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CURRENT COMMENT

T would seem that
the importance and

Make the helpful possibilities
Fan's a of the agricultural
Success fairs are not properly

appreciated by the av-
erage farmer, else the space for ex—
hibits would have to be enlarged and
the capacity of the grounds would
have to be increased in most cases.
Under present conditions the good
fairs are successful largely because of
good management in the stimulation
of exhibits as well as attendance. But
if we all took the interest in these
fairs which their importance and pos-
sibilities warrant, there would be no
lack of either exhibits or attendance
at either community, county, district
or state events.
a The factor which makes for the
highest success of any agricultural fair
is a big attendance of farmers, who
study the exhibits carefully and gath—
er a knowledge from suchsstudy and
comparison which makes them better
farmers, since the highest success of
any fair is measured by its educational
value to its patrons. From this stand-
point the State Fair undoubtedly
leads, and merits every farmer’s pat-
ronage, as do the district and local
fairs in every reader’s section or 10-
cality. Every farmer in Michigan who
can possibly arrange to do so should
attend the State Fair during the com-
ing week, and his district or local fairs
as they occur. It is an expenditure of
a little time and money in a manner
which can be made to return profitable
cash dividends, and at the same time
’ afford the family an enjoyable outing.

NE of the effects
of the more thor-

Farmers ough organization of
Strong 7" the farmers of the
Congress United States is to be

noted in the consider-
ation which has been given to purely
agricultural measures by the present
congress. Among the more important
agricultural bills already passed are:
The emergency tariff law, designed to
give American farmers protection
against foreign competition in many
lines of production; the export trade
bill, authorizing the government
finance corporation to make loans up
to one billion dollars to aid in financ-
ing exports of farm products; the
packer control bill, placing the great
live stock slaughtering and distribut-
ing agencies under effective govern.
ment supervision; the grain exchange

 

 

bill,‘pla.cing boards of trade and grain
marketing agencies under government
supervision; a bill increasing the capi-
tal of the federal land banks by $45,-
000,000; a bill appropriating $75,000,-
000 for good roads. In addition to this

'special attention to the agricultural in-

terests of the county it is becoming
apparent that the tariff schedules relat-
ing to farm products will be largely if
not entirely dictated by the so-called
“Agricultural Bloc” in the present con-
gress.

When it is considered that legisla-
tion of the character provided in some
of the bills above numerated has been
pending in congress for more than a
decade, the advantage of organized ef-
fort in securing adequate recognition
and consideration of the great basic
industry of agriculture by congress is
apparent. Other important legislation
is pending, including the bill to legal-
ize cooperative marketing, particularly
the nation-Wide grain and cattle mar
keting cooperatives now in process of
organization. This bill has passed
both houses of congress, but is‘still in
the joint conference committee of the
two houses.

This progress in legislative recogni-
tion of the needs of agriculture is a.
matter for sincere congratulation to
the farmers of the country, as is also
the fact that the legislation itself sav-
ors not at all of paternalism. It mere-
ly gives the farmers of the country a
more fair opportunity to work out their
own business destinies in their own
way, which is all that any class of cit-
izens can rightfully expect in the way
of governmental aid.

HEN Franklin

- began checking
Testing up on his daily ac-
Farmfng tions and accomplish-
Practices ments to learn where-

in he could improve
his work, he started a. practice which
gave direction to the greatest mind
America. has yet produced. Through
that practice he became thoroughly
efficient. Wasted energy was reduced
to the minimum, and by reason of this
efficienCy he was able to accomplish
the great tasks which fell to him to do.

Business of every kind is brought
to a. high state of efficiency through
the application of Franklin’s method.
These businesses grow through having
every .employe on every operation
striving to produce the highest quality
of goods at the least expenditure of
energy. Farming comes under this
rule and great economies no doubt can
be effected through its careful observ-
ance. Many departments of the farm
work are like Topsy, they just grow up
without much thought on the part of
the farmer. ‘

But. where the farmer counts on
making his farming succeed to the
best of his ability he must adopt
Franklin’s method and abandon Top-
sy’s. He should test every practice
and then keep on testing. To him
nothing should be perfect but always
capable of improvement. His manage-
ment, his methods of production, of
breeding and of marketing should all
come under constant scrutiny. But
this requires knowledge outside of the
ability of the farmer to find out for
himself. He needs the help of special-
ists. Fortunately the state has pro-
vided help for the man who fills the
soil and our experiment station is do-
ing much to make farming more effi-
cient. ‘ '

On other pages of this issue appear
a resume of the work of our own ex—
periment station staff. A careful read-
ing of the tests and investigation be-
ing made during the current year by
the various departments shows what
a fund of knowledge the farmer can
gain by keeping himself posted on the
wide variety tests which are here be-
ing carried on. Not only will the ap-
plication of Franklin's rule. for check»
ing up with the ,most advanced agri-

 

 

cultural knowledge of the day place.

the farmer in a better pool-tion to
make his farming pay in dollars and
cents, but it will give him a. heap more
satisfaction and pleasure in his busi-
ness which, after all, is one of the
great compensations of life.

N a recent trip

which took the
. Alfalfa editor of The Michi-
73 Making gan Farmer through
Friends ten counties of the

state, the rapidly in-
creasing acreage of alfalfa was very
noticeable. Excellent stands of this
great forage crop were observed on
many farms in all of the counties cov-
ered. And in practically every case
the crop stood out in startling con
trast to other vegetation on the same
farm, particularly in the areas which
have suffered severely from midsum-
mer drouth.

Under these conditions, where two
and three fairly good crops are being
harvested, this forage plant is making
friends far more rapidly than those
who have believed in it for Michigan
conditions, have been able to make
them, even among the more progres-
sive farmers of the state. These ob—
ject lessons, coming in a season of
short hay production, will increase the
general interest of Michigan farmers
in the possibilities of alfalfa for their
conditions far more in a single season
than any amount of propaganda could
do in a. decade.

This is, we believer, most fortunate
for the future prosperity of Michigan
agriculture, not alone because of the
value of alfalfa as a forage crop, but
as well because of its usefulness as a
soil improver where rightly handled.
But a word of advice and caution may
well go with the object lesson. In
every case where one becomes inter-
ested in this crop he should advise with
those who have successfully grown it
in the community as to the methods
followed in securing the stand. The
first essential on many soils is lime.
The experience of a neighbor who has
succeeded with the crop will, how-
ever, be the safest guide as to this
and other factors in the getting of a
successful stand.

PUBLIC singing is
- - a strong binding
Re,”"’,’”9 force in community
Singing work. In days gone
Schools by it was the one big

thing which develop-
ed in neighborhoods a genuine com-
munity spirit.
ing school was often the only organi-
zation in agricultural regions which
served to give expression to common
feelings. Farmers and their families
getting together to employ the servic-
es of a singing teacher may have been
the forerunner of more pretentious co-
operative undertakings. Anyhow every
person who believes in working with
his neighbor should see in this device
of the ages, a tonic which will go far
toward keeping local organizations in
a healthy state. Furthermore, sing-
ing together brings to the rural com-
munity much direct enjoyment and
needed inspiration.

Secretary Wallace, of the depart-
ment of agriculture, has this to say
about music in the rural commimity:
“Music is one of the gnod things of
our present civilization which, in com-
mon wi*h other blessings, is as read-
ily avai able to those who live in the
open country as to those who dwell in
the cities.”

In a few isolated. sections township
music teachers‘have been employed to
serve the township. The school dis-
trict is made the unit for instruction.
Where the small district ~ system we
veils the singing master goes from one
district to another, giving instruction
to school children and adults alike.
In places where. consolidatedysehmis
obtain the plan 18 simplified by M

 
  
 

   

 

The old-fashioned sing- _

thosé interested to- the school
for the weekly sings. n -.

If there is no other means available ,
for developing the musical talent of
the neighborhood, the. local~ church, or
the g'range, or other farmers’ social
organization ought to take advantage
of this means of rendering to the com-
munity a real and worth-while service.

News of the ichk

Wednesday, August 24.
MANY American veterans are en-
listing in the Spanish Foreign
Legion for service in Morrocco.———It is
reported that congress will adjourn
without acting on the dry measure.—
John Seldon, an overseas veteran, af-
ter being saved from suicide, found
a $760 government check waiting for
him.—A bill permitting the loan of a
billion dollars to farmers through the
war finance corporation is passed by
the house—Henry Ford sends letters
to railroad owners throughout the
country urging them to reduce their
rates for the general good of business.
~—Six persons were killed in labor dis-
orders in the district of Pozen, Poland.
This was formerly a part of Germany.
—Frost has done considerable damage
to the cranberry crop in the east.—
Hoover orders investigation of corrup-
tion in the offices of the federal ship-
ping commissioners.——Detroit schools
open September 7.‘
Thursday, August 25.
DRASTIC cuts in the number of
employes in the United States Se-
cret Service Department is planned by
Attorney-General Daugherty—”State
tax valuation has been cut more than
a billion dollars—Over $300,000 worth
of booze goes through United States
to foreign ports—Federal agents have
uncovered the operations of a band
in Chicago which has swindled inno~
cent'people out of $10,000,000 of good
securities.——Over 3,000 miners have
joined in a march to the Mingo dis-
trict in West Virginia. The govern-
ment has been asked to send tro'ops to
quell the disturbance—The Panama
government has consented to the oc-
cupation of the Coto territory by Costa
Rica—Mrs. Zella Densmore is the first
woman to be called on a jury in Shia-
wassee county.——Union carpenters in
Three Rivers, Mich, voluntarily lower
their scale of pay from eighty-five to
seventy-five cents an hour.
Friday, August 26.
T costs Detroit eleven and a half
cents a tree to spray 250,000 trees.
—-E. E. Bunting, Shiawassee county,
found $5,000 in liberty bonds and cer-
tificates of deposit, which mysterious-
ly disappeared three months ago, in a
grain sack.——Senate passes a bill ex-
tending time for payment of grazing
fees in national forests from Septem-
ber 1 to December 1.-—Austria signs a
treaty of peace with the United States.
—-The giant liner Leviathan is dam
aged- by fire when two piers in New
York burn.——-The giant dirigible made
by England for America explodes at
Hull, England, causing the death of
over forty men, of which seventeen
were Americans—A bootiegging syn-
dicate which netted its chief operator,
a woman, $5,000,000 in a. year and a.
half was uncovered in New York by
federal agents—A Chinese newspaper
is started in Chicago—Deaf and dumb
in Detroit form league for self-help.—
United States Steel Company lowers
prices to meet those of independent
companies.
Saturday, August 27.
J UDGE J. L. MOYNIHAN scores all
hasty marriages and favors the re-
turn to the old-fashioned courting days
when the old folks had- an opportunity
to look over their prospective sons-in-
law.—--The engine, Dewitt Clinton,
which had the speec record of twelve
miles an hour ninety years ago, will
be shown in Detroit and other Michi-
gan cities—Chicago Board of Trade
will drop what is called “puts and
calls" in trading on October 1.—Pres-
ident Harding has been invited to
make an address at the State Fair.—
Several Detroiters have been killed by
eatlng mushrooms—Pope Benedict
and Ronald Storrs, governor of Jeru-
salem, discuss Zionism at the Vatican.
—Marshal~l Foch, with French gener-
al, will come to the United States to
attend the American Legion conven-

tion.
Sunday, Auguut‘ 28.
THE Sein Femens" reply to Lloyd
George leaves the way open for
negotiation and does not mention the
Irish Monomer—«Treaty of peace, w
tween the United States and. Germany
is signed in Berlin—Hundreds of, VE
lages in China‘have been destroy, , by

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N this time of scarce and high-pric-

ed labor, the farmer often has a

willing laborer confined in enforced
idleness. A laborer so willing that if
he can be put at the work he is adapt-
ed to doing, he will pay for the priv-
ilege of doing it. I refer to the hog.
As a sower of seed or cultivator of
crops he is a failure, even as a plow
he is not a success. ,I have seen him
engaged as a hunter, roving over sun-
burned sod pastures and barren wood-
lots seeking for a chance morsel here
or there. He gets little aside from ex-
ercise and‘ age, neither have a market
.‘value.

The hog must be employed as a har-
vest hand. He specializes along that
line and is an adept at it. But to be
truly profitable, he must be provided
with a succession of profitable em-
ployment.

The first work that may be provided
is to harvest a crop of artichokes and
parsnips, that were grown the previ—
ous year. The large Jr. Jerusalem art-
ichoke is usually planted and treated
exactly as potatoes are except that the
artichoke grows so vigorously that the
weed problem is a very simple one. In
a short time the tops completely shade
the ground. We find often a half—peck

of tubers at the base of each clump.’

Some who do not know, confine the
cultivated artichoke with the noxious
weed known as the wild artichoke, and
fear it may become a weed, but we
have to maintain a well-fenced plat in
order to provide seed, as each year the
hogs eat up clean all they have ac-
cess to.

Another plant that is fit for‘early
spring, not only for man but for swine,
is the parsnip. Its cultivation is un-
derstood by all gardeners.

When these spring roots have been
harvested, there should be a field of
clover or rape ready to keep the hog
profitably employed. A mixture of al-
sike, June, Mammoth and sweet clo-
ver or a little alfalfa mixed in does

not come amiss. The clover should
keep them busy until July, as during
May and June clover is at its prime.
Now if there is a plat of oats and
peas adjoining the clover during July,
harvesting will begin in earnest and
every day’s work will show a big
profit.

Of course, after September 10 the
corn must claim the attentiton of the
farm force and the swine must not be
left out of the corn harvest. They are
adepts at it. Plant a piece especially
for them with soybeans in it. Hogging
down crops is no slovenly method, it
is the height of efficiency, as repeated
experiments have shown that it pays.
It gets the young stock into vigorous
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off the older hogs in time for the early
market. Hogging down corn is a com.
bination of the excellent self-feeder,
together with a self—harvester.

In closing, I will speak of root crops
for hogs. They enjoy and thrive on
them. Carrots, artichokes, parsnips,
mangels and beets are excellent for
the purpose. The ordinary objection
to the raising of roots for stock feed
in America has been the cost of labor
necessary for their production. Much
of this labor cost is in the harvesting
of the crops. The cost of raising them
is not great. We cannot profitably
maintain the pig in idleness and allow
him to burn his energy in fruitless
wandering over barren pastures, nor
can we afford to simply maintain him
on costly grain, nor gather and serve
his food when he can, with great Suc-
cess, harvest his own crops.

Let us try out the hog on a portion
of our corn crop this year and then
prepare to keep him busy when we
make out our crop plan for the com-
ing year. Rape is good, a mixture of
sweet clover, alsike clover, June. clo-
ver or alfalfa is better. Peas and clo~
ver will be excellent for August. While
corn and root crops will be available
from September until the ground
freezes. '

Well-Made Sunflower Silage a Success

ACK in 1615, when Champlain

was exploring the region of the

Great Lakes, he found the Indians
cultivating sunflowers. Then the seeds
were used for food purposes and for
furnishing oil. Since that time the
growing of sunflowers has spread over
many parts of the world. In Europe
they are used most extensively in
Russia, while, until recently, in the
United States, Illinois has led.

But farmers are making a step in
the right direction by going back to
the first farmers for crops, and thus,
we note the growth of the popularity
of the sunflower again. We now have
the silo, which was undreamed of 300
years ago, and sunflowers in the silo
spell success and profit.

It has been demonstrated that the
sunflower crop yields nearly twice the
tonnage per acre as corn, while the
feeding values right through average
twenty-five per cent better. In fact,
developments of the last three years
to the
front as one of the most satisfactory
crops the farmer can grow for silage
purposes.

It has been proven by experiments
and extensive private feeding trials
that the sunflower yields well, the
silage is palatable, and‘is at least the
equal of corn, pound for pound. Many
comparisons made between corn sil-
age of the best quality and sunflower
silage have shown the balance of
economy of gain in beef and cattle and
yield of milk in dairy cattle in favor
of the sunflower.

Of all the different varieties of sun-
flowers, the Mammoth Russian is the
most extensively grown in America.
The results of eighteen years’ feeding
records at the Ontario Agricultural
College show averages as follows:
Height, ninety-eight inches, diameter
of heads, seven inches, and yield per
acre of heads, 5.6 tons; of whole crop,
18.2 tons, and of ripened se‘ed, 1,453

' pounds.
The sunflower crap may be grown.

successfully on practically any land
which will produce corn satisfactorily.
InfOrmation has been received, from

various sources that sunflowers will-

By Ear/e

give even better returns than corn on
rather cold and wet soils, muck land.
poor soils, light sandy soils, soils foul
with weeds and weed seeds, and also
in high altitudes, in short seasons and
under droughty conditions.
Sunflowers are more frost resistant
than corn, and therefore may be

W Gage -

in growing the crop for silage it seems
that the best method would be to have
the rows about thirty-six inches apart
and the plants six inches apart in the
rows. This would require about seven
pounds of seed per acre or nearly one-
third of a measured bushel. The seed
may be sown with an ordinary grain

 

 

This Michigan Sunflower Fie

planted earlier in the spring, or may
be allowed to remain later on the land
before being cut. A Wisconsin dairy
farmer says: “We had one test in
which corn and sunflowers were mix
ed and were grown together in a reg-
ion where the frost came about Sep-
tember 1. In this caSe the corn was
killed and dried up immediately, pro.
ducing almost nothing for feed, while
the sunflowers in the same field Were
not affected by the frost and stayed
green and succulent.”

An experiment was conducted in
duplicate in 1920 by planting sunflow-
ers at six different distances apart .in
rows, ranging from one inch to twelve

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Id Yielded a Heavy Tonnage.

drill by plugging some of the tubes.

The best period at which to cut, the
sunflower crop for the silo does not
seem to have been definitely estab-
lished. However, from observation, it
would seem wise, in consideration of
both quality and quantity ofsilage, to
allow the plants to become as far ad-
vanced in maturity as possible with-
out permitting many of the leaves to
be lost. Sunflowers may be harvested
with ordinary corn machinery. VJhere
no corn binder is available a sled with
knives at the sides gives good service.

The following table indicates the
probable yield in green weight per
acre of sunflowers, as against corn,

and peas and cats, the moisture con—

tent at the time the crops were put in
the silos, and the yields in dry matter
per acre:

5.3

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E“? 5 . 817$ U552 .
Q) 'H a) (/2 ;., "-4 ”a g. p, m
.p—J Q) 3—49 0 "—4 $4.0
Mama $2 wflmq
Sunflowers . .79,200 82.41 12,034
Corn . . . . . . . ”27,980 78.72 5 745
I’eas, oats. ...l4,t)l)t) 62.64 5,230

Sunflowers, plus the silo, practically
double the stock—carrying capacity of
the land, is a fact demonstrated on
thousands of American farms. The
discovery of this new fodder, or the
utilization of this ancient plant as sil-
age, (zither way you wish to put it, is
of enormous importance to the aver~
age farmer. ldnsilaged it, will .tble
him to increase his herds, without
having to increase the size of his farm
or to further invest in land. In short,
sunflowers give promise of improving
the whole agricultural system, and
bring bigger returns to the farmer for
a small outlay in buildings and stock.

And feeding tests show sunflowers
Up in just as favorable light. as do the
yields. Forty Holstein cows on one
farm were successfully rationed on
corn, peas and oats, and sunflower sil-
age for periods of two Weeks, each
cow being given thirty pounds of sil-
age daily. Only the last seven days of
each period were counted in the tests.
The results show that during the pe-
riod of sunflower feeding the cows
gave more milk, the milk contained a
slightly higher percentage of butter—
fat, and the animals gained more
weight than during the periods with
the other food. The following table
shows the results of the test:

.5 >2
I U) C8
33‘s? EEG: ... 3
Cd 'F‘ .H +9 :6
as» 5s 08
Peas and oats.25.88 3.5 1 lb.
Sunflowers .. . .2724 3.6 2 lbs.
Corn . . . . . . . . .264 3.4 1.85 lbs.

The experience of one dairy farmer
is typical of many who have had ex-

perience with sunflower silage as a."
ration for the dairy herd in winter. ,

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MONEY NEEDED To ENFORCE
PACKER CONTROL ACT.

       
   
   
  
  
   
   
   
    
    
   
    
   
   
   
    
 
   
  
     
    
  
     
    
   
  
      
   
     
    
   
 
     
    
   
   
     
   
  
   
     
   
    
   
   
  
    
   
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
   
 
   
     
   
 
     
    
   
   
    
   
    
     
   
    
    
     
  
  
     
   
     
 

 

HE packer control bill having be-

come a law, congress is asked for
an appropriation of $240,000 for the en
forcement of the act during the pres-
ent fiscal year. The bill, which was
signed by the President on August 18,
carried no appropriation, and the de-
partment of agriculture. has no funds
in its present appropriation act to car-
ry on the enforcement work. In sub-
mitting his estimate, Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wallace, who will administer
the act, said that the organization pro-
vided for administering the law would
not be large to begin with, but would
be developed gradually as the duties
of the work of enforcement required.

AGRICULTURAL INQUIRY PRO-
GRESSING.

 

H EARINGS before the Congression-
al Joint Commission of Agricul-
tural Inquiry were adjourned August
24, for one month. Chairman Sidney
Anderson says that the commission
expects to make a preliminary report
within thirty days in reference to the
agricultural depression, and that by
the first of December it plans to make
a final report, comprehending the
causes of this depression and suggeF'
ing remedies therefor. The commis
sion expects to formulate an extensive
agricultural program. The causes of
the depression are being investigated.
The good roads bill which has pass-
ed the senate is really an amended
outgrowth of the Phipps—Dowell bill,
with a few minor provisions taken
from the original Townsend bill. Its
promoters say it, is designed to estab-
lish a government policy or program
that will form the basis of all future
federal highway aid legislation. It will
be revised in conference to some ex-
tent. lt. is believed that no difficulty
Will be experienced in reaching a con—
ference agreement as the items that
might cause antagonism have been
eliminated by the senate. The bill as
agreed upon will undoubtedly be satis-
factory to both houses of congress, to
the state highway departments and to
' the farmers. The sum of $25,000,000
will be immediately available ahd $50,-
000,000 in six months after the bill be-
comes a law, making $75,000,000 for
the nine months of the present fiscal
year. The conferees will not consider
the bill until after the recess.

INTEREST ON FARM LOAN BONDS
INCREASED.
HE bill increasing the rate of in-
terest on the bonds of the Federal
Farm Loan system from five to five
and a half per cent, has been signed by
the President, and the Federal Joint
Stock Land Banks are. preparing to
place on the market a $30,000,000 bond
issue at the new rate of interest. A
representative of the banks says the
indications are good that the banks
will be able to sell these bonds at par,
and that they will soon begin to func-'
tion. As there are already applica-
tions for loans aggregating $100,000,—
000 now pending, these applications
will be considered in the order in
which they were received.

 

TAX BILL PASSED BY HOUSE.

 

HE tax bill which was passed by

the house by a vote of 274 to 125,
has been referred to the senate finance
committee for consideration during the
recess of congress. The house bill is
estimated to produce $3,347,000.000 the
first year, Or $221,000,000 below the

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present law. It repeals the excess
profits tax and income surtax rates
from thirty-two to sixty-five per cent
inclusive, effective January 1 next; in-
creases corporation income tax from
ten to twelve and a half per cent ef-
fective January 1 next; increases ex-
emption to heads of families to $2,500
for incomes of $5,000 or under, and in-
creases exemption for dependents from
$200 to $400 effective January last;
repeals transportation taxes; repeals
stamp taxes on perfumes, toilet prep<
arations and proprietory medicines,
and also repeals taxes on soft drinks
and some other products, substituting
in their places manufacturers’ taxes
effective upon enactment.

It is too early to predict just what
the senate will do with this bill. Pow-
erful efforts will be made to secure im-
portant changes in its provisions. The
farm organization representatives will
undertake to have the excess profits
tax retained, and it is probable that
the bill agreed to by the conferees will
be materially different from the bill as
it passed the house.

CREDITS FOR EXPORTING FARM
PRODUCTS.

 

HE house passed with _a number of
amendments the senate bill to au-
.-',“orize the war finance corporation to
extend credits up to $1,000,000,000 to
finance the exportation of farm prod-

ucts. The bill as explained by Eugene
Meyers, director of the war finance

corporation, will permit the corpora-

tion to loan money to exporting firms
handling farm products, to producers’
cooperative marketing associations to
permit the holding of grain for export
until foreign orders are received for
them, to elevators and jobbers hand-
ling grain on its way to the export
market, and to foreign buyers of Amer-
ican farm products.

 

AGRICULTURAL CREDITS BILL
PASSES.

 

C ONGRESS is taking a recess until

Before adjourning
August 21, the agricultural credits bill
was passed, and it has been signed by
the President. The measure empowers
the War Finance Corporation to issue
$1,500,000,000 in its own bonds, and to
lend $1,000,000,000 for financing agri-
The extra $500,000,-

September 21.

cultural exports.
000 Of war finance securities are to be

sold and the money used for the pur-
chase of railroad securities providing

the railroad funding bill becomes a
law. A senate provision allowing the
war finance corporation to lend $200,-
000,000 to the Federal Farm. Land
banks was eliminated by the confer-
ence.

The house bill continuing the dye
embargo for three months was passed,
but the proposed prohibition enforce-

 

 

 

 

News From Cloverland

By L. 1!. Chase

 

 

 

 

THE OTTER LAKE AGRICULTURAL
SCHOOL.

 

HE Otter Lake Agricultural School

is the parent school of the kind
in Michigan. It enrolled one hundred
and eighty-five pupils last year—all
Finnish, and there are six hundred
children of school age in the district.
An addition is to be erected this year,
and also a dwelling for teachers. This
school is the center of progress for the
territory. Its erection led directly to
the construction Of the road to Hough-
ton, sixteen miles distant, and to the
establishment Of a general store and
post office opposite the school ground,
which comprises forty acres. When
acquired by the school district, the
tract was heavily timbered. There
were so-called business men, as I well
remember, who once could not see the
advantage of opening up this isolated
community of Finnish farmers to the
outside world and to a good school.
They see it new, for the long road to
Houghton and Hancock, upon which
much money was thought by some to
have been wasted, takes these farmers
directly to the city market to sell and
buy. Good roads are the basis of a
community’s progress, and there are
now many miles of these in all direc-
tions in the Otter Lake region. It was
necessary to have a telephone line in
to the school, and most of the farmers
are now linked up with it. Acetylene
lights and other conveniences are
there also. The school is much appre-
ciated locally, as I learned through
personal inquiry; although I regretted
to learn that its laboratory and field
work, except gardening, have been
given up. There are boys’ and girls’
clubs in operation, which carry on
good work at the home farm. It was
also reported that a school of the or-
dinary type, lacking special work in
agriculture, was going to be built in
the same territory. This is a mistake.
These boys and girls should have the

schooling that i'armers’ boys and girls
are entitled to—the fundamentals that
a city child gets plus special practical
work in agriculture.

