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Whole Number '4158

DE’I‘ROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921

ONE YEAR $1.00
FIVE YEARS $3.00

‘ The Rural Church as a Social Center

Rendering Ema/y Service I’m: ZVew Lz'fi 2'72

‘ AKEVILLE, OHIO, is a little village having
L‘ the distinction of being the first in the coun-
try to erect a social center as a memorial
to its service men. The minister, Charles M.
McConnell, has put in five years in this commu—
nity, and has developed what is one of the out-
standing community centers in -the.entire country.
The church is the social center of the neighbor—
hood, and the pastor himself a leader in the sports
of the boys and young men of his parish.

He has made himself and his church a vital
factor in the life of‘ the entire community. He
found a man killed at a grade crossing. As there
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nity until the dangerous grade was protected. He
found orchards being spoiled by the onslaught of
a deadly insect. He got' the farmers together,
sent for the State Board of Agriculture expert,
and saved the day for the orchards.

In other words, Pastor McConnell became the
community leader in ministering the community
needs, social needs of the young people, spiritual
life of all, until today with its community house,
motion-picture, directed games, the entire commu-
nity has found a social and civic center in its
churches, which has begun to burn new fires of
spiritual life. It is an interesting fact that an
abandoned house of 'another denomination was
hauled twentytwo miles through the country in
order to complete this Lakeville plant.

In the old New York own where I was reared,
it was customary for the inhabitants of town and
country to carry on a sectarian battle; those of
one denomination would walk on one side of the
street—those of the other on the opposite side.
The glares of hate and envy that pierced the at-
mosphere between, as the opposing “saints of the
Lord” glared at one another, would crush the
greatest church denomination! And these two
oppOsing forces wondered the while, why revivals
and proclamations to the Creator went unanswer-
ed in their annual endeavors to bring the commu-
nity toits knees. ' Can We expect or hope that
those outside ,of the church will come into organ-
izations of; hate: or, that tho'se who live in peace-
" fill relations. withtheir fellow, men, will wish to
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By Earle W. Gage

as in hundreds of others, in the past generation,
because the churches have adopted a program of
standing by the farmer in bringing his economic
conditions to abasis of comparative equality with
other, groups; it has a program of making living
conditions in the country for both leaders and
people satisfactory; it has a program of renewing
again community loyalty and the development of
the community spirit; it has enforced a program
of absolute respect for interdenominational rela-
tionships and interests in a true Christianity, so

that the church need not be handicapped in ren—
dering the service it should because of childish
sectarian struggles.

The present plan proposes to make a beginning
of the great task of replacing the church as one
of the vital factors in the life of every community,
and of assisting in the equipment of the church,
so that it may render the service modern life de-
mands of it. This plan is being perfected in the
firm belief that American life without virile relig-
ious agency will be fundamentally weak and un-
sound, and that the safety of the progress of man—
kind depends upon the conservationvof Christian
Democracy by a competent religious organization.
Not all country churches have caught the big
ideal as yet, but demonstrations in social service
about them will sooner or later prove living seed
on fertile soil.

The great need today in our rural communities
is for better leadership. We can not hope to have

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hands and power of a weak, narrow band of men
and women. The leaders first must have the
vision; they must be willing, nay eager, to put
into practical effect the same modern program as
has demonstrated its success in other modern
fields. When the right kind of leader is on the
job results are not slow in coming. When E. C.
Reineke first took charge of the church at Byron,
Minnesota, he found that the attendance at Sun—
day school had dwindled to seventy—five pupils.
The men were so scarce as to be conspicuous,
four to eight representing the male portion of his
Sunday morning congregation. The situation was
discouraging enough, but he went to work to find
a cure. First, he remodeled his church and worked
out a program for the community. New attend-
ance at Sunday school has grown to more than
two hundred, and fifty men may be depended upon
for Sunday service. The community spirit started
in the church spread over the entire countryside.
Schools have been consolidated, electric lights in-
stalled in the village, and gravel roads put down.

There are several ways of getting next to the
heart, not only of the people, but also of their
problems. J. H. Singleton, of Dewey, Illinois, pre-
pared himself for the rural ministry via a course
of agriculture in the University of Illinois. Boys’

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and Girls’ Clubs are specialties of his pastoral
work. That his agricultural knowledge has been
put to good account is demonstrated by the fact
that he is now the county agricultural leader.
This is an example of how a program of a modern
rural minister is appreciated by the people and
how the rural minister is appreciated and how the
rural population may be vitally connected with
the largest movements in local and national life.

A church that is “gluing and clamping, instead
of splitting,” is a little church in Iowa. It had
declined until it could not pay only $300 a year
for a 'part of a. man’s time. Some good women
conceived the idea of making it a social center.
A right-minded rural preacher was found, and in
less than two years it had found its place in the
community and was paying the minister $1,200
for all his time.

Another minister believed that no rural
church could really prosper that did not make
itself a community center. He captured the heart
and the imagination (Continued'on page 83).

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CURRENT COMMENT

NDER present

General conditions season-
Crop able crop informa-

, , tion is of the greatest
Conditions interest to both farm-

ers and men engaged
son that the season’s crop will consti-
tute the most important addition to
the new wealth of the country for the
current year.

As a means of getting up-to-date in—
formation with regard to crop condi-
tions throughout the country at 21. pe-
riod midway between the monthly gov-
ernment crop report, the Chicago 01—
fice of the Standard Farm Papers, of
which the Michigan Farmer is one,
asked the presidents of the leading
railways of the country and the ed-
itors of the Standard Farm Papers, to
give a summary of crop conditions in
their territory. The information thus
received was released on Friday, July
15. In a general way the crop infor-
mation contained in this exhaustive
report substantiates the figures given
in the July government report which
.was published in our issue of July 2.
These individual reports show that ev-
eryw-here corn is exceptionally good,
and that small grains, particularly
wheat and rye, will yield well, thus
insuring the country with plenty of
food with sufficient surplus to supply
probable export demand. These re-
ports show more or less spotted local
conditions throughout the country
with regard to moisture.

. While staple crops, particularly cer-
eals, promise an abundant yield
throughout 'the country, the yield of
perishable 01'0ps, such as fruit and
potatoes, will be more or less spotted.
These reports show that a normal
acreage of potatoes was planted
through the heavy producing sections
of the country, but there is quite gen-
eral complaint of a poor stand owing
to weak seed or extremely hot weath-
‘er just following the date of planting
'the late crop. This condition is quite
general throughout the potato produc-
ing sections of other states as well as
,Michigan. Experience in former years
'when similar conditions prevailed,
'however, indicates that the plants in
'the poor stand of potatoes are likely

.to make better individual yield than,

where a full stand is present, and with
.alarge acreage of late potatoes plant-
'cd, 3 general poor stand will not be
an unmixed evil as it is likely to obvi-
over-production of this perishable
th in reducing the total yiéid

 

     

to a point which will not meet the do-
mestic demand for consumption.

one noticeable _ feature of these re-
ports is the general. statement that

production costs am everywhere con-

siderably below those of last year,
showing substantial progress toward
readjustment of the farm labor situa-

4 tion.

Live stock producers, who have been
perhaps the hardest hit by the read-
justment process, seem confident as
indicated by these reports that the
worst is over in their line of production
and that the markets are likely to
strengthen in the future to a degree
which will warrant the conversion of
the abundance of surplus feed which
will be available on the farms of the
country into live stock and live stock
products as the best means of mar-
keting it.

Altogether this crop report is most
encouraging both from the standpoint
of the farmers of the country and from
the outlook for an improvement in
general business conditions due to a
substantial improvement in the eco-
nomic prospects of American farmers.

HE Live Stock

Marketing Com-

Prqducers mittee 0f Fifteen held
W7" Sell a session in Chicago
Live StOCk last week for the dis-

cussion of plans for
the formation of a cooperative live
stock commission company. No defi-
nite plan was adopted at this meeting,
butit is understood that the plans un-
der discussion provide for the forma-
tion of a producer-owned and operated
live stock commission company with
branches at the leading markets, with
the usual provision for profit sharing
through patronage dividends. It is
also stated on apparently good author-
ity that the plan will provide for the
handling of stockers and feeders, pos-
sibly through a subsidiary company,
with provision for profit sharing by
both buyers and sellers of this class
of stock.

Another meeting of the committee
has been announced for August .10, at
which time it is probable that a defi-
nite plan 'will be announced. One of
the important problems under consid-
eration by this committee is that of
orderly marketing. A sub-committee
has made a careful investigation of the
movements of live stock, particularly
hogs, at the leading markets and of
price levels in relation to seasonal re-
ceipts, in an effort to show the efi’ect
of seasonal and daily variations in re-
ceipts upon market prices. It is un-
derstood that this committee hopes to
present a plan to lessen the variation

. in receipts, particularly the daily var-

iation, as a means of preventing mar-
ket gluts and the radical fluctuation
in prices which accompany them. Stud-
ies of this kind are particularly con-
structive in character, and if feasible
plans can be developed from them for
the better stabilization of the market
from day to day, most beneficial re-
sults will be realized.

EMBERS oi' the

Dividing Detr01t’ Whole-
sale Dealers Assoc1a—
the tion conceived a nice

Dollar little' plan to increase

their "toll” from the
“grist” of produce flowing from pro-
ducers to consumers through the De-
troit market. The members of this
organization are largely. of the class
of produce merchants or commission
men who buy from the cariot dealers
and sell to retailers. They discovered
that some of the more enterprising re-
tailers were buying their supplies di-
rect from the carlot dealers This, of
course, was bad for business and the
big idea Was developed to compel the:
carlot dealers to stop selling direct to
the retailers under penalty cf boycott.

  

'Our informatmn indicates um the own _ ‘ . _
"fy‘ dovelopmont of "this Idea. “911103., ,

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promising, in flat when the outfit
dealers were asked to agree not: to
sell to the retailers, all but We out of
something more than fifteen of this-cm”
class of dealers agreed to 'the [impo-
sition. It. is said 'that‘inst‘ead of pass
ing an unfair list, a blackboard was
maintained on which the names of the
-“fair” dealers were posted, and that
the names of the two firms who would
not acceed to the/ wholesalers’ de-v
mantis, namely, Edward Read & Son
and Thierwechter Bros, did not ap-
pear on this list.

In the meantime the retailers com-
plained to the local authorities and a
grand jury investigation isbeing con-
ducted by Justice Gordon, the result
of which will be watched with interest
by the consumers of Detroit, as well
as the farmers who ship produce to
this market. In the meantime, the
dealers who were boycottéd by the
wholesalers report a. most satisfactory
business. It would appear that the
net result of this big idea may be that
the wholesalers’ organization which
sponsored it has taken a long step to-
ward aiding producers and consumers
to eliminate unnecessary middlemen
who do not perform a service com-
mensurate with the charge which they
exact from the public. From this point
of view their idea was a.‘ good one.
The producers and consumers of the
produce which they do not handle
have need of that portion of the lat-
ter’s dollar which they planned to take
by means of this big idea.

OW that the con-

- sumption of agri-
Tflking cultural products in
"1 a this country has pret-
Partner ty well caught up

with production, and
strong rivalry is promised in the man~
ufacturing field when other countries
which are fitted only for ma.nu«
factoring, get into stride, the chances
for strong energetic young people to
not only find pleasure in farm .work
but to find also the safest and surest
source of income in the years ahead
are greatly increased.

For this reason wise parents are
more and more anxious that they in-
terest the boys and girls in farm work.
Juvenile agricultural clubs are doing
much to stimulate the interest of the
members in special lines of farming
and too much importance cannot be
given to these organizations in meas-
uring the influences responsible for
the renewal of community interest in
the business of farming. Another
means for creating in the .boys and
girls a. roal desire to remain on the
farm is to make them partners in the
farming business. Too often the.
younger generation is given a lot of
hard work to do on the farm and little
opportunity to share in. the benefits.
The partnership idea will help them
to understand that their labor is of
value and essential to the income of
the business. The boy or girl will also
come to understand his or her real in-
terest in the property owned by the
family. With such an understanding
it will be difficult indeed to tempt
them to the uncertainties of city life.

News of the Week

Wednesday, July 13.
HE Irish republican leader, D. E.
Valera, goes to London to confer
with government on Irish question--
Harry G. Hawker, first aviator to at-
tempt to cross the Atlantic, was killed
when his plane descended in flames
near London. —-The United States
army will sell 250, 000 surplus army

_shoes._——Pageant depiCting scenes from

the legends of Pilgrim fathers were
Harbor at celebration
of the tercentenary of the laxiding of
the Pilgrims —.—It- is reported that

‘American citizens in the Philippines

 

strongly favor the ithmediate appoint-
meuwotaenemlmwm ._ -

Suns-Daniels controvers

has been purchased by t .
flit! run it cooperatively —-Monc ‘1
being loaned on the London mark
at four per cent. —La‘bor troubles

fighting in Tampico oil fieldi.
Haitian troops have been sent to con-
trot me situation. '

Thu rsdayu July 14,

ACCORDING to a. dispatch from
Warsaw, Poland is nearing bank-
ruptcy. —A banking pool is formed in

  

Chicago to handle live stock loans.——‘

The OxfOrd- Cambridge athletic team
arrives from England to compete with
American Eastern colleges—Despite
the signing of the Irish armistice four
persons were killed in Belfast riots.—
A public matrimonial agency has
started in Vienna, Austria, for the pur-
posie of bringing together fond hearts
who, due to depressing economic con-
ditions, might not otherwise find one
another. ——A negro in Charleston, S.
C, was hurled twenty feet through
the air by a lightning bolt, landing on
his head. He was uninjured. —.Greeks
advance fifteen miles in their often
sive against the Turkish nationalists.
—-New United States wool tariff caus-
es 750,000 pounds of western Canadian
wool to be sent to Great Britain .in-
stead of the United States.

Friday, July 15.

RENCH senate ratifies the Trianon‘

treaty declaring peace between al-
lied nations and Hungary.-——Two for
mer German warships, the Ostfiesland
and the Frankfort, will be used by
American battleships for target prac-

tice—Three hundred city of Chicago ’

electricians strike for one dollar a day
increase in wages—The Sharon Steel
Company, an independent steel com-
pany, announces reduction of common
labor wages to thirty cents per hour.
—Editors of country give President
Harding a cabinet chair made from
timbers of British revolutionary ship,
Revenge, which was captured by the
colonists—Henry Ford makes offer to
government for a large nitrate plant
at Muscle Shoals.——Babe Ruth hits his
thirty-third home run for the season.
—Mexican senate refuses a vote of
thanks to United States Senator La-
Follette for opposing military opera—
tions against Mexico—American Am~
bassador Harvey created a furore at
an exclusive golf club in England by
playing in his shirt sleeves. Despite
terrific heat all Britishers wore the
conventional sport jackets.

Saturday, July 16.

ECRETARY of the Treasury Mel-

lon has exclusive evidence that
Great Britain sought cancellation of
foreign debts to the United States dur-
ing Wilson administration—France
celebrated Bastile Day, Thursday, the
anniversary of the fall of the ancient
prison which symbolized oppression
and brought about the French Revolu‘
tion—Japan accepts Harding’s invita-
tion to discuss disarmament, but does
not accept the invitation to discuss
eastern problems—Canadian Pacific
Railway will furnish smoking com«
partments for women on all sleeping
cars—The prosecuting attorney in De-
troit is investigating the activities of
the Wholesale Produce Dealers’ Asso-
ciation—Dr. W. B. Smith, of North-
western University’s school of speech,
believes six-months~old babies should
speak plainly.

Sunday, July 17.

T is reported that Henry Ford may
purchase the Toledo-Fort Wayne
Division of the Wabash Railroad. The
deal for this was said to hinge on the
outcome of the United States nitrate
plant negotiations—German officers,
who sank Canadian hospital ship dun
ing the war, are sentenced to four
years in prison by German judge.——A
strong movement to” allow the United
States to maintain the initiative in
world disarmament developed Satur-
day when the disarmament .commis—
sion of" the League of Nations met in
Paris—Harden, prominent German
editor, wants Silesia free. He says
neither Germany nor Poland should
get land—«Polish leaders in Detroit
say that one-fifth of the Detroit popu-
lation is Polish.—-A state game pre-
serve is planned for GladwinvcountlY.—~
United States makes first payment to
Great Britain on war debt of four bil-.
lion and a half dollars.
Monday, July .18.
AIL to the depth of four inches
falls in the streets of Merrill,
Michigan—Mrs Elizabeth Amacher,
aged eighty-three, is one of the best

amateur swimmers along the Chicago
beaches. ———C_aptain Donald McMillan

leaves Maine port for Arctic explora-

tion trip.‘~—.~Adm.ifr_al w. s. 813:; 411 iviu- . '

dicatod and commanded soils, to
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R. S. A. FOSTER, near Okemos',
is one, of the most enthusiastic
lime, acid phosphate and green

manure’users on light soil in the state
of’LMi‘chigan. Several years ago he put
on several soil fertility tests coopera-
tively with the soils section . of the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion. In' these were used marl, acid
phosphate, raw rock phosphate, barn-
yard manure reinforced with phos-
phate and crop residues. As a result
of these tests he states that he is'able
to grow clover on land that for many
years previously refused to produce it
and also excellent crops of alfalfa, rye
and potatoes. He adds marl, acid
phosphate and turns under sweet clo-
ver to 'buil up and maintain the fer-
tility of his land. In a later issue his
unusual and somewhat original meth-
ods of farming will be Outlined in this
paper.

The rather light soil of John Wheet-
ing, near Imlay City, responds vigor-
ously to lime and manure, reinforced
with acid phosphate, and where ma-
nure is not added, nitrate of soda, acid
phosphate and lime are profitable, as
shown by marked increase in yields of

‘wheat as well as corn.

0n land owned "by B. C. Gilbert, of

’Cheboygan; Paul Snell, of Clarion;

Charles Kinser, of Levering, acid phos-
phate and nitrate of soda give a mark-
ed increase in the yields of rye. I
could cite several other instances in
different parts of the state where light
soils have responded very satisfactor-
ily to the use of lime, acid phosphate
and nitrate of soda, that is where ma-
nure is not used and where legumes
are not grown regularly on them.

There are a number of good reasons
for vigorous response on the light
loams to these various substances. As
has been called to the attention of the

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Tflere S07/5.

By M. M. MCCool

farmers of Michigan in our publica-
tions from the experiment station, we
have collected a large number of sam-
ples of soil representing large or pre-
dominating soil classes or kinds in the
state, and analyzed them for the
amount of plant food elements that
"they carry. These light groups of soils
especially those that have been .under
cultivation a number of years as a
general proposition are deficient in
humus and consequently nitrogen, and
usually containless than one thousand
pounds per acre of phosphorus and as
shown by a previous article on lime,
many of them are in need of this ma-
terial’.

