindly but well

built and suggest vigor. The beak of

the vigorous chick appears short and

stout.



Good quality chicks have medium

long and broad_backs and the fluff is

clean and rounded. They are the kind

of birds that soratch and sing and im-

mediately show the results of good

food by growing rapidly. The wings

stay close to the body as if the bird

had the strength to keep them neatly

folded. Weak chicks are apt to lag

about the brood coop and try to stay

under the'hen at all times. If arti.

ficially brooded they are the type that

hugs the source of heat.



When once obtaining a flock of

strong chicks a very high per cent of

them can be raised if proper methods

are followed. In buying day-old chicks

it pays to try and obtain stock that

correSpond to the vigorous type. Some

men who run incubators seem more

skillful than others in obtaining plump

vigorous chicks. Much of their suc-

cess is due to the quality of the breed-

ing stock. We find that eggs from

year-old and two-year-old hens produce

plumper and stronger chicks than eggs

from. pullets. . ,I-Iens that havd been





heavily ted marinter case do not pro-





 





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I would like to-know how to make a

home-made oat sprouter.

Missaukee Co. E. B.





An oat-sprouter can be made by

building a rack and several wooden

trays which will slide into the rack.

The cats» should be soaked two days

in pails ohwarm water and then spread

out on the trays to the depth of an

inch. The oats will sometimes mould

but this can be prevented by placing,

ten drops of formalin in each pail of

water in which cats are soaked. The

wooden trays in the oat sprouter can

also be sprayed to destroy mould.



The cats must be sprouted in a room ‘





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that is sufficiently warm for plant ,.;"'\'





grthh at all times. Poultry keepers

who do not have such a room conven-

iently situated often buy the commer-

cial oat sprouters which are heated

with a lamp. There are many styles

of them advertised in the poultry jour-

nals. Oat sprouters can be made of

any size, depending upon the needs of

the flock, by simply making the rack to

hold the necessary trays.



One commonly used sprouting rack

is made seven feet high and two feet

square. It can contain seven trays.

The temperature in the room should;

not be less than sixty degrees F., and

the oats should be about ready to feed

on the seventh day. A square inch of

the growth per bird per day is com-

monly advised. Oats that are sprout—i

ing must be thoroughly sprinkled

twice a day as they require much.

moisture.





 





THE WORLD’S GREATEST CANAL

TRAFFIC.





 





The annual report of the Lake Car-g

riers’ Association, just received from.

their Cleveland office, makes possiblei

an interesting comparison of the frat},

fic passing through the Panama, thei

Suez, and our own St. Mary’s Ship

Canal. We pride ourselves very much

on the Panama Canal—and its great.

work. But here are the figures: The

freight passing through the St. Mary’s

Ship Canals, in 1920, was 79,282,496

short tons, most of which went through

the American Canal. The 1920 figures

for the Panama Canal are 9,374,499.

The 1919 figures for the Suez Canal—

the latest at hand—vare 16,013,802 tons.

That indicates the relative importance

of the three canals in the world’s com-

merce. And yet when the question of

making a land grant in aid of the Mich-

iga’n big ditch was up before congress,

just after the Mexican War, there were

some who doubted that there would

ever be enough traffic to make it pay;

but from the time the St. Mary’s Ship

Canal was opened in 1855 it has been

enormously important in the develop-

ment of northern Michigan and the

great northwest. In aid of its con-

struction the United States granted to

the state of Michigan in 1852, 750,000

acres of land, which, in turn, was turn-

ed over to the company which built the

canal as payment for the work. Of

this land grant, the company selected

252,000 acres in the upper peninsula,

of which a substantial amount is still

held. .





 





PLANT'ING. FISH.





 





The official bulletin of the Stam-

baugh Township Development Bureau,

Iron county, announces a project for

stocking local lakes with fish. Through

the cooperation of the Development

Bureau and the Bureau of Fisheries of

Washington, D. C., a consignment of

pike, brook trout, pickerel, and, lake





.trout is to be received in the early'





spring at Stambaugh. Lakes Chicago-

an, Indian, Hagerman, Brule, Camp and

Golden will be planted. and also some

streams. The Stambaugh Township

Development Bureau is publishing a

periodical bulletin which, among, other

things “113%.. , ere with live stack



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of herd of 20 to 30 cows and furnish teams and tools.

Address Box Jllg'). care of Michigan Farmer, stating

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Overlooking beautiful bay; 10 acres in famous resort.

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120 acre Farm sandy loam clay bottom good ooilto

raise any kind of crops. Large house with basement

good well. Int 9 barn. metal lined granary, silo. Will

sell with or w thout stock and machinery. 85 dollars

per acre. Requires down payment of three thousand

dollars. Edward Hesse. 1996 Gratiot Ave.. Detroit.





FARM FOR SALE





20 acres Kent County. Mich. on State Highway, h”

aka frontage. soil level and fenced. Good two Ito"

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his ad will appear but once. Address owner, care

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man cannever forget the pleas.

tire and satistaction of watching his

first hatch of downy chicks come from

an incubator.

ing made so efficient that it is not diffi-

Cult to obtain good results. Farmers

who do not own incubators will find

more satisfaction in raising poultry by

artificial hatching than with a large

number of old hens. This is a fact,

because brooders have been improved

to care for the chicks.



The writer believes that brooders

have been “improved more than incu-

bators. In past years many failures

with artificial incubation Were due to

poor brooders. Poultrymen' .could

hatch chicks which they could not

raise. But now that good brooding

equipment is available the incubators

are having little‘ trouble in proving

their worth. c .



It pays to follow the directions of

the maker of the machine. For the

first; hatch, mark on a calendar or make

a. chart showing the work that should

be done each day. The routine of man-

aging a machine will be learned during

the process of one hatch.



The eggs for the incubator should

be gathered often and stored where

the temperature is between fifty and

sixty degrees. When eggs reach sixty-

eight to seventy degrees a Slow growth

will start. Then the temperature may

be reduced, causing the germ to die.

Eggs that are chilled will also fail to

hatch. Eggs should not be held long-

er than two weeks and the fresher

they are, the better the chances of

producing a large per cent of livable

chicks.



The best location for an incubator is

in a, cellar but a room where the tem-

perature is around fifty to sixty de-

grees will be all right. The‘tempera-

ture inside the machine is censtantly

influenced by the outside air and if

that is frequently changing in tempera-

ture it will be diificult to regulate the

incubatOr. There is less vibration on

a cellar floor than in an upstairs room.

When the machine is upstairs much





. care is necessary to keep the tempera.-





ture as uniform as possible and avoid

heavy walking and hanging of doors.

Care should be taken .to level the in-

cubator before starting. '





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GGS must be taken out and turned



every twelve hours from the morn-

ing of the third day to the night of the

eighteenth day. The time of cooling

can gradually increase as more animal

heat is produced in the eggs. Return

them to the machine as soon as touch-

ing an egg to the eye proves it is cool.

It is not necessary to turn each egg

separately. Remove a few from the

middle of the tray and roll the others

toward the center. Then replace the

eggs in the ends. This procedure caus-





' . be in the business the poultry"





And incubators are be-'





es_‘the .. eggs to be constantly changing

their place in the machine. ._ :A



VWh‘enf the lamp wick is first trimmed

cut .711: straight. across. and slightly,

round the corners. .After that do‘ not

trim thef wick with shears but rub off

the burned portion each day with a;-

match.” A» pointed flame is not desir?

able, so have one that ”burns at an even

height from one end of the wick to the





other. The best grade of kerosene ob~ ' i '





tainable will .be the best investment.

This gives the most heat and the least

soot and odor. A reserve supply should

always be at hand to avoid the risk

of running out of fuel. ‘65 ,



When the machine is clotted the night

of the eighteenth day it must not be

opened until the hatch is completed.

When all hatching, appears finished

and the chicks are dry the machine

can be opened. Take out the chicks

and remove all broken shells, eggs that

failed to hatch, and crippled chicks.

Return the good chicks to the machine-

and hang a, piece of paper in front of

the glass door, it there is one, so that

the chicks will not peek at each other

but rest comfortably while spread out

over the egg tray or the nursery. They

do not‘need any feed until forty-eight

to sixty hours old. If fed before that

time bowel trouble is more apt to re

sult. If his hard to keep down the

temperature in the machine, open the

door slightly. Do not let ‘the chicks

overheat. We like to let the tempera-

ture amp to about ninety degrees soon

after the hatching is completed and

while the chicks are waiting to be re‘

moved to a brooder. .



After each hatch, incubators should

be thoroughly scrubbed‘lwith one of

the commercial disinfectants drink};

hot soda. water. After a careful w’ash-

ing it pays to dry the trays in the sun—

shine. ~ The old wick can be removed

and the burner boiled in soda. water to

rem0ve gummy accumulations. A clean

burner is easy to regulate. Some risk

is avoided by placing a new wick in

the burner for each hatch. Sometimes

hatches have been injured when short

wicks failed to reach the'oil, causing

the lamps to go out at night.





HERE are three ways of running

the temperature of an incubator

and We have had about equal success

with each one. The first plan is to use

102 degrees the first week, 103 degrees

the second week and 104. degrees the

third week. Another plan is to use

102% degrees the first week, 103 de-

grees the second week and 103% de.

grees the third week. The other plan

is to try and keep the thermometer at

103 degrees throughout the hatch and

let it go at that. The‘results will be

good if other conditions are right and

the machine. stays at 103 degrees

throughout the hatch.

If the machine goes a. few degrees

below one hundred for a. few hours it





 





 





 

   





 

 





   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 





 





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S. C. W. Leghorns, 815.00 per 100; S. C.

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. _ l: as soon as” pos‘Sible. _But 'if’

Fgoesjup to 106 degrees or more it may

causeseriou's trouble. Our plan is to

adjust, our machines so they will never





ger of cOOling down. This, is. better

than insuring plenty of heat and run-





this because the eggs that cool down

for a short time do not seem to suffer

injury. But the eggs that overheat are





ly chicks or not hatch at all. Near

the end of a hatch the machine may

often run up “to-about 104 or 105 de-

grees because of the large amount of

animal heat in the eggs but this cau‘s-

es no trouble. Never open the machine

to cool it down even if it does seem

‘ several degrees too warm while the

chicks are hatching. . '



We do not know which is the best

incubator. A lot of them work nicely.

The more expensive makes can natur-

ally be expected to last longer. Some

of them have fireproof features which

are practical. Sometimes second-hand

incubators can be purchased at low

prices and if they are in good condi-

tion they give good results. Some

breeders have made their own. incubat-

ors. We do not advise this if time is

very valuable, as then good machines

can be purchased for less than they

can be made. Even then the home-

made machines may not be properly

insulated and protected from fire risks.

An incubator is not a complicated ma-

chine. It is built on the principal of

a box which can be heated and venti-

lated. The eggs are placed in the box

and the operator tries to successfully

imitate the old hen. Even one small

incubator can be made a profitable

farm flock builder and made‘to pay

large interest on the investment.





CURING SCALY LEG.





I have several spring chickens that

halve heavy scales on their legs. Would





 





 





 





you please tell me what treatment

should be used? What is the cause of

these scales?



Menominee Co. H. E.





