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hesphorus for Heavy Soils





_ Increasing Soil Efiicimcy T érozigfl Fertilization





_RECENT interview 'with- Mr. Samuel



~ Simpson, of Wakeshma township, ,Kal-



.. amazoo county. brought out that he is

a very enthusiastic user or, acid phosphate

on heavy land. He showed us fields of wheat

that were greatly benefited by the applica-

tion (if two ‘hundred pounds of sixteen per



*cent acid phosphate per acre; in fact, two

years ago cooperative tests on his farm

’ showed‘that the yield of this crop was rais—

‘ed from twenty-eight bushels to slightly

more than thirty-eight bushels per acre and

that the clover this season following the

wheat is about one-third greater in yield

where the phosphate is applied to the land

for the wheat than where ITO material was

added to the soil. .



Similar results have been obtained on the

farm of W. J. Guthrie, near Mendon, Michi-

gan. “Where two hundred and fifty pounds

of this material was used on stony silt loam

land with a rather, tight subsoil the yields

were. increased 16.2 bushels over the unfer-

tfiized soil. These men, and many others,

are—enthusiastic supporters of acid phos-

phate for the better grades of soil.



,There is much interest in the use of phos-

phorus for soil improvement and, in fact,

this is Commendable because it 'is a plant-

food and is removed from the soil by crops

and its supply in the‘ majority of soils is

somewhat limited. We now know that the

majority of. the heavy soils of Michigan're-

spend to its application by marked increase

in the yields of several crops. If one con

templates using‘this material on his land it

is advisable for him to know the forms in

which it may be purchased, its effect on

crop growth and on the soil, the time, man-

ner and amount to apply and results that

may be" expected from its

application as indicated by

reports from diffemnt farm-

ers and tests conducted by

experiment stations on

heavy land. In other-words,

he is more likely to use the

material more intelligently

if he is pretty well informed

concerning it. In fact, the

American farmer is rapidly

realizing that it is advisable

for him to know as much

about his business? as it is

possible for him‘ to know.



There is one carrier of

phOSphorus that is 'used exv

tensively in Michigan at the ‘



present .time,’ and three oth—”

“ ers mat are of interest to» ‘

' ~ the farmers, of the state. g.





The one that is used far in excess of the

others is the acid phosphate. This is ob»

tained by mixing about one ton of raw rock

phosphate, which is found in a number of

our states, notably Florida, Tennessee and

several of the western states, with about





 





 





The/clover shown on right'was

grown on phosphated wheat land

of Sam Simpson, and that on the

left on untreated portions of the

field, showing the residuary effect

of acid phosphate.





 





 





 





 





 





 





the same amount of strong sulphuric acid.

As a result of this mixture we have acid

phosphate, a readily available and usually

a grayish pulverized material. The sulphate

acid is destroyed by the mixture due to the

lime and the other substances that are pres-

ent in the raw rock phosphate, that is, when





'soil without further treatment.





the mixture is properly made and cured be-

fore shipment. ,



Another carrier of phOSphorus is bone

meal, which is obtained from the packing

houses, usually after it has been steamed

and finely ground. This is a slower acting

carrier of phosphorus and therefore must

be applied in larger quantities than the acid

phosphate. This is not used very extensively

in Michigan. In some instances the bones

are mixed with sulphuric acid and forms

acidulated bone, sometimes spoken of as

bone phosphate. As a matter of fact, the

phosphatic material that results from the

mixing of bone and sulphuric acid is the

same as that when raw rock phosphate and

the acid are mixed and should be looked

upon as acid phosphate.



Recently a treble phosphate has appeared

on the market in Michigan. It is manufac-

tured in Montana by the addition of sul-

phuric acid to raw rock phosphate, the prac—

tice being similar to that which is followed

in the manufacture of sixteen per cent acid

phosphate. When the material is placed on

the market it contains forty~five. per cent of

available phosphoric acid or about three

timesas much as sixteen per cent acid phos-

phatefi Tests in several places in Michigan

by members of the soils department, during

the past year, indicate that this is a success—

ful carrier of phosphorus and should be used

in about one-third the quantity of sixteen

per cent acid phosphate.



The raw rock phosphate that is mined at

the difierent depths, from the states men—

tioned above, after being very finely ground

is placed on the market to be used on the

In some

states it is used very extensively, especially

where the soils are rather





 





high in humus and where

stable manure is used quite

abundantly. Results of ex—

periments in Michigan to

date are not in favor of'this

carrier of phosphorus for

the majority of the farms of

Michigan.



When phosphorus is ap-

plied to soils that are defi—

cient in it the applications

are beneficial in several re~

spects. Contrary to popular

belief and to earlier teach-

ings, it is now recognized

that it increases tremend-

ously the root production of

plants, causing them to

strike more deeply into the



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WE CLVII. NUMBER THREL





DETROIT, JULY 16, 1921.





 





CURRENT COMMENT





HAT there is less

risk in diversified





'cmp RISkS production than in

and one crop production

Diversity is a generally recog-





nized fact. The di-

versity of our products makes Michi-

gun. attractive from an agricultural

standpoint. One crop may be almost

a total failure, due to unfavorable con—

ditions for that particular crop, but

other products will insure the general

farmer a good living and a fair in-

come, while in the one-crop section a

failure of the main dependence is dis-

estrous.



And it now appears that in addition

to the greater freedom from crop risk

which results from a diversity of crop

production, there is, generally speak-

.lnfg, less risk on individual crops in

sections where diversified production

is the rule. Figures recently compiled

‘by the Bureau of Estimates of the





United States Department of Agricul--





ture show that the risks in the produc-

tion of the three great staple crops

corn, wheat and oats, are greatest in

"the plains states extending from Tex-

as to North Dakota.



~ This general fact is established by

the average deviation of the yield per

acre from the average yield. As this

territory includes the sections of the

country where these great staples are

”the principal crops grown, and where

their production so greatly exceeds 10-

bal consumption, this conclusion, es-

eltablished by the records of the depart-

ment for a period of fifty years should

add to the contentment’of the farmers

who are located in sections where the

uofl’and climatic conditions favor di—

versified crop production, as is preem-

inently the case in Michigan.





URING the pres-

ent month two





Moves for 'impOrtant moves have

World been made by the

Peace government of the



United States, look-

. lag toward the establishment and





maintenance of world peace. The first

“these was the passage of a resolu-

lb! by congress declaring the war





, :vith Germany at an end, and the sec-





and was the sending of a note to the

‘yflncipal allied powers and the gov-





-i Wants of the far east asking if they





Md look with favor on the proposi-

of calling a cbnference at Walsh-





11 for the "purpose of discussing ..





their definite settlement since it has





' accomplished little toward clearing up





the involved situation“ It is however,

a first step in the direction of their

settlement, which indicates that defi-

nite plans are taking form for the 111‘.

tlmaxe settlement of the whole prob-

lem. There is no question in the mind

of the average citizen that it is desir-

able to have the European complica-

tions growing out of the war, so far

as our relations With Europe are con-

cerned, adjusted at the earliest possi-

ble date that this can be accomplished

without jeopardy to the future inter«

ests of the 'United States and her peo-

ple.

since the close of the war so that

these problems can be approached

calmly and without prejudice and set-

tled in a statesmanlike way. It is no

simple problem, but it is a problem

which must be solved, and the‘ first

real step taken toward its solution is

a matter for general congratulation.

The second move above noted is per-

haps of even greater importance, not

alone from the standpoint of the pos-

sible saving to the nations of the





world from an ultimate agreement on ‘





the matter of the limitation of arma-

ment, but as well because of the pro-

posed adjustment of questions relating

to the Orient, which otherwise might

become a source of friction in future

years. The President, with apparent

wisdom, has considered the settelment

of these questions as vital in their re-

lationship to~ the limitation of naval

armament. If this program can be ac-

complished, it will be a step toward

the perpetuation of world peace which

will receive general approval from the

rank and file of American citizens.





ENATE leaders at

Washington w h 0

Congress favored the adjourn-

and the ment of that body for

Farmers four or five weeks





while the house con-

siders tariff legislation were defeated

in their purpose by a group of senators

from the south and west who repre-

ent agricultural states. This group in-

sisted upon the importance of giving

early consideration to" a number 6f





bills in which their agricultural con-1‘





stitu-ents are interested, including the

grain exchange regulation bill, the

Norris farm export bill and a number

of others. i





That a sufficient number of United

States senators are convinced of the

need and wisdom of giving early at-

tention to these matters relating to

agriculture to hold their body in con-

tinuous summer session under prevail-

ing weather conditions is a tribute to

the manner in which the farmers of

the country are presenting their prob-

lems for the attention of the national

lawmakers, and a matter for general

congratulation. Under these condi-

tions it the just requirements of Amer-

ican agriculture are clearly presented

they are likely to receive favorable

consideration. At least a long step

will have been taken toward a general

appreciation and clarification of the

farmer’s needs and views.



Unfortunately some of the organiza-

tion representatives at Washington

are working at cross purposes. Con-

gress has established ‘a, joint agricul-

tural commission, which will begin its

sessions in Washington. this week. The

American Federation of Farm Bureaus

will undertake to present to this com-

missiu firsthand information regard—

ing the Ahead-con camel’s needs by

having the question simultaneously

discussed at a thousand meetings held

by a thousand local county farm bu-

reaus for the purpose. These meetings





 





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Suggestions as to practical Are ‘ adios





for them.



The educational value of such (lla-

cusslon will be” great, whcther any

notable consensus of opinion. is devel-





oped or not. But in the end-the issue,





like all others, is bound to become a

local one to most members of the an.

tions! legislative body. And'prohably

in the end the most insistent demand

will be for such restraining and enab-

ling legislation as organization loaders

deem necessary to enable the farmers

of the country to solve their own prob-

lems, as they are in a fair way to do

through constructive , ‘orgunizntion

work and cooperative effort to that

end.. '





1TH the idea of

commodity mar-





Heh’ for keting generally ac-

Commodity cepted as the most

Marketing practical and most



' satisfactory "methOd





of disposing of farm products, the

question of how best to insure the fu-

ture of cooperative marketing institu-

tions comes to. the mind of the pro-

gressive farmer. Naturally those who

are interested in this plan of selling,

desire first of all, reliable information

on the handling of the particular crop

or crops which they grow or handle.





The department of agriculture is an-

ticipating this demand for information

and has already planned to give aid

through the empIOyment of commodity

specialists who are also informed on

cooperative marketing practices. In

addition to their already acquired

knowledge and‘experience, these men

will make a careful study of the meth-

ods followed in the communities where

their respective crops are now being

marketed along commodity lines, and

with this information they will be

ready to aid other communities in lay-

ing the foundation of new cooperative

narketing organizations on the rock

‘of experience. The department of ag-

riculture is to be commended on its

attitude toward the marketing ques—

.ion at a time like the present when

every. assistance is needed to make

certain that agriculture will be able

to hold fast to that which she has

found good. '





THE escape ‘of a.





Safeguard- . pair of untamed

, lions from a wrecked

"‘9 the. circus train, suggests



Community to one’s mind the or-





ganization of the en-

tire community to destroy a common

menace. The scratch of the lion’s

claw is almost always fatal. This is

due to the blood—poisoning germs that

accumulate and develop, on the claw

as it remains within the moist and

warm sheath.





Yet that familiar insect bred in un-

speakable filth and known to us as the

common housefly carries a million

dangerous and deadly germs on its

hairy body and is a menace far more

hazardous to the community than all

the lions and other animals that break

from circus cages. Notwithstanding





this danger due to the great number





of these insects and to their pertina-

cious habit to: inspect, touch and taste

every object within reach of their ac-

tive wings, folks are not inclined to

get together on a community program

looking for the destruction of the eggs

and maggots of this pestiferous insect.



However, it is More than possible

that in final places individual efiort

with screens, mpg, closed vessels for

foods that attract these poets, sulphate





oflronforthowumpfluetcnwlll; The

bring a suflclcntly satisfactory return States is m by W





in the reduction of the number of pea-

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Wednod‘day, July 8.

HE Teutanp'





peace; gems uletlyr—Anh'lm

county, Michigan, lag forest are,





probe —Unl€ed Shtosfleno passes

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injured at: a ore-111 ill-the plant of the

Standard Gil Company at Waugh

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month inmethmacenturyeinamt 1‘





Britain, less than a quarter of an inch

of ram having hilam—A‘wo hu



and fifty members of the: American

Legion will sell soon to visit the bat-

tlefields of France. -'





Thursday, July 7.





HE Department of National M



erty of Mexico intends to build :-

two million dollar

City. The plans indicate that it will

be one of the best hotels in the world.

—The Irish agree to armistice. Jail

Smuts, premier of South Africa”. will

take active part in peace negotiations.

———American troops on the Rhine held

the regular old-fashioned American

Fourth of July .—-The town of Freder-

ick, South Dakota, Was practically de-

molished by a cyclone. ——The depart-

ment of labor estimates that the cost





of living has declined sixteen per cent -





in the. past year. —United States gun

boats have been ordered to Tampico,

Mexico, to protect American interests

during labor troubles there.-





Friday, July 8.





ECAUSE of destruction of main



ammunition dump at Smyrna, the

Greeks in Asia Minor may be com-

pelled to suspend operations against

the Turks—General reduction of the

army at all military points in the Unit.

ed States and Porto Rico has been or-

dered.—-Poland is

grave financial crisis, its money being

almost worthless. An American dollar

is worth 1900 Polish marks—A gold

medal was pinned on the collar‘bf

Studdy, a Boston terrier, a hero of the

World War, by General Pershing.—

The German-Chinese trade treaty has

been ratified and is immediately effec-

tive—Kansas pmducers of hay and

grain face ruin unless they get lower

freight~rates.-——A report on the perma-

nent tariff 'shows that liquor importa-

tions have doubled since prohibition

became effective.





Saturday, July 9.



THE town of Milwood, in nonthem



Ontario, was destroyed by fire.

Hundreds of pulp workers are home-

less. Millions of dollars worth of tim-

ber have been destroyed—The Penn-

sylvania Department of Labor says

unemployment is increasing despite

the call for farm labor.—Eight found-

ries in Chicago, employing 5,000 men,

were forced to shut down because of

excessive heat—Navy Blimp 3-3 oz-

ploded at Hampton Roads, seriously

burning four persons—Postmaster

Hayes promises investigation of the

parcel post system with a view of ef-

fecting economies—An appropriation

of 400,000 will be awarded twenty-four

states for the protection of their for—

est lands durin-g the present fiscal

year.—John D. Rockefeller celebrates

eighty-second birthday.—-—The United

States Steel Corporation announces a.

general reduction in steel prices.





'Sunday, July 10.





HE French Senatevotes ten mil-

lion francs for relief of the unem-

ployedr—The governor of Colorado an-

nounces that seven thousand people

are in absolute need as a. result of the

Pueblo flood—Five hundred small for-

est fires are raging in the vicinity or

Grand Mere, Quebec.—Gunboats are

withdrawn from Tapico, because the

situation is not alarming -—Railroads

of the country report $37, 000,000 in

crease in earnings. ——Airboat in Detroit

river kill two men in skiff by crashing

into their craft in starting oft—Eight

million dollars in gold is enroute frm

British vaults to United States bank-

ers. —King George gives ball in Lon-

don. This is the first dance given by

the King since 1913 .——The Turks seize

American orphanages in Syria and

have ordered the expulsion of foreign-

ers. ~American Federation of Labor

warns rail workers against stopping

work because of wage cut. —Upper

Silesia is now clear at the Polish 1!-

surgents. . .

Monday, July 11.





Romsson EINSTEIN,

scientist, asserts that- the -,





 

 





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confronted with *a '
HIS article is Written to convey .

some idea as to the results ac-

. ,, compiished by the sections of

craps, soils, chemistry and farm me-

chanics, relating chiefly to problems

connected with soils, soil fertility,

- 4 crops breeding and cultural methods,

and to farm buildings, drainage, sani-

.tation, etc. As some of this wOrk was

, idone before the agricultural division

.1717: and experiment station took on its

"present form of organization, classifi-

, cation of the work by departments en-

, . tirely is not feasible for the entire

‘. period. .



Between the founding of the college

in 1857 and the organization of the ex-

' ’ periment- station in 1887, much atten-

" tion was given to the investigation of

‘methods relating .to crop production,

including cultural practices and the in-

troduction and testing of new varieties.



Excel: in Crop Breeding Work.

«The Michigan Experiment Station

now has the most extensive crops

breeding departmenttof any institution

in America. The breeding work, in-

'cluding cereals, hay and forage plants,

'root crops, etc., now requires annually

an area of over one hundred and forty

acres, including the plots required to

increase desirable varieties. The Ag-

ricultural Experiment Station has giv-





been based on the results of the ex-

periment station crops breeders.

Put Michigan on the Sugar Beet Map.

The Michigan Experiment Station

was responsible for the establishment

of the sugar beet industry in Michi.

gan. The names of tWO men are insep-

arably-linked with this work, Dr. R. C.

Kedzie as v the result of studies and

observations of the beet-growing in-

dustries in European countries attack-

ed the problem from' the standpointof

suitable soils, fertilizers and environ-

mental conditions. Director C. D.

Smith’s work included investigations

of cultural methods comprehensive and

complete in their scope. Dr. Kedzie

published a bulletin on beet sugar in

1891 and his publications and those of

other investigators numbered over a

dozen in the years that succeeded. The

magnitude of the industry growing

from this humble start from the ex-

periment station may be appreciated

upon consideration of the fact that

Michigan now has eighteen factories

representing an investment of over

$30,000,000, returning to the farmers

annually about $10,000,000, from about

123,000 acres of beets grown.





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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en to Michigan a superior variety of

wheat known as Red Rock, originating





from a; single kernel planted in 1908;





it is Winter hardy, _1s a high yielder,

with stiff straw, and is a good bread

The Michigan Experiment

’Station has given to Michigan and her





‘northern sister states4—Rosen Rye; an





unexc'elled yielder of the best quality

and as yet unbeaten in competition

even at such shows as the great Inter-

national Hay and Grain Show with

several states competing. This rye

originated from a Russian importation

and now the crops department of the

experiment station controls the entire

rye production—all pure head-selected

Rosen—of South Manitou 'Island in

Lake Michigan, in order to perpetuate

the pure strain and prevent cross~

’Ebreeding.



The Michigan Experiment Station

‘selected from and improved strains of

_Worthy, Alexander, Wolverine, Swed-

ish Select and College Wonder oats,.

which are now so commonly grown

throughout the state, excelling in, yield

and quality most of the common varie-

ties heretofore grown. The station has

also given to Michigan the Robust

Bean, known for its excellent disease-





» resisting qualities and large yielding





abilities. When Hubam sweet clover

(annual white) was discovered the

Michigan station was the leader in





testing its merits and reproducing it





in large quantities to meet the de-

mands for. seed, not only from this

:state but for many other states as

well. Individual alfalfa, clover, timo-

-thy, cowpea, soy-bean and plants by

the hundreds, as Well as many others,

‘are to be found in the crops breeding

plots. The crops department is achiev-





;





‘ ing valuable results in the determina—_





tion of corn, varieties best suited for

particular purposes in the various

zones into which the state is divided

‘on the basis of soil and meterological

«auditions.



Work Extends to Practical Farmer.





 

   





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The achievements of the crops breed-D

“Fm of the experiment station resulted .,

‘ the organization of the Michigan





Soil Investigations Extensive.

Investigations reveal that the ex-





periment station since 1887 has fur-

nished many valuable aids to agricul-

ture by’ investigating and analyzing

many types of soils, crops, etc.

of the miscellaneous projects investi-

gated include the following, viz.: Jack

pine plains, comparative yields of old

and new meadows, two plants for sand

land, rape, millet, crimson clover, sand





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.. Wfidt It Has Done to Give U} a Better Know/edge ofSoi/y, Fertility,

fir"; » . : ‘ - ‘ Crops mm’ Crop Production





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The protection thus afforded the

farmer may be surmised by a state-

ment from the Chemist’s office for the

year 1920, during which 964 samples

were analyzed, representing a total

tonnage in the state of 101,000 tons.

The approximate value of fertilizers

sold in the state was $400,000 for, that

year. During the past five years the

experiment station has inspected and

licensed commercial feeding stuffs; in

1920, 1,011 samples were analyzed

from an approximate tonnage of 250,-

000 tons in the state, with sales valu-

ations representing about $15,000,000.

During this year the cost of fertilizer

and feeding stuffs inspection was ap-

proximately 7.2 cents per ton.