VEGETABLE VARIETY TEST.

 

HE village of Houghton owns a

considerable tract of land in con-
nection with the pumping station tor
the municipal water supply, and the
engineer in charge, Mr. Ed. Baudin, is
by avocation an excellent gardener. Mr.
Baudin not only grows market vegeta-
bles, but he also likes to experiment
with types new to this region. In this
work he cooperates with L. M. Geis-
mars agricultural agent of Houghton
cOunty, and J. A. Doelle, of the Upper
Peninsula Development Bureau. I vis-
ited his garden plots recently and
found him testing out varieties of soy-
beans, forage grasses and corn. An
interesting hill of corn is that of the
true Indian variety, which on a'tall
stalk bears a smaller ear, each kernel
of which is wrapped in its own small
husk. Although one hardly looks for
it here, I found melons, cucumbers
and tomatoes being very successfully
grown. Mr. Baudin is especially suc-
cessful with his tomatoes, of which
he produces quantities for the Hough-
ton market. He prunes and stakes
the vines so as to give full exposure
to the sun. He finds the Bonnie Bess
variety best to grow. Mr. Baudin has
likewise planted varieties of trees to
test their growth. I saw white and
Norway pine trees, mere seedlings
seven years ago, now head high, and
Scotch pines eight or more feet high.
More of these are to be set out this,
season on the hillside. The Chinese
and Marquette peaches are getting a
good start. There appear to be very
few investigators, even at the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, with Mr.
Baudin’s enthusiasm for practical in-
vestigation. We should have.“ ‘much
more of it.

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ment act, known as the beer bill, fail-
ed to obtain a vote.

MICHIGAN MAN URGED FOR FED- "

ERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

 

THE farm organizations have all

united in an effort to secure the
appointment of Milo D. Campbell, of
Michigan, as a member of the Federal
Trade Commission, to fill a vacancy?
On August 26, representatives of all
the farm and dairy organizations main-
taining headquarters in Washington.
called on President Harding and pre—
sented Mr. Campbell’s name for this
appointment. As the President has
taken a positive position that agricul‘

ture should be represented on the fed- ,

eral commissions, and the organized
farmers are unanimously in favor of
Mr. Campbell, there are strong hopes
that the President will consider his
appointment favorably. Mr. Campbell
is president of the National Milk Pro<
ducers’ Federation, and has long been
active in agricultural afiairs and in‘
the promotion of better farming con<
ditions.

 

STATE QUARANTINE AGAINST EU-
UROPEAN CORN BORER.

 

HE European corn borer has been

found in the Province of Ontario.
Canada, and in order to prevent its
spread into this state, the commission.
er of agriculture has issued quaran-
tine regulations on all corn grown in
Ontario.

As the borer also seriously affects
farm and garden crops it will also be
prohibitive to ship from there celery,
beans in the pod, beets with tops on,
spinach, rhubarb, rye, oats, wheat or
straw, sedges or rushes, cut flowers or

entire plants of Chrysanthemums, as‘ ‘
ters, cosmos, zinnia or holyhock, glad‘ "

iolus, canna, peony and dahlia, and any
other plants which have a hollow stem
or large pith which is likely to shel-
ter the borer.

Shelled corn and the bulbs of plants
may be admitted. The plants referred
to above excepting corn broom and
sweet corn, may also be admitted if
they are accompanied by a certificate
from the authorities of the Canadian
Department of Agriculture, stating
that they have been inspected and
found free from the European corn
borer and'other dangerous pests and
plant diseases. .

 

SUNFLOWER SILAGE A SUCCESS.

 

(Continued from page 199).

This man thought he had put up
enough to winter the herd, but ran out
of sunflower silage, and started giving
his cows a double portion of chop ra-
tion and roughage, but his milk yield
went down very rapidly. “My weekly
cream check when the cows were fed
on sunflower silage was in the neigh
,borhood of $45,” advised this man,
“but the week after the silage gave
out it went down to $21 on the same
market quotation.”

The average results of the analyses
Of the sunflower compare very favors
ably with those of corn, being particd
ularly rich in protein and fat.

At the Agricultural College in Mon-
tana an exhaustive digestion experi-
ment was conducted with sunflower
silage. Thé percentage of digestible
nutrients, as determined in these trials
are given as follows: Total dry sub-

0:

stance, 21.4; crude protein, 1.24; crude.‘

fiber and nitrogen-free extract, 10.13;
ether extract,’.37.

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ROBABLY less than one per cent
of the farmers of Michigan are
familiar with the wide variety of
tests, investigational activities, and
plant breeding work now being carried
on at their own experiment station.
To set before our readers a well-
rounded idea of the various lines‘of
work the station is doing we wrote
Director Shaw requesting reports on
the station work in which the practi-
cal farmer is likely to be interested.
This request was relayed to‘ the sev-
eral department heads andithe stories
on this and other pages are the result.
The farmers who are, without doubt,
finding the greatest pleasure in their
farm work are those who take pains
to keep in touch with the new lines of
agricultural investigation. We hope,
therefore, these articles will intro-
duce the work of the station to a
largely increased circle of farmers
Who are seeking to improve their farm-
ing methods—Editors.

Better Crops
By Prof: J. I". ‘ox

HE farm crops experimental

work at the Michigan Experi-

ment Station occupies one hun.
dred and two acres of land, with thir—
ty-eight acres in addition planted to
newly improved corn varieties, far in-
crease by arrangement with the farm
and horse department.

The plant breeding work, under
Profs. F. A. Spragg and E. E. Down,
includes improvement work with
.Wheat, oats, barley, rye, beans, hemp,
flax, sunflowers, alfalfa, clover, sugar
beets, sweet clover, selfing work with
corn, and testing and breeding of oth-
er Michigan crops. This work has giv-
en rise to such well-known varieties
as the Rosen rye, Red Rock wheat,
Wolverine oats, Black Barbiess barley,
Michigan-Two-Row barley, and Robust
beans.

Varieties of proven worth are in-
creased in a large way on the station
farm for distribution on an extensive
Scale to members of the Michigan
Crap Improvement Association. The
membership of this association is op-
en to any Michigan farmer particularly
interested in growing improved crops.
The association maintains careful field
inspection and by producing seed of
improved varieties of high quality in
large quantities, serves as a means of
rapidly making these varieties stand-
ard in Michigan.

During the last year forty-two bush-
els of new Hubam clover was produc—
ed on the increase fields at M. A. C.
Over seven hundred acres of this crop
will be inspected by the association in
Michigan this year for seed purposes.
This seed will be’sold largely through
the farm bureauseed department.

 

WhatAre the Hired Men Doing?

AReport of Work Now 8627th Carried 072 éy t/ze Mir/72pm: Experiment Station

 

 

These Men Are Selfing Corn to Enter

the Ear-row Tests in Order that Plant

Characteristics May be Easily Fixed.

An extensive corn variety test and
ear-row work with field corn and pop-
corn, occupying over forty acres of
land, is handled in the field by Mr. J.
R. Duncan. Several hundred bushels
each of improved Duncan, Golden
Glow, and Duncan-Golden Glow Cross
will be distributed to members of the
Michigan Crop Improvement Associa-
tion for increase next year, after which
these varieties will, be available in
quantity for central and lower Michi-
gan, from members of the Crop Im-
provement Association and from the
farm bureau seed department.

Forage crop experiments are hand-
led chiefly in the field by Professor
C. R. Megee. They include compara—

ment, is pasturing off a part of the
sweet clover field and is enthusiastic
over the value of sweet clover as pas-
ture for dairy cows.

The annual hay crop experiment is
in its third year and it shows among
other things the worthlessness of the
Mammoth Yellow soybeans in Michi-
gan, when compared with such varie-
ties as the Ito San, Manchu, and Early
Brown. It also shows that the Jap-
anese millet and Billion Dollar grass
gives less forage and much coarser
forage than the standard Hungarian,
Common, and (lolden millels. Sudan
grass has shown itself to be a short—
season hay crop of great promisi

A

yielding somewhat more than the mil-

 

 

Each Strip is a Different Variety of Barley. They Are Planted Side by Side

with a Standard Variety Every Fourth Strip

Yields May be Obtained

five tests of varieties of alfalfa from
particularly all known varieties. Ex-
periments with clover from various
sources, field pea improvement work,
comparative tests of the new Hubam
clover, (planted alone and with a com-
panion crop), and experiments with
sweet clover are handled for seed and
for hay.

The height of cutting experiments
show conclusively that the first crop
of sweet clover must be cut with the
mowerbar set eight inches or more
above the ground. This requires spe-
cial shoe attachments. The annual
growth of sweet clover results from
shoots along the stem, and a long
enough stem must be left to give a
good set of shoots for second growth.

Professor Reed, of the dairy depart

 

 

Professor Spragg Has Turned His Attention to the Production of a Species

of Hemp Adapted to Michigan Condi

~Antioipation of the Development ofthe He

tions. This Work is Being Done in

mp Industry.

 

in Order that Comparative

lets, and giving an excellent hay when
out at the right time, when seed is in
the early milk stage.

At the V‘Chatham sub-station in the
upper peninsula, Mr. G. W. Putnam,
research associate for the crops de-
partment, has developed extensive
crops experimental work along a sim-
ilar plan as the work at M. A. C. He
has been instrumental in introducing
the sunflower crop in the upper penin-
sula. This is proving to be a valuable
and dependable silage crop.

Mr. Putnam is also carrying on ex-
tensive work with small grains and
field peas. In addition to the work at
M. A. C. and at, the Chatham sub-sta-
tion, cooperative variety tests and
crops experiments are placed with the

 

county agents, farm bureaus, and
farmers in practically all Michigan
counties.

Mr. Duane Rainey and Mr. Howard
Rather are handling over one hundred
and forty such tests in the lower pe-
ninsula. Mr. Putnam and Mr. John
llammes have put out over thirty c0—
operative tests in the upper peninsula.
New varieties and new methods are
being introduced by a careful compar-
ative test and must stand on their
own merits as demonstrated under the
observation of farmers.

The members of the Michigan Crop
Improvement Association elect agreat
number of crops projectswover three
hundred during the past year. This
work is under the direction of Prof.
A. L. Bibbins. These projects are
chiefly with new varieties and new
crops. The experience of these farm-
ers determines the value of these crops
and their place in Michigan agricul-
ture.

It is the object of the farm crops
section to develop improved varieties
of crops, increase these varieties, and
when proven in the field, get them in-
to Widespread use as quickly as pos-
sible, so that the state will be most
n,ffectively’benefited. It is also the

.ject of the farm crops section to
determine the adaptation of crops
throughout the state and work out bet-
ter methods of culture and preparation
for market.

It must not be overlooked by the in-
dividual farmer that the best method
of cheap production is to grow the
highest yielding varieties and follow
the most ellicient methods of culture.
By lessening the cost of production,
the profit secured per bushel or per
acre is directly increased.

Improving the Soil
By [’27)]: ii]. 11/.[1/[6600]

T lili} soils department is engaged
in several lines of work that are

of utmost concern to the farm-
ers of Michigan. A systematic and
thorough study of the soils of the
state is in progress in cooperation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Soils. A move-
ment is on foot to bring about the co«
operation of the state departments and
the above institutions. If this is ac-
complished Michigan should have in a.
relatively short time the best soils
survey in the country. The chief soil
areas in the, lower peninsula have been
carefully sampled and analyzed for
their plant food content, and on this
basis a lime requirement map of the
state has been made. This work is in
reality the foundation of all future
soils work.

There is a tremendous

amount of

 

Michigan is Now the Leading Fiber Flax State in

periment Station is Cooperating with
Breeding of Superior Varieties.

 

  

 

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interest manifested in the fertilizer
needs of the soils as well as in other
. methods for improving them. In order
to rapidly and continuously meet the
demands many cooperative tests are
being conducted on farms of Michi-
gan. In addition several permanent
fertility fields are being laid out. On
these fields several things are being
investigated.

The amount, manner, kind and fre-
quency of forms of lime applied to the
land to most profitably produce differ-
ent crops has been‘under investigation
for five years. These results show that
soils vary with respect to the most
profitable amounts of lime to apply,
that when applied during a season of
rather low rainfall little benefit may
be derived from its application, that
equivalent amounts of very finely

 

The effect of proper fertilization on
this is under investigation as well as
the action of various mineral fertiliz-
ers on the amount and purity of sugar
beet products. In connection with the
soil survey proper, peat and muck
soils of the state are being classified.
> Research Projects.

The members of the soils depart-
ment are leading all others in this
country along certain lines. The in-
vestigations covering the temperature
and moisture relationships of soils
are more complete than any others.
The immediate and residuary effect of
fertilizers on different soils, the solu-
bility or availability of the soils con-
stituents, as well as those of rocks
and minerals that go to make up soils
are under consideration. The rate at
which plant food elements are washed

 

 

Hubam Clover Straw Dries Quickly and Can be Threshed from the Shock
in the Field.

ground limestone, marl and hydrated
lime are similar in their action during
the first few years after they are ad-
ded to the land, that sweet clover and
alfalfa are exceptionally sensitive to
deficiency of lime in the land, and that
many failures of clover are due to a
sour condition of the soil. Where
needed the use of lime is highly prof—
itable. The. most economical forms of
lime to use are limestone and marl.

The majority of the soils of the
state respond profitably to phosphates.
Many trials with acid phosphate and
raw rock phosphate show. with few
exceptions, that the soluble, or avail-
able, t‘orms are the most profitable,
and that stable manure should be re-
enforced with, phosphates.

The lighter soils are deficient in
nitrogen and phosphorus, and respond
to the introduction of nitrogen in com-
mercial forms and legumes, as well as
to phosphates, and when intelligently
used commercial fertilizers are highly
profitable on them. Losses due to in—
sect pests and winter injury are great-
ly reduced by proper soil fertilization.

The question of commercial fertil-

izers is receiving much attention. The
results derived from such materials
depend in a large measure on the
manner and amount of application. Ex-
periments are in progress to answer
these questions. It is often maintain-
ed that fertilizer should not be placed
in the hill, but our investigations show
that hill applications, when properly
done, not only increases the yield and
maturity but also stimulates tremen-
dously the root development of corn;
the effect on other crops is also under
investigation.

Muck and peat soils are receiving
much attention. A forty-acre field of
muck is being cleared and prepared
for much experimentation. Here all
problems that arise in connection with
the management of these soils are be
ing investigated. In addition, fifteen
cooperative demonstrations are in pro—
gress in different parts of the state on
several varieties or different kinds of
muck. The fertilization and adapta-

ftion to different crops are being con-

sidered» In some instances the feed-

Z's‘ing value of forage plants is known
, 130 be low when grown on muck lands.

out of soil by rainfall, and the varia-
tion in the amount of available mate-
rial in different soils at different sea-
sons of the year are included. The
fixation of elements of plant food when
applied to them in different carriers
by peat and muck soils and its bearing
on their fertilization, the height of rise
of waters above the water table in
peat and muck deposits, and the na-
ture and cause of soil acidity, are be-
ing exhaustively investigated.

Farm Bacteriology
By Prof. R. Snyder

ACTERIOLOGY is a subject that

touches every phase of agriculture
and consequently the experimental
work is intimately related With animal
and crop production.

Studies are being carried on along
various lines of animal pathology.
Particular attention is being given to
the problem of contagious abortion——
a disease which annually causes mil-
lions of dollars’ loss to the animal in-
dustry of the country. The experiment
station maintains a large herd of cat-
tle exclusively used in the study of
this disease. While the problem of
contagious abortion is extremely com-
plex and difficult, nevertheless pro-
gress has been made and data has
been accumulated which will be of
great value to the animal interests of
the state and nation.

Methods have been worked out for
the standardization of milk which are
now being extensively put into prac-
tice on a commercial scale in determ-
ining the keeping quality of milk.
These methods where tried have re-
sulted in a gradual increase in the
quality of milk sold, with an increased
profit for producer and consumer.

The state of Michigan contains
thousands of acres of peat lands that
are in a present state of unproductiv-
ity. In the process involved in break-
ing down the peat and making it a-
suitable medium for plant growth the
bacteria present play a very important
part. Studies are being pursued on
this problem contemplating possible
measures by which the decomposition
and fertility of the peat soils may be

 

increased. The distribution of legume
cultures at cost to Michigan farmers
is an additional feature of the work in
soil bacteriology.

Studies are being pursued.on bee
diseases in order that the annual loss-
es from these sources may be de-
creased.

Great sums of money are lost every
year from the deterioration of butter.
The experiment station has been
studying for some time the bacterial
changes which go on in butter, in or-
der that the factors inducing butter
spoilage may be better understood and
controlled. 'Bacteria are of great im-
portance in determining the quality of
all dairy products.

Work is being carried on in the im~
portant fields of food bacteriology and
fermentation. Included in this work
are such problems as botulism (food
poisoning), vinegar making, fermenta~
tion and preservation of silage, etc.
Miscellaneous work is done from time
to time on such special minOr prob-
lems as present themselves.

Chemical Helps
By Prof C. A’. Robinson

HE inspection of feeds, fertilizers

and insecticides was controlled by
this department until July 1, 1921,
when it was turned over to the newly
created State Department of Agricul-
ture. During the season ending June
30, 529 samples of feeds were collected
and analyzed. This is the smallest
number of samples that has been col-
lected by this department during any
similar period; a situation which was
brought about by the unusual econom-
ic conditions that prevailed which
caused a great falling ed in the com-
mercial feed business. Of the above
number of samples 5.8 per cent were
found deficient in protein, 2.8 per cent
in fat and 2.4 per cent contained too
'much crude fiber. These figures are
very gratifying when compared with
those obtained during 1916, the first
year of the station’s control of the

and ma‘rls were tested and several
hundred samples of soils were tested
for acidity. '

Experimental work was also done on
the following subjects:

The detection of low-grade nitrogen
containing products in fertilizers.

The cause and nature of soil acidity.

The identification and estimation of
the ingredients of mixed feed.

The nitrogen in peat soils.~

The analysis of limestone, marl, soil
and of baking powder.

The determination of
acid in fertilizers.

The control of intestinal parasites.

phosphoric

Farm Forestry g]
By Prof. fl. K. C/zittmdm

THE forestry section of the experi-
ment station has just completed a.
study of the rate of growth of forest
plantations and windbreaks in Michi-
gan, the results of which have. been
published in special bulletin No. 105
of the experiment station. The study
included measurement of the experi-
mental plantation which was estab-
lished in 1888 by Dr. Deal on some
sandy land near Grayling. This plan-
tation is an excellent illustration of
what trees will do when planted under
such trying conditions of soil and
moisture. The bulletin also contains
suggestions for forest planting in the
state.
The department is carrying on a

study of the composition and rate of,

growth of second growth hardwoods
on cutover lands in the northern part
of the state. This work is being done
in connection with the summer for-
estry camp which is held each sum‘
mer in the north woods. The object
of the study is to determine the value
of such second growth and the length
of time which it will take to reach
maturity as well as to determine the
minimum logging requirements neces-
sary to reproduce these forests natur-
ally.

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Developing More Uniform Races of Sugar Beets by the

Selfing Method at

the Michigan Experimental Grounds.

feed inspection when fifteen per cent
of the samples were deficient in pro-
tein, 11.5 per cent in fat and 9.9 per
cent over the limit in crude fiber.
During the past season 907 samples
of fertilizers and seventy-three sam~
ples of insecticides were collected and
analyzed. Of the fertilizers 7.1 per
cent were found below guarantee in
nitrogen, 0.02 per cent in total phos-
phoric acid, 8.3 per cent in available
phosphoric acid, and 16.5 per cent in
potash. In addition to the control
work analyses were made of 234 sam-
ples of miscellaneous materials such
as stock tonics and conditioners not
covered by- the feedingstuffs law. A
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with basket willows, an experimental.
plantation being operated by the own-
er near Spring Lake in cooperation
with the departments The costs and.
the receipts have been kept for five
years. The first year showed a loss
but after that the receipts have been
constantly increasing until now the
plantation shows a fairly good profit.
The forestry department is carrying
on experiments to determine. the efiect
of the number of tap holes on sap
flow in the college sugar bush. It has
been found that while the.flow: or sap
increases with an increasing number
of tap holes the flow ,is not propor-
tional to the number of'holes, that is,
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RIGHTS OF HOLDER OF WARE.
HOUSE RECEIPT.

 

I hired storage for a quantity of
wheat last year. Now the wheat has
been sold and cannot be returned. Can
I demand the same price that they
were paying at that time, or must I
take the present price?——W. P.

If the deposit contract gave the
warehouse keeper no right to sell the
wheat, the depositor can recover for
the conversion the value of the wheat

at the time of the conversion; or at
such time after the depositor learned
of the conversion as would have ena-
bled him to replace the lost property
in the open market-J. R. R.

 

INJURY TO ANIMALS BY AUTOS-

 

One of my horses slipped his halter
off and got into the road, and an au-
tomobile came along and ran into him.
I know who it was. Can I collect the
damages?——A. L. C.

If the injury was wilful, and that
could be proved, the driver would be
liable. If the injury was due to neg-
ligence on the part of the driver, the
question would arise whether the own-
er of the horse was not guilty of con-
tributory negligence in permitting it
to be in the highway; and if he was
he cannot recover, since the owners of
horses have no right to run them at
large in the absence of special vote at
the town meeting to authorize it. If
the owner of the auto was neither
guilty of either wilful injury nor neg-
ligence he would not be 1iable.——J. R.

 

HEN WITH GOUT.

 

One of our three-year-oldhens show-
ed symptoms of lameness, and we kill-
ed her and found the liver enlarged
and'a white, chalky substance all
through her, heart and membrane cov-
ered with same, and glands in back
enlarged until nearly the size of the
yolk of an egg. She was quite fat,
had been fed corn and oats, and had
free range—L. M. C.

Hens sometimes have gout, due to
heavy feeding and lack of exercise.
Sometimes a hen might have the tr0u~
ble when the feeding conditions were
about right but she would be an ex-
ception to the rule. In visceral gout
chalky deposits are found in the air
sacs, peritoneum, liver or heart. Scien-
tists have produced gout in fowls by
feeding experiments in which the
birds were given only horse flesh for
several months. It caused an excess
of uric salts in the blood. Lameness
is also present. There is no cure for
gout in hens, but it does not seem to
occur often and can be largely pre-
vented if the birds have ample range
and exercise.

SEEDING CLOVER AND TIMOTHY
IN THE FALL.

 

I have a piece of ground, about six
acres, which I planted to oats last
spring. I sowed about 200 pounds of
fertilizer to the acre and all I received
was two loads of straw (no oats). I
want to get some clover on it and I
would like to have something to cut
for hay next year also. Can I sow
timothy and clover this fall, or just
the timothy, and sow the clover in the
spring? What can I do to get a catch?
Would land plaster help? If so, how
much would be proper to sow and
when would the best time be to sow
it?—T. W. R.

This has been a poor season for
oats. There are very few crops that
are full weight.’ Some fields, the ber-
ries are exceedingly chaffy. This is
owing to the exceedingly hot weather
early in the season and lack of mois-
ture. Oats will not stand the hot, dry
weather when they are filling.

You can disk this field up at once.

The sooner the better. It probably
will not be necessary to plow it. You
wanta firm sub-soil and a fine, mel-
low surface soil for grass seed. The
disk, the spring-tooth harrow and the
roller are about all the tools necessary
to fit it and I would seed the clover
and timothy just as soon as the mois-
ture conditions would warrant, the
sooner the better: Had you prepared

this land thoroughly as soon as the
oats were harvested, then it might

ha’ve been seeded“ now, with these
rains, and you might have gotten good
germination. The only danger in seed-
ing clover in the fall is that it will
not get root development sufficient to
stand the winter.

If this land has an acid reaction,
then it would improve your chances of
getting a catch of clover very mate-
rially if you would lime it. Use a ton
of ground limestone per acre and work
it into the soil when you are prepar-
ing for seeding. Another application
of commercial fertilizer would also as-
sist very much in getting a good stand
of timothy and clover. I would not
recommend land plaster because this
is sulphate of calcium and will not cor-
rect soil acidity. Lime, or carbonate
of calcium, is an alkaline and will cor—
rect acidity.——C. C. L.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A LEASE?

 

I rented forty acres of land which
has a house and barn on it. When the
contract was made the owner did not
reserve the buildings from my use,
but when I wanted to put my hay in
the barn he said that I would have to
pay $15 more rent. Has he the right
to demand same? The owner has some
last year’s hay stored in the barn.
Have I the right to ask him to pay me
for the use of the barn? There is a
tenant in the house. Who has the
right to collect the rent, the owner or
myself? I paid half of the rent when
the contract was made and the bal-
ance is due the first of September. Do
I have to pay the full amount due,
since I had to stack my hay outside?
—Subscriber.

A lease of land includes all buildings
on the land unless there is an excep-
tion of the buildings. That would
have to be determined by the words
of the lease if in writing, and if not
by the testimony of the witnesses. If
the lease includes the buildings, the
incidents of ownership follow, includ-
ing the right to collect the rent of the
sub-tena‘nt.—J. R. R.

MOVING LINE FENCE.

 

A owns a farm adjoining B on which
the line fences have not been changed
or moved at any point in over thirty
years. About four months ago B com-
plained that the line fence was not
straight and without surveying built
a barbed wire fence which at some

places comes over on A’s farm more

than a rod. Had B proper authority to
move the line, (he, Bl, halving bought
his farm on contract); if not, what
steps should be taken by A to remove
the fence?——M. J. W.

Assuming that the land is A’s, he
would have the same right to remove
the fence that he would have to re-
move any other obstruction placed on
his land by a wrongdoer. If the fence
was not built originally or since main-
tained as on the line, but only as an
approximation and a convenient means
of restraining stock; or if the fence
was originally built over onto the land
of one or the other and since main-
tained by consent and license, and so
understood by both parties, no period
of maintenance would ripen into title
by adverse possession.

