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VOLUME CLVIII. NUMBER SEVEN





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CURRENT COMMENT

THE MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:





‘Don’t swat the rat, finish him.





Better disturb the rule than spoil

the boy.





Where timothy drives out clover

there are many callers at the poor

'house.





But few subsoil plows have ever

been worn out because owners have

discovered that the work is done

cheaper and better by deep rooted

plants.





’Tis the evening schedule in the

farm home even more than the day’s

labor, that holds the young people to,

or drives them from the parental roof.





~1TH but a sin-





- gle dissenting

Marketing vote, the Capper-Vol-

Bl" stead bill, the object

Passed and intent of which





are familiar to our

readers, was passed by the senate of

the United States last week. The bill

then went to a conference committee

of the two houses of congress for the

adjustment of minor differences in the

wording of the measure as it passed

the two bodies. The report of this

committee has been adopted and the

measure passed on to the President

Whose prompt approval is. expected in

view of his indorsement of the princi-

ple involved in his message to the

congress.



The passing of this bill will remove

the last possible legal obstacle to the

economic organization of farmers for

the orderly marketing of their prod-

ucts. Its passage also marks a govern-

mental recognition of the business

needs of the country’s great basic in-

dustry which is epochal in character,

and for which the farmers of the coun.

try are indebted not only to the auth-

ors of this bill but as well to the other

senators and representatives who are

identified with the so-called “Agricul-

tural Bloc” which has had a most im-

portant and constantly growing influ-

ence in national legislation during re-

cent months.



The agricultural bloc is made up of

Something like a hundred members of

the house and some twenty-two mem-



. bers of the senate, largely from the

[west and south where agriculture is

7 the predominant industry. It has been

assailed by some spokesmen of other

interests and by statesmen of the “old

school" as a pernicious influence in

meow government as a combination





 

 





711m which have ‘

'Washington and the esponents of;





 





which naturally poems alarm the

waning of that influence, which" they

feel marks the decadence of the nation





and of the stability of its government. 2





it is a safe assertion that few farm-

ers have this viewpoint, but the editor

was surprised not long ago to hear the

publisher of a mid—western farm paper

in a public address express his disap-

proval of any kind of a bloc in con-

gress, whether of agriculture, labor,

capital or what not. ‘ Of course, this

publisher was not speaking to an au-

dience of farmers, but some farmers

were present, as is likely to be the

case in almost any audience gathered

anywhere these days. He is to be

congratulated on having the courage

of his convictions, but not, we believe,

on the nature of his conclusions. Ap-

parently he is one of those who fail

to appreciate that class legislation is

not the aim and object of the agricul-





tural bloc, but rather to insure to the





farmers of the country the same rights

and privileges which are enjoyed by

the great corporations engaged in oth-

er lines of business, and to aid in the

stabilization of general business con-

ditions by giving'the individuals en-

gaged in the great basic industry of

agriculture, which is the foundation of

national prosperity, a fair opportunity

to work out their own economic prob-

lems by collective as well as individ-

ual methods. As a means to the end

of bringing this point out clearly we

will publish in a future issue a clear

statement of the reasons for the agri-

cultural bloc by one of its leading

members.





ARM credits is a





9 much discussed

Farmers topic at the present

Credit time in national legis-

Problems lative circles as well





as among farmers.

The important result so far secured is

the provision for the appointment of

a farmer on the federal reserve board.

There is no question that the estab-

lishment of the federal reserve system

was a wise provision and one that ena-

bled the country' to withstand the

financial stress of the war period mucl

more successfully than would have

been possible under the old order of

things under which the banks of the

country were not affiliated together in





a working and workable system.‘ But ‘





while the system was a great. improve-

ment from the standpoint of national

financing, it has naturally had its de-

fects as is the case with all organiza-

tions in which the human element fig-

ures. The joint agricultural commis-

sion of congress has, after an exhaust-

ive investigation, charged responsibil-

ity for the extent of the business de-

pression through which ‘the country is

passing to faulty policies of the federal

reserve board. The-giving of agricul-

ture representation on this board, to-

gether with the probable enactment of

legislation calculated to care for the

legitimate short-time credit needs of

the farmers of the country through ex-

isting agencies gives promise of the

earliest possible solution of famiors’

short- time credit problems, in- --so far as

they can be solved through govern-

ment action.



But the real solution of these prob-

lems' must, in the final analysis, lie

with the farmers themselves after ad-

equate machinery has been provided.

Two factors must ever enter into this

problem, viz.,

coupled with low mbral hazard, and

the prompt meeting of obligations on

the part of the borrower. To avail

himself of the full advantage of better

credit facilities the farmer mustlbe a

good business man. 7 The purpose or

investment for which the funds. are

borrowed must be sound frame busi-

ness standpoint and insure the. prob-





reasonable security, -





 





   





mg a more (careful Study and analysis





of his bmness and its possibilities so





as to bathe better prepared to, use im-





proved credit possibilities wisely when





they may become available.





E have been in-



, formed, enter-

Aic'“ , tained and enthused



. of ‘ by Russell Conway’s

Diamonds famous lecture on the





above subject. Occa- ‘





sionally illustrations which might be

worthy of a place. in the long list of

stirring experiences used by this noted

lecturer to impress his audiences with

the wealth of opportunity about us, are

met with. In this connection the story





,- of Edgar H3. is interesting. _ .

Mr. Hart is a all breeder of J8?"

sey cattle. From mye r to year he lived





on with things moving\ bug in the

common groove of the ordin y farm

life. Prices were up and down, margins

narrow or completely eliminated-and

he did his share of complaining against

the fates. One day, however, he was

persuaded to join a cow-testing associ-

ation. The results put new life into

Mr. Hart and now he has taken quite

a different view of life. He has the

same farm, the same family and the

same breeding of cattle; but he has a

new grip on things, and it all came

about through the finding of the cow-

testing association.





This work brought to this man the

fact that he had some unusually high-

producing cattle. A senior yearling

broke a state record with 473. 67 pounds

of fat; another senior three- -yea1- -old

produced 650 pounds of fat, while a

third three-year-old gave 530 pounds

of fat. Besides he found that he own-

ed two aged, cows that produced over

400 pounds of fat each during the year.

Mr. Hart didnot know what he had in

his herd until he went prospecting

among his cows. Cow-testing work is

for culling the boarders, but it also

serves a more important purpose, that

of finding the good cows for building a

superior herd for future business. '





ROUBLE _is the



Your r'- cheapest commod-

1 Ag 1' ity on the market at



C“ fur“ the present time. Ev-

Attitude erybody .has an overr





supply of it. But

money is scarcer than the proverbial

hen’ s teeth. .

However, two years ago money was

easy getting and a fellow was laughed

at if he tried to borrow trouble. Such

attitudes of mind are the result of mob

psychology which, in other words,

means, we do it because everybody





else does it. Such thoughts often seem '





justified, but they are not.



The man who dares to look throdgh

the present and to think or do differ-

ent than the crowd, is scoffed at at the

time, but frequently becomes famous

in the future because of the satisfac-

tory outcome of his attitude.





Big business men have made for-

tunes by buying when everybody is

selling and selling when everybody is

buying. .SO can we profit if we become

optimistic when everybody else is pos-

simistic and pessimistic when others

are all optimistic.



Your present agricultural attitude is

of vast importance to! you and others.

If you sit and bemoan the state cf af-

fairs you certainly are not doing much

to better conditions. Even though

your potatoes failed, your fruit trees

did not bear and your corn brings next

to nothing, do not plant less, feed less

or spray less. But, rather, plant as

much, feed as much and spray as

much as ever. Have faith that the

near future promises improved condi-

tlons for the farmer , :> i-

We cannot urge you too strongly to





   





any; " chair as ' -,

the Mobility of every firmer-malt.





8 there a real sown ~

argument against

the construction of

the at. Lawrence gea-

way route? If so, it

was not brought to

light at the meeting of delegates to

the waterways conference held in De-

troit last week. On the other hand, a

hundred and one advantages seem cer-

tain to accrue to the seventeen or

more states having business that would

be making available the waters of the

great lakes to sea-going craft.





But there is opposition to the proj-

ect. ' It comes from sections with ship-

ping interests that are threatened by

having traffic diverted to another

channel. This opposition is working

hard but noiseless-1y to maintain its

grip on the major part of the com-

merce of the continent. Their work ’

will tell regardless of the advantages.

which the project offers' the great

commercial agricultural section 'of

America, unless the friends of the proj—

ect continue" to urge upon the atten-

tion of the public and the federal gov-

ernment the need of carrying out the

plans with reasonable dispatch.





Waterways

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Opemz‘in ’ kw. Co—opemtz'rz '





EEING as I wasn’t asked to tell



my views‘on this subject at the

Round-up, I will hereby take the bull

by the horns, so to speak, for the com-

mon good and to relieve what you call

my mental distress.



Now, these words what looks a lot

alike ain’t even brothers. One is what

the other ain’t. For inst, a fellow op-

erates on the board of trade, or a

gamblin’joint, a commission house,

and etc. People what operates mostly

works on the gol-

den principle

what made John-

nie Pile-o-Rocks

f a m o u s as the

man what should





pay a large in-

c o m e tax but

don’t. This great





help f01 operatin’

e n d e‘ a v 0 or is

“What’s mine is mine plus what you

got new but won’t have soon.” That

is what cooperashun ain’t.



And, for inst, when the doctors op-

erate they takes machinery out of your

insides and money out of your pocket.

Now, if they would pay you a respecta-

ble price for your inside workin’s they

is so anxious to get, I would call it co~

operashun. ,



Cooperashun has got to keep good

company with honesty to be a suc-

cess. While operatin’ban make love

to dishonesty any time it wants to and

get away with it.



Now, a fellow can’t cooperate with

hisself. The front part of the word

means company, or more than one. So

when fellows get so they ain’t afraid

of each other, they can get together

and start cooperatin’.



By cooperatin’ you get more, the co-

operashun manager gets more and the

buyer of cooperators 'gets more. The

writer of the dicshunary don’t say so,

but cooperashun means, “everybody

gets more. ”



For inst, co'operatin’ with your farm

is a get-more proposition. When the

farm gives you a multiplicashun of

your seed and you give it nothin’,

you’re. operati’n’ the farm and it don't

pay. But if 'you show your gratitude

for the services rendered by treatin’it

to manure, and etc., you’ re cooperatin’

with the farm It feels so good it gives

you more. It gets more, you get more.



In coopeiatin’ you got to appreciate

your fellow men. In operatin’ .

preciate your fellow men.“ “ . ‘
. A I he was dead broke-i Last summer

‘ -‘ John drove his dust covered auto

up to the curb in front of a grocery

store in a small country town, stepped

on the' accelerator and cut off the

spark, climbed out of the car and felt

in his pockets for some object. With

heavy feet and bent shoulders he pro-

ceeded Slowly up the street, his body

inclined slightly forward as he walked,

in anticipation of his steps, his soft

hat pulled down sheltering his eyes.

He heeded none of his friends as he

met them but walked as a man who

was oblivious to all that was going on

about him. Two blocks took him to

the City Bank with the brownstone

front, which he entered and walked

quietly into the president’s sanctum.



“Good morning, Jones,” greeted

President Smith, “HoW’s the corn

crop? Are we going to have another

bumper crop to add to the heavy carry-

over?"



Jones did not bother to reply. He

felt in his pockets and pulled out a

key. This he handed to the banker

saying: “I’ve brought this in to you.”



The banker took it and examined it

closely. “I don’t seem to remember

this key,” said President Smith.

“Where did you get it?”



“No, you probably don’t recognize it.

That is the key to the house on my

farm. When you called my loan last

., month you got a farm. I can’t pay the

lean. I told you so at the timeyou

called it. Now the money’s due and

you can have the farm." I’m busted, if

you make me pay now. That’s all

there is to it, so good-bye."



“Wait a minute, Jones,” exclaimed

the still‘faced' president. “Let’s talk

over this matter. Won’t you take that

chair?” '



“There isn’t much to talk over,

Smith; you lent me the money, you

ought to know how I stand. I can’t

see so very much difference between

me and hundreds of other farm‘ens

hereabouts except that I added a sec-

tion to my farm when prices were at

their highest. That pretty near strap-

ped me. Besides, that fellow Green

you sent me to, charged me eight per

cent interest and a ten per cent com.





 





mission on top of that for a five-year

mortgage. I couldn’t afford to pay that

amount of interest on any great part

of my land so I drew out all of the

money I had here in the bank in ord‘ei‘

not to have to borrow so much. Then

I came to you, as ybu know, and brac-

ed you for a loan to carry me through

till I sold the crop. You took my note

for three months and now you have

called it.”



“Yes, I had to,” broke in the banker.



,“But, you see, I expected you to re-

new it at least twice,” continued

Jones. “You knew when you let me

have the money that three months





would not begin to see me through. I-





knew your system, Smith, but I was

willing to pay, and pay through the

nose, thislonce, just as you have made

all of these poor devils around here

pay for years.” ,



' “Wait a minute, Jones. Don’t get

"excited, ” interposed Smith with a

' soothing gesture.



rm ll wound up now, and I'm go.-





 





 





 





OHN JONES was worth $40, 000 but .





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~ _- By Edwy

been watching you stiff-faced bankers

for seme time, and so have a lot of

other farmers and we know that you

are playing a smooth game. The sec-

tion I bought last winter isn’t worth

as much as it was, but it’s still worth

more than a whole row of these wood-

en stores in this burg, and I wouldn’t

trade my old farm for this bank. Just

because we got our tail in the crack

and can’t get ready cash we’re not go-

ing to let you shut the door. You lent

me money for three months so I could

buy a little fertilizer and pay off the

boys during the plowing and planting

season. You charged me ten per cent

and I left part of the money in the

bank until I needed it. You made

money out of that balance. Then you

would have charged me commission to





B. Reid





renew the loan and again asked me to

leave part of the money with you until

I needed it. You shave-tails will get

What’s coming to you sometime, and it

won’t be long coming.”



“It’s a pity, Jones, you were not

born a banker instead of a farmer,”

commented Smith. “You undoubtedly

would have had better luck,” added

the banker between cigar puffs, as he

settled back with an air of amused

self-satisfaction.



“I think you are right, Smith, as far

as this bank is concerned,” retorteu

Jones as the red, danger signals began

to creep up the sides and back of his

neck and spread to his ears.



“I may have been a sucker to buy

that one hundred and sixty acres, ad-

joining me, which I have always want-





 





 





Good Guessing Cuts Work





In Determz'nmg Davy Com“

By H. M. Eliot





N the feeding of dairy cattle, the

largest single cost is the feed cost,

and the dairy business is con-

ducted in the dark unless a record of

this feed is kept. Many farmers feed

their crops to hogs, sheep, or steers





and thus do their marketing through





these animals, while other farmers

haul the crops to market and sell feed

instead of animals. The question

of which is the most profitable of

these two methods of marketing can

be answered only by feed records and

without them it is impossible to form

even a close estimate.



Feeding all classes of stock out of

a commOn crib or bin, but weighing or

measuring the daily ration fed to each

class, is a common way of keeping a

record of feed. This may be called

the ration method. Another way is to

have separate bins out of which each

class of stock is fed, and to measure

the feed as it is put into these bins.

This may be called the bin method.

The first method is ordinarily used for

hays and silage and the second for

grains, while a combination of the two

will fit any set of farm buildings. “1

.have a bin in my chicken coop, and

I keep track of the feed as we carry

it over there,” said a farm woman in

Wayne. county, “so we know exactly

how much we feed our hens.” .



Another farmer has an oat bin in his

horse barn and feeds nothing but his

horses out of it. Furthermore, silage

is mostly fed to dairy cattle, while

most of the feeds bought are intended

for a single class of stock and can,

therefore, usually be charged directly

to that class. ,



Where this simple method will not





apply the ration method will be found‘





practically as easy. A careful feeder

will figure his daily rations closely.

And he will use a ration that is well

balanced, and will make it up from the

most economical feeds on the market.

When he has done this all that is

needed from a feed, record standpoint





18.10 multiply. this daily-refit»! by the





number of days it is fed without any

change, and then to compute the total

cost of each feed in the ration.



Figuring .feed rations and records

furnish somé good practice in farm

arithmetic. If you have a boy or a girl

in the‘ family, have them figure ra-

tions, too. VThey will find them fine

.practiCe in multiplication and addi-

tion. Assume for the purpose of the

problems that the same ration was

fed on each of the thirty—one days of

January, and figure the price of oats

at forty-one cents and corn at ninety-

eight cents a bushel if you prefer that

method to‘the price perton method.



One more point merits considera-

tion. It is the question of weighing

and estimating the weights of feed.

One will need to weigh or measure a

ration a few times until one becomes

accustomed to estimating its measure

or weight, but it is surprising how

soon the eye becomes trained to meas-

ure with practical exactness.



Anillustration will drive this point

home, and similar experiences will oc-

cur to every reader:



Two college students were working

in the college dairy barn, and were in-

structed to weigh the feed fed to each

cow. After they had done this for a

time one of the students began to ar-

gue that .it was useless to carefully

weigh the feed each time, and to prove

his point he turned the face of the

scales away from him and instructed

the other student to record the weights

as he measured out the grain and fed

each cOw, and without knowing what

the scales were recording he fed some

twenty odd cows and gave each one

the 'right amount as recorded by the

student watching the scales. This feat





can be duplicated by any farmer with





only a little Practice.



The matter of feed records is there-

fore simple enough and requires little

enough of time, and, furthermore, to

feed stock without measuring the feed-

is like paying out money without

counting it.





 

 

 





red '





ed, but I haven’t a bank. full of notes '

taken on land valued at more than

double what it \can pay interest and a .

living on. You got stuck, and every'

one knows it. Those smooth guys

from the city who came through here,

got a lot of options on farms, made a

few wash sales at high prices and

stuck you right. You and that boob

editor of the Clarion jumped ‘right in

and helped them with their game. The

Clarion wrote up the sales in high

glee; then a few real sales were made

at higher prices, and we were on "our

way. We might believe you were a

party to this deal if your own bank

wasn’t loaded to the vault doors with

that paper. Maybe you don’t own it

and your customers do. Since you are

such a shark on finance you should

have known that game by this time.

Truly, I think we farmers will have

to keep you bankers away from the

county fair or some faker will get you

into a shell game. Did you ever stop

to think that about nine—tenths of the

farms sold at near peak prices were

bought by town and city speculators.

And yet you white-shirt fellows with

poker faces who sit behind mahogany

desks call us hicks and rubes. You

think you can turn on and off at will

the stream of credit which should flow

from the great reservoir of this coun-

try to the farms. The trouble With too

many of you is that you treat money

as a commodity to be bought and sold

instead of a medium of exchange. You

try to pinch a few feathers from the

breast of every golden eagle that pass-

es through your fingers so as to line

your own nest.”



“Hold on there, Jones; you usually

are a pretty sane individual,” intero

rupted the banker, patting the farmer

on the shoulder. “Let me ask you a





   





question.”

“All right, shoot!” snapped out

Jones, edging out of reach of the’





friendly hand on his shoulder.





“You farmers are farming to make

a living aren’t you? Well, that’s What

we bankers are doing when we under-

take to chaperon the money that is de- '

posited in our banks. \Ve have to be

paid for our services just as you are.

Outside of our capital we guarantee





 





interest upon our deposits and we have

to invest the money safely and yet

make it yield enough to pay for ser-

vices and the. interest. Beisdes, most

of the money in this bank is subject

to call upon short notice or instantly.

We would be insolvent in a short time

if we lent any considerable proportion

of our money for longer than three

months. That’s why we only lend to

you farmers for a short period and re-

new your notes. We usually can re-

new them, but now, as you know, we

are over-extended, over-loaned, the

same as practically every bank in this

section, and the big city bank from

which We borrow or rediscount has

borrowed up to its limit with the Fed-

eral Reserve Bank.”



“What I’m talking about,” interject-

ed Jones, “is what can be done now.

I know about your system. My land

and buildings, deducting the mortgage

on the.. section. I bought, are worth

$40,000 if they are worth a Buffalo --





nickel, yet I can’t get a loan from this ‘





bank. I’d go to the Federal Fahi!





(Continued on next page).
' ' The correct proportioning and

curing of the different raw ma-

terials which carry ammonia and

other plant foods is of more im-

portance than the average user

realizes.





For the last fifteen years we have

been' carrying on experiments to

help us in developing Fertilizers

for the different crops and soils.





In making up Darling’s brands





containing ammonia, we use animal

tankage as a base. Although

animal tankage costs more, we use

it because years of actual field

tests show that Animal Base Fer-3

tilizers give better results during

the entire growth of the plant and

show .larger yields than chemical

fertilizers.





The manufacture of Acid Phosphate .

has received a lot of study, with the result ?





that we have installed very expensive

machinery. The Acid Phosphate made

with this equipment has a higher avail-

ability, is much drier and runs lower in

free Sulphuric Acid. This system was

worked out successfully 1n the large Ferti-

lizer consuming state of North Carolina,

and our plant is the first and only plant

of this kind in the Middle West.





We have never made an effort to sell

the cheapest Fertilizer. Our effort has

always been to manufacture Better F er-

tilizers.





Write for our_Booklet_and Prices.

Agents propositIOn Will interest you.





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EXPORTS OF FARM PRODUCTS.





 





NVESTIGATIONS have been car-



.ried on by the Upper Peninsula De-

velopment Bureau to ascertain the

shipments of farm products out of the

various counties of the upper penin-

sula during the past season. From the

returns received it appears that Chip-

pewa county shipped 1,638 earloads of

hay, three carloads of potatoes, four

cars of oats, two cars of sheep, fiveof

cattle, and one car of seed peas. Al-





 





ger county shipped one car of sheep,

Eone of cattle and 'twelve of potatoes.

iMarquette county shipped one carload

Iof cattle and fifteen of potatoes

lSchoolcraft county three carioads of

leattle and twenty- -flve of potatoes.

Iron county shipped two carloads of

sheep, nine of cattle and one of pota-

Itoes. Menominee county shipped three

icailoads of sheep, ten of cattle and

{fifty of potatoes.





RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE

I COPPER COUNTRY.





 





HE industrial report contains a



good survey of general agricultur-

al conditions in the Keweenaw Penin-

sula, which comprises the copper coun—

try, and has a very favorable opinion

of its possibilities.

growing season between the frosts at

Houghton is 153 days, and that rain-

fall possibilities of the district through

a comparison with several northern

counties of Minnesota in the same lat-

itude, which are a'mong the leading

dairy counties of that great dairy state.

A study of Minnesota conditions leads

it to believe that the cooperative





 





It notes that the





 





creameries are the most profitable



Fruit raising, especially on the weat-

ern slopes of the copper range, where

the effect of the, lake is most definitely

secured, the report considers very





promising—as it undoubtedly is—and'





notes that this will call for a cannery

on Portage Lake, to utilize the local

surplus output. Such a cannery can

be erected for some $200,000. There

is also an abundant supply of wild

berries that could be worked up. The

delicious, but little known, thimbleber—

ry, or salmonberry, which grows in

great profusion here, makes an excel~

lent jam, which the report thinks, can

obtain a natibnal market. Undoubted-





\ly, being surrounded on three sides by





Lake Superior, which tempers the at-

mosphere, the copper district is favor-

ably situated for fruit raising. While

the report is based upon material that

is familiar to students of northern ag-

riculture, it will be convenient to have

this material in such accessible form.





INDUSTRIAL SURVEY OF CLOVER-

LAND.





 





N the depressed condition of the cop-



per industry, the copper country of

Michigan has been. seriously thinking

of other lines of business that can sup-

plement copper mining and related in-

dustries. To assist ‘the business lead-

ers of the districtrin investigating this

problem, the boards of supervisors of

Houghton, Keweenaw and Baraga

counties, last year, engaged the ser-

vices of the Stevenson Corporation of

New York, to make an industrial sur-

vey of the region and suggest new en-

terprises in which labOr and capital





 





/

Wednesday, February 8.



VER $1,000,000 in orders were re-



ceived by the Lincoln Motor Com-



pany on the first day of its opening





by Mr. Ford—The Jackson County

Audubon Society plans to establish a

fifteen thousand acre bird reserve.—

Dr. Adolph Lorenz, the great bloodless

surgeon, will visit Detroit in March.

Thursday, February 9.





HIEF Inspector of Mines Seward



1 Button has called a conference to

discuss the means of extinguishing a

fire which has been burning in a coal





mine in Pennsylvania for the last five





years—A nation-wide farmer-labor po-

litical movement will be launched, it





. is reported, at a labor-agricultural con-





ference in Chicago, on February 20.——

Mme. Marie Curie, co-discoverer of

radium, is the first woman to be elect-

ed a member of the French Academy

of Medicine.



Friday, February 10.

ERMANY paid $31,000,000 gold

marks on war debt to the allied

reparation commission.~Secretary of

State Hughes goes to Bermuda Isles

for a rest after his peace conference

work—Fifteen hundred inhabitants of

Silverton in southwestern Colorado

face starvation because of being cut

off from the rest of the world by heavy

snow slides—There is rioting between

the Ulsters and advocates of the Irish.

Republic at Belfast.



Saturday, February 11.

HE American navy will be cut ev-

en lower than- the peace treaty

makes necessary to setan example to-

the rest of the world—The Dapper-





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land threaten to strike because of a

twenty per cent wage cut. * .-





 





 





passed the senate by a vote of fifty-

eight to one.—~Warden Hulburt, of the

Jackson prison, says sixty~six per cent

of the crime in Detroit is due to high

rents and high cost of living. —-“Big

Thomson, mayor of Chicago,

hires a Methodist minister as law en-

forcement commissioner.





Sunday, February 12.



T costs 20,000 rubles to have-a col-



lar laundered in Russia—Fifteen

hundred government employes will be

laid off. as a result of the peace con-

ference—The Columbia Graphaphone

Company has gone into the receivers’

hands with liabilities of $20,000,000.—.

D. D. Aitken, the' prominent Holstein

breeder of Flint, Mich., is honored by

the University of Wisconsin for his

worth-while services in dairying.





Monday, February 13.





THE United States and Japan get

gqual rights in the Isle of Yap, ac-

cording to a treaty recently signed——

Piesident Harding vetoes taxation as

a means of raising soldiers’ bonus.—

David Sturgis, aged ninety-two, the

first white boy born at Sturgis, Mich.,

died recently at Yuma, Arizona—Pope

Pius XI was coronated Sunday.~—Thos.

A. Edison celebrated his seventyvfifth

birthday last Saturday.

Tuesday, February 14.

. HOUSANDS of churches and other

organizations will celebrate Father

and Son Week.—-—W. R. Walton, ento-





mologist of the United States Depart-





ment of Agriculture, says the Hessian

fly is scarce in America—Twehty-one

thousand textile warkers in New Eng-





: upper 11' ninsul





.couid be employed. The report of the

Stevenson Corporation has recently





been published by the joint action of ,





the commercial clubs of the copper





country. It makes a substantial

pamphlet of one hundred and fifty

pages.





The report is notable, among other

things, for the attention which is giv-

en to the poSsibility of greater agri-

cultural development Considerable

space is given to the sugar-beet indus-

try, including the raising of beets by

the farmers and the manufacturers of

beet sugar on Portage Lake. The re-

port points out that the longer summer





day and cooler temperatures with an ,





abundant rainfall, of this latitude and

section, are- very favorable to beet cul-

ture and the sugar ’content of the beet,

which here considerably exceeds the





-average for the beet district farther to '





the southward.





There is a good labor' supply, it

points out—the Finnish farmers being

well suited to beet growing. The ex-

cellent roads favor the marketing of

the ‘crop, making possible an economi-

cal load of three tons or more. Soil

and topographical conditions, especial-

ly near and -to the southward of Port-

age Lake, are very good. A sugar fac-

tory located on the shores of Portage

Lake, which has a ship channel to

Lake Superior, would be able to take

advantage of cheap water transporta-

tion, and although this is not referred

to in the report—when the St. Law-

rence shipway is built, it will be pos‘

sible to bring in raw cane sugar from

Cuba and other outside‘ production

areas, to be refined in northern Mich-

igan factories, also by this great all-

water route. The limestone used in

purifying the sugar will make a good

soil corrective and—although the re-

port does not mention it—Lthere is an

abundant supply of nearly pure lime~

stone in the eastern upper peninsula

readily transportable' to the copper

country. The beet tops and pulp will

serve the local live stock industry as

stock forage.





