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CURRENT COMMENT

1THE MiCHiGAN FARMER SAYS:





Legumes are the heavy artillery in

the fight for a better agriculture.





Perchance it is the “demon" in dem-

onstration that so vividly impresses

the lessons taught.





Our homes constitute the great foun-

. dry in which the character of the com-

ing generation is being moulded.





After all, is not the parent with the

tenderest affection for his children,

naturally their greatest intellectual

and spiritual teacher?





A big program doth our home dem-

onstration agents hold out. They seek

for the rural home ideals that are eco-

nomically sound, mechanically conven-

ient, physically healthful, morally

Wholesome, artistically satisfying,

mentally stimulating, socially respon-

sible, spiritually inspiring and founded

upon mutual affection and respect.





OW many acres





of otato s are



Potato .1) 9

you gomg to plant

Acreage this year? This is a

for 1922 very important ques-





tion to the commer-

cial producer of this crop. When net

profits are figured at the end of the

marketing season, the acreage planted

will have proven a big factor in decid-

ing what those figures will be. The

question is not simplified by the fact

that the farmer is just as anxious as

anybody that no one goes without this

vegetable if he wants it; for his table.





An interesting report has just been

received from the potato growers’ as-

sociation of New York state. A survey

of growers in the empire state has

been made by both this association

and theiederal government. The gov-

ernment men estimate that the in-

crease in acreage in New York state

will amount to over eleven per cent

above last season’s planting, while the

association calculates from its findings

an increase of over twenty per cent as

compared with 1921. Averaging these

it would appear that the plans of these

farmers in the empire state include a

potato acreage running something like

fifteen .per cent above the crop of 1921

and over sixteen per cent above the

acreage for 1920.



According to the department of agri-‘





. culture the acreage in the northwest,





- , em states of Washington, Oregon, Ida-

~. ho,_,Colorado, Utah, Montana, North

‘ South Dakota is growing rapidly.

ed in the last named state it is





‘ mothers.





tWenty—flve per‘ cent larger acreage

Will be put in if present plans are car-





_ r ied out.





It has been suggested that some step

be taken to stabilize the late potato

acreage of the country. What do you

think about it? Will you kindly write us

giving your opinion on the matter and

also a comparison betweenthe acreage

that you have planned on devoting to





potatoes this year and the amount





planted in 1921.





HIS was Mother’s

To Week and tomor-

row is Mother’s Day.



Our It is fitting that we

Mothers ‘should set aside a

week and a day ‘in

which to pay special respect to our

But what-we do in the time

we set asidé cannot in any sense do

justice to motherhood.



For, while the mother instinct is

primeval and is found through all ,crea;

tion, there is nothing that contains

more of the higher ‘qualities of life

than true motherhood. '



Willingly does mother go through





' pain and suffering but. to come out of

' it and immediately give an unselfish





and tender love and sympathetic care

to the little one nestling by her side

who is suffering his first struggles in

life.



In motherhood there is no ostenta-

tion, no pretention, even, though it

gives that great something 'which is

back of all worthy accomplishments.

That something, mother's love, moth-

er’s encouragement and mother's

guidance has fitted men and women

to do great deeds. ’And also has it

given shelter and sympathy to the er.

ring ones. Motherhood seems truly to

be the very essence of Christianity.



So, let ‘us on this day give thought

and recognition to what mother has

meant and still means to us. Mother

should still mean something to us,

whether mother is present or not. But

let us not confine all our thought for

mother to a single day. Rather let us

give kind thought and loving attention

to her at all times. This consideration

is due her for all she has done for us.

The mother influence should stay with

us throughout life. '





T is claimed by the

’ manufacturers of

Olef’mar' oleomargarine that

garme and the farmers, many of

the Farmer them dairymen, con-

sume a large per cent

of the oleomargarine manufactured. It

is practically impossible to understand

the farmer’s position in this matter.

