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Entered as Second Cl an Matter at
Detroit, Michigan. Under the Act

VOLUME CLVIII

DETROIT, MARCH 11, 1922

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CURRENT COMMENT-
THE MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:

A sick community develops bad
neighbors.

The most precious jewel of all is
brim" ming health.

It edsts loss to prevent disease than
it does to cure it.

Our interest in the public welfare
will grow only as fast as the spirit ot
humanity develops within us.

If we could now standardize retail
prices with a modelate spread above

' production prices our side of this mun-

dane sphere would slide along sul pris-
ingl-y well.

HE latest develop-
ment in the mar-

The’Market ket milk situation in
Mflk the Detroit area will
Problem tend to make the prob

lem more complex
from the producers’ standpoint. The
establishment of a new forty-five mile
area about Detroit, from which the
distributors will take all the milk for
market purposes is an economic prop-
osition from the transportation angle,

~ but is certain to prove unsatisfactory

to a very considerable number of
d‘airymen located outside this area
Who have heretofore enjoyed the ad'-
vantages of the Detroit market for
milk. L1: is possible that with
the return of mlk consumption to nor-
mal many or all of these dairymlen
will again be able to take advantage
of that market. But in the meantime
they will have to sell their milk at a.
manufacturing price, which makes
their problem an immediate one.
This situation seems to! emphasize
the wisdom of the producers’ organi-
sation and the dairynren in this area
in determining to establish a number
oil high—class manufacturing plants
around the outside of the Detroit milk
idea of caring for
the surplus profitably‘and thus place
mom in a better position to deal with
the distributors in the selling of the
market milk supply for this city. This
development should materially hasten
progress in the establishment of the
first of these plants at Adrian, the or-

'gamation for which is now nearing
9’“ completion and the further rapid de-

whoment of the plan until the prod-

milk can be cared for in this

finer It seems “roasonably certain

 

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. doubt.

Int of the dairymen who have tem-'
{My lost the Detrort market for

poses not only in mum
considerable distance beyond" its hor-
dcrsaswell Mtflsmultwould,
in turn, certainly plaice the organiza-
,tioninapofiitmmmkeabelterbax

gainiltneseflhgoftnemmar?

ket milk' supply

Presehtw onditions of liberal milk
" low consumption demand
have given {the ' Detroit dealers the:
whip hand in. the matter of price mak-
ing, and. they have shown their dispo-
sition to use it to the limit by tak-
ing advantage of these conditions to
absorb better than 60 per cent of the
consumer's dollar, after the produc-

ers, have paid the height on their-
‘ product to this market.-

This is in
part a Consumer’s problem and there
are evidences that consumers are be-
ginning to give it serious considera-
tion. The producers’ problem is pri-
marily to secure a price for his prod.-
uct which will cover the cost of pro-
duction plus a reasonable profit. The
preparation above noted will certainly
place him in a better position to. ac-
c'nplish that end, and at the same
time be in a far better position to
force a more equitable division of the
consumers’ dollar, and thus increase
milk consumption.

, 1TH the near ap-
proach of spring

gm“, Seed_ ‘ and the beginning of
and the coming season’s
the Crop campaigh, the plans

for that campaign
must be definitely settled in the very
near future. With the final settle-
ment of the plans for the campaign,

the next important step is .the secur-'

ing and preparation of the seed for the
spring planting. This-is a matter which
cannot be profitably left until planting
time. The answer to the question of
whether the crop will or will not be
profitable to the grower is.very often
dependent on the character of the seed
used. Consequently it is the part of
wisdom to make certain of a supply
of good seed as far as possible in ad-
vance of planting time. .

There is no other single factor in
the growing of a profitable crop which
is so cheaply insured as the planting
of selected strains of seed of produc-
tive varieties. Demonstrations with-
out number have established this fact
beyond any question of . reasonable
Crop losses due to poor seed
can be reduced to the minimum by se-
curing good seed in advance of the
planting season and making germina
tion tests to- prove its quality in this
regard. Time and; mofiey expended in
this manner will pay a bigger dividend
than any other ‘ single investment
which: can be made by the average
farmer at the pres‘em: time.

VERY farmer has

I a" h a d experience
M . . with an old mowing
om? "1 machine? which from
Fm long use or poor lubri-

cation had because so
loose in all of its bearings that it
would not function properly. “Too
much lost motion" was the verdict and
a new machine the necessary result.
The busincss of the farm as it is
usually conducted is to some extent
comparable to the old mowing ma-
chine. There is too much lost motion.
This lost motion- is attributable to a
variety of causes, some of them una-
voidable, but many of them susceptible
to correction. Lost motion is one of
the greatestproblems of farm manage-
ment and a problem which it will pay
every farmer to study well in all of its
varying phases.
0f the different forms of lost mo-
tion on the average farm which should
be first and most closely studied that .
related to farm equipment is among

season on most terms We
farm machinery and equipment fails to
function properly in seam Two are
Gimme" delays. form and added
expense in the sandwich-lend at. a
Wmaccountcfthelackdavafl»
one W for the accomm-
ment of the work in the most economic
manner. Much of this loss can be
avoided: if proper attention is given to
the problem in advance oil the actual

Economy of crop production is in
large measure dependent on econon1y
of man labor. There are many ways
in which this economy can be effected
upon; every farm with a lfittlle cantor
study on the part at the farm. manage;
And this is a problem worthy of the
most careful study at the present time.
A reduction in production costs spells
increased profit and prosperity just as
surely as does increased prices for
farm; products. Eliminating the lost
motion so far as possible is the best
kind of farm‘ management.

'L‘ the dawn. of’a

A L“: . new day for the

development of soap-
10 C90?” erative enterprises
eratm due to the recognition

by the federal govern-
ment of the right of farmers to work
together in the distribution of thlair
products in the passage of the flapper-
Vol-stead bill, this same movement has
sustained a great loss through the sod;-
den and untimely death of G. Harold
Powell, for the past ten years manager
of the California Fruit Grorwers’ Ex-
change and nationally and internation-
ally known as an organizer and ex-e.
ecutive of great capcity.
‘ Mr. Powell was an authority on the
marketing of farm products. Marry
books and bulletins have come from
his pen and his advice has been eag-
erly sought by scores of producer
groups who were about to: launch cor
operative enterprises or who had (11111»
cultics for which remedies were
needed. '

The straight-forward and sound: bus-
iness principles which he injected into
the business of cooperation has been
largely responsible for the present fav-
orable attitude of the general public
toward the cooperative plan of market-
ing farm ‘odiulcts‘. Yet it must he-‘re-
membered’ that his success; is. due not
altogether to. a knowledge of the. busi—
ness requirements in the citrus indus—
try. but perhaps uni-teas much to his
intimate knowledge of men. 011. this
point he once said, “The basis of the
cooperative organization is men. Cap»
ital cannot cooperate;‘ products cannot
cooperate—only men can cooperate.”

YEW report

of! a successful

tester who: is now in

N“ the charge. of. one of the

Good progressive cow-test—

ing associations of the

state, shows that occasionally mem-

bers just go- forward and do as they

please regardless of the advise given
them by the tester.

The tester in question knew his bus—
iness and that the advice which he had
given .‘out was right, and when he
found that it was not heeded by a few
members he quickly disposed of their
cases. He simply told the members
who did not follow his instructions
that he would not call again. And he
didn’t. It happens that this tester is
getting results from the herds of those
who have accepted his advice and now
the men who allowed him to get away
are sorry that they did, for he has
taken on other herds to the limit of
his time to serve.

And here is where a large number

Despise

.oil farmers. are falling in this twentieth?

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Where

every stock raiser.
>,' . mmcmmunityhas'
Enmm become a member of
Works .. the local live “our

shipping association. is
told in. a: report from Waterloo, lldli
ana. Shortly after the new organiza-
tion was launched the members di-
vided themselves into two groups. for
the purpose at canvassing the neigh-
bo'rhood for new members of the asso-
ciation. The agreement was that the
losing team must buy and serve the
entire membership with a dinner. As
a result of the contest theytrdngest
kind of competition developed. Parm-
ers who were .not members of the or-
ganization were even roused out of bed
at night and solicited for membership.
When the date for closing the contest
came there'were but three farmers to
be found in the entire community who
had not signed up. Some types of
social and community work can best
be done quietly and with little or no
ostentation, while occasionally there
comes a- job in which we must put all
our enthusiasm. -

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Winter’s Wamn
INTER is night time for Ma Na-
ture. After she’s provided: food
and clothin’ for her children she cow
ers herself with white blankets and
takes a rest. SOme folks what wants
tova-ct educated—like will she recuper-
.ates which is the‘samle thing.

Now, 1 know old Ma Nature is goin’
to wake-mp soon, ’cause Sophia made
me leave the fireside the other day
to prune our three grape vines:

These vines is patriotic. The red
is .named Belo-
, were after the

creek G. Wash-
fington crossed,
the blue one E
Cmord from. the
.‘historic town and
the white oasis
Niagara after the
greatest fall of
legal liquor in this
U. Slit not in the world.

Sophia is awful petickular about:

grapes nowadays. She don’t make no
more grape juice, ’cause she thinks
neighbors might suspect nature’d
make it illegal, which would main
more folks to visit us. My sentiments
is with Sophie. not with nature, ’cause
E find it profits 3. man. more, like you
say. to get a high money: percent than
a Mold one.
“Winter's back is broke and so is
mine - Sophie made one clean out the
barn yard and spread” the mama-rial
goodness over the landscape, and I‘m
a hopoin’ my endeavors will benefit
the land m01e’n they did me. I’ve
been oilin’ the harness and Sophie’s
been oilin’ my back ever since. ‘ She
said she wouldn’t oil me until I oiled
the harness ’cause the most lecentlly
aforesaid needed it the most.

Sophie says, too, I gota fix up the
wagons and things. She says there’s
lots of things I can do aforehand like.
So, it seems like the pleasures of. the
fireside and the el‘evatin’ readin’ of cat-
alog literature is gone, and the antics
and beauties of spring Ins come.

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mufflers cut out. The Sulphur and mo-
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of the emergency agricultural
. credit bill, officially known as

Section 24 of the War Finance Corpor-'

ation Act, which congress passed last
summer, can hardly be over-emphasiz-'
ed. To the hard pressed farmers of
IoWa it was littleshort of a Godsend.

, . Everyone who is at all familiar with
farming conditions in the middle west

knows that for the last year money

has been extremely hard for the farm-

er to get. It was 'not so much the
question of whether a farmer had se-
curity or not for a loan, nor even what
rate he was willing to pay, as it was
of getting the loan on any terms what-
soever. A good many farmers willing
to pay high rates of interest and With
first-class security were refused loans
by the banks. It was not because the

- bankers wished to turn the farmers _
“handed that they refused

away em
him his loan“ The local banks were
already loaned up to their limit and
the Federal Reserve Bank was virtu-

. ally refusing to rediscount any more

paper for them.

The seriousness of a situation like
this cannot’ be overemphasized. This
condition of the money market spells
disaster for any kind of business. It
leads to disorderly marketing with the
resultant destruction of values for the
goods marketed. While at the same
time it kills production for the future
for it -,must be remembered that no
business can be carried on efficiently

at the present time without adequate
credit accommodation.

First-hand evidence of the truth of
this statement was to be seen on ev-
ery hand in Iowa during the early part
of last fall. The farmer pushed by his
bank for the payment of his outstand-
ing loans was forced to hurry his grain
to, the market irrespective of the price
he was to receive for it. There is no
doubt but that this was one of the con-
tributing factors that caused the price
of grain to go so low last fall. There
was an unusually large part of the
grain crop marketed early, probably
because the farmer had to have the
money to meet his indebtedness.

Another example was the rushing to
the market of unfinished hogs and cat-
tle. In many cases the farmer was
compelled to do this because he». had
to get some money to satisfy his cred-
itors, while if he could 'have had an

extension of time on his note for only

a few months, or even weeks, it would
have meant many dollars to him.
But it looks as though a more >ser-

. ious- situation than this was going to

confront the cattle feeders this year.
Cattle feeding, of course, is always
carried on with credit. The feeder sel-
dom has the money with which to pur-
chase the unflnished cattle at the stock
yards. The 'custom always has been

1 for the feeder to borrow from his bank

the funds with which to buy his cat-
tle. When thecattle are properly fin-

, ished the feeder then sells them and
, liquidates his debt at the bank.

Now, many of the banks were in

such condition last fall that they were

in no position to accommodate the
farmers in their usual manner. What
was the feeder to do? Without credit
he couldn't get the cattle, and his
banker could not extend him credit.
To bring relief to a situation of this
kind has been the function of the War
Finance Corporation. The first funds
or. the corporation reached Iowa early
in October.

there is about $19, 900, 000 in the state.

‘ ‘ there. is but little doubt that.

  

Since then the money has ,
been coming in a steady flow until now .

- hands;

By Claude

L. Bonner

Pro/Emir of Etonomm, Iowa College of Agrzt'ulture

June. There is no limitation. on the
amount a state can get provided in the
act, but the Corporation cannot loan
more than one billion dollars in all.
The initiative in bringing the money
here is taken by the local banks. The
act provides that any bank which has
agricultural papers cantake this pa-
per, when it is properly endorsed, and
rediscount it with the Corporation.
This made it‘ possible for a bank that
was' already loaned up to its legal limit
to still extend more credit to the farm-
ers. All it had to do was to endorse
the farmer’s notes and get the funds

conduits for the funds, have been res-
ervoirs,” said one farmer.

In reply to the first criticism, it is
rather obvious that the Corporation
couldn’t loan directly to the farmers
because of the difficulty they would
have on passing on the loans. The
Corporation in order to give immedi-
ate relief had. to utilize what machin-
ery there was already in existence for
distributing its funds. The local banks
provided that machinery. The local

banker knows the needs of his com-
munity, and who is worthy of receiv—-

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FOr Bigger Poultry Profits

Prof: E. C. Foreman of M. A. C. Ha: Unique,
Plan 1‘0 I ncreare State Egg Production .

HE honor of heading the Barred

Rock strain which will be develop-
ed at the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege in connection with an idea to ma-
terially increase the egg production of
the state goes to a rooster belonging
to Dwight O. Kline, of Grand Blanc,
Michigan. This bird will head the
Barred Rock division on an experi-
mental bloc recently instituted by E.
C. Foreman, newly-appointed head of
the poultry department.

Foreman’s plan, if successful, will
increase the average egg production
per bird from the present rate of sev-
enty eggs annually to from 200 to 250
eggs 3. year. He has selected birds
from the highestoblooded strains of
poultry in the state to be used as

 

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Other Breeds to be Made Better Layers

breeding stock. These are being loan-'

ed to the college by the farmer-own-
ers. Exact records of the accomplish-
ments of these fowls will be kept for
a year. Severe culling will be done,
and at the end of that time, the best
producers will be selected. Eggs from
this enormous flock will then be dis-
tributed, at cost price, to any farmer
in the state, enabling him to carry a
smaller flock, with less expense and
with a greater output and greater
financial revenue. It is the prediction
oi: Foreman that the plan will mate-
rially increase the farm revenues of
the state. Michigan is the first state
to adopt the plan which, it is believed,
will make it the foremost egg-produc-
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from the War Finance Corporation,
much‘in the same way that a bank re-
discounts with the Federal Reserve
Bank. The bank has to pay five or
five and a half per cent for the money
and it is allowed to.charge an addi-
tional two per cent for its services.
Money thus is getting into the hands
of the farmers at seven and seven and
one-half per cent, not an exorbitant
rate of interest when compared to
what is being charged in some locali-
ties and when one considers the good
this money is doing, he can imagine
that the farmer is perfectly willing to
pay the interest.

Considerable criticism . has been
manifested. from time to time because
the Comoration does not-loan directly
to the farmers. _ It has been said that
the act has not been of great advan-
tage to the farmers, inasmuch as the
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other person in it. His indorsement
is needed to see that the funds are
properly placed where they will do
the most good.

Regarding the criticism' that the
banks are absorbing the funds of the
Corporation and 'not loaning them out
to the farmers, Mr. McNider, a mem-
ber of the state committee appointed
to handlethe work in Iowa, made it
very plain in the meeting of the State
Bankers? Association held at Des
Moines recently, that such would not
be the~case in the future. “The Act
was passed to help the farmers out of
a bad credit situation and not for the
banks,” said the speaker, “and that
is what ”the funds must go for.” Re-
cent evidence goesto, show that the
funds are getting into, the ‘farmer’s
hands just as rapidly as he is making
application for them, and as fast as

the state and national officers can pass“
on them. In one case the funds were

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How It Ha; Been W orézng for Me Farmers of Iowa

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actually in the farmer’s hands in less ,
than a week after he made his first
application. . '5

One of the very commendable fea- "
tures of this bill is the simplicity with ‘
which it is working out in practice,
The farmer doesn’t have to bother _
himself about any red tape or details. . ,
All he needs to do is to make applies:
tion at his local bank for the loan,
convince the local banker that he has
a legitimate need for the funds and
that they are to be used for agricul-
tural purposes, give the banker his
personal note, no chattel mortgage is
necessary, and the local banker en'-
dorses the note, and gets the funds
from the Corporation.

The time that the notes can run is
from six to twelve months but there
is the guaranteed privilege that they
can be renewed from time to time for
a period upto three years. Thus the
farmer will be afforded ample time in
which to pay off his obligations“

As I have already said, the impres-
sion has been given out because all
the money secured by the banks has
not been reloaned to the farmers that
the banks are profiting by this move-
ment more than the farmer. This,
however, is an erroneous idea and
based upon very fallacious reasoning.
Many banks are still ve1y much over-
extended. They have loaned out all
their capital, surplus and deposits and,
in some cases have borrowed to re-
loan. Were it not for the War Finance ‘
Corporation these banks would be
compelling the farmer to dispose all
his corn and live stock, regardless of
prices, to pay up his debts. The way
the War Finance Corporation has op-
erated to prevent this, is excellently
illustrated in the following extract tak-
en from a letter sent by the People’s
State Bank of Humboldt, Iowa, to their
customers:

“This bank was one of the first in
the state to apply for and receive.
funds. We have been granted and
have received an advance of $100,000.
This money we may use for three
years or can return it any day when
not needed. This money coming now
relieves the pressure and the people ’
of this county, our customers, get the
benefit.

This bank stands first for safety.
Safety does not lie in forced selling
of farm products on the present mar-
ket. Rather, in the opposite direction.
- “By use of this money, this bank is
in position to waive payment for the
present, of notes owed to us by ‘our

good customers and we gladly do so.

“As a customer of this bank, if your

notes are due or coming due soon, and , t

to pay the same means that you must ‘.
sell corn or cats at the present prices .
or that you must sell unmatured live '
stock, don’t do it. Come into the bank
and we will renew your notes, asking
only the same security and rate we
have heretofore; and we may advance
some additional money if yoursituar'
tion justifies. This refers strictly to
farming and live stock operations, and ,
not to land buying or purchase of out- -
side securities, or promotions. ' '
“This money was intended for the
use of the farmer in the present emen- .
gency and this bank is doing all in its
power to see to it that our farmer cus-
tomers do in fact get the benefit.”
This quotation clearly shows that

the. banker is doing all in his power to ‘ '

carry out '.the intent of the War
Finance Corporation Act, and it 1853
good business for him to do so, for":
there is no prosperity for the banker:
if his customers are not prospero
Their interests in this respect. the
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THE meeting at Colomaiwas a lively
one “at which many subjects of im-
portance wereconsidered. Chief among
them was the sentiment in favor of an
improved horticultural department at
M. A. C.

' The consensus of opinion was that
the fruit crop would be lar’ge this year
and that prices may be lower“

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ing will appear in our next issue, the
report having arrived too late for use
here.

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KENYON’S SUCCESSOR.

IN the resignation of Senator Ken-

m, of Iowa, the farmers of the na-
tion have lost a true and able friend
in Congress. His successor, Senator
Charles A. Rawscn, is not identified
with the farmers, but announces that
as he comes from a distinctively agri-
cultural state, he will use his efforts
to promote the best interests of agri-
ture. Senator Capper has been elected
chairman of the agricultural block to
succeed Senator Kenyon.

SEEK REDUCTION OF FREIGHT
RATES FOR STOCK.

OW that live stock prices have re-

turned to levels lower than those
received in 1916 while the freight rates
for handling are 100 per cent higher
than during that year, the men who
are producing and finishing stock for
the markets are so much concerned
about the situation that unless they
can secure a downward adjustment of
transportation rates they will be
obliged to interest themselves in some
other line. ,

Last week E. A. Beamer, of Bliss-
fleld, who represented the Michigan
Live Stock Exchange and the Michi-
gan State Farm Bureau at a hearing
before the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission in Washington presented fig-
ures from his extensive feeding rec-
ords showing that it is impossible for
the feeder to pay the present rates
and continue to do business. Substan-
tial reductions in freight rates togeth-
er with the other economies which
the farmers are now able to secure,
should make it possible for the feeder
to continue his work with hope of a
small‘ margin of profit for his efforts.
Besides Mr. Beamer, Michigan live
stock interests were represented by
Frank Tieche of the Nashville Co-op-
erative Shipping Association and J. D.
Richaidson of the DetIOit Live Stock
Exchange.

TH E FRENCH-CAPPER BILL.

HE friends of the French—Capper
truthi-n-fabric bill are doing their
best to get action on the bill. Senator
Watson, of Indiana, chairman of a sub-
committee considering the bill, has
promised Senator Capper that a' hear-
ing will be called during which a test
to determine whether the labeling plan
is practicable, will be given. The
house committee considering the bill
has also promised to‘have a similar
test made.
Meanwhile

several states are en-

’ deavoring to secure legislation requir-

ing .the labeling of fabrics purporting

tents. Kansas and New Jersey are
among these states-and these bills are
being promoted by the farm bureaus.
At a hearing before the house com-
mittee on agriculture the enactment of
the Anthony bill designed to protect

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: would? be restricted ' to certain areas

'of agriculture, attorney-general,

to contain wool. with their two can .

migratory birds by the, establishment .
’of refugee and breeding grounds and

was advocate by representatIVes of the
American Game Protective Associa-
tion. The bill pr0vides for the' crea-
tion of a. federal migratory bird refuge
commission, composed of the secretary
post-
master-general, two senators and two
members of the house, which would
determine what areas should be set
aside as refuge grounds from which
huntersnwould be barred. Middle west
congressmen are receiving letters from
their constituents, especially from
Missouri, protesting against migratory
bird legislation.

PROTESTS AGAINST SALES TAx.

HE Michigan State Farm Bureau

has made vigorous protest to Con-
gressman Fordney against the levying
of a sales or manufacturers’ tax as a
means of raising money for the pro-
posed soldiers’ bonus and thesbureau
has asked all county farm bureau or-
ganizations to express themselves to
congress on the matter. The farm bu-
reau is taking no stand as to whether
or not the bonus should be paid, but is
opposing raising of the money by a
sales or manufacturers’ tax because

. such a tax would be passed on to the

consumer in nearly every instance and
would be heaviest on the farming pop-
ulation.

To PROTEST AGAINST FOUL
snoop. '

O allay criticism of the recently
impased quarantine against im~
ported bees with the comb into the
upper peninsula, Mr. B. F. Kindig,
State Apiary Inspector, explains that

Wed nesday, March 1

HE Detroit United Railways ac-

,cepts Detroit’s bid of $19,850,000
for the purchase of its city tracks and
equipment—A Kansas City father was
paroled .to his ' fourteen-year-old boy
Scent son after having struck his wife
when being drunk—President Harding
has been elected honorary-president of
the Boys’ Club Federation, 3. newsboys’
organization.

Thursday, March 2.
TOY balloon released at Wauke-

gan, Illinois, traveled to Altoonap

Pa., 9. distance of 750 miles, in eleven
days. ——P1esident Harding urges action
on the Great Lakes— St. Lawrence wa-
teiway project.~—Princess Mary, of
England, was married amid great
splendor to Viscount Lascelles.—Some
German newspapers are opposed to
Ford establishing a German factory,
because “he wbuld ruin the German
motor industry.”

Friday, March 3.

HE minimum price of $5.00 a ton
is set for 1922 sugar beet contracts
by the Owosso Sugar Company—The

committee in charge of the soldiers’

bonus bill in Congress plan now to
give soldiers paid-‘up life insurance in-
stead of cash bonuses.———In 1897, 3. Cal-
ifornia‘man borrowed $100 with inter-
est at 10% per month. Neither in-

:terest or principal were paidfind the

court brought judgment against him

.for 304 trillion dollars.