Assuming that the fence is now built
over onto A’s land he may remove the
fence, or sue in trespass or ejectment.

J. R. R.

 

 

 

Magnifying the
Finger Print

HE proved oil producing area in;

the United States is estimated.

as only 4500 square miles. When

you contrast this with the area of

the United States—3,026,789 square

miles—the proved area is but a finger
print on the map.

Yet from this 4500 square miles must:
come the raw material to drive all
of our motor driven machines, and
practically all of the oil to lubricate»
the machinery which makes possible
the. happiness and prosperity of the:
nation. . ‘ .

To magnify this finger print is the)
task in which the Standard Oil Com-
pany (Indiana) is engaged.

By reason of the Burton Process, which:
largely increases the amount of gasoline re-
coverable from a given quantity of crude oil,
and dozens of other methods developed in its
laboratories and refineries, the Standard Oil
Company (Indiana) has multiplied the quan~
tity of finished petroleum products available:
for the use of men wherever they may live-

The development of the Burton Process has.
done more to promote the manufacture of
automotive machinery than any other single-
discovery since the usefulness of gasoline as.
a fuel was made known. Because of it there
is a plentiful supply of crude oil available:
today, and gasoline is selling for a low price.
Without it the price of this fuel would be:
beyond the reach of the average man.

The use of this process is not confined to
the refiners of the Standard Oil Company
(Indiana) alone, but is being made available
to others under conditions which are just.
and equitable to all.

The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has a

‘ just pride in the work it has done, and is
doing, to so increase the quantity and qual-
ity of its products as to make possible the
use of labor-saving machinery throughout
the world.

Thus is the Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
doing a big work in conserving the natural
resources of the nation, and in helping others
to do likewise.

Standard Oil Company 17
(Indiana) 1
910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.‘

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WILL SPEAK FOR FARMERS.

 

BERNARD M. BARUCH, the noted

financier and financial advisor to
the United States Grain Growers’ Inc.,
has accepted the invitation of the
American Farm Bureau Federation to
appear before the Congressional Joint
Commission of Agricultural Inquiry to
present an analysis of the farmers'
credit and finance problems. Mr. Ban
uch has just returned from Germany
where he devoted some attention to
agricultural finance. He was formerly
chairman of the war industries board.

THINKS THE‘bAT MARKET WILL
IMPROVE.

 

RATES are at a ridiculously low fig-

ure and any farmer who can hang
onto his good oats ought to do it, says
the Michigan Elevator Exchange,
which believes that prospects are
bright for a much better price a little
later on. Today western states are
rushing their oats to market at prices
that are lower than any time since
1906. Notwithstanding that fact the
eastern demand for oats continues bet-
ter than it has for any time in the past
two years, according to the exchange.
It is upon this demand that the ex-
change sees the promise of a brighter
future for oats.

The domestic milling demand for
wheat continues good, says the ex-
change, adding that rye still remains
sick and that there seems to be little
interest in that commodity.

GRAIN RATES REDUCED.

 

ICHIGAN shippers of grain stand

to save thousands of dollars in
freight’rates by the terms of two re-
ductions announced recently by rail
roads operating in Central Freight As-
sociation territory recently by the In-
terstate Commerce Commission. This
territory comprises the region east of
the Mississippi, west of Buffalo, and
north of the Ohio river.

Rates on export grain were reduced
seven and a half cents a hundred, and
four and a half cents a hundred on
grain for domestic use within that
territory, according to the American
Farm Bureau Federation traflic de-
partment.

Based on the export business of the
Michigan Elevator Exchange shippers
can see how this reduction will affect
them. Last year the farm bureau ele-
vator exchange shipped to Baltimore
nine hundred cars of wheat. and rye
for export. If the exchange ships the
same number this year under the new
rate, there will be a saving of about
$30 on every car of wheat and about
$24 on a car of rye, or a total of
$25,000 shouldvnine hundred such cars
be shipped. If the exchange should
ship five hundred cars of grain for do-
mestic use within the territory, it has
been figured that. savings amounting
to $8,000 could be made in freight
rates on those shipments.

COUNTIES WILL EXHIBIT.

 

IGHTEEN counties have lined up

for the county farm crops exhibits
which are to be a feature of the crops
show at the state fair in Detroit, .Sep-
_tember 2-11, according to Mr. Clark L.
Brody, secretary of the State Farm
Bureau, who is the member of the
state fair board in charge of the agri-
cultural building and its exhibits.
County agents are assisting counties
to make up their exhibits and county
farm bureaus are the unit through
which the counties are working up

   

their exhibits in many cases. Prizes of agricultural progress.
totaling $2,000 will be distributed in
the county exhibits.

make county exhibits are:
Bay, Clare, Ogemaw, Midland, AlcOa

 

 

 

 

T a Farm ‘Bareaa Creed
. By Martin T rapp, Beazie C0.

Life’s sustenance in product of the land,
Her servants we, for universal good,
United stand in one great brotherhood.
Opposed to autocratic power and might,
We hold to principles of truth and right;
And on obedience to Nature’s laws
Applied in daily task we rest our cause.

Q- S Nature gives for all with lavish hand

We deem farm homes our country’s greatest need.
The nursery of its virtues, freedom’s seed,

To build in man of independent mind

The sturdy timber to uphold his kind.

Our greatest wealth we count our.girls and boys;
To serve their welfare best of all our joys:

For them the right to equal share we claim

In life’s regard, to others grant the same.

These to secure and to maintain, we hold,
For fair returns upon our products sold.

For right to such collective bargaining

As will the cost of their production bring,
And keep our farms in such fertility

As with intelligent ability

Will economically let us produce

The food that’s needed for our country's use,
And through the markets of the world supply
Food to the starving millions lest they die.

’Gainst profiteer and speculator bold,
Amassing fortunes with our borrowed gold,
Who in their i‘ellowmen’s adversities
Withhold for gain their life’s necessities,
Oppose we firm and organized control;

By curb of law in mercy save their soul!
Publicity’s expose will end the hour

Of wealth’s abuse and class control of power.
Initiative and referendum, too,

We’ll use to add to knowledge of the few
The wisdom of majority, combined

In organized endeavor for our kind.

So that our boys may stay upon the farm,

And own their homes, be nation’s strongest arm,
We must constructive policy pursue,

To agriculture’s needs give credit due,

And turn from luxury’s extravagance

Our nation’s wealth production to advance:

Nor sacrifice posterity’s dire need

Upon the pagan altar of our greed .

Our schools to serve our needs must recognize,
By course of study and instruction wise,

True education's aim: our pOWers to train

For life’s large task with ready hand and brain.
So should be given to every farmer’s son,

When season's work upon the farm is done,

The time and opportunity to learn

In higher schools with wages he can earn

The scientific knowledge he requires,

That each be better man than were his sires.

()ur daughters, too, the fairest of the land,

In homely duties trained, should means command
With knowledge, music’s charm, and beauty-'s art
To make the home of farm the better part.

Him to protect from hail and drought and frost,
And other hazards whereby much is lost,

Who little having yearly risks his all,

And losing has not left the means withal

To start again, by mutual counsel wise

We’ll seek the means his risk to minimize,

And aiding these, insurance plan we’ll find,
That they who gain by losses of this kind

By increased prices, shall these profits share

In some indemnity that’s just and fair.

To profit by experience of the past,

By records kept to make such knowledge last,
For us production costs to ascertain

As baSe for prices fair and proper gain,

And him who seeks upon the farm to live
Productive value of his land to give,

We’ll take an annual farm and crop survey

Of every farm, that all may in this way

With school, farm bureau, county agent, too,
Cooperate in what is best to do,

In grange, community, and legislative hall
Promote such measures as will best serve all.

Yet not material wealth alone can give

The means whereby we all may truly live:

The Master we must follow in life’s school;

In faith and hope obey the Golden Rule;

Be each a neighbor to our fellow man,
What’ere his business, work, or creed, or clan;
For country, school, and church with him unite;
And- serve for commonigood by common right};

 

 

The county
exhibits will share the agricultural
building with the Michigan Agricultur-

Educational exhibits have been. a1 College exhibit and the regular in-
sought by Mr. Brody. It is his idea to dividual exhibits. Counties which will
make the county exhibits-—a new idea
at the state fair—truly representative

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na, Gladwin, Oscoda,‘ Wayne, Alpena.
Menominee, Crawford, Tuscola, Oak-
land, Ingham, Presque Isle, Montmor-
ency, Otsego and Roscommon.

 

WILL INVESTIGATE DAIRY MAR-
KETING PROBLEMS.

 

MILO D. CAMPBELL of Goldwater,

Michigan, president of the Na.-
tional Milk Producers’ Federation, has
been named by President James R.
Howard, of the American Farm Bu‘
reau Federation as Michigan’s repre<
sentative on the National Dairy Mard
keting Committee of Eleven, charged
with investigating the status of the
dairy industry and proposing meaS<
ures for improving marketing condi<
tions in that phase of agriculture. The
committee is to meet soon, organize
and begin its investigations. Dairy
interests from the Atlantic to the Pa~
cific and from the Gulf of Mexico .to»
the Canadian border are represented
on the Committee of Eleven. I

 

 

INDIANA WOOL IN MICHIGAN
lPOOL.

 

S OME Indiana wool is in the Michi‘

gan State Farm Bureau wool pool.
Indiana farmers of the vicinity of
South Bend, Indiana, where there is a.
mill making Michigan virgin wools in-
to fabrics, asked the Michigan Farm
Bureau to take some of their wool.
Accordingly, a grader went to South
Bend to pool and grade wool for those
men. Pooling continues‘ in Michigan,
direct to state headquarters and in
some sections there is sufficient wool
to warrant sending a grader back to
certain Wool grading centers to take
in late wool. Farm bureau wool pool
fabrics division men are now working
in Genesee, Allegan and Ionia coun-
ties, where they are signing local (”54
tributors. Last week seven local dis<
tributing points were established in
Gratiot county.

 

OUTLOOK FOR SEED IMPROVED.
IBERAL rains during August after,
a period of drought which burned
up many clover seedings will assist in
giving a good start to the greatest
late seeding of alfalfa and sweet clo<
ver the state has even kn'bwn, says J.
W. Nicholson, of the State Farm Bu-
reau Seed Department. Great acreages
were sown to, the foregoing crops dur-
ing August, says Mr. Nicholson, de-
spite the fact that late seeding of al<
falt‘a has never been recommended.
Michigan has an ample crop of time
othy this year and there is a keen de< ,
mand for the seed, according to Mr.
Nicholson. There is little high quality
alsike to be had and the. demand for”
that exceeds the supply. Men who
have good alsike seed to sell are hav-
ing no difficulty in finding a good mar«
k-et. The early movement of certified
rye and wheat has been very heavy,
says the farm bureau, and is indicative
of the general and growing demand
for only the best seed. '

 

 

MEMBERSHIP GROWS.

 

MEMBERSHIP in the U. S. Grain-

Growers, Inc., the farmer-owned
national grain marketing association,
has now reached a total of 5,135 indi-'
vidual growers and their .277 elevat-s
ors, according “to late reports from
Grain Grower headquarters , in_ Chica< .
go. Organization work is being pushed:
in' Oklahoma, Nebraska and Illinois,

 

- ”To impoverish and embitter" they.
farmer is to dry up and contaminates-f"
the yitalsom‘ces or m«.nation.”4Be'"
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(Continued from page 202).

that while two tap holes may almost
double the flow of sap from a good-
sized tree the increased amount ob-
tained from four or more tap holes
would not pay for the extra buckets,
Data is also being kept. regarding the
cost of operating and amount of fuel
used.

The department is also experiment-
ing with exotic trees with a view to
finding species suitable for use on
shifting sand, species which will grow
rapidly and have such root develop-
ment as will tend to hold the sands
in place.

Better Poultry
By Prof W E. Newton

THE M. A. C. poultry department
has been growing very rapidly
during the past few years, and it is
the wish of the present staff to carry
on the good work that has been ini-
tiated. We are endeavoring to in-
crease the productive power of the
twelve millions of hens in the state.
Our extension specialist, E. C. Fore-
man, is assisting in this greater pro-
duction campaign by exercising his
ability to cull out the non-producers.
During the past three years, Mr. Fore-
man has discarded practically one-
third of the thousands of hens that
have passed through his hands.

The department is trap-nesting hun-
dreds of hens annually on the college
plant, and only those individuals which
make good egg records are retained as
breeders. Two hundred eggs is the
minimum requirement for our future
breeding stock. This may seem low to
some breeders in the state but when
you consider that the average Michi-
gan hen produces no more than eighty
eggs per year, the twohundred-egg hen
is not to be sneezed at.

Over 3,700 chicks were hatched at
the college this spring, and a large per
cent of these are being brought to ma-
turity. The choicest of the females
will be retained on the plant for trap-
ping next year. We shall select the
cockerels needed for our next season’s
breeding pens and the remainder will
be'distributed among the farmers and
breeders of the state at a small figure.
This is in accord with the “Better
Sires Movement” now being carried
on in the state.

Several representative breeds and
varieties of fowls are kept on the col-
lege plant. These are needed for judg-
ing practice in the class-room and for
experimental work. However, the
larger per cent of the flock is made up
of the four most popular varieties in
the state~Barred Rocks, White Leg-
horns, Rhode Island Reds and White
Wyandottes—because of the great de-
mand fer breeding stock among the
breeders of Michigan.

A breed test is also being conducted
here. The test is limited to five hens
or pullets per entry. Twenty-four
breeders from sixteen different coun~
ties are taking advantage of this, op-
portunity to have their birds trapped
for a year. The eggs produced by the
birds on test more than maintain the
venture. The birds are trapped
throughout the year, at the end of
which time they are returned to the
owner together with a certified record
of performance. This enables the
breeder to start his breeding opera-
tions another year with birds of known
merit. All guesswork in breeding is
eliminated in this manner, and if the
demand is great enough we hope to
be able to replace the breed test with
a regular annual egg-laying contest
next year.

 

Feeding Tests

By Prof IV. E. J. Edward:

THE two leading projects conducted
by the animal husbandrygdepart-
ment during the past year were a com-
parison of normal vs. stover corn sil-
age for steer feeding and the relative
value of home-grown grains_for perk
production.

During recent years with corn high-
priced considerable discussion has de-
veloped among beef producers as to
whether it was advisable, when en-
siloing the crop, to put the corn in the
silo or husk it and feed as ear, shelled
or ground corn. To assist in solving
this problem three lots of steers were
fed as follows, the length of feeding
period in each case being one hundred
and seventy-five days:

Initial weight per steer ............. .
Gain per steer ..................... .
Average daily gain ..................
Average Daily Ration.
Normal silage
Stover silage
Cottonseed meal
Shelled corn
Clover hay

......................
...................... I
....................
....................... e

........................ e

Lots one and two received shelled
corn the last sixty-seven days only,
allowance being made for the corn in
the silage-fed Lot 1.

Lot three received an amount of
corn equal to that removed from the
stover silage they were consuming for
the first one hundred and eight days
and same amount as Lots 1 and 2 the
last sixty-seven days.

It is the intention to repeat this work
as definite conclusions should not be
drawn from one test.

The other experiment mentioned
above was conducted to determine the
relative value of Michigan-grown
grains for pork production when fed
alone and also in different combina-
tions. This was a repetition of tests
conducted the previous year.

Seven lots of pigs were fed the fol-
lowing rations:

Lot 1. Received corn, rye, barley
and tankage.

Lot 2. Received rye and tankage.

Lot 4. Received corn and tankage.

Lot 3. Received barley and tank-
age.

Lot 5. Received rye, barley and
tankage.

Lot 6. Received barley, middlings
and tankage.

Lot 7. Received rye, middlings and

tankage.
The average results of three separ-
ate feeding trials were as shown be-

low:
t

a.) . .
b0 :1 m m
a: :5 "'3 '6
56:: E! :3 E g
:> «i as o o o
<19 (59-: 00-:
Lot 1 ................. 1.50 223
Lot 2 ................ 1.24 . . .
Lot 3 ................ 1.31 . . .
Lot 4 ................ 1.56 427
Lot 5 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 1.19 l .0
Lot 6 ................ 1.17 . . .
Lot 7 ................ 1.16 . . .

All feeds were fed in self-feeders.
The rye and barley was ground in
each case and the corn fed as shelled
corn.

Imp-roving Fruit
Br PM R. Marshall

pST of the experimental proj-
ects of the department of horti-
culture were started in 1920 and
1921, after the college came into pos-
session of the Graham Horticultural

Experimental Farm near Grand Rep-

a
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ids, and consequently are not far
enough advanced to report upon.

The spraying and dusting experi-
ments with fruits and vegetables are
of chief interest among those that
have been under way for the past few
years. Mr. Dutton. who has been in
charge of these investigations, reports
that apple scab and chewing insects
have given results equal to or better
than where dilute lime-sulphur and
lead arsenate were used. He points
out, however, that no assurance is
given that dusting will give as satis-
factory results when weather condi-
tions are more favorable than those of
the past four years. Dust is only rec-
ommended as a supplement for spray-
ing because dusting materials have not
been developed for the control of scale
and other insects.

Spraying and dusting gave equal re-

Lot 1. Lot 2. Lot 3.
Lbs. Lbs. Lbs.
. .. 1,011 1,015 1,016
. .. 339.8 249 276.6
. .. 1.94 1.42 1.58
. .. 45.23 .............
.......... 50.67 48.64
. .. 2.72 2.72 2.72
... 3.79 5.17 g 7.77
. .. 2.64 2.64 2.64

sults with Bartlett pears except that
the physical condition of the dusted
foliage was much superior. An extra
(pre-pink) application was found to be
very desirable for the control of scab.
With plums and cherries the results
with spraying and dusting were prac-
tically the same as regards disease
control, but the dusted plums held up
for a longer time after picking.

Tests during both 1920 and 1921
have shown that dry lime-sulphur, re—
gardless of strengths used, are not as
effective as the standard lime-sulphur
solution in controlling scab on Duch-
ess apples. Other experiments regard—
ing methods of control of pear psylla,
raspberry anthracnose and cherry dis-
eases and tests with various kinds of
Spreaders are being handled this sea-
son by Mr. Dutton.

Work in bud selection and plant
performance record work has been
continued for several years and a
study of the records at hand indicate
very strongly that differences in pro-
ductional records of trees can be as-
cribed to such environmental condi-
tions as poor drainage, root galls and
other root diseases, or to some physi-
ological condition influencing produc-
tion rather than to an inherent char-
acter of the tree. It may be stated,
however, that the experiment station
has found at least one very valuable
mutation or bud sport in the form of
a red Spy, which is being tested out

Feed Consumed per 100-lb. Gain.

a a he gm s
a: We «in: 2:91: v:
Q)

as as as gs as
mm mg 38 28 §°
183 46 35 ... 4 7
451 CI. 42 ... 493
... 483 32 ... 515
0-. .0. 50 ... 477
198 254 34 ... 486
309 32 141 482
24a ... 34 183 457

in several sections of the state previ
one to making any recommendations.

The experimental projects at the
Graham Horticultural Experiment Sta-
tion are mostly along orchard cultural
and fertilization lines and are not: far
enough advanced at this time to ‘re-
port upon. The lines of investigation
under way there are as follows: (1)
comparison of cultivation with rye
cover cropping, sod mulch and alfalfa
in eight-year-old Duchess orchard; (2)
comparison of alfalfa with alfalfa
mulch about trees, some supplemented
Mth ' fertilisers,

   
  

mulch, flower with straw mulch, and
cultivation with coVer crops in two-
year-old orchard; (3) comparison of
rye, vetch,»millet, clover, and oats as
cover crops in two-year-old Spy or-
chard; (4) comparison of alfalfa sod
with clean cultivation in the manage-
ment of both sour and sweet cherry
orchards; (5) experiments to deter-
mine the best time to apply fertilizers
to peach trees; (6) experiments to de-
termine the best type of pruning and
the amount of pruning for several va-
rieties of young apple trees. _

A five-acre vineyard at Paw Paw ha
been leased for five years and funda-
mental experimental work in fertiliz-
ing and pruning grapes started. Many
fertilizer tests are being carried on in
orchards throughout the state and the
outstanding feature of this work is
the response most orchards give to
applications of nitrogen. One of the
most outstanding of these teets this
season is in the orchard of T.§A. Far-
rand, of Eaton Rapids, where nitrates
have given excellent results when us-
ed alone and phosphates gave no re—
sults alone, but the combination of ni-
trates with phosphates produced much
better results than nitrogen alone.

Fertilizer experiments with dewber-
ries, black raspberries and red rasp-
berries are being conducted in Berrien
county but no beneficial results were
evident this (the first) season. Many
growers in the vicinity expect the fer-
tilizers to Show considerable gains
next season.

All of the above recently inaugurat-
ed experiments as well as others not
mentioned because of lack of space,
were planned with the aid and cooper-
ation of the experimental committee
of the State Horticultural Society.

War on Bugs
By Pref R. H. Pettit

HE season of 1921 has made nec‘

essary special work on several
pests which have been doing serious
damage. Notable among these are two
grape pests, the grape-berry moth and
a leaf-hopper. The former insect has
been getting more and more trouble-
some in the region about Paw Paw
and Lawton. Experiments in the con-

trol of this first-class pest have appar-

ently helped signally to reduce its in-
roads. In the salme vineyards and as
a matter of fact, all over southern
Michigan, the three-banded leaf-hopper
has been cutting into the profits of
those operating vineyards. . The de-
partment of horticulture and our Mr.
Hain, extension expert in insect con-
trol, has guided the growers in obtain—
ing optimum results in their spraying

The work on parasites of food ani-
mals has ~given us considerable new
information on the control of gapes in
poultry and in the control of intes-
tinal parasites of man and of those of
our food animals.

It happens that the pear~psylla is
doing more damage than ever before

,in our state and experiments carried

on in cooperation with Mr. Dutton of
the department of horticulture, have

proved the efficacy of an early spring

spray for the eggs. This followed
tests made'in our cages during the
winter, with eggs produced by over-
wintering females. An example of the
value of insectary methods whereby
we were able to force the pests into
spring conditions, during the winter,
thus obtaining results which could be
made use of later in the ewe season.
' In the same way Were we able to
make tests in controlling the fruit-tree

leaf-roller; during the winter and than .V

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OME changes that ought to be

made in the'tariff bill on dairy
products were pointed out to congress.
The house bill gives butter a rating
of eight cents per pound, while cream
has been put so low that centralizers
could ship it in' and turn it into butter
with a tariff rate that would not ex-
ceed two and a half to three cents per
pound on the butter.

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SOME CORN FIGURES.

 

UGENE D. FUNK, of Illinois, who
for twenty years has been engag-
ed in the improvement of seed corn,
discussed the present conditions of
corn growing in Illinois. He produced

many letters from business farmers.

who keep accurate account of the cost
of producing corn on their farms, all
of which showed that the present re—
turns from the corn crop do not pay
cost of production. As an illustration
of actual conditions the account 01' one
Illinois farmer was given showing
that in 1920 his thirty-five and a half
acres of corn yielded 1,467 bushels,
costing $1,369.20 to produce. The crop
was sold for $1,041.25, leaving a net
loss of $327.95. In telling of the work .
of producing corn, Mr. Funk said that
on his farm in going back and forth
across the field a man travels nine
hundred and seventy-one miles during
the season to produce forty acres of
corn.

 

 

SOME FARM COST FIGURES.

 

t
ROFESSOR W. F. PECK, of Minnc-‘
sota University, presented facts
and figures to congress showing that;
the farmer in Minnesota who owns his l
farm is not getting enough returns to;
pay his taxes and interest and allow
himself fifteen cents an hour. Thai
dealers are now buying cats at twen-l
ty-two to twenty—six cents a bushelt
that cost the farmers from sixty to‘i
eighty cents to grow. He gave figures g
proving that 1920 was the lowest, punt:
chasing power year for corn, cotton
and oats since 1896. In 1920 the pur-
chasing power of one bushel of wheat .
was eighty-one per cent 01' the pur—'
Chasing power of a bushel of. wheat.
during the five years preceding the
war. A letter was read in which it
was stated that a power plant at
Springfield, S. 1)., supplying four towns
with electricity, was burning corn in:
stead of coal, the high freight rates
having made the use of coal prohibi-
tive. It was shown that figuring thoi
farmer’s wage at fifteen cents an hour,
a. reduction of four cents per bushel
in freight rates on wheat increases his
returns per hour thirty per cent.

OBJECTS OF U. S. GRAIN GROW-
ERS.

 

 

RESIDENT C. H GUSTAFSON, ol‘

the United States Grain Growers,
Inc., told congress of the organization
and aims of his grain marketing proj-
ect. “All we ask,” said Mr. Gustaf-
son, "is that farmers have the same
rights as all others—and no more. We
aim to set up a system of marketing
in competition with the exchanges. If
we should get all the business then we
would perform the duties of the ex-
change. Exchanges are now making
the prices to suit themselves, which we
do not think is right. The law of sup-
ply and demand should govern.”

It is the intention of the grain grow-
ers to develop a system whereby the
farmers will be able to do their own
financing. An information department
is being established, enabling farmers
to get correct reports of market con-

ditions from all parts of the world.
'Such reports as are now available are

not considered reliable by the grow-

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RIGHTS OF TENANT.

 

I rented a farm on shares this
spring, owner to furnish everything.
After we had lived on the place some
time, the owner came and took wheels
off the buggy to be repaired, never re-
turning them, also the cream separa-
tor. Had he any right to .keep wheels
or take separator? If not, what could
we do about it?——W. S.

If there is a lease in writing, or if
there are witnesses by whom it can be
proved that the tenant was to have
the use of the separator and buggy
the lessee can recover them by re-
plevin.——J. R. R.

, PRICE FOR PASTURE.

 

What should I charge per head for
cows pasturing on a bluegrass pasture
by the month? Pasture is good and
has a spring at one end and a water
tank at the other. C. H. D.

When you take into consideration
what it costs to feed animals, if you
purchased the food, people usually do
not charge a sufficient amount for pas-
ture. However, most pastures are only
at their prim-e for a short time in late
spring and early summer and during
the latter part of the summer the ani-
mals ought to have a supplemental
ration of grain or hay. When a pas-
ture is at its prime, one would be war-
ranted in charging as much as it
costs to keep the animal on purchased
food, but as the pasture deteriorates,
this rule would not hold, therefore, a
price is usually named for so much per
month covering the whole season, tak-
ing the good and the bad into consid
eration. At the present price of feed,
it would cost. five or six dollars a
month to feed a cow a fair ration and
if the cow gets a full ration from the
pasture then one would be warranted
in charging this much for the use 'of
the pasture but it is very seldom that
a cow will get a full ration for the
whole season on pasture and so an av—
erage price is usually made.

