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What Will the Decision Be?

HE final decision arrived at by both

these quoit enthusiasts was that the

play should stand a tie. This, how-
ever, did not agree with the original opinion
of. either of the men. One held fast to the
idea that his shoe appeared to be just a
fraction of an inch closer to the peg than
did the shoe of his opponent, while the
other was equally positive that he should be
given the count. But both players felt that
their friendship and the game were worth
more than any advantage which might come
from insisting on the credit of that particu-
lar play. So they compromised and called
it a tie.
'And it is so in the great game of life.
Many, many times there are ties or close

playing in which it is difficult to arrive at.
a just decision. Naturally, our eyes see the
subject on the side most favorable to our—
selves. These eyes are closely connected to
every personal interest by a most wonderful
system of telegraphic communication. Every
sense responds to a call over the wire when
the domains of our personal interests are
invaded, and it is not surprising that we are
prejudiced in our own favor. But when we
insist on our own particular way it is not
good for the game of life any more than it
is good for a game of quoits.

And, too, in the great game between class-
es, where there are contests between work-
ers and capitalists, between producers and
consumers, between shippers and merchants,

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it is of primary importance that we keep our
bearings. Every class in the game ought to
remember that the contestants are, first of
all, to be considered and that it is foolish
to sacrifice them because of a close play.
Every class should be anxious that our com-
munities and states and the nation rise to
the highest possible level of achievement,
of service, and of enjoyment. To do this
the rules of the game must be followed. The
players must play square, the golden rule
cannot be overlooked, and each class ought
to allow a little for self-interest. If one
class insists on getting everything which the
members of the class think they should have
then the game is likely to stop. It is usu-
ally necessary and wise to compromise.

  

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CURRENT COMMENT

ARMER cooperat-
ors must take the

"Training firm position that
Cooperative their enterprises are
Workers sufficient in them-

selves to command

the fullest loyalty. The greatest con-
tribution that cooperation is going to
\make to future generations will be its
own success and a demonstration of
the capacity of farmers to establish
and conduct a great business. But
this contribution is dependent not
alone upon the training of the direct-
orship and management of these co—
operative enterprises but perhaps to
an even greater degree upon the capa-
city of the individual members to
choose capable men for leadership and
to support them at all times.

This cooperative citizenship must be
trained if it is to function properly.
Some of the training will be done
within the cooperatives. This, how-
ever, will not, in the great majority
of cases, be adequate and some pro-
vision ought to be made for intelligent
drilling and instruction of the younger
generation in team work, which is one
of the cardinal principles in carrying
on and building up cooperative insti-
tutions.

There exists, however, the neces-
sary machinery for giving this pecu—
liar type of training. The Grange, the
Farmers’ Clubs and Gleaner organiza-
tions are most suitable training camps
where our youth can be prepared to
meet responsibilities in cooperative or-
ganizations. Judging from the spirit
exhibited at the rally at Fruit Ridge
last week, the Grange is fully awake
to its opportunities for service along
this line and is training a rural citi-
zenship 'which will, not only support
this new business order, but will at
the same time meet the requirements
of a sane and progressive program for
the state and for a more complex so-
cial regime.

0G cholera is be-
ing reported from

Fighting many sections of the
H09 country and a few
Cholera cases are said to be
among the herds of

' this state. Through the proper and

timely use of good serums consider-
able headway has been made in the
control of this dread disease. But even
with the advantages of the serum
treatmflnt there remains enough of
danger to themes; man io.-warrant.cail-
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command of the individual farmer and
of the community.

Dependence should not be placed
upon a single line of treatment. No
opportunity for the further spread of
the disease should be tolerated pro-
viding it is within the power of the
swine owner and of the neighbors to
prevent. The isolation of. herds; at a
distance from highways and streams,
cleanliness, avoidance of mud-wallows.
and dark, damp quarters, the feeding
of a well-balanced ration, keeping the
animals free from lice, mango and
worms, immunizing with a good serum,
destroying carcasses by burning to
ashes or by burying at least four feet
under the soil, and all the other pre-
cautions recommended by the veteri-
narian or the county agent, should all
be carefully. followed.

A sign should be put up if the herd
becomes infected, so that every caller
may be notified that the disease is
present and it is not asking too much
to suggest the same thing to a neigh-
bor should the disease reach his pens.
The farmers of the community should
also keep their dogs within bounds.
This is one of the situations where a
county can call itself blessed if it has
employed a capable county agent for
he can in a short time start an intelli-
gent program that is bound to reduce
the damages to the farmers and the
community to a minimum. But to
succeed best the county agent needs
the fullest cooperation of every indi-
vidual farmer.

\ ' HAT farther *n
m wise indeed who

Guiding the
F observes and under-
Orces 0f stands that the silent
Nature forces of nature by

proper control and di-
rection may be made to contribute to
his wants and to change monotonous

labor to an inspiring, healthful and'

intelligent work. For example, to such
a farmer the many opportunities
which are present for changing poten-
tial plant-foot into that which is avail-
able and for adding nitrogenous and
vegetable material to the soil, are
quickly seen and taken advantage of.

Nature’s attempts in every possible
way to clothe the fields and the wil-
derness with vegetation. In doing this
the plants selected by her to cover
soils and latitudes which vary widely
in composition, seem almost invariably
adapted to the particular nook which
each occupies. Yet with this lesson
apparent on every side how many are
the tillers of the soil who studiously
attempt to plant economic plants in
suitable environments?

It is the wise farmer who does this,
and if it is for man to have dominion
over all things he ought further not
to complain too bitterly when he
meets with failure, but rather he
should set himself to the task Of learn-
ing how he may direct with greater
accuracy nature’s agents to the end
that he may better insure more defi-
nite and satisfactory results from his
labor.

Market Plan of Stock 'Mcn.

Committee of Fifi‘een Make: Report

HE Live Stock Marketing Com-

mittee of Fifteen announced the

major features of its plan for
the establishment of producer-owned
and controlled live stock commission
companies at the close of its last ses-
sion held in Chicago on August 10-11.
Some of the lesser details are still to
be worked out in future meetings of
the committee.

President J. R. Howard of the Amer-
ican Farm Bureau Federation has
been authorized by the committee to
call a conference of representatives
of the producers to ratify the plan, the
date of the conference to be sometime
between October 15 and November 1.

The plan involves the establishment
at each of the terminal markets where
conditions justify a producers’ com-
mission association and a producers’
stocker and feeder company. The com-
mission association will be incorpor-
ated and under the control of a board
of directors of from five to nine mem-
bers who will select the manager and
other employes.

Membership will consist of both co-
operative shipping associations and in-
dividuals who in all cases must be
bona fide live stock producers. The
shipping associations will pay a larger
membership fee than an individual but
a smaller fee per individual member.

The board of directors of the term-
inal commission association will be
elected annually by the members who
will vote by districts. The number of
votes allowed to each district will be
proportionate to the amount of live
stock shipped to the terminal associa-
tion during the precedingyear. State
lines will not be observed but rather
the natural shipping territory sur-
rounding each terminal. Members so
located that their live stock is con-
signed to various markets at different
times, depending upon prices offered,
may have a voice in the management
of the commission associations at sev-
eral points. ‘

Membership is universal; that is, a

member of one terminal association
can ship to another. terminal if he so

desires and obtain. all the advantages

  

 

   
 

company at each terminal market will
be a subsidiary of the producer’s com-
mission association and will have cap-
ital stock to provide funds for buying
and selling stockers and feeders or for
holding them through short periods if
demand is temporarily unequal to the
supply.

All the producer’s commission asso-
ciations and the producer’s stocker
and feeder companies will be united
in a. national live stock producers’ as-
sociation the government of which will
be in the hands of a national board of
from seven to fifteen men elected by
the membership. The number willin-
crease, presumably, as the organiza-
tion grows in membership. This na-
tional board will have headquarters in
Chicago, but will not be constantly in
session. It will offer suggestions and
supervise the commission associations
and stocker and feeder companies, and
endeavor to establish uniform meth-
ods. It will have power to suspend
members for non-compliance. It will
have a service department through
which information on market condi-
tions may be gathered and disseminat-
ed. Presumably it is through this or-
ganization that any efforts to distrib~
ute the flow of live stock in order to
stabilize prices will be worked out.

Once organized, the national board
will also have the duty of investigat-
ing and deciding at which terminal
markets additional producer’s commis-
sion associations should be organized.

No effort will be made to obtain
membership on the live stock ex-
changes for the commission associa-
tions and stocker and feeder compa
nies.

The plan involves no element of
pooling nor is there any contract bind-
ing the member to sell his live stock
through it. The only hold uponthe
individual member will be through the
quality of service rendered at low cost.

The committee of fifteen feels that
the producer owned and controlled
commission organization is-the logical
agency to handle the consignments of
cooperative shipping associations at

terminal markets-and. jsgv‘irtuallymakn 1

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Wednesday, August 10.

GOVERNOR SMALL, of Illinois, is
put under arrest on an embezzle.
ment charge, after the sheriff keeps a
long vigil at the state capitol.—A re-
port of the Visiting Housekeepers’As—
sociation indicates that a family of
five can live on $134.31 a month. The
actual experiences of many show that
it cannotbe‘ done.4A Ndrth Carolina
preacher says it is no longer a ques-
tion of :‘how does the other half liver”
——it IS ‘ how does the other eighty-five
per cent Iive?”——Butchers agree that
people should eat the cheaper cutsbt'
meat in order to bring IOWer prices.—'-—
The governor ,of.,.the New York F.8d-
enal Reserve Bank says ample credit
will be available to finanCe crops. "

. Thursday. Augusfldlu .. ._
SIXTEEN indicted members. or. the
. Detroit Wholesale Produce As’sOcia-
tion deny conspiracy to limit markets
and_assert they-were only protecting
“legitimate retailers.”—'—The war de-
pantment has ordered the abandon—
ment of seven war camps in this coun-
try by September 1.———Over a milli‘On
and a half members of railroad broth
erhoods have votedrto strike against
the wage cuts—«Recent rains have» put
out the forest fires around Escanaba.
—:Trolley service in Saginaw and Bay
City has ceased because the traction
company has gone into bankruptcy.—
Bitter fighting between Albanians and
Serbs along the Drina River caused
destruction of ten Serbian villages.

. . Friday, August 12. .
UNITED STATES. prisoners in Bus
s1a have been released by the Sov-
i-et government—«President Harding’s
father, aged seventy-six year'sf'mar‘
med a nurse, Miss Alice Severns, aged
fifty-two years, at Monroe, Michigan:—
The government has received several
bids for the Muscle Shoals plant since
Henry Ford made' his 'bid.—'—Major-Gen-
eral Leonard Wood has been appoin‘t—
ed governor-general of the Philippines
by President Harding.—-A ~thief, who
ransacked the Willard library at Bat-
tle Creek, was kind enough to leavea
box of chocolates on the librarian-'s
desk—“Mrs. Wm. Teeter was instantly
killed by lightning near West Branch,
Michigan. She- ,was the mother of
eighteen children, among them being
four pairs of twins. '

Saturday, August 13.

THE secretary of labor has permit-
ted the admission of Canadian
farm laborers to work on Chippewa
county farms in August and Septem-
ber. The movement was sponsored by
Chippewa farmers who claimed they
could not get harvest help ;in the Unit-
ed States.—-President Harding has ap-
pointed Secretary of State Hughes to
represent this country in the coming
peace parley.—-A detachment of sev-
enty-five we'll-armed state police fail
to stop the rum-runners entering from
Canada—Overseer .Volivia of Zion
City renews his attacks on religious
organizations other than those of the
Dowieism faith.——Two thousand boys
and girls compete at the Detroit Rec-
reation Department’s Field Day at
Belle Isle.—A Chicago diamond whole-
saler lost $100,000 worth of diamonds
on a Pullman sleeper of the Twentieth
Century Limited.

Sunday, August 14.

NE hundred persons were 'killed

when a government powder maga-
zine exploded at Hiroshima, Japan.———
American washing machine manufac-
turers start an educational campaign
and will publish text books on wash-
ing clothes.~—Babe~Ruth_ knocks his
forty—third home-run for, the, season—-
The strength of the United States
army is now 155,000.——Ex-Kaiser“Wil-
liam of Germany gets so many re-
quests for financial assistance that he
has had a circular letter printed for
reply.——Astronomists state that the
earth passed through the tail of a
comet Monday night, August 3.—‘-Act-
ing Secretary of Navy Roosevelt, has
ordered an inventor of all naval prop
erty as a basis of t e navy’s economy
program. » ’ '

Monday, August 15.

F congress postpones actionon‘fanti-

beer legislation, Seeretary of ‘the
Treasury Mellon states he will legal-
ize the manufacture and sale ofreal
beer for medicinal purposes.—_A, Port
Jervis, New York, man asks a" octor
to locate his heart then steps .i' 0 an
adjoining room and kills ‘himse'm—‘L-
DeValera, Irish republican,“ leader
spurns Lloyd George’s ,peacegje,
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ESTIMONY of a great many

Michigan farmers indicates a.

growing popularity for sweet
clover. The old ' objection that live
stock will not eat it is being disproved
time and again by actual experience.
“My horses push June grass hay to
one side and eat sweet clover in pref-
erence,”
farmer. “I have never had trouble
with getting my stoCk to eat it,” said
another. “I pasture it and feed it for
hay and the cattle always clean it up
in good Shape.”

A Huron county farmer believes it
to be the best pasture crop for that
section. ‘A half-acre lot seeded in July,
1920, was pasturéd from October 15
till it froze up. This spring a cow was
turned on as soon as growth started
and there has been more than enough
pasture for her ever since—all this
.When other pastures were suffering
severely because of the drought.

In another four acre field seeded
~with rye in the spring of 1920, part of
"the stand killed out due to heaving
and spring frost injury. Still this field
' yielded better than a ton of good-look-
ing hay to the acre,’ with good hay at

'a premium.

Another Huron county farmer, Mr.
William Krohm, of Elkton, writing on
July 5 says: “I have twelve acres of
sweet clover this year that I am using
for pasture. It has been carrying four-
teen head of cattle and three colts and
for the past week I have been turning
my six work horses on in addition.
All the stock is doing well and they
have pasture in plenty while other
pastures in the community are all dry-
ing up.”

In going over Michigan this season
one most noticeable condition has
been the dried-up pastures and an ex-

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* ~ Tar: C rap is Gaining in Favor wz’la .M'cazgaa Farmers

By Howard C. Rather

Extemion Special/2'1! in Farm C r0135.

ceedingly short hay crop. Field after
field would hardly pay for the cutting.

Hundreds of acres were just mediocre. .

The drought had done its work. .Yet
farmers who were growing sweet clo-
ver or alfalfa had an abundance of
hay in spite of the dry weather.

“Sweet clover is the backbone of
my farming system,” said Clark U.
Haire, of West Branch. Mr. Haire has
had remarkable success in getting his
crops to grow on real light land. We
were Walking through a field of Rosen
rye which should yield fully thirty
bushels to the acre. “It is the sweet
clover,” said Mr. Haire. “I had heard
of its use as a soil improver so I seed—
ed it here. The next June I got a fair
hay crop though I cut it rather too
low and killed out part of my stand.
In spite of this there was a heavy
growth of top to plow under for the
rye and this is the best crop the field
has ever raised.”

Its drought resistance, its ability to
produce on lighter lands, the abund-
ance of high-quality forage or green
manure it produces when properly
handled—~these are the characteristics
which give sweet clover its merit.
Like all' other crops it requires the
right sort of care and effort if it is to
be grown successfully.

It is a fairly common occurrence to
find a seeding of sweet clover growing
only where the wheels of the drill
packed the soil. This emphasizes the
first essential in getting a good stand,
that of having a firm, well-packed seed
bed. Particles of soil must be close
together to give the tiny root some-
thing to feed from and to bring up the

moisture necessary to start germina-
tion.

Lime is another essential. While
perhaps not quite so sensitive to sour
soils as alfalfa, still on soils with a
tendency toward acidity sweet clover
responds freely to applications of lime.
In the Thumb district sweet clover has
been spreading more widely than al-
falfa, because it is less susceptible to
injury from a lack of drainage. Most
Thumb soils are naturally well sup—
plied with lime, however, so additions
asa rule, are not necessary. In gen-
eral acid soils should receive an ap-
plication of two tons of finely ground
limestone or its equivalent per acre.

Where soils have not grown sweet
clover or alfalfa previously, inocula-
tion is necessary. One of the chief
benefits derived from sweet clover is
the nitrogen which the bacteria on its
roots take from the air and change to
nitrates available for plant food. In-
oculation insures the presence of those
bacteria. The same culture answers
the purpose for either alfalfa or sweet
clover. A twenty-five—cent bottle from

.the Bacteriology Department of the

Michigan Agricultural College is sufii
cient to inoculate a bushel of seed.
Full instructions accompany each
bottle.

Sweet clover seed may come in
.three forms, unhulled, hulled but not
scarified, and scarified. Scarification
consists of blowing the seed over sand
paper to make the seed coat thinner.
This increases the speed and percent-
age of germination. Scarified seed is
ordinarily used at the rate of twelve
to fifteen pounds per acre, unscarified

at fifteen to eighteen pounds, and un-
hulled at twenty-two to twenty~four
pounds.

Most Michigan farmers make their
sweet clover seedings in the spring.
Seeding on rye or winter wheat at the
last snowf fall, harrowing seed in or
seeding across the grain rows with a
four-inch drill later when the ground
will carry implements, seeding with
oats, barley, or peas, all of these are
more or less common practices. On
the heavier lands sweet clover some-
times grows so rapidly as to interfere

with cats or barley if seeded with

them. In that case it may be seeded
two weeks later than the grain crops.
Time and height of cutting are of
vital importance. During the past sea-
son the writer has seen field after
field killed out because the mower bar
cut under the new buds which, in the
second season, appear in the axels of
the lower leaves. The longer the sweet
clover is left to stand the higher it
will be necessary to cut it in order to
get a second crop. It makes the best
grade of hay when cut just before the
blossoming period. At this time if the
mower bar is set on shoes which raise
it up seven to nine inches it will clear
the new buds and permit a' second
growth. This second crop may be used
for seed, pasture or green manure.
The experience of Mr. Clayton Eby,
of Elkton, Michigan, indicates some-
thing of what may be expected from
sweet clover as a hay and seed crop
Mr. Eby says: “I had about nine
acres of sweet clover on some light
land, the poorest on my farm. From
this piece I out enough hay to feed
my four work horses all winter and I
threshed twenty-eight bushels of seed
from the second crop. At $9.00 per
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ITH the reorganizing and en-

larging of its rural education

department the State Normal
School at Ypsilanti is making a big
effort this summer to place the rural
educational system of Michigan on a
par with the standards of states now
recognized as leaders in this field.

