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'Preflzcg :0 Articles 072 Farming Aéroaa'r—By M’cflo/s Rah/d





N the beginning ~» of April I traveled

through Germany and Switzerland to

f Italy and thence through France, Belgi-

‘ um and Germany back to Denmark again.

It is this two months' voyage prefaced by a

trip through England following my sojourn

‘ to the United States, that I propose to tell

you something about, mainly with a view

. to the agricultural side of things, although

I have not madea special

study of agricultural con-





that in Europe the country looks as if every

tree had been valeted, but that applies not

only to thetrees but to every straw. So

green, so luscious were the meadows, so

clean the fields, so combed the stubble, so

even the roads and so glorious the autumn

colors of the foliage.



In due time I arrived at London and after

a little trouble in finding lodging on account





but measured with the American dollar ev-

erything was cheap, compared to the Unit-

ed States.



I shall spare you figures and confine my-

self to an example. The first day I did not

give myself time to eat lunch, and since I

had had breakfast on board at seven thirty

in the morning I had a fairly good appetite

at six p. m. I went in at a high-class rest

taurant at Hblborn and

seeing “Porterhouse” on





 





 





side of Denmark, but that-

country ought to be ex--

ti‘émely * interesting to

American farmers, since

the former American min-

ister, to Denmark, Mr.

Egan, has described it'as,





Mr. Rah/d, we. Man W50 Knows





Dam'ré Farming





KNOWING that farmers want reliable information, and feeling that





the menu I order a porter-

house steak. The waiter

looked at me and asked if

’I were aldne. I said yes.

Well, then, permit me to

say, sir, that a porter-

house is enough for three;

I should advise you to take





- the “tugboat- civilized coun-.





'try in the world, and since

normally ninety per cent





of Denmark’s exports con- ‘





sist of agricultural prod-

. ucts. Furthermore,'l am in

a positiOn to present some

’ official figures before, they

- are being printed in Den-

mark itself, so, leaving

aside my ability as a writ-

er, I ought to furnish up-

to-date news. -



I shall commenCe at

England. Arriving at

Southampton on a fine 0c-

tober morning and suc-

cessfully passing the len-

ient customs and passport

officers, I boarded a train

for London. The engines

as well as the wagons look

,small compared to Ameri-

can trains, but they ride

very easy and smoothly,

make riding a pleasure,

and get you there on time.

That is, on the whole, a

characteristic of European

railway travel. Even now,

while everything is in a

state (of acnvalescence, the

trains are always on time.





 





 





the more extensive experience of European~ farmers with coop-

eratives may furnish valuable lessons for organized American agri-

culture, we asked a bona fide European farmer of wide reading, ex-

perience and travel to give to the rural readers of Michigan a glimpse

of farming in war-stricken Europe and a special study of coopera-

tives in Denmark.





This man is Nicholas Rabild of Denmark, a brother of Helmar Ra-

bild, who is'widely known throughout this state by our dairymen, and

is now in charge of the Michigan Dairy Company, which is erecting

a model factory for the manufacture of fancy dairy products at Ad-

rian. Nicholas Rabild has owned ‘and operated a. large farm in Den-





mark, and being a leader in rural development is thoroughly informed





on the various phases of agriculture in that country. He 'has also

traveled widely, so can speak with wisdom, experience and authority.



In submitting his first copy Mr. Rabild writes: “I am here in~

closing the first installment of a few articles for the Michigan Farm-

er. , Your request was couched in such general terms that I do not

know how much to write nor how deep to go into the matter. I

thought that starting with a tourist letter would not be out of place

even in a farm paper, and if I should really write about the lines that

suggest themselves by studying the material at my command I should

not get through in a long time. I have connected up with the Agri-‘

cultural Union, comprising the Royal Agricultural Society, the Asso-

ciated Danish Agricultural Soc eties, and the Central Cooperative





_ Committee of Denmark, so I can furnish all kinds of information and





figures. I am ‘planning, then, in my next letter to give a hasty survey

of agriculture in other countries and to reserve for special and more

thorough mention rural conditions in Denmark.”





The first number of Mr. Rabild’s articles starts on this page.





 





 





 





 





an entrecote. I took his

advice and in spite of my

appetite I had a hard time

eating it all, although it

was excellent. The price

of this steak .was $1.80.

Mind, that this was one of

the finest restaurants in

London. And right here,

let me remark as a gener-

al rule, that not in Eng-

land alone, but all over

the part of Europe I visit-

ed, and especially in Den-

mark, the portions are

much more ample than in

the United States, seme-

times three or four times

as big, but often twice.



I had been in London a

couple of times before and

revisited with great pleas-

rure some of the sights, but

I had very particularly

the pleasure of a visit to

the Shakespearean coun-

try around Stratford-on-

Avon. I do not know

whether I should tell you

about it since not much of

it is of agricultural inter-

est. Suflice'it, therefore,

to say, that an average





 





And what do you think was the first thin

I saw at a crossing? Why, 9. Henry, of

course. ‘ , , . . '



The ride up to. London took me through





.a fine English landscape, although I have





" seen them still finer, but, coming directly

from the United States, the ‘most impres-





' sive‘ thing was “the ,neatn‘ess and: order ‘of-





of the crowd of visitors, and because some

of the largest hotels still were occupied by

government officers, established there dur-

ing the war, I got a nice room in a family

boarding-house, where I paid twelve shil-

lings a day for mom and breakfast, or about

$2.15 at the then rate of exchange. Every-

body was, of course, complaining of the high





everything. I have seen' the expression used: . 'cost' of living, just as in the United States,





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farm with buildings could be had at ninety

pounds an acre, or about $325 an acre, which

of course, was at least twice as high as it

was before the war.



Romantically interested people might note

that I visited'the old historic Warwick Cas-

tle, some of it as old as the Roman occupa-

tion of Britain, Guy’s Cliff, the ruins of

Kenilworth Cas— (Continued on page 147).
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VOLUME CLVII. NUMBER SEVEN





DETROIT, AUGUST 13, 1921‘





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





HE new census

returns show that





P’amng the number of foreign

New born white farmers

Immigrants in the United States





decreased 88,000, or

about thirteen per cent in the last

decade. Attention is being called to

this fact by the city press as an added

reason for the consideration of the

plea of Secretary of Labor Davis for

legislation broadening the activities

of the bureau of naturalization so that

it will be in a position to supervise





the distribution of newcomers to these





» shores.



“Back to the land,” is a faV’orite

slogan among city people. It is per-

haps natural that the city editor

should see in these figures an opportu-

nity for the placing of new immigrants

“where they Would do the most good

for themselves and the country.” But



’ the very fact that the cityward drift

of this foreign born population was so

large during the laét decade is in it-

self a refutation of their argument.



Their mistake is a natural one, due

to the fact that a substantial section

of our prosperous and successful rural

population is composed of foreign born

citizens and their descendants. But



..these, for the most part, came to us

“ jfrom the agricultural sections of north—

. ern Europe with the definite idea of

making a home for themselves on the

land in their adopted country. The

distribution of immigrants now com-

ing to our shores by “supervision”

could not by the very nature of the

case produce the same desirable re-

sults. Aid may very properly be ex-

tended to the desirable prospective cit-

izens who of their own volition seek

a. home on the land. They should be

given information and direction which

will aid them in seeking a congenial

location. But to attempt to settle in—

digent immigrants who have no

knowledge of American agriculture on

the land, either by colonization or oth-

erwise would be a futile experiment,

doomed to failure from the outset.





HERE has been



natural discour-



The agement among farm-

S’h’er ers over present crop



, Lining and market condi-





tions. This is partic-





" Quint-1y true in the potato producing





eiieciions of the state, owing to the gen-

orally poor stand of this important

”It. crop as a, result of the severe

”t .at "planting time. But like most

eh- Newest. our. bum

m at my: my tor;





 





. C ' 1,}? 3%.,





and stands! this cash crop. _ . _



In most seasons there are enough

potatoes planted to make a surplus

.over needs for domestic, consumption

if all sections ' produced a normal





yield throughout the potato-producing





sections of the country, which fact

makes for a better market price for

juSt a fair crop. This year there is a

poor stand over an extended territory,

including other large producing states

as well as Michigan. While a thin

stand will produce a larger proportion-

ate yield per plant than a thick stand,

it will cut the total production to a

considerable extent, probably enough

to offset the lessened consumption





which is the natural result of unem-,





ployment.



Quite probably the potato growers

of the state have a better prospect of

getting cost of production and a small

profit from their potato crop than

would be the case it a. heavy crop





were grown under present conditiOns,





Under these conditions even the poor

stand should be well cared for.





GREAT deal of

'interest is being





Better taken in the question

Rural of better rural schools

Schools in m a n y Michigan





communities at pres:

ent. The last legislature so amended

the law providing" for submission of

the question of adopting the township

‘unit system as to permit the majority

of the electors of any township to

decide the question. Previous to the

adoption of this amendment a major-

ity of the voters of any school district

in a township could prevent the adop-

tion of the plan in the township, even

though a large majority of the voters

in the township «were in favor of the

change. With this change in the law

progressive leaders in many townships

have circulated, the necessary peti-

tions for the holding of special elec-

tions to vote ~on this question. Some

of these elections will be held during

the present month and the result will

be watched with interest by interested

people in other communities who

would like to see a change for the bet-

ter in the character of rural schools.

While it is probable that consoli-

dated rural schools will not be adopted

in every case where the question is be-

ing submitted to a vote, yet it seems

certain that this step Will be taken

in many cases and these cases will af-

ford valuable object lessons for the

rest of the state on the efficiency and

advantages 'of consolidated rural

schools under the varying conditions

of school population which prevail in

different sections. There is no ques-

tion about the need of better rural

schools. This fact is generally appre-

ciated by the people of most country

communities.‘A large number of these

people will welcome the opportunity

to study the efficiency and compare

the. cost of the consolidated rural

school plan under the conditions which'

prevail in their respective communi-

ties and there is every prospect that

they will have that opportunity in the

not distant future.





' . T has been Well

. - said that the only

Shiftmg just tax is one which

vaf the other fellow has

Pohcres to pay. This being





- true from the aver-

age human point of view, there 'is a

general tendency on the part of every

person and every corporation in a. po-

sition to do so, to pass along any tax





assessed against him to his customers .





or other dependents. And under the

conditions which have prevailed in re-

cent years this has been possible to an

increasing degree for an increasing

number of persons and corporations.





But the farmer has not foundit pos- ‘





sible at any timeto WWW in"





the farmer who has even half a nor-I T





person: v~~~and, corporation'chavo

found this. anincreasinghdificult

proposition: Hence the ‘1 demand ~ from

all quarters for the finding} of new

sources of. tax laconic to” provide the

billions needed by the federal govern-





 





 

 

 

 





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ing made.e—7_SId'.Hatfield, noted West

Virginia feudist, is killed by detective

in duel.+President , Harding rededi—

cates Plymouth Rock at third centen-

nial anniversarye‘eAL. new 7 Yer]: ice





 





ment; and the millions required; byf (13319? W Wt. bitten after Spending





each of the states and by very-many

of the municipalities, and the shifting

of tax policies to, unset the - present

emergency in state and nation.



In a general way the burdens of tax:

ation will ultimately become fairly

well equalized among all classes of

people under almost any, continuing

policy of taxation. But to. date. no?





the; night in ‘a ’ huge ice: box. ,He ,was

locked in~~__by thieves.—~Trotzky,' the

bolshcvic __war minister,

the md‘armygis being demobilized.

' Thursday, August 4. ‘

ENRICO CARUSO, the fMous ten-





or, died in'»Naples, Italy, August,





2.——~'l-‘he German . submarine which

sank the Lusitania will be. converted

into a seaside restaurant by German

people—The- Detroit' City Council or-





body has succeeded in proposing, not. ders the D. U. R. off Fort street and





to say establishing,'a satisfactory tax

policy. Consequently tax policies are

ever being shifted and experimented

with. And as a means of postponing

the day of their vexed solution tax-free

bonds are being substituted for in-

creased tax revenue _wherever possi-





Woodward'avenué, to be effectiVe in

December.—'Upon release' of American

prisoners in Russia, the United States

will furnish "aid to starving hordes.—'

The reorganized: Michigan National

Guard is in camp at Grayling.+—France

and England disagree on Silesia divi-

sion. France Would-give all to Poland,

to which England objects—Post office





‘ble. thus increasing therdifiiculty for, at Bari, Italy, collapses as result '01?





future generation's as wiell asthe W

cut generation. -

Our, state has recently beenengag-

ed in shifting its tax policies to meet

the. present emergency.~ Congress is

now engaged in the same task,.‘more

difficult because it deals with large}

needs, and is consequently less likely

to be wisely solved. The one saving

factor in the situation is that it seems

to. be arousing an increased apprecia-

tion of the need for economy and effi-

ciency in governmental affairs. If this

appreciation could but become gener-

al, future generations would be bene-

fited by this aftermath of war condi-'

tions, and a general shifting about of

tax policies may help to that end. ‘





ARM fire losses





Farm'Fire f r o m lightning

' have been unusually



Losses and heavy recently. The



Insurance t h u n d e r





which have given the

needed moisture over a large section

of the state have added greatly to the

prospective crop yield, and have thus

been of great value to the farmers as

a whole. 'But the electrical bolts

which accompanied them have inflict-

ed heavy losses on many individual

farmers in the same area.



In the majority of such cases there

is an insufficient coverage of insur-

ance, and in a few cases none at all.

Thunder storms are certain to occur.

They are a fixed element of fire risk

to every farmer. They are most prev-

alent at the season of the year when

the barns are filled with the season's

harvest. Yet they are but one factor

of every farmer’s fire risk, which is

constant, rather than seasonal.



Farm fire losses are generally total

losses, due to the inflammable nature

of the risks and the general lack of

fire protection. At the same time farm

fire insurance premiums are reason-

able because of the isolation of the

risks. Consequently it is the part of

wisdom fer every farmer to carry

enough insurance to cover his peak

risk. The additional premium is not

large. It is a small item compared

with the possible loss in case of fire.



When these losses occur in one’s.

neigthrhood, it should prompt us to

figure up the'replacement cost of the

buildings, contents and equipment and

compare the sum of those items with

our insurance coverage. In most cas-

es the result will be a. surprise. And

it is far- better to make this compari-

son before thafi after a fire loss. from

which none are immune. , r



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earthquake. Several were killed;—

August 15 will be the seventh anniver-

sary of the opening of ' the ‘Panama

Canal. ' '



Friday, August 5.





A MODERN caravan, which is head-

, , ,ing for Idaho to settle 5,000 acres

of. irrigated farm lands, left Brooklyn

last week—It is reported that Mor-

mons will build a great temple, second

only to their tabernacle ‘at Salt Lake

City, at Mezza, Arizona, the center of

the great American desert—High wa-

ter in the Arkansas river has caused

thousands of dollars damage to truck

gardens near Canyon City, Colorado.

—The D., T. & 1., Henry Ford’s rail-

rad, asks the Interstate Commerce

Commission for permission to make a

twenty per cent cut on coal, lumber

and general commodity freight rates.

—Street car service in Des Moines,

Iowa, stops because the company is in

bankruptcy—A thirty-three and one-

third cut in candy prices is made by

large New Yory candy manufacturers.

—-Fifty million pounds of binder twine

will be needed to tie crops in the





showers “Canadian prairie provinces—Waiters





in Berlin ask return of tipping priv-

ileges after two tipelss years.





Saturday, August 6.





" ARCONI, inventor of wireless,



says messages will soon flash

across the Atlantic at the rate of from

two to three hundred words a minute.

-—Detroit shows gain in employment

according to the industrial survey of

the department of 1abor..—Secretary of

Treasury Mellon says $250,000,000 will

have to be cut from the ordinary ex-

penses of the government if additional

taxes are to be avoided.———Investiga-

tion by a director of the war—risk b'u-

reau shows that soldiers’ hospitals are

regular “hell-holes.”——Lord Byng, of

Vimy, is en route to Canada to assume

governor-generalship.——J. W. White of

Poplar Bluff, Mo., dies at eighty-tWo

years of age. He was the father of

twenty-three children and grandfather

of one hundred—Freight rates on

grain from Chicago to eastern ports

have been ordered cut.- ,



Sunday, August 7.

LIGHTNING bolt out of a clear

sky killed a white boy, a negro



and four mules at Tallahassee, Ala-

bama—Forty thousand box cars will

be made available by the Canadian

Pacific Railroad to move 1921 Canadi-

an cropé—Bound Brooks (New Jersey)

week-old prowling lion mystery was

dispelled when mad mastiff was shot.

——England and Japan consent to peace

parley on November ”IL—Governor

Small of Illinois, who is charged with

embezzlement, still resists arrest.—

Attorney-general H. ,M. Daugherty,

former Vice-President Marshall, and

Judge Anderson, of Indianapolis, are

spending their vacation near Petoskey.

—The mayor of Battle Creek has ask-

edd all local manufacturers and busi-

ness men to ,give local citizens work

in preference to outsiders—An Okla-

homa couple wanted to keep cool dur-

were married in a swimming pool in

ing suits.





Monday, August 8.





aLABDEN HUBBARD, of Jackson

State Prison, says the three





NCWS 0f thC wmate prisons are now full—Emma





Wednesday, Audust 3.

HOLERA spreads in Russia as

_ starving multitudes rush f‘mmdhe -

"famine area.———Sewer explosions in ,_





 





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Minneapolis injure twenty-eight per- Dyer ten. thousand ex—Yan





oldman, the American anarchist» who

was deported ,to Russia, is near men-

tal collapse as she longs for return to

Americas—The -Methodists appoint >81





 

 





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7 .R. RYE-GROWER is your crop



I a successful one? Do you har-



vest a good yield of high quality

grain, or are you ‘one of 'the fifteen-

b‘ushel-per—acre light grain growers?

{If the latter, then we ”are in doubt con-

cerning youn-managementof the rye

crop. There are thousands of Michi-

gan farmers who may be termed “good

ryemen." A study of their practices

brings to our attention the necessity

of strictly adhering to a, few funda-

,mental rules is one is to win in the

“rye-growing game.”



The Soil.



Is rye a poor-land crop? We all

know that rye may be grown on rath-

er light and thin land, but this does

.not mean that it is neces-

sarily a poor-land crop. In

fact, the best .and most

"profitable crops are not

‘raised on poor land. The

best rye growers endeavor «

to build up their light land

by’ the judicial use of ma-

nure, clover and, very of-

ten, commercial fertilizer.

They have discovered that

rye returns excellent prof-

its from such treatment

for although it grows on

poor land it will do far

better if the fertility of

the soil be brought up.



Dr. M. M. M0000] and

his associates at'M. A. C.

have proved the value of

a commercial fertilizer

carrying nitrogen and

phosphorus for such lands.

Wheat growers fertilize

the wheat crop, but few

rye growers fertilize their

crop. It is time to feed

the rye crop and give it

the food with which to

produce not only high yields, but also

high-test grain. The best seed can not

be expected to do this unless it has

the plant food to draw on.



Time of Planting.



During the past three years the farm

crops department at M. A. C. have

conducted experiments which show

that very often the yield is directly’

proportional to the time of planting.

Of course, this varies with seasons——

for example, if the fall be late, early

planting is not so essential; however,

if we experience an early winter then

the early planted rye usually may be

expected to greatly outyield the latter

planted crop. During an average year

the experiment station showed that

there was a difference of seven bush-

els per acre between two plantings

made seven days apart in September,



.andpfifteen bushels per acre between

plantings made in the third week of

September and the first week of Oci

tober, w‘hile late October and Novem-

ber plantings were twenty to thirty

bushels below those made in the mid-

dle of September. ,



Too many rye growers delay their

planting, believing that rye may “go

in_ most any time that it is convenient

to get around to it.” This is a fallacy

in judgment as proved by the experi-

ment station and many times demon-

strated by farmers. If central Michi-

gan farmers would put their rye in

somewhere about the twentieth to the

twenty—fifth of September, and those

in southern Michigan a week later,

while those in the north moved their '

date ahead from a week to fifteen days

earlier than the Lansing date, a mark-

ed influence would be exercised, not

only on the yield but also on quality





 





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, tion inch ‘ is, picked.

at ,miesaiill





for both the yield and quality of the

grain are decreased. ’

‘_ The Seed.



Occasionally we hear a farmer, a

miller or an elevator manager say,

“Registered Rosen is no good after

two years.” Recently a few elevator

managers have advised their farmers

against the use of Rosen in that the

quality of the grain is inferior. We

question this judgment and feel that

such advice is not for the best inter-

ests of the farmers.



To be sure, Registered Rosen dete-

riorates if allowed» to mix with infe-

rior- varieties, but even then it usually

produces better yields than the old

common rye. This has many times





been proved by farmers from lower

Michigan to the upper peninsula. The

writer has statements of farmers of

Jackson, Hillsdale, Cass, Barry, Oge-

maw, Benzie, Luce and many other

counties to the effect that Registered-

Rosen during its first two years yields

much better than the other rye, but

after two years the yields decrease,

due to mixing with the common. how-





 





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ever, it then yielded better than com-

mon. From these farmers’ experi-

ences it is concluded that Registered

Rosen is the best, common Rosen tak-

ing second place while the old com-

mon rye is just a mere “also-ran” and

should not be recommended. Millers,

and elevator operators are harming

their farmers by preaching against

Rosen. Experience of ten years has

shown that Rosen is far superior and

that late planting and poor soil is

more often the fault than the seed.

Will Registered Rosen Stand Up.

Emphatically yes! Such farmers as

Gifford Patch, Clarklake; L. A. Sedg-

wick, Parma; Walter Ray, Albion; C.





J. Fenn, Parma; Marley Brothers and





fl

inn Pr by {a rx‘s 2,2!





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Houseman Brothers, Albion; Ralph

Arbogast, Union City, and scores of

others have been growing Registered

Rosen for years and are able to pro—

duce very satisfactory yields of high

quality seed and grain. This should

be proof that Registered Rosen has

stood the acid '

What has been done by these farmers

can be accomplished by every farmer





 





 





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’ By .lmowing the method of auto thieves we can guard against automo-

bile thefts mOre effectively. The pictures above show common practices





among auto thieves.

A hole is cut in_the





Number one shows how they get. into locked sedans.

glass of the-door and then the rest is easy. Number

,twoshows a common practice of both city police and thieves.





Cars with





locked ignition are handled in this .way. Numberqthree shows how the ‘igni-





   

 

 





 





 





And number





four illustrates that the simple changing

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in Michigan, but the game must be

squarely played.



Do not expect any seed to play up

to form if you believe in planting at

any old time and on any soil that is

available. Registered Rosen has the

ability to produce, but a fair chance

should be given it. if you believe in

manuring, turning under clover, and

other facts concerning soil fertility,

you will be successful with Registered

Rosen, but if you are a non-believer

then you can not expect to measure

up! This is no argument for common

rye, for the Registered Rosen mis-

handled is a better producer than the

common, in fact, there is no argument





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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test of experie-nce.‘





. top of the list.





for the common. Farmers so located

that a high purity stand-





with Registered Rosen

should obtain new seed

stock about every two on

three years instead of us—

ing the impure and deted

riorated seed. An increase

in yield of a bushel and a

half to the acre will pay,

the extra cost of seed and

the higher quality of grain

brings two to four cents

more on the market. Reg-

istered Rosen, on an aver-

age, yields five and six

bushels per acre higher

than the mixed Rosen or

common, and at. that rate

is a very profitable invest»-

ment.



If Rosen H4 falling dowh

in your community don’t

blame the variety, but

meet the facts squarely,

and correct errors. Bring

up the fertility of the soil,

prepare a suitable seeds

bed, plant at the right

time and use the best seed that is

available. That is the program of

America’s most successful rye grOWa

ers and the constructive one that

faimers, elevator managers, millers

and county agents should preach inn

stead of the destructive plan of advis«

ing against Rosen which, if followed

throughout the state would mean a.

loss of millions of dollars to the farm-

ers of Michigan.



SWEET CLOVER

DEMAND.





IN GOOD





 





D EMAND for sweet-clover from the

northern portion of the lower pe~

ninsula has been an outstanding fea-

ture of the early fall seed business,

says the State Farm Bureau Seed De-

partment. Sweet clover apparently

was the crop that best withstood the

prolonged drought which visited that

section of the country and also the

plague of grasshoppers. Fall trade in

seed is declared to be somewhat ear-

lier than in most years, probably be«

cause of the earliness of the season.





