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CAN MICHIGAN FARMERS REPEAT?





Our Progressive Growers and Active Farm Leaders are Already Preparing to Defena’ Mz'cazjgan ’s

” ‘ ' - Reputation Estaolz's/zea’ att/ze International Lart Y ear. ,





By A. L. Bibbins _





, ARMERS, miners, ‘seedsmen, and. grain onto on Lake Ontario; that part of New York “Grains clipped, scoured, bleached, etc, are

, V deafers are still talking of the wonderful north of Oswego on Lake Ontario to the objectionable for seed purposes. Any samples

record made by Michigan farmers at the west and state line dividing Massachusetts of oats or barley clipped or scoured so that the





   





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‘ «sably .Michigan’s record of. winning the first This means that northern Michigan farm- the discretion of the judges.”

twenty-eight prizes in the rye class and four- ers will be more fairly treated at the next The writer believes this to be an advantage





teen of the Soft Winter Wheat class will never International Showin that their corn will be to Michigan farmers because clipping is by no

bé"equ;_alled; however, with the Michigan Agri- in competition with corn raised in regions means a common practice in this state, while

cfiltural_,991lege and ‘the Michigan Crop Im- having similar climatic conditions. With this it is often followed by some of our competitors

pr'oveinent‘Association again cooperating with arrangement northern Michigan Dent and from other states.





9 ‘the farmers of‘Michigan, the International Show Flint corn should make an excellent showing Last year there was only one class in soy-

i is certain to see some high-class samples ex- in theprize lists. ‘ beans, hence Michigan entries were placed in

: hibited from» the Wolverine state and if a good- It will be noticed that those located in competition with those from the corn belt. This





ly amountot prizes are not brought back it will that portion of Michigan which is south of fall there will be three classes of soys, one for

.. be largely because the other. states did some the line extended from Thompsonville to the Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, etc, a second





i , “tall hustling.” - . lower point of Saginaw Bay will be in Re» for the. corn belt and a third for the southern

‘;_’N'Vrlecently11the Chicago Board of Trade called gion 2, as was the entire state last year. states. This will give Michigan growers'oi’ soya

. , anieetingiof the various 4 . beans a very good oppor-





tunity to win some of the



prizes offered in our re



gion. Indications are that



a large acreage of soy-



beans will be planted in



Michigan this year and it



is hoped that growers



having quality seed will

carefully p re pare sam-

ples for the show.



Rosen Rye and Red Rock

Wheat Complimented.

The representatives of



some of the other states



complained about their

having to compete With



Michigan Rosen Rye and



Red Rock Wheat. It was



stated that these two



Michigan varieties were





states to consumer plans

.- for ,‘tiie,,1,321.;erain and

. Ha‘nyhow. 1 Professor J.

~'.F.{'Cox~ and the writer,

of' the, Farm Crops De-

partment “.of ”the Michi—

gan Agricultural College,

represented the interests

offlMichigan farmers, and

feel that Michigan should

do very well this fall and

win its share of the ten-

thousandeol-lar p riz 9

money. ' 7

‘C'hangos in Regional

. _ ‘ Map.

It will be remembered

that. Charles ' Laughlin, of

, Michigan. 'wOn' ' first prize

, in Region" 2. Corn Class...

’ and that Farley. Brothers, of such superior quality

of Albion, and Arthur that the varieties grown

Jewitt; ‘of Mason, were in the other states could

81.80. prize winners; how Michigan Agriculture Should Have thePublicity which it Merits. ' not win prizes when put

ever, northern Michigan up against Red Rock and

had littlejorf no chance to compete with the This will make little or no difference in the Rosen. The idea of placing Rosen and Red

:v acorn entries from southern Michigan, southern corn competition, as last year the more Rock in special classes by themselves was con-

WisConsin and Minnesota. PrOfessor’ Cox serv- northern corn was unable to compete. In the sidered, but the committee decided ‘that if

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‘ . ”Region-"number one is enlarged by adding have to compete with those of the cooler to aim at.

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hundredth meridian (as near as county lines During the committee meeting there was Board of Trade, classes were made in corn for

_ uwill- allowii‘thht part of Minnesota‘north at considerable discussion concerning'clipping members of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs. This

i _Yeuow"Medicing county; that part of Wiscon- of cats and barley toincrease weight. It was junior‘work is very strongly organized in Mich.



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gan north of Z 4~ omnson'ville onthe west. lower erything possible should be done ‘to discour- Turner will, through the assistance of the var-

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VOLUME CLVI " NUMBER TWENTY-THREE





”—DETROIT, JUNE 4, 1921





 





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





N his message to





the state legisla-



Th.e ture, which assembled

Specral in special session on

Session May 24, Gov. Groes-

beck recommended





the submission of several amendments

to the state constitution, including the

proposed amendment to make possible

the passage of an income tax law by

the legislature. The governor rightly

expressed the opinion that as a gen-

eral proposition constitutional restric—

tions which operate to prevent the pas-

sage of laws which may be needed or

found expedient are undesirable.

Apparently this action, together with

the recommendation of a rather ex-





tended program of legislation was re-.





sented by a considerable number of

the legislators who proceeded to plan

for early adjournment, evidently as a

means of limiting the work 01' the spe-

cial session very largely to the pas-

sage of .soldiers’ bonus legislation and

the correction of legislative errors

made during the special session of

which there were several which would

have made the special session neces-

sary had there been no other reason

for calling it.



Another reason for the boiling over

of the political pot was the recom-

mendation made for the submission of

a oonstitution‘l amendment providing

for'the “shor ballot.” The short bal-

lot, within the meaning of the gover-

nor's recommendation, would provide

for the appointment of all state oili-

cers :by the governor, with the excep-

tion of the lieutenantgovernor and the

justices of the supreme court, by the

omission of which the governor has

apparently established the measure of

his political modesty. This proposi-

tion very naturally does not appeal to

the ambitious politicians, either in the

legislature. or out of it for that Mir

tor. As a milder of fact. it is a ‘Yfiry

difiemant proposition from the submis-

sion of an amendment which would

Dammit the legislature to pass a law

forwihich them is a popular demand

or Web might be found most cam

eitrfirwm the standnoim of public scour

out. since like adoption of such an

‘ eminent would in M chance on

.m ofgovernmentbymmm

chief executive the sum Wtor





I I .in «every department of state affairs,





’ ' em legislative and judicial. Under

' thoz‘manizsd smte government he





bers of the administratiVe bdrm are





rmmmmmmy'

awn.





: 131111; ,.





not responsible to him for their so





moss or indebted to him for their.





places. The argument for this change

is that it would center responsibility

in the chief executive, making it im-

possible to “pass the buck” in any case

where public criticism is directed to-

ward an administrative act. Others

believe that “two heads are better than

one” in the matter of wisdom and that

the division of responsibility among

several elective oflicers is preferable

to the concentration of power in one

person, who will always be a mere hu-

man being and never a super-man.



Another objection to this proposi-

tion, and a very tenable one, is that it

would again place the educational in-

stitutions of the state wholly under

political control, from which the last

constitutional convention very wisely

removed them to some degree. Al-

though their entire removal from poli-

tics has not been accomplished by pro-

viding‘for the popular election of the

boards of control of our institutiOns of

higher education, we firmly believe

that this system is preferable to again

making these important places strictly

a. matter of political patronage. But

the submission of this proposed con-

stitutional amendment by the legisla-

ture would not settle the matter. The

electors of the state have the final say.

in their adoption, and in an important

matter of this kind can be depended

upon to render intelligent judgment.



From the present outlook the spe-

cial session of the legislature, although

of brief duration, will prove more in-

teresting to the people of the state

than did the regular session, since it

is likely to give them a better line on

the personal attitude of their several

representatives in the law-making

body toward important public ques-

tions.





HE rains which



' kill; have fallen in

W” most sections of the

“”0! state during the past

Nature ten days have reliev-





ed a severe May

drought which promised to be a severe

handicap to Michigan farmers right at

the opening of the crop-growing sea-

son. Fortunately this general droughty

condition was broken before serious

damage was done, and generally fav-

orable moisture conditions in the corn

planting season have given the aver-

age farmer a favorable outlook for the

coming season

These handicaps which are constant-

ly being imposed upon usby Dame

Nature are, however, not an unmixed

evil. They keep us constantly remind-

ed of the fact thatwe must work with

nature if we would get the best re-

sults. The farmers who come nearest

to the ideal in this respect are the

ones who are most sucbeséful. The

governing of soil moisture, within the

limits 'of our ability is one way in

which we should work with nature to

overcome this handicap, which is one

of the greatest imposed upon us by

Dame Nature. The elimination ofsur-

plus moisture in the spring by good

drainage and the conservation of need-

ed moisture by good cultural methods

pays big dividends, and should have

the careful and constant attention of

every farmer.





 





srmomoizeo commas; our

MARKET COSTS.





 





O eliminate fraud in the marketing

of fruits and. vegetahlos by chewab—

mitsrtion of await-measure W at

Mmeaeure Wes is me of the pain-

dial abducts d cuddled): of the bait-





od We ,‘thent of We. .





In Farmers’ Bulletin 1196 from the hu-

reau of markets, just published by the





department, the specialists M1113 1119 .1





 





     





"or the many types and sizes of contain— '





ers now in use. , 1



Since the passage of the federal

standard barrel law, in 1915. and the

federal package container act in 1916,

there has been» steady progress in the

work of eliminating unnecessary and

deceptive sizes from the list of fruit

and vegetable containers.



Multitude of Size: increases Cost.



The serious lack of uniformity of

containers increases the cost of mar-

keting, because of the greater expense

of manufacturing a. large number of

unnecessary styles and sizes and by

breakage in transit, which is some-

times directly attributable to the diffi-

culty of loading odd-sized containers.

There are in common use about forty.

sizes of cabbage crates, twenty styles

of celery crates, thirty lettuce crates

or boxes, fifty styles and sizes of hamp-

ers, fifteen styles and sizes of round

stave baskets and marketing baskets

varying in size from one to twenty-

four quarts, Whereas relatively few





. standard sizes would satisfy all de-





mands of the trade. In many cases

the six-quart market basket, the four-

teen-quart peach basket, the seven-

eighths-bushel bean hamper, and the

five-peck lettuce hamper are confused

with peck,half-bushel, bushel, and one-

and a half bushel baskets.





At present there is no standard for

hampers, one of the most widely used

types of containers, especially popular

in the eastern and central states. About

30,000,000 of these baskets are used

annually. The size of hampers recom-

mended by the bureau of markets as

being sufficient to satisfy all legitimate

requirements are as follows: Eight

quart, or one peck; sixteen quart, or

half bushel; thirty-two quart, or one

bushel; forty-eight Quart, or one and

one-half bushel. It is suggested that

the latter be made in two styles to

meet the preference in various parts

of the country.



The round-stave basket, for which

there is no standard, is popular in all

regions except the southern and mid-

dle Atlantic states and on the Pacific

Coast. About 20,000,000 such baskets

are manufactured annually. The sizes

recommended as standards by the hu-

reau of markets are the same as those

recommended for the hamper except

for the elimination of the eight-quart

size. The splint, or veneer baskets,

for which there are also no standards,

are well-known to the public as market

baskets. The sizes which are prooos~

ed by the bureau of markets are five

in number—4, 8, 12, 16 and 24eqHart.





 





MICHIGAN LEADS IN WOOL POOL-

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‘HE end of the first month of the





1921 wool pool finds the State.





Farm Bureau with close upon 3. mil»

lion pounds already pooled and grad-

ed. The farm bureau likes to accent

that word graded, because last year it

was a. twelvemonths’ job to grade all

of the wool. This year it looks like it

would be only a three or four- months’

job. A fourth grader and crew have

been added to the wool department’s

staff.



So far as is known, Michigan is

loading the United States this year in

the assemblmg of wool slot the some

as she led last year with the biggest

pool in history. The blue days of un—

certainty for the 1921 p001 have pass

ed. Ilia: more correct tofsay shaft the

pool progressed out 0 its stage of

uncertainty for. though there were

some who .t bought the low_ wool mar-

ket of last year would result Hi 3. de-

murmured of the wood gnowor {Ibis

year. We is decent week with the

situation believed the pool would be a



big success and laid their plans ac-

copdiaglly





departmeat ro-

thousand





lastwedrihewool

wedsmamm





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mangle file wool M,





Wen y.t ree 811cents to a large eastern

mill. Half-blood clothin sold for twen-

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Mo (ism—Cacaopolis, Lancer, ,

gOmery and Middleton.



Tuesday .mCassopolis, Inilay City,

Montgomery and Ithaca. '



Wednesday. ——Ca.ssopolis. Imlay City.

Hfllsdale and St. Louis.



Thursday. ——Eeu Claire, No.13ranch,

Hillsdslé and Stockb ridge.



Friday. —chha.nan, North Branch.

and Hillsdale.





Saturday —-Bucha.na.n. Caro m

Prattville.





News of the Week





Wednesday, May 25.

FFICIALS of the railroads in the

central west ban gambling o'n



trainer—in the Ulster vote for Iridh'

home» rule children and all vote—The

United States Senate orders quiz in

Newberry election .——Germans are re-





pulsed and put on the 1un by P01112111





insurgents when they attacked Leech-

nltz and Annaberg. —A pet ram in'

Waukegan, Wis" becoming enraged at

click of camera, attacks woman trying

to take its picture. —United States

Senate will make probe of strife in

the Tug River mining district along

West Virginia and Kentucky border.—~

Walter Oliver, a conscientious object-

or during the war, and a son of weal-

thy Iowa, farmer, dies after a sixty~day

self-imposed fast.





Thursday, May 26.





LEVEN die in Sinn Feiner upris-

ing in Dublin. Torch is applied

to the city—One thousand ask permit

to be at dock to bid adieu to Caruso

and family, who sail for Italy—Har-

rietta, Michigan, ousts woman mayor

who refused to relinquish office after

being defeated at election—Dr. Chaim

Waizman, president of the world Zion—

ist movement, is given big welcome by

Detroit Jewish citizens. —~Two troopers

are killed in West Virginia coal fracas

——Frank W. Brooks resigns presidency

of the Detroit United Railways and

subsidiary interurban com anies.—

Fake employment agent in int col;

lects “job fees” from many unemploy—

ed in Flint, Michigan—Chinese stud-

ents in America cut out luxuries to

help the starving at home.‘

Friday, Mary 27.

USTICE GORDON, Detroit, finds

public and landlords to blame for

igli cost of meat—AuditorGeneral

C. B. Fuller refuses a $2,500 raise in

salary because it is unconstitutional.—

French Chamber of Deputies back Pre.~

mier Briand’s German reperation

stand—United States ratifies tariif

treaty with China in which China can

charge a five per cent duty on Ameri-

can goods entering that country—The

Missouri state vice commiSSion dee

cides patron has right to swear Once

at telephone operator when service is

poor, when it ordered the telephone

company to restore service to a Daw-

1ess county fermion—Capt. Eddie Rick-

enbache; nairowly missed death when

his plane smashed in making a landing

at Cheyenne. —-Over fifty boys escape

from Industrial School at Lansing in

the last five days. A change in man-

agement is expected ——A Bad Axe cou-

pie, M1. and M15 W. H. McDowell

mairied sixty- seven years, die three

hours awn. -

Saturday, May 28

~ INN Feiners are badly mated in

Home Rule vote. Ulster Unionists

will get forty of the fifty-two seats in

the Irish government—Wireless W.

aeroplane assist in saving the life of

a coast. guard at Mamet), North Caro-

lina, after he had been over-come by

gasoline fumes—The United States

government has seized all the prone;-

ty of draft dodger Bergdoll. The seiz-

Ure was authorized by the President

under the alien enemy actrEcuador

and Venezuela have s ned an arbitra-

tion treaty to Settle tfieir (inferences.

——The French cabinet has authorized

Immediate and wrestnated is:

Donation of wheat 111 Fiance

Sunday, May2

PRESIDENT HARDING __si%_n ned the

emergency ms: . apanose

mwed while seed-bosom

$1119th osmium was destroyed by

the Cansdm __.§o warmest and the

crew arrested. lxteen jafbor union 49f-

flclwls were indicted by special grggnd

jaw in Chicago ,on





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EVENTY—FNE farmers of Tuscola

county made a tour of four hun-’

dred miles last week in search of

information. They were Particularly

interested in live stock raising, and

made it a point to visit, representative

herds of practically all of the standard

breeds of cattle and hogs raised in

Michigan. The trip was made under

the auspices of the Tuscola County

Farm Bureau and was planned by

Alex MacVittie, county agricultural

agent. ‘

[Two kinds of farms were visited,

these operated by rich owners with

plenty of capital to import the finest

stock and hire the best of herdsmen,

and those operated by ordinary farm-

ers, each of whom started a few years

ago on perhaps a. thousand dollars and

a single registered anhnal and have,

by careful selection of individuals,

built up a valuable herd, a high repu-

tation, and a remunerative business.

Many cattle were seen which had new

or been shown in the show ring. The

visiting farmers saw them just as they

had been driven up from the pasture

or stood in their stalls ready for milk-

ing. What was learned about barn

arrangement and management, pasture

accommodations, the best kinds of

stanchions to use, was probably as val—

uable an object lesson as was the

sight of the herd themselves. The

Tuscola men invariably received a cor-

dial reception.



Just to motor through Michigan and

view the prosperous farms, rich land,

and beautiful scenery, is something

that it would be well for every farmer

in the state to do. To get a new im-

pression of the dignity of his business

and of the vast resources of his own

state is well worth the time that any

farmer might put into such a trip. One

of the tourists remarked, “It is the

country after all that counts and not

the small towns. Just look at that

land out there. I never realized before

that there were so many prosperous

farms in the state.”



The tourists hit the trail early on

the morning 01' May 24 from Reese,

Tuscola county. As they entered each

county on their route they were met





300 a





armors





by the respective county agents and

officers of the County farm Bureaus,

who did\ their utmost to make their

visitors happy. '



The first visit was at the home of

Conrad Hecht, who has eighteen Hol-

stein cows and a nice bunch of calves.

He lives in the southeast corner of

Saginaw county. Mr. Hecht, belongs

to that group of farmers who have

slowly and carefully built up a valu-

able herd. He had one cow that pro-

duced thirty-four pounds of butter a

week. '



August Grouber, near, Frankenmuth,

showed his herd of Poland-China hogs

as the second number on the program.

Mr. Grouber. has six boars, and thirty-

five pigs, and started in business in

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interested in one saw, noted for its

large litters. It had neverbeen known

to farrow less than eight pigs and its

highest has been fifteen. Mr. Grouber

possesses a model hoghouse, an— over-

head nest supported by concrete is lo-

cated in the corner of each pen. The

nests are floored with inch plank and

littered with straw.



The Tuscolans even visited a herd

of grade Holsteins belonging to Walter

A. Stafford, near Frankenmuth. Mr.

Stafford started ten years ago with a

grade cow of exceptional merit.

Through the wise choice of individuals

and careful breeding he has what is

probably one of the best producing

grade herds in the state. Recently he

bought nine head of registered stock

and it must be acknowledged that very





 





 





Etna] Rem/ts of Starter “Feea'ifig Tm





HE final figures on the steer-feeding tests made at the Michigan Ag-

ricultural College, an account of which appeared in last week‘s issue





of this journal,





are now available. Costs were calculated on the basis





of normal silage priced at $4.00 per ton, stover silage $1.60 per ton, shelled





corn $0.50 per bushel,

per ton.





cottonseed meal $40.00 per ton, and clover hay $10.00

The following table gives the results in a most comprehensive





manner and will enable the reader to make the proper comparison.





Remember that Lot 1 received normal silage,

hay, and during the last sixty—seven days, shelled corn. Lot 2





cottonseed meal, clover

was fed stov-





er silage, cottonseed meal, clover hay, and during the last sixty-seven days





shelled corn.





Lot 3 received the same as Lot 2, except that during the first





one hundred and eight days these steers were fed an amount. of corn equal





to that taken from the stover silage which they ate.





Here is the table:





Lot 1. Lot 2 Lot. 3.

Original cost per cwt ....... . ................ $ 9.03 $ 9.03 $ 9.03

Original weight, lbs.... ...... ~ ............. . 8,092 8,123 8,133-

Original value ................... . . . . $ 730.71. $733.51. $ 734.41

Cost of feed Nov.-20 to May 12 ............. 268.63 215.99 24619

Cost of feed May 12 to May 18. . . 12.46 12.18 12.18

Freight, commission, etc ................... 34.19 34.19 34.19

Total cost ........................ . 1,045.99 995.87 1,026.97

Weight at home May 18, lbs ................ 10,965 10,220 10.390

Weight at Detroit, May 19, lbs. . . . ......... 10,550 9.820 10.130

Shrink, lbs... .............................. 415 400 260

Selling price per cwt. at Detroit ........ $ 8.50 S 8.25 8 8.00

Final value . . . . . . . . . ...................... 896.75 810.15 810.40

Price received per cow at feed lot ...... 7.86 7.59 7.46

Value of pork produced .................... 29.06 16.51 24.55

Loss per lot, not crediting pork ............ 149.24 185.72 216.57

Loss per steer, not crediting pork. . . . . 18.65 23.21 27.07

Loss per lot, crediting pork ...... . . . . . . . . 120.18 169.21, 192.02

Loss per' steer, crediting pork .............. 15.02 21.15 24.00

Dressing, per cent ............ . ............ 55.8 54.58 54.04

Dressing weight, lbs ......... . . . . . . . 5,887 5,360 5,474

Cost per cwt. dressed beef... .............. $ 15.23- 3 15.11 $ 14.83





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few persons could tell the difference

between his grades} and his pure-breds.

However, the lesson to be learned at

the Stafford farm is that Walter Staf-

ford himself acknowledges that if he

had started then years ago with a reg-

istered cow instead of a grade he

would now be worth $40,000 or $50,000.





At the D. D. Aitken farm out of

Flint the visitors admired thirty-three

head of Holstein cows, six yearlings,

ten pretty young calves. and two bulls.

This is one of the leading Holstein

farms of the country. it is this farm

which owns Flint MapleCrest Ona.

Tula, the cow which holds the world’s

championship in the senior yearling

class. The visitors received a royal

welcome there as well as at the Grape

farm, also near Flint, which holds a.

leading place in the Hereford world

that the Aitken farm does in the H01-

stein. The Crapo farm consists of

more than one thousand acres of, land

of which six hundred acres was for»

merly a worthless swamp which was

converted into a valuable tract by Gov-

ernor H. H. Crapo. For over fifty

years these people have specialized in

pure-bred Hereford cattle. At present

their herd is headed by the interna-

tional prize winner. Wyoming the 9th.



Dropping southward into Shiawassee

county the automobiles parked. in'

front of the home of F‘ A. Thompson,

who has‘a herd oi thirty—one Jersey

cows, said to be among the best pro-

ducing herds in the state. Mr. Thomp-

son clips his calves. He says that they

do better. He had never shown his

cattle except at the local county fair

but he has some eXceptional stock and

his is one of those cases where he has

built up the herd through careful se~

lection.



Dinner on the first day was eaten at

Owosso, where the Tuscola farmers

were the guests of the Owosso Cham-

ber of Commerce, the. Shiawassee

County Farm Bureau and the Holstein

and Jersey breeders of the county. In

welcoming the guests. W. E. Seigmil-

ler, secretary of the ()wosso Chamber

of Commerce, said that it used to be.

that all a farmer needed to start a bus-



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Committee of Fifteen Recommend: Producer- Owned Lz'gJe Stock

Commission Companies, Packer Regulation, and

Lower Freight Rate:





' HE Live Stock Marketing Com

mittee of Fifteen appointed by

President J. R. Howard of the



American Farm Bureau Federation to



formulate plans for the cooperative



marketing of live stock, held its third



seesion at Chicago May 25—26.



The report of the sub-committee on

cooperative marketing agencies which

recommended that live stock commis-

sion companies owned and controlled

by live stock producers be established

at leading markets as soon as practi-

cable and where conditions warrant,

was adopted. The same sub-commit-

tee was authorized to work out plans

to establish such commission compa-

nies as well as such other affiliated

companies as are necessary to handle



, the stacker and feeder trade.



The legislative sub—committee also

presented its report and made specific

recommendations on packer regula-

tion, but the main committee was un-

able to reach an agreement to adopt

.the report. Instead the sub-committee

was authorized to go to Washington

and work with the legislative repre-

sentatives of the American Farm Bu-

reau Federation and Secretary of Ag-

riculture Wallace, to secure such pack-

er regulation as the latter deemed ad-

visable. This subcommittee is com-

posed of O. O. Wolff, C. H. Gustafson,

S. P. Huston, A. Sykes, H. M. Gore, E.

C. Lasater, and C. E. Collins.



The American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion was also requested to ask for a

general reduction in freight rates on

live stock. Reduced rates on live stock

being shipped for exhibition are also

to be sought with the aid of the Na-

tional Association of Fairs and Expo-

sitions, the National Association of

Pure—bred Record Societies and the in-

dividual record association.



Shall Producers' Establish Selling



Agencies?



Most of the two-day session was

spent in discussing the desirability of

establishing the producer-owned sell-

ing agencies which were finally recom-

mended. In setting forth its position

on this question, the committee stated

that since it had been appointed to

represent all the live stock producers

of the country, it was In duty bound

to take immediate steps to establish

such selling agencies in order to meet

the demands of the large number of

live stock producers who wish to sell

through a producer-owned—and-controll-

ed commission company. Al‘ the same

time nothing would be done to abridge

. the right of the individual producer to

consign to the established commission

firms if he wished to do so. Estab-

lishment of producer-owned companies

merely gives the same full freedom of

“choice to those producers who wish to

patronize a company in the ownership

and control of which they have some

voice.



A Steady Growth.



