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'OLUME CLVIII NUMBER ELEVEN





l DETROIT, MARCH 18, 1922





 





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT

,THE MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:





A little laugh now and then

Will take some kinks from the w01st

of men.

Life is too serious to take it too

Seriously.





It is often better to get acquainted

with the man whom you do not under-

stand than it is to hit him.





He is a wise dairyman who sets a.

trap to catch the first well-informed

cow-tester that ’comes his way.





HE wide extent to





- V which public in-

,Erad'cat- terest in the eradica-

WTUbIer" tion of bovine tuber-



culosis culosis in Michigan





has increased in re-

cent years is evidenced by the county

campaigns now in progress for its

complete eradication. This work ’is

now under way in half a score of Mich-

igan counties, in which the county

boards of supervisors are appropriat~

mg funds for cooperation with the

State Department of Agriculture and

the Bureau of Animal Industry of the

United States Department of Agricul-

tore. Of these counties Hillsdale has

already been cleaned of the disease

and the work is nearing completion in

Jackson county, while a number of oth-\

er counties are making rapid progress,

tOWard this desired end.



The significant thing about this work

now in progress is that the people of

bath city and country are equally interi

ested in the movement. Even in

Wayne county the local board is coop-

erating in the work with apparently

as much interest shown by the city

members as the country members of

that body, and this is typical of the in-

terest being shown in other sections

of the state. In a talk before the De-

troit City Farmers’ Club last week,

Commissioner of Agriculture Halladay

expressed the hope that with this‘kind-

of local cooperation and with the state

administrative board backing the work

with the necessary funds there is a

very good prospect that this destruc-

tive and dangerous disease which

science has demonstrated to be trans-

mitted to humans, may soon be eradi-

cated from our state.



This work merits the enthusiastic

cooperation of every citizen, and par-

-' ticularly every farmer in the state.

-. ~ Once this disease is gotten under con-

'13» trol it can be efficiently and cheaply

. kept in nobleman. True, the work of



ication is costiy. but it is less cost;





 





 





ly now than it will be at any time in

the future, and it will be a pmfltable

business investment from the stand-

point of future (profits from live stock,

to say nothing of its importance in re-

lation to public health, which is the

paramount if not the primary consid-

eration.





ITERALLY this is





Unscram- a very difficult

. proposition to under-

bhng the take. Figuratively it

Egg” seems to be almost as





difficult when applied

to our very much mixed transportation

situation. Last year the railroads of

this country lost nearly one-quarter of

their business. The ton-miles of freight

carried by our railroads in 1921 totaled

104,390,000,000 tons less than in 1920,.

and yet the railroads made money un-





‘der the so-called guarantee provision





of the EscheCummins‘ transportation

act.



Small wonder that the railroads and

other interests allied with them are

making a strenuous fight for the main-

tenance of the present status, under

which the United States Supreme

Court has ruled that the Interstate

Commerce Commission has jurisdic-

tion over intrastate as well as inter-

state rates. Senate Bill 1150, known

as the Capper Bill, would change this

status by removing the so-called guar-

antee in the Esch-Cummins act, and

by restoring to every state the power

to adjust rates within the state when

its territory is being discriminated

against. This .bill is now before the

senate committee on interstate com-

merce, where it is being vigorously op-

posed by the railroad and Wall Street

interests.



The passage of this bill would go a

long way toward the unscrambling of

the transportation egg, which is in bad

odor with the public generally. And

this last mentioned fact is pretty sure

to bring about its passage sooner or

later and thus start the unscrambling

process. Nobody wants to see the rail-

roads crippled. They are necessary to

our business life.

portation rates, which would tend to

help the volume of railroad business

as well as all other business. We must

begin somewhere in this necessary re—

adjustment. The best place to begin

would seem to be where the results

would be most certain and most quick-

ly achieved.





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URINé. the past





year farmers have



I F‘;rm not purchased new

mp cment equipment and goods

Prices in normal volume.





Manufacturers a n

distributors frequently referred to this

situation as a “buyers’ strike” during

the early months of its manifestation.

Later they very generally recognized

the fact that with the extreme defla-

tion of prices for farm products as

compared with the range of commod~

ity prices plus high transportation

charges, the slackening of farm buyiilg

was merely a matter of business nec-

essity.



The reaction has come in the form

of increased prices for farm products

and a downward trend of commodity

prices in the leveling up process nec~

essary to the regaining of an economic

balance. The earlier stages of this

leveling process has afforded less im-

mediate relief to business, either agri-

cultural or otherwise, than some ex-

pected, for the reason that a large per-

centage of farmers were obliged to sell

their products before the favorable re-

action in prices occurred, while manu-

facturers and distributors suffered a

measure of the'same heavy inventory

and operating loss to which the farm-

ers had been previously subjected. But

the progress of the leveling up process

is an indication that the worst is over

and that better times are ahead for all

concerned.





So are lower trans-“i ‘





The main subject for concern at

present is the future trend of this

process, i.‘e., whether it will bemainly

in a further advance in prices for farm

products Or in a further shrinkage in

commodity values and the costs which

enter into their production. Farm im-

plement manufacturers maintain that

recent cuts in prices have placed them

on a lower price range as compared

with the cost of materials than before

the war. In proof of the claim that

present prices are as low as they can

possibly be made under present condi-

tions they point to the annual state-

ments of well-known implement manu-

facturers, which show losses last year

langing from $3, 000, 000 to $9,000,000,

of which in the extreme cases some-

thing like two- thirds was inventory

loss and one-third operating loss. ’



On the other hand, farmers point to

exceptional cases in which prices for

manufactured commodities containing

similar materials have been reduced

to or below pre-war,prices. In most

of these cases, however, the commodi-

ties have fairly constant, rather than

seasonal demand, which favors a quick

turnover, . while agricultural ' imple-

ments must be manufactured far ahead





of a. comparatively short selling sea— ,





son, and the amount manufactured

must be gauged in accordance with the

probable demand.



While it is probable that the volume

of trade in this line will not attain

fully normal proportions until condi-

tions are further stabilized, it would

not seem to be the part of wisdom for

forehanded farmers to go [without

needed equipment for economic pro-

duction in the meantime, since present

price comparisons are not greatly out

of line as compared with the pre-war

period. Also there is a strong possi-

bility that when conditions favor an

abnormal demand, as is likely to be the

case when conditions are fully stabiliz-

ed, the demand may be greater than

the Supply.





UST a few evenings





Talking ago the wr1ter took

(1 some waste paper in-



?" . to the garden and

Thinking burnt it. The' paper





blazed up lustily for

a few moments and then died out. But

during the brief time that the fire was

‘going everyone within range had their

eyes turned toward it.’ The stars lost

their charm; surrounding buildings

were forgotten; the soil. on which the

fire blazed was unnoticed. That little

blaze simply -eclipsed anything in and

about the yard and captured the full

attention of the onlookers. The fol-

lowing morning nothing could be found

but a handful of burnt embers.



In nearly every community there are

persons who may be likened. to this

little fire. Through a. well-developed

imagination and skill with language,

a little reading and much talk in pub-

lic places they have gathered a list of

opinions on a wide variety of local and

general problems. These opinions they

express with much crating in public

places both in or out of season. In

committee sessions modest members

have little opportunity for the expres-

sion of their views. At sales, the cor-

ner grocery, the blacksmith shop and

wherever men do congregate, this man

is the center of interest and his opin-

ions are the best ”advertised of any in

the community, so much so that often

those who have had little time for

study wonder if there is another posi-

tion on the matters he so courageously

expounds.



We have seen this man often with

his pessimistic views on everything

that is and. with his plans for the re-

modeling and rebuilding of practically

every institution along entirely new

lines and then have gone out in the

sunshine only to find scarcely a. burnt





'ember of his opinions remaining. The

idea is that we should be careful in





     





am and. think little,





times and don’t get no .





 





 





should study our problems in tile very

best light with which we can surround

them.





E gain





. kno' wi-

oedge of the out-



hfee.” ' er world entirely

t Sight . through our senses.

Good The greatest gateway





through which knowl-

edge may enter the mind is .the sense

of sight. We learn more quickly

through the eye than by any Other

means.



Often we see a young scholar stem-

mer through his lessons and we lay

the cause of the trouble to plain dumb-

ness when, in reality, poor eyesight is

at the bottom of. the difficulty.



An examination" of thousands of

school children showed that sixty-six

per cent of them had defective eye-

sight. Another ‘examination laws in.

dustrial field held among mature peo-





ple showed that the same percentage-





had defective sight, but they were able

to correct the; trouble in thirteen per

cent, leaving fifty-three per cent dc-

fective.



With such a large percentage affect

ed, we should look to our own children

to find if their sight is defective or

not. To in any way allow this great

gateway of knowledge to be obstruct-

ed would be most unfortunate. Good

health will help' conserve good sight,

but also poor eyes frequently cause

poor health, for seeing through imper-

fect eyes is a strain to the nervous

system.



It makes a lot of difference how we

see things. Be sure to keep the vision

clear.





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Syd/e Saym s

HERE’S famous men like Ben

Franklin and Mister Dooley what



has given the world rules for the con-

duct of life and axims_without any

axes to grind. Seems like I gota keep

in accordance with the custom, so I’m

givin' the following for the benefit of

those that ain’t born yet:



The man what gets up early and

knows the good

spots ketches the





fish. The other

man has got to

buy them.





You' c an’t tell

by the size of a

man’s waist what

is in his head.



All the suckers

ain't fish—we’ve

all been suckers some time.



It helps your credit to pay today

what’s due tomorrow.



We’ re all prodigious spenders of

time, but none of us know ho‘cr big our

drawin’ account is.



There’s lots of difference betWeen a

rooster and a hen. The rooster crows

about prospects, but the hen tells the

world” about‘accomplishments.



A man what loves hisself ain't got

no rivals.



The love of a fast lover don’t last.



To grow big you first gota' dig deep

to get a good foundation.



What’s put in your mouth has got

lots to do with what comes out of it.





 





Good suspender buttons relieves a





man of bein’ scared of embarrassment.



For girls to paint‘and powder their

faces is agin the principles of the

truth-in-advertisin’ campaign. -



The prettiest lookin’ apple ain't al-

ways the best tastin’ one.



Take care of your feet and they

won‘t bother your head.



Some dry subjects is beneficial; for

inst. the Volstead liquor law.



Like all famous sayin’ s, the above





has got to be studied to get their hid»





den meanin’. If you read one fifteen





 





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Bob Anderson Knows Peaches.





NE phase of agriculture in which



Michigan can lead all the other



states in the middle west is hort-

iculture. This was brought out most

forcefully March 1-3 at Coloma, Berri-

en county, at one of the most success-

ful pre-spring sessions of the Michigan

State Horticultural Society ever held

in the history of this great organiza-

tion. ,



After weeks of debating among

themselves, the fruit growers during

this convention came out in the open

and made a stand for the expansion

and development of the horticulture

department at the college with a View

to providing the fruit industry with the

kind of leadership to which it is en-

titled. It adopted resolutions asking

the State Board of Agriculture to cre-





‘ ate a separate division of horticulture





at the college and the speakers sug-

gested that a dean be placed at its

head. Some of the other departments

of the institution, of minor importance





- compared with horticulture and $26,-





000,000 worth of products produced an-

nually, have at their heads deans of

recognized ability.



.But the tables are beginning to turn,

judging from the action taken at the.

Coloma meeting. When the state





   

 





 





 





 





‘I‘OWCI‘S Dlsouss Probl





T fie Future Development of tee Iua’u‘stry a5 lVe/l- as Cultural Metaads





are Cousza’erea’ at Spring Meeting





board convenes again, not only, will

members of the executive and horticul-

tural committees of the society appear

before it with their requests, but there

also will be a special delegation of

growers. They were named at the

convention as follows: F. L. Granger,

of Benton Harbor, chairman; James

Nicol, South Haven; Robert Anderson,

Covert; H. Blakeslee Crane, Fenn-

ville, and A. J. Rogers, Beulah.



While action on this matter was per-

haps the outstanding feature of the

convention, the program was very edu-

cational and much good for the large

and small growers was disseminated.

The first day’s program was given over

to a discussion of melon and grape cul-

ture. Growing of melons, because of

the long season last year and the large

returns received per acre, has become

far more attractive and the coming

season, it was indicated, would see the

acreage in southern Michigan doubled.

From $300 to $400 an acre was realized

'on many of the commercial farms in

Berrien county while in a few in-

stances the returns even exceeded

these figures. '



In Berrien county there are three

cooperative marketing associations

handling melons, but none of them has

sufficient volume to develop a carlot

trade. John Hooker told of the great

success of the Benton Center Associa—

tion and before he closed his talk he

expressed the hope that all three asso-

ciations in another year might be able





‘to federate, grow the same varieties,





pack and use the same brands, and

develop a carlot trade. Such a feder-





ation probably would have resulted

this season but owing to the lack of

sufficient seed so all might grow the

same varieties, the merger probably

will not be attempted before next year.



There was much difference of opin-

ion among growers and specialists re-

garding sprays for grapes. A nicotine

solution for leaf hoppers was agreed

upon but W. C. Eckard, of Paw Paw,

Van Buren county farm agent, argued





reported wonderful success with this

poison, stating that he had used it suc-

cessfully on bright days as strong as

one-half pound to one hundred gallons

of water, and one-half this amount on

cloudy days. Others still clung to the

arsenate of lead which they considered

less dangerous.



T. B. Woodman, of Paw Paw, told

how he raised eight tons of grapes per

acre last “season. The key to his suc-

cess was in the extensive use of barn-

yard manure on his vineyards, thus

maintaining the fertility of the soil. In





 





 





County Agent Walker Finds that Strawberries do well in Upper Peninsula.





that many growers were not as thor.

ough as they should be in Spraying.

He suggested using a long hand rod, a

coarse spray, and moving slowly along

the rows so that the under sides of

the leaves are thoroughly drenched.

The Kedzie formula, sodium arse-

nate, appears to be gaining in favor as





a spray for berry moth, although opin--





ion on this subject was decidedly at

variance. M. D. Buskirk, of Paw Paw,





 





 





H. A. Keister’s Four-year-old Jonathan Orchard Near Bangor.





pruning he recommended leaving four

to six arms per vine with from forty

to eighty buds. N. L. Partridge, re-

search specialist l‘rom the college, also

discussed pruning subjects and ex-

plained the relationship of the number

of buds to leave to the fertility of

the soil.



Purchase of fertilizers containing

only one per cent nitrogen, twenty per

cent phosphorus and eight per cent

potash was declared uneconomical, in

the opinion of Mr. Partridge, who

pointed out that one-half pound ofl

nitrogen per vine could be used safely

and profitably. Mr. Partridge conduct-

ed a number of experiments last year

on J. Pomeroy Munson’s farm near

Grand Rapids, and other vineyards

near Paw Paw.



The need of l'ederating the market-

ing associations in years of heavy pro-

duction was emphasized by‘Hale Ten-

nant, who explained the purposes oil



(Continued on page 331).





Robust Beans Make Good





Au Important Factor in Boosting Beau Profits





HE rapid advance in the bean mar-

ket has awakened a lively interest

in the Robust variety, a white pea or

navy bean developed at the Michigan

Agricultural College and now being

grown and certified by the Michigan

Crop Improvement Association.

Wherever it has been tried this Ro-

bust bean has fully lived up to its

name. Professor A. C. Army,,of the

Farm Crops Department of the Uni-

versity of Minnesota, during his recent

visit to Michigan, stated that in trials

in his State'Robust beans had not as

yet met their equal.

In New York they are looked upon

with great favor because, of their re





.sistance to- the. Mosaic disease and





Wilbur Brotherton, of the 1U. S. De-

partment of Agriculture, who has been

conducting numerous tests with beans,

and worked in Michigan last.8ummer,

stated that the Robust variety had

proven less susceptible to other dis-





_, eases than any variety tested.





While there is an. added interest in





 





By R. C.





come to look upon seed certified by

the Michigan Crop Improvement Asso-

ciation as a good investment at all

times. It has been the object of the





Association to maintain prices at about





the same rate per bushel as common

beans were per hundred on the aver-

age local market. This gives added





‘compensation to the farmers who take





pains to keep the variety pure and still

makes cheap seed available to the av-,

erage grower. An increased yield of

one-half bushel per acre would just off-

set the additional cost of certified seed

when three pecks per acre are used,

while an increase of one bushel per

acre would mean a return of $2.00

worth of beans for every extra dollar

paid for certified seed.





It —is a matter of fact that Robust

beans have outyielded competitors by

muCh more than a bushel per acre.





Following are the average yields from





 





 ported better than 30 bushels per acre





Rather





of E. C. McCarty, of Bad Axe, the

tests being conducted under superVi-

sion of the‘Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege.





Robust .. . . . . ...... . .27.5 bus. per acre

Early Wonder. . . . . . . .24.6 bus. per acre

Hunter .. . . . . . . . ...24.1 bus. per acre

Common seed. . . . . . . .225 bus. per acre.

1000—-1 ........ . . . . .21.9 bus. per acre





Tests at Minden City, Bellaire and

Battle Creek, all support the data

shown here and give the Robust va-

riety a splendid margin of profit over

its competitors. The five- bushel in-

crease of Robusts over the common

beans in the test mentioned would

give, on the present market, a net

profit of $16.20 per acre over the ex-

tra cost of seed.





Field ,results 'which farmers have

had give further evidence of the splen-

did yielding ability of this variety.

Different farmers in Eaton County re-





in 1920. A. Schuknecht, Owosso, and

Mr. Wm. R. Smith, of St. Johns, each

had yields of 30 bushels per acre in

1921. Mr. Smith stated that he knew

of no yields near his farm which

came within fifteen bushels of what

Robust had yielded for him. E. C.

McCarty, of Bad Axe, is one of the

earliest growers and his yields have

been running from 22 to over 30 bush-

els per acre; all of this when the

highest county average in 1921 was

17 bushels per acre, the State average

11 bushels, and anything over 20 bush-

els has been considered quite excep-

tional.



Robust beans mature slightly later

than some other Varieties. To be safe

they should be planted \sometime be-

tween the 1st and 10th of June. Un-

der such conditions they will mature

in any of the usual bean growing dis‘

tricts of Michigan.





For two seasons now growers have .'





fallen short of fulfilling the big de~





mand for certified Robust beans for"

Indications point to an even I

g greater demand in 1923 ‘





seed.





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FOR TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS

TO DEPARTMENT OF AG-

RICULTURE. ._





 





BILL introduced by Congressman

Tincher, of Kansas, transfers .to

the department of agriculture the ad-





. ministration of all public lands and





reservations, including the national

parks, national monuments, abandoned

military reservations, lands withdrawn

for reclamation purposes, Indian res-

ervations, fishing stations, now vested

in the department of the interior, the

general land ofiice, director ,of national

parks, the reclamation service and In-

dian affairs. Representative Tincher

says his plan is to have all the gov-

ernment functions affecting agricul-

ture, forestry and food and govern-

ment owned lands centered in the de-

partment of agriculture. Hearings on

this bill have been postponed to a.

future date.





CANADA WANTS R ECl PROCITY.





 





MOVEMENT is on foot in Canada



looking toward reciprocity with

the'United States. William s. Field-

ing, minister of finance in the Canadi-

an cabinet, has been in Washington

conferring with the state department,

it is said, regarding the possibilities of

a reciprocal trade agreement between

the two countries. The party now in

power in Canada is said to be favor-

able to reciprocity and the farmers of





Y the dominion are inclined to favor free





trade with the United States, which

will enable them to send their farm

products into this country free of duty

in exchange for farming implements,

automobiles, and other American man-

ufactures to be admitted into Canada

duty free.



‘ Several years ago a reciprocal trade

agreement was offered the Canadians

by this country, but was turned down.

It is now believed that such a propo-

sition will be just as unpopular among

American farmers as it was with the

Canadians in 1911.





FARM WOMEN WANT PRICES

STABILIZED. g





 





FARMER’S wife, Mrs. Mels P.



Radick, from Minnesota, told the

senate agricultural committee that she

was the vanguard of farm women com-

ing to Washington to urge that the

government stabilize the price of sta-

ple farm products, and create a gov-

ernment farm products export corpor-

ation to finance the purchase and sale

abroad of surplus farm products.





AGRICULTURAL MOTION PIC-

TURES.





 





HE work of the United States De-



partment of Agriculture in devel-

oping motion pictures as a means of

education and entertainment is attend—

ed with remarkable success. Among

the more recent films is one showing

how bees live and work, giving an op.-

portunity to study bees at close quar-

ters. Another one-reel picture shows

how early'and late potatoes are grown

and harvested in leading potato sec-

tions. The European corn borer is pic-

tured in a new film, under the title,

“An Undesirable Alien.” Close-up

views of life history of the pest, the





. weapons of fighting employed by the





bureau of entomology. and a warning

to corn growers are given in the film.

One very interesting film shows meth-





- ads of road building under the author-

Vity of the bureau of

' ,~,,"Anne’s Aigrette,” a federal bird ref-





public roads.





age scene; “Fighting Western Pine

Beetles,” and “The Ox-Warblo, a Fifty»-





 





million Dollar Tune,” are among other

instructive and entertaining films. The

department now has 150 subjects for

distribution. ‘



These motion picture films primarily

were intended for the use of extension

workers, but they are now available to

any rural community church, grange

or other organization desiring to use

the motion picture as a means of mak-

ing the community a more attractive

place in which to live by providing

wholesome educational entertainment.

The only cost to the one using the

film is for transportation.



A very satisfactory serviceable pro-

jector can be purchased for $225 to

$275, which, in case electric current is



'not available, can be operated .by

'means of a storage battery system. A

Chicago firm makes a projector, and

generator attached to an automobile,

for $450. Another company makes a

portable outfit for $350. For a perma-

nent building it would require a heat-

ing system, where wire current is





lacking.





opposes PURNE‘LL‘ BILL.





 





 





T HE Purnell Bill, authorizing the

complete endowment of agricul-

prevent such a scheme. Senator Cap-





by Congressman Mondell, majority

floor leader, on the grounds of econ-

omy, the greater need of the farmers

at this time, in his opinion, being

lower taxation, rather than an enlarge-

ment of the appropriations for experi.

ment stations. Mr. Mondell said he

was opposed to any increase in appro-

priations except in cases of emer-

gency. It was stated by a member

of the committee that since the first

of the last April Congress has passed

more legislation calling for larger ap-

propriations for agriculture than any





 





previous sessionrand while the mem-

bers seemed disposed to report this

bill out favorably, they believe that

the time is about here when they will

be compelled by necessity to shut

down on legislation calling for appro-

priations from the Federal Treasury.



All these thousand and one demands

for increased appropriations, great and

small, it is claimed will have the ef-

fect of seriously cutting down the

available funds for the building of Fed-

eral aid highways, and are daily re-

ducing the chances of getting, adequate

appropriations for highway improve-

ment. As Congressman Mondell says

it is a case of whether good roads

or larger appropriations for experi-

ment station research work and simi~

lar activities are most needed by the

farmers.





 





AGRICULTURAL DEPARTM ENT

APPROPRIATION.





 





HE annual appropriation bill for

the United States Department of

Agriculture for the fiscal year begin—

ning next July, as reported to the

house, carries a total appropriation of

$34,978,033. This is $3,710,$26 less

than the total of the 1922 appropria-

tions and $1,554,835 less than the

amount requested in the estimates.

The States Relations Service, which

gives aid to the county agent work, is

severely hit as it will have $561,340

less to spend than during the present

yeal, if the bill 1emains unchanged.

The new bureau of agricultural eco-

nomics will receive $84, 309 in excess

of the office of farm management and

farm economics and ' the bureau of

markets and crop estimates, which it

succeeds. An appropriation of $291,-

707 is recommended for the encourage-

ment and adoption of improved meth-





 





 





Wednesday, March 8.

HE United States prohibition com-





missioner will use submarines

against rum runners along the Atlantic

Coast—A report of the United States

Employment Service says that Detroit

leads in aiding jobless—Four Chinese

with $10,000 worth of opium Were

seized in a recent raid in Detroit.—

Disguised as a farmer, Post Office In-

spector Fraser traps robbers of First

National Bank of Mondogia, Wis.



Thursday, March 9.





BERT WILLIAMS, the famous negro



comedian, died in New York of

pneumonia—Patchogue, Long Island,

uses the exhaust of an automobile in-

stead of chloroform to gas stray dogs.

——The U. S. Grain Growers’ Inc., an-

nounced the incorporation of the Unit-

ed States Grain Growers’ Sales Com-

pany, which will be the largest grain-

selling firm in the world.



Friday, March 10.





SSEX, ONT., stages a rat contest



in which the contesting teams kill-



ed 2,166.——President Harding bars a



shipment of arms to China because of



unsettled conditions there—A Chicago,



judge ruled that a thumb print was a



legal signature—An increase of 6.41



per cent in the February post office



receipts over those f0 last year indi-

cates better trade conditions.

Saturday, March 11.



HE Illinois Constitutional Conven~



tIOn adopts a provision permitting



the reading of the-b bible in the public





 





 





schools. ——More stock brokerage firms

have been closed because of being

financially involved. —A Davenport, Ia. .,

doct01 fell dead in the countly treas-

ur"e1 s office shortly aftel he was told

the amount of his taxes.





Sunday, March 12.



THE world famous magicion, Harry



Kellar, died in California—The

crew of the schooner Eillen were res-

cued after being tossed about on a life

boat for eighty hours—Open warfare

which is raging in the Rand in South

Africa between striking miners and

the soldiers, cause the death of 115

and the wounding of. 700.





Monday, March 13.





THE arrest by Great Britain of Ma-



hatma Gandhi, the great national-

ist India leader, is causing great dis-

turbances among the natives—Many

railway chiefs admit that freight rates

will be reduced as a result of the hear-

ings at Washington. —The allies ignore





claims of the United States in signing





reparation agreement with Germany.





Tuesday, Ma rch 14.





RIENDS of Eli-President Wilson



deny that he is using his influence

with the democrats in congress against

the peace pact—Strikers in the South

Africa gold fields attempted to assassi-

nate Gene1al Jan C Smuts, premier —

Five convicts escape from the Mar-j





to the interior department, and has be.

ouette. Michigan prison by washing, lie-

,3. hole thrbugh the





ods of farm management and falm

practice of which sum $150, 000 may be

used in ascertaining the cost of pro-

duction of the principal staple agricul-

tural products.



An appropriation of $410, 500 is al—

lowed for the enforcement of the pack-

ers’ and stockyards act, and $103, 600

for the enforcement of the future trade

ing act.

culosis in animals the committee rec-

ommends an appropriation of $2, 578,-

800, which is the amount appropriated

for the present year.





MUSCLE SHOALS AGAIN.





 





EARINGS on the offer to lease the



- dam at Muscle Shoals, Alabama,

and operate or lease the nitrate plants

continue before the House Military Af-

fairs Committee. They closed last

week with the committee listening to

a discussion of the bid of F. E. Eng-

strum. It is the bpinion of many of

those who have followed the testimony





that the only real offer is Mr. Ford’s.'





Before the committee decides upon

its recommendation to congress it will

visit the dam site for the purpose of

familiarizing itself with the physical

property. About forty-five senators,

including the committee on agriculture

also will visit the dam.





 





SOLDIERS’ BONUS.





 





HE House Ways and Means Com~



mittee has agreed upon a com-

promise soldiers’ bonus bill, which

eliminates the cash feature where the

former,service man would be entitled

to more than $50 adjusted service pay,

and substitutes a certificate which

would enable the holder to obtain im-

mediately from the banks a loan equal

to one-half of the adjusted service pay

to which he would be entitled on the

basis of $1 a day for domestic service

and $1.25 for overseas service. The

$60 deduction would be made as pro

vided in the former proposal. The ser‘

vice certificate would mature in twen-

ty years and would then be worth ap«

proximately three times the adjusted

service credit of the, veteran. It is

claimed that President Harding is

maintaining the same position as when

he wrote the committee in February,

that the bonus either would be paid by

a sales tax or the legislation must be

postponed.





 





FORESTRY SERVICE CHANGE

FOUGHT.





 





HE proposal to transfer the for-



estry service from the department

of agriculture to the department of in-

terior and the bureau of markets to

the commerce department has aroused

a storm of protest, and is meeting the

opposition of the American Farm Bu-

reau federation and other farm organi-

zations.



Secretary Elbert B. Fall, of the in-

terior department recently announced

a new plan for the development of

Alaska which involves the forestry ser-

vice. The secretary proposes that con-

gress set aside a revolving fund to be

used by him in building sawmills, pa-

per factories, smelters and railroads.

These enterprises would be operated

by the government until'they become

self-supporting, and then would be sold'

to private corporations;



The fargn bloc.will stand ready to

prevent such a scheme.





senate, says he is personally opposed

to this transfer of the forestry service ’





 





 





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per, chairman of the farm bloc in the





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





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N mint growing the essential sub-

stance, the oil, is a material which





’ is formed in the leaves of the mint;

With little experience the oil,





plant.

can be distinguished with the naked

eye. 'It contains no nitrogen, no phos—'

phorus, no, potash. -It' is made of car-

bon, hydrogen and oxygen, materials

which abound in the air and water.

Fertilization is, concerned with' build-

ing up the factory which is to make

the oil. The leaves of the plant are





the factory, the water of the soil and





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Pew/tar Rem/t: Oétamea’fiom er/a’ Test:





over, experienced growers looking at

a heavy growth will not venture a

guess as to oil content. Fertilization

is probably the most important factor

in this difference.



The culture of the mint plant may

be briefly reviewed. The roots are dug

from an old field of mint early in the

spring and planted in rows three and

one-half feet apart. The roots are car-





 





\\ 'Marking and Planting Mint on Farm of Dr. Bope.





the carbon dioxide of the air are the

raw materials which contain carbon,

hydrogen and oxygen, while the sun

provides fuel to run the machinery.