The report- considers the matter of

crop rotation, pointing out that pota-

toes, alfalfa and live stock raising will

fit in well with the beet industry. It

estimates that, to maintain a run'of

one hundred days for a 500-ton factory

beets should be grown on some 335

farms, allowing a beet acreage propor-

tional to other crops on the farm. It

estimates that $750,000 will 'be requir-

ed to erect the factory. In short, the

corporation sees no good reason why a

beet industry cannot be established in

this most ‘northerly section of the

state; and in this opinion it conforms

to good expert opinion hitherto ex-

piessed.





 





TELEPHONE SERVICE EXTENDED.





 





ARMERS of the Waucedah district,



Dickinson county, have secured tel-

ephone sgrvice through the establish

ment of some eleven miles of new

line, on which wires will be strung in

the, spring by the Michigan State Tel--

ephone Company. Ten residents of

VVaucedah and five farmers in the vi-

cinity have also secured electric power

service. Individual electric plants

have been tried but without satisfac~

tory results, it is stated.





 





PREPARING FOR TOURISTS.





 





THE Upper Peninsula Development



Bureau is securing information re-‘

garding camp sites and springs forthe

preparation of a. new map of the dis-





.trict which is being prepared for the ' '





use of: tourists and trav‘ less 151 the





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





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HE subiect of orchard fertiliza-



tion received more attention



. than any other at the annual

meeting of the Michigan Horticultural

Society, held in Grand Rapids last

December. So important is it now re-

garded that experts in horticultural

research at the M. A. 0. experiment

station are spending more than half

their time in fertilization problems.

The‘state’s total fruit production prom-

ises to be greatly increased once or-





chard growers realize the value of as- "





asisting nature in this respect.



Research men began to experiment

with orchard soils a. few years ago. In

the beginning they believed that by

analyzing the soil for its chemical con-

tent and by determining the chemical

content of the trees, the elements and

amounts needed might he arrived at.

However, it was soon found that only

by actual test with elements combined

in various degrees could reliable con-

clusions be reached.



These experiments have been con-

tinued until it is now known that nitro-

gen is the element most needed by

fruit trees in Michigan. This is in

contrast to the practice in general ag-

riculture, where phosphorus is found

to be lacking more often than nitrogen.



But whereas the nitrogen needed for

ordinary farming may be easily added

to the soil by growing leguminous

plants and plowing them under, the

supply for fruit trees thus far has not

been sufficient when leguminous cover

crops have been depended upon. There-

fore nitrates and ammonia compounds

in commercial fertilizers seem to be

the most feasible.



Experiments for demonstration pur-

poses are now being made under the

auspices of M. A. C. at orchards in

every fruit growing section in Michi-

gan. Apples, peaches, cherries, plums,

pears, grapes, raspberries, dewberries

and strawberries all. are being grown

on test plots supplied with fertilizer.

.The grape experiments at Paw Paw

are most complete and extensive.



Not sufficient time has elapsed since

the application ‘of fertilizer 'to the

small fruits to indicate results, though

strawberries in Van Buren county

haVe been greatly benefited. The tree





,fruits, however, have shown marked





'increases in yield. One apple experi-





'ment showed the following results:





No fertilizer, 1.2 bushels per tree; ni-

trate of soda, 4.2 bushels; sulphate of

ammonia, 4.9; acid phosphate, 4.3;

complete (nitrogen, phosphorus and





 





 





 





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Recent Inoemgamm Show t/zat Fem'lz'zzhg Ore/24rd: Pays





potassium), 8.4 nitrate and phosphor-

us.combined, 6.2 Professor Roy E.

Marshall of. the M. A. C. Horticultural

Department is of the opinion that in





‘ the long run nitrogen in conjunction





with some phosphorus seems to give

the most benefit. The 6. 2 bushels 1131-

ed above resulted after only one year

and in comparison may be considered

.as the most striking of all.———H.





That Strawberry Patch





By Loyal R. loner .





HE accompanying illustration is



of a strawberry patch belonging



to Mr. F. J. Smith, who lives in



the village of Okemos a few miles east



of the Michigan Agricultural College,



East Lansing, Michigan. Mr. .Smith’s



principal source of income is from his



gardening efforts. This abundant dis-



play of vigorous, healthy plants is



proof of what can be done with straw-



berry plants the first summer, as well

as showing the skill of Mr. Smith.



The plants, of the Dunlap variety,





.wére ‘set out in the middle of May,





1921, putting a plant every twelve

inches in rows four feet apart. The

black loamy sand, fairly rich in fer-

tilizer, gave the plants a, quick start.

The few weeds that started were kept

down, thus giving the plants. the full

benefit of the richness of the soil.



By September first the ground was

completely covered with paints. At

that time Mr. Smith went through

with a spade, cutting off the runners

and pulling up the plants that were

filling up the space between the rows.

This gives ’a nicer, cleaner-cut appear-

ance to the bed besides making it much

easier in picking time, to pick sys-

tematically and leave no corners or

spots unpicked, and yet no spot need

be looked over twice.



When this photograph was taken,





the twenty-fourth of« October, one

would hardly think the plants had only

been set out the spring preceding.



Farmers often think that strawber-

ries take too much time to pay them

to bother; but if set out where weeds

and grass has been kept down for a

year or two previous, it will be found

that, after setting plants out, they will

take no more care than most other

garden crops. When the’first crop is

picked, one will feel amply rewarded

for his efforts.



Besides strawberries, Mr. Smith

raises other fruits and vegetables. From

a small garden, about onefourth of an

acre near his home, he raised $258

worth of potatoes, tomatoes, beets,

carrots, lettuce and gladiolas. From a

bed thirty-five feet square he raised

$24 worth of gladiolas. His lettuce

brought forty-five and three-fourths of

a cent per square yard.



In answer to the question as to the

correct phase of the moon, etc., to

plant in, he said:



All the whims I have is to have the

ground well-manured, and well—fitted;

then plant the garden when the weath-

er permits. I never pay any attention

to moons, stars, or anything of that

nature, and they never bother me. The

ground is, of course, rather low and

well-fitted for truck gardening.





 





Mr. Smith Finds that Strawberries Pay.





Starting a Community Church





CORRESPONDENT writes that

A there are two churches in a cer-



tain community, and no services

in either church. What to do? Here

ought to be an opening for some goo

constructive work, and one well-organ-

ized» church. First, don’t be discour-

aged. T‘alk church, talk a union

church, talk a good strong church, talk





' supporting the church. . Get'the offi-





cials of the two churches. to come to-

gether and talk it over.





It is well often to drop the present

denominations entirely, and unite on a

third that has never been in the com-

munity. That is fair to all the parties

concerned. Sometimes that is not nec-

essary, however. There is no hard or

fast rule to go by. But it is best to

be connected up with some denomina-

-tional organization, as it is easier to





V ‘1 get a” good pastor that way. Besides,

the ohm-ohms the, benefit at the gen—





 





 





By IV. A. Mchme





the general offices are always willing

to answer questions and give good ad-

vice on troublesome questions. They

will also supply literature, which is

very important.



Understand, all this means that a

few people must interest themselves in

this matter and keep agitating it. 'The

more influential these leaders are, and

the more respected, so much greater

the chances of success. gAt. the same

time, people who are not influential

who keep at it and feel the call of

duty, can accomplish the seemingly

impossible.



When it seems feasible, and senti-

ment is somewhat aroused, a meeting

should be called to discuss the whole

matter. Frequently a better way is to

have a group of the interested ones





_meet at a private house spine evening

..,.'3Pd tel-k it over. Then have another





of the churches or in the town hall.





Now comes the biggest item of all,

the preacher. With the preacher the

whole matter stands or falls. Better

wait and get as good a man as possi-

ble, than to get a poor one in a hurry.

It is not always necessary to have all

the organization arrangements perfect-

ed before the minister is called. If he

is the right type of man, he will guide

the organizing activities in the right

direction. If the new church chooses





to become affiliated with a certain de—y





nomination, by writing to the central

office, it is often possible to get on the

track of a good minister. Before going

far on the preacher-hunt, however, it

should be clearly ascertained how

much the community will pay him the

first year. Not how much it can pay

(mostcommunities can pay pretty

well)".,but. how much itwill pay. After

the (new. church has gotten under way,





cthe whole community. may be right“

glad that the old churches died a hat» ,





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   





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You can see huge, but

blight comes like a thief in ,

the night. Be ready for it,

always. Spray with Pyrox.

It combines a powerful

fungus- preventer with a

deadly poison. It kills bugs,

prevents blight; invigorates

the plants so they can pro-

duce more.





The free Pyrox Book





gives users’ own words





Pyrox' 13 the old reliable stand~

by of thou ands who grow

tomatoes, cucumbers, canta-

loupes, potatoes and small fruits.

It mixes quickly, stays long in

suspension, so fine it sprays in

a misty fog at high pressure;

and sticks like paint. The 23-

year-old formula is better now

than it ever was.



Try Pyrox in your homo garden.



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Every plant grows and produces more, Bigger,

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Our New Land' Is the best p out soil filled with

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ties of Struwberrics.Ras mes, Blazi-

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A man in this neighborhood is scat-

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country for fox. Five or six dogs have

been poisoned, also several milch

cows. What is the law in regard to

putting out poison and what is the

penalty? What redress has the owner

of a poisoned dog?-—-G. H. C.





Compiled Laws (1915 Sec. 15353, pro

vides that it shall be unlawful for any

person to expose any poisonous sub-

stance where it is liable to be eaten

by horses, cattle, dogs, or animals

of other kinds; penalty not ’more

than three months or fine of $100 or

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A sells a farm to B, taking a note

secured by a mortgage on the farm,

the mortgage to run ten years, B to

pay interest and not less than $250 a

year. A has not received any princi-

pal and there is interest now due. The

ten years are up next April. If A

forecloses and sells the farm and it

doesn’t bring enough to satisfy the

claim, can A sue and recover the bal-

ance on the note, B being possessor

of other farm land ?——A. J. H.





If interest has been paid within six

years the debt is not outlawed, and the

debtor is personally liable—J. R. R.





CHATTEL MORTGAGE.





 





A has a chattel mortgage on B’s

personal property. When it becomes

due, can A renew it without B’s knowl-

edge?——X. Y. Z.



So far as the mortgagor is concern-

ed there is no need to renew. The.

claim is good until it outlaws at the

end of six years from the time it is

payable. But as against persons pur-

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mortgage, it is necessary for the mort-

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ery year. This must be-done thirty





- days before the year expires—J. R. R.





 





AVOIDING CONTRACT.





 





Having a contract for a farm where-

by' party of the first part accepts the

house and sixdots as part first pay-

ment, value $3,732.55 and $1,308.45 due

February 1, 1922, also personal prop"

orty thereon, including growing crops,

said personal property not to be sold

without consent of party of first part

(which I am not doing). When trade

was made party of first part was to

forfeit his sugar beet contract for

which he has been asked several times

and each time could net find it. The

beets have been harvested and check

is waiting its proper owner at the sug-

ar beet company. How am I going to

get my sugar beet money, as the con-

tract expires February 1, at which -

time I will have to move) as a tenant,





but that would do me no good. By

letting him have" my property and

dumping him on his ground, I would

not be losing anything—G. S.



Unless the other party to the trade

will sign up to a; settlement or rescis-

sion. the only really safe way is to sue

him in Chancery for cancellation. Mere

declaration of rescission by one party

does not make a. rescission without the

consent of the other.—J. R. R.





,RATIONS FOSR VEAL CALVES.





 





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to whole milk for calves. However, it

is doubtful if they are fed ’liberally on

whole milk whether they will eat much

grain before they reach a profitable

marketable age. The veal reaching

the greatest weight at six Weeks of age

is usually the _ most profitable.





If the whole milk is to be limited,

linseed meal should be included in the

mixture, making fou'r ingredients in

the mixture, equal parts of each by

’weight. The calves should be given

all the grain they will clean up read—

ily. 'It should not be fed in the milk

or allowed to sour in the mangers or

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Kindly give me a balanced ration

for cows. I have corn silage, shredded

stalks, timothy hay, corn-and-cob

meal and ground oats. If any other

grain is needed, it must be bought. I

have a. Jersey heifer 'just fresh, which

weighs about 400 or 450 pounds and is

giving twenty-two and one-half pounds

of milk per day, also a Jersey four-

year-old giving about thirty pounds of

5.2 test and also at Durham with 3.4

,test. These are grass tests without

grain—J. F. M.



The following grain mixture should

give good results when fed with the

silage, timothy hay and cornstalks at

the rates indicated below: Corn-and-

cob meal, 300 pounds; ground oats,

300 pounds; linseed meal, 400 pounds;

cottonSeed meal, 300 pounds. Feed

your Jersey cow one pound of this

mixture for each two and one-half

pounds of milk produced daily and





your Durham cow one pound of the,





mixture for each four pounds of milk

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SUDAN anss A POISON.





 





I would like a little information in

regard to Sudan grass. I understand

that the second and third cutting of

sorghum or sugar cane is a slow poi-

son to live stock when out for fodder

and fed to same. Now would this be

the case with Sudan grass? Also, how

is the best way to sow it, and how

much seed per acre, and when is the

proper time. I have about five acres.

How does Sudan grass compare with

German or Golden millet for hay and

yield?—-P. C.



There are very few authentic rec-

ords of where Sudan grass has produc-

ed prussic acid poison. Sorghum on

the other hand, produces prussjc acid

poison frequently when severely stunt-

ed by dry weather or by being heavily

frosted. On this account the second

and third crops of sorghum should be

pastured very judiciously. When the





as he will only go the thirty~day grace, 'hay is out and cured, however, the





likelihood of prussic acid affecting the

stock is not nearly as great as when

pastured.





Sudan grass should be sown about,

the middle of May at the rate of from

twenty to’ twentysfive pounds per‘acre.

Sudan grass does best on good corn

soil. ‘ Sudan grass outyields Golden

Millet unless there is quite a. drought,

in which case the millet may produce

a higher yield than Sudan grass. The

feeding value of Sudan grass is about





the same ‘as timothy and is considered





a safer food than Golden millet. The

Golden millet, however, contains a lit-

tle more protein thafn Sudan grass.—

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ON a great many farms it is possi-

ble to have a complete and upto-

date water system with little expense.

In many cases the windmill is located





I very close to the house, sometimes





right on the porch, so it is very easy

to pump the hard water into a gravity

tank in the house and thus put this

water where it can be used to supply

the kitchen sink, or a bath room with

water under pressure. Simply have

the water pumped first into this grav-

ity tank, which may be located on the

secondfloor of the house or in the

attic, and when full let it overflow back

.to _the barn tank.



One farmer in Kalamazoo county,

whom I visited had contrived a way

of making his windmill do double

duty. He put a rocker shaft in the





   





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tower of his windmill and connected

one arm to his pump rod and the

other to another pump rod which ex-

tended through the curb or well plat-

form to an ordinary cistern _force

pump, placed in the bottom of the

well pit.



The suction pipe of this pump ex-

tended to the cistern and the drive

pipe to anothen tank in the attic. Thus

he was able to use his windmill to

pump both soft and well water or by

the changing of a bolt it would pump

either.



This scheme can be used even when

the windmill is some distance from

the house, as it is possible to pump

water from a. cistern fifty to seventy-

five feet away, the lift usually being

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A Kalamazoo ha’rmer Uses His Windmill to Pump Soft and Well Water.





County Supervision of Music

I How I t W oréflz'n Hillrda/e

By Albert Dimmers, .Jr.





of supervision .of music which



probably no other county in the

state enjoys. Through this system

nearly all of the schools in the county

have almost the same privileges for

cultivating this talent which the larger

towns in the county enjoy. Miss Elea-

nor Kelly, the director of music in

Hillsdale city public schools, and ‘head

of the music department in Hillsdale

College, originated this unique“ plan,

whereby her senior pupils in Hillsdale

College receive practice in teaching

while the schools in the county are

.benefited. A year ago, last September,

Miss Kelly met the teachers at the

‘teachers’ institute, and presented a





HILLSDALE county has a. system





plan, fer azcourse for all of the chil—.





dren in the county, at the ‘HillSdaler

fair. 'Miss. Kelly requested-the teach-

ers to drillfltheir pupils on ‘six songs,

which have long been favorites. Miss

Kelly went around the county On Sat-

urdays, instructing the different teach-

ers, who in- turn helped their pupils.

‘Thislchorus‘ 0f‘2, 500'c’hildren met on

Tuesday of the fair, in the” grandstand,

and were led “by Miss Kelly. it was an

inspiring spectacle to witness these

2,500 children all singing together as

one with Miss Kelly leading. This

meeting was such a success that an-

other community sing Was decided to

to be held the followmg May at the

county track meet.- The same man,





was followed as in the met sing, al'-.





though the achimren were drilled in

different songs than were used before.

The number. taking. part at this gath-

_ering increased to 3,000,111111 success





again crowned the meeting.





Miss Kelly deseriv’es great credit for





die Min both «if these entetprisegj





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thusiasm that both events were car-

ried out in such a successful manner.

Between the choruses at the latter

sing, special numbers were given”by

the following: The Litchfield school

band, Reading high school chorus, and

the Temple Male Quartet; also the

boys’ and girls’ glee clubs of Hillsdale

high schools gave several numbers. In

Miss Kelly’s work at Hillsdale College

she gives the students normal work in

music, by which they are fitted to teach

music in'the schools. A feature of her

work this year is sending the senior

music students from the college into

the county to teach the children. One

student has charge of each small town.

By this plan the children are instruct-

ed free of charge, while much valuable

practice is gNenMiss Kelly’s pupils.

On Saturdays, these teachers meet

with Miss Kelly, who plans work for

the next week, and thus supervises

music in the whole county. Besides

this,. Miss Kelly does community

work,"- going to places where communi-

ties desire her leadership. Miss Kelly





. receives no pay in this ecunty work.





It is purely voluntary on her part. She

is not employed by the district school

boards, nor under any directidn from

the superintendent of public instruc-

tion. Her help is given without pay

throughout the county. Miss Kelly was

recently appointed on the advisory

board of the National Music Supervis-

on? Genvention to be held at Nash-

ville, Tenn, in April. ‘ "





Hillsdale county is indeed fortunate





in having this system (if school super-

vision as well as .a public spirited per-

8011' so remarkably talented as Miss





Kelly. The effects or this work will

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' “Scientific Selection for Egg Pro-



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terest. H‘e proved his ability to select

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Michigan birds have'made in the lay-

ing contests. H. E. Dennison now has

the lead in the Canadian contest and

they were selected according to the

teachings of Mr. Foreman.



The psychology of production is em-

phasized as important. The breeder

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spite of bad weather. Two Barred

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One hen laid two hundred and fifty

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aptly illustrated Mr. Foreman’s point.

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breed and the optimistic intelligent

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on a Holstein body.



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Theegg type hen is wedge-shaped

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the hen are very susceptible to in-

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The Male Bird.



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head. The medium type, of head is

best, not too short or not too long.

The bird should have width across the

back, with flat ribs, long keel and flat,

Early ‘maturing and early

feathering are important and the

breeding male should mature in two

hundred days. In the Barred- Rock





breed the finer the barring the slower .





the maturity. In male birds it does

not pay to give any attention to the

spread of the sack as advised by the

Hogan system of culling.



In continuing his lectures on the last

day of the Round-up, Professor Fore-

man discussed further points on breed-

ing for egg production. He said that

a poor laying hen has as many ovules

as a good one. From 500 to 2,000 can

be seen with the eye, and from 5,000

to 13,000 with a microscope. There is





a great variation in the number of eggs





laid by hensof the same breeding.

The 302- -egg hen had sisters with trap-

nest records of 79,105,121,167,169,

205, 221 and 249 eggs.



After twenty years of careful breed-

ing the Ontario station considers it

best not ,to inbreed closer than half-

brother and half-sister or cousins. Dr.

Pearl advanced the idea that the male

inherited the production of the mother

and passed it along to his daughters.

Professor Dryden says it comes from

both sides.



In, discussing Weights, and egg pro-

duction, Professorkoreman states that





 





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jborn in extreme cold:





 





horns take to beef. The Scotch Leg-

horns on the college farm take three

manths longer to mature. There iss

suspicion that they have a White Min-

orca cross in their makeup and they

certainly look it. The small type Leg-

horns ale reported to go broody the

oftenest. The Books that weigh from

five and one~half to six and one-halt

pounds are the best weights for heaVy

layers.

Professor

thirty per cent of the hens on the

farms of Michigan are culls. You breed

from your best hens when you hatch

early. The hens that lay in January

and February are apt to be good ones.

The heavy laying hens must continue

production until October 15 or after

that date, and it does not pay to keep

hens that stop laying by September 1.





Age 'of Maturity.



Rocks, Reds and Wyandottes should

be nearly completely feathered at sev-

en weeks of age. By selecting for ear-

ly maturity the Rocks can be made to

mature nearly as early as Leghorns. It

pays to select the early maturing cock-

erels for mating. Use the early. grow

ing birds that develop size. A good

cockerel rounds out as he grows and

a flat-ribbed bird of wedge conforma-

tion is apt to be close feathered. Close

feathering seems to be associated with

late moulting.



The late m‘oulting birds are the best

layers. Professor Foreman gave an

instance of a breeder who culled out

his best hens because they looked rag-

ged and he wanted to make a good im-

pression when they were culled at a.

public demonstration. One of the rag.

ged birds escaped from the crate and

that was the only good hen on the

place when the crowd arrived for the

demonstration;





 





COMPARATIVE BREED WEIGHTS.





 





Which is the biggest and heaviest

hen to raise, Rhode Island Reds or

White Rocks?——C. M.





The White Books are a little heav.

ie'r than the' Rhode Island Reds, ac-

cording to the Standard of PerfectiOn.





'In the White Rock breed, cocks should





weigh nine and one-half pounds, the

cockerels eight pounds, hens seven and

one-half pounds, pallets six pounds.

The weight for‘Rhode Island Reds is

cock eight and one-half pounds-cock-

erels seven and one-half pounds, hens

six and one-half pounds, and. pullets

five pounds.





 





EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION.





 





Will you please tell me from what

a. man and wife are exempted by law?

We bought three horses, foul cows and

some machinery for $1, 000. The man

gave us a bill of sale for $1, 000; we

paid him $700 cash, the other $300 in

joint notes due this fall and now we

cannot pay them as ou1 crops were a

failure. He is now sueing us for the

notes. Can he take the horses and

cattle?——J. C. T.





All sewing machines, one to a fam-

ily, spinning wheels, looms, stoves,

used in the house, wearing apparelfor

the family, library and school books,

not exceeding in value $150 per fam-

ily, family pictures, ten sheep, with

fleeces, or cloth from same, two cows.

five swine, fuel and provisions for the

family for six months, all furniture

not exceeding in value $250, team, and

tools of his trade not exceeding in Val-

ue six months. And any bill of sale

or mortgage of any of these made by

the husband and not signed by the

wife is void. -——J. R. R.





 





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or barefoot children in





and causes many deaths from tetanus

or lockjaw unless attended to prompt-

1:; and skillfully ~—A. L. P.





 





'TO IMPROVE AN AXE HANDLE.





 





HEN I buy a new ax or-put a

new handle in an old one, the





first thing I do is to procure apiece





0f baling wire about six feet long,

make a small hook on one end of the

wire, through which a small flat- head-

ed” nail is driven into the ax handle.

I then proceed to wrap the wire around





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the handle, as shown "in the il'lu‘stra-

tion. Whenabout two and one-half or

‘three inches of handle ’has been cov-

ered, I insert another small nail around

which the wire is bent, out off and

hammered smooth. Care mustbe tak-

en While wrapping wire around handle

to keep the wire tight and close.



Any one who uses an ax, especially

for splitting, knows there is-a" great

deal of wear on under side of handle.

This is where the wire wrapping pre-

vents any wear whatever. In ten min-

utes time an ax handle can, in the

above way, be made to last as long as

three handles not similarly treated.—

V. A. G.





Housmo THE TRACTOR.





 





HE tractor represents an invest-





. ment which should be carefully





Conserved. Protection from the ele-

ments is absolutely necessary if effi-





ciency is to be maintained. Too many.





farmers leave their tractor exposed

during the winter months. Proper pro-

tection will aid materially in proldhg-

ing the life and usefulness of the ma-

chine.



Naturally the tractor will be used

primarily for belt work during the

winter time and if possible provision

should be made for housing it in a

dry and well lighted building adjoin-

ing the work shop or conveniently

near it so that it may be readily ac-

cessible and in good condition when-

ever it is desired to use it. In laying

up the tractor the following precau-

tions will insure its being kept in good

condition:





1. After running it into a well pro-

tected storage room and before stop-

ping the motor, slowly pour about a

pint of good clean oil into the bowl of

the carburetor and continue running

until the oil has all been sucked into

the motor. Then shut down the mo-

tor. The object of this is to coat the

friction surfaces with a film of oil to

prevent rust.



2. Open all drain cocks on the Cool-

ing system. Do not‘forget to drain

the water tank and water line in a

kerosene~burning machine. Also drain

the air washer.





.3. Clean. off all dirt and grease ‘





from the outside of the machine





_ Wipe first with kerosene and then with

gasoline.





 





_-4. At your first opportunity go over

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: “anxieties of throwing beards »

.down minvith‘. nails sticking from them,

and leaving them lying around, a con-





 

 

 





F 1rst mortgage liens 9n real estate.





. ASSETS

Cashinbanks ..... ........





Loans to policyholders, secured by reserves . . .





U. S. Government Liberty Loan Bonds. . .

State of Michigan War Loan Bonds. .’.- . . . . . . .

Interest due and accrued ......... . . . . . .





Net outstanding and deferred premiums, secured by reserves





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1 TotalAssets...................................$15,994,130.93



I: ~ . LIABILITIES .



3 Reserve fund (including disability benefits) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$l4,591,970.10

Premiums and interest, paid in advance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,057.19

Installment policies not yet due. ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,518.78

Other policy claims .............. 96,776.34

Accrued taxes, salaries and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,241.88



1 Surplus 1,103,566.64



‘ Total Liabilities ........ .,,$l$994130.93

Insurance written during 1921 ........................ $15, 122, 956. 31



I Total Amount of Insurance 1n force December 31,1921. .,$90 138,868. 94



‘ During the year 1921 the Company paid death claims



amounting to ............... . . ............... 749,043.69

Paid to Living Policyholders ......................... 818,908.56

Total amount paid to policyholders since the organization of



theCompany. ............ .. ...... $34,,545191.46





3 Real Estate (Home Office Building) .........

i . Amount invested In new Home Office Building.





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J. Fax-rand Williams,

2nd Vice Pres. G.

W. G. Hutchinson, 3rd Vice Pres. Geo.

and Medical Director





B. McGill.

of Agencies





 





F. Moore, Secretary

_(J)ohn C. Grix, Assistant Secretary



Looker 2nd Ass' t Secretary

W. Sanders Actuary





Superintendent





F IF TY-F OURTH ANNUAL STATEMENT _OF THE





Michigan Mutual Life





Insurance Company





FOR THE YEAR ENoED DECEMBER 315T, 1921





L. H.

Russell T.

Geo. A. Stewart Cashier





J. V.





R. C.

Detroit





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1 00,000.00

375,000.00



2,474,908.71





. 327,512.00



35,000.00

248,552.20

215,936.70





 





 





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Elwell, Ass't Auditor

Oxtoby, Counsel



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COOPERATIVE MARKETING BILL

PASSES SENATE.





 





 





Y a‘ vote of fifty-eight to one the



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keting bill passed the— United States

Senate on February 8. The house bill

was accepted by the senate, with sev-

eral minor amendments which make it

necessary for the measure to go to

conference. It is confidentially ex-

pected that it will be signed by the

President within a few days.

‘Passage of the Cooperative Market-

ing bill marks the greatest victory of

the agricultural bloc, the American

Farm Bureau Federation, and the oth-‘

er farm organizations Which have sup-

ported it. The new law will make pos-

,sible the fullest development of the

lfarm bureau’s cooperative marketing

program.





 





 





GRANGE LEADERS PLEASED.





 





 





THE action of the National Agricul-



tural Conference conforms closely

l to the position of the National Grange

on a long list of agricultural problems.