The committee has come to the con-

clusion that many of the criticisms di-

rected toward producer-owned com-

mission companies now in existence

have at one time or another also been

made against the regular commission

companies and their employees. The

producerowned companies have grown



‘, steadily and in some instances rapidly



" and have developed into very efficient



. selling machines.

t . With the extension of cooperative





marketing agencies at various mar-

kets, and by the wise selection of in-

dividual salesmen, together with ‘the

assurance‘from buyers that they will

not discriminate against such selling

agencies, it is believed by the commit-

tee that ultimately such companies

will have advantages in marketing not

now available. Presumably the possi-

bility of regulating receipts and stabil-

izing prices to a measurable degree is

one of the advantages to be obtained

in this manner.

Work Together.



The committee stated that‘all the

producer‘owned selling agencies should

work in harmony with each other and

so far as possible and practicable, the

existing cooperative selling agencies





should become parts of the national





plan and that no new ones should he

formed except as they conform to the

plans to be provided.



It is not expected that the producer-

owned commission companies will en-

tirely eliminate the established selling

agencies nor does the committee con-

sider that their elimination will be de-

sirable as a reasonable amount of com-

petition between the two groups will

stimulate better service on the part

of both.



The committee gave expression to

the growing feeling that the hostility

of the regular commission companies

to those owned and cont-rolled by live

stock producers is to be deeply re-

gretted. Producers’ live stock com-

mission companies are entitled to 0p-

erate on the markets without the hand-

icap of this hostility and will insist on

the opportunity to do so. If the regu-

lar commission companies are more

efficient. it will never be so recognized

until after the producers who wish to

do so have had a fair and equal chance

to test out the selling agencies owned

and controlled by themselves.





Other Suggestions.



Other specific reasons given by the

committee for recommending that pro-

ducer-owned commission companies be

established are substantially as fol-

lows:



It is desirable for the live stock pro-

ducers to control as far as practicable

the marketing of their live stock.



Live stock producers will never fully

understand how to produce intelligent—

ly and profitably to meet market re-

quirements or market practice that is

in their interest or against their inter-

ests, until they maintain selling agen-

cies completely controlled by them-

selves.



Producerowned selling agencies may

tend to eliminate inefficient commis-

sion companies and thus bring about

greater economy in marketing.



With the growth of the cooperative

shipping associations there is need for

increased attention to the handling of

cooperative shipments which can best

be done by (selling agencies in full

sympathy with them. These shipments

create new marketing problems and

there is evidence of inefficiency in

handling them, both in the .country

and at the markets. Improvement in

methods of cooperative shipping asso-

ciations will come about most elfeo—

tively from selling agencies controlled

by producers who now control the

shipping associations.



With the widespread demand for the

formation of producers live stock com-





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mission companies patronage will be





,large without the necessity of adver-





tising, soliciting and promotional work

which contribute largely to the ex—

pense of regular commission compa-

nies. Large patronage will bring about

economy in marketing.



Efficiently conducted producers live

stock selling agencies have already

demonstrated that a considerable sav-

ing in the marketing expense is pos-

sible. ,



H. W. Mumford, E. H. Cunningham,

J. M. Anderson, C. E, Collins and C.

H. Gustafson compose the sub-commit-

tee on cooperative marketing at termi-

nal markets which formulated the

foregoing report



H. W. Mumford reported upon the

results of a questionnaire as to the de-

sirability of establishing cooperative





Farmers F inancc Company

U. S. Grain Grower: I ma, Lame/z New $100,000,000





Suérz'a’iary





HE executive committee of the



farmers’ grain marketing ma-



chine got into action last wek

and after going into details of organi-

zation and finance took initial steps to

form the Farmers’ Finance Corpora-

tion, a subsidiary corporation to the

United States Grain Growers’ Inc.,

with an authorized capital stock of

$100,000,000.



Just as the United States Grain

Growers’, Inc., is the pioneer in. the

national grain marketing field for the

farmer, so also, is' the Farmers” Fi-

nance Corporation the initial move to

enable the producer to use his surplus

funds in the conduct of his business

beyOnd the limits of his farm accord-

ing to its organizers. It is intended

that it should enable other farmers’

cooperative marketing associations,

such as live stock commission compa-

nies, cooperative cheese factories,

creameries, etc., to obtain needed

financing as it provides that funds to

them will be made available when not

needed by the grain growers. Lack

of credit is not to hamper the progress

of this organization as it has so fre—

quently hampered many of the cooper-

ative efforts of the farmer. The United

States Grain Growers appear to be

avoiding as best they can the mistakes

that have been fatal to so many other

cooperatives. They remember none

too well the dire circumstances which

grain farmers found themselves in last

fall during the period of money strin-

gency and the new subsidiary is to

meet such a situation should it ever

arise again.



No one has been selected to head the

new company but it is rumored that

Bernard Baruch, a Wall street million-

aire, who was chairman of the war in-

dustries board during the war maybe

placed at the head of this corporation.

George Jewett, general manager of the

Pacific Northwestern Wheat Growers

has also been suggested. Mr. Jewett

has.had considerable experience that

should render him a fit head for the

company, having been identified with

the Federal Reserve Bank in the north-

west before associating himseif with

the Pacific Northwest Wheat Growers.





Stock in denominations of $100 and

up'will be sold to farmers at the time

memberships in the United States

Grain Growers is solicited.



President James R. Havana. of the

American Farm Bureau Federation,

came before the committee antimon-

ed for the special committee appointed





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live stock commission companies

which was sent to live stock produc-

ers, packers, farm bureaus, and. live

stock commission companies. The last

group ignored the. questionnaire but.





the great majority of responses from





the other groups was favorable.



It is understood that F. R. Mars-hall,

secretary of the National Wool Grow--

ers’ Association, will replace F. J. Hag-

enbarth as a member of the commit-

tee.





The next meeting of the committee 0





will beheld at Chicago on July 6.

When the final report of the Comf

mittee of Fifteen has been formulated





it is to be submitted to a general con—'





ference of representatives of live stock

producers to 'be called by the presi—

dent of the American Farm Bureau

Federation.





Corporation





growers’ associations with the United

States Grain Growers, Inc. This com--

mittee, it will be recalled. consisted

of Mr. Howard, U. L. Burdick, of North

Dakota, and W. F. Schilling, of Minne-

sota. Northwestern farmers are strong

for pooling and, according to President

Howard, only one man in all their

meeting throughout Montana, Wash-

ington, Oregon and Idaho would do-

clare that he was opposed to one hum

dred per cent pooling of grain. The

farmers and their farm organizations

in the northwest - states are very

strongly in favor of the” Committee of

Seventeen and the United States Grain,

Growers' plan of marketing and there

was no dissenting voice heard on the

entire trip opposing the amalgamation

of the organization.



The committee made a written rec-

ommendation to the executive commit

tee leaving the matter of deciding af-

filiation with the United States Grain





Growers to themselves, but as this was '





a matter that should properly come be—

fore the board of directors, rather

than the executive committee, action

was deferred until the directors meet

the first week in July.





Expect a Million Members.



A million members this year is the

goal set by William G. Eckhardt, chair-

man of the organization committee.

Details of the organization work were

taken up and the plan modified after

consultation with their general coun-

sel, Clifford Thorne, who advised that

the cooperative marketing laws of sev—

eral states were not very clear as to

the legal status of the operation of

the company. Clifford Thorns was

elected general counsel at a recent

meeting at a reported salary of $15,000

per year and expenses for such part

of his time as he may be able to give

to the work. It was his belief that op—

erations can be begun in the following

states without passage of new laws:

Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North Dako-





ta, South Dakota, Montana, Washing- .





ton, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Ken-

tucky. Mississippi, Texas, Wisconsin.

Kansas, and Nebraska, Indiana and

Michigan. It is believed that they can

operate as soon as forms are made out

conforming with new laws recently



fir. Eckhamdt is also treasurer of the

emanation and has been auflaorized

to borrow mm to get the organi-

zation under way. He has already suc-





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“ "cream separators understand the





proper adjustment of the cream





screw, to say nothing of the adjust-





ment of the rest of the machine.

The creamscrew is intended to con“





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‘ the same.





the separator delivers. However, this

screw does not, as is generally sup?!

posed, regulate the efficiency of skim-

ming. The machine will, as a rule,

skim just as clean when delivering a

heavy, high-testing cream _as it will

when skimming a thin, low-testing

cream. The cream screw should be

so. adjusted that it will deliver a heavy

thick cream unless the owner is sell-

ing the cream by the quart. If the

owner is selling by the volume, he

should have his separator adjusted so

that it will deliver cream as near the

requirement as possible because at

this point it will net him the most

profit. Once the cream screw is ad-

justed to the proper place, the owner

naturally concludes that all the cream

skimmed will test the same or nearly

Consequently when the

check arrives for his shipment of

cream and he finds that it did not test





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cream?





These factors are the most import- .

ant ones that cause the variation in

the test.of the cream delivered from

the separator.



It is easy to concludethat both the

heavy and the light cream have their

market-Which is best for the average

farmer? 'Any person that is selling

cream on the Babcock test, especially

where he ships his cream, can make

more money by skimming to produce

a heavy, high-testing cream.



In the first place the farmer that

skims to produce a high-testing cream

will keep more skim-milk on the farm,

thus saving the transportation charges

and the skim-milk at the same time.

For example, if a farmer sells a hun-

dred pounds of butter-fat in cream and

receives thirty dollars f0r it and it

came from cream testing twenty per

cent he would have to ship six ten-

gallon cans to hold the five hundred

pounds of cream. He would have to

pay the transportation charges on four

hundred pounds of skim-milk besides

losing the skim—milk worth fifty cents

per hundred pounds. However, if this

farmer would skim so as to produce a

heavy cream testing forty per cent he





 





 





 





 





A large Michigan bean field, typical

areas expanded under war pressure.

growers are planting more conservative acreages and are giving more care—





ful attention to cultural methods, in order to secure higher





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of the war years, when Michigan bean

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' nearly as high as the previous ship-





ment, he wonders why. Usually he

blames the consignee and says the

cream was not properly tested.



Such misunderstandings resulting in

the cream producer accusing the deal-

er of improper testing can often be

avoided if the owner of‘a separator

knows that a number of factors other

than the adjustment of the cream

screw will cause a variation in the

test of the cream delivered.



A few of the factors that cause thin

cream to be delivered from the sen

arator, other than the adjusting of the

cream screw, are:



1. Skimming the milk when it is ex-

cessively warm.



2. .Running the speed of the separat-

or bowl too low.



3. Forcing the milk through the sep—

arator too rapidly.



4. Flushing the separator bowl out

with large amounts of skim-milk or

warm water, and permitting the cream

delivered from these flushings to mix

with the other cream.



5. Skimmi‘ng a low-testing milk.



On the other'hand, some of the fac—

tors causing a heavy cream to be de-

livered, when the cream screw is not

tampered with, are:



' 1. Skimming‘ cold milk.





2," Increasing the speed of the sep-





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would receivethe same amount (thirtyl

dollars) for the one hundred pounds ofl

butter-fat contained, but would have

to ship only‘three ten-gallon cans to‘

hold the two hundred and fifty pounds;

of cream.





worth $1.25, besides

tion charges on the same two hundred

and fifty pounds.



Aside from the saving of skinrmilk

and transportation charges, the pro-

ducer of heavy or thick cream saves

in two other ways: First, he has less

cream to cool and handle, thus saving,

time and labor; secondly, his thick

cream can be kept in better condition

and he will receive a better price for

it at the creamery.



.If a thick pream will net the pro-

ducer more he had better adjust the

cream screw properly in the first place

and then pay attention to these other

factors that cause the separator to de-

liver a thick,‘high-testing cream or a

thin, low—testing cream.





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WORK.





HE Michigan Agricultural College

' drainage expert, Mr. O. E. Robey,

has spent several profitable days with

the county agent in Calhoun county.

Twenty drainage systems have been

Five septic tanks have been





installed. The drainage system laid





He would thus save twol

hundred and fifty pounds of skim-milk;

the transporta‘





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“Woodlot devastation and forest devastation differ only in





advantage. ‘Woodlot farming' with crops of timber equal to

yearly growth is coming in

pooling and sale of timber.





system means conservation of the farm woodlot.

“Replacement cost, following decay of posts and poles not

rendered immune to fungus attack makes the practice of wood

preservation a business consideration worthy ofclosest atten-

tion by those who place wood in contact with soil.” 7f",





methods of Timber Conservation





Woodlots must be ‘farmed’ to the best:

the form of judicious cutting,





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Stop the Decay of

Fence Posts





No matter wh at kind of fence posts

you use, it will pay you mighty

well to protect them against decay

by preservative treatment with

Carbosota Liquid Crcosote Oil.



The properly carbosoted fence

post is the cheapext per year of ser—

vice. Think of setting out a post

and not having to replace it for

20 to 30 years. It will last as long

as the wire and will prove highly

resistant to grass fires.



And you can creosote your own

fence posts, using the so-called

“scrub” timber from your own

woodlot‘the non—durable spe-

cies such as cottonwood, willow,

ash, sap-pine, second-growth

cypress, red and mixed oaks,

as well as dozens of other

species. They will readily last

20 years instead of from three

to five, and will save you over

$20.00 a year per mile of

fence as compared with the

same species untreated. Fur—

ther, they are cheaper than the

so—called permanent posts of

substitute materials. .



A Big Saving



The saving varies with condi—

tions and species, averaging about

50% on the less durable woods as

compared with the same untreated,

and approximately 20% as com-



ared with untreated cedar posts.

This is based on home-grown posts

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out your creosoted

posts to know you

won’t have to replace them every

few years. ‘



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posts. When properly cut, peeled,

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booklet, “Long Life for Wood.” ,

Simplicity of Treatment"





The illustration below shows a

home-made plant for treating non-

durable species of posts. It con-

sists of a 100-gallon steel drum,

with one end cut out for the hot

bath, and a metal water trough for

the cold bath. The drum—a

second—hand kerosene container—-





cost 7$5.00; the trough, $18.00.





The Steel drum, containing enough Car-

bosota to cover the posts to a height of

sxx inches above the future ground line, is





 





 





 





 





 





Farmer’s home-made treating plantifor

non—durable posts.





placed over tlle fire, the oil heated to between

175 and 200 deg. 13., and the butt ends ofthe

posrs immersed thirty minutes to one hour.

The posts are then removed to the cold

bath and enzirrly inf/purged for a similar --,

period. The cold bath should be about 100

deg. F., but not less lllllll 50 deg. F. and in

(Winter heating may be m-(cssary. To pre- 33

vent wasting the Carbosuta, :1 dripping



board of corrugated Sllt‘cf iron is rigged up



at the side of the trench, on which the



posts are placed after they are taken out



of the cold bath.





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Chestnut and

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Only the butt ends of

these icquirc treatment

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ends of the posrs are kept in hot Carbosota

(heated to between 175 and 200 deg. F.)

for four to six hours. Tl'lt‘ fire is then put out

and the posts are left in tilt: bath until the

preservative cools to atmospheric tempera-

ture, minimum 50 deg. F. .



If your lumber dealer does net carry

Carbosota, write us and we will see that

you are supplied.
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RIGHTS "OF Lessee FROM LIFE

-TENANT.





 





About nine years ago I rented forty

acres of land from a man, who gave

me a lease for $150 per year, which I

have paid in. full each year in due '

time. This lease was to be effective

during his lifetime. This man died

March 15, 1921. Can I hold this farm

on these same terms, or can the heirs

put me off or collect more rent ?——L. K.





The heirs or remainder men are en-

titled to possession immediately upon

the death of the life tenant; but the

lessee of the life tenant has the right

to return and harvest the crops plant-

ed before the life tenant died—J. R.





SUNFLOWERS FOR SILAGE.

I

[n a recent issue of the Michigan

Farmer I read “Making Silage from

Sunflowers,” with much interest. We

live in the frost belt, and the large

southern corn is not sure to ripen, so

I have been reading with interest on

sunflowers. A year ago a neighbor

grew sunflowers, which heput in the

silo along with corn silage. In the

spring his cows looked very bad. and

it took them until along in the sum-

mer to gain back. He blamed the sun-

flowers, thought it affected their kid—

neys. .They were fed marsh hay, straw

and silage. Were the sunflowers to

blame? I have a pound of sunflowers

in five acres of corn and cannot see

any evil effect on my cows this year.

We can grow a much greater tonnage

of them if it is safe to use them for

the cows.

Missaukee Co. 1. W.

been used ex—





Sunfiowers have not

tensiV-ely in this section of the coun-

try. but out west in Idaho, etc, they

are grown quite extensiVely for silage

and I never heard that they in any

way injure the cows. Year before last

I planted sunflowers with sweet corn

and they grew to be mammoth plants.

We harvested these with sweet corn

stalks and put them in the silo. The

cows ate them seemingly as readily as

the other silage, and there was no in.

jurious effects that could be noted. I



. don’t believe there is anything in the

idea that sunflower ensilage will act as

a diaretic and affect the kidneys. The

ration which your neighbor fed, marsh

hay, straw and silage would not allow

any cattle to come through the winter

in any shape. There isn't enough pro-

tein in this ration to bring them

through in good condition. Some grain

should have been added, wheat bran,

cottonseed meal or ground oats and a

little oil meal would have fixed this

ration so that the cattle would un-

doutbedly have done well.—~—C. C. L.





 





CHICKS FAIL TO HATCH.





 





For several years we have had trou-

ble with chickens hatching. The shell

comes off and the skin sticks and

sometimes dries on. For the last

hatchings I dampened the nest and put

the eggs in water a few days before

hatching time. That helped some, but

I don’t have the results I should have.

My hens have laid well all winter and

seem healthy, and I don’t have any

trouble raising all the chicks that

hatch successfully—Mrs. H. S.





Place a piece of moist sod in the

nest box and cover the sod with a lit-

tle loose litter. The moisture in the

sod will be enough to help the eggs

hatch il' moisture is the cause of the

trouble. Sometimes chicks are not

strong enough to hatch because of

some weakness in the breeding stock,

caused by a lack of exercise or green

feed or some other cause which may



seem unexplainable. Sometimes a cer—



tain hen will constantly produce eggs

which will contain chicks too weak to

-.hatch. Trapnest records of certain

hens have proven this to be a fact.



The failure of’chicks to emerge from

the shell occurs most often in artificial





don: ,haye/thatfltrouble if/the nest is





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furnished with a sod and then placed

where it is not too hot. It might occur

if the eggs were placed in a nest in a

very hot brood coop or-colony house

late in the spring when the weather is

often hot.—R. GTK.





RIGHTS OF MORTGAGEE DURING

FORECLOSURE. .





 





A party owns a farm on which is a

mortgage covering slightly more than

half the purchase price. _ A year ago

the owner contracted with me to cut

into stove wood and fence posts the

wood on a number of acres, giving me

two years to do the work. Now, at

the end of a year the mortgagee

threatens to foreclose the mortgage,

the installment not having been paid,

and states that foreclosing will stop

me from executing any further any

contract I may have with owner by

invalidating the agreement. How about

this ‘2 Can the mortgagee prevent me

from carrying out any part, or the

whole, of this contract?—eH. P. H.



Cutting growing timber is a species

of waste, and if it would impair the

mortgagee’s security he may have it

enjoined pending the foreclosure of





the mortgage—J. R. R.





FORFEITURE OF LAND CON-

TRACT.





 





 





Will you give me the law as regards

the selling of a. farm on a land con-

tract? A sells a farm to B on a land

contract running for five years. B can

not pay his first year’s interest which

has been due one month now. Can he

be put out? In other words, is the

contract null and void after the day

the interest is due, with three days

grace ?-—H. . J. .



Default does not forfeit the rights

of the purchaser under a land con-

tract. They continue until notice of

forfeiture and foreclosure is served.



J. R. R.





 





TREATING SEED POTATOES FOR

SCAB.





 





Will you please advise me how to

treat seed potatoes for scab?

should I treat seed potatoes this year

that were grown from treated seed?



Wayne Co. G. S. R.



'Seed potatoes can be treated with

either formaldehyde or corrosive sub-

limate to control scab. However, the

corrosive sublimate has proven the

more effective in controlling black

scurf or rhizoctonia and, therefore, it

is usually recommended to use this

material. The corrosive sublimate

(mercuric chloride) can be purchased

of most any druggist and comes in

crystal form. it is a deadly poison

and should be kept away from all ani-

mal life, not only when in the crystal

form but after it is 'dissolved as well.



To prepare it for treatment it should

be dissolved in hot water as it dis-

solves very slowly in cold water. It

is also advised to use an earthen or

wooden container in which to handle

the material. After the crystals are

dissolved the liquid should be diluted

so that one ounce of the crystals will

make eight gallons of the poison solu—

tion. It a person is going to use a

barrel in which to do the treating, at

least sixteen gallons of the solution

should be made. When the quantity

of seed to be treated does not exceed

fifty bushels it will be quite satisfac-

tory to secure two' barrels which will

hold water and remove the head from

each barrel. A two-inch hole should

be bored close to the bottom of each

barrel and the same closed with a

spigot or a hung. By placing these

barrels on potato crates or boxes so

that the liquid‘when drained off from

the potatoes will run into a wooden

tub or similar receptacle it "will be an

easy matter to transfer the liquid from,

one barrel to another.



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dope can be made up in one barrel or

in the tub and one of the barrels filled

practically full with potatoes. It is

not necessary to sack them when

treated in this way. After the pota-

toes are placed in the barrel, the liquid

is poured over them until they are ful-

ly covered, The length of time which

the treatment requires depends upon

the condition of the seed. If it is com-

parativly free from scab or black scurf

thirty minutes should be sufficient. If,

on the other hand, there are a good

many large black sc-urf spots or a con-

siderable sprinkling of heavy scab

spots, it would be well to extend the

treatment to forty-five minutes or per-

haps an hour.



No harm will be done if the treat-

ment covers a period of one- and one-

half hours. As a matter of economy

of time as well as precaution against

possible infection of the soils, it is ad-

visable to sort out all potatoes which

have on them large scab or black scurf

spots. When this is done the thirty

minute treatment will be sufficient.

When the proper time has elapsed the

liquid should be drawn off the pota-

toes and transferred to the other bar-

rel which should be filled with pota—

toes while those in the first barrel

were soaking. The treated potatoes

can then be dumped on the floor or

ground and spread and the barrel then

returned to its former place and re-

filled. This operation can be repeated

until all of the seed is treated.





Corrosive sublimate weakens with

use. It is, therefore, necessary to do

one of two things to keep it up to nor-

mal strength. Every batch of mate-

rial may be used three or four times,

depending upon the amount of dirt on

the potatoes, the fewer treatments

being made when the potatoes are

dirty and a new batch made after that

number of treatments. Another meth-

od of keeping up the strength of the

material is to add one ounce of cor-

rosive sublimate after each treatment.

It is not always easy when this meth-

od is used to determine the strength

of the material. For this reason it is

generally considered safer to use the

first method indicated, that is, renew-

ing the dope after a few treatments.





Where a large quantity of potatoes

is to be treated it will facilitate mat-

ters to provide a trough-like vat with

the ends sloped in such a manner that

it will be possible to shovel the pota-

toes out of the liquid. It was gener-

ally advised when the formaldehyde

was used to place the crates and all

in the vat but the corrosive sublimate

corrodes nails and thus it is not desir—

able to use the crates in the corrosive

sublimate treatment.





It is a matter of economy of time to

treat seed potatoes a considerable

length of time before they are to be

planted. This treatment can be car-

ried on during a wet period when oth-

er work is at a standstill. The one

thing which shbuld be kept in mind

where treatment is made before plant-

ing is to avoid reinfecting the seed by

placing it in dirty sacks or crates. It

is becoming a very common practice

to green—sprout potatoes before plant-

ing and where this is done the treat—

ment. shOuld be given first. Some

growers prefer to treat just- before

planting but it usually adds a good'

deal to "the work at a busy time and if

left until then often is» either done too

hastily or not done at all. One of the

precautions which, should alWays be

taken when treating potatoes is to see

that they dry quickly unless they are

planted immediately after treating. If

the weather is,,wet and, the .a'ir filled

with, moisture so that the drying proc~





use will b’e'slow,git “sawgoodlpla to}





throw water over the potatoes follow-

ing the treatment to stop the further

action of the material which adheres

to the tubers. Potatoes left in sacks

for several hours after treating, or

piled deeply in piles, or even left in

crates with the crates filled full, may

be injured by the material continuing

to act on the eyes until the potatoes

are dry. This long extended action

may result_in the potatoes starting to

grow slowly or in their not growing at

all in extreme cases—C. W. wxm.





GROWING MILLET ON MUCK.





 





I have about two acres of muck

which has been in corn the last four

years. I have in mind sowing it to

millet. This muck is good and dry

and very productive. What would be

the probable result of sowing it to mil-

let? How does millet hay compare in

feeding value to clover hay? About

what time would you advise sowing,

and what amount of seed would you

sow to the acre, and what is the value

of seed?

cut?——M. A. H.



Hungarian millet will do well on a

fertile muck soil. It is widely uSed as

a hay crop by muck farmers. It makes

a rapid growth and is especially adapt-

‘ed for growth in the hot summer

months which are- usually frost-free in

the southern part of the state. It is

not as tender as other annual plants

which succumb entirely to frost, but

very often, especially after the plants





have become well established, H'ungar- .





ian millet will recover from frost in-

jury and make a good tonnage. 'Millet

is not as valuable as clover hay.. I am

advised by a feeder that it contains

one—fourth less protein and less fat

than clover. I would advise sowing

about the first of J une, in the southern

part of the state. Twenty-five pounds

to the acre is not too much. To pre-

vent the grass from becoming coarse.

heavier seeding is used by many muck

farmers. It must be emphasized that

the muck should be well rolled and

fertile to grow the crop with satisfac-

tory results. The price of millet is

about $2.50 per bushel, fifty pounds to

the bushel. It should be cut before it

becomes too coarse—E. L.