Saturday, March 4. .._
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this action was instituted to protect

northern farmers against the introduc-
tion of “foul brood” which is costing
bee-keepers in the southern peninsula
‘at least:$100,000 per year. He ex«
plains that bees may either be im-
ported on comb through the use of
permits issued. by the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture, or they may be
introduced in packages without comb.
and hepoints out that the latter meth-
od is entirely practicable and ismost
likely to be followed, in which case
the danger of infection will disappear.

OPPOSE AGRICULTURAL DEP‘ART.

MENT CHANGES.

RESIDENT HARDING has had in

his hand for several weeks the re-
port made by the~ special committee
to investigate the functions of the
administrative departments of the'
government and recommend changes,
’says the State Farm Bihau. It has
been understood that the Department
of Agriculture would be greatly af-
fected by transfers that were desired
by certain individuals or groups.
Among the proposals -were the trans-
fer of the Bureau of Markets and
Weather Bureau to the Dbpartment of
Commerce and the Forest Service and
Public Roads to the Department of In-
terior. .It is also understood that the '
repbrt' has been considered by the
Cabinet and that so much disagree-
ment arose concerning the proposed
shifts that it will not be considered
again until next winter. All farm or-
ganizations, including the Michigan
State Farm Bureau, vigorously' pro-
tested transfer of any departments
from the Department of Agriculture".

en control over the wages earned by
them within the home. —A political
crisis in Gleat Britain puts P1emie1
Lloyd George’s position in balance.—
Federal Prohibition commissioners are
planning to move all boded whiskey
to warehouses—Dr, Hubert Worth
was appointed postmaster-general to
succeed Will Hayes, who accepted a
$100,000 a year position. with the
“movies.”
Sunday, March 5.

THE lenders in congress oppose a

reciprocity agreement with Can-
ada.——In thirty-two days thirty-two
stock brokerage houses have failed,
resulting from heavy losses to their
clients—In Lawrence, Kansas, the
court upheld the high-school ruling for
expelling girls for wearing} short
skirts. ’

Monday, March. 6

MB. A. L. SHELTON, the first U. S.

Missionary to enter Thibet, Chi- '
na, was slain by Chinese bandits.—
The failure'of Vilna and Poland to
agiee on making Vilna. part of Poland
caused the resignation of the Polish
cabinet. —-P1esident Harding fights the
drastic army and n'avy appropriation
cuts by Congress.

Tue'a‘day, March 7.

THE grape growers of, New 'York,

Ohio, Michigan and Ontario have
approved a plan for a widespread
newspaper advertising campaign to
popularize their product. ——The million
dollar city hall of Montreal, Canada,

roves destroyed by fire Friday night.
~Twenty€th
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TUMP pulling used to be a drudge;
now it is a science; and before the
year 1922 is over it bids fair to

' bacome a hobby in the upper peninsula

of Michigan.

Sixty thousand more acres under
cultivation is the goal of the “travel-
ing land clearing short course,’ to, be
held during the spring months by L.

F. Livingston, under the auspices of

the extension division of M. A. C. in

nearly eyery county of the upper

peninsula. .
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, " reads a train of nine cars will be used

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Paul Bunyan’s Hammer is Here Shown in Operation.

eating upper peninsula farmers upon
the subject. Met-ion pictures showing

the most approved. methods for eifi-r

cient land clearing have been effect-
ively utilized. .

If the goal ,of 60,000 acres is
reached, an average of five acres for

each of the 12,000 farms in the upper ‘

peninsula will have been cleared. In
the past the averag‘e‘.rate has been
less than one acre per year. Because
many of the farms have not sufficient
area of cleared ground to make the
business profitable, a large number of
farmers are compelled to work out-
side in order .to support their families.

Clearing of 60,000 acres in 1922 will

It is Home-made but .

the Stumps do Come Out.

the outlying sections motor trucks will
The equip-
ment will be donated by powder com-
panies and stump puller manufactur-
ers. '

In the short course planned, the
men attending will “learn by doing”
and will spend a. full day in their .old
clothes, operating the stump pullers,
stump pilers, home-made labor saving
devices and working with dynamite. 'It
is belieyed that in this manner a small
army 5? capable land clearing special-
fists will be created.

As a preliminary to the spring tour,
meetings have been held in the local
Communities this winter. In each com-
munity where the movement finds fa-
vor a land clearing committee is or-

, 'ganized. This 'committeeis expected

to guarantee 20 or more students for

— the day’s course in order to secure

the visit of the traveling short course.
,The meetings held this winter are
proving valuable as a means of edu-

mean an increase of 13.2 per cent in-
the producing lands of the upper pen-
insula. “If this land which will be
cleared were put into potatoes,” de-
clares Mr. Livingston, “an average
yield sold at an average price would
mean a crop the value of which would
be $4,800,000. It is estimated—and a
low estimate at that—that the in-
creased land valuation of the cleared
acre itself would be $35, or a total
increased land valuation of $2,100,000.
The average income produced in a
year’s time from the cleared acre
throughout the upper peninsula is‘ $30.
That means an income every year fol-
lowing the clearing of this 60,000 acres
of $1,800,000. If this land clearing pro-
gram is ,carried on for five years we
will increase the valuation of our agri-
cultural assets by $10,500,000 and will
during that time have produced an in-
come for the farmer amounting to
$27,000,000.” .

‘ Though land clearing may be termed-

'the oldest industry in the country, it

has never been brought to a scientific
basis until the present day. It is es-
timated that 30 per cent of all the e1?-
plosive used is wasted through wrong
methods. In addition, many liveshave
been lost through ignorance of the
proper measures to take in handling.

Not only stumps must be removed.
Brush, fallen trees, stones and cradle
knolls must be disposed of and the
original soil must be broken up. Mr.
Livingston and his helpers neglect
none of the numerous possibilities for
preparing the land for cultivation. By
.noting the most efficient devices used
by farmers successful in land clearing,
they have made: it possible for others
to benefit from' the inventiveness of a
few. All the information concerning
explosives, machinery and home-made
devises is clearly set forth in several
reels of motion pictures prepared un-
der the direction of Mr. Livingston.

Perhaps the most interesting of the
simple devices is a mallet ' stump
puller‘, better known as “Paul Bun-
yan’s hammer.” Bunyan, who origi-
nated it, is said to have been a regular
Samson when it came to land clearing
feats," and this hammer was one of his
favorite tools. It will multiply the pull
of a team six times when the handle
is in an upright-position, according
to specialists. Many times the stump
or fragment of stump is too solid to
be pulled by a team alone and rather
than strain the team or break the bar;
ness, the mallet puller can be used
with no lost time.

The materials'necessary are a log
18' inches in diameter and 30 inches
long, of such light and soft material

as cedar or white pine, and a‘ handle 6 " ,

inches in diameter and 6 feet 10 , of
elastic material such as seasoned ran-
wood- or White Oak. The mallet puller
is made by cutting or burning a six-

inch hole through the log and wedging ~

in the handle. There is very little

strain on the log, hence .the lightest

wood obtainable should be used.

The puller is operated by' placing
the log as close to the stump as possi-
ble with the handle lying in an upright

position against the stump. A heavy’_

chain with a “corner bind” or “fld
hook” attachment is-placed around the
stump as low as possible and around
the handle at the point where it enters
the log. It is essential that this chain
be tight, as the greatest leverage is
obtained when the handle is in an up-
right position. An ordinary draft chain
is hooked to the top of the handle and
to the double trees. This chain should
be used full length as the draft comes
too high on the horses when the chain
is hecked short.

Mr. Livingston’s purpose in the se-
ries of land clearing meetings will be

threefold: first, to show how accidents.
which happen in the use of explosives,

can be avoided; second, to show the
most practical methods of using land
clearing equipment and explosives;
and third, to explain some of the ways
in which the backache may be taken
out of the work.

Farmers are being encouraged to
purchase explosives in carlots, as was

done with the picric acid last summer, ‘

in order to save money. Where possi-
ble, county agents are combining. or-
ders from their communities so as to
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Dynamite is Interesting Stuff ‘to Say the Least.
Farmers are Particularly Anxious to Know all

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That Upper Peninsula
About it is Evident

frOm this Group Gathered About a Land-clearing Specialist.

Lengthening the Season with a Hotbed

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HP; hotbed is one of the most

. common structures used by gar:

d‘eners to force vegetable plants
in order to secure a crop in advance
of the normal season. They are most
commonly used for the very early
starting of plants such as tomatoes,
peppers, 'melons, early cabbage and
celery xwhich later are to be trans-
planted in the garden or field. Some
crops, however, such as radishes and
lettuce, are often grown to full ma-
turity in' the hotbed, thus providing
a, supply for' table use much sooner

. than could be secured by growing the

plants in the open.
The hotbed consists of a box-like
frame covered with a

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and some sort of artificial heat to
provide a means for maintaining grow-
ing temperatures.

Hotbeds are heated in various ways.
They are sometimes heated by hot air
fines and often by steam or hot'water
in pipes connected with. the heating
system Let a greenhouse or residence.
The heat is ordinarily supplied- by
means of fermenting horse manure
placed under the soil of the bed.

One of the cheapest and most sim-
ple forms of manure hotbeds is one
made by placing a sash covered frame
on top of a flat pile of fermenting ma-
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slthe pit hotbed in which .1

the frame is placed above a pit con-
taining the heating material. Pit hot-
beds are usually more satisfactory as
they give better protection to the
plants especially during cold weather
and less manure is required than for
beds which are constructed entirely
above the ground.

The pit may be merely an excava-
tion in the ground or\if it be desirable
to construct a permanent hotbed the
walls may be lined with boards, brick
or concrete and are built to include the
frame, The pit is then permanent and
merely requires filling/each year and
. covering with sash. .

The depth of the pit should be from

two and one- -half to three feet below
the surface. This will pe1mit the use

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of manure and four to six inches of
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between the surface of the soil and
the sash.

The frame for a hotbed may be
made to fit any size glass or sash.
They should always face the south to
get the best benefit of the sun. The
standard size for hotbed sash is three
by six feet. The frame, therefore,
should be slightly less than six {get
wide outside measure and long enough
to accommodate the number of sash
required. For a farm or suburbangap-
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bed will be found a suitable "
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When‘a large amount of hotbed space,
is required it is a Common ‘pi‘a’ctiCe to
use a series of beds of four sash each.
For general. and mixed gardening
about twenty-four sash are, sufficient
for an acre of garden. '

In growing plants for transplanting
a sash is sometimes estimated to ac-
commodate 400 to' 500 cabbage and
cauliflower, 300 to 400 tomatoes and
600 to 800 lettuce plants. A gnod serv-
iceable wood frame can be' made with
two twelve-inch planks on the south*
side and two twelve-inch and one six-
inch on the north side. This will
make the back side of the frame six
inches than .th'e front thus providing
a satisfactory slope for the cash. About

' one foot of the back of the frame and

six inches of the front should be above
ground. Posts made of 2 x 4 should be
driven at each corner and if twelve
foot planks are used one on each side
midway between the corners. Cross-
bars of similar materiallshould be
placed across the frame at the junc-
tion and edges of the \sash. These
should be mortised in on the sides
flush with the top.,

Single glass sash are most com-
monly used. The sash should be well
made and of good material. Only “A”
quality glass should be used. Ten by
twelve-inch glass fit well in three by
six feet sash requiring eighteen panes
to each sash. The glass should be
lapped and imbedded in putty to make
a good tight sash.‘ Sash should al-
ways be Well painted and kept under
cover when not in use.

The preparation of the manure for a
hotbed should begin at least two weeks
before the hotbed is to be used. Fresh
horse manure, consisting of about one-
half straw or litter and one-half excre-
ment, makes very suitable material.
The manure should be collected and
placed near the frames in a compact
pile. As scon as fermentation has be-
come well-started the manure should
be well forked over and all lumps
broken up to insure even distribution
of the heart. As soon as the whole
pile is steaming itiis ready to be
placed in the pit. It should be placed
in the pit in layers about six to eight
inches thick and each layer ti'amped
firmly, especially about the edges and
in the corners, to avoid uneven set-
tling. When the bed is completed the
manure should be about two feet
thick. About two inches cf straw is
placed on top of the manure and finally
from four to six inches of good garden
soil or compost is placed on top. The
sash should be put on assoon as the
manure and soil are in 'place to pro‘
tect the bed from rain and snow and
retain the heat. No seeds should be
sown or plants set for several days
or until after the first violent heating

. is over-and the bed has cooled down

to about 85 degrees F.

WESTERN MICHIGAN FRUIT
GROWERS ORGANIZE.

 

HE Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc.,

was launched at Benton Harbor,
February 28, at the third conference
of ,Michigan fruit growers, representa-
tives of co-operative fruit marketing
organizations, State Farm Bureau of-
ficialsand representatives of the agri-
cultural college marketing department.
The new exchange represents a feder-
ation. of western Michigan co-operative
fruit marketing associations to im-

. prove distributing and marketing faciIv
‘ ities.

Headquarters of thee organiza-
tion are to be at Benton Harbor.

A temporary beard of 11- directors,
to meet within ten days, was charged
with preparing detailed plans to be
submitted to the cd-operatlve fruit
marketing bodies. Permanent organi-
zation will be'eflectedat another meet-V
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mum _. indebtedhe‘ss allowable“ "was
placed at $100,000. ” The directors are .—
to' meet-at Benton Harbor (the third
Tuesday of each.month'.and the an-
nual meeting of the organization has

been scheduled 'for February. Affairs
.of the’ institution willjbe in charge

of a general board of delegates, who
will be elected on the basis of 50-car
shipments per season per unit. .
Peach and apple interests arerép<
resented by five directors on‘the pres-
ent board, grape growers by five and
the berry interests by one. ' F. L.
Bradford, St. Joseph, is chairman of
the grape group, other members of the j
group being M. H. Pugsley, Paw Paw;
S. C. Thornton, Lawton; M. D. Bus-
kirk, Paw‘Paw, and W. S. Seymour,
Bridgeman. George Friday, Coloma,
heads the apple interests; others are

*James Nicol, South. Haven; John Wil«

kinson, Hartford ;' M. Overton, Bangor;
J. E. Barron, Fennville; C. M. Hogue,‘
Sodush‘represents the berry interests.

AMERICAN GRAIN REACH ES
RUSSIA.

 

MERICAN grain is already moving

, into the interior of Russia, accord-
ing. to Don Livingston, Commissioner
of Agriculture of South Dakota,"and a
member of the Purchasing Commit-
tee for .Russian Relief of the' Amer-
ican Relief administrations

“The first two steamers sailing Jan-
uary 4 and January 12 from Baltimore
with approximately 500,000 bushels of
No. 2 mixed corn have arrived at
Novorossick, Russia, where 400 cars
were assembled to rush the grain into
the interior,” Mr. Livingston said. The
Russian authorities are friendly and
are co-operating with the American
Relief Administration in every way
possible to assist our people in saving
the children. Ourpeople gave of their
means cheerfully and with good will,"
as their duty. \They cannot know the
blessing of their gifts. A glance at
the, picture at the other end of our
activities in Russia and the need for
it is shown in the cablegram received
by us today: i

“ ‘In some kitchens in the worst 'lo-
calities children under eight years ab-
solutely without clothing or shoes are
brought to the kitchens by their par-
cuts in arms or on little sleds from
distant points, with temperature fifteen
below zero Fahrenheit. Children sit
at tables naked to eat their portions
and they make return journey home
wrapped in sheepskins, old coat or
piece of blanket.’ ” .

Since the first of the year 30 steam~
ers have left for Russia bearing re-
lief corn. The numberof bushels .of
corn shipped to date is approximately
5,633,390, and of wheat 1,464,750. The
boats have cleared frOm the ports ‘of
'New York, Baltimore, New Orleans,
Philadelphia and Boston.

LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE OFFICERS

 

V. TRACY,’ of Ithaca, is presi-
- dent of the Michigan Live _
Stock Exchange for the coming year.
Heowas elected at a meeting of~the
new board of directors, held at Lan-
sing recently. W. J. Perry, of'Grand
.Blanc, was elected vice-president; 5P.
M. Granger, Charlotte, treasurer;
George Boutell, Perry, Secretary,"and
E. E.- Compson, Lansing, secretary-
inanager. The Exchange is preparing
to place co-operative commission
houses at Buffalo and Detroit.

Dr. Milton Wiley, chief of the bu-
reau of soils of the-department of ag—_
ric-ulture, predicts that electric fur:
nace development of the [fertilizer in-
dustry promises marvelous. resultsdn.
the matterof improvingdho (than.
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” The Rura‘

1‘ S'Chool .]Qlié8tion.
"By E. V. Root, ' " - ’

Commiuiener qftlze Van Bur-m County School: ,

N thesefiays when the tendency in
school matters 'is undoubtedly in
the direction of consolidation and
so much is being said and written that
is not to the credit of the one-room

- school, the farmer who is becoming a

better business“ man every day, is en-
tirely justified inasking the question,
“Just what is the matter with the

rural School?" and he wants an an-i
SWer in words that state facts rather

than start discussions“ The writer
feels that posSibly too much criticism
has been laid at the door of this same
.little schodl house. We are sometimes
given to understand by well‘meaning
people that the primary school system
has broken down and has lost its effi-
ciency as the years have gone by. Now.
such is far from the truth. The rural
school today is at its best. Its teach-

. ers today are much better prepared

than were their parents who were
teaching the schoOls a generation ago,
just as these parents were strenger‘in
this respect‘ than the grandparents
who preceded them.

_ The rural schools as a whole today,
are better equipped than ever before,
better heated, lighted, seated and vent-
ilated. There are, of course, occasion-
al districts that have not been touched
by these evidences of progress, “where
the same old bricks are in the wall,”
or possibly strewn around the school
ground; Where the relief maps carved
on the desk tops by our illustrious
forbears have made the task of writing
upon these desks almost impossible
for the past two generations; where
the monograms and inscriptions left in
the old toilet stand as mute evidence
that the present generation of young
people are as sound morally as any
which preceded them.

But~ taken as a whole, the rural
school in its mental and physical as-
pects has been very much improved.
The school term is longer, attendance
is better, there has been a great im-
prOVement in the making of text books,
the number of graduates from_the
eighth grade of rural schools has dou-
bled in the last fifteen years, and

‘ these schOols today are furnishing an

elementary education to nearly half of
our boys and girls. The, rural school
system has not broken down, it has
done a great work and is still on the
job. Rural Schools this year are bet-
ter than they were last year and the
year to come will show an improve-
ment over the present.

The people, however, who know the
rural system best, and are the most
interested in it are willing to admit
that it has faults that are fundament-
al; that its progress has not been in
keeping With the spirit of the age“, that
it has not been able to advance with
the progress that has marked the grad-
ed school system; that rural boys and
girls do not have educational opportu-‘
nities with the children of the graded
school district. It is for these‘reasons
that forward-looking people who‘ live
on the soil, and‘educators who believe
in equality of opportunity, are asking
for a system that Will not place a hand-
icap upon country life. '

.What is .the' matter with the ruraf
school? ’ Volumes have been written
in answer tothis query and we do not

‘. _ intend to‘exhaust the subject in usin-

’31-. WWW" The most outstanding

thirty-five classes of "from fiveto fif-
teen minutes each, can not do justice
to any part of the program, particular-
ly the lower grades. We have some
remarkable rural teachers who are do-
ing wonders with a problem of this
kind, but they are the ones above all
others who appreciate the impossibili-
ties of the primary school system.
The child in the primary grades can
not employ his time to advantage ex-
cept under the personal supervision of
the teacher.

In the rural school the big problem
seems to be that of keeping the small
children still, whereas the great object
in primary teaching should be to give
the initiative and imagination of the
child the opportunity for expression.
The really “unpardonable sin” of the
rural school system is committed in
the lower grades. It is a fact that any
good grade school system will give its
beginning pupils at least five times as
much of the teacher’s time as can pos-
sibly be had in an eight grade school.
Rural pupils do not learn to read.
Above the third grade the pupil is
better able to help himself and hence
suffers less as a result of the system,
but all through the work of the school
the matter of time is vital, the rural
school program being a regular motion
picture of passing classes.

Failure of the rural school to pro-
vide‘ a high school education for every
boy and girl~ is a point upon which
much stress has been placed: Legisla-
tion has tried to correct this fault by
requiring primary districts to pay high
school tuition and this. has been a
help; however, it has not solved the
greatest problem, which is to give
these children a high school education
and have them home nights. Occa-
sionally a district solves this problem
by furnishing transportation for its
high school students, but these in-
stances are not common.

Our third point is lack of supervis-
ion. Supervision is comparatively a
modern term in education. Until a few
years ago a graded school system had
a principal, usually a man whose chief
duties, aside from teaching his full
quota of subjects, Was to discipline
pupils too large for the other teachers
to handle. During the past twenty
years, however, a great change has
come about, the superintendent has
become more.and more a supervising
officer.

In addition to this, principals of high
schools have supervisory duties and
we have extended Supervision to spe-
cial supervisors in various lines. Last
year'we estimated that for supervision
in its various forms there was expend-
ed upon every graded school pupil the
sum of eightdollars. On the other
hand, there are just as many pupils in
the rural schools as in the graded dis-
tricts; many of the teachers are un-
trained and fifty per cent inexperienc-
ed“ If there is any place where super-
vision is really needed it is in the
rural schools, and‘ what did they get?
Reduced to a cash basis, thirty cents
per capita.

Janitor service. ‘
the school? Much more than is gener-
ally imagined. Lack of such service
means coughs and colds, poor attend-
ance, and poor. school work. In order
to have the best school the child must

 

 

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‘ Your farm produce used for pur-
chasing a Prest-O-Lite Battery at to-
day’s price would go as far as it would
have gone in buying any standard
make of battery in the days of your
highest price market.

This means that Prest-O-Lite is a
product whose prices are {air and
square with the prices you get for
your produce. '

Prest-O-Lite consistently has been

_ the last to raise prices, and the first

to reduce them.

Prest-O-Lite 1922 prices are down
to bedrock. They are lower than they
have been for years, and lower than
the prices of other standard makes of
batteries. .

Figure-Your Savings

*$19.90 is the trade-in price for a
Prest-O-Lite Battery for popular
makes of light cars, which is 45%
lower than the 1920 price for the
same type of battery.

-*Other outstanding Qalues are:
$24.65 (trade-in price) for types for
the Buick, Chandler, Chalmers, Oak-
land and Hudson; and $32.50 (trade-
in price) for a battery for the Max-
well, Dodge, or Franklin.

There are similar reductions on
other types, and there is a correct
‘type of Prest-O-Lite for every make
‘of car or truck.

Top Quality Batteries

Price reductions have not meant a
reduction in Prest-O-Lite quality.
These low-priced batteries are not
special models. They are regular top-

THE PREST—O-UTE COMPANY, Inc.
Carbide and Carbon Building. 30 East 42nd Street, New York
Eighth and Brennan Street's. San Francisco. California
In Canada: Prest-O-Lite Company of Canada, Ltd., Toronto

PrestoO-Lite also makes a battery for every house lighting system manufactured. Thoy
are in ovary way Proot-O-Lite quality. Ask our nearest service station, or write fordotu'll.

.$1930

and UP

, 0'3””

quality Prest-O-Lites with the fa-
mous Prest-O-Plates, the plates which
make Prest-O-Lite the best all-
weatber battery.

And all parts of a Prest-O-Lite are
on a par with Prest-O-Plates; that is
the best, the finest materials, and
highest workmanship can make them.

That is why 87 manufacturers spe-
cify the Prest-O-Lite Battery as orig-
inal equipment, and this list is grow-
ing. -

Doubly Guaranteed

Every Prest - O -_ Lite Battery is
backed by a liberal and specific guar-
anty, carried out by Prest-O-Lite
Service, with a spirit that says the
car owner must be pleased.

Always bear in mind that Prest-O- ’
Lite service is the oldest organized
service to car owners, and this long-
timefaith in it must be maintained.
Prest-O-Lite Service Stations do
everything humanly possible to pro-
long the life of your battery.

No matter what battery you have
in your car, you should use a Prest-
O-Lite Service Station. Turn in
where you see the Prest-O-Lite sign.
The experts there will gladly serve
you. Their friendly advice and atten-
tion will aid you in getting every bit
of power out of it. They will not tell
you that you need a new battery until
you do.

At the right time, exchange your
old battery for a new Prest-O-Lite
with Prest-O-Platcs at our low prices.

 

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‘ “m1 and intelligent study.

What this fertilizer quality has
done for thousands of. farmers

like Mr. Short and Mr. Warren,

it will do in your section as well.
If your dealer can not furnish you-

FEDERAL CHEMICAL (20., LOUISVILLE, KY.

Incorporated ,
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FE DERAL__ FERTILIZERS

 

Know Values

'Here’s what they‘ shy about Federal Fertilizinv
A. H. GALLREIN, the Kentucky Champion, says:

owe my success to your fertilizer.” , .