However, statistics show that only

about one-half as much oleomargarine

was sold in 1921 as there was in 1920.,

The exceptional value of butter as

a food is becoming better understood

by city consumers. Its superiority

over vegetable oil and ordinary animal

fats, due to the fact that it contains

the life-giving vitamins, which fact is

becoming more largely understood by

the consumer, is unquestionably the

cause of oleomargarine losing its pop-

ularity. [The great war brought out

many astonishing facts. It is said that

it was noticeablethat soldiers who’re-

ceived a ration of butter recovered

more readily‘and quickly from their

wounds than those who did not receive

butter, in the ration. Thisundoubt-

edly is due to the fact that butter con-

tains vitamines.

From a business point of view the





farmer can well afford to eat butter





instead of oleomargarine, One good

authority has expressed the opinion

that if“the farmer would stop consum-

ing oleomargarine and consume but-

ter instead, the eflect on the butter





market would be to increase the de-_





mand sufficient togput up the price so

that the, actual butter consumed by the





“nothingql' 7 p

This may bé slightly exaggerated





for market





, the wood. Times,





 





 

 

 





but the farmer needs to consider this

proposition from more than one stand





"point. He is not making money or sav-





ing money when he uses oleomargar-

ine in his family. Besides he is de-

priving his growing children and him-

self of a very superior food. ’





VEN though it

- mightbe possible

L980” for the private dis-

," tributor of farm prod-

Marketinq nets to handle these

products as cheaply

as can be done through a cooperative

organization, there still remains a ben-

efit of no mean value accruing to the

member of the properly managed co-

operative selling organization.



These organizations are real educa-

tional institutions. Being in the hands

of the farmers’ own agent, the produc-

er, of farm products can watch his

goods as they go on their journey to

the consumer. During this journey the

farmer sees many things he did not

know before. He discovers why it is

that one grade will commands better

price than another grade. It does nOt

take him long to learn who is cheated

most when small apples are placed in

the center of the barrel, when eggs

that are partly incubated are mixed

with the fresh ones, when taggings

are baled into the center of the fleece,

”etc. These lessons are thoroughly

taught, because their value can be

definitely measured in dollars and

cents.



Not only this, but through these co-

operative associations definiteefforts

are made to bring all of this informa-

tion to the farmer’s attention. Often

schools are held to accomplish this

end. For instance, the cooperative

method of pooling wool has resulted in

hundreds and thousands of farmers

here in Michigan getting their first

real lessons on the growing of higher

grades of wool from the demonstra-

tions held on wool delivery day. The

comparatively small percentage of

throw-outs this year, after two seasons

of pooling, is sufiicient testimony of

the fact that the lessons were well

learned.



The potato growers have also justi-

fied the Cooperative marketing plan on

this educational basis. The advance-

ment made in standardizing our potato

crop and in improving the quality of

members in the commercial growing

sections of the state is far greater

than could have.been accomplished in

the same time under the old system of

private marketing. Before we say any

harsh words against the cooperative

method of distributing our farm crops

particularly now when all kinds of bus-

iness institutions are having hard go-

ing,.let us measure as carefully as we

can the value these institutions have

been in bringing to us an entirely new

line of information on the production

of a grade of crops .that will net us

more money.





T is very inconven-





A Stick .ient to have a farm

Without a vestige of



'of timber on it. One

Timber c a n n o t appreciate

. ' how much he depends





upon the resources of the woodlot un-

til‘ he is where he cannot reach one.

To be able to go back to the woods

and secure a stick of timber to make

repairs on the farm, or possibly to

erect some new structure, is a privi-

lege that some farmers are now miss-

ing.



And, further, .there -is now a fairly

stable market for forest products. The

time Was when these products brought





‘just enough to pay the owner for the.





time necessary to get the timber ready

Thcre rwss nething left

over to apply on the cost of producing

however, have





 





-the preacher says.





 





1y shown there ""by careful surVeys

made under the superyision cf experts





that a good profit can be realized from





growing trees upon land worth one

hundred dollars per acre.