 





BUCKWH EAT FOR HORSES.





 





Is feeding of buckwheat to horses

liable to be injurious? The buckwheat

in question was cut when the stalks

and leaves were green. The bundles

were well cured and put in the barn

without rain on them. There is some

buckwheat in the heads, but there was

hardly enough to pay for the thresh‘

ing, so the bundles are still intact. I

have fed some of these to my horses

once a day. One or two bundles to

a horse. They relish them very much

and eat them in preference to hay. 1

have fed in this way now for about a

month with no apparent ill results.

They have not received them. every

day, but perhaps two or three times a

week. I have quite a "quantity if this

material, and the question is, can I in‘

crease this kind of feed with safety?



Van Buren Co. . G. E. C.



There is nothing in the nature of

buckwheat that would be injurious to

horses. The only question is in feed

ing buckwheat in the bundles this way.

is to determine the amount of grain.

Buckwheat itself, that is, the grain, is

a rich food and you could'easily over-

feed. That, I think, would be the only

danger that you might" run up against.

My advice would be to feed this reg~

ularly, but rather sparingly so that you

are sure you are not feeding an exces-

sive grain ration. - You could'feed a

bundle at a feeding and also feed hay



, and a little grain with it and you'could





tell by the results whether the horses _

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get enough grain or not.

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- AW,“
_ 'servation commission‘met in,L.an-

rfsing May 19 for the purpose of'organ-

V izlng and outlining a program to be

I followed during the coming summer.

One of the hrst steps to be taken will

“be to order lthe opening of the twenty-

one state Illl‘ks, which will be avail-

able for tou‘gltists this summer. Work

on these parks has been progressing

and all will be ready for the- tourists

by June 10.



.It is probable the commission will

make a tour of inspection of the parks

early in the summer, and will also at-

tempt to locate sites for other parks,

as links in a string of public play-

grounds along the lakes of Michigan.



East Tawas was the first place in

northeastern Michigan and the second

in the state to give a park site to the

new commission. The site consists ‘of

twelve acres, with more than half a





mile of sandy beach, on TaWas Bay, 10-.





cated at the very door of the town’s

business section.



Work was started on improvement

of the park early last season, grading

completed and a commodious bath

house erected. Then East Tawas peo-

ple decided that they wanted a com-

munity building on the park and they

found a way to build it. The old state

park commission had planned to build

a rest room and comfort station on the

park at a cost of about $6,000, but East

Tawas people proposed to provide the

money necessary togenlarge upon that

plan and make the rest room a com-

munity building. The park commis—

sion accepted the proposal and now

work is well under way on the new

building, plans for which were prepar-

ed by A. E. Munger, "an architect of

Bay City.



The building is fifty-four by ninety-

eight in dimension, with concrete foun-

dation, stucco walls and brick trim-

mings, and will provide for all pur-

poses of a real community building.

There will be an auditorium seating

several hundred people, with a stage,

dressing-rooms, etc. At one end will

be rooms suitable for club meetings

and a wide covered porch will face the

lake, adjacent to which will be a large

kitchen so arranged that meals can be

served equally well on the porch or in

the auditorium. The basement will

provide room for modern bowling al-

leys. >

The building will cost $18,000 and

the people of East Tawas have raised

their share by popular subscription,

money coming not only from the peo-

ple of East Tawas but in goodly sums

from many states, subscribed by for-

mer residents of the town. Some

townspeople and farmers in the vicin-

ity contributed several days' work and

when the excavation for the basement

and foundation was started, scores of





EMBERS ofrthe new state? cone,"





people, many with scrapers and teams,

turned out and made a “bee” for sev-.

eral days, until the work was com—

pleted. '



The new building will be completed

for uSe the latter part of June, and it

is planned to. dedicate it by holding

the commencement exercises of the

East Tawas high school therein, while

the schools propose to beautify the

surrounding grounds by planting trees

on arbor and Memorial Day.—-J. M.





CAN MICHIGAN REPEAT?





 





(Continued from first page).

contest. The older exhibitors are al-

ways keenly interested in what the

“young-uns” are showing, so the Mich-

igan boys and girls have the best wish-

es of the “old-timers,” who hope that

they will “bring home the bacon.”



It was the unanimous opinion of the

committee that the educational exhib-

its prepared by the various agricultur—

al colleges were of the utmost import-

ance. The Farm Crops Department of

the Michigan Agricultural College had

an extensive exhibit at the 1920 show

that was given the credit of being the

best by far. Professor Cox gave as-

surance that Michigan would again be

represented and that every effort

would be made to produce an exhibit

that would be of educational value to

the thousands visiting the show.



We cannot rest on the laurels won

last year, but instead must make every

effort to retain them. Many of the

states are “out to. get Michigan,”

hence it behooves us to do even better

this year, as the competition is certain

to be of the very keenest sort.



The grain crops should be carefully

watched during the season and at har-

vest one may select shocks from that

portion of the field that .produced the

best grain. These shocks should be

immediately put under cover to pre—

vent discoloration by rain and dews.

Later the grain may be flailed out and

prepared for the show.



At some later date detailed informa~

tion will be given concerning the se-

lecting and preparing of grain for show

purposes. The main point to have in

mind now and during the early part of

the season, is to give the crops the

best possible chance and to locate cer—

tain parts of the field where the best

is being produced.



The results of last year’s Grain and

Hay Show were a great boom to Mich-

igan agriculture—a repeater would be

invaluable. From an educational

standpoint the experience is well worth

one’s trouble, and if Michigan can

“come through” again the advertising

value gained cannot be measured. To

do our best we must prepare early, so

let us now start building for next De-

cember’s show.





 





 





 





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The Significance

of Maintained

Quality ‘





F highest significance to the mo-

torist is the ‘ fact that during

those times when the demands for



gasoline have been so great as to threaten

positive famines, Red Crown, the hi h-

grade motor gasoline manufacturediy

the Standard Oil Company (Indiana),

maintained its standard of quality in

the face of every difficulty.





Impartial tests made on authority of the

Government proved Red Crown sun

passed the specifications set by the Gov-

ernment for its requirements of motor

gasoline. These facts indicate the ideal,

of service which animate the activities

of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana)

in every department of its business.





To maintain the quality of a product

when the demand is normal is a general

4 practice. It is when demand is pressing

and the supply is low that insistence

upon. maintained quality is a true meas-

ure of a manufacturer’s integrity.





To maintain the quality of each product at: the

point set by the technical staff is an outstanding

characteristic of the Standard Oil Company

(Indiana). Red Crown is a good example.





§§ Another is Fortnite long-time burner oil. This

5 product is used in railway signal lamps. These

signals are often located at points remote from

human habitation. For public safety their un-o

interrupted service is of the utmost importance.

It is essential that the oil shall burn with a clear,

bright flame for days at a time without attention.





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During the blizzard of January, 1918, lamps

filled with Fortnite, located high up in the Rocky

Mountains, burned night and day during the

ten days that traflic was tied up, and at the end

of that period they were giving perfect service.





It is only by multiplying such records of quality

and integrity of manufacture over a long period

of years that the reader can grasp the degree

of public confidence enjoyed by Standard Oil

Company (Indiana).





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Just think What this complete protection at $1.00 per

horse power means to you. It meansa saving up to

75 %, depending upon the car you are driving. Of

course this low rate applies only to the farmer. and

to protect all farmer members of the U S Mutual, it

is essential for us to use care and judgment in selecting

new members. But after three years of prosperity, we

know that we can give protection at 'cost‘. And. that

is the mutual idea. Not to build up a-re~'erve. by :usk-

ing the farmer to pay for the city man’s risk which is

much greater, but to pay only in proportion to his own

risk and to let him buy this complete protection at

absolute COST, plus the small Iiiembersh‘ip fee of

$1.00 annually.





The Motor Troop Idea





Colonel Augustus H. Gansser, Director and General

blan‘ag'er. who served with the SQnd—“O‘ver There",

is now organizin: Riotor Troops throughout the State

and has worked out the idea of :





A hlotor Troop For Err-h Community.

A h‘lotor Squadron For Each County.

A hlotor 'Corps For Each State.





This plan of fuming: Auto Clubs in em l1 co 11m11nity

is so practical and beneficial for a ll U S Policy Holders

that Colonel Gunsser is being im ited throughout the

State to organize lWo‘tor 11100!” and is meeting Mith

success every where.





Why don’t you write Colonel Gausser and {be the one

to form a Motor Troop in your community. Don’t put

ofi’ saving on your Automobile Insurance. Start today.





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Company





Executive Office

Grand Rapids, » Michigan

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Bay City, - Michigan

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OPENING OF NEW FARM LANDS.





 





POLL of the upper peninsula

A press, this week, shows unusual



activity in \the opening up of

new farm land. The Cloverland Press

of Ewen, Ontonagon county, refers to

the climber of deals consumated and

in progress as the largest ever. This





territory has a large area of rich clay





soil—41m dried-up lake bed of- pre—his-

toric “Lake,0n‘tonagon,”——of remark-

able depth and richness, and it is rath-

er remarkable that there is any land

left to be taken up. The Calumet

News, through Agent L. M. Geismar,

of IHong‘hton county, has pretty much

the same thing to say about the Otter

Lake district in the south central por-

tion of that county, where some forty

farms were brought in last year, and

twice that number are due to appear,

this year, it is averred.



No doubt great credit is due the Ot-

ter Lake Agricultural School in «hold-

ing young people to agricultural pur-

suits in that section. It is hardwood

country with great agricultural possi-

bilities. The Mining Journal of Mar-

quette, has a lengthy account of the

prospective farm settlement to be

pushed, this season, by a land com-

pany of Chicago This concern has re-

cently acquired approxiu*~-m.y twenty

thousand acres .11 the 1' '.1;.mfl;.v of Chat

ram, Alger county, am 1E putting on

an active campaign or 1311C settlement.



THE F 1N Nil-SH FARMER.



“ R. J, G. HEL-‘la. an



farmer, object's tr. my recent use





Ironwood





; of the term, “high grade,” in connec

. tion with my reference to the Finnish





farmers of Ironwood township. He





, thinks it classifies his people with cat-





tle to which the term is usually ap-

plied. The writer meant to be compli-

mentary, and I think most of my road-

ers so understood it. There are many

farmers of Finnish descent in Iron-

wood township, and this is one of the

most highly developed farming sec-

tions of the upper peninsula and com-





, pares very well with farming commu-





nities in the well-developed sections of

the southern peninsula. Mr. Helli’s

own farm is one of the very fine farms

of the state, regardless of location.





. "The writer has already contended that





the futuie agricultui al development of

the upper peninsula owes very much

1-0 cm larmers of Finnish descent who

are stu1dy , hard- -working, re eudy to

learn, and will be Americanized as rap-

idly as other Americans, who have

been longer in the country, help them

to it.





 





LAND CLEARING METHODS.





 





HE opening up of a. lot of new



cut-over land, involves land-clear-

ing operations on an extensive scale.

There will be much use of explosives

and stump-pullers. Both are manufac-

tured in this territory. There is a very

large plant making stump-pullers, lo-

cated at Escanaba, whose output is re-

ported by the company at some ten

thousand machines per annum. The

pullers that operate on the drum or

clutch principle, and with horse or

man— -power, are a local invention de-

veloped from local experience.



In removing stumps, local opinion

seems to favor the prior use of ex-

plosives, to split the stump and disen-

gage it from the ground, after which

the fragments can be easily removed

by mechanical means.



In connection with the manufacture

of emlosives for the mines, there are

several explosiye factories in the dis-

trict. Obviously We are not W

posed to furnish farmers With e$lo-





 





 

 





siVes also; and it is hardly to be ex-

pected that these explosive concerns

view with favor the purchase of ex-





plosives ‘by farmers from the govern \,

ment at prices much below their own '





market prices. The superintendent of

one of these local plants is outspoken

in his criticism of one of our county

agents for his activity in securing

cheap TNT from the United States ar-

senal at Charleston, through the me-

dium of the stat-ohighway department.





Twenty tons of this TNT were thus"





secured for the farmers of Marquette





and Baraga counties, it is'reported, at ‘

a cost of eleven cents per pound lie-i





livered.





The superintendent of one of the

large plants points out that, if farmers

Would combine their orders and buy

-of. them, they could also greatly reduce

their prices on dynamite, which, they

aver, is superior to TNT. It is admit-

ted that the saving on the shipment

just mentioned, would be only about

half that actually obtained through

the government purchases, and this

saving, the agent involved insists, is

worth securing for the farmers.



Farmers, like other folks, may be

expected to consult their own best in~

terests in placing their orders for ex-

plosives. In fact, considerable difficul-

ty has been encountered in securing

government TNT, and there have been





vague rumors of hidden influences that »





have blocked its distribution.” on the

other hand, there are somewhat vague

assurances that there will eventually

be forthcoming for agricultural use,

large quantities of government picric

acid, salvaged from the war stocks, as

soon as its genera use is rendered

safe by experiments new in progress.

For some time. "11 has been known that

there are large stocks'ol this explov

sive in Wizaonsiu and in the east, and

Cloverland farmers will be grateful to

any agencies ”that wn‘

them in a form safe to handle and at

moderate cost.





CLOVERLANE) ROADS To BE

MARKED.





 





‘OM the upper. peninsula district

offlCe of the state highway depart~





merit comes the announcement that





all our trunk lines are to- be properly

marked this season; to indicate their

number, detours and danger points.

The Escamaba warehouse of the de-

partment is said to be well supplied

with the material. Indeed, number

signs are already in place at many

points. ‘An important cutoff adjacent

to the Mackinac-School-craft county





line is to go in early in the summer, it ‘





appears. This is on trunknline No. 12.

(The “Cloverland Trail”), which con-

nects the Straits of Mackinac with all

the country west of it~and there is a

good deal of it..

will save a sixteen-mile detour, re

ports the Republican News, of St. Ig-

nace, which, however, reminds its

readers that the detour, traversing the

Manistique Lake district, is one of the

most beautiful drives in the upper

state. 3





PRODUCE DEALER KNOCKS MARI-e





KETVING ‘M ETHODS.





 





N Escanaba produce dealer calls

attention to his - estimated one

thousand cars of potatoes from the





11920 crop still unsold in the territory





within one hundred miles’ radius of





that city, and ask§ the farmers to use. *





note of the failure of \the Michigan, Po;

Itato Growers’ Exchange to, dispose of

the crap. He thmks that this affliction.

W to the failure of the cooperatrypg

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" He should have tried again ,and in— ., .

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She would probably never have eaten

another pig. ——J. '





 





FLEECE‘S DAMAGED BY VEGETA-

BLE MATTER.





 





 





SUBSCRIBER forwarded to this



office a sample of wool which

showed discoloration, lacked life, was

difficult to cut. and according to the

correspondent, was becoming more '

1 common in his flock. This sample was

‘ ' submitted to Mr. Williams, extension

specialist. in sheep husbandry, who re-

plies asfoilows:



"Probably these ewes have been al-

lowed to run in fields where there is

underbrush or burnt stumps and veg-

etable matter had accumulated in the

fleeces. The wool is also dry and

brashy and very tender. This may be

caused by many things, such as im-

proper feeding, improper housing, or it

may be due to some disease. Possibly

the skin has been irritated in some

manner. Ewes producing this type of

wool should be culled from the flock

and replaced by good thrifty yearling

eWes.”





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M. A. C.





 





 





FIVE conference to be held at M. A.

C. during June and July have been

announced by Prof. E. H. Ryder, di-

rector of the summer session.





Perhaps the most significant will be

an agricultural and economics confer-

ence on June 23—24 at which extension

workers, specialists in agriculture and

members of the farm bureau and other

‘ organizations will have opportunity to



hear vital questions of the day discuss-

ed by men of . national reputation.





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to July 1. Dr. Warren H. Wilson, of

New Yory City, expert in rural sociol- '

ogy, who took charge of the ministers’

gathering last summer, has again been

engaged as director. The attendance

record of one hundred and fifty set in

1920 is expected to be broken this

year.



Simultaneous with the ministers’

conference will be the sixth annual

meeting of boys’ and girls’ club work-

ers. of which R. A. Turner, state club

leader will be in charge. Also on June

23—24 a conference on rural school con-

solidation will be held, with Lee L.

Driver, Pennsylvania educator, as one

of the speakers.





Teachers of agriculture in the high

schools of the state will meet July 18-

29 for the purpose of considering meth9

ods of standardization of such instruc—

tion. The educational department at

M. A. C. directors of vocational train-

lng for then state, and representatives ‘

or the normal schools will cooperate

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OFFER‘No. 309.

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TO SELL 1921 CL‘lP EARLY.





 





be held but will be sold on the





. current market, according to the State





Farm Bureau, which 'says that ar-

rangements have been made with

mills in the east to dispose of prac-

tically the entire amount of the 1921

pool. A representative of the wool de-

partment who has just returned from

Philadelphia, announces that some of





' the new wool was included in a recent

'sale of 150,000 pounds, prices ranging

f from eighteen to twenty-seven cents a

‘ pound, according to the grade. A





fourth wool grader was hired who will

make a circuit of certain of the one

hundred and fifteen grading stations

in the state.



Half a million pounds of wool re-





amount has been practically collected

in the 1921 pool, the farm bureau re-

ports. The closing of last year’s pool

is being rushed in order to make final

remittances to the wool growers.





TO ADJUST M'ICHIGA'N FREIGHT

RATES.





 





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that at least some of 1.1%.me M W 1310 - ,





 





lC OMPLAINT will be filed with the

, interstate commerce commission

‘and with the Michigan Public Utilities

Commission for a readjustment ot‘ the

freight rates between Michigan and

other states and within the state. Pro-

ceedings will be initiated by the Mich-

igan Traffic League



At the present time freight taIiffs in

Michigan are much higher than the

rates obtaining in other states and





' these higher tariffs place all industries





in the state at a serious disadvantage

when competing with outside inter-

ests. In the proceedings class and

commodity rates, interstate and intra-

state tariffs, inflated mileages, and

rates to and from the upper peninsula

will all be given special attention.

Michigan freight zones authorized in

: 1917 have been used apparently to dis-

criminate against the producer and

consumer in this state and the main-

tenance of these zones will be vigor-

ously attacked in these proceedings.





WOULD CRIPPLE JOINT STOCK

LAND BANKS.





 





EARINGS on the Smoot Federal



Farm Loan act amendments will

be held before the senate committee

on banking and currency some time

this month. The first of these amend-

ments, senate bill 431, provides for the

liquidation of joint stock land banks.

Section 16 of the act creating the joint

stock land banks is repealed, with the

exception that. a joint stock land bank

incorporated before July 1, 1919, may

continue to operate under the act, with





' certain restrictions until July 1, 1924,





when all such banks must go into liqui-

dation.



A second amendment. senate bill 432,

provides that the federal farm loan

Board shall levy assessments upon the

federal land banks and joint stock land

banks sufiicient to pay its estimated

expenses and the salaries of its mem-

bers. ‘ '



A third amendment, senate bill 433,

removes the tax exemption features

from joint stock land bank bonds.



The avowed object of these bills is





land banks. It is believed by friends

of the farm loan system that the real

purpose of the proposed legislation is

to destroy the farm (loan act. They





m=mrehend that the" joint stock land

3 bank feature being the weakest link





Tia'the system, it has been selected as

«the most vulnerable point of attacking

It is at boot lfl known





 





 





Late Agricultural News





HIS year Michigan ,wool will not -





main in the 1920 pool while the same





to put out of business the joint stock





are none too friendly toward the fed-

eral farm loan associations. ‘



1f the purpose of the farm loan act

is to proVide money at low rate of in-

terest for agricultural development

and production. than that money must

be raised in a special market. And up

to this time the only way that has

been devised for creating a special

market in which money can be secur¥

ed at low rates is that of issuing tax-

free --secur.ities. Hence, the tax—freer

farm loan bond. From this stand—

point, it is argued that the farmers and

their organizations have considerable

interest in making an effort to saVe

the tax exemption on farm loan bonds,

at least until municipal bonds and all

other government securities are de-

nied this tax exemption privilege;

There is no telling what this congres-

sional tinkering may do to the farm

loan act.





TUSCOLA FARMERS MAKE“ AUTO

TOUR.





 





(Continued from page 681).

iness was a wife, an ax and a plug of

tobacco; now he said it was a vastly

more complicated proposition and one

of the first things that farmers abso-

lutely must do is to organize. ‘



The farmers also visited the farms

of H. B. Peters, D. Dutcher, and Mr.

Booth in the vicinity of Owosso and

arrived in Lansing at seven o’clock in

the evening. The following morning

they visited the State Farm Bureau

oflices and the M. A. (3., taking dinner

at East Lansing at eleven o’clock and

then proceeding south to visit farms

around Jackson. Thursday the biggest

day of the trip, they swing through

Jackson, Washtenaw, Oakland and La-

peer counties and return home late

at night.





FARM ERS’ FINANCE COMPANY.





 





(Continued from page 682).

ed favorable progress, although noper-

sonal solicitations have yet been at

tempted.



President Gustafson is now located

with the rest of his staff in their new

offices, which comprise the entire nine-

teenth floor of the Mallers Building in

Chicago. Although he has not yet re-

signed as director of the marketing de-

partment of the American Farm Bu—

reau Federation, it is expected that he





will do so in the very near future as.





the bylaws of the organizations speci-

fically states that he shall give his

time exclusively to the work of the

grain growers.



J. H. Mehl, formerly investigator in

cooperative organziation for the Unit

ed States Bureau of Markets, has been

empyoyed' to assist President Gustaf-

son in his work. Mr. Mehl helped on

the Committee of Seventeen in per-

fecting their plan and isan Iowa prod-

uct, having been for eight years pre-

vious to his connection with the bu~

reau of markets, manager of a farm-

ers’ elevator in Iowa.



P. J. Crandall, formerly secretary of

the South Dakota Farm Bureau Feder-

ation, has been employed to assist

William G. Eckhardt in the finance .de-

partment, and W F. Schilling was ap-

pointed vioe-chairman of the organi-

zation committee to assist Mr. Eek.





.hardt on details of organization. F. .





M :Russell and S. E. Elliott have been

added to the staff of the department

of information. Mr. Elliott was for-





merly agricultural editor of the “Farm-





ers’ Dispatch” at St. Paul, and Mr.

Russell was director of the News Bu-

reau of the Nebraska Farm Bureau

Federation .

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possible by the action of the 1921 leg-

islature, is urged by offlCiaIs of the





entomology department at M. A. C.‘ '

According to the terms of the meas- ,

ure, $40, 000 has been made available





t6 reimburse counties for one- -half of

the sum spent for buying poison bait.





i «The money is to be paid on warrants





drawn by the county officers on the

state treasury. The work in each coun-

ty will be in charge of a man appoint-

ed by the board of supervisors, in most

cases the county agent.



Grasshoppers descended in clouds

last - summer up’on those sections of

Michigan which were unprepared. If

proper preventive means are used, the

pest may be controlled without trou~

ble, it is believed, though another ser—

ious outbreak threatens. —-—H.





 





LiMITs IMMIGRATION.





 





HE Johnson bill passed by the



house and senate limits the num-

ber of immigrants to come into this

country between now and June 30,

1922, to 355, 000 people. In view of the

proposed restrictions it is interesting

to note that only two and eight- tenths

per cent of the vast number of immi—

grants entering this country last year

were farmers. A large proportion of

those arriving were incapable of earn-

ing a livelihood, according to the im-

migration committee’s report. The

committee is convinced that "the ar—

riving immigrants are not those who

might go to the farms.”





 





MICHIGAN FIRST IN RYE PRODUC-





TION.





 





ICHIGAN now stands at the head

of the list in rye production. Sta-

tistics recently published show that

this state raised fourteen per cent of

the total crop produced in the United





States last year. Until two years ago'





Michigan never ranked better than

fourth or fifth. In 1919 it rose to sec-

ond, however, and the 1920 figures

Show the Wolverine state leading.

Much of the increased yield is as-





cribed by officials at M. A. C.‘ to the ‘





introduction of Rosen rye, the variety

perfected by Prof. F. A. Spragg, plant

breeder, after it had been brought to





‘this country by a Russian student of





that name who attended M. A. C.



So successful has Rosen rye proved

that twenty—nine out of thirty prizes

for this class went to samples 'of_Ros-

en in the International Hay and Grain

Exposition at Chicago last fan—H.





PROSPECTS IN WEXFORD

COUNTY.





 





GRICULTURAL prospects in Wex—



ford county are excellent, reports

W. F. Johnston, cou'nty agricultural

agent who has just completed a field

study. More labor is available this

year and farm work is advanced much

further than usual at this time. A large

amount of seeding has been done.





' Rye and wheat have come through the





winter in fine shape. Some farmers

will not plant potatoes this year, while

others will take advantage of the

cheap seed and will plant a large

acreage—M.





 





 





 





I—IAT counties of Michigan lose no

2 time in taking advantage of the .

state aid in grasshopper control, made





 





 





 





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The price, ten dollars, includes the excise war tax and the films are but thirty

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Catalogue of Kodak: and Brownier fror of your dealer’s or /)I' mall.





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O not-allow your plants -to grow



too large before thinning them, is

the advice of Purdue University hort-

iculturists. Nearly all home gardeners

plant more seed than necessary, in or-

der to get a full stand of plants. As

soon as these are large enough to ham—

dle easily, all excess plants should be

pulled out, leaving enough space be-





- tween each plant remaining for the





vegetables to develop properly. If this

practice is not followed, got only do





the crowded conditions cause a tall.





spindly, unhealthy growth, but the ex-

cess plants act as weeds, using up the





« plant food and moisture that should be

; available for the crep.





The distances that plants should





I stand in the row in order to have





enough room for proper growth varies

with the differentcrops and with the

different varieties of each vegetable.