M. S. Pittman, Ph.D., of Columbia
University, specialist in rural educa-
tion; has been appointed head of the
reorganized department. “In rural ed~
ucation only,” says Dr. Pittman,

' "Michigan is far behind many states
in an educational way. To bring our
' standards up to the leaders we must
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branch of the school system. The best
plan by which this can be accomplish—
ed is the consolidation plan, where
several country schools are joined into
one. This plan has been tried with
marked success in sparsely settled dis—
tricts, such as North Dakota, and we
believe the idea can be worked out
in this state to its greatest per-
fection.” ‘
“Michigan, it seems to me, is ripe
today for a. great advance in rural ed-
ucation and it is our hope that the

' rural department of the Normal School

will beat valuable assistance in that
direction.” ,

Ar rural education club, “The Mich-
igan Trail Blazers,'.' has been organ-

   

 

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ized in the school and boasts of six
hundred and five members who are
pledged to carry the enthusiastic spir—
it of the rural department to every

section of the state. This club held
its first picnic this week, when nearly
seven hundred people gathered to
hear the speakers who set forth the
ideals and aspirations of the new de-
partment. Faculty members were in
hearty accord with the plans of the
club, and spoke most favorably of the
attempts which are being made to
arouse interest in this branch.
President McKenny, of the Normal
School, promised to, back the new de-
partment to the limit, ‘.‘because,” he
said, “we can have the finest rural ed-

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ucation system in the country, and we
are not going to be content with any-
thing less than that.”

Dr. Pittman also spoke, telling the
aims of the club, which he character-
ized in brief as “a determination to
make the rural school worthy of th
big and efficient teacher.” '

The “Trail Blazers” is probably the
largest organization of its kind in the
country, numbering among its mem‘
bers teachers from every county in
Michigan and from five other states.
Leaders are planning a program for,
the fall term by which they hope to
place the society among the really ac-
tive forces behind the campaign for
rural school betterment.

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PACKER CONTROL BILL PASSES.

HE packer control bill and the

Capper—Tincher grain market con-
trol bill were given their finishing vote
in congress on August 9. The packer
bill passed the house in its final form
on that date, and the Capper-Tincher
bill passed the Senate, as amended by
the senate committee on agriculture,
practically all amendments having the
approval of interested members of the
house who had been consulted. The
coincidence of both of these fundamen-
tal bills on the farmers’ legislative pro-
gram gaining approval on the same
date, makes this one of the red letter
days in agricultural legislation, not
only of this year, but perhaps of the
past decade.

The packer control bill goes direct
to the President for his approval, and
so general is the approval and confi-
dence in this measure, that it is prob-
able that before this is printed it will
be signed and in effect.

TO DISCUSS SOYBEAN INTER-
ESTS.

 

EVERAL hundred farmers and ag.

ricultural leaders from southern
Michigan are expected to respond to
the invitation of Professor Wallace E.
Hanger, of Ohio State University, to
attend a big soybean field meeting
which will be held on the Johnson
Seed Farms at Stryker, Ohio, in Wil-
liams county on September 9. Stryker
is about thirty miles south of Hills-
dale, Michigan. Observation of the
use of soybeans on the Johnson farms
will constitute most of the program.

A list of speakers from several

neighboring celleges and universities
is announced. Among them are Prof.
J. F. Cox and C. R. Megee, of M. A. C.
Others are Prof. Nicholas Schmitz, of
Pennsylvania; Prof. W. L. Burlison,.
of Illinois; Prof. L. F. Graber, of Wis
consin; Prof. M. L. Fisher, of Indiana;
Dean Alfred Vivian, of Ohio; Prof. F.
S. Wilkins, of Iowa, and a representa-
tive of the United States Department
of Agriculture.

The invitation to Michigan people
has been given a hearty second by E.
F. Johnson, owner of the farm.-—«H.

GRASSHOPPER LOSING GROUND.

 

LTHOUGH the grasshopper has

transferred his attentions from
the lower to the upper peninsula of
Michigan and is cutting a wide swath
across the upper peninsula from Chip-
pewa to Houghton counties, neverthe-
less his natural enemies are gaining
headway and it is only a question of
time before the problem will be solved
at least temporarily.

“Grasshoppers, plentiful in the low-
er peninsula for several years, are ac-
cording to schedule, disappearing,”
says Prof. R. .H. Pettit, head of the
entomology department at M. A. C.,
“owing to the presence of natural ene-
mies. In the course of time the latter
so depletes the ranks of the grasshop-
pers that the natural enemies die off
for lack of food and the grasshoppers
have another opportunity to multiply.”

Two of these natural enemies ap-
pear as the most promising. In the
lower peninsula the blister beetle,
which develops in eggs of the grass
hopper, is prevalent, and the situation
is improving most in regions that have

been longest infested. Even in the
upper, peninsula, where grasshoppers
have combined with the drouth to ruin
a large portion of the hay and cereal
crops, they are facing inroads by a
worm (gordius) commonly known as
hairsnake, which. makes its home in
the abdominal cavity of the grasshop-
per during part of its existence, spend-
ing the remainder of its time in water.

But because of the amount of cut-
over land where the pests may multi-
ply unmolested, the, task of fighting
them in the upper peninsula is partic-
ularly difficult—H.

HIGHWAY LEGISLATION
DELAYED.

 

HE senate committee on post of-

fices and post roads has reached
an agreement on .highway legislation
and voted to report out a bill which is
a fair compromise between the Town-
send bill now before the senate, and
the Dowell bill which has been passed
by the house. A number of reports
have been printed in various papers
that the Dowell bill has passed the
senate. This is not the fact. The bill
was only referred to the post offices
and post roads committee. The new
bill will carry an appropriation of $50,-
000,000 and provide for a federal high-
way commission to take over the pow~
ers and duties which are now lodged
with the bureau of public roads of the
department of agriculture. The bill
will provide that the federal aid tiere-
after provided must be expended on a
system of roads which is to be estab-
lished by the state highway commis-
sioners with the approval and consent
of the federal highway commission.

The chief requirement of this “sys-
tem”.is that it shall follow' the princi-
ple laid down in the Dowel bill, shall
include approximately seven per cent
of the highways of each state of which
four and seven-tenths shall be primary
roads of interstate significance and
three and seven-tenths secondary
roads tributary. to the primary roads.

PACKERS ASK FOR PERMIT T0
RESUME SHIPMENT OF FRUIT.

 

NNOUNCEMENT is made from

the office of Attorney-General
Daugherty that he will ask the dis
trict court for a modification in the
packer decree entered into last year
by representatives 0f the Big Five and
Attorney-General Palmer to permit the
packers to resume their busineSS in
the transportation and marketing of
fruits. It is understood that the at-
torney-general has been urged to ask
for this modification by the representa
atives of the citrus growers of Califor‘
nia. G. Harold Powell of Los Angeles,
manager of the California Citrus Grow-
ers’ Cooperative Association has been
in the city this week and while no an-
nouncement is made, it is understood
that this has been his principal busi‘
ness here. Fruit growers in many oth-
er sections are interested in this and
numerous requests have been made
before to permit the packers to put
their refrigerator transportation equip-
ment back into the fruit trade. There
is all the more reason that this should
be done now that the packer control
bill has been passed and the control of
this business would be lodged in the
hands of the secretary of agriculture.

 

 

 

ACTIVITIES OF FARM BUREAUS.

Latest [Vows From Local, State and National Organizations

 

 

 

 

 

SEED DEPARTMENT AGAIN BUSY

 

FTER a summer that was far from

lethargic, the State Farm Bureau
seed department is picking up rush
season speed in taking care of the
early requirements for fall seedings.
Rosen rye, Red Rock wheat, and
vetch lead the field at present. Much
Michigan wheat and Rosen rye is be-
ing sold outside the state.

Recently the seed department wrote
to county agents in nine middle west
states, setting forth the merits of Ros-
en rye, Red Rock wheat and Michigan
vetch. The response has been strong
and great quantities of Michigan seed
are going to other states to make new
production records.

ADDRESS MANY MEETINGS.

 

RESIDENT NICOL and Secretary
Brody, of the State Farm Bureau
have addressed scores of farm bureau

, audiences this summer as well as
- many other gatherings of rural folk.
No county farm bureau picnic is deem-
ed complete without having one or the
other present, according to the re-
quests l'or their presence. During the
week of August 8, Mr. Brody spent
four days in the upper peninsula where

, on August 10-11 he spoke before the
upper peninsula county agents and
- farm bureau delegates from the upper
. peninsula counties. August 17-18 he
attends the annual meeting of the
5 Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange
- at Cadillac, spending the remainder of
- that period at farm bureau picnics in
1 Wexford, Cheboygan and Gratiot coun-
ties. Mr. Nicol spoke at a nuniber of

  

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WANT A REDUCTION IN FREIGHT
RATES.

 

NDORSEMENT of the action of

the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
to bring about a conference of all or-
ganized agricultural and commercial
interests for the purpose of seeking a
general reduction in all freight rates
has been given by the executive com-
mittee of the Michigan State Farm
Bureau

Contending that present freight
rates are excessive, have defeated
their own purpose by decreasing the
railroads’ business and thereby de-
creasing returns, the Iowa Federation
charges that present rates have re-

 

Secrotary Brody in His New Farm
8 8 It. _ ' ‘ _

-.is' movedrsasrs the Iflmibnmau.
structipns have been given that wool

sulted in absolute prevention of the
movement of large quantities of agri-
cultural products because the trans-
portation and necessary handling
costs have absorbed in many in-
stances the entire amount received at
market for many commodities. In oth-
er cases the return has been so small
as to make shipment of certain agri-
cultural commodities highly unprofit-
able.

In the light of recent reductions in
operating costs, made by the railroads
through wage readjustments and oth-
er economies, the Iowa Federation
contends that such reduction in oper-
ating expenditures justify and demand
a corresponding decrease in the cost
of transportation. Valuations upon
which the railroads are now authoriz‘
ed under the interstate commerce
commission ruling to establish freight
rates were declared to be not actual
valuations and that rates based on
such valuations were unjust and al-
most confiscatory. .

A CONTINUOUS WOOL POOL SER-
VICE.

 

M

OOLING wool will continue indefi-
nitely throughout the 1921 season,

according‘to announcement from the

Staté Farm Bureau wool department.

Even after Sackers: have visited the.

local grading stations and have pre-
pared the wool for market, farmers
will be able to consign wool tostate

. headquarters at Lansing. to: arrive at

the same time the sacked graded.wool-
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them and they may send their wool

along with the sacked graded wool or
ship direct to farm bureau headquar-
ters. The fifty per cent cash advance
on the value of the graded »-wool will
continue but will be figured at Lan~
sing when. the wool is graded.

The farm bureau now has three rep-

resentatives touring the state, making
arrangements for exhibits at the vari-
ous fairs and locating local distribut-
ing points for farm bureau virgin wool
fabrics. Another representative is vis-
iting the great clothing mills of the
east. .
Thirty cents a pound import duty on
wool, scoured basis, instead of the
proposed twenty-five cents per pound
duty, limited by a thirty-five per cent
ad valorem rider, is what the nation’s
wool growers, meeting at American
Farm Bureau Federation headquarters
in Chicago, August 2, have asked of
congress. The request was embodied
in a resolutionsent to the finance
committee of the senate. The wool
growers said that the twenty-five per
cent rider of the present tariff draft
would reduce the twenty-five cent duty
to three or four cents, based on the
present value of wool, and that the
present rates of exchange would nul-
lify even that scant protection. Mich-
igan will itepresentthe wool growing
industry before the ,, senate finance
committee when the wool» hearing
comes up. It is declared bygthe‘ wool
growers that passage of the- present
proposed wool tariflj would ruin the
American industry. I

Car-loads of Michigan wjool an; new.

  

       

 

   
  
  
 

   

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MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS.

 

I would like to know the law as to
a wife’s rights. We hada division of
property but not a divorce. Now, can
She hold a widow's right in the rest of
my property, and can I sign away my
‘property without her signature on real
. estate ?———Reader.

Contracts of this sort are viewed
with suspicion and will not be enforc-
ed if it appears that the wife has been

.deceived or imposed on, and at all

events, are strictly construed. The
dower rights of the wife would not be
barred unless expressly released Or
.Very clearly intended to be. At the
common law such contracts were
merely void—J. R. R.

RYE FOR PASTURE.

 

I intend to seed fifteen acres with
rye this fall and cut same next year,
and want to use this land for pasture
the following year. I would like to
know whether rye will make good pas-
ture, whether it will come up the fol—
lowing year, how_much to sow to the
acre, and when is the best time to sow.
The land is clay and gravelly 10am,
very uneven, and has a great many
stones on it.—D. K.

Rye is more frequently used than
any other grain crop for pasture pur-
poses. It is ready for pastur'mg ear-
lier in the spring than other pasture
crops, and owing to its vigorous habits
'of growth is able to withstand heavy
pasturing over a comparatively long
period. If used for pasture alone, rye
will furnish pasture until time of rip-
ening early in July.

The usual practice is to pasture rye
sparingly for several weeks until June
grass pastures will stand grazing. The
live stock is then taken off the rye
and the field allowed to make grain.
The yields of grain are reduced to a.
more or less degree by pasturing, but
many farmers consider that the bene-
fits from the rye offset grain losses.

When rye is pastured until ripe, a
greater growth than usual of volunteer
rye may be expected the following
year.

For best results in pasturing it is
advisable to plant in early September,
using six peeks of seed per acre. In
our time of plant experiments with
Rosen rye plantings made in Septem-
ber gave much better yields than Oc-
tober plantings. For pasture purposes,
the earlier plantings done in Septem-
ber, the better.—J. F. Cox, Professor
of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

 

SOWING RYE~AND VETCH IN
STANDING CORN.

 

I have a field of clay that I have
had into corn for two years and in-
tended to sow rye and vetch this sum-
mer, but other work came on and. I
was not able to keep it clean enough
for that. I am wondering if I could

 

 

plow it this fall and seed to rye and
vetch after the corn is cut. Clover
does not do Well on this piece and I
wanted to lime it this spring, but
could not. Sorrel does well. Would
it pay to plant the vecth without lim-
ing? _My farm is small and I wanted
to cut out the small grains and raise
corn and hay, so want to seed in the
.corn. The land is good and strong.
Van Buren Co. E. B.

If you can go through the corn with
a one-horse cultivator or with a one-
horse fertilizer drill, one could sow
rye and vetch in standing corn al-
though there are many weeds. These
weeds will all die down and interfere
but little, if any, with the rye and
vetch if you could get a good stand.
None of the weeds will live over the
winter. Most of them have obtained
their growth and will not retard the
growth of the rye and vetch.

It will be all right also for you to
disc this ground up after you have har-
vested the corn, and sow rye and
vetch then, if you can get it in during
the month of September. The rye will
make a splendid growth and so will
the vetch if we have weather that is
at all favorable at that time of the
year.

Usually, clay land does not need
lime very badly. It is the light sand;
and deep sand, that is, where the clay
is far below the surface, where lime
is usually needed. It would do no
harm to lime the field but I aminclin-
ed to think that you could grow rye
and vetch on clay soil without adding
lime. I would much prefer to use acid
phosphate instead of lime on this clay
soil.———C. C. L.

 

BROKERS’ COMMISSIONS.

 

I bought a sixteen-acre farm for
which I paid $25,000; $1,000 ‘cash, $750
first mortgage, and $750 second mort-
gage. The real estate men did not
have the place listed, but just heard
that it was for sale. They kept $250
for commission, and they have $750
second mortgage for commission on
the place. Are real estate men allow-
ed more than five per cent? Is there
anything I can do to get back at least
part of the mortgage ?—Reader.

‘There is no rule of law governing
real estate brokers’ commissions oth~
er than the statute declaring that no
recovery can be had for effecting a
sale of real estate unless the contract
for same is in writing and signed by
the party to be charged. As it does
not appear that the agreed price of
the farm had anything to do with the
commissions, or that the buyer paid
any of them, the amount of the com-
missions and the legality of the con
tract of employment of the broker
would seem to be quite immaterial.
The buyer is merely bound to pay the
agreed purchase price; What is done
with the money is none of his busi-
ness—J. R. R.

 

 

 

  
  
  
 
  
 
 

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DAIRY DEMONSTRATION TRAIN.

 

~ HE dairy demonstration train
has been very successful. Com-
munity leaders in towns and cit-
ies, where the train has stopped, have
shown that they are behind the effort
which is being put forth to improve
their locality. This cooperation is re-
sulting in one of the biggest successes
ever achieved along this line.

For the first week of the trip, Glad-
Win holds the record for enthusiasm
and attendance. Between five hundred
and one thousand, people were in
attendance to hear the talks and see
the demonstrations. At the evening
meeting at this place, the local theater
was used Where moving pictures, per-
taining to dairying, were shown and
lectures were given by members of
the train. At this meeting the house
was packed and many people were
turned away. At the train, the follow-
ing morning, a pure-bred bull, a ram
and a boar were given by the business
men of the town to the lucky purchas-
er of $1.00 worth of merchandise.

A large crowd was in attendance at
Gladw’in, and the Gladwin merchants
showed their intention of cooperating
with Gladwin county farmers by pur-
chasing one of the thoroughbred H01-
stein bulls carried on the train, also
making use of the occasion to pur-
chase a thoroughbred Shropshire ram,
and a Duroc-Jersey boar. Tickets were
given out, the lucky numbers being
drawn from the box by Mr. Brownell,
of the Michigan Agricultural College.

Mr. Samuel Nash won the registered
Holstein bull, the Shropshire ram
went to Mr. Norman Bergey, and Mr.
Peter Sefernick was the winner of the
Duroc-Jersey boar. Gladwin county
farmers proved that they are in ear-
nest ‘in their efforts to improve their
stock, by purchasing two more of the
registered Holstein bulls.

Midland farmers purchased five of
the thoroughbred Holsteins, and farm-
ers in the vicinity of Mt. Forrest pur-
chased two. A good deal of interest
has been shown by the farmers at all
points where the “Better Sire" train
has stopped.

