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CURRENT COMMENT
VEG .121 TABLE grow-

S d- ers of America
en "19 had a happy thought
Seeds Of when they passed a
Friendship resolution earnestly

requesting congress
to allocate the congressional free
seeds to the devastated people of
Russia.

Congressional seeds have been look—
ed upon by many people as a political
privilege through which congressmen
can show their generosity to the folks
back home. At least there has been
nothing found in connection with this
seed distribution to lead one to be-
lieve that it is for public good.

The seeds are not: sent, out for pur-
poses of testing varieties or for the
gathering of scientific'data but rather
as a reminder that the congressman is
glad he is elected.

Only too often these seeds are left
forgottcn on the manic] shelf or on
the china cabinet while we go to the
corner store to buy seeds in handsome
ten-cont package, or by the quart, for
the garden.

Here is a chance for congress to do
an unselfish act by sending their allot-
ment of seed to the stricken nations.
This may greatly strengthen their
friendship for America. Friendship
and foreign trade often go together
and we need foreign trade.

HE bulk of the

flour w h i c h is
Flour From

, , used in Michigan
M’Ch’gan State Institutions has
VVheat recently been pur-

chased from Kansas
01' other western points. The alleged
reason for this practice is the claim
that it makes better bread. The real
reason probably is that bids have been
secured on a price for delivery at any
of the state institutions as a means to
the end of simplifying the detail of
purchasing this essential foodstuff.
But this practice is likely to be dis-
continued in the future. Some weeks
ago the Michigan Millers’ Association
presented arguments to the State Ad-
ministrative Board for the use of
Michigan flour in state institutions,
and the board gave opportunity for the
making of comparative tests in which
straight flour made from Michigan
wheat made an excellent showing,
both as to quality and economy. 1
To most of the sturdy men and wom-
en of the present generation who were
raised on bread made from straight
Michigan flour the contention that this
Wis; not. and enough: in quality

1

to use in our state institutions will not
make a strong appeal. The flour needs
of these institutions can be supplied
with a good product grown and milled
within easy trucking distance without
detriment to the inmates and to the
advantage of Michigan industry.
Slight changes in the technique of the
bread-making process may be neces-
sary to this end but the process
should be fitted to the material used,

rather than the material ,to the
process.
HE Tax Revision
Commission ap-
The State pointed by the last
Tax

legislature to make
Problem an investigation of
tax laws and condi-
tions in this and other states and sub-
mit its recommendations for the re-
vision of Michigan’s tax laws to the
next legislature has its investigation
under way. It is now seeking the
views 01’ officers who are charged with
the assessment and collection of taxes
in this state on various phases of the
taxation problem, particularly in rela-
tion to the desirable scope, limitations
and administration of the state tax
laws.

This question of taxation is one well
worthy of careful study by every citi—
zen 0f the state, and particularly by
every farmer, since under our present
tax laws the farmers and home own—
ers, whose property is visible and eas-
ily valued, bears the brunt of the tax
burden During the next few weeks a
number of important Michigan farm—
ers’ organizations will hold their an—
nual meetings. These occasions will
afford opportunity for the expression
of the sentiment of their membership
on this important question of the equal
distribution of the burdens of taxa—
tion. The wholesome influence of the
expression of such carefully consider-
cd opinion cannot be doubted. Such
expression last year was responsible
in large measure for the serious con-
sideration of the proposal for a state
income tax. The present expression
of well considered opinion by the farm
ers’ organizations of the state will
have a wholesome influence upon the
recommendations of this commission
and the subsequent enactment of more
just; tax laws in this state.

The expression of a demand for
strict governmental economy would
also be in order. The public has gone
the limit in the approval of expendi-
tures for public improvement. often ac-
companied by the authorization of
bond issues, the payment of which will
burden the next generation as well as
the present. And there is every pros—
pect that payment will have to be
made in high~priced dollars as meas—
ured by the value of commodities and
service through which they are secur-
ed for the minimum of public improve—
ments accomplished with the cheap
dollars secured through war time and
post-war bond issues. Under these
conditions, every public servant should
be held to a strict accounting for the
economic and efficient expenditure of
public funds.

AS’I‘ week I had a
- ‘ chat with a Wide—
Gettmg awake country boy
aGOOd who lives in Gratiot
Start county. He is now
sixteen years of age
and for the past six years has been
saving his money by depositing it in
a local bank. At the present time his
account will go a long way toward giv-
ing him a special education. Besides
having a substantial fund to his credit
this lad has received much first-hand
information on banking and has be—
come personally acquainted with the
banker, which information and ac-
quaintance are making a good founda-
tion for securing credit later should
he be in need of such. '
This banking experience has not

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only taught this lad how to save mon-
ey, but it has been without doubt a
real practical influence in his methods
of spending. As he grows into man-
hood he will have an advantage over
the men who failed to get this busi-
ness experience in their youth. Inas-
much as the next generation of farm-
ers will more and more need training
in practical business methods, would
it not be wise for parents to urge and
assist their children to undertake ear~
ly the handling of funds through some
regular financial institution?

NUMBER of ar-
guments h a v e
been put forth to in-

Why a!

Bun A330" duce f a r In e 1' s and
elation dairymen to join bull

associations Some of
these arguments have been sound,
while others are perhaps to be ques-
tioned. \Ve have just received a list
of the various bull associations of the
country. With this 11st came some
classified data on the character of the
herds owned by the members. This
information tells clearly the one big
reason for the rapid growth of these
organizations in various sections of
the country.

The outstanding reason is that bet-
ter cows are raised and kept on the
farms of the men who belong to these
associations. Here is the evidence:
Back ino1918 there was in the herds
owned by these men one" pure-bred
cow to every 19.4 grade cows; in 1919
the ratio had been reduced to one
pure-bred to every eight grades; in
1920 it was one pure—bred to every 5.2
grades, and this past year the ratio
had narrowed down to a pure-bred for
every 11.8 head of grade animals.
Vi'hatever argument has been used to
induce men to become active members
of these organizations it. is apparent
from this evidence that bull associa-
tions are altogether worth while and
public—spirited farmers cannot go amiss
by encouraging the extension of these
institutions.

AN Y good things

A Road were said at. the

recent convention of
to Pros- the American Farm
perity Bureau Federation at

Atlanta. Georgia. The

'delegates and visitors were deeply im—

pressed by the sameness of, and the
constructive suggestions in the open-
ing address by President Howard of
the federation. He sug 'Yested' practical
lincs of activity along which the or-
ganization could turn its energies dur~
111;,r the coming welve months. Among
the lines mentioned Were the problems
of transportation, of labor, 01' produc-
tion and of marketing. After sketch—
ing the development of the commodity
marketing idea which the. federation
has fostered, Mr. Howard drew a pic-
ture of the economic woes of America
and the world. and then rising to full
stature said:

_ “There is an old law of economics
printed in one of the oldest books
dealing with human relationship but
too much rl‘orgotten in our modern
lore and everyday business. It. is the
Golden Rule of human relations. I de—
clare unto you that the Golden Rule
is just as sound economically, just as
essential morally today as when it was
first enunciated on the mountain top.
If it; could be put into daily practice
for one month by manufacturers, by
railroads, by bankers, by merchants,
by laborers and by farmers, we could
forget all our talk of credits and tar-
iffs and taxes and agrarian blocs and
manufacturers’ blocs and unemploy-
ment and low prices and congealed
credits. There would be no panic im-
minent. Those who are saying that
our civilization is tottering would of
necessity have to readjust their posi-
tions. It; would constitute the surest
and shortest route to permanent pros-
m." . _

 
  

  

NE of the ‘main

Standard- subjects to be dis-
, , cussed at the Michi-
12mg Our gan State Horticul-
Agriculture tural annual meeting

is the standardizing
of the fruit varieties of the state. The
consideration of this subject is a step
in the right direction as standardiza-
tion is one of the great fundamentals
in business success.

Industry would be in chaos if it at-
tempted to produce a variety of mate-
rial in kind, size and condition like
that produced on farms of similar cli«
matic and soil conditions. In fact, it
has been the strict standardization that
has been back of the biggest manufac-
turing successes.

We are realizing the value of stand-
ardization in agriculture and where it
has been tried it has proven success-
ful. In the west, certain sections have
confined themselves to a single variety
of fruit and through the use of pub-
licity have justly made themselves and
the variety known throughout the
world. In our own state, the short ex-
perience with the standardization of
potato varieties has convinced us of
its value.

It is the consideration of such things
as these which show that farming is
at last getting on a business basis and
will use the fundamentals that make
other lines of endeavor successful.

Y 215, I’m ficom Mz'cflzgmz

EVERY year about this time I take

a health trip. 1 go over to Chi.
and let the lake breezes blow through
my whiskers and ectera, and take in
some of these “calf shows” that they
charge about a dollar to get in. I
don’t'take my wife along, so as to be
relieved of all family cares.

But these night calf shows are not
the only live stock exhibits I take a
look in OIL For inst. every morning I
take a constitutional on the nickle
tramway, that costs eight cents now,
to the place where there are more
deaths in a day than any place in the
worldwwthe stock. yards.

I spend all day in the ampitheatre
(you see I like theaters) where they
are holding the greatest calf and COW,
and horse and bull, and pig and sheep
show in the universe.

While I was rambling around there
admiring the beauties of' nature, I
come to another place that was labeled
hay and grain show. It looked like a
nice place, so I went in. I guess I
struck the hay part of the show first,
for a fellow yelled to me right away,
“Hay, there, you from Michigan?”
Probably it was by the shape of my
thumb or something, that he knew that
1 come from some part of the mitten
state. Well, 1 said “You bet!” Then
he said, “I’ll show you something.”

Maybe because he thought I was dry
he first took me over to the rye ex—
hibit. And the air around the Michi-
gan. exhibits looked blue for the blue
ribbons on them, but the folks in the
vicinity were as rosey as they could
be, as they were all from the home
state. Somebody told me we got twen-
ty—five firsts out of thirty, I could not
count; them.

Then he took me to the wheat ex-
hibits where there was a bunch of
blues on Michigan’s Red Rock, and:
over at: the hay exhibit we took the
big timothy prize and a lot of others.
I can’t tell you what else we 1111 won,
but maybe because of the gladness in:
my heart, it seemed that everything
was Michigan, that’s all I could hear.

And talk about health, why, my sol-
ar plexus seemed to stick out about
two feet farther than it ever did be-
fore. I sure did feel peppy, something
like the college kids when they win a
football game In spite of all this boot-
legging they are talkin rig. about, this

was the greatest stimmant 1‘. could 1.1M

  
      
      
         
  

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LOSE to one thousand‘ farmers
C and swine men put in a big day

November 15 at the Iowa Experi-
ment Station, Ames, Iowa, studying
the practical results secured in the
swine-feeding business. The hogs
which had been on experiment all sum-
mer had especially good tales to tell,
tales that can be carried home and put
into farm practice.

The practicability of mineral feed-
ing was the main theme. The results
of a number of different experiments
involving approximately one thousand
pigs were presented. _

Emphasis was placed on a number
of important essentials in the proper
and profitable raising of swine for
pure-bred pen and market. Among
others, the following teachings of the
experiments were emphasized:

The Addition of Minerals to the Ration
of Fattening Pigs on Rape
Was Profitable.

Weanling pigs, weighing approxi-
mately fifty-three pounds on July 1,
were fed in twelve different groups of
ten pigs each on rape pasture, all the
groups receiving shelled corn self-fed
plus a hand~fed supplemental feed mix-
ture, 0.3 pounds per pig daily, evening
feed, said mixture consisting of meat
meal tankage twenty parts, corn oil
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jump to the conclusion that this sim-
ple mixture of limestone and salt is
best under all conditions—any more
than we would conclude that a certain
simple spark plug, having worked
quite satisfactorily in a certain simple
car, is the best for all kinds of cars,
even the most elite. The character of
the basal ration used has much to do
with the setting of the specifications
for the most successful mineral mix-
ture to be used with that ration.

The cheapest gains were made in
the group receiving equal parts of high

ration, although not to the marked de-
gree one might expect.
Much Depends Upon the Basal Ration
.Used as to the Efficiency of
the Minerals.

When mineral mixtures are added
to a ration that is already rich in min-
erals, then naturally, we would not ex-
pect beneficial results from said use.

On the other hand, if the basal ra-
tion is all right in other particulars,

and still lacks minerals, then the ad-

dition of minerals should be much
more likely to give favorable and per-

 

 

 

Salt and Limestone Makes Good Mineral Feeding. The Grinning Pig on the
Left Got None of this Mixture, while the Contented One on the Right .Did.

 

 

 

these, then the addition of extra min-
erals to the ration is attended with
only a slight difference in the results.
However, to play safe, a good many
of our farmers feel, and we agree with
them. that it is advisable to allow the
principal mineral materials, such ma.-
terials as should form the basis of a.
good mineral mixture, such materials

as common salt, a high-grade, high'

calcium, finely ground limestone, or
air-slaked lime, spent bone black, or
finely ground bone meal previously
sterilized, with a little potassium io-
dide. Wood ashes, a farm favorite,
may well be included in the above list.
These materials furnish. the principal
elements that are likely to be lacking
in ordinary farm elements. There are
a good many who prefer to add such
materials as powdered sulphur, Glau-
ber’s salts, copperas, and epsom salts.

There is still some question, how-
ever, in regard to the practical value
of these compounds. We find that
when pigs are allowed free access to
other material in which these are in-
cluded, all in separate boxes, the pigs
will, eat considerable flowers of sul-
phur and even more of Glauber’s salts.
They will also eat some epsom salts,
say a per cent or so, and copperas in
about the same quantity as epsom
salts, but neither of these to the de-

 

 

 

 

Here the Simple Mineral Mixture which was Fed to the Spotted Pig on the
Left Seemed to Give Slightly Better Results than were Received on a

More Complicated Mineral Ration

parts, and linseed oil meal forty parts.
Two groups, to which the others were
compared, received nothing but this
mixture, whereas all the other ten
groups received different mineral mix-
tures, some simple, and others some-
what complex in make-up. All groups
receiving mineral mixtures, and more
particularly the group receiving the
simple limestone-salt mixture, equal
parts by weight, showed favorable re-
sults from the mineral feeding, all of
the mineral-fed groups out-gaining
both Check groups. Every one of the
mineral—fed groups ate more feed than
the highest consuming Check group,
thus indicating that minerals had a
tendency to improve the appetite.
Nine out of the ten groups of the min-
eral~fed groups required a little less
feed for one hundred pounds gain than
the best Check group, thus indicating
that proper mineral feeding tends to
save a little feed, particularly the high
priced supplemental feed.

There seemed to be very little differ-
ence between hand-feeding and self-
feeding when it came to efficiently a1-
lowing the minerals, although the fig—
ures indicate that it took the pigs a
month or two in order to learn that
the minerals were good for them, dur—
ing which time hand-feeding would be
apparently advisable.

The mineral mixtures were allowed
at the rate of approximately three—
fifths of a pound per month.

In this test the simple limestone-.Salt
mineral mixture, consisting of equal
parts by weight of high calcium car-
bonate limestone, finely ground, and
common flake salt, appears to have
given about as satisfactory feeding re-
sults as any of the mineral mixtures

used in this test to date.

We must not. however, at this time,‘

 

as Described in the Text.

The “Rooting” Gilt with Nose to the Ground Did Not Receive Any Minerals

Excepting those Supplied Naturally in the Ration She Ate.

Her Partner

on the Right Received Salt, Limestone, Rawbone Meal, Equal Parts.

 

 

    

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The Vigorous Alfalfa-raised Gilt on the Left is Easily the Better Pig of the

Two—the Other Coming from Sweet Clover Pasture. Both

Received a

Limited Ration of Corn and Meat Meal Tankage and Whole Oats.

calcium limestone and salt, the pigs
making an average daily gain of 1.36
pounds, and requiring 366 pounds of
feed,for one hundred pounds gain,
this costing $2.95.

The group making the next best
showing received a mixture made up
approximately as follows: Salt. thirty—
nine parts, spent bone black (finely
ground bone meal may be used in—
stead) thirty-two pounds, wood ashes
fifteen pounds, limestone thirteen
pounds, with which was mixed two-
fifths of a pound of potassium iodide.
It is recommended, however, that the
potassium iodide allowance should not
be this high in practice, an ounce per
one hundred pounds of the other mix—
ture being the amount advised. This
group gained 1.33 pounds daily, and
required 376 pounds of feed per 100
pounds of gain, this costing $3.06.

' Where minerals were not fed, the
cost of’gains averaged $3.35, and the
average daily gain was 1.12 pounds,
-~with a feed requirement of 415 pounds
per 100 pounds gain

It will thus be seen- that the ten-

dency of minerals was to help out the

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haps outstanding results. Even then,
much depends on the kind of pigs
used and the length of the feeding pe—
riod. If the experiment is of short
duration, it is likely that the pigs may
have enough reserve of minerals in
their bodies to tide them over, and
hence the addition of minerals would
not show up unless the feeding period
was over a long period. On the aver-
age farm, where the pigs are taken
through month after month, and year
after year, there is a much better op-
portunity for mineral—feeding to show
up favorably than in short~time experi-
ments, hence the reason why, in our
Ames’ work, we are running some ex-
periments over a long period of time.

Our experiences have been that if
one has a basal ration consisting of
ordinary grains, and which is supple
mented by such high—class, good-pro-
tein, good-mineral feeds as milk—
whole, butter, skim, or some of the
by-products, such as condensed but-
termilk, or dried buttermilk—or alfal-
fa, or red clover, or alsike clover, or
tankage, or fish meal, or a happy com-
bination of all of these, or any of

gree that; they consume sulphur and
Glauher’s salts.

If one wishes to add sulphur, we
would suggest approximately ten
pounds in addition to 100 pounds 013
the standard materials mentioned
above, with perhaps about six pounds
of Glauher’s salts. five or less of epsom
salts, or two or less of copperas.

Developing Gilts Successfully.

It was demonstrated that the devel- ‘

oping of young, weanling sow pigs into"
breeding gills could be very well done
on our standard pastures when only
three feeds were used; namely, shell-
ed corn, whole oats and tankage. The
best, results were secured in 140 days
of developmental feeding on alfalfa;
pasture, with red clover, alsike clover,
and rape giving results quite similar.
Bluegrass, in the best, season, was also
a good pasture because of the mois-
ture conditions, whereas annual sweet

clover was the poorest of all the pas- ,

tures in the test.

These gilts at seven months of age,
on alfalfa, averaged. practically 190
pounds; on red or alsike clover or
rape approximately the same, but just
a shade less. On bluegrass they aver-
aged 181 pounds, and on sweet clover

179 pounds. The feed required for 100'

pounds gain ranged from 378 ponds
to 490 pounds. The group that requir-
ed 378 pounds of feed ate as follows:
\Vhole oats 204 pounds; shelled com
145 pounds; meat. meal tankage twen-
ty—nine pounds.

The ration as fed to these gilts is a.‘
practical one, and consisted of practi-
cally three pounds of mixedshelled
corn to 100 pounds live weight of the
gilt daily, plus .3 pound of meat meal
tankage per head once daily allowed
dry, in addition to whole oats self-fed.

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SOME LOWER FREIGHT RATES.

HE effective appeal made by the

farm organization \Vashington rep-
resentatives to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission for lower freight
rates on farm products, has resulted
in the issuing of a positive order by
the commission requiring railroads to
put into effect on or before December
27, 1921, an approximately sixteen per
cent decrease in hay and grain rates.
The commission also announced its
decision requiring the roads to fix the
rates for coarse grain, such as corn at
ten per cent less than the rates on
wheat. The commission has disregard
ed the agreement by the railroad ex—
ecutives to effect a voluntary reduc-
tion of ten per cent in freight rates on
agricultural products.

T. B. ERADICATION WORK.

HE summary of tuberculosis eradi-

cation work of the I'nited States
Bureau of Animal Industry in cooper-
ation with the states, shows that Ohio
has 503 accredited herds with 9,613
cows; Michigan 227 herds with >1. 984
cows; Pennsylvania 743 herds t'ith 12,-
325 cows. Michigan, however, is rap-
idly pushing to the front with 6,249
herds and 58,204 cows once tested and
found tuberculosis free; while Ohio
has 1,284 herds and 14,550 cows. and
Pennsylvania 1,067 herds and 14,377
cows once tested and found disease
free.

This tuberculosis eradication work
has developed into a widespread move-
ment for the elimination of bovine tu-
berculosis all over the Ifnited States.
At the present rate it will be only a
few years that the untested herds are
the exceptions. The only hindrance
to the work is the lack of sufficient fed-
eral appropriations. Unless the ap-
propriations are increased the work
must necessarily be contracted. The
friends of the movement are urged to
write their senators and representa-
tives informing them of the urgent
need for larger appropriations that
this work may be carried on without
hindrance.

T0 EXTEND PROVISIONS OF FARM
, LOAN ACT.

 

MONG the bills introduced just

before congress closed its special
session, was one by Representative
Johnson, of Mississippi. “to encourage
the establishment of rural homes
through the settlement ot \Vorld \Yar
veterans upon the land" by means of
government financed irrigation and
drainage projects. Senator McNary
has introduced a similar bill in the
senate. Congressman llaytlen has in-
troduced a bill extending the provis-
ions of the Federal lt‘arm Loan act to
government reclamation projects and
to apply to lands within all govern—
ment reclamation projects. The rail-
road t‘unding bill and soldiers’ bonus
were left over until the next. session.

ASSOCIATION.

R. M. M. McCOOL, head of the

soils department at M. A. C., was
signally honored by being chosen vice-
president of the American Association
of Soil Survey \Vorkers at its second
annual meeting at M. A. C. on Novem-
ber 18-19.

Nearly fifty of the best soils experts
in the. United States and Canada were
present for the two-day session, most
of them being either heads of college
departments or in charge of soil sur-
veys in their respective states.

The theme of the discussions was

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the correlation of soil survey work in
the various states in such a way as to
bring it to a uniform basis under the
supervision of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Dr. McCool
himself had a. place on the program,
taking up the part played by labor-
atory work in soil surveys.

Among the distinguished visitors
Were C. F. Marbut, chief of the bu-
reau of soil survey, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C.; H. Hawkins, of Quebec, in
charge of the cooperative soil survey
between the dominion government of
Canada and the several provinces;
Roy Hansen, professor of soils at Sas-
katchewan; C. B. Clevenger, in soils
work at Winnipeg; Dr. Harcourt, from
Guelph, Ont.; Prof. M. F. Miller, of
the University of Missouri, retiring
president; and W. J. Geib, of Wiscon-
sin. secretary-treasurer.

In connection with the conference,
Mr. Geib described the work as car-
ried on in Wisconsin, where two-thirds
of the state is already classified. The
survey has been going forward for ten
years at a cost of approximately twen-
ty thousand dollars a year, of which
half is paid by the state and the other
half by the federal department. The
state funds are appropriated in the
name of the geological survey to avoid
red tape, but are then turned over to

 

the agricultural division of the univer-
sity. Mr. Geib expressed it as his
opinion that the agricultural college is
the only agency capable of conducting
such a survey, inasmuch as it has the
only workers trained in soil science.

“Eventually I expect every forty-
acre tract in the country to be map-
ped, with classifications of differences
between five and ten-acre areas,” de-
clared Mr. Geib—H.

MILK AND BUTTER TARIFFS
UNEQUAL.

R. W. H. BRONSON, of the New
. England Milk Producers’ Asso-
ciation, pointed out glaring inequali-
ties of the rates carried in the Ford-
ney bill on milk and cream with the
rate on butter. He argued that the
tariff on milk and cream should be
based on the rate on butter. One gal-
lon of four per cent milk would make
about four-tenths of a pound of butter.
At a ten-cent rate this would carry in
regard to its butter-fat value four cents
per gallon, while the rate as given in
the Fordney bill is only one cent a
gallon. The rate asked for on milk is
three and a half cents a gallon.

John R. Morley, of Minnesota, rep-
resenting the cooperative creamery in
dustry, said the importation of Danish
and Canadian butter was detrimental

 

 

Wednesday, November 23.

BLIZZARD in Montana breaks all
records for snow in November for

the past twenty-five years.——The De-
troit United Railway and the Munici-
pal Ownership lines agree to the use
of \Voodward avenue and Fort street
tracks togetherswAt the Peace Confer-
ence, Japan is holding for a ten per
cent larger navy than was proposed
by Secretary of States Hughes.-Roy
Stot'flet, a World \Var veteran, has a
bullet removed from his brain. He at-
tempted suicide in a fit of desponden-
cyniThe Detroit: Health Department
finds eleven retail grocery stores with-
out t'resh eggs, although the prices and
labels indicated they were such.
Thursday, November 24.
NE new centralized state trafl‘ic
department, established May 1,
has already saved the state more than
$21,00ttweln the Peace Conference
(‘hina is demanding freedom from ex-
ploiting by other countries. The Unit-
ed States is backing her up in this de-
mand.—~Over 200,000 turkeys have
been killed in four West, Virginia coun-
ties for Thanksgiving use—French
Premier Briand urges America to keep
an army on the Rhine—A Mrs. Quinn,
of New York, gets a divorce from her
husband because he threw eggs in her
face.
Friday, November 25.
RS. James J. Hill, wife of: the fa-
mous railroad magnate, dies at
St. Paul at the age of seventy—five._
The Michigan State Telephone Com-
pany is negotiating for the Valley
Home Telephone Company operating
in the Saginaw district—Nine lost
their lives in Irish riots at Belfast.—
General Pershing was adopted by the
Sioux Indiair'tribe at the Rosebud res-
ervation in Nebraska.———Henry Ford
and Thomas A. Edison will visit Mus-
cle Sho'als to plan to build peace im-

plements from scrap war material.-—A
measure before the German Reichstag
will make “trade spying” in Germany
“economic high treason.”
Saturday, November 26.

EVEN thousand Russian refugees

have been authorized to enter Bul-
garia. That country now has more
than 25,000 refugees—«VVestern Union
Company announced that money wired
to Germany will be paid in American
money.~~Camp Custer is nearly all dis—
mantled. About 538000.000 worth of
stores will be auctioned off soon.—
Students from twenty-one colleges are
attending the International Live Stock
Show at Chicagoelx temporary in-
junction restrains the Chicago surface
car lines and putting into effect the
five-cent fares ordered by the Illinois
Utilities Commission.

Sunday, November 27.

EVERAL large Canadian banks an—

nounced that they intend to re-
place girl employes wIth men—For-
mer Detroit newsboys will sell papers
on the streets to raise money for the
poor. Many of them are now premi-
nent men in Detroit affairs=~Secret
service men are guarding the Ameri-
can as well as the foreign delegates to
the Peace Conference. English bank-
ing firms are willing to extend credit
to German manufacturers.

 

Monday, November 28.

FIRE fighting apparatus from Atlan-

ta, Macon and Columbus is assisting
in fighting a large fire at Augusta, Ga.
——The United States destroyer Wit
liamson arrived at Mersina, Asia Min-
or, to protect American interests.—
The Argentine government is sup-
pressing brigands operating in the Ar-
gentine state of Santa Cruz to the dan-
ger of American lives and property.—
Official announcement is made in New
York that a nation-wide party will be
formed to politically combat rum.

 

cent. ,

to western farmers. The transporta-
tion cost on Danish butter to New
York is $1.00 a hundred pounds, while
from St. Paul the rate is $2.15, giving
the Danish farmers an advantage of
$1.15 a hundred pounds in transporta-
tion rates over the Middle West. He
said. the situation in the west was
about the satne as that in New Eng.
land. Western Canada is not only
shipping large‘quantities of butter to
middle west cities, but many carloads
are going to New York City from the
Canadian Northwest.