As early as 1885 a bulletin on the

nature and uses of marl by Kedzie,

appeared, followed by the results of

various investigations, including re-

ports of results on manurial value of

ashes, plaster ashes and salt as a top-

dressing for meadows and pasture

lands, fertilizers for the various cereal

and root crops, the comparative value

of farm manures, and the losses and

preservation of farm manures, etc.



. Leads in Amount and Quality.



From 1909 on to the present time

the Michigan station excelled in the

amount and quality of its purely scien—

tfiic research work bearing either di—

rectly or indirectly on soil fertility

problems. During this period three

technical bulletins have appeared on

the subject of organic nitrogenous

compounds in _peat soils. Other pub-

lications related to soil tempeiatures, 1

effects of temperatuie on physical





 





 





county Agents Gather Data from Experimental Plots. .





lucerne, coneas, soy—beans, winter

vetch, influence of nodules on compo-

sition of cowpeas, alfalfa, legumes oth—

er thanalfalfa, succotash as a soiling

crop, bean improvement, sandy soils

of western and northern Michigan,

hairy vetch, barley improvement, short

season hay crops, sweet clover and

numerous other things about which

the farmer desired information.

During the period beginning in 1885,

two years before the organization of

the experiment stations, up to the pres-

ent time, the Michigan Agricultural

Experiment Station published sixty-

two bulletins resulting from the inves-

tigatIOns relating to soil fertility, crop





requirements and fertilizer problems.





The first report on Analyses of Com-

mercial Fertilizers, by Dr. R. C. Ked-

zie, appeared in 1887 and for thirty-

foli'r consecutive years, '





 





without a'

break. the collection and analyses con- ,





character of soils, soil acidity, meas-

uring concentration of soil solution,

determination of the nature of soil

acidity and lime requirements, obtain-

ing soil solution by oil pressure, class-

ification and measurement of different

forms of soil water by the dilatometer

method, soil solution as an indication

of biological changes in soil, relation-

’ ship between the unfree water and the

heat of wetting of soils and its signifi-

cance, soluble salt content of soils and

factors influencing it, effects of fertil-

izer salts treatments on composition of

soil extracts, uses of solutions of am—

monium citrate for estimating the re-

verted calcium phosphate, rate and ex-

tent of solubility of minerals and rocks

under different treatments and condi-

tions. In all eighteen bulletins in this

class reported important results basic

to the further solution'of soil fertility

problems. , ' \ '

Mapping Michigan Soils.

In the earlier history of the institu-





as previews-1;





\





were attacked by chemists, crops ex-

perimenters and others independently

or in cooperation. Since the establish ,1 ‘ ‘





ment of the crops department, a dec— .

ade and a half ago, investigations]

projects have been put on a well or-

ganized basis. Soil survey work is now

under way in the state Last year a

report was issued on the soils of the

Detroit area, including nearly three

counties. Surveys are being made of

four other counties during the present

summer. These surveys consist, in

part, of an interpretation of soil condi-

tions from an agricultural standpoint,

including classification, mapping, com«

position and topography, erosion, pro

ductivity, utilization and recommenda-

tion for soil improvement. During the

present season the soils department is

conducting fertility tests in about nine-

ty localities, distributed throughout

the lower peninsula, including a great

variety of soils ‘under varying environ-

mental conditions. The purpose is to

determine the fertilizer needs from the

most economic standpoint. The proj-

ects not in progress include moisture

and structural relationships of the soil,

fertilizer needs of representative soils,

immediate and residuary effects of dif-

ferent forms of lime, immediate and

residuary effects of'different forms of

lime, and immediate and residuary’ef—

fects of acid, double superphosphate

and raw rock phosphate respectively,

partial substitution of mineral fertiliz-

ers for stable manure, soil fertilization

for sugar beets, value of top-dressing

soils with mineral and organic fertiliz-

ers, investigation of the value, nature

and du1ation of the residuary effects.

of diffe1ent texture, a comprehensive

study of muck soils as well as many

others of a highly scientific character,

the outcome of which are to throw

light. on Michigan’s complex soil prob-

lems. '

Helping the Farmer with Building-

Though the department of farm me-

chanics did not receive recognition un-

til 1906, much had been accomplished

prior to this time in both educational

and investigational work by various

members of the staff of the depart-

ment of practical agriculture, from

which the present eleven departments

of the agricultural division emanated.

As early as 1889 a bulletin on silos, by

Johnson, appeared, followed in 1896

by another bulletin-building soils,

and then followed by a third in 1909

entitled, “Cement Silos in Michigan."

The first silo built in Michigan by the

college occupied the present site of

the office of the director of the experi-

ment stations. ,Bulletins on building

construction first appeared in 1890,

with one entitled greenhouse building

and heating, the college farm build-

ings, protection of buildings from light-

ning, equipment for breeding, feeding,

care and management of swine, poul-

try house construction and yardage. In

'1912 a complete and comprehensive

discussion on the_subject of drainage

was issued by Jeffery, followed by two

bulletins on the durability of concrete

tile. An expert devotes part of his

time to drainage demonstrations in the

state. Much drainage investigational

work was carried on by the college

prior to 1887. The farm mechanics

department has aided in testing and

perfecting septic tanks for use in‘ farm





sewage disposal and is prepared to ,

mail blueprints to those desiring to 111-"

stall them. Other subjects akin to the

work of the- farm mechanics depart-"





ment published on are, draft of farm

implements, shrinkage of farm ptod‘
' BUTTER TAX AGAIN POSTPONED.





 





HE proposed federal tax of ten per



cent. on all butter made frOm-nem

tralized cream has been postponed to

August 1 by Commissioner Blair, says

H. F. Frary, secretary of the Michigan

Creamery Owners' and Manager-s’ As-

sociation. It is believed that the prop-

osition will eventually go back to the

atorney-general's office for a rehearing.

Mr. Frary ’ reports that the better

cream campaign being waged by the

dairymen of the state is continuing to

show good results. Creamery owners

speak of a steady improvement in the

quality. of cream sent to market.





N'JMBER OE IDLE FREIGHT CARS

DECREASE.





 





N increased demand for all classes



of freight cars except those for

,coal Was noted during June, says the

American Railway Association in ad-

vices tO the State Farm Bureau. The

railway’s report said that on June 23

there were 377,850 cars in excess of

current freight requirements, or a re-

duction of 3,896 cars as compared with

the total Of idle cars on June 15.





BETTER CREAM CAMPAIGN SUC-

CESSFUL.





 





REAMERIES and buttermakers



throughout the state are inform:

ing the Michigan Association of

Creamery Owners and Managers that

their better‘ quality cream campaign is

getting results. Creamerymen agree

that there is a steady improvement in

the quality of cream that is now com-

ing to them. The association continues

to push its educational drive for qual-





ity production and payment for cream

3n the basis of a graded product.





VETCH CROP SHORT.





 





ESET by dry weather in some



',parts ofvwestern Michigan and. an

additional plague of grasshoppers in

the northwestern part of the state.

the Michigan seed vetch crop is likely

to be somewhat lighter this year, ac

cording to the State Farm Bureau. The





state produces between eighty and,





ninety per cent of the American-grown

avetc'h. The 1921 vetch harvestvis just

getting under way. Sales of the old

crop of Michigan vetch are reported

to be doing very well, in face of the

great imports of foreign-grown vetch.

Careful American growers seem to ore

for Michigan seed. New seedings of

vetch should be made before August

15 for best results, says the farm bu-

reau, quoting Michigan Agricultural

College information on the handling of

vetch.





WATER RATES 0N MICHIGAN

FRUIT.





 





Water rates on fruit over the Mich-

igan Transit Line to Chicago from

Bowers Harbors, Boyne City, Charle-

voix, Glen Arbor, Glen Haven, Harbor

Springs, Mackinaw Island, North Man-

itou Island, ’Northport, Old Mission,

Omens, Petoskey, St. Ignace, Sault

Ste. Marie, St. James, Suttons Bay,

Traverse City and Wildwood have

been reduced as follows: Barrels and

three-bushel crates, less than carload

lots, from 87 to 75 cents; bushel bas~

kets, 33 to 30 cents; half-bushel bas-

kets, 27 to 20 cents, and one—third,

quarter, and half-bushel baskets, 20 to

10 cents.





   





Reductions from Ludingto‘n, Menis-

tee, Onekama and Frankiort to Chi-

cago are as follows: Barrels, and

three- bushel crates, less than carload

lots, 84 to 65 cents; bushel packages,-

33 to 30 .cents: half-bushel baskets, 25

to 20 cents, and one-third and quarter

bushel packages, 20 to 16 cents; fifth-

bushel packages, 17 to 10 cents;



Reduction on earlots. and less than

carlots of apples, berries. currents.

grapes. cherries and also celery from

Grand Haven, Muskegon, Montague,

and Whitehall to Chicago on the Good-

rich line range from fifteen to twenty,-

cent and better, according to the tariff

recently adopted.



The carlot rate from Grand Haven

to Chicago on apples. has been reduc-

ed from ‘28 to 22 cents; berries and

currents, 80% to 63% cents; grapes





and cherries, 68% to 64 cents, and cel- ,





cry, 42 to 40% cents, says the farm

bureau, adding that proportionate ad-

justments have been made from Mus-

kegon, Montague and Whitehall to

Chicago.





 





BILLS AFFECTING FILLED >MILK.~





 





HEARINGS on the Voigt filled milk



bill before the house committee

on agriculture were resumed July 8.

The opponents of the bill admitted

that the ‘label did not protect the con-

sumer, but they argued that this was





a matter for the pure food laws to .





handle. They also admitted that the

filled milk was not as good as whole

milk when fed to children. In filled

milk production, they eXtract the but-

ter-fat in milk and sell it manufactur-

ed into butter. Then they replace this

butter-fat with cocoanut oil, costing

twelve cents a pound, and sell the re-

sultant filled milk in competition with





milk.

milk is a waste product, heretofore liq-

.ing fed to hogs and poultry." they





were doing the country a favor by mix; .





ing it with vegetable oil and selling

the mixture in the place of whole-milk.



Congressman Fordney, chairman of

the ways and means committee, has





introduced a bill in the house to tar





filled milk, which is almost identical

with the Beck bill, except that tho





terms are more comprehensively de- .

fined, and the manufacturers’ license ,





and product axes‘are larger.





 





TO HEAD AGRICULTURAL naval;- .





oPMENT WORK.





 





R. HALLIDAY, Commissioner of



Agriculture of Michigan, has se-

lected John A. _Doelle, secretary-man-

ager of the Upper Peninsula Develop-

ment Bureau to be director of the Bu-

reau of Agricultural Development. in

the newly created State Department of

agriculture.” ’Mr. Doelle's work will





embrace the divisions of immigration, :

settlement, agricultural fairs, agricul- :

tural statistiCs, land problems, drain- '5





age, orchard and nursery inspection.

and apiary inspection—CHASE.





RAINS RELIEVE DROUTH.





 





’ SEVEN weeks’ drouth was broken

by a series of rains which visited

Benzie county on July (7. Crops in

general, and especially late potatoes

and beans, will profit by the rain. The





whole milk From his to seven, per

cent of the "filled milk is “germs (ilk. ‘ ,

the other product being sweet skim; _

They argued that “as skim: "





Benzie county Farm Bureau, acting for 5





cherry growers of this district, sold

the sour cherry crop to Chicago deal-

ers for $2.87 per sixteen-quart case.





 





 





 





ACTIVITIES OF FARM BUREAUS





Latest Mac: From Local, State and National Organization:





 





 





 





LIVE STOCK LOADING IN TRANSIT

" PRIVILEGE RESTORED.





 





TOPPING of live stock cars in tran-

sit to complete loading, a privilege

which was revoked by the railroads

early in the war, has been restored by

the Michigan Central Railroad, effec-

tive July 30, accbrding to the State

Farm Bureau traffic department. The

concesion is expected to again effect

marked savings to shippers of live

stock and to provide an economical

method for several shippers on the

same line to make arrangements for

the shipment of small lots of stock to

market.

The Michigan Central is the first

railroad to announce the restoration

of the loading of live stock in transit

privilege. The farm bureau report says

that it placed the proposition before

the Michigan Freight Committee and

the Central Freight Association, both

I of which passed favorably on restoring

the privilege and that other roads may

be expected to duplicate the action of

the Michigan Central.





DIAGNOSING THE FARMING BUSI-

NESS.





6





 





, INETY-SEVEN thousand State

‘ . Farm Bureau members were ask~





ed during the week of July 4 by the





tate organization, “What, if anything,

15 the. matter with the farmer’s busi-





 

 

 





Farm Bureau Federation, which is

gathering from forty-seven farm states,

first-hand information on farm prob-

lems for the congressional committee

investigating the condition of agricul-

ture.



The State Farm Bureau question-

naire was scheduled to be carried out

in the form of community hearings

where there was an opportunity to call

a meeting in the limited time available

for conducting the questionnaire.

Farmers considered authorities on

their respective commodities were

scheduled to be heard in each county

on their experiences on the present

conditions of credit, transportation and

marketing facilities. They were also

to be asked for suggestions tO remedy

existing evils. ,



The congressional joint commission

of agricultural inquiry began its ses-

sions July 11. It is charged with in-

vestigating the present condition of

agriculture and’js expected to report

and to recommend remedial legisla-

tion where needed within ninety days.





WOOL POOLS EXCEED THOSE OF

1920.





 





WOOL pools in all the eighteen

American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion states engaged in pooling wool.

this year are exceeding all expecta—'

tion, says the national organization.

Ohio is reported to have pooled 1.000.-

000 pounds to date, 1.090. 000 more

Michigan.





 





much as was pooled last year and the

prospects'are that the New- York p001

will double the 1920 figure. Kansas,

Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Min-

nesota, South Dakota and Missouri are

placing great amounts in the Amerian

Farm Bureau Federation pool. .





 





ELEVATOR EXCHANGE TO HOLD

ANNUAL MEETING.





 





REPRESENTATIVES of eighty-five



cooperative elevator associations

and farm bureau locals, members of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau Ele-

vator Exchange, will attend the first

annual meeting of the organization, to

be held at State Farm Bureau head-

quarters in Lansing, Tuesday, July 19.

The delegates will find awaiting their

further guidance a young elevator

giant which has grown from twenty-

three to eighty-five elevators within a

year.





The elevator exchange actually. be-

gan business October 20, 1920, with

twenty-three elevators using it as a.

selling agent for grain and beans.

During November of that year it did a

business of about $61,000, During

June, 1921, the exchange turned over

a business of $600, 000. Three sales ‘

specialists direct the sales of the ele-

vator exchange, which now occupies an

entire wing of the Stato Farm Bureau

headquarters at Lansing.





Close connection at all times With





jthe graham been and hay-mm pole. . here





 





informed all the time on the best mar-

kets and to enable them to take advan-

tage of all opportunities, says "the ele—

.vator exchange. During the recent up-

turns in the wheat market the ex-

change forecasted the trend of events

so accurately that scores of Michigan





elevators unloaded thOusands of bush. v





els of grain at the peak price. it is do-

clared.





 





WOOL GRADING SCHEDULES.





 





HE farm bureau wool pool is now

going into the third; million and

continues to grow at the rate of 360.-

000 pounds a week. Grading sched-

ules for the week of July 18 are as

follows:

Monday.—-Boyne City, Whittemore,

Vassar, Manchester and Fremont.

Tuesday.—‘Charlevoix, Caro, Branch

county.

Wednesday—Petoskey, Lincoln. Cass

City. Branch county, 1

Thursday.—— ‘Fairview and Fairgrove.

Friday.—~Lachine and Deckerville.

Saturday.—Ossineke and Mariette.





 





The wool department has placed one

hundred and thirty , grading warehous~

eat to date. Seventy-five of these have

been visited for the first time and},

few have «bad second and cleanup 118‘-





 

 

 

 





its, with the result that more than 1+5

.« 500.000 pounds of wool have been pd'ol- I

ed. It is secured that grading





 

 

 





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4 , suesfioyble if mine new

can b hind on the subject. 01’ fire

‘ Erratic-story- of are blight. its

potentialities‘mr‘damage} and‘the like,





dish-let er the state, an<epidemic is

than us ' and: valuable orchards stand

" “grave likelihood of being badly tin--

”Growers always meet’ me with the

question, “Have you discovered a

spray for” blight?" The anSWer has to





.be’gi‘ven sadly, f‘No,”, and it is ex-





tremely likely ‘that’ such will ‘always

tht'e‘anSWer for fire blight is not a





4 di‘s‘ease“f0f the type amenable to spray-





ihg. My" sadness arises, not so much

hen-the lack'ot'the spray; as from

the realization that growers do not un-

derstand the nature oi: the disease

Which is doing the outrage.



,The :nature of the disease is such

that sprays cannot reach it and no

amount of claims by fire blight cure

purveyors will change the natural

Course'of this bact‘erial'parasite as it

goes about producing the dread dis-

ease. -'

“Fire blight starts in the spring from

hold-over cankers. .VFor the most part,

these are large and are located at the





Blightr-B! GHOm





 





Waite ,isawthis relation ad proved the





ited f Cankers and isolated the fire





blight germs from their mouth parts.





They were “caught with the goods.” _

‘The germs introducedinto the nec-

tariesf grow, invade the flower stalk

and the twigs. They produce a con-

dition difiicult to distinguish from frost

injury except by use of the microscope.

The frosted blossoms are free from

germs, the blighted blossoms simply

teem with germs. .In some cases the

distinction can be made in the or-

chard. The frosted blbssoms common-

ly come off at the base of the pedicel‘,

whereas the blighted ones frequently

break off clear down to the w‘o’ody por-

tion, all the blighted parts coming off.

Itis evident that blossom blight in

and ‘of itself is not usually serious. It

brings about a thinning; but this year

it not only thinned out but it cleaned

up the whole crop in places. The great—

est menace of the. blighted blossoms is

the fact that they serve to augment

the breeding places of the germs. In

about one-third of the blighted blos-

soms the germs pass down into the

twigs: The blight germs work in the

growing tissue of the twig or fruit





 





 





Trees that Make Excessive Growth Are Susceptible to Blight.





bases of blighted twigs. The blighted

thig died the preceding season and

the blight gernis invaded the tissues of





the larger limb and remained alive at "





the edge of the canker. .



. With-the first warm rains the germ

started to grow and filled the tissue

with a slime. So plentiful did they

become that they oozed out of the crev-

ices in the bark and then were picked

up by bees and other insects. These

agents Which visit the cankers because





i of the sweetness of the exudate carry





the germs to the flowers on the trees.

Any tree not. in flower is likely to es-

cape the first form of fire blight, “blos-

som blight.”



-Recent work has shown that the

blight germs may also be carried about

the orchard by wind—blown rain. The

canker exuding the bacteria as the rain

beats upon it loads the mist with

germs which blow about. Those vari-

eties in flower become infected. Even,

if only a blossom here and there has

the germs brought to it the nature of

the case is such that the spreading far

and wide is likely to occur. The germs





‘ « grow in the nectar of the flowers find-

ing this sweet juice 'a most excellent





culture . medium. The bees visit the

newer, become contaminated with the





germs : and ,carry them from flower to

1”}"iv‘ . .





 

 

 





W” M e—keeper get excited

:1 tsetsebees'ram





 

 

 

 





spur. They are not on the outside, nor

in. the wood—they are rather in the

cambium zone.



They are out of the reach of sprays

for the bark. of the tree is impervious.



A tree with abundant blossom blight

usually develops abundant twig blight,

or at least some twig blight. If a

dry spell comes on immediately after

the blossom blight many cases of

blight are nipped outright and the

germs dry and die. We must bear in‘

mind that the fire blight germ is ac-

tive only in actively growing tissue.



But even a few cases of twig blight

are serious because they in turn can

cause more twig blight. Nearly every

twig harbors some sucking insects.

When a twig is blighted and begins to

«die, the aphids and other insects leave-

Then, too, certain generations of

aphids are winged. These insects

feeding in the very tissues where the

fire blight germs live .pick .up the

germs on their mouth parts and carry

them from twig to twig and tree to

tree;



There is no mystery to the matter,

when we know that at least eighteen

kinds of insects have been proved to

be carriers of the blight germs. What

if the Duchess had the blossom blight

and the Wealthy apples Were free?

The «insects go from tree to tree.



But thevtwigv blight is dangerous only





: in that it leads to. the blighting of the





larger parts—aha bearingiimbs-orperi

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case by capturing bees which*had vis- '





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tissue around the base-





 





dangerous of all, for these lead- direct:





by into the trunk of the tree and blight—

? ing of the sprouts often leads to collar

1 rot or body blight.