J. A. WARREN, a Purdue Prize Winner, says:
your Eatihzer my yields, or anything near them, would.
impossible."

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“Without

CHAS. H. SHORT, a National Champm says: “i used
your fertilizer and it did the work.”

And we could furnish you hundreds of such statements from other. prize-
winning‘ farmers who appreciate quality in their fertilizer purchase.

Yet, in your immediate community where large crops are grown. you
will find the some farmers giving the question of plant food values care-

Ask them the name of the fertilizer that stands all the tests, and the an-
swer will be Federal High Grade Fertilizer, The Standard of. Value.
And leadin-g farmers everywhere use Federal Complete Fertilizer because
of this standard of quality recognized by every agricultural authority.

NCHLY AVAILABLE PHOSPHORUS

The grain making new
GRADUATE!) NITROGEN

To feed the crop from seed time to harvest

SOLUBLE POTASH

From high grade imported potash and ground tobacco stems

Federal Fertilizer—write us for
prices and terms.
paper ‘d we will send you War-
ren's story of Profitable Crops.

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has Good News for
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roofing and paint.
Wonderful bargains you
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£00. 000 customerssay sol

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W. In unionism If hum! stub... not mail order
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GRIMM

_ Cerfz'fied- Genuine _

Old Wendelyn Grimm drove
Manuel: to market in 1858.
His neudibors, sufiering finan-
cial disasters from a severe
- winter and a spring of alter-
nate frosting and thawing.
wondered‘how' he did it.
Grimm's pros rity resulted
from 8 portions or hardy strain
of alfalfa lying dormant in
winter. having a wide-spread-
ing. deep tap- root system with
a low- setting, crown that pre-
vents heaving and injury from
alternating freezing and. thaw—
ing and obtains ample water
supply during drought.

Grimm s
neighbors obtained some of his sl-
falfs ssad~tbe communily became

ssureylfiu

by. Today proof is evident.
where farmers have been fortunate
to sow Genuine Grimm.1hat in
every climate. from milder alier- \
. noting freezing and thawing. to
_r long. cold. northern winters. no
common variety of alfalfa can stand.
-"’- with Genuine Grimm. Genuinc— ">—
Grimm seed produced by these As Q53
socisiions oriKinslcd from Wende- ,
-lyn Grimm stock and lrown under
severest chm-tic condilelogs 193;
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no: to the you amount at common simian: badly
.mlxod Islam” on the market as GRIMM. many farmers
have been heated lnlo raisin: poor or ordinary crops.
0a the other manual observsrlon. users of
GENUINB GIIMM aria [really- increasing~ their profits
and bacon-int we prosperous each y.esr

ll‘be messed success by sowing this spring»

CERTMED GENUINE GRIMM seed. produced b
erslive (rowers ammo-s under strictest field and
on impaction. We are cooperating to make possible
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PARTITION\OE' LAND.

A and B own eighty acres jointly-
They Want to split it In two forty-acre
plots. What course would they have
to take to do this in the best way.—
W. .1‘. S.

This may be done by each execut-
ing a quit-claim deed to the other of
the part the other is to'have.——J. R. R.

ALFALFA lN‘ WHEAT.

I have a good stand of wheat on
three acres of new ground that I
would like to sow toiaIIfalfa. this spring.
Can it be done and. not harm the crop
of wheat? How ha‘d I best go about
it? Where can I get good seed and
how much must I sow?—'—J‘. R. L.

Excellent stands of alfalfa. can be
secured with. wheat without injury,
provided the land carries sufficient
lime or has been limed, and if north-
ern-grown seed is used. The Grimm
variety is best for Michigan. Would
suggest ten pounds per acre of Grimm
or fifteen pounds per acre of northern-
grown common alfalfa, making seed-
ing as early in April as possible, or
while the ground is in honey-comb
condition in late March, using fiddle
seeder and harrowing in with spike-
tooth harrow, teeth standing slightly
backward, or seed with seed drill.

Culture for inoculation may be se-
cured from the Department of Baote-
riology, East Lansing, Michigan, at
twentyfive cents per bottle. One bot-
tle contains sufficient material to in-
oculate a bushel of seed. Directions
for application accompany material.

The Farm Bureau Seed Department,
" 221 North Cedar street,vLansing, Mich-
igan, can furnish northern-grown seed
of known source—J. C.

cow vs. HORSE MANUBE.

I wish you would tell me the differ-

and cattle manure. I have a chance
to buy some cattle manure, with a one—
mile haul. I get horse manure from
the city with a two and a half mile
haul. I was told the cattle manure is
six times as good as horse manure.
What do you think it would be worth
per ton? I get horse manure for noth-
ing, keeping them cleaned up the year
round.——G .W.

In geneial them is not a great deal
of difference in the value of horse and
cow manure—~at least not as great a
difference as; the man you mention
claims. W. W. Weir, author of “Pro-
ductive Soils,” gives analyses showing
that where horse manure contained
sixty-three per cent water, cow ma-
nure contained seventy-eight per cent.
Horse manure contained a higher per
cent of nitrogen, about the same quan-
tity of phosphorus and quite a little
more potash—«showing it to be more
valuable than cow manure in fertilizer
constituents. Of course, manure value
varies with the kind of feed and other
things, but the figures represent gen-
eral comparisons. I would say that
you should use horse manure as long
as you get it for nothing.—A.'H. _J.

CO—OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

Wh t are the state regulations of
(:0- -0p ative ownership of animals.

What is the method of organizing
agleement or by-laws? What other in-
formation can you give on this sub-
ject?-——L. R. E.
_ (Jo-operative associations are either
unincorporated or 'incorporated The
unincorporated are dangerous as they

flame liable to be held to. he paxtnor-

ship creating individual liability of
each member for all claims. Incor-

 

governed by chapter 4 or part 2 of the

once in'the fertilizing value of horse‘

poroted cooperative associations are

corporation law 'of 1921 being Public
Acts of .1921, No. 84, .and the provi-
sions are found on page 151’ of the
SessionLaws of 1921. An attorney
should be employed to perfect the 0r~
ganization of the corporation, draft the
by-laws and write up the minutes all
the first meeting—J. R. I}.

A- DAIRY RAT ION. .

I have two good grade Jersey cows.
One was fresh October 1, and. makes
11/2 lbs. butter daily, the other one
will be fresh the last of this month.
Please let me know how to feed most
profitably. I have plenty of corn in
the shock and June grass hay. Can
get alfalfa hay at $30. 00 per ton, bran
at $1. 60 per 100 lbs., cull beans at
75c per '100 lbs., bean meal, 900 per 100
lbs. The cow in milk does not like
bran -—N. G.

Better results would be obtained if

your corn is fed as corn meal or corn
and cob meal rather than in the ear.
The following grain mixture should
give good results with all the porn
stalks and June grass hay the cows
will eat readily: Corn and cob meal
or corn meal, 100 lbs.; ground oats,
100 lbs.; bran, 100 lbs.; bean meal, 150
lbs.; oil meal, 200 lbs. '
. Feed this mixture to your Jersey
cows at the rate of one pound to each
two and a half to three pounds milk
produced daily. If the corn must be
fed in the shock, omit the corn from
the grain mixture and feed the mix-
ture at the rate of one pound to each
three to three and a half pounds of
milk produced daily. If you can sell
your June grass hay for $15.00 or more
per ton on the farm, you could afford
to replace it with alfalfa hay at $30.00,
but it is doubtful otherwise when you
can buy bean meal at 900 per 100
lbs. ., and oil meal at $3 00 01 less per
100 lbs.

It will pay you to grow alfalfa, how-
ever, for many reasons, some of them

.being the large amount of good feed

per acre; its lime content which makes
it a valuable dairy feed and its soil
building properties. If either the cows
refuse bran, omit bran and increase
the ground oats in the mixture—J. W.

RACOON FOR FUR.

Can you tell me whole to buy a:
male black swamp racoon?——A. D. S.

I have nevei seen black racoons ad-
vertised but should think the easiest
way to get in touch with someone
hav‘mg them would be by advertising“
in some of the sporting papers or
faim jouinals. Possible search of ads.
in these publications would show deal<
els in such stock as he wishes.

All lacoons ale “swamp racoons”
and the black racoon is merely a dark
colored common racoon, what we call ,
'a Mendelian variety, which will trans-
mit its dark color according to the
well-known rules of Mendel’s law. The
black racoon bred with an ordinary one
might give one or male young as dark
as the black paIent but more likely all
would closely resemble the no: ms] par-
ent. If, however, some of the young
when adult were In ed together at least '
one in four of the young should be
entirely black 01 at least as dark as
the dark grandparent. It would make
no difference whether the original dark
grandparent were, male or female.

I, fail to see why anyone going into
fur-farming should take the trouble to
breed racoons of any color when he
might just as easily breed skunks,
mink, or foxes and get a. much better
return for time and. money expended.
I will look through the ads. in a 3381-,
bar of different journals and see if I
can get the address of anyone oasis. .
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Produce .your own tankage in the
legume fields.

One way for the farmer to spell
prosperity is li-v-e s-ct-o- -k.

Spraying is the bridge over which
, many a fruit grower has passed to the
shore of success.

In order that the garden may keep

right on giving the family the most'

healthful of foods, its surface should
have a real liberal introduction to a
few of the best loads of manure that
the farm aflords.

Teachers of country schools are
finding that the hot lunch not only
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that it also has lessened the necessity
for discipline‘and has increased so-
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WAR FINANCE CORPORATION.

(Continued from Page 285)

Regarding the amount of new loans
made to the farmers from these funds
a circular sent out to three hundred
banks revealed the fact that a little
over twentscfive per cent of the total
amount was going for new loans. The
rest is beingused to extendtold loans
and to build up the bank’s reserves.

Of course, it is impossible to meas-
ure quantitatively in exact terms the
.benefit that has resulted from the aid
of this War Finance Corporation. But
when corn goes up one cent a bushel
the farmers in Iowa are benefited over
a million dollars. Corn now is about

' . forty-five cents per bushel in Iowa and

was only twenty-five cents per bushel
last fall. Now _it is rather easy for
the individual farmer who was ena~
bled to hold his corn off the market
when the price was so low, because of
the funds given him‘Tl'y the War Fi-
nance Corporation to figure how much
good the Corporation did him. And
with the prices of bags and cattle go-
ing steadily upward it begins to look
as though the feeders are going to re-
member the War Finance Corporation
Act with gratitude likewise.

Of course, the farmers know that
the act is a. temporary one and that it
does not solve the rural credit prob-
lem. ' But as an emergency measure it
gave relief just when that relief was
sorely needed. The spirit in which the
acthas been carried out on the whole
is excellent. To be sure there have
been delays and misunderstandings,
but these are inevitable and to be ex-
pected in 1 any undertaking, If .the
farmers and bankers of every state
had tried to cooperate ’as they did in
Iowa the operation of the War Finance
‘ * ration ’Act [would have been an

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E are just coming through the the center of the section, have grown
biggest ice storm known to man so thin that automobiles may be seen

pe’rience. Telephone wires as large as We have.never ceased -to regret that
hay ropes. Most of them along with the back twenty acres on Francisco
the poles are On the ground. The Farm could not have been left in tim-
state reward roads are great for skat-_ ber instead (if the paltry three or7four
ing. So are the fields, We have been acres. I am sure that properlylhandled
coasting down the road broadside fore/ it' could be made equally profitable
most with the car, tangled in tele- with an equal acreage anywhere else
phone wires, and into the ditch twice, on the farm and that without deple-
and through several places where a, tion. " “

‘canoe would have been more appI‘O- _' For many years we have been want-

.mileszn - .mental trees, fruit trees, wind breaks,
The orchards! there are none, at but each year sees tree planting time
1883*. that are worthy 0f the name, pass with little planting. ~We have
' Evenly sonie broken planted a few, we. have destroyed
up trees and half more. The winds and the elements
trees remain. The have destroyed more still. rThls last
m a P16 S 9' small destruction makes -us’ think it is time
chance for sitting to get the habit, and plant a few trees
' in their shade this each year. Growing trees add an at-
summer, and the traction and create an attachment to
big WillOW in the the country home that nothing else
front yard is just can give. They help to make the farm
naked. I t S body and the family one, inseparable. They
and -ba re arms help us to take strong root in the soil
stripped clean. The from whence cometh our strength.
growth of years de— Thus indirectly they stand for perma-
stroyed in an hour. Veritably, how nent agriculture, for when we cease
insignificant is man and 'his handi- our roving and settle down on a spot
work, compared to the power of na- where we hope to live and die, we also
"ture. Yet so constituted is he that cease preying upon the land and inaug-
an occasional reminder of that great urate a system of soil building.
truth seems necessary in order to
keep him from thinking that the
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the world which is ours. ing a good start.

According to experts at the Geneva
Experiment Station, several factors
may be involved in the failure of crops
on these soils. If recently drained,
the muck may contain an abundance
of plant poisons which can be re-
moved only with frequent and thor-
ough cultivation, This is said to be
a very common cause of crop failure
on new mucks and it is suggested that
on such areas corn or potatoes be
grown the first year or two with fre‘
quent cultivation.

Other causes of failure are high
acidity, lack of available plant food,
and improper drainage. Ground lime—
stone or marl, ‘barnyard manure, pot-
ash fertilizers, and acid phosphate can
be applied to many muck soils to good

advantage. Too little drainage fre-
‘quently results in the crop being
drownedvout in wet weather, while
with too much drainage the crop may
suffer from drought in dry weather.
Shallow mucks should be avoided for
the growing of truck crops.

Should we allow ourselves to become
superstitious and think the devil had
us .under a spell? That might do for
the “haythen chinee.” Should We be-
come discouraged and give up trying?
Only. the weak-kneed have such a 1i-
cense. Real Americans with red blood
in their veins are not made that way.
:While it maybe well for ourselves in-
dividually to realize that it is not nec-
essary for us to carry the world on our
shoulders, it will be well for the world
when we realize that, in spite of our
great insignificance, we are at least
a part of that great bedy of average
citizens, upon whom the progress of
the world depends. So we. will :‘gird
up our Ioins” and go to work and do
the best we can; we will “buck up”
and be satisfied with the result; we
will take our' work upon our hearts
but keep it off our nerves, and we will
“Pucker Up and Whistle” while we
do it. ‘ - '

One of the jobs requiring early at:
tention on Francisco Farm will be the

clearing away of the wreckage left by -
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our fruit trees and shade trees will be PA'GNS-

consigned to the buzz pile and brush

heap. There is! also some clearing up ECENT reports from the extension
back in the little wood lot. Most ev- department at M. A. C. are to the

ery spring finds, an accmnlation of effect that the milk and alfalfa cam-
odds and ends too good for the ban paign in Lenawee county was W611 at
fire, but that work well into the buzz tended. It was said that attendance
‘pile. Again, if we do all we can to at barn meetings often mounted as
. repair the damage done by the storm high as twenty-five and that eVening
it is up to ‘us to do some planting. meetings were exceedingly popular. ’
' At the close of the civil War the Similar campaigns in other counties
country hereabout' Was practically an of the state have proven very success-
broken forest. The first generation on 'fui. A campaign was started in Eaton
2this fair .land'was interested first, last county February 2-8 and _is to .close
* and all the time in cutting away the March 10. Another campaign will start
trees.- The second” generation have'con- March 13 in Jackson county and Will
tinned too far in their {fathers foot- close March 25. a . - ' '

stéps, .nnt'il‘ today thefparroygg‘belts of . . ‘ . . ' ‘ . ‘
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priate. all this. in. driving some 40 ing to plant trees. Shade trees, cream

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ULLY eighteen hundred people lis-
gram put on by the High School Agri-
cultural :Department. (if the Bad Axe
High School last week. Health and
Markets were respectively discussed
by Miss Moore and Mr. Cribbs; while

Poultry received .the attention: of Mr.
Ferguson and Bacteriology was the

. general theme of Dr.. Giltner, all of the .

M. A. C. Five reels of films on farm;
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interested sessions. »

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HE cost of workinga poor crop‘

is just as much as that of working
a good one, says the State Farm Bu-
reau .Seed Department in boosting for
the,genera1 use of certified seed. ‘ Cer-
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good crop under normal conditions and
the kind of crop he had a right to ex-
pect when he bought the seed, says
the department.

Although certified seed "has a great-
er first cost than does common seed,
that cost is absorbed in the resfilts
gained at harvest time. Certified seed
is a guarantee to ‘the farmer that his;
seed is adapted, pure, of high germina-
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points and it may be strong, but the
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IN discussing recent developments
in insect control, Prof. P. J. Par-
rott, of the Geneva station, has said
that the station had been investigat-
ing cabbage maggot control for sever
al years. It has been found that good
results can be obtained by screening
the bed. The screening also preserves
moisture and the cost is small. Screen-
ed beds are common in the western
New York cabbage districts.

The station has been carrying on in—

‘vestigations to discover the best»

means of destroying the potato leaf
hopper as a means of controlling tip-
burn._ Spraying with Bordeaux so as
to completely c0ver the leaves of po-
tatoes has given effective results. The
untreated plats have developed pro-
nounced browmng. This year all the
plats not sprayed were dead by Aug-
ust 25. All plats thoroughly sprayed
with 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture were
green up to September 23, when the
potatoes were dug. The increase was
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B has a forty-acre place and: mort-
gages it to make a payment on a
twenty. B has a deed of the twenty,
but Only a contract for the forty. A
holds a mortgage on the twenty. If A
forecloses on the twenty, being unable
to pay the interest, but mortgage not
yet due for two years, canB have pos-
session one year to redeem it in and
111%?th give on it to hold it one year?

The mortgagee or the purchaser as.

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made 289 pounds of butterfat and an
income over feed cost of $88.91. The
large cows produced 345 pounds of
buttertat and a return above feed‘. cost
of $105.74. ,'

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and 326 large. Those in thé first clas-
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an an- ave1 age and an. income over: cost

oftfeed of $89.11. The mediums made
2.78 pounds of butterl’at and $106.09
over food cost.
duced 299 pounds/of butterfat and an
income over feed cost of $108 29.

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figures for the years 1916, to 1919, in-
'clusive~, which accountsfor the high
average income over cost of feed’.

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port of the tester shows some real
dairy progress.

The annual meeting of the aSSOcia-
E. L.
Brown, of Schoolcraft, was re-elected
W. E. Balch, Kalamazoo,
Secretary—Treasurer. Directors: A. B.
Imus, Galesburg; D. E. Kuhn, Vicks-
burg; Harold .Buckham, Kalamazoo.
S. P. Sexton continues as tester.

Twenty~three members 'finished the

year with 299 cows and the average

production for the entire lot was 7,064
lbs. of milk and 305 lbs. of fat, the
milk having an average test cf 4.3%.
There were 4' reg. Jersey herds, ,3. gr.
Jersey herd‘s, l'reg. Holstein herd, 6
gr. Holstein herds; 3 gr. Guernsey
herds, and 6 mixed herds.

. The highest milk producing herd
was a 12-cow reg. Holstei’ns herd owned
by H. B. McMurray. Six cows in this
held were given official records during
the year and the average production

,Was 10,623‘ lbs. milk and 399 lbs. fat.

The high cow was also a. member of
this herd, a1 4—yr.—old and her record
was 14,011 lbs. milk and: 511 its. fat.
The high fat herd is a 12mm: graded
Guernsey herd owned. by T. L. me,
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of grade-and registered Jerseys, made
an- average- oi 383: lbs. of fat and his
high cow made 4991 lbs. fat.

All herds in the- association but one

were tested for tuberculosis, about 12 ..
reactors were found'fon the» first test .
land: on the second test only 3. have

been found So far as we know.‘ About

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during the year and the average pro-
duction shows that a. standard of 250
lbs. of fat is none too low.

:In_ one herd the owner had been
trying to sell a. certain cow and when
the tester came he induced the owner
to wait awhile before selling. She
has since proved to be the best cow
in the he1d, giving nearly 14,000 lbs.
milk and 44.0 lbs. fat. The saving of
this cow alone will pay this man’s
testing dues for many years.

In another herd a cow was booked
for the butcher and she has since
proved to be one of the best cows in
tle‘ herd. Cases like these are not at
all new in the‘testing work but it is
sometimes uphill work to get the cow
keepers to; see it. _

A striking illustrationof the value
of a sire was shown. in the herd of T.
L. _Rae. Old Brownie, as she was
called, left two. daughters (Brownie by
the way was a good old Jersey Duroc).
One daughter was sired by a,p‘u1rebred
Duroc bull, the other by a registered
Guernsey bull'. The Guernsey grade
last year made 498 ,lbs. fat and the
other 320 lbs. Mr. Rae thinks she is
about such a cow as her mother was
but no better one was the high cow
in the herd an the other was the

lowest—S. P. Sexton, Bridgman, Mich.

NEW GUERNSEY RECORD FOR
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HE state Guernsey record in

,Class A for Michigan has just

been broken. Cilla M., No. 45875,
owned by Mr. John Endicott, of De-
troit, Michigan, has just completed a
yearly record and produced 17088.8
pounds of milk and 868.2 pounds- of
butterfat. This record replaces the
one made of Abbie of Riverside with
a Class A record of 142011.16 pounds
of milk and 816.12 pounds of fat'and
is. also larger than the record made
by the MichiganAgricultural College
cow, Carrie of Hillhurst, whose record
for Class AA is 15307.8 pounds of milk
and 814.83 pounds of fat.

Cilla M. is an! excellent type of cow
and is of good size for the breed. When
she started out on the record just
completed she was a victim of a se-
vere attack of milk fiever and: for six
weeks was fed cautiously and‘ spar-
ingly. As her detailed record shows,
she was a persistent producer.

A glance at the breeding of Cilla M. .

does not indicate at first that she was

.bred' for this kind. of performance, but

on looking back a generation or two
we find the names Sheet Anchor III
and Monarch of the Glen, who was cut
of Glenwood Girl 6th. It is impossi-
ble to tell just when and from, what
line of breeding one can expect such
splendid record's.
been bred for generations with one aim
in: view you can expect producers to
show up in any generation.

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Endicott has made other splendid; rec»

order in» his herdl near Birmingham,
Michigan. He' has sbme thirty'head of

Guernseys and has worked; out a defi- ‘
'n'ite plan of breeding". . ‘
At Michigan State Fair, held last, *

September in metrofit, Mir. Endicott’s

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manufacturers given at their recent
convention held in Saginaw. This ma-_
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Judge Munnls Masterly Address.

In the Tuesday afternoon session;

Judge Munn, of Chicago, was the prin-
cipal speaker, his address ‘being “The
National Dairy Council, its Pla e. in
Organized Dairying.” He made avery

‘ strong plea forda'irymen' toglth'ihk- of
‘ ’dairying as an organized industry of

the greatest importance to the people,

rather than as an individual business

—a thing which‘ most, farmers are
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store for all who now bravely bear the
troubles of the present in a‘calm, as-
suring'way, ever looking hopefully to
the future.” -

In. the afternoon session, Roy C.

_. Potts, of ,Washington, representing the
United .‘States Department of Agricul-

,ture, on the subject, “Future’s ‘Yard-
stick,” urged his hearers to strive" for

” one hundred per cent efficiency in the
production and distribution of milk

and milk products, as this is the meas-

ure of success and progress. This ap-

plies to all engaged in the great indus-

(try. The dairyman should improve his
herds, improve his methOds of hand-

ling milk, the dealer

vmoresanitary methods of distribution,
the-creamery men should cut their op-

erating costs by careful management,

. and all work' in harmonyto' the better- >

fment of the public service. ‘
VNever before has the dairyman been
given the consideration. by congress,
and never before have the- distributors
been so’alive to the nfied of close co-

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Raw Materials into

‘,‘The country is just beginning to re-
alize,” he said, “how its vitality, its,
manhood and its leadership in trade
depends on_proper diet and nutrition
of its people, especially the children,
and how much milk, butter, cheese, ice
cream and other milk preducts .con-
tribute to the national health. The
fact that-\150,000,000 more pounds of
creamery butter,'and about 50,000,000
more pounds of dairy butter were
made in 1921 than in 1920, is an illus-
tration of this realization by the couns
,try, even though the reduced prices of

- milk and its products in 1921 tended

to stimulate consumption in some dei
gree.”" " ‘ .

Judge Munn then showed by govern-
ment reports that the average farmer
received forty-two per cent more for
dairy products in 1921 than during the
five year pre—war period. Beef cattle
brought seven per cent more and hogs
eleven per cent, more than in the five-
year pre-war ,period; but corn, oats
and barley, when Sold in the open
market, brought eleven per cent less.
These grains When fed to dairy cows
brought 'thirty-two per cent more in
1921 than in the pre-war period. ‘
Helpful~ Talk by Prof. A. C. Anderson.