The Conference recommended continu-

ance of an excess profits tax, empha-

sized the necessity for readjusting

transportation costs, industrial wages

and the “distributors’ spread” in the

prices of farm products, and stresfid





 





 





 





 





 





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When you are wakened

in the dead of night by that

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get up and get the jar of

Musterole.





Rub the clean,white oint-

ment gently over the child’s

throat and chest, and then

go back to bed.





Musterole penetrates the

skin With awarmmg tingle

and goes right to the seat

of trouble.



Will not blister like the old-

fashioned mustard plaster and it is

not messy to apply.



Made from pure oil of mustard.

Musterole takes the kink out ofstlff

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NATIONAL GRANGE LEGISLATIVE

RECOMM ENDATIONS.





 





 





E are just in receipt of a little



booklet issued by the Washing-

ton office of the National Grange which

summarizes in condensed form the leg-

islative recommendations of this, the

largest and oldest farm organization.

This is the fourth edition of this book-

let. Each congressman has received

a copy. The National Grange evident-

ly does not believe that legislation can

remedy much of the trouble of agricul-

ture and the rest of the country, for

on the cover page of the booklet ap-

pearsthis quotation from S. J. Low-

ell, master of the national organiza-

tion:



“The present need of this country is

not more laws, but an honest enforce

ment of what we have. As a great

militant body of law-abiding people,

the grange has always stood for order-

ly government and in its own member-

ship it has been a fine exemplification

of the great American truth that ‘Obe-

dience to Law is Liberty.’ Laxity in

law enforcement wherever indulged

threatens destruction and should im-

mediately command the effective re-l

buke of every true citizen.”





 





FARM ORGANIZATIONS COOPER-

' ATE.





 





ONE of the fine things about farm



folks in this state is that they

have’learned their lessons well. The

walls of prejudice so often found

around members of organizations

where cooperation is advocated have

fallen before the generous spirits here

in Michigan and we find the. four prom-

inent association of farm people work-

ing in complete harmony upon com-

mon problems. .



In each of these associations the

members have learned the advantage

of‘individuals pulling together. By

united effort the “big load can be mov-'

ed. From thatgpointdt is logicalto





* Iowa, 4,061; Oklahoma, 2,665; Minne-





j‘udging of dairy cattle a pure-bred Hol-





contest a pure-bred Hampshire, sheep.

No pupil above the eighth grade is el-

igible to enter this contest.





THE electrified countryside is a pos-





J. R. Howard, president of the Ameri-,

can Farm Bureau Federation. He de-

clares that recent advancement in the

transmission of electricity promises to

greatly extend the use of' this type of

power. The electrification of railroads,

homes, farms and industry is in the

immediate foreground.

believes that we are approaching a

new era of transportation with much

changed and improved systems which

will mean tremendous economies to

the farmer.

,“in mind also conveniences in living,

fer the use of'electricityrfor light, heat

and power on our farms'will add- mate-

rially.tonontriaameEHYea" " "





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conclude that more cooperation will .

pull a still’bigger load. So the‘forces

of the Grange, the Farmers’ Clubs, the

Gleaners and the Farm Bureau were

federated to attain certain definite

ends. While through this federation

they haVe aided in securing legisla-

tion for the farmer the biggest a'chieve- .

ment is, Without deubt, the getting of

the fundamental claims of agriculture

squarely before the public.





 





GRAIN 'GROWERS ELECTING DEL-

EGATES





 





INTEREST among the 5,303 mem-



bers of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.,

is now centered on the congressional

district meetings and the first annual

convention of the association.‘ Dele-

gates to the congressional district con-

ventions were selected at local unit

meetings held at more than 950 ship-

ping points on February 7. Nearly

fifty national delegates will be elected

by the congressional district conven-

tions. This body of farmers, meeting

in Chicagb on March 21, will elect a

new board of directors and decide

future policies.





During the last two weeks, Indiana

has signed 1,063 members, a total of

5,466, which places that state third on





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memberships are as follows: Illinois,

11,317; Nebraska, 8,553; Indiana, 5,466;

North Dakota, 5,196; Missouri, 4,456;





sota, 1,400; Kansas, 963; and Color-

ado, 804. ‘ .





 





 





FARMERS’ INSTITUTES IN UPPER

PENINSULA.



R ATES for the annual Cloverland’



Farmers’. Institute, held at Me-

nominee County Agricultural School at

Menominee, have been set for March

2930-31. Plans are announced to se—

cure speakers of national reputation

from the Holstein-Friesian Association

of America and the agricultural col-

leges of Michigan and Wisconsin. The

livestock judging contest. will occur

March 31. Arrangements are under

way with the rural schools of the coun-

ty whereby the boys and girls receiv-

ing the best standing in the seventh

and eighth grades will be sent to this

contest. The Menominee County Ag-

ricultural School, it is announced, will

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Since we have used an end-gate oats

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we 'have secured uniformly better

stands of clovers and grasses than

when we used to follow the oats-seed-

ing With a hand clover seeder. Just

why that has been so I can readily

make clear. There is also a saving of .

considerable time for both the grain

and ciover ,are broadcasted on the

disced ground at the same operation.



When we used to use the hand seed—

er for sowing clover it might be from

a week to ten days before all the seed

Was sown because of weather condi-

tions or other things.



With the end-gate seeder the clover

goes on the freshly disced ground

where it is harrowed into the soil im-

mediately with the oats. Practically

all the seed is covered and germinates

right away. Heavy rains usually fol-

low early seeding Which helps to cover

any exposed seed and pack the soil

about. , Both the clover and oats germ-

inate at the same time and the oats is

not such a strong competitor as it is

whenthe clover is a week or ten days

behind. We have sown the oats and

clover in a strong Wind and have se-

cured fine even stands of both. The

value of this method of seeding can be

readily appreciated from the point of

economy of time, even stands and bet—

ter assurance of a heavy stand—J. L.

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planted their beets in rows twenty-

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planted in rows twenty-four inches

apart. ‘ '



While a few cultivated with one

horse the majority used two horses and

cultivated more than a single row at a

time. .



As to the depth of planting the seed

a vote showed that on the ‘greater

number of farms the seed was planted

level with the surface of the ground

rather than below. 'The practice seem-

ed to be determined largely by the

character of the soil and the amount

of moisture which the soil is capable

of holding close to the surface.



As to the distance to thin the beets





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opinion as to the most popular length

of space, but twelve inches between the

plants appeared to have a slight favor

over the ten-inch distance.



In this connection it is often found

that the weeders facilitate'thei'r work

by increasing the distances between

the be’ets, thus reducing the amount of

hard labor required to care for the

crop. This often cuts down the ton-

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enjoy, along with the thousands of

other Michigan farmers, the feasts of

reason and floods or learning, not to

mention banquets o'f'fellowship, that

haveso freely flowed forth from with-.

in her dumb Walls. It is good that so

many of our farmers could be there.

It would be well if all of them could

have been there. It would tend to de-

velop more good, less bad, and no in-

different farmers in the good old state

of Michigan. To know the personnel

of her great agricultural institutions,

is to have confidence in them; to know

the g o o d w o r k

they are doing, is

_ to lend your most

hearty support;

to know the stand:

ing of Michigan

agriculture, its

possibilities and

prospects, is to be

glad and proud

you are one' of

her farmers.

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the annual meeting and heard the re-

ports, recommendations and discus-

sions, they would have caught a vision

of the greatness of the institution of

which they are a part, that would com-

pel themvto be boosters, and put to

shame those few of them who have

allowed petty grievances to obscure,

for the moment, the larger objective.





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along sane lines that mean still more

rapid and satisfying progress, and to

know that under .the present director-

ate and management her affairs are

indeed in safe hands. .

You knocker, stop! Pay up yom dues,

Begin to Boost—You cannot lose!

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Michigan Farmer subscribers have

been in attendance at the general ses-

sions, they would have absorbed en-

thusiasm enough to carry them safely

over another period of depression

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told a young married couple that they

could live on love and kisses all right

for a while, but bye and bye there

would be need of something more sub-

stantial. So with farming, we need

something more substantial than en-

thusiasm, but it helps mightily when

there is little else to depend upon, it

is a wonderful aid in creating the

“something more substantial,” and it

marks the difference between drudg-

ery and pleasure in one’s work.





The Michigan Agricultural College

is the oldest agricultural college in the

United States. As a center of agricul-

tural learning she stands well at the

top. Her graduates have perhaps had

a greater influence in the development

of agriculture throughout the United

States during the last half century

than those of any other single institu-

tion. She is our own college. Right

here in our front yard, so to speak,

for the benefit of our sons and daugh-

ters. And it somehow seems to bring





. her closer home, and give us greater

confidence in her future usefulness, .





when‘we know that the control of her

affairs is vested in an all-farmer State

Board of Agriculture. The“ fact that

these great farmer institutions are con-

trolled by interlocking beards of di-





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and sure advance of Michigan agricul-

ture



The flood of inquiry that has follow-

ed our remarks on the “Federal Land

Bank” in a recent issue, calls for some

further explanation in theSe notes.

Cheaper interest rates and long-time

loans are surely very attractive at this

time. The Federal Farm Loan 'Act

was passed by congress, and approved

by President Wilson in 1916, and im-

mediately became law. Its general

purposes were “to lower and equalize

interest rates on first mortgage farm

loans; to provide long-term loans with

the privilege of repayment in install-

ments through A long period of years;

to assemble the farm credits of the

nation, to be used as security for mon-

ey to be employed in farm develop-

ment; to stimulate cooperative action

among farmers: to make it easier for

the landless to get land; and to pro-

vide safe and sound lon'g-term invest-

ments for the thrifty.” There are three

parts to the machinery for applying

the act. (1) The Federal Farm Loan

Board; (2) The twelve Federal Land

Banks; (3) The many National Farm

Loan Associations, organized and con-

trolled by the borrowers themselves,

each made up of ten or more farmers.

These National Farm Loan Associa-

tions, located in all parts of the coun-

try, are the local units of the Federal

Farm Loan system, and through them

practically all loans are made. The

first step, then, in securing a loan

would be to ascertain if there is an

association now operating in your com-

munity. Your county agricultural

agent can no doubt tell you. If you

find one already organized in your

county or within easy reach, see the

secretary and follow his instructions.

If not, join in with a dozen or fifteen

of your thrifty farmer borrowers and

form one. Your county agent can be

of great assistance to you here in lo-

cating the cooperators and in getting

the organization into working order.

The National Farm Loan Association

is really a cooperative organization

with liability limited to ten per cent

of their loan. Ten or more men are

required to form an organization with

applications for loans amounting to

not less than 20,000. It will expedite

matters if this minimum requirement

is increased at least one-half before

applying for a charter, then in case

some of the loans fail of approval the

rest will not be delayed.



Loans' are made only on first mort-

gage security, and the amount of the

loan is limited to fifty per cent of the

value of the land, plus twenty per cent

of the value of the permanent improve-

ments. Loans must be approved by

the local loan committee and also by

a representative of the Federal Land

Bank. Loans are made only to those

who personally operate or conduct op-

erations on their own farms, and the

funds so secured must be used to dis-

charge existing indebtedness; for the

purchase of land, or live stock, or fer-

tilizers, or need-ed buildings, or drains,

or proper equipment, or for any kind

of productive improvements. It being

the object of the law to develop agri-

culture and benefit the farm as well

as the farmer. Inquiries addressed to

E. G. Quamme, President of Federal

Land Bank, St. Paul, Minn., will bring

complete information.





 





Herman Wolf says that a retiring

disposition is all right and it’s a. good

thing that some folks are rather back-

wardabout coming forward. Otherwise

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their strength into the bloc which is

now terrifying those who for so long

have had a big say as to what should

and what should not be written into

our federal laws.





John O. Ketc‘ha-m, member :of congress '





from Michigan.





At Washington andelsewhere farm-





ers are now doing fine teamwork. Not

only have they developed cooperative

organizations but they have advanced

to the next step and are now bring-





‘ing these' various organizations into

. harmonious working order.





Interests

have been so confederated that the

whole force and influence are pulling

in the same direction.



The fortunate thing is that the farm-

er has decided on a sane program. He

has endeavored to keep in mind other

classes while working out his oWn

problems. The great industry of agri-

culture is on trial. Farmer leadership

is on the stand to proVe that in it lies

the salvation of a people.



In matters of legislation the farmer

is at Washington. Seemingly he has

asked a reasonable thing as to tariff

schedules, the big issue before the ad-

ministration. The farmer’s position is

that when the policy of the govern-

ment is for a protective tariff then the

farmer holds that the agricultural in-

terests should be protected to the

same extent as other industries. It

the protective tariff is good for the

manufactured articles of New England

it is good for the farmers of the cen-

tral west. It should apply to falm and

factory alike.





The farmer has also been at Wash-

ington in reference to credit legisla-

tion, according to Mr. Ketcham. A

bill providing for the increase of $25,-

000,000 in the capital of the farm loan

board has been enacted». The War

Finance Corporation has been revived.

This was done in good spirit although

there is some question as to whether

the measure is providing the relief to

the farming interests that had been

hoped by its friends. The Kenyon bill

by increasing the interest rate on farm





‘ loan bonds stimulated public interest





in these securities.

The pressure exerted by the agricul-





_ _ ture bloc has made possible the selec-

. tion of a member to the federal re-





serve board who knows and is in sym-

pathy with the agricultural situation.

Progress in the consideration of the

Capper-Volstead cooperative market-

ing‘ bill to the advantage of the farmer

has also been made and measures pro-

viding-for the closer supervision of

the’stock yards have been shaped into

law. The farmers’ representatives are

watching closely the regulation of fill-

ed milk, transportation laws, taxation

measures, and in fact, every piece of





' legislation that has a bearing upon





agriculture.

HOW important the federal taxation

question is to the individual was em-





’ phasized ‘by Mr. Ketcham when he





cited that while we pay an annual

state tax of $21,000,000, Michigan’s

portion of the federal'tax amounts to

$271,000,000 annually. v-The need of

watching. is further emphasized when

it is understood that eighty-two per

cent. of this federal tax is 'used for

military purposes;



, It waslargely out of the fight onthe

federal. incomestax, said the speaker,

that the agricultural. *bloc, developed.

The tax returns shows that the bulk

of the income tax was paid in the east.





,The center of the income from this





source lay east Of the Ohio line. The





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A TIP TO BANKS.





 





HE time has come when the banks

of Michigan must begin to extend

more liberal credits to farmers, that

the agriculture of the state may once

again attain a condition of normality.”





This statement was made at the

meeting of the Michigan County

Agents’ Association, by Hugh A. Mac-

Pherson, state banking commissioner,

in an address at the Michigan Agricul-

tural College.



Mr. MacPherson pointed out in his

talk that the agricultural conditions

of Michigan have become such that it

is now absolutely essential that the

farmers be given money if they are.to

carry on with their w01k through this

year. Hitherto, he pointed out, the

financial and industrial situation has

been such that the banks have not felt

justified in extending agricultural cred-

its to any marked degree. But now,

with the nation gaining a more solid

footing in business and industry, it is

time for the banks to loan money

more generously to the pi oducers who

at present occupy a field where funds

are a matter of prime necessity. The

extension of credits, however, the

speaker added, must be gradual, and

the farmer has no reason to expect

there will be a sharp return to the eas-

ier money conditions of pro-war days.





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has released five new varieties 0f

seed which have been developed by

the department of farm crops in co—

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three new varieties of corn, the New

Duncan, The Golden Wheat, and the

M. A. C. Yellow Dent. The other two

varieties now offered are the Hardi-

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N an open letter written in “reply to



a questionnaire sent out by Frank



M. Hinton in behalf of the Federal

Reserve Bank of Chicago, Amos Welch

of Ionia, who needs no introduction to

the readers of this journal, takes oc-

basion to, tell in his characteristic way

of some of the things which he be-

lieves to be wrong with the financing

system of the nation. Mr. Welch says:

Dear Sir:~—-



I received your card and letter of

December 2, and will say that I am

very much interested in your report of

“business conditions” and would like

to have it continued. .



I am very much interested in agri.

culture, especially stock raising, feed-

ing, and stock shipping, having stock

from the states of Montana, Idaho and

Wyoming to Chicago and to our ranch

holdings in northern Michigan by the

thousands and to our farms in Ionia

county where We have always carried

on a feeding proposition. But the rais-

ing of freight rates and other charges

have entirely eliminated us from the

business, letting our ranches lie prac-

tically idle and our barns empty.



The price of sheep today would

scarcely pay the freight from the west

to our northern ranches where are lo-

cated some of the finest stock proposi:

tions in this country. The freight rate

from Chicago to Ionia county for twen-

ty-five years was thirteen cents per

hundred pounds, now it is thirty-one

and one-half cents. The rate from

Ionia, Michigan, to Tart, Iosco county,

Michigan, was $22 for a double deck

of sheep, later raised to $33, and at

the present time $70.25 per car and no

service.



We never used to hear of such a

thing as unloading and feeding be-

tween lonia and Chicago or between

ournorthern ranch and lonia. Now it

is seldom that we get a shipment with

out a charge for unloading, loading and

a. feed bill attached, holding the stock

over twenty-four hours and damaging

them three times the amount of: the

extra charges.



Then talk about a ten per cent re—

duction in rates; which I see you men-

tion in your report as being a great

help to the live stock interests.



Taking ten per cent from $70.25

leaves $62.87 to pay for what we used

to get for $22, and then we got some

“service.”



The air line distance for the haul

is only 154 miles.



I recently saw a freight receipt for

hauling a car of wheat fifty miles on

a straight line, of $98. Do you wonder

that the farmers are going into bank-

ruptcy and that, discouraged, they are

going out of business?



Now, in regard to the Federal Re-

serve Bank. When inaugurated it was

not, intended as a money-making insti-

tution, but it was intended that it'

would make our money system more

elastic, so that the crops of the coun-

try‘could be marketed without being

obliged to call on Wall Street, which

at that time had complete control of

our money system.‘



I see by your report of November

that in Iowa and Illinois landlords are

making concessions to the tenants be-

cause they have not been able to make

their expenses and are lowering their

rent to try and induce the tenants to

remain.



The whole country, I think, is will-

ing to admit that the Federal Reserve





ll system of finance, together with the

“Ainerican farmer feeding our own and





the allied armies, won the war. But





3; when the war Was over the “moneyed

reinterests,” with the help of the federal





Isystem,t turned their guns 0:: the pro-





 





to sell their products below the cost

of production.



At our state. agricultural college last

year where 4,200 farmers were con-

gregated, a representative of your

branch office at Detroit delivered an

address and in the course of his re-

marks said, “We are going to force

you farmers to put your products on

the market to lower the cost of living,

because we are not going to loan the

farmer any more money.



Your representative surely knew

what he was talking about and you

kept your promise. ‘You raised the

rate of interest so high that the banks

could not afford to handle any loans

to the farmers and the result has been

that the farmers by the thousands

have been forced into‘ bankruptcy.





I see by your report that you‘ men-

tion the “J. Pierpont Morgan Pool” of

fifty million dollars that the greatphil-

anthropist was willing to come to the

stockman’s rescue and loan to themat

‘eight’ per cent interest when their

‘security’ was ample. He was alarmed

about the shortage of beef in this

country and maybe was afraid that the

price of his sirloin steaks would be





advanced. Before the war he was glad .





to loan his money at four and one—half

to five per cent.



If I have not been misinformed, the

Federal Reserve Banks of the United

States earned 160 per cent on their

capital last year, and the Federal Re-

serve Bank of Chicago, the district we

“belong to,” earned 195 per cent.





If the above is true I would like to

see it figured out as to how long it will

be before the federal reserve banks

and their “allies,” if things continue

as at present, will have control of all

the money and wealth of the United

States.



Please do not forget to continue to

send me your reports, as you can see

that I am vitally interested. Your pos-

tal was too small to contain my reply

so am following your suggestion with

a more extended reply.



Very truly yours,

Amos WELCH.





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living in the country. Today the con-

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four city families. The increased use

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CHAPTER XVI.

Santoine’s Eyes “Fail" Him.

ATON,, coining down rather late

the next morning,

breakfast room empty. He chose



his breakfast from the dishes on the

sideboard, and while the servant set

them before him and waited on him,

he dnquired after the members of the

household. Miss Santoine, the servant

said, had breakfasted some time be-

fore and was now with her father;

Mr. Avery also had breakfasted; Mr.

Blatchford was not yet down. As Ea‘

ton lingered over his breakfast, Miss

Davis passed through the hall, accom-

panied by a maid. The maid admitted

her into the study and closed the door;

afterward, .the maid remained in the

hall busy with some morning duty, and

her presence and that of the servant

in the breakfast room made it impos-

sible for Eaton to attempt to go to the

study or to risk speaking to Miss Dav-

is. A few minutes later, he heard Har-

riet Santoine descending the stairs;

rising, he went out into the hall to

meet her.



“I don’t ask you to commit yourself

for longer than” today, Miss Santoine,”

he said, when they had exchanged

greetings, “bub—for today—~what are

the limits of my leash?"



“Mr. Avery is going to the country





club for lunch; I believe he intends to.





ask you if you care to go with him."



He started and looked at her in sur-

prise. “That’s rather longer extension

of the leash than I expected,” he re-

plied.



He stood an instant thoughtful. Did

the invitation imply merely that he

was to have greater freedom now?



‘-‘Do you wish me to go?” he asked.



Her glance wavered and did not

meet his. “You may go if you please.”



“And if I do not?”



“Mr. Blatchford will lunch with you

here ”



“And you?”



"Yes, I shall lunch here too, prob-

ably. This morning I am going to be

busy with Miss Davis on some work

for my father; what I do depends on

how I get along with that.”



“Thank you,” Eaton acknowledged.



She turned away and went into the

study, closing the door behind her.

Eaton, although he had finished his

breakfast, went back into the break-

fast room. He did not know whether

he would refuse or accept Avery’s in-

vitation; suddenly he decided. After

waiting for some five minutes there

over a second cup of coffee, he got up

and crossed to the study door and

knocked. The door was opened by

Miss Davis; looking past her, he could

see Harriet seated.at one 01' the desks.



“I beg pardon, Miss Santoine,” he

explained his interruption, “but you

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“And what time shall we be coming

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“Probably about five.”



He thanked her and withdrew. A8

Miss Davis stood holding open the

door, he had not looked to her, and

he did not look back now as she clos-

ed the door behind him; their eyes

had not met; but he understood that





she had comprehended him fully. To-_





day he would be away from the San-

toine house, and away from the guards





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tions as they occurred to him. As she

entered the room, he pressed the but-.

ton and started the phonograph, speak-

ing into it; then, as he recognized his

daughter's presence, the cylinder halt-

ed; he put down the cord and motion-

ed her to seat herself beside the bed.



“What have you, Harriet?” he asked.



She sat down and glancing through

the papers in her hand, gave him the

subject of each; then at his direction

shebegan to read them aloud. She

read slowly, careful not to demand

straining of his attention; and this

slowness leaving her own mind free in

part to follow other things, her





thoughts followed Eaton and Avery.





 





 





that of Avery; this offered opportunity

——the first opportunity he had had——

for communication between him and

his friends outside the house.



He went to his room and made some

slight changes in his dress; he came

down then to the library, found a book

and settled himself to read. Toward

noon Avery looked in on him there

and rather constrainedly proffered his

invitation; Eaton accepted, and after

Avery had gone to get ready, Eaton

put away his. book. Fifteen minutes

later, hearing Avery’s motor purring

outside, Eaton went into the hall; a

servant brought his coat and hat, and

taking them, he went out to the motor.

Avery appeared a moment later, with

Harriet Santoine.



She stood looking aftei them as they

spun down the curving drive and onto

the pike outside the grounds; then

she went back to the study. The di-

gest Harriet had been working on that

morning and the afternoon before was

finished; Miss Davis, she found, was

typewriting its last page. She dismiss-

ed Miss Davis t‘or the day, and taking

the typewritten sheets and some oth-

er papers her father had asked to

have read to him, she went up to her

father.



Basil Santoine was alone and awake;

he Was lying motionless, with the cord

and electric button in his hand which

served to start and stop the phono-

graph, with its recording cylinder, be-

side his bed. His mind, even in his

present physical 'weakness, was al-

ways working, and he kept this appar-

atus beside him to record his direc-





As she finished the third page, he in-

terrupted her.



“Where is it you want to go, Har-

ri-et?”



“Go? Why, nowhere, father!”



“Has Avery taken Eaton to the coun~





wtry-club as I ordered?”





“Yes.”



“I shall want you to go out there

later in the afternoon; I would trust

your observation more than Avery’s

to determine whether Eaton has been

used to such surroundings. They are

probably at luncheon" now; will you

lunch with me here, dear?”



“I’ll be very glad to, father.”



He reached for the house telephone

and gave directions for the luncheon

in his room.



“Go on until they bring it,” he di-

rected.



She read another page, then broke

off suddenly.



“Has Donald asked you anything to-

day, father?”



“In regard to what?"



“I thought last night he seemed dis-

turbed about my relieving him of part

of his work.”



“Disturbed? In what way?"



She hesitated, unable to define even

to herself the impression Avery’s man-

ner had made on her.‘ “I understood

he was going to ask you to leave it

still in his hands." _



“He has not done so yet.”



“Then probably I was mistaken.”



She began to read again, and she

continued now until the luncheon was

served. At meal-time Basil Santoine

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hours, and in his present weakness,

the rule was rigidly enforced; father

and daughter talked of gardening and





the new developments in aviation. She -





read again for half an hour after lunch-

eon, finishing the pages she had

brought.



“Now you’d better go to the club,”

the blind man directed.



She put the reports and letters away





2 in the safe in the room below, and





going to her own apartments, she

dressed carefully "for the afternoon.

The day was a warm, sunny, early

spring'day, with the ground fairly firm.

She ordered herlhorse and trap, adn

leaving the groom, she drove to the

country-club beyond the rise of ground

back from the lake. Her pleasure in

the drive and the day was diminished

by her errand. It made her grow un-

comfortable and flush warmly as she

recollected, that—if Eaton’s secrecy re-

garding himself was accounted for by

the unknown injury he had suffered—

she was the one sent to f‘spy” upon

him.





As she drove down the road, she

paSsed the scene of the attempt by the

men in the motor to run Eaton down.

The indefiniteness of her knowledge

by whom or why the attack had been

made only made it seem more terrible

to her. Unquestionably, he was in con-

stant danger of its repetition, and es—

pecially when—as today—he was out-

side her father’s grounds. Instinctive-

ly she hurried her horse. The great

white club-house stood above the gem

tle slope of the valley to the west;

beyond it, the golf—course was spotted

by a few figures of men and girls out

for early-season play. And further off

and to one side of the course, she saw

mounted men scurrying up and down

the polo field in practice. A number

of people were standing watching, and

a few motors and traps were halted

beside the barriers. Harriet.stopped

at the club-house only to make certain

that Mr. Avery and his guest were not

there; then she drove on to the polo

field.





As she approached, she recognized

Avery’s lithe, alert figure on one of the

ponies; .with a deft, quick stroke he

cleared the ball from before the feet

of an opponent’s .‘pony, then he looked

up and nodded to her. Harriet drove





‘up and stopped beside the barrier;





people hailed her from all sides, and

for a moment the practice was stop-

ped as the players trotted over to

speak to her. Then play began again,

and she had opportunity to. look for

Eaton. Her father, she knew, had in-

structed Avery that Eaton was to be

introduced as his guest; but Avery ev‘

idently had either carried out these

instructions in a purely mechanical

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“You know polo?” she questioned



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ed a “cross." She put the question

without thought before she recognized

that she was obeying her father’s in-





‘structions.

“I understand the game somewhat,”

Eaton replied. .





“Have you ever played?”



“It seems to deserve its reputation

as the summit'of'sport,” he replied.



He answered so easily that she could

not decide whether he was evading or





not; and somehow, just then, she‘





found it impossible to put the simple

question direct again.





“Good! Good, Don” she cried enthu- '





siastically and clapped her hands as

Avery suddenly raced before them,

caught the ball with a swinging, back-

handed stroke and drove it directly to-

ward his opponent’s goal. Instantly

whirling his mount, Avery raced away

aften the ball, and with another clean

stroke scored a goal. Every one about

cried out in approbation.



“He’s very quick and deter, isn’t

he?” Harriet said to Eaton.