Then again, the owner of the pas-
ture is willing to take less than the
food is actually worth because there is
no expense of labor in connection with
it. Ordinarily, a charge of about fifty
cents per week is made for milch cows
at pasture. This, of course, would be
about two dollars per month, but when
we do all this figuring, the whole ques-
tion resolves itself down to a private
agreement between the owner of the
pasture and the owner of the live
stock. There is really no set price.

UNPRODUCTIVE LAND.

 

Please tell me what to do with land
on which nothing can grow. I have
about: one—half acre of black sand on
which nothing seems to grow. The
land is level and though there used to
be a great deal of water on it, I have
drained it. J. B.

It is very rare that you will find
land upon which nothing Will grow.
The only thing to do is to find out
what puts the land in this condition.
It may be a slow process but if you
have tried various crops and nothing
will grow then the only thing to do is
to do some experimenting. ‘

Perhaps this land is very acid. You
can tell this by testing it with Jitmus
paper and if it is very‘ acid the only
thing to do is to' apply lime, two or
three tons of pulverized limestone.
This will correct the acidity and then
perhaps many crops would grow.

It might be that an application of
stable'manure would put this land in
proper condition to grow crops or an
application of acid phosphate or pot-

ash or perhaps a complete fertilizer.

It isvextremely difficult to give you
any reliable advice without knowing
more. about the condition of. this field

or giving it personal inspection but I
am positive if you will experiment by
dividing it into strips and applying
lime to one strip, acid phosphate to
another, potash to another, stable ma-
nure to another and so on, then sow
this land to any crop like oats, barley
or corn and note the result of the
growing plants, this will tell you
whether any of these ingredients that
you have applied are beneficial or not
and you can learn a lesson which will
enable you thereafter to put the soil
in condition, if it is properly drained
so that it will grow any and all kinds
of crops—C. C. L.

WATERPROOFING 'A CISTERN.

 

Can you tell me how to repair cis-
tern to keep ground water out? Ma-
terials to use to waterproof cement
mixture, etc. N. M. G.

It is a difficult problem to water-
proof a cistern against outside water
by any of the common methods of wa-
terproofing because any waterproofing
coating which is painted on the inside
of the cistern will be pushed off by
the pressure from the water outside.
In large building foundations the out-
side of the foundation wall is painted
with asphaltum paint while dry. This
is hardly practical with a cistern, how-
ever, and it is probably better to rely
upon plastering and painting the inte-
rior surface of the cistern with a mix-
ture of cement and water made about
as thick as heavy cream. To accom-
plish this it will first be necessary to
clean the surface to be plastered thor-
oughly so that the new coat of plaster
will adhere to the old cement. To do
this it should first be scrubbed thor-
oughly with a broom, using water,

going over the surface several times.
Then the surface can be Washed with
a mixture of hydmcnloric acid, one
part, and water ten parts, which will
cut away some of the surface, leaving

a clean surface. It is then again wash-

ed with water. For plaster a cement
and fine sand which will go through a
quarter-inch screen is used. About
one part of sand to two parts of ce-
ment should be used with the addition
of about one-tenth as much lime by

weight as cement. The lime serves,

the double purpose of making the
coating more waterproof and also
makes the mortar work smoother un-
der the trowel.

This work can not be attempted
while any water is flowing or seeping
into the cistern for the reason that as
long as water comes through the wall
it will find its way through the fresh
coat of plaster or cement which is put
on, and make an opening which can-
not easily be closed. However, if you
can drain the cistern perfectly dry un-
til no water seeps through the walls

only a day or two will be required for‘

the cement to get hard enough to in-
sure safety against seepage from the
outside. It will probably be better in
waterproofing the floor to use a thick-
ness of two to three inches of rich
concrete made of about one part ce-
ment to four parts of gravel.

LIABILITY OF GRANTOR ON FARM.

 

A buys a farm from B on a contract,
paying part down. B does not mention
the fact that there is a mortgage
against the property. A makes his
interest and payments to B regularly.
At; the end of three or four years, the
man who holds the mortgage begins

 

 

Michigan’s Big Farmer's’ Fair

‘VERY endeavor will be made this
year to far surpass all former ef—
forts at the West Michigan State Fair
at; Grand Rapids, September 19—23. The
extra day, Saturday, September 24,
will include thrilling auto races with
famous drivers competing for the lib-
eral prizes.

After years of endeavor this popular
industrial exposition has come to be
regarded as Michigan’s greatest agri-
cultural fair, and the increased attend-
ance, yearly, signifies the intense in-
terest of all farmers in the grand dis-
play of new inventions adapted to the
soil. The tractor and auto exhibit
alone is well worthy of a trip to this
great annual event.

Nor has the entertainment and in-

 

L. A. Lilly,~ President West Michigan
State Fair.

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teresting amusement features been ov-
erlooked by the management. The
highest class of acts in daring and
skill have been selected with the idea
in mind to make every one feel repaid
for visiting West Michigan’s State
Fair and return home with a feeling of
satisfaction.

The feature act will be the'famou
aviatrix, Ruth Law and her flying cir
cus, celebrated as “the ' air act su
preme.” This will be the only ap-
pearances in Michigan this year of
Miss Law and her company of acro-
batic air pilots. Then, in addition, six
planes from the Roseswift Airplane
Company will fly every day over the
fair grounds, giving daring exhibitions
of stunt flying, and taking fair visitors
for thrilling rides in the clouds.

The other entertainment features
will be the white Arabian horses in
beautifully artistic posing; the Roman
standing races; the high jumping
horse Denver; Jazz Rags, the crazy
comedy mule; Lil Kerslake's educated
pigs; Harry Davis & Company, the
world’s greatest novelty shooting act;
Nathan Daniels, famous giant; the
White Brothers, acrobatic comiques;
the Leach Lafiuinlan Trio, top-notch
of gymnastic excellence, and many
other attractions. The regular horse
racing program has been revised and
purses increased to attract the thor-
oughbreds of the harness world.

A splendid and costly program has
been prepared for the night entertain-
ments when gorgeous pageants in fire-
works will depict in a most vivid man-
ner several historically famed events,
such as “the great Chicago fire,"
“Pioneer Days,” “Siege of the Dardan—
elles,” the most elaborate pyrotechnic
displays ever seen anyWhere.

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foreclosure proceedings, as B has fail-
ed to take care of the mortgage. What
will be the outcome? Can A lose his
interest in the place, or what are the
proper steps for him to take?——M. S. '

The only liability of the seller would
be on the covenants for title contain—
ed in the deed he gave, if any. Under.
the statutes of this state there are no
implied covenants for title. The buyer
should examine his deed and see
whether it contains any statement
that the seller owns the land or cov-I
enants to warrant and defend the
title—J. R. R.

 

RIGHTSI‘OF PUBLIC ON RIVERS.

 

I own a farm in Macomb county.
along the Clinton river. Has the gen-
eral public a right within eight feet of
the banks without trespassing, or do I
own to the water?~R. B. L.

The public have no rights to use
the bank, even of navigable streams,
except at public wharves.—J. R. R.

SPRAYING FOR BLIGg-IT.

 

Is it all right to spray potato vines
on top, for blight, with Bordeaux, or
would you have to have a spray that
you can reach them from under the
leaves ?—Subscriber.

The blight on potatoes is very diffi-
cult to control. In fact, to get satis-
factory results, the spraying should be
done before the disease appears and
should be repeated frequently enough
to keep the vines thoroughly covered
with the Bordeaux mixture. Spraying
the top part of the vines and not hit‘
ting the under parts would not' give
your vines immunity from blight.

The prevalence of blight depends
greatly upon the season, and it is
something that one cannot foretell.
There are seasons when it is not
prevalent, and therefore very easily
controlled. At other times, even a.
thorough spraying does not give per‘
fect results. It is best, however, to
start out with the intention of spray-
ing thoroughly every year.

It has been prO’Ven that you will
usually get sufficient increased vigor
in the plants by Spraying to make it
profitable to spray, aside from the hem
efit received from blight control.

We;

 

(Continued from page 204).
when spring arrived and thus develop
ing a remedy which was eminently
successful, where failure has always
resulted before. Experiments with the
potato leaf-hopper also have helped to
make it possible to control hopper<
burn, which has been severe for sev-
eral years past.

Grasshoppers have demanded con-
siderable attention but very little in
the line of experimentation, since we
have a remedy which proves fairly sat-
isfactory.

A second season’s attempt to set
the time for the August spray for cod<
ling moth seems to have justified it
self although we shall not be sure of
results before picking time.

For two years we have been testing
out a new idea in repelling borers in
trees, a project which has up to now
baffled everyone. It is too early to
claim much for this new method, al—
though results promise very well.

Work on greenhouse pests, house«
hold pests and' mill insects have been
pursued, although nothing‘of great im«
portance as been discovered.

Besides the above the regular work
of studying various, pests of all Sorts
and kinds has been carried on as‘in
the past with here and there afact
added to the sum total of knowledge

on'tlfe subject which will behaved to
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SEREB; 1921.1-

MORE MICHIGAN HAY AT INTER-V

NATIONAL.

FFORTS will be made to increase
the number of hay entries at the
[international Hay and Grain Show, to
be held at Chicago from November 26
to December 3, three—fold over last
year, and Prof. J. F. Cox, of the farm
vcrops department at M. A. 0., calls
attention to the opportunity for Mich-
igan growers. Last year exhibitors
from this state took second and fourth
in red clover, third and fifth in alfalfa
and second and third in timothy.
“With extra effort in preparing sam-
1ples,” says Professor Cox, “Michigan
exhibitors should bring home the first
prize in each class.”——H.

AN ENTERPRISING POWER
FARMER.

 

HRIS HAHN is an enterprising

farmer living on a rich river—bot-
tom farm. Corn is one of his main
crops and because he hasn’t only the
Weather to contend with, but over-
flows from the river, he has to work
fast 'in putting in his crops so that he
can get them in when conditions are
right. This means long days in the
field with his machine and at a time
when most men would be washing up
for supper, Chris is still in the field.

The conditions under which he
works make it necessary that he do
his tractor chores after dark. He is a
good mechanic and believes in taking
good care of his machines.

In order to enable him to work in
the evening after dark, he put in an
electric plant and now when he goes
to the house for his supper he has the
comfortable knowledge that after he
has eaten he can turn on the electric
lights in the tractor shed, light his
trouble lamp with a long extension
cord and go at his tractor.

“This plant not only enables me to
get my work done when I ought to,”
says Chris, “but it gives my wife a
whole lot of comfort too. I figure
that it is poor policy to expect my
wife to wait until she is dead and gone
to heaven to get away from the gloom
and drudgery of kerosene lamps, car-
rying water, turning the cream sep-
arator and doing all the other house
chores.”

 

THE LIFE OF TRACTORS.

 

F more than 1,200 farmers in the

corn belt and northern great
plains states who purchased tractors
four or more years ago, eighty—one per
cent still use their first machines or
others which they have since purchas-
ed. Nearly half of those who have
bought their second machines have
changed their opinions as to the best
size for their purposes, as indicated
by the size of the machines purchased.
The men who had sold their first ma-
chines had kept them for an average
period of a little more than three
years and sold them for an average of
$490, approximately half the first cost.

These facts are brought out by the
replies to several thousand letters
sent out by the bureau of public roads
to tractor owners in North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio
who had furnished reports on their
machines in 1917 and 1918.

A summary of the replies from 1,219
men who are still operating the same
farms or similar farms in the same 10-
lacity showed that in 1920, 534, or
forty-four per cent, still owned their
first machines and used them for field
work; 446, or thirty-seven.per cent,
had replaced their old tractors with
new ones which were used for field
work; and 239, or nineteen per cent,
did not use tractors far field work.
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Face Exactly the Same Problem

The farmer has a real problem. The prices of all his products have declined
much more than the prices of the things he must buy.

The RAILWAYS HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM. While rates

have been advanced, expenses have increased NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH.

 

 

 

What has happened to the
Railroads since 1916

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Increase in Expenses — 1 10%

 

 

 

 

 

High Costs Make High Railway Rates

Passenger rates are about 50 PER CENT
HIGHER and freight rates ABOUT 74 PER
CENT HIGHER than in 1916. That sounds
as though the railways should be making
money.

B UT the prices the railways are paying for——

Materials and supplies are 65 per cent.
higher;

Taxes are 90 per cent higher;

Coal is 160 per cent higher; and

Wages of railway employees per hour are 124
per cent higher.

THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY
RATES ARE HIGH. RATES CANNOT BE
REDUCED until the cost of these things
can be brought down.

The things mentioned~materials and sup-
plies, taxes, fuel and labor—have been costing
from 90 cents to 100 cents out of every dollar
the railways have been receiving.

Present Railway Rates Are Caused By
Labor Cost, Not By Return On Capital

Existing railway rates are higher not be-
cause railroad CAPITAL is seeking a larger
return, but because railroad LABOR and labor

producing things railroads must buy is getting
so much more than formerly. .
While total revenue of the railways is now

60 per cent greater than in 1-916, THEIR EX-
PENSES ARE 110 PER CENT GREATER,

AND THEIR profit has been more than CUT

IN HALF.

EVERY INCREASE in rates since 1916 has
been intended to—but did not—meet increased
costs, CHIEFLY LABOR, and NOT to_ in-
crease profits.

Profits have GONE DOWN.

In 1916 the railroads earned 6 per' cent.
In 1920 they earned less than 1/3 of l per
cent. In 1921 they will be fortunate to earn
3 per cent.

A GENERAL reduction of rates now could '

not be made without BAN KRUPTIN G most
of the railways, and making business OF ALL
KINDS much worse for everybody.

‘ The managements of the railroads are mak-
ing every effort to reduce expenses ‘30 that rates
can be reduced later.

There is NO OTHER WAY than by reduc-
tion in expenses to secure REDUCTION in
rates. Those who obstruct reduction of ex—
penses not only hurt the RAILROADS but
the FARMERS as well. '

Association of Railway Executives

Transportation Building . 61 Broadway
Chicago, Ill. . New York

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CHAPTER I.
A Financier Dies.

ABRIEL WARDEN ——- owner of

' mines and timber lands, railroad

director and capitalist, at twenty
a. cow-puncher, at forty-eight one of
the predominant men of the North-
west Coast—paced with quick, uneven
steps the great wicker-furnished liv-
ing room of his home just above Seat-
tle on Puget Sound. Twice within ten
minutes he had used the telephone in
the hall to ask the same question and,
apparently to receive the same reply
-——that the train from Vancouver, for
which he had inquired, had come in
and that the passengers had left the
station.

It was not like Gabriel Warden to
show nervousness of any sort; Kondo,
the Japanese doorman, who therefore
had found something strange in this
telephoning, watched him through the
portieres which shut off the living-
room from the hall. Three times Kon-
do saw him—erbig, uncouth in the care-
less fit of his clothes, powerful and
impressive in his strength of feature
and the carriage of his well—shaped
head—go to the window and, watch in
hand, stand staring out. It was a Sun-
day evening toward the end of Febru-
ary——cold, cloudy and with a chill wind
driving over the city and across the
Sound. Warden evidently saw no one
as he gazed out into the murk; but
each moment, Kondo observed, his ner-
vousness increased. He turned sud-
denly and pressed the bell to call a
servant. Kondo, retreating silently
down the hall, advanced again and en-
tered the room; he noticed then that
Warden’s hand, which was still hold-
ing the watch before him, was shak-
ing.

“A young man who may, or may not,
give a name, will ask for me in a few
moments. He will say he called by
appointment. Take him at once to my
smoking-room and I will see him
there. I am going to Mrs. Warden’s
room now.”

He went up the stairs, Kondo no-
ticed, still absently holding his watch
in his hand.

Warden controlled his nervousness
before entering. his wife’s room——
where she had just finished dressing
to go out—so that she did not at first
sense anything unusual. In fact, she
talked with him casually for a moment
or so before she even sent away her
maid. He had promised a few days
before to accompany her to a concert;
she thought he had come simply to
beg off. When they were alone, she
suddenly saw that he had come to her
to discuss some serious subject.

“Cora,” he said, when he had closed
the door after the maid, “I want your
advice on a business question.”

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“A business question!" She was
greatly surprised. She was a number
of years younger than he; he was one
of those men who believe all business
matters should be kept from their
wives.

“I mean it came to me through some
business—discoveries.”

“And you cannot decide it for your-
self?”

“I had decided it.” -He looked again
at his watch. “I had quite decided it;
but now~ It may lead to some result
which I have suddenly felt that I
haven’t the right to decide entirely for
myself.”

Warden’s wife for the first time felt
alarmed. She could not well describe
his manner; it did not suggest fear for
himself; she could not imagine his
feeling such fear; but she was fright-
ened. She put her hand on his arm.

“You mean it affects me directly?"

“It may. For that reason I feel I
must do what you would have me do.”

He seized both her hands in his and
held her before him; she waited for
him to go on.

“Cora,” he said, “what would you
have me do if you knew I had found
out that a young man—a man who,
four or five years ago, had as much to
live for as any man might—had been
outraged in every right by men who
are my friends? Would you have me
fight the outfit for him? Or yould you
have me—lie down?”

His fingers almost crushed hers in
his excitement. She stared at him with
only pride then; she was proud of his
strength, of his ability to fight, of the
power she knew he possessed to force
his way againt opposition. “Why, you
would fight them!”

“You mean you want me to?”

“Isn’t that what you had decided
to do?”

He only repeated.
to fight them?”

“Of course.”

“No matter what it costs?”

She realized then that what he was
facing was very grave.

“Cora,” he said, “I didn’t come to
ask your advice without putting this
squarely before you. If I go into this
fight, I shall be not only an opponent
to some of my present friends; I shall
be a threat to them—something they
may think it necessary to remove.”

“Remove ?”

“Such things have happened—to
better men than I, over smaller mat-
ters.”

She cried out. “You mean some one
might kill you?”

“You want me

“Should that keep me from goinf
in?”

She hesitated. He went on: “Would
you have 'me afraid to do a thing that
ought to be done, Cora?”

“No,” she said; “I would not.”

“All right, then. That's all I had to
know now. The young man is coming
to see me tonight, Cora. Probably he
is downstairs. I’ll tell you all I can
after I’ve talked with him.”

Warden’s wife tried to hold him a.
mement, but he loosed himself from
her and left her.

He went directly downstairs; as he
passed through the hall the telephone
bell rang. Warden himself answered
it. Kondo, who from his place in the
hall overheard Warden’s end of the
conversation, made out only that the
person at the other end of the line ap-
peared to be a friend, or at least an
acquaintance, of Warden’s. Kondo
judged this from the tone of the con-
versation; Warden Spoke no names.
Apparently the other person wished
to see Warden at once. Warden fin-
ished, “All right; I’ll come and get
you. Wait for me there.” Then he
hung up.

Turning to Kondo, he ordered his
limousine car. Kondo transmitted the
order and brought Warden’s coat and
cap; then Kondo opened the house
door for him and the door of the 11111
ousine, which had been brought under
the porte—cochere. Kondo heard War-
den direct the chauffeur to a. drug
store near the center of the city; the
chauffeur was Patrick Corboy, ayoung
Irishman who had been in Warden’s
employ for more than five years; his
faithfulness to Warden was never
questioned. Corboy drove to the place
Warden had directed. As they stopped
a young man of less than medium
height, broad—shouldered and wearing
a mackintosh, came to the curb and
Spoke to Warden. Corboy did not hear
the name, but Warden immediately
asked the man into the car; he direct-
ed Corboy to return home. The chauf-
feur did this, but was obliged on the
way to come to a complete stop sev-
eral times, as he met street cars or
other vehicles on intersecting streets.

Almost immediately after Warden
had left the house, the doorbell rang
and Kondo answered it. A young man
with a quiet and pleasant bearing in—
quired for Mr. Warden and said he
came by appointment. Kondo ushered
him into the smoking room, where the
stranger waited. The Jap did not an—
nounce this arrival to any one, for he
had already received his instructions;

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but several times in the next half hour:
he looked in upon him. The stranger
was always sitting where he had seat-
ed himself when Kondo showed him
in; he was merely waiting. In about
forty minutes, Corboy drove the car
under the porte-cochere again and got
down and opened the door. Kondo had
not heard the car at once, and the
chauffeur had not waited for him.
There was no motion inside the lim-
ousine. The chauffeur looked in and
saw Mr. Warden lying back quietly
against the cushions in the back of the
seat; he was alone.

The chauffeur drew back, gasping;
Kondo, behind him on the steps, cried
out and ran into the house calling for
help. Two other servants and Mrs.
Warden, who had remained nervously,
in her room, ran down. The stranger
who had been waiting, now seen for
the first time by Mrs. Warden, came
out from the smoking room to help
them. He aided in taking the body
from the car and helped to carry it
into the living‘ room and lay it on a.
couch; he remained until it was cer-
tain that Warden had been killed and
nothing could be done. When this
had been established and further cona
firmed by the doctor who was called,
Kondo and Mrs. Warden
around for the young man——but he was
no longer there.

The news of the murder brought ex:
tras out upon the streets of Seattle,
Tacoma and Portland at ten o'clock
that night; the news took the first
page in San Francisco, Chicago, and
New York papers, in competition with
the war news, the next morning. Seat<
tle, stirred at once at the murder,
of one of its most prominent citizens,
stirred still further at the new proof
that Warden had been a. power in
business and finance; then, as the sec-1
ond day's dispatches from the Larger,
cities came in, it stirred a third time
at the realization—for so men said-—-.
that this was the second time such a‘
murder had happened.

Warden had been what was called‘
among men of business and finance a.
member of the “Latron crowd;” he
had been close, at one time, to the
great western capitalist Matthew Lat-v
ron; the properties in which he had
made his wealth, and whose direction
and administration had brought him
the respect and attention of other
men, had been closely allied with or
even included among those known as
the “Latron properties;” and Latron,
five years before, had been murdered.
The parallel between the two cases
was not as great as the neWSpapers in
their search for the startling made it
appear; nevertheless, there was a par.
allel. Latron’s murderer had been a.
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neared. had been equally known t6
him, or at least equally recommended.
or this as much was made as possible
in the suggestion that the same agen-
cy was behind the two.

The statement of Cora Warden, in-
dicating that Warden’s death might
have been caused by men with whom
he was—or had been at one time—as-
sociated, was compared with the fact
that Latron’s death had occurred at a
time of fierce financial stress and war-
fare. But in this comparison Ward-
en’s statement to his wife was not,
borne out. Men of high place in the
business world appeared, from time to
time during the next few days, at
Warden’s offices and even at his house,
coming from other cities on the Coast
and from as far east as Chicago; they
felt the need, many of them, of look-
ing after interests of their own which
were involved with Warden’s. All con-
curred in saying that, so far as War-
den and his properties were concern-
ed, the time was one of peace; neither
attack nor serious disagreement had
threatened him.

Corboy noticed then that the cur-
tains all about had been pull-ed down;
he touched the button and turned on
the light at the top of the car, and
then he saw that Warden was dead;
his cap was off, and the top of his
head had been smashed in by a heavy
blow.

More direct investigation of the murv
der went on unceasingly through
these days. The statements of Kondo
and Corboy were verified; it was even
learned at what spot Warden’s mur-
derer had left the motor unobserved
by Corboy. Beyond this, no trace was
found of him, and the disappearance
of the young man who had come to
Warden’s house and waited there for
three quarters of an hour to see him
was also complete.

No suspicion attached to this young
man; Warden’s talk with his wife
made it completely clear that, if he
had any connection with the murder,
it was only as befriending him brought
danger to Warden. His disappearance
seemed explicable therefore only in
one way. Appeals to him to come for-
ward were published in the newspa-
pers; he was offered the help of influ-
ential men, if; help was what he need-
ed, and a money reward was promised
for revealing himself and explaining
why Warden saw inevitable danger in
befriending him. To these offers he
made no response. The theory there-
fore gained ground that his appoint-
ment with Warden had involved him
in Warden’s fate; it was generally
credited that he too must have been
killed; or, if he was alive, he saw in
Warden’s swift and summary destruc-
tion a warning of his own fate if he
came forward ad sought to speak at
this time.

Thus after ten days no information
from or about this mysterious young
man had been gained.

 

CHAPTER II.
The Express is H-eld for a Personage-

N the morning of the eleventh
0 day, Bob Connery, special con-

ductor for the Coast division of
one of the chief transcontinentals was
having late breakfast on his day off
at his little cottage on the shore of
Puget Sound, when he was treated to
the unusual sight of a large touring
car stopping before his door. The car
carried no one but the chauffeur, how-
ever, and he at once made it plain
that he come only as a message—bear-
er when he hurried from the car to
the house with an envelope in his
hand.' Connery, meeting him at the
door, opened the envelops and found
within an order in the handwriting of
the president of the railroad and over
his signature.

Connery: _

No. 5 being held at Seattle terminal
until nine o’clocke-will run one hour
late. ~ This is your authority to super-

    

prepared t‘o‘"go through to

obey, when possible, any request even

as to running of the train, which may -

be made by a passenger who will
identify himself by a card from me. '
H. R. JARVIS.

The conductor, accustomed to take
charge of trains when princes, envoys,
presidents and great people of any
sort took to travel publicly or private-
ly, fingered the heavy cream-colored
note-paper upon which the order was
written and looked up the the chauf-
feur.

The order itself was surprising
enough even to Connery. Some pas-
senger of extraordinary influence, ob-
viously, was to take the train; not
only the holding of the transcontinent-
al for an hour told this, but there-was
the further plain statement that the
passenger would be incognito. Aston-
ishing also was the fact that the order
was written upon private note-paper.
There had been a monogram at the
top of the sheet, but it had been torn
off; that would not have beenif Mr.
Jarvis had sent the order from home.
Who could have had the president of
the road call upon him at half-past
seven in the morning and have told

Mr. Jarvis to hold the express for an ;

hour?

Connery, having served for twenty
of his forty-two years under Mr. Jar-
vis, and the last five, at least, in al-
most a confidential capacity, was cer-
tain of the distinctive characters of
the president’s handwriting. The
enigma of the order, however. had!
piqued him so that he pretended doubt]

“Where did you get this?” he chel-‘
lenged the chauffeur.