The thing that is most puzzling to





growers is the relation of the fire'

, blight to the vigor or the tree. A neg-





lected tree, unpruned, in a quack grass

sod, let us say, will stand uninjured,

whereas the cared for tree will blight

_.badly

the relation already mentiOned—the

blight germs can only advance in suc-

culent growth. The tree that is mak-

ing a strong growth is subject to the

blight. The tree that is Standing still

is immune. ‘



Old trees that are growing but little

oiien have abundant blossom blight

and occasionally some twig blight, but

this does not lead to any injury be-





cause of the comparative immunity of L





the older branches which are growing

so little.



For decades, fruit men have recog

nized this relation and the first expla-

nation offered to explain blight was

“souring of the sap,” a condition sup-

posed to arise whenqthe trees were

making excessive growth. ‘



For several years fire blight has

been getting established in Michigan

orchards. For the last three years I





have urged in the college publicity





matter the elimination of hold-over

cankers while they were few and when





i the job cOuld be done without any

great expense.





With the rush of the

seasons and the shortage of labor this

The attitude of

the grower has made him overlook the

matter. The disease was so scattered

and seemingly of so little moment that

a clean-up seemed unnecessary. Now

we have it and the problem of eradica-

tion confronts us. The ideal way to

fight fire blight is to eliminate hold-

over cankers and then remove prompt-





; Iy any twig blight which may occur. If

the first cases of twig blight are re-





moved completely the job is trifling

and the orchard saved.



It must be remembered that what is

being said applies to trees up to twen-





ty years of age which are making so .





tive growth. With older trees, the re-

moval of blight, if it is more than an

an occasional branch, is not possible

because of the size of the tree. But it

must be emphasized that the old trees

seldom blight extensively and blight

does not work far on them.



Since it is the young orchard which





‘ is now in danger, let me say that the

. only way to fight the blight is to cut it

, out and to keep it cut out.





It is true

that there is a chance that a sum-

mer’s drought will step the blight. It

did last year. But the heavy down-

pour of the' last of June certainly is

going to lead to remarkable recru-

descence of the blight. If any grower

takes a chance with his trees he must

do it on his own reSponsibility. My

advice is to cut out blight early and





. often.





How far back should it be cut?

Prune severely and make a good prun-

ing job. To control fire blight one

needs to have proper tools and a dis-

infectant. The most etlicient tools are

a pair of short-handled pruning shears,





a pruning book, a saw, a knife, and a.





carpenter's gouge. For a disinfectant,

mercury. bichlorlde (corrosive subli-

mate) one to 1000, a deadly poison, is

best. Five per cent carbolic acid

will do. '



The procedure is as follows: _

over the tree and size up the job. If a

limb/is festooned with blight it' prob-

ably willbe well to cut out the whole

limb. Do this first. Then with the

pruning hook clip off the smaller twigs

as far below the blight as possible. Do

not leave a bit of blight on the tree.





If any of the water sprouts are blight- ;





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be carried in a wooden pail o

it most not be put in a metal 'v_





ly a bad- case of blight on a tree {1:

the age mentioned (up to twenty,

1781118) can be cleaned up. .



Go through the Orchard this and re-

move all blighted twigs and branches.

These cuttings should be gathered up

and burned at once. _ .,



The orchard .must be gone over

again within the next week. Now is

a good time to‘p'ainf'stubs with white

lead paste. It is impossible to get all

the blight the first time over. In some

of the twigs the blight is working but

not yet evident. Some parts may not

have been cut back far enough.” If the

first job. is thorough'the'new cases can





quickly be “spotted” and the clean-up





quickly accomplished.



Weekly inspections must be kept up

throughout the season but these will

not take long after the first clean- u—p.

But if these are neglected then the

orchard will soon be back to its for-

mer blighted condition.





So there is no spray for fire blight.

No method is known but this one—

destruction of the source of infection

and elimination of the small limbs be-

fore the blight passes into the larger

ones. Big as the job may look from a.

distance, there is no other way. The

tree is worth saving-and the average

badly blighted tree can be cleaned up

in less than a half hour with the props

er tool's. Even if it took aman two

hours, the question is, “Is the tree

worth a dollar's worth- of time or not ?"

But the grower says, “We’ll cut out

the blight next fall, we believe in cut-





ting .out hold-over cankers, not this'

Let me point out‘





summer cutting."

that. the job will be as big, or-bigger,

next fall and besides the blighted parts

will keep right on menacing other

parts.



If old trees are interspersed with

young trees; the definite eradication

of all blight in the vicinity may be im~

possible. Even in such a case the cut-

ting out is advisable frpm the point

of view of saving the branches of the

young trees. The presence of, the

blight in the old trees will make. the

job harder, but it makes it even more

necessary that the trees be carefully

watched. With these trees among the





old ones, it every bit of blight is re-_ ‘





moved a glance at the time of the

weekly inspection tells whether the

tree is free from blight or not. Iftho

blighted twigs are left all over the

tree, new advances can not be seen.





A word may be said about sod. As

has been pointed out, fire blight is in-

fluenced by the amount of growth. It

a tree is in competition withnsod for

water and nutrients, naturally its

growth is checked. After trees have

reached the proper size it is probably

advisable to put them in sod and then.

“feed" them.



The question before us is not the

theoretical one,

or cultivation?" The question is, with

fire blight working in our orchards,

“what are we to do?” The only an-

swer is, “Get Busy.”





 





GARDEN NOTES.





 





Plants of late celery, cabbage and





cauliflower/ are commonly set early in '





July. I



~ A good distance for planting the‘

late large- growing varieties of cabbage

and cauliflower is two and a half by

three and a half feet.



Wihte, or light colored stalks of

Celery are secured by blanchingwmch

consists of growing the plants in dark-

ness so that the coloring matter of the





stem is destroyed. Bleaching also .,





makes the stalks more crisp and ten-





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. REMEDY FOR RENT.





 





‘ I leased forty acres of land fer $85 a

-year, payment due November 1, and

now. theman does not pay his rent on

time. ,_e' 'now owes me, $20, and I

‘ would like to-kn‘ow what steps I should

" , take I to collect. The lease states:

f'Eightysfive dollars 'on the first day of

November of each year during the

' continuance of this lease.”— . L.

The lessor may bring an action of





°=-J?T1 ' . ' assumpsit for the rent, or may main-





tain suinmary proceedings before a.

circuit court commissioner to recover

possession and put an end to the lease.

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| MOVING SURVEY STAKES.





 





' Has a man the right to set stakes

OVer after ,a road has been surveyed



‘ and the stakes set on line? Because

one man has set his fence over on the

road, can a commissioner throw the

road over on the other man ?—J E M.





The removal or destruction of a sur-

Ivey stake or monument is a misde-

meanor. punishable criminally, and any

person injured by such removal may

also, by Civil action, recover the dam-

ages suffered by him. The highway

commissioner has no jurisdiction to

alter a survey.——J. R. R.





 





GROWING CROPS.





 





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If A rents a farm by the year from

B and buys the farm in the fall, would

A {have‘any right to part with a rye

crop which was self-seeded from pre-

vious harvests ?——'J. E. M. . .



The purchase of land carries with it

all crops growing on the land at the

, time of the sale, even to the extent'of

including a crap of corn, ripe but un-

cut in November.—-J. R. R. ‘





 





REMEDY FOR FRAUD.





 





I bought a farm last fall. The real





' estate man and the man from whom

‘ I; bought it misrepresented it to me.

~ They both told me .there was a good

' Well on the place, that the water ran

, from the. well to the house and from

the house to the barn. I tried the wa-

' ter tank in the house, and it worked

all right, and 'the- tank was full at the

barn, so .I ,took it for granted that the

. water was all'right. We made the pa-

pers out, and when I went back to the

farm I found that the well had not

Worked for more than ten years. The

owner had been‘ getting the water





from a spring on the next farm with,





a ram which they had taken out at

that time. They had filled-the tanks

in the house and barn by carrying it.

I would like to know if Icould not do

something to make them help me get

a well on the farm.——T. J.



The purchaser may void the sale be-

cause of a fraud,-have his money re-

funded to him, and claim a lien on the

property purchased for such payment

until the payment is made; or he may

maintain an action of deceit for the

damages suffered thereby—J. R. R.





 





L . - j ,LIABILIEI'Y or: CARRIERS.





 





A hires ‘B, who has a motor truck

and does hauling, to transport five cat-

Enroute one COW





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clOsure and lifts stakes,off, and three

head” of the cattle tall of. the truck.

_ One has leg run over by the truck, nec-

essitating, killing, 'Who‘ is to blame,

‘ and who shduld stand_loss?——-R. W. T.

If . the - carrier was doing a general

carriage business'so as, to come Within

the term ,of ‘ “common carrier, he

would be liable, in the absence of con-

tract expressly limiting the ‘ liability,





'fi‘oin ‘failur‘e .. to furnish fit,

63 c f arise; unless

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. . rerjany logs resultingjfrom any “detect-

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If the particular truck was selected by

the carrier was not engaged in the

general business of carrying for all





comershe is liable only for losses re-"'





sulting from his negligence or that of

his servants and is bound to exercise

‘only reasonable care, whereas the re-

sponsibility of common carriers

amounts almost to insurance—J. R. R.





 





DESTROYI NG M‘ILKWEEDS.





 





Will you please give the best meth-

ods of eradicating the common large

'milkweed, and also the best method

to destroy sandburrs, this for'fields





Allegan Co. L. F.



Milk weeds are diflicult plants to

destroy because they are so deep-root-

ed. They have‘ a long, tap root that

penetrates in the subsoil and are not

easily eradicated. Persistent mowing

in the summer time will destroy them.

No plant can live if you cut the top off

every little while. This prevents the

plant from getting any air and the

roots will soon decay, but it is quite

a persistent job. Milkweeds do very

little harm in growing crops, the looks

of them are the worst thing. They do

not seem to take very much plant food

that other crops use. They get their

food down in the subsoil below and

usually when no particular pains are

taken to eradicate milkweeds they will

not survive for more than a year or

two. In a cultivated field they become

eradicated in a short time. From ordi-

nary field cultivation sandburrs also

disappear rapidly, where the field is

fertilized properly so that other crops

will grow 'rapidly. They bother but

little, even on rather thin soil that is

thoroughly cultivated—C. C. L.





' that are in crops every year.





POSSIBLY TUBERCULOSIS.





 





For several months we have been

fighting a disease in our flock, which

frOm the description given by writers,

be tuberculOsis. The points of

resemblance to the usual descriptions

are lameness, enlarged liver with nod-

ules on both liver and intestines, and

looseness of the bowels, although this

last is not always present, even in ad-

vanced cases. The points of differ-

ence are the fact that the fowl does

not become emaciated, even in ad-

vanced cases, but the hens stop laying.

The, fowls do not die, but we keep





them isolated from the rest of the





flock, and‘as we do not consider them

fit for food, we kill and bury them.

There is no outward sign of the dis-

ease except the lameness, the comb

and wattles remain red. Last fall we

had a fine flock of a laying strain of

our favorite breed, but now we are

wondering what we should do, whether

we should sell everything fit to sell

and quite for awhile—H. C. V.





Some of the hens may have rheuma-

tism and this would cause lameness.

Whether a hen with tuberculosis will

emaciate rapidly or not might depend

on the progress of the disease and

whether the individual was very sus-

ceptible or not. This Would be true

with hens'the same as it is with other

animals having tuberculosis.

the symptoms you mention indicate tu-

berculosis. It "would pay you to have

a veterinarian make a personal in-

spection of the flock.





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REGISTERING FARM NAME.

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I wiSh to give my farm a name.

Will you please advise me to whom I

should apply for registry? What ac-

tion is necessary and what Will be the





«Cost?—~—F. A. S.





:We do not liliid in statutes any pro-

vision for registry of farm names. A





proposal; was _ made in the; legislature

\‘th or three sessions back for such





r‘egist »- butfit seems '

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The one machine





makes both fuel and light





OOKING-FUEL and light from a single source

—these are available to every country home

equipped with the simple Colt Carbide Light~



ing-and-Cooking Plant. '



The fuel produces the hottest flame known for the

gas-range, hot-plate or flat-iron. The light is mellow-

white, so like sunlight that Nature herself accepts one

for the other.





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   





 





   





What is it? How does it work?





The simple Colt machine, down cellar or in an outbuilding,

mixes crushed stone (carbide? with water automatically and

produces fuel and light—thats all there is to it.



No fuss. Nothing. to do but put in a little carbide about

once a month. The machine does everything. It shuts off

of its own accord when not in use. No waste. You can use

even the residue, which is simply slaked lime.



Picture your place after sundown—a radiant jewel set in

the blackness of rural night; seemingly a bit of transplanted



' city. . Consider the convenience of City fuel for cooking and

- ironing—the clean, cool kitchen in summer that makes life

worth living. ,



These advantages are yours with a Colt plant. And the

cost is trivial in proportion to the manifold benefits.



Jot your name and address. on a postcard and hand it to the

R. D. man. By return post you will receive full and complete

information which will not obligate you in the least to go

further into the proposition.



Do that—you’ll be glad you did, over and over again.





'J. B. COLT COMPANY





30 East 42d Street, New York





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Western Ganada

Land of Prosperity





offers to home seekers opportunities that can-

not be secured elsewhere. The thousands of

farmers from the United States who have

accepted Canada's generous offer to settle on

FREE homesteads or buy farm land in her





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years has yielded from 20 to 45 ushela

of wheat to the acre—oats, barley and

flax also in great abundance, while raising

horses cattle. sheep and hogs is equally

profitab e. Hundreds of farmers in Western

Canada have raised crops in a single season

worth more than the whole cost of their land.

With such success come prosperity. inde-

pendence, homes and all the comforts and

conveniences which make life Worth living.





Farm Gardens, Poultry, Dalrylng





are sources of incomesecond only to grain

growmg and-stock raismg. Attractive

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The Bitter With the Sweet





A certain Wisconsin farmer had driven cars for years

without mishap and could see no reason why he

should invest in automobile insurance.





As he said: “I’m a cautious driver and thoroughly

understand my machine. Why paint a lot of ficti-

tious pictures to base your selling up on. Automo-

bile insurance is all right for some drivers, but I tell

you I don’ t need it.”





But the bitter has to be reckoned with the sweet and,

one evening, his caution served him naught. He

had driven his family into town to do some Saturday

night shopping and not wishing to leave the car on

the main street, parked it off just the avenue.





Shopping over, his wife suggested a movie and after

being in the theater for an hour or so, he suddenly

recalled that he had forgotten to put his lights on.

Excusing himself instantly, the farmer made for his

parking place and found, to his amazement, a crowd

of curious by- standers surrounding his machine. Fate





lison had practically demolished it.





The case was taken to court and his suit lost because

proof showed that his lights were not on and that his

car was in a secluded spot at the time of accident.





has influenced several of his friends to do, likewise.





Don’t Play With Fate





THE U. S. FIVE POINT FULL COVERAGE,

NON- DEDUCTABLE POLICY positively guards

you and your car against:





1--FIRE 24-THEFT 3--COLLISION

4--PROPERTY DAMAGE

5--LIABILITY '





All for $1.00 per Horse Power plus the small mem-

bership f re of $1. 00 annually. Once fully understood,

U. S. FIVE POINT POLICIES convince the most

skeptical because the r reputation is built upon the

satisfactory settlement of all just claims.





Don’t be like the Wisconsin farmer and play with

fate when you can avoid such discouragement by





summoning U. S. MUTUAL PROTECTION to your

aid.





Just drop Col Gansser, Bay City, Michigan, a post-

culars covering U. S. FIVE POINT POLICIES.





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had chosen his car as victim, in that, a rear-end col- L





Today this farmer carries full coverage insurance and .





a1 today and, without obligation, receive full parti- I





 

 

 

 





 





 





U S Mutual Automobile Insurance

Company





Executive Office

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Colon C. Lillie, Pres.





Home Office

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CLOVERLMD SQ"; SURVEYS. published by the United States Weath-

L H I 7 I or Bureau from day to day, they will

ROF M M MccooL‘ of the Mich- observe that our thermomet'ric read.

igan Agricultural College Depart? 11183 often Ifun higher than: those to

merit of Soils, was in MarQuette, July the south Of 3915, even for towns direct-

2, making arrangements for the forth- 11' on Lake Superior Marquette’ :5 rec-

coming soil survey of the upper penin— ord Of 103 degrees in 1901, has never

sula He went over the plans with been surpassed anywhere in the state,

Mr“ J A Doelle of the Upper penin. even in Detroit, ‘which is said to be a

s’ula, Development Bureau, and it was hot tOWD. 8,180. The fact 13, 1f the wind

determined that the work should be is off shore, or there is no wind at all,

inaugurated in'Onton'agon' county and it can be very Warm even with Lake

the territory in the limestone country Supenor—whlclv 18 always icy 001d

adjacent to Chatham, Alger county, except in its sheltered bays and inlets

and to. the southward. Eventually a —a stones throw away. Marquette

reconnaisance survey will be run was as hot as New Orleans on June

throughout the district north of the 16 this year ‘and the Gazette of

Straits, it is understood. Heughfee, reports that place the hot-

These areas seem to have beenwise~ test north of the Gulf of Mexico for a.

1y . selected.- Both are promising ag— similar date. All this means that, with

ricultural sections, rapidly being de— abundant rains this summer, our crops

veloped. The Ontonagon district com- are booming—incidentally, 1:00, are D0~

prises a large area of very deep and tato-bugs and. grasshoppers, but'we

fertile clay soil—~the bed of a pre- -his- have no monopoly Of these pests. As





 





 

 





   

   

 

   

   

 

   

 

   

 





tonagon, and is commonly regarded as have 800d prospects, too, under this

containing some of the very best agri- head. Home-grown strawberries came

cultural land of the state. Dairying is onto the market in mid-June, and are

> well established in this area. The Al- very fine indeed. This is a berry coun-

ger county district is underlain with try par excellence, and we are well

limestone and is also very fertile. Both supplied With bOth Wild and cultivated

areas deserve the designation’, S‘Clo- types. A5 for the hoppers, tri-calcium

verland,” par excellence. arsenate is being purchased from the

Professor McCool’s force of men is copper 901119311195, and, if properly

already on the ground ready t0'go to used, will help the situation very ma-

work. I learn, too, that Professor Mc- terially.

Cool has taken kindly to the sugges- ' .

tion' that a. conference of experts SHEEP RAISING IN THE UPPER

should be held to formulate plans for PENINSULA.

the state-wide soil survey. The job is »

plainly too big for one man without MR. J_ WADE WESTON, assistant

outside counsel. It should be attacked state leader of county agents for

from many angles With a view to 35‘ the upper peninsula district, 'recently

certaining just what‘. are the points, gave out a statement regarding sheep

gOOd and bad, 01’ every tract 0f land, raising in the upper peninsula, in

especially in the, at present, undevel- which he cans attention to a. sale of

oped areas, that are wanted for farm sixty-four lambs in 1919, which were

or other purposes. It iS proposed to fed on grass alone, and which, when

make this conference one of practical. sold averaged 303 pounds and topped

farmers, 'soil‘ experts, forest'ers, eCon- the market at $15. 50 per one hundred

omists, development men, and inter— pounds Another group of 775 lambs,

ested officials finished on grass alone, averaging 66.8

pounds, giving a dressing, percentage

of 50.1 pounds. A third consignment

g of that year, numbering 482 lambs, av‘

ROF. C. P. HALLIGAN, of the exaged 76.1 pounds, of which 104 lambs

Michigan Agricultural College De-' dressed out 518 per cent and fifty

partment 'of Horticulture, is still‘inte‘r-' others 49 4 per cent These lambs nev-

ested in testing the hardiness of the el had any feed save grass. Another

“Marquette" peach—a variety develop- group of 121 lambs dropped early in

ed originally at Marquette on the Lake May, 1920, sold on October 2. 1921, av-

Superior shore, and which has been eraged seventy-seven pounds, topped

used as budding stock at the agricul- the market at $12.85 per cwt.

tura‘l college It is hoped that from Mr. Weston says some protection is

this variety a hardier type can be es- needed for the winter, but this need

tablished which will be cold- -resisting. not be expensive. The shelter should

In a lettei to Mr. J. A Doelle, of the be well ventilated, without draughts,

Upper Peninsula Development Bureau, and should afford room enough for ex-

Plofessor Halligan states that, in the ercise. Home gmivn feed should be

cold winter of 19171918, trees of the ielied on, he points out, as it will be





 

   

   

   

   

 





 





 

 

   

 





 





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





 





 

 





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the college, among fifty or mere types, etc” must be purchased. Clover is best

which he believes, demonstrates the although cat and pea hay are very

superior endurance of this peach, both satisfacttiry ShnfloWer ensilage has

as to Wood and bud. He preposes to, been successfully made a part of the

furnish Vbudding~st0ck, this autumn, ration at the Upper Peninsula Experi.

for further trials in this district. He ment Station. Grains, especially peas,

suggests that plum trees be used to oats and barley, do very well, Mr.

graft these buds upon, because of their Weston states, and roots make an ex-

greater hardiness. The Lake Superior cellent succulént feed, especially for

country, while it makes no claims to breeding ewes. He also notes that

being a peach country, has occasionally sheep are valuable in clearing the land

produced some very good samples of of brush: that twenty sheep will clear

this fruit, which may be "serviceable to as much as one man, and “will pay

growers in the real peach country you for doing it.” Woven wire fence

farther south. surmounted by two barbed. wires are

, desirable for the sheep pasture He

. calls attention to Act 339, of the Public

rActs of Michigan, 1919, regarding the

PEOPLE in the lower regions of the. protection of sheep from dogs. ~

. state may have a wrong notiOn .. ' >

about the prevailing temperatures of} Crystal Falls township. Iron county.

the upper portions, and wonder that 15 opening up several short 9‘49:

there :should be? any- ‘market for 1130- season, thus fiefltmgtm exit ,.





