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VOLUME CLVI. NUMBER ELEVEN





DETROIT, MARCH 12, 1921





CURRENT COMMENT





ARLY last week

Federal S the United States

upieme Court ien-

Farm Loan dered a decision in

Law Stands the case involving the

validity of the federal

farm loan act, which has hampered the

activities of the farm loan banks for

many months. This test case was

started by a stockholder of a. trust

company located in a middle western

state, who sought an injunction to re-

strain his institution l'rom investing

its funds in federal farm loan bonds.

In this petition the contention was

made that the farm loan act was in-

valid, on the ground that congress had

no authority under the constitution,

either to establish banks or to exempt

their securities from state taxation.

The application for an injunction was

denied by the lower court and the case

was appealed to the federal supreme

court. The opinion handed down by

that body upheld the authority of the

government to establish fiscal agencies

and to provide for the exemption of

their securities as a necessary pro-

tection. The opinion was practically

unanimous, although two justices ren-

dered a dissenting opinion in which

they took exceptions to the court’s as-

sumption of jurisdiction, rather than

to the findings in the decision.



This decision would seem to settle

for all time the fight of the corporate

money-loaning interests against gov-

ernment. aid to farmers in the financ-

ing of long-time loans on the amortiza-

tion plan. As a result. the federal farm

loan board has announced an immedi-

ate issue of federal farm loan bonds

to finance the many millions of dollars

in loans which have been approved by

the board, but held up for lack of

available funds, pending the decision

of the court of last resort in this test

case.



This decision will open the way for

renewed activities of the federal land

banks, just as rapidly as the offerings

of bonds are absorbed by the investing

public. \Vhile the farm loan board has

expressed the hope that the market

may absorb farm loan bonds rapidly

enough to keep. pace with the long-

time loan requirements of the farmers

of the country. they point out that it

is not safe to predict the result of a

financial operation of this magnitude

under present disturbed conditions. It

is, however, Ma, safe prediction that

funds will begin to be available for the

resumption of operations by the fed-

eral land banks at an early date, and





 





‘_ that these tax- exempt bonds will find





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Committee of Seventeen for





ing. of grain.





taken up.





 





 





R‘RANGE-MENTS have been made by the .Farmers’ Marketing





. grain- producing states to be attended by representatives of farm

- P organizations in each state interested in the cooperative market-





These meetings have been called for the purpose of selecting

delegates from each state to attend a conference to be held at the

‘La Salle Hotel, Chicago, on April 6, where the proposition of rati- '

fying the plan for a national grain marketing association will be ' '





The Michigan meeting will be held March 17 at the Rome Ho-

tel, Lansing. Mr. L. J. Taber and C. V. Gregory, of the National

Committee of Seventeen, will address the meeting. The delegates

from the various marketing organizations in ”this state will select

three delegates to the Chicago meeting. Tw’o delegates are allot-

ted to Michigan on the basis of the amount of grain marketed, and-

one delegate-at-large will be selected. ‘ ‘ .





holding meetings in the various





 





 





 





 





public with the resumption of more

normal conditions.

These bonds, which ‘will bear five





per cent interest, should appeal strong‘





1y to small investors, particularly to

farmers who have surplus funds to in-

vest, both because of the safety of the

security and the benefit which will ac-

crue to other farmers who receive the

funds so raised on long-time loans.





ARMERS who are

interested in keep-





MaStenng ing their boys and

Farm girls on the farm

Machinery would do well to give





more study and atten-

tion to the use of better farm machin-

ery and the introduction of modern

conveniences in the home. There are

too many people who seem to think

that education is the solution of the

problem, and they have in mind an

education that will carry the bay and

girl to the agricultural college and

then back to the old farm, contented

for the rest of their lives.



Boys and girls who are brought up

on a farm where most of the hard

work is done by hand and where but

few modern conveniences are in use

can see but little need of a technical





‘education that will teach them the





great things to be done on the farm

and how best to do them. Send boys

and girls from such farms through the

public school, on through high school,

and then to the agricultural college

and they will in all probability prepare

themselves for some other profession

than that of farming or agriculture in

its true sense. On the other hand boys

and girls whose impressions in early

life were gained on a farm Well-equip-

ped with labor-saving machinery and

in a home where modern conveniences

were used will take an active interest

in a technical training, in machinery

they can control and become supreme

master of; something which holds

their interest in the mysteries of con

struction along with the power of ac-

complishment. It is the satisfaction

that comes from driving a truck or

tractor for work, or from doing some

particularly fine piece of mechanical

work in the tool shop that sends a

thrill of power through the nervous

system of the most phelgmatic boy.

If hydro power on small power plants

are at the disposal of farm homes the

girls would find more' interest in stay<

ing at home and attaching the motor

to the sewing machine or churn, than





Dairy Interests Fight Butter

Tax Ruling





ARGE delegations of representa-

L lives of the dairy and creamery



industry from the leading butter-

producing states, were in attendance

on the hearings before Internal Rev-

enue Commissioner William M. Wil-

liams, relative to the proposed treas-

ury ruling on so-called adulterated but-

ter. The ruling declares that all “but—

ter made from decompoeed or rancid

cream, which has been neutralized

with chemicals before churning, or

from cream which is high in acid and

has a bad odor, and which has been

chemically neutralized before churn-

ing is adulterated butter, and is sub-

ject to a tax as such at the rate of ten

cents per pound, under the act of

1902.” A Statement: issued from the

treasury accompanying the announce

ment of the ruling, said in substance

that all butter made from cream in

which the acidity had been neutralized

by the use of chemicals would be con-

sidered as coming within the ruling.

Commissioner Williams, however, re-

pudiated this press statement issued

by the bureau of internal revenue,

stating that he had never said any-

thing of the kind, and assuring the

creamerymen that the hearing was

based solely upon the treasury decis-

ion as given above.



The cr‘eamery butter manufacturers

and dairy interests generally in the

middle west outside of Minnesota ob-

ject to this ruling which, unleSs with-

drawn will become effective. April 1.

Appearing for their constituents sev~

era! 1 senators sndfflcongressmen from





 





the middle west made vigorous pro~

tests against the ruling, saying that it

was their belief that the ruling would

destroy thescreamery and dairy industry

of several states, including Michigan,

Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,Col-

orado and the southern states. Senator

Hitchcock argued that if there was any

doubt in the mind of the commissioner

as to the intent of the law of 1902, the

dairy industry was entitled to the ben-

efit of the doubt. Representatives

Haugen and Towner of Iowa, also

spoke in opposition to the ruling.



Attorney F. L. Jones, representing

the National Dairy Products Commit-

tee, had charge of the case for the op-

position to the ruling. Among the op-

ponents of the ruling were N. P. Hull,

of Lansing, Michigan, representing the

National Dairy Union; 0. T. Goodwin,

representing the Michigan Agricultural

College; Milo D. Campbell, A. C. An-

derson, R. F. Frary, and Mr. Shedd, all

of this state.



It was the evident belief of Commis—

sioner Williams that the lime water

used in the process of neutralization

was a dcodorizer, tending to remove

bad odors and flavors from spoiled

cream. The expert witnesses in oppo-

sition to the ruling testified that the

lime solution was not used as a deo-

dorizer; that it had no efiect in remov-

ing the odors and flavors from cream;

that it was essential to pasteurization

of cream high in acidity, and that its

use in large sections of the country,

especially in the great plains states





 





 





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are not in use. Both boys“





'Grain ‘Marketing Meetings and girls take an interest in some





good work and after they have ac~





Qulred an education and training they

find it more difficult than ever to re-

turn to the farm and take up the old





, order of things.





Farmers who are complaining about

their boys and girls: leaving the farm

can do much to improve conditions by

introducing laborriiaving machinery for;

the farm and» modern conveniences for

the home. \If they can have these

things right at home the boys and

girls are ,not going to the city to look





» for-them. The strongest factor in the





life of a boy or girl is the things they

do because they have an education or

the power at their command. The boy

or girl on the farm given" the mastery





of machinery and modern conven-‘





iences, trained to efi‘iciency'in their

management and use, made to feel

that every operation in the conduct of

the farm is something to call for the

best technical and intellectual treat-

ment of which they are capable, are

going to feel that a, kingdom lies at

their feet waiting for its ruler.





News of the Week





Wednesd'ay, M arch 2.





’ I 'HE United States Senate in secret

session adopts a resolution p1 ov1d-

ing for negotiations with Great B1ita1n





and Japan f01 a 1eduction of naval.





armament—On account of revolution-

ary activities. in 'Russia, Lenine and

Trtozky are reported to have fled from

Moscow to Crimea. —The condition of

democ1atic leadel of the house, Champ





Clark, is extremely grave. ——The Ford?





ney emergency tariff bill is delivered

to President fox his signature—Five

bathers ate killed at Pensacola, Flori-

da, when a seaplane dipped too close

to the water.



Thursday, March 3.





HE anti- soviet movement in Russia





is gaining much headway although





it is 1eported that the soviet has not

lost control ———Voters of Michigan will

be asked to approve a. $30, 000, 000 bond

issue for the benefit of soldiers, sail~

ors, marines and nurses of the world

war. —An agreement has been reached

by the house and senate upon a stand-

ing aimy of 156, 000 men.

Friday, March 4'.





ARREN G. HARDING and Cal-

vin Coolidge are inaugurated as

President and vice-president of the





United States at Washington—Pres.





ident Wilson vetoes the emergency tar-

ifb bill and the house fails to pass the

measure over the





large deposit of coal has been located





in New Brunswick. ——The U ited States

Reserve Board firmly pre,icts an ap-r

proaching era of stabilized; business.—.





R. G. Jones, superintendent of city

schools in Cleveland, is elected head

toi the National Educational Associa-

1on.



Saturday, March 5.





AILWAY companies are sustained



in a decision in the United States

Appellate Court on the issue that the

Michigan Public Utilities Commission

has no power to change transportation

rates within the state —Costa Rican

forces are advancing upon Almiiante,

a Pacific p01t under the cont101 of

Panama. ——A coxoner’s jury holds the

crew of the Michigan Central train re-

sponsible for the wreck at Porter, Ind,

last Sunday, when thirty-seven persons

were killed. Eleven Flint restaurant

proprietors are in co'urt charged with

selling adulterated milk and cream.



Sunday, March 6.





. MEMBERS of the Gelman cabinet,





Reichstag leaders and technical





advisers in an authorized statement





instruct German Iepresentatives not to

exceed the counte1- proposals made to

the allies. —Rail1oad men throughout

the southeast have begun the taking





.of a vote on advisability of a strike. —

Costa Rican troops are victorious in a ~





frontier fight with the Panamans—

The laying of a. cable from Miami to

Barbadosa is halted by United States

war vessels.



Monday, March 7.





[Th is reported that Trotzky, the 1501-;





s hevik war minister, has again as-

sumed control of military operations.

—-The enforcement of penalties on Ger

many for non-fulfillm nt

requirements is d edged:-



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ICHIGAN bee- keepers are just





ing to information on the. indus-

‘coming into their own, accord-

try gathered by the State Farm Bu-

reau, which sho‘ws that fifteen thou-

sand producers have placed. Michigan

high in the ranks of the honey—produc-





ing states with an annual production

of ten million pounds.

leading the field in quality, as express-

ed in flavor and color, the Michigan

men are rapidly organizing themselves

in the interests of advertising the mer-

its of their product. Only one-twelfth

of one per cent of the possible honey





market has been deVeloped, according ”





to R. H. Kelty, of the M. A. C.



The farm bureau ‘has learned that

there are now 150,000 colonies of bees

in the state, but. fewer bee-keepers

than fermerly. Bee-keeping is becom-

ing a specialized industry, with more

bees and fewer bee-keepers. With all

these facts in mind, Mr. Kelty says

that the future of the industry in Mich-

igan is brighter than ever before.



Michigan has an edge on all other

states in climatic conditions best suit-

ed for honey production. Because of

the plentiful rainfall and favorable

conditions of Vegetation throughout

the summer, keepers in this state get

a good honey crop every year, says

Mr. Kelty. This is decidedly different

from conditions which» obtain in more

southern states where, due to a lack

of rainfall and the consequent charac-

ter of the vegetation, the yield fluctu-

ates greatly and lean years are very

common.



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dent for the future of their industry

and are organized for business, accord-

ing to the State Farm Bureau. Be-

sides, the Michigan Bee-keepers’ As-

sociation, with its eight hundred ac—

tive members and the thirty-eight

county bee~keepers’ associations, there

has recantly been organized and incor-

porated the Michigan Honey Produc-

ers’ Exchange for the purpose of more

widely advertising and distributing

Michigan honey. This latter organiza-

tion is affiliated with the American

Honey Producers’ League.



The work of inspecting apiaries is

declared to be highly developed in

Michigan. It is under the general su-

pervision of Mr. B. F. Kindig, state

inspector of apiaries, reputed to be one





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of the Upper Peninsula.





of the best known authorities on api~

culture in the United States. Associ-

ated with him in this work are P. T.

Ulman, chief deputy apiary inspector,

R. H. Kelty, deputy apiary inspector,

and fourteen county apiary inspectors.



The thumb section is called. the cen-

ter of the bee industry in Michigan,

although many bees are kept along the

eastern side of the state and in the

northern part of the lower peninsula,

with only a few in the upper peninsula.



The H. C. L. never worries “the busy

little bee,” for it gathers its sweetness

from plants that grow in abundance in

the fields, forests, and orchards of the

Wolverine state. The chief honey-

yielding plants in Michigan are the

clovers—«alsike, white, and yellow, and





 

 





 





white sweet clover. In the northern

part of the state raspberries, milkweed

and firewood are.the chief sources of

honey. In swampy places the bees

Work on goldenrod, Spanish needle, as-

ters and boneset. Among the minor

honey sources are buckwheat and

basswood. Dandelions and fruit bloom

are used to build up strong colonies to

take advantage of the. clover season.



That bee-keeping in Michigan has

splendid financial prospects is indicat-

ed-by a statement recently issued by

Mr. B. F. Kindig, state inspector of

apiaries, in which he says that he can

name a number of Michigan bee—keep—

ers whose annual incomes from bees

during the past Several years have

been between $5,000 and $10,000 each.

He further states that the assertion of

several extensive bee-keepers, that a

colony of bees is worth more to them

than an acre of land, was fully verified

when he made a survey of bee-keeping

conditions in Michigan and found that

the bee-keepers who had an average of

one hundred colonies had an average

income of nearly $3,000 a year.



The 2,000,000 pounds of comb honey,

8,000,000 pounds of extracted honey,

and 500.000 pounds of beeswax produc-

ed annually in Michigan, is part of.

200,000,000 pounds of honey and 5,000,~

000 pounds of beeswax produced by

the 10,000,000 colonies of bees owned

by the 1,000,000 bee-keepers in the

United States. The total product

gathered by the busy insect, if loaded

30,000 pounds per car, would make a.

train fll'ty miles in length and the car-

go would be worth 0" 000,000.





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F 1nd1ng the Best Egg Markets





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HE loss and spoilage in market



eggs produced on the farm runs



into the millions every year.

Ninety per cent of this enormous loss

is caused simply by the farmer and

storekeeper not giving the eggs prODeI'

care.



In the matter of gathering and keep-

ing eggs most farm and village poultry

keepers follow the line of least resist-

ence. Instead, they should know how

to test eggs, and should carefully go

over-every egg before they take or

send it to market. For top prices, they

should know how to market and when

to market, and should give the hens

the very best treatment.



There are three main kinds of dead

‘ loss in market eggs—losses from



cracks, “held” eggs and “rots.”



"Cracks” are usually caused by ship-

ping. due to rough roads and handling.

:‘fI-Ield” eggs are caused by the great

, desire of either producer or small buy-





 





er to wait for an advance in price.

This is especially so in the fall of the

year when the price is apt to rise at

any time. ~The third loss, rotten eggs,

is caused by varibus things, but, of

course, the main trouble comes in the

heat of the summer. One hour’s direct

rays of a midsummer sun will often

put an egg out of condition. Another

cause is by the hens stealing nests and

the eggs not being gathered soon

enough. Another by carelessness on

the part of the farmer. He may gather

his eggs from one to three ,times per

week, then take them to the kitchen,

put them behind the stove, because it

is a well protected spot, until they are

ready to be taken to town. Thus the

eggs go through a process of heating

and cooling, which causes “rots. ”

First of all, perhaps, the hens should





be provided with a convenient and





clean place to lay their eggs. It is nat-

ural for hens on range to hunt some

secret spot fer a nest, somewhere off

in the weeds or woods. This should

be eliminated and when any of those

hidden nests are found, the eggs should

be marked and kept for home use.

During bad weather the eggs should

be gathered at least twice a day to

keep them clean. During hot weather





‘it is important to gather the eggs sev-





eral times a day, which prevents them

from commencing to decompose, or the

germ from starting development. When

the eggs are laid in barns, sheds, etc.,

a careful search should be made fre-

quently, in order to be sure that no

eggs are gathered after becoming

stale. _ .



As soon as the breeding season is

over, the. male birds should be sep-

arated from the hens. A male bird is





 





not necessary for the production of

eggs, but is useful only to fertilize the

egg, which will be laid just the same,

regardless of his absence of presence.

A fertile egg will commence develop-

ment, consequently deteriorate more

quickly than a sterile egg. A fertile

egg when fresh laid is supposed to be

already started in its development, and

if other laying hens or an occasionally

"broody” hen is allowed to stay on it

any length of time it Will soon be in

bad conditions.



When eggs are gathered they should

be put and kept in a clean, dry, cool

place until marketed. In a damp place,

bacteria and moulds often develop and

the eggs soon spoil.



Before eggs are sent to market, they

should be gone over and all small,

stained, dirty, doubtful eggs removed.

Small and dirty eggs, if used immedi-

ately, are quite all right fer one's own



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1.2:}9329 «in»
N the first of this series of articles,





there were two channels through

which farm products could be sold.

The two-systems were discussed in

general. The fundamentallprinciples

and objects of the Speculative system,

in its highly organized state, were dis-

cussed somewhat in detail. The fact

was pointed out that it this specula-

tive system succeeded it must cause

a great sp1ead between the pioducei

and consumer.



it was also pointed out that there

was a great demand for improved and

economic methods of distributing food

products from the farm. This article

will discuss the fundamental princi-

ples and objects of the pure coopera-

tive marketing associations, and show

how they are narrowing the spread be-

tween the producer and consumer.

The following three articles will dis-

cuss the essential features of pure co-

operation and show where and how

they are working.



As shown in the former article, the

grain dealers have so highly organized

their buying department for the pur-

pose of fixing the price on the farmer’s

grain, it is not reasonable to believe

that they have not what is termed

“business sense" enough to organize

their sales department in like manner.

They undoubtedly will, if they haven’t

already, eliminate competition in sell-

ing as well as in buying.



The managers of this capital stock

concern. must, it they make good and

attain their purpése of paying divi-

dends, make the spread between the

producer and the consumer as great





the plans for a system of more



direct marketing of grain have

been developed by the Committee of

Seventeen. At Chicago 011 March 2

the details were laid before a group of

leading agricultural editors. The plan

'is a gigantic one; it is well worked out

and with good management under a

constructive policy it should prove suc-

cessful. This great cooperative selling

movement is certain to have many ob-

stacles thrown in its path by those

who fear the effects 011 their own busi-

ness. This is to be expected for the

organized selling plan of the growers

will have to go up against one of the

most strongly intrenched systems of

business organization in the country.





hat Cooperative





By Bruce Lampson, of Ike W as/zmgton-Ia'a/zo W /zeat Growers Associative”





mention was made of the fact that





as possible. There are in too many

instances, not only one, but several of

these organized speculative concerns

between the producer and the con-

sumer of the food product, which

makes several profits instead of one

and as we know, these profits are not

always reasonable.





The day of-individually and single-

handedly attending to “your own bus-

iness” in the marketing world has

passed. The question is not, shall we

cooperate in the distribution of our

farm products, but how shall we coop-

erate? If we are going to build up ag-





ricultural production—the production





of foodstuffs and raw material for

clothing, with which to clothe and feed

the world, we must increase consump‘

tion and increase production by elimi-

nating the adverse interests between

the producer and consumer.



Distribution must conform to eco-

nornic principles. The pure coopera-

tive distribution plan which has been

so successful in California and other

places for both producer and consum-

er, is in very striking contrast to 'the

highly» organized speculative system.

This cooperative plan provides that

the distributors shall be organized pro.

ducers of a commodity. They should

sell direct as possible through highly

trained specialists, so that the consum-

er's price will be less and more pro-

duce consumed and yet the grower re

ceive more for his products.



When we know that there are mil-

lions of persons every year who never

have a sutlicient amount of food, it

can only be concluded that over-pro-





mous. He announced that various

state meetings would be held to dis-

cuss the plan as mapped out and that

a national ratification meeting would

be held April 6, at the La Salle Hotel,

Chicago. State ratification meetings

will be held in this territory as fol-

lows: March 15, Claypool Hotel, Indi-

anapolis, Indiana; March 16, Deshler

Hotel, Columbus, Ohio; March 17,

Kerns Hotel. Lansing,“Mich.;. March

21, Park Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin.



The plan of marketing under the





committee plan Was explained by Wm.

(l. Eckhardt, of Illinois.

would have three ways of disposing of

his grain: By consignment, by direct

sale to the local buying agency and by





The grower





pooling. The latter method was fav-





duction is, with very few exceptions, if

,any, not real, but rather a sentimental

impression created by the speculators

in order that they may buy cheap

when the product is offered by the pro

ducer. The price to the coiisumer can

be decreased and thereby increase the

consumption.





Before the organization of the Cali-

fornia. Almond Growers’ Association,

the'producers received eight cents per

pound and the consumer paid thirty--





five cents per pound for almonds. The '





producer received twenty—two cents of

the consumer’s dollar, the distributor

received seventy-eight" cents. After the

producers organized, and sold direct,

they received seventeen cents a pound

and the consumer paid thirty-five cents.

The producer received forty-seven

cents of the consumer’s dollar. The

price of almonds did not increase to

the consumer du11ng the inflated price

period.



By this pure cooperative form of or-

ganization, the Oregon Dairymen’s

League secured an advance of four

cents per quart for their milk and sold





to the consumer for one cent per quart





less. This was done by the producers

so organizing that distribution was

made direct upon a non-profit basis.

Since the producers sell their own

commodity, production in California

has increased in some cases as high as

five hundred per cent, and yet the

product is all sold at a profit to the

producer. The cry of" over-production

is not heard where the speculative sys-

tem of distribution has been replaced

by producers’ selling agencies.





price would be averaged and all grow-

ers receive the same price for their

grain of similar grade. The local grow-

ers’ association would make its con-

tract with any local elevator. The di-

rectors of the National Sales Agency

would choose its managers, foreign

representatives, etc. The proposed

plan“ does not displace any of the ex-

isting grain handling agencies. A sav-

ing of one per cent on the total grain

marketed would effect a total ‘Saving

of over fifteen million dollars which

might be used for warehouse owner-

ship, etc. The, proposed finance cor-

poration would be organized for one

hundred million dollars capital and

could issue debentures for about ten

times its capitalization. The ware-





This econOmic distribution is being

accomplished by producers forming a

cooperative selling agency to operate

upon cost, without capital stock and

without profit to the organization.



Like prohibition and other great na-



tional movements, cooperative distri-

bution has been slowly, but surely pen-

etrating the mind of the public. Pee.

ple have been educated to its princi-

ples. Economic principles are abso-

lutely demanding cooperation.

We can point to years of slow coop-

erative development in New Zealand

and Denmark. Its great possibilities

have been proven beyond a shadow of

a doubt in about thirty California or-

ganizations which sold last year $300,-

000,000 worth of farm products. This

was forty-five per cent of the total

farm product value of‘that state.



The cooperative movement has

swept over Oregon in the name of the

Oregon Dairymen’s League, the Ore-

gon Poultry Producersf Association,

and Oregon Growers’ Association. Its

fundamental principles are embodied

in the New- York Dairymen’s League

and the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-

change. The Texas Cotton growers

are now organized t_ _‘sell their own

product cooperatively. The Canadian

wheat growers are now in process of

organizing upon this same pure coop-

erative plan, as are the wheat growers

of Washington, 'Idaho, Montana and

Oregon '



How these selling organizations ale

formed and ate solving, and will solve,

our most fundamental economic prob-

lem—feeding the world—will be dis-

cussed next week.





Plans of the Committee of Seventeen





q FTER working for several months





finance corporation to one and one-half

billion dollars.



Mr. Clifford Thorne, general coun-

sel for the American Farm Bureau

Federation told of the extreme care

given to investigating all cooperative

selling organizations before starting to

build tip the grain growers’ selling

plan. 'Under the pressure that was





being exerted by grain growers it re-

quired courage to go slow and build

with care and thoroughness.





With the

present selling plan he declared the





chief fault lay with the farmer him-

self, due to the fact that he ships sev-

enty-five per cent of his grain to mar-

ket within three or four months.

custom is the result of inadequate stor-





This





age facilities on the farm and to in~





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





The encouraging feature of the en- ored as bringing the best returns house receipts of shippers might raise adequate credit. He quoted a member

tire program i5 that the commodities throughout the season. Through it the the total assets or collateral of the of the Chicago Board of Trade-to the ' I I

are to move through the customary effect that more direct shipment would ,

channels. The new program plans . . . _ . save from One to ten cents per bushel. . ’

merely to decrease the number of Mlchlgan’s I ruth_1n_Fabr1C Blll Mr. Thorne denied the utility of the '

hands through which the grain from present system of dealing in futures y





the American farm will be compelled and presented charts to show that it

to pass and bring the producer and the bill has aroused wide interest was for them to employ trained industrial had actually brought farm'ers’ prices ‘1





consumer more closely together. evidenced by the large representation chemists, since only such specialists down instead of supporting them dur-

The Chicago conference was attend- of farmers, manufacturers, and dry W0111d be able to prepare an analysis ing recent months. He warned against -\

ed by Governor McKelvey, ol' Nebras- gOOdS dealers who appeared to present 0f the goods as required by the 91‘0" propaganda opposing the bill to me I

ka, and Governor Preuss, of Minnesota, their views at the‘public hearing on Dos‘ed measure. They felt that it" any vent dealing in grain that could be

both of whom were greatly interested this DI‘ODosition recently held by the legislation 310113 this line were desir- delivered and declared that only twen. , :

in the work of the Committee of Sev- state affairs committee 0f the house, able it ShOUId be national in its scope. ty—eight one hundredths of one per

enteen- and both expressed their confi-' Who had the bi“ under consideration. The bill as introduced by Represent- cent could be delivered in Chicago last , 7 » ‘

dence 1n the outcome of the work, pro- I‘he well-known arguments in favor ative Henze would require that all year. He emphas1zed the importance ‘

v1ded plans were matured on reason- of such a measure were ably presented cloth 1' loth‘n ff (1 f ' I 'n of‘ the farmers’ finance corporation due }

able grounds. Governor Preuss men- by Representative Henze, 0f Dickin- , o C l g 0 ere 01 sae-l to the fact that every effort would be .

tioned the fact that Nebraska had de- son. and Representative Holland, of thls state should bear a label stating made to break the selling organization. " ,,

clared the grain exchanges to be public Gogebic. The representatives of the the amount 0f WOOL cotton, Sllk’ BhOd‘ The proposed plan expects to move -

‘markets and that the lower house of merchants and dry-goods dealers point- d)" 0" other materials contained there- grain more regularly and uniformly; ' _ l r

the Minnesota legislature had passed ed out that the passage. of this meas- in, and that fur garments should carry to make possible more direct shipment

a bill to that effect, although the sen- ure would work great hardships to the a label showing the kind of fur, while to the, consumer; to reduce the specu-

ate had not yet acted on it. . business interests of Michigan. They leather or rubber goods would have to lators’ and middlemen’s profits; to

Chairman Gustafson of the commit- stated that in order for them to cor— be labeled to show whether or not they place the seller and buyer on a more

tee gave afirief history of the work rectly‘labe'l goods'which they ‘might contained substitutes. The enforce- nearly equal footing; to afford more

'that had been done and declared that secure from other states, and. which, of ment of this act would be left to the efficient storage, credit and market

in all - cases action" had been unani- course, would not be labeled when they food and drug commissioner. 3 news facilities. 3 3





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HAT Michigan’s “Truth-in—Fabric” received them, it would be necessary
Wflat a Great System of State .41?! Ha: Done for Minnesota—By R. P. Crawford





for its rural schools and believes



in_ spending it. Nearly every-

where one goes in that state he finds

censolidated schools. There is prob-

ably no state in the Union that has

handled the financial problems of the

consolidated school as well as has the





MINNESOTA has plenty of money





the fact that twenty-five per cent of

the voters in every district must have

previously petitioned for the consoli-

dation.

Lessons from Experience.