The scales on the legs of your poul-

try are caused by the scaly leg para-

site which burrows under the scales

of the legs and causes the rough ap~

pearance. The legs can be washed

with warm soapy waler.’ This will

loosen up the encrustations. Then re-

move as much as possible and rub the

legs with kerosene oil to kill the para-

sites. This condition occurs most of-

ten among old hens and some cases

may prove obstinate, but it is usually

easy to cure.





ELIMINATING TUBERCULOSlS.





Please tell me what to do to get rid

of tuberculosis among chickens, and

what is the best disinfectant to use?

.Hillsdale Co. B. C.





Any of the commercial coal-tar disin~

fectants are good for spraying poultry

houses to help in keeping down dis-

ease. Chickens with tuberculosis can-

not be cured and must be killed and





Rocks 318-00- " burned immediately to help prevent





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you can pay more and get less in qual-

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sun ney. a '

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breeding from healthy vigorous 'stock

and giving them the best of care in

clean, dry and well-ventilated poultry

houses. Any hen suspected of having

tuberculosis must be removed from the

flock at once. It hens are constantly

dying from the disease it may be best

to have a veterinarian inspect the flock

and decide which are good for food.

Then the flock can all be disposed of.

and the premises thoroughly disinfect-

ed and given a chance to rest a while

before being used‘by poultry.





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assured of a flock of chicks that

will quickly‘ develop into fine

friers, and early fall layers.”

Dr. LeGear’s Poultry Prescription

tones up the system, aids digestion,

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ARE ECONOMICAL





There is no economy in cutting ex-

penditures which bring you in a profit.

Royster's

Fertilizer-econOmizes for you by mak-

ing your land and your labor produce

larger, finer, surer yields.





is extravagence.





Agents wanted in unoccupied territory





F. S. Royster Guano Co.





Dept. 3- l9





TOLEDO, OHIO





to any farm, and in consideration





building and equipping it with a few

tools, no farmer can profitably do. with-

out one. In a great many instances

we can convert an old building, other-

wise of very little value, into a modern

workshop which will hold all necessary

tools and equipment and the cost will

be comparatively small.



The proper Size of such a building,

of course, will vary, this depending

greatly on the amount of work to be

-done and the equipment. Our work-

,shop is 16x24 feet and contains over-

head storage room where we keep lum-

her and other necessary supplies. By

this arrangement much valuable space

is saved and gives us plenty of room

to do our work on the lower floor,

where we have a. work—bench, forge,

and other necessary equipment.



The walls are constructed of hollow

tile, which we have found to be ideal

for the purpose; It possesses distinct

advantages, such as permanence, fire-

resisitng, non:conducting cellular walls,

and immunity from the deteriorating

influences of decay.



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selling plan until you get our free catelog.W1-lte today

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Serious results through Blood

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Write us for any information den

$1. 75 per bottle at drugglsts

or sent parcel post on receipt: or. price.

THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS CO.

Cleveland, Ohio





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





   

 





 

 





 

 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





   

 





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rip saw, steel square, a good plane or

two, set of Chisels, a good brace and

set of bits, set of taps and dies, a good

ax, some tongs, and a good black-

smith’s hammer. The above will do to

Start with and other tools can be

bought from time to time as the need

arises.



A great many farmers have special

talent along this line. Some have been

mechanics at some time or another,





   

   





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while others are quite handy with tools

and in this way a greatdnany dollars

can be saved in the course of a yeal

which otherwise would be paid out of

the farm profits for the different re-

pairs arising t‘rOm the constant use of

the farming equipment. A iaim work

shop is a good investment because, on

the average la1m, it will pay back to

the owner the price of its construction

and equipment in the course of a year.

We keep on hand a stock of bolts of

different'sizes and lengths, as they are

sure to come in handy at some time of,“

the year. In ou1 shop we a1e able to

mend harness, sharpen harrow teeth,

mattocks, replace mower knives and

broken parts, make single’trees, fix

A horseshoes, and many other small jobs

that often run up in many dollars in

the course of a year. This work is

’ usually done on rainy days or during

' ,- the winter when our work is not rush-

ing. Hewever, it is in the busy season





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By Harley M. Ward

GOOD workshop is, without any.

doubt whatever, a valuable asset"





of the Slight cost of putting up such a‘





be taken into consideration in choos-





ready joined the organization, and if ‘

the plans work out according to sched- 1 . ~

ule, th‘e Hillsdale association '

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few hOurs' time we genemlly have the

broken part mended and oftentimes

are at work before we could make a

trip to the village blacksmith shop.

Aside from this we perhaps save a.

day’s wages, which is just that much

more earned, to say nothing of saving

a lot of hay or some other valuable

farm crop which Otherwise would suf-

fer if not attended to when conditions

were favorable.



Our workshop, while not large, is a ‘

great saving in time and labor and is

a good investment as it has already

saved many times its cost during the

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UMEROUS lecommendations. have

N been made to pioper officials in

relation to game in the upper penin-

sula. These include a recommendatiOn

that the Public Domain Commission co-_

operate with the United States De-

partment of Agriculture'in the exter-

mination of the timber wolf and other

predacious animals; that bounties for

the destruction of predacious animals .

be abolished in, favor of the employ~ . l‘

ment of salaried trappers and patrol- *

men; that firearms carried in automo- i

biles be unloaded and, if possible, tak-

en down or closed; that there be a five—

year closed season on otter, fisher,

marten and :mink; that the protection

of spruce hen and prairie chicken be

extended four years; that the last fif-

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moose hunting 011 Isle lloyale in Lake

Superior; that a license of $1.00 for

rod fishermen be required, with an ex. _

emption 'for fishermen under sixteen . 1

years of age; that a limit of twenty- ”

five fish be required for one day’s fish-

ing; that the 'fees accruing from this

tax be used by the Michigan Fish Com-

mission in its work of propagation;

that unless the‘ Michigan Fish Commis-

sion erect a hatchery on the Otter riv-

er, the catching of grayling there "i

should be permitted; that a one-buck



deer law be enacted; that the kill of l

rabbits be limited to five in one day



and fifty during the season; that the

partridge season for 1921 be closed



and then opened in alternate years.



The Tribune-Gazette of Iron Mountain,



urges its readers to cooperate with



Game Commissioner Baird, of Lansing,



in providing information in regard to



the present game situation in the up« ’_

per peninsula and recommendations '

for state action hereafter.~CHASE.





 

   

 

 





 





 





HILLSDALE COUNTY BREEDERS





 





ORGANIZE.

A MEETING of the Holstein breed- '

ms of Hillsdale county was held in i

the city hall at Hillsdale on January .- 1.





14, and the Hillsdale County Holstein-

F1iesian Association was organized,

with Mr. J. Hagaman, of Hillsdale, as w

president, and M18. Kurt W. Rhead. .



of Pittsford, as secretary. Mrs. Rhead

is intensely interested in the Holstein

business and is thoroughly conversant

with pedig1ees, as well as a good judge

of type, and we look for some very

substantial progress as the result of ,7 ..

her selectiOn as secretary She will ‘1

be willing to devote considerable time ‘

to the association work and this is the

one thing which is essential to success.

Many of our local organizations fail to

accomplish anything really worth while

because the officers do not devote suf-

ficient time to the work and this is no

fault of theirs eithel, as they are al-

1eady oveiloaded with work at home.

However, this is a matter. which should





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ing officers for the county associations,

and especially in the selection of the _

sectetary, upon whom the most of the

work falls. Forty breeders have al-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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and weigh

to the acre.

I have in my possession some photographs of

our field of Eureka Corn show-





Ross Bros. Co.

Gentlemen:





ing Corn 18 to 20





The product from





in diameter.





Read his letter—it is con-





Replying to yours of Dec. 16th, relative

to the manner in which we arrived at the weight of the

crop of Eureka Ensilage Corn,_ will say it is our custom

to weigh each load as it is delivered at the cutter.

immense tonnage at this time caused some question, so



average rods representative of the best acre were taken

in the presence of reliable Witnesses,

ed.and the result was as reported .64 tons





which would convince the most

skeptical that astonishing results

are possible with this variety.

Yours truly,

(Signed) J. F. Reynolds,

Farm Su t.

Worcester State Hospita .





Mr. Reynold’s crop would nearly

fill a silo 24 feet high and 14 feet

Two acres would

fill a silo 36 feet by 14 feet. and

three acres would furnish enough

silage to fill a silo 40 feet by 16 feet..,





37 Front Street





The





were cut





feet high,

Eureka Corn.





one acre of





. yields. .

goods, insectiCides. etc.





Our 120-page catalogue will be mailed free if you ask for it.





ROSS BROTHERS COMPANY





.Worcester, Mass.





Ross' Eureka Corn is very short jointed and

does not blow down easily—it grows taller—has

more leaves—and produces more tons of good,

sweet silage than any other variety.

and nutritious. it is a valuable feed for fattening

cattle—and one of the greatest factors in reduc-

ing the cost of milk production.





Every bushel of genuine Eureka is put up in

Ross’ trade-mark bags. All seed is from selected

ears, butts and tips removed and well fanned

to remove any hull or waste material.

carefully for the Ross trade-mark. Make sure

it is on the bag before you buy your supply of





Buy Ross’ Farm Seeds





Oats, Barley, Potatoes. Rye,Wl1eat. Buckwheat,

Cowpeas, Vetch, Soy Beans. Essex Rape. and

Field Corn. Grass Seed and Alfalfa.

mount Pbtatoes make extra heavy. high quality

Full line of agricultural tools. dairy





Special offer. Betsy Ross Garden—17 large

packages of highest quality vegetables, enough

for the home garden, postpaid, for only $1.00





Fed Thirty Pounds Each of Silage, Every Day, for Over 0312’:

Year, from theProduct of One Acre of Ross’ Eureka Corn





64 tons of Ross’ Eureka Corn to the acre is the yield

reported by Mr. Reynolds. .. .

vincing proof of Eureka. Corn’s superiority over all other

Silage Corns.



THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

' WORCESTER STATE HOSPlTAL





Worcester, Mass, December 18. 1920.





Ross' Eureka Corn is being planted in nearly

every section of the United States and Canada.

and in several foreign countries.

climatic conditions its yields are big. and the

quality is always the best.





Under any 5.1.ng Mg of

Rou‘ [Em-do

Corn (war;

t/Ii: trade-

mark. zidopfi

ed for your

protection. 1





Palatable





Look





Early Fair-





 





 





arc-Intro





 





BREEDERS’ NREC'I'ORY





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Day: before date of publication





 





 





 





 





THE HOME OF





Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny





. Probably

the World’s firea‘tesl

Breeding Bull





Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the Smith-

1 field Show 1919. and the Birmingham'Show

1920,is adauahtei’ of Edgar of Dnimeny.





pion Female. Champion Calf Herd and F‘irst'





192’). were also the get of Edgar of Dolmeny-





A very choice lot of young biiflls-vsired by

Edgaii of Dnlmeny are. at this time. offered

for 5.1 0.





Send for Illustrated Catalogue.