Replying to the question as to why,
if the imports are small, it is neces-
sary to have a comparatively large
duty on dairy products, Mr. Loomis,
secretary of the National Dairy Union,
said that the comparatively small ship-
ments of butter reaching New York
have large results in the priCes paid
for American butter everywhere. The
New York price is controlling in all
markets. Every price fluctuation in
New York is felt directly and definite-
ly back to the checks the farmer gets
for his milk or cream from which the
butter was made. A single cargo of
Danish butter reaching New York last
year in July depressed the market

from fifty-nine cents to fifty-five cents.‘

WAR FINANCE CORPORATION
LOAN&

U S. War Finance Corporation has
' approved loans to agricultural in-
terests aggregating $125,736,827. Of
this amount the corporation an-
nounces that $30,572,300 has been paid
to farmers and live stock owners, on
approved loans. It also reports that
$3,362,500 has been loaned to coopera-
tive marketing societies without bank

indorsement, and $2,275,576 to live
stock companies, without bank in-

dorsement.

Advances totaling $4,150,000 have
recently been made on sugar beets in
Utah and Idaho. The grand total for
the work ending November 19, 1921,
was $14,339,726.

Tvifi
DAIRY COSTS.

EARINGS on the dairy schedules

before the Senate Finance Com-
mittee which has been considering the
permanent tariff bill, have brought out
many interesting facts in regard to
the dairy industry.

The New England milk producers
were unanimously of the opinion that
an adequate protective tariff was the
only thing that would have their in-
dustry from ruin, and prevent a furth-
er decline in eastern agriculture. Mr.
George H. Putnam, representing the
New Hampshire Farm Bureau Feder-
ation, said that careful investigations
made by the New Hampshire State
College during the year ending March
21, 1921, showed that. it costs $3.87
per one hundred pounds to produce
milk in New Hampshire, and the mar-
ket price for milk shipped to Boston
during the same period was $3.25, a
loss of sixty-two cents on every one
hundred pounds. The cows in the one
hundred herds in which records were
kept produced an average of 6,387
pounds of milk, which is higher than
the average for the state.

Mr. Putnam testified that he had
five men working for him and every
one of them received a larger return
for his labor than he received. This,
he said, was one of the reasons why
the number of farms in New England
had declined seventeen per cent from
1909 to 1920, and in New Hampshire
the decline had been twenty-four per

   

    

 

 
     
 

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By A. J. McAa'mm, Arr’l Lam! Clearing Specialist ofM A. C.

NEW War is raging in Michigan
at the present time. Farmers of
Michigan are up in arms against
the stump—infested areas of this state
with “General Picric Acid” leading the
attacking forces. Last year war was
declared on the stumps with T. N. T.

Picric acid is a high explosive which
was manufactured for war purposes.
It is a lemon yellow crystalline pow-
der in its raw state. This powder has
been partially dried and put into cart-
ridge form for handling in land clear-
ing work. There is no nitro-glycerin

 

 

 

Explosives Make Short .Work of Stumps when Properly Handled.

leading the attacking forces, but this
explosive has been entirely utilized by
the farmers. Up to and including last
year nearly 700,000 pounds of T. N. T.
was distributed to the farmers of Mich-
igan for use in land clearing. The
amount of land cleared with this war
salvage explosive was astonishing and
added thousands of dollars to the val-
ue of the cut-over region of this state.
Now we have another war salvage ex—
plosive for land clearing purposes in
the form of picric acid.

When the world war terminated the
United States government had about
12,500,000 pounds of picric acid stored
in its magazines at Fort VVingate, New
Mexico, and Sparta, Wisconsin. Fol-
lowing investigations for clearing land
with picric acid conducted cooperative-
ly by the Bureau of Public Roads, Bu.
reau of Mines and the University of
Wisconsin, this material was turned
over to the Department of Agriculture
to be distributed to the several states
for land clearing purposes. Allotments
to the different states was based upon
the amount of cut-over land within its
borders. Georgia with a total of near-
ly 20,000,000 acres of cut-over land re-
ceives about 1,000,000 pounds of picric
acid. , Minnesota receives 744,000
pounds, Wisconsin 696,000 pounds and
the state of Michigan 624,000 pounds.
At present this material is being par-
tially dried and cartridged at Sparta,
Wisconsin, and is being delivered to
the several counties in Michigan.

The Michigan allotment was distrib-
uted under the direction of the Agri-
cultural Engineering and Extension
Divisions of the Michigan Agricultural
College. L. F. Livingston, land clear-
ing specialist, was in direct charge of
the work. By working through the
county agents and County Farm Bu-
reaus, twenty-seven carloads of picric
acid were placed in MiChigan. The
government made a ruling that picric
acid could be delivered only in carload
lots and for this reason several coun-
ties having only a few hundred pounds
in orders could not be supplied. In
some cases two or three counties com-
bined their orders so that they might
receive the explosive. To date all the
picric acid allotted to the state of
Michigan has been taken and Mr. Liv-
ingston has been forced to return sev-
eral county orders and individual or-
ders which he was unable to fill. Ap-
proximately one milliOn pounds of this
explosive could have been disposed of

1;; his state. , The use of picric acid

   
    

in it and it is not described in terms
of per cent. It is plain picric acid in
cartridges.

Picric Acid Requires No. 8 Cap.

Picric acid is less sensitive than or-
dinary dynamites. In order to make it
explode completely, a larger blasting
cap is necessary. For this purpose
the No. 8 blasting cap, either common
or electric, is used. The ordinary size
of cap used with dynamite is No. 6.

picric acid weight from six to six and
a half ounces, and therefore contain
approximately as much effective ex-
plosive energy as an eight-ounce stick
of dynamite. This enables the picric
acid to be used stick for stick com-
pared with dynamite. Picric acid is
much more shattering than the low-
grade dynamite, and is therefore not
as good a material to use. It is valu-
able only because we get it at a much
lOwer price.

Picric Acid Not Poisonous to Use.

Contact with raw picric acid when
moisture is present causes yellow
stains on the skin. These stains dis-
appear in a few days and do not ap-
parently have any bad effects. Wear-
ing tight leather gloves will largely
prev’ent discoloring of the hands. This
smoke and gas from the picric acid
explosion contain the same poisonous
substances as dynamite but these are
largely avoided in the field so no head-
aches occur. In using picric acid, the
very bitter taste of the material will
be noticed. Small quantities of this
material that may get. into the mouth
will not have any injurious effects.
Burn the Box and Packing Material.

After using the picric acid, burn up
box, wrapping paper and any sawdust
which was contained in the box of ex-
plosive. These should be burned in
the open air and not in stoves in the
house. They should not be used for
kindling. The explosive or packing
material should not. be left where live
stock can get at it.

This picric acid was not made for
stump removal, but as it is of no use

 

Much Energy is Required to Remove these Boulders in the Usual Way.

On account of the insensitiveness of
picric acid, it is also necessary that
special care be taken to place the cap
lengthwise of the cartridge with the
"business end” of the cap pointing to-
ward the main part of the charge.

Charges of picric acid should be
well bunched. A long string of cart-
ridges in a small hole is undesirable.
Dynamites should not be used as prim-
ers as long contact between picric acid
and dynamite might cause dangerous
Compound.

Picric Acid Does Not Freeze.

Picric acid may be stored over win-
ter without any detrimental effects.
There are no liquid ingredients in pic-
ric- acid, hence it does not freeze and
requires no thawing. Professor John
Swenehart, University of V'isconsin,
states that picric acid will keep much
the same as common salt. The actual
change in temperature will not afiect
its explosive property. If stored in a
dry place and protected from the
weather, farmers should have very lit-
tle trOuble with its use in the spring.
Picric Acid Stronger than Dynamite.

Picric acid is about onethird strong-
er than ordinary dynamite used for

   

   

 

for military purposes, it has been turn-
ed over by congress for peace time
use in land clearing. You are getting
it at a low price as a result of the
service of your college of agriculture
and United States Department of Ag—
riculture. \Vhen the material now
available is used up, no further allot-
ments can be secured as it actually
costs much more to manufacture than

dynamite. The price you pay covers
only the cost of cartridging, freight,
and distribution. The material should
not be stored for future use but should
be used up as soon as convenient.

BAKERS OF STATE URGED TO
use DOMESTIC FLOUR.

HE Michigan Millers’ Association

has again shown its progressive
policies, in the promotion of universal
use by bakers of Michigan—made flour
from Michigan wheat, by placing at
the disposal of state institutions the
services of a specialist in the business
of baking bread. It will be the sole
duty of this specialist to teach bakers
at the various state institutions how
to make good bread from home—milled
flour, and to make bread of high qual-
ity at a lower cost than bread of the
same quality can be made from for-
eign grown spring wheat flour.

This service is being rendered under
an agreement whereby the state offi-
cials instructed all its institutions to
use. Michigan grown and milled flour
while the test campaign is in progress.
If it is proven that good bread can be
made as cheaply or cheaper from
Michigan flour as from spring wheat
flour, the state administrative board
will instruct: all institutions under its
control to buy only the domestic
product.

it is estimated that in a year a min-
imunrof from 20,000 to 40,000 barrels
‘will be consumed by the institutions.
At Ionia State Hospital, for instance,
where tests Were conducted to determ-
ine the bread~making qualities of the
Michigan flour, 1,500 barrels are used
annually.

Claim Michigan Flour Cheapest.

According to figures presented by a
committee of the millers’ association,
bread of high quality can be made
from Michigan flour at a cost of 2.42
cents a pound, as compared with 2.53
when made from spring wheat flour.
The food value of Michigan-made flour
bread, the committee report declares,
is as high as that of the product of
spring wheat flour.

This is in line with a recently adop-
ted policy of the administrative board
to have the state purchasing depart-
ment buy Michigan-grown products
and manufactured goods Whenever
possible. The request of our wheat
growers and niillers that Michigan
wheat flour be used exclusively was a.
novel one, because it had always been
considered necessary to use Spring
wheat flour, but the authorized tryouts
proved the fallacy of this practice.

 

When different classes of sheep are
kept on the farm it will be found ad-
vantageous to separate them for Win-
ter feeding and care. Unless this is
done some members of the flock will
get more than their share of feed,
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Beats All C onzpetitors at tno International Grain and Hay Snow—Estoo/irneo’ Her?
:e/fas tne Greatest-Producer of flign Class Groins— T altos 25 of tne‘ 30 Prize:
Offered in World Competition on Rye.

ATS ed to Rosen Rye! Hurrah

for Michigan farmers! Bravo for

the Michigan Crop Improvement
Association! Rah for the Michigan
Agricultural College! Let’s have a
big bonfire and jubilee!”

Yes, patient reader, you have a per-
fect right to ask, “Why all the pep?”
Well,‘just because we Michiganders
are happy and proud of our state, our
tarmers and our agricultural college.

Another Clean Sweep.

Rosen Rye originated by the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, grown by
Michigan farmers and registered by
the Michigan Crop Improvement Asso-
ciation, once more demonstrated its
superior quality at the International
Grain & Hay Show at Chicago.

Thirty prizes, amounting to $520,
were offered by the Chicago Board of
Trade for the. thirty best peck sam—
ples of rye grown in the world. Every
single prize was won by Rosen Rye
with great credit to the variety and
the college which produced it. Twen-
ty-five of the thirty prizes were won
by Michigan farmers—whence the hur-
rahs for our farmers and the Crop Im-
provement Association which came
through the exceptionally stiff compe-
tition with colors flying.

A Hard Fight.

At the 1920 show Rosen Rye won
twenty-nine of the possible thirty priz-
es, twenty-eight of the winning sam-
ples coming from Michigan. At the
close of last year’s show, representa-
tives of several states expressed their
firm determination “to get Michigan in
1920.” In fact, during the past sum-
mer and fall, expressions have come
from several sources to the effect that
Michigan had better look out this year.

The many fine samples entered this
year from Wisconsin, Colorado. Min-
nesota, North Dakota, Montana, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana and other states show
that all this was said in good faith,

but they did not fully reckon with the
strength of the Michigan ‘punch.

Michigan entries at the 1921 show
were far superior to those of last year
—in fact, had they not been. our
friendly rivals would undoubtedly
have made good their boast to beat
Michigan. Samples of rye weighing
sixty pounds are seldom seen, but
Michigan had to beat, this year, nu-
merous samples which weighed from
fifty-seven to sixty pounds. However,
the quality of Rosen was too high for
her competitors.

One member of the judging commit-
tee made this remark: “I was greatly
surprised last year when Michigan
made such a clean-up in the rye class.
I did not believe it possible for any
State to make such a record. NOW
they come back and do it again. They
won on their own merit and the honor
and glory is Michigan’s.” A prominent
member of the Chicago Board of Trade
stated: “I never dreamed of such a
thing, it is truly a wonderful two-
year’s record——-one which future gen-
erations may long strive to equal.

If the following list of winners be
studied, one will notice that Michigan
won twenty-two of the first twenty—
three prizes—missing out on the ninth
place which was won by John Howell,
of Colorado, who smilingly said, “Mich-
igan deserves the credit of my win-
ning, as I got my seed from the Mich-
igan Crop Improvement Association.”
The writer asked Mr. Howell how Ros-
en yielded in Colorado. To my sur-
prise he replied, “From thirty-five to
forty bushels per acre under irriga-
tion.”

The Rye Winners. \

The names of most of the rye win—

ners are well known, as they have

closely associated with crop improve-
ment work in Michigan. Their rye
stood the acid test in the strongest
and keenest competition ever witness-
ed in this class at the International
Grain & Hay Show.

Michigan prize winners in the rye
class are as follows:

First, Irving Beek, South Manito'u
Island; 2nd, George and Lewis Hutz-
ler, South Manitou Island; 3rd, A. W.
Jewett, Jr., Mason; 4th, L. H. Laylin,
Mason; 5th, F. H. Rukert, McMillan;
6th, George Shady, McMillan; 7th,
Lewis Hess, Ceresco; 8th, Garfield
Farley, Albion; 10th, Gifford Patch,
Clarksdale; 11th, George Starr, Grass
Lake; 12th, E. J. Fenn & Son, Parma;
13th, Richard Jewett, Mason; 14th,
Lewis Bros., Jerome; 15th, Jacob Tag-
sold, Rega; 16th, Leo Wooden, Hanov-
er; 17th, Clarke Haire, West Branch;
18th, R. F. Jewett, Mason; 19th, A. M.
Berridge, Greenville; 20th, W. H.
Warner, Concord; 21st, Minard Farley,
Albion; 22nd, Ralph Arbogast, Union
City; 23rd, Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 27th,
A. W. Torrant, Parma; 28th, Eli Linds-
ley, Doster; 29th; Raymond & Ivoltz,
Grass Lake.

An Excellent Showing in Wheat.

Give another set of hurrahs and
bravos for Red Rock Wheat. This va-
riety was also originated by the Mich-
igan Agricultural College and is pro-
duced and registered by the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association. “fin-
ning five of the first six prizes, Mich-
igan farmers’ Red Rock once more
demonstrated its superior quality. The
first ten prizes were won by Red Rock
—however, five samples were produc-
ed in states other than Michigan.

Michigan winners in the Soft Red
winter wheat class were: First, A. W.

 

Jewett, Jr., Mason; 2nd, C. D. Fink-
beiner, Clinton; 3rd, Richard Jewett,
Mason; 5th, L. H. Laylen, Mason; 6th,
R. F. Jewett, Mason; 11th, Wm. Ott-
ney, Jackson; 13th, Lynn Jewell, Les-
lie; 18th, Wm.“McMannus, Sand Lake;
20th, W. T. Bandeen, Mt. Pleasant;
22nd, E. P. Kinney, East Lansing.

In the soft wheat winter class Mich-
igan won the first three prizes of the
five offered—A. W. Jewett and L. H.
Laydin, of Mason, taking first and
third places respectively and Lynn
Jewell, Leslie, winning second place.

Credit Due to M. A. C. Students.

Of course, the great bulk of the cred-
it of this wonderful record goes to the
farmers who produced the grain; how-
ever, we must not forget those twenty
to thirty M. A. C. students who, work-
ing at odd hours and on holidays for
a nominal wage, carefully prepared
the majority of the Winning samples.
These students became very much in-
terested in Michigan’s possibilities at
the show and under the direction of
the Farm Crops Department played a.
most important part in once more put-
ting Michigan notably before the
world. .

Other Awards Taken by Michigan.

In addition to the numerous prizes
mentioned above, entries of oats from
this state were awarded fifth, sixth,
tenth, eleventh and nineteenth places.
In the two-rowed barley class, a Mich-
igan sample secured eighth place. In
field peas she secured third position.
High awards were also credited to this
state in the hay show—~first, second,
fourth, ninth, tenth and fourteenth
awards going to Michigan farmers on
timothy hay, while second, third, sixth,
ninth and thirteenth awards were giv-
en en clover hay. The corn has not
been judged as this article is being
closed and a report on that class, as
well as of live stock winnings, will be
made in these columns next week.

 

 

 

 

ACTIVITIES OFFARM BUREAUS

Latest Man I From Local, State and National Organization;

 

 

 

 

ANNUAL MEETING OF AMERICAN
FARM BUREAU FEDERATION.

 

AMES R. HOWARD, Iowa farmer,

again heads the American Farm
Bureau Federation as its president. He
was unanimously re-elected November
21 at Atlanta, Georgia, at the third an-
nual meeting of the. American Farm
Bureau Federation by delegates repre-
senting 1,500,000 I'arni bureau mem-
bers in the United States.

0. E. Bradl'ute, an Ohio farmer, was
elected vice—president of the federa-
tion. and the following men were elect-
ed to the federation’s executive com-
mittee: Gray Silver,ot‘\Vest Virginia;
John T. Orr, of Texas; Howard E.
Leonard, of Illinois; W. H. Walker, of
California; C. S. Brown, of Arizona,
and John L. Burton, of Utah.

1. V. Coverdale, of Iowa, is secre-
tary of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, and Charles T. Gunnells,
at Illinois, is treasurer and assistant
secretary.

Mr. Howard in his annual address
0 the convention delegates reviewed
"the activities of the American Farm
Bureau Federation during the past

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year, pointing out accomplishments
and programs under way along the
lines of better transportation facilities
and rates for farmer shippers, lower
taxes and a more just distribution of
the same, efforts for constructive rural
legislation, and the accomplishments
of the federation in the realm of co-
operative marketing.

Mr. Howard emphasized the work
the United States Grain Growers, Inc.,
are doing for a nation-wide coopera-
tive handling of grain. The organiza-
tion now has a membership of 25,000
and has contracts for marketing 50,-
000,000 bushels of grain, according to
Mr. Howard. He added that the pro-
posed plan l'or cooperative marketing
of live stock, as developed by the
Farmers’ Marketing Committee of
Fifteen, will be in effect by January 1.

Two other American Farm Bureau
Federation marketing committees now
at work are the Farmers’ National
Dairy Committee of Eleven, which has
held its first meeting. Milo D. Camp-
bell, of Goldwater, Michigan, is a mem-
ber of that committee. The second is
the Farmers’ National Fruit Marketa
ing Committee of Twenty-one, of which

  

James Nicol, of South Haven, Michi-
gan, president of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau, is a member.

At the first meeting of the Commit-
tee of Twenty-one, held at Atlanta on
November 19, Mr. Nicol ’was made per-
manent chairman of that committee.
The committee is charged with inves-
tigating the fruit marketing industry
from a cooperative marketing stand-
point. It has gone to work by appoint-
ing sub-committees to investigate the
transportation, legislative. financial,
advertising and publicity phases of
fruit marketing. ' A sub-committee is
also charged with preparing a report
on the standardization of fruit pack-
ages.

FARM WOMEN AT ATLANTA.

 

THE toilers of the farm who start

their routine labor in the wee
hours of the morning, work through
the day and until the oil is well burn-
ed from the lamps at night, were well
represented at the annual meeting of
the American, Farm Bureau Federation
convention at Atlanta. Ga., last week.

The women folk-s. made a aha. for the

 

 

more general introduction of running
water, bathtubs. and other conven-
iences in the farm homes of the coun-
try. Increased consideration of the
work devolving upon the fair sex was
urged to the end that a stronger home
life may be developed and rural chil-
dren may receive the needed amount
of attention, which is physically im-
possible for many farm women to give
under present methods of farm man-
agement. _

The appointment of the woman's
committee by President Howard a few
weeks ago has given new hope to the
“better half” of- this great agrarian
movement. The time is too short to
show actual accomplishment, but some
of the very best farm women leaders
of the country are working hard to de.
velop a practical program looking to-
ward a more ideal farm life. That the
1921 convention will give much‘ mo-
mentum to this program is certain.

. According to H. G. Wells’ new “Out-
line of History,” the people of Crete
had water pipes, bathrooms, and like

conveniences 2500B. 0‘. Many Amer- U

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ABOUT THE FARM

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SUCCESSFUL POTATO Paoouc.
TION.

 

LAST year I plowed less than three
acres of clover sod in the fall and
in the spring covered it with barnyard
manure, plowed it again and then disk-
ed and work it up good. I plowed my
potatoes in. Then I dragged it down
smooth and cultivated twice. I har-
vested eleven hundred bushels of po-
tatoes. This year I took a piece of
pasture land that had never been brok-
en up. I plowed it last fall and did
the same as last year. I had four
acres and harvested fifteen hundred
and sixty bushels. The ground was a
little rolling. For bugs I sifted arse.
nate of lead clear on them. One man
in this county had eleven acres and
harvested two hundred bushels—F.
L. C.

CLOVER IN WHEAT.

 

NE spring I had a ten-acre field of

rather light soil that was sown to
wheat the fall before. I was anxious
to get a good stand of clover on it. I
sowed Mammoth clover seed in April
at the rate of four quarts per acre, us-
ing a steel peg-tooth harrow. I har-
rowed the field of wheat, covering the
clover seed. Neighbors said that I had
ruined my wheat. Soon neighbors
said that it was the best piece of wheat
The wheat made
a good yield. The next summer Iplow-
ed under clover that was four feet
long and results are still seen on crops
on that field—R. P. B.

TFIE FARM DUMPING PLACE.

 

LTOGETHER too many farmers

are using their immediate sur-
rohndings around the house and barn
as a graveyard for their old machin-
ery, wagons, etc., gathered there for
years, together with other useless rub-
bish, making an otherwise naturally
good-looking place forlorn looking to
themselves as well as to passersby. If
one is bound to have such a dumping
ground, why not have it in an out-of-
the-way place and keep the yard clean
and attractive? This can also be ap-
plied to the right-of-way along the
road. Keep weeds and rubbish away
from the right-of-way and make it look
clean and nice. One can always tell

what kind of a man runs the farm‘

when he sees the barnyard and road-
side, and never make a mistake in the

estimate—F. J. J.

CONVERTING A FRAME HOUSE
INTO A CEMENT HOUSE.

 

FRAME house that needs sheeting
or weather boards can be made a
handsome house by using the old
weather boards with a few bunches of
lath so as to leave an air chamber of
two inches or more from plaster. Nail
laths on each side of the studdings,
saw the old boards that come off the
house so as to fit in between studdings
and nail them to laths. Then drive
nails about four or five inches apart
on both sides of the studdings and on
face of studdings drive the nails in
just so theouter boards are as even
as possible with the doors, window-
frames and corner boards. If the stud-
dings are hard wood, use small nails,
if soft wood, use larger nails. - .
When putting boards on, use ten-
penny nails driven through small
strips of laths at about every other
studding and eight-penny nails at the
frames’or corner boards. When the
boards are on, as far as a few batch-

es of concrete will go, get a coal buck-
et to pour the concrete between the
studdings. Then get a hammer and
tap boards so as to get the cement
together.

After several days remove all the
boards except the top one, and go on
up. When removing boards, knock
strips off. Pull the nails from boards,
as you will have to use small strips
again after the cement is all set. Use
cement dope whitewash. This will give
a concrete wall of from one and one-
half inches to two inches thick and
you will have something cheaper and
better than lumber. With all the nails
driven in the studdings, it would be
hard for the concrete to get away
from the studdings, as all would be
solid concrete. I have built my house
this way and am well pleased with the
improvement—E. L.

SWEET CLOVER—SHIPPING
STOCK.

 

EXPERIMENTED on sweet clover,

intending to plow this fall for green
manure. I have always been told that
the stock would not «eat it, but I find
that my milch cows eat it and seem
to like it and that the flow of milk
doubled. My other stock also eat it.

I also had experience in shipping
live stock to Buffalo markets. I ship-
ped three good heavy cows, five good
two-year-old steers and two good veals
both weighing three hundred pounds,
and to my surprise I received only
$206, where I could easily have sold
them at my home market for $400.
One of my neighbors shipped a very
big and good cow and received only
$4.00 for it. I wonder where the bal-
ance went to. Another neighbor ship-
ped a two-year-old heifer and received
$9.00.—W. J. D.

GOOD TOOLS ARE PROFITABLE.

 

T may be desirable to keep the old

tool working just as long as possi-
ble, but it is not necessarily always the
most profitable thing to do. It must
be remembered that machines are con-
tinually being improved and the time
may come before the machine is worn
out when it: should be discarded be-
cause of obsolescence.

Obsolescence is a big word, but it
means a lot. A machine is obsolete
when the money one loses through its
use would pay for a new machine of
improved type, which would do the
work faster, better, more economically.

There is certainly such a thing as
keeping a machine too long. The self-
rake reaper had to give way to the
modern binder. The modern corn plant-
er displaced the old hand operated
type. The process of displacement is
continually going on.

The modern farmer requires the
best and most up-to-date tools and
equipment. He must of necessity know
the cost of production in order to know
whether his business is profitable or
not. The use of labor-saving equip-
ment is the best insurance of profits.
The man with the hoe, the scythe and
the flail has passed, and the wheels of
progress carry the farmer of today on
a good road to sure profit and pleasure
iii his business.——F.

IN THE SHEEP ‘PENs.

 

In feeding silage to sheep care
should be taken not to give the ani-
mals any that is spoiled. Sheep are
peculiarly susceptible to injury from
feeds which form gas.

The breeding ewes need exercise in
winter. The health and vigor desired
cannot be obtained by housing the an-

,imals too closely indoors. —.W.'-

e T as MICHIGAN " F A“ R M T a

Four Buckle Arctic—To be worn
over leather shoes. Easy to
pull on or take off—a perfect

., protection for the feet during
the coldest, wettest weather.

Short Boot—An
exceptional
boot for men
who do a great
deal of outdoor
work. It is
strong. light,
springy and
comfortable —-
water-tight an

durable.

 

Six Buckle Arctic—To be worn
over leather shoes. Fleece
lined, absolutely weather-
proof, warm, light and com-
fortable. For wear where
new and slush are deep.

 

Look for this green oval
when you want satisfaction.

 

668 A

 

“I know you’ll want

THIS ONE
these cold days!

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HESE Snag-Proof arctics are

real life-savers when the snow
and slush are‘ on the ground. When
you go out, it takes only a few seconds
to pull them on over your leather
shoes, and they keep your feet dry
and warm in the meanest kind of
weather. When you come back, wash
off the mud and slip out of them.
They’ll save money by making your
leather shoes wear twice as long—-
and they protect your health. You
know wet, cold feet are the most dan-
gerous foes you could have. Pneu-
monia, influenza, rheumatism, most
often come from wet or cold feet.

“Then there are Snag-Proof rubber
shoes and boots that take the place of
leather entirely. They are warmer,
springier, last longer in wet weather,
and cost less. Our special steam cured
in vacuum process makes all Snag-
Proof products exceptionally long
wearing, water-and-weather-proof.