On the occasion of my visit to Min-

nesota, I askedan official of the state

department there to give some good





 





 





 





 





This Open Co itry Consolidated SchOol was Formed in 1904. The Building





was Remodeled at a Cost of $5, 000.





About $6, 000 a Year, Including Transportation.





and Ni'nety Pupils.





state of Minnesota. The requirements

which every consolidated school must

live up to are probably also the high-

est of any in the Union. ’The state

has all sorts of subsidies for its con-

s’Olidated schools, such as consolidated

school aid, transportation aid, state

graded aid, high school aid, and the

apportionment of the current school

fund.



If one did not know this, he might

indeed wonder how Minnesota has

made such great strides in consolida-

tion. Even in the most northern parts

of the state are good consolidated

schools, and I recall that there is one

such school only a comparatively few

miles from Red Lake, and fifteen

miles from the nearest railroad. In





dozens of villages in that state the

schoolhouse is the only building in .





town that has a water-works system.

Such vigorous oversight is given the

schools of Minnesota that no school

is permitted to erect, a consolidated

building without having the‘ plans ap-

proved by the state department, and

without having an entirely modern

building. 'The requirements for con-

solidated schools include everything

from approving the proposed districts

to requiring that every school serve a.

hot lunch during the winter months.

Minnesota can make these regulations

because it gives the schools state aid,

and thereby has a lever to make them

live up to certain definite require-

ments.



Before any consolidated school can

be established in Minnesota the coun-

ty superintendent must make a plat

showing the territory it is proposed to

consolidate, the location of the school

and all other available information.

The state department can approve or

reject the consolidation. This does

.away with the possibility of some sec-

,tion being left without a. consolidated

school when it should be in a consoli-

dation. Twenty-five per cent of the

voters of each district. that it is pro-

posed to consolidate must petition for

the school to the county superintend-

ent. All districts then vote together

at an election. If thé majority of the

votes of all districts are in favor of

consolidation, the question carries.

That means that one section cannot





. hang back and so defeat a good school





 





which is favored by nearly everybody

at . ,





The Total Cost of Maintenance is

There are Three Teachers





advice from that ' state’s experience

with consolidated schools. As a gen-

eral thing, the state department does

not believe that a consolidated school

should be established with less than

one hundred pupils. The consolidated

schools over the state average about

one hundred and fifty pupils. It is be-

lieved that at least four teachers





$450; supplies, $200; transportation of

pupils, $2,000; interest on investment,

$1,600, making a total of $10,700. Out

of this amount the state would pay

$4,100 distributed as follows: $300 for

consolidated school, $2,000 for trans-

portation aid, $600 for state graded

school aid, $500 for high school aid,

and $700 representing the state ap-

portionment from the current school

funds. There would also be $550 from





. the local one‘mill tax on property. The





school district then would have to levy

around $6,000 to cover the remainder

of the bill. In this particular case the

district had a. valuation of $550,000 and

it meant that each quarter section of

land would have to pay on an average

of $33 to keep up the school. This

consolidation was more modest than

those in many sections of the state,

but one which is of interest as show-

ing the amount of money from the

state that is given to such schools.



It is especially interesting to note

that each consolidated school receives

yearly from the state $2,000 with which

to transport pupils, and three-fourths

of such an amount beyond $2,000 as is

expended for transportation.



No school, however, can receive

more than $4,000 from the state for

transportation expense. It will be seen

that one of the arguments against con-

solidation is done away with in Minne-

sota, because the state gives a. great

deal of money outright for transport-

ing pupils. In addition, each school

receives $2,000 when a building is first

erected. Truly, it may be said that

probably no state in the Union has





 





 





One of the Finest Consolidated' School

cated at Bloomington, Minh. It is in

een Acres.





should be employed for the grades and

two for the high school, and that is

almost impossible with fewer than one

hundred pupils. Of course, there are

cases where communities may be iso-

lated, where it is impossible to have

one hundred pupils, and in such cases,

the proposed school may be approved.





As ageneral thing, the state depart-

ment favors a two-story brick building.

Three-story buildings are frowned up

on. A requirement in a consolidated

school is that every school must have

an auditorium. Of course, in some of

the smaller schools two classrooms

may be arranged so they may be op-

ened to form an auditorium, but the

larger buildings usually have the au-

ditorium entirely separate. Every

building must be entirely modern with

the right kind of light, modern toilets,

ventilation, steam‘ heat, and'drinking

fountains on every floor..



Here is an expense account for a

fairly modest consolidated school in

Minnesota. The cost of the building

would be about $40,000 and bonds for

this amount would be voted to' the

state at'four per cent interest, the

school fund in that state being loaned

out to the school districts. The yearly

expenses of such a school were rough-

ly figured as follows. Principal, $1, 500;





four teachers, $3 600; one teacher for

high echo 1- $3,000; fuel, $350; janitor,





 





 





Buildings in the United States is Lo-

the Open Country on a Site of Eight-





done more for the consolidated school

than has Minnesota.



As a general rule, thirty sections

are regarded as a reasonable area for

a consolidation and the busses should

not be required to haul any children

any farther than five miles. Twelve

sections are the minimum for consoli-

dation except where a town is includ-

ed. Generally, some logical center for





a school is selected. It may be near

a country store or ere-emery, or any-

where that people are accustomed to

meet. If a village is within reasonable

distance of most of the pupils, it is so

much the better.

A Model School Building.



Perhaps one of the finest buildings

for a consolidated school is the one

known as the Bloomington School

about six miles from Minneapolis. It

was erected two years ago at a. cost of

$100,000 and is located right out in the

open country on at site of eighteen

acres; There are a few stores and

houses at a crossroads near- -by, but

they do not even constitute a post

office. The building is a two-story

brick, of fire-proof construction, two

hundred and twenty-two feet long and

fifty-eight feet wide. At each end of

the building there is a onestory wing.

one of them being taken up with an

auditorium and the other with a

science laboratory and a manual train—

ing room. The country surrounding

the school is a very prosperous farm-

ing community, such as is found near

any big city, and the farms are prob»

ably smaller than the average. The

district comprises twenty-two sections.



Five old schoolhouses were discard»

ed and now no one would think of go—

ing back to the 01d plan. The school

has around two hundred pupils and it

has been made large enough to ac“





commodate a much larger number as





the community grows. In fact, it is

generally the experience that a consol-

idated school increases the number 01"

school children in the community.

Many who have never thought; of at-

tending high school readily change

their minds when they have a good

building right at hand.



A person who is accustomed to only

the little one‘room schoolhouse would

be astonished at the character ,of this

building. In fact, it. puts to shame

most of the school buildings in ordi-

nary cities. The school has a double

system of heating, the same as most

of the larger buildings in Minnesota.

This includes the ordii ary steam radi-

ators and also the vacuum system.

The latter is built on the most approv-

ed lines, the air being brought into the

basement, washed by being forced

through tiny jets of water, and heated

by steam coils and then forced into

the rooms. In ordinary weather, this

system alone is used, but in very cold

weather it can be reinforced by using

the radiators also. At each end of the.

building there is an electric molor

which pumps the foul air out of the

building. The temperatures in the in

dividual rooms are controlled by ther-

mostats. The school has its own war





 





 





 





 





Some Schools Use Automobiles in Fall and Spring, and Horeeedrawn





 





Vehicles in Winter.
- ,te‘r- System, of course, but electricity

is secured from a transmission ‘line

out of Minneapolis. There is a vacuum

cleaning plant In the basement with

connections throughout the building so

that all the dirt can be sucked down

into the basement. Gas for operating

the stoves in the domestic science

room is piped front a tank outside of

the building. In fact. there is nothing

missing to make a completely equipped

sclmci. _



Both upstairs and down are wide

hallways between the various rooms

opening off at the sides.



At one end of the main floor is a

combined gymnasium and auditorium.

At this end of the building there is an

entrance to a small box otiice window

at the door. This part of the building

is entirely separate from the rest of

the school, although there are doors

also opening into the main hallway on

the lower floor. Farmers’ meetings

may thus be held without interfering

at all with the work ot' the school.



In the one-story section of the build-

ing at the opposite end are located the

manual training shops and science lab-

oratories. There is also a conserva-

tory opening out of this end of the

building with glass on three sides.

Here agricultural experiments are car"

ried on during the cold weather. On

either side of the main hallway are the

grade schoolrooms. Upstairs there is

a fine study hall for tlte. high school,

besides recitation and classrooms.

There is also a suite of rooms for the

domestic science department and a

teachers’ restroom which is also used

for taking care of any of the children

that become sick at school. The eight-

een acres afford plenty ol‘ room for

agricultural experiments, and athletic

field and playground.





Schools in Cut-over Lands.





Many schools equal to the. one I have

jllsl. described can be found in the

rural sections of Minnesota. But lest

the reader might be of the opinion that

I am describing schools existing under

unusually favorable conditions, we

shall take a. little trip to the northern

part. of the state and see how the

schools fare in the more sparsely set-

tled sections. A day’s journey brings

us to the lake country ol‘ Minnesota.

about two hundred miles northwest of

Minneapolis. This is a great country

for tourists in the summer, but by late

fall most of them have journeyed to

warmer climates. and only the hardier

spirits brave the winter. lt is a rather

new country agriculturally, and the

real reason we are making this trip is

simply to prove to the most skeptical





that there are really fine schools in‘

the sparsely settled sections of the

country. The school at Pequot, which





was erected a number of years ago,

has already been outgrown and other

buildings have been pressed into ser-

vice. In fact, that scents to be the

experience all along the line—was soon

as a. community gets a consolidated

school, the attendance jumps rapidly.





is a special teacher who is employed

to enable the farm boys who enter

school late in the fall to catch up with

their work, especially those employed

during the potato digging season in

the fall.



This schoo. district. embraces twen‘

ty-eight sections and twelve additional

sections that have been added just re-

cently. There are also two small

schools which are associated with this

school, and in which domestic science

and agriculture are taught under the

supervision of instructors from the

consolidated school. The building was

erected at a cost of $18,000 and is a

good type of plain, substantial, brick

building. Practically all of these

schools maintain a lunclrroom where.

a noon lunch is served, the state de-

partment requiring that a hot lunch

be served during cold months. It usu-

ally consists ot‘ one hot dish, such as

cocoa, baked beans, potatoes, soup, or

anything that seems advisable. In some

schools pupils bring pennies to pay

for this and in other schools they bring

certain articles of food, while some

schools serve the hot lunch and charge

it up to the district. .



Just about every town on the rail-





road line that runs to our internati‘on"





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al boundary boasts a good consolidat-

ed scltool. The second station from

Pequot is Pine River, and here is found

one of the 'older consolidations, one

which took place in 1912. This school

is in Cass county, one of the large

counties of the state. About three hun-

dred pupils are enrolled in this school,

halt? coming from the town and half

from the country.



An interesting feature in connection

with this school is the home manage.

ment house fer girls who live too far

from Pine River to be transported ev-

ery morning and evening. There are

various positions in connection with

this house, such as manager, first

housekeeper, second housekeeper, and

workers, the girls changing from one

position to another. The domestic

science teacher acts as matron and a

cook is employed. The girls receive

one school credit for this work. In a

school of this sort, which has more

than three hundred pupils, the courses

of study are divided into academic, ag-

ricultural, home-training. normal train-

ing, commercial, and mechanical or

shop courses.



The next town from Pine River, is

Mildred, which is not entitled to the

name of a town, since it has only three

or tour houses. Here is found another

consolidated school. It is a good type

of brick building built at a cost of





 





An 'ihtéresting" feature of -" this when!





There are some seventyéfive students

at present and more will gradually at-

tend 'the school from year to year as

the country builds up. The building

will accommodate in the neighborhood

of one hundred and sixty pupils. Five

teachers are employed and the grades

are combined in such a way as to offer

instruction in the first, third, fifth and

seventh grades one year and the first,

second. fourth, sixth and eighth grades

the next year. The strong pupils are

put ahead 8. grade and‘ weak ones are

held back when it comes to changing

from the first grade, and no second

grade was being taught that year. In-

struction in a'high school of this sort

is given in the ninth and eleventh

grades one year and in the tenth and

twelfth the next year. I might enu-

merate the schools of this sort by the

dozen, because nearly every railroad

station has a consolidated school.

Even Beltrami county, part of which

forms the shore line of the Lake of

the Woods, has numerous consolidated

schools. Within a radius of twenty-

five miles of Bemidji, in that county,

there are probably a dozen consolidated

schools. One consolidated school in

that county , was organized fifteen

miles from the nearest town by consol-





 





idating five log schcolhouses. Three

years of high school work are taught

out here, and a comparatively few

years ago this country was almost a

wilderness.



These schools in northern Minne-

sota have been described, not so much

because they are the most famous

schools in that state, but just to show

what has been accomplished under

pioneer conditions. If such schools as

these are maintained in the more

sparsely settled sections of a state,

with as long winters and as snowy

weather as Minnesota, there can hard-

ly be any excuse for poor country

schools in more favorably situated

communities. It has been found in

many parts of Minnesota that real es-

tate men are selling property on the

basis of “good school facilities, ,and

more than one family has settled in a

particular community because a con-

solidated school was only a short dis-

tance away.



Transpofling the Pupils.



The question of transporting chil-

dren to and from school, which always

seems unsurmountable in the minds

of most school patrons, is often a very

small matter after all. A few years

ago some very definite statistics were

secured in regard to transportation.

One hundred and eighty-five schools

reported as follows:





- , , -'..~ 2 _' ;,_. . , “ f 1.} .V :15; ‘" I: '~.;' ’—.i_ “Cryst- 6.7%

newscasts-.000; jinn-using: iqifipfh'e‘iiti





 

 





 





Tate ' nitmbeof {testers





Number of trips missed-by,





V331,.r............ ..... ..

Number 'of times vans were ’ ' »

late ..................... 646

Days schools closed through , ' ' ‘

impeded transpOrtation .. 50

Children walking from one-

half to three-fourths of a .

mile to van ............. 645

Total children transported. 9,675





Number of children hauled



over five miles ...... . . . . 446

Total cost transportation. .’ . $265,353.00

Average monthly salary for.



drivers ' 49.31





If Minnesota can transport its pupils

through snow drifts and cold weather.

it certainly can be accomplished .in

almost any other state. It will be seen

that the schools were closed on. an

average of less than a. third of a day

each for the entire year on account of

impeded transportation. The cost of

transportation averaged less than ten

cents a mile per pupil per day, this

figure including the round trip. No

route is over six, and preferably they





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should not be over five miles long. The





following regulations govern the haul-

ing of children in Minnesota.



1. All children living more than two

miles from the school building shall be

transported. Those living within the

two—mile limit may be tranSported. As

far as possible, all children shall be

hauled.



2. A child may be required to walk

not to exceed three-fourths of a mile

to meet the van.



3. Drivers must sign a definite con-

tract and‘give a $300 bond.



4. Only vans built according to state

specifications or approved by the rim

specter shall be used.



5. Provision must be made for heat

ing the vans by means of foot warm-

ers or some other safe method. Stoves

inside the van cannot be permitted.



6. Where not more than four chil-

dren are to be transported from any

one direction, a district may make spe-

cial arrangements for their“ transpor‘

tation, upon application to the in«

spector.



7. Drivers shall make daily and

weekly reports to the principal.



8. If conveyances carrying children

are required to cross railroad tracks,

the driver shall stop his team and have

one of the older pupils designated by

the principal, flag the conveyance

across the tracks.



9. No child shall be hauled farther

than the shortest distance by public

road from his home to the school build‘

ing unless approved by the inspector.



10. A driver shall not use an auto.

mobile in place of the regular van ex-

cept by special permission from the

principal. In case an automobile is

used a sufficient number of trips shall

be made so as not to crowd the chil-

dren in the car.



11. No person under eighteen years

of age shall be allowed-to haul chil-

dren except by special permission from

the inspector. ,



“Remaking Rural Communities,” a

story dealing with the consolidated





schools of Colorado, will appear in an

early issue—Editors.





Bill for Department of Agriculture Favored





HE State Department of Agricul-

ture, as recommended by Governor

Groesbeck and favored by the Michi-

gan State Farm Bureau and other

farmers’ organizations, will in all prob-

ability be created by the present. leg

islature. Representative Atwood’s bill

providing for such a department was

reported favorably March 1 with but

minor amendments by the state affairs

committee of the house, to whom it had

been referred. If the unanimous sup-

port given tlentil'e program of reor-

ganization oflthe state's administra~

tion is any indication of the way in

g which this bill will be received, the

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this legislation are indeed favorable.

One feature of this measure which

it is expected will arouse considerable

opposition is the provision made in

Sec. 4 of the bill for taking over the

state fair at Detroit. This proposal

has aroused considerable interest and

is regarded as an open question even

by the sponsors of the bill.

Representative Atwood’s bill would

create a commissioner of agriculture

to be appointed by the governor. This

commissioner and his assistants would

take over the duties now performed by

the department of animal industry,

state food and drug commissioner,





 





 





commission, the commissioner of im-





migration, the board of geological sur-





not suitable for agricultural develop«

ment within the state by fraud, mis~





vey, the state inspector of orchards fepresentation or deceit and the publi-





and nurseries, the inspector of apiar-

ies, and theagricultural statistics di-

vision of the Secretary of-state’s ofl‘lce.



Section 5 of the bill provides: “'It

shall be the duty of the department of

agriculture to foster and promote in

every possible way the agricultural in-

terests of the state of Michigan; to co-

operate With agricultural agencies in

the different counties of the state and

of the federal government; and to pree-

vent, and assist in preventing, by all

available means authorized by, law, the

sale of iunimnroved lands and, lands





 





 





tion of false or misleading state

ments or advertising matter designed

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Carrots are not excelled as a food

for the horses. They are particularly

refreshing given toa hunter after a

hard day over rough country, or to a

work—horse. They are uSually fed raw

or sliced. ‘ . , > ’ ~ "



If silageis fed to cattle under. c0ver.

and not waddling about in cold mud or





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L'soilssupplies food actually need-





ed by many plants, .such as clover,’





alfalfa, soy beans, etc., which feed

heavilyon limestone; that is, they re-

quire calcium to build their plant tis-

sues. Limestone is also a soil amend-

ment, correcting'certain acid condi-

tions in the soil. These acid or sour

conditions prevent plants from secur-

ing sufiicient nourishment or food for

proper growth. Thus, we can readily

see that the use of limestone is very

important on these light soils.





Limestone or lime is just as essen-

tial to plants as it is to animals or

human beings. When the ration fed

to growing animals does not contain

sufficient calcium, it produces astunt-

ed animal. Certain diseases in chil.

dren are caused largely by insufficient

lime in the child’s icod. Lime water

is the remedy. Plant diseases are caus-

ed by an insufficient amount of lime

in the soil. Limestone is the remedy.

Plants grown on soils having a good

supply of lime are higher in feeding

value than plants grown on sour soils.

Plants cannot tolerate a sour soil any

better than we can tolerate a “sour

stomach," commonly called “heart-

burn.”



Limestone when applied on acid

soils also furnishes a suitable medium

for bacteria which adds nitrogen to

the soil. These bacteria do their best

work in a neutral or slightly alkaline

soil. Limestone produces this condi-

tion.



Use Limestone Properly.



In using limestone the following sug-

gestions will prove helpful:



1. Find out how much limestone

your soil needs. Then supply this

amount of limestone.



2. ,Use limestone with manure if

possible. Limestone is not a complete

fertilizer.



3. Apply limestone in the early fall

or, preferably, a year before you ex-

pect to see results on your crops.



4. Apply'it as a top-dressing and

disc it in. L'imestone must be mixed

with the soil.



5. Apply it with a manure spreader,

lime spreader, or with a shovel.





Experiences with Limestone.



The writer has discussed limestone

and its use with hundreds of men at

farmers’ institutes during the past five

years, and has heard numerous stories

both for and against using limestone.

Those farmers who condemned lime—

stone after thoroughly discussing and

studying their problems and testing

their soils, found that they made some

mistake 'in its use. The following are

a few of the experiences with lime-

stone as given at these meetings:



A farmer living at Durand, Wiscon-

sin, after listening to a talk on “Lime-

stone and its Uses,” stated: “Two

years ago I bought a carload of the





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best grade of limestone I could buy,

put on three tons per acre on a ten-

acre field, but have not secured any

better crops by using limestone;” he

concluded, “I do not believe in lime-

stone.”



This farmer was persuaded to bring

samples of his soil to the meeting the

following day. He brought them and

they were tested with an acidity

tester. Imagine his surprise when the

test indicated that none of his soil was

sour and that he did not need lime.



“Why, how is it,” he said, “that I do

not need lime and my neighbors do,

according to the tests you made yes-

terday?"



Further questioning developed the

fact that he had a limestone bluff on

his land which through the action of

the weathering and washing by rains

was correcting his acid soil conditions.



This man spent $150 for limestone





   

 

 





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only place where I have. a stand of

clover on the forty-acre field is on the

two acres on which I put the lime (five

years ago. I did not believe in liming

until this year, but am now thoroughly

convinced that lime is necessary. If I

had used limestone on the whole forty

acre tract I would have forty acres of

clover instead of two acres.”



The above statement is typical of

many others made by those who have

used limestone. When men become

convinced by actual demonstration on

their own land that limestone is bene~

ficial they regret not having used it on

a more extensive scale. There will al-

ways be a time in the cropping of all

soils when lime will prove beneficial.

Testing will tell when this point is

reached.



Where lime is cheap and land val-

ues are high, heavier applications of

lime can be made more profitably than





 





 





‘ The Leguminous Crops Require Lime.





which he could have saved if he had

tested his soil. It is always advisable

to know the limestone requirement of

your soil. Your county agent, state

experiment station or state soil exten-

sion workers will gladly test your soil.



Another farmer at the same meeting

condemned limestone, stating: “I used

it last year, planted the field to clover

and did not get any better clover

where I limed.” This man, after an-

swering numerous questions finally ad-

mitted that he plowed it under six

inches deep. We went out to his farm,

took samples of his soil five inches

deep and from five to eight inches

deep. The top five inches of soil was

still as acid as usual; the second sam-

ple taken Where the lime did its work

was only slightly acid. The main root

system of the clover plant was in the

top five inches so the crop was not

benefited by the application of lime-

stone. .



Apply limestone as a top-dressing.

Rains will carry it downward, but very

little is carried upward.



At ameeting at Hancock, Wisconsin,

another farmer related his experience

with limestone. His story was as fol-

lows: “Five years ago I applied fou‘r

tons of limestone on two acres of land

and planted the field to rye and clover.

I saw no results from liming, the clo-

ver stand being very good on the en-

tire field. No results were seen next

year or for two years following, but

this year, that is, the fifth year, the





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where the opposite conditions obtain.

Of the common crops alfalfa, sugar

beets and canning peas respond best

to liming; red clover, soy beans, bar—

ley and wheat come next; while oats,

corn and rye are not affected so much

directly, but are greatly benefited in

an indirect way because the general

fertility of the soil is increased by the

most successful growing of clover, al-

falfa and soy beans. Most of the gar-

den crops except watermelon, straw-

berries and potatoes are greatly bene-

fited by the use of lime. Soils low in

fertility respond better to liming than

soils high in fertility; therefore, it is

more necessary to apply limestone to

sandy soils.

Results of Liming.



The beneficial effect of lime on acid

soils is illustrated by the results of a

few field tests which follow. At Ellis

Junction, Marinette county, two plots

of alfalfa were seeded in the same

field of acid sandy soil in 1910 without

a nurse crop. One plot received an

application of air-slaked lime at the

rate'of one ton per acre. The other

plot received no lime. Both were ma-

nured at the rate of six loads per acre

and inoculated. In 1911, 2,080 pounds

(from two cuttings) of alfalfa hay

were cut per acre on the limed plot,

and only 1,340 pounds per acre on the

unlimed. This shows a gain of 55.2

per cent in favor of lime.



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two other plots were seeded to alfalfa





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the same year, (1910). One plot was

limed and the other received no lime.

In 1912 two cuttings were made on

each plot. Four thousand one hundred

and sixty pounds of hay per acre were

taken off the limed plot and 1,820

pounds per acre from the unlimed.

This represents a_pne hundred and

twenty-seven per cent increase due to

lime. The quality of the hay was also

improved, as about twenty per cent 0f

the hay cut on the. tinlimed plot was

June grass, while the crop on the lim-

ed plot was good alfalfa hay.



At the Sparta substation two plots

of acid sandy soil were seeded to Mam.

moth Clover in 1011 without a nurse

crop. One plot was treated with

ground limestone at the rate of one

ton per acre before seeding, and the'

other received no lime. In 1912, 1,906

pounds‘of clover hay were cut per

acre from the limed plot, while the

crap on the unlimed plot was a failure.



Mammoth clover growing on acid

sandy soil treated with lime and ma-

nure gave a yield of 5,063 pounds of

hay per acre in 1912’, while on land

treated with manure alone the yield

was 3,566 pounds. This shows a gain

of nearly forty-two per cent in favor

of lime.



Soy beans on limed soil produced

6.96 tons of green crop per acre in

1911. Only 2.27 tons were cut per acre

where no lime was applied. 1n this

case the lime more than doubled the

yield. In 1912, the yields on lin‘ie'd

plots were 66.6 and 77.8 per cent great-

er than on unlimed soil.



How to Apply Limestone.



Lime may be applied as ground

limestone, marl, ground shells, quick-

lime, air-slaked lime, or refuse lime

(lime carbonate) from glue factories,

tanneries and beet sugar factories.



Lime in any pulverized form may be

distributed by putting a thin 'layer

over the manure in the manure spread-

er and setting the spreader at the low-

est gear; by using some form of ’dis-

tributor especially adapted for spread-

ing limestone; or by shoveling care-

fully from a wagon box. Only when

the lime is damp should the last meth-

od be used.



Where only quicklime is available,

it may be dumped into piles of about

one-half peck each, using about 1:300

pounds to the acre. A little water

should be thrown on the lime and the

piles then covered with earth. After

the lime slacks, more earth is added,

and the material is spread with ashov-

el. Another method is to slack the

lime in a box on a wagon, and after it

is broken into fine particles to spread

it broadcast with a shovel.



If large amounts of lime are to be

used it will be advisable to purchase a

limestone distributor. These machines

spread limestone very rapidly and effi-

ciently. They are built similar to a

grain drill.
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H11; pressing need of the dairy

‘ “inductry in‘Michigan is immedi-



‘ ate steps for improvement of

quality of cream marketed by the

dairy farmer was the consensus of

opinion of the Committee of Fifteen

on dairy affairs in Michigan, which

met at Michigan State Farm Bureau

headquarters in Lansing, March 3, -to

devise means 'to pull the industry out

of the, present chaos which exists in

this state. It was agreed that such

improvement must. precede all other

steps for betterment of the dairy farm-

er’s lot.



“No educational campaign to im-

prove dairy products in Michigan or

any other state will work," said H. C.

Wendt, chief of the dairy division of

the state food and drug department,

“unless it is accompanied by a univer-





make a substantial difference in the

price paid for poor cream and for a

high-quality product.” N. P. Hu‘ll,

treasurer of the Michigan Allied Dairy

Association, and one of the milk pro-

ducers’ representatives, concurred in

this statement, which found favor with

the committee as a sound foundation

upon which to build other reforms in

the dairy industry. —



Committeemen’s versions of the suc-

cess of cooperative cream pools and

creameries in this state which are op-

erating on. a quality basis were heard

Willi interest by other members of the

committee. It was brought out that in

all quality organizations the producers

received from three to nine cents per

pound of butter-fat over the current

market price, and in some cases w

high as fifteen cents. Farmers’ cream-

eries making the highest grade butter

were shown to have markets for their

product where price was no object.



It was declared that manufacturers

of dairy products 'would welcome any

action which would insure them of a

higher quality of cream or milk from

all the producers.



The following resolution was then

adopted:



Whereas, the quality of the cream-

ery butter manufactured in Michigan

is gradually deteriorating, and



Whereas, this fact, in the opinion of

this committee, is fundamentally due

to the fact that under the present

competitive conditions no financial in—

centive is provided for the production

of abetter quality of cream, and



Whereas. it is also recognized by

this committee that the present dupli-

cation of cream-buying agencies is an

uneconomic tax upon the producer and

together with the question of quality,

constitutes a condition which the

cream producer is unable to stand un-

der prevailing economic conditions at"-

fecting the industry, and



Whereas, this committee deems it

fundamental that the quality of Michi—

gan butter be improved in order that

consumption may be substantially in-

creased, recognizing that, poor butter

means increased consumption of the

substitute article, and that, if the in-

dustry is to progress, unnecessary buy-

ing machinery must be eliminated.



Therefore be it resolved, that this

committee recommend that the Dairy

Department of the Michigan State

Farm Bureau promote and assist in es-

tablishing cream pools in the various

dairy communities of this state for the

purpose of collective marketing of the

cream produced by the daii‘ymen of a

given community on a quality basis.