If this be true, and we have every .





reason for relying upon the figures,

then is it not time for the farmers of

the state to investigate carefully the





posSibilities of adding a, forestry de—‘





partment to their farms? Good farm

management demands a better distrib~

uting of farm labor over the year. Per-

haps no single line ‘of effort will aid





more in "this regard than a good farm .





woodlot. Forest-trees being'a long

period crop, will not appeal to the fly-

by-night type of farmer.‘ This makes

the proposition more valuable to the

far-seeing man. He, at least, should

lay down a farm policy which will ena-

ble him to have a sufficient woodlot

so that he can get a stick of timber

when it is, needed. ' . ,





Secret sz/umacy





,, 0U know,- since listenin’, to the

lady singin’ me to sleep over Joe

Brown’s radio, I’ve been thinkin’ a

lot on what you call recent develop

ments

Durin’ the war they was talkin'

about secret diplumacy. Then it

wasn’t in style. But‘now, I say, it is

hard for it to be at all. Take, for

inst., Sophie and me went to our Dr.

friend and while we was there he turn-

ed his X-Ray dingus on me and Sophie

could see my backbone by lookin' at

my veSt buttons. 7

Now, I was playin’ what you call a

little secret .di-

plumacyv at th e

time. I was keep-

in’ fifty cents that

Sophie didn't

know nothin'

about. My secret

was not to let

her know nothin'

about the fifty

cents, but my di-

plumacy was to buy her a box of can-

dy with it for her birthday. But them

Rays spoilt it all. Sophie saw them

fifty centsresi‘din’ in my watch pocket

and wanted to know about it. All I

could say was that they was for my

lodge dues. Maybe that was what you

call a white lie, but anyhow, I kin say

from actual experience, secret di-

plumacy ain’t got no chance no more.





 





And now, seein’ that what you had for '





breakfast can’t be kept secret from no-

body aint bad enough, they got it so

they kin hear you sneeze a hundred

miles away or more. It’s gettin’ un-





,, comfortable interestin' when your pri-





vate affairs is goin’ to be exposed to

the public like that.



Of course, it’s goin’ to be mighty

interestin’ all right when we can hear

everything and see everything what's

goin on. But it’s goin’ to be kinda em-

embarrasin’ for some of the perform-

ers. For inst., I’m gettin’ scared al-

ready, ’cause it looks like I got to do

a lot of censorin' of my own acshuns

before I kin‘appear before such a vast

audience, like the famous speakers

say. Seems like it’s getting harder

every day to be bad and look like you

was good.



But, you know, this just gets me

wonderin’ what’s going to become of

the ' neighborhood gossip when the

Radio and X-Ray takes her job away

from her and turns the light of truth

on her? I think maybe she will get to

be what you call a respectful citizen.





Anyhow, I think we will maybe be get— ‘ ‘





tin’ rid of the greater of two evils, as

‘At least, we will

get things as they is, so Sophie says.





Anyhow, when Sophie and me was





negotiatin’ there was no Radio or X-





 





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T was Just eleven-thirty when the .V





horses, covered with perSpiration,

swung into the tool, shed with the





grain drill. The Second and last field





of beans to be planted on the home

farm that year had been finished.

The planting of this last field of

beans was an afterthought. Rainy

weather‘had so delayed the general

farm work that we felt obliged to sub-

Stitute the beans for corn because of

the lateness of the season. The time

between the hour when the first fur-

row was turned, and when the last

beans rattled down the spouts of the

drill was remarkably short. On Mon-

day morning, bvight and early, two

teams started plowing the ten acres of

sod. Tuesday night about eightacres

had been covered. The following day

one of the teams completed the plow-

ing, while the other began fitting the

land. On Thursday the work of fit-

ting was pushed and late that after-





noon the drill wasstarted. The next





day, which was the twenty-sixth of

June, the planting was completed at

the hour mentioned above.



The first field planted that year had

been put in under quite different con-

ditions. It was plowed early. Before

the corn ground was in condition to

fit for oats, we could get the horses

on this sod for plowing. At intervals

of a week or ten days, we found time

to go over this field with the spike-

tooth barrow to keep down the weeds

and to work the surface into a fine

seed-bed. This cultivation and the

weathering settled the soilodown quite

firmly.



- The threshing results from these

two fields were strikingly different.





From the late-sown ten acres, an aver?





age yieldxof slightly over fifteen bush-

els was received. When the other

field was run through, it showed an

average of nearly ten bushels more

than did the first.