   

   

   





 





   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 





 





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CHAPTER XVII.

A Letter and a Proposal.





HE Moreland Coal Company’s

two big rough buildings were

completed in record time. There

--had been no further manifestations of

interference from the Balls and Tor-

reys, and Henderson Goff had been no-

where in evidence since the night of

Bill Dale’s ironclad verbal ultimatum.

Work on the little railroad was pro-

gressing like wildfire, and everybody

was in high spirits.

By Heck had just arrived with the

. mail. He stalked with an air of great

importance into Dale’s emce, and

threw the mail down on the new roll-

top desk; then he stepped backward,

dropped into a straight-back chair and

began to nurse his rifle tenderly on his

knees. There was a puzzled look on

his leathery face.

half a dozen letters, and By Heck was

at a loss to figure out the why of such

an Overwhelming amount of mail.





Dale finished his figuring, leaned

back in his swivel-chair, and took up

a letter that seemed altogether too

bulky for a business letter. Moreover,

its address was in pencil, and some-

what scrawled, though a chirography

expert would have said that the hand—

writing showed strength of character.



"I wonder who it is," Dale muttered,

“that mistakes us for a newspaper of-

fice and is sending us copy ?”



“Just what I was a-thinkin’," drawi-

ed By Heck through his Niagara Falls

moustache. “Open her up, Bill, mebbe

it’s money, by Jake!"



Dale saw the postmark then, and his

brows drew with interest. It was the

postmark of his old home city.



“From Babe,” he told himself—and

it was.



He opened it and read it. She had

spelled most .of her words correctly,

but the only punctuation she used was

a period and her capitals were few.

For a wonder, she had put it into par-

agraphs:



Mr. bill Dale.

cartersville.





tennessee.

Kind friend.





i seat myself with pen in hand to

drap you a few lines to let you know

i am well hoping you the same. well

bill i have some news to tell you about

what happened when i got back hear

and since i got back and hear it is.



the first person i seen when i got

to the railrode stashun was jimmy

fayne and he was dressed up like a

millionaire and i reckon he is one. he

took me in his meter car up to pats

home. patrisha you know. pat she

hugged me and jimmy left rite away

but; said he would be back. I asked

pat had she heard about yore trubble

bill and she answered no what. then

i told hem bout you and the lowdown

black adam ball bill and she said pore

old bill he had such a high temper





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.nobody could ever understand it but

it cant be are you serious elizabeth. ‘



well i said yes 'i mean it. pat shook

her head sorrowfle and said tell me all

about it elizabeth deer. when i had

told her the hole story about it we

went up stares. pat and her husban

lives in a big house now and it has got

up stares.

got a lbutifle dress my size. i ordered

this the day before you left us pat

said but it mite half to be altered wile

you are dressing pat said i will speck

to Mrs. Dale over the telephone. pat

said yore mother has softened tord her

son and i promised to tell her any

news i had conserning him. i said all

r1 e. . ‘



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pat went to a closet and





true glad said pat but ime sorry to‘lose

you but it is the best way and we can

see each other «often cant we deer. ,



r well bill it 171th long until a big

‘m’oter car called around at pats for me

and setting in the hind seat was yore

father hisself john k Dale. he helped

me into the car with :him and he seem—

ed glad to see me. After we had said

good morning and so forth he said anx-

ious like now elizabeth please tell me

about bills trouble for patrislha mite

have omitted something you know. at

first i was awful afeard of him bill bat

i soon get to likeing him fine and 1

told him about you and that lowdown

black adam ball from beginning to end

and whenzi told him about the fite in

the river he grinned and grinned and





 





 





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Trying to heal the wounds

Bearing a smile and words





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Like the clouds so lazily adrift,

Amid the azure tints of summer skies, l

Standing aside to let the sun shine through,

To warm and brighten all the waiting world—

so would I fain pass quietly through life,





Between the many sorrows which arise.



Passing along with kindly deed and true——

Lighting the paths where we and thorns abide.

Where nameless glooms are daily cast and hurled.





So with my song and laughter, cares l’d banish.

Like unto azure skies which love the Sun,

Fain would I sow good cheer ere Life is done.

Then, come, Eternal Sleep, thou priceless gift. ' ‘

I fear thee not—l did look up and lift.





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over the telephone for a long time and

when she returned to me i was dressed

and we went down stares together and

the new dress diddent half to be al-

tered. they call supper dinner hear

bill. after dinner was over me and pat

went to a swing at the end 'of a

vranda which had a dim lite on it. pat

spoke all of a suddent and said to me

how would you like to go 'to live with

Mrs. Dale bills mother. i remembered

i haddent liked yore mother bill cause

of what she said about me and i got

about half mad. dont you want me to

live hear with you pat i asked.



of corse pat said. ide be glad to

have you but Mrs. Dale wants you too

pat said. her treatment of her son

which is you bill has most broke her

hart pat said. pat said the only hold

Mrs. Dale has on her son is through

you elizabeth and she is a sad and re.

morsefle woman. then i got to thinkin

bill i mite be the cause of' bringing

peece between you and yore parrents

and so i told pat i would go and i did.





 





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said you always was jam full of the

fite stuff,



hell come out of it all rite the worst

of it is his haveing to stay in jail until

the trial comes off said your father at

the next term of cOte. weed better.

see if we cant get him out on a bond

he said haddent we elizabeth and i

said yes. bill i found yore mother

indede a sad woman. there wassent

much about her to remine me of the

time when she called me a savaje per-

son. she said i am delited you came

elizabeth and i cride a little i couldent

help it when i jest half to cry i jest

half to cry and nothing else dont help-

a bit. Because she kissed me bill.



well bill yore father he wired the

athorities in cartersville and found out

that cale Moreland had confessed to

the. shooting of black adam and you

was free and it set his mind at rest.

but it diddent set my mind at rest for

because i no the mountain hart. i

know cale Moreland is jest takeing

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m'i'al for that lathe way of the More-

lands. pore :calo is a. good boy. ‘

doing fine hear bill but 1 often wish i

could have old Doc Riser hear to sing

. me to sleep like it used to. yore moth-

er is teaching me how to read and rite





and spell like pat did and i am learn- “

you can see by this letter i_





ing fast.

can rite and spell line can it.



well bill kind friend jimmy fayne

has jest sent

hear to askif he can see me and i

will hall} to go down stares and see

whatjhe wants."



yores respectively.





BABE.

, Bill Dale folded the bulky letter and _





put it slowly back into the envelope.

Then his gaze wandered through- a

window and to where a ge’ldemwinged

highholer was hammering industrious-

ly at the-top branch of a dead tree. He

smiled to himself, By Heck and nearly

all of the rest of the world for a mo~

ment forgotten, and muttered aloud:



“ ‘Yores respectively, Babe.’ ”



“Haw, haw, haw!” laughed the keen-

eared and watchful hil‘lman in the





straight-back chair behind him.

“ ‘Yores respectively, Babe!” Haw,

haw, haw! Well, Bill, dadsling it, .it





shorely to goodness - ain’t nothin to

turn all that red about! When the

night’s gone the day comes, don’t it}!

Bill, old boy, it’s the same thing!”



“You get out of here, By!" Dale

stormed in mock severity. “Go and

help the commissa‘ry clerk with the

new goods; eh ?”



Heck laughed another horselaugh,

rose and went out.



When he had gone, Dale turned his

gaze toward the industriously hammer-

ing golden-winged bird again. He be-

gan to think——of the ultra-spoiled,

charming~after~a~fashion, wealthy, and

young, high-night devotee, Jimmy

Fayne. And he wondered, and won-

dered, what would come of Payne’s

quick liking for Babe Littleford.



After he had viewed the matter from





' above and below and all sides around,





he frowned like a berserker.



Here is what came of Jimmy

Payne’s quick liking for Babe Little

ford— ~ ‘



The days had passed swiftly, and

autumn. was far advanced. Save for a

few Chrysanthemums and asters that

grew in places sheltered from the

frosts, the flowers'were all gone; the

maples were shedding their leaves of

brown, crimson and gold. ‘



Ben Littleford’s daughter had chang-

ed much in‘many ways. She had tried

as hard as ever mortal tried to learn

the correct use'of words; and Mrs.

Dale had been patient, painstaking and

eflicient in her teachings. Not that

Elizabeth was educated, tin any real

sense of the word. Far from it. But

her improvement was, in all truth,

quite remarkable. Especially, perhaps,

in her personal appearance; some in-





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hilt, which was not very often. Jimmy





Ferns. as Patricia McLaurin had once





».been moved to say, was a far‘seeing





young man tor all his weaknesses; he

had known in advance that the laurel





bloom would change to a rose and

- then to a white hyacinth. Perhaps he





even. considered the fact that she

would make a better wife for him, and

a better mother for his children, than

some fragile and over-cultured woman

of a patrician house that had about





During those Weeks that had been





gl j, made happy by an occasional hour at

' Farce had‘ been coming to;-

~ see as when Mrs: Dale would permit





the home-of the Dales, Fayne had not

once mentioned marriage. He figured,

and wisely enough, that to be too

quick with his proposal would be to

lose everything.





But now he meant to propose, for he.





knew that Miss Littleford intended go-

ing home for a. visit—and he knew that

when she went home she would see

Carlyle Dale. The truth was, of course.

that Miss Littleford was going to Ten-

nessee to attend the October term of

court at Cartersville. ’

(Continued next week).





Phosphorus for Heavy Soils





(Continued from first page).





soil as well as to develop more numer

ous rootlets in the- surface soil. This

has been reported to be of value dur-

ing; periods of drouth enabling plants

to draw from. larger areas of soil the

elements of plant food. It also results

in ,a greater leaf and stem develop-

ment and aids materially in grain or

seed formation‘ and thOSe who have

used it report that it speeds up the ma-

jority of various crops or Shortens the

"time of the growing season six or more

days. i



It is maintained by agricultural writ-

ers that the most nutritious pastures

in England and the best pastures in

France are those richest in phosphor-

us. It was formerly believed that the

phOSphorus was beneficial primarily in

grain formation resulting'in a better

quality of material and more plump

grain. We know that it does these

things as well as those mentioned. Our

field investigations have brought out

that its use results in less winter in-

jury to wheat and also less harm by

late spring freezing and redistance to

insect pests. ‘





Will Not Run Land Out.



The carriers of phosphorus do not

injure the soil when they are properly

manufactured. There is a rather com-

mon Opinion among farmers that these





- carriers of phosphorus may prove pr’of-





itable for a time and later lose their

efficiency, leaving the soil in a less

productive state than formerly, mark-

edly increasing the need of lime and

decreasing or burning out the organic

matter and injuring the filth of the

soil. In fact, some farmers are reluc-

tant to use these because of these im-

pressions. Long and carefully handled

tests at the Rothamsted Experiment

Station, England, and the Pennsylvan-





L ia, Massachusetts, Ohio and Illinois





stations, where phosphates have been

applied to the same land, have shown

conclusively that the continued use of





phosphorus on the land results bone-'1





ficially and it is a safe and business—

like operation as measured by the in-

crease of crops groWn and the effect

upon the soil and the returns on the

investment. The lime content of the

soils is not markedly changed by the

use of the acidulated phosphate or the

bone meal as is sometimes considered

to be the case.



Soluble phosphates may be applied





~ 'to the soil to a decided advantage pre-





vious to or at the time of seeding fall

grains. It is now considered to be ad-

visable to fertilize the entire rotation

rather than one particular crop when

one uses phosphates inasmuch as only

about two~thirds of the material that

is applied to the soil is removed by the

first crop that follows it. Thus, by

making rather liberal applications the

operation need. not be repeated only,

every other year. This, of course, de-





' 1' creases the'amount of energy required

' to apply it to the soil it one- were fol~





WW Wear rotation or one in

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can be applied to the first grain crop

and again to the cultivated crop.





Mistakes Are Sometimes Made in Ap-

plying Phosphates to the Land.



The method of application is an im~

portant consideration in results to be

obtained from the use of various car-

riers of phosphorus. It should be re-

called that the most of the root

feeding system of crops is confined in

the upper few inches of soil. The im-

,mediate surface of the soil does not

contain fibrous roots of crops; thus it

follows that the material should be

thoroughly mixed with this zone or

section of the soil, rather than to leave

it on the surface or plow it under be-

fore seeding the fall grains. A thor-





ough incorporation of the material,

It is





with the soil is' very desirable.

usually best to apply the material to

the land by means of an attachment on

a small grain drill. This places the

material at a proper depth and uni-

formal-ly in the soil.



Many Farmers Do Not Apply Enough



to the Land. ,



The amounts of sixteen‘ per cent

acid phosphate most profitable to ap.

ply range from two hundred to four

hundred pounds per acre twice in a

four-year rotation. The bone meal, if

used, should be applied in somewhat

larger quantities. The use of raw rock

phosphate is generally considered to

be not less than 1,0001 pounds, and

preferably 1,500 or more pounds should

be applied per acre.

however, should endure in the soil

throughout the'rotation or longer.



Phosphate Works Well with Stable



Manure.



Reinforcement of manure with phos-

phorus is sound practice. There are

several good reasons for the splendid

results that have been obtained by this

mixture. Stable manure in comparison

with mixed fertilizer

containing much less phosphorus in

proportion than do the fertilizers. It

is true that stable manure is the best

all-round material that one can apply

to the soil, yet when we consider that

a farmer, “as a rule, does not have a

sufficient amount to cover all of his

cultivated land regularly and thorough-

ly we are forced to admit that if one

can supplement this material with

phosphorus and thereby use smaller

fiuantities per acre, that it is advisable

to do so. This may be accomplished

by' applying the acid phosphate to the

soil with the fertilizer attachment on

the grain drill, and this, by the way, is

the most practical method to follow,

Or by mixing the carrier of phosphorus

with the manure in the stable and

perform the application of the two ma-

terials at the same time. Some farm-

ers scatter the phosphorus over the

manure just before it is taken to the

field, while others scatter it over the

manure before it is removed from the

stable. Usually, however, this does not

result in a thorough ,or uniform mix-





log and consequently an uneven distri-

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N "Just David,” Eleano‘r Porte1 s in-

I teresting story of a child, theie is



an enlightening chapter on the im-

portance of housework as viewed from

tw0 standpoints, that of the proud

housewife, and that of a child. David

has been brought up alone in a moun-

tain cabin by his father, a famous vio-

linist, who takes the boy away from

civilization in his infancy and keeps

him until he is ten, so that he can

have him alone in those impression-

able first years. The father dies sud-

denly and David falls into the hands

of a man and wife in middle life, who

have no idea who the child is.



Shortly after David’s arrival at the

farm home the woman starts her week-

ly cleaning. David wants her to go

for a walk with him. She can’t go be-

cause she has so many things to dust,

and after that will be meals. David

innocently asks her why she doesn’t

give the stuff away or sell it so she

won’t have to take care of it; then

she could go to walk. The woman is

horrified at the idea of parting with

her treasures. She has worked hard

to get them, and works harder still to

take care of them. David thinks if all

they are for is to be put in a room she

never has time to sit down in, she

might better get rid of them, and take

that time to walk or play or read or

visit the neighbors. He further scan-

dalizes her by saying father always

said cooking and washing dishes and

cleaning were just necessary nuis-





ances, to be made as simple as possi-,





ble so they could have time for real

things. Real things with them, of

course, meant music, books, and long

tramps over the mountains. The wom-

an concludes that she ought not to ex-

pect anything better of a tramp, as

she thinks David’s father to be, and

continues her cleaning. .



Probably the majority of housekeep-

ers will join hands with the woman.

But I must confess I hold to David’s

View. After all, cooking and dishwash-

ing are just necessary nuisances, we

have to eat, of course, but why make

a ceremonial of it? Why spend so

much time getting up a meal, when

simple dishes and only a few, would

take so much less time and be so much

better for one’s health?



Why, for instance, have cereal, and

meat and potatoes and eggs, perhaps,

and bread and butter and coffee and

doughnuts or cookies, or maybe and

cookies for breakfast? Why not cut

that down to cereal with loads of milk,

bread and butter, eggs or bacon, and

fruit Instead of cereal and potatoes,

eat more cereal, if you need the extra

food. And substitute milk and cream

for the extra energy furnished by the

meat. Or if you must have the meat

and potatoes, cut out the cereal and

milk. It would mean less work, and

less tax on the digestive organs.



Dinner could be simplified, too, con-

siderably. Now mind, I am not saying

eat less, simply eat fewer sorts of-

feed at one meal. Meat, potatoes, one





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By Deéomfl





fancy salad and having pie and an-

. other sweet? It means more work, and

goodness knows the farm woman has

plenty to do without increasing “nec-

essary nuisances.”



Aside from the saving in work, the

simple fare is better for your health.

You remember Daniel and his young

friends would not. eat the king’s

meat, and were allowed to try out





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OME canners, whether in towns

H or country, are advised to do all

the canning possible this year.

Because of our late frosts this spring

it is predicted that canned fruits and

vegetables will be comparatively

scarce and consequently high in price.

Losses in Michigan by frost has made

a great deal of blemished fruit that

cannot be sold for No. 1 produce. Here

then, is a fine opportunity to save

money by canning these home-grown

products rather than being obliged to

buy other canned articles at prices

swollen by high cost of production.

The home-canning program by the

one-period, cold-pack method has gain-

ed such a tremendous foothold through-

out the country that there will be peo-

ple in every community who have had

successful experience in home-canning





their simple fare of pulse and wa-

ter.’ At the end of the trial they were

found to be in better health than the

fouths who had eaten from the king’s

table. To bring it right down to the





twentieth century, consider how the‘





boys in the army training camps were

built up with simple fare and regular

hours and proper exercise. Physicians

will tell you that the poor are freer





and Prevent

Canning





each time than it Would have taken

her to make a good substantial false

bottom. So" it is with many things

used in canning.



Before starting the work all equip-

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a list made of whatever is needed.

Here is a full list.



One processing kettle with a false

bottom- (wash boiler, lard can, steam-

er or pressure cooker). No false bot-

tom needed for tin cans.



Two large kettles or pans, one for

blanching should have a good cover,

the other for cold dipping:



One small kettle for making syrup.



,One wire basket or several squares

of cheesecloth.



Two pie pans to set dripping bas-

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Two measuring cups.





 





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We would recommend therefore, that

you acquaint yourself with the suc-

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consult them about their experience.





Need Good Equipment for Work.





Good business men demand effl-

ciency4—they do not allow themselves

or their employes to be run down phy-

sically or mentally by performing bur-

densome tasks that can more easily or

more efficiently be done by mechani-

cal appliances, The up-to-date farmer

has machinery and equipment that will

save him time and energy. I



How about you home- canners? One

cannot afford the most expensive can-

ning equipment always, but many can

afford better. Each of us can get to-

gether a. good workable canning equip-

ment. '





I once saw a Woman who, each time





she canned, placed a few boards in the





bottom- of her boiler. She wasted





.hOw much we will add to our 'foOdf‘

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Two sharp knives.



One teaspoon.



One tablespoon.



TWO wooden spoons.



One pair tongs.



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Glass jars with good new rubbers.



Have you begun canning yet? Most

folks have. ' There was that rhubarb

—that early pink rhubarb will taste

good next winter. And the early

greens, spinach and beet greens. We

now know that the mineral salts and





~vitamine content of greens are very .

the .





essential in our dietary. Then

early berries are here—and we all like ,

"the home-canned goods” best.



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from dietary ills- than the rich, bazause

they are forced to live simply.

the recent weighing and measuring

tests in the schools have revealed that

there is more mal-nutrition in the

homes of the well to do; than in the

homes of the poor.