Eaton nodded. “Yes; he’s by all

odds the most skillful man on the field,

I should say.” . '



The generosity of the praise impell-

ed the girl, somehow, to qualify it.

“But only two others really have play-

ed much—that man and that.” ‘



“Yes; I picked them as the experi-

enced ones," Eaton said quietly.



“The others—two of them, at least

——are out for the first time, I think."



They watched the rapid course of

the ball up and down the field, the

scurry and scamper of the ponies af-

ter it, then the clash of a mele again.



Two ponies went down, and their

riders were flung. When they arose,

one of the least experienced boys limp-

ed apologetically from the field. Avery

rode to the barrier.



“I say, any of you fellows want to

try it? We’re just getting warmed up.”



Harriet glanced at the group Avery

had addressed; she knew nearly all of

them—she knew too that none of them

were likely to accept the invitation,

and that Avery must be as well aware

of that as she was. Avery, indeed,

scarcely glanced at them, but looked

over to Eaton and gave the challenge

direct. '



“Care to take a chance?”



Harriet Santoine watched her com-

panion; a sudden flush had come to

his face which vanished, as she turned,

and left him almost pale; but his eyes

glowed. Avery’s manner in challeng-

ing him, as though he must refuse

from fear of such a fall as he had just





witnessed, was not enough to explain .





Eaton’s start. .



“How can I?” he returned.



“If you want to play, you can,” Av-

ery dared him. ‘ “Furden”—-—that was

the boy who had just been hurt—“will

lend you. some things; his’ll just fit

you: and you can have his mounts.” ,



Harriet continued to watch Eaton;

the challenge had been put so as to

give him no ground for refusal but

timidity. ,



“You don’t care to?” Avery asked.



“Why don’t you try ifi" Harriet

found herself saying to him.



He hesitated. She realized it was

not timidity he was feeling; it was

something deeper and stronger than

that. It was fear; but so plainly it

was not fear of bodily hurt that she

moved instinctively toward him in

sympathy. He looked swiftly at Avery,

then at her, then away. He seemed to





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forever lost caste in Milly’s eyes, and

not from any remorse over opening

the letter and laying" the blame on

Tommy.





He would have to talk to Milly, try

to square himself, he decided, as he

arose and went to. work. _



Milly, deep in supper preparations,

was Surprised to see him come into

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hand, a sure sign that something, un-

usual was in the air.





“You don’t want to be too hard on

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“O, that’s all right,” Milly shrank

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the better.”



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spise anything underhand.” ,



"You opened it.”-Milly blazed. “And

Tommy‘didn’t lose it at all.”



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for the sake of is possession, but be-





cause life Without it is so barren. She





held out her hand impulsively.



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she agreed heartily, “but I’ll bet all

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OMEWHERE in the good book it

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cently:

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This Italian lad, Panunzio, tells ex-

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without knowing a word of the lan-

guage, he had an uphill path. Apply-

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to the lumber woods of Maine, far

from. the railroad. Unable to carry

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he and a French lad left. Of course,

they received no pay.





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fused them passage, because they

had not served their time in the camp.

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the company to wompel men to remain

in their employ. Building a raft of

logs, he and his French companion

made, their way across the lake.

(Neither could speak the language of

the other. They talked with their

hands). At last our immigrant got a

place on a farm at fifteen dollars a

month. He worked, very happy in the

thought that he was earning enough

money to pay his steerage passage

back to Italy. He engaged passage on

On asking his boss for his

pay, he received five dollars—five dol-

lars in place of ninety. His heart full

of disappointment and hate, Panunzio

left the farm. He tried to buy a rail-

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money. Someone suggested that he





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He talked as freely as he could in his

new language and told the train men

all about himself. At the next stop he

was put off, and was taken in charge

by a man with brass buttons on his

coat.





Thought' the young Italian, this man .





must be a very fine man to be so

friendly toJa stranger. He was taken

into [a dark, forbidding room, the door

was closed and locked on the outside.

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misdirected by another, and cast into

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On the walls was writing in Italian

saying that if a man ever got put in

that place he would never come out

alive. It seemed ages before day dawn-

ed. He had not slept at all. The door

was opened and a man came up to the

bars. The frightened lad stepped for-

ward, thinking someone had come

to befriend him, whereupon the man

spat in his face, and went away. Chil—

dren came in and threw stones at him.

At last he was taken before the judge,

who proved to be a kindly, discerning

man, who directed the policeman to

buy the forlorn lad a. breakfast, get a

ticket and put him on the train for the

town whence he had come. '





HE next experience our immigrant



friend had with Americans was to

fall in with another farmer, who was

a bootlegger. (It was in Maine). Af-

ter leaving this double-faced rogue,

Panunzio got into a good type of

American family. The fathér, mother

and daughters went to church, there





.was Bible reading in the home, and





Sunday afternoon was made bright

with the singing of songs around the

piano. There was a revival meeting,

and while the Italian could not under-

stand a great deal the p1eache1 said,

he was much impressed, and the im-

p1ession became permanent. He saw

in this home his fiist Chiistmas t1ee

He spent five dollars, all the. money he

had, for piesents f01 the family. On

the tree was a little p1esent to1 him,

a copy of the New Testament. He had

never seen one before. It was in Eng-

lish and he began to read it.

he found there was more to it than

the language, and he began to com-

mit much of it to memory. Sitting in

his cold room,

chapters by heart.





One day a great event occurred. It





was only a simple remark, made by>





the man with whom ‘he lived, as they

were cutting wood: “My boy, you

ought to go to School.” The next day

he packed up his things and started,

as usual without any money.

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real kindness by writing a letter to the

principal of the academy where he was _





going, and then telling him to copy it.

While he waited for an answer,

officer took him to a good boarding

house. He arrived at the academy

with seventy-five cents in his pocket.

He graduated three years later, hav—

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torical contest. He did not stop there.

He went on. first graduating from col-

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versities in the land. He became a

citizen of the United States. He 1en-

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during the war, by speaking to the

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ONRESS of Housewives for 1922



C at the Michigan Agricultural

College may well go down in ’his-



tory as the most successful of all in

point of attendance, programs and

method of handling the visitors. May-

be some farmer got away Without his

wife or daughter, but to the unbiased

observer who watched the crowds

surge through the buildings, study the

exhibits, and listen to the wit and wis-

dom of the speakers, it looked as if at

least half of the visitors were women.

As to the program, no phase of the

home-maker’s work was left out. She

was advised as to nutrition, clothing,

feeding and nursing, even given a leo-

ture on “Art in the Home,”lby Prof.

A. G. Scheele. But nobody told her to

play. \Vith all the winter’s skating and

coasting and “Bob” riding going to

waste, it seemed too bad that nobody

advised mother to don knickerbockers

and hockeys, and go out and renew

her youth. That, and a word as to the

hundred or so “best sellers” for the

stormy days and evenings would mean

a winter vacation for the women who

get little time to take one in summer.





The idea of lectures for all women

in the morning, and various confer-

ences in the afternoon proved a popu-

lar one.

the women met in the People’s church,

where lectures were .given on practical

subjects.

p. In. men and women met together in

the gymnasium, while from 4:00 p. m.

until 5:00 o’clock conferences on nu-

trition, clothing, millinery, dyeing,

dress formshetcu were held in class-

rooms in the Women’s Building. The

conferences were in charge of college

workers, Prof. Rebekkah Gibbons, of

the home economics department, and

Miss Muriel Hopkins of the extension

department, being in charge of nutri-

tion; Miss Helen Arms, children’s

clothing; Prof. Emma Garrison, milli-

nery; Prof. Marion Tucker, textile

tests, and the home demonstration

agents and household economics stud-

ents, of dress forms. During the week

Prof. Osee Hughes gave a demonstra-

tion on pastry making, and every af-

ternoon a meat canning demonstration

was given in the agricultural building.

A demonstration of home dyeing .was

a feature of Tuesday.



The closing day was featured by a





talk by Miss Neal Knowles, head of‘





extension work in Iowa. Miss Knowles

was a member of the agricultural con-

ference, and gave a report of the work

laccomplished by that body. She called

attention to the fact that the commit-





tee of the farm home, of which she'





was a member, was made up of eleven

men and eleven‘ women, thereby em-

, phasizing the fact that the men must

I share the responsibility of home-mak-

‘ing equally with the women. The com-

mittee, .adopted several resolutions,

among: the resolutions approving the

- work being done to safeguard health;





» _ to' ‘develop agriculture and. social life

«j. ; through cooperative study and in boys'





d girls’ club work the appointment

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By Alta L. Lille/l





programs the study of food, child care,

health, and everything that adds to

the beauty and comfort of the home.



Following Miss Knowles’ address

the home economics students put on a

play in the parlors of the Women’s

Building, “The High School Girls’

Clothes Lines.” The skit was written

by Prof. Marion Tucker, of the home

economics department, and brought out

the idea of a definite plan—and a bud-

get for supplying the high school girl

with suitable clothes. Prof. King, of

the English Department, and Profes-

sors Tucker and Bayha, of the house-

hold economics department, directed

the play.



Miss Helen D. Grimes, instructor in

physical training, gave daily talks on

suitable exercises for developing the

body and preserving the health.





One of the most popular spots on

the campus was the practice house,

where senior girls are initiated into

the mysteries of home—making. The

house has been furnished by the girls

themselves, with money donated by

the alumnae. As only one thousand

dollars was given, the girls have had

to do close figuring and intensive shop-





ping to furnish the ten-room house.

The best of beds were bought, as a

good night’s rest is so essential to per-

fect health, and visits to second-hand-

stores and old barn lofts brought out

old dressing-tables and bureaus which

the girls themselves refinished with

satisfactory results. Many hints for

drapes and bedspreads were picked up

by the women visitors. Here each af-





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





ternoon, Dean Sweeny, Assistant Dean

Kirby, and Mrs. Louise Campbell serv-





- ed tea, while in the parlors of the Wom-





en’s Building Dean Savage and stud-

ents received guests.



Delightful lunches were also given

in the practice house to board mem-

bers and speakers. .Those who were





lucky enough to be present at one of.





these perfectly cooked and daintily

served affairs have no doubts as to the

ability of the college girls along lines

nutritional.





Is Your Work Drudgery?





By Ella E.





' E read agreat deal in the mag—

azines and newspapers about





the drudgery of housework, but

as a matter of 'fact, that is the only

way we do hear anything about it, for

it is rare indeed to hear women com-

plaining of it. Perhaps such a thing

exists, but if so, the victims are not

especially keen in talking of it.



No matter where we live or what

our surroundings, most of us have a

certain amount .of work to do. If there

exists a person who is idle, that one

is to be pitied rather than envied, for





 





 





 





was It a “Better Sire” Train“?





T was called a better sire train



when it toured Michigan last Aug-



ust, but it is just'possible that so

far aswresults are concerned it may

develop that it was really a better

children train, after all. This much is

certain, that because of things which

she saw and heard on that trip, Mrs.

Louise Campbell, head of the home

economics extension work in Michigan,

has put on a campaign this fall and

winter which has interested 30,500'

children in better health.



The work is carried on by means of

a series of lessons sent to the teachers

of rural and suburban schools. Start-

ing with a lesson on milk the course

follows with the Big Breakfast Story,

the Vegetable Story, the Rest Story,

the Knick-knack Story, the Teeth

Story, the Three Big Meals a Day

Story, and the Fruit Story, A lesson

outline for the‘teacher is furnished

which aids her in graphically illustrat-

ing: the idea. For instance, in the

kniCk-knack story the teacher sketches

the stomach, and leading torit—be-





tween breakfast and dinner—a bit, of .





candy,.a cookie, a piece of pie, and

maybe bread and butter. The children





see at once that when 12:30 comes;

they will not relish a hearty dinner. .





Charts are also fiirnished with a space

for the children’s names to be followed

by gold stars for those Who carry out





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coming in to show that the work is

bearing fruit. In one school in Kala-

mazoo county seventeen children made

a gain of fifty- -one pOunds in weight in

one month. In Barry county ten chil—

dren consumed sixty gallons of milk‘

in November; in another school six-

teen out of eighteen children began





.drinking milk, while in another twen-





ty-five out of twentyseven took up

milk. In other-schools it is the rest

story, advocating ten hours nightly

rest for children, which makes the

appeal.





Occasionally the scheme meets with

opposition, of course, but in only one

or two schools. In one the children

are themselves antagonistic, while in

another the parents refuse to cooper-

ate. Over against this, however; are

records of parents who have begun to_

buy milk for the children as a result

of the lessons. In a Gratiot county

Scho'ol after milk drinking began the

children registered a gain of two and

one- half to three pounds per month.





The work has been introduced into

1 {694 schools in twenty-eight counties,





by Miss Mariel Hopkins, nutrition ex-





part with the extension department.





Miss Heien Pratt, farmer home dem-

onstratian agent ”for Oheboyga 5e

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their chance of happiness is far 1ess

than for those who have plenty to do.

Grant-ed that some women work very

hard in their homes, that hours are

long and tasks exacting, even then it

does not necessarily mean drudgery,

for work, be it ever so hard and mon-

otonous, if it is performed in the prop-

er spirit, can never be that.



Webster defines a drudge as one

who labors hard at uncongenial tasks.

Housework may be hard, but it should

not be uncongenial when performed in

our own homes for the comfort of our

loved ones: If it is so, then there must

be something wrong With our attitude

It must be a sorely dis-

couraged woman indeed who willingly

admits that her housework is uncon-

genial. . .



As for the monotony, anything be-

comes monotonous

varyingly day after day. Think of the

long tiresome hours on one’s feet be-

hind a counter serving an exacting

public, matching shades, measuring off

goods, listening to the complaints and

criticisms of- a string of customers all

day long, checking in and out by the

clock year after year for a stipend

often barely sufficient to provide the.

necessities of life, and to my mind you

have a picture which spells drudgery

plus monotony with a degree of ac-

curacy far exceeding that of house-

work under any 'brdinary circum‘

stances.





The mere preparation of three meals

a day, even when multpilied by three

hundred and sixty- -flve, is not at all

appalling when one stops to consider

that they come only one at a time. As

for washing dishes, it should be non

at all an unpleasant task if gone about

in the right way. With each piece.

scraped clean, and piled neatly in

stacks close at hand, plenty of sOft

hot Water, clean toWels and soap, with}

a work- table roomy enough and high‘

enough to enable one to stand. before

it is. as easy as can be, 'and quite fun.





“ to Watch the clock and see how quick-,





ly the job can be finished. This brings

to mind the habit of dawdling that

some women have They‘wiii sit at"

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”llnyQargum at? is that; women aneuld





A not look was their work as Weary





in the first piece. It is all in the flew-

points. Work, even hard work and

drudgery are not necessarily synon-

omous terms. ,



System is a great help in any home.

Have a rule for general guidance, even

though it has to be broken occasion-

ally. If by any means the washing





. can be done on Monday it leaves a





nice long week for other things, even

if Tuesday does not witness the finish

of the ironing. The mending fits in

nicely for pick- up work of an afte1-

noon, when a change from standing to

sitting is an agreeable rest. Like most

othe1 kinds of wo1k, mending is not

such an unpleasant task if attacked in

a determined manner. All this talk

about deadly monotony and drudgery

is largely a bugbea1, and like all bears

of that species, there is nothing tangi-

ble to it. Theie exists no human be-

ing outside of a piison who cannot

vary their labor and bring into thei1

lives something to bar out monotony

if they try. It is the spirit which giv-





‘ eth life, and it is the spirit with which





we go about our work which determ-

ines whether it is to be drudgery or

a joy.

Listen to what Henry Van Dyke

says about work:

Let me but do my work from day to

day '





In field or forest, at this desk or

loom,

In roaring market place or tranquil

room;

Let me but find it in my heart to

sa

When gagrant wishes beckon me

astray

This is my work; by blessing, not

my doom;





Of all who live I am the one by whom

This work can best be done in the





right way.

Then shall I see it not too great n01

small

To suit my spirit and to prove my

powers;

Then shall I cheerful greet the labor-

hours,





And cheerful turn when the long

shadows fall

At eventide, to play and love and

rest,

Because I know for me my work is





best.





 





LESSONS IN HEALTH CULTURE.





 





(Continued from page 194).

they dress moxe sensibly and comfort-

ably it would seem that they should





"have far better health.





Why not adopt the sensible and hap-

py medium? Do not be an extremist,

but have no restriction of the neck,

chest and waist to interfere with dia-

phraghmatic breathing. The dia-

phraghm is a large muscle lying below

the heart and lungs and above the

stomach, liver and intestines, and

when we breathe deeply this organ

moves with each inhalation from one

to three inches, massaging all the in-

ternal organs as they are in no other

way. '



The results of deep breathing and

normal use of .the lungs may be stated

as follows: Increased nutrition and





lungs themselves and their mucous



membrane and the bronchial tubes and



throat. '

Improved digestion and assimilation’





Increase in energy and endurance.



Clearness of the complexion and

brightness of the eyes.



Gain in weight, where it is below





,normal, and the filling out of hollows





in neck and cheeks.



All these results are due to improv-

ed nutrition and elimination.



If you' acquire the habit of drawing





in a few deep, full breaths at frequent





intervals during the day, first expand~





,_ ing the abdominal region, you will soon

"beams to breathe properly. With the





as you already now





almost instinctively be inclined to

breathe diaphrsghmatically. A certain

amount of chest breathing is also im-

portant. It plays a large part in chest

development as well as strengthening

the lungs.



Th0se who have an inherited ten-

dency to consumption should lose no

time in fo1m1ng the habit of deep, forc-

ed respiration. For ai1, pu1e and plen-

tiful is their salvation. They should

also guard against acute colds by prop-

e11y clothing themselves and avoiding

sudden changes of tempe1ature and

draughts and too much exposure to

damp air. No matte1 how cold the air,

if it is dry and pu1e it is healthful and

can do no halm if the body is well

protected.



I give below three exercises which

are excellent lung expanders while

they improve the health and also the

voice. I think anyone who desires to

sing will realize implovement in the

voice by practicing them a few min-

utes daily. "





Exercise No. 1.—.Stand erect, With-

out st1ain, alms hanging easily at the

sides. Now gently inhale through the

nostrils, at the same time lifting arms

st1aight out at sides and so timing

their movement that when the lungs

are fully inflated, the hands meet, the

thumbs touching ove1 the head Slow-

ly raise the face upward while the

arms rise. Then Without holding the

breath, exhale gently, sweeping the

anus, hands togethe1,l"'01wa1d, so that

when the exhalation is complete they

shall be hanging at the sides.



Let extreme gentleness and slow-

ness be obse1ved in this eerCise,

avoid all haste, don’ t lo1ce the air into

the lungs, just let it flow in.





Exercise No. 2.—'Stand easily, with

hands at the waist,.thumbs back. Now

let the head fall on the chest, then the

chest sink as you bend limply toward

the floor. The important things to re-

member about this exelcise ale, relax-

ation of the body above the waist, and

slow, deep, gentle inhalation, through

the nose while bending‘forward, and

slowly exhaling while you rise.



Exercise No. 3.——Stand easily, with

backs of the hands gently touching the

back just below the sl1ou1de1 blades.

Bend f01wa1d limply as in preceding

exe1c1se inhaling through the nose, al-

lowing the bleath to expand the back,

pushing the hands outwa1d and furth-

ei apa1t. Exhale gently while rising,

carrying head backwald and bending

the back just where the hands touch

it, allowing them to come inward and

close together, while the head hangs

limply between the shoulder blades.



These three exercises have a won-

derful effect upon the tone and power

Qf the voice by enlarging the chest

walls and making them flexible.





THE SOCIAL SIDE OF TEA.





 





N Japan and China tea drinking is

a part of their religion, their enjoy-f

ment of life and their sign of courtesy.}

At first it was a woman’s pastime but.

Healthy condition of the now it is used universally, even in the l





soldiers’ camps.



These people think that tea drinking

encoulages calmness and serene out-

look on life and when deep thinking





companies it.



In America we use no drink which

is associated with higher mental qual-

ities. All our social drinks (supposed

to be of the past now) tend to lead us

to verbosity rather than calmness and

quietness.



We, in America, do not know how to

use tea yet. 'Other' countries have

learned to enjoy it more than we have.

For instance, England used seven





pounds per person in a yea1, Whereas 7





we use only one pound. Because of our

strenuous living tea could undoubtedly

replace other drinks to advantage.





 





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many year-1. “’9. now have the finest flocks in this

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STARTED in club work three years



ago when I purchased my first 'reg-

istered Duroc gilt. During the first

year a number of the members over-

fed their pigs and made them too fat

and as a result their pigs were down

in the pasterns. Some of the pigs

were bothered with lice, which were

soon gotten rid of with some old worn-

out cylinder oil taken from a car.



That fall the boys bred their sows to

a registered boar owned in the neigh-





borhood, which was the best one avail-





able. In the spring some of the fol-

lows had small litters, .due to keeping

the sows too fat previous to breeding.

Here was where I came in, my sow

only l‘arrowed four pigs and saved, just

two of these, which I believe was caus-

ed by her being too fat the previous fall,

and was the main reason why I' did not

get in on the prize money at the Eaton

county fair.



After learning this “knack” of the

business I proceeded to feed the two

gilts which I raised. The next falle

won the $25 gilt offered by the State

Duroc-Jersey Association for the'boy

or girl who showed the first prize gilt.

This pig I received in January and at

this writing has eleven fine pigs.





Last fall the club decided to buy a

sire of their own and in this way get





a start towards the control of, the





breeding of their stock. We arranged

with a club member’s father to care

for the hog. He was to be compensat-

ed by having his own service without

charge. The hog was of the new type

and made an excellent cross with the

stock which we had. This was a step





~which very few clubs have taken in





 





, this state.





At about this same time our club

decided to have a name appear in all

pedigrees from our club, the same as

the large breeders do, such as Brook-





water Farms. Instead of using Brook-

water we used Brookfield, which is

also the name of the township in

which the most of us live. /



This year our club exhibitedover

twenty head of stock of all ages, at

the ‘Eaton county fair, which was

about one-sixth of the entire swine

exhibit. Part of the pigs were also just

on their way back from the State Fair

at Detroit. ‘ -



Some of our members are contem-

plating a bred sow sale next year

which will probably be our next step.

—Sidney B Phillips.





 





TO THE MEN OF RURAL AMERICA.





You talk of your breed of cattle,

And plan for a higher strain;

You double the food of the pasture,

And heap up the measure of grain;

You draw on the wits of the-nation,

To better the barn and the pen,

But what are you doing, my brother,

To better the breed of men?





You boast of your Morgans and Here-

fords,

Of the worth of a calf or a colt,

And scoffl at the scrub and the mon-

gre,

As worthy a fool or a dolt;

You mention the points of your road-

ster,

With many "a

(twhen.ll

But. ah! are you counting, my brother,

The worth of the children of men?





“wherefore” and





And what of your boy? Have you

measured

His needs for a growing year?

Does your mark as his sire, in his

features,

Mean as much as your brand on a

steer? ~

Thoroughbred—that

word

For stable and pasture and pen,

But what is your word for the home-

stead?

Answer, ye breeders of men!

—-—Rosn TRUMBULL.





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Three chicks died in-

side of two days, and .a hawk took an;





Y first attempt at club work met



with some suécess. When a poul-

try club was clganized at Stephenson,

Menominee county, Michigan, I be-

came one of its members. Poultry

raising being my hobby.



The club was organized under the

leadership of Professor Kebler, of the

Menominee County Agricultural School.

The school furnished each member of

the club with settings of eggs and the

club member had to give the school

one pullet in réturn.‘



I received two settings of Barred

Rock eggs with twelve eggs to the

setting. On the fourth of May I set

the eggs 'under two hens in a warm

dry place.





 





On May 25, thirteeirOf the





were infertile.





other one, leaving nine chicks. The

first few days I fed the chicks sour

milk, bread crumbs, hard boiled eggs

and later chick feed.



Two other members and myself at-

tended the Club Camp held at Chat—

ham, Michigan. At the judging con-

test held there, the team took first

place and I won the championship of

the upper peninsula. As a. team we

won a. trip to the State Fair held at





Detroit and I received a pen of pure-





bred Barred Rocks.





The State Fair was held from the: curses of all ages.





second to the eleventh of September,

but we left Stephenson on the sixth





eggs snatched. ; Thef-remuiningf’eleven. 5





.pushes forth its blossoms.





'until you find the perfumed one.





leader. After a rather enjoyable trip

of twenty hours, We arrived at the me-

tropolis of Michigan. We spent two

days on the grounds and spent most

of our time sight-seeing "



Through the courtesy of- the Michi-

gan Farmer, we were given a sight-

Seeing trip through the city and Belle

Isle. One day was spent at the capi-

tal of the state, Lansing. We visited

the. capital, where we were conducted

through the grounds and building of

the Michigan Agricultural :College.

Another day was spent at Chicago '

where we visited the Marshall Field





‘ Museum.





We arrived home on‘ the twelfth of

September, tired but happy.—Milton

Corey.





A ROUND-ROBIN LETTER.





- A COMPLETE copy of both the sta-



tistical and narrative reports of

the 1920 doings of the Boys’ and Girls’

Clubs of the state has just been sent

out to the county club agent as a

“Round-RObin" letter. This plan was





2 tried for the first time in 1920 and





proved to be a. great guccess. The re-

port is read by the recipient and then

sent on to the next club, according to

the schedule which .is contained in the

letter.-——T.





NATURE_ NOTES.





The love of nature leads us along

the paths that lead to happy tomor-

rows.” Questions and answers on na-

ture subjects will be printed in this

column often. Young folks are invited

to send in their perplexing nature

problems.





Where does the humming bird nest,

an? (what. garden flowers will attract



The nest; which is a beautiful struc— .

ture, is “saddled” on the branches of

trees, from tento fiftyr-feet from the

grbund. Also in the honeysuckle vines

on porches, and in bushes. The writer

had a trumpet vine twining about the

trunk of an elm in her garden, which

attracted a family of humming birds.

All the “deep cup” flowers, such as

honeysuckles, nasturtiums, petunias,

morning glories, cardinal flowers, col-

umbias, and others, will attract the

humming bird.



Which is the first spring flower: the

hepatica or the skunk cabbage?~R. S.



Of course, the skunk cabbage, which

seems so plebian that-it ought not to

be classed as a true flower, may pre-

cede the hepatica, but as a rule the

hepatica may be considered the first





flower to bloom in the spring. The





hepatica is also known as squirrel cup,

nable liverwort, liverwort, and also

as liver leaf. Its preferred habitat’is

the woods or the light soils on hill-

sides. Its exquisite blue, lavender,

purple, pinkish blue, and many'times

even white blossoms peep out from un-

der the snow in late March and April.

As soon as the late winter sun warms-

the woods and hillsides ever so little,

the hepatica usually responds and

This flower

is very interesting to study inasmuch

as no two clusters are alike. They are.

all shades of purple and blue, and

they are of various siZes. They would

be most beautiful to the eye at any

season of the year, but they are espe-

cially so in the very early spring.

Sometimes they are quite fragrant al-

so, but you must try each blossom out

The

odor, I would say, is much like that of ,

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OR the first-time in the history of





the Round-up Institutes at the Col-

lege, the rabbit breeders staged a

fine Show and lectures on rabbit breed-

ing. Exhibits of“ New Zealand Reds

and Flemish Giants were of excellent

quality. Rabbit furs were also dis-

played and attracted much attention.

The lectures on rabbits were given

by Judge George C. Eckert, of Chi-





cago, who is secretary of the National.





Breeders’ and Fanciers’ Association of

America. He advised beginners to buy

good stock, using one male and‘three

or four females for the foundation

breeders. The period of gestation of

the rabbit is thirty days and the aver-

age litter, eight young.





Judge Eckert considers the different.





breeds of rabbits very similar in qual-

ity of meat and fur. The matured

Flemish Giant may weigh as much as

twenty-one pounds but a rabbit weigh-

ing eight or nine pounds is. best for

home use. The best hutches are the

movable style which are kept outdoors

about two, feet from the ground. In

winter a curtain can be dropped over

the fiont at night.



Oats, carrots and hay are the best

feeds f01 rabbits with possibly a little

corn in cold weather. More hay should

be furnished in the winter. Water is

necessary twice a day.