 





 





HAY AND FORAGE CROPS" FOR

MICJ-HGAN.



G OOD old Michigan steps up nearer



the head of the class in the pro!

duction of forage crops according to

the census figures just published, not-

withstanding that her farmers grow a.

greater variety of crops than do the‘

farmers of any other state. In 1909

she ranked eleventh among the states

of the Union in the production of for-

age crops; now she isin ninth place

and if we know the fiber of her farm-

ers as we believe We do, and the trend





of farming in the state she will grad-

ually continue to advance toward th





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ard can not be maintained-
INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE





 





 





 





( up) right 1921





Established lsH





Published Weekly





The Lawrence PilitilsillllgL/O.

Editors and Proprietors



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Lining arid in :i I' i\ o t, ('tilltil

ii’til 'i'iti» is. ptii'tic

ularlv llili' iii the potato producing

section,» oi the state, owing to the gen

crali\ poor stand oi this iiiipoi'tant

("ash ciott a2: a result ot’ the severe

heat at planting time llut like most

clouds which overcast our business





sky, this one has its silver lining for





 





the farmer who has even half 3 nor-

mal stand of this cash crop.



In most seasons there are enough

potatoes planted to make a. surplus

over needs for domestic consumption

it' all sections produced a normal

yield throughout the potatosproducing

sections ot‘ the COuntry, which tact

makes tor a better market, price loi‘

just a t‘air crop. This year there is a

poor stand over an extended territory,

including other large producing states

We“ as Michigan. \V'liile a thin

:sittllti will produce a larger proportion-

ate yield per plant titan a thick stand,

tiie total production to a

considerable extent, probably enough

the consttiiiption

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Quite probably the potato growers

ot' the state have a better prospect of

getting cost or production and a small

protit t'i'iiiii tiicii potato crop titait

would be the case it' a iicaty crop

were grown under present conditions.

I ndot those conditions even the poor

stand should be well cared tor.



iiiiil\i titlli til



136th?!“ iittei‘tst is kiwi”;

taken lll tho (llit‘:-ilttll



[aura] (Ii iietlt-t‘ tttitii school»



Schools iii ma it y Nilt‘illL‘Hil





ooiiiiiiuiiitios at pro»





'lli 'l‘lp i;l»i lt-gi laturo so .tiiiciided

‘ilt law t-i'ttvitiiiit' toi ,-;liitllllm~ltill ol'

the titt iiilil oi adopting the township

unit “snitlll :t. to lttl'lllll the iitzitoiitv

tit titt- oecttltw ot :tii_\ township to

iitl'i« illv titlt‘ 1tott l'i'o-tioti,t to the

gilttpttttn til it Jiillt‘lililllil‘l a iiiziior

\ ti; tit. v-' *‘ til 'ilt_\' ‘t'itttiti titAil’lt‘i

'2) a, town twp ctttiitl ptott iii the aiiitp

littll iii ' » p'tmtt il' ‘la- fttwiiritip, even

tittitiL‘it .t ‘.ti‘1'» lt‘:“litt'\ tit liév \otet.

ll! litt‘ 'it‘»\t‘ ’itlt \\t t ill litttt‘ tit 'lii

t'tattet- \‘iith tiii» tiitllla iii the law

tut loader. :tt truttiy township:

ti’iti‘itiil‘ii litt' l.itt‘:~~:.il‘» ltwtl

tt- tits tito iiititiiiitf tit fitt't‘iili (‘it‘t‘

“up, t. it .. it ‘t littii S‘oiiii'

it t t i ilt it.» iit‘lt’i ti‘llllil'

iil‘ lttt rt:‘ iii-tittit ,iliti iilt‘ t‘itttiit \\iii

in watt fit-ti with interest it) llliwlt'siiti

poopto iii (liiit‘l cottitittiiiitio. who

\Clt'llti like to .~t't a l‘iiflii‘W Zitl‘ iiw in7

ii? 'ltv tiiiiti-it't tt' ‘ttit'! Iiiet‘t‘

» , lllltlt’ ’ t I‘tlli;l)ii

it wt l lltti in Iltil'itit‘li

. i . ti ”,ttli it he

.t‘ if « tttl~, yet it recurs

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i it ill» t tilti tilt :«t' i'iini‘i» \\|ii at

i \ iitt til ,t‘t' ‘t «:tl'lri ittl‘ iilt'

t l w» ill it Hit ii iii .lllti

,tt . iii l iti.ti t 'tt!‘.ii

t, ltiiit ' _ttt twittlittttti:

it till titlt it which pt . til tl‘

ii': . t Milt Ti‘iit‘l't' i- in: our-

th. nwttl (ti hotter rural

:t‘ittt. t‘t ta't t z'ettci'aiit :ippie

t t I it Iiit‘ itttiitit‘ til tlittwl t’t‘lillll')‘

will 't. ".‘t large lliiiliill‘l (ll those

it t \z.“ \‘tt‘it‘tillit‘ the opportunity

t‘ ‘ttit ‘o ill on in \ and compare

l’t t» ' tit tht coti-‘oiidated rural

or t t under the conditions which

i:§ t=t lilt’ll to pociito coiiitttuiit

til fiivir' t‘ t-tt'i'y prospect that

\t 'l new that opportunity in the



oi «it titt' t’iittire.





'i‘ has boon well

t -' . said that the only



bin/tint; _ _

‘ tust t:i\ is one \\lllt‘il



71V . .



a" the other tollow has

Polrcu’s to pay This being

ll‘ti‘c truth the aver—

age litiiiiaii point of How, there. is a

t‘t‘llt‘l’di lt‘lliiclit’) on tho part ol' e\ery





poison and corporation in a po»

sition to do so, to pass along any tax

assessed against to his custotiiers

or oilier dependents. And under the

conditions which have prevailed in re

cent years this has been possible to an

l'or an increasing

number ol’ and corporations.



[hit the farmer has not found it pos-

sible at any time to thus shitt. his in-

creasing burden of taxation. And oth-





t'\t‘l'_\





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increasing degree





[it‘l‘SttllS





THE MICHIGAN FARM—11:5





 





er persons and corporations have

found this an increasingly diilicult

proposition. Hence the demand t’rom

all quarters for the finding 01‘ new





sources of tax income to provide the

billions needed by the l'ederal govern-

ment and the millions required by

each of the, states and by very many

oi“ the itiunicipalities, and the shitting

tax policies to meet the present

eitiergcncy in state amt nation.



in a general way the burdens of tax-

ation will ultimately become fairly

well equalized among all classes of

people under almost any continuing

policy taxation. But to date no.

body succeeded in proposing, not

to say establishing, a szitisl‘zictory tax

consequently tax policies are.

tvor being shit'ted and experimented

with. And means postponing

the day or their vexed solution taxsl‘ree

bonds being substituted for in-

creased revenue wherever possi—

ble, the ditl‘tculty t'or

t‘utiire generations as Well as the pres-

ent, generation.





oi~





\ii'

has





tittiit')‘.





as a of

a re

t a x





thus increasing





()ur state has rectently been engag-

ed in shitting its tax policies to meet.

the present emergency. t‘oiigress is

now engaged in the same task, more

diilieuit, because it deals with larger

needs. and is consequently less likely

to be wisely solved. The one saving

tactor in the situation is that. it scents





to be arousing an increased appi'ecitc

the tor clii«

in goy'oritniontal :il‘t‘aiis, this





and

it





llttli til iit‘t‘ti ct'ttlltilliy





t'li'llt‘_\





appreciation could btit bocoiiic getter

iii. lllilll't‘ t',"llt*l:illt)llr: would be beiie~

titod by this :titoriiititli (it war condi-

tions, and :i i'oitoral shitting about of





Mn policies may help to that end.





‘ \i{_\l iiro losses

[garanJ-n, l r ii iii lightning

ittltt’ booii unusually

LOSSKS (111d iioaty i'et'eiitiy, 'i‘iie

Insurance I it ll ii d o r showers

which hate :ritoii the

needed iiioistttrc (Hei- :i laritc section

ttl lib-,t.ileii:i\o iltititti1'lt'llii_\'it)iilt‘

lil'ttnltt‘t'liwt ti'tip tit-iti, :iliti ii;i\t' liltlS

in on oi lfi't‘ili tztltic to iilt‘ t'iriiiers as

it \\litti" ii it the t‘it'i'liii‘ttl itttlls‘

\tltii‘ii :it't‘titiiivattit‘ti lilt'i'l iiii\e :Iiliit'l

til lit-.iigt tits-es on many individual

tailin-i :ii the .wiiiiii‘ area.

in tho iiltl‘lt‘iti\ Iii ~iitii ethos tiicrt‘

is an ili:»1liitt‘t'lll wot, 'l'ill,’t xii' insur-

i‘lt't‘, and iii a tow cases none at all.

'i‘trtindt r «toriits are certain to octui'.





'l‘licy 'tlt' a lixcd t‘it'lllt‘lli oi" iii't' risk





to t tciy illl'Illi‘l', They are most prev-

alent at the mason oi the jIJll' when

tho barn. irt liiiwd \\llil tl.o '»t*:t:-ittli'S

trxt t \,i liiv\ :iio bu: oito tactor

rt‘ t 'l\ t‘ttittot' litt- i'i.-i,, ‘.\iiil'il is

n tilt. t. 'ltoi than ~t'.l oii.t‘



t';tttit ll» 'tt i llt‘ ..’t‘llt‘.tlli} itiliti

in ms tint -o tli iiitlainiiiable nature

oi the risks and the general lack of

iiio ttrttti't‘llttlt. .\t the :aamo time t'arm

lire insurance pt‘otititiiii; are i'easoir

:iitle iteciiti c (it the isolation oi the

iisks, (‘oiisetiueiitly it is the part ol

\\i>-titllil tor e\ei'_\ lai‘iiicr to carry

enough ill:<|ll'ttllt’t' to tovei‘ hr. peak

itsit. The additional pi'eiiiiiitii is not,

itll‘l’i‘ it i;- a small itoiii coiiipai'ed

with the possible loss iii case ot' tire.



\\'lion these losses occur in oiie’s

llt‘il‘ilittll'iiltttti, it should prompt us to

ltiritre tip the replacement cost of the

buildings, contents and equipment, and

roiiiparc the siiiii ot' those items with

our insurance coverage. ill most cas»

es the result will he a surprise. And

it is tat“ better to make this compari

son bciore than after a tire loss, l'roiii

which none, are immune.





News of the Week





Wednesday, August 3.





ll()ld<]lti\ spreads in Russia as



Starving multitudes rush from the

famine area.-— Sewer explosions in

Minneapolis injure twenty-eight per-

SOUS." St. Louis is the sai'est, city in

the United States as far as auto acci‘

dents are. concerned, while, Detroit. is

third highest in the list.——It is report;-





 

   

 

 





AUGUST 13, 192_





ed that; Henry Ford will make alumi»

num at onotliird the cost it is now be

ing made. Sid llattield, noted West

Virginia l‘eudist', is killed by detective





in (iiii‘i."' l’resitlent llarding rededi

cates Plymouth ltock at third centen—

nial anniversary. A New York ice





dealer was i'rost, bitten al‘ter spending





the nir'ltt in a huge ice box. lie 'as

locust it} it .3, t- vt-s.~~-’l‘rotzl\'y, the

i)t)i;~il(y war minister, states that





the. red army is being demobilized.





Thursday, August 4.

“Nltlt‘tl (XAllllSt), the t'antous ten-





or, died ill Naples, itltiy, August

2 The (it‘l'lllélll submarine which

sank the Lusitania will be converted

into a seaside restaurant by (‘terinan

people. The Detroit t‘ity (Touncil or—

(lots the i). ii. it. till lt‘ort street. and

\Voodward avenue. to be et't'ective in

December. ii]t()ll release‘ ol‘ American





prisoners in Russia. the United States





will t'urnish aid to starving hordes.-

The reorganized Michigan National





(luard is in camp at (lrayling.» France,

and l-Ingland disagree on Silesia, divi‘

sion. it‘l'ttllt'té would give all to Poland,

to which England objects: ~.l’ost otlice

at, llari, ltaly, collapses as result of

earthquake. Several were killed.»«

August 15 will be the seventh anniver-

sary of the opening of the Panama.

Canal.



Friday, August 5.

MODERN caravan, which is head

ing tor idaho to settle 5,000 acres



of irrigated tai'iii lands, lel‘t. Brooklyn

last week. it is reported that Mor—

mons will btiild a great temple, second

only to their tabernacle at Salt Lake

t’ity, at Mezza, Arizona, the center of

the great American tiesci‘t. lligli wa—

ter in the Arkansas river has caused

thousands of dollars damage to truck

gardens near t‘anyon (‘ity. (‘olorado

w'i‘he it, ’1‘. Kr l., lleiii'y lt‘ord's rail—

rad, asks the interstate (‘oiiiinerce

(‘oiitiiiission t‘or peritiission to make a





twenty per cent cut on coal, lumber

and general commodity t'reighl rates,

Street car service in lies Moines,





iowa, stops because the company is in

bankruptcy: A thirtythree and one.

third cut in candy prices made by

large New Yoi'y t':ill<i\' maittit'acturers.



it‘il'ty million pounds ot‘ binder twine





is





will be needed to tie crops in the

(‘anadian prairie provinces. \Vaitcrs

in ilcrlin ask return ol' tipping priv-





ileges :il'ter two tipelss years.





Saturday, August 6.





MARVUNI. inventor ot‘ wireless,

says messages will soon tiasii

across the Atlantic at the rate oil'rom





hundred words a minute.



iit‘ll'nli shows gain in employment

according to the industrial surtey ot‘

the (leparttiient ol' labor. Secretary oi'

'i‘i'oasui'y Nit-lion s:i),s SL’Tttlhoohtit) will

have to he cut item the ordinary ex

pensos ot' the government it' additional

taxes are to be avoided, itivostiga

tion by a director ot' the war risk bit

reau shows that soldiers' hospitals are

regular “hell holes." Lord llyitg. oi‘

\'iiii_v, is on route to (‘anzrla to :issuiiie





two to three





governor geiieraisliip. .l. ‘.\'. \\'iiite ot‘

l'oplai' lllut‘t', .\lo.. dies at oightytwo

years ol' age. He was the lather ol'

twenty three t’itlitilt'll and graiidt'ather

ol' one hundred lt‘roiglit rates on

grain troiii t‘iiicago to eastern ports

have been ordered cut.





Sunday, August 7.





liltlll’l‘Nth} bolt out of a clear



sky killed a white boy, a negro

and tour mules at 'l‘allaliassec, Ala

baiiia,. i“tlt'l_\ thousand box cars will

be made available by the t'anadian

l’acilic ltailroad to move ttlfll (‘anadi—

:in crop i‘tound lli'ooks (New Jersey)

wet-koid prowling lioii iiiystoi‘y was

dispelled wlioii mad iiiastit't' was shot.





itillgittliti and Japan (’(lil:lt'lli to peace

pariey on November ll. tlovernoi'

Small ot' llliiiois, who is charged With





ciiibezzleiiiont. still resists arrest.





Attorney general ii. M, llaugherty,

t'ormer Vice l’residoiit Marshall, and

Judge Anderson. ol Indianapolis, are





spending their \acatioii near l’otoskey.

The mayor ol' llattle (‘roek has ask-

edd all local iiiaiiiit‘actiii'oi's and busi-

ness men to give local citizens work

in prot'eronce to outsiders An ()kla—

homa. couple wanted to keep cool dur-

Were married in a swimming pool in

ing suits.

Monday, August 8.

ARDEN illillllARl), of Jackson

State l’risoit, says the three

state prisons are now lttll.~~Ciniiia

Goldman, the American anarchist, who

was deported to Russia, is near men‘

tal collapse as she longs for return to

America. , 'l‘he Methodists appoint. 81





as missionaries l‘or l'oroign servicers

(tver ten thousand ex~Yank soldiers

have tuberculosis, according to war

list insurance report.srslndustrial con-





ditions in Germany are improving and

unemployment is getting less.
AUGUST 13, 1921.





~THE MICHIGAN FARMER





 





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High Yields of Good Quality Rye





’How You Cam Get 7716’771.—Ij)/ fl. L. Iii/M21125





R. RYE—GROVVER is your crop

M a. successful one? Do you har-





vest a good yield of high quality

grain, or are you one of the fifteen»

b‘ushel-per—acre light. grain growers?

If the latter, then we are in doubt con—

cerning your management of the rye

crop. There are thousands of Miehi~

gan farmers who may be termed “good

A study of their praetiees

our attention the necessity

adhering to a few funda-

is one is to win in the





‘7





ryomen.”



brings to



of strictly



mental rules



"ryegrowing game.

The Soil.



Is rye a poor~land erop? \Ve all

know that. rye may be grown on rath—

er light. and thin land, but this does

not mean that it is neces—

sarily a poor—land crop. In

fact, the best and most

profitable crops are not

raised 011 poor land. The

best rye growers endeavor

to build up their light. land

by the judicial use of ma—

nure, clover and, very of-

ten, commercial fertilizer.

They have discovered that

rye returns excellent prof-





its from such treatment:

for although it, grows on

poor land it. Will (it) far

better if the fertility of

the soil be brought up.

Dr. M. M. Met‘ool and

his associates at M A. C.

have proved the value of





a eoniniert‘ial fertilizer

carrying nitrogen and

phosphorus for such lands.





\Vheat growers fertilize

the wheat Crop, but few

rye groWers fertilize their

('rop. It is time to feed

the rye crop and give it

the. food with whieh to

prodnee not only hie h yields, but also

higlrtest grain. The best. seed ean not

be expeeted to do this unless it. has

the plant food to draw on.

Time of Planting.

lluring the past three years the farm

crops department at M. A. t‘, have

eondueted experiments whieh show

that very often the yield is direetly

proportional to the time of planting.

Of course, this varies with seasons—«s

for example, if the ill be late, party

plantini: is not. so esrential‘, however,

if we experience an early winter then

the early planted rye usually may be





the lattti

[luring an axeraye year



station show'ed that.

differente of seven bush-

between two plantings

made seven days apart in September,

and fifteen bushels per between

plantings made in the third week 01‘

September and the first, week of 0C

tobei'. while late October and Novem-

ber plantings were, twenty to thirty

bushels those made in the mid

(lle September



Too many rye growers delay their

planting, believing that rye may “go

in most. any time that it is convenient

to get around to it." This is a fallacy

in judgment as proved by the experi-

ment station and many times demon-

strated by farmers lt' central Michi-

gan farmers would put their rye in

somewhere about, the twentieth to the

twentyfifth of September, and those

in southern Michigan 21 week later,

While those in the north moved their

date ahead from a. week to fifteen days

earlier than the Lansing date, a mark—

ed influence would be exercised, not

only on the yield but also on quality

of grain. High—test grain usually :an

not be produced by late planting. The

late planting is costly to the farmer





expeeted to great tly outyield

planted erop.



the experiment

there was a

els per acre





Itt’l't‘





below





(it





 





 





 





for both the yield and quality of the ever, it then yielded better than rent in Miehi'san, but the game must be

grain are decreased. mon. lt‘l‘Ulll these t'armers’ (:-:peri— duarely plays-d.

The Seed. enees it is eoin-ludrd that lteuixtered lto not t‘xltt‘tl any Stttl to play up

Occasionally we hear a farther, a. ltosen is the best, eonnnon ltost-n tale to torn: n it in lie-g. in plalltlzttf at

miller or an elevator manager say, ing second plaee while the old eon) any old titre ed on ..n_t' soil that is

“Registered Rosen is no good after mon rye is just a mere “also ran" and akailablt; ltt-zxt» n l‘ ll not it has~ the

two years.” Recently a few elevator should not be reeonnnended. Millet: ability to liitntl . tv. ll ehaneo

managers have advised their farmers and elevator operators are harnlini: hould he rein it 11 wt it 524 ye in.

against. the use of Rosen in that. the their farmers by preaehing against inantoinq. Tlitlill :' we» 1. and

quality of the grain is inferior. \Ve liosen. l‘ixlit‘t‘lvllt't‘ of ltll yt'ttls has otlnr tat-t.‘ mam Itifli Ni ii rtility,

question this judgment and feel that. shown that ltosen is far superior and you will be :neti "'tt tut”. yr'tt red

such advice is not for the best inter- that late planting and poor soil i:: lite-en. but it .ou Hertha-litter

ests of the farmers. more often the fault than the Feed. then you tan in»! t‘\;w ti 't- int a: am

To be sure, Registered Rosen dete— Will Registered Rosen Stand Up. up? 'l‘hi- l' no arruntt ht tit ttllllllltln,

riorates if allowed to mix with infe~ lilmphatieally yes? Snell farmers as rye, for the ther- term} ltd-en mis-

rior variet its, but even then it usually (‘lit‘l'ord l‘anh, ('llll‘lx‘ltllit‘; l.. A, Red: handhd t-1 a in ‘trr sitett'tt‘rt ttiuti tilt?

produces better yields than the old \Vl('l\‘, l’arma; '\\'alter llay. Albion; t‘ tonnnon. ill tut-t, 'thw ,. no azurrnnt.

common rye This has many times J. Fenn, l‘arma; Marley Brother»: and tor the t-oiinnon. l‘.t:".lt :x; --'> totaled,

ill a e l- (at it» ’and-

ed . in it“ It n . Entained

‘y'.’ ll '1 Fit i in .l Host-i).

iti‘tt t-iil 1 fr ‘ev-tl

ttH tit ' t y l Kit til"

it.». - .1. “all t3 n:‘-

in; llit Ant-15!? ant? (trio-n

l‘t>"'t it .i in. ie,

ill jn it t’ t t . vi no a,

hill , i. it" ”to ll~i.‘/

mt i t'I ’ t l t‘ittl

’i; it i l ‘ t t till.

i i 1" ii

i» ' i t v

. t i ‘ ‘ ; tl

t i 5

til; i t , t ‘,

t.

t‘ t .

W/7/C/7 D Ybu Crow .

i:

. 'i .5 ‘_ ‘ wit

Michigan Cro rovcmen1’".A-fss_'n . . ‘ y ., . . ~ .,'

’ . §.Lans~in9,.Mieh g w . . , _ ..,

1' lwl ’IH .41.

lid i . 2 ill,

been proved by farmers from lower llouseman l'lrothtlrs. Alllltltl‘ ttatph txie an , wt 7 '

Michigan to the upper peninsula. The Arboeast. t'nton (‘it_\, and «on» of at to 1. . . . ‘2 (ii

writei has statements of farmers of others hate been yrowtlty' tittilh't till Advance, . .i t 1-2 , . .'i’t\‘-,‘.~

Jackson, llillsdale, (.‘ass, liarry. (are llosen for years and ar» ahle to ,ro in not; I; . .. 1 . to itwt

Inaw, lienzie, lane and many other duee \ery satisfaetory yeld~ ti! hiwl. ltt‘vllt.’ .. i; ; l mtlé-v

eounties to the eft'et't that lttt'l‘tt'lt‘tl duality r-t't‘tl and irrain. 'l‘iw: hou‘d and "tun: all": it?‘ Ie‘.‘ no

itisen durin its first two _\t*;|l*i yield» be proof that lleeisterttl {to i-o 3.;,: ti .t of , . .ti t.‘ i

inueh better than the other rye, but Monti the aeid tee: of e\perl.nt~ or t to, i . t t d

atttr two years the yields tlt't‘tt';t:‘t \\'hat, llilr been done by thew lartm. in on:- t v t ‘ . i ., t 4:

due to mixing with the eonnnon. how ean be aeeoinpn lit-d to. t‘,t-t’} same it o; . i .d ”Hit

0 ‘ xv? . (Mt-TH it'\' {3' tt’iv

How Auto 1 liieves Operate

or . , ~

on, . i.

liip ll‘t , it . t

tlii ‘ t t . _,

lhlt'l’l“ ‘ “ . {'1 w< lot)-

\\:i fir nu tit: my

proud. ‘ “fer/73 ~~ ~ ' ‘tzt.

ftt‘lttill l . . mm. Milt} .Jj‘tv tint

llldi‘tlt it t i t ‘1. ll)

still i t'» i Hit t .it i..t t‘,‘t[‘

liei thin in nte ' p in it in

(air-t oi If: it n, t» ' i -.. on

HAY AND Former RCFC COR





 





 





 





By knowing the method of auto thieves we can guard against automo-

bile thefts more effectively. The pictures above show eonnnon pr attites

among auto thieves. Number one shows how they git into lotked Ht dtns

A hole is cut in the glass of the dom and then the test, is easy. Numhe 1'

two shows a common practiee of both city police, and thieves. (‘ars with

locked ignition are handled in this way. Number three shoves how the igni-

tion lock is picked. And number four illustrates that the simple changing

of bodies will prevent the identification of stolen cars.