Growers have known for many years

that potash is essential in producing

high oil yields. It has been thought

that phosphoric acid was also valuable

on the high limed mucks of southwest-

ern Michigan, because phosphates and

potash have been found valuable for

other muck crops grown on these soils.



The influence of these minerals on

the mint crop is especially significant

in that it throws light on what these-

fertilizers accomplish, not in'terms of

weight of vines, but in'terms of the

special product desired.



It is common experience to have a

large growth of mint on one field yield

a. disappointing small amount of oil,

while another field of equal growth

may produce twice the yield. More-





ried in bags and “whipped” into the

shallow trenches and covered 'by shov-

ing the muck with the foot, or with a

cultivator. The mint is cut when the

maximum content of oil has accumu-

lated in the leaves. It is harvested

with a mower, taken to stills and the

oil distilled in steam. The oil and the

steam are carried over, condensed in

the coils, cooled by water flowing over

them. The steam is condensed to wa-

ter and the oil collects on the surface

of the water. It is then shipped to

dealers who market the product.



The figures presented herewith are

the results of an experiment which the

writer, while at M. A.”C., conducted on

the farm of Bope & Stiles, at Decatur.

Mr. James Crum, of M. A. 0., made the

measurements. Six one-half acre plots

were used on a field which had not

been fertilized in four years and had

since been in timothy. The fertilizers





were applied in the rows. The results

indicated the yields. as follows:

Results of Fertilizer Tests.





Vines

(Lbs.) Oil (Lbs.)

No application..... .4,755 34 lbs. 8 ozs.





Acid phosphate. ...7,400

Muriate of potash.7,040

Muriate of potash,



acid phosphate. .7,397

Sulphate of pot. . .7,150 52 lbs. 10 ozs.

Sulphate of potash,



acid phosphate..7,534 50 lbs. 10 ozs.



The increase of sulphate of potash

plots in oil yields as compared to the

muriate of potash ‘is of great import-

ance. Especially significant, however,

is the fact that the growth of vines,

as indicated by the weights of each





41 lbs. 12 ozs.

43 lbs. 12 ozs.





40 lbs. 14 ozs.





'plat were not correlated with the oil

It is true that the acid phos- 0





content.

phate increased the oil yield when

used alone. This would be expected

considering the large vine growth re-

sulting from its application.





But, a study of the figures will"show

that acid phosphate depressed the oil

yield. That is, when used with both

forms of potash it reduced the oil yield

per acre. Furthermore, it acted to

confuse the grower in that it actually

resulted in an increased growth of

vines per acre as compared with the

growth of vines on both forms of pot-

ash used alone.



The potash exerted a specific eflect

in the increase of oil, although the oil

contains no potash. In other words,





the potash aids the machinery to pro-

duce oil,

increaSe the size of the factory at the

expense of the oil. As is noted by an





examination of the results, the phos-'





phate always increased vine growth.





An important factor of fertilization

which is worthy of study concerns the

uses of the mint vines. After distill-

ing, the vines which contain a large

amount of potash should either be fed

to stock and fertilizer bought equal to

its feed value; the manure may be

used; or the vines may be spread.

There are practical difficulties in hand-

ling'the “charges” (vines after dsitill—

ing), but the feeding method should be

given a thorough trial. There is no

reason for mint hay not being a mar—

ketable hay in local markets. It is

considered a good feed for horses.





A word of caution should be given

to anyone contemplating mint as a‘

crop. Mint is a special crop. Seventy-

five per cent of the world supply of

mint oil is produced in southWestern.

Michigan and northern Indiana. In

recommending mint as a muck crop, it

must be distinctly understood that the

market can be easily booded, that the

grower must take a chance on the

quantity produced and the limited ded

mand for this product.



On the other hand, the muck farmer

who is growing mint wants to raise

the greatest quantity of oil per acre.

He wants, as all of us do, the greatest

possible 1etu1n fo1 eveiy dollar which

he has invested.





 





 





.The Fertilizer was Applied in the Rows.





Putting Pep Into Sandy Soil

Some Unusual Conditions are Met 53/ tée Man 072 ngét Land

By I. J. Mathews-





HERE are a great many prob



lems that come up continually in



the mind of the man who is en-



trusted with the management of a

piece of sand.



Usually the man who has charge ofv



a sandy soil doesn’t want to adm1t_1t





.for fear that some of his neighbors





~will giggle, but that don’t bother me;

the real point is that this is the rea-

son this problem is seldom discussed

in print. Without making this state-

ment, readers might jump to the con-

clusion that the readers are not famil-‘





viar with sandy farms and for this rea-





son, the Michigan Farmer does not

print much about the management of





such a piece of land.





In reality, the questions that arise

in the management of sandy soils are





*far more momentous than are the

‘questions arising in the management

‘ of strong land.





It is far harder to

demonstrate progressive methods to

d , ready grow





   





as much as ten bushels per acre.

How to Grow Legumes.



One of the problems that confronts

the sand farmer is the matter of grow-

ing legumes. We will take it for

granted that the manager knows that

it is necessary to grow this class of

crops in order to keep up the nitrogen

supply of the soil. The next question

is what crops to. use and how to use

them. ‘ ‘



My experience with this class of soil

teaches me that it is invariably very

acid, especially where it has been

cropped for some time. Even virgin

sandy land is often covered with a

crop of dewberry vines so thick that

nothing else can compete until these

vines are crowded out. The dewberry





'vine is a sure sign of acidity 'super-





lative. Other.signs that often make

their appearance on virgin sands are

’ .‘Y’ securing rush and both





 





There are none of the clovers that

thrive in an extremely acid soil. Al-

falfa and sweet clover seeds refuse to

do anything but sprout and expend

the food in growing that it stored in

the seed. Once in a while, a man is

found who fools himself into think-

ing that sweet clover will do well on

such sour soils. To persist in such

thinking is to make a wanton flight

into the mighty bulwarks of experi-

ence. If I had a dollar for each pound

of sweet clover seed that has been

sown on this sour sand, I would count





my coin with a dollar sign and four'





figures, at least; if I had a dollar for

eaCh successful stand secured under

these conditions, [my purse would be

as flat as it is now—which, of course,

precludes further flatness.



Aside from alfalfa and sweet clover,

June clover might be an applicant for

the position as rejuvenat9r of these



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In sour soils, it seems about as sickly

as the first two mentioned so, while

the land remains sour, it must con-

tent itself with crops other than the

three mentioned.



Of the clovers. alsike clover will do

the best. It will do fairly well in a.

moderately acid soil and give pretty

geod returns. It wlil not yield quite

as high as June clover, usually, but

the sand farmer who uses it stands

the best chance of succeeding with

the clovers.



Acid Tolerant Legumes.



I believe the hope of the sand farm-’



er, in the line of legumes, lies in alsike





clover, SOY beans, cowpeas and hairy "

vetch. Of the four mentioned, I like .

Soy beans are ., ' "





the soy beans best.

good soil builders, they make fine hay

if cut early enough or the soy bean

makes a good stock feed if ground up

and mixed with other feeds.





 





while phosphorus tends to





Prob- '

ably this coming year, soy bean meal .

-will be used extensively in the diet of.

humans as well as quadrupeds. Soy-1
clover but it is hard to cure. It is

, usually out just about the time that

the equinoxal rains start in and hav-

ing such a leafy stem at it has, some

difficulty is experienced in getting it

to cure properly. Soy beans should

by all means be inoculated the-first

time they are sown in a field.



Hairy Vetch, when sown with rye is

" a good soil builder. Itsnitrogen gath-

erers are in clumps. Furthermore,

vetch makes good hay but of course

must be planted with some erect plant

so that the vine can get high enough





to be out if it is expected to use it as ‘





hay. On the sandy farm, for late fall

and early spring pasture, there is noth-

ing that beat the vetch and rye com-

bination. There is a little complaint

that vetch gets wild and roams at will

'——won’t come out of the wheat when

told to and thus makes poor flour.

This criticism is not valid now due to

'the fact that a machine is now on

market which will separate vetch seed

from wheat kernels. Vetch also should

be inoculated for the best results. '



A practice that is calculated to get

good results is to sow vetch and rye

in the fall and then plow this down

in the spring for corn. It is hard to

tell needy folks that they should plow

down anything that will make, even a

part of the crop, but .nevertheless, the

way to permanent agriculture is along

this line.



Cow peas are a crop of great po-

tentiality on this type of land. The

cow pea is capable of making quite

a growth on such soil and it may be

used for hay. If cut at the right stage

of growth, the hay is palatable but is

a little difficult to cure. if not inocu-

lated, the first year the cow pea roots

may not have many nodules on them

but the second year, the roots will

be covered with these valuable assets.

By the way, where a crop of 'cow peas,

soy beans or any of the others grow

without nodule formation, thefertility

is depleted as much as though a crop

'of rye had been grown.



It is a rather mistaken notion among

sand farmers that the ordinary field

bean (navy bean or soup bean) is a

builder. Quite true, this is one of the

legume family but it stays on the

ground such a short time that only a

few nodules are former. ‘I have never

found any nodules to speak of on this

type of bean. In this same class is





the genuine wild vetch—it is a legume





with no nodules growing on its roots.

The nodule is the important thing in

the building up of the nitrogen supply.

in the soil.



How Prevent Blowing.



There was a time when it was

thought poSsible to plow a sandy soil

in the fall; a great deal of experience

has proven that "while it is possible

to fall plow sand land, it is not prac-

tical. .The winds of late autumn blow

away the finest and most valuable

parts of the soil and a great deal of

washing and leaching usually takes

plaCe during the winter and spring.

Sandy soil is so porous anyhow, that

the soil water has a good chance to

dissolve a maximum of crop residues

and thereby entails considerable loss.





A- crop“, rotation for the. farm that" '





will, keep up the fertility, will keep





’the sand from blowing and that will





supply theproper products for stock

for market is a most lvexatious topic

for the man who has sandy land to

manage. On good, strong soil, the

main standby among crop rotations is

the corn, oats, clover combination and

in a number of instances that have

come to my attention, this combina-

tion is not maintaining the fertility

even upon strong soil. 'It therefore





follows that some other one must be





tried out on the sand.



A rotation that is giving good re-

sults is one of corn, beans and clover

and it is worked out something like

When the corn is laid by, vetch

This aflords the





this:

and rye are sown.





 





 





 





Under no conditions would l'allow a

sloping sandy field to be fall plowed;

the level field isn’t much better for

nine times out of ten, there will be a

great deal of blowing before the crop

comes on in the spring.



If a sandy field is rather rolling, a





pretty good scheme is to sow the water .





courses with blue grass and red top

seed and when they are sodded over,

leave them that way and when plow.

ing, hrow the plow out of the ground

when it gets into these sodded water

courses. 5



A field that has been in corn is

sometimes a problem in this connec-

tion for the soil is loose, due to fre-

quent workings. A practice that is

giving most excellent results is to

sow rye into the corn with a narrow

wheat drill. This rye makes some fall

pasture and in the spring the soil is

turned over and planted to any crop

that is desired. No sandy field should

be allowed to stand bare all Winter.

The great loss of fertilizers and or-

ganic matter under this treatment

makes it one to be avoided. Have

something growing on the land, if

nothing more than weeds, by the time

the fall winds commence to blow.





stock with some. fall pasture, some

spring pasture and the vetch fixes an

appreciable amount of nitrogent dur-

ing its.stay in the soil. In the late

spring, the vetch and rye are turned

under and beans, soy beans and cow-

peas are planted and when these are

cultivated the last time, the clover

seed is planted. It has proven a little





.I know of one» man who has made a;

rather, phenorhenal success of wheat

raising on this type of land. He sows





'vetch and rye 'in the summer after





difficult to get a stand of clover this»





way on account of the dense shade of

the beans. It also makes a combina-

tion that is likely to give the farmer

a superabundance of cultivating to do

which will likely be a great handi-

cap for it another year. This rotation

assumes that the field has been limed,

for June clover refuses to make any

great growth on sandy soil until it has

been limed.



This rotation may be varied some-

what. The vetch and rye might be

cut for hay and soy beans or cow-

peas following, these to be cut for hay.

Sandy soil, in the majority of cases,

must be treated liberally with legumes.

This provides for a legume being

grown on the land every other year

which Seems about right so far as the

maintenance of the nitrogent supply is

concerned.





wheat has been taken off. This is al-





lowed to grow undisturbed until the





middle of the following June when it

is replowed and worked over frequent-'

ly until the wheat is sown again. In

this way he has been raising wheat

year after year for some time and

seems to be getting away with the

practice.



I have seen results from nitrogen

fertiliber applied on light soils. The

only way to maintain the nitrogen sup-

ply is to grow the legumes such as

cow peas, soy beans, sand or hairy

vetch and alsike clover—that is, as

long as the soil is acid.



In lime, I see the key to productiv-

ity on this type 0f soil. Get lime onto

the land. I prefer the ground lime-

stone if it can be procured 'closely

enough so that the hauling doesn’t

double the initial cost. The cost of

the limestone may almost be ignored—

a carload may be bought for a sum

21‘ great deal less than a hundred dol-

lars. It is the freight and hauling that

makes the applying of ground lime-





.tstone prohibitive in most cases. If





ground limestone can be applied at the

rate of 4 tons per acre, the, growth of

sweet clover, alfalfa, June clover is

made easier and a much ranker growth

results with even the acid tolerant

legumes. Some form of phosphate

must be used.



’ Plan Ahead.



It is hard to say that crops must

be plowed under but if the humus

supply is to be maintained, this prac-

tice must be employed. The thing for

the sand farmer to do is to get out a

tablet and draw on each page a sketch

of the farm and each page will rep-

resent a year. Mark down on the fields

the crops that should be sown. Do

this for the next ten years making

sure that each field gets a taste of

some leguminous crop at least three

out of five years. He should also see

to it that no field is left bare through

the winter and arrangements should

be made to keep the water courses in-

tact.

line a plan whereby the fields will be

covered with lime systematically and

phosphate applications should be pro-





vided for.





Peculiar Results from Sweet Clover

Farmer Tells How Tflz’s P/am‘ flcled 072 His W est Mz'cézgdfl Farm





C‘CASIONALLY some are inquiring

about growing white sweet clover,

and some experience with the plant

may be instructive. About six years

ago the writer had an apple orchard

that showed unmistakable need of

both nitrogen and humus, and a plan

was hit upon to supply both in a sin-

gle effort. This orchard was about

forty years old, the soil a good stiff

clay, and efforts at growing ordinary

humus crops during the latter part of

the season, with cultivation until mid-

summer had been somewhat disap-

pointing, to\the extent at least that

the humus content of the soil had grad-

ually grown less. So it was decided

to try a mixture of mammoth red

clover and white sweet clover, allow-

ing the entire season for its growth.

The scarified sweet clover seed was

obtained, and it was inoculated with

dirt taken from an old alfalfa field,

using the glue treatment, and the seed

' was then mixed with the red clover

seed in equal quantities. The ground

, ,was thoroughly worked with a disc

fiharrow, as it was comparatively free

from grass, and a light seeding. of





: er seed was then sowed, about six





ts harrowed in, the mixture of clov- .





was done as early in the spring as

the ground was dry enough to be

worked.



The oats were clipped with the

mower just as they were heading and

allowed to lie on the ground. The

growth was about ten inches. There

was a good stand of the mammoth

clover, but only an oceasional plant of

the sweet clover.





The original intention was to plow





this clover under the next season, but

help was so scarce and work so

pressing that the mower was run over





this ground when the clover was blos-'





soming and the mulch allowed to lie

as it fell. The few sickly plants of

the sweet clover which had made out

to live grew up and seeded during

the remainder of the season, although

the growth was probably not more

than fourteen inches.



In part of this orchard there is a

gentle slope, sufficient so that there

has been some washing between a few

rows of the trees, and a peculiar freak

of the sweet clover is that the few

plants that made a stand were near

the bottoms of these washes.



The third year this orchard was





 





ploWed, rather, the plowing was dune

rte per acre, and coverfl 3 fl " '





 





the disc harrow. The greater part of

it has received a light application of

stable manure and part of the trees

treated with sulphate of ammonia.

Also a fine crop of rye and vetch was

grown and turned down. But the bot-

toms of those runs was undisturbed,

so further erosion should be guarded

against, as much as possible, and there

the volunteer sweet clover has come

on quite thickly where the ground has





been undisturbed, and a growth of two





and a half feet has been made. Prob-

ably, however, some of the fertilizer

applied found its way to these plants,

which might account for the incieased

growth.



A little of the seed remained after

seeding this ground, and it was mixed

with other clover seed that was ap-

plied to an open field sowed to oats

a little later, with the idea of inocu-

lating this ground with the bacteria

preparatory to seeding it to alfalfa

later. But, as in the orchard, hardly

any of the sweet clover seed germié

nated,-except in one low part of, the

field which, although tiled, was rather

wet, And here there was such a stand

that other grasses were smothered.





 





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length of the mower knife. One would

not suppose there was enough of the

seed to produce such a thick stand.





While an application of lime might

aid in securing a better stand of sweet

clover in this soil, yet its tendency to

make a growth in other ground of a

similar texture but inclined to be wet

would seem to indicate that the lack

of lime is not here a limiting fac—

tor. Evidently, however, it is not wise

to depend too largely on this plant

without some experience with it.——Ed-

ward Hutchins.





WHY NOT HUNT MICE AS WELL‘

AS FOXES?





 





LANS to fight rats, mice, hawks,

. sparrows, thistles and fliesare in-

cluded in the township farm bureau

programs now being received at the

extension offices of the Ohio State Uni-

..versity. Township-wide '

against the most flagrant of the pests

which combine to make country life





not always Arcadian are popular this





 





year. One township has already held its





annual pest campaign, and celebrated

.The sWeet clover here grew as high “ '





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‘NEW idea in the eonstruction of

h a potato digger has appeared in

New York State and brings out a new

method not hitherto employed in the

harvest of the tuber 'crop. A reversi-

ble plow does the work actuated by

one team and a pair of heavy looking

l but yet light metallic wheels, six feet





 

 

 

 





 





HERE is no farm improvement

to which the adage, “A chain is

3 no stronger than its weakest

link,” is more applicable than to a sys-

tem of tile-drainage. The links in this

chain are four in number. They are

in sequence:



Planning the system.



Selection of tile to be ‘used.

Construction of the system.

Maintenance.



No drainage system will function

long unless proper consideration is

given to each. A failure in any system

' l of drainage can always be traced to a.



H weakness in one or more of these



«3' links. In planning a drainage system



35 it not infrequently happens that soil



' and subsoil conditions are not care-



! lfully studied when the depth and fre-



l quency of drains are being determin-



ed. As a result tile may be laid so



deep, as has been done in several cas-



’ es of which the writer has personal



knowledge, that water cannot get



down to them because of an impervi-



’ ous layer of sub-soil, above them. The



l result is little or no drainage. More



frequently, however, tile are not plac-



1 ed deep enough, with the result that



little or no drainage is obtained over

a considerable area between drains.





No tile-drain is stronger than its

weakest tile. A farmer in the eastern

part of the state was obliged, last

spring, to replace two carloads of soft

clay tile which had broken down com-

pletely within a period of a few years

after being installed. Numerous in-

stances could be given of concrete tile

having deteriorated to such an extent

that nothing but a gray, gravelly resi-

due indicated where they had been.

l It is poor economy to consider cost be-

fore quality when purchasing tile. The



cheapest tile may be the most expen-

, 'sive in the end, and likewise the cost-



liest tile, the least expensive. No one

i - would think of building ~a good barn

,5 , on a foundation. made .of material

l ~ whose ’ strength ‘ is questionable, and

yet many farmers don’t hesitate touse

' tile that show Signsiiof- being weak. in





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in diameter. Diagonal braces divert

the tubers to the outer edge where

they are deposited in a continuous

row, quite free of soil. The plow is

adjustable in every wav and will op-

erate in any kind of soil that an or-

dinary plow will work. Field tests are

necessary to prove its value—A. H. P.





 





The Potatoes are Plowed Out and Thrown Into Revolving Drums.





Making Drains Permanent





‘ What to W etc/z For

a By Wm. Van Haitsma





were not taken during its construction.

Often the tile are not laid to a true

grade. Carelessness in grading results

in humps and dips in the drains and a

consequent reduction-in their water-

carrying capacity. If these faults are

pronounced enough the tile will event-

ually become filled with silt. Allowing

the walls of the trenches to cave in

before covering or priming the tile

often raises them above the required

grade, and may cause gaps of an inch

or more between adjoining tile through

which soil can enter readily. Faultily

constructed and poorly protected out-

lets are among the other sources of

trouble that might be mentioned. The

only way to insure against improper

construction is to have the work done

by a reliable, experienced contractor

who places quality of work above

quantity. A ,tiledrainage system

should be a permanent improvement.

Economy demands that every reason-

able precaution be taken in its con-

struction.



Proper maintenance and care are

essential to the continued operation

of a drainage system. It is hard to

conceive of any neglect that is more

costly than that of failing to periodi-

cally- inspect and clean out catch-bas-

ins, and silt-wells; to replace broken

tile, and to keep the outlet open and

well protected against the entrance of

rats, skunks, and woodchucks, who

look upon them as homes built espe-

cially for their benefit. A case in





which a skunk worked its way into a -





drain so far that it could neither go

ahead nor back, was recently brought

to our attention. This drain was com-

pletely clogged. Considerable labor

and drainage to crops might have been

avoided, had the outlet been given the

proper attention.



Any farmer who contemplates in-

stalling a tile drainage system can in-

sure its economy and efficiency by

having the plan made by an experi-

enced drainage, engineer; by using

none but tile of. known strength and

durability; by employing the most ad-





vanced methods of construction; and





by giving it the attention it? should

have, after completion; .Here, as else,-

onnce‘ ~ of prevention. «is



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0 MATTER how low the

temperature may go, Atlas

Non-Freezing Farm Powder keeps

its perfect condition for blasting.

And too, it will not cause “Powder

Headaches” from handling.





These advantages, together with

its stability, uniformity, strength

and slow-heaving action, make it

an ideal explosive for stump blast—

ing at any season of the year. By

reason of its non-freezing qualities

which save time and labor, this ex-

plosive will cut your blasting costs.





Atlas Non—Freezing Farm Powder

runs one hundred and eighteen

1%x8 inch sticks to the case. It has

the kick; it will do YOUR work.

Write to the nearest oflice.





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Illinois Michigan

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This marvelous One-Man Wheelbarrow Stump-Puller

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Positively outclassed all competition last season





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the work of operating machine and hitching to stumps.





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Francisco Farm Notes





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By P.- P. Pope





 





 





Oh, it isn’t any trouble just to sm- -i-l- e.

It isn’t any trouble just to s- m--i-1- -e.

If you get a little pig and grow him till

he’s big,

Then it isn’t any trouble just to smile.

spelling it)

(Repeat, only just smiling instead of

spelling it)

(Tune: Glory, Glory Halleluiah).

RY this over on your sound-box.

That is what nearly four hun-

dred boys and girls did at the

Round-up at Central State Normal last

week, and it didn’t hurt them a bit.

Boys’ and Girls’ Club day at the

Normal School‘ was the outstanding

feature of the Farmers’ Week program

and such was the outpouring of the

youth of the community that the event

calls for special mention in these

notes. Club work in the county has

b e e 11 carried on

for several years

through the office

of the county





5 c h o o 1 c 0 m -

missioner, a n d

with t h e assist‘

ance of those





country school

teachers who have

cared to lend a

hand, much good

has been accom-

plished. The big event 04‘ the year is

the annual round-up, and'each suc-

ceeding year of late sees the previous

record of attendance doubled. Much

credit for the popularity of the event

is due to the present school commis-

sioner, M. J. Crawford, to Former

Commissioner Frank Morrison. to the

Department of Agriculture 01' the Nor-

m'al School, now in charge of George

R. Wheeler, and to the Commercial

Club of Mt. Pleasant, and the nearby

subordinate granges for their assist-

ance in feeding the gang. The annual

dinner served free to the boys and

girls is no doubt a strong drawing

card, and the resources of the com-

missary were indeed taxed to the limit





 





 





‘ in feeding the four hundred. The stor-





gage capacity of those hungry country





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.boys and girls was indeed marvelous,





and when the long line was served





which extended to nearly double the

looked for length, the cupboard closely

resembled that of the venerable “Old

Mother Hubbard.”



The greatest attraction of the year,

however, was the opportunity to meet

again, their State Club Leaders, Mr.

Turner and Miss Van Huelen, to learn

from them more about club work,

what they can do in it, and what it

can do for them, to sing songs with

them, to play games with them, to

absorb from them some of their inspir-

ation 'and enthusiasm that add interest

and zest to the common everyday

things, and make life on the farm a

joyful, delightful experience, rather

than a bare, humdrum existence. The

greatest way in the world to take

drudgery out of work is to put interest

into it. Study it, think about it, learn

all there is to know concerning it.





Farm animals cease to be brutes

when we study their individual charac-

teristics, fheir good and bad features,

their habits of life, and really become

acquainted with them, and it is a pleas-

ure to watch their response to good

care when we learn how to give it.

Plants cease to be mere fodder when

we learn the wonders of their miracu-

lous growth and development, and a

study of them will let us into a. new

world of absorbing interest not excell-

ed anywhere. The soil ceases to be

mud when we learn to look upon it as

a living thing, and “the sluggish clod

which the rude swain turns with his

share and treads upon,” ceases to be a

clod when we consider it as a carrier

of food for plants, as a host for living

organisms, millions of them, upon

which we daily depend for life itself.

No one thing on the face of God’s

green earth is more fundamentally

necesSary to the welfare of future gen-

erations than a knowledge of the pos-

sibilities and limitations of our soil.





These are some of the things club





-w01k teaches, but impmtant as it may





be that the boys and gi11,s through

peisonal interest, and contact, and

study, and practice, learn the how, and

the why of doing ordinary things well,





 





 





Caring for the Roadside





How to Make It Pay





HE last two years and the next



few years will constitute an era of

rOad building. When properly com-

pleted these roads should have a nice-

ly graveled roadbed with a well-shaped

roadside.



The laws of each state should see to

it that these roadsides are seeded to

some suitable grass seed with a nurse

crop to keep the weeds from getting

the start of the grass. Whereas we

have no such laws it would be a wise

thing for each farmer living along a

new road to do this himself.



In passing along the highways we

have noticed that this is oftener neg-

lected than cared for, consequently

these neglected roadsides ,are growing

up to ragweeds, docks, thistles, etc.

Perhaps in a few years the June grass

will get a good start and crowd these

weeds out- and make a decent look-

ing roadside, but at that think of the

work without pay that we have been

doing keeping these weeds down and

if the weed seed that has been dis-





‘tributed about, also think of the poor

- advertising this carelessness has given.





our farm. .

Seven years ago last fall such a, road

was built along the farm that now be-





 





longs to the writer of this article. The





: expended





next spring the then owner of the

farm disced and dragged his side of

the road into a. very finely pulverized

condition and sowed it to alfalfa, sow-

ing with it a small amount of oats for

a nurse crop. When the alfalfa had





‘a good start the oats Was mowed down.





The owner cut one cutting of alfalfa

later on in that season.





The writer purchased the farm and

moved into it that Winter and for the

past five years has cut three cuttings

of alfalfa a year along his side of the

road while on the opposite side of the

road there has been a continued fight

against the weeds without any suita-

ble reward for labor, expended.



There is no other grass that makes

as beautiful a roadside as the alfalfa

when it. is in blossom or about a week

after it has been cut when the next

crop is just getting started.



The writer feels that if he had not

secured the three-fourths to a. ton a.

year extra of hay above what he other-

wise would have had, that the looks

of the roadsides along his farm com-

pared to a great many stretches of





‘ roadsides in his county would have





been big pay for. all the seed aBd time





   





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this isdnot the most Aimporlnnt suture“





of club work. There is a psycologlcal

principal back of the whole program





. that is constantly held foremost. Boys





and girls ,in their teens are bubbling





over with" energy, mental and physical. ,





That energy is going to find expres-

sion in some form; encourage it, and

it leads to healthy, normal develop-

ment; curb it and it means mischief

in some form. The club takes the boy

or girl at this most impressionable pe‘

riod of their lives, and leads and di-





rects that flow of energy into useful,





wholesome, interesting channels. They

are taught to play together, they are

taught to work together, they are

taught the spur of competition, and the





power of cooperation. They are taught ‘





to be good losers as well as good win-

ners. It centers its training around

the health, the heart, the head, and

the hand, and when .the child properly

completes the project and makes a.

satisfactory showing he is entitled to

the 4-H emblem. Which is better, that

yOur boy should belong to a; club and

be interested in learning how to raise

the best‘ pig or the best acre of corn

in the county, along with good whole-

some play, or that he should belong to

the blind alley gang and be playing

pirate? Would it be best for your girl

to be learning the merits of canning or

cooking or sewing or raising chickens,

and experiencing the joys of work

well done, or reading sensational

stories?



There are clubs to spend your money,



There are clubs to join for fun,





There are clubs to chase along the

cattle,

Or with clubs sometimes a game is

won.

There are clubs we often swing for

dumb—bells,





There are clubs that father took to





v me,

But of all the clubs you, here could

mention,

Are the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs for





(Tune: Smiles).





 





SLEET STORM DAMAGE NOT

SEVERE.





 





HE sleet storm which swept north-

ern Michigan beginning on Febru-

ary 22,-was very severe in Benzie

County. Two and one-half inches of

rain fell in twenty-four hours, and this

at once froze as it hit the trees, caus‘

ing a very thick coat of ice to form

on every twig, limb, and branch.

The damage to orchards proved not

to be as severe as was first feared.

Following the storm the weatherhas





» been very clear and each day the sun





has thawed the ice which came under

its direct rays so that there has been

a gradual dropping of the ice from

the trees. This sunshine loosened the

ice from around the buds so that when

the ice was ready to fall, it fell with

practically no damage to the limbs and

left the fruit spurs ‘intact on the

trees. The buds were in an entirely

dormant condition before the sleet

formed on them, and hence have suf-

fered practically no damage from this

storm.