Although the train has been refer-
red to as a “male” train, due to the
fact that it carries and advocates bet-
ter sires, it is far from being such a
train. Practically as much time and
space is given to domestic.economy as
to the live stock economy. One com-
plete car is given over to home dem-
onstration exhibits, emphasizing the
value of milk and dairy products;
while one coach is used for the home
demonstration lectures. This phase of
the Work has attracted just as much
attention and aroused as much enthu-
siasm as the men’s part of the train.
The cause of this enthusiasm, on the
part of the women, is due to the won-
derful message which Mrs. Campbell,
state home demonstration leader, has
for the women of Michigan. This man-
ifest. interest of the women has led
Mrs. Campbell to believe that a train
devoted to home demonstration work
alone, would be a wonderful success
and should be attempted in the future.

 

CONDENSED MILK ADVANCES.

 

HILE export demand for con-

densed and evaporated milk is
very moderate, there is a domestic de.
mand for those products, especially
for case goods, that is very encourag-
ing to the manufacturer. Exporters,
too, are showing more than usual in-
terest in case goods although actual
orders have not been placed to any
extent, On the whole, the situation is
that it. has been.

   

There has been a strongldemand for.
bulk goods of all '. descriptions of late
is a result of the extremely hot,, dry
weather which has prevailed which
Created a demand for the product as a.
constituent of ice cream and which,
at the same time, served to curtail the
production of milk. The summer has
been an exceptionally satisfactory sea.-
son for the ice cream' manufacturer,
and naturally, has resulted in the util‘
ization of large quantities of bulk cons
densed and evaporated milk.

There is at present a, tendency fon
values'of all classes of evaporated and
condensed milk to advance. That is
a. result of the increased demand,'of
a gradual depletion of stocks held in
reserve, and of the higher asking price
for whole milk that is purchased at
factories. It is expected that demand
for bulk goods will diminish to some
extent in the near future because of
prevalence of cooler weather through«
out the country generally.

 

CARE OF ORCHARD SOIL.

 

I have an old apple orchard thirty,
or forty years old, on clay loam soil,
which has quite heavy June sod and
hasn’t been plowed for a good many
years. Would plowing and planting
to a cover crop help it and when
would be the best time to plow it?
The trees set close together and shade
most of the ground in the summer.

Wayne Co. ~- H. A. H

It may be that plowing your orchard
in‘ the spring, cultivating it through
the summer, and sowing it to a cover
crop some time in August, would ben‘
efit it. We believe, however, that un-
der the circumstances you would get
just as good results by leaving it in

June grass and cutting the grass two.

or three times a season and leaving it
in the orchard where it falls instead

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of using it as hay. The objects to be

obtained in the care of orchard soil
are to retain the soil moisture and to

.make free the plant food in the soil.

As your trees are close together and
the ground is covered with a good
June grass sod, we believe that you
can get sufficient mulch to retain the
soil moisture.

Whether you , practice. cultivating
and using cover crops. or use the sod
mulch, it will undoubtedly benefit your
orchard to apply some nitrate of soda
occasionally. Many of the orchardists
in the western part of the state have
had very. good results from the use of
nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammo
nia. For trees as old as yours. an ap‘
plication of from four to five pounds
per tree is sufficient. This application
should be made when the grass starts
growing in the spring. You would
probably get the best results by main
ing one application each spring for.
several seasons. The first effect of
this fertilization that you will notice
will be in the ranker growth of grass.
Later on you will notice that the fol-
iage on the, trees-fertilized will be
much greener and in a healthier con‘
dition than that of the unfertilized
trees.

It may be advisable for you to prune
your trees some in order to let the
sunlight through. Perhaps the heads
of your trees are too dense for the
best results. A moderate - pruning
would undoubtedly help in this re-
spect.

Of course, spraying and» other good
orchard practices are also very essem
tial in getting good results from the
orchard.

 

“Barnyard golf links” are a pretty
sure sign or a happy farm or commu-
nity. Pitching horseshoe»; is. a one
hundred per cent American apprt.

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HE chin-whiskered, patched trou-
sered American farmer with
ventilated straw hat, so familiar

to the urbanated cartoonist, ' was
never once seen at the homestead of
Hon. George B. Horton last Sunday
evening and Monday, where thousands
of farm folks gathered to make the
first camp in a well-planned auto trip,
to hold a Grange rally, to give_ farm
forestry deserved emphasis and inci-
dentally to pay respect to the host, a
man who has been a significant and
commanding personality in the build-
ing up of Michigan agriculture.

It was estimated that there were
upward of three thousand persons
present at the sessions on Monday and
that fully twenty-five hundred were
inspired by the impressive sacred ser-
vice given on Sunday evening. Of au-
tomobiles entered in the automobile
tour there were over one hundred and

 

S. J. LOWell, Master of the National
Grange, said this Grange Rally was
the largest he had attended this year.

sixty in which are now riding through‘

Ohio and Pennsylvania more than six
hundred tourists. The weather man
must have been away on his vacation
or else in unusual good humor, for the
atmospheric conditions were beyond
improvement.

All through the sessions the speak-
ers could not refrain from taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity to pay trib-
ute to Mr. Horton, whose great contri-
bution to agricultural advancement in
the state and nation is generally rec-
ognized. The instrumentality through
Which the greater part of his work has
been and is being given to the public
is that nation-wide organization, the
Grange. To it he has given unreserv-
edly of time, of energy, and of funds
to accomplish for the farmers of the
state. It was therefore most fitting
that the annual grange rally for the

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‘Grangers and Campers Meet
Herve Fme Program and Splendzd T me at Fruzt Ridge

southeastern counties of the state
should be held in conjunction with the
meeting of the farmer campers on the
Horton Homestead grounds.

There was a most hopeful revelation
in the sacred service held under the
magnificent trees of the front lawn On
Sunday evening. Ministers from the
local churches in the vicinity of Fruit
Ridge who spoke at this session have

a deep appreciation for the need of ‘

community welfare work. They are
on their tiptoes to serve and they
seem to have an abiding faith that the
church is for all the people, that it is
the greatest of institutions fo the
promotion of cooperation and t at it
is upon the principles of love and hope
and honest work which pure religion
is seeking to promote, that a better
day will be ushered in.

Almost as sacred was the session of
Monday morning, held beneath one of
the most magnificent oak trees of the

state, where man’s relation to nature _

impressed by speakers
and trees alike. Dr. Roth, of the Uni-
versity of Michigan, in his address as
chairman of the session described ef-
fectively how the forests, nature’s
great gift to man, are too frequently
given only passing consideration by
the practical man and how the value
of trees are too often underestimated.
Regarding the lessons from the ad—

was deeply

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dresses of Dr. Roth, Professors Tillis—
ton, Young, Cavanaugh, Cliittenden
and from the observations and estifi

mates made in the fine woodlots 01"

this farm, we have asked Mr. Horton

to write these out in his own vigor"

ous language for the readers of the
Michigan Farmer. As soon as his copy
is received it will be given publicity
through these columns.

The man who has the timerity to re-
mark, even carelessly, that while the
Grange has performed a good work,
its day is past, needs a jog. He is out
of date and does not know the virility,
the ,optimism and the peptomism of
this farmers’ organization. ()1d! The
Grange is not old. It is just in its
teens and what it has done is but. a
fraction of the possibilities of this
needed and well—founded farmers’ or-
ganization. So it seemed, at least, at
the Monday afternoon rally of grang~
ers from Lenawee and adjoining coun-
ties. The Hon. A. B. Cook, Master 01'
the Michigan State Grange, was intro-
duced by Mr. Horton as chairman of
the session.

Mr. Cook called on M. N. Dillon, lec-
turer of Fruit Ridge Grange, who ex—
tolled the aesthetic and commercial
advantages of the community and ex—
tended to all a most cordial welcome

to avail themselves of every benefit
and enjoyment there. Hon. W. A.
Moore followed. He described the

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The Farm Under Private Ownership

Back in January, 1917, there wasa farmer
who had a GOOD FARM, which was worth
$20,000. He had good horses and live stock,
with fences, buildings, wagons, plows and other
I implements in GOOD REPAIR.

In the three previous years the farmer had
made a LIVING on this farm, and after all
expenses were paid found that he had made a
PROFIT of a little over a thousand dollars
a year—a little over 5 per cent on the VALUE
of his farm. ‘

He had applied SUFFICIENT FERTILI-
ZER each year, and his land was in good condi-
tion for FUTURE PRODUCTION.

II
The Farm Under Government Control

But, because it was necessary to help win the
war, the GOVERNMENT TOOK POSSES-
SION of this farm, held it for 26 months and
promised to pay the farmer A RENTAL equal
to what he had made in the three previous
years.

[The Government DOUBLED the wages of
the farm hands and SHORTENED their
working hours.

It established working conditions under
which it took MANY MORE MEN to do the
SAME WORK, and under which, oftentimes,
men were paid for work NOT DONE]

But the Government DID NOT put on the
farm the amount of fertilizer necessary. It let
the fences get into BAD REPAIR; the roofs
of some of the buildings leaked. The farm im-
plements fell into bad repair. Nor did the
Government REPLACE all the tools-that were
worn out. ‘

The Government promised to PAY FOR
THE DAMAGES, but up to date theCfarmer
hasn’t got all of his money, though he needs it
badly to KEEP GOING.

Transportation Building

Chicago, Ill.

 

 

Running Farms? and Running Railroads

Those desiring further information on the railroad situation can secure it by addressing the offices of the Association

- III
Back to Private Ownership Again

At the end of the 26 months the Govern;
ment turned the farm back to its owner.

All the farmer’s tools and wagons had been
put indiscriminately in a pool and used on one
farm or another regardless of ownership.
Naturally no one had taken as good care of
them as the farmer would have taken of his
own implements.

At the same time the Government required
the farmer to CONTINUE WAR-TIME
WAGES and working conditions.

It would not permit him to decrease wages
nor to require a better. day’s work without ex-
haustive hearings before a Government board.

The prices of his farm products had increased
somewhat, but NOT NEARLY ENOUGH
to cover increased wages and the increases in
the cost of all his supplies—so that in 1920 he
made just $62 net profit on‘the farm which be-
fore the war was good for $1,000 net profit.

At the same time the demand for his prod-
uct-s began to FALL, and for some of them
there was hardly a market at any price. Then.
many people began to tell the farmer that he
could make money if he would REDUCE the
prices of. all his products, althoughon account
of high wages he was already selling some of his
stuff without profit, and even BELOW‘ COST.

Parallel Case of the Railroads

This farm is IMAGINARY, But compare
item by item and you have a true picture of
the railroad situation. , -

Although the railroads could not earn their
operating expenses and taxes in January and‘
February, it was July 1st of this year before
they could get any relief from high wages; And
then there was deducted from "their payroll
only $37 5,000,000——say ONE-,SIXTH—of the
increase of the past four years. '

Association of Railway Executives

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New York

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New method of transferring mails from ocean
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“Uncle Joe” Fordney, of Michigan,
father of new tariff bill.

 

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Copyright by Underwood l; Uhderwood. New York


   

CHAPTER XXI.
The Last F ight.

T was early in the morning, and

Bill Dale had just sent for Ben

Littleford. The hiliman hurried to
the office, for he believed he knew
what was in the air. He had already
gone to work at the mine, and his
thick beard, his face and his hands
were black with the dust of coal.

“Sit down, Ben,” said the general
manager. “We’re going to hold a coun-
cil of war.”

Littleford took a chair and crossed
his legs. ,

“Is it the Ball outfit?” he drawled.

“Yes,” answered the younger man,
and forthwith he told the other of the
news that By Heck had brought him
a few days before; he had not given
the matter really serious consideration
until that morning. “Now,” he fin-
ished, “I want to know whether you
think there’s any danger?”

Littleford tugged at his blackened
beard and frowned.

“Bill,” he said soberly, “do you rick-
ollect what'John Moreland told you
oncet about them Balls? He told ye
’at you wasn’t safe, and ’at he wasn’t
safe, ontel they was dead and buried,

didn't he? I believe he did. By Heck
says the’s a whole big passel 0’ them
Nawth Ca’liner Turners; he’s shore
them and the Balls’ll outnumber us
more’n two to one. Yes, the's danger,
Bill, and 'specially to you. They think
it was you killed Adam, and they don’t
think the law handed ’em a square
.3’ deal at the trial. You can shore look
fo’ trouble to come a-hellin’ when
they’ve gone and begun their Christ-
' mas drinkin’, and I’d bet a solid gold
, boss to a safety-pin they’re at it right
now.”

“Then listen to this plan,” said Dale.

“I’ll keep By Heck up the river
watching for them. He will have three
sticks of dynamite tied together and
capped and fitted with a fuse. If he
sees them coming this way in any-
thing like a force, he will fire off the
dynamite as a signal to us. Our men
will gather here in the upstairs of this
building, and bar the doors—”

“Oh, Bill,” moaned the old fighter,
“you shorely don’t think we’d ever let
'em git to the doors!”

“I hope they don’t, certainly,” smil-
ed Dale. “Where are your rifles,
Ben?”

“At the mine,” said Littleford. “Ye
see, Bill, we’ve been a—lookin’ fo’ this
trouble."

Dale went on,‘ “At By Heck’s sig-
nal, I’ll get on my horse and ride to
the lowlands for the Morelands. I can
get them a lot quicker than I can get
competent help from the law. What
do you think of it ?”

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"It’s a good. plan, I reckon,” growled
Ben Littleford, “only I don’t cotton,
very easy to the idee 0’ us a-runnin’
from the mine to this here buildin’.
I never did» like to run from any man
wu’th a durn, Bill.”

“But that wouldn’t be cowardly,”

Dale protested. “It would be purely a
strategic move, and it would save lives
for us. For, when the Balls and their
kinSmen come, you’ll have to deliver
me into their hands or you’ll have to
fight like the very devil, that’s sure;
and, according to By Heck’s figures,
they outnumber you more than two to
one.”

“All right,” Littleford replied, with
a shrug of his huge shoulders. “What-
ever you say, that same we’ll do.”

So By Heck was sent for, and short-
ly afterward he sneaked into the lau-
rels and went off toward the settle-
ment of the Balls. In the crook of his
arm he carried his rifle, and inside his
shirt he carried three pieces of dyna-
mite all ready for the match—and he
chose every step with great care for
fear of jarring the explosive too much.

He had not been gone an hour when
Bill Dale heard a dull, smothered roar
from somewhere to the northward.
Dale sprang up from his desk, ran to
his ready and waiting horse, mounted
and rode like a streak toward the
lowland.

“Go to it, Fox!” he kept saying en-
couragingly to the young bay, after he
had entered the old oxwagon road.
“Go to it, Fox, my boy!”

Fox went to it willingly.

Dale arrived at John Moreland’s big
white farmhouse a little before the
middle of the day, and halloed lustily
at the gate. John Moreland ”and his
two sons hurried out in response to
the call. Dale waved aside all greet~
ings and inquiries after his health, and
told that which he had come to tell.
The elder Moreland turned quickly to
his two stalwart sons-—

“Guns and hosses, boys! It’ll be our
last fight, and le’s be at it and make
it a good fight.”

Less than jive minutes later the
three erstwhile mountaineers rode out
at the barnyard gate with full belts of
cartridges around their waists and
with repeating rifles across the pom-
mels of their saddles, and joined Dale.
The four hastened to the homes of the
other Morelands; and not long after-
ward the old clan, in full strength,
rode toward the big dim blue hills
with Bill Dale acting as its leader. It
was to be the clan’s last fight, and a
fight for a good cause, and every man
of it was eager for the fray. White-
headed old Grandpap Moreland watch-
ed them out of sight with longing,
wistful eyes; and when he could no

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longer see them, he went into the
house and got down on his knees.

Bill Dale bore himself proudly, and
he rode like a man born to the saddle.
He found a queer joy—«a joy that
brightened his steel-grey eyes and
flushed his sun-burned cheeks. a joy
that he didn’t even attempt to under—
stand—in the thought:

“For this one day I am a clan chief;
I am leading my own people against
a foe, in my own country—-—”

And so overwhelmingly did the idea
take hold of him that he wished, even
then, for the repeater that awaited
him at his office back. in the heart of
the mountains.- Once his conscience
asked him a question—and he answer-
ed it with another question. Was he
doing that ,which‘ was right? Might
not the Littlefords all be killed by
those drunken cutthroats while he
was waiting for the arrival of a com-
pany of- militia from a city miles
distant?

Anyway, the militia would fight. His
clan would do no more than that. He
satisfied his conscience quickly.

When they had reached the lower
end of the cleared valley, there came
to them the sounds of slow firing, the
firing of snipers. Each man kicked his
horse’s flanks and rode faster. When
they came in sight of the besieged
building, they saw puffs of powder
smoke rising lazily from the upper
windows and from the mountain side
above and to the right. Again they
kicked the flanks of their horses and
rode faster.

At John Moreland's old cabin they
dismounted hastily and turned their
horses into the drab meadow. With
Dale still leading, they hurried on foot
to the river’s nearest bank and went
rapidly, under cover of the thickly-
standing sycamores, to a point within
seventy yards of the office and sup-
plies building. Then they made a dash
across the open space, and Ben Lit-
tleford, with one arm bound up in a
red-stained bandana, opened the door
for them. —

“Who else is hurt?” panted Dale.

"Little Tom," answered Littleford,
“and Saul. Little Tom, he got a bul-
let onder the shoulder. Saul, he got
one in might’ nigh it the same place.
They’ve riddled the whole t’other side
0’ the house to splinters. They’re a-
callin’ fo’ you.”

“They’ll get all they want of me,”
Dale growled.

He turned and ran up the rough
stairway, and Ben Littleford and the
Morelands followed close upon his
heels. At the front and side windows,
behind anything they had'been able
to "find that would stop a bullet, knelt

Littlefords with rides in their hands,
patiently watching for a human target
to appear on the mountainside above
them. Saul and Little Tom lay in a
corner, where they were fairly safe
from chance bullets. Hayes had
bound up their wounds as well as he
could with the material at hand. They
were both white and helpless and suf-
fering, but still full of the old Little
ford fighting spirit. ‘ .

Dale seized his Winchester and belt
of cartridges from the hands of the
man who had brought them to him,
and turned to the others. A bullet
crashed through the wall and struck "
the floor at his foot; he paid no atten-
tion to it.