ORION, MICHIGAN

l w. E. scmrs, Prop. Skinny 3mm, Supt.‘





 





Prize Junior Heifer Celt. Michkan "State Fair. ’ '





WILDWOOD FARMS :,





 





 





 





For Sale





Woodcole lmjanl‘liicas '





We an. ousting ten cows bred to either

IMP. ELCEG 01" HABVIESTUUN. or

IMP. EDGAJ'K‘DO 0F DALMENY

Write for our 19:1 BELL SALE L18 1‘





ll'oodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Mich.





 





 





REGISTERED Marleen-Aqua. Ten heitérursix‘

1) hams £55.? eight mgigeen 30am {gest of.



roe inc. uowflu' . _ at e . own-

sbie. lnqnhe F.J.W!€l13ER.8 Clio. Mich





00m and Hotter-s Bred to

Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd





Florida .

GEO. HATHAWAY & SON. Ovid. Mich.





 





86 ~ bulls and heifers from 5 to

9° ‘ '3 is would ofthe verybest

of orgedlnfi. aim Be hive Simian. bogs {d ‘

serv 0 plan . 08.

will accept Liberty Bondsm s n es p m or -





unseen. moraines. 'Mpmu. Mich“





The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Chain. . .





CLOVERL‘Y ANGUS '





7 lbs. fat.





he Villa Farm Guernseys~0ler for sale: The

TPride of. west Orchard Forum No. eon. Dropped

Dec. 3 1919 ready to hand your hand, his full sister now

on A. 1!. test has milked overm.l-bs_. 90 lbs. fat mm

days. Sire [songwriter Wilchesteflmw. daun Govt-r-

nor's Minnie-washer 24 milking ‘15 lbs. daily (38158). Sire

Langu‘ater Advocate (Writ, dam Imp. . v'a. Minne-

waska'mz’li. First check of 8250 taken him. Rex (ii-Li‘-





f‘in, Herdsman. 0.3.“ intentlwner. Sebewaingmlich. .





 





O

Guernsey F oundation

Twoyoung cuwsand bull not related. All out. of Adv.

Reg. dams. ”thereows with A. 1%. records up to 600

Inspect-ion invited.

Jackson. blink.





PAUL LOVE. «St. Anne“ Farms.

GUERNSEYS





Bull calves for mule. Slred by Antan's May K ng that

sold for 31,000. Farmers prices and guaranteed to

ase. GILMORE BROTHERS. Camden. Mich.

~REGIS'1‘ER ED





G U ER" SEYS BULL CALVES





Oontainin ”blood of world champions.

MCKS‘ G‘U‘EK'N EV FARM. Slglnaw. W.S. MiCh.





 





 





 





of May Bose Bree

CH” {1'8” 8“] "their dams have reoor I

430 to 8-30 lbs. fat also a few cows and heifers are

cred. H. 'W igman. Lansing. Mich.





 





c U E R N s 1-: Y Wu 0...... ......

’ ‘ ‘- ' site"s dam made

19.43030 milk. 909.05 hat. Their mother's alre‘s dam

made l5.109.10 milk. 778.80 fat. .



'1'. V. HICKS. Battleiflneek. Mich





FEDERAL Inspected Guernsey Buns. Priced to sell.



Nine sold in 10 mos. A line Masher Sequel El yrs.

old. euro. sound and right £175.60. Four andsonu

of Ex—Chungaon A.A. oowmndor 81.98.0311 mm cows

on tent. G. W. e H. G. RAY. Albion. Mich.





 

 

 

 

 





{Indian School for Fceblo-

Minded Youth, Fort Wayne;

Ind-,Gowtsfiua .Suptq "fit" '

“We engaged in breedin

Holstein to secure a morg

sure foundation for breeding,

increase our milk production,

make a better farm profit. se-

cure better milk for food and

Stave: better sale of surplus

- oc .”





' Smdfor Free Booklet:





The W um I MI

1“ mm» Mg” m m. -,





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





 





, what lml

‘ will be unable to getour buildings oom-

. plete before winter. 80 ét busy if on





f at your sown price.





Six registered Guernsey bulls May

For sale Bone breeding read} for service. Cheap

if taken soon. John Ebels, B. :5, Holland. Lllch.





 





_' Guernsey yearling bulls Dolly Dimple's

Rengtered May King of Lahgu'nter Ba<-king.Priced





to sell. Goo. “K Reeves, R. A, Grand Rapids, blich,





 





M'e 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

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

quotations. stating about. age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich.





 





‘ 600d "Me accepted in payment of finely bred reg-



istered Holstein bull calves. Quality

offlwbest. and at prices within reach of all. Write.

9130. D. ULAKKE. - - - - Vmar. Mich.





Here Is A Good One.





Born June 2nd. by Maplecrest De Kol Hangerveld,

A site having three sisters each with records of over





in damping.



l‘alf'e. dam by an own brother to Highland Hartog De

K0] With .a yearly record of 1247.95. This combination

ofbreodlng has produced many 1000 to 1200 cows.

Iflfmfotency counts. where can you equal it‘.’



P 06 $100.00 for quick sale.





Hfllcreat Farm. Mgr. 14. B. Lay. Kalamazoo. Mich.





“fish“. Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred



. registered and high-grade. rice $20 up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. “'rite us your re-

qmrementn. Browncroft Farms. MvGruw, N. Y





For Sale $450.00





Cash or Tenn:

Aahow bull from A. B. 0. Dan: born December 1.3.

1913. Blood RI our Show Bull.

0011. KING SEOJS GLISTA

Whose grand dam. GLIS'I‘A ERNESTINE. has six

him made better than thlxtr pounds of butter.

Buy now in order to have 132122 winter calves.





RIVER STOCK FARMS





36 N.East Ave..00rey J.Spenoer.0wner Jackson,Mich.

Under Stats and Federal Supervision





 





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 fertile next 30 days we will sell

lcalves we have‘cheap as we





want a son of Flint plecrest y





, mm H wma. an...)





r. ...





 





The Traverse Herd.





”00 pounds of butter in a year, two of them former





:‘lop Notch” Holstein





uy a “milk" Bull 01' Quality from the Breeders

(if the World's only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7

days. having an 800 lb. daughter.



Our herd is rich in the blood of (liilaiitlia 4ths Jo-

hanna. the only cow that over held all world'u records

in own (lll’lMUll from one day to one yearal the same

Lllllt‘: She produced 661.70 lbs. milk in '7 days. “'0 are

offering for sale a bull, whose dam exceeds this record

by ()\'(-r 7‘3 lbs. in '7 days.



His dam's records are:—





Mllk 1 Day 100.1 l bi.

Milli 7 Days 659.3 lbs.

Buiter 7 Days 26.31 lbs.





His name is

K1546: VALE "URNI'COPIA “'AYNlil. No. 311199

. . urn February 6. 1920

His dam and sire's two nearest dams average

Butter Days 33.03 ltd.

hlilk 7 Days 607.8 ibis.

Handsomely marked about one third white.

$250M. f. u. b. Howell.

BICPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.





All hetds under I'. S. Supervision.





Cluny Stock Farm

Federal Jar—edited Herd



Semi-Official Yearling Bull ,



Cluny Konigen Pontiac Niobe





sin: a 30 lb. son oral; $35,000.00 sire

King Segis Pontiac Konigen





DAM n 16.91b. Jr. 2 yr. old made 12.4255 lbs.

$50.18 lbs. butter in 305 days.



DAM’S DAM a 29.67 lb. cow now finishing year-record

with about 23,000 lbs. milk and 1.000 lbs. butter. Sbcrfull

sister to 1.000 lb. cow with 24.688 lbs. milk.



Seven nearest dams of thin bullaveraze_29,¢82 lbl. butter.

597.5 lbs. milk.



Exceptional Type. Beautifully marked.



Guaranteed to please.



Price $350.00. Pedigrees and photo on application.





R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.





' calves sire a 27 lb. son of Ma le 0 t K .



2 Relief dyke Heugn Their dame hpare {96:19. gym;

old sister and a 27 '11). Pure. Terms 375 down 559 a year“

.-\I. L. McLAL'LIN. Redford. Mioh'





FOR SALE Registered Holstein-Friesian



_ ’ bull calf ready for service (9(-

tra i-hmce breeding and individuality, King of the

Venture breeding. HenryS. Rohlfs. “.1. Akron. Mich.





 





milk.





33m? ““3 ”it‘ll. M.“ “‘ “mi...

_ L.- » goo lll iv .' t

old 50 lbs. bleeding sides also bull cdli'es ,‘ng‘i’ild 8

monthspld. Priced r quick sale.



ERVIE’W FARM. R. 2. Vassar. Mich





HOLSTEIN BULLS 51'2”“33335

dams 91-th 8190. Dewey C. Pierson. Mammal-a. am.





Young Bull





 





buys a beautiful registered Holstein heifercalt

, - six weeks old. 81 by a grandson of Kin '.

No betoerbneodlng. B. B. Renvoy. Akronfm





 





reduction on all sires.





; Hereford: For Sale. Egg; 0,1133%qu

choice ' f





 





 





moron:- ueds $8110. Mocany. the;





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

   

 

 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 





 





3- Altai“ fiirwmflm. ..-<.:.





 

 





 





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.mw aei‘ $3.:





3’.
P0 TIAC





“Where the Cham-

pions Come From"





Offer special prices for

60 days to Michigan

dairymen on bull calves

from tested dams, sired

by Sir Clothilde Concor-

dia or Flint Hengerveld

Lad. Send for extended

pedigrees and prices.





Pontiac State Hospital

Pontiac, Mich.





HEREFORDS





' Cews with calves at side, open or bred

heifers of popular breeding for sale. Also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.





616 So. Westnadge Ave., . .

Kalamazoo, chhigan





'Hereford Bull gggvertgegrtfi Weaek .01.;





ll f, 8 o the old. A real herd header

choice bu cal EmJnTA AYLOR. Fremont, Mich





 





 





 





 





“Economy is the Basis

Principle of Success”





From Michigan Farmer, page 195,

Feb. 12 issue. The farmer never.

voiced a truer statement. The Jersey

is the most economically producmg

dairy cow; she has proven it. There-

fore she is the Basic Prmc1ple of

Successful dairying.



“Economy means prudence, keen judgement,

good management and the avoidance of waste.’

Therefore grading up your dairy herd with a

pure bred Jersey sire is economy.

“Expenditure is oft- ~times an Economy.”

Therefore buying a pure bred Jersey s1re 13

economy.





“An investment should have your favorable

consideration when it will aidinyour chosen

work. ” Buying a pure bred Jersey site will be

an aid in your dairy work. “You are practic-

ing economy” when you invest in a pure

'ersey

V!





JERiéEYs





71w Profit Breed





"The Key to Dairy Profits" and 'Jersey

Facte’ ' -— two important books, telling

how farmers are making real profit today

with J erseys—how anyone can do it any-

where. Whether you are interested in

onecow or a hundred. these books will

show you how to make money.





 





 





 





 





 





   

   

   

   

 





 





The Wildwood Farm d



at ai , Herd on State were -



fteeldse Cattlgf Minis: n 'rcoiistantl done. Bulls for

sale. A‘Lv'IN 11.11.1311 Phone 14 .5, Capac. M1011.





 





' E BUL

BUTTER BRED ”this... “5

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.



Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

Ready for Service.





JERSEY BULLS R... ..,,._., no...





——Ma t breeding. Meadowland Farm. Water-

$11311& alivittfexiinan, Packard Rd" Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





 





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys gegfilvggggom

. 00LON'01LILLIE.Ooopersvflle, Mich.





 





NOTTEN FARM, Grass Lake, Mich.





Spaldmg Dispersion





4o REGISTERED HOLSTEINAS 4o

PERRY, MICHIGAN '





WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2,1 92 1





Sale includes 25 young cows safe 1n calf toa35~lb.

- DeKol Butter Boy, or o





with calves by side sired by these bulls.





Old State Block,





son of Friend Hengerveld





a 28.5 lb son of Sir Veeman Hengerveld, or just fresh





Sdle Managed By





MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN—FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION,





Lansing, Mich.





 





 





0.1. C. BOARS





Choice individuals; ship ed to you c. o. d. express aid and uaranteed

right or your money re unded. All stock p 3





J. CARL JEWETT,





registered in buyer’s name.





 





Mason, Mich. '





 





 





O.I.C.





Buster.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





 





all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918 world’s grand champ. boar and C. C.

Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand cham ion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Write your wants, all stock s ipped on approval. *





HOGS





Cass City, Mich.





 





 





 





Bloomdale Shortliorns





See our cattle get our prices and breeding before buy-

ing. Both bulls and females for sale.

Bad Axe, Mich.





CARR BROS, & 00..





BID WU ELL BUY A BULL

that will put weight on your dalr rficalves -the dia-

eronce will soon p‘a y for the bul l. ow selling ood

Scotch and Scotc topped yearlings,reasonabl.





We guarantee every animal to be a breeder.

Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. 0.3.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





 





r ced.

edemi





 





‘ Shorthorns Bulls and heifers.

Rengtered prices within reach ol‘ all.

G. R. DeSBETLER, R. 4. T,ecumseh Mich.





 





Milking Shorthorns, bulls and heifers 5 me. to]

year old for sale at reduced rises to make room

for younger stock. E. H. K0 T2. 4 Mason. Mich.





Stop Look" Listen!





Have you a catalog of the Shorthorn.

Sale to be held at M. A. C. Feb. 25th at

l P. M. We are listing four valuable

females and two show bulls.





Richland Farms,

C. H. Prescott & Sons, Tawas City, Mich.





The Maple’s Shorthorns





 





 





Kirklevington Lad, bg! Imp. Hartford

Welfare. In service, ulls or sale.

J. V. WISE, Goblevllle, Mich.





 





Branch County Farm





Breeders of





Polled Shorthorn Cattle





Young Bulls For Sale

Several well bred herd bull prospects.





DUROC JERSEY SWINE—





for sale 2 yr. old herd boars earhng boars and boat

pigs. also bred sows Emit 11ts.’ Write for pedigrees and

Oonmed an





pnces.

OS. UNDERHILL & SON, Salem, Mich





DU ROG JERSEYS





Bred gllts service boars and fall boar pigs at Bargain

Prices Your correspondence or personal inspection





s coerilhlly invi

ROS. Oakwood Farm; Romeo, Mich.

Michigana Durocs gmdggtzgndflmg





treatn Also bred sow sale Febnm 21st. Sntis aoti

guaranteed. 0.1” .FOBT TER. Mglri, Pavilion, Migl'i.





sows and gilts bred to Wazlnts Kin 29499

Duroc who has sired mor'e 318th 112% pigs

at the State Fair' 1n last 2 years than any 2notliie er Duroc

boar. Everyone will be a money maker for the





buyer. Cat. and rice list.

NEWTON 31111111311131. Johns. Mich.





nyumc Jersey boars from 8 mo. to ,1 r. old. Select

*9“ ng sows mated to maintain s so and correct



rices reasonable. shi ed on a roval and

guaranteed right. WW .Kl‘ma, Mich.





DWOC bred sows and gilts for March and April far

row. at prices gun“ can afiord to pay. Write

Y.LOR Milan, Mich





Reg. DurocJ, “‘5’ Iii-£31132, “Pg:





.00 reg.

no stock.

St. Johns, ich





Spring pigs by Walt’s





rion. First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson, Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga, Mich.





Wr1te M91132; $110901 ehava just ”15113: you want





uroc Jer-

sey boars readilforA serviceon

AYES, L. B. 605, Durand, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings, Mich.





40 H ad Duroc Jerse Bred Sow Sale

9 I March 5th. nto’s in waitin

Park Hotel. Monroe. 8151? a} National Hotel, Dun ee,





 





 





GEO. E. BURDICK, Mgr., Goldwater, Mich.





Beef - Milk Shorthorns





Fairland Stock Farms now offer for sale bulls aged 2

to 14 mos Red. White or Roan. Three of extra. mer-

it sired b Walgrove Star 648026 and out of dams now

milking 50 lbs. d.aily Inspection invite d. We



please you. JOHN J. FOSTER & SONS. Niles. Micah.





VALLEY VIEW FARMS





Choice young Shorthorn cows and heifers for sale at



all times. bred gr fibenbtil' %0a%oa% also a few young

ll an 00



buns “End. nANGBORN .1 SON Bad Axe, Mich.





 





 





 





EADOW Hills Shorthoms. Herd headed by Sil-

ver King. full brother of Lavender Sul an

due University' 8 great sire. For sale fem 8110! all

ages. a few young bulls. Geo. D. Duster. Doster, Mich.





be our guest sale day odt. Monroe, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS!) Boahrs and Pgilts





finder. E. D. HEYDENBERK. Wyayland. lynch





 





 





pricesin Durocs. Heavy bone, bestd of fbreeding





ial

39908111111 type. .‘liredH giltswr sowan Mistin, 311‘ 3





Bmekwater llume Jerseys





BOARS—Ready for Service

Bred Saws and Gilts





Write us for Prices and Pedigree-

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction scar-ant t.eed

MRVOVOKWATER FARM, Arm Arbor, Mich.

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





 





 





Sh rth rn Breeders Associa-

Central Mid‘igan tloii ofigr for sale 75 head



milk and beef breedin all ages. New list read Jan}: '

15. M-E. MILEER, Sec.. Greenville,





 





' Sh rtho b lis ready for service

RegIStered (0191-1111913:- trade, B11 y



THE JENNINGS FARMS, ai ey, Mich.



Bull calves 8100006110.!1





Sh rth

Milking 0 merge redited Herds. Davidson

and Hall. Beland anrd Beland, Tecumseh, Mich

"33- "Id Pflllflim cattle choice myioung bulls frometo 18

FRANK KEBLER. 1'1. Grand Ledge, Mich.





 





 





76$ same blood as 1.

Charmer 1919 International Granddhampio





11.0111-

St tate and ll'ederalt bested .Westhrook Bros. Janis}!!! ch ’ 0.0110]. 6- G e





H063





 





 





‘4 _ 1m 1.1.111 forsa salej From Marguerite' s arranger

. d





‘.B 4. Bowel, Mich





 





Registm





. cantor;





5 eitherse





“351.: Red mdpollggm bull calves. from 3 mos to] year t o. '0 c.§‘;§‘





 





 





DUROC S 0W5? “‘5 ff“ 0?):



Orion King No.169269 8011 oftheflo J000k boar-o

Longiew Farm. Let 811mm, Mo. :odso oung



ready





r service on

THE JENNiNhsAR mu. Bailey. 11191..





last t ll boar wgt. two 13 fall

0 1311111: b90136 lots ofasprinfi fright f-pigsai





mil west “01%)“.

Citz'.s Phone 124. Ottohb. chulse. thyme“. r0 h





0 I. C’sc Fall piss by 0 0. Blgp Galloway haveslse

' Kali itv an

0N. p.306 0rd, Mich.





Giulioh for Mar uddpr farrow

brags sadism Monroe, 111.11.





 

 





 





bred gs. shrill d

ut‘iim tnasvillaflait‘ley





 





 





THE Bureau of Crop Estimates of:





the Department or Agflculture‘has





:issued a. statement shotying that the





farmers of the United States have lost



more by the recent slump in prices of

farm products than the wintertime price

gains. Beef cattle on farms lost in av-

erage value per head from January 1.

1919, to January 1, 1921, all that they

gained during the participation of the

United States in the world war and

more than half «as much again. In the

case of swine on farms, the average

price per: head, all ages, declined in the

two years 1919 and 1920, eighty-eight

'per cent of the gain in 1917 and 1918,

and two thirds of the

1920. From 1916 to 1__' ,

farm value of the produc' of corn per

acre increased from $21.67 to $38.54.

The corn crop of 1920, taking the aver-

age value of the product of one acre,





 





‘fell to $20.93, and this ,drop not only





wiped out the gain of the preceding

three years but perceptibly exceeded it.



Commenting on this statement, Dr.

T. C. Atkeson, Washington representa-

tive of the National Grange, says that

unless an equilibrium is reached be-

tween the prices of farm products and

industrial products, the country is go-

ing to see a. more serious situation

than it is now passing thmugh. A high

level of prices for industrial products

and a. low level for farm products will

inevitably mean a food shortage.

preferable to. maintain a high range of

prices covering all commodities. In a.





-free country you cannotspermanently

, maintain a higher range of prices for





one class of commodities than for‘an-

other, all things considered. The peo-

ple are going where they think they

can do the best. _



After carefully considering the ques-

tion of a fair ratio of wages for the

mechanic and the farmer, deducting

the lower cost of living in the country

and the farm and garden. supplies, Dr.

Atkeson concedes that the man in the





- country should receive one~third less





than the worker equally well qualified

receives in the city; if a mechanic in

town has $6.00 a day woman on the

farm should receive $4.00 a. day.





 





TRUTH-lN-FABRICS BILL TIED UP.





THE Truth- -in- Fabrics bill, which has



been the subject of much discus.

sion all over the country, is dead so

far as this congress is concerned. Prob-

ably no other measure before congress

has been the subject of” more wide-

spread discussion or favorable com-

ment, having been endorsed by nearly

all the farmers’ and stockmen’s organ-

izations and also 'by consumers’ leagues

and commercial associations. It has

quite a following of good friends in

congress, and several influential ene-

mies, and unfortuantely a number of

these unfriendly congressmen are

members of the interstate‘and foreign

commerce committee of the house,

having the French Truth-in-F'abric bill

in charge.



It is the suggestion of friends of the

measure that the representatives of

the wool growers, t‘he woolen manufac~

turers, the textile and clothing indus-

tries meet in conference and agree up—

Won‘a truth in-fabric bill which will be

sufliciently acceptable to these m‘ter-

ests to insure its enactment in con-

gress. There is a grovying sentiment

for a law which will put a stop to the





woven textiles. It is thought that this

sentiment should be drafted into a

practical, eflective bill which will ena-





the arguments of its opponents.





 





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selling of shoddy for fleece wools in-





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Alvin: sheath Ihiscolemn ii finer; Menu: «baub-

sm. Intern should state hilly the Motel-y and symptoms of

each case and give. name and address of the writer. .lnitiala

only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the

service becomes private practice and 31 m be enclosed.





 





imported; Udder.—-0n December 17.