“From Mr. Jarvis.”

“Of course; but where?"

“You mean you want to know where
he was?”

Connery smiled quietly. If he him-
self was trusted to be cautious and
circumspect, the chauffeur also plain-
ly was accustomed to be in the employ
of one who required reticence. Cons
nery looked from the note to the bean
er more keenly. There was something
familiar in the chauffeur's face—just
enough to have made Connery believe,
at first, that probably he had seen the
man meeting some passenger at the
station.

“You are——” Connery ventured more
casually.

“In private employ; yes, sir," the
man out off quickly. Then Connery
knew him; it was when Gabriel War-
den traveled on Connery’s train that
the conductor had seen this chauffeur;
This was Patrick Corboy, who had
driven Warden the night he was kill-
ed. But Connery, having won his point,
knew better than to show it. “Wait-
ing for a receipt from me" he asked
as if he had abandoned his curiosity.

The chauffeur nodded. Connery took
a sheet of paper, wrote on it, sealed
it in an envelope and handed it over;
the chauffeur hastened back to the car
and drove off. Connery, order book in
hand, stood at the door watching the
car depart. He whistled softly to him-
self. Evidently his passenger was to
be one of the great men in eastern
finance who had been brought west by
Warde’s death. As the car disappear-
ed, Connery gazed off to the Sound.

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“Do you know this boy, Ben?”

“It’s Lyss Ball’s boy,” answered Lit-
tleford, puckering his brows. “What’s
he a-doin’ here?”

“He brought a. Christmas present for
me,” said Dale, “but he has decided
that I shan’t have it.”

“The only Christmas present you
could git from a Ball would be a bul-
let,” frowned Ben Littleford.

He stepped to the rocker and took
the bundle from the boy’s lap; he took
away the crumpled brown paper—and
there in his hands was a. loaded and
cocked revolver!

“By George!” exclaimed Bill Dale.

“What’d I tell ye?” smiled Ben Lit-
tleford.

An hour later Dale and a score of
Littlefords and Morelands entered the
big downstairs room of the office and
supplies building. The defeated Balls
and Turners lounged here and there,
sullen and silent, on the rough-board
floor of their temporary prison.

Dale walked into their midst and
addressed them quietly. .

“You’ll admit, won’t you, that I’ve
got what you fellows call ‘the dead-
wood’ on you? And that it lies in my
power to send every single one of you
to the state penitentiary?”

“I reckon so,” admitted Adam Ball’s
father. He was pretty well cowed, and
so were the others.

“But I’ve decided not to do it,” went
on Bill Dale. “1 can’t forget that this
is Christmas Day. You may have your
liberty as a. present from the man you
have tried so hard and so unjustly to
kill. After the doctor gets through
with Little Tom and Saul Littleford,
he will come here to dress all your
wounds; then our guards will give you
back your rifles, and you may go home.
I’m not asking you to promise me any-
thing, you understand. I’m simply
trusting the human heart, and I don’t
believe I’ll be disappointed.”

Dale turned to John Moreland. More-
land’s rugged face wore a puzzled, dis-
pleased smile.

“If your brother David were here,”
Bill Dale demanded with a bare shade
of anger in his voice, “what do you
think he’d do about it? It’s Christmas
Day, isn’t it?"

The old Moreland chief’s counte—
nance softened; his grey eyes bright-
ened. “Yes,” he said, “it’s Christmas
Day, Bill.” He looked toward, the Balls
and Turners.

“Merry Christmas,
said.

Adam Ball’s father immediately ask-
ed him for a chew 0f tobacco.

gen’lemen!” he

CHAPTER XXII.
A Perfect Cross.

N the floor of the richly-furnish-
ed library of the Dale home,
near a west window, Miss Eliza-

beth Littleford sat reading by the fast
fading light of an early March after—
noon. Somehow she liked to sit on the
floor, and always she liked to read;
for one thing, books helped her to for-
get that she was lonely.

There were footsteps behind her,

. soft footsteps because of the thick vel-

vet carpet; then a low voice inquired:

“Aren’t you afraid you will injure
your eyes, Elizabeth? Better have a
light, hadn’t you, dear?” The old coal
king turned toward the switch on the
wall. ,.

“No!” she answered quickly. “I’m
through reading for today, and I like
this twilight.”

Her improvement in speech and in
manners had gone on at a surprisingly
rapid rate. She rarely spoke with any
but the simplest words, but she never

fell into anything more than a. bare
semblance of the old drawling hill dia-
lect unless it was while she was under
the stress of some strong emotion.

She closed the book and looked up
with eyes that were like the first stars
in a summer sky. Her beauty was
wonderful; it was finer and sweeter
than it had ever been before.

Old Dale stood looking thoughtfully
into her upturned face. He was a lit-
tle pale, and he seemed troubled and
uneasy.

Elizabeth shook her head.
worrying again!”

He dropped into a nearby chair,
leaned slowly forward and let one
hand fall gently on her thick and silky
chestnut-grown hair.

“I wish,” he said as though to him-
self, “that I had a. daughter like you."

He took his hand from her head, lay
back wearily in his chair and closed
his eyes. Then he bent forward again.

“The Morelands, Elizabeth—they’ve
moved away from the settlement,
haven’t they?”

“Yes; Bill Dale has done wonderful
things f0r them!” the girl answered.

John K. Dale was silent for a mo-
ment, after which he said suddenly:
“I want to see my son; there is some
thing I must tell him. Will you go
with me, Elizabeth?”

“Of course, I’ll go with you.”

She thought she knew what it was
that stirred him. By intuition, supple-
mented by Bill Dale’s occasional cryp-
tic utterances, and pieced out by hill
tradition, Elizabeth Littleford gradu-
ally had come into possession of the
old coal man’s grim secret.

Neither of them knew that John
Moreland was then visiting his belov-
ed old hills for the sake of some
shooting.

The following day John K. Dale and
Elizabeth Littleford alighted from a.
northbound passenger train at the
Halfway Switch. The mountains were
covered with three inches of snow, and
the hemlocks and pines bore heavy
burdens of the beautiful white stuff;
but the air was still, and it wasn’t
very cold.

“You’d get your clothing all black
on the coal train,” Dale said to his
companion, “so you’d rather walk over,
wouldn’t you? Anyway, the train isn’t
here. I’m good for six miles, I think."

“Yes,” smiled Elizabeth, “I’d rather
walk—if you’re ‘sure that six miles
won’t be too much for you.”

Together, with the girl leading the
way, they set out across David More-
land’s Mountain. The old trail showed
not one footprint ahead of them; it
was not so much used now. They said
little. Zach thought his own thoughts,
and neither cared to speak them to
the other.

Just before they reached the moun-
tain’s crest, they passed a group of
snow-laden pines that concealed a big,
brown-bearded man who had been
stealthily following the trail of a lone
wild turkey. He wore khaki hunting-
clothes and high laced boots, and there
was a. certain English fineness about
him. In his bare hands he carried a.
repeating rifle, which marked him as
one born in the hills; a lowlander
would have a choke~bored shotgun.

When he saw John K. Dale he stops
ped suddenly. It might have been ind
tuition, or it might have been sheer
curiosity, the average hillman being a.
stranger to neither~—he followed and
watched the two, unseen by them.

On the pinefringed crest, Elizabeth
Littleford halted to view that which
lay around and below them. Old Dale
stopped close at her side, and he, too,

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« fired at that which lay around. and
1' ,4- “low them; and to his mind also
a there came memories crowding.
The young woman brushed back a
Wayward wisp of brown hair and turn-
ed to the man beside, her. .

“The Moreland 'part 0’ the settle-
ment looks lonesome, don’t it ” - she
said. “See, there’s no smoke comin’
from their. cabin chimneys.” She went
on absently, “But the Littlefords are
there yet.”

Old Dale caught the meaning that
was in the latter sentence. It was not
a shallow meaning.

“We are going to take care of the
Littlefords, Elizabeth,” he assured
her. “I’ve thought much over it, and
just now I’ve decided. When I decide,
it’s for all time; you know that, don’t
you?”

A great gladness filled Elizabeth’s
heart. It did not occur to her to ask
how, in what manner, he was going to
take care of her people; it was enough
to know that he was going to take
care of them. He put a father’s arm
lightly around her shoulders. She
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utter a word. But it didn’t matter.
John K. Dale understood perfectly.
Then he took his arm away, faced
to the right, and drew his hat rim low
over his eyes. For two minutes he
stood there and looked for the little
old cabin down near the foot of the
north end of the mountain, and he
failed to find it. His mind had gone
back once more to that woeful night
that had cut his life in twain. He re-
membered plainly waking in the early
morning with an aching head and with
the rankling taste of much dead whis-
key in his mouth. Remembered see-
ing David Moreland, with a bullet hole
through and through him, lying on the
floor beside him. Remembered his 1101"
ror, and his smothered cries of an-
guish, and his hurried flight.
He had wondered, he remembered,
why the law madeno attempt to track
him down. He had not known that
the mountaineer’s code of honor de-
mands that the mountaineer himself
collect that which is due him.
“Tell me,” he said in tones so low
that Elizabeth barely heard, “where
is David Moreland buried?”
He had turned, and stood facing her.
She pointed to the southward.
“They buried him out the crest o’
the mountain a little ways, on the
highest place, by theside of his wife.
That was always a touchin’ thing to
me, that he buried his Wife on the
very highest point of his own moun-
tain. You know why, don’t you?
David Moreland believed in God and
a hereafter, and he believed that'heav—
en was up. He wanted to get even
his wife’s ashes as close to heaven as
he could.” _
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Making the Most of the Meat

By Ali/dd Ric/27720724

better liked than than this dessert by
men folks.

Dumplings are the mainstay of the
housekeeper who economizes on meat,
and a close second is the rich biscuit
crust of meat pies. Chicken with dump-
lings goes twice as far as plain chick-
en, and chicken pie with rich gravy is
a most economical dish for the farm.
Use a fat old hen and make plenty of
rich gravy and the chicken will hardly
be touched as the family will enjoy
the dumplings or the tender light
brown crust more with the gravy than
they do the meat. Beef stew with
dumplings, or beef pie, will help out
when an extra number of people are.
to be served. A ham bone with a nice
supply of lean meat clinging to it will
furnish the basis for a nice potpie or
the ham can be cooked, removed from
the bone and eked out with a small
quantity of potato in a nice meat pie.

Eggs are also handy to help out
and a very small portion of bacon or
ham can be made to go a long way
served on the same platter with eggs
delicately browned in the ham fryings.
A good substantial salad made of hard
boiled eggs on lettuce leaves and serv-
ed with a good dressing will furnish
the necessary nourishment on days
when the meat is not plentiful, or the
hard cooked eggs can be cut in halves
and deviled. Eggs in any form are
welcome, and they are really cheaper
and better than so much meat.

Warm breads are also great savers.
A pan of light rolls served with butter
and honey or syrup will so fill hungry
men, or women either, that they for-
get to eat meat and potatoes. A warm,

 

 

  
    

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HE high cost of meat, even to
the producers of meat, makes
the careful housewife seek ways
and means of making the daily meat
ration go as far as possible. Then,
too, the great agitation on the subject
of health that has brought to even the
most careless people the knowledge
that less meat and more fruits and
vegetables will prolong life and make
the individual more comfortable and
eflicient while he does live, has had its
effect on the cooking in all progres
sive homes. Forty or fifty years ago
it was common to have three or more
kinds of meat on the table, and too
much of each kind, but nowadays peo-
ple know better. My grandmother al-
ways said that in her day people would
have been “mortified to death,” her
own expression, if they had not served
chicken and ham and beef to guests
at the same meal.

sugary cinnamon loaf served not as a

dessert, but as a bread at dinner or

supper will also take the place of
meat. Sugar supplies energy as well
as meat, and all people like it. Gen-
erally speaking, hot bread is not so
wholesome as that which is twenty-
four hours old, but once in a while it
does no harm to serve it. Hot baking
powder biscuits are a welcome dish
summer and winter, and they will help
out any kind of meat that seems insuf-
ficient for the farm workers. Hot toast
served with milk or poached eggs
makes a nice change from the inevita-
ble meat dish at breakfast or supper.

Dishes made with cheese are also
good substitutes for meat. Cheese
noodles, macaroni with cheese, cheese
sandwiches, creamed hot potatoes with
cheese, and other similar dishes Will
always prove appetizing. The milk and
cheese used in their composition take
the place of meat and are really bet-
ter for workers in hot weather than
so much meat. Even cheese and bread
and butter served plentifully go a long
way toward reconciling men and wom-
en to less meat, and cottage cheese
rich in fat is to be had on every farm.

Pies, doughnuts, crullers and rich
cookies take the place of meat also.
A quarter section of fine berry pie
looks better to the average man than
anything else, and when topped with
a doughnut or two, fresh and good, the
meatless meal will pass without com-
ment. Rich fruit cake, “Dutch cake,”
made by filling a loaf of bread dough
with sugar, raisins, currants and a.
Sprinkling of spice, apple dumplings
with rich milk, peach pudding, berry
Shortcake with cream, and dozens of
other hearty sweets, will make up for
the absence of meat or will smooth
over the leftovers, and hash and meat
balls so necessary to use up the scraps
in every home. Then, on days when a.
plentiful supply of meat is served, a.
cheap dessert can be used and things
evenly balanced. It takes careful plan-
ning to balance the meals and keep
hired help well fed and contented, but
it pays.

When there are growing children to
be considered it is necessary to pro
vide plenty of milk, fruit and vegeta-a
bles with good bread and butter, and
only a moderate amount of meat. It
is no mean task to feed people well at
as small a cost as possible, so the bus‘
iness woman in the kitchen can feel
sure she is serving her country well
when she' makes the most of all her.

There are certain vegetables and
breads and desserts that will help out
short supplies of meat, and make the

 

if hash must be served, or croquettes,
to use up the remains of a roast or
odds and ends of steak, then a fine
large suet pudding well stuffed with
raisins will make up for all deficien-
cies, and the poorer meat will be quite
cheerfully eaten. In the same way a
rich mince pie will help out a scanty
portion of either beef or pork and will
supply the needed nourishment for a
hard worker, particularly if served hot.
Indeed, the country housekeeper
should always have a supply of rich
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ONDER how many fathers feel

When the Son Wants a Confidant
jealous of the way the grown—up

son. goes to mother if he wants

a confidant? I don’t suppose we’ll ev~
er know, for most of them would die
rather than admit they cared. But all
the same, if the truth were known fath-
er would give a great deal if‘son came
to him for advice. As a rule, son goes
anywhere else except to father,
doesn’t he?

It’s too late to help the fathers with
grown sons. But here’s the secret for
the benefit of young fathers with sons
who are just beginning to jabber. List-
en to sonny when he wants to talk to

stand why his fourteen—year-old boy
doesn’t want to do anything on the
farm. I could tell him, but I daren’t.
I was there one spring when he was
setting out early plants. Four—year-old
son had a toy shovel and rake and hoe
and he was naturally right anxious to
help father make garden. Naturally
too, he got in the way. Father’s tem-
per is none too reliable and after hav-
ing two plants dug up he spanked son
and sent him in the house“ He could
have given son a little corner of his
own and a half dozen plants and show-
ed him how to set them out. That
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But he hadn’t time to bother with 9001'-

kids. Ten minutes was too long to give
to holding his boy, and so because he
wouldn’t bother when the boy was
four, he gets no help from him now
that he is fourteen.

Of course, little children are more
bother than help. But the wise father
knows that the time to interest a boy
in work is when he wants to work.
Habit forming begins at birth, and it
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of being a pal with your boy.

or run and tell mother. That is, if
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after he grows up.

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FOR FRUITS SOMETIMES DIS-
CARDED.

HE fruit shortage this season
makes it imperative for everyo
one to make the most of everyd
thing that grows. Fruit which would
be left on the ground in other years,
will this year be used in some way.
Here are a few rules for making use
'of fruit that is not exactlyvfirst-class.

 

DEBORAH. Of course, the finest will be canned.

  

  
 
    
  

 

 

  
   
 


 
 
   

 
  

 

 

 

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pears which would not be so nice in
preserves or canned. For every dozen-
pears allow three pounds of sugar and
three cups of water. Pare and core
fruit and put through meat grinder,
using coarse knife. Cover with water
and cook for ten minutes, then add
sugar and cook forty-five minutes long-
er. Seal in jars. Quince honey may
be made the same way.

Ginger Pears—This is another way

to use hard pears. For every eight
pounds of fruit, before peeling, allow

six pounds of sugar, three lemons, one
pound of candied ginger, and one-
fourth pound ginger root. Chop pears
fine. Put one quart of water, juice of
lemons, lemon peel out fine, in pre-
serving kettle, and bring to the boiling
point. Then add pears, candied gin-
ger chopped fine, and ginger root chop-
ped fine and tied in bag. Cook slowly
until pears are tender. ‘

Peach Leather.—Use peaches that
are over-ripe for this. Peel, mash to
pulp, spread on oiled platters and dry
in sun, until of consistency of “leath-
er.” Pack in jars. In the winter soak
in water and use for pies, puddings
and Shortcake. The leather may be
sprinkled with sugar, rolled up like a
jelly roll, out in slices, stored in jars,
and served in place of candy.

Sun-cooked peaches call for perfect
fruit. This makes a delicious addition
to a lunch or supper, when some little
side sweet is needed to complete the
meal. Select perfect fruit, just ripe,
peel, and cut in thin slices. Allow
equal weight of sugar and fruit. Spread
the fruit in single layers on platters,
make a thick syrup of the sugar and
just enough water to dissolve and cov-
er the fruit. Put window glass over
the fruit and set outdoors in sun until
fruit'is soft and syrup has turned to
a jelly. These may be sealed in cans
or kept in jelly glasses with a coating
of hot paraffin poured on top.

Elderberries are plentiful by Michi-
gan roadsides this year, and there are
many ways of putting up this once ov-
erlooked fruit. The berries may be
canned as you would any berry, and
used for pies in winter. or they may
be put down in a thick preserve with
spices, and used in tart shells. Elder—
berry and wild grapes in equal quan—
tities make a finely-Ilavored preserve.
The grapes should have the skins re-
moved and added to the berries, while
the pulp is boiled alone sufficiently to
enable you to force through a seive to
remove seeds. Then combine with
berries and skin, allow three-quarters
of a pound of sugar to every pound of
fruit, and cook until thick.

Elderberry juice may be canned or
bottled, as you would grape juice.
Weigh fruit before stemming, and al-
low three pounds of sugar to every ten
pounds of fruit. Then stem, and allow
five pints of water to every peck be-
fore stemming. Bring slowly to boil-
ing point, and drain, pressing out all
juice. Return to kettle, add sugar, heat
to boiling point, skim, and bottle or
seal in cans or fruit jars. The sugar
may be omitted and added when juice
is served. This will make a refreshing
cold drink for next summer.

Apple Butter from Windfalls.—~
Measure the apples, wash and slice
into small pieces, add four gallons of
water for each bushel of apples. Boil
until-fruit is soft; rub through screen
or sieve. To the pulp fromeach bush-
el of apples add two gallons of boiled
cider. Bring to a boil, add twelve
pounds of sugar. Cook until proper
consistency. Add spices to taste.
When butter is as thick as desired
pour it at once into hot jars and seal
immediately.

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The Boys and Girls in Club Work '

Helps Bur/d Up Me Farm and Melee Life Better
By L. B. Edgar

HILE the first purpose of the
”‘1 Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs which

are springing up in so many
parts of the country, is to give the
young people a chance to become in-
terested in the material side of farm-
ing and at the same time. bring in
some money, still this is not by any
means their first great object.

It is a great thing, let it be said, to
attract boys and girls to the farm and
enable them to help father and mother
improve the dairies, the flocks and the
poultry side of farming. Wherever

 

 

Wanted—A [View to Led/2’

“There isn’t a lad but wants
to grow
Manly and true at. heart,
{And every lad would like to
know
The secret we impart.
He doesn’t desire to slack or
shirkw
haven’t
plead?
He’ll follow a man at play or
work,
If only the man will lead.”

Oh, you heard him

 

 

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these clubs have been for any length
of time in operation, we may trace a
finer line of stock and better fruit and
vegetable crops. In this respect these
organizations have. had a marked ef-
fect in making the world a better and
a. finer place in which to live.

If this Were all the clubs have ac-
complished, however, it might be ques-
tioned whether they Would be worth
while or not. When we have said
and done all, the making of a fine all-
round character is the great purpose
of life. Anything that serves to ad-
vance the manhood and the woman-
hood of our citizens is well worth sup-
porting, and that our Boys’ and Girls’
Clubs certainly are doing. What still
may be accomplished in this direction,
though, is very easily demonstrated.

One way by which these clubs may
serve the community is in bringing
about a closer relationship bethcn
neighbors. In some localities farmers
live too isolated lives. They rarely get
together to talk things over. They
scarcely know their neighbors, espe—
cially those who are not of the same
blood as they themselves. The clubs
tend to unite neighbors by a. closer
and a more intimate bond. They come
to understand each other better. They
sympathize with each other more and
they are more disposed to help one
anothe rthan formerly. The line sep—
arating nationalities is thus gradually
being wiped out.

Again, there are clubs which make
a point: of developing the literary side
of the young pepolc’s lives. At the
meetings which are held from time to
time, the boys and girls are assigned
some topic upon which they are ex-
pected to write or to speak. The skill
acquired in this way in writing and
expressing thought is of the highest
possible value.

This line might be still farther
pressed by debates and discussions in
which the only speakers should be the
young folks on some topic of general
interest, perhaps of world-wide im-
portance. These discussions would
call for study, conference with older

 

 

 

people and thought which would have
a direct bearing upon all future life.

Still further good might be accom-
plished in a higher field of character
development. In our day we hear much
said about the backward state of the
religious life of the rural communi-
ties. We are told that farmers are
drifting away from church; that Bible
study is almost unknown in many sec-
tions and that there is a rapid trend
toward Sabbath breaking and lawless-
ness.

Here is a place where “The child
shall lead them.” Let the young peo-
ple become interested in having some
good, helpful services at the church or
schoolhouse on Sunday, and it will not
be long before the older people will
begin to be concerned. Here is a place
where a few of the older boys and

girls may take the lead and bring
about a positive revolution in the mor-

al life of the community.

When such a spirit takes possession
of a neighborhood, no one can esti-
mate the influence it may have upon
From some quiet country

the world.

Bay, 875; Calhoun, 781; Gogebic, 440;
Lenawee, 439.

Gardening is the most popular en-
terprise for the entire state, with 6,891
enrolled. Canning clubs rank second,
with 857, while the others in order
are: Pig, 801; poultry, 562; calf 256;
potato, 188; corn, 162; beans, 75;
cooking, 56; sheep, 35.

Ten handicraft clubs which have

community may go young men and

women strong to do yoeman work for
their fellows in great lines of life. One
single man who might be led through
the service of a boys’ and girls’ club
to devote his life to the betterng of
humanity would be a thing worth a
To send
out a single young woman with a heart
beating high for love of her fellows
and consecrated to service in the high-

thousand times what it cost.

er walks of life would stamp these
clubs as a grand agency for good

throughout all time. And it may be so.

Michigan a Leader in Club Work

NROLLMENT in Boys’ and Girls’

Clubs in Michigan is the second
largest in the northern half of the
United States. Statistics for 1920 just
issued by the federal department of
agriculture show Indiana in the lead,
with this state a close second.

In two club enterprises, handicraft
and hot lunch preparation, Michigan
ranks first, while in three others, gard«
ening, canning and garment making,
the Wolverine State is second. Mich-
igan is rated third in bean and dairy
heifer club-membership, sixth in total
club production and in the number of
corn and potato club members report-
ing, seventh in pig club work, thir—
teenth in sheep clubs and twentieth

in poultry clubs. This state is also
the first in the number of local unpaid
leaders. The ranking includes the
thirty-three north and west states of
the union.

Total club membership in Michigan
has grown to nearly 10,000 in the pe-
riod of seven years since the work
was first established. The annual re-
port of R. A. Turner, of M. A. (3., state
club leader, for the year ending July
1, Shows 9,919 boys and girls enrolled
in the ten branches of club activity.

Wayne county, with its large num-
ber of garden clubs in Dtroit, leads
with 2,491 members. Other counties
where club work is exceptionally
strong, are Kent, with 1,739 members;

 

 

Jae/gz'flg at t/Ze [Vest Michigan Fair

OR the last two years the West

Michigan Fair has given the high
school boys of the state an opportu—
nity to do judging of live stock and
grain and this will be repeated again
this year.

There were seven teams competing
in live stock judging last year. The
boys came in contact with some of the
best. stock in the state and became ac-
quaintcd with the breeders and feed-
ers of the herds.

This year’s stock—judging contest
will be unusually interesting as it will
be under the direction of Professor
Edwards, of M. A. C., and Mr. Wheat:
er, of llelding.

The crops department of M. A. C. is
planning on arranging the material for
the grain judging contest.

This gives a wonderful opportunity
to the pupils who are taking the farm
crops and animal husbandry courses,
as it gives them a change to put into
practice the information received in
class—room work; and it also gives
them an opportunity to compete with
other high school students in actual
judging work.

Mr. L. A. Lillie, secretary of the fair,
is making arrangements to care for
any of these boys who would like to
stay over night.

The fair is offering prizes in both
contests, the same as it did last year,
and all.pupils planning to enter the
contest should write to the secretary
of the fair, Mr. L. A. Lillie, at Grand
Rapids, for their entry and registra—
tion blanks—E. L. G.

 

 

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The Owosso High School

 

 

 

 

These Three Rivers High School Boys
Won First in Judging Stock.

 

 

been awarded chests of tools by a Chid
cago mail order concern are announc‘
ed by Mr. Turner. They are the Met-
ropolitan Club, of Dickinson county;
Trout Lake Club, Chippewa; Nadeau,
Daggett and Hermansville Clubs of
Menominee; Parker Club, Barry; Sec~
ond-mile Club, Branch; Noisy Work-
ers and Millett Clubs, Eaton; and Stan<
ley Club, Genesee. The one large
chest was won by Russell Mackay, of
Ishpeming, state handicraft champion.