In general, plants of Bush beans

should be three or four inches apart;

beets, carrots and salsify, two to four

inches; endive, eight to twelve inch-

es; kale, eighteen to twenty inches;

kohl rabi, four to six inches; leaf let-





: tucc, six to eight inches; parsley, three





to six inches; parsnips, three to four

inches; radish, one inch; spinach,

three to four inches, and turnips three

to four inches.



Leaf lettuce is generally thinned

several times. The first thinning is

not done until the plants are of such

size that a few removed here and there

may be used as salad and will give

room for those remaining to grow

larger. Later a second and third thin-

ning takes place, again giving room

for further growth. By this method a

great deal larger crop may be obtain-

ed from a limited space than if'the

small plants were given maximum dis-

tance at the first thinning.



Radishes and carrots are ordinarily

not thinned until some are large

enough to use—unless, of course, the

seed has been sown exceptionally





j thick. Thinning of spinach, too, is de-





layed until the small plants removed





' 1 are large enough to use as “greens.”





TENT CATERPILLARS.





 





BOUT the time the leaves are un-



folding in the spring the tiny eggs

of the tent caterpillar begin to hatch

and the young larvae escape and go in

search of some nice tender foliage.

The previous fall the mother moth was

considerate enough to place these eggs

close to the food supply. , She selected

a small twig on a wild cherry, apple,

or some other convenient tree and

around this she laid her several eggs,

cementing them over with a waxy

preparation in order to protect them

against the weather. The larvae, af-

ter hatching, select a convenient fork

in the branches, or on the trunk, in





‘ which to build their web, or tent, and





from this they go out in the search for

food. If these caterpillars are not con-





. trolled early in the season they will





soon strip the foliage from the nearby

limbs. If they are on a young tree it





' will be entirely defoliated by mid-





summer.



As soon as the small nests are de-

tected early in the season they should

be destroyed to prevent further defoli-

ation of the tree. If they are within

convenient reach they can be torn out





'and the larvae crushed on the ground,





or burned. Then an examination should

be made to see if there are any larvae

left on the tree near the old nests.

These should be destroyed it possible.

The use of a torch will. be found to be

a convenient instrument in destroying





3 those nests beyond reach but” care-'Keep all the '





.must be exercised so as not to him

“the bark, thus killing it and perhaps

' causing a permanent injury ‘to the tree.





itself. Its use is sateen the smaller

branches or twigs, but :on the large!‘

limbs it will be safer to destroy them-

by' hand. A spray with arsenat'e of load,

will keep them from extending their

work. The regular sprays recommend.





ed for apples will also keep them Cont





trolled—DON B. WHE‘LAN.





 





OONTR‘OLUNG PLUM “OT.





Please inform me why the am "





rotted on trees last fall after they

were ripe. We sprayed our trees with

arsenate of lead and water every two

weeks until a. short time before they





ripened.

Gratiot Co. Mrs. W. A. S.

The spray materials you used last

w‘ould say that the spray you used last

year for your plums was only for the.

control of insects, such as the plum

curculio. Arsena-te of lead is an insec-

ticide only, and has no efiect on fun

gous diseases such as the plum rot.

With your arsenate of lead nselime-

sulphur as a fungicide. We would sug~

gest that you use one gallon of com-1

mercial lime—sulphur and one and a

half pounds of powdered arsenate of

lead—or three pounds of paste arse-

nate of lead—to fifty gallons of water.

In order to get the best results for

curculio, the spraying should be start-

ed shortly after the blossom petals

have dropped, and then at intervals of

about ten days or two weeks until

within about three weeks of ripening

time of the plums. This will usually

control the rot as well as the curculio,

although there are some varieties of





plums that are more susceptible to rot





than others.



There are also some seasons which

arevmofe favorable to the development

of rat, which makes it harder to con-9

trol. ‘In such cases commercial grow-

ers sometimes use artimoniacal copper

carbonate after the last spraying with





lime-sulphur and arsenate of lead. The.

latter will stain the fruit if used with— .





in a month of ripening, while the cop-

per carbonate will not.



This spray is made of three ounces

of copper carbonate and five pounds of

strong ammonia tofifty gallons of wa-

ter. The ammonia should be diluted

with three or four parts of water be-

fore mixing with the copper carbonate.



Besides spraying, one can do much

in controlling the rot by gathering the

rotted fruit hanging on the trees and

on the ground after the crop has been

harvested, as they hold over the rot

spores from one season to another.



The sprays mentioned above can be

used on all plum trees except those 01'

the Japanese varieties. The foliage on

the Japanese varieties is more tender

than on the European varieties, and

would be burned by the use of the reg-

ular lime-sulphur sprays. The self

boiled sulphur commonly used . on

peaches should be used instead. This

is made by slaking eight pounds of

lime, and throwing in upon the lime

while slaking, eight pounds of flowers

of sulphur. After the lime has ceased





boiled lime-sulphur commonly used on





take the heat out. If left hot too long.

the lime-sulphur will unite, as in the

regular commercial lime-sulphur.





 





 





Try out a new vegetable or two this

year. ‘Variety is the “Spice” of gar

dening.



Many gardens are through when the

first crops are taken off. Planting the

same vegetables ten days apart as





long as possible will prolong the ZJQ- V





riod for fresh green food iron the

garden.

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" N Tuesday and Wednesday even-



. ings of commencement week the

students of the Michigan Agricultural

College will present their third annual

pageant. This year the pageant will

depict “The History'of Michigan,” and

gives promise of being even more beau-





- tiful than “The Triumph of a Nation’s





Faith.” presented last June.



Among the very interesting scenes

and events to be shOWn are the found-

ing of missions-by Jesuit priests, the

dances of Indian braves and maidens,

the Indians acting as hosts to the first

white men, the famous court dances

of seventeenth century France, the





first ship to sail the great lakes, and .





the founding of Detroit. LaSalle and

Jean Nicolett are two of the old char-

acters which will appear. The stud-

ents will also present many novel

dances, among them “The Dance of

the Elements,” “Order Out of Chaos,”

and “The Dance of the Fruits.”



l' The pageant queen, who is to repre—

sent Michigan, has been chosen by a

popular vote ‘of the co—eds, while

“Uncle Sam” was chosen in a like man-

ner by the men students. Their iden-

tity will not be revealed by the com-

mittee until the first presentation of

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MICHIGAN HAS OLDEST ALFALFA

. , FIELD.





 





T is generally thought that alfalfa



is a comparatively new crop in this

country, but right here in Michigan is

a. field that has been in alfalfa for fifty—

one years. . In the early sixties P. J.

Schau emigrated to this country, bring-

ing with him a large family. He set-

tled on a homestead just north of Kal—

amazoo, and for several years he pros-

pered there. In 1870 he went back to

Germany for a quantity of what is now

known as alfalfa seed. This he sowed

in a field that was very rich in lime,

although in those days lime did not’

mean as much to a farmer as it does

now and undoubtedly it was an acci-

dent that he struck that particular

field.



Since .then the field of alfalfa has

been mowed from two to four times

each year, with the exception of two

different years when it was reseeded.

Andrew Schau, grandson and present

owner of the old Schau homestead be-

lieves this to be the oldest alfalfa field

in this state, if not in the. country.

The field is being plowed up again for

reseeding, and with great difficulty due

to the tough, long, interwoven roots.

This should put to rout the often ad-

vanced theory that alfalfa will wear

itself out in a few years if not plowed

up and put to some other crop.



PAUL H. RUESS.





 





ROBUST SEED BEANS RECOM-





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USE of certified Robust seed beans

for planting is recommended to

farmers of the state by the Michigan

Crop Improvement Association. The

Robust bean was originated by Prof.

F. A. Spragg, of M. A. C., and in tests

_it is said to have shown itself to be

disease~resistlng and a heavy produc-

er. 'Many failures with the bean crop

imay'flbe directly traced to the 'use‘of

inferior-”seed; 'acCording to Secretary

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names—McCormick, (Deering





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Riverside Cords





 





 





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6,00

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Shipping Weight,13 Pounds





Sent by parcel post within 1 50 miles of any of our

five houses for 17c postage; within 300 miles for

30¢ postage; within 600 usiies for 55c postage.





 





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Sentby pared post within 150 miles of anyof our

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—guaranteed by us to be





Each tire has our trade-marked name—“Riverside.”





RlVERSlDE TIRES are NOT Seconds. They are clean, factory firsts of the highest quality





made as good as tires can be made.





And the name “Riverside” stamped





on a tire Is as good as the name “ Montgomery Ward & Co.” written on a check.





An Absolute Guarantee

By Montgomery Ward & Co.





We do not believe there is any firm from whom

you buy tires that has an equally old, time—tried

Guarantee of “Satisfaction or Your Money Back."



For over forty-nine years, Ward’s has sold every-

thing on a Guarantee basis. Millions of customers in

that forty—nine years have bought hundreds of millions

of do’llars’worth of merchandise under that Guarantee.



So, no thinking person can have any doubt, any

hesitancy ordering a Ward’s Riverside Tire—with

the full knowledge that our forty—nine-year—old repu-

tation will be lived up to absolutely.





We guarantee Ward’s Riverside Fabric

Tires for 6,000 us... We mean exactly that.

We guarantee Ward’s Riverside Cord Tires

for 10,000 macs. We mean exactly that.





There can be no risk whatsoever in your ordering

We know

that the prices we quote are very low. But the

saving we otter ‘18 a real saving on the finest .grade

of clean factory firsts.





Save One-Third on YOUR Tires, TOO!





Read what we say here about prices: “The Plain

Truth about these Low Prices” —and then send your





\order now.





With an absolute guarantee, backed by a house of

unquestioned reliability—Why not at least try Ward’ 5

Riverside Tires? Why not save one-third on YOUR

tires, {001





The Plain Truth

about these Low Prices





First let us say that we believe you will never

again buy tires at such low prices—unless there

is some great discovery of a new way of making tires.





Just consider that before the war, rubber was 60

cents per pound and formerly it was $1. 10 per pound.

During the war, rubber actually went down to 50

cents per pound.





Last spring the tire business was demoralized.

Rubber went to 18 Cents per pound. Cotton broke

from 40 cents per pound to 12 cents. It is said that

40,000 people moved away from Akron—the great

tire making city.



And there, with everythmg at tie tow mark,

was the opportunity we are always looking for,

wIth cash at hand, to cecure a saving for our

customers.



With some great change In making tires— some discovery

-—you may some time in the years to come buy tires cheaper

But otherwise, Ward 5 prices in this Summer Stile will be the

lowest prices at which you ever bOuglIt standard, high grade

guaranteed factory firsts.





. Do You Own a

Buick, Packard, Cadillac, orr Hudson?





We quote here our great Mid—Summer Sale Price on

a 30 x :53 tire for Overhnds, Fords, Maxwells, Dork.

Chevroletc, etc.



But you who own hicks. [Melanie and other can.

write for the book below, our July «Muguct Sale Book.

It otferc you a saving of one-third on all sizes of Fabric

Tires-and on Ward’s Riverside Cord Tires—guaranteed

for 10,000 Miles.





MONT GOMERY’ WARD & CO.





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Dale was on his way to the new sid-

ing the following morning, when he

met Henderson Golf. Again Dale was

forcibly reminded of stories he had

heard and read of Mississippi River

steamboat gamblers of the long'ago.

Goff stepped but of the trail, smiled

and spoke with apparent good humor.

Dale passed him without a word.



Then the shyster coal man called

out, “Ready to sell yet?”



The Moreland Coal Company's gen-

eral manager halted and faced about

with. a puckering of his brows.



“For a fair price, yes.”



“Just what would you call a fair

price?"



“Oh, somewhere between two and

three hundred thousand,” promptly.



Goff sniffed, and the corners of his

mouth came down.



“You don't want much.

get it from me!"



“I don’t want it from you.”



Dale turned and went on. He was

sorry .that he had stopped .to talk with

the fellow.



That afternoon he again met Goff. in

the trail. The bare sight of the. shy-

ster made him very angry now, and

his right hand fell upon the butt of

the big revolver on his hip. Goff w‘as

about to sidestep in the laurels, when

Dale caught him roughly by the arm.



“See here,” he said sharply, “you’ve

about cut your little swath. VVe’ve had»

enough of you. You can’t get this coal

at any price, and the sooner you get

yourself out of this country the better

and safer it will be for you. To be

plain, I’m pretty apt to thrash you the

very next time I see you. Now move

on!”



Goff went off laughing wickedly. “Oh,

all right, Dale; go ahead and build the

little road for me!” he said.



Late that night every sleeper in the

valley of the Doe was awakened by a

great, rumbling explosion, which was

followed almost immediately by anoth-

er great, rumbling explosion. Before

the reverberations had died away, Bill

Dale had dressed himself and was

standing on the vine-hung front, porch,

and he was only a tow seconds ahead

of John Moreland.



Then there came the tearng sound

of a heavy explosion miles to the east-

ward.



“Do ye know what it is?” inquired

the mountaineer.



“They’ve stolen our dynamite from

the tobacco-barn, and blown up the

office and supplies building and the

eommissary building; also they’ve

blown up the big trestle near the sid-

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of the two big, unfinished frame build-

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of David Moreland’s Mountain. Dale

blamed himself much for having left

the dynamite unguarded in the tobac-

co—barn but nobody else blamed him

for it.



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no shot unless it was in defence of

life or property. In the morning every

available wagon in the valley was to

be sent to the little Sawmill that was

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Cartersville for the sheriff. Tell him

he can get the best posse in the world

right here, if he needs one. It’s the

proper thing. isn’t it, major?”



“Yes,” said Major Bradley, “it's the

proper thing. You‘ve got a real griev-

ance now. But I fancy Goff had noth-

ing to do with this; he is shrewd

enough to know that a thing like this

would cook his goose. Goff has been

playing a bluff game all along, you

know. Seine Balls or some Torreys,

perhaps a mixture of both, have done

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about it beforehand, I’m pretty sure.

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The major finished in a low tone, be-

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pers, and in this he was wise.



“We’ll do that,” Dale decided.



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and began to give orders like a veter-





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if you don’t gain anything.”



By Heck and his rifle disappeared in

the darkness of the mountain night.



A little after work-time that day, Bill

Dale started alone on the way of the

narrow-gauge railroad for the siding.

He wished to see for himself just what

the damage had been to the trestle,

and he hoped to meet Goff, or Ball, or

a Torrey, and learn something that

would be to his advantage.



Before he had covered two miles, he

had seen two of the enemy skulking

through the woods, and he recognized

them for Torreys from Jerusalem Cove

and Hatton’s Hell; he knew it by their

very swarthy ‘skin, their high. cheek-

bones and their coarse black hair, the

outcroppings of the Cherokee Indian

blood in them. They looked cunning

and wicked. Dale loosened in its hol-

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At a point near where the little

stream that flowed past the Halfway

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'some thirty yards ahead of him; quite





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meant to waylay him, and he, too, step~

ped behind a tree, a big hemlock.



A silent minute went by. Then Dale

put his hat out on one side of the tree

and peeped from the other side; it was

an old trick'that Grandpap Moreland

had told him about. A rifle cracked

promptly and sharply, and a bullethole

appeared in the rim of his hat!



Following it, there came the coarse,

bass voice of Black Adam Ball, the

mountaineer Goliath:



“You can’t fool me. I jest shot to

put‘a hole in yore new hat and to

show ye ’at I ain’t no bad shot. You

cain’t hit my hat!”



Dale’s temper, thé temper that had

always been so hard to keep under

control, rose quickly. He tried to rea-

son with himself, and couldn’t; his

passion mastered him. He snatched

the big revolver from its holster'and

cooked it. With as steady a hand as

ever held a weapon trained, he began

to take aim at Ball’s slouch hat, the





half of which was in plain View at one '





side of the scrubby oak.



“I fooled you once, back there in the

middle of the river,” he cried hotly,

“and now I’m going to fool you again!"



There was in his voice that old, old

primitive rage, which frightened him,

and puzzled him too, in his better

moments.



He let down the bead until it was

barely visible in the notch, and eased

off the trigger. The revolver roared

and spat forth a tiny tongue of flame

and a little cloud of white smoke..Ball

sprang erect, wheeled, and fell crash-

ing to the leaves!





Dale dropped his weapon. He went





as white as death, and his two hands.





clutched uncertainly at his throat. He

was a murderer! No, he wasn’t—his

bullet had gone wild; it had struck

Ball’s head on the other side of the

tree, by accident. But how could he

prove that it had been an accident?

W’duld any jury believe him? It was

far from probable.



He stepped from behind the hemlock

and went toward the writhing Goliath,

whose legs only were visible new.



Then a third shot rang out on the

morning stillness. It had been fired

from a point some little distance away,

and Dale’s condition of mind at the

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stone. The giant hillman was dead.





Bill Date knelt there beside Black

Adam. Again he clutched at his throat

with his two shaking hands, and this

time before his blue flannel shirt. All

the agony and all the remorse in the,

universe seemed to be gathering there

in his heart. Never before had he seen

death. It’s grim presence terrified him.

That the deplorable thing had been an

accident, due to his faulty marksman-

ship, mattered little. He had killed a

man, and the blood-red brand of Cain.

was burning away on his brow; he.

was a man in a hell of his own making;

And kneeling there Bill Dale sobbed a'

great sob .that shock his broad shoul!~

ders as a violent ague would have

shaken them.



He tried to look at the blue—edged

hole in the shaggy head; at the cruel,

brutish face that was of the colorless.

hue of soapstone. Merciful tears blind-

ed him, and he couldn’t see. It was a3

compensation, a pitifully beautiful com-l

pensation. 1



Five minutes" passed, five minutes

that were as five years to this maul

who had never been in the presence oil

death before. Then he realized thati

he was being surrounded by kinsmen

of the dead mountaineer. He looked

up into their ashen, angry faces, and

they cursed him. Big and gripping

brown hands were placed upon him;

several rifles were turned upon him.

He arose and spread out his arms, and

offered his breast to the frowning muz-

zles. They.oould give him, at leasm

oblivion. ‘



“Shoot, if you like.” he said bitterly.

“It was an accident, y’know, chut—

shoot, if you like.”



“No,” commanded Adam Ball’s fath-

er, a slender and angular old .man with

a straggling iron-grey beard—~“No,

don’t shoot. Shootin’s too quick, by

gonnies. And ’en, it ain’t accordin’ to

law.” (Queer how suddenly he respect-

ed the majesty of the law). “We’d a

durned sight ruther «see him hung by

the neck ontel .daid in the jailyard at

Cai‘tersville. Ye‘uns put down them

thar guns. Put down all 0’ them thar

guns right now; hear me ‘3”



He turned back to Dale. "‘Ye say it

was a accident?” he sneered.



“Yes, it was an accident.”



“Like the old devil!” roared Black

Adam’s father.



He stooped and picked up his son’s

black slouch hat and examined it.

There were two bullet holes close to-

gether in the him—and one of them

had "been there for a long time.



“John Morela-nd’ he’s been a’larnin’



ya .how to shoot,” he said, “and you’ve

shore Famed purty well. It must ha’

been yore third shot ’at got Adam.”

' “I fined only once,” disagreed Dale.

“Yom' son fired first; I fired second

and somebody else, I haven’t the

slightest idea who, fired the other

shot? '



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mi ” growled old Ball.

kins-men. ,

. “‘We’dil head Dole right Sher-e, boy-s,

ontel the mum he’s sent Miter comes;

And we’ll not move Adam, which some

is accordin’ to law. I reckon Shurift

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once in a while. Every merchant

does so, the government takes stock

of its population every ten years, and

the church goes over its membership

regularly, to 'see whether it is a grow-





IT is not a bad idea to take stock





,ing institution. It is Well for the indi-





vidual to do the same.‘ Am I today a

better man, a more useful person, a

more valuable person to the commu-

nity than I was five years ago? I have

more bonds than I had then, and my

farm is pretty nearly paid for; more-

over, I have a herd of pure-bred cattle

well started, and two silos have been

put up. That is splendid. Happy the

man who is getting ahead in his busi-

ness by hard and honest strokes. But,

also—~am I richer toward God? Am I

worth more today in the things you

cannot see, but which endure forever,

and when perhaps an unborn genera-

tion is carrying off pieces of my tile

silos as curious souvenirs?



Hence it is well to survey the na—

tion’s moral assets, and ask where it

stands in the great Christian virtues.

Put it down in red ink that there are

people not a few who hope for the'day

when there shall not be a vestige of

anything called Christian in America,

and they are doing all in their power

to hurry that day along. There is an-

other group equally determined, that

America shall be a nation really and

not nominally a godly nation. Where

do we stand now? It is not an easy

question to answer. It is myriad-sided,

and after you have looked at one side

for a while you forget how the other

side looked. But it is a question that

is being written about more and more.

In the words-of a saint of long ago,

we ask, “Is the Lord among us ?"





HIRTY years‘ ago, Justice Brewer,



of the United States Supreme

Court, rendered the decision of that

court that this is a Christian nation.

Here is part of the court’s decision:

“If we pass beyond these matters to

a view of American life as expressed

by its business, its customs and its

society, we find everywhere a clear

recognition of the same truth. Among

these are the following: The form of

oath universally prevailing, concluding





. with an appeal to the Almighty; the





custom of opening sessions of all de-

liberative bodies with prayer; the pre-

fatory words of all wills, "In the name

of God, amen’; the laws respecting the





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observance of the Sabbath, with a 89,111





eral cessation of all secular business,

and the closing of courts, legislatures

and other similar public assemblies on

that day; the churches and church or—

ganizations which abound in every city,

town and hamlet; the multitude of

charitable organizations existing un-

der church auspices everywhere; the

gigantic missionary associations with

general support in every quarter of

the globe. These and many other mat-

ters which may be noticed add a vol-

ume of unofficial declarations to the

mass of organic utterances that this is

a Christian nation.”



Much water has flowed under the

bridge since 1891. The term “Chris-

tian” means more now than it did

then. There are enemies now that

Were unknown then, and there are

powerful friends who were not active

at that time. It may be put this way:

This is not a Christian nation, which

is the answer otwmany premillennial-

ists, who expect the world to grow

worse and worse until the final crash.

A large class of society who make

pleasure their God, or who promote

commercialized evils of-various sorts,“





, hope that Christianity will never make





headway. And there ' is a third “class





 

 

 





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nation, but it is becoming one. It has

not yet arrived. It is arriving. 'The

fully Christian nation does .not exist.

It is yet to be. It is a. problem in pro.

gress. As the poet puts it: “Progress,

man’s distinctive mark alone. Not

God’s, and not the beasts’; God is, they

are, man partly is and wholly hopes

to be.”





The fact is, Christian progress not



only has to be contented with the

present, but with the past. We inherit

much that is not good. Pagan ideals

cling to us. The love at military pow-

er we inherit from the Romans and

the Teutons. The love of pleasure we

receive from the Greeks. Neither pow-

;er nor pleasure are Christian ideals.

We spend more money for pleasure

than for education or anything else.

We spend more money for war than

for peace. Out of every dollar, ninety-

three cents for war, seven cents for

peace! 'We teach our children and

youth that success is the chief good in

life, but Christ taught that service

was the chief good. When we com~

pare the ideals of the'age with those

of the New Testament it is easy to see

where we fail.



Certain institutions have been much

more fully Christianized than others.

In other words, we are Christian in

spots. The American family is one of

these, and the teaching profession, the

ministry, the medical profession, nurs-

ing and social Service work are others.

The idea of money—making does not

enter into these professions as. it does

in some othen lines of work. Many

doctors, of course, do make large in-

comes. Yet the motive that leads a

young man into medicine is not usu-

ally that of money, as I have been

informed. The element of sacrifice, of

service, of giving thousands of treat-

ments free to those who are poor, all

entersinto the program of the physi-

cian. And no one but a fool would en-

ter into teaching or preaching with the

notion of making large money returns.

IdealiSm, service, enters into these

professions. In other words, they have

a large degree of the Christian in

them. And the more there is; the more

efficient will be the teaching in the

schools, the more powerful will be the

influence of the Churches.





N the other hand, three vast areas



of modern life have been touched

in much smaller degree by Christian

idealism. These are, business, poli—

tics, and international relations. In

other words, when a man goes into

business does he do so with the idea

of sacrifice, or with the idea of.

making money? When he enters poli-

tics does he do it with the idea of toil-

ing and being spent in service for his

fellows? Now and then one does, no

doubt. But he is the exception that

proves the rule. It is difficult to con-

sider business without considering pol-

itics,'or of studying politics without

including business. Lincoln Steffens,

who made a long and exhaustive study

of the corruption of politics in large

cities says that almost invariably bus-

iness interests were at the bottom of

political corruption. Politics were bad

because there was money in it." Big

business has a way of getting around

the law. There is a large element of

lawlessness about it. It often defies

the laws that are created to regulate

it. And in defying the laws of men, it

usually is defying the laws of God. To

a large extent big business is not

Christian; , ' . . ‘ ‘

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backer. Be durned of I don’t. Adam’s

death, it has made me feel sort 0' bad,

by gonnies, and tobacker’s allus a con-

solation— "



“Bill Dale, you hain’t got a chaw o’

tobacker on ye, have ye—bought to~

backer, store tobacker? It’s a durned

sight better’n home-made, I says. Ye

say ye don’t chew? Chew! Whyn’t ye

say ‘chaw,’ like a man! I allus knowed

ye wasn’t no ’cbunt, no how. Nobody

’at don“t chaw tobacker ain’t no count.

All right. Jim Ike,” to his nephew, “I’ll

take a chaw‘ o’ yores, then. And I’ll

take a tol’ably big chaw, Jim Ike,

'cause Adam‘s deathhas made me feel

sort 0’ bad, and tobacker’s allus a con-

solation.”