This difference was so large that

the circumstances impressed them-

selves upon us. We began to realize

that even beans would respond to in-

telligent cultural methods. Since then

we have watched the growing of this





camel'About Beans





V L Some -Eic1oerzences on Making a Crop and Sm’e/z'gflts on Me Bean Sztudtzorz





By Burt Wermuth





crop in a number of localities and are





'now quite thoroughly convinced that





where good practices are followed,

farmers can materially cut down the

cost of producing a bushel of beans.

Just now, however, there are other

questions confronting the bean farm-

er, and it may be well to consider some

of these before completing our story

on bean production. In the first place,

do we want to grow less beans, or

more beans, or should we maintain

our present volume of production? Will





proposed tariff in the new schedule of

$1.75 are diverting the bean shipments

from Japan to other countries. Canada

is now taking a liberal portion of Nip-

pon’s' offerings.



It would also appear that Califor-

nia’s growers are becoming discourag-

ed, especially with the production of

the white bean. Freight rates appear

to be against the Pacific Coast men.

It costs more to lay California beans

down in Kansas City than it does the

Michigan product. The respective cost





 





the situation be improved if we cut

down the supply and force the con-

suming public to substitute some other

product after the bean stocks are used

up? What substitute will they use,

andif once established, will it be pos-

sible to put beans back in their former

position?



We do not know of a business house

Which deliberately allows a competi-

tor to introduce goods when it might





easily have been prevented. In busi-

ness as in legalvmatters, “Possession

is nine points of the law.” To the av-





erage person it would appear to be the

part of wisdom for bean producers to

keep possession of their market and

to see that the consuming public is

provided with the beans they desire. '



There are other things worthy of

consideration. One of these is that

Japanese beans are no longer coming

to this ,country in volumes sufficiently

large to be considered. The tempor-

ary tarifi of $2.00 per hundred; and a





being $1.05 and sixty-eight cents re-

spectively.



This lack of western competition

considerably broadens the territory to

be satisfied from Michigan sources.

Adding to this the fact that now the

channels of trade are pretty thorough-

ly cleaned up on all held-over stock,

the outlook is such that those who

have depended upon beans as a cash

crop need not be altogether downcast.

Just how the whole matter is lining up

is told pretty well in the following fig-

ures which give the total production

for each year since 1914. The figures

are: ~





Year. Bushels.

1914 OOIIIOOQIOIIIIOOOOOIOC.l11’585,000

1915 ........................10,321,000

1916 ...'....................10,715,000

1917 .......................16,045,000

1918 .......................17,397,000

1919 .......................11,935,000

1920 9,075,000

1921 ....................... 8,780,000





These figures tell us that last Year

there were produced only a few bush-





 





els more than one- -half the total har-

vested during the big season of 1918. In

the pre-war year of 1912, the harvest‘

amounted to over 11,000,000 bushels.



I am not inclined to the opinion

that these figures justify any increase

in our acreage. I do think, however,

that more stress should be placed upon

the proper preparation of the soil to

receive the 1922 crop in order that the

farmer’s net returns may be better

insured. To secure the most up-to—date

and tried practices in the growing of

this crop, a questionnaire was sent to ,

a number of men who, for a number of

years back, have been succeeding well

with' beans. Definite information was

sought on the type of soil desired for

beans, its preparation, varieties used,

the after-cultivation necessary, and the

results obtained. The answers to these

questions are interesting.



The old saying that land is too poor

to grow beans has given us a wrong

impression of this plant. Somehow

farmers generally have gotten the

idea that any kind of soil not suited

to other crops will do for the produc-‘

tion of white beans. We asked our

good bean growers the type of soil

which they preferred for this crop.

Practically all of the answers say a

good clay loam. Mr. Olaf Nelson, of

Cheboygan county, Who has done much

for the improvement of beans in that

section, suggests a preference for a

sandy loam. Our own experience in

the center of the great bean-growing

district of Michigan would lead us to

suggest the use of most any good loam

that is Well supplied with fertility and

is in good mechanical condition.



The second problem met in the con-

sideration of this question is the rota-

tion that works out best for beans.

Here are some of the rotations sug-

gested: Mr. H. W. Jadwin, of Genesee

county, follows a rotation of corn,

beans, wheat and clover hay. W. W.