“Don’t be influenced by the demand
coming out of the west for curtailment
of production as 'a remedy for low
prices,” Prof. A. C. Anderson, of Flint,

' told‘thefarmers and dairymen in the .
Wednesday morning session. “It is not '

overproduction that is causing your

_ troubles so much as undercdns'umption

of milk and'its products, a condition.

‘ largely due to inability of industrial

workers and the people generally to
buy on the scale of a few years ago.»

-The farmer todayhhas- a good job, far
'_ better than that of. the average city
man who is happy if he hasthree days

work in a week,‘_f0r in that he sees a
living at least. The farm“ is always
sure of a living for himself and family

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cent efficient as measured by “Future’s
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Asks Dairymen to Cooperate.

Urging farmers and dairymen to rec-
ognize the value of cooperation before
being driven to it as were ‘the peas-
ants of Europe, E. B. Heaton, of Chi~
cago, director of dairy marketing of
the Farm Bureau Federation, and‘sec-
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Committee of :Eleven, addressed the
convention at itsfinal session Thurs-

day afternoon. v- He referred to the iso- ‘

lation of farmers as one factor in pro-
ducing a lack of cooperation, but he
warned them against allowing them-
selves to be pushed down to. the mere
existence of the peasant of Siberian
Russia thirty years ago, before they
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through necessity. “We hope his ideas
of democracy as found in this nation
will teach the value of united action,
andkthat it will be possible to convince
'the other citizenry of our country that
the strength of our nation will depend
upon the development of its agricul-
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should be allowed 'to cooperate in their
marketing undertakings.

“It is a hard lesson for individuals
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farmers living as they do Widely sep-
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community is concerned. , But the time
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While it is claimed that the creamery _

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Hoes CONTINUE TO ADVANCE.

  
  
   
 

 

Despite the great surplus of corn,
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‘7 but. when the bears cannot break the
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as disclosed by a shrinkage of nearly
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markets during the first seven weeks
of the year compared with a like
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valuable aid in maintaining soil
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grown in a four-year rotation the yield
of dry matter for all crops produced
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cluded,‘therefore, that there is a con—
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Mexican government
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Fight in the Study.

ATON dismissed the man who had

been waiting in his rooms for
him; be locked the door and carefully
drew down all the window- shades.
Then he put his overcoat, folded as he
had been carrying it under his arm, on
the writing table in the center of the
room, and from its folds and pockets
took a “breast-drill” such as iron work-
ers use in drilling steel, an automatic
pistol with three clips of cartridges, an
electric flashlight and a little bottle of
nitroglycerine. He loaded the pistol
and put it in his pocket; then he \care-
fully inspected the other things.

The room he was in, the largest of
his suite, resembled Santoine’s study
on the floor below in the arrangement,
of its windows, though it was smaller
than the study. The writingdesk in
its center occupied much the pdsition
of Sani'oine’s large desk: he moved it
slightly to make the relative positions
coincide. The couch against the wall
represented the position of the study’ 5
double doors. Eaton switched out the
lights, and starting at the windows, he
crossed the room in the darkness
avoiding the desk and stopping a few
feet to the right of the couch; here he
flashed his light upon the wall at the
height of the little wall-safe to the
right of the doors in the study below.
A dozen times he did this, passing
from the Windows to the position of
the wall-safe and only momentarily
flashing his light.

He assured himself thus of being
able to pass in the dark from the win-
dows of Santoine’s study to the. wall-
safe. As the study was larger than
this, room, he computed that he must
add two steps to what he took here in
each direction. He paid no attention
to the position of the safe to the left
of the doors, for he had kept watch of
the vase on the table in the lower hall,
and the only sign he had found there
had told him that what he wanted was
in the safe to the right.

' He raised a shade and Window, then
and sat in the dark. The night was
cloudy and very dark; and the lake
was smooth with barely a ripple. Near
at hand a steamer passed, blazing
with lights, and further out he saw the
mast—head light of some other steamer.
The lake Was still ice—locked at its
northern end, and so the farther of
these steamers, he knew, was bound
to some southern Michigan port; the
nearer was one of the Chicago—Milwau-
kee boats. For some moments after it
had passed, the waves of its wake
washed in and sounded on the shore
at the foot of the bluff. Next Eaton
made out the hum of a motor-car ap-
proaching the house. It was Avery,
who evidently had been out and was
now returning; the chauffeur spoke

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as the car swung away to the garage.

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Eaton still sat inthe dark. By degrees I

all noises ceaSed in the house, even'in
the servants’ quarters. Twice Eaton
leaned forward looking out of the win-
dow and found: all quiet; but both
times he settled back in his chair and
waited.

The wash of waves, as from a pass»
ing boat, sounded again on the shore.
Eaton leaned nearer the window and
stared out. There was no light in sight
showing any boat; .but the waves on
the shore were distinct; indeed, they

 

had been more distinct than those from
the steamer. They must have been
made by a large vessel or from a small
ship close in and moving fast. The
waves came in first on the north and
swept south; Eaton strained his eyes
and saw a vague blur of: to the south
and wi bin half a 'mile of shore—a
boat without lights. If it had passed
at high speed, it had stopped now.
He watched this for some time; but he
could make out no more, and soon he
could not be sure even that the blur
was there. ' _

He gazed at the south wing of the
house; it was absolutely dark and
quiet; the Windows of the first floor
were closed and the curtains drawn;
but tonight there was no light in the
room. The windows of the room on
the second floor were open; Basil San-
toine was undoubtedly asleep. Eaton
gazed again at the lower room. Then
in the dark he moved to the table
where he had left his overcoat, and
distributed in his pockets and within
his clothing all the articles he had
brought; and now he felt again in the
overcoat and brought out a short,
strong bar of steel curved and flatten-

- ed at one end—a “jimmy” for forcing
the windows.

Eaton slipped ofi his shoes and went
to his room door; he opened the door
and found' thehall dark «and quiet. He
stepped out, closing his door carefully
behind him, and with great caution he
descended the stairs. Below, all was
quiet; the red embers and glowing
charcoal of wood fires which had blaz-
ed on the hearths gave the only’light.
Eaton crept to the doors of the blind
man’s study and softly tried them.

They were, as he had expected, locked,

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room which was set in a recess and so
placed that it was not visible from oth-
er windows in the house. lie-opened
this window and let- himSelf down up-
on the lawn.

There he stood still for a moment.
listening. There was no alarm of any
sort. He crept along beside the house
till he came to the first windows of the
south wing. He tried these carefully
and then went 011.1111 gained the
south corner of the wing, unobserved
or at least without sign that he had
been seen, and went on around it.

 

He stopped at the first high French
window on the south. It was partly
hidden from view. from south and west
by a column of the portico, and was
the one he had selected for his opera-
tions; as he tried to slip his jimmy
under the bottom of the sash, the win-
dow, to his amaze-ment,-opened silently.
on its hinges; it had not been locked.
The heavy curtains within hung just
‘in front of him; he put out his hand
and parted them. Then he started
back in astonishment and crouched
close to the ground; inside‘the room
was a man moving about, flashing an
electric torch before him and then ex—
ploring an instant in darkness and
flashinghis torch again. . ‘
The unexpectedness of this sight
took for an instant Eaton’s breath and
power of moving; he had not been at
all prepared for this; now he knew
suddenly that he ought to have been
prepared for it. If the man within the
mom was not the one who had attack-
ed him with the motor..he was closely
allied with that man, and what he was
after now was the same thing Eaton
was after.
him; no one apparently had been left
on watch‘outside. He drew his pistol,
.and loosing the safety, he .made it
ready to fire; with his left hand, he

clung; to the short, heavy jimmy. He‘

stepped into the'great room through
the curtains, taking care they did not
jingle the rigs from which they hung;
he carefully let the curtains fall to-
gether behind him, and treading noise-
lessly in his stocking feet, he advanced
upon the man, moving forward in each
period of darkness between the flashes
of the electric torch.

The man, continuing to flash his

Eaton looked-about behind.

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light about, plainly had heard nothing.
and the curtains had prevented him
from being warned by the chill of the,
night air that the window was open;
but now, at tin? {rather side of the
room, another electric torch flashed
out. Another man. had been in the
room; he neither alarmed nor was
alarmed by the man flashing the first
light; each had known of the other’s
presence before. There were at least
two men in the room, working togeth-
eré-or rather, ”one was working, the
other supervising; for ~Eaton heard
how a steady, almost inaudible grind-
ing noise as the woodman worked.

Eaton” halted again and waited; if -

there were two, there might be others.

The discovery of the second man
had not made Eaton afraid; his pulses
were beating faster and hotter, and he
felt the blood rushing to his head and
his hands growing Cold with his excite-
ment; but he was conscious of no fear.
He crouched and crept forward noise-
lessly again. No other light appeared
in the room, andvthere was nosound
elsewhere from the darkness; but the
man who supervised had moved closer
to the other. The grinding noise had
stopped; it was follrJWed by a sharp
click; the men, side by side, were
bending over something; and the light
of the man who had been working, for
a fraction of a second shot into the
face of the other. It did not delay'at
all; it was a purely accidental flash
and could not have been said to show
the features at all—only a posture, an
expression, a personality of a 'strong
and cruel man. He muttered some
short: hoarse imprecation at the oth-
er; but before Eaton heard the voice,
he had stopped as if struck, and his
b1eath had gone from him.

His instant’s glimpse of that face as-
tounded, stunned, stupefied him. He
could not have seen‘that inan! The
fact was impossible. He must have
been mad, his mind must have becOme
unreliable to let him even imagine it.
Then came the sound of his voice—
the voice of the man whose face he
had seen! it was he! And in place
of the paralysis of'the. first instant,
now a. wild, {Savage throe of passion
seized Eaton; his Ipulses leaped so it
seemed they must burst his veins, and
he gulped and choked. He had not
filled in with insane fancy 'the features
of the man, whom he had seen; the
voice witnessed too that the man in
the dark by the wall was he Whom
Eaton—if he could have dreamed such
a fact as now had been disclosed—
would have circled the world to catch
and destroy; yet now with the de-
struction of that man in his power—-
for he had but to aim and empty his
automatic- pistol at five paCes———Such
destruction at this moment could not
suffice; mere shooting that man would
be petty, ineffectual. Eaton’s fingers

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strike. .4 The grip ,of his left hand
clamped onto the Sheet steel bar, and

, with lips" parted—breathing once, it

seemed, for each heartbeat and yet

choking, suffocating—he leaped for- .

ward.

At the same instant—so that he '

could not have been alarmed by Ea-
tons leap—the man who had been
working moved his torch and the light
fell upon Eaton.

“Look out!” the man cried in alarm
to his companion; with the word the
light of the torch vanished.
~ The man toward whom Eaton rush-
ed did not have time to switch off his
light; he drop ed it instead; and as
‘r him, he crouched.
Eaton, as he struck forward,«found
nothing; but below his knees, Eat’on
felt a man’s powerful arms tackling
him; as he struggled to free himself,
a swift, savage lunge lifted him from
his feet; he was thrown and hurled
backwards.

Eaton ducked his head forward and
struggled to turn, as he went down,

so that a shoulder and not his head or

back would strike the floor first. He
succeeded in this, though in his effort
he dropped the jimmy. He clung with
his right hand to the pistol, and as he
struck the floor, the pistol shot off;

‘ the flash of flame spurted toward the
' ceiling.

Instantly the grip below his
knees was loosed; the man who had
tackled him and hurled him back’ had
recoiled in the darkness. Eaton got to
his feet but crouched and crept about
behind a table, aiming his pistol Over
it in the direction in which the sup-
posed the other men must be. The
sound of the shot had, ceased to roar
through the room; the gases from the
powder only made theair heavier. The
other two men in the roam also wait-
ed, invisible and silent. The only light
in the great curtained room, came
from the single electric torch lying on
the floor. This lighted the legs of a
chair, a corner of a desk and a circle
of books in the cases in the wall. As
Eaton’s eyes became more accustomed
to the darkness, he could see vague
shapes of furniture.

The other men seemed also to have
recognized this; no one moved in the
room, and there was complete silence.

Eaton knelt on one knee behind his

table; now he was wildly, exultantly

excited; his blood leaped hotly to his
hand pointing his pietol; he panted,
almost audibly, for breath, but though
his pulse throbbe’d through his head
too, his mind was clear and cool as he
reckoned his situation and his chances.
He had crossed theJacific, the Contié
nent, he had schemed and risked ev-
erything with the mere hope of get-

ting into this room to discover evi-.

dence with which to demand from the
world righting of the wreng which had
driven him as a fugitive for five years;

and here he found the man who was.

the cause of it all, before him in the
same room a few paces away in the
dark!

For it was impossible that this was
not that man; and Eaton knew now
that this was he who must have been
behind and arranging “and directing
the attacks upon him. Eaton had not
only seen him and heard his voice,
but he had felt his grasp; that sudden,
instinctive crouch before a charge, and
the savage lunge and tackle were the
instant, natural acts of an old lines-
man on a Championship team in the
game of football as it was played twen-
ty years before. That lift of the op-

" ponent off his feet and the heavy lunge

hurling him back to fall .on his-head
was what one man—in the rougher,
more cruel days of the college game—
had been famous for. On the football
field that throw sufficed to know a

.helmeted opponent unconscious; here .
moan; beyond doubt. to do

   

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HE letters which follow are from
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from opposite poles of belief, as
far apartas the “east is from. the
we‘st.’ No two men may be farther
apart in their attitude toward things
religious, if conclusions may safely be
drawn from what they write Hence
it is not likely that the replies will be
satisfactory to either one.

Number one: “As I was reading
your weekly sermon where you say
that God is nothing but a. spirit—now,
my dear brother, will you kindly tell
me how God could make heaven and
earth and He be-
ing a spirit? - And
He made all living
things; both heav-
en and earth and
the sea, and how
could He do it
without body and
hands, please an-
swer. And He be-
ing a. spirit, how
c o u l (1 He make
Adam and take a
rib out of a man
to form the body of clay, and breathe
in him and bring forth a ‘living soul,
and yet have no hands to do it with?’
“And many other things he did. Now,
my dear brother, how could He do all

 

HE gentleman who writes the

above seems to forget or not to
know, that the writer was (hating the
Bible when he said that God is Spirit.
See John 4:25. It is Christ who says
it. See also I Cor. 3:17. “Now the
Lord is that Spirit.” And this per-
fectly agrees with our reason. We
knowjfor instance, that man is spirit.
When the spirit leaves the body, the
body is useless, lifeless, dead, a. thing
to be buried, I never saw you, nor you
me. I see your body, but the real you
is the invisible spirit. If the soul is
immortal, as we believe 'it tovbe, it is
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a much greater scale, God is a spirit.
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erywhere at once. In that wonderful

. passage in the Psalms it says this

truth in a. beautiful way: “Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? or whither
shall I flee from thy presence? If I
ascend up into heaven thou are there:
if I make my bed, in hell, behold, thou.
art there. If Intake the wingsof the
morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea; even there shall thy,
cover me.” The metaphor here is that
is that God is a Spirit, equally present
at all places at all times. God is equal-
ly present when your little boy in
Michigan prays to Him,» when a. China-
man on the other side of the earth
prays to him, when some Australian
prays to Him, and millions more, all
at the same instant are worshiping
Him or praying to Him- Christ’s defi-

and there has never been a. better
statement of what God is.

Number two: This gentleman is
much incensed because I wrote of
Roosevelt as a Christian. The letter
he writes is we long to quote entire,

.but the part relating to Roosevelt is,

that he was not a. .Christian in any
sense of the word. He “oWes his hold
on the ignorant masses to the fact
that he was a vigorous animal who at- v
tended prize-fights and hunted bear
and killed lions.” “Roosevelt knew
nothing of the square deal he prated
about. " “So much for the erratic, ir-
responsible, revolutionary, ripping,
ranting, roaring, rule or ruin ‘Roose-
velt.” I had supposed that When afl
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IF Roosevelt was as bad as 11,111 gen-
tleman’s letter states, it is strange
that he escaped state’ 5 prison. As for
his hold on the “ignorant.r masses, ” I
leave that to those who loved him, vot-
ed fer him, and. workedfor him, and
they Werea numerous tribe. We can
live under the same flag, I’trust, even
if we don’t agree as to our national
heroes. This letter goes onto make
statements about Jesus Christ, such as
the following. Only selections are
quoted: “Jesus Christ, we are told,
came to teach mankind, to serve as an
example and to die for them. But he
failed 'to convince the gene-ration he
lived among, and even his own broth-
ers. and sisters (Renan) and all gener-
ations of Christians have disputed
about his doctrines.” “In regard .to
marriage he was an escetic; and yet
we are told that Christianity is 3. rev
ligion of love. Everything is based on
the physical; the intellectual faculties
guids us only in'physical things, and
the moral which are really one with
the intellectual, tell us when we are
right or wrong, Eccording as circum-
stances change.” “So truth is incum-
bent in a. peaceful industrial state of

society, as it facilitates cooperation.

but in a state of war falsehood is legit-
imate as indeed murder so to speak.”
“So much for the teachings of Christ;
as an example he was a failure. No

one who never had a Wife, children, or, _

sweetheart can be an example to me.
He seems never to have had an occu-
pation, depending on the charity of
others.” “I suggest that if you are an

honest man .you want to hear all sides,

of a question and therefore begin with
Paine and Ingersoll.’

HE New Testament which our cor-

respondent reads must be differ-
ent from the ordinary one, afs he
seems to have imbibed very strange
ideas. When he quotes Renan he is
quoting one whom scholars long ago
classified as one who wrote an extrav-
agant and ill-balanced life of Christ.
If a, man. quotes authorities he ought
to keep up with the times and quote

the recent ones, not the old-timers. We ‘ V

do not read that Christ was an ascetic.
He always accepted social invitations,
nor is there a record anywhere of his
refusing one, even though it was e11-
tended by peow who were “sinners.”
If He failed to convince his own gen-
eration, it is hard to account for St.

‘Paul’s work, orthe very rapid spread '

of Christianity. It isvery difficult to
understand also how men ’of brains

like Irenaeus, Tertuillian, Augustine,

and a host more, were won to Chris—
tianity and defended it, many. of them
with their lives. Christianity was not
embraced by the ignorant and oppress-

_ aged only, but men of intellect and so-
nition of His Father is, “God is Splrit,” '

cial standing. As for Christ teaching
that the “everything is based on the
physical,“ I‘leave that to any person
who reads the New Testament and} is
fairly well acquainted with its con-
tents. Did he have’an occupation? See
Mark 6:3.
where the correspondent gets his idea
that falsehood and murder are"legiti-
mate in war. ‘ I do not deny but that
falsehood is practiced in war, and-per-
haps murder, but I do not see where
,the New Testament teaches these
things. ‘I have“ never heard that bless-
ing, attended the, reading of Palne‘a‘nd
In‘gersoll; that whole civilizations

have been changed and millions trans.-

formed- by their teachings; if I had
heard this, I would probably be a. dis-
,ciple of Paine and ingersoll toda
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By Jim L. Littell

T was October, the sort of October
when, ' . .~
“Once more crawls the meditative

plough:
And still the sun shines cloudless,
hot and big.

Mother Allen was giving a party far
Milly, the first social gathering she
attended since she came into her new
home. Father Allen had been deten
mined to ask everyone from far and
wide—“A county home-coming,” Bob
dubbed the idea-but the rest of the
family over-ruled' him. "

“Just the neighbors,” Mother Allen
insisted, “and no week .or two of bak-
ing beforehand. If it’s a nice day we’ll

cook our dinner in'the grove, make

1 " ’em bake their own potatoes and roast

‘ their own wienies. I’ve wanted 'to cook
a meal 'outside‘ ever since the first
auto party camped across the road
\and I watched them build their‘fire.
If I could forget the sight of a stove

’ I believe I could stop wearing glasses.”

Her idea was hailed with delight by
the guests as they arrived, ihe more
especially as pasteboard lates and

. paper cups, with Sharpen sticks for
forks, removed them from the advan-
tages of civilization—and dishwashing.

, The only concession to modernity was
the knives, which, semehow, seemed a
necessity for cutting up the steaks.
Gay groups were soon busy at the fire-

. places broiling steaks, toasting wie-
nies, watching potatoes. buried in hot
ashes and superintending the brewing
of coffee, while Chester and Tom hov-
ere'd about offering to get more wood
or to bring water, and calling the at-

; .‘tention of the new arrivals to the fire-

"places‘which' they had made.
, “Is it October or June?” Milly'ex-

claimed as. they gathered about the ta-

bles, arranged in a hollow-square. , .
“June, if,this, is a token.” ,Bo'b laid
found this
on the big bush. ”

And when, later Tom and Chester,
who had eaten quickly and disap-
peered, came marching down from the
house bearing huge strawberry short-
cakes, the fruit of the ever~bearing
plants, everyone agreed that the calen-
dar was wrong.

“‘It’s been the jolliest time we ever
had,”- the women voiced, as they gath-

. ered up the “dishes” and burned them-
' at the dying fires, there‘ were no “frag-
“Nobddy is tired ’

ments” to gather up.
out with a lot of cooking, and there
are no dishes to wash nor long table
cloths to iron next week.”

“Why don’t we do this ,oftener?”
‘M'yra Jones asked. “We never seem

Lessons In Health Culture

5~Exerczre
By Rut/1 Selby

XERCISE, regular, judicious exer-
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“health and 'the‘ up-building of the hu-
'1nan body than most people are aware
of. All work is exercise, and manual
labor when performed with regularity
and moderation, and especially when
‘oné loves the work and there is in-
centive for doing it, is beneficial to
health. ' . . m.

. But we are not dealing with the sub-
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.. all know that the great incentives of

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- the autos drove away was a chorus.

.of life. Women, living in farm houses

as in the gymnasium, but to think of
the busy housewife, farmer, mechanic,
'merchant, and others whose duties are
_;-urgent and varied, ‘chinning, " doing
, bod-"Vt ‘ists, arm and leg stretches,
' 305

to get together without someone being
sotired with cooking and the thought
of ‘cleaning up afterwards that it sort
of spoils things for all of us.”
“Why can’t we have something
where we don’t eat?” Mrs. Peterson
demanded. ‘ ' *
“But what would we do if we didn’t

eat?” the'astonishment in plump Mrs,

Mason’s voice drew-a laugh from ev-
eryone.

“What’s the-matter with a club?”
Mrs“ Peterson answered. “The folks
over at Loon Lake have one, and I
guess Poplarville women are just as
bright-as they are. Now, we’ve'got a
school teacher with .us all the time,”
she smiled at Milly, “we’ ve got to sit
up and watch our grammar.”

"‘Oh, both grammar, I never could
diagram a sentence,” Mrs. Masondis
missed study.

Somebody came up to Johannesburg
last Winter from Ann Arbor. or Lansing
or some place and started the women
there at work. Do you know who it
would be, Mrs. Bob?”

“I suppose it was someone from the
Agricultural College, ” Milly answered.
“We could get a specialist from there
if enough are interested.” '

“Well, I am, and I, and I,” a score of _.

.women eagel 1y cried.

“There’s so much handwmk on ev- '

Terything. now,” Myra Jones broke in.
“Doris cried .yesterday because I didn’t
know how‘ to put daisies on her apron
pockem' Ruth Deering had posies on
her' apron, and, of course, Doris want-
ed them, too.' '

“ “Why not have someone write the

ing‘!” Milly suggested. “We’ll have to
ask for an open date and—”

*“But I’d like to ‘learn«
how to make my own clothes and hats. .
Why couldn’t we start a sewing club? ~

1

' college and try to arrange for a meet- .

 

“You do it, you’re used to that sort .

of thing,” the vote was unanimous”

. “And doit right away; maybe I can
embroider something for Doris before
Christmas.” Myra Ordered.

: , “Here,” broke in Mother Allen. “I’m
not going to have my party turned into
a business meeting, VVe’re here to
play. Milly, you take ’em to the house,
while 1 round up the men for a sing.”

But the new club was the under cur-
rent of every woman’ s mind. Between
songs it would crop out.

“I’ll tell you,” ily’iéa said, finally.
“Meet me within a week from this af-
ternoon and we’ll organize. Maybe by
that time we’ll hear from the college.”
' And the last thing Milly heard as

“Now, don’t forget that letter; be
sure to get it ed in the morning.”

especially, as a rule, do not get suf-

ciselwe are considering now, is that . ~

intended especially for health and 160-
reation. Work exercises some of the
muscles but it does not exhilarate and
give pleasure, as do out-door games,‘
horse(baCk riding, rowing, ‘etc; and all
peoplevnéed some diversion from the
regular routine ‘of work."

There are many health exercises
taught by physical culturists fOl spe-
cial body- -building and for strengthen-
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OUSECLEANING time will soon
be here. Along with other arti-

cles like rugs. and curtains, the.

household furniture will show the‘ef-
fects of hard ‘winter usage. It is 'a
simple and inexpensive matter to re-
furbish old furniture so that it again
gladdens the eye ofthe thrifty house-
wife.