The information that we have been
able to obtain by this method and also
by numerous tests or demonstrations
carried on cooperatively by county
agents in their respective counties on
privately owned farms, as well as in
some instances on county farms, has
enabled us to make rather definite
statements or recommendations with
respect to their fertilization. We
should call the attention of the reader
to the fact, however, that there is still
much to be learned concerning the
most profitable methods of increasing
yields of crops on the soils of Michi-
gan. In other words, I desire to state
that the soil problems of Michigan
have not all been solved and it is rea-
sonable to assume that so long as we
have agriculture we will have soil
problems. In the light of our present
information, however, we are justified
in calling the farmer’s attention to cer-
tain things. '

Where legumes such as clovers, soy-
beans or alfalfa are not grown regu-
larly or at rather short intervals, fer—

tliizers carrying a high percentage of
nitrogen and phosphoric acid are giv-
ing results where seedings do not fol-
low. We believe a mixture carrying
two per cent of ammonia and twelve
per cent of phosphoric acid at the rate
of two hundred and fifty or more
pounds per acre is very promising for
wheat and rye and this should be ad-
ded by means of the fertilizer attach-
ment on grain drill at seeding time.

In addition from seventy-five to one
hundred pounds of nitrate of soda
should be added early in the spring, or
at the time growth begins. This may
be spread broadcast by hand. The
user’s attention should be called to the
somewhat lumpy condition of the ni—
trate of soda in some instances and
where such happens it should be pul-
verized somewhat before it is spread.
The reason for delaying the applica-
tion of nitrate of soda until spring is
that nitrates are removed or washed
from the soil by rainfall when it pass-
es through. Thus it is advisable to
apply this material when the plant or
crop is ready to make use of it, Where
We have applied nitrate of soda in the
fall the results have not been so sat—
isfactory as they have been when it
was applied in the spring. Out of
twenty-four trials from the use of ni-
trate of soda on ‘fall-seeded grains,
that is where applied in the spring to
light soils, as spoken of above, with
no exception very profitable results
were obtained.

Where stable manure is available
the land may be dressed with it in the
late fall, winter or very early spring
and thus do away with spring applica-
tion of nitrate of soda unless the soil
is in very poor condition or manure is

applied in rather large quantities. In
addition to stable manure, however, it
certainly is a profitable procedure to
apply from two hundred to three hun-
dred pounds of sixteen per cent acid
phosphate with the fertilizer attach-
ment when fall grains are seeded.

Potash Aids in Establishing Seeding.

It has been reported by the famous
Rothamsted Experiment Station of
England, as well as by certain others
in this country, that the legumes re-
spond more vigorously to applications
of potash to the soil than do the small
grains or cereals. Our investigations
in numerous instances in southwest-
ern Michigan show similar results. In
fact, in several instances this season
the use of one hundred pounds of pot-
ash along with the acid phosphate and
nitrate of soda has saved the seedings
of clovers. On these projects the clo-
vers were seeded early in the spring
on the fall—sown grain. Moreover, the
indications are that this material may
be used profitably in the establishment
of alfalfa unless stable manure is ap-
plied in adequate quantities.

Until we have obtained further in-
formation from its use it,appears that
six to ten per cent of potash should be
included in the mixture at time of
seeding the fall grains, that is, where
a seeding of clover or sweet clover is
to follow. This, then, would result in
an application of mixed goods carry-
ing a small percentage of nitrogen and
a rather high percentage of both phos-
phoric acid and potash. If one mixes
the fertilizer at home, about thirty
pounds of nitrate of soda, two hundred
and fifty pounds of acid phosphate and
from fifty to one hundred pounds of
muriate of potash should go on each
acre in the fall and in addition fifty
more pounds of nitrate of soda should
be applied in the spring.

Is it T imc to Buy Coal N 0W?

HROUGH the public press, coal

consumers during the last three

months have been requested, im‘
plored, besieged, perhaps beguiled, to
buy coal immediately on the ground
that unless they do, another coal fam-
ine similar to that of last summer and
fall, will occur. Thus far the consum-
er has not responded as he considers
the price too high and believes that it
_, will be no higher later on. Are the
people “wobbling right” on the matter
or are the operators, jobbers and deal-
~ ers correct in their view?

Normally it is advisable to buy coal
early, in April even, as prices tend to
advance during the summer enough to
offset the interest on the investment
in coal. These old-time rules of sea-
sonal changes, however, have not been
working well in the last few months,
with the exception of these commodi-
. ties which ‘ are thoroughly deflated.

Coal pricesare still high, nearly one
hundred per cent higher at wholesale
than in 1914 so that its price outlook
is not so certain as it would be if coal
prices were down to rock bottom.

Some of the reasons given why coal
will advance this fall are:

1. Demand will increase beginning
in August when consumers wish to lay
in their winter supply.

2. Prices are low now because of
the dull demand. They will be certain
to advance when demand increases.

3. Railroads will be unable to carry
coal as rapidly as consumers will de-
mand it partly because of the large
percentage of bad order cars. Coal is
a bulky material. Every fifth car and
every third ton which the railroads
haul is coal. There is said to be a
shortage of 40,000 coal cars capable of
carrying 100,000,000 tons of coal :1
year.

 

4. The cost to the consumer cannot
be reduced further at present because
mine prices are already below the cost
of production and miners' wages are
fixed by an agreement, to which the
government was a party, which runs
until. next April. Furthermore, the
miners are one of the most thorough—
ly organized of the industrial groups.
Jobbers’ handling charges are small,
around fifteen cents per ton as a rule.
Freight will not be reduced soon, as
railroads will scarcely make the gov-
ernment’s guarantee on income, even
with the twelve per. cent wage cut.
Many dealers have reduced their hand
ling charges to a minimum in order to
start consumers to buying and if they
have not reduced them already, they
are not likely to when the autumn de-
mand appears.

5. About twenty per cent of British
mines have been damaged during the

 

mine strike as a result of failure to
keep pumps at work and it will be
some time before they can be made to
produce again so that the export de-
mand may be larger than usual.

6. Production of bituminous coal
during the first half of 1921 is at the
rate of about 385,000,000 tons a year,
although average annual production in
the preceding five years has been
about 530,000,000 tons.

On the other hand, some very good
reasons can be given why coal will not
advance. Some of them are:

1. Dealers have large supplies of
coal purchased at high prices which
they are anxious to have taken off
their hands even at price concessions.

2. We can get along with less coal
than we have been using. Industries
are stagnant so that their coal require-
ments are greatly reduced. In 1917

(Continued on page 72).

 

 

 

 

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ACTIVITIES OF FARM BUREAUS

Latest ZVewr ' From Local, State and National organization:

 

 

 

BIG, CROPS NEED OUTLETS.

 

R. E. M. POLLARD, of Nebraska,
M speaking for the National Farm-
ers’ Union, said the prospects through-
'0utout the middle west are for the
largest corn crop ever grown, with
over a billion bushels of old com to
carry over. There is also a good
Wheat crop in prospect. With these
large crops in sight, unless something
is done the financial condition of the
farmers will become worse than at
present. They need two things: Mon-
ey to tide them over and an outlet for
their surplus products. He recom-
mended that the limit On farm land
bank loans be raised to $25,000.

WOOL POOL NEARING END.

 

HE farm bureau wool department
is nearly through with the 1920
pool. About 250,000 pounds remain to
be sold. It will be cleaned out at an
early date, according to the depart-
ment. Practically nol wool Of the 3,-
500,000 pounds pooled could be sold
until February, 1921, because of the
mills shutting down. Since then wool
has been sold at the rate of more than
a carload a day for nearly six months.
The magnitude Of the pool and the
bookkeeping task of closing it up is
almost beyond comprehension, 'says
the wool department. A. E. Illeden,
chairman of the State Farm Bureau
W001 committee, and a member of the
State Farm Bureau executive commit-
tee, is assisting the department to
close out the 192.0 pool at the earliest
possible moment.
With the 1921 p001 moving toward
the third million, wool department

headquarters

 

at Lansing is a busy
place. Due to the development of a
special system of wool pool bookkeep-
ing last spring, the'1921 pool is in clos-
ing-out shape every day, according to
the department.

Due to the harvest season, there has
been a temporary lull in wool pooling
work, says the farm bureau. Where
farmers have time for a. grading day,
graders are on hand. Otherwise, sev-
eral of the teams are being operated
on a day to day basis. Resumption of
full speed operations [is expected by
August 1. Grading dates for the week
of July 25 are:

 

Monday-«Rogers City, Croswell,
Kalamazoo county.
Tuesday.—Onaway, North Branch,
Kalamazoo county.
Wednesday.——Cheboygan and La.-
peer.

Thursday—Gaylord and Imlay City.
Friday.——Lewiston.

 

ECONOMY IN MARKETING.

 

OOL growers are beginning to

realize the importance of econ-
omy of distribution of their product as
well as economy in production,” says
C. J. Fawcett, director of gyool mar-
keting for the American Farm Bureau
Federation, in commenting on the tre-
mendous strides forward Within the
past month by eighteen farm bureau
states having wool pools.

“Farmers the nation over are find-
ing that it is cheaper to collect and
concentrate wool through their own
organizations and sell it to mills direct
through growers’ sales agencies,” says
Mr. Fawcett. "One great step has
been taken in way of economy of dis-

tribution. We are beginning to real-
ize that if our methods of marketing
agricultural products are to be improv-

ed, it must be by the efforts of our ,

own hands.

“The direct-from-grower-to—consumer
method of marketing, if followed cOn-
sistently through a period of years,
will demonstrate that the grower is
entitled to, and may retain, a larger
portion of the consumer’s dollar with-
out materially advancing the retail
price of finished products. Such a
method is surely based upon sound
principles‘and should meet with the
approval of all.”

ASKS TWO-CENT TARIFF ON
BEANS.

 

'TWO-CENT tariff on beans is nec-
essary if the American grower is
to be protected against Japanese com-
petition, says the State Farm Bureau,
whose state executive committee on
July 12 addressed a letter to the Hon.
Joseph Fordney, chairman of the
house ways and means committee, and
to Michigan senators and congressmen
asking them to seek retention of the
two cents per pound emergency tariff
rnling on beans instead of the one and
a quarter cents per pound as proposed
.by the permanent tariff schedule.
Lower labor costs and a lower stand-
ard of living would enable Japan to do
great damage to the American bean
market under a one and a quarter cent
tariff, said the farm bureau in the let-
ter. The two-cents tariff, in the opin-
ion of the farm bureau, is equitable
and will afford the American farmer
sufficient protection. The letter sent
the Michigan congressmen stated that

 

it was~in behalf of 100,000 MiChigan
farmers, many of whom . are heavily
interested in beans.

Michigan is the leading bean state
of the nation, producing 4,250,000
bushels in 1921 as against 3,868,000
bushels in California, which ranked
second. ' ' *

 

" WOULD HAM PER COOPERATIVE

MARKETING.

 

N attempt to strangle farmers’ co

operative grain marketing associa-
tions by shutting off their‘ right to
maintain private Wires and to enjoy
leased wire market information and
quotation service is now on foot in
congress, says the State Farm Bureau,
whose executive committee on July 12
addressed a letter to the Michigan del—
egation in congress, asking them to
prevent enaction of a senate amend-
ment to the Capper-Tincher grain bill
which would permit only grain dealers
in the great contract markets, such as
Chicago, Toledo, Baltimore, Minneap-
olis, and such cities, to maintain pri-
vate and leased wire market news,
service.

The farm bureau declares the amend-
ment is' a direct attack on the farm-
ers’ cooperative grain marketing or-
ganizations, aiming to render them im-
potent by taking away legitimate leas-
ed wire marketing information and.
quotations for which they are willing
to pay.

Michigan virgin wool cloth is best
by test. A woolen mill in Indiana
finds that Michigan virgin wool cloth
stands a pull of eighty—five pounds;
shoddy fifteen pounds. “Al-wool”—
part shoddy—is little better.

 

 

 

LATE AGRICULTURAL NEWS

 

 

 

 

 

FARMERS’ CLUBS SHOULD AFFILP
IATE WITH STATE ASS'N.

 

RS. 1. R. JOHNSON, of Rushton,
Michigan, secretary-treasurer of
the State Association of Farmers’
Clubs, would be glad to correspond
with any clubs not yet affiliated with
the state association, or with any per-
son who would like to know how to
organize a club in their community.
ANNUAL FARMERS' DAY AT
M. A. C.

GRIC‘ULTURAL leaders and heads
of departments at M. A. C. are
putting the finishing touches on the
program for the Epurth Annual Sum-
mer’s Day, to be held at the college
on Friday, July 29. Live stock in the
M. A. C. barns is being spruced up for
the occasion and indications are that
the 142 acres of experimental crop
areas—largest ev‘er planted in Michi-
gan—will look their best.

Visitors who journey to M. A. C. for
the day will see their big state farm
' at the height of the growing season.
Farmers are expected to take advan-
tage of the lull in the grain harvest
for a little motor trip to East Lansing.
Besides the educational value of in-
specting the projects of the college
farm, they will be able to viewthe
campus. which in midsummer is one
of the greatest beauty spots in the
state.

According to plans now being laid,
_ a sufficient number of guides will be
; provided so that visitors will have no
« trouble in finding their way to the

 

various ’barns and crOp plots. Those
with automobiles may d1ive directly
to whatever part of the farm “they
wish to see. The basket lunch on the
campus at noon is expected to give a
family touch to the affair.

THE NORTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
AUTOMOBILE TOUR.

 

HE trip planned for the second

annual northeastern Michigan au-
tomobile tour, which leaves Bay City
on August 8, will take the tourists
through practically all of the state
parks recently established in that part
of Michigan. Those wishing to par-
ticipate in the tour should make ap-
plication as soon as possible with the
Northeastern Michigan Development
Bureau, Bay City, Michigan. While it
is planned that those making the trip
are to carry their own equipment,

one farmers who own trucks, fifty-sev-
en per cent of them have the one-ton
size.

Two thousand seven hundred seven-
ty- -seven miles per year is the average

mileage covered, and the cost per mile -

was between sixteen and seventeen
cents. '

One-half of the truck owners also
have used tractors.

It is interesting to note that seven-
ty-eight per cent of these farmers say
their trucks reduce the expense for
hired help, and on those farms where
there is a reduction, the operators es-
timate that it amounts to $209 per
year on the average.

TO INCREASE POSTAGE RATES.

 

EPORTS from Washington indi-
cate that the senate finance com-
mittee is considering increasing the

still, if it is desired, the management -rates on postal cards from one to two

of the tour will make reservations
either at the hotels or at private resi-
dences for those who prefer not to
camp out, Or for those who desire to
camp but have no tents. Equipment
can, however, be rented from the De-
velopment Bureau at a nominal sum.
In writing advise the number who are
going and whether you desire reserva-
tions to be made ornot.

NEW GOVERNMENT TRUCK
REPORT.

 

HE United States Department of
Agriculture has investigated mot-
or trucks on corn belt farms, and finds
that out of eight hundred and thirty-

cents, and on letters from two to three
cents to offset the proposed repeal of
the excess profits and other existing
taxes. The rate of two cents for postal
cards ’and three cents for letters, in
effect during the war, yielded approxi-
mately $150,000,000 additional revenue
annually, it is said.

IS IT TIME TO BUY COAL?

 

(Continued from page 71).
they consumed 176,365,000 tons of
bituminous coal out of a total produc-
tion of 551,190,000 tons. Railroads used
156,141,000 tons in 1917 and they are

 

using less cool this year,- itWho num

   

trending downward. There may be a.

   

price is too high and the public will
remain on a buyers’ strike until it be-
comes more reasonable. This is espe-
cially true because of the large amount
of unemployment. Farmers will make
use of other fuel Whenever possible.

3. Export trade is a minor factor
and usually takes only three to five
per cent of our total production.

4. Mine ’capacity has been greatly
enlarged in the last few years as a re-
sult of the high prices. Although av-
erage annual production of bituminous
coal in the past five years has been
about 530,000,000 tons, in the five pre-
war years 1910-1914 it averaged only
435,000,000 tons. The number of coal
mines increased, from 5,776 in 1913 to
over 11,000 in 1920. The industry may
have been over—developed during the
war boom. In that case a moderate
increase in production during the next
six months might suffice for our needs.

5. Notwithstanding their agreements,
miners may decide to accept wage
cuts in order to help in reducing prices
so that consumers will buy and’ enable
the mines to operate.

It is difficult to balance up these
two sets of factors. There dOes not
seem to be much cause for apprehen:
sion of a runaway market unless the
railroads fall down on the job, but on ,
the other hand, it does not seem like-"
ly that prices Will go much lower in
the fall months than the level reached ',._
in July. Prices are now weak and still '1

 
 

 

moderate advance beginningin A,

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HE sugar beet is a remarkable

plant in'the wide' range of soil

conditions to which it adapts
itself. Given its best chance, let us
say on a sandy or clay loam, and with
proper rotation, plant diseases are of
secondary importance with this crop.
In this regard it is like corn, which,
while attacked by a few parasitic fun-
gi for the most part gives the farmer
who uses good seed and plants the
. cornin a proper rotation, no concern
from the score of parasitic attack.

But field observations in Michigan,
and the abundance of letters which
are now coming to the station, indi-
cate that many farmers are experience
ing trouble with sugar beets and they
are puzzled over the dying of. beets in
this spot and that in the field. They
are perplexed at the variation in
stand which occur, and they are fear-
ful of a repetition of the “cracked
beet” condition which occurs periodi-
cally in their fields.

The condition, “Black Root” or
“Root Rot” in beets is not a simple
one. It is a condition brought about
by a number of parasitic fungi and
perhaps by some bacteria, and it var-
ies in its manifestations because of
the variation in soil temperature, soil
moisture, soil nutrients, etc.

What is Meant by Parasite?

The parasitic fungi which attack the
sugar beet are thread-like forms, too
small to be readily seen with the un-
aided eye. Occasionally with some
forms they can be made out as a thin
cobwebby growth covering the affect-
ed plants.- Everyone is familiar with
the weblike masses found on leaf
mold in the woods. Here we are see-
ing fungus threads clumped together
in quantity sufficient to make them
evident. The concept I wish to bring
to the reader is that the soil, defying
observation without the microscope, is
shot through and through with fungi
-—molds——most of them harmless to
crops, some of them pernicious. These
mold forms live in the soil—in every
soilucarry on their life processes and
complete their life cycles; They pro-
duce their seeds (“spores”), which are'
minute bodies capable of being blown
about or‘washed from place to place.

These fungi or molds are anywhere
but not everywhere. Some when once
introduced can, persist in the soil; oth-
ers are introduced yearly with the
seed. For the most part they are ben-
eficial, assisting the soil bacteria in
the great leveling and transforming
processes. There are some, however,

which not only attack the dead stuffs

of the soil,. but also attack the living

plants. These are the parasites which.

cause loss to the farmer. To the farm-
er they are the weeds, which instead
of robbing the soil of moisture and nu-
trients, use the plants as the soil and

steal their living from the very plants .

the farmers wish to conserve.
The Cause of {‘Damping-off."
When the sugar beet seed is planted
the first danger whichit confronts is
“damping-off.” The name well fits the
disease, referring as it does to the wa-
ter relation which induces it. The ac-
tual cause of the damping-off is a par-
asitic fungus‘ of some sort (there are
several which produce it) but the pre-
disposing factor is the soil moisture.
One of the common causes of damp-
- ‘ 111ng is the fungus Phoma betae.
‘ Till“ fungus is carried to the field on
, and if the beet is checked at
growth it thetissues do not
‘ ‘ he. root rots andthe

 

 

 

 

 

Root Rot of Sugar Beets

By G. H. Coon:

 

ing-off is the fungus Rhizoctonia, well
known to farmers because of its bad
effects on potatoes, and what is said
here about beets can almost be applied
to any crop, except the cereals, since
the Rhizoctonia fungus attacks so
many of .them and with almost the
same train of symptoms.
Wet Season Favors Trouble.