Terry, of Mecosta county, grows beans

after hay and follows this with grain

in a three-year rotation. E. C. Mc-

Carty, of Huron county, seeds oats to

clover and turns under the clover so'd

for beans, after which oats are again



(Continued on page 580).





Market News Fills the Air





Radio ”717/ Help Solve a Big Proé/em.——By M Adams





IRELESS telephony has come



into prominence 'with amazing



,, Speed in the'last few,months.



‘Its use is of the utmost importance to

farmers. Over one million sets repre-

senting the expenditure of millions of

dollars are in use in the United States

at the present time and the number

grows daily. With reliable sets now

offered at reasonable prices, the possi-

bilities of the radio are almost unlim-

ited.





_ It is not expected that the radio will

ever entirely supplant. wire communi-

cation as ‘the limitations of sending





' apparatus willprevent. But it will de-





velop into an important supplementary

service to the telegraph and telephone

lines. Radio, unlike the telephone and

(telegraph which afford immediate but

personal contact generally” only be-

tween individuals, covers an area.





It will bring to the farmer





 





 





It is as easy to buy a radio re— ‘

ceiving set as a tooth- brush and equal;

_ 1y simple to use one.





In ‘

radio broadcasting is the_.means of im-



‘ r mediate contact between numerous in-.‘

. , dividuals.

‘7‘ out in the country news in a flash that _

u to this. time has never been dissem-V '





The general use of the radio will do

as much to relieve rural isolation as

has the increasing use of the automo-

The city will no





bile and telephone.





longer have a monopoly of comforts,





luxuries and recreation. The radio will

bring the church, the lecture platform,

the latest play, the opera or the news





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





   

 





‘. positive benefit—the benefit one can





of the world to the farmer and his

family as they sit in their own living-

room. It offers them a very real and

practical opportunity to get in closer

touch with the cultural life of the city.

No matter where he lives, how far he

is from town, how bad the roads are

or how limited his immediate re

sources for pleasure, the farmer can

adjust the receivers of his radio at

will and bring to himself as he sits in

his own easy chair many of the advan-

tages of the city.



Besides the recreational value of the

radio is its practical value as an aid

to farm marketing which makes the

new invention of utmost importance.

Market quotations, current conditions

in various markets, weather reports,

crop reports and the like are already

being broadcasted at regular intervals.

They can be picked out of the air sev-

eral times a day whereas at the pres-

ent time the average farmer gets his

news from a paper which at best





reaches him the day after date of pub... ‘ V





lication. .

Just how the system of disseminate

ing market news by wireless -will be of





(Continued On page 576).
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', STEER AND SWINE FEEDING DAY.





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NNUAL visiting day at the Michi—



gan Agricultural College for farm-

ers and others interested in steer and

swine feeding will be held on Tuesday.

~May 16, according to announcement of

.Prof George A.- Brown, head of the

animal husbandry department at the

cellege. ,



On this day results of the winter’s

work in experimental feeding at the

college will be presented and discuss

ed by the assembled farmers. At the

. same time plans for future experiment-

al programs will be taken up in an

effort to plan work of most value to



‘the feeders of the state.



During the last six months, three

lots of steers have been on feed in

the college barns to detérmine the rel-

ative value of silage made from well-

matured husking corn (normal silage)

and silage made from corn stover af~

ter the ears had been removed.



Five tests have also been run with

pigs, using five lots of pigs in each



» test. The following rations were used:

Corn, rye, barley and tankage; rye and

tankage; barley and tankage; corn and

tankage; rye, barley and tankage; bar-

ley, middlings and tankage; rye, mid—

dlings and tankage.



Results of the above tests will be

computed just before the May 16 con

ference and the results presented then.



A large number of state feeders and

others interested in the work turned

out for the conference a year ago, and

college authorities are expecting an

even larger gathering the sixteenth.





WAR FINANCE BILL.





 





HE bill extending the time that;



the War Finance Corporation can

function in making loans until July 1,

1923, has just been passed by the sen«

ate and will soon become a law. Upon

this measure the farm bureau has this

to say: “The service rendered by the

corporation, while particularly import-

ant during the emergency following

the war, has, however, met a need

which has been growing through a pe-

riod of years, due to the fact that a

general system of financing agriculture

has not been properly developed."