The sounds of the shooting had car-

ried far, and it wasn’t long until the

scene of the tragedy was crowded with

Balls and Torreys, Littlefords and

Morelands. Major Bradley and Hayes,

too, were there. Every man of them

was armed; a very little thing mighti

easily turn the place into a shamblesfll

The major saw this, and he was afraid:





He drew the leaders of the Morelands:





 





and the Littlefords aside, and finally; . :

prevailed upon them to do their utmost ,





toward keeping peace until the coming:

of the sheriff. i



At first John Moreland and Ben Lit-l;

tlet‘ord were for taking Bill Dale from:

the Balls and Torreys who guarded





him, if they had to depopulate the_





whole Ballvsettlement, Jerusalem Cove

and Hatton’s Hell to accomplish it!,





Happily, the major’s counsel prevailed? -





Sheriff Tom Flowers was a tall and

lithe, smooth-faced man. He arrived

with Luke Moreland at noon, after

hours of hard riding. He saw the high

tension, and immediately steeled him?

self to handle the situation. After rid-





ing straight'to the center of the gath‘, ‘

eriztg and there halting his horse, lief





said evenly:



“In order that I may know who toi

arrest, I must know something of the!

circumstances. Only one man must?

speak at a time. Nd playing bad withE

me; and remember that, gentlemen.



. I’ll certainly drop the fellow who starts

playing hoss with me, if it's the last

move I make on earth. Now somebody



' gently use his powers of speech.”





Major Bradley, more soldierlike than

ever, went forward. He hadn’t the op-

portunity of speaking privately with



.Dale, and he feared that Dale would1





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say something damaging to his inter-g ,





ests. ,



“As the attorney of Mr. Dale, who

stands accused of killing Adam Ball,"

he said to the officer, “I beg leave to

state that my client will do no talking

at present."



Dale under's'tood, and he did not open

his mouth.



But old Ball had something to say,

and he proceeded to say it: ‘



“He killed my son, Adam," pointing

to Dale, “in cold blood. Me and about

a dozen o’ my kin was on our way over

to Long Ridge to look at a bee tree,

when we heered three pistol shots. We

was right up thar,” pointing to the

northward, “and we come a-runnin’ ov-

er here to see, by gonnies, what was

the matter. Well, by gonnies, we feund

Bill Dale that down on his knees aside

9' my son, Adam, who was dead; and

Bill Dale was a—sobbin’ about it. And

of he never killed my son Adam, what

was he a-sobbin' and a-sobbin’ about, I



' air you that? And my son Adam, he

had a rifle,'by gonnies, but he never

shot none at all. He was with us up

to a few minutes before, and he hadn’t

shot none all niornin’. Shuritf Flowers,

.1 wish} ye'd gijme a good, big chaw

o’ tobacker', ‘by gonnies, ’cause my son

_’ his death it. has made me feel





 





 





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fully sustained this Act of Congress.

to loan to farmers. Help the cntir

money into this safe, tax—free investment.





Buy Federal Farm Loan Bonds ;

Denominations: $100, $500, $1000 and $5000 .





 





Federal Farm Loan Bonds are safe. They are

secured by first mortgages on productive farms,

the kind of assets with which you are already

familiar. And in addition, they are guaranteed

by all of the 12 Federal Land Banks with a com—

bined capital of over $24,000,000.





Federal Farm Loan Bonds are tax—free. The

principal is exempt; likewise the income from it.

Federal Farm Loan Bonds yield 5 %—-a better net

income than from most farms rented to tenants.

Federal Farm Loan Bonds are staple. They

bring a steady, dependable income twice a year;

they are quickly convertible into cash; and

they are A’l security for bank loans to farmers,





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merchants, millcrs, livestock buyers and others.





Farmers who buy Federal Farm Loan Bonds

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capital with which to own his own farm. Farm :53

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Bonds are on their way to farm ownership. ' The 13.1.





farm band who purchases Federal Farm Loan

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agent or secretary of your local national farm loan





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Lemon X I V —-— W lzy Records are Necerrmy

' By R. G. Kirby





HE account book is necessary in



keeping poultry as there is



much satisfaction in knowing if

the birds are managed at a profit or a

loss. And if there is a loss the record

book soon tells the story and the trou-

ble can be located.



A small ten-cent note book is sufli‘

cient to keep the records of a small

flock. One column can be devoted to

expenses and the other to receipts. At

the end of each month a. little addition

or subtraction and a comparison with





The growing of poultry for meat and

eggs is a business. The farm boy is

not expected to produce eggs for his

city cousin at a loss. Nothing but the

record can tell an accurate story.

Without an account book the profits

will either be overestimated or the

hens will not receive proper credit for

what they earn. The receipts come in

a few dollars at a time and the feed

money goes in varying amounts. It is

impossible to be a success with poul-

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”A Word [‘0 Parents of Clad/116172567":

From R. A. Turner, State Club Leader





ATHERS and mothers, we are looking to you as” one of the

biggest factors in this big group of club boys and girls in.





Michigan, which numbers around 23,000 this year.





We are





looking to you as those who can do or undo the making of an





efficient piece of work in the Boys’ and Girls’ Club work.





It is





you who say whether or not the boys and girls may enroll. it

is you who give them permission to attend the monthly meet-





ings for instruction.





It is you who say whether they shall pre—





pare their seed-beds well or whether they shall use pure-bred

stock or standard-bred poultry, whether they shall care for their

acres of corn, their gardens, their stock and their poultry, ac-

cording to instructions, whether they shall keep correct records





of their work, attend club rallies,

In short, fathers and mothers, it is you who





judging contests.





short courses, or engage in





say whether. or not the boys and girls shall be good club mem-

bers who stick to the end and finish the job.



We are looking to you because we know that you believe in

your own boys and girls and that you are going to see to it

that they take advantage of every opportunity for fitting them-

selves for the duties that lie before them. Club work will help

fit them for these duties because it is built upon a sound basis

and around the one great fundamental industry of this country.

Club work is assuming a, larger place each day in Michigan’s





program for educating boys and girls who live on the farm. we

want to make it more efficient each. year, and to do that we





must have your hearty support.





 





 





feed and stock on hand will prove

whether the month has proven profit~

able or not. With the small flock it is

not necessary to make a special charge

for labor if the work is done as a side-

line for pleasure. The profits made

can be called the wages for feeding

and caring for the poultry.



On a farm the boys’ and girls’ poul-

try flocks will pick up considerable

food on the range that will not need to

be recorded. But all grain used for

the .hens should be placed in separate

bins so that the amount of feed used

can be charged correctly. Usually the

record will simply consist of feed bills

on one side and poultry and egg re-

ceipts in the other column. There need

be nothing complicated about the ac-

counts. It is Just necessary to be care—

ful and enter up sales the same day

they occur.

when it gets to be a habit. It is rather

a pleasure when it is done regularly

so that the accounts are accurate and

have a real value.



If you wish to trapnest that will

make a very interesting record but a

boy in school cannot give trapnests

the proper attention. So it is best to

just keep a record of the total number

of eggs produced and then the yearly

averages for the flock can be deter-

mined. This egg record will tell if the

hens have been laying as well as pref—

itable hens should. lay. If their rec-

ords are too poor it will be necessary





’ to cull more rigidly the next year and. .

pesisibly buy new blood from a bred—

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Keeping a record is easy _





ing. So keep careful accounts and

watch the business grow. _



No special date is necessary for be-

ginning to keep accounts if you are

already in the business. The main

thing is to start.

“ACHIEVEMENT DAY” OBSERVED



BY JUVENILE CLUBS.

EMBERS of Saginaw county’s

twenty—six boys’ and girls’ clubs



gathered at the Saginaw Manual Train-

ing School on Saturday, April 23, to





celébrate "AchieVement Day," an ‘ an- ’





nual event that closes the winter work

of handicraft, garment-making and hot

lunch clubs. The day’s , fun began at





ten o’clock in the morning with roll—





call, each club answering by songs,

yells or stunts. The remainder of the

morning was spent at games and con-

tests, under direction of “Irish” Ram-

sey, athletic director of the west side

schools. A cafeteria

served at noon from the school kitchen.





The 'afternoon program‘of entertain-

ment consisted of recitations by Billy

Beier, of Hemlock, and Donelda Rein-

hart, also of Hemlock; a song by Zil-

waukee club girls; a playlet, “Sewing

Circle,” by Frankenmuth club girls; a

duet by members of Orville hot lunch

club; an address, "Achieve cut,” by

Miss Lydia Reithmeier, of Franken-

muth; an address by Miss Elba Robb,

assistant state club leader; a playlet

by the boys and girls of Freeland, and

club songs.





A SUCCESSFUL PLAN TO KEEP

YOUNG FOLKS INTERESTED.





 





HE question of keeping the boys

and girls interested in the farm

is an important one, and I believe it

rests with the parents to a great ex-

tent as to whether or not our boys and

girls become interested enough with

life on the farm to take away the de-

sire to leave it for the city.

Perhaps the method used by the

writer would be of interest to some,

for it has worked out well for us.





Three years ago I said to one of my.

“Cora, I will give you your.

pick of one of our registered Jersey"





daughters,





heifer calves. I will give you the calf

with the understanding that when this

calf grows up and has a calf, that calf

is to be yours, and when you sell it

-you are to give me $100 for its moth-

er; the rest will be yours. I will have





g the cream the cow produces to pay for





her keep, but you are to have all the

increase in value except the $100 to

pay for the calf.”



When her heifer freshened last No-

vember she was placed on test for the

register of merit and will produce over

five hundred pounds of; butter as a

two-year-old heifer.



Her bull calf was sold this fall for

$300, which gave Cora $200 clean mon-

ey, after paying $100 for his mother.



Later I gave one to another one of

my daughters, also one to my son, the

same bargain was made as with the





first. The interest. these children take

in Jerseys, is gratifying to me. They

have something to think about. They





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amtrue‘ Jersey scouts.



This plan will work out with any

line of stock, only so the children get

what they are promised. I believe that

making your son 0r daughter owner of

something good and helping them get

results in dollars and cents, will go a

very long way indeed in keeping them





contented on the farm, and ultimately





make them live wires for better farm-

ing—ALVIN BALDEN.





 





GO A'FTER THIS PRIZE.





ERE is a chance to win a real



. ,prize and we' would like to see

some Michigan boy or girl get it. It's

a college education with all necessary

expenses paid, which will be won by

the boy or girl of high school grade

who can write the best essay of five

hundred words on the subject of “Good

Roads‘and Highway Transport."



The contest is being conducted by

the Highway and Highway Transport

Education Committee, Willard Bldg.,

Washington, D. C. All essays should

be sent to that address before June 15.

The prize is the gift of Mr. Harvey S.

Firestone, of Akron, Ohio.



There are two interesting features

of this contest. One is the brevity de-

manded of the essays, which means

short, crisp, and to—the-point writing.

There will be no room for flowery

words.



The other is the short time allowed

to write the essays. There will be no

chance to wait for inspiration, but it

will mean getting down to hard facts

as soon as possible.



In our May 7 issue we printed a

short news item of the reception Pres-

ident Harding gave a pretty seventeen-

year-old girl from Idaho. He handed

her the prize for winning last year’s

contest.



Some Michigan boy or girl should

be handed the prize this year, as our

boys and girls ought to know a lot

about good roads and the use of autos.

And we knoyv that Michigan boys and

girls can write.



Let’s all put on our thinking caps

and get busy with the pen.





 





MANY FARM BOYS TO BE STATE

FAIR GUESTS.





 





VANGE'LINE G. TEFFT, county



school commissioner of Saginaw

county, has been informed by G. W.

Dickinson, secretary-treasurer, that the

State Fair this year will conduct its

boys’ state fair school upon a larger

scale than ever before.



Competitive examinations will be

held in every county of the state and

the boys who show the greatest pro-

ficiency in agricultural studies will be

given a trip to the fair at Detroit, at

the expense of the fair association. At

the fair they will be given instruction

by the state’s foremost agricultural ex-

perts on the best and most modern

methods of . agriculture. Entertainment

also,will be provided for the boys.



The rules under which the free trip

may be won specify that candidates

must be between the ages of fourteen

and eighteen years, September 1, 1921.

They must write both in the regular

eighth-grade examination and the spe~

cial fair examination. The winner will

be selected by the county school com-

missioner, board of examiners, or a.

special committee. An alternate from

each county also will be selected—M.





 





SHALL l BORROW TO LEARN?





A young man who Was going in debt

for his education, gave the following

reason fer doing so: “By the time I

finish I’ shall be in debt $800. To have

waitedwuntil Learned this amount be-

fore going to school would have de-.

layed me several years. Lean pay it

back in half the time after 'I am

through college because of increased

, gamingpower.‘ l. therefore, consider





 

 





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AND ready for any test—ten hours,

fifteen; twenty-four if need be.



It’s a steady pull that county-the

ability to handle the work day after

day through your heaviest rush season

and when you need it most.



This is the thing that makes a

tractor profitable. ‘



There’s one important requirement

—-proper lubrication with the right

oil.



Texaco TRACT OIL is made for





tractors.





a different type of lubricant. N



Use Texaco TRACTOIL.

Use it right. ,



Also use Texaco Thuban Compound

in the gear cases —-—Texaco Crater

Compound for exposed gears-‘- and

grease with Texaco Grease and you

have the lubrication combination that

makes for real tractor performance.





Ask your dealer for TexacoTRACT-

OIL— and the grade you need, “B".

“C” or “D”. It is supplied in 33- or

SS-gallon steel drums, in wooden bar-

rels, or half barrels, or in S-gallon





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TEXA CO

Motor Oil





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'bulls at $100.00.





 





saw otherness”, in manic: L





It has the right body. The body

which is different from a motor oil,

because the work a tractor does at

full speed and constant load demands





sealed cans.





purpose on the farm.





THE TEXAS COMPANY





Petroleum and it: Product:





General Offices: Houston, Texas





 





Officesin Principal Cities





There’s aTexaco lubricant for every





The uniform oil that keeps

your motor active. It is a

fine, lasting oil that com-

pletelyrctains its lubricating

properties despite engine

heat. It so el‘fcctlv seals

theclearance tween piston

and cylinder, that no gaso-

line can leak into the crank

case. Thus full compression

is secured. and every last

ounce of power used that

the gas has to give. Be cer—

tain to get the can with the

red Star and green T.





 





 





 





 





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BREBDERS’ nmrcrokr





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Davs before date of publication





 





Woodcote Angus





Trojan-Erica and Blackbirds (Blackcaps)

Herd Bulls

Imp. Elr-lio of Harviestoun.

Imp. Edgardo of Dalmeny

Write for 1921 Sale List.





Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Mir-h.





   

   

 





 





Guernsey bulls. grandsons of BCari-ie of Hillhursa

3rd A. A. Class Leader. and out of cows on test.

Also a2 yr. old out of a 3% yr. old with a 500 lb. record.

Priced to sell. Federal tested. Satisfaction guaran-

teed. ‘. “'. and ll. Gr. RAY. Albion, hilch.





Res. Guernsey hulls for sale cheap. State '1‘ B. test-

6 and from good producing and A. R.cows. Ago 1

folk! mo. Linwood. Mich.





“0' t in Frlesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

s 8' registered and high-grade. Price $20 up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. rite us your ro-

quiremente. Browncroft Farms, McGraw, N. Y





Blythefield Farms





Settle your Herd Sire problem now by getting a

thirty pound record pure bred Holstein bull calf





from Blythetield Farms. Address

JOSEPH H. BREWER. Grand Rapids, Mich





C. E. Lambert do Sons.





 





CLOVERLY ANGUS





Cows and Heifers Bred t0

Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd

For Sale

GEO. HATHAWAY dc SON, Ovid. Mich.

EGISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers. six

bulls from eight to fourteen months. Best of

breeding. the growthy kind that make good. Reason-

able. Inquire F. J. WILBER, Clio. Mich





Reg. Aberdeen Angus

bulls and heifers of the very best of breedin . from

12 to 15 months of age. For next 30 days wil price



Real bar sins. Inspection invited.

RUSSELL ROS., Merrill, Mich.





REGISTERED Guemseys. Bull calf ready for light

servxce~out of our old Foundation Cow—Primrose

Bessie-mud one of the best May Rose Bulls in the

state.8100 buys him. Never had a reactor—no abortion.

Herd Fed. Tested. J.M. Williams. No. Adams. Mich.





GUERNSEYS





Bull calves for sale. Sirod by Anton's May K us that

sold for . . Farmers rlces and uaranteed to

please. GILMORE BR TE EBB. amden, Mich





G U E R N 5 EV S ESEEI%£¥,%%3

Contain! blood of We rld champions.

rucxs' ouaknndhvrmm. Snzlnnw. w.s. Mich.





 





 





 





I of Ms Rose Breed!

Gmm‘ey BUIIS Their dams have recoi‘| s

to 050 lbs. tat also a few cows and heifers are

cred. H. W. Wigman. Lansing. Mich.





$°1§ilti~m3h ease: “tn-”:3 w°°"°

' v s. ,

:2 n. A. amen, ,. Howardp'Cityrulob.





 

 





 





 





Winanod Hem





Registered





Holstein-Friesian Battle





We breed them to sell. If you

are looking for seed stock, we

have it.





John H. Winn, [Ina]





Rochester, Mich.





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ “and "Ole inter-ed Holstein bull calves. Quality

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

one. D. o‘LABKE. . . - . - Vassar. Mich.





 





 





or sale. Priced reasonable. Satisfaction guaran-





Re tered Holsteins-nbulls. heifers or cows always

teed B. Reavey. Akron, Mic-h.





. Write or come.



(2 yr. oldslof Ma lecrest Kern. Hens



35““5) BIS bred to 32 lb. sonpof King Korn.Sadie

V e. T. . tasted. good size. good lndivi uals. Terms

3150 ayear. M. L. McLaulin. Redford. Mich.





‘, for ale at all times either

R98. HOlStelns/cex. aBulls or heifer-8.914009

reasonable. W11 9 or come and see 1211





 





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llSE PllllE-BRED SlRESl





Estimates furnished by the Dairy Division of the

United States Department of Agriculture Show

that the dairy cows of the country average only

4.500 lbs. of milk per year.





A good Holstein bull will increase the production

of the ordinary herd 0 per cent in the first gener«

ation.





Let us help you find a good one to use on your

herd. You cannot make .1. better investment.





The Michigan Holstein-Frieda .

Association





ll. W. NORTON, lr.. Field Secrelary.

Old Slate Block, Lansing. Michigan





Our Consignment





of the Lansing Sale





May 23rd





consists of a 4 months old son of the State

Champion jr. 2 yr. old of Michigan for 1920.

A 19 lb. 3 yr. old daughter of a 31 lb.~cow.

Two daughters of “ Alcartra Pontiac Butter

Boy" whose daughters are making such splen-

did records.

Joh. Lyons.





 





SINDLINGER BROTHERS.





> Lake Odessa, Mich.





 





Here Is a Good One .V «_ A





Housman. 2;





Born June 2nd. by Maplecrest De Kol ‘

a sire having three sisters each having moor-doctor‘s;





pounds of butter in a year. Two of them tonne





 





world champions. calf's dam by an own brat-hon





Highland Hartog De Kol yearly record of M. .

pounds. This combination ofbroeding willgi ;

salts. HILLCREST FARM. Kaismmvm





 

 





 





   

 





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A heifer calf sired by Judge,





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a». «rumba xwLm. :





.yiafi. _‘ $13.1”,





”i
ture taught in the high schools



amount to anything? Ask M. O.

Chapman, owner of the Hi-Land Poul-

try Farm at Plainwell, Michigan, erst-

while traveling man fora big hard-

ware firm in Chicago. Five years ago

Mr. Chapman belonged to the Tired

Business Man class. Twenty years on

the road, with good meals in big town

hotels and poor, or indifferent meals

in small towns; irregular hours, early

rising and hurried dashes to trains, oc—

casional week-end visits home with

the wife and children, and all of the

time bang, hustle, noise. That was





. The grandest offiemr deed: are W 2% wbich m ..

perflmed witfiin fiur wall: and m dermal- pd'uacy.





 





—Jean Paul Richer





 





 





 





 





 





A Littcl lirin Poultry





DOES the “little dab” of agricul—





How One Family ’5 Hoééy Developed

Into a . Profitaé/e Burma‘s





tion. She would take care of them.

When the boy came back—mothers

never said if in those days, it was al-

ways. “When he Comes back,”—he

would need work and she would have

his poultry business waiting for him.

To be sure, she knew nothing about

the science of poultry raising, but one

can always learn. There are corres-

pondence courses and books. She sent

for reams of literature, including the





 





 





The Missouri-type House is the Favorite on the Hi-Land Farm.





life for Mr. Chapman. It wasn’t a very

Satisfactory life for any of the family,

and the longer it continued the more

the Chapmans, father and mother, be-

gan to long for a change.



A little more quiet, pure air, green

fields and open spaces, how they ap-

pealed to these city folks. Not the op-

en country, perhaps, but at least a

small town, with a. good high school.

There were three children to educate.

From wishing and talking the idea

grew into action, and five years ago

the plunge was made from the certain—

ties of life in a city house to the “un-

charted perils” of life in a new coun—

try. Seven acres on the edge of Plain-

well offered sufficient field for explora—

tion for three young folks, bred to city

pavements, and as things developed it

opened up a field of adventure for the

parents, which was not in the plans

when they moved.



It all began when the boy started to

study. agriculture in the high school.

Why study a subject if you don’t try

it out? He asked for permission to

try raising chickens ‘and started the

present business with fifteen Rhode

Island Reds. It was the boy’s busi-

ness, and the father and mother let

him work it out. They were interested

in the way all parents are interested





. in experiments of the children, but

‘ they had nothing to do with the chick-





en business.

. Then came the war and the boy fol»-

‘lowed the colors to France. What





5', should be done with his chickens?

I’LMrs.

us, had never touched one, and





Chapman, who was afraid of





, asn’t especially interested in the”

's aside from using the eggs they





,correspondence course,





 





and set to

work. If nothing ever did come of it,

it would fill her mind, and goodness

knows, mothers needed something to

keep them busy while the boys were

in France.



Right here Mrs. Chapman wants to

go on record that a woman can’t run

a big poultry business alone. She must

have help with good strong muscles.

If she hasn’t a partner in her husband

or a brother, she will have to hire, for

there is too much cleaning and lifting

of crates for a woman to do alone. But

Mrs. Chapman didn’t keep the birds

long alone. Back in his boyhood days

Mr. Chapman had been the proud own—

er and manager of a fair-sized flock

himself. He had always been interest—

ed in chickens, always read everything

he came across about the poultry bus-

iness. Now seemed to be the psycho—

logical moment to quit the road—that

dream of every traveling man after a

few years of it—and have his own

business.



There were the usual chortles of

mirth from business associates, the

witty allusions to “life with the cows

and chickens,” croakers who pointed





with alarm to the astonishing number.





who fail and the very, very few who

make good, snickers at correspondence

school farmers, and the amused toler-

ance of born-to-the—soil agriculturists

of the methods employed by book

farmers. However, the Chapmans'had

heard that old saw, “He laughs best

who laughs last," and they had a lot

of waitingpower. They believed in

the business, knew themselves, and

were not afraid of long hours, hard





 





three. After five years, during which

they have worked their flock up, they

do not say “watched it grow up,” from

fifteen birds to one thousand, while

the one house has expanded into four,

with colony houses and three brooding

pens, the owners of the Hi-Land Poul-

try Farm feel that. they can allow the

corners of their mouths to twitch a

little. They haven’t yet reached their

goal, so they are saving their big laugh

for that moment of triumph.



There were valious changes in the

birds kept, in fact, the changes are not

yet all over. The Rhode lsland Reds

were discarded early because of their

inclination. to broodiness. For a time

the flock consisted of White Leghoms

from a show strain, but these were

discarded for Barred Rocks because

these birds are heavy layers. Last

winter the flock consisted of from sev-

en hundred and fifty to eight hundred

Barred Rocks, but spring culling has

reduced it to five hundred.





The "Barred Rocks, however, are

doomed. There are fashions in eggs

as well as in clothes it seems, and just

now white eggs are the fashion in New

York and Detroit, the market for Hi-

Land Farm. So the Rocks are going



and White Leghoms are replacing

them. These will be pure— —breds of the

Wyckofi? strain.





Studying the market has been a not

inconsiderable factor in the success of

this business. When a visit was made

to the farm recently, the flock was be-





ing culled and non-layers shipped to





the Detroit market.





“Eggs are down and chicken is up,”

was the explanation. “Why feed birds

who have practically stopped laying,

when we can only get thirty cents a





 





 

 





 





 





 





ing is followed rigidly; The most prom-

ising looking pullets are put in a trap

nest house in October and kept till

April. Their records are then gone

over and those which have laid less

than fifteen eggs per month are sold.

while the others are put in the breed-

ing house. From one hundred and

seventy-five to two hundred eggs per

year is the standard for agood breeder.



Three styles of laying-houses are be-

ing tried out. The largest is the half-

Monitor type, a house sixty by twenty

feet, with a breeding pen at one end.

There is one house after the plans of

the Missouri State Agricultural Col-

lege, twenty—two by twenty-eight, and

two shed-roof houses, one fourteen by

twenty-eight and the other sixteen by

twenty-four. Of the three types Mr.

Chapman prefers the Missouri type.

This house will take care of one hun-

dred and fifty heavy hens or two hun-

dred Leghorns; the half-Monitor will

house three hundred heavy hens, or

fear hundred Leghorns, and the shed—

roof houses will take care of eighty-

five heavy birds or one hundred and

twenty-five Leghorns. This is another

reason why the Barred Rocks are

doomed. The present quarters will

provide homes for one hundred and

ninety more fowls, and with a differ-

ence of fifteen cents per dozen for

their eggs, the increase in income will

be considerable, with no outgo for in“-

creased building. Add to this the fact

that Rocks consume ninety pounds of

feed per year as against sixty-five for

the lighter birds, and that the per cent

of Leghorns hatching is from seventy

to eighty, as against sixty for Rocks,

and you can see why Leghorns are

more desirable.