“I can show you just exactly the
right kind of rubber shoe, arctic or
boot that will save you money and
give you the greatest foot comfort and
protection this year. Come in and
see them all.

(Signed) Your Snag-Proof Dealer”

Look up the Snag-Proof dealer in your town.
He’s a good fellow to know, for he sells on a
customer-satisfied-first policy. He could make
a larger profit on one sale from other kinds of
rubber footwear, but he knows that it pays him
to sell Snag-Proof in the long run—just as it

pays you to buy Snag-Proof. T hat’s the way
Snag-Proof Rubber Footwear has been sold for
the last fifty years.
always buy Snag-Proof, because they always get
genuine satisfaction from every purchase.

And Snag-Proof customers

Re-

member the name—Snag-Proof.

LAMBERTVILLE RUBBER COMPANY
Lambertville, N. J.

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and takes the money to buy

even an ordinary pair of shoes,
he is inclined to believe that the raw
material bears no relation whatever
to the finished product. You cannot
blame him either, for it is mighty
hard to understand why so much un-
tann'ed leather, so to speak, is worth
so little and the shoes so much. Right
there is one solution, or a suggestion,
on how to make hide values larger.
Get the skins tanned for home con-
sumption, so far as possible, as the
leather can be used for a hundred and
one purposes. Where the family is
large, shoe bills are quite an item and
if they can be repaired at home with
leather costing so little, a great saving
is possible. Then again, neighbors will
generally be glad to buy, provided the
price is lower than that asked by deal-
ers. While, of course, it may not be
possible to utilize all the hides on the
farm by the method explained, some
can be. And remember, too, that the
leather never spoils, and demands no
special attention to keep it year after
year. This eliminates the danger of
an over-supply, at least to a certain
extent.

Generally speaking, farmers have
never been able. to obtain maximum
value for their hides, even when pric-
es were high. In the first place, few
knew exactly how to handle them.
The percentage fit only for glue was
too large. It seems that country buy-
ers especially who could have impart-
ed this information on proper methods
were the very ones who withheld the
knowledge. The reason is obvious:
With owners knowing so little about
quality, it was possible to magnify the
defects and in this way pay less than
otherwise would have been the case.

We all know that holes ought to be
avoided in skinning. Scoring—that is,
cutting nearly through, is practically
as bad since such spots break in [an-
ning. While a hide with these blem-
ishes can be made into a robe or coat
so the defects will not show, it never
can be sold to advantage regardless of

WHEN a farmer sells a steer hide

' min. MICHIGAN Eran. tuna

Making Hide Values G

By George J. Yfiz'essefl

what the market is. And even for
manufacturing purposes, the holes and
scored spots add nothing to value.
Therefore, the first thing for the hide
owner to use is greater care with the
knife. And while on this subject let
me add that it is not a good policy to
attempt to trim the skins at home
either. Let this work be done by ex-
perts in such a manner that no dam-
age is done.

When a horse or a. cow dies in the
field, many times it has to be taken to
a more convenient place before the
hide can be removed. Unthinkingly,
the owner hitches a team to the car-
cass and drags it to where wanted.
The result of this, especially if the
ground is hard and frozen, is the hair
rubbed off. This lessens the value, as
can easily be understood.

The best way to move a carcass be-
fore skinning is to employ a low sled
or stoneboat. The work is easy and
no damage is done.

While the skinning may be properly
completed—~no holes or scoring—and
the carcass, if moved, not injure the
pelt, other precautions are still neces-
sary. In fact, it might be said that
farmers suffer greater losses through
faulty handling than in any other way.
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out flat and salt thoroughly. Let lay
for ten or twelve» hours so the liquid
is absorbed. Then salt once more and
use about a peck for the average cow
or horse. Do not disturb the skin until
after two or three days, giving it plen-
ty of time to cure. In cold weather
hides are easier to care for than when
it is warm, but if plenty of salt is em-
ployedwyou can’t use too much-no
danger is run.

When skins are bundled before they
are perfectly cured, the salt is liable
to come off in spots. These taint,
causing the hair to slip. This, really,
is a condition of rottenness and while
it is sometimes possible to save the
hides if the tanneries get them in’time,
often it is not and the skins go for
the making of glue. Naturally, the
price paid is very low.

The growing use of the automobile
all, or nearly all, the year round in
many communities, has given an out-
let for the profitable employment of
many farm hides. Coats and robes are
necessary and since they can be made
of skins worth so little and wear from
fifteen to twenty years, are practically
wind, rain and moth proof, the per sea-
son cost is practically nothing. Out-
fitting the entire family, so to speak,
pays big dividends in comfort during
the cold winter months. However,
thin, summer skins cannot be used for
this purpose as they do not make up
well. Select only the thick-furred. So
far as color is concerned, tastes vary.
But even if the shade is not as wanted
and the hair good, it costs very little
to have the hide dyed a deep and last-
ing black.

In the past, coats were made of
farm hides only for the male members

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of the family. It has been found, how-
ever, that the women wanted protec-
tion, from the cold as well as the men.
By working on this theory and with
advanced methods of manufacture, it
is now possible to outfit mother, wife
and sister with garments which are
not only light and pliable, but equally
as handsome as the fine fur coats seen
on the city streets. Best of all, the
tanners have put service into the gar-
ments and kept the cost so low that
almost anyone can afford them. The
trimmings of such coats are generally
raccoon, muskrat or some other fur
that can be taken right on the farm.
But where collars and cuffs cannot be
obtained, the little fur needed can be
purchased at prices which are not pro-
hibitive.

The garments for women are gener-
ally made from horse hides._ Coats
for men usually are from cow hides.
The' best robes are horse, although
many use cow hides for this purpose
as well. And while on this subject let'
me add that when horse hides are
used for robes it is best not to have
them tanned with the mane on. Noth-
ing is added to the appearance by so
doing and the long hair breaks off,
giving a shaggy appearance. Last, but
not least, the mane often catches in
the machinery and endangers the
workmen.

The low prices now being paid for
farm produce of all kinds, might make
the manufacture of a robe or coat out
of the question, even though the cost
is small. Tanneries have rellized this
and, as a whole, tried to cooperate.
They will, in most cases, be glad to
hold a hide to be made up until want-
ed or until payment can be mode with
out much sacrifice. This will give
those who want—and need—the gar-
ments, opportunity to obtain them un-
der the most favorable conditions; to
utilize low—priced skins in the most
profitable manner. Later, when hide
values go up a greater investment is
necessary. This saving in the farmer’s
pocket where it belongs, is as good as
anywhere else.

 

 

- OUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT

 

 

 

 

LIABILITY OF HUSBANDS FOR
WIFE’S DEBTS.

 

A single woman in \Vest Virginia
goes in debt for clothes and then
comes to Michigan and gets married.
Can the man who married this woman
be compelled to pay the debts that she
made before the marriage- -\\'. R.

Our supreme court has held that the
statute declaring the husband not lia-
ble on contracts of the wife relating to
her property includes contracts made
while sole, thus impliedly abrogating
the common law rule that the husband
is liable for the ante-nuptial debts of
the wife.—~—J. R. R.

 

BALANCING A RATION FOR COVJS.

 

Please give me a balanced ration for
cows. Have for roughage bran pods
and oat straw, with a very little mixed
alfalfa and alsike hay. Grains. wheat
bran and middlings, buckwheat mid-
dlings and corn meal..—‘(‘. F. E.

Bean pods, oat straw and mixed al-
falfa and alsike hay are all very good
sources of roughage and the bean pods
and hay are fairly rich in protein,
which ought to be taken into consid-
eration in the grain mixture. With the
grains you have at hand you can use
quite a bit of corn meal to good ad-
vantage. Buckwheat middlings are

' quite rich in protein and help to bal-

ance up the carbohydrates in the corn.
Vl'heat bran is also a splendid grain
rich in protein and minerals. Bean
pods depend very much upon how ripe
the beans were when they were pulled
and how well they were cured. Some
pods are so weather-beaten that it is
a shame to even ask a cow to eat
them. Other pods are almost equal to
clover hay as a feed. I would suggest
that you form a grain ration by mixing
wheat bran, buckwheat middlings and
corn meal, equal parts, and feed one
pound of grain per day for every three
pounds of milk produced, if the milk
is five per cent milk, or every four
pounds of milk produced if the milk
runs below four per cent. The cow
ought to be fed liberally with roughage
yet waste should be avoided—C. C. L.

FARMING ON SHARES.

 

A. lives on and owns his farm. He
let out the fields to B. last fall. All
crops are taken care of and settled for
up to date, except eight acres of corn.
The corn is dead ripe so the fodder is
no good. B. was to cut the corn for
both parties. Each was to husk his
share. A. has no fodder to feed this
winter for his three cows, and his
share of the fodder is a total loss. Can
A. hold B.’s.share of the corn till he
pays for A.’s share of the fodder? Can
A. keep B. from husking his corn and

take it from the farm until he (B.)
settles with A.?——J. D.

The answers to most of these ques-
tions are given by the terms of the
contract. It is not possible from the
statement made to say whether it was,
a contract of employment to be paid
for by a share of the produce, or a
lease in which the rent is a share of
the crops raised. Unless the contract
is in writing and gives the safeguards
to the land owner to secure proper
planting, tilling and harvesting he has
little protection—it is all a matter of
contract—J. R. R.

STAG BEEF.

 

I have a stag, a bull castrated one
month ago. Owing to ugliness was al-
lowed to become very thin... Would
his beef be desirable if fattened quick—
ly? He is five years old. I am feed-
ing the following: Two parts bran,
two parts corn and oats ground with
cob, and one part middlings with/mix-
ed hay from our old meadow. Is’ this
a good ration for the purpose?—S. M.

There is no reason why this animal
ought not to make splendid beef if
you now get him fat. It really was
not necessary to castrate him, because
bulls generally sell at a very good
price and the beef is considered good.

. You have lost. mmy, Of course, be-

  

cause the operation of castration is
probably what has caused the bull to
become thin but now that he has re-
covered from the operation and is
healthy, if you fatten him up quickly
he ought to make choice beef—43. L.

BUCKWHEAT GROUND FOR CORN.

 

I would like to ask you if buckwheat
ground, planted to corn in the spring
will raise good corn? Some of my
friends say it will not—A. E. T.

There is no reason why buckwheat
ground will not raise good corn, pro-
viding it is fertile. That is the great
problem. Some people only sow buck-
wheat on poor ground and poor ground
will not raise good corn. Buckwheat
will do better on poor ground than
corn but if this ground is good, fertile
land, there is no reason why it will
not raise corn. The fact that it grew
buckwheat has nothing to do with the
growth of the corn following. If the
land is poor then you must supply
plant food, either with plenty ‘of stable
manure or commercial. fertilizer if you
want to get a good crop of corn—C. ’L.

Burnt autumn leaves send future
fertility into thin air. Pile them where
they’ll decay.
heavy land.

     

 

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FASHION.

EPORTS have come in from var-
ious sources that corn is being
burned by farmers, who consider it
cheaper than. coal at $10 to $12 a ton.
I know of at least one man who is
burning his corn under this delusion;
he'has timber land on his place, some
of which would be better utilized as
fuel in place of corn. Corn may be
cheap now, it certainly seems so to
We growers who find it quoted at from
twenty—five to‘ihirty cents a bushel,
but even if corn went. as low as ten
cents a bushel 1 would not consider
burning it, except under extreme con-
ditions.

While we raise several thousand
bushels of it every year, we do not
sell very much of it. Hogs and cattle
carry it off to market for us. At thirty
cents a bushel for corn we can make
beef at five cents and pork consider-
ably less than this, and even if we sold

 

each of these live stock commodities
at cost we would be doing a service to
our soil by keeping it productive.

Take even a common dairy cow and
turn the corn into milk and butter,
along with cheap roughages. We have
been selling butter right along at forty
cents a pound and the skim-milk has
about all gone to the pigs and poultry,
making one of the finest feeds on the
farm. The corn, along with tankage,
bran and middling, is making fifty-
five-cent eggs. Did you ever know the
time before when a dozen of eggs
would buy two bushels of corn? It is
a poor time now to lament the fact
that we have such cheap corn, it may
be cheaper, but I look for it to be sub-
stantially higher before we raise an-
other crop of it.

The big problem just now is how to
get the most value from it. We are
storing and saving every bit of it so
that we can utilize it and get more
than market price for it. I cannot
bear to throw even one golden ear into
the fire to see how it will burn. In
the spring when we were putting in
our corn we had visions ofa bountiful
crop in a few months, and dreamed
dreams all summer of the big sum of
money it would bring when matured.
1 think of all the energy, of all the
thought and planning put into that
crop to make it a complete success,
and the idea of burning it in a stove
or furnace is abhorrent. It looks like
too much wasted energy to destroy by
fire such a valuable food commodity.

The man who deliberately burns his
corn may have many regrets during
the time between now and another
harvest. No farmer need be surprised
to see his corn selling for fifty cents
or more on his local market. It may
be poor policy to borrow money to
hold the corn until the market makes
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One must first of all haye a natural
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far overbalance the losses, and corn
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It is the approved method of “burning"
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IGURES are a bit tedious to most

folks, yet neithei high-sounding

phrases nor all-inclusive utter-
ances, tell so convincingly a true situ-
ation as statistical data.

We shall refrain as much as possi-
ble fronr the use of figures, but where
employed We take as our authority the
United States Department 01' Agricul-
ture and the Bureau of the Census.

In 1919 we exported from the Unit-
ed Statcs barreled and boxed apples
valued at $14, 471,282 and diicd apples
amounting to $4,109,827 The quantity
of fresh apples exported just about
equaled the Michigan commercial crop
that year.

Last year the price per bushel for
Michigan apples as of December 1, was
seventy-seven ccnts. One other state
received two cents loss, while thepric-
es in all other states ranged up to as
high as $2.60 a bushel, the average for
the United States being $1.13, 01' thir-
ty-six cents higher 1han Michigan.

Michigan is the home 01 “Fruit with
Flavor.” There is not: another section
in the United States that begins to
produce apples 01' the superior quality,
flavor, aroma, texture and firmness of
our own staple varieties. There are
a few contenders among other states
for this premicrship, but no region has
yet attained our leadership in this re-
spect.

By way of contrast, where we lead
in quality we 121g woefully behind in
grading, packing and general mer-
chandising.

Excepting intensive and progressive
methods employed in a few restricted
fruit growing districts in Michigan, rel-

 

atively little attention has been given

Ito the essentials absolutely imperative

to maximum producfion, supcriorquul-
'ity and of equal importance. business-
like sorting, grading, packing. label-
ing, advertising and merchandising.
Few of our fruit: growers vill want to
admit it, but the fact romains that
the markcls have been literally forced

upon 111cm. 11' 1.1111 wcstm'ner would
attempt to market his fruit in like.
fashion with tho Michigan growcr

many 01' the prosperous irrigated val-
leys of the wcsi today would bear a
striking resemblance to an abandoned
mining camp.

Though we now march in tho 1‘1'0111
rank in fruit production, it is 1111' from
being merely visionary. to survey the
future 1101 too 1111' distant—say, lying
between the next score yours. It has
been said 111211 in the “bolt," lying bc-
twccn 21 line drawn from Muskcgon to
Port Huron and south to the Indiana.
and Ohio lines :1 greater industrial ex-
pansion has taken place in the past
ten years than any other given section
of the country. Is there any reason
why a normal continued development,
should not follow? Thus more con-

 

sumers, larger markets, close at hand.

Today the Michigan fruit grower is
wi1l1in a few hours 01' one-fifth of the
population of the United St.ates~—and
not so very far removed from one-half
the total consuming public. Shortly,
say in the next ten years, ocean—going

”vessels will be docking at our thirty-
odd deep-water ports dotted around

our great shoreline. Included with the
cargoes they take aboard will be Mich-
igan 1'ruit——particularly apples for the
world markets. Recently English buy—
ers were in our markets. expecting to
purchase five thousand carloads of ap-
ples for export.

The future of the fruit growing in-
dustry in Michigan is decidedly prom—
ising—no branch of American agricul-
ture offers more substantial induce—
ments. It is now a highly specialized

 

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Michigan’s Fruit Growing
Opportuniucs

By IV. P.

H 12/17/1120

pursuit—and will ever increase—as a‘
field only for trained and capable men
and women.

“Why are western box apples in ev-
idence, and apparently in demand, 1n
our own Michigan markets?” queried
a newspaper reporter a couple of days
ago. Because they are advertised,
carefully graded and packed, and
pleasing to the eye. Our home prod-
uct, wilh vastly more inviting aroma.
and flavor, takes second place for the
very want of the things that engender
the demand for western fruit.

GROWERS AND CANNERS TO

COOPERATE.

OI'NDATION for a more friendly

relationship between growers and
canners was laid at Grand Rapids dur-
ing the recent convention of the Mich-
igan Canners’ Association when James
Nicol, of South Haven, president of
the Michigan State Farm Bureau, laid

bcforc that body :1 ten1111ivc plan by.

which to market fruits and vegetables
suitable for canning purposes. The
canners warmed up to his proposals
and met, the farmers half way by ap-
pointing a special committee to join
with the farm bureau in working out
the new markcting system.

During the first year but one crop
will be used for cxperimcntal purposes
and then if the system is found to
work satisfactorily for both growers
and canncrs, it will be extended to all
branches of the industry. The pro-
posals suggest that the farmers agree
to furnish a dcfinitc tonnage at prices
decided weeks in advance of the har-
vcst. Such a plan. it was pointed out,
would let the canncrs know 110w large
21 pack to prepare for and at the same
1i111c would inform the growers as to
how much of their crops could be sold
:11 home.

The Gunners would be in a position
under such an arrangement 10 buy
only such quanfities of cans, boxes and
other equipment necessary for the size
of pack in prospect. This, Mr. Nicol
51111911, would climinute much waste
and inefficiency now so prevalent unl-
dcr tho mcscnl 111111'kcting system
when in 110111111 ycars they got only
such 11-1111 as they contracted, while in
seasons of overproduction they were
flooded. The producers would benefit
by knowing what per cent 01' their
crops would no! requirc packages. In
one sense, M1: Nicol believed the sys-
tem really was 21 produccnczinncr pack.

The canning industry in Michigan is
in a very healthy condition and can-
ncrs attending the convention declared
1112111 practically every factory in the
state would be making a normal pack
next year. A light, production this
year has made possible an early clean-
ing up of all stocks in warehouses.

A plan to inc1ease the consumption
of Michig an canned foods and to give
canneis technical advice is contained
in proposals undcr consideration call-
ing for the hiring of a paid secretary
and opening of :1 central office in
Grand Rapids. A. R. Todd, of Lan-
sing, is mentioned as one 01' the men
101' the office.

Officers elected for the ensuing year
are: President, Harold Royal, Shel-
by; Vice-president, William McEWing,
South Haven; secretary-treasurer, Dr.
A. R. Todd, Lansing; executive com-
mittee, E. P. Daggett, Coopersville;
Hans \Veigands, Traverse City, and
Walter Reed, Lake Odessa—7R.

One of Michigan’s
crops is celery. It is being severely
injured by bligh+ which is prevalent
in all‘of the main producing districts.

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B'LAS'I‘ING :sruMPs NEAR DWELL-
me.

LAST spring I had .a very knotty
problem in a patch of stumps that
lay between my house and that of a
neighbor. A few years ago it had been
a grove fenced in fora hog lot, a very
unsightly thing so close to the house.
I cut down the grove, moved the hog
fence, and without waiting to get rid
of the stumps set out cherry trees.

It did not seem possible that they
could be blasted as some of them were
as close as thirty feet from the house,
and besides I could not endanger my
neighbor’s property, even if I were
willing to risk my own, so I got all
ready to use a horse-power stump pull--
er. Then I talked it ’over with my
neighbor, who was thoroughly experi-
enced, .having cleared some ninety
acres of his own. He assured me that
I could shoot them out much cheaper
than I could handle them in any other
way, nor could he see that our houses
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Piercey Did the Trick. l,

This sounded good to me. I had al—
ways liked to be around where dyna-
mite was being used; so I rounded up
“Piercey,” our local expert, secured
plenty of ammunition, and the first
nice warm day we were at it.

There were about one hundred;
stumps to be shot out, they were just
the right age to be tough, and the soil
was as loose as could be. ”We started
on those nearest to the house. “Pierc-
ey” assured me that for some strange
reason houses are never injured by
blasting stumps. He had shot many
of them right in town with no bad re-
sults; and he started right in to'prove
everything he said.
landed half a stump on the roof, but it
rolled off, and succeeding blasts sent
showers of dirt and debris over the
house, the wind was in that direction;
but that “Divinity which hedges the
fool” worked very hard on the job, and
we did not break a window, nor did
we injure a cherry tree, and by noon
we were through.

The oak stumps came easy and
clean. The soft maple, elm and wild
cherry were hard to get a hole under
and required considerable use of the
ax in cleaning up. We could not get
enough dynamite under one stump to
blast it good, so we put in a small
charge to enlarge the hole; but it split
the stump and made quite a cavity un-
derneath it, so I.bui1t a good fire in
the hole, covered it with wet sod, and
burned it to the last root.

The piece was kept weedless all

summer, and the trees made a good

growth. In August I sowed clover,
which came up fine, and so did the
redroot, horehound and catnip with all
their kith and kin. And now in place
of an unsightly patch of stumps I have

' a nice little cherry orchard with one

of the hardiest, most varied, coverings
of weeds in the neighborhood—E. S.
HARRISON.

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If you have to spend hours
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you are working under dif-
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CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS IN THE
UPPER PENINSULA.

HE commissioner of schools of

Mackinac county is pushing pro-
jects for consolidated rural agricultur-
al schools in that county, and The St.
Ignace Enterprise publishes a circular
letter which the commissioner has
been circulating to sell the idea to the
people of his county. It is likely that
two such schools will be established in
Dickinson county in the near future,
as I recently learned while in the
county—C.

FEDERAL LOAN ASSOCIATION.
EGOTIATIONS are under way for
the organization 01‘ a federal farm

logebic County Farm Bureau News.
The Gogebic County Farm Bureau is
advertising local farm products in the
papers of the county with a View to
finding a local market for farm
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TO SHARE IN GRASSHOPPER AP-
PROPRIATION.

 

HE auditor-general ol‘ the state is

asking that farm organizations de-
siring to share in the recent legisla-
tive appropriation of forty thousand
,dollars to fight grasshoppers, make
,known their request for funds at an
.early date in order that the allotments
can be pro-rated when the treasury is
‘in a position to make payments under
gthis head. The north country is par-
iticularly interested in this subject,
isince it is in the undeveloped cut-over
,‘lands that the pests get their start,
land doubtless the county agents will
jbe given numerous requests for finan-
j‘cial assistance from the state.
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- COUNTY.

 

f‘ l 'HE Iron County Agricultural Com-

mission was established by order

[of the board of supervisors, a year

ago, to assist the county agricultural
agent in forming real agricultural p01-
It consists of

At the time
the new system was adopted, there
was considerable disposition among
the farmers of Iron county, I am told,

‘to do away with the county agt'nt’s

work altogether. Business men rallied

‘lo the support of the agent and the
commission
linore practical turn to the agent’s no
’tivitics. It was hoped thereby to avoid

was created to give a

a hitzand-miss way of doing things.
Iron county, I am assured, is ready {or
a I‘ar—sightcd consistent policy of agri—

-_ gculturzil development, and, it" the conn-
9 Qty agent system as now managed does
i' lnot get the desired rcsults, niay be dis-
. , posed to scrap it and employ the agent
.wholly on county account in order to
iget the results desired—C.

REFORESTATION NEEDED.

I M R. c. E. LAWRENCE, ot' Caspian,

Upper Peninsula member pl? the
Commission,
has set forth recently the need 01' re-
forestation in Michigan. He points
out that the state has over 600,000
acres or" land that pays no taxes, and
that one large corporation holding
large tracts in the northern peninsula,
has returned at one time 22,000 acres

) rather than pay the taxes due upon it,
i and that another
[plates 3. similar return of 10,000 acres.

company contem-

Mr. Lawrence is the president of a
group of. iron mines and views the

{problem from the standpoint of a- bus-
iness man. Farmershwho may not be

 

loan association at Bessemer, says the

acre.

  
 

keen for increasing the agricultural
acreage of the state, will readily con-
cede that these unproductive lands,
which now pay no taxes, and other
tracts, still greater in extent, which
pay only small taxes, may well be re-
turned to the forest conditions which
once rendered them valuable and may
again make them valuable.

 

EXCHANGE SELLS UPPER PENIN-
SULA POTATOES.

 

HE Michigan Potato Growers’ EX‘

change is reported to be doing a
big business in the upper peninsula
this year. Early in November it was
reported that the branch office at Es-
canaba had handled more potatoes this
year than throughout the entire sea-
son a year ago. Some of the local as-
sociations are tagging their shipments
to indicate the source of the shipment
with a View to advertising the district
as a potato producer.

 

LAND CLEARING DISCUSSED.

N November 8-9 a very important

meeting of men interested in soil
improvement and farm development
was held at Marquette. There were
present representatives of the Mich-
igan Agricultural College, the branch
experiment station at Chatham, agri-
cultural agents and others interested
in agriculture. Mr. L. F. Livington,
recently engaged by the State Board
of Agriculture as land-clearing expert
for Michigan, outlined the results ob-
tained elsewhere in the middle west.
As rcported in the Daily Mining Jour-
nal, he described how, through the me-
dium of schools of instruction carel’ul-
1y directed and brought to the door OI:
the farmer, the doctrine of more clear-
ed acrcs was hammered home. Mr.
Livingston holds that there is a great
need that business men should under-
stand the economics of land-clearing
as applied to a section particularly
adapted to agriculture. His point is
that more cleared lands means more
productive acres and increased land
value, dccl‘cased cost of living and in‘
*rcased savings. Mr. Livingston di-
vides land-clearing into three depart~
mcnts: Instruction in sale and sane
methods in the use of explosives, COW
operation to secure the material at a
minimum cost to the farmer, and the
creation 01‘ public interest in the se-
curing 01' increased cleared acreage.

 

MINT GROWING IN U. P.

IN the spring of 1920 Mr. J. A. Jef-

fery, formerly professor of soils at
the Michigan Agricultural College, and
now in charge of the agricultural ex-
pcrimeutal work for the Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic Railway, made a
planting 01' mint with a View to ascer-
taining its suitability for northern
agriculture. The results of his efforts
will be interesting to the readers of
the Michigan Farmer, especially those

in the southwestern section of the
state where the main mint crop is pro-
duced. In his report, not hitherto

made public, Mr. Jeffery states that
no mint oil was distilled the first sea-
son, although he thinks it possible to‘
have done. so. On August 8, August
16, August 23 and August 3.1, Mr. Jet?
l‘ery made distillations of small areas
running five to six distillations at each
time. The average of the first set of
distillations was fifty pounds per acre,
of the second set 34.7 pounds per acre;
of the third set, 40.5 pounds per acre,
and of the last set, 33.5 pounds per
In the first test the best yield
was 69.6 pounds per acre; the poorest
34.4 pounds per acre. , i _ , ‘ 7

  

 

 

 

 

 
 
  
    


    
 
   

 

  
  
 
  
  
  
 

 

 

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HE ideal season for plowing is

here. I wonder sometimes that

there is not more of it done. I
expect there are good reasons. At
least we think we have good reasons
and we do not usually do a great deal
of fall plowing. Late fall plowing un-
doubtedly does a great deal of good in
destroying insect pests, grubs, cut-
worms, corn-ear worms, etc. It breaks
up their winter homes and gives them
greater exposure to the vicissitudes of
winter weather. We find, however,
that neither insect pests nor plant dis-
eases become so troublesome in fields
where the crops are consistently ro-
tated. It is in the special crop coun-
tries more especially that disease and
insects become bugaboos.