FARM BUREAU CONCENTRATES

EFFORTS.





 





TENDENCY is developing among



the farm organizations to concen-

trate their efforts upon a few well de-

‘fined concrete legislative remedies,

rather than spread their efforts pro-

miscuously over a' large number of

bills.



The American Farm Bureau Feder-

ation has formulated an eight-point

program upon which it will center its

efforts. These include farm credits,





agricultural representation on the Fedv





eral Reserve Board, War FinanCe Cor-

poration, Muscle Shoals nitrate plant,

removal of $10,000 limit on Land Bank

loans, truth-in-fabrics, federal aid to

highways, and the standard container

act.





* ONE AGENT FOR TWO. COUNTIES.





 





HE appointment of C. W. Wing,

formerly county agent of Charle-

voix county, as agricultural guardian

over both Lake and Osceola counties

makes the second time two counties

,have‘one agent. The other instance is





I t .‘where Antrim and Kalkaska have unit-





ed in this kind of work.



It was found when it came time to

Iget an‘agent for Lake county that

»there was not enough agriculture in

the one county-to warrant, the hiring





wages paid common laborers augme-





of a specialist. Osceola county has

good agricultural development but it

lacked the'funds with which to. hire a

man. As a consequence the two coun-

ties .cooperated and it is expected that

much good will result to the farmers.



Mr. Wing~will "devote his time to

boosting the production of potatoes

and alfalfa and the development of





potato marketing associations. He will , ,





also tackle the problem of controlling

the grasshopper pests which infest

these counties and ruin oats and fall-

seeded crops to a terrific extent.





MORE COW-TESTERS NEEDED.





 





HE following communication has



just been received from A. C. Balt-

zer, of the Dairy Department of the

M. A. 0., who is in charge of cow-

testing work in Michigan. The letter

is self-explanatory. He writes:

, “I am very glad to note the interest

you have for cow-testing association

work in Michigan, and the material

you have been carrying. I am finding

considerable interest in various coun-

ties in cow-testing work, especially in

dairy-alfalfa campaign counties. With

these new associations coming on, the

need for men, who are in sympathy

with the work, to render the Cow-test-

ing Association service is becoming

more pressing. Men who understand

feeding, are energetic and desirous of

learning and men to do helpful work

for the men who join up in the Cow-

testing Association, are needed. Can

you. perhaps give a little publicity on

this matter, directing inquiries to me,





care Dairy Department, M. A. 0., East.





Lansing, Mich.? We certainly would





 





appreciate getting in touch» with boys

who have perhaps had the short':course

work at M. A. C., and who are willing





to get out among twenty-five different





farmers month after month. We espe

cially desire young men who are open

to learn as well as to impart. infor-

mation.”.,





CONDITIONS ,GETTING BETTER.





 





N his trip through the west, Mr.

Eugene‘Meyer, of the War Finance

Corporation, says he found that the

severe depression which dealt such a





hard blow to the agricultural interests .





is in some sections of the country al-

ready a thing of the past; that in oth-





er sections it is rapidly passing; and»





that everywhere hope and confidence

are taking the place of the despair

which six months ago was, so widely

prevalent."





HIGHWAY BILL PASSES HOUSE.





 





HE Dunn highway aid bill, favored



, by the American Farm Bureau

Federation, passed the house May 1

by a vote of 239 to thirty-one. This

bill provides $65,000,000 fer the next

fiscal year and,$75,000,000 for 1924-25

for federal cooperation in road build-

ing in carrying out the farm~to-market

program adopted last fall.



W. G. Markham, who represents the

state highway departments of forty.

eight states, says that having adopted

a seven per cent system on which the

federal aid is to be concentrated, it is

presumed that congress proposes to go





ahead with this work as rapidly as





financial conditions will admit.





 





Wednesday, May 3.

HE allies have elected United

States Chief Justice William How-

ard Taft as mediator in arbitrations at

the Genoa economic conference—Riv-

al factions in Ireland agree to a truce





and an election for the purpose of

forming a staple government—A, “Sell-

ing Michigan to Michiganders” cam-

paign opened with a big meeting in

Detroit last week.