Chairs and tables should be done
over carefully for loose “joints and
loose spindles. Do not try to uSe melt-
ed glue. It is unsatisfactmy and very
messy. Get a, ten cent bottle of liquid
glue, and glue fast all loose joints and
spindles. The next thing to do is to
clean the article of ‘its' accumulated
grease and dirt. No matter how ‘care-
fully you have used polish, the surface
of furniture will have a g1 easy feeling
by spring. Reni‘bve this, by washing the
piece in gasoline, alcohol or strong
This should be done out of

Open the windows and let the gas
fumes out. When the piece is d1 y, go
over it carefully with fine sandpaper
or emery cloth. O,‘or double 0, sand-
paper is the kind to use. Be sum and
use the paper with the gIain of the
wood. This sandpapeling may be dis-
pensed with if there me no mars 01
scratches on the surface of the piece
and you have done a thorough job 'of
cleaning. . ,,

After the piece is. thoroughly dry
and wiped free from dust, apply stain.
An acid stain is best for fine pieces
which are to be finished with varnish.
For the less important pieces 3. var-
nish stain will be satisfactory. The.
secret of getting an even stain is to
wipe over the stained area with a cloth
right after applying the stain. The
staining is necessary to get an even
color over the marred places.
only brightens and never
marred place.

After the pieces are stained with
acid stain and very‘dry, three methods
of finishing remain. For articles which
get no rough useage, such as picture

Choice Color

i ~ niture and rugs should be used
as a nucleus, as these are very seldom
changed. Of course, if the furniture is
old and scarred and is not to be re.
finished it would be best to use darker
shades, otherwise all, the defects of the
furnishings would be shown up.

But it is not necessaIy to have any
scratched and marred furniluk When
there are so many products on the
market today Whig can be bought at
a very nominal 00 especially design-
ed to make chairs and tables look new
and attractive. -

A coat of stain with a. couple of
coats of varnish, after the old finish
has.been removed, will do wonders to
any old article. Or a coat of enamel
with a dainty design Stenciled on 3.

covers 3.

~ bedroom suite will make it a thing of? . '

Varnish '

HEN decorating a room the fur-

 

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frames and stands, you can get a bead-

tifully soft effect With cemmon floor
wax. Apply the wax with the finger
tips or a small brush. A light coat is
best. Now with a stiff bristle brush,
brush with the grain until you get a.
soft polish. Everytime you wipe the
surface with a dust cloth afterwards
the surface will take on an added
polish. .

For pieces which get rough usage,
such as kitchen chairs, the varnish

. stain will give a sufl‘icie-nt finish. JuSt

apply it‘with a brush and let it dry
thoroughly. For finer pieces you may
apply floor varnish or the very best
made of furniture varnish.
simply ask for varnish you will get a
varnish which seemingly never drys.
Always do your varnishing in a .Warm
room free from dust. If y‘ Wish 8.
quick-drying finish, very lasing, less
expensive, but not quite so also look-
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An Attractive One-.piece Spring Model
Suitable for Outdoor Wear.

Combinations

gray wall for a background, with pink
drapes, white curtains, old rose and
white rag rugs with a. little touch of
verypale blue ‘here and there; or a
bedroom suite stained oak with cream
or ivory background, with either blue
and yellow cretonne overdrapes or
brown and 'cream drapes, ivory cur-
tains and a nice brown and tan rag
rug?

Of course,.in combining the two or

more colors, the shades should also
be taken into consideration. For in-
stance, a pale blue and pale pink are

very pretty and one” will offset‘ the °

other, but if the shades are dark they-«if: , - .

will clash. Gray is a neutral colornnd‘ _ 'j i. f . "

almost any "color will harmonise‘”with ‘ ’ '
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If you ‘

hoists official

shellac and apply the shellac with a.
soft paint bI‘USh.‘ This makes an ex-

cellent finish for cupboards,. kitchen,

cabinets and wooden beds.

Just now fashion has 'swun'g away
from the metal beds. If you have an
old, wooden bed with a very high end,
cut through the poets just above the
panel, remove the top above the cut,
place the top rail back between the
posts, repolish the bed and you have
an up- —to- date bedstead. If ydu are for-
tunate to have an old-fashidned spindle

bed tuckediaway In the attic, get it. .

out and polish it up; you will be right
in style. Old-fashioned bureaus from
grandmother’s day are right in style.
Polish them up and your friends will
exclalm in rapture.

Old friends, 'old books, old. furniture
and a Michigan farm"make up the sum.
total of humdn happiness. Treat them
well, they are priceless.

CARE OF' HARDWARE.

 

EEP iron utensils dry and brightly g
polished, for a polished, rust'free .,
' surface rusts much less readily than a: '
rough and spotted one. Water and air]: f
cause rusting. Qover the outside of.
the iron with oil, melted wax, vasellnek 3
or- stove polish. Paintlis good for Out-I
door hardware, such‘ as flower. pots; ‘ T

Ja‘pan lacquer bakedomand polished

is a satisfactory covering. Enamel

cracks if subjected to shocks or to rap-
id heating or cooling and then the
iron becomes exposed. The simplest
and easiest way to clean enamel is to
wash it with soap and water, Scour-
ing soaps or powders should not'be
used as they may cut through the ena-

‘ mel and leave the iron unCovered.-—

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UTTON, button, who’s got the but. "

ton?” Is there a woman who
doesn’t play that game every week af-
ter the washing and ironing is done?
Some sewing on of buttons seems in-

, evitable each week, but here are a few

suggestions to keep the number few.
On thin garments, run a strip of tape
down the button side, and sew buttons
to this. Always use coarse thread put
the knot onthe right side underthe
button, and fasten the end' of the
thread securely with three small back
stitches before cutting off In using a.

-wringer, take time to fold the buttons

inside the garment before wringing. It
will not take so much time to do that

and kee‘p the button on, as to tear it,

off and have it to sew on later. When
you buy a ready-to-wear garment, saw

on all the buttons before the garment?

is worn.

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ITH the high cost of material
many of the newer houses con-

tain just enough room for the“
-- members of the family,

and . when
guests come there are ~many make-
shifts who made to accommodate all.
If company over ni’ ht is not a fre-
quent happening the it iseasy to man
age, but where guests come "often it
takes carefulplanning on the part of
the housewife to get through without
‘Many a woman has wished
for a house built of India rubber that’
she could stretch on occasions to fit
her needs, and than let it fly back to

place when‘the need was over for in-

creased space, but until such a dwell-

‘ing can be invented by some genius

laboring for the good of ,womankind
some other ideas will'have to be car-
ried out in the little house. '
For’about six months in the year a
tent that can be set up on the lawn

_ will make an ideal “annex” to any farm

house, and since most of the Country
company1comes in summer the sleep-
ing problem is not so complex if the
boys or the men folks or the girls or
(even the ladies of the family can be
shifted to the temporary sleeping quar-
ters. With the fly of the tent open and
a netting over it to keep out insects;
the tent is the ideal place to sleep,
even when there are no guests.

The tent furnishings can be old and
simple. Several old beds or cots sim-
ply spread up with old sheets and old
quilts will supply 'every need. Our
neighbors sleep in a tent all summer,
and one of them is a lady past seventy.
Of course, an occasional storm drives

- them to the' house, but that doesn’t

happen often, particularly after July.

Even a little summer kitchen or clean,

woodhouse which has had many Wm-
d‘ows or openings added for a summer
sleeping apartment is better than a
stuffy upstairs room right under the
eaves. '
Then there is the screened porch
that is even better than the tent. By
using screens or hangings to separate
the “apartments” the'whole family can
rest and enjoy the fresh air from
spring to fall, leaving the inside rooms
to the chaHCe guest. If the porch is in
front, cots should be used so they can‘
be stacked away when the room is
wanted for a sitting-room; but if at

' the side or back they can be left in

place all day, or old-fashioned bed-
steads can be used. If each bed has
an oil cloth cover an occasional storm
will do no harm, or the porch can be

' fitted with windows that will close.

If there is no money for a tent or to
build a porch with screens, there are
still ways to manage. A couch that,
can be made into: a bed in the living-
room will answer, or cots can be car-
ried in from the woodhouse and back
out- in the daytime. It is not an ideal
way, but it will do until prosperity
makes an addition to the house possi-
ble. If a cot 'must be used in winter it
should be a three-Quarters one fittgd

' with a good mattress, as it is very easy
‘ to catch cold with only a little bedding

golded under the sleeper and that liable

" "to sfip from under him in the night.

Every piece of old bedding should be

' ; saved fer the makeshift beds, as it is

hard on good things particularly
"etty light comforts, to itse them

"loo [m cat. beds where «they are".

 

N0 Guest Reom

Richmond.

It takes forethought and extra bed-
ding and good management to make a
number of people comfortable by us-
ing the living rooms as bed rooms, but
it can be done and the mistress of the
house who longs for more bed roams
can console herself with the fact that
a little houSe has its advantages for
everyday living that the big house has
not, even if the big house is better
when company comes.

HOW I MADE WINDOW DRAPES. ,

 

By Doris W. McCray.

E moved into a different house

and as is usually the case, none

of.my curtains fit the windows.
Half of them were too long and the
other half too short. We were not
sure how long we would be in this
house, so I,planned to spend only a
small sum’in fixing up the curtains. I
hung a curtain up at one of the long
windows and found it lacked 12' inches
of touching the sill. I decided to have
a cretonne valance across the top thus
making the window- appear shorter.
But I omitted side drapes, since they
would make additional vertical lines
which always add height. An 18—inch
valance looked very well, as far as
spacing was concerned. So it was de-
cided about the valance, and up un-
derneath where nobody could see, the
curtains were pieced with some old
material I had on hand.

The windows in the living room
were short, and I did hate to cut my
curtains. I decided that by using va-
lances here, I could fold the curtain
over behind and save cutting.
valences add width to the window, just

as when a stout woman wears a plaid,

dress. But really they are very good
looking, in spite of the fact that I
violated the principles of good design.
Perhaps I shall add side drapes later.

The material I selected was a heavy
cretonne Tm e, green, blue and
brown. . colors are lovely and
blend together into an indistinct all-
over design. There are three scallops
on each valance, and they are finished
with a narrow blue fringe. Later I am
planning to use them for a bed room,
when we can afford pretty silk hang-
ings for the living room.

The material was 36 inches wide, so
it was the right width for the Va-
lances when split. I did not split it,
of course, but fitted the pattern on
the material so that between the scal-
lops were large pieces' of material. The
window seat was 18 inches wide, so
that a pad was made for it to match.
Then I made a charming cretonne cov-
ered waste basket, by pasting the ma-
terial and trimming flat on to a paste
board sugar bucket from the grocery.
There are some plain blue cushions

with touches of flowered cretonne, and '

a lamp shade to match. And just think
how pretty they will be in the guest
room, when we move to the next
house, and fix the curtains all over
again!

 

.0111 can. rubbers can be used several

times without danger of losing your .

fruit, by dipping in paraffin. Dip rub-
bers in melted parafiin, place 'on jar,
and screw on the top. Work quickly.

.. —J. J. O’C.
Make a bag of strong not or other

cloth that can be seen through and ’
_«put the scraps left from sewing in
. this, When it is necessary to find the

 

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HEN Bessie Marton started to

cross the fields that bright June

day; she little dreamed that she
would discover the opportunity. she
had so long desired. She would not
have seen it if she had not already
learned to use her ears as well as her
eyes.

A queer, low hum had first attracted
her attention. Investigation revealed
a dark brown mass hanging from a
low cherry tree, and she became so
interested in watching the animated
imass, that she failedto notice where

she put her hand and inadvertently
crushed one of the little workers."

Now Bessie had always supposed
that a bee sting was as painful as a.
hornet’s, so she was very su1p1ised to

painful.

“Why, I can take cure of bees if
that is all they hurt,” thought Bessie,
and hurried back to the house to find
a box and see if she could get the
swarm into it. ,

That was her beginning, but Bessie
did not stop there. She wrote to the
experiment station and got all the lit-.
erature they could sendher; then she
spent her spare time reading it.

In the fall she took off fifty pounds
of honey which she sold to a lobal
hotel for twenty cents a pound, or ten

discover that they were not nearly so "

The Busy Bees Help 363816

A Sting Attracts Her Attention to Bee Pom:'éz_'lzh'e.1
_with her bees—but she surprised them '

-By J. Leland Fowler

dollars. This money she used «for an-
other swarm of bees and three old
hives which a neighboring farmer had
offered to sell. They were good, sol-id
hives, but very dirty. She scrubbed
them thoroughly inside and out; tack-
ed heavy paper around them and was
ready for the spring rush. as her fath-
er langhingly told a. neighbor. _Her

father had no faith in bees and said'

they were just a waste of time.

The next year she succeeded in sav-
ing four new swarms and the six of
themimade: over four hundred pounds
of honey which netted her eighty dol-
lars. She again invested all of the
profits in new material and more bees
so that she faced the new year with
eight good swarms of bees ‘and several
new hives. -

When Bessie started across 'the
fields that eventful June day, she was
longing to go to high-school and col-
lege. She wanted to get out of the
rut that the other farm girls were in.
She longed to have more money and
be able to “buy some of the pretty
things she saw in the stores, so her
family supposed that they would soon
hear of some wonderful plans—mow
that she was having such fine success

 

By Helen

AM a member of the first Spotted
Poland-China Pig Club in Michigan
under a county club leader, under
a state club leader, and run according
to the rules laid down by the state
club leader. There are three boys and
three girls in our club. We bought
our pigs June 13, of G. S. Coffman,
and also chose him for our local club
leader. -
We were given record books to
keep our records in, so we would know
how much it cost us to feed our pigs,
and at the end'of the project we had
to hand them-in to our country club
leader. We were also given books‘on
feedings pigs, etc. We chose- our own
pigs by drawing a slip of paper with
a number on, the one who drew the
slip of paper with one on get first
choice, the one who drew the slip of
paper with two on got second choice,
etc. The pigs were all. farrowed be-
tween March‘15 and April 17.; ‘ ‘
Mr. Coffman weighed~ our pigs every
month and the club members went
with him from place to place so" we
knew what everyone else in the club]
was doing.

  

 

 

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when -we will follow the sow and litter.
Also none of the memes“
care to change breed of: pigs, for w 1,
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Cofiman

pounds each. The first month the av-
e1age gain for each pig was twenty~
nine and two-thirds pounds; the sec-
ond month, fifty-six and one-third
pounds each; the third month, thirty-
nine and one-half pounds each, and
the fourth month, forty-four pounds
each. The average weight at the end
of the project was 224 pounds each.
One girl in the club started out ‘with
a forty-three-pound pig, the end of the
first month it _ weighed eighty-four
pounds; the end of the second month
it weighed 168.7pounds, and at the end
of the third month it welghed’228
pounds. If anyone can beat these with
a Spotted Poland-China or any other

breed of pig, we are very anxious to _

know it.

We took, our pigs to Unity Grange
Fair, where I got first prize, and to

ond prize. We all had to pay for our

pigs and pay for the feed they ate.
We all still have our pigs and are

going to keep them another year,:

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all by telling them that she would like
to take a short course at the agricul-
tural college; learn all she could about
bees and their handling, and then start
a modern “Apiary” in partnership with
her father. .

His prejudice against bees had been

. entirely overcome, so he was very glad .

to hear that his daughter would be
content to settle down on the old farm.
They soon had a thriving business and

by seeding the overworked land to.

honey-producing clovers, they not only
provided bee food, but built up the
run-down place and in a surprisingly
short time they had proved that the
old, land- -robbing method of farming
did not pay, They built a comfortable,
modern home, bought a car, and Bessie
even had a shining new runabout of
her own. '

She finally married an up- -to—date
yOung farmer and her father bought
her share of the business, but Bessie

always keeps a dozen swarms of bees, »

as she declares she would be lonesome
Without them, and like all women, she
enjoys having her own little bank ac-
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THE~SCOPE OF. CLUB WORK.

 

OYS’ and Girls’ Club Work is the

copper cable‘ through which our
agriculture and rural home life may
be electrified and made to function
efliciently. It makes possible the dis~
semination of our best knowledge and
facts to the people' as a whole, making
for a greater democracy in great con-
trast to the policies of autocratic gov-
ernments. It combines practice and
science, promotes industry and thrift,
contentment as against dissatisfaction,
and the use of brains as well as brawn.
It is a great influence in cementing to-

gether the various sections Of our na-

tion, for in this work north meets
South and east meets west and all to-
gether are working for the same end;
a happy, Contented, educated ,whole—
some and prosperous people. —G. L.
NonL'E, Secretary National Committee
on Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work.

 

HOT LUNCH BULLETINS.

N response to the many requests

which have been sent to the Boys'
and Girls’ Department located at the
Michigan Agricultural College, for
soup recipes, in addition to those
which they alreary have, the depart-
ment has sent the January Hot LunCh
Bulletin to each organized .club in the
state‘glving hot lunches in the schools. ,
There are still some of these bulletins
on hand at the state club leader’s of-
fice which will be gladly sent out On
request. -—T.

 

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NOW is the time to gather pussy '

willow twigs and place them in
water in a warm sunny corner.- The
flowering process will be interesting
to watCh. If you have not gathered

. “pussies” before, you will find this wil-

low which bears the ‘fpussles" is more

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and other stunts before breakfast in
the morning, would- seem absurd and
prepeSt‘erousI. .

Yet the farmer, the housewife, and
all the others need their diversions
They tend
the chickens, to. be sure, and often the
garden, but this does not afford. them
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. and get the blood to. circulate rapidly.

There is one exercise» that all health

teachers recommend and which: every»

one (who has the use of body and
limbb) may engage in, and that is
walking. And: do. you know. that in
walking one, fourth of the muscles of
the entire body are exercised? It is
to be regretted that the automobile to-
day is taking the place of this health
iful exercise. People walkI only when
they cannot ride. Even in the city,

‘where they go out so much. people

imagine they haven’t time to walk, and
when they do not run their own car,
the street car mus-11 hurry them from
place to place ~‘ ‘

No where in the world: is there bet-
ter opportunity for healthful walking
than in the open country,.where the
hand of God is visible on all sides,
rather than the hand of man; where
one can study nature in trees, and
plants, and birds, and skies, and
breathe the pure oxygen, unburdened
by the race and» eager quest after
things that, if gained, add little to: the
real happiness of life.

A young girl asked her physician

for a formula for a. rouge, and this is

what he, told her: “Buy one from
your druggist: and bury it half a mile
frOm your house; then walk there
every morning before breakfast for a
month to see that it is undisturbed.
You will not need to use it.”

But to. get the full benefit of walk-

ing one must walk correctly- as in—

structed in- article No. 1, of this series.
One must walk with energy and vigor;
there must be a spring and elasticity
to» the step, the head must be erect,
the chest well. up, and deep inspira-
tion should frequently be taken. Walk-
ing in_ thisImamier will give an easy,
graceful motion that will enable one
to walk many miles without fatigue,
when it becomes habitual.

The length of one’s walk must be
gauged. by one’s strength. If you are
not in the habit of walking make your
walks rather short at first and gradu-
ally increase them. I would advise
all sedentary persons to walk; walk
all you. have time and strength for,
but be sure you walk in the proper
manner, and breathe properly.

Frail persons and semi-invalids can
be greatly benefited by walking, but
they should remember always to stop
this side of fatigue.

Horseback riding is a most health-
ful exercise, and always stirs to ac-
tion a. sluggish liver as. well as other
inactive organs, increase the appetite
and often brings a glow to the cheeks.

Rowing also stirs- the liver' and is
excellent. for biliousness. It is also: a
wonderful exercise for developing the
arms, shoulders and .chest.

There are many special? exercises

,for health and body development that
. may be taken indoors, in a well ven-

tilated room or before an open win-
dow, but spacew will not allow me to
give them here.

T re is essentially a difference be-
the exercise of work and the

We db the former because they

   
    
  

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towels-mil: of the benefit of special
exercises. may to obtained in. dhi‘ng or-

dinary humanoidwork and. other (1311- "

ties. Btur"ihstance; inching diévelops
the hand and ferearm; churning de-
velops the arms; and -

back. SWeepi‘ng cobwebs from the
ceiling is fine exercise for the neck,
back and upper arms.
wiping up floors, if done on the knees,

will. help» to. ward ofl biliousness, and I

is also beneficial where there. is a
tendency to. a prolapsed condition of
stomach on any of the pelvic organs:

THAEEJLME perm-to CHAMPION.-

‘OR the third time in succession,

announces the: “L’Anse Sentinel,"
Ted Stensen, of Covtngton, has been
awarded. the silver cup as the cham-
pion potato club member of Michigan.
The cup was awarded by the Michigan
Potato Gmowers’ Exchange, at Cadillac.
It is offered to the member who ex-
hibits the best of sample potatoes at
the Farmers’ Week potato. show. Ted’s
third success. entitles him to possess
the cup; permanently. AtIlocal fairs
Ted has had the pleasure of winning
first against his own father.——C.

Another Chance

ERE is a second chance for the
boy or girl who reads this depart-
ment to win a dollar. Below'is a list
of ten questions, each of which can
be answered from this .issue of the
Michigan Farmer. To each of the five
boys or girls who send us the correct
answers and the page on which each
answer is found written in the neatest
and best hand writing we will send
one dollar. Number answers to corre-
spond with questions and mail to the
Educational Editor, Michigan Farmer,
Detroit, by March 17'. Watch for an-
other list in next week’s issue. Here
are the ten questions fer this week:
1. Where can culture for inoculat-
ing alfalfa be obtained?

2- How does barley compare with
corn and oats as a feed for poultry?

3. In what count y did the cow
teste1 save a dairyman from selling
his best cow?

4. What is wrong with a quotation
on “Enthusiasm” and on what page
does it appear?

5. What treatment is recommended
for a horse out of condition?

6. With reasonable care, how many
eggs should a hen lay in a year?

7. What spray will control potato
leaf hopper?

8. How many more pounds each of
dairy butter and creamery butter
were made in 1921 than in 1920?

9. Who wrote an extiavagant and
unbalanced life of Chi 1st9

10. Where will the International
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Are frogs especially beneficial to
man?——-M. L.

Frogs are indeed beneficial to man.
I will attempt to tell you of but one
specie of frogs this time, and that is
the Leopard frog, which destroys
grasshoppers by the Wholesale during
July and. August. These frogs believe
in being, active in their campaign
against the “hoppers” while they are
still in the nymph stage. Because of
its protective color this frog may eas-
ily elude you among the tall weeds or
grasses of’the moist meadows, I have
watched a Leopard frog. g-reedily de-

vour grasshoppers by the» hour, his

eyes gleaming with. satisfaction while

his sides were getting plumperam’d

plumper. You. may also. find the Leap

and frog awong the grass about oldM

wells. Those frogs. breed among the
piekefiel weeds or water. lilies on the-I‘m

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' Will; is * be issued; 1,,

, _EEPING a. flock of hens for egg
production is one of the most
profitable things that a farmer

can do,for. neither the investmentn‘or

,with reasonable care a hen should? lay

7' 'at least ten dozen (120) eggs per year.

_Hens‘will eat small wheat and kernels
off small ears of corn which a farmer
cannot sell at an elevator, also pick
overgrown cucumbers, Wormy apples,
etc. No farm animal yields a greater
percentage of profit.

Many farmers would keep more hens
if they could raise the young birds
more easily, and it is the purpose of
this article to outline the important
things that must be borne in mind in

', order to raise chickens successfully.

In the first place, eggs used for
hatching should be laid by mature
birds. .Pullet eggs are smaller than
those laid by mature hens, and the
chickens hatched from such eggs are
small and weak, and more of them
may die before reaching maturity. Use
the hens for breeders and pullets for
production of market eggs. Eggs for
hatching should be as fresh as possi-
ble. The _germ in an egg is strongest
immediately after it is laid, and its
vitality gradually diminishes after-
wards. No eggs should be used that
are more than two weeks old, and it is
far better to have them less than one
week old. If eggs are to be held, they
should be kept in a cold place. If they
remain at the temperature of an ordi-
nary living room, they are soon unfit
for hatching purposes. .

Do not use small or misshapen
eggs. The smaller the egg, the small-
er and weaker the chick. Many eggs
also when held before a strong light
show mottles in the shell,-that is, thin-
ner places than in other parts of a
shell. Such eggs should be .rejected
as most of them are unfertile.

After selecting the eggs, the ques-
tion arises whether to use natural- or
artificial incubation. Generally speak-
ing, a hen can hatch out stronger
chicks than an incubator, and if broody
hens can be secured, it is as well to
let those do the hatching, especially
where not more than 200 chicks are to
be raised.