Generally fall plowing is an aid to
easier preparation of the seed bed in
the spring. The rootlets have time to
decay more or less and the action of
the elements, by repeated freezing and
thawing breaks up the soil particles.
This action acts upon the seed-bed
much the same as tillage, bringing
new soil particles into physical rela-
tion with each other, thus causing a
chemical reaction which sets free new

above or below the ground, adds just

that much more organic matter to the '

soil, and say what we please about
lime, fertilizers, etc., the crying need
of most of our soils today, not only on
Francisco Farm but on the farms all
over Michigan, is for more organic
matter.

We have been leading our farms,
like our people, a rather rapid pace
and the result is the same; many of
them worked out long before their
period of usefulness should end. More
organic matter, more vegetation, more
plant growth allowed to decay and go
back is nature’s way of restoring new
life to her soils. Lime helps, manures
help, fertilizers help, but we like to
keep the soil covered with sods as
much as possible. It is not nature’s
way to leave her soils bare. That is
man’s doings. Yet we cannot always

follow nature as closely as we might ‘

like and get the work done, and inas-
much as farming is largely a game of
chance we are not violating the rules
of the game when we do fall plowing.
So we are planning to do some plow-
ing this fall if weather permits the
work to be done to advantage. We

 

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elements of plant food. Perhaps the
most important advantage, however,
may be considered the big boost it
gives to the spring work which often
comes with a rush. Sometimes one
field fall plowed may mean the differ-
ence between getting all the spring
crops in on time or being late with
all of them, and here in Michigan the
importance of planting crops on time
can hardly be overestimated.

if we could always know what the
weather conditions would be it would
be much easier to determine the ex-
tent of fall plowing advisable. That
little “if” is a very small word but it
makes life uncertain enough to be in-
teresting. An open winter with lots of
rain, or a late wet spring like the last,
often leaves as much work to be done
in the spring on plowed as on unplow-
ed land. In such a case the fall work
is wasted and often worse than wast-
ed on account of irreparable damage
from erosion.

We Must Feed Our Soils.

We have an erosion problem on our
rolling land that looms bigger and big-
ger as the years go on. When the land
was new and full of humus, and in ad-
dition was cheap, we did not need to
concern ourselves so much about its
washing away. There was lots left.
But we 'need to think about it now,
and about the best way to hold the
soil on the slopes where it belongs is

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will not feel, however, that we are los-
ing out badly if old winter closes in
before we get to it.

Breeding Beef.

It has been a goodly number of
years since we have read much in the
farm press relative to the breeding of
beef cattle. There has been good rea-
son. The commercial appeal of the
dairy has had the best of the argu-
ment. At least there has been much
more to talk about. Big monthly milk
checks, high production records, care-
fully compiled and balanced rations,
etc. Not so much has been said about
high costs for equipment, long hours
of labor, heavy overhead expense and
net profits. Could the question of “net
profits” have been brought more into
the limelight, the good old beef cow
would not have looked quite so insig-
nificant.

For ten or more years past, the beef
breeding industry has been passing
through a period of liquidation. we
have been using up our reserves. Mar-
ket receipts have been increasing in
numbers in the face of a constantly
decreasing cattle population. As a re-
sult prices have not been very attrac-
tive to the beef producer. The feeder
has been able to buy his stock cattle
cheaper than he could raise them.
Many a good native yearling has been
sold for little more than he would have
brought as a veal calf. This condition
can not always exist. If I interpret the
times aright the pendulum has already
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road ahead for the breeder of beef
cattle.

, ' The accompanying illustration is of
a very dependable type of beef pro-
ducer. She is known by her deds.
This old cow has thirteen years and
eleven choice calves to her credit and
is still going strong. She was calved
on Francisco Farm in 1908 and has
spent a useful, contented existence in
our pastures. She enjoys the simple
life, living from May to Thanksgiving
on grass and water, and through the
winter months on such roughages as
the farm may afford; ensilage, alfalfa,
clover, bean. pods, cdrn stover and
straw. In no one year has she eaten
gram enough to fatten a good hog, yet
she always keeps in smooth flesh, and
raises big fat lusty calves. She has al-
ways been allowed the l’reedom of the
yards and pastures, never being tied
up except on special occasions, such
as attending the county fair or taking
the tuberculin test. As near as we
can figure out we have around nine
thousand pounds of prime beef to off-
set an approximate cost of a little
over $700. The actual returns in mon-
ey have been much more than double
this cost, and thereby hangs a future
tale. I believe the time is here now
and will remain for many years when
by careful selection, proper mating,
economical feeding and judicious hand-
ling we can well afford to breed beef
cattle for beef.

CATTLE DIE FROM POISONING.
EN head of Shorthorn cattle on
John McKinlcy‘s farm in Ashland

township, Newaygo county, died of a
peculiar poisoning, following cleaning
up the corn field after the corn and
fodder had been removed. Five of the
animals were found dead in the barn
the next morning and the other live
succumbed during the day. A voter-
inarian from the Michigan Agricultur-
al College was inclined to believe the
cattle had been poisoned by eating
cornstalks in the field. A mold had
formed on some of the ears and this
is believed to have caused the fatal
illness—R.

TATES BUY MlCHlGAN SPUDS.

It, ,3 ICIIIGAN potatoes are being pur-

chased in large quantities by the
states of Indiana and Ohio. A few
weeks ago the Hoosier purchasing
agent closed a deal with the Michigan
Potato (lrowers’ Exchange at Cadillac
for forty carloads for the state insti-
tutions and only recently the Buckeye
state officials purchased a similar
amount for the same purpose. All
shipments wore made in “Chief Pe~
toskcy" branded sacks.~~—K.

A GOOD VETERINARY BOOK.

.RHAPS I could tell the readers of

the Michigan Farmer how to get
a first-class veterinary book for almost
nothing.

I have a book that I would not take
$10 for. I have a memorandum book
with the alphabet about eight inches
long and four inches wide, with about
255 pages and each week I copy. into
it the veterinary prescriptions. They
are first-class and llp—lo-date and l
surely profit from them.

I have been a reader of the. Michigan
Farmer for a long time—F. \l'. B., D.
V. M.

LIME MAKES EFFICIENT HUMANS.

HE twenty-four Finnish athletfi at

the International Athletic Meet in
Antwerp, Belgium, last summer we
second place for their country in
field of more than one thousand se-
lected contestants, and this fact is con-
nected with the good supply of lime

in their diet by an article in a recent

number of the Physical Culture Maga-
zine. The article reviews the peoples

Own use.
favorable this season for roducin
this. M p_ . E

T H E M i cal e IAN,- *1? as MER

of the earth of notable physical and
mental development and hardy consti-
tution, and points out that they have
used food that supplies much lime. It
states that tuberculosis and other dis-
eased conditions are combated by lime
in the diet. The strong functioning of
the body muscles is favored by lime.

On the other hand, the writer points
out that the modern tendency to refine
foods robs the human of these con-
stituents that carry the lime, thus
causing human disorders. The obvi-
ous suggestion is to introduce more
lime into the diet.

OUR LARGE POTATO SHIPPING
POINTS.

TATISTICS furnished by the Unit-

ed States Bureau of Markets indi-
cate that Hart, Traverse City, Green-
vilIe and Tustin are the four largest
shipping points for potatoes in Michi-
gan. The figures are those compiled
for the years 1916 to 1920, inclusive,
and are the only ones available on this
subject.

They show that in 1916 Hart led the
state with 584 cars, Traverse City sec-
ond with 514 cars; Greenville third
with 465 cars, and Tuslin fourth with
145 cars. In 191.7 Traverse City took
the lead with 474 cars; Greenville sec-
ond with 465 cars; Hart third with 381
cars, and Tustin fourth. Hart again
took the lead in 1918 with 388 cars;
Greenville second with 371 cars; Trav-
erse City third with 242 cars, and Tus-
tin fourth with 136.

In 1919 Hart led with 423 cars; Tus-
tin second with 386 cars; Traverse

City third with 364 cars, and Green-i
Last year '

ville fourth with 295 cars.
Traverse City climbed into first place
with 420 cars; Hart second with 292
cars; Greenville third with 289 cars,
and ’l‘ustin fourth with 177 cars.

HOW TO SAVE THE EXPENSE.
ERE is the way that I reduce my
automobile tire expense. Take an

old tire that has been rim-cut and cut
the bead on both sides of the tire.
Make small holes in the tire the size
of a No. 9 wire about four and a half-
inches apart. Cut pieces of N0. 9 wire
four and a hall" inches long and make
books on both ends. Let all of the air
out. of the good tire and then apply the
old casing. Then take a piece of N0.
9 wire and run it through the hooks
and tighten as taut as convenient, in-
llate and you will get twice the mile
age out of your tire.

I have a tire fixed in this way that
was blown out about. September 10 and
considered worthless, but I am using
the same tire yet. One can get com-
mon belt hooks for about seven cents
per dozen, but the home-made wire
hooks only cost seventeen cents for
two tires. It is worth trying—Dr.
F. W. B.

BRIEFLY TOLD.

More miles of improved roads were
built in this country during the season
now closing than in any other year of
our history, about 14,000 miles being
constructed by the various states in
conjunction with federal aid.

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Experiments conclusively show that
the protein of tomato seed contain all
the amino acids essential to the growth
of animals and also sufficient water-
soluble vitamines. Thousands of tons
of tomato seeds are wasted each year
by the tomatopulping plants.

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To date 10,000 Guernsey cows have
been admitted to the Advanced Regis-
try. Of these animals 3,581 gave an
average of 10,423.59 pounds of milk
and an averagel of 517.63 pounds of
butter-fat.

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131d you grow your own alfalfa seed
this year? John Proctor, of Perry, har-
vested thirty—two bushels fro'm twelve
acres this year. Other farmers in dif-
ferent sections of the state have se
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factory in every way.

have plowed 30 acres
this winter. My tractor
was very saving on
gasoline and oil. con-
sidering the condition
of the ground. The last
ground I plowed was
frozen 3 inches deep.

I have handled tract-
ors of other makes, but
this tractor has more
power for its size than 2 _
any otractor I ever saw. ‘ ‘ ' ~a'

Respectfully. C. P. SMITH. Aurora. Chia-

 

Gentlemen:

Have used the Whitney a year and am very much
pleased with results. During the spring of I918 l
plowed |06 acres and fitted 56 acres for farmers
who were shortest of help. While the land is hilly
l have always plowed right through and have never
had to use low speed except on tough joint grass
sod. I firmly believe the Whitney is the best farm
tractor on the market today.

ARTHUR LOPUS, Waterford. Pa.

Gentlemen :

We have had our tractor since March I9I9 and
used it for all kinds of work. We plowed and
disced 36 acres of oats and 34 acres of corn. using
a double disc and spring tooth harrow at the same
time when other people had their tractors stored
away on cement floors to keep
them from sticking in the
mud. This fall we plowed

aBout 32 acres for wheat and
...; double disced the same. We
% "3 had some ground that was
never plowed over three inches
deep until this fall when our
Whitney. fOIIOWed by a P. G: 0.
gang plow. went through to a
depth of eight inches. The
neighbors were surprised to see it uII two bottoms
eight inches deep —— said they can d not see where
it had the power. I claim that the Whitney is
one of the best investments any farmer can make.

JOHN INWALLE. Minster. Ohio.

 

Gentlemen:

I want to say a word of commendation about the
Whitney tractor I bought last spring. I am
pleased with it for two
reasons. It has the
power to do the work
and its light weight en-
ables me to use it on
clay land without un-
duly packing it. And
in wet times it is always
ready to do its duty—and does it.

W. W. BILSING. Creetline. Ohio.

 

 

  
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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would have to come down in fairness to the farmer.
Common sense told us that if we concentrated the
entire force of a five million dollar company on the
, manufacture of just this one proved-up type and
model -- if, instead of turning out merely a thousand

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HE Whitney Tractor Company, manufacturers of 16 years’ standing in
the tractor industry, announce a new, unparalleled price on the Whitney
tractor-4595-«complete, no extra parts to buy.

This price, made possible only through huge production, without a doubt
shatters all former standards of tractor value.
It brings the price of this sturdy, field-proven machine down to a level squarely in line with today’s price of
farm products -- to a place where practically every farmer in the country can afford to buy.

It marks a new epoch in the tractor industry.

or fifteen hundred tractors a year we actually built
thirty thousand in a season -- then we could certainly
produce this one tractor at a lower price than any-
one in the world had ever equaled -- at a price so
reasonable that every farmer could afford to buy.
Common hard work did the rest. The result is

A Real Utility Tractor--a Standard, Two-plow Machine at a

Price no Higher Than the Cost of a Good Team of Horses.

The Whitney is not new. For 16 years Whitney-built tractors have
been proving their economy and reliability under the most adverse
operating conditions. And this new-price Whitney is the self-same
quality-built machine -- simply produced on a larger scale to sell at a new, low
price. Note the specifications. Never before has a tractor with the enormous
reserve power capacity, the adaptability to all kinds of work - belt and draw-bar

-- been produced to sell at such a bed-rock price.

Here is the opportunity you have been waiting for -- here is your chance to buy
this dependable machine at a fair, square price you can easily afford. Once you
know this reliable outfit you’ll agree it is the biggest tractor value on the market .

Your dealer will be glad to give you the com-
plete information on the Whitney--or a card
to us will bring you full facts. Get the com-
plete information and then decide. Write today.

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Brief Specifications

POWER—9 H. P. on drawbar; l8 H. P. on belt.

DIMENSIONS—Length I23‘”: width 56”; height, 58".

WElGl-lT— Domestic shipping. 3000 lbs. Boxed for export 3900 “59.

TRANSMISSION—Selective. 3 forward——- l%. 2% and 4 miles per hour.
Reverse 2 M. P. H. All gears forged, steel cut and hardened. rum
nine in oil.

MOTOR—[Cylinder opposed type. 5%” bore. 6%” stroke—750 rev.
per minute.

GOVERNOR—Whitney Special fly ball type. lnclosed. gear driven.

FULLEY—Dlrect driven from crankshaft. Size H” diameter by 6%"
face. Clutch controlled. Pulley regular equipment.
FENDERS—Pressed steel over rear wheels. Regular equipment.

The Whitney is a sturdy, time-tested, field-proven tractor, built to pull
two l4” plows or operate a 22”x 34‘” thresher. It has the traction.
strength and reserve power found in the best of the two-plow jobs built.

It has not been “rated up." Instead, it is under-rated. Bearings all over-
aized; drive wheels 6 inches larger than found‘ on the average 2-plow
machine. No extras to buy. A one-man tractor that will plow 6% to 7
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Early in the afternoon, as they ap-
proached the town whose name in
bold-face had made him sure that it
Was the one where he would be given
to the police, Eaton rang for the porter
again.

“Will you get me paper and an en-
velope?” he asked.

“You want to write?” Connery asked.

“Yes.”

“You understand that anything you
write must be given to me unsealed.”

“That’s satisfactory to me. I don’t
believe that, even though it is unseal-
ed, you’ll take it upon yourself to
read it.”

The conductor looked puzzled, but
sent the porter for some of the sta-
tionery the railroad rurnlshed for pas-
sengers. The negro brought paper,
and pen and ink, and set up the little
table in front of Eaton; and when they
had left him and had locked the door,
Eaton wrote:

Miss Santoine:

The questions-all of them—that
you and others have asked me you are
going to find answered very soon-—
within a few hours, it may be, cer-
tainly‘ within a few days-wthough they
are not going to be answered by me.
When they are answered, you are g0-
ing to think me the most despicable
kind of man; you are not going to
doubt, then for the answers will not
let you doubt—that I was the one who
hurt your father. You, and every one
else, are going to feel—not only be-
cause of that, but because of what you
will learn about me-v—that nothing that
may happen to me will be more than
I justly deserve.

I don’t seem to care very much
what people other than you may think;
as the time grows nearer, I feel that
I care less and less about that; but I
do care very much—and more and
more—that you are going to think of
me in this way. It. is very hard for
me to know that you are going to re-
gret that you ever let me talk with
you in the friendly way you did, or
that you let me walk beside you on
the station platform at Spokane, and
that you are going to shrink with hor-
ror when you recollect that you let
me touch you and put my hand upon
your arm. I feel that you do not yet
believe that it was I who attacked
your father; and I ask you—even in
face of the proof which you are so
soon to receive—not to believe it. I
took this train—

He stopped writing, recollecting that

the letter was to be given to Connery
unsealed and that Connery might read
it; he scratched out the sentence he
had begun; then he thought a moment
and went on:
I ask you not to believe that. More
than that, I ask you—when you have
learned who I am—still to believe in
men I don’t ask you to defend me
agalnst others; you could not do that,
for you will see no one who will not
'hate and despise me. But I beg of you,
in all honesty and faith, not to let
yourself feel as they do toward me. I
want you to believe——

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he felt that Harriet Santoine would
not believe what he was asking her
to believe; instead, it was because he
knew she would. Mechanically he op-
ened his traveling—bag and got out a
cigar, bit off the end and forgetting in
his absorption to light it, puffed and
sucked at it. The future was sure
ahead of him; he foresaw it plainly,
in detail even, for what was happening
to him was only the fulfillment of a
threatrwhich had been over him ever
since he landed at Seattle. He was

going out of life—not only Harriet San-
toine’s life, but all life, and the letter
he was writing would make Harriet
death to have

Santoine believe his

ery stop. Several people got on the
train here; others got off; so Connery,
obviously, was not preventing those
who had been on the train when San-
toine was struck, from leaving it now.
Eaton, as he saw Connery make the
signal for the train to go ahead, sank
back suddenly, conscious of the sus-
pense he had been under.

He got out the railroad folder and
looked ahead to the next town where
he might be given up to the authori-
ties; but when they rolled into this in
the late afternoon the proceedings
were no different. Eaton could not
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been an act of injustice, of cruelty.
She could not help but feel that she
herself had been in a way instrument-
al in his death, since it was the accu-
sation of violence against her father
which was going to show who he was
and so condemn him. Dared he, dying,
leave a sting like that in the girl’s
life?

He continued to puff at the unlight-
ed cigar; then, mechanically he struck
a match to light it. As the match
flared up, he touched it to the sheet
on which he had been writing, held
the paper until the written part was
all consumed, and dropped it on the
floor of the car, smiling down at it
wryly and grimly. He would go out
of Harriet Santoine’s life as he had
come into it—no, not that, for he had
come into it as one who excited in her
a rather pleasing doubt and curiosity,
but he would go out of it as a man
whom she must hate and condemn;
to recall him would be only painful to
her, so that she would try to kill with-
in her all memory of him.

As he glanced to the window, he
saw that they were passing through
the outskirts of some place larger than
any they had stopped at before; and
realizing that this must be the place
he had picked out on the map as the
one where they would give him to the
police, he closed his traveling bag and
made ready to go with them. The
train drew into the station and stop-
ped; the porter, as it slowed, had un-
locked and opened the door of his com-
partment, and he saw Connery outside
upon the platform; but this was no
different from their procedure at ev-

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they would pass the Montana state
line into North Dakota. Didn’t they
intend to deliver him to the state au-
thorities in Montana?

When the waiter brought his sup-
per, Connery came with him.

“You wrote something today?” the
conductor asked.

“I destroyed it.”

Connery looked keenly around the
compartment. “You brought me two
envelopes, there they are. You also
brought three sheets of paper; here
are two, and there’s what’s left of the
other on the floor.”

Connery seemed satisfied.

“Why haven’t you jailed me?” Eaton
asked.

“We’re waiting to se how things go
with Mr. Santoine.”

“Has he been conscious?”

Connery did not answer; and
through the conductor’s silence Eaton
sensed what the true condition of af-
fairs must be. To give him up to the
police would make public the attack
upon Santoine; and until Santoine
either died or» recovered far enough to
be, consulted by them, neither Avery
nor Connery—nor Connery’s superiors
apparently—dared to take the respon-
sibility of doing this. So Eaton would
be carried along to whatever point
they might reach when Santoine died
or became fully conscious. Where
would that be? Clear to Chicago?

It made no material difference to
him, Eaton realized, whether the po-
lice took him in Montana or Chicago,
since in either case recognition of him
would be certain in the end; but in
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mediate, complete, and utterly con-
vincing.

' The next day the weather had mod-
erated, or—here in North Dakota—it
had been less severe; the snow was
not deep except in the hollows, and on
the black, windswept farmlands some
sprouts of winter wheat were faintly
showing. The train was traveling
steadily and faster than its regular
schedule; it evidently was running as
a special, some other train takingvthe
ordinary traffic; it halted now only at
the largest cities. In the morning it
crossed into Minnesota; and in the
late afternoon, slowing, it rolled into
some large city which Eaton knew
must be Minneapolis or St. Paul. All
day he had listened for sounds in the

Santoine car, but had heard nothing;

the routine which had been establish-
ed to take care of him had gone on
through the day, and he had seen no
one but Connery and the negro, and
his questions to them had been un-
answered.

The car here was uncoupled from
the train and picked up by a switch
engine; as dusk fell, Eaton, peering
out of his window, could see that they
had been left lying in the railroad
yards; and about midnight, awakening
in his berth, he realized that the car
will still motionless. He could account
for this stoppage in their progress
only by some change in the condition
of Santoine. Was Santoine sinking, so
that they no longer dared to travel?
Was he, perhaps—dead?

No sounds came to him from the car
to confirm Eaton in any conclusion;
there was nothing to be learned from
any one outside the car. A solitary
man, burly and alert, paced quietly
back and forth below Eaton’s window.
He was a guard stationed to prevent
any escape while the car was motion-
less in the yard.

Eaton lay for a long time, listening
for other sounds and wondering what
was occurring—01" had occurred——
the other end of his car. Toward morn-
ing he fell asleep.

CHAPTER XI.
Publicity Not Wanted.

ASIL SANTOINE dying!
Lawyer taken ill on train!”
The alarm of the cry came to
answer Eaton’s question early the next
morning. As he started up in his berth,
he shook himself into realization that
the shouts were not merely part of an
evil dream;
the cry outside the car window. He
threw up the curtain and saw a vag-
rant newsboy, evidently passing
through the railroad yards to sell to
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A Real Love Story
Our Met/y Sermon—By. N. .4. Mchme

HE Song of Solomon has long

been a favorite with Bible read-

ers. It contains many exquisite
passages, such as these: “Who is he
that looketh forth in the morning, fair
as the moon, clear as the sun, terrible
as an army with banners?” “I am a
rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.”
“My beloved is mine and I am his: He
feedeth his flock among the lilies.”
“Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.” And
this is the gist of the story that we
find in this beautiful, ancient book. It
seems that a wonderfully attractive
maiden is seen by King Solomon on
one of his journeys. She is persuaded
or forced to go to his palace. There
the king hopes to win her love, for as
yet she does not take kindly to his at-
tentions. Solomon, unfortunately, is
a man of many wives. The king tries
flattery, presents, promises of wealth
and social station, but all to no avail.
She remains faithful to the mountain
lover, who is at work feeding his flock
on the far-off hills. As she thinks of
him, she imagines she sees him com-
ing to take her away from her enforc-
ed confinement in the king’s palace.
She greets him rapturously. His com-
ing is like the arrival of spring after
the snow is gone, like the coming of
soldiers after a siege. “Behold, he
cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping upon the hills. My beloved
is like a roe or a young hart.” And
then, in a dream she imagines she is
looking for her lOVer. Out in the
streets of the city at night she asks
the watchmen to help her find him.
Suddenly she finds him. She is beside
herself with delight and will not let
him go. But alas, she wakens, and it.
is a dream.
Solomon is coming. His gorgeous
litter is surrounded by six armed
men, the giants of his army. The peo-
ple throng their sovereign, and the
procession moves on. But the maiden
is thinking of her lonely lover far
away. “Behold thou art fair, my be-
loved, behold, thou are fair. Thy hair
is like a flock of boats that lie along
Mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a
flock of ewes that are newly shorn.”
Solomon may think she is talking
about him, but he is mistaken. Her
innocent thoughts are on the silent
hills, where a strongly thewed young
man is feeding his sheep. '

N Chapters 6-7 the king makes a

final effort to woo and win her. He
tells her she will be queen if she will
but consent. She will live among the
select ladies of the royal household.
But she remains true to the rustic
youth of her choice. “I am my belov-
ed’s, and he is mine.” The king has
lost all the gallantry of a true gentle-
man, and he sets her free. He can-
not but admire the constancy and de«
votion of this beautiful peasant lass.
Just where she finds the object of her
affection, we do not know. But she
finds him somewhere, and then comes
the final outburst of this heroic girl,
when she sings, “For love is as strong
as death, jealousy is cruel as Sheol;
the flashes thereof are flashes of fire,
as very flame of Jehovah. Many wa-
ters cannot qunech love, neither can
the'floods drown it.”

This is but one interpretation of
the Song ‘of Songs. The old interpre-
tation is that which pictures the love
described as that of Christ and the
church. Many people will prefer the
old interpretation. To think of the
whole book as a love poem, however,
gives it greater meaning to many read~
ers than the old interpretation. There
is another tale similar to this, that

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literature by Longfellow. It is, of
(curse, the tale of Evangeline. French,
pioneers had settled in Nova Scotia,l
but the British government deported‘
them in 1775. The night before the;
soldiers marched the French farmersi
down to the shore and compelled them‘
to get into boats and sail away, Evan-
geline and Gabriel had had the de-
light of seeing the marriage papers
prepared. The ceremony was to take
place the next day. But in the con-
fusion and terror of embarking, Gab-
riel was separated from his beloved.
Gabriel sails away with his father,
while Evangeline is left with her fath-
er on the shore.

 

ERE begins the lifelong search of"

the maiden for her lover, not un-,
like that of the peasant lass in the;
Song of Songs. But Evangeline’si
search was to continue until old age“I
Sometimes she lingers in towns, scan-l
ning the faces of passersby, and malt—l
ing inquiry of all classes of people.i
Then she journeys on to other towns}
and so the endless quest is repeatedfl
At times she visits cemeteries, and!
reads the epitaphs. thinking that per"
haps she might find the name of her
Gabriel. One day she gets word that
he is a hunter in far-off Louisiana?

Then comes the long journey down the!

Ohio, the Mississippi, in the company
of the good priest whom she has

known from childhood. and her father,
At evening the songs of the Arcadian:

boatme‘n resound among the dense fol-
iage of the southern forests. \Vild
'birds fly up with strange screams, and
they hear the alligator splash into the
river. They find Basil, Gabriel’s fath~
er. He tells them that Gabriel has
gone on a trapping expedition the day
before. They follow. At night they
sometimes find the Cinders of his camp
fire, only twenty-four hours old. At
last at a mission they stop. Gabrieli
and his guides have been there only.E
six days before, and he had spoken of
the maiden he loved, but had lost.
Then came the rumor that Gabriel had
journeyed to the north, and was in
Michigan, camping along the Saginaw
river. Once again she is on the march.

 

By canoe and stage and saddle

travels the miles on miles, and arrives
at the Saginaw river, only to find the
hunters gone and the lodge in ruins.