“Listen to me, boys." He was buck-
ling his cartridge-belt with rapid,
steady fingers. “From where they are
hiding the Balls and Turners can hard-
ly see the lower story of this building.
We'll go downstairs, open the front
door, and run to the edge of the lau-
rels at the foot of the mountain. Then
we’ll turn to the right, make a wide
detour, and get above the‘ Ball outfit,
we’ll be fighting downhill instead of
Uphill. Get me? Are you all ready?”

To a man, they were ready.

They reached the thick undergrowth
without being seen by the enemy.
While the Balls and Turners fired
more or less aimlessly at the building,
~drank white whisky and called drunk-
enly for the surrender to them of Bill
Dale, Bill Dale and his men were mak-
ing their way steadily in a wide half-
circle up the side of David Moreland’s
Mountain.

Half an hour after they had lefttho
office building, Dale had stationed his
men, deployed as a line of skirmish-
ers, behind sheltering trees some two
hundred feet above the Balls and their
kinsmen.

John Moreland, Ben Littleford and
Bill Dale were not far apart. "It’s a
shame to do it," said Dale. “I swear,
we can’t shoot men in the back like
this!” -

John Moreland twisted his mouth
into a queer little smile of contempt,
and so did Ben Littleford. They knew,
far better than their leader, the ways
of that people without a pinciple. The
Balls and Turners wouldn’t hesitate to
shoot them in the back!

“Well,” John Moreland replied, and
it was almost a sneer, “we might go
down thar and give ’em some candy.
and kiss ’em, and ax 'em won’t they
please surrenderlf’

Dale leaned around his tree, a great
gnarled chestnut, and called boldly:

“You’ve got a chance to surrender
now—and you’d certainly better take
it quick!” ‘

(Continued next week).

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Our Wéeély Se
HEN one joins the church. what
’ does he do? Walks to the front
of the church, answers certain
questions put \to him by the minister
and takes certain vows, all' of which
‘is good. ‘But if it ends there, nothing
much will come of it. Joining the
church is the beginning. The church
is not a cyclone cellar where one is
safe, nor is it a hospital where one
may lie in bed and be waited on. It is
a, school where one learns, and it is
an army where one wields the weap-
one of war against the enemy. What
is the best method of knowing God?
Libraries have been Written on that,
and the question is not answered. But
today we will study the methods used
by one Paul, who was a seeker after
God, during a long and eventful life.
He took the vows of discipleship. Not
content with that, he tested himself
and his faith in other ways. ..

In the third chapter of Phillipians
he states his method. Speaking of
Christ he says that f0r his sake he
(Paul) has suffered great loss. Furth-
er he says he has determined to know
Christ and the power of his resurrec-
tion and the fellowship of his suffer-
ings, being conformed unto his death.
His first step in the knowledge of God,
then, is in the loss of everything that

‘ he counted dear. He says it was the
“loss of all things.” On another occa-
sion he tells more particularly what
that loss was. Paul came of an hon-
orable family, of the tribe of Benja-
min. If any one had a right to family
pride, he had. More than‘ that, he had
been highly educated, at the feet of
one of the most celebrated of the Jew-
ish doctors of the law. He was well
known as a young and rising Pharisee.
He was certain to make a name for
himself. All this he gave up for
Christ.

Now it is well known that we value
anything in proportion as we sacrifice
it. Members of the American Legino
are much exercised these' days be-
cause of the bolshevism and radical-
ism there is in the nation. They are
determined to fight it, for they know

 

what it costs to defend the flag. They‘

take their citizenship much more ser-
idusly than many people, because they
have suffered in. its defense. Paul
knew Christ to the extent that he gave
up everything for him. To what ex-
tent has the reader of these lines suf-
fered loss for his faith? There is no
escaping the conclusion that where
there is no sacrifice for a thing, it has
no value. The reason why young men
work their way through college, doing
all manner of hard work for four
years, is because they estimate an ed-
ucation to be worth something.

Paul’s second method of measuring
his knowledge of Christ was by know-
ing the power of his resurrection. The
same Power that raised Christ from
the dead is the Power that raises the
believer into the new life. Now, how
did that Power operate, when the Sav-
ior was raised from the dead? Christ
was dead. He had not fainted. He
had not been h‘ypnotised, he was dead.
Between the time He was laid in the

tomb and Sunday morning someth’ing~

happened. What was it? Was He sud-
denly raised from the dead, so that He

leaped to his feet with a triumphant

cry? Did He come back to conscious-
ness slowly, as when a child awakens
after long sleep? Whatever the meth-
od of that quickening was, Christ
came back to life. Now, says Paul, I

want to experience that resurrection
in a. spiritual way, in my life.

 

man—By.

fingers?

 

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AND now he passes to that myste-
rious statement, that he intends
to know Christ by sharing in the fel-
lowship of His sufferings. That is an-
ti-modern. The modern man flees suf-
fering. He will have as little of it as
possible. He wants a cheery, breezy,
hearty religion. No doleful stuff for
me, he says. But Without suffering
there is no true religion. William Penn
was right: No pain, no palm; no gall,
no gain; no thorns, no throne; no
cross, no crown. Why, our civiliza-
tion is built on suffering. Your very
clothes bear witness to it. Did you;
never read ‘of the story of Elias Howe?
As he lay in bed, sick, he watched his
wife sewing; sewing to pay the family
bills. Howe thought to himself, is
there no way by which machinery will
take those stitches, and save human
From that distressing scene

 

the sewing machine was born.
state is built on suffering. Lincoln’s
face was worn and creased with men-
tal anguish. He said, “If there is any
man out of hell who suffers
than I do, I pity him.” Hamlin Gar-
land’s story, “The Return of a Pri-

The I

more ‘

 

 

vate," tells the same thing in another;

way.

was returning home in ’65. He was

A soldier of the Union Armyi

tired out with walking, sick at heart"

sick in body. But he was cheered

when he thought of the welcome that .

awaited him.
and the children.
would be!
who would go pretty nearly crazy with
delight, jumping and barking, and roll.
ing in the grass. But when the pri-
vate arrived at the farm, wife and
children were not there, and no dog
came out to greet him. The Union
was preserved only through pain and
death. This is the six hundredth an-
niversary of Dante's death. He was
one of the world’s great poets. People
say, “why can’t America produce a
world poet? Are we not as clever as
the Italians?” Answer: When some
man is called‘On to suffer as Dante
did, perhaps the great American poet
will be forthcoming. The reason why
Dante could write of the inferno as he
did, until it glows and rages before
us, was because the poet had been in
the inferno, in long years of suffer-
ing.
in life, his own ocuntrymen turning
against him as a traitor, he goes forth
to wander, an outcast in the earth.

What a reunion it

is not this a
I thought

UT, someone asks,
gloomy sort of religion?

There were the wife

And there was the dog,‘

 

His beloved Beatrice died early;

Christianity was a cheerful, optimistic ‘

religion.
only true to the facts of life.

No, it is not gloomy, it is
Chris- 1.

tianity is a. cheerful religion, but isf
cheerful because it does not shrink:
from facing actualities. When a man’s é
leg is broken, the surgeon may be the ,
most cheerful person on the place."

But he causes the patient intense pain,
as he sets the broken limb. We must
face the facts of life. And when we
do, the Christian religion is not afraid
of anything. It walks through the
slums of the city, and says, “I am
stronger than you are." It sees the
wretchedness and vice of our modern
civilization, and says, “I can drive you
out.” It looks at the foolish youth
who leave the country and rush to the
city in search of they know not what,
and says, “I know what you want, and
I can make you happy, back there on
the farm.” These are some of the
ways the great apostlechose, of know-
.ing his Master. They will yield won-
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Entertainment Can ta Farniséea’ and Home Talent Encouraged éy \
Community Dramatic Performances

ORE and more since the boys
M came back, country folk are
coming to realize that if we keep
the young folks on the farm we must
not only eliminate a lot of the drudg-
ery, but we must provide entertain-
ment for them. The days when early
to bed and early to rise, and all play
and no work makes Jack a lazy boy,
had power to move, are long since
passed. The cities with their dance
halls and movies, or perhaps their con-
certs and lecture course, are too easy
to reach. Factories and stores offer
to both boys and girls a means of
earning a living easily, with several
hours of fun besides. So if the coun-
try is to hold its young folks it must
hustle up and establish some way of
catering to the pleasure—loving side of
normal, healthy boys and girls.

A form of entertainment which is
growing more and more popular in
country places is home talent theatri-
cals. The movement started in North
Dakota, not an idea of the Non-Par-
tisan League, but a well thought out
plan of Alfred G. Arvold, of the de.
partment of literature and sociology
at North Dakota Agricultural College.
When Mr. Arvold went up to North
Dakota to teach literature he had an
idea that laboratory methods could be
worked out as well in literature as in
any of the sciences. Accordingly he
encouraged the students in his depart-
ment to write plays and playlets, and
organized a half dozen dramatic soci-
eties to put on not only the plays
written by the students, but standard
works.

Later the president of the college
turned over the- second floor of the ad-
ministration building, and the attic, to
Mr. Arvold for a theater. The second
floor was converted into an auditor-
ium, with a good-sized stage, ‘and the
attic made a fine workshop, dressing
rooms, offices and library. Dramatic
literature was collected here, and
books are lent to people of the state
for a period of one week.

The students themselves made the
scenes, drapes, curtains and costumes,
and the plays were drawn from every-
where. Some were written by farmers
of the state, some by students, and
occasionally one w‘as put on which
was written by a students in some
other school. All over the state the
news of the work at the college spread
and one summer Mr. Arvold and a
company of his star players traveled
the state, putting on shows in remote
towns. The result has been that
scores of Little Country Theaters
have sprung up all over North Dako~
ta, and the movement is spreading in-
to many other states.

In communities where the idea has
been worked out thoroughly the meth-
od of organizing has been to send out
a. questionnaire, asking those who will
join totell what they can best do. The
volunteers are then divided into scene
painters, costume makers, .or actors,
accbrding to individual talent. To be
successful the Little Country Theater

a.

must be a real community, affair, with
everybody and his wife wbrking. A
one-person show will not work out.

Of course, a suitable hall must be
found. If you have a consolidated
school with an assembly room, this
may be utilized. In lieu of either
school or community house which is
suitable, a town hall, or unused loft
over a store, or even a barn, may be
made to do, with the aid of an ingen-
ious carpenter. Many manuals are
published which give directions for
building the stage, and on scenery and
costumes, making up, etc. A request
for addresses of publishers will be fur-
nished anyone who cares to send self-
addressed stamped envelope asking
for them. The Little Country Theater
Play Service of the North Dakota Col-
lege issues a booklet of suitable plays
for amateurs.

Mrs. Louise H. Campbell, director of
home agents at the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, has worked with Profes-
sor Alvord in the Little Country The-

ater movement. As yet she has done
no work along this line in Michigan
rural communities, but is always
ready to advise any community need-
ing her services. She may be ad-
dressed at East Lansing.

Pageants, in which everyone can
take part, are as much a part of the
work, as one~act playets with a half
dozen actors. Michigan, with its
wealthy of.historical stories all drip-
ping with dramatic interest, offers un-
bounded material for pageants. Start-
ing with the legendary Hiawatha, and
following with the coming of the
French, the many thrilling events of
the French and Indian war, Pontiac’s
conspiracy, the giving over of the
state to the British, and later its rapid
settlement by pioneers from states
farther east, there is much to be
drawn upon for pageants with a state
appeal. Then nearly every locality has
its own particular history which is re-
plete with local interest. A pageant
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S. O I
mgln g in

HY do so few mothers and fath-

ers nowadays sing either to or
with their children the songs which
combine fine sentiment and really
good music to offset the current atro-
cities which masquerade as melody?
What has become of the parents who
used to sing the nursery songs and
other good melodies to their babies,
and follow them with a wider range
of music as the children grew older
and needed it? Where are the grand-
mothers who knew all the fine old
hymns and ballads and were not afraid
to let their voices be heard by admir-
ing youth? Where, oh, where are the
modern children who are brought up
on anything but ragtime or jazz?

As a nation we are losing the power
of expressing ourselves in song, and
the younger generation is losing all
the joy and cultural value of being
brought up in households where mu-
sic is as much a daily habit as speech,
and father, mother and children sing
separately or en masse as regularly
as they eat and sleep.

Nothing can take the place to the
child of the living human voice as a.
musical medium. In no other way
than by listening and trying to copy
can he so easily be taught to sing
himself. There is no fund of mem-
ories in later years which will yield
him such rich treasure as those con-
nected with the music of his child-
hood, provided it has been madevby
mother, father, and the rest of the
family.

Whatever the reason for the disap-
pearance of singing in the home, be
it lack of time, fancied lack of ability,
the prevalence of the “record” or the
family exodus to the f‘movie” every

the Home

evening, the songless condition of the
modern household is a national men-
ace and should be remedied without
delay if we want to do what we can
to bring back to the world some of
the old grace and charm and peace of
the days that are gone.

If every mother and father would
resolve to spend ten minutes a day
singing with and to their children,
preferably the songs of their own
childhood, I venture to predict that in
a few years there would be a marked
change in the too often insolent mod-
ern attitude of many children towards
their elders, and that we should not
hear so much as we now do of the bad
manners of young people. Music still
hath its charms, and a mother’s music
is a charm which ought to surround
a child’s life from babyhood, be a de-
lightful and living memory in later
years and an inspiration to do like-
wise, when the time comes, for the
new generation.

Parents will find the following books
helpful: Songs for the Little Child, by
Clara Belle Baker and Caroline Kohl-
saat, published by the Abingdon Press,
150 Fifth Avenue, New York; Little
Songs of Long Ago, harmonized by
Moffatt, published by D. McKay, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.; Folk Songs and Other
Songs for Children, edited by J. B.
Radcliffe~Whitehead, published by 01-
iver Ditson, Boston, Mass; Songs the
Whole World Sings, selected by A. E.
Wier, published by D. Appleton & Co.,
New York; Ballads the Whole World
Sings, selected by A. E. Weir, publish-
ed by D. Appleton & Co., New York;
The Child’s Own Music Book, selected
by A. E. Weir, published by World
Syndicate Co., New York.

talent should furnish enough enters
tainment to keep a neighborhood busy
almost a season. ‘

TOMORROW’S DINNER.

Spring Lamb and String Beans
New Potatoes in Jackets
Lettuce Salad Bread Sticks
Cherry Mold Iced Tea
Spring Lamb and Beans—Buy they
forequarter, and cook as a pot roast.
Clean and cut in halves lengthwise,
tender string beans. Add to the lamb
from a half-hour to forty-five minutes
before it is done, depending upon the
tenderness of the beans. When the
beans are- cooked, remove the lamb
and thicken the gravy with flour. Pour
gravy and beans on the platter around

the meat.
Lettuce Salad—Mix thoroughly two
cups of boiled salad dressing with one

* and one-half cups of chili sauce and

pour over the lettuce which has been
washed clean, dried and chilled. The
factory chili sauce is nicer for this
than home-made.

Bread Sticks—To a pint of bread
sponge add the well-beaten whites of
two eggs, and proceed as for bread
making. When light enough to form
into loaves, shape instead into rolls
about the size of a thick lead pencil.
They should be baked in a pan made
especially for baking bread sticks.

Cherry Mold.--Cook one-half cup of
rice and one scant teaspoonful of salt
in one quart of milk until rice is thord
oughly'done. Add one cup of sugar,
and let cool. Then stir in one tea—
spoonful of vanilla and a glass of pre4
served cherries, and fold in one-half
pint, or one cup, of whipped cream.

MORE PARTNERSHIP, LESS
DIVORCE.

HIGH school girl in a home eco‘

nomics class has startled her eld‘
ers by declaring if women would learn
to keep accounts there would be fewer
divorces.

Yet this girl’s high school class in
home economics, according to Miss
Louise Stanley of the Missouri Col«
lege of Agriculture, is not studying the
divorce problem, but is studying the
problem of homemaking. The little
lady's discovery is in harmony with
the pronouncement of a distinguished
New Jersey educator, 'Wesley J.
O’Leary, who said that poor breakfasts
and bad cooking at home are respon-
sible for domestic difficulties and in:
dustrial inefficiency. ‘

The women of the country are not
at, all perturbed by this discovery.
“All right,” they say, “Pass the Fess
Home Economics Amendment and pro-
vide better opportunities .for women
to learn ,how to prepare. breakfasts
and keep accounts. The-'paSSage of
this bill will help “aware in the
Union to get'this work under way, all
we want is for the representatives and
senators to get busy and pass E.
R. 21.” ‘

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(Continued from page 159).
passing of the harness between busi
ness men and farmers and declared
that our great purpose in life is to
enable all to deVelop all the latent
powers to the end that they may fully
meet life’s opportunities. Overseer of-
the State Grange, Mr. Bramble, em-
phasized the thoughts that whatever
is done to aid the farmer is done for
the nation and that we have reached
the point where insurance has become
an essential to, and a great stabilizer
7 of, our economic life. Dora H. Stock-
man, lecturer of the State Grange" and
member of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, likened Grange activities to the
wheels of an automobile. One wheel
represents the farm work wherein it
is shown that partly as a result of
thinking and cooperating the Ameri-
can farmer is able to produce from
two to four times as much as do farm-
. ers in any other country. The second
wheel is the family wheel. The organ-
ization has provided for and urgently
welcomes old and young of both sexes
to participate in its work. The fun
wheel makes provision for recreation,
for games and for a great variety of
social activities. The fraternal wheel
. is as much needed as when there were
no exclusive business cooperative en-
terprises conducted by farmers, for
there is now need of a training school
to prepare men and women for the
wider fields of business. The steer
wheel activities is devoted to the de-
velopment of leaders and there now
exists a most notable list of agricul-
tural specialists and rural workers
who received their start as Grange re<
cruits. Then occasionally a clay hill
is encountered on a rainy day when
all these wheels need the assistance
of the individual push and enthusiasm
to put the car on top of the hill. Rep-
resentatives Peter Lennon, of Shia-
wassee, and Charles Evans, of Lena-
wee, elucidated on the state’s tax laws,
urging additional sources of‘ tax in-
come and greater econOmy in carrying
011 the state’s work.

Hon. J. C. Ketchum, member of con-
gress and former state master, paid
eloquent tribute to the host and gra-
ciously introduced the master of the
'- National Grange, Mr. Lowell, of New
York. “There is need,” says Mr. Low-
ell, “to keep our Grange officers young
in spirit if not 1'11 fact. The undertak-
ing of new enterprises is a matter re-
quiring much thought and care, but to
keep the organization healthy every
phase of Grange work should be pros-
ecuted with. vigor. To render honest
and honorable service ought to be the
watchword of every local and greater
emphasis on Americanization work is
a challenge to all farmers’ organiza-
tions.

