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CURRENT COMMENT





EADING is a fixet

habit with Amer





. Farm folks are vitally,

interested in current events, in which

line they are, as a class, admittedly

better informed than any other single

class of our people. This is true for

the simple reason that they devote

more of their spare time to reading

”than any other class, and facts or

‘ fancies gleaned from the printed page

by our own hearthstone are more con-

ducive to reflection and thought than

they would be if conveyed to us

through any other channel, save ac-

tual, practical demonstration.



With this thought. in mind a progres-

sive young farmer who had been called

into county agricultural work, made

up a questionnaire covering the points

which he had in mind and sent it out

to a representative list of substantial

farmers in two typical agricultural

states. Among other questions he ask-

ed these farmers how many hours they

read per week in winter and in sum-

mer; how many farm papers they

took; if they read the advertisements

in them, etc. The replies were most

interesting and illuminating. One farm-

er who takes five farm papers reads

thirty hours per week, winter and sum-

mer alike. He reasoned that things

are happening rapidly these days and

that the man who wants to keep up

with the times must read and read all

the .time. He reads the advertisements,

too, and says this is just like reading

current events, except that the. adver-

tisements record current events in

practical, material business lines,

while other current events but record

changes which hold no real economic

interest for the reader.



Another farmer of foreign birth who

had been in this country but fifteen

years, had not only learned to read

English. fluently, but had become an

inveterate reader. Needless to say he



,’ is also a successful and progressive

‘ . farmer. He, too, deems it necessary

’to read both text and advertisements

in order to keep up-to-date, and his

comments on the latter would be prof-

itable reading for the most expert

copy writer. These cases are typical

lithe results of this investigation.

M fifty farmers who replied to the

'1 f. onnaire read an average of twen-

so hours per week throughout the

,5 and read just as much in sum-





 





 





 

 





 

 





 

 

 





te, proof thot farmers





Detroit. Michigan





current ican people in general

Business and American farm .

Events ers inparticular





as a class have the reading" habit firms

ly fixed, and that they read for eco«

nomic benefit as well as for general

information and entertainment, all of

which they get from well written and

suitably illustrated advertisements, as

well as from the text in their. farm pa-

pers and periodicals. 7





It is a tribute to the advancement

ofladvertising as an art that the farm

readers find advertising copy both in-

teresting and profitable reading, while

manufacturers and merchants, find it

the best and cheapest available meth-

od of promoting sales, where reliable

merchandise is properly displayed to

prospective‘users through the advertis-

ing columns of quality. publicatidns

which carefully censor all advertise-

ments offered them in the reader’s in-

terest. To the reader of such a publi-

cation, its advertising columns are a

record of current business events of

great economic value. To the manu-

facturer or merchant they are the

cheapest and most effective show win-

dow and the best sales argument, short

of actual demonstration. And they

bring about practical demonstrations

of the advertised goods in thousands

of comm‘unities which could not be eas-

ily or economically reached in any oth.

er way.





CCORDING to sta-





- 1 tistics recently

Corgrnodrty published by the U.

.r’ce S. Bureau of Labor

Figures Statistics, the whole-





sale index price for

all commodities has declined twenty-

nine per cent as compared with Janu-

ary, 1920. The same statistics show

that retail prices have declined but

fourteen per cent in the same period.

The new retail price index above indi-

cated is based entirely on records from

large cities. There are indications

that in smaller trading centers, where

the turnoverof merchants’ stocks is

slower, the reaction in retail prices as

compared with .wholcsalc commodity

prices has been even less pronounced.





This is a situation which calls for

Correction. It is gradually being cor-

rected in the larger centers by compe-

tition resulting from the action of the

more progressive merchants in writing

off their losses in order to turn over

their stocks and replace them with

fresh goods at the lower values now

prevailing in many lines. Official in-

vestigations are also resulting in a

lowering of the retail price of neces-

sities. -



Country merchants who are awake

to the present situation will follow this

lead as rapidly as possible lest. they

suffer an undesirable loss of business

from discriminating cash buyers. In

too many cases country merchants are

handicapped by serving their patrons

in the double roll of banker as well as

of merchant. This practice inevitably

operates to hold up retail prices to the

disadvantage of both customers and

merchant. '





HERE is no single





Test . factor of so great

” F - importance to the pro-

“ a1 ”1 duction of profitable

Seeds crops as good seed.





The soil may be ever

so fertile and the seedbed ever so well

prepared, but if good seed of produc-

tive strains is not planted the product

will not be what it might be, either in

quantity of quality. This fact is so

patent, that there seems small excuse

for carelessness. in the selection or

testing of farm seeds, yet every year

crop yields are seriously cut on many

farms because sufficient care has not

been exercised in this regard. .

Firstamong the farm seeds to be

planted each spring are clover and

grass seeds. The determination of

quality in these seeds is more difficult

than in any other planted on the turn.

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that it is difficult to‘judge even the

purity as to kind. 'The noxious'weed

seeds which may be present in them

are also difficult to identify in many

cases, while the percentage of live

seeds can only be guessed at by the

average layman. For this reason, it

would be the wisest course for every

farmer who has purchased small seeds

from any but the most reliable sources





or which were not accompanied by a.





guarantee of purity, to send a sample

to the state seed analyst, at the Michi-

gan Agricultural College, East Lan-

sing, Michigan, for analysis, for which

Service only a nominal fee is charged.



Pure seed will obviate the danger of

introducing troublesome weeds, but

will not insure a good stand or a good

crop. To insure a good stand under

normal conditions the seed must be of

high germination. Its germinating

qualities can be easily ascertained by

a simple germination test. Its produc-

ing power will depend not. a little on

the hardiness of the strain, and the

latitude in which the seed was produc-

ed, which is a. strong argument for pur-

chasing from the most reliable sources.





Care in selection and testing of the '





seed used in growing the grain and

cash crops is even more important

from the standpoint of immediately

profitable results. This is an easier

proposition and one usually given more

attention by the average farmer, yet

far greater care would pay big divi-

dends. It takes but little time to make

sure of the germinating quality of all

farm seeds, including an ear test of

the seed corn. And it will pay; no

matter how sure we may be that it is

all right.





N the interest of





Clover succeeding crops

. and for the sake. of

seed’"9 the live stock indus-

Problems try of the state it is





important that the

acreage of red and alsike clover be in-

creased, and with seed at a lower price

the opportunity to extend the clover

acreage is more favorable the coming

spring than at any time during the

past four or five years.



The most important point to be ob-'

served in securing a good stand of clo-

ver is the selection of pure seed of

high germinating power, and right now

prospective clover growers should be

looking about for good seed. The past

season’s crop as a whole is not of such

good quality as might be desired. How-

ever, the improvcd systems of hand-

ling and cleaning the seed practiced

by the better class of secdsmen makes

it. possible for the farmer to make him-

self safe against failures in securing

good seed of high germinating powers.



Good red clover seed is plump,

bright with a slight lustre, the color of

the seed varying from violet to light

yellow. The seeds should be of fair

size and uniform, free from adulter-

ants of any kind and from seeds of

noxious weeds. As a rule, home-grown

seed will prove better adapted to local

conditions.



:Always bear in mind that the sow-

ing value of the seed is represented by

the amount of true clover which will

germinate with reasonable prompt-

ness. Thus, if four—fifths of the seed

is pure clover, and only three-fourths

will sprout, then only three-fifths, or

sixty per cent of the original seed. as it

comes from the grower will grow.

This explains Why the germinating

test is such an important factor in de-

termining‘the value of the seed pur-

chased.





Because so many farmers who grow .





wheat and rye. plan to take advantage

of the late snout forearryi-ng clover

seeds down into the. ground, the, ab-

sence of snow, as seems probable this

spring, should, not have a tendency to

reduce the acreage 'of clover seeding.

As good results may be obtained by

sowing the good as soon as conditions





 





 





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llght’smoothing-harrow with the tooth

set Wellnaslant. This will cover the

seed sufficiently deep to give the young

plant roots a good hold in the soil, and

the grain crops will be bcpoflted by

the stirring at the soil, especially if the

early part of the season is dry.





News of the Week





Wednesday, February 23.





r HE government of Persia has been



overthrown by Persian Cossacks.

——_American farmers contribute five

million bushels of corn for famine re-

hel 1n China—Seven persons are kill-

ed when a train is derailed near Waco,

Texas.I—The Michigan house of repre-

sentatives passes a bill providing for

the disarming of all aliens—President-

elect Harding’s complete cabinet is an-

nounced as follows: Secretary of

State, Charles E. Hughes; Secretary

of the treasury, Andrew Mellon; Sec-

retary of War, John W. Weeks; At-

torney-general, Harry M. Daugherty;

Postmaster-general, Will H. Hays;

Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Denby;





Secretary of Interior, A B. Fall; Sec»





retary of Agriculture, Henry C. Wal-

lace; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert

Hoover; Secretary of Labor, James J.

Davis.



Thursday, February 24.





HE American government refuses





to be bound by the action of the

League of Nations in.,the disposition

of ¥ap Island.~The Michigan demo-

cratic state convention is held in Jack

son where only one contest is made in

the selection of candidates for the Ap«

r11 election.—~Representatives of organ-

ized labor open a. fight on the law

enacted by congress which declares

Iabonorganizations are not copart-

nerships.»—The number of cases of

sleeping sivkness in New York City is

reported to be 227.—Aviators carry

mail from San Francisco to New York

City in thirty—four hours—Department

of health officials declare the milk sup-

ply of Detroit to be the most satisfac-

tory in the country.





Friday, February 25.





EPORTS from Moscow state that



revolts against the Red regime are

growmg in the Ukraine, Tambov and

Orenburg districts of Russia—Panama

appeals to the United States to use its

good offices to avoid bloodshed in Cen-

tral America.~—Italy asks the United

States to make loans secured during

and since the war, into long-time ob-

liga.t.ions.~Austria will refuse the plan

to turn that government over to the

allies, according to President Hainisch.

~—Mexican railway employes call a.

general strike.



Saturday, February 26.



A FEDERAL grand jury sitting in



Indianapolis indicts 223 coal oper~

ators, coal operating associations and

coal mining companies—The allies are

asking the United States to sit with

allied conferees to dispose of the Yap

Island controversy.—-A seventeen-year-

old Chicago bank clerk is missing with

Liberty Bonds valued at $772,000.





Sunday, February 27.





' OVIET forces take Tiflis, the capi-



tal of Georgia, Asia Minor, after

moving been evicted—Edwin Denby, of

Detroit, announces his acceptance of

the appointment as secretary of the

navy in President—elect Harding’s cab-

net.——Mexican trains continue to run

despite the general strike of railway

men which now appears a failure.——

The United States Senate approves an

army of an average strength of 175,000

nen during the next fiscal year.——The

Mexican government denies that Jap-

anese have invested $500,000,000 in oil

lands in lower California.



Monday, February 28.



N a collision on the Michigan Cen-



tral near Porter, Indiana, 37 per-

sons are reported to have been killed

and nearly one hundred injured.—

Should Germany refuse to agree to rep-

arations an immediate economic block-

ade already planned will probably be

enforced.——The United States destroy-

er Woolsey is sunk in a collision with

a steamer off the Pacific Coast of Pan-

ama.——~Reports indicate that Emir Fei-

sal is to be made king of the Arabians.





Tuesday, March 1.





HE United States Supreme Court

holds unconstitutional the sec-

tions of the Lever act under which the

government) ended the coal strike in

1919 and endeavored to cut the cost of





living.—_—Allied troops are moving into

the Rhine district of Germany proper»,

atory to the enforcement of reparation.





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T is only recently that the ban has

I been lifted which placed sweet clo-



ver in the outlaw class of noxious

weeds. Today on many Michigan

farms there are enthusiastic support-

ers of sweet clover who number this

crop among the elect of useful forage

and soil improvement crops.



The ordinary sweet clover is a bien-

nial, requiring two seasons to com-

plete growth. There has recently been

brought forth a new variety—annual

w’hite blossomed sweet clever, which

completes its growth in a single crop

season. The announcement of a new

crop is usually received with mixed

sentiment by the public, but let the

skeptical keep in mind the rapid pro-

gress made by the ordinary biennial

type of sweet clover, before passing

adverse judgment on this new crop.



The possible agricultural value of

the annual white sweet clover was first

seen by Professor H. D. Hughes, of:

the Iowa Experiment Station.



The Farm Crops Department of the

Michigan Agricultural College recently

announced the fact that large increas-

es had been made of the Hubam clo-

ver. At the Michigan Experiment Sta-

tion seed planted in late March or

early April produced by early July, a

large growth of forage, well adapted

for hay or pasture purposes. The

plants stood at that date three feet

or more in height and were not nearly

as coarse-stemmed as the biennial

type. It is estimated that a yield of

at least two tons of hay per acre could

have been harvested.



From late June until the coming of

frost, this type of sweet .clover

should furnish an excellent pas-

ture crop for hogs, sheep, or

cattle. As a seed crop, experi-

ence of the Farm Crops De-

partment shows that the plant

is quite dependable \mder low-

er and western Michigan con-

ditions. The seed matures in

late September and early Oc-

tober.





HE annual white sweet clo-

ver is the only short-sea-

son leguminous crop, adapted

to Michigan, which is compar-

able to alfalfa or clover in the

methods of cultivation and

utilization. It appears very

probable that this crop will oc-

cupy a valuable place in Mich-

igan agriculture, particularly on light

soils. The farmer who finds that his

clover or alfalfa has failed to come

through the winter, may find in the

Hubam clover a valuable addition to

the class of short-season hay crops.

For soil improvement purposes it ap-

parently has great possibilities. Judged

by the acre planted: at the G. R. & 1.

Experiment Station at Howard City,

the Hubam clover is well adapted to

growing on light lands, and may prove

valuable on light and sandy loams. '

As yet, comparatively little is defi-

nitely known in regard to the seeding

of this crop with companion crops, or

its real place in Michigan farming as

a hay and pasture crop. At the experi-

ment station a plat of oats was seeded

with the annual white sweet clover.

An excellent growth resulted adapted

to pasture for late summer hay pur-

poses, but seed did not mature.

The Farm Crops Department first

received a small consignment of the

Hubam annual white sweet clover in





, 1918 from Professor Hughes, of Iowa."





This was increased in the hands of

Professor F. A. Spragg. In 1919 eight-

een pounds of seed was available. Af-

ter scariflcation fourteen pounds were

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one and a quarter pounds per acre, in

rows twenty-eight inches apart. Five

and one-half acres were planted for

increase purposes on the station farm.

An approximately like acreage was

grown, cooperatively by several mem-

bers of the Crop Improvement Associa-

tion, by the G. R. & 1. Experiment Sta-

tion, and a small acreage at the Chat-

ham sub-station. The crop matured

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The distribution of seed from the in-

crease at the college will be accom-

plished through farmers skilled in seed

growing who are members of the Mich-

igan Crop Improvement Association,

and a proportionate amount will be

sent to county agents for distribution

at cost. A certain amount for increase

will also be supplied at cost to seed

firms in Michigan 'desiring same. Farm-

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‘N view of the length of the name—Hughes Annual White Sweet

Clover, Mr. J. W. Nicolson, Manager of the Farm Bureau Seed

Department, Lansing, has suggested “Hubam Clover” as being more





convenient and appropriate.





Professor H. D. Hughes, of the Iowa





Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, was the first to call attention to

the agricultural possibilities of this annual type of sweet clover,





found, growing in Alabama. The





discoverer and native home of this plant.





new name recognizes both the

The use of the new





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but did not rip’en at the Chatham Up-

per Peninsula Station, though it made

an excellent forage growth.



The fields at the experiment station

stood about six feet high at harvest

time. A corn binder of the upright

type was used in harvesting and very

little shattering resulted, yielding an

average of eight bushels of seed' per

acre. The crop was threshed with an

ordinary grain separator and when





will be furnished with a small envelop

of seed. There will be no seed for

general sale this year, but it is hoped

that by next year the Michigan Crop

Improvement Association can furnish

a large supply for distribution through

the Farm Bureau Seed Department.

The annual white sweet clover has all

the “ear marks” of being a valuable

addition to Michigan agriculture.



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dry hulled,with scarifier and fanned.

When it is kept in mind that seed

of this variety sold last spring and‘is

now quoted at $5.00 to $8.00 a pound,

and that the present price is approxi-

mately $300 per bushel, the importance

of this increase can be recognized. The

object of the Farm Crops Department

is to place this seed in the hands of

individuals, who will increase it as

rapidly as possible, so that the crop

may be made available for Michigan

farmers at a reasonable seed price.





 





A Large Field’ of Hubam Annual White Sweet Clover at the Michigan AgritulturaICoI-

This Crop is Apparently a Valuable Addition to Michigan Agriculture.





planted in early April on a firm.

clean seed-bed such as is offered on

ground which was in corn. beans, or

potatoes the previous year. It should

be drilled in rows from twenty-eight

to thirty-two inches apart. and culti-

vated with corn cultivator until sev-

eral feet high. Seeds should be inocu.

lated with culture which may be se-

cured from the Department of Bacte-

riology, of the Michigan Agricultural

College, East Lansing, Michigan. The

price is twenty-five cents per bottle





 





Secretary A. L. Bibbins, of the Michigan Crop improvement Association, An-





alyzing a Sample of Fieldinspeoted

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and one bottle contains sufficient ma-~





terial to inoculate a bushel of seed.

On ground needing lime from one to



two tons of ground limestone or sev-



eral loads of marl should be applied.





Acid phosphate at the rate of two hun- g“





dred to three hundred pounds per acre

will increase seed production and has-





ten maturity. From'one to two pounds ‘





of seed per acre is sufficient for an am-

ple seeding for seed purposes.



A good garden drill is excellent for

planting, but an ordinary grain drill

can be used by blocking off compart-

ments over every fourth drill cup with

heavy cardboard and setting drill at

proper rate. Cornineal can be used in

sufficient amounts to regulate rate to

one pound per acre. A corn planter

can be adjusted for planting by filling

plates with lead or babbitt and open-

ing small holes of proper size to carry

annual sweet clover seed. Small lots

should be planted in rows thirty inch-

es apart, seeding two to four inches in

the row. '



There is not sullicient seed at pres-

entfor planting with a companion crop

or nurse crop. The Farm Crops De-

partment will carry on extensive ex

periments to asccrtain the real value

of this promising new crop.



The Farm Bureau Seed Department

should be able to furnish quantity lots

for planting in 1922.





BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUB WORK.





HE idea and purpose of the Boys’



and Girls’ Club work is often mis-

understood. First of all, a boy or girl

enrolled in a club is not requir-

ed to give all of his or her time

to club aclirities. To illustrate,

when a club member buys a

pig he takes care of the pig in





cording to directions given him

by his club leader, but he does

not have to stop .work in the

fields to do it. There is no

round of festivities for the club

member, but he simpiy has a.

business of his own to handle

in a business-like manner.



During the season club meet—

ings will be held regularly at

which the social activities of

the group receive attention.

Here, also. he learns from his

club leader of other informa-

tion about raising pigs or chick-

ens, or growing a garden. At the end

of the season he can either sell his

products or, if animals, keep them to

get a start. It is better to grow into

a business than to go into one.



The big purpose of club work is to

keep farm boys and girls interested in

the farm business, to teach and to

demonstrate good practices in agricul-

ture and home economics. There are

prizes offered by the various pure-bred

breeders’ associations to keep up live-

ly competition, but primarily the profit

that the club member makes on his;

project and the knowledge he receives

from his own experience, shows him

that when all things are considered

farming is a good business.



In the case of the pig club the boys

and girls get the best gilt that the

pure-bred breeders raise. It is a busi-

ness proposition and the farmer who

encourages his boy or girl to join one

of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs in the

community and helps in keeping up

the interest will find he has made that,

boy or girl his partner on the home

farm.



Information regarding Boys’

Girls’ Club work may be had by writ-





ing R. A. Turner, State Club Leader, 9





East. Lansing, Michigan.





the best possible way and ac— .





and
HE Live Stock Marketing Com-

mittee of Fifteen held its initial

meeting at the Congress Hotel,



Chicago, Illinois, on February 24-25.



This committee was appointed by Pres-





‘. iden’t J. R. Howard, of the American





‘Farm Bureau Federation, as the out-

come of a live stock marketing confer—

ence, held in Chicago four months ago.

The committee is expected to draft

plans for the marketing of live stock,

which will reduce the costs of the

process, eliminate unfair practices in

the present system and measurably

stabilize the industry.



Most of the first meeting was spent

.by the committee in executive session,

perfecting its internal organization

and drafting rules of procedure. Presi-

dent Howard requested that C. H. Gus-

tafson, of Lincoln, Nebraska. and a

member of the committee assume the

duties of permanent chairmen. Mr.

Gustafson is also chairman of the

Grain Marketing Committee of Seven-

teen, and Director of Marketing for

the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion. A. Sykes, of Ida Grove, Iowa,

was elected vice-president, and H. W.

Mumford, Director of Live Stock Mar-

keting for the Illinois Agricultural As-

sociation, and formerly professor at M.





when assurance of a tariff was at,





S hand; also because the sugar man-

ufacturers agreed to refrain from torc-

ing the market. W'ool should strongly

advance based on similar reasoning,

provided always that holders do not

crowd their wool on the market or sell

on a speculative basis.



The Michigan State Farm Bureau

and federal organization have been

working with wool growers to secure

from congress a fifteencent per pound

duty to' add to the price for the grow-

er. Chairman Fordney, of the ways

and means committee, has been insist—

ent, that protection is for the wool

growur as have also been other mem-

bers iiike Green, of Iowa. and Long-

n‘orth. of Ohio. Speculative buying

which withdrew from the market

times of depression and left no outlet

for the grower except through his own‘

efforts in wool pools will endeavor to

obtain the benefit of the tariff and ad-

vancing prices when through no ef-

forts of theirs that a market reap-

pears. The idea of the wool pool is to

secure volume selling direct to the

mills and avoid speculation.



The farm bureau will begin to send

out a tWentyfive per cent wool divi-

-dend this week to its 18,000 consign-

ors. Beginning March 1, 1921. the fis-

cal year for wool handling will com-

mence. That means that: storage, in-

surance. etc, is reckoned to that date.

For the 1921 wools a new year begins.



Plans fOr 1921.



Wool will be assembled in twenty or

‘more places in th! state within easy

Wagon or truck haul distance and dur-

ing specified weeks. Wool will be re-

ceived and graded on the day of ar-

rival in the presence of the grower.

\Veight and grading certificates which

are final will be issued and financial

arrangements made for immediate ad-

vances. Accompanying the graders

will be a representative of the agricul-

tural college to advise on wool and

sheep problems and when possible

demonstrate docking and castration.

Representatives of the farm bureau



'will visit the assembling zones at an

_. early date to‘secure storage and ar-

1‘ range for local conditions. The new





UGAR scored a reasonable advance





plans for handling wool will eliminate





in_





A. C. was elected secretary-treasurer.



Mr. Howard stated that although the

American Farm Bureau was not dic-

tating the work of the committee, it,

was his hope that the members would

cooperate to the fullest possible extent

and work together as a producers’ or-

ganization. Inasmuch as it was im-

possible to represent' all sides and in-

terests in the live stock industry in

the narrow confines of a group of fif-





teen men, to which he was limited by





the resolution adopted at the .original

conference, he had appointed the ten

alternates, and it was his intention

and belief that all alternates should be

present at. every meeting of the cem-

mittee and have full voice in its de-

liberations; that the committee should

meet as a committee of the whole until

the final report had been drafteds‘?



Chairman Gustafson called attention

to the work of the Committee of Sev-

enteen, which had had the utmost har-

mony throughout and every vote had

been unanimous.



In response to the request of the

chairman, various members of the com-

mittee expressed their views as to the





rganizes —'





To Loo/é After Live Star/é Maréetz'fig





broad outlines of the committee’s

work. Senator Kendrick stated that it

was not difficult to point out the need

for action, but it was very difficult to

find the remedy. He spoke particular-

ly of the burden imposed on the indus-

try, ‘especially in the west, by the rail-

road rate increase; of the fact that

one-third of our live stock is produced

up to the time of finishing on a scaven.

g’er 'basis, and that this form of pro-

duction went on regardless of market

conditions and any plan for relief milst

take it into account; that in other in-

dustries adjustment to changed condi-

tions is almost automatic: a 10wer

price results in reduced production.



Mr. Hyde, of Oklahoma, called atten—

tion to the involved and conflicting

nature of the problem with the inter-

ests of the stock men in the feeder-

growing and feeding districts, each to

be considered._ He stated that in his

belief the task of this committee was

more difficult than that of the Com-

mittee of Seventeen. ‘



Other members dwelt upon the ex-

treme difficulty of the task, which had

been set to the hand of this committee





Wool Pool -Priccs





much expense as wools will be sold as

soon as possible.



Vl’ool in the grease shrinks about

one-half, the fine wools more than the

coarse. Carbonized wool is the remov-

al of the burrs and chaff by means of

chemicals that convert the foreign ma

terial into dust._ Then the wool is neu-

tralized and restored as if never con-

taminated. If you will take fifty cents





off every burry or seedy fleece you can

about figure the loss, which may be

partially, if not entirely obviated By

proper care.



“All Wool” is the glib term used to

deceive in describing woolens. Shoddy

is derived from woolen rags spun into

yarn with some new wool, and is de-

fective in wearing quality. Virgin wool

is the term the wool grower uses to





g





Latest Farm Bureau Notes





of the

Beet Growers'

Association received contracts during





thousand members

Sugar





. [NE

Michigan





the week of February 28-March 5

which were drawn up in their behalf

for presentation to the manufacturers

by the Sugar Beet Growers' Associa-

tion. Signing the contract makes the

association the sole representative of

the grower to the manufacturer. Pric-

es mentioned in the contract closely

followed those agreed upon by Idaho

and Utah farm bureau growers with

their manufacturers, and which were

adopted by the recent American Farm

Bureau Federation conference of beet

growers.



Shippers who ship potatoes in an or-

dinary box car, signing an interstate

bill of lading releasing the carrier

from all liability from damage by heat

or freezing, cannot recover damages

for freezing of the potatoes due to a

delay in transportation and delivery,

rules the Michigan Supreme Court

notwithstanding the general rule that

a carrier may not wholly exempt itself

from liability for negligence. The case

cited was that of Rendell etal.. vs. the

Detroit & Mackinac Railway. The rail~

road claimed it was not able to furnish

refrigerator cars at the time.



An important change in the time

limit for filing claims for express loss

is announced by the State Farm Bu-

reau Trafiic Department. Under the

new official classification No. 28, the

time limit f0r filing claim is made four

months and fifteen days after date of

shipment in lieu of the four months’

period after reasonable time for de-

livery had elapsed. ~.





The State Farm Bureau Traffic De

partment has lined up with the ship-

ping forces opposing the railroad’s plea

for an increase in refrigeration charg'

es,



The Committee of Fifteen on dairy

affairs in Michigan will hold its first

session at: the State Farm Bureau

headquarters in Lansing, on Thursday,

March 3. The committee will take the

first steps toward a solution of the

dairy problems of the state. considered

the most'complex of Michigan’s agri-

cultural tangles. Problems of organi-

zation of the producers, cooperation in

marketing with the manufacturers,

and methods of raising the quality of

Michigan dairy products are involved

The Committee of Fifteen is compris

ed of five representatives from the

Michigan Milk Producers’ Association,

five from the cooperative marketing

associations and five from the Michi‘

gan State Farm Bureau.



“Cream buying stations cost farmers

of Chippewa county hundreds of dol-

lars. annually through an average

charge of 2.96 cents per pound of but-

ter-fat for handling cream,” says the

Sault Ste. Marie News, in urging that

the farmers could save money by ship-

ping direct. The investigation was

brought about by a recent State Farm

Bureau article showing the continued

deterioration of Michigan dairy prod-

ucts because of the cream station sys-

tem of paying for cream without re

gard to quality, and because of the

duplication of cream stations in the

same district. The Chippewa county

paper is the official organ of the Chip

pewa County Farm Bureau.





and recognized that live stock produc‘

ers in_all sections were looking ear.

nestly to the committee to find a way

out of the hardships, with which they

are confronted, and which are espe-

cially severe at the present time. The

committee began its work with a pro-

found desire to hold the confidence of

the industry. ’



Much time was spent in deciding:

the status to be allowed to the alter-

nates, but Mr. Howard’s original in»

tention that the committee should b.-

virtually a committee of twenty-fins

rather than a committee of fifteen, ul-

timately prevailed.



The main lines of work mapped out

by the committee at this meeting are

indicated in the names of various sub-

committees which are as follows: Or-Y.

derly marketing (control of flow); co-

operating marketing agencies and cen-

tralized markets; live stock statistics,

reports and market reporting; trans~

portation; legislation; financing the

committee, and eat more meat.



The next meeting of the committee

will be held at Chicago on April 7. At

that time the sub—committees will sub-

mit their reports and the definite start.

will be made toward the construction

of the committee’s program.





Blankets





distinguish from the homage that vice

pays to virtue or the hypocrisy of “all

wool.” If the consumer would demand

virgin wool he would secure twenty—

five per cent. more wear in blankets

and the wool grower be freed from the

competition of the rag man. The farm

bureau blanket's are stamped just what

they are, viz.: One hundred per cent

virgin wool, eighty per cent and seven-

ty-five per cent. The cotton warp used

makes a blanket of equal if not great-

er wearing quality and is less liable to

injury when washed. A cotton warp

allows a tighter weave and a better

“nap.” The warp does not come into

contact with the user of blankets.



Wool growers may patronize their

own industry by using virgin wool.

The discriminating consumer should

insist on what is due him~—twenty-five

per cent more wear—and reject blank-

ets or fabrics not labeled in percent-

ages of, virgin wool. The Michigan

State Farm Bureau is furnishng a

blanket ‘of honest material made for

honest. people at an honest price—~di-'

rect from the mill to the consumer.~

J. N. MC‘BRIDE,Chail‘lII{ln Wool Market-

ing Committee, American Farm Bu-

reau Federation.





 





 





M. B. McPherson, of Lowell, account:

of whose nomination to a position on

the Michigan State Board of Agricul-

ture was published last week, , '





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HIS is the first in a series of



five articles discussing the fun-



damental and? essential princi-

ples of pure cooperative marketing of

farm products as contrasted with the

present system of speculative mar-

keting.



Agriculture is rapidly breaking into

a, new epoch. The great educational

campaign that has been fostered by

the United States Department of Agri-

culture, the colleges of ' agriculture,

and the numerous agricultural publica-

tions have affected the farmers to a.

marked degree. As' the farmer has

been developing his farm and chang-

ing from the state of. living on what

he produced to the state of living from

the profits of his product, there neces-

sarily developed a great speculative

system by which profits are made in

the distribution of agricultural prod-

nets.



This commercial system has had its

place and has given a great service,

but in its present highly organized

state it has become a “bear” to the

producer and a “bull” to the consumer.