M tCH it? 1-. N





C‘ titilt ohl .‘tlit lanai] ‘t. is up flt at'ei'

'1 the head of tilt“ tittF" ill lztt pl‘O"

tlllt'titin til ttiraui ’til Jit‘t'thltln' it)

”e M H tt‘i livttl'i in! published, not

with tanthne that lo: tarnieis‘ i’ltWV a,

greater \atiety o! t‘ttvti“ than do the

farmer,: o: my t". . "(lit ln littli)

Slit? l‘ttllhed elem-nth uniting the states“

of the t'nion in tho l‘t'trtlllt‘tltlll of for“

age ('rops‘ now sht I: in ninth plat-e

and it we know the hher of her farm-

ers as we believe We do, and the trend

of farming in the state she will grad-

ually continue to advance toward the





top of the list.
LATE AGRICULTEWS





 





 





   





 





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No EXTRA CHARGE FOR OVER- '

SIZE CAR.





 





URAL shippers who have had the

experience of ordering a forty-foot

or any other length «car and have re-

ceived from the railroad _ one a few

inches or a foot longer, will no longer

be required to pay the extra minimum

freight as heretofore in many cases,

says the farm bureau traffic depart-

ment, citing an agreement just enter

ed into by the Central Freight Asso-

ciation railroads and the National

Live Stock Shippers’ Association. The

agreement is now before the Inter-

state Commerce Commission and per-

mission is sought to publish it as a

tariff.

Shippers have been known to pay

extra minimum freight on two thou-

‘ sand pounds or more when the carrier

found it necessary to place longer car

than ordered but did not check ofl? the

extra minimum weight.’ One shipper

paid freight on two thousand pounds

for three inches of car over the forty

feet he ordered. ‘The proposed rule

provides that when an overlength car

is placed, the shipper shall cause the

agent to note on the live stock con-

tract and on the waybill the length of

car ordered and that furnished.





WAR FINANCE CORPORATION AND

THE FARMER.





 





IRECTOR MEYERS of the'War

Finance Corporation, says that



“the corporation has not sought any

~ext’ension or privilege of its powers,

but if congress desires it to broaden

its powers for agricultural financing

it will naturally respond to the change





to the best of its ability ”





It is the in the orderly and gradual marketing





belief of Mr. Meyer that the farm ex— of their products to meet the foreign





port problem is not a question of for- demand

He be aided by the federal bureau of mar-





eign but of domestic financing.





In this the corporation will





declares that the countries of Europe kets.





that have any basis fox credit at all

do not desire to purchase American

products on credit, at least on long-

time credit. The countries that me in

the market for American farm prod-

ucts wish to buy in small quantities





 





PLAN SOIL SURVEY FOR MlCHi-

GAN- ,





 





OOPERATION by, all the . state

agencies interested bids fair to





as needed for current consumption make the long~sought soil and agriculn





throughOut the year. They prefer that tural survey for Michigan a reality.

the cotton, wheat and other products At a meeting called recently by Prof.

be held in this country and shipped M. M. McCool, head of the soils de:

across in quantities to meet short-pe- partment at-M. A. 0., representatives

riod demands. This requires not so of the state department of agriculture,

much eXPOI‘t financing 38 financing the state conservation department,

which will enable the holding of our University of.Mich1gan’ development

prOductS in this country until the f0!” bufeaus' and the United States De.

eign countries are ready to buy and partment of Agriculture, a campaign

pay for them Representatives 0f the that eventually will result in mapping

United States government making in- soil areas of the state and determin-

vestigations abroad have been unable ing their agricultural value

to locate those “phantom" buyers in L. Whitney Watkins, of Manchester,

Europe who are said to be anxious to member of the state board of agricul-

purchase untold quantities Of Ameri— ture, was named permanent chairman

can farm products, providing they can and Professor McCool was'made' per-

make the deal on credit. manent‘ secretary. A committee head-

According to Mr. Meyer, the war ed by J. A. Doelle, newly elected mem-

finance corportion is already loaning ber of the board of agriculture, was

money to a farmers' cooperative grain appointed to formulate a definite pro-

marketing association in the Pacific gram and report at a later date. Oth-

Northwest to enable it to hold the or members of this committee were

products of its members, and also to Prof. A. K. Chittenden, head of the

the cotton growers of Mississippi for, forestry department at M. A. 0.; R.

the same purpose. The corporation is A. Smith, state geologist, Prof. C. 0.

also preparing to aid country banks Sauer, head of the geography depart~

with loans, and this is to be. done out ment at the University of Michigan,





of the $300,000,000 now remaining to

the credit of the corporation in the

treasury. It.~ ' , e purpose of the Cor-

poration to 1 ly extend its cooper-

ation with thé ‘farmers’ cooperatives





and Professor McCool.



For years such a survey has been

advocated by leading agriculturists of

the state. Previous to the war a sum

was set aside by "the legislature for





this purpose, but it was found needed

for war purposes and so the soil sur-

vey still was}: dream‘ of the future.

More than a year ago 4the Michigan

branch of the American Academy of

Science, meeting at Ann Arbor, took

up the .question of a soil, forest and

economic survey of the waste lands of

the state. . About the same time Pro-

fessor McCo’ol obtained the support of

the United States éDepartment of Ag-

riculture in a survey on a small scale

in southwestern Michigan. Twenty

thousand dollars per yeah now being

spent in that work.



Dr. C. F. Marbut, chief of soil sur-

vey, United States Department of Ag-

riculture, was one ofthe men attend-

ing the conference. Among others

present were W. P. Hartman, secre-

tary of the West Michigan Develop-

ment Bureau; H. H. Halladay, state

commissioner of agriculture; J. W.

Weston, assistant state county agent

leader, with headquarters in the upper

peninsula; G. W. Putnam, crop ex-t

perimenter in the upper peninsula, and

three other M. A. C. men, Prof. J. F.

Cox, farm crops; Dean R. S. Shaw,

and R. J. Baldwin, director of exten-

sion—HsnsnAw.





LIVE STOCK MARKETINP PLANS.





 





’HE Live Stock Marketing Com‘

mittee of Fifteen held another

closed session in Chicago July 13-15.

The formation of a cooperative live

stock commission company, the sta-





bilization of markets and packer leg-





lslation were the chief topics discuss

ed. As final reports were not adopted

the' details Of their plans were not

made public.





 





 





 





ACTIVITIES OF FARM BUREAUS





Latest [Vows From Local, State and National Orgom'zotz'om





 





 





 





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RESTORES LOADING RULE.





 





LL Michigan railroads have now



restored the rule permitting stop-

page of live stock cars in transit in

the lower peninsula of Michigan for

completion of loading, according to the

farm bureau.





SELLS LARGE BLOCK OF 1921

WOOL.





 





W0 hundred thousand pounds of

, -wool have been sold from the 1921

pool to date, says the State Farm Bu-

reau in announcing 'the recent sale of

150,000 pounds of short staple wool to

an-eastern clothing mill at twenty-

two cents per pound. Sold direct to

the mill and in such a large quantity

the wool sold at a premium when com-

pared to what local buyers have paid

on the same class of wool. They were

quoted as offering twelve to fifteen

cents for the sarfle wool. The first

farm bureau sale was.50,000 pounds

of short staple clothing wool at twen-

ty cents a pound.





The wool market seems to be im-

proving in the opinion of the farm bu-



'. reau wool department. More mills are

reported resuming activities and the

general outlook is more optimistic.

j Wool continues to come into the pool

’4 as- sackers make the rdunds of the

various grading warehouses to sack

'i for shipment to market. The

I department is notifying each

' center in advance that the

r‘is‘ coming, so that farmers will

a final opportunity to pool their





wool. Graders working in the upper

peninsula report grading 16,000 pounds

their first day at Iron Mountain.



A representative of the fabrics di-





vision of the wool department is now '





touring the state, making arrange—

ments for local distributing points for

farmer-grown and made virgin wool

suitings and blankets.



The farm bureau was represented at

the general wool growers’ meeting .at

Chicago August 2, where it was pro-

posed to fight the joker in the propos-

ed wool tariff. This joker states that

the import duty of twenty-five cents

per pound on a, scoured wool basis

shall not exceed thirty-five per cent

of the value of the Wool. This the

wool men declare means that under

present conditions the duty would not

amount to more than three or four

cents and .the differences in the var-

ious rates of exchange would ofiset

even that. Ruin for many sheepmen

in America is held certain if the tarifl

is passed in its present form.





PREPARING WOOL FOR MARKET.





 





HE Michigan State Farm Bureau

wool graders are now sacking and

preparing wool at one, hundred or

more local grading warehouses for the

market, and for the trip to farm bu-

reau mills to be made into suitings,

overcoatings and blankets.

Pending an announcement of a reg‘

ular schedule for. this work, the de-

partment is notifying local wool grad.-





-ing' points when the wool department





man is to arrive and also that he will





did not main; the first two grading

trips. Cash advances will be made as





usual, says the farm bureau. \~





Wool sacked and prepared for mar-

ket at this time will remain in the

best of condition and will shrink but

very little, says the department. Be-

tw'eén 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 pounds

of wool have been pooled to date, all

of which has~ been weighed, graded,

and a cash advance made. No other

state‘in the Union has pooled locally,

graded and weighed before the farmer

and has given a cash advance on ev-

ery pound, says the farm bureau. The

Michigan pool is ahead of all other

states in that its wool is all in shape

for final disposal.





Farmers in other states who are do«

ing business outside of their state

farm bureau wool pools are having

troubles of their own, according to re-

ports. In Indiana local buyers are

paying but fifteen cents for wool, it is

said. In the northwest many fly-by-

night wool buying concerns have

fleeced the farmer, once he placed his

clip in their hands.





ADMINISTER OPIATES TO‘ BUTTER

TAX.





\





 





HE proposed tax of ten cents per

pound on all butter made from





‘ neutraliZed cream has been postponed





indefinitely and the whole matter has

been . referred ' to, Attorney-General

Daugherty for a review of the case.





the Michigan Association of Qréamery,

Owners and , Managers has been ad-

grade and weigh wool for farmer ho“ med}. ' ‘





proposed tax on butter made from‘





neutralized cream and have secured a

number of postponements of the ef-

fective date for the tax.





REDUCING EGG LOSSES IN

TRANSIT.





 





W0 million dollars paid to ships



pers last year by the express

company and the railroads for damage

suffered by eggs in transit and addi-

tional losses of approximately five mil-

lions of dollars for which there was no

redress haVe caused the State Farm

Bureau Trafiic Department to join

with the National Farm Bureau organ~

ization in calling to farmers’ atten-

tion the increasing rigidity of the car-

riers’ rulings on allowing such damage

claims.



Use of second- hand or used fillers

in egg crates invites trouble and makes

it certain that no claim will be allow-

ed in case of disaster, says the farm

bureau, adding that some manufactur-

ers are marketing an inferior‘bran





_ of filler which does not meet the stand





ard demanded by the carriers. Dam«

age claims originating in their use are

refused. The American Farm Bureau

Federation seeks to protect farmers

by having honest manufacturers stamp

their product as meeting the carriers’

requirements. "





If ordinary honeycomb filler is used,

all flat dividing boat'ds and trays must





be of/ hard oalenderefl strawboard ,.





 

 





weighing not less than than

half pounds to the astound... m
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AD, in my opinion it would be

D best for the family and for the



\ community if you would go over

to Sam’s tonight and straighten out

matters with him."



This was the s‘alutation - of young

Fred Mathews as he met his father in

the living-room shortly after returning

from the corner grocery store.



The reason for the informal declar-

ation of hostilities between Sam Pic-

ady and,J3il.l Mathews probably never

would have been known but for reve:

lations verbally published at John

Sikes’ grocery store by One Mat Boy-

den. Mat claims to have been the sole

witness of the affair and this came

about, not because of any over-charge

of gumption possessed by Mat, but by

virtue of his having occupied a se~

cluded but, favorite boulder under the

lee bank of the north branch of Cass

'river right near the line fence between

the Mathews and the Picardy farms.



Mat had. been quietly fishing for a

half hour or more», so he told the



' boys at Sikes’, when he heard Bill and

Sam greet each other from their re-

spective sides of the line fence. For

several minutes the conversation drift:

ed along ‘on common-place matters,

when Sam, Sudden like, starts off on

another subject, saying:



“Bill, they was passing them State

Fair fans around at the movie last

night. I guess they were trying to

get us farmers excited over their fake

show, with a little reading of poetry

and looking at a big pumpkin. But

they might better save their money.”



“Why, what is the matter with the

fair, Sam?” ,



“Oh, the whole thing is nothing but

a. graft.” _



“And how did you get .such an

idea?”



“Oh, I have never attended the old

fair, but I have asked'the boys what

have been there, and as far as I can

see it is all one big grab for money.

They get money from the state, they

collect it at.the gates, ' and at the

grandstand and for them reserved

seats and then‘you have to pay when

you take something there to show, or

if you want to do a little business.”



“But Sam, don’t you think they give





 





 





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How Hi5 Idea of Me State Fair

- 'Hdppmm’ to. C flange.





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value received ?” continued Bill, who

usually was able to 'get an advantage

over his opponent by not committing

himself until he had gotten all the in-

formation he could by direct ques-

tioning.



,T‘Value received?” exclaimed Sam,

showing symptoms of getting a little

bit excited, “why, they don’t give any-

thing what I can see.”



“In your opinion have the farmers

and the patrons of this and other fairs





.been fooled by the directors for the





past three—quarters of a century?”

went on the questioning.



“They have, certainly, but take my

word for it, they are not going to fool

this chap.”



Mat, who by this time had lost in-

terest in fishing, dropped his pole

along the water’s edge and climbed





‘





the bank to the fence, which had be-

come an excellent screen by reason of

the thick growth of brush. Both farm-

ers had planted corn in the fields on

their respective sides of the ‘line fence

at this point. Mat gently pushed aside

some of the berry bushes and peeked

through. ‘He was on Sam’s side of the

line and the small stand of corn ena-

bled him to see the men clearly, in

fact, he said, he could see Sport, Sam’s

mongrel dog, lying at_ his master’s

feet.



Mat failed to get all the conversa-

tion while he was changing his seat of

observation but he heard Bill say, with

a fair degree of self-control, “Don’t

you think, Sam, that you really ought





The Old Flockmaster Likes It.





. ‘ f ' By Another Neighbor





to attend a. session of the fair and 'see

for yourself whether the management

is acting as you claim?”



“What, give thosesharks my hard-

earned money? Not on your life! I’m

not so easy as some of you seem to

be.”



Bill had entered some Duroc hogs

and Shropshire sheep at the 1920 fair.

Although he did not get in very heavy

on the prize money, he had some good

animals. His Durocs carried a goodly

per cent of Orion blood, and his

“Shrops” mingled the blood of import-

~ed stock from Buttar’s, Milne’s and

Cooper’s flocks. So impressed'were a

few breeders with his animals that he

negotiated sales for nearly all of his

surplus stock. Naturally‘Bill did not

look upon fairs the'same' as did his

neighbor. However, the impertinent





 





 





remark that he was “easy” raised a

little of the hot blood to his cheeks

and he replied somewhat sharply:



“I may be easy in some things-but

I know that I have not been taken in

by the fairs. You are wrong and you

have been fooling yourself into think-

ing that you are wise. Your crops and

your stock show that you have not

been working along right lines. If you

would discard some of your ancient





suspicions that everybody is dishonest





except yourself and that they are out

to get you, it might be possible for you

to see things in a different light and

likely make a little headway in your

farming business. As it is now, you

are going in the wrong direction.”





   





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Mathews had helped Picardy out of





a difficult financial situation about six,





months before by loaning enough to

pay off a fairly heavy obligation held

against the farm by a local bank. As

security Mathews had taken a mort-

gage running for five years. This ob-

ligationapparently flashed into Sam’s

mind, for in his reply he said, “I would

have you know, Bill Mathews, that this

old farm is still worth the few paltry

dollars you loaned me.” Wherewith

he gave the old fence a sudden pull.

Bill was standing with his hand upon

the top wire.

suddenly against the fence and his

weight, with the strain of the pull, sep-

arated a post which had already out-

lived its usefulness. The fence sag-

ged nearly to the ground. Sport had

sense enough to realize that the men

were out of humor and perhaps think-

ing that the neighbor was coming over

after his master, made a lunge for

Mathews. The dog missed but rolled

over the fence, where he essayed‘to

make another effort to help his owner.

By this time Bill had gotten himself

on his feet and as the animal made

for him he landed a powerful kick just

back of the dog’s front ribs. The beast

curled up and laid quiet.



“There, you’ve killed my dog,” yella

ed Sam, “and you will pay dearly for

it.” Saying which he quickly turned

and hurried home across the corn

field.



Bill stood bewildered. He looked

first at the motionless cur at his feet

and then at the retreating figure.

What was he to do? For a moment

he thought, and then slowly started

through a heavy growth of corn in the

opposite direction from that taken by,

his irate neighbor. -



At the two homes everyone knew,

that something had happened but the

two men kept their ovwn counsel so

well that the matter did not get out

till the boys heard Mat’s story at the

corner grocery. Sons of both men were

there, in fact, they had ridden to the

store together in Mathew’s car. On

the Wiay home the boys talked the

matter over and planned to restore

peace if possible. Each was to appeal





 





 





 





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The, yank threw him ,
“ to be head of his respective home,

asking that his father ‘go to the Other

mm and apologize for the part played

in the‘little affair.



' Fred Mathews was now acting his

part in the little drama and hardly

l' before he' could get‘ an impression of

his father’s attitude on the matter,-a

knock was heard at the door. Open-

ing it, who should Bill see but Sam

«facing him. Without preface or pre-

amble Sam expressed his regrets for

losing his temper and acting as he did

before a neighbor, for whom he had

always had the highest regards.



:“‘I’m thinking, Sam,” replied Bill,

“that I am a little more to blame for

the situation coming out as it did,

than; you are, and I ought to be the

one to beg your pardon.”



“Well,” says Sam, “I shouldn’t be

so‘hot—headed and I must break myself

of it. Anyway, I am mighty glad that

we can fix this matter up.” After

5 shaking hands Sam continued, “Say.

Bill, while meditating and worrying

over this affair I have been thinking

more and more about that fair matter.

My son has gotten interest-ed in the

‘ pig business, he tells me, and he wants

that I should go to the State Fair and

take him along.”



“I am certainly glad to hear this for

'I‘ feel well satisfied that once you be-

come interested you will find many

good things that a fellow can learn at





 





a fair, providing he goes in the right

frame of mind.” .



Sam sat down at the table while

Bill brought out the 1921 premium list

and these two old' chaps then sat

down beside each other at the table

for fully two hours and went over the

various items in the premium lists,

all the time commenting on the things

in which they were interested.



According to their own story when

they parted they had found aplenty.

The cattle, sheep, swine and horse de-

partments furnished items of sufficient

interest to Sam to cause him to study

carefully the classifications and the

premiums. And as he proceeded with

the examination of .the poultry and pet

stock shows, the fruit department, the

dairy and 'apiary exhibits, the educa-

tional work, and finally the better

babies’ contest, and the bOys’ and girls"

department, he really got enthusiastic.



“Got a different idea about this

thing already.”



“I felt that you would, Sam, when

you took time to examine the affair,”

replied Bill.



“So far as I can see from this book

there isn’t a thing on our farms but

that these fair directors have offered

prizes for, even the babies.”



“How much do you think it will

cost to pay all this prize money?" Sam

remarked thoughtfully.



“We can figure it up in a few min-

utes,” was the answer of a man who





' er things.





 





was forever getting down to the. exact.“

may ‘

were not rapid» in their ' figuring, but'





dollar where that‘was :‘possible.





after some time they had added asum

of $90. 557. 30 Which did not include all

the items.



“This beats me,” reflected Sam. "I

can see why the management has to

get a little meney in the tills.”



"To my knowledge, Sam,

about $25, 000 more than was offered

by the fair management last year. This

extra prize money will bring out the

best show‘ that has even been put on

in the state, according to my way of

thinking.



“And now, Sam, you think you have

a pretty good idea of the things of in-

terest at this big fair, but I know you

will be delightfully surprised if you

see it. There will be hundreds of ex-

hibits about which you never dreamed

but in which you will become absorbed

and want to spend too much time with

them and miss things of more import-

ance. Then, too, there is all the en-

tertainment—music, tumbling, har-

ness races, athletic events, balloon as-

censions, fireworks and scores of oth-

And above all, Sam, you

will see in the machinery department

pretty nearly every make of farm ‘ma-

chine that you have ever heard of and

a good many more. I already have a

fairly good idea of how you would talk

about the Detroit State Fair should

you attend, and the boy, Sam, you ab-





this is-





 





soiutely cannot shard-m keep «himat

home if he desires to go. ” .



The teiephOne fang. It was a‘ call

for Sam.



‘ “Hello!"



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“What?"



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,"Oh» yes, Charles—how are you all?” ‘





mattres-





f‘Just a moment," and he tack his

mouth frbm the telephone and ' a’d-‘

dressed Bill. "fit’s Brother“, Charles

from Bay county, and he isxplanning

on attending the fair. He wants ‘to

know if I will go with him, should he

drive his car down. What days are

you going, Bill?”



“Tuesday till Thursday,” said Bill.



After a few minutes’ conversation

in which Sam gave the days that Bill

and his family Were planning on go-

ing, he hung up the receiver. /



“Things do happen sometimes, don‘t

they? Now, I got to go home and tell

the Missus and the boy to get ready

to take in this fair. We’ll be going

the same days you are. Bill, and I feel

right certain that we shall have an in-

teresting and profitable time.”



“I am mighty glad you came, Sam,

and I know that this means more to

both of us than we may calculate just

now. Bring over the folks some night

next week and we will plan the details

of this trip.”





“We’ll do that, Bill. Good-night'b





Michigan Fruit Growers’ Auto Tour

[baring Orcfiam'z‘sts Get {Good Pointer: fiam Fellow Mréerr ‘

By One of the Travelers





HE horticultural tourists won’t



soon forget the lessons in im-



proved cultural methods they

learned by inspecting the orchards of

some of the most successful growers

of the fruit belt. It seems certain

they will remember the hospitality of

the peeple in the section they visited

far longer than they will retain the

specific ideas about pruning, fertiliz-

ing and spraying.



We’re going to start at the begin-

ning and tell about it all—that is, all

we can remember. Tuesday noon,

August 2, at the Graham experimental

farm on the Bridge street road just

outside Grand Rapids found more than

a score of touring cars and a hundred

or more people. In spite of_a bleak,

rainy day and a forbidding aspect, they

entertained no thought of staying be—

bind and consumed the lunch of sand-

wiches, coffee and ice cream with

gusto. .



Led by Prof. C. P. Halligan, Prof.

R. E. Marshall and other members of

the horticultural department at M. A.

C., the tourists inspected the experi-

mental orchard plots. Their attention

was called to such tests as the use of

alfalfa in connection with apple or-

chards, and the effect of a straw

mulch placed about individual trees

and of nitrogen fertilizer added to the

alfalfa. Where the fertilizer was used

the benefit was marked. Another ex-

periment is expected to show what de-

gree of pruning yields best results in

the long run. In still another experi-

ment cover crops such as rye, oats,

clover and millet are being grown

with Northern Spy apples so as to test

,. for the amount of organic matter ad—

ded to the soil in each case. Various

cover'crops are also being tried out

in connection with a plot of cherry

trees, .while nitrogen fertilizer tests

are at the same time being carried on

in a crosswise direction.