Mr. Nicols, president of the Michi-
gan State Farm Bureau, spoke briefly
of the activities of the farm bureau
and of the great preparatory work
done by the Grange. The last speaker
was Hon. Milo D. Campbell, who can—
tioned farmers to watch the work of
the tax commission in its efforts to
increase assessments on real estate
and to measure up when tests inco-
operative undertakings come.

Those going on the auto tour re-
mained in camp over Monday night
and started Tuesday morning at eight
o’clock for the two weeks’ trip to
Wheeling and return.

Says Sam: “Some fellows can think
up twenty things congress ought to do
for them, before they can think of a
single thing they ought to do for them-
selves.

A neighborhood without a commu-
nity house is like a family without a
, home.

Just think, sometimes, what a pret-
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We still have a few hundred of our bred to
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Send your order in early for 1922 de-

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WHITE WYANDOTTES
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of life thatrecallsthelcgend: “Drink
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. ’ weeks you can earn from
$160 to $4008 month in the
Auto and Tractor business.
/ Will rebate rail-
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Ry. Fare any point in the
United States to Kansas City.
JOBS OPEN. Sweeney trained
men in demand. See list of jobs.

Learn 7 good trades' in 8 weeks. No
gerience necessary. Use tools not books.

  
   
    
   

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Our Boys’ and Girls’ Department

 

 

 

A Real Army of Conquest

VERY day as long as the world

war was in progress, in every

city of this country the national
government kept flying at some cen-
tral point a flag, the flag we love so
well, and a banner inviting young men
to enlist for service in the army.
Scarce a. day went by when some boy
from city home or country fireside did
not enroll as a. soldier or a sailor and
go .out, perhaps never to return. How
high the hearts of these lads from
town and countryside beat when they
took this step, none may know who
never have passed through a similar
experience.

And the day came when these boys
of ours were gathered up in one great
body, given the needed training to fit
them for the duty which was to come
in afterdays and then sent away to
join the greater force on the other
side of the sea, finally to become an
army of conquest. Some of these boys

By E. L. Vincent

stirred by the beat of no drum.‘ No
bugle note summons them to duty.
But they go out quietly, almost un-
observed to their work in meadow,
pasture and tilled field. The uniform
they wear is simple and unattractive.
The tools they Wield, the plow, the
binder, the mower, the tractor. Their
record will not be written in any book.
Their names will appear on no muster
roll. The national archives at Wash-
ington will show nothing to prove that
these men ever lived and loved and
served. A patient, earnest, unobtru-
sive service is that of this army of

men and boys which is battling day__

by day for the good of humanity.

And yet, their service is a thousand
times more valuable to the world than
was that of the army of conquest over
seas. Not always are men ready to
admit this, and why? Because there
is a glamour over the life of a soldier
that does not appear in that of the

 

 

 

Some of the Seventy-three Michigan Club Leaders who Attended the Sixth
Annual Training School for Club Workers.

 

 

are even yet over there, with the army
of occupation; and they are doing their
best to carry out the promise they
made on the day of their enlistment.
Many of them gave the best they had
to give and lay doWn to sleep the long
sleep that knows no waking, on the
battle-seamed fields of France. Others
had not the strength to combat the
diseases that came through the un-
wonted exposures which they suffered.
Still others came back weak and crip-
pled and blind and full of aches and
pains that will follow them as long as
they live.

:History has written the story of
these brave boys that went with that
army of occupation and conquest. We
are proud of them. We love to see
them wearing the badges they won so
well. Everything love can prompt, we

 

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ALB:0NZ, 8,MICHIGAN U 5- L

 

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are glad to do for them. We do not
grudge them any honor that may, be
bestowed upon them. They are wor-
thy of it all. Never will we cease to
love them more and more as the years
come and go, bringing whitened hair
and trembling hands. God bless our
boys, the great and the grand army of
canuest!

But have you ever thought of that
other army of conquest that goes out
every morning from the farm homes
of this country to do service for hu-
manity? No flags flutter in the breezes
for these beys; no staring bulletins
invite them to put down their names
on the list of the immortal. They are

a

man of the farm. Not that this should
be so. Is it a fact that the crash of
arms, the roll of the drum, the moan
of the dying, are finer sounds than the
music of the reaper or the hum of the
farm engine tugging its way through
the day’s work of the farm? Ah! do
we not know well that the glory of the
battlefield is nothing compared to the
victories of the farm? That army
stands for pain and suffering and
death; this is bright with the emblems
of life and peace and quiet comfort.
One calls for the taking of life; the
other gives life. And this army which
goes out every morning is the real
army of conquest.

TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY PLAY
LEADERS.

 

HE following material is recom-

mended as being of value to per-
sons who are or who wish to become
community play leaders. Too often‘a
club leader finds himself utterly lack-
ing with a reserve of good games and
the following list has proven very
popular according to prominent com-
munity leaders.

Games and Play.

Play in Education (discussion of
theory and philosophy of play), by Jos-
eph Leer—Macmillan Co., 64 Fifth Ave-
nue, New York. PriCe $1.80. ‘ '
, Community Recreation (suggestions
for recreation boards, play leaders and
club agents); Community Service, Inc,

1 Madison Avenue, New York. Pricey
thirty cents.

Games for Playground, Home,
School, Gymnasium, (description of
several hundred games), by Jessie

Bancroft—Macmillan Co., New York.
Price, $1.60.

Ice Breakers (games and stunts), by,
Edna- Geister—Woman’s Press, 600
Lexington Avenue, New York. Price,
$1.30. \ _

Community Recreation, by Draper——
Association Press, 347 Madison Ave-
nue, New York. Price, twenty cents.

The Book of Games and Parties, by
Theresa Walcott—Small, Maynard &
Co. Price, $2.00.

Funology—Smith & Lamar,
ville, Tenn. Price, $1.75.

Popular Folk Dances and Games, by
Marie Hofer—A. Flanagan Co., Chica-
go. Price, seventy-five cents.

Social Games and Group Dances, by
Elsom & Triling—Lippincott, Philadel‘

Nash-

phia, Pa. Price, $1.75.

Layout and Equipment of Play-
grounds—Community Service, Inc., 1
Madison Avenue, New York. Price,

twenty-five cents.

Childrens and Singing Games, Old
and New, by Marie Hol’er—A. Flana-
gan Co., Chicago. Price, seventy-five
cents—G. O. S.

A MOVIE TRIP.T0 THE WEST.
OYS and girls in the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades, to the number of

one hundred and twenty, were treated
to a trip to California and other Pa.-
cific Coast stdtes as the crowning fea-
ture of the year’s work in geography,
as taught in the Lincoln School of
South Evanston, 111. Pupils and teach-
ers traveled via. moving pictures, be-
ing “personally conducted” by a school
film on Pacific mountains and low—
lands produced by the Society for Vis-
ual Education.

Following the showing, which was
given in the school auditorium and
consumed fifteen minutes, the pupils
returned to their classrooms and wrote
answers to several short questions,
put to them by way of learning their
opinion of the innovation.

To the question, “Has this reel fix-
ed more firmly in your mind the geo-
graphy of the western states?” one
hundred and fourteen answered in the
affirmative. The reasons which prac‘
tically every paper set forth were “be-
cause it ,is more interesting, more
real, easier to understand, easier to
remember.” “It was more interesting
because it was a picture. Our geo-
graphy book is just written,” wrote
one fourth-grade girl. A sixth-grader
put it succinctly: “Pictures tell things
plainer than words.” Another mem-
ber of a sixth-grade class which had
just finished making product maps of
the United States, wrote: “It was
certainly wonderful to see real people
cutting lumber, mining gold, picking
oranges and doing other kinds of
work.”

Many dwelt upon the fact that they
had felt they were “really trav’eling
out west, because everything was so
natural,” and a fifth-grade boy put
down: ”It is more like the real thing
than studying out of'a book. I can fix
it in my head better when I see it in
in the movies. ” This pupil, comment-
ed his teacher, belongs to the majority
of “eye- minded” individuals, as oppos-A
ed to those who grasp things more
quickly through the ear. 1; '

 

   

    

 
 

 

 

 

  


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News “From Cleverland

By L. 1!. Chm

 

 

 

MICHIGAN PICRIC ACID ALL‘OT-
MENT.

 

ICHIGAN is to receive 80011 624,-

000 pounds of picric acid present-
ed to the state by the United States
free of all cost save for preparing and
cartridging and for transportation
from Sparta, Wisconsin. This will cost
about seven cents per pound f. o. b.
Sparta, and nine to twelve cents per
pound delivered to the farmer. This,
however, is relatively a very small
amount of explosive for the entire
state, and it will be necessary to get
most of our explosives through ordi-
nary channels. If farmers order in
carload lots from the commercial pro.
ducers, they can probably get it for
fifteen cents, or a trifle more, per
pound, it was stated. '

MEETING OF UPPER PENINSULA
DEVELOPMENT BUREAU.

 

HE annual meeting of the Upper

Peninsula Development Bureau
was held at Iron Mountain, August 6.
The attendance Was unusually large
in spite of the fact that business con-
ditions in northern Michigan are not
satisfactory. There was every dispo-
sition shown to carry on. The attend-
ance represented every section of the
peninsula and points as far apart as
are Detroit and Mackinac.

During the past year the bureau has
promoted the tourist traffic through
the district, the Great Lakes-St. Law-
rence deep waterway project, provided
information on all sorts of subjects
relating to the upper peninsula, given
such aid and encouragement to new
agricultural developments of many
sorts. Undoubtedly the abolition of
the bounty system as related to most
noxious animals is to be credited to
the efiorts of the bureau. In place of
the bounty system has come the em-
ployment of specially trained hunters,
a new system which is working very
well. The inauguration of the soil sur-
vey in the upper peninsula, this sum-
mer, seems also to have been influ-
enced by the persuasive efforts of J.
A. Doelle, secretary of the bureau.

It is quite evident to residents of
upper Michigan that the agencies of
the state concerned with forest and
game conservation and the promotion
of agricultural betterment, which are
centered at Lansing, require the stim-
ulus and information which the devel-
opment bureaus can afford.

Among the speakers at the Iron
Mountain meeting of the development
bureau, Mr. E. E. Gallop, director of
vocational education under the Smith-
Hughes law, criticised the .back—to-the-
farm movement, since it might involve
making- farmers of people who were
unfit to be farmers. The important
thingies he saw it, was to help those
already on the farms to get more re-
sults for their efforts. He expects that
consolidated rural schools will be es—
tablished at Stephenson and Powers,
Menominee county, this fall. If they
fulfill both state and United States re-
' quirements, financial aid will be forth-
coming both from the state and na-

tional treasuries for these schools.

‘ Mr. L. F. Livingston, of Wisconsin,
recently engaged by the State Board
of Agriculture as land-clearing expert,
was given an opportunity to present
his views at this meeting. We are
assured on good authority, that we
have secured the ablest man for this
land-clearing job that the country pos-
. sesses. In Marinette county, Wiscon-
sin, last year, they had formed land-
clearing associations and added eight-
eon thousand cleared acres to that
county the season. Mr. Livingston

is in fav0r of any method that gets re-
sults. Methods must vary according
to circumstances. He uses both ex-
plosives and pullers.

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LAND-CLEARING wo’RK.

 

ITH ten million cut-over acres in

Michigan, Mr. Livingston evi~
dently has a big piece of work out out
for him, even if only a small fraction
of this area is cleared in the next few
years. His work will be carried on in
both peninsulas. There is, of course,
in both peninsulas much land that is
not worth clearing. This should be

returned back to the forests which‘

once covered them. That work falls
primarily to the state conservation
commission, but at its present rate, it
will be many years before even the

637,000 acres now belonging to the

state are reforested.

IRON COUNTY PLANS FAIR.

 

RON county is now tuning up for

its fair, September 20-23, at which
an unusual display of pure-bred stock
is to be the big feature. It is doubled
locally that other counties will be able
to make quite as good a showing un—
der this head, says the Reporter, 01'
Iron River. The Cleveland Calf Club
of the county is tightening up its or-
ganization and is to hold weekly
meetings until the upper.peninsula
round-up at Chatham in August, where
the boys will have a chance to Show
their skill in stock judging.

BEEKEEPERS MEET AT ALPENA.

 

HE summer meeting of the State

Beekeepers' Association was held
at the City Hall, Alpena, August 3-4. A
program of speeches on topics of val-
ue and interest to the industry was
presented to about one hundred bee-
keepers and delegates. Persons were
in attendanCe from all parts of the
state. Many took advantage of the
good roads and came by auto. For
several years the summer meeting,
which is always held in northern
Michigan, has been looked forward to
by many beekeepers and their families
as an opportunity for a vacation and
outing as well as a privilege which is
offered for hearing some valuable lec-
tures.

The chief speaker was Mr. E. W.
Atkins, of Watertown, Wisconsin. Mr.
Atkins showed results of experiments
and demonstrations which proved that
by using up-to-date methods the yield
of honey is increased from fifty to two
hundred per cent per year.

Miss Elsie Fischaber, of Saginaw,
Michigan’s only woman queen breeder,
discussed many troubles which are en-
countered in her work, and drew some
valuable conclusions from her experi’
.ments Her lecture illustrated well
the fact that we have learned only a
small part of what there is to be found
out in beekeeping.

Hon. L. G. Dafoe, mayor of Alpena,
gave a very interesting talk on the

natural resources of Alpena county.‘

He also gave a summary of the ac-
complishments of Alpena as a city.
One statement that impressed the con-

vention greatly was that ninety-seven

per cent of Alpena’s population live in
their own homes.

Through courtesy of the Chamber
of Commerce, sufficient automobiles

were provided to take the convention

as a body for a seventy-five mile trip
through the agricultural district of Al-
pena county and to the shale-beds and
limestone deposits.

It was voted to hold the next sum-
mer meeting at Alpena. ~B. F. Kmme.

    
    
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
   
  
   
   
   
    
  
   
    
 
   
   
  
   
      
 
   
   
  
  
  
  

 

Are You Buying the Value of Today
or the Reputation of Yesterday?

The farmer or stockman, who is compelled to drive over rough roads ;,,3
and land daily. wants to know his car has a still “backbone." _ ;

Briscoe is built to meet just such service. Its “backbone" is a seven-
inch frame. This special Briscoe frame insures a rigidity that saves
working parts from wear and tear. It does away with annoying
squeaks and rattles.

To you farmers who want a serviceable as well as a good-looking car,
the Briscoe is exceptional value. Its quality finish is the same as on
cars priced much higher.

BRISCOE

Wow Price

$ 1085

7.0 'B Jack-um. Mich

Pricesf. o. b. Jackson, Michigan

'Touring Car, 5 passenger $1085 Sedan S-passenger . . . . $1685
'Roadster, 2- or 3— passenger 1085 Commercial (Screen). , . 1035
Coupe 4— passenger . . . Commercial (Panel) . . . 1160

‘On both roadster and touring. grey or blue- black body

optional. black wheels. Black wire wheels. $50. 00 extra
Equipped with windshield wings, motometer, running-board mats,
and bumpers front and rear.
Make it a point to visit your nearest Briscoe dealer. Go over this car

with him. See its visible value—its completeness. Briscoe is built
for your kind of country, whether good roads. sand, hills or clay.

BRISCOE MOTOR CORPORATION, Jackson, Michigan '

THE CANADIAN BRISCOE MOTOR CO.. Ltd.
Brockville, Ontario

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Wheat
Winter Oats

and Rye

should receive the right kind of fertilization
if they are to be profitable under the present
trying conditions on the farm.

Use a fertilizer containing

3 to 5 % POTASH

and 6% to 8% if these grains are to be followed by grass or
clover. There is plenty of Potash in the country at much lower
prices than last year, and if you insist on getting it, you will

again find that
Potash Pays

SOIL AND CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE, H. A. HUSTON. Mgr.
42 Broadway New York

"local Fur BuyersWanled

One of New York's largest raw fur houses (Established 35 years) is looking for local r'aw fur
buyers to represent them this coming season. A very interesting proposition is being made to those
showing promise of big shipments. Write today for full particulars and also give us information

about your experience and other qualifications.
N. 508131. Inc., 22-24 West 27th St., New York. N. Y.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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THE HOME OF ~

lmn. Edgar of Dalmeny

Probably

a. World’s Greatesi
Breeding Bull

Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the Smith-
fleld Show 1919. and the Birmingham Show
1920. is a daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.

The Junior Champion Bull. Junior Cham-
pion Female. Champion Calf Herd and First
Prize Junior Heifer Calf. Michigan State Fair.
1920. were also the get of Edgar of Dalmeny.

A very choice lot of young bulls—sired by
Edgar of Dalmeny are. at this time. offered
for sale.

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOD FARMS
ORION, MICHIGAN
‘ W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop. Sidney Smith. Supt.

 

 

 

 

 

GLOVERLY ANGUS

(Jews and Heifers Bred to
Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd

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

Ten heifers. six
Best of
that make good. Reason-
Clio, Mich

EOISTERED Aberdeen-Angus.
Rbulls from eighg tin) Igurteen months.
breeding. the growt y in
able. inquire F. J. WILBER,

Reg. Aberdeen Angus

bells and heifers of the very best of breeding. from
12m 15 months of age. For next 30 days Wil price
bulls at $100.00. Real bargains. Inspection invited.

RUSSELL BROS.. Merrill. Mich.

' (‘uernseys — 8100 buys the last
RegIStered lilill we have. old enough for light
service—it will pay you to find out more about this
fellow. No reactors—no abortion—a clean herd.

J. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.
-—REGIS’I‘ERED

G U E R N 5 EV S BULL CALVES

Containin blood of wo rld champions.
HICKS‘ OUERNS fY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich.

UERNSEYS. Federal Accredited Herd No. 9407.
Four grandsons of Carrie Hillhurst. record 814
lbs. b. f. A. A. Class. out of cows now on test. Priced
right. Best producing cow in Jackson 00.. 6 yrs. old,
5500 gets her. G. W. a H. G. RAY. Albion. Mich.

’I‘wo reg. Guernsey cows four years old,

For sale just fresh. Two Reg. heifers, one year-
ling. and one two months old.

PERCY ANDERSON, R. 3, Fremont. Mich.