It is estimated that 2 per cent of

broken limbs of the fruit trees Will

be a. high average, if the peach trees

are not counted. The most serious

damage occurred on peach trees .which

had been injured in the freeze of 4

years ago, but which have been trying

to keep alive even though the wood

may be dead. Thus we find that all

of the varieties exceptvElbertas have

been very badly broken down, but the

Elbertas seem to haVe- stood up better

than any other peach.



Injury to apple trees is not very se-

vere. Some few brancheshave been

broken down on old trees which haye

not been cared for, whereas in the vig-

orous orchards which have been kept

in shape by proper pruning and splay-





 





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A CONSERVATION WORK APPRE-

GIATED.





 





HE Calumet News expresses ap-



preciation of the action of the

State Department of Conservation in

making the supply of fish fry. for the

upper peninsula five times this year

the amount of former years. Favorable

attention is also called to the success-

ful establishment of the ring-neck

phea an in this region, and additional

plantigkare due to be made, it is

stated. *9





SOMEUP’PER PENINSULA LIVE.

STOCK FIGURES.



HE annual live stock summary for



Michigan of the United States and

the State Departments of Agriculture

cooperating, show that the estimated

number of horses in the upper penin-.

sula, on January 1, 1922, was 25,260;

of dairy cows, 67,880; of other cattle,

29,510; of sheep; 24,890; of swine, 23,-

120. Chippewa county led in the num-

ber of horses with a total of 4,630, fol-

owed by Menominee county with 4,250,

and Delta county with 3,150. In the





 





mite crews, two horse-power pullers,





two or three hand-power pullers, as





well as home-made pullers in opera-

tion. Stumps will be moved by teams

and tractors. A gin-pole Will be used

to show the use of the Frost trip. All

stumps will be cleaned up and piled.

The tractors will operate several

breaking-plows during the latter part

of the day. A record of attendance





and work Will be kept and every man'





who completes the day’s work will re-

ceive a certificate from the Michigan

Agricultural College stating that he

has completed the land-clearing short-

course. Where possible a demonstra-

tion of ditch blasting in wet land will

be given. A guarantee of at least thir-

ty men as participants in the school is

required. The farmers will .do the work

and hence learn by doing, with the

assistance Of the crew.





CLOVERLAND SUITABLE FOR

BEES.





 





R. T. R. SHANE, agricultural

agent of Chippewa county, dis-

cusses the possibilities of bee-keeping

in Cloverland, referring to the pres-





 





 





BOTH ekplosives and stump pullers are required to secure the maximum





of efficiency in the removal of many types of stumps.





The picture shows





L F Livingston who is in charge 0f the great Michigan Land Clearing cam-

paign, standing beside a stump which has been split with a small charge of





explosive.





number of dairy_cattle, Menominee led

with 15,290 head; this county was fol-

lowed by Houghton county with 9,470,

and by Chippewa county with 8,020.

In other cattle Menominee also led

with 5,600 head. Houghton county led

in number of sheep, 4,560, followed by

Delta county with 3,680, and Dickin-

son county with 3,380. Menominee

again led in the number of swine.

which was 6, 700, followed by Chippewa

with 2, 820, and by Delta county with

2, 630.





THE LAND-CLEARING DEMON-

STRATIONS.





 





R. L. F. LIVINGSTON, land-clear-



ing specialist of the Michigan

Agricultural College, has issued in-

structions for those in charge of the

local arrangements for the farmers'

short course in land-clearing that is to

be put on in the upper peninsula this

spring. The local committee, in coop-

eration with the agricultural agent of

the county, is to have complete charge

of these- local arrangements. In se-

lecting a field for operations, a typical

. It should be

free from brush and down stuff to

avoid delay in its removal. Stumps,

not brush, are the objective in these

schools. The field should be- close to

.the road. The Owner Of the field is to





furnish two teams, with .doubletrees





and.;draughtachains,rand he will pay

for the explosives used. It will help

to have a community dinner locally

pro‘ ed. There will be several dyna-





 

 

 

 





The fragments can now be removed by horse power.





ence of wild clover and other wild

flowers as favorable to this industry,

and he refers to the purpose of the

state apiary department, cooperating

with the agricultural college and the

Upper Peninsula Development Bu-

reau, to establish an extension. service

to assist farmers in learning cerrect

methods of handling bees. It is plan-

ned, it is stated, to give assistance

throughout one season to anyone who

will undertake the keeping of a few

colonies of bees and will make an ef-

fort to learn the principles of bee-

keeping through study and practice.

An expert in bee-keeping will visit the

bee-keepers frequently during the sea-

son, it is stated. It is'thought that

many farmers in the upper peninsula

should be able to keep a few colonies

and that it affords a special opportu-

nity for an enterprising boy. The Chip-

pewa agent expects that a number of

his farmers will undertake this project

in the coming year.





 





GOGEBIC COUNTY TO GIVE TU-

BERCULIN TEST.





 





THE Gogebic County Board of Sup-



erviosrs has authorized the em-

ployment of a veterinarian to give the

tuberculin test to cattle. Operations

started March 1. Early in February,

according to the Ironwood Daily Globe,

twelve hundred head of cattle had

been offered for the test. The county

is financing this work Which is under

the supervision of the agricultural





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TREE IN ROADSIDE.





 





My farm is on a state cement road

and I have one large maple tree just

outside of my roadline. Can I cut it,

or do I have to get permission from

the highway commissioner?—Reader.





The owner of the adjoining land

owns the tree and may do as he wish-

es with it. No permission from the

highway commissioner is required.—

J. R.-R. '





BONA-FIDE PURCHASER.





 





A has a farm and puts up silo, giv-

ing a property note to the silo com—

pany. He sells the farm to B and does

not. tell him that the silo is not paid

for. A’s wife signs papers that every-

thing is free from encumbrance. Can

the silo company take the silo away

from B, or can A be made to pay the

note?—C. E. N.



A is liable on the note. B being a

purchaser for value and without notice

is entitled to hold the farm and the

silo free from the claim of the manu-

facturer and seller of the silo. The

company cannot ~take the silo away





{from B.-J. R. R.





LIME ESSENTIAL T0 SUCCESS

WITH ALFALFA.





 





I would like to seed six acres to al-

falfa this spring. It is in wheat now.

I plowed under the second crop of clo-

ver last fall and put manure and 225

pounds of acid phosphate on. I have

no trouble to get a catch of clover. It

is sand loam. Do you think I could

grow alfalfa? I haven’t any money to

buy lime at present. There has been

alfalfa grown in another field about fif-

teen years ago. I will inoculate the

seed—F. A. W.



It is seldom that alfalfa will catch

under conditions such as you describe.

In western Michigan Where clover

does not catch on sandy loams, lime

or marl is almost invariably needed.

It is usually necessary to apply two

tons of finely ground limestone or sev-

eral cubic yards of marl in order to

put land in shape to receive alfalfa.



Where red clover fails a mixture of

red and alsike clover (six pounds of

red and three of alsike) will often give

much better results.



IVould suggest that you send a sam-

ple of your soil to the Soils Depart-

ment of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, East Lansing, with request that

a lime requirement test be made. If

it proves acid it would not .be advis-

able to seed alfalfa until the land is

limed.——J. F. C.





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A DAIRY RATION.





 





Kindly tell me what would be a bal-

anced ration for my cows. I am feed-

ing about fifteen pounds of ensilage

morning and night. Ensilage made of

corn with some soy-beans. Also am

feeding alfalfa hay, but soon will have

to feed red clover hay once a day, and

shredded cornstalks once each, day.

Have been feeding ground corn and

oats, but will buy whatever grain is

necessary to make balanced ration.—

M. G W



You may replace alfalfa hay in the

ration by adding a little oil meal and

cottonseed meal to your grain mixture.

The following grain mixture should

give good results with silage, clover

hay and cornstalks; silage twice a

day, clover hay and cornstalks each

once daily.



The mixture: Corn meal, 300 lbs.;

ground oats, 300 lbs.; oil meal, 150

lbs.; cottonseed meal, 150 lbs.



.As you will note, this is a mixture

56f equal parts of corn meal, ground

oats, and a. mixture of oil meal and

nottonseed meal, one-halt“ each. Feed

mixture at the rate of one pound

to every two and one-half pounds of

m in the case ‘of the Jersey;;one





pound to every_three to three and one-

half pounds produced by the Durham

cow, and one pound to every three and

one-half to four pounds of milk in the

case of the Holstein—J. A. W.





HAS NO RIGHT.





 





A ate his meals at B’s (his son) and

in return B was allowed to use the

team, produce from two cows, half of

crop, and only furnishing half. A fur-

nished half: of meat and flour, half of

telephone rent and, being handy with

tools, A kept everything in repair and

drove the horses during haying. A

has a will, but the children do not

know what is in it. There are five

children. B feels that he has made a

home for A these thirteen years and

thinks that he should have more than

an equal share with the others. Two

of the daughters cleaned A’s house and

did all A’s washing. Should B have

more than an equal share ?—A. C. F.





He has no right as a matter of law.

He should have whatever share A

thinks he should—J. R. R.





LOST INSTRUMENT.





 





A and wife buy a farm, mortgages

to B and wife. A assigns alone to C.

The original mortgage and assignment

is lost, but is duly recorded. C assigns

to D. D discovers from copy of as-

signment that B’s wife did not assign

to C and demands that she do so,

which she did. Does D lose any rights

through the loss of mortgage and as-





signment, and would D have a perfeét ‘





title without B’s wife’s signature?——R.

If A and wife. own a farm subject to

a mortgage they can convey their in-





‘terest without the mortgagees or eith-





er of them joining in the conveyance

but the purchaser would take it sub-

ject to the mortgage.

land stands in the name of husband

and wife, neither can convey without

the other joining. The contents of an

instrument can be proved from the

public records as well as from the

original—J. R. R.





LIABLE TO INDORSER.





 





I went security for a man for a

team, wagon and harness. He sold

them and paid the chattel mortgage of

$100 that still left a mortgage on my

property for $104 which I had to pay.

He gave a note signed by himself and

wife for this last amount, but he said

he would never pay it. I put it in the

hands of a collector and he got a judg-

ment on them and has collected about

$30. The amount of money I received

lacks $4 of paying interest up to last

springs. What can I do to collect this?





The person whose note is indorsed

is liable to the indorser for whatever

the indorser paid on the note as soon

as the payment is made. This can be

recovered by suit against the maker.

—J. R. R.





VALUE OF SOY-BEANS.





 





I have seen several interesting arti~

cles treating on the subject of using

soy-beans and Winter-vetch as substi-

tutes for hay and plowing under for

fertilizer in places where clover fails





to grow or seedings of that plant are,





lost. \Vould you kindly publish the

experience of those who have tried

these plants, a comparison of these

plants with that of fodder corn for

these purposes—E. E. 0.





Under Michigan conditions corn fed--

der will gi‘re a higher yield of total

digestive nutrients than soy-beans.

However, soy-beans will contain a larg-

er amount of digestible protein that

will be of more value in producing

milk. In the southern half of the

state, both corn and soy-beans, are

very dependable crops. Soy-beans

would be more valuable to plow under

due to the fact that the soy-bean is a

leguminous crop and has the ability to

make use of the nitrogen of the air,





 





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whilethe corn plant secures all of its

nitrogen from the soil. Winter vetch

is also a leguminous plant and valu-

able for seed production, and as a crop

to plow under. It is customary to sow

vetch during ugust, drilling in a





. bushel of rye and from fifteen to twen-





ty pounds of hairy vetch seed per acre.

As a crop to plow under, rye and vetch

is valuable because it makes its growth

during the- late fall and early spring

months when the land is not being

utilized for other crops—C. R. M.





ORAL CONTRACT PERFORMED ON

ONE SIDE.





 





I have forty acres which was joined

on west and north by another party.

The other, party and I had a verbal

agreement that I fence the west side

and he fence the north. I put up my

part of the fence, but he never did his._

In the meantime he sold the forty on

the west and later died. His widow

married again and now her husband

refuses to fence the north end. Can I

take one~half of my fence down on the

west side? If I can take this fence

down, can I pasture this forty on the

west of me, and if they open the gates

what can I do?—G. M.



Tjie oral contract performed on one

side is binding on both. parties and

though the other party sold to one

who took without notice the division

is just as effectual as if it had been in

writing, signed and recorded. The sub-

sequent purchaser is bound by it:—

J. R. R. , .





RATION ALL RIGHT.





 





Please advise me as to feeding grain

ration to dairy herd. I am feeding

night and morning, on an average of

.ten pounds daily, a mixture composed

of the following: Oat lei-products, 100

lbs; ground oats, 100 lbs.; ground

beans, 100 lbs. Would any of this feed

prevent a cow getting with calf ?—L. J.



The grain mixture you are feeding

should not afiect the reproductive

functions of your dairy cows, provided,

of course, the feeds are free from all

detrimental materiaI.——W.





NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT.





 





A gave a note to B over three years

ago, note to mature in one year. A

gave the note as his own personal

debt, but had his mother sign at the

bottom of the note, with him as the

indorser. If A does not pay the note,

can B collect it from A’s mother who

owns property, Would B have to noti-i

fy both A and his mother when the

note became due? B has been told that





a note given by a son and endorsed by'





his mother is not collectable under the

laws of Michigan—C. M. F.





Notice of non-payment must be giv-

en to the indorser unless. on the face

of the instrument or above the indorse-

ment there is a waiver of protest and

notice of non-payment. If notice of

non-payment is properly given the in-

dorser is liable unless some special

reason exists why he should not be.

For example, a married woman is not

liable upon any instrument as an in-

dorser unless for her own debts—J. R.





RENEWING OLD STAND.





 





I have about six acres of sand land

that was seeded to alsike and timothy

two years ago, but which came up very

poorly and gave a very light cutting

last year, and on which I desire to

thicken the stand of alsike, particu-

larly. Would it be practical to reseed

this field without replowing and refit-

ting the ground as for a new seed-

ing?——W. E. R. *





It is not'usually profitable to try to

thicken an old stand while the seeding

still remains on the ground. The old

plants tend to shade all the young

ones and also use the available mois-

ture which makes it quite difficult for

the young plants, to get started. It is





 





also usually necessary to removesome

condition that caused the first seeding

to be poor, such as lack of drainage,

-an acid soil or soil low in fertility.



If you wish to attempt ‘ to thicken

the old seeding, would Suggest that

you sow from four to six pounds of

alsike seed, using a disc clover seed





drill, if one is available; if not, seed.





broadcast and cover with a spike-tooth

harrow.—-C. R. M.





ALFALFA ON WH EAT.





 





Two years ago I had a field pretty

.well seeded to sweet clover, then I

plowed that under, sowed it to oats.

Next it was plowed and sowed to

wheat, using 100 pounds of fertilizer

to the acre. Would there be any pos-

sibility of a catch if I sowed alfalfa on

the wheat this spring?—~I. S. T.-





There is excellent opportunity for a

catch of alfalfa sown on wheat on

fairly fretile land which has been lim-

ed or naturally does not need lime.

Native grown alfalfa seed from the

northwest, preferably the .Grimm,

should be used. Would recommend

seeding-at the rate of eight er ten

pounds of Grimm or from twelve to

fifteen of common in April. If broad-

casted, follow broadcasting with culti-

packer or spike-tooth harrow with the

teeth slightly slanting so as to cover

seed—J. F. C.





SU DAN GRASS.





 





I would like some information about

Sudan grass. Have heard it recom-

mended. Will it grow two crops in

northern Michigan and how much seed

would it require per acre ?—H. B.





Sudan grass is proving valuable,

both as a temporary hay and pasture

crop. It may be sown from May 10 to

June 15, the earlier day, however, is

to be preferred. Sudan does best on

a good corn soil and should be sown

at the rate of from twenty to twenty-

five pounds of seed per acre. It is sel-

dom that two crops of hay are secured

during one season in northern Michi-

gan—C. R. M. ‘





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FERTILIZER FOR POTATO

GROUND.





 





I have a piece of ground about five

acres, which is gravelly. Have used

thls‘ for pasture the last four years.

I w1sh to plant this ground to potatoes

this. coming season. Would like to

fertilize. What time should I apply

the fertilizer, What kind and hbw

much? The ground is a few feet above

muck land leveI.—T. E. S.





A fertilizer carrying two to three

per cent of ammonia, ten per cent of

phosphoric acid and four per cent of

potash should give good returns on a

potato crop on the land described. This

fertilizer should be used at the rate of

300 to 400 pounds per acre, either

broadcasted on the land and worked

into the soil by means of a barrow, or

put into the soil by means of a grain

drill. This material should be. applied

only a few days previous to the plant-

ing of the potatoes—C. M. G.





 





SECOND HUSBAND ' HAS NO

RIGHTS.





 





A marries a widow who has inherit-

ed a farm from her first husband by

101111} deed. Has one daughter. What





interest has A in the farm, and what 2





share, if any, Can A hold at death of

wife? What share can wife hold of

gerzongl property of first husband.—





A has no interest in the farm and

can hold none at the death of the

Wife. 0f the personal propertynof the





mat hmban‘l» the widow takes one.

children manga—

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we are keeping faith with the Ameri-

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‘ ‘HE Michigan Agricultural College

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sprays for the first time, Prof. C. P.

Halligan announced in his address. His

address in part follows:

‘ Spraying .experiments the past few

years have demonstrated the desira-

bility of a prepink spray for the con-

trol of. apple scalp especially on Duch-

fess and all varieties Suspectible to

scab. This spray should be applied

when the blossom buds are first show-

ing pink but before they have sepa—

rated in the cluster, using 1%, gallons

.of lime sulphur solution to 50 gallons

of water, or bordeau mixture. This

spray is to control the primary or firSt

infection of apple scab which we have

ascertained sometimes takes place be-

fore the pink spray. .



For the prepink and pink sprays

either lime-sulphur solution (114 to 505)

or bordeaux may be used but for the

calyx spray, which is recommended to

be applied just after the petals fall,

‘and for the succeeding spray two

weeks later lime-sulphur solution (114

to 50) with 1 pound of arsenate of

lead is recommended in preference to

bordeaux, using nicotine sulphate if

plant lice or red bug are present-



Peach trees should be inspected

carefully for scale insects and if pres-

ent, a strong lime-sulphur spray (61A),

to 50) should be applied just before

the buds begin to swell and the bud

scales loosen. This spray also will

control peach curl. When no scale is

present a spray. of 21/2 to 50 strength

may be used.



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the efficiency of sulphur dust, applied

‘10 days to two weeks before harvest

as a means of preventing the develop-

ment of the brown rot during the rip-

ening period. or directly afterwards

while the peaches are in transit.





We are recommending for the first

time that a dormant spray for pear

psylla should be delayed until the

blossom buds are showing white and

are just beginning to separate in the

cluster. While a strong sulphur spray

(6154 to 50) may cause some injury at

this time, it will do much ‘to destroy

the eggs of the psylla and hence the

foliage which may result will not be

sufficient to offset the beneficial effects

of this spray.





In pear orchards where psylla is not

present a prepink spray as with ap-

ples is recommended as a means of

controlling the scab. This should be

applied just as the blossom buds are

showing white but before they are sep~

arated in the cluster, using Bdrdeau‘x

mixture or lime-sulphur (1 to 50) to

which add 1 pound of arsenate of lead

powderto every 50 gallons of water.

Since the primary infection occurs be-

fore the succeeding spray the prepink

spray is recommended in all orchards

where the delayed dormant for psylla

is not used.





The lime-sulphur dust compound of

90 per cent fine sulphur and 10 per

cent hydrated lime applied 10 days to

two weeks before harvest, has proved

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fant may be, he has scarcely cut

his eye teeth, the future holding out

very flattering prospects for those who

enter this work with a love for it and

a desire to make good.



Apples, once a leading farm product

in the middle west, are becoming less

abundant every year. The price alone

indicates the depths to which this

splendid feature of agriculture has

fallen. Apple raising has been very

‘much neglected, especially in the east

and themiddle west, once so famous

for this delicious and healthful fruit.



Many of the orchards in Michigan

have lost their vigor. Suffering from

neglect most of them are not produc-

ing one-half what they ought; many

more orchards are suffering from

blight and scale, others dying, many

dead.



For the benefit of the rising genera-

.tion, as well as for the good of the

farmer himSelf, this state of things

ought not to be. The cause. for much

of this neglect of orchards has been

brought about by the low prices in the

last two decades before the World

War. “It doesn’t pay to raise apples

in competition with the western big

orchardists,” declared one farmer‘in.

the hearing of the writer. And this

might possibly have been true in a

measure, yet with the very olodost.

'times, and the big crops of. unsalable

apples, the men who did-hot-neglect

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and sprayed his trees, there was al-

ways a fair profit which the neglectfnl

one failed to receive.



Nothing that lies in the future can



be more assured than the success of

the painstaking fruit grower. I have

labored through heat and storm in the

days of low prices, and yet succeeded ‘

fairly well. The tomorrow of the bus-

bandman is bright with the sunshine

of the greatest promise ever vouch-

sated to man. The one who sees the

beckoning finger just ahead is the one

who is, in the near future, to ride in

his limousine, and stand among the

successful men of the time.

. Apples of fair appearance, many of

them, however, of second grade, have

retailed all winter for good prices.

When I was on the farm not so many

years ago, fifty cents to the farmer

was considered a fair price. The then

fair price would not today be accepted

as worthy of the ~least consideration.

The. World War revolutionized the

farming conditions of the whole world,

more especially those of the United

States. and the low prices of ante bel-

lum days are not likely to be repeated,

not in a generation at least, perhaps

never.



A well paid agricultural class lends

safety to the republic. We need not

look'for starvation prices or starvation





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New

this can portend one thing. only.’ con-

tinued high prices for the products of

meiotic, with a not long to be delay-

ed struggle among the laboring people

to keep their heads above water'a'nd

make both ends meet.



The safest. investment 3, young man

can make is in land capable of produc-

ing crops of potatoes, corn, hay and

fruits. The future great man of Ameri-

ica is not the great [steel manufacturer,

the coal boron or the railway captain,

but the tiller of good old mother earth,

no longer designated with a sneer as

“mossback,” “sod-buster,” or “country

Jake.”



Such absurdities and malicious re-

marks beldng to the dead pa'st. ' The

agricultural class is coming into its

own. An English country gentleman

has always been honored and envied.

In the near future the American coun-

try gentleman will be the peer of the

aristocracy of any country on the

footstool.





A prosperous and contented farming

community makes for the stability of

our republican. institutions. It is to

be regretted that so many look ask-

ance at the rising prosperity of our

rural citizenry. Agriculture is undeni-

ably the foundation as well as the

backbone of our country. It was the

sturdy patriotism of the farm workers

coming to the rescue in the days of

war that held the American lads in

solid array on. the fields of France and

Belgium. The products of American

farms saved the day at Chateau Thier-

ry, Argonne Wood and along the his-

toric Rhine.



There is no part of the agricultural

field mere enticing, less distasteful,

than that of fruit growing.



It needs many new hands to carry

on the work so as to give every Amer-

ican family their fill of. juicy, health-

giving fruit from year’s end to year’s

end. Fruit juices are the healing med~

icines of our land which, however

much the use of the same cuts into the

profits of the medical fraternity, gives

health and strength to the generations

yet to come.



The more fruit consumed by the peo-

ple the better the health. Then is it

not worth one's while to prosecute a

business that, while bringing in the

sheaves of prosperity, caters as well

to the good health of all? More ap-

ples, and still more apples. This is

the cry that is going up in this land,

from the remotest cabin to the natiOn-

al White House at Washington.



As I said at the outset, the fruit in-

dustry of America is in its infancy-

At one time even the wholesome apple

was considered a luxury by a large

majority of the inhabitants. The writ-

er of this was grown to manhood ere

he looked upon an apple tree in full

fruiting. Reared in the Wilderness, the

only apples that found their way to

the backwoods home came through the

dubious channels of trade from far

away orchards. That fruit. however,

was regarded with rare appreciation.

As a boy I once traded two large ripe

watcrmolons for a single green, sour

apple! You can well understand by

this how we boys of the woods valued

the fruit of the apple tree.



The man or boy who sets his mind

to studying horticulture with a view to

getting into the swim while the swim-

ming is good will surely make no mis-

take, and will thereby open the way to

an enjoyable vocation which is as cer-

tain to make him well to do in this

world's goods as the sun is sure .to

rise again in the cost on the dawning

of tomorrow.





 





Says Sam: . The fellow who makes

good at farming has got to keep his

mind and his body maving at the same

time, and in the same diréctibn. '



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HE radio not only makes the iso-



. lation of the farm a. thing of the



past but brings quickly to the



farmer the agricultural information



needed in .the intelligent conduct of

‘the farm business.



The broadcasting of weather, crop

and market reports is the most import-

ant use to which the radio is now be-



. ing put, in the opinion of various radio

experts attending the radio conference

now in session at Washington.





“There is no single use of radio, ex-‘





cept for marine and aerial purposes,

that should 'take precedence over its

utilization for the benefit of agricul-

ture,” stated W. A. Wheeler, delegate

representing the United States Depart-

‘ment of Agriculture at the conference.

“There are more than 32,000,000 people

’on farms, comprising nearly one-third

of the total population of the United

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'cated where they are practically out

off from immediate contact with the

outside world. The radio is the only

means of getting to them quickly at

small cost the economic information

necessary in the proper conduct of

their business."



Daily market reports on the live

stock, grain, hay, feed, fruits and vege-

table markets are broadcast oVer virtu-

ally the entire United States by the

radio stations of the post oflice depart-

ment. Farmers located almost any-

where can receive them either direct

or with the assistance of amateur op-

erators.



Anything in the way of entertain-

ment that will afford the farmer even

a slight diversification from his daily

labors will immeasurably redound to

the benefit of the whole nation. In

many instances the only entertainment

the farmer has comes by radiophone.



The time element in dispatching

weather, crop and market news is a

big factor affecting the value of such

reports, Mr.'Wheeler said. In cutting

.hay or harvesting grain, for example,





' an hour’s delay in the dispatch of





weather reports may mean a loss of

several thousand dollars. An early

morning report on market conditions

and the estimated receipts at the, mar~

ket that day is of great value to the

live stock grower about to ship a car-

load of hogs to market. Prompt daily

reports on the fruit and vegetable mar-

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UPPER PENINSULA GRANGE MEM-

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THERE are thirteen granges in Del-



ta. county, with 611 members, ac-

cording'to the 1921 report of the Mich;

igan State Grange. Delta leads in the

number of granges of the various coun-

ties of the upper peninsula. Chippe-

wa’s eleven granges give that county

second rank, while Marquette is third

with tengranges. Of the remaining

counties Alger has three granges, Bar-





aga six, Dickinson six, Houghton six,





Iron four, Mackinac four, Menominee

eight,»0ntonagon five, Schoolcraft sev-

en, while Gogebic and Luce have no

granges at the date of the report,

namely, June 30, 1921. The aggregate

membership of the upper peninsula

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WOOL POOL FOR 1922.





HE Michigan State Farm Bureau

has opened its third, or 1922, wool

pool by announcing that wool will be

received at the central warehouse in

Lansing. In late April it is hoped to

start the local grading, weighing and

cash-advance campaign which was a

feature of the 1921 pool. In 1922 a

cash advance of forty per cent will be

made on the current estimated value

of the graded wool.

The 1922 farm bureau wool pool is

to be managed by Don Williams, for-





‘ merly sheep and wool extension spe-





cialist for the Michigan Agricultural

College. He was connected with the

1921 wool pool as educational and field

man. Mr. Williams took charge of the

1922 pool March 1. ‘He is assisted by

Mr. Walter Davies, who will supervise

the wool grading and sell the 1922

pool, with the advice of the farm bu-

reau administration. Mr. Davies was

eastern sales representative for the

1921 pool and established direct-to-mill

connections for the Michigan pool

which largely eliminate the jobber

from the Michigan p001. Both Mr.

Williams and Mr. Davies have seen

commercial wool service with big east-

ern wool houses.



The 1922 farm bureau wool pool is

a strictly one hundred per cent farm

bureau proposition, said ‘ Clark L.

Brody, secretary-manager ofthe farm

bureau. The bureau is financing the

pool with the assistance of the banks;

there is no financial connection be-

tween the 1921 and the 1922 pools. All

men connected with the pool are farm

bureau employee on a salary basis; no

commissions are being paid this year.

Heretofore the pool has required out‘

side financing. Mr. A. J. Hankins, in

charge of the first two pools, gave

financial assistance required and pilot-

ed the Wool pools through wool mar-

ket conditions that were beset with

difficulties. Mr. Hankins is now clos.

ing the books of the 1921 wool pool,

preparatory to final settlement with

the wool growers, and will retire at

the. close of the 1921 wool pool to‘ de-

vote himself to his own business in-

terests.



State Farm Bureau wool pool repre-

sentatives will soontbe investigating

southern Michigan to establish grad-

ing stations at the mo’st efficient

points. The local grading campaign





.is planned for late April. As in 1921

. farmers will see their wool graded,





weighed and will receive their ware-





house receipt and cash advance at





once. The forty per cent advance "on

1922 wool is several cents better on

most grades than was the fifty per





cent advance given in 1921, due to an





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improvement in Wool, values."





By W do





be loaded direct to the central ware

house for assembling in large lots and

for sale. Experiences of 1921 proved

that the local grading, weighing and

cash advance plan was most satisfac-

tory to the growers and that central-

izing of the graded wool would effect

savings to the pool. Big 'buyers pre-

fer to have the weal assembled in one

place. The 1922 wool pool advances to

growers, based on prices prevailing





‘ March 9:





40%

Value March 9. Advance.