OMETIMES she enters military

camps and watches the faces of the;
soldiers, if perchance one may prove
to be that’of Gabriel. Old age comes
on and she takes up her abode in Phil-
adelphia, for she likes the simple ways
of the Quakers. A pestilence sweeps
the city. Everyone who has skill in
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Hundreds of thousands of acres of waste stump land
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ed into service. None is more tireless
than Evangeline. She becomes a sis-
ter of mercy. One day she comes upon
an old man, dying. It is Gabriel. She
kneels by the bedside. “0, Gabriel!”
He opens his eyes and looks at her,
but cannot speak. Instantly he is
Acadia, and there is the village with
its white cottages, and there, coming
down the street from therchurch, is
Evangeline. He looks at her again
and tries to get up. In a few minutes
his head upon her breast, he breathes
his last, and she murmurs,“ Father, I
thank thee.”

This is the story that is nearest like
that of the Song of Songs that is
known. And both are types of the
love of Christ for the soul. The soul
goes on through the world, here, there,
everywhere, eluding the patient Lover
who would woo and win. He never
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By Redeem R. Bailey

LTHOUGH so many delicious
A and really wholesome cakes and

confections can be bought ready
made now, we always at Christmas
time fall back on the old—fashioned,
home—made cakes, cookies and candies.
Real “old country” Christmas goodies
seem to possess more charm than any
others and the recipes for the same
are usually most jealously guarded by
the cooks who use them.

One family would not feel as though
it were Christmas if their dinner’ table
could not boast a real English plum
pudding and fruit cake. Another old
lady always made \Velsh cakes at the
holiday time and these cakes were
molded in a shell that was brought
from Wales by her grandmother.

Dark cookies, fruit cake, and plum
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better by ripening, or curing several
weeks, hence the Christmas baking of-
ten begins about Thanksgiving time,
at the latest the week az‘rcr. One can
do a small amount at a lime in this
way and not feel as though the baking

is such a task as it \1 oulrl be ii it were
all done at one smoke.
To make the Christmas baking a

success and have it all run smoothly
have on hand a supply 01' tiavorings,
spices, seeds—caraway, anise, carda-
mon, and tree]. Also cocoa, chocolate,
shredded cocoanui, light and dark
brown sugar, granulated and confec-
tioners’ sugar, and the colored sugar
candy, or cake candy. Nuts, raisins,
dates and figs are useful, also any-
thing else in that line you may happen
to think of or see in the stores.

For your Christmas fruit cake use
your common year-round recipe and
“cram” it with as many raisins, nuts,
currants and candied peel as you can
possibly knead and mixrinto it. Bake
in loaf tins and cover with thin icing.
When cooled wrap in waxed paper and
put away in a carefully covered and
locked box until Christmas.

Useyour ordinary suet pudding 'reci-
pe for the plum pudding and give it

the extra touch by stuffing it as you

did the fruit cake. All candied peel
should be sliced very thin or put
through the food- chopper. Put the
pudding away in the same box with
the fruit cake and steam t_1ll hot just

. before using.

   

turn the attention to small cakes and
cookies. For white cookies use your
best and most dependable cooky mix-
ture. They should be thin and brittle
when baked, and melt as eaten. Be-
fore flavorng the batter, or dough, di-
vide it in three or four portions and
work into each portion a. different flav-
oring. Lemon, vanilla, orange (the
juice), anise, coriander, almond, cin-
namon and clove flavors are all deli-
cious. The dough should be put out-
side until it is very cold. It can be
mixed one day and baked the next if
one wishes. The next step is cutting
the cookies, for which you should have
a supply of fancy cutters, animals,
birds, chickens, stars, hearts, etc, as
well as square, oblong, and round.
Many people exchange cutters with
their neighbors, thus obtaining a great-
er variety of cakes. Spread thin icing
on some witl: a raisin or almond or
other nut meat in the center and then
sprinkle the whole with cake candy. A
deep frosting should be put on some
and covered thickly with shredded co-
coanut, or a nut meat pressed into the
center. The small plain shapes, such
as round, square, or oblong may be
put together two and two in sandwich
style with a plain frosting between, or
with a combination frosting and plain
or iced tops. By using plain white
icing with fruit or nut combinations
and the same with plain chocolate ic-
ing one may produce twenty-five or
more cakes all from the same dough.

A favorite Christmas cake is Pffefer-
nussen, or pepper nuts. Flavor a por-
tion of your cooky dough with anise
flavor or work into it a teaspoonfull of
anise seeds. Roll out and cut in half
or three-quarter-inch squares and bake.
You will want several quarts of these.

Some of the plain shaped cookies
with a dark icing are nice made into
“name cakes.” “Take macaroni letters
used for soups and press them into
the icing while soft, spelling the names
of members of the family and guests.
These make ideal place cards for the
Christmas dinner table and cause
much delight among the children.
Make some dark cakes by mixing a
square of melted chocolate into a por-
tion of dough. Sandwich some of
these with white filling with a white
or brown top icing.

A favoritemixture for brown cook-
ies is as follows:

One cup molasses, one cup shorten-
ing, one-half cup warm water or cot-
fee, one teaspoonful soda, one-half tea.-
spoonful baking powder, one cup of
brown sugar, and several cardamon
seeds pounded fine.

Mix the above ingredients in an ena-
mel or aluminumware pan and let it
come to a boil on the range. Let it
get perfectly cold and add two well-
beaten eggs and flour to make a stiff
dough.

Instead of the cardaman seeds on
may use lemon, cloves and cinnamon,
in the same dough. Another variation
is to add a cupful of chopped nuts or
fruit, using one fruit alone or com-
prising raisins, figs and dates.- By mix-
ing a quantity of dough at a'time and
keeping in a cold place the cookies
may be baked whenever one has the
inclination and a hot oven.

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To school each day; she lost her
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’Til Mary’s school served every day
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EVERYDAY USES FOR COMMON
SALT.

 

BY GRACIA SHULL.

IF Clothespins freeze to the clothes
on the line soak them in hot salt
water for a few moments then use and
they will never freeze fast again.
Throw a\little salt in the last rinse
water and; the week’s wash will not
freeze. Place a tablespoonful of: coarse
salt in the kitchen drain at night just
before retiring and the trap, or drain,
will never freeze. Sprinkle a little fine
salt on top of the hot stove then hold
plumes over this and they will curl
naturally and beautifully. If grease
gets on fire on top of the stove throw
salt on it. This will put out the blaze
instantly. Fill the old hot-water bottle
with hot salt and use for pains of any
kind instead of hot water—it holds the
heat longer and may be heated in the
oven or on radiator.

L'se equal parts of salt and vinegar
to clean brass and copper. Place
cracked ice and salt in the'rubber wa-
ter bottle and use in case of headache
or fever when a cold compress is de~
sired. Sprinkle coarse salt on the as-
paragus bed and along cracks in ce-
ment or brick walks. This will kill
every weed it touches, also it is good
for the asparagus. Beautiful beads and
ornaments are made of salt and corn—
starch in certain proportions.

THE S'ULKY CHILD.
4——

HARD type of child to deal with

and one that tries our patience, is
the sullen child. He makes no outlet
for himself like the angry child who
vents his temper in screams and pas—
sionate talk. His bad temper works
all on the inside. He broods over the
trouble, distorting and enlarging it by
dwelling upon it. He usually refuses
comfort or sympathy and seems to en-
joy shutting himself away from every-
one. He is usually a sensitive child—
shy, lacking confidence in himself, in-
clined to dwell upon himself too much.
What can) we do with such a child?
He won’t talk the trouble out, like the
high-tempered child, and it is unwise
to put him by himself as you would
the high-tempered child. Give him
something to be busy about just as
soon as possible. Work is even more
necessary for him than for any other
type of child, for we must get him out
of himself. if possible, have him work
where he will have the companionship
of his brothers and sisters, or perhaps
he can help you in what you are doing.
Work is a blessing for most persons,
but for no one more than for the child
who is inclined to live his little life
inside of himself. This type of child
is usually reserved and takes things
hard but to the few people he 'loves
he gives a wealth of affection and loy-
alty and usually he has a deep, strong
nature which is sincere and true—-
National Kindergarten Association.

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No. 3527. Ladies’ Dress. Cut in
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Cut

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DON’T FRIGHTEN THE BABY.

'BY MRS. E. M. ANDERSON.

T isn’t generally supposed that bab—

ies or young children pay any at-
tention to news items or other matter
which their elders chance to read
aloud, or that they would understand
it if they did, but it would often be
Well to be much more careful than we
are about these things; the little brain
is alert and active, the child hears
what we least suspect, and no human
being can anticipate what unexpected
meaning will be conveyed to the baby
mind.

My two-year-old girlie was so ter-
ribly frightened by a news account of
some Belgian children who were sep-
arated from their parents and herded
in a box car during the German in-
vasion, that I had a serious time with
her for more than a‘year. Some of
us read the item aloud with no thought
that it would affect the baby, but I
saw at once that she was unduly
alarmed and it soon dawned upon me
that she expected something of the
kind to happen to us. It was useless
to tell her that. no one but herself
wanted niamina and no one but mam-
ma wanted her, and that all these
things happened so far away they
couldn’t come to us. She. still had a
haunting dread that they might. I could
sympathize with her when I recalled
with what horror 1 had heard an ac-
count of cannibalism in my very early
childhood and how surely I had ex-
pected to be eaten. The fact that the
child is not easily reassured indicates
no lack of confidence either in the ver-
acity of the parents or in their care
and protection; I know, because I re-
member distinctly thinking that my
people didn’t believe cannibals would
get me and that they would surely
protect me if they could, but I was
horribly afraid the savages would sur-
prise them some day and maybe eat
us all. A child has no comprehension
of distance and when he knows a thing
happens anywhere, why not on mam-
ma’s lawn or in her garden?

My own little girl’s fear of German
invaders took rather an amusing, but
very annoying turn one day when I
had company. A friend and neighbor,
who had spent several years in the
west, was home with his bride. Being
a teacher and very much in demand,
he began teaching here soon after his
return. He wanted to make friends
with her but she was very suspicious.
The climax came when he told her he
had a great many more little girls in
his school room every day. How she
screamed! She clung to me with all
her might and was so evidently terri‘
fied that I didn’t dare refuse to cuddle
her. I had to take her to another
room and it was almost impossible to
leave the baby to bid them goodby.
She screamed every time she saw that
man, and the terribly frightened look
in her eyes warned me that I must be
careful with her, for it was no com-
mon fear. I soon discovered that she
thought he was the German who stole
those Belgian children and now he
had come for her.

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How THEY CURE F‘ORK IN
MISSOURI. .

HE Missouri College of Agricul-

ture gives the following formula
for dry-curing 1,000 pounds of pork:
Fine, clean salt, 40 lbs; white or brown
sugar, 10 lbs; white or black pepper,
4 lbs; red pepper, l/z'lb; mix thor-
oughly. Each piece of meat should be
rubbed with fine, clean salt and al-
lowed to stand in a pile from six to
twenty-four hours so that the bloody
serum can drain out.

Rub each piece of meat thoroughly
with the dry-curing mixture. Be espe-
cially careful that the cure reaches
the muscles around the ends of the
bones of the hams and shoulders. Pile
the meat carefully, with the skin down,
in a cool, airy place. Avoid damp,
musty cellars. The pile should not be
more than three feet deep. Repeat the
application in three days. ‘The third
application may be made in five or six
days after the second. In general, al-
low the meat to cure a day and a half
for each pound. After this treatment
it should. be thoroughly cured.

Wash the meat with warm water
and remove any extra curing mixture.
Wipe it dry and hang for smoking.
Smoking may be done with hickory,
oak, apple, or any wood except that of
the pine family. Twenty-five smudges
will give a good mild smoke. The
amount of smoking, however, will de-
pend upon the taste of the consumer.
The meat should be carefully‘wrapped
or sacked to keep out skippers.

HOME QUERIES.

Household Editor:—I have found
many articles of interest in your col-
umns and would like to ask your ad-
vice about cake baking, as to the rule
of putting ingredients together, and
why my cakes are coarse-grained.
This is my common rule—break an
egg in a cup, fill hole half full with
butter, remainder milk, add to one cup
of sugar, and beat, salt, flavor and
flour.——Mrs. A. P.

The right way to put a cake togeth-.

er, so as to secure a fine,grained, per-
fect product is as follows:

Cream butter, beating with a spoon,
add sugar gradually, and after this,
egg yolks beaten separately until they
are lemon colored and thick. Sift the
ingredients together, sift flour before
it is measured, and add to the first
mixture alternately with the milk.
Last of all cut and fold in the stifily
beaten whites of the eggs. Do not beat
the cake after whites are added. To
cut and fold, out through the mixture
with a knife or side of a wooden
spoon, and fold by turning the spoon
completely over.

Coarse sugar makes a coarse-grain-
ed cake. The finest granulated sugar
should be used. Bread flour gives a.
thick compact cake. Cake or pastry
flour should be used to get the best
results. ’ x

The pans should be buttered and
floured, or lined with buttered paper.
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Almost as much depends upon the
baking as on the mixing. Have noth-
ing else in the oven, and keep the cake
as near the center as possible. The
oven should be moderately hot: at the
beginning. During the first period the
cake should rise, that is, it should rise
before the crust forms. If the crust
forms too quickly, the oven is too hot
and the cake will rise unevenly and
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The Pathfinders,

[WW/y Arrive; (12‘ H 67' H 07716

By film
ILLY eyed the road ahead ap-
prehensively. For miles back

the flivver had fought a steadily
losing fight with the sand, and on the
last rise of ground had shown signs of
early demise. But so far standardiza-
tion had triumphed. If they were work-
ing out towards a firm road they
might pull through, but in answer to
her question, which she tried hard to
make unconcerned, Bob assured her
the worst was yet to come.

It came suddenly. There was a sin-
ister snap, the rear wheels settled re-
signedly into the sand, simultaneously
with a last weak chug from the en-
gine, and,a strong “Damn” from Bob.

Though a wife of but six hours Milly
wisely choked down a desire to laugh.
It really Was funny to be stuck in the
wilds with a disabled tlivver on the
first lap of your honeymoon, but Bob
was too busily engaged in expressing
his views on the total depravity of in-
animate objects to see any humor in
the situation. Milly ineekly climbed

, out, and with more than human intel-

ligence, forbore to make a suggestion.
While Bob donned coveralls, she wan-
dered up the road interestedly taking
in this new country which was to be
her home.

It was all so different from her own
county with its rolling fields of rich
10am, its luxuriant gardens, big com-
fortable houses, shaded by long—linibed
aims and graceful maples. its orchards,
and its barns bursting with the fruits
of harvest.

Here in the infrequent clearings
were stretches of sand dotted with
blackened stumps and forlorn looking
shacks ot’ unpainted boards, or of logs,
on which the sun beat down merci-
lessly. An occasional morning—glory
struggled for existence at, the windows,
and in rare instances a poplar had at:
tained some size. Even the. weeds
Showed none of the vigor which Milly
remembered in those she had been
fighting since she had her first garden
at the mature age of five years, and
the grass was a sort of sickly growth
in scattered patches. Could it be pos-
sible that her new home was no better
than this? Bob had told her not to
expect any such country as she was
leaving, but she had not thought any-
thing like this could exist in Michigan,
and within one hundred miles of where
she had spent twenty-two wellted easy
years.

Bob’s whistle put an end to her
wanderings. She hurried back to see
what he had accomplished.

“There’s a leak in the gas tank, both
front wheels wobble, and the rear axle
is cracked, but-I’ve moved her forty
rods,” he grinned cheerfully. “Sit light
and don’t breathe oftener than neces-
sary, and we may yet be saved.”

Milly obeyed his injunctions literal-
ly. As the disabled machine lurched
tipsily through the sand, now bumping
over logs left from the old corduroy
pike, now suddenly descending into
bottomless pits, she held her breath
more frequently than the situation de-
manded- It seemed incredible that

. -m.there a few miles to the east was
55% well-kept» mined. With machines

  

   

unevenly. To keep the top as even as
possible; after baking, draw the mix- ..
ture away from the center to the sides
of the pan when you pour it in. H ig [1 G r a d e
If fruit is to be mixed throu h the .
. g Grand Rapids
cake add it to the butter and sugar. .
It may be dredged with flour and put Made Furniture
in layers, alternating layers of cake
mixture with layers of fruit.
Regarding house building. We used
several articles on house planning last
spring. Some time in the near future
we‘ hope to run two or three more.
1
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shooting smoothly along to Detroit and
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the “01m _ , , d Thais All! JustaOne
1' Bob (kept t111p a (lleOllltUL conveizat- Dollar Bill Brings You
i. r‘ ran iron 1 a l . .
1f01 ' {108 f 19 ‘tt1y 1001 (51% when This Elegant Rmbly
0 V11"lll ores over {e
. . g” , 7 Upholstered
Michigan s lumber barons were mak-
ing their fortunes at the expense of F IR E SIDE
posterity. The contrast with the scrub ,
oak and scraggly poplars and birches R 0 C K E R
through which they had been passing simple take a one dollar
struck both into silence. bill.p11’11t_to the coupon
“N 4 ‘ . _ 1 it below. mailit tous,and we
beems a shame that no one tioug 1 , . mu send you this hand-
. ‘ . , , Are 'oniin , on . . . .. some luxurious rocker.
Oi Ub tellows Who Wk ( g Only $1.00 down; then $110 8. month or a total price of only $64.50.
' J ' I v ) ‘ ) ‘ -
“hen ”my 1001‘ ‘10“‘1 “u “10"" “9“ AN AMAZING \'AI.llE.-—Posit;ively the first time that genuine,
and left nothing but 11819." 1301) S‘did first quality Grand Rapids furniture has ever been offered on such
. . . .. . x ,. ‘ 1 _ . easy terms and at such astartling low price. Direct to you from
finally. I! ll” 3 d only stalled ‘1 new the center of the world's most magnificent furniture.
lot growing then 3 ” Look all: it and judge for yourself. Andlreilnember). We ship it on
r. , - , ,. n - , , , . A approva. When you get this beauti u c iair, p ace it in your
[5 It 1'00 Idte now ? Mull ‘ISI‘Ld' ll;)llle.lal}dtllt1%ll, at. thg end of 330 days“, ifyou are not mtge than
N H . , n . . , . -. «- p easet . . List. s iip itl ac to us.an we wi return yourmone . 't
bDObE' not, J‘le" (ltllllltlt‘tl. But this oh“. This l)tll‘g{tlll)l8 special and necessarilylimited. Seudytodg? supr‘éf
that wouldn’t do us IcHOWs any good.” 40D'ESFRIlP'TiiOX :d’l‘tlliis big easy chair is upholstered in GEéV'UlNE rich blrown leather. Itis
u . . . . f . . . . . 1110 res iig . an t e roomy seat is ‘20 by 20 inches, and 0 strong coilet spring construc-
_ But What about .the .olks “.110“ tion. lthasaluxurious sloping-back. fortified by hand tied springs. It has comfortable
Just be starting thirty years from Wide wmg Sides. The rockers arc. of fine mahogany finish. Atrue comfort chair 3 le ‘
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now 9,, Milly persist ed . in appearance and Will last a lifetime.
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A sudden lurch ol the cat itliet ed Easy Payments Send ThlS Coupon .‘IChaffeztiflfig‘co
Bob of the necessity of answeriirr For Hmh’wwl’wme‘tvmbuy o' Dcpt 7019 ' '
. . k h' the famous Grand Rapids furnl. ’O Grand Rapids Mich
several miles driving took all his at- gxymfifigffflgufgig blSimplypinadollar ’o’ Encl‘oseg find $1100. sun;
. ' ‘ . _ ‘ H - ‘lc 't. d d't'n s ewi' a ort'. b' .
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01 plunglng and sullllng and Stilltlng 30 Da 8’ Trial pied... Thisit;oneeyofrthemcsytmI ," keilaiiuihe rot-liter lletivil‘lnaiiay nyoii
ll) '1 aim the cam ' t ton . . (d y ampzmg bargalnaever ofi'er- / 33.00 monthly, or a total rice of
1 .g y ( e 011. U] d 10:). Sendthecouponmdayaudonly eCdin finefurmture. Send "O only S34..>(). If not satisfied. am to
which resembled hard ground, did he 323%?i3‘2rh1‘3i5’2ifih:"vogiTQ'bXfl uggp‘i'r'ankty w! doe. ' argeilcinidiiihfiofigr331$?30days and you
bl'i ’1 t 1 . . / . V ‘ ‘0 boimmonul! planned And remember, not expect our gup—
g 1 (I1 up. It seemed to Milly that ”outweightria‘lgii’dlfhlry;nykch.nnca plyonhmfimmk- ’ Name
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him. His face tell into hard lines, """""""
the corners of his month, which
she had seldom seen except curved in l Sacrifice Sale
SlllllOS, (ll'eVV (10“,11’ lllS (fiVCh‘ Ilitl'l'OW'ed 160 acres, good house. ham. andliue orchard, good

and grew comber. Did the country lay}
its spell on those who tried to force it:
into ways of civilization"? She resoW
lutely drove away the thought.

“He is just tired to death,” she told‘
herself.

The clearing now scented perma-
nent. Farms, neatly fenced and evi-
dently well worked, were on either
side. There had been some attempt to
make the roads passable.

“Five miles more and We’re safe.”
Bob said finally. “Think you can hold
your breath that long?”

The knowledge that she was so near
her new home, was even now passing
the homes of those with whom she
was to neighbor, brought Milly up with
a start. She had been hoping against
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Because she is not laying. Maybe it is not her
fault. A hen is an egg factory. She takes raw
material and manufactures eggs from it. Give
her a food that contains material for 2-3 yolks
and 100 whites and she can lay but 23 eggs.
Balance that ration. Give her material for 100
yolks as well as 100 whites. You can learn about
it in our book .
Feeding For Egg Production

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of those fertile sections which she
knew existed in this part of the state,
but the same evidence of struggle
against odds, which had depressed her
all during the day, continued. They
drove through “The Corners” where
Bob aHSWered the hail of a half dozen;
men, turned sharply to the right, down
a little incline over a bridge across a
tiny stream and into a farmyard.
Milly shut her eyes and winked
hard. The same unpainted shabby
house, a woodbine half shading the
west porch, and a few drooping pan-
sies in a box feebly smiling a welcome.
The barn was big and well kept up,

with water piped to it and to the con- Heifers. poultry. hay. winter's fodder. potatoes. vege-

crete pig pen. A few discouraged look-
ing Biddies stalked and clucked around
a tumble down henhouse.

They were all in the yard before the
loud hunk of the horn had died away.
Milly found herself taking the hand
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spring-watered pasture: lots woo . 100.000 ft. timber.
fruit. 1000 sugar maples; pleasant 8-room house. base-
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plenty wood, six milcs from l‘lvart. good road. Ivlort-
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No. 376.81. »-~Child’s Coat.
Sizes, 2. l, ti and 8 years.

Cut in four
A four-year

size requires 273;; yards of 27—inch ma.-
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No. .‘iTTlmllll‘l'S Dress. Cut in four
Sizes, 2, l, 6 and 8 years. A six-year

size will require 3% yards of 27-inch
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NE day last spring as I stoodin

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I glanced across the street and
saw a flock of White Rocks that be-
longed to one of the last year club
members. My first thought was that
we should begin our poultry work
right away as it was already April and
we wanted an early start. After talk-
ing it over with Mr. Conrad, our sup-
erintendent, I called a meeting for all
those who wanted to join. There were
seven of us present. We eleCted our
officers and club leader.

After the meeting I wrote to Mr.
Kebler, superintendent of the Menom-
inee County Agricultural School, for
information as to where to get our
eggs. He wrote back saying that the
:agricultural school would furnish us
"with three settings of eggs each, if we
would promise to give one of the best
pullets back to the school in the fall
of the year. We all agreed and soon
had our eggs. The club chose the
White Rocks and Barred Rocks, they
being of the general purpose type.

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days to teach us how to judge hens
lfor egg production. He also stated
that the three that could do the best
‘would be entitled to a trip to Chat-
;ham, which is a small town one hun-
ldred and twenty miles from here,
lwhere the State Experimental Farm is
llocated. We had one lesson on judg-
iing hens, and on the ninth of August
we left Stephenson for Chatham.
While there we stayed in tents on
.the farm. The boys were on one side
iof the brook in Bachelor’s Paradise
Eand the girls on the other side in No
;Man’s Land. We had a very good
itime there and with the help of Olive
fBushonville and Milton Corey, my col-
;leagues, we carried away the Upper
iPeninsula Poultry Championship. Of
icourse, that meant that we were en-
;titled to a free trip to the State Fair.

We left Stephenson on September
6 on the 10:00 o’clock train at night
for Detroit, arriving there the follow-
ing night at 6:00 o’clock. From the
;Michigan Central Station we took a
street car to the fair grounds. On en-
tering the grounds one could see in
the distance some club tents. At first
we thought we had to stay there, but
after in'quiring found out that that was
where the boys stayed. The girls were
about a block away in the Alladin
Home.

Club Work

B y H aze/ N eu‘vz'l/e

was model made in butter, of a girl
milking a cow.

In the afternoon the difierent clubs
went on a sight—seeing tour through
the city of Detroit, Palmer Park and
Belle Isle. We drove by the Ford
factory, Ford Hospital, and many oth-
er factories.

Our first stop was at the Michigan
Farmer building, where the Michigan
Farmer paper is printed. Here Mr.
Wilken showed us through the differ-
ent parts, and then took us all over to
the ginger ale factory where the Mich-
igan Farmer treated us to a glass of
ginger ale. We left there and crossed
the Detroit river to Belle Isle. This
island is one of the most beautiful in
the world. From one side can be seen
the city of Detroit and on the other
Canada. We made one stop here at
the Aquarium Where all the different
sea animals are. From there we went
back to the fair grounds. We had
made the round trip of thirty—five
miles which took five and a half hours.

The next morning at 7:00 o’clock
we left Detroit for Lansing on the
Pere Marquette. Here we visited the
State Capitol and Michigan Agricul-
tural College. We left there that night
at 11:00 o’clock for Chicago, where
we stayed that day, and left in the
evening at 9:00 for Stephenson.

We had a very good time and I think
that the boys and girls of the Stephen-
son Poultry Club will be more encour-
aged next year " than they were this
year.

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ber 26 to December 3. These young-
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of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, which
operate under the auspices of the agri-
cultural colleges and the United States
Department of Agriculture cooperat-
ing. Some have raised better calves;
others have grown better corn. Still
others have made better bread—all in
line with their motto “to make the
best better.” Thirty of the forty-eight
states will be represented by state
champions in the various clubs, the
winners being selected from 330,000
competing club members. ,
Among other prominent men who
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The next morning we gave our first
demonstration. At 1:00 o’clock that
afternoon we gave the second one and
judged hens for egg production, and
also spring chickens. After our dem-

for aufum tary of Agriculture H. C. Wallace; ‘ 1
President James R. Howard, of the l

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= We make up any kind of skin to

suit your needs.

J Also Ladlea’ Coats and

Furs. Robes. etc.

We have been in the tanning

business since 1878 and guaran-

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FRE E Book of styles of Men's
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onstrations we went through the dif—
ferent stock buildings. They had a
fine display of horses, sheep, cows,
hogs and chickens. That afternoon we
say a man jump from one flying areo-
plane to another. After supper we
went to the grand stand where they
,pulled off difierent stunts and games.
:They also had some beautiful fire-
‘works. ' '

One of the games was the auto polo
game between the Americans and the
English. This was very exciting, the
score being two to one in favor of the
Americans.

On our way back we enjoyed some

 

 

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of the different rides and went through

 

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morning we went through the main
building and horticulture and dairy
buildings. In the dairy building there

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T. Meredith, former secretary of agri-
cultureand chairman of the national
committee on Boys’ and Girls’ Club
work, under whose auspices the enter
tainment for the week is provided.

On November 29 President Howard
and staff will hold a reception for the
boys and girls \in the general offices of
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. A detailed program for the week
has been worked out.