The wet conditions induce a succu-
lence in the young seedling and bring
about conditions in the soil which
break down the normal resistance of
the beet so that these parasites get
the upper hand. The blackening is a
secondary effect, a reaction of the kill-
ed host cells to the air, doubtless.
[Anything which kills the, root will lead
to the secondary blackening.

When sugar beet seed is planted and
farmers use plenty of seed to insure a
stand, they are crowding the plants
and inducing competition which leads
to rank growth, rather than sturdy

growth. The importance of prompt
spacing and thinning is, of course,
manifest.

If the seed is planted at the right
time, the beets establish themselves
and make a sturdy .growth. If extreme—

ly wet condition comes on, then “damp- "

ing-off” is serious.
Good Drainage Important.

Several considerations influence the
amount of loss by damping-off. If the
seed is free from the fungus Phoma
betae one great source of loss is elim-
inated. It is the writer’s opinion that
a great stride in improving beet grow-
ing was made when America began to
produce her own seed. American con-
ditions during the growing season are
less favorable to the development of
the fungus, Phoma betae, than are the
European conditions. But a large part
of the damping-off comes from fungi
native to our soils. Since the exces-
sive wetness of the soil brings about
the condition, those lands so situated
as to handle the water suffice least.
The nature of the subsoil determines
this. Most soil devoted to sugar beets
in Michigan needs tile drainage. The
prompt removal of excess water’and

‘the balancing effect in the moisture re-

lations which tile bring about make
this almost an essential to successful
culture in some localities.

Cultivate After Rains.

The effect of heavy rains and excess
of moisture is to form a crust on the
soil. This must be broken up as soon
as the rows can be followed if damp-
ing-off is to be avoided. Just what
influence stirring the soil has on the
damping-off fungus is not known, but
the aeration and the balancing of the
moisture relation seem ,to plan an im-
portant role in'the saving of the stand.

Here may be mentioned the bene—
ficial effects of fertilizer in “bringing
about a good stand of healthy beets. It
is the common practice among grow-
ers to put fertilizer in the row with
the seeds. The writer has seen a num-
ber of fields where the effect of this
fertilizer was plain, not alone in the
size of the plants, but in the vigor and
freedom from damping-off. The fer-
tilizer is not a cure, but stimulating as
it does the formation of sturdy plants
because of the food materials so read-
ily available, the boots more success-

fully pass this great danger period.

Next Comes-Root Rots.
After the beets pass the “damping-
off” stage, other troubles confront

them. These are in the nature of

“black root” at the tip, and crown rot.

These troubles are, for the most part,
hangovers” from the seedling stage :
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, the beet is put under: sloW—growing

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conditions.
The black root caused by, Phoma
betae may be present in unnoticeable

form, ready to start when the beet

root has a set-back. The scars 0f Rhiz-
octonia attack are common on beets,
apparently healed over, but these
scars restricting the growth locally
bring about the “cracked beet” condi-
tion in which the top is cleft and the
rotting of the crown follows. The fac-
tors essential for this latter condition
seem to be the primary attack on the
beet causing the scar, and then a sud-
den surge of growth such as takes
place when a dry spell is broken and
abundant water supplies are available.
The cracking is merely a mechanical
breaking of the bonds which hold the
tissues from expansion.

Other fungi, such as the common
damping-off fungus (Pythium de bar-
yanum) attack the beet and this form
either kills the beet outright or at-
tacks the tap root and leads to death
later on, or at least to sprangly beets
of small size and low quality.

But, through it all, the water rela-
tion is paramount in deciding Whether

the fungus or the beet gets the mas-
tery.

One other factor needs to be no-
ticed. Those farmers who follow beets
with beets have the most trouble. The
second year they uually find the root
rots and the leaf Spots present in in-
tensified form. To follow beets with
beets is taking a risk which makes the
operation pure speculation. Fields may
become foul with disease germs, just
as they become foul with weed seeds.

Since Rhizoctonia is so important as
a fungus causing damage to so many
crops, a little may be said about the
place of beets in the rotation. In short,
may not the preceding crops influence
the succeding ones if the various crops
are subject to the same disease. Years
ago it was demonstrated that when
beets followed' potatoes, or viceversa,
scabbiness followed. We are just be-
ginning to realize that this relation
holds for beets and the Rhizoctonia or
Black Scurf fungus. Now practically
all the crops, except the cereals, are
subject to Rhizoctonia attack. It is an
established practice in certain beet
regions to follow corn with beets.
There must be a reason for this, and
the effect of a crop like corn in starv-

   

ing out Rhizoctonia and thus leading

to a more safe soil for beet planting

.must. be considered as one factor in

leading farmers to this particular ro-
tation. It would Certainly seem to be
preferable to following sod withbeets
or following some legume. This is a
matter open to study by the farmer
himself and consideration of the fields
in his neighborhood over a series of
years will let him "determine the wise
course to follow.

We may now summarize the points
of this article. The sugar beet seed
mary carry disease, but no method of
treatment'is practical. The disease
may come from a soil source. The
utilization of poorly drained soil, the
lack of prompt and frequent cultiva-
tions may favor the fungous enemies.
Lack of food materials to start a vig-
orous growth may favor the parasites,
as does also over-crowding of the
plants, such as comes from late spac-
ing and thinning._

The first thing a farmer must do is
to drain, and with valuable beet land
open ditches are not economical so he
must tile drain. This is imperative
with soil which has a dry subsoil and
the accompanying hardpan. He should

j-plow. deeply. Cultivation must .

red early to break up the clOds

A rotation, wisely chosen, in line

with the best practice in his district,
should be used. A sugar beet is sup
jecb to the diseases which come from
the debris of a preceding crop. .

During the summer, the tarnier’s
ideal' should be to secure a steady,
even growth. The, only way he can
secure this, given well drained land, is
by frequent cultivation, long ’ Contin-
ued. In general, authorities state, cul‘
tivation stops too soon.

With the present crop, the giving of
the sugar beets the best of care, along
With the conservation of the soil mois-
ture and the establishment of proper
aeration, are the practical .measures
by which the farmer may bring
through a planting which even now,
looks to be in bad shape. .

But with another year, the beet
grower must realize that the sugar
beet can’t do everything and can not
Win against too heavy odds. Make the
ground 'fit for the beet and the open‘
ing sentence of this article will hold
true. Then sugar beet growing for the

farmer who practices modern culture

will be as safe as corn growing.

Mid-Summer Poultry Reminders

roosters and produce infertile eggs.

Then the eggs will suffer less in‘
jury when laid in a hot poultry house.
If any stolen nests are found many of
the eggs can be tested out and possi-
bly used for baking. Fertile eggs in
hot Weather will increase the‘chances
of spoiled eggs. The hen with a stolen
nest may bring off chicks when they
are neither desired nor profitable to
raise.

Many city buyers have still neglect-
ed to put down eggs in waterglass for
winter use. If you have fresh infer-
tile eggs for sale you can explain their
merits and often sell orders of fifteen
or twenty dozen for waterglass preser-
vation. Such eggs should be worth at
least five cents per dozen more than
the grocer will pay for the general run
of eggs. Just say, “We are getting so
much for eggs,” and state your price.
You will not be considered a profiteer
for asking a fair price for fresh, grad-
ed and infertile eggs. ‘

Growing stock need the early morn-
ing hours on the range. Then it is
cool and many bugs will be resting
and easily caught. Later in the day
the birds are driven to the shade.‘ The

IT is about time to isolate or kill the

chicks are also very thirsty when
leaving the colony house after a hot
night. If the poultry are not to be
freed soon after sunrise it pays to
place a pail of water in the house the
night before so they can have an ear-
ly morning drink. Water is very nec-
essary to poultry growth and a large
flock consumes more than might be
expected.

It is too early to cull the farm flock
intelligently. Some hens may show
definite signs that they should be mar-
keted but if too many of the hens are
sold in July it may mean the selling
of some hens that are valuable as lay-
ers and breeders. Some time in Aug-
ust is usually early enough for the
farmer to begin a thorough culling of
the flock. Of course, the experts seem
to make a few errors at this season of
the year, but tlfere is a great variation
in the skill of different breeders when
it comes to culling a flock.

Every poultryman who has not wit-
nessed a culling demonstration should
take advantage of such an opportunity
when it is offered. We can study pic-
tures of good hens and read about the
points of difference between culls and
good layers. But nothing equals 'the

chance of handling the birds under
the instruction of a skilled man. The
mind instantly photographs things
that are worth remembering and the
touching of the birds registers infor-
mation that is not soon forgotten.

The selling of eight weeks’ old stock
is 1apidly inc1easing, but seems very
largely confined to Leghorns. Many
buyers like to obtain new stock with-
out the worries of incubation and
brooding. At eight weeks of age the
birds need no brooder and with good
care they are bound to live and grow.
It seems as if breeders with plenty of
equipment might make a little more
money by raising stock for this trade.
It may prove a good income producer
between the sales of hatching eggs and
more mature breeding stock.

Poultry manure is very rich to be
applied directly to garden plants and
may do them injury. A light dressing
of poultry manure is ”very good for a
lawn. When dry it is quite free from
odor and it soon works down around
the roots of the graSS where it stim-
ulates the growth of grass plants but
does not give the lawn the appearance
of being strewn with manure.

One of the greatest advantages of

the light breeds is the fact that they
do not often become broody. The own-
er of a large flock pf the heavy breeds
may be breaking up as many as fifty
hens at a time and have to remove
thirty or forty from the nests in one
night. It takes time and the hens
must be penned up the first night on
the nest or they are moredifl‘icult to
break up.» The work is simplified by
having a broody coop in each laying-
house and making the rounds of the
nests right after supper on every sum—
mer night.

Broilers are a sideline crop and of~
ten the sooner they are marketed the
better the price, the smaller .the feed
bills and the better the range for the
remaining pullets. It pays to make
arrangements with local dealers in ad
vance of the time the birds will be
ready. Producers near small towns
usually have to ship their broiler stock
to cities. A fat juicy broiler is a won-
derful delicacy that is not yet appre
ciated by many city buyers. Unless a
farmer has a lot of broilers I am in‘
clined to think it pays to enjoy a good
portion of them at home. They surely
taste better than corn beef, and other
high-priced canned meats.

 

 

 

OUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT

 

 

 

 

 

TRESPASSING ANIMALS.

 

What right have we when B always
lets their pigs run on our farm, re-
gardless of the damage they do?——H.

H. can sue, for the damages result-
ing from the trespass, or take the pigs
up as strays and have them put in the
pound or advertised under the statute.

J. R. R.

DAMAGE FROM DRAINS.

 

The county drain commission put
sixty-four rods of two-foot tile, and
sixty-four rods of open ditch across
my farm. Every time it rains it floods
me. He will not repair it. What can
I do about it ?——M. A. B.

If the complaint is that the town by
the construction of the ditch threw

., Water 011 the plaintiff’s land that did
~ .not go there before, he has a right of
action for the injury.

   
  

If his complaint
is merely that the ditch is not large

enough to take care of the. water he is .

like to close up this ditch for it is

no worse off than if there were no
ditch at all; and his only remedy is to
circulate a petition to increase the ca-
pacity of the drain—J. R. R.

CLOSING DITCH.

 

We have a ditch from five to six
feet at top, running between our land
and the neighbor along the line on our
side, which we both had to use before,
but now there is a big county drain
put in last fall at the lower end of our
own and his land, cutting off all the
water on our side, but now only his
water runs into the small ditch and all
the way through our farm is the big
drain. Now, if I closed this ditch, as
I don’t need it any more, could he
come on me for damages, for he would
have to make his own ditch directly
into the county drain which is only a
short distance. Would it be diflerent
if he or the one before him helpeth
make this ditch years age? I would

nothmg but adamage to me govt.
J

. If the ditch had not been in use for

more than fifteen years there might
be some doubt on the point in the ab-
sence of any writings fixing the rights
of the parties; but a uSe for that time
under. a claim of right would establish
an easement, regardless of how it or-
iginated, in the absence of proof that
it was under a lease or license—J. R.

TITLE TO SHEEP 0N SHARES.

 

- A leases to B for a term of years a
flock of sheep. Each claims the other
should pay the tax on the sheep in the
absence of agreement thereto. Who
is the owner of the sheep for purposes
of taxation. —-—E. D. W.

The duty to pay the taxes is on the
party owning the sheep; and that de-
pends on the contract. A contract of
sale of sheep to be ‘paid for at a later
'date, net in money but in sheep, would"
be perfectly valid; . but not very desir-
able to the seller, because of the diffi-
culty‘ in making certain rthe'v'character

of the sheetho be received in, pip

  

ment. If it is a lease title remains in
the lesson—J. R. R.

cow DRYING up,

One of my cows is not due to be
fresh for three months, but is drying
up. I feed plenty of fodder and for
grain I take about four sacks of corn
and two sacks of oats and have them
ground at a time. Sometimes I think
I am feeding too much corn. But this
grain feed makes the other three cows
give mere milk, so I can’t understand
why this cow dries up. G. W. M.

It is hardly proper for me to ex-
press an opinion in a case like this
where I cannot have the privilege of
making a personal examination. It cer-
tainly is strange that the cow is dry~
ing up when sheusually has been so
persistent a milker. It is barely pos—

sible that she will freshen before you“
think. Your ration is somewhat defi-'
cient in protein and I would recom-

mend that you” add to t

          

 
  


  
 
  

ripened, mature wOo'd they can with-

. ' stand. a much greater degree of Cold
_without injury than when the branches

are in a green, sappy condition, caus-
ed by a late growth. .

By plantingcover crops in the or-
chard late in the summer or early in

the fall, it is possible to stop growth

in the early fall, which will permit the
wood to become thoroughly ripened
and mature. In the east such cover
crops may be planted so as to live
through the winter, and possibly be
turned under in the spring and used as
green manure. These crops utilize in

their growth a large amount of soil

water up to the first frost, and tend to
dry the soil. This reacts on the trees,
checking growth and inducing early
ripening of the wood.

The ideal cover crop starts promptly
into growth as soon as planted, thus
insuring an even stand to check out
weeds. It will therefore insure, a heavy
ground cover for the winter, acting as
a protection to the roots, serving as a
protection against thawing and freez-
ing—E. W. GAGE.

BORDEAUX MIXTURE.

 

I would like information and instruc-
tions for making a home-made Bor-
deaux mixture.

Ottawa Co. J. L. H.

The standard Bordeaux mixture
which is commonly used on grapes, po-
tatoes and other plants for the control
of fungus dis-eases, is made of four
pounds of copper sulphate, four
pounds of stone lime and fifty gallons
of water.

In making small quantities the lithe
should be slaked with hot water and
diluted to about twenty gallons. The
copper sulphate should be dissolved in
hot water and also diluted to twenty
gallons. These two dilutions should
be poured together into a separate
container and enough water added to
make up the fifty gallons.

In making larger quantities fifty
pounds of copper sulphate may be put
in a burlap sack and suspended in
twenty-five gallons of water. When this
is all dissolved it will make two
pounds of copper sulphate to one
pound of the solution. Therefore if
you wish to make a fifty-gallon batch
of Bordeaux, two gallons of the solu-
tion will give you enough copper sul-
phate for that batch. There is one
precaution necessary in making this
stock solution, and that is the copper
sulphate should not come in contact
with iron, nails, hooks, etc., as its
chemical action will ruin them. In
handling copper sulphate in this con-
centrated form use a wooden pail in-
stead of galvanized one.

VLime may also be made in stock
quantities. Fifty pounds or more may
be slaked in a tub or other receptacle.
Agitate well when slaking to prevent
burning and to make lime firm and
smooth after it has been slaked. This
should be kept covered with water to
prevent drying out. To get a fairly
accurate measure of the "quantity of
lime to use, slake four pounds in a
pail and mark on the pail the height
to which the lime comes. This pail
will then be a measure for your .lime.
It is better to use too much lime than
not enough. ' ,

The" great precaution necessary for
making good Bordeaux is to have both
the lime and copper sulphate diluted
before mixing. If either of them are
in concentrated form and mixed, the
Bordeaux mixture will be coarse and
will settle quickly. Poorly made'Bor-

« .deaux will curdle somewhat like sour
ilk. As the, Bordeaux-is 'a’mcchaniv .
_.9-,1 mixture Land-hots chemical one, it. ,
is cry essential .thst it be kept thor~ .
' \ delta V» tediiflhllc’spmylng.';_"..- . ,- "

  
 

WIN to" tendency of‘ young: trees

,th‘groW‘latc in the fall there is
7 great danger from winter injury. It
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ADVOCATES DAIRYING AND CROP
. ROTATION. ‘

 

  

Federal Land Bank of St. Paul,
. who recently toured Chippewa county,

  

served that, while Chippewa is a very
fine agricultural county, it should go
more heavily into crop rotation and
dairying. It has hitherto relied chiefly
on its wonderful hay crop for its cash,
but this has proven detrimental to the
soil. The drainage of the Hendri
swamp area of this county will uncov—
er some 50,000 good agricultural acres,
says the 800 Times, whereupon the
land will be put to agricultural uses
by its owners, chiefly residing in Chi-
cago, it is said.

   
  

 

A COMMERCIAL POULTRY FARM.

 

ing to the Daily Mining Gazette. It
will specialize in winter egg produc-
tion, and the houses will be equipped
with spring water, electric lights, self-
feeders i'or mash, etc. A regular
schedule of egg shipments is, to be
maintained so as to bring eggs on the
market quickly after layinguThe 'poul-
try itself will also be carefully prepar-
ed for‘ the market. They will be milk-
fed and crateied.

 

WOOL GRADERS START IN CLO-
VERLAND.

RADING crews of the State Farm

Bureau wool pool will invade the
upper peninsula on July 25, according
to an announcement from the state
office. It is possible that pooling op-
erations in the southern peninsula will
be practically at an end by mid—August
if the present rate of pooling is con-
tinued, says the farm bureau wool de-
partment.

 

FARM BUREAU PICNIC. _

 

HE Houghton County Farm Bu-

reau had a round-up and picnic
near Chassell, June 26, at which four
hundred persons were present, reports
the Houghton Gazette. There were ad—
dresses in Finnish and English, and
music by the Finnish Glee Club.

NEW CLOVERLAND PAMPH LET.