. Small fruits and vegetables came in



_. for their Share of attention. The vis-

item were particularly interested in

3:.le of Martha Washington aspara-

/‘ ‘ an especially hardy variety for

seed is to be distributed by the





 





331,. Man





' so treated





as Vinecroft, situated northeast of

Grand Rapids, was next visited. A

limited amount of time forced tourists

to content themselves with driving

through for a cursory inspection, but

admiration of the well-kept orchard

Was universal.



When the company at last hit the

trail for Shelby more than thirty ma-

chines were in line. Each car carried

American flags as a distinguishing sign

of the tour. Beyond a little tire trou-

ble suffered by President James Nicol

ofthe S ate Farm Bureau, and a. few

other minor difficulties, the eightymile

drive was accomplished Without other

mishap.



Due to congested hotel conditions in

Shelby, part of the tourists remained

at Fremont over night, while the re-

mainder either were entertained at

private houses in Shelby or continued

on to Hart and Pentwater. I. T. Pick-

ford, county agricultural agent for

Oceana, led the visitors across the line

from Newaygo county.





Wednesday morning found the pro-

cession of cars augmented by a large

number of Oceana residents. The Shel-

by Canning Company’s plant was first

inspected and each visitor was pre-

sented with a complimentary gift con-

sisting of a can of pork and beans and

a can of peaches. More than sixty

machines then set out on the day’s

travels and filed over hill and dale in

the lovely rolling country that adjoins

Lake Michigan. Visiting tourists were

enchanted with occasional glimpses of

the golden lake stretching far to the





west beyond the jagged silhouette of-





golden sand dunes.



It was found impossible to adhere

to the original schedule for the day

and therefore several orchards were

passed without stop. The farm of

Thomas Smith, west of Shelby, at-

tracted much interest, not only for the

splendid condition of the trees, but

also for the extensive use of Bordeaux

mixture. Sheep manure as a. fertil-

izer for apple trees apparently is high-

ly beneficial, for those growing in soil





 





those in unfertilized soil. At the Ses-M





sions’ orchard‘ the method of pruning

was noted. There peach trees are rad-

ically cut back every three years, with

the result that their vigor for bearing

is retained and all picking may be

done from a four-foot ladder.



Juniper Beach, on Lake Michigan,

was the scene of the picnic dinner at

noon. A number took advantage of

the opportunity for an invigorating

swim and needless to say their appe-

tites were not diminished thereby.



After driving through several

more orchards listed on the itinerary,

the tourists gathered at the home of

George Hawley, president of the Mich~

igan Horticultural Society, where

they were treated to delicious peaches

and ice cream, the treat of Mr. Haw-

ley and his neighbor, Benton Gebhart.

The Smith and Demmon orchards

near Walkerville were the last ones

visited during the afternoon.





By _a peculiar coincidence the sec-

tion of Oceana penetrated by the tour-

ists has the best apple crop of any

portion of the state this season. Of

course, all fruits were'hit by frosts of

last spring, but the Oceana apples

weathered the unfavorable conditions

unusually wiell. Some of the trees, in

fact, were bending under loads not

exceeded in the best years.



A banquet was ten‘dered by the

Greater Hart Association on Wednes-

day evening, the address of welcome

being given by Prosecuting Attorney

Earl C. Pugsiey, son of a prominent

Paw Paw' fruit grower, and the re-

sponse by Prof. T. A. 'Farrand, of M.

A. C., secretary of the society, upon

whom fell most of the burden for ar-

ranging the tour President Nicol, of

the Michigan State Farm Bureau, was

a third speaker.



Mason county was the scene of the

third and final day’s travel on Thurs-

day. ‘ Such orchards as those of Fred

Peterson, Michael Fitch, Smith'I‘Iaw-

ley, C. D. Kistler and Jerome Harmon





vwiere inspected. Dinner was sery d at





 





tourists parted company, with regret-

ful fareWells and promises to renew

acquaintances next summer.





ON GROWING NUT TREES.





 





WAS much interested in reading



Mr. J. H. Mills’ article on “Beauti-

fying Michigan trunk lines with nut-

bearing trees,”, in your paper of July

9. He would like to specialize on

black walnut trees.



Of course, if planting nut-bearing

trees, we would plant the trees that

would mature nuts. I think that north

of the Muskegon river the black wal‘

nut does not-fill. I have several trees

on my lots at Manistee, Mich. They

nearly always have nuts, but they do

not fill as they should, and generally

not at all. Judge Ramsdell, of Trav«

erse City, had the same experience at

Traverse. On the other hand, the but-

ternut is a good bearer and always

fills.



The shell bark hickory is not nae





.tive north of the Muskegon river, and

they are very ‘hard to make grow, or'





at least to start, having only a tap

roOt. With me they grow very slowly,

also. The butternut and black walnut

are vigorous growers and are easily;

raised, but I have always planted nur-

sery stock. I think it might pay to ion

vestigate, so as not to get the wrong

trees in any locality. The butternut

is a handsome tree When used as a

shade tree—H. W. MARSH.





——————__.'___





A GOOD PICKING RECEPTACLE.





 





_ A half-bushel basket is a very good ‘





receptacle for picking the fruit in to





Avoid badly bruising the fruit. Such,





a basket: should have a hook attached

to the handle for hanging on the lad-

der or tree limb. Great care should‘be

taken in emptying the fruit into the

barrel as bruised fruit will not :bring

the top market price.

ed and handled fruit will bring the top

market price provided jail otherg‘trou-

bles are kept under control during the





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growing season. Often a fruit grower, _
7 OME all you doubters and see

C for yourseuz, Dennis Miller 39“,

Sons, renowned. alfalfa growers,

have sufficient evidence\ to convince

the ~most obstinate of non-believers of

the value of real Grimm alfalfa seed.



,Mr. Miller, who graduategf at M. A.

C. back 'in’ 1893, “ was one o the first

Michigan farmers "to succeed with al-



, felts. ‘Inth’e early. days there (was lit-

tle knoWn conCerning the adaptation

and yielding ability of the various va-

rieties. Mr.» Miller’s oldest son, George,

graduated at M. A. C.- in 1917 and re-



turned to the’home farm afirm be-

liever in the useof the Grimm variety



. with the result that the farm now has

several acres of this hardy~ variety.

During the-war when George was pil-

oting aeroplanes for 'Uncle Sam, his

younger brother, Charles, was finish-

ing high school at Eaton Rapids, and

at the close of the war when George

returned to the more! peaceful pursuits

of farming Chérles was ready to take

his turn at M. A. C. .



In his first year Charles learned,

among other things, that there was at

difference’in the Grimm alfalfa seed

that was offered for sale on the mar

ket. In talking this over with his fath—

er and brother they decided to coop-

erate with the farm crops department

of the college and put out a test in

order to get at the truth of the alfalfa

seed problem. a



Seed of the common variety, Com-

‘ mercial Grimm, North Dakota Grimm,

brought into Michigan by the Michi-

gan Crop Improvement Association,

‘ and Liscomb were planted in dupli-

cate drill width strips across the

field. Today the Miller farm provides

a most valuable lesson to Michigan

fariners—the importance of which is-

such as to make it worth while for

any farmer of lower Michigan to visit

the test. .

The Test.



The writer has Mr. Dennis Miller’s

story concerning the seedings and the

results. '



“On June 1, 1920, the varieties were

put in with an alfalfa drill. The land

was limed and seed inoculated and

planted at the same rate. The first

step is common; second, Commercial

Grimm; third, Common; fourth, North

Dakota Grimm; fifth, Liscomb, and

then the'series is repeated.



“During the summer of 1920 we no-

ticed that a good catch had been ob-

tained and that there was a good

stand in each strip. During the fall

the common strips looked to be by far

the best, being taller and greener. I

thought then that there was nothing

to this talk about pure Grimm seed.

All through the fall I could pick out

the common strip from the house, (a.

good forty rods away). ,



“This spring, 1921, I was very much

surprised to find that there was al-

most a complete reversal of condi-





 





 





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p . “Tlmt Grimm i: Superior to Common Alfalfa





tions. The common was thin and back—

ward, the Liscomb better, while the

Grimm was making an early' and

thrifty growth. We came down to the

field and in studying the stand found

that a large per cent of the common

plants had winter-killed and a small

per cent of the Liscomb had done like-

wise, but the Grimm looked better

than ever. On taking hold of the

plants of the common variety we found

that these readily gave away as their

roots did not have a firm hold on the

soil. We tugged, pretty hard on the

Grimm plants and found them to be

firmly seated in the soil.”



The writer recently visited the test

and found the stand of Liscomb to be

about fifty per cent better than the

common and the Commercial Grimm

to be aboutfive hundred per cent bet-





ter, while the seed produced by the'





North Dakota Grimm Alfalfa Seed

Growers’ Association Seed was a good

one thousand per cent better than the

common. These figures may sound

exaggerated but there are easily one

thousand plants‘on the North Dakota

Grimm strips where there is one on

the strips sown with common seed.

Explanation of the Test.



It‘ is the nature of common alfalfa

to grow late in the fall, while Grimm

makes but a comparatively short fall

growth. This accounts for the fine

appearance of the common last fall,

and why Mr. Miller’s faith in Grimm

was somewhat shaken.



The late-growing characteristic of

the common alfalfa is not a valuable

one, for often apparently successful

stands become failures, due to the fact

that the plants grew until stopped by

the fall freezes. The Grimm plants es-

tablish themselves during the first

year and before the usual time for

frosts have reached their winter rest-

ing stage and turned brown. This is

just what happened on the Miller

farm, the common grew in the fall,

While the Grimm prepared for a hard.

winter. The common plants were

making a great show of themselves

last fall while the Grimm plants were

conserving their energy for a “big

Spring drive.”



The test on the Miller farm furnish~

es so much detailed information that

it ought to be conclusive proof to any

farmer that Grimm alfalfa is far su-

perior to the common and that it pays

to have real Grimm and not “so-called

Grimm." From this test we may form

an idea of the value'of the service

performed by the Michigan State

Farm Bureau Seed Department in se-

curing for Michigan farmers nearly.

one hundred thousand pounds of certi-

fied Grimm seed from the North Da-





kota Grimm Alfalfa Seed Growers’ As- .





sociation, an organization of farmers

operating along the same lines as our

own Michigan Crop Improvement As-

sociation.——anms. '





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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I bought land in 1885, made two pay-

ments, and have been in possession

ever since and paid all the taxes.

When the time came to finish paying

for the land I could not locate the sell-

er and have never heard .from him

since. How can I get my deed B‘s—L. B.





The right of the vendor is barred by.

adverse possession long ago. . The.





title of the buyer is good except that

it does not appear on record. How to

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catch him. A bill to quiet title might.





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EXTERMINATING FLIES.





 





Please tell me What chemicals to

use to exterminate flies in an out-door

toilet, and how' to use them.———H. W.





A very good way to control the

breeding of flies in out-of-door toilets

is to treat the toilet with some chem-

ical, but first they should be screened

or otherwise protected so that the

house-fly could not gain admittance.



Chloride of lime is good to use as it

also helps get rid of the odor. Borax

in the dry liquid state is quite effi-

cient. If the, mass is very wet the

borax may be applied dry, but if the

material will absorb a liquid the borax

should be dissolved _in water at the

rate of one pound to five gallons and

sprinkled over it. Be sure that the

ground near the mass receives the

same treatment as many flies breed

there also. Dry sand often helps to

soak up the excess liquids and keeps

flies from direct access to the mate-

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APPEALS FROM ASSESSMENTS

UNDER COVERT ACT.





 





A gravel road is being constructed

along my farm under the Covert act.

Myself and two or three large land

owners have been assessed more than

our just share by the county road com-

missioners. The ten days for appeal

have passed a long time ago. I was

ignorant of such a limit to the time

for appeal. To take an extreme case,

suppose there were sixty farms in the

assessment area and suppose-fifty-five

of these farms were assessed $1.00

apiece and that the farms were bene-

fited about alike and about of the same

size, but the five remaining were as-

sessed $8,000 apiece. Suppose the ten-

days for appeal had elapsed, what

cduld the five farmers do who were

sessed $8,000 apiece. Suppose the ten

no law covering the matter to give

them a redress from the wrong done

them, could they proCeed in some legal

way to have the commissioners judg-

ed sane or incompetent and have their

decisions as to benefits set aside? It

is evident that, if my farm had been

divided into four farms, the assess-

ment om the same land would have

been greatly less—F. G. B.





We find no provision in this act for

making'. appeals in any case after the

ten-day period; and in the absence of

provision for appeal there is no such

right, nor any other way to avoid it.





ADVERSE POSSESSION—SHORE

RIGHTS. ‘





 





I have an island in the Kalamazoo

river ,of about sixteen acres that one-

half joins our farm and pasture, the

upper half joins Mr. P.’s. There has

been a fence on his side on the high

bank for about twenty-five years that

was kept up by both parties, but, was

put there by agreement and not a line

fence. Now Mr. P. says I must put

my fence on my own side. I have pas

tured my island for thirty-four years

but there is no fence on it. Now, if

I put startled wire fence sufficient to

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up and advertise, them- Please give

all details as to how I can proceed to

make him take care of his stock, ”as

he turns his cattle and horses out and

pays no more attention to them, but

lets them run where they have a mind

to, on mine or other neighbors' land.

Now I want to get things right and

then go ahead. Please give full infor-

mation—G. G. B. .



As to the title to the ”land, two quess

tions are involved: The rights of the

shore owner in' the islands, and title

by adverse possession. - ' -



As to the first, the owner of th

shore of non-navigable streams owns

the land in the bed of the stream to

the middle thread; and if there is an

iSland nearer one shore than'the oth-





' er, and the wider channel is the prin»





cipal one, the island belongs to the

owner of the nearest shore. '





As to the second question, open ad-

verse continuous exclusive possession

for fifteen years under claim of right

ripens into an absolute title by such

possession as effectual for every pur-

pose as a deed to the property.





Title,_being made out in the claim-

ant by either method, he is, of course,

under no duty to fence stock of any-

one out, but may take any stock found

on the premises and advertise as

strays under the statute, the method

of which was detailed in a recent is-

sue of the Michigan Farmer.—-—J. R. R.





RIGHTS IN GAME.





 





A, seeing a swarm of bees passing

overhead gave chase, using the same

means to settle them that he always

does, having been a bee-keeper from

1118 youth and is now sixty-six years

old. He followed the swarm onto B’s

premises and the swarm settled on

B’s hive. B had a number of,empty

hives standing in the back yard. B

refused to sell the hive and claimed

the bees. Please tell me who is en-

titled to the swarm. What right have

We when B always lets their pigs run

on our farm regardless of the damage

they do?—Mrs. H. H.



Between the owner of the land and

a mere pursuer, even by license of the

owner of the land, the pursuer has no

rights till he has actually reduced the

game to his possession. If he was a.

mere trespasser, the owner of the land

may take the game away from him

even after it is taken; for norights





can be acquired by a trespass—J. R.





STATUTE OF FRAUDS.





 





This spring I rented a farm with all

equipment. Owner was going west for

his health, to be gone two years. I

purchased interest in feed on hand

and was to have one-half interest in

cows and poultry. Owner left for

Kansas at once, his family to follow

shortly. I took possession, put out

crops according to contract. In a few

weeks owner returned and now has no

intention of leaving at all. Contract is .

verbal but can be verified. I am want-

ing his house. What are my rights?



. C.





The statutes of this state provide

that any sale of goods of the value of

$100 or over shall not be enforceable





'by action unless the buyer accepts a:





part of the goods, or something is giv-

en in part payment, or in earnest to.

bind the bargain, or some note in writ-

ing of the sale is made and signed by

the party charged, or his agent. ‘



Also no lease for longer than one

year is valid unless in writing and

signed by the lessor or his agent au-

thorized in writing. Also, a lease is

void unless its commencement and

duration are. agreed on. ‘ The lesSee'

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CLOVERLAND A BEE PARADISE.





 





R. B. F. KINDIG, state inspector



of apiaries, has given his opinion

of upper Michigan as a bee and honey

region, in a letter, a copy of which

lies before me. Mr. Kindig, soon after

taking up his official duties some five

years ago, made a survey of the upper

peninsula which led him to the opin-

ion that the region was “a veritable

bee-keepers’ paradist.” The sandy and

swampy lands are; of course, unsuited

.to the industry, but, as Mr. Kindig





states, the higher tillable lands, on ,





which the hardwoods grow, “have a

natural covering of wild flowers and

yield nectar.” Here are fOund alsike

and white clover, wild red raspberry,

blackberry, fii‘eweed, basswood, bone-

set and aster. Each upland region has

its covering of flowers suited to bee-

keeping in many parts of the district.

The honey flow 'opens in June with

the raspberries, notes the inspector,

and continues into September. In 10-

eating the honey business, a position

close to the Great Lakes is preferable,

for, as Mr. Kindig observes, the season

shortens rapidly as one gets back from

the water onto the interior highlands.

A location not over twenty miles from

the lake is advised. Last year, says the

inspector, the last case of foul brood

in the upper peninsula was destroyed.

When the inspector recently traversed

this territory this season, none of this

disease was encountered.

we do not favor shipping in of bees on

their combs, although it is not prohib-

ited,” says Mr. Kindig. “I would sug-

gest that a beginning be made by

bringing in combless packages and

placing them on foundations in May





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plus during the same season providing

three pounds of bees be ,used to each

colony.” The markets of the upper

peninsula are 'stated to be of the very

best. Probably about five times as

much honey is shipped in asUis pro-

duced, it is stated.





 





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lotment of the United States, which it

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will be some 600,000 pounds, and that

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pound delivered, says Mr. L. F. L’iv-

ingston, new director of land clearing

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auspices of the Michigan Agricultural

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, Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Asso-

ciation began at Cass City, Tus-



cola county. with inspection of the

Hereford herds of Sam Bigelow, Ped—

die Brothers, Bruce Brown and Wil-

-son Spavin, on Thursday, July 28.





J’These breeders were congratulated





upon the thrift of their Herefords and

the automobiles of Cyrus Walls, of





V Wilmot; Jack Wakefield of Kinde, and





T. F. G. Sotham, of St. Clair, left the

starting point on time with the fol—

lowing passengers: The McCartys,

W. H., Earl C., and Lee L., of Bad

:Axe, Huron county; Agent Campbell,

‘; Bad Axe; George Peddie, Cass City;

J. H. Wakefield, Kinde; Cyr‘us Wells,

Wilmot; Wm. H. Sotham and T. B. F.

Sotham, St. Clair. Journeying through

through Caro, Reese at Saginaw, the

caravan took south on East Street,

where, near Verue, they were joined,

by W. W. Crapo in his automobile ac-

companied by his herdsman, Ivan

ChOprich, they continued to the cele-

brated Prairie Farm of the Owosso

Sugar Company. Here at the farm club

house, Mr. De Geus welcomed the

hikers to a splendid lunch at which





Miss DeGeus presided as hostess.

Hereford sandwiches, buttered with

Hereford butter, was supplemented





with huckleberry pie smothered in

Hereford ice cream and washed down

with coffee made delicious with Here-

ford cream, put the recipients in fine

condition to view one of the world’s

greatest farms and its representative

Hereford herd and Belgian stud.





The Prairie Farm consists of ten

thousand acres of level black loam

and muck. Six thousand acres are un-

der cultivation, balance in pasture and

timber. Here the caravan was aug-

mented by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lah-

ring, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Lahring, Mr.

and Mrs. George Gillspie, and Mr. and

Mrs. John VVykes and James Gillispie,

all of Genese county. That a mam-

'moth farm was owned by the Owosso

Sugar Company, was generally known,

but the extent of its improvement, the

size and intelligent rotation of its

crops, and the number and careful

management of its herd, stud and flock

were surprisedly commented on by the

visitors, and by unanimous consent

the Hereford hikers commended the

Prairie Farm as an agricultural insti-

tution of which Michigan may well be

proud. The management of the farm,

and its live stock received the hearti-

est commendation. Manager De Geus,

his two sons and the superb organiza-

, tion he has so carefully built up, came

3 in for unanimous approval. The tour

was an hour late in starting for Fow-

ler, where Mr. Feldspaugh’s small but

choice Hereford herd was viewed and

grape juice served.





Supper at the home of the associa-

tion’s president, Mr. Jay Harwood, was

two hours after schedule. President

Harwood was away convalescing from

illness at Battle Creek. Mrs. Harwood,

their two daughters and son Harold,

acquitted themselves most nobly as

hostesses and host and as adherents

to the Hereford faith. Viewing the

Haerood Herefords was the‘ first

pleasure of Friday morning. There

are three of the Harwood Hereford

farms embracing about seven hundred

acres. One of these farms is practi-

cally all bluegrass pasture. One hun-

dred and sixty acres strung along a

creek in a valley of surpassing rich-

ness. The horse farm of two hundred





retires is also largely in bluegrass.





' 'Joined by the Harwoods, the cara-

van proceeded by way of Portland,

final-liken and Charlotte to Eaton Rap-

“,ids 'where the number of Hereford





:- herds and the enthusiasm of the Here-





'ltord breeders were, a comfortahle





{Hereford surprise and pleasure. Here





‘ Annual Hereford Hike





the well-kept herds of John B. David:

son & Son, Will E. Hale, Dr. C. A.

Stimson, Frank H. Sanders and H. B.

Rande, of Homer Bros., were in turn

visited. All these breeders are well

equipped with fine farms and good cat-

tle. The extra select character of the

H. B. Rand-e Polled Hereford females

came in for the highest commenda-

tion. That Mr. Sanders has the show

Hereford place and herd was the gen-

eral verdict, and the lunch served in

the Sanders’ home was one not soon

to be forgotten.

a ten-hundred-pound, twelvemonth-old

Hereford steer, especially slaughtered

for the occasion, was all that Here—

ford beef could be and that means the

best and most substantial food that

can enter the mouth of man. The

Michigan Hereford breeders feel espe-

cially obligated to Mr. Sanders for the

preparation of a show Hereford herd

whose showing will be done at Mich-

igan fairs‘this fall.



Two o’clock Friday found the Here

ford hikers mingled with the picnic-

ing farmers at the M. A. C., where

the good condition of the college

Herefords and their commanuing com-

parison with the other breeds, met

association approval. A snooze at a

picture show in which the elder Lah—

ringand Sotham enthusiastically com-

peted, featured the evening program

and here ended the second day’s hike.





Saturday morning the State Farm

Bureau offices were visited, then the

choice little herd of Frank Barrett at

Williamston. Then the herd of George

Gibson at Gaines was seen. The very

select bred Herefords of Wm. Lah-

hing & Son included young Beau Mis-

chief, one of the best bulls the hikers

had viewed. Mrs.tLahring cut a huge

but delicious watermelon and served

lemonade, after which the Polled

Herefords of George Gillespie were ex-

amined and the caravan journeyed to

the historic Hereford farm of the

Carpo’s, near Swartz Creek, Genesee

county.





Mrs. Stanford T. Crapo had caused

a splendid lunch to be spread on the

screened porch of Crapo House, after

which the Crapo Herefords foregath-

ered in haddock at the farmstead were

viewed and praised. The Crapo herd

was established in the early sixties





and is believed to be the oldest Here- .





ford herd in the United States.



To compete for the survival of the

fittest with Shorthorns, Galloways and

Divons, the late W. H. Sotham select-

ed in 1865 for the late Governor H. H.

Crapo, a Hereford bull and heifers

from the herd of Frederick Wm. Stone

of Ontario. The Herefords were grad-

ually discarded. Governor H. H.

Crapo was succeeded by his son, W.

W. Crapo, now in his ninety-second

year, in Whose name the herd is still

maintained under the supervisory

management of his son, Stanford T.

Crapo, and the active management of

the Crapo family breeding Hereford

cattle on the same farm for over half

a century, is a record that may not

even be duplicated in England.





Each of the herds visited are wor-

thy of a separate story but it is man—

ifest that the story of this hike would

be too long if more detailed mention

was undertaken. The hike was a great

success, due to the work of the Hike

Committee, consisting of W. W. Cra-

po, Earl C. McCarty and T. F. B.

Sotham, chairman, and the coopera-

tion of the hikers.





 





The voters of Portage township, of

Houghton county, have authorized the

construction of a teacherage in con-

nection with the Otter Lake Agricul-

tural School, thus taking advantage

of the new act of the legislature per-

mitting such a construction.





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Margaret Gorman, Winner of the

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Yes she’s an actress, showing her courage.