Delains, 45c ...................... 180

Fine clothing, 350 ................. 14c

Half staple, 400 .................. 160

Half clothing, 35c ................ 14c

Three-eighth combing, 39@40c.... 15c

Three-eighth clothing, 300 ........ 12c

Quarter combing, 380 ............ 150

Quarter clothing, 300.... . .. 120

Low, 260 100

Braid, 24c ............. . ....... 8@9c

Discounts, 24::





GRANGE NEWS.





‘

AT 3 meeting of the National

Grange executive committee in _

Washington, March 7, it was decided

to hold the next annual session of the

National Grange at Wichita, Kansas,

beginning November 15. '



Speaking of the activities of the

grange while attending this meeting.

Leslie R. Smith, of Massachusetts,

said the Massachusetts State Grange

loans $150 a. year for four years at

two per cent to members of the grange

attending college. There are forty

young men and women availing them—

selves of this loan as an aid to secur-

ing an education.



Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Washington rep-

resentative, said that the grange now

has a larger membership than at any

time since the early boom days of

the year 1872. ’





FARM BUREAU DUES LEGAL

DEBT.





FARM bureau dues were held to be



a legal debt in a test case Febru—

ary 27, heard in the Pontiac, Oakland

county, courts, when the Oakland

County Farm Bureau brought suit

against a. member for the collection of

$10 farm bureau membership dues.

The suit was brought to determine

whether the charge would stand in the

law. Justice Fredenburg ruled that it

did. The ruling is important in its

bearing upon the collection of delin-

quent dues throughout the State Farm

Bureau organization.



M“





GRANGE opposeo TO COAL

STRiKE.





EVERAL senators have given their

hearty approval of the grange

move to create public sentiment in op—

position to a coal strike. Senator Mc-

Nary says: “An amused public con-

scieIme is the very best of'remedies

to meet situations of this kind and I

wish God speed to the great movement

set in motion by the National Grange.”

Senator Frank B. Willis, of Ohio,

endorsing the grange leader’s position,

says: “Unless in a. great free govern.

ment like ours, a better method can

be found of settling our industrial dif--

ferences than by tying up the wheels

of industry and cutting off production,

it must he confessed the government

is largely a failure. The effort to cre-

ate a strong public opinion in favor of

the settlement of disputes without the

unfortunate depressing effect of ,a.

strike is worthy of all commendation.”





g who} will noting staged . 5 ,
‘OPPO-SING ‘SALEs TAX.





THE aggressive fight in opposition





to the proposition to. raise the

money with ’which to pay the sol-

dier’s bonus by a sales tax, made by

the agricultural blocs, headed by Sena-





.tor Arthur Capper, of Kansas, and.





Congressman Frear, of Wisconsin, and

Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Washington repre-

sentative of the National Grange, Gray

Silver, Washington ‘representative of

the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion, and other farm organization lead-

ers, resulted in the rejection of the

sales tax by the majority memberspof

the Ways and Means Committee of

the House by a vote of 7 to 2. Friends

of the sales tax say they will continue

their attempts to attach some sort of

sales tax proposition to the bonus, nev-

ertheless there is a slim chance of

their succeeding in their efforts during

this Congress.





 





TILE DRAIN.





Has anyone the right to put tile

across another man’ s farm to drain his

own, if he is in the water shed of a

county ditch? If he is not in the





, water shed? Also what percent would





each pay if it helps to drain both

farms?—M. S.



No man has a right to enter upon

the land of another to dig a ditch un-

less by the other’s consent or by vir-

tue of the provisions of the statute

concerning drains. Whether the ditch

is an open one or tile, the statutory

steps must be followed—J. R. R.





HOME-GROWN ALFALFA SEED.





Will you please give me any advice

you can on alfalfa, if advisable to

sow home—grown seed? Best seed for

light soil. Would you sow timothy

seed with alfalfa? Which is the best

time to sow?—E. C. H.





Homegrown alfalfa seed that has





been properly cleaned~ is excellent for

Michigan. If this is not available (as

usually there is only a small quantity

in any locality), it would be advisa-

ble to use northern grown Grimm or

common. .The Grimm is to be preferred

since it is hardier and gives a more

enduring stand. It is best on either

light or heavy soils.





It is sometimes a good practice to

sow a pound or so of timothy pe1 acre

with alfalfa on soils that are variable

in fertility and condition of drainage.

The timothy will fill in many places

'where 'alfalfa does not start well. A

slight planting of timothy disappears

when the alfalfa stand is established

several years.





From eight to ten pounds of Grimm

seed or from 12 to 15 pounds of com-

mon alfalfa should be used. Seeding

should be made on a firm, clean seed

bed. Ground which was in corn,

beans, potatoes or beets last year can

be fitted for alfalfa through discing.





Soil carrying considerable grass

should be spring plowed and worked

until mid-summer, seeding at that time

on a rolled seed vbed. Ordinarily,

seedings made in April or early May

give best results, since they get the

most rainfall. The seed should be

barely. covered with soil, not more

than one-half to three-fourths of an

inch deep.



The majority of Michigan land needs

lime and two tons of ground lime-

stone or several cubic yards of marl

are usually necessary in fitting for

alfalfa.



Culture for inoculatiommay be se-

cured from the Department of Bacteri-

ology of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege,'East Lanfing‘; The price 15.250'

per bottle and one bottle contains suf-

ficient material to inoculate a bushel





. of seed. Directions for application ac-

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Allegan ...... Allegan Batt. Serv.

Alpena.. .Alpena Batt. Serv. Corp.

Ann Arbor .......... A. P. Sriver

Bad Axe, Howeél’s Batt. & Elect.





Battle Creek ..... Central Storage

Battery Co.



Bay City ......... Shore Batt. Co.

Benton Harbor. Enders Battery

Service Co.



Big Rapids .Automotive Elect. Co.

Blissiield ........... H. D. Bailey

Cadillac ....... Cadillac Batt. Co.





Calumet. .Calumet Sto. Batt. Co.

Caro. . .Lutz Hayden Battery Co.

Charlotte, Charlotte Sto. Batt. Co.

Cheboygan ......... J. A. Garrow

Chesaning.. . .Perrot 8: Stuart Co.

Goldwater, Coldwater Garage, Inc.

Dearborn ..... Lindsay Batt. Serv.





Detroit ...... Clements Batt. Serv.

(3 Service Stations)





Duncan Bros.



Fred ’3 Tire & Batt. Service



J. Hergenroeder & Sons, Inc.

Long Batt. Service Co. (2 sta's)

Mart. J. Schneider



W'estern Batt. Service



Willard Storage Battery Co.





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Dowagiac. . . .The Walworth Batt.





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Farmington ...... The Auto Shop

Flint ......... Flint Sto. Batt. Co.

Fremont... .John J. Hansel 8: Co.





Grand Haven... .Kooiman Tire 8t

Batt. Serv. Co.

Grand Rapids ..... Wolverine Sto.

Batt. Co.

Greenville ........ W. A. Williams

Hamtramck ....... David Berger

Hastings. .. .Universal Garage Co.

Highland Park ....... Dewar Sto.

Batt. Co.

Hillsdale ..... Simpson 8; Simpson

Holland ....... Lieve nse Batt. Co.

Houghton. . . . .Superior Storage

Battery Co.

Howell ...... Maycock & Woodruff

Ionia ............. E. W. Thomas

Iron Mountain, Iron Mt. Batt. Co.

Ironwood ......... Julius Bentzen

Elect. Co.



Jackson. . . .Jackson Sto. Batt. Co.

Kalamazoo ......... The Battery

Shop. Inc.

Lansing.............H. F. Heath

Lapeer ...... Lapeer Sto. Batt. Co.

Ludington ...... Harry Trepanier





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Monroe. . . .Monroe Sto. Batt. Co.

Mt. Clemens ....... Mt. Clemens

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Muskegon ...... Electric Serv. Co.

Niles ............ Niles Batt. Serv.

Owosso .......... Blair 8: Gaylord

Petoskey, Petoskey Sto. Batt. Co.

Plymouth ...... Plymouth Storage

Battery Co.



Pontiac ............. A. P. Sriver

Port Huron ...... Storage Battery

Service Co.

Rochester.. .Rochester Batt. Serv.

Saginaw ...... Curtiss Backus Cb.

St. Johns ...... F. H. McClintock

Sandusky. . . .Davidson 81. M ossey





 

 





   

   





   





 

 





   

 





 

 

 





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Manistique.Manistique Batt. Sta.

Marquette ..... Battery Serv. Sta.





Menominee. .Johnsobeire Works

Midland. .Kaufman & Revenaugh





   





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Wyandotte ........ J. T. McWade

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‘ ~ The large spreading deep

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I and mtrogen to the soil rn greater

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same as common alfalfa, your

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vast amount of common alfalfa, or

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many farmers have been hoaxed Into ratsmg poor

or ordinary crops. On the other hand from actual

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SOUTHERN POTATO CROP LARGE.





HE condition of the Irish potato



crop in Florida is good and the

acreage increased over last year. Prep-

arations are being made for early

plantings in the southern states and

an increased acreage is indicated. Con-

siderable surplus still remains in the

hands of farmers in North Dakota and

Wisconsin. A slight increase in price

is reported.





THERE IS SAFETY IN DIVERSITY.





HERE is no get-rich-quick crop. A



young farmer should consider this

fact seriously. Any one-crop system is

a speculation and few men gain by

such risks always. It is the careful

business man that avoids speculation,

who succeeds at last.



The same principle is true in farm-

ing. The farmer who raises enough

corn and hay for his stock; keeps cows

for milk and butter; raises his own

meat and work stock; grows potatoes

and truck crops; helps his wife and

children with the chickens, ducks and

,tbrkeys: keeps a few hives of bees and

la Small orchard; plants peas and

lpumpkins in a corn field, and raises

turnips, cabbage and beans before he

turns his attention to a money crop,

may live and be able to buy school

books, school shoes, clothing and

Christmas toys, and pay his taxes.



Cattle and hogs pay better profits

than grain crops. Fat cattle are al-

ways in demand at some cash value,

and hogs multiply faster than other

farm animals if you use serum to pro-

tect them against hog cholera. Cattle

and hogs are not perishable like veg-

etation, and they are always salable,

and you may keep them until you

realize a fair price.



Stock on a farm furnish manure and

save fertilizer bills. Plenty of ani-

mals and, clover on a farm, with corn,

grain, hay and vegetables to fatten

them, and manure saved and used will

fertilize the soil, grow better crops

and increase the value of the land—

W. E. McMullen.





 





TO GET BIG POTATO CROPS.





OST of the potato growers of the



state, in making plans for the

1922 crop, are giving special thought

to the necessity, greater now, perhaps,

than ever before, of producing maxi-

mum acre yields at the lowest pos-

sible‘ cost per bushel. A certain out-

put is required to pay the costs of

producing the crop. The profits are

in the surplus bushels, and the farmer

who grows, say, 2,000 bushels of po-

tatoes, on from eight to ten acres of

land will ordinarily make considerably

greater profits than the man who

grows the same crop on from fifteen

to twenty acres.



The potato as it is grown today is a

highly specialized crop and responds

to proper care and cultural methods

better perhaps than most other field-

crops. The following suggestions cov-





.er briefly the chief factors in the pro-





duction of a heavy, high-quality crop

and are readily applicable to prevail-

ing Michigan conditions:



Thorough preparation of the'land be-

fore planting enables the plant to de—.

velop a large root system, through

which it can take from the soil suf-

ficient nutrients to produce a desirable

crop.



.Plenty of organic matter in the soil

insures moisture- holding capacity. Use

certified seed, if possible. Never use

any but the best seed obtainable.

Proper; spacing is "





 





 





found that rows three feet apart with

the hills from 15 to 18 inches apart

in the rows, gives yields from 30 per

cent greater than-the “3x3” method

commonly practiced. .



Frequent shallow cultivation during

the growing period largely prevents

evaporation of the soil moisture and

helps tide the crop over the summer

drought. e .



Spraying with a fungicide—insecti-

cide solution at intervals keeps the

vines green and healthy right up to

maturity. .



Adequate fertilization is necessary

to produce a profitable crop. The po-

tato demands large quantities of nitro-

gen, phosphorous and potassium. East-

.ern growers, whose yields average

nearly double our Michigan yields, use

high-analysis fertilizers, carrying from

3 to 6 per cent ammonia, from 8 to

10 per cent phosphoric acid and from

4 to 6 per cent potash. On most

lands which have been cropped for

some years, at least 1,000 pounds of

high-analysis fertilizer per acre should

be used, from one-third to one-half of

which may be broadcasted before

planting, the remainder being applied

along the row at time of planting.



Better seed and 'eflicient spraying

materials and fertilizers may call for

an outlay of some additional money,





but investigations have shown them toE





be worth while.

of fertilizers on a number of Michigan

farms in 1920 showed that for each ton

of proper fertilizer used, 220 bushels

of potatoes were secured.—~F. D. H.





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1922 WHEAT AND RYE CROPS.





FURTHER deterioration of the



wheat crop is reported in the cen-

tral and western counties of Kansas

due to the drought and strong winds.

The condition of the crop is only fair

in Nebraska; rain is needed in the

southwestern districts of the state and

in ‘Bouthern Iowa. The early sown

crop in Oklahoma is fair but much of

the late crop‘has not yet sprouted or

is showing a poor stand. Some winter

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ed by snow. The condition in the east-

ern section of the country is generally

good and little damage reported. The

condition in the far western states is

favorable. General rains and warmer

weather have benefited the crop con-

siderably in, California.



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The selling is as. important as the

production, Mr. Tennant stated, rem-

phasizing the fact that in seasons of

heavy production the need for efficient

marketing was very essential to suc-

cess in fruit growing. The purpose of

the exchange is to develop a carlot

market for Michigan fruit by federat-

ing the cooperative associations in the

state, adopting uniform grades and

standards, and selling through the cen-

tral organization. The constitution and

by-laws adopted call for an exchange

on the group and tonnage basis, tree

fruit growers in one body, grape grow-

ers in another, and small fruit growers

in another.



The summer tour of the horticultur-

al society will probably take place dur-

ing August and will be a swing through

the orchards in the ‘Fennville district

in Allegan county and orchards and

small fruits in the South Haven dis-

trict in Van Buren county. The cara-

van of automobiles will leave from the

Graham Experiment Station near

Grand Rapids and will spend the first

night in Fennville, and the second in

South Haven. H. Blakeslee Crane, of

Fennville, and Robert Anderson, Cov-

ert, will be arrangements committee.



Fruit prices will taper off during the

coming season, George Friday, of Col-

oma, predicted, should production the

country over be near normal. But ev-

en in the face of such a crop he stated

the outlbok for the future was bright

for all branches of the industry; He

warned grape growers, however, that

they'were rapidly approaching a stone

wall and urged them to adopt an ad-

vertising campaign to increase con-

sumption of table stocks. ‘



Pasteurized cider is going to steal

some of the popularity of grape juice,

Clark Allis, of Medina, New York, pre-

dicted. The apple juice industry needs

only publicity to put it on its feet.



The horticultural committee of the

society recommended spray experi-

ments along various lines for the com-

ing year and at the suggestion of

George Friday, of Coloma, an effort

will be made to determine whether it

is safer to plant pears along the lake

shore than in the ,interior. Pear blight

is making the growing of this fruit

very hazardous, and many growers are

refusing to Set new orchards because

of the disease. Pomologists stated they

did not believe there was any blue

stem rust among berry bushes in Mich-

igan but to prevent an infection they

recommended placing a quarantine on

shipment of plants into the state.



The tractor has come to stay on

fruit farms, President George Hawley,

of Hart, E. J. VanDuyn, of Novi, and

W. W. Farnsworth, of Waterville, Ohio,

agreed. In some instances, especially

in late springs and dry weather, they

stated they more than pay for them-

selves in one season through speeding

up the work and conserving moisture.



. The Purnell bill before congress

which would help finance experiment

stations at the rate of $10,000 each the

first year, and gradually increasing it

each year until the maximum of $80,-

000 each a year was reached, was

unanimously indorsed as well as the

enforcement of the eighteenth amend-

ment, Ford’s offer for the purchase of

Muscle Shoals and the "state fruit ex-

change. The legislature was asked to

prohibit, prize fights in Michigan.



Among the many interesting men .to





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(Continued from page 317).





‘ the state fruit exchange launched the

day. before to be known as Michigan





   





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address the convention were Clark L.

Brody, general manager of the Mich-

igan State Farm Bureau; W. W. Farns-

worth, of Waterville, Ohio; Prof. R. E.

Loree, of M. A. C.; ,R. M. Hain, exten-

sion specialist from M. A. C. ; Prof. C.

P. Halligan and Prof. Roy E. Mar-

shall, at M. A. 0.; State Inspector of

Orchards L. R. Taft, and J. R. Mag-

ness, of Canton, Pa... 011 precooling and

cold storage—R.





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UCCESS in producing sugar beet

seed from beets planted in Florida

has been so satisfactory'under the di-

rection of representatives of the Unit-

ed States Department of Agriculture

that arrangements have been complet-

ed for the planting of the third crop

at Oldsmar next October. The work

from the beginning has been under the

general direction of Dr. C. 0. Town-

send, pathologist, and Dr. W“ H.

Burns, agriculturist, of Blissfield,

Mich., who has had immediate charge

of this work for the past two years.

They are Uncle Sam’s experts in the

scientific work in connection with

sugar beet improvement. '

The second crop is now being har-

vested at Oldsmar and will. beshipped

to the University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, Mich. After a period of rest

in dormant condition the best roots

will be replanted and will bear a

crop of seed next fall. The experts

expressed themselves as being pleased

with the production of sugar beet seed

in this manner and the work has pro-

gressed beyond the experimental stage.

The government experts are satisfied

that this repeated demonstration of

practical results may mean much for

the future of the beet sugar industry

in the United States.



Dr. Townsend and Dr. Burns came

here a few days ago and made a care-

ful personal inspection of the beets

which have been grown at Oldsmar un-

der their direction by Albert H. Lay-

cock, of Mason, Mich. There have been

four other plantings of sugar beets in

Florida by the Department of Agri-

culture, and for two years the Oldsmar

beets have shown best results by a

considerable margin—W. E. B.





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(Continued from page 327).

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kill an entire fruit crop. By radio,

warnings of severe temperature chang-

es or storms can be instantly flashed

to an entire district.



“When thousands of tons of food

products is threatened with destruc-

tion by impending storms or floods or-

dinary methods of communicating

warnings are too slow,” Mr. Wheeler

said. “Market news to be of greatest

value should be received the same day.

The prompt—receipt of reports on the

condition of crops is also of great im-

portance. The radio is the only means

of quickly communicating these vari-

ous kinds of information to farmers:”



A rapid movement in the formation

of “Farm Radio Clubs” composed of

boys and girls interested in radio is

taking place throughout the country,

it was disclosed. Armstrong Perry, of

the Boy Scouts of America, stated that

the members of the scouts’ organiza-

tion were ready to lend every assist-

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farms of Michigan, on March 1,

are somewhat above the average for

the same date in past years, but less

than they were one year ago except

in the case of corn. 'The corn and

wheat crops harvested last year were

about equal to those of the previous

year, but the production of oats and

barley was much less. Of these four

crops, Wheat is the only one classed as

a strictly cash crop in Michigan.

When the yield of oats is normal or

above, some eastern and southeastern

counties market a portion of the crop.

With this exception, very few locali-

ties produce an appreciable quantity

of corn, oats or barley for shipment.

This report is based upon the regular

survey made by Herman H. Halladay,

state commissioner of agriculture, and

Verne H. Church, agricultural statisti—

cian, United States Bureau of Markets

and Crop Estimates, through the reg-

ular correspondents of the joint State‘

Federal CrOp Reporting Service.



Corn.



It is estimated that one-third of the

corn crop went into silos last fall. Of

the two—thirds harvested as grain,

about 16,383,000 bushels still remain





on the farms of the state. This rep-

resents thirty-seven per cent of the

crop, a higher percentage, with two





exceptions, than in any year during

the period for which records are avail.

able. While the crop has been fed lib-

erally, not as much stock has been on

feed this winter; there was a consid-

erable carry-over from the previous

year; and nearly all of the crop was

well matured and of high feeding val-

ue. Very few sections of the state

produce more than is consumed local-

ly, and it is estimated that only five





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A150 Raire Four More Bur/2d: of W/zeat to the Acre

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IVE years ago when I purchased



my farm there were four acres on

it that looked almost worthless. There

were potatoes planted on this four

acres two seasons before and I was

informed only 25 bushels per acre were

harvested. The field was lying idle

when I made the purchase. All there

was growing on it was, as I called

it, a little poverty grass, here and

there in spots, and a good stand of

Canada thistles.



I plowed it thoroughly the first

spring and sowed to oats, seeding to

clover, producing a good stand of both,

but the dry weather shortened the

oats crop one-half and also the clover.

However, I let the seeding stand, and

the Canada thistles made a rapid

growth the following season, along

With the small amount of clover, so I

clipped the field the last week of June,

letting the stubble of the thistle dry

a few days, then I sharpened a plow

point and plowed the piece about four

inches deep, being very careful to out

every thistle root at this depth.



Being a new man in the neighbor-

hood I had all kinds of questions asked

me why I plowed so shallow, and if

that was the way I always done. I

only laughed and said, “in a case like

this, as this is only an experiment.”





The weather was dry and hot for

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per cent of the total crop has been or



will be shipped out of the county



where grown. The. percentage of mer-



chantable quality is eighty-four, as



compared with eighty-five last year.

Wheat.





The percentage of the Wheat crop

remaining on farms is estimated at

twenty-three, five per cent less than

last year, and equivalent to

bushels. The stocks are naturally less

than usual owing tovthe necessity on

the part of many farmers to sell their

holdings to meet taxes, interest ‘and

other obligations. It is estimated that

fifty-five per cent of the crop will be.

shipped out of the county where it

was grown.



Cats.



The percentage of the crop 'still in

farmers’ granaries is thirty-eight, two

per cent less than last year. However,

owing to the very light crop harvested,

this percentage represents only 10,-

678,000 bushels, whereas thestocks

one year ago were 27,086,000. The

principal part of the present stocks are

in the surplus producing counties, as

most of the other sections are buying

from outside sources. The large corn

crop has greatly relieved the shortage

of oats. Only sixteen per cent has

been or will be shipped from the coun-





ties where grown, as compared with a





ten-year average of twenty-three per





cent.

Barley.





The stocks of barley are placed at

1,069.000 bushels, as compared with

1,872,000 bushels one year ago. Very

little is ordinarily sold from farms and

it is estimated that only twelve per

cent will be shipped from the counties

where produced. '





sulky plow turning up about nine inch-

es of soil.

owing to the dust mulch retaining the

moisture. 4





I immediately prepared a seed bed-

for wheat which I sowed the last week

in August.





Now, the field being in a run-down

condition, it needed some nourishment

to produce a crop of wheat. As I had

no money to purchase a great amount

of fertilizer I decided to make some

home-made fertilizer.





I collected all the wood ashes I could

get handy, which was about 11/2 tons,

also some fine manure and sifted it

together so I could use it in a fertilizer

drill. \Vhen ready to use I took a ton

of the mixture and put in 200 lbs. of

acid phosphate.





I opened the fertilizer part Wide

open and drilled 11/2 bushels of good

clean seed wheat to the acre? Dur-

ing the winter I hauled the manure di-

rect from the stable to the field cov-

ering it thoroughly. '



It was a nice sight at harvest ‘time

to see what an even stand I had. From

this poverty stricken‘field I threshed

four bushels of wheat to the acre than

any of my neighbors, and did not see

a half dozen stalkes of Canada ‘this-

tles. I now have a stand of alfalfa.

on the land —-W. M. S., Grand Trav-

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at once was clear; here was his en-

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thoughts, recasting of other relations

altered or overturned in their hearing

by the discovery of this man here——

everything else could and must wait

upon the mighty demand of that mo-

ment upon Eaton to destroy this en—

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Eaton shook in his passion; yet

cooly he now realized that his left

shoulder, which had taken the shock

of his fall, was numb. He shifted his

pistol to cover a vague form which

had seemed to move; but, if it had

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strained to listen.





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had within arm’s-length with which he

must be able to summon every servant

in the house. So it could not last

much longer now—this deadlock in the

dark—the two facing one, and none of

them daring to move. And one of the

two, at least, seemed to have recog-

nized that.





Eaton had moved, Warily and care

fully, but he had moved; a revolver

flashed before him. Instantly and with-

out consciousness that his finger had

pulled the trigger, Eatons pistol flash-

ed back. In front ol' him, the flame

flashed again. and another spurt of

fire spat at one side.





Eaton fired back at‘this—he was

prostrate on the floor now, and wheth-

er he had been hit or not he did not

yet know, or whether the blood flow-

ing down his face was only from a

splinter sprayed from the table behind

which he had hid. He fired again,

holding his pistol far out to one side

to confuse the aim of the others; he

thought that they too were doing the

same and allowed for it in his aim.

He pulled the trigger a ninth time“

he had not counted his shots, but he

knew he had had seven cartridges in

the magazine and one in the barrel—-

clicked without dis-

charging. He rolled over further away

from the spot where he had last fired

and pulled an extra clip of cartridges

from his pocket.



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snapped in the other. He swept his

sleeve over his face .to clear the blood

from his brows and eyes and stared

through the dark with pistol at arm’s-

length loaded and ready. Blood spurt-

ed over his face again; another sweep

of his sleeve cleared it; and he moved

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Eaton listened; there was still no

sound from the rest of the house. But

overhead now, he heard an almost im-

perceptible pattering—the sound of a.

bare-footed man crossing the floor;

and he knew that the blind man in the

bedroom above was getting up.





CHAPTER XVIII.

Under Cove}~ of Darkness.

ASIL SANTOINE was oversensi-

tive to sound, as are most of the

blind; in the world of darkness in

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And a sweeter dearer lassie

I know there could not be,

0, she fills our souls with gladness

And our hearts sing songs of glee.





There’s a little bit of heaven

In her eyes of blue,

Just a little bit of heaven,

That thrills us thru and thru.

She makes us want to love her,

Just to see her tiny smile,

And she seems to draw us nearer

To the love of God the while.





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roar of the shots had ceased to deafen.

Eaton had not counted the shots at

him any better than he had kept track

of his own firing; but he knew now

that the other two must have emptied

their magazines as well as be. It was

possible, of course, that he had killed

one of them or wounded one mortally;

but he had no way to know that. He

could hear the click as one of the

men snapped his revolver shut again

after reloading; then' another click

came. Both the others had reloaded.



“All right?” the voice which Eaton

knew questioned the other.

“All right,” came the reply.



- But, it' they were all right, they made

no offer to fire first again. Nor yet

did they dare to move. Eaton knew

they lay on the floor like himself. They

lay with fingers on trigger, as he also

lay, waiting again for him to move so

they could shoot at him. But surely

now the sound of the firing in that

room must have reached the man in

the room above; surely he must be





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on around him; he passed his life in

listening for or determining the nature

of sounds. So the struggle which end

ed in Eaton’s crash to the floor would

have waked him without the pistol<

shot immediately following. That rous-

ed him wide-awake immediately and

brought him sitting up in bed, forget-

ful of his own condition. ‘

Santoine at once recognized the

sound as a shot; but in the instant of

waking, he had not been able to place

it more definitely than to know that

it was close. His hand went at once

to the'bellboard, and he rang at the





same time for the nurse outside his

door and for the steward. But for a

few moments after that first shot,





nothing followed; there was silence.

Santoine was not one of those who

doubt their hearing; that was the sense

in which the circumstances of his life

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where he alone had heard it;

meant indoors, in the room below.



Santoine pressed the bells quickly

again and sat up straighter and more

strained; no one breaking into the

house for plate or jewelry would en-

ter through that room; he would have

to break through double doors to reach,

any other part of the house; Santoine

did not consider the possibility of' rob

bery of that sort long enough to have

been said to consider it at all; what

he felt was that the threat which had

been hanging vaguely over himself ev-

er since Warden’s murder was being

fulfilled. But it was not Santoine him-

self that was being attacked; it was

something Santoine possessed. There

was only one sort of valuable article

for which one might enter that room

below. And those articles—- ,



The blind man clinched his jaw and

pressed the bells to call all the men-

servants in the house and Avery also.

But still he got no response.



‘ A shot in the room below meant, of

course, that in addition to the intrud-

er there must be a defender; the de-

fender might have been the one who

fired or the one Who was killed. For

it seemed likely, in the complete si-

lence now, that Whoever had fired had

disposed of his adversary and was un-

disturbed. At that moment the sec-

ond shot—the first fired at Eaton—~

rang out below; Eaton’s return fire fol-

lowed nearly simultaneously, and then

the shot of the third man. These ex—

plosions and the next three the blind

man in bed above was able to disin‘

guish; there were three men, at least,

in the room below firing at each other;

then, as the automatic revolvers roared

on, he no longer could separate attack

and reply; there might be three men,

there might be half a dozen; the fusil-

lade of the automatics overlapped; it

Then all at once the

firing stopped; there was no sound or

movement of any sort; everything

seemed absolutely still below.



The, blind man pressed and pressed

the buttons on his bellboard. Any

further alarm, after the firing below,

seemed superfluous. But his wing of

the house had- been built for him proof

against sound in the main portion of

the building; the house, therefore, was

deadened to noise within the wing.

Santoine, accustbmed to considering,

the manner in which sounds came to

himself, knew how these sounds would



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diately before or within two hours

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HREE or four years ago I met

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sionary service in China. He was





telling of his first experiences as a. '





medical missionary. The city he lived

in is on one of the great rivers of

China. One day a large steamship ap-

proached the landing but was not al~

lowed to dock. as there was supposed

to be a case or two of bubonic plague

on board. The doctor who had been

there for a number of years said to

the newly-arrived American physician,

“Want to go with me on board, and

look for cases of the plague? They





can’t land ’til everyone has had a med-

ical examination.”