 

 

THE Upper Peninsula Development

Bureau has published a new
pamphlet, called “Cloverland,” which
is a description of the agriculture of
the upper peninsula. The text is writ-
ten by Mr. L. M. Geismar, i'ormerly'
director of the State Experiment Sta-
tion at Chatham, Alger county, and
now agricultural agent of Houghton
county, who is exceptionally well qual-
ified to do this piece of work. The
reader may feel assured that he is get-
ting facts rather than propaganda in
this booklet. It is tastefully printed
and contains many illustrations. It is
being distributed free from the office
of the Upper Peninsula Development
Bureau at Marquette.

  
   
 

 

CLOVERLAND AUTO TOURS.

 

UN’E 21 was visiting day in Gogebic

county, when some forty automo-

biles conveyed about two hundred and

fifty persons to nine farms Of the coun-

. ty, 'it 'is reported, for the purpose of

y inspecting them, particularly with ref-
' . ‘Verence to building and equipment for
i4 {.4 the caring for live stock. Mr. Weston.
who accompanied this party, reports
’ . much interest in the use of explosives
" 3. .101- land-clearing in Gogebic county,
»~”‘where Agent C. E. GunderSon has al-

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MR. E. G. QUAMME, president of

pointed out, what others have also ob— '

LARGE poultry farm is to be es.
tablished near Houghton, accord-

ready secured some 140,000 pounds for
his farmers. It is hoped that experi-
mentsnow being made with reference
to picric acid will prove successful and
that this explosive ‘will also be distrib-
uted at low cost. ° '

CLOVERLAND GRANGE RALLI'ES.

 

HE Escanaba Journal announcesa

series of rallies in behalf of the
Grange, to be held in various localities
throughout the upper peninsula, next
month. They will be given under the
auspices of the National and State
Grange, which will furnish speakers.
The schedule includes meetings at
Marquette, Manistique, Sault Ste. Ma-
rie, Powers, Crystal Falls and L’Anse.

MILK PRODUCERS’ NEW BUILD-
ING. . .

 

. HE new building of the Delta Coun-

ty Milk Producers’ Association at
Escanaba, has been renovated and ma.-
chinery installed, and it was expected
that Operations there would commence
about July 15. This is a cooperative
enterprise of Delta county farmers.
The building is described in the Esca—
naba Journal, is one’hundred and forty
feet by one hundred feet in size. A-The
association is said to be incorporated
for $30,000, of which about $18,000 of

stock is stated to have been subscrib:

ed. The stock sells at $10 per share
and each farmer is required to take as
many shares of stock as he owns cows.
The upper peninsula office of the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau is due to op-
en here August 1, with E. G. Amos in
charge.

SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOR CLO-
VER‘LAND.

 

MR. E. G. QUAMME, president of

Federal Land Bank of St. Paul,
in whose territory the upper peninsula
is, writes to Mr. J. A. Dovelle, of the
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau,
after visiting recently fourteen coun-
ties of the upper peninsula: “The Up-
per peninsula seems tO offer endless
resources and industrial possibilities.
I never saw anything like it. If they
should succeed in discovering oil there
also, it would become a veritable El
Dorado for business enterprise.” Mr.
Quamme traversed the peninsula with
a View to gaining as much first-hand
information about it as possible. He
wanted to know the various types of
soils and how the soil areas lay. He
wanted to know what the farmer here
has accomplished, he says, and the fu-
ture possibilities for agriculture. The
Federal Land Bank wants to extend
its services wherever. that is possible
as determined by the character of the
farmers and farms to be served. “We/
want to encouage the development of
farming in sections where the soil is
good and where the farmers will suc-
ceed,” he writes. “I feel now that we
are in a much better position to pass
on loans and to grant loans in a way
that will be fair to the farmers and the
bank." In another letter published in
a recent issue of the Soo Times, Mr.

Quamme assures the farmers of that ‘

portion of the state of the Federal
Land Bank’s readiness to assist them
on the basis of the rich agricultural
development which he discovered in
that territory.

 

MR. JULE DUCA, of Nathan, Me-

nominee county, has written to
Mr. J. A. Doelle, of the Upper Penin-
sula Development Bureau, expressing
a preference for Winter Wheat No.
408, for this latitude, based fupon ten
verysuccesstul years’ experience with
it. He prefers it to the Red'Rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

      
          
     
       

 
  
 

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You May Bethe Most Care-
, ful Driver in the World

but you never £72012; What the other fel-
low is going tO do. Hardly a day pass-
es but what some careless driver has
damaged another car by either collision
or forcing the careful driver into a ditch.
Just as long as there are _motor cars ,
there Will be accidents and these acci-
dents will increase in prOportion to in-
creased automobile ownership.

F urthermore---

the percentage of cars stolen increases
each year, and it is no surprise to read
Of someone’s canbeing totally damaged
by fire. With automobile drivers’ lia-
bilities so great in either country or city,
f oresighted farmers readily see the need
Of positive protection.

Summon U. 3. Five Point
Policies to your Aid

The U.s. FIVE POINT’FULL COVERAGE,
NON-DEDUCTABLE POLICY faithfully
guards you and your car against: ,

l--Fire _2--Theft 3--Collision
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It was a little after the middle of. a
bright afternoon. He \found her sitting
on an iron settee in a secluded corner
of the lawn, yvhere cape jessamines
and lilac bushes grew in orderly array.
She wore a light wrap, and there was
an eaSy-toread book in her, hands; but
she wasn't trying to read then.

He .bared his head, greeted her
pleasantly, and asked permission to sit
down beside her. She looked up at
him. He was immaculately dressed.

“Of course,” she granted with a
Smile that was very Winsome. “I hope
you’re over the cold you had last week,
Jimmy.”

“I never felt better,” he assured her,
dropping at her side. He stated his
mission briefly, for Mrs. Dale might
appear at any minute.

“I came, Elizabeth, to ask you to
marry me.”

She sat as still as though she had
not heard. He went on hastily.

“I confess that I’m a little ashamed
of trying to take you from Carlyle Dale
for he was always very nice to me. But
I may be forgiven for that, I think, be-
cause I care for you a great deal. Any-
way—A‘All is fair in love and war’-—
you know.”

His voice was hardly businesslike,
but it lacked original fire. Elizabeth
Littleford closed the book in her lap,
and lifted her clear brown eyes to his
eager face.

“No,” she disagreed, “all ain’t—isn’t
fair in love and war. That’s one o’
the silliest sayin’s I’ve ever heard. As
for the other—I like you, Jimmy, but
not in the way you want me to. It’s
Bill Dale that I like—in that way,
Jimmy.” _

Fayne looked disappointed. He was
silent.

“You’re a good boy, Jimmy,” she
Went on, “and I hate to make you feel
the least bit bad. It makes me—oh,
Jimmy, it makes me blue. I wish
you hadn’t asked me. But I want you
to know that I feel proud 0’ the honor,
Jimmy. You’d better go, maybe, be
cause it wasn’t easy for me to turn

you down. I’m sure you’ll find some
better girl than me—than I—for a
wife.”

. “There is no better girl than you,
Elizabeth. I’m going to wait—and
hope.”

He took up one of her hands and
kissed it, rose and went toward the
street. Before he had been gone a
minute, she rose, her face a little pale,
and stared after him, sorely tempted——
for Fayne’s money could bring her peo-
ple out of their ignorance.

Well, if she didn’t marry Bill Dale
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still wanted her—if he would agree to
help her people. After all, it wasn’t
so much to give. What was one poor
little, unhappy human life?

It was late, that night, when Eliza-
beth Littleford went to sleep. And
when at-last she slept, she dreamed of
walking through a fragrant green
ineadow with Bill Dale..'I:‘here, was the
low humming of wild bees about the
purple crowns of the ironweed and the
scarlet bloom of the clover; there was
the mating call of the partridge, and
the lovelorn coo of a dove.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Tried.

W0 days before Bill Dale was

tried in court at Cartersville, the

new Elizabeth Littleford alight-
ed from an afternoon train at the Half-
way Switch. She was dressed in a
smart and neatly-fitting suit of dark
blue, with lacey white at her throat
and at her wrists; she wore a hat of
dark blue relieved by a touch of white.
In one of her strong and well-shaped
gloved hands she carried a travelling-
bag of black leather.

A big and sunburned young man in
boots and corduroys hastened to her.
He raised his broad-rimmed hat, smil-
ed, took the bag, and pressed her hand
as though he were glad to see her.

“Bill Dale!” she cried joyously above
the roar of the passing train. “Bill
Dale, it’s you!”

“Sure, it’s me!” laughed Dale. He
waited for the train to pass them; then
he turned to her again. “How good
you look! I can hardly. believe it’s
you.”

“But it is,” she smiled. “Tell me:
what do you think the outcome 0’ your
trial is going to be ?”

Dale noted that her English had im<
proved, and it was gratifying to him.
As for the trial——

“I don’t know,” he said, thoughtfully
caressing his tanned chin with finger
and thumb. “But Major Bradley thinks
I’ll come clear. He believes that some-
body that Was hidden on the mountain-
side above us shot Ball to save me. By
Heck hinted that he knew that this
was the case; and he intimated that
I would stand a better chance of ac-
quittal than anybody else would stand,
and that if I received a sentence the
right man would come fonvard with a
confession. I have an idea that By
Heck himself killed Adam Ball—that
is, if I didn’t do it."

“And Cale Moreland—wasn’t it fine
for him to do what he done for you,
Bill Dale? It’s somethin’ like Damon
and Pythias, ain’t——isn’t it? Your moth-
er told me the story of Damon and
Pythias, and I read it, too. How are

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“First rate,” Dale answered, bright-
ening at once. ‘fWe’re Shipping now.
Look!"

He turned and pointed down the
tracks.

“See that trestlework over the short
siding? That’s our coal tipple. See

that string ~of little cars on the trestle-v

work? They have just emptied coal
into the big steel gondola cars below.
And we’re getting a smashing price for
every ounce of it.”

“I 598,” said the young woman. He
went on: ,

“All of the boys and girls of the
Morelands, except the very little ones,
are in school at Cartersville, and they
are learning fast. When our borrow-
ed capital is paid back, the Moreland
families are going to buy farms lying
near Cartersville and go to them. A
big lowland farm close to good schools
and a good little town—well, there are
worse places on earth. Pity poor David
Moreland can’t know about it.”

“I’d say!”

She hung her head. She was think
ing, as she had so often thought be-
fore, of her own benighted people.

“And the Littlefords ?” she murmur-
ed. It had slipped past her lips. Dale
and the Morelands owed the Little
fords nothing.

Dale understood, and he gave her a
sympathetic glance.

“A few of the boys and girls of the
Littlefords are going to school in Cart-
ersville, perhaps one from each fam-
ily,” he told her. “It is rather expen-
sive, you know, on account of the
boarding, and they can’t afford to send
all their children. We pay them good
wages for their work, but it costs a
good deal to live. However, I think——
ultimately—your people will have
their chance for education, too.”

“But it won’t do much good to edu-
cate one out 0’ each family,” said
Elizabeth. “They’d come straight back
here when they got through with their
schoolin’, and soon fo’git—I.mean for-
getl—it all. If they make their learn-
in’ pay fem anything, they’ll have to
stay where they can use it.”

She began to stare absently toward
her well-shod feet.

“Are you ready to go?” Dale asked.

Elizabeth Littleford raised her head
with a slight jerk and said rather awk-
wardly:

“Has the valley changed much ?”

“Not very much,” answered Dale.
“We’ve got a commissary building, and
an office and supplies building. There’s
a new log church, where an old min<
ister named Ashby Cross preaches the
gospel of straight-walking and human
kindliness every Sunday. Henderson

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me his address in case we wanted to
sell the mine! The Torreys have gone
back, to Jerusalem Cove and Hatton’s
Hell, and the Balls are as quiet as
These, I believe, are all the
changes. worth mentioning.”

Together they set out and walked,
without saying much,- to the crest of
David Moreland’s Mountain, and there
they halted. The autumn sun, a great
red ball of fire, was just setting be-
yond the majestic Big Pine.

Dale pointed to a long, moss-covered
slab of brown sandstone.

“Let’s sit down there and rest,” he
suggested. “You’re tired, Babe, I know.
Don’t mind my calling you ‘Babe’, do
you?”

She looked at him as though she
were surprised at his asking that. They
sat down, and he pointed.

“You’ll enjoy that sunset. And the
view from here is magnificent. The
mountains, as you’ve already noticed,
have on their autumnal attire. The
colors are glorious, aren‘t they?”

“Yes,” said Babe, “the colors are
glorious.” '

‘ “Beautiful," he ran on. “I know the
trees now, by their colors. That biil-
liant saffron over there—”

“Saffron—excuse me, Bill, for not
havin' any better manners! But what
is saffron?” '

"Deep yellow, y’know.”

“Oh, yaller. No—yellow; yes, you’re

right. That’s hickory, that yal—yel-
low.”
- “Yes,” and he nodded and smiled.
“Brown, reddish brown, golden brown,
mottled scarlet: the oaks. That trans-
parent yellow; that's poplar. Deep red
means sourwood. .And that blazing
crimson away down there along the
valley’ rim is sumach. Eh, Babe?”

“Yes.”

Bill Dale suddenly leaned toward
her and took one of her hands; and he
didn’t take it as Jimmy Fayne had
done—as though he were afraid of it.

“You know I love you, don’t you
Babe?"

“I’ve been believin' it,” she told him
after a moment of painful silence. She
was a trifle pale now. “But it~—Bill
Dale, it somehow don't seem just right
for you to love me. Because I’m such
a pore little nobody. I’m as ignorant
as sin; and I hain’t—haven’t even got
good manners. But—but if you love,
if you’re sure you do, tell me why!”

There came another minute of pain
ful silence. , .

“Because” said Dale, speaking slow-
ly, “you have always seemed to be
one of my own kind. You seem real,
to me. I was so sick of artificialities
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‘ fashion plate, and you didn’t mention.
. politics. I know you are primitive, but

I am primitive, too. And you weren’t
calling yourself "Ma-‘a-am -mah' to a
damned poodle. _

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sure that I will be acquitted. If it

turns out like that, I want you to mar-
. ry- me ‘at once; These menths without.

you have been very lonesome for me.
Your education can be finished after-
ward; I’ll teach you myself. Tell me
‘——-will you, Babe?”

How boyishly impatient he was. Was
be afraid he would lose her by wait-
ing?

“You love me, don’t you, Babe?” he
purSued.

She faced him with- the sudden,_

queer light of a tragedy in her eyes.
But she didn’t speak. .He pressed her
hand until it hurt and demanded:

“You do, don’t you, Babe?"

“Yes, ”'she told him, in a voice that
he barely heard.

“Then why won't you marry me. 9”

She didn’t answer. She w-’ouldnt
answer.

The day of the trial dawned clear,
with the snap of autumn in the air.
It was not often that little Cartersville
had so many visitors in one day. Since
most of these visitors were mountain-
folk, the business streets were lined
with oxwagons and saddled mules.

The courthouse was filled to its ca-
pacity within fifteen minutes after the
doors were thrown open. Every man
who had a rifle was forced to leave it
behind with the sheriff’s deputies; a
company of the state's militia was
there, and each member of it had a
hundred rounds of ball cartridges in
his belt—the authorities were taking
no chances. Either way the trial went
there might be a fight—if the accused
received sentence, the Morelands and
the Littlefords were likely to attempt
to set him \free; if the accused were
acquitted, the Balls and their kinsmen
were apt to give trouble.

The Balls and their kinsmen had
been drinking a great deal of White
liquor that morning.

Amid a breathless hush, the wheels
of the law began to move. Caleb More-
land quickly told what he had to say,
and backed it up with proof; he
brought out a perfect alibi. The judge
and the jury frowned and smiled in
the same instant. Dale went forward
and took his place. He pleaded “Not
Guilty.” A little later the state intro-
duced its evidence and rested.

The counsel for the defense, patri-
cian and soldier-like, immaculate from
his tees to the crown of his head, went
eagerly to his feet. He had fully pre—
pared himself, and he delivered his ar-
gument with an eloquent and forceful
swing. It was plain that the jury was
favorably impressed by the words of
this man who never accepted a case
unless he was absolutely sure that his
client was in the right.

Major Bradley hhnged his argument
on the mysterious third shot. If Dale’s
bullet had killed Adam Ball, would not
Adam Ball have been shot squarely or
at least nearly squarely from the

‘ front? As it was, the Goliath had been

shot straight through the temples!
That third shot had been fired by some
hidden friend of Dale’s the major de-
clared, and it had been done for the
purpose of saving Dale’s life. Ball had
been in the act of playing a coward-
ly trick; he had killed a man in North
Carolina by just such a trick—and he
had boasted of it.

The attorney for the state made a
rejoinder that almost favored the de-
fendant. Then the court charged the
jury, and the twelve good men retired.

The jury was out not more than
twenty minutes, but to Elizabeth Lit-

: tleford it was an age of torture. She
,- sat directly behind Bill Dale, between
' her father and John moreland.

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By Cflquotre Bard

vated. One in a spasm should be
quickly put into a hot bath and well
rubbed. Except by the advice of a
physician no medicine should be given.

In case of a burn or scald a linen
rag, saturated with a solution of bak-
ing soda, should be applied and kept
wet. Or better, keep the injury al-
ways covered with a rag soaked in lin-
seed oil and lime water, mixed equal
proportions. A bottle of this should
always be kept in the house ready for
such an emergency. If the skin has
been removed by the burn, lay surgi-
cal cotton carefully over the oil dress-
ing and gently fasten into'place so
that the air may be entirely excluded.
The dressing of a burn or scald should
be disturbed no oftener than neces-
sary, so that the new skin may form
without hindrance.

In some cases of choking the ob-
struction may be removed by the fin-
ger. Otherwise, the swallowing of an
unchewed crust of bread will common-
ly give relief.

When a child has pushed an obstruc-
tio’n, like a bean or a grain of cofiee,
up into its nose, one should not be ex-
cited and fish for it with other hard
substances which may only aggravate
the difficulty. If a little cayenne pep-
per is merely rubbed on the child’s
upper lip, the child will be set vio-
lently to sneezing and the obstruction
will be promptly dislodged.

‘When any foreign matter gets into
the eye, resolutely abstain from rub-
bin-g the eye. Often forcibly blowing
the nose will do the rest. If not, a
helper may roll a fine point in a silk
handkerchief and with it painlessly re-
move the substance. This is especially
successful in the removal of insects.

When a foreign substance gets into
the ear, be very careful because the
ear is delicate. In case of an insect a
few drops of oil will drown it and
cause it to float to the surface where
it may be removed. But hard sub-
stances should not be put into the ear.
If they are needed, see a doctor.

Crystallized Fruits and Flchrs

t

OUNTRY women do not half real-

ize the possibilities of their flower
gardens and orchards unless they
crystallize a few pounds of fruits and
blossoms each year.

With the arrival of the violets my
busy season begins. I gather the vio-
lets early in the morning, making sure
that each one has a long stem and
I always crystallize stems and all, dip-
ping them one at a time in the hot
candy which I have previously made.
This candy is made by taking one
pound of sugar and pouring over it
just enough boiling water to dissolve
nicely; add one-half teaspoon of cream
of tartar, boil until it spins a brittle
thread, remove from fire, (keep hot
but do not let it continue to boil). If
it sugars, boil up again.