M. L. Noon, of Jackson, was elected

permanent chairman of the Committee

‘of Fifteen on dairy affairs in Michigan.

and Secretary C. L. Brody, of the State





. Farm Bureau,,was made secretary of





the committee. ,



Chairman ,N-oon appointed a commit-

tee of three to act with himself in pre-

paring a plan of procedure for presen-

tation at the next meeting of the com-

mittee, which will be March 7 at Lan-

sing. They were: J. C. Near, repre-





 





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Hull, the Michigan Milk Producers’

Association:



Those present were: Cooperative

creamery representatives: ' J. S. Kin-

ney, of Montgomery; John .0. Butler,

of Portland; B. A. McGiIl, of Big Rap-

ids, and C. W. Pennock, of Nashville.



Michigan Milk Producers’ Associa-

tion: N. P. Hull, Lansing; R. C. Reed,

Howell; M. L. Noon; Jackson, and Mr.

Harwodd, Adrian. '



Michigan State Farm Bureau: J. C.

Near, of Flat Rock; Roy C. Potts, of

Washington; Robert Monteith, of Mar-

tin; George Kern, of Owesso, and Al-

fred Hendrickson, of Shelby.





DAIRY INTERESTS FlGHT'BUT.

TER TAX RULING.

(Continued from page 328).





tion is widely seattered, was necessary

to the maintenance of the dairy and

creamery industry. It was definitely

stated that none of the lime enters

into the butter, and that butter made

from cream neutralized and pasteuriz-

ed kept better than butter not so

handled. ~



The attorney for the creamerymen

contended that the act of 1902 did not.

ha'V'e‘rei‘ei-ence to the manipulation of

cream in any way, but that it applies

specifically and exclusively to the

“manipulation of melted parcels of

butter or butter-fat,” such as was used

in the production of “process” butter,

a commodity not now found in the

markets. He declared that cream, its

character and manipulation, came

within the provisions of the pure food

laws, and onthis ground he asked for

the withdrawal of the commissioner’s

ruling. The creamery experts declared

that cream which was putrid was not

used for butter, and if used would sub-

ject the resulting bad butter to con-

demnation under the pure food laws.

It was also contended that it was im-

possible to draw the line between bad

odors and objectionable odors, that;

what might be considered a bad odor

by one inspector might not be objec-

tionable to another, and that if the

ruling were to go into effect it would

be impossible to secure enough men

qualified to judge butler fairly as to

the law’s provisions, and that it would

subject the creameries to an endless

amount, of trouble if they used the neu-

tralizing process for arty purpose, and

render them liable to taxation 01' crim-

inal prosecution according to the de«

cisions of incompetent: revenue oiii-

cials. It was also declared that any,

treasury ruling which would prevent

the use of a neutralizer 01' compel the

payment of a tent-cut tax on butter

from cream so neutralized would

greatly restrict the dairy industry of

the country.



James Sorenson, representing a.

large number of Minnesota coopera-

tive creameries, argued that cream

which'was in such a condition that it

required neutralization and pasteuriza<

tion was not suitable for use in button

making; that because the centralized

creameries accepted cream that was

turnedrdown by the local cooperative

creameries, the small creameries were

at a disadvantage and unable to com«

pet‘e with the larger creameries which

made extensive use of the neutraliza-

tion process. The oleomargarine in-

terests were represented by Secretary

J. 8. Abbott, of the institute of Inde-

pendent Margarin Manufacturers, and

the National Lime Association by Pro-

fessor E. O. Fippin, but they were not.

given an opportunity to testify.



According to the best information

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HREE great and powerful agri-



cultural organizations of Michi-



gan which,~ according to Michi-

gan State Farm Bureau officials, have

formerly held aloof in the matter of

affiliating with the farm bureau, fear-

ing that under centralized control they

would lose their corporate identity,

are now closer to the state organiza-

tion than they have ever been. This

great convergence of agricultural in-

terests is virtually an endorsement of

the commodity control idea, says the

farm bureau and is called significant

in that it came immediately after the

election of state officers and an execu-

tive committeeon the commodity con-

trol issue. .





The Michigan Fruit Growers’ Ex-

change, the leading cooperative fruit

organization of the state, has asked

the farm bureau that it be made the

official fruit organization of the farm

bureau under the commodity plan. A

farm bureau committee has been or-

dered to negotiate with the fruit men.

Negotiations are under way with the

Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange,

a powerful marketing organization

with an immense plant. The Michigan

Live Stock Shippers’ Association, at

their recent annual meeting, endorsed

the State Farm Bureau and agreed

among themselves to join the organi-

zation under the commodity control

plan.



Farm bureau officers call these re-

cent deveIOpments not only an en-

dorsement of the commodity control.

but a strong belief in the future pros

perity and permanency of the Michi-

gan State Farm Bureau by great. co-

operative organizations which have

made a success for themselves in their

own field and along the same general

line of control.





Under the commodity control plan,

as understood by the farm bureau men,

each commodity organization would

have complete charge of its own field,

would serve all other farm bureau

members in a cooperative manner and

would in turn have the use of other

commodity organizations. All COlll-

modify organization members would

become farm bureau members, and

eventually the commodity organiza-

tions probably would have representa-

tion on the State Farm Bureau execu-

tive committee.





Plans are now entertained for the

organization of the entire farm bureau

membership into cooperative associa-

tions, which would serve one another

and all would be served by the general

departments of the State Farm Bu-

reauwpublicity, seed, traffic, market-

ing, and legislative. Already several

counties have every farm bureau mem-

ber identified with a cooperative asso-

ciation.



More than twenty-five thousand

Michigan farmers have signed crop

contracts whereby they agree to han-

dle ‘all their produce through their co-

operative associations, according to

the extension department of the agri-

cultural college. Cooperative associa-

tions are being formed in the state at

the rate of twenty a month, and the

idea is reported to be taking fast in

all existing farm organizations.



The farm bureau’s reasons why it

believes that commodity control will

guarantee its future have been sum-

marized as follows:



1. It is already a big growing busi

ness.



2. The commOdity organizations will

still continue to be regarded as depart-

ments of the ,centralized organization.



3. Their services will be so corre.

lated that a member of any one com-

modity cooperative association can get

help from any .of,the departments.





 





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of the general departments of trafli'lc,

seed, legislation, publicity, and the sec-

retary’s office.



5. A' large percentage of Michigan

farmers are general farmers with in-

terests in a number of commodities

whose influence and the influence

whose county agent will be toward a

united service rather than a. division.



6. Michigan’s commodity organiza-

tion policy HOW provides for the admit-

tance of the potato growers’ exchange

and other such organizations which

can come in without utterly losing

their identity and whose admittance

means an increased service and an in-

creased satisfaction On the part of the

farmers.



7. The vote for president at the an-

nual meeting was one hundred and

thirteen to fifty-five favoring James

Nicol, which was the test vote of the

attitude of the membership toward

commodity organization and would

seem to indicate that two-thirds of the

membership were already sold to the

commodity idea.



8. That one commodity organiza-

tion being incorporated will not be-,

come responsible for the acts of anoth-

er commodity organization. '



9. Ultimate representation of com-

modity organization on the executive

committee of the State Farm Bureau

will give the needed unity of action

and mutual understanding.





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T Used to be a long day’s work to



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reached home, and we kept the horses

shacking at that. Then, too, the teams

were taken away from the farm work,

which really was the most serious

thing of all.



But the auto truck changes all that.

Now we have an early breakfast and

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appreciate, for later in the day, the

stores are usually well supplied, so

that it is more difficult to make a sale.

There are no horses to put out and

feed in town. That always had to be

done with horses. There was always

some expense connected with stabling

the time while eating. We do not have

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article this season -nor will the-

farmer have to pay an unduly high





the state continue to follow the trend

indicated by the replies to recent





' Michigan State Farm Bureau question-





naire.

,Ot' thirty-three county agents giving.

their opinion on the status of farm la-





-bor conditions, practically every one

, , said that labor was returning from the

?city and would be plentiful this sea-





son, that the wages to be paid would





i ‘ average thirty to forty per cent under

' > those of 1920 and that in general the





farmer would proceed mos-t cautiously.

In some counties a curtailment of pro-

duction is forecasted. »

Wages will range from board only

to $25 a month with board, up to $40





. to $45, a month without board, which





promises to be the average.

According to the United States De-





. . partment of Agriculture, farm wages

,throughout the country in 1920 aver-





aged $64.95 without board, and $46.85

with board, the highest figure in the

nation’s history. Day labor at harvest

averaged $3.60 with board and $4.36

without, board. The average was con-

siderably higher for the northern

states, but the figures as noted repre-

sented a gain of one hundred and fif-

teen per cent since 1915. The IOWest

average farm wage for the nation was

in 1879 when it was $16.42 a month

without board.



In 1902, says the department, the

average monthly wage was $22.14,

which increased to $29.88 by 1914, fol-

lowed by $30.15 in 1915, with no evi-

dence of war effect. This effect ap-

peared, perhaps, as a small beginning

in the next year, 1916, when the wage

rate was $32.83. Then followed the

rapid rise to $40.43 in 1917, to $47.07

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kin 1920. .

Fifteen Michigan counties making

reply to the questionnaire said that





respective counties during the coming

season, ten saw no change and eight.

others predicted a curtailment of both

labor and production. Reports from

the county agents were, in brief:

Missaukee county said that only

year-round help was being hired, with-

change

wage. However, farmers declare that

they can’t hire at any price on present

prices.





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in hiring.





, seeding to clover or legumes.





rate is from $40 to $50 a month.





season.





upon conditions.

that during the war they worked with

ufactured products are high.





‘work and have no labor problems





estimating that labor costs will be one

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‘ . Farm LabOr Situation

County. Agents Tell of Cami/Mons





; FARM labor will not be a scarce

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price to get it, if conditions throughout »

'of high wag-es, say Manistee farmers





more men would be employed in their





in the prevailing





Muskegon county will increase the

number of farm laborers by forty per

cent and will pay from $50 to $60 a

month, but at present farmers are slow





Farmers are undecided in .Newaygo

county and there is a tendency to cur"

tail acreage and build up the land by

Very

few laborers are being hired, but the





Oakland county farmers are deter-

mined not to pay high prices for farm

labor and have set the price at $25 to

$40, but plan to hire more men this





Ottawa county will hire more men

but the number will depend largely

Farmers there say





out help and can continue to do so as

long as farm prices are low and man-





Presque lsle farmers do their own

says County Agent E. S. Brewer, in

Washtenaw has difficulty in getting

good men and sees very few men re-





turning to the farms from the cities.





Perhaps five hundred more men will

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varying from board only to $25 a month

with board. Wages there have been

cut fifty per cent.



Prices do not warrant a continuance





who are hiring by the day and paying

$2.00 to $3.00, a cut of“ from fifty cents

to $1.50. No decrease is expected in

the number of men employed.



Play safe is the advice that Oceana

county farmers are giving each other.

They have lowered wages $10 to $15

a month and have made the monthly

rate about $40 and board.



Mason county calls the labor market

one for employers and notes that the

wages are dropping from $10 to $20,

with more men available.



Eaton county does not anticipate a

plentiful supply of farm labor during

the coming season, but expects to em-

ploy about the same number as in

1920. Farmers offer $45 a month and

board; Greater crop acreage is going

to boom the Alpena county labor mar-

ket to some extent. Farmers there

are offering $30 to $50 a month for

men. ' J

. Antrim county farmers say that as

they have no guarantee of returns on

their investment, risk and labor, they

are not going to invest very much good

money in labor that has been spoiled

by high wages, short hours and half—

.hearted work.



Lapeer county will employ twenty

per cent less farm laborers this year

than last, according to County Agent

S. F. Wellman. Many farmers there

feel that they would be money ahead _

to allow their farms to lie idle than to

pay high prices for labor and sell pro-

duce at present prices. Good men will

draw $40 to $45 there, a reduction of

$10 to $15.



No change will be noted in the num-

ber of farm hands to be employed in

Ionia. county. Labor is'not rushing

back to the farm from the city and



indications that farm labor will be

short in that county if city conditions

pick up.



A few farmers who left Kalkaska

county are returning. No change is

probable in the number of farm lab-

orers who are being paid at the rate

of $40 a month. .





Tenant farmers will take the place

of forty per cent 'of the farm laborers

in Isabella county according to the

forecast from that section. Farmers

there are not planning to raise much

more than enough to meet expenses.





 





 





 





More men will be employed in Jack-

son county where County Agent C. V.

Ballard says the neglected farms are

in need of attention and that the labor

costs would probably be within reach

of the farmers. Jobless men are invit-

ed to come out and do chores and chop

wood for their board until spring, when

work opens up. The going wage is

promised. ‘



Sons and sons-in-law have hit the

trail for the farm in Berrien county

since the industrial slump, where jobs

are to be had in limited number at

$2.50 to $3.00 a day, somewhat less

than last year.



Gratiot county farmers are agreed

that they can’t continue to pay high

. wages and break even.



Over-production is going to cause

Ingham county farmers to raise what

they can without hiring men. Fewer

laborers will be hired and the prevail-

, ing wage will be $25 to $30, from $15

to $20 less than in 1920.



- Mecosta county farmers announce

that they are not going to hire. A few

are being taken on by the year and

the wage question is generally un-

settled. , . w.



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February 9th, 1921.





Allow me to congratulate you on the excellent booklet





I have just received from you.

its way into the hands of my

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be less of e. worry on our minds.





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Yours truly.





County Agr' 1. Agent»





Sinceannouncing a few Weeks ago that we had ready for free distribution a book on the use of limestone

on Michigan farms,we have had thousands of requests from farmers,in every part of the state for copies.





Since sending them out, we have had letters from farmers, from county agents, and from agricultural





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upper peninsula during the past year,

while horses and sheep show a one

per cent decline in number. The av

erage price per head of horses under

one year old is given as $66, which is

the highest valuation of young horses

anywhere in the state.‘ A similar situ-

ation appears in regard to horses be-

tween one and two years old, our price

averaging $108, while in the southern

districts of the state prices range from

$51 to $70. The horses commonly

found in this region are of excellent

quality, due perhaps to the demand for

heavy draught animals. It is some-

what otherw‘ise as regards cattle. In

several sections of the loWer state

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en as $16 per head for cattle below the

age of one year and $32 for animals

from one to two years old. Lambs are

put at $6.49 on the average in upper

Michigan, while in the southwestern

district of the lower peninsula they

run at $7.52 on the average. Ewes one

year old and over are priced at $9.38

on the average in northern Michigan,

and this is a higher level than is at-

tained in any district of the lower pe-

ninsula, according to this report. In—

deed, in the far southern area the av-

erage price is placed at.$5.90. Again,

the average price of swine in the up

per peninsula ranges higher than in

the lower state, that is, at $20.35, as

compared with $16.13, which is the

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at the conference and a strong list of

speakers for. them particularly is said

to have been arranged. Under this

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day.” The last day of the conference

will be given over entirely to children,

parents and teachers, it is stated. The

second annual grain show held at the

school will also take place this year.

Last year, six trophy cups were offer-

ed by business men of Menominee

county, the cups being awarded finally

only if the winner is successful in

three events. These trophy cup con-

tests are open to all upper peninsula

farmers who desire 'to participate.

There is to be no entry fee. It is ex-

pected that, as last year, seed-buyers

from outside the district will be on

hand. There is likewise to be a gar-

ment contest in which schools will

take part in a contest for a trophy cup

which. also must be won thrice to in-

sure permanent possession. A silver

trophy cup will be awarded to the up-

per peninsula farmer who displays the

best potatoes. Mr. Kebler, superintend-

ent of the school, is urging general in-

terest in the conference and the ex-

hibits. ~ p



The Sault Ste. Marie News and Up-

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reau. Agent E. L. Kunze will do the

editorial work for the News on its ag-

ricultural side, and every bureau mem-

ber will receive the paper.

pews. COunty Farm Bureau has rented

a warehouse at Pickford to house and

distribute supplies to members in that

section.





The Chip-





The snow motor which has been in





use near Ironwood recently pulled four

large sleighs loaded with eighty-four

tons of logs, according to the Daily

Globe of that city. This was not the

limit of its capacity, it was asserted.

The augur drive on the skates of the

drums is the basis for the power de‘

veloped by this invention, it is stated.

which can ascend the steepest hills

without difficulty, it is claimed.

the streets of Ironwood the machine

pulled nine sleighs loaded.





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The coming season will see the con-





struction of the new cut-off road from

Lake Linden to Gay on the upper Ke-

weenaw Bay shore, to be carried on

jointly by Houghton and Keweenaw

counties.

ize four miles of old road that is to be

rebuilt, while Keweenaw county must

undertake six miles of new construc-





Houghton county will util-





tion throughout. .The new road reduces





the traveling distance between the





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and will pass through virgin timber,



adding another very scenic drive to



the delightful highways of the pe-



ninsula.



Government Explosives Probably Not

Available.



The prominence given the subject of

land-clearing in the cut-over district of

northern Michigan and the other lake

states, calls attention to the great

quantity of salvaged war explosives—-

TNT and picric acid——temporarily lo-

cated near Sparta, Wisconsin, rather

to the disquietude of the good people

of the neighborhood. The war depart-

ment purposes, it is understood, the

removal of this stored explosive to a

remote district in the southwestern

United States, where it will not endan~

ger life and property and where it will

be available in time of war. An effort

is being made to retain this salvaged

war explosive in the lake states reg-

ion, where it may be employed for

land-clearing, road-building, drainage

and similar operations. Considerable

correspondence has passed between

experts of the College of Agriculture of

the University of Wisconsin, the Upper

Peninsula Development Bureau, and

other interested agencies, and Wash-

ington, looking to legislation and rulo

ings that will effect this object. The

problem is complicated, involving a

dffierence of opinion regarding the de—

terioration of TNT when stored indefi-

nitely, military policy, and the avail-

ability of picric acid as a substitute

for TNT on our northern lands. The

secretary of war appears to be willing

to relinquish picric acid at Sparta and

at Fort VVingate, N. J., butis disinclin-

ed to let go the TNT. Just what the

outcome will be cannot be said at this

writing. There are said to be more

than 16,000,000 pounds of TNT at

Sparta, with 3,300,000 pounds of picric

acid there, and nearly twice that

amount at Fort Wingate. The VViS-

consin idea is to have this explosive—

or a portion of itmsold to the states

at low cost, to be distributed by public

agencies to local uses also at low cost.

Military policy may prevent the execu-

tion of this plan.



The catch of trout in Lake Superior

in 1917 was 1,536,851 pounds, and of

the famous whitefishtthe catch was

242,262 pounds, taken in Michigan wa-

ters. In the commercial fishing indus-

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ALFALFA ON WHEAT GROUND.





Would you consider it wise to sow

alfalfa seed on my wheat ground this

spring? This is clay loam and well

drained, also soil is in good condition.

Montcalm Co. 0. C.





Many Michigan farmers are secuiing

women with alfalfa seeded with wheat

in the spring. On well-drained clay

loam soil, which in your experience

has sufficient lime to carry red clover,

a spring seeding of alfalfa should be

followed by a good stand.





We strongly recommend northern.

grown alfalfa seed produced in Mon-

tana, the Dakotas, or northern Idaho.

The Grimm alfalfa is the best variety.

Recommend seeding fifteen pounds of

ordinary northern—grown or ten pounds

of Grimm seed per acre.





Culture for inoculation may be se-

cured from the ,Department of Bacte-

riology, East Lansing, Michigan. The

price is twenty—five cents per bottle

and one bottle contains sufficient ma-

terial to inoculate a bushel of seed.

Directions for application accompany

the. material.



The Michigan Agricultm‘al College,

of East Lansing, will send you a. circu‘

lar on request, giving full information

in regard to securing a stand of alfal‘

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WHITE SWEET ‘CLOVER.





Please tell me how to handle White

sweet clover for the best success. Will

it grow on sour soil?—Subscriber.



While it is claimed by some that

sweet clover will grow on almost any

kind of a soil, it seldom makes a prof-

itable growth on an acid soil. It is

one of the most sensitive crops to this

condition. An application of two tons

of ground limestone or from two to

three cubic yards of marl is usually

necessary to secure a good crop on an

acid soil. Proper inoculation is im‘

portant. (See answer above for direc~

tions for securing cultures for inocu-

lation).



Sweet clover should be sown in the

early spring on :1. Well compacted seed-

bed at the rate of about twelve pounds

of scarified seed per acre. The white

biennial gives a larger yield and is

more upright in growth than the yel-

low biennial. Sweet clover may be

sown on fall-sown wheat 01' rye, 01

with cats or barley. The possibility of

securing a crop the first year depends

quite largely upon the fertility of the

SOil and moisture supply.



The first crop the second year when

desired for hay should be cut before

the blossoms appear and high enough

that a few leaves will be left on the

stubble, otherwise the young shoots

will not start and the second crop will

be lost—C. R. MEGEE, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Farm Crops.





 





PROPER GRAIN WITH ALFALFA

HAY.





Kindly tell me What is the right pro-

portion of alfalfa hay, bean, corn and

oats meal to feed a cow. She is giving

about seven quarts of milk a day now

but should do better. I am feeding

two pounds of corn and oats meal and

one pound of bran aday with two feed-

ings of hay and one of corn fodder.



Ingham Co. A. L. R.



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of this grain ration for every three

pounds of milk your cow produces in

a. day. As she increases in flow of

milk increase 'the grain ration in pl‘0<

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FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBERS.





What kind of fertilizer would you

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nure on it; which I will plow under in

the spring? What fertilizer should I

use on muck, which I expect to seed

along with oats in the spring?



Ottawa Co. D. M.

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two 01' three hundred pounds per acre

placed in the hill and harrowed in 01-

raked in with hand-rake would be suf-

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and potash, but sometimes it is also

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the nitrogen in the muck is in an inert

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I have ten acres of very poor sandy

$011 that should be seeded this spring.

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It is better to sow not over one bush-

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CHAPTER XVII. -





AN FAILING was never more

D thankful for his, unerring sense



of direction. He struck off at a.

forty-five degree angle between their

late course and a directroad to the

river, and he kept it as if by a survey-

or’s line. All the old devices of the

wilderness——the ridge on ridge that

looked just alike, inclines that to the

casual eye looked like downward

slopes, streams that vanished beneath

the snow, and the snow-mist blowing

across the face of the landmarks—

could not avail against him.



A half dozen of the wolves followed

him at first. But perhaps their fierce

eyes marked his long stride and his

powerful body, and decided that their

better chance was with the helpless

man and the girl beside the flickering

fire. - They turned back, one by one.

Dan kept straight on and in two hours

crossed Cranston's trail,



It was perfectly plain in the moonlit

snow. He began to back-track. He

headed down a long slope and in an

hour more struck the North Fork. He

didn’t doubt but that he would find

Cranston in his camp. if he found the

camp at all. The man had certainly

returned to it immediately after set-

ting fire to the buildings, if for no oth-

er reason than for food. It isn’t well

to be abroad on the wintry mountains

without a supply of food; and Crans-

ton would certainly know this fact.



Dan didn’t know when a rifle bullet

from some camp in the thickets would

put an abrupt end to his advance. The

brush‘grew high by the river, the ele-

vation was considerably lower, and

there might be one hundred camps out

of the sight of the casual wayfarer. If

Cranston should see him, mushing

across the moonlit snow, it would give

him the most savage joy to open fire

upon him with his rifle.



Dan’s advance became more cautious.

He was in a notable trapping region,

and he might encounter Cranston’s

camp at any moment. His keen eyes

searched the thickets, and particularly

they watched the skv line for a faint

glare that might mean a camp fire. He

tried to walk silently. It wasn’t an

easy thing to do with awkward snow-

shoes; but the river drowned the little

noise that he made. He tried to take

advantage of the shelter of the thick-

etsaand the trees. Then, at the base

of a little ridge, he came to a sudden

halt.



He ‘had estimated just right. Not

two hundred yards distant, a camp fire

flickered and glowed in the shelter of

a great log. He saw it, by the most

astounding good fortune, through a





little rift in the trees. Ten feet on

either side, and it was obscured.



He lost no time. He did not know

when the wolves about Snowbird’s

camp would lose the last of their cow-

ardice. Yet he knew he must keep a

tight grip on his self-control and not

let the necessity of haste cost him his

victory. He crept forward, step by

step, placing his snowshoes with con-

summate care. When he was one hun-

dred yards distant he saw that Crans-

ton’s camp was situated beside a little

stream that flowed into the river and

that—like the mountaineer he was——

he had built a large lean-to reinforced

with snowbanks. The fire burned at

its opening. Cranston was not in sight;

either he was absent from camp or

asleep in his lean-to. The latter seem-

ed the more likely. .



Dan made a wide detour, coming in

about thirty yards behind the construc-

tion. Still he moved with incredible

caution. Never in his life had he pos-

sessed a greater mastery over his own

nerves. His heart leaped Somewhat

fast in his breast; but this was the

only wasted motion. It isn’t easy to

advance through such thickets without

ever a misstep, without the rustle of

a branch or the crack of a twig. Cer-

tain of the wild creatures find it easy;

but men have forgotten how in too

many centuries of cities and farms. It

is hardly a human quality;’and a spec-

tator would have found a rather ghast-

ly fascination in watching the lithe

motions, the passionless face, the

hands that didn’t shakeat all. But

there were no spectators—unless the

little band of wolves, stragglers from

the pack that had gathered on the hills

behind—~watched with lighted eyes.



Dan went down at full length upon

the snow and softly removed his snow-

shoes. They would be only an impedi-

ment in the close work that was sure

to follow. He slid along the snow crust

clear to the mouth of the lean-to.



The moonlight poured through and

showed the interior with remarkable

plainness. Cranston was sprawled.

half-sitting, half-lying on a tree-bough

pallet near the rear wall. There was

not. the slightest doubt of the man's

wakefulness. Dan heard him stir, and

once—as it' at the memory of his deed

of the day before—he cursed in a sav—

age whisper. Although he was facing

the opening of the lean-to, he was

wholly unaware of Dan’s presence.

The latter had thrust his head at the

side of the opening, and it was in the

shadow. Cranston seemed to be Watch~

ing the great, white snow fields that

lay in front, and for a moment ’Dan

was at loss to explain this seeming

vigil. Then he understood. The white





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field before him was part of the long

ridge that the three of them would

pass on their way to the valleys.

Cranston had evidently anticipated

that the girl and the man would at-

tempt to march out—even if he hadn’t

guessed they would try to take the





helpless Lennox with them——and he,





wished to be prepared for emergen-

cies. There might be sport to have

with Dan, unarmed as he was. And

his eyes were full of strange conjec-

tures in regard to Snowbird. Both

would be exhausted now and helpless—



Dan’s eyes encompassed the room:

the piles of provisions heaped against

the, wall, the snowshoes beside the pal-

let, but most‘of all he wished to locate

Cranston's rifle.‘ Success or failure

hung on that. He couldn’t find it at

first. Then he saw the glitter of its

barrel in the moonlight—leaning

against a grub-box possibly six feet

from Cranston and ten from himself.



His heart leaped. The best he had

hoped for—~for the sake of Snowbird

not himself—was that he- would be

nearer to the gun than Cranston and

would be able to seize it first. But con-

ditions could be greatly worse than

they were. If Cranston had actually

had the weapon in his hands, the odds

of battle would have been frightfully

against Dan. It takes a certain length

of time to seize, swing, and aim a rifle;

and Dan felt that while he would be

unable to reach it himself, Cranston

could not procure it either, without

giving Dan an opportunity to leap up-

on him. In all his dreams, through

the months of preparation, he had pic-

tured it thus. It was the test at last.



The gun might be loaded, and still—-

in these days of safety devices—un-

ready to fire; and the loss of a frac-

tion of a second might enable Cranston

to reach his knife. Thus Dan felt jus-

tified in ignoring the gun altogether

and trustingfias he had most desired

—to a battle of hands. And he wanted

both hands free when he made his at-

tack.



It‘ Dan had been erect upon his feet,

his course would have been an imme-

diate leap on the shoulders of his ad~

versary, running the risk of Cranston

reaching his hunting knife in time.





But the second that he would require,





to get to his feet would entirely offset

this advantage. Cranston could spring

up too. So he did the next most dis-

arming thing.



He sprang up and strode into the

lean-to.



“Good evening, Cranston,” he said

pleasantly.



Cranston was also upon his feet the

same instant. His instincts were en-

tirely true._ He knew if he leaped for





his rifle, Dan would be upon his back

in an instant, and he would have no

chance to, use it. His training, also,

had been that of the hills, and his re-

flexes flung him erect upon his feet at

the same instant that he saw the leap

of his enemy's shadow. They brought

up face to face. The rifle was not out

of the running, as they were at about

equal distances from it, and neither

would have time to swing or aim it.