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The latest in umbrellas exhibited at an auto race in Paris. The

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This gown‘is unusual because it

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Mr. Ford entertains President Harding, Mr. Edison and Mr. Fire«

stone at camp in Blue Ridge Mountains near Hagarstown, Md.





 





 





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Hotel manager’s Wife uses Spare

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} says he, "Eb.

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difference atween temp’rary and per-





“ ‘Feller citizens,’





manent. I'll prove to you that I do

know the difference. Eb Wright says

I’m drunk. I am. That’s temp’rary.

Eb Wright is a poke-nosed idjit.

That’s permanent!”’



Heck finished with a lazy laugh:

“Haw, haw, haw- Hee—haw, bee-haw!”



“That story,” Dale said wearily.

“has been told on dozens of politi-

cians. It has become a part of the

history of this state.”



“Well, my gosh!” moaned By Heck.

He thought deeply for a moment, de-

cided that Bill Dale wouldn’t laugh at

the story of Tom Jones’ pig—which

had drank all of a gallon-pail of but-

termilk and then gone to sleep in the

self-same pail—and went on:



“Here’s one, by Jake, ’at ain’t been

told on dozens 0’ politics men. And

every word of it is the solemn, dyin’,

death—bed truth, too.





“One time I was out in the moun-

tains a-huntin’, a-goin’ along slow and

a-lookin' fo’ a squirrel, when all of a

suddent I hears a skeery noise right

ahead 0’ me in the laurels—-Z«z-z—z!

Z-z—z-z! Jest like that. I stops. I

stops de-e-ad still. I looks keen. Thar

was a den 0’ rattlers, and the very

least one was as big round as my left

hind laig! Then I hears a turrible

growl right ahind 0’ me. I looks keen.

Thar stands a big old she-bear with

her teeth a—showin’, and tWo cross-

eyed cubs! Then I hears a whine at

my left. I looks keen. Thar stands a

she-panther as big as a boss, with her

eyes jest .a-blazin’! Then I hears a

spittin’ sound out to my right. I looks

keen. Thar was seven full‘grown wild-

cats, and all of ’em had been bit by a

mad dawg! Some fix to be in? Yeuh;

some fix!



“Well, I thinks to myself. Ef I

shoots the rattlers, I thinks to myself,

the bear and the panther and the wild-

cats’ll git me. And ef I shoots the

bear, the panther and the Wildcats

and the rattler’sll git me. And ef I

shoots the panther, the Wildcats and

the ‘rattlers and the bear’ll git me.

And ef I shoots the Wildcats, the rat-

tlers and the bear and the panther’ll

git me. And ef I don’t shoot none 0’

’em, they’ll all git me! Some ongodly

fix, wasn't it, Bill? Now, ,how do ye

reckon I got out of it?”



Bill Dale only smiled.

ine, By,” he said.



"I cain’t imagine, neither.” grinned

Heck. “But anyhow I’m alive today.

Well, now that ye’re in a good humor

one time more, I’ll tell ye some news.

I hated to ruffle ye up like a yaller

goose a-flyin’ back’ards whilst ye was





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so cussed blue. Bill, old boy, it ain’t

but five days ontel Christmas."



“Do you mean that for news ?”



“Not edzactly,” said-By Heck. "But

I mean this here fo’ ”news: A lot 0’

them Nawth Ca’liner Turners from

Turner’s Laurel is a-visitin' their kin-

folks, the Balls, and they’ll every dad-

slatted one of ’em git drunk on white

lightnin’ licker "fo’ Christmas, and—

they’ll shore think 0' Black Adam. The

Morelands ain’t with ye no more, Bill,

rickollect; only the. Littlefords is here

now.”



Bill "Dale rose and stood there star-

‘ing at By Heck with eyes so bright

that they sparkled.



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of lilac and cape jessamine; the weatb

er had made another of its remarkably

sudden changes, and the day was sun-

ny and pleasant. She was1about..-to

tear open the envelope when the tall,

straight figure of Jimmy Fayne ap-

peared before her. He had on riding

clothes, and there was a rawhide quirt

in his hand.



“You scared me, Jimmy!” laughed

Miss Elizabeth a trifle nervously. “I

didn’t know that you were anywhere

around!”



“Beg pardon,” Jimmy smiled. “May

I sit down beside you?” .



“Yes.” , .



He sat down beside her and began

thoughtfully to flick the toe of one of

his shining boots with the tip of his





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The grass was parched in the





meadow.



The corn was withered and

curled.



And it seemed that a fiery

dragon





Breathed on a blistering world.





Not a cloud in the sky at sun-





rise.

Not a cloud the long day

through.

And the red sullen sun at night-

fall





Had stolen the evening’s dew.





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But while he was hiding his

treasure

’Neath the hills to west afar.

The god of the storm with his

measure,

Was tripped by the moon and

a star. ’

The crash of the rain.and 'the

rumble

Passed by ere night was done.

But a freshened meadow and

corn field

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wouldn’t I?” he asked. Without wait-

ing far an answer: “I wouldn’t mind

that, y’know. I’ve got a letter here,

By, that I want you to put aboard the

next southbound train that passes the

Halfway Switch. You’ ve got about an

hour; can you make it?”



“Ef the world was made in six days,

by gosh, it shorely looks like By Heck

could make six miles in a hour, don’t

it, Bill?"



The tall hillman left the Moreland

Coal Company’s office with the letter

in one hand, his rifle in the other, and

tears of joy in his eyes.



For Bill Dale had laughed, actually

laughed.



By Heék put the letter on the train.

The train carried it to Bill Dale’s home

city, and the postman carried it to the

stately mansion of Old Coal King John

K. Dale, and black Isham, the servant,

carried it-to Miss Elizabeth Littleford.



Miss Elizabeth Littleford was sitting

alone on an iron settee among bushes





quirt. She knew what he had come

to say, before he said it:



“Once more,” looking pleadingly in-

to her eyes—“won’t you marry me and

make me happy forever afterward?"



She turned the letter1 over in her

lap in order that Fayne might not see,

accidentally or otherwise. the address.



“Jimmy,” she finally said, “I’d like

to have a little more time to think

about it.

be decided in a hurry."



“You’ve already had months! Or

were they years—or ages? Why do

you keep putting ane off like this, Eliz-

abeth ?”



“As I told you, Jimmy, I don’t—”



He interrupted almost sharply: “I

know you don’t love me. But you’ll

learn to—ai'ter you’ve seen how much

I shall adore you.”



He made a move as though to take

her into his arms, and she shrank

from him; he had done that same

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thing, dozens of times before. With

unseeing eyes Elizabeth watched Mrs.

Dale step from her motor at the porte-

cochere and go into the house. Jimmy

Fayne, too, saw Mrs. Dale. but he was

wholly unaffected by the sight of2 her;

Mrs. Dale, somehow, did not object to





his seeing the girl .quite as much as





she had once objected.

' “Jimmy,” after a long silence had

passed between them, “I’m afraid I

ain’t the right woman for you. If you

knew, for sure, that I once took a rifle

gun and killed a man with it, would

you—would you still want me?”

Fayne laughed as though at a good

joke.

“You kill a man? Why, I couldn’t

believe it. But if. you had killed a





man, or a dozen men, it—it could hard-





ly make any difference to me. If you

’did do it, you did it because there was

nothing else to do; I’m sure of that.

We won't mention it again, if you’re

willing. I neither criticize ' nor at-

tempt to understand your hill codes.

Marry me, won’t you, Elizabeth?"



, “If I did." asked Ben Littleford‘s

daughter, "would you help my people

back in the hills?”



“Educate ’em? Yes!

one of ’em.”



“Freely?”



“Yes!"



Once more Elizabeth Littleford tried

to decide. Fayne’s eyes grew more





Every blessed





. and more hopeful as he watched her





lips. He became impatient.



“Tell me,” he begged.



The girl took up the letter she had

just received from Bill Dale.



“As soon as I read this," she mur-

mured, “I’ll tell you, Jimmy. If you

don’t mind, please look the other way

for a minute.”



She tore off one end of the enve10pe,

drew out the single sheet and unfolded

it. Her eyes narrowed; her face flush-

ed, and then became just a little pale.

Her underlip quivered as she folded

the sheet and put it back into the

envelope.



“I can't marry you, Jimmy,”

him.



Without another word she arose and

left him. She hastened to the house.

hastened upstairs, and went to her

room. ‘



Half an hour later, Mrs. Dale found

her lying face downward on her bed.

and beside her lay a crumpled sheet

of paper. Mrs. Dale picked up the

sheet, straightened it out, and read

this, in the bold handwriting of her

son:





“Believe me, I am very appreciative

of your invitation. But I am having

Christmas with your mother, here in

my own country. "





(Continued next week).





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In some places everywhere there

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are limited to their own experiences.

They do not know the joy of drawing

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In these homes boys and girls are

growing up to take their places in the

wmld's activities. It is of public con-

cern that they be educated for efficient

citizenship. They need access to good

books so that their education may be

broad.



A county library will meet the needs

of these young folks and their parents.

It will meet the needs of all rural resi-

dents who are interested in books as

it will bring to them, to a certain de-v

gree, the conveniences of a. library

system such as exists in most good-

sized towns and cities



A county library is supported by

county taxes. It lends books and mag-

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Distribution may be made by a book

truck which makes regular trips to the

homes of the farmers; collections of

books may be placed in stores, schools,

church-es, granges and other rural so-

cieties, or the rural delivery may be

used for distributing the books, and

branch libraries may be established in

towns and villages. The whole system

should be in charge of experienced

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counsel and information in person, by

mail or over the telephone. -



Towns and cities with tax supported

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ter do?—-F. B.



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year round is sewing season.

We may do the spring sewing and the

fall sewing at the proper time, but

during the summer or the winter some

clothes are unexpectedly needed, or

we find a cunning new pattern which

inspires us to sew some more, for

there is always room for one more of

everything in the kiddies’ wardrobes.



By taking mental note of the artis-

tic little decorations we see on the

shop-window dresses we can repro-

duce them successfully on our home-

made garments, because they are near-

ly'always simple designs, using only

the easy stitches. One dainty little

white dimity dress that I saw not long

ago had no hand-worked trimming on

it. Its only decoration was a pale blue

edging set on by white bias binding.

Both edging and bias binding can be

bought by the bolt at ten-cent stores.



Flower-pot Appliques.



A pair of white rompers made of

Devonshire cloth had the cunning

bloomers which stick out into a point

at each side, very similar to the old

peg-top effect seen upon adults a few

years ago. Thousands of rompers have

been made in that style, but I had





never before seen one with flowerpotS'





on it. The pots (Fig. 1) were of dark

blue material appliqued on the part

of the bloomers which stuck out, about

half way up the bloomer leg. A trail-

ing vine of pale green with pink flow-

ers ran along the sides of the bloom-

ers from the flowerpot up to the belt.

There was no other trimming on the

rompers. None other was needed.



Small flowered cretonne made col-

lars, cuffs and pocket tabs for a tiny

dress of unbleached muslin. The cre-

tonne in contrasting shades is espe-

cially pretty on chambray in plain col-

ors—pink, blue, buff: or pale green, but

.be sure that youi c1etonne is a small

figured pattern or the effect will be

rather coarse or vague.



If we know how to do the ordi-

nary outline stitch in-embroidery, the

lazy-daisy stitch, and the French knot,

we can duplicate the fine hand-made

dresses of the shops, whose prices

would be entirely beyond our purse if

bought ready-made. Fig. 2, which

would be suitable for use on a dress

yoke, comprises these three stitches,

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the flowers of French knots. Using

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in the center and a large number of





the lazy-daisy petals, making a much

different effect from that produced by,





Fig. 3 with the same stitches.



On one dress I used a large flower

like the one in Fig. 4 done in white

with yellow center, and dotted the

vine here and there with tiny French

knot flowers of pink and blue. The

result was very pretty and rather un-

usual. A rose-colored linen child’s

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a straight row, repeat the vine with

two leaves, then three more flowers

and so on until the back of the yoke

is reached. Designs of this sort may

be also used on collars, cuffs, belts,

pockets, at the top of box pleats, and

any number of places. The flowers

may be done in pink or blue with the

vine and leaves of white. One of‘ the

edge finishes described below may be

used with it, and worked in color. To

add variety to the different dresses,

other flowers may be used.

Flower Edge Trims.



Fig. 3 shows a flower with one

French knot in the center and five

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not long ago had a plain- yoke which

came almost low enough to go .under

the arms, across the bottom of which

was a stiff little row of flowers like

the one in Fig. 3, each on a straight

stem made by one stitch, from the low—

er end of which stood out two prim

leaves, one on each side. These flow:

ers had black centers.



If we use a fewer number of petals

than in Fig. 4, and take a long stitch

at the end of each petal, we have the

flower shown in Fig. 5, which is par-

ticularly efiective if the stitch at the

end of the petal is of a contrasting

color. Sometimes I have put the long

stitch of another color between the

petals rather than at their ends.



In Fig. 6 we have a flower the pet-

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straight lines. 'In Fig. 7 the lines are

in groups of twos. In Fig. 8 each

straight line has a short perpendicular

stitch across the end of it, great care

being taken that the petals are all of.

the same length so that the flower will

look round. In Fig. 9 each straight

line has a French knot at its end. This

last flower is much prettier it the

French. knots are in colors and " the

petals white.

Fancy Stitching.



The stitch trimmings (a, b, .c, d, 9);

may be used in combination with the

flowers described above, or when used

by themselves make a complete dec:

oration for any garment. We use the

ordinary sewing stitch to make (Fig.

a) design, using more than one color

of thread. Three shades of yellow and

orange are very attractive on brown,

or two rows of scarlet and one of

black would make a good combination.

(Fig. 11) is made just like (.Fig. a), exi ,

cept that the stitches are smaller, and

the two rows touch each other, and

only one color of thread is used for

both rows. I have seen this design in

dark blue on a tan-colored collar be:

longing to a blue—and—tan gingham

dress, and I have used it in black on

the plain pink collar and cufis of pink-.

and-white striped rompers.



The design in (Fig. c) is worked in

two colors, the horizontal stitches be-

ing of one color and the slanting

stitches of another. If the stitches

are taken verylneatly and close to-

gether, the result looks as if the

threads had been twisted around each

other like the strands of a rope.‘ (Fig.

(1) is the well-known cross-stitch and

(Fig. e) the blanket-stitch. These are

used on roll hems or along. the edge of

cuffs, collars, etc. The blanket stitch

is much more effective when gone ov-

er twice, taking the deeper stitches

the first time, then, the second time

making the shorter stitches in a con-

trasting color.



When I was buying flannel for my

first baby's long petticoats, I looked

at-some of the embroidered flannel

which comes by the yard, ready to be

made up by finishing the top of the

petticoat. Many of thepatterns were

too elaborate and even the simpler,

daintier designs were machine made.

and any of them cost more than a bet-

ter quality of unembroidered flannel.

So I tried embroidering a simple de-

sign around the hem with cream-col-

ored sansilk and found it so Satisfac-

tory on the baby things that I have

ever since trimmed my little girl’s flan

nel petticoats in that way.
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The cross-stit'chiin No. I can be done

without marking if one ’is careful to

keep-thestitches straight. No. .IIis

worked in the ordinary sewing stitch

with flowers in lazy-daisy stitch. No.

III uses the outline stitch for the

straight line, French knot flowers,

lazydaisy leaf and just one 10ng slant-

ing stitch for the flower stem.



No. IV is made with cat-stitching

and French knots. The circle can be

made by marking around one’s thim-

ble; Some Indian patterns.were the

inspiration for No. V, which uses the

outline and blanket stitches, with the

zig’zags made of. single long stitches.



To make No. VI cut a facing with

points, turn it up on the right side of

the'petticoat and fasten down with the

cat-stitching. This also makes an un-

usually pretty trimming for the neck

and sleeves of a. dress, if the facing ~is

cut from colored material for use on

a white dress, or vice versa, and the

cat-stitching is made with a deeper

shade of the same color, or with black.



My favorite method of trimming

flannel- petticoats, however, is to cut

the bottom of the' skirt in scallops,

(No. VII) short ones or long ones as

any fancytdictates, stitch along these

on the machine about oneeighth inch



\ from the cut edge and crochet a but-

tonhole edge around the scallops, tak-

‘ing these stitches back of the ma-

chine-stitched line. Of course, the but-

tonhole edge can be worked with

needle and thread, but I have found

that it goes much more swiftly with

the crochet hook. Perhaps my affec-

tion for this particrfrar design is

prompted by my remembrance of cer-

tain dark Oxford gray flannel petti-

coats which my sister and I wore as

youngsters. Mine always had blue

crocheted around the scallops, while

her scallops were red. They never

looked very dirty even after we two

tomboys had worn them to school for

days, and we thought they were very

beautiful. .





FAIRS” SHOULD GIVE ATTENTION

.TO FARM HOME EXHIBITS.





 





LL county fairs in Michigan should



give special attention this year to

educational exhibits for women and

children of the farm, says Mrs. Edith

Wagar, of Monroe county, member of

the state executive committee of the

State Farm Bureau. Mrs. VVagar is

looking forward to the time when the

farm women as,a group will have an

important part in shaping some of the

agricultural policies of the state.



Fair exhibits would do well to show

the various labor-saving devices avail-

able to the farm home, said Mrs. Wag-

ar. She believes that fairs can pre-

sent all the home conveniences in

their best light, and that they should

do it. Beautiful furnishings for the

home and new ideas in home arrange-

ment are within the scope of the coun-

ty fair exhibit, in her opinion.



‘ Scores of exhibit ideas may be de-

veloped for the farm child, added Mrs.

Wagar, beginning with ideas that will

appeal to the. child himself and rang-



, ing to those concerned with his feed‘

ing, clothing, health and rearing. Such

an exhibit could very well become the

most interesting part of the fair, said

Mrs. Wagar, who believes that leading

women of the respective communities

would be glad to plan the exhibit de-

tails for their fair.





 





FOR THE COLD-PACK CANNER.





 





HE following easy formula for sy-

rups can be adapted for all fruits:

Three quarts of sugar to two quarts

of water. '

For sweet fruits boil one minute.

For raspberries, strawberries, black-

berries, ‘huckleberries, . boil for five

__minutes. I

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minutes. !

Far preserves boil until it falls from

the side of the spoon in drops. '

Most housekeepers make grapejuice

but few know that any fruit juice may

be extracted and bottled for summer

drinks, sherbets, pudding sauces, or

other uses. To make juice select sound

perfectly ripe fruit, but none that is

over—ripe. Wash and place in a kettle

with just enough water to prevent

sticking. Crush with a wooden mash~

er, and heat thoroughly, but do not let

it boil. Put through the jelly bag, and

pour in bottles or jars, which have

been boiled ten minutes, to within an

inch of the top. Fit bottles with new

corks, which have soaked a half hour

in warm soda‘ water. Rinse the corks

before using and put loosely in the

bottles. It is well to tie a bit of cloth

over the cork to prevent its blowing

out. Put in boiler of water, having

the water come to within an inch of

the top of bottle or jar. Simmer, do

not boil, twenty minutes. The water

should be simmering when bottles are

entered. At the end of twenty min-

utes remove, push corks in firmly, or

tighten tops of jars, set aside to cool,

and when cold dip in melted paraffin.





USES FOR ADHESIVE TAPE.





 





BY EMMA. G. WALLACE.





F the children lose their rubbers at



school, or get them mixed up, put

a piece of adhesive tape in the back

of each rubber, and print the name

on white tape. You can get this ad-

hesive material in the drug store," and

it comes in different widths.



It is useful for many other things

as well. A patch of it will often mend

a rubber hot-water bag, the garden

hose, a split umbrella handle, or it

will hold a dressing in place over a

cut or burn. The regular surgeon’s

adhesive plaster will prove a useful

dressing also for cuts, or abrasions of

the skin. Many times when the heels

are tender and blister easily, the sur-

face may be covered with a piece of

the adhesive and comfort insured.





CANNING QUESTIONS ANSWERED.





 





What makes pears discolor?



Answer.—Mineral sulphur content

of water; variety of pear; amount of

air for oxidation in jar.



Is steam blanching best?



Answer.—St‘eam blanching is grow-

ing in favor with all who know the

value of the mineral content of vege-

tables, so valuable.



What is “Pectin?”



Answer.—Pure food product obtain-

ed mainly from apples now, which

makes all jelly “jell.” '



What makes strawberries rise?



Answer.——Over-cooking, too

cooling and too heavy syrup.



How can we prevent pickles and

preserves from moulding?



Answer.——By placing a dish of air-

slaked lime on the shelf—G. O. S.





Slow





Pineapple Shortcake—This is made

the sameras strawberry Shortcake only

the filling of finely shredded and

sweetened pineapple is spread be-

tween the layers and on top. Let the

fruit and sugar stand for several hours

beforehand. Use any extra juice with

whipped cream to eat on the short-

cake.———M. E.





Spanish Steak—Cut a slice of bacon

in small pieces, add a chopped onion.

and brown in frying pan. When the

onion is tender, add two cupfuls of

cooked tomatoes, two tablespoonfuls

of flour rubbed smooth in the juice of

the tomato, a seasoning of salt and

pepper, a pinch of ground cloves, all-

spice and cinnamon, and one-half tea-

spoonful of 'Worcestershire sauce.

Place one and one-half pounds of flank

steak in the bottom of a pan, pour the

sauce ever it and bake one hour, or

until. perfectly tendon—Mrs. L. M. T.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





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coats with probably enough paint left over to touch up

anything else that needs it.





To makefthis paint requires:

100 lbs. CARTER WHITE LEAD

5 gal. Linseed Oil

1 qt. Drier (if raw oil is used)

Usually some turpentine is used in the paint for the first coat

and colored paint is made by adding tinting colors ground in oil.





CARTER WHITE LEAD and these other in-





gredients of pure paint may be purchased nearly every-

where paint is sold at retail and the dealer will t’heer-

fully help you to figure out how much paint will be

required for any painting you wish to do and what it

will cost at this year’s reduced prices.





You will find everywhere that the cost of this pure

paint is so reasonable that you cannot afford to post-





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Boys’ and Girls’ Work Brlngs Results





T fie flccomp/zsflmmts of C/ué Actzvztzes Have Been Wartfl Wflz/e





 





Interest in Poultry Has Been Stimu-

lated by Club Work.





T means much to country homes



when more than 29,000 girls are



enrolled in clothing clubs in which

they learn how to make new garments

and repair those already in use. This

was the record for 1920 in the thirty-

three northern and western states. Of

this number sixty per cent reported

regularly, and finished more than 63,-

000 new garments, They repaired 17,-

231 garments, made over 4,068 gar-

ments, and renovated or retrimmed

258 hats. These things mean money

saved in every home whose girls be-

long to a club. The department’s spe-

cialists put a value of $122,332 on the

girls’ product, basing their figures on

current market prices. A human note

is found in the report that 2,848 girls

-did all the repairing for the members

of their families in 1920.



Girls Learn to Bake Bread.



Many town and city girls give their

skill mostly to making biscuits or

cakes instead of bread. But in the

country where there are no bakeries

a housewife must bake all these

things. Poor bread means poor chil-

dren and evil-tempered men. There-

fore, the state club leaders and county

club agents give much time to teach—

ing club girls how to make good bread.

Sometimes the boys, also, take this in-

struction. More than 4,000 boys and

girls did all the baking for their fam-

ilies last year and reported making

more than 300,000 loaves of bread, 18,-

000 dozen quick-breads, and 36,000

baked foods, such as cakes and fancy

breads. More than 2,000 bread-club

members gave public demonstrations

of their skill in 1920.



Boys’ and girls’ clubs in the north

and west, last year, had an enrollment

of 216,479 members, of whom about

130,000 reported regularly in the 13,-

897 clubs. These boys and girls rang-

ed in age from ten to eighteen years.

Not only did they learn how to do

properly'many things they need to

know, but many established them-

selves in business, gained fine ideas of

the dignity of labor and learned that

their future on the farms could be

made mere attractive and satisfactory

than in employment in city or town.



Children’s clubs have done work in

every department of farm activity, in-

cluding everything from wheat grow-

ing to raising beef animals. There

were pig clubs, calf clubs, canning

clubs, gardening, dairying, bread-mak-

ing, baby beef, clothing, poultry, sheep

and bee clubs Based on market quo-

. ‘tations of the period, the gross value

for the club products is oflicial-ly esti-





mated to have been $4,621,538.03. It





.is remembered, of course, that these





boys and girls used their fathers’ prop-

erty in getting these results.