The blossoms are placed on waxed
paper to dry and harden. The stems
are kept straight and the blossoms re-
tain shape and color. In May I gather
cherry and apple blossoms and crystal-
lize them in clusters. These are hand-
led very carefully and make dainty
decorations fer cakes, ices, creamy
desserts, etc.

Next in line comes rosebuds, rose
petals and whole roses crystallized.
There is a dainty little white rose, a
single pink, and a single yellow roSe
that are the daintiest of confections
when crystallized whole. I gather wild
roses, hundred leaf, and other daintily‘
colored roses, pluck off the petals and
candy them. ,They find a ready mar-
ket at all seasons of the year.

Clover blossoms, both red and white,
mint leaves, and various other blos~
some that are fragrant are gathered
and crystallized. The clover blossoms
retain shape and color and are used ‘to
decorate ices, cakes, etc. The candied
mint leaves are delicious, sprinkled

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By Gracza S/zu/l

over ice cream, whipped cream des-
sert, a few in the iced tea, punch bowl
or lemonade pitcher, or served as after
dinner mints. They are novel, too, as
well as dainty and delicious.

In fruits I candy cherries, berries,
thinly sliced peaches, pineapple, thin
slices of orange and lemon, malaga
grapes, etc. _

When I candy strawberries I also
candy some of the blossoms at the
same time and serve a few of each on
the same crystal saucer. Crystallized
strawberries will keep only a, few days
as the centers are too juicy. I make
these up only when specially ordered
for luncheon or a tea or for my own
use. Everything else I make up in
great quantities for my own use and
for commercial purposes. I also crys-
tallize dates and thin slices of tender,
young carrots. These latter are dainty
and delicious.

In serving candied fruits I serve
them in a crystal basket with aspara-
gus ferns and a single, full-blown rose
to garnish the basket. The candied
fruits present a beautiful appearance
because of the dainty colorings and
they are in great demand by people
who can afford to pay for such deli-
cacies.

I use only the pink, white or yellow
roses to garnish the dish of candied
fruits as the darker. roseSospoil the ef—
fect. A few carnations or a blowsy
chrysanthemum would also look nice
on the tray.

This coming season I shall crystal-
lize lilac and locust blossoms for the
trade, as my experiment with them
last season was a decided success. I
purchase the best white Sugar at
wholesale and use only the purest and
best ingredients in my crystallized
confections.

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In insect stings, if the sting is still
present it should be removed. Then a'
little ammonia Or baking soda in was. .
ter will relieve the pain.

In case of a broken bone, it will
allay anxiety to know that it does not
have to be setimmediately. However,
do not delay to send for the doctor.
Meanwhile, unless absolutely neces-
sary, the patient should not be moved,
for fear that the sharp edges of the
bone may lacterate the flesh. With
both hands gently lift the injured part
while someone puts a pad or cushion ‘
under it. Cold, wet‘ cloths should be
applied. If the .patient must be mov-
ed, temporary splints must be made.
For this purpose use any stick of
wood, stiff pasteboard,. or, anything
which will keep its place straight. As
padding for this, use anything soft,
like cotton or wool, or a sleeve or
stocking, stuffed with moss, or grass,
or leaves till something better can be
found.

CONTRIBUTED RECIPES.

 

Our Favorite Dark Cake—Three
eggs, two cups of brown sugar, one
cup of butter, one and one-half cups
’of sour cream—not too heavy—one
and one-half teaspoons of molasses,
one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon each
of cinnamon and ground cloves, one
pound of raisins, one pound of cur-
rants, one-quarter pound of chopped
walnut meats, and flour to make a.
very stiff batter. Bake about one hour
in a slow oven, or until, when pierced
with a toothpick, no dough will ad~
here. For a change, I make a loaf
cake from this recipe by leaving out
the fruit.-—Mrs. S. E. W.

Spring Soup—Use spinach, beet
tops, chard, or any other kind of
greens for this soup. Shred the greens
in small pieces, add one head of let-
tuce also shredded, one cupful of peas,
fresh or canned, a liberal seasoning of
butter or bacon fat and a little water.
Stew until very tender. Rub through
seive, and add a bit of thyme, a spray
of parsley and a sprinkle of nutmeg.
Let boil up, remove from fire, add the
yolks of two eggs well beaten, stir
thoroughly, add one cupful of rich
milk and one teaspoonful of grated
cheese, if this flavor is liked. Heat to
the boiling point, but do not let it boil,
as this would curdle the eggs. ~ Serve
with toast or wafers.——Mrs. L. T.

 

 

MINT JULEP A LA VOLSTEAD.
WITH a wooden potato masher
bruise enough mint leaves to fill
a cup. Place in a pitcher and add one
thinly sliced lemon, two pieces scraped
ginger root, one quart of boiling wa—
ter. Cover and let stand in a. warm

place for two hours. Strain on’ tea
and chill. Fill tall glasses half full of

crushed ice and pour in tea to the top.

Add a slice of lemon, a fresh mint
leaf, and sweeten to suit.‘

The women in some Ohio counties
have made from eight hundred to nine
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. E fruitful, and multiply, and re-
Bplenish the earth,” is an early
statementin the Bible. That must
mean, that raising good crops, fine an-
imals and healthy children, is a. relig~
:‘7 «».. ' ions business. Not that. raising chil-
‘ =dren is not more important than rais-
ing ShorthornS, red rock, or hubam.
But without crops one could not rear
:7 his children._ And today the church
recbgnizes as part of its great task the

l " teaching of the less favored peoples of
L ‘~ the earth the need of good farming.
It is well-nigh impossible for a starv-

ing man to develop his spiritual facul-

. ties. His whole attention is centered

f; ' on food. The church of which the
Writer is pastor is assisting in the

- ' support of a missionary in China. He
is a farmer. He wrote a while ago

that he had been having a bit of hard

luck of late. Two days before he

wrote, tigers had leaped the high

stone wall about the barnyard and

killed two heifers. He stated that his

work sometimes developed ill-will

among the native farmers because he

was more successful than they were,

in production.

A few weeks ago we were visited by

Mr. Sam Higginbottom, of India, the

premier of agricultural missionaries of

the present time. .What he has done

makes the exploits of many captains

of finance look like a ten-cent s'ide

show. Mr. Higginbottom went to In-

dia as a general missionary. He was

a. Princeton graduate. But he found

the people so desperately poor, so ill-

fed and so disease-ridden that he de-

‘ cided they should be taught to be self-

supporting and independent, before

any great advance could be made in
Christianity. He therefore came back

to America, graduated at an agricul-

tural college, took thirty thousand dol-

lars with him to India and with it

bought a farm of two hundred and

seventy-five acres. This farm has be—

come the demonstration farm for all

India. Mr. Higginbottom’s pupils come

from all classes of Indian society. Be-

sides the people from the lowest caste

there are many princes come to sit at

the feet, so to speak, of the American.

One such prince appeared one day,

with his valet, and his private secre

tary, who was to take his notes in the

classroom. After registering, Mr. Big-

ginbottom told him to begin carrying

fodder to the ensilage cutter. He was

game, although his valet was horrified.

In a few days he got into the spirit of

 

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this ?” he inquired. The Indian farmer

den of the prison, he had known noth-
ing about farming.

To teach the Indian farmer Chris-
tianity when he is so deep in debt as

to be practically a slave, Mr. Higgin- ‘

bottom concluded would be very slow
business. He must be taught to be
independent. He must stop paying an
interest rate of seventy-five per cent.
Christ said his followers should feed
the hungry, clothe the naked and visit
those in prison. If you teach a man
to grow‘crops that will feed his fam-
ily, when they have never had enough
to eat in the past, is not that feeding
the hungry? If you show him how to
grow large crops of cotton where he
has grown none before, is not that
clothing the naked? If you enable a
man to pay his debts and own his own
farm, and thus keep him out of a debt-
or’s prison, is not that equal to visit-
ing him in prison? It is thus that the
American missionary answers his crit-
ics who sometimes (declare that he is
not a true missionary, because he does
not preach as other missionaries do.

As a means of combating the long
drouth that takes such -a heavy toll of
life every few years in India, the na-
tive farmer is advised to use the silo.
Materials for building silos above the
ground are not plentiful, but every
Indian knows how to dig a well, and
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face. There are many crops that!
make excellent ensilage. The native
farmer still uses the little crooked;
stick used by Abraham two thousand!
years before Christ. When the Amer
ican plow is put into the earth, how-
ever, and turns up rich soil that has
lain unused for years, there is an in-
crease in production right away. One
day the missionary showed his class
the depth of the moisture on the mis-
sion_farm. Said he, “Now let us go
over to this other farm, where the na-
tive plow has been used, and we will
see that the depth of moisture is only
about one-third what it is here.” To
his astonishment, however, the depth
of moisture” was the same: “How’s

fell at his feet. “Forgiveme, master,
but I watched what you were doing
and at night I borrowed your plow
of the foreman, and I plowed my land
With it.” Teaching is easy, with peo-
ple as eager to adopt new methods as ,
that.

With three hundred millions of pea

the place and sent his secretary home,

saying he would take his own notes.

,The average Indian farmer raises
six or seven bushels of wheat to an
farm
twenty-five to thirty are grown. Millet
two to three feet high is a good crop
for the native, but with deep .plowing
and drainage, seventeen-foot millet is

acre, while at the Alahabad

produced easily.

tion was drawn to the possibilities of

Indian agriculture by accident. When

he first went to India he taught politi-

cal economy. One day he took his

— V class to a certain prison. The warden
of the prison was an English colonel.
Around the prison were‘what had been
two hundred acres of waste land. For
years nothing but weeds, dust and
cobras had been raised on it. But the
colonel had transformed it into a gar-
den of Eden.
bagels that weighed sixty pounds, caul-
iflOWer that weighed twenty pounds,
and grain crops that would have been
, unbelievable, if one had not seen them
,/ with his own. eyes. The secret ’of it

' . was, that the colonel was taking sev-
eral farm journals, some of them be-
ing American, journals, and he was
» noticing ‘whathe head there. Up to
“the time, be had been appointed war-

   

The American missionary's atten-

Hé was growing cab-'

way that the governing class shows its

ple in India, and a wonderful soil, the
possibilities for agriculture are Well-
nigh unlimited. The governors of the
great Indian states are keenly aware
of What the American farmer mission-
ary is doing, and they are anxious to
cooperate with him. If he would give
up his connection with the Ewing
Christian College, where the demon-
stration farm is located, and give all.
his time to one state, he would have1
six millions of dollars immediately
placed at his disposal. The Maharaja?
of Bikaner invited Mr. Higginbottomf
to ride through his state on a private
train. There were no Pullmans on the;
train, but there were some other
things. There was an elaborate sal-
oon-car with kitchen in connection.
Next behind came the horse car, with
two fleet steeds, so that the party
could stop, the train—~and the train had
orders to stop anywhere the mission-
ary wanted it to—and ride off across
country. Next after the horse car
came a car containing a French auto
for use on the Maharaja’s smooth ma-
cadamized roads which had been built
for many miles through the desert.
The America farmer missionary was
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Pullets Pullets

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BIT e contest winners,eggs from strain

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Pure s. c.W. Legliorns $8.00 a. 100. $4.00 for 50

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APRIL COCKERELS
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\ ' and oockerels. Thorough -bred
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H EASLEY B. 0. Bufi' Leghorns. eight-week-old
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FNG. and American W. Leg. $8 er 100: Brown Leg.
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R. C. Br. Leghorn C’kls. amaze..- eacfi’f’k‘“
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be]. of the season. R. Vt . M

Single Comb Buff Leghorn

hens and early hatched pullets and cockerels. Good
laying strain. Willard Webster, Bath. Mich.

Pullets and Breeding Stock

8 varieties. also ducks and geese. Send for prices
BECKMAN. 26E. Lyon, Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

' English and American
Wh'te Leghorns strains. Choice cock-
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more: special iices in 100 lots. Will shi 6. O. I).

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WHITE WYANDOTTES

207 egg average: cockerels $5 each. 3 for $14. 6 for $25.
FRANK DeLONG. IR. 3. Three Rivers, Mich.

White Wyandotte figiitBarred Rock eggs.

rice balance of
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FOR SALE__Pair coon dogs. Opon trialer
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Farms and Farm Lands

$2000 Secures Equipped Farm

Close Detront’s Famous Markets
Live wire Michigan farm. 120 exceptionally reduc-
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bushels oats. 30 bushels beans, 12% tons an ar beets.
120 bushels corn acre common; on improve road. in
one state's finest‘sections, close thrivin RR town,
easy driye big city;93 acre level mac inc-worked
fields. 2o-cow Wire—fenced pasture. lots wood; 1200.
bushel apple orchard. about 60 plum. cherry. pear
trees; grapes, sugar maples; fineZ—story l3-room house
with bath. 2 large verandas, beautiful shade; 20—cow
barn. granary. poultry house. etc; water from wind-
mill; to close affairs quickly piiir horses, cow. vehicles,
implements. .hay, quantity crops included;312.000 takes
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Farm With 300'Apple Trees,
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gm pox. etc.; good 6-room house. magnificent outlook;
50-ft. basement barn. 2 poultr houses. ice house. etc.
To settle owner’s affairs al 328» easy terms. See

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For rent. one of ‘Calhmin County be'st' farms near
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sovsv AND GIRLS’ CLUBS WORK
ON ADULT PROBLEMS.

 

. ERY important improvements in
farm practice are frequently in-
troduced into a. county through the
medium of the boys’ and girls’ dairy,
beef, poultry, or pig clubs, specialists
in club work in the United States De-
partment of Agriculture point out. In
one county in California purebred
swine have been developed by the boys
and sold to over eighty per cent of the
farms of the county. ‘ Farmers who
are doubtful concerning the wisdom
of any innovation suggested by the
county agent often approve when they
see the results obtained by the boys.
“We can think of the boys under
twenty in a, community as either the
‘ins’ or the ‘outs,’ ” the specialists say.

and the community—no small consid.
eration for a boy.

The necessity for education has in-
creased and‘ will continue to increase
with the advance in the complexity of
the processes of civilization. Because
of the unparalleled progress in the
arts and sciences during the past fifty
years the need for education has in a.
generation multiplied many fold. For
example, a century- ago a. transporta-
tion system‘ was little more than a.
wagon and a. driver who knew the
road. Now, in handling a. problem of
transportation, experts in traffic must
first determine whether a. road in that
place will be worth while, and what
kind of, road will be most economical
and efficient; experts in finance must
provide the tremendous sums needed
to build the road; civil engineers must

 

 

 

 

One hundred and sixty-nine prospective school teachers, students of the
county normal training schools,“ were entertained by the State Boys’ and Girls’
Department at M. A. C. last May. Mr. Turner. State Club Leader, plans to
do similar entertaining every year as he believes it highly‘ desirable that
prospective school teachers become acquainted with the State Agricultural

College and the Boys’ and Girls’ Work.

 

 

“Those from six to fourteen who are
still in school, are the ‘ins.’ Our work
is more directly with the ‘outs’—-'from
fourteen to twenty—«the 600,000 boys
in the thirty-three northern and west-
ern states who should have some sort
of instruction and stimulus to accom-
plishment, because they have dropped
out of school. Our theory can be il-
lustrated by these apparently equiva-
lent statements: ”

20 plus 50 equals?

50 plus 20 equals?

“The twenty-year—ol‘d boy, helped and
guided to good practices, has some
likelihood of using what he learns for
the ensuing fifty years of normal life
expectancy; but if work is begun first

with the fifty-year—old father, even if ‘

he is equally capable of adapting him-
self to new ideasuwhich is seldom
true—he can have but twenty yearsor
less, according to’ expectancy calcula-
tions. in which to use what he has
acquired.”

 

GET AN EDUCATION.

IRST and last, our advice to boys

is to get the best obtainable educa-
tion, both. general and technical. The
educated man, as Carlyle tells us,
works with a strength borrowed from
all past ages. The “university of hard
knocks and practical experience” has
its advantages as a training school but
its courses need'to be generously sup-
plemented by other ‘more specialized
means of education. Skill in the use
of the- hands only will never make
more than a good» workman. Men rise
only in proportion as their brains are

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To learn more is to earn more, and

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lay it out; bridge engineers plan the
bridges; chemical engineers test the
materials; mills and factories with
scores of chemical and physical ex-
perts make the rails, builduthe locomo-
tives and steel cars; and a. host, of
traffic experts, auditors. accountants.
and specially trained managers and
clerks, telegraphers, engineers, con-
ductors, and others keep the trains
moving with safety and with profit.—
Boys’ Life.

 

BOYS’ CAMP AT TORCH LAKE.

STATE conference and camp for

young men training for rural lead-
ership will be held at Camp-Haye-
Went—Ha, on the shbres of Torch Lake,
from August 17 to 27.

Thisconference will be a great ad—
venture as it. will be replete with
sports and instruction. Attractive
awards will be? given to those who
excel in camp activities. The State
Farm Bureau trophy will be given to
hold for one year, to the fellow who
makes the best all-round efficiency
record. ' And‘ the Western State Nor-
mal will .give a shield to the best all-
round athlete. Those who make ninety
per cent, or better. on the four-square
program become members of the H.
W. H. Circle and will receive‘a mon-
ogram.

The camp program will be under
the leadership of R. A. Turner, State
Club Leader, and H. C. Coffman, of
Detroit. A program fee of $2.00 will
be charged. which must be forwarded
with the application for a, reservation
in, the camp. In order to insure a res-

ervation this must be received on or

before August 10. Board and room
and all else‘peflaining-to the camp

,will cost $14: forthe entire conference. . i .
. up "

_ a '1‘ :15?

, Applications should" be sent-r
county agent, county chit: ‘1 '

     
  

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. MPO‘RTAN'CE. and diversification of
I f the dairy industry in Michigan is to
> . be Shownin all its phases at the Mich-

.igan State Fair, September 2-11,' in-

clusive, by the dairy department of the
- fair. Two men are'now at work pre-

paring the dairy show—former gov-
ernor Fred M. Warner, member of the
, fair board of control in charge of the
dairy department, and H. D. Wendt,
' acting director of the bureau of dairy-
ing of the State Department of Agri-
‘ culture, also superintendent of the
'fair’s dairy show.

It is planned to have assembled in
the dairy building a complete exhibit
of dairy equipment and machinery
used in the production, manufacturing
and marketing of milk and milk prod- ‘
ucts. A working dairy will be housed;
in a large glass refrigerated room, ac-
cording to plans. The room will also
house a complete collection of manu-
factured milk products “made in Mich-
igan.”

. - Exhibits showing the food value of
. milk and milk products as compared
with other foods which commonly go
to make up the human diet are now
being prepared.and constitute a part
of the Michigan Agricultural College’s
' contribution to“ the success of the fair.
-A dairy bar 'will be one of the
~unique features. Varied milk drinks
and dairy lunches will be served. This
is an exclusive concession to be oper-
ated under the auspices of the alum-
nae council of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College and will be semieduca-
tional in character. ' .