From every standpoint, health, time

and pocketbOok, simple meals are de-

sirablef From Davids, and from the

viewpoint of anyone who would like to

get time for something besides cater-

ing to the mere animal wants of the

human race, simplified living is a thing

to be desired. But when we go in for

it, we run straight up against tradi-

tion and convention and “what’ll folks

say?” Well do I remember the colored

girl who left me to go to another mis- ’

tress. I had put away all the brie-a-

brac, junk, an unfeeling husband calls

it, in order to cut out a lot of dusting,

thinking thereby to gain favor with

But she left for a

woman who was “awful rich ,because

she had so many things on thepiano

and mantel to dust.” If you must do

housework, there’s nothing like feeling

your folks are quality!





Nevertheless I shall continue to fol-

low David’s manner of living. Eating

and dishes and cleaning are necessary,

but they are not all important. Life

was meant to be something more than

a round of caring for the bodies. Oth-

erwise we would not have been given

minds and souls that crave food. If

God didn’t mean us to get out and

view his world, he ,would not have

made it so beautiful. If «He had not

meant us to meet our fellows, He

would not have made us social crea-

tures with a craving for friendship. If

He had not meant us to enjoy music

and art and poetry, He would not have

filledthe universe with music and

beauty. We were meant to have some

time for play, and with most house-

keepers the only way to get that-time

is to make it. And if the only way to





.make it is by giving the, folks bread





and milk for supper, bread and milk

let it be. They may growl a good deal,

but they won’t starve to death:





 





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the place of the hot kitchen range.

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started in fifteen minutes on the Oil

stove, then put away in the tireless .

cooker until ready to serve“ Cereals, .





vegetables, tough cuts of meat and “ l ‘





casserole dishes ,. are more [palatable

and wholeSome if cooked for along

time. ,

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prison. He had a particular reason for

writing to the ell-tire): in Philippi. It

Was in Philippi that he had had some

exciting adventures. ‘ A mob was stir-

red up byxopposition to his teaching.

he and his fellow traveler were thrown





. into prison and flogged after the Rom





an manner of flogging It was a fear-

ful ordeal and it was in spite of the





. fact that Paul was a Roman citizen,





and as such was supposed to be free

from such treatment.



Now, as the great apostle lies in his

place of confinement in the Roman





j capitol, he writes to the church he had

. organized under these difficulties.





‘He

addresses the church folks as saints,

which means, people who desire to

live godly lives. And he begins by re-

marking that they have undoubtedly

grown, since he saw them last. In

1fact, there would be something sadly

awry, if they had not’grown. Every-

body grows. It is true that ministers

and public school teachers often expe-

rience immense difficulty, because the

people they must work with seem not

to ’have advanced mentally fdr years.

They are in a groove. (It was an Eng-

lishman who said that the only differ-

ence between a groove and a grave is

one of depth). But nevertheless, these

They may have

only grown more set, more opinionat-

ed, more opposed to all progress. In

that case, they have grown in the

wrong direction. And this fact ought

to make all men think. We grow.

What we are today, we will be fifty-

fold more in twenty-five years. And

to grow in the right direction is a

mark of a saint. To be more kindly

disposed toward people, to be more

benevolent in your judgments, to be-_

lieve in the good side of men, is

growth in the right direction.





UT this is only a beginning. This



is but a promising start. The folks

who live in Philippi.are supposed to

be Willing to share with others. Some«

times this means sharing the good

things of life. But often it means shar-

ing with others their woes and bur-





dens. That is the mark of all New

Testament teaching. Christians are





supposed to be burden-bearers. They

are supposed to be bearers of other

people’s troubles. That was almost a

new idea, in Paul’s day. Christ brought

it. There is a scene in the Old Testa-

ment which brings this out with vid-

idness.



The Israelite immigrantsaare enter—

,ing Canaan. Cities and tribes are

yielding to their irresistible advance.

One day certain queer—looking travel-

ers appear in the Hebrew camp. Their

horses are old and examined, their

clothes are tattered, their bread is





. .mouldy, and, in short, they are a hard-





-loo_king crew. They tell the Israelites

that they live far away, and would

like to make an agreement with them,

that they might always be on friendly

terms. To this proposal the gullible

Israeli‘es readily assent. In three days,

it is ev t what has happened. These

Gibeonites have tricked the Israelites

into making an agreement they were

not supposed to make. They lived in

the center of the territory that.the

Hebrews were conquering, and they





- had‘ resorted to this camouflage to save





their cities from destruction. The Is-

raelites were game and. kept their





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pillage, that could be meted out. To





be a menial: to work for other people,





was to be aperpetual drudge.





V Change the scene now, to the New





Testament. It is the same country,

pretty nearly the same neighborhood.





A few centuries have passed. Twelve ‘





men are seated on the floor, oriental

fashion, at supper. Their leader, the

greatest Figure that lies ever appeared





beneath the stars, arises, takes a tow- .





el, and washes the feet of his guests.

No one. but a slave or a household

servant was supposed to do that. When

He had fifiished He tells them that

this is to be thebadge of the religion

He has come into the world to found.

People are to help one another. They

are to serve one another. No man is

to lord it over his fellow.





HE other day it was very dry, in



our part of the state. Dry and hot.

Clouds appeared, and floated rapidly

by. They were cirrus clouds, and did

not share their life with us. The next

day,

that the sky boasts—cumulus clouds.

They sauntered lazily overhead look-

ing like mountains in the sky, capped

with snow. Peak on peak, snow field,

on snow field. But neither did these

clouds share their life with us. We

might admire them for their beauty,

but one cannot live on beauty. The

next day, there came a plain cloud

with every-day working clothes on.

He seemed in no hurry, but snug~

gled down close to the thirsty, plead-

ing earth, and shared with us all his

life. And what a rain that was! The





plain, hard-working cloud was a Chris-3





tian cloud. He helped the earth to

bear his burdens.



Some people never do that. They

never share anything of theirs with

the community where they live, except

in taxes, and they would not pay those

if the law did not wring them out. If

there is a meeting for community im-

provement, they do not come._ If the

church is to be rebuilt, they do not

contribute. If an assessment is to be

levied for a consolidated school, they

vote against it. These folk never car-

ry anyone.- They are carried by the

community, and they expect eventual-

ly to be carried to the better land in

the skies. Disappointment probably

awaits there.





UT there is yet another mark of a

saint. A saint is a man Who thinks.

issues of

life. He makes up his mind, and can

give reasons for his decisions. Think!

Decide! Weigh and compare! ”Moral

questions face us, on which there. is

muCh muddled thinking. ,Practices are

about us that are not wholly wrong

and not wholly right. Distinctions

must be made. Some one, some group

of people, must make up their minds

as to what is right and wrong. I used

to wonder Why Achan received such

fearful treatment. He took a little

money and some clothes, and for that

he was stoned to death. Achan was

not a bad man. That is apparent. He

confessed what he! had done. But he

wasthoughtless. He was not guilty

of thinking. What was fair for him

was fair for the whole multitude. And

if all the thousands of men were to

take whatever attracted them, the fol-

lowers of Moses and Joshua would





have degenerated into a horde of plum ~





derers, gangs of bandits. Think! The

church is supposed to be an institution

that thinks. Its members are expected





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the most beautiful Leghorn ,'





 





The Best Kind of a Club





Bay: and Girl: Banded T oget/zer fir Good





ByEHL





2N one of our states a few boys and



girls started a pig club. I believe



it. was a girl who first thought of

it: anyway, she did not have the fun

all to herself very long for, let me

tell you, boys are up to snuff, as well

as girls, and they, were soon‘ “right on

theljob,” “adopting” pigs and working

for blue ribbons and other favors.



I wish I might give you a picture of

one girl as she stood by her pig, after

he got to be a. pretty big fellow, with

her scrubbing brush and water, fixing

him up for the day. The pig washold-

ing just as still as a mouse and enjoy-

ing himself just as you would if you

were getting a bath on a hot day. In





 





 





P -.

Clué H ’3 Have

Deeper Meaning





HE Club H’S have more



meaning than merely repre-

senting the head, heart, hand

and health, they stand for train- ‘

ing the





HEAD to

Think '

Plan

Reason





HEART to ‘ it

Be kind

Be true

Be sympathetic





‘HANDS to .

~ Be useful

Be helpful



' Be skillful





HEALTH to

Resist disease

Enjoy life

Make for efliciency.

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other ways than washing the boys and

girls did their best for the porkers.



After a while the news spread to the

older people of the place, which was

a country village with farms lying all

round it; and they took enough inter-

est in the matter to set a day when the

young folks might bring their pigs to

gether, exhibit them, have a good time

and win some prizes they offered.

Then the boys and girls did work. That

day came to be great in the history of

the village. Everybody looked forward

to it and not much work was done any-

where in that region when Pig Club,

Day came round.





But the 'best of this story is yet to

come. The example set by the‘boys

and girls was the means of inspiring

the people of that town and vicinity to

do big things for their homes, their

places of business and the general

good of the community. Even the

churches were led to new life. Not a.

great deal of interest had bepn taken

in such things before the boys and

girls showed folks what could be done

by all working hand-inlhand harmon-

iously. It was really the beginning of

a finer, more prosperous and. happy

life for all who Eyed within hearing

distance of theilittle village where. the.

pig Club was started Other animals

than pigs felt the impulse, and cows,





 





hens, sheep and horses came in for 3:





 





fl.





their share, 9 ting command

£3111 the: _ ” jin -





‘ boy!





. tails upwards.





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Vincent





pie, young and old, was the finest barb

about the movement.



Why do we say thatlAs a ruleimost

people put, the money end of a thing

likethat ahead. It is fine to sell pigs

and things for a good price; to win ‘





blue ribbons and more valuable prizes





is excellent; but”. there is something .

far better about such a movement than

the dollars and the prizes. ' .



Now. it may not be possible for the '

boys and girls of all little country

places to do exactly what _was' and is

being done in the village mentioned.

Not all places need just such a resur-

rection; but many'do; and it is possi-

ble that you may be just the one to

start a work that will arouse people

that have settled down into a state of ‘

carelessness to an absolutely different

way of thinking and acting. It is a

far greater thing to help a. man or

woman to do better things than it is

to grow the finest pig ever seen. -How ,

can you do it? '



Not. by saying or even thinking, “l’ll

show you folks a. thing or two! You

just watch me!” That may defeat

your purpose at the very start. But

just get a pig or a calf or a sheep or

something of your own and begin to .

do the very best you can with it. In-

vite your chums to come and see your

pet. Urge them to get something go-

ing, too. Take a picture of the animal.

whatever it is; and send it to the pa.-

per, with a little story. Make it as in-

tere'sting as you can. Editors will be

glad to print the stury. By and by

folks will begin to say, “That’s a. live,

I'm going to let no such boy

outdo me!” And before you knowjit,

all the pigs and all the calves and .all

the lambs in the neighborhood will be

putting on' new life. So will the homes

and you have done a. thing that Will

count as long as time lasts.





 





‘ .THE GNAT.





 





BY MARK MEREDITH.





THE early life of the gnat, which

worries us so in the summer,‘ is

very wonderful. When Mother Gnat is

ready to lay her eggs she _fiies away to

the nearest quiet water. She lays her

eggs, collects them together. with her

long legs, and glues them into a tiny

mass, which floats away like a. tiny

boat. ,

, In a short time the eggs are hatched

and the grubs swim about waving the

tufts of hair that grow on their mouths

so as to catch and force them down

their“ throats, minute animals 'and

plants. And these funny little animals

swim with their heads downwards and

This is because they

have a small tube in their tails which

they push above water to take air.

This goes on for tvvo weeks, after

which they, begin to cast their skins.‘

After the" fourth time they come out

shorter, bent and wrapped up. They

are still able to swim, but not. eat. A11-

this time a great change has been tak-

ing:~ place. The tail has gone and the

pupa, as it is now called,‘ bieathes ‘

through two tubes that have grown

on the top of the back j

When the gnat is ready to come out “

the pupa stretches itself on the top of "





.the Water the skin bursts, and the

head appears, and the body is slowly





drawn out.- The boatlskin‘ Boolean

tips over when mentoring "

, dirthen- the.
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any other way on the farm.





 





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t .G004 Ca-re New Mean: Eggr Profit: Later 0?:





good it may be dispensed with in some 7





RECENT- trip with one Of our





county agents in poultry culling ..





M work revealed the fact that most

of the farm hens are not b‘eing‘ fed

enough for efficient egg production. In

fact, the thinness of the hens in icat-

ed “that they were not getting enough





' to 'eat to maintain normal bodily cen-





ditions. .



The hens are not purposely brought

to this condition. Most farmers un-

doubtedly think that during the grow-





" I ing season the hens will sc_out around.

and pick up enough to maintain them-





selves in good condition. The hens is

not like other farm animals, in that it

does not show its conditions upon leas-

ual observation. Her feathers cover

her body so that it is impossible to tell

its condition without examination.

Therefore a farmer’s hens often get in

p00!" shape before he is aware of it.

The only ,thing that may be noted is

that egg production has dropped off.

Under natural Conditions the hen

lays her quota of eggs in spring, gets

broody, hatches out a brood of chick-

ens and spends the summer intaking

Care of them. She becomes thin and

in poor condition, ranging around en—

deavoring to get enough for herself and

her flock. In the fall when the grains

ripen she gets enough to put herself





" in fairly good condition to help her





through the winter

Hens Step Laying.



The hens that are now getting thin

are either at the end of their laying

for the summer or have stopped laying

some time ago. Before they start again

they willgo through a moult, probably

early in the season. And it is a known

fact that early moulters are not winter

layersfFor instance, a hen that moults





; early in August Will very likely be a.





drone until next spring, whereas the

one that has been busy laying all sum-





' mer and delays her moult until ‘late





fall will soon recover from the moult

and start producing eggs again.



The chief trouble with the natural

way of raising hens is that most of the

eggs are laid during the time that pric-

es are lowest and the rest of the year

the hens is a Star boarder. We have

undoubtedly reached the low mark in

egg prices this year and from now on

the prices will raise until we reach

the peak in December. The best

months for profit in egg production are

September, October, November and

December. In January egg prices of-

ten start on the decline because of the

shipments from the south. In order

to: take advantage the four profit-mak-

ing months a farmer should prepare

his hens now for production at that

time.



How to Feed Up.



The advisable thing to do is to have

the flock culled so as to eliminate all

hens that are naturally poor layers and

would not pay a good profit even if

well fed, and then gradually feed up

the remainder of the flock. A good

method is to allow the hens free range

as before and then have available to





them in a feed hopper the following





mash: - Equal parts by weight of corn

meal, bran, middlings, ground oats. If





.sour milk is available give them plenty





of it. If it is not, add to the mash

three-quarters of a pound of commer-

cial meat scraps to every four pounds





‘of the mash. Sour milk is very valu-





able as a poultry feed and'can be put

to as good use for feeding poultry as

It'will re-

place meat scraps, which is the most

expensive .. ingredient of the poultry

ration, and also one or the most val-

uable. Besides the mash. the hens

should be fed in addition, scratch feed





composed of equal parts of cracked.





 





   





Hens Now





casesand the mash entirely relied up





on to make up the deficiency in the :





amOunt of feed the hens get.



"It is advisable to make all changes

in feeding gradually, as any sudden.

changes may bring the hen into a

mOult. The short summer feeding

through ranging has come about grad-

ually with the drying up of the range

due to the hot weather. In many cases

the farmers have also recently cut out

feeding grain to their hens because of

shortage cf Asupply. ‘

would have been sudden it might have

preduced a moult at this time of the

year. In getting the hens back to con-

dition start the feeding gradually, oth-

erwise it will produce a. very much

undesired moult at this time.



It is granted that many farmers are

short of grain and are not in a posi-

tion to buy food. However, on the oth-

er hand, there has never been a time

in recent years since poultry feed has

been so cheap. It is therefore a mat-

ter of good judgment to make the ad-

ded expenditures to buy extra feed at

this time to get the hens in shape for

the profit-making months. If this is

impossible it would be wise to dispose

of the flock entirely as it will likely be

unproductive until spring and there-

fore be the cause of future loss in-

stead of profit.



Feed Chickens Well.



The good care and feeding of chicks

is also urged as the care the chicks

get in early life is often the determin-

ing factor as to the profitableness of

the bird in later life. A stunted chick

will never make a profitable hen. It





would be far more profitable to sell _





the chicks when they get to the broiler

stage, than to expect them to produce

a profit by egg production later on

after they have gone through a semi—

starvation period. ‘



A good mash is also a valuable ad-

junct to free range for chicks. The

following is a good mash: Two parts

each of corn meal, middlings, bran, one

part. each of oat meal and beef scrap

and one-fourth part charcoal. This

mash should be placed in a hopper

available to the chicks at all times.

Sour milk is also one of the most val-

uable things that could be given grow-

ing chicks. If it is available it should

be kept before them at all times. When

sour milk is used the amount of beef

scraps may be reduced one-half.



A liberal feeding of either hens or

chicks at this time of the year is “A

stitch in time" which assures poultry

profits later on.



______.___





MATCHING QUAIL 5668-





Please tell me if quail eggs can be

batched in an incubator and how long

does it take to hatch quail eggs, either

under a quail or in an incubator? If

they can be hatched with an incubator

what degree of heat should I have for

them? The quail hen was frightened

from her nest before she started to set

when twelve eggs were laid, and I am

told they never will go back again.



M. B. C.



Prof. W. B. Barrows, of the Michigan

Agricultural College states that quail

can be batched in an incubator. It

takes twenty—three to twenty—four days

and authorities differ as to the exact

time. The temperature should be one

hundred and three degrees, the same

as for hen’s eggs.



However, the quail is a very fine

mother and in all cases for practical

purposes it is/best—to leave the eggs

with the mother quail. In cases where

the bird has left the eggs there is the

chance that they may haye been incu-

bated several days. This would. of

course, reduce the time required to

hatch in the incubator and often the,





If this change,





1





‘ flocks at the following low prices.





English

, While

leghorns,

Ancenas

at

, 9c

each





Broiler

Chicks

seven ‘cents





SUPERIOR POULTRY





 





to our door and Guarantee live arrival and complete satisfaction.

Crder direct from this Ad. and save time.





 





Trap-nest record of 278 Eggs in one year.





Box 205, Zeeland, Michigan,





SUPERIOR BABY CHICKS ‘ji >

July Chicks Make Best Winter Layers _

We now offer Baby Chicks from our purebred farm raised, free range I.





We ship by Parcels Post Prepaid





We do not ship C. O. D.





American

White and

Brown

Leghorns

at





80





each

Ship an





amount

to 5000





FARMS & HATCHERY,





 





 





 





POULTRY





 





Pullets Pullets





Good April hatched pullets. Will lay next

winter when eggs are high and your hens

are taking a rest.



It surely does not pay to keep poor quality

old hens when they can be replaced at prac-

tically the same price, with our American

English strain of bred to lay Single Comb

White chhom pullets.



Thcsc pullcts are produced from our own

stock and are fully guaranteed.



Choice breeding cockcrels and yearling hens.

Price on application.





Macatawa White Leghorn Co.

R. 1, Holland, Mich.





DAY-OLD CHICKS





$16. 00 per 100 and up. Hatching 1.6888 82.00 to :15 0t

per setting and $9.00 to $15.00 [101100. from 25 varieties

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

Ducks, Turkeys and Guineas. Price lbs 1; and circular

free. Plenty of nice breeding stock. Book now for

early 0 ring deliv 013. WILMINGTON

HA’I‘C ERY JPO L'I‘RY 00. Wilmington, Ohio.





 





 





3 contest rdwlnners.cg from strain

BUIEII ROCIIS $011 record to 290 33:68.12 82. 00

per setting fire 111d 11by P.



D ASTLINII}.





G‘hi‘ckschicks





Great price cut for July deIIVeries to lower

than pre war Lgées. Better chicks at a. real bar-

gain price





Constantine. MI 11





 





Pure 3. CW. Leghorn: $8.00 a 100, $4.00 for 50

Pure Barron Eng. Leg. 10.00 a 100, 5.00 for 50

Pure S. C. Anconas 10 00 a. 100, 5 00 for 50

Pure B. P. Books 12.00 31 6 00 for 50





Assorted chicks 7. 50 a 1%00 3. 75 £0150





Hatch every Tuesday in July. order direct»

Prompt shipment on all varieties by Parcel Post

.mail. Full count strong lively chicks on arrival.

For quick service and an entirely satisfactor

deal send us your order. 13 \ears reliable dea

lugs Fine instruotive catalog and price list free.