Water piped to the laying-houses,

blue light to increase the length of

winter days, the lights automatically

switched on and off, are 'two features

which mark the farm as progressive.

All feed is bought, there isn’t time,





 





 





This Half-monitor House Holds Three Hundred and Fifty Rocks.





uozen for eggs and can get forty-five ~





cents live weight for the hen? Day

after tomorrow the Jews” celebrate the





feast of the Passover, when they eat»

nothing but the white meat of chick;





ens. Do you see why we cull today?”

The policy of keeping Only hens:





’.which lay— when eggs ”are uh'igh; and " .

work, nor discouragements. Any bug. , ,





‘feed for one thousand birds.





even with two people working, to raise

Green

stuff is provided for winter days by

sprouting oats in trays. The cats are





sacked for twenty-four hours in warm ~





water, then the trays are filled, and the

cats. watered everyday until s‘pmuts.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 

 





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alwaysdry m and waterin the

homes.





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Scrupulous cleanliness is the Golden

Rule. ' The houses are cleaned every-

few weeks; scrubbed and treated to a

dishifectant. Fresh straw is put in at

least every six weeks in warm wham-

er, oftener in winter. The laying hens

are kept 9n during the morning hours,

then let‘ou‘t for a little exercise in the

late afternoon. Growing stock is al-

lowed on range.



Of course, on a book poultry farm,

It is

there, religiously kept. For the six

winter months the hens averaged a

cost of $217 per month. This included

feed, straw for litter, egg cases, egg

cartons, electric light bill, everything

except labor. ‘Mr. Chapman estimated

that a half a cent a day would pay for

the feed. The January sales from the

flock amounted to around $800. Eggs

sold then at the door for eighty-eight-

cents per dozven, customers paying all

express or parCel post charges.



There are many ways of realizing on

the business aside from selling market

eggs, however. Just now one incubat-

or——the three incubators take care of

one thousand three hundred and ten

eggs'is filled with eggs brought by a

customer who is to pay six cents per

eg for hatching. Then there is a big

demand for day-old chicks, such a de-

mand at this farm that it can not be

met. Others want the chicks after

they have gone through the brooder

stage. Then there is the call for hatch-

ing eggs; requests for breeding birds,

and, of course, always the market for

Culled hens.



“How much of an income can one

expect from one thousand birds,” Mr.

Chapman was asked.



“Well, I’d rather not say,” he an-

swered diffidently. “You see, this bus—

iness isn’t really going. I’m just get-

ting a little start. The New Jersey

Agricultural College says that the av—

erage one—man farm with from nine

hundred to one thousand layers aver-

ages from $3,000 to $4,000 a year in

that state. I can tell you more about

incomes in two or' three years.



“There is money in it for the man

who stays right ibn the job,” he con-

tinued. “But to make the money you

have got to be at it day and night.

There is no time for vacation. Some-

one must be on hand to feed, watch

the markets for culling, start the incu-

bators at the right moment for realiz-

ing on your baby chicks. Why, a dif-

ference of two weeks in hatching time

might spoil your profits. If you think

it is just a matter of hatching the baby

chicks, throwing out the feed and then

going out to gather the eggs, you’d

better keep away from poultry. It is

work, work, work, from morning till

night, three hundred and sixty—five

days in the year; and study when you

are not working.”



Market eggs are sold direct to cus-

tomers in Detroit and Chicago, each

dozen in its own neat carton.' The

market just “came.” A Chicago ac-

quaintance asked for eggs, and talked

them up. A Detroiter stopped at the

door, and talked up a Detroit market.

Surplus eggs are sold to a New York

wholesale dealer.





 





SUMMER omes.





 





once—1t is" impossible to print the

T130308 you request. The following

recipe tor strawberry shrub makes a

very. fine summer drink. Any sort of

berries may be substituted for straw-

ba'ries. Currant shrub is also good.



Strawberry Shrub.——Phoe twelve

was {of strawberries in a large

mack mid pour over them two quarts

if water; tel: stand why-eight hours,

contend with a. piste. Mn through

am] hog, and one pint or sugar to





.. . my pastor Maoildletbofl twenty ,





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" laspherry Sim! with Vinegar.—

Pour one quart of pure vinegar over

six quartsof red raspberries. Let it

stand for forty—eight hours, then strain

through a flannel bag, pressing out all

juice. Allow one pint. 01" pound, of

sugar for every quart of quice, and

boil twenty minutes. Seal as the

strawberry shrub. These shrubs may

be used for ices as well as for drinks.



lced milk to which fruit juices or

chocolate sauce has been added makes

a refreshing summer drink, especially

if you can keep on hand carbonated

water and add a dash of that. To pre-

pare the drink use two-thirds of a cup

of milk and one-third juice. A good

chocolate sauce to use with the iced-

milk is made as follows:



Chocolate Sauce—Melt one ounce of

chocolate over hot water and add one

cup of sugar and one—fourth teaspoon

ful of salt, and, gradually, a cup and

a half of boiling water. Cook, stirring:

five minutes after it begins to boil and

then add a level 'teaspoonful of corn-

starch, dissolved in cold water, and

boil ten minutes longer. Flavor with

vanilla, and chill before adding to milk.



Strawberryade and currantade are

refreshing drinks. To make either,

first prepare one quart of simple syrup

by boiling two pounds of sugar-dour

cups and two quarts of water—eight

cups—thirty-five minutes.



Strawberryade.~Add one pint of .

strawberry juice,- obtained by crushing

fresh berries and straining through a

jelly bag, the juice of two lemons, and

two quarts of. iced water, to the quart

of syrup.



Currantade.-—Crush dne quart of our-

rants and one pint of raspberries and

strain through the jelly bag. Add this

juice and two quarts of water to the

quart of simple syrup.



For a party, French punch is deli-

cious. Grate one pineapple and boil

with three cups of water twenty min-

utes. Strain through a jelly bag, press-

ing well. Let cool and add the juice

of six lemons and a dozen oranges, one

cup of freshly-made, strong black tea.

one quart of any fruit juice you may

have bottled, as grape, berry, cherry,

currant. and one quart of syrup made

as above. Make this early so that it

can stand on ice several hours before

serving. To serve pour over a cube of

ice in the punch bowl. garnish with

bits of orange, candied cherries, slices

of banana, or mint leaves, and just be-

fore serving add one bottle of charged

water.





 





HOM E DEMONSTRATION AGENTS’

ACTIVITIES.





 





Allegan County—A home economics

club was organized near Otsego, at the

request of the women in the neighbor-

hood who had no community life. The

women elected officers from their num~

her, and appointed a committee to ar-

range a program for the year. The

agent, Miss Bernice Woodworth, with

the cooperation of the county club lead-

ers, county nurse, school commission-

er, county agent and two dairymen,

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. not because of good weather but

in spite of bad weather.





watchfulness help the poultryman to

raise good young stock in‘ the face of

cold rains and winds. Even the best





' lmonths of the year may bring storms





to chill and drown the chicks if they

lack proper protection.





Local markets in small towns seldom

use many broilers. The buyers seem

to prefer large hens which give the

Lfamily a. good Sunday dinner and some

left-over parts for Monday. This means

that the producer with many broilers

for sale must make arrangements with

a city dealer with plenty of customers

that can afford broilers.



Make Advance Sale of Broilers.



Plan on selling broilers when they

reach the weights most desired by the

dealer. Some like two-pound broilers

while others prefer the three«pound

weight. If possible, have the birds

practically sold before fattening be-

gins. Cornmeal and sour milk are fine

to fatten broilers. Increasing the ra~

tions and reducing the exercise helps





birds fat.



A poultry crate or ,~ broody coop is

useful in each'hen house during the

summer. Then the broody hens can

be) easily caught and penned up the

first night found on the nest. About

the fourth day liberate all hens in the

pen and fasten up any that return to

the nest. Free the hens about an hour

before roosting time so that any which

are not broken up will not spend an-

other day on the nests.





The breaking up of broody hens is

a. very important work for owners of

a. couple of hundred or more of the

heavy breeds. if the work is not given

constant attention during the summer

it will mean quite a. loss in eggs. The

longer a broody hen remains on the

nest the longer the period before she

will return to laying. , -



Keep Geese Separate.



Geese need a’separate range from

poultry if many geese are owned. The

big birds are not particular where they

dig their bills, but are sure to waish

them off in the hens’ drinking water

or the crocks of sour milk. This means

dirty water for the hens and the work





» of emptying and refilling the pails. If





the hens are on a limited range they

will need plenty of tender grass and

geese need a lot of grass.





If geese are allOwed to range Where

young chicks are growing the geese

will take the growing mash and some

of the scratch feed. This increases the

cost per pound of producing goose

meat and the profit in geese is due to

the fact that they are largely grass

enters and can be raised on cheap feed.

Young chicks need a growing mash

and either commercial or home-made

meshes-will be satisfactory. This is

of special importance when there are

several hundred chicks on a limited

range. The amount of worms and oth-

er feed that they get is often over-es-





material has to be, divided among sev-

eral hundred mouths and the number

of bugs on any certain amount of

range is limited. .



Prevention Easier Than Cure.

Poultrymen always find that pre-

venting disease is one of the secrets

of a successful business. Some try

neglecting their birds until they are

sick, and then wish a. quick cure to

save the flock so that they can, be neg-v

lected again. Such methods soon bring

failure. However, a hen. may die even

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rate but the poultrynian has to be his ’

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fthe‘losses down as low as possible.



Many cities have; a. low death rate

‘becauSe of the sanitary requirements,

good water'supply and common sense

of their citizens. '

small chicken city filled with birds of

a low order of intelligence. The owner

is responsible for the sanitation and

good water supply. He must furnish

all of the common sense used in the

management of his chicken city.



It is not too late topreserve eggs in





waterglass solution. Eggs are now low .





in price but conditions always change

in the fall. Only preserve clean fresh





eggs with firm shells. The best results .





come from using infertile eggs. Fun

nishing eggs for waterglass preserving

is often a chance to sell summer eggs

at a. slight premium. Consumers who

have bought eggs from stores for pre-

servation have found the danger of

that practice. Now they want eggs

from one producer who can guarantee

all of them fit to save.



Sparrows Carry Disease.



~Sparrows like to feed in front of the

brood coops and colony houses. It is

best to fight them in the spring before

nesting begins and then keep a trap

on one of thecolony houses through-

out the summer. Sparrows can carry

various pests and chic-k diseases and

if everyone would fight them the spar»

row tribe would show a. loss at the,

next census.



Whether a. fire is needed in a brood~

or does not depend entirely on the age

of the chicks. The climatic conditions

and the feathering of the birds must

be considered. Some chicks might be

so well grown during six weeks of nice

weather that they would need no more

heat. Other chicks might be slow in

feathering and the weather might'be

very cold. In that case keep the fires

burning rather than allow the growing

stock to huddle and develop colds.

Watch the actions ofthebirds at night

when they reach the was. for weaning.

You can soon tell when it is safe to let

the brooder fire die cut. . _ V .



Soon after chicks are weaned from

the brooder it pays to teach them‘to

roost. The roosts can be sprayed'to

keep down mites and: lice. The roost-

ing birds do not crowd~and become

overheated. Early roosting. might make

a few crooked breaéts but a few colds

in the flock will cause much more‘Wor—

ry than'a few crooked breasts. If the

stock are vigorous and well—fed they

will make a normal development and

few breasts will be deformed.



Keep Food Clean.



Chicks will acquire digestive trou—

bles from eating mouldy bread or

spoiled corn. They need food of good

quality and nothing is gained by Using

up spoiled material by giving it to the

chicks. Even sour milk is dangerous

when given in dirty gummy dishes.

Hot water and a. corn cob for a‘ scrub

brush will clean up the sour milk dish-

es and help to serve the chicks'with a.

healthy food in a clean manner. .



When a chick first shows a. Sign of

bowel trouble it can often be stopped

by. giving the chick a couple of drops

of castor oil. A medicine dropper can

be kept in a bottle of castor oil for

that purpose. Administer the dose at.

the first sign of trouble as a chick that

suffers long from. bowel trouble be-

comes in bad condition and does not.

easily make a rapid growth. ' .



Pallets that feather. ..quickly-. are

found to be the most vigorous and the

best layers. They ‘are early maturing





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give us some information on raismgg;i

young chicks. Two ‘ years ago we

bought a new hot water incubator, 350- .

egg sine, and a coal burning broader,

We had good success in hatching and

got. fine hearty chicks,_but after about





three days after transfer to broader “





trouble began. Some.-3eemed to have .

bowel trouble, others just seemed to

and die without apparent cause. .

These conditions continue for about

three weeks when the remaining

chicks would begin to thrive and grow. .

We had the chickes on a oementfioor

covered with clean dry sand. with a

half-inch of line out straw. The floors

were cleaned twice a week. We tried

a couple of brands of expensive chick

foods, but we liked dry oatmeal, corn-

meal (moist dry) bread crumbs, beef‘

scrap and skim-milk better. Our losses

were sixty to sixty-five per cent. Chick-

ens were White Leghorns and Barred

Plymouth Rocks. As soon as possible

the chicks were allowed to go .into

screen-covered runs and housed in a

cement building where chickens had

never been kept, so there were no lice

or mites to blame. My neighbors say

the trouble comes from overheatmg.

We had raised little chicks with hens

for many years. If this is the trouble,

could not someone make a breeder

where the temperature might be ad-

justed to be exactly right? Any in-

formation you can give will be thank-

fully received, as we would like to do

better this year.

Ottawa Co- A, B,





One of the important causes of a

high mortality rate among chicks is a ,

lack of vitality in the breeding stock.

Much of the loss may be avoided by

only using eggs for hatching from ma— ‘





ture hens which are of good laying' ‘





type and strong and vigorous. Chicks

hatched from pullet eggs are always

the most apt to drOOp and die from the

many ailments which afflict the young

chiCks. White diarrhea kills many of

the chicks but this can largely be

avoided by using hatching eggs from

vigorous stock'and' feeding plenty of

5.31;; milk to the chicks.





l7":".\r'i‘._safi11g or chilling in the brood

e" twee increases the mortality rate.

H; :31; usually be prevented by keep-

. . good fire in the stove brood—

s in: all times. Then do not use any

. around the deflector as this

we: ,1 mke the temperature too hot un-

h‘e brooder While it is too cold

~e In that case the chicks have

no place Where they can be comfort-

If the curtains are not used the

chicks can find a place at some point

where their instinct tells them that

the temperature is right. In brooding

with coal-burning brooder stoves we





‘have found that young chicks have a





wonderful instinct which enables them

to select the amount of heat which

they need. Often all of the chicks will

sleep in a large ring around the brood-

er several inches outside of the metal

deflector. If the stove cools slightly

the chicks will not need to huddle up

against the stove as this overcrowding

is very dangerous. The temperatures

for brooding are ninety—eight to one

hundred degrees during the first week,

ninety-four to ninety-six for the sec-

ond. ninety to ninety-two for the third

and around eighty-five for the fourth.

or course, it is difficult to keep the

heat at exactly those points at all

times of the day and night. When a.

good fire is maintained in the stove

and the chicks are given a chance to

use their instinct, some of the worries

of brooding are eliminated. Experi-

enced breeders can run their broader

stoves without a thermometer and only

test the heat with the hand. The be-

ginner can probably do the best by

hanging a thermometer under the de-

flector and carefully watching the tem-

perature until the regulation of the

stove is thoroughly understood. It

pays to place astringof. fine mesh wire

around the broader a foot 0r two from

the. deflector“ each night until the

chicks learn the source of: the heat. It.





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Barred ROCks 8 to 1?. Week pullets. (-ockcrols. hens





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‘ for 1921.

\V. Leg. 10 cents Bull Log. 11 cents

Ilr. Log. 11 cents Ancunas 11! cents

Barred Rocks 13% cents e s 133/.» cents

Bull Rocks 31-3 cents “I “'a‘andottes 1.3 cents

Broilers 8 cents





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Standard Bred Brown Leghorns and Standard

Bred White Leghorns

The stock has been bred to lay for the past twelve years,

and are now good laying strains. We also have English type

White Leghorns which are a little heavier, and have very

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K, tributed at fair rlces.



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Leghorn Anconas, and 16 other

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White chhorns, $11400; Brown Leghoms,

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Zeeland, Mich.



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' ' $70. 1‘: Ih. Cock. muted pith 50f our best hens.

$3.00 per 15. No. 2 pen ht-adv'd by a cocks-rel of Pope

strain. Eggs. $3.50 per 1.3. Incubator eggs $8.00 per

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. By Ear/e

N Aroostook , county, ' Maine, where

more potatoes are produced than in





the transportation of the large crop to

market and warehouses is the big prob-

lem, F. '0. Simeson, of Limestone, who

has one hundred and sixty acres in no-

tatoes, located seven and a half miles

from the railroad, produced about one

hundred and fifty barrels per acre, or

a 'total crOp of 24, 000 barrels.



On account of a road grade between

Mr. Simeson’s farm and the potato

storage house on the railroad, it was

impossible for a team and wagon to

haul more than twenty barrels of pota-

toes per load, which made an endless

task of transporting the 24,000 barrels.

Using one team it would have taken

this farmer 1,200 working days. In

order to get the crop to the storage

house in the sixty days available be-

tween “digging and snow,” it would

demand twenty teams. If Mr. Simeson

and every other farmer who hauled to

this particular station had found it





any bther like section of the world,‘





W. Gage

for heavy hauling. Under these condi‘

tions the growers who live at any con-

siderable distance from a. shipping

point are at a distinct disadvantage.

They are unable to take advantage of

a bulge in the market nor can they

haul a. very large proportion of their

crop to an early season market, when

prices bring most profit. ~



An appreciation of these disadvan-

tages is causing a considerable num-

ber of the Aroostook growers to adopt

motor trucks to solve their problem of

delivering the crop. The trucks are

likewise very profitable in hauling the

large supplies of fertilizers used, thus

giving the teams and men more time





for the field work in seeding and har--





vesting the crop.





 





WHAT IS MEANT 13v VISIBLE 6UP.

FLY?





 





THE visible supply of- grain is the

amount in public and private ele-

vators at the principal terminal mar-

kets and ports and





 





 





in transit by water.

The cities are Balti-

more, Boston, Buf-

falo, Chicago, De-

troit, Duluth, Gal-

veston, Indianapolis,

Kansas City, Mi1~

waukee, Minneapoe

118, New Orleans,

Newport News, New

York, Omaha, Peor-

ia, Phialdelphia, St.

Louis and Toledo.

Amounts afloat -at

any of these points

and in canals and

rivers are included

in the count. The

quantities are re-

ported and tabulated

at the end of each

Week.



The size of the vis-r

ible supply is only a

rough index of the





 





 





possible to secure twenty teams for

the sixty days, it would have been im-

possible to handle that number at the

unloading station. The haulage cost

alone for this number of teams would

have been more than $6,000, while the

total costs would have been enormous.



Mr. Simeson employed automobile

engineers to solve his problem, who

recommended a large motor truck of

the proper design to transport pota-

toes. He started hauling forty-five bar-

rels of potatoes per load with this

truck, making six round ‘trips each

day. In addition frequent trips were

made at night to get the potatoes in

the storage house inside of seventy

days. At the old rate of twenty-five

cents per barrel for 24,000 barrels, the

motor truck more than paid for itself

in the one season.



Every one of the 6,000 farmers in

Aroostook county is a potato farmer

and every one of the 80,000 people

who reside there is in some way de-

pendent upon the potato crop for his

livelihood. ‘They are all potato special—

ists, and nothing is overlooked that

can in any manner improve the qual-

ity or insure the certainty of the crop.

They practice the most careful culti-

vation, make free use of fertilizers and

utilize every machine that will reduce

labor and transportation costs and in-

crease efficiency in handling- the crop.

These are the reasons for Aroostook

county’s leadership in potatoes. ,



Hauling the crop to market has al-

ways been a slow and tedious process.

Twenty barrels'make a full load and if

a gro'wer lives ten miles from market

one load a day is all that he can haul.

If he lives five miles away- he is limited





 





 





 





to two loads a day with a single team, ,

11. for twenty miles is a 11111 day ‘





amount of grain

country. Naturally it





available in the

increases during the period of heavy

marketing following the harvest of the

crop and is gradually drawn upon dur-

ing the remainder of the crop year.





 





WESTERN MICHIGAN BOOSTERS

ACTIVE. —





 





S EVERAL active campaigns in the



. interests of western Michigan are

planned by the Western. Michigan De-

velopment Bureau. Among these will

be intense campaigns for new settlers,

land cleaiing, industiial work, cooper-

ation, etc.



At its annual meeting, May 11, the

bureau also decided on moving its of-

fices from Traverse City to Grand Rap-

ids. It will change its annual meeting

to the last Wednesday in March and

will also hold a semiannual member-

ship meeting. The individual member-

ship dues are to be twenty-five dollars.



It is planned to federate the Michi-

gan Tourist and Resort Association

with the Development Bureau with the

view of increasing the efficiency of

both by collective advertising. Al-

though the organizations will have

joint offices, they will retain their sep-

arate identity. '



Mr. D H. Day was re- elected presi-

dent and W. P. Hartman was made

secretary-manager, with H. J. Gray as

his assistant. Over half of the direct-

ors who served on the» board last year

were re-eleeted. The members of the

board are progressive men who stand

high in their communities and want to





see western Michigan progress. .



“Every Acre Working,” is the new 4. '



slogan. It replaces the one 11W ‘

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Fighting the Crow





Suggeflzom on Control/mg t/zzr Enemy of Com Fla/d:

By Allen C. Conger,





Zoological Department of the M. A. C. '





HERE are probably no birds

, whose habits are wholly good or

wholly bad from the standpoint





of man's best interests. Many species

are recognized as valuable assets con-





tributing largely to human welfare;





f" others shew vices and virtues so nicely





balanced as to make judgment diffi-

cult; while in a few species their nu-

merous sins brand them as undeserv-





Iing of protection. In spite of all that





has been written in its defense, the

crow belongs in popular mind to the

last or outlawed group, for its destruc-





‘tiveness is attested by the farmer, the





poultry raiser and the sportsman.





' Notwithstanding the abundanceof the





English sparrow in this state and the

enormous losses due to its activities





' it would seem that the crow is consid-





ered as serious a pest, if one may

judge by letters of inquiry which are





‘received here at the college.





The economic status of any bird de-

pends almost entirely upon what it

eats. Te be ranked as a beneficial

species, it must either render valuable

service by the destruction of animal

pests (insects or rodents), or in the

consumption of weed seeds.



Because of the gathering of the clans

at the great crow roosts of more south-

ern stat-es, our winter population of

crows is very much reduced and there-

fore the winter food plays little part in

a consideration otthe economic status

of the species in Michigan.



In February the first of the return-

ing host appears in the southern coun-

ties of the state, followed by an irreg-

ular migration tide during March and

April. At this season of the year their

food supply consists of carrion. waste





.grain, benumbed insects and cold—





blooded vertebrates and meadow mice.

If the crow is ever to be considered as

beneficial it is during these months.

April, May and June are busy

months in the crew’s calendar. Nest-

building, egg-laying and brooding, and

finally the search of food for the nest-

lings are the duties which now devolve

upon the birds. It is during this period





that the crow commits the crimes





which make it detested by the farmer

and the bird-protectionist. Undoubt-

edly the most serious charge against

it results from depredations in newly-

planted [corn fields. The extra work

involved in replanting, and the short

growing-season remaining for the re-

planted corn make the damage of un-





usual importance in this state. Fortu?

nately. reports indicate that serious.





damage is not general, but depends

rather upon local conditions. Where

crews are numerous and corn fields

few, the damage may be considerable.



The bird protectionist finds much to

criticize in the crow’s crimes against

smaller birds. These species are put

to flight and their nests robbed of eggs

or nestlings. Many of the birds thus

attacked are themselves decidedly

beneficial to man and the damage done

in their destruction is at once ap-

parent.



So serious is this phase of the ques-

tion that some of the leading ornithol—

ogists of this country declare the crow

to be the most destructive native ene-

my of smaller birds.



The tastes acquired in the robbing

of the nests of wild birds may account

for another of the crow’ s vices, for





during the summer months it is an ac-

. so much"





t’hief. _

1 was in'





 





this pursuit that it often escapes no-

tice and beneficial hawks bear much

of the blame and often sufler the su—

preme penalty. In some of the cases

reported, poultry-raising had become

well-nigh impossible until the shotgun

finally put an end to the crow’s career.



In June adult May-beetles are eaten

in large numbers, some caught alive,

others picked up as carrion. During

the late summer months grasshoppers

form a considerable portion of the food

supply.. The destruction of these in-

sects must be considered as beneficial,

but it falls far short of atoning for

the wholesale destruction of entire

broods of beneficial birds. The crow

always prefers hard-shelled insects

and rarely eats caterpillars or soft lar-

va of any kind. In the fall, corn be-

comes an important item in the diet

and the loss may be considerable when

crows gather in flocks preparatory to

the fall migration.



Total extermination would be made

visable, but the sagacity and intelli-

gence displayed by the crow give am-

ple assurance that man’s best efforts

will still leave sufficient numbers for





.esthetic and ornamental purposes. It





distrusts and avoids man, but soon

learns how harmless are the scare-

crows, bits of dangling tin and other

devices used in an efiort to frighten

the birds from fields of grain.