Garment making champions for last
winter’s projects are announcd as fold
lows: Fourth year, Alice Widener, of
Cotldwater, Branch county, first; Ruth
Erickson, Graind Marais, Alger coune
ty, second; third year, Helen Black-
Well, Goldwater, first; Anna Saasta—
moinen, Negaunee, second, and Sera-
phene Rex, Palmer, third, both Mar-a
quette county; Mildred Johnson,
Beechwood, Iron county, fourth. Secd
0nd year, Mildred Johnson, Newaygo,
first; Emma Ruytz, Saginaw, second;
Geneva Maulbetsch, Ann Arbor, third;
Naomi Trombley, Nadeau, fourth. First
year, Margaret Stalker, Zilwaukee,
Saginaw county, first; Elizabeth Milli
er, Rapid River, Delta county, second;
Maxine Kline, Charlotte, Eaton county,
third; Marguerite Monzo, Tobinabee,
Cheboygan county, fourth.

Michigan has led the thirty-three
states of the north and west division
for three successive years in boys’ and
girls’ handicraft club work. This year
Miss Viva Osborne, county club agent
in Branch county, has more handicraft

clubs than there are in any other one 1

county in thee state—H. '

 

NO WONDER.

“How old is your little brother?” in?
quired Willie.

“He’s a year old,” replied Tommy.
“Huh! I’ve got a dog a. year old and
he can walk twice as well as your
brother.”

“That’s nothing. Your dog's got
twice as many legs.” '

 

 

 
    
  

 

 

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The Clan Call
(Continued from page 215). .-
There was never any disobeyin
him when he was determined, and he
It was strange,
that dread human thing that drew

him-f

Elizabeth turned and started out the
snowy crest of the mountain, wending
her way here and there between the
clumps of snow—heavy laurel and ivy
and under snow-heavy pines. After a
quarter of an hour of this somewhat
difficult traveling, the two drew up be-
fore a small enclosure made of round
oaken posts and round open railings
and hand-split and pointed oaken pal-
ings as high as a man’s shoulder’s, all
of which were grey and weatherbeat-
en. Elizabeth knew the spot well. She
swung the~ gate stiffly open on its
wooden hinges and stepped inside. Old
Dale, trembling in every fibre, follow-
ed her. His face was very, very pale.

Before them were two snow-covered
mounds bordered with the dead stalks
of flowers of another year—marigolds,
pretty-by-nights, zinnias. Near the two
graves there grew bare-branched wild
honey-suckle and redbud, and green—
leaved laurel, which in the summer-
time were covered with beautiful and
fragrant blossoms of golden yellow,
royal purple, and waxen white. At
the head of one mound a great, rough-
ly-shaped slab of brown sand-
stone marked the last resting place of
David Moreland’s young wife; it had
been lettered by David Moreland him-
self, and it was a crude but sincere
tribute to womankind.

On the face of the other great slab
of brown sandstone were "chiseled oth-
er ill-shaped letters and misspelled
words. The hands of John Moreland
had done this. Old John Dale stepped
unsteadily closer and read——

HEAR LAYS DAVID MORELAND
THE BEST MAN GOD
EVVER MAID
KILLED
BY JOHN K CARLILE
MAY GOD
CURSE HIS
SOLE

It was a living curse, a. breathing
curse-a terrible anathema. If dead
David Moreland himself had arisen
from the tomb and uttered it, it would
not have struck John K. Dale with
greater force. He grew weak, as
though with a fatal sickness. He sank
to his knees in the snow, and his iron-
gray head fell forward to his breast.
Elizabeth Littleford quickly knelt in
the snow beside him. She tried to
find comforting words, for she loved
him and was sorry for him, but no
words would come.

There was a slight sound, the muff-
led breaking of a dry twig in the snow
just beyond the palings in front of
them. Elizabeth Littleford looked up
to see the giant figure of John Moreo
land, whose face was white with ang-
er, who held a rifle in his cold, bare
hands. The rifle’s hammer came back,

and the fine trigger caught it with a .

faint click.

Moreland took another step forward
and levelled the weapon across the
palings.

“Ef it was any use fo’ ye to pray.

 

 

If you

Carlyle,” he said, and his voice was 1

shaking and hoarse and choked, “I’d
give ye time. But it ain’t no use at
all. Look up. Face it. Try to be a
man fo’ one second in yore lowdown
life.”

Old Dale raised his head, saw David
Moreland’s brother, and realized all
there was to realize. His eyes widen~
ed a. little; then a look of relief flitted
across his heavy countenance. \

“Shoot and even up the score," he
said bravely, and his head was high.
“According to your code, it is just.
'And I'll be able to forget at last, at
last. So shoot and settle the account.”
‘ .(Continued on page 225).

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Additional Farm Ads. on Page 213

SHEEP
INGLESIDE SHiROPSl-IIRES

During the ash 30 years lngleside Farm has produced
over a 10008 ropshires of sustained excellence. but
never before have we been able to present to our ever-
widening circle of satisfied customers such an attrac-
tive offering of Shropshires of all ages.

In rams we have a strong assortment of lambs. enr-
linim and aged rams—splendid indwiduals of the c cic-
est. breeding obtainable. We have young ewes of
quality for exhibition or foundation stock. . a can
supply 2 or 3 fitted flocks for show at. county fairs.
Write your wants—or better yet, come and inspect
this stock personally.

H. E. POWELL dz SON. IONIA, MICH

Re lstered Shropshire ewe and ram
60 Head laughs also yenrlin rams good size and

. u. Estllish 1890.
"p" Priced t° 8° CREMEN. Dexter,Mich.

, ' 1'. 0!: Farms offer for sale thirty Shmp-
IdleWIld Elli-ire and Leicester rams. See our ex-

nokson,Adrain. and Hillednle Fairs.
homo . ropdetor. Clayton. Mich.

 

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Shropshire and Hampshire Sheep are of that :
quality and conformation that guarantees the sale
each year of more than 21.10 Rains to the better
farmers of Mich. The day of the scrub ram is
past. (tome to the farms eleven miles south of
(‘oldwater and pick a good one at a reasonable
price or we will ship and guarantee satisfaction.
No fairs this year. S. L. WING, Goldwater, Mich.

 

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It. 4, Evart. Mich.

25 Shropshire Ewes

DAN BOUUER,

 

Straight Brook Hampshire Downs

For Sale: 30 yearling rams. 30 Fall] lambs includin

real flock headers. “'4! also have, to olfor owes ot 8

ages. J. B. Welsh. 1%ng STRAIGHT BROOK
STOCK FARM, R. l, loniu, Mich.

 

Q Oxford rams and ewes all ages riced to
For “ale sell. Write your wants. (£160

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LAdditional Stock Ads onPage 227

Good Clubbing Offers:

OFFER No. 323.
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McCall’s Magazine, one year. . . . 1.50 2
American Woman , ..... . . . . . . . . .50

 

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OFFER No. 324. i 1 .
Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .3100 l .

Christian Herald, one year. . . .. . 2.00 '
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Hoosier Water Service brings to the farm
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against fire. as well as providing water

If you are interested in having running
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Why not sell your cull hens and replace
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price.

These pullets are produced from our own
stock and are fully guaranteed.

Choice breeding cockerels and yearling hens.

Macatawa White Leghorn Co. Inc.
L. Vredeveld, Sec.
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Crescent Egg Company,Allegan,Mich.

YEARLING HENS

White and Brown Leghorns and Anconas; alsoa
number still of 8 and 13 weeks old Pullets. Alma
limited number of White and Barred Rock Pullets.

Cockerels—Whlte Rocks; White Wyandottes; S. C.
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1 pair two year old Gray Toulouse Geese.

Write for description and prices.

STATE FARM S ASSOCIATION,

 

 

 

 

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‘FARMER :

  

N

IGOROUS birds are less suscep-
V tible to a disease like tuberculo-

sis than those birds that suffer
constantly from mites and lice. These
two pests are both eaSy to control if
the work is made part of the regular
business and not something to be done
when there is nothing else to do. Ker-
osene oil painted on roosts will de-
stroy mites. A mixture of equal parts
of vaseline and blue ointment is still
a very useful treatment for lice.

Cull the flock of cockerels and if you
are not selling male birds for breeders
it will pay to sell all but enough to
insure vigorous breeders for next
spring. Then the feed and range will
be left for the pullets and they will
grow better when free from the com—
petition of many clumsy cockerels.

Breeders who sell cockerels. for
breeding purposes have to figure ex-
penses carefully. A bird has a meat
value on the local market and if sold
for that purpose there is no cost of
correspondence, advertising, shipping
crate, and the time taken in hauling
that bird to the express office and
billing it out. Frequently buyers do
not consider those costs when buying
cockerels for breeding purposes and
think that two or three dollars is a
very large price to pay for a young
cockerel. But that price the sellers of
good birds are really doing business
on a very small margin of profit.

Many poultrymen are disappointed
because the cockerels from bred-to—lay
strains are not as fine in exhibition
qualities as the strains which have
been bred many years for that pur-
pose. There is an effort to make fine
laying flocks of exhibition birds and
to make the high layers of fine type
for the breed. But the writer has vis-
ited many flocks and does not believe
that the two qualities have been com-
bined to any extent. At least it can-
not be generally true of the low-priced
birds.

If you have preserved no eggs in
waterglass it may pay to take a quart
jar down town on the next trip and
obtain a supply. Eggs preserved in
waterglass should be fresh laid stock
with strong shells. Infertile eggs are
the safest for storing. The old water-
glass solution used last year should
not be used again. Bury the old solu-
tion as it may look like sour milk and
be lapped up by farm animals or eat-
en by the hens.

At the Kansas Experiment Station
they found that the house fly can car-
ry tapeworms from one chicken to an-
other. It pays to keep down flies in
the poultry houses. They can be con-
trolled by cleaning dropping boards of-
ten and spraying them with one of the
coal-tar disinfectants. Dirty poultry
dishes draw flies and this trouble can
partially be controlled by keeping all
dishes and feeding troughs as clean
as possible. Fly paper and a'fly trap
for infested-colony houses will help to
keep down the pests. Pyrethrum blown
into the air in a colony house will kill
many flies but do no harm to poultry.

Poultrymen who decide to cull their
flocks will have better luck if they are
properly feeding the hens for egg pro-
duction before the culling process be-
gins. A hen from high-producing an-
cestry and of good laying powers can-
not produce many eggs if she suffers
from lack of feed and other condi-
tions which sap her vitality and make
egg laying very diflicult. It would be
unfair to cull out such a hen as a
slacker.

If the hens are often in the barn-
yard with the cattle and a bird be-
comes lame, it is frequently due to be
ing stepped on or kicked and not be-
cause of rheumatism or tuberculosis.

 

The hen? will gather around the cows

    

       

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Some Poultry Pointers
By G. K. Riley ,

and pick flies from their legs and of-
ten a bird will be caught when the
cows stamp and kick to fight the flies.
Examine the lame bird at once.

 

FEEDING GEESE.

 

Is green rye good pasture for geese,
young or old, and is the ground or
whole rye good for same? Would it
be advisable to run them in a. rye field
after cutting?~M. D.

The green rye pasture would he sat-
isfactory for geese and in the field
and fence corners they would undoubt—
edly find other bits of grass to go with
the rye they eat. Poultry do not as a
rule, like ground rye or whole rye.
Breeders report different experiences
from feeding it. We believe it would
be better to sell the rye and use corn
for fattening the geesé’and the breed—
ing geese usually like corn or cats
better than rye.

Whole grains are not as good for
geese as mash because the crop of a.
goose is not developed like the crop
of a hen. A mash composed of equal
parts of bran, ground oats and corn
meal by weight is very good for geese.

R. G. K.

A GOOD DRY MASH.

 

Will you please give me a good dry
mash formula for hens that can be
kept before them all the time?—E. P.

The following mash for hopper feed-
ing of hens has been given a. very
thorough test and is now probably the
most popular one used. It consists
of equal parts by weight of corn meal,
bran, middlings and ground oats. To
this add threequarters of a. pound of
commercial beef scraps to every pound
of the mash. However, if you have
plenty of sour milk available, it will
not be necessary to include the beef
scraps.

DUCK MANAGEMENT.

 

I have a duck which laid over sev-
enty-five eggs. Then she wanted to
set and we let her. When she came
off she drooped around and her feath—
ers looked rough and she would set
around and gape or open her mouth
as though gasping for breath. Thought
perhaps she was moulting but it seems
as though she ought to be better by
now. Can you tell me what to do for
her? Also give the best feed for young
ducks and tell if they can be picked,
during the summer.

Calhoun Co. ' E. J. S.

When mature breeding ducks gape
and appear rough and lacking in vital~
ity it is usually due to lung trouble.
It is often caused by dampness in the
house or lack of range. Possibly the
strain of heavy laying followed by a.
long period of setting on eggs reduced
the strength of the bird and made her
susceptible to lung trouble. A little
cayenne pepper in the food may be
helpful. Isolate the bird in a. dry, sun-
ny house and she may recover, but
treatment of such cases is difficult.

Ducks can be picked the same as
geeese and at the same time. When
the birds begin picking at themselves
in the spring and seem about to shed,
it is time to make an examination and
pick them if we feathers seem ready.

A good ration for ducklings can be
made of one part corn meal and four
parts bran with a. little low-grade flour
to stick it together. Then add about
five per cent of coarse sand. After the
third day a sprinkling of beef scrap
and green rye should be added to the
mash.

After the eighth week a. good fat-
tening ration for ducklings consists of
three parts corn meal, one part low-
grade flour, one part green food and
three-fourths part of beef scrap,.This
is given three times each day.-—-—R‘. K.

 

 

  


  

 

 

   

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HE world was shocked in Octo-

ber, 1915, when Edith Cavell, an

‘English nurse in Belgium, was
shot by the German military authori-
ties. She had been head nurse in a
hospital in Brussels for a number of
years and when the war came, she re-
mained at her post. The crime of
which she was convicted was that of
assisting English soldiers back to Eng-
land, and others back to their respec-
tive countries. Miss Cavell knew only
in a vague way what the crime was,
of which she was accused. The trial
was conducted in German, which she
did not understand and this was trans-
lated into French. Mr. Whitlock, the
American minister to Belgium, states
in his book, “Belgium under German
Occupation,” that she was so frank
and honest in her answers to the court
that she practically convicted herSelf.
She was in the grim prison of Saint-
Gilles for ten weeks, before the end.

During that time the English chap-
lain was not permitted to visit her,
until the night before her execution.
He says: “On Monday evening, Octo-
ber 11, I was admitted by special pass—
port from the German authorities to
the prison of St. Gilles, where Miss
Cavell had been confined ten weeks.
To my astonishment and relief I found
my friend perfectly calm and resign-
ed. She added that she wished all
her friends to know that she willingly
gave her life for her country, and said,
‘I have no fear or shrinking—I have
seen death so often that it does not
seem strange or fearful to me. I thank
God for this ten weeks’ quiet before
the end. This I would say, standing
as I do in view of God and eternity:
I realize that patriotism is not enough.
I must have not hatred or bitternses
toward anyone.’ She and the chaplain
partook of the Holy Communion to«
gether, the guard announced that the
time .had come for the chaplain to go,
and as he departed, she smiled and
said, ‘We shall meet again.’ At seven
the next morning she was shot.”

THE purpose of these words is to
consider the little book which
Miss Cavell had with her, during her
imprisonment, and which buoyed her
up, to the end. It was the “Imitation
of Christ,” by Thomas A. Kempis, a
book which has had a tremendous in—
fluence for several hundred years. It
has been translated over and over into
every modern language, and has been
a Bible to thousands. A new edition
of it has been issued, known as the
Edith Cavell edition. It is a facsimile
of the edition she had, and all her
markings and notes, on the ._margins
have been reproduced.

Let us turn to this little book. We
must remember that the doomed wom-
an was fighting against hatred of the
Germans, all the while she was in
prison. She had not had a fair trial,
and she did not know the exact nature
of the crime of which she was convict-
ed. At least she did not understand
its seriousness. The passages we shall
touch on are all marked in her own
hand. “Neither is it any such great
thing if a man be devout and fervent,
when he feeleth no affliction; but if
in time of adversity he bear himself
patiently, there is then hope of great
proficiency in grace.” “Man looketh
on the countenance, but God on the
heart. Man considereth thedeeds, but
God weigheth the intentions.” In the
chapter that is headed, “Of Familiar
Converse-with Jesus.” there are sev-
eral marks, but one passage must suf-
fice: “Be thou humble and peaceable,
and Jesus will be with thee. Be thou

. devout'and quiet, and Jesus will stay
. with thee.”

When, we do our duty,

when we exert ourselves and make
great effort to be faithful, we naturally
expect that God will be pleased. We
look for reward, if not here, at least
hereafter.

This little woman had done all in
her power, when Belgium was invaded
by an enemy who had violated every
military and moral right in coming
there, to aid the suffering and the
homeless. She had been at great pains
to secretly assist English prisoners to
escape the German’s clutch and get to
England. The result of all this is, im-
prisonment and death. How deeply
therefore, we can look into her soul,
when we read the chapter entitled,
“Of the duty of considering the secret
judgments of God.” No wonder there
is a large cross placed at the begin-
ning ‘of this chapter. Here is one quo—
tation: “No wisdom availeth, if thou
cease to guide. No courage helpeth,
if thou leave off to defend. No chas-
tity is secure, if thou do not protect it.
No custody of our own availeth, if thy
sacred watchfulness be not present
with us.”

T is well to consider the fact that

trouble sometimes overtakes us, for
which there is no rational explanation.
The old idea that we reap what we
sow, is good as far as it goes, but does
not explain it all. Woe, calamity comes
on us like an unexpected storm, and
no man can lay his finger on the rea-
son for it. There is but one fact that
we can fall back on. It is the answer
we get from the book of Job, which is
a study of .this whole question, name—
ly, there is a mystery about it, and
God is sovereign. We cannot question
his acts. As St. Paul puts it, “Nay,
but 0 man, who art thou that repliest
against God? Shall the thing formed
say to him that formed it, ‘Why hast
thou made me thus.’ ”

We find one passage with three
heavy lines, and dated, “St. Gilles, 11
Oct.” That was the day before her

on of Edith cam"

‘ — 0...» mew Sermon—By N. A. Mchme

 

execution. It reads:
in the sweat of my brows. I am rack-
ed with grief of heart, I am burdened

“I indeed labor“

with sins, I am troubled with tempta-j

tions, I am entangled and oppressed
with many evil passions; and there is
none to help me, none to deliver and
save me, but thou, Lord God my Sav-
ior, to whom I commit myself and all
that is mine, that thou mayest keep
watch over me, and bring me safe to
life everlasting.”

HREE and a half years after her

death, her body was brought to
England for burial. The service was
held in the celebrated Westminster Ab-
bey. It was thronged with people,
from end to end. When the coffin was
borne to the railroad station, it passed
through streets that were massed with
crowds. Windows, roofs, everywhere
that people could sit or stand, were
filled with tearful spectators. As the
train passed through the towns, it
passed between reverent throngs
Workmen in the fields doffed their
hats, and schools were dismissed. It
was all England could do, to show her
respect for the brave little woman who
had made one of the greatest sacri-
fices of the war. Her prayer had been
that God would give her “strength to
resist, patience to endure, and con-
stancy t0,persevere.”

Few are called on to endure what
Nurse Cavell endured. Yet the aver-
age person lives a life that contains
enough calls to sacrifice and hardship
to create saints, if they were heeded.
And it is such voluntary service that
counts. Many of the greatest things
are done in inconspicuous ways by
folk who will never in this world be
catalogued as heroes.

 

 

 
    
  

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
   

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ed, or putrid substances, or who add
to their product any deleterious ingre-
RE AM pooling, to demonstrate the dients, are subject to prosecution un-
advantages which will accrue to der the aCtpf June 30. 1906. commonly
producers through the collective mar— known as the food and drug act.”
keting of their product on a. quality
basis, is to be worked out at Prescott,
Ogemaw county, under the direction —-—-—-
of the Bureau of Dairying of the new The dairy interests of the country
State Department of Agriculture. 00- are working hard to have the DI'ODOS-
operating with the Bureau of Dairying ed tariff on vegetable oils increased
will be the Michigan Agricultural 001- from tW0 to two and a half cents per
lege, the State Farm Bureau and the pound t0 ten cents per pound. The
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association. recent dairy conference held at Buf-
The pool is to be started soon, accord-i falo urged this advance.
ing to H. D. Wendt, acting director of The United States Department of
the State Dairy Bureau. Agriculture has just issued a four-page

The proposed pool is to be placed circular entitled, “Milk for the Fam-
with a cooperative cream marketing fly." WhiCh is receiving 11111011 favor-
association at Prescott. Dairymen able comment. The folder is the re-
there perfected an organization which 8‘1” 0f the combined efforts of the
has marketed cream efficiently enough dairy diVision and the office of home
to enable them to get 5.6 cents per 800110111108. and it promises to empha-
pound over the general Michigan price size a more generous use of man’s
for butter-fat, and they have crowded most nutritious fOOd. You can get it
several local cream stations off the by asking the department for Circular.
market. The association is now inter— NO- 129.
ested in marketing a top quality of The Voigt bill which prohibits the
cream, and it is here that the dairy manufacture and sale of filled milk in
interstate commerce has been favor-
ably reported to the lower house of
congress by the committee on agricul‘
ture. The legal and economic grounds
which seem to justify the passage of
this measure are being placed before
congress by the dairy interests of the
country as well as by others who fear
that unless some action be taken the
doors will be open for unscrupulous
dealers to substitute these filled milks
with their cheap vegetable fats for,
good milk containing animal fats and
the much needed vitamines for human
consumption.

Many dairymen are interested in the
big soybean field meeting just over
the Ohio line at Stl‘yker in Williams
bureau is going to try out its market— county .on September 9' This meeting
ing project. 13 Within easy reach of farmers from

According to Mr. Wendt, the econ- southern Michigan by auto and groups
omy in cream handling and the im- from many sections will likely attend.
prove-meat in quality of butter that A number of Michigan leaders will
will result from cream pooling for a speak.

quality market will yield the produc- It was nOt 3“ unexpected revelation
ers considerably more for their but- when the department of rural econlm-

tor-fat than they are getting under ics of the Ohio State University found

present conditions. It is estimated that in?” the five best farmers from among
quality cream marketing throughout 101W 0f one county, whose bOOkS Were
the state would yield producers sev- analyzed, kept an equivalent 0f twenty
eral million more dollars a year than head 0t COWS and fed an average 01'
they are now receiving, and that with— $179 Worth Of feed, or WhiCh one-sixth
out perceptibly increasing the price of was protein, to a COW in a year. The
butter to the consumer when the val- lest Of the group, kept an average 0f
ue of the extra quality product is con— fifteen COWS and fed $90 worth 0f feed
sidered. per cow of which only one-tenth was
protein.

 

 

   

WILL LEARN ADVANTAGE OF
POOLING CREAM.

  

 

DAIRY NOTES.

 

 

 

 

 

Lady Trifs, Alvin Balden's Winner of
Jersey Cattle Club Gold Medal.

 

 

 

REVERSES THE BUTTER TAX

DECISION. BIG CROWDS LOOKED FOR AT

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

N opinion of Former Commission-

er of Internal Revenue Williams REDUCED railway fares and regu-
to the effect that butter made from lar conventions 0f seventeen big
cream in which lime water had been dairy associations promise to make
used to neutralize the acid before the National Dairy Show a record
churning, was adulterated butter, has gathering Of f01ks interested in the
been reversed by the present commis- dairy Ibusiness Of the country. The
sioner, D. H. Blair. This will be good show 18 to be held at St. Paul, October
news to many Michigan producers 8-15, at Minnesota State Fair Grounds.
who are obliged to depend upon dis- During the past decade the dairy ill-
tant markets for the sale of their dustry has made unprecedented
cream, since as the statute was first strides in every branch, from the pro-
interpreted it means that butter made duction of feeds to the sale of finished
from so-called neutralized cream would dairy products. It is the purpose or
be taxed the same as oleo. the management of this dairy show to
The statement of Commissioner give those who attend an opportunity
Blair, which was approved by the sec~ to clearly understand what these
retary of the treasury on August 16, strides have been. The interests of
reads as follows: “Butter manufac- no class 0f workers in the whole in-
tured from sour cream, the acidity of dustry Will be accorded the same de"
which has been reduced by the use of gree of attention that will be given to
lime water before churning, is not the production 0f milk.
adulterated butter in the meaning of
Section Four of the Act of May 9,

 

Scrub stdck multiplies just as fast

 

as pure-bred, but it never gets the

1920; however, manufacturers who right answer.

    

 

 

 

 

 

  


  

 

i-KEEPcows INSIDE: DURINe coup

 

 

a.»

NIGHTS.

 

i , HE season for cold nights will be

' here all too soon, in’this northern
climate. While it is true that keeping
the cows inside means more elabor in
cleaning the stable, and more difficul-
ty in. keeping the cows clean, the ex-

'tra fertilizing material collected in this

way will probably pay for the extra
labor. If this does not, the extra sup—
ply of milk received by keeping cows
in a comfortable stable at times when
the temperature drops below freezing
point, or close above it, may do so.
Experience shows that'cold has a
Very marked effect in lessening the
milking for some time, when the nat-
ural tendency is for a cow to dry up,
and during which time every means

4 should be taken to keep her milking.
‘ Cows should milk at least ten months

of the year. Leaving cows outside dur-
ing cold nights, after they have been
milking for-six or eight months makes
a greater tendency for those cows to
go dry.

Where cows are kept inside, the sta-
ble should be cleaned regularly and
some absorbent material like sawdust,
shavings, chaff, or cut-straw, should
be scattered along the passages, on
the platform, and in the gutter. This
helps very much in cleaning the sta-

' ble, and in keeping cows clean.

Another advantage of stabling on
frosty nights, is that it prevents cows

. eating frozen feed, which is generally

injurious to milk cows. They may be
kept in the stable or yard after the
pasture thaws, and in this way, ani—

‘mals are protected against digestive
' troubles and conditions are more fav-

orable for maintaining the health and
milk-flow of the animals.
Huron Co. W. E. MCMILLEN.

FIVE CHILDREN CONTRACT T. B.

FROM MILK OF INFECTED COW-

HEN an early writer first fram-

ed the remark that truth is
stranger than fiction, it was the out-
come of vivid observation. The state—
ment became trite through repetition,
but occasionally leaps into strong out-
line in fact. A case in point has just
come to the notice of the United States
Department of Agriculture.

The department, through its office of
motion pictures, recently produced a
film, “Out of the Shadows,” which told
of tuberculosis creeping into a family
through the unnoticed infection of a
handsome herd of cattle. In the film
the farmer disposed of his unhealthy
animals and built on a sound basis.