W. Van Appledorn

R. 7, Holland, Mich.





8 to 12 week 'pullets. cooker-c111. hens

Bmed Rod“ and cockb bl.rdn Leading pen at M.

A. O. for December averaging- -oggs ear-11.1 pullet

laid 2'1 ores in both Dec. and Januan. l pullet laid so

eminil daye,winncrs at largest shown in state. Write

for price list. 6. Cuba". 3. I. Hudsonvllle. Mich.





PULLETS





you want some 800d E 111: Weeks Old Pallets,



write, us for descri tion of hits and Brown Leg-

horns and also yearl n3 hens



Also we have a limited number of three months old

pallets—W hits and Silvel’ Laced avggandottes. White

and Barred Rocks. 8.13111! chhorns.

Also Cooker-ole.



Let us make you a price on what you want.





STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION, .

Desk I, Knlamazoo, Mich.





LOOK BABY CHICKS





at 8 cents and up. Announcing our summer prices





 





 





 





for]



W. Leg. 1.0 cents 8113 Lo 1



31-. Lee. 11 cents AnconaI 1!). 2311::

B trod Books 13% cents Reed 13% cents

B111! 11001151334 cents W. Wyandcttes 15 cents





rollers Soc

Deduct 55 for orders of Wot more, 105 for orders





75. 000



LOOK [3... bum] CHICKS

Our Hi- Grade profit paying Bred- to- Lay. M. A-O.

tested and exhibition chicks, at reasonable prices

Hatching eggs 8 varieties. Circular Fll

Laurence P011 try Farm. R37. Gland Rapids. Mich.



‘ and cockerels. Thorou h- bred

ChICkS, Pullets Barron Leghorns 9.05:3 Books

311.00; S.C.R.I. 11611581300 I18“ hundred. Eight

weekold pellets and cor kelelsW no Leghorns, Rocks





Reds at Bargain prices.W1ite me your wants~

Catalogue. Brummer s Poultn Fulm. Holland Mich





Barron S C w Leghorn “magic week old





at special

1011 prices A pleased customer or no sale





H dson-

ville S. C. W. Leghorn Ranch, Hudsonvllle,‘lldicll.





$10 a 100





and up.





. Postage P A I D. 95%

‘llve arrival guaranteed. FREE feed with each or.

der. 4“ breeds chicks. 4 breeds ducklings. Select

and Exhibition grades. A batch evciy week all

year. Catalogue free. Stamps appreciated.



NABOB HATCHERIES. Gambler. Ohio





100, 000 CHIX 11c UP.





Best selected, utility trapnested exhibition stock ever



produced. Always 2.000 chix on hand 5 t015daa



old. 18 varieties. Han hing eggs Hens. ducks. Eary



booklngs. avoids disappointment. Catalo



Beckmnn Hatchery. 26 E. Lyon, Grand Rapids. Mich.

June and





USEFUL ANCONAS June“...





lay before cold \\ eather. gs half price 86. 50 or 100.

.‘3. 50 per fifty. Hogan tea-Meg. boéaut and utililg' com-

bined. Specialty breeder S. Mom led Anoonas,

Send for booklet. (Useful flu ts about Useful Anconu).

It is free. Collegt Vic-u F arm. 3Hillsdale.Mich.





Whittaker’s R. I. Reds





Mlchlfan'so s Greate st Color and Egg Strain. Chicks

all sod goodcock birds. eithcrcomb, at bargain

ric-(s for aid: sale.

NT EBLA ES F ARI“.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Box 39. Lawrence. Mich.

Baby (‘hix—12 .000 Standard Quality every Tues. at-



dgreatly redmed p1'-;l(en Mottled Anconas, English

and American W hite Leghorns. Brown Leghorn: and

Barred Rocks: all single comb Parcel Post paid. safe

arrival guar Knoll‘s Hatchery, R3 Holland. Mich.





 





 





H EASLEY S. C Bull Leghorns. eight-week-old

pullets and cockerels and breeding hens at bargain

prlr es Bred from officially certified egg bred winners.

original Dr. Heaslex flock. hicks at sperinl prices.

Henry DePree, R. 8, Box 137. Holland. Michigan





NG. and American W. Leg $8 er 100: Brown Leg.

per 100; Mottled Aim-ones £10501. 100:8:11'1'04‘1



Rotks 812 per 100; Broilers 87 All Single

Comb. Safe arrival guar. Order (I rest 90101111111 or send

for catalog. Knoll' sHatchery. R. _.3 Holland. Mich.





RHODE ISLAND WHITES





win over all breeds at the egg layin contest.

85; 50 88:100315 order from this III. 1110011138.

H H R. 5, Jackson. Mich.





JUMP

81.50 each. Pekln





R. C. Br. Leghorn C’k duck. 82.000: ch.





MR8. CLAUDIA BE‘I‘TS, Hillsdalo. Mich.

8. 0. Black llinmas 35‘5‘5 $22.3 ‘ "“”’°





17111.01 the season. Mill 8. 5J0! "lb;





 





 





 





$1138.11»;





 





 





Single Comb Buff Leghorn





he one and early hatched pullets and cockerels. Good

laying strain. Willllard W cbster. Bath, Mich.





Pullets and Breeding Stock

8 l I I .

13156113231. " s°2élh°k€y35d ”(Ellinas‘la‘tilgf Koch.





' ‘ Black Mlnona. L htB h

Quality Cluck: each. Barred 11'0ch R. Inked.

each. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton. Mich.





White Leh





erels. hens and

more: special

FRANK





 





 





 





English and American



horns strains. Choice cock-



ueek bullets 81. 40 each for 10 0!

rifles in 100 lots. Wills 0 O. D.



EINZ. Box 6.001118toCkh‘Rark. Mich.





WHITE WYANDOTTES





20‘? 81:8 aver-11 e. cockerels $5 each. 3 for 814, 6 for

FRANK IgoLONG. R. 3. Three Rivers. Mitzi}





 





 





White Wyanclotte 32?,3‘5533 mm.

season. HOWARD GRANT, arshall, Mich.





 





of 1000 or more. We



guarantee llvc Mprgaygzmel‘ for postgargecu a

and earliest delivery date.



Ohls Poultry Yards & Hatchery. Marion. Ohio





 





APRIL COCKEREIS

“Winter Laying Pullets





mughtweekcold. AnconuandWhit -

11.1.3411. 'M ‘ 7%};

“math-anarchic: "





   





 

 





 





Mam. Bronze Turkeys £“l'°{f&l¥’°“53? “a





Rollo. I 111180” the cxpmss this month. .

Nurseries; Box 151. Plainwell. m,





 





pocs

Trained American 1'0: Hound: Wm:





. flaming... __





 





 





‘ Poo-coon

,ronsAm— firm:





I ntnlog free. I

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«names hierarchy





“3% f of Cop or Cancellations’must reach 'us

, p n Devi; before date of publication





 





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imp. Edgar oi Dalmony





n. World’s Greatest

Breeding Bull





Blue Bell. Supreme Championst the Smith-

fleld Show 1919. and the Birmingham Show

1920. is a daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.



The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Cham-



ion Female. Champion Calf Herd and First

. lp’rize Junior Heifer Calf. Michigan State Fair.

2 1920. were also the get of Edgar of Dalmeny.

. ' A.,ver choice lot of young bulls—sired by

Edgar o Dalmeny are. at this time. offered

for sale. .



Send for Illustrated Catalogue.





'WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION. MICHIGAN

w. E. scams, Prop. Sldney Smith. Supt.





CLOVERLY ANGUS





Cows and Heifers Bred to

Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd





~ For Sale .

GEO. HATHAWAY & SON, Ovrd. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





EOISTERBD Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers. six

' f -t en months. est of

Rbulls from elght to 33.3. make good. Reason-





b‘eedmg‘the gummy finJ WILBLR, Clio, Mich





able. inquire .





Reg. Aberdeen Angus





d h ‘f “s of the very best of breedin , from

l’zutlflgrhionfiisedf agei lFor next g0 dgytsiovgilinvpgfie

. z s. nsp c . .



buns at $100.00 uggsnfizifgfi‘iinos" Merrill, Mich.





GUERNSEYS





Bull calves for sale. Sired by Antonzis May Ktngghat

f 7,000. Farmers rices an guaran ee _ o

:(lbise?r 8 GILMORE Bit TH ERS. Camden, Mich





EGISTERED Guernseys. Bull calf ready for light

service—out of our old Foundation Cow—Primrose

Bessie-and one of the best May Rose Bulls lll‘tlle

atate.$1ll0 buys him. Never had a reactor—no abortion.

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

—REGISTERED





GU ERNSEYS BULL OALVES





Containing blood of world champions. .

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





of May Rose Breeding

’l‘heir dams have records

a few cows and heifers are

igman, Lansing. Mich.





Guernsey Bulls

420 to 650 lbs. fat also

offered. H.





uernsey bulls, grandsons of Carrie of Hillhurst

G3rd A. A. Class Leader. and out of cows on test.

Also a 2 yr. old out of a 3% yr. old with a 500 lb. record.

Priced to selcl}. Federal tested. Satisfaction guaran-





at ..





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. ., ‘ .

N .mois u- mines ’ "to".

ginsfignt “legacies: defi'hii ”i. ' ”mm ‘



on over . =



'vreoently rage I; e gre a; yoarlL’lpi-oddglon, eve

dreamed‘of, «.8814 0 milk ayear. «.

° ”one iii‘ii‘i‘" sci? “2°22 m 2. mm

a n v a s o o «

fibrils. ' m ' '



D RIVER STOCK F





GRAN ARM.

815 N.Eact Ave. Jackson, Mich. O. J. Spencer-.0wner

Under btate and Federal Supervision ' ‘..





 





 





   





 





I flood "of.~mpt.ed in payment or, finely Mede





i ed Holstein bull calves. pm,

of the best. detetrpriceo within reach 0 all. %rito.

91:20.1). oflsxn - — - - Vassar. Mich.





 





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

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way.

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

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

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE Cl" STATE HOSPITAL

’ Traverse City, Mich. .. _ /





Cluny . Stock Farm

Only 3 Sons Of “Maplecrest”. 'For Sale





Old price list out 31 to 5‘ for prompt sale.



No. 1. 18 mos.old-Dam 19 lbs. 3 yr. old.

$100.00 . _



No.2. 15 mos. old—Dam 22 lbs. 4 yr. old.

$150.00. ,



No.3. 14 mos. old—Dam 29.67 lbs. in 7

'days $400.00. .



Dam of No. 3 has 1031 lbs. butter 23543 lbs. milk



in a year—One of our best foundation cowa. .



Don't delay but buy one of these ready for some:



bulls NOW.



Pedigrees on application.





R. B. McPherson, Howell, Mich.

7 Yearling Bull Bargains





Sired by Segis Korndyke De Nijlander a 32 lb. son of

a twice Michigan ribbon winner" her dam. 29% lbs.

Dams are daughters of King Segis Pontiac, 8.37 lb.

son offKixlig Ssel ids. Rlecolrds 1116 [tbstgd 25) “’le Wofid



thl e. .‘eerayes une . re

a a va AILBERTDG. WADE. White Pigeon, Mich.





 





for list.





eg. Holsteins and Berkshires. most any age. either

Rsexmriced according to other commodities. Write

or come. B. B. REAVEY, Akron. Mich.





FOR SALE





20 Cows of extra quality and breeding, 12 of them

bred to our $5200.00 son of Old Repeater, also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.





or 618 So. Westnadge Ave" . .

Kalamazoo, , Michigan





Thumb Hereford Breeders Association

‘now offering some excellent young males and fe-

males of choice breedin . Can furnish one or a

carload. Priced right. our inspection solicited.





 





teed. W. and H. G. RAY. Albion. Mich. , Jae. R. Campbell, Secretary. Bad Axe. Mich.

. . bulls. some ready for



Registered Gucrnseys bull calves se ~

Fodsa‘e! for 3.30 each. Sired by May Rose RegIStered Jer y service sued by 01'





Bull. hisfi nearest dams average 735 lbs. fat. i

E. A. BLACK. Howard City. Mich.





 





Females of superior breeding, at reduced

prices. Tuberculin tested. Send for

G. A. Wigent. Watervliet. Mich.





Guernsey

Bale list to day.





WinnWoud Herd





Registered

Holstein-Friesian tattle





We breed them to sell. If you

are looking for seed stock, we

have it.





John ll. Winn, [Ina]





Rochester, Mich.





MY! OH, MY!

WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY





We are now ofl‘ering a beautiful calf born Aug. 2nd.

1920. His sire a 35.68 lb. bull. Dani's sire has three

sisters each with yearly records of over 1200 lbs. two of

them former Worlds' champions. Write for ped' rees



HILLCREST FARM, alamazoo. ich.





" I t l Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred~

0 S 3 ll registered and high-grade. rce u .

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re.

quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw. N. Y



‘ for sale at all times either

Reg. HOlStelnS sex. Bulls or heifers, prices





Reasonable. Write or come and see them.

HENRY S. ROHLFS. R. 1. Akron, Mich.





“Top Notch” Holsteins





"milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of e world’s only cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7

«13:. having an 800 b. daughter.



r herd is rich in the blood of Colantha 4ths Jo-

hanna, the only cow that ever held ] world's records

nevery division from one day to one year at thesame



. She produced 661.70 lbs. milk in 7days. We are

oflering for sale a bull, whose dam exceeds this record

bfioaer 7% lbs. in 7 days.



a am'e records are:-— '



M 1 Day 100.1 lbs.



~ 2 :22" use:



‘ . ays ‘ . .

monam s





e i - ‘

KING VALE OORNUCOPIA WAYNE, No. 812699

_ . rn obruary 6, 1920 , .

file and sirc's‘two nearest dams average



r , t :- Days 33.02 be.

2.322- “02.2.2"...



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lord’s Champion Fox 168§81. out 0 Oxford Daisy’s

Princess. Register of Merit record 8311 lbs. milk; 468

lbs. butter with first calf, milked 50 lbs. per day with

second calf. Sister to Sadies Crown Princess 18578 lbs

milk, 1031 lbs. butter in one year. ‘he dams of these

bulls are Ihigh produlcers, many of théam 3m prize

winners. rices very ow. rue. i y consi ere .



0. S. BASSIETT, Kalamazoo.-Mich





BUTTER BRED massage“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FABM'.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.‘





C

The Wildwood Farm

Jersey Cattle, Majesty strain, Herd on State accred-

ited list, B. of M. testing constantly _done. Bulls for

sale. ALVIN BALDEN. Phone 143-0, Capac. Mich.





arm





Thorobred Jersey Bull Calves Emma...

and Federal accredited list. $25.00 each. Also one

yearling bull ready for service. Pedigrees on request.

I. W. JAYNE it BEN BRAWT, Fenton. Mich.



Ready for Service.





JERSEY BULLS Raleigh—Oxford





and—Majesty breeding. Meadowland Farm. Water-

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





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys

COLON 0. LILLIE.

ready for service from





Registered Jersey Buns high prodnoin dams.

R. B. FOWLER. Hartfor Mich.





Fo Sale ready for service from R. of

Jersey Bulls M.rdams. T. B.tested. Will give time.

SMITH «it PARKER, R. 4, Howell, Mich.





' FOR SALE





Having sold 2 of our farms on account of poor

health. we have for sale 40 head of pure bred

Shorthorn Cattle of various ages. and you can

have your pick from over 100 head. 30 Pure Bred

Duroc-Jersey sows and gilts to farrow in Septem-

ber and 70 head to pick from. Head of pure

bred Percheron and some gra‘de horses and colts.

A span of mules over 16 hands high 4 and 5 years

old brothers and a perfect match. Our herd bulls

are Imported Sir Haymaker Chaslen and Ideal

Fortune.son of Cumberland Fortune. Herd Boers

are Hi Pathfinder. son of Pathfinder. Long Won-

der. son of Colonel High Model and Giant. son

of Giant Invincible. All our hogs are Cholera

Immune.



CHASLEN FARMS. NORTHVILLE, MICE.

Our farms are located 3 miles south west of town.

if you can make better connections b way of

89. em we are 3 miles east of there on 0 Salem

Road. It you need anything in these lines. it

would pay you to come and see us.





BID W ELL our A BULL

that will nut weight on your dai calves —tho dil-

.mwrnceraimztmimuu ,.

We guarantees . y - I. .





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Bull calves from

R. of M. cows.

Coopersville. Mich_





 





   





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We offer ‘a‘iew choice ,cotch heifers with calves



at foot. This is good mmdation "stock and the



calves are all from todp sires. Prices reasonable.



Write your wants an see the cattle. _ .’

Cy". PRESCOTT & SONS,





 





The Maple’ s Shortliorns

—Kirklevington Lad. b Imp. Hartford

Welfare, 1n serVIce. ock or sale.





J..V.Wi$£. ' assuming, Mich.

Huron Camry Shorthorn Breeders» Ass’n.





1

females of all es. 300 head to select from: or

lnformatl‘dn add‘gess Jas. R.-Campbell, Secretary.

lBad Axe. Michigan. . . . .





BUY SHORTHORNS





Bree’ders' Association at farmers'

sale list to M. E. Miller, _Bec'y.

For sale. Fames Pride





Shorthorn Bull 724792. Two yrs. old nice

roan with star in forehead. Ve gentle and aflne





sei notthebreed. rce ..

p c m w. E. B‘ARTLEY,





FIVE Bdlfib‘hEiFERs





that we will sell cheap if taken at once} Inquire

about them or better come and see them.

CARR BROS. it 00.. Bad Axe. Mich





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAB. Now ofleringii



heifers. 2 bulls, all Scotch. Sows to (arrow in Aug.



and Sept. Spring gigs. 60 head to choose from.

POPE ROS. 00.. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





 





gan Shorthorn

814008. Write for





 





 





 





Regi Red Polled cattle. herd headed by Famous

C armor 75% same blood asOharmer 1919 Int. Gd.

Herd State and Fed. tested. No cattle for





Champion.

Westbrook Bros., Ionia, - ich





sale at present.





 





rs. old white due in Nov.

. ROYAL PIONEER.

UM, Union City, Mich.





'cow 3

to IM

BARN





HOGSV





Place Orders NOW





for BERKSHIRE boars or sows 6 to 8 weeks old Reg.

and Trans. and delivered any where in Mich. for $15.

or a fine lar e bred sow at $40.00. also have an ex-

ceptional] no 400 lb._ boar for sale at $40.00. Be is a

dandy an anybody in_ the market for him should

never pass this up. He is a ood one.



C. H. WH NEY.iMerrill. Mich





Shorth'orn

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Berkshire spring pigs, either sex. $10.

according to age. Also fall fits

C ASE STOCK FAR .





$12. and 815

and yearling sows.

M arlette, Mich.





Breakwater Duroc Jerseys

FALL BOARS OPEN GILTS





All of the right typehnd the best of breeding.

.. Prices reasonable.

Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.





BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor,- Mich.

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





DUROG JERSEYS:





sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS,





 





A few choice

bred gilte for

Hastings, Mich





Duroc Jerseys





Gilts bred for tall farrow at reasonable rice .

RUSH 3808.. Oakwood Farm. p meg. Mich.





' at once I have just what on w t

write Me heavy bone registered Duyroc Jig;-

sey boars readgifor servxce. '



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





Sprln pigs by Walt's

Orion, irst Sr. Yearlin

Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and gin'aw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





Collinsdale Duroc 4— Jerseys

Lyons, Mich. H. 1. L. A. Burhans, Owner





Herd Boar's ' ,

Wolverine Pathfinder by Pathfinder

Wolverine Sensation by Great Orion Sensation.

Wolverine Renown Wonder by Great Wonder IAm

Fall boar and gilts by th&Sensation boar.

100 spring pigs from the boars.

Herd we breeding '

0. C. K.. Pathfinder and Big Bone Giant.



A few choice. ready for service,





D U Rocs. boars for sale.

Sturgis. Mich.





HARRY FOWLER.





 





 





Maplewood Duroc Jersey Pigs _

10 weeks, 810.00.._ Hired by PROMOTION

MAPLE FARM, ‘ ‘ Ypsilanti. Michigan.

Howard Moore. Owner Willis 1.. Moore. Mgr.





oodlawn Farm Duroc ho are from select breed-

W lng stock. well mated or size. tag? and bolor.

Herd boars. cows and pifisv. will “ll-id) C. . . and in -

ish Reg. certificate. . . E. Ba ey. Alma. Mifi,





Duroc Jewish?" cw-lhurgs.’ his. " lg m . , :

uii,.:ri$??heok133' ° hfifimu '





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





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2th 3.2224 firefighter“





steaming. “on it“ :41 " nan-i!