 

Females of superior breeding. at reduced
Guernsey prices. Tuberculin tested. Send for
sale list to day. 6. A. Wigent. Watervliet. Mich.

Winanod Herd

Registered

Holstein-Friesian Battle

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

John ll. Winn, [Ina]

Rochester, Mich.

 

H I i ' Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred
o 3 Bill registered and high-grade. rice $20 up.
Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-
quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N. Y

“Top Notch” Holsteins

Buy “milk" hull of Quality from the Breeders
of the world's onl cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in 7
da s. having an 800 b. daughter.

Cur herd is rich in the blood of Colantha 4ths Jo-
hanna. the only cow that ever held all world's records
n every division from one day to one year at the same
time. She produced 651.70 lbs. milk in 7 days. We are
ofiering for sale a. bull. whose dam exceeds this record
[flyiover 7% lbs. in 7 days.

 

s dam's rec rds are:—
Milk 1 Day 100.] lbs.
Milk 7 Days 659.3 lbs.
Butter 7 Days 26.31 lbs.

His name is
KING VALE CORNUCOPIA WAYNE. No. 312599
Born February 6. ..
His dam and sire’s two nearest dams average
Butter 7 Days 33 02 lbs.
Milk 7 Days 607.3 lbs.
Handsomely masriggd about one thirld white.
.10

.OC f. o. b. Howe .
McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.

All herds under U. S. Supervision.

 

accepted in payment of finely bred to -
‘ 600d "Ole istered Holstein bull calves. Qualify
of the best. and at prices within reach of all. Write.
GEO. D. CLARKE - - - - Vassar. Mich.

A Proven Blood Line

KING SEGIS transmitted to his sons the power to
transmit to their daughters the greatest of roduc-
tion over long eriods. It is his ofi'springt at has
recently made t e greatest yearly production ever
dreamed of 37.3811 pounds of milk in a year.
3°i“¥°1’°iii*'°ritrm°dfmf ““3“ KING SE

0 ,il iniv aso sow ype GIS
nual.“i.‘s;\ ~
»’ ' GRAND RIVER'STQCK FARM.
315 N.East Ave.. Jackson. Mich. C. J.

‘ Under State and Federal Supervnsion

 

Spe_ncer.0wner,

 

‘ for sal at 11 ' '
R-eg' HOlStelns sex. Bu ls 0:110 fez-er: :htihcg: ‘

 
   

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Dispersal Sale
NINETEEN HEAD REGISTERED
Holstein Cows and Heifers

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 for rent or sale.

The Traverse Herd

We have what you want in BULL CALVFS. the large.
fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way,
They are from high producing A. R. O. ancestors
Dam's records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and
quotations, stating about age desired.

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL
Traverse City, Mich.

 

 

7 Yearling Bull Bargains
Sired by Segis Korndyke De Nijlander a 32 lb. son of
a twice Michigan ribbon winner. her dam. 29% lbs.
Dams are daughters of King Segis Pontiac. 3337 lb.
son of King Se is. Records 16 lbs. to 20 lbs. Priced
at half value.“ up. Federally tested June 10. Write
for list. ALBERT G. WADE. White Pigeon. Mich.

eg. Bolsteins and Berkshires. most any age, either
sex,priced according to other commodities. Write
or come. B. B. REAVEY, Akron. Mich.

Herefords

20 Cows of extra quality and breeding, 12 of them
bred to our $5200.00 son of Old Repeater, also
bulls not related.

Allen Bros. Paw Paw,Mich.

or 616 So. Westnadgo Ave., 2 .
Kalamazoo, Michigan

' bulls. some ready for
RegIStered Jersey service. sired by Ox-
ford‘s Champion Fox 168681. out of Oxford Daisy‘s
Princess. Register of Merit record 8311 lbs. milk; 468
lbs. butter with first calf. milked 50 lbs. per day with
second calf. Sister to Sadies Crown Princess 16578 lbs.
milk. 1031 lbs. butter in one year. The dams of these
bulls are high producers. many of them are prize
winners. Prices very low quality considered. -.

c. s. BASSETT, Kalamazoo. Mich

E BUL B
BUTTER BRgeToiifigfi’gtm L
I .
Bilvgfigsalxl‘ BXIlegan County. Michigan.

The Wildwood Farm

Jersey Cattle. Maiest strain, Herd on State accred-
ited list. R. of M. test ng conatantly done. Bulls for
sale, ALVIN BALDEN. Phone 143-5. Capac. Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
COLON C. LILLIE.

Bull calves from
R. of M. cows.
Coopersville. Mich.

For Sale ready for service from R. of
Jersey Bill's M. dams. '1‘. Btested. Will give time.
SMITH & PARKER. R. 4 Howell. Mich.

' tuberculin tested. Jersey bull. one
Rengtered year old. how animal. best 0
breeding. Mrs. Claudia Bette. Hillsdale, Mich

.BIDWELL SEQEIHBMS

that will put weight on your dairfi calves -the din-
erence will soon Kay for the bull. ow selling good
Scotch and Scotc -topped yearlings.reasonably priced.
We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. federal
Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. C. B. R.

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,
Box I), Tecumseh, Michigan

.Iiichland Shnrihnrns

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 Shortliorns

Kirklevington Led, by Imp. Hartford
Welfare. in serVice. Stock 'or sale.

 

J. V. WISE, Gobleville, Mich.
B ll l on for sale from the
Shorthorns' bdlst iiiaillxing blood obtainable.

ROSEMARY FARMS. Williamston, Mich.

. l , "
BUY SHORTHORNS ggfenggoxggn;
Breeders' Association at farmers’ prices. Write for
sale list to M. E. Miller. Sec'y. Greenville. Mich.

Shorthorn
J. A

 

cow 3 yrs. old white due in Nov.
to IMP. ROYAL PIONEER.
BARNUM, Union City. Mich.

For sale. Fames Pride
Shorthorn Bu“ 724792. Two yrs. old nice
roan with star in forehead. Very gentle and afine
specimen of the breed. Price $225.00.

W. E. BARTLEY. Alma. Mich.

FIVE edsfi‘hsirsss

that we will sell cheap if taken at once. Inquire
about them or better come a see them.
CARR BROS. & 00.. Bad Axe. Mich

 

Francisco Farm Shortliorns

and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Nowofieringii

hehfgrs.t2 gulls. all Bcotgoih1i 310:: tho fan-row in Aug.

an ep- 0 ng . e coose rum“
POPE Edges. 00.. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

Re'h Red Polled cattle. herd headed by Famous
C armor 75 i same blood asCharmer 1919 Int. Gd.
Champion. Herd State and Fed. tested. No cattle for
.sale at present. Westbrook Bros. Ionia, M ich

For, Sale Brown Swiss Bull's”-
, _ an. m. . u

 

 

mile-tor. Mich.

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oIPRING. SHEEP. 1." TALL." 1'

 

'1‘ is true that spring dipping of the.

farm hook is very important, since
this gives all, including the young
lambs, a clean bill, but fall dipping is
still more important and should never
be omitted on any farm.

The benefits are two-fold: First, all
vermin and skin troubles can be very
largely cured or' prevented, which has
a marked effect in improving the
health and feeding gains of the flock;
and second, the quality of the wool is
improved and its growth stimulated.
Shearing tests have demonstrated that
well-dipped sheep will give from one
pound to a pound and a half more
wool per fleece than if not dipped. _

Care should be taken to follow the
directions which come with the dip in
its preparation, and means. taken to
see that the whole sheep, with the ex-
ception of eyes and nostrils, gets a
good application. There is really only
one way to dip, and that is by submer-
sion in a tank sufficiently deep (to cov-
er the animal standing on its feet.
While for a small flock, as an emer-
gency measure, a molasses barrelwith
a foot cut off one end may be used,
the proper and economical vessel is a,
vat built about eight inches wide at
the bottom, three and a half feet deep
and flaring to twenty inches wide,
with one end projecting to make an
incline up which the sheep may walk
after submersion.

A draining platform with tight bot-
tom, which will hold two or three
sheep should be so arranged that when
the sheep is assisted upon it the drip
from its wool will not run from the
platform back into the tank. The dip
should be made with warm water and
allowed to cool to one hundred de-
grees F. before being used, after which
it will cool rapidly.

Any time after September 1 is a
good time to dip. A breezy bright day
is naturally best, but if for any reason,
dipping is delayed, further delay wait-
ing for just the right day is inadvis-
able. Particularly when poison dips
are used, the sheep should be kept off
the ground affording any pasture until
their fleeces have ceased dripping,
three or four hours at least being re-
quired—E. W. G.

 

FOAL m DAYTIME.

 

HE young foal will make more use

of these summer days if he is kept
in the stable during the day,” says J.
G. Fuller,” of the animal husbandry
department of the University of Wis-
consin. “Flies and hot weather are
not contributing factors to a healthy
and vigorous growth. The mare and
foal stabled during the day, given a
couple of grain feeds, and then turned
out at night, will do better than the
ones left out all day. A ration of four-
fifths parts of oats and one-fifth part
of bran by weight forms a good feed
at this time.

“Careful breeders have probably had
their mares and foals in during the
day since the first of July. If the
mares have been needed for work, a
moderate amount has not hurt them
and they are better off than they
would be if left in a pasture all during
the day. The foals are big enough
now so that they do not need the
mare.”

 

FARM NAMES MAY BE TRADE.
MARK

 

HE United States Patent Office

recently approved and published
in the Patent Office Gazette a trade-
mark covering the name of the farm
of an lewa~ farmer. Ledru C. Willits,
the farmer in whose name the trade-
mark was issued, is a breeder of pure-
bred hogs, cattle and'sheep. The name
of the farm as trade-marked is ‘fHawk-

 

    

eye.’

   

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To the knowledge of live stock"

  

stockman, and probably the first farm‘
er, to obtain a. United States trade
mark for his farm. There is nothing
in the law to prevent it, but appar-
ently no one thought of it before. If
a farmer uses his farm name and
trade-mark as part of his selling oper-
ation in disposing of what he produce
es, the trade-mark protects the owner
of the farm in its use in interstate
commerce. , -

Several states have laws which au‘
thorize the registration of farm names
with the state authorities, but a. trade
mark registered by the government
protects the use of the farm name out‘
side of the state in which the farm is
located.

 

SWEET CLOVER HITS THE SPOT.

(Continued from page 155).
bushel this second cutting alone
brought me $252 and I had consider-
able feed from it, too,-. as it was some
what green when I cut it. Had I let
it ripen a little better I would not.
have had more seed. I seeded this
field with oats and cut the seed crop
with a grain binder. I am thoroughly,
convinced that sweet clover is a great
crop and I plan to seed some every,
year.” '

Biennial white sweet clover is the
variety in common usage over Michi<
gan. The yellow-blossomed biennial
variety has come to be of some import-
ance for pasture purposes but its great-
est use has been with beekeepers,
where its earlier blossoming habits
serve to lengthen the honey season.

Considerable interest has been
shown by Michigan farmers in the An‘
nual White sweet clover, or Hubam
clover, as it is now called. Michigan
has the largest increase of this prom-
ising new forage crop, about fifteen
hundred acres having been seeded this
spring. The agricultural college, in
cooperation with several farmers, is
growing it under field conditions for.
a great variety of uses to secure aC<
curate information as to just what
place the crop will fill on Michigan
farms. ‘

In the‘meantime the extensive use
of the common biennial form of sweet
clover shows that it has a very- defi—
nite value in Michigan’s farming sys-
tem. When the first cutting is saved
for seed, yields of six to eight bushels
per acre are common, while ten to
twelve are sometimes obtained. The
second cutting usually brings from
two to six bushels of seed per acre in
addition to from one to two tons of
high quality hay taken off at the first
cutting. 'A great deal of its popularity
has come from the excellent pasture
it gives.
and carrying well on into the period
when other pastures are dried up, it
has won a place of highest rank for
this purpose. Properly handled it will
reseed itself each year and form a per-
manent pasture system, or when the
seed market is sufficiently hig to be
profitable sweet clover may e pas-
tured till well along in June and then
permitted to grow and produce seed.
During the high prices of the war pe—
riod one Michigan farmer is reported
to have made over $8,000 from a forty-
acre field.

But it is the present day, with low.
prices, that is causing the real spread
of sweet clover in Michigan. Now,
more than ever, one must be on the
lookout for cheap pasture, cheap feed,
a cheap nitrate fertilizer, or a profit-
able cash crop and because sweet Clo
ver may be used to meet any of these
needs it is being looked on with favon
by Michigan farmers. \

 

FARMING IN DENMARK.

 

The second article on “Farmin
Abroad,” by Mr, .Rabild, wil 3

Starting early in the season,

V,.se.‘.i....h..11......,.s.....,._.....,,.g.~.,.... ~ -
of Agriculture, Mr. Willits is the'flrst

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
   
 
  

 

 

 

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. Keep theirsleepingquarters

the feeding ounds, pure and
' healthful. se the sprinkling
can. Add four tables . . nfuls
of Dr. Hess Dip and lsmfect-
ant to each gallon of water.
Sprinkle the animsl body to kill
the lice, the sleeping quarters
and feeding grounds to destroy
the disease germs. Or rovxde
a wallow, to which and about
one gallon D and D to every 70
lons of water. Disinfect the

~ s,‘the poultry house.
Also use it about the home. in the

sick room. sink and cesspools. to es-
tsblish better health conditions.

newsman Ashland.0hio

  
  
 
 

  

  
 

       
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
         
  
  

 

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‘HOCS

Berkshire spring pigs,
according to age. lso fall
CHASE STOCK FAR .

’-——

either sex. 810, 812 and $15
ts and yearling sows.
Mariette. Mich.

Brookwaler Duroc Jerseys

FALL BOARS OPEN GILTS

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

BROOKWATER FARM.
H. W. Mumford. Owner

Duroc.
boned type popular blood lines at reasonable
DRODT d: BERNS. Monroe.

Write for Particulars Jam... em... 9...,
for service, sfiecial prices to Sept. ls
. . E. KI ]

B S. R. 5, ‘
, Chester Whites

for old customers;

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Ann Arbor, Mich.
J. B. Andrews, Mgr.

Jerseys A few extra good fall boars. and
a choice lot of spring boars of the heavy
puces.
Mich.

on big bone.prolific,Duroc-
res. y

t.
Hillsdsle. Mich.

Choice lVInrch boars; new blood
cholera im-

muned: price right. I“. W. Alexnnder. Vassar. Mich.

 

Chester Whites

and hours left.

A few choice spring gilts

GEORGE D. SPRINGER, R. 6. Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

DUROC JERSEYS:

sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS.

A few choice
bred gilts for
Hastings. Mich

 

Duroc Jerseys

Gilt: bred for fall furrow at reasonabl . .‘
RUSH BROS, Oakwood Farm, 6 prices

meo. Mich.

 

Write Me

sey boars ready for service.
W. H. MAKES. L. B. 505.

at once I have just what you want
heavy bone registered Duroc Jer-

Durand. Mich.

 

 

Spring pigs by Wait’s
Orion, First Sr. Yearling
Detroit. Jackson.Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919

Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

 

Collinsdale Duroc Jerseys
Lyons. Mich. 8.1, L. A. Burhans, Owner

Herd Bonn
Wolverine Pathfinder by Pathfinder

Wolverine Sensation by Great Orion Sensation-
Wolvenne Renown Wonder by Great Wonder IAm

Fall hour and gilts by the Sensation hour.
100 spring pigs from these hours.

Herd Sows breeding

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

 

PEACH HILL FARM

Otters gilts sired by or bred to

Peach Hill Orion King 152489

INWOOD 8808.. .

Romeo. Michigan

 

Woodlswn Farm Duroc hogs are from select breed-

ing stock. well mated for size.
: Herd hour-.130“ and
lab Reg. certificate.

“‘3. will ship
. E. Bart ,

t pa and color.
Gill). and turn-
Almn. Mich.

 

Duroc Jerseys Am @3353“? m “9"“

E. D. HYDE m.

nylshd. Mich.

 

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on m N . 159259 Son or on .000
by: nswlpnm. Lo sag-us. Monika
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boar own
onus boars

service 0 good sows. l l ‘
run amines FARM. Bile}. Mich.

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C.

Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-
ers. Lettel‘l should use fully the history and symptoms of
each case and give. name and address of the writrr. Initials
only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the
service betomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed.

 

Sore Neck—One of our work herses
is troubled with sore neck and shoul-
ders, caused from collar. This horse
is ticklish and objects to having his
neck dressed. I have applied salve,
but it fails to heel sore. W. ., St
Johns, Mich..——Clip mane. short where
collar rests. Put two ounces of glycer-
ine and five ounces of Goulard's ex-
tract in one pint of cold water and ap-
ply to neck and shoulder sores two or
three times a day. Don’t forget to
keep his collar clean.

Mare Fails to Perspire.——I have a
mare that I bought last fall. She
seemed to be all right until the hot
weather set in, and now she don’t
seem to sweat very much, but pants,
continually when at work. She has
been on pasture nights, since I finish-
ed my spring work. I have little work
for her to do and might add, she is in
good condition. H. E., Scotts, Mich.
—The activity of the sweat glands of
skin will be increased by giving her
one ounce doses of sweet spirits of
nitre in cold water three times a day.
but only when you are working her,
or when she fails to perspire and is
inclined to pant and breathe too fast.
The body should be washed two or
three times a day, with tepid water.
Give her plenty of Water to drink, keep
the bowels open. It is perhaps need-
less for me to caution you to avoid
doing too heaVy work with her when
affected much by the heat.

Calf Passes Blood-y Urine—Feeding
Question—Heifer calf, three months
old, passes urine that seems to be
tinged with blood: She is out to pas-
ture and we are feeding her separated
milk. She seems to be healthy other-
wise and is growing nicely. Is the
foam on separated milk injurious to
pigs and calves when fed to them?
Mrs. M. H., Dansville, Mich.——Give
calf ten grains of uritone (P., D. &
00.), at a dose in milk two or three
times a day for one week. The foam
of milk should not harm your calves
and pigs, it contains air.

Cow Sucks Herself—I have been a
reader of the Michigan Farmer for a
number of years and would like to
have you tell me if there is any way
I can prevent my cow sucking herself.
She is a fine milch cow and I dislike
to part with her, if we can break her
of this habit. I tried one of those
“can't sucks” on her nose, but it failed
to prevent her sucking herself. R. S.
P., Gaines, Mich—In order to keep
her from sucking herself, she must
wear a mechanical appliance of some
kind. Place a halter on head, a sur-
cingle around body, with bit bore a
hole in each end of a broom stick, tie
one end to halter, the other end to D
ring fastened to side of surcingle and
let her wear it day and night. Report
result and oblige the writer.