It is also very wasteful because of the

large number of transfers before a

commodity reaches the consumer. Dif-

ferent lots of wheat have been traced,

where it was found that it was bought

and sold at a profit as many as ten

times without being moved from its

original storing place. This is a waste-

ful system. The welfare of the con-

sumer and the producer is demanding

a more economic and less grasping sys-

tem of distributing farm products.



In looking to the future for the elim-

ination of the present trade evils we

must look for a plan of distribution

that will eliminate the large profits and

the waste between the producer and

consumer. We must build a. distribut-

ing system that will operate upon cost

only, not large profits. There is a plan

known as the pure cooperative plan,

whereby the producer sells his own

product cooperatively as direct as pos-





tne Western Farmers





sible. Such a plan of distribution is

economic.

Two Systems of Distribution.



We have before us today two chan-

nels, through which we may distribute

farm products. The one is the specu-

lative marketing system; the other is

the producer’s pure cooperative asso-

ciation. In order that we may clearly

understand the difference between

these two systems, it is necessary that

we analyze clearly the fundamental

principles and objects of each.



The old uneconomical system is the

speculative system based upon capital

stock.

to its stockholders. Its membership

consists of those who have money to

invest, farmers and others. ‘Any con-

cern operated upon a capital stock

basis must buy as cheaply as possible

and sell as high as possible in order

to pay dividends. The interest of such

a company is adverse to the producer’s

interests and likewise to the interests

of the consumer. '



The new system is a non-speculative

and non-capital stock, pure coopera-

tive association. Its object is not to

buy cheap, but to sell the produce of

its members at a. fair price to the pro-

ducer and consumer. Its membership

does not consist of those who have

money to invest, but those who have

a farm product to sell. It is a selling

agency only. The interest of this as-

sociation is not adverse to the produc-

er’s interest, who are the only mem-

bers, but identical with theirs. There

are no adverse interests in a pure~co~

operative marketing organization. Its

object is to sell all of its members’

products to the consumer at a price

that will insure the total consumption

of each crop.





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Its object is to pay dividends‘





Idea on C 0—0peratzen





The old system of marketing farm

produce has become very highly develv

oped. It is established and operated

by business men and farmers who

have money to invest. Their manag-

er’s advancement and the amount of

salary he gets depends almost wholly

upon the number of turn-overs and the

spread that he can make between the

producer ,and consumer. In other

words, the larger profit the manager

makes for his directors and stockohld-

ers the more salary he gets. He serves

stockholders, whose sole object is to

get good returns on the money in—

vested.





Some of these companies have at-

tained their object to a very high de-

gree and have become highly organiz-

ed. Among the most prominent of

them is a national organization of

grain dealers. The grain dealers of

the northwest have recently organized

and affiliated with this national organ-

ization.



On October 6, 1920, the directors of

this northwestern association, who

were chosen representatives of the

regular grain dealers of W’ashington.

Oregon and Idaho, put; out an an-

nouncement stating that they had se-

cured the services of an experienced

industrial secretary who had been Very

Successful in attaining and maintain-

ing normal trade conditions in the

grain industry of Montana and \Vy-

oming.



They state the following in their

announcement:



For satisfactory trade conditions, it

is necessary for the regular grain deal-

ers to cooperate with each other and

their secretary, who will give his en-

tire time to working in the interests of

the associated dealers.





 





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Brace 14me Assistant Organizanon Dzrector, Was/zzngton—Ia’a/ze W/zeat Growers Arroezatz'on, sze:





The elimination and prevention of

trade evils, with the securing of those





things 700d to have, can only be had

through collective efforts, wisely di-

rected. This is not an experiment:





results have been obtained wherever

applied, stabilizing the industry and

making it worth while to those' regu-

larly engaged therein. In no other way

can your business be what it ought

to be.



No matter what your ability and in-

tegrity, if you have to meet with un-

fair practices and unwholesome com-

petition, you will suffer.” Cooperate

with your organization; it is a clearing

house that avoids confusion and loss





and dissatisfaction, making harmony

with good results. '

An organization in name only





amounts to nothing. To be mighty in

producing good results, it must be ac-

tive, based on fairness to those within

and without.

the sooner we will be in the enjoy-

ment of: a normal trade.



The program of the associated grain

dealers as announced by the secretary

is, in part, as follows:



Establish prices at country—buying

points.



Careful grading and docking.



Dealers not to discriminate against

each other.



Association to settle all differences.



Dealers not to be influenced or gov-

erned by hearsay in their dealings.



Dealers not to follow uncommercial





. or bad practices.





lrain dealers not to pay above es-

tablished price on account of farmers’

shipping direct.



Undue solicitation of grain in the

field considered uncommercial.



Advancing money on growing crops

and grain stored on farms not to be

encouraged.



These dealers should be congratu—

lated upon their good judgment and

good business sense in forming such

an organization for the benefits of

their own business. This plan will cer-

tainly prove efficient in attaining their

object; that is, fixing the priCe upon

the grower’s wheat—buy it cheap._



(The second article in this series

will discuss the principles and objects

of a pure coope1ative marketing asso.

ciation and will show how such asso-

ciation na1rows the spread between

producer and consumer).





Factors In Sugar Beet Production





Dr. Townsend Gives Rein/tr of Recent Governmental Experiment;





HAT the acre yield of sugar beets in Europe is much higher than our





is far too low in all of the sev-

enteen states in which this im-

portant crop is groWn, and could be

materially increased if beet growers

would pay more attention to proper

cultural methods, was expressed by

Dr. C. O. Townsend, of Washington,

D. 0., head of sugar beet investigation

under ,the Bureau of Plant Industry to

beet growers and sugar men attending

the sugar beet institute held at M. A.

0., February 8-9.

-. Dr. Townsend is recognized as one

of the foremost authorities on sugar

beet culture in the United States. He

is a former Michigan man. He had his

first experience with beet growing as

a boy on his father’s farm in this state

and is the author of several farmers’

bulletins on beet culture, which are

taken as the highest authority on the

subject. 7

That the average acre yield for the

United States is slightly less than ten

tons to the acre was stated by Dr.

Townsend. This very fact indicates

that there is something seriously

wrong with beet production in this

country, and wasteful cultural methods

play an important part in the low





yield. A yield“. of thirty, thirty-five, or





often obtained under





 





own, and even the European yield is

not as high as it should be, it was

pointed out.



Care and thoroughness in every op-

eration connected with the growing of

the crop was emphasized by Dr. Town-

send as paying substantial dividends

at the time when the beets are mar-

keted. Cutting of waste now too com-

mon in the ordinarily employed meth-

ods of culture means dollars and cents

for the beet‘grower.



The beet farmer must take into con-

sideration the previous treatment of

his fields before deciding where he is

to put his beets, if best'results are to

be secured. The type and fertility of

the soil must be taken into account.

The wise grower will consider whether

the field fits into the farming opera-

tion as a whole, the management of

the live stock, the rotation of crops,

and the number of acres that he wish-

es to grow. '



Fall plowing Dr. Townsend recom-

mended as generally giving the best

results. Of course, individual soil prob-

lems must be taken into account, and

this the farmer must decide for him-

self, but as a general rule fall plowing

has paid the greatest dividends.



In support or fall plowing it was





 





 





time is usually poor economy.

seed~bedais especiall ,well prepared





prepared his land in the fall he was

in position to get his crop in early,

which allows a longer growing period

and gives larger beets. The Spring

work also comes into account—~fall

plowing gives more time for attention

to other crops in the spring. Again,

the'packing and settling which takes

place during the winter brings about

a firm root bed, a condition necessary

for a full uniform yield. Finally, fall

plowing is generally more effective in

controlling disease and insects.





ROM the standpoint of disease con-

trol it is important that the furrow

slice be turned completely over and

under to “a good depth. This disposes

of the rubbish that carries over the

disease. The moldboard plow with a

jointer is considered the most effective

tool in controlling disease and insects.

Getting a good stand and keeping a

good stand is the thing to keep in mind

in obtaining a profitable beet crop. It

is impossible to get a good yield when

the stand is cut to pieces by careless

blocking, thinning, and cultivating. A

good seed-bed, good seed properly put

in, careful thinning, blocking, and cul-

tivating are requisites of a good crop.

The attempt to save seed at planting

If the





 





 





the seeding may be somewhat lighter

than ordinary, but in a majority of

cases underseeding is not profitable.

The preparation of the seed-bed

should be begun early and thorough-

ness should be the slogan in its prep~

aration. Dr.

importance of shallow planting. “Plant-

ing should be just as shallow as possi-

ble and still secure germination.” The

tiny beet plant has not much reserve

food at its disposal, and when it has

to penetrate considerable soil before





coming to the surface it is handicap-'





ped from the start. Planting should

not be deeper than one inch—a half-

inch is better—if moisture is sufficient

and the seeds are covered.”



lven maturity is necessary in a suc-

cessful crop and even maturing is de-

pendent on an even depth of planting.

It is here that the firmness of the root

and seed-bed is important. Attention

should be paid, that drill teeth are ad-

justed to the same depth of planting,

and if the drill has a compacting'at—

tachment it should be determined that

the pressure is distributed evenly.



The crucial time in the growing of

the crop begins with cultivating, bleak-

ing, and thinning. “The grower must





save the stand he has. When once a'.





beet plant is cut but with a has or cut

tivator it is gone. When‘tlm-





 





 





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' out to pieces by‘careless blocking and

3 binning the yield is inevitably slash-

d. It is common to go into a field fol-

lowing blocking and thinning and find

uneven blocking with some spaces far

too wide. In thinning in some places

all of the beets may be pulled out and

in others more than one beet is left.

The possible yield is thus seriously cut

. down. Every grower should decide

just about the proper distance for

blocking and thinning for his particu-

lar soil and make it a point to see that

the work is uniformly well and care-

fully done.





 





 





RDINARILY cultivating takes an

expensive toll of beets. The man

on the cultivator is likely to think

rather lightly of the beets that are cul-

tivated out of the row, thinking that





N announcing the essential features

I of its plan for cooperative market-



ing of grain on a nation-wide scale,

the Farmers’ Marketing Committee of

Seventeen, wishes to call attention to

the following basic facts:



1. Agriculture is the nation’s most;

fundamental industry. Upon the six

and onehalf million food producers of

America rests the great responsibility

of supplying 110,000,000 people with

their daily food. a task which increas

ing population and declining soil fer-

tility makes yearly more difficult.



2. Our national sense of justice

must, acknowledge the farmer's right

to the same standards of living that

prevail in other occupations, the same

return on invested capital that is re-

ceived by other industries, the same

compensation for labor and manage-

ment that is paid for like skill in other

enterprises.



3. The business of farming as con-

ducted'now and in the past does not

Vield sufficient returns to meet these

requirements. It does not, yield suffi-

cient returns to restore and maintain

soil fertility, to buy the machinery and

equipment necessary to the most eco-

nomical production, or to offer suffi-

cient financial inducements to keep the

most ambitious boys and girls on the

farm. '



Investigation conducted by this com-

mittee convinces us that; the funda-

mental reason fOr the lack of adequate

profits in farming is a faulty system

of marketing farm products. All other

great industries merchandise their

products under their own direction.

They are fully informed as to supply

and demand. They suit distributionto





NOUGH of the 1920 census re-

E turns have been made public to

indicate that, this census is a. vast

improvement over those of preceding

decades, especially in the collection of

valuable agricultural and live stock in-

formation. It is believed that the re-

turns from the census on pure-bred

7 live stock will be useful in developing

' a larger interest in the improvement

of farm animals by the use of better

breeding stock. _

Statistics showing the proportion of

pure-bred live stock to all live stock,

the number of farmers who own pure

bred cattle, horses, swine and sheep,

and the relative standing of the states

in percentage of farms reporting pure-

bred animals, are already out for Ohio,

Michigan, Indiana, New Hampshire,

Massachusetts, South Carolina, Vir-

ginia, West Virginia, Delaware and Ok-





 





 

 

 





Oi We ten states, Wamr centers ofrbroedins pure-bred animals





the loss will be compensated for by

the increased size of the remaining

beets. 'Bnt‘this is not the case. The

loss is always marked'up in bushels

of loss at harvesting time. Proper cul-

ture of the crop is not always an easy

thing to accomplish, but the grower

will be repaid by making certain that

his stand of beets is not cut to pieces

by careless blocking, thinning, and cul-

tivation. Diseases, insects, worms, and

other enemies will take a toll of the

crop. But it is the grower’s job to see

that he has as near a perfect stand as

possible.



Just as in every other operation con-

nected with handling of the crop, im-

proper methods of topping means a

loss of profit. Part of the beet may be

slashed off with the top, thus occasion-

ing loss.





" Present Marketing System





According to Corn





demand, thereby maintaining a fairly

stable market price, without daily fluc-

tuations, and with only very gradual

seasonal fluctuations. The farmer, on

the other hand, ships his grain on the

markets without regard to demand.



Grain prices in the United States

are determined in a few large centers

of distribution, known as terminal

markets. The market places .at these

terminals ' are owned, operated and

maintained by private closed corpora-

tions or associations known as grain

exchanges or boards of trade. Upon

examination of the rules governing

these associations and upon question-

ing their officers, we have learned that

elevator companies, distributing earn-

ings on basis of patronage. cannot be-

come members of these exchanges.

The effect of this is the exclusion of

such farmer cooperative grain dealers

from the terminal grain markets of our

country.



The grain exchanges furnish the

facilities by which speculation in grain

and its products is carried on to an ex-

tent that almost staggers all, human

comprehension. We have, for instance,

been informed from reliable estimates

that the wheat sold each year in the

wheat pit of the Chicago Board of

Trade is three times the entire pro-

duction of the world. The total grain

sold on the Chicago Board of Trade a‘n-

nually is approximately fifty-one times

the amount of grain actually shipped

to the Chicago market, and this mar-

ket dominated all the markets of the

country.



The inevitable results of this unlim-

ited speculation are: First. constant

manipulation of prices. Second, great





Growth in Pure-





porting pure-bred live stock, pure-

breds being kept on 31, 27 of her 205,‘

124 farms. Ohio with 266.699 farms,

reports pure-breds on 33,365 farms,

leading the other nine states in num-

ber of farms reporting pure-bred live

stock, and having a better percentage

in all lines of stock. Michigan stands

comparatively high among the ten

states, with pure-breds on 21,873 of her

196,649 farms.



The census returns on pure-bred

stock have been an agreeable surprise

to officials of the Department of Agri-

culture, who are especially concerned

in live stock improvement. They evi-

dently did not realize the extent of

the pure-bred stock industry and the,

rapidity of its development in recent

years.



The value of the information con3

tained invthe census is pointed out by

the department officials in, showing





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Delivery of the beets to market at"

soon as possible after harvesting, Dr.

Townsend ‘spoke of as desirable. 01’-

ten beets are left in the field too long

so that a considerable ’portioH of In'ois'z

ture is lost. Even under the best of

conditions evaporation is continually

going on after harvesting, and delay

in marketing should be avoided if pos-

sible. ,



Spraying the crop for the control of

leaf spot Dr. Townsend branded as

economically impracticable. Spraying

with Bordeaux mixture every week or

ten days from the time the first spot

appears, until harvest, will control the

disease, but this method costs too

much to put into practice.



The practice of following beets with

beets should not be followed too far.

It should be discontinued as soon as





t9.“ tempted to risk a crop for one,

more ’year in a. field that he knows is

giving diseased beets. The loss of fifty

Per cent of a crop is a costly lesson.





follow the beet after beets plan toa far

often experience.



Beet seed treatment with formalde~

hyde for the control of the spread of

leaf spot by seed is proving effective,

and the methods are being perfected

at the present time.



Results of fertilizer tests, according

to Dr. Townsend, show that commer-

cial fertilizers are beneficial. in rainfall

lands. Rather strangely, better results

have been secured on the better soils

than on the poorer ones by the use of

fertilizers. ' '





Wastcful





cooperative institutions as the basic

unit upon which to construct our grain

marketing system. >



We deem the practice known as

shmt selling of grain and other farm

products a crime and have asked con-

gress to legislate against it.



We are striving for the enactment

of laws that shall open these grain ex-

changes and boards of trade to mem~

bership of farmer cooperative elevator

companies distributing their earnings

on a basis of patronage.



We believe that grain should be dis-

tributed to the millers and exporters

direct from country points in.so far as

this is possible, and the system of ele-

vators and selling which we recom4

mend has this end in View.



Realizing the benefits to be derived

by selling grain in large quantities, our

plan provides for contracts to be signs

ed by the grower running to his local

elevator company or direct to a na-

tional association where no local ele-

vator exists. Also‘a contract to run

from each local elevator direct to the

national sales agency. These contracts

are for the purpose of bargaining co-

operatively for the sale of large quan~

titles of grain direct to millers and ex‘

porters at the least possiblecost.



Before adjourning, the committee ap-

pointed a sub-committee of seven to

perfect organization plans and to call

a meeting of all grain marketing or:

ganizations to consider the proposed

plan. Another sub-committee will pro-

pose by-laws and contracts, and sub—

mit these as above stated to promi-

nent attorneys for approval as to legal-

ity. The committee hopes to have the

new system started this year.





Stock





are rapidly gaining popular favor.



It is interesting to note that'horses

stand at the foot of the column in per-

centage of farms on which pure-breds

are kept. While in all the ten states

more than ten per cent of the farms

report some kind of pure-bred animals,

only two states, Ohio and Indiana re-

port above one per cent of the farms

having pure-bred, horses. The Perch-

erons stand highest in numbers, with

Belgians second in Michigan, Ohio and

Indiana.



Figures showing the standing of the

pure-bred live stock industry in the re-

maining thirty‘eight. states, it is said.

will not be available until next fall,

the work being held up by a lack of

appropriations to carry it on expedii

tiously. It is expected, however, that

when all the statistics on” purebred

stock are available, they'will be highly





mitten of Seventeen





losses to producers and the public

generally.



The credit facilities of the country

are designed to meet the needs of bus-

iness, with its quick turnover, and, as

recent experience has demonstrated,

do not adequately take care of the

farmer’s needs. It is often difficult for

the farmer to secure sufficient credit

to permit the orderly marketing of

grain, fitting available supply to con-

sumptive demand, this resulting in

wide fluctuation in prices, to the dis-

advantage of both producer and-con-

sumer. The consumer’s price is based

on the high point of the year, while

the producer sells most of the grain

at the low point.



The Only adequate remedy for the

conditions set forth, in the judgment

of the committee, is for farmers to‘

enter extensively into the business of

grain distribution, merchandising

grain as the products of other indus-

tries are merchandised. We have

adopted a plan for cooperative grain

marketing and financing for submis—

sion to our various organizations,

which we believe will accomplish the

desired results.



We believe that the public will be

greatly benefited by more stabilized

prices for grain and its products, and

we know that farm investments and

the farmer’s vocation will be made far

far more sound and secure thereby.

We note with satisfaction and great

pride the many benefits that have been

brought to consumers and producers

of grain by the farmer cooperative ele-

vator companies of our country, the

number of‘ which is now over four

thousand. We have taken the farmer





milk-producing centers, like Ohio,

Michigan and New Hampshire the H01-

steins lead and Jerseys are second,

while in Indiana and some of the

southern states the Jerseys are in the

lead.



The figures compiled in these states

show a total of 19,135 Holstein bulls,

and 7,896 Jersey bulls. Shorthorns

lead the beef breeds with 23,665 bulls.

Herefords come next with 10,864 bulls.



Of the sheep breeds, Shropshires

lead in nearly all the states reporting.

In Ohio, as would naturally be expect-

ed, the Merinos are most numerous.

On 1,291 Ohio farms there are 24,170

pure-bred Merino sheep,



The Poland Chinas and Duroc Jer-

seys are close competitors and are the

predominating breeds of hogs in the

ten states. Durocs are first in Michi-

gan, while Poland Chinas lead in Ohio

and Indiana.

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but it is one that many growers who-





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1;“
vi Of'CIOVerseed Prices





‘. Some'lrzterertz'flg Data for tfle Producer ‘





ILL there be a better time to



sell clov'er seed than now? Is



clover seed going to be cheaper

later on? .Is there a surplus of seed?

Is there a shortage? Will there be a

big spring demand?

' These are' questions now puzzling

farmers who are at once the producers

and sellers, as well as the consumers

of clover seed. Because of its import-

ance in soil fertility preservation it is

desirable that prices be neither so high

as to discourage its use, or so low as

to discourage its production.



In antebellum days, the annual re-

quirements for red clover seed were

estimated at 100,000,000 to 120,000,000

pounds. The Department of Agricul-

ture calculated in 1918 that 27.5 per





The lines show the prices paid to

producers for clover seed as estimated

upon the fifteenth of each month

by the Department of Agriculture. The

ten-year price line shows a gradual ad-

vance from October, when the new

crop year begins, to April when prices

usually are at their highest point. A

gradual decline follows. Prices were

extremely high early in 1920 but de-

clined very sharply after April and up

to the time of the last available rec-

ord the decline had not been checked.

The April 15 price was $32.23 but by

December values had shrunk to $10.03

per bushel.





cent of the winter wheat acreage was

seeded to red clover and that the aver-

age amount of seed used per acre was

9.8 pounds. If we apply these figures

to the present winter wheat acreage

we get a requirement of 109,000,000

pounds of red clover seed. Such re-

quirements are quite elastic, however,

since timothy seed, which is much

cheaper, or alsike, which has smaller

seeds and can be used in smaller

amounts may be substituted, or the

number of pounds of red clover per

acre may be reduced. Inasmuch as

five-sixths of the clover seed is sown

upon winter wheat, variations in the

acreage of spring grain are not of

much importance.





Data upon clover seed production

are rather unsatisfactory. The govern-

ment’s estimate for the 1920 crop is

1,760,000 bushels produced on 966,000

acres of land, compared with 1,341,000

bushels in 1919; 1,197,000 bushels in

1918; 1,488,000 bushels in 1917, and

1,706,000 bushels in 1916. The 1920,

crop is the largest in the last five years

during which records have been, ob-

tained. It equals 105,600,000 pounds.

This includes all kinds of clover seed.



Ohio and Indiana usually produce

about thirty per cent of the clover (seed

crop, but this year, as well as last,





39135913 had a shortlcrop, and Illinois and





 





Wisconsin are in the lead with about

335,000 bushels each, while Ohio’s crop

is 195,000 bushels and Indiana’s 142,000

bushels.



Usually exports and imports practi-

cally balance each other so that we are

dependent upon the last crop and ther

carryover from the previous crop for

our supply.



Last year high prices in this coun-

try checked consumption to some ex-

tent and attracted very heavy imports

at the same time. Imports for the

twelve months ending June 30, 1920,

and for the preceding year were;





1920. lbs. 1919. lbs.

Red clover . . . . . .19,268,000 1,051,000

Alsike clover .. . . 5,648,000 7,032,000

Crimson clover . .10,053,000 1,483,000

Alfalfa . . . . . . .18,531,000 770,400





As a result of decreased consump-

tion and increased imports the carry-

over on July 1, 1920, was much larger

than usual and was estimated at about

12,000,000 pounds compared with about

1,839,000 pounds on July 1, 1919. In

brief, if these estimates are correct

we have this year both a larger crop

and a larger carryover from the old

crop than usual.



Both the French and Italian crops

are reported to be above normal, but

lower prices have checked imports.

During the first six and a half months

of the present crop year only 503,000

pounds of red clover seed, 604,000

pounds of alsike, 2,347,000 pounds of

crimson clover, and 503,000 pounds of

alfalfa seed had been brought in.



Exports have been fairly large this

year and have exceeded imports during

the last few months so that the normal

balance between. the two has been de-

ranged again and the available supply

decreased by two or three mililon

pounds.



Prices declined very rapidly during

the last half of the year because of the

prospect for a large crop and in sym-

pathy with the general trade slump.

Seedsmen made no effort to provide

for their full spring requirements be-

cause of the uncertain outlook and the

difficulty of getting money to finance

purchases.



On the other hand, the farmer has

not sold as freely as usual as prices

have not paid cost of production. Based

on surveys made earlier in the year it

is probable that growers still have at

least half of the red clover and alfalfa,

one-third of the alsike and possibly

two-thirds of the sweet clover seed

crops still in their hands.





The size of the spring demand is the

big question upon which prices will de-

pend. The fact that farmers have been

cropping their soils heavily because of

high prices for the grains, whereas

grain prices are now below cost of

production, leads to the belief that

farmers will use a good deal of clover

seed this spring. Prices of seed are

only about one-third those of last year

and this may also help distribution.

They still are higher than most farm

products, however, and tightness of

money in country districts will also be

an offsetting influence. Furthermore,

prices both of seed and hay to the

grower are not high enough to afford

any special stimulus to increase pro~

duction.



The accompanying chart shows that

highest prices, on the average, have

been received by producers during the

month of April. Pronably this date

would vary to some extent with the

section of country represented, north-

ern states reaching their high point

later in the spring than those on the

southern border of the clover-growing

belt. '



The chart also shows the precipitate

drop since last April, prices declining

from $32 praétically to $10 per buShel.

(Continued on page 301). .





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How the Standard

Oil Company (Indiana) Q

Fulfills Its Social



Obligations ._





we believe that they are greatly in the mi-



nority—who still consider that smallness is

a merit, that greatness is a shame, that mediocrity

is commendable, and that commercial success

is a crime.





The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) believes

that without great commercial enterprises a

nation is a dead nation; that great commercial

enterprises must be eflicient in service to be suc-

cessful, and that this efficiency means more to





I l ‘HERE are people in the world—though





the nation than the success means to the





organizers of the enterprise.





The Standard Oil Company believes that a great

commercial enterprise, to be successful under

existing

(1) Greater efficiency in the production of wealth ;.

(2) Greater justice in the distribution of wealth;

(3) Greater wisdom in the consumption of wealth.





(1) Greater fluency in production: Among other

notable improvements in the refining of perm.

leum, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has

contributed the Burton process. This process

greatly increases the percentage of gasoline de»

rivable from crude oil.





(2) Greater jurtice in the dirtrz'bution of wed/M:

The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) cites

the organization of its Company, its liberal

policy toward employer—including its annuity

system benefitting retired workers; its fairness to

competitors-in maintaining open prices and

never deviating from them; to customers—by

bringing necessary petroleum products to them

with the utmost economy.





(5’) Greater random in comumptiorz 0/ wealt/z: The ‘

Standard Oil Company (Indiana) not only recog— ,





nizes its obligation to conserve petroleum arid

petroleum products to the end that no waste

occur, but it maintains a staff of experts, ever at





the service of its patrons, to instruct them in the.





efficient and economical use of the products

manufactured by the Company.





The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is com-2





mitted to a policy of éreative leadership, and

because of its loyalty to the ideals outlined above,

it is today of signal service to hundreds of ' thou-





sands of people in ten very important Middle





Western States.





Standard Oil Company





» ( Indiana)





910 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.





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conditions, must contribute to:-





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1. . VEN though prices‘for nearly all

E other farm products have declin-

‘ ‘ ed far below the profit level, poul-

._try is still above that line. During a

recent week average prices ‘on beef

steers, at Chicago wereten cents a

' pound; on hogs, nine and a quarter

cents; on sheep, four 'cents; and on-

ilambs, ten and three-quarters cents.

At the same time live hens at Chicago

were bringing twenty-three and a half

cents a pound; spring chickens, twenty

three and a halt‘ cents; ducks, twenty~

eight cents; geese, twenty-six cents,

and turkeys, forty cents a pound. There

is a greater demand for good poultry

than there is a supply; holidays are

the bane of a poultry dealer's exist-

ence for there are never enough fat

turkeys, hens and ducks to go around.





Although the Thanksgiving and

Christmas holiday seasons of fat pric-

es for fat poultry are past, there are

yet the Hebrew holidays ahead which

begin in March of this year.





April 23-24, Last Passover on April 29,

and the Feast of Weeks on June 12.

012‘ these the two Passover festivals

are the most important in the poultry

market. The Jewish peeple' eat only

White meat at these times and will pay

practically .any price for poultry, espe-

cially if it. is fine and fat. Turkeys,

fowls, geese and ducks are in demand

and should be sent to market from two

days to a week before the holiday if

advantage is to be taken of the special

demand' at such time.



It is said that only a small percent-

age of poultry comes to market in'a

well—finished condition. When you con

sider that hens weighing four or five

pounds are now bringing from four to

ten cents more a pound than do the

small ones, you may realize how im

portant it is to fatten them well before

selling.



To know whether a bird is properly

fattened, it. is necessary to handle it.

If the bird “is heavy in proportion to

size” when lifted and if its body is

well filled out. with flesh nearly or

I completely covering the breast bone,

it is ready for market. and there will

be no advantage in feeding it longer.



The simplest method of fattening is

to separate the birds to be marketed

from the rest of the flock for two or

three weeks before they are to be sold.

Fattening pens should allow two to

three square feet for each bird so that

they will not exercise too strenuously.

They can be t‘attened almost entirely

on corn and skim-milk. An agricultural

experiment station writer says, that

three hundred and fifty pounds of the

right mash feed moistened with butter-

milk or Skl111~lllllk, fed to strong, vigor—

ous young stock which has been rear-

ed on range will produce one hundred

pounds of poultry meat. Mash feed is

now worth about one and a half cents

on the farm where produced so that

each pound which you add to the

weight of the tow] would cost around

five and two-tenths cents plus the cost

of the skim-milk. and will sell in the

market now at twenty to twenty-five

cents a. pound, besides adding to the

selling price of the original weight.



Poultry which is to be dressed be

fore it is shipped may be fed by one of

the various intensive methods, such as

crate-feeding, but fowls which are ship

ped alive will shrink and bruise badly

in transit if fattened to capacity so

that much of the benefit of fattening is

lost. In fattening turkeys, many ex-





‘ -.periments have been carried on but no





confinement method of

ever proved successful.





feeding has

They may be





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three times a day if they are permit- chickens are counted as hens and seem to sell again in the same notch





ted to range freely.



The chart shown here portrays the

usual seasonal changes in chicken pric-

es. The lines represent five-year aver-

ages by months, using“ the prices to,

producers in the United States as esti-:

mated by the Department of 'AgriCul-.'

ture in one case, and Chicago prices

for spring chickens and hens for the

other two lines.



Up to the end of April, the quota-',

tions on springers at Chicago are upon

chickens hatched in the previous

spring. Beginning with May such





1





stags and the springers or broilers





quoted are from the new hatch. Since ,





few. are hatched in winter and ex-

tremely early spring these spring

chickens are very scarce in May, June

and July so that they bring a big pre-

mium ever‘the general run. The pre-

mium is gradually 'lost as such birds

become more abundant and quotations





, upon them in late fall 'and winter are





practically the same as upon hens. Dur.

ing March the ' springers have sold

higher than hens, although the reason

for this is not clear, especially as they





PRICES. PAID TO PRODUCERS FOR LIVE CHICKENS ’





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‘ I 'HE prices to producers shown on the chart above are averages for the

entire United States based on the reports for the first of the month





They are highest during the summer months.





age line is similar in its course to the

P1ices in 1919 and in 1920 are similar





Note that the ten- -year aver-

five- -yea1 average on the other chart.

to each othex in thei1 behavio1 and





somewhat similar to the average for en years, except that they am on a





much higher level. The actual figures





for January 1,1921 are not available





and this portion of that line is an estimate based on central market price





trends since December 1. Poultiy pric

during the last few months than most





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HE Chicago prices are quotations at wholesale for live hens and chick—

ens. Note that spring chickens are highest in May and decline rapidly





during the summer to the low point in

advance during the winter months.

ens quoted are those hatched in the





November, after which there is an





Up to the end of April the spring chick-

revious season.