Beginners are advised to buy breed-

ing stock near home when good rab-

bits can be obtained. Judge Eckert is

opposed to high-priced stock and be-

lieves that very satisfactory breeders

of excellent quality should be obtained

at prices around five or ten dollars





each. The buy-back plan is also con»





demned and breeders are advised not

to pay high prices for very ordinary

stock in the belief that a successful

business can be developed stlling the

offspring back to the original seller.





The department of agriculture will

send a very interesting booklet on rab-

bits free to prospective breeders. The

department became interested in rab-

bit breeding in 1914 and now have

about three hundred rabbits. They are

making a special effort to develop high

class rabbit fur.





Rabbits are now selling for fifteen

cents per pound, live weight, in Chi-

cago, and six to eight pounds is the

best weight for stewing. 'A rabbit can

be dressed quicker than a chicken and

the tame rabbit can be eaten every

month of the year. This is contrary

to the opinion of many who have dis-

liked to eat rabbit meaf except during

the hunting season and in the winter.

However, the tame rabbits find a

ready market when properly dressed

at all seasons, even during the hottest

weather. Grubs do not occur in tame

rabbits.





Rabbit Fur.





Judge Eckert reports they are now

paying thirty-five cents per pound for

rabbit hides. Fine hats are made from

rabbit fur. Electric seal and imitation

muskrat also come from rabbit fur.

Very fine Sealine coat collars are made

from Flemish Giant fur. Clipped and

stained rabbit fur is sold for imitation

ermine. Alaskan seal is only a trade

name for rabbit fur. All of these furs

were exhibited at the Round-up and

were interesting to rabbit owners who

have inquired the prices of even me-

dium quality furs at the leading stores.





Good leather can be made of rabbit

skins. A solution for tanning can be

made of one pound of alum, two

pounds of best grade salt, and quarter-

pound of borax. This can be used dry

or as a liquid mixed with one quart of

water. All the fat must be removed

from the hide. The hides should be

rubbed well to make them soft, and

sweet oil is good to soften the hide.





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White Leghorns $15 per 100: $8 for 50; and $4.25

for 25. Barred and White Rocks,White Wyandottes

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with order.

ery capacity 9600. Hatchery 4 miles east of Mt.

Morris on MtMorris road one mile north and one

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Also Black Leghorns. Brown Leghorns, Bufl Leg-

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Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Plymouth Rocks.

Silver Wyandottes. White Wyandottes. WE HATCH

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Twelve most popular varieties. Hatched from





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Box B. Upper Sandusky, Ohio





Baby Chicks





Shepardjs Anconas.

English . White Leg-

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tested flocks. res and

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Knolls Hatchery,

Holland; rMichigan





Wolverine Baby Chicks





Im roved S C. White and Brown Leghoms. Bred

to ay for the past twelve years. Lay large white

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Eleven popular, money-making breeds.

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OBIS POULTRY YARDS and HATCH“,

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Heaviest laying _ English strain WHITE

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insuring chicks that are full of pep. Prices as

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for literature



West Michigan Poultry. Farms & Hatchery,

- Zeeland. Michigan.





" BABY CHICKS '





 





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Box 2053, Zeeland, Mich. '





 





20,000 large, strong, well

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Barron S.C.White Leghorn,

heavy weight and heavy lay-

ers American S. C. hite

Leghorns, heavy la yin g

strains, S. C. Brown Leg-

horn, the most beautiful

Leghorn and a good layer.





S. C. Anconas, great layers.





We Ship By Parcels Post and Pay the Postage to Your Door. Catalog free.





WYNGARDEN HATCHERY, Box M, Zeeland, Mich.





 





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Wolf Hatching & Breeding Co.,





BABY CHICKS Pure Bred for 1922—





Bred-To-Lay from flocks selected for standard quality and pro-

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8. C. English White Leghorns. Bred from heavy egg

producing strain from our own free ranlge€oultry

arm. Circulars tree. VILLAGE VIEW 0 LTRY

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Crystal Poultry Farms .

High quality baby chicks from heavy lay-

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fairs. 35 best breeds.Prlces very reasonable.



CRYSTAL POULTRY FARM

7902 Franklin Ave., Cleveland, Ohio





Barred Rocks from Rocky Ridge





Hatching eggs from Park's Pedigreed Selected Stock

$2.00 per l5. Pre aid by P. P. Bookin orders for day

old chicks. .T. Richardson, anover, Mich.





 





 





 





Reds. SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.

CONNERS CHICK HATCHERY. Oxford, Mich





 





Ch’ k From “Michigan's Old Reliable Hatch-

1C 8 ery." B. C. White Leghorns. (3 grades).

Anconas.White and Barred Plymouth Rocks and Reds,

Fine strong,sturdy chicks from Grand, bred-today Ho-

ganized. free range breeders. Prepaid by mail. 1005

alive on arrival. Sold on aranteeto satisfy or money

back. 15.000 every week. 4th season. Get my low price

and valgablegllustratedtlm free cataloguekgnd large



our or or w ere you 8 your money s wor . r e

y w. Van APPLEDORN. R. 7, Holland, Mich.





- ' pure bred S. O.White Leghorns

CthkS 0‘ Quality and Anconas: bred exclusively

for egg production and best standard qualities for



rompt delivery; order now; new low price catalog

free. Riverview Poultry‘Farm. R. 2, Zeeland. Mich.





 





qualit chicks that please. guaranteed full count.

parce spost aid. Lefhorns 14.00 per 100. Anconas

and Rocks 831.00 per C0. Special prices 500 to 1000.

Circular. Sunnybrook Poultry Farm, Hillsdale. Mich.





° From best selected flocks,



Day Old ChICks all po ular varieties.

chicks and prices that are ri ht. end for price list,

HOMER HATC ERY, Homer, Mich.





' or 'ure bred fineste g

100,000 Chicks 120 & "pl mgucing flookg_ Bufit

directly from layin and ex ibition contest winners

hatching eggs. Duck ings. Catalo . 20 varieties. Early

bookings avoids disappomtment.

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Buy III-grade Profit Payin Bre -to~Lay Chix. From

tested egg strain. Best toun ation stock ever produced.

Hatching e gs duokingsJO varieties. Cir.staindps ap re.

Laurence ou try Farm. R. 7. Grand Rapi s, eh.





RURAL BABY CHICKS





s. 0. En lish strain White Le :rns. Brown Los-

horns, arid Anconas. Free rangglnok. ' Sistisrsction

and gate araivts‘l'oguarapteed. Gillie? rices be!



. a 9 rec.

Riki’s HATC EBY, n. I. Zeeland, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Leading pen of S. C. W. Leghorns in M. A. C. Egg

Laying Contest. Official records of 255, 234, and

221. Pcdigrecd Eggs, Day Old Chicks and Stock.

Write for Catalogue. Nashville. Mich... R. 2,





STRONG BABY CHICKS





From flocks bred for heav eg production. We

Oder Leghorns. Rocks, Re , ngandottes and An-

conas. live delivery. pre aid post.

make your livingor a part of is from poultry, we

can help you. Catalog free.



RANSOM POULTRY FARM, Geneva. Ohio.





BABY CHICKS $923. “as? r"

ea e . —



horns,White Rocks. Bufi‘ Orpin ton.y ud Rocks. Big

to Rocks, R. I. Reds. Black M norcas. 8. C.Anconas'

Guaranteed %ure bred and live arrival. Postage paid'

D RAND HATCHERY, Fenton. Mich'





STRICKS POULTRY FARM





Hudsonville. M ch.. R. 11.4, Box M. S. 0. English

White Le ho . Ofiicial records trom9hen801208

to 244. Ch cks and Eggs. Writelfor catalogue.





PETHLUMA of the mid-west. English



> _ White Leghorns. tested flocks,

mated to pedigreed males. Won cup best utility en.

largest class in Michigan. Chicks,e s.Catalo ue ree.

Forest-Grove Hatchery, Box M, udsonvil e. Mich.





Single Comb Buff Leghorn





baby chicks. Order now for spring deliver. . Be d f

circular. Willard Webster. R. 2, hath.nMigd





 





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' A few choice Minorca Cock ~



S- C- B- Minor“ els great big fellows, sired‘liry



our12lb. cock. R. W. MILL , Saline. Mich.



Silver. Golden & W.Wyan.. grand winnin at Grand

hoi





Rapids Coliseum show. ce bree ing 'stock.

Prices reasonable. 0.W.Browning.R.2.Portland,Mich.





Tn _Nested Strain S.C.W.Leghorns. Heavy winter

p layers. snow white.high on shank,pelvic bones

thin and well spread.Bab chicks and hatching. Have

few choice cockerel’s an pallet-s for sale. shipped on

approval. Leonard Sumner. R.2,Box 97,Romulus,Mich.





B‘OR Sale choice Barred Rock cockerels and pullets,

_ ckls $5. two for 88 and pulletsSZ. two 35. Good lar e

birds. George R. Campbell. R. 5, Ypsilanti, Mic .





To, Quality Chicks B”“911-li/Iinorciisflocks,

an! mom. poumm‘l‘il‘hili’,““198ll%ia?ifil2fi:





WE BREED





Park’s Strain Barred Rooks. Barron Strain White

Leghorns. The two sreatest strains of utility pou t



in America. .Baby chicks for early delivery should



be orde soon. Let us quote you our price on your



ulrsments. Pallets. liens admin!” at reasonable



Br ces. Bred in the north for northern conditions.



INE BAY POULTRY FARM, , Holland. Mich





WHITE WYANDOTTES





20'] e average. Cookerels $5.00. Pens 815.“) to £5.00.

Eggs .00 or 15. - ' ‘

. PRAISE. DE LONG, _ R. 3, Three Rivers, Mich





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MAT‘ING cases.





 





How long must one have a gander

before the eggs will be fertile? We

bought a gander March 1 ,and the

geese began to lay in April but not

one of the eggs hatched.—'—E. R. A.





It is safest to purchase a new gan-

der early in the winter as they are

sometimes slowio mate. Sometimes

matingsrare nota success. It’ will. pay

you to observe the flock to determine

if the birds are mating. Possibly the

eggs that are produced from that date

may show a. good per cent of fertility.

Next year it will pay to purchase the

new gander, if'y'ou need one,“ by the

first of January or earlier.





 





CARE OF DUCKS.





 





I wish to raise ducks for market

and as I know nothing about them

would like you to tell me what breed

to get and how to care for them. Do

not live near water. , Would like-the

largest kind—S. L. B.





The Pekin ducks area fine breed for

market and the most common breed

for that purpose.~ The young drakes

will weigh about eight pounds and the

adult drakes nine pounds. The young

ducks will weigh seven pounds and the

adult ducks eight pounds.





It is not necessary to be near a body

of water to raise ducks successfully,

although some find that it saves work

and feed in raising ducks if they are

near water. This saves the pumping

and carrying of water and the- ducks

obtain some feed from the animal and

vegetable life in and about the water.





A good ration for breeding ducks

consists of equal parts of bran, corn

meal and green food to which is added

about five per cent grit or coarse sand

and five per cent beef scrap. This can

be given three times a day as a moist

crumbly mash. ’





The drinking dishes for ducks should

be deepenough so they can dip their

bills down deep and also wash their

heads and eyes in the water.





 





HENS WITH 'ROUP.





Please give me a remedy for my

hens. Their eyes water and soon swell

so they can not see and some of them

have a yellow substance that forms in

roof of mouth and on under bill with

a bad odor.——E. .



The symptoms indicate severe cases

of roup. It will be best to kill the

hens that are in very bad condition

as their treatment is apt to be unsat-

isfactory. Hens with slight signs of

colds can be treated by removing the

mucous from the nostrils and rubbing

the head and nostrils with camphorat-

ed vaseline. Washing with a solution

of permanganate of potassium is also

useful. Dipping the head in a milk

solution of some good disinfectant is

also beneficial.





Roup is easier to prevent than to

cure. It is prevented by having a dry

house free from draughts and keeping

the hens from the range on rainy and

windy days. A balanced ration and

plenty of clean scratching litter help

to keep up the bird’s vigor. But when

the odor of roup appears and the hen’s

head is in‘badcondition and [the bird

is. half dead, the hatchet treatment is

best. It saves a lot of useless doctor-





mg and helps to remove'a source, of.





contagion to other hens. The commer-

cial disinfectants liberally used inilhe

poultry house according to; direc ‘ ‘





 





 





 





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ANOTHER TYPE OF SHEEP RACK.





 





HAVE just read with interest Mr.

_ Oviatt’s feed rack article in the last





issue of the Michigan Farmer, and





wish to add a suggestion or two from

my own experience.



For many years I have used racks

of similar construction, only that they

are built in small units, thirty-two inch~

es square. The peculiar advantages of

these small racks are: First and most

important, they entirely eliminate dan-

ger from crowding, so injurious to the

ewes heavy with lamb. A dozen will

feed from one rack, three on a side,

jamming and pushing entirely done

away, with. Second, easily cleaned.

Being small and light one can tip ov-

er and set back the racks to supply a

hundred sheep in three minutes.



Easily moved, one man can quickly

shift them. They can be ranged to

form a fence if necessary. I do not

have a raised board in the bottom, but

make the floor level and tight.



I allow one of these little square

racks to ten sheep, place them at least

four feet from the side of the shed and

six or eight feet apart.



One can feed hay, grain and roots

in them. A great advantage in feed-

ing grain is that it spreads thinly over

the bottom and the sheep can not gob-

ble it up so quickly, for we all know

that the sheep, not the hog, is the

greedy one of the farmyard. If any

one needing racks will make a. few of

these he will be more than pleased

when he tries them out.. I don’t find

it necessary to put upright pieces

across the feed aperature.——~A. Lone.





 





KEEP THESE IN MIND.





 





THE feeder may find the following

principles helpful in deciding how

to supply his animals with their daily

rations:



Small animals require proportionate-

ly more food than do larger ones.



To work animals rations should be

changed according to the severity of

the work performed 'by them.



Dairy cows should be fed in direct

relation to the quantity and richness

of the milk produced.



Growing and fattening

should be fed according to the rapid-

ity of increase desired.



Individual animals have peculiar-

ities which must be taken into consid-

eration when dealing‘ out the daily

meals. -



A sympathetic relation between the

herdsman and his animals promotes

greater thrift and larger production,

especially with animals of a nervous

temperament like dairy cows.





TUBERCULOSIS ON THE DEFEN-

SIVE.





 





T a recent meeting of veterinar-



ians at the Agricultural College

the opinion was frequently expressed

by persons qualified to speak that

through,the elimination of tuberculo-

sis from cattle it will be possible to

reduce this malady in the human fam-

ily to an extreme minimum. To bring

this about, however, the cooperation

of every agent having to do with the

health of both humans and domestic

animals will be necessary.





In the main the remedy lies in dis-

tribution and marketing._ Every prop-

er encouragement should be given. to

the cooperative marketing programs.

These have proven very helpful to the

cooperative communities. in Europe. In

Russia the cooperative community has

become a recognized bulwark of .law

and saved individualism





U1 imately they will be accredited

wtihthesa ationot the Russian state.





 





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May 1st. See t e

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HE Titan is not a stripped tractor, pared

down to make a price, but complete with all

essential equipment—friction clutch pul-

ley, fenders, platform, throttle governor,

adjustable drawbar, angle lugs,

This equipment, worth more than $l00 and

necessary on any tractor to make it serviceable

'and safe. is included in the new $700 price.





given a P 6: O 2-furrow plow free.

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Special Offer Ex ires





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The International 8-l6 tractor now sells for $670, f. o. b. Chicago.

each purchaser of an International 8 7 l 6 covered by the Special Ofier will be

if the purchaser of either tractor now





INTERNATIONAL 'HARVESTER COMPANY





OF AMERICA





mom-on": ol





E‘hcfive Feb. 3, to May' 1. 1922





The Harvester Company .

makes this special

apply on all new lntemational

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purchased by its dealers on

I922 account:

purchasing one of these Titan

tractors. for delivery on or

before

given by the Company abso-

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a 3-furrow P 8:0 plow. On the

same terms, each farmer who

purchases an international

8-l 6 will be given a 2-iurrow

P 8: O plow.





The Titan is a real 3-plow tractor and has

belt power in proportion. ‘

reserve power.

labor cost on every field operation—a big item

in farm operating expense. Titan is famous for

long life. it has proved in eight years of use

that it outlasts two or three small inferior traca

tors. Does best work on cheap kerosene. Low

repair and upkeep expense. Always on the job.





 





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make the soil warmer, more neutral and .more porous.

on a small plot will prove this.





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Eita‘llrhtd in 1856





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One

Application

F ertilizes

F or. Years





:31me dissolves very gradually but does not evaporate. Mois~





to react chemically with the soil especially





in the presence of stable manure; the result is plant foods of var—

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These substances fertilize the crops for





years; neutralize the poisonous oxalic acid in certain fodder plants;

reqmre less water and to resrst disease; and





A trial





31% is sold everywhere.





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Hercules Wall Plaster

"For Plasteringiarzer

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my station. B

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ABSORelNE





will reduce inflamed, swollen

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HILLSDALE ROBE & TANNING C0.

Hillsdale, Mich.





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





SWEET CLOVER





I have some white biennial sweet clover seed (gr-I'l-

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Please Mention , The Michigan

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EASY TERMS





Sold on such easy terms that it

will pay for itself while you are

using it. See your De Laval

agent now or write us about set-

ting a new one.





Sooner or later





hand skimming.





NEW YORK





No matter what your system of

farming may be or where you live,

you need a De Laval Separator





Cows furnish the best market

for your feeds, and they keep the

fertility of the soil on your farm.



Then the De Laval separates the

cream, which brin

cash income, and eaves the skim-

milk in the best condition forfeed-

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This is the surest, safest and

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ing—and the De Laval Separator

has made it possible.

original separator, skims cleaner,

lasts longer, turns easier than any

There are over 2,500,000

De Laval Separators in Use the

world over—about as many as all

the rest put together.

De Laval has always led in every

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and is recognized everywhere as

the world’ s standard.



You may be wasting enou h

cream to pay for a De Laval

using a worn-out separator or by





The De Laval Separator Company





CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO

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T. HOUGH few farmers seem to ap-

preciate the fact, skim-milk, a

common, too often wasted dairy

by-producjt, ,is a composition of body-

building combinations not contained in

any concentrated ration that can be

mixed and fed. In face of these facts,

demonstrated beyond the experimental

stage, we find in many dairy commu?

nities skim- milk being poured into the

creeks and sewers, because its value

is unappreciated.



And so the real value of skim-milk,

from a. feeding standpoint, for farm

animals is 'very often overlooked by

those who are fortunate enough to

have this product on'their farms. Quite

a. few breeders of live stock, especially

dairy farmers, when using milk for

raising their calves, use skim-milk.

The dry matter in one hundred

pounds of skim-milk is usually less

than ten pounds, but it is concentrat-

ed and easily digested, and the ele-

ments in its composition are the kinds

needed that make them unusually effi-

cient, when properly balanced. These

elements are in the approximate pro-

portion: Protein (muscle-building ma-





sugar, five per

mineral matter or ash (bone-

building material), nine per cent, and





terial), four per cent;





cent;





fat, ten per cent. It is, therefore, es-

sentially a protein feed, with a nutri-

tive ratio of one to two and is perfor-

ably supplemented in feeding animals





eals, shorts, etc.





There are certain constituents that

are absolutely essential to life. Some

feeds contain constituents that pro





process, such as growth or mainte-

nance. Therefore, a ration must have

proteinsor musclebuilding feeds, es-

sential for maintenance and growth.

Experimenters have found with pigs,

particularly, that the growth and

maintenance constituents were most

available in skim-milk followed by

corn, wheat, oats, linseed meal, etc.





Balanced Feeding Pays.





Skim-milk, is used exclusively for

feeding calves and pigs. more than with

any other class of farm animals It is

sometimes fed to poultry also. Some

people have expreSSed disfavor on the

appearanco of calves fed skim milk

and blame‘ this Condition on the re-

moval Of the fat from the milk. How-

ever, in a great majority of. the cases

the feeder is to blame, as it istusually

due to his. ignorance and carelessness.





Station some time ago with dairy type

steer calvesyone lot was fed skim-milk,





lot ran with and sucked their dams at

pasture. In addition, the calves re-

ceiving skim-milk and whole milk were





kaflir corn meal with alfalfa hay The

time, made average daily gains or





about onevquartor pound less than the

other calves. Butlthe total feed cost





 





 





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duce only one essential in the life





'In atrial at the Kansas Experiment,





another lot 'whOle milk, while :a third





given equal parts of corn meal and:





skim-milk-fed calves up to weaning-





for all calves fur one'hund’red :pounds I

~ of gain;- that of the calves receiving:

_ ..;',sklm-milk was only 16:5 per cent as





Skim- Milk Tops the Feed List





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milk' calves, and thirty-two per "cent

for the calves running with their

mothers.



After weaning the whole group of,-

calves Vwere placed in a feed lot and

fed the same rations and‘the skim-

milk calves made the highest daily

gains and required less feed for one

hundred pounds of gain than the other.

calves. An interesting sidelight of this

experiment is that the suckling calves

after weaning, -_ ~lost four pounds in

weight each the week following.



For the Hogs.



In hog feeding, the feeding values of

skim—milk is perhaps more clearly

demonstrated. Everything considered,

it is safe to assume of all supplement-





ary feeds, it is one of the very best.‘





It is especially fine for suekling sows,

and particularly for the young, grow-

ing pigs and' can also be used for bred

sows, breeding bodrs and, show stock.



A summary of work done by seven

experiment stations, comparing corn

alone as contrasted to corn supple-

mented with skim-milk, shows some

rather interesting results. The ‘data.

involves the use of one hundred and





 





six pigs averaging about one hundred

pounds in ' weight when the experi-

ments started. One-half of them pigs

received corn alone and the other half

corn and skim-milk.



Those receiving the milk supple-

ment gain-ed practically sixty per cent

faster than the pigs fed. corn alone,

effecting a saving of thirty-six days in

time required to produce each one

hundred pounds gain. The average

weight of the corn and milk-fed pigs

at theclose of the feeding. trials was

two hundred and twenty-nine pounds,

that of the corn-fed pigs, one hundred

and eighty-four pounds. .To have made

the latter equal in weight to. those re-

ceiving. the milk supplementwould

have required forty-three days more.



This summary shows that practical-

ly eight hundred pounds of skim-milk

saved one hundred and ninety-one

pounds of corn, or in other words, a

trifle over four pounds of milk is the

equivalent to one pound of corn.



There is a limit to the ratio of feed-

ing skim- milk to corn fiom the Stand-

point of greatest efficiency of thefeeds

involved. When feeding corn only and

skim- -m‘i1k, it has been found by sev-

eral feeders that the skim-milk has its

greatest utilization when .fed in ., the

proportion of from one to three pounds

0f skim-milk’to one pound 'df’ corn. If

fed in amounts of three to five pounds

to one pound of corn its efficiency is

decreased twenty-six per cent, and .if





the proportion is five to seven pounds,

of skim-milk to One Of com, the efli»





feiency decreased forty-three per cent

over the one to three to one combinae

tion. Naturally, if the skim- milk and

corn are cheap and plentiful, the best

thing to- do if a quick finish is desired, '

, is to feed as much of both as it is pos-

', siblo to get the hogs to consume





Certain precautionary measures are»





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Feed milk from tuberculin-tested

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Keep all buckets, pails and feed as

clean as possible.



Feed regularly at a stated time each

day.,



In feeding poultry, skim-milk, espe-l‘

cially the lobbered kind, is the very!

best feed possible. This is more par-i

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tard their growth,

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TH E SURPLUS PROBLEM.





N all large milk distributing cent—

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when there is a scarcity of milk,

and it becomes necessary to bring in

milk from great distances. At other





times of the year more milk comes to .





the city than can be utilized economi-

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ficient quantity of milk during the pe-

riods of scarcity, the milk distributors

have been compelled to buy more milk

than they have needed during the sur-

plus seasons. This milk, called sur-

plus, has been largely wasted, because

it has been unprofitable to manufac-

ture it into dairy products.

ufacture entails great expense for

equipment that must'be idle a portion

of the year, the employment of expert

labor, always difficult to secure, and

unobtainable except by the year, and

the development of a profitable outlet





’for the periodical supply. Thus far no





city milk distributor has been able to

overcome these obstacles.





This condition is a hardship bothd'or "





the consumer and the producer. The





consumer is compelled to pay higher1





prices in order that these losses may

be met, and the producer is forced to





take less for his milk than it costs 10‘





produce it, a condition which discour—j

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Dairy authorities have for

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of the year. This plan involves the

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and at times when the scarcity of milk

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No. 1.—Calf. out of 28.9 Junior four year old. Record

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No. 2.’Oalf. dam's record 760 lbs. milk. 28 lbs. butter.

Ready for light service. Born March 14. 1921

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0. 4 —~Cal f. dam at 6 years old made record of 625 lbs.

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YOUNG BULL





On the 1921 Show Circuit For Sale at a low rice.

Out of an .A R. O. granddau hter of Pontiac orn-

dyke. Sired by our SENIO SHOW BULL. Model

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





HERE IS A GOOD ONE





3%}1 JUNE 2nd 1920 by MAPLEOREST DE KOL

H ‘ GERVELD whose three sisters have each ro-

duoed over 1200 lbs. of butter in a year. TWO of them

former WORLDS CHAMPIONS. Calf's dam by an

own brother of a 1248 lb. cow. Write for pedigree.

F. B. LAY. Kalamazoo. Mich.





Bulls Registered Holstein Bulls

old enough for service. for sale. Bred horn Pontiac

and S is dams and sired b a 26 lb. Gdson of Maple-

crest orndyke Hengerve d. priced to . ove them.

will also sell a few heifers soon to (res en. Herd

under federal and state on ervrsion. ,

HENRY 8. R0 LFS. R. 1. Akron. Mich





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large.

line growthy type. guaranteed right in every way.

They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors

Dani’s records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and

quotations. stating about age desired.





 





 





 





 





’TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City,'Mich.





' Holstein-Friesian Eaf°etzzfcullz"...°&'a





right. Larro Research Farm.‘





 

 





 

 





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Born

i31.m‘lbs. butter-in 7 days

vwhic testoveri’Butte’rfat.





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Butter in 7 days.





:iemi-omcial daughters. accompanied by mi

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glove 21.70 lbs. Butter from 41 .8 lbs. Milk in Days:





aging 4.0301 Butterfat.

‘ He is handsomely marked. nearly half and half.

The greatest butterfat bull we have ever raised.





Howell.





McPherson Farm Co"

Herds under U. 8. Supervision.





, . about

its Modem Bufierlst‘llull For Sale.





Nov. 24. 1930. his Five Nearest Duns average

. h and every one of





 





ll sister to a comthat milked 12) lbs.

1 lbs. in {Days and is b aslsterto.

*0 lbs. Mi k'ln '1 Days





His dsm’s sire is by a30 lb. cow that produced a 30

b. daughter. who in turn produced a 80 lb. daughter.

His site's two nearest dams average over 36 lb.





His dam's d m i b randson of former 34 lb.and

‘35 lb. world's :haulpilnis? he'hlmsell' smarts-lug lb.

pr uc-





l His dam at the tender age of 1 yr. 11 inc-'38 days





f Improve your herd. Buy this bull. Only $350.00

.0. . .





. Howell, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





SlLAGE-FED srssas PAY our.





 





, ' ORK at . the Ohio Experiment

Station and elsewhere prove be-





cheapest beef cah be made when sil-

age is used as a portion of the ration.





111m. Butter and 1213.21b‘s.Milk in 21 Day‘s.av'er‘ Even when corn VWaS' four times its





present price silage used in reason-

able portions proved to be the most

economical source of beef. Experi-

ments conducted at the "Pennsylvania

and Iowa stations show corn silage as





 





Registered Holsteins





It was through the daughters of

Flint Maplecrest Boy that





Sir Ormeby Skylark Burke

Our Junior Herd Sire



produced the Junior Champion and Reserve Grand

Champion Heifer. at the Michigan State Fair this

car, in a class of 38. .

is get won first in Calf Herd. also first an get of

sire. in a class of 13. .

A son of either of these great bulls will help the in-

dividuality and production of your herd.

We have bulls at dairymen’s prices, and we also

have bulls at the breeder’s price, _ from dams with

records up to 38 lbs. of butter in seven days, and

1168 lbs of butter in one year. .

Ask us about a real bull,a Maplecrest or an Ormsby.