Now comes a report through the
Vermilion County Farm Bureau of a
case in Edgar county, Illinois, more
striking than the picture story and
without its happy ending. A farmer
had his herd tested for tuberculosis
and one cow reacted. Instead of de-
stroying her, the farmer declared the
test undependable, removed the ear
tag, and sold her to his hired man for

. wages.

. cases of tuberculosis.

Of seven children in the man’s fam-
ily, five have contracted pronounced
The other two
did not drink this cow’s milk. A pig

_ and cat also contracted disease after
, drinking the milk. A warrant has been
,issued for the original owner on the

charge of breaking quarantine, and, it

:is stated, should one of the children

die, he will be subject to a charge of
manslaughter.

BETTER CREAM CAMPAIGN.

 

HE Michigan Association of
Creamery Owners and Managers
is conducting a better cream campaign
with the idea of improving the quality
of cream marketed for butter-making
purposes and eventually that it shall

;be paid for by grade. . The success of
their campaign would cut down great-

 

 
 

ly the use of neutralized cream for

-mkins 'nurposes in Michigan,

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details.

NEW YORK
165 Broadway

 

1922 De Laval Price Reductions
' Effective september 1 , 1921

To stimulate the production of milk and butter-fat, which
promises to be exceptionally profitable during the fall and
winter months, The De Laval Company will give all buyers
of its milkers and separators the benefit of 1922 reduced prices
from September 1, 1921.

Allowing for increased capacity and other improvements
made meanwhile, De Laval cream separator prices are reduced
practically to the pre-war level, notwithstanding labor and
material costs are still 50% higher.

The De Laval separator is better than ever.
closer, turns easier, and lasts longer.
it costs less than ever before.
wasted yearly by inefficient skimming devices to pay for the
entire output of the De Laval factory.
for a De Laval separator but not getting it, by continuing to
use a “‘cream robber.”

The De Laval milker is as superior to other milkers as the
De Laval separator to other separators.
by increasing production and saving time.

With the continued relatively high prices for dairy products,
' abundant and cheap supplies of feed, the market value of crops
may be doubled by feeding them to good dairy cows.

The surest way to a continuing cash income and certain
profits is through the dairy cow and the use of De Laval
milkers and separators.

The nearest De Laval agent will be glad to give complete
See him 01' write us.

Easy terms.

The De Laval Separator Company

CHICAGO
29 E. Madison St.

In pounds of butter-fat
Enough butter-fat is being

You may be paying

It soon pays for itself

It skims

SAN F RANCISCO
61 Beale Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 
 

’ Makes Bigger
Yields

Fuller Kernels
—-Stronger Straw

Protects against insects and
disease by strengthening the
plant and hastening maturity,
helps build up the land for fu—
ture crops, decreases weather
damage, and,altogether, is the
best and soundest investment
for the farmer.

Every wheat grower should
have the book“ Wheat
Growing forProfit. It tells
just what to do to get the most
from your crop. Send the
coupon today and receive it,
free. '
F. S. ROYSTER GUANO C0.
Dept. C-15 Toledo, 0.

Please send me your free Wheat
Book.

 

Name

1 Address

 

 

 

 

 

Some Good Reading Bargains

OFFER No. 303.
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
American Boy, one year ........ 2.00
Total value .................. $3.00
Both for $2.75.

 

OFFER No. 304.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
Christian Herald, one year ...... 2.00

Total value ................... $3.00
Both for $2.35.

 

OFFER No. 305.
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

 

McCall’s Magazine, one year ..... 1.00
Youth’s Companion, one year. . .. 2.50
Total value .................. $4.50

All for $3.50.

 

OFFER No. 306.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

Woman’s World, one year ....... .50

Little Folks Magazine, one year 2.00

Total value ......... . . ....... $3.50
All for $2.30.

 

OFFER N0. 307.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

Today’s Housewife, one year.... 1.00

Young. People’s Weekly, one year .85

Total value .................. $2.85
All for $2.15.

     

Send All Orders to The Michigan Farmer, Detroit

OFFER No. 308.

 

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
American Magazine, one year. . . . 2.50
Boy’s Life, one year ............. 2.00
Total value .................. $5.50
All for $4.35.
OFFER ’5... 3097”" "WC
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
People’s Popular Monthly, 1 year .35
Gentlewoman. one year ......... .25
Household Journal, one year ..... .35
Total value .................. $1.95
All for $1.55.
OF‘FVEWRiNo. 310.
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00
Pictorial Review, one year ....... 3.00
VVoman’s World, one year ....... .50
Total value ................... $4.50

All for $3.40.

OFFER No. 311.

Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

VVoman’s Home Companion, 1 yr. 2.00

McCall's Magazine, one year..... 1.00

value ... .‘ .............. $4.00
All for $3.00.

 

Total

 

OFFER No. 312.
Michigan Farmer, one year ...... $1.00

National Sportsman, one year... 1.00
Everybody’s Poultry Mag, 1 year .60
Total value .................. $2.60

All for $2.05.

 

   


 

  

 

BREEDERS’ ‘DlRl-IC'I‘ORY
Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication

 

 

THE HOME OF

Imp. Edgar oi Dalmeny

Probably

The World’s Greatesl
Breeding Bull

Blue Bell. Supreme Champion at the Smith-
field Show 19l9, and the Birmingham Show
1920. is a daughter of Edgar of Dalmeny.

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

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.

 

 

 

 

 

CLOVERLY ANGUS

Cows and Heifers Bred to
Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd

For Sale _ .
GEO. HATHAWA Y & SON, OVid. Mich.

EOISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers, six
bulls from eight to fourteen months. Best 0
breeding. the growthy kind that make good. Reason-

able. Inquire F J WILBER, Clio, Mich

Reg. Aberdeen Angus

bulls and heifers of the very best of breedin , from
12 to 15 monahs (il’fiigei IF or next EIIO day: Wii ptricée

- 10 .00. ea )argains. nspec ion invi e .
buns “t S RUSSELL altos... Merrill, Mich.

‘ Guernsey Bulls for sale. 2 sired by
RegIStered Gay Boy of Halcyow. l sired by Avon~
dale’s Choice. All one yr. old.ready for'service. 1 born
July 26th 1931. sired by Avondale’s Chmce. All beauti-
fully marked brown and White. Address Dr. W: .Baker
4800 Fort St.. West. Phone West 629. Detrort. Mich.

' Guernseys-— $100 buys the last
RengteTed bull we have, old enough for li ht.
service—it. will pay you to find out more about t is
follow. No reactorsvno abortion—a clean herd.

J. M. WILLIAMS, No. Adams, hiich.
—HEGISTERED

G U E R N 5 EV S BULL anvss

Containing blood of world champions.
HICKS’ GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. “LS. Mich.

 

 

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

 

FORSALE on Windermere Farm, high grade Guern-
seys. Any or 3.1128 head young cows. bred heifers
and younger. Also reg. bull calves 3-11 months. Herd
T. B. tested. L. L.Barney dz Sons. Watervliet. Mich.

 

Reg. Guernsey bull 4 mo. old; 4 high
For sale grade heifers 3 months nicely marked.
HARRY LOWING.

innWood Herd

Registered

Holstein-Friesian cattle

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

John H. Winn, [Ina]

Rochester, Mich.

“Top Notch” Holsteins

Buy a "milk" Bull of Quality from the Breeders
of the world's onlv cow to produce 800 lbs. milk in?
days, having an 800 Ib. daughter.

Our 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 7days. We are
offering for sale a bull. whose dam exceeds this record
b over 7% lbs. in 7 days.
Evie dam’s records are:—

M'lk

Jenisoii. Mich.

 

 

l 1 Day 100.1 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. 1920
His dam and sire's two nearest dams average
Butter 7 Days 3302 lbs.
Milk '1 Days 607.3} lbs.
Handsomely marked about one third white.
$250.0C f. o. b. Howell.

McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mich.
All herds under U. B. Supervision.

 

H I i - Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred
II S em registered and high-grade. Price $20 up.
Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-
quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N. Y

 

accepted in payment of finely bred reg-
‘ 600d IIIIIe istered Holstein bull calves. Quality
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 reduc-
tion over long eriods, It is his ofi'springt at has
recently made t e greatest yearly production ever
dreamed of 37,381.4 pounds of milk in a year.

We have for sale at moderate prices.

Beautiful individals of show type KING SEGIS
BULLS

CRAND RIVER STOCK FARM,
315 N. East Ave.. Jackson. Mich. C. J. Spencer,0wner,
Under State and Federal Supervision

 

' for sale at ll ti 6 'th
Reg' HOISte‘ns sex. Bulls opheifgr; glricg:
Runnable. Write or come and see them.
HENRY 8. ROHLFS, R. 1, Akron. Mich.

 

R23. Holstein and Berkshires, most any use. either
ex.priced according to other commodities. Write
. B. REAVEY, Akron. Mich.

The Traverse Herd

We have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large.
flne growthy type, guaranteed right in every way,
They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors
Dani’s records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and
quotations, stating about age desired.

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL
TraverseCity, Mich.

HATCH HERD

U. S. Gov.’t Accredited
Ypsrlanti, Michigan
Offers choice registered Holstein sire ready for ser-
Vice. Arerage’lday records of his dam. sire's dam
and granddam over 33 pounds, average 7 nearest dams

over 28 pounds. Price reasonable.

or come. B

 

 

 

7 Yearling Bull Bargains
Sired by Segis Korndyke De Nijlander a 32 lb. son of
it twice Michigan- ribbon winner. her dam. 29% lbs.
Dams are daughters of King Segis Pontiac. 8.37 lb.
son of King Se is. Records 16 lbs. to 20 lbs. Priced
at half value.$l up. Federally tested June 10. Write
foriist. ALBERT G. WADE, White Pigeon. 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. Westnadge Ave.,
Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

 

 

. Our herd bull Marguerites I’rcniicr

For sale ' . No.137370 dropped June 7, 191.3. A
Register of Merit bull having five daughters in ll. of
M. now and four others that will be in R. of M. this
fall, they are now qualified. He is a grandson of
Pogis 99th of Hood Farm. is solid grey fawn in color.
deep thru the heart. good size. gentle and sure.
Reason for selling cannot use him longer in our herd.
Write SMITH and PARKER. Howell. Mich.

BUTTER BRED ”lasagna?”
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.

The WiIdwood Farm

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

 

 

Bull calves from
R. o M. cows.
Coopersviile, Mich.

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
COLON C. LILLIE.

 

'1‘. Btested. Will give time.

Jersey BIIIIS flordfglse ready for service from R. of
SMITH & PARKER, R. 4, Howell. Mich.

 

‘ tuberculin tested. Jersey bull. one
RegIStered year old. Show animal. best of
breeding. Mrs. Claudia Betts. Hillsdale, Mich
Jersey Bu" Call dropped August 7th. Barrons Owl

iInterest Sire. Thirty dollam rep.
and transferred.

 

A. N. can, Birmingham. Mich.

D
BID i“ ELL ' BUYA BULL
that will put weight on your dai calves -the diff-
erence will soon ay 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. It. It.

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan

flichland Shorlhorns

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,
Ofiice at Tawas City. Mich.. Herd at Prescott, Mich.

The Maple’s Shortliorns

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

J. V. WISE, Gobleville, Mich.

Shorthorns. Bull calves for sale from the

best milking blood obtainable.
ROSEMARY FARMS. Williamston, Mich.

BUY SHORTHORNS gf, Ce“3§,‘,‘§€,‘,§,’li§

n
Breeders’ Association at farmers’ prices. Write for
GreenVille. Mich.

sale list to M. E. Miller, Sec'y,
For sale. Fa e Pid
Shorthorn BU“ 724792. Two yrs?1 Sid IIIICS

roan with star in forehead. Very gentle and all e
specimen of the breed. Price $225.00. n
Alma, Mich.

W. E. BARTLEY,

Bull calf for sale from I . d -
Shorthorn Sire Cumberland bred £331 123]).
dam. J. A. BARNUM, Union City, Mich.

FIVE Bdiib‘iisirsks

that we will sell cheap if taken at o co.
about them or better come and see therlil. Inquire
CARR BROS. & 00., Bad Axe. Mich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francisco Farm Shorthorns

and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Now oflerinES

heifers. 2 bulls, all Scotch. Sows to furrow in Aug‘.

and Sept. Spring gigs. 60 head to choose from.
POPE ROS. 00., Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

See Us At The Fairs

with our Red Polled Cattle.
WESTBROOK BROS,

 

Ionia. Mich.

For Sale Brown Swiss Bulls
, E. H. EISELE, Manchester. Mich.

HOGS

erkshire spring pigs, either sex, 810. 812 and 815
according to age. Also fall glits and yearling sows.
CHASE STOCK FARM. Mariette, Mich.

 

Jerseys A few extra (11 ll .
bDugf": a chficebllggdofi sprii::%%ar:ofi.‘liznhehl;g
one we popu or use a reasona e rices
DRODT & BERNS, Monroe, Ich.

 

 

SHORTHORN BREEDERS ENJO
OUTING.

THE Shorthorn breeders of Eaton

county recently held a picnic and
tour. Mr. Mockey, of the M. A. C.,
was present and had charge of a judg-
ing contest and spoke during the noon
hour.

They visited the herd of L. P. Otto,
where Scotch cattle are kept and bred.
The Grisenhafer herd near Dimondale
is a herd of beef cattle with the dams
carrying udders which contain more
than enough milk for their calves. The
Zimmerman herd, also of Dimondaie,
is one of the good milking herds. The
herd bull is a. son of Prince Albert 4th
of Grenta Farm in Illinois. As a calf
he won his class at, the Illinois State
Fair.

Eaton county breeders are planning
a large showing of cattle at their local
fairs this fall, which will include ex-
hibits of fat steers. The Junior Short-
liorn Club is sending an exhibit of
their stock to the State Fair. The as-
sociation of the county may hold a
sale as' soon as business conditions
show some improvement—D. H. S.

 

MICHIGAN FARMERS PROVIDING
EQUIPMENT.

HE question has frequently bet

asked as to how many automo-
biles, tractors, trucks, lighting plants,
etc, are used on the farms of the
state? The inquiries are quite defi-
nitely answered in the figures furnish-
ed by the bureau of census, just pub-
lished. This authority gives the num-
ber of automobiles on the farms of
Michigan as 82,347; the number of
tractors as 5,884; number of trucks as
4,886; the number of telephones as
97,874; the number of homes having
water piped into the house as 29,729,
and the number of homes in which
there are either electric or gas light-
ing plants as 15,695. These figures
represent the status of these several
lines of equipment on January 1,1920.
Since then the number of nearly all
has been added to materially. It would
appear, therefore, that the farmers of
Michigan are taking advantage of mod-
ern conveniences to a degree beyond
the belief of the average person.

THE BUSINESS FARMER NEEDS A
TYPEWRITER.

I HAVE used a typewriter on my

farm for several years and certainly
would dislike very much to handle the
correspondence end of my farming
business without one. The machine is
indispensable to any farmer who has
much writing to do, such as the prep-
aration of pedigrees of pure—bred live
stock advertisements for disposal of
farm products, filling orders, and in
fact, doing any kind of writing on the
farm where the typewriter can be
used.

The machine insures neatness and
correctness and gives a business-like
appearance to all communications. A
pen-written letter is often difficult to
read and is not infrequently misun-
derstood, resulting in a mistake, while
a. letter written with a typewriter is
easily and quickly read by anyone
without the slightest misunderstand-
ing of any of the statements made.
Then, too, writing with the machine
is easily and quickly done, while writ-
ing with the pen or pencil is tiresome
and slow. Carbon paper enables me
to retain a copy of all my correspond-
ence, thus if an original is lost or any
trouble arises, I have a carbon, copy
to refer to. _

Some who have never had any ex-
perience in using a. typewriter may

 
 

learn how
to operate the machine. but that is
not the case. Anyone can soon learn
to use it. AbOut it 'there is certainly
nothing mysterious. When one is be-
ginning _to learn to use it it may be a
little clumSy to handle, but after the
first few trials he will be surprised to
find how simple it is to write with it.
A boy or girl member of the family
can learn to use it as well as an older
person.

There are several makes of type—
writers on the market and there are
rebuilt machines as well as the new
ones. I purchased my machine new
at a. cost of‘ $90 and have at no time
considered the investment 3. poor one.
I have used my machine for about five
years and it is now practically as good
as new. My only expense thus far to
keep it in good condition has been for
a mainspring and ribbons. I find that
ribbons dry out faster than I wear
them out, but a good ribbon costs but
little and can be used for a long time.
I have given my machine good care.
keeping it clean and well oiled, and
intend to get a good deal more service
out of it..

Then one should have some letter-
heads and envelopes neatly printed.
The letterhead should give the name
of the farm, the name of the owner,
and breed or breeds of live stock and
crop production ‘sociated with the
farm. A nicely arranged letterhead
with a good typewritten business com-
munication following it, always re«
ceives more consideration at the
hands of the business world than the
one poorly written in longhand.——W.
H. UNDERWOOD.

 

IMPROVING ROSEN RYE.

OSEN rye, which has already plac-

ed Michigan in the lead of the en-
tire country in the production of this
grain, is being improved still further
through “head selection” of seed. On
one farm, that of George Starr, in
Jackson county, the yield from head
selected rye was forty-six bushels per
acre as compared with thirty bushels
from the ordinary certified variety.

Probably the most extensive work
in head selection during the coming
year will be done on South Manitou
Island, in Lake Michigan, ten miles 011
the Leelanau shore, where M. A. C.,
the Michigan Crop Improvement As-
sociation and the Michigan State Farm
Bureau are cooperating with the local
farmers in the production of improved
strains of Rosen. Each one of the doz-
en farmers on the island has agreed
to raise no other variety of rye and
to rogue out all volunteer rye that may
appear. Because the island is so far
from the mainland there is no danger
of cross pollenization. Altogether one
hundred acres of rye is being grown
there.

At other points in the state Rosen
is being steadily improved and larger
yields are resulting. L. H. Sedgwick,
of Parma, and Roland Merrill, of Ben:
ton Harbor, former president of the
State Farm Bureau, are both accom-

‘plishing much, while Professor F. A.

Spragg, plant breeder at M. A. 0., who
first introduced Rosen in Michigan, is
continuing his efforts at improvement.

Prof. J. F. Cox and A. L. Bibbins, of
the farm crops department at M. A. C.
have just completed an inspection trip
of South Manitou Island and two other
members of the department, Howard
Rather and J. R. Duncan, are plan-
ning another journey to select seed.
Secretary Bibbins, of the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association, has
announced that all farmers who desire
their rye certified next year must
plant from head selected seed. ,

   

  
    

 

 

   
   
 
 
   
 
   
  

 
    


 

 

  

 

  
 

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Moreland winced perceptibly. The
big, crooked fingencame away from
the hair-fine trigger. He had never
expected to hear the man whom he
knew as John K. Carlyle say that
which he had just said. It had never
entered his mind that John K. Carlyle
could be sorry.

Then the great and bitter desire for
revenge rushed into his. brain again,
and his head went down, and his keen
right eye looked along the sights and
to the kneeling man’s breast. His trig-
ger finger began slowly to crook——

Until this instant Elizabeth Little
ford had been as one frozen, had been
as a figure carved in stone. Now she
sprang to her feet and went between
Moreland and his ancient enemy.

“Put ’at gun down—wait ontel I tell
ye, John Moreland, what I’ve got to
tell ye.” she cried tensely, lapsing into
the old dialect in her excitement.
While Moreland stared, she went on:

“It wasn’t Newton Wheatley ’at put
up the money to start yore coal mine
a-goin’: it was this man here! And
the Alexander Crayfield Coal Corp’ra-
tion——which has been a-payin’ you two
prices fo’ yore coal—~that was this
man here! Mr. Hayes was his—his
ally through it all. And he’s sorry,
John Moreland, this man is-so sorry
that he wants to die; and cain’t ye see
it, John Moreland ?”

She caught her breath again and
continued tearfully: “Oh, he don’t de-
sarve to be killeo‘r; and of he did—
you’re too good a man to kill him.
He’s done paid—you don’t know, like
I do, how he's paid. You mustn’t fo’-
get that. And you mustn’t fo’get Bill
Dale, his son. Put down that gun,
John Moreland! Yore people is saved,
as David wanted ’em saved. Now
d—d-don’t go and s-s-spoil it all, fo’
God's sake!”

The big mountaineer’s eyes were
wide with amazement, for Elizabeth
Littleford’s every word had borne the
ring of truth. He was too dazed to
understand her allusion to Bill Dale
as his old enemy’s son. The rifle came
back from across the palings, and its
steel-shod butt found a place in the
snow beside John Moreland’s foot.

Slowly John K. Dale arose and drew
close to him, and then from John K.
Dale’s soul came pouring the pent—up
anguish of remorse that had seared it
through the years. The torrent of
words flowed on, while the mountain-
eer stood rigidly regarding him with
a strange light in his piercing eyes.

“I can’t ask you to forgive me,” Dale
finished brokenly. “I don’t expectior—
giveness; my crime was too great. But
can’t you, for the sake of the boy, let
me keep on trying to atone for my
sin?” .

John Moreland looked long and
searchingly into the face of the plead--
ing man before him. The bitter strug-
gle that was going on within him was
mirrored on his rugged countenance.
Bl'ut gradually the bitterness faded; his
huge frame trembled; he put a hand
slowly down on the other’s shoulder.

“The boy,” he muttered—“Bill Dale:
is he yore boy? Yore name was Car-
lyle then—”

“My boy, yes—my boy, Bill Dale.
Carlyle is an old family name. My
father was at the head of a big coal
concern; he sent me down here incog-
nito to get a line on the More-
vein. Maybe he thought the price
would be high if it were known that
he wonted it; I don’t know.”

r Ben Littleford’s daughter was
watching closely, hoping against hope,
praying to heaven with'all her heart;
and then she saw John K. Dale put his
right hand up to John Moreland’s
hand, take it and press it——a-nd she
saw John Moreland, his bearded mouth
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around his neck; she drew his great
brown head down and kissed him on
the cheek. And John Moreland let his
rifle fall unnoticed to the snow, put
his arms around her shoulders as
though she were his own daughter,
bow-ed his head and sobbed out a few
words that she did not understand.
(Concluded next week).

He gets paid for it, the man who
brings the world to your door, but a
good word acknowledging service nev-

.er goes amiss. Get to know your mail

carrier by his first name.

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Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initials
only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the
service becomes private practice and $1 must be enclosed.

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Indigestion—I would like to know
what can be done fo'r my thin horse.
He 'urinates too often when worked,
water is thick, and yellow in color.
R. H. S., Whittemore, ’Mich.—Give him
thirty grains of ground nux vomica
and one dram of acetate of potash in
feed three times a day. Change his
feed.

Barrenness.~—I would like to know
What to give one of my cows to bring
on heat—«G. W. L., Jasper, Mich.—
Yohimbine hydrochloride is the best
known remedy. Give one and one-half
grain doses in feed or water two or
“tree times a day. If your druggist
cannot supply you with Yohimbine
hydrochloride, give one dram ground
nux vomica and one dram of ground
capsicum in feed twice a day.

Sore Eye—«Have a horse nine years
old that is troubled with sore eye, the
lids swell, water drips, and our appli‘
cations of salt and water fails to effect
a cure. W. L., Cassopolis, Mich—«Dis-
solve forty grains of borate of
soda, also forty grains of boric acid
in a quarter of a pint of clean water,
shake, drop some into eye twice a day
and the eye will soon get well.

Heaves.—Have a horse fifteen years
old that has been troubled with heaves
for the past twelve months, but is
sound every other way. Can this ail-
ment be cured, or can the horse be
medicated and made fit for doing ordi-
nary work? N. A. H., Hopkins, Mich.
——Feed him no clover or dusty, musty,
bulky, badly-cured dry fodder. Feed
grain and grass, or grain and roots.
Give three drams of Fowler’s solution
in feed or water three times a day.
You can safely try any one of the
heave or broken—wind remedies which
are regularly advertised in this paper.
Follow above advice and he will be
useful for moderate work.

Bovine Tuberculosis—I wish you
would tell me the symptoms of tuber-
culosis in cattle. C. W. W., Sand Lake,
Mich—Unless cattle suffer from an
advanced case of tuberculosis, even a
qualified veterinarian from a physical
examination is unable to tell. How-
ever, the tuberculin test is fairly re-
liable in making a diagnosis. Com-
municate with either your local veter-
inarian, or state veterinarian and ask
for literature pertaining to tuberculo‘
sis in cattle.

Bloody Milk—Kindly furnish rem~
edy for bloody milk in cows. H. 8.,
Spring Lake, Mich—The common
causes are rough milking, injury of
some kind, sudden increase of rich
feed, also rupture of small blood ves-
sel. Remove the cause, milk'with care,
if stabled, be sure to bed her well. Ap-
ply equal parts of extract of witch-
hazel and water to bruised quarter
twice a day.

Leaky Teats.—I have two Jersey
cows seven years old which leak milk.
Both cows are in fine health, but I dis-
like to have them leak milk. H. F.
Z., St. Clair, Mich.—-Milk them clean,
dry end of teat, apply liquid colodion,
this may do the work, if not use teat
plugs. Why don't you milk them three
times daily?

Nasal Catarrh.~—-I have a cat eleven
months old that discharges mucus
from both nostrils, also troubled with
cough. H. V., Riverdale, Mich—Give
cat five-grain doses of baking soda in
feed or water three times a day. Dip
lower part of head in one part perox-
ide of hydrogen and four parts water.
This will clear the.nostrils of mucus.
Do this as often as you believe it to be
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HOGS

all ages sired by Callaway Edd 1918 world’s grand champ. boar and C. C.
Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand champion also Wonder Big Type and Giant

Buster.

CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,

Write your wants, all stock shipped on approval.

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' Choice lVIarcli boars; new blood
CheSter Whltes for old customers; ('Iiolorn ini-
muned; price right. I“. W. Alexander, Vassar, Mich.

‘ A few choice sprin 'ilts
CheSter Whltes and boarsleft. gr,
GEORGE D. SPRINGER, R. 6, Grand Rapids. Mich.

Breakwater Duroc Jerseys

SPRING BOARS sired by Panama Special 55th,
Big Bone Giant Sensation and rookwater
Demonstrator. The best of the breed, Order
one by mail or come to the farm. You will like
them when you see them. Prices reasonable.