1920, my Guernsey‘cow came fresh. We

ceased milking on December 1, but up.





to this date she gave one gallon of

milk daily, but at this time onecuarter,

of b was dry. Now her whole udder

is re er inactive. .She gives very little‘

milk from three best quarters, most'

milk from the Quarter that first closed.





 

 

 





T. A. N., Co, has, Mich—Gently hand-

‘rub udder, c her feed, if bowels

are costive, ,epsor‘n salts, or feed

her roots, 'e. Give her a half-





i





ounce of fluid“ " root of phytolacca at





a dose in either food or in drinking ‘





water three times a day. .





Light Mllker—Unthrifty' Heiferr—W





Guernsey cow is off in milk, giving

about four quarts at a milking. She;

will not freshen until next July. She

is irritable, switching tail, occasionally

kicking when teats on left side are

touched. Am feeding two quarts of

ground oats, one part corn, with some

oil meal, also four, pounds of mangels

twice a day. Yearling heifer is thin

and unthrifty. H. O. 8., Redford, Mich.

-—Y0u should try to overcome the ner-

vousness by the same person feeding

and milking her, or perhaps changing

her to another part of stable might

have good effect. Feed some clover,

alfalfa and plenty of roots. Give her

half an ounce of powdered gentian and

one ounce of bicarbonate of soda in

feed twice a. day. Give heifer a tea-

spoonful of Fowler's solution three

times a day and increase her feed.





Luxation of Stifle.—Onr eighbyear—

old mare went lame last summer. and

since then the stifle cap slips out of

place and back again. What shall I

apply? L. G., Selkirk, Mich—Clip off

hair, apply one part powdered can-

tharides and five parts lard to stifle

joint every two weeks. If not, apply

the liquid blister you have on hand.





Diseased Tooth—Bursal Swelling:-

Last spring my six-year-old mare had

distemper, since them she has had

nasal discharge from one nostril, which

shows most after she pulls a heavy

load. I also have a twelve-year-old

horse that has been troubled with soft

puff in knee for the past seven years,

but never lame until lately. The puff

extends through the joint. J. E. M.,

Paris. Mich—Examine the mouthand

you will perhaps find the fourth molar

tooth diseased; if so, have it extracted

and nasal discharge will soon cease.

Give her a teaspoonful of powdered

sulphate of iron at a dose in feed

three times a day.

tincture of iodine daily, or apply one

part red iodide of mercury and six

parts lard every eight or ten days.





Stocking.~—One hind leg of our Hol-

stein cow stocks below hock, but she

is not. lame. J. (3., Ontario, Canada.—

»Give her one dram of acetate of pot-

ash in feed or in drinking water two





or three times a day, and bandage leg





in cotton.





Indigestion—Rheumatism.-—My two-

year-old bull acts as if sore all over.

has but little ambition and when in

the. barn is uneasy. changing position

very often. D. J. 1.. Olivet, Mich.—

Give ,him one pound of epsom salts in

three pints of tepid water to clean him

out, then give one-dram doses of sodi-

umsalicylate three times a day. Also

change his diet.





Small Abscess—Failing to see many

veterinary items in my paper and not

knowing what ails my six-year-old cow

I am writing to find out how to treat

her. She has small bunch on neck

This same cow

is slightly lame, especially during cold

weather. E. W. W.. Pontiac, Mich.—

Open sack, swab out cavity occasional-

ly with tincture of iodine. Give her a

teaspoonful of nitrate of potash in feed

or in drinking water daily. .





Stringy Milk—I have a Holstein cow

due tofreshen in May, that had one

cakcd quarter, from which she gives

stringy milk. What is the cause and

remedy? ...H. R. S., Allegan, Mich.——.

Discontinue milking her from the dis-





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Oat-log Furnished upon Won





Fred 3. Stillman“ “Melanin

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HAVE startedrhousnndsofbreedernonthemum

Lanna“ 14%“ H ' lily he: .m‘fi‘fififim -

my ovnrycommnn w .5

we» Jest-2.3mm... mar-"Jaw; .

cannula. 3.1!). m. W'mm



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For SuleO. LC. Swine, “an”? five”. 1....“





good boats and slits left. of suns type and blood lines. .

that won torus at Ohio and Michigan State Fairso





 





 





Priced rm w. Write ushel'om you buy.

NE MAN‘E STOGK FARM.

It. 1. MARLETTE. MICE. ‘





 





Central Mich. O. l. C:





Swine Breeders .Ass’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. W. NOBLES ,

Sales Mgr. Cor-l, Mich.





0‘ “0 Big Type Gilts. bred for Her. and April

. . ‘- furrow. Boar: all ages. Write me for prices.

G. P. ANDREWS. Mason, Mich





Every





 





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' Adminislmtor's Sale of Shorthorn.

Cattle registered and eligible to reg-





vmu mm. 2, 1921:





.Dukl.





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.de'llve? summed. W . . .

ELWATER HATCHERY. Covington. Ohio.





ARRED Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale. some

and $5





' George 3. Campbell. Box 70. mailman. Mich:





. Anccnas.





 

 





 

 

 

 





of our





 

 

 

 

 

 





cesstully; it describes our





High Class 1.. horns

AndAllStm orcl roads





 





Mood. and delivered post on

STATE FARMS ASSOClAT'ION..





Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels





It will guy

Chicks r . e coming sear

son to oonsidor the quality





Pure Bre‘od Practical Poultry ,

We will send you our new spring





gating}; whichthexplétilns t1:01:11}:

nee . Also 6 ca a;

how to brood your Chicks soc-l





. Both'Chioks and Hatching Eggs from all breeds guar-





Kalamazoo. Murchison





’ ' holed. Rock ty , well barred, bred to lay birds,

3:. . R00 d 85 00





ilk lots 6! n .. .

CHAS. ”11101123. Jones. Cass 00., Mich.





 





BEST Bleeds. Chickens.Ducks.Geese/Iurkeys, Guin-

ean. Haves, Don. Stock for sale. Write your wants.

I . H. A. Sander, Box 94. Bellorsville. Pa.





 





~ #- . I ' ' '. '

- use Tam ~ _ - 18.1w Chucks as ”caresses..-





a Catalogue free. Sycamore atohery. Sycamore. Ohio





 





BABY CHICKS





Hatched from free range stock. Quality and [iv

8 ~ rite for catalogue





8





 





nice thrifty birds {refigrlzewinning stock





 





Baby Chicks and Eggs for Hatching

Barron's White Le orns.

Reds.

high egg records. Interestin

MUMMEHB





catalogue free.

POULTRY F





KAI.





Barred Rocks and R. I.

Big sturdy c ioks from free rangestock with





Holland. Mich.





 





Order now for early delivem





c H I c K 5 English Strain White Leghor .

‘ Bred to lay Brown Leghorn a d

Bargain prices for our quality stockkept

on {me me. ' s.



Hillside Grove Hatchery Farm. R, 1. Holland. Mich.





 





- and Hens: Leghorns. Minorcas.Rads.

Cockcrels Rocks. Orpingtons. Wyandottes, flou-

dans. Ty rnne Poultry Farm. Fenton. Mich.





 





 





Crystal Poultry Farms

_ - ’ HIGH QUALITY



'Baby chlx. eggs from

heavy laying strains.

Prize winners .at 1920





Fairs. 35Leading breeds

Prices reasonublcfinfe ar-

rival guarantoed. Circular

free. Shepard Strong.

7 Crystal Poultry Farms



\‘g 791" Franklin Ave, Cleveland, 0.





 





 





 





 





farmers prices.

Elite bred to Black Giant one of the best piss out of





'1. this field. so a random of 111101an and

Harrison Big Bob. '11. CJBWARTZ. Sc oolcrsft,Mich





' > “Spring slits bred for More and ‘

313 set "I‘M” April and some cows bred till} Big

Bob his-sire was champion of the world. his dam's sire j

was Grand Champion of Iowa State Fair.



0. E. GABNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.





L. T. P. 'c.





70 head of Poland Chinas at private sale. Am ofi'ering

3:115: boars from “(”0350 and gilt;- the same price.



tumor and {all pigs 825 each. The first check will

brlu ron the first choice. HART. FULCKER t

01.1 it. Address i". '1'. am. St. Louis. Mich.





'0 . . C

Francisco Farm Poland Chmas

Mel-ins a dozen choice gilti and a few tried sows

bred to such hours as Michigan Mastodon and Mich-





igan Clansman.

1?. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





BIG TYPE POLANDS





Bred film for sale. Also a tow choice full flashy The

lansmnn and his son The Clansboy. They are great.

Immune and reefberod. Come 01- write.



ESLEY HILE, R. 8. Ionic. Mich.

ARGE Type Poland Chins. A few choice fall





boars for sale. Write or come and see them.

A. A. FELDKAMP, It. 2. Manchester, Mich.





 





 





 





nuns. out [100 lb. sire and mammoth so“ from

Iowa's greatest bends. E.J.l\lathevwson.d3un0ak. Mick.





 





 





and a 2095b. spring boar also choice slits





mg 1'”. Poland Chin“ bargain $75 buys a bred gilt

bred for 840. Guarantee Satisfaction.

DORUfl





 





ROVER, Akron. Mich.

lg lye: Poland thins 33.,‘°Xfi“.g£§°§‘la 5323i





mend ills.

G.A.BAC.\16ABDNER. 'n. 2. Middlevillo, Mich





P C. Brod sows. Fall pigs singly or in pairs. Also S.

' C. Minorca cockere s all big Type of the best of

breeding. Satisfaction gust. R.W.Mills. Saline. Mich.

L I. P. c- in bredfillts at a. right price. Write



W. J. AGELSHAW. Augusta. Mich_





GLAND China Bred Sow: and Gilts at bargain

prices. also spring boars and full pigs. either sex.

CLYDE FISHER. R. 3. St. Louis, Michigan





Leonard’s Big Type P. o. Bows steam»





- Orange Cinnamon. Fall boar igs .

weigh 17» lbs. Real herd boar rg-pecbs. Cal or

write. E. 8. Leonard, R. 3.81;. 'c, Mioh.’





If you are loooklng for something good,





 





' Hampshire gilts'now ready to shl . S l

”C‘Blfl'cd boars and fall gigs at a bargain.p pr ng

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





 





- 1mm select high-producing stock.





Big Type P. (looms very choice boars double lm- ,-





4—1

BABY cums

Selected healthy chicks.





layers.

circular.





Wyandottes. W‘hlbe Le 11





DEER t ADAMS. Litc field. Mich





R.I.Red, Barred 'Rocks. “11“..



g orna,

Order early. have winter

First. hatch Feb. 28th. Write for Brice list and





 





Baby Chicks





FREE delivery. Superlative quaktfi'

pular varieties. . Reasonable prices.

rite for catalog at once.



80 P AERDALE POULTRY FARM.

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Springfield. Ohio.