Dan’s appearance had been so ut-

terly unlocked-for, that for a moment

Cranston could find no answer. His

eyes moved to the rifle, then to his

belt where hung his hunting knife,

that still lay on the pallet. “Good ev-

ening, Failing," he replied, trying his

hardest to fall into that strange spirit

of nonchalance with which brave men

have so often met their adversaries,

and which Dan had now. “I’m sur—

prised to see you here. What do you

want?” '



Dan’s voice when he replied was no

more warm than the snow banks that

reinforced the lean-to. “I want your

rifle—also your snowshoes and .your

supplies of food. And I think I’ll take

your blankets, too.”



“And I suppose you mean to fight

for them?" Cranston asked. His lips

drew up in a smile, but there was no

smile in the tone of his words.



“You’re right,” Dan~ told him, and

he stepped nearer. “Not' only for that,

Cranston; We’re face to face at last

hands to hands. I’ve got a knife in

my pocket, but I'm not even going to

bring it out. Its hands to hands—you

and I—until everything’s square be-

tween use.”



“Perhaps you’ve forgotten that day

on the ridge?” Cranston asked. “You

haven’t any woman to save you this

time.”



“I remember the day, and that’s

part of the‘debt. The thing you did

yesterday is part of it, too. It’s all to

be settled at last, Cranston, and I don’t

believe I could spare you if you went

to your knees before me. You’ve got

a clearing out by the fire—big as a

prize ring. We’ll go out there——side

by side. And hands to hands we’ll set~

tle all these debts we have between

us—with no rules of fighting and no

mercy in the end!”



They measured each other with their

eyes. Once more Cranston’s gaze

stole to his rifle, but lunging out, Dan

kicked it three feet farther into the

shadows of the lean-to. Dan saw the

dark face drawn with passion, the

hands clenching, the shoulder muscles

growing into hard knots. And Crans-

ton looked and knew that merciless

vengeance—that age-old sin and Christ.-

less creed by which he lived—had fol-





 





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min at last.

He saw it in the position of the stal

wart form before him, the clear level

eyes that the moonlight made bright

as steel, the hard lines, the slim, pow-

erful hands. He could read it in the

tones of the voice—tones that he him—

self could not imitate or pretend. The

hour had come for the settling of old

debts.



He tried to curse his adversary as a

weakling and a degenerate, but the

obscene words he sought for would

not come to his lips. Here was his

fate, and because the darkness always

fades before the light, and the courage

of wickedness always breaks before

the courage of righteousness, Crans

ton was afraid to look it in the face.

The fear of defeat, of death, of Heaven

knows what remorselessness with

which this giant would administer jus-

tice was upon him, and his heart seem-

ed to freeze in his breast. Cravenly

he leaped for his knife on the blank-

ets below him.



Dan was upon him before he ever

reached it. He sprang as a cougar

springs, incredibly fast and with shat-

tering power. Both went down, and

for along time they writhed and strug-

gled in each other's arms. The pine

boughs rustled strangely.





The dark, gaunt hand reached in -

vain for the knife. Some resistless'





power seemed to be holding his wrist

and was bending its bone as an Indian

bends a bow. Pain lashed through

him.—-And then this dark-hearted man,

who had never known the meaning of

mercy, opened his lips to scream that

this terrible enemy might be merciful

to him.



But the words wouldn’t‘come. A

ghastly Weight had come at his throat,

and his tortured lungs sobbed for

breath. Then, for a long time, there

was a curious pounding, lashing sound

in the evergreen boughs. It seemed

merciless and endless.



But Dan got up at last, in a strange,

heavy silence, and swiftly went' to

work. He took the rifle and filled it

with cartridges from Cranston’s belt.

Then he put the remaining two boxes

of shells into his shirt pocket. The

supplies of food—the sack of nutri-

tious jerked venison like dried bark,

the little package of cheese, the boxes

of hardtack and one of the small sacks

of prepared flour—he tied. with a sin-

gle kettle, into his heavy blankets and

flung them with the rifle upon his back.

Finally he took the pair of snowshoes

from the floor. He worked coldly,

swiftly, all the time munching at a

piece of jerked venison. When he had

- finished he walked to the door of the

lean- -.to



It seemed to Dan that Cranston

whispered faintly, fIOm his uncon-

sciousness, as he passed; but the vic-

tor did not turn to look. The snow-

shoes crunched away into the dark

ness. On the hill behind a half-dozen

wolves—stragglers from the pack——

frisked and leaped about in a curious

way. A strange smell had reached

them on the wind, and when the loud,

fearful steps were out of hearing, it

might pay them to creep down, one by

one, and investigate its cause.





CHAPTER XVIII.





HE gray circle about the fire was





growing impatient. Snowbird



waited to the last instant before

she admitted this fact. But it is pos-

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a thing that all the senses verify, and

that moment for her was past.



At first the wolves had lingered in

the deepest shadow and were only vis-

ible in profile against the gray snow.

But as the night wore on, they be-

came increasingly careless. They crept

up to the very edge of the little circle

of firelight; and when a high-leaping

flame threw a gleam over them, they

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tures to remain silent before the"? as





tack. The triumph cries come after-

ward. But they seemed no longer anx-

ious about this, either. Sometimes she

would hear their footfall as they leap-

ed in the snow, and .fwhat excitement

stifled them she didn’t dare to think.

Quite often one of them would snarl

softly—a strange sound in the dark-

ness.



,She noticed that when she went to

her hands and knees, laboriously to

cut a piece of the drier wood from'the

rain-soaked, rotted snag that was her

principal supply of fuel, every wolf

would leap forward, only to draw back

when she stood straight again. At

such times she saw them perfectly

plainly—their gaunt bodies, their eyes

lighted with the insanity of famine,

their ivory fangs that glistened in the

firelight. She worked desperately to

keep‘the fire burning bright. She dar-

ed not neglect it for a moment. Ex-

cept for the single pistol ball that she

could afford to expend. on the wolves

~—of the three she had——the fire was

her last defense.



But it was a losing fight. The rain-

soaked wood smoked without flame,

the comparatively dry core with which

Dan had started the fire had burned

down, and the green wood, hacked

with such heart-breaking difficulty

from the saplings that Dan had cut,

needed the most tireless attention to

burn at all.



When Dan had gone, these little

trees were well within the circle of

the wolves. Unfortunately, the circle

had drawn in past them. Neverthe-

less, now that the last of the dried

dead wood was consumed, she shoul-

dered her ax and walked straight to-

ward the gray, crouching bodies in the

snow. For a tragic second she thought

that the nearest of them was going to

stand his ground. But almost when

she was in striking range, and its body

was sinking to the snow in prepara-

tion for a leap, it skulked back‘into

the shadow. Exhausted as she was, it

seemed to her that she chopped en‘d-

lessly to cut away one little length.

The ax blade was dull, the handle

awkward in her hand, she could scarce-

ly stand on her broken snowshoes, and

worse, the ice crust broke beneath her

blows, burying the sapling in the snow.

She noticed that every time she bent

to strike a blow, the circle would

plunge a step nearer her, withdrawing

as she straightened again.



Books of woodcraft often describe

with what ease a fire may be built and

maintained in wet snow. It works fair-

ly well in theory, but it is a heart-

breaking task in practice. Under such

difficulties as she worked, it became

one of those dreadful undertakings

that partake of a nightmare quality—

the walking of a treadmill or the

sweeping of waves from the shore.



When she secured the first length,

her fire was almost extinguished. It

threw a faint cloud of smoke into the

air, but the flame was almost gone.

The darkness dropped about her, and

the wolves came stealing over the

snow. She worked furiously, with the





from her in a frightful stream.





leng she had toiled without food in the





constant presence of danger, and ‘she





was Avery near indeed to utter exhaus-





tion. But at the same time she knew

she must not faint. That was one

thing she could not .do—to fall uncon-

scious before the last of her three

cartridges was expended in the right

way.



Again she went forth to the sapling,

and this time it seemed to her that if

she simply tossed the ax through the

airg she could fell one of the gray





croWd. But when she stooped to pick,





it up— She didn’t, finish the thought.

She turned to coax the fire. And then

she leaned sobbing over the sled.



”What’s the use?” she cried. “He

won’t come back. What’s the use of

fighting any more. '7”



“There’s always use of fighting,” her

lather told her. He seemed to speak

with difficulty, and his face looked

strange and white. The cold and the

exposure were having their effect on

his weakened system, and unconscious-

ness was a. near shadow indeed. “But,

dearest—4f I could only make you do

what I want you to—”



“What?"



“You’re able to climb a. tree, and if

you’d take these coats, you wouldn’t

freeze by morning. If you’d only have

the strength~—”



“And see you torn/(o pieces!”



“I’m old, dear—and very tired—and

I’d crawl away into the shadows,

where you couldn’t see. There’s no

use mincing words, Snowbird. You’re

a. brave girl-always have been since

a little thing, as God is my Judge—

and you know we must face the truth.

Better one of us to die than both. And

I promise—I’ll never feel their fangs.

And I won’t take your pistol with me

either.”



Her thought flashed to the clasp

hunting knife that he carried in his

pocket. But her eyes lighted, and she

bent. and kissed him. And the wolves

leaped forward even at this.



“We’ll stay it out,” she told him.

“We’ll fight it to the last—just as Dan

would want us to do. Besides—it would

only mean the same fate for me, in a.

little while. I cou1dn’t cling up there

forever—and Dan won’t come back.”



She was wholly unable to gain on

the fire. Only by dint of the most

heart-bréaking toil was she able to se-

cure any dry fuel for it at all. Every

length of Wood she cut had to be

scraped of bark, and half the time the

fire was 6nly a sickly column of white

smoke. It became increasingly difli-

cult to swing the ax. The trail was

almost at its end.



The after-midnight hours drew one

by one across the face of the wilder-

ness, and she thought that the deepen-

ing cold presaged dawn. Her fingers

were numb. Her nerve control was

breaking; she could no longer drive a.

straight blow with the ax. The num-

ber of the wolves seemed to be in-

creasing: every way she looked she

could see them leaping. Or was this

just hysteria? Surely the battle could

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Once more she went to one of, the

saplings, but she stumbled and almost

went to her face at the first blow. It

was the instant that her gray watch-l

ers had been waiting for. The wolf

that stood nearest leaped—a gray.

streak out of the shadow-—and ‘every

wolf in the pack shot forward with a

yell. It was a short, expectant cry;

but it chopped off short. For with a

half-sob, and seemingly without men-

tal process, she aimed her pistol and.

fired.



A fast-leaping wolf is one of the

-most difficult pistol targets that can

be imagined. It bordered on the ruin

aculous that she did not miss him al—

together. Her nerves were torn, their

control over her muscles largely gone.

Yet the bullet’ coursed down through

'the lungs, inflicting a mortal wound.





The wolf had leaped for her throat;

I but he fell short. She staggered from:

. a blow, and she heard a curious soundl

in the region of her hip. But she didn’t;

know that the fangs had gone home in;

her soft flesh. The wolf rolled on the

ground; and if her pistol had possess-l

ed the shocking power of a rifle, hej

would never have got up again. As it-

was, he shrieked once, then sped off in

the darknessjo die. Five or six of: the

nearest wolves, catching the smell of

his blood,‘bayed and sped after him.



But the remainder of the great pack



- ——fully fifteen of the gray, gaunt crea-

tures—came stealing across the snow

toward her. White fangs had gone

home; and a new madness was in

the air.



Straining into the silence, a perfect-

ly straight line between Cranston’si

camp and Snowbird’s, Dan Failing

came mushing across the snow. His

sense of direction had never been

obliged to stand such a test as this

before. Snowbird’s fire was a single

dot on the vast plateau; yet he had

gone straight toward it. I



, He was risking everything for the

sake of speed. He gave no heed to

the fallen timber that might have torn

the web of his snowshoes to shreds.

Because he shut out all thought of it,‘

he. had no feeling of fatigue. The fight

with Cranston had been a frightful

strain on muscle and nerve; but he

scarcely remembered it now. His:

whole purpose was to return to Snow-l

bird before the wolves lost the last of

their cowardice.



The jerked venison that he had,

munched had brought him back much}

01' his strength. He was wholly uncon-l

scious of his heavy pack. Never did?



he glide so swiftly, so softly, with such!

unerring step; and it Was nothing,

more or less than a perfect expression.

of the ironclad control that his steel”

nerves had over his muscles.





Then, through the silence, he heard

the shout of the pack as the wolf had

leaped at Snowbird. He knew what it

meant. The wolves were attacking

then, and a great flood of black, hating

bitterness poured over him at the

thought that he had been too late. It

had all been in vain, and before the

thought could fully go home, he heard

the dim, far-off crack of a pistol.



Was that the first of the three shots,

the one she might expend on the

wolves, or had the first two already

been spent and was she taking the last

gateway of escape? Perhaps even now

Lennox was lying still on the sled, and

she was standing before the ruin of

her fire, praying that her soul might

have wings. He shouted with all the



. power of his lungs across the snow.

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often?

The stunted evergreens and pines on

the mountain side were lit up with the

glory of the Creator. The eternities

are forever near. From the tiniest

cottage one may look out on the ocean.

I once served a church for a. short

time on Cape Cod. In winter it is a

lonely place. Sand and sand hills ev-

erywhere. But standing on a. hill one

may see the steamships headed for

South America, and those coming from

Europe. One is continually within

hailing distance of the cOmmerce of

the world. “If I take the wings of the

morning, and dwell in the uttermost

parts of the sea; even there shall thy

hand lead me, and thy right hand

shall hold me." .

And what. did these mighty spirits

talk about? I imagine that they both

offered to go to the Cross in place of

Christ. Can you not hear Moses say-

ing, “My King, let me die in your

place. Of my own folly I nevervset

I never

completed the werk I was given to do.

Let me, who have had fifteen hundred

years of happiness in Paradise’,‘.go to

Calvary in your stead. Let the crOwd

mock me. Let the rulers judge me.

Let the unbelieving reject. 1119-9, And

then Elijah speaks. Idle voice has the

resonance it: had'eigfht centuries be-

fore, When be challenged the priests

of Baal. “Lord,” he says, “Let me go.‘





 





 





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My temper at times was harsh, I was

quick and unforgiving. You have al-

ready been pierced with more sorrow

than all the prophets put together. I

fear not these Jews. Let them do as

they like With me. They cannot be

more frightful than Jezebel." But I

also. think I hear the Master~ reply,

“No, my brothers, it cannot be. I must

go, as it has been appointed me. For

your offers I have only the deepest

thanks. I must tread the wine press

alone. I cannot transfer my kingship

to another, and I cannot transfer my

duty to another. I cannot hide my

face from shame, nor my cheeks from

them that pluck Off the hair._ No man

can go for me. For this purpose I





came into the work.”

MEN could not take the place of

heaven’s king then, as He faced

the cross, and they cannot do so now,

in this troubled world. Men need God,

and judging by the declarations ofpeo-

pie as we see them in the daily press,

the nation is beginning to realize it.



It seems almost incredible that when

this conversation was going on, ‘be-

tween the Christ'and two mighty men

of the nation’s history, that anyone

should be sleepy. But such was the

fact. The three disciples were so ov-

ercome with sleep that they almost

missed beholdng the glory of their

Lord. What was the opportunity, not

of a life time, but of many life times,

they almost lost in drowsiness. As

they went down the mountain, I sus-

pect the three foil to talking of what

fools they had been, to allow their

weariness to almost cheatthem out

of life’s greatest experience. It is al—

ways dangerous to sleep during the

sermon. The bestthings are always

said while you are asleep. The truth

that might have made _a man of you,

and changed the current of your life,

was lost in your sleepclosed ears.‘We

would not have been tempered to

drowse, of“ course. Those were 816w,

stupid, unthinking men. They had no

appreciation of the momentous event

of that hour. But there are folk

aplenty who lose as great opportuni-

ties as this. The seasons of the soul

come and go, but they are not seized

and utilized. There any openings for

some useful work in the country, or

in the town or village, but no one

says, “Here am I, I'll try it." Unfor-

getable experiences await us, if we

will but see them, reach out the hand

to arrest them.



In Edwin Markham’s poem, “The

Great Guest Comes,” he shows usa

cobbler who believed that Christ was

to come to his door on a certain day.

But at sundown he realized that the

day was gone, and the great Guest had

not come. The cobbler was almost re-

bellious. He had done the best he

could. That day he had given a. beg-

gar a pair. of shoes, an old woman a.

loaf of bread, and had taken a. lost

child home to its mother. .And ”the

poem ends,





“And Conrad sighed as the world

turned gray, .



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Did you forget that this was the day?’



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EW .‘people who pass the large

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West Grand Boulevard and Fort street,

Detroit, know what the building is





used for. It is one of the Salvation

Army’s Homes for the uplifting of

those unfortunate girls who are some-

times referred to as fallen women.

Several years ago :the army started

these homes for this class of girls, and

during tlie years they have been open-

ed. 61,308 girls have passed through

them in all parts of the world. Many

are restored to parents, others are hap-

pily married, some placed in positions

with friends who offer to take them

and their childgas the Army does not

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feeling it isvprotection to .the girl to

have her, own child with her. - A few

go back to the sinful life, but only a

small percentage of them. l



The Army‘ has. a competent staff of;

doctors and nurses, also special oili-

cers trained for this special work, to

care for the girls. The most of the

girls who come to the home are the

victims of circumstances. They hear

of the home and find refuge, are cared

for till after their babies are born.

During the year 1918-1919 over two

hundred and fifty girls from twenty-

seven cities and towns of Michigan.

passed through the home,,while last;





 





year one hundred and thirty-five were; .





received and helped, besides a large

number who were sent t'rom various

societies to be protected for a few

nights. In addition the army has a chil-

dren's home on the same grounds car—

ing for twenty-nine children from two

years old up to sixteen. One girl was

brought by her father when the child’s

mother died. This was nearly three

eyars ago andlhe has never been to

look at her since.



Brigadier and Mrs. Joseph Sheppard

were recently appointed by Miss

Booth to be the superintendents. They

have been thimy—six years officers in

the Army. Mrs. Sheppard went to

France with the boys and proved her-

selt‘ a real mother to them.



Any girl in distress can find a friend

by writing to Mrs; Sheppard, also any

lady who would like to help a' girl by

giving her a position with her baby,

with fair wages. is invited to call on

Mrs. Sheppard. The Army maintains

another home for girls in the western

part. of the state at 1215 East Fulton

street, Grand Rapids. Visitors are wel-

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Our NeWDcan, Miss Sweeny





ICHIGAN Agricultural Collegeis

M chuck full of traditions. There‘s



the tradition that M. A. C. is not

only the oldest but the best agricul~

tu1 a1 school in the world that its cam-

pus is the most beautiful; its students

the most ambitious; its girls the best

home-makers, and its atmosphere the

most democratic and home-like of any

to be found. Some of our sacred tradi-

tions are scoffed at and denied by jeal-

But we’ve one brand

new tradition which we defy anyone to

dispute, that our

economics, Miss Mary Sweeny, is the

littlest, the wittiest and the “stirring

est,” to be. found in any school in the

good old U. S. A. Certainly wherever

she appeared at Farmers’ Week, things

moved. And there was an undercuts

rent of humor through it all whiéh

made you feel that while "life is real

and home economics is earnest” with

the new dean, it isn’t so deadly serious

that we can’t all stop and have a laugh

occasionally.



Miss Sweeny comes to M. A. C. from

the University of Kentucky, where she

was head of home economics work and

in charge of home economics extension

work. Her position as an authority in

her chosen work is evidenced by the

fact that she is president of the Amer‘

ican Association of Home Economics.

She received her A. B. degree from

Pennsylvania College; her M. S. from

the University of Kentucky, and her

M. A. from Columbia University, where

she specialized in home economics.



While Miss Sweeny has been forg-

ing to the top in her own profession

she has found time to cultivate other

lines of work. She is interested in

the American Federation of Women’s

Clubs, the League of Women Voters,

and the League of Business and Pro-

fessional Women. Besides she is a.

member of the American Chemical So-

ciety and of the Society of Biological

Chemists, and was at one time vice-

president of the latter society. Previ-





Are We





HE boot makers cater to femin-

ine vanity and not to health, by

building shoes which are very

long and of ridiculous width—A, dou~

ble A, and triple A. These shoes may





be fully an inch longer than the foot,





and because of the flexibility of the

toes, they are crowded and lapped

over each other, until the foot really

is made to fit into the shoe. If this

shoe were forced upon young girls as

a means of punishment, we would re-

gard the treatment as barbarous. The

toes cannot play an important part in

walking, as they should. ,

The small toes have two joints and

the large toe, one, and it is. the most

important, largest and strongest. When





we raise the foot from the ground to.





bring it forward, we raise the heel and

let the weight fall upon‘ the great toe.





To "execute this movement. the great;

toe must be placed in the» has in such





new dean of home-





ous to taking up her work with the

University of Kentucky she had taught

in the giades, in high schools, and in

junior college.



' Full of plans for broadening the

w01k of the college, Miss Sweeny has

already started nutrition. clinics in the

Lansing schools. When the new home

economics building, which isnow only

a request to the legislature, becomes

an accomplished fact, she will start to





Miss Mary Sweeny.





develop work in nutrition. At present

hampered for spacevthe women’s

building has to serve as dormitory,"‘of-

fice building, and class-room building,

so there is no room for laboratories—

1'esearch work in nutrition has been,

perforce, neglected. It is Miss Sweeny’s

wish to develop this line of work at

M. A. C. as it is being carried forward

in similar schools. "And in this ambi-

tion she is strongly supported by Mrs.

Dora Stockman, woman member of the

board of agriculture.



Need for nutrition clinics in the city





Fairto 0





By Cecz'lanz Steméerg





a position that it can stretch itself di-

rectly forward. Narrow shoes bind the





foot bones and muscles and prevent‘





free foot action. They also crumple

into folds the sole of the foot, and ut-

terly put out of commission the “plan

tar fascia.”



Another common evil of the ill-fit-

ting. shoe is the enlarged joint or bun-

ion, which comes from wearing shoes

or stockings that are too short. In

buying shoes, 'be sure they fit well in

the instep and that the large joint on

the inside of the foot comes at the

pmper place. The ball, of the foot

should come just to the bend of the in-

side of the shoe and not in front or in

back of it. One cause of heels which

are run under is due to the fact, that

the foot tends to push out at the heel

because of lack of room in the fore

part of the shoe. - . .1,



1511in been throw the weight a





schools is shown by the fact that sev-

enty-five per cent of the children were

under weight. This work is being car-

ried on under the direction of Miss

May Pierson. The children are weigh-

ed and measured 'every week, taught

the right things to eat, and started on

a milk diet.



There are other things to home-mak-

ing, however, so the girls are to be





started on a scientific study of home





management. They are‘to be taught

how to do every single every-day task

in the best and easiest and most time-

saving way.



_ In order to w'brk out methods Miss

Sweeny plans to establish a. “family”

of women in a house where they will

live exactly as the average American

family. Their mission will be to es-

tablish standards Of time in which to

do all the household tasks, and to fig-

ure down to a workable budget the

finances of a family. This is to be

done in a separate house where the

“family” must buy it’s own coal and

manage a furnace. If possible the

“family” is to include a child.



Then women are to be trained as

consumers. Since women handle most

of the money in America.’ they must

learn to do it in a way to get the most

for their money. They are to be taught

methods of marketing, both as buyers

and sellers. They are to learn all about

production, wholesale and retail meth-

ods of selling, how to preserve foods

for winter use, and the' value ofrcan-

ned foods as against fresh.



thether the “Truth in Textile” bill

goes through or not, they are to learn

to judge textiles and care for them.

They are to be taught efficiency meth-

ods in sewing, how to use sewing ma-

chine attachments, and how to use

patterns. .



Better homes, better babies, better

children, and better adults, in health,

in mind, and in spirit is Miss Sweeny's

slogan. To use our agricultural college

to help bring this about is her purpose.





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body on the ball of the foot instead of

distributing it equally, and they en-

tirely destroy the action of the power-

ful ligament holding up the longitud-

inal arch. The entire mechanism of

the foot is altered, and its motion be-

comes limited to the heel and toe

movement. Girls who~require a high-

heeled shoe for comfort are really suf-

fering from some structural defect of

the foot and should consult an ortho-

pedist.



High heels also cause considerable

haim because of their effect upon the

pelvic organs. Good posture is as

much a mark of beauty as regular fea-

tures. With the proper: carriage the

head is erect, the‘chin in, the chest

forward, the abdomen flat and firm.

the back straight and strong and the





‘feet pointed“ straig
really-"follow he 9 of the'foot. Théij





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~ ~ when the ankles and'feet are Weak. high-heeled shoes if they are not built

the whole pesition of the body is with straight inner lines, because the . ,





thrown out of poise. .With high heels, foot is not properly supported. Hy-

the body is tilted forward, and to «off- gienic shoes should also be purchased





 





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set this, one bends backward from the as a factor in national» thrift, for good- " - g,

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less the hip joints are truly placed in Of course, the first point to empha

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the spinal column flexibly held, the well-fitting comfortable shoes, which ‘ —-—_

entire body is thrown out of plumb and bear the strain equally all 0Y9? the ~ 6

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position. A train 0f very distressing out too quickly. These shoes must per- _, . .

symptoms is apt to follow, which med- mit standing, walking, running and B a 0

ical treatment cannot remove, if due quick turning in comfort and‘safety e er 1 e ess urnace

to high heels, and this is the case nine and they will not retain good shape\

times out of ten. and appearance unless fitted properlye —::-!——-':'—' *

High heels and ill~fitting shoes are It must also be remembered that it} a ”'“

general causes of lack of beauty of does not pay to buy cheap shoes. High :

motion. Grace, freedom of action, heeled shoes are more expensive than“

l'hi'lllm are all absent in the majority low-heeled ones, and they cost more to;

of civilized women, while the Arab, the keep in repair. This is especially true,

Indian and other barefoot people, walk of wooden heels, which wear down‘

and run with assurance, dignity andvquickly, frequently break off, and are;

even majesty. If a girl refuses 1:0 impossible to replace. Heels too high _

wear hygienic shoes on the grounds cause strain 'on the seams and uneven ( .. , ,

that they are ugly. can we 110i in turn wear on both soles and uppers. . ' ' ~

criticize her fOl‘ ill-shaped shoes which Rubber heels usually out-w’ear leath-fi.

make her hobble, instead of walking er heels and afford comfort in walking.-

Wltll swing and rhythm? Certainly Shoes with welt soles always wear the

our standards of beauty are much dis best and can be repaired. The welt is .

torted if we consider such shoes at strip of leather. the inner edge 0 “if",

beautiful. which is sewed to the outer sole. It; ' ‘

’The prevention and possible cure of usually extends one-fourth of an inch; By eliminating dust and dirt, HOMAKER keeps the air pure as

the defects common to most feet are: beyond the Upper of the shoe. Welt well as warm. The handy shaker handle and Wide ash pit doors are

1. ExerCise the fact bal‘efOOted—“S‘ soles are frequently imitated in cheap“: examples of added conveniences. The prevention of heat waste

mg exemises that inV'Olve the toes- er Shoes and this shofild be watched} brings remarkable fuel economy. And the entire sturdy construction

2- Exerdses “lat Stremh the large for in buying- Shoes With hand-tum; means freedom from breakage of burning out.

tendon in the back, of the leg and de- ed soles are made in fine, soft kid?





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and structure that make for better health,

a greater economy and increased comfort.





of the foot or standing on the heels soled successfully. ”HOME-MAKER”



and trying to raise the toes. Calf skin shoes wear better than kid



. 3. » Correct, well-fitted shoes. The but are not as comfortable. Suede! PIPELESS FURNACE

first requirement in a good shoe is the shoes are comfortable and wear well.§ um .... “mm--





straight inner border, following the but are likely to become shiny when: You shake and dump HOMAKER from aneasy upright position with

straight inner lines of the natural foot. soiled. Kid shoes are worn by many; all its doors closed tight. No trace of ash dust can escape. Edge-

The shoe should not cramp the toes, people all the time, but are not so; dump grate gets rid of ashes and saves live coals. Outer casing and

es )eciall the reat too, should be d rable, and lose their sha e rather . - , _ . - - . '

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should hold the heel and instep snugly all shoes on sensitive feet£1 Clanvasi;| inner one with a heavy insulation of air-cell asbestos between the two

without. cramping the foot. The arch shoes with leather heels an so es 0 ' - -

should be flexible. In the natural foot a fine grade will, with proper care sheets Of steel. 1}“. the heat fogserttlteld {011i upstairs, where It warms

the arch is flexible and plays an im- easily wear two summers. '38:}, rosin el‘l’efryl‘l ngfezxgioi final] gagina;

portant part in every step. The arch Shoes wear longeivwhen two pairsiI S smo eco 1a ku S F 11 .5111 h d g '

must be built high enough to fit under 'are alternated frequently. They should} No gas can ea OUt‘ u W1 t as , 001‘.

the curve of the foot and must be snug be given a. chance to dry out thor-s No hard-to-clean comers m the aSh pit.

without being tight. The heel should oughly, as perspiration rots the leath- Send the coupon tOdBY f9? 09“ free F’OOk “The Story

be broad, low and straight, and should er. Shoe-trees help greatly to preserve. °f HOMAKER", It “PM“ in deta‘l HOMAKER’S

come directly under the heel of the. the shape when not in use. 1 many “tally important ‘mp rovements.

foot. The same principle of freedom There is a right and a wrong way toi Michigan Distributors:

applies to the ankles and for this rea put on shoes. Lacings should be loos ‘- - -

son low shoes .are better than high ened to three. eyelets from the vamp. Morley Bros., baglnaw’ MICh'

shoes. This prevents a strain on the lining . .