Eight wheat clubs formed by boys

in Idaho in 1920 recorded a rather un-

usual result. These boys raised 1,363

bushels of Dicklow wheat for seed,

and sold it for $4,878.61. Specialists

declare this wheat will yield twenty

per cent increase over any other, and

that it sells for between $4.00 and

$5.00 a bushel as seed.



Pig clubs continue to offer the chief

attraction for the boys,,whi1e the girls

give most of their attention to can-

ning, clothing, including millinery, and

to garden work. But there are many

girls engaged in pig club work also.

These clubs produced in 1920 about





. 1,896,000 pounds of pork products val-





ued at $406,913, and in doing it the

members handled 19, 461 animals.

They raised 2,893 calves, 2,066 beef

animals, and 7, 583 sheep. The poultry

clubs had nearly 190,000 fowls. The

canning clubs put up 665,418 quarts of

fruits, vegetables and meats, and 73,—

962 jars of jellies. The boys, and some

girls, in the corn clubs grew 223,054

bushels of corn.



Boys and girls everywhere entered

cheerfully into. the work of preparing

warm luncheons for schools, after the

equipment was provided, and in doing

it they not only improved their bodies,

but contributed what is said to be a

most helpful influence in getting their

studies, and getting them right.



Modern Girl Must Be Good Cook.



A farm girl in Nebraska finished her

annual report of club work with this

paragraph: “The work taught me to

be a better cook, and, of course, that

is important in the life of an all-round

modern girl. ’ The more I cook the

more confidence I have in myself, so





that I know when company comes un-

expectedly, and mother is away, I can

get a well-balanced meal. without wor-

ry. When mother was ill, this sum-

mer, I proved to my father that I was

all he needed in the way of help."

Statistics show that about fifty per





Cent of rural girls leave school be- -





tween the ages of fifteen and nineteen)

and that about fourteen per cent of

them marry very soon after leaving.





Only a small percentage of the rural '





schools have courses pertaining to

homemaking. Leaders in club work

are exerting themselves, therefore, to





reach such girls, and give them the





basic fundamentals of nutrition, and

of good home-making principles.





CLUB WORK IN THE UPPER

PENINSULA.





 





HE Menominee Herald-Leader of

June 29, has a very favorable arti-





 





cle on the rural club work in Menom- “Club Work Stimulates Interest Among





inee county, that has been pushed for-

ward under ,the leadership of Mr. A.

G.’ Kettunen, assistant state leader of

Boys' and Girls’ Club work, in "coop

eration with County School Commis-

sioner Muna, and County Agricultural

Agent Kirshman.’





 





YOUNG FOLKS ORGANIZE CLUB.





 





EVEN boys and girls of the Metro-



politan Community, Dickinson

county, have organized a pure-bried

Guernsey club,s says County Agent

Karl Miller. Each boy and girl take

a"calf and bring it to maturity. They

must keep a record of the cost. The

agent has secured the calves and

notes that his territory has a consid-

erable number of fine Guernsey bull

calves to be disposed of. Seven‘ boys

in the Metropolitan area have also or-





 





 





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EPRESENTING two million Amer-





ican farm boys and girls, the





champion live stock judging team of.





the United States and Canada, com-

posed of three Texas farm boys, is

making a twmmonths’ tour of Europe

and the British Isles. The youngsters,

all below eighteen years of age, Jest

October defeated twenty states in the

International Stock Judging Contest

at the Southeastern Fair and Exposi-

tion at Atlanta,.Georgia, winning by

One hundred and forty-five points. The





trip includes a visit to the Royal Brit-V





ish Live Stock Show at Lendon, the

Guernsey and Jersey Isles, and the ag-

ricultural and live stock regions of

France, Belgium and Holland. Before

leaving the United States the boys

were presented to President Harding

and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.





On their way home they will visit





Canadianlive ”stock and farming reg-

ions. The trip was offered as a prize

.to the winning team by the Sent-beasts

ern Fair Association, which wilkde—

fray all the expenses connecmd with

the trip—C. I". F “‘ >





has been, in itself, simple.





 

 





Girls in Rural Life.





ganized a pig club, each boy undertake

ing to raise a pure—bred Chester White

pig. The Dickinson county fair is to

be held September 2-3-5. The cattle

buildings have been moved over into

the main part of the fair grounds and

arranged so that all stock exhibits can

readily be visited. Similarly the fruit

and vegetable buildings have been

moved and new shelving put in. A

new feature of the premium list is

stated to be a premium for the best

exhibit from any one farm of “the

county.





 





BOY BECOMES EXPERT POULTRY.

RAISER.





 





OONER or later, everybody in New-



ton, a hill township of Licking

county, Ohio, will be following the ex-

ample of Cyrus Colville, a fifteen-year<

old farm boy who, by modern meth-

ods of poultry keeping, secured from.

sixty-eight hens in January, February '

and March, as many eggs as he got

from seventy-five hens in all twelve

months of 1920.



A cripple all of his life, this boy can

not take part in all of the pleasures

open to most country youngsters. He

haslalways taken a keen interest in

poultry, and this spring when grown-

up farm bureau members of the com-

munity formed a poultry record club,

he asked to be let in.



His records have been among the

best submitted at the monthly meet-

ings. The procedure of improvement

Learning

how to'tell poor layers by outward ap‘

pearance, he has thrown them out, and

to' the remaining birds has fed two

parts of bran, two parts" of shorts and

one part of tankage and sour milk, the

last named to assure animal protein,

that factor most often lacking in poul-

try rations, and one most needed. Fin-

ally, he has kept records, so as to

know where he stands.





 





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’ AST week we saw that there are



L plenty of evidences that the

world has adi'anced along many

‘ lines, including religious progress.

The progress in religion has not been

- uniform, and there are not a. few peo-

' ple who deny that there has been any

progress in religion at all. Mention

was made of the increase in nominal

' Christians in the world, in the past

one hundred years. < Another fact that

ought to cheer church folk is, that

there is a much deeper liberality

among the churches. That sectarian

boundary lines are of secondary im-

portance is believed by more and more

people all the time. Still further, the

church does, not consider its sole duty

now to be that of getting people ready

for another world. The social gospel

has bbcome part and parcel of the





2 message of the modern church.





HE question rises, does the Bible

teach that the world will grow

, steadily worse until a final and over-

whelming crash comes, or that it will

increase in wisdom, goodness indefi-

nitely? There are two opinions on the

interpretation of the Bible at this

point. It was confidently believed by

large sections of the church that the

world war meant the end of this age.

All those who held this view, and who

still hold it, believed that the war was

a sure token of the fullness of the in-

iquity of the race, and that nothing

awaited us but destruction, and the re-

turn of Christ to judge the world. And

there was much that occurred during

the war to feed this idea. No war had

ever been as awful in its toll of life,

or as barbarous; at least, not in mod-

ern times. The prince of darkness

seemed to have gotten the advantage

over every form of good. On the oth-

er hand, there is a very large class of

Bible students, including the greatest

biblical scholars, who take the oppo~

site View. They declare that the Bible

is full of faith and optimism from be-

ginning to end, as to the future of the

race. Passages which are quoted to

uphold the dark view of the world,

they say are misinterpreted. To give

two examples: From 11 Timothy, "But

know this, that in the last days griev—

ous times shall come. For men shall

be lovers of self, lovers of money,

boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient

to parents, unthankful, unholy, with-

out natural affection, implacable,

slanderers, without self-control, fierce,

no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong

puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather

than lovers of God; holding a power

of godliness, but having denied the

power thereof.” This passage is fre-

quently quoted to prove that the world

is near its end, as this describes the

present time with exactitude.





N the other hand, others say that



the one must stop here, but read

the remainder of the passage, namely,

“From these turn aWay.” And a little

later it says, “But evil men shall wax

worse and worse, deceiving and being

deceived, but abide thou in the things

which thou hast been assured of.” In

short. St. Paul is describing conditions

as they existed at that tinie, and warns

Timothy to beware of them. The Bible

undoubtedly speaks of terrible evil,

and states that there will be an out-

break of it at the end, but does not

teach that the world will grow worse

and. worse until its final,doom. vThe

Bible is as full of optimism as the

morning is full of light. Genesis speaks





Realms are full of praise, while Christ

the most mun-provoking teacher





 





: of the power of God in creation, the:





DOes the World Grow Better?

Our IVeeély Sermon—By IV. A. Mchme





(Continued from last week).





the world, and when near the hour of

death he said, “Be of good cheer, I

have overcome the world.” He “slip-

ped into the world like a sunbeam

through a break in the morning clouds;

he was the Sunrise and Sunburst of

God " The Bible is the supreme book

of comfort and hope.





What about the war? Does that

teach that things are getting better?

And look at the world since the war.

Writers traveling in Europe say there

is more hate there today than there

was in 1914. Look at the desolation

and misery. There is no question but





that a person to be optimistic as he‘





looks out on the world today must

have a very firm faith in his God. Sec‘

end-hand religion will not do. The

World is sick. Bulwarks which seemed

impregnable have given way. But

there is an old saying,

wipes out, he is getting ready to

write.”





It is the most fearful cleaning-up the

world ever bad. And now what is to

be written on the new page? Will

there be a better world emerging out

of the past? To that weP answer, there

must be and there will be. The idea

of reduced armaments (perhaps even

the abolition of armaments) is a

mighty step forward. The ideals of

world brotherhood which President

Wilson voiced again and again, will

finally become realities. They are

passed by, now. They will be resur-

rected and followed later.





HE'allies fought for certain things.



Germany fought against those

things. The allies won. No one, not

even the Germans themselves, but

says, that the cause of right was vic-

tor. It was a fight for right. And

wherever Christ has gone, there has

been fighting. Sometimes it has been

war against slavery, and sometimes

against the traffic in liquor, or against

ecclesiastical tyranny. Out of the war

has come also a greater oneness be-

tween the various forces of Christian-

ity. The churches today will face a

common ice as they never have done

in the past. The war was not God’s

war. God wanted no war. But the

results are bound to have the hand of

God in them. “Through the shadow

of the globe we sweep into the young-

er day." “The Lord reigneth, let the

earth rejoice.”



According to the geologist, the earth

is a hundred million years old, and

will last another hundred million

years. Who knoweth but that human-

ity is yet in its infancy Who can say

but that the day will come when

Christianity will arrive at a point

where it will regard us of the twen-

tieth century as practicing a very

crude, limping, blotched religion. No

one can prove that we are at the end

of the present age.





God’s purpose may include millen—

iums yet, in which the race is to de-

velop. It was an American evolution-

ist, John Fiske, who wrote: "The fu-

ture is lighted for us with the radiant

colors of hope. Strife and sorrow will

disappear. Peace and love will reign

supreme. The dream of poets, the les-

son of priest and prophet, the'inspira-

tion of the great musician, is confirm-

ed in the light of modern knowledge;

and as we gird ourselves for the work

of life we may look forward to the

time when in the truest sense the

kingdoms of the world shall become

the kingdom of Christ, and He shall

reign for ever and ever, King of

Kiss: and Lord of lords.” 'w '





 





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The war has destroyed two,

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We still have a few hundred of our bred to

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Why not sell your cull hens and replace

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Choice breeding cockerels and yearling hens.





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W R 8 to 12 week sullen, oockemls. hens

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A. 0. for December averaging 2203350

laid 27 e in both Dec. and January. 1 pnllelt 1.11.130

main!) ays.winners at 1)” est shows in state. Wri

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YEARLING HENS





' White and Brownan Lo horns and Anconas; also



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a) air two year old Gray Toulouse Geese.

rfte for description and prices





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Desk 1, Kla amazoo, Mich.





CHICKS





Send your order in earl for 1922 de-

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Winter Laying Pullets





Now three months old. White Leghomsintwo

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816. 00 per 100 and up. Hatchinge Iggy-1 t0315. 0C

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ULLETS and cockerel’s that feath-

P or rapidly make the best laying

‘ . and most vigorous Efarm flask.

Such birds 811on be banded so that

they can be retained when the flock

is culled in the” fall. It pays to hand





.all the hens that are held over so their

ages will be known and they'will not.





be held longer than their period of

usefulness, or confused with birds of

a. younger age. Many yearling hens

look much like pullets when the hens

the molt and the bands

help to distinguish them. ‘



The high~ normal layers make the

best breeders for the farm flock. Hens

with high egg records have often prov-

ed poor breeders. The highest produc-

ers are apt to exhaust their energy in

egg production and this means low vi-

tality in the chicks. "



Remember the mangels and cab-,





bages and keep them growing for poul-_





try feed next winter. Green food has

been proven very necessary as a. win-

ter egg producer and a means of keep-

ing the' hens healthy. ’If green fobd

saves the life of five hens and pro.

duces twenty dozen more eggs next.





 





. fowls.





Good Breeding Stock Pays.





winter, that will surely pay for quite a

few hours’ labor spent in weeding the

mangels and setting out the cabbages.



The young cockerels that show early

signs of maturity and yigor should be

handed for breeders. It is assumed that

they come from hens that are good

layers. It pays to band a Surplus to

make up for any unexpected losses. If

many cockerels are saved it is best to

isolate them from the pullets so that

the pullets will not. be retarded in

growth by being crowded from the

feed hoppers and trampled when the

Scratch grain is scattered on the range.



When a breeder has a. little success

with poultry he is often tempted to





want to raise enough to cover a coun-





ty. Then it is good to advance care-

fully and remember that quality is

very important and a few poor hens in

a. large flock will cut down profits rap-

idly. Large poultry flocks require much

equipment and the work is confusing

and discouraging unless the breeder is

skillful and has plenty bf capital and

equipment on which to exercise skill.



Egg production and milk production

are often compared as if they were

quite similar. But the cow produces

one calf a year and then furnishes

food for the calf. The hen forms the

possibility of a. lively [chick with ev-

ery egg produced. In other words,

the hen that is laying heavily is con-

stantly striving to reproduce herself

and that is a greater strain on the

vitality than is the case with the cow

giving milk. ‘



A few capons for home use will be

grealy appreciated /di1rlng the winter.

But a set of capon tools is not a sure

read to profit with cockerels. Canons





must have plenty of “feed to ‘ev‘elog.





By. R. G. Kzréy





meat it does not seem possible toif

make much profit on capons. Those: 3.

that are raised must be skillfully.- mar». - ”





keted where they areappreciatedu ‘





A' visit to the poultry show at» the"





State Fair is often a, stimulus to the

poultry keeper on the farm. Visits





'with other breeders are often encour-





aging. The sight of many fine birds

inspires the poultry keeper to make

more effort in the. management of his

own stock. And- the poultry showis





needed to keep up the interest in the .





standard- -bred fowls. 1





It seems as if the time has arrived

when the home feed grinder should 'go

with every poultry flock of, any size.





With these grinders it is possible to.





crack small grains and save the buy-

ing of fine chick scratch grain. Corn

can also be cracked for the growing

stock. 0n rainy days the grain for

mash can be ground up and mixed. At

the present price of .grain and com-

mercial dry mash it seems very plaus-





ible to believe that money can be sav-





ed by grinding home-grown grain or

grain purchased from the neighbors.

For large flocks a. power-grinder is

needed. For small farm flocks, one of

the largest size handLgrinders will

prove very useful.





It takes time to shut up the broody





hens of the American and Asiatic





breeds. They should be removed from

the nest the first night they are found

there. Then confine them for three

days. Free them at sundown and see

if they return to the nest and if they

do, another sentence in the broody

coop is necessary. Setting hens in the

summer waste their time and reddce

their vitality. A loss is prevented by





'keeping the broody coops as nearly





empty as possible and hens are more

easily broken when they first become

broody. Portable broodycoops in eaoh

laying house save time in carrying the

But if the houses are very hot

it is best to have the broody coops

under trees.





Now is the time to clean and oil the

stove brooders and store them for next

year. If left in the colony houses they

will become rusty and unclean. Stove

pipes will also rust quickly and they

should be drummed out and stored “in

a dry room. The film of oil on the

iron stoves keeps out rust and helps

the Stove to deliver many years :of

service.



There are now many fine quality

pure-bred cockerels at about the broil-

er age. But the owners cannot afford

to keep them over winter as they lack





in housing space and feed. Next spring ’





there is apt‘ to be a scarcity of breed-

ing cockerels even at high prices. Now

there is an abundance of them at. the

lowest prices for which good birds can

ever be purchased.





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POSSIBLY BLACKH EAD.





 





'I had six turkeys but two died. They





“began with weakness in the legs and





acted dumpish. “Those now afflicted

eat good but have not the proper use

of their legs. Please let me know what

the trouble is and what to do for it.

Sanilac Co. Mrs. J. C.





In cases of! blackhead, turkeys be-

come droopy and there is great mus-

cular weakness. The head does not

always turn purple when turkeys die

of blackheadbut as the disease pro-

gresses they lose their appetite and

gradually weaken until death. There

is no cure for ..blackhead

be prevented by breeding from vigor»





ous stock that is not inbred, and 1111» ’





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' tie. etc. The beauty of that landScape

standsunexcelled in my mind and. so

it apparently .is to the. many Amen--





cans coming here, some even staying

here. Warwick" CaStle, the grandest





‘of England’s baronial castles not de-





stroyedby Cromwell, the home of the

King-maker Earl, is leased to an





But I fear I am straying too far from

the purpose of my letter. A eoal strike

was imminent, entailing amongst oth-

' prospects the pros-

pect of cutting down train and steam-

ship services, so that I might have a

hard time in getting away from Eng-

land. I decided to leave, and succeed-

ed in getting away the very day that

"the strike was to commence.



I think it necessary at this point to

inject the remark, that I was born in

Denmark and my ancestry is Danish

for several hundred years, as far as

records go back; Anglo-Saxon, Nor-

mans and their descendants are there-

fore but drips of the old Danish block

and no other citizenship can have! the

esteem and the affection that I have

for the Danish.



I make this remark because I had

hardly boarded the fast Danish butter-

boat, that crosses the North Sea, still

partly mine—strewn, between England

and Denmark, before I heard an Eng-

lish-speaking gentleman brag about

his country. I was not near enough

to hear distinctly, but that much I un-

derstood, and immediately it flashed

through my mind, “That must be an

American.” The British saying is,-that

the modest violet is not the national

flower of America, and, indeed, one

of the American peculiarities is, that

they always compare all of the forty-

eight states in the Union with a single

state in Europe and thus easily enough

reach the conclusion that the combin-

ed forty-eight states are a much supe-

rior “county" to the one state, with

which they at the moment compare

the Union of. states.



. I must, however, at once admit that,

aside from this peculiarity, this gen-

tleman differed from most‘ American

travelers in this respect: His brag-

ging was not offensive to people of

other nations and did therefore not

invite the contradition and argument

that generally follow a one-sided

bragging. . '



My attention in this way having

been directed towards the said gentle-

man it did not take me long to recog-

nize him from the freduent newspaper

pictures of him. I saw that he was

the famous former mayor of Seattle,

Washington, Mr. Ole Hansen, and hav-

ing had this conclusion confirmed by

him, I introduced myself and was soon

comfortably chatting with him. I am

not so immodest as to say that we had

a very enjoyable. time crossing the

North Sea together, but I, for one, had,

and was much gratifiedvto learn that

Mr. Hansen is of much broader gen-

eral culture than could be learned

from his' public speeches, and a man

with a remarkable quick judgment





and a keen and shrewd observer of.





persons and situations. He was fresh

from an interview with Mr. Lloyd

George, then just grappling with the

coal strike, and other British politi-

cians of note, and the British govern-





ment had shown him the courtesy to





offer him transport to Denmark in

‘a. military aeroplane, an 'offer which

be, however, did .not accept. '



The sun was shining brightly,~ but

the air was chilly and during the night

.w'e had a, light frost, against which my





. light American underwear did .not give





me much protection. The sleeper,

Waiver, was nice and comfortable;



‘ ersons shared a rampart-

each“ , pertinent there.





 





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_ .Thmgh "shame to A Denmark ‘





(Continued from page one).





the privacy of the hotel on wheels.

And thus I arrived at Copenhagen,

next to Paris the mest' beautiful, capi‘

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FINDS MILKING MACHINE VALU-

ABLE DAIRY EQUIPMENT.





 





HAVE used two milking machines



since 1917. They have been in con-

stant use since summer and winter,

except for about two months the first

winter, when I was only milking eight

cows and I went back to hand-milk-

ing. The cows did not seem to take

kindly to hand-milking and the milk

flow shrunk forty pounds per day, and

the cows seemed very uneasy when

being milked.



These machines have displaced _un-

reliable hired help and have given

complete satisfaction even on the cold-

est days.

very little—«E. J. QUINN.





 





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CCORDING to the 1920 census re-

port there were 2,551,000 tons of



silage made in the state of Michigan



from the 1919 crop of corn. This

places Michigan third among the

states of the Union in the amount of

corn ensiloed. Wisconsin leads and



New York ranks second. There are



seven other states that put up over a



million tons of silage according to



these last census figures just pub-





 





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SUGGESTS FLY MIXTURE. T0 PRO-

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P OISON or spray will help keep the

flies away! “A good fly poison

can be _made from a mixture of sugar,

formalin and water,” says Dr. F. B.

Hadley, of the University of Wiscon-

sin. “The sugar is dissolved ,. in the

water and ten per cent of the com-

mercial formalin added. This is to be

placed in open dishes readily accessi-

ble to flies. Of course, quicker results

follow if the flies do not have access

to other drink." .



Dr. Hadley recommends a mixture

consisting of one pound of common

laundry soap, four gallons of water,

one gallon of crude petroleum, and

four ounces of powdered napthalin as





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cattle.



“Shave the soap into warm water

and stir until thoroughly dissolved,”

advises Dr. Hadley. “Put the napthalin

in the crude petroleum and stir until

dissolved. Then pour the two mix-

tures together and mix thoroughly.

This fly repellant should be applied in

the form of a spray just before the

cows are to be milked. It will be found

fairly effective but one should not ex-

pect, any mixture, that can be applied

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CLCVER SEED PROSPECTS ARE

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LIGHT yield of Mammoth clover



is expected in this state. The

heads are- said not to be filling out. The

red clover seed crop is now in the

making and may or may not be good,

depending on the weather that the

state gets at this time, says the farm

bureau. The alsike seed harvest is

reported under way, with prospects of

just a fair crop. A queer turn of the

market is revealed in the fact that in

1920 the alsike market was $3.00 to

$5.00 a bushel over the red clover quo-

tations and this year the alsike quota-

tions are lower and alsike futures are

$3.00 to $5.00, lower than red clover

futures. Michigan is enjoying a. brisk

trade in vetch seed and is shipping

much of iffoutside-jthe state, according





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$1900 Secures 120-Acre Farm

With Automobile, Crops, 6 Cows





Pair horses. full implements, etc. included; in Eamon

potato section, edge h 11 school town. advantages:I

100 acres tillnble; cuts ' tons hay; 20-cow spring-Iva.

tered pasture. wood, timber. fruit; good 2-story.8-room

house. maple shaded lawn. ID-cow cement-basement

barn,I silo. Ipring water, poultry house. etc. Owner

unab e operate sacrifices all 85000, only $1000 down.

22ii.‘°‘i~mn“icED°“§‘i“R%iii sameness”

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WONDERFUL CHANCE





Experienced dairyman. Must sell in hund

acre Florida stock farm. Produces or beyohfildlfgsxi;

Ills. land. Pay. only Interest on cost for five years.

Another five given for principal. Unexcelled for

stock. Profits should pay for land In five years. Five

thoiisand ie nireddtc stofkl up. 128va state age ex-

rence, open on a. .W. I '

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WESTERN MICHIGAN FARMS





Improved and unim roved: ra ch .



colonization tracts. Niited fruit pagigifiziifliii gig-:1

ing. dalrying, etc. Exceptional marketing. social and

ii‘ii‘di‘in’ié‘zi‘°hf3iii€iit ii'mm'itfidmbici‘z‘i?“ "8‘”

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for 313,509. s. w.n luv. 1“." mtg-ding. Mich.