JOHN ll. Willll, Ina, Rochester, Mich.





 





' ' ofi'ers Holstein-Friesian bulls ready

Wiscogm Fan" for light service. From sire whose 6

nearest dams average 33.34 lbs. butter for 7 days. AR.

0. Dams from 18.33 to 21.51 lbs. Herd under state and

Federal Supervision. Oscar Wallin, Unionville.Mich.





FOR S ALE Herd of Registered Holsteins.



Consisting of nine cows.three

heifers. Highly bred under nine years. Some with

calves at side. Good froducers. large 8129. Priced to

suit times. . E. GAMBLE. Hart. Mich.





Proven sire to settle a artnershi .

For sale, Dam 32 lbs. Sires dam lbs. Wrife

for extended Pedi ree. Photo and Brice. Address

M. W. Willard an Sons or John . Buth. Grand

Rapids, Mich. R 2.





 





 





II | l - Friesian heifer 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. Y





accepted in payment of finely bred re -

‘ 600d "ill. later-ed Holstein bull calves. ualitgy

of the best. and at prices within reach of all. rite

GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - - Vassar. Mich‘





 





of Smithdale Alcartra Pontiac from

5 yr. Old son daughter of Pontiac Korndyke.iPrlced

low. FERNWOOD FARM. Evert. Mich.





en reg, Holstein heifers. some fresh. others fresh

soon. All tuberculin tested and guar. 0.1!. over -

way. Price 8100 to 8150 each. B.B.iieavey. Akron. Mic .





' Beef Producers!





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Michigan Produces

The World’s Best Beef

At The Lowest Cost.





Raise far better feeding cattle than you can bu .

Grow Baby Beef when gains cost least in feed and

labor. Avoid costly rail hauls with their shrink.

bruises and loss.



SOTHAM’S EARLIRIPE BEEF CONTRACT

Solves your problem-insures your success. A fair

intelligent, satisfying system evolved from 87 years

conscientious service to American Cattle Industr b

three generations of Sothams. GET THE FA '1' .

Write now, or wire. Address .





T. F. B. SOTHAM & SON,

(Cattle Business Established 1835)

Phone 250 Saint Clair, Michigan





'Herefords





Repeaters, Beau Donalds. Fairfaxes, and Farmers

represented in our herd. Repeater 173rd, 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 So. West St., Kalamazoo, Mich.





HEREFORDS For so... 3....





and heife .

RALPH OALHOON. Bronson. Micrli,





 





Jersey Thoroughbreds





Few cows and bull calves. Best breeding line. Guar-

anteed. Tuberculin tested twice a year. If on have

no mone will take bankable note. ‘E. W. asva .

509 Free ress Building; Detroit. Mich.. Main 123.





JERSEY. CATTLE SALE '

Will llhlfite timheadi‘J l

gnuidpaggd Michiglaln {2:313 txiésofie 01% wletlhs'ekylld’vlv‘le'ilegd





13h farming. AI! R. 7533 Normal





Ave., icago. Ill. .





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys 1’??th @233”

odtos o. LILLIE. Ooopenville, Mich.





BUTTER BRED “E'f‘rb'dsifll‘n

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK 'lflfl. .

Silver Creek. Allegnn County. , Michigan.





For. so. Jersey Bulls mi?“ ugh





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a far more profitable way to feed the

crop to cattle than the ear corn or

shelled corn method. These conclu-

sions have been verified hundreds. of

times by practical cattlem‘en feeding

steers upon their home farms.





 





EARLIEST GAINS CHEAPEST.





 





S pigs become heavier more feed



is required per pound gained in

weight. Pigs weighing one hundred

pounds each were placed on a ration

of corn, shorts and tankage and grown

,to weigh three hundred pounds by the

Missouri Experiment Station. One pig

was killed at the beginning and others





 





 





 





First Prize Filly at Recent colt Show

Held at the M. A. C. Exhibited by

J. M. Hicks & Son.





 





 





at weights of two hundred and three

hundred pounds. All pig's Werekept in

a dry 101: and fed the same ration, so

the exact amount of food consumed

could be determined.



The results agreed with general ex-

perience with regard to weight. In

growing from one hundred to two hun-

dred pounds, 4.3 pounds of grain were

required per pound of gain, while in‘

growing from two hundred to three





' hundred pounds; 10.8 pounds feed were





consumed for each pound of gain, and

in growing from one hundred to three

hundred pounds, 9.3 pounds of feed

were required. The result indicated

also that when a heavy grain ration

is fed lean meat is not produced eco-

nomically after. a. weight of 200 pounds

is reached. while fat is produced most

Economically from that point up to

and beyond three hundred pounds.





 





JNJECTING HOGS IN FLANK

saves MEAT.





0MPLAINTS from packers indi-

cate that there are still manyvet—

erinarians and farmers who persist in

immunizing hogs against cholera by

making injections in the ham or the~

shoulder,‘a practice that often results

in infection and the formation of deep

abscesses in the hams and shoulders

where the serum and virus were in-

jected. The United States Department

of Agriculture has long advised against

using these parts as points of injection

and the "department; of veterinarians

are instructed *to avoid the possibility

of' such injury by‘selectirig some other





 





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yond the question of a doubt that the,





at’ this some tfil'i thoyféantie made" .





With equal Success '1n‘-: less valuable

parts.- Such, asfthe flank or axillary

space, where more, lag-loose. connective

tissue that readily absorbs; the serum.

In -‘ making. an , axillary injection the

front legs should be spread apart so as

”to stretch the superficial. muscles be-

tween the legs. and the needleshould

be directed so as -to avoid the mus-

cles of the shoulder.



It is desirable to make the injec-

tions at a point where that will make

drainage easy should an abscess form.

Serum should never be injected into

a mass of fatty tissue, as it is not suf-

ficiently absorptive. Although the

serous .m'embrane lining in the abdom-

inal cavity takes up serum readily,

abdominal injections are not recom-

mended because of the danger of punc-

turing the internal organsfi’with the

needle or of carrying infection inTo'

the cavity. .



Small pigs and shorts up to eighty

pounds in weight may be held up by

the hind legs, with the forefeet resting

on the ground, and the injection made

fnto‘the' loose tissue of the flank. A

pig so held is in a, good position for

the taking of temperature, cleansing

the area of operation, and making the

injection. Anyone interested in this

workhshould send for Farmers’ Bulle-

tin 834, which" has been recently re-

printed, and which contains full infor-

mation regarding hog cholera and the

methods of control. ,





 





BRED SOW SALES GOING WELL.





 





REPORTS from the bred sow sales

in several states clearly indicate

a healthy demand for good cows at

prices that are quite satisfactory to

the sellers. Averages from $70 to $100

are quite common, while a number of

sales of the better sort are going con-

siderably beyond these figures.



A well-known hog man who had

traveled over a considerable portion

of the middle west, recently remarked,

“There is no question but that there

will be sufl‘icient demand to absorb all

of the good bred sows at prices the

sellers will be glad to take in'the, ter-

ritory I have covered." '





 





TUBERCULOSIS WORK IN. MICHI-

GAN.





 





THE number of cattle under the

supervision of slate and federal

officials 'in Michigan during the month;

of'November were 102,005 in 10,203

herds.- There are now a total of 71.139.

animals that have been once tested

and at the end of December there were

460 herds containing 9.888 animals

waiting to be tested. 1





 





ST. LOUIS sTocK MARKET

ACTIVE. ,





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”FROM a recent report of the St:



Louis Cooperative ASSOCiatlon it

is found that more than $123,000 worth‘

of live stock was shipped from St.-

Louls and vicinity to Detroit and Buf-

falo markets during 1921. .The associ-

ation has been very- active in hand-

ling coal, fertilizer, fence posts, fenc«

ing and other merchandise“ usefuljtd

the ‘ farmers for . Gratiot county—=14.





 





In . raisingicalvessfor stock purposes

the economical way is 7to:~use.sklin;mllk





after, the=¢elf_~'1s'eisht or Alleys 01th.

Toithismilk should-i-be'aIlQCdV pon- _' "

congressmen meal ‘ on."





 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   





 





 





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Veterinary.





 





Advice thrculh thiscolumn is given free to our subscrib-

en. Lowers should sure fully the history and symptoms of

each use sud give. name and sddress of the wrist r. Initials

only are published. when a reply by mail is requested the

service becomes private practice sud 51 must be enclosed.





 





Knuckllng.—-I have a colt‘which is

becoming cock-ankled. Is there any-





thing I can do, or buy to stop it? 'A..





E., Levering, Mich—Apply equal parts

of turpentine, aqua ammonia, raw lin-





, seed oil’to weak joints three times a





Week.



Nasal Catarrh.-—My cow acts as if

she had taken cold;' she coughs. dis-

charges mucus from both nostrils, but

has a good appetite. G. E., Gladwm,

Mich—Give her a teaspoonful of pow-

dered sulphate of iron and a table-

spoonfulof powdered licorice in each

feed two or three times a day.



Malignant Sore.—Several months

ago my mare was wounded by the

tooth of .a hog; wound has partially





.healed, but Center remains raw. The





sore seemingly, heals over but it must

itch as she rubs it raw. G. M.,.Eau

Claire, Mich—Apply equal parts of

iodoform and boric acid to sore daily.



Lice.——My cattle are troubled with

lice A. S., Litchfield, Mich—Pure ker-

osene will kill cattle lice, but some-

times it will take off the hair. Mix

one pint of kerosene in one pound of

lard and apply, or apply coal-tar dis-

infectant, one to thirty of water. Vin-

egar killsgnits. ‘



Cow Gives Bloody Milk.—I have a

cow that gives bloody milk; she came

fresh twelve months ago, but is now

with calf. The silage we have been

feeding is moldy, could it cause her to

give bloody milk? J. U., Imlay City,

Mich.—-She may have met with an in-

jury, or it may be caused by badly

cured silage. Change her feed and if

possible ascertain how she bruises her

udder and remove the cause.



Sitfast—Fibrous Tumors.———I have a

young mare that has three small hard

bunches on shoulder where the collar

rests. Occasionally she limps. H. E.

W., Stevensville, Mich—The only rem-

edy is to cut out bunches, then apply

one part iodoform and nine parts of

boric mild to wounds twice daily. Try

and locate lameness, the bunches have

nothing to do with it.



Mange—Have a horse that is inclin-

ed to rub himself, on parts of body





the skin is rough and there are some

_scabs. What shall I put on him? W.





G., Pigeon, Mich—Apply one part coal-'

tar disinfectant and twenty parts of

water to itchy parts of body once or

twice a day. Give him three drams of

Fowler’s solution at a dose in feed or

water two or three times daily. Feed

him some roots, groom him twice a

day. ‘



Stiffness in Hind Quarters—Have

an eight-year-old horse that is quite

stiff in both hind legs. When first tak-

en lame the trouble seemed to be in

one leg and the horse lost appetite

and has not eaten well since. He is

now less lame, but fails to eat enough

food. H. L., Bessemer, Mich—Give

him a teaspoonful of acetate of potash

in drinking water two or three times a

day. Change his feed, keep him warm,

bowels open, and give him walking ex-

ercise. Hand-rub back and hind quar-

ters twice a day.



Nasal Catarrh.—-Will you tell me

what to do for our sick cats? About

a year ago they had a bad cold or dis-

temper and whatever the sickness is,

it fails to leave them. Part of time

they are fairly well, and at other times

worse. Mrs- H. M., Pentwater, Mich.

—-Dissolve a tablespoonful of baking

soda in three pints of tepid water, dip

lower part of the face in this solution

twice daily. Dissolve a d‘essertspoon-

ful of salt in one quart of tepid water

and dip lower part of face in this 10-

tion daily. ‘-



Dog Question—I have a female Air-

dale terrier that comes in heat regu-

larly and we have her served, but she

fails to haye pups. Soon after she is

bred she acts and to all appearances

is pregnant, her body enlarges, her ud-

der semi-fills with milk; however, af-

ter nine weeks all these symptoms

leave her. Will you kindly tell me

what is wrong? T..M., Charlevoix,

Mich-«The writer has known of hun-

dreds of. parallel cases, but has never

become thoroughly convinced that the

soothing effect of intercourse and the

imaginatidn of the female should





-’ -bring about ' the latent symptoms of





promos; however, without inter-





" . course the female rarely shows many:





Symptoms :0: pregnancy. [The

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E. D. HEYDENBERK, Wayland, Mich.





31.9 no CHESTER wuss





The rize winner kind from the best prize winner

blo lines. Earl developers, ready for market at;

six months old. have startedmore breeders on the

road to success than any man living. I want to. lace

one hog in each community to advertise my erd.

Write for'agencv and my plan.

G. 8. BENJAMIN, R. F. D. 10. Portland. Mich.





CHESTERS We are all sold out. of



Boar, Bred Bows and Gllts.

For spring lgs write WEBER 81108., Royal Oak.

Mich, 10 Mi 9 and Ridge Rd., Phone 408.





‘ bred gilts and fa l pigs of excel-

Chester Whites) lentvauality and [ix-ceding. Satis-

faction guaranteed. F. . Alexander, Vassar, Mich.





Chester Whites l3.”§‘i>.r.o“i’.§§..filifriri'ls’.”

ALBERT DORR. Clinton. Mich





O. I. C. HOGS





all ages sired bv Galloway Edd. 1918 world's grand

champ. hour and .C.Schoolmaster 1919 world's grand

champion. also “'onder Big Type and Giant Buster.

Write your wants. all stock shipped on approval.

CRANDELL'S PRIZE HUGS. Cass City, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





LC. dz Chester White Swine. Strictly Big Type



' with- quality. Bcrvice boars. and gilts bred for

lVIar. and early April farrow. are all sold. Some good

ones left. bred for last of April and early May far-

r-ow. All of prize winning blood lines. Have one good

tried yearling sow that I will sell.





Newman's Stock Farm, It. 4, Mariette, Mich.





 





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CATTLE





BIDWELL SitilHé’flS





that will put weight on your dnlrv calves —the dia-

erence will soon gay for the bull. Now selling good

Scotch and Score -toppod yearlings.reasonnbly.priced.

We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. Federal

Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio, N.. Y. C. R. R.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





.Richland Shorthorns





Now offering a choice lot of bull calves.

Best of breeding. 8150 to $250 will buy

a real bull at present time. Write for

particulars.





C. W. Prescott & Sons,





Tawas City, Mich.





 





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Now ofieringz—Three bulls ready for service. Masto-

don. Clansmun. Emancipator blood in gilts bred for

spring furrow. See them.

POPE BROS. 00.. Mt. Pleasant,'Mich





The Maple’s Shorthorns





rota Levington Led, by imported Hartforth

Welfare, in ecwiee. Bulls and heifers for sale.





’5. V. Wise, Gobleville, Mich.

Central Mich. Shorthorn Breeders’ Assn.





offer for sale both milk and beef breedin , all ages

Write M. E. MILLER, Sec’y. Greenv 110, Mich.





 





 





Milkin Silos-thorns of' best Bates breeding.

g bulls, cows n d heifers for sale.

‘ E.H.ll{URTZ, Mason, Mich





 





qHORTHORNS. Two 4 mo. old bull-calves of White-

L. hall Sultan Strain and a fewlonng heifers. P

very reasonable. J. A. Wllk Sou. Alma, Mich.





r ‘ edited herd {M'lk-

Dispersal SP1. i’ngmghorthcrns. or: Mnich

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! HOGS

Woodland Farm Duroc Hogs





A well kept herd, best of blood lines, with size and

breeding qualities. stock of all ages for sale at ma.

Bonable prices. W. E. BARTLEY, Alma. Mich.





Brookwater Dumc Jerseys





Bred Gilts for March and April farrow. Bred to

Big Bone Giant Sensation, Panama Special

55th and Brookwater Demonstrator 26th.

Write us for description and prices. 01' come and

see them.





BROOKWATER FARM, Ann Arbor, Mich.

H. W. Mumford, Owner J. B. Andrews, Mgr.





Jerseys A few extra good fall boars, and



Duroc a choice lot. of spring boars of the heavy

boned type popular blood lines at reasonable prices.

DRODT & BERNS... Monroe, Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS: firéiiafi§°i§$





sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS, Hastings. Mich





' $20 to 340. Bred sows

Dumc Servme Roars ands“... so... soon...”

pigs Slot/0810. All registered or eligible. We have

one of the largest and best herds in state. Am le

opportunity. for selection. MICHIGANA FARR].

Pavrllon. MlCh., Kalamazoo County.





Pure_Bred Duroc Jersey Hogs: we usually





ages 1' l R have gflod boars afid sosz of all

or an e. easona 9 prices. arro esear -h

Farm, Box A, North End, Detroit, Mich. c





 





 





 





 





 





Sprin pigs by Walt's

Orion, irst Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Cd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





Herd headed by Great Kin Orio C l. s-' -

Dunes ted by n ood son of King ()rioii anczi'le:

HA RY FOWLER. Sturgis. Mich.





Duroc Jersey Swine





Breeding stock for sale at all times at reasonable

prices. If 1n need of a high class boar. or sow

any age write. or better, come to farm Best of

Blood line and we guarantee you satisfaction.

Herd boars. Panama Special 11th and Home

Farm Wonder. Booking order for fall pigs at $15





each. .

Thos. Ilnderhlll a Son. ‘ Salem, Mich.





AM SELLING





a great oflering of bred Duroc sows and it M



4th. They are mostly bred tool-ion Gingrit Oolfggg

of Ohio Grand Cham ion. Get on mailing list for

ca'alog. . C. TAYLOR. Milan. lch





wEST View Dnrcc Farm odors spring hours from



Home Farm Tlppy Orion and Pathfinder Prince.



gill: 5:21“: audgygghkend'yt forvseri'zgce. sows. fall

w on . 0



see them. AL '1‘ EBE SOL’E. Plymolrgginbfiiic'lf





AKVUOD' Farm Dru-cos are priced th 1*.

Ocnn make good in the feedlot as well as i‘ri’thoabrgiail’:

in. pen. . Theyfsre the lonfi. tall. growthy nd.



, , , RUS BROS.. Borneo, Mich





A FEW Dam Jone”. bred Saws. undo n.

,~ I been. AT- MATT

0|!qu P. . will... Byms’rIOcnzs‘er, ”mitts .





 





o I (:98 Aug. and Sept. pigs and bred

' ° ° gills forMur furrow.

CLOVER LEAF STOC FARM. Monroe, Mich.





O. l. C. BRED GILTS





shipped C. O. I).

J. CARL JEWETT,





 





hiason. Mich.





 





0 I 0 Spring boars and gilts no akin. We breed and

I . - own the Grand (‘humpion Boar at West Mich.

State Fair. We ship 0. O. I). and Rog. free.



GEO. M. WELTON dz SON. Alto. Mich.





O I C’s choice gills bred for March

0 0 ° and April furrow.



A. J, BARKER & SON, Belmont. lWich.

O. I. C. Gilts bred for hinrch and

For sale. April farrow (at a reasonable price )

. H. W. MANN, Dansxille, IUich.



’ A few bred gilts and [all i .

0- II C s farmers' prices. p gs 1t

0. J. THOMl’bON. Rockford. Mich.



LARGE TYPE P. C.



Largest herd of individuals in Mich. Come and see,

compare, and be convinced, cxpcnses pend if not as

represented. Boats and early giltsall sold. A few late





gilts, will sell open or hold and breed for lulc furrow.

W . E. LIVIN (IrSTUN. Purina, I\’Ii('ll,





 





 





 





 





40 Son's. Granddaughters of thc great Giant Buster,

bred to a grandson of the Yunkcc. tbc 340.000 sire.



Where. can you find any better Big Type breeding?



3,1}: [motels are vcryp l0\3.NSB«’J. 540. Also 50 fall pigs.

y no my a pig. 0. .. BU’ . .



Mich. Bell Phone. C H m" Portlund'





EONARIYS Big Typo P. O. Flcrd headed bv Leon-



. ards Liberator 438,285. the tullvst. longest and heav-



iest boned pig for his ago in Mich. (‘allor write,

stock in season. Fall legs at Bargain Prices.



E R. EONARD, St. Louis. Mich.





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars doubleim-

mune. out 1100 ll). sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa. 5 greatest herds. E.J .MathewsonJiurr Uzik.M ich.





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





We have_a fine lot of fall pigs sired bv Harts

Black Price and Right Kind Clan. 'HART,

FULCHER and CLINE. address F. T. Hart. St.

Louis. Mich.





Large lypé Poland chinas





Spring boars all sold. Fall i s at ‘ '

Bred gilts held for ublic sale.p g bargain prices.

A. A. BE

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LD AMP, R.2. Manchester. Mich.





L. T. P. C.





Gilts bred Mo. Bob.. 2 sons of Clansmnns I .

Defender 2nd and Hi h Joe, tracing backmtlogilbli;

Price. H. U. S ARTZ. Schoolcraft, Mich.





BIG Type Poland-China and Holsteins. Two fall

yearling gilts, sired by Hover‘s Giant and bred to

Cla‘nsman Buster for 3 ring furrow at $60 each. Our

spring grlts are all sol . We are ofierlng Reg. Hol-

stein Bulls ready for service at $60. sired by291b.

bull. DORUS HOVER. Akron, Mich.





BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS





_Bred (giltsfor Buick Choice lndii'liduérls of rich breed-

rng a prices wr in your tone . o e th

write. WESLEY HILE, [1.6, m Iggeia, Silicllr





Gilta bred to that Ye l‘

L. T. P. C' Boar that stands 40” high,aiis'173§

long. and walks on a ll." bone. ()ilering summer and

fall pigs. Clyde Fisher. R. 3, St. Louis. Mich.





 





 





 





Big Type P. C. Sow's bred to Big Bob Mastodon. his

gilts bred to a son of Peter Pan. that sold for 81.075

cash Jan. 3. C. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich.





Orange Model gilts. bred for M h

Lu T! P. 6' April furrow. Come and see themfhlév still





BIG TYPE Poland ChinnsJeading strains





at lowest prices. Both sex. all

ages, and bred sows and gilts.

G. A. BAUMGARDNER. R. 2. Middleville, Mich.





Poland China gilts sired by a 900 lb two years old and

bred to a son of Mich. 1921 Grand Champion.

ROBERT MARTIN. 11.3. Woodland. Mich.

Hampshires Bred gilts now readyito ship with





fall born pi not ak n.

JOHN W. SNYDER. R. . St. Jolly. Mich;





SHEEP





A Real Bargain at

Kope Kon Farms





We offer 40 big healthy yearling Shropshire and

Hampshire Rams all registered at $25.00 each

Come or write while the picking is good.



S. L. WING, Coldwater, Mich.





Registered Shropshire Rams

Priced to sell. Dan Booher. R. 4. Evert. Mich





Ten Aged Registered Delaine ewes and ten





ewe lambs for sale.

CALHOON B 808.. Bronson, Mich





 





. HORSES _ .

Fen SALE 2 Re . Perchefiogusmlllcnc and:





 





 

 

 





 





 





bear inspection. W. J. Hagelshaw. Augusta, hllch.,





cal-o Grade 1‘ . ,- ..

HAS. EBAY, Okew.nloh.
, * __mm! Mimi!“





Change 01 Copy or C’sn'celiations must- reach us





 





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Ten Days before date'of publication .





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AGHIEVEMENT





The reward of pure breeding; the accomplish‘

ment of quality. Success has again contri-

buted more laurels to the already remarkable

record of





Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny





The Sire Supreme





At the International Live Stock Exposition,

where gathers each year the elite of North

American Cattledom to compete for the cove-

tous awards, five more honors have been be-

stowed upon the “get” of Edgar of Dalmeny.

You too may share these honors. A bull by this

world famous sire will prove a most valuable

asset to your herd.



Write us today.





WILDWOOD FARMS

omen, Mlcmcnu '





 





 





 





W. E. SGBIPPS, Prop. Sidney Smith, Sum. ,





 





'REOISTERED _Aberdeen-Angus. Ten heifers. six

bulls from eight to. fourteen months. eat of

breeding, the growthy km d that make good. Reason-

able. inquire F. J. WILBER, Clio, Mich





Registered Guereseys





We have a special proposition on your Bull for next

year that will interest vou now.

North Adams, Mich.





J. M. WILLiAMs,

GUERNSEYS Accredited Herd. 4ibulls sold

in last month. Bull calves

under4months old. Grandsons of ex-worlds cham-

pion A. A. cow and out of A. R. dams. Satisfaction

guaranteed. G. W. and H. G. Ray. Albion, Mich.

—REGISTERED





G U E R N SEY s BULL CALVES





‘ Containin blood of world champions.

HICKS' GUERNS V FARM. Saginaw. W.S. Mich.





 





 





Re ister Guernsey bull calves out of A.

For sale Rfiam. $40.00 each if taken soon.

JOHN EBELS. R. 2. Holland, Mich.





Reg. Guernse Cows or heifers,

For sale, prices ri ht. y

E0. M. ORA ’FORD. Holton.‘lMich.





 





F org Quick Sale





Grandsons King of the Pontiacs

Out of 28 to 32 lb. Dams. Federal Tested





No. 1.—-Calf, out of 28.9 Junior four year old. Record

585 lb. milk. 119 lb. of butter. Born March 29, 1921.

PRICE $200.00. ,



No. 2.’Oalf, dam's record 760 lbs. milk. 28 lbs. butter.

Ready for light service. Born March 14, 1921.

PRICE $200.00



No. (“L—Calf, out of Granddaughter Belle Korndyke.

who was a dam of Pontiac Korndyke. Record 27.7

lbs. butter, 640 lbs. of milk. No better bred animal

in Mi -higan. Born Februar 22. 1921. PRICE SWO.



No. 4 —Calf, dam at 6 years of made record of 625 lbs.

milk and 31.96 butter. Granddaughter DeKol 2nd.

Butter Bo 3rd. This calf worth 8 000. If bought at

once . .



No. 5—Calf, out of a two year old daughter of is twice

30 lb. cow. PRICE $75.00. *



Also several male calves out of untested dams. four



five and seven months old. PRICE FOR QUICK



SALE $50.00 ’



Address all communications to





J. B. JONES.





Care of Crowley, Milner & Co., Detroit, Mich.





A BLUE RIBBON WINNER

YOUNG BULL





On the 1921 Show Circuit For Sale at a low



Out of an .A R. O. granddau hter of Pontiac



dyke. Sired by our SENIO



King Segis Glista 32.37 lbs.

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS,



Corey J.:Spenoer. Owner

111 E. Main Street. J ackson, Michigan.

Herd Under State and Federal Supervision





HERE IS A GOOD ONE





BORN JUNE 2nd 1920 by MAPLECREST DE KOL

HENGERVELD whose three sisters have each lpro-

duced over 1200 lbs. of butter in a year. TWO of t em

former WORLDS CHAMPIONS. Calf's dam by an

own brother of a 1248 lb. cow. Write for pedigree.



. F. B. LAY, Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





rice.

orn-

SHOW BULL, Model





 





 





Bulls Registered Holstein Bulls

old enough for service. for sale. Bred flom Pontiac

and S is dams and sired b a 25 lb. Gdson of Maple-

crest orndyke Hengerve d, priced to _ ove them.

will also sell a few heifers soon to fres en. Herd

under federal and state su erv1sion





HENRY 3.1m LFS. Bil. Akron,Mich'





 





The Traverse Herd





We have what you want in BULL CALVIS. the large.

line growthy type. guaranteed right in every way.

They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors

Dani's records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and

quotations, stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City.’Mich.





' Hglstgg-fefifigan Liaf°£:m..i::"m°aij

a; 1. North End Detroit. Mi:th Ra'flmm ”m'





‘.





In ed. hesvymilk ,,

r d a . . .

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enroll

siredby'j t.

w , on





his?“ willi’fim‘, - .ml'riolhx a . é





Born Nov. 24. 1920. his The Nearest Dams aver

isms 'ibs. sum: - in» 7 says. Each m

which test over 4’ Butter! t.



Bis dam is b a 30lb. cow that milked 105 lbs. in one

day. who is a fill! sister to a cow.that~ milked, lbs.

in one day and all-lbs. in 7.11am: and is b a‘sis ruto

theonly cow in the‘world with 860 lbs. Miik‘in'7 Days

having an 900 "1.. daughter.

His dam's sireis by all!) lb. cow that produced a 30

b. daughter. who in turn produced a 30 lb..daughter.