The inside of the shoe should meas and the backs of the shoes. Button The WIlllamson Heater company





we one inch” more than foot length shoes should be completely unbutton-I





 





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ulous about selling shoes—just to seam to rip and will invariably tear:

make a sale. Experiences teaches that the lining. Nothing will cause stock-

one must know herself whether shoes ings to wear out more quickly thani Name #_





The WILLIAMSON HEATER CO.. 338-K W. Fifth St. Cincinnati. Ohio

You may send me without obligation, your free book, "The Story ofHOMAKER."





 





 





 





fit Well or not. , roughness in the lining. If the foot is Street or R. F. D.

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leather because they allow ventilation quickly as to get wet, nor does any MB 325 ISBELL’S CHOICE DIreCt from RoaSter to Consumer

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200 Chicks Ready for Shipping





Our Tenth Year





We hatch about 20, 000

every Tuesd White



Leghorns and rcwn Leg-

horns. Bred tolay, large

white eggs. Stock has been

improved considerable

during the ten years, and

is now some of the best.

We ship everywhere by

parcel post in lots of 25,

50, 100 and 1000 or more.

Safe arrival guaranteed.





Write for catalogue'with

price list.





Wolverine Hatchery





H. Wiersma, Owner and Mgr.





Zeeland, Mich., ll. 2,





 





 





Michigan’s Largest Pedigree Poultry Farm





DAY OLD CHICKS





From S. C. W. Leghorns, That have been carefully culled for 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, 20c each. Grade B, 15c each.



Lakewood, Farm, Box B, Holland, Mich.

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§ To your door prepaid by us Guaranteed live delivery. We have the most f:

£3 . modern methods of hatching and shipping methods and we 3,;

‘~§ ship you nothing but the best, our stock is of the standard :2

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

3:: are strong and healthy and will develop very rapidly. We have 33

g: the following breeds S. C. White, Buff and Brown Leghorns, g;

3‘: Anconas, W. and B. Rocks, R. C. and S. C. R. I. Reds, B. and 3::

3:3 W. Orpingtons, W. Wyandottes. Get our big bargain offer 3,3

g: in CHICKS and BROODERS and save money on your g:

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Hubers Reliable Chicks—





By Special Delivery.

ing by Setting or 100.





’J h1s is our l"th season. With the great 1m ledsrng demand forourt

and the line Testimonials Photos. Show Reports and Wonderful Egg Itc-





Oood Quality, Bred for Heavy Egg Production and that they are Properly

lo insure success buy our Reliable (‘hicks

chicks from pure bred, free range farm stock. 8 C.

FBarred Rock 11





Special combination offer on chirks and brooder stmes.





Hubers Reliable Hatchery, East High St, Fosteria, Ohio.





700,000 For 1921.





Guarantee Live Delivery. Eggs for Hatch?





most modern f1 stores of the Hatching Industry,

as strong as Hen Hatched Chic. ks and full of 1)prx k

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our customem 1110\CS that our (hi1 ks from stock of





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strated catalog and prices. Place order at once an

the rush of the season.





R C. and S C Reds,S

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BABY CHICKS





We furnish pure bred chicks of the

finest Iiality from high 6138 producing

stock. looks built directly from lay-

lng contest winners. We have seven-

teen breeds Write for our free illus-

trated catalogue and price list.





J. W. USSEGEHATOHERY

Dept. 99, Glandorf, Ohio.





 





 





Bred-to-Lay and Exhibit, baby chicks

Anconas and hatching eggs. blend for mating

list. Manning‘s Ancona Farm. Goldwater, Mich





 





Chicks





 

 

 

 





White Leg.



Eng. Leg. 16c

Brown Leg. 16c

Anconas 17c





Sent Prepaid by Parcel Post

Special price on 1.000 lots. Get your order in

for some of these high grade chicks, hatched

from selected bred-today breeders. kept on free

range.

WE GUARANTEE SAFE DELIVERY





'WYNGARDEN’S HATCHERY





Box M. ZEELAND, MICH.





B-A-B—Y—C-H-I-X





Crescent Strain S. C. White Leghorn:

Block Leghorns Bro“ 11 Le efborns. Bull' Leghorns.

Block Minorons. Rhod Islan Reds Barled Plvmouth

Bock (also White) Wyandottes (Silver laced and



White‘) and Mottled Anconas. Will HA TC}? eggs from

flocks on range on ncvparate farms. Semi for booklet

.oontslnlng mucbo no to poultry raise



ORE SCENT EGG COMPANY. Allegan, Mich.





 





 





Baby Chicks fimyflngcggwaayg,m median-e Eggs.»





OVIE'S BABY CHICKS

High Quality-Moderate Prices





You can pay more and get less 1n qual-

ity but you can 't get s bigger value for

~ the suns money. That’ 9 why once a

, Am customer always a customer.



Milli? 25,000 Husky Chix Weekly

from free range. carefully selected stock. hatch-

ed by experts in areal up-to-date hatchery. We

speeiahze in 14 leading breeds. Safe delivery

guaranteed by P. P. prepaid. Write for catalog.





0VIE’ 8 POULTRY FIRM 81 HATCHERY .





34 State Street Marlon. Ind.





   





 

 

 

 





 





Egg Markets



(Continued from page 329).

table, but they naturally will not sell

as well on the market as large, clean

ones and if mixed in with good eggs

will usually ruin the’ price on the

Whole lot.



No eggs should be washed, for the

packers claim they will not keep well.

All eggs from stolen nests, whose

freshness is doubtful, and all incubator

eggs, should either be thrown away,

boiled for the little chicks or used at

home. Rotten eggs need not be dis-

cussed. Any person who will send one

to market deserves the penalty of the

pure food law.



In hot weather eggs should be mar-

keted two or three times a week, and

in the fall and spring at least onceva

week. Many buyers have had trouble

in October and November with eggs

classed as "held eggs." These are

common, because most farmers believe

that after frost eggs will- not decay so

rapidly, but nevertheless they do evap-

orate and the air cells in them show

the candler that they are stale.





HERE are two ways of buying and



selling market eggs. One is by

case count, where the eggs are simply

counted, regardless of quality, and the

other is by “loss off” where the eggs

are candled and paid for according to

quality. The last way is undoubtedly

the fairest of all parties concerned, ex-

cept. perhaps that it is not. quite so

necessary during the months of De-

cember, January and February when

eggs keep best.



The ideal way to grade eggs is as

follows Extras, weight 28-26 ounces;

naturally and absolutely clean, fresh

and sound; No. 1, weight 26-24 ounces,

sound, fresh and reasonably clean;

No. 2, shrunken . or stale, washed,

small, stained and dirty; No. 3, checks,

cracked but not leaking; No. 4, rots,

incubator and decomposed eggs. Al-

though it may seem like a lot of bother

to differentiate among eggs so careful-

ly, this is undoubtedly the coming

method, at least in the larger markets.

It will really be a fine thing for every

careful, conscientious egg raiser when

this system becomes universal, even

if the class called “extras” is eliminat-

ed as unnecessary, for then the honest

producer will feel that he has the

proper incentive and reward.





 





POULTRY HINTS.





It matters not how good an incubat-

or, how persistent a sitting hen you

have, unless the egg is fertile no chick

can be hatched from it. The reverse

is equally true—it makes no difference

how fertile an egg is, it won’t hatch if

it is much abused in the hatching.



If there are floors to the chicks’

coops see that they are kept dry and





 





 





 





 





 





LOOK! 1.000.000

for 1921.





Postage PAID 95%

- .. live arrival guaranteed

FREE feed with each order 40 breeds chicks, 4

breeds ducklings. Select. and Exhibition grades,

A hatch evexy week all year. Book your order

NOW for early Spring delivery Catalogue free.





Stamps appreciated.

N ABOB HATCHERIES. Gambler Ohio





egg contest winners ,eggs from strain

Barred ROCkS with records to 290 a year 82.00

per setting prepaid byP P. Circular tree.



FD ASTLING Constantine, Mich





Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels





Big boned. Rook typoh" well barred, bred to lay birds,

with lots of pend 85.00

CH H.3VRJG‘FIICI‘,n Jones Case 00., Mich.





 





 





 





EST Breeds. Chickens. Ducks. Geese.'l‘urkeys. Guin-



assH ares, Dogs. Stock for sale Write your wants.



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' Good bi health hi k 1'



Baby ChICkS room 15mm aty guilt; $5113:



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clean. Take them out occasionally,

scrape them and dust with dry earth,

ashes or sand. If the coops have no

bottom, be sure they are moved often

enough to always have the ground un-

der them clean.





COOPERATIVE MILK MARKETING

COMPANY ASSURED.





TOTAL of $200,000 worth of stock



has been sold in the Southern Illi-

nois Cooperative Milk Marketing Com-

pany at St. Louis. Dairymen of Clin-

ton county purchased $45,000 worth of

the stock; Madison county.$55,000, and

Washington county $35,000. Solicitors

from the Illinois Agricultural Associa-

tion. are now working in St. Clair,

Montgomery, and Macoupin counties.

As soon as the work is finished in

these counties, stock selling will start

on the Missouri side. This amount of

stock having been sold, insures 3. mar-

keting company. Plans are being made

to have the permanent organization





 





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city Limits Hatchery,





Our chicks are of the highest quality _

and our prices are within reach of

everybody. , We have S C. W. Leg-

horns, S. C. Anconas, English‘ White

Leghorns, S. C. B. Leghorns, and

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Single Comb White Leghorns Our Specialty





English-American strain. We are not operating

a hatchery but have the largest most up-tmdate

Single Comb White Leghorn farm in Mich. All

eggs going into our incubators are produced on

our own farm from high quality stock nothing

sold that is not good enough for our own use.

Such chicks are worth more to you than those

bought from the average hatchery, though our

prices are practicall the same. March. April and

May chicks in lots 0 50 to 200 per chick 16 1—2c.

200to 500 160. 500 to 1000 15 1.20. 1st hatch comes

off March 14. Our supply is limited order now.



8 weeks old April hatched pullets $1.20. .





Macata'wa White Leghorn Co.

R. 7, Ho land, Mich.





in CHICKS





iHOMESTEAD FARMS





We are now beinning to ship

chicks from our

Pure Breed Practical

oultry

This is the stpck that will

your farm. Duckliiigs and

log Eggs.





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paid.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION,

Desk I. Kalamazoo, Michigan





 





Crystal Poultry Farms 1

' HIGH QUALITY ll

‘ Baby chixh eggs from I Y

heavy laying strains.

Prize winners at 192.0

New York and Ohio State

Fairs. 35Leading breeds

Prices reasonablesafe er.

rival guaranteed. Circular

free. Shepard Strong,

Crystal Poultry Farms

\ 7901 Franklin Ave., Cleveland, 0,





 





 





 





 





 





BABY CHICKS





Hatched from free: r‘avnge gtock.t (lluality and live

d l' ' te . rite or on a ogue.

e ‘v‘giizfflii’lrns HATCHERY, Covington, Ohio.





Baby Chicks and Eggs for Hatching





Barron‘s White Leghorns. Barred Rocks and R. I.

Reds. Big stiiirdy Iclzicks t[from [trele rangfe stock With

1 ' ri recor 9. ii eres ing on a ogue ree. '



ii‘iiuiiiinss POULTRY FARM, Holland. Mich.





c H I c K 5 English Strain White Leghorn.

Bred to lay Brown‘Leghorn and

Anoouas. Bargain prices for our quality stockkept





{we ran e. Order now for early deliveries.

(filllillde Grgve Hatchery Farm. It, 1. Holland. Mich.





and Hens; Leghornfl. Minorcas,Reds.

Cockerels Hooks. Orpingtons. “’yandottes. Hou-

dans. Tyrone PoultryFurm, Fenton. Mich,





R.I.l{ed, Barred Rocks. White

“‘3' GHIGKS Wyandottes. White Leghorns.

Selected healthy chicks. Order early. have winter

layeis. First hatch Feb. 28th. Write for price list and

circular. DEER a ADAMS. Litchtield. Mich.





Baby Chicks





FREE delivery. Superlative quality .

from select high-producing stock. All 6

popular varieties. Reasonable prices.

Write for catalog at once.



B P AERDALE POULTRY FARM.

OX .





Springfield, Ohio.

BETTE, Rf BA B Y.





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can BI or Poultry Profit. for .

‘yllm. Buyfid-Woet Chlclis and make W

real men with your poultry. 12 ' - - _

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Baby Chicks ‘1’:E“1‘12fiisllfiz».R$l‘i.§3i'1§31





All 8. C. 5% Dis. in lots of 1 or more, Parcel Post

Paid and safe delivery uaranteed. Catalog tree.

:KNOLLS HA'rcnhnY. n.3, Holland, Mich





 





Barred Plymouth Rock Sgské’filsé £35351“ 5““? ‘5

Lira. JES E I". BALL. R. 9. Charlotte, Mich.





Barred I). R. Cockerels for sale. M, A.C. heavy lay-

ing strain. Sired by 1st pen cockerels at De-

troit Show 1920. Rosemary Farms. Williamston.Mich.





CHICKS We ship thousands each season

, Send for prices and testimonials

FREEPOR’I‘ HA ‘CHERY. Box 12. Freeport. Mich





DAY OLD CHICKS s-O‘Wh‘” 1“ '

. . h 0 rue. From

trap-nested stock where every hen must grodnoe 80

in (our winter months. One hundred in thrifty



o eke for .00. MACALWHITE POULTB

YARDS. . ex. MacVittie, Proprietor. Caro, Mich.





BABY: C II“ C KS mm“...





lodging: Iggesttt‘ auihle Ip‘r‘lces. l‘l‘t t ogmrderfwill

, ' 01'. “I . roe.

33,120, try Cards anwgatohgry. y Mario‘iEGOhio.





S _mtgiunn-.em cured

- ,I, Norman strain.

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Do youfknow Whyeggs set in incu-

bators last spring did not hatch as.

well as usual, while those set under

hens hatched all right? All through

this sectiOn of country people had





poor hatches from incubators which





previously turned out good hatches.

Montcalm Co. Mrs. W. N.





The poultry producers in our section

seemed to have nearly as good success

as usual with artificial incubation.

When poor results occurred it was of-

ten due to a lack. of vitality in the

breeding stock due to the hard winter

which they endured. Last winter was





' cold and long and many severe storms





came in April when the poultry are

usually enjoying the benefits of free

range.



A lack of vigor in the breeding stock

might show more prominently in arti-

ficially hatched and brooded chicks

than in those that are hen-hatched and

brooded. Many poultry producers are

willing to admit that while incubators

are economical and produce large

flocks, there can never be a substitute

exactly as good as the mother hen. For

that reason there are many poultry

owners who produce better chicks by

lien-hatching and hen-brooding than

they can produce artificially. The arti-

ficial incubation and brooding requires

good equipment and very close and

careful attention.





 





HOUSING THE BROODERS.





Have you any illustrations of a com-

bined poultry and brooder house?

Sandusky Co. F. G. H.





We have no photographs of a com-

bined poultry and brooder house and

do not know where we could obtain

them for you. Such houses are not

generally built now as they are not as

practical as other arrangements. The

best method of brooding is to use a

coal burning brooder stove in a colony

house. A house eight feet deep and

ten feet wide, of the shed-roof type,

will be all right for each brooder stove.

They can be four feet high in the rear

and six feet in front.



The fire risk is reduced when the

brooders are in small buildings. The

young chicks and the old birds need

different ranges for the best results.

If the laying flock and growing chicks

are in the same house it is difficult to

raise them unless the ranges are fenc-

ed apart, and the house is divided.



Any standard type of poultry house

can be used for a brooder house by

simply installing one or more coal-

burning brooders in that house. On

some large poultry farms they have

large bi‘ooder houses which are only

long laying-houses with a coal stove in

each divisionloi’ the house instead of

roosts and nests for laying-stock. When

the young stock do not need heat, the

stoves are removed and roosts install-

ed. Then the same house can be used

as winter laying quarters. The mod‘

ern way of brooding is to use coal

stoves and any poultry house, regard-

less of the type, can be. used as a

brooder house when such equipment

is installed—R. G. K.





 





CONGESVTION 0F LIVER.





The combs and sides of the heads of

our chickens are turning black. The

chickens are apparently healthy but

do not lay. We would appreciate very

much if you would suggest a remedy.



Ingham Co. M. H.





When the comb of a hen becomes

dark or purplish, it indicates a con—

gestion of the liver. You do not state

the ration or amount of exercise the

hens have had, but this condition is

often due to an overfat condition.

There is no cure but it can usually be

prevented by feeding a balanced ration

in a dry mash and giving the scratch

grain inlitter so the hens will have to

scratch. All hens that seem weak or

unpromising 35 layers should be culled





 





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Hatching eggs from Parks ZOO-egg



Barred ROCks strain. ltich in the blood of Parks



best pedigreed ens. $2 per 15. $6 per 50. 512 per 100.

Prepaid by parce §ost in nonbreakabie containers.



R. G. KIltB . Route 1. East Lansmg. Mich.





Wh't Wyandottes ()flicial records. five hens 1074 eggs.

I 8 Eggs 15. $3.00 and 810.00; 100. $15.00. Catalo

free G. W. SC '1‘





H0 TMA NN. Mont rose, Il





' Big Type S. C. White



Broad View Farm Lube"... mg mg



bodied birds. Henry layers of big white eggs. Ex-

hibition type eggs 15 $2.50. 100 38. Post paid. .



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Shipped safely everywhere by mail. S. C. White

Leghorns and S. C. Iottled Anoonas. the great egg

machines. Strong. sturdy chicks guaranteed to sat-

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catalogué. W. Van Appledorn. R. 7. Holland, Mich.





CHICKS English Strain White Leghorns

the heavy laying strain at only 815

per 100: repaid by mail safe arrive guaranteed send

cash wit 1 order special rates 011500 or more.

JAMESTOWN HATCIIEBY. Jamestown. Mich.





DAY -OLD CHICKS





$16.00 per 100 and up. Hatching eggs. 82.00 to .815.“

per setting and $9.00 to $15.00 per 100. from 25 varieties

of pure bred. farm ranged fowls: Chickens. .Geese.

Ducks. Turkeys and Guineas. Price list and Circular

free. Plenty of nice breeding stock. Book now‘for

early spring delivery. _ WILMING'I ON

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March Chicks





S. C. W'hite Le horns - $18.00 39.50 85.00

Bd. Rocks. R . 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 i live chicks





Washienaw Hatchery, Ann Arbor, Mich





"in“ Home





100 50





 





 





 





 





100,000 CHIX 15c UP.





Best selected utility trapncsted exhibition stock ever

produced. 18 varieties. Hatching eggs Hens, ducks,

Early bookingsxivmds disaplpointmeiit. Catalog FREE.

Beckman Hatchery. 26 E. yon. Grand Rapids. LIic-h.





ll. 0. Large fancy} cock



liliOIlO l8lalld Beds erelsat SB-euch. Address

BURT SISSUN. Inilm‘ City, Mich.



' If you have ever



Rhode Island Whites m, ”we a no

money in raismg poultry try the It. 1. White. stock





for sale. order alien .

H H. .l I.'MP. R. 5.





R. C. Br. Le horn Eggs,





$l.i'y0 for 15. Pekiii duck. S]..i0 for 8. ‘1’. Cl nose goose

eggs. 40c each. Mix-i. ('lzuulia llctts, Hillsdziie. Mich.





eggs for hatching. Als ) some

R-c-lede bland Bed tine cockerels for Hale. ‘

MRS. ALBERT HARWOOD. R. 4, Cliarlevoix. Mich.





 





 





Jackson. Mich .





 





 





 





DAY-OLD CHICKS





Strong vigorous fellows. the kind that live and grow.

Carefully selected,open range. purebred utility stock.

Price reasonable. 7 Si, NBEAM

HATCHERY. 2433 S. Findlay. Ohio.





Don’t Buy





l‘ntil vou get our catalog and

heavy laying White and Brown

Write today. Lionarch Hatchery.





’ Cockerels. liens and pul-

i‘OW!er s BUIT KOCks lets. VVrlte for prices.

R. B. FOWLER. Hartford, Mich.





Circular free.

hiaiu St..





Baby Chicks





rices. Pure bred.

eghorns. Anconas.

Zeeland. Mich.





ll. 0. Silver Spangled Hamburg ""“kgf-fljjlf‘ ““1”





Herbert. C. \Valden. Paw Paw. Mich.





SELECTED WINTER LAYERS





S._(“. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING.

laid by bone that averaged overlivo hundred eggs each

last season. 15 Eggs $3.00: 3055.50;100$1J».l:(). BABY

CHICKS each_ week beginning March lst. 15 87.50;

2.) $10.50;.‘30 $20.00; 100 $40.00. No catalogue.

Dunningville Poultry Farm. Dunningville. M i011.





S. C. WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS





Send for Catalog SNOWFLAKE POI'L’JR Y

FARM. lioute 1. Grand Rapids, Michigan





 





 





 





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Our Iii-Grade profit paying Bred-to-Lay. M. A. 0.

tested and exhibition chicks, at reasonable prices.

Hatching eggs. 8 varieties, Circular Flt .



Lawrence Poultry Farm. .7. Grand Rapids. Mich.





BABY CHICK Worm Worm

and 100 for $18.00.



Prepaid. safe delivery guaranteed. Single Comb



“hire Lé horns; White. Bull and Barred Plymouth



Rocks; 8. . It. I. Reds and Anconas.



Fenton Chicken Hatchery. Box 244, Fenton. Mich.





BABY CHICKS





English Strain White Leghorns. The heavy laying

strain at $18 00 per 100 for April: 316 for May. Prepaid

by mail. Safe arrival guaranteed.



LEO. M. LOEW. Dorr. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS 3...... Combwmw Leg-



liorn (T o m B a r ro :1

Strain) White and Barred Plymouth Rock, S. C. R. I.

Red,Anconas.White Wyandottes and Brown Leghorns

23 for 25.50. 50 for $10.00. 100 for $18.00. 1000 $170.00. Ross

Wade. Meadow Brook Hatchery. Mt. hlorris. lViich.





15 eggs. SL7”; 100 for 58: by

Barred ROCkS prepaid mail. Flock average

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





 





 





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Barred Books from Rocky Ridge figfiil‘mi‘fmd" “ i3

lay birds 32.00 per 1:3. Prepaid by Parcel Post.

W. '1‘. RICHARDSON.





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5000 hatches March 14th. Exhibition and bred-to-lny

Our Rocks. Reds. Leghorns. Wyandottes. Anconas‘

Minorcas. Orpingtons, grow and pay. Now is your

chance for early chicks at 130 and up. Eggs are ad-

vancing and chicks will too.



Holgate Chick Hatchery. Holgate. Ohio





Hanover. Mich.





 





 





HICKS. Bred-to-lay S. C. IV. Leghorn and Barred

Chock ( uulity chicks that please. guaranteed full

count an to arrive to you "all ready made" in first

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100. Ilocks 318 per 100. Special prices on 500 to 1000. lir-





 





cular. Sunuybrook Poultry Farm. Hillsdzile.Mlch.



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Catalog





American White Leghorns and Anconas.

free. hi. D. “'yngardeu. 11.4. Zeclnnd. Mich.





CHICKS Pure-bred White and Brown Leg-

‘ horns from free range heavy laying

stock that is of large size with large egg capacityfient

postpaid. Prices reasonable. Safe arrival guaranteed.

Catalog free. Royal Hatchery. ll. 2. Zeeland. Mich.





DAY OLD CHICKS





and hatching eggs from select heavy

producing stock. Delivery guaran-

teed. Wh. Leghorns, Bar. Rocks, W.

Wyan.. S.C. Reds, B. Orp. Cat. free.





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Eggs





Jersey Black Giants. “‘8‘“ ”‘9 “”5““ at Mill;





son Square warden;

arm-Id s greatest Poultry show. The giant of FUNNY-

?m.. If given. free range will find the larger part

0 it s own liring. For descriptive folder and price

list on hatching eggs. write

MARCY FARMS.





 





 

 

 

 





 





from pure Toulouse geese. Ten for

five dollars. Parcel post paid.

Mrs. Amy Southivortli. Allen. Mich





‘ I). Old ‘h'i , .



look! 100,000 for 1921. “3:... Stuntman:

American and English: and Anccnas. Write for free

catalog. Fairview Hatchery. R. 2. Zeeland. Mich.





Ohle Improved Leghorn:





BABY onions. bred fro took ith h

cords and show room qualim. sI‘l’onevlbettorri‘t‘ellr.ai ”g.





 





 





 





 





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H ' Baby Chicks" Strong. healthy. purebre i.

5“ erlor White and Brown Leghorns. Ancona‘H.

Cata og free. Zeelnnd. M.icli.





‘i C. Black hliiiorcas. Ck'ls $5.00 each. One ck’l

. andi ‘_’~year-old liens 815 One yearling cock and 5

hens 820.00 great bargain. R. W. Mills. Saline. Mich.





Superior Hatchery.





 





 





Are you interested in results? Ho an

useful ‘flconas tested. layers of large white egggsi

Winter and summer. beauty and utilitv combined.

hatching eggs of real quality at prices that will sur-

prise you. Specialty breeder. write for purtim:lars.§00]-

loge View Farm. Hillsdale. hiich. “.3. G.A.Zilcli,l’rop.





B A B Y C H I C K S

of Superior Quality





Hotlfi‘om the Hatchery. right to your ilOill' safely. by

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supervision. Hut) 8. ‘



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n 0 money. re or . ‘ ()l)l'("l'l()N and the

SHO“ ROOIVI. Save money by sendiii for our cuta-

logue NU“ '. THE SUPERIOR CHIC HA'I‘CHERY.

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5 Ill. English While Leghorns





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feeding methods. a new way to cull hens and Hindi

valuable information. A. Wuiiclick. Goblei'ille. Mich





. ' 100“ out" ll"*". R-

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circular. H. H. PIERCE.



Pulleis $5 00





Jerome. Mich.



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$800 each. EggsS‘J no Lei-11.3. ' 6“ Henge sl'w ““1



Three Rivers. Mich.





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Farms and Farm Lands

High Class Dairy Farm For Rent





160 acres fertile land within one mile of town. Good

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for same. Will rent on share for term of years to

good dairyman or stock man who can finance one-hallI

of herd of 20 to 3) cows and furnish teams and tools.

Address Box J11”). care of Michigan Farmer. stating

experience and financial ability in first letter.





1' vestock 400 Acres, alight-

"nsurnassed for Pecans it: but... in in... 1...]. or

central Alabama; could be divided into small tracts.

Abundance of lime. potash and phosphorus in soil.





recent plantings on adjoining properties and extensive





families from north within radius of one mile.

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TO LEASE





160 Acre farm in North Rose. known as the M. D.

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The Bates Steel Mule does not pack

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18 Brains





And Went Back to School—By Charla C. Sfierloct





E was just an Iowa farm boy,

H back in those trying days in the



late eighties. The farmer was

a “hayseed” then and mortgages‘hung

like a pall over him. Farm products

were almost valueless. Eggs brought

only a nickel a dozen, and in trade.

Money was not to be had, and every-

thing the farmer produced was “trad-

ed" at the store for flour, and sugar

and salt. Sometimes the boys got a.

little candy when they went to town

on Saturdays, more often they got.

nothing. It was in these cheerless days

that Henry C. Wallace was a farm

boy. Last month it was announced

that. he’ had been selected by Presidenb

elect Harding to be the secretary of

agriculture.



His father, also named Henry, had

emigrated when a lad from the bonny

hills of old Scotland. He had educated

himself, and out of that passion for

learning came the determination to

give his boys 3. real schooling. In

those days few boys could go to col-

lege. But Henry C. Wallace managed

to eke out two years at the Iowa State

Agricultural College at Ames.





T was in the days when that college



was just beginning its career. “Tame.

Jim” Wilson. later secretary of agri—

culture under McKinley, Roosevelt and

Taft, had just taken a, professorship

there and was laying the foundation

for the success which this great insti-

tution of farming has now achieved.