A demonstration her: has been ar—
ranged for, to show the relative pro-
ductivity of individual animals and for
the purpose of demonstrating the need
forgintelligent selection and breeding
in order to promote greater economy
in production.

One .of the high spots of the dairy
department show at the fair will be an
exhibit depicting the results obtained
by the government at Grove City, Pa.,

 

ing community, ranking almost zero
. the most intensified dairy sections in

The milk produced by the community
of Grove City is manufactured into
various forms of fancy cheese, con-
densed and evaporated milk, casein and
fancy sweet cream butter. Michigan
dairymen will be especially interested I

planned by the Michigan Milk Produc-
ers’ Association in Lenawee county,
which is designed to utilize some of
the milk produced in the Detroit mar
ket milk area for the production of
fancy butter and cheese. This pro-
posed plant, it is disclosed, will be t
equally as profitable to the producer
as the sale of hismilk for purposes of
distribution in the city. t

 

planned for the fair will show a medi

ocre dairy as compared with one that
I is operated on a modern and profitable
. basis.

VP.”

........

fill/CID AGRICULTURAL CAMPS.

. THE farmer who breeds a perfectly
proportioned horse or cow is as
much an artist as Michelangelo, in the
opinion of Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver,
Harvard economist, who ~Spoke on
“The Drift from Outdoor to Indoor In.
dustries,” before the economic confer-
ence at M. A. C. But until such
achievements as the raising of high— 3
class live stock. are appreciated by the
nation at large, ambitious boys of the'
country will be led to seek careers in
- the city, he said. ’
_ “I went through ‘Who's Who’ the
. other day,” added the speaker. “I
-. found the names of agricultural pro-
tensors, agricultural editors, long-dis:
‘ 3 new and Christian-science farmers—5
' 'y” ‘m’en that, do the

    
      

 
 

ics; built up a community library of
one thousand volumes, and made his

nity.
munity needs to be converted—get a

vision of social,
nomic service to fellowman, it is safe
to believe,
ready history, that the religious goal
will be achieved.
community in this county insists that
it is the most “peculiar” spot on earth,
that wonderful things might be done
in other place but “not in this town.”
To put in the place of this spirit a
spirit of pride in the neighborhood, to
put neighborly friendliness and coop-
eration in the place of suspicion and
independence, to get the “newcomers”
and
the community as their own, belong—'
ing to the both,
where it is good to live—that is to
convert the neighborhood.
a community has this atmosphere can
the church as an institution perform
its best service. ‘In fact, neither can
the school.

tions. growing naturally out of country
in the matter of developing a. coal min- life and occupations, the apple parings
and the sugarings off, the corn husk-
as an agricultural section, into one of ings and the
found, indeed, poor substitutes in the;
the east, if not of the whole country. few village dance halls and the movies.

the church and the school is to take
charge of the recreational life of the:
village and open country so that there
will be an abundance of wholesome re-

in this exhibit, in view of the plant the rural church‘which is essentially a
preaching room and vestibule, as it
was at the close of the Civil War, and
erect a church
meeting the diversified needs of the
community.

bring in the same type of militant
leaders as other lines of endeavor.The

Another dairy exhibit that is being is
in Heaven" is not far from the facts.
How thousands of country ministers
live is a mystery difficult to explain,
for they are certainly not paid a living
salary, a salary sufficient to support a
family.

try church involves the question of
the permanency and status of the rural
ministry. Too long it has been lightly
regarded as merely a stepping stone
to the city ministry,
makeshift for young preachers while
they are making their first blunders
and experiments

efficient rural ministry is a specialized
ministry,
should be, requiring some special fit-
ness and specialized preparation and
adaptation.
istry
young men who love the country, and
have heard the country’s call are ask:
ing, ."Is there a life work forime in the
rural ministry?"
be in the affirmative.

 

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ought to have atleast as much appre
ciation as the man who talks abou
them." '

Work of building for the future has
just begun, according to Dr. Carver.
Up until now the national life has
been characterized by the restlessness
and instability of the pioneer. He
termed many of our cities and farms
“manufacturing and agricultural
camps.”—-—H.

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CENTER. A G o d T
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of his people with this idea. He or-
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operative societies for selling grain
and apples, a farmers’ institute with

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To introduce our celebrated.

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to new customers, with each order for 3 lbs.
or more. while they last. 'we will send a set of
25 beautifully colored post cards showing
coffee culture and its production, real works
of art. 3 lbs for $1.00 parcel post prepaid and
guaranteed. Also choice Black, Green or
Mixed Tea 5 lbs. for $2.25. State if you want
coffee ground. ,
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Probably

n. World’s Greatest
Breeding Bull

Blue Bell. Supreme Chompionat the Smith.
field Show NW. and the Birmingham Show
1920, is a daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.
The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Cham-
’ pion Female. Champion Calf Herd and First
Prize Junior Heifer Calf. Michigan State Fair.
1920. Were also the get of Edgar of Dalmeny.
A very choice lot of young bulls-sired by
Edgar of Dalmeny are. at this time. offered
for sale.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOD FARMS
ORION, MICHIGAN
II. E. SCRIPPS. Prop. Sldney Smith, Supt.

CLOVERLY ANGUS

Cows and Heifers Bred to
Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd

For Sale
GEO. HATHAWAY it SON, Ovid, Mich.

 

 

 

 

EGISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers, six
bulls from eighlti tloi finite-en ilnonthi‘il. goat of
d' . ti 6 rowt y n at ma egoo . casein
21132. lIl‘r‘iquilreg F. J. WILBER. Clio, Mich

Reg. Aberdeen Angus
bulls and heifers of the very best of breedin , from
12120 15 mogthosooffigei l)For next S0 day‘s Wii 9:138

0. . a or ains. us so ion inVi e .
buns 8" $1 RUSSELL %1tOS., pMerrill, Mich.

 

‘ Guernseys—SIOO buys the last
RegIStered bull we have, old enough for Ii ht
service—it will pay you to find out more aboutt is

fellow. No reactors—no abortion—a clean herd.
,. J. M. WILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mich.
G u E R N 5 EV s swam...)
BULL CALVES

Containing blood of world champions. '
HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. MlCI’l’.

 

 

of May Rose Breedin

Their dams have rccor s
a few cows and heifers are

. Wigman. Lansing. Mich.

Guernsey Bulls

420 to 650 lbs. fat also
offered. H. W

 

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3rd A. A. Class eatler. and out of cows on test.
Also a 2 yr. old out of a. 3% yr. old with a 500 lb. record.
Priced to sell. Federal tested. Satisfaction guaran-
teed, G. W. and H. G. RAY, Albion, Mich.
Registered Guernseys bull calves
Forgsale! for $50 each. sired by May Rose

Bull, his5 nearest dams average 7‘35 lbs. fat. .
E. A, BLACK, Howard City, Mich.

 

 

Females of superior breeding. at reduced
Guernsey prices. Tuberculin tested. Send for
sale list to day. > G. A. Wigent, Mich.

Winanod Herd

Registered

Holistein-Friesian cattle

We breed them to sell. If you
are looking for seed stock, we
have it.

John H. Winn. [Ina]

Rochester, Mich.

MY! OH, MY!
WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY

We are now offering a beautiful calf born Aug. 2nd.
1920 His sire a 35.68 lb. 1 am‘s sire has three

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)ull.
sisters each with yearly records of over 1200 lbs. two of
them former Worlds’ champions. Write for pedigrees

HILLOREST FARM, Kalamazoo. Mich_

 

H 1 f - Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred
0 3 BIII registered and high-grade. Price $20 up.
Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-
quirements. Browncroft Farms, McGraw, N. Y

 

' for sale at all times either
Reg. Holsteins sex. Bulls or heifers, prices
rewonable. Write or come and see them.

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

“Top” Notch” Holsteins

Buy a “milk” Bull of Quality from the Breeders
of the world's only cow to produce 8001bs. milk in 7
d 8, having an 800' b. daughter.

r herd is rich in the blood of Colantha 4ths Jo-
hanna. theoniy cow that ever held all world‘s records
nevery divrsion from one day to one year at the same
time. She produced 651.70 lbs. milk in 7 days. We are
oflerins for sale a hull. whose dam exceeds this record
I) over 7% lbs. in 7 days.

B’is dam's refiorgs are:

 

100.1 lbs.
Days 659.3 lbs.
7 Days $.31 lbs.

mename is
KING VALE OORNUCOPIA WAYNE, No. 312599
Born February 6. 1920
Killian: and sire's two nearest dams average
Bgirl“ 3 Ba” song2 111‘)”.
' i ays . s.
Handsomel marked about one third white.
y $250.06 f. o. b. Howell.
WON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.
All herds under U. 8. Supervision.

 

" aooo di ontofllelbd .
r M "dreams-mm or.
$835.0 nib.” - - - - Vaginal».
.\_ .

315 N. East Ave

,y m e t e greatest yearly production ever
(‘lvmalnied 21 37,381 .4tpoumgs go milk n a year.

c ave ors earn r pces.
Bealufgul individals of show type KING SEGIS

BU .

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARM,
. Jackson. Mich. C. J. Spencer-.0wner.
Under State and Federal Supervision

The Traverse Herd

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. 0. ancestors
Dam's records up to 30 lbs.
quotations. stating about age desired.

TRAVERSE -CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.

Cluny Stock Farm
Only 3 Sons Of “Maplecrest” For Sale

Old price list cut 3; to l 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
da 3 400.00.

Dam Zf go. 3 has 1031 lbs. butter 23543 lbs. milk

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

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. 321b. son of
a twice Michigan ribbon Winner,_her dam. 29% lbs.
Dams are daughters of King Segis Pontiac, 33? lb.
son of King Se is, Records 16 lbs. to 20 lbs. Priced
'at half value.$1 up. Federally tested June 10. Write
for list. ALBERT G. WADE. White Pigeon, Mich.

 

 

 

eg. Holsteins and Berkshires, most any age, either
Rsex,priced accordrgg to other commodities. W rite

or come. 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 Assocration
now offering some excellent young males and fe-
males of choice breeding. (,an furnish one or a
oarload. Priced right. Your inspection solicited.
Jas. R. Campbell. Secretary, Bad Axe. Mich.

 

- bulls, some ready for
Rengtel‘ed Jersey service sired by Ox-
ford's Champion Fox 168681, out 0 Oxford Daisy’s
Princess. Re ister of Merit record 8311 lbs. milk; 468
lbs. butter With first calf, milked o0 lbs. per day with
second calf. Sister to Sadies Crown Princess 18078 lbs
milk, 1031 lbs. butter in one year. The dams of these
bulls are Ihigh produlcers, many of thfm 3m prize
winners. rices very ow, us i yconsi ere .

C. S. BASSE’I‘T. Kalamazoo. Mich

BUTTE R BR E D JE%?RYSAE%LLS

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

The Wildwood Farm

Jersey Cattle. Majesty strain, Herd on State accred-
ited list. it. of M. testing constantly done. Bulls for
sale. ALVIN BALDEN, Phone 143-5, Capac, Mich.

Tborobred Jersey Bull Calves mimigmg

and Federal accredned list, $25.00 each. Also one
earling bull ready for service. Pedigrees on re nest.
i. w. JAYNE a BEN BRAWT. Fenton. ich.

Ready for Service.

JERSEY BULLS Raleigh—Oxford

and—Majesty breeding. Meadowland Farm, Water
man do Waterman, Packard ltd., Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

 

 

Bull calves from
ll. of M. cows.
Coopersville, Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
COLON c. LILLIE.

 

Registered Jersey Bulls figfiygfgdgggicedflggf

it. B. FOWLER, Hartfor , Mich.

 

For Sale ready for service from R. of
Jersey BUIIS M. dams. 'r. 13 tested. Will give time.
SMITH & PARKER. R. 4, Howell. Mich.

 

Registered Flying Fox breedin . Calves
Jerseys two to three months. both sexes. 15 and up.

Tuber. tested. Ten Have Farm, R. 2, Holland, Mich.

BID U' ELL BUY A BULL
that will put weight on your dairv calves —the diff-
erence will soon gay for the bull. Now selling 300d
Scotch and Scotc -toppsd yearlirr-s, reasonably priced.
e guarantee every animal to be a breeder. liederal
Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio, N. Y. C. R. B.

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

 

 

Box D,‘ Tecumseh, Michigan

‘ ' ‘ Youn bulls with excellent
Mllkmg Shorthoms sediggees from best milk-
ers. O. M. Y BK, Millington. Mich.

 

Richland Shurlhorns

We offer a few choice Scotch heifers with calves
at foot. This is good foundation stock and the
calves are all from top sires. Prices reasonable.
Write your wants and see the cattle.

C. H. PRESCOTT & SONS,
Office at Tawas City. Mich., gen-d at Prescott, Mich.

The Maple’s Sliortlioriis

Kirklevington Lad, by Im . Hartford
Welfare, in service. _ Stock or sale. '

 

  

 

  

J. V. WISE.
a .

. A arbiter: Bloodline ”Shortlist-no.3”
G s to

Write for pedigrees and

Buy good hogs now, from one of the largest herds of
825

Booking orders for
sows to be bred to
and Duration.

Jerseys A few extra good fall b0 . d
Duroc a choice lot are an
boned type popular blood lines at reasonable

Chester Whites

   

wwfifis

2. - nosmmr’mm in;
Huron County ‘

 

. ‘ nu, , ,
Shortliom Breeders Ass 11.]
offer for sale Scotch d Sc tch to d males and .
females of all ages. ’ s08 heat?! to ”1:?th from. For
.n urination address as. R. Campbell. Secretary.
13 Axe. Michigan.

 

 

BUY SHORTHORNS 33°“.‘s‘ii‘él‘32’il;
Breeders’ Write for

Afioclation at farmers’ ric

sale listto . E. Minor. Seo'y, m’ri‘vuie. Mich.

 

. id
Shorthorn Bull tibfimiflmtfhcz
roan with star in forehead. Very gentle and afine
specimen of the breed. Price 225. .

W. E. BARTLEY. Alma, Mich.

riven‘lifefirrreusfiss

about them or better come and see them.
CARR BROS. & 00., Bad Axe. Mich

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns

and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Now oflering3
heifers, 2 bulls, all Scotch Sows to farrow in Aug.
and Sept. Spring igs. 60 head to choose from.

2" POPE ROS. 00., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

Reég. Red Polled cattle. herd headed by Famous
harmer 75 i same blood as Charmer 1919 Int. Gd.
Champion. Herd State and Fed. tested. No cattle for
sale at present. Westbrook Bros. Ioniu, ich

 

cow 3 rs. old white due in Nov.
Shor "10" n to IMP. ROYAL PIONEER.
J. A BARNUM Union City. Mich.

 

 

HOGS

Place Orders NOW

for BERKSHIRE boars or sows 6 to 8 weeks old Reg.
and Trans. and delivered 3% where in Mich. for $10.
or a. fine large bred sow at .00. I also have an ex-
ceptionally up 400 lb. boar for sale at $40.00. He is a
dandy an anybody in. the market for him should
never pass this up. He is a good one.

C. H. WHI ‘NEY. Merrill, Mich

 

 

Berkshire spring pigs, either sex, 310, $12 and 815
according to age. Also fall gilts and yearling sows.
C ASE STOCK FARM. Marlette, Mich.

Breakwater Duroc Jerseys
FALL BOARS OPEN GILTS

All of the right type .and the best of breeding.
Prices reasonable.
Mail orders a Specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed.

BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.
H W. Mumford,.0wner J. B. Andrews, Mgr.

DUROC JERSEYS:

sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS,

 

 

A few choice
bred gilts for
Hastings, Mich

Duroc Jerseys

Gilts bred for fall furrow at reasonable prices.

RUSH BROS., akwood Farm. Romeo, Mich.
‘ at once I have just what ou want

wrlte Me heavy bone registered Duyroc Jer-

sey boars readilfor service.
W. . MAYES. L. 13.505. Durand, MiCh.

 

 

 

\

Spring pigs by Walt’s'
Orion, First Sr. Yearling
Detroit, Jackson,C-d. Rapids and Saginaw 1919

Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

Collinsdale Duroc Jerseys
Lyons, Mich. n.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 the Sensation boar.

lOO spring pigs from these boars.

Herd Sows breeding

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

Duroc Bred Gilts

for Sept. far-row from (Prize winning stock, at 525
and 335. Spring boar an sow pigs of Orion Cherry
King, Col.. and Pathfinder breeding.

W. C. TAYLOR.

 

 

Milan. Mich.

 

D U ROCS Sofgwrocrhgfif‘ ready for service.
HARRY FOWLER. Sturgis, Mich.

 

' oodlawn Farm Duroc hogs are, from select breed-
Wing stock. well mated for size. type and color.
Herd boars. sows and piggy. will ship C.O.D. and furn-
ish Reg. certificate. . E. Bartley, Alma, Mich.

 

Duroc Jerseys Am booking ordgefgsfor spring

'fiifis' Few fall
E. D. HEYD BERK. Wayland. Mich.

DU R o c s o w s aslgckgmsogrggro
Orion King No. 169259 Son of tlfi 810.000 boar owne

by Long‘view Farm. Le Sumit. 0. also oung boars
ready for service out good sows. pply
‘ Bai ey. Mich

 

of
'1 HE JENNINGS FARRI,

 

registered Durocs in the state. Open fall

ilts at
Bows and gilts bred for summer and fall fa '

arrow.

03”““fi 'i‘ 8' T8h“°§§”é3"
son 0 rec on use

ichigana Farm. Pavilion. Mich]?

 

of spring boar-s of the heavy
rises.
ioh.

Big stretchy. sprl g '
e :39 ”0‘33

DRODT & BERNS. Monroe.

for sale. Thee

 

 

 

  
  

        

 

 

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crowd around it all day.
and girls will feed these pigs for nine-

COunty Association—G.

A

Hay Show to be held _ln
with the International Live
position at Chicago, November 26 to
December 3, has just been received.
Many readers of this journal are in-
terested in this list, which they can
receive by writing the International
Live Stock Exposition, Hay and Grain
Department, Union Stock Yards, Chi-

  
     
 

THERE has been little change m‘j’,

the condensed milk market, al-
though all canned milk has ,moved to
a. little better advantage during the re-

 

‘ cent hot weather, which was conducive

to an immense output of ice cream;
and there seems to be a steadier mar-
ket for that product. The domestic
consumption of case goods remains un-
changed and there is but little demand
from foreign sources. There is no ten-
dency for a. change in values of case
goods, however, in spite of the weak
demand, although manufacturers of
unadvertised brands have shown a. ten-
dency to consider slightly lower prices
for their products.