“Sure, I’ll go.





But how do you know

the plague when

you see it?” “0,

you can tell it all

right.” The new

missionary want-

ed to accompany

the older man

about as bad as

he wanted to go

to the gallows,

but he went. That

is what he had

come for. This is

but a tiny in-

stance of what the medical mission-

ary, and missionaries of all kinds, are

doing all the time‘. They are the bear-

ers of life, they are the bringers of

gifts to the people where they go.

It would take two life-times for one

to acquaint himself with all the sci-

ence that missionaries have mastered.

The royal botanic gardens at Tokyo

had for the assistant superintendent

an authority on the botany of the ori~

cut. The first horticultural society in

India, and one of the first in the world,

was organized one hundred years ago,

by William Carey. His botanic gar-

den, containing hundreds of plants and

shrubs,‘ may still be seen. One mis-

sionary was asked by the government

to prepare a report on the fishes _.of

the rivers and lakes. Another wrote

on reptiles. Do you like people? Folks

beat all the subjects in the world for

interest. A few years ago an Ameri-

can missionary wrote a book on “Vil-

lage Life in China.” It is as inter-

esting as the comic ,supplement, in

fact, more so, because it is true. An-

other wrote on “Hindu Tribes and

Castes.” Still another, a medical man,

made an exhaustive study of demon

possession. It seems that in China and

other eastern lands, demon possession

is found that corresponds exactly with

all the symptoms and peculiarities as

recorded in the New Testament. And

cures are wrought in the same way,

namely, by prayer and commanding

the demon or demons to depart. Un-

derstand it? No, the workers do not’

understand it.

and that is what counts. But why

should missionaries be studying snakes

and fishes and flowers? Well, if you

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you would be tickled to deth to have'

some man come along who made a

study of it, and knew how to cure the’





snake bite, or still better, how to erad:

icate the snakes.





ticulture and other subjects. The 111153





sionary tries to find the people where '





they 'live. 'That was Christ’s way.

READER writes: “Do you think,

my dear brother, that after the in-

finite pains God has taken to redeem

mankind. He will eventually flit off to





heaven with a. handful of earth’s bll—‘





lions and leave the rest of mankind

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Neither wOuld you, nor, _

Luke 1739,3313: ‘But {the me





day that Lot went out of Sodom it

rained fire and brimstone from heaven

and destroyed them all.’ This evidently

was their captivity as mentioned in

Ezekiel 16:53: ‘When I' shall bring

again their captivity, the captivity of

Sodom and. her daughter, and the“ cap-

tivity of Samaria and her daughter,

then I will bring again the captivity

of thy captives in the midst of them.’

Does this mean a resuscitation, a. res-

toration to life? They went down, will

they be brought up? I am not writing

to criticize you, far from it. I ama

minister, too. I preach to my denom-

ination, you preach to all. These

scriptures I find plainly written in my

Bible. My creed and my churCh

haven’t them incorporated within

them. Yet just a little reasoning sug-

gests that there is something wrong in

the creeds of orthodoxy. so-called.”



The belief that all men will event-

ually be saved is a strong one, and

has many supporters. There is but lit-

tle support for it in the New Testa-

ment, however, as much as we would

desire it. It is very possible that the

entire mind of God has not been made

known on this, and that it is the di-

vine plan to receive all men into par-

don and sonship in the end. It ought

not to be forgotten, however, that God

does not damn people. They do the

damning. That is, they damn them-

selves, by self-will, refusal to become

the sons of God, refusal to do His

will in loving co-operation with Him.

The conception of vast numbers of

souls cut off from God throughout end-

less time is very terrible, an idea that

appeals.



It is something on which all people

will never agree. The life of belief

and service is worth all it costs in this

life alone, and if it is followed, the

future will take care of itself. As for

God’s flitting away to His Heaven, God

is in heaven now, and all places else.

God is everywhere. With respect to

the references you quote: The six-

teenth of Ezekiel is a picture of the

history of Jerusalem, and the sins of

the city. She'is compared to Sodom

and Samaria, two cities that had been

destroyed. The hopelessness of her

condition is compared to theirs. To

quote an authority onszekiel

is not a promise of restoratidn to Is-

rael, but is an expression of the utter

hopelessness of their punishment in





’the strongest possible form. Sodom





and her daughters (the surrounding

cities) hadperished with all their in-

habitants ages ago, leaving no de-

scendants behind. Restoration was,

therefore, obviously impossible; and

by conditioning the restoration of Je-

rusalem on an impossible thing, it is

meant to be most strongly denied.





To get at the teaching of any of the

prophetic books, or of any other Bible

books, for that matter, the best way

is to go at it from the historical view-

point, and find out the conditions un-

der which the author wrote, when he

wrote, and to what purpose. Try to

put your feet into his shoes, as it were,

and see just what he is driving at,





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what message of God is being revealed -





through his experience and life. In

that way, any book will take ‘on a

wonderfully enlarged meaning, and

many difficulties that would otherwise

puzzle the reader, will disappear. That

does not mean that no obscure pas-

sages will remain, for they will, and

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come to others. Coming from the open





windows of the wing and entering the'

. open windows of the other parts of the





house, they would not appear to the

household to come from within the

house at all; they would appear to

come from some part of the grounds

or from the beach.



Yet some one or more than one from

his house must be below or have been

there. Santoine pressed all the bells

again and then got up. He had heard

absolutely no sound outside, as must





‘ be made by any one escaping from the





room below; but the battle seemed

over. One side must have destroyed

the other. From the character of the





' fighting, it was most probable that





some one had secretly entered the

room—Santoine thought of that one





' definitely now as the man he was en-

'tertaining as Eaton;

‘ some one else from the





a servant, or

house, had

surprised him in the room and was.

shot; other servants, roused by the

alarm, rushed in and were shot. San-

toine counted that, it" his servants had

survived, one of them must be com-

ing to tell him what had happened.

But there was no noise now nor any

movement at all below. His side had

been beaten, or both sides had ceased

to exist. Those alternatives alone oc-

curred to the blind man; the num-

ber of shot fired within the confines

of the room below precluded any other

He did not imagine the

fact that the battle had been fought

in the dark; himself perpetually in the





' ~ dark, he thought of others always in

the light.





The blind man stood barefooted on

the floor, his hands clasping in one of





' the bitterest moments of his rebellion





against, and defiance of, his helpless-

ness of blindness. Below him—as he

believed—his servants had been sac-

rificing life for him; there in that room

he held in trust that which affected

the security, the faith, the honor of

others; his, guarding that trust in-

volved his honor no less. And partic-

ularly, now, he knew he was bound,

at whatever cost, to act; for he did not

doubt now but that his half-prisoned

guest, whom Santoine had not suffi-

ciently guarded, was at the bottom of

the attack. The blind man believed,

therefore, that it was because of his

own retention here of Eaton that the

attack had been made, his servants

had been killed, the private secrets of

his associates were in danger. San-

toine crossed to the door of the hall

and opened it and called. No one an-

swered immediately; he started to call

again; then he checked himself and

shut the door, and opened that to the

top of the stairs descending to his





. study below.





The smoke and fumes of the firing

rushed into his face; it half choked

him; but it decided him. He was go-

ing to go down. Undoubtedly there

was. danger below; but that was why

he did not call again at the other door

for some one else to run a risk for

him. Basil Santoine, always held back

and always watched and obliged to

submit to guard even of women in pet-

ty matters because of his blindness,

held one thing dearer far than life—-

and that was the trust which other

men reposed in him. Since it was that

trust which was threatened, the im-

pulse now, in that danger, to act for

himself and not be protected ’and

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almost steady in step and he had firm

grasp on the rail; he noticed that now

to wonder at it. When he had aroused

at the sound of firing, his blindness,

as always when something was hap-

pening about him, was obtruded upon

him. He felt helpless because he was

blind, not because he had been injured.

He had forgotten entirely that for al-

most two weeks he had not stirred

from bed; he had risen and stood and

walked, without staggering, to the

door and to the top of the stairs“be.

fore, now, he remembered. So what

he already had done showed him that

he had merely again to‘put his injury

from his mind and he could go on.

He went down the stairs almost

steadily.



There was still no sound or any ev-

idence of any one below. The gases

of the firing were clearing away; the

blind man could feel the slight breeze

which came in through the windows

of his bedroom and went with him

down the stairs; and now, as he reach-

ed the lower steps, there was no

other sound in the room but the tread

of the blind man’s feet on the stairs.

This sound was slight, but enough to

attract attention in the silence there.

Santoine halted on the next to the last

step—the blind' count stairs, and he had

gone down twenty-one—and realized

fully his futility; but now he would

not retreat or merely call for help.



“Who is here?” he asked distinctly.

“Is any one here? Who is here?"



No one answered. And» now San-

toine knew by the sense which let him

feel whether it was night or day, that

the room was really dark—dark for

others as Well as for himself; the

lights were not burning. So an exal-

tation, a sense of physical capability,

came to Santoine; in the dark he was

as fit, as capable as any other man——

not more capable, for, though he was

familiar with the room, the furniture

had been moved in the struggle; he had

heard the overturning of the chairs.





Santoine stepped down on the flodr,





and in his uncertainty as to the por-,





tion of the furniture, felt along the

wall. There were bookcases there, but

he felt and passed along them swift-

ly, until he came to the case which

concealed the safe at the left side of

the doors. The books we're gone from

that case; his bare toes struck against

them where they had been thrown

down on the floor. The blind man, his

pulse beating tumultuously, put his

hand through the case and felt the

panel behind. That was slid back ex-

posing the safe; and the door of the

safe stood open. Santoine’s hands felt

within the safe swiftly. The safe was

empty.



He recoiled from it, choking back an

ejaculation. The entry to this room

had been made for the purpose which

be supposed; and the thieves must

have succeeded in their errand. The

blind man, in his uselessness for pur-

suit, could delay calling others to act

for him no longer. He started toward

the bell, when some scrape on the

floor—not of the sort to be accounted

for by an object moved by the wind—

sbunded behind him. Santoine swung

toward the sound and stood listening

again; and then, groping with his

hands stretched out before. him, he

left the wall and stepped toward the

,center of the foam. He took two

steps—three, four—with no result;

then his foot trod into some fluid,

thick and sticky and not cold.





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with the definite aim of making farm

home life happier and better.



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“How to make a dress form,” Mrs.

Mason answered, promptly.



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ra followed.



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start with? I take it majority rules;

so we’d better put it to a vote.”



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Mason rushed her pet subject in.

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can tell Lettie what to feed the baby."



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Miss Denton answered diplomatically,

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mistakes sometimes in feeding babies

and young children—they’re all so dif-

ferent. But if most of you want sew-

ing, you can start with that and I can

send these ladies bulletins on nutrition

and meat canning."



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“Mrs. Peterson used to be a dress-

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I take it you know how to do plain

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tip into the fluid and brought it near

his nose, It was what he supposed





it must be—blood. He raised his foot I





and with his great toe traced the

course of the blood; it led to one side,

and then the blind man’s toe touched

some hard, metal object which was

warm. He stooped and picked it up





. and felt over it with his fingers. It





was an electric torch with the light

turned on. Santoine stood holding it





with the warm end—the lighted end—~





turned away from him; he swiftly

switched it off; what put Santoine at

a disadvantage with other men was

light. But since there had been this

light, there might be others; there had

been at least three men, perhaps,

therefore, three lights. Santoine’s

senses could not perceive light so dim

and soft; he stood trying fruitlessly

to determine whether there were other

lights. '



He could hear now some one breath-

ing—more than one person. From the

house, still shut off by its double,

sound-proof doors, he could hear noth-

ing; but some one outside the house

was hurrying up to the open window

at the south end of the room.





That one came to, or just inside the

window, parting the curtains. He was

breathing hard from exertion or from

excitement.





“Who is it?” Santoine challenged

clearly. f‘



“Basil!” Blatchford’s voice exclaim-

ed his recognition in amazement.

“Basil; that is you! What are you

doing down here?”'Blatchford started

forward.



“Wait!” Santoine ordered sharply.

“Don’t come any further; stand

there!”





Blatchford protested but obeyed.

“What is it'?~"'" What are you doing

down here, Basil? What is the mat-

ter here? What has happened?”





“What brought you here?” Santoine

demanded instead of reply. “YOu were

running outside; why? What was out

there? What did you see?”



“See? I didn’t see anything—ex-

cept the window here open when I

came up. But I heard shots, Basil. I

thought they were toward the road. I

went out there; but I found nothing.

I was coming back when I saw the

window open. I’m sure I heard shots.”





I . .

“They were here,” Santome said.





“But you can see; and you just heard

the shots. You didn’t see anything!”

the blind man accused. “You didn’t

see any one going away from here!”



“Basil, what has happened here?”



Santoine felt again the stickiness at

his feet. “Three or four persons fought

in this room, Wallace. Some—~or one

was hurt. There’s blood on the floor.

There are two here I can hear breath-

ing; I suppose they’re hurt. Probably

the rest are gone. The room’s all

That is you moving

about now, Wallace ?”



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“What are you doing?”



“Locking for the light.”



“Don’t."



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“Get help first. I think those who

They must be

gone. But—get help first. Wallace.”



"And. leave you here?” Blatchford

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toine straightened, strained, turning

his head a little to better listen. With

the flashing on of the light, he had

heard the sharp, involuntary start of

Blatchford as he saw the room; and,

besides that, Santoine heard movement

now elsewhere in the room. Then the

blind man heard his friend’s cry.

“Good God!”



It was not, Santoine instantly

sensed, from mere surprise or fright

at finding some intruder in the room;

that must have been expected. This





was from something more astounding, ,





from something incredible.



“What is it?” Santoine cried.



“Good God! Basil.”



“Who is it, Wallace?” the blind man

knew now that his friend’s incoher-

ence came from recognition of some

one, not alone from some sight of hor-

ror. “Who is it, Wallace?” he repeat-

ed, curbing himself.



“Basil! It is—it must be—I know

him! It is—’:



A shot roared in front of Santoine.

The blind man, starting back at the

shock of it drew in the powder-gas

with his breath; but the bullet was

not for him. Instead, he heard his

friend scream and choke and half call,





> half cough.





“Wallace!” Santoine cried out; but

his voice was lost in the roar of an.

other shot. This was not fired by the

same one who had just fired; at least,

it was not from the same part of the

room; and instantly, from another

side, a third shot came. Then, in the

midst of rush and confusion, another

shot roared; the light was out again;

then all was gone; the noise was out-

side; the room was still except for a

cough and choke as Blatchford—some-

where on the floor in front of the blind

man—tried again to speak.



Basil Santoine, groping with his

hands, found him. The blind man

knelt and with his fingers went over

his cousin’s face; he found the wound

on the neck where Blatchford’s life

was running away. He was still con-

scious. Santoine knew that he was

trying his best to speak, to say just

one word—a name—to tell whom he

had seen and who had shot him; but

he could not.





Santoine put his hand over a hand

of his cousin. “That’s all right, Wal-

ly; that’s all right,” he assured him.

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consciousness was going forever. San-

toine knew what must be most on his

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more than thirty years. "And about

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remained closed, though without

strength. The blind man bowed and

then lifted his head. His friend was

dead, and others were rushing into the

room—the butler, one of the chauf-

feurs, Avery, more menservants; the

light was on again, and amid the tu-

mult and alarms of the discoveries

shown by the light, some rushed to

the windows to the south in pursuit of

those who had escaped from the room.

Avery and one or twoothers rushed

up to Santoine; now the blind man

heard, above their cries and alarms,

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By Hilda





WORRIED country lady whose

daughter is to be married this

spring confided to a close friend

that she is “just scared stiff” in re-

gard to serving refreshments at the

wedding. She wants to make the great

occasion a happy one for her only

daughter, but the thought of making

ready 3, wedding feast“ and success-

fully serving it keeps her awake nights

worrying lest everything go wrong.

She deesn’t know what to do nor how

to do, and, though her friend tries to

reassure her and help plan her plan,

she looks at the whole thing as if it

were a mountain she can never re-

move from her pathway.

Of course, first of all she should

think over her resources carefully. If





Correct Placing of Silver and Dishes;





the house is large enough to admit

setting tables for all the guests she

can have a more elaborate dinner than

if her space is limited. Small tables

hired from the town caterer with fold—

ing chairs can be in readiness for the

dinner or supper, and everything can

be arranged quickly and easily. If the

house is small and trays must be used

where each guest. is responsible for

his oWn supper, so to speak, a much

simpler and easier menu must be

planned.





For the table dinner a good menu

would be creamed potato, chicken

salad, hot rolls, several spreads,

pickles, escalloped oysters and perhaps

a water ice for the first course, and

cake, ice cream, coffee, salted nuts,

candies and crystallized fruits or any

other dainty for the second. This

could be served from the kitchen and

be easily and quickly disposed of.



A more elaborate table dinner could

consist of ”roast chicken oriurkey,

mashed potato, gravy, escalloped corn,

fruit salad, rolls, spreads, pickles and

the same second course as above, but

hot plates and hot food are hard to

manage unless the number of guests

is limited. It is _'far better to stick

to the easier menu and have every-

thing perfect than to struggle with

keeping the food hot, carving, dishing

and serving all in a kitchen not built

for large social affairs.



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rolls can be used, and they should

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chicken with mashed potato can be

used for the hot‘ dish. Instead of the

rolls, sandwiches made of whitebread

with cheese, brown bread with meat,

nut bread with butter or sweet' sand-

‘wiches in which jelly is used can be

served. For the second course serve

cake, ice cream, candies and coffee.



Even a perfectly cold supper can be

served if space is limited. For this,

sandwiches and salad with pickled

fruit, or a gelatine dish or cold chicken

can be used. Chicken salad is per‘

haps the most satisfactory of all the

cold foods as it is appetizing and ev-

eryone likes it. Of course, cake and

ice cream are used for each and every

kind of supper, but this is easily man-





 





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aged as the cakes can be baked ahead

of time and the ice cream bought in

town.



For the little fancy things salted

nuts, preserved fruits heavy with

sugar, bon bons, rich home-made candy

loaf in tiny boxes, bits of wedding

cake in fancy ribbon-tied boxes, to

“dream over,” tiny fancy cakes in as-

sorted colors, and a number of other

trifles can be used. Write to some

firm in the nearest large city and ask

for prices and descriptions of little

fancy novelties, or get some friend in

the city to make your selection.



All the things one reads about in

papers about miniature brides and

grooms at each plate, maline depend-

ing from the ceiling, yards and yards

of ribbon strewn over the table and

dozens of wax candles need not dis-

turb the country hostess. She can use

flowers or‘a. wedding cake or anything

she chooses for a simple center piece

and let the “minnery” go by.



A large handsome frosted bride’s

cake is a beautiful ornament on the

bride’s table, or a basket filled-with

roses or other flowers, but ribbon nev-

er adds much to the beauty of the

occasion. Have your foodgood, abund-

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should be in every family if possible,

but there are other Ways to please

the child if these are out of the ques-

tion. One mothergput a bowl of gold-

fish on a low magazine stand, and let

her little boy- feed them each day. He

was interested in watching their hab-

its and he and his mother often talked

about the tiny, beautiful fishes. ‘An-

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chuich concert and cared for it all





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-I-I'e was very proud when it

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watered it carefully every morning.



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Cleaning Saves Buying

By Addie Farmr





household nothing seems to run



away with more money than the

dry-cleaner’s bill. Especially is this so

in a large family, and often times good

clothing is discarded because it does

not seem to warrant ”another bill for

cleaning, clothing that cleaned might

be made over or combined with other

material and thus save the price'of

new garments.



Dry cleaning is not such a secret

process as professional cleaners who

are not in business for their health,

would have us believe. Any sensible

woman, even with only the use of such

common household accessories as dry

salt bran, corn flour, ground rice and

gasoline, may successfully compete

with the cleaner. The success of clean-

ing lies principally in the knowledge

of the chemicals in the dye and the

effect of these chemicals on certain

fabrics and certain'colors. Long expe-

rience tells the professional cleaner

this when he glances at a fabric, but

the home cleaner can find out just as

well by trying a piece of the material

before attempting to renovate the em

tire garment.



If there is a big family and much

cleaning it is wise to set aside a home

cleaning department, a shelf where

there are such good old standbys as

Fuller’s earth, French chalk, an‘ounce

of chloroform, a bottle of ammonia,

carbonate of soda, a goodly supply of

blotting paper, plenty of soap flakes,

Javelle water, glycerine, benzine and

gasoline, being sure to keep the last

two remedies away from the heat or

fire. With this array you can subdue

any spot that may attack the family

clothing or the household linen. To

this, add dry salt, bran, cern flour, and

ground rice.



The grease spot on your silk frock

will require French chalk. Cover the

spot with the. chalk and let it remain

on all night. In the'morning iron un-

der brown paper. French chalk will

also clean your light coloredshoes or

evening slippers, provided you do not

allow them to become too dirty before

cleaning. Spots on light colored or

evening coats may be removed by sun-

dry applications of this same French

chalk or, better yet, a good 1ubbing

with Fuller’s earth. Suede shoes and

shoe tops may also be cleaned with

Fuller’s earth. White or light felt hats

that have soot spots on them require

an application of the earth.



A good way to clean a cloth or tweed

dress or suit is by the salt process.

Have a jarful of salt, which must have

been crushed as fine as possible and

passed through a sieve to free it from

all lumps. Spread the garment on the

table and.strew a thin layer of salt all

over it. Now take a white pad and rub

the salt into the tweed with

sweeps downward. Never rub up and

down or round and round, as this spoils

Brush off all

the superfluous salt and go over the

more soiled parts, such as the hem of





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like new. Of course, all grease spots

should be removed before the salt

cleaning; and shiny marks due to wear

should be sponged with ammonia and

water. Men’s clothes may be cleaned

in this fashion very easily.



Black silk and black lace should be

sponged or dipped in cold coffee and

pressed. They will then look like new.

Turpentine will remove grease spots

from velvet.

moved from many materials by the ap-

plication of hartshorn, or, as it is com-

monly known, hartshorn ammonia.



If you are unfortunate enough to

get a paint or varnish spot on your

best suit do not be' discouraged, just

cover the spot with a little turpentine,

or saturate the stain with benzine, and

rub until the paint is loosened. Then

scrape off with a blunt instrument

and apply more turpentine until spot

disappears. Alcohol will sometimes

take the place of turpentine if the

spot is not too old. Stains from tea,

coffee, or chocolate on silk ‘should be

treated with glycerine mixed with cold

water, and fruit stains on colored

goods will respond to an application of

glycerine and alcohol in equal parts.

It must be remembered, however, that

repeated applicatiOns must be made of

this mixture as it acts slowly.



Gasoline, although rather dangerous

to handle on account of its inflamma-

bility, is one of the best cleaners in

the world. This fluid will not remove

grease stains, but will take out the dirt

and will not injure a fabric. I find

that when Putnam’s cleaner, a soapy-

like fluid that is sold in the drug shops

at a small price per bottle, is mixed

with the gasoline, the cleaning is twice

as easy and several times as good. Silk

and other gowns dipped into a mixture

of gasoline and Cleaner come out like

new. When washing white gloves in

gasoline it is well, while they are still

wet, to lay them on a cloth and cover

well with flour on both sides. When

dry the flour can be brushed off and

the gloves will be left soft and white.

Benzine is best for cleaning dark

gloves. When the plume on your hat

gets too grimy, wash it, providing it

is white, in a warm suds made of pure

soap and warm water and then rinse

and dip in a cold starch water. Let

dry, shake out the starch, and the

plume will be as fluffy and full as

when new. It can then be curled with

a blunt knife, strand by strand, and

will be as good as ever.



Perspiration stains are the hardest

to deal with, but some women have

found that applications of white vine-‘

gar willremove them from gowns.

However, in using this remedy it is

always well to wet a piece of the gown.

material first to see what effect vine-

gar will have upon the color and the

fabric. In fact, in cleaning with any-

thing it, is well to try a piece of the

material before putting a gown hap-

hazard into any fluid. I often take a

piece of gown material and stain it

with the sameliquid, grease, oil, or

paint that has spOtted my frock and

then try my remedies, using the one





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for its pure-bred live stock, and

the breeders are back of their

sons and daughters in the junior club

work. The bankers of the county are

also interested. The farm bureau

chose an able leader, Mr. C. E. Fish.

who is a graduate of the Ames Agri-

cultural College. Mr. Fish is assistant

to the county agent, W. T. Makestead,

and had full charge of the club work

in the county. , >

In the Pure-bred Dairy Heifer Club

there were twenty-two Holstein-Frie-

sian calves and eight Guernsey calves

fed out. The boys and girls had to





KUSSUTHcounty, Iowa, is noted





borrow $7,090 from the local banks for

a period of two years to finance their

At the end of two years the





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Profit and Experience, in Clubs 1





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By V. W. McCray





they were the same calves which he

had seen a, month before. All the grade

calves were sold at public auction in

the winter. '



In the Pure-bred Gilt 'Club there

were forty-six gilts distributed among

the boys and girls who preferred a pig

to a calf. These gilts were purchased

of the breeders in the county. The

pigs were shown at the county fair

where $50 in premiums was offered for

each breed. The National Hampshire

Breeders’ Association also gave $100

to the winners in the Hampshire class.

There were ten cash prizes for each

breed, rather than two or three larger





 





Club Leader is Showing them





heifers will be sold, in calf or with calf

at side, at public auction. The ser-

vices of some of the best bulls in the

county, including Iowana Homestead

Watson owned by C. F. C. Lagge and

Iowa State College, and is one of the

three greatest Holstein sires in Iowa,

have been offered free. The calves are

all insured.



The junior owners entered their

calves at the county fair where there

was $50 in premiums offered for each

breed. The first prize Holstein heifer

in the club also too first prize in the

open class, winning $18 in premiums.

When the boys and girls can outdo

their fathers in the show ring it shows

that they have -not neglected their

heifers. One girl has been offered five

times what she paid for her calf.





The Grade Dairy Heifer Club is a.

forerunner of the pure-bred dairy calf

club. There are thirty-seven members

in this club. The leader says that

these clubs are very successful, every

one of the members being more of a.

booster six months after the club had

started than when they started. This

club was divided into two clubs, The

Ledyard- Club and The Titonka. Club.

Since the grade calves were not shown

at the county fair Mr. Fish arranged

for a local show, held at Ledyard. This





enter all the calves which were judg-

ed and prizes awarded to the winners.

There are twelve members in the Led-

yard Club.



The Titonka Grade Dairy Calf Club

is one of the largest of its kind, in the

state, with twenty-five members. At

Titonka a little different method was

followed. The local banker, who loan-

ed the money to the hoys and girls,

and Mr. Fish arranged for a tour with

the members so that each boy and girl

saw every other member’s calf. At

each farm the owner of the calf told

how he had fed and cared for his or

her calf. Each member went home

determined to take better care of the

calf. One month later when Mr. Fish '

made an inspection of the calves he v





 





 





said that he could scarcely tell that





 





was called “Dairy Day.” The members ”





 





Iowa Boys Get Practice in Judging Stock, 38 do the Michigan Boys. The





How to Judge Brood Mares.





prizes. On the last day of the fair the

gilts were sold at public auction. All

the members made a, profit on their

pig and gained much valuable experi-

ence out of it. The boys and girls

were very enthusiastic about the work.

As Mr. Fish said in telling about their

interest, “Every time any of them

come to town they come‘ up to my

office to tell me about their pig or

their calf, and to ask for suggestions.

Already thirty-five of the gilt club

members have entered the sow and

litter club for next year. If the work

is developed on a safe and sound basis

rather than with a show and a splurge,

it will grow into a permanent institu-

tion instead of dying out the first

year.”



In addition to the club work, Mr.

Fish coached the boys in judging. This

way they were able to judge a good

animal as well as to feed and care for

it. Every phase of the work was a.





pure-bred sire and profits by the ex-

perience of the youth.





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NEW GIRLS’ LEADER IN UPPER

PENINSULA.





 





 





ISS RUTH CRESSWELL, former-



ly assistant state club leader in

Washington State, is now a member of

theT state club staff in Michigan and

has charge of girls’ club work in the

upper peninsula. Her headquarters are

at Court House, Marquette.





SERVICE THE MEASURE.-





It isn’t the cut of the clothes that you

wear, ,

Nor the stuff out of which they are





 





. ma e, .

Though chosen with taste and fastidi-

ous care,

And it‘isn’t the price that you paid ;

It isn’t the size 'of your pile in the

bank,

Nor the number of acres you own.

It isn’t a question of prestige or rank,

Nor of sinew'and muscle and bone;

It isn’t the servants that come at your





ca ,

It isn't the things you possess, '

Whether many or little—or nothing at





all,

It’s service that measures success.





IN CHARGE OF.CLUB LIVE STOCK

WORK.





 





BOUT March 15, Mr. Nevels Pear-



son, formerly assistant state club

leader in Kansas,‘ will take charge of

live stock club work in Michigan.





 





POTATO CLUBS DEMONSTRATE

VALUE OF DISEASE-FREE"

SEED.





 





B ECAUSE 225 boys in Butler county,



Pa... showed that the use of disease-

free seed potatoes last year resulted in

increasing the yield one-third, Butler

county farmers have ordered ten car-

loads of disease-free seed potatoes for

planting this year. The boys were en-

rolled in eleven potato clubs conduct-

ed in cooperation with the United

States Department of Agriculture.

Each boy purchased one bushel of dis-

ease-free potato seed brought from

New York, which was planted beside

home-grown seed for comparison and

to demonstrate the value of disease-

free seed. Field meetings were con?





 





The Showing of Prize-winning Hampshires by the Boys of Kussuth County,





Iowa, at their





success and much credit is due the

leader. The work develops community

interest as well as an interest in bet—

ter live stock. When a boy or girl is

in a club of thisnature, he or she is

not thinking about some job in town.