Henry C. Wallace was-one of the

first six or seven students to_ attend





 





 





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Iowa. State under Secretary Wilson, a





distinction in itself! But two years

was all that his slender resources could

afford, so he went back to the old

neighborhood and began to farm. He

married and two children were born.



“I farmed for four years,” says Mr.

Wallace, in speaking of those days. “I

pinned my faith on pure-bred cattle

The things I had learned

at Amos were of such tremendous ad-

vantage to me that I succeeded from

the start.



“Then I began to write short pieces

about my farming experiences for a

number of farm papers. It added to

my cash income, but the best thing it

did was to attract the attention of

Professor Henry of the Wisconsin Ag-

ricultural College at Madison. Profes-

sor Henry was the dean of all agricul-

tural scientists and he had the' kind-

ness to write me a letter and urge me

to come to the college as he thought

I could make something better of my-

self if I had a thorough agricultural

training.



“I replied that I had already taken

two years’ work at Ames but had been

unable to graduate. Professor Henry

wrote me again, insisting so strongly

that I go back to college that I went

to the expense of going to. Madison to

see him.



“Coming home from Madison, I stop-

ped off at Ames between trains to re-

visit the old college. Secretary Wilson

asked me what I was going to do in





facts I have just mentioned, he insist-

ed that if I were. going back to college,

I must come back to Ames.



“I went home, held a farm sale, sold

off everything I had in’the world, turn;





 





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I went to school the remaining two





lull» flu Winn" m liming Amulsiniye'arc and graduated. ” , g . f





the future, and when I told him the-





Mr. Wallace considers that this Was

the turning point in his life, and that

he owes all that he is today to the fact

that he took the advice of such men

as Secretary Wilson and Professor

Henry and returned to college.





HEN Mr. Wallace was graduated



from his course, Secretary Wil-

son immediately made him professor

of dairying and assistant to himself.

For three years he remained at the

college in this work and under the di-

rect influence and the guiding hand of

“Tama Jim” Wilson, who did more to

chart out modern agriculture in those

early days than any other man.



In the meantime Mr. Wallace’s fath-

er, the venerable Henry Wallace, who

had been editor of the Iowa. Home-

stead and acquired a, tremendous fol-

lowing among farmers throughout the





Our New Secretary of Agriculture.





country, decided to start a. farm paper

of his own. He went to Ames to see

his two boys, Henry C. and John, who

was then just finishing his first year

at Ames.



All three of them decided to combine

their fortunes in- the new venture,

which they called Wallace's Farmer.

Then followed heartbreaking days.

John, who was business manager, went

out to solicit business on a bicycle, be-

cause he had no money for train fare!

He obtained the first, advertising in

this way. Uphill work! But the three

fought staunchly through those hard

days, inspired by their belief in the

worth of what they were doing. Today

VVallace’s Farmer is one of the most.

influential agricultural publications in

the United States. “‘Just hard work and

plenty of it,” is the reason Henry C.

Wallace, now editor gives for the suc-

cess of the paper.





ARD work and plenty of it,” has

certainly helped to fit Mr. Wallace



to act as secretary. of agriculture, one

of the most important members of the

President’s cabinet. By character,

training, and experience, he is excep-

tionally well qualified for the place. He

is credited with being one of the na-

tion’s foremost agricultural authorities.

Farmers love him and respect his judg-

ment. Every year he attends dozens

of their gatherings all over the country.

A list of some of the offices that he

holds Or has held”shows the confidence

that the farmers of the country have

in him. He has been secretary of the

Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association

for fourteen years; he is a member of





States Live Stock Industry Commis—

sion, was permanent chairman of the

National Shippers’ Conference, and a.

prominent worker in the farm bureau

movement—all very influential farm—

ers’ organizations. '



He is also an active worker in the

Y. M. C. A. and other religious and'

charitable organizations. He is a mem-

ber of the International Committee of





the Y. M. C. A., and to chronicle all of





his Y. M. C. A. work would fill more

space than we have.



It is interesting to know that Mr.

Wallace is a friend and has been host

to some of America’s most prominent

and influential citizens. When famous

people come to Des Moines, his home

town, they almost invariably accept

his hospitality because he is an old

friend of theirs. His guest book for

just one week contains among others,

the autographs of Theodore Roosevelt,

William H. Taft, Gypsy Smith and

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.





COME from a family of farmers,”

says Secretary Wallace. “As far

back as we can trace our family, every

member has been a. farmer with the

exception of two, and they were deal.

ers in foodstuffs back in Scotland about

seventy-five years ago. I am still a

farmer and still own the old home-

stead and breed pure-bred live stock.”

The sacrifices which this farm boy

made in order to go back to school

were not in vain. What he lost then'

has cOme back to him a. thousand-fold

in many ways. And he has regained

the farm which he gave up then. The

advice which “Tama J im” Wilson gave

him as a young man, to go back to

school, still holds true as the best ad-

.vice ever given a. boy. Henry C. Wal-

lace changed his whole career by list-

ening to that hint from his elders.—

American Boy.





Our Boys’ and Girls’

’ Club





UR club in Menominee county



was organized April 12, 1920. It



is composed of eight members,

six girls and two boys, as follows:

Evelyn Hanson, president; Elsie Riv-

est, vice-president; Freida. Fillis, sec-

retary; Viola Holub, treasurer; Viola

Kell, cheer leader; Lillian Holderoff,

Ernest Fillis and Napoleon Rivest.

Mrs.’ Theodore Hanson is the club

leader. At the first meeting We elect-

ed our officers and selected our leader.

We have named our club the Wid)

Awake Poultry Club. We hold meet-

ings once a. week during the summer

at the school house. We have given a,

social to make money to help pay for

the feed for our chickens that we are

raising.



Each member of the club was to get

three settings of eggs from the county

agricultural school on conditions such

that we would return one of the best

pullets from our flocks in the fall. This

we all willingly agreed to do We are

all keeping Barred and White Ply-

mouth Rocks.



We have learned how to cull pullets

and after we got through culling our

own flocks we went about practicing

on our neighbors’ flocks. And when

we' were told that it wasonc of the





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ever practicing, Ii





until our first try-cut, which gave evi-

dence that we Were the team to make

the journey. ' ' ‘



Then the question of selecting the

three members to make the journey

and represent our club, arose. The

second decision was that Viola Holub,

Elsie Rivest and myself would go and

represent Menominee county. We gave

a social before we started, by means

of which we raised enough money to

pay for our, meals at Detroit, as that

was our only expense of the trip.





On September 6 we started for De- .





troit in full array, and with the deter-

mination to do our best in represent-

ing our county. We went by way





‘ of Milwaukee and Chicago, and at four .

o’clock the next afternoon arrived at ,





Detroit. The first thing was to find





theistreet car that. would take us to _





the fair grounds. . We finally» succeed-

ed in finding it and after about an

hour’s ride reached our destination,

and found a nice little ready-made cot-

tage to stay in with club members

from other counties. We demonstrat-

ed on the eighth day of September, in

the morning and afternoon.





There were many things to see at

the state fair and we all had a very

enjoyable time. We started on our re-

turn journey, Friday, September 12.

and came by way of Bay City and the

Straits of Mackinac. We arrived home

Saturday and all were satisfied that

we had had the most interesting and

pleasant journey of our lives and felt

ready for good hard work at school.



And right here I want to give a bit

of friendly advice to boys and girls

who do not belong to clubs. Get busy

and organize a club of some kind. It

need not necessarily be a poultry club,

but the kind that is the best suited and

most convenient to have in your com-

munity. If you don’t get a trip the

work itself is worth the effort. A club

member always has a big advantage.



VIOLA KELL.





UPPER. PENINSULA CLUB NOTES.





 





HE number of garment and hot-

l lunch clubs so far organized in the

upper peninsula has far exceeded the

expectations of the Boys’ and Girls’

Club Department. Many requests have

come from teachers and schools which

never before have had clubs—ht





Last year Michigan clubs made‘gar- 7





ments valued at nearly $11,000, of

which the upper peninsula produced

one-half. This high figure gave our

state the leading place of all the states

in the ‘Union.



The following extracts from letters

written in by club secretaries show the

sprit which will again give Michigan

the garment club championship cf the

United States.



Our “Nimble Fingers” had a basket

social and used the prOCeeds to buy

lamps and sash curtains for the school.

We also rented an organ. Now we are

trying to earn a big picture of Lincoln

by selling lead pencils—Angeline Lot-

to, Secretary, Hermansville, Menomi-

nee County.



“The Little Sisters’ Club.” On Oc-

tober 11, 1920, our teacher, Miss Lar-

sen, organized a garment-making club.

We have made an apron and drafted

a pattern for a nightgown. We believe

that all work and no play makes Jack

a dull boy, so we have learned several

club songs. The officers are: Ethel

Gulbransen, president; Mildred Ander-

son, vice-president; Hannah Gron-

mark, secretary-treasurer. At our first

meeting we named our club, “The Lit-

tle Sisters’ Club.”—Mildred Anderson,

Vice-president, Carney, Menominee

County. '



“The Evergreen Branch” Club, of

Ewing township, began its work this

year with eleven members, in contrast

to last year’s five.'"The very first thing

the girls decided to do was to raise

money and, make curtains for the





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school. The money was raised by a

“Penny _C_olle_ction,” which brought

good returns.—'—,Tyne Mattila, Club.





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Snow 7.: an duet if It Doer72’ t





FEW weeks ago many of us

were of the opinion that the mat-

ter of keeping the made clear

was one which could be dismissed un-

til another winter.

days of February have showh us what

a versatile climate we possess and

that we. might have heeded Washing-

ton’s advice during his birth month, at

least, and remembered that in time of

peace we were to prepare for war. We

may in a measure have been persuad-

ed from doing so by those who con-

tend that the climate is growing mild-

er and the snowfall lighter as the years

go by.



There is really very little to justify

a change-of-climate theory if weather

records, which have been kept in this

country for a. little over a. century, are





 





But the closing ‘





M ate Our Road; Deferred/e





By Warren 1. Hoyt ‘ . - . -





words, drifts do not come by hit-and?

miss. They are deeper in some places

than in others for a reason. A drift

will form where the velocity of a car-

rying wind is cheeked by an obstruc1

tion. If there are prevailing west

winds an obstruction on the windward

Side 18am to cause drifts more read-

ily than one on the east side. Fences,





hedges, brush, and weeds frequently





serve as obstructions—the closeness of

the objects to the road determining

whether a drift will be formed there.

If it is far enough away it will prevent

the drift rather than cause it. This

principle is made use of very exten-

sively by railways in the constructing

of snow fences, which may be made of

boards nail-ed together similar to a.

gate, or can be made of any material





 





consulted. The old-fashioned winters

were quite like the modern kind—

sometimes they were severe and some-

times they were mild. We remember

the severe ones? because they impress

themselves a little more forcefully up

on our minds. HOwever, accurate in-

struments properly exposed and prop-

erly read do not forget the mild ones,

and are not like us in being able to re-

call only the time we were snowbound

for a couple of weeks and had to again

draft old Dobbin to get the groceries

and mail.



We charge an account like that

against the snow man so hard that it

rather injures his reputation as an ag-

ricultural asset. In fact his- standing

in the community seems to depend up-

on his not remaining in the wrong

place at the right time. Everyone

agrees that if during freezing weather

he covers the fields, checking winter-

killing, moderating the effects of ex‘

treme temperatures, excessive evapor-

ation and destructive winds, mellow-

ing the soil, replenishing soil moisture,

and checking the run-off, he is at least

a benefit to the grasses and a protec-

tion to the wheat. But he is far from

an agricultural resource if he piles on

the roadways, impeding the movement

of foodstuffs, fuel and materials, pre-

venting the marketing of produce and

rendering impossible the “ship by

truck” program. If the benefits out-

weigh the disadvantages no one will

admit it while that condition is fresh

in their memory. It sometimes seems

that snow prefers to camp on the high-

ways, nevertheless it possesses no or-

gans of- locomotion.

is put, which does not make it follow

that it stays there. In fact, the two

chief movers, wind and man, have en-

gaged in some lively competitions with

the wind having all the best of the

argument. ' °





HE wind has never been complete-

ly tamed, still the effect which a

certain action on its part will produce





 





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i It .goes where it.





Making a Passage Through Deep Snowdrifts.





or in any way which will serve as an

obstruction. They may be portable or

stationary but they should be placed

so that they are eight or ten feet back

per foot of height of fence. The shape

of the top of the obstacle is a deciding

factor in the proper gauging of this

distance.



Different surfaces cause different

kinds of wind eddies to be formed. 'A

flat surface, as the top of a hedge trim-

med evenly, will cause the eddies to

whirl horizontally and form drifts. An

uneven surface, say a variation in

height of one foot in every two or

three causes the eddies to rotate verti-

cally and carry the snow. A hedge,

or practically any kind of a fence but

wire, should not be, closer than fifty

or sixty feet to the center of the road.

However, if the road bed is high drifts

will be less liable to form upon it.



Having thus a reasonable under-

standing of the cause we can tell ap-

proximately where ihe drifts will be.

If it is impossible to eliminate this

cause we can either build up another

obstruction to decrease the effect of

that already there, or we can let the

frozen moisture pile where it will, and

then move it or go over the top. The

going over Works fairly well if every-

one uses vehicles with runners or if it.

is packed down by a huge roller five

or six feet in diameter. This builds up

the surface to such an extent that

there is less drifting on the traveled

part. The compacting is only recom-

mended for northern sections.





S a usual thing, if we Wish to trav-



el between the fences the removal

method is about the only one that

proves satisfactory. The tools to do

the moving With is not so easily deter-

mined unless we wait until the storm

is upon us and are forced to use what

we have at hand. Some communities

have taken up the problem in time

and have made attempts to prepare.

Were expense not to be considered.

there is certainly a~wide range of d
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expei’rim with snow tanks, flame

throwers, motor" trucks. locomotive

cranes, steam shovels, snow melting

machines and all manne1 of plows.





«New York City has feund the tractor





pushing a blade attached in front, or

pulling a road grader to be so satisfac-



that they recently purchased one

hundred and fifty such outfits. Grad-

ers are not now as scarce as they were

at one time, and there are few locali-

ties which have not been invaded by

the tractor. It seems, then, that we

have somemachinery at hand besides

the shovel, which we can get in readi-

ness for a little work during its cus-

toma1y idle season -



The grader and tracto1 combination

is always of valuable assistance and is

highly satisfactory if it is in readiness

and can be started with the storm.

Iron shoes may be placed on the bot-

tom of the blade to prevent gouging if

any trouble is encountered on that

s001e.A medium weight grade1 is not

easily shifted sideways, but the hitch



. should be as short as it can be con-

veniently made.



Providing the road officials wish to

equip more completely, some form of

rotary plow would. perhaps, be a wise

selection. These are being used suc-

cessfully in the cities and on the coun-

try roads of this count1y and of Can-

ada. They throw the snow fifty or





sixty feet and spread it evenly on the '





adjoining fields whe1e it will do good

rather than piling it in huge mountains

at the side as a shoveling gang finds

it necessary to do. The cutters are

driven by a gasoline motor and dis-

charge the snow as a fine, dust on one

01 both sides. It has the advantage of

wo1king fast and at a cost per mile of

about fifty per cent what hand labor

would be. A level snow bed may be

left behind so that sleigh traffic is not

interfered with. Machines of this type

work with the graders very success-

fully and can be used to remove the

compacted banks which are formed by

the pressing back from the roadway

with the blade of the scraper.



If an. occasional farm where a trac-

tor is possessed can be loaned a grad-

er during the winter season and with

the highway divided into sections

which are each to be looked after by

their respective outfits, there is little

reason Why motor trafiic need be block-

ed for very long periods at a time.

When the storm does get the upper

hand on one of the sections the rotary

plow can be taken to that locality un-

til the tractor is again master of the

situation. .



THE STATUS OF SUGAR BEET-



CONTRACTS.





 





ICHIGAN sugar beet growers’ as-



sociation contracts will be placed

in the hands of twelve thousand grow-

ers within the next few weeks, accord-

ing to officers of the association. The

beet growers are making a great ef~

fort to enable the producing end of

the industry to speak as one man to

the manufacturers, an undertaking

which entails the signing up of nine

thousand organized members and three

thousand who are unorganized.



The association’s contract, drawn up

on behalf of the members, makes the

association the sole representative of

the produCers before the manufactur-

ers. ‘It provides for the 1921-22 sea-

sons a schedule for $6.45 a ton to the

producer on the basis of five-cent sug-

ar, with an additional $1.20 per ton for

each one-cent increase in the price of

sugar. The paper is of the nature of

a crop contract and is air-tight, insur-

ing the confidence of the growers in

one another standing by their respec-

tive agreements.



The contract follows the negotia-





7 tions of the Utah and Idaho farm bu-

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SHORTHORN SALE AT EAST

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HE Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’





Association Sale and Show at the





Michigan Agricultural College, at East

Lansing, onFebruary 25, drew a large

crowd. The cattle were of mixed

breeding and the quality of the offer-

ing, with a few exceptions, was very

good. An encouraging indication is

that many of the cattle were absorbed

by new breeders. The fOrty-six head

sold brought $9,280, an average of

$202, thirty-seven females averaging

$201.50, and nine bulls averaging $203.

Lady Belle, consigned by H. B. Peters

& Son, Carland, Michigan, topped the

sale at $1,000, going to Whitney Bros,

Onondaga, Michigan. Commonwealth,

offered by C. H. Prescott & Sons, Ta-

was City, Michigan, was the top bull

and went to M. J. Downs f31 $290.

Following is a list of the winners at

the show which preceded the sale:





Bulls calved before September 1,

1919: First, H. B. Peters & Son, Car-

land. Mich., on Fairfield Pride.



Bulls calved after September 1,

1919. First, John Lassiteis’ Sons, of

Clarkston, Mich. on Glo1y Lad, 2nd,

John Schmidt & Sons, of Reed City

Mich, on Biansbys Jupiter; 3rd, C. H.

Piescott & Sons, Tawas City, Mich.,

on Richland Diamond



Cows calved before September 1,

1917: First, A. J. Adams, Litchfield.

Mich., on Grace; 2nd, Lessiters, on

May Queen; 31d, J. M. Hicks & Sons

Williamston, Mich. on Diamond’s

Ramsden.



Cows with calves by side: First,

Peters & Son, on Lady Belle; 2nd, S.

H. Hicks & Sons, Lansing, Mich., on

Lady Lilac; 31d, W. S. Adams, Litch-

field, Mich., 011 White Rose.



Cows calved between September 1,

1917, and Septembe1 1, 1918. Fi1st

Peteis & Son, on Viscount Lady 4th



Heifers calved between September

1, 1918, and September 1,1919: Fiist

and 2nd,Pete1s & Son, 011 Red Rose

of Lexith 2d, and Nor;a 3rd, W. S

Adams, on Village View Maid.



Heifers, one year old: First and 2nd.

Lessiters, on Doris and Lady Mina;

3rd, Prescotts, on Morning Star.



Heifer calves: First, Schmidt &

Son, on Monarch’s Jubilee; 2nd, Pet-

ers & Son, on Beauty Spot 2d; 3rd, A.

J. Adams, on Red Rose.



The following is a list of buyers and

the animals purchased:



Bulls.



E. B. SaliSbu1y, Shepherd, Mich.,

Richland Diamond, calved Septembe1

14,1919, $205.



M. J. Downs, Ada, Mich., Common-

wealth, calved Octobe1 28, 1919, $290.



Owen Todd and L. E. Cass, Flint,

Mich, Faixfield Pride, calved July 10,





1919, $205.



Simpson Bros, Charlotte, Mich.,

B1ag1sby’s Jupiter, calved May 8,1920,

$21



Hemy Lynch, Mayville, Mich., G101y

Lad, calved Decembel 22, 1919, $240.



Cows and Heifers.



H. C. VVheaton, Charlotte, Mich.,

gzisoanna, calved September 28, 1919,



L C Kelly & Sons, Plymouth, Mich,





Lady Mina, calved August 9,1919,

$225; Lady Maud, calved March 15,

1920, $235; Monarch’s Nonpareil 3TB,





calved November 11, 1917, $265.



Edwin Hoffman, Elkton, Michigan,

Doris, calved January 24, 1919, $350.



S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe, Michigan.

Jenny Lind 2d, calved January 28,

1919, $250; Monarch’s Jubilee, calved

Februa1y 20,1920, $300.



Thomas Barr, Mason, Mich., Urys

Queen 2d calved April 29, 1915, $215.



Whitney Bros” Onondaga, Mich,

Lady Belle, calved April 8,1914, $1000.



E. D. Snyder Ovid, Mich, Fairfleld

$4235? 2d, calved September 29,1918,

C. H. Miller & Son, Saline, Mich.

Village View Duchess, calved Septem-

ber12,1917, $240.



Ford & Arndt, Big Rapids, Mich,

Lady Lilac, calved August 7,1914,$205





 





 





 





 





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NITIAL steps in the organization of

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tion to take over the milk conden-

sary at Elsie, Clinton county, and to

convert it into a. modern dairy, "were

taken by farmers of Clinton, Shiawas-

see, Gratiot and Saginaw counties on

February 23, at Elsie. A working cap-

ital of $25,000 was raised and a com-

mittee appointed to arrange for the in—

corporation of the farmers’ organiza-

tion. As soon as this is accomplished

the new association will offer to pur-

chase the condensary property now

owned by the Waterloo Company of

Toledo.

Gratiot Farmers Organize Marketing



Association.



At a. public meeting held in St.

Louis, Gratiot county, on February 24

a local branch of the Gratiot County

Farm Bureau was organized. About

one hundred members joined the local

branch and about thirty agreed to take

stock in a cooperative elevator if the

plans of the progressive farmers to

that end were realized. Harry Cook,

county agent employed by the farm

bureau of Gratiot county for the com-

ing year, was present to assist in the

organization.



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farmers in this vicinity, and was the

first project undertaken by the local

unit. At the meeting a board 01' di-





' rectors was elected comprising the fol-





lowing members: Frank Peach,

Chauncey Hall, Charles Curtis, Frank

Sontey, Paul Burnham, Frank Kehl

and George Hurst. The board then met

and elected officers for the ensuing

year, as follows: Frank PeaclL'pres-

ident; George Hurst, vice-president;

Chauncey Hall, secretary—treasurer.

The next meeting was set to be held

in St. Louis on Thursday, March 10.



The directors of the St. Louis Coop-

erative Creamery Company have elect-

ed the following officers for 1921: T.

A. Bush, president; Charles F. Hoyt,

vice-president; Fred C. Pernert, secre-

tary-treasurer. With the officers, J.

W. Campbell and William Vanderbeck

complete the board of directors. A six

per cent dividend was declared on the

capital stock and the following bo-

nuses were remitted to all stockholders

who had contributed to the business

of the company: Butter-fat, two cents

per pound; eggs, two cents per dozen;

poultry, five per cent of amount sold

during 1920.



The St. Charles Cooperative Farm

Bureau Shipping Association Shipped

its fourth carload of live stock on wed-

nesday, February 23.



Will Can Rabbit and Chicken Meat.



The MichigansUnited B1 eeders is the

name'of a new association formed to

protect the interests of breeders of

registered stock by the furtherance of

protective- legislation. It has for its

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establishment of a cannery at Clare,

Clare county,'for the canning of rab-

bit and chicken meat. The Clare Cham-

ber of Commerce has taken the proj-

set in hand, and at a meeting held

during the week of February 26 a prop-

osition was presented by J. H. Reed,‘

of Saginaw, whereby a plant would be

established there, providing a. building

would be furnished rent free for three

years. The David Ward building on

McEwin street had already been ar-

ranged for, and can easily be adapted

to the use of a cannery with slight

alterations.





The cannery as planned will‘have a.

capacity at the start of eighty thou-

sand cans’a day, and employing about

thirty men and girls. Fruits and veg-

etables will be canned in season, and

rabbit meat and poultry in winter. It

is said there are only three or four

such canneries in the United States.

Mr. Reed, tlie‘principal organizer of

the association and its president, was

for a time connected with government

experimental work in stock breeding.





Well Pleased with Winnings.





Saginaw county walked away with

the county sweepstakes in the improv-

ed grain exhibit and the local associa-

tion exhibits at the state shows during

farmers’ week at Lansing, besides

earning second place for the greatest

number of prizes and making the most

entries. Saginaw county scored ninety-

eight points in the improved grain ex-

hibit, leading its nearest rival, Ingham

county, by twenty-one points. Ingham

county, where the state show was held,

was the only county of the second dis-

trict that entered more exhibits aim

won more prizes than Saginaw, but

Saginaw county farmers captured the

“cream of the prizes,” winning the pen-

nant for the best association exhibit

of grain. The second district includes

all of Michigan except the four south-

ernmost counties, in which exhibits

are classified separately.



Lawrence Bannan, of Burt, repre-

sented the Saginaw County Farm Bu-

reau, having in charge the selection

and exhibiting of the county products.

About one hundred and twenty-five

farmers from this county attended the

state grain ShOW, pronounced the larg-

est exhibit of its kind ever held in the

state.



Will Continue to Hold Wool.



Decision to hold their wool until a.

natural market develops was reached

by about thirty wool growers of Sagi-

naw county, who recently met at the

farm bureau office. The consensus of

opinion among the growers was that

there is no actual demand for wool

and that the present market prices are

offered by speculators. Rather than

sell their product to these sharpers,

who eventually sell to users at a. much

higher price, the local growers feel

that they are justified in storing their

wool until it is really needed.



“It is estimated,” said Arthur G.

Bovay, county agent, “that the farm

bureau can store and inSUre the wool

for one year at a cost of one cent per

pOund. Under the local farm bureau

cooperative plan the wool was assem-

bled, graded and stored for the Sagi-

naw growers last [year at an approxi-

mate cost of three cents per pound.



About one hundred and fifty leaders

of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Sagi-

naw county gathered together on Sat-

uiday, February 26, at the Y. M. C. A.,

£01 their annual conference. Nathalia

Vasolo and Elda Robb, assistant state

club leaders, and Harold Schur, secre-

taly 0f the Caro Red Croce Chapter,

gave short addresses County Farm

Bureau and school oihcials also all.

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_ time‘ to start the breeding of

any class of live stock is when good

foundation stock may be obtained at

reasonable prices, advises specialists

cooperating with the Michigan State

Farm Bureau. Yet often that isn’t the

way things are done in practice. A

man will usuallyqvait until he sees his

neighbor making money in some

branch. of the live stock game and then

get a start while prices are high.



This is‘ a period of depression and

low prices in the sheep industry. The

Bureau 01? Crop Estimates of the Unit-

ed States Department of Agriculture

in its February report says; “The

lack of demand for and the low mar-

ket of wool has discouraged many:

sheep owners and large flocks have

been reduced while many small flocks

have been sold.” There is certainly

no doubt that this is true with refer-

ence to feeding lambs and probably it.

applies to a limited extent to breeding

flocks as well. However, Mr. Don Wil-

liams, extension specialist in sheep

husbandry, who is cooperating with

the wool department 01' the State Farm

Bureau, is inclined to discount the

statement that there has been any

marked decrease in the number of

breeding sheep in Michigan. In fact,

he states that he has seen many signs

of renewed interest in sheep raising in

Michigan.



“Certainly,” says Mr. Williams, “this

is an excellent time to get into the

sheep raising business, but it is a ruin-

ous time to get out. The sheep raiser

should not. become unduly alarmed at

present price conditions. This is the

thirteenth period of depression

through which the live stock industry

has passed”. This sentiment is cor-

roborated by a recent statement made

by Herbert E.‘Powell, ot' Ionia, retiring

president of the Michigan Breeders’

and Feeders’ Association, who is a

prominent. sheep breeder and an ac-

knowledged authority on the live stock

situation in Michigan. Mr. Powell

stated that this is a favorable period

for farmers to undertake the breeding

of sheep and to get into'the pure-bred

game, and for established breeders to

improve the quality of their flocks.



There are very few farms in Michi-

gan where a small flock of sheep can-

not be kept to advantage, according to

Mr. Williams. Since sheep keep down

weeds and thrive on cheap pasture,

they rank next to goats as the farm—

er’s best scavengers and may be kept

very economically during the summer

months.



Michigan farmers might realize

much more from their sheep by giving

a little attention to a few details, ac-

cording to a statement made by the

animal husbandry department of the

Michigan 'Agricultural College. Native

lambs usually undersell western lambs,

say the college authorities, because

eighty per cent of the native lambs go

on the market undocked and uncas-

trated. Then, too, farmers are slow to

realize that small, well fattened lambs

are the market toppers, while lambs

weighing ninety pounds or over are

not wanted by the killers.



The M. A. C extension service is

now putting on, demonstrations show-

ing the farmers the best methods of

docking and castrating their lambs,

states Mr. Williams.