For 8”. g mmdoag‘cggdoge-halt mile from Court

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THE HOME OF





imp. ' Edgar oi 'llalmeny





Probably





11.. World’s Greatesl

Breeding Bull





Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the Smith-

field Show 1919. and the Birmingham Show

1920. is adaughtei 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

W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop. Sidney Smllh, §upt





GLOVERLY ANGUS





Cows and Heifers Bred to

Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd





For Sale

GEO. HATHAWAY dz SON. Ovid, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





EOISTERED Aberdeen-Angus.

Rbulls from eighh tk; fgiégtecen rlr‘mnths‘;l 1Dies}:é (1;

,th rowt 1n a ma egoo e o -

:thfliquuirfhg y ..J WILBER. Clio, Mich





Ten heifers. s1?





Reg. Aberdeen Angus





l d heifers of the very best of breedin from



11112119: lionhionths oifRagei bFor next (:0 day: wilT page:

100.00. en ar gains. nspec 1on inv



buns at s possum. 111103.. Merrill, Mich.





GUERN SEYS





Bull calves for sale. Sired by Anton' 3 May K ng that

sold for $7,000. Far (prices and aranteed to

please. GILMORE0 BR T HE RS. amden, Mich





Guernseys— $100 buys the last

RegiSt-ered bull we have, old enough for light

service—it will pay you t8 find out mlore ‘hbmdt this

N eaotors—no a or 1on—ac can or

fellow o tJ. M. WILLIAMS N0. Adams, Mich





G U E R N 5 EV Sn ~REGISTE11E‘D





ULL CALVES

Con ntaining blood of world champions0

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





UERNSEYS Federal Accredited Herd No 9407.

G Four Agrandsons of Carrie Hillhuiust record 814

lbs. b. A. Class out of cows now on test. Priced



right. Best producing cow in Jackson 00.. 6 yrs. old,

8500 gets her G. W. 421 H. G. RAY, Albion. Mich.





 





Two reg. Guernsey cows four years old,



For sale just fresh Two Reg. heifers, one year-

ling, and one two months ol.d



PERCY ANDERSON, R. 3, Fremont. Mich.





 





Females of superior breeding, at reduced

Guernsey prices. Tub berculin tested Send for

sale list to day. G. A. Wigent, Watervliet. Mich.





Cluny I Stock Farm





 





For sale. Five Guernsey heiferns. 3 brefiistered. 2 elig





 





ibl A 3 to 15w montlii calf eligible

to 182111111565 HLER. Jones. Mich.

., Registered





Holstein-Friesian Battle





We breed them to sell. If you

are looking for seed stock, we

have it.





John H. Winn, [Ina]

Rochester, Mich.





H I i ‘ Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

0 s cm registered and high- grade. rice up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-

quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw. N. Y





“Ton Notch” Holsteins





Ba a “milk” Bull of Quality from the Breeders

of t 6 world' s onl cow to produce 8001bs. milk in7

da 8. havin an 800 b. da au gerht



ur herd is rich in the blood rof Colantha 4ths Jo-



hanna. the only cow that ever held all world’s records



11 every division from one day to one year at the same

time She produced 651.70 lbs. milk in '1 days. 0 are



offering for sale a bull. whose dam exceeds this record

b over 734 lbs. in '1 days.



is dam’ 9 records are:—



Milk





 





 





1 Day 100.] lbs.

Milk 7 Days 659.3 lbs.

Butter 7 Days 26. 31 lbs.





EIRTINGW VALEB CORNUCOPIA WAYNE, No. 312599

111 .1 dB '3‘”? Fem”? .1' e

s n sire' s we neares ams avera

am & utter '1 Days 33.02 lbs. 3

ds 1 k d th‘y ye 6({113 dbshite.

e mar e a. on one r w



Han om y $20 000 f.o .llHowe

McPHERSON FARMS CC.b Howell. Mich.





All herds under U. S. Supervision.





 





accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ 600d "Me istered Holstein bull calves.





Quality

th best and at prices within reach of all. Write.

agent’n. c'LAR RKE. - Vassar. Mich





 





A Proven Blood Line





KING SEGIS transmitted to his sons the 1.powel'i’o



transmit to their daughters the greatesto “odih



tion over long fielded is his ofl'sprinogt a‘th

at a greatest yearly production ever



m3'1.0381.4tpoundsof milk 11 ayear.



We have 1111:1311» meodra ”earl



' Beautiful in lvldals of 1‘“show type KING SEGIS



”BULLS





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half rs, 2 gun spall Scotch. Soweto





 





Only 2 Stays Of “Marketed" F111 Sale





Old price list cut i to i for prompt sale.

No. 1. 18 mos.61d4—Dam 19 11:13.3 yr. old,

next dam 20 lb. 3 yr. old. $100.00.

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

sister to two 1000,.lb. cows. $150.00. '

No. 4. 17 mos. old—Sircd by my 30 lb.

Jr. Herd Sire. Dam a 24.9 lb. 4 yr. old

daughter of "Maplecrest,”witb 15,850 lbs.

mifk and 714 lbs. butter in a year at 3

yrs. $250.00.

Don’t delay—They sell at these prices.

Pedigrees on application.



Howell, Mich.





R. B. McPHERSON,





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. Write for pedigrees and

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





 





 





7 Yearling Bull Bargains

Sired by Eagle Komdyke De Nijlander a 32 lb. son of

is twice Michigan ribbon winner. herd am. 29.}{lbs

Dams are daughters of King Segis Pontiac, 1137 lb

son of King Sci 3. Record s 16 lbs. to 20 lbs. Priced

at half value.“ Tp. Federally tested J 11110 10. Write

for list. ALBER G. WADE White Pigeon. Mich.





g. Holsteins and Berkshires. most any age. either

Rear. priced according to IothAer commodities. Write

or come. Akron. Mich.





Herefords





20 Cows ofcxtra quality and breeding, 12 of them

bred to our $5200. 00 son of Old Repeater, also

bulls not related.





Allen Bros. Paw Faw,Mich.





or 616 So. Weatnadgo Ave... . .

Kalamazoo, Michigan





bulls. some ready for

RegiStered Jersey service sired by 0x-

ford's Champion Fox 168681. out off Oxford Daisy’s

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

lbs. butter with first calf, milksd50 lbs. per dav with

second calf. bister‘t‘o Sadies Crown Princess 16578 lbs

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

bulls are high producers, many of them are prize

winners. Prices veryB low uaTlity considered.

ASsT 11111311111200. Mich





BUTTER BRED JERSOEYs ABULLS





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FFAR

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





The Wildwood Farm





Jersey Cattle. Majesty strain, Herd on State accred-

ited list Rof M. testi constantly done Bulls for





sale. ALVIN BALDE Phone 143-5. Capac. Mich.





Bull calves wsfrom

R. o





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys c

Coopersville. Mich





COLON C. LILLIE.

Ford Bale ready for service from R.o





Jersey BllsllSIM 38m. T.B.t tested. Will give time.

1TIHdEPARKER, R. 4. Howell. Mich





t be c 1111 tested. Jersey bull. one

Registered ldart-cud. Show animal. best 0

breeding. Mrs. Claudiad Betta. Hillsdale, Mich





SHORTHORNS





BIDWELL " w... m...





that will put weight on your dairy calves -the dill-

-rence will soon ay for the bull. Now selling 09d

lcotch and Scotc -topped yearlingareasonablyp



We guarantee every animal to be ab b.reeder Federal

Post. One hour from Toledo. Ohio, N. Y. 0.8 . 13..





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D,‘ Tecumseh, Michigan





Richland Shurihoms





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 8; SONS,





Office 'at Tawas City. Mich., Herd at Prescott, Mich.





The Maple’s Shorthorns





Kirklevington Led, by Imp. Hartford

Welfare. in service. Stock or sale.





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Shorthorns. 53.11] 31111:. {35033111131335





ROSEMARY FARMS.





BUY SHORTHORNS 0‘ “Oentflgigg





Breeders' Association at farmers' rices: Write for



sale list to M. E. M iller. Sec’ y, reenville. Mich.



cow3 rs. oldwhitell oi N .



Shorthorn Bto IMF. ROYAL P10131113". 0"



NUM. Union OltY- Mich.



Shorthorn Bull $1,,é“;,oF;g°nggd°



roan with star in forehead. Very mgengle and afin

specimen of the breed EPrice $225.00



W.E Alma, Mich.





FIVE Bli‘i‘ibmhslrsks





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that

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MINERAL Mixtures for Swine" is,





the title of -a feur-page mimeo-

. graphed pamphlet, No. 6-21, is-

sued by the Animal Husbandry Sec-

tion in December, 1920. Thispamph-

let was prepared to facilitate the an-

swering of numerous inquiries in re-

gard to the feeding of minerals to

hogs. It gave suggestions to swine

men concerning the practical make-up

and use of minbral mixtures.



Three mineral mixture formulas de-

signed specifically for swine feeding

were at that time suggested, and ten-

tatively recommended. Our aim was

to furnish suitable, practical and ac-

ceptable formulas, such as were jus-

tified not-only by feed-lot practice, but

by practical and technical experiment

al knowledge as well.



The three practical swine mineral

mixture formulas are presented here«

with: -



. First: Simple Mineral Mixture:



Equal parts by weight of air-slaked

lime and salt, on of woodashes and

salt. This mixture furnishes the main

essential elements principally lacking

in our corn and small grains.



Second: A‘Simple, But More Com-



plete Mineral Mixture.



Equal parts by weight of air-slaked

lime, salt and bone meal (or spent

bone black). This mixture differs from

the simplest one in that bone is added,

this addition insuring an abundance

of bone-making materials.



Third:. A Fairly Complete Mineral



Mixture.



Mix salt, common flake form, 30.0

lbs; spent bone black, or bone meal,

finely ground, or bone flour, 25.0 lbs;





commercial kainit, or potassium

chloride, or wood ashes, 12.0 lbs; sul-

phur, flowers of, 10.0 lbs; air—slaked





lime, or limestone, finely ground, 10.0

lbs; Glauber’s salts or sodium sul.

phate, 5.7 lbs; epsom salts or magnes-

ium sulphate, 5.0 lbs; copperas, or

iron sulphate, 2.0 lbs; potassium io-

dide, 0.3 lbs. This makes a. total of

100.0 lbs. .



This mixture carries most of the

essential elements in practical and

It is compounded

so as to be acceptable to those who

wish to have included such popular,

time-honored and tried substances as

sulphur, Glauber’s salts, copperas, and

others that are widely used in general

swine-feeding practice.



These mineral mixtures may be self-

fed, free-choice style, or combined

with the feeds. About a pound per

month per hog has been the suggested

allowance when hand-fed.



There are no patents or copyrights

on any of these formulas. There are

no secrets in their compounding, inas-

much as they are simple mixtures ~of

simple, commonly known and widely

used, substances.’ They are not per-

fect, but represent an effort to supply

a pressing need. Later, these formu-

las will be modified, when we have

more experimental work to justify the

changes. “Mineral mixture” experi-

ments are now in progress.



Before «suggesting the three tenta-

tive formulas given above, one prelim-

inary test involving some seven

months was conducted with gilts.‘ The

test covered the breeding season and

pregnancy period .of the gilts, and also

a. two-months’ suckling period on the

gilts and their litters. Four g'roups.of

ten gilts each were fed. The basal ra-

tion allowed all lots was shelled corn

and tankage.

101‘. up to about a week to ten days

after farrowing. When they and their

litters were transferred to bluegrass

pastures. '_ »'





Group 1 received no minerals. Group " ‘V

"2 received ' " ~





The cows were. in dry.





 





,suming that no Guernse‘





mixture,” Self-fed. Group 4 received

the “fairly complete mineral mlxttife.

Self-fed. . .1



In this preliminary investigation the

results showed up favorably for min-

eral feeding; in general the groups

receiving minerals made a somewhat





better showing than the "no mineral"r





check group In many particulars



Group 4, receiving the “fairly complete



mixture,” made the best showing.

However, further investigations now





in progress, are ,apaprently showing ‘





up more favorably for the simple mix-

tures and less favorably for the com-

plete than did the preliminary test. In

the “mineral mixture" cemparlsons

run to date, the basal'ration has been

corn and tankage, a very good combi-

nation of feeds, a combination gener-

ally considered as not needing to be

supplemeted with a mineral mixture.

It appears, however, that even so good

a ration as corn and tank'age may be

made somewhat more efficient through

proper mineral additions. Ordinary

rations poor in minerals should show

a greater benefit from mineral feeding.





While we have secured in our var-

ious tests a good many favorable re-

sults through the feeding of such com-

mon mineral substances as lime, salt,

bone meal and other similarly classed

materials, and while our preliminary

results with “mineral mixtures” for

swine have shown up so far in fave

of mineral feeding, yet we cannot a’

yet say definitely just What kind 01

general mineral mixture is best.





Our preliminary results on the feed-

ing of the mineral mixtures, formulas





for which are given, must not be con-





sidered as final or conclusive, but only

as suggestive at the present time. Re-

ports of investigations now in progress

will be made public in the near future.



The main deduction to be drawn

from our “mineral” experiments to

date is that proper “mineral feeding”-





has, when considered on the whole. ‘





been (if some advantage under the

conditions of our tests.



Concerning the use made of the

above prescriped formulas, as given

out in December, 1920, it is in order to

state that "a good many farmers are

buying the specified individual ingred-

iients and mixing them to their satis-

faction. .





 





PRICES PAID‘FOR PURE~BRED

cusnnssvs.





 





THE average price paid for 1921



Guernseys sold in twenty-four

sales since late'in March, is $335.70.

The average priCes for previous years

are as follows: 1915, $262.76; 1918,

$330; 1919, $546; 1920, $508. There

has been a slight drop in the average

price as compared With the“ previous

two years but an analysis of the facts

reveals that there has been no drop





in the appreciation of the breed. This '





drOp in price is largely the result of

the returning value of the dollar. An-





‘other factor of great importance is the

_age of the Guernseys which have been





consigned. Breeders have found it

more suitable to consign young stock

than ever before. An analysis of the

consignments in fifteen sales held in

various parts of the country reveals

that 24.8 per cent of the consignments

Were under one year of age; 17.4 per

cent were one year and under eighteen

months, and 9 3 per cent were over

eighteen months and under two years.

Only_ 37. 6 per cent of the consign-

ments were three years or eye





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

ozwice becomes private practice and ‘1 must be enclosed.





. you will use a. very sharp small knife





,3, Brekford, Mich—Have his grinder





Veterina





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CONDUCTED BY DR. w. c. FAIR.





Advice through om column a given free to our mm

en. Letters should state fully the history and .eymptoms oi

each use and give. name and address of the writ: r. Initials ‘





 





Urinary Ailment.-—I have a gelding

seven years old that has more or less

urinary trouble. Part of the time it is

an effort for him to pass water; at

other times .it dribbles from him. F.

C., McBain, Mich—Give him a tea-

spoonful of acetate of potash in feed

or drinking water three times a day.





Bloody Milk—Our cow gives red

milk from one quarter of udder. A.

R, Jackson, Mich—If milk becomes

red after it is drawn it may be due

to presence in it of the Micrococcus

,Prodigiosus. This also grows on bread

and "is the explanation of. the suppos-

ed miracle of the “bleeding host”; It

may be" the result of rough milking,

scant bedding, being booked by other

cattle, or bruising udder .while step-

ping over fence or logs 1n woodlot.

Remove the cause, if you know what

it is. Careful milking is a remedy._Ap-

ply equal parts of extract of Witch-

'nazel and water to udder twice daily.





, Pica.——I have thirteen cows, nearly

an of them seem to be much inclined

to eat pieces of wood and rubbish,

rather than to eat good wholesome

food. What. is wrong with them? I

also have another cow that is shrink-

ing in milk yield. A. B., Hillman,

Mich. It is good practice to change

their diet. Mix four ounces of carbon-

ate of iron, powdered gentian four

ounces, powdered wood charcoal one

pound. Give each cow tWO’tablespoon-

fuls’ at a dose in feed twme a day.

Change their feed.





Piles—What can be done for a pig

three months old that has piles? The

bunch protrudes three inches and she

has been in this condition for the past

two weeks. The pigs have been fed

on sweet skim-milk, up to a few weeks





ago; since then on sour milk, with

some middlings once a day. A. W.,

Standish, Mich.—-M-ix some baking





soda with the sour mi1k-a teaspoon-

ful is a dose for a pig weighing one

hundred pounds. Surgical removal of

the protruding portion may be neces-

sary, but this is work for the veteri-

narian. Dissolve one dram of pow-

dered alum and two ounces of acetate

of lead in half a gallon of cold water

and apply to tumor three or four times

a day. '





Bitch Fails to Come in Heat—Have

a valuable Boston bull bitch which has

never been in heat. I am anxious to

raise pups, from her. What can I do

to bring her in heat? C. J. Z., Grand

Rapids, Mich—Feed her plenty of

meat, also give her two drops of fluid

extract of nux vomica at a dose three

times a day, for not less than thirty

or sixty days. She should be allowed

to associate with male dog. Kindly

understand, unsatisfactory results are

to be expected, but the expense is

slight, worth what it costs.





Enlarged Gland—Grubs in the Back.

———A hard lump started to grow just

under the throat of one of our cows

during the winter. It has grown to

be the size of a cocoanut. It is very

hard, but not at all painful and is

movable. Is it best to leave it grow,

or have it treated? I am anxious to

know if it is harmful to cows to leave

large grubs in their back. V. J. W.,

St. Charles, Mich—Give your cow one

dram doses of potassium iodide in feed

or in drinking water two or three

times a day and bunch will gradually

subside and reduce in size. In my

practice I always recommend the re-'

moval and killing of every grub. If





the opening in skin can be enlarged

very easily then squeeze out grub.

Apply one part coal tar disinfectant

.ang thirty parts water to back twice

a ay. -





Irritation of Mouth—My six-Year—old

horse slobbers continually. It seems

as though one quart of water will run

from mouth at a time. He is fed tim-

othy and whole oats. Can you tell me

the cause and a remedy‘for it? r C. J.





teeth floated. If he has accidentally

picked up an, irritant, wash mouth

‘with one part peroxide of hydrogen

land five or ten parts cold water three

times a day. Or dissolve one ounce of





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 

 





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20 bred sows





Some great attractions.





E. J. MATHEWSON,





' THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 1921

Big T ype Poland Chinas





40—Double Immune—40

15 fall and spring boars





A few open sow’s with breeding privilege to the 1100 lb. Big Bone Defen-



der, and Great Monster, a great yearling prospect.



York Central will be met at Sturgis, on the G. R. and I. at Nottawa.

Sale at Farm beginning 1 P. M.





Auc. Ed. Bowers,





Parties coming by New





Write for Catalogue.





Burr Oak, Mich.

Wm. Waffle





 





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Buster.





CRANDELL’S PRIZE’HOGS,





 





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

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

Write your wants, all stock 5





HOGS





ipped on approval.





Cass City, Mich.





 





 





CATTLE





Dispersal sale

H:l:::::NCH::v: 21331332..





Three miles west of Royal Oak, five

miles south and one mile west of Bir-

mingham, at one o’clock, Aug. 25, 1921.

If you miss this sale,you miss the chance

of a lifetime. Cattle must be as repre-

sented or money refunded.





G . A.Radtke, Prop., Royal Oak, Mich:

M. H. Blunt, Auc. W. E. Blunt, Clerk

Also 160 acre dairy farm torrent or sale.





HOGS

J A f

Duroc ‘m“ 1029:! extra modem boars. and





a ring hours“ he

boned typo popular blood lingo-t mamabg. rigs-:5.





Monroe.





 





We " Choice March boars: nomblodd

\ . t 3‘ More -

finned: pale. right.





 





or o

F. W. Alexander. 'Vauar. .





 





 





 





C t" , , - A. choice moan

law“... is . - _.





Auction Sale

of Duroc-Jersey Hogs

AUGUST 18, 1921





consisting of 35 Bred Bows and Gilts and 15 Boars.

Send for catalogue at Chaslen Farms, Northville.

or Thos. Underhill 6: Son, Salem, Mich.



Sale! rain or shine at 1 o’clock at Fair Ground.

Northville. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS: firéivéifddfi‘.’





sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS, Hastings, Mich





LDuroc Jerseys





Gilts bred for fall farrow at reaso bl ri .

RUSH BROS, Oakwood Farm]? enzng. Mich.





' at oncerI have just what you want

write Me heavy bone registered Duroc Jer-





sey boars ready for service.

W. H. HAYES. L. B. 505, Durand. Mich.





 





 





 





W b Wal '

Orion. Pig‘serou'Il: '

mode, 1mm. Rapids and slum“ ms





Collinsdale no... Josey;





 





 





Lyons, Mlch. n.1, 'L.A.Burhans, 0mm “





Herd Bears .



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.



100 spring pigs from these boars.



erd Sow: breeding



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





PEACH HILL FARM





Oil'ers ilts sired by or bred to





Peach Hi non King 152489

INWOOD BROS, - Romeo, Michigan

Woodlawn Farm Duroc hogs are from select breed-



ing stock, well mated for size. type and color.





Herd boars. sows and pl 8. will shi C.O.D. and furn-

ish Reg. certificate. . E. Bart ey, Alma, Mich.





 





 





 





' A booki a r rin

Duroc Jerseys gigs. Fedlga‘ll xii-59. or 3p 3

E. D. HEYD ‘ BERK. Wayland. Mich.





DUROC sow s .n. 8W m...



Jacks Cherry



Orion King No. 169259 Son of the 310.000 boar owned



by Lou view Farm. Le Sumit. Mo. also goung boars

ready or service out of good sows. pply



THE JENNINGS FARM. Bai ey, Mich





 





 





 





Michigan Orion Sensation (a

sows Bred to great son of Great Orion's Sen-

sation) and Michigana Demonstrator (one of largest

and best. boars in Michigan) lor sale at conversativo

drices. Also growthy strong boars and gilts.

Michigana Farm, Pavilion Mlch., Kalamazoo. 00.





DUROC J ER SEYS





spring boars that. will improve your boss. of Orion

Cherr King. 00].. and Pathfinder breeding, at. rea-

sonab 9 prices. Write us your wants. Bred sows and

gilts all sold W. C. TAYLOR. Lilian. Mich.





 





D Have some choice spring boars sired by Great.

"roe King Orion COLNO 89045. double immune,

priced reasonable. HARRY FOWLER. SturgiszliCh.





 





Raise Chester'Whites

Like This





’tlie original big produceri

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HAVE startedThousands of breeders on the road to

success. I can help you. I want to lace one hog from

‘ am not already rep-





 





I. C's. Last fall gilts bred to farrow in Aug. boars

(for servrce. also spring pigs for sale. MILO H.

PETERSON, Ionia, R. 2, Mich , Elmhurst Farm.





 





0 | C's Choice gilts for April and May far-row, also

. ' fall pigs, Booking orders for spring pigs.

A. J. BARKER dc SON, Belmont. Mich





' Strictly Big Ty c with qual-

0' 1' C_- SWIne ity. A few gi ts bred for

last of April. and May furrow. A few Sept. and Oct,

fall pigselther sex. Extra good ones. Of our State

Fair prize winning blood lines. Will shi 0.0. D.

and record them free. NFIWMAN' ’ STOCK

FARM Marlette. Mich.





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I. C's. one yearling boar, last fall gilts bred for



° ext fall furrow; this spring pigs not akin, big

growthy stock, reg. free. Citz's hone. 56 mile west;

of Depot. OTTO B. SOHULZ 1, Nashville. Mich.

9 Special prices on spring



0 ’ I ' C s ' pigs from prize winning





stock, Must be sold to make room. WEBER BROS.

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





Central Mich. O. l. C.





Swine Breeders Ass’n.





Every





 





 





Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.

sale guaranteed by association.





DR. H. w. NOBLES,

Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.





’ Special prices on choice pigs of

0' I. C 3' March and May farrow by C. 0. Big





 





 





Callaway. O. J. Thompson, Rockford, Mich.

9 choice boars and 5 tin l

0 g I o C S rmers prices p g p gs





 





at to .

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich

Bred for June an





0- II c- GILTS Julyfarrow. =.