His site's two nearest dams average over 36 lb.

Butter in 7 days. "



His dam's d m i b Arandson of former 341b.and

_35 lb. world's :hanipiblrs? he himself havinf 3-1000 lb.

:emi-oihcial daughters. accompanied by ml k produc-

. on.

i Hi d t th tends s coll r. 11 mos.8days

as“? 'iilnibsa. Buzzer ironi- 4118 lbs.yMllk in 7 Days:





aging 4.066; Butter/fat

‘ He is handsomely marked, nearly half and half.

The greatest butterfat bull we have ever raised.





Im rove your herd. Buy this bull. Only $350.00

f. o. b. Howell. ,





 





McPherson Farm Co.. " Howell, Mich.

Herds under U. 8. Supervision.





Registered Holsteins





It was through the daughters of



Flint Maplecreat Boy that



Sir Ormshy Skylark Burke



Our Junior Herd Sire



produced the Junior Champion and Reserve Grand

Champion Heifer, at the Michigan State Fair this

year, in a class of 38. .

His get won first in Cali Herd. also first m get of

sire, in a class of 13. .

A son of either of these great bulls will help the in.

dividuaiity and production of your herd.

We have bulls at dairynien's prices, and we also

have bulls at the breeder’s price“ from dams With

records up to 38 lbs. of butter in seven days, and

1168 lbs of butter in one year. - .

Ask us about a real bull,a Maplecrest or an Orrnsby.





JOHN H. Willi, Ina, Rochester, Mich.





 





 





' ' ofl'ers Holstein-Friesian bulls ready

wmogm Farm for light service. From sire whose 6

nearest dams average 33.34 lbs. butter for 7 days. AR.

0. Dams from 18.33 to 21.51 lbs. Herd under state and

Federal Supervision. Oscar Wallin. Unionville.Mich.





FOR SALE Herd of Registered Holsteins.



Consisting of nine cows.three

heifers. Highly bred under nine years. Some with

calves at side. Good Jproducers. large size. Priced to

suit times. . E. GAMBLE, Hart, Mich.





Proven sire to settle a artnershi .

For sale! Dam 32 lbs. Sires dam Sglbs. Wrife

{orvsxtended Ped ree. Photo and (price. Address





Willard an Sensor John Buth, Grand

Rapids, Mich. R. 2.





 





 





ii i i - Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred

ll 3 Bill registered and high-grade. Price 820 up.

Splendid individuals and breeding.





Write us your re-

quirements. Browncroft Farms.





McGraw, N. Y





accepted in payment of finely bred re -

A 600d "Cid istered Holstein bull calves. uaiitgy

of the best. and at prices within reach of all. rite

GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - - Vassar. Mich'





 





dau hter of Pontiac Korndyke.il’riced





5 yr Old 801! of Bmithdale Alcartra Pontiac from

0

low FER WOOD FARM, Evart, Mich.





 





en reg, Holstein heifers. some fresh, others fresh

Tsoon. All tuberculin tested and guar, O.K. ever ~

way. Price 8100 to 8150 each. B.B.Reavey, Akron, Mic .





Beef Producers!

_ Michigan ”Produces

The World‘s Best Beef

At The Lowest Cost.





Raise far better feeding cattle than you can bu .

Grow Baby Beef when gains ecst least in feed and

labor. Avoid costly rail hauls with their shrink,

bruises and loss.



SOTHAM’S EARLIRIPE BEEF CONTRACT





Solves your problem—insures your success. A fair

intelligent, satisfying system evolved from 87 years

conscientious service to American Cattle Industr ,b .

three generations of Sothams. GET THE FA '1‘ .

Write now, or wire, Address ~





T. F. B. SOTHAM & SON,





(Cattle Business Established 1835)

Phone 250 Saint Clair, Michigan





'Herefords





Repeaters, Beau Donalds. Fairfaxes, and Farmers

represented in our herd. Repeater l73rd, a son of

old Repeater, at head of herd. Both sexes and all

ages for sale.





- ALLEN BROS.,





(Form at Paw Paw, Mich.)

Office 616 So. West St., Kalamazoo, Mich.





HEREFORDS For so... guys, M.





't .

RALPH CALHOUN, Brox'iaon,°iri’cii,





J ersey ‘ Thoroughbreds





Few cows and bull .calues. Best breeding line. Guar-

anteed Tuberculin tested twice a year. If on have

no mone will take bankable note. ‘ . . asvar .

509Free ress Building, Detroit. Mich.. Main 126‘.





JERSEY CA1'I'LE SALE '





Will sell half interest in20 head of Jerseys n well

ui ed Mich an t r to

go 33 is a In 801%: one l{:lth kno ledge





r fann . J. B. HE ‘7

Ave., Chicagoyifl. 533 Normal





Lillie Farmstead Jerseys 33’, filvg‘gé?“

COLON C. LILLIE. Ooopenville. Mich,





BUTTER anso , “.330”





CRYSTA SPRING ETOO "J“ . :

Silver Greek?I Allow Count: men.





P“ 5"” 1“" Bunk Whiz); ”ii





 





 

 





 





     





Ahmad-nary um fiuu‘j cash ‘3





and every one of





1.

be. Butter and 1213.2 lbs." Milk in 21 Days. aver-'1





V'SIILAGE-FED sTs’sas PAY our.





 





Station and elsewhere provebe-





cheapest beef cah be made when sil-

age is used as a portion of the ration.

Even when com Was four times its

present price silage used in reason-

able portions proved to be the most

economical source of beef. Experi-

ments conducted at the'Pennsylvania

and Iowa stations show corn silage as

a far more profitable way to feed the

crop ’to cattle than the ear corn or

shelled corn method; These conclu-

sions have been verified hundreds. of

times by practical cattlemen feeding

steers upon their home farms.





 





EARLIEST GAINS CHEAPEST.





 





S pigs become heavier more feed



is required per pound gained in

weight. Pigs weighing one hundred

pounds each were placed on a ration

of corn, shorts and tankage and grown

,to weigh three hundred pounds by the

Missouri Experiment Station. One pig

was killed at the beginning and others





 





 





 





me





First Prize Filly at Recent Colt Show





Held at the M. A. C.





Exhibited by

J. M. Hicks &. Son. ‘





 





 





at weights of two hundred and; three

hundred pounds. All pig‘s ‘we‘re" kept in

a dry lot and fed the same-ration, so

the exact amount of food consumed

could be determined.



The results agreed with general ex-

perience with regard. to weight. In

growing from one hundred to two hun-

dred pounds, 4.3 pounds of gyainwere

required per paund of gain, while in

growing from two hundred to three

hundred pounds; 10.8 pounds feed were

consumed for each pound of gain, and

in growing from one hundred to three

hundred pounds, 9.3 pounds of feed

were required. The result indicated

also that when a heavy'grain ration

is fed lean meat is not produced eco-

nomically after. a. weight of 200 pounds

is reached, while fat is produced most

economically from that point up to

and beyond three hundred pounds.





 





JNJECTING HOGS IN FLANK

SAVES MEAT.





 





OM-PLAINTS from packers indi-

cate that there are still manyvet—

erinarians and farmers who persist in

immunizing hogs against cholera by

making injections in the ham or the

shoulder,‘a practice that often results

in infection and the formation of deep

abscesses in the hams and shoulders

where the serum and virus yore in~

jected». The United States Department

of Agriculture has lung advised against

using these parts as points of'iniiecticn

and the .«department j , of I veterinarians '

are éinstructedi'to’ avoid the possibility

of‘ such injury by'seiscthis some other

DIEGO. ,. -. _‘. ,,,} 3,... .4 ", g; u, . :r ,_





 





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W ORK at , the Ohio Experiment





yond the question of a doubt theft-he





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xv--’ J

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at thiamine. in? they? ,iigar‘be: made"





With equal success ’in‘rless valuable

parts, ouch;~ asithe flank— or axillary

space. where there'l-s'picoseiconnective

tissuegthat readily absorbs. the serum.

In f makinggan ,axifuar‘y injection the

front legs‘shculd be spread apart so as

“to stretch the superficial muscles be-

tween the legs, and the needle’should

be direCted so as .to avoid the mus-

cles of the shoulder. _



It is desirable to make the injec-

tions at a point where that will make

drainage easy should an abscess form.

Serum should never be injected into

a. mass of fatty tissue, as it is not suf-

ficiently absorptive. Although the

serousm‘embrane lining in the abdom-

inal cavity takes up serum readily,

abdominal injections are not recom-

mended because of the danger of punc-

turing the internal organs 'with the

needle or of carrying infection info

the cavity. ' ‘



Small pigs and shorts up to eighty

pounds in weight may be held up by

the hind legs, with the forefeet resting

on‘ the ground, and the injection made

fnto‘the loose tissue of the flank. A

pig so held is in a good position for

the taking of temperature, cleansing

the area of operation, and making the

injection. Anyone interested in this

work‘should send for Farmers’ Bulle

tin 834, which has been recently re-

printed, and which contains full infor-

mation regarding hog cholera and the

methods of control.





 





BRED 80W SALES GOING WELL.





 





REPORTS from the bred sow sales



in several states clearly indicate

a healthy demand for good cows at

prides that ’are quite satisfactory to

the sellers. Averages from $70 to $100





are quite common, while a number of .





sales of the better sort are going con~

siderably beyond these figures.



A well-known hog man who had

traveled over a considerable portion

of the middle west, recently remarked,

“There is no question but that there

will be sufficient demand to absorb all

of the good bred sows atrpric'es the

sellers will be glad" to take in'the, terh

ritory I have covered.” 3



———_______





TUBERCULOSIS WORK IN. MICHI-

GAN.





 





HE number of cattle under the

supervision of state and federal

officials ‘in Michigan during the month;

of November were 102,005 in 10,203

herds. There are now a total of 71,139.

animals that have been once tested





and at the end of December there were





460 herds containing 9.888 animals

waiting to be tested. .





 





ST. LOUIS STOCK MARKET -

ACTIVE. ,





 





'FROM 9. recent report; of the '81:: ‘





Louis Cooperative Ass0ciation it

is found that more than} $128,000 worth‘

of livestock was shipped from "St.

Louis and vicinity to Detroit and Bill?-

falo markets during 1921. ,The. 38800!-

atlon has been very— active in hand-

ling coal, fertilizer, fence posts. tone

ing and other merchandise“ useful; to!

the farmers for . Gratiot ’cdimtiélil.





 





‘ 11.1.1raising ,‘calveefor stock purposes

the economical way is traineewmzm

sites the cal!" insight xqurgnh 1'



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coNfiUCTEn BY DR. w. c. FAIR.





Advice through ,thiscohunn is given free to our subscrib-

en. Larsen should state lully the history and symptoms of

each use and live. name and address of the wrisrr. initials

only are published. When I reply by mail is requested the





. service beopmes private practice and 81 must be enclosed.





 





Knuckllng.——I have a colt which is

becoming cock-ankled. Is there any-

thing I can do, or buy to stop it? A..

E., Levering, Mich—Apply equal parts

of turpentine, aqua ammonia, raw lin-





- seed oil'to weak joints three times a





Week.



Nasal Catarrh.—My cow acts as if

she had taken cold;' she coughs. dis-

charges mucus from both nostrils, but

has a good appetite. G. E., Gladwin,

Mich—Give her a teaspoonfiul of pow-

dered sulphate of iron and a table-

spoonfulof powdered licorice in each

feed two or three times a day.



Malignant Sore.—Severa1 months

ago my mare was wounded by the

tooth of .a hog; wound has partially





,healed, but Center remains raw. The

sore seemingly heals over but it must,





itch as she rubs it raw. G. M., Eau

Claire, Mich—Apply equal parts of

iOdoform and boric .acid to sore daily.



Lice.—My cattle are troubled with

lice A. S., Litchfleld, Mich—Pure ker-

oSene will kill cattle lice, but some-





' times it will take off the hair. Mix





one pint of kerosene in one pound of

lard and apply, or apply coal-tar dis-

infectant, one to thirty of water. Vin-

egar kills ‘nits. ’



Cow_ Gives Bloody Milk.—I have a

cow that gives bloody milk; she came

fresh twelve months ago, but is now

with calf. The silage we have been

feeding is moldy, could it cause her to

give bloody milk? J. U., Imlay City,

Mich—She may have met with an in-

jury, or it may be caused by badly

cured silage. Change her feed and if

possible ascertain how she bruises her

udder and remove the cause.





Sitfast—Fibrous Tumors.—I have a

young mare that has three small hard

bunches on shoulder where the collar

rests. Occasionally she limps. H. E.

W., Stevensville, Mich—The only rem-

edy is to cut out bunches, then apply

one part iodoform and nine parts of

boric aCid to wounds twice daily. Try

and locate lameness, the bunches have

nothing to do with it.





Mange—Have a horse that is inclin-

ed to rub himself, on parts of body

the skin is rough and there are some.

scabs. What shall I put on him? W.





'G., Pigeon, Mich—Apply one part coa1~





tar disinfectant and twenty parts of

water to itchy parts of body once or

twice a day. Give him three drams of

Fowler’s solution at a dose in feed or

water two or three times daily. Feed

him some roots, groom him twice a

day. ‘



Stiffness in . Hind Quarters—Have

an eight-year-old horse that is quite





- stiff in both hind legs. When first tak-





en lame the trouble seemed tb be in

one leg and the horse lost appetite

and has not eaten well since. He is

now less lame, but fails to eat enough

food. H. L., Bessemer, Mich.———Give

him a. teaspoonful of acetate of potash

in drinking water two or three times a

day. Change his feed, keep him warm,

bowels open, and give him walking ex-

ercise. Hand-rub back and hind quar-

ters twice a day.



Nasal Catarrh.—-Will you tell me

what to do for our sick cats? About

a year ago they had a bad cold or dis-

temper and whatever the sickness is,

it fails to leave them. Part of time

they are fairly well, and at other times

worse. Mrs- H. M., Pentwater, Mich.

—Dissolve a tablespoonful of baking

soda in three pints of tepid water, dip

lower part of the face in this solution

twice daily. Dissolve a dessertspoon-

ful of salt in one quart of tepid water

and dip lower part of face in this 10-

tion daily. *



Dog Question—I have a female Air—

dale terrier that comes in heat regu-

larly and we have her served, but she

fails to haye pups. Soon after she is





.bred she acts and to all appearances





is pregnant, her body enlarges, her ud-

der semi-fills with milk; however, af-

ter nine weeks all these symptoms

leave her. Will you kindly tell me

what is wrong? T..M., Charlevoix,

Mich—The writer has known of him.

,dreds of, parallel cases, but has never

become thoroughly convinced that the

soothing effect of, intercourse and the

imagination of the. female should





' ., bring about ‘the latent symptoms of





, *. however, without inter-

tho female rarely shows many





 

 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 

 

 





 

 





 





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2 cents a Name P aid I Woodland FgfssDur-oc Hogs





A well kept herd, best of blood lines. with size and

breeding qualities. stock of all ages for sale at rea.

aonnble prices. W. E. BARTLEY, Alma. Mich.





 





for the owners of sheep in your locality.

Give name and correct mail address of





gifldowner and state number of sheep BroilkwalEl Dunlc Jerseys





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see them.

506 Carlton Ave.,





 





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Wheaton’ lllanIS H. W. Mumford. Owner, J. B. Anilrgars, Mir.





Jerseys A few extra good fall bo . d

CATTLE Duroc a choice lot. of spring boars of thziarslieziixiiy

boned type popular blood lines at reasonable prices.



DRODT d: BERNS... Monroe, Mich.





BIDWELL “295‘.“33ls 3.9“89..~l5§..§5.!5= some





Hastings. Mich

that will put weight on your dull-v calves -the difl- -

erence will soon ay for the bull. Now selling good DIII'OC service Boats grid giltfs‘igho 33% Ill-ill

Scotch and Scotc -t.oppedyenrlmgs,reasonably, riced. pigs $10t0815. All registered or eligible. We 'have

We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. I‘edReral one of the largest and best. herds in state. Amlile





 





Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N» Y. C. R opportunity for selection. MICHIGANA FAR





BlDWELL STOCK FARM, Pamm“Mich.Klimt...) County.





BOX D, Tecumseh, Michigan Pure_Bred Duroo Jersey Hogs: we usually





Richland Shorthorns





ages to l . R bl ' . ~

Farm, 1352.2, Nefeafi‘iwi‘fi‘d. $33333. mid? mm“

Now offering a choice lot of bull calves.

Best of breeding. 8150 to 3250 Will buy





 





 





a real bull at present time. Write for

particulars. .

C. W. Prescott & Sons, 0332? ifif'sl’vaZfliilg





Detroit. Jackson.Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





Herd headed by Great Kin Ori C l. s' -

Dumas ted by n cod son of King Orig: Fine???

HA RY FOWLER. Sturgis. Mich.





I

Duroo Jersey Swme

The Maple’s Shorthoms Eisetnrtskssrg: seamstress





_ . . any age write. or better, come to farm Best of



Kirk Levmgton Led, by imported Hartfofth glooid ll)ine an}? we Rugnnteia 1ylou satisfaction.



W , . ,. . ll . . er oars. anama pecia th and Hon

an“ m m‘“ B“ ’ and we“ f" "k Farm Wonder. Booking order for fall pigs at Sig





e c h.

Goblevrlle, Mmh‘ ‘l’liiis. linderhlll a Son. Salem, Mich.





Central Mich. Shorthorn Breeders’ Assn. AM SELLING





offer for sale both milk and beef breedin , all ages

Write M. E. MILLER. Sec'y. Greenv lie, Mich. a great oflering of bred Duroo cows and gilts March

. ‘ y ' 4iéhoh3‘hayagaecwtlyi breth20rlon Gli'lnt 00].. son

- - Shorthorns of' best B tcs breedi . 0 ° m °n-. . e 011 Dual ins list tor

Mdklng bulls. cows lug heifers tin ssle. ng m - 0- lAYLOR- Milan. ich





E‘ H 0312‘ M3591“ Mich WEST View Duroo Farm oflers spring hours from

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Tawas City, Mich.





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Now ofieringz—Three bulls ready for service. Masto-

don, Clansman. Emancipator blood in gilts bred for





spring furrow. See t em.

POPE BROS. 00.. Mt. Pleasant, Mich





 





 





 





 





' Home Farm Tlppy Orion and Pathfinder Prince.





qfiOBTHORNS. Two 4 mo. old bullcalves of White- W“ bone and type. ad? for service, sows. fall

L, hall Sultan Strain and a fewzonng heifers. Priced 8““ Spflngflgfll with ual ty. Write or come and

very reasonable. J. A. Wilk Son. Alma. Mich. see them. AL '1‘ EB SOLE. Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





DAKWOD Farm Durocs are priced sothat they





of secs-edited herd of M'lk- can mskegoodl t .

gymrgaj Sale in Shorrthorns. on Mai-oh “I. pan. The". n he feedlotuwellaglnthe breed-





Forfils





rouse Ion '.tall. rowt kl d.

, RUSfi Band. Bingo. Mich,





Davidson 4: In 1. Michigan





 





 





 





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D. HEYDENBEBK, “'ayland, Mich.





 





The prize winner kind from the best rize winner

bloodlines. Ear-if developers, ready to]; market at

six months old. have started more breeders. on the

road to success than any man living. I want to lace

one hog in each community to advertise my 'herd.

Write for'agencv and my plan.



G. 8. BENJAMIN. R. F. D. 10. Portland. Mich.





CHESTERS We are all sold out of



Boar. Bred Bows and Gilts.

For spring lgs write WEBER BROS. Royal Oak.

Mich.. 10 Mi 9 and Ridge Rd., Phone 408.





' bred gilta and ta 1 pigs of excel-

ChBSteI' WhltES, lentvauality and lireeding. Satis-

faction gusranteed. F. . Alexander. Vassar. Mich.





Chat” Whites §J§%m“i‘§§..f?.’o.‘§riisim

ALBERT DORR, Clinton. Mich





o. I. (3. [-1005





all ages sired by Galloway Edd. 1918 world's grand

champ. boar and C. C. Schoolmaster 1919 world‘s grand

champion. also Wonder Big Type and Giant Buster.

V’l'rite your wants. all stock shipped on approval.

CRANDELL’S PRIZE HUGS, Cass City. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





O I. C. d: Chester White Swine. Strictly Big Type

' with’ Quality. Service boars. and gilts bred for

bier. and early April furrow. are all sold. Some good

ones left. bred for last of April and early May far-

row. All of prize winning blood lines. Have one good

tried yearling sow that I will sell. .

Mariette, Mich.





Newman's Stock Farm, ll. 4.



' 9 Aug. and Se (2. ig‘ and b ed

0' I. C 8' gills l‘orMur flinging r

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe, Mich.





O. l. C. BRED GILTS





shipped C. 0. I).

J. CARL JEWETT.





 





hiuson. Mich.





 





D I c Spring boars and gilts no akin. Vl'e breed and

. n - own the Grand (‘hzlmpion Boar at West Mich.

State Fair. Vie ship C. 0. I). and Rog. free.



GEO. M. WELTON a SON. Alto, Mich.





o I C’s choir-c gilts bred for March

0 o 0 and AD I'll furrow.

A. J. BARKER & SUN. Belmont. M'ich.





O. I. C. Gilts 1 ‘ed f M; ‘ l i

For sale. April farrow (a); a r or no 1 ma

H. W. MAN





 





 





ensonziblo price.)

N, llunsi ille, lVliCh.





 





’ A few bred ilts and fall i '.

0- 1' C 3 formers’ priccgs. p gr, it

C. J. THOMl’bON. Rockford. Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. C.

Largest herd of individuals in Mich. Come and see.

compare, and be convinced. expenses paid if not as

represented. Boars and early giltsall sold. A few late





gilts, will sell open or hold and breed for late furrow.

W . E. LIVINGSTON. Purina. Blicll.





 





Saws. Grzuidrlnughters of the great (iinntanter

3V2 bred toagrandwm of the Yankee. the 540.000.41‘9'.



ere‘ can you find any better Big Type breeding?

96]}: pruéels are wiry; 103N330. 540. Also 50 fall pigs.



y no my a p g‘. 0. .. B Y . . z

Mich. Bell Phone. 0 I TI FR' Pom md'





EONAlilYS Big Typo, P. 0. Herd headed bv Leon-



. ards Liberator 458.385. the tallest. longest mid heav-



iest boned pig for his age in Mich. (‘allor write,

stock in season. Full pigs at liar-gain Prices.



E R. EONARI), St. Louis, Mich.





Big Type P. 0. some _very choice boars doubleim~

mune, out llilOlb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa 8 greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson.l$urr ()uk.l\lich.





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





We have a fine lot of {all pigs sired by H t

Black Price and Right Kind Clan. ‘HAirr'rs.i

FULCHER and CLINE, address F. T. Hart St.

Louis. Mich. '





Large Type Poland Bhinas





Spring boars all sold. Fall )i s at ‘ '

Bred gilts held for ublic sale.I g bargain prices.

A. AQFELD AMP, R, 2, Manchester. Mich.





L. T. P. C.





Gilts bred Mo. Bob.. 2 sons of Clansmans I ,

Defender 2nd and High Joe, tracing backm:g%h‘i;%

Price. H. U. S AR'l‘Z. Schoolcrafr. Mich.





BIG Type Poland—China and Holsteins. ’l‘wo fall



yearling grits. srred by Hover's Giant and bred to

Cla‘nsman Buster for spring {arrow at $60 each. Our

spring grits are all sol . We are ofl'ering Reg. Hol-

stein Bulls ready for service at $60. sired by291b

bull. DORUS HOVER, Akron. Mich. I





BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS





iliged gilts'for sal'gh' Choice indiil'lidugls of rich breed-

n a prices m in your tone . ome see th

write. WESLEY HILE, n.6, Ionia. ria'ilciif





Lo To Po Co 33:5 bred to that Yearlin





1‘ that; stands 40" h' 'h. '. '

long. and walks on a ll" bone. ()li‘ering surili‘ixiei'qjiid

fall pigs. Clyde Fisher. R. 3, St. Louis. Mich.





 





 





 





Big Type P. C. Sows bred to Big Bob Mastodon. his

grits bred to a son of Peter Pan. that sold for 81.075

cash Jan. 0. C. E. GA RNANT, Eaton Rapids. Mich.





' Orange Model gilts. bred for M

l.- TI'P- 0- April farrow. Come and see themfisli‘e}: will

bear inspection.





BIG TYPE Poland ChinasJending strains





at lowest ' . 8

ages. and bred sows and gllts. prices 0th sex. all

G. A. BAUMGARDNEH, R. 2. Middleville. Mich.





Po'and China gilts sired by a 900 lb two years old and





bred to a son of Mich. 1921 G (1 Ch ' .

ROBERT MARTIN. R. 3. Wfldlanimh‘ilgli.





Hampshires Bred gilts now ready to ship with





fall boar pi not akin.

JOHN W. SNYDER. R. . St. Johns. Mich





SHEEP





A Real Bargain at

Kope Kon Farms





We offer 40 big healthy yearling Shropshire and

Hampshire Rams all registered at $25.00 each

Come or write while the picking is good.



S. L. WING, Coldwater, Mich.





Registered Shrapshire Rams





Priced to sell. Dan Booher. R. 4. Evert. Mich





 





ewe lambs for s is.

OALHOON B ROS.. Brongon. Mich





Ten Aged Registered Delaine ewes and ten





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Monday, February 13.





Wheat. .



Detroit—Cash No. 2 red $1.37; No.

2 mixed and No. 2 white $1.34; May

$1.41. '



Chicago—No. 2 red $13015; No. 4

red $1.281/2; May $1.33.



Toledo—Cash $1.36@1.38;

$1.44%.





May at





Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 420; No.

3 white 391/2c; No.. 4, 34%@37%c.

Chicago.~—No. 2 white 38%@39%c;

No. 3 white 35%@36%c.

Corn

Detroit—Cash No. 2, old 590; No. 3

yellow 57c. .

Chicago—No. 2 mixed 53%@5417éc;

No. 2 yellow 54%, @541/éc. '



Beans.

Detroit—Immediate

shipment $5.30 per cwt.



Chicago—Choice to fancy hand-





and prompt





picked Michigan beans $5.75; red kid-





ney beans $7.

New York—The market is steady.

(éhoige pea at $5.50; red kidney $6.60

6.7 .





Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 3 91c.



Chicago—Nominal.



Toledo—910.



Seeds. .



Detroit—Prime red clover, cash at

$14.75; alsike $12.25; timothy $3.35.



Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $18@20;

standard and light mixed at $18@19;

No. 2 timothy $16@18; No. 1 clover

mixed $16@17; rye straw $13.50@14;

wheat and oat straw $12.50@13 per

ton in carlots.



Feeds.





Detroit—Bran $33; standard mid-

dlings at $33; fine middlings at $33;





.cracked corn $28; coarse cornmeal at





$26; chop $23 per ton in loo-pound





sacks.

WHEAT





It is still too early to estimate the

severity of damage from dry weather

in the southwest but there has been

but little relief thus far and every day

without rain or snow heightens the

critical condition of the crop. Some

Wild estimates of acreage abandon-

ment as high as forty per cent in Kan-

sas have been made but there is still

time for spring rains to repair a great

deal of the damage.

statistical situation and prospects of a

small winter wheat crop, the market

promises to be influenced very strong-

ly by the character of the weather in

the southwest. In spite of the crop

scare in Kansas, farmers have been

selling wheat rather freely apparently

in an effort to discharge financial obli-

gations. The movement to primary

markets did not increase in the last

week in spite of higher prices and it

is not believed that the present rate

of arrivals can continue long.





CORN





Although the quantity of corn arriv-

ing at terminal markets is far above

the average for this season of the year





‘the advance in wheat prices, coupled





with a broad demand for corn, has ad-

vanced corn prices to the highest lev-

el in several months. The bulge has

induced heavy selling on the part of

producers and the present rate of

movement may continue for two or

three weeks longer. Exporters are buy-

ing briskly at the seaboard and boat

room cannot be obtained fast enough

to keep eastern ports cleared so that

a partial embargo on shipments to Bal-

timore has been necessary on account

of large holdings on track at that

point. Unofiicial estimates suggest a

reduction of 25 to 33 per cent in the

Argentine crop as a result of ,drouth

and locusts. This will favor exports

from the United States during the rest

’of the year. Legislation permitting the

War FinanCe Corporation-to loan mon-

ey to foreigners to purchase products

in the United States also will help the

movement of corrr'for export.