Few club members leave the farm and

start working away from home. In

many instances after the son or daugh-

ter has had a successful year inia jun-

ior club, the father .takes j more inter-

est kl. his ”live took 91141133,, 9.?





 

 

 





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County Fair.





ducted in August to show diseases and

differences in appearance under grow-

ing conditions.



In October the potatoes were dug

and club demonstration meetings were

held. It was found that the disease-

free seed was responsible for about

one-third of the increase in yield over





home-grown seed, the other two-thirds ‘ ‘





being We to better cultural math a
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~ entirely Of course, the latter over-~

”sight m not entirely their fault, as





case-free seed, as compared with their

fathers? home-grown seed. Each boy

Was given a. bushel of disease-free





seed. ‘





 





OUR CORRESPONDENCE CORNER.





AM never so happy as when I have

I letters to read, especially from the

young folks. I like to learn what they

are doing, and to talk over with them

their trials and tribulations—their

hopes and ambitions.



So, let me hear from you. Tell me

what you are doing and what you want





Contests and Other Things





HE results of our educational

question and answer contest in

the issue of 'March 4 greatly ex-

ceeded our expectations. In fact, the

replies came in so fast that I was

swamped and had to neglect my other

work. So we got Uncle Frank to take





 





7726 Prize Mhflem





Here are the young folks who

won a dollar each in the March

4th contest.



Alice Metcalf, Adrian, Mich.



Margaret L. Kroener, R. 5,

Quincy, Mich.



Doris Goodrich, R. 8, Eaton

Rapids, Mich.



Lewis Hooghouse, R. 2, Free-

soil, Mich.



Wells J. Bruno, R. 3, D'urand,

Mich.



Try hard and you, too, may be

among the lucky five in this

week’s contest.





 





 





 





care of these contests and.to manage

the entire boys’ and girls’» department.





We are expecting Uncle Frank to be

a regular pal to the boys and girls

who read the Michigan Farmer. He’s

had the joys and trials of boyhood.

For instance, at times he thought that

grown folks were made just for the

purpose of preventing him from doing

what he Wanted, and at other times he





‘thought the older folks were 0. K.





Now he is on the other side, trying as

a father and pal to guide his boys to

a useful manhood. Besides, he is still

a boy in spirit and likes his play as

well as his work.



Almost from the time he learned to.

whistle he had an appreciation of girls,

a real wholesome appreciation. He

still has this and feels sure that he

has 'a realization. of their hopes and

ambitions, too. So he will endeavor

to be a pal to the girls‘as well.»



We will now let Uncle Frank speak

for himself.——Educational Editor. ’





What the Letters Showed.



There have been times when I have.

waited and waited, and thought the

postman the meanest man on earth be-

cause he did not bring me a letter, but

this last week I had no such feelings.

I certainly was in clover reading the

many interesting letters from all parts

of the state, and other states, too.



All letters showed a thorough read-

ing of the Michigan Farmer, but quite

a few could have shown greater care

in writing.



Question number two was the stumb-

ling block for many. They gave the

answer as cultivated orchards instead

of sod mulch orchards. It is true that

Cultivated orchards give the best av-

erage “results, but the sod mulch or-

chards give the most uniform yields

from year to year.



Quite a. few. got question three

wrong and many missed number seven





 

 





to do.





1 are going to have a lot of fun togeth-





MT





Perhaps you have some ques-

tions that are puzzling you—I know I

'did when I was a boy.‘ Perhaps I can.

help you out on some of these. I want

to be what the educational editor said

he expected me to be—a pal to the

Michigan Farmer boys and girls.



In a short time we are going to start

a correspondence corner in which we

will use letters from my pals. I am

not much at making promises, but I

“kind of feel it in my bones” that we





er. Let’s start right away—let’s hear

from you—Uncle Frank.





wrong place, but the observing ones

found number seven just the‘same.

Seventy-nine of the nearly six hun-

dred got all the questions right, so

you can imagine the difficulty I had in

picking the winners. I had to get

right down to fine points. They were

selected, however, for the clearness

and conciseness of their answers, cor-

rectness of composition and the easy

reading arrangement of their letters

as well as for neatness and the cor-





 

 





 





Michigjn peeple: Hero is

. omen g n yourm



2 cinema: you. Lotus send.

you a description of our





Pure Brad Pradical Ponllry





Here is on m mdncing poultry

stock such as 12 former poultry-

woman. wants. It is Eroving out



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nconns; Block

ocks; Rhode blond





White. Brown and Bo!

Mlnono; Barred, 31.11de Wh tcR





Redo; Wyn-deuce; Orpinsto no.

in oiled d hired on the plan of kthe state

This “Wk 0 inland all the Hens mt. he B-reed

lug Colonies are egg—producing Hens.

If you will send for a description and on record of

this PnreBccod Practical Pou .you wi find stock

that it will you to buy. Buy or Old Chicks this

year andee see 3 results you will get.

EIGHT WEEKS OLD PULLETS

We shall have 5000 Eight-weeks and Three-months

Pullers to sellin May,Jnne and Jul in all our breeds.

Orders can be ed now for ese lots. 9

will send you description and Price List.

STATE FARMS A SSOCIATION

Box A47. Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 

   





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rectness of the answers.

The Answers.

The correct answers were as fol-'d,

lows:





No.1. Alfalfa, 2.3; other hay, 1.2:

tons. Page 3.

’ No.2 Sod mulch Page 30.

No.3. Vitamines. Page 28.

No.4. Kansas City. Page 34.

No.5. Phillips Brooks. Page 22.

No.6. For controlling mosquitoes.

Page 19.

v No.7. Three years. Page 4.





In another place on this page you

will find the names of the winners,

and also this week’s contest.—Uncle

Frank.





 





   

 





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Read mza’ [V292





THOROUGH reading of the

Michigan Farmer helped the

five boys and girls mentioned on

this page to win a dollar. It will

help you do the same thing, if

you get busy this week. Look

through the pages of this issue

for the answers of the questions

below. Write the answers neatly

and concisely, numbering each

' answer to correspond with the

question, and give the number of

thepage on which the answer

was found. The five best an-

swers from boys or girls will

win a dollar each. Address your

letters to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. Con-

test closes March 23.

1.—If a man buys a farm clear

of all indebtedness, but later a

silo ,company presents a note

. signed by the seller of the farm

for a sil on the farm, who is lia‘

ble on the note?

2.——Wl1at is a good dry mash

for Leghorn hens in the wintei?

3.-—What will take f1uit stains

out of colored goods?

4.—VVhat variety of peaches

stood the recent storm the best?

5.--—What Will relieve nervous

headaches and colds in the head?





. 6.—What caused the farmers

of Butler county, Pennsylvania,

to buy ten cars of disease-free

potato seed for this year?



7.——What promises to be a

competitor of giape juice as a

drink?



8. ——VVhat is the natural growth

of dewberries a sure sign of? '



9. —What is as interesting as a.

comic supplement?



10. ———Where do nearly one- -third

of the population of the United

States live?



Look for a new brain teaser

next week. It will be interesting.





 





 





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Our chickens have picked or have

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portions ?—R. R.



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in other feed you are giving them,

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BREED CHARACTERISTICS.





 





Can you give some of the character-

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-distinguish a full-blood from partial





bleeds of the White Leghorns, male

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righted and sold for the benefit of the ,

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book through the office of the Michi-

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The best means of distinguishing

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study the types. Much information

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with reliable breeders. You request

distinguishing signs between “full-

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be impossible to give any definite num-

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would, be so variable depending upon

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HESTNUT hard coal makes the



most Satisfactory fuel for the coal-

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making the fire last all night. Coke

makes a hot fire while it burns and

can be used in brooder stoves but the

stove may need attention during the

night to be sure that the fire will last

until morning.



Soft coal can be used in brooder

stoves with grates constructed for that

purpose. However, it is not usually

considered as satisfactory as the hard

coal. It pays to have a box in each

colony house that will hold nearly a.

week’s supply of coal. This saves car-

rying fuel in bad weather and reduces

the time necessary to care for brood-er

fires.



If you. use oil-burning brooders it

pays to buy the best grade of kerosene

or the'grade commonly sold by the oil

companies for incubator use. This

first-grade oil gives the most heat for

the money and there is less soot and

odor.





It pays to use a good grade of fuel

in spite of the cost, as the expense can

be divided among two or three hun-

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out the injury to a brood may be so

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MANAGING THE LAYERS.





 





Will you please tell me how to cull

poor layers from the good layers, and

give me a daily ration for Leghorn

hens—a good dry mash—V. K.





The best time to cull the flock is in

the fall whenthe poor layers have

stopped laying and started to moult

and the best layers are still busy. How-

ever, you can do some culling-now.

You might cull out all hens that seem

lacking in vitality. The active alert

hens with the intelligent look. are the

best. Hens that go early to roost and

come down reluctantly in the morning

are apt. to be drones.



Hens that are kept baggy with fat

are not desirable. Unless the hens

have been receiving a balancedration

for egg production it will be difficult

to do good culling. Without the mate-

rials to make eggs at this season the

best of hens might not be laying. Next

August and September will be a good

time to cull your flock to determine

which layers to keep over for breed-

ing stock in 1923. More extensive in-





formation on' culling will probably ap-





pear in the Michigan Farmer about

that time.



A good dry mash for. Leghorns for

winter can be made of one hundred

pounds of ground oats, fifty pounds of

wheat bran and thirty pounds of beef

scrap. The grain ration can be two

hundred pounds of corn to one hun-

dred pounds of wheat. Another good

dry mash can be made of equal parts

of ground corn, ground wheat and

ground oats plus twenty per cent by

weight of beef scrap.





 





SUNSHINE HOLLOW NOTE.





Flossie McGray says shedon’t mind

men going hunting if they need a lit-

tle exercise and can shoot straight.

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By W. F. Taylor





ONE of the largest gatherings of.

livestock men in the history of

the Oceana county convened at Hart,

February 28. The meeting was called

to order at 11:00 a. m. by Mr. Al-

fred Henrickson, President of the

Oceana Farm Bureau, and Secretary

of Michigan Jersey Cattle Club.

Present pure bred Jerseys, Hol-

steins, Shorthorns, Guernseys and Du-

roc Jersey swine. County Agent Pick-

ford was presented and proceeded to

outline a plan of co-operation through

which the breeders of pure bred live-

stock might use the Oceana Farm

Bureau and through which the bureau

might serve both the breeders and the

buyers of pure bred cattle and hogs.





At present Jersey breeders are the

only ones having a county organiza-

tion and one object of the meeting

was to induce breeders of other lines

of livestock to organize, and develop

and push their individual breeds. Mr.

Pickford explained that a part of the

breed organization should appoint two

inspectors and a salesman, that all

cattle offered for sale through this

agency must pass inspection, and that

each organization might arrange in

its own way for payment of its in-

spector and salesman.



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ty agent would serve the various as-

sociations in every possible way and

would transport salesman from farm

to farm as far -as practical. Lastly,

it. we stated that the County Farm

Bureau would reserve the right at any

time to withdraw its support from any

association whose practices were not

in harmonywith the principle of “the

square deal.”



Prof. Reed on the Job.



President Henrickson' then intro-

duced .Prof. 0.,E. Reed, of the M. A.





#0., who gave a short‘talk before the

noon hour, or more, properly speaking,

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could offer to eat; and so we stayed,

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short talk lengthened until the noon

hour was very short.



Mr. Reed said, in part: “In a. gen-

eral way I prefer to talk to men in

the barn. LaSt week I addressed a

large crowd from the platform, but

didn’t know what to say and in the

end felt that I had failed; but I am

glad to meet you this morning be

cause you are on the right track. You

are not wasting your energy in the

effort to promote a “cost-plus” pro—

gram but you are organizing and work-

ing for more efficient production. You

are doing it, too, in a very intelligent

way. Now and then a city puts on a

milk campaign, but the influence

doesn’t last. The other day some peo-

ple out west organized and promised

to eat corn every day. Something may

come from these efforts but they are

too much like many big revival meet-

ings. I like an intelligent, construc-

tive milk campaign that lasts the year

around; and our friends out west

might better feed the corn to the hogs

and eat the pork.”





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After dinner representatives of the

different breeds met in the interests

of their several organizations and in

due timeall came together again to

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one of the best Jersey herds in the

country, but its owner could not af-

ford to own a. sufficiently good sire

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MICHIGAN farmer



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ing put' in. Six two-by-four’s bolted in

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Experiences of a Cow Tester





Some off/26 Condz'lz'om One Man Found





FEW days ago it was our priv-

ilege to quizz J. H. Mathiesen,

who is in charge of the cow-test-

ing work in Wayne county. He has

under his supervision about 230 cows

and of these 182 were giving milk.

Amongst the milkers, fifty—four produc-

ed over forty pounds of butter-fat and

thirty—seven over fifty pounds of fat in

the month. One cow owned by E.

Stewart yielded 85.4 pounds of fat the

high record for the thirty-day period.

According to Mr. Mathiesen it some—

times takes a farmer several weeks, or

even months, to get started with his

work so that he might observe results.

The most obstinate difficulty is the

lack of proper feeds. With a combina-

tion of feeds from which it is impos-

sible to secure a good ration and with

an unwillingness on the part of the

owner to purchase substitutes partic-

ularly when he already has plenty, it

is often very difficult to make a show-

ing. In most instances, however, it

is not beyond the ability of the well-

informed tester to show wherein this

work can be of the highest value to

the dairyman, even though all the con-

ditions for attaining the highest suc-

cess are not present. .

One of the things which he finds the

greatest lack of knowledge on is need-

ed variation in the ration during the

different stages of the lactation period.

Particularly is this true of the month

or six weeks when the cow is dry. It

is frequently found, he said, that a cow

must give of the lime and other min-

eral elements in her own body to grow

her calf, simply because the owner

does not supply her with this material

when it is so badly needed. The result '

is that the cow starts her season’s

work under a great handicap. Had she

been properly fed when dry she would

have had a surplus of these minerals

laid by. with which to repay her owner

larger ‘pm‘ilk production.

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with plenty‘of lime for bone. making,

Calves from cows so fed are strong.

Otherwise cows are emaciated because

they have beenobliged to use bone .





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perior calf coming from the cow which

has been intelligently fed.

Occasionally it is necessary to teach

the whole family. Before any decision

is made in the matter of 'policy about

the dairy barns the tester must con-

vince the wife and the children in or-

der that the vote might be.unanimous.

This on the surface would indicate a

harmonious condition in.the home life,





 

   





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Dairymen who are suffering serious

losses due to sick cows, off-feed con-

ditions and low milk yields, will find

the following letters of real interest:,

“Larrowe Milling Co. '



Gentlemen: Since feeding Larro

we find our milk' yield from 47 cows

has increased 32 gallons per day.”—

Schermerhorn & Son, Florida. An-

other dairyman writes: “At times

we have felt we could mix our own

ration cheaper, but each time have

returned to Larro. 'Whe'n’ feeding

Larro to our 300 cows we hate very

few losses from sickness, cows off?

feed and other ailments.” Another

writes: “My home-mixed ration

failed, and I have returned to Larro.

Have fed Larro to 40 head this win‘

lter. Have not had a, sick animal,

nor one off-feed. I am beating my:

neighbors badly in milk yields.”





Why Mllk Yields Fall 0"





One of the biggest reasons, say au-

thorities, why cows go off-feed, are

often sick and milk yields fall down,

is that few dairymen really mix an ef-

ficient balanced ration at home. They

lack facilities, lack time and help,

lack tried and proved. formulas. Why

waste time and take chances. Why

not do as Schermerhorn and other

dairymen are doing, and get maxi-

mum results from your cows? You

can. Larro makes it easy. This fa-

mous blend of certified ingredients

never did, does 'not now, and never

will .contain any filler or off-grade

materials. It is succulent, palatable,

easily digestible and highly nourish~

ing. It brings vigor, sleek coats,

bright eyes, perfect health conditions

and either increases milk yields or

produces the same milk with fewer

cows, less roughage and less work.





How to Bel More Profll

Just write .us. We will explain how

your dealer will sell you two bags of

Larro under our money back offer.

How you can prove for yourself at

our risk that Larro will stop your

losses and increase your profits from

every cow. If Larro fails to produce

more milk, merely return the empty

bags and dealer will refund your mon—

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The larrowe Milling 00.,





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but sometimes it is a little embarrass-

ing for the tester who is anxious to

keep close to his work.



A more provoking member, however,

is the fellow who after he understands

your suggestions and acknowledges

that they should be adopted and with-

al is in every way prepared to adopt

them, simply goes on in the same old

way. Such a. one,is akin to the phari-

see of old—long on advice but short

on action. Mr. Mathiesen’s method of

handling this class by refusing to car-

ry on their testing work, is perhaps

the best solution, inasmuch as the fail-

ure of a few of this kind to show good

results from the investment is certain

to reflect against the cow-testing work.



In his rounds this Wayne county

man finds that creamery men occa-





Saginaw,‘ Mich.





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sionally exist who are not crediting

the farmers with all the butter-fat to

which they are entitled. He has been

able to adjuSt some of these cases to

the advantage of the association mem-

ber. In one instance the test was rais-

ed from 3.2 per eent of fat to 4.4 per

You may feel sure that this

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‘AGINAW County is a heavy milk,





producing county. From its herds





the tables of about 200, 000 people are





supplied with dairy products. Sagi-

naw, Bay City and Flint, together with

numerous smaller towns and villages,

depend in whole or in part upon Sagi-

naw County for this portion of their

daily ration.





Tuberculosis is no respecter of cows.

Accordingly, it had worked its way

into the herds of the Saginaw Valley.

Some testing for tuberculosis had

been done by local veterinarians pre-

vious to August, 1921, when the cam-

paign promoted by the Farm Bureau

was started. After securing the co-

operation of the U. S. and the State

Bureaus of Animal Industry and em-

ploying a veterinarian approved by the

Bureaus, the campaign started on Au-

gust 8, 1921, and continued to De-





cember 8. During this time 436 herds.





of cattle were tested, a total of 4,314

head.



A questionnaire was 1ecently sent

out to those who had their he1ds test-

ed asking whether or not they consid-

ered the test had increased the value

of their herd and if so, how much.

The response to this questionnaire

showed an average estimated increase

of about 35 per cent, or a total in-

creased value amounting to over

$100,000.





Thus it is seen that the increased,

value of 436 herds of cattle in the





county was $25,000 more than the to-

tal three-year membership dues of

8,500 members. This_increased value

was made possible by the County

Farm Bureau. The test cost of the

farmers about $8.50 per herd, but there

is an accumulated surplus of nearly

$1,100 set aside as a separate fund,

which Will either be refunded to those

testing or used to apply on the cost of

a second test.





About 2 per cent of the cattle tested

were found to be tubercular. The test-

ing having been done by a veteri:

narian approved by the If. S. Bureau

of Animal Industry, a Federal indem-

nity was paid on reactors in addition

to the State indemnity. The Federal

indemnity alone has returned to the

farmers having reactors about $1,700

in addition to the State indemnity.

This amounts to approximately two-

thirds of the actual cost of the cam-

paign.



It will be borne in mind that this

Federal indemnity would not have

been secured for the farmers had it

not been for the contract entered into

between the U. S. Bureau of Animal

Industry and the Connty Farm Bureau,

and that the $1,700 added to the $1,100,

to be refunded or applied toward a

second test, makes a fund sufficient to

reimburse the farmers for ‘75 per cent

of the total cost of the campaign. Thus

at an actual cost of about $900 the

sum of $100,000 has been added to

the value of the dairy herds of Sagi-

naw County by the elimination of tu-

bercular cattle and by proving others

not to be tubercular.





 





A MILK PRODUCERS’ PLANT.





 





NOTING'that the dairy industry of



Menominee county has not been

prospering of late, the Menominee

Cou 1y Journal tells how the Stephen-

son ooperative Association has met

the situation. The plan of operation

that has been adopted involves the

following features: The plant will be

equipped to manufacture bi-products

and special types of dairy products,

which sell for fancy prices and there-

fore pay the farmer patrons better

prices for cream and milk, it says.

Instead of confining its output to the

making of one product like the ordi-





‘ ‘ nary creamery or cheese factory, when





at tar one of {teammate be:





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can stop making that product and turn

its raw material into several other

products. Special attention will be

given to the manufacture of sweet

cream butter and fancy cheeses, such

as Swiss and quuefort. The plan of

operation is said to be based upon that

at Grove City, Pennsylvania, whose

plant was conducted along lines work-

ed out by the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture. The Grove City

plant is said to have steadily pros-

pered through the higher price receiv-

ed for its product, which in turn is

reflected in the prices paid to farmers

for cream and milk. A similar plant

is operating at Adrian, Michigan, it is

stated. Menominee county has the

first such plant in the upper peninsula.

The Menominee County Journal an-

nounces that Prof. O. E. Reed, of the

Michigan Agricultural College, will





by his staff at Stephenson, March 6-18.

The making of fancy lines of cheese

will have a place in this course.





have a course in cheese-making given I





Menominee city is also to have a

new creamery, says the Herald-Leader.

A truck line will collect cream from

the farmers, both on the Michigan and

the \Visconsin side of the Menominee

river, and the product will be an ad-

vantage in shipping by boat.





WILL BOOST LEGUME CROPS.





 





EALIZING that successful and



profitable crop productions de-

pends upon the adoption of a system-

atic plan of crop rotation, and a sci-‘

entific program of soil feeding, the

Board of Directors of the Cheboygan

County Farm Bureau have decided to

conduct an extensive legume campaign

in the county during the coming year,

in an effort to increase the acreage

of clover and alfalfa. Clover is the

key of the successful crop rotation,

and it is the seeret of success in dairy-

ing and livestock raising.





 





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Members will be encouraged and as-5

sisted in every Way possible. 10 in-‘5

crease the acreage of leguminous crops 5

grown on their farms. Particular at“;

tention will be given to efforts to en-4

courage the farmers to sow moreL

sweet clover and alfalfa. Either sweet“

clover or alfalfa can be grown success-'5

fully on almost any farm in Cheboy-5

gan county, provided the soil is care-E

fully and properly prepared, and highI

grade, adapted seed is sown.



Many of our farms may require an

application of lime before either sweet

clover or alfalfa can be grown success-

fully. Anticipating that need, the

County Farm Bureau is perfecting ar-

rangements so as to be able to fur-

nish pulverized limestone in car lots,

at cost, and on short notice, to any

member or group of members who

Want it.—L. E. B.





 





MARKET VALUE OF SILAGE.





 





I have silage that is half corn and

half sunflower. I wish to sell some.

What would it be worth a ton?——B. R.





It is a common practice to figure.

the market value of silage at one-third

of the market price of mixed hay on

the farm. In other words, if mixedi

hay is worth $12 on the farm, silage

will be worth $4 per ton. I would not

say that there would be any difference

between the value of sunflower or corn

silage—W.





 





KEEPING‘THE BOY AT HOME.





 





THE most remarkable pig club litter



of 1921 was probably the Poland-

China litter fed and shown by Shelby

M. Divan, Browntown, Wis. The litter

was exhibited at four fairs, including

the National Swine Show. The total

winnings of the litter at the four shows

was $104.50 and a gold watch. Shelby





is as enthusiastic a hog man as his .





 





 





 





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If you aTe using a worn-out,

inferior c r e a n1 separator, or

skimming cream by hand, you

are surely wasting enough cream

to pay for a De Laval in a short

time.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





The selection of a cream sepa-

rator is more important than

that of any other machine on the

farm, for none other can either

save or waste so much, twice a

day, 365 days a year.



A De Laval Separator will:



——Skim cleaner for many more

years than anyother;





——Skim milk clean at lower

temperature than any other sep- .

arator; 'f'



——Deliver a higher testing

cream, which is more acceptable

to the creamery, and easier and

less costly to ship,





 





 





—And deliver a cream which

will make better butter.





Mechanically a De Laval Sep-

arator is the best that fine ma-

terials and skilled workmanship





can make.

—It lasts longer than any

other separator, many giving





 





good service for 15 to 20 years.

——It is easier to turn.





 





—-—It is easier to clean.





—It is so simple that one tool 5

will set it up or take it down.





—It has the most perfect lubri-

cating system.





Do not be deceived by separa-

tors which are claimed to be

“just as good and cost less.”

When you consider its greater

savings, a greater reliability,

longer life, the extra. time it~

saves, and the gleater satistac-

tion it gives, the De Laval is in

the end, by far the most econom‘

ical cream separator made.





Even if you have only two

cows it will pay you to have a

De Laval. One can be bought

on such easy terms that it will

pay for itself in less than a year.

Why not see your De Laval

agent at once or write us for

full information?





 





   

   





The De Laval Separator Co..





   

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 





New York Chicago

165 Broadway 29 E. Madison St.

Soul Francisco





61 Bed. st.





   





Sooneror later-you will use?
streams Muscular .





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication





 





 





 





 





Aberdeen

Angus





 





 





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AGHIEVEMENT





The reward of pure breeding; the accomplish‘

ment of quality. Success has again contri-

buted more laurels to the already remarkable

record of





Imp. Edgar of Dalmeny





The Sire Supreme





At the International Live Stock Exposition,

where gathers each year the elite of North

American Cattledom to compete for the cove-

tous awards, five more honors have beenbe-

stowed upon the “get” of Edgar of Dalmeny.

You too may share these honors. A bull by this

world famous sire will prove a most valuable

asset to your herd.



Write us today-





WILDWOOD FARMS





ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. scmees, Prop. Sidney SmIiIi, Supt.





 





 





 





 





REGISTERED Aberde en-Angua. Ten heifers, six





bulls from eight to fourteen months. Best of

breeding. the growthy kin d that make good. Reason.

able. Inquire F. J. WILBEIC, Clio, Mil'h





 





REGISTERED GUERNSEYS





We oil‘or 4 head of our cows for sale. We are not

particular which ones, "take your choice". We will

not sell these by mail. Come and‘see them.



J. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams, Mich.





GUERNSEYS {Anccredited Herd. 47mins sold





lust month. Bull calves

under4months old. Grandsons of ex-worlds cham-





 





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

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

~REGISTERED





GUERNSEY S BULL CALVES





Containing blood of we rld champions.

HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM. Saginaw. W.S. MiCh.





Guernsey Calves, bull and heifer not related. also

_yeurling heifer. » Ancestors include most noted

animals of the breed. G.A.Wigent.Watervliet. Mich.





Guernsey Yearling Bull, 3,035?“ ‘5, 00.

M. HOMPE, R. 5. Grand fiapids. lilich.





Registered Holsteins





It was through the daughters of

Flint Maplecrest 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 in Calf Herd, also first in get of

sire, in a class of 13.

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

dividuality and production of your herd.

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

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

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

1168 lbs of butter in one year.

Ask us about a real bull.a Maplecrest oran Ormsby





JOHN H. WINN, Inc., Rochester, Mich.





Model King Segis Glista’s





F irst Daughters Just Off Test

ANNIE SEGIS CORNUCOPIA GLISTA, senior two



our old. Butter 7 days, .814



RINCESS PONTIAC SEGIS GLISTA, senior two

year old. Butter seven days. .919

SPENCER PANSY SEGIS GLIBTA, twenty-four

months. Butter seven days .

DUOHESS CREAM ELLI SEGIS GLISTA at twenty-

seven months. Butter seven days 4.1

BEAUTY PIETERTJE SEGIS GLISTA, at Twenty-

eight months. Butter seven days



GRAND RIVER STOCK FARMS,

Corey J. :b‘pencer, Owner

111 E. Main Street. Jackson, Michigan.

Herd Under State and Federal Supervision





fel low, best

50.





 





 





- ' offers Holstein-Friesian bulls ready

WISGOgIH Farm for light service. From sire whosefi

nearest dams average 33-34 lbs. butter for '7 days. A.R.

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

Federal Supervision. Oscar Wallin. Unionville.Mlch.





HERE IS A GOOD ONE





BORN JUNE 2nd 1920 by MAPLECREST DE KOL

HENGERVELD whose three sisters have each ro-

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

former WORLDS CHAMPIONS. Calf's dam by an

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



F. B. , Kalamazoo, Mich.





The Traverse Herd





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

fine growthy type, guaranteed right in every way.

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

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

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Trave'se City, Mich.





 





 





“Top Notch” Holsteins

0h . .



inWe have a few more desirable bulls read



service, sired b a3). lb. grandson of the 40 lb.



old former worl ‘s champion. Mabel Segis Korndri'ke



ant oltl high milk andgbutter producing cows. P cod





Howell, Mich.





fer





a





McPherson Farms Co..

' an 800 lb. daughter).

Horde under U. B. Supervision.

ace ted in a ment of finely bred -

‘ “00‘ "Cl. incl-lid Holgtayin bull calves. uaIITt'y





oi' the belt. and at rice: within reach ot.all. rite

GEO. n. CLARKE.” - - . . Vassar. Mich'





 





 





 





HOLSTE'N and Guernsey calves,"'l weeks

ted 1 hi t S toildf. 3:;32nds purgeflfi. each



ore men. a sac ongnarane .

' cra EDG‘EWOOD FARMS. Whitewater, Wis.

' ' ° - b 1] l-

HOISteln-FrIeSIan vpgsfetiil’hggculi: tesctzd

herd. Prices are right. Larro search Farm,





Box A. North End, Detroit. Mich





 





daughter of Pontiac Korndyke..Prlced





5 yr 01d 80“. of Smithdale Alcartra Pontiac from

low FEKNWOOD l"ARM. Evan. Mich,





 





en reg, Holstein heifers. some fresh, others fresh

soon. All tuberculin tested and guar. . ever

way. Price $100 to $150 each. B. B.Reavey. Akron. Mic





.Beef Producers!





Michigan Produces

”:3 The World’s Best Beef

' At TheLowest Cost.





Raise far better feeding cattle than you can buy.

Grow Baby Beef when gains cost least in feed and





 





 





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bruises and loss.