Opacity of Cornea.—After having a
flow attacks of sore eyes my horse now
has a white film on eyeball. I am
somewhat worried about his sight. J.
W. K., Erie, Mich.——Blow small quan-
tity of equal parts of calomel and bor-
ic acid into eyes three or four times
a week. Give thirty grains of potas-
sium iodide at a dose in feed or water
twice daily. A bright light always ir-
ritates sore eyes; darken window.

Vaginal Polypus—Worms—Floating
Teeth.——What can be done for a. cow
that has a flesh-like growth in vagina?
What shall I give my horse that has
worms? Please tell me how to float
the grinder teeth of a horse, the kind
of instrument required and the prob-
able cost of same. J. B., Rhodes,
Mich—Surgical removal is the only
remedy for your cow, if bunch sup-
purates, then flush with a saturated
solution of boric acid twiqe a day.

drams of powdered areca. nut in bran
msh three times a week for two
weeks, then give two drums of pow-
dered gentian in feed daily for two
weeks, to horse that has worms. All
veterinary instrument dealers. some
hardware and harness dealers sell

on outside of upper rows and inside of
lower rows of grinder teeth should be
filed om ,Don't file 01! too much ctr-the

 

teeth

     

IeAN r ”MM “‘

Give one dram of santonin and two:

floats for filing teeth. 'The sharp points

       
     
    
   
    

 

Theleddersi-tlledal ' Vorldmaet

dad gnu you at the WM,
out.

Lifelong friends“ 5 oft-Rat value are

established here. p

my. will»?

Reduced Kata an
All Railroads

7&1! yourfiz’endr
and [Veg/7501's

Profit is

   
       

Conventions
Cattle '

Studen‘t’s’ cutest
Bay and Girl Calf“! ~.

  
 
  
  
 
  
  
  

you see Me

1310 Show!

Hundreds of farmers who have seen the BIG
SHOW before will testify that while there they
learned things that have made thousands of
dollars for them.

Remember—you are given the opportunity to
make friends with other successful dairymen
and breeders, to learn the results of their best
thought and work, and to view the exhibits of
profit-making equipment.

what the BIG SHOW will mean to

you when you come and—~here is your chance
for that trip or vacation you have wanted to take.

mew-35; 1” “EV/orlds Greatest
DAIRY SHOW

Winneapolis - St. Paul -

October 8 to 15

 

 

O. I.

all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918
Schoolmaster
Buster.

CRANDELL’S PRIZE 1-1065,

C.

HOGS

world’s grand champ. boar and C. C.

__1919 world’s grand champion also Wonder Big Type and Giant
Write your wants, all stock shipped on approval.

Cass City, Mich.

 

 

 

Michigan Orion Sensation (a
sows Bred to great son of Great Orion's Serb
nation) and Michigann Demonstrator (one of largest
and best boars in Michigan) for sale at oonversntive
drices. Also growthy strong bonrs and gilts.
Michigsna Farm.

DUROC JERSEYS

spring boars that will improve your boss. of Orion
Cherry King, 00].. and Pathfinder breeding, at. ren-
sonable prices. Write us your wants. red sows and
gilts all sold W. O. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

 

:- Raise Chester’Whites It
[Like This

I.

‘12 {Heoriginal big producers

 

success. I can help you. [want to place one hog from
' am not already rep-

eee fine developers-ready for mnrket at sq

Write for my pinn— More Money from Hon.’

s. s. ssnrmm. 33,13,113, Portllnd.uiohlm

 

I. C's. Lest fall gilts bred to furrow in Aug. boars

'for servxce. also spring igs for sale. MILO H.

PETERSON, Ionin, R. 2, ich.. Elmhurst Farm.
fag p338. Booking orders for spring pigs.

 

Choice gilts for April and May furrow. also

Ready
so rvxce,

for

Big Type Poland China Boars mg
stretchy fellows. (‘rrandsons of Gertsdule Tlmm.
weighing better than 30“ lbs. also spring pigs. Grand-
Sons of Leonard Bib Bob. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Call or write. DURUS ROVER. Akron. Michigan

Spotted Poland Chinas

The hog with more outcrosses than n
breed. Which insures vitality and piolifiggdg
Why breed and feed grade hogs when you can buy
registered hogs at special low prices. Write me
your wants in bred gilts, boars or spring pigs.
Cholera immuned. Satisfaction guaranteed.

SAMUEL GERBER

Bluffton, Ind.

 

R. 4,

L . S . P . C . 2thva choice boars

bred gilts all sold. Also a . armers prices,

man and Harrison Big Bofirandson or The Clans-
H. l). S“ Alt’l‘z, Schoolcraft. Mich

 

' ’l‘ype Poland Chinns. A grout litter h -
Blg (lam argrnnd-danglncr of Giant Busicghz‘i‘tegr
sale now. Ihoy were furrowed Mar. 11. and were

purchased of Jim Bloomendaul. Alto I: '
you wont. the best the breed prod dices}?- 130%?633-
and see them. Vi esley Hile. Ionian, Mich.

ows' bred for spring litters all sold
Schou‘e gilts bred for Aug. litters. also 2):: S221):
boars for solo. Clyde Fisher. 11.3. St. Louis. Mich-

lilG TYPE P. C. has i
, weaning time. 325 {whiphfiach'l
Satisfaction guaranteed. Call or

Leonard Fa rm

Champion herd.

 

write. E. R. LEONARD. n.3, St.Louis.Mich.

. ' at lowest prices. Both
Eggsuilggligland Chlnas sex. all ages. and bred
e, A. BAUMGARDNER. u, 2, Middlcville. Mich.

 

a
(LLB s
BARKER dc SON. Belmont. Mich
Big Ty e with qual-

' Strictly
0‘ I' C' SWIne ity. A few gi ts bred for
last of April, and May furrow. A few Sept. and Oct.

fall pigs’either sex. Extra ood ones. Of our State
Fair prize Winning blood ines. Will shi 0.0. D.
them f NEWMAN‘ STOCK

and record
F

ree.
M, R. 1, Marlette. Mich.

I. C's. one yearlingbonr. last fall gilts bred for
' next fall furrow: this spring pigs not akin. big

growthy stock. reg. free. Citz's Elhone. it; mile west
of Depot. OTTO B. SCHULZ . Nashville. Mich.
Special prices spring

’
o ' I ' C 5 ° pigs from prize winning
stock. Must be sold to mnke room. WEBER BROS.
Phone R. O. 408, 10 mile Rd. W.. Royal Oak. Mich.

Central Mich. O. l. C.

Swine Breeders Ass’n.

Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every
sale guaranteed by assocxstion.

DR. H. W. NOBLES,
Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.

’ S ecial prices on choice pigs of
0' 1‘ C 8' Nl’arch and May furrow by C. 0. Big

 

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Galloway. C. J. Thompson. Rockford. 3 ich.
9 choice boars and spring pigs
0 c I o C S at farmers ric

es.
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FAR . Monroe. Mich

0- I- 0- @55er mass?”
L.T.P.C. $1 5, $20 & 325

NH. Dnnsville. Mich
Our top notchlstretchy boar pies ue weaned and read
toshlp. They are sired by such boars as Karts Block
Price Cline’s Big Bob. B ght Kind Clan and Leon-
ard's Big Bob. HART. FULCKER AND CLINE.
Address I". T. Hart. St. Louis, Mich.

lg Type Pt. C. some very choice boars double im-

 

 

 

Juan . 1b.. i you 1
Turning; hemElIiMTmew-onfimgaknigfi

   

'l‘.l’.C.few choice bred gilts sired l ’l"
L'Mich‘s I920 Gd. Chum. bred to szothalfdsntzsrnlgsl:
Jr. yearling 1920. A. A. Foldknmp, Manchester. Mich.
Nothing for sale
L‘ T' P“ C' Thanks to my cuetonfifl‘gresent.

W. J. HAGELSHAW, Augusta. Mich.

Baby Boars $10.

teed. photos free.

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old. Satisfaction guaran-
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excellent breeding and quality. Either seipogrlie:
early. GEO. COUPAR & SONS. Marlctte. Mich.

FOR SALE YORKSHIRE GILTS

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[NC LESI DE SH ROPSHIRES

During the past 30 years lngleside Far h
over a 1000 Shropshires of sustained emcefiep‘rgedugeg
never before have we been able to present to our ever-
Widenmg circle of satisfied customers such an attrac‘
tive offering of Shropshires of all ages.
In rams we have a strong assortment of lambs. ear-
lings and aged rams—splendid individuals of thee oic-
est breeding obtainable. We have young ewes of
quality for exhibition or foundation stock. We can
supply 2 or 3 fitted flocks for Show at county fairs.
Write your wants—or better yet. come and inspect
this stock personally.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, August 16.

Wheat.
Detroit. ——Cash No.2 red $1. 26; Sep-
tember $1.29; No.2 mixed $1. 22; No.

2 white $1. 23
Chicago. —-No. 2 red $1. 251/1,@1.26;
September

No.2 hard $1.25@1.251/é;

1..22
3 Toledo.—~Cash No.2 red $1. 291/2;
September $1. 301/2; December $1. 36.
Corn.
Detroit. ”Cash No.2 yellow till/go;
No.3 yellow 601/éc;No.4,571,éc.

Chicagor—No. 2 mixed 57@581/20;
No.2 yellow 57@58%c.
Oats.

Detroit. —~Cash No.2 white 42c; No.
3 white 401/20 These quotations are
for last year ’s crop.

Chicago —No. 2 white 32%@341/4c;
No. 3 white 31%(Zv32c.

Beans.

Detroit. ——Immediate
shipment $4. 65 per cwt.

Chicago —Ma1ket is without special
change. Hand- picked Michigan beans
choice to fancy $4. 60@4. 75; red kid-
ney beans $9@9. 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.

and prompt

Rye.
Detroit ——Cash N00 2 rye $1. 09.

Toledo. ——Cash $1.
Chicago. —No. 2 $1. 9081/2613]. 08%.
Seeds.

Detroit. ——Prime red clover, cash and
October $13; alsike $10. 75; timothy at
2.75.
$ Toledo»Prime red clover at $13.05;

' alsike $10. 75; timothy $2. 60.
Hay.

Detroit—No: 1 timothy $22@22.50;
standard and light mixed $21@21. 50;
No.2 timothy $19((020.50; No.1 clover
mixed $16018; No.1 clover $14@15;
rye straw $13 506214; wheat and oat
straw $127912. 50 per ton in carlots at
Detroit.

Feeds.

Detroit-Bran $23; standard mid-
dlings $24; fine middlings $27; crack-
ed corn $30; coarse cornmeal at $29;
chop $24 per ton in 100-1b sacks.

WHEAT

Forecasts of wheat crop yields were
decidedly reduced in the August es-
timate. Winter wheat shows a loss of
30,000,000 bushels during July and
spring wheat of 22,000,000 bushels.
The totals are 544,000,000 bushels of
winter wheat and 213,000,000 bushels
spring wheat, making altogether 757,—
000,000 bushels compared with 787,-
000,000 bushels harvested last year
and an average of 831,000,000 bushels
during the preceding five years. It
will not, be surprising to find a further
reduction in the spring wheat fore-
casts when the threshing returns are
available. Black rust is said to have
developed rapidly in the late wheat in
North Dakota and the crop in that
section has deteriorated. All estimates
of the world’s wheat situation are re-
markably unanimous in showing close
adjustment of supply to demand. Stat-
ed bluntly, the present wheat out-
look is unusually strong.

CORN

The government’s estimate of the
corn crop was 3,032,000,000 bushels or
200,000,000 less than last year, but
about 235,000,000 bushels above the
average of the five preceding years.
Rains have checked the deterioration
which occurred during July. The vis—
ible supply is unusually large for this
season and there are indications of a
fairly heavy movement in the next few
weeks. Prices are around the lowest
point of the year and no early advance
seems possible. The export demand is
very brisk and far larger than usual
at this season when the new Argen-
tine crop is available. Clearances
since July 1 are nearly seven times as

' large as in the same period last. year.
Corn is less than one-half the price of
wheat on the per pound basis and it is
expected that» considerable quantities

'willabe-used for Russian relief as that
country is accustomed to its use.

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OATS

The oflicial forecast on the oat crop
showed a loss of 192, 000,000 bushels
during July. The yield was placed at
1,137,000,000 bushels compared with
1,526,000,000 bushels harvested last
year and 1,433,000,000 bushels as the
average during the preceding five
years. The carryover of oats on farms
was placed at 161,199,000 bushels, the
largest on record. As the visible sup-
ply at terminals also is extremely
large for this season, the carryover
of old oats seems to be about 100,000,-
000 bushels above the average. This
amount, however, is not surprising in
view of the immense crop last year.
Apparent consumption of oats in the
last twelve months was considerably
larger than the amount in sight for
the next twelve, especially when al-
lowance is made for the fact that this
year’s crop averages several pounds
below normal in weight per measured

bushel.
BARLEY

The August 1 estimate on the barley
crop was 171,000,000 bushels compar-
ed with 207,000,000 bushels as the av-
erage during the preceding six years.
The rye forecast is 64,300,000 bushels
compared with a six-year average of
69,200,000 bushels.

FEEDS

Feed prices especially wheat feeds,
remain comparatively weak as a result
of limited demand and ample supplies.
Production of these feeds as well as
the oil meals will increase in the next
few months and it is doubtful wheth—
er prices will advance during this pe-
riod. Cottonseed meal and linseed oil
meal appear to be in the strongest
position because of the small flax and
cotton crops but the recent advance
has been followed by a moderate de-
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recent rains and the prospective de-
mand this fall for purchased feeds is
smaller than was indicated a few

weeks ago.

SEEDS

'Higher prices for clover seed are
expected during the coming year, due
not only to dry weather at the critical
period in this, country, but even more
to the extraordinary drouth in some
of the leading European producing
countries. Timothy prices have been
weak recently.

HAY

Higher prices for hay at least to the
consumer, are in prospect for the com-
ing year. The estimated crop of both
wild and tame hay totals 97,100,000
tons as compared'with 108,200,000 tons
last year. Other feed supplies are
smaller and lower freight rates ap-
pear probable within six months.
Prices have advanced recently due to
light receipts and urgent demand.

BEANS

Light stocks of beans in the hands
of dealers and.elevators. at a time
when farmers’ holdings were small and
the rush of other farm work prevent-
ed hauling have resulted in a recent
sharp advance in the Michigan bean
market. Demand has been mostly for

small lots but even these could not be.

filled without jumping prices. The
drouth which has greatly reduced the
crop prospect was an abetting influ-
ence. The estimate for the country is
for a yield smaller than last year
which in turn was below the average.
Prices f. o. b. Michigan points at the
close of the week were around $4.75
per 100 lbs. for the choice hand-picked

stock.
WOOL

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Wednesday,

DETROIT

Cattle.
Receipts 210. Canners and bulls are

steady; all others dull and 250 lower.
Best heavy steers ...... $ 7.0061) 7.50
Best handy wt bu steers 7.50@ 7.75
Mixed steers and heifers 5.75@ 6.00
Handy light butchers.... 5.25@ 5.50
Light butchers .......... 4.0061) 4.50
Best cows .............. 5-0000 5.50
Butcher cows .......... 3.75@ 4.00
Common cows .......... 2.50613 3.00
Canners ................ 1.5060 2150
Best light weight bulls. . 5.00@ 5.25
Bologna bulls 4.25@ 5.00
Stock bulls ......... 3,50(m 4.50
Feeders ............. 5.0061) 6.00
Stockers .......... 3.00@ 5.00

Milkers and springe1s. :$ 35@ 75
Veal Calves.

Receipts 194. Market steady.

Best .................... $12.00@12.50
Others . . .............. 4.00@ 9.00

Hogs.
Receipts 580. Market 50@750 lower.

Mixed hogs ............. $10.00@10.25
Pigs and yorkers ....... 10.25@10.50
Heavies ................ . 9.00@ 9.50

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 611. Market steady.

Best lambs ............. $ 9. 55@10. 25
Fair lambs ............ . 8. 00@ 9. 00
Light to common lambs. . 4.00@ 6.00

4.00@ 4. 50

Fair to good sheep. . . . . .
1. 00@ 2.00

Culls and common . . . . . .

CHICAGO
Hogs-

Estimated receipts today are 19,000;
holdover 12,385. Market 35@75c lower.
Bulk of sales $8@10; t0ps at $10.25;
heavy 250 lbs up medium, good and
choice $8.50@9.40; medium 200 to 250
lbs medium, good and choice $9@9.85;
light 150 to 200 lbs common, medium,
good and choice $9.50@10; light lights
130 to 150 lbs common, medium, good
and choice $9.25@9.85; heavy packing
sows 250 lbs up smooth $7.75@8.25;
packing sows 200 lbs up rough $7.50@
7.75; pigs 130 lbs do'wn medium, good
and choice $8.75@9. 50.

Cattle.
Estimated receipts today are 11,000.

*1

August 17.

Market is steady to 150 lower. Beef
steers medium and heavy weight 1100
lbs up choice and prime $9.90@10.65;
do medium and good $7.50@9.90;: do
(ornmon $6. 25@7. 50; light weight 1100
lbs down good and choice at $8. 75@
10. 65, do common and medium $5. 50
(v8. 75; butcher cattle heifers common
medium, good and choice at $4@8.75;
cows common, medium good and
choice at $3. 5007; bulls bologna and
beef $4@7; canners and cutters cows
and heifers $2@3. 50; do canner steers
$2. 75@4; veal calves light and handy-
weight medium, good and choice $7. 50
@9; feede1 steers common, medium,
good and choice $5 50@7. 75; stocker
steels common, medium, good and
choice at $4@6. 75; stocker cows and
heifers common, medium, good and
choice $2. 50@5. 50.
Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 15,000.
Native lambs strong; others steady.
Lambs 84 lbs down medium, good,
choice and prime $8. 500310 75; do culls
and common $5@8. 25; feeder Lambs,
medium good and choice $6. 25@8 50;
spring lambs medium, good, choice
and prime $3. 257175. 25; ewes medium,
good and choice $1. 50633; ewes cull
and common at $3 50@6. 50; breeding
ewes full mouths to yearlings $6. 75

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BUFFALO

Cattle.