, > VROBEMABY smug: fill-MM

omcclat Tawas City. Mich“ Hard at Prescott, Mich}.





afie'r for sale Scotch and Scotch topped males and





of Central Michi- ‘





reenville. Mich. ,





Alma. Mich. '





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Rattlesnake Bite—Our Collie. a...





jaw :was wounded, it‘v‘sw‘e’lled “but the

dog is now seemingly all-right} how-

.ever. We are told to ‘destroys—.the.i..dog

for fear of him; going mad... What do

you think? . C. ,H. W .. _ ,

Don’t destroy your dog. on order my.

him to go mad he must bis-infected by 2

an. animal which is sufiering‘from by:

Jdrophobia. ~ Snakes do not ~>haive~hydro-

phobia. .Paint sore_jaw occasionally,

with'iincture‘ofuodine." . ‘2 -'



'Suppu’rating Ears-JWhat canl do

for our six-yearsold Collie dog. who

seems to have“ gatherings deep dov‘vn

in his ears. At times they discharge.

We have been troubled with this for

about five years, but now he is'much

worse._ Recently there is some dis;

charge from his eyes mornings. It

there any cure for him? E. L., Han-

.over, Mich—Alchronic ailment of this

kind in dogs is generally incurable.

Benefit will be derived from dropping

peroxide of hydrogen into the inner

ear twice a. day. Ten7minutes after

each application, dust into, ear some

boric acid. It is perhaps needless for

life to say his ears should be kept

c ean.





have a thr'ee-year—old colt Whichwe

commenced to work- last spring. About

amonth ago her left shoulder began to

sink in, the affected part is the width

of my hand, and about a foot in length.

It seems to be sweeny. We applied

lim‘ment but it fails‘to helpher. ' F. S..

Chesaning, Mich—Clip off hair and ap-

ply one part powdered canthanides

and six parts fresh lard once every ten

days. The writer has obtained satis-

factory results by injecting (hypoder-

mically) ’five or six drops of rectified

oil. of turpentine underneath the skin,

to the atrophied parts and the drops

planted two or three inches apart, five

or six drops in each. If the animal» is

of‘ a nervous temperament you may

expect this treatment to create consid-

erable excitement for ten . or fifteen

hours. The shoulder will swell. Give

the animal three days’ rest, then put

it to work. No'other treatment is nec-

essary. If you give ,this treatmenta

trial, kindly report results and oblige





_ the writer.





Distemper—Irritation of Skin Infect-

ed Wound.—About four weeks ago four

of our horses began to cough. We gave

them commercial cough remedy buttit

failed to benefit them; next’gave them

treatment prescribed by our veterinar-

ian; this also failed; next gave the

commercial distemper remedy; this

Seemed to help some, but they are not

well: They have-good appetite and

are in good condition. We have-found

your prescriptions O. K. and would

like to have remedy for these‘ horse's.

About two weeks ago one of our sheep

began to gnaw at the wodl on hip,

making the skin raw. The flies got to

her and we were forced to kill her.

Later two lambs commenced gnawing

at hip, one of them died but the other

recovered. Now another lamb has be-

gun to gnaw at the hip. Our sheep

seem to be healthy and are free from

ticks. Have frequent changes of pas:

ture, are fed oats night and morning.

A. J. 0. Perry. Mich—Mix one part of

fluid extract of mix vomica, three parts

of ‘fluid extract of cinchona, and four

parts of Fowler’s solution together,

shake, and give each horse a table-





.spoonful (half ounce) at , a ,dose in ,





feed or in‘ drinking water three times

a day, until they fullyrecover. Wool

eating is more of a habit among sheep

than a disease; (besides, itis more like ~

lyfito occur when sheep are fed dry

food and not allowed to exercise. The

peculiar part of your cases is that they

all commence gnawing at wool on

hip, indicating an itchy condition ’of

the skin in that region of the body.’

Doubtless ,e wound the animal

makes, becomes infected, the death re-

sulting frOm septic poison. If the ani-

mal swallows much wool it may clog

bowel and cause, death. ~‘Gi "

sheep at hypodermic injection

ten, of a “grain ammo





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1111:st prams. Lewiston. .uieh.





DUROC sow s and em- mam

~ Jacks Cherry

Orion King No. 109959 Son of thfi SlOJDO boar owned

by Longview Farm. Le Sumit. 0. also young boars

ready or service out of good sows. Apply



”HE JENNINGS FAR‘M. Bai y, Mich





Duroc Bred Gilts.





for Sept. farrow from prize winnin

stock, at 825 and $35. Spring bear and

sow gigs of Orion Cherry King, COL,

and athfinder breeding.





W. C. Taylor, Milan, Mich.





uy good hogs now. from one of the largest herds of



_ ’tered Dnmcs in the state. Open fall its at

£39. own and [lite bred for summer and tall arrow.

coking orders tomring Jig: Will accept a few

lows bred to 3' sons eat Orion Sensation

and Duration. Michigan: Farm. Pavilion. Mich.





Duroc Jersey! A few extra good fall bears. and

a choice lot of spring boo/ms ol' the heavy

boned type popular blood lines at reasonable prices.



DRODT d: BERNS, Monroe. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Raise Chester'Whites 3

Like This "





/ A "‘3 WWII bit producers





HAVE started thousands at breeders on the MCI to

”was: mb‘imdsmaar‘mw“ m“



... “imam $1,931wa

I. s. mm, B. p__1)_ 19, W. muss





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' Bred its 250 lb . “ll. 8 .



Chester White; fart-ow:i 8 ring lags“? toe .

ALleRT DORfi. (llinton, Mich.



' ' Big stretchy. ! rln s



Chester Whites for sale. Thong org bogd

ones. George D. Springer. R. 6, Grand Rapids. ich.

- ‘ Choice March bo rs; bl (1

Chester Whites for old customers; clfiflgra (i);-

muned; price right. F. W. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

I. C’s. Last fall‘gllt! bred to furrow in Ann. boats





'for service. also sprin igs forsale. MILO H.

PETERSON. Ionln. 3.2. ich. Elmhurst Farm.





 





 





 





a ‘ cls Choice gilts for April and May furrow. also





E ii . Booking orders for i .

‘Af’ifinaxm a son. maid?” Mich





' Stricti Bi Ty ewith unl-

O. I. C. Swnie lty.. fife: il)ts bredI for

last of April. and Mr! farm. A few and Oct.

lsilplgs either sex. Extra ‘ood once. our ate

I‘d:- prlse winning blood incl. Will sh 0.0. D.

m than me. nawwuvg s'rocx



M, Ru Mariette, Mich.





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‘ORE money for better wool. the

, object lesson taught in scores of

Michigan-towns this year by the. State





'. Farm Bursan wool pool, is the death





knell of the scrub ram, according to

Don Williams, sheep extension special-

ist of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, ‘who is in charge of the sheepex-

tension work that is part of the 192]

wool pooling campaign. Every, wool

pooling day the costof keeping a scrub

ram is being driven home', says Mr.

Williams, who predicts a quick exit for

that type of sire.



' Five times more pure-bred rams will

go onto Michigan farms during the

coming year than in any 'five years

past, in the opinion of Mr. Williams.

He believes that the culling of light

shearing sheep and short-fleeced ani-

mals will be pushed as never before.

Farmers are discovering every day

that it doesn't cost any more to pro-





it does to produce the clothing grades,

providing the right kind of a ram is

used, and the flock is handled careful-

ly. Scores of farmers are now ready

to head their flocks with pure-bred





rams, according to Mr. Williams. -





The difference in price paid today

for combing and clothing wools in the

medium grades is six cents a pound,

and climbs to ten cents a pound in the

fine wools, says Mr. Williams, adding

that pure-bred rams and culling of the





better price.

being reached this





of the wool pooling program. Farmers





explained by graders and suggestions





by the owner if he desires it.

'who want to know the kind of a ram





sheep can find out. 01d sheepmen are

with new ideas





flock. .





sive of the upper peninsula,





wool awaiting farm bureau graders.





cause of being fouled by tags.





1920.

sheep’s wool at feeding time.





that cleaner fleeces are paying.





ings. He finds them optimistic and

proud of their success in marketin

their own product. -





morning. when he said:





 





mono “When to,





duce the combing grades of wool than





flock would soon enable the farmer to

get a better grade of wool and also a





.Thousands of Michigan farmers are





summer by the

practical extension work which is part





see the grading of the wool they bring

in and of that brought in by their

neighbors. Reasons for low grades are





for improving the flock are to be had.1

Farmers 1





to get for their particular flock of





declared to have picked up pointers at

the gradings that have sent them home

for handling their





All parts of the state will be touched

by the extension work and there are

one hundred and thirty grading ware—

houses scattered over the state, exclu-

where





there is said to be 100,000 pounds of Central MlCl‘l. O. l. C.





The second year of wool pooling has

shown great improvement in the gen-

eral management of farm flocks, ac-





sacked separately and the whole fleece

is. better for it. Few fleeces are being

docked this year as discount wool be-





Burry and chaffy. fleeces are far less

numerous this year than they were in

Knowing the value of a clean

fleece, the farmer has fenced his straw—

stacks and is taking care not to get

chaff and other foreign matter into the

He finds





Prospects are for brighter days in

the sheep industry. in the opinion of

Mr. Williams, who has travelled the

state almost constantly for the past

two months and has spoken to hun-

dreds of sheepmen at scores of meet—





Mr. Wiscacres stood looking out of

the window, in deep thought, one May

“The trees

must be tired standing in one place so





 





 





 





   





 

     





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CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,





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all ages sired ’by 021113an Edd 1918 world’s grand champ. boar and C. C.

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

Write your wants, all stock shipped on approval.





Cass City, Mich.





 





 





Special prices on spring





0 I C ’ s -



' . ‘ ' pigs from prize Winning

stock. Must be sold tomuke room. WEBER BROS.

Phone R. 0. 408. 10 mile Rd. W., Royal Oak. Mich.





 





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every





sale guaranteed by association.





cording ‘to Mr. Williams. Nowadays DR. H. W. NOBLES’

fewer fleeces come to the grader with Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

the tags wrapped inside. They are





 





0 I C’ Special prices on choice pigs of



' ' 5- March and May furrow by C. (1. Big



Callaway. C. J. Thompson, Rockford, .\ lch.

Big type serviceable boarsteigh from 150 to





0- I- c- 250 lbs. Gilts bred for May and June furrow.

“'rite for prices. G. P. Andrews, Mason, Mich





 





9 choice boars and spring pigs

U- I . C S at farmers prices.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM.

Iii-ed for June and





0- I. c. Gil—Ts Juiyfnrrow.

H.“





'. hlANN. Dansi'ille, lilich





L.T.P.C. $15,$20 ‘& $25





Our top notchistretchy boar pigs are weaned and ready

to ship “they are sired by such hours as Harts Block

Price Cline’s Big Bob. Right Kind Clan and Leon-

ard's Big Bob. HART, FULCHER AND CLINIC.

Addredl F ’1‘. Hart. St. Louis. Mic . .





Spotted Poland China:





The hog with more outcrosscs than any other

breed. Which insures vitality and prolificacy.

Why breed and feed grade bogs Mien you can buy

registered hogs at special low prices. Write me

your wants inbred gilts, boars or spring pigs.

Cholera immuned. Satisfaction guaranteed.





SAMUEL GEVBER





R. 4. Blufl'ton, Ind.

' ' , i rl » b0 15

51: Type Poland chino. 23mg. “5‘ ...“.i.£“:.§.d





by Clanemen Buster and their dam bein a rize win-

ner at the State Fair. Also alltu bred or pt. Far-

row tor 840 and up. Guarantee Satisfaction.

. ' DORUS yoVER, Akron, Mich.

, afew choice boars

L,“ S 0 P '0 C O at tamer! ’rices,

'bred (lite all sold. Also a grandson of e .3.

man and son 0 .

. II.O.8 A‘R’l’. Sohoolcntt. Mich





. ' .c. . choice sou-amid.

Tml’ , eneflmy \ J' ,





Monroe. Mich





 





 





   





 





' 3" . ”mm 1





Bi Type Poland Chinas. A great litter by Checkers;

g dam a grand-daughter of Giant Buster. are for

sale now. They were fan-owed Mar. 11. and were

purchased of Jim Bloemendaal. Alton, In. in dam. Bo

you want the best the breed produces? Come over

and see them. '9sley File, Ionic. Mich.





BIG TYPE 1’. C. boar pigs at





Laflflal‘d Farm weaning time. 825 from Mich.





Champion herd. Satisfaction guaranteed. Call or

write. E. R. LEONARD. R3. St.Louis, Mich.





sBlg I’D: Plgflldll‘ Gilli“: 22x.l°:fi“a¢::cfid 20:3

9

O" a" s. 2. Mlddlsville. Mich.





 





G. A. BA “GARDNER.





Sow- hred for sprin- litters all sold. Have some

choice [lite bred for Aug. litten. also some Sept.

boars for sale. Clyde Fisher. 11.3. St. Louis. Mich.





T.P.C.few choice bred gilts sired by T's Cinnamon

J-Mich's 1’20 Gd. Chain. bred to Smooth Buster 1’“

Jr. yearling 1051. A. A. Feldkamp, Manchester, Mich.





N thing for sale at resen

1" T‘ P. C. Thanks to my customer: t.

W. J. HAGELSHAVV, Augusta. Mich.

- . l ‘ . .

HampShlre' bred gi he now ready for Aug and Sept





fan-ow: spring an fail boar rigs at a bar-

JUHN W. SNYDER, RA. St. doims. Mich.





 





gain.





Hampshires





1914 1921 .

A.few choice boars of this spring {arrow that

sure will improve your herd if used for herd

hours. They are bred right and are right.and

will produce: right. Write for description and

prices. We are glad to answer inquiries.



Steuben’s Hampshire Farm,

Angola, R. 3.





Pine Grove Hampshires





Bred sows all said. We are oli‘erlniz 100 spring pigs of

excellent breeding and quality. Either flex, r

early. GEO. COUPAli & SONS. Mariette. Mich.





 





 





right.





Guaranteed. Ham shire

Square Deal Farm. . T lidich.





hree Rivers,





 





 





SHEEP .

INGLESIDE SHROPSHIRES





During the past 86 years Inglesirlo Farm has produced

over a 1m Shropsh res of sustained excellence. but

never before have we been able to present to our ever-





 





 

 





n has we have a strong assortment of lambs.

asiand aged rsmir—splendidlndividuais of the

a e.





obi I

quality for exhibition orl'oundations

grimy 2 or ii fitted flocks for show at county:

1- to your wants—or better . cone W ‘ ' 1

“stock ”mung; " M . “ '





 

 





 





 





Hampshire: of superior quality. all sizes. priced '





widening circle of satisfied customers such an at!» '

tire offering of Shropshires of all ages. > ., ‘ ‘





We have young «use!

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i
GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, July 12.

Wheat.





Detroit.—Cash No.. 2 red $1.26; Sep-

tember $1.23; No. 2 white $1.21. .



Chicago.——No. 2 red $1.20@1.21%;

No. 2 hard $1.20; September $12414.



. Corn. .



Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow 65c; No.

3 yellow 64c; No. 4, 61c.



Chicago—No. 2 mixed 620; N0. 2

yellow 62@63c. ‘



Oats.





Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 40%0;

No. 3 white 390; No. 4 white 360.



Chicago—No. 2 white 35%@37%.c;

No. 3 white 33%@34%c.



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate

shipment $3.35 per cwt.



Chicago—Market is lower and de-

mand easy. Hand-picked Michigan

beans choice to fancy $3.80@4.15; red

kidney beans $9@9.15.



New York.—-The market is steady

without much change in prices. Choice

pea $4.50; do medium $4.75; red kid-

ney $11.75.





Rye.

Detroit.—Cash No. 2 rye is higher

at $1.25.

Chicago.——No 2 $1.19.

Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover $13.50:

October $11.50; alsike $11; timothy at

$3.





and prompt





Hay.



No. 1 timothy $20@21; standard and

light mixed $196020; No. 2 timothy

$17@19; No. 1 clover mixed $14@15;

No. 1 clover $13@14; rye straw $13.50

@14; wheat and cat straw $12.50@13;

per ton in carlots at Detroit.





WHEAT





Drouth in the spring wheat territory

in the United States as well as in Can-

ada has been relieved but much wheat

has been damaged beyond recovery

and the crop is not yet\near enough

to maturity to be immune to further

dry weather. Black rust has been dis-

covered in Canada but in the Ameri-

can northwest it is being disregarded

as a factor in the size ‘of the crop.

Threshing returns on winter wheat

are disappointing in Ohio, Illinois, In-

diana, Iowa and Missouri. Much light

weight grain is being found as- a re-

sult of intense heat at the critical pe—

riod. New wheat has not been com-

ing forward as rapidly as expected,

due to wet weather in the southwest,

but primary receipts are averaging

around 1,000,000 bushels per day or‘

higher, which is about one-third more

than at the same time last year. The

demand has not been satisfactory as

exporters are buying sparingly and

milling demand is disapponting in view

of the long period during which mills

have been carrying light stocks. The

hoarded flour supplies undoubtedly are

smaller than a year ago and exporters



are not expected to have the wheat

market so exclusively to themselves

as they did last year. Foreign crop

reports have been rather mixed and a

private report states that the Euro-

pean crop will be 120,000,000 to 160,-

000,000 bushels more than last year.

This statement can hardly be recon-

ciled with other reports which have

come from abroad.





CORN





Corn needs rain in Ohio, Indiana,

Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Iowa.

The critical period .is at hand with

the crap beginning to tassel much ear-

lier than a year ago, and a great deal

of damage can be done inashort time

unless rain is received. Thus far lit-

tle or no actual damage has occurred

and it rains should come, the situation

would be immediately relieved.rDrou_th

in Europe seemsto be stimulating ex~

sport demand for corn and prices are be-

low a parity with Argentine which al-

so has a large surplus for export.

'Stocks remain abnormally large for

this season but receipts are gradually

adeclining although they are still about



5 per cent higher than at this time





last year.

'- OATS





' Hot weather has cut down the oats

_ prop and the few threshing returns

- m lllindis and Indiana-ashw‘ test





=atf;_ termifaikmarkets. are {he .

y - BSQWQ- and

.. . same-tor a3





   

 





 

 





 





* weights‘running from ~20 to 28pounds. l





2‘





requirements. Prices are likely to re-

main low as the movement ‘of new oats

will start during July.





F EEDS





Feedstuffs, especially wheat by—prod—

nets, are decidedly weak with new

low price levels reached. Wholesale

prices on bran and middlings at some

of the leading mid-western centers are

down. to three-fifths of a cent a' pound

or less, which is below the price .-for

corn or. cats. Demand recently has

been limited and confined largely tb

speculative purchases by dealers who

have considered prices low enoughObut

such buying has been insufficient t

support the market. . '





HAY .





The government estimated the yield





of tame hay on July 1 at 82,000,000»

91,000,000 tons'





tons compared with

harvested last year. Prospects 'are

less satisfactory than a month ago,

average condition declining about sev.

en per cent. New hay is not coming

forward rapidly as a result of hot

weather in the southwest. Prices also

are too low to stimulate shipment of

old hay. Large areas of wild hay are

for sale at very low figures and much

will remain uncut unless' prices ad-

vance. The hay market appears to be

working into a stronger position but

it will be several months before prices

can be materially affected.





WOOL.





Attention of the wool trade during

the past week has" been centered on

the wool schedule of the permanent

tariff. Schedule 1]., as it is known, is

a complicated affair, Although the

specific rate on wool in the grease is

25c per pound, and 26c on scoured

wool, there is a proviso under which

the duty is not to exceed 35 per cent

advalorem in any case. Present pric-

es are so low that the 25 and 26c rates

would apply in' only a few cases The

duty virtually amounts to a 35 per

cent rate on wools whose scoured ‘val-

ue is under 716. This is materially

below the Payne-Aldrich tariff and in

some cases is beIow the Simmons-Un-

derwood tariff. It is much more satis-

factory to manufacturers than to pro-

ducers. Prices continue practically on

a steady basis with buyers rather ac-





tive in the range states.

tions report steady to strong prices in

nearly all cases, with buyersfrom con-

tinental countries taking the bulk, of

the‘ offerings. Consumption of wool;

by mills in the United States during

May amounted to 50,056,000 lbs., 'com-.

pared with 46,253,000 in April and '50,?

650,000 during-May last year when .the

mills had not yet felt the effect of the

buyer’s strike. ,The five months’ ag-

gregate consumption is 194,885,000 lbs.

~. compared with 285,201,000 lbs. in the

same period last year when .the indus-

try was.working at top speed. It is

reported that 4,000,000 lbs. have al-

ready been consigned to the Ohio pool.