Figures compiled by the Michigan

State Farm Bureau indicate that even





with the present unfavorable condi-_





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Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publicatlon





v't‘k‘e

CLOVERLY ANGUS





(lows and Heifers Bred to

Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd





For Sale

GEO. HATHAWAY & SON. Ovid, IVIich.





 





THE HOME OF





Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny





Probably





The World’s Greatest

Breeding Bull





Blue Bell, Supreme Champion at the Smith-

tield Show 19(9. and the Birmingham Show

1920. is a. daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.



The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Chain-

pion Female. Champion Calf Herd and First

Prize Junior Heifer Calf. Michigan State Fair.

1920. were also the get of Edgar of Dalmeny.



A very choice lot of young bulls—sired by

Edgar of Dalineny are. at this time. offered

for sale.



Send for Illustrated Catalogue.





WILDWOOD FARMS

. ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SOBIPPS. Prop. ‘ Sidney Smith. Supt





 





 





 





 





For Sale





Woodcote lrojan-Ericas





We are onering ten cows bred to either

IMP. ELOHO 01“ HA RVIESTOUN. or

1MP. EDGARDO OF DALMENY





Write for our 1921 BULL SALE LIST

Woodcote Stock Farm, Ionia. Mich.





 





 

 

 

 





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‘ bulls and heifers from 6 to

Reg' Aberdeen Angus 18 mos. old of the very best

of breeding. also Berkshire Swine, boars ready for

service and pigs both sex singles. pairs or trios.

will accept Liberty Bonds.



RUSSELL BROTHERS,





GUERN SEYS





Bull calves for sale. Sired by Anton's May K ng that

sold for 37,000. Farmers rices and uaranteed to

please. GILMORE Bltt 'l‘liERS.





Merrill. Mich.





 





nmden, Mich.





Registered Guernseys

A bull Cult. nearly ready for light service. at a price,

you will pay, don't wait long on this fellow.

J. M. WILLIAM. No. Adams, hIich.





c. u E R N 5 EV s ~HEGIS'1‘ERED

BULL CALVES



Containing blood of world champions.

HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich.





 





 





' ' Heifer and bull calf unrelat-



Guernsey Bargams ed. Both for what the heifer

is worth. Also éoung cow. Liberty Bonds accepted.

. A. WIGENT, Wutervlict. hlich





 





of May Bose Breeding

Gueltnsey Bulls ’l‘heirrdams have records

4‘30 to 600 lbs. {at also a few cows and heifers are

olfered. . H. W. Wigman, Lansing, Mich.





G U E R N S E Y BULL CALVES whose

1940090 ilk 90905 t 1: Th lairo'sh dam mfide

, ... in , . a . ' ' ' -

made 15,109.10 milk. 778.80 (at? r Mt er s we 5 “m



'1‘. V. HICKS. Battle Creek. Mich





 





FEDERAL Inspected Guernsey Bulls. Priced to sell.

Nine sold in 10 mos. A‘fine Masher Sequel 3 yrs.

oldEcure. sound and right 8175.00. Four rundsons

of x-Champlon A. A. cow.under 8 mos. old rom cows

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





 





Six registered Guernsey bulls Ma

For sale Rose breeding ready for service. Chen;





it taken soon. John Ebels. B. 2. . Holland. Mich,





 





accepted in ayment of finely bredre

‘ 600‘ NOT. :mtcred thfieln bull calves. @alit';

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

GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - - Vassar. men.





 





9" Fries Hm,» dbll i' -'

”“3““ ”uptight and, 13311.: 1:60:09 hilltop'ihdbfl





 





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Splendid, individuals.“ ing. ‘er you

calamity. Brownoro arms. ”Ma EN. ll};-





 

 





 





   





 

 





The Traverse Herd





‘v‘Ve have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large.

tine growthy type, guaranteed right In every way.

They are from high producing A, R. O. ancestors

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

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





$175 buys reg. Holstein heifer 2 yr. old. Fresh soon.

Sire by “Prince Korndyke Johanna". A 31.65 lh.

bull. Bred to 28 ll). hull. B. H.Rearey. Akron. Miglél.‘





NO'TICE





The Winwood Herd





on Nov. lst will move their Herd of

Pure Blood Holsteins to their new

home, 1:}- miles south of Rochester,Mich.

and for the next 30 days we will sell

what bull calves we have cheap as we

will be unable to get our buildings com-

plete before winter. So et busy it' on

want a son of Flint aplecrest oy

at your own price.





JOHN H. WINN, (lnc.)





Roscommon, Michigan





FOR SALE Registered Holstein-Friesian

. ' bull calf ready for service ex-

tra chmce breedm and individuality King of the

Pontiacs breeding. enry S. Rohlts, Kl. Akron. Mich.





_ FOR SALE





Reg. Holstein cows and heifers. Two very fine cows

five yr. of ago. One is fresh the other one will soon

be fresh bred to a 33 lb. hvill price $350 each. Also

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

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

eral accredited herd. C. SCHOOL“. 11.3, Washing-

ton. Mich. Telephone 41F13. Washington Exchange.





' 8 . Id

33.60 lbs. butter :1.‘ii.““3a‘£‘ hit ’fifmdtor “has...

cost of service. Liberhv Boxid or not

NI; L. cLA *





 





LIN, enedtoni. Mich.





Holstein>mascaratamarind?-

:ant tanywhere. . Safifnbtion gnalw'nn . g

009]) . E480!





 





 





Farms. . Whitewater.\ is;
' THE





Polio





“Where the Cham-

pions Come From”





Offer Special prices for

60 days‘ to Michigan

dairymen on bull calves

from tested dams, sired

by Sir Clothilde Concor-

dia or Flint Hengerveld

Lad. Send for extended

pedigrees and prices.





Pontiac State Hospital

Pontiac, Mich.





 





Messrs. H. D. & A. T. Bogg,

Woodland, Cal. write:





“Holsteins are the heaviest

producers of milk and fat. The





demand for Holstein-Friesian

cattle is growing each year

It is easier to fill a demand





than to create one. We have

always sold our surplus cattle

without much trouble at good

prices.”



Sendfor Free Boot/tr:





The iioistein-Friesian Association of America

164 American Bidg.. Brattieiloro, Vermont





 





 





 





For Sale $475.00

A Young Bull. Cash or Terms

From Junior two year old A. R. 0. Heifer. 17.68, born

February 10. 19.0 sired by



mooizi. KING SEOIS GLISTA



\Vhose grand dam, GLISTA ERNES'l‘lNE, has six

times made better than thirty pounds of butter.

This bull is bound to transmit liigli milk production.





GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS





Bl; N.East Avo..(.‘.orey J.Spencer.0wner Jacksondiich.

Under Stats and Federal Supervismn





“ion Notch” Hoistoins





Buy a “milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of the world‘s only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7

drive, having an 800 lb. daughter.



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

!) iiinzi. the only cow that, ever hold all world's records

ll every division from one day in one year at the same

time. She produced 6:31.70 lbs. milk in 7 day-H. We are

offering for sale a hull. whose dam exceeds this record

by (iv .1- 7H lbi-i. in 7 days.



is dam's records arm—-



ll 'lk





 





i 1 Day 100.1 lbs.

Milk 7 Days 659.3 lbs.

Butter 7 Days 26.3] lbs.





His name is

KING VALE CORNUCOPIA WAYNE, No. 312.599

Born February 6. 920

His dam and sire's two nearest dams average

Butter 7 Days 3302 lbs.

IMilk 7 Days 607.3 lbs.

Handsomely marked about one third white.

5‘5)0.(IC f. o. b. Howell.





IUCPHERSON FARLIS 00., Howell, IMich.

All herds under U. S. Supervision.





Cluny Stock Farm





Offers





Cluny Konigen Coiantha Silver 326205

Born May 29, 1920



A white hull with a few black spots.



His sire a 30 ii). son of King chis Pontiac Konigcn.



Sirc‘s 7 nearest dams average 32.301 lbs. butter 624.1

lbs. milk in 7 days.



'iiis dam has 3 Jr. 3 year old record of 17.68! lbs.

butler from 418.7 lb. milk and is a granddaughter of Colan-

tha Johanna Lad.



2nd dam—'1 21 lb. cow that our barn records show milk-

ovcr 145.000 lbs. in 14 milking periods producing 15

calves.



Pedigree on application.



Price $250.00. Federal Accredited Heard.





R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Mich.





HEREFORDS





Cows” with calves at side, open or bred

beiferspf popular breeding for sale. Also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw _Paw,-Mich.





616 So. Wutnodfio~Ave..M.





 





 





 





 





Kalamazoo, ‘





 





ichigan .





 

 





 





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18 included in the Sale. He is





Joseph L. Ziegler,





Disper i , ,

20 Registered Holsteins. 20





Tuesday, March 22, 31921, at $0. Lyon, , Mich.





Of the 18 females in the sale ten are by 30-1b. sires and 14 have A. R.

0. records or are from record dams.





My Long Distance Herd Sire

KING ONA CHAMPION 2575 1 3





on:





 





a fine individual, kind and gentle,





two years old. Under State and Federal Supervision. License No.7439.





Farm Sale at 10.00 A. M.

Catalogs ready March 10th.





Cattle Sale at 2.00 P. ‘M.





South Lyon, Mich.





 





Brookwaler Farm,

H. W. Mumford, Owner,





JERSEY BULLS





Sired by Maiesty's Intense 127191 who is a double grandson of the

famous Royal Majesty and who is out of the cow Majesty’s Iris 26570! 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 be again in the next few years.



Description and pedigrees furnished upon request.





Ann Arbor, Michigan





J. B. Andrews, Manager





 





Choice individuals; shipped to you





0.1. C. BOvARS





right or your money refunded. All stock registered in buyer’s name.





J. CARL J EWETT,





c. o. d. express paid and guaranteed





Mason, Mich.





 





 





 





O. I.





all ages sired by CallaWay Edd 1918





Buster.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





C.





Schoolmaster 19i9 world’s grand champion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Write your wants, all stock 5





H003





world’s grand champ. boar and C. C.





ipped on approval.





Cass City, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





“Economy is the Basis

Principle of Success”





From Michigan Farmer, page 195,

Feb. 12 issue. The farmer never

voiced a truer statement. The Jersey

is the most economically producing

dairy cow; she has proven it. There-

fore she is the Basic PrinCiple of

Successful dairying.



“Economy means prudence, keen . judgement,

good management and the avoidance of waste ."

Therefore grading up your dairy herd With a

pure bred Jersey sire is economy.

“Expenditure is oft-times an Economy.”

Therefore buying a pure bred Jersey SIX‘C is

economy.





“An investment should have your favorable

consideration when it will aid in your chosen

Work." Buying a pure bred Jersey sire will be

an aid in your dairy work. ‘_‘You are practic-

ing economy” when you invest in a pure

bred Jersey bull.





JERiEY





[7129 Profit Breed





“The Key to Qairy Profit: ’ ’ and ' 'Jency

Facu"-- two important books, telling

how farmers are making real profit today

with J erseys—how anyone can do it any-

where. Whether you are interested in

one cow or a hundred. these books will

show you how to make money.





 





 





 





 





 





   

   

   

 





 

 

 





 





BUTTER BRED mean”

. _ area m-- 4

can?“ 5% ocué'W .





 





 





The Wildwood Farm





Jerse Cattle. Maiesty strain, Herd on State accred-

itedl t R. of M. 128812111qu constantly done. Bulls for

sale. ALVIN BALDE . Phone 143.5. Oapoc. Mich.





JER SEY BULLS m... m 3......



Raleigh—Oxford

and—Majesty breeding. Meadowland Farm, Waiter-

man & Waterman, Packard ltd., Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys {,‘flfifgalvggwfgm

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville. Mich.





Jersey Buns'ifgflailfi,“ M. dams $7.) to

NUTTEN FARM, ' Grass Lake, :Mich.





 





 





J I' bulls for sale: From Marguerito’s Premier

e sey a. grandson of P0 is 99th and. R. of M. dams.

SBIITII it. PAR I‘Jli. R. 4, Howell, Liioh.





 





weridaie Interested Owl No. 111311 beads my herd

l bull calves from this 'reat sire and out of [Lot M.

Leon E. own. it. 6, Allegan, Mich.





SHORTHORN DURHAM CATTLE





Auction Sale-

Mar. 18 at 1 o’clock P. M.





Dual purpose Shorthorn Beef and Butter bred





dams for sale.





 





27 HEAD

Registered Unregistered but

highly bred.

12 head. 15 head

S cows 4 cows

. 3 heifers

4 heifers ‘ 3 bull calves

3 bulls 5 fat steers.





Herd Tubercuiin 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-.3

. R. 2, Conklin, Mich. _ _ .





 

 





 





 

 





 

 





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Fem-In. Mfimithi





 





' RUSH BROS. .





 





Slim-thorns. Balls and heifers.

It? ,0, l.





ASALEW





loosday, March 22 1921, 2 rill.





15 head, registeredmowsycalves, heifers

and oung

mg ass of Sharon, Duchess, and Clay

families. 3 miles southeast“ Jackson

on Napoleon Road.





ALTON V. SHEAP





R. 7. Jackson, Mich.





BID UV ELL BUYA BULL

that will put weight n ‘- . no... _ ' .

prance wt 1 soon h“ to: “igniting? o: oelllitildesooddm

thatch and Score -topped reasons]: rioed

We guarantee every animal to be 3 b der. ‘ ederal

'Jl‘est. One hour 1mm Toledo. Ohio, 31°10. n. n.





BIDWELL STOCK FAPM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





Bl—oomdale Shortlicrns





 





 





 





ing. Both bulls and females for so]

CARR BROS. & 00.. Bad Axe. _Mich.





liking Shorthorns, bulls m: h i' r

M year old for sale at reduc d riot;i til-sin‘hklgorotgni

E. E. KUIfiK‘Z. Mason. Mich.





Stop! Look! Listen!





Have you a catalog of the Shorthorn

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

1F ‘ We are listing four valuable

females and two show bulls.





Richland Farms,

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





The Maple’s Shortlicrns





Kirklevin ton Lad. by 1m . Hartford

Welfare, ign service. Stock ilor sale.





J. V. WISE, Gobleville, _Mich.





MEADOW Hills Slim-thorns. Herd headed by Sil-

ver_King. full brother of Lavender Sultan Pur-

due University a great sire. For sale females of all

ages, a few young bulls. Geo. D. Doctor, Doctor, Mich.





for younger stock.





 





Branch County Farin





Breeders of





Pulled Shorthorn Cattle





Young Bulls For Sale I

Several well bred herd bull prospects.

GEO. E. BURDICK, Mgr., Coldwater, Mich.





VALLEY vnaw FARMS





gfioiicgéouggglaorthom cows an? hgifers it's sale at

. r o n. or . -



bulls stronfi in 81110:?) Bloo‘iiizar 012 also a. few young



8. . PANGBORN & SON, Bad Axe, Mich.





Scotch and Scotch topped. Herd



Shorthorns bull pros cts l roan 16 mo. old;



1 red8mo. Also four yr. 0] roan cow. All stock

registered and'guaranteed ri ht.



J. A WIL Alina. Mich.





ill SON,



' ' Shorthorn Breeds V Assoc; ..

central MICh‘g‘n tion offerfor sole 75rliead;Bolt‘iz

milk and beef breeding all me. New list read Jan.

1,. M. L. MILLER, 800.. Greenville’, inch.





‘ Shortho b l} ' ' -

RegIStered for salehli' truthmigdyifor 89mm





1 1 p

'lHla JENNINGS FARMS, Jigiley, Mich.





' ‘ Shorthorns. B ll a] 8100 h

llklng Feder u c ves 009cc .

iil accredited II rd .

and Hall. Roland and Beland, Tecumgeh? M1212), “hon

Imp. Royol Pioneerin

Sherman‘s Durno first five sires bargdviigexlegulihi‘;

J. A. BARNUM, Union City, Mich.





Young R a. Bhorthorn b‘ i .

F or sale for service. Avondale breedinsgj'figigd

herd. Bedell and Wheatlake. Big Rapids. Mich.





"Cg: "‘d Pall“! c-agtlglgligilcgay'gung bulls trains to 18

R. 1, Grand Ledge, Mich.





FRANK KEBLER.



63. Red Polled bull oalv from 3 os. t. l e

R old, sired by Famous Chafiner 76$ lenema 3100);! 35

Charmer 1919 International Grandéhampion. Uni- herd

State and Federal tested. West!) ‘





HOGS





‘ Berkshires for sole. M he (1 b0' .

RegIStered 2 sows, pigs of either six fin-mull;

Oct. 2. Satisfaction aranteed. Also 8 (3. Ancona

eggs for hatching. J o 11 Young, Breckenridge. ich.





 





 





 





egistered Berkshires, Gilts, and Bows bred for April

May and June furrow. A yearling Boar and a few

younger.Spring pigs. Chase Stool! Fam,Marlette.licli.





' DUROC JERSEYS





Bred gilts, service boars and fall boar pics It Bargain

prices. Your correspondence or personal inspection





is cordially invxted.

Oakwood Farm, Romeo, Mich.





Jersey boars from 8 mote] . ld. l .

numc young sows mated to maintain 5:01:11“! £333:

type. Prices reasonable. 1 on ‘a rave] and

guaranteed right. W.E. A run. Kline. Mich.





 

 

 

 

 





 





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See our cattle get our prices and breeding before buy- I

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rock Bros.,lonia.Micli .





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Fill Your Silo an

Save Your Ear Born





STOVER' SILAGE will winter cattle

at half the cost of, regular corn silage.

You save ALL your earcorn to sell or feed.

Dro us a rd for these two books.

Fin: out how to save hundreds of dollars





With a -

Jamey SIIo-Filler-llusker

f h dl‘ - .

331% hfil’fih‘éer 30522? ii’lr’ik‘éfizf’éi‘ir

ther green or ripe corn. Fills the

units. the ear corn at the same

Send for books today. . »

nu. uirrlmmrrgo co. . r

ML!) 5 m Rapids, la.

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Public Auction





on the Emanuel Hawley Farm





8:]; miles northeast of

Munith, Jackson Co., Mich., ‘at





9 A.M. Wednesday, March 16, I021





98 Exceptionally Good Standard Bred

Hereford Heifers 98. 40 Durham steers

40'. 200 Black Top Delaine ewes—200.





10 horses. And a splendid equipment of

farms tools and machinery including a

Fordson Tractor. A 20x34 Port Huron

Grain Separator, Rosenthall Corn Husker

and a Ford one ton truck with extra high-

gear transmission. - ‘





O. F. MOECKEL





Stockbridge, Mich.





 





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AUCTION ‘SALE‘





Ol Farm and Personal Property

Including 400 Pure Bred Sheep





327 acres known as the A. A Wood Farm

near Saline, Mich., will be sold at pub-

lic auction on March 18, 1921, also all per-

sonal pro arty including the well known

band of ure Bred Rambouillet Sheep.

The Farm is one of the best known and

one of the best in Washtenaw Co., Mich.

is 3 mi. N. W. of Saline, 8mi. from Ann

Arbor and 40 mi. from Detroit. Good

roads to all points. For detailed inform-

ation write F. O. Behymer, care of O. C.

Hagen, 1946 Conway Bldg., Chicago,1lls.





 





 





 





HOGS

boar 136 10 wks old $20.00 reg.

Reg' Duroc and dial. Don't wait, fine stock.

‘ J. R. HICKS. St.Johns, .\ ich.





 





‘ at once I have just what you want

write MC heavy bone registered Duroc Jer-





sey boars readfimr service.

W. . MAYES, L. 13.505. Durand, Mich.





DU ROG JERSEYS





Carey U. Edmonds, Hastings. Mich.





Breakwater Burns Jerseys





BOARS———R cady for Service

Bred Sows and Gilts





Write us for Prices and Pedigrees

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.





BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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





DU ROC s o w s ... ems bredto

_ Jacks «Cherry

Orion King No. 16% Son of the $10 000 boar owned

by Longview Farm. Le Snmit. o. a so XOUDK boars

randy for service out of good sows. pply



THE JENNINGS FARM. Bai ey, Mich.





 





 





 





 





Bows and Gilts bred for

March. A ril, May farrow.

blood lines and





a few sprin boars. Best 0





. Also

splendid individua s_. ,Bntisfaction guaranteed. Write





for pedigree prices. or better come and see, visl_.

tors welcome. Thos. Underhlll it Son, Salem, Mich





Buy Pigs Now. Reg. Duroc pl crated and delivered

‘0 Olpress station for 82) one ..' Choice stock sired

['33 State Fair winners and weighing near 100 lbs. each.



rite for particulars. Michigana. Farm,Pavilion,Mich_





 





UBOO Jerseys. Bears for spring service. heavy



‘ bgngiiawfizetuign the most pokpular tbloig‘libldriltei‘ at

new a s. iii-triage e as re ay-

lnc strain 83 per 15. Drodt t BemagMonroe. Mich.





BUR“ JERSEYS ‘°" “reassess:





A to

ones. E. n .nmrpnmnfl. Wayland, Mich.





 





 





   

 





. ID“ all 3120”“ A few choice

. r 10. ~ '

3. : Milen- Mich.





seven and-iunezteiruis- pounds





 





, , These

figures. were obtained during the pe

riod of peak prices and are altogether

above the cost under present Michigan

conditions, in the opinion of the M. A.

C. Animal Husbandry Department. Ey-

en under 1918 conditions, a Michigan

firm that raises sheep extensively was

able to keep them for $4.60 per head

and bought practically all of their

feed.



More accurate figures relative to

Michigan conditions will be available

next September, according to the col-

lege authorities, when the first returns

from a survey now being conducted by

the United States Department of Agri-

culture and the M. A. C. Extension Ser-

vice will come in. A yearly record

book has been sent out to several

prominent Michigan sheep breeders

and these representative flock-masters

are keeping accurate financial records

of the expenses and income from their

sheep. Ameng other figures which

will be obtained by these reports are:

The net profit from the flock, the net

profit per head, and the per cent profit

on the capital invested in sheep.



Boys of Michigan are not only in-





advocat-es ot‘ pure-breds and are urging

their dads to keep the pedigreed ani-

mals. One of the most successful

boys' sheep clubs is that at Hai‘ltand

in Livingston county. This club is led

by Sheldon H. Latourette and is com-

posed of ten boys who each have a

pure-bred Shropshire ewe. These boys

are not nevices at sheep raising, for

they have all had experience with

grade sheep. There are several suc-

cessful “boys’ sheep clubs in the upper

peninsula which are spreading the gos-

pel of “more and' better sheep for

Michigan."





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Veterinary.





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Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib— I

era. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of



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

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

carvice becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed. y





 





 





Ringworm in Cattle (Tricophytosis).‘

—My cattle are nearly all troubled

with ringworm, the yeai'lings first had

it, now my older cattle have it. M. F.,

Bad Axe, Mich—The disease is trans—

mitted from animal to man and from

individual to individual of same spe-

cies; rarely from one species to anoth-

er species among animals. It is best

to clip the hair about the patches.

First soak crusts in oil and remove

them with green soap and water. Burn

hair from diseased parts. Paint the





or apply one part iodine crystals and

eight parts of goose grease daily. Don’t

treat the whole body at one applica—.

tion. ‘

Indigestion—Have a hog that is out

of condition and his droppings have a

disagreeable odor; part of the time he

acts as if crazy. U. G. S., Hillsdale,

Mich—Give him fifteen grains of salol-

and a dessertspoonful of powdered

charcoal at a dose in. ground feed two

or three times a day. Feed some roots.

Heaves in Horses—Pig Has Piles.—

What can be done for horse that has

heaves? Ever since my sow was bred

she is troubled with piles. C. A. VVH

Goodrich, Mich—Feed no ._ clover or

dusty, musty, badly cured fodder, and

not much bulky food. Give three drains

of Fowler’s solution at a dose in soft

feed or in drinking water three times

a day. Give any one of the commer-

cial heave remedies that are regularly

advertised in this paper. Keep the

pigs’ bow‘els open; constipation is a

cauSe of piles. Apply one part oxide

of zinc and eight parts wool-fat twice

a day.



Partial Paralysis—Last fall my sow

lost the use of her hind quarters. At

first it was not so bad, but now it is

chronic. but she eats and drinks well.

I would like to know the nature of the

disease, and the remedy. J. D., Niles,

Mich—Feeding too much fat-produc-

ing food, damp, filthy quarters, and

too little exercise are common causes

of loss of power in swine. Your sow

is\incurable. .Her flesh is perhaps fit





 





 





 





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terested in sheep but are enthusiastic‘





diseased area with tincture of iodine, .





 





 





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The sale includes:





Duchess Skylark Ormsby,

in calf to him.





 





 





 





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be sold also.

i If you are interested





Old State Block,

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I. C's. One last fall boar ugh-1113, two last fall

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

either sex. good growthy stock 342 mile west of Depot.

(liiz's. Phone 124. Otto B. Scliulzc. Nashville, Mich.





 





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all





0 I C, Fall pigs by 0 C. Big Czillaway have size

' ° 3 and quality and are priced rig it. '

C. J. THOM PSON. Rockford. Mich.





o I C Bred (lilts for blur. and Apr furrow



' ‘ ' also a few clio'icc service boars. .



CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. bionroe. blich

bred for April and May





0- I. C. G i] ts far-row. Shippedoo. l).

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. “V. MANN. DZillSVlllt‘, blich_





0 | 0‘ Choice gilt?! for April and his)" furrow. also

. r 3 full pigs. Booking orders for spring pigs.

A. J. BARK ER & SON, Belmont. Mich





 





low prices

choice





We Are Offering





at special

some of our





0. I. 0. fall pigs sired by State Fair winners.

\VElSEli BltOS., Phone 408. Royal Oak. Mich.





 





i Raise Chester Whites V,

/ :3 Like This





6 the original big producers





   





I HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

success}; can help you. I tvvanht to lace onel be from



t e in every communi y w ere nu: not y re .

my "533:3 b these fine early developers—ready for min-ket at qty

' “the 0 Write for my plan- ‘ ore Money from no...





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' Strictly Big Type with

For Sale 0. l. C. Swme, qua”... Hm ,, few

good boars and gilts left of samo‘type and’blood lines,

that won for us at Ohio and hircirigan State Fairs.

Priced very cheap. \Vrite us before you buy.

“- 1 NEWBIAN'S STOCKNIFARM





Central Mich. O. l. C.





Swine ‘Breeders Ass’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. w. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

0".0’3. Big Type GUtB bred for Mar. and April





tarmw. Boers all ages. Write me for prices.

G. P. ANDREWS. Mason, Mich.





 





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' Prize winning 0. I. C's. Jan.

3113'"th valley "Grill and Feb. pigs, priced reason-

able. J. Gibson. Fosters. Mich.





Bi 1' 0' Polands Some very choice fall boars.

g ll) ready for spring service for sale. They are

sired by The Olansman: darn. the $1025 Miss Colum-

bia. a littermnte to the 340.000 The Yankee. Also afew

choice hours by The Olansbov. son of The Olansman.



WESLEY HILE. Ionia. Mich.





17 young cows sired by a grandson of King Segis.

20 high—class heifers sired by





Sir Ormsby Banostine Beets, No. 246320





a three-year—old grandson of the world’s record cow.





This young sire is a splendid individual and his

daughters are exceptionally fine and of uniform type.

All these heifers of breeding age are bred to





King Ormsby Inka Korndyke, No. 310701





a yearling grandson of Ruby

35-1b. four—ycar-old daughter of Sir Pictertje Orms—

by lV’lercedcs 14th, out of Johnston Inka, a 28.5 lb.

cow, with two yearly records averaging





butter and 21,112.8 lb. milk. This young ire will





good" type and high producing quality.

Attend This Sale

Under the Management of





Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association

H. W. Norton, Jr., Secretary





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and 35 cows and heifers





Karen hicrcedes, the





932.1 lb.





in clean, healthy cattle 0f





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Lansing, Michigan.





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a few choice boars

L ’ S ' P ° C ‘ at farmers prices.

'ilts bred to Black Giant one of the best pigs out of

ll. this fiill. Also a grandson of The Clullhlllull and

Harrison Big Bob. H. O. SWAli’l‘Z, Schoolcrathlich





I Spring gilts bred for Marclilund

Blg 80b MaSlOdon April and some sows bred to‘ Big

Bob his sire was champion of the world. his (inni's site

was Grand Champion of loud State Fair.



0. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids, hiich.





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70 head of Poland (‘liinzis at private sale. Am offering

spring hours from $40 to 5n“ and gilts the same price.

Summer and {all plus $12» each. The first check will





bring you the first (‘ll()li'i‘. HART. FULCHl'Lli do

CLIN it, Address l“. '1', Hart. St. Louis. blii-li.





Francisco Farm Poland Chinas





Ofl'cring :1 dozen choice gills and a few tried sows

bred to such boars as Michigan Mastodon and Mich-

igsn Clansmnn.