There has been no rapid movement
of evaporated milk as manufacturers
of advertised brands feel inclined to
accumulate stocks rather than move
them at reduced prices. The fact that
there has been a decrease in milk pro-
duction during the recent period of ex-
tremely hot dry weather has influenc-
ed manufacturers in that regard. Un-
advertised brands have moved fairly
well at slightly reduced prices. There
is practically no demand for powdered
skim-milk but some sales have been
made at reduced prices. On the whole.
however, manufacturers of the higher
grades are inclined to advance their
asking prices—W. B. L. ..

HAMPSHIRE BREEDERS ACTIVE.

 

 

THE breeders of H. fipshire hog~

in Cass county are'surely a live
bunch. 'On ‘.-ril 19 they perfected the
Cass County Hampshire "Swine Breed-
ers' Association and have been “up
and at it” ever since.

They organized a Boys" and Girls’
Pig Club this spring, enrolling twenty
members. On June 11, when the club
pigs were distributed, the association
pulled off quite a novel stunt. The
twenty belted pigs, averaging about
thirty-five pounds, were placed in the
biggest Show window' in Cassopolis,
and at three o’clock in the afternoon
the boys and girls met there and drew
their pigs by lot. This window was
the center of attraction, holding a.
The boys

ty days, at the end of which time the
association plans for a big Hampshire
hog show at the fair grounds. They
have put up a purse‘of $50 as premium
money for this contest.

Plans are being formulated now for
a bred sow sale next March. About
forty good sows, selected from the var-
ious herds in the county, will be sold
at auction. Some of the best bred
hogs in the state are to be found in
Cass county and it is anticipated that
this sale will eclipse all other Hamp-
shire activities ever attempted in
Michigan.

The association is very much inter-
ested in breed promotion and is anx-
ious to cooperate with other like or-
ganizations in the state to put Michi~
gan plainly on the map of the Hamp-
shire world. Alfred J. George, Cassop—
olis, Mich., is secretary of the $9.55,

 

PREMIUM LIST OF INTERNATION-

AL GRAIN AND HAY SHOW'
NOW READY.

COPY of the $10,000 premium list
of the International Grain and
connection
Stock Ex-

 

  
 

°"°‘“ °°°"° ”_' ”'2? R: (2333...... I“ cago, requesting a copy of this list.

numed: pflzll'ilgi: r¥féollfi§t§nndoe§ggwfigr2§ Wheat! remaining on farms July 13‘

O I C's Last fall sflts'bredtofnrmlnh 508!!! i689 GStima-te‘?” :tl 5%534’000 -- bushel Ion I
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menswear star‘sfmam remaining 9.. farm: . 5 m. it... '- ,_ "

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' cleaned Wool.

'W"

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i

 

THAT the wool tariff schedules con-
tains a joker which is likely to
develop into a full-sized “nigger in the
wood pile,” is the belief of wool grow-
ers’ representatives who have given
the Fordney tariff bill much consider-
ation. They are objecting to the pro-
vision in the bill which limits the duty
on wools to thirty-five per cent ad val-
orem and which when applied to the
present values of wool in this country
will afford protection of only eight to
eighteen cents per. pound on quarter
and three-eighths blood cleaned wool
instead of twenty-five cents per pound
specific duty which it was supposed
the bill would carry. This point was
brought out forcefully by J. F. Walker,
chairman 'of the wool committee of the
Ohio State Farm Bureau Federation,
before the house ways and means com-
mittee.

It was thought that the tariff com-
mittee was favorable to a specific duty
of twenty-five cents per pound on
It is found, however,
that a limiting clause has been added
which provides that in no case shall
the duty exceed thirty-five per cent ad
valorem. The wool growers’ repre-
sentatives say that when wool is low
as at present the thirty-five per cent
ad valorem gives the farmers practi-
cally no protection.

Most of the western wool is known
as quarter and three-eighths blood.
South American .wools of this grade
are now quoted at about eleven cents
per pound. UIT'ler an ad 'valorem duty
of thirty-five per cent they would pay

a dutj of 5.8 Cents per p0 1. 1', cleaned,

basis, and 3.7 cents per pound in the
grease. This means that the importer
could bring this grease wool into the
United States at a total cost, including
duty, of 14.7 cents, whereas the same
domestic wool is selling here at twen-
ty-four to twenty~eight cents.

“The wool producing industry is in
no condition to be handed a joker in
the form of a tariff,” declares Mr.
Walker. “In the past eighteen months
enormous quantities of Wool have been
rushed into this country pending the
enactment of the tariff bill and we
now have enough wool to take care of
normal requirements for from eight
een months to two years. But what
of the-future? The sheep population
of the United States has decreased
twenty-eight per cent during the last
ten years and the wool producing in-
dustry is in the dumps.” It was said
that instances could be multiplied by
the thousands where men would be
glad to get out of the sheep business
with a twenty-five per cent recovery
on their investment. In one instance
an Arizona sheep raiser shipped 1,017
lambs to the Chicago market, and after
paying freight, feed bills, yardage, and
commission charges, he was $1,446 in
the hole, the lambs selling that much
less than the cost of shipping and
selling them.

FARMERS' FINANCE BODY lS

FORMED.

ITH tho receipt of the articles
..- incorporation and the elec-
tion of the permanent officers, the
final steps in the formation of the
ranger.” Finance Corporation Were
completed. W. F. Schilling, of North-
field, Minn., was 'elected” president.
Vice-presidents are: Adam L. Middle-
ton, of Eagle Grove, 1a.; F. A. Mudge,
of Peru, Illinois, and George C. Jew-
ett, of Spokane, Washington; H. W.
Avery‘,‘ of Wakefield, Kansas, is secre-
tary, and J. K. Mason, of Milton, Indi-
ana, is treasurer.

The board of directors of the organ-
ization will be made up of the officers
just named, together with Harry W.
Robinson, of Cleveland, Ohio; 0. H.
Hyde, of'Alva, Oklahoma, and U. L.
Burdick, of' Williston, North Dakota.
J. D. Nichols, of Lansing, Michigan,
was offered. a place on the boardjbut
didnot feel in a position to serve.
Some nationally known financier
she employed by the board to act
at the (gmpany.

' '1 are farmers living on'their own farms
willbe aided by an. advisory commit-V

n'bomzihe poo‘i

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tee of. prominent financiers. Bernard
7M. 'Bar‘uch has consented to act as
chairman of this advisory committee.

The Farmers’ Finance Corporation
is virtually the fiscal department of
the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., and is
to be the agency through which the
latter will obtain money and credits
needed in handling the grain of its
members. The ofiicers of the Finance
Corporation are also directors of the
U. 8. Grain Growers, Inc., so that the
facilities of the former will be abso-
lutely at the disposal of the latter
organization. ‘

With the organization of the Fi-
nance Corporation complete, it is ex-
pected that the Grain Growers can
proceed more rapidly toward the ac-
tual handling of grain of its members.
No definite date has been set, but it
is confidently expected that some
grain will be handled during the pres-
ent crop year. This is especially likely
to take place in the northwest where
previous organizations have done
much to pave the way for the work of
the U. S. Grain Growers.

A committee from the Equity Coop-
erative Exchange of St. Paul, and con—
sisting of Magnus Johnson, Glencoe,
South Dakota; F. D. Wood, Wheeler,
North Dakota; John E. Kelley and
Benjamin Drake, St. Paul, met with
the board of directors of the U. S.
Grain Growers, Inc., at its meeting at
Chicago, July 5-9, to consider, the
drawing up of a cross-contract be-
tween the two organizations for the
handling of grain. No details have
been made public as yet but the mat-
ter has been placed in the hands of
attorneys and an agreement is expect-
ed at an early date. This step" will
clear the way for organization work
in the northwest, particularly in Min-
nesota.

The relations of the U. S. Grain
Growers, Inc., with the Northwest
Wheat Growers’ Association are still
in the hands of the sub—committee ap-
pointed some time ago and no report
of progress has been made recently.

The pooling committee of the board
of directors of the U. S. Grain Grow-
ers has formulated additional regula-
tions for the handling of pool grain
and these have been adopted by the
board. No cash advances will be made
to growers until the grain has been
delivered to a country elevator. Ad-
vance payments also will be made up-
on the basis of grade and variety and
the complete deduction for lower
grades will be made at the time of
the first payment. Subsequent pay-
ments until the pool is completely sold
out and final payment is made will be
the same to all members contributing
to the pool. Freight differential also
will be computed to the basic zone
market, which will be designated by
the sales committee. Another regula-
tion subject to change provides that
farmers will be allowed one cent per
bushel per month for grain held on
the farm after it is threshed.

Growers who sign the pooling con-
tract Will be required to report to the
pooling department of the National
Sales Agency the approximate
amount of grain they will pool as
quickly as crop conditions will war-
rant. The pooled grain will be subject
to control by the sales agency as soon
as the pooling committee notifies the
grower that it is ready to handle his
crop.

These regulations, of course, apply
only to the national pool and not to
grain handled in the local pool, nor
do they affect grain sold directly to
local farmers’ elevators or sold on the
consignment.

The board of directors also passed
resolutions to prevent a state director
or state organized from employing
solicitors or assistants except when
such persons are working under the
standard contract form. Also no per-
son is to be employed by the U. S.
Grain Growers’ Inc., at a salary in ex-
cess of $4, 000 a year without the ap-
proval of the board of directors. High-
er salaries can be paid temporarily
subject to the approval of the board
at its next meeting.

One of the high lights of the meet-
ing of the board of directors was the
verbal statement from. U. L. Burdick,
who is acting as director of organiza-
tion in North Dakota and told of the
progress being made in that state.
Over thirty elevators have already
signed the elevator contracts and
nearly two thousand farmers have
signed the growers’ contracts. These
alone will assure the ',U. S. Grain,
Growers, Inc., of more than five mil-
lion bushels of grain in one state. The
campaign for members was started on
June 20. The success of the cam-
paign has far exceeded expectations-

It is reported that thus far all the
North Dakota members have signed
ing. contracts

 

 

  

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Every owner of a tractor should have a U. S. Standard Husker as a c0331:-
ian machine. With this machine you can handle the corn crop in any the
following methods, according to condition of com and feeding requirements.

    
          
             
    

l. flushing shock corn in the usual way and blowing the dry-out
fodder lnlo the barn.

2. llusklng out all the ear corn and making silage of lhe dry-out-
lodder and water.

3. Husklng out port of the ear corn and making silage of the

  
   
    
  
   
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
  
   
 
   
    
 
 
  
      
  
  
    
 
  
  
  
  
   
     
    
   
  
  
   
    
     
     
   
   
   
  
   
     
      
   
  
    
   
   
  
  
     
 
  
 
    
   
  
   
  
    
  
    
      
   
   
    

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Making silage in the usual way and cutting up all the ears 1
with the ladder. This melhod is followed when com has ‘
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crop. rite us today for information and reports of Feeding Tests at l‘xpcriment Stations on \11rious i.
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Swine Breeders Ass’n.

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early GlC U. ("<)l PAH .t SUNS. l\l1ul(1ttc Nlhh.

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Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.
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Address I“. ’1‘. Hart, St. Louis Mich. ' '1

Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.00 1
Spotted Poland Clunas

American Boy, one year . . . . . . . . 2.50
The hog with more outcroescs than any other
breed. Which insures villzlality and prolificgcy. TOta’l value 1 1 - ~ - - ~ 1 1 1 1 - - 1 . 1 - 1$3150
Why breed and feed grade ogs when you can uy
registered hogs at special low prices. Write me 80th for $325-
your wants Inbred gi Its, boars or spring pigs.
Cholera immuned. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, .luly 19.
Wheat.

Detroit.——Cash No. 2 red $1.30; Sep-
tember $1.311/2; No. 2 mixed and No.
2 white $1.25.

Chicago.—»No. 2 red $1.24%@1.261/2;
No. 2 hard $1.251/2@1.261/é; September
31.2814.

Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow 69c; No.
3 yellow 68c; No. 4 65c.

Chicago.—~No. 2 mixed 621/z@62%c;
No. 2 yellow 63@631/zc.

Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 44c; No.
3 white 423/20; No. 4 white 391/2c.
Chicago—No. 2 white 39@41c; No.
3 white 37@38%c.
Beans.

Detroit.~—Immediate
shipment $3.40 per cwt.

Chicago.——~Market held unchanged
and about steady. Hand—picked Mich—
igan 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. _

and prompt

Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 rye $1.26.
Chicago.—No. 2 $1.27dl?1.271/2.

Seeds.

Detroit.»Prime red clover $13.50;
October $13; alsike $11; timothy at
$3.10.

Hay.

No. 1 timothy $21@22; standard and
light mixed $206021; No. 2 timothy
$19@20; No. 1 clover mixed $15@16;
No. 1 clover $146015; rye straw $13.50
@14; wheat and oat straw $12.50@13;
per ton in carlots at Detroit.

WHEAT

The world’s wheat situation is at
the stage in which rapid changes take
place due to the character of the
Weather in various wheat growing
countries. The factors are becoming
more clearly defined, however, and it
should be possible within a short time
to determine roughly how closely sup-
ply and demand will be adjusted to
each other. Within the last two
months drouth has been reported in
a number of countries but the amount
of damage has not been officially esti-
mated and foreign countries apparent-
ly have minimized their crop losses in
order to prevent a sharp advance in
prices. There are good reasons for
believing that world import require-
ments will be large. Germany, Eng-
land, France, Holland, Belgium, Rus-
sia and Argentina have had dry weath-
er although relief has been received
in some sections within the last few
days. Fears of famine have again been
forthcoming from the spring wheat
belt of Russia, due to a prospective
crop failure. Within the past week
export buying again assumed promi-
nence with Germany as the leading
purchaser. A credit of $20,000,000 has
been negotiated by that country for
the purchase of grain. Some corn and
rye was taken in addition to wheat.
On the basis of recent reports it is es-
timated that the import requirements
of the United Kingdom, France and
Italy alone will aggregate 350,000,000
bushels, an amount equal to the prob-
able surplus of the United States and
also 100,000,000 bushels from Canada.
Primary receipts of wheat have be-
come very large, practically doubling
in the past week and are running more
than twice as high as at this time last
year, due partly to the fact that the
harvest has been unusually early.
Prices undoubtedly would have sag-
ged if crop damage reports had not
been numerous and export buyers in

the market.
CORN

The corn crop has been threatened
with dry weather but rains have ar-
rived at the opportune time and bar-
ring instances of firing in a few sec-
tions, the crop has come through un-

scathed, thus far. Considerable dete- .
rioration can- occur before the crop’

yield will be reduced below. the early
= Season estimate, due to the increase
in the par yield in the later returns.

1 ’ , I, The crop is 'at the stage in'which a

 

great deal of moisture is necessary.
Market receipts have been shrinking
but are still ample for immediate con-
sumptive demand. Chicago has had
difficulty in caring for daily arrivals
because of the large stocks of corn
and other grains in terminal elevators.
Exports continue at the rate of about
2,000,000 bushels per week. Corn is
now the cheapest grain on the market
and even though the prospect is for
the largest crop on record, the prices
should not fall much below the pres-

ent basis.
OATS

The heaviest losses due to hot dry
weather in the northwest are expect-
ed to be shown in oats as the crop
the producer are extremely low, an
Iowa report giving 15 to 18 cents as
was caught at the critical stage and
a great deal of light weight grain has
resulted. New oats have already ar—
rived at terminals and shows a light
weight test in contrast with the high
weights of the last crop. Prices to
the price in that state, with 11 cents
reported paid in sections of Okla-
homa. These figures leave" little above
harvesting expenses and some fields
may not be cut in consequence. The
drouth abroad will undoubtedly en-
large the market for oats during the
coming year as spring—sowrr grains
have been affected much more than
wheat. Already this increased demand
has been in evidence. Old oats are
likely to be at a premium on this ac~
count because of their heavy weight.

FEEDS

Feed markets have advanced slight-
ly during the past week. Stocks are
liberal and demand is so limited that
prices seem likely to remain compar-
atively low for several weeks. The
advance was due largely to buying by
operators who.considered prices low
enough. The small coarse grains are
abundant and cheap and thus far pas-
tures in practically all sections have
been in good condition. Dry weather
in late summer might enlarge the de-
mand for mill feeds considerably. Dur—
ing the coming fall and Winter the

market's fer cottonseed meal and lin-
seed oil meal will be affected by the
sharp reduction in the cotton and flax
crops. In general the feed situation

promises to be much stronger in the

coming year than in the last twelve

months.
SEEDS

The government’s report on the con-
dition of clover hay as of July 1 was
74 per cent of normal, while timothy
was 76.9 per cent. Acreage in both
cases was about the same as last year.
The low condition estimates point to
lighter seed crops than’ are usually
obtained. Cash markets have remain-
ed within a narrow range during the
past few menths but prices for fall
delivery have advanced as areshlt of
crop damage reports.

HAY

Hay market receipts are ample al-
though much smaller than a year ago.
Demand is limited although the dry
weather in some sections may stimu-
late demand presently. New hay be—
gan arriving at some southern and
western markets a week or two ear-
lier than usual and is bringing $2@5
per ton less than old hay.

WOOL

Demand for wool remains of an in-
termitten character with mills pur-
chasing in a leisurely manner. The
American Woolen Company, leading
manufacturers, claims to be operating
at 95 per cent of capacity. Most mills
are working upon old orders and re-
port but few new orders for go‘bds.
Demand is most keen for wools grad-
ing three-eighths and higher. The lat-
est ,London auction was at prices five
to ten per cent lower than a month
ago as the total quantity offered was
large and demand had been largely
supplied by recent sales. The tariff
schedule is calling forth a great deal
of protest from producers. The 25
per cent ad valorem limitation means
a low tariff upon this commodity
which of all the agricultural products
stands decidedly in need of protection.
Prices have changed but little recent-

 

 

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Wednesday, July 20.

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 621. Good grades steady:

common dull.

Best heavy steers ....... $ 7.50@ 8.50
Best handy wt bu steers 7.50@ 8.00
Mixed steers and heifers 6.75@ 7.00
Handy light butchers. . . . 6.0061) 6.50
Light butchers .......... 4.50@ 5.50
Best cows .............. 4.75@ 5.50
Butcher cows ........... 4.00@ 4.50
Common cows .......... 2.00@ 2.75
Canners ................. 1.50@ 2.00
Best light weight bulls... 5.00@ 5.75
Bologna bulls ........... 4.75@. 5.25
Stock bulls ............. 3.75@ 4.50
Feeders ................. 5.00@ 6.00
Stockers ................ 4.00@ 5.00
Milkers and springers... .$ 45@ 70

Veal Calves.
Receipts 591. Market slow.

Best . . . ................ $10.50@11.50
Others . . . . . . ......... . . . 4.00@ 8.50
Hogs.

Receipts 1,140. Pigs 25c higher;
others steady.
Mixed hogs ......... . ......... $10.75
Pigs ..................... . . . . . 11.00
Heavies ....................... 10.00

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 352. Sheep steady; lambs

25c higher. ,

Best lambs ..... " ........ $10.50@11.00
Fair lambs .............. 8.50@10.00
Light to common lambs.. 6.00@ 7.50

Fair to good sheep. . . . . .
Calls and common . . . . . .

CHICAGO

H 098.