H. W. MANN, Dansville, Mich





L.T.P.C. $ 1 5, $20 & $25





Our top notchlatretchy boar pigs are weaned and read

to ship. . .ey are sired by such boars as Harts Blocli

Price Cline 8 Big Bob. R1 ht Kind Clan and Leon-

ard’s Big Bob. HART. ULCHER AND CLINE,

Address F. T. Hart, St. Louis. Mich. ,





Spotted Poland Chinas





The hog with more outcrosses than any other

breed. Which insures vitality and prolificacy.

Why breed and feed grade hogs when you can buy

registered hogs at special low prices. Write me

your wants in bred grits, boars or spring pigs.

Cholera immuned. Satisfaction guaranteed.





SAMUEL GERBER





Bluflton, Ind.





 





 





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- ' Choice sprl boar i 15

Blg Type P0lalld Chinas, each whennil8 week: “died

by Clansmen Buster and their dam being a rlze Win-

ner at the State Fair. Also gilts bred for pt. Far-

row for $40 and up. Guarantee Satisfaction.



DORUS ROVER, Akron. Mich.

L o S o P o C O :tfeaflggg‘lce boa"





bred gilts allaold. Also a grandson of The ‘Olam—

man and Harrison B‘is Bob.

H.0.S ABTZ. Schoolcraft, Mich





 





 





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune, ont1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson. Burr Oak. Mich.





3' Type Poland Chinas. A great litter by Checkers; '

IF dam a d-daughter of Giant Buster, are for

as a now. '1‘ 0y were tan-owed Mar. 11. an were

purchased of J in: Bloemendaal. Alton. Is, in darn. Do

you want the 9' road produces! , cover

and see them. Wesley Kilo. Ionia. Mich. '_





 





 





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, August 9.

Wheat.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.26; Sep-

tember $1.29; No. 2 mixed and- No. 2

white $1.21.



Chicago—No. 2 red $1.23%@1.24;

No.2 hard $12314 @1251/2; September

$1.231/2.



Toledo—Cash No. 2 red 51.28%;

September $1.30; December $13614.



" Corn.



Detroit.——Cash No. 2 yellow 670; N0.

3 yellow 66c; No. 4, 630.



Chicago—No. 2 mixed 58940; No. 2

yellow 59@591Ac. .



Oats.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 430; No.

3 white 411/20; No. 4, 381,2c.



Chicago.——No. 2 white 35%0; N0. 3

white 33%0.



Beans.





Detroit.~—Immediate and

shipment $3.85 per cwt. .



Chicago—Market is strong at the

slate advance. Hand-picked Michi-

gan beans choice to fancy $4.60@4.75;

red kidney beans $9639.25.



New York—The market is steady

without much change in prices. Choice

pea $4.60@4.70; do medium $4.75; red

kidney $4.70.





prompt





Rye.



Detroit—dCash No. 2 rye $1.08.



Toledo-«Cash $1.11.



Chicago.—No. 2 $1.10@1.10%.



Seeds.



Detroit.-——Prime red clover, cash and

October $13.75; alsike $11; timothy at

$2.75.



Toledo—Prime red clover $13.90;

alsike $11; timothy $2.50.



Hay.



Detroit.——No. 1 timothy $22@22.50;

Standard and light mixed $21@21.50;

No. 2 timothy $19®20 50; No. 1 clover

mixed $16((i)18; N0. 1 clover $14@15;

rye straw $13.50@14; wheat and oat

straw $126,912.50 per ton in carlots at

Detroit.



Feeds.





Detroit.—-Bran $23; standard mid-

dlings $23; fine middlings $27; crack-

ed corn $31; coarse cornmeal at $29;

chop $25 per ton in 100-lb sacks.





WHEAT





In spite of general agreement in the

grain trade that the long distance out-

look for wheat is distinctly favorable

to holders, prices have worked lower

during the past week due to heavy re-

ceipts. It is estimated that a greater

percentage of winter wheat has al-

ready left farms than in any recent

year. Prices were well maintained

when all the circumstances are con-

sidered as they are only slightly below

the level prevailing around the first

of July. Supplies of wheat at termi-

nals are increasing, but are by no

means burdensome as exporters have

been filling old sales abroad and mills

have been accumulating at least mod—

erate stocks. Flour supplies are much

smaller than at this time last year so

that mills are expected to purchase

more heavily than a year ago when

their apathy was a big factor in the

price dedline. An immense export

business in wheat and corn as wen

hinges on obtaining credits in this





country.

CORN





Drenching rains again came to the

rescue of the corn crop so that it is

believed that a promise of fully 3,000,-

000,000 bushels has been maintained.

Still more rains are forecasted. The

last two crops of corn averaged 3,000,-

000,000 bushels, the first instance of

the sort on record. If this year’s crop

comes up to the same standard, this

cereal will be abundant for many

months. Export buying is fairly brisk

but Argentine is still the chief Euro-

pean source of supply. Stocks are re-

ducing but prices have been weak re-

cently, the September deliVery selling

at the lowest figure since 1907. ,





OATS





In spite of the small crop and ex

tremely low prices the movement of

new oats continues to expand with pri-

mark receipts over three times as

large as last year. The visible supply

at terminals is already by far the larg-





est at this season. Chicago arrivals.





Ill. 1





lb..-

invm'im





m





weigh about six to seven pounds per

bushel less than the last crop. Europe

is likely to need 50,000,000 bushels

from the United States but Europe

will buy bread grains first and recent

rains in this country will revive pas-

tures and delay the date at which oth-

er feeds must be used. Higher prices

for this cereal are highly probable ”lat—

er on, but holders niay need patience.





SEEDS '





HeaVy rains in many of the leading

clover producing states caused sharp

decline in the market during the past

week but the break proved very short-

lived as it is not certain,that these

rains can fully repair the damage re-

sulting from the long hot spellu Pri-

vate reports on the timothy seed crop

are favorable.





FEEDS





Heavy rains in some of the drouth-

stricken sections has checked demand

for feedstuffs. Buying is so limited

that but little attention is paid to the

market, even by the dealers. inseed

oil meal and tankage show the strong-

est tone. The activity in cottonseed

meal market has subsided again.





HAY





Hay markets have shown firmness

recently due for the most part tothe

light receipts. The corn belt drouth

has been broken and wherever possi-

ble consuming sections are using local

supplies in order to avoid the high

price-s for shipped-in forage. About

three-fourths of the price paid by the

consumer for the better grades of hay

is absorbed by freight and handling

charges. On lower grades a still larg-

er fraction goes for this purpose. Re-

ductions being sought by carriers on

export grain are regarded hopefully by

hay producers.





POTATOES





‘The upward trend in the potato

market was maintained thro'ugh ,the

past week. Buyers at this season us-





1





 





ually change suddenly from ban-clad

stock to sacked stock but a scarcity

of sacked potatoes due to dry Weather

compelled them to return again to the

use of barrefs. The early fall crop

has been badly damaged but recent

rains may help out the yield of the

late crop. Eastern consuming markets

are quoted at about $4.50@5.50 per

barrel for No. 1 Eastern' Cobblers.

Chicago quotes eastern barrels at

$5.85@6.75. Detroit quotes Virginias

at $5.75@6.25 per barrel.





POULTRY AND secs





Cold storage holdings of both eggs

and poultry at the four leading cities

are‘ declining although receipts com-





pare favorably and at times are higher





than last Year. Egg stocks are now

3,454,296 cases compared with 3,153,-

847 .cases at this time a year ago. The





excess over last year’s supply is de-.





cidedly smaller than two months ago.



Latest quotations were as follows:

Detroit—Eggs fresh candled 330. Live

poultry spring chickens 30c; hens 27

@280; light hens 22@23c; roosters at

150; geese 15c; ducks 220; turkeys

250 per pound. ,





‘ BUTTER.





Rains and cooler weather in- some

of the leading butter producing states

Was an. important factor in turning the

butter market downward during the

latter‘part of the past week. Receipts

were not in excess of requirements so

far as the finer grades were concern-

ed but the market has had a remark-

able advance and a period of weak-

ness would not be at all surprising.

Pastures have been improved by the

rain, and cooler weather has reduced

requirements of the ice cram trade to

some extent so that the make is ex-

pected to increase again. Storage

holdings appear to be much less than

last year and decidedly less than at

this time two years ago. The weak-

ness in the market is not expected to

last long unless production does in-





 





 





Live Stock Market Service |





 





Wednesday, August 10.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 550. Market steady. ‘

Best heavy steers ....... $ 7.00 . 8.00

Best handy wt bu steers 7.50 8.25





Mixed steers and heifers 6.50@ 6.75





Handy light butchers. . . . 5.50@ 6.25

Light butchers ..... . . . . . 2.50@ 5.25

Best cows ......... . . . . 5.50 , 6.00

Butcher cows ........... 4.00 4.50

Common cows . . . . . . . . . 2.50@ 3.00

Canners ............... . 1.50@ 2.00

Best light weight bulls. . 5.00@ 5.25

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . 4.25@ 4.75

Stock bulls . . . . . . . . ..... 3.50@ 4.50

Feeders ........ . . . . . . 5.00@ 6.25

Stockers ............. . 3.50@ 5.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 35@ 75





Veal Calves.

Receipts 503. Market opened steady,

closing 50c lower. -

Best ..... . . . .". .......... $12.00@:13.00

Others . 9.00@11.00





Hogs.

Receipts 1,009. Market 25c lower.

Mixed hogs $1150





Pigs on ooooooooooo-oioootooictt11.50

Heavies ..... ............10.50

Roughs ....... 8.25





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1,914.

Best lambs ............. 1 00





Fair lambs .............. 8.00@ 9.00

Light to common lambs... 4.00@ 6J00

Fair to good sheep ...... 4.00@ 4.50

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





CHICAGO .'





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 18,000;

holdover 15,498. Market 15@50c low-

er; light weight off the least. , Bulk of

sales $8.75@11.60; tops $11.75; heavy

250 lbs up medium, good and choice at

$9.75@11; medium 200 to 250 lbs me.-

dium, good and choice $10.75@11.55;

.light-150 to 200‘1bs common. medium,

good and choice, $11:~26@11.65; light

lights 13 to 150 lbs common. medium

good" an chaise $1 'mli/W





 





packing sows 250 lbs up smooth at



'$8.75@9.25; packing sows 200 lbs up



rough $8.40 .8.75; pigs 130 lbs down



medium, goo and choice $10@11.

Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 10,000.

Better kinds are steady; others slow

and weak. Beef steers medium and

heavy weight 1100 lbs up choice and

prime $9.55@10.50; do medium and

good $7.50@9.75; do common $6.15@

7.50; light weight 1100 lbs down, good

and choice $9@10.40; do common and

medium $5.75@9; butcher cattle heif-

ers, common, medium, good and choice

at $4@9; cows common, medium, good

and choice $3.75@7.50; bulls bologna

and beef $4@6.75; canners and cutters

cows and heifers $2.25@3.75;' do can

ner steers $2.75@4; veal calves light

and 'handyweight medium, good and

choice $7.75@9.50; feeder steers com-

mon, medium, good and choice $5@

7.55; stocker steers common, medium,

good‘ and choice $3.75@6.75; stacker

cows and heifers common, medium,

good and choice $2.50@5.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 9,000.

Market steady to 250 lower. Lambs

84 lbs down medium, good, choice and

prime $8.25@10.55; do culls and com-

mon at $5@8; spring lambs medium,

good, choice and prime $6@8.50; ewes

medium, good and choice at $5@5.25;

ewes cull and common at $1.50@3;

breeding ewes full mouths to yearlings

at $3@6.50; yearling wethers medium,

good and choice “'$6.75@8.25.





BUFFALO A





/ o . Cattle. '

Receipts five cars. Market steady.





Calves $11.





Hogs.





Receipts" 15 cars. Market higher;

heavy and mediums $11@11.50; york-





 





ers and pigs $12.25. .

' Sheep and, Lambs.





j‘Recelptsjflve cars. Market is “slow. ‘

’ . 31357@





To lambs





' crease"_decidedly. . Prices 1:... . ‘52 score“;





   





 





 





4"





butter‘as’ quoted by the lnirea’unftheirb _.





« kéts" “were as follows:





Chicago 42150.; New York. 44%e;-~Ab .

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs is quot:

ed at 39%c. ~. ' , _ .



CHEESE



Due to a sudden stop in the export

trade, country cheese markets declin-

ed sharpy early in the past week and

a period of sluggish tradidg followed.

At some distributing centers business

was practically at a standstill. The

future of the ‘market. depends largely

upon the renewal cf the export trade.



Prices fer No. 1 American" cheese

as quoted by the bureau Of markets

are as follows: v '- ' ’

Chicago.—=—Twins 191,é@20c; single

daisies 19%@209; double daisies 19@

200;, longhorns " 22%@23c; square

prints 22%@23c. ’ '





OOL





Wool markets showed little change

in price or in the volume of buying.

Demand is broadest for wools grading

three-eighths blood and finer. The

government’s auction at Boston chief‘

ly of South American wools was not

gratifying as only about fifty per .cent

of the offering was cleared. Some liq-

uidation of western wools is reported

but buyers are seeking out only thé

choice clips of fine wools. Wool con-

sumption has practically returned to,

normal but prices have not‘ advanced

as a result of it. Some tops are being

imported in spite of the emergency .

tariff and unless the ad valorem .~

clause in the permanent tariff bill is

removed, mills can be sure of import-‘

ing low grades at low prices. ' '



.The Boston market is quoted as fold ,

lows: Michigan and New York fleeces, ,;

delaine unwashed - 31@33c; fine un-

washed 26@27c; half-blood unwashed

28@29c; three-eighths blood unwashed

25@260; quarterblood unwashed 23@

24c per pound.





CATTLE MARKET TRUE TO FORM-





 





 





 





The cattle market is running true

to form, in that choice grain-fed

steers and she " stock are advancing

gradually while medium and common

grades of grassers show a lower trend»

The run of grass beef is in full swing

with Kansas Ciey receipts thelargest

since late last fall, but not until re«

ceipts of northwest ranges are much

larger can it be assumed that market

supply has reached its maximum. In

short, still higher prices for prime

steers and lower ones for the common

stuff are in prospect.’ ‘





The cutting of the second crop of

alfalfa is in progress in the north cen-

tral states and fair yields reported.

The third cutting of alfalfa is in prm

gress in Kansas. Much wild hayof a

fair quality, but rather short in quan-

tity is being out throughout the cou'ni

ry. . .





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





Poland-Chinas.——August 18, E. J. Math-

ewson, Burr Oak, Michigan.~ ‘

Duroc.Jersey.——August 18, Thomas Un-



derhill,& Son, Chasleh Farms at



Northville Fair Grounds. '

Holsteins.—August 25, Dispersal Sale,



G. A. Radtke, Royal Oak, Mich. .





Guernseys.—October 19, Michigan

State Sale, ,_ Lansing, Mich. F. E.

Fox, Waukesha, ‘Wis., Sales Man-

ager. '_ v - ‘



Aberdeen-Angus.~—September 23, East-

ern Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Asso-

ciation Sale, Eastern States Exposi-

tion, Springfield, Mass. F. W. Burn-

ham,,Greenfield, Mass., Secretary.” »



Aherdeen-Angus.——October 12, Indiana ,

Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Associa-

tion Sale, Indianapolis, Ind. Prof. C.

F. Gobble, Lafayette, Indiana, '



Holsteins-—4-October .21, Howell'Sales

Co., Eighth Annual Sale at Howell,"

Mich. Wm. Griffin, Secretary. .





SUMMER GRANGE RALLIE‘e. , ,

The .fdllowing Grange Rallies willbe





heldduring the. coming week; ‘ .

August‘IS, Fruitport'. * ‘ ‘





 





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August: 11; Tanner,





,8 Travers 2 City. '
an auspicious start last week when

three- scrub bulls in Saginaw county

Were eliminated by the exchange or

sale of as many pure-bred Holstein

sires. ‘Although the first. stop on Mon-

day, August '1, was at Chesaning, it

remained for four Saginaw township

men to procure the “gift sire" on an

even trading basis pt Saginaw. Those

growers, John Dibel, John McLean,

Walter ‘Mannicn and John Horgan, had

ficrmed a bull. association and in re«

turn for a scrub animal received a

purebred bull. Two other bulls were





, sold outright at Saginaw. one of them





to a bull association headed by Martin

Johnson, which has been in existence

for two years, and the other to John

Schoenheit. _



At Chesaning, the first stop, interest

was keen and the visit of the better

sire train resulted in crystallizing

sentiment far a condensary. An out-

side concern is understood to be ready

to erect a building at a. cost of $150,-

000, provided it is guaranteed the milk

supply from 6,000 cows in the sun

rounding Country. .The required num-

ber of, cows is already available, it is

said. Some definite action in the near

future is likely.



Stimulation of milk production in

the area south of Bay City so as to

increase the supply available for De-

troit was the chief aim of leaders in

charge of the train as it traveled

through Oakland, Lapeer, Tuscola and

Bay counties during the following days

last week. The product from this area

is for the most part retained as raw

milk for Detroit consumption, while

dairymen north of Bay City sell their

milk .to creameries and cheese factor-

ies. Towns visited in the counties

~named were Rochester, Oxford, La-

peer, Otter Lake, Millington, Vassar,

Caro and Reese.





Everywhere the train was accorded

an enthusiastic reception. Many farm-

ers expressed regret that only Hol—

stein bulls were being disposed of, but

they were assured that in the future

animals of other breeds‘will be avail-

able provided breeding associations

will' get behind similar projects.





In the demonstrations of the M. A.

C. pure-bred cattle carried on the train

the contrast between the performance

'of Johanna Mutual Girl, a. pure-bred

animal, and that of the red cow repre-





senting the average in the state at“

tracted much attention. Johanna Mu-‘





tual Girl, according to records kept at

M. A. 0., produced more than 20,000

pounds of milk in a year, while the

red cow and all other average cows in

Michigan produced only 4,000 pounds

of milk.



The “crew” of the train as it left

Lansing included: H. W. Norton, di-

rector cf the state bhreau of animal

industry; Prof. O. E. Reed, head of

the dairy husbandry department at M.

A. .C.; W. H. Hill, agriculturist for the

Michigan Central lines; G. C. Mac-

Donald, of Bay City, trainmaster rep-

resenting the Michigan Central; A. C.

Baltzer and J. A. Waldrcn, extension

specialists in dairying; E. .I; Leen-

houts, of the Michigan Holstein—Fries

ian Association, and Mrs. Louise M.

Campbell, state leader of home demon~

straticn agents. assisted by Miss Grace

Holtrop. Thomas F. Marston, score:

tary of the Northeast Michigan Devel-

opment Bureau, alSo traveled as far

as Saginaw.



At each stop the men were invited

first to listen to the talks given in the

Mute car by Professor Reed, Mr.





finaltzer and Mr. Waldron, and at the

1111313719, time the women were looking





 

 

 

 

 





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‘, HE “Hotter ISire Train" got off to





for one day for a bay of twelve was

a feature. ‘ ' ‘ ' '



The tour of the better sire train is

the first of its kind anywhere in the

’United States, according to Mr. Hill,

agriculturist for the railroad. Never

before has such an ambitious attempt

been made to place pure-bred sires

within easy reach of dairymen in re-

mote sections and never before have

so many important organisations! co-

operated in so difficult an undertaking.





COOPERATION NOT SOCIALISM.’





 





HE U. "S. Grain Growers, Inc., is



neither socialistic or bolshevistic

—rather it is the result of a long-

standing desire on the part of grain

producers to build a national cooper-

ative marketing machine. It is found-

ed cn existing laws, asks no special

legislation, and most certainly will not

‘burn surpluses to maintain prices',"

said C. H. Gustafscn, of Lincoln, Ne-

braska, president of the new farmer-

owned and farmer—controlled national

cooperative grain marketing organiza-

tion, in an address Thursday, August

4, before the Lansing Kiwanis Club at

a luncheon. ,



“Simply stated, the U. S.’ Grain

Growers, Inc., plans to put the farmer

in a position where he can follow his

crop beyond the borders of his own

farm and keep for himself the full

market value of his grain. less only

handling charges. We submit that

such a plan is not a menace to the

public welfare, as charged by the grain

exchanges in their present determined

efiort to propaganda farme/rs' cooper-

ative marketing Organizations out of

existence.”



“Opponents of our movement," con-

tinued Mr. Gustafson, “are trying to

convince grain producers that there is

no difference between cooperative

marketing and socialism and socialism

or state ownership of industry. No

man with average intelligence can fail

to see the difference, for it is as ob-

.vicus as is day from night.





“Under the socialistic plan private,





capital is, in effect, confiscated, to be

used in fostering state-owned indus-

try. An individual is obliged to sup-

port such a program whether heis in—

terested in it or not.



"Nothing of the kind is found in the

plan of cooperative marketing, under

which the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,

is organized. While only farmers and

their elevators can become members,

those who do not wish such affiliation

need notjoin nor can they be forced

to do so.



Mr. Gustafson's address was a reply

to one made before the same club two

weeks ago by R. 1. Mansfield, of Chi-

cago, chairman of the Grain Dealers’

National Associations' committee

which with a fund of $250,000 is charg-

ed with the task of actively opposing

development of the U. S. Grain Grow-

ers’ plan, according tc Mr. Gustafson.

Mr. Mansfield charged that the plan

was socialistic and that the farmers

“would burn grain and produce in sur-

plus rather than be beat in getting the

price.”



Mr. Gustafson attacked the grain

exchanges' campaign opposition, de-

claring that it would be more fair for

the exChanges to explain their own

methods of operation and force the co—

operative marks/ting idea to either





succeed or fail on a competitive basis





rather than'tc rely upon what he term-

ed “misrepresentations and half-truths

not to say absolute falsehoods.”





GEN ERAL CROP SUMMARY.





 





CROP conditions for the week cod-

ing July 30 are in reports received

by thetagureau of markets and crop





 





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Corn—The corn crop is maturing

unusually early and a good yield is

generally. expechd. damage

from the drought and heat is reported,

especially to early corn and corn

planted on the lighter soils. Recent





rains have relieved the drought in ,





some areas, but rain is badly needed

in many sections of the central or

leading corn-producing states. The

condition of the crop throughout the

northern states is quite promising, and

growth is well advanced,



Wheat—Threshing of winter wheat

is making good progress and harvest-

ing is nearly finished. Yields are gen-

erally reported to be about average

although many poor yields and much

light shriveled grain is reported. Some

damage to grain in the shock, due to

.rain, is reported in Nebraska. Fall

plowing has commenced in some see

ticns.



The harvesting of spring wheat is

nearly completed in the north central

states and threshing is in progress;

”yields are generally unsatisfactory.

Conditions are more favorable inrthe

far western states, although some

damage, due to drought, is reported.



Oats—Harvesting of the cat crop is





nearing completion in the eastern and.





north central states and threshing is

in full progress. The crop has been

damaged greatly by the heat and the

drought and both yield and. quality are

generally reported as poor. Many

fields will be cut for hay and some

will not be cut at all. Conditions in

the far western states are somewhat

better although some areas are begin-

ning to need rain.



Potatoes.—-The crop of Irish pota-

toes has been damaged severely by the

long continued heat and drought al-

thdugh recent rains will greatly ben-

efit the crop in many sections. The

yield of early potatoes, however, and

the stand of late potatoes have both

been considerably damaged, especially

in the central belt states. A few late

potatoes are still being planted.



Fruits—The apple crop is develop

ing quite favorably in the far western

states, but on the whole the crop is

small. Pear shipments are at their

height in California, and canning of

peaches is general throughout the

state. The blackberry and raspberry

crops throughout: the country were

generally cut considerably by the heat

and drought.



Live Stock, Hay and Pastures—The

condition of live stock is generally

very favorable, and little disease is re-

ported. Some hog cholera is reported

in Wisconsin, and pinkeye has devel-

oped among horses in some sections

of Indiana. Due to the shortage of hay,

many cows are being sold in the north-

eastern part of the New York. '





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Every automobile owner needs

automobile insurance. The good

roads and increased number of

automobiles account for the in-

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year. It is important to insure

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growth and maturity. The soil furnishes part of the elements re-

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assures an abundant root growth, ample stooling, healthy stalks,

well-filled heads and plump grains. , , _,





Experiments conducted by the Agricultural Colleges of the leading

winter wheat states have conclusively shown an average increase in

yield of 80 bushels of better quality wheat for each ton of

fertiIrzer used.



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high analysis fertilizers—they mean more plant food for your money.

Buy Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers—containing 14% or more of plant

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