Sitting hens should be kept free
from lice, otherwise they may desert
their nests before‘ the little chicks are
born, and those birds will either be
dead in the shell, or weak afterwards
and may die then. Cluckers should
be dusted two or three times with
lice powder during twenty-one day's’
hatching, but clean chaff or straw] must
be put into the nest just before chicks
are due to be born so. that no louse
powder will get into their eyes.

It is"well to set several hens at the

. same time, then when the hatch comes

ofi, each hen that is used as a. mother

‘ may be given the full number of chicks

that she can brood properly. This
number depends somewhat. upon" the
general temperature and the size of
the hen. Care should. be taken not

to give a hen more chicks than she”

can properly cover, for if this is_ the
case they will not thrive and many
of them may ‘die; especially if the
weather is cold. If it is possible all
the broody hens «should be placed in
one enclosure ' 0r building where. they

 

RaiSing /’.Chicks on the Far

By W. E. McMu/lm ._

the labor involved is excessive and, '

Feed, water and a box of dustor ashes
should be furnished for chicks so that. , ‘
they may be satisfied quickly and re- '
turn totheir nests. - _» ’ -
After the batch is completed, the.
hen and chicks should be placed in a.
coop where the mother hen remains
inside until the chicks are weaned.
This plan saves much trouble. More
chicks can be raised,” and better and
more easily than where _the hen and
chicks are allowed to roam at will ev-
erywhere. .

If gapes, prevail, codps containing
hens and chicks should be moved to a I
cultivated ground or to land on which 3
little chicks have not been raised be-
fOre.= Place coops in a sheltered loca- . 9
tion, if possible, where the wind can- , :
not get a clear sweep at them, and ‘
drive the littl ‘icks backward when g‘ s
they try to go nside during a thunder
storm. ’~

A good type of coop for a farmer is. i
the “A”-shaped coop made of boards, ‘
with the back boarded closely and with
slats in front.

It is well to pull the coop along a;
few feet onto fresh ground every few
days, for if there are any intestinal
parasites of any kind present, the dan-
ger of the spread of the trouble is
very much reduced in this way. The
chicks must be kept free from para-
sites in order to have the pullets to
lay eggs during the following winter
months. , ‘ .

For best results in winter egg pro- ,- (
duction, the chicks should be hatched ' I
out fairly early. White Leghorn pul- '
lets seldom begin to lay until they
are at least five months old and heav-
ier birds 3. month or more later, and if
theydo not begin to lay eggs freely
at the approach of cold weather, many
of them may not commence laying un-
til January or February.

 

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HENS ON SHARES.

 

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I have a large flock of chickens. If ,>
I should rent a place on shares, would
I have to share what chickens I hatch‘
on the farm?——H. J.

The method of handling the chick—
ens would have to be made a part oil
the understanding with the owner, of?
the farm as individual cases will differ.
In many cases the tenant is 'given all
the chickens ,raised where the flock
is only moderate in size and largely for
farm use.

If you have a very large flock they
will require plenty of feed and range ' *
and it might alter the conditions. Be- _
cause of the large amount of eqmp- U
ment and detail work required in the
poultry business it seldom pays to try.
and handle poultry projects on shares.
I believe if a farmer is going to raise
large quantities of poultry it will pay
him to rent the place outright for cash
rent. Then there will be less-chance
of misunderstandings in dividing the
poultry profits and the man who does ,
the, work will have a better chance to ~
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descend in a misty term,
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WE BREED

Park’s Strain Barred Rooks, Barron Strain White
Leghorns. The two greatest strains of utility poultry
in America. Baby chicks for early delivery should
be ordered soon. Let us quote you our price on your
uireinentou Pallets. hens and males at reasonable
rices. Bred In the north for northern conditions.

-- INE BA! POULTRY FARM, Holland. Mich.

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baby, chicks. All eggs need b as for hatching produc-
ed on our own farm. Write or r.
RALPH S. TOTTEN, Yittsford, Mich.

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rival guaranteed. MONTII’S FEED FREE with
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BABY‘ CHICKS

Price List. Prepaid to Yoga. Purebggd Stock.

 

 

25
Wh. J: Brown Leghorns 15.00 ,8.00 4.25
Bu! d: Bl. Leghorns 18 00 8.50 4.50
.Ancona & Minorcas 17.00 9.00 4.75
8. C. t R. C. 5 17.00 9.60 4 '15
Barred cits 11.00 9.00 4.75
Bull I h. Rocks 1800 9.50 5.00
Wu. J: SL Wi'andotte 19.00 10.00 5.25
Bu! Orpington 19.00 10.00 5.25
Brahmas "1 00 ll 00 6.00

Start the season right with chicks that can be depen-
ded uponto produce profitable heavy egg producing
hens. ,Farm at Hudson, 0. all orders to

J. KEEJCI, 2160 East 88th St... ‘ Cleveland, 0.

- winners laying conests .A. 0.
3mg 550% l‘Mountaliili‘l ane,t 0:0. 1civgxflullets
average . 10 s, e c s. n e or cats o no

G.. OAEALL, Hudsonville, Mich;

Barred Rocks Exclusively fifff’éfflfififimfgfifi‘,
show.83 and up. Rosemary Farms, W illiamston,Mich.

Med Rocks e‘gghcontest winners.egga from strain
. t records 140.290 :1 year. 82.00
per setting Ere aid by P. P. Circular free.

B D ASTLING. Constantine. Mich

Cockerels, large birds from
Barred Plymouth Rock mm“... hemmmg
strain $5.00 each. J. A. arnum, Union City, Mich.

Barred Rook Goekerds filifigfificgggmlayem
W. O'FOFFMAN- R. 3. ton Harbor, Mich

~ w. Wyahdot B. I. Red
Barred ROCkS, cockerels 2:33} bred-today
stock. HOWARD GRANT. Marshall, Mich.

' Cookerels all sold. Remembe
nIflgIfli Barmd "m8 me foreggs thisseasonmanze oi:
special matings. Robert Martin.ll.3, Woodland.Mich.

Baby Chicks 3...»...

too and u
Hatchinlg eggs. $1.50 per setting to $15.00 per I .
We are is 1‘1 varieties of pure bred fowls: Chick-
ens.Geese, uoks d. Guineas. also breeding stock.
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FABMrg, Wilmington. Ohio.

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asket Strain. Ofloiall Certified 3:
. bred. Winners at Chicago. Oinoinnat . et‘o. Oookere
' breedln hens sndohicks. at bargain
. to lay Strain 3,0. White
. Discount on. E K Orders. .
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tithe y~dlgestive¢ disorders ’ and nerye1

can be given internally once each day.
Rabbits are sometimes subject to pa-

of the hind quarters 'and in such cases
treatment is seldom satisfactory. A
rabbit might be slightly lame due to a
bite, kick or sprain due to fighting.

HENS WITH RDUP.

What is the trouble with our chick-
ens? They run at the eyes, a yellow-
ish matter of some kind forms on the
tongue, in the throat, eyes and wind
pipe and bursts the whole head open.
We have cured some, and some have
died. What can we do for them?—
J. M. N. '

The hens probably have severe cases
of roup. This is a disease that must
be overcome in the early stages if sat-
isfactory cures are to be made. Roup
can usually be prevented by keeping
the birds in a. dry, well ventilated
house and feeding a balanced ration to
keep up their vitality. Poultrymen are
beginning to believe that roup germs
are probably always present but do
not develop until the bird is lowered
in vitality because of exposure to poor
housing conditions.

The liberal use of the coal tar dis-
infectants is a. help in destroying dis— ‘
ease germs. Hens with colds can be
treated and cured with some coal tar
disinfectant, camphorated vaselene 01‘
permanganate of potassium. When
very severe cases of roup occur it is
usually best to kill the birds afflicted
and try and improve the conditions
which may have caused the trouble.

 

EEDING PORK SCRAP.

. __._
About how many pounds of lard and
beef scraps should be fed to a flock of
70 hens at once and how 0ften?——-G.,

I assume that you mean pork scrap
and cracklings combined with beef
scrap. Pork scrap contains more fat
than beef scrap but-has a low digesti-
bility and is not considered as, good
as beef scrap in the poultry ration.
Pork cracklings from lard making
are very rich and should not be fed
too heavily. Changes in feeding should
be made gradually for the best re-
sults. In feeding a flock of 70 hens it
might be. best to mix about ten per
cent cracklings either with bran or a
balanced mash which only lacks beef
scrap. I believe that feeding'beef
scrap and cracklings at the' same time
makes too rich a ration and might
throw some of the hens off-feed.

It will be safest to only give the
moist mash containing cracklings once
a day.

 

FEEDING QUESTIONS.

Is cracked corn from which the
germ and glaze have been removed as
good feed for chickens as the Whole
kernel cracked once in two would be?
Also, what is the value of oats as
compared to barley for poultry feed?
There being so much inferior oats this
year, and barley is being offered to
take place of oats, but I am at a loss
to know their respective values—F. B.
Cracked corn from which the germ
has been removed does not contain as
much nutrition. for poultry feeding.
Barley contains more protein and car-
bohydrates than cats but less fat and
fiber than oats. Barley is usually c’on-

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Mr. F. L. Hoes. Chic . Ill., writes:
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BABY CHICKS

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sidered to rank between oats and corn
as a feed for growing and fattening
poultry. Barley is extensively used in
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here. Barley is a good poultry feed
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N a recent article we tried to im-
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was to secure and save a maxi-
mum lamb crop and some things in
feeding and care leading up' to this
result. And before taking up the care
of the lamb, would like to add a. few
points farther in getting the lambs to
care for. . —
Our experience has shown that the

ewes that are in the best flesh and.
condition in the fall are the ones that

breed first and, what is more essen-
tial, breed a. larger per cent. of twins.
We have heard flock masters say they
“Would rather have one good single
lamb than twins.” With any well-cared
for flock this is a great mistake. Our
experience has shown for many years
that we get far greater returns from
the ewes having twins.

This also is borne out by carefully
prepared data secured by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. I refer to Bulle-
tin No. 996, on “Flusing and Other
Means of Increasing Lamb Yields.”
Under head of “Weight and Six-
month-old Twin and Single Lambs,”
we find the single lambs feighed 78.6
pounds, while the twin lambs aver-
aged 75.3, only 3.3 pounds ‘less than
the singles, scarcely noticeable in a.
flock. Note in this cast! the owner
gets 150.6 pounds of lambs from the
ewes having twins and only 78.6 from
the ewes dropping singles. These fig-
ures show conclusively how very de-
sirable it is to secure and raise all the
twins possible.

I wish, before 'persuing further, each
reader could take a peek into the “all
above ground” basement barn at Sun-
nyside and see the flock of happy
skipping youngsters some of which
weighed today 40 pounds being only
39 days old; They certainly are a de-
light to the eye of the true shepherd.

Now, for the care of tlfe ewe and

young lamb. First, provide a. clean,

dry place for the ewe to lamb. While
a warmnplace is certainly; desirable,
yetwe feel a clean, dry place means
more than the warmth.

Watch the Ewes Closely-

The wise Shepherd will pass through
his flock very‘ often and note each in-
dividual carefully as lambing time
comes on. A wrong presentation is
not unusual. A normal presentation
is the front feet with the nose and
head immediately following. Some-
times the hind feet appear first in this
case. Be sure the bottoms of the
feet are turned up. Should they be
otherwise, the shepherd, whose hands
have first been carefully washed and
disinfected, and with finger nails close~
ly cut, and having thoroughly greased
the hand with some soft, clean grease,
should carefully insert the hand and
using plenty of timéget the fetus

turned over and probably all will be -

well.
We have had the front feet come
first 0. K., but the head turned back.

' This simply means untold suffering

and finalfdeath to both ewe and off-
spring, unless assistance is given. ,In
this case, after proper preparation as
above described, the shepherd should,

takingplenty of time and with great

care, force back the fetus and follow-

   

to Reduce #23 Percentage of Lower.

the hand is yet there carefully bring
the head forward and usually. the
trouble is over. Sometimes, but very'
rarely, the rump may try to come first
and the ewe labor for hours and-even
days with no visible presentation and
finally die. .The remedy is obvious.
Insert the hand, force back the fetus
and secure a. normal presentation
either way. «

Nearly all farmers, we fell sure, are
in far too great haste to help, as they,
think, in the delivery. First, besure
the presentation is normal and then
go away and leave nature alone for at
least three or four hours. The parts
need plenty of time to expand and
yield sufficiently for the delivery, and
great injury and even death may re-
sult from too great haste.

If present when the lambs are
dropped, avoid handling as much as
possible, but be sure they are prop-
erly cleaned up and dried. Next ex-
amine the ewe’s udder and see the
milk starts readily from both teats. A
very little stoppage in the end of the
teat will, discourage the weak lamb
and result in much trouble.

How to Save Lambs That Have
. ‘ Become Chilled.

It may, and with many farmers does,
often. occur in cold weather that the
new born lambbecomes chilled and
dies. In the case of chilled lambs, we
use the warm water treatment. We
found this treatment almost by acci—
dent many. years ago and have had
some most remarkable experiences
with it, completely restoring lambs we
had thought dead. ’We will not stop
to relate them here, but for the ben-
efit of some poor beginner will de-
scribe the process. 1‘

If the lamb is chilled, the mouth
cold, and you fail to get him warmed
up, simply immerse him in a, pail of
warm water and hold him there until
every part is thoroughly warm. The
water should be simply warm, not hot.
We believe many lambs have been lost
by the use of too hot water. The’llt-
tle lamb is very tender and water‘
that would not seem hot to the human
hand might prove fatal to it. The
hand will stand much‘ hotter water
than our own bodies will. Any person
who has tempered the water in his
bath tub to the hand and then jump
into it has done, just as I have done
many times, jumped out again very

'quickly. If this is true with us, how

much more so with theiittle new-
born lamb. Now, in every case, get a
draught of the mother’s milk dow'n the
little lamb as soon as possible. When
a little lamb gets up on his feet and
a good drink 'of his mother’s milk
down him, his chances are certainly
good. ‘ ' ' '
Dock Early.

Lambs should be docked and gelded
while yet quite small. There are two
or three reasons for this; first the

nervous system is not so fully devel-

oped in a. very young animal and any '
operation of this kind ismuch easier
borne .,and recovery is much quicker.
Then, too, it is much better to get this
out of the way before warm weather
comes on ahd flies become trouble-
some. ,
Some prefer to leave .the tails ion'the ;

     
   

 

 

 

 

 


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realizes.

For the last fifteen years we have

lot the diflerent crops and soiE.

In making up Darling's brands
containing ammoniame use animal
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animal tankage costs more,- we use

it beCause. yms of actual field;

tests shbw thet Animal Base Fer-
tilizers give. better results during
the entire grams 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
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much nicer if all have been nicely
.doeked. The excrement of the young
lamb is of such a. sticky, gluey na-
true that their tails sometimes will
become so stuck down to the body
that movement of the bowels is im-
possible and the lamb will droop and
die unless assistance is given. Soft
grease applied to the wool will help
greatly, but flock, and dock short, and
the job is done and all further trouble
is av.oided. -
‘ Eye Trouble,

One thing we have found about the
eyes of sheep and lambs that many
farmers seem not to have found. Both
sheep and lambs often suffer’greatly
from troubles with the eye-and unless
the water runs down in quantities suf-

'.will. not know it: A short time since,
we bought ‘a flOCk of pure bred Ox-
ford ewes and .the owner thought he
:was a. good caretaker. But we’fouvnd
{several of the» ewes with a perfect

eyeball and under "the lids which, of,
course, caused great irritation and
jmuch suflering. We found, many years
ago, that small lambs often suffer
5from having (please note carefully)
the under_eyelid simply turn in'with
the lashes against the eyeball. Not
la. year passes that we do not find
many of them. The remedy is simpler
[simply draw down and turn out the
lid and usually it will stay, but occa-
sionally it may require many times.
We once had a case where it would
not stay and the lamb was going
blind, so we simply clipped that por-
tion of the lid off and effected a cure
at once. We have one just now that
we fear we will have to treat in the
.same way. This may seem cruel, but
really it is far more humane than per-
mitting. the. terrible .- irritation to be
continued. This seldom occurs in
lambs over two weeks old, but I think
I have never examined a flock of
young lambs in which I did not find
some suffering in this way.——L. W
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RATION FOR BUTTER PRODUC-
TION. '

I am feeding good alfalfa hay morn-

 

evening meal, in addition the cows
have access to fodder when they are
out in the yard. As a grain ration I
am feeding equal parts of corn and

is fed immediately after each milking.

and give about thirty pounds each
daily. I wish. to feed for butter-fat

of low~test milk. —A

The ration you are feeding should
give very good results. The only
change that might be made would be
to substitute oil meal for all or nearly
all of the bran.

system of the dairy cow and probably

bran. The’ mixture that you are feed-

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A few standard crops which will
provide the cows with a balanced {feed
throughout the feeding season, should
be .the aim of the average dairyman
rather than the production of a small

‘ acreage of a large number of uncer-

tain crops. _
Poor rations fed to poor cows. are

certain to keep the pocketbook thin.

‘ Primitive methods of dairying will

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marketing.

7 During. the period of lactation the
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My cows are in very good condition '

production, rather than 1);}- larger flow ‘
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The oil meal has a .
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would be' a little cheaper ‘than the; ;

Now come the Pigs—the Calves—the Colts-
‘ and the Lambs.

TIME for your work horses and mules to shed
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-—-TIME to tone them up—give their systems a

‘ gluing hOuse-cleaning-pand drive out the worms.

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., Feed it to EWES before lambi time. It prevents
fevered udders and scourin lambs. eed it after lambing
time to stimulate the flow 0 milk, insuring lambs for the
early market.

Dr. Hess Stock Tonic contains Tonics for the digestion,
Laxatives for the bowels, Diuretics for the kidneys, and
Vermifuges for the worms.

Always buy it acc to. the size of your herd. Tell
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AGHIEYEMENT

The reward of pure breeding; the acoOmplish‘
ment of quality. Success has again contri-
buted more laurels to the already remarkable
record of

imp. Edgar oi 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 heenbe-
stowed upon the “get" of Edgar of Dalrncny.
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

ORION, MICHIGAN
W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop. Sidney Smith, Supi.

 

.Cluny sack” Farm

Offers A Splendid Yearly Record Bull

Aberdeen ‘ Bred
A In the
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. will also sei

 

 

 

REGISTERED Aberdc' en-Angus. Ten heifers, six
bulls from eight to fourteen monthsd. Best of
breeding. the growthy kFin d that make goo aeoean.
able. inquire J.. WILBER, Clio, Mich

Guernsey Heifer calves}

also some cows for sale. Herd
under Federal Supervision.
May Rose and Gov. of the
Chene Breeding.

 

Hicks’ Guernsey Farm,
Saginaw. VI. S... iiich. ‘

Registered Guereseys

We have a special proposition on your Bull for next
year that win“ terest you .
North Adams, Mich.

 

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LWILLIA ~13,

For Sale Guernsey Herd Bull
3 yr. old. Sire. Anton“ s May BKing spoid for 87.000
Dam. Bonnie‘ 8 Bloom 530 lbs. I". Pr ice 8175.Fa1l
bull calves by above esire Acchedit Her

GIL Camden, Mich.

MORE BROTHERS
GUERNSEYS Accredited Hterd 4bulls sold
in last mont 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.

GU ERNSEV s BULL OALVES

Containing blood of wo rid champions.
HICKS’ GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw W. S Mich.

 

 

 

 

Reg Guernse Cows or heifers,
For sale! prices right. y
GEO. .CRAWFORD. Hoiton, Mich.

 

uernsey Calves. bull and heifer not related. also
.yearling heifer. Ancestors include most noted
animals of the breed. G.A.Wigent,Wa.terviiet, Mich.

Registered Holsteins .

It was through the daughters of
Flint Maplecrcst Boy that

Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke
Our Junior Herd Sir

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 1n Calf Herd, also first 1n get of
tire, in a class of 13.
A son of either of these great bulls will help the 1:1-
dividuality and production of your herd.
We have bulls at dairymcn’ s prices, and we also
have bulls at the breeder’ s price, from dams with
records up to 38 lbs. of butter' 1n seven days, and
1168 lbs of butter in one year.
Ask us about a real bull a Maplecrest or an Ormsby.

J0iiii.ii. Wiiiii, luc., Rochssisr, Mich.

A-BLUE RIBBON WINNER
YOUNG BULL

0n the 1%1 Show Circuit For Sale at a low rice.
9“1‘°‘s“1“ ‘3‘.“ 0 “’é‘fiii‘ib“ éfio‘iir fih‘fiimmfiami

9. re 1y our ,
flag Segis Glista 32. 37 lbs. e

GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS,

Core rey J :Spencer. Owner

1]] E. Main Street. Jackson. Michigan.
Herd Under State and Federal Supervision

 

 

 

Wiscogin Farm“ 6" Holsteinrriesru bulls 1.31%

for 11 ht Fm ir
nearest dams averageqd3.3 48?“.66 butter fora? d‘liyw hose
0.1)amstrom1833 t021.51ib.s Herd under and
federal Supervision. Oscar Wallin. Unionviiie.Mich.

HERE IS A GOOD .ONE

BORN JU E 2nd 1920 b MAPLEOBESTD
eed GRE firm Lthose thine rs ave “31301;
«970

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1332. ’

 

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—REGISTERED

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Born MurCh 22ds, 1920
Sire a 30 lb son of King Segis Pontiac Konigen
whose daughters are making bigd. Holstein History.

Dam' a Record at ” yr. 3m
12 ,425. 5 lbs. M. 550. 23.3871bs. B.

7days 37yr. 3\mo. 452.6

Dam' s Dam days. 665, 9 29.67
5days 23,5422 1031.85
Dam' s Sirs’ s Dam 7 dalys '
55 6 35.103
365 days 23, 421. 2 1844. 30 i

This splendid yearly record work available for
your herd at a ver reasonable price

Bull is about even y marked. growthy and ready
for heavy service.

The last one oflered is sold.

R. B. McPherson, Howell,Mich.
Bulls Registered Holstein Bulls

old enou h for service,ed for sale. ntiao

and Se 15 dams and sired by a 26 lb. 333301105 gtxjfitapie-

ornd ke Hen erveid. priced to move hem
l a‘few eifers soon to freshen. Herd

under federal and statesu ROHngrSiflgl... 1 Akron Mich
s D. ‘ I

 

HENRY S.

The Traverse Herd

We have what you want in BULL CALVES. the large,
flne growthy type. Warantced right in every; way

They are from high. producing A. .0. ancestors
Dam' a records up to 30 lbs. Write for pedigrees and
quotations, stating about age desired. ’

TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL
Traverse City, Mich.
“Top

Notch” Holsteins

Bull advpertised last. week bought by a good breeder
in Ohio.
We have

 

a few more desirable bulls read for
service. sired a 32 lb. grandson of the 40 lb. year
old former wori 's champion. Mabel Segis Korndk

out of high milk and butter producing cows. rec‘d

to sell. _
cPherson Farms Co. Howell, Mich.

an800 lb. daughter).
Herds under U. S. Supervision. . ..

 

$300 buys six grade Holstein Heifelrs two will soon
freshen ot the! four one year c l;d and one reg-
istered bull rea d; for servllce; we also have some fine
young bulls sire by a29 bgrandson of- the $50,0(X)

bull old enough for light service at 875 each: also
cows and heifers. at right rice. The Home of Michi-
gang; Befianii. ong Lane Stock Farm,

Akron.M Mich. 2..

"0'8“” Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred
registered and hi-gh grade P ce up.
Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-
quirements. Browncroft Farms, McGraw, N. Y
accepted in payment of finely bred reg-

‘ Good "Ole lstered Holstein bull calves. Quality
of the best and at prices within reach 0v! all. Write

3131110. 13.01.1111 assar. Mich
HOLSTEIN and Guernsey calves n_ weeks
old. 31-32nds pure. .each

crated for Eshiggment. Satisfaction guaran anete
WOOD FARMS Whitewater, Wis.

HOlStéin'FriCSian sgsfetggggcull‘dntested

herd. Prices are right. Larro Research Farm,
Box A. North End, Detroit. Mich.

 

cal-

of Smithdaie Aicartra Pontiac from
5 yr' Old son daughter of Pontiac Korndyke. 1Priced
low. NWOODl‘ 'ARM. Evart. lch.

 

en reg. Holstein heifers. some fresh, others fresh
soon. All tuberculin tested and guar. O..K every-
way. Price 8100 to 8150 each. B. B. Reav.ey Akron, Mich.

WBeef Producers!

Michigan Produces
\‘The World’s Best: Beef
At The Lowest Cost.