Michigan also has pooled more wool

than at this time last year while the

wools pooled at Chicago are piling up»

rapidly. ‘ .

Boston quoted prices as follows:

Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces,‘ de-

laine unwashed 35c; fine unwashed 29'

@30c; half-blood combing 30c; three-

eighths blood combing 26@27c. Mich-

igan and New York fleeces, delaine

unwashed. 31@32c; fine unwashed 28

@29c; half-blood unwashed 290; three-

eights blood unwashed 26c; quarter:

blood unwashed 25c. Wisconsin, Mis-

souri and average New England, half-

blood 25@260; three—eighths blood 24

@250; quarter-blood 22@23c.





BUTTER





The advance in butter markets con-

tinued rathei‘ steadily throughout the

past week and the closing tone was

firm. The advance from the low point

of the season amounts to .about ten

cents per pound. Buyers seem to be

anticipating their wants, indicating

that they expect a still higher price

level in the future. Receipts for the

week were sharply reduced and the

supply of high-grade butter was below

current needs so that some supplies

were withdrawn from storage although

total storage stocks at the four leading

markets gained for the week. In spite

of hot weather, the supply of under-

grades was absorbed without difficulty.

If the advance continues the butter

trade is wondering at what point for-

eign butt-er will begin to compete and

to what extent consumers will turn to

substitutes.

that the advance will go ‘much further





 





 





Live Stock Market Service J





 





Wednesday, July 13.





DETROIT





Cattle. ’





Receipts 423. Canners are dull; all

others strong and 25c higher. -

Best heaVy steers ....... $ 7.25@ 7.75





Best handy wt bu steers 8.00@ 8.25

Mixed steers and heifers 6.50@ 7.25

Handy light butchers. . . . 6.00@ 7.00

Light butchers . . . . 4.75@ 5.75

Best cows ......... . . . . . 5.00@ 5.25

Butcher cows ..... . . . . . . 4.00@ 4.75

Common cows ...... . . . . 2.00 2.75

Canners 1.501200

Best light weight bulls . .. 5.25@ 5.75

Bologna bulls ........... 4.75@. 5.25

Stock bulls . ............ 3.75@ 4.25

Feeders . . . .......... . . 5.50@ 6.75

Stockers . . . ....... . . . . . . 4 25@ 5.25

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 45@ 75





Veal Calves.



Receipts 676. Market opened steady‘

but closed $1@1.50 lower; early sales

at $13@13.50.



Others $ 7.0'0@10.50





Hogs. ._

Receipts $1,012. Market 10c lower.





Mixed h0g8 senescence-00$ 10.00

Pigs Il...‘..........'. 10.25

Heavies O O I I O I C I O O O C O .0. 9.60

Roughs QIOOOICQIUIOIOII. 7.75





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 495. Market strong.





'Best lambs ....... . . . .311.00@11.50





Fair to good sheep. . . . . . 3.50@ 4.50

Light to common . . . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50

Culls and common . . . . . . 1.00@ 2.00

Fair to good sheep . . . . . 3.50@ 4.50





CHICAGO .





.7 . Hogs.



Estimated receipts today ”9.21.090;

hol’dover 14,150. ‘ Market stead? to 1251!

ower. Bulk 'otsalesvfltfi

$10.05; gunnery; m

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$9.60@10; light 150 to 200 lbs com

mon, medium, good and choice $9.80@

10.05; light lights 130 to 150 lbs com--

mon, medium, good and choice $9.75@

10; heavy packing sows 250 lbs up

smooth $8.20@8.75; packing sows 200

lbs up rough $7.75@8.20; pigs 130 lbs

down medium, good’and choice $9.50





@ 10.

Cattle.





Estimated receipts today are 10,000.

Better grades are steady; others dull.

Beef steers medium and heavy.weight

1100 lbs up choice and prime $8.75@

9.15; do medium and good $7.60@8.75-;

do common $6.75@7.65; light weight

1100 lbs down good and choice $8.40@

9.25; do common ‘and medium $6.25@

8.40; butcher cattle heifers, common,

medium, good and choice $4.75 8.75;.

cows common, medium, go. and

choice $6.25@7.50; bulls bologna and

beef $4.75@6.75; canners and cutters

cows and heifers $2@4.25; do canner

steers ‘$2'.50@s3.50; veal calves light"

and handyweight medium, good, and

choice $9@11.50; feeder steers com-

mon, medium, good and choice $5.75@

7.50; stocker steers common, medium,

good and choice $3.75@7.25; stacker

Cows and heifers common, medium,

good and choice $2.50@5.50. “





Sheep and Lambs. ,



Estimated receipts todayvare 19,000.

Sheep steady; fat lambs 25c lower.

Lambs 84 lbs down medium, good,

choice and prime $8.50@11.25; do, culls

and, common $5@8.75; . spring lambs,

medium, good in (males at $6@8.50;

eWes medium, good and choice at $3@ .»

5.35; ewes culi and common $1@2.50; ‘

breeding ewes full mouths ,to year-Hugs





afi'd "W‘s? =36





 

 





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It does not appear likely~





. higher.

low a $2 per

grades cost 33.506124.





Guernseys.—October





Aberdeen-Angut—September 23 "

rn Aberdeenmn‘gus Breeders’ Asso- 1 ~





- thin. Springfield;

‘ no





 

 





 





‘ Foreign aim in the immediate future. ..Prices‘5for' » .9





92-score fresh ; butter were: "Chi ‘





37c; New York" 38%0. 'At Detroit'the

quoted ‘at,





' fresh creamery‘ in tubs is

350 per pound. - ' ' '





E ass A's-o ; POULTRY





Egg markets advanced rather-stead~ I ' ”





ily ‘during the past week. Receipts





have not been sufficient to supply cur- '





rent consumptive demand and stora‘ge





holdings are being drawn upon. Holds '





ings at the four leading cities are now

down to 3,434,000 cases compared with

3,163,000 cases on the same date last

year. Poultry markets have been in-

regular during the past week but broil-

ers especially seem to be trending

downward. Egg, fresh current receipts

are quoted in Detroit at 311;“ a dozen.

Spring chickens bring 35@38c per lb;

large hens 26@27c; small hens 23@

.24c; old roosters 13c; ducks 20¢;





geese 15c.

CHEESE





Following an advance in, country

cheese markets, prices in distributing

centers ranged higher during the past

-'week. Export orders , from Canada

presumably on the English account

were filled in the middle west and ad:

ditional export sales are expected at

New York. The firmness of butter-al-

so was a factor in the advance. 'The

prices for No. 1 American cheese as

quoted by the bureau of markets on

July 9 were as follows:

Flats 17c; twins 15%@16%.c‘; single

daisies 15%@1614c; double daisies

151/2@15%c; Young Americase‘,16%@



6%,0; Longhorns 16%@17%C; square

prints .‘l7@171,§c.





 





HOG MARKET APPEARS TOP

' HEAVY.





 





REDUCTION of one-third in sup-

“ ply at tenymarkets kept the hog

market advancing during most of the

past week until a top of $9.80 was

reached at Chicago and $10.75 in the

cast but toward the close the market

appeared prime for a break during the

present week as receipts are certain

to enlarge again. This move has not

exhausted the possibilities of the sum-

mer market when supply dwindles in

August and September. _ .

Packing grades are‘becoming more





abundant and failed to maintain the





pace of butcher hogs but are selling





closer to the top 0f the market than‘





they are likely to after another month.



Packers report decided improve-

ment in the export trade with purchas-

es being made for distant delivery.

Germany has been. buying frozen car-

casses which is a big reason for the

maintenance of prices on the heavy

weights. '



Western lard stocks on July 1 reach-

ed a new high.figure at 144,162,000

pounds, or an’ increase of nearly 25,-

000,000 pounds during June and 18,-

000,000 pounds above the previous rec-

ord figure on July 1 last year. Meat

stock, however, are already beginning

to_ decline with the July 1 holdings

slightly smaller than a month ago and

about . fifteen per cent less than on

July 1 last year. 9 '





 





STOCKER PRICES BOOSTED.





 





RICES .for stockers were boosted

slightly last week, due -mostly to

a small supply. Stockers at Kansas





City are on a $4@5.75 basis which

makes the investment relatively low





while feeder prices .range about

Stock cows can be bought'as ,

100 pounds, but better





 





comma LlVE STOCK SALES. ‘





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19, .Michigan

Mich- ’ F. E.

Sales Man-





State Sale, Lansing,

Fox, Waukesha, Wis,

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terngdistrletsg , 4%.“ some Hos:

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The total produbtion: is estimited at

14,949,000 bushels as compared With

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95.000 produced lest year.

. Corns—Much corn Was from three to

fierce-reel inheightmnduly 1, and it is

4 growmg very rapidly. Tlsseling has

commenced. Extreme drought in the,

nerthwest counties injured the stem!

and greatly retarded growth there.

The condition is‘ 93 per cent, as com-

=f‘~:pured\ with. 88"last~ye_ar and 82 the.

'--'ten—year avenge.- - The acreage is one

’-per cent larger than last year, or a.

‘ total [001,641,000 acres. The present

, condition forecasts a. production of 60,-

_ 282,000! bushels. ; ’

Gets—‘Lbry weather during May and





 





 





Obtains 2 0022 11-? I

proportimlly low prices.





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Now only$3 5E





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1 ~ - THE GUNN BEAN HARVESTER

-AS STANOARD.AS A not ' -



I iMAN-i‘9GUNNT'5lDAYcanI-uaywm



i' acresolbeansWeiwenmerneednolslopmm



i harvest i you have a “GUNN.” ROOTS are really left



drum Mid Beans dry mchlasier-WiscleanerTNOEASlER



EAPER ray to HARVEST BEANS





no u LY F. D. BULLOCK. Sales Agent



$ ’ ma Palmer Arum KALAMAIOO. MICHIGAN



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McCaffrey’s Hay Manager

. Now With





69ml. Rogers‘&. 00.





We solidt‘your cocci eats Liberal

on ul shipment





. ts.

800L303": “0.301 Wabash lideiMl’gh,”





 





 





 





 





Our trade on fancy poultry





_ farm eggs is increasing

daily. Therefore we are in

a position to pal: libero!

premiums above t 0 Chi-

caao market for line new

. laid stock.



We solicit your shi meats- Shép via. Exgi‘esu

AMERICAN BU TEB & CH ESE CO PANY,

203i Howard St . Detroit. Mich



' ' on the market. Broken ice

Best Hog Feed cream cones. 335.00 per ton

it. o. b'. Detroit. Write for samples. ROYAL CONE

00.. 2lnl'rauklin St , Detroit. Mich.





large lathe. 1 4-K. P. gas enmne.berguln.





For farm power and farm machine repairs also auto

re re.

624 WElizabeth. Detroit. Mich, inquire for Mack.





Farms and Farm Land: -





jISO-Acre “Record Crop" Farm With





2 Horses. 3 Cows, Crops .

.Mnchinery. equipment. tools. etc. included; yields 100

bu. com. 75 bu outs. 24 bu. bennsocm common here:

prosperous sootiOn high-grade terms. improved_ roads;

convenient city mar etc. good neighbors: 30 acres

[till-.10; creek-wetered. wire fenced pasture: home-use

wood: apples. cherries. strawberries; new 5 room cot-

ta a. good watermubstantisl barn, poultry house, etc;

'ndJoin‘ing farm's vain to ~ sore; owner's distant

interests demand :1ch sale, onolg. 84700 easy terms.

Details page 71 ll us. Catalogll Bargains. FREE.

STROUT ARM AGENCY. 14 30 Ford Bldg. De-

troit. Mich. ‘ . _.





B" o Vir inio Farm Now. Now is the time to buy a

, 1 (arm n Virginia. Prices are reasonable, You

5 can new line crops of corn—all gruin and rose crops.

Types ,of soil especially adopted to t i3, rowing.

Opportunities Cordell-ring unoxonlled. Vir n softer-a

,zmore advantages to the former then any of. er State—e

j variety I. mild winters. long growing season.

Why farm where you can grow only twoor three crews





and be far away from n. markets when youcsn

.grow a variety oil crops lung: aid and be near the

he healthiest climate





. first consuming markets

.1 “America, free from disastrous storms. rite

now for Hand ook. maps. etc. 0. W. KOINER,

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86. . This-condition represents. ,0 crop

of 39,014,000 in cemparison w‘ith‘a pro-

duction of 56.430000 bushelsin 1920.

{Eyes—The condition is three points

low'e‘rtha’n on June 1'. and now repre-

sents a. total production of 9,160,000

bushels. .Iast .ye’ar, 9.702.000 bushels

were grown. in the state. ,

Barley—Barley suflered somewhat

similarly to outs. The Vesent condi-

tion of “per cent is eight per cent

lower than that of last month, and 13





The prospective production is 4,824,—

000 bushels. . ~ .



Hay—Frost, followed by drouth.

greatly injured the hay prospects.

While some good yields were obtained

in vario‘us‘ localities in southern and

eastern counties, the average is only

62 per cent of a crop for the state, or

2,778,000 tbns. Last year’s production

was 3,213,000 tons. -



Beans—An, inquiry relative to the

acreage of beans discloses a. somewhat

lower acreage than last year. In the

main producing counties of the Sagi-

naw valley and the “Thumb” district

there is a good acreage, but in all oth-

er sections a marked reduction is no—

ticeable, and some counties that for-

merly produced a. considerable quan-

tity have practically discontinued

growing them. The estimated acreage

is 236,000, and the present condition

of 86 per cent represents a, production

of 2,496,000 bushels.



Potatoes—The acreage of potatoes

is as large as that of last year, 340,-

000. It has been increased in some of

the main potato producing 'sections,

and decreased in other portions of the

state. Dry weather in the northwest-

ern counties has interfered with plant-

ing and growth. Many fields were still

unplanted on July 1, and many that

were=planted had not come up yet.

This situation ’is unfavorable for a

good. stand, and the outlook for the

state is 83 per cent, ten per. cent lower

than last year and six per cent below

the ten-year average. This condition,

if maintained throughout the season,

would produce a. crop of 28,502,000

bushels.



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A prominent Michigan farmer carried fire insurance on his house, household

goods. barns and other buildings for years until. one night. the unavoidable

happened. Fire gutted his barn, completely destroying his car, some imple-

ments and several tons of- hay. After (hi. discouraging experience a neigh-

boring farmer tried to console him saying: “It's a good thing on are insured.

John." And; until the farmer actually figured up his losses, his friend's remark

greatly eased his ‘mind.





As a matter of fact, investigation proved that the farmer was only PARTIALLY

protected, having failed to heed advice to inventory his holdings at present

day values to base full protection upon.





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condition and general improvement, without interfering with other insurance

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information Will be included in our answer.





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the'growth is generally satisfactory.

Considerable damage has resulted in

certain localities from leafhoppers and

from black rot. The present condition

is 83 per cent. One year ago it was

86 per cent, the same as the ten-year

average.



Fruits—Apples dropped badly dur—

ing June as predicted, and the pros-

pect one month ago of 52 per cent of

a crop has declined to 40 per cent.





The condition of the other fruits is

as follows: Cherries 24 per cent;

pears '42; grapes 45; blackberries and

raspberries 80; plums 25.





All fruits continue to show a much

better prospect in the northern than

in the southern half of the fruitbelt.





GOVERNMENT FORECASTS REC-

~ 0RD CORN PRODUCTION.





' REDUCTION of 21,000,000 bushels

in the nation’s wheat crop during



the last month, and prospect of a rec-

ord production of corn with the con-

dition of the crop on July. 1 better

than it has been in more than twenty

years, featured the July crop report

of the department of agriculture. Fore—

casts of production from condition of

the crops July 1 show:





Winter Wheat—Production fore-

??szt 574,000,000 bushels. Condition



Spring Wheat.—Producti0n 235,000,-

000 bushels. Condition 80.8.

‘ All Wheat—Production 809,000,000

bushels. Condition 78.2. ‘



Corn. — Production 3,123,000,000

bushels; condition 91.1. A crop of

3,232,000,000 bushels was produced last

year and the July 1 condition was 84.6.

Theprevious five years’ average pro-

ductionjvas 2,798,000,000 bushels, and

thesgeZn-year July 1 average condition

is . .



Oats—Production 1,329,000,000 bush-'

els; condition 77.6.



_ Barley—Production 184,000,000 bu.;

condition 81.4. . .



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. Rye—Production 70,000.00

ole; condition 86.9. , .

. . White _‘ Potatoes—Production 377;

' 000.000 bushels; condition 83.4; sere-





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Our purchase of Camp Custer makes it possible for you

to get the best makes of hot air furnaces at less than man-

ufacturing, cost. Some of them have never been used at all.

The sizes range from 20” to 26” fire pot, at these unheard

of prices:—



20”. fire pot, $60; 22” fire pot, $65; 24" fire pot, $70; 26"

fire pot, $75.



Besides the Wolverine, there are also included Jewell, Laurel,

Wise and Liberty furnaces.





Steam Bellers At Big Sayings

You will find steam'boilers from 625’ capacity to 7325’ ca-

pacity, at prices ranging from $85 to $800. Standard makes

from companies including The American Radiator Company,





U. S. Radiator Company, Gurney Heater Company, Royal, . ,





Hart and Crouse, William H. Page Boiler Company.





Other Special Bargains





Black pipe %" to 10”, with fittings and

valves at special prices, 38” steam and

hot water radiator, 2 and 3 columns, at

25¢ per foot and up. .

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, .. more than a half-dozen special

mower attachments which may he

, fastened directly to the driving parts

of‘the tractors. The ordinary five or”

six foot tractor mower makes too small

a load for the tractor, andrtwo ‘such

machines are generally used. ‘





One common hitch for two mowers





is made by attaching a heavy cross-bar

. to the rear platform of the tractor, al-

lowing it to stand out to the right of

the machine. The first mower is at-

tached with a short stub tongue so as

to cut a swath of the hay which the

tractor wheels are just clearing. The

second mower is attached by means

of a longer tongue to the outer end of

the cross—bar, and this should be long

enough so that the second tractor will

cut a full swath. A stout brace bar is

extended from the outer end of the

, cross-bar to some point in the forward

part of the tractor frame.

Of course, some side-draft will result

» as is unavoidably the case with even a

single mower, but the rapidity with

which the work can be accomplished

more than compensates for the loss

due to side-draft. '





 





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A FEW simple rules essential in the



. adjustment of plows for tractor

plowing are given by Donald McDon-

ald, a well-known‘plow man:

oline; it is only six-tenths as rich in

heat units ' as gasoline by weight,

though it is fifteen to twenty per cent

heavier by volume, which characteris-





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THE proper application of power, be it» man,

horse er, machine, means everything to suc-

cessful agriculture. - _.





Tracing back through history we find that horse

power, replacing ox power, brought increased

production andbetter quality, crops. And, like-

wise, tractor power has given to agriculture

still greater advantages—greater production,

greater economy and greater farm profits.





A Department of Agriculture study of the horse

power problem on the farm from which the

chart reproduced above was taken, particularly

emphasizes a few of these advantages. On an

average 180-acre farm, operated with 9 horses,

it was found that the total horse hours worked

during a year was only 8,492. This left a wast-

age of 23,908 horse hours that cost the farmer

aproximateiy $1,000.00. '





This sum is based on a figure of $150 for a

years up-keep of a horse which is given in a very

recent report of a government investigation.





What a waste of power, paid for but never used l

But in addition- to this the tractor enables the.

farmer .to overcome that greatest of handicaps.

to farming—the weather. With a tractor... the .





jobs can be done on. time and in time which '





nearly always results in greater production per

acre and greater insurance of successful crops.





While this example,-given by the Department

of Agriucuture is of a single farm, the same facts

hold true in a camparative degree 'on all farms

in all sections of the country—on your farm.





This year is the year when you must obtain

the greatest ecomomy in your farm production.

This is the” year for you to have a Rumely

OilPull tractor on your farm.





From the standpoint of long life, smallest de-

preciation and greatest fuel economy, the OilPull

is easily a leader in the tractor field. ‘ '





This subject means so much to you, right now





that we Want to send more information for you , . ‘





to think about. Write today.





 





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common petroleum fuels. It also re- ADVANCE'RUMELY THREHER COMPANY Inc. wort; W .

quires a higher compression pressure, ‘ ’ ’ _ ’

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friction. _ I

These are some good reasons why ‘

alcohol is not practical for engine fuel.



“As "human” fuel—well, that’s an—

other question. It used to be easy to

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was hardly done with the day’s work

and had less than a round to finish. I

didn’t want to stop to get a new sup—

ply of oil and I just kept on driving.

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