Hence the very sharp





advance from April to May when the new hatch is quoted. Hens reach the





highest point in April during the laying season.





Thereafter they are mar-





keted in larger numbers and June prices usually are low. Another decline

takes place in the fall, due partly to the abundance of spring chickens. Be-

ginning in September and continuing through most of the winter, hens and





spring chickens fluctuate together.

entire United States.





and are highest during the late summer and early fall months.

seem to behave differently from Chicago prices.





Prices to producers are averages for the

They show lessmarked changes from mouth to month





They also





 





during April.





It is noticeable that the prices of

both springers and hens decline on the

average during the late summer and

fall to the lowest point of the year in

November when receipts are largest.

Holiday demand which develops late

in November and is prominent in De

cember causes December prices to av-

erage materially higher than Novem-

ber. Hens reach their highest point

as a rule in April when they are lay-

ing heavily and are kept back on the

farms. From this point‘prices decline

as supplies become more abundant.

June shows up as a month of low pric-

es for hens partly because of the fact

that they are in poor condition when





marketed immediately after the laying ,





season.

The prices to produccrs shown are





‘ averages made up by the Department





of Agriculture from the statements of

a. number of country buyers located

throughout the United States who re

port the prices paid at country buying

points. The curve for these prices is

not consistent with the curve for Chi-

cago prices for reasons not entirely ap-

parent.~ Prices to producers have av-

eraged highest during late summer and

early fall and are lowest during the

winter and early spring months.



To sell best on the open market

poultry should arrive from Tuesday to

Friday. Demand usually is light on

Monday, and on Saturday prices are

often reduced so as to effect a clear-

ance and avoid holding stock over till

Monday.





POTATOES ON SWEET CLOVER

STUBBLE.





 





NOTIC‘E in The Michigan Farmer



of February 19, that unusual success

had attended the sowing of rye on

sweet clover stubble. I have had a

similar experience with the growing of

potatoes after sweet clover.



On a piece of land that had produc-

ed very little the five years preceding

1919 I grew a crop of sweet clover

from which two cuttings of hay were

made. Last spring I plowed a strip of

this sweet clover stubble together with

an adjoining strip of June grass sod

and planted both pieces to potatoes.

The whole patch was given the same

care. ‘



But when we began digging last fall

it was found that the men would aver-

age one hundred bushels per day on

the sweet clover stubble and only fifty

bushels on the June grass sod land.

And when run over a No. 1 U. S.

screen the potatoes from the sweet

clover land screened out only about

six bushels toteach fifty. while the

others screened out about twenty bush-

els to each fifty and those from the

June grass sod were not, very good

looking after being graded. I firmly

believe there is a lot of land in these

northern counties on which sweet clo-

ver would be a valuable crop to grow.



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. committee on banking and curren-

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it develops that. the object of the com-

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existing between the county agents

and the American Farm Bureau Fed-

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divorcing the county agents from the

farm bureaus. There seems to be an

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bureau federations and that the state

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ist without the funds appropriated by

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tives to secure action of certain agri-

cultural bills, it is apparent, is at the

bottom of the investigation.



Dr. A. C. True, director of the States

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partment of Agriculture, was called

before the committee, February 15, to

testify as to the relations of the county

agent to the local farm bureau. Dr.

True said the States Relations Service

had nothing to do with recent farm

bureau federation development; that

while the States Relations Service had

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the silo. They are leaning more and

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not plan on harvesting big clover crops

like they formerly did. Labor has made

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and thereby cut down the expense of





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on clover hay as one of the most profit-

able roughages to feed along with their

silage.



The silo has been the means of mak-

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proportion of grain when made of corn.

Live stock fed on silage is far thriftier

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and in this way we are able to utilize

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In following such a system of feeding

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I have a friend who each winter goes

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bunch of very thin steers. His chief

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roughages he has put away during the

summer and fall, and by the time these

are all gone, which is along after corn

planting sometime he takes them back

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flesh and are suitable for butchers or

feeders for some farmer who wants to

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many loads of manure back on his

sandy soi1.——J. L. J.





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the farmers whether members of the

farm bureau or not, and to cooperate

with any farm organization that de-

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In reply to the question as to wheth-

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county agent system for its existence,

Dr. True said he could see no reason

Why the farm bureau should not exist

without the county agent. He said in-

structions had been sent to county

agents not to participate in member-

ship drives of the farm bureaus, and

he explained that the States Relations

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It is to be regretted that leaders of

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C. W. Vetter, county agent of Lewis

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Officers of the Minnesota Farm Bu-

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Acting on the request of the Fruit

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Mr. C. W. Craig, secretary of the

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Meeting recently at the Michigan

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A. M. Bullock, Lapeer, president; R.

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Charles Dean and Edgar W. Stevens,

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’ ET us look at it from the stand-



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REMEMBER a few years ago, I

bought a certain cow. This cow

looked good to me, but there was

one thing that I did not like about her.

That was, because she was a small

cow. However, I got her for a reason-

able prlce so I “took a chance."

After I got her home, different ones

that saw her declared that she was too

small for business purposes, that is,

she might do all right for a family

cow but to keep for dairy purposes it

would be better to have the money in-

vested in a larger cow, etc. I remema

her a friend of mine who was looking

her over. I asked him:



“Why is it that you do not care for

a small cow?”



“Well, you do not get anything for

them when they are old,” he said.

“Now, if you have a cow that is large,

after she gets too old to be of any use,

you can sell her for beef and get some-

thing for her. But, a little cow such

as she is, won’t bring very much.”



I always gave my cows balanced ra-

tions. To do that I had to weigh each

cow’s milk and after finding out what

one gave and estimating her weight,

I would mix a ration for her with

the correct proportion of carbohy-

drates, proteins and fats. I, of course,

have a table which shows the amount

of these in the different kinds of feed

and telling the quantity that cows need

that give different amounts of milk and

butter-fat according to their size. While

all standard books telling about feed-

ing cows have this information in

them, it can also be obtained from the

Department of Agriculture at Wash-

ington, D. C., and also most state ex-

periment stations.



After I had found out what prop-

er feed was best for this new cow,

I learned that she did not need as

much as the other cows that were

larger. And yet she did as well in

proportion as if she were big. In fact,

the scales (by Weighing the milk)

showed if she was getting too much or

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By carefully using the scales each

time she was milked, I soon found out

when she received the right amount of

grain. Too much grain is sometimes

as bad for a cow as too little. Besides

it is being wasted. A good many farmers

generally feed each cow the same ra-

tion of grain. They think that it is too

much bother to figure an individual,

feed. But, if they would only weigh

their cow’s milk they would soon be

convinced that the trouble is worth

taking.



I found out that I saved about fifteen

cents each day, by giving the new cow

a ration which was as she needed, as

shown by the milk scales. So, at that

rate, When she got, too old to keep,

the saving that I had made on her

feed would more than offset the differ-

ence which I might have gotten if she

were a larger cow. In my case, instead

of losing by getting a small cow, I

made; in fact, 1 could afford to give

her away when she got old and still

not lose. But if I had not weighed her

milk, and done as most farmers do, I

would never have known that I was

feeding her too much, and she would

not have done sowell either.





 





F course the principahreason for



weighing the cows’ milk, is to find

out if each one is giving enough to pay

for her keeping, etc. There are many

farms that have “slacker” cows which,

if the milk scales were used, would

‘Soon be found out. It takes a pretty

good guesser to estimate the amount

of milk in a pail with a lot of froth on

the top! I’ve seen many a person get

“fooled" that way. But the milk scales

are sure. And if there ever was a

‘ time that “knowledge was power.” it

~ is nowadays in the dairy business.





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. I have found by watching the scales.

that there have been times that a cer-

tain cow would begin to drop off in

her flow. By investigating I would

find out the cause and correct 'it. But

if I had not been weighing the milk at

each milking I would not have noticed‘

the sudden “drop off” and would have

gone on milking perhaps, until she got

too far to get back again. Then again,

when trying some new kind of feed.

the scales will Show if it is best to use

it. If it agrees with the cows, the

scales will give the regular milking

weight or better, if the feed is better

for them. If the feed is not as well

for them, Or is not relished as well by

them, the scales will show it by a drop-

ping off in the flow. - Of course, to get

the full benefit from weighing, regu-

larity in milking must be looked out

for. It is the little things which, taken

care of, will make a cow do her best.

If one will only watch' the care taken

of one of the record-making cows they

will understand it better. But the

scales is the fundamental guide in their

care.



So, even if one has the best cows

that can be raised, and the best of

feeds to give them, and the best of

care in stabling (the best of every~

thing), and also the use of a Babcock

test to determine the quality of their

milk; with all these there is only

guesswork unless the milk scales are

used.





If farmers would begin with the milk

scales, try them for one year in an

honest careful manner, they would

find there would be some profitable

surprises. And, as one thing leads to

another, balanced rations and the use

of the Babcock test would be given a

trial, with other things to help that go

with them. The farmer would gain and

the nation, too.



There is no reason why the farmer

cannot use his head as well as his

hands, and the milk scales is the step-

ping-stone in that direction. '





PRODUCERS PROTEST COLD

STORAGE ACT.





 





HE American Farm Bureau Feder-



ation and National Grange repre~

sentatives are receiving many protests

from the northwestern dairy interests

and the California poultry raisers

against the provision in the cold stor-

age act which requires perishable com-

modities to be marked “cold storage”

if on the road more than ten days.

The Petaluma, California, poultrymen

sent telegrams saying that their indus-

try would be ruined unless the time

was extended to thirty days. It is

probable that shippers of poultry prod-

ucts and butter from some of the mid-

dle west and Rocky Mountain states

will be similarly affected by this meas-

ure. It is predicted that a change in

the time allowed in transportation to

thirty days will be made‘early in the

next session of congress. It is impos-

sible to get a bill through congress sat-

isfactory to all the producers.





 





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N effort was made to attach an ap-



propriation of $100,000,000 for road

construction to the post office bill. It

failed, however, because thé senate rc-

fused to suspend its rules to make the

proposed legislatibn in order. This

clears the way for early consideration

of the Townsend highway bill next

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If you are not willing to do the work

necessary to keep your poultry free

from‘lice, don't try to raise it. It 'wiIl

not pay you. ,- - ,
POINTING out the fact that the state

of Michigan does not require tubercu-

lin testing of cattle, and that commu.

nities cannot demand it of milk produc-

ers, Dr. George F. Clark, health ofli—

cer, told the milk committee of the

League of Women Voters that the so-

lution of the milk problem lies in the

education of consumers to demand

milk produced under sanitary condi-

tions, and of the producer to realize

that it is to his benefit to maintain

proper sanitation. Any community can

prevent the sale of milk produced un-

der insanitary conditions and some are

doing so, the health officer declared,





and in this Way can control its milk,





supply. He had no fault to find with

producers who, he said, were willing

to improve conditions complained of

by city inspectors. Living conditions

of the cattle are of first importance the

women were told. Four herds have

been found in one county stabled un-

der’ such bad conditions that the use

of milk in any way, even for making

butter, has been forbidden. The com-

munities are demanding proper clean-

ing, white-washing and ventilation of

barns, immunization of all cattle and

better feeding. “When the producers

realize,” said the health officer, “that

increased production under more fav-

orable conditions will more than offset

the cost of improving sanitation, they

will be more than willing to cooperate.”





FOUNDATION WALLS.





HEN you build that new chicken



, coop, hog house or barn, extend

the concrete foundation walls a foot or

more above the floor. It is cheaper

than lumber, the sills and board ends

will not rot from touching the ground

and, best of all, the cold breezes can-

not chill the chickens, hogs or cattle.

A concrete foundation wall two feet

above the floor is absolute insurance

against cold feet from cold floors.





MORE EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT

SERVICE.





N interesting meeting of business



and professional men in Marquette

on January 14, listened to an exposi-

tion of the defects in state organiza-

tion made by Mr. G. C. Cummin, of the

Institute of Social Service of New

York, who has completed a survey of

our state affairs for the Community

Service Council. Mr. Cummin has spok-





en at several points in this part of the .





state on this subject. The creation of

an enlightened public opinion is his

object, and no one who has on his own

account investigated the arrangement

of the governmental affairs will ques-

tion the substantial accuracy of Mr.

Cummin’s description. Inquiries have

come to me regarding the location of

the several agencies of conservation

involved in the governor’s scheme. It

seems to me that this should give no

real difficulty. Taking the department

of agriculture and conservation, for ex-

ample, there would be a departmental

chief at its head, comparable to the

secretary of agriculture in the govern-

ment of the United States.

partment would be divided into bu-

reaus of forestry, plant and animal hus-

bandry, geological survey, drainage,

marketing, etc. The bureau of fores-

ry would be divided into the divisions

of reforestation, fire prevention, field

division, etc. Fishand game would be

comprehended in two divisions of an-

other bureau. Still another bureau

would comprise divisions of immigra-

tion and of land settlement. This would

simplify and systematize this depart-

ment of our present official activities

under this head, and would definitely

fix responsibility. It follows the anal-

ogy of the federal government but,

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I have some Lombard plum trees

every spring, then the little plums

drop off; some are half-grown. I have

not sprayed very much. What must I





do to get a crop of plums? The trees should have been applied last fall and

are 113.5ng “Cd nice. H H mixed with the soil. .1 am of the ONE

G a wm 0' ' ‘ ion that you will get very little result





The loss of the plum crop was DI‘Ob‘

ably due to the work of the plum cur-

culio, although it is possible that the

blossoms were not properly pollinated,

owing to the fact, as we infer, that

there is but one variety. '



The plum curculio is a small beetle

which appears about the time the fruit

sets and after making a crescent-shap-

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made. In about ten days the egg hatch-

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pit. As a result the fruits which have

been “stung” will drop and this may

result in the loss of the crop.

Formerly" it was customary to fight

this insect by spreading sheets on the

ground and jarring the trees. By doing

this three or four _times at intervals of

two or three days, in the cool of the

morning, it is possible to catch and de«

stroy the cui'culio and save the crop.

It was later on found that the curculio

could be controlled by spraying.

Especially in unfavorable seasons

many varieties of plums are self—ster-

ile, and will not set fruit unless anoth-

er variety is growing near-by. While

not necessary, as a rule, with Lombard

it will surely be helpful if some other

variety, such as Green Gage or Grand

Duke is grown with it.



The San Jose scale is still to be

found in many sections of southern

Michigan, and we would advise the

spraying of the plum trees during the

month of April with commercial lime-

sulphur solution diluted with water at

the rate of one part to eight parts of

water. When the blossom buds begin

to show white, but before the petals

open, spray with lime-sulphur at the

rate of one gallon to fifty gallons of

water and add one and a half pounds

of dry arsenate of lead. Repeat this

application four or five days after the

petals have fallen and again in ten

days or two weeks. It will be well to

use lime-sulphur alone, three weeks

later.——L. R. TAFT.





from this application on top of the

ground this spring. Sometimes, nitrate

of soda is used in the spring on a poor

stand of wheat and gives results, but

this is a very soluble fertilizer and

even then, with heavy rains, much of‘

it is liable to be lost. The proper way

to use fertilizer and lime is to mix it

with the soil when the land is being

prepared for a crop or in the case of"

fertilizer to distribute it with a fertiliz-

er drill when the crop is being sown.

In either case, the fertilizer is well

mixed with the soil—C. C. L.





POTATOES FOR PIGS AND COWS.





 





Will you please advise me in regard

to feeding potatoes to pigs and fresh

cows? We have all kinds of home-

grown grain and roughage. We would

like to feed the potatoes Which are

worth thirty cents, if we can make it





pay.



Tuscola Co. G. B. 8.



Where you have no silage a moder-

ate feed of potatoes to dairy cows is a.

good thing. The succulency of the po-

tatoes make them more valuable as a

food than the food analysis would in-

dicate. I would not advise feeding

over thirty pounds per day to a cow.



Potatoes make an excellent food for

pigs, but they should be cooked.

However, it is not necessary to cook

them for the cows. If you will boil

the potatoes with cull beans, one-third

beans and two-thirds potatoes by

weight you will have a splendid food.

If you haven’t got the beans you can





with boiled potatoes. It is a question

whether potatoes at thirty cents a.

bushel can be fed at a profit at the

present price of corn meal and oil

meal possibly it would pay you to sell

these potatoes at thirty cents a bushel.

because their feeding value is not great

owing to the amount of moisture which

they contain. I am of the opinion that.

it will pay you to feed a small feeding

to the cows if you have no other silage.

C. C. L.





 





”ME AND AC”? PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER FOR ALFALFA.





 





 





I want to sow one hundred and fifty

pounds of acid phosphate and one hun-

dred and fifty pounds of lime to the

acre. Can I mix them together and

sow them with a lime sower, or will

the acid neutralize the lime. I am to

sow them on Wheat when I seed to

grass in the spring.



Grand Traverse Co. W. W. W.



No particular harm would result in

mixing acid phosphate and lime to-

gether and sowing it at one operation.

The lime will cause the phosphoric

acid in the acid phosphate to revert.

but, then, it will do this .in the soil

anyway, but it does not get in a form

so that it cannot be used as a food for

plants.



The serious mistake you are making

is in only using one hundred and fifty

pounds of lime per acre. This is not

enough to be of any appreciable ben-

efit. If you use hydrated lime you

should sow not less than five hundred

or one thousand pounds per acre and

this would be considered a moderate

application. If you use ground lime-

stone you ought to sow, at least, one

ton per acre, and two tons would be





Would fertilizer be of much value

when drilled with oats to get a good

catch of alfalfa on common loamy soil?

If so, what, kind and how much fertil-

izer would you recommend?



Osceola Co. J. B.



Fertilizer will be of great help in

getting a stand of alfalfa where you

seed alfalfa with cats. I know of noth-

ing better that you could do to assure.

a good catch of alfalfa than to use a

good amount of fertilizer when you

sow the oats and alfalfa, seed, which,

of course, can all be done at one op-

eration.



Any good brand of fertilizer. It

would be better to have a complete

fertilizer, one containing nitrogen.

phosphoric acid and potash, but a good-

application of acid phosphate would be

a help to the alfalfa, as much as it

would the oats. You-can secure acid

phosphate of any reliable fertilizer

manufacturer. The county agricultural

agent in your county could «get it for

you. A number of farmers in some

counties are buying it in cal-lots by

pooling their orders—C. C. L.





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MONG the varieties of garden



beans which we have tried, none

have been relished like the Kentucky

Wonde1. Plan on glowing a. few of

them in the home vegetable garden

this year and we believe you will plant

them every year. A row twenty to

thirty feet long will be sufficient as

the vines should be trained on poles

and each seed produces a large plant

which develops many of the long twist-

ed green pods.



The Kentucky Wonders are the best

to eat when about half-grown but the

pods are still rich and meaty when

they have reached their largest size,

which is about ten inches long. We

find these pods free from woodiness

or stringy material, even after reach-

ing a large size.



We tried planting sunflowers in a

row near the Kentucky Wonder beans

with the idea of training the beans up

the sunflower stalks. However, the

stalks furnished too much shade and

took so much moisture from the ground

that the beans near the sunflowers

were far inferior in quality and quan-

tity to the beans we raised in the gar-

den and trained on poles. The plants

will produce beans abundantly, even

when they are not trained up, but the

beans will become covered with dirt

after every hard .rain and they will not

grow as large and smooth as on the

plants that are trained up.



We have had good luck in selling

Kentucky Wonder beans to city buy—

ers and they prefer them to other va-

rieties of string beans and butter beans

which we have sold. The Kentucky

Wonders are so large that it does-not

take long to harvest a bushel and this

saving of time is an important factor

in raising such mom in the garden as

beans or peas—R. G. K.





PRUNING BUSH FRUITS.





 





Raspberries and blackcaps must not

be pruned until spring just before the

buds begin to swell. If pruned too

early they freeze back. These berries

are borne only upon new wood. Re-

move all the old wood of last year’s

fruiting, prune the raspberries back to

about two and one-half feet from the

ground and the blackcaps should have

the side branches cut back to from six

to ten inches long. The purpose of

pruning is the same as for grapes, i.

e., to secure large and superior fruit.



Currants and gooseberries should

never be cut back. About once every

three years, out out considerable of the

old wood, especially that which is low

down. These fruits are borne on old

wood so don’t prune too severely.



L. B. R.





 





CLOVERSEED PRICES.





 





.(Continued on page 293). ‘

Prices now are materially below the

ten-year average.



Will prices advance as usual during

the coming spring? Apparently there

is’a fair chance that they will do so,

but there is nothing to indicate that

the advance will be a very pronounced

one. More buying is certain to take

place later in the spring, but the force

of this is partly. neutralized by the

large holdings, especially those in farm-

ers’ hands.



There is always a chance that the

cOurse of the market will favor those

who delay buying, but prices have al-

ready receded so far, that it does not!

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R. J. A. JEFFERY, formerly pro-

fessor of soils at the Michigan

Agricultural College, and now

land commissioner for the Duluth,

South Shore & Atlantic Railroad, has

for some time been carrying on ex-

periments to determine the soil cor-

rective which gives the best results on

our muck lands. 1 have his report in

relation to operations for the past. sea-

son on a twoand-one-half-acre tract

five miles west of Seney, Schoolcrat’t

county. The crop tried out was oats

and in the experiment, Mr. Jeffery ex-

plains, it was sought to ascertain the

effect of lime, limestone screenings,

barnyard manure, potash (in the form

of muriate of potash), raw rock phos-

phate, acid phosphate, or super—phos-

phate, and a high-grade commercial

fertilizer having the formula (1-10-10).

All of the materials, except the raw

rock phosphate and the commercial

fertilizer, was used in varying amounts

per acre, and 'all was used independ-

ently in various combinations. Briefly,

the results are thus summarized: The

average of twenty-one samples har-

vested from as many points on tin-

treated soil was 17.1 bushels per acre.

The average yield where lime was used

was 26.24 bushels. W'here eight to

ten tons of manure was used, the re-

turn was 37.17 bushels. Where potash

was used, the yield was 48.2 bushels

per acre. Where manure and potash

were used. the average yield was fifty-

three bushels. The armyworm and

grasshopper are considered to have de-

stroyed 12.5 per cent of the crop. Mak-

ing a correction of yields on the above

basis, and charging up to each yield

the average cost per year for treat—

ment, Mr. Jeffery arrives at the follow.

ing result: The average net increase

per acre from the use of lime was 6.45

bushels per acre; from the use of ma-

nure, 5.95 bushels; from the use of

potash, 26.5 bushels; from the use of

manure and potash, 25 bushels.

There are twelve associations in the

upper peninsula affiliated with the

Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange,

is the information just received from

‘Mr. A. B. Large, general manager. I

am also informed that their exchange

has never had occasion to cause the

forfeiture of a member’s promissory

note held as a guarantee of good faith,

which indicates that an excellent Spir-

it of cooperation exists.

Farm Tenancy in Cloverland.



The investigation of farm tenancy

in Michigan, recently carried on by

the Michigan State Farm Bureau, indi-

cates that, while twenty-one per cent

of the farms of the lower peninsula of

. Michigan are operated by renters, only

eight per cent of the farms in the up-

per peninsula are so rented. This is

the word which comes from Mr. E. E.

Ungren, assistant director of publicity

of the State Farm Bureau. He quotes

Mr. L. R. Walker, agricultural agent

ofMarquette county, to the effect that

the only farm tenancy found in this

county is in the neighborhood of Ish-

peming, where some farmers rent

forty-acre tracts from the iron mining

companies. . ‘

Production High in Upper Peninsula.

The Annual Summary Crop Report

for Michigan, just issued from the of-

fice of V. H. Church, statistician, Lan-

sing, shows that the upper peninsula

district in 1920 produced 1,994,100

bushels of oats, which was an average

of 39.4 bushels per acre, which exceeds

the average yield in the central coun-

ties of the southern peninsula by three

bushels per acre, the northwestern





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counties by more than twelve bushels»





the southern. ‘Weasmm and - ast





central counties that slightly exceed.

the upper peninsula average yield of

oats. Only 15,170 bushels of winter

wheat were produced north of the

straits, and the average return was

fourteen bushels per acre, which is the.

same rate of return as that of the

southern counties ot‘the state. The

production of 395,000 bushels of corn

is noteworthy, and the yield of thirty-

four bushels per acre, while somewhat

less than that of the Southern coun—

ties~forty-one bushels—is not a bad

showing for this latitude. Of barley

the yield was 177,730 bUShels, and of.

rye, 55,900 bushels. The average per

acre yield of both crops exceeded that

in the southern cOunties. The import-

ance of the upper peninsula in the po-

tato output is indicated by its produc-

tion of 6,196,000 bushetsf—a return of

one hundred and fifty-seven bushels

per acre as against a state average 01‘

one hundred and five bushels per acre.

The hay crop in the northern peninsu-

la amounted to 201,500 tons. This was

an average of 1.36 tons per acre, as

compared with 1.16 tons in the South‘

ern counties and 1.20 tons in the com

tral counties. Of the hay crop, 52.210

tons came from Chippewa county, its

leading crop. Beans are hardly an up-

per peninsula crop and so we are not

surprised that: the output here amount-

ed to only 7,800 bushels, at nineteen

bushels per acre. But the bean belt

appears not'to be in it as regards the

per acre return. Cloverland’s yield of

clover-seed is hardly what one might,

expect three hundred and ninety

bushels—but the average is high—4.9

bushels per acre.





 





Farmers to Have Electric Current.



11; is practically determined

farmers living near Marquette are to

have electric power furnished them by

the city power station. Marquette

owns its own electric plant, power be

ing derived from a station on Dead

River, northwest of the city. The city

is understood to have the lowest do-

mestic lighting rate in the state—~five

cents per K. W. H., with lesser rates

for quantity lots. The farmers will or-

ganize their own distribution servicw

and the city will deliver their station

current at the quantity rate, the farm-

ers adjusting their own consumption

rate to suit themselves. Some thirty

farmers attended the organization

meeting at. Scandia held recently and

approved the project. The service will

extend some twenty miles from the

city. Under the state constitution at

municipality may furnish current with-

out its corporate limits to an amount

not in excess of twenty-five per cent

01' that furnished within its boundaries.



I have already described in these

columns the cooperative arrangement

between the Spies Public Library or

Menominee and the board of supervi»

ors of Menominee county, whereby the

service of the city library is extended

to the rural sections of Menominee

county. A recent report of operations

shows that the twenty-seven branch

libraries circulated 5,622 volumes last

month. Children and adults are said

to use this service about equally. It

means a great deal to these isolated

rural communities to have the service

of a well-equipped city library closo at;

hand.



Ironwood is now holding a poultry

show and the Globe states that. some

thirty-five new members have been ad-

ded to the Gogebic Range Poultry As

sociation during the past year. Among

the birds shown this year are the Sicil-

ian Buttercups and the Black Giants.

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Sunflowers





NE of the greatest problems of

the live stock operator, and farm-

er, in the summer range districts

of the northwest has been the subject

of winter feeding, and, though numer-

ous experiments have been tried out

in an effort to solve the situation, it

was not until this winter that those en-

gaged in the work felt sufficiently con-





‘ fident to make any definite announce-





ment. Now, however, we are told that

the '.Upper Peninsula Experiment Sta-

tion, at Chatham, Michigan, has deter-

mined the marked superiority of sun-

flowers, over beets, oats, corn and oth-

er silage crops, for winter feeding.



Early in the spring of 1920 a seven-

acre plot was seeded to sunflowers.

The test plot was given careful atten-

tion, and a week later saw the sprouts

reaching up and squaring away for a

healthy growth. The plants thrived

and grew rapidly until, at the time of

cutting, had reached an average height

of about eight feet, with hedvy, thick

stalks, wide leaves, and great yellow

heads eight inches or more in diameter.



The plot yielded 24.6 tons to the

acre, as compared with eight, nine and

eleven tons for oats, beets and corn.

respectively, grown on an' adjacent

plot, and receiving the same amount

of care. Thus, approximately one hun-

dred and seventy-five tons of sunflow-

ers were hauled to the silo, cut into

one-inch bits and packed tight, no oth-

er product having been mixed with

them. When the fermenting process

had been completed, the experiment

was begun, first, on the cattle.





OLSTEINS which received forty



pounds a day thrived rapidly, and

took on weight. Milk and butter-fat

showed a decided increase and the

silky gloss to the hide, the rounded

udders and healthy calves were strik-

ing evidence of the success of sun-

flowers for winter feed.



This much having been definitely es-

tablished, the same experiment was be-

gun on the sheep and lambs. The ewes

waded into the juicy feed with a will,

eating it clean and leaVing not a scrap.

The lambs, however, held back and,

though they seemed to sample it from

the to time, did not take to it heartily.

It was found that the lambs would turn

aside the sunflowers for turnips or

rutabagas. '



The ewes, however, stuck to the sun-

flowers, in preference to any other

feed, with the result that they soon

out-stripped the lambs in weight and

appearance. That sun-flowers contain

a decidedly nourishing substance is not

questioned at the station where these

tests were first tried out. Not only

that, they declare, but sunflowers, fed

in less amount than any other type of

silage, produces better results where

the animal shows a liking for it. Mr.

MacMillan estmiates that the sunflow-

ers now in the silo are sufl‘icient to

feed his dairy herd of twenty Holsteins

and all of the ewes for the rest of the

winter.



Another interesting experiment——

though conducted quite accidentally——

was carried out with sweet clover. A

part of a band of sheep, breaking out

of the feeding corral, wandered into a





. field of annual sweet clover and, when





discovered later, they were digging

away at the tender sprouts as though

actually eager to “take on” as much





of the feed as possible before being . j





discovered. Later, when six inches of

snow covered the same field, the sheep

were turned in, as an experiment, and





the entire flock, scenting the clover be- .





neath, immediately began digging

down f0r the roots. Consequently,

further tests will be carried out with

annual and semiannual sweet clo‘ver





Ethis spring. to determine its field value

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moat station officials are emphasising

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slim. believing that thorcin lies at

lent a partial solution of the winter

feed problem for tho northwostorn

tumors and grtizors. it was also do

torminod thot suntlowots Show a much

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latter a stable silagc crop for yours-

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the growing conditions in this region.



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spring. and it is confidently expected

that next fall and wintor will establish.

beyond a doubt. tho t‘urt that sundow-

ors for silugo is ulio ot‘ the most volt»

able economic foaturos willoh the,

northern can omphusinc today. Al

ready thoro is a nutrltod tondont‘y to-

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plant, and it is holievod that the com-

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it is u very vigorous growur, produces

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forage. lt' grown for hay. it should be

sown broadcast and Qlllli‘ thickly. or‘

the stems will be too course. in ptol

portion ot‘ t‘ood nutrients it compares!

quite favorably with our tintothy hay

but is nowhere near as good as clover.