WWW.

 

Willie Peck went to the city to-get
into some profitable line. He got into
a bee line for home the first week and
Mrs. Peck thinks the big manufactur-
ers must have misjudged Willie or
they would have snapped him up quick

when they had the chance. a

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MICHIGAN YOUNG PEOPLE AT
INTERNATEONAL.
MORE than two score boys and
girls from Michigan are attend-
ing the International Live Stock and
Grain Expositions at Chicago this
week as a reward for their achieve-
ments in club, work. Some of them
were sent by state and county fairs,
some by farm bureaus and some by
commercial concerns. ,

Following is a partial‘ list, as pre-
pared by R A. Turner, of M. A. 0.,
state‘ club leader: Judging team, sent
by Michigan State Fair, Sidney Phil-
lips, Charlotte, Eaton county; William
Peters, Homer, Calhoun county; Reu‘
ben Kinnunen, Keweenaw Bay, Baraga
county; Roscoe Simmons, alternate,
Athens, Calhoun county.

Sent by JaCkson County Fair: Wil-
bur, Norris, Qiiincy, Branch county;
Lawrence Schililng, Quincy; Sheldon
Linde, Manchester, Washtenaw coun-
ty; Ralph Nowak, Chesaning, Saginaw
county; Joseph Bishop, Chesaning;
Vern Diehl, alternate, Davison, Gene-
see county.

Sent by West Michigan State Fair:

Joseph Hickey, Vermontville, Eaton
county; Lynn Smith and Don Bos
worth, Charlotte, Eaton county; Wil‘

son Winegar, alternate, Olivet, Eaton
county.

Sent by Hillsdale County Fair: Fred
Halleck, Osseo; Dayton Lyons, Hills-
dale; Clifton Lyon, Pittsford; Perry
Hastings, alternate.

Sent by Lenawee County Fair: The-

odore Knopf, Blissfield; Perry Raw-
son, Manitou Beach; Melvin Berry,
Tecumseh; Victor Beal, Manitou
Beach.

Sent’by Iron County Fair: Elvin
Christenson, Iron River; Iver Peter-
son, Crystal Falls; Walter Stuk, Iron
River.

Sent by Eaton County Fair: Carol
Kline and Frank Pifer, Charlotte; Rus-
sell Jordan, alternate, Eaton Rapids;
grain judging, Arlo Shumaker, Char-
lotte.

Sent by Wayne County Fair: Starr
Northrop and Geraldine Young, North-
ville.

Sent by Cheboygan County Farm
Bureau: Gertrude Straight, VVolver-
ine; Harlan Steward, alternate, Alan-
son.

Sent by Calhoun County Fair: Ovid
Martin, Athens; Roscoe Simmons, al-
ternate, Athens.

Sent by Washtenaw County Farm
Bureau: Kenneth Ferguson and Har-
ry Sturdevant, Manchester; Francis
Malbach and Le Roy Braun, Ann Ar-
bor; Lynn VVortley, Rushton.

Sent by Branch County Farm Bu-
reau: Clarence Holmes, Quincy; VVal-
ter Weaver, alternate, Brownson.

In addition the state poultry and
corn club champions will be sent by
Armour & Co., ‘and the three state
canning club champions will be sent
by Wilson & 00.

THE BLIND MAN'S EYES.

(Continued from page 534).
the trainmen. Eaton’s guard outside
his window was not then in sight; so
Eaton lifted his window from the
screen, removed that, and hailing the
boy, put out his hand for a paper. He

took it before he recalled that he had

not even a cent; but he looked for his
knife in his trousers pocketand tossed
it out to the boy with the inquiry:
“How’ll that do?” .

The boy gaped, picked it up, grinned
and scampered off. Eaton spread the
news-sheet before him and swiftly
scanned the lines for information as
to the fate of the man who, for four
days, had been lying only forty feet
away from him at the other end of a

The paper~a Minneapolis one—blar-
eé at him that Santoine’s condition
was new low and becoming rapidly

 

date-line, Eaton saw it proclaimed
that the blind millionaire was merely
sick; there was no suggestion any-
where of an attack. The paper stated
only that Basil Santoine, returning
from Seattle with his daughter and his
secretary, Donald Avery, had been tak-
en seriously ill upon a train which had
been stalled for two days in the snow
in Montana. The passenger from whom
the information had been gained had
heard that the malady was appendi-
citis, but he believed that was merely
given out to cover some complication
which had required surgical treatment
on the train. He was definite as re-
garded the seriousness of Mr. San-
toine’s illness and described the meas-
ures taken to insure his quiet. The
railroad officials refused, significantly,
to make a statement regarding Mr.
Santoine’s present condition. There
was complete absence of any sugges-
tion of violence having been done; and
also, Eaton found, there was no word
given out that he himself had been
found on the train. The column ended
with the statement that Mr. Santoine
had passed through Minneapolis and
gone on to Chicago under the care of
Dr. Douglas Sinclair.

Eaton stared at the newspaper with-
out reading, al‘ter he saw that. He
thought first~or rather, he felt first—«
for himself. He had not realized, un«
til now that he was told that Harriet
Santoine had gone—for if her father
had gone on, of course she was with
him—the extent to which he had felt
her fairness, almost her friendship to
him. At least, he knew now that, since
she had spoken to him after he was
first accused of the attack on her fath-
er, he had not felt entirely deserted or
friendless till now. And with this start
of dread for himself, came also feeling
for her. Even if they had taken her
father from the other end of this car
early in the night to remove him to
another special car for Chicago, she
would be still watching beside him on
the train. Or was her watch beside

 

the dying man over now? And now,
if her father were dead, how could:
Harriet Santoine feel toward the one

whom all others—if not herself—ac:
cused' of the murder of her father?
For evidently it was murder now, not
just “an attack.”

But why, if Santoine had been taken
away, or was dead or dying, had they
left Eaton all night in the car in the
yards? Since Santoine was dying,
would there be any longer an object:
in concealing the fact that he had been
murdered?

Eaton turned the page before himn
A large print of a picture of Harriet
Santoine looked at him from the paper
~her beautiful, deep eyes gazing at

 

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him, as he often had surprised her,
frankly interested, thoughtful, yet also
gay. The newspaper had made up its
lack of more definite and extended
news by associating her picture with
her father’s and printing also a photo-
graph of' Donald Avery—“closely asso—
ciated with Mr. Santoine in a confiden-
tial capacity and rumored to be engag-
ed to Miss Santoine.” Under the blind
man’s picture was a biography of the
sort which newspaper offices hold
ready, prepared for the passing of the
great.

Eaton did not read that then. The;
mention in the paper of an engage-f
ment between Avery and Harriet San-
toine had only confirmed the relation
which Eaton had imagined between
them. Avery, therefore, must have
gone on with her; and if she still
watched beside her father, Avery was
with her; and if Basil Santoine was
dead, his daughter was turning to Av-
ery for comfort.

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V Top Quality COCkerels Rocks.Reds.()rpiiigtons,

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straws": LEGHORNS '

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STANDARD-BRED poultry regis-

try association has been organ-

ized for the registration of poul-
try having records as prize winners or
egg producers. Undoubtedly we will
soon hear much more about registered
poultry. However, the general farmer
will not be apt to register birds in his
flocks of poultry in the same manner
as he registers dairy cattle. It will be
more a business of the specialty breed-
er who is to supply foundation stock
to other poultrymen. The registration
of poultry in large numbers seems
rather complicated and until this date
it has never been considered practical
by many poultrymen and probably the
major part of the pure-bred poultry

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann’s Mother who Laid 267
Eggs in a Year.

flocks will not be registered for some
time to come.

When feeding milk to poultry it
pays to use earthen crocks instead of
the shallow pans which are easily tip-
ped over and tracked full of dirt. The
first bird that steps on the brim of a.
small pan places the milk on the
ground and the poultryman cannot af-
ford t0_have any of the feed wasted,
with eggs at the present price. If the
milk creeks are placed on small wood-
en stands in the poultry house they
will not become filled with litter when
the birds are working for their scratch
grain.

Poultry meat is a by-product on
most farms. The farm flock is sup-
posed to lay enough eggs to satisfy
the family and provide a balance to
help out with the grocery bill, but
when the birds are sold as meat they
are turned off without much knowl-
edge as to the cost of production. It
is necessary to keep track of the feed
that the birds use and know if they
are paying a profit. There is no rea-
son why poultry meat should not be
raised at a profit the same as cattle
and hogs. Of course, the birds pick
up much waste material around the
farm, but they also eat a large quan-
tity of grain. When broilers, roasters
or capons are a sideline on the farm
it pays to charge them every cent of
their feed bill and then kno'w if they
are a, good business venture. It will
be a bright day for the poultry inter-
ests of the country when all farmers
can present figures on the cost of pro-
ducing poultry meat. It will mean that
many flocks will grow smaller in a
short time and many will grow larger
but it will place poultry raising on a
more business-like plane than ever be-
fore.

Artificial lights have seemed to
bring wonderful results with some
poultry flocks and they are being con-
sidered more practical every winter.
Of course, the lights are only a factor
in winter egg production. The condi-
tions of feeding, housing and breeding
must be ideal. Then C'the lights in-

crease the numberof hours per day y

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By R. G. Kz'réy

that the ideal housing and feeding can
be enjoyed by the birds. The result
has been an increased egg production
in some-flocks at a comparatively
small cost.

_ The jungle fowl‘lived in the south
where the days consisted of twelve
hours of day and twelve hours of
night, or approximated that amount.
This bird did not have to stand the
storms such as exist in the north dur-
ing several months of winter and she
did not endure long winter nights.
Friends of artificial lighting state that
the system helps to bring more natur-
al conditions into the poultry house.
Anyway, a scheme that was consider-
ed a joke several years ago is now re-
garded with respect. A twelve or four-
teen hour period. of light is consider-
ed the best for the health and laying
ability of the hens. More light is harm-
ful. At least there are several meth-
ods of lighting poultry houses that do
not cost much money and more poul-
trymen with well-bred flocks are try-
ing the experiment each year.

Some manufacturers of poultry
equipment are especially urging their
customers to place orders for equip-
ment early. Of course, it is natural
for them to desire early orders. But
it is just common sense to plan the
poultry operations for next spring and
do it now. Then place the orders so
that the goods will be on hand long
before they are needed. Nothing is
more discouraging than a few hundred
eggs growing stale while waiting for
an incubator, or a few hundred chicks
yelping for the breeder when freight
agent reports, “Nothing here yet.”

In lining up the breeders for next
year it pays to emphasize both egg
production and some of the points in
the Standard of Perfection. Buyers of.
poultry like their birds to possess
many of the points which distinguish
the breed. A Barred Rock hen might
be a fine layer but if she looked like
a cull from a scrub flock most buyers
would be prejudiced against her. If
she was'underweight and shaped more
like a Leghorn than at Plymouth Rock
she could scarcely be called a good
breeder. We need high egg produc-

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann ll of M. A. 6., who Laid 302
Eggs in 355 Days.

tion but it is possible to combine lay-
ing ability with good-looking birds.
They need not be first prize winners
but they should have the marks and
general type of the breed that they
represent.

 

A RECORD EGG PRODUCER.

ARY ANN II, a modest little Bar-

red Plymouth Rock hen owned
by the Michigan Agricultural College,
came within an ace last week of break-
ing the world's yearly laying record
of 303 eggs for her particular breed.
Mary reached the 302 mark. but the

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early , November .snow storm forced
some shifts in the college hencoop and
she was unable to produce the neces-
sary egg which would have tied the
record. She is the thirty-fourth “300-
egg hen” in America. The world’s rec-
ord for any breed is 310.

Mary’s performance really was 302
eggs in 355 days. Hatched May 12.
1920, she began laying on November
15 following, and deposited her last
egg for the year on the fourth of this
month.

Although in appearance she is very
commonplace, her remarkable ability
is scarcely an accident, for she is the
product of specialized breeding, Her
mother, Mary Ann I, laid 267 eggs in a
year and she has four sisters, all of
whom produced more than 200 eggs in
the same length of time.

Mary Ann II proved herself a. veri-
table egg-laying machine during the
year. Averaging two and one-eighth
ounces each, the eggs totaled 40.1
pounds in weight. Her average daily
ration was four ounces, or a total of
92.5 pounds. Thus forty-three per cent
of her feed went into eggs—H.

HAN‘DY WINTERING PLANS.

I NEVER have found it necessary to
go to much extra trouble to keep
the bees safely over winter, and
my Winter killing has been as light, as
the average where much more care
was taken. The great essential is to
have the- hives insulated pretty well
and protected from storms, and the
easier this can be done the better.

In very severe climates the cellar of
the well-made packing case may prove
profitable, but I do not think it will
ordinarily. Cellars are all right but
costly, and if we keep the bees strong
and in good condition without them I
see no advantage in going to this ex-
pense. Even where packing cases are
used no extra care need be given them
but any case made tight enough to
keep mice out of the packing, and wa-
ter from leaking down into it, -will
serve.

Good insulation over, around, and
under should be provided. Irconsider
newspapers about the best insulation
I can get. I do not stint the thick-
nesses of papers used, and to hold
them in place I make a. water—tight
covering either of oilcloth or rubber
roofing. Good rubber roofing is best
and can be used for many years. First
a sheet of this is placed under the
hive with some newspapers between it
and the bottom board. These are turned
up at the sides and back. Corners of
the rubber roofing are cut to make it

~handle nicely. Over the whole hive
newspapers are spread in several
thickness-es and lapped, and the rub-
ber roofing cut to fit is tacked down
over all, extending outside the part of
the bottom turned up. Nearly all bee-
keepers put cloth over the frames un-
der the cover to absorb any moisture
from the inside and this is a good plan
always. While I never use cloth in
summer I do in winter. The warm'air
in the hive will be condensed some
when it touches the hive cover of wood
if the cloth is ‘not under it. ‘

Protection from hard winter winds
is just as important as the covering.
and no ice should be allowed to form
over the entrances. Snow can bury
the hives with no danger, but ice is
different. A windbreak on the north
and west will break the force of cold
storms and save the bees from suffer-
ing nearly so much. If you cannot

have the hives protected :by a wind- :’
break of. trees a high, board fence.

   

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Hog Feeding

(Continued from page 519).
The addition of a fairly complete mix-
ture, consisting in pounds of salt thir-
ty, spent bone black twenty-five, wood
ashes twelve, sulphur ten, limestone
ten, Glauber’s salts 5.7, epsom salts
five, copperas two, potassium iodide
.3, during the summer pasturage sea-
son did not prove advantageous either
in gains made or growth of the gilts
as determined by measurement.

However, this test is being contin-
ued, and these gilts will be carried
through' the coming year on the same
rations they have received during the
summer, one group without minerals,
and one group with minerals, with
tankage as the main supplement, and
on such good pastures as we used in
this test

In addition of the fairly complete
mineral mixture did not prove bene-
ficial so far as can be judged at the
present time.

Feeding Minerals in Dry Lot.

Generally speaking, pigs in dry lot
are more in need of minerals than
those on pasture. In one test there
was involved ten lots of ten pigs each,
these being fed from shortly after
weaning time, when they weighed for-
ty-one pounds, for a period of 110 days.
They received a ration of corn self—fed
plus a supplemental mixture self-fed,
consisting of blood meal forty parts,
corn oil cake meal thirty parts, lin-
seed oil meal twenty parts, and peanut
The addition of a mix-
ture consisting of equal parts by
weight of common salt, high calcium
carbonate limestone and finely ground
raw bone meal, made the best show-
ing. ’

Where no minerals were fed the
gain was 1.17 pounds per pig daily,
but where the above mixture was al.
lowed it was 1.37 pounds. The feed
required without minerals was 405
pounds as compared to 365 pounds for
the mineral-fed group. The group re-
ceiving the fairly complete mixture
gained 1.26 pounds at an outlay of 375
pounds of feed for 100 pounds gain.
Everything considered, economy and
all, a mixture of common salt, lime—
stone and bone meal in this test show-
ed up the best.

Results with Cottonseed Meal Feed-

ing.

In order to determine the toxic ef-
fects of cottonseed meal when fed as
a part of the ration, an experiment, in-
volving seven groups of seven pigs
each, they weighing fifty-five pounds
at the start of the experiment, was
started, and records so far as avail-
able for ninety days. The ration used
was shelled corn self-fed plus a mix-
ture of eighty parts cottonseed meal,
and twenty parts blood meal, self-fed.
The other groups received the same
ration with the exception that differ-
ent mineral mixtures were added.

These pigs made remarkable gains,
there were no deaths, nor any symp-
toms indicating that cottonseed meal
had poisonous effects. The pigs ate
close to one pound of cottonseed meal
daily on the average, the balance be-
ing corn and blood meal ,the pigs con-
suming daily between five and six
pounds of the total feed. The feed
requirement for 100 pounds gain rang—
ed from 362 pounds to 472 pounds. The
mineral group making the best show-
ing received a mixture of common salt
33.3 pounds, limestone 33.3 pounds,
bone meal 33.3 pounds and potassium
iodide .1 pound. W'here sulphur was
added to the above mixture along with
potassium chloride, the results were
almost as good.

Briefly, the Check group gained 1.44
pounds, Whereas the best mineral
group gained 1.61 pounds. The Check
group required 386 pounds of feed for

, 100 pounds gain, costing $3. 98, where-
.- as the best mineral group required
36.? pounds this cesting $382

 

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

Day at Amcs

These cottonseed meal experiments
will be continued, but it appears that
where small amounts of cottonseed
meal were fed, the danger from poison
was very slight, as contrasted with the
southern method, where most of the
ration is made up of this meal. Then,
too, we must not fail to remember
that cottonseed meal varies in toxicity,
depending upon the particular ship~
ment used.

Some Basal Considerations for Eco-

nomical Pork Production.

It was emphasized again and again
that home-grown feeds, particularly
corn, oats and barley, are the premier
basal feeds under mid-west conditions
for pork production. However, these
feeds must be properly balanced;
tankage was shown to be an economi-
cal balancer. Milk and milk products
were, of course, emphasized, as were
pastures in proper season.

The use of purchased mixed feeds
has been tried out at this station in
contrast with our home-grown basal
corn and purchased tankage,, but in
all tests it was pretty clearly and defi-
nitely shown that the farmer had bet-
ter depend upon what he has, and not.
ship in his basal feed. He could buy
supplements to advantage but not
mixed feeds that supply the whole ra-
tion. This doesn’t mean to say that
mixed feeds are not good and will not
do the nutritional business, because a
good many are good, and provide a.
good feed, but it does mean that the
question of price' and profit must al-
ways be kept uppermost.

Successful Fall Pig Production.

Essential points in the production
of fall pigs were emphasized as fol-
lows:

1. See to it that the sows during
the summer time, while carrying their
young in utero, are given an abund-
ance of exercise on good pasture.

2. Feed these sows well.

3. Don’t have the sows farrow too
early nor too late.

4. Let the sows {arrow out on pas-
ture if possible.

5. Feed the suckling sows well.

6. Have a warm place for the fall
pigs to sleep 11nd rest after they are
taken into winter quarters.

7. Keep their beds dry by changing
them frequently.

8. See that the pigs get ventilation.

‘9. Feed the pigs inside where it is
warm. Do not make them go out into
the cold to eat. If you must make them
go out for anything, make them go out
to get their water.

10. Keep them sanitary. L'se crude
oil to get rid of the lice, and santonin
and calomel to get rid of the worms.

11. Keep open water before the pigs
and keep the water from freezing.

‘12. It is not necessary that the pigs
run over the whole farm.

13. Feed the pigs
well.
did:

Such rations as these are splen-

A. Shelled corn self-fed plus meat‘

meal tankage self—fed plus salt self—fed.

B. Shelled corn self-fed plus butter-
milk at the rate of four or five pounds
to one of grain when pigs weigh fifty
to one hundred pounds; three to three
and one-half pounds as they go from
100 to 150; two to three pounds from
150 to 200: one to two pounds from
200 to 250; and from~one«quarter to
one pound after they pass the 250-
pound mark.

Fall pigs that grow and fatten in
cold weather can easily be made to
reach 250 to 300 pounds when eight
months of age. They go on the good
markets of April, the highest market
in the year outside of September, and
being marketed in April, as they can
be, insures a happy income at a time
when ordinarily there is not much
produce to be sold from the average
farm which does not engage in the live
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Right now is the time to cash your

furs. Ship all you have to Taylor,
who leads fur market.

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There is a reason. Best for fifty years.
Guaranteed price list. Book of Traps
—Tags sent free—Write.

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TRAPPERS

'- Big fur season here. Start
early-ship to St. Joseph
.. Hide & Fur Co. Prompt
returns. All shipments held
' separate if requested. Satis«
faction guaranteed. Write
, for price list. J. D. Emery. Mgr.
- St. Joseph Hide & Fur Company
198 North 2nd St. St. Joseph. Mo.

 

 

 

LAKELAND FUR EXCHANGE

Buyer wanted in every county to collect furs. Salary
or commission 8 ecializing in shipments and
local dealers’ lots. ill cal for lots of $1011) or
over. Write for list. (laminae list). mikes: prices.
Fair sort. OLlVE Mic

 

Free-Cankeyi; Poultrq Book.

80 pages chock full of information about the feeding and
rearing of chicks, culling of hens etc. Tells how to keep
chickens healthy and how to make them pay. Whether
a beginner or a professional. _Conkey’ a Book is worth
dollars to you. Sent for 6 cents in stamps to pay postage.

THE C. E. CONKEY CO. 85” Droid-”Junk“. Obit

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Learn how to were 111 this disease. Get “inter ngs.
New tr1 a.t1n(~11t Send ['01 our free circular.

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POULTRY

 

 

 

‘ Barred Rock Cockerclsu-bred from
Ringlet birds that lay, weigh and win.
Robert Martin, ll. 3, Woodland, Michigan

llhode Island Reds

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R (‘.I111rge fancy cock-
e11- ls at 33 e111
lmlay (‘1ty.l\llch.

Smgle Comb Buff Leghorn 53:1?
Ap1il and hiay hatthed Large l111- ly fellows. Note
laying 511 1111 V‘ ill 11r1l Webster, Bath. Mich.

 

 

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Silver Wyandoiies “.fi‘e‘g‘gfi‘k. 3:2,,th 9‘”
B1',1mning Portland, Mich.

' Leghn111<.l‘a1lv hatched pullt lo and

EngllSh SIC-WI choi11 53111111111: hens at r( '1 1111 this

prices. Robt.0'h1isto'ph1l R..4 Holland, Mich.

 

 

7 him Vt y; 1111lotte (‘ot kerels $5. Bred from e stablish-
ed hemy laying st1ain 80% aieragt egg \iel'l
last winter. \V . A Blanding,[11.(11u-nulle Mn 11

Mammoth Pekin Ducks

J. W. Drake Farm, R. «l. l’ontiat. Mithigan

T .U R K E Y S, afiehigan' > Best

11 1'. Bronze.
Splendid pure bred birds ’I 11l,1e advantage of 1 arly
low prices.

.ll‘ valx 11 Ramsdcll Ionia. Mich.

Bred direct from Hu 0 King. 50le

Bronze Turkeys yearling and Hood Farm strains.
young giants strung Vlltllll). Special toms $15. hen,
310. Can f111rnish bi1ds not akin Order from this ad.
lRS. MILAN l1. U..)t)K Ithaca. Nlich.

 

Fine luteding
stock.

 

 

 

Full Blood While Holland Toms and Hen Turkeys

for sale M1s. G11yE.V\11ch it ‘1, Eluell, lVli1-L1

 

Rod '1‘11rkeys.l‘lxt.1a large vigorous ~to1- k l’.
Bourbon sure and selett \our biee ding sto. k at 1h- 1
time of the year. Smnh Bros. R. 3, Augusta. Mi- .1

Bourbon Red Tusrkeys vigorous young hensand

toms not 11ki 1.11
A. D. IVluS [L3, Rockfor.d l\li1h.

Bourbon Red Turkeys, igffifi;,‘;";§f,fffifi"”‘1‘"
A. B. IIANIS. Saline. NHL-91‘

A )ril hatched, also song
Gray Africa-n Geese, 1’. iears old. good stork. ‘
ED. MILLS R. l. Lakeview. Llirln

W. Chinese Geese. fiiihegfitffifii‘. “‘0'
RIBS. CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdalo. Mich.
When writing to advertisers
please menuon the ' Michi—
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Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
Ten Days before date of publication

 

THE HOME OF

Imp. Edgar ui Dalmeny

Probably

The World’s Greatest
Breeding Bull

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

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

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

Send for Illustrated Catalogue.

WILDWOOD FARMS
ORION, MICHIGAN
w. E. SGHIPPS, Prop. Sidney Smith, Supt.

GLOVERLY ANGUS

Cows and Heifers Bred to
Blackcap Brandon of Woodcote 2nd

For Sale '
GEO. HATIiAlVAY & SON. Ovid, briich.

 

 

 

 

EOISTERED Aberdeen-Angus. Tcn heifers. six

hulls from eighlli ti; Taillglttcn Tombs]. East of
lreediii ’. the growl; y in t at. ma egooc. eason-
) ,5 F. J. WlLBlCli. Clio, Mich

able. Inquire

FOR SALE

One Reg. Guernsey Bull Serviccable Age.
8.1 Accredit Herd. Farmer Prices. .
GILMORE BROTHERS, Camden. I‘llch.

GUERNSEYS

Every animal in the herd is listed for sale. Cows.
Heifers and Bulls. None reserved. A rare op ortun-
ity to get some good stock. Accredited herd o. 7482.

HT. AIVS'I'EIJi FARMS. Jackson, biich.

Feder-

' Gruernwy Bulls- for sale. ‘3 sired by
RengTCTEd (‘my Boy of Halcyon. l sired by Avon-
dale's Choice. All one yr. old.ready forfiervice. 1 born

July 26th 1921. sired by Avoiidale's Choice. All beauti-
fully markcd fawn and white. Address Dr.W.R.Baker
4800 Fort St, West. Phone West 629. Detroit, Mich.

 

Registered Guernseys
We have a special proposition on your llull for next

year that will interest. you now.
J. M. WILLIAMS, North Adams, Mich.

 

G u E R N 5 EV s MGWW
BULL CALVES

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

 

Guernsey bulls 10 to 1.3 mos. old. Accredited herd
no. 9-107. 1st. prize yearling and calf at Jackson,
Grandsons of 3rd A A. class leader. (larric of Hill-
burst. 8141135. b. f.. out of Ali. dams. Priced to sell.
G. W. and H. (1. RAY. Albion, Mich.

 

Register Guernsey bull calves out of A.
For sale R. dam. $40.00 each if taken soon.
JOHN ICBl‘ILS, R. ‘3. Holland. hiich.

Cluny Stock Farm

Offers the 10 mos. old bull.

Cluny Maplecrest Colantha Silver
No. 326204, Born Mar. 22, 1920

Sire—Maplecrest Application Pontiac

Sirc’s dam. 35 lb. butter 7 days, 1344 lbs. butter,
23421.2 lbs. milk in year. Maplecrest’s 24 A. R. 0.
daughters average 20.2 lbs. butter. average 420 3
lbs. milk at 2y. 11 m. 8 s 0. daughters average
14136.8 lbs. milk and 630.44 lbs. butter at 2 y. 7 m.
6 of these 10 months records.

Dam —a 22 lb. Jr. 4 yr. old granddaughter of
Colantha Johanna Lad.

Dam's Dam —milkcd over 145,000 lbs. in 14
milking periods.

He means increased production for the herd he

heads. Price $150.00
Howell, Mich.