SOTHAM’S EARLIRIPE BEEF CONTRACT





Solves your problem—insures your success. A fair



intelligent. satisfying system evolved from 87 years



conscientious service to American Cattle Industr b



three generations of Sothams. GET THE FACTS):

to now, or wire, Address





T. F. B. SOTHAM & SON,

(Cattle Business Established 1835)

Phone 250 Saint Clair, Michigan





Herefords





Repeaters, Beau Donalds. Fairfaxes. and Farmers

represented in our herd. Repeater 173rd, a son of

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

ages for sale.





ALLEN BROS.,





(Farm at Paw Paw, Mich.)

Office _616 So. West St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

8 females 851d 1 bull.





Herefords For Sale ,7, “we,

RALPH. OALHOON,





 





 





Bronson, Mich.





complete Dispersal





at Private Sale





Five Reg. Jersey Cows, exceptional

producers, three reg. heifers over one

year; and three reg. heifers under one





 





year. Federal acc. herd. Prices rea-

sonable. Also good team of Heavy

Horses.





CHAS. H. WALKER,





”60 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.





Jersey Thoroughbreds





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

anteed. Tuberculin tested twice a year. If on have

no money will take bankable note. E. W. asvary,

509 Free Press Building, Detroit. Mich.. Main 1267.





Lillie Fannstead Jerseys guy, “Ivgggom

COLON O. LILLI E. Coopersville, Mich.





BUTTER BRED JE$%Ԥ?sAE%LLB

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





ready for service-





I

For Sale Jersey Bulls Weigh, (Mora

Lad, Majesty breeding. WATERMAN & WATER-

MAN, Packard Rd., Ann Arbor, Mich.





 





' of accredited herd of Milk-

DlsPersal Sale in Shorthorns, on March

let. Davidson & Ha I, Tecumseh, Michigan





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

Now ofi'ering:—-Three bulls ready for service. Masto-

don. Olansman, Emancipator blood in gilts bred for





spring furrow. See them.

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





Southern Michigan Polled



Shorthorn Breeders Ass’n.

are ofiering for sale



A Few Select Young Bulls and Heifers.



We sell worth the money. Write your wants.



0. E. NASH. Sec. GEO. E. BURDIOK, Pres.





County A riculturist an

Branc Count Mgr. Branch 00. Farm'

Goldwater, Mich.





' L summons





BIDWE m... 3......





that will put weight on your dairy calves —the din-

erence will soon new for the bull. Now selling ood

Scotch and Sootc -t0pped year-lines,reasonablyilp'rlz .

We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. ederal

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





 





 





 





 





 





 





:30“ buys six grade Holstein Heifers two will soon

freshen other four one year old; and one reg.

istered bull read for service; we also have some fine

oung bulls sire .by a 29 lb. grandson of the .000

gull old enough for light service at 875 each; also

00w: and heifers. at rig t rice. The Home of Michi-

’ n's Best Bull. The ong Lane Stock Farm.

‘ . A. ROHLFS, Akron. Mich.





Mme... “eagerness





 





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





The Maple’s Shorthorns





Kirk Lem Lad by. ‘irnported Hartforth





 





Bull advertised last week bong-ht by a good breeder .

o





YOBI‘ .





(Breeders of the only 800 lb. 7 day cow to produce





labor. Avoid costly rail hauls with their shrink. _





 





LAND OVRG’ANIZE.





 





HORTHORN Breeders. of Midland



County have organized the Midland

Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, and

one of their first resolutions adopted

was in favor of eradication of bovine

tuberculosis as a. county proposition.

The following officers were elected: W.

E. Cummings, president; J. W. John-

son, vice-president; F. L. Sonley, secre-

tary~treasurer, and I. S. Callison, Verne

Barden and Charles Hollingsworth, di-

rectors—M. , I





 





GRATIOT COUNTY GETS NEW

FARM BUREAU AGENT.





PERTH PRESSLEY, of Lansing, has





been secured by the farm bureau to

act as agricultural agent for Gratiot





the resignation of C. Cook. The new

agent is a son of the late supervisor

of‘ the Gratiot County Poor Farm. For

several months the farm bureau oflice

and business has been in charge of R.

C. Munson, secretary-treasurer of the

bureau,—-M.





 





MERRILL CO-OP. HAS GOOD YEAR.





JANUARY brought $7,000 worth of

business .to the Merrill Cooperative

shipping Association, according to re-

ports made last week at a meeting

of members of the association .Hand-

ling charges and management ex-

penses were less than 4 per cent of

the gross amount of business, the of-

ficials reported.



During the past year the association

shipped 70,000 pounds of livestock,

3,000 pounds of butter fat, and 5,200

pounds of poultry.’ Directors of the

association and Arthur G. Bovay, farm

bureau agriculturist, met a few days

ago to outline a campaign to encour-.

age more farm bureau members to

ship their products through the asso-

ciation.



The opportunity of Marion township

farmers to make use of the Merrill

Cooperative Association, was outlined

by Tom C. Price and Mr. Bovay at a

meeting held in Marion at the farm

bureau local headquarters—M.





 





AMONG MICHIGAN’S LIVE STOCK

BREEDERS. ’





 





The pure-bred hog business is receiv-

ing a big boost through the compara-

tively high prices which are now com-

manding at slaughter houses. Cheap

corn and a scarcity of swinemakes the

business look good and those Who have

breeding stock with type and quality

are finding many prospective buyers.

Especially are bred sows in good de-

mand.



The dairy herds of Elisha- Bailey,

Cleon Bailey and H. W. Marshall, Jr.,

of Pittsford, are now headed by Sir

Ormsby Wisconsin Barostine, No. 206-

687. He won second at the National

,Dairy Show last year and weighs 2,300

pounds. The dam of his sire is Dutch-

ess Shylark Ormsby, a. world’s record

cow for all ages in butter—fat pro-

duction. '



A'direct son of the world’s cham-

pion Duroc boar, Great Orion Sensa-

tion, has just been purchased to head

the herd of V. Lidgard, of Hesperla.





SAGINAWCOUNTY FARMERS WIN

36 PREMIUMS.





AGINAW County carried away the

1922 sweepstakes banner for .the

greatest number of exhibits at the im-

proved grain show in connection with

the state farm congress at East Lan-

sing, and to a Saginaw county farmer,

Frederick J. Kueffner, went state hon~

ors for the best ten-ear exhibit of corn

at the show. SeVen other Saginaw

county farmers won prizes, including

first premium in various classes. Each

of the eight winners lives in a different

township, indicating that good farming

in Saginaw county is not confined to

one‘ localty.



The Saginaw county winners were:

Frederick J. Kuefiner, Frankenmuth,

10 cars Silver King corn, one peck

white pea beans, 100 ears white dent

corn, one peck pea beans, one sheaf

rye; David A. Geddes, Thomas town-

ship; Douglas Vi Bow, Kechville town-

ship; A. W. Johnson, Swan Creek

township; Charles Schnetzler. Bridge-

port township; J. W. ,eitengruber,





 

 





 

 





 

 

 





 





 





SHORTHORN anaems oi’ms.





County, to fill the vacancy caused by'





 

 





 





.rnmusmxtmmcl

[Easy Home Treatment Keeps ‘

Cows Healthy and Profitable





Cows are pretty hardy animalsq'

Practically the only diseases they suf~

for from are those which result from.

weakened vitality of genital or diges-

tive organs. These, ' of. course are

serious because they immediately re-

duce the milk-flow—and milk in

money. We get scores or letters week-

ly like this one from W. H. Lawson,

Eetrolia, Ont., a. dealer who sells Kow-



are:-





"We handle a lot of 'eow tonica’, ‘reg-

ulators’, etc.. but when it is up to us to

sell. something we can guarantee. we sell

Row-Kare. Only last month, we covet;

.a valuable Registered Durham cow valued

at $250 with Kow-Kare. The cow retained.

the atterbirth and after ten days’ doctor-

ing the veterinary said to kill the cow.



e owner happened in when e were

recommending your Row-Kare, an told us

his trouble. _- We donated a box of your

Kow-Kare and he came back in five days

for another box and paid for both."





As a. sample of the endorsementd

We get from cow OWners themselves.

read this letter from C. E. Dodge, Qa-

wittville, N. Y.:





"Since I have been on the County Farm.



have been using Kow-Kare in the dairy

for the last ten years. I have 52 cows.

My experience is that a few dollars worth

.of Kow-Kare'saves us a great many dollars

worth of veterinary bills. and also every

cow in the dairy that I feed it to produced

more all the year thru because of the Kow-

Kare. I have no sick cows or trouble,

when I begin feeding Row-Kare. from

the first of January until I turn than

out in the Spring."





You. too, can be free of such cow ailmenti

as Barrenness, Abortion, Retained After-

birth,.Scouring, Bunches, Milk Fever, Loss of

Appetite, etc., by using this reliable cow

medicine. General store. feed dealers and

druggists sell it at the new reduced prices-u

65c and 81.25.





DAIRY ASSOCIATION 00.. INC"

Lyndonvlllc. .Vt.



Write today '

for this valua-

ble book on

disease; pg K

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BOOK





Binder Twine





 





 





HIS mark on binder twine means

that it is the genuine Rakco Brand

—twine properly made of the finest

quality Yucatan sisal. (Standard and

White sisal.) Rakco Binder Twine is

evenly spun; averages 500 feet to the

pound; with average breaking strain

of 80 pounds.



Packed in useful new burlap bags;

tied with new half inch sisal halterrope.

Manufactured by the makers of the

famous Rakco brand rope. Sold by most

good dealers. If yours does not handle

write to us.





THE R. A. KELLY 00., Xenia, Ohio

406 Magazine St., New Orleans. LI. 4





 





 





 





 





\ ‘No Time Lost With

SAVE-THE-HORSE





ALAMI HORSE means mono lost in late crops and





smaller yield. Thousands of armors depend entirely

on SAVt-THl-HORII to cure and Erevqit Ringbone

Thoropin. IPAVIN. and Shoulder nee, Auk H

and Pandora disease. Th? take no risk whatever. Si

oat-antes assures noel vs can while horse is was

—or money back. '





 





 





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rstandand treat! chess

ts housing y: it's $12th I ‘3" ’ i “83

or it and 'y of Guarantee— mmfl“



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Welfarelnservice Bullaaudhsjfersf sale.





 





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if Put Your Automo-





bile. To Work.





Buy PORTA POWER or POWER MAKER. on

EASY TERMS if you like. and make money with

your car. With these time tested implements at-

tached to your car you can have an abundance

of good steady power to operate your belted ma-

chinery. They not only pay for themselves

quickly but more than earn the operating and





‘ upkeep expense of your car. N o farmer car owner





can afford to be without this cheap and reliable

power. They put the idle motor in your car to





‘ ‘ work. make it earn a good return on your invest.





ment and give you satisfactory belt power wher-

ever and Whenever you want it. Fully guaran-

teed. Write today for descriptive folder, low cash





' price or easy monthly payment plan.





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VAN DOLSEN MFG. CO.,

Department-24B, Shelbyville, Indiana





 





 





CATTLE





 





Bulls Registered Holstein Bulls





old enou h for service. for sale. Bred fl‘om Pontiac

and Se lg dams and sired by a 26 lb. Gdson of Maple-

crest ornd ke Hen erveld. priced to move them

will also selly a few eifers soontofreshen. Herd





I d t to en ervision.

under femillhl‘lilllYeszO LFS. R. l, Akron. Mich





Richland Shorthorns





Now offering a choice lot of bull calves.

Best of breeding. $150 to $250 will buy

a real bull at present time. Write for

particulars. ’





C. W. Prescott & Sons,





Tawas City, Mich.





 





Claradale Milking Shorthorns





We invite the discriminating breeder: and farmer.who

Is in need of a real bull. that Will transmit the com-

bine qualities. beef. milk. high in butter fat. type,

character. beauty. We do state official milk testing.

Come and see us or write for circulars and reasonable

prices. F.W.Johnson, Custer. Mich.. Mason 00. B0126





Central Mich. Shorthom Breeders’ Assn.





offer for sale both milk and beef breeding. all ages

Write NI. E. MILLER. Sec'y. Greenville. Mich.





 





Shorthorns of best Bates breeding.

bulls, “ltwsflanlg heifers for en e.





Milking





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

Shail Sultan Strain and a few young heifers. Priced

J. A. “'ilk & Son. Alma, Mich.





URTZ, Mason. Mich





 





very reasonable.





 





 





HOGS





BERKSHIRES





Special prices for registered Berkshire breeding stock:

10 Mature Bred Sows 875.00 ..

10 Fall Yearlings. Bred 50.00



Best type with size and uality. Satisfaction abso-



lutely guaranteed. Writeooor information.





242cm First National Blink Building,

Detroit, Michigan





Biookwater Duroc Jerseys





Gilts for May and early June (arrow.



Ready for service are.



Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices are reasonable.

Mail orders a specialty.





BIIOOKVMTEII FAIIII,





ll. W. Mumford, Owner 1. B. Andrews, Manager.

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN





 





 





 





Woodlawn Farm Duroc Hogs

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

breeding qualities, stock of all ages for sale at rea

sonable prices. W. E. BARTL Y, Alma, Mich.





Duroc ' Jersey Swine





Breeding stock for sale at all times at reasonable

prices. If in need of a high class bear, or sow

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

Blood line and we guarantee 1you satisfaction.

Herd boars, Panama Special 1th and Home

Farm Wonder. Booking order for fall pigs at $15





each

Thos. Underhlll a Son, Salem, Mlch.





 

 

   





gag: Agsoaated Guaranteed

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4mm Ana-d ami- mm '1 ~

curse 5.7.... nnrri's lot 2703 m

' 840 to $50. Service boars

Duroc Bred Sows 325 to$35 and fa“ pigs

and 8'20. We register in your name and guarantee

satisfaction. We have one of the largest. and best





herds in the state. Write for s ecial sale folder.

Mlohigana Farm. Kalamazoo ounty. Pavilion, Mich.





DUROO JERSEYS





Bred gilts at 540-345-550 each. Also some good fall

pigs. ' RUSH BROS" Romeo. Mich.





 





Jerseys A few extra good fallbo . d

Bugfc a chfriceb‘lotdolfl spriizg boars of ?heérie:r;y

ne ype popu ar 00 has a reaso b l .

DRODT a ensue. Maitrcfifihifii.





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Veterinary





 





 





 





Advice through this column is given free to our subscriir

ere. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

each case and give. name and address of the writr r. Initials

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

service becomes private practice and SI must be enclosed.





..





Paralysis—Brood sow 12 months





old, lost control of hind quarters, at.





time I weaned her 5-week old pigs.

W. S., Hemlock, Mich. Feed less corn,

more oats, oil meal, clover and roots.

Apply mustard and water to back ev-

ery 3 days.



Fits.——Pig weighing 150 pounds has

been thrifty up to few days ago, now

when it commences to eat or drink it

takes a fit. F. S., Michigan—Give pig

3 ounces of caster oil—one dose only.

Warm and liquify the feed and spread

it out thin, this will prevent choking.



Preventing Sore Necks.——H0W can I

prevent sore necks in horses? Will

rubbing on medicine now prevent the

necks getting sore next summer? W.

T., Lincoln, Mich—Only one way to

prevent sore necks, the collar must

fit; furthermore, it must be kept clean





 





and free from germs. The skin of a

healthy horse should be normal; if so

leave it alone.



Secure—Have four calves that have

the scours and I thought my feeding

the cows beet pulp was perhaps the

cause of them scouring. M. E. H.,

Hope, Mich—No, feeding beet pulp is

not the cause. Bacterial navel infec-

tion is perhaps the cause. Give each

calf five grains of salol three times a

day. Clean and disinfect calf stable.



Sick Dog.—I have a collie bitch 16

months old that had some discharge of

mucus from eyes. I applied boric acid

lotion, but lately she seems to be wab-

bly in hind quarters. L. J. M., Evai't,

Mich—Perhaps she has had an attack

of Canine Distemper. Give her two

drops of fluid extract of nux vomica

at dose 3 times a day and keep her

warm. Feed her what she craves.



Eczema.——One month ago I bought

a five-year—old Jersey cow, due to fresh-

en April 30. When let out of stable

she immediately commences to lick

herself and in spots made skin sore.

Give me remedy. Coal-tar disinfectants

fail to cure her. A. S. H.. Dryden, Mich.

—Apply one part of chinosol and 250

parts of water to itchy parts twice a

day. Keep skin clean.





speed record of 2.20, with hard bunch

on fore shin which I have failed to rub

off. It is causing no lameness, but, of

course, is a blemish. O. P., Buchanan,

Mich—Powerful drugs which will die

solve a splint are almost certain to

leave a scar; however, as the animal

grows older the splint Will perhaps

gradually reduce in size. You will

seldom find a splint on a very old

horse. I advise you to leave it alone.

Treating a case of this kind with

strong blisters might cause lameness.



Unthrifty MareL—My mare has rav-

enous appetite, always hungry, but

does not gain in flesh and she is usu-

ally in heat. Had I better breed her?

I have three head of horses, seven

head of cattle all in row, not fenced

off. Would the odor of cow manure

affect the horses. R. S., Pinconning,

Mich—The cow manure should have

little effect in keeping your mare thin.

Have her grinder teeth floated. Change

her feed, feed some clover, alfalfa

and roots.



Segregate the Diseased from Well

Cows—However, if they have been to-

gether it will not help much to sep‘

arate them now. Dissolve a cake of

yeast in one quart of tepid Water,

leave it in warm room for two or three

hours, strain, and flush vagina two or

three hours before cow is served; be-

fore doing so flush with tepid water.

It is good practice to apply this yeast

remedy daily for afew days before the

cow comes in heat. Why don’t you

have your veterinarian give injections

of Bouvine Abortion Serovaccine (liv-

ing culture) then breed your cows.



Stringhalt.—We have a horse eleven

years old that holds up hind foot part

of the time; comes out of stable quite

lame but soon. shows less lameness

and travels fairly sound. Has not had

shoes on for twelve months; had op-

posite hip “knocked down” but this

never bothered him. J. R., Charlevoix,

Mich—In some cases stringhalt is

purely a functional nervous disease

like chorea. Another form dependent

on retraction of a ligament can be cur:

ed by peroneal tenotomy and aponeur-

otomy; which is not a difficult or dan-





Splint.-——I have a pacing mare with '





lone

III II 68.





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promptly recording his 0. I. O

retext whatsoever.

0 large. strong. healthy and vigorous; matures

ere. good mot are. good disposition.

represented throughout the world.

results and giving greatest satisfaction.





igs.





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for a trial subscr fition of the . I.

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11 r ulls of all ages. From the herd





meet all trains.





DEISPRSION SALE





‘ of Milking Shorthorns 4

at Tecumseh, Michigan, March 21, at l. P. M.





Now is the time to buy pure breds.





33 head, 29 cows and heifers,

of Davidson and Hall. Tubercu-





lin tested, and largely Clay bred. Sale, 2 miles east Tecumseh. Will

Auctioneer, Andy Adams.





Write for Catalogues to CLAIRE BELAND, Administrator.





 





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Spring pigs by Walt’a

Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackaon,C-c'l. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mic'h.





Herd headed by Great King Orion Col. assis-

ted by a good son of King Orion Fancy Jr

HARRY FOWLER. Sturgis, Mich.





AM SELLING





a great offering of bred Duroc sows and gilts March

4th. They are mostly bred to Orion Giant 00].. son

of Ohio Grand Champion. et on mailing list for

catalog. W. C. TAYLOR, Milan. Mich.





Westview Duroc Bred Sows





alll sold. Have two spring boars left at a reasonable

price. Will book orders for A ril & May igs.

ALBERT EBERSO E, Plymouth. Mich





DUROC—JERSEYS



Sows all sold. E. D. Heydenberk. Wayland. Mich.

D J ’ . f ‘ .



$12 for a Miss. drills“;.afélivfiafmf‘wgfé’r





breeding. Registeration papers free. Ex ress charges

paid. D. . SUTHERLAND. Gd. edge. Mich.





 





Durocs





 





 





 





 





 





heavy boned. low down type

breeding stock for sale.

AS. BRAY. Okemos. Mich.





so in CHESTER WHI_TE_S





The prize winner kind from the best prize winner

bloodlines. Early developers, ready for market at

six months old. I have started more breeders on the

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

one hog in each community to advertise my herd,

Write for agency and my plan.

G. S. BENJAMIN. R. E. D. 10. Portland. Mich.

We are all sold out of





CH ESTERS Boar, Bred Sows and Gilts.





For spring igs write WEBER BROS. B IO k.

Mich.. 10 Milg and Ridge Rd., Phone 408. eye 8.





Chester Whites,





faction guaranteed.

Bred gilts for April far.





Chester Whites row 250 lbs., 0. o. d. 845.

ALBERT DORR. Clinton, Mich





O. I. C. HOGS





all ages sired b Gallaway Edd. 1918 world's grand

champ. bodr and . C. Sclioolmaster 1919 world's grand

champion. also Wonder Big Type and Giant Buster.

Write your wants all stock shi ped on an royal.

CRANDELL'S PRIZE H0 3. Case .ity. Mich.





Duroc Jerseys

CH





 





 





 





bred gilts and fail pigs of excel-

lentvauality and breeding. Satis-

F. . Alexander. Vassar. Mich.





 





 





I. C dr Chester White Swine. Strictly Big Type

' With quality. Service boars, and gilts bred for

Mar. and early Afpril farrow. are all sold. Some good

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

row. All of prize Winning blood lin’es. Have one good

tried yearling sow that I 'will sell.

Newman 8 Stock Farm, R. 4, Marlette. Mich.





O. I. C. BRED GILTS





shl . . .

J. CARL JEWETT. ”ed 0 0 D





(LLB





Mason. Mich.





Spring boars and gilts no akin. We breed d

- own the Grand Champion Boar at West Ml‘clh.





 





State Fair. We ship 0. O. D. and Re . .

GEO. M. WELTON it SON? reAellm. Mich.

9 choice ilts bred f M h

0' I’ C s‘ and Agra“ fan-ow. or arc

A. J. BARKER & 0N. Belmont. Mich.





 





all sold 1: ‘ . -

dors bmkgficggr stwo tall boars 0r

. J. THOMPSON,





O. I. C’s

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O. I. C’s

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Choice Au . ndSe .

bookin 0 or: for 931.21 nopoi’n gllts also





vna L r FARM, onroe. Mich.





 





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serous operation. Perhaps you had





 





 





 





 

 





 

 

 





 





rl .

p 'iisogiiiard. Mich.’





»' 'o.r.opi.. /

,le'wnfiinsasisrémssts .,





O. I. C. Gilts. [red 1’ RI; ‘l

‘ For sale' April farrow (sit a r or In I and

H. W. MA





casmiablu price.)

N, Daimrille. Mich.





Large Type P. C.





l

l'.argest herd of indivduais lll state. E . . ‘

Nothing to ofler until spring pi vs arc‘ deezfd;hl:gg:§ild'

I thank you. W.E.LIVING TON, Paima,Mic I





' Poland China. Fall be. . ' 9‘

Blg Type soon read for service. dlidtb‘yfii’aagg

man Buster and Hover'e iant and out of such sowsas

Gortsdale Queen 2d. She is a daughter of Gertsdale

Fimm. and Bob’s Pros cct 3rd is out of Leonard's Bi

Bob. DOIiUS HOV ‘lt, Akron. Mich. g

Bows. Granddaughters of the great. G"

3V2 bred to agranflsrzin of the Yankee. the 335133533

ere. can you in any letter Bi ’1', l '

Our prices are very lots. so . 840. Also vgoe til-ceding?





. r .

Why not buy a pig? N . C. BUTLER. Pirtlglfg,





Mich. Boll Phone.



EONARD'S Big Type P. C. Herd he (1 d J .

Lards Liberator 458.2385. the tallest. longest athli {1:21:-

iest boned pig for his age in Mich, Call or write

stock in season. Fall pigs at Bargain Prices. ’



E. R. .EONAHD. St. Louis, Mich.





ig Type P. 0. some " very choice bows d .

mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammo‘th sgwlglgridlh

Iowa is greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson. Burr 0ak.Mich,





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





We have a fine lot of fall pi s sired b



Black Price and Right KindgClan. shrill?

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

Louis. Mich. '





large Type Poland thinas





Spring boars all sold. Fall

Bred gilts held for l

A. A. FELD





pigs at bargain prices.





ublic sa 8.

AM P, R. Manchester. Mich.





L. T. P. C.





Gilts bred Mo. Bob.. 2 sons of Clan: '

Defender 2nd and High J 06, tracifinngalilgclrmtagfz’lhlldg

Price. H. 0. S“ AR’l‘Z. Schoolcraft, Mich.





:HAMPSHIRES an solg W. ..





JOHN w. SNYDER. R. 4. $3321.... Mich.





BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS





Bred gilts for sale. Choice individuals of ’ .

ing at prices within your reach. Come sgglthlhigegr

write. WESLEY HILE, .6, Ionia. Mich.





L- T. P. L: Gills bred to that





' Boar that t. .- "

long. and walks on a ll" bone. a 1nd; 40





r)





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'Yearling

. high. is 76’

Offering summer and





 





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

‘ Sixteen years breedin

Paland Climax I can please you in a bgdrgiiltShowmg'





ROBERT MARTIN, R. 3. Woodland. Mich.

ig Ty e P. C. Sows bred to Bi Bol M ’

Bgilts fired to a son of Peter Pang. that soldthifglll g

C. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids, Mich.





cash Jan. 5.

I. I P 0 Orange Model gilts. bred for March and

- I. - I April farrow. Come and see them. the will

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

BIG TYPE Poland ChinasJeading strains

at lowest prices. Both sex. all





ages. and bred sows and gilts.

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





SHEEP





A Real Bargain at

Kope Kon Farms





We offer. 40 big healthy yearling Shropshire and

Hampshire Rams all registered at $25.00 each

Come or write while the picking is good.



S. I... WING, Goldwater, Mich.





Ten Aged Registered Delaine owes and ten





ewe lambs for sale. .

CALHOON B ROS... .Bronson. Mich





Muwmwmm w
Monday, March 13.





Wheat.

Detroit.———Cash No. 2 red $1.37; No.





2 mixed and No. 2 white $1.34; May"





$1.42.

Chicago—No. 2 red $1.32;

hard $1.33; May $13214.

Toledo.—-Cash at $1.41@1.43;

$1.41.





No. 2

May





Corn

Detroit—Cash No. 2 65c; No. 3 yel-

low 631/2c.

Chicago—No. 2 mixed 57%@580;

No. 2 yellow 571/2c.

Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 42c; No.

3 yellow 400. .

Chicago—No. 2 white 38@390; No.

3 white 361/2@39c. _

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate

shipment $6.50 per cwt.

Chicago.——Choice to fancy hand-

picked Michigan beans at $6.55@6.75;

red kidney beans $8.

New York—Choice pea $6.75@6.85;

red kidney beans $8.25.





and prompt





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 3, $1.04.

Chicago—$1.02.

Toledo—$1.02.





Seeds.





Detroit—Prime red clover, cash at

$16; alsike $12.60; timothy $3.35.



Toledo—Prime red clover $16.15; al-

sike $11.75; timothy $3.15.



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 cat straw $12.50@13 per

ton in carlots.



Feeds.





Detroit.——Bran $33; standard 'mid—

dlings $34; fine middlings $34; crack-

ed corn $30; coarse cornmeal at $28;

chop $25 per ton in 100-lb. sacks.





WHEAT





Farm stocks of wheat of 131,136,000

bushels added to the commercial visi-

ble supply amount to only 172,414,000

bushels compared with a ten-year aver-

age of 209,478,000 bushels. About 100,-

000,000 bushels more wheat have dis-

appeared into domestic and export

channels since July 1 than the ten-

year average for that period. The

quantity of wheat remaining on farms

and in the visible supply for use in the

next four months is less than the quan-

tity which disappeared from those

sources in the corresponding period of

1921 and is only 14,000,000 bushels

more than the ten-year average disap-

pearance, thus forecasting a very small

carryover at the end of the crop year.

Country mill and elevator holdings,

not included in the foregoing, were

only 72,564,000 bushels on March 1 as

compared with an average of 92,445.-

000 bushels during the preceding five

years. This makes the situation still

tighter, judged by the records of the





past .

CORN





Oflicial estimates on farm holdings

of wheat and cats on March 1 were

slightly more than expected but stocks

of corn were materially less than those

indicated by private estimates. An

analysis of the figures shows that the.

disappearance of corn In the last four

months has been the largest on record

and exceeded the average by over 200,-

000,000 bushels. With low prices there



rhas been some wasteful feeding, no

doubt, but the rapid disappearance of

corn in the last four months suggests

that the crop may have been overesti-

mated by 100,000,000 bushels or more.

Farm stocks are still the largest On

record with the exception of last year

when they were 251,000,000 bushels

greater than this year, but if corn dis-

appearsas rapidly in the next eight

months as it did in the same period of

1921, all of the big surpluses which

depressed the market last fall will have

faded away so that only a normal

quantity will be left to carry into next





year.

‘ OATS





- Farm reserves of oats were 404,000,-

000 bushels compared with a ten-year

average of 497,000,000 bushels, but the

visible supply is of record size so that

the total supplyrfor the rest of the

re . year. is onlyabout 4.5.000 000212111:





 





   





 





els less than the average. Although

the quantity of oats available until

August 1 is nearly 50,000,000 bushels

less than the disappearance in that e-

riod last-year, it is 54,000,000 bushels

more than the ten-year average, prom-

ising‘a fair carryover at the end of





the season.

SEEDS .





Receipts of clover and grass seed

are running light and shipments from

distributing centers are large so that

prices are holding well. At Toledo,

receipts of red clover for the season

to date have been 31,999 bags compar-

ed with a four-year average of 28,050

bags. Shipments have amounted to

24,014 bags compared with a four—year

average of 30,477. Receipts of timothy

at Toledo have been 22,302 bagscom-

pared with a four—year average of 46,-

897. Shipments have been 8,496 bags

compared with a four-year average of





24,471. .