 

 

 





 





Big 5“). Barron White leghorns





Real winter layers. 703 eggs from 50 pullets in Doc

Free catalog describes them, gives feeding methods

a newtway tocull Rowland much valuable information





orit. . AUCHEK. ‘Grobleville, Mich





 





Strain) White and Barred Plymouth Rock. .8. C. R I





Meadow Brook Chicken Hatchery, Mt. Morris. Mich





BABY CHICKS it'l‘l'elglflv‘g‘l“: l3“;





- om.White Wyandottes and Brown Le horns

25 for 16.25. '5) for $11.60 and 100 for $20.00. Ross‘Vade





 





Anmnas 17c. Rocks 200. B





Baby Chicks





Paid and safe delivery uarmteed. Catalog free.

KNOLLS HATCH QRY. R. 3. Holland. Mich





J. A. BA iNUM.





30min





Mrs. JES E 1“. BALL. 3. 9. Charlotte. blich





lured ”mum lioc'k ”similar” fill: fan:

W each. uion City, Mich.





nil: flock Sggksgrglrsé {333%.- 0. Strain :5





Leghrrrns 16c, W. Le . 15c. ,

All S. 0. 5% Die. in lots of 1000 or more. Part Post





 





P. R. Cockerols fog le

Barrnd in strain. Sired r in





M. A.C. heavy lay-

by lat pen cockerols at De-





 





convince you of t

01118 Poultry Yards and





erations.





. Barred peck: Sigmllff





best pedigreed





troltShow semary Farms. Williamstomnich.

CHICKS “'0 ship thousands oar-h season

Sand for prices and testimonials





FBEEPOBT HA&'CRERY, Box 12.





eggs in four winter months.

chicks for $25.00. MACALVVHITE POULTRY

YARDS. Alex. MacVittle, Proprietor, Caro. NIich.





leties at lowest JOSBlble prices, A trial order will

ir an erior quality. Catalogue free.





atchery, Marion. Ohio.





In ill not rat

$53





circular. mun Poultry Plant.





ens. 8?. per 15. 86 per 50, 312 per 100.





 





SHEEP.

Wool-Mu fimpxlliro has.





Good strong in-





- Ohol ‘ .all , a

Shropshires lm 0° can? “mafia-:3





finned .

W. B. McQU LAN. 3. ‘7. Howell. Mich.





Let American Hampshire Shoo

Want 3 Sheep? Association send d p

bodrl i must at breeders. were 53%?





 





eased quarter and apply iodine one

part, and fresh lard ten parts, to caked





Proves. _





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a. at in nonbre bl , l '

KIRBg'? aka 0 cents ners.





Route 1. East Lansing. Mich





dlvld l . .' 1 . .. ..

bred. priced right.‘ A. n. acorns, uwnmicll’. While an?” “one“; ”“0““ five he“ 3074 9'“

‘ tree. '





5. $3. and 8101!): 100. 815“.





G. w. SCHOTTMA‘NN. 03m“





Montrose. B





100 March hatchednama'stnln. s.c. White -





horn cockereds myigorous, pure white b s





. Ln

finndfieach. R.E.McInemey. 3.1, FrankcnmuthJHdl.

- ' Bic Type S. C. White

Broad View Farm I“, . ~





om big





A. l‘ m 23 Woodland AVG" Detroit. M1011. W birds. Heavy ll 8" (K bl wh‘“ ”89- EX-

‘ mum“ "”13?§l gallomfi' 5% :digie M oh

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portion of udder. Kindly keep in mind

iness of , milking utensils





Percheron W and mne- ct ton-om

FL. KING dBON Juices. laspootlon invited.





 





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all WW _ where the

as mrame‘loragowa





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tor sale‘loodbroode

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machines. rsnteodto -

3% film a, ” ”"1371 ol'mafif’m,





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O. ’ White





 

 

 





5%.“!on where by mail. 8.

Log one had 8. C. «Elect-led Anoonas. the great '





“053', sturdy ' chicks





 





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Fmeport, Mich





DAY OLD CHICKS 3.99:2.”b53fi;





trap-nested stock where every hen must produce 60

One hundred big thrifty





B A B Y C H l C K S, llama





BABY CHICKS uneasiness 33.22:.“

trap-nested. bmd-to-layegertly tested for many genI



catalogue “lie. stem 9 for

Chatswort . Ill.





gs from ParksZOO g

in the blood of Par 3





ng

‘ Lawrence Pou try Farm. R4.





Pure-bred .8. C. White and

Brown Was, In.- My

h;°.°'.:-P°areamam ”-5

v '. an ., a. per



cm. new Hatchery, n.2, Zeal»? 33:5.





C H i C KS! Standard bred “finite



1m creamed“ l ’ wm'm‘s‘lgolnu ‘



. n w em. [0 s ;



1199, 3135.90 ”groan, 232%; Safe unit-alcgfirwgood.



1‘06 - ingot on our door. a a on race.

fimengnnchem n. 2. land. Mich.





KICKS. Bled-today 8.0. W. Leghorn and Barred



‘ 'Bock uallty chicks that lea guaranteed tell

at “a to arid-veto on ". ‘ ‘ made" In t

class condition by naroe post paid. eghorn.= 581861”

100 Books ”0 per 100. Special rices on 500 to 1000. 'i -

Bunnybrook Poultry - arm. Hillsdale. Mich.





cular.



CHICKS English Strain “'hite Leghonm

the heavy laying strain at only $16



per-100; paid by mail safe arrival guaranteed send



cash wit order s loll rates 011500 or more.



JAMESTO‘NN fl ‘TCHERY. Jamestown. Mich.





DAY -OLD CHICKS





$16.00 per 100 and up. etching eggs. 82.00 to 315.06

per setting and 39.00 to 313.00 per-100. from 25 varieties

of purebred. farm ran ed fowls: Chickens. Gee‘so.

Ducks, Turkeys and (it nous. Price list and circular

tree. Plentyof nice breeding stock. '

early 5 ring delivery. ‘ ..



HATC ERY A- POL L’l RY CO. Wilmington. (Milo.





DAY-OLD CHICKS





Strong vigorous fellows, the kind that live and grow.

Carefully selectedmpen range, purebred utilit stock.

Price reasonable. Circular free. 8U BEAM

HATCHERY, 2433 S. Main St., Findlay. 01in.





’ Cooker-91s, hens and ul-

Fowler 3 Bull Rocks ,9... w“... 1!... mm?

B. B. FOWLER, Hartford. Mich.





. CH 1 C KS

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IOH‘N’S Big Beautiful Barred Books are hon hat-

2 ched uick growers. good layers, sold on an a]

34 to as. Circulars photos. John Northon. Claremh.





LO'OK [u:zsdo::ded l 0"" c K





. Our Ill-Grade profit paying Bred-to-Iny. M. A. 0.

tested and exhibition chicks. at reasonable prices.





e 8 varieties, Circular FREE.

"' Grand Rapids. Nlich.





 





 





Prize winners at the M. A. G

A n C O n a S Show. Cookerels and trios.





\V. E. VYEST d: SON. R. 1, East Lansing. Mich.





BABY CHICKS for W 50 f... *1"

and 100 for $18.00.



Prepaid. sate dellve guaranteed. single Comb



White Leghorns; Wh ta, Bull and Barred Plymouth



Rocks: 8. . R. I. Reds and Almanac.



Fonton Chicken Hatchery. Box 244. Fenton. Mich.





BABY CHICKS





English Smain White Leghorns. The heavy layin

strain at 31%“) per‘lUO for April: 816 for May. Prepai

by mail. Snip arrival guaranteed.



.1 LEO. M. LEOW, ”Dow. Mich.





 





 





 





. l.’ e gs. $1.75: 100 for 38; by

Barred ROCkS nlai . Flockhverage last you





 





133 eggs. LEWIS B. AVERY. Clinton. Mich.

-Ch01ce Baby Chicks Eng‘il“

American Vl'hite Leghorns and Anconns. Catalog





roe. M. D. Wyngurden. 511.4, Zeelnnd. Mich.

A few choice

Mot





GOGKERELS: 3.0. ma





Anoonn and W.F.B.Spanish oockerels. 83 and ‘56b0h.

Prize Winners. Lawrence Lahaio. Oheboygnn. Mich.





’ ,. ft: DAY OLD CHICKS





and hatching eggs from select heavy

reducing stock. Delivery guaran-

eed. VVh. Leg‘homs, Bar. Rocks, W.

yam, S.(‘. Reds, B. Orp. Cat. free.





605!“ POULTRY FARMS. ll-‘lil Cuba”.





3 S. C. Bull ‘Orpington Pens 82'- each.

For sale 1 pen 4 lullets headed by 2nd prize cock.

2 ens4hens houde by cockerel from prize stock.

1 N. Foster Ave. lensing, Mich.





 





 





 





 





' Again the sensation at Madl-

Jersey Black Giants. 9.... 8...... GM...“ .1...

world's greatest Poultry show. The giant of poultry-

dom. if given free range will find the larger part

of it's own living. For escriptive folder and price

list on hatching eggs. write

MARCY FARMS. Matawan. N. J.

Dav Old hicks. ' rd

look! 100,000 for 1921. Reg... 3%.... 1,31%,





Americannnd English: and Ancnuas. Write ior free

catalog. Fairvlew Hatchery. R. 2, Zeeland. Mich.





Oh s Improved Leghorns





BABY CHICK‘S. bred from stock with high egg re~

cords and show room quality None better for filling

the egg basket Catalogue free.



Obie “Lhite Leghorn Farms.





 





 





M arion. Ohio





100,000 CHIX 15c UP.





Best selected utility trn nested exhibition stock mt

Eoduced. . 18 varieties. etching eggs. Hens, ducks,



rly hm.avolds diaap 'ntment. Catalog FREE.

Bookman Hatchery, 26 E. yon. Grand Rapids, Mich.





R.C.Rllode Island Reds





Choice Bose Comb cockerels—hen-hatched.

farm raised.big thrifty. prize Winning strains.

to, $7.50 and $10.00. We raise only R. C.Reds.





/ BIDWELL STOCK F ARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





 





Rhoda island Bods swan:





BURT SISSON, Imlny City. Mich.

Rhode Island Whites 55.503.33.53:

money in raising poultry try the R. I. White. stock





for sale. order alien .

H. H. JUMP. R. 5. Jackson. Mich.





 





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S. C. WHITE LEGHORN MGB FOB HATCHING.

laid by hens that averaged over two hundred eggs each

last season. 15 Ex .00; 39 85.50: 100 $15.00. RAE?

CH each 1' be lining March lot. 15 87.50;

25310.50; 50 $20.50.: mo “0.00 no catalogue.

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Wheat.





Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.94; May

$1.87; No. 2 white-and No. 2 mixed





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’Chicago.——No. 1 hard $1.81; No. 2

hard $1.78; March 31.71%.

Corn. -1

No. 3 yellow 73c; No.





No. 3





Detroit—Cash

4 yellow 700.

Chicago.—No. 2 mixed 70c;

yellow 67613671,“. ~

Oats.

Detroit.—-—Cash No. 2 white 49%0;

N0. 3 white 48c; No. 4 white 45c.

Chicago—No. 2 white 46%é@46%c;

No. 3 white 451/2@45%c.

Beans.-

Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

lower at $3.85 per cwt,

Chicago.——White beans steady. Hand-

picked beans choice to fancy $4.50@

4.75; red kidney beans $9@9.25 per

cwt. _

New York—Market is dull. Choice

pea $4.90@5; do medium at $5.50@

5.75; red kidney $9.25 per cwt.





, Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.59.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover $11.75;

alsike $15.50; timothy $3 per bushel.



Toledo—Prime red clover, cash and

March $10.95; alsike $15.50; timothy

$2.95 per bushel.



. Hay.



No. 1 timothy $20@21; standard and

light mixed $19@20; No. 2 timothy

$18@19; No. 1 clover mixed and No. 1

clover $176018; rye straw $120013;

wheat and oat straw $11@12 per ton

in carlots at Detroit.





WHEAT





The visitation of green bugs in Tex-

as promises to cause more or less dam-

age to the wheat and eat crops in part

of that state and the pest has appear-

ed as far north as Illinois. The unusu-

ally mild winter has caused many to

look for severe~r visitations of insect

pests of all kinds this year. Heissian

fly reports are being received from the

soft winter wheat states, but it is too

early to make estimates as to the loss-

es. High drying winds have been re-

ported in parts of Kansas and drought

is a far greater destructive agency in

wheat, as a rule, than green bugs. Ow-

ing to the close adjustment of‘ the

wheat supply to demand for it the

world over the prospect of a reduction

in the new crop from green bugs or

other causes had more or less effect

on the market. In some sections pros-

pective damage caused farmers to

hold for higher prices but after an ad

vance of almost 30c a bushel offerings

increased which, with a change in the

weather unfavorable for insects, re-

sulted in moderate decline. A leading

European authority disagrees with

some of the leading American statis-

ticians and says that stocks at the end

of the season promise to be small and

that- it is very probable that the world

demand next season will be larger

than this year. Foreign exchange con-

tinues to advance as purchases of com-

modities of all kinds in the United

States have fallen off materially. Prac-

tically no export demand for domestic

wheat was reported during the week,

as Argentine and Australia are offer-

ing freely at lower prices. Flour de-

mand shows little improvement, al-

though all reports indicate that stocks

in second hands are unusually small

for this season of the year.





CORN





Movement of corn which has been

relatively light of late promises to in-

crease again as surplus states have

been selling rather freely due to the

better condition of country roads, cold-

er weather and higher prices. There

are complaints of corn getting out of

condition. In parts of Nebraska much

grain was left on the ground without

protection and continued mild weath-

er has caused damage. It is said that

the bulk of the selling necessary to

meet March 1 money requirements has

already taken place. The expert de-

mand for corn has improved consider-





', ably with around 2,500,000 bushels sold





.. abroad during the week. Some of this





. business was forced as elevator room ,





at Chicago is growing scarce. Prices

also have been below Argentine corn.

Germany has been the best buster.- .A





little improvement is noted in the east-





ern demand.

OATS





The oat markets follow the fluctua.

tion in corn. closely. Seeding is un-

der way in southern Kansas with the

season about two weeks earlier than





usual. ,

BEANS





Due apparently to a. price cutting

wave as a result of a .disagreement

among Michigan operators, the bean

market has declined for the last sev-

eral days to around $3.90 per hundred

pounds for choice hand-picked beans

f. o. b. Michigan points. Price to grow-

ers for beans in the dirt range from

$3693.25. Demand from wholesale gro-

cers subsided when the market weak-

ened as they were disposed to wait for





bottom.

SEEDS '





The spring demand for grass seed is

growing. Supplies in the hands of the

growers and distributors are large,

however, and the effort to move these





heldings neutralized any' increase in

purchasing power. European growers





centinuc. torcduce their prices in or- .





der to stimulate buying from this coun-

try. During the week ending Febru-

ary 5, nearly 800,000 pounds of clover





seed arrived at New York from France





and Italy. Timothy seed exports dur-

ing 1920 were 13,522,000 pounds, or

about the same as in 1919. A broader

foreign outlet would aid the market

for this seed. Winter-kill of clover

seedings is not supposed to be large,

but it is still too early to make certain

upon this point. vToledo prices per

bushels are: Prime red clover $10.75;

prime alsike $15.50; 1919 prime timo-

thy $2.80; 1920 prime timothy $3. Chi-

cago, per 100 pounds, clover $13@19;

timothy $4.50@5.75.





FEEDS





The decline in feed prices to a basis

more nearly on a par with farm~grown

feeds attracted new purchasing power

and slight advances were made on mill

feeds during the past week. Quota-

tions on oil meal remain unchanged.





 





 





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Markets‘ for





BUFFALO





0n today’s market heavy hogs Were

bringing $9.50@10; medium and mixed

grades $10.25@10.75; others at $11;

lambs $10.50; calves $16.50.





DETROIT

Cattle.

Market strong.



Best heavy steers . . . . , . .3 8.006;] 8.50

Mixed steers and heifers 7.2560 8.00

Best handy Wt bu steers 6.50@ 7.25

Handy light butchers 5.50417 6.50

Light butchers .......... 5.00/61) 5.50

Best cows ' 6.00

Butcher cmvs 5.00

Common cows 3.75

Canners 3.00

Choice bulls 5.75

Bologna. bulls 5.00

Stock bulls ', 5.50

Feeders g 7.00

Stockers ’ , 6.50

Milkers and springers. . . .25 40717 90



Veal Calves. ‘



Good calves strong; others steady.



Best ....... _ ............. $ 1300031400

Others 6.00@10.00





l-Iogs 15@250 higher.

Mixed hogs ............. $ 9.65@10.00

Pigs .............. . . . . . . 10.25@10.50

Heavy 9.00

Sheep and Lambs.

Market 500 higher.

Best lambs

Fair lambs . . . .

Light to common ......

Fair to good sheep ......

Culls and common ......





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 16,000;

holdover 3,898. Market. 15@25c higher;

heavy slow; others active. Bulk of

sales $9.25fi1710; tops $10.25; heavy 250





February 23.





lbs up medium, good and choice $9.20

@950; medium 200 to 250 lbs medium,

good and choice $9.25@10; light 150 to

200 lbs common, medium, good and

choice $9.85@10.25; light lights 130 to

150* lbs common, medium, good and

choice $9.85@10.25; heavy packing

sows 250 lbs up smooth $8.10@9; pack-

ing sows 200 lbs up rough $7.85@8.10;

pigs 130 lbs down medium, good and

choice $8.90@10.

Cattle.





Estimated receipts today are 6,000.

Market 25@40c higher. Beef steers,

medium and heavy weight 1100 lbs up'

choice and prime $10.25@11.15; do me-

dium and good $8.65@10.25; do com-

mon $8@8.65; light weight 1100 lbs

down good—and choice at $9.50@10.75;

do common andlmedium $7.75@9.50;

butcher cattle heifers, common, medi-

um, good and choice $5.50@9.40; cows

common, medium, good and choice at

$4.25@7.75; bulls bologna and beef at

847562605; canners and cutters cows

and heifers «82.25604; do canner steers

at $3.75@5.50; veal calves light and

handyweight medium, good and choice

at $9.50@12.75; feeder steers common,

medium, good and choice at $7.25@9;

stocker steers common, medium, good

and choice $6@8.25; stacker cows and

heifers common, medium, good and

choice $4@6.15. '



Sheep and Lambs.





Estimated receipts today are 14,000.

Market strong to 250, higher. Lambs

84 lbs down medium, good, choice and

prime $8.50@10.75; do 85 lbs up medi-

um, good, choice and prime at $7.75@

10.25; do culls and common $6.50@8;

spring lambs medium, good, choice

and prime $6.50@8.25; ewes medium,

good and choice $4.25@6.25; eweS' cull

and common $2.25@l4; yearling weth-

ers medium, good and choice $7@8.25.





 





 





Lift/e Journeys“





UNDER this headingwe are going to discuss each week some



market term or phrase in frequent use. but the meaning of

Our purpose is to

greatest possible benefit from





enable our readers to obtain the

reading our market pages.





“realization.”





additional supplies.





as tired of the word as they 3





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which may not be enti ely clear to everyone





I.—-Liquidation.



Liquidation is a term borrowed from the lawyers who apply it

to the process of turning. theassets of an individual who is in finan-

cial straits, into cash which is the most “liquid” form of capital,

and applying it to the payment of what he owes. .

uses the term when farm'products are closed out in a declining '

market in order to prevent further loss.

sale would not be made if prices were not declining.





The opposite of the term, or selling at a profit, ‘is known as





“Liquidation of longs” or those» who have a Surplus. may occur

coincidentally with the “covering by shorts}? or those who need





Liquidation has been in such common use in reports of markets ‘

for farm products during the past six months that farmers may be

urely are off the; process. , '





to Me Markets





The market





The inference is thatthe





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secs AND POULTRY





stimulating consumptive demand .to'r

eggs and promised to checkthe flow

of receipts resulting in a firmer" mar-

ket especiallyin the east. Cold stor—

age holdings of case eggs oanebruary





1 were only 44,000 compared with 408,-.“





000 a month-ago, and 342,000 af‘year

ago. Frozen egg holdings decreased

about 2,544,000 cases‘ during the month

but are still nearly 50 percent larger.





than on February 1, storage





holdings of frozen poultycn February

1 totalled 81,000,000 pounds, represent»





ing a gain of 2,000,000 pounds during

January, but are still about 12 per cent

smaller than on th same date aye'ar

1 Latest quotat one were as fol-

ows: ' ‘





Detroit—Eggs, fresh firsts ‘ 37@

37%c. Live poultry, springs,‘29@30c;

leghorns 24 25c; heavy hens 29@30c;

light hens 2 @26c; _roosters 20c ;-geese

27 @280; ducks 35c; turkeys 40@42c.





BUTTER





The upward turn in the butter mar-

kets continued throughout the past

week. Fresh butter became compara-

tively scarce and the previous period

of uncertainty left the dealers with

small stocks. The eastern market for

Danish butter also advanced, due to

a delay of several days in landing-the

cargo of the steamer United States. as

a. result of a typhus scare at New York

City. The ship carries a. cargo of 7,800

cask-s with some additional boxes. As

the market has bad a sharp advance,

and there has been a change to .the

use of storage butter, and as the new

cargo of Danish butter is expected to

be available before the end of the

present week, the prospect suggests a.

slight reaction within a few days. Pric-

es upon 92 score fresh butter as quot~

ed by the Bureau of Markets, February

19, were: Chicago 47%0; New York

48c; Philadelphia 48%c; Boston 48c.





POTATOES





Both consuming markets and ship-

ping points report weakness and lower

prices for potatoes during the past

week. Demand appears to be light,

and the movement from the hands of

growers is extremely slow as a. result

of the condition of the market. De-

mand improved slightly, especially

from the south toward the close of the

week, and shipments declined, suggest—





ing that improvement may soon be.





manifest. Northern shipping stations

are quoted at 80@90c per 100 pounds.

Prices for bulk northern round whites

U. S. Grade No. 1 are quoted as fol-

lows: Chicago, $1.05@1.20; Detroit

$1.70@1.90 per 150-lb sack.





FARM BUREAU MARKET REPORT.





Grain markets suffered a slight de-

cline the past week but are materially

‘above low point of the previous week.