R. B. McPHERSON,
Grandsons of

King Of The Pontiacs

Ready for Service

From 27 to 32-Lb. Dams

Sire:---King of the Pontiac Segis No. 169124 who is by
Kin of the Pontians and from Hilledale Segie, a 33
lb. aughter of King Segis. \

No. 1 Dam:---321bs. butter and 620 lbs. milk in 7 days.

No. 2 Damn-428.8 lbs. butter and 30 day record of 118
lbs. as Junior four year old.

No. 3 Damz-nGrzinddanghter of Belle Korndyke. 2.77
lbs. butter and 6401bs. milk in 7 days.

No. 4 Dam:---A great cow. 765 lbs. of milk and 28 lbs.
butter in 7days.

Other bulls out of good A. “‘0. dams. with records

from 18 to 20 lbs. butter as Junior 2 and 3 year old.

All nicely marked and ood individuals. Herd under

Federal Supervision. L AND SEE THEM. For

pedigree and information write Percy Nye, Mgr.

Priced Right for Quick Sale

James B. Jones Farms,
Romeo, Mich.

 

 

 

HERE is A Coop ONE

BORN JUNE 2nd 1920 by MAPLECREST DE KOL
HENGEBVELD whose three sisters have each ro-
duoed over 1200 lbs. of butter in a year. TWO of ti:)
RLDS CHAMPIONS. Calf's darn by an

own brother of a 1248 lb. cow. Write for pedigree.
I HILLCREST FARM, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Sons of a 34 1b. Bull ,

a have mural IzrxstfiinoBulls sifted bifi‘findge Joli
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some 20 lb. 2 yr. olds.

Col. D.'I.. Perry, Auc.

“Top Notch” Holsteins

TWO Bargains In Young Bulls

The bull we advertised as No. 1 last week was sold
by correspondent-etc) a good breeder in Sanilac County,
who writes: “Bull received; well pleased With him."

We have another extra fine young bull that we be-
lieve some good breeder will want. He was born Feb.
16. 1920. Eleven of his near tested dams average 32.19
lbs. butter in 7 days. His sire's two nearest dams aver.
age 36.321“. butter in? days. His dam is a24 lb. grand-
daughter of the famous Colantha Johanna Lad.who
has more daughters with milk records from 600 toI’lOO
lbs. than any other sire. His dam’s sire's three near-
est dams average nearly 31 lbs. butter in 7 days. He
is handsomely marked about half and half. and lwe
think one of the best young bulls we have raised.
Price 81:30.00 f. 0. b. Howell.

The other bull was born Sept. 21, 1920; is from agood
A. R. 0. daughter of a cow that produced 18.986 lbs.
milk and 7.30.82 lbs. butter in one year. and is from a
son of a 30 lb. cow that produced a 31 1b. cow. who in
turn produced a 31 lb. cow. Hit-£6 nearest dams aver-
age 26 lbs. butter in 7 days. Handsomely marked in
solid colors—a little more black than white. and like
the other bull a very fine individual. Price $125.00
f. o. b. Howell. _
McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

All herds under U. S. Supervision.

Winanod Herd

Registered .
Holstein-Friesian cattle

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

John H. Winn, [Ina]

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accepted in payment of finely bred reg-
‘ 600d "Ole ietered Holstein bull calves. Quality
of the beat. and at prices within reach of all. Write.
GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - - aesar. Mich.

The Traverse Herd

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

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL
Traverse City, Mich.

A BLUE RIBBON WINNER
YOUNG BULL

0n the 1921 Show Circuit For Sale at a low price.
Out of an .A R. O. granddaughter of Pontiac Korn-
dyke. Sii‘ed by our SENIOR SHOW BULL, blade]
King Segis Glista 32 37 lbs.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS,
Corey J. :Spencer. Owner _
111 E. Main Street. Jackson. Michigan.
Herd Under State and Federal Supervision

 

eg. Holstein Friesian bulls-i sired by a gdson of King
Ref the Poiitiac‘s. ages from six months to one year
old. nicely marked and good individuals priced to move
them to make room for winter calves. Herd under
Federal and State supervision. haven't had a reactor
in the herd. Henry S. Rohlfs, R. l, Akron. Mich.

' ' ' ‘ ure-bred bull calves. also good
I'IOISIeIII'FrIESIaII grade heifers; tuberculin tested
herd. Prices are right. Larro Research Farm,
Dept. A. North End. Detroit. Mich.

Four 32 lb. Yearling Bulls

Sired by SEGIS KORNDYKE DE NIJLANDER. a 32
1b. son of a twice Michigan State Ribbon winner; her
dam 29% lbs. One these calves from a 30 lb. dam. one
a28 ’ lb. dam, one a. 19 lb. 3 yr. old with only % udder.
one 6 lb. 2 yr. old. Two of dams are daughters of
Kin Segis Pontiac. a 37 lb. non of King Segis. Fed-
eral y tested June 10. Herd under State and Feder-
al supervision. Priced at half value.

A. G. WA E White Pigeon. Mich.

v

ull Bargain. 3100 gets a light colored bull ready for

service born Apr. 11. 920. from 21.5] lb. dam. and
sire whose six nearest dams av. 33.34 lbs. butter 7 days.
Herd under state and Federal an ervielon. Oscar
Wallin. Wincogin Farm. UnionVil e, Mioh.

H i 1 - Friesian boiler and bull calves. purebred
0 3 Bill registered and high-grade. Price $20 up.
Splendid individuals and breeding. rite us your re-
quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N.

Holstein Bulls read

  
  

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SDISPERSAL SALE

Friday, Dec. 16,

40 Head of Federal Accredited Holsteins

Free From Abortion

We have 25 cows fresh or due soon and a splendid bunch of heifers and
calves out of these dams, and sired by our 31 lb. bu 1.

In this sale is Weedie Queen De K01 with a record of 34.73 lbubutter and
790.1 lb. milk; another 30 lb. cow, 2-281b.‘cows, 271b, 26 1b., 24 1b., cows and
These cows are sired by such 30 lb. bulls as Sir Korn-
dyke Veeman Hengerveld, King Lansing and Alcartra Pontiac Butter Boy.

A splendid chance to buy your herd sire from a bull [out of Weedie Queen
De Kol 34.73] whose dam and sire’s dam each have records of 34 lb.

at 1:00 o’clock

A. E. Jenkins in the Box

For Catalog, Address

LAKE SIDE DAIRY

G. A. Weed, and E. W. Ruehs, Props.
LAKE ODESSA, MICH.

Herefords

Repeaters. Beau Donalds. Fairfaxcs, and Farmers
represented in our herd. R;peater l73rd, a son of
old Repeater, at head of herd. Both sexes and all
ages for sale. *

ALLEN BROS.,

(Farm at Paw Paw, Mich.)
Office 616 50. West St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Herefords For Sale

1 Polled bull calf. grandson of Bullion 4th. 1
horned bull. 1 year old, for sale cheap.
COLE & GARDNER. Hudson. Mich.

Jersey Thoroughbreds

Few cows and bull calves. Best breeding line. Guar-
anteed. 'l‘uberculin tested twice a year. If you have
no money will take bankable note. ‘. W. Vasvary.
411 Free Press Building, Detroit. Liich., Main 1267.

BUTTER BRED JEIi‘soEiysfiiLLS
CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allegan County.
For Sale bulls

JERSEY BULLS mad, ,0, ,8...

vice, Raleigh. Majesty. Oxford Lad breeding.
WATERMAN dc WATERLIAN. Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Wildwood Farm

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

Michigan.

 

ll ull cal res from

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys 1,, of M, a,”
COLON O. LILLIIC. Coopersville. Mich.

 

Jersey Bulls For Sale ready for service from R. of'

M. dams. ’1‘. B tested. Will give time.
SMIl‘iI & PARKER. R. 4. Howell. Mich.

BID U“ ELL BUY A BULL
that will put weight on our dairv calves —the ditt-
erence Will soon gay for t e bull. Now selling good
Scotch and Scotc -toppedyearlingsJeaeonably. riced.

We guarantee every animal to he a breeder. Federal
'lest. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y. C. RJi.

BIDWELL STOCK FARM,
Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan

Richland Shorthurns

The place for Bull Bargains. Two white year-
lings by Imp. Newtdn Champion and out of Imp.
Scotch cows. Also several other real Scotch
calves at low prices. Write for particulars.

C. H. PRESCOTT 8: SONS,
Office at Tawas City. Mich, Herd at Prescott, Mich.

The Maple’s Shortliorns

Kirk Levington Lad, by imported Hartforth
Welfare, in service. Bulls and heifers {or sale.

J. V. Wise, Gobleville, Mich.

Francisco Farm Shorthorns
and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Now oliering:——Three bulls ready for service. Diasto-
don. Olunsmaii. Emancipator blood in gilts bred for

spring farrow. ee them.

POPEV BROS. 00.. Mt. Pleasant. Mich
Scotch Topped Shortlioms 2.53523 :(izwgidtg $223.13
ling bull. These cattle are of good type. well bred,

and in excellent breeding condition. Have sold farm
and must sell. V. M. Shoesmith. East Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bull calves for sale from the

ShOTthOl‘nS- best milking blood obtainable.
ROSEMARY FARMS. Williamston. Mich.

l' lMl hi-
BUY SHORTHORNS gyengrgmhgm
Breeders’ Association at farmers‘ prices. Write for
sale list to M. E. Miller. Seo'y. Greenrille. Mich.

 

 

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Mllklng and females. low prices. Davidsdii
and Hall. Behind and Beland. Tecumseh. Mich.

 

Scotch and Scotch To ped mal d
For sale Females. any age. ‘priges right?! aAri-l-
dress Northwestern Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’
Au’n. Roy F.Zimmeman.

eo’y. Traverse City.Mich.

       
  
 

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.

Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-
ers. Letters should state fully the history and lymptoms of
each case and give. name and address of the writer. initial:
only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the
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Stifle Lameness.—-My five-year-old‘
cow started to. limp slightly on right
hind leg and kept gradually growing
worse until she quit stepping on it
entirely. I fail to find any sore spot,
but stifle is swollen and occasionally
she jerks up leg. R. J. G., Rodney,
Mich—Apply equal parts turpentine,
aqua ammonia and raw linseed oil to
stifle once a day.

Obstructed Quarter and Teat.——Have
a cow ,six years old with bunch in the
upper part of teat and lower portion
of one-quarter of udder which ob-
structs milk flow. I used tube for six

weeks. teat became 'sore, discontinued-

milking, now udder fills, but I am un-
able to draw milk. When hunch is
squeezed it hurts her. W. E. J., Har-
bor Beach, Mich.~Apply iodine oint-
ment to lower portion of udder daily;
if this treatment fails have obstruc-
tion cut out when she is dry.

Heart Disease—I recently lost two
five-month-old pigs. They seemed to
be well, came to trough and ate heart-
ily, less than one hour after commenc-
ed to squeal and in less than five min-
utes were dead. They have been run-
ning in garden where some cucumbers
and green tomatoes grew; their feed
was entirely of grass and separated
milk, no grain. B. M. G., River Junc-
tion. Mich—Your pigs died the result
of what is called a lecky heart and
there is no remedy for 1t. ‘

Hairless Pigs.-1 have a registered
0. I. C. sow three years old that has
always raised good litters of pigs be-
fore, but this time she had eleven hair-
less pigs and their skin was purple
color; they were well developed in
every other way; she farrowed when
due. The eleven pigs all died Within
thirty-six hours after birth. Would it
be safe for me to keep this sow for
breeding purposes any longer? J. F'.
C., CassCity, Mich.——The cause of
hairless pigs is not definitely known,
but it is true when the brood sow is
fed sufficient mineral matter, and
some iodine during pregnancy she sel-
dom has hairless pigs. The brood sow
should be fed a rather bulky ration in
the form of succulent roots, alfalfa hay
or any other feed that may furnish the
required matter. Abundant exercise is
necessary for the brood sow, besides
she should be kept in a roomy place.
A varied ration should be offered to
her, such as limestone. bonemeal, rock
phosphate and common salt. As you
know, these substances contain con-
siderable mineral matter which is es-

sential to the Welfare of the sow and“

her litter. If you keep your sow and
breed her again, follow my instruc-
Had you. given your sow five-
grain doses of potassium iodide every
day or two during gestation period she
might have given birth to a well-hair-
er healthy litter.

Stomach Worms—Have lost several
sheep lately; a. swelling appears be-
tween the angle of lower jaw, the an-
imal becomes emaciated and usually
dies. Some of the sick sheep lose vis-
ion or have impaired vision. H. S. 8.,
Midland, Midis—Keep all the food
away from those to be treated for a
whole day, in the evening give each
sheep or lamb one-half ounce of gaso-
line and raw linseed oil to which you
may add a teacup of sweet milk. Re-
peat this dose every evening for two
or three evenings. Feed them a few
hours after giving each dose of medi-
cine. A change of pasture is perhaps
needed.

Rheumatism—We have an Angora
cat seven years old, that is a pet; is
very lame. lays around and suffers
some pain. ls fed meatrand milk. His
food has consisted of milk, raw beef,
fish and a few potatoes. H. W. H.,
Greenville, Mich—Give cat one grain
of sodium salicylate‘ at a dose three
times a day. Apply extract of witch
hazel to sore legs twice a day.

Nodular Disease—Have some sheep
that are not doing well. I killed one
and found many little bunches in the
bowels. but no worms: in stomach:
they also scour some. .12 H. B., Hale,
Mich—Esophagostoma Columbianum
is the name of thin minute" parasite
that causes “nodular dfeeiaee.” and for
which there is no known remedy. « Pre-
vention is the procedure foruwhlch to
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BULL ASSOCIATIONS IN MICH-
IGAN.

ECORDS show that there are in
the state seven bull associations
which were organized in the years 1909
to 1916 inclusive. The oldest of these
is the Leer Association in Alpena
county. Splendid service has been ren-
dered the members of that organiza-
tion. The exhibit at the state fair last
fall was full of suggestion and showed
real accomplishment in the way of im-
proving the animals in the herds of
those who joined to provide them-
selves with good sires.
These seven associations have 212

members. The greatest - number of
' bulls owned by one association is
eight. In all thirty bulls are owned by

the seven organizations. The 212 mem-
bers also own eighty—nine pure-bred
cows.
THE TREND OF DAIRY STAND-
ARDS.

HE trend of dairy stock standards

in Michigan is on the down grade
and community breeding is vital for
preservation. of types, D. D. Aitken, of
Flint, former president of the National
Holstein—Friesian Association, declar-
ed at a meeting of the Detroit City
Farmers Club in the Detroit Board of
Commerce recently.

Mr. Aitken gave as reasons for this
statement the facts that the average
breeder possesses only a small herd
and cannot afford to buy or keep a
real high type herd sire, and as a re—
sult oftentimes high-class cows are
bred to inferior quality bulls, the proc-
ess continuing down the gext genera-

tion. Hs also called attention to the
way breeds are scattered over the
state. '

“People are trying to work out
breeding as individuals and according
to their own ideals. Most breeders
have no conception of marketing at
all. Breeders of any standard type are
so scattered that if anyone asked
where a carload of any one registered
type could be obtained, 1 do not know
where he would get. the information.
The dairy industry will be on a firmer
and more prosperous basis as soon as
communities see that the best results
are bound to come from uniformity in
production and practice community
breeding through the importation of a
really high-grade sire, maintained by
the community.
stock in that community then will be
up instead of down and buyers of the
particular breed specialized in will be
attracted. There should be at, least
one hundred and fifty cows in any
community that attempts to acquire a
high—grade sire on this cooperative or
community basis.”

WINTER DAIRYING.-

HILE it is natural for cows to

freshen in the spring it cannot
be- said to be most profitable, for in
the flush time we always find a lower
price, while farm work is then most
pressing. More than that, a cow will
produce from fifteen to twentyfive per
cent more by freshening in the fall.
Especially is this true if she is given
good care through the winter. The
cow coming fresh in the fall will be a

. profitable milker during the season of

the year when dairy products sell at
the best price. She will go on grass in
the early spring and will again be
flushed to a profitable production for
When pastures
become dry and short and the flies

  

 

   
 

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The tendency of all

Dairy products are high c0mpared
with other farm produce, and the price
will undoubtedly continue good until
next June.
from the cows they should have good
housing and care during the winter
months. It will well pay any COW“
keeper to provide modern equipment
for his stock. Not only will he save
in time and labor, but through giving
better comfort to his animals, their
production will be increased.

The dairy cow has proven the farm~
er’s best friend during these trying
times. It never before was so neces-

, sary to use good cows, give them good

care in modern stables, and take ad-
vantage ot? every opportunity to in-
crease their production.———A. L. H.

COW TESTERS IN DEMAND.

0 meet the increasing demand for

trained cow testers, a special two
weeks’ course in this subject. will be
given at M. A. C. from December 5 to
16, it is announced. This field is bound
to widen as the number of cow-testing
associations in the state is increased,
according to Prof. O. E. Reed, head of
the dairy husbandry department. A
recent evidence of the spread of the
movement is the fact that in Allegan
county alone four new associations
were formed in connection with the
“milk and alfalfa” campaign put on
there—H. ‘ '

FOUND TEST BARN PRACTICAL.

ECENTLY l visited a large dairy-

wonderful records
I was pleased to

where some
were being made.
find the
splendid lot of cows and heifers. In

To get the greatest return .

test barn well filled with a:

    

 

questioning the owner concerning the .

economy of such a barn. he informed
me that it was one of the most profit
able buildings he had ever put. up.
The barn was simple in structure,
but built with the idea of making it

warm and easy to ventilate. Steel pens ‘

on both sides in two long rows fur-
nished room for sonic twenty—four
head. Each pcn was supplied with a
water bowl, manger and cement floor,
with drainage to one end. A feed car-
rier through the center furnished an

easy means of bringing in silage and ‘

grain, while a litter carrier at each

side made it easy and convenient to.

remove the manure.

To construct such a barn one must.
know definitely what cow comfort
means.
cxpcnsive buildings. They are very
practical in their tastes. They do want,
however, freedom in their stall and a
pen permitting them to move about at
will. They like their food clean and
at regular periods. They like a supply
of fresh clean water always at hand.
They prefer a light, well
stable to one that is dark and poorly
ventilated. These cow requirements
demand modern equipment, which is
not only to the cows‘ liking but also
savesmuch hard work and time on the
part of the caretake12—~A. H.

CREAMERY MEN GET TOGETHER.
IXTY members of the Michigan
Creamery and Owners Associa—

tion held their quarterly meeting in

Allegan this year. Among the speak-

ers were Ernest Burnham, Prof. O. T.

Goodwin of the Michigan Agricultural

College; S. P. Aldrich, of Grand Rap-

ids; Roscoe A. Page. of Zeeland; Rev.

S. E. Kelley, of Allegan, and J. G. Pres-

tage, of Allegan county. The modern

plant of Overton Creamery Company
was inspected by the visitors—R.

ventilated ,

‘ .lcrseys A (“cw extra good fall hours. and
Duroc a choice lot, of spring boars of the heavy :

1 Still}. tit present.

Cows do not require fancy and ‘

 

to $1.50.
While butter is scarce.

season of the year.

the world over.

stands supreme.

NEW YORK
165 Broadway

A Bushel of Com
Makes 3 lbs. of Butter - Fat

A good cow and a De Laval Cream Separator will
change a bushel of corn or its equivalent, worth about
30 cents, into 3 pounds of butter-fat worth from $1.00

Corn and other feeds are a drug on the market,
There is. less butter in storage
in the large markets than there ordinarily is at this
Cream is the safest, surest and
most profitable of all crops, and the De Laval Separator
will make you still more profit.
lasts longer than any other.
and first prizes at every important exposition and fair
There are over 2,500,000 in daily
use—~ten times as many as its nearest competitor.

When it comes to buying a cream separator, De Laval
Write for full information,

The De Laval Separator Company

CHICAGO
29 E. Madison Street

Sooner or later you will use a

De Laval

Cream Separator and Milker

It skims cleaner and

It has won ],091 grand

SAN FRANCISCO
61 Beale Street

 

 

Accident, Theft, etc.
rates address

154 Louis St.,

Insure Your Live Stock

Against death from any cause including Disease,
For further information and

W. I. BEARCE ‘

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

O. I.

Buster.

CRANDELL’S PRIZE HOGS,

 

C. HOGS

all ages sired by CallaWay Edd 1918 world’s grand champ. bear and C. C.
Schoolmaster 1919 world’s grand champion also Wonder Big Type and Giant
Write your wants, all stock shipped on approval.

Cass City, Mich.

 

 

 

' ' Hlioi'tlioi‘ns of host Bates- lirccding.
Mllklng liiills‘, cows and licil'ci‘s for sulc.
M. H. lil'lt'l‘Z. h’iiisoii. l\licll

R licd l’nllcd (Little. illll‘ lioi‘d llt‘iltlt‘tl liy Famous
eg- Cliariiicixtiraiid (‘haiiipion Michigan State Fair.
l'ndchtatezind l“t‘tl(‘l‘£ll Slllu‘l‘VlfilUll, no cattle for
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BERKSHIRES

filler for immediate sale a few young boars suitable
for use. at very reasonable prim-s. Also small pigs,
gilts open or lirod. llrocding of illio host. >

C. U. Corey. 1303 zijtistic, Bldg. Detroit. .\i'i. li.

EVERY’S BIG BERKSHIRES

Choice boars. Sows bred or open. Satisfaction guar-
nntced. W. H. l‘lVI‘IllY. bianclicstci'. hlicli.

 

honed typo popular lilood lincs at. reasonable piices.
DIUHH‘ is; B lflltNS, Monroe. Allah.

Brnukwater Dumc Jerseys

SPRING BOARS sired by Panama Special 55th,
Big Bone Giant Sensation and Brookwater
l‘emonstrator. The best of the brct‘d, Order

1 one by mail or come to the farm. You will like

them when you see them. Prices reasonable.

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

DUROC JERSEYS: t3..fé’“é.ft'.‘"§f§‘3

sale. CAREY U. EDlViUNl)S. Hastings. Mich

 

 

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

Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

  

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DUFOCS [pd by a good son of Kingtli'ion lt‘niichiz

HARRY VOW Li‘lll. Stu rgis, hilt-h.

Duroc Jersey Swine

Breeding stock for sale at all times at reasonable
Dl'lt't‘>. it in need of a high class lioar, or sow
any ngc write, or better, ('(lllh‘, to farm Best. of
lllood line and we guarantee you satisfaction.
llcrd lioars, l’aiiiiiiia Hiccial 11th and Home
Farm Wonder. looking order for fall pigs at $15

each .
Salem, Mich.

- 3‘20 to $10. Bred sows
DUTOC SBlVECe B’Oars and gilts $30 to 350. Fall
hills Sltlt.o$l.>. All registcrcil or oligihlu. “'9 have
one ot'ihc largest. and best licrds in state. Ample
opportunity for scicction. lVIlUlllGANA FARM

l’avilion. .\licli.. lizilziinzimio('ouiity.

iiftlél'vlu- ,
For Sale Durocs w.-..‘.: .23?. 3.f..‘.3€..‘"’“ed "’9'

CHAS. BRA\, Okemos, L'Iich.

foodlawn Ii‘zirm Duroc hog»: am from select tireed~
iiig stock. wcll mated for size. ivpe and color
Herd hours. sows and pigs. will ship 0.0.1). and film:
ish Rog. certificate. W. E. Hartley, Alma. Mich.

.DU R 0C S ow S and gilts bred to

Jacks Cherry

(mm King No. 169-59 Finn of the 510.001) boar owned

liV Longview Farm, Lo Siimit, hi0. also young boars
ready for service not of 80W] “NPR Apply

‘ 'riiii JENNINGS FARM, Bailey, Mich

DUROC JERSEYS

spring: hnnrs that; will immmm re lirhnas, of Orion
Cherry King. (‘nl . and Pathfinder breeding, at 198'
sonahln prices. Write us your \\‘.’lnfg_ Bred sows and
gilts all sold W. (1. TAYLOR. ilan.

DUROC JERSEYS

Bred gilts all sold. Choice spring bonrsby Brook-

water Demonstrator.
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WEST View Din-0c Fa rm offers spring heart! from
Home Farm 'l‘inDy Orion and Pathfinder Prince
with big bone and type. Ready for service, sows. fall
gilt: and sprint! (ill-‘3 with quality. Write or come and
see them. ALBERT EBERSOLE, Plymouth, Mia}!

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Tuesday, November 29.
Wheat.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.26; No.
2 mixed and No. 2 white $1.23.

Chicago—No sales reported.

Toledo. Cash No. 2 red $1.241/g;
December 51.24%.

Corn.

Detroit—Old Cash No.2 yellow 590;
N0. 3 yellow 570; No. 4, 54c; new
Yellow, Cash No. 3, 54c; No. 4, 520.

Chicago.~No. 2 mixed 48%,@491/2,c;
NO. 2 yellow 481/3 612491.430.

Oats.

Detroit.——Cash N0. 2 white 400; N0.
3 white 370; No. 4, 32@34c.
Chicago—No. 2 white 35@351/zc;
N0. 3 white 321,; @3414c.
Beans.

 

Detroitxw Immediate and prompt
shipment $1.20 per cwt.
Chicago: -— Choice to fancy hand-

picked Michigan beans at $5@5.25;
red kidney beans $7.50@8.

New York.— The market is steady.
Choice pea 3952501530; do medium at
$4.75@5; kidney $8.

Rye.

Detroit-"Cash No. 2 850.
_ Chicago.——S6c.

'l‘oledo.—~—Cash 860.

Seeds.

Detroit.WPrime red clover, cash at
$12.50; alsike $11; timothy $3.05.

To](Adore—Prime red clover at $12.50;
alsike $10.507r10.80; timothy $3.

Hay. .

Detroit—“No. 1 timothy at $19@20;
standard and light mixed at. $184119;
No. 2 timothy $170118; No. 1 clover
mixed $166147; rye straw $ 3’fi"13.50:
wheat and oat straw $12@12.50 per
ton in carlots.

Feeds.

Detroit.——Bran $25; standard mid-
dlings $24; cracked corn $2871‘2850 a
ton in 100-lb. sacks.

WHEAT

It is generally believed that the
United States has practically disposed
of its exportable surplus of wheat if

domestic requirements are equal to
the amount considered normal by the
grain trade. Domestic demand may

not be up to the full amount common-
ly allowed for the twelve months. A
second factor is the possibility of a
revision in the crop estimate in the
December report of the department
of agriculture. Certain additions to
the southwestern wheat acreage made.
public last spring have not yet been
considered in official estimates. A large,
acreage in some parts of the south
is going into winter in poor condition.
The full extent of the damage will not
be known until the government De-
cember report. is published. News
from this section may drop out as a
market. factor for a time. during the
winter but will rcturnwvith increased
importance next spring. Broomhall
has increased his estimate of world’s
import. requirements to 640,000,000
bushels and it is said that the non—
European countries are. taking wheat
at a, rate which, if continued for a
year, will be twice as large as their
average needs.