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etc. It ought to be used in our north

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into hay. This is good soil for peas

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much more valuable forage crop. ton

for ion.



Incarnate. or crimson. clover is not

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is here. and I would see no reason for5

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Snowbird told him, overpowering one sound arm, Lennox had driven the a snowshoe rabbit, a strange shadow ing on the ridge somewhere ibehind

him with her enthusiasm. And Dan hot nails that Snowbird gathered from .on the snow, “but he was too far away them. It was quite .a large pack. They

shook his shoulders with rough hands. the ashes “of one of the outbuildings. for Snowbird to risk a pistol shot. The couldn’t make out individual voices—

“You’re hurting, boy!” Lennox warned. The «embers of the house itself still pound or two of flesh would be sorely neither the more shrill cry of the fe-

“I’ma bag of broken bones.” glowed red in the darkness. needed before the journey was over, males, the yapping of the cubs, or the

“I’ll tote you down there if I have Dan had cut the green limbs of the but the pistol cartridges might 'be low, clear G—beilow:middle-C note of the

to tie you in,” Dan Failing replied. “Be- trees and planed them with his ax. needed still more. She :didn’t let her males. ' '

fore, I’ve bowed to your will, but this The sled had been completed, handles mind rest :on certain possibilities “If they should “cross our tracks-1’

time you have to bow to mine. I’m not attached for pushing it, and a piece of wherein they might :be needed. Such Lennox suggested. '

going to let you stay here and die, no fence wire fastened with nails as a thoughts stole the courage from the “No use worrying about that'now—

matter if you beg on your knees! It’s rope to pull it. The warm mackinaws spirit, and courage was essential be- until we Pcome to it,” Dan told him.

the test—and I’m going to bring you of both of them as well as the one yond all things else to :‘bring them 'The morning broke, the sun rose

through.” blanket that Lennox had saved from through. bright in a clear sky. But still they

He meant what he said. If mortal the fire were wrapped about the old Once a flock ,gf wild geese, Strag- trudged on. In spite of the fact that

strength and sinew could survive such frontiersman’s wasted body—Dan and ,glers frm the main any 01 water- the sled was heavy and broke through

a test, he would succeed. There was .Snowbird hoping to keep warm .by the fowl, passed overhead on their south- the snow crust as they tugged at it,

nothing in these words to suggest the exercise of propelling the sled. Except ern migration. ‘They were many they had made good time since their

physical weakling that both of them for the dull ax and the half-empty pis- months too late. They called down departure. But now every step was a

had known a few months before. The tol, their only equipment was a single their eerie Grieg-nthat song that they. pronounced short. It was the dreadful

eyes were earnest, the dark face in- charred pot for melting SHOW that Dan had learned from the noise the wind beginning Bf fatigue that only food ”1d

tent, the determined voice did not wav- had recovered from the ashes of the makes, .blowing over the bleak marsh- warmth and rest could rectify.

er at all. kitchen. es. 1t walled down to them a long "W611 rest now,” D341 told them at

“Dan Failing speaks!” Lennox repli- The three had worked almost in si- time after the flock was hidden ‘by the ten o’clock. “The sun is warm enough

ed with glowing eyes. He was recall- lence. Words didn’t help now. They distant tree tops, and seemed to shiv- .so that we won‘t need much of a fire.

ing another Dan Failing of the dead wasted no sorely-needed breath. But er, with curious echoes, among the And we’ll try to get five heurs’ sleep.”

years, a boyhood hero, and his remem- they did have one minute of talk when pines. Trudging on, they listened to “That leaves a work-day of nineteen

bered voice had never been more de- they got to the top of the little ridge its last note. And possibly they under- hours,” Dan persisted. “Not any too

tel-mined, more masterful than thlS he that had OVGI‘lOOked the house. stood the cry as never before. It was little. Five hours it Will be.”

had 3118t heard. “We’ll travel mostly at night,” Dan one of the untamed, primitive voices of He found where the snow had drift-

“And Cranston didn’t get his pur- told them. “We can see in the snow, the wilderness, and they could realize ed against .a great, dead log, leaving

pose, after all.” To prove his words, and by taking our rest in the daytime, something of its sadness, its infinite the White coveringonly a foot in depth

Dan thrust his hands into his inner when the sun is bright and warm, we yearning and complaint. They knew on the lee side. He began to scrape

coat pocket. He drew forth a little, flat can save our strength. W'e won’t have the wilderness now, just as the geese the snow away, then hacked at the log

package, half as thick as a pack of to keep such big fires then—and at themselves did. They knew its cold, with his ax until he had procured a.

cards. He held it up for them to see. night our exertion will "keep us as its hunger, its remorselessness, and be- piece of comparatively dry wood from

“The thing Bert Cranston burned the warm as we can hope for. Getting up yond all, the fear that was bright eyes its center. They all stood breathless

house down to destroy,” he explained. all night to cut green wood with this in the darkness. No man could have while he lighted the little pile of kind-

“I’m learning to kDOW this mountain dull ax in the snow would break us to crossed that first twenty miles with ling and heaped it with green wood—

breed, Lennox. I kept it in my pocket pieces very soon, for remember that them and remained a tenderfoot. The the onlyr wood procurable. But it didn’t

where I could fight for it, at any we haven’t any food. I know how to wild was sending home its lessons, one burn freely. It smoked 'fitful’ly, threat-

minute.” build a fire even in the snow—espe- after another, until the spirit broke ening to die out, and emitting very lit-

Cranston had been mistaken; after cially if I can find the dead, dry heart beneath them. It was showing its tie heat. '

all, in thinking that in fear of himself of a rotten log—but it isn’t any fun to teeth. It was reminding them, very But they didn’t particularly care. The

Dan would be afraid to keep the packet keep it going with green wood. We clearly, that in spite of houses built sun was warm above, as always in the

on his person, and would cravenly con- don’t want to have to spend any more on the ridges and cattle pens and mountain winters of Southern Oregon.

ceal it in the house. He would have of our strength stripping off wet bark rifles and all the tools and aids of civ- Snowbird and Dan cleared spaces be-

been even more surprised to know that and hacking at saplings than we can,ilization, it was still unconquered. side the fire and slept. Lennox, who

Dan had lived in constant hope of help; and that means we’d' better do Mostly the forest was heavily laden had rested on the journey, lay on his

meeting Cranston on the ridges, show- our resting in the heat of the day. Af- with silence. And silence, in this case, sled and with his uninjured arm tried

ing him what it contained, and fight- ter all, it’s a fight against starvation didn’t seem to be merely an absence to hack enough wood from the sap-

ing him for it, hands to hands. And more than anything else." of sound. It seemed like a substance lings that Dan had cut to keep the fire

even yet, perhaps the day would come “Just think,” the girl told them, re- in itself, something that lay over the burning-

when Cranston would know at last that proaching herself, “if I’d ,just shot snow, in which all sound was immedi- At three they got up, still tired and

Snowbird’s words, after the fight 0f straight at that wolf today, we could ately smothered and extinguished. aching in their bones from GXDOSUFB-





long ago, were true. have gone back and got his body. It They heard their own footfalls in the Twenty-four hours had passed since

The tWilight was falling over the might have carried us through.” snow and the crunch of the sled. But they had tasted food, and their unre-

snoW. so Snowbird and Dan turned to Neither of the others as much as the sound only went a little way. Once plenished systems complained. There

the tOil 0f building a sled. - looked surprised at these amazing re- in a long time distant trees cracked in is 110 better engine in the wide WOI‘1d

grets over the lost, unsavory flesh of the frost; and they all stood still a than the human bOGY- It Will stand



CHAPTER XV- a wolf. They were up against realities moment, trying to fight down the vain more neglect and abuse than the finest





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moonlight when the little party smiled at her gently, and his great from the valleys who would come to 0f European craftsmen. A man may



made their start down the long shoulder leaned against the traces. their aid. A few times they heard the fast many days if he lies quietly in one



hail. Their preparations, simple and They moved through a dead world. snow sliding, with the dull sound of place and keeps warm. Bill; fasting is



crude as they were, had taken hours The ever-present manifestations of rolling window shade, down from the

of ceaseless labor on the part of the wild life that had been such a delight overburdened limbs. The trees were sledges over the snow.



' three. The ax, its edge dulled by the to Dan in the summer and fall were inert with their load of snow. Dan was less hopeful now. His face



flame and its handle burned away, had quite lacking now. The snow was As the dawn came out, they all stood told what his words did not. The lines



been cooled in the snow, and with his trackless. Once they thought they saw still and listened to the wolf pack, sing- cleft deeper about his lips and eyes:





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ply a stir in the ear drums, yet it was

entirely clear. That clear, cold moun-

tain air was a perfect telephone sys.

tem, conveying a message directly, no

matter how faintly. There were no

tall buildings or cities to disturb the

ether waves. And all three of them





knew at the same instant it was not I





exactly the cry they had heard before.



They couldn’t have told just why,

even if they had wished to talk about

it. In some dim way, it had lost the

strange quality of despair that it had

held before. It was as if the pack were

running with renewed life, that. each

wolf was calling to another with a

dreadful sort of exultation. It was an

excited cry, too—not the long, sad song

they had learned to listen for. It

sounded immediately behind them.



They couldn‘t help but listen. No

human ears could have shut out the

sound. But none of them pretended

that they had heard. And this was the

worst sign of all. Each one of the

three was hoping against hope in his

very heart; and at the same time, hop-

ing that the others did not understand.



For a long time, as the darkness

deepened about them, the forests were

still. Perhaps, Dan thought, he had

been mistaken after all. His shoulders

straightened. Then the chorus blared

again.



The man looked back at the girl,

smiling into her eyes. Lennox lay as

it asleep, the lines of his dark face

curiously pronounced. And the girl,

because she was of "the mountains,

body and soul, answered Dan’s smile.

Then they knew that all of them knew

the truth. Not; even an inexperienced

ear could have any delusions about

the pack song now. It was that oldest

of wilderness songs, the hunting-cry—-

that frenzied song of blood-lust that

the wolf pack utters when it is running

on the trail of game. It had found the

track of living flesh at last.



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to climb a tree,” Dan told them sim-

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do it. In the second, we’ve got to take

a chance—for cold and hunger can get

up a tree where the wolf pack can’t.”





He spoke wholly without emotion.

Once more he tightened the traces of

the sled.



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tacking,” Lennox told them. “It all

depends on how long they’ve gone

without. food. Keep on and try to for-

get 'em. Maybe we can keep ’em

bluffed.”





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shadow and shadow, and what were





_ their mental processes no human be-





ing may even guess. It was a new

game; and they seemed to be seeking

the best means of attack. Their usual





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things as the fear of men. They spread.

out-farther, and at last Dan looked up

to find one of the gray beasts waiting,

like a. shadow himself, in the shadow

of a tree not one hundred feettfrom

the sled. SnoWbird whipped out her

pistol. ~



“Don’t dare!” Dan’s voice cracked

out to her. He didn’t speak loudly;

yet the words came so sharp and com-





they penetrated into her consciousness





. and choked back the nervous reflexes





that in an instant might have lost them

one of their three precious shells. She

caught herself with a sob. Dan shout-

ed at the wolf, and it melted into the

shadows. ;”

“You won’t do it again, Snowbird?”

he asked her very humbly. But his

meaning was clear. He was not as

skilled with a pistol as she; but if her

nerves were breaking, the gun must be

taken from her hands. The three shells

must be saved to the moment of ut-

most need.

“No,” she told him, looking straight

into his eyes. “I won’t do it again."

He believed her. He knew that she

spoke the truth. He met her eyes with

a half smile. Then, wholly without

warning, Fate played its last trump.

Again the wilderness reminded them

of its might, and their brave spirits

were almost broken by the utter re-

morSelessness of the blow. The girl

went on her face with a crack of wood.

Her snowshoe had been cracked by her

fall of the day before, when running to

the fire, and whether she struck some

other obstruction in the snow, or

whether the cracked wood had simply

given way under her weight,tmattered

not even enough for them to investi-

gate. As in all great disasters, only

the result remained. The result in this

case was that her snowshoe, without

which she could not walk at all in the

snow, was irreparably broken.





CHAPTER XVI.





ATE has stacked the cards against



us,” Lennox told them, after the



first moment’s horror from the

broken snowshoe.

, But no one answered him. The girl,

White-faced, kept her wide eyes on

Dan. He seemed to be peering into the

shadows beside the trail, as if he were

watching for the gray forms that now

and then glided from tree to tree. In

reality, he was not looking for wolves.

He was gazing down into his own soul,

measuring his own spirit for the trial

that lay before him.



The girl, unable to step" with the

broken snowshoe, rested her weight

on one foot and hobbled like a. bird

with broken wings across to him. No

sight of all this terrible journey had

been more dreadful in her father’s eyes

than this. It seemed to split open the

strong heart of the man. She touched

her hand to his arm.



“I’m sorry, Dan.” she told him. “You

tried so hard—”



Just one little sound broke from his

throat—ea strange, deep gasp that could

not be suppressed. Then he caught

her hand in his and'kissed it—again

and again. f‘Do you think I care about

that?” 'he asked her. “I only Wish I

could have dOne more—and what I

’have doesn’t count. Just as in my

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eyes.



' “And this is the end?" she asked





. him. She spoke very bravely.

fear of men, always their first emotion, -





“No!” His hand tightened on hers._

“No, so long as an ounce of strength

remains. To fight~never to give up—

may God give me spirit for it till -I

die.” .



And this was no idle prayer. His

eyes raised to the starry sky as he

spoke.



“But, son,” Lennox asked him rather

quietly, “What can you do? The wolves

aren’t going to wait: a great deal lang-

er, and we can’t go on.”-



“There’s one thing more—one more

trial to make,” Dan answered. “I

thought about it at first, but it was too

long a chance to try if there was any

other way. And I suppose you thought

of it too.” , .



“Overtaking Cranston ‘2”



“Of course. And it sounds like a,

crazy dream. But lisren, both of you.

If we have got to die, up here in the

snow—land it looks like we have—what

is the thing you want done worst be-

fore we go?”



Lennox’s hands clasped, and he lean-

ed forward on the sled. “Pay Crans-

tonl’flhe said.





“Yes!” Dan’s voice rang. “Crans-

ton’s never going to be paid unless we

do it. There will be no signs of in-

cendiarism at the house, and no proofs.

They’ll find our bodies in the snow,

and we’ll just be a mystery, with no

one made to pay. The evidence in my

pocket will be taken by Cranston,

sometime this winter. If I don’t make

him pay, he never will pay. And that’s

one reason why I’m going to try to

carry out this plan I’ve got.



“The second reason is that it’s the

one hope we have left. I take it that;

none of us are deceived on that point.





And no man can die tamely—if he is a, .





man—while there’s a chance. I mean

a. young man, like me——not one who is

old and tired. It sounds perfectly silly

to talk about finding Cranston’s winter

quarters, and .then, with my bare

hands, conquering him, taking his food

and his blankets and his snowshoes

and his rifle to fight away theSe wolves,

and bringing ’em .back here.”



“You wouldn’t be barehanded,” the

girl reminded him. “You could have

the pistol.”





He didn’t even seem to hear her.

“I’ve been thinking about it. It’s a.

long, long chance—much worse than

the chance we had of getting out by

straight walking. I think we could

have made it, if the wolves had kept

off and the snowshoe hadn’t broken. It

would have nearly killed us, but I be—

lieve we could have got out. That’s

why I didn’t try this other way first.

A man with his bare hands hasn’t

much of a. chance against another with

a rifle, and I don’t want you to be too

hopeful. And of course, the hardest

problem is finding his camp.





"But I do feel sure of one thing:

that he is back to his old trapping line

on the North Fork—somewhere south

of here—and his camp is somewhere

on the river. I think he would have

gone there so that he could cut off any

attempt I might make to get through

with those letters. My plan is to start

back at an angle that will carry me

between the North Fork and our old

house. Somewhere in there I’ll find

his tracks, the tracks he made when

he first came over to burn up\the

house. ,I suppose he was careful to

mix ’em up after once he arrived there,

but the first part of the way he likely

walked straight toward the house from

his camp. Somewhere, if I go that

way, I'll cross his trail—within ten

miles at least. Then 'I’ll back-track

him to his camp." _





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BY GEBfrlIUDE K. LAMBERT.

I awakened 1n’ the night to chill and

darkness





Outside the winds of March, made

high alarm; _

1 turned again to sleep serene and

thankless





Though I was snug and warm.





And then I caught a murmur of con- \





tention, .

That mused my drowsy sense

To hear the battle call with keen at-

tention, ‘

The rallying for defense.





For hours it raged with life or death

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Spring’s fierce attack, Old Winter’s

‘ grim resistence— .

The field to whichcould win.





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“And never come back!” the girl

cried.



“Maybe not. But at least everything

that can be done will be done. Noth-.

ing will be left. No regrets. We will

have made the last trial. I’m not go-

ing to waste any time, Snowbird. The

sooner we get your'fire built the bet-

ter}! .



“Father and I are to stay here—1’"



“What else can you do?” He went

back to his traces and drew the sled

one hundred yards farther. He didn’t

seem to see the gaunt wolf that backed

off into the shadows as he approach-

ed. He refused to notice that the pack

seemed to be steadily growing bolder.

Human hunters usuallyQiad guns that

could blast and destroy from a dis-

tance; but even an animal’s intelligence

could perceive that these three seemed

to be without this means of inflicting

death. A wolf is ever so much more

intelligent than a crow—yet a crow





shows little fear of an unarmed man'





and is wholly unapproachable by aboy

with a gun. The ugly truth was simply

that in their increasing madness and

excitement and hunger, they were be-

coming less l'earful of these three

strange humans with the sled.





It was not a good place for a camp.

They worked a long time before they

cleared a little patch of ground of its

snow mantle Dan cut a number of

saplings—laboriously with his ax—and

built a fire with the comparatively dry

core of a dead tree. True, it was

t'eeble and flickering, but as good as

could be hoped for, considering the dif.

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tol in your hand.”





“You don’t mean,” she asked, unbe-

lieving, “that you are going to go out

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“Of course, Snowbird. You must

keep the pistol.” .

“But it means death; that’s all it

means. What. chance would you have

against a man with a rifle? And as

soon as you get away from this fire,

the wolves will tear you to pieces.”





. “And what would you and your fath-

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but you know how they devour/their

own dead. That might break their

famine enough so that they’d hold off

until I can’get back. That’s the prize

I'm playing for.”



“And what if you don’t get back?"



He 'took her hand in one of his, and

with the other he caressed, for a single

rmoment, the lovely flesh of her throat.

The love he had for her spoke from

his eyes—such speech as no human

vision could possibly mistake. Both of





ness, while you live,” he told her gent-

ly. “Never let that brave old man on

the Sled go to his death with the pack

tearing at‘him. Cheat ’em, Snowbird!

Beat ’em the last minute, if no other

way remains! Show ’em who’s boss,

after all—of all this forest.”



“You mean ?”. Her eyes widened.



“I mean that you must spend only

one of those three shells infighting off

the wolves. Save that till the moment





 





 





BOUT a month ago, a peculiar re-

A quest came to the people of East



Lansing. They were asked to

buy a. cow for a poor family in Bul-

gai'ia! If anyone doubts that the world

is getting closer together, let him read

this. A lady missionary who has rela-

tives in the above town, wrote; stating

the circumstances. A certain Bulgar-

ian workingman is having a hard time

of it. He is sober, industrious and

supports .his family to the best of his

resources. But his wages are eleven

dollars a. month, which is about enough

to buy wood and the simplest of food.

The youngest child is sadly undernour-

ished, anemic and may not live if she

cannot have milk. Milk isexpensive

in Bulgaria. Hence the S. O. S. from

eastern Europe to Michigan, «send us

one hundred dollars for a cow. The

money is being sent this week. Vari-

ous societies in the church, the local

business men’s association and others

raised it. , There is a Persian proverb

that runs, “When a. sick child cries in

the dark, the throne of God rocks from

side to side.” There will at least be

one less sick child, we hope, of the

millions in stricken Europe.



This is a fine indorsement of the

dairyman. Children cannot live prop-

erly without milk. Milk produces good

health. Good health is necessary to

the growth of the soul. Therefore the

milk industry is an aid to morals and

religion. Is there any leak in the logic?

I suspect that all dairymen do not

realize the greatness of their task,

however. If some of them did, there

Would be less dissatisfaction and more

joy, in their work. They would appre-

ciate that they are working with God.

All farmers, in fact, are working with

God. And if God failed to function,

all the scientific agriculture in the

world would be as helpless as a lamb

in 3. Montana blizzard. God is the

farmer’s best friend. The dairyman is

building up the oncoming generatiOn.

If to give a cup of cold water to "one

of these little ones,” is an act that is

blest, is it any less so to give a cup of

clean milk? In a certain eastern city

there is an ordinance to the effect

that if any farmer’s milk cans are

found to be improperly cleaned, his

milk will be dumped out, and a red

tag will be tied to his cans. One day

the cans of a. certain farmer were

found by the inspector to be exceeding-

ly dirty and their contents were- pour-

ed into the sewer, and they were dec-

orated with the red tags. When the

cans arrived at their owner’s home, he

swore loud oaths. The elders of his

church heard of it. They held a meet-

ing and expelled him fromgthe church

for his profanity. The man from whom

I get this says, that what those solemn

elders. should have done, was to expel

the moment member for sending un.

clean milk to be drunk by helpless

children, and to have left him to settle

the profanity between him and his God.





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Our Weekly Sermon—By N. A. M chm‘e





one is starving he is unfit to think high

thoughts, to will strongly, or to give

heed to religion. His only thought is

food. That is why vast areas of the

world have never made great progress.

The people are but half fed. Their

highest ideal is to have enough to eat.

When missionaries went to India, for

example, they found thousands of peo-

ple who had but one ’meal a day, and

that was a, poor meal. They were

hardly better than slaves. Slaves not

of men, but of circumstance. The mis-

sionziries decided that the best results

could only be attained by teaching

these folk to farm. They should learn

how to fertilize the soil, how to plant

trees and prevent soil washing, how to-

double the crop yield, and how to fight

animal diseases. '





One of the foremost promoters of

this kind of missionary work, is Sam

Higginbottcfii of India. He went as

an evangelistic missionary. Hewas a,





Princeton graduate. But in a few years _





he returned and took a. two-years'

course in agriculture at an agricultural

college. Now he has a large number

of students at the mission station, who

come to him,‘not only to study‘the

Bible, but to study how to plow right,

grow cover crops, and all the rest.

Some of these are native princes, men

of large wealth. They have never done

a day's work in their lives. But Hig-

ginbottom makes them take off their

kid gloves, put on overalls and jumper

and go to it. The British government

has offered Mr. Higginbottom large in-

ducement to enter its service, but he

elects to remain the missionary. The

native Indian farmer becomes master

of the situation. He gets a. better

house, and some nourishing food. He

slowly escapes from debt. And Chris-

tianity has done all this. A religion

that is good for his soil, ought to be

good for his soul.





THUS farming is a religious work.



in a sense peculiar to itself; To

feed the world is tocooperate with the

Father of lights from whom cometh

every good and parfect gift. Christ fed

the five thousand, and at the same

time He discoursed on the bread of

life. A .meal is begun with grace. Feed-

ing the body and feeding the soul are

not far apart. Farmers’ churbhes ought

to flourish. There ought to be a. good

building, an educated minister, an ear-

nest body of workers, an eager com-

pany of worshipers. It is unfortunate

that frequently it is not so. But .bet-

ter days are coming. Better country

preachers are growing up, Don’t close

the country church. The nation needs

it. We can get on very nicely without

many things. But we cannot get on

without the “Church in the Wild-

wood.” We cannot survive without

godly men to till the soil and feed the

nation and the world.





If it is worth the pains and cost to

provide; a. cow for a little girlingBul:

garla, it is equally worth “pains; and





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you need it‘miostr The other two, must

be saved—for something else.”



She nodded. shuddering an instant

at a menacing shadow that moved

within sixty feet of the fire. The fire-

fight half-blinded .them, dim as it was.

and they couldn't see into the dark-

ness as well as they had before. Ex-

cept for strange, blue-yellow lights,

close together and two and two about

the fire, they might have thought that

the pack was gone.



“Then good-by, Dan!” she told him.

And she stretched up her arms. “The

thing I said—that day on the hillside——

doesn’t hold any more.”



His own arms encircled her, but he

made no effort to claim her lips. Len-

nox watched them quietly; in this mo-

ment of crisis not even pretending to

look away. Dan shook his head to her

entreating eyes. “It isn't just a kiss,

darling," he told her soberly. “It goes

deeper than that. It’s a symbol. It

was your word, too, and mine; and

words can’t be broken, things being as

they are. Can’t I make you under-

stand?”



She nodded. His eyes burned. Per-

haps she didn’t understand, as far as

actual functioning of the brain was,

concerned. But she reached up to him,

as women—knowing life in the con-

crete rather than the abstract-have

always reached up to men; and she

dimly caught the gleam of some eter-

nal principle and right behind his

words. This strong man of the moun-

tains had given his word, had been

witness to her own promise to him and

to herself, and a law that goes down

to the roots of life prevented him from

claiming the kiss.



Many times, since the world was,

new, comfort—happiness—life itself

have been contingent on the breaking

of a law. Yet in spite of what seemed

common sense, even though no punish-

ment, would forthcome if it were brok-

en, the law has been kept. It was just

this way now. It wouldn’t have been

just a kiss such as boys and girls have

always had in the moonlight. It meant

the symbolic renunciation of the debt





 





that Dan owed Cranston—a debt that

in his mind might possibly go unpaid,

but, which no weight of circumstance

could make him renounce.



His longing for her lips pulled at the;

roots of him. But by the laws of his

being he couldn’t claim them until the

debt incurred on the hillside, months

ago, had been paid; to take them now

meant to dull the fine edge of his re-

solve to carry the issue through to the





end, to dim the star that led him, to '





Weaken him, by bending now, for the

test to come. He didn’t know why. It

had its font in the deep wells of the

spirit. Common sense can’t reveal how

the holy man keeps strong the spirit





by denying the flesh. It goes too deep





for that. Dan kept to his consecration.





He did, however, kiss her hands, and .





he kissed the tears out of her eyes.

Then he turned into the darkness and





broke through the ring of the wolves. 2





(Continued next \week).





Sunshine Hollow Items

By Rube Radium





A great man from Sunshine Hollow

recently died. He had lived a good

life and influenced many to do right.

He was a man of many affairs and use-

ful in his community. But next morn-

ing the sun came up as usual, the

roosters crowed and the flowers bloom-

ed bright. as every. It made us all feel

sort. of humble for a long time.



Colonel Cobb, who is corn cham-

pion of this district, entertained a

hobo at dinner Friday. Mrs. Cobb said

it was a great treat to her to serve din-

ner to a, man .who never kicked on

anything from soup to nuts. She says

the Colonel raised good corn and also

raises something else whenever meals

are late Dr things don’t taste right and.

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V1rg1n Wool or Rag—bag Shoddyf





ILK is often adulterated in a way





wool?

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“Baa baa, Black sheep, have you any S



“Yes, sir, yes,_sir, three bags full.”



. - short silk fibres around a cotton core.



ND we all agreed that was a The most common way of adulterating

A pretty good “clip." But so great it, however, is by weighting. Raw silk



is modern inventiveness that by starts as a glutinous gum thrown off

the time the three bags full got back by the silk worm. This hardens into a

to old “ultimate consumer” as gar- fine elastic fibre. The cocoons are

ment's, it looked as though the output

from the faithful “baa baa” had been

six bags full. We find that all is not

wool that smells “wooly,” or at least;

if it is all wool, it has gone through

such a long journey on its way from

the black sheep’s back to ours that its

original owner would never recog~

nize it.



. So many methods have been devised

to adulterate wool or to cheapen it,

that the buying public has at last aris-

en and demanded that goods shall be

marked plainly whether they are pure

wool, shoddy, or a wool and a cotton

mixture. This bill is known as the

“Truth-in-Fabric” bill. Women’s organ-

izations all over the country are work-

ing to secure its passage. If you want

to be protected against paying for pure

wool and getting a large per cent cot-

ton or shoddy, use your influence with

your congressman for the passage of

this bill.





NE of the most popular ways of

adulterating wool is to use a cot-

ton thread as a “core" for a wool -



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thread. Around thls cotton thread strcogtgocrhuiltilc good); £11333: teTsltgdlowy

short “7001911 fibl‘GS, often I‘GCOVGI‘Ed er portion shows the cotton threads re-

from the old rags sold to the rag man, maining after the wool fibres were de-

are spun, and the resulting thread is stroyed.

used in a fabric which is sold to you

as all wool. Sometimes this cotton baked to kill the butterfly before it can

core thread is used simply as the warp eat its way out, as this cuts the fibre

for the cloth, sometimes as the woof and injures the Silk. Fibres from the

thread, and sometimes it; is used as baked cocoons are often from one thou-

both. Often the resulting fabric is sand to four thousand feet long. If

stronger than all wool cloth would be, the butterfly eats its way Ollt Of the

as the cotton is stronger than inferior cocoon, of course the thread is broken,

W001. But the point, is that it is mas- and these short fibres are often used

querading; it is represented to you as to cover a cotton thread. Sometimes

“all wool” when it is largely cotton. they are’spun without adulterating di-

The Truth-in~l«‘abric bill would force rictly into a fabric, but the resulting

the weaver to label his goods so you 010th is not of 80 fine a quality as the

may know what you are getting. Then long-fibred silk, and should not com-

if you want to buy cotton and wool at mand as high a price, though it can be

a lower figure, you may do so, but you truthfully advertised as pure silk.



Will not be tricked into thinking you

are getting “all wool” goods.



Again, garments are sold as “all

wool” but still you are not getting

what you think you are. For when the soapy water to remove the natural

salesman says all wool, you are think- gum which adheres to it. Sixteen

mg of the pure virgin wool, from the ounces of raw silk usually comes out

sheep direct to you. This same all of this boiling process only twelve

wool may have .been your neighbor’s ounces. Manufacturers hold it is per-

overcoat for ten years. He sold it to fectly legitimate to make up this loss

a rag man, who sold it to a manufac- by “weighting” the silk, that is, by dip-

turer, who converted it into “shoddy.” ping it into various solutions, gums,

It. has already done service, and comes salt, waterglass, iron, sugar, and more

to you much the worse for the wear often tin. If the weighting stopped

and tear of several years’ struggle with with replacing the four ounces lost no

life. In passing, remember that the one would object, but certain thrifty

'term “worsted” means pure virgin manufacturers not only replace the or-

wool, While the misleading term “wool— iginal lost four ounces, but add several

’ ens” is wool and cotton mixed. The more for good measure. In certain in-

term “union goods” also means wool stances silk which weighed sixteen

and cotton mixtures. Don’t get the ounces originally and twelve ounces

idea. that it refers to the “closed" shop after boiling had attained the majestic





 





 





 





The most common way of adulterat-

ing silk is by weighting. After the

silk is spun into yarn it is boiled in





pun by unidn men. time it reached the buying public.





the caustic soda. solutidn.