P. l’. POPE.





 





Mt. Pleasant. Midi].





Big Type 1’. (l. some '\'el‘_\‘ choice boars double im-

mune, out 1100 ll». fill? and iiizimmoili sows from

Iowa 5 greatest licrdsd‘...).hlrrilicwsoiiJlurr(lainhlich.





 





' at lowest prices. Both

88 Type PDland china: sex, all ages. illlll. bred

sows and gilts.

G. A. BAU- GARDNER, R. 2, Middlcrillo, Mich

Nothing for

present.

Manchester. Mich.





sale at





Large Type Poland Chinas.

A. A. Fl‘ILDKAhIP. Ii, 2,





L. T. P. c





if you arc loooking for Bonn-thing good.

I in bred gilts at a right price. 'ri 0.

Vi . J. I AGELSHAVV. Augusta, Mich





OLAND China Brod Sows and Gilts at bargain

prices. also spring boars and fall pigs, either sex.

GLIDE FISHER. R. 3. St. Louis. L'Iicliigan

I Bi 'I'Vie '. ‘. " .

Leonard s 015111ngl’lliiiisniirn.slf"zi\lllyrliiiri‘qig

weigh 17.) lbs. Real herd hour prospects. Call or

write. E. R. Leonard. R. 3. St. Louis. hiioh.





PINE GROVE HAMPSHIRES

We are offering a few tried sows bred for March

and April furrow. These sows are all closely re-

lated to our winning Show herd and of popular

blood lines. and the price! Way D0wn.l

Geo. Coupar & Sons, Mariette. Mich.





' Bred gilts zillsoll. S ‘

HamDSh'res and fall boar ig; at aplr‘zilg





 





 





gain. JOHN “USNYDER. “.4, St. ohns. Mich.

and Gilts $50 and up. for A ll.

Bred SOWS May and June far-row. Has; a





few good {all pigs at reasonable prices for sale.

M. G, MOSHER & SONS, Osseo. Mich.





 





SHEEP.

SHEEP WANTED





Will trade big black registered Percheron Stallion

1‘3 years; sure. sound. gentle. good worker and show

horse. George Pardce, Gal'ien. Mich.





 





Wool-Mullen Shropshire Rams. $8?.;‘..,f,&,f‘;?,§.ly;





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





 





' Choice ewes. all ages, bred to

ShrOPShlres im orted ram. Also a few rains





W. B. McQUI LAN. Ii. 7, Howell. Mich.





 





B‘ 1‘ PolandsBred sows all sold,but have some

18 herd boar prospects. fall boars

weighing 175 l s. Sired by the Arctic. Call onwrlte‘.



, DORUS ROVER, Akron. Mich.





 





 





 





L tAme 'crllii'Hiim hirefihee

Want a Sheep? Aessociatldn send p5von dandp





booklet with list of breeders. Write COMFOB

A. TYLER, 2?. Wood] and Ave.. Detroit. Mich.





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Dispersion of Fully Accredited Herd

0n Account ofDirso/‘vz'ng Partners/rip

BEESON and HOLDEN





‘will disperse their entire herd of





65 ChOiCe Reg. Holsteins 65

at Three Oaks, Michigan

Monday, March 21, 1921





Good udders and straight rumps characterize

the cows and the entire offermg 15 in A-l condition.





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, March 8.

Wheat.



Detroit.—-—Cash No. 2 red $1.82; May

$1.75; No. 2 white and N0. 2 mixed

$1.80. .



Chicago.-——No. 1 red $177343; No 2

hard $1.71; March $1.67lé.



Corn.



Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow 710; N0.

4 yellow 680.



Chicago.—~No. 2 yellow 68%433690;

No. 3 mixed 64%@65%C.



Oats.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 48c; No.

3 white 4615.0; No. 4 white 43%0.



Chicago.~N0. 2 white 451,436046140;

N0. 3 White 441,33 @451/10.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and prompt are

lower at $3.85 per cw't.



Chicago—White beans steady. Hand-

picked beans choice to fancy $4.50@

4.75; red kidney beans $9609.25 per

cwt.



New York.-Market is dull. Choice

pea $4.75; do medium at $5.50@5.60;

red kidney $9Q[19.10.





Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.56.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover $12.50;

alsike $15.30; timothy $3 per bushel.



Toledo—Prime red clover, cash and

March $12.10; alsike $15.30; timothy

$2.771fi; per bushel.



Hay.



No. 1‘timot.hy $20@21; standard and

light mixed $196320; No. 2 timothy

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

clover $17@18; rye straw $13@14;

wheat and cat straw $12@13 per ton

in carlots at Detroit.





WHEAT





Private reports show farm reserves

of wheat around 190,000,000 bushels,

or about 25,000,000 bushels more than

on March 1 last year, reflect.ing the

tendency of growers to withhold the

crop. This is made more striking when

the fact is considered that the 1919

crop was larger than that of 1920. The

increase in farm stocks is more than

offset by smaller stocks in mills and

elevators which total about 110,000,000

bushels compared with 170,000,000

bushels last year. Total supply in all

positions, including the amounts need-

ed for spring seeding is around 300;

000,000 bushels compared with 335,-

000,000 bushels last year.





CORN





Prices are holding within a compar-

atively narrow range so that for the

time being the markets have been sta-

bilized. Shipments from country points

have fallen off sharply and the run of

a week ago may represent the last

heavy run of the winter season.





OATS





The strength in wheat, the fact that

farmers have been too busy to ship,

and the export sales have induced a

slight advance. Stocks at the terminal

markets are large and an increase is

likely to be shown in the next report.





SEEDS





The favorable weather of the past

ten days which permitted spring seed-

ing resulted in a decided improvement

in the demand for clover and grass

seeds. The same influence coupled

with the decline in prices which cul-

minated a week ago checked sales by

producers and the market. scored a

substantial advance. The demand still

remains somewhat below normal and

the situation cannot. be interpreted as

exceptionally favorable for the market.





FEEDS





Feed markets show little change as

compared with a week ago. Most of

the recent advance has been held.

Bran displayed slight weakness and

with the spring demand from hog pro-

ducers for the heavier wheat offal bran

is likely to sell at. bigger discount.





POTATOES -





Potato markets advanced about 20c

per 100 lbs. the past week. Shipments

increased, but part of these represent

seed stock so that markets were not

affected. The low price throughout

the winter apparently has increased

consumption and the high price of

flour has had a similar effect so that





the large crop‘may be well cleaned up.





by the end ofgthe season. Consuming





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markets are quoted as follows upon

carlots. Chicago—Northern White

stock U. S. Grade No. 1, $1.25@1.40

per 100 lbs; Pittsburgh $2.25@2.40 per

150-lb sack; New York $2.25 per 180-

1b. sack; Detroit $2@2.10 per 150-Ib





sack.

BEANS





Bean markets were firm at the

close of last week, due, it is reported,

to buying by Hoover for famine relief.





Price for choice hand-picked stock, f.’





0. b., Michigan beans were mostly $4

at the close. of the week. Growers are





being paid around $3.25 for beans in





the dirt.





EGGS AND POULTRY





Egg prices receded still further dur-

ing the past week to a. point below

that of early February when the pre-

vious sharp break struck bottom. The

weakness was due largely to an in-

crease of about 30 per cent in receipts

at leading cities compared with the

preceding week. Receipts of dressed

poultry are still running slightly lower

than those of last year.





BUTTER





The steady advance in the butter

markets or about 10©12c a pound

which has been under way since-Feb-

ruary 10, reached its crest the middle

of the past week, since which time the

market has been nervous and has

moved to a slightly lower level. The

underlying situation shows but little

change as yet. Receipts have not in‘

creased materially. American Cream-

ery Butter Manufacturers’ Association

reports an increase of 20.3 per cent in

the make at 78 plants compared with a

year ago. The spring increase in pro-

duction is not many weeks ahead. Pric—

es for 92-score fresh butter as reported

by the Bureau of Markets on March 5

were: Chicago 490: New York 530;

Boston 521130; Philadelphia- 531/30.





FARM BUREAU MARKET REPORT.



All coarse grains are lower today,

due to a lack of export demand. Flour

orders are scarce. Wheat is depressed

and corn and oats have declined in





twists .gg;





sympathy. Rye is weak. There are

rumors that a 1,500-ton order for beans

has been placed by Hoover. Organiza-

tion “of California growers may hold

prices down in Michigan temporarily.

Hay continued down during past week.

Clover seed scored a remarkable raise

from $11.15 to $12.55. Future wheat

market is lower. Indications point to

sudden decline when demand lessens.

Alsike advanced 300 per bushel.

othy is unchanged. Northern Michigan

is set for a heavy season beginning the

middle of March. Seeding is well un-

der way in southern counties.





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





Herefords, Durhams and Delaines.—

March 16, O. F. Moeckel, Stock-

bridge, Mich.



Guernseys.——March 18, Jas.

Eaton Rapids, Mich.



Rambouillet Sheep—March 18, F. O.

Behymer, Saline, Mich.



Holsteins.—-March 21, Beeson & Hol-

den, Three Oaks, Mich.





A. Lewis,





Holsteins.———March 22, Joseph L. Zieg-





ler, South Lyon, Mich.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.





(Continued from page 328).

urging the Japanese diet to apply a

portion of the appropriations for arma-

ment to educational and social im-

provement.——Panama disaVOWS the de-

cision of the United States Supreme

Court regarding the boundary between

Panama and Costa Rica, according to

press reports—The churches of the

United States made a net membership

gain of 667,000 members in 1920.



Tuesday, March 8.

EGOTIATIONS over the German

indemnity have been broken and



the army of invasion is on the move.

-—~President Harding announces that a

special session of congress will not be

called before April 4.





DETROIT AUTOMOBILE SHOW.





The big Detroit Automobile Shaw

will be held at the Morgan & Wright





 





 





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Markets for March 9.





BUFFALO





Hog prices are steady, heavy hogs

bringing $10.50QQ‘10.75; medium hogs

$11@11.25; light weights $11.75@12;

lambs are higher at $11; calves $14.50.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Market steady.

Best heavy steers . . . . . . .35 8.5061), 8.90

Mixed steers and heifers 7.00@ 8.00

Best handy wt bu steers. . 7.006}? 7.75

Handy light butchers . 6.50@ 7.25

Light butchers 6.00@ 6.50

Best cows 600(1) 6.75

Butcher cows 5.00@ 5.50

Common cows 3.50@ 4.50

Canners 2.50@ 3.00

Choice bulls 5.506;) 6.50

Bologna bulls ........... 5.00(a) 5.75

Stock bulls .. 5.00

Feeders 7.25

Stockers . u 6.25

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 50@ 100

Veal Calves.

Market steady.

Best ....................$12.50@13.50

Others . . . . . .. 5.00@ 9.00





Hogs.

Hogs 15@250 higher.

Mixed hogs ...... . . . . . . .





$10.25@11.00

Pigs 11.





. . . . 50

' Sheep and Lambs.

Market strong.

Best lambs .............$ 9.75

Fair lambs 8.00@ 8.75

Light to common . . . . . 5.00@ 7.00

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

Culls and common 1.50@ 3.00





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 18,000 ;

‘holdover 10,564. Market 15@35c high-

er; lights up most and active; others

slow. Bulk of sales $10@11.25; tops





too...





good and choice 37.50629.





$11.35; heavy 250 lbs up medium, good

and choice $10@10.50; medium 200 to

250 lbs medium, good and choice at

$10.25@11.20; light 150 to 200 lbs com-

mon, medium, good and choice at $11

@1185; light lights 130 to 150 lbs

common, medium, good and choice at

$11.10@11.35; heavy packing sows 250





'lbs up smooth at $8.90@9.80; packing





sows 200 lbs up rough $8.65@8.90; pigs

130 lbs down medium, good and choice

$10.50@11.25.



Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 6,000.

Market is strong to 15c higher. Beef

steers medium and heavy weight 1100

lbs up choice-and prime $10.25@11;

do ‘medium and good at $8.50@10.25;

do common $7.75@8.50; lightweight.

1100 lbs down, good and choice at $9.50





@1075; do common and medium $7.50 -





((98.50; butcher cattle heifers, common,

medium, good and choice at $6@9.75;

cows c‘ommon, medium. good and

choice $5@_8.10; bulls bologna and beef

$4.75@7.25; canners and cutters cows

and heifers $2.75@5; ‘do canner steers

$4.25@6; veal calves light and handy-

weight medium, good and choice at $9

$12.25; feeder steers common, medium,

good and choice $7.50@9.50; stacker

steers common, medium, good and

choice $6.25@8.25; stacker cows and

heifers common, medium, good and'

choice $4.50@6.

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 11,000.

Market 25c higher. Lambs 84 lbs down

medium, good, choice and prime $8.75

@1075; do 85 lbs up medium, good,

choice and prime $8.‘50@10.50; do culls

and commone$6.50@8; spring lambs

medium, good, choice and prime $6.75

@9; ewes medium, good and choice at





$4.75@6.25; ewes cull and common at'





$2.25@4.25; yearling wethers medium,





Yup F





Tim- .





 





 





 





Building on. Jefferson avenue, near the

Belle Isle bridge, on March 19-26. This

promises to be the most interesting

display of automotive machines ever

exhibited in Detroit.





 





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KEEPS EGGS , FRESH"





Remarkable Discovery Keepe Egg:

Fresh For One Year,





C. G. Knight. a prominent. dmuiet of Chi-

cago, has discovered a. wonderful new oration

that is guaranteed to preserve All fresh gs per-

fectly for one year. He rails it. the K. & G.

Egg Preservative. It is not. liquid glass but.

comes in powder form. One Mags mixed with

three gallons clean water will preserve 25 dozen

eggs. Makes a safe solution to put. eggs in for

winter. No change whatever takes place. No

odor,—no taste. Eggs can be used for all pur-

poses: manning. boiling, pastries. The yolks do

not. break down. Eggs always fresh. '



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Iowa: ”I have found your egg pmve en-

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amsgnagvesmgefioney for you. Write tad :



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518i; St. Chicago, m. ‘6' ' 838

package. prepaid; Enough

eggs. : erto today—Now. . -



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.WOOI buyer's .d. , _

appeared, willing to run chances. of the

passage "of =t-h' tariftwill... Since-the

measure. has;been vetoed the‘one- im-

mediate bullish .1, influence of import-

ance has been' removed. -Large ship-





ments of toreign. Wholhave beenara

riving to avoid thetarift and the,ab-,





sorption of these may' induce an easy

market for a brief period. Values at

foreign wool auctions are irregular.

The sale at London early the past

week was more’ active, especially for





Merinos, but a decline of five to fifteen .





per cent was reported at the Sidney

auction on the same day. The woolen

goods trade appears healthy upon the

new scale oi: values which is thirty to

thirty-five per cent under last fall’s

price. Sales of the products of the

American Woolen Company for fall

delivery haVe been satisfactory in the

light of general conditions. Prices are

mostly steady wit-h a week ago and

are quoted by Bo'ston as follows: Ohio

and Pennsylvania fleeces, delaine un-

washed 40@42c; fine unwashed 3161‘)

33c; half-blood combing 33@350;

three-eighths—blood combing 30@3lc.

Michigan and' New York fleeces, de-

laine unwashed 39@400;. fine unwash-

ed 29@3OC; one-half-blood unwashed

32@34c three-eighths-blood unwashed

29@30c.





PHOSPHATE AND QUALITY





Rock phosphate is mined in

Tennessee. Its value to you de-

pends upon the processes by

which it is prepared for your use.

Its particles are minute but en-

cased in enamel covered cells.

Its thorough drying and fine

grinding are of great importance.



The plant in which Four Leaf

Bhosphate is prepared was de-

srgned by special engineers.Every

step in its process has the direct

object of making the rock hos-

phate more quickly avai able.

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rock.



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FOUR LEAP

THOMSON PHOSPHATE COMPANY

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Auction Sale

March l7'at 10 O’clock





Shorthorn a'nd Holstein Cattle

Scotch and Scotch Topped





25 Head

Cow, Heifers and Bulls





The Flushing Shortho rn Breeders’ Associ-

ation will hold their second annual sale

Of Pure Bred Cattle at the Rino Feed

Barn, Flushing, Mich. A few head of

Pure Bred Holste ins also registered hogs

will be offered in this sale. 13 miles north

of Durand on the C. S. and M. 10 miles

west of Flint on the Buss line.





W. J. Hinkley, Sec.

Registered Seeds





At Association Prices



Oats, Barley, Soy Beans, Corn, etc.,



registered by ,the



Crop Improvement Ass’n.



These rovernMichigan-grown seeds,in-



spec by the assocration, are supplied

At Association Prices





Oats 8.60 to $1.25 per bushels; Barley-—

$1.15 to.81.75 depending on size of or-





 





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clover, alfalfa and other fiel seeds.

__ SEED DEPT.





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NEVINS SUCCESS WETH

SMALL FRUITS





Do you know that you can obtain more

health, pleasure and profit from a garden of

strawberries and raspberries than from any

other equal amount of land on your place?

My beautiful new Catalogue greets you with

a smile, and tells you something about our-

selves and our favorable location where soil

and climate combine to produce plants of

superior quality. It tells: How to select

varieties best adapted to your soil and needs.

How to prepare the soil for planting. When

to plant. The different systems of small

fruit growing. How to plant. How to

care for the patch. How to pick and mar-

ket the fruit so as to obtain the highest prices.

How to renew the patch. It is a Fruit

Grower’s Guide and whether you buy

your plants of us or not you will need this

helpful book——“Nevins Success with

Small Fruits.” Send for your c0py today.

A postal will bring it.





ELMER H.NEVINS, Ovid,Mich.

IuBUCKEYE.





Tongue Support





for binders, mowers, disc

barrows, ma- ..

nure spread-

ers and corn

harvesters. Agents

wanted in every

county in the U. S.

exceptwhere repre-

Write for

circulars and testi-

monials andwhole sale prices.





The Hilton! mg. 00.. Mansfield, 0.





‘ . fig CREAM

$ SEPARATOR"





On Trial. Easy running. easily

cleaned. kim- wsrm or cold

milk. Whether dairy is large or

small. get handsome catalogue

pod my monthly payment offer. Address l





mu summit co.. 3.. 5061 was... an

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_ Barrels Kegs Regs

Lake Her-rm $ 200 lbs. 100 lbs. 50 l 5.

Back Split. dis. . 85.00 53.15

Genuine Fat am lbs. 100 lbs. 50 lbs.

Holland Ian-ring $15.50 88.50 84 so

Blueiins ( iscoes) 200 lbs. 11:05 lwbs. 50531523.





Backgplit. Hdls. » 39.00



Cann Salmon 1 lb. Tall Cans. 48 cans to case. Per



case $5.40. 14 American Sardines in Cotton Seed Oil.



per case of 100 cans $4.60. We guarantee safe arrival



n perfect condition or your monegv refunded. Write

sited and Canned





Green Bay. Wis.





LEARN AUCTION EERI N6





attho'orld'sOriginal and Greatest School and become

independent with no as its] invested. Every branch of

the bgginess taught. rite today for free oatnlo .

JON NAT’L. SCHOO OF AUCTIONEBRIN





for price list on other varieties

. ross

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CABBAGE PLANTS





Fulwood's frost proof. will stand a temperature

of fifteen degrees above zero. Plant now ‘and

have early cabbage. All leading varieties. Prices

by express 1000 to 4000 at $2.00 per 1000. 5000

and over at $1.50 per 1000. By parcel post pre-

paid 100 for 500; 500 for $1.50; 1000 for $2.50.

Greater Baltimore Tomato plants same prices as

cabbage. Satisfaction guaranteed, or money

refunded. P. D. Fulwood, Dept. I, Tifton, Ga.





Safety Razor Blades

Sharpened





Don’t throw away your safety razor blades, we

will sharpen any kind better than new.

Single edge 3c, double edge 4c. A trial will surprise

you. Blades returned to you C. O. D. less charges.

Blades can be sharpened several times. Mail blades to





DETROIT SHARPENING C0.

826 Merrick Ave., Detroit, Mich.





Holmes,Stuwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves.

Poultry, Live (it Dressed. Pl‘ovlhllllls. etc. Cortes-p011.

deuce Solicited. Ref. Wayne County it Home Savings





8 Bradstreet. Detroit, Mich. (7nd. 38h?

Ship to The Old Reliable House

Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons,





—_—.. 623-625 Wabash Bldg” I’ittsburg. l’a.





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Apples. Potatoes Wanted Highest

prices paid. ‘





1 he

E. L. RICHMOND CO., Detroit. Mich





HORSES

PerCheron stallions and mares at. seasonablo





_ ‘ rive-s; inspection invite .

I“. L. KING d’ SON. Charlotte. Mich.





 





 





FARM HELP





DAIRY FARM HELP WANTED





Single Farm hand experienced $45.00 per mo. room

and board. Man and Wife no children. Wife to assist

With house work. man for dairy and route work. $60

er month room and board in modern home 3 miles

tom Ann Arbor. None but clean. honest. christian

rinci led well recommended folks need apply or reply

5. E. ‘Ms'i'ROM. The Meadows, Ann Arbor, Mich.

w A N T E D .marrtiedl max:l who ihas farm-

ing .oo 8 an equ ent t

work 200 acre farm on shares. Good land iiiixdl build?

ings. Near (‘li‘rkstom Oakland County.

P. 8. WRIGH’I. 229 Gratiot Ave.. Detroit. Mich

man who





FARMER WANTED Eiggle references





as a steady experienced maxi to work for th .' .. .

o. NIELSON JERSEY FARM. I“arming€oh?11ll(iiiii





WANTED fielgizlilcslltlfélim, single. one your





. . COMO ..: ' .

tical experience. B.H.Stickle, Threegillali‘eiiolvl’irdli‘,





Farm "and wanhd Epr general farming. State age.





periencemeforence‘ and 'a .'

wanted. Address R. F. D. 3. Box 41. Roolmiter. ling?





 





 





a middle aged 35 or 401de for housekee or

wanted on sign“ farm. For particulars write p

L. . ROBBINS, Box 164. Tower. Mich.





FARMS AND FARM LANDS

FARMERS ATTENTION





I have buyers for farms in Wayne. Oakland and Ma-

comb Counties. If you have a farm that you want





 





 

 

 





39-4365 , .





Choice Heavy Clay Loam Soil under-laid with

limestone in Michigan‘s wonderful Clot'er 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.





Let. Clover and Alfalfa Seed Crops pay for your

land—it is doing it for others HERE—Why not

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

singlp crop of seed—the product of one bushel of

see . ‘





A small cash payment exacted, (and if desxred

only the interest the first and second years.) The

amount of payments the third year and thereafter

—until land is paid for-is measured entirely

by returns from seed yields harvested yearly at

the rate of 5 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

wouldbe 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 average $100.00 per acre. entails no

hardship for the dairyman or stockmanmas the

hay and chaff crops more than pay the expense,

leaving the seed Crops as the mortgage lifter.





THAD. B. PRESTON





ONAWAY, MICH.





FOR SALE





In looking: for farm land, think of this! Prcsquo

lsln (.‘oimty ships Alsikv (‘lovc-r Soul by the r-ur load,

ylrltlim' 5 to {1 bushvls pcr zu'rc.



In no section of Michigan has the dairy interests

(lovvlopmi so rapidly in l'l‘l't‘lll yvnrx‘ —il.S in lln- (‘lover

Seed Belt.



$17.50 an acre buys 3‘20 acres heavy clay loam.

hardwood cut ovrrlaml on Dixie Highway, 1212 miles

from Millcrsburg.



$10.00 buys 560 sandy clay loam,

[llllt‘ liuul. 10 lnili‘s' from Ullilil‘illl

house illltl slu‘tl. '



$6.50 buys





 





hardwood and

Small ('lt‘illlllfzfl.





sandy clay loam. fitlis

llill'llu'lltltl and own lmlanrc swamp and

ll(’i.l\‘(‘l' meadow. 10 miles from Millvrmlmrg. A club

and ranch moposition.



13'} oil' for (“lull or. S to J0’Z. bulnm-c pavublc in

(‘lon-r Smul Hop-u bumslcd annually from I? to 5%

of urn-any purullusml.



I’nynivnh on ('ontriirl yearly. llt'ownlls mnlruly up-

on Winn-us :mvr find your from vitln-r Juno-Mann

moth, Alsiltc. Snow! Hover, Alfalfa or “rich St't‘tl

rrops~as pun-112mm elects to grow.



Spiller is not luluntul with payment and inturl-sl—v

that must. lw puiil )L‘ill'l)'~~<‘l'l)[l or no crop,



There can llt' no f’om-loslm- of «'ollll’m't. as long

as settler lull-vests st‘ml mow yvzlrly as stipulated,

:unl zimalivs returns upon pnynirut of contract until

land is paid for. Ilitvrv<t 00. Semi (’l'U}! ln-rv, surc-

zis death.





JOHN G. KRAUTH

MILLERSBURG, MICH.





120 Acres Clay Farm





“'9 have for sale in the rich Saginaw Valle) an ideal

grain. livestock or sugur live-l farm. Every fool (‘lii_\.

Buildings are extra good consisting of 10 rOoui house

with basement, 6 room house nith basement. largo

gamble roofed barn. new chicken house and tool shed.

ituatcd 1 mile from elevator. school, bank and ship-

ping station. Milk route and mail (ll‘ll\'(’l‘_‘v’ post the

door. $13,000.00 buys everything. The buildings alone

are worth $12,000.00. Terms to right part:.'.

HRUW'N A’ (iIiAN'I'. Saginaw. hlicll.





120 Acres, $2300; With

Horses, 4 Cows and





HeifvrS. ~l hogs-z, wagons. sleiglls, threshing machine,

implements, vegetables, liziy. Wood, etc.; everything

to quick buyer or 52300, easy terms; edge town iii

famous farming section. Iiezny cropping fields: brook-

watered pasture; large quantity wood. timber; maple»

shaded 6-room house overlooking ri\m‘: big burn.

silo, garage. (‘l('.: Ilcluils page H Strout's Spring Cat-

alog; just, out. h'lll‘il‘l. S]‘R()I"l' AGENCY, Sl-l B U

Ford Bldg, Detroit.



ll“ ill'l‘(‘.‘i cleared. tuon.





I 6 o A c R E s l ty ii(‘l'('5 maple timber.

nearly level. “ell drained, ('lOs‘t‘ to school and town.

One line cobblestone liouso modern, one ton room

frzuuc house for tenants. new silo. born 50 x 100. base-

melit, buildings alonv Worth $15000. Price $100 per acre.

560in down any reasonable limo on remainder. Write



W. I“. UAIPHRI‘IY, lt‘vurt, hlich.





FARM FOR SALE





20 acres in Kent. County, hlii-h. on State Highway. has

lnko frontage. soil love] and fenced. Good two story

house, two barns. silo and tool shed. Price $110.00

pel‘ acro-—one half cash. bziluuce reasonable terms,

This ad will appear but once. ddress owner. care

Michigan Farmer, Detroit. Mich





VIRGINIA FARMS AND HOMES





Fill‘il'l CATALOG l'l‘l (IF SPLENDID BARGA INS.

R. B. CHAFFIN & CO., Inc., Richmond, Va.





forszilo 35 mile to Linden. .'



125 A. SIOCll Farm mi. to Flint. Good orcharilga



A. plow land 10 Amid growth timber, balance pasture.

good magi... good well. Easy terms.



MRS. SCOTT WILCOX. Linden, hiich.





Opening a new tract of f -

FOR SALE"tile farmlands well locattiald

in the great. potato and dairy district of “Wisconsin

and Michigan. Her-urn first choice now. Liberal

terms. Vl'rite for free booklets. etc. Sanborn Com-

puny. N0, 29, Sunborn Bldg. Eagle River. Wisconsin.





;l_000 acres

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in Delaware '

Farms and Homes mum... is midi? ER:

lands productive and prices reasonable. For infiirm





aiiou write, State Board of Agriculture. Dover. Del





80 acres all under plow. 2horses.4

For salfi hogs. 60 chickens. and full line of rafgwifiii

(food buildings. Orchard. At $4100. Easy

Write John Conant. Grand Haven. Mich,





Small Farm {or Sale or Trade

near town. Willis Br. ley. Redford, Va.



B 1’. ' '

FOR SALE: some“arraignment“.

buildings. Clara Moifitt. Gen. Delivery. Flint. Mich.

For Sa‘e at once a good farm home of 40 are!)





acres. good land. ood buildings.

W. Clements, ix Lakes. Mich.





w A N T E D lldthdliggtnlfemm owner of





i). K. HAWLEY. baidwm, Wis.





pliemmits.

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to [or redecallstln oiii :- rit .

a'fi'aaiiaz. Million: 1:, W “51%.... Mich.





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Big Bargain: creek. only 9500 needed. rgflte for





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