CORN

Corn prices have advanced six or
seven cents a bushel from the low
point, of the season reached several
weeks ago. Announcement of the plan
of the War Finance Corporation to as-
sist farmers to hold corn for one or
more years in order to obtain higher
prices is expected soon. Producers
seem to have recovered from their
selling panic evidently in the expecta-
tion that something will be done to
help them out. Primary receipts are
comparatively light and the advance
in the last few weeks has not yet
brought about a material increase in
country offerings. It is still two or
three weeks until the season of heavy
receipts from the country usually be-
gins and the almost impassable state
of the roads in some of the principal
farm surplus sections may have been

' a factor also.
OATS

. Demand for oats is light and the
visible supply is large. Buyers may
become more anxious when the visible
begins to decrease. Canada has a
“large crop of heavyweight oats this

A

year, her yield being estimated at 510,-
’000,000 bushels, or 21,000,000 bushels
less than last year. "

SEEDS

Seed markets have been inactive for

the last week or ten days. It is esti-
mated that fifty per cent of the com-
mercial supply of red clover seed from
the 1921 crop had been sold by grow-
ers up to November 8. Only 15 per
cent of the commtrcial surplus of tim-
othy seed remained in the hands of
farmers on November 8 according to
reports to the department of agricul—
ture. Seedsmen have not been aggres-
sive buyers for the last two or three
weeks but prices have been well main-

tained.
FEEDS

Cold weather stimulated demand for
all kinds of feeds and has brought
about a smart upturn especially in
wheat feeds. Eastern markets have
not responded fully to the advance
elsewhere, and in general there is a
disposition to go slow in buying at the
present, level. Supplies of all feeds
are equal to probable demand.

HAY

Increased receipts and heavier load-
ings in surplus sections have weaken-
ed the hay market's while demand in
the east and south, the chief consum-
ing sections, is light.

POULTRY AND EGGS

Although receipts of eggs at the four
leading cities are running larger than
at this season last year, market sup-
ply has fallen off and prices have ad-
vanced. The fact that the final gov-
ernment report on cold storage hold-
ings indicated much heavier consump-

 

 

 

 

tion of eggs during October and that
the carryover of storage eggs was
lighter than the preliminary report had
shown, was something of a. factor.
Poultry markets have been well sup-
plied and prices remain weak.

Latest quotations were as follows:

Detroit—Fresh candled 48@58c per
dozen. Poultry, hens 19@200; roost-
ers 120; turkeys 35@380; ducks 23@
24c; geese 20@23c.

BUTTER

Holiday demand for butter, together
with lighter receipts, reflecting a mod-
erate decrease in production as a re-
sult of wintry weather restored firm-
ness to butter markets last week. Chi-
cago led the advance and for a time
was ahead of New York but by the
close of the week the firmness had be-
come general and eastern markets
were as high as or higher than Chi-
cago. Attention has centered u'pon
fresh receipts which were cheaper
than storage butter early in the week
so that the fresh butter was well clean-
ed up and only moderate withdrawals
were made from cold storage.

Prices for 92—score fresh butter were
as follows: Chicago 451/2c; New York
45c. At Detroit fresh creamery in tub‘s
is quoted at 37@390.

POTATOES

Potato markets have been dull with
demand and movement comparatively
slow. Eastern sacked round whites
are quoted at $1.65 a hundred pounds
at, shipping points and at $1.90@2.10
in eastern cities. Northern round
whites f. o. b. Michigan shipping points
are quoted at $1.30@1.55 per hundred
pounds sacked, and at $1.50@1.75 on
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Wednesday,

DETROIT
Cattle.
Market is

Receipts 344. slow but

steady,

Best heavy steers ..... '.$ 6.00717 6.75
Best handy wt bu steers 6.50% 7.00
Mixed steers and heifers 5.00@ 5.50
Handy light butchers. . .. 4.50m? 5.25
Light butchers .......... 3.25@ 4.25
Best cows 4.2571) 4.75
Butcher cows ........... 3.2571) 4.00
Common cows . . . . . . . 2.25@ 2.75
(‘anners ............... . . 1.506) 2.00
Best light weight bulls.. 4.251;) 4.50
Bologna bulls ........ 3.25@ 4.00
Stock bulls ......... . . . 2.7561) 3.50
Feeders 5.50.71) 6.00
Stockers ................ 3.757;) 5.25
Milkers and springers. 4510 90

Veal Calves.
Receipts 875. Market is steady to
strong.
Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11.00@11.50
Others .................. ' 4.50@10.50

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 3,422. Lambs strong and
sheep slow.

Best lambs ........ . . . . 10.50
Fair lambs 8.50@ 9.50
Light, to common ....... 5.75 (a) 7.25
Fair to good sheep . . 3.00@ 3.50
Culls and common . . . . . . 1.00@ 1.50

Hogs.
Receipts 2,493. Market steady to 50
higher.

Mixed hogs . . . . . . . . . . ...$ 7.25

Pigs ..... 7.75@ 8.00
Roughs .25
CHICAGO
Hogs.

Estimated receipts today are 20,000;
holdover 12,754. Market steady to 50
higher. Bulk of sales at $6.85@7.05;
tops $7.10; heavy 250 lbs up medium,
good and choice $6.90Q07; medium 200
to 250 lbs medium, good and choice at
$6.90@7.05: light 150 to 200 lbs com-
mon, medium, good and choice $6.90@
7.10; light lights 130 to 150 lbs com-
mon, medium, good and choice $6.95@
7.10; heavy packing sows 250 lbs up
smooth $6.25@6.75; packing sows 200
lbs up rough $6@6.35; pigs 130 lbs
down medium, good and choice $6.90
@7.40. ‘

Cattle.

Estimated receipts today are 7,000.

Market is strong to 25c higher. Beef

steers medium and beam weigh; .1100

   

  

November 30.

lbs up choice and prime $9@11.25; do
medium and good $61; 9.65; do com-
mon $5 (16; light weight 1100 lbs down
good and choice $8.6561‘t1125; do com-
mon and medium $4.85Q865; butcher

cattle heifers common, medium, good.

and choice $3.85@8.75; cows common,
medium, good and choice $3.50@6.50;
bulls bologna and beef $3.35@6; can-
ners and cutters cows' and heifers at
$2.60@3.50; do canner steers $2.75@
3.75; veal calves light and handy-
weight medium, good and choice at
$7109.50; feeder steers common, me-
dium, good and choice at $4.60@6.60;
stocker steers common, medium, good
and choice $3.50@6.25; stocker cows
and heifers common, medium, good
and choice $3.15@5.
Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 16,000.
Market strong to 150 higher. Lambs
84 lbs down medium, good, choice and
prime $9@10.40; do culls and common
at_$6.50@8.75; spring lambs medium,
good, choice and prime $6@8.75; ewes
medium, good and choice at $3@5.15;
ewes cull and common at: $1.50@2.75:
yearling wethers medium, good and
choice $7.15@8.60.

BUF F ALO
Cattle.

Receipts three cars; market steady.
Choice to prime shipping steers $8@
8.50; good to choice shipping steers
$7.25@8; light native yearlings, good
quality $8@9; best handy steers $6.25
@7; fair to good at $5.50@6; handy
steers and heifers $5.25@6; western
heifers at $5.25@5.75; light Michigan
butchering heifers $4.50@5.50; best
fat cows $4@4.75; medium fair $2.50@
3.50; cutters '$2@2.50; canners $1.50@
1.85; best heavy bulls $4704.25; heavy
bologna bulls at; $3.50@4.25; common
bulls $2.50@3; best feeders 700 to 800
lbs $5.25@6; medium feeders $4.50@5;
stockers, good $4@4.50; light common
$3@3.50; best milkers and springers
$80@100; mediums $40@60. Calves,
market steady; tops at $13; fair to
good $7@9; grassers $3.50@4.50.

Hogs. -

Receipts 10 cars; market is strong.

Heavy $7.50@7.75; mixed" and yorkers
$8; pigs $8150.
Sheep and Lambs;
Receipts 5 cars; steady; top lambs
$11.25; yearlings $7@8.50; wethers at
$5@5.5Q;_ewes~§.4@4.5o. ,- ~v 1

    

BEANS

Prices for choice hand—picked White
beans f. o. b. Michigan shipping points
are around $4.35 per 100 pounds or a.
little lower than a week ago. Prices
to growers for beans in the dirt are
around $4. Red kidneys hand-picked
are bringing $7. It is claimed that
about fifty per cent of the crop has
been moved already. Wholesale gro—
cers are still trying to work down in-
ventories to prepare for the first of
the year and are only buying in small
lots. Michigan seems to be the weak-
est market on the'map as growers are
still pressing sales and are unwilling
or unable to wait until the trade is
ready to take their product.

APPLES .

The apple market has been steady
during the past week although the
movement is comparatively slow. A—21/2
Baldwins are quoted at $6.50@7.50 in
consuming markets with but few sales
reported at stripping points. Extra.
fancy boxed Jonathans are bringing
$1.75@2.75 per box in the consuming

markets.
WOOL

After maintaining an upward trend
for several months, foreign wool auc-
tions have become reactionary in the
last few days. In domestic wool mar-
kets prices have strengthened, due, it
is said, to speculative buying on ac-
count of the tariff outlook, medium
and low grades being especially bene-
fited. Moderate quantities are being
absorbed rather steadily by‘ mills in
spite of an unfavorable situation in
the goods market and an acute scar-
city of the best combing wools is ex-
pected later on. Consumption de-
creased rather steadily from month to
month in the last half of 1920, reach-
ing a level of only about 20,000,000
pounds during December,
year consumption has been heaviest
during the last. quarter. It is expect-
ed that 1921 will not compare unfav-
orably with 1920 when final figures
for the year are available.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

The produce market was quiet but
steady. The supply was not large. Po-
tatoes are being taken freely but on-
oins are scarce and higher. Apples
are in a fairly liberal supply but but-
ter and eggs are firmer and higher.
Shipped in stuff is quoted as follows:
Cabbage $1.25 per bu; potatoes $3@
3.50 per 150 lb, sack; apples $2.50@
3.25; onions $5625.50 per 100 lbs.

GRAND RAPIDS

Some of the porato men sense a.
firmer tone in the demand for tubers
but they are notpredicting any ad-
vance in prices. The prices paid to
growers are 90c@$1. Comparatively
small quantities of beans are moving
and the local priceois $3.50@3.75 for
Michigan pea beans and $5@5.50 for
red kidney. Prime Michigan furs are
in demand and the bidding of buyers
is putting prices higher. Receipts 01'
muskrats and skunk are good.

On the city market cabbage brings
$1.25@1.35 a bu; carrots $1.25; beets
$1.20; dry onions $2.20; parsnips at
$1.25; apples $1.50@3.25; hay $20@22
per ton.

Creamery butter is bringing A40 per
pound, while No. 1 dairy is around
330. Fresh candled eggs are quoted
at 65c and storage at 39c. Mchigan
daisy cheese 240.

No. 2 red wheat $1.10: rye 650; oats
42c; No. 2 yellow corn 62c; baled hay
$17 for No. 1 timothy and clover. ‘

COMING LIVE sroEK—SALES.

 

Holsteins.——Dec. 16, Dispersal Sale,
Lakeside Dairy, Lake Odessa, Mich.

Draft Horse Sale.—~Jan. 13, Michigan
Agricultural College. R. S. Hudson,
Secretary, Michigan Horse Breeders’
Association.

Shorthorns.—Dec. 6, John Wallace,
Lapeer, Mich.

We shall see in the future the stand- V

ardization of things in agriculture that
are unthought of now, and all to the
advantage of agriculture.

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before loading for market is not only
likely to sicken and sometim "d ‘
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1350.3: i921.

ANNUAL MEETING OF ASSOCIA-
TION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS. '

EGULAR annual meeting of the

State Association of Farmers’
Clubs will be held in the- senate cham-
ber of the capitol building at Lansing
on December 6-7. Every local club is
urged to send at least two delegates
to this annual meeting. The following
excellent program has been arranged.
All subjects are open for discussion.
A welcome is extended to anyone in-
terested in agriculture.

Tuesday, December 6—10:00 A. M.
Registration—presentation of ore-
dentials—payment of dues-appoint-
ment of committees. .
Afternoon 1:00 P. M.

Music—Industrial School Chorus,
Lansing.

Invocation.

Music—Industrial School Chorus,
Lansing.

Report of Associational Secretary,

Mrs. I. R. Johnson, Rushton.

“What is the Farm Bureau Doing
for the Farmer?” M. L. Noon, Jackson.
President Jackson County Farm Bu-
reau.

Reading—I. R. Johnson, Rushton.

“The American Farm Home and Its
Problems,” Mary E. Sweeney, Dean of
Home Economics, M. A. C.

“Are we Getting Value Received for
the Money Spent on Our Roads?” Ed-
gar Burk, St. Johns.

Evening, 6:00 P. M.

Banquet served by ladies of Baptist
Church.

Toastmaster—W. A. Cutler, of Grass
Lake.

Round—table.

President’s
Mason.

“A Real County Agent,” C. V. Bal-
lard, Jackson, County Agent, Jackson
County.

“Woman’s Opportimity,” Mrs. Dora
Stockman, Lansing, Member of State
Board of Agriculture.

“The Agricultural Outlook,”
Shaw, M. A. C. .

Music for the evening will be fur-
nished by M. A. C.

Wednesday, December 7—9:00 A. M.
Music—M. R. Cutler, DeWitt.
Invocation.

Question box conducted by Lee S.
Noble, Oxford, Vice-President of the
association.

“The County Nurse,” Dr. E. E.
Pierce, State Sanitorium, Howell.

Music—M. R. Cutler, DeVVitt.

“The Federated. Committee,” Alfred
Mason, member of federated commit-
tee.

Treasurer’s report—Mrs. I. R. John-
son, Rushton.

Music—M. R. Cutler, DeiVitt.

Report of committees.

Election of officers.

Afternoon, 1:00 P. M.
Music—M. R. Cutler. DeWitt.
Address—Governor Alex. J. Groes-

beck.

Reading—I. R. Johnson, Rushton.
“Problems of Taxation from the

Farmer’s Standpoint,” Hon. 0. L.
Barnes, Lansing.

Music—M. R. Cutler, DeVVitt.

“The Michigan Department of Agri-
culture and the Farmer, H. H. Halli-
day, Lansing, Commissioner of Agri-
culture.

Reading—I. R. Johnson. Rushton.

“Organized AgricultureflOur Club’s
Big Job,” C. B. Cook, Agricultural
Agent, Oakland county.

Music—M. R. Cutler, DeVVitt.

address—Alfred Allen,

Dean

THE PATHFINDERS.

(Continued from page 539).
of a thin, stooped woman, with de-
jected eyes and drooping mouth. She
met more than half-way the timid offer
of a welcoming kiss, and was reward-
ed with a rush of tears, and a choked,
“Oh, my dear, dear daughter.”

Father Allen’s kiss was hearty and
resounding.

“Welcome to the woods,” he greeted
her. “Place ain’t much to look at, but
it’s all paid for.”

Eighteen-year-old Chester was shov-
ed forward, fourteen-year—old Nellie
giggled a welcome, but eight-year-old
Tom refused to come out from behind
his mother.

Supper was ready, and though her
own new home across the lane was
Waiting, Milly urged that they eat be-
fore she inspected it. She insisted that
she was starving. Really she was filled
with a most nnbridelike dread of see-

ing what 'was behind the closed doors.
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herself to smile at Bob’senthusiasms.

When at last he had gone she walk-
ed slowly through to the tiny bedroom.
Why had she not visited his mother
before she agreed to come up here
to live?

The homesickness which she had
been fighting off all during those last
hours in the sand engulfed her. She.
threw herself down on the bed, pulled
the pillows over her head, and cried
as hard as she did the first night she
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AT" AUCTION

John Wallace Farm, 5%. miles
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DECEMBER 6th, AT 1 O’CLOCK

8 cows and heifers, part of which were
sired by Oxford Dale, son of Butternut,
he a son of Avondale. Butternut
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In recent years. Oxford Dale will be
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milch cows fresh or close to calving.

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Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Nlich. Cherry 7664

HAY Ship To The Old Reliable House

         
   
     

 

 

 

 

GEO. E. ROGERS & C0”

 

__—601 Wabash Bldg., Pittsburgh,Pa.
S H I P I’ E R S . for highest prices
ill all cars t

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HAY The EL. RlCHMOND 00.. Detroit.

HARDWOOD ASHES AT PIKE-WAR PRICES
Have been instructed by the Ash Gatherer»; of Ontar-
io to sell 30 cars 0f30 tons each. It. Will pay you to
buy a. car at once and store till spring.

Geo. Stevens. 364 Mark St... Peterborough. Ont. Can.

obacoo Natural Leaf. Sweet. mellow hand-picked
chewing,5 Ibs..$1.50; 10 Ibs..$2.50. Smokingh‘zo lbs.
$4.00. Furnish free receipt for preparing. Quality,del

 

 

guar. Farmers' Tobacco Exchange. Sedalia, Ky
' or Chewing tobacco. Collect on

llmnesnnn Smokm “1...”, 10 p0,... ., , ,

pounds. 84. Ford obacoo Company. Mnyfield, Ky.

 

 

' ioc b‘rin midwest farmers' utilit
Trial 0““ ultry gcleaner, twitch-month fora
months. Poultry £0 ‘

 

° quality March boars and. full
CheSter Whltes pigs at u very Imv pr—irosmntisluo-
tion guaranteed. 1". \l'. Alexander, Vussur. hill-ll.

 

“ESTER WhllPSvWI‘VElll pigs only. forsulo. A com.
.1 bination of “'ildwood l’rinm‘ and lllgfieiisution
blood lines. G. D. Springer. R. (i, Lirund Rapids, l‘lli‘ll.

 

Raise Chester Whites
. Like This

9/, (lie original big producers
. / ‘ /

success. I can help you. I want to Place one hug from
my great herd in every community where am not already rep
resented b these fine early developers—ready for market. at six
months old]. Write for my plan» ‘ ore Money from Hogs."

G. S. BENJAMIN, R. F_ D_ 10. Portland. Michigan

0. I. C. BOARS

shipped C. O. l).
J. CARL JEWETT, h'lason. Mich.

O. I. C’s.

April and hiay hours at reasmmble prim-s. “'eber
Bros., 10 Mi. imd Ridge lids. Royal ()(lk. Mir-h.

0.1. C’s. ““0

. spring pigs. i-itlio-rst-x not akin.
Big growthy stock. .‘v-Z mile nest of l)¢-por.(‘itzs l’lmne.
OTTO B. SUIII'IMI‘I. Nzhhrille. .\li('l1.

 

 

 

 

yearling boar and lust.

 

0 I 0 Spring hours and gilts no akin. Vl'e breed and
I ' - own the ('rruiid (‘Iiumpiou Hour at. “'th Mich.

State Fair.‘ We ship (7. (l. I). and lit-4;. free.

(1E().M. WELTUN «l2 SUN, Alto. hilt-h.

 

For Sale 0. l. C. serviceable Soars

H. “’.3\1ANN, Dziiisvillv. Mll‘ll

Central Mich. O. l. C.

Swine Breeders Ass’n.

Hogs of all ages of popular blood lines.
sale guaranteed by association.

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

 

Every

 

(‘lu-flvr \Vliilv Swine. Strictly
O. I. C. an lily; 'I'Hw \\ll.ll Quality I. illlvl
sold out. of everything but Springplgs l'lznvtlin
linosl, lot I ever bred. Met-l, me ill lllt.‘ Stale Fair and
other loading l‘uirs of the State. And see a sample
of our hogs and pigs

NEWMAN'S STUCK P‘ARhl. Ii. >1. hlui‘letltnhlivli

0‘ L (/95, Boats and Gilts from April and

, , . lVlii} l‘arrow, Size
and! quality guaranteed. Ship (3. O. I). It‘lm Front,
Stock Farm. ’lL

L THURMAN. Dryden. hlich.

9 210 Choice ' V '
0 o I o C S I also full pigs-Euumb bOdI'S.
CLOVER LEAF STUCK FARM, Aloilrm', _\l it'll.

 

l Choice April boar from a grand daughl \r‘
0. l. c S (If “'ildwood Prince and from a son of it;
troleum Giant. ELJ. Barker & Sou, Belmont, Slivli

1 April hours all sold.on* \ r'l
0- I. C S giltjeftzuidAugpigs. Aiilidhi

PETERSON. R. 2. 1011121, lyiichu "I'Ilmhurst Farm"

Gilts All Sold

Could have sold many more, and have onlv live
more boars left for sale. Order Early. lteiuem.
her the Spotted Poland China is the coming farm
breed for Michigan. Address W. l. BEARCE, or
CHAS. BABCOCK. Ovid. Michigan.

LARGE TYPE POLAND CHINA?

Spring pigs of either sex. Sired by F's Clansman

rand Champion Boar 1920 and by Smooth Buster
lst. Jr. yearling 1920. Priced to sell. Write or nee
them. A. A. Feldkamp, R. 2. Manchester. Mich.

 

 

 

LEONARD'S‘ Big Type P. O. Herd headed by Leon.
' ards Liberator 458,285. the tallnst. longest and heav-
iest boned pig] for his age in Mich.
stock in season. Fall pigs at Bargain Prices.
E. R. LEONARD.

 

Beg Type Poland China

falIlegs either sex. sired by Clansman Buster and
by over’s Giant. Also giltn bred for spring furrow
toHover’s Liberator. Priced to sell. satisfaction ar-
nnteed. DOBUS ROVER. Akron. loh.

 

 

aide. Box D, Montpelier, Indiana

Ann !

 

(‘all or write. .

St. Louis. Mich. '

131—547

 

Big Type Poland Bhinas

Qua ity Typo Ancestry

The best the breed affords
Write or see

Size

 

.Wesley Hile, lonia, Mich.

 

llig Type Poland
The Thumb Herd Chinas. For 30 days
l mu olTerinL: bargains in I’oluiidChinus. lWyherd
boar \\lll(‘ll won five Illa-us grand champion at Bay
(Iinyfilud at rlati- hair in 1930. Spring boars. gllfis
and plum, all age." by him. Pom-e and Plenty and
l‘um-olu l.:ir|. ()nt ol' Miss Smooth Jumbo. Model
Mount-l. Orange Maid and others. Largest herd 0f
prixeu'mm-rs in the thumb. H(ll(l on approval. Write

your “nuts.
I‘I. l\l. ()RIHVAY. hdillingtnn, .\ ich.

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

We have a, fine lot of fall pigs sired by Harts
Black Prior and Right Kind (Elan. HART.
l<‘l'l.(‘lll‘2ll and CLINIC, address I“. ’1‘. Hart. St.
Louis, Mich.

 

 

l\ll(‘ll ()rzinge sired by Monarch Orange
For sale by \l'is, ”range. This lit-rd sire took
first at i\or. \lil~E\.Sl;m~ Fair. lie is a proveu sire and
as nice. :1 lllllli, In»: its [hero is in Mir-ll. I guarantee
llllll Ill mury up). I’rit-uSllIEB. Also 21 litter of fall
pigs from this sirt- and Quevu Buster. They are
hard in limit.
.r\I.l"ll.l'.'l) MYERS, Lork Box 2, 'l‘renary, Mich

 

 

' n is x; plnl‘l} for bargains. “'0 can under-
Flre Gale m-ll .‘mv llrr-suleon (‘ill‘tlL “’0 are mak-
ing a hIH‘t‘lle Ill‘l('(‘ on lili,r 'l'ypl- l’oluml China. Bears
Sirvd Ill tho purple. “b can furnish just what
you want, Uri-r lull bend on hand.

Bell l‘llUllO. .INU- (.‘ Bl'lld‘lll, Portland, Blich.

L. S. P. C.

1 yearling llt‘lfll boaras good as you ever saw, spring
liours‘by Nov. lst. You can't bout the price nor the
breeding, ll. 0. SWVAR'I‘Z. Seliooli'raft, Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. C.

Home of the largest herd of individuals in Michigan.
Come and see. (.‘Ullllliil'l‘ and be (‘(ll|\lll('(‘(l, expenses
paid if not as represented: priced in keeping with the
times. Young hour.»~ ready to ship, that grow into
winners. alsosows. W. E. Livingston. l’urmu, Mich.

 

 

 

Big Type Poland Chinas

For Sale. Sniooi [1 Orange. No. llls'l'itl, ago 20 months.
Miss Prospect. No. 910112. age L’ _\i-~.7 months, lire
Nov. 5. Two open ullts sired by Smooth ()runged

S. U. WISBS'I'I‘Jlfi, It. 3, South Haven. hiich.

 

I ll; Type I). C. some very choice hours double im-
mune. out 1100 ll». sire and mammoth sows from
lowu s greatest. herds. l‘l.il.l\rlkllll(‘\\suli. liurrUuk,l\lich.

 

Bil-l Wile l’olzind ("Iiinu hours and gilts of April furrow.
also one yearling hour that is hard to beat. Prices
CliYIH". FISHER. R. Cl. 51. Louis. Allah.

‘ Y Poland (‘liinzisdt-ading strains
BIC, T PE at. lowest prices. Both sex, all
ages, and bred sows and gills.
G. A. l;.\l.‘l\l(‘r.-\I{I)NI<II(. “.3.

right.

 

hiiddleville. Mich.

 

P C swine, [urge type,“ arch and Apr. pigs. Sired
‘ ‘ by "King “'onder", or sale. sent out on
I . '

approval. l Vi. NULLS. Saline, Mich

L. T. P.

 

Model spring boars and gills now ready
' toablpklonwlliinu good utzi right price.
W. .I. ll;\HI‘II.SII.\\\'. Augusta. Mich.

 

it: lypf- P.(‘..h‘pl lug: l Ours unll l'llllll‘i' full Digs} either
-- sex. Sll'tltl by Illg liob Mihloduu. l’rir'wl low guar-
tvvd. l‘. I‘.'. liarnuul. I‘Ialoii ltupids, Mich.

A Few Fall Yearling Sows

good out-s. l‘.' I). III‘IYDI'INISI‘IHK. \Vuylzlnd. Blich

 

 

 

' plane your order for bred gills, and tall
llaIIIpSlIII'BS pigs ut a bargain. 9th year.
JOHN W. SNYIH‘IR, It. I. St. Johns, NIiCh.

HAMPSHIRE Servioeuldii males and bred

gills for so o.
J. C. ISrorein. It. 23. Wapakoueta. Ohio

SHEEP

 

 

ShrOpShireS 'I yeurlinu ruins also rain andewe

. ‘ lumlm. Bullzir uiid Senator Bib-
by browllng. L Rockford. llIich.

A Real Bargain at
Kope Kon Farms

\Vo.‘ oll't-r HJ bit,r healthy yearling Shropshire and
Hampshire Rams all l‘t‘gixli‘l'wl at $23.00 each
(.‘que or write while the picking l.\ good.

0 dwater, Mich.

The Maples Shropshires

For Sale. Extra well bred yearling Rams, also
2 yr. old stock rain sired by a Broughton Ram.
\Yill sell a few good ewes and several Duroc Jere
sey spring boars. Brooluvater bred. Write your

wants early.
C. R. LELAND,
Ann Arbor,

.l. 'l‘huuipsnll.

 

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Ru 5, Mich.

 

Wool-Mutton Slim" Ramsigood big robust.

_ one and two earold’s 15'.
at farm. or 317410 crated and deliverer on cars. $18,132
some good breeding ewes. bred to high class rams.

A. H. FOSTER. Allegan, Mich.

" h ropshires» Yearling and lamb rams with null
Ssired by an imported Winton ram. Write fog prictgd

and description. VV.B. McQuillan. Howell, Mich.

 

Registered Shrapshire Rams

Priced to sell. Dan Booher, R. 4. Evart. M ioh

 

' and eves all es. lit
Reg. Shropshire Rams and pr... .r..“‘i.gm9“'ivri
ship on approval. H. 1". Mouser. R. 6. Ithaca, Mich

FOR SAL :2 .. a...

CALHOON BROS. Bronson. Mlch

 

 

EGISTERI‘TD Oxfords. Some good ewes bred for
Dec. delivery. Few good rams left. Write our
wants. (121‘. Abbott. Palms. Mich. Decker-ville pica.

 

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