OATS ,

The oats market is following other.

grains and has not yet shown any in-

ggfiendent strength. Farm reserves are





., , my. be new-~sm.11.« ne-





   





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With a bullish’





_ light lights, 130' miscible, $9.

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ceipts at primary markets, however,

continue large and the visible supply





at terminals is around 68,000,000 bush-'





els. The total disappearance of cats

from primary markets during the first

half of the crop year was only 91,445,-

000 bushels. Unless the rate of disap-

pearance increases and the visible sup-

ply is reduce more rapidly, prices

will not make rapid headway upward,

except as they advance in Sympathy

with other grains. The Canadian crop

estimate was reduced recently and the

Argentine crop is now estimated at

only 32,000,000 bushels, compared with

'a five-year average of 53,000,000 bush-





els. SEEDS





Clover 'seed prices reached a new

high level last week. Offerings are

light and there is a fair demand, al-

though it is believed that buying by

farmers will come later than usual.

Statistically, the market is in a strong

position. The price which farmers will

be willing to pay is the chief limiting

factor in further advances.





FEEDS





Wheat feed prices recovered all of

their recent loss and advanced‘into

new high ground for the season, due

in part to the advance in the wheat,

corn and oats markets. Actual con.

suming demand is limited, as present

prices make country buyers hesitate.

Oil meal prices are practically un-





changed.

POTATOES





The total movement of potatoes for

the season up to February 4 amounted

to 165,364 cars compared with 147,362

cars in the same period , last year.

Since the 1921 crop was smaller than

that of 1920, the quantity remaining in

producing sections is believed to be

smaller than a year ago. Wisconsin

and Colorado are said to have a large

surplus still to be shipped. Northern

sacked round whites are quoted at

$1.50 to $1.70 f. o. b. shipping points

and $1.60 to $1.95 in the Chicago carlot

market.





   





.Except for alfalfa, the demand for

hay continues disappointing to produc-

ers and dealers, although spells ofcold

weather bring an occasional increase.

Receipts of hay at Kansas City, the





leading distributing market, since the'





first of the year, total 'only 2,154 cars

compared with 3,287 cars in the same

period last year, and 7,786 cars in the

same period two years ago. Michigan,

Wisconsin and the Dakotas seem to





be shorter on forage than other states. ,





_ POULTRY AND EGGS





Receipts of eggs have fallen off re-

cently and the second week inFebru-

ary promised to run considerably be-

hind the corresponding week of 1921.

The trade is uneasy, however, as an

increase is expected at any time and

price reductions are likely although

there may be no sharp break from the

present level within the next two or

three weeks. It is still necessary to

draw upon cold storage supplies in pr-

der to satisfy the demand. On Febru-

ary 1 the remaining stock in cold stor-

age according to the preliminary re-

port of the bureau of markets was 182,-

000 cases. The five-year average for

that date is 173,000 cases. During

January the decrease in the cold stor-

age supply was 704,000 cases compared

with a five-year average disappearance

for the month of 809,000 cases.



Detroit.— Eggs, fresh .candled‘ 38

@39c. Poultry, hens»26@27c; ducks

28@300; geese 18@2_Oc; roosters 150;

turkeys 35c. .



Chicago—Eggs fresh firsts at 36@

36%c;. ordinaries 31@320. Poultry,

‘hens 241/2c; roosters 18c; springers at

26c; ducks 28c; geese 18c. ' .





BUTTER





Butter markets presented a mixed

appearance last week with eastern cit-’

ies weak and Chicago disposed to ad~

vance. Receipts of fresh butter at

New York increased notably with 1,300

boxes of Australian butter received by

mail from the west, and about 5,000





boxes more of Argentine butter due to





 





 





Live Stock Market Service,





 





Monday, February 13.





' DETROIT





, Cattle.



Receipts 557. Fat cows, bulls and

canners steady; others 25@350 higher.

'Best heavy steers ...._...$ 6.25@ 7.00

Best handy wt bu steers 6.50@ 7.10

Mixed steers and heifers 5.50@ 6.25





Handy light butchers. . . . 5.0001) 5.25

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 4.75

Best cows .............. 4.50@ 5.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50@ 4.00

Common cows ........ . 3.00@ 3.25

Canners ............... .. 2.25@ 3.00

Best light weight bulls . . 4.50@ 5.00

Bologna bulls . . . . .L ..... 4.00012 4.50

Stock bulls . . . ..... . . . . . 3.50@ 4.00

Feeders . 5.25@ 6.00

Stockers ................ 4.75@ 5.00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@ 75



Veal Calves. \





Receipts 532. Market steady.





Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12.00@13.00

Others 6.00@10.00

Hogs.



Receipts 1,759. Market steady.

Mixed hogs . . . . . . . ..... . . 10.15

Pigs ............ 10.25

Roughs 8.00

Stafgs .......... . ....... . 4.50@ 5.00





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 716. Market steady to 25¢

lower.





Best lambs” ............. $13.75@14.00

Fair lambs ............. 11.25@11.75

Light to common ..... . . 7.50@ 8250

Fair to good sheep ..... . 5.00@ 6.50

Culls and common ...... 2.00@ 3.00-

CHICAGO

Hogs.





Estimated receipts today are 69,000;

holdover 1,323. Market active, niostly

10@15c lower.‘ Bulk of sales $9;50@

10; tops $10.10; heavy 250 lbs @5950

@935; medium 200 to .250 lbs$9.65_@

10; light. 150 to 200 lbs $9.90@10.10-;



.. 90‘@10.10"





 

 





 

 





   

 





9.80; packing sows 200 lbs up $8.10@

8.40; pigs 130 lbs down $9@10.

Cattle.



Estimated receipts today‘ are 20,000.

Market steady. Beef steers medium

and heavy weight 1100 lbs up choice

and prime $9.15@9.85; do medium and





good $7.25@9.15; do common $6.25@ .





7.25; light weight 1100 lbs down $8.15

@950; do common and medium $6@

8.15; butcher-cattle heifers at $4.35@

7.75; bows $4.10@6.25; bulls bologna

and beef $3.50@5.50; canners and cut:

ters cows and heifers $2.90@4.10; do

canner steers $3.50@4.35; veal calves

light and handy weight $7.25@11; feed-

er steers $5.15@7.10; stocker steers

$4.75@6.90; stocker cows and heifers

$3.50@5. - .





Sheep and Lambs.

Estimated receipts today are 19,000.

‘Market steady. Lambs: 84 lbs down

$12.75@14.75; do culls and common at

$9.75@12.50; spring lambs $10@13.25;

ewes $5.25@8.25; ewes cull and com-

mon 5$02.50@5; yearling Wethers $11.50





@ 13

BUFFALO





' Cattle.





Receipts 1,250; general market 10@

150 higher; shipping steers at $7.50@

7.60; butchers $7.25@8.25; yearlings at

$9@10;. heifers $5@7.50; “cows at $2@

\5.25; bulls $3.50@5; stockers and feed-

ers $5@6; fresh cows and springers

$33@120. Calves, receipts 3,000; 500

lower at $3@14. ’



Hogs. ‘ » *



Receipts 18,000; good 10@25c-low—

er; heavy $10.25; mixed $10-25@10.40;

yorkers at $10.40 ‘,10.50; light do .and





pigs $10.75; re s 8.25 8.50.; sta s

$4@5. ug 3 @ 5’





Sheep and Lambs. "

Receipts 14,000; lambs Steady: oth-





   





earlin‘gs ,7@13;76;

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ers 50@75c annex-asthma flax-4.75; ‘





 





arrive. Reports of a lighter make have

not been harneout by market receipts

although at Chicago the supply Was

'barely sufficientto satisfy the require-

Nevertheless, receipts at that

market were in "excess of the same

week‘of 1921. ' .‘



Prices for 92-score fresh butter

were: .



Chicago 3634c; New York 37%c. . In

'Detroit fresh creamery in tubs is sell-

ing at 34@35‘c per pound.





BEANS





The market is getting more and.

more i nfavor of the seller. Therefore

some dealers. are inclined to ask high-

er prices. Red kidney beans' are do-

ing better than last week and pea

beans are in fairly good demand. One

of the large chain stores in New York

is selling pea beans to consumers at

five cents per pound, which is much ,

lower than the wholesale rate.





APPLES





The-apple markets advanced again

last week, Baldwins being quoted at

a range of $7.50@8.50 in wholesale

markets, and $760725 f. o. b. New

York shipping points. ‘Boxed apples

advanced more than barreled stock,

with extra fancy Spitzenbergs quoted

at~ $2.75@4 in wholesale markets.





WOOL





Demand for wool in the principal

markets subsided last week on the

part'of both manufacturers and deal-

ers. Mill operations are said to have

decreased slightly and the demand for

goods with some exceptions, has not

been entirely satisfactory. A belief is

spreading that the advance has about

exhausted its momentum. In the range

country contracting of the new clip is

active and prices have scored further.

advances. Purchases. have been largely

for speculation. A great many wools

have been bought at a range of 28@

320 and a bid of 36% cents was refus-

ed for the Jericho, Utah, wool pool for

which 167/8 cents was the initial bid a.

year ago. The Boston market is quoted

as follows:



Michigan and New York fleeces: de-

laine unwashed 44@45c; 'fine unwash-

ed 34@36c; half-blood unwashed 39@

41c; three-eighth blood unwashed 39@‘

41c; quarter-blood unwashed 37@390.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Trading was fairly brisk on farmerS’

market with rhubarb, apples, carrots,

poultry and parsnips in greatest de-

mand. Apples are quoted at $1.50@3

per bu; cabbage, parsnips and carrots

$1.50@2 per bu; rhubarb 50c@$1 per

dozen bunches; potatoes $1.15@1.30;

eggs 45@55c. ~





GRAND RAPIDS





Grain quotations in Grand Rapids

went to the highest level of the year

‘this week and markets on live stock,

particularly on hogs and lambs, were

decidedly stronger. Potatoes eased 5

@10c per cwt. Quotations as follows:



Grain.—-—Wheat, No. 1 red $1.25; No.

1_white $1.22; rye 800; barley 800;

oats 40c; corn 62c bu; buckwheat at





$1.35 per cwt; beans white $4.75 per





cwt; red kidney $4.50@5 cwt.



Live Stock—Hogs $7@8.50 cwt; fat

sows $5@5.50 cwt; dressed! pork $11@

12 cwt. Cattle market is steady and

prices unchanged; top. steers and heif-

ers $5.50@6.50 cwt. Sheep, lambs $11 .

@12 cwt; ewes $3@5. ‘



Vegetables—Potatoes $1@1.10 bu;





, celery practically none offered; cab-





bage $1.50 bu; carrots, turnips and

rutabagas $1@1.50y_ bu.



Poultry—Market dull, ,with the de-

mand largely for the'heavy fowls and

springers at 22@24c lb. Egg market

unsettled; firsts 32@33c.





 





LIVE STOCK SALES:





 





Holsteins, also Sheep and Swine.—

Feb. 25, W. F. Reading, Brooklyn,

Mich. _. -- ., ~ '-



Shorthorhe‘.‘—-May 10, Greenville Fair,

Grounds, Central Michigan .Short-

horn‘Broedms’ Association.





 





 

 





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. , Wanted a Man

The man took the job. He made 8745

in the first month. Another made





over 810.000 the first year. These men enter-

. ed the door of opportunity when it opened.





STROUT '





Now Wants a Man .

Many opportunities like the above are still

open. There are several vacancies in your

state for men of ability. Experience not nec-

essary. but you must own an automobile and

furnish giltedge references- For details apply

at once.





E. A. Strout Farm Agency, Inc.

814 Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





POWER AS YOU WANT IT





Edwards engines are convertible from

1% to 6 H. P. as you want it.

, Economical at any power.



Burn kerosene or case-





I ment. one gig;

ee ,——power

anyjobdptoGH.P.

’ .. Pumps, grinds, BIWS, etC.

ONLY Manyln One

' term. Sold direct. ‘

Pro-war prices, --n

remarkable -

gain.





THE EDWARDS

MOTOR CO.

919 Main St.



Springfield, Ohio





THE GUARANTEE SPREADER





Low Price

Freight Prepaid





 





 





A' Giant of a lime and fertilizer spreader. 8 reads

evenly or sows in rows. Thrown in and out 0 gear

from sent. Bari-owl and Coverin Attachment.

acre-measure. screen ll . seat, neck-yo . double and

single-trees. Write for big free spreader catalog.





Guarantee Mfg. Company. Dept. B,Woodsboro,Md





Farms and Farm Lands





198-Acre Farm Near City





5 Horses, Crops, 29 Cows

Bull. 4 calves. poultry. 2 double unit milkel's, as en-

gines, creamseparator, extensive equipment nclud-

ed: in one states nest dairy districts: convenient

RR and city; 1% acres rich loamytillagms rin -

watered pasture. w Ian : an sr grove. out t;

apple trees. other fruit: attract ve B-room house. pi-

aazs. modern 41-oow barn. cement basement, Zsilos,

stable, gar. 9. milk and poultry houses. Owner re-

tiring. sacri ces. $11,100. about value buildings. only

841(1) cash. eufiterms. Oatalo flee. ,

. H. MAYNAR , Canastota. ‘N. Y.





Th9 Best Way To Buy A Farm





Farms in the south as productive as Western

farms can be bought at low prices and bring

bigger net profits owing to mild climate and good

markets. Unusual o portunities for dairy form-

ing. study these con itions before buying. Good

forms can be rented for a. year with option to buy

ate. fixed price. Full information free. Write

J. C. WILLIAMS. Manager. Southern Railway

Development Service. Washington. D. C.





loo-Acre Michigan Farm With





 





 





 





 





-Horses, Poultry, 16 Cows And





Young stock cream separator, blacksmith outfit, full

modern implements. feed for stock, vegetables for

winter included: convenient R.R. station, stores. etc;



acres rich loam tilla e. spring-watered ture,

fruit: good 2‘story 7-room ouse, 50-ft. barn. w ndmill.

To close out all $6500. less than half cash. easy terms.

Details gage 76 Illus. Catalo 1100 Bargains.

FREE. BOUT FARM A EN Y, 814 80 Ford

Bldg. Detroit. Mich. ‘





50-Acre Dixie-Highway Farm

Near Town; Horses, Cow

Poultry. sow. machinery. vehicles. tools included;

district highly productive farms: motor bus asses:

city markets: level. loamy tillage: pasture an wood-

land; lots fmit. berries; buildings valued over 340(1):

attnctive G-room house. plans: arn. granary.

mm “"6252? ““1 52.3 ‘50.... “35‘?“

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- To Rent. 160 Acres hummus





area. Addressnoxfi. Radiomlich.





1 you: “$.35; was? mess: “r m





s. Bloomingdale? llIIchh.‘





Contains .59»

of Jffiffizfif





"son: 192‘?





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“falling off in the quantity of exports

of agricultural products during the

"past year, the department of commerce

presents figures showing that the to-

tal value of exports of principal agri-

cultural products for 1921 amount .to

over 20,000,000 tons compared with 16,-

500,000 tons in 1920, and 10,500,000

tons in 1913. In fact, we exported the





, largest total value of such products of





any year in our history. The principal

commodity exported is grain. There

was a slight decline in the exports of

dairy products. As ninety per cent of

our agricultural products are consum-





merce officials conclude that the appar-

ent surplus of farm products is due to

under-consumption in this country. as

a result of unemployment and indus-

trial distress in the industrial regions.





GRATIOT CLAIMS RECORD IN

BEANS.





T is claimed that more beans are



raised near Ithaca than in any oth-

er section in Michigan. While the past

fall the price was not entirely satis-

factory to farmers, still they made

more on this crop than on any other,

and the acreage this year will be great-

er than in former years, it is said.

The fact that Ithaca elevators are

handling more beans than any other

place, according to its size, was

brought out when government statis-

tics were completed, showing the num-

ber ct cars shipped from this point.

—M.





BROOKWATER SALE.





XPECTATIONS were surpassed at



the sale of purebred Duroc bred

sows held by Prof. Herbert W. Mum-

ford, of Brookwater Farm, at Ann Ar-

bor, on February '7. A‘ good attendance

gave life to the bidding and despite

the scarcity of money, forty-six ani-

mals of superior breeding sold for an

average of $54. All of these animals

were taken by Michigan breeders and

farmers save two,.these going to Illi-

nois. It is most encouraging to know

that Michigan farmers are in a3 posi-

tion to take this good stock and that

this blood is to remain in the state to

maintain and improve our swine herds.

Following is a list of the sales:





A. E. Waltz, Ypsilanti. . . . . . .$61.00

J. A. Brown, Detroit . . . . . 70.00

A. W. Howe, Mason. . . . . . . .. 50.00

T. J. Rixon, Britten ..... 51.00

Will L. Allen, Ypsilanti ..... . 55.00

Gottlob Hertler, Ann Arbor. . 42.00





J. R. Parsons, Howell. . . . . . . 45.00

W. W. Davis, Ann Arbor. . . . 67.00

H. E. Spaulding, Chelsea. . . . 52.50

Edward Uphaus, Manchester 49.00

D. A. Ricker, Chelsea. . . . . . . 49.00

G. A. Mills, Tecmuseh. . . . 60.00

H. Miller, Plymouth. . . . . . . . . 60.00

George Crittenden, Ypsilanti 48.00

Julius Hertler, Saline... . . . . . 55.00

H. H. Phelps, Plainfield, Ill. 65.00

Paul Clement, Britton. . . . . . . 71.00

J. R. Parsons, Howell. . . . . . . 60.00

Homer Blashfield, Tekonsha. 60.00

Fred Cronenweet, Carleton. . 64.00

W. C. Spohr, Britten ........ 50.00

Edward Uphaus, Manchester 56.00

G. A. Mills, Tecumseh. . . . . . . 66.00

Frank King, Ypsilanti. . . . . . . 54.00

H. Miller, Plymouth . . . . . . . . 51.00

George Zeeb, Ann Arbor. . 66.00

Julius Hertler, Saline. . . . . . . . 47.50

H. H. Phelps, Plainfield, Ill. . 65.00

E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor. . 39.00

Paul Clement, Brittenz. . . . 60.00

Charles Kern, Saline . . . . . . . . 39.00

T. J. ,Rixon, Britten. . . . . . . . .. 60.00

Frank King, Ypsilanti. . . . . . .. 56.00

H. E. Spaulding, Chelsea. . . . . 47.50

George Crittenden, Ypsilanti.. 50.00

Albert Stabler, Ann Arbor. 54.00

W. L. Rankin, Ann Arbor. . . . 52.00

Julius Hertler, Saline . . . . . . . 45.00

D. A. Riker, Chelsea. . . . . . . .. 48.00

Julius Hertler, Saline. . . . . . . . 40.00

Lewis Larmee, Ann Arbor. . '. 45.00

L. B. Hall, Blissfield. . . . . . . . . 49.00

J. J. Mayer, Ann Arbor. . . . . . 54.00

«T. R. DeForest, Ann Arbor. . . 44.00





 





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, 55 Robert Bliss, Ann Arbor. . . . . 41.00





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' ' -sion' that there has been a great





ed at home, the department of com-.





W. L. Rankin, Ann Arbor. . . . 50.00'





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price. Let us send your size on approval—at our own risk. if not satis— ‘

tied with your bargain. return the srctics and you will not lose a penny.





Send No Moneyfijust a letter or postcard with your name.





ed. Never before such a bargain. Best quality rubber throughout;

an unusually high with 4-bucklc closing. Double thick soles and heels;

all seems reinforced: snow~excluding tongue. Men‘s sizes. 7 to 12.

Wide widths. Order by No. MF. A990. Price $1.69.





Order Qui





smashed price. Remember. not one cent now. When :rctics arrive. pay

only our smashed bargain price. $1.69. and postage. Then examine

your purchase-rtry the antics on. if not delighted with

their quality and convinced that they are an amazing bar-

”gsin. return them and we will refund your money



promptly. Act—NOW! _





SHAROOD ”COMPANY





Dept. MF,





For This Wonderful 47Buclile

All Rubber Arctic





ever saw. Guaranteed all rubber arctics that

33.00. offered here while they last at practically half





address. number of arctics and size want-





Dcn't risk disappointment. Only 2.000 pairs of

these wonderful iii-cut srctics will be sold at this





Minneapolis, Minn.





 





 





 





‘ AUCTION SALE





Saturday, February 25th, 1 922





Brooklyn, Jackson





County, Michigan





over 200 head of Live Stock. 29 head of Registered Holsteins, mostly young





cows and heifers, some with A. R. 0. records. All of excellent breeding and

good confirmation. Majority of cows nearly fresh. Two well bred young herd





Sires.





A chance to Buy select foundation stock at your own price. Federally tested.





20 Grade Cows. 90 Breeding Ewes. 50 Feeding Shoats. Brood Sows. Horses.

Mules. Tools and implements necessary to conduct 400 acre farm.





Horses, tools and implements to be sold in the morning. Registered cattle





starting promptly at 12:30.





Terms of sale: All sums over $10.00, bankable notes, bearing 7% interest.

Free Lunch at Noon.





Auctioneer Elmer Burton

Pedigree Expert, H. D. Boardman





W. F. Reading.





 





PLUMP, HEAVY,

BLEAII, 1920





EED





BEE SUPPLIES





Beehives. Section Boxes, Comb Foundation»

Smokers. etc. Also complete outfits for beginners-

General agents for the A. 1. Root Co. in Michigan.

Beeswax wanted. Send for 1922 catalog.





BERRY SUPPLIES





A grade wood baskets. Waxlined paper baskets.

and 16 qt. crates. Send for price list.





MAPLE SYRUP CANS





Wlt'h 1%” screw cap-

Gallons, $8§ior carton of 50; Half gallons. $11.25

for carton of 84: Quarts. $6.75 for carton of 90.

Send in your orders.





M. H. Hunt 8: Son, Box 525, LansingMich.



H Y SHIPPERS. for highest prices

A bill all cars to



The E. L. RICHMOND 00., Detroit.





Producers of Fancy White and Brown Eggs

getintouch with us. we pay market prices. Write for I

prices and ship ing information. S. BETMAN it SON. I

317 Greenwich Street. N. Y. C. Established 1898.





 





 





 





Grimm Alfalfa Seed, Genuine,





from old Montana fields. Hardy. scariiied,tested seed.

$44.75 per 100 lbs delivered your station. Direct from

growers. Valker Christensen, Box 0, Minot, No. Dak—





Send ostal card today for

Strawberry Plants cat. line. and describing

10 best var. Hampton & Sons. R. 3, Bangor, Mich_





w A N T E D $1239.: from owner of land

0 .





. K. HAWLEY. Baldwin. Wis.





 





 





FARM HELP

WANTED A COMPETENT





and Experienced Farmer who can apply hard work

and scientific principles to myim acre improved farm

on a 50-50 basis. An exceptional chance for the right

man. B. J. 600 MAN. Ishpeming, Mich,





_ POULTRY

BABY GHIX that “'ii‘..¢:."'pt?i‘:t





Rocks. 3. I. Reds Black Minoroas. Whit or

Leghorns 25 for £5.50. 5010: none or 10?) for 3175?)

parcel- ost prepaid. live delive guaranteed.

83:12” crayons root‘s.“ sissy use

our pr ces~ n o s. .

POULTRY FARM. Route 3, Fenton. Mich. .





8. 0. Black Minurcs °°“"°’°‘°N°"hm Strainohoioe





 





OATS





 





 





single settings or quantity. OJJJeedrick. assar





stock . ‘ ,‘

83 and 86 tching'fifas.





Sample Free

Stronggerminating. hi h-yield-

ingI. pedig eed varities. M'is. No.

5. ( mp. .8.) Wis. No. l. Wis. No.

7 (Imp. Kherson). Iowa 10').

Northern White. Write today

for large sample and our “page

catalog describing our northern-

grown. pedigreed Field and

Garden Seeds. All seeds sold

on money-back guarantee. ‘



MARINETTE SEED 00.,

Box 802, Marianne, Wis





erred Rock. Hatching- eggs from P



strain from stock direct from Parks braid-5683381012355

pens. $2 per 15. 86 per 00. $12 per 100. Prepaid bv par-

cel post in non-breakablecontainers. No chicks for

sale. R. G KIRBY. Route 1. East Lansing. Mich.





Old Chicks 8 C White Le I10

,. . 5 m . '1‘

Pay lfmm the big, thrifty.persistegnt prgducililizysafg

or; 3! $11 Macaiwhlte Poultry Yards are becoming

no e .. 9 know we can 'give you satisfaction. Send for

our Circular. Macalwhite Poultry Yards, Caro. Mich-





S. C. W. Leghorns





' ' From 284 ~

9.3.3333 gb;§kgce;..x.t.e&Business

POULTRY FARM. R. . Sardnac, M313... VALLEY





SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS





baby chicks. All eggs used b us f

ed on our own farm. Write or cigbfiif'cmng produc-





RALPH S. TOTTEN. Pittsford, Mich.





EGGS $1 SETTING Parcel Post Paid.’1‘hotough

Rocks.Bufl' Rocks.White Wfd‘gdglttagrxfiggnoacslffirflhfitie-





norcss. White Leghorns Brown L hor

Reds.Bufl‘ Orpingtons. Philip Con onfwsigdgdgfclifig





ARDEE'S ~ EGGS AND D

ERFEC’I‘ DuCkhn Price List I" RAKES

s. K I N gs Pardoe's.lsii§?b.f?§.¥'

' W. Le b

English a. g chairman?”

ORCHARD KNO L. 11.2. Spaniards‘aich.





“guns irgsuongNgvisv cmcxs





S for Cstalo . FLARE

FA M. Route 1. Grand Rapids, $11253;ng





Wyandottes. Strong. sturdy. cock I

°Chicngo Coliseum winnens of best dfiplabrggdhfi:

gen tested layers at 85: $7.50 and $0. Eg s : 85 and I

10 per 15. Cat.i'ree. H.J.Riley. BoxM.Hifisdsle.Mlch.





hiteWynndbtte Cockerelss5 B edf .

Wed heavy laying3 strain. 80% hverdglen figsbggld

ast winter. W. A. landing. R.l. Greenville. Mich.





' W.Chinese fi‘f‘gzefgggs 400 each. Pekin duck





_ .. .c. B .

for 1... MRS. CLAUDIA BETTS.’ 'iiiiig :fiafDMslbfi?





MdIIIIIIOIII Pekin DIIGk %§‘§‘25 per 8; Francine-Path





strain' Barred Rock

e888. $1.50 or 15. 8450 r . 89 100. P .

wins. J. radii BAKE”?3r Bradlg?$lldioh.





TURKEYS. are. “2.3 “in"toii '

their further atronage. Do ggellltmrrkle so

' N. EVALYN RAMS‘BELL. u Iohfafi'lsiflch.





‘thite Holland Turkeys. White Afrl G

louse Geese. Stamped addressed 3339133 9:330.

prompt reply. Alden Whitcomb. Byron Oenter.Mic





ammoth Bronze T k .

Mlbs. $4.50. Toms 6 wires? he” 8 t° 9 lb" '7'” 5





lb . 2 . .

perlo. Ralph Wise Nurseries, £1153. Pfdln‘yghlffifcg





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l \\- ‘ t _ It deals with proper proportions of‘

N" 9‘ \ - ‘_ ‘ ‘ _ ‘ cement, sand and stone-for all kinds

‘ ‘ ‘~ ‘ of work, describes 'prOper mixing and I

placing, reinforcing, ' ' form-huild- I

ing, waterproofing, seasoning. Also i

includes numerous «tables and de-

signs for cement improvements amund ’1 51

home and Term—driveways, hams, ‘





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





' ' silos, tanks, troughs, cellars, posts,

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JUST a few pages of this helpful volume are devoted to adescription }

of how we make Alpha Cement under a system of hourly tests if

that insures uniformly high quality for every bag. ' f





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copies and so, instead of mailing it broadcast, Very likely he can give you a valuable Alpha ‘ ..

we have arranged'to send each Alpha Ce- Service Sheet that offers further special ~sug- ‘

‘m’ent dealer a supply. Call on the Alpha dea- gestions on that particular construction. {

ler in your community and get a cepy,with his Make a note now to see the Alpha dealer. ‘ i

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