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

 

 

BROOKWATER FARM,
H. W

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DUROC JERSEYS: firgi‘éifiwfii’

Bale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS. ~ Hastings, Mich

Duroc Jerseys

Gllts bred for fall farrow at reasonable prices.
RUSH BROS, Oakwood Farm. Romeo, Mich.

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Spring pigs by Walt’s
rion, First . Yearling
Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapjds and Saginaw 1919

Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

Woodlawn Farm Duroc hogs are from select breed-
ing stock. well mated for size. t pa and color.
.Herd boars, sows and pig}; will shi C. .D. and furn-
ish Reg. certificate. . E. Bart. ey. Alma. Mich.

PEACH HILL FARM

Offers filta sired by or bred to

Peach Hil Orion King 152489

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

Herd Boars

Wolverine Pathfinder by Pathfinder

Wolverine Sensation by (lrcat ()rion Sensation.
Wolverine Renown Wonder by Great Wonder IAm
Fall boar and gilts by thc‘Sensation boar.

100 spring pigs from these boars.

Herd Sows breeding

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

 

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Duroc Jerseys )igs. Few fall gilts. p
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AUCTIONSALE
BERKSHIRES

At Michigan State Fair Grounds

Tuesday, September 6th
Immediately following the Berkshire judging,
consisting of boars ready for service, bred sows
and open gilts. Terms cash or bankable note.

Col. L. W. Lovcwell. Auctioneer.
Michigan Berkshire Association. J. W. Clapp.
Sec’y, 516 Murphy Bldg, DetrOit. Mich.

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DU R O C _S O W S 3’“? 30,123,”:
Orion King No. 1692)!) Son of the $10.000 boar owned

by Longview Farm. Lo Sumit. M0. also young boars
ready for service out of good sows. Apply
Bai ey, Mich,

 

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Have some choice spring boars sired by Great
Duroc King Orion COLNO. 189045, double immune.
priced reasonable. HARRY FOWLER. Sturgis,Mich.

 

Michigan Orion Sensation (a
SQWS Bred to great son of Great Orion’e Sen-
sation) and M u-higana Demonstrator (one of largest
and best boars in Michigan) for sale at conversative
Grit-es. Also growthy strong boars and gilts.
Michigana Farm. Pavilion Mich., Kalamazoo. Co.

 

O I. C’s. Last fall gilts bred to furrow in Aug. boars
PE°for service. also springNPlgs for sale. MILO H.

TERSON, Ionla. R.2. ich. Elmhurst Farm.

 

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, August 30.
Wheat.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.26; Sep-
tember $1.27; No. 2 mixed $1.22; No.
2 white $1.23.

Chicago—No. 2 red $1.241/2; No. 2
hard $1.231/26i)1.24; September $1.191/2.

Toledo—«Cash No. 2 red $1.29; Sep-
tember $1.27%; December $1.311/2.

Corn.

Deti'oit.~—Cash No. 2 yellow 61%0;
Np. 3 yellow 601/20; No. 4 571/30.

Chicago.——No. 2 mixed 541/261354340;
N0. 2 yellow 541/260550.

Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 agitate 380; No.
3 white 351/20; No. 4 30 c. .

Chicago.#No. 2 white 35@36%c;
No. 3 white 33@35c.

‘Beans.

Detroit—Immediate
shipment $4.50 per cwt. -

Chicago.#—Market. is without spec1al
change. Hand—picked Michigan beans
choice to fancy _$4.6061)4.75; red kid-
ney beans $9699.25.

New York; »The market is steady,
with prices slightly higher. Chorce
pea $5.606u5.75; do medium at $52561)
5.50; kidney $12.

Rye.

Detroit.—~(.‘ash No. 2 rye $1.

(lhiea.go.— No. 2, 9560951/40.

’l‘oledo.~—-Cash $1.

Seeds.

Detroit? l‘rime. red clover, cash and

October $12.25; alsike $10.25; timothy

and prompt

$2.75.
'_l,‘oledo~-rl’rime red clover $12.20;
alsike $10.65; timothy $2.40.
Hay.

DetroitwrNo. 1 timothy at $206021;
standard and light; mixed at 331961120;
No. 2 timothy $186019; No. 1 clover
mixed $150016; No. 1 clover $146015;
rye straw 3913506014; wheat and oat
straw 35126171250 per ton in carlots at
Detroit.

Feeds.

Detroit—Bran $22; standard mid-
dlings $23; fine middlings $27; crack-
ed eorn $29; coarse cornmeal at $27;
chop $23.50 per ton in 100-lb sacks.

WHEAT

The movement of wheat to market
in the. northwest has increased rapid-
ly. Receipts at Minneapolis and Du-
luth for the week were 4,272 cars as
compared with 2,738 cars in the pre—
ceding week and 2,298 cars a year ago.
Until the, last few days mills have
been taking new spring wheat at big
premiums over future deliveries but
thisalemand apparently has been sat-
isfied for the premiums for cash wheat
have been fading away. The yield of
spring wheat is barely enough to sup-

ply our own requirements, leaving
none for export. Since none can be
obtained from Manitoba without pay»

ing the duty, spring wheat is expected
to sell at a big premium over other
grades throughout the crop year. Sales
for export remain large and it is ex—
pected that the credits hill just passed
will increase the demand before long.
The demand for wheat, from the Unit:—
ted States both from domestic and
export; consumers, is remarkable, oth-
erwise the extremely heavy movement
from farms since July 1 could not
have occurred without, a big reduction
in prices, whereas they have actually
remained fairly steady.

CORN

Extremely heavy sales for export
have been the feature 01' the corn mar-
ket recently. Sales have averaged
500,000 to 1,000,000 bushels per day for
the past two weeks. Demand from in-
dustries also is brisk. In spite of the
heavy sales of old grain to terminal
markets by the country, the offerings
have been readily absorbed. Crop re-
ports are less favorable than a few
weeks ago with high temperatures in
parts of the southwest and severe dam-
age from the earworm in Illinois and

Indiana.
OATS

Receipts of oats at primary markets
fell off sharply during the past week.
Demand is less brisk than for corn
and wheat. But little has been sold
for export thus far although clear-

    

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ances are much larger than a, year

ago. The visible supply is the largest
on record at 52,993,000 bushels.

SEEDS

The recent rains have materially im~
proved the outlook for last spring’s
planting of clover and probable seed
requirements have been modified ac
cordinglynr This factor was partly re-
sponsible for the decline in prices dur-
ing the past week. There is a possi-
bility also that producers will sell
freely as soon as the crop is harvested
just as the small grain producers have

done.
FEEDS

Demand for all kinds of feedstuffs
remains extremely light and prices are
weak, especially upon bran. Stocks in
dealers’ hands are not large but they
appear to be ample. In spite of the
small cotton crop, cottonseed meal for
October and November shipment is
quoted $4@5 below the present mar-

ket.
HAY

Hay prices, especially upon timothy,
are lower at middlewestern markets as

a result of heavy receipts. Eastern
and southern markets are dull and

weak also. Increased returns for the
producer are not probable in the im-
mediate future unless freight rates are

reduced.
WOOL

The behavior of the”wool market for
the last two or three months shows
that stability is gradually returning to
the trade. Imports have been checked
decidedly by the tariff and the rate of
wool consumption is fully equal to the
average so that a start is being made
toward using up the surplus which has
accumulated. The mills are purchas-
ing rather steadily and the manufac-
turing situation in this country ap-
pears highly satisfactory. No other in-

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dustry has increased employment
since the depression started, as much
as wool manufacturing.

Boston quotations are as follows:
Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces, delaine
unwashed 3360350; fine unwashed 28@
29c; one-half blood combing 29@3OC;
three-eighths blood combing 25@26c.

Michigan and New York fleeces, de-
laine unwashed 31@33c; fine unwash-
ed 26@27c; one-half blood unwashed
28@290; thre-e-eighths blood unwash-
ed 25@260; one-quarter blood unwash-

ed 22@24c.
BUTTER

Butter prices again declined during
the early part of last week with trade
the dullest ever known at this season
of the year. Stocks in storage in-
creased rather rapidly but a number
of jobbers and retailers took advan-
tage of the low prices and began to
accumulate sup lies and brought about
a sharp uptu in the market. The
movement of values was unusually
rapid and prices on various grades are
rather irregular. Reports from cream-
eries show a big increase in produc—
tion over the same week of 1920 and
market receipts also were consider-
ably above those of last year. Prices
for 92-score fresh butter as reported
by the bureau of markets were as fol-
lows: Chicago 390; New York 411/20.
In Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells
at 351/2@361/2c.

POULTRY AND EGGS

Receipts of eggs at the leading cit-
ies are liberal. and continue to show
an increase over the same period last
year. Poultry prices have remained
relatively high, notwithstanding the
depression in other kinds of meat. A
decline in poultry values would not be
surprising in another month or two
when market supply usually shows a
decided increase. ‘

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Wednesday,

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 345. Market steady.

Best heavy steers .. . . .$ 7.00@ 8.00
Best. handy wt bu steers 7.7561) 8.50
Mixed steers and heifers 5.7561) 6.25
llandy light butchers. . .. 5.25617 5.75
Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 4.2561) 5.00
Best, cows . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0061). 5.25
Butcher cows 4.0061) 4.50
Common cows .......... 2.50611 3.00
(‘anners ......... . . . . . . . . 1.50@ 2.50
Best; light weight bulls. . 4.7561) 5.50

Bologna bulls . . . . . ...... 4.2561) 4.50
Stock bulls ............. 3.50611 4.50
Feeders ................. 5.0061) 6.00
stockers ............. . . . 3.0061] 5.00
Milkers and springers. . . .$ 3561) 80

Veal Calves.
Receipts 206. Market strong.

Best .................... 14.00
Others ................. 1000601200

Hogs.

Receipts 822. Pigs steady; others

500 lower.

Mixed hogs .. ..... 9.50
lleavy hogs ........ 8.50
Roughs 6.50
Pigs .................. 9.25

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 1,557. Market very dull.
Best lambs ..........$ 8.00@ 8.25

Fair lambs ........ . 6.5064) 7.50
Calls and common . 1.00@ 1.50
Light to common ....... 4.50617 5.50

Fair to good sheep . . . . . .

CHICAGO

Hogs.

Estimated receipts today are 16,000;
holdover 8,712. Market 25@5‘00 lower.
Bulk of sales $6.75@9.40; tops $9.65;
heavy 250 lbs up medium, good a (1
choice $775609; ‘medium 200 to 250 1 8
medium, good and choice $8.75@-9.60;
light 150 to 200 lbs common, medium,
good and choice $9@9.60;light lights
130 to 150 lbs common, medium, gdod
and choice $8.50@9.25; heavy packing
sows 250 lbs up smooth $6.75@7.25;
packing sows 200 lbs up rough $650617
6.90; pigs 130 lbs down medium,‘good,
and choice $7.55@8.75.

3.00@ 3.50

August 31.

Cattle.

Estimated receipts today are 11,000.
Market steady to weak. Beef steers,
medium and heavy weight 1100 lbs up
choice and prime $9.50@10.50; do me-
dium and good $6.506D950; do common
$5.25@6.50; light weight 1100 lbs down
good and choice $8.406fl10.50; do com-
mon and medium $5@8.40; butcher
cattle heifers common, medium, good
and choice $4.256h875; cows, common,
medium, good and choice $3.75@7.15;
bulls bologna and beef at. $3.256i)6.50;
eanners and cutters cows and heifers
$2.506D3.75; do canner steers $2.756!)
3.50; veal calves light and handy
weight medium, good and choice at
$10.556i11255; feeder steers common,
medium, good and choice $5.25@7.50;
stocker steers common, medium, good
and choice $4.5061)6.75; stocker cows
and heifers common, medium, good
and choice $3@5.

Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 27,000.
Lambs steady to 250 lower; sheep are
dull. Lambs 84 lbs down medium, good
and choice and prime 3367560875; do
culls and common at $4@6.75; spring
lambs medium, good, choice and prime
$4.50(2i)6.75; ewes medium, good and
choice $2.50@4.50; ewes cull and com-
mon $1.25@2.50; breeding ewes full
mouths to yearlings $3@6; yearling
wethers medium, good and choice at

$5.50@7.
BUFFALO

Cattle.

Receipts 1,000. Market is steady.
Shippingsteers $8@10.25; butchers at
$8609.50; yearlings $9@10.25; heifers
$56138; cows $150606; bulls $3.25@6;
stockers and feeders $5@6; fresh cows
and springers $4.50@13.50. Calves.—
Receipts 350; 300 higher at $14.25.

Hogs.

Receipts 3,500. Market 10@200 low-
er. Heavy $106DlO.25; mixed $105061)
10.65; yorkers $10@10.65; light york-
ers $10@10.25; pigs $9.50@10; roughs
$6.75@7; stags $4@5.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,600. Lambs $5@9;
lings $4.50@7; wethers $56,175.50;
$_1@4; mixed sheep $4.50@5.

year-
ewes

Chicago—Eggs fresh firsts 29@310;l
ordinary firsts 24@27c. Poultry broilo
ers 24c; hens general run 250; roost-
ers 15c; ducks 24c; geese 200.

Detroit—Eggs fresh candied 330.
Live poultry, spring chickens 25@26c;
hens 250; light hens 1869200; roost-
ers 14@15c; geese 15c; ducks 2062220;
turkeys 300. .

POTATOES

Potato prices declined during the
past week as a result of the increased
shipments. New Jersey sacked Irish
Cobblers are quoted in eastern cond
suming markets at $3@3.65 per 100 lbs
and Giants at $2.35@3. Nebraska and
Minnesota Early Ohios are quoted at
$2.25@2.75 per 100 lbs sacked in St.
Louis and Chicago. Prices at Minned

sota shipping points are $2.10@2.20 f.

o. b. Rains have helped late crop.

APPLES

The commercial barreled crop of a1»
ples is estimated at only 8,661,000 bar<
rels compared with 28,886,000 barrels
last year and a five-year average of
18,686,000 barrels. The commercial
boxed apple crop, however, is the larg-
est of recent years and is estimated at
37,998,000 boxes, or 12,666,000 barrels
compared with 9,430,000 barrels last
year and a five-year average of 8,988;

000 barrels.
BEANS

Trade is quiet. Buyers are not clam-
oring for stock at the advanced prices.
Marrow and pea are in greatest de-
mand and sellers hold to outside pric-
es. Kidney beans are selling only in
a limited way. The Michigan crop Will
average about fifty per cent.

POTATO EXPOSITION.

 

The Wisconsin Potato Exposition is '

to be held this yearat Milwaukee dure

ing the week of November 28 to De- .

cember 3.

COMlNG LIVE STOCK SALES.
Berkshires—September 6, Auction
Sale of the Michigan Berkshire AS-
sociation at State Fair Grounds.
Aberdeen-Angus.——~September 23, East-
ern Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Asso—
ciation Sale, Eastern States Exposi-
tion, Springfield, Mass. F. W. Burn-
ham, Greenfield, Mass, Secretary.
Aberdeen-Angus.-—October 12, Indiana.
Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Associa-
tion Sale, Indianapolis, Ind. Prof. C.
F. Gobble, Lafayette, Indiana,
Guernseys.——October 19, Michigan
State Sale, Lansing, Mich. F. E.
Fox, Waukesha, Wis, Sales Man-
ager.
Holsteins-—October 21, Howell Sales
Co., Eighth Annual Sale at Howell,
Mich. Wm. Griflin, Secretary.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

 

(Continued from page 198).
Standard Oil Company and certain
British interests have loaned Russia
$40,000,000.—()ver six hundred Michi-
gan hens start egg—laying contest at
State Fair—Red Arrow men, members
of the 32nd division, hold reunion in
Detroit—Lloyd George refuses further
concession to Irish, but leaves the way
open to parley.

Monday, August 29.

THE Fordney tariff bill is placed on

table in the senate—Boat races
for gold cup and international cham-
pionship are being held in Detroit this
week—British, French and Italian
governments send reinforcements into
upper Silesia—Japan’s reply to Pres-
ident Harding’s invitation to partici-
pate in the disarmament conference
has been received at Washington.—
Six men charged with the conspiracy
to assassinate President Obregon, of
Mexico, have been arrested—Francis-
co Villa fled from his ranch in Mexico
because of an uprising among his fol-
lowers.

 

The sharp slump in hog values which

I carried prices $2.50 below the high

point of the year was finally checked
by a diminishing supply and a renewal
of eastern shipping orders. Average
cost at Chicago again dropped below
$8 and closely approached the low day
of the year late in May.

 

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HE agricultural prospects in for-
eign countries, when viewed inthe
light of the extended drought, which
has been prevailing throughout the

' greater part of Europe, Russia and In-

dia, are expected to show rather un-
favorable results at the end of the cur-
rent harvest. The present unfavorable
situation is not the result of decreased
acreages, but rather the stunted
growth‘of the crops caused by a gen-
erally mild and dry winter in the
Northern Hemisphere followed by the
extended drought mentioned above.
However, it is doubtful if the drought
will have a very serious effect upon
the world’s wheat supply, as generally
speaking, the winter-sown wheat con-
trived to get a firm hold on the soil
before the drought came, and, with the
exception of some shortness in the
straw, the winter wheat crop, on the
whole, has not been very seriously af-
fected. .

In Canada the crops are progressmg
favorably. Latest reports indicate no
serious damage by rust. The present
situation is reported as satisfactory
while the outlook is regarded as above
the average. Harvesting now is taking
place over the greater part of Europe
and although the drought continues in
practically all northern, western and
central Europe, the outlook for the
winter wheat crop is generally spoken
of in favorable terms, but other crops
are suffering severely.

In Russia the agricultural situation
is in a serious state, and it is now ab-
solutely certain that no grain exports
can be expected from that country.

From India reports from the unirri-
gated areas in the Punjab and Singh
show the crops are suffering from
drought. In other parts of the coun-
try latest advices indicate an improve-
ment in climatic conditions, as the
monsoon has strengthened and is caus—
ing excellent rainfall. In North Africa
the harvesting results have turned out
somewhat better than last year.

In Algeria the yield of wheat was
good, but it is doubtful if there will be
any available for export. In Tunis, on
the whole, cereal crops have been sat-
isfactorily 'harvested. In the Southern
Hemisphere the crops of Argentina
have been sown under generally fav-
orable climatic conditions, and in Aus-
tralia crop prospects continue favor-
able owing to ample moisture in prac—
tically all agricultural districts.

MICHIGAN’S CROPS IMPROVE.

ROP prospects in Michigan have

greatly improved the past week,
according to the following report from
Verne H. Church, agricultural statis-
tician under date of August 27:

All growing crops have been greatly
benefited by recent rains in practically
every partbf the state. The ground
is moist and in good condition for fall
seeding, and the plowing and fitting of
it is being pushed rapidly. Most of the
wheat, rye, oats and barley have been
threshed, and the early movement of
grain to market is practically over.

Corn is denting generally, and cut-
ting has commenced on uplands and
on the lighter soils. Silo-filling has also
started. The crop, on the whole, is
good, but many ears were shortened by
drought and hot weather. On heavy
soils, the crop suffered but little and
promises good yields.

Late potatoes are growing nicely
and show marked improvement since
the rains of the last few weeks. There
are many poor stands because of seed
failing to grow, but there are also
many good stands.

The late plantings of beans have a
fair setting, but the yield will be some-
what below the aVerage. Pulling will
probably be general in about two
weeks.

Sugar beets are doing nicely and
promise a good crop. Cucumbers and
melons are yielding good crops of ex-
cellent quality.

Peaches, grapes, pears, plums and
fall apples are beginning to move free-
ly. The quality is generally good and
all are bringing good prices. As the
season is in advance of normal, the
marketing of these fruits will be con-
cluded earlier than usual, and house-
wives will do well to purchase their
canning stock in the near future. The
crop of each of these fruits is relative-
ly light and will probably be insuffi-
cient to supply the normal demand.
High winds have broken down some
trees, and blown some fruit from the
trees. .

Mammoth clover seed is being har-
vested and threshed, the yields being
only fair. June clover is more promis-
ing. While the straw is short, it is
well headed ' and much 01' it is well
commenced but
at general under two Weeks.

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II. '1‘. BAYNES. Birmingham. Mich,

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OhPANYq 0.“: 8 tall p . Booki orders for spring pigs.
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DUROC JERSEYS

s ring boars that will improve yo ur hogs, of Ofion

herr King. Ool...and Pathfinder breeding. at rea-
sonab 6 prices. Write us your wants. Bred sows and
elite all sold. W. O. TAYLOR. .Milan, Mich.

 

Chester White Swine. Strict]
0- I. C. and Big Typo with Quality. I uni
sold out. of everything but Spring pigs. Have the
finest lot I_ ever bred. Meet me at the State Fair and
otherleadmg fairs of the State. And see a sample
of our huge and

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NEWMAN'S STDCK FARM. R. 4. Marlette,Mloh.

 

   
      

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HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

success. I can help you, I want to place one hog from
' my great. hard in every community where am not already
relented b these fine enrly developers—ready for market. 3%
unth- ui Write for my plan—- More Money from Ho...

6. I. “REMIX, R. F. D. 10‘ Portland. Elohim

 

() I. C's. one yearling boar. last fall gilts bred for
' next. fall furrow; this spring pigs not. akin, big
growthy stock. reg. free. (‘ilz's phone. M mile west
of Depot, U'I‘TU B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.

o I C’s Spccinl prices on spring
° ° ° pigs from prizc Winning

stock. Must be sold to make room. VVEBICR BROS.
Phone R. U. 4118, 10 mile Rd. VV.. Royal ()ak. Mich.

Central Mich. O. l. C.

Swine Breeders Ass’n.

Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines. Every
sale guaranteed by assoc1ation.

DR. H. W. NOBLES,
Sales Mgr. Coral, Mich.
O I C9 Spccinl prices on choice pigs of

' ' S. hiarch and May furrow by C. (1. Big
Callaway. C. J. Thompson, Rockford, 1\ ich,

9 choice boars and spring pigs
0 0 I 0 C s at farmers prices.
CLOVER LEA l" STUCK FARM, Monroc. IVIich

L.T.P.C. $15, $20 & $25

Our top notch'stretchy boar pigs arc wcnned and ready
to ship. They are sired by such boars as Hurts Block
l’rioo Cline's liig liob, Right Kind (Him and Leon-
ard's Big llob. HART, FULCHER AND CLINE,
Address I" ’1‘. Hart. St. Louis, Mich.

Bred for June and

0- II 6- GIL-rs July furrow.

H. W. hiANN. Dunsville, Mich

 

 

 

 

Big Type 1’. 0. some very choice boars double im-
mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth Hows from
Iowa's greatest herds. I‘LJ.Muthcwson,Burr Unk. Mich.

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Big Type Poland China Boers ...,,5’,.‘.,.~j 10,2;
stretchy fcllows. Grundsons of (lertsdulc Timm,
weighing hotter than 300 lbs.. ulso spring: pins. Grand-
Silllhilf Leonard liib Bob. Satisfaction gunruntced.
Call or write. DORUS HUVER, Akron, Michigan

a few choice boars
L ' s ‘ P ‘ C ‘ at farmers prices,
bred gilts all sold. Also a grandson of The Clans-

man and Harrison Big Bob.
ll. 0. SWARTZ, Schoolcraft. Mich

 

3' Type Poland Chimes. A great littcr by Checkers;
lg dam a grund-duuuhtcr of Giant Buster, are for
sziic now. They were furrou'cd Mar. 11. and were
purchased of Jim liloemcndnul, Alton. In. in dam. Do
you want the best, the breed produces? Come over
and sci,- them. Wesley Hile, Ionia, Mich.

 

 

Snows. brcd for spring litters, all sold, Have some
L. chmcc gills bred for Aug. litters, also some Sept.

boars {or sale. Clydc Fisher. 11.3, St. Louis, Mich.

 

RIG TYPE l’.(‘,. hour pigs at
Leonard Farm ucunlnuiime. $2.") from Mich.
(‘humpion hcl‘d _Silll.~'l‘£ll'll(lll guzu‘anti-cd. Call or
writu. E. It. l.l‘.()NA.lil). 11.3, St. Louis, Alich.

 

Big lye? Roland China: 2.2..“’2:'li“‘..g‘.i£f“i.i;d E233
HOVVSHIH El

ts.
G. A. BAleGAitilNiillt. ii. 2. Ntiddlcville. Mich.

 

I ’l‘.l’ (Xi'ow ('llHlCt‘ brml gilis sired by T's i‘lansman
J'Michfs 19le (id Chain. bred toSnmoth Buster l'st
Jr. ycurling 1920 A. A. Il'a-ltlkump, Manchester. Mich.

Nothing for sale at present.
L. T‘ P' C‘ Thanks to my customers.
W. J. IIAGELSIIAVV, Augusta, Mich.

 

 

Reg. l’nluntl (‘hinns 2 mos.
Baby Boats $1 ‘ old. Satisfaction guaran-

teed. photos frcc. Fcrnwood Farm, Ii. 3. l‘Ivarl, Mich.

 

P C suino. largo iype,March 11nd Apr. pigs. Sired
‘ ' by “King“ondcr". for sale. sent, out on
approval. li. W. MILLS, Saline, Mich.

 

' bred gilts now ready for Aug and Sept.
HampShlre furrow: spring and fall boar pigs at a bar-
gain. JOHN \‘V. SNYDER. lid, St, Johns. Mich.

FOR SALE YORKSHIRE GILTS

bred for Sept. farrou‘ing.
“'A'l'l‘lRMAN & WA'l'lGRMAN,

 

Ann Arbor. Mich.

 

' A few spring hours and gllts
HamPShlres (tilts bred for full furrow.
I. R. BA USICRBIAV, It. 1, Three Rivers. Mich.

 

the bacon brced. Young plus for sale
Tal'nWOI'thS, at prices farmers can afford to pay.
LEAVl'l‘T & SONS. Dublin, Mich.

 

Additional Stock Ads. on Page 219

A Good Combination

OFFER No. 302.
Michigan Farmer, one year. . . . . .$1.0Q
Woman’s World, one year. . . . . . . .50
American Women 50

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Total value $200
All for $1.55.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER,
Detroit, Mich.

 

 

    

  
  
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
      
    
   
  
 
 
 
   
   
   
  
  
  
 
  
    
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
   
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
   
 
  
 
     
  
  
  
   
    
 
 
   
    

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