Tin, usually recove1ed f1om old tin that by some acquired extra “sense”





cans, is largely used in this weighting.

The tin salts crystallize and cut the

delicate silk fib1e, thus causing the

cracking to which we object, especially

in taffeta.





IN addition to these two ways of



adulterating; there is a mixture of

cultivated silk with “wild” silk, or

pongee. Silk is mixed with mercerized

cotton, and then there is silk which

is nothing more or less than wood

fibre. This is usually called fibre silk,

and is used in cheap silk stockings and

neckties. Shch “silks” usually wash

well, and often outwear real silk, for

while they are not as strong as first

quality real silk, they are stronger

than silk which has been cheapened

during its journey from the cocoon to

you. We will not object to fibre silk

when it is sold on its merits. Nor to

adulterated wool, if we know what we

are getting. What we want is for the

dealers to call a spade a spade, to say

shoddy, if it is shoddy, and reserve the

term pure wool for virgin wool.





INEN is also adulterated by mix- ..





ing with cotton, and in fact, is not

only adulterated with it, but is so skill-

fully imitated by present-day weavers

that the buyer in a big department

store admitted the other day that it

took all his skill to tell the difference





between linen and cotton table “dam;





ask.” The old-time test of wetting the

cloth—~if it wets through immediately





it is linen—he declared could no long-‘





er be relied upon. When asked how

he decided, he could give no method

for the layman. His somewhat hazy

Way of determining seemed to be just

“because.” He had handled so much

of both linen and cotton in his day





 





 





 





 





In this silk and cotton brocade only





lactOry, and means that the cloth was proportion of fifty four ounces by the the cotton threads surviveddhe bath in your little neighborhood club is case .

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he thought he knew by feeling.



If we knew of the admixture of cot-

ton in our linen we might not care, as

cotton is not altogether a curse. It

does not wrinkle so easil'y as linen, so

the things made from it would look

well longer than pure linen after laun-

dering. But, on the other hand, on ac-

count of the shorter fibres, cotton “fuz-

zes” sooner than linen.



To determine the contents of a fab-

ric many methods are given. For in

stance, in buying linen, cotton may

sometimes be detected by rolling the

goods between the fingers. If there is

cotton this “fuzzy” appearance fre-

quently shows up. A drop of glycerine

011 linen will make the cloth transpar-

ent, but will not so affect cotton.



The burning test is frequently used.

Ravel your goods and place the warp-

threads, those running lengthwise, in

one pile, and the woof threads, those

running crosswise, in a second pile.

Then burn them separately. Cotton,

burns quickly into a flame, and leaves

no ash. Wool burns lewly, chars and

gives an odor. Silk burns'slowly and

gives a crisp ash. If there is much

weighting” the ash retains the exact

shape of the original sample of silk—-

when the piece is burned without rav-

eling~and sometimes the pattern of

figured silk may be traced in the ash.





\





ILK and wool are affected by alka-



lies. As a further test of your

goods, boil a sample in a solution made

by dissolving a tablespoon of lye in a

pint of water, keeping the solution al-

ways one pint by the addition of more

boiling water as it evaporates. ‘Boil

fifteen minutes. At the end of that

time the silk or wool will have disap-

peared. If any substance remains it is

of vegetable origin, usually cotton.



As wool and silk are affected by al-

kalis, both being animal fibres, cotton"

and linen are affected by acids, both

being vegetable fibres. An acid spilled

on cotton or linen should be washed

out at once. Strong soaps should nev-

er be used on wool or silk, as the al-

kali in the soap is harmful to the fibre.

Both these fabrics are injured by in-

tense heat, and should be washed in

lukewarm water and ironed with a

warm iron, while linen and cotton can

stand much hotter water and iron. Lin-

en should not be boiled, however.



It is the difference in the treatment

to which the various fibres can be sub-

jected which makes so much trouble

when a garment is sent to a profes-

sional cleaner. Wool and silk are

cleaned by one method, cotton by an.

other. The garment is sent as all

wool or all silk, but in the process of

cleaning it develops that the fabric is

adulterated with cotton. The result is

a poorly cleaned garment, and the

cleaners ate blamed for something

which should be laid at the door of the

man who spun the yarn or wove the

cloth.



The study of textiles” is interesting

enough to occupy several articles. If ’
take upitextl , The _‘ (lo-4 . »



, ‘ pertinent of the Michigan Agricultural

' College, will help you with. bulletins ,

and an expert to get .you started.

Write Mrs. Louise campbell, head of

~the extension department, for sugges-

tions, or Miss Helen Arms, who is the

clothing and millinery expert. They

may be addressed by writing to the

Fxtension Department, East Lansing. .._._-.

Michigan. If you are in the northern lIl mummw ”if?

peninsula, write Miss Aurelia Potts. - .

assistant home demonstration leader.

at Marquette, Michigan.—(Illustrations

by courtesy of the Extension Depart-

ment, Michigan Agricultural College). .





 





   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 





 





 





 





 





 





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COOKING IN IRON.





 





'l‘lN, granite and aluminum cooking

utensils pushed the 01d iron kettle

into the discard along with the fire-





 





place. But iron is again finding its

place in our kitchens as a material par NEAV YORK

excellence for certain sorts of cook- @NTRAI





cry, and the new iron kettle is working



overtime in many households. LINES

Sometimes knowu as the Dutch oven.



the new cooker has a tight-fitting top





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POI-tam use IS as a COOker for mews ERISHABLE commodities re- tories, the Department’s experts on

and vegetables. iour Sunday roast . - - - - ‘ u ' ”i

quire speCial handling, loading, refrigerator car loading assist in f:



and icing arrangements. Experience maintaining the original condition of :’:





has demonstrated the best methods shipments to destination. An expe-

fog loading and stowing perishable rienced Crop Estimator advises on

commodities. The shipper can learn movable production, date of move-





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these methods by calling the agricul- ment, and wider distribution. The



tural service of the New York Cen- performance of icing services is close- ,

tral Lines. Actual demonstrations of 1y followed and carefully checked. _

i: the proper methods 0f loading and file shipping of perishable freight ' i

a stOWing Will be given wherever suf— . . g

- -. . - over the New York Central Lines is ;

fiCient interest 1S manifested. Through . . if

' - . . . . . the last step in the attainment of the

ll this service the shipper is aided in farmer’s rofit .3

I knowing better both his product and p ’

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and do away with the necessity for a

~ roaster. They are self-basting. the

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sizes, from two and a half quarts to

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11011 for gem pans is growing in fav— the following prices which will prove to gun value

01.. Man COOl’S contend that In iii of buyiugby mail. 5 Ibs.for 5|.00, l0 lbs.for $3.20. .1

l)‘ k d . y . x _ 11 [IS Add a half-tea- 0r start a Coffee Club, we will mail you {our 1’. 1h, (‘5‘

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baked and of better flavor than those r galhm of winter Slbs. ofChoico Black, Mixed or (”09.11% gum, ..

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fund your money in full. Send check or hi. 0.

State if you want Cotl'ec ground.



8‘: out of every hundred customers have ro-

peulcd their orders indiciltini.r that h'lit'higan





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nut meats is to put them in an empty Butter Color Importers and Roasters (fut in five-sizes, 1. 2’ 3‘ 4 and 5 vears. i

salt or sugar bag and run the rolling All stores sell I‘ 160 Jefferson Ave-.liust _ ~ A two-year size will require 314 yards , , up

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. . - - . the rear round Standard Bi tt C In

a moderatel hot ron r h are .‘ - . 1 91‘ .0 P

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slightly damp.—L. M. T. all food laws, State and National. {79011 With anGS‘men‘s:





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E have before us now, special

v9 purpose breeds and dual pur-

pose breeds. Within the special

purpose breeds are those adapted ex-





clusively to the production of beef, and





1in the special purpose dairy breeds are





those adapted to the production of milk

and its products.



In the dual purpose breed, we have,

from the understanding of the name, a

combination which will produce both a.

profitable production from the beef

standpoint as well as in milk produc-

tion. It is not claimed for the dual

purpose breeds that they will excel

the special purpose breeds in the pro-

duction of either of these articles, but

it is claimed for them that they will

produce economical profits when used

as a dual purpose breed.



In the writer’s estimation, the first

essential thing to consider is, which

breed, by nature of its environment

and present standards, is most suit-





able to nu tne wants of each individua.

case? The individual case must be de-

termined by your environment and sur-

rounding conditions. If you are so sit-

uated that you wish to produce milk

for city delivery, cheese factory, con—

densary, creamery, etc., and the pro-

duction of milk alone being the pre-

dominating factor, then it would be

wise to consider and select some spe-

cial purpose dairy breed. Selection of

some certain breed should then be gov-

erned considerably by the intended

buyer’s preference. If he selects a.

breed that he likes, he is sure to do

better than if he takes one that he has

not a liking for. The same will apply

in the selection of beef breeds, if you

are so situated that you wish to pro-

duce beef for our markets.





B have in this country many lo



calities and many conditions

wherein the party may not be so situ-

ated that he Wishes to either make a

specialty of producing beef or milk

products alone, but wished to produce

the two combined. For such cases, the

Red P011 is the leading dual breed and

the one that can. fulfill these condi-

tions. _ .



After you have settled on the selec-

tion of the breed, then comes the indi—

vidual selection of animals. The writ-

er’s thirty-four years’ Connection and

study of the bovine‘race has perhaps

given him some ideas which may be of

value to boys and girls starting in this

interesting work, and I wish to say





 





that the first thing is to takes. good





 





Red Polled Cattle





Harley A. Martin T ell: our Boy: and Girl: W 12y t/iat Breed.

S/zou/d M aka Good on M icfizgan Farm:





look at the head of the individual. Se-

lect one of those with pleasing, mas-





terly eyes, that look at you as if to

say, “I am pleased to meet you,” being

a. little wary of the dull. sullen eye

which is an indication of temperament.





and character to correspond. Then get

the wide, broad head with a strong jaw

and Wide-open nostrils, giving the ani-





mal power to breathe an abundance of’





pure air and power to crush and mas-

ticate the foods placed before it.

blending of the head with the neck,





and the neck with the balance of the

body should be in unison, to make a-





symmetrical forin throughout.





In our dairy animals, they Wish the-





wedge shape, which is set forth and





explained in detail by our colleges, and.





in the beef animal, the wide Joins, well-

sprung ribs, the deep thick quarters,

well covered with a smooth thick layer

of flesh; and in the dual purpose ani-

mal, much the same conformation as.





the beef animaluwith strong develop-

ment, in the females, of milking quali-~

ties, which may be designated by good

udder, well placed teats and develop-

ment of the milk veins. It is quite es-

sential, in selecting an animal, that at-

tention be given 10 the heart girth. We-

want a good deep heart girth in any

animal, one which shows the animal

has capacity to breath and assimilate-

Iarge amounts of pure air. Be careful

of narrow, cramped, undeveloped heart

girths, as an animal cannot be a high

producer along any line

large development of the heart girth

and plenty of room for the assimila-

tion of pure air.





FTER the selection of your animal,



comes the care. Be quiet and kind

to the animals, for with such treat»

ment, they will do much better for you.

Be regular with their feeding. Often-v

times when first starting With this

work, caution must be used in not ov-e

er-feeding. It is the regular careful

attention which will count. Do not

just give the calf all kinds of attention

for some time while it is a matter of

novelty, but see that you give it this

continuous careful attention through-

out the entire period. The majority

of animals respond much better to kind

aild regular treatment than they will

if they are given indifferent and irreg»

ular care.



The grooming of the animal adds

much to its attractiveness. The sleek-

ness of the coat of hair gives’the ani-

mal a. lustre which will help material;





   





The-





without a.
.s.





“ in attracting the judge'sr'e'Ye when the

time comes for making ratings in the

prize ring. .



After you have the ealf fitted, ready

for the show, the next thing is the

showing of the individual. The calf

should be trained from the time you

take it in charge, to take a natural at-

tractive position. Have the head fairly

well up, but not toa high. Oftentimes

‘ if the head is-held too high, the animal

. will be inclined to stretch, thereby

l kinking the back, or lowering it slight-





Who Do





RECEIVED a letter from a little

, I chap the other day. He said: “We

7 are filling the ice house today. I

' push the cakes of ice out to the men.”

My boy friend liked to feel that this

was his job, just as much as it .was

that of the men folks. He had a part

to do and he was interested to do it

the best he could. “We are filling the

ice house.” He was a member of the

firm that. day. And he was getting

good from his service. For let us be

sure that when we do things for oth-

ers we are gaining something our-

selves.



What do we cairn” by Helping?

Well, for one thing, we gain strength



.« of body. The day is coming When you

'. 7 will need a man’s strength, for your

job will be a man’s job; and the only

way its get it is to do the little things

which come along now. Tomorrow’s

. work will‘ be done with strength gain-

‘3 ed today. If we wait till the harder

‘ task comes, we will surely be unpre-

pared.

l . Stil| Other Gains.



And thereare other gains. We gain

in confidence in our own ability to do

things by stepping out and doing the

tasks assigned to us now. Before now

I have seen men who never seemed to

have any confidence in themselves

when it came to deciding important

questions, or doing things which called

for quick and decisive action. It is a

valuable characteristic to have the

ability to know what to do when a

time of crisis comes. If we take upon

ours-elves no responsibility now when

We are young, if we waver and stand

back. and say, “I don’t know what it is

best to do,” we will be very apt always

to hesitate and perhaps lose opportu—

nities of the highest possible value.

Every time we do a good thing and do

it right, we add to our stock of confi-

dence without which we are little bet-

? ter than the horses we drive when



about our work on the farm.



A Gain in Usefulness.



Still another thing we gain when we

do the small things that are placed

upon us day by day, is confidence on

the part of others that we are capable

of undertaking almost anything that

needs to be done. “Ask Tom,” a man

said of his boy. “He knows how. I’ll

risk Tom. He always feels competent

to undertake anything.” I do not know

how a father could very well pay his

boy a more valuable tribute than that.

He trusts his boy because he has prov—

en himself worthy to be trusted. Tom



' has done things in the past. [Now he

is fitted for usefulness in every spot

and place.





 





 





 





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Best of All.



A great many big things are Waiting

to be done in the future. The boys

and girls of today will be the ones to

do them. Nobody else can. Some of

these things will concern the farm,

some will have a wider scope. Some



ll may not seem of a great deal of im-

’ portance to those who do them, and

' still, they may be worldwide in their

effect.



Who, for example, when he was

growing his crop of corn or wheat last

. year thought that he would be keeping

life‘in hungry men and women, boys

landigirlathtmsands of miles away in





 





   

   

   

   

   

 





You Help Most?





By Uncle Ed.





 





 





ly and this will spoil its natural out-

lines. The calf should stand with both

fore and rear feet set fairly well apart,

with the rear feet as a rule, not too

far under or two far back. One must

guard against the animal having a

stretched appearance, which they seem

naturally inclined to have. Keep them

together so as to hold all lines as

nearly perfect as can be. Many a good

animal has lost out in the show ring

simply from the fact that he was not

properly handled.





Europe? It seems a light thing to

tramp up and down the field after a

harrow or cultivator, to drive a hinder

or other harvesting machine. We do

get tired of it sometimes: and yet, it

may be the means of relieving the suf-

fering of the people across the world.





CLUB MEMBERS BUSY IN CLOVER-

LAND.





 





HE report of A. G. Kettunen, as-



sistant state leader of boys’ and

girls’ club work for the upper penin-\

sula, shows that eight of the fifteen

counties of the section made expendi-

tures of $7,575 in behalf of this work.

Houhgton’s outlay topped the list. It

was $3,000, while Gogebic ranked sec

ond, followed by Iron, Luce, Delta,

Chippewa, Baraga and Alger. Hough-

ton county also led in the number of

club members, which was 1,072 in

1920. Gogebic took the lead in the

value of the products gathered in, the

aggregate being $13,818.65. This coun-

ty also led in profit accruing, namely,

$9,598.81. That the upper peninsula

again took first prize in the boys’ po-

tato exhibit at Farmers’ Week in East

Lansing, may be taken as a tribute to

the quality of the work being done in

this direction north of the Straits, and

it is our belief that Mr. Kettunen de-





 





serves some credit for it. Young Theo-'





dore Stenson, of Covington, Baraga





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county, report of Whose record was

run in these columns recently, is the

second-time winner.—-Cn‘Asn.





EFFECTS OF SMOKING.





 





SOME interesting experiments have

been made recently to prove the

bad effects even of moderate smoking

on athletes.

ball pitcher after smoking one cigar

lost twelve per cent in accuracy and

fourteen per cent after smoking two

cigars. In shooting at a target rifle-

men lost four per cent in their score

from smoking one cigar and six per

cent after smoking two cigars. Bicycle

riders after smoking one cigar or three

cigarettes lost nine per cent endur-

ance and increased their heart-beats

ten per minute. Similar tests with

fencers showed a serious loss in pre-

cision in lunging with a fencing foil

at a target after smoking two cigars.

All these athletes gained in accuracy

and endurance? when they did not

smoke.——Boys’ Life.





Snakes fight in two ways—by strik-

ing with poison fangs and by wrapping

themselves about their foe and chok-

ing or crushing it to death. Not man

alone, but all living creatures hate

snakes, the samller animals chiefly be—

cause they fear for their young (and if

birds for their eggs), and the larger

ones probably because they fear for

themselves. Many, animals attack

snakes at sight; deer, cattle, and hogs

trample them (the hogs eat them after

they have killed them); eagles and

other birds of prey strangle them with

their claws and then eat them; and

some smaller birds (owls for instance)

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We cull our flocks 3 times, lst in early fall, 2nd

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T HE buyers of breeding cockerels

should realize that birds held over

winter have eaten much feed and

are worth around a couple of dollars

for meat. When such birds are crated

and shipped at from three to five dol-

lars each the seller is doing business

on a. small margin of profit and if he

is selling well-bred stock there is no

profiteering about the transaction.

Broody hens not wanted for early

hatching should be broken up at once

and returned to laying condition. Iso-

late them the first night and they are

most easily broken. This gives the

nesting space to the laying hens. It

takes only a few broody hens to make

overcrowded nesting conditions in the

average poultry house.

The sudden slump in the egg market

warns poultrymen that the profitable

flocks must be fall and winter layers

when the competition is less from

flocks not given the best of care. There

seems to be a time every spring when

egg prices take a sudden drop through-

out the state and poultrymen and farm-

ers who have been feeding flocks of

low producers during the winter find

that it takes a lot of spring eggs to

pay winter feed bills.





Many reasons are advanced for the

low price of eggs at this time, but un-

doubtedly the mild weather brought al-

most an April yield during February.

Storage men did not. wish to take a

chance on buying chilled eggs. Labor-

ing men out of work are eating fewer

eggs and buyers who did without high-

priced eggs did not return to egg eat-

ing at once. The old law of supply

and demand seems to be still working

in the egg business. _But conditions

ought to improve and eggs bring a fair

price in comparison with other foods

during the remainder of the year.

Possibly the sudden. drOp in eggs

may have a rather good effect in the

end. Eggs have been so high that

some prospective beginners were go-

ing into the business without their

emergency brake working. They want-

ed to raise more hens than one farm

ever supported before. They wanted

to raise poultry, not. for a love of the

work but for a love of easy money.

Such producers are not a. help to the

business. They might glut the market

forbthers and lose money for them-





selves. Now that egg prices are re-

turning io normal, they may also do

the same.





When eggs are sold by the farmer

to the consumer he must charge a lit-

tle more than the grocers will pay

him and a little less than the grocers

charge. He cannot afford to handle

small individual orders on the same

basis as eggs can be sold by the crate

to a dealer or travelling buyer. It

takes time to do business and there is

no profit in selling two dozen eggs to

a motorist whotakes an hour to buy

them.



A little more culling in the spring

may take out a few hens that do not

look as good as breeders and layers as

they did last fall. Sometimes a. few

hens become Leo fat. Maybe one or

two will be heavy and listless and fail

to scratch for grain or'come from the

roost promptly in the morning. A little

about the condition of a flock can-be

told by opening the house suddenly on

a sunny day. Watch the good hens

flock out and begin to enjoy the range.

Not much will be lost by culling out

a hen that still hangs around the coop

and neither lays or seems; to care





 





whether spring arrives or not.





 





With the Fowls In March





Sometimes poultrymen believe that





you can feed a certain ratiOn which





will make 80 many yolks and so many;

whites and be very sure of getting just‘





that many eggs from a. certain amount

of that ration. Balancing the ration is





necessary but a hen is something be-:

Some lack the abil-f

ity to manufacture eggs regardless of





sides a machine.





how many whites and yolks their ra-

tion is capable of making. That is why

culling is necessary and is now the

foundation of successful poultry man-

agement.



Whenever you hear a poultry owner

say that the experiment stations never

do any good, just ask him if he discov-

ered culling and its value all by him-





 

 





 





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self. Of course, a lot of practical poul-

trymen have known something about

it and Hogan was a practical leader in

that field. But it is the college experi-

ment stationsand their laying contests

that have brought together their expe=

riences and the experiences of prac-

tical poultrymen and combined them

in such a way that every owner of

hens can know more than his grand-

father did about the chicken business

without half trying.



A poultryman recently asked: “What

can the farm bureau do for the breed-

er of pure-bred poultry?” Here are





 





 





' Detroit Incubator Co.





Detroit Incubator





14 0-!“ Size—Guaranteed—h has

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cannot break it when hatchin

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In Some Sections the Production of

Geese is Rapidly increasing.





 





some of the things: It can make all

farmers more prosperous and able to

buy pure—bred poultry. It will make all

farming more successful and the writ-

er believes that this will help to make

better egg and poultry markets. Some-

time egg marketing may be carried on

quile generally throughthe farm bu-

reau. Right now that organization has

its hands full, but in the future there

may be more attention given to poul-

try interests. We can’t. expect every—

thing at once and during the past win-

ter the man with laying hens has had

no reason to envy the wool producer

or the owner of pigs.



Some day it may be possible to have

a cold storage plant controlled by the

farm bureau where the spring eggs can

be stored for winter prices. There is

a lot of kicking about cold storage

eggs but if it were not for suchplants

there would be a 'badly glutted market

during the spring and summer and few

eggs consumed in the cities during the

low period of production in the fall

and winter. Properly controlled, the





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8 A B Y C H I 0 K S





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ARRFD Plymouth Ro1k cockerels for sole some

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and Bone: Leghorn rns. Minorcas, R d ,

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wpnlar varieties Reasonable prices.

'rite for catalog nto

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arcel Post

aranteed. (‘ntalog free.

ERY, R. 3. Holland. Mich





Cockerels. A..O 8

and 88 111-2 (11:315. . train .6

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cold’ storage business is a blessing to

both the producer and the consumer.



The day-old chick business does not

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We are now beinning to ship

chicks from our

Pure Breed Practical

oultry

This is the stock that will pay on

our farm. Duckiings and Hatch-

ng Eggs.

Hi h Qulality Egg Leghorn;

nd All Standard Breeds

Se ml for 64 page illustrated Cat-

alo, which tells how to raise chicks. Delivered post-





pal

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION,





Desk l, Kalamazoo, Michigan





 





Crystal Poultry Farms

. " HIGH QUALITY

' Baby ohix. eggs from

laying strains.

Prize winners at 19'

New York and Oh1o State

Fairs 35Lead ing breeds

Prices reasonable. Safe ar-

rival gua1anteed.0ircular

free Shepard Strong,

Crystal youltry Farms

790! Franklin Ave. .. CleVeland. 0.





MID-WEST BABY CHICKS





Mean real profits in your ponitryil il.ock Our

illustrated catalog tells youI why 'you ought to

buy our “letter MCI: 12 money

making varieties. We .ship lmywhere Fr yr!”





White Prdmdeitit Write tonight to

- ‘ mb-wes‘r HATCHERIES

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DAY OLD CHICKS Egflimrigfii





trep- nested stock where every hen must produce 60



e gs in four winter months. One hundred big Uthrift;

Yicks for 32500. MAOALWHIT E POU



RDS. Alex. MacVittie. Proprietor, Caro. Mich.





BABY c chxs Em...



, proved var-

ieties at lowest possible prices. A lane 1 order will

convince you of their 811 rior quality. Catalogue free.

Ohls Poultry Yards and atcher1.arion Ohio.





BABY CHICKS “Sicifnizo‘iim ‘33.er

trap nested. bred- to-lay ex xdpertly tested {01 iiill'my gaer-i-





erations, [111‘ 8 illustrate catalogue 2.311 stain psfor

circular. orman Poultry Plant Chatsworth. Ill.





Hatchin g s from Parks ZOO-e

Barred ROCks strain. filth n the blood of Parfig

best pedigreed ns. 32 per 1.3 $6 per50, $12 per 100.

Prepaild LbdK parce t in nonbreakuble containers.

Route 1. East Lansing. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





While]; Wyandottes Oilidnl records. the hens 1074 e gs.

Eggs 15, wSl‘lfl) and 810.00 100, $111.00. Oatao

WSCHOTTMANN,M(1ntrcse. 1!





Big Ty e S O. Whit

Broad View Farm Lego-,5, big 1on2

bodied birds Heavy lpyerfm of Whig white eggs Ex-





hibition type eggs I) S" ”10

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McKERCHEB.

RED- TO- LAY S. 0. White Leghorns f reed

males mated with hens selectedb megl. [Eddgpert

as extra hea1_V layers Selected cockerels at a bargain.

Pullets The Ferguson 00.. R. 6, Ann Arbor, Mich.





CHICKS CHICKS





Shiplped snfeiV everywhere by mail. S. 0. White

Leg (111.18 and S. O. Mottled Anconas. the great egg

machines. Strong. sturdv chicks guaranteed tosat-

is fy y. Order now for spri delivery. 13th season. Free

catalogue. W. an Apple om. R. 7 Holland Mic.h





CIHICK Pure-bred S. C. White and





Brown Leghmns. irom hea1y

laying strains. Parcels-post brings them up to 1our

door Safe arrival guaranteed $15 00 pm 100 post paid

Catalogue tree. Royal Hatchery, R. 2. Zeeland Mich.





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eral hundred miles from home.





of the insufficient

salary and expenses.





 





Men: the“ who "buy one err twosett " ;





tinge to raise their own 'coclrerele. Day-

old chicks are usually shipped in or-





'ders of not less than twenty-five as





there must be enough chicks, in a. com-

partment so they can help furnish heat

for each other. Then the chicks need

artificial brooding. One setting hen on

a. setting of eggs looks after the hatch

ing and brooding of enough chicks to

furnish new males for the farm flock.

And this is often the cheapest method

of obtaining the new blood.



In all fairness to the producers of

day-old chicks the buyers must be pre-

pared with brooding equipment when

the chicks arrive. Sometimes chick

producers may receive unfriendly let-

ters from buyers who have neglected

their chicks. This has resulted in a

high mortality rate and unjust blame

placed on the hatchery. Buyers will

have better results if they do not try

to purchase very low-priced chicks

from hatcheries in distant states sev-

It is

only natural to suppose that the best

chicks might result from the shortest

journey and fewest transfers if other

things are equal.



Place setting hens in colony houses

or other rat-proof buildings. Brood

coops with tight, floors are useful for

setting hens. Many a promising hatch

has been ruined by the rat that stole

the eggs. Rats are shrewd pests. You

may have them though you don’t see

them. Clean up their breeding places

as much as possible and place the set-

ters in protected nests.





THOSE DOGGONE STUMPS.



OW shall we get rid of the dog-



gone stumps? Here is my method,

based upon years of successful expe-





rience. Dig a hole at one side of the

stump, preferably between two big

roots. Be sure to get all the dirt away





from the roots and the stump body.

Now start a hot fire with chunks and

trash. Throw a little damp straw or

trash over the fire and cover it com-

pletely with sods and dirt. You might

leave just a little hole next the stump,

but this is not really necessary if you





don’t cover the fire more than five

inches with sod and dirt. Go away

and forget about the stump. The fire





will burn slowly but surely until there

is nothing left of the stump. It will

even follow the roots into the ground.

It may smolder for a week or two but

is sure-fire in time. The method is

based upon the charcoal burner's meth-

ods followed before the time of brick

kilns.——J. B. R.





AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE AT

ROME.





INCE the death of David Lubin this

government has been unable to se-

cure the services of a. competent rep-

resentative at the Interanitonal Insti-

tute of Agriculture in Rome, because

appropriation for



Dr. Hunt, of Cal-

ifornia University, now on leave of ab-

sence, is acting temporarily in this





 





capacity.





After a proposed increase in appro-





priation had been turned down by both

senate and

American Farm Bureau Federation rep—

resentatives took up the matter with

Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, who

succeeded





house committees, the





in getting an amendment





attached to the diplomatic and consu-

lar service appropriation bill, through

the senate, calling for an appropria-

tion of $25,000 for the American rep~

resentative at" Rome in place of the

present $16,500 appropriation.





CHICKS English Strain White Leghorns

the heavy layin strain at only $16

per 100: repaid by mail safe arrive guaranteed send

(. ash wit order special rates on too or more.



JAMESTOWN HATOHE R,Y Jamestown. Mich.





DAY-OLD CHICKS





816. 00 per 100 and up. tohinge 11.82.00 to:

per setting and 89. 00 to $12. 00 perl log'f from 26 varidiigts

ofpure bred. farm ranged fowle: Chickens. Geese.

Ducks. Turkeys and Guineas. Price list and circular

free. Plenty ofi nice breeding stock. Book wfo or

girly Tsgr-m WILMINGTON '

a POULTRY 00 Wilmington, Ohio.





DAY-OLD CHICKS





Strong vigorous follows. the kind that live and grow.

Carer):P8 ly selected, ,ogn range purebred utsllitvgtock





Price noble. ircular A

HATOHE Y.- 24388 Main St, Findlay. Ohio.





Mime-.1 Mia-1M... on rmm





A good plan is to have a feed-coop

which the young chickens can enter

but the old hens cannot, and always

have some cracked wheat, cats, or cat-

meal and corn-chops in it. You will

be surprised how fast the chicks will

grow if they have such a feeding-place

while on range.





 





 





 





 





 

 





Get the Full Value

Out of Your Soil





Thorough cultivation, with at Planet Jr., by

breaking up and pulverizing the ground, let-

ting in warmth and air, and keeping in

moisture, doubles the natural fertility of ,

the soil, doubles the effectiveness of .

manures and fertilizers, because these, . .

lie idle 1n the ground - ‘”

unless fed to the crops .

by cultivation. ”i



No. 12 Planet Jr.

Double and Single

thol H00 either strad-

dles the rows or goes be.-

tweeu them. as desired





Equipped with plows. hoeS, cultivator teeth and leaf lifters. it is specially rec-

ommended for home or market gardens.





   

 





 

   

   

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





Planet Jr. Cultivators because of their scientific con-

struction, break up and turn the ground in the way best

suited to crop growth. They feed the plants, producing

much larger and better growth. They can be set to up-

root, or to cut oil below the ground, dock, bindweed and

other deep rooting weeds. Whatever form of cultivating

you need done, there is 11 Planet Jr. to do it the best way.