Raise far better feeding cattle than you can buy.
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 Bothams. GET TH A'I‘Civ 5y.
Writ to now, or wire. Address

T. F. B. SOTHAM & SON,
(Cattle Business Established 1835)
Phone 250 Saint Clair, Michigan

He ref ords

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.,

'ar(F arm at Paw Paw, Mlchr)

Office 616 So. West St:, Kalamazoo, Mich.
HerefOrds For Sale 2.261111“: :3“ 1 ”‘1”

RALPH CAL HOON, Bronson, Mich.

Jersey Thoroughbreds

Few cows and bull calves Best breeding line. Gnar-

anteed.'1‘ubercuiin tested twice a year. It on have ,
no none will take banksble note. E. W. asvlary.
509Free ress Building, Detroit, Mich" Main!

Lillie Farmstead Jerseys
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CREST FARMS.

In the purchase of Matador Sylifia
‘ Concordia, E. B. Lay, proprietor of
Hillcrest Farm of Kalamazoo, is to be
congratulated. This young herd sire
has on both sides amni'als *that have
made and are making great records
several of them being world records.
In conformation the young buil is well
put together, being deep, with good '
rib spring, plenty of width,- 9,. fine top «'
line and unusual length between the
hip and pin bones. He was. $11; last
May on Carnation Stock Farm, from
whence he was purchased by Mr. Lay. ”

DURCCS SELL WELL. .
~ The Hillsdale County Duroc Asso-'
ciation held their first sale of bred,
sows and open- gifts at the 'Fair
Grounds, Hillsdale selling 46 head at
an average of over $50. ‘

A very large crowd was present, bid-
ding was brisk throughout the sale.
The top price was far catalog No. .‘27
going to Hagaman Bros.,Hiilsda1e,
Mich” at $106. Following is a list of
buyers and prices paid: ‘

No. 1. E. M. Hawes, Cold-
water, Mich. .$ 51.00
No. 2. John Stewart, Hills-
dale, Mich. . ...... . 48.00
No. 3. Fletcher Porter, Hills-

. dale,’ Mich. ..: ..... 55.00
No. 4. C. S. Bell, Hillsdale, ‘

. MCh. ieeaoeaaeacl’o 49-00
8N0. 5.. P. ~ J. Card, Cambria,
,Mich. 52.00
No. 6. 'Dr. Wm. Crall, Pi- '

, . oneer, 01110.... ..... . 54.00
No. 7. Albert Dimmers, Jones- , .
- ville, Mich. ..... 41.00
No. 8. J. P. Burroughs, Hills- '
dale, Mich. 48.00
No.- 9. Will Lazenby, Litch-
field, Mich. . ....... 89.00 ~
No. 10 Dr. Wm Crall, Pi-
oneer, Ohio ......... 53.00
.No. 11. J. I.W Harbaugh, Ray,
Ind. ....... 50.00
No. 12. Wm. Bowditch, Allen,
Mi ch. ........... 40.00
No. 13. Dewey Ochsenrider. , .
Jonesville, Mich. , 46.00
No. 14. Clarence Smith, Mont-
gomery. Mich. ..... 44.00
No. 15.. R. ,H. Morlock, Hills- ,
dale, Mich. . ....... 40.00
No. 16. Hagaman Bros, Hills-
, dale, Mich. ..... 91.00
No. 17. Chester Barker & Son,
Albion, Mich. . ..... 43.00
No. 18. E. J. Kaitinbach, Quin-
cy, Mich. ....... . 35.00
No. 19. Elmer Don brock,

., Quincy, Mich. 31.00

No. 20. Arthur Smith, Allen,
Mich ........... . 50.00
No.21. Roy Snow, Hillsdale,
v Mich... 70.00
No. 22. J. C. Southern, Allen,
' i.......c 26.00
No.23. John Phelps, Quincy,
Mich... .. . 36.00
No. 24; C. O. Brott” Montgom-
- cry, Mich. ......... 83.00
No.25. J. M. Williams, North
Adams, Mich. .:. . .. 75.00
No. 26. E. M. Hawes,'Cold- - -
water, Mich. ....... 73.00 ,
No. 27. Hagaman Bros, Hills-
dale,. Mich. ........ 106.00
No. 28. T. J. Scholfield, Pitts-
ford, Mich. ........ ‘ 39.00
No. 29. Arthur Smith, Allen, - ,
» Mic .............. 32.00
No. 30. Roy Snow, Hillsdale,
~ Mich... ..... 60.00
No.31. Harry Fogg, Allen, -
Mic h. ........... 44.00
No. i2” V. MCrandall, Reading, ~
, ........... 39.00
No.33. Albert Dimmers,
- . Jonesville, Mich" 43.00
No.34. Wm. Glasgow, Jones-
ville, Mich. . ....... 56.00
No. 35. Wm. Glasgow, - Jones- -
. ville, Mich ........ 53.00
No. 36. V. D. Granda11,Read-
ing, Mich. ......... 39.00
No. 37. Geo. Huff, Allen, Mich. 45.00
No. 38. L. G. Stump, Osseo, - , . -
, Mich.’ —.. .......... 41.00
No. 39. H. C. Oberlander, , '
- ,, Montpelier, Ohio 39100
No. 4 . . A. Fenstermaker,
Hillsdale, Mich. . . . . 41.300
No.41. Walter Moore; Hills- ’ ‘_
dale, Mich” 49.003
No. 42. J. ' M. Williams, "
Adams, Mich 46.00.”
No. 43. J. M. Williams, North
Adams,Mich. 5000 _
No. 44. T. W. Southworth, Al- '~
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(F. d. B. Oneida. N. Y.)

For those with electric power of any
current this outfit is without an
equal. ‘

Every principle of the reliable
Hipman Standard Milker is retain-
ed. The power unit and pump come
in a neat, compact light outfit car-
ried in one hand. No‘shafting, pul-
leys, belting drive rods. When it
arrives you attach to any lighting
plug and mflk! ‘ - "

The Hinman Standard Milker at
$45.00 per Unit or this complete
outfit at $150, will earn their first
cost every year in use.

Simple to use, easy to keep clean
and made by the oldest manufactur-
er of milking machines. The Hin-
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men first and was never excelled
for what is best for dairymen.

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Swollen Gland—I have a horse that

applied white liniment, but it failed to
help him. G. D., Jr., Holland, Mich.—
Clip'off hair and paint with tincture
of iodin daily.

Suppression of Urine.~—We have a
horse that has good appetite, but
seems to have considerable trouble in
passing urine. We thought he might
have kidney disease. W. Z., Ducas,
Mich—Give him a teaspoonful of ace-
tate of potash 'in feed or water 3
. times a day, until the desired effect is
produced, then as often as necessary.

Horse Pahts.—I have a’horse that
pants during hot weather. What can
I do for him? H. E. M., Caro, Mich.—
Give one ounce of Sweet Spirits of
Nitre at dose 3 or 4 times a day and
wash' bodyww‘ith tepid water to keep
sweat glands of skin active and clean.
Keep the bowels open and don’t over-
work your horse.

Teat Stricture.——My eight-year—old
cow came fresh one week ago, I find
it almost impossible to get milk from
one quarter, the teat ’is seemingly
closed, but with a teat tube some milk
comes. N. C., Scottvile, Mich.~—Gentle
hand rubbing, fomenting the quarter
with warm water and the use of a
clean milking tube of sufficient length

 

 

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. Southern Michigan Pollod
l. Shorthorn Breeders Ass’n.
' are ofloriu tor sale

A Few Select Young Bulls‘and Heifers.
We sell'worth the money. Write your wants.
0. E. NASH. Soc.

owl?” “dommnim Ms a no ru-
, 1:. tone , o. a
Col-3:31.85 Mic . Goldwater. Mich.

GEO. E. BURN“. hes.

 

. BlDW-ELL scams

that will put weight on your dairy calves —l‘.he dlfl-
orenoe will soon for the bull. New selling good
Scotch and 8 «moved yeaflhgs, reasonably, need.
We‘guarautee every animal to be a breeder. ederal
T79“. One hour from Toledo . . . R.

‘BIDWELL sro'cx’ FARM,
Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan

 

, ‘Richland 'Shor'thorns

' Now offering? choice lot of, bull calves.
Best of bree ng. 8150 to $250 will buy
a. real bull at present time. Write for
particulars.

C. W. Prescott & Sons,
Tawas City, Mich.

 

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,Kirk Levinaton Led. by. Weed Hartforth
Welfare, in service. .Bullo and he'd‘ers for sole.

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"$93.3?

‘ two-year-old colt got hind leg cut on

is about all you can do.

Riekets.———I have three pigs which
have been led liberally on corn, now
all three move stiflf. I forgot to say
they are four months old and on wood
floor. H. B., Whittemore, Mich.~—Feed

clover. Also feed some wood ashes.
salt and charcoal in their feed or place
it within their reach. Give them ex-
ercise.

Loose Teeth—The front teeth of my
cow are loose. She dislikes to drink
cold water, but is fond of tepid water
and corn fodder. She is nine years
old. A. 8., Shelby, Mich—It is not
unusual to find a 9-year-old cow’s in~
cisor teeth loose. Extract the loose
teeth, wash mouth with salt and water
twice daily. Give her one-half ounce
Fowler’s Solution 3 times a day and
perhaps you had better beef her.

Malignant Wound—Last August my

barbed wire. The wound has never
healed, now there is proud flesh in
’wound. I have applied caustic butjt
makes no impression. R. 8., Good
Hart, Mich.—'The scar tissue will
either have to be cut off or burned
01! with red hot iron, then apply one
part mdoform and five parts boric acid
daily. ~

Out of Condition—J have a‘ six-year-
old mare that commenced to run down
last fall. One month ago I took her to
vetermary. He floated teeth, gave her
worm medicine; also tonic medicine.
She passed plenty worms, but don't
pick up. R. H. M., Shiloh, Mich.—
Increase her food supply, give one
dram fluid extract of nux voinica, and
one-half ounce of Fowl r’s Solution at
dose in feed or wate ' 2 or 3 times
.a day.

lndigestion—liee.——-I have a cow that
rests her nose on manger, slavers some
sour smellingsaliva part of time. I
notice some of your readers have cat-
tle that are‘ troubled with lice. If they
Will give their cattle a teaspoonful of
sulphur daily for few weeks, keep them
in during wet or stormy weather, the
1106 Will not bother them. N. B. 0.,
Imlay City, Miché—Mix equal parts bi-
carbonate of soda and powdered gen.-
tlan together and give cow two table-
spoonfuls three times a day. Sublimed
Sulphur, commonly known as Flowers
of Sulphur, is the chief form used in
veterinary practice. Insoluble in wa-
ter, slightly soluble in hot absolute al-
cohol. Physiological actions, when
given internally, is laxative and alter-
ativez .Externally, chiefly used as a
parasrtlcide and desicant,’ also to dis-
mfect premises. It is an old tradi<
tlonal belief that giving sulphur to
man or beast, it has a tendency to de-
stroy external parasites, but is only a
belief. Lice are hard to kill. A tea-
spoonful is. an exceedingly small dose
ofsulphur for a cow and I fail to un-
derstand how much of it can be elimi-
noted tin-om glands, of the skin. We ;

 

 

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is troubled with swollen glands; have f

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ll bulls of all ages. From the herd
lin tested, and largely Clay bred. S

 

of Davidson and Hall. Tubercu-
ale, '2 miles east Tecumseh. Will

meet all trains. Auctioneer, Andy Adams.

Write for Catalogues to CLAIRE BELAND, Administrator.

 

’ " ° horthorns of best. Bates breeding,
Mllkln . d heil‘e for sale. ‘

gins, cglizlnxun'rzfs Mason, Mich
qHORTHOllNS. Two 4 m.old bull calves of White-
k.

h ll Sultan Strain and few young heifers. Priced
veryu reasonable. ' J. A. Wilk dz Son, Alma. Mich.

 

 

HOGS

BERKSHIRES

S ecial rices for registered Berkshire breeding stock:
p p . ature Bred Bows $79.00
10 Fall Yearlings. Bred 59.00 '
Best type with size and quality. Satisfaction abso-
lutely guaranteed. WriteC 3%" 1:31; formation.

242860 First National Blink Building,
Detroit. Michigan .

 

 

Bred Gilts for March and April (arrow. Bred .to
Big Bone Giant Sensation, Panama Special
55th and Breakwater Demonstrator 26th.
Write us for description and prices. Or come and
see them.
BROOKWATER FARM,
Haw. Mumford. Owner

Woodland Farm Duroc Hogs
A well kept. herd, best lots??? linesé withl siz‘e as:
l ' l'ties, stot- , ages or an e a . it.
sggglggpr‘lggml W. E. BARTLEY. Alina. hilcb.

Dams Jersey Swine

Breeding stock for sale at all times at reasonable
- prices. If in.need 05.3. highclass boar. or sow
any age write. or better. come to farm. Best of
Bloodline and we guarantee you SatlSlaKfthIl.
Herd bonrs. Panama Special 11th and Home
Form Wonder. Ecoking order for fall pigs at $1.)

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iii... llnderhlll 8:. Son, Salem, Mich.

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

840:0 $50. Service boars
Duroc Bred sows 825(50 53;, Raid fall pigs
1" d $20. We register In your name an guarantee
illizllaction. We have one of the largest and best
herds in the state. Write for special sale folder. .
Michigana Farm, Kalamazoo County, Pavilion, MlCh.

DUROC JERSEYS

t 4034:1350 ouch. Also some good fall
2122‘? gllts a 3 R118}! BRUS.. Romeo, Mich.

Jerseys A few extra good fall boars. and
Duroc a, chisicebllotdoll: sprints boars of the heavy
b (it e o uar oo mesa rousonnl) u wives.
one W p pDRODT & BERNS, Monro... Mich.

Breakwater Dumc Jerseys

-O. I.

O. I. C. HOGS

all ages sired by Galloway Edd. 1918 world‘s grand
champ. boar and C. C. Seboolmaster 1919 world‘sgrand
champion. also Wonder Big Type and Giant Buster.
Write your wants. all stock shipped an approval,
CllANDELL'S PRIZE HUGS, Cass City. hitch.

O 1.01! Chester White Swine. Strictly Big Type
- Wllll quality. Service boars, and elite bred for
Mar. and early April farrow, are all sold. Some good
ones left, bred for 1215th April and early May far-
row. All of prize winning blood lines. Have one good
tried yearling now that. I will sell.

Marl-ette. Mich.

0. I. C. BRED GlLTS

shipped 0. 0. D.

J. CARL JEVVETT. Mason. Mich.

 

0 i c Spring boars and gilts no skin. We breed and

v - - own the Grand Champion Hour at West Mich.”

arm Fair. We rim-WC. O. D. and Reg. f
GEO. M. E .

ree.
LTON t SON Alto. Mich.

C9 choice gilts bred iotMarch
' an April farrow.

A. J. BARKER it SON. Belmont. Mich.

- ’ aU sold except two fallboars. Or-

0’ I' C s dens booked for spring pigs.

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.

’ Choice Aug. and Se t. open Hts also
0' l' C S booking orders for sgrin pig:
CLOVm; LEAF FARM, onroe, Mich.

O. I. 0. Pl , .
BIG TYPE L. a. snveiss'iiififis‘élh 35’:
GEO. N RUPRACHT, Mallory. N. Y.

For Sale.

 

0.1". (l. Gilts bred for Dlzlrch and
Apl'll furrow (at a reasonable price.)
H. W. h! N. Dansville. Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. C.

Largest herd of individuals in Mich. Come and see.
compare, and be convinced. expenses paid if not as
represented. Bears and early gilts all sold. A few lute
gllts. Wlu sell open or hold and breed for late farrow.

W. 1‘). LIVIN GSTUN. Par-ma. ll'Iich,

' Poland China. Full boars at $25 each
Big Type soon ready for servicm sired by Clans-
mzm Busterand Hover‘s Giantand out of sut-h some as
Gertsdnle Queen it! She is a daughter of Gertsdale
Fiona, and Bob‘s Prospect {lid is out of Leonard's Big
Bob. DORUS ROVER. pAkron. Mich.

40 Son's. Grunddaughtcrs of the great Giant Buster,

bred to a grandson of the Yankee. the 540.000 sire.
Where. can you find any better Big Type breeding?
Our prices are very low. 830. 40. Also 50 fall pigs.
Why not buy a pig? JNU. C. BUTLER. Portland.
Mich. Bell Phone. ‘

EONARD'S Big 'l‘ypo P. C. Herd headed by Leon-
ands Liberator 458,255. the tallest. longest and heav.
lest boned pig for his age in Mich. Callor write,

stock in season. Fall pigs at Bargain Prices.
E. R. .EONARD,

 

ounoc JERSEYS- .

l bred grits for

sale. CAREY U. EDMONDS, 'llastings. Mich

D-uroc Jerse Hogs; we usually

Pure-Bred have good boars and sows of all

ages for sale. Reasonable prices. Larro Research
Farm, Box A, North End. Detrmt. Mich.

 

 

 

Spring pigs by Walt's
rion, First Sr. Yearling
Detroit, Jackson,C.d. Rapids and Saginaw 1919

Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

 

n Herd headed by Great King Orion Col. ass-is-
"foes ted by a good son of King Orion Fancy Jr
HARRY FOWLER. Shingle, Mich.

AM SELLING

t offering of bred Duroc sows and gilts March.
2thg.re’él‘hcy are mostly bred to Orion Gian-t 00L, son
othio Grand Champions Get on mailing list for
catalog. W. C. TAYLOR. Milan, Mich.

 

 

EST View Duroc Farm offers spring boars from
WHome Farm 'l‘ippy Orion and Pathfinder Prince,
with b‘ bone and type. Ready for servrce. sows, fall ,
guts a spring ilts with quality. Write or come and
see them. ALB RT EBERSOLE. Plymouth, Mich.

"BUROC—JERSEYS

Bowsull sold. E. D.-Hcydenberk. Wayland, Mich.

$12 £0 a D'uroo Jersey pig. farrowed in Feb.
r shipped in April». M.A.C.—Brookwater
breedmgbR%ls§6atlon pa-pol‘s free. Express charges

 

 

 

 

paid. THERLAND, Gd. Led”. Mich.

Duroc J erseys. tfzzis2°sth.‘%:.ifii.‘f "P"
CHAS. BRAY, Okemoo. Mob.

The—rize Vwinner kind from the best prize winner

blood ines. Early developers ready for market at
six months old. I hays start . more breeders on the
road to success than any mu livmg. I want to lace
one hog in each community to advertise my herd.
Write for agency and my an.

G. s. BENJ MIN, It. - D. 10. Portland. Mich.

CHESTERS '° m “n ”I" ““t °'
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bred or“ fall plus of easel-
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Come or w its while the oinlrinxls good:
SAL!" Wjflé, , . .

Big Type F. C. some Ivery choice boars doubleim.
mune. our, 1100 ll). sire and mammoth so-vrs from
Iowa's greatest herds. 16..) .M athewson. Burr Oak. M ich.

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

We have a. fine lot of fall pigs sired by Harts
Black Price and Right Kind Clan.

RT,
‘ FULCHER. and CLINE, address I“. T. Hart, St.

Louis, Mich.

large Type Poland chinas

Spring boars all sold. Fall pigs at bar ain ric ..
Bred gilts held for mbliv sale. 3 p ea

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

L. T. P. C-

Gilts bred Mo. Bob. 2 sons of Clansmans Ima . B“
Defender 2nd f{{md High Joe, tracing back tumbling

Price. 0. SWARfl‘Z. Schoolcrafr, Mich.

HAMPSHIRES an mm o... ..

resent.
JOHN W. SNYDER, R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Bred giltsi‘or sale}; Choice indlild‘uélls of rich breed-

mg 8. prices M In our reac . one see th

write. WESLEY IlILE, 11.6, Ionia. Muriel?
bred to that .Yearling

Gilts
L. T. P' C. Boar that stands 40" 11.1576"
long. .and Walks on a ll_" bone. Offering summer and
fall p133. ’ Clyde Fisher. R. 3. St. Louis. Mich.

' Sixteen years breedin and she l .
Paland Chlnas I can please you in a hrged gilt. w ng
ROBERT MARTIN, R. 3. Woodland, Mich.

Big Type P. C. Sows bred to Big Bob Mastodon. his
gilts bred to a son of Peter Pan. that sold for $1.075
cash Jan. 5. C. E. GARNAN’I‘, Eaton Rapids. Mich.

L 'l‘ P c Orange Model gilts. bred for March and
- - - - April (arrow. Co andsee them. the ' will
'. . H haw. Augusta, ich.

bear inspection.
Poland Chinus.leading strains

BIG TYPE at lowest prices. Both sex. all

ages, and bred sows and gllts. l
G. A. BAUMGARDNER. R. 2. Middwville. Mich.

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DISPER sioN SALE
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at Tecumseh, Michigan, March 21, al I P. M.

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Tuesday, March 7.
Wheat.

, Detroit.——Cash No. 2 red $1.44; No.
g Tgxed and No. 2 white $1.41. May
1. .
Chicago—No. 2 red $1.40; No: 2 hard
$1.38@1.381A,; May $1.41%.
Toledo.-—Cash at $1.44@1.46; May
$1.49. ‘
Corn
Detroit—Cash No. 2 67c; No. 3 yel-
low 650. .
Chicago.—-No. 2 mixed 5734c; No.2
yellow 57%@58.
Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 43; No.
3 yellow 410.
Chicago—No. 2 white 40%@41c; No.
3 White 37%@400.
Beans.

Detroit—Immediate ,
shipment $6 per cwt.

Chicago—Choice to fancy hand-
picked Michigan beans at $6.55@6.75;
red kidney beans $8.

New York.———Choice pea $6.85; red
kidney beans $8.25.

and prompt

Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 3, $1.06.

Chicago—$10259

Toledo—$1.04.

Seeas.

Detroit—Prime red clover, cash at
$16; alsike $12.60; timothy $3.35.

Toledo—Prime red clover $16.15; al-
sike $12.30; timothy $31714.

Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $19@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 $33; fine middlings $33; crack-
ed corn $30: coarse cornmeal at $28;
chop $25 per ton in 100-lb. sacks.

WHEAT

Wheat prices have shown an uncer-
tain trend recently owing to the ar-
rival of rain in the southwest, a slow
flour trade, an ample supply and a
tendency on the part of European buy-
ers to drop out of the market on ex-
treme advances. The latter have re
appeared, however, to purchase large
quantities whenever values have had a
good setback. It is estimated that
Canada has only 60,000,000 bushels yet
to be shipped of which less than
40,000,000 bushels are unsold.

The movement of wheat from farms
has decreased materially in the south-
west and primary receipts are declin—
ing. Domestic milling demand for
Wheat is expected to increase very
soon be noted in the visible supply.

CORN

Although the movement of corn
from farms is still liberal, it has de-
creased ne-arly 50 per cent during the
past week. Large quantities are held
on track or in transit so that total
receipts may remain above the aver-
age for another week or two. Corn
prices at one time recently reached a
level slightly higher than at the same
period of 1921. But declined sharply
when the wheat market began to hesi-
ita e. «

Export demand for corn remains
brisk and clearness still aggregate
around 5,000,000 bushels per week.

OATS

In spite of a smaller supply availa-
ble, the oats market has shown no
independent strength but has followed
'the action of corn although the ad-
vance in price has been proportion-
ately less upo the lighter cereal.
Some export demand is appearing. The
visible supply' is still enormous but
primary receipts last week were
smallest since early January and- were
almost equalled by shipments from

primaries. .
SEEDS

-» Seed markets have been easier in
the last few days although clover‘seed
has retained most of its advance. De
- mand for timothy has been disappoint-
~ ‘ mg and stocks at distributing markets

. are liberal. No big decline is likely to
occur, especially in clover seed, within
;.the ”next ~30 days. - - '4 ~<

.1bs upj sidearm:
260 lbs 811.0561

FEEDS

Although demand for feedstufls is
slow, except for middlings and tank~
age which have been aided by" the
advance in hogs, prices are holding on
a high level. The supply of wheat
feeds, corn by-products, and cottonseed
meal appears ample but stocks of
tankage and linseed meal are light.

HAY .‘ a

Cold weather and snows over large
areas have helped the demand, for hay
and at the same time have obstructed
the movement from surplus sections.
Higher prices have been recorded'es-
pecially in the northwest. The south
is a. heavy .buyer at this season and
the northern and eastern sections are
expected to purchase more freely dur-
ing the next month‘or two as supplies
of forage are becoming depleted.