Receipts 200. Good dry-fed 25@500
higher; common slow, lower; shipping
steers strong at $10.75; butchers $8@
9.50; yearlings $9@10.50; heifers $5.50
@S; cows $2@6; bulls $3.50@6; stock-
ers and feeders $5@6; fresh cows and
springers $40@130. Calves. —Receipts
100; 500 higher at $5@12.

Ho

Receipts 2,400. Market slow; heavy
$10. 50@11. 25; mixed at $11. 25@11. 50'
yorkers $11.75; light yorkers and pigs
$116911. 25; roughs $7.50@7.75; stags

-$4.50@6.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 600. Market is steady and
unchanged. Yearlings $3. 50@8; weth-
ers $5. 5061316; ewes at $1@4. 50; mixed
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steady purchases by mills which are,
beginning manufacture for the light—
weight season and hence are buying
the finer wools principally. The lead-
ing manufacturer announced during
the Week that its full capacity in some
lines had been completely sold out and
that orders had to be allotted. There
is heavy buying for distant require-
ments but it is generally believed that
prices fully discount the large supply
and that any change in the price level
will favor the producer. Australian
markets report brisk demand with
American speculative buying in evi-
dence. Presumably these operators
are hopeful that the ad valorem
clause in the tariff bill will be retain-
ed. Quotations show little change ex-
c-ept1 upon a. few scarce grades of fine
woo s.

POULTRY AND EGGS '

Cold storage holdings of eggs on
August 1 as given in the preliminary
report to the bureau of markets shows
7,590,000 cases compared with-6,872,-
000 cases on the same 'date a year ago
and a five-year average of 6,849,000
cases. Stocks are being drawn upon
at the present time and the outlook
points to higher prices in the next few
months.

Latest quotations were as follows:

Detroit—Eggs fresh candied 32@
330. Live poultry, spring chickens 28
@300; hens 2863300; light hens 22@
23c; roosters 15c; geese 15c; ducks
20@220; turkeys 250.

BUTTER

The preliminary estimate on cold
storage holdings of butter on August
1 was 82,350,000 pounds as compared
with 101,455,000 on the same date last
year and a five-year average of 95,569,-
000 pounds. Prices broke sharply ear—
ly in the last week, but recovered to
some extent towards the close when
storage holdings were made known.
Production still shows signs of being
on the increase as the result of rains
and cooler weather. Prices for 92-
score fresh butter as reported by the
bureau of markets were as follows:‘
Chicago 410; New York 44%@450. At
Detroit fresh creamery 38141417390.

POTATOES

The government’s estimate of the
white potato crop is 316,000,000 bush-
els compared with 428,000,000 bushels
harvested last year and an average of
371,000,000 bushels during the p1eced~
ing five years The biggest reductions
are shown in New York, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minne-
sota. The crop is considerably below
.normal consumptive requirements and
advancing prices are to be expected.
Middlewestern markets are quoted at
$350634 per 100 lbs. for No. 1 New
Jersey, Idaho and Nebraska potatoes.

WAYNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU
PICNIC.

 

The third annual picnic of the
Wayne County Farm Bureau will be
held at the Cass Benton Grove, be-
tween Plymouth and Northville, Fri-
day, August 26. The program will
include talks by Dr. F. A. Perry, the
Americ-anization extension worker for
Michigan; Mrs. Louise H. Campbell,
state leader of home demonstration
work; C. L. Brody, secretary of the
Michigan State Farm Bureau; C. V.
Branch, municipal market director of
Detroit. A basket dinner, organized
along community lines, will be the
noon part of the program.

GUERNSEY BREEDERS MEET.

 

Berrien County Guernsey Breeders’
Association will hold a basket picnic
in the grove at Watervliet, August
24. An invitation is extended to all
Guernsey breeders.

SUMMER GRANGE RALLIES.

 

The following Grange Rallies will be
Mich. Wm. Griffin, Secretary.
held during the coming week:
August 22, Alpena.
August 23, West Branch.
August 24, Pinconning.
August 25, Coleman.

COMING LIVE STOCK SALES. .

Holsteins.--August 25, Dispersa Sale;
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‘ Bureau of '
timates makes the following estimates
from reports 'of its correspondents and
agents for August 1: ,
Total Production.
1921 .

August 1915-1919

Forecast. Average.
Wheat . . , . . 757,000,000 831,000,000
Corn . . . . . 3,032,000,000 2,798,000,000
Oats . . ". . . , .1,137,000,000' 1,433,000,000
Barley ,. . . .. 171,000,000 208,000,000
Rye . . . . . . . 64,300,000 69,200,000
Buckwheat . 13,000,000 15,000,000
Potatoes .. . 316,000,000 371,000,000
Hay, tons 81,600,000 85,800,000
Beets tons . 8,000,000 6,220,000
Apples .. . . . 109,000,000 183,000,000
Peaches . . . - 31,300,000 46,600,000

 

GENERAL CROP SUMMARY.

‘ ROP conditions for the week end-
ing August 6, are covered 'in re-
ports -received by the bureau of mar-
kets and crop estimates, United States
Department of Agriculture, from its
field statisticians in diderent states.

“Corné-The Condition of the corn
crop has been declining, but is still
above the average condition at this
date. In a large portion of the cen-
tral or leading corn producing states
moisture has been received to assure
a satisfactory crep. Some sections of
the country, however, are still suffer-
ing from drouth and the yield, espe-
cially of early corn, will be light.

Wheat—Threshing of winter wheat
is‘ in full progress and some disap-
pointing yields of‘ poor quality are re-
ported. In general, the yield is below
average, and the quality has been af-
fected somewhat by the drouth.

Oats—Threshing of the cat crop is
making progress throughout the cen-
tral and northern states, but. the yield
and quality are generally below aver-
age. Many fields were too short to
cut with a binder, and some were cut
fer hay. Harvesting has commenced
in the far western states, and the
yield and quality are reported as re-
duced somewhat by the recent hot
weather.

Potatoes—The Irish potato crop has
been damaged by the long—continued
drouth and heat, and the yield will be
light. The yield of early potatoes was
generally disappointing. .

Fruit—The yield of all tree fruit
will be extremely light throughout
the eastern and central belt of the
country. The peach season is about
over in Georgia, and a record crop has
been harvested.

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effort is made to foster and build up
these associations of which there are
about 2,600 already functioning.

The sub-committee on cooperative
marketing was authorized to call in
not to exceed three representatives
from each state to a conference on
September 2 to give testimony, and of-
fer suggestions which ‘might aid in
formulating a uniform plan of organ-
ization and operation of cooperative
shipping associations. When this ideal
plan has been arrived at, those already
formed will be invited to adopt it and
new associations so far as possible
will be organized upon that basis.

A letter from Thomas E. Wilson,
president [of the Institute of American
Meat Packers proposing an eat-more-
meat advertising campaign was pre-
sented to the committee. The secre-
tary was authorized to reply to the ef-
fect that the'producers would be glad
to have the packers proceed with such
a campaign.

Before the session closed, a resolu-
tion was passed addressed to the
finance committee of the United States
Senate asking that a substantial duty
be ' placed on hides, wool and vegetable
oils, in order to protect the American
live stock producers. C; C. Collins, 01’
Colorado, was appointed to represent
the committee at the tariff hearing of
the senate.“ ” i; ‘ "

The next meeting of the committee
will be held at Chicago, on September
27. In addition to further details of
the plan of organization of the com-
mission companies, the report on co~
operative shipping associations will be

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,Allegan County, ,(Aug. 15).—-—Farm

crops here, are below average because ,

of drouth and hail damage. Much corn
is being cut and put in silos and oth-
ers are cutting to savethe fodder.
Oats ar every light, pasture short and
potatoes nearly a failure. Eighty per
cent‘ of the normal acreage is being
put into fall grain. Considerable co-
operative marketing is being done.
Wheat brings $1.05; oats 450; rye 850;
corn 72c.———F. C.

Shiawassee County, (Aug. 18).-——
Wheat averages fifteen bushels per
acre, oats twenty-five. bushels, and hay
one ton. Bean vines are good put .poor-
ly podd-ed. Sugar beets below the av-
erage. Corn is the only crop that is
good. The farmers are blue because
of conditions.—‘—W. W. D,

Washtenaw County, (Aug. 15).—The
general conditions fair. Hay, wheat
and cats will yield about seventy-five
per cent of a crop. Corn is very good
and far advanced. Early potatoes are
a failure, but late potatoes show good
promise. Pastures are good. Acreage
of fall grains will be about normal.
Most of the farmers buy and sell
through the farm bureau elevator.—
P

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Hillsdale County, (Aug. 15).—Wheat
is selling at $1.05 per bushel and rye
at 95c. Hogs bring 90 per pound.
There will be about the usual acreage
of fall grains, mostly rye. Conditions
of crops are as follows: Corn 90 per
cent; wheat and rye 80 per cent; hay
100 per cent; potatoes 50 per cent.—

Lake County, (Aug. 15).—Prospects
are for a normal acreage for the fall
grains. Corn looks good, earing heav-
ily. Potatoes show about a thirty per
cent crop. Oats will yield from fifteen
to eighteen bushels per acre. .n

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have not spared expense in preparation
or printin and it is sent frce'to farmers
to show t cm that we want to give the
most helpful information in addition to
the most productive fertilizer.

FREE—Tear all" the coupon Ind nail it today.

F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO.
Dept. A-15 Toledo, 0.
Send free Wheat Book to

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Wine Kegs
Apple Barrels
Tanks

we. less money.
Mail Order: Solicitcd '

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2810-2856 Benson ‘10., llelrofl.

Phone Melrose 299
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Ben. E. lagers .& 00.

Wc-solicit your consignments. Liberal
advances on all shipments.

 

 

 

 

Geo.E.llogers 6200.601 Wabash Bldg..Plttsburgh,Pa
Our trade on fancy poultry
farm eggs in increasing
daily. Therefore we are in
a position to pay liberal
premiums above the Chi-
cago market for fine new
laid stock.
We solicit your shipments. Ship via Expresm
AMERICAN BUTTER dz CHEESE COMPANY,
2034 Howard at. Detroit, M i011

EGGS AND POULTRY

We pay the highest prices for Poultry and Fresh Eggs
payment made same day phipment received.
. J. JACOB, 1521 Winder so, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

   
   

, A Modern Bath in any Room in any House
, No sewers. No lumbing. No running water re.
fl; quired. Comp etc full size enameled bath tub,
12 gal. water tank. Heats quickly, closes

up in 3 sq. ft. of space. On casters. Rolls

Limiter]; Simple. Low priced. Guat-
E. W. LEEUH

anywhere.

_ anteed.
a3" 7
' 3976 Commonwealth Ave,
Detroit. Michigan

   

 
 
    

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Winter Spelt or Emmer seed for sale. Takes

_ the place of bran in the dairy
ration. Also splendid for horses, yields from 30 to 60
bu. per acre. I have raised in Cass Co. Mich for 30
years, guaranteed clean and ready to sow. 5c per
poun . cars here. Bugs extra.

 

 

 

THIGK, SWOLLEN lillllllS

that make a horse Wheeze:

Roar, have Thick Wind \‘
or Choke-down. can be
reduced with

also other Bunches or Swellings. N o blister,

nomical-only 21ch drops required at an appli-
cation. 32. 50 per bottle delivered. Book 3 ll tree.
ABSOBBINE, 18., the antiseptic linimcnt for man-
kind, reduces Cysts, chs, Painful, Swollen
Veins and Ulcers. $1. 25 a bottle at dealers or
delivered. Book“Evidcnce" free.

W,F.YOUNG, |N0., .268lenpla St. Springfield. Mus.

 

 

7‘ THE GUNN BEANi nARVESTEE

+5 STANDARD AS A not.
1 MAN - l “GUNN” -'1 DAY can readily harvest 2'], « ..;
acres of beans. Wet weather need not stop the bean

  

in the field. Buns my much faster - threshing is cleaner. NO EASIER
;CHEAPER way to HARVEST BliANS.

o N LY F. D. BULLOCK, Sales Agent

$ l7l6 Filmer Avenue KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
, 5 bums wan: Ionmrmus ' ‘fl ,

   

  
 

 

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lime. phos hate an

fertilizer. aul dirccb

from car to field. 53

., l; 3 $111,); anciolnbor: FRE_

2:535“ ._ .4: 0 er. wprtcc—wnm
/ "Holden Co.‘ ,Inc. Peoria, I”. Dept. 42

      
 

   
     

     

 

KITSELMAN FENCE

no hair gone. and horse kept at work. Eco- .

G. H. REDFII‘ILI), Edwardsburg, Mich.

 

 

Airedale Pups From registered A. K. 0.

stock of the (Mrang strain.
l Make fine watch dogs for poultry and farm homes.
,f Pedigrees furnished. Males 82.5. Females 315.
R. G. KIRBY, R. 1. East Lansing, Mich.

Barn Paint $1.35 Per Gallon

Get factory prices on all paints. We
guarantee quality. We pay the freight.
FltAN LIN COLOR WORK, bcthVI, Franklin, Ind

 

 

° ’ High calcium hydrated lime
Agncukural lee in :30 lb. paper bags, in car
lots of 20 tons or more. Delivered, price promptly
mailed on request.

Northern Lime 6; Stone Co. Petoskey, Mich

FARM BURMAUS. GRANGES and
COAL—FARMER ASSOCIATIONS get our
low carload mine price on “BLUE
RIBBON" soft coal and save money. Agents wanted.

THEO. BURT & SONS, Melroae, Ohio

Saw Mill Machinery "97‘6““ “flit f‘” Fm“

CT 5 use. 8 your Own
lumber. Send for new Catalog. HILL-CURTIS 00.,
1506 No. Pitcher Sh, alamazoo. Mich.

MR. FARMER__I\Inke your own rope. Save

two-thirds onst Free booklet,
Agents Wanted. Send today. NEW ERA ROPE
MACH. CO., 4613-lst Ave. Minneapolis, Minn.

 

 

 

 

Trunks, Bags, Suitcases. “W ”“6“ ”“0” d“

rcct. V e will save
you money. Send for free catalog. GEM TRUNK
and BAG FACTORY, Spring Valley, Ill.

 

 

' For sale a bargain if taken at once.
Bee HlVeS, 100 twelve frame hives 180 extracting
Supers all in good condition.
L. D. ALLEN, 308 Court St,, Ludington, Mich.

 

Sand vetCh Seed. gigglebushol. Ref. Old

Bk, Fremont.
CHAS. M. 'l‘OOlAC. It .3, Fremont, Mich.

 

Homespun: gmpOkiug or chewing tobacco 10 lb.

_ -..) ; 230 1b.,54. Collect on delivery.
Foul) TOBACCO 00.. Mayficld. Ky.

 

Farms and Farm Lands,

199 Acre Alfalfa Farm With
3 Horses, 10 Cows and

Calves. flock poultry. hogs, manure spreader. gas en-

 

ous neighborhood In splendid farming section, best;
markets. conveniences: valuable 88% lime marl bed.

 

r .s . - ' PRICES REDUOED June at.
.(10t It Pram we Pay the Freight and save.

   

       
    

 
     
   
  
 

‘9‘. {/10 lagtonv you money. Dlroct l‘rom Foc-
7 Dlrect tory to Form. Mr C, F. McIndoo
' Q‘ ~ -,"" Lyons, Ind. writes: “My fence
.. .- . 7 ,_ 5‘ arrived 0.x. Like it fine. Saved
‘. J . ' 24¢ a md‘by buying of you,”
fl ‘ You can’t aflord to buy foncoun~
-. ‘ . til you get our Big Free Catalog
_ showing 100 stylesnnd heights of farm

._ and lawn fence, gate, etc. Write today.
" ‘ Kl'l‘SELllAN BROS. Dept. 278 MBBCIO. Indiana.

 

. Newton’s forHeaves, Cou ha.
Distemper, Indigestion, on:

. .. ’ ditloner, Worm Expeller.
% Three large cans guaranteed

for Heaves. 65c and 81.30lpei’

   

- can, at dealers or by mai
Horton Remedy 00., Toledo. 0

Improved ROSEN RYE
by HEAD SELECTION

From a few fine selected bedd- ukcn from a fine stand from
one of the flat field: of R088)! RYE planted in Michigan
metal years ago and following further careful HEAD SE-
LECTION have developed a fine stain of IMPROVED
ROSEN RYE nod for the firm time an: oierinz I limited
mum-w. ' ”up time dentin: .to'nloe
the PURBST ROSEN XI. Write lo'r Pamphlet.

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

 

 

 

l’. A. SIDGWIGK. Puma. Mich.

    

Improved and unim roved:
colonization tracts.
inc. dairylns at.“
tr nu rtntion facilities. Illustrated bookth f
whs'FicaN MICHIGAN DEVELOPMENT. 3%
EAU. Dept. ea. Grand Rapids, Mich. '-

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glue, complete machinery. tools, crops, etc.- prosper- l
l

on farm: 180 acres machinc-worked; 20 A. alfalfa and
clover: lS-cow wire-fenced pasture. running Water-
line loo-tree apple orchard; aroom house, bauuflfui
shade. delightful View; 5(l-l‘t. barn. Elli-ft. silo, poultry
house, etc. Disabled owner sacrifices, $9600 etc all.
easy terms. Details page 77 lllus. Catalog {€100 Bar-
gains. FREE. S'I‘ROU’I‘ FARM AGENCY. 814 BC
Ford Bldg. Detrort, Mich. ~

 

lZO-AcreF arm Near Detroit l
With 3 Horses, 8 Cows, Crops

10 Hogs, 150 hens. ducks, geese. full im lements, etc.
thrown in: on improved road in one ric est far-min

sections state, close live RR high school town, all a -
vantages; only hour Detroit markets; 115 acres till-
age. very productive and easily worked. grows alfaM‘a:
15.cow spring-watered pasture. lots fruit. comfortable
2-story, lO-room house. piazza, delightful view, 60-“.

barmsilo, stable, poultry house. full outbuildings:

neighboring farms valued to_$80,000. Owner called
from state sacrifices all $14,0001essthan half cash,
easy terms. A real 0 portunitv for him who acts
quickly. Catalog free. .W.CALLON, So.Lyon, Mich.

WESTERN MICHIGAN FARMS
oted truirtafiefggli 25233. $5531"
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O. K. HAWLEY.

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Alpha Portland Cement Company

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