4.00@ 4.50
1.00@ 2.50

er. Bulk of sales $10.5.§@10.80:_ tops
$10.90- heavy 250 lbs up medium, good
and hoice summons;

  
 

 
  
 

 

hogs. ‘ s“ d for
medium - 300 $115033“.

to 250 lbs medium, good and choice
$8.65@9.20; light 150 to 200 lbs com-

mon, medium, good and choice $10.25

@1055; light lights 130 to 150 lbs
common, medium, good and choice at
$10.40@10.75; heavy packing sows 250
lbs up smooth $8.65@9.20; packing
sows 200 lbs up rough at $8.25@8.55;
pigs 130 lbs down medium, good and
choice $10@10.65.
Cattle.

Estimated receipts today are 7,000.
Market steady to 15c higher. Beef
steers medium and heavy weight 1100
lbs up choice and prime' $8.25@9.25;
do medium and good $7.50@8.25; do
common $6.50@7.50; light weight 1100
lbs down good and choice $8.65@9.50;
do common and medium at $6@8.65;
butcher cattle heifers common, medi-
um, good and choice $4.50@8.75; cows
common, medium, good and choice at
$3.75@7.25; bulls bologna and beef at
$4.75@6.75; canners and cutters cows
and heifers at $2.25@3.75; do canner
steers $3.50@3.75; veal calves light and
handy weight medium good and choice
$9@11; feeder steers common, medi-‘
um, good and choice $5@7.50; stacker
steers common, medium, good and
choice at $4@7.25; stocker cows and
heifers common, medium, good and
choice $2.50@5.50. '

Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 17,000.
Market steady. Lambs 84 lbs down,
medium, good, choice and prime $8.25
@1075; do culls and common $5@8;
spring lambs medium, good, choice
and prime at $6@8.25; ewes medium,
good and choice $3.25@5.50; ewes cull
and common at $1.‘50@2.75; breeding
ewes full'mouths to yearlings at $3

, ‘ . 6.50; yearling .wethers’ medium, good
Estimated .i-eceipts today are" 20,000: , ‘
holdover 11,676. Light. and. medium,
steady to strong; others -10@15c- low-

and choice '$6@7. ‘ *

' :surrALo'“

On, this market med
' (£75621

~ delaine unwashed 31@33c;

~ Holeteins-e—OctOber 21,

    

  

1y. The Boston market is quoted as
follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania.
fleeces, delain unwashed 350; fine un-
29@30c; threeeighths blood combing
washed 27 @280; half-blood combing
'260. Michigan and New York fleeces,
.flne un-
washed 26@27c; half-blood unwashed

28@‘29c; three-eighths blood unwash-
ed 25@260; quarter-blood -unwashed
24@25c.

EGGS AN D POULTRY

In spite of rapid piling up of re.
serve egg holdings in early spring, the
preliminary report of stocks on July
1 shows only 7,450,000 cases compared
with 6,740,000 cases on, the same date
last year when the available supply
was below normal. Prices have ad-
vanced about 25 per- cent above the
low point of the year. Poultry prices
remain high in consuming markets but
are comparatively low in producing
sections. Receipts are fairly liberal
and average higher than those of last
year.

Detroit—Eggs fresh candled 30@31:l
live poultry, spring chickens 35c; hens
280; light hens 24@25c; roosters 14c; -
geese 15c; ducks 20@25c; turkeys at
25c per pound.

BUTTER

Butter markets have been on the‘
upgrade for seven, consecutive weeks
and prices have gained from 10 to 15
cents per pound. COnsumptive and
storage demand is strong and specu-
lative buying has been active as a. re-
sult of lighter production and poor
quality due to hot weather. Since for-
eign butter prices also have advanced
there is more confidence that prices
can be maintained without competi-
tion from abroad, The preliminary re-
port on cold storage holdings as of
July 1 was 63,750,000 pounds compan-
ed with 52,526,000 pounds a. year ago.
In spite of hot weather the supply of
undergrades has not been large and
prices upon them have made the most
marked advance. It is rarely that an
advance of the kind that has occurred
in butter is maintained without set-
backs and it will be no surprise to see
such a turn at any time but the mar-
ket seems to be in a rather strong po-
sition. Prices for 92-score fresh but-
ter were: Chicago 40%@4lc; New
York 411/2@42c. At Detroit the fresh
creamery in tubs is quoted at 37%@
39c per pound.

CHEESE

Cheese markets made further ad-
vances during the past week and the
undertone is firm with supplies at dis-
tributing markets clearing easily.
Some styles are scarce, especially
twins, double daisies and longhorns.
Demand for white cheese continues at
about the same price as for colored.
Export buying has been active in east-
ern country and distributing markets.
Receipts at the four leading cities in-
creased slightly over the preceding
week but are less than in the corres-
ponding week last year. Cold storage
holdings at these points are about the
same as a year ago.

Chicago—Flats 17@18c; twins 1735
@180; single daisies 17%@181/40; dou-
ble daisies 17%@18c; young Americas
181,50; square prints 18@181/éc; long-
horns 18@19c.

New York—Flats 19%(a320176c; twins
19%@20c; single daisies 20@20%c:
double daisies 19%@20%c;
Americas 20@2lc.

 

COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.

 

Guernseys.—October 19, Michi '
State Sale, Lansing, Mich. Egg!
Fox, Waukesha, Wis, Sales Man-
ager. -

Aberdeen-Angus.—September 23, East-
ern Aberdeen-Angus Breedem’ Asso-
ciation Sale, Eastern States Exposi-
tion, Springfield, Mass. F. W. Bum-

_ ham, Greenfield, Mass, Secretary.

Aberdeen-Angus.——October 12, Indiana
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders" Associa-
tion Sale, Indianapolis, Ind. Prof. C.
F. Gobble, Lafayette, landmine, 1 -

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“he “Better Slre” Train
by the crops department, placing spe-
‘cial emphasis on sweet. clover as a
pasture and hay crap" on the dairy
farm. Building plans for dairy farm
buildings will be on display by.the
farm mechanics department. In plan-
ning‘this car leaders aim to show the
necessity of considering other phases
of farming, such as soil and crop prob-
lems, to succeed ultimately in the
dairy business. They also wish to
further the idea that permanent agri-
culture in Michigan depends upon
live stock, legumes, lime and commer-
cial plant food carefully fitted into a
short rotation scheme.

Several famous dairy animals will
be taken on the trip for demonstration
purposes. Among them will be the
cow, Johanna Mutual Girl, the grand
champion at the Michigan State Fair
in 1920. Another will be College But-
ter Boy, (No. 293508), first prize bull

CHEDFULED to pass through twen-
ty-flve counties of the lower pen-
insula of Michigim,’ the “better
sire train,” which will make its tour
in August udder the joint auspices of
-Michigan Agricultural College, the
Michigan Holstein-Friesian Associa-
tion, and the New York Central and
Pennsylvania Railroads, will repre-
sent the greatest single attempt ever
made to eliminate the scrub bull from
the dairy industry of the state.
Through the fourfold bull exchange
plan, the Holstein—Friesian Associa-
tion will dispose of two carloads of
pure—bred sires. and men in charge of
the train will carry on, in every county
visited, a campaign of education that
i'sexpected to be far-reaching in its
effect. '
The itenerary of the tour, as arrang-
‘ed by 1:11.. Waldron, extension spe~
cialist at M. A. C., in cooperation with

 

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Fair last season.

The ultimate purpose of the “better
sire train" will be to get pure-bred
dairy bulls into the hands of dairy
farmers who heretofore have been us-
ing grade and scrub sires. This will
enable the dairy farmer gradually to‘
become a breeder of better dairy cat-'
tle and thereby increase the efficiency
of his herd—not more milk but the
same amount of milk from fewer cows
is the idea.

Four proposed plans to get these
bulls to the farmer are as follows:

First. In each county, one pure-
bred animal will be exchanged for a;
scrub, animal for animal.
of such an exchange will be worked

railroad officials is as follows:

Leave Lansing, Monday morning,
August 1; Chesaning, noon to 2:30 p.
m.; Saginaw, 3130 to 6:00. Tuesday,
August 2,. Rochester, 8:00 to 10:30;
Oxford, 11:30 to 2:00; Lapeer, 3:00
to 5:30. Wednesday, August 3, Otter
Lake, 8:00 to 11:00; Millington, 11:30
to 2:00; Vassar, 2:30 to 6:00. Friday,
August 5, Midland, 8:00 to 11:00; Mt.
Forest, 2:00 to 5:00. Saturday, Aug-
ust, 6, Gladwin, 8:00 to 10:30; Stand-
ish, 1:00 to 4:00. Monday, August 8,
Alger, 8:30 to 10:30; West Branch,
11:00 to 2:30; Roscommon, 3:30 to
5:30. Tuesday, August 9, Grayling,
8:00 to 10:30; Johannesburg, 11:30 to
1:30; Gaylord, 2:30 to 6. Wednesday,
August 10, Wolverine, 11:00 to 1:30;

12. Petoskey, 9330 a. m.; Boyne City, market prices. In return the farmer

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Buildings"

"For Plastering
Fine Homes"

Agricultural Gypsum
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Broken ice
33.1. (It) per ton.
ROYAL CONE

on the market.

Best Hag Feed 0......

f. Detroit. W rite for samples
00?: 2179 l" ranLlin St 1)(-troit,l\«lich

White Clover Seed, fit” “““.‘,‘t.y.¥8€"°’

1l13live1e 1130.
Minimum order 5 lbs. BENDIIXEN BRUS.1.,NO
151 Whitehall Street, NewY York

FARMS & FARM LANDS

Comtinued from Page 82

$1.00 Per Acre Down

Se1 ure s

Gladwin County Farm Lands
Buy 111st. cl' .1ss 111t-'11\(,r (ll .'11luin ( 11 .Mi1liig'ui lands
116 11 R. It. \lruktts and Slh11ols.$100 per :1("11( se-
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Glndwin, Mich.

HIS NEW
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Albion slrel and wood mills are quiet
and powerful. Onc- third the work-
ing part: of any other mill.
Only main Pilman bearing subiecl Io
wear.1his is oillzn, and eauly 1e-
placeal1le.Covcrns by dependable
weight without springs. Fits any 4- -posl
steel lower Why no! shonen your chore
hours now with a g Wmdmull?
This 1.! your chance—an Albion
dlreel from the manulaelurer. fully guar-
anteed. \Vrile loday lor calalog

UnionN Steel Products Co. Ltd.
528 N Barrier: 51.3.1
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the hOUIS given. Levering, 9.15 a. of breedmg age brought to the train Thickened Swollen Tissues Catalogue J. w 1111ss13L1 Ulmstjer,toun Md’

m.; Alanson, 12:10 p. m.; Harbor will be taken in at a one cent premium Curbs, Filled Tendons. Sore- 1 For Sale .31? 411139 5%“...1 .{111-111lfl1i1ile from Court

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Springs, 4:40 p. 111- Frlday. August per pound over the prevaihng Detr01t neon from Bruises or Strains; .111HN°fi’X‘.?§1GA’i{i§1§11‘i“(mmfifmnoil Mich

1:40 p. m.; Alba, 5:45 p. m. Satur-
day, August 13, Mancelona, 9:30 a.
m.; Kalkaska, 1:40 p. m.; Manton,
4:50 p. m. Monday, August 15, Cad-
illac, 1:10 p. 111. Tuesday, August 16,
Merritt, 9:30 a. m.; Falmouth, 1:10

will receive a pure-bred registered
Holstein bull from six to twelve
months old, the selling price of the
scrub or grade to apply on the pure-
bred and the farmer to pay the differ-
ence in cash. The pure-bred bulls will

gists or postpaid. Will tell you more if you

lay up the horse. $2. 50 a bottle
at dru'ggim or delivered. Book 1 R free.
ABSORBINE, JR., for mankind— —an
antiseptic linirnent for bruises, cuts, wounds,
strains, painful, swollen veins or glands.
heals and soothes. $1. 25 a bottle at .drug- I

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Good Clubbing Offers

OFFER No. 316.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

 

 

 

p. m.; Lake City, 5:20 p. In. WedneS- range in price from $75 to $150, a spe- wn 'et Madein the U S A by Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
day, August 17, Tustin, 9:00 a. m.; cial sacrifice price offered by the Mich- WJJOUNO.’ mu. .258IomnleStfiDrlhjfielggflasu TOdRY’S Housewife ---------- 1-00
Reed City, 12:20 p. m.; Big Rapids, igan Holstein-Friesian Association in McCall’s Magazine, one year. 1.50
4:50 p. 111. Thursday, August, 18, Mor— order to further the interest of better F— “—
ley, 1:10 p. m.; Howard City, 4:30 p. live stock in Michigan. _ THE EgflRDEEfiE HAR'ESTERl Total value ............ ......$3.50.
m. Friday, August 19, Pierson, 9:00 Third_ Local chamber of cemmerce ‘ lMAN- l'GUNN" lDAY can readily harveslz‘,’ $0 A” for $2'25'
- 1 acres 11; e wea ne no so e an ‘H
a. m.;. Cedar 89111138. 11320 a. 111-3 bodies or other local groups or indiw mmoirmnai:2~cun13ii3 11930155.”;be
ROCkaI‘d, 4330 D- m.; Grand Rapids, viduals may desire to assist in stimu- l “mm “’“d’ym‘was‘” ‘“'°‘W“C'°a“°' ”05‘5” OFFER No. 318'
. CH w o . .

9-50 P- m. Saturday, A11811515 20» C031“ lating interest for live stock improve- I of? m Mrshfséht‘ibxsnesrgm '3 Michigan Farmer, one year """" $100
lin, 9.20 a, m.; Ravenna, 11:45 a, m.; ment in their counties. To help bring .$ l7l6PalmerAvenua KALAMAZOO Mrcnimn ‘/ Power Farming, one year ....... 1.00
Muskegon. 4:50 p. m.; Grand Rapids, out many farmers on the day that the‘1 '_5 ”“me WE 35:51- ,Frult Belt, one year”: """"" ' '50
11310 I’- m. train arrives in their town, a plan has 9

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

been proposed whereby such interest-
ed party buys one of the pure—bred
Holstein sires carried by the train.
The local merchants then can give
away tickets numbered in duplicate
for every dollar purchase made in
their store, they retaining the dupli-

Seven cars will be included in the
train—two containing bulls to be ex-
changed, two containing exhibits, one
for lecture purposes with a seating
capacity ofrone hundred and twenty-
five, one containing cattle from M. A.
C. for demonstration purposes, and

 

McCaffrey’ s Hay Manager All for $1.75-

Now \Vith

Ben. E. Rogers 81 Co.

We solicit your consignments. Liberal 1
advances on all shipments.

Ben. E. llogerslcos 601 Wabashplldg.,,Pmsburgl1 Pa

 

OFFER No. 319.
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
Market Growers’ Journal, one year 1.50
Poultry Keeper, one year. . . . . . . 1.00

 

 

 

one in :which the demonstrations will
be carried . on.

Exhibits in the first car will be of
interest particularly to women, show-
ing the care of milk in the home, and
stressing its use in children’s diet.

cate ticket. On the day of the train’s
arrival, the merchants will pool all
the duplicate tickets given away and
have someone draw, the lucky number
drawn getting the pure-bred bull.

Fourth. The most valuable plan sug;
gested is the formation of bull clubs

, Eggs

We solicit. your shipments
2034 Howard St. .

Total value $350
All for $2.50.

Our trade on fancy poultry
farm eggs is increasing
daily. Therefore we are in
a position to pay liberal
premiums above the hi-
cago market for line new
laid stock.

 

OFFER No. 320.
Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.00
Potato Magazine, one year. . . . . . 1.00

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AMERICAN BUTTER
Detroit, Mich

 

The second car will combine exhib-
its by the dairy, soils, crops and farm
mechanics departments at M. A. C.
Samples of more or less common dairy
feeds of various balanced rations dem-
onstrating feeding economies will be
shown. Methods and apparatus for

and bull associations. These organi-
zations will assure the most perma-
nent results and leave the greatest
benefits in the3 county for live stock
improvement. Through the county
agent it may be possible to locate a

Agricultural Limestone
LEATHEM D. SMITH STONE C0.,

Tractor & Gas Engine Review
one year 100
Total value $300
All for $2.00.

nou-

BOAT AND RAIL DELIVERY

Home office and Quarries. Stur eon Bay W' is.
Docks—Muskegon and South aven, Mich.
Michigan Representative

John Walsma. Grand Haven, Mich.

 

OFFER No. 321.

 

number of farmers desiring jointly to
use the best bulls obtainable with no
great outlay in money for any of them

It is the aim or the dairy depart-
ment of M. A. C. to foster bull clubs

cooling and handling milk on the farm
Will be on display by the dairy mam»,
facturing department, and the soils
department will stress the results of
using lime, green manures and com-

   
 

Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .5100
Modern Priscilla, one year...... 2.60

.1 Newton’s for Reeves. Cou ha.
‘ dltloner, Worm Expeller.

¢9/"‘ Three cans gut-antes Toledo Weekly Blade, one year. . .15

. for Heaven. 651: and 8! so pe ‘ .
an, at dealers or by mail.

mnmfl"7°°3’°‘°‘°3° Total value ...................$3.15

 

and bull associations. Wherever pas:

Inertial plant foods in obtaining suc-
’ ' sible assistance will be rendered, not

111 stands of alfalfa and sweet

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alone inwthe preliminary work but also 231% 211 tonl or more. Delivered. price promptly

All for $2.85.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER, "
Detroit, Michigan.

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for each ton of fertilizer ' BRAND
It takes a certain number of bushels of wheat per acre to pay the ' “3:73“: ' ..
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If you don’t raise this amount, you lose money. If you just reach it, , ' FERT' LIZERS. " i
you break even. If you raise more, you make money. 1.
Your problem, then, is to grow more wheat per acre. It’s the extra ‘ ITPAYS To ”SE 7"”.5” "‘ .
bushels that put dollars into your pocket— —that turn a “just broke .
even’ crop into a profitable one. M t f -
Experiments conducted by the Agricultural Colleges of the leading OS 01‘ your money
winter wheat states have conclusively shown an average increase in Our imense for 131”“ bags" freighi’
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3” as e S 0 6 er qua “Y W eat f 01' each ton 0f lizer shipped regardless‘of the number k
fertilizer used. of pounds of plant food in that ton. ‘
Figure it any way you like—and you will find that fertilizer pays. The more pounds of plant’food we
Not only does the extra yield add to your profit, but the extra put in a Eon of fertilizer. the .less this
quality of grain and the better catch of clover or grass following the expense 13 Per Pound 0f Plant fOOd-
wheat crop pay you additional profits. This saving is yours when you buy
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more plant food for your money. . . - .
While we sell many brands, we partic- ,
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food. Place your order now with the local Swift dealer or write our Wheat and .Com GI'OWCFI analYZing
nearest Sales Division. 2% Im‘mf’ma’ 12% ava‘lable phos‘
v phonc ac1d and 2% potash, because
W1 om an ' this brand contains, in right propor- '
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