POULTRY .AND EGGS

Although there have been numerous
upturns, the egg market has been
headed downhill during the last six
weeks. Prices are the lowest at this
season in a number of years and are
only two to 3 cents higher than the
low point reached in the spring of
1921 so that the spring slump should
be practically at an end. Receipts
are increasing and withdrawals from
cold storage are considerable.
’of the latter at the four leading cities
are down to only 1872 cases compared
with 9821 cases at this time last year.
Within another week or two the move-
ment into storage will expand. Poul-

try prices have advanced sharply in'

the last 60 days. .
Chicago—Eggs: Fresh firsts, 2394c;
ordinaries, 20@21c. Poultry: Hens;
27c: springers, 29c; roosters, 18c;
ducks, 28c; geese,_18c; turkeys, 35c.
Detroit—Eggs: Fresh candled and
graded 23@24c; springers 25@28;
hens 25@30c; roosters, 17c; geese,
20@22c; ducks 35c; turkeys 35c.

Stocks ,

. . BUTTER

Butter production is gradually in-
creasing according to reports to the
American Creamery Butter Manufac-
turers' Association. The increase is
small, however, and may not become
a big factor in the market for another
month. Prices recently have been com-
paratively firm as a result of severe
storms in some sections. Receipts at
the four leading cities during the last
week, howeVer, were materially larger
than in the corresponding week ‘of
1921. The undertone of the market is
rather nervous with a prospect of low-
er prices within the next thirty days
although there may be but. little
change immediately.~ ‘

Prices for 92 score fresh butter
were: 4 ,

Chicago, 37c;, New York, 380. In
Detroit, fresh creamery in tubs sells
for 34%c@35c. '1 ‘

POTATOES

Total season's shipments of pota~

' toes from the leading 18 states have

been nearly 25 per cent larger than
in the same period of the. previous
crop year. The movement from pro-
ducing sections has slowed down ,and
prices have become more firm. The
supply for the rest of the season ap-
pears ample. Round whites sacked are
quoted at $1.70 to $2.15 per 100 lbs.
in various consuming markets.

BEANS. '

Tone continues firm with-the gen-
eral tendency to higher prices. Me-
diums are scarce. Receipts of pea
beans. in' New York increasedowing
to favorable market’ conditions in the

east.
APPLES

Total shipments of apples from all
sectidns up to February 25 have been
78,216 cars compared with 98,339 cars
to the same date of 1921. The market
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DETROIT
Cattle.

Receipts 658. Market strong and
active. ~
Best heavy steers . . . . . .$ 6.75@ 8.00
Best handy wt bu steers . 7.00@ 7.75
Mixed steers and heifers 6.25@ 6.75
Handy light butchers. . . . 5.75@ 6.25
Light butchers ...... . . 5.00@ 5.50
Best cows ...... . . . . . . . 4.75@ 5.50
Butcher cows _3.75@ 4.50
Common cows . . . . . . . . . . 3.00@ 3.25
Canners ........ . . . . . . . . 2.00@ 3.00
Best light weight bulls. . 4.50@ 5.00
Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00@ 4.50
Stock bulls 3.50@ 3.75
Feeders 5.50@ 6.50
Stockers .. . . . ........ . . . 5.00@ 5.50
Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@ , 75

Veal Calves.

Receipts 824. Market steady.
Best ........ . . . . . . . . . . .$12.00@$12.50
Others . . 5.00@ 10.00

. Hogs.
Receipts 2,189: The market is 5@
10c higher.
Mixed hogs 00000000000003
Pigs
Roughs ..................

Sheep and Lambs. -

Receipts 1,016. Market steady and
quality common.
Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15.50@15.75
Fair lambs ....... . . . . . . . 13.00@14.00
Light to common. . . . . . . . 8.75@10.50
Fair to good sheep. . . . . . 8.00@ 9.50
Culls and common . . . . . .

CHICAGO

Hogs. I .

Estimated receipts today are 15,000;
holdover 12,652. ,Market steady tome
higher; light. Weights, active and up
most; others-slow. Bulk of sales at.
$10.90@11.25: stops $11.40: heavy-260
.16; medium :200 to
1.85: light 150 tom!!-

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' handy steady, shipping steers $7.75@

3.00@ 4.00

.. ers $11.75@11.85,

$2.25@6; 'bul'is $,&50@,~5.2§:
11.75: pigs $11.25@11.Bp; v'roughs’ $9.25,

@5011 a higher;, T; 1;

Live Stock Market Service |

Wednesday, March 8.

150 lbs $10.35@11.35; heavy packing
sows 250 lbs up $9.90@10.40; packing
sows 200 lbs up $9.75@‘10; pigs 130 lbs
down $9.25@10.65. ‘
' Cattle.

Estimated receipts today are 8,000.
Market active, steady to strong. Beef
steers medium and heavy weight 1100
lbs up choice and prime $9.25@9.75;
do medium and g00d $7.75@9.25; do
common $6.85@7.75; light weight 1100
lbs down good and choice $8.40@9.40;
do common and medium $6.60@8.40;
butcher cattle heifers $5@8.40; cows
$4.40@7;. bulls bologna and beef $4@
6.50; canners and cutters cows and
heifers $3@4.40; do canner steers $4
@5; veal calves light and handyweight
$7.25@10.50; feeder steers at $5.65@
7.65; stacker steers $5.25@7.40; stock-
er cows and‘ieifers $4@5.75.

Sheep and Lambs. ' ‘ '

Estimated receipts today are 10,000.
Market steady. Lambs 84 lbs down at
$13.50@16; do culls and common at
$10.25@13.25; spring lambs $11@12.50;
ewes $6@9.50; ewes cull and common
$3@6;~ yearling wethers $11.50@13.50.

BUFFALO
VCattle.
Receipts 3.000; heavy; lower; light

8.50; butchers $7.50@8.25; yearlings $8

@9; few $10; heifers $5.50@7.75; cows

and feeders, $5@6; fresh cows and

Springers $45@110. '
Calves—Receipts 2,500; 500 lower,

$3@13. « ' . -

Sheep and Lambs.
‘ Hogs.

er; heavy,.$11.50; mixed $11.75:

Star -
. Receipts 13.000; steady to shade low-
stockers

@950; stage $4@6.~~
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light ‘ ‘do $11.50@ ‘

for the _; rest of the season are .up to
normal. Baldwins are bringing $7 to
$8.25 per barrel and Winesaps, are
bringing $2.75 to $3.75
wholesale markets. ,
GRAND RAPIDS

A weak potato market is expected
as there is considerable loading activ-
ity' in northern‘Michigan points. The
produce market'is actiVe with a plen—'
tiful supply. Prices to the growers
are: ' ,
Potatoes $1@1.10; onions $,3.50@3.75
per.bu.; beets, parsni 's and rutabagas
$1.50; dyry butter 2 @24c; eggs 23c.

DETROIT CITY .MARKET

The mild weather brought plenty of
produce on the farmers: markets. The
supply of potatoes was heavy but the

{demand was active. Apples were in
good supply demand and the local sup-
ply is now about cleaned up. Prices are
as "follows: Apples $1@4 per bu.; cab-
bage, $1.75@2; eggs 32@35c a doz.;
potatoes $1.10@1.20 per "bu.;?poultry.‘
26@35c. ‘

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Shorth’orns.—March 21, Davidson &
Hall,'Tecumseh, Mich. ,

Holsteins.~—-April 20. Eaton County
Holstein Breeders’ Association As-

' signment Sale, at Charlotte, A. N.
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Commission Service

Write * '

Gunsberg Packing God
Commission Dealer-sip . ultry, '

Veal. Eggs, .et ‘ o.
2469 Riopelle St, _ . Detroit, Mich.

PI ANTS The real money mak-
. era for» on to plant, in-
cluding four but everbearers. ull assortment of
other berry plants. The new Cooper Strawberry,
most productive, largestand sweetest berry
known.30 yrs.'experiencegrowing and gacklng
plants. Croat reduction in prices. W olesale
goes on large amounts. Weston’s plants are
t class and true to name. Our free catalogue
tells the truth; a valuable book 1' the grower.
A. R. WESTON & cm, I. I. D. 6. ‘Bflhllll. Mich.

PLANT the new RAINIER APPLE

pronounced by U. S. Department Agriculture
best keeper of “('18 Pacific Northwest. Keeps com-
mon storage un M ay; cold storage 0. year. We
can still supply limited number mail size trees at
special prices or spring planting. Colored illus-
tration of fruit and special information free.
Sample apple 10c. '
WASHINGSTON NURSERY 00., '

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SEND FOR ONE.

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Box 343, . Leslie, Mich.

Holmes,Stnwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St,

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‘ prices were steady to 5 per cent high-
er than at the previous sale early in
.February. In the west wool growers
have raised their asking prices to a
level at which dealers are unwilling
to take hold. .

The. woolen goods market is as pes-
simistic as ever and mills are not
quite so active as they were during the
late fall.

The Department of Agriculture has
recently ..called attention to the fact
that consumption in most countries is
back to normal basis and that a good

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‘ Sugar 00., it was announced March 1.
his is a cut. of one dollar from the

sion is made for increased rates in
case the price of sugar advances. If
sugar rises to $8.00 a hundredweight,
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The rates are fixed at this time, in
spite of the delay by Congress in fix«
infi a definite tariff rate on Cuban
sugar, in order that farmers may plan
on their 1922 crops to include, if they
desire, an acreage of sugar beets—M.

MIDLAND STARTING TO SHIP
LIVESTOCK.

the spring season, the first car going
out on February 25, despite the stormy
'weather. President William Shearer,
of the Midland County Farm Bureau,
is in charge with' directors Ray Gilson
and H. S. Hurley. John T. Howe,
formerly of the Farmers Elevator Co.,
is employed as manager. It is pro-
posed to later open a produce station
for the shipping of cream, poultry and
eggs. '

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Bell Bran strain that' Is fit— v.
.I tedt to your farm-that will
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a crop“ failure
—-plant the proves. tesbd Bell Brand.
of an Bold needs toshowqul-
m s.p'eslty y. syent on request 'with Is—
! hell’s 192 Seed Annual. Bigsa savings on s
quality seeds, direa from grower. Write today.

8. M. label (& Company
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Sanford until the Sanford Elevator
Co. is able to take up the work. Farm-
ers of Coleman for seveial years ’have
been shipping successfully, and last
season handled 64 cars. With associa-
tions at Midland and Sanford, all
farmers of Midland County are within
1 easy distance of cooperative shipping
service—M. M.

    
 
     
   
  
    
 

ST. LOUIS CREAMERY DOES
31c, BUSINESS.

   
   
  
   

AT the annual meeting of the St.

Louis Co-operative Creamery Co.
the report given by Secretary Pernert
showed that the business transacted
the past year amounted to 400,672 lbs.

  
   

 

 

 

.2 , At Wholesale Prices '
1 DIRECT TO GROWERS ,
3 300 ACRES “2:232:33...

'5 STRAWBERRY PLANTS

5: Including PREMIER, FORD. and 220 acres

Townsend Big Late. The eatest money-
making varieties on earth. atalog Free.
E. W. TOWNSEND & SON, Nurseries

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of butter, an increase of 97, 000 lbs.
over the production of 1920. Over 9, 000
lbs. of this butter was shipped by par-
cel post, and the postage required for
mail order shipme’hts of butter and
eggs amounted to $3, 400. The average
test of cream 1eceived during 1921 was
34. 7 per cent and the average price of
37 cents per pound for butter fat was
paid. Aside from paying the farmers
prevailing prices for their products
there was still a balance of about
$10, 000 to be divided among the stock-
holders. .

The Qfiicers of the company for the
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" l'hc wise, careful farm—
er builds the Hoosier
silo not because they are

the chee but because they

are the best. erfect anchoring sys-

tem. convenient doors.rtrong and sub-

stantial door frame. Choice otYellon

Plus or Oregon l'lr Standard Lumbar
. for Wood Silo construction.
Roots. 3111110. hint Heller “Building

111.com ’nun

We also Manufacture a com lets
line of roots chute. paint (or all
buildings. gland buildln‘nd tile and
glazed tildl s lies. Prim reduced to
pro-war level. Write for literature and
prices before Int-yin:

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these with J. W.’ Campbell and Wil-
liam Vanderbeck form the board of di-
rectors—M.

  
  
  

 

    
   

HURON COUNTY HAD GOOD BEAN
CROP.

     
    
  
   
   

AST year’s bean crop was one of

the very few profitable crops in
Huron County and the sorting of beans
gives employment to eighty women
and girls in Bad Axe the year round.
Fifty women are employed in the
elevators at Kinde, thirty in one and
20 in. the other. On account of the
possibility of no acreage in sugar
beets this year, it is expected the
planting of beans will be heavy and

   
    
  

    
  
   
  

Bad Axe, that it will be overdone.
Beans advanced 25 cents per hundred

coins much mere quiet in the last.

deal more wool has been consumed in
the last year than was produced dur-

MINIMUM price of $5.00 per ton
for sugar beets is provided in the
1922 contracts offered by the Owosso

921 minimum guarantee, but provi-

started shipping of livestock for!

‘ CLEVELAND packers
weekly.
' here.

commission firms:

Benstead, Bryan: & Co.
The Greene Embry Co.
Bower & Bower

SOYBEANS FROM SOYIAND

Choice uality and the tactical varieties. Enrich
so ls while replen hing your tpocketbook,

ur urinatructive circular tells how to doi
FOUTS BROS" Rt t. M. Camden. Ind.

Be a RAILWAY IRIFFIB INSPECTOR! 2323112503

expenses paid after 3 months spare-time stulcl'y.
Splendid op ortunities. Position guaranteed or
mone refun 11. Write for Bree BookletG-l"l.

Stan. Business Training Inst” Bufl'alo. N. Y.

 

Lets us undersell on

NO Agents to Pay Concord Grapes Straw-
berries, Ras berries HardyE ”lowersE. Shrubs.
Trees. GO LEVILLE. MICIIe.d eURSER

OATS; Blegistered Wolverine 95% germination

UOper. bu, sacks extra at 380 each.

Prompt shipment. S. A. FOSTER. Okemos, Mich.

SEED CORN Calico. Early Golden Surpriseo
fields ellow dent. ”day

BREED A HAMMI 1‘ Lancester. Ohio.

WANTED used silo in good condition. not

over 50 miles from Det1oit. Ad-

dress Bdfl, Michigan Farmer. Detroit. Mich.

obacoo Natural Leaf. Swe .mellow hand picked
chewi 1112.5 lbs .50.31. 10 lbs .50. Smoking, 10 lbs
32. 00. Furnish free receipt for preparing. Quality. del.
guar. Farmers’ Tobacco Exchange. Sedalia. Ky

Homespun Chewin

FARM

 

 

 

 

or Smoking Tobacco-43 lbs
10 lbs. $2.50. 20
Mayfield Kbys:

1.25.

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HOW ESPUN TOBACCO,
Collect on delivery. 5 "1.. 31.50;
FARMERS‘ ASSOCIATION,

smoking or chewing
101b.. 32.50: 201b.. $4
PADUCAH. KY

 

SHEEP
FOR SALE

One hundred Black Faced ewes from 1 to 3 years old.
most Oxfords grades bred to registered rams. lamb in
April and May. P. O.B Box 2'14. Grand Rapids. Mich

 

 

Delaine ewes and ten

Ship to Cleveland

CLEVELAND is a great ’and growing city.
packing houses have grown 1n a way that few people appre-
ciate.

CLEVELAND is the largest packing center east of Chicago.

Its stockyards and

slaughter from 30,000 to 60,000 hogs
Eastein order buyers take large daily supplies
CLEVELAND butchers slaughter 5,000 cattle weekly
with sheep, lambs and calves in proportion.

The CLEVELAND demand exceeds the supply.

, CLEVELAND packers to buy elsewhere.
strong prices in the CLEVELAND UNION STOCKYARDS.

Bill your stock in youx own name in came of any of the following

This forces
It also makes

Shippers’ Comm. Co.

Meeks, Boren & Thompson
Nat’l Livestock Comm. Co.

Cleveland Union Stockyards, Cleveland, 0.’

[Eiged-ltg-lhay White Wyandottes

ens a eg 3200 r15: 310
100.

Belandhig‘Sons.E RfigenvilIEnggny [Palm

. DAY OLD CHICKS

S. 0. English strBain White Leghorns, Brown Le horns.
Anoonas and 1f

 

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guaranteed. Ball'lwliOV‘EcN.B Bfel’z’fll'liosllggd, saggy.
EGGS $1 swab Parcel Post Paid. Thorough

reds. Barred Rock Whg

Rocks. Bufl’ Rocks. W hits Wyandottes. Anconas But Mtg
norcas.White Leghorns Brown Leghorns. Rhoda Island
Reds, Bufl' Orpingtons. Philip Condon, W. Chester.0hio

HATGHING EGGS

31." .5 setting. 32pe .post e id Wh W -
dot tDtos White and Barred $31.41.? White L? begin;
Genuine Farm raised. Please order from ad. Sat:
isfaction. GORE BROS Corunna. Mich.

Hagaman’ a Big Black Minorcas

Single Comb .great Ia ers. 15 eggs 32.00 30
$10. 00 pe1 hundred. EV QHagaman Hillsdglggslélsigg.

ARDEE'S EGGS AND DRA
PERFECT DuCklingsP Price List Free. BOEEI‘S
Prdee' s, Islip, L. I. .NY'
W. Le horns elxtra selected 1 t .
English... 1%.. 15,3 :1 37. 1112521?!”
ORCHARD KNO
S.Wyan. from State Champ. and Detroit Win-

s,L R. 2, Spring Lake. Mich.
Qua“, ners. Yearlin (“or ks and (his. for sale E
Mill.

 

reasonable. Triangle oultry lords. Hillsdale.
Rural 1 Baby Chicks and Pullels
from our choice stock of English Strain S. C. White

Leghoms Brown ghorns and Anconas at very rea-
sonable pri(OS. We 50111 1t your inqui1ies. Catalo

Rural Poultry Farm d: Hatchery. R. l. Zeeland. high. »
llhode Island W] t .

Rose comb selei ted stock egg;l fill-32:53? Infiltgokigg

$6.00; 100- 310. Henry Scholten, 11.12. Holland. Mich

STRICKS POULTRY FARM

O
lea Aged lieglate ewelambs forsale Hudsomille, “w“ R R 4 BOX M- S- C Englisll
' Wh1te Leghorns Official record. f
CALHOON BROS" Bronson, Mich to 244 Chicks and Eggs Write f3r Olgzllgghgns of 208

 

HORSES

FOR QUICK SALE

1 pair pure-bred Percheron Mares, coming 3 854
5711., color brown, well matched, weight 3400 lbs.

1 pair plum-bred Percheron geldings. comings 3 &
4371‘s., color black, well matchedjweight 3400 lbs.
1 dark brown stallion colt, 9 mos. old. weight 1200
lbs. an excellent opportunity to develop a great
stallion.

2 young Shorthorn Bulls.of Imported ancestry
that are the equal 501' any we ever produced, are
ready for service.

Anyone interested in the purchase of any of the
above animals should communicate at once
with owners.

H. 13. PETERS & SON,
ELSIE, Mich.

POULTRY

 

 

 

 

Eight leading Standard Va-
rieties Every chick from
pure bred, healthy, carefully selected stock.
We are not iobbers. We personally know
what we are selling. Delivered at your door.
parcel post prepaid. 100% live delivery guar-
anteed. Catalogue free .

MUNCIE BABY CHICK CO.
Lock Box 274, Muncie, Indiana

 

 

B-A-B-Y c-H- l-C-K-S
Book your order with“ us and 15:“ genuine foundation
1tock of Rocks. Anoonns. Englia and America White
Leghorns. Wegu arantee best quality and 001‘ de-
ivery. Large illustrated catalogue free.
19:03 vs II her-lee, Box 0. Holland. Mich.

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Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs 3”“, p 1-

read stoek. ParIk's strain Barred Rocks. Heavy lay-

11g strain RhodeIsl dBeds. EnglishWhite Leghorn.
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W. Chinesem :1. 50° for 8

for 15.

Eng] ish

PETHLUMA Whitthe mid wagsted flocks.

e Leghorns
mated to pedigreed males. W on cup best utility
largest class' 111 M11 h1gan. Chic ks eggs. Catalogue
Forest- Grove Hatchery,

Single Comb Buff Leghorn

baby chicks. Orde1 now for spring deli gs
circula1.W illard W ebste1. R. verbatfnilgfgfi

S. C. B. M morca

our 12 lb cock.
cookel‘els $3Nnrthrufi Strain choice

3. c. BIaCk Minorca stock. $31111d $5 atch ing eggs.

single settings or quantxty C J. Deedrick, Vassar. Mich

Box M. Hudsonville. LII-:12.

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A few choice Minorca Cooker-
els wars at big fellows, sired by .
.MILLS, Saline, Mich.

liver. Golden & W. Wynn” grand winnin sat Grand

Rapids Coliseum Show. Choice breeging stock.

Prices reasonable. 0. W Browni11g.ll.2 .Portlend .Mlch.
Fishel Stralin. dandy]

Snowy White Pucks Egg. ,1”, ,— $3 W50 galore:

100. All prepaid. Mrs. Earl l)ehnholl.1Va11buren, Ohio-

Tra Nested Strain“I 1 0. W. Le ghorns. Heavy winter
p'layers. snow white. high on shank. pelvic bones
thin and well spread. Baby chicks and hatching. Have
few choice cockerel's and pullets for sale. shipped on
approval. Leonard Sumner, 11.21.13on? Romulus,Mich.

TEN EGGSG for hatching from pure Toulouse

eese. fiour dollars and fifty cts.

($4. 50). insured parcelG post pa
MRS. AMY SOUT HW‘ORTLI Allen. Mich.
Spanish Minorcas.Rooks.

Top. Quality CIIICIIS Reds. W1andottes. Orpi
tons. TYRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton. Migfi.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

207 egg ever 9. Five special matings. E e 32. 00. 33. Ill
and 35 I"Golfer eafi5. Cockerels 35.00 gg '
3. Three Rivers. Mich

NK DELONG,
ginIITEm L‘EBIIORIN OBAFBY K(llllollKSY

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RM. Route 1. Grand FRapidFs. PMichigan.
won second cooker el'lo .
White WYandottes third pullet Detroit

twelve birds. all winner‘s, Ann Arbor. Show birds. 35

up. Write for prices. . David Ray. Ypsilanti, Mich

W. Wyandottes. Strong. sturdy. cockerels bred from
Chi lcago Coliseum winners ofbest display and Ho- ;

an tested layers at 35: 37.5011
10per 15. Cat. free H. J. Riley.

 

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; Does Hubam clover make good feed
‘ for all kinds of stock? Should it be
._ sown in oats. or barley the same as

other clover? ’ Does it do well on all
kinds of soil?—P. D.

Hubam clover is a sWeet clover
which matures in a single season. It
has only been known for a few years
and its exact value has not been de-
termined. It is apparently a promising
crop to grow for quick hay and pas-
ture. It is known to be one of the
best of honey crops.

Seed may be secured from the Farm
Bureau Seed Department, East Lans-
ing, Michigan. -

Apparently this crop makes 'excel-
lent pasturage for all kinds of stock
and a hay feed that is comparable to
good sweet clover or alfalfa hay, pro-
vided it is cut for hay before bloom
starts—J. F. 0.

MORE COLTS OF BETTER TYPE.

OLTS are now seen upon farms
with greater frequency than for
:the past five years. These young
horses with but few exceptions, are
' ‘of improved breeding and will develop

 

i into a type of draft animals superior
.to those generally used on American
farms in years gone by. Economy in
' production is now demanding a more
‘ efficient horse and from this demand
is certain to come animals built for
draft work and also of a disposition

' that will permit a number of them to
be worked smoothly in large teams.

.THE RURAL SCHOOL QUESTION.

(Continued from Page 289.)
do his best if he be too cold or too
warm. The temperature in every
school room in the county should be
from sixty-eight to seventy degrees at
8:30 in the morning and should remain
constant throughout the day. Of
course, this is altogether impossible if
the building is heated with a stove, or
unless everything is in good repair if
heated with a modern plant that takes
care of the ventilation.
But even with a modern heating
. plant there are many teachers that can
not handle the situation. Many of them
never built a furnace fire in their life
until the first cold morning at school.
I visit school after school in the win-
ter and find the temperature in the
first school visited just above freezing.
Sometimes the fault is with the plant.
I know of a number of heating plants
in the county without any grate at all
and a number more in which the shak-
er is out of commission. Now I am not
'finding fault or criticizing teachers. It
.takes time and experience to learn to
handle a furnace and no normal school
that I know of is offering a course
- [along this line. However, the school
day is short and when I visit a school
and find the pupils at ten o’clock hud—
.dled around the stove or the register
with their wraps on trying to keep
warm, I am sure that something is
wrong with the system.
‘ Thereare many particulars in which
the rural school is not meeting the de-
mands of the age. I have named only
.four, but I think this article is long
enough. You can probably think of
more. And what are we going to do
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$10.90. Also made m 30 x 3 size.

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If you are a farm or suburban home owner
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Send for free cola! showing complete

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