The first step toward crow control

on the farm must be the destruction

of crow’s nests. If the trees of the

wood-lot shelter the nests of a half-

dozen pairs of crows the farmer is sure

to pay a heavy toll in the loss sustain-

ed in nearby corn fields and in the

poultry yard. He is also robbed of the

services of many smaller birds whose

work is important in the contrOl of

plant pests. Where the crows have

been allowed to nest undisturbed for

several seasons, the farmer will usu-

ally find it time well spent to take an

Occasional hour in ridding the farm of

nesting crows. Shooting through the

nest, in the spring, with a shotgun will

often kill the entire brood of young





crows. The most serious damage will





be done in the vicinity of the. nest.

Where cooperative measures are tak-

en by large numbers of farmers to re-

duce the number of nesting crows the

results are particularly gratifying.

For the protection of the corn crop

there seems at present no better meth-

od than that of tarring the seed corn.

The time and labor involved are about

the same as in the formaldehyde treat-

ment of grain and when properly done

the results usually justify the addition-

al item in the cost of production of





. the crop. Place the corn in a tub and





cover with lukewarm water and stir so

as to moisten the corn thoroughly.

Drain immediately and stir in‘ one ta—

blespoonful of coal tar per bushel.

Spread out to dry. It can then be used

successfully «in the corn planter.





HOW I TREAT CALVES FOR

SCOURS.





 





ERE is how I handle calves which





are troubled with scours. At the _

first appearance of trouble I feed the ‘





calf raw eggs.‘ I give one each night





and morning in its feedlot milk until ,





the calfphas recovered. One or two

eggs Will not be enough but several

should be fed regularly twice each day





until there is .no further trace of the:

ailment -—Mns. H. E. Karen '





 





 





 

 





 

 





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Finally, the pea-and-bean- saving wind—

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Milk 7 Days 659.3 lbs.

Butter 7 Days 28.31 lbs.





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His dam and sire's two nearest. dams average



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‘ Days 607.3 lbs. .

Handsomely marked about one third white.

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All herds under U. 8. Supervision.





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We have what you want in sou. carvss, the large.

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Traverse City, Mich.





Cluny Stock Farm





Offers





Cluny Komgcn Colantha Silver 326205

Born May 29, 1920



A white hull with a few black spots.



His sire a 30 lb. son at King Segis Pontiac Konigen.



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

The. milk in 7 days.



His dam has 2 Jr. 3 year old record oi 17.683 lbs.

butter lrom 418.7 lb. milk and is a granddaughter of Colan-

tha Johanna Lad.



2nd dam—a 21 lb. cow that our barn records show milkf

over 145.000 lbs. in 14 milking periods producing 15

alves.



Pedigree on application.



Price 8250.00. Federal Accredited Heard.





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_ Ypsilanti, Michigan





05ers choice King Komdyke Sadie Vale yearling

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Two high class, registered bulls, nearly a

year old, for sale. One double standard,

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markings. Both the making of show bulls.

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HUDSON, MICH.

Thumb Hereford Breeders Association





now offering some excellent young males and fo-





 





males of choice breeding. Can furnish one or a.

car-load. Priced right. Your inspection solicited.

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' bulls, some ready for

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ford’s Champion Fox 168681. out of Oxford Duisy'n

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lbs. butter with first calf. milked 501m. per day With

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milk. 1031 lbs. butter in one year. The dams of these

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Edgar of Dalmeny.

Blackbird Lettie, 184473. Bull calf at foot by Edgar of Dalmeny.

Black Levina, 319751. A daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.



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a $1 75 investment nine years ago





' [STEIN CATTLE





N. P. Hanson, Westbury, Minnesota, writes:

“Nine years ago I purchased my first purebred Hol-





steins, three young heifers and a bull.

heifers cost

granddaughters and four great granddaughters.





One of those

$175 and now has five daughters, four

For the whole fam-





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lution introduced in the house g‘byj

Representative Strong, of Kansas. {to

appoint a congressional commisIBiimto.

investigate the nation-wide agricultun

at situation, have been held and ,the

committee has reported favorablyiiupon

the resolution. It was~th~e evident .de-

sire of the» committee that the best.

possible investigation be made within





edy may be found and promptlyap-

plied. Gray Silver, representing the

American Farm Bureau Federation,

Charles S. Barrett and B. Morgan

Shepard, .

Farmers’ Union, spoke in favor of the

resolution. Senator Lenroot, of. lime-

consin, who introduced the resolution

in the senate, said that the agricultur-

al producers were entitled to know

what congress can do and also. the

limitations of federal power. There

are only three powers by which con-

gress can regulate industry: __Inten

state commerce, taxation, and thrOugn

the exercise of the banking powers.





 





COLLECTIVE BARGATNING MEAS-

URE IN DANGER.





HE status of the Capper-Volstead



farmers’ collective bargaining bills

is a source of anxiety to the farm or-

ganization representatives. The ,Vol—

stead bill, which passed the house,

was referred to the senate judiciary

committee, and it is believed that this

committee will not report favorably

on the. bill without the amendments

which were so objectionable to farm-

ers that were added to the former bill.





 





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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms at

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

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

service becomes private practice and 31 must be enclosed.





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Diseased Bone—Over a year ago my

cow was dehorned; since then the

head festers. I. B., Chesaning, Mich.

——-The diseased bone must be scraped

off, then head will heal.



Infested ‘U dder.—We have cow that

has udder trouble. First one teat be-

came blocked, had it opened, soon an-

other teat blocked, now two quarters

are afiected. Can we dry her, or what

had better be done for or with her?

Mrs. C. B. M., Fenton, Mich—If your

veterinarian fails to save the two dis-

eased quarters, then you had better

feed her timothy and cease milking her

regularly and she will soon go dry.



White Scours.———I would like to know

if there is a. remedy for white scours

in calves? Our veterinarian gave them

a shot in the neck and some tablets,

but it failed. W. C., Caledonia, Mich.





4—D0ubtless your veterinarian is doing

all that can be done to save your f





calves. Unless you clean and thor-

oughly disinfect your cow and calf sta-

bles and keep them clean, you will fail

to prevent young palves from suffer-

ing from scours. '





Goitre.—I have a Holstein heifer calf

With a bunch the size of one’s fist on

its neck. The calf had this bunch at

birth, and I might add that this same

cow’s calf that she had last year was

in the same condition. What is the

remedy? J. B. H., Fenton, Mich—Tn

Give calf five grains of potassium io-.

dide at a dose daily until the bunch is

gone. Perhaps her mother suffers

from goitre, if so she should be treat-

ed for it.





_ Congestion—We have lost two

strong, fully developed lambs. They

lie, on their side and kick, neck'stitf-

ens, eyes are dim and they suffer for

forty-eight hours then die. We hold

them up to nurse, but they have poor

control of body. .They seem to

strong but have little use of bOdy.

D. W; Evartr Mich—The writerhaa

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LITTLE fly dope to spray on cows

saves them a lot of pestering.

But it is even of greater value to the

dairyman and his hired man. Their





meraIe on hot summer nights is never '

. improved by being kicked and switch-





ed by fly-bitten cows. One cow with ,a

tail like a bundle of wire can make a

milker extremely disgusted with life.



The cows need salt in the summer

as Well as any season and the large

'salt blooms are very handy to have in

the lane or pasture. It gives every

”cow'a chance each day to obtain some

salt and the b100ks do not break up

easily so that bits of salt can be pick-

ed up by poultry.‘



Prepotency is the power which gives

a bull or cow the ability to stamp its

own characteristics on its offspring.

The value of the pure-bred bull on the

grade herd rests in this ability to mark

the calves and make them both better

lockers and better producers than

their mothers.



The gestation period of the cow is

nine and one-half months, or two hun-

dred and eighty days. Sometimes a

breeder figures it as nine months to

the day, and then worries because it

seems to run over a couple of weeks

and the calf is not born when suppos-

edly due. For example, a cow bred on

January 1 would be due about October

7 and not October 1. A cow bred on

February '1 would be due about ‘No—

vember 8, not on November 1. The

date of calving is found by counting

forward the two hundred and eighty

days from the date of service.



Weakness in breeding stock is often

laid to inbreeding, but facts prove that

the greatest progress in producing fine

cows has been by skilled men who

have used inbreeding. But such breed-

ers have known the blood lines of their

stock and they are thus able to mate

so that strong points will be made

stronger instead of weak polntsumade

weaker, as is often the case when

breeding methods are careless.



An argument for fall freshening of

cows is the fact that summer is a busy

season on the farm and it is difficult

to give cows the best and most regular

attention about harvest time. If the

milking work is reduced when the

work with crops is heaviest it is a

great help ontthe farm. Then the cows

can freshen in the fall when the

weather is cooler and the field work

less heavy.



Sometimes dealers do not lik to

handle dairy butter in crocks but pre-

fer the pound packages of uniform

quality put up in neat wrapping paper.

Then there are no crooks to return and

they do not have butter of various

shades and some crocks which are too

salty and others not salty enough.

When the producer has a local trade

with private customers it is soon pos-

sible to find what they like best and

make the butter accordingly.





Teach the young stock to lead at an

early age and it will save many stub

born contests later in life when the

animals are strong. If each heifer has

a halter she will be easier to handle

in the pasture lot and soon learn that

a tug on the halter means to follow.



If a farmer needs his skim-milk and

lives in a section Where farmers are

selling milk, he can often build up a

good butter trade in his own neighbor-

hood. There are a lot of farmers that

buy all their‘butter and it is true that

many farmers owning herds of cows

really eat butter instead of oleo. This

gives the butter producer a lot of skim-

milk for poultry and stock feeding and

a nearby outlet for the butter.



Cov‘vs that freshen in the fall show

a great increase in milk flow in the

spring when placed on pasture. This





> helps to keep up production until time





forwthe‘ cows to dry up. Cows that

' ' 4 9 ‘eprms are more difficult





 





 





5;: for June





to handle profitably in the fall when

pastures are often dry and conditions

are less favorable to keeping up the

milk flow. _ '

When veal is cheap and feeds are

cheap it ought to pay to keep the best

heifer calves on the chance that cows

will be good property a. couple of years

from now. It is easy to say that cows

are cheap and there are lots for sale,

but when you start out looking for

thOSe cows you find that the farmers

are keeping the best ones and some of

the cows for sale cheap are not much

good. -

During hot weather young calves are

sometimes staked along the road with

an inadequate water supply. It pays

to remember that water is always the

cheapest element in an animal’s ration





and yet is one of the mast important





elements in making animals grow.

In grading up a herd of cows it is.





. 1

of course, necessary to use a sire of .





the same breed for each cross. Other-

wise you are developing mongrels in-

stead of progressing closer and closer

to purebreds of one breed. Many sec-

tions are handicapped in developing

high-producing herds because of the





long distance that must be traveled to -





obtain highouality bulls. In such sec-

tions it will surely pay to own a good

bull cooperatively.——R. G. KIRBY.





 





COST AND VALUE OF LIMESTONE.





ERE are some interesting figures



on the cost and value of limestone

for agricultural purposes gathered

from a number of Michigan farmers

who have used limez'



The highest cost reported paid for

limestone delivered on car at destina-

tion was $6.80 and the lowest $3.10,

with the average for all those report-

ing at $4.01 per ton.



The length of haul varied from one

mile to-seven miles. with the average

at two and two‘tenths miles. The av-

eragecost per ton to unload was $1.69,

the highest cost being $3.00 and the

lowest fifty cents. The lowest amount

applied per acre was one ton and the

highest amount was three tons, a little

over two tons was the average applied

by those reporting.



When all costs were figured it was

found that $18.60 was the maximum

price paid to lime an acre and $7.30

the lowest, with the average at $12.39.



The most valuable crop grown

brought $135 per acre on ground that

had received limestone, while the most

valuable crop on unlimed ground was

$54. The lowest valued crop on limed

soil was $22.50, while the poorest crop

on'unlimed soil was a complete fail-

ure. The average value of crops taken

from the limed fields was $58.40, while

of those from the unlimed fields was

$24.55.



One farmer reported that the not

profit from an acre where limestone

was used amounted to $81. while an-

other had only $2.25 for his trouble;

the averagefor the whole lot being,

however, $29.99.



The average return on each dollar

invested in limestone was $2.29, the

lowest being twelve cents and the

highest $5.00.





MORE BEET ACREAGE FOR MT.

PLEASANT PLANT.





HE Mt. Pleasant plant of the Col-



, umbia Sugar Company announced

May 12 that it had contracted with

farmers of Isabella county for 7,500

acres of beets. Last year’s acreage

was six thousand. The company has

experienced no difficulty in securing

all the labor _ needed for field work,

sixty families having been brought in

from Cleveland to work in the fields.





 





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9 cents a day-





A F ARMER of Mound Valley, Kansas, ro-

ccntly replaced his old cream separator with

a De Laval. Immediately. with the same amount

of milk, his cream checks jumped from $1. 37 to

$2. 26 per day-89c a day gain, 0114324. 85 a year.





This 15 only One instance of thousands where

a De Laval has checked waste and added to its

owner’s profits. You may be losing even more

than this; you may be paying for a De Laval and

not getting it by using a cream-wasting separator

or by hand skimming.





There never was a time when a De Laval

Separator would pay for itself sooner,or orwhen it

would make you more money. than now. There

are over 2, $00, 000 De Laval Separators in use

the world over, because they save the most cream

and serve the longest time.



500 your Do Lani agent now about gem a

now Do Laval —- or write so full worn-lotion.





The De Laval Milken like the Do LIV-l Separator.

in a quality product. Send for full “motion.





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NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCG

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' and Gilts S50 and up. torA

norm“ Bo". sows Ma) and June (narrow [gave

a few good fall ”1&8 at reasonable rices for sale. AY L.OR.



M. G.

Am hooking orders for spring





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Berkshires spring pigs.

few young boars.

setting postpaid. Chase Stock Farm.1\larlette.Mlch.





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heater Whites fall and

Chicksau' 5 Ace. a real

you need.





an

ring 9188 mostly sired by HARRY F0“ LER.

Let me knou “hat





ALBERT DORB. Clinton. \lich.





 





Breakwater Dumc Jerseys

FALL ‘BOARS OPEN GILTS





All of the right type and the best of breeding.





Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfadtion guaranteed.





BROOKWATER FARM,

H. W. Mumford, Owner





PETERSON. Ioi1ia.It





Kl‘R & SON,





ready for service,

Sturgis, Mich.





I C‘ s Last fall gills bred to furrow in Au

for sen'i‘e. also splingdiigs to





mihom n.

. Elmhurst Farm.





0. I c’ Choir-e gilts for April and May furrow. also

31’ lplgs. Booking orders for spring pigs.

.BAR Belmont, Mich





 





last of April. and Mav farrow.

fall pigs either sex.

Fair prize “inning blood lines.

and recordR them free

FARM.R.1, Mariette. Mich.





HCCS reasonable





' Stricth Big T:

0 l' C- SWlne lty. A few gi ta bre

A few Sept. and Oct.

Of oucr State





l‘xtra good ones.

Will Ashi

NEWM N‘cg STOCDK





ual-

for





 





Ann Arbor, Mich.

J. B. Andrews, Mgr.





 





sale.





DU ROG JERSEYS:





CAREY L'. EDMUNDS.





the Pork 11111;.

Albertas Julnlu kind

name.





A few choice

bred gllts for

Hastings, Micln





 





For Sale





I. C's. last fall service Imam





akin. 512 1nil((1\(st of “1-1101.





liLDJ. ",BRU“N ()'l".l(IB SCHULZI‘.





Quincy, Mich.





 





prices.





DUROC JERSEYS





Bred gllts, serviv e bolus and [.111 how [high at Bargain J. (L'T HUMP SUN

1 our 1 or responds-111 e or personal ixispe 1- tion "

is coidlally invited.



BUSH BltUS.





uroc Boar's at bargain prilces largo grouth1 hogs 15

months

ter in the biners name.

to deliver J1me lst. W E.Bartle_1





old





. All stock reg.

L1 LAHF STOCK 1".ARM





(‘ itizens





' ° on U 1. 0. pigs of Marchand

wme l0!“ Prices April farrow. Both sexes. Six-o

C 0. Call“ av Hm Good long ones the kind that. all.

Some good Jerse1 bull calves of the

in buyer's





Mich.'





l 1) 1 12 last fall gum

tiigl's‘.“ (affix “"1;th Efiegriliifi 1’ b 01‘0“ ()'bred for 111. xt full farrou also this sprirég plan not





ashville. Mich.





 





0 I C 9 S ' sons.- for May furrow. Order:

- v ' book1 d for Man h pig

Rockford. Mich.





 





Uakwood 11111111. Romeo, MlL'li.





11t$60. Will sendC. U. l).1111d regis-

Orders booked for Ap1. pigs

Alma. Mi





 





Write Me 1





sey boars needyi for senioe.





at once I havejust what you want

1ea1y bone reg1stered Duroc Jer-





Durand. Mich.





sale guaranteed by association.





MAYES. L. 15 505





 





DUROO Jerseys.

boned type from the most popular bloodlines at

reasonable prk 08.

”mg strain 3" 11651.3.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.





DR. H. W. NOBLES,





Central Mich. 0. l. C.





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Every





 





Bours for swing at r1108 heavy





Partridge Rock eggs from best lay-

Drodl'. dc Beuis. Monroe Mich.





 





 





 





‘ Spring pigs by Walt’s

rion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Gd Rapidsand Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





‘ab b.le J Gibson Fosters lVIicli.





Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

o I c llig 1.1110 serviceable boars wei h from 1.30“)

2’10 lbs Gills bred for Mm an June farrow.



Write for prim-'1- .AndieWs' .hdwh

P . . " 11. ~



Saginaw Valley Herd. hangar; 0 l C .12“...





 





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CLOVER LEAFS STOCK FAR





O. I. C. GILTS





H. W. MANN.





choice boars and spring DEE

cMonroe. Mich

Bred for June and





J 1111' furrow.

Dansvillo, Mloh





 





 





Reg- Dufoc BORIS lsItTI'bIt- kKltiiplesltld.





   

 

 





53000 Fine

St. Johns. Mich.





 





sell.





Duroc





Jersey Boars of .11! ages. big. hemy boned

smooth kind. real herd boars and priced to

First check for $50§etsl a 400 lb. April yearling.

a grandson of Panama



or come and see. Visitors aw





guaranteed. Thou. Underhill 10 Son, Salem. Mich





 

   

 

   

   

   





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DURO_C sowsJ 11ndc gilts Cbigzgltg

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service outo

THE JENNINo S FARM.





11y good hogs now. from one of the largest herds of

red Durocsi n the state. Open to slits at

[lite bredrm to: summer and fol farm.





 





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Tuesday, May 31.

Wheat.





Detroit.—~—Cash Nb. 2 red $1.55; July

$1.30; No. 2 white and No. 2 mixed

$1.50. ‘ .



Chicago—No. 1, $1.77@1.78; No. 2

hard $1.,691/4.





Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow 66c; No.

3 yellow 65c.

Chicago.-——No. 2 mixed 64%,@65%c;

No. 2 yellow 65@66c.

- » Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 44%0;

No. 3 white 43c; No. 4 white 400.

Chicago—N0. 2 White 401/2@411/éc.

Beans. .

Detroit.~lmmediate and prompt are

lower at $3.70 per cwt.

Chicago—Market is steady and de—

mand good. Hand—picked Michigan

beans choice to fancy at $4.20@4.50;

red kidney beans $9@9.25.

New Yorkr—The market is steady.

Choice pea $4.50@4.60; do medium at.

$4.75; red kidney $11@11.25.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye

at $1.50.

Seeds.





Detroitm l‘rime red clover, cash at



$13.50; alsil;e $14; timothy $3.15.

Hay.



N0. 1 timothy $20@21; standard and

light mixed $19@20; No. 2 timothy

$18@19; No. 1 clover mixed $15((1llti;

N0. 1 clover $14@15; rye straw $13.50

@14; wheat and oat straw $12.50@13

per ton in carlots at Detroit.





WHEAT





Wheat prices continued sharply up"

ward during most of the past, week but

exhibited signs of a collapse toward

the close. Crop damage reports from

private sources, combined with a pe-

culiar strained situation in wheat for

May delivery were the causes. The

pronounced scarcity of wheat in term-

inal markets made it next to impos-

sible for the "short sellers” of May

wheat to deliver on their contracts.

The situation is not likely to be of

great benefit to producers and so far

as it influenced the cash market, its

eflect is practically over. Growers

who have held wheat all winter have

been given an opportunity to unload at

“a good-sized advance.



' Winter wheat undoubtedly has de~

. teriorated considerable during the past

. ,_ few weeks. States west of the Missis-

. 7‘ sippi river will show considerable re--

duction in estimated yields as the full

effect of April freezes and recent

drought show up. Demand' for wheat

. e from mills has been checked by the

' E advance. New export sales have been

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is lower





 





made even at higher prices but are for

July and August shipment from the

new crop. There is no suggestion of

excessive world production in the com-

ing year. India may import 30,000,000

,» bushels as she has only two-thirds of

' _; a crop whereas she usually exports,

. and Russia has recently bought wheat

i from Liverpool.





CORN





,» Cash corn sales to terminal markets

} during the past week amounted to

' around 5,000,000 bushels, marking the

start of the after—planting run. Chiv

cago handlers sold large amounts to

the domestic eastern trade and to sea—

: board exporters so that the grain was

‘ readily absorbed and with wheat pric-

es moving upward, moderate advances

occurred in corn'. The export business

which was thought to be practically

over for the season, suddenly came to

life and large amounts Were taken.

Stocks at terminals may increase at

first, but. shipments will soon reduce

them again. Best prices were paid for

fresh-shelled grain and exporters of-

fered a premium for corn testing

around 13 per cent of moisture. Bulk

of receipts were of grade No. 1 and 2.





OATS





, Producers have been selling oats

freely and receipts are increasing but

domestic demand has also broadened

and prices average higher. The oat

crop has deteriorated along with

, wheat in some parts of the central

.' West. as a result of recent hot 'dry

.Nw'e'ather which followed heavy rains.

Relief has come through rains during

the past week but. it is still feared that

marather large. acreage will head out

«on short straw.- .





 





 





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Purchases of clover and grass seed

are \very slight and interest centers

mostly in new crop prospects.‘ Prices

show little change. If the present crop

outlook continues, cash prices on clo-

ver may trend downward during the

summer while timothy may chart the





other course.

FEEDS





Feed markets have shown marked

irregularity during the past week with

«St. Louis and Milwaukee showing de-

clines while Minneapolis and Kansas

City advanced on wheat feeds. Feeds

from new wheat will be available soon

and marked advances from the pres—

ent level are not expected. Linseed

oil meal and cottonseed meal are on

doubtful ground.





HAY





New alfalfa hay is being offered

from Oklahoma for shipment in two

to four weeks at prices materially low-

er than quotations on old hay. This

influence forecasts a decline in alfalfa

prices and also those upon other kinds

of hay. Last year hay placed in stor-

age by large operators lost them con-

siderable money and they will be slow

to take hold this year except at low

prices. A temporary reduction of

twenty-five per cent in freight rates

on hay from Colorado to Missouri and

illinois points will go into effect on





June 1.

BEANS





The holding policy on the part of

Michigan bean growers has caused a

further advance early in the past, week

but prices broke sharply when offer-

ings increased. Demand at the mo-

ment is good as prices at retail are

attractive. During hot weather, how-

ever, it invariably shrinks decidedly.



Prices at the top of the advance

were $4.15@4.25 i'. o. b. Michigan

points for choic hand—picked stock but

declined to $3.85 at the close of the

week. Prices to growers for beans in

the dirt; range from $3.25@3.40.





POTATOES





Prices of new potatoes have been

reduced sharply during the past week

as a result of an increase in shipments





particularly from the South Carolina

points. Old stock declined also. North-

ern sacked round whites, U. S. Grade

No. 1 are q‘imted at 75@85c per cwt.,

wholesale, in the consuming markets,

while prices at shipping points are 30

@500, leavinglittle for the grower af-

ter sacks and loading expenses are

paid for. New stock Bliss Triumphs,

No. 1’s are quoted at $2.35@2.50 and

Irish Cobblers at $5.75@6 per barrel.





EGGS AND POULTRY





Although prices show little change,

the undertone of the egg market is

not strong; Hot weather during the

pastweek caused many shipments to

arrive in a heated condition with de-

terioration apparent. Receipts at the

four leading markets are now running

below those of the corresponding week

a. year ago so that the excess of stor-

age holdings over those of the same

period a year ago is becoming less

marked. Live poultry markets are

starting through the usual decline at

this season of the year. Since prices

have held at a rather high level, the

readjustment like that in butter and

eggs is apt to be rather violent.



Latest quotations are: Detroit.—~

Eggs, fresh current receipts‘22lAc.

Poultry, broilers 450; heavy hens 26

@28c; roosters 15c; geese 15¢; ducks

25c; turkeys 30c.





BUTTER





The butter markets have advanced

slightly and are holding within a com-

paratively narrow range. Hot weather

injured the quality of many shipments

but the general run of receipts consist

of full grass butter of good’ quality

suitable for storage. Buying on stor-

‘age account has been increasing at

Chicago and to a lesser extent at New

York. Receipts‘at four markets were

slightly smaller than during the pre-

ceding week but a strike of teamsters

in New York City caused a diversion

of many shipments to Chicago which

normally would have gone east. it is

the prevalent belief that prices will

hold around 27@280 for extras and

standards at Chicago. No Danish but<

ter is being offered below 30c and the

tariff measure now in the hands of the

President raises the duty from 21,é@60





 





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' Wednesday, June '1_.





DETROIT

Cattle.



Bulls and heavy cows are 2.50 low-

er; others are very dull. .

Best heavy steers ....... $ 7.75 8.00

Best handy. wt bu steers 7.50 8.00

Mixed steers and heifers 6.5061), 7.50





Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.00

Best cows . . . . . ......... 5.00@ 5.50

Butcher cows ........... 4.25@ 5.00

\Common cows . . . . . . . . . . 350((1) / .