Firmer prices are expected if export

buying continues. This applies to

wheat, corn, rye and oats. Hay con-

tinues dull with little prospect of its

recovering to higher price range. Large

volume to be moved before new crop.

General tendency of seed market is

weak. Futures are low. Many farm-

ers holding their seed. Carryover will

be large. Many local points not buy-

ing. 'Alsike and timothy steady with

no changes during the past week. June

clover is a little unsettled, the price

range not exceeding $11 high level or

$10.50 low mark. Corn and beans are

more active. ‘ -





. ___._.__w.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

——-—-—-s-

the Atlantic coast, and traffic is par-

alyzed in many sections by the heavy

fall of snow.

Monday, February 21.





AMERICAN Legion posts have been





asked to watch for a revival of





German propaganda in this country.—

In the allied conference which is con-

vening in London to consider termsof

payment of German reparations there

appears to be an attitude toward com-

plying with the wishes'of America.—





‘comme Lit/F. s-rocx SALE-8.

Honest—march 2, Michigan Hol-

gttein-Friesian Association.





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Cooler weather had .the‘ effect of ‘





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, ,1 , ._ -. rt-a:.,h_aving.-gany=g~ainteces-t “in. any—1 stbckyard



- . , . rm, wool market‘unless the commissionunder certain

'1 williiwnmaé“ demand. The “out- conditions extends the period. 1 The

come of tho-"thrift claw ‘ 13 Still-111103?" committee amendment contains no such





tai' . 3W ’ 11. its Veil? bly thibfggfé‘ provision, on the ground that the con-



"geugsmoguymfifi £161); 16%,, active sent decree entered into by the five

id 130119ng markets, and prices inAus- great packers and the attorney-general



tralia. are Slightlyi‘lower. Chicago re‘ befOre the supreme court of the Dis.



trict of Columbia already provides for





ports recent sales 'of quarter-blood

such separation of packers and stock-





16' wools at 26c f. (ii bli Itnill): Thigeui?



onwic 0 sea 0

i but little up yards as is necessary at this time. The

senate bill includes within the defini-





in an advance in prices in view of the



large stock now on hand, and the op-

tion of “live stock” only cattle, sheep

and swine. In this connection the





.ening of the new shearihgi season.-

committee calls attention to the fact





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





use in your‘ line.





 





and Milking





Machine Salesmen, Etc.





Write me and cash in on information you get but cannot

It will pay you for it and not inter-

fere with your regular business,

territory. A real. business proposition.

strictly confidential. Write me at once telling me what you

sell and what territory you travel.





Geo. Thomas, 8-H. Gotham St, Madison, Wis.





One man» only in each"

Correspondence





 





1‘ u ~ Goods‘m'arkets show little change, but



l at least conditions have not become

that by the agricultural appropriation

act of’July 24, 1919, horse 'meat was





," worse. General trade sentiment is



'33 cheerful but not bullish. Boston quotes



3 made subject to the meat inspection

act‘ and that there are already two





the markets ,as follows: Ohio and

Pennsylvania'fleeces, delaine unwash-

plants under federal inspection.

'At this date it is apparent that the





fine unwashed 29@30c;

three-

only chance of any packer legislation

being enacted during this session of

congress is that the Haugen commit-





ed 39@40c; .

half-blood unwashed 32@34c;

eighths-biood unwashed 29@30c.





HOG‘ BREAK-oyaTAlLs RECEIPTS.





 





I ' .DG producers responded promptly





to tbe‘deélfn’e in hog prices report- 308 Davndson BUIldlng,





MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK





° INSURANCE COMPANY





INDEMNIFIES Owners "of‘LiVe" Stock — Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs

Against Death by Accident or Disease





Bay City, Michigan





 





ed a week'aigo by reducing shipments,

while the bargain prices attracted buy-

‘ — ers from the east to corn belt centers.

Prices reacted to the high point or the

year at Chicago in short order only to

be" followed by a marked reversal of





tee amendment may pass the house

and senate without amendment. It is

believed that no agreement can be

reached on the senate bill.





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form be o're the close of the week. All . — fee TM

advices indicate that numbers—of hogs KNOWLEDGE OF SEED PED'GREE _ ‘_,___. ,___,._



~ remaining in the country are graduj n. 3.1.x... ;

ally dwindling and that the ability of BSOLUTE guarantee as to the 01+ {$2,236 .5

producersl to flit): ethcti‘ mggiigtg $23: gin and adaptability of its seed is u. twang;

192251.281); '1):ng garkeatls agpear to have the Michigan State Farm Bureau Seed other "He t.

struck bottom. an advance of three to Department’s greatest contribution to- ”daye’ freetrial— it

five cents per pound wholesale taking ward the advancement of Michigan ag- ..W,..,1, mo .1... . ..





as, u — AND — the

riculture. The iron-clad statement sa s “3.?“ ' lelotte

’ y “m firms.





Mr. Nicholson, head of the department, ”m"





place at Chicago, although the eastern

markets remain weak.





   

 

 





 





" h ‘season of s rin work upon f

{1.3113313 the corn bell) will soon open,‘ backed by expert investigation of all "0 Money Down! \,,...+,;.

periods of shortage in market supply seed handled by the farm bureau, Catalog “Muslim. €495?“

i, may be expected, especially after a points the way for the elimination of caution! 1.” .‘ *7—1-

month or six weeks, and a top of $11.50 th r 1 t st f th farme ’s seed am- “,0" n“, Ma

to $12'may be obtained at Chicago in e 3 ed 9* 0 .e. 1' if)" [Tummy-a

the course of this usual spring bulge. bios—that of origin and adaptability. ””2"”. a...- may“,





cannot t on

charger? cannot vibrate.

Con mixer-cam milk.

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Write for new Melotte cat-

nlo containing full description

o! is wonderful cream own-abol-

lnd the story of M; Jules clztte.





Michigan’s state seed law falls short

of giving the farmer full protection in

that it fails to insist upon the origin of

the seed, according to Mr. Nicholson,

who declared that northern states can-

not use many of the southern-grown

seeds to-“advantage. He cited govern-





PACKER‘ CONTROL LEGISLATION.





 





' LL the agricultural organizations

represented in Washington have

been making strenuous efforts to get

action on ‘the’packer control bill in the





 





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house. M019 than a bundled 001131955 ment reports showmg that Italian and gfiwfwfiggbfiaofibgghfi "13“?” e 030";

men were induced to Sign a petition other southern-grown Clovers and al- “giggles” “"dimcwwfianibbfli c “1'34. mo-





 

   

   





asking the house committee on rules to

report favorably on a special rule giv-

ing an opportunity to vote on the pack-

er control bill. These congressmen

were mostly from the south and west.

A number of eastern congressmen said

they would vote for the packer control

bill if it came before the house but

they refused to sign the petition.

There is a strong sentiment in con-

gress against any extension of the pol-

icy of government by commissions. For

this reason it is believed that the

house bill, known as the Haugen bill,

is preferable to the senate bill, and

. also that it is leSs objectionable to the





falfa are not adapted to northern win-

ters and is quite subject to disease,

and pointed out that last year twenty

million pounds each of clover and al-

falfa seed not adapted to northern cli‘

mate was imported into the United

States. He said there was nothing to

prevent much of it from getting into

northern states.



By excluding from its warehouses

all suspected seed, and insisting on the

origin and history of all the seed it

handles, the farm bureau seed depart-

ment claims that it has gone the seed

industry one better, in that it affords

the farmer for the first time, complete

and accurate information on his seed

and enables him to investigate suc-

cessfully the stock he intends introduc-

ing on his'farm. -



‘ Notwithstanding the fact that all

hard shelled seed is scarified at the

farm bureau warehouses and cleaned

to a rigid standard, the farm bureau

seed department reports that it has





m m Won”. 8. Baboon. 0.5. Mgr.

9.... 9102 use w. sou- scmt. Ghlcago, m.





Works Like) filo-é





Covers 8 Acres a Day





It does as good work as you can do

with a hoe—It cuts every weed—None

can dodge it—Kee s the surface in con-

dition to readily absorb rain and pro-

duces a mulch of fine soil which pre-

vents the escape of moisture.‘ One trip

to the row—narrow or wide.





”t cWLE‘





Reg. D. S. Pu. 0i!

CULTIVATOR





 





 





 





 





 





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packers. ,.



In a comparison of the senate bill

and the house agricdlture committee’s

amendment, 'Representative Haugen

points out that the senate bill creates

a new cemmission, to be known as the

federal live stock commission, compos-

ed of three commissioners appointed

by the President at a salary of $10,000

per year.. The committee is opposed





 

 





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I With one horse the Fowler does as much work

as you can do with a two-horse cultivator—and

better work—because it. cultivates shallow. and

has no teeth to) destroy crop roots. By removmg





' sum bu. imgu‘rree.





 





 

 





 





transit, has familiarity with the gen— ‘

eral subject matter. 1 ' ' I ' " nee-simm-

.1. .11.... .111 M11... 11.. .1... llahminglscm 533:;th





, e’r‘s,





handled more than a million pounds of

seed since November 1, 1920.



The department has found that the

present crop of Grimm alfalfa seed has

an unusually tough seed coat, because

of the long growing season last year.

Germination tests on northwestern-

grown seed showed a germination of

sixty-two per cent. Scarification raised

the germination to ninety-two per cent.





to the creation of any new commission,

believing that existing agencies may

be utilized instead. Accordingly, the

committee amendment gives to the

secretary ofJagriculture control over

the paékers 'On the theory that his dut-

ies are closely connected with the in.

vestigation and control of the meat-

packing industry. The committee

amendment gives to the Interstate

Commerce Commission control over .

the stockyards and commission men I



and others furnishing services at the

stockyards. That commission already

has control over transportation of cat-

tle, which does not end until they are

unloaded at the yards, and, through

its administration of. the act relating

to feeding and watering of cattle in





 





 





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' tier two 9 years” from , the date 0!





   





plow fool: you can cultivate astride the row.

Can also be adjusted to cultivate crops planted

either above or below the level without destroy~

ing the sloping sides of the ridges.



It’s the cultivator for corn, cotton, tobacco.

peanuts, beets and truck crops. It is unexcelled

also as a bean harvester. " ' _ _ '

Carried in carload lots at leading distributing

points. _

Write today for catalcég which fully explains

The Fowler—IT'S FRE





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Atkinson. Minn.



I have used a. set. of Walsh Harness for over

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C. E. A. ANDERSON





Dell Rapids, 8. D.



I have used the Walsh Harness a year for all

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A the best harness on the market regardless of

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saw. return it at our expense. ,





5 f' / Shelby. Iowa.



1 received my harness last March. and am

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Cleveland. Wis.

I honestly believe that the Walsh Harness

Will outlast two sets of the other make.

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Derrick, N. D.



Received the harness and am more than well

pleased with them. it is the best harness I have

seen for the money. I had them on a team to

town and everybody was asking where I had

bought the harness. Would not take two sets

of old style harness for them. ‘

OLE HAUGEN





ness does not rove itself to be the best

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at a price $10. to $15. below what other

harness of equal quality leather is sell-

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this? We also have a way for you to

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to weaken straps. Every‘Walsh strap gives its full strength. '

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than buckle harness 'made of the same high grade of

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