No. 90 leet Jr. Twelve-tooth Har-b S L. Allen & Co.





row. Cultivator [mom-cod

and Pulvcrizcr Box 1 107M



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more and market



gardeners, beet

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Leaves the

soil in per-

fect con-

dition.





-Culti22ators and

Wheel Hoes of every

description.





 

 





Write for our free

illustrated catalog.

describing and giv-

ing directions

for the use of

all Planet Jr.

Implements.





   

 





 

 





 





Michigan’s Largest Pedigree Poultry Farm





DAY OLD CHICKS





From S. C. W. Leghorns, That have been carefully culledEfor heavy

laying. Mated with PEDIGREE cockerels, whose records in the past

five years are, the lowest in that time, 215 eggs, in one year, and as

high as 290 eggs, in one year. We guarantee that every chick and

breeder that we sell comes from Lakewood Farm only. Write for cat-

alog. Grade A, 20¢ each. Grade B, 15¢ each.





Box B, Holland, Mich.





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3: To your door prepaid by us Guaranteed live delivery. We have the most é

3:: modern methods of hatching and shipping methods and we 3..

if ship you nothing but the best, our stock is of the standard :2

£2 Free range bred for heavy egg laying quality and our chicks 3::

83 are strong and healthy and will develop very rapidly. We have 3

$3 the following breeds S. C. White, Buff and Brown Leghoms. 3}

$2 Anconas, W. and B. Rocks, R. C. and S. C. R. I. Reds, B. and £2

3:3 W. Orpingtons, W. Wyandottes. Get Our big bargain offer if

g; - in CHICKS and BROODERS and save money on your g

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Hubers Reliable Chicks-”700,000 For 1921.





By Parcel Post Prepaid. By Special Delivery. Guarantee Live Delivery. Eggs for Hatch-

ing by Setting or 100 .

We lime installed the most modern features of the Hatchin Industry.

Whl(h will insuic < hicks as strong as Hen Hatched Clllt ks and funlfofpe peg

'lhis is our 1‘ th season. “ 1th the great i111 reusing demand for our 0 icks

and the fine 'lostiumuiuls. Photos, Show liepoits and Wonderful Egg Re-

cords we 1919119 from (1111 customers prmes that our (hicks from stock of

Good Qualit Bred for Heavy Egg Production and that they are Properly

Hatch h.ed lo' insure success bu) our Reliable Chicks We hatch all our

chicks from pure bred. free range farm stock 8. 0. Vi Rhite and Brown Le -

horns.. S. O. Ancouas. Barred Rocks R. 0. ends. 0 Reds. S. 0. and R

Bufi' Orpingtons, S. C. Black Minorcas and W hite W.yandottes

Special combination ofl'er on chicks and brooder stoves. Before buyin

elseuhere send for illustrated catalog and prices. Place order atonce an

mold disappointment in the rush of the season.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Hubers Reliable Hatchery, Em High 51., Fosteria, Ohio.
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Barn Plan Service.





 





 





Fort Atkinson, Wis





The book is sent free, ifyou ask

for James Way

book No.24,





 





 





 





 





, James Carriers

. l - Make Cleaning Easy





0W do you do your chores--the

old way or the James Way?



The old way—cleaning out the barn



r is the dirtiest and hardest work on

d the place, a chore that is shirked by

every one who has a chance to get





But this task, like many other

tasks in the dairy barn, has been

changed by James to a chore that ‘ _ ‘

even the boys like, and which they' ' ‘

can do as well as the ‘strongest man.‘ .



A 320—page book tells all about 4, ‘1

the James carriers and other work- . '

saving James devices Such as James

cow stalls and stanchions, steel pens,

ventilators, drinking cups, bull staffs,

and it also tells about the James





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i United Milkers Double Dairy Dollars ‘





l‘ UnquestionablyAmerica's Greatest Value in Milkers—

simplest—most sanitary—most efiiCient—safest made.

Pump-pulsator type—gives complete vacuum release





on teat.





Smooth natural action oi calf.





THE “ SEE -THRU " TEAT CUP—Clear as crystal. As easy to clean as a





china dish —— shows all teats milking.





Saves time and trouble. Tell at a





glance what each cow is doing. Write for information—or ask your dealer.





United Washers





With the famous full-swing DOLLY.

Washes quicker—safer for any clothes.

Hand and Power (electric or engine) |

with handy swinging wringers. Single

and double tub models. Get the facts.





United Diabolo Separator





l60 to 900 lbs. capacity. Backed with

a guarantee of separator perfection.

Easiest turning—closest skimming-—

most sanitary. Ask your dealer for

trial or write to us.





United Engines





18-4 to 12 H. P. Engines forevery

farm pur ose -— 200,090 satisfied

users. Hpighest quality -— most

economical power. Has no dupli-

cate in value. Learn the features

——get the facts.





United Feed Mills





H , Self-sharpening automatic-alignin , os—

‘ cillating burrs. Grinds allgrains. ulls

easy—durable— rent capacity. 6-8 and

10-inch sizes. “5th or without eleva-

tors. See your dealer or write us.





 





Unlted Dealer~lf a dealer near you cannot show you the United line, write

tsoedsTh’lehe high standard of United quality and low prices make the United America's





Greatest Value. Get all the facts.





UNITED ENGINE COMPANY Dept. 33





LANSING, MICHIGAN (23)





 





 





’ It PAYS to GRIND ALL GRAINS





Look to the Grinders. They do the

work ! Bowsher’s Cone 1 Shane .

grinders are the correct principle



in Feed Mill construction. They

mean iarger grinding surface

closetocenter of Shaft;thus More

Capacity. Lighter Draft. Longer Life.





"Desire so exareu my appreciation

of the orig—

Bo sher





 





stin . trouble-proof

a i .tgav5nseDaHNo. 4 ton ye;rs .\

e o arner year or

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lOsises;2t02511.P. Write "A

for tree catalogue. Gr

Lil. P. nowsm (20., scum am. IND.





 





 





 





Homlng', ‘l'onlo Herve Powders



' god for ‘Heavey," thin, rundown.

, lie-bound horses. $1.00 a pee e



.. t d Money back it they t .





Bend t FREE est mile: Veteri

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Adviser. De-

Heaves and 200 other Horse and





ttls Diseases.





 





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SEPARATOR u: a»





A SOLID PROPOSITION to send ..

new, well_made. easy running,

perfect skimming separator for 1:

$14.95 .Closelg slums warm orcold _

milk. Makes eavy or light cream.

Different from picture, which

illustrates larger capacity nio-

chines. See our easy plan





M nthly Payments





Bowl a sanitary marvel easily

' “ Whether dairy is large

or small, write for free catalog

and monthly payment plan.



Western orders filled from





Western points.





IERI SEPARA'I'OR C0.

8:: 306?" We. NJ.





 

 

 





ery costs.



It so happens that milk, relatively, is

not :high in price. Compared with

meats and many other food commodi-

ties, milk is very cheap, figured on a

food value basis. More than that, milk

has certain nutritional qualities, due to

factors called vitamines, which ren-

ders it extremely necessary in the nor-

mal growth and development of chil-

dren. The real value of milk is very

much greater than its'pre‘sent cost, or

its chemical analysis indicates.



The farmers who have been sweat-

ing bldod over the question of milk

price have overlooked one thingfthat

price is fixed not by cost of production

but by what the public is willing to

pay. If the general public understood

thoroughly the real significance of milk

in the diet of humans, both infants and

adults, it would pay twice as much for

milk as it does now, and be glad of

chance to get it. '



11' we, read our census_statisti_cs

aright we are not confronted with an

oversupply of milk nearly so much as

with an'under-conusmption. There are

literally millions of people in this coun-

trywho are indifferent to whole milk

and dairy products in general, and if

these could be persuaded to drink one

glass of milk a day, or use an ounce

of cheese 21 day, or substitute butter

for the cocoanut oils'they are spread-

ing on their dail) bread, there would

be a greater call for milk than the

farmers could supply, and the price

problem would lake care of itself. '



As 1 sec it, it is the duty 'of the

farmer to supply a clean, sanitary

healthy product which will please the

consuming public. Clean milk from

clean burns from disease-free herds

will help tremendously to increase the

consumption of milk. Clarified and

pasteurized milk distributed in sani-

tary containers, without too much dup-

lication of expense, is the duty of the

distributors.





I N Wisconsin the division of markets

is closely studying this problem, but

until they have more dependable facts

to work upon, they are going to re-

serve final judgment. But any division

of markets, or any state legislature,

can do little more than control and

direct private effort. Legislation which

would permit cities to make milk a

public utility and control its distribu-

tion, might help by holding a club over

the grasping distributor, or finding re-

lief for a city overrun with distributors.



But even such legislation would not

hit atthe crux of. the problem because

it would do very little towards increas-

ing the consumption, and until the con-

sumption is increased, little real work

can be done towards making possible

a better price, and to maintain that

price against public clamor.





 

 





BEAN PODS FOR DAIRY COWS.





What value has bean pods for feed

for dairy cows? Are they all right to

feed to a cow heavy with calf, say

once a. day? Is there gas enough to

bean pods to hurt a cow after calving?



Osceola Co. - E. D.-





Beanrpods are a very good feed for

any kind of stock. Of course, some.

bean pods are more valuable than oth-

ers, just as some hay is more valuable.

If the beans are harvested before they

get too ripe and when the weather is

favorable so they are not bleached out

in the rain good bean pods are nearly

as good as clover hay. There is noth-

ing in the idea that bean pods would

injure a. cow heavy in calf. I don’t

think you can give her any better food.

You can feed bean pods to any kind of

live stock with the assurance that no





 





 





 





ers. If milk is to be dietributed from _:

public depots: it should be bottled, and} ’

the custdmer given the saving of deliv- -.~ "





 

 

 

   

   

   

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





, You use good judgment when

breaking in a colt—the whip at



_ the wrong time and a valuable

horse would be spoiled.



Use the same good judgment ~

in buying a suit—a choice of the

wrong fabric means less satisfac-



. tion as 'Well as a loss of the extra

service a better fabric would give.





You can know what is the

most dependable fabric for your

clothes—year in and year out.





For wear—service—loolcs— V

most -for - dollar —- you can’t

beat guaranteed Clothcraft Serge

Specials—tested by over a half

million wearers.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





Clothcraft Serge Specials are

backed by 75 'years’ experience ,

in clothes making. The biggest

selling suit in the world, made

in the largest single clothing

factory, is the Clothcraft ‘Scrgc

Special No. 5130. ’





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





Get samples otthese‘ urges—in gray,

brown, and blue—With a little folder

which has a big message for you-

they’re all yours for the asking. Just

write saying “Send Serge Folder"—

address:





rns JOSEPH & FEISS ed.

625 St. Clair Ave.. N. W.. Cleveland. Ohio





 





 





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increase the

Value of





Your Farm





With a Silo ;





 





 





 

 

 





 

 





Get the beauty and dura-

bility of tile in the Lansing

“amp-lap" block. Ends over

lap — extended shoulders top and

bottom—less mortar exposed, bet- ‘

ter settling of silage—less chance .~

for frost, better looking silo, blocks

uniform in shade. Stronger walls.

Notched ends on blocks prevent

mortarfromsli pinfifl‘wistedsteel

reinforcing. teel ip roof—steel

or tile chute—fire proof. Write

for Catalog. .

J. M. Preston Company

_ Dept.3o9 Lansing, Mich.

Factories: new Brighton, Pa.:

Urichsville, 0.‘ Bram]. lnd.;

Fort D e. a.





   

 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   

   

 





 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 





Gombault’s

Caustic Balsam





The Standard Remedy

Human and Veterinary





As a veterinary remedy its

curative qualities have been

acknowledged f o r m an y

y e a r s in cases of Curb,

S plint, Sweeny, Capped

Hock, Strained Tendons,

Spavin, Ringbone and other

bony tumors.





A Perfect Antiseptic

Soothing and Healing ‘



For treatment of Rheu-

matism, Sprains, Neuralgia,

Lumbago, Sore Throat, Stiff

Joints, Cuts and Bruises it

is invaluable. $1.75 per bottle

at druggists, or sent by par-

'.cel post on receipt of price.

The Lawrence-Williams Co., Clevelando.





   

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





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Dairying





 





Will you please advise me the best

time to feed dairy cows that are giv-

lng milk, how to construct a manure



it, and plans for a building. apart from

he dairy stable for protecting the cat-

tle from the weather? Would it be



tactical, to allow the stock to run'



ose in Such a building during the cold

irlnter days? I am keeping about twen-

ty milch cows and about the same

number of young stock on my farm.



Van Buren Co. ‘ R. L. Q.



Probably no two successful dairy-





men do the dailywork exactly alike.

One man will milk .the cows before he

feeds them, another will feed them the

very first thing. One man will feed

his cows several times a day, another

man will only feed them twice a day.



Now, in reality, it makes little dif-

ference as to whether you feed before

or after you milk, or whether you wa-

ter the cows before or after feeding,

and so on, providing you are systemat-

ic in your work. Work out a system

that fits your convenience best and

then stick to it. Don’t feed the cows





before milking one morning and then





after milking the next morning. , Regu-

larity in everything we do in the dairy

barn goes a long way towards success-

ful dairying. This shifting from one

system to another will 'keep the cows

nervous and they will not do anywhere

nearly as well. Then again, do things

at the same time each day. If you get

your cows in the habit of getting a

-feed of hay, grain, or ensilage, or, in

fact, anything, at five o’clock in the

morning, don’t feed them one morning

at five o’clock and the next morning

at seven. And the same about milking.

Milk regularly at a certain time each

day. This is very important in getting

the best results with cows, and per‘

sonally, I don’t think it makes very

much difference just when these things

are done it‘ they are only done regu-

larly and systematically, every day.

A Manure Pit.



The only essential ot‘ a practical

manure pit. is to have a water-tight

bottom and the side walls high enough

to hold the liquid manure so that it

can neither seep or run away. That is

all there is to it. You can build them

any shape that you choose to, one to

suit your convenience and it will keep

the manure just as good as a more





elaborate one, or one built in some ~





other way. It is not necessary to have

a roof over it, but you can control the

manure pit better it' you do have the

cover. Then you can add water, if nec-

essary, and not too much. The only

objection to a long, narrow manure pit

would be the expense in proportion to

the capacity of the pit. If it is long

and narrow it will probably take twice

as much cement to build it of the same

capaéity, than it built wider and not

so long.

A Covered Barnyard.



The idea of having a building either

connected with the barn or away from

thebarn and the manure carried 'out

there daily by a manure carrier, is

nothing more or less than a “covered

barnyard,” and this, by the way, is the

best kind of a manure pit. It is an ex-

cellent thing to deposit this manure

where the hogs can have access to it

and where it will be tramped and

packed down by the young cattle run-

ning in this yard. Open mangers can

be arranged so that the young cattle

can be fed here, in fact, some people

have covered barnyards for their milch

cows. They are put into stables to be

fed the grain and to be milked and

then they are turned into this larger

encgosure, where they have free access

to water and the roughage part of the

ration. In this way of handling live

stock, it necessitates a large amount

of straw for bedding in order to keep

the animals clean but it makes a splen<





. did manure factory. Manure tramped





in this way will keep almost indefinite

lyK without fermentation or loss and

can be hauled out at the convenience

Vott'he' taxman—C. c. L. " ' ‘ '





 





 





     





 





ismost profitable





RICES for dairy products have held firm-

ly, While the cost of feed has been greatly





crowded or overdone.





creamery.





all parts of the world.





NEW YORK

165 Broadway





29 East Madison Street





reduced. Because of this there is rela—

tively more profit than ever in dairying, and

many farmers are turning low—priced feed into

high-priced butter-fat.

authority says that you can make corn wort 1

$2 to $3 a bushel by feeding it to good cows.





Times like these prove the value of ‘dairying. It‘is

the backbone of the nation’s agriculture—the most pront-

able, surest and safest of all branches of farming. Dairy-

ing is not suffering from overproduction, is not over-





An eminent dairy





And Dc Laval Cream Separators have done more

than any other factor to place the dairy industry on such

a firm and profitable basis.

money twice a day, every day in the year. They produce

a steady cash income.

accessible, even though you live 500 miles from a

They keep the skim-milk on the farm



to produce another crop of calves, hogs and-poultry.

. They are made so well that 20 to 30 years’ scrvxcc from

a De Laval is not unusual.





They save cream, time and





They have made the market





Over 2,500,000 are in use in





You need a De Laval more than ever.

There is a De Laval agent neu- you—sec him.





The De Laval Separator Company





SAN FRANCISCO

61 Beale Street





CHICAGO





Sooner or later you will use a





De Laval *





cream Separator or Milker





 





 





 





Cleans as Easily -

. na Bowl .





asaC





Sturgea Steel Chums save time

and labor and give the best

churning results. The all-metal

barrel, soldered smoothly, makes

them easy to clean and keep clean.

No corners to hold dirt—ho wood

to soak up milk. Never look





reasy.

“Beautifully finished in red and

blue, One lasts a lifetime. If





 





your dealer hasn’t them. write

{or circular No. 5 .

STURGES a: BURN

MFG. C9.





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Sturge

Steelfhurns





 





 





 





 





Big Four Stock Salt





This medicated salt is a wonderful tonic. conditions."

'_ " and worm noodle! foretock.

100 pound kegs - $7.00

40 .. polio . 1. 50

15 . 1.75





If your dealer docc not handle

it we will dellm a above prices.

. Send no money'you can NY on

delurcry. Soviet-«loo murmured.





Eastman Salt Products Co,





 





 





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Some Bargains in Good Reading





OFFER No. 309.





Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.00

People’s Popular Monthly, 1 year .35

Gentlewoman, one year ......... .25

Household Journal, one year ..... .35

Total value .................. $1.95

All for $1.55.

OFFER No. 310.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

Pictorial Review, one year ....... 3.00

Woman’s World, one year ....... .50

Total value ................... $4.50

All for $3.40.





OFFER No. 311.





 





Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.00



Woman’s Home Companion, 1 yr. 2.00



McCall’s Magazine,” one year ..... 1.50



Total value $450

All for $3.25.





 





OFFER No. 312.

Michigan Farmer. one year ...... $1.00

National Sportsman, one year... 1.00

Everybody’s Poultry Mag, 1 year .60





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Total value .................. $2.60

All for $2.05.

OFFER No. 313.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

Breeders’ Gazette, one year ..... 1.50





Total value ..... .......... $2.50

Both for $2.00. -





OFFER No. 314.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

lioard's Dairyman, one year ..... 1.00

Swine Breeders" Journal, one year .50





 





Total value . . . . . .__ ............. $2.50)

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OFFER No. 315-

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American Fruit Grower, one year 1.00

(.‘orn Belt Farmer, one year ...... .50





Gleanimxs in Bee Culture, 1 year 1.00

Total value ................... $3.50

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Today’s Housewife, ............. 1.00 .



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Swine World. one year ......... 1.00



American Sheep Breeder, 1 year 1.50

Total value .................. $3.50





. All for $2.50.

OFFElR No. 320.





Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

Potato Magazine, one year ...... 1.00

Tractor & Gas Engine Review

one year .................... 1.00

Total value ..... $3.00





All for $2.00.
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Make Them Yourself—Free Plans Tell How





Why bother with heavy wagon beds

that take two men to lift off and on?





With a set of A-P hardware, any

man handy with saw and hammer

can make these three beds— hay

rack, grain bed. stock rack—to fit

any wagon.





The beds are made in. sec-

tions. It’s easier andguicker

for one man to lift in place

a single section than for two

men to carry and change a

heavy, clumsy bed of the

ordinary kind.



On receipt of the coupon below.

we will send you Without obh a-

gation a free set of ‘blue print ’ plans. They

tell plainly how to cut material and how to

fit in place every piece of hardware.





Plans Free





Send for them today. Look them over. See

for yourself how easy it is to put these handy

beds together. Judge for yourself how strong

and durable they are. Don't go Without

these easy-to-handle wagon beds any longer,

when they can be had for the makins.





Mail the Coupon





Allith-Prouty c'o.

Dept. 4703 Danyllle, Illinois





 





The hay-rack below is a bed that you

use every working day of the year

for one job or another. 1 ,





 





 





 





 





 





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The hay-rack can be changed in a iii?!

by one man alone to a be for lien ing

grain. Just bolt the sides and end- ate

' on separately—only eight nuts to tig ten

- in all—lock the four end; to fasteners.

You then have a low, wr e. strong bed

for hauling all kinds 0



grain. as shown below.





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For hauling stock there are two additional

sides and an end that fit on the grain-bed

in sections. Just lock four end-gate clamps.

Your stock rack is ready for use. As shown

in the large picture above. '





Allitli-Prouty Co.

Dept. 4703 . Danville. Illinois

Please send me without obligation your tree





tellin how to make A-? combination wagon .

Also loll me the name of nearest dealer who handles





the hardware sets.





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GALL CUR

ON COWS

Sore teats mean less milk. Rub

Ointment into teat and wi e





away all excess with a do .

Tests healed and softened over

night. Excellentfor

1 . caked udder, wire

~ cuts. cracked hoof.

etc. Write to The

Bickmore 00.. Box

7‘. 153 Old Town. Me.





   

 





 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 





 





 





Cuts from

both sides of

limb and does

16., not bruise





' "1‘ /” the bark.

d ' all St les and Sizes

M'°"' ’Allshears

delivered (rec

to your door.





Send for circu

lar and prices,





GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.





RHODES MFG. CO.

615 8. Division Ave.





Pay $6 a figay





_~ taking orders for lnsyde an r

. armor ior automobile tires. Positively

-. ., prevent punctures and blowouts. Guar-



w anteed to give double tire mileage.

Work Spare Time or Full Time

Every auto owner buys on account or

low price. Enormous demand. Write

. ulck for territory and special terms to

' ounty Representatives.





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More Work From

Your Horses





Horses. like people work accord-

ing to the way they feel. 0n

warm spring days. horses swel-

tering under wmter coats don't

feel right and don't work right.

You can't dry them off roperly

resulting in colds, sti noss an



other horse ailments.





Clip Your Horses

This Spring.





It will put life into them and

keep them fit and ready. Pro-

gressive. farmers clip their

. horses in the spring with a

Stewart Ball Bearing Clipping Machine. Price

$14 at your dealer s. or shipped by us on

receipt of $2, balance on arrival. Guarant



to please or money back.





15% More Wool





This Stewart No. 9 Machine gets

15% more wool than the best hand

blade shearing. Shears quickly.

does not cut the sheep. and any-

one can use it.



Price complete. $22 f.o.b. Chi-

cago. our dealer has it, or you

can buy from us by. sending $2

With order and paying balance

on arrival.



. Catalog No. 69 shows complete

line of hand and power operated

machines. Write for it.





Chicago Flexible Shaft Company

Dept. AB 181 5600 Roosevelt Road, Chicago





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





’small quantities.





.ours run into the stalk pastures and





 





 





 





 





 





Will last. forever. You will never have to re-

build iti Neither will your grandchildren.



Built from the famous BRAZIL Vl'l‘RlFlED



, FIRE CLAY. The “B-V—T" has been on the

, market ten years without a failure.





A“ Send for Catalog

Brazil Hollow Brick and Tile Company





BRAZIL. INDIANA





 





 





HE WORKS 'BrYOU LOSE

SAVE-THE-HORSE will save you loss by

curing, while he works, Ringbone, Thoropiii,

SPAVlN—or Shoulder, Knee, Ankle. Hoof





 





 





your stock—best and cheapest means of





Identification for Hogs. Sheep and Cattle.

Name, address and number stamped on tags.

Catalog mailed free on request.





F5.Burcli‘&Co.145W.HuronSt.Chicago





 





or Tendon Disease—even the old. so-called

incurable cases. Over 300,000 satisfied users

and 27 years of success tcsuiy to its positive

dependability. Sold” only under our signed

MONEY-BACK Guarantee 'to cure—we take

the risk. Use it once and you ll always depend

upon SAVETHE—HORSE. Saves many timeameost





in the first emergency.

Write today for FREE sample of GUARANTEE and





 





 

 





Distemper. Indigestion.





 

 

 





W Three large cans, guarantee

,_ {or Hesves. 65c and 81.80 no

can. at dealers or by mail.





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ditioner. Worm Expe ller. -





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h i locale. understand and treat

2312333233.]: 3pc; idiom advice. .11 FREE.





Drunks everylmme sell SAVE-THE- .

ORSE. with Signed Guano or we

Iafoul it direct by Fund Panacea-d. .





 





 

 





 





 





 





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Preparing for





HE sheep is in many respects a.



wonderful farm animal when you '



consider the results and returns

that may be had from them with a.

minimum of expense and care through-

out the greater portion of the year. On

many farms they are left to provide

largely for themselves in the fields





.and round the stacks, ten months out





of the year. A little care and atten-

tion to feeding after the fall freezes

have killed most of the vegetation,

however, will be well repaid in the

thrifty condition of the sheep that can

be maintained up to lambing time.



Late winter is really harder on the

ewes than the early winter days, be-

cause they have by that time lost

some of the flesh and fat that was put

on them during the summer. Any farm”

breeding animal is the better for the

good flesh it carries, especially if it is

bearing young. If the ewes are put

into a good thrifty condition or kept

in that condition during the winter

they will be more likely to bear strong

lambs. On the other hand, if they

must shift for themselves most of the

winter, picking up dead stuff in the

meadows and existing on the straw

stack, the owner is likely to be disap-

pointed in the lambs that arrive with

all the flabbiness of a wet dishi'ag and

about as useless, for often they will

not last more than two or three days,

if that long. ’



A ewe is a cheap animal to keep.

Give her good clover bay of some kind

once or twice a day, a little oats and

00m, and she will bear as good lambs

as any flockmaster could expect. We

have fed silage in place of clover hay

and linseed meal with the grain in

These feeds will put

starch into the lambs which will ar-

rive perfectly formed and make the

owner feel he has gained something

worth while; Too much corn is fatten-

ing to a pregnant ewe, so it is better

to utilize more oats and clover hay and

only enough corn to improve her flesh

and'keep her appetite sharp for it. Our

ewes enjoy a daily feed of good corn

silage also.



It is not advisable to keep them in

close confinement even during cold

and snowy weather. We usually let





clover fields, where they roam about

and perhaps find a little something to





A new Class F champion record of

was recorded November 6, 1920, at the





gin of 3,416.9 pounds ,over the previous





 





butter-fat record was"791.48 pounds. '





to sow with the rye.





by Katherine’s Trixie, owned by Walter C. White, Ohio.

duction for the twelve months’ period was 18,945] pounds, giving her a. mar-





Strong Lambs i‘





eat while getting plenty of exercise.

The natural habitat. of the sheep is on

the range or open field or wooded

knoll, and I recall years when because

of lack oftbai‘n room we used to feed

our flock outdoors during most of the

winter, and our lambs were strong and

thrifty as those we raise today under

better shelter conditions. As lambing

time-approached we hurdled the ewes





in the barn, but this practice was not'





as convenient as feeding under cover.



Time is .an important element to the

present-day farmer, and everywhere

that we can practice economies it will

pay to do so. Strong lambs are the re-

sult of good care and feeding, and to

get them started on the rightroad re-

quires little time. If he is vigorous

after the first few days he needs prac-

tically no more attention other than

that of being watched. Weak lambs

require lots of close care for several

days if they are to survive. A few

weak lambs will just about keep one-

busy looking after them, and this.

means attention well into the night.

So proper feeding of the ewes 'will

prove to be an economy at lambing

time—J. L. J.





RYE AND VETCH HAY FOR

HORSES.





Is rye and vetch hay good for the

horses? Would it be safe for me to





buy vetch seed now and keep ituntii





next fall for seeding? It is very diffi-

cult to secure good seed in the fall.

Wayne Co. A. T.





Where rye and vetch hay is cut at

the proper time and properly cured

there is no objection to feeding it to-

horses or any other kind of live stock.

Probably the horses will like the vetch

better than they do the rye. Some-

times when the rye is not, cut at the

proper time it is not very palatable,

the stock will leave it and pick out the

vetch.



It will be perfectly proper to save

the vetch seed and keep it till next fall

It will not dete-

riorate in germinating power to any

degree in that length of time—C. C. L.





The nutritive value of winter-rough-

age for stock, depends in a large meas-

ure, upon its palatability. This is a





point that should be given more con-

sideration in making up the grpin-ra-

tion for the stock.





 





production for the Guernsey breed

conclusion of a twelve. months’ test,

Trixie's milk pro-





record, held by Langwater Hope; Her





 





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.. of Reg. Guemseys 2 reg. Jerseys. 2 grand





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1 copya- orconcelhtions must reach as

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THE HOME OF





Imp. £12,111 111 Dalmeny





' Probably





The World’s Greatest

BreedLng Bull





11,811 reme Champion at the Smith-

3:11: 133m 1913 and the Birmingham Show

1920. is adeughtei of Edgar of Dolmeny

The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Cham-

pion Female. Champion Cali Herd and First

Prize Junior Heifer Celt. Michigan State Fair

1920.1vere also the get of Edgar of Dulmeny

A very choice lot of young bulls—sired by

Edgar of Dalmeny are. at this time. offered

for sale.

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.





.WILDWOOD FAiuus





ORION, MICHIGAN

w. E. scum, Prop. Sidney Smltll, Supt.





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For Sale





Woo1lcote Trojan -Ericas





reoflering ten mm s bred to either





IMP. reELCHO 01" HARVIESTOUN. or

MP. EDGABDO 0F DALMENY





Write for our L921 BULL SALE LIST





woodwte Stock Farm. 11min. Mich.





 





 





MISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers. six

Rbulls from eight to fourteen months. Best of





th kind thatm Reason-

bfigffillighmgrow 3' ..J WILBlCR Clio, Mich





CLOVERLY ANGUS





Cows 11.1111 Heifers Bred to

Blackc-Ip Brandon ef Woodcote 2nd





181110

GEO. HATKAWAY 1t SON, 011d. Mich.





bulls and heifers from 6 to



Reg Aberdeen Angus 18 11168. old of the 1erybest



of breedi also Berkshire Swine, hours read1 fm



comics 1% pigs both sex singles. pairs or trim,

will accept“ Liberm Ben



USSELL BROTHERS,





Public Auction

March 18, 1921





dispersal sale of 16 head of cattle 7 head





Merrill, blich.





 





sons of Don Diavolo out of high test cows.

One Guernsey milking 50 lbs. All cattle

sold on 60 day retest for TB. One United

milker. one handsome bay pacing Mare

mark 17%3 heavy Pcrchcrons, reg. Poland

China Boar, reg. Hampshire sheep 41}

miles north east Eaton Rapids. 9 miles

west of Mason, 14 miles southwest of Lan-

sing. Hot lunch at noon.

JAS. A. LEWIS,





Rural 5, Eaton Rapids, Mich.





 





.