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

Best light weight. bulls.. 5.00@ 5.25

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . 4._50@ 5.00

StOCk bulls sane-ooeooulo 4.50@ 5.25

Feeders ......... . .. . . . 6.50@ 7.50

Stockers . . . . . . .- ...... 6.00@ 7.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@ 80





Veal Calves.

Market steady.





Best- Ion.00..l.0l.l.lllcl$10o00@10-5O

Others ounce-noooooecoooo 5.50@ 800”

Hogs.



Market steady.

Mixed hogs . . . . . . . . ......... . . .$8.00

Pigs ....... no-aoocooonoo 8-35

Heavy ....................... . . 7.75





Sheep and Lambs.

Market is slow and quality common;

heavy sheep are very dull. '





Best lambs ..........$ 10.(0

Fair lambs ........... . 7.00@ 8.50

Lightto common . . . . . 5.00@ 7.00

Spring lambs ........ . . 12.00@12.5

Culls and common ...... 1.50 2."

Fair to good sheep ...... 4.50@ 5.00

CHICAGO





Hogs.





Estimated receipts today'are 17,000;





holdove'r. 10,223. Market slow, mostly '





steady. Bulk of sales ,at $7.80@8.10;»

tops (early) $8.20;" heavy 250 lbs up

medium,.good and choice..$7,75@,8; 1318‘

dium .200 to 250 lbs‘medium, goodf‘and

choice .37.90@8.10; ,light#150 to 2001bs

Gammon. medium, good. and choice





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'hogs ,$8@8-25;.

i steers brou ht:





$7.95@8.15; light lights 130 to 150 lbs

common, medium, good and choice at

$7.90@8.15; heavy packing sows 250

lbs up smooth at $7.10@7.70; packing

sows 200 lbs up rough $6.40@-7.10.

Cattle. ‘



Estimated receipts today are 11,000.

Market slow and steady to 15c lower;

calves are 250 higher. Beef steers me-

dium and heavy weight 1100 lbs up

choice and prime $8.65@9.40; do me-

dium and good $7.75@8.65; do common

$7@7.75; light weight 1100 lbs down

good and choice $8.40@9.25; do com-

mon and medium $6.75@8.40; butcher

cattle heifers common, medium, good

and choice $5@8.75; cows common,

medium, good and choice $4.50@7.40;

bulls bologna and beef $4@6.25; can~

hers and cutters cows and heifers at

$2.25@4.50; do canner steers $3@4.50;

veal calves light and handyweight me-

dium, good and choice at $7.50@9.25;

feeder steers common, medium, good

and choice $7@.8.25; stocker steers,

common, medium, good and choice at

at $5.50@8; stocker c0ws and heifers

common, medium, good and choice at

$3.75@6.25.



Sheep and' Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 14,000.

Market steady. Lambs 84 lbs down,

medium, good, choice and prime $9.50

@1225; do 85 lbs up medium, good

choice and prime $8.75@12; do culls

and common $6@9; feeder lambs me‘

dium ,good and choice $10.75@13.40;

spring lambs medium, good, choice

and prime $6.75@10.50; e’tves medium,

good and choice $3@4.25; ewes cull

and common $1@2.75. » .





BUFFALO ,_

~ Today spring” lambs were steady at

$13@14;. yearlings $10@11; . = heavy

Piss at 38.15;. shipping

8.50 .8515; 1: thandy





 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 





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Per pound. Prices for 92-score fresh

butter as quoted by the bureau of mar-I

ketson May, 28 were: Chicago 2855c}.

New York '29c. - Fresh creameries. in-

tubs at Detroit are quoted at 2514c.





WOOL ' «





Wool markets show a slightly im-

proved undertone and advancesvof one

cent per pound as a result of the pas-

sage of the tarifl bill. Manufacturers ‘ , “‘

although operating at about seventy— ‘ ‘

five per cent of capacity compared.

with around 50. per cent three months

ago, are buying only. comfortable sup—

plies of raw wool ahead. Buying of

western wools is increasing but most

producers gre holding in hope of an

advance and a. moderate one may’be- ,

obtained. Foreign markets are firm. .i

At the government’s auction of _ South ' -

American wools, about .3,000,000 3le.

were sold, some scoured quarter-bloods

going at 20@26c.





CHEESE"





Cheese markets display a- waiting

attitude although the undertone is

firm. Moderate buying of twins and

some other styles for storage has been

under way. Inquiries are numerous.

Prics are believed to be on rock bot—

tom and as soon as the quality. of ar-

rivals becomes satisfactory, large pur-

chases are expected. Hot weather last

week was responsible for many ship- ,

ments arriving out of condition. At ' ,

the first meeting of the new Plymouth ' ‘

Wisconsin board, the prices establish

ed were higher than those of the old

board, although this was partly due to

the difference in freight charges.

These quotations affected sentiment

favorably. Prices for No. 1 American

cheese as quoted by the bureau of

markets on May 28 were: Flats 14@

15c; daisies 141,é@15c; twins 1455c;

brick 151,é@16c. ’





HORSES





The demand for horses, has been

decreasing for several weeks and at

the present time is at the lowest point

of the entire year. Receipts have not

been unusually heavy but even a. light

supply is difficult to dispose of with-

out sharp cuts in prices. Ice concerns

are purchasing a few at Chicago but

the eastern demand has been extreme-v

ly light, partly as a result of renewed

stagnation in industrial affairs. Prices.

are as follows:



Chicago.~Good and choice heavy

drafters $175@240; common and me-' t .

dium drafters $125©150; farm mares ‘ t -

$90@145; farm chunks at $100@150; '

wagon horses $125@175. E





APPLES





While the supply of barreled and ' ’

boxed apples is gradually decreasing, .

shipments are larger than usual at this ;

season. Prices on barreledstock lost . L

some of their recent advance and are '

selling at $6@6.50 for A 2% Baldwins t

in midwestern consuming markets. i





 





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 





 





 

   

   

 

 

 





 

 





 

 





 

 

   

   

 

   

 

 





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NEWS OF THE WEEK.





(Continued from page 680).





structed to out next year’s estimates

twenty per cent.—-Six hundred Shrop- “

shire coal miners return to work un-

der temporary wage agreement with

British colliery owners—Judge K. M.

Landls, of Chicago, declares nine out

of every ten violators of the liquor

laws are foreigners.





Tuesday, May 31. . "



UNITED STATES Senator Hefiin, of '



Alabama, urges that cotton ex-

changes be abolished if they cannot be

controlled by law.——Twenty thousand

Detroiters march in parade to show '-

devotion to warrior dead—Upper Sil- "' '

esian warfare breaks 'out anew after

five hours oral truce—Tommy Middle’

ton wins international sweepstakes an;

to race at Indianapolis. He establish-

es a new record by traveling the five





hundred miles at an average of 89.62

miles per hour. _





 





 





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eye,’=tha outdco

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STOCK. EDEN





Wm MW 11111141111111.1118

SURE EXPELLER





ma FLIES‘, LICK, MITES, ETC.,





Workman my. $16th

A Mngsity of constant spraying. Contailrlis





the best .mtioeptic known. t ris agreeable to t 6

stock 111111213101 enjoy its Application.





load W in condort,

iwggeutlhem to produce their maximum.

Think what it means to you to have contented cattle

but. 1111 gesture 1111111 barn.

Sea-3.51 50 fora gallon and prove that we claim, Try

it once and you will never be without





Attractive propoo'ijon open to dealers.





MTHE RICHARDSON SPECIALTIES_CQ.

Detroit. 6“ filthy-inc 5t... MlChlglll





Farms and Farm Lands





$2800 Secures 320 Acres with

39 Cows, Home. Cro ops ‘





Mechinerv. tools harnesses, vehides, equipment in-

cluded; rare opportunity sp id prosperous seclilion.

close RR. tos1'n.adrantaaes: prolductive loam 11 age

cuts 80 tons buy; 40- 410111 spring watered pasture; esti-

mated200,000ft. timber. vast uantity 11ood;iine or-

chard 06 apple tines. pears. p urns, cherries, benies;

313:: attitudes. good lg-rcéorln .1110115e,sgpr1:1gfl1;vs.11g1:mg§-

01‘ \1 V SW. 13 m g

11 £111 shade won down WY termg

Chalk! gOl-lll Banguins. FREP.

GENCY, 8814 BC F0111 Bldg. De-





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etc; qancksrnle price

Details page 29 1111141.

STROUT FARM

troit Minn.





LE 011111111; 11 n1w tract of fer-

FOR SA "ti e farm lands well located

in like guest potato and dairy district of Wisconsin

arid Mic an. Secure first choice now. Liberal

terms.Wr1te for flee booklets. etc. Sunborn Oom-

paaiy, No. 2.9, Sunburn Bldg, Hinge River. Wisconsin.





11

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POULTRY





PULLETS'





OR S—ANOONAS

8 week -L83I%;GH1M “1: —SL 05. Selected stock.





ZWND PULLWEe l‘kFAliMS,Zeel1ui1l Mich.





WHITTAKER’S R. I. REDS





Beth Corfibs Mgflhwun's Greatest Ooh? 11nd Efg

Bare Bring some unusua argauis n

afifi 11nd Matching eggs for June and early July.





FroeC 111.10:

I w’lQEBGIEAKES fiARM, Box 39. Lawrence, M1ch.





and eggs for hatching Reduced



Baby ChiCkfi prices after May 21th. Le horns

ll. cents yfiockt and Redo l6 cents for Ma.) 11nd cents

forJune and uly. Got your order in curly at these

tlcos. Hatch eve ay. Interesti 1- atulogue

3,138. Brununer' s goiiltry Farm,ll 8, Eu la11d,l\l1ch.





Med M3 8 to 12 “eel: pullets. cookerels. hens

f rDe b and cook ‘ 11113;. Len 1111211 atllbdt



A. G. or com or oven. eggs 911v pu

laid a 6 both Doc. on January. 1 pallet laid 80





11 I.Wi Gunilla showslu suite. ll rite

13531111119113 $011de E. f. Hudsonvilio. Mich





' Baby 01.11—12.00» Standard Quality every Tues. 1.1

neatly to“ prices: Mottled Anoonas, English



easiest?.1..‘1°"":11'13'°W.'.L°.8h°.12“1d

r . 11110 00 am 0H 11' no 6



arrival aunt Koo! awoken, R. 3, Holland, Mich





CHICKS 9111 e Comb White Leghorna

PM. Order today.



ROY L. DRUKKEB. 11.6, Grand Rapids. Mich.



CmCKSBRo Barron str‘ln W. Lochorns 100.; Parks





BI; 11in B. pro Beatstruins in the

world (or eggs. ROMLChrietophel, It 4, Holland, Mich.





W [wit-98011 Barron» S C. W. L horns and

arch; Anuona chicks for M111 and one. Send

your or 11011 for 8 ml: old p111 and oockerels.

Byron Center. M





 





 





 





 





 





Chicks At Reduced Prices“.





{on} odeulv. B 0'. horns 812001101100 B .



“13:01”; 1011191- 100. aweli post paid per100$ “age

arrival Cinnl 111'



U NEYBROOK POULTRY FARM. Hillsdale. Mich.





RHODE ISLAND WHITES





game over loll” breeds at the one whirl contest. 30

315 Luigi Ste 111 Some chins

11.me R. 5. Jackson. Mich





Demo 8. GWhlte Lo

8. 6. 811m Leghorn: 252.213 1.1.11.1.nfil-‘1’9V‘310'

$51.31!. 611-33 35: 3911-38. 11299111111111.1101, 1111113011110

cookerol 11 bit

8- am 11011111119 3min 3x01113131; Ezfill‘m‘”

balm or quantity. 0 J Deedrick. YunnMicfi.

W M Dhaka Minoan. Linht Brahma. 250





Rock, RI ”(1.180

etch. Tm” Poultry arm. Fenton. Mich.





Chick I I t

White and Brown Wm “ ”1’33 Eififie‘i-d

June lot and one Wed. thomtter.° Other breeds {‘3

etc. Order from



DE R & ADAMS. Htchfleld. Mich.



White W ones;

W15 8.311113 . 31:13....“

RAN! DeLO‘NG R. 3, Three Rivers. Mich.





White Wyandolt.m udlaried’ocke

comp. - HOWARD GRANT? “Wufifif





 





 





 





 





 





' “med one. hundred AM) BarredBook

M1111 ctr-1111i.





chic

tween the an Loggia weeks old. Entourage





K. Plnokney, ich.





{0.1; [a amt J

#" eoks'gl'd one. July and





W“





, mittee beginning June 1. Many letters



, have already been received in reply “to:

. the official questionnaire sent out by'

' the American Farm Bureau Federation





in efi'ect. over-





’ makes it possible for yousnttle to ,





, Michigan half-blood clothing, twenty-'





. ‘1‘1: E‘WOo‘L' ’s‘iT’UA’TIou;





HE American Farm Bureau Fed-

’emtion is- making prepawions to

present a strong case for the truth-in:

11111111: bill during the hearings beforeé

the Senate Interstate Commerce com-





indicating that this referendum will be

one of the most successful projects ev-

er considered by the federation. j



Wool Pool Sales. _ '

The American me Bureau iFvedeI‘a-I

tion is looking closely aft-er the wool

market situation. (‘3. J. Fawcett, of the

federation s wool marketing depart-





eounds of wool were moved from Chi-'-





"' cago pools, and 256,578 pounds from.





Michigan pools, at rates indicaljng a

little sagging of the market. The pric-

es have been as follows: Michigan

fine clothing, twenty-three cents;





one cents; Michigan quarter—blood

combing, twenty-six cents; Michigan.

three-eighths combing, twenty-seven

cents; Michigan delaine, twenty-eight

cents; Michigan three-quarter cloth-

ing, twenty-one cents; Michigan halt,

staple, twenty-five and a half cents.

The Ohio pool is practically sold out,

of the 1920 wools and is now receiving

1921‘ consignments. It is estimated

that there is in sight at this time in

the United States, including the 192]

clip, between 900,000,000 and 1,000,000,-

000 pounds of wool, which represents

a large surplus, estimated at an eight

een months’ supply. It is estimated

that eighty per cent of the usual num-

ber of spindles are working. This in-

dicates a freer buying movement by

the cloth dealers.





 





Buying Below Normal.

The buying movement of domestiC!

wools, both in fleece and territory sec-!

tions, is greatly below normal for this 5

time of year, and values that would in- i

dicate no risk of ownership to buyers.

A year ago, in Utah, the Jerico clip of

1920, consisting of 600,000 pounds, 1

largely of fine grades, was sold in com-

petitiou bids, at seventy one and a half

cents. Recently the same clip was of-

fered for competitive bids, and only

two were. received, the highest being

sixteen and five-eighth cents a pound.

The general feeling in the wool trade

is that the bottom has been reached

and at last a basis of trading has been!

established. This would indicate that

this, of all years, is the time to pool

wool, says M1: Fawceit, and indica-=---—

tionsure that a fair portion of wool

will be again consigned to the pools.





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





Guernseys.—Oct0ber 19,





Michigan



State Sale, Lansing. Mich. F. E.



Fox, Waukesha, Wis., Sales Man-

ager.



Aberdeen—Angus.-—June 9, Michigan



Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Associa—



tion Sale. East Lansing, Michigan.





Ward Hathaway, Ovid, Mich, Secre-

tary.



Holsteins and Shorthorns.—June 14,

Genesee County Breeders’ Associa-

tion, Davison Fair Grounds, W. T.

Hill, Manager, Davison, Mich.



Aberdeen-Angus.—June 22, Ohio Aber-

deen-Angus Breeders’ Association

Sale, Fair Grounds, Columbus, Ohio.

f). D. Littleton, Kenton, Ohio, Secre-

ary.





Aberdeen- Angus. —September 23, East-

ern Aberdeen- Angus Breeders’ Asso-

ciation Sale, Eastern States Exposi-

t1on, Springfield, Mass. F. W. Burn—

ham, Greenfield, Mass., Secretary.



Abcrdeen- -A_ngus.-——October 12, Indiana

Aberdeen- -Angus Breeders’ Associa-

tion Sale, Indianapolis, Ind. Prof. C.

F. Gobble, Lafayette, Indiana, Sec-

rotary.





 





One of the most valuable features of

rye as a forage for the pigs is that it

furnishes a supply of green food dur-

ing the seasons When the ordinary





 





4. gel“ abolition.





ment, reports that from April 23 tel '

the middle of May .a total of 2283333,: .





 





crops and pastures are of little value.





‘3

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ULE'HIDE "





“Nor A KICK

IN A MILLION FEET





ROOFING.





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SHINGLES





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   





WHEREVER you

find this trade mark

you ’11 find the best

stock of roofing, lumber

and building material

obtainable.





The Lehon Company





MANUFACTURERS





44th to 45th St. on Oakley Ave., Chicago





 





0111' 11.11114 1111 fancy pllllltrl' pri1‘9.~ will





I I . - .

farm rugs in incruising ”t‘ “We“?

11.1il).'l‘l1e11-for1 welalre 11.1 EdgsTynpdeuroiand Chlflas 501. «1H «gem and bred

21 position to pay 1 am ‘ , .-

piemiumz. above the Chi- G A BAUHGAII DNFR, R. Z. Niddlmille, Mich.

cago mmket for line now ,





laid smok. L ‘I' P. c if you are loookin for aomethinggood.

_ I in brad gilts at 11 Ill: t price. Write

W" ”he” ""n 31““ HAGELSHAW Augusta. Mich.





 





812mm! pi'lemium 11301.18 whites.

.xpre-



eAMBRlfl AN a“BU'l'lltli it CHEESE COMPANY,



203lHo1111rd St. Det1oit,1\lich. Sm“ bred for sming littms all sold. Have some '





choice gilt» bred for‘Aug litters. also some Sept.

Ship to The Old Reliable House C ”1’ Fisher, R ’ St Louis, MiCh‘

Daniel McCaffrey’ 3 Sons,

3-2(1:'1'\\:1bash ”1112., Pittsburg. 1’1.





single 1111111 for grain and dairy farm in

wanted Oakland 011111111 must be clean, steady,

good milker and willing 1111rke1'. Work is sté' adv. be.

ginlng at $40. 00 per 1110.111th board. Address Box G -64,

cure of Michigan Faimer. Detroit. Mi1.l1





 





hours (or 81111





'I’ P (‘. fs-11 vlmiu: Inc-(l giltn sired by T's (‘lansman

I; M1111“ 1 19200111 Chum. bred to Smooth Buster l’ot

.Feldkamp, Manchester, Mich





 





Jr. yearling 19L ’0 AA





 





Apples. Potatoes Wanted Highest

I“prices no The





L. RlCIHMOND C0., Detroit. Mich





bred gilts now ready for Aug and Sept

Hampshll’e fax-mu: spring and fall boar igs at a bar-

fluin. JOHN Vi. SNYDER ll. 4 Ft. ohns, Mich





Hampshires





1914 1921

A few ohoice hours 01' this springiurrowthat

sure will improve your herd if used for herd





 





 





 





 





“063 boars Thm' are broa right anal 2110 r1ght 1mg

“ill produce right 'rite 01 escription an ‘1

SPOTTED POLAND prices W ,. are 121.111 to 1111911701 inquiries

CHINAS Steuben’s Hampshire Farm,

Angola, R. 3, Ind. .





0111' hard boars Rio Grand Giant, a litter mateto

tl11 $21000 Marshall Giant boar. his dam Ari) Can.

the largest sow of the Spotted breed. KingOnward

known 21< one of the greatest ba1k and color reeders.

English 81111: Buil1l1 1'. .1 wonderful breeder. 50 Last

spring uilts bred fox July and August furrow. SSOwc-r



Full pigs either sex. 335 ill





 





Pine Grove Hampshires





Bred 5011‘s all sold. We are oil'ei'im: 100 apring pigs of





 





heud 11hile the) l1>'_.r 14x1~ellv11t breeding and quality. Either sex, order



take ordena fo1'sp1ing pigs for June shipment, either early. 0110. COUPAH & SONS lVIarlQ-tte' Mich.

132.5.(hol1-r11 immuned Satisfzu Lion guaranteed



SAMUEL GERBE R. 4 lufl’ton, Ind.





I“BLUE HOG”





Large, gx'yowth and prolific Actually “BLUE" , :





 





' Poltnds Some very choice fall b03134.

B I”: ( color. Greatest Shou HOG in Amelica. W rtle for

.: named» for spring Siam-31:06 (Elgfi'gxfifhrnl; booklet. Mention this paper. HE BLUE HOG





sired The Cinnamon:



bin, 11 l ttennate to the 840 000The Yankee. Also 11f1z11



oe boars by The Clanshoy, 11011 of Th e Innsman.

WESLEY HILE.loI1i.1. lVlicLi





BREEDING 00 Wilmington. Muss.





HORSES 1 ;:





 





 





Belgian Stallion im ortedA t

SDrin boar pigslglb 1325.:‘21101311'11 sired by Harts rgrdlesa'e]; 191° — B“ fluifilfi 80111;? 111111} “$2138

Black rice 0350. Also have two gilts which 0 an 0W9 “3

E81933 knfihiif’trj’igm 11 21”“ 11 Th “d 31°") “fail:

a a Each. r19 are t evw goquc

:50. HER 0.1.an address F. T. CATTLE

HART, aSt, Louis Mich.





 





Itegistered Jersey bull. between

0111 .1 b 1...... 5°?" 51...!" (E. "2." 32:1- 1“ 1°11: °'°‘ '12?

000! 11; our ll 00 C l on. reaso B 9.



Big type P0131“! Chinas, each whgn 8 week: sired H. A mer n





11.1, Farmington, Mich.. Telephone.

by Cinnamon Duster and their dam being a rize win-





ner at the State Fair. Also slits bred for t. Far- . .

A Good Combination





row for 840 and up. DGuarantee Satisfaction.

0" F ER No. 322.





onus ROVER. Akron, Mich.



1“ s. P. C ' :tfemi‘amprim



bud 2:138 fill sold. $1310 a Bognmhon at Th he Clan.-

“ an ant-cum 0. 31511112. Wk ma Michigan Farmer, one year. .....$1..00,

‘ People's Home Journal, one year 1.26 2

Woman’s Home Companion, 1 yr 2.00».





Leonard Farm Elfindflfifs‘éé 1.21.111..."

Total value . ...... . . . . . . . . .5435 "3

All for $3.30. ' ~-





 





 





 





 





Chainplon herdL ESatisfaction guaranteed. Call or

write.‘ 10.11 ONARD, R. 3. St. Lohis,Mich.





.Typé ' P..O some very choice boars double lin-

mune. Deout 11001b.siro and mammoth sows from

Iowa' a greatest herds E111 Mathew-comm Gunilla.





”4‘ > ‘
'ERE are facts taken from a recent

government investigation made among





tractor owners:





The. average tractor works 54 days in the

year. During that time it must work con-

tinuously and at full capacity. Breakdowns at

the height of the season mean a big differ-





ence in the year’s earnings.





Forty—eight per cent of the tractor owners

questioned in this government survey reported

no breakdowns during the working season.

Fifty—two per cent ofthese tractor owners lost

an average ofbltz' days because tractors broke

down. These owners reported repair bills





ranging from a few cents to over $100.





What makes this ditibrence in tractor





agree that over 50% of





all repairs on tractors are





 





caused by incorrect





lubrication.





 





 

 

 





 





LOST: 6% Priceless Days





New light

on the high cost of cheap lubrication





’ ‘t- ‘ o i 0“

Mobile 11 s

A grade for each type of motor





In buying Gargoyle Mobiloils from your dealer, it is safest to purchase

in original packages. Look for the red Gargoyle on the container.





DOMESTIC New York (Main 031") Philadelphia Detroit Minneapolis Boston

BRANCHES: Kansas City, Kan. Pittsburgh





 

   

   

 





Correct Lubrication is your best insurance

against valuable time lost by breakdowns,

costly repairs to your tractor and undue (le-

preciation through wear.





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N hundreds of tests Gargoyle Mobiloils

have shown savings ranging from 17% to

25% in fuel, and from 50% to 70% inoil





consumption.





The use of Gargoyle Mobiloils as speci-





fied in our Chart of Recommendationsiwill

show a decided difference in the operating

expense of your tractor, truck and‘ auto-





mobile.





Gargoyle Mobiloils are put/ up in I— and.





5-gallon sealed‘c’ans, in 15— 30— and 55-gal-





lon steel drums and in wood half~barrels





Lubrication,” a booklet





? troubles? m and barrels.

.‘ Prominent engineers GB“ "6 Write for “Correct





 





containing complete auto—

mobile and tractor charts

and other valuable data.





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Recommendations





How so Read the Chane, . 7

TH! correct grades of Gargoyle M ii

4 . 1 engine lubrication of bath passenger and only '

menial cm are specified in the Chart below.



‘- l A means Gargoyle Mobiloil'flA“



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Chart Of . f

Recommendations ,

How to Read the Chart: -

THE correctf grades of. Gargoyle Mobfloiu for. ' i

engine lubrication of Tnctora are specified In ‘

the Chart below:

A means Gargoyle Mobile“ “A’fl

B mians Gargoyle Mobile“ "‘3”

BB means Gargoyle Mobileif‘flfl”

fire means Gargoyle .Mobilofl Arctic. _

Where difl'erent grades are recommended for summer

and winter use, the winter recommendations W

be followed during the entire period when freezing

temperatures ma‘y be experienced. I.. t,

"The recommendations for prominent—make. 0‘

engines used'in‘many Tractors at} hated Icy-mew

for convenience» ' . . _ ‘ ’ ‘

The Chart of Recommendations himmpiled by dui

Vacuum ,Oil Company’s Boardvéf Automotiie,.

Engineers, and represents our professional advice ed

correct tractor lubrication.‘ ’ . ‘_





 





 





 





   





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





   





   





   

   





 





 





     

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   





 

 





 





 

 

   





 





 





     

 

 

 





       





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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