FEEDS





Demand for most feedstuffs is quiet

particularly at eastern points. The

prosperous hog market, however, is

maintaining a good outlet for mid-

dlings and tankage. Supplies are am-

ple with the exception of linseed meal.

Corn industries are operating nearly

at capacity. Flour mills have increas-

ed operations recently and are offering

wheat feeds at slightly lower prices.





BEANS «





The bean market had a slight set-

back early last week but the appear-

ance of export orders seems .to be the

signal for an effort on the part of the

wholesalers to increase their supplies

and the market advanced rapidly

again to a new top‘of $6.60 per 100

pounds sacked for choice hand-picked

white beans f. o. b. Michigan shipping

points. Growers are receiving $6 for

beans in the dirt. Stocks in the hands





 





of wholesalers, elevator men . and

farmers are light and there is no pros-

pect of a material change in the situa-





tion.

HAY .





Receipts of hay at distributing mar-

kets have been light and prices have

held firmly. Timothy prices are about

$1 per ton higher. Alfalfa also has ad-

vanced slightly. Storms have increas-

ed the demand in some sections and

have curtailed shipments. When these

conditions pass, the advance may not

be sustained.





BUTTER





Although receipts of butter at the

leading markets are’gradually increas-

ing and‘are now running substantially

ahead ’of those of last year, prices

more than recovered a small loss dur-

ing the early part of last week. Con-

fidence in the maintenance of prevail-

ing values has for a little while longer

been more general due to the passing

of conditions which prevented ship-

ments from producing sections. Also

the supply of fancy fresh butter has

been light due, it is said, to local de-

mand which has absorbed all of the

product of some creameries. Produc-

tion reports from creameries indicate

a gradual increase in the make. The

demand, however, is very broad at the

present level of prices.



Prices for 92-score fresh butter on

March 11 were:



Chicago 370; New York 3954c. In.

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells

at 35@351,§c per pound.





POULTRY AND EGGS





The egg market is apparently not

far from its low points for the spring

season. At Chicago, fresh firsts sold

as low as 211,5 to 22 cents during the

past week, although the close was on

a small upturn. .The movement into

storage has begun as there are some





 





 





Live Stock Market Service ‘





 





 





Monday, March 13.





DETROIT

Cattle.





Receipts 971. Bologna bulls are very

dull, other grades steady.





Best heavy steers ...... $ 6.75@ 8.00

Best handy wt bu steers 7.00@_7.50

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@ 5.25

Butcher cows ........... 3.75@ 4.50

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

Canners ................ 2.00@ 3.00

Best light weight bulls.. 450@ 5.00

Bologna bulls ........... 4.00@ 4.50

Stock bulls ............. 3.5061) 3.75

Feeders ....... . ........ 5.50@ 6.50

Stockers ................ 5.00@ 5.50

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@ 75





Veal Calves.

Receipts 615. Market steady to 50c





higher.

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

Others ................... 5.00@10.50





Hogs.





Receipts 1,705. Market is 50@600

lower than last Week’s close.





Pigs .................... $ 10.50

Roughs 8.75@ 9.00

Stags ................... 5.00

Mixed hogs ............. 11.00

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,961. Market slow.

Best lambs ............. $ 15.50

Fair lambs ............. 13.00@14.00

Light to common ........ 8.75@10.50

Fair to good sheep ...... 8.00@ 9.50

Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 4.00

CHICAGO





Hogs.





Estimated receipts today are 57,000;

holdover 3,085. Market is mostly 15@

25c lower' and slow. Bulk of sales at

$10.30@10.75; tops $10.95; heavy. 250

lbs up $10.30@10.55; medium 200. to

250 lbs $10.45@10.85; light 150 to 200

lbs $10.70@10.95; light lights 130’ to

150 lbs $10@10.85; heavy “packing-sows

250 lbs 11:) $9.40@9.9

200 lbs up '39.25@9 50

‘dow $8.50@10;35.‘





 

 





 





 

 





0; packing sows '

.9133. .130 1 lbs _ m 25





Cattle.



Estimated receipts today are 24,000.

Market slow and 15@25c lower. Beef

steers medium and heavy weight 1100

lb up choice and prime at $9.10@9.60;

do medium and good $7.50@9.10; do

common $6.60@7.50; light weight 1100

lbs down good and choice $8.25@9.35;

do common and medium $6.40@8.25;

butcher cattle heifers at $4.85@8.25;

cows $4.25@7; bulls bologna and beef

$4@6.50; canners and cutters cows

and heifers $3@4.25; do canner steers

$4@5; veal calves light and handy-

weight $7.50@10.50; feeder steers at

$5.50@7‘.50; stocker steers at $5.25@

7.25; stocker cows and heifers at $4.25





”@550

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 14,000.

Market slow and about steady. Lambs

84 lbs down $10.35@15.75; do culls and

common $10.25@13; spring lambs $11

@1425; ewes $6@9.50; ewes cull and

common $3@6; yearling wethers at

$11.50@13.50.





BUFFALO

Cattle. ’ .

Receipts 120 cars; market 250 low-

er. Choice to prime shipping steers

1,400 pounds and up $8.50@8.75; good

to choice shipping steers at $8@8.25;





, light native yearlings good quality $9





@10; best. handy steers $7.50@7.75;

handy steers and heifers at $7@7.25;

western heifers $6.50@7; light Michi-

gan butchering heifers $6.50@7; best

fat cows $5.50@6; cutters $3.50@4;

canners $2.25@2.50; best heavy bulls

$4.50@5; commonlbulls $3.50@4; best

feeders $6@6.60; medium feeders at

$5.50@5.75; stockers good $5.50@5.75;

light common $4634.50; best milkers

and springers $75@85; medium $30

@40. Calves, receipts 2,500. Market

lower; top $13.50. '

Hogs. , _



Receipts 80 cars; lower; medium

and heavy at $10..75@11; yorkers and

mixed $11.25@11.50; - pigs $11@11.25.



' Sheep and Lambs. . . _



Receipts ‘50 cars ; strong: top. lambs

.1 g _ lines 2. 5 wethersvgl





 

 





 

 

 





.Holsteinss— ril 1.20.. Eaton





 





operators evidently who believe that

these levels are safe. In the spring

of 1921, the lowest price paid for fresh

firsts was 211,5 cents late in April.





From this point the market advanced . .





to 55 cents: early in December. Poul-

try prices have' declined slightly in

the last few days. Receipts of dressed

poultry at the four leading cities since

January 1 are practically the same as

during the corresponding period of

1921. The supply in cold storage is

still large but is being cut down rather

rapidly. .‘ . . »



Chicago—Eggs miscellaneous . 21@

220; dirties‘19@20c; checks 18@19c;

fresh firsts- 221/2,@22%c; ordinary

firsts 21@220. Live poultry, hens 25c;

springers 28c; roosters 180; ducks at

28c; geese 18c; turkeys 350.



Detroit.—Eggs fresh candled and

graded at 231/2@241,§c. Live poultry

heavy springers 29c; light springers

25c; heavy hens 290; light hens 290;

roosters 180; geese 18@200; ducks at

35c; turkeys 25c.





POTATOES





The potato market has weakened re-

cently with the northern round whites

quoted down to $1.70@1.80 at Chicago

and $2@2.10 at other consuming mar-

kets. Northern sacked round whites

at shipping points are quoted at $1.45

@157.





APPLES

New York Baldwins A-21/2 are quot-

ed at $7.50@8.50 per barrel in the city

markets. Northwestern extra fancy

boxed Winesaps have advanced to $3@

3.50 in most consuming markets.





WOOL

Although wool markets are quiet,

mills areshowing more interest than





when the speculative fever was at its '





height and prices remain near to top-

most levels. High-class foreign wools

especally are scarce and the total sup-

ply of all kinds in the United States is

less than usual. Contracting of the

new clip in the west has ceased as a

deadlock over prices has developed.

Only a small quantity; of new wool

from the southwest has been shipped

thus far. Foreign wool prices are about

five per cent lower than in January.

The American Woolen Company which

was the leading buyers at the govern-

ment auction is said to have sufficient

orders for cloth to keep its mills go-

ing into the summer and the woolen

goods market has improved slightly.





GRAND RAPIDS





The live stock market in Grand Rap-

ids was dull this week as a result of

the lenten season slowing up the‘de-

mand for meat. Prices to farmers,

however, were in the main unchanged

as farmers heeded advice of butchers

to restrain movement. Heavy con-

sumption of eggs held prices fairly

steady and packing will begin next

week. White beans went to the high-

est mark of the season, local elevators

bidding $5.75 per cwt., with farmers

making few deliveries on account of

the condition of the roads. The bean

trade is bullish owing—to the bulk oli‘

the crop. being out of growers’ hands.

Potatoes continue weak.



Live Stock—Cattle, steers and heif‘

ers at $5.50@7 per cwt; cows $2.50@

4.50. Hogs, medium weight at $10@

10.50; heavy $8@9; dressed $13@14.

Sheep, ewes $6.50@7; lambs $11@13.



Vegetables—Potatoes 80@90c bu;

leaf lettuce (hothouse) 17@18c a lb;

beets, carrots and parsnips $1 per bu;

cabbage $2 bu.



Produce—Eggs 19@20c per dozen;

butter dairy 30c. - ' . ‘ -





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The farmers’ market was active and

well supplied with produce. Potatoes

held firm and were in good demand.

Carrots were rather draggy and in

heavy supply. Eggs were plentiful and

sold~for a' little less than 'last week.

Apples $2.25@3.50 per bu; cabbage at

$1.50@2; carrots $1.75@2.25; eggs 25

@30c; potatoes $1.1‘5@1.30; poultry 27

@35c lb. Veal sold for 17c; no hogs

were, offered. ‘ . ‘~ '





LIVE STOCK SALES. -*‘





 





Shorthohns.—'—March 2'1, Davidson ‘ &' ‘





“all, Teciimseh; Mich.
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z . or For

Mutual Insurance. .

A man recently came into the



office of M..B. Armstrong, our

agent at Pontiac, and said that

he had "a new car that he wanted



' insured with the Howell corn-



pany. Mr. Armstrong asked him

about insuring his big truck, just

purchased. He replied, “I would

like to do that but I have bought

the truck. on time and the dealer

insisted on placing the insurance

with an Old Line Company.” He

said further, “I am ashamed to

‘ tell you what it cost me. The

old line premium for fire, theft

and- collision coverage was just

$400 and it I injure or kill any

person I will have to .stand the

suit myself as the policy covers

neither property - damage nor

personal injury liability. I cer-

tainly 'am a booster for the How-

ell Mutual where a Dodge auto- .

mobile can be'insured for fire,

theft and liability for $13.00 here

‘and for $10.50 in the country dis-

tricts. A little investigation by

anyone will show a great benefit

to automobile owners by having

a mutual company insure them.”





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household pests. Also lice and mites on hvestoc

and poultry With no strain or odor.



Brings bugs out of hiding. then kills them.

Flyosan is absolutely non-poisonous to human beings

and anima s. t.

d back of every statemen



3:11:57“ agfigetleteula; dmmded if found unsatisfactory.



' t i into at $1.00, Darts 8.1.50. half

El 1331: £25.58uan‘rllpgaillgns 34.26. Definrod to your P.

3? Address. Sprayers 850 extra.





MICHIGAN SEED COMPANY,





GRAND RAPIDS, MlCH.





-’ Th Your Old

”to“ l agile” Away





because ' won't take mid hold a charge and you’re

told it ‘r‘rtlust be rebuilt or scrapped. 90% ofall

battery troubles is caused by sulphation. One

application of Wayside Chemical Compoun'd

removes sulphation from the plates; and an hour s

runningdiargeswebatcery. Thousands of users

have added one to two years servrcc to their

old batteries.





You take no chance. Send $2 for sufficient

compound for 6volt battery—ego“ paid; use it as

directed; if you’re not com satisfied, your

money will be refunded. Grier Todny.





Wayside Service corporation





2I5 I. Fort St, Ioiroli. Michigan





TOWNSEND'S PLANTS}

' AT WHOLESALE PRICES





Direct to VGrowers





300 ACRES





Of Choice

True-to-name





STRAWBERRY PLANTS





INCLUDING 250 Acres

PREMIER z The greatest money mak-





g<I¥§EA1~g ing varieties on earth

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AT EASTER TIME





There is always a good demand for veal and poultry.

as well as eggs and we will use large uant ties of

these products for carts-do this year. a to giving

the shippers the advantage of a rood mar et place

and conscientious export no that is an ling

many friends for us. We will handle your shipments.

getting you the highest market pmces. and we usually

make remittances the same day goods are received.

Let us number you among our many satisfied shippers.

It you have not already availed yourself of our ser-

vice you should tag your next shipment to us. and

satisfy yourself of our statement. A trial shipment

will convince you.





Gonsberg Packing Company, Inc.

' Commission Dealers in Poultry. Veal,

oar. Eggs. etc..





2460 Riopelle St., Detroit, ‘Mich.





 





 





 





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HA surprises. for highest prices

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m an Riemann 00.. Detroit.

250"?" brhg you —i-monthlr “KM?"

t one who! [soar .

modfir’bw ”6B0: n. Mgneoene: Indian

FARM HELP





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SALES TAX MEETS» STRONG oppo-

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HE letter written Michigan con-

I ~ gressmen by the State Farm Buf

"roan, protesting enactment of a sales

tax to finance the national soldiers’

bonus. brought prompt replies from

both senators and several representa-

tives, all but two assuring the farmers

of Michigan that they are opposed to

a sales tax. ~



The agricultural bloc in congress

has been insisting that the excess

profits tax be re-enacted to assist in

taking care of the propOsed bonus.

Other opponents of the sales tax have

suggested funding into bond issues

some of the European debt owed the

United States as a solution of the

problem.



The farm bureau and Michigan con-

gressmen opposed to the sales tax as

a. means of financing the bonus hve

made it plain that they are not oppos-

ed to the bonus, but do oppose the

sales tax as an unfair tax.





The farm bureau says a sales tax

would rest heaviest no the great mass

of consumers least able to bear it—

that the tax burden would be shifted

to the consumers, that the small in-

comes would pay most of the bill

through a tax on the necessities of life

whereas the same tax would rest light-

ly on those of large income and under

a sales tax their surpluses would es-

cape share in financing the bonus.





WHAT FARM TRIALS TELL US

ABOUT OATS.





HAT pedigreed varieties of oats



developed by the Michigan Agric-

cultural College and produced under

inspection by the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association have demon-

strated-their dependability is shown

by the results of more than thirty

over-state variety tests conducted un-

der the supervision of the college dur-

ing the past three years.



The average increase of the three

pedigreed varieties, Wolverine, Col-

lege Wonder and Worthy, over all oth-

ers was about six bushels per acre,

showing very often much larger in-

creases over the usual common run of

cats.



The Wolverine variety proved of

widest adaptation, leading in tests un~

der 3. great variety of conditions. It

matures from a week to ten days ear-

lier than most other Michigan oats

and this very often gives it a decided

advantage in avoiding summer drought

and the consequent blasting and fail-

ure to fill.



Worthy is a variety of long stand-

ing and it has retained its popularity

especially on heavier soils where its

Fstiffer straw avoids considerable lodg-

ing. The College Wonder, released

from M. A. C. in 1915 also has this

character.



The, Iowar, a pedigreed sixty-day va-

riety from Iowa, is very well adapted

to muck and other types of soil where

lodging becomes a. most serious prob‘

lem. Its early maturity, along with its

very short stiff straw makes it a lead-

er for those conditions—R. C. R.





 





PLUM CREEK DUROG SALE.





HE sale of bred Duroc sows by



Drodt & Barns, at Plum Creek

Stock Farm was a success. Forty-two

head sold for the grand total of. $2,304,

or an average of nearly $55 per head.

Twenty-two head sold from $50 up to

$140, the highest price being paid by

Arthur Neidermier, of La Salle. The

sale was auctioned by H. S. Inglehart

& Son, who were assisted by F.

Hengest, of Louisville, Ky. The day

was ideal. Shortly after the auction

started, seats which , were holding

about 200 people gave way and placed

a damper on the selling for a few mo~





 





_ .seed. flour and, many other commodi-

men'tsv WWW no new hurt. #9“ “1°11 9am ' ' ,





 





and the incident was soon forgotten.

Following is a list of the buyers an

their addresses: . ‘

L. G. Burke; Dundee; W. L. Allen,

Ypsilanti; S. B. Bird, Petersburg;

Charles Nawrotke, New Boston; Har-

lan Wilt, Britten; Henry H. Wager,

Flat Rock; Earl Murphy, Britton; F.

Jackson, Dundee; Fred Baum,. Peters-

burg; Ellery K. Lennard, Samaria;

Paul H. Gilman, Petersburg; Frank

Jackson, Dundee; Edward C. Hawley,

Britton; Wm. Wallenberg, Romulus;

F. S. Wood, Petersburg; A. A. Ding,

Blissfield; W. ,C. Craey, La Salle; Ed-

w'ard Schroeder, Monroe; W. Hoerl,

Monroe; Howard Linn, Britten; Arth-

ur Neidermier, La Salle; B. S. Knapp,

Monroe; Charles Nawrotzke, New Bos-

ton; George Weilnan, Monroe; F. L.

Newcomb, Dundee; Albert Cronen—

wett, Dundee; -Wm. Zimmerman, 'La

Salle; H. S. Craig, Britten; F. J. Uhle,

La Salle; Carl H. Miller, Monroe, Geo.

E. Smith, Monroe; Wm. Nickel, Mon-

roe. "





SOHLAFF DISPERSAL SALE.





E dispersal sale of the splendid

herd of pure-bred Holsteins of

John Schlaff of Mt. Clemens, on March

9, was an outstanding success, consid-

ering the times. All told there were

sixty head of registered animals sold

for a grand total of $14,780. Among

these were twelve head of young

calves, which averaged $70 per head.

The forty-eight other head brought an

average of $285. The highest price

was paid for Artis Pontiac Saskia, 245-

034, a thirty-three-pound cow born in

1913. Herman Beady, of Mt. Clemens,

bid off this animal at $1,400. Mayor

Couzens, of Detroit, paid $550 for the

herd bull. Following are the buyers:

A. W. Everline, Frazer; T. J. Ken-

nedry, Mt. Clemens; Detroit Creamery

Company, Mt. Clemens; Cox Bros, Mt.

Clemens; Schaffer Bros, Oxford; J. J.

Haack, Richmond; S. C. Goeschell,

New Haven; Otto Neitz, Mt. Clemens;

Musolff Bros, South Lyons; W. F. Fel-

lows, Flint; C. C. Corey, Detroit; Al-

bert Richter, Detroit; A. 'P. Temess,

Detroit; Herman Beaty, Mt. Clemens;

Charles F. Kucken, Richmond; Henry

Husckinson, Hartland; M. Carter,

Flint; H. Tincknell: Romeo; Frank

Bennett & Sons, Rochester; C. T. Hop-

kins, Armada; 0. C. Hogan, Armada;

Cornelius Bogert, Marine City; W. A.

Petzold, Detroit; Mr. Starkweather,

Northville and James Couzens, Detroit.





SALE OF E. A. HARDY AND

WALTER GREEN.





’ I ‘HE sale of registered Holsteins of



E. A. Hardy and Walter Green, of

Rochester, was conducted on the

Hardy farm, five miles east of Roches-

ter, on March 10. There were some

splendid animals in this offering

which sold for less than they should

have brought. However, the forty-three

head brought an average of practically

$150. Among these were several calves.

The highest price, paid was $360 for

Carrie Onid De Kremo 349507, a five-

year-old cow which has produced over

2,000 pounds of milk in twenty-seven

days. The animal was sold to Edwin

Nedelykof, of Utica. The same buyer

purchased Hazel-let Pontiac Main 342,

424 for $300. Following are the list

of buyers:



Mrs. B. Bowerman, Romeo; George

Dunn, Utlca; Herbert Beardsley, Roch-

ester; Musoloff Bros, South Lyons;

Nye dz Son, Pontiac; William Chene,

Washlngton; Frank Yerkes, Washing-

ton; Wm. C. Schoof, Washington;

Fred Marter, Utica; Albert Luchtnan,

Washington; Homer Kirby, Roches-

ter; Wm. Tyson, ~Washington; John

Licht, Armada; Herman Beaty, Mt.

Clemens; Wm. Kerr, Rochester; F.

Vick, Washlngton; L. E. Smith, By-

ron; Wm. George, Rochester.‘





 





FARMERS WAREHOUSE IN

SAGINAW.





A COOPERATIVE warehouse, to be



operated by the newly organized

Cooperative Marketing Association,

was opened by the association on Mon-

day, February 27th, at 314 Hancock

Street, Saginaw. The business will

serve as a farm bureau store for the

buying and distributing ofi fertilizer,





ers needs. ,





     





to buy your S.C. White Leghorn baby chicks. Because we

batch from our own stock only. Large vigorous free range

stock that have been bred for eggs. and vitali for several

years. We ask a chi order at our very low pri s. it will

convince you they are right in every respect. And will give

anyonr fumrehusiness. AlsoaomegoodRodzs and Reds.





Ask for cattle e.

SUlguREME POULTRY FARM,

R. 2. Fremont. 0.





EGGS $1 SETTING Parcel Post Paid.Thoro_ugh-



. breds. Barred Rocks.“ hite

Rocks.Bufl Rocks. White Wyandottes,Anconas,Bufl Mi-

norcae. White Leghorn Brown Leghorns, Rhoda Islan u

Reds.BuII OI'pingtons. hllip Condon,w.0hoeter.0hjo





' $1.25 settin .' 82 or a).

HatChlng Eggs postage paid.8 WhitepWyan.

dottes, White and Barred Rocks. White ‘

Genuine Farm raised. Please order from . Sat.

isiaction. _ GUBE’I BROS. Corunna. Mich.





EGG BRED CHICKS r... h... p...





_ _ ! ducing' free

Fan stock. 19 years or penance in hatching and breed-

ing into Leghoms. Barred Rocks and Anconas. Cir-

cular. Frank Heinz. x 6. Comstock Park. Mich.





CHICKS English S. C. W. horns 811 per



100. Barred Rocks 8 6 or 100. Best

laying strain known. By parcel post. a ive delivery

guaranteed. Henry Waterway. R. 4. Holland, Mich.





 





 





 





‘ | W. Leghorns extra selected winter lay-

Eng113h ers. Eggs 15. $1.50; 100. $7. prepaid.

ORCHARD KNOLL. R. 2. Spring Lake. Mich.





FOR SALE if taken at once BJ. S. Martin



Regal Dorcas strain White

Wyandottes. males. Am selling all my heavy strain

stock. Mrs. N. Curriston. R. 1, l‘wining. Mich.





 





 





Columbizm Vi'yandotte Cockerels $10.00

F 01' Sale each. Hatchin e 8 $5.00 pei‘ 15. $8.00

F. H. WOODWAR . .6, Owosso. Mich.





original Dr. Hensley S. C. Bufl Leghorn flock. Egg

Basket Strain. Oflicially Certified Egg

bred. Winners at Chicago, Cincinnati. etc. Cockerels

breeding hens and chicks. at bargain prices. Also bred

to lay English





per 30.





 





' Strain S. C. White Leghorn chicks for

. Discount on Earl Orders. Hillside Hatchery

Farm.R.3.Holland.Mlc . Successorlo Henry DePree





PARDEE'S EGGS AND DRAKES





0

EFFECT D kl P‘ L‘ tF . B '1‘

Ex... "0 "It’s Pz'.?§..~‘:...2;fs.1fztv;





Rural Baby' Chicks and Pullets





from our choice stock of English Strain S. C. “bite

Leghorns. Brown Leghorns and Anconas at very rea-

sonable prices. We solicit your inquiries. Catalogue.

Rural Poultry Farm & Hatchery. 11.1. Zeeland. Mich.





RHODE ISLAND WHITES





win over all breeds at the egg laying contest. 30 eggs

$3; 50 $8; 100 $15 order from this a . Some chicks.

. H. H. JUMP. R. 5. Jackson. Mich,





 





 





 





Rhode Island Whites. The laying kind,

"033 Comb selected stock, eggs 15.32.50; 30.34.00; 50.

3600; 100-510. Henry Scholten, R. 12, Holland. Mich.





S. C. W. Leghorns

' ‘ From 284 egg strain.

Quahty Cthks trapnest HOLLYWOOD

Farm Stock. Get my niece. AL GRAND VALLEY

POULTRY FARIVI, R. . Saranac, Mich. '





SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS





baby chicks. All eggs used by us for batching produc-

ed on our own farm. That) for circular.

RALPH S. ’1'0'1‘1‘EN, Pittsford. hiich.





STRICKS POULTRY FARM





Hudsonville, Mich. It R. 4. Box M. S. 0. English

White Leghorns. Official records from9 hens of 208

to 244. Chicks and Eggs. Write for catalogue.





Single Comb Buff Leghorn





baby chicks. Order now for spring delivery. Send for

circular. Willard Webster. R. ‘3, Bath, Mich





 





 





 





 





 





' A few choice Minorca Cooker-

S. C. B. Mlnorca 91 great big fellows. sired by





5.

our 121b. cock. R. Vi MILLS, Saline. Mich.





' cockerels Northrup Strain choice

8. on Black MlflOl'Oa stock. $3 and $5. Hatching eggs,

single settings or quantity. C.J .Deed rick. Vassar. M lch





 





 





liver. Golden dc VV.Wyan.. grand winnings at Grand

SRapids Coliseum show. Choice breeding stock.

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





 





ICO. All prepaid. Mrs. Earl Dchnholl'. Vanburen.0hio-





 





s 0 Brown Leghorns,excellent Iiiyel‘s.Vig0rous farm

- . range. Selected eggs postpaid 15. $1.25; 30, $2; 45,

£2.50: 100. $3. Floyd Robertson. 1L]. Lexington, Ind.





Tra _Ncsted Strain S_.C.W..Legborns. Heavy winter

. p layers. snow white.h1gh on shank.pelvic bones

thin and well spread.Baby chicks and hatching. Have

few choice cockcrel's and pullets for sale. shipped on

approval. Leonard Sumner. R.‘.’,Box 97,1{0mulus.Mich.





TEN EGGS sardines?Wr‘rmre

89. our ) ' . '

($4.50), igggaed parcel post ‘ ( d” an i] ty cts.





aid.

AMY SOUT WORTH. Allen, Mich.





' ' Spanish, Mino .

Top Quality ( thIIS Reds. Wyandotltggfolggfggi

tons. '] YRONE POULTRY FARM. Fenton. Mich.





WE BREED‘





Park's Strain Barred Rocks. Barron Strain

Leghorns. The two greatest strains of utility $111123:

in America. Baby chicks for early delivery should

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

requirements. Pullets, hens and males at reasonable

Briees. Bra in the north for northern conditions

INE BAY POULTRY FARM. Holland. Mich:





I

g .

Whlttaker s R.l. Reds i1°§3§f2§§ia

Greatest. Color and E g Strain. Free, by blood test,

from bacillary whit diarrhea. If you are interested

in Breeding Stock. ay Old Chicks or Hatching Eggs

wrlte for our Twelfth Annual Catalog. It is free.

INTERLAKES FARM. Box 39 Lawrence, Mich





WHITE WYANDOTTES





r207 egg average. Five specialsgigglngs. Eggs $2.00, 33,00,

I).





and 85F00 per Cockerels '.





RANK BELONG. R. 3. ’ Three Rivets. Mich





gm repurchases.





So for Cat

FA M. Route Grand Rapids, Michigan.





White Wyandottes 23%;???“ mm“





let. Detroit-

twelve birds. all winners. Ann Arbor. Sho rd... '

up. Write for prices. David Ray, Ypsilahttig Mich5





wyandottos. Strong. sturdy. 00 kc el b d f

W-cm Call a; winners ofbegt displaégnd lg:

: : an





36

warm “firsthand“?





W.Chinese image $00 each, Penn .1...





for 15. MRS. oucma smrg'Bihi’e signllfih.





 





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White Holland Turkeys White African C '

1 Sta , ' d ' «

Wail... ' a





- Fi.h 1 St 'in, do. dy layers. '

Snowy White ROCks Iagqgsesmif‘m: $333.50: $7.00





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THERE 15 only one reason for a tractor——

service. There 18 only one test for any oil

which you put into your F ordson-serv1ce.



Farmers who take pride 1n real efficiency

and rock bottom operating costs aren’t using

either “good enough” tractors or “good

enough” lubricating oil.



Thousands of F ordson users will drive

their tractors out to the spring plowing with

Gargoyle M ob1101l ‘ ‘BB” in the crank-case.

Why? Because these farmers propose to make

sure of securing all the work and economy

which their Fordson can bring them.



They find that Gargoyle Mobiloil leaves



less carbon and thus lessens power waste and

the need for frequent cleaning of cylinder.

heads, valves and spark plugs. They find that

Gargoyle Mobiloil maintains a lubricating

film which minimizes kerosene

leakage past the piston rings.

They find that Gargoyle Mobil;

oil lubricates every friction sur-

face under all conditions of

climate, load and soil.





Get full Fordson Economy

and Power

How Gargoyle Mobiloil helps





Like the FordSon Tractor, Gargoyle

Mobiloil has proved its economy and efli— “

ciency in every State in the country—and

in every country in the world.





Not a gasoline lay—product





NINE OUT OF TEN lubricating oils on the

market are simply by- products in the

manufacture of gasoline.



Gargoyle Mobiloil is nota by-product.



It is produced _by lubricating specialists

who are recognized the world over as leaders

in lubricating practice. Gargoyle’Mobiloil

is manufactured from crude oils chosen for

their ‘ luéricaz‘z'ng qualities—not for their

gasoline content. It is manufactured by

processes designed to bring out the highest

luérzcating value—not the greatest gallonage



of gasoline.





deing: . .





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