Registered Guernseys

A bull 0111!,noarl1' rc'1d_1 for light Sf’l'l’il‘l‘ at a price.

you will pay, don' t 111111 long on this follow

J. M. VV.ILLIAIVI No. Adams \Iioh.’





 





The Village Farm Guernscw- offm for 5:111: 1119

Pride of Sweet Orchard 1'11 r1118 N211. ('1? >017. l)r()[1p( d

'DGL.319191‘O&(LV to 1:11:11] yuui herd. his full sister 11011

1111 A. it. test 11 15 milked over 2111111111.». 901115. fat in .30

11am Sire LangwaxerWilt-.hesierutllbh‘). dmii (111191-

1101' 's Minnewnsxa ”d milking 41'1“”: dail1 (381.381.3i1'14

Lungwamr Advocabo (20314. dam Imp. G111' 11. Minus

waskaAZ‘Jfldl. First Chet k of $2.10 take8 him. K1- -x G rif-

flu. Hu'dsmun. OJ.\Vinte1',(l11ner. SH)911'.aing Mi1 l1.





111613111111

G u ERyfiE. X11513!” CAL":

HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM. 9'0"”





 





Saginaw. WS. Mich.





Guer' 'sey Bulls “f May Rose Breedin





’ll1r-ir dams be e.

4'30 to 650 lbs. fat also a fee cons and lieifleeicsozi‘rg

o.ifered H W. “1gmun. Lansing, Mich.





G U E R N S E Y VBiLi-Id‘léd CALVES whose





dam made

19. 416000 milk 309 01 fat. Their mother' s sire' is dam

nude 15 109.11) milkbv 778. 80 fat





.llICKS. Battle Creek. Mich





 





,IFIHBRAL Inspe< ted (.ruernst- -1 Bulls Priced to sell.

Nine sold in 10 mos. A fimj blusher Sequel 3 1121;.

old sure. sound and right, 8175. 00. Four Hudson‘s

of Ex-Ch'nmpion A.A.11111'.1111der 8 11101:; old rmn (011's

on test. 6. W. & H. G RAY. Albion. Mich





Six registered nGuernsey bulls May

For 53131105131111; ready for service. (‘heap

John Ebola, 112, Holland. Mich.





The Traverse Herd





”We have what you want in BULL CALVFS. the large.

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way,

They are from hizh producing A. B. 0. ancestors

Dan's 11.-cords up to 30 lbs. Vi'rite for pedigrees and

quotations. stating nbout age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich.





if taken soon.





 





 





If M accepted in pavment of finelv bred reg-

“A”??? “"132“ ”3.138% “m"

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31...... m . ' 'n ' . 1.1.... as“:

Medan heifer and bulle calves urebred

WM mm 1111:: high-grad ow 1:311:29” up

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FUTURE OF THE LIVE STOCK

AUCTION.





ISCONSIN Holstein sales man

' agers are organizing into 3 fed

the avowed purpose of

keeping auction sales of black-and-

white cattle in the badger state on a

high plane. This federation seems to

be desired by all of the managers, and

is a hopeful sign of the present trend

in live stock affairs. '



The shyster public sale must go.

Buyer and seller alike have the right

to demand a square deal, and the con-

venience of the sale is such that it

should be continued. The live stock

sale properly managed, and containing

meritorious animals, can be staged

more economically than it is ordinar-

ily possible to sell‘privately. It gives

the buyer a larger selection in a brief

space of time, and gives him the furth-

er advantage of fixing his own values.



In dairy cattle tuberculosis and con-

tagious abortion are the two great

menaces of the pure-bred industry.

Sales managers are more and more in-

sistent that consignments be subject

to a sixty-day retest under provisions

which 21180 safeguard the seller. They

are insisting on knowing the breeding

record of any female of breeding age,

and barring all cows and heifers which

cannot prove a satisfactory breeding

history. The same diseases also re—

quire careful attention in the sales of

beef cattle.



But disease is not the only thing

to be guarded against. By-bidding and

manipulation 01' values have put a

great many sales into disfavor. ' High-

speculative prices, particularly if they

31" not cash transactions, are bad for

any breed of live stock. Conservative

values for cash, high enough to insure

21 profit commensurate With the invest-

ment, skill, and risk required, should

be the rule. I



The recent tragedy at, Dixon, Illi-

11015, the finale on the $100,000 Rag

Apple Korndyke 8 sale is a good exam-

ple of inflated values. He has left one





suicide and a trail of financial failures‘





in his wake, all caused by 11. senseless

exploitation of pedigree; a pedigree

which came under a cloud shortly af-

ter the purchase had been consummat-

ed. I remember a well-known breeder

remarking to me, in the hey-dey of

this exploitation, that the farmer-

breeder who worked his head off and

built up a herd slowly and surely was

a fool. It is the speculator who is

the fool. .



If the public sale of live stock is to

continue it has to keep this tanner-

breeder ever in mind, because the ped-





igree speculator comes and goes, and‘





there is no stability under him. But

the farmer will buy for cash, and will

pay pretty nearly what the animal is





' actually worth.





PROPER TEMPERATURE FOR THE

COW STABLE.





Kindly tell me what is the proper

cow stables Where

milch cOws are kept. .



J. W. P.





Kent Co.

About forty degrees is considered

the best temperature to keep a stable,





taking everything into consideration.





if you have it much warmer than this





for any considerable length of time the





cows do not seem to be so vigorous





and haven’t as good an appetite. HOW-

ever, they won’t eat quite so much if

you keep the temperature up to sev-

enty degrees, neither will they appar-

ently act as well and have as much

vigor. Quite careful experiments have





. been made on this question of temper-





ature and they all tend to show that

in feeding for a considerable length ofm

time, around forty degrees is- the more

practical temperature—C. C. L.





 





When selling your- surplus stock,

dim’t forget that you will want some





THE meme” FARM'ER'





 





 





 





. times madebe





 





 





 





CORN GLUTEN FEED,

bran or mill feed, and





jobs will pay you better.





with the other one.





GLUTEN FEED.





 





supply 2/011,





New York





Do This --—





Give your dairy feed the PROFIT-OVER-

FEED test. Weigh your feed. Weigh your

milk. At the end Of~a month, subtract the 1

. cost of the month’s feed from the month’s

income from the milk.

Where you can refer to it in thirty days.





Then, ask your dealer for BUFFALO CORN

' GLUTEN FEED; the protein feed that makes milk.

Mix up yourself, at home, 2 parts of BUFFALO





You can mix up a ton in a half-hour—aml few





ally. Keep the daily feed and milk records for

another month, as 'before. _

cost of the month ’rs feed from the month’s.returns

from the milk. Check this margin-of-profit figure*





It probably won’t take a whole month to con-

Vince you that it pay$ to feed BUFFALO CORN





Write us for literature giving mixtures for feeding

BUFFALD CORN GLUTEN FEED. .

tell us who and where he 13.





Corn Products Refining Co.





Write to





National Starch Co., 606 Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Putthisfigure*downi I. .





 





with 1 part of Wheat

1 part of ground oats.





Feed-this mixture liber-





Then subtract the





   





If your dealer cannot

Write to





   





Chicago





   





 





 

 

   





Oscar O. Zehring,

R. 2, Germantown,

Ohio, writes:





”The purebred Holsteins Were ne1 er

so popular as at the prevent time The

demand for them is still increasing

as a result of the remarkable and pro.

fitable dairy performances. i never

saw a. better time to breed good Hol-

steins thui at present I have sold

23 000 of ofispring from one cow

bought 13 years ago. They surely

are a. gold mine and a. mortgage lifter.





Sendfer Free Booklets





The llolstein-Frleslm association of America

164 American Bldg, Branleboro, Vermont





 

 





 





For Sale $450.00





Ca sh or Terms

Askew bull from A B. O. Dam born December 15.





ourSh 3.11.1]

I‘e‘lbeD LKING SEGIS OLISTA

Whose grand (Pam. GLIST ERNES’] 'INE. has six

better thin thirty pounds of butter.

Buy now in order to 11' 1'19 192l- 22 11inter.1-.nl1'es

D RIVER STOCK FARMS



MN East. Ave..011re_1' 18119110612011 ner Jackson, Mich.



Under Staci and Federal Siwemsio'n





 





 

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





 





”81b.





' Bolstdnheu‘erz F .

8111mm... WW “Salim“





NOTICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. lst will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Holsteins to their new

home, 1.3 miles south of Rochester, Mich.

and for the next 30 days we will sell

what bull calves we have cheap as we

will be unable to get our buildings com-

plete before winter. So get busy if on

want a son of Flint Maplecrest 0y

at your own price.





JOHN H. WINN, (Inc.)





Roscommon, Michigan





FOR SALE Registered Holstein-Frieda



bull calf ready for semicon-

tra (hOiU‘ breeding and indi1'iduullty,King of ill-

Pontiacsbrm ding. chn ‘o'. Rohlfs ll. 1. Akron. Mich





“Top Notch” Holstein





‘milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of the world' s only cow to produce 8001bs. milk in?

days having an 800 lb daughter.



Our herd is rich in the blood of Culantha “he Je-

henna the only cow that ever he- ld all 11 orld s moods

11 e1ery di1ision from one day to one your at them

time She produced 551 '11) lbs milk in '7 dayH. We II"

offering for sale a bull, whose dam exceeds this mood

Hvd over 7% lbs. in '1 days



lsd am' 11 records are: ——



Milk





 





Buy a





1 Day 100.1 lbs.

Milk '1 Days 659. 3 lbs.

Butter 7 Days 26.31 lbs.

His name

KING VALE OORNUOOPIA WAYNE No. 315!)

ryFebruaryG 1920





His dam andB slre' s tuo nearest dams aver...

Butter ‘7 Days ml





m '

Hendeomely marked about one third bWhlte. ‘

3250.111 111,: well -- .. ‘





o. b. .

WW PM 00... m
'Cluny St0ck Faun





Federal Attradiled Herd





. Semi-093ml Yearlingrull .

Cluny Konlgen Pontiac Nlobe





stars so lb. son cltxhe $35,000.90 sire .

_ King Segis Pontiac Konlgen





DAM I 16.9 lb. Jr. 2 yr. old made 12.4255 lbs. milk

550.38 lbs. butter in 305 days.



DAM'S DAM a 29.67 1h. cow now finishing year record

with about 2;,000 lbs. milk and 1.000 lbs. butter. She full

sister to 1,000 lb. cow with 24.688 lbs. milk.



Seven nearest dams at this bull average 29,4821“ butter.

597.3 lbs. milk.



Exceptions] fipe. "Beautifully marked.



Guaranteed to please.



Price $350.00. Pedigrees and photo on application.





R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.

' FOR SALE





Reg. Holstein cows and heifers. Two very line cows

five yr. of age. One is fresh the other one Will soon

be fresh bred to a 33 lb. bull priwsaweach. Also

three well bred heifers 2% yr. of ago two are fresh

other one will soon be fresh grico 8300 each from fed-

eral accredited herd. WM 0. CHOQI“, R.2 Washing.

ton. Mich. Telephone 41F13, Washington Exchange.





~ f dd ms of 8 mo. old

33.6% ms-img‘gbéliméagd hgavoathim for present

I rt 01‘ no .



“8” 8°” °° M. L. lich‘lnuuls, Redford. Mich-





 





‘ or Gdernse calves. practically pure.

HOISteln 7 weeksold.$y%.(l(l each.crated for ship-

Satisfaction guaranteed. Bonds

gewood Farms. Whitewater, Wis.





i f dD' tu berblood.



Herefords 501' Saleh £33 ll'gggx.a1?ea%min Ellen-1%; $35

ctlon on 1 sires. 0 nice ema ea or as e. ’rite

fig‘your needs. Earl C. McCarty, Bad Axe. Mich





HEREFORDS





Cows 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, Michigan





advertised last week sold



Hereford Bull] 3.1.... Aofiefifigrdi .16.,

' .f,8 ot‘o. reae-eaer,

“mm bun “1 rflJllTXYLon. Fremont, Mich,





ment anywhere.

Accepted. Ed





 





 





 





The Wildwood Farm





attic M est strain, Herd on State accred-

forceful.) R.o Mflostlng constantl done. Bulls for





e. ALVIN BALDEN, Phone 14 , ecpoc. Mich.





F riesian cattle on





Skylark Ormsby, and





. with the herd.





Old State Block, ,





 





Dispersion sale ‘

65 Choice Reg. Holsteins, 65





,. 0n flc‘cozmt MDim/w'ng Partnersfiip

BEESON and HOLDEN





Three Oaks, Michigan





will disperse their entire herd of 65 choice Holstein- .





”Monday, March .2 1 , 192 1





at their farm at Three Oaks, Michi an, 75 miles

east of Chicago on the main line of t

Central Railroad. This is a





Fully Accredited Herd





under federal and state supervision and”was establish—

ed on a foundation of good type animals represent-

ing some of the best blood lines of the breed. The

sires at the head of the herd are



Sir Ormsby Banostine Beets, No. 246320

a three-year-old son of Sir Ormsby Banostine Cham-

pion, the son of the world’s record cow Duchess





King Ormsby Inka Korndyke, No. 310701

a 28—1b. yearling grandson of Ruby Karen Mercedes.

.These are both of excellent type and will be sold





Sale Managed By





Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association





 





6 Michigan





Lansing, Michigan.





 





 





BUTTER BRED ”$83513”?ng

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Michigan.





JERSEY BULLS E‘Z’Pglé‘i’i'r‘iiiifi





d—M ‘esty breedin . Meadowland Farm, Water-

film «it atorman. Pagckard ltd., Ann Arbor. Mich.





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys 3312,32',V38."°m

COLON O. LILLIE.





Allogan County.





 





o s.

Coopersville. Mich.





Jersey Bulls engage: 11- dams :7. to

Grass Lake, Mich.





NOTTEN FARM.

b ll for sale: From Marguerite's Premier

Jersey on rilndson of P0 s 99th and B. of M. dams





MI’lHllcPAB Eli. n.4, Howell, Michi





 





I to ested Owl No. 11131] heads my herd

. gfilgglveg frloln this at sire and out of Rat M,

dams for sa 6. Leon we, R. 6. Allegan, Mlch_





" SHORTHORN DURHAM CATTLE





Auction Sale

Mar. 18 at 1 o’clock P. M.





Dual purpose Shorthom Beef and Butterbred





27HEAD





Registered Unregistered but

12 h (1 highly bred.

ea 15 head

S cows 4 cows

. 3 heifers

4 heifers 3 bull calves

3 bulls 5 fat steers.





Herd Tuberculin Tested. Also a few Big

Type Poland Chinas gilt out of Hazel

No.631334 an exceptionally fine specimen

of the breed at the Frank I. Stephens farm

4 miles north 1 mile west of Berlin or 3

miles south 1 mile east of Conklin.





Frank I. Stephens, Prop.

R. 2, Conklin, Mich.





BIDWELL SHORTHORNS





BUY A BULL





that will put weight on your dai% calves -the dih-

rence will soon gay for the bull. ow selling 00d

and Sootc -toppcd yearlings,reasonabl rfced.



We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. edeml

Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. 0. B. B.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





Bloomdale Shorthorns





our cattle t our rlces d b edi .

18:: Both bullsggnd reliance iii; sail: “3 “h” m





CARR BROS. & 00.,





 





Bad Axe. Mich





f - - Shorthorns. 3 ll d h if .

. RGgIStel‘Od rlceswthln relllsclll 0g“. 0 ers

o. 3. Des ER. 8. 4, Tecumseh. Mich





 





 





 

 





. mnfiwgfirgsgirbglis alright-s 5 mo to]





Brookwaier Farm,

H. W. Mumford, Owner,





JERSEY BULLS





Sired by Majesty’s Intense 1271 9|. who is a double grandson of the

famous Royal Majesty and who is out of the cow Majesty’s Iris 265701 the

second highest cow to be tested in the state of Michigan.



All of these bull are out of Register of Merit dams.



Brookwater herd is on the Federal Accredited List as TUBERCULIN

FREE. There never has been a suspicious case of tuberculosis on the farm.

PRICES are the lowest that they have been for this class of stock and

lower than they will beagain in the next few years.



Description and pedigrees furnished upon request.





Ann Arbor, Michigan





J. B. Andrews, Manager





 





‘* O.I.C. BOARS





Choice individuals; ship ed to you c. o. d. express said and guaranteed

right or your money re unded. All stock registere





J. CARL J EWETT,





in buyer’s name.





Mason, Mich.





 





 





 





Buster".





CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





 





O. I. C. [-1065





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

Schoolmaster1919 world’s grand chatn ion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Write your wants, all stock 5





ipped on approval. _

Cass City, Mich.





 





 





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....'





Milkin‘ ,

. ted

Ind Hall. Egan $313333? Tecumseh, Mich.





’ Im._Ro IE 9 servioeb‘red 'J.

sms Dugno [1321; flyensierlegnbmd by W. male.

. J. A. ABNUM, Union Cit-y. Mich.





“OZ- ".d Pflllfll cattle choice young bulls tromfi to 18

l f l . .

mm: summit“ ° it. 1”“ °orcnd Ledge. Mich.





Reg. Red Polied bull calves. trons: mos. to 1 year

, o d, sired by Famous Charmer 7 same blood as

harmsr 1919 International GrandChamp . Our-herd

tote and Federal tested. Westbrook Bros. oniaMlch





‘ HOGS





' Berkshires to sale. f y herd boar

RegIStered 2 sows. pigs 0 eitheagex' far-rowed

Oct. 2. Satisfaction aranteed. A so . .- Ancona

9888 for hatching. J o n Young, Breckenridge. 10h.





egistered Berkshires, Gilts, and Sows bred for A ril

May and June far-row. A yearling Boar and a ew

younsersprlns pigs. Chase Stock Farm.Marlette.lich.





DUROC JERSEY SWINE





for sale 2 yr. old herd boa earlln be and boat

p s, also bred sows and iitslls' ‘Vrlte. tgr pgd'lgrees and

ome and see t em





I) ces- C .

THOS. UNDERHILI. & SON. Salem. Mich





ounoc JERSEYS ,





Bred gilts, service boars and fall boar pigs at Bargain

rioes. Your correspondence or personal inspection

s cordially invited.



RUSH BROS.





idson





 





 





Oakwood Farm, Romeo. Mich.





 





Michigana Durocs fifflfiflfiEdfigg

treaty. Also bred sow sale February let. Batis action.





 





guaranteed. 0. E. FOSTER. Mgr.. Pavilion. Mich.

sows and elite bred to Visits Kin 29499

Duroc who has sired more )st and 2nd rizg pigs





at the State Fair in last 2 years than any or or Duroo

boar. Everyone will be a money maker for the





b er. Cat. and rice

N WTON BARNHXRT. so. Johns. Mich.





 





I

n cJersey boars from 8 mo. to 1 yr. old. Select

uro oung sows mated to maintain size and correct

ricee reasonable. ship on up roval and

W. E. BART EY, A ma. hiich.





Duroc bred sows and gilts for March and April far.

row, at prices CO“ can aflord to pay. Write

W. . TAYLOR, ' .Milan, Mich.





type -

guaranteed right.





 





boar i s 10 wks old 820.00 .

Reg' Duroc and dbl? Don’t wait, fine stdcefi.

J. R. HICKS, St.Johns, mioh.





 





S n l e Welt’

0112:, gagereuli:g

Detroit. Jackson.Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1319





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





 





' at once I have not hot ant

wrlte Me heavy bone registered Daggers

soy boars resdfitor service.



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





DUROG JERSEYS





Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings, Mich.





 





 





40 H ad Duroc Jerse Bred Sow Sale



0 I March 6th. nto's in wgtln at

Park Hotel, Monroe. also at National Hotel, nndee.

be our guest sale day. F. J. Drodt. Monroe, Mich.





 





Blookwater Dumc Jerseys





BOARS—Ready for Service

Bred Sows and Gilts





Write us for; Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guarenmd.

BROOKWATER FARM. Ann Arbor, Mich.

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





DUROC sow s sewn???





Orion King No. 1% Son of the 810 000 boar own

by Lon view Farm. Le Sumtt. Mo. also oung boars





ready or service out of cod sows. p ly



THE JENNINcsgrABM. Bailey. Mlch.

DUROC JERSEYS ffwruglltc bred for

ones._ E. n. HEYDENBERi. films Michi.

I. 0‘s. One last fall. boar wgt. 425, two last fall

0





 





O-gllts. bred lots of sprln igs and this! lpigs



th r sex. good growth stoci g mile west of .



bin. s.Phon3124. Otto . Schulze. Nashville. Midi.

9



o. I. C 8 Fad] pigs by C 0. Big Callaway havesize





an qualit and are rlcedrl t.

c: J. THOMPSON, p Rockfgi'ld. Mich.





O. I. C. Bred Gilts for Mar. and Apr tarmw





also a few choice so ice b0 rs. .

atom LEAF swoon FARM”? Maximo. Mich





0. lo Ce Gilts

H.W.M





 





 





bred for A ril and M

f ‘. (10.0.13?

All-SSW Bulimia, Mlch_





 





St 'L kl'L' t"

op. 00 . is en.

Have you a catalog of the Shorthorn

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





. M. We are listing four valuable

females and two show bulls.





Richland Farms,

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





The Maple’s Shorthoms





Kirklevington Lad, b Imp. Hartford

Welfare, in service. took 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.

GEO. E. BURDICK. Mgr" Coldweter, Mich.





 





 

 





 

 

 





meow mil shorts n h i .

gr Kl full brother? ”2:16:0ng yBfl

due . . s at to. '

“Q





 





l





 





 

   





VALLEY VIEW FARMS





Choice young Shorthom cows and heifers for sale at

all times. bred or open or a carload. also a foWyoung

bulls stronfi ln Sultan lood. Wr te



S. . PANGBORN a SON. Bad Axe, Mich.





' ' Shorthorn Breeders Associa-

Cenml Michigan tion offer for sale 75 head;Both

milk and beef breedinLgt all ages. New list read Jan.

15. M. E. MIL ‘R, Sec.. Greenville. ioh.





Registered tisszatrllzrrnmmm

TEE JENNINGS name,





.30 Mich.





9 choice its bred for A ril and Ma

00 I. C S tarrowFiFall pigs elthspr sex. Book’-





rd r rl l .

m” e" XFJ‘lpsi'fiRfihason. Belmont. Mich.

- t ll 1 rl

3V5.) 931° 0‘.£§§‘2fi.%"ii°ii “3‘" c g

e e 8 8. mr W 11116 .

wumiii‘finos.. yPhone 408, Royalrdck. Mich.





 





Raise Chester Whites .





9’ Like This

9‘3, the original big mascots





9/





 





 





FOR SALE: A few choice registered





 





IHAVEshrtedtbousandlsofhgeedcrEon

Us I lgnwggpmhnlmat: an

fiflwfl. W

.I‘MMI KLIJQNW

Pushercsm 5' “

he. and. «am





scour cl.





 

 





 





 

 





 





BROWN swrss





”filings and calves. “ ‘..





 





her-thorns. Bull eggss-moach. ’





 





 

 





 

 

 





 

 





"_....,-¢’
ENDORSE GRAIN MARKET!“

PLAN.





 





HE American Farm Bureau Feder-

ation is the first of the great farm

o1ganizations to endorse the grain-

marketing plan put out by the Com-





mittee of Seventeen at Kansas City.»





Its executive committee voted unani-





mously in approval of the plan and di-I

rected a message of congratulation be'





forwarded to the Committee of Seven-

teen. The agricultural editors of A1ner-_

ica have been invited by C. H. Gustaf-

son, Chairman of the Committee of

Seventeen, to meet in the Congress

Hotel, Chicago, on Wednesday, March

2, to discuss the plan.





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Veterinary.





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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscfib-

crs. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms 0!

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

only are published. Vl hen a reply by mail is requested the

citrice becomes private practice and 151 must be cncloscd.’





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White SCOlll'S — Some of my calves

seem to be troubled 1m ith what is call-

ed white scours, which make us much

work cleaning up after them. What is

the cause of this ailment? W. B., Mar-

lette, Mich. ——W'hite scours is caused

by specific pathogenic germs. The in-

fection is a. rule is taken up by the

mouth. In some cases, however, the

germs may enter the body thlough the

navel. The germs, which are persist-

ent and difficult to eradicate from in-

fection as a rule is taken up by the

your calves having scours. White scour

serum not only prevents but is cura-

tive in its ac;1ion therefore you had

better ask your veterinary to treat

your calves. You will never get rid

of the inrection 11 you do not clean and

thoroughly disinl'ect your cow stable,

calf pen and _1"a1d where the diseased

stock have been kept -



Worms—Lameness.——I would like to

know the best remedy for destroying

worms in horses. I also have a mare

weighing 1,300 pounds that shows a

slight lameness after doing heavy haul-

ing, and I might add, she has been

lame for ten months. Local veterinary

tells me to save her from doing heavy

pulling. J. R. P., Howell, Mich—Give

each horse two drams of santonin and

one dram of calomel in bran mash

three times a week for two weeks. If

you prefer a less expensive remedy,

give one dram of powdered sulphate of

iron, one dram of sulphur and ahalf-

ounce of ground gentian in soft feed

daily. From your history of the case

I am unable to correctly locate the

lameness. Consult local veterinary.





Sore Tails—Necrobacillosis.—I have

some pigs two and a half months old

that were weaned at six weeks. Have

been fed mixed corn and rye, equal

parts. [Have also fed them small pota~

toes, but they were well cooked. About

ten days ago one pig died. I examined

it and found the tail entirely gone. It

seems to be a disease of some kind.

as it had eaten up into the pig’s body.

Every one of the pigs have diseased

tails. I cut the tail off one, but pig

died. What ails them? C. P., Water-

1'liet, Mich—The only disease that

they could have which might cause

the destruction of their tail is Necro-

bacillosis and this is not the trend of

the ailment, it usually affects the skin,

mucus membrane, mouth, head and in-

ternal organs. Are you sure that their

tails have not been frozen? I am in-

clined to think so. Give them good

care, keep them clean, dry and warm.

Apply tincture of iodine to tail daily.



Paralysis—I have a pig three and a

half months’ old that has seeminglyW

lost the use of its hind legs. It has

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pig too much corn and not enough

oats, tankage, and green food, such as

roots, etc. Apply equal parts of tur-

pentine and la1d to back three times

ea week. In many such cases it is prof-

itable to slaughter the animal, as the

meat will doubtless be fit for food.





Lice on Cattle. —I am told' that lice

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Mich. ~—,'No giving sulphur to cattle

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70 head of Poland (‘hinns :11 pr'i1'1111' sale. A111 lith'ring

spring boars from 841111» 5’4."le 21nd uilts 1111 sumo price

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Brod gilts for sale. Also a few choir-1'. lull pins by Tim

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PINE GROVE HAMPSHIRES

We are offering a few tried Sows bred for March

and April iarr1111.'.1‘hesc 50115 are all close-l1 re-

lated to our winning Show herd and of popular

blood lines, and the price! W'ay 1..)ow11 !

Geo. Coupar & Sons. Mariette. Mich.





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A. TYLER, 2 Woodland Ave. Detroit. Mich.
Tuesday, March 1.



' Wheat.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.82; May

$1.75; No. 2 white and No. 2 mixed

$1.80. > .



Chicago—No. 2 red $136521; N0. 2

hard $1.71; March $10693.



Carn.



Detroit.—~Cash No. 3 yellow 710; N0.

4 yellow 68c.



Chicagoszo. 2 yellow 680; N0. 3

mixed 631/4 @63%c. ‘~



Oats. ‘



Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 4714; No.

3 white 45%c; No. 4 white 42%0.



Chicago.~-~No. 2 white tummy/2c;

N0. 3 white 43@44c.



Beans.



Detroit.-lmmediate and prompt are

lower at $3.75 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. Choxce

pea $4.85@4.90; do medium at. $5.50@

5.75; red kidney $9.25 per cwt.



Rye.



Detroit.—-—r(‘ra.sh No. 2 rye $1.55.



Seeds.



Detroit.—«Prime red clover $11; al-

sike $15; timothy $3 per 'bushel.



'l‘oledo.~l’rime red clover, cash and

March $11.45; alsike $15; timothy at;

$2.70 per bushel.



Hay.



No. 1 timothy $20 («021; standard and

light mixed $190020; No. 2 timothy

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

clover $1750.18; rye straw $13@14;

wheat and oat straw $126913 per ton

in carlots at Detroit.





WHEAT





Green bug damage, high winds and

dust; storms have been. reported from

the southwest during the past Week,

although thus far damage to the crop

is not, large. Freezing and thawing

Weather has also been a. factor and

Hessian lly is also reported in a nunr

ber of sections in the winter wheat

belt. Foreign demand for wheat has

been somewhat. spasmodic during the

past week, but in the last few days





Italy, Germany, Switzerland and

Greece have all been in the market for

rather liberal quantities. Country

holders are refusing to sell on de-





clines, as the belief that the market is

in a strong position, barring a panic

is widespread. Not only is Argentine

wheat 01' poor quality, but recent rains

impaired Australia’s crop and in both

countries late estimates of surpluses

have been revised downward. India

continues to report rain as badly need-

ed in important producing sections,

and the crop this season promises to

be less than domestic requirements ev-

en after allowing for a. liberal carry-





' CORN





Apparently the winter movement of

corn to terminal markets is rapidly

drawing to a close and it is expected

that receipts after the next two weeks

will be comparatively light. Export

demand continues brisk. Germany

may import 18,000,000 bushels or more

in order to reduce the demand for

wheat. In addition 500,000 bushels of

natural corn will go to Poland and

1,000,000 bushels to France. The sup-

ply available in the Argentine is com-

paratively small, and rains are delay-

ing the maturity of the new cr0p so

that it is not expected to come upon

the market until later in the season





than usual.

- OATS





The cats market continues to shad-

ow corn, and price changes are hold-

ing within narrow limits. Planting of

corn has begun in Texas, while seed-

ing of cats is. progressing rapidly





northward.

BARLEY





Barley prices have been very firm“





throughout the past week. Rye con-

tinues to follow closely upon the heels

of the wheat market and appears to

be in an even stronger statistical p0v

sition than the main bread cereal.





BEANS





Bean markets still appear to be dom-

inated by the strained conditions in

the Michigan trade. Buying is restrict-





ed as a result of the break as purchas-





   





\

ers are uncertain as to the future trend

of the market. Consumptive demand

at retail has been helped by unemploy-

ment. Prices f. o. b. Michigan sta-

tions are about $3.80 to $3.85 for the

choice hand-picked stock, with $3 to

$3.25 being paid to growers for beans





in the dirt.

SEEDS





Clover seed reached the lowest lev-

el of the season toward the close of

the past week. The normal increase

in demand at this season has been

more than offset by increased selling

by growers in this country and by lib-

eral imports. About 1,200,000 lbs. en-

tered this country from France and

Italy during the first two weeks of

February and growers abroad appear

inclined to press sales in order to dis-

pose of their surplus. Export demand

for timothy seed is only fair and this

market also reacted slightly in sympa-

thy with clover.





FEEDS





Mill feeds advanced 8261‘3 per cwt.

wholesale during the past week. Hom-

iny feed and tankage also recovered

some of their recent losses, but linseed

oil meal is quoted $2 lower at Minne-

apolis than a week ago. Demand in-

creased when the low levels of two

weeks ago were reached, bringing

about the advance since that time.





Supplies are sufficient to prevent pric-

es going much higher unless the mar-

ket for feed grains should rise materi-

ally above the presentbasis.





“ HAY





Many of the hay markets made a

show of firmness during the past week,

due partly to light receipts and partly

to a slight increase in demand at cur-

dent price levels. Prices are down

close to,the fighting level, although

still further declines are not improb-

able and the foundation for a substan~

tial advance is not in evidence.





CHEESE





Cheese markets were firm through-

out the past week. Country markets

advanced radically early in the week

on practically all styles. Export in-

quiry continues at New York for un-

dergrade cheese, but actual buying is

limited on account of the discount in

exchange. Receipts were comparative-

ly light during the past week, although

they are considerably heavier than a





year ago.

’ BUTTER





The butter markets continued to ad-

vance throughout the past week. Fresh

butter is comparatively scarce and

buyers have been obliged to make use

of storage holdings of: the.better grades

which are none mo abundant. Storage





 





 





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Markets for March 2.





BUFFALO

Hog prices are generally steady,

heavy hogs bringing $10.50@11; mixed

hogs $11.50@11.75; others $11.75ftt712.

Lambs are steady at $11.50, and best

calves $16.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Market steady.

Best heavy steers ........ $8.75@ 9.25

Mixed steers and heifers 7.50th 8.00

Best handy wt bu steers 7.0060 8.00

Handy light butchers .. 6.5061) 7.50





Light butchers ......... 6.0060, 5.75

Best cows ............... 5.7501? 6.50

Butcher cows ........... 4.00@ 5.00

Common cows .......... 3.25.417 4.00

Canners ................ 2.5061) 3.00

Choice bulls ............ 5.50.40 6.00

Bologna bulls ........... 4.50@ 5.00

Stock bulls ....... . ..... 4.50@ 5.00

Feeders ................. 6.50@ 7.00

Stockers ................ 6.00@ 6.50

Milkers and springers... .$ 40@ 90





Veal Calves.

Market steady.





Best ............... . . . . .$14.00@14.50

Others ................. . 5.0061050

Hogs.



Hogs 15@25c higher.

Mixed hogs .......... . . .$10.25@10.75

Pigs .................... 11.25

Heavy 9.75@10.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Market very dull.

Best lambs ......... . . . .$ 9.50@,10.00

8.50@ 8.75





Fair lambs ..... . . . . . . . .

Light to common .. . . . . . 5.00613, 7.25

Fair to good sheep. . . . . . . 5.00@ 5.50

Culls and common ...... 1.50@ 3.00

CHICAGO

Hogs.





Estimated receipts today are 19,000;

holdover 9,361. Market active and 10

@25c higher; butchers up most. Bulk





of sales $9.90@10.85; tops $11; heavy

250 lbs up medium, good and choice

$9.90@10.30; medium 200 to 250 lbs

medium, good and choice at $101061]

10.80; light 150 to 200 lbs common,

medium, good and choice $10.60@11;

light, lights 130 to 150 lbs common,

medium, good and choice $10.70@11;

heavy packing sows 250 lbs up smooth

$8.75fig29.75; packing sows 200 lbs up

rough $8.50@8.75; pigs 130 lbs down

medium, good and choice $9.75@10.85.

Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 8,000.

Market. dull and about steady. Beef

steers medium and heavy weight 1100

lbs up choice and prime $10.25@10.90;

do medium and good at $8.75@10.25;

do common $8@8.75; light weight 1100

lbs down good and choice $9.65@10.75;

do common and medium $7.75@9.65;

butcher cattle, heifers, common, medi-

um, good and choice $6@10; cows com-

men, medium, good and choice at $561)

8.25; bulls bologna and beef $5@7.25;

canners and cutters cows and heifers‘

$2.75@5; do canner steers $4.25@6;

veal calves light and handyweight me-

dium, good and choice at $10@13.25;

feeder steers common, medium, good

and choice $7.25@9.25; stocker steers

common, pedium, good and choice at

$6@8.25; stocker cows and heifers,

common, medium, good and choice at

$4.50@6.25.



Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 22,000.

Market very slow and 25@50c lower.

Lambs 84 lbs down medium, good,

choice and prime $9@10.90; do 85 lbs

up medium, good, choice and prime at

$8.25@10.50; do culls and common at

at $6.75@8.25; spring lambs medium,

good, choice and prime $7@9.50; ewes

medium, good and choice at $5.25@7;

ewes cull and common at $2.25@4.25;

yearling wethers, medium, good and

choice $7.50@9.





 





 





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2.-——Deflation.





O deflate means to let the wind out.





Prices became “inflated”





in this country during the war largely as a result of an increase





in the volume of money in circulation.





Our balance of exports





over imports resulted in a tremendous influx of gold. Bank depos-

its, which are the basis for credits, increased even by 1918 to a.

point nearly double the volume in the period just before the war.



Broadly speaking, if the volume of money in circulation doubles

prices of commodities will double. Something like this took place





in the United States during the war.





European countries also in-





creased their volume of money, although their gold supply was not





increased. They issued large quantities ofpaper money.





In Eng-





land, the volume of money has been more than doubled. In France,

Italy, Norway and Sweden it has been trebled, while in Central

Europe and Russia the volume. has been increased even more rap-





idly.





In all of these cases money was not kept on a gold basis.





They must do much more deflating than is needed in this country





in order to return to normal.





   





 





holdings are still larger than a year

ago. _ Prices upon 92 score fresh but-

ter as quoted by the bureau of mar-

kets on February 26 were:. Chicago

510; Philadelphia 53c; New York

52%0; Boston 52c; Detroit ”@500.





EGGS AND POULTRY





Egg markets receded again during

the past week as a result of substan-

tial increases in arrivals at. central

markets, prices returning practically

to the low point of early February.

Weather is favorable for production

and the usual spring increase in sup-

ply is showing up ahead of the normal

season. Latest quotations as follows:

Detroit.——Eggs, fresh candled 35 360

dozen. Live poultry, spring chic ens

30@31c; leghorns 260; heavy hens at

320; light hens 30c; roosters at 20c;

geese 2760280; ducks 35c; turkeys 40





((ij42c. .

POTATOES





The potato markets have gradually

strengthened during the past week,

due to lighter receipts and the devel~

opment of greater confidence that the

remainder of the large cr0p produced

last year would be absorbed. The fear

that the market would go to pieces





during March and April has been very -





largely dissipated. The government

report of two weeks ago showing that

holdings were only slightly heavier

than a year ago in spite of the big

crop, and considerably lighter than

two years ago, is now being appreci-

ated at its true worth. While the mar-

ket may not advance much higher it is

now felt that the worst is over. Prices

for Northern Round White stock U. S.

Grade No. 1 in consuming centers in

carlots on track are as follows: Chi-

cago $1.25@1.35 per cwt; Cleveland

$2.30 per 150-lb. sack; New York $2.15

@240 per 100-11). sack; Pittsburgh at

$1.80@2 per 150-lb. sack; Philadelphia.

$1@1.20 per 100 lbs; Detroit $1.85@2

per 150-lb. sack.





APPLES





Apple markets have developed a bet-

ter tone during the past week, due to

the fact that supplies in distributors'

hands have been gradually disappear-

ing. .





DETROIT CITY MARKET





There is very little produce offered

by farmers these days. Apple prices

range from 75c@$3 per bu; cabbage

50@75c; carrots 50@75c; onions 60617,

700; parsnips 5060900; potatoes 70@

750; turnips 70e@$1.25; eggs 44@50c;

poultry 35@400 per lb; hogs 14@15c;

veal 17@180.





FARM BUREAU MARKET REPORT.





 





Markets during the past week have

held fairly well under pressure, due to

lack of export dbmand and limited lo-

‘cal demand for coarse grains. Consid-

erable export business recently report-

ed but no market advance. Coarse

grains seem due for substantial ad-

vance if export buying continues. Hay

is dull and draggy, and lower prices

must prevail. Timothy seed scored a.

decline of 25c during the past week

and now quoted at $2.75 at Toledo.

Market for alsike holds firm at $15.

There is alight demand for all grades

of alsike except prime. June clover

has fluctuated somewhat and is a. lit-

tle stronger; $11 is listed as the high

price for past Week. Demand is brisk





but farmers are still holding for high--





er prices.





HORSE MARKETS ARE ACTIVE.





 





DRSE markets displayed a. further



increase in activity this past Week

although values are not higher than a

week ago. Demand still centers upon

the 1000-1400-pound chunks. Slight im-

provement was also noticeable for

heavy horses for city trade, ascribed

to slight improvement in eastern in-

dustrial conditions. The receipts are

ample.





COMING LIVE" STOCK SALES.





 





Guernseys.—March 18, :Jas. A. Lewis,

Eaton Rapids, Mich.



Rambouillet Sheep.—March 18, F. 0.

,Behymer, Saline, Mich.



Holoteins.——March 21, Beeson & Hol-

den, Three Oaks, Mich.



Holsteirw—March 22, Joseph L. m





181'. South Lyon " ch.-
.   minimum





An honest blanket from honest wool

for honest people-Direct to the user—by

parcel post. Money refunded if not sat-

isfied 100%. .





The AURORA Double Blanket





100% Virgin Wool.



In plaids of blue and white, tan and

white, grey and white with a neat

lockstitch binder.



Size: 72x84; Weight 5 1-2 lbs. Price:

$9.50 per pair.





The GEORGE WASHINGTON

Double Blanket

80% Virgin WOOL—20% Cotton Warp.

Light grey with rich bi own,blue or pink

border bound with white soisette rib-

bon. ‘

SiZe: 72 x 84.





The ILLINOIS Single Blanket

75 ‘70 Virgin Wool—*ZS‘FQ) Cotton Wrap.

Beautiful small checks «soft and downy



—-suitable for bed cover or auto robe.

Size; 66x84. Price $6.50.





The MICHIGAN STATE FARM

BU. EAU AUTO ROBE '

Solid color——dark neatly bound—Virgin

wool. . Will last a lifetime.

Size: 62x72. Weight 4 1-2 lbs. Price

$5.50.





 





Price: $9.50 per pair.





Address

Michigan State Farm Bureau





Woo'. Department





Lansing, Mich.





 





FARMS AND FARM LANDS





Farm Lands For Sale





Choice Heavy Clay Loam Soil underlaid with

limestone in Michigan's wonderful Clover Seed

Belt—~Price $10.00 to $30.00 per acre on time—

near Onaway. Presque Isle County. These are

Beech and Maple Lands from which the timber

has been removed.



Lct Clover and Alfalfa Seed Crops pay for your

land —it is doing it for others HER E--Why not

for you? (Entire forties often paid for out of I.

single crop of seedwtho product of one bushel of

seed )



A small cash peyiiient exacted. (and if desired

only the interest the first and second years.) The

amount of paymcnts the third year and thereafter

———until land is paid for —is measured entirely

by returns from seed yields harvested yearly at

the rate of '





 





:i acres for ever y forty purchased.

Do you catch the point?



What you receive for your Seed Crops year

ly—be it big or little—establishes the amount

of your yearly obligation on interest and

payment from third year on.



While building the farm home you are not con-

fronted with a fixed yearly cash payment that.

if not paid promptly. often endangers the loss

of your property. and in many cases discourages

would-be settlers.



Your responsibility is limited to seeding stipu-

latated acreage yearly—harvesting and market-

ing the seed crop and applying proceeds upon

payment of land yearly until land is paid for.



Paying for a farm in Clover Seed Belt where

Seed Crops avcragc $100.00 per acre, entails no

hardship for the dairyinan or stockman—as the

hay and chaff crops more than pay the expense.

leaving the seed Crops as the mortgage lifter.





THAD. B. PRESTON





ONAWAY, M ICH.





 





Strout’s Spring Catalog





Farms! Just Out.





More than 1.000.000 people will read this new 100- age

illustrated catalog. packed with money-making arm

bargains of El) states. You’ll want to read on page 15

details of 227 acres. 6-rooin house. barns with horse. 10

cows. implements. crops, $3.000. only $1.000 down. See

#0 acres. page 73. house. barn. including horses. cows,

pigs. chickens. tools. $1200 takes all. 8300 down. De.

tails page 16, ‘ 400 acres. lO-rotun house. good barns.

Milo, fruit. 1000 cords pulp wood. 2.000 cords block

wood. with‘zhorses. 10 cows, 3 heifers wagons. ma.

chlnery. hay, crops. etc.. etc. all only $4500, part cash.

This book goes to every corner of America write to.

day for yourfree copy srnou'r AouNcY. an BC

Ford Bldg. Detroit. Mich.





For Sale At a Bargain!





200 acres iiiWextor‘d Co. Selma Township. nine miles

from Cadillac. Known as the Thin) farm. All un-

der plow. Nine room house. two barns. hen house,

Silo (new). good well. With steel wind pump. Fairly

well fenced: Can t be beaten in County for general

farming and stock raising. Oh good road. near church

and school and in good neighborhood. Owner sick.

Must sell. Price 32.3.00 per acre. Liberal terms.

Address E, G ‘HAIFLEY. Marion, Ind., or see

ANDREW KNECHT at farm.





FARMS FOR SALE





 





 





 





 





' WOOL





About fifteen per cent of the wool

held by the state pools is reported to

have been sold at prices averaging

about forty per cent of last-[year’s val—

ues. The range on fine staple has been

33@400; on three-eighths-blood from

26@30c; on quarter-blood 2061280; and

on low quarter 20@23c. Markets in

this country have been steady during

the past week, although foreign mar-

kets declined largely as a result of the

absence of buying by American repre-

sentatives who are unwilling to oper-

ate further until the possibility of a

tariff at the present session of con-

gress has been settled. The American

Woolen Company announced prices on

goods for fall delivery at a. decline of

40 to 50 per cent lower than a year

ago. There is no prospect of a sharp

advance in the immediate future, al-

though a tariff would strengthen the

market materially. 0n the other hand,

it is expected that sufficient buying

will appear to maintain current prices.



Receipts at Boston since January 1,

1921, amount to 33,112,445 lbs.,.ot'

which 6,344,725 lbs. were domestic

wool and 26,767,720 lbs. were foreign

wool. During the same period last

year 11,298,355 lbs. of domestic wool

were received and 20,353,420 lbs. of

foreign wool. The total amount was

slightly larger than last year, but re-

ceipts of domestic wool were smaller.



Boston quotes the market as follows:

Michigan and New York fleeces: De-

laine unwashed 39@40c; fine unwash-

ed 29@300; half-blood unwashed 32((1‘

34c; threeeighths-blood unwashed 29

@300; Kentucky, West Virginia and

similar, three-eighths blood unwashed





29({C30C} quarter-blood unwashed 28



@290.



DAIRY INTERESTS HOLD CONVEN-

TION.





HE Annual Convention of the



_ Michigan Allied Dairy Association,

held in Grand Rapids, February 16-17,

was a success, although the attend-

ance was not quite up to expectations.

The annual address of the president,

Glen Overton, of Allegan, was received

with keen interest. All of the old di-

rectors were elected as follows: Glen

.Overton, Allegan, representing the but-

ter interests; N. P. Hull. Lansing, the

producers; C. H. Parker, Saginaw, the

market milk distributors; E. G. Pray,

Charlotte, the condensed and milk pow-

der manufacturers; N. J. Dessert, De-

troit, the ice cream manufacturers,

and R. A. Page, Zeeland, the cheese

manufacturers.



Two new units Were initiated: The

Dairy Department of the State Farm

Bureau, and the Dairy Equipment and

Supplymen’s Association. M. L. Noon,

of Jackson. was elected to represent

the State Farm Bureau, and R. J. Ell-

wangcr the supplymen's association

on the board of directors. Officers will

be elected at the next. regular meeting

of the directors on March 16.



The committee on resolutions sub-

mitted the following:



Whereas, in these times of unsettled

commercial, industrial, social and po-

litical conditions, with the present un-

dergoing certain definite revision and

the future veiled with uncertainties,

we believe, conservatism, constructive-

ness and sober thinking should mark

the way of those who are connected

with the formulation of our future pol-

icies as they apply to the dairy indus-

try, and

Whereas, especially during this pe-

riod of lowering values and uncertain

conditions, dairy production seems to

pffer a. stabilizing effect upon agricul-

ure,



Therefore be it resolved, that this

convention go on record as endorsing

the state department. of agriculture bill

now being considered by the state leg-

islature that. we stand unitedly for the

creation of a dairy bureau in the pro-

posed department of agriculture. The

appointment of a head of this bureau

and the provision for a sufficient ap-

propriation to adequately and efficient-

ly promote this industry.



Resolved, that we commend and up-

hold the officers of the National Dairy

Union, the National Dairy Products

Committee. and the National Dairy

Council. in their efficient efforts in be-

half of the daii'ymen and all connected

with the industry.



We would not be unmindful of the





 





AND EXCHANGE





We have tom of the best farms in Michigan for sale Michigan Agricultural





and exchange. we have one of 120 acres '

from Lansing on state reward road best 0 “gill. two





. _ Price is right. If you are

interested in a far-- let us tell v

M 613 Oakland all): 'what we haie.





WANTED





300 Acres ofmore to rent for .

and .tools or rent with everythi furnished.





' .gfntook





state food and drug department and

Mannheim...” newbmement hm, with can“, especially the splendid efforts and ac-

gggg,n;a:g%£:wai;or:e. modern. this is now being complishments of the 'dairy division

' ofosaid department under the leader-

Lansing. Mich. ship of its present chiéf.





StatelFigm‘ Bureau and solicit most

. h m“ . warm y en participation with us in

to, I“? “if“? matters that will best promote the in



w'" ”Mr-0f 3“ terests of Michigan dairying in best





splendid work and cooperation of the





*“ILchfro'A‘ N F. A R M ER





 





AUTOMOBILE

OWNERS





The farmers of Michigan

own about one-half of the au-

tomobiles in the state, yet it

is estimated that in 1920 their

losses, through fire, theft,

property damage, personal in-

jury and collision, amounted

to over ONE MILLION DOL-

__LARS.



On account of the large

number of automobiles sold

each year, traffic has increas»

ed and easily becomes con-

gested and traffic accidents.

damage claims and many law

suits result. With a re-adjust-

ment of prices the careful

man will protect his property

and himself against liability

claims by a proper insurance

policy. The BIG MUTUAL

Automobile Insurance Com-

pany of the state has been

carrying farmer’s business

for six seasons and has paid

out a. total of 5,004 claims to





January lst, with a. total

amount of $643,285.00.

The Company has cxpei‘i.





enced officers. adjusters and

attorneys in every part of the

state to aid the policy-holder

in case of trouble. Stolen

cars have been recovered in

Chicago, St. Louis, New Or-

leans, Cleveland, Columbus

and Toledo and the Company

is well-known to the Auto

Theft Department of all of

the cities of adjoining states.

The Company is therefore

equipped to assist the policy.

holder inihe recovery of stol-

en cars and to give a prompt,

settlement in case of a loss.



No insurance is accepted in

the City of Detroit and a spe-

cial rate is made on farmers

automobiles, covering fire,

theft. and the damage claims

made against the owner of

the car, of $1.00 for the pol-

icy and 300 per lioi'sc-poWer.

The collision rate is only $2.00

per hundred.



In 1906 there were 364 peo-

the United States and in 1920

ple killed by automobiles in

there were 10,000 people kill-

ed. That's why the prudent

man keeps his automobile in-

sured in the





CITIZEN’S MUTUAL AUTU-





MOBILE INSURANGE 00.

of Howell, Mich.





If not insured see local agent or

write the above company today.





 





 





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25C EACH 2221):?“ 3133i. Torleesfilanigggiig





Vines. Farm. Flower and Garden Seeds. Special

prices and samples of Grass Seeds on up lication.

ALLEN'S NURSERY & SEED HOUSE. eneva.

HA Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons,

623—625 Wabash Bldg.. Pittsburg. Pa.





Avnles, Potatoes Wanted

grices paid

—— ~ L. RI





CHMOND co.. Detroit. Mich





 





Ship to The Old Reliable House





 





 





Highest

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POU LTRY





 





“s erior Baby Chicks" Strong. healthy. purebred.

White and Brown Leghorns. Anconas.

Cate. 0g free. Superior Hatchery. Zceland. Mich.





(l o l d c n “'yundotte

Thoroughbred (‘ockercls $5.00. pullets

33.00 Writc H C. H(‘HI.I.(‘l{'l‘. Thomas. Mich.





 





 





Are you interested in results? Hogan

useful Anconas tested. layers of" large white ogfis

Winter and summer. beauty and utility conibine( .

hatching eggs of real quality at prices that will sur-

prise ou. Specialty breeder.write for particularleol-

lege iewl“urm.,Hillsdnle. Mich. R3, G.A.Zilch.Prop.





March Chicks ”“l..’:"" llama





100 00 2.5

S. C. White Leghorns - $18.00 $9.50 85.00

Bd. Rocks. R. I. Reds - 20.00 10.50 5.50

Write for other varieties. With order please give

date wanted and name second choice. Prepaid

and guaranteed 97 5 live chicks





Washlenaw Hatchery, Ann Arbor, Mich





BABY CHICKS





O I



of Superior Quality



Hotlfrom the Hatclicrr. right to your door safe-1y, by

prepaid parcel post. BIG Strong. fluffy fellows hatch-

ed from eggs of selected flocks, and under our own

supervision. RUOKH. LEGHORNS. ANCONAS.

REDS and MINORCAS. Chicks that live and grow

into money. Bred for EGG PRODI'C’J‘ION and the

SHOW ROOM. Save mone by sending or our cota-

louue NOW. THE SUPER ()R CHICK ATCHERY.

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Prairie Depot . Ohio.





5 ll). English While Leghorns





Barron strain. lVIy free catalog describes them. gives

feeding methods.. a new way to cull hens and much

valuable information. A. Wauchck. Gobleville. Mich





BarredRock ChICkS 100.14 safe delivery. Re:





. duccd Prices. Write foi

Circular. H. H. PIERCE. Jerome. Mich.





White Wyandolte Eggs 133? filmmng‘ "e“





20c each egg.

$20.00 per 100 eggs. Pen No. 21.30 each 8 g. $15.00 per

100 eggs. Flock No.1. 12c. ouch egg. 10.00 per 100

eggs. 1‘ rec range. Prize winning stock. Book orders

noii'. Lone Elm Farm. EARLI'.‘ R. MURRISH.

Flint. Mich. R. 6.





‘ , P II t. '.00

White Wyandottes. 8.3,: page...

(lockerels from hens with 207 egg average $5.00 and

Sb’UOcnch. l'l gs $3.00 pcr 1:").



E‘KAN UeLONG. 11.3. Three Rivers. Mich.



Chicks and





Whittaker’s R. l. Re 1...... Both





Combs. h’Iichignn‘s Color and Egg strain. Prepaid

an'd‘s‘nfc delivery guarantee-d. Send for free catalog.

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White Wyandottes “’“mm ““2”"





(l 0 list: u in —~ Some

strong. sturdy. good breeding Cockoi‘els (it $5.00. $7.50

and $10.00. H. J. RILEY. Box Ll, Hillsdale. Nlich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





White Wyandotte Coc‘xerels 32353333629433

HUVVARI) GRANT. M urhall. Mich.

' White African Guineas 80

While Holland Turkeys m...“ the... lli-l‘ereiii-cC.

H. Burgess. Prof.. Poultry. l\lich. Agri. College. Form

for sale. Aldon Whitcoinb, Byron Center, Mich.





 





 





' #5111 sold. “'ish to thank in

Glanl Bronze Turkeys customers and solicit their fu):

tiirc patronage. “Will not. have eggs for solo.



N. EVALYN RAIUSDICLL. 11min. h'licli.





6 O B R E E D s chic k e n s. ducks,



> goose. turkeys. gull}-

ezis. pigeons. hares, dogs. Fine illus. and dose. cul-

log only 10c. Edwin A. Soudei‘, Sellcrsvillc. l’o.





 





 





HORSES

Percheron Stallions and mores at reasonable





‘ , . , ‘ Drives; inspection iuviicd.

1‘» I" 1‘11“} iii 503‘. Charlotte. hilch





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





ROSS’





Eureka Corn





These seven cows fed one year on

the product of one acre of Eureka

Corn. Yield was 64 tons of best

quality silage. Every bag of Ross’

Eureka Corn bears our trademark-4

man holding stalk of corn. We

have complete line of sup-

plies for farm, garden,

dairy. orchard or poultry.

Seeds‘our specialty. Send

for Mil-page free catalog.

ngply limited; write to-

y.





ROSS BROS.COMPANY

37 Front Slmi. Worchoslor. Mass.





 





 





 





 





College, the





Resolved, that we cooperate with the





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Good Clubbing Offers





OFFER No. 301.



Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.00



McCall’s Magazine, one year. . . . 1.50



Total value ........ . . . . . . . . . . .$2.50

Both for $1.75.





 





 





 





OFFER No. 302.



Michigan Farmer. one year. . . . . .$1.00



VVoman‘s Vi’orld, one year. . . . . . . .50



American Vi'omen .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50



Total value . ....... . . . . . . . . . .$2.00

All for $1.55.





 





OFFER No. 303.



Michigan Farmer. one year. . . . . .3100



American Boy, one year . . . . . . . . 2.50



Total value $350

Both for $3.25.





 





OFFER No. 304.





Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .3100

Christian Herald, one year. . . . . . 2.00





Total value . ......... .........$3.00





 





Both for $2.35.





 





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l
Why?’





The next time you drive to town or to the

_County seat, take particular note of the silos

in your community, just for your own satis-

faction. ,



We venture to predict that in your neigh-

borhood, just, like most farming districts

throughout the country—that probably nine

out of every ten silos you pass (or at least a

great majority) will be built of wood. Why?





muvbn'tnave There Must Be Some Good

To pay a Cent __ Reason for This. '





Your own good, common sense will tell





wn you that it would be absolutely impossible

to persuade the majority of the hard headed,

_ and_ successful farmers in your community who





' own silos to buillrll them of wood unless there

ItWont CostYou asgmsozdttoassasirmaz



. a can "bet your bottom dollar” there are some

a Cent Unhl It Has 3% lgigligl reasons why most farmers buy

// / Paid for Itself Wood Silos Give Better Service





Did you ever hear anyone say that silos

of other materials will cure silage better or

keep it better than wood? No! But many



\_ » . agricultural experts, chemists and thousands





of farmers who speak from actual experi-

ence emphatically assert that wood silos

make and keep silage far better than do

other kinds of silos.



It takes a certain amount of heat to cause

fermentation in the silo and cure silage

properly for wholesorne feed. Wood is the

only material non-conductive of heat and

cold. Wood keeps in the heat necessary

for the proper fermentation, and it also

y. keeps out the extreme cold that causes

‘7 silage to freeze.



Of course, you have to paint a wood silo

4: /~-.. , every five or six years on the outside. But

”42%. painting a wood silo on the outside is a

whole lot easier than “doctoring” up the

walls on the silo inside with some preserva-

tive preparation every few years. And re-





member, when the roof is on the silo you

can't get a ladder inside of it.

These are some of the reasons why the





majority of silos throughout the country are

built of wood. And the best wood silo you

can buy is a NAPPANEE Seal-tite SILO, be-

cause they are the most practical, the most

serviceable, the most useful and convenient

wood silo for any farm—the silo that will

give you the biggest value for your money.





Wood 51103 Cost Less



A N APPANEE SILO costs just about half

the price asked for silos built of other ma-

terials. And the cost of erecting it is far

less, too. You don’t need a crew of skilled

mechanics to erect a NAPPANEE. The

average farmer can do the work himself

,with the help of a farm hand and finish the

job in two or three days time.



Where else can you find a silo that will

give you all the convenient, useful, time and

labor saving features that you will find in-

corporated in the NAPPANEE, such as

the Double Anchor System that is as near



. storm-proof as it is possible to make—the

real Man-Sized Doors that are six inches

wider than the average silo door and give

ample room and comfort in entering the

NAPPANEE—the extra heavy metal Door

Fasteners that seal up the NAPPANEE as

tight as a fruit jar—the safe and sane Lad.

der, built so it is almost impossible to slip

and fall—the Hip Roof Rafters that are fur-

nished FREE with the NAPPANEE and add

more room to the silo, and so on all down

the line.



A NAPPANEE SILO is easy to erect, easy

to fill and will cure your silage perfectly. It

will keep the silage in A1 condition so that

it is safe to feed to your live stock. Yet the

NAPPANEE costs you no more and some-

times a great deal less than other silos.





gazes... m.- ”‘13-“ . .. ~' , ,;;~'-'~3,.- 1,»? :.





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. You would put a new silo on your

farm tomorrow, if you thought you could get one for nothing—wouldn’t you? Well, we



have a 8110 Selling Plan whereby you can do just that. You can place a NAPPANEE Seal-

, tite SILO on your farm and it won’t cost you a cent. That sounds interesting—doesn’t it?





Our big FREE Book tells how you can order your NAPPANEE SILO now and make

1t pay for itself on your farm. Think of it! On this novel plan you virtually get a 5110

for nothing. A silo that will earn its own cost the first ear or so and make you a

couple of hundred dollars clear profit every year after t at.





Better write for your. copy of our big silo book today and find out all about this .

easy way to own a 5110. The book is FREE and postpaid for the askmg.





Over 15,000 NAPPANEE SILOS in

Use on American Farms





Thousands of American Farmers have taken advantage of our liberal Silo Selling Plan. The fact that NAF-

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Nappanee Selling Plan is ALL RIGHT and that NAPPANEE SILOS are “making good” wherever they go.





Get our big FREE Silo Book and see for yourself the many gratifying letters of satisfaction which we have

received from NAPPANEE owriers. Many say that their silo paid for itself with the first crop they put in it.

They tell why they like the NAPPANEE better than any other silo and some give actual facts and figures on

the profit the N APPANEE has made them.





If the NAPPANEE will produce big returns for so many other farmers it will do the same for you. And on

our liberal Selling Plan you cannot afford to get along without a NAPPANEE another day. -





Read What These Michigan Farmers Say:





Tecumseh, Llich. Rockford, lMiCh. Elm Hall, Mich. Camden. hiiCh.

Dear Sirsz—Tho Na )anee silo has Dear Siren—l have had my silo - . - , .' Gentlemenz—l have a Nappanee

Drown alright. and pail) for itself the three years and ham filled it. Dear S‘m‘-1 like your “‘0 Silo and 1 am very much pleased

first year and would not three times and am satisfied that better than any 1 have ever with it. 1 can get, more feed out

be withoutlone at any iti has savfed mo rho price of. it. 38811- It 6‘00‘1 the “35!! Of“ of an acre than 1 can any other

nice. t was easy a one. In Led. Some ()1 my neigh- cyclone. It never fazed it. 11. way. If any farmer is going to

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305d Frank 1:). Buckley. l‘hos. Oroton. Frank Howald.





We have many other letters as gratifying as those above in our files from this state and

Send The other states, but the limited space does not allow us to print them all.





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A NAPPANEE SILO on your farm will

make every acre of corn you put into it do

the work of two acres the old fashioned way.

And the NAPPANEE is backed by an iron.

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