Thursday, May 4.



ORTY thousand central Chinese



troops menace Pekin in the Chi-

nese Civil Wan—President Harding

intends to leave the soldier bonus bill

alone until it comes to him for signa-

ture—The United States plans to sell

for junk the naval ships which are to"

be scrapped, in accordance with the

naval limitations treaty.





Friday, May 5.

HE Detroit Free Press opened a

radio broadcasting station May 4.

—Lew Freedman, one of the most fa-

mous dice shakers in the country, dies

penniless in California—For the first

time in the history of the Episcopal

diocese of Massachusetts, women were

allowed to vote—United States Sena-

tor Harry S. New was defeated ifor re-

election by Albert J. »Beveridge by a

large majority. Mr. Beveridge ran a



no-money-spending campaign.

8aturday,-,May 6.





‘HE coal operators refuse to join

the miners in ‘an inquiry into the

anthracite coal business—Nine die

and thirty-eight are hurt in a tornado

in Texas—Detroitleads all cities in





 





.ural. assets of the state. ‘ 5 -:





chanics.—Recent disclosures . indicate

that the Russian Soviet government





has an elaborate spy system working

in France.





Sunday, May 7.

OVERNOR GROESBECK in a talk

before the Michigan Manufactur-



ers’ Association, says that the present

state administration is the most eco-

nomic and efficient in history—Two

army aviators in Texas fly 1,800 miles

in 740 minutes—Mrs. Mildred Brandt,

police magistrate of Dinslow, Illinois,

will hold court in her front parlor:—

Federal authorities are searching for

Harry King who, through cut-rate

chicken incubation business swindled

many farmers in Michigan, Indiana,

Pennsylvania and Ohio.





Monday, May 8.





HE French stand in opposing the



allies’ memorandum to Russia

with reference to property in Russia

of foreign owners, again imperils the“

Genoa parley.-—~Henry~ Davison, the fa-

mous international banker, and partner

of J. P. Morgan, died in New York

after an operation—In March there

were only fifty-eight radio broadcast-

ing stations in the country; now there

are 235. ‘

I Tuesday, May 9.



HE United States government ex-



pendituresjn 1922 will be approx-

imately $1,600,000.000 less than a year

age—G. H. Patterson, head of the Na—‘

tional Cash Register Company, died of

heart failure on a train—President

Friday, of M. A. 0., was made head- of

a board which will catalogue the nat-





 





, Grand , R pids.





Concerning the amount the congress

should apprOpriate, Mr. "Markham says

that thirty state highway departments

believe they can put under contract

their share, each year, of a federal ap-

propriation of 31,00 000, 000. “During

the past three years we have put un-

der contract an average of 382, 000, 00.0

federal funds per year. Realizing that

congress is being called on for finan-

cial assistance for many worthy mat.

ters of national importance, we are

asking that the federal appropriations

for these three years be 375, 000 ,000 a

- year. "





ENDORSES SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.





 





HE endorsement of the ship sub-

sidy by President J. R. Howard, of





the American Farm Bureau Federation.

is giving much encouragement to the





shipping interests. “This endorsement

of the shipping legislation," says Sen-

ator J. E. Ransdell, president of the

National Merchant Marine Associa-

tion,,“is the most striking evidence of

the realization by the American farm—

er of the necessity of an adequate

American merchant marine. When the

World War broke out in 1914, about





nine per cent of our foreign commerce





was being carried in American ships.

When the German ships were interned

and ships of other nations partly with-

drawn, there resulted a paralysis in

our export trade we shall never forget.

Our producers lost billions of dollars

and our national prosperity was imper-

iled. It was the farmer who suffered

most from this paralysis of our export

commerce."





FOR INCREASE IN LOAN LIMIT.





 





HE bill to increase the maximum



loan limit to individual farmers, is

favored by the farm bureau because

the $10,000 limit does not meet the

needs of the farmers. “Anything which

militates against farm land being own-

ed and operated in areas of reasonable

size tends to undermine and destroy

the American standard of living." ac-

cording to the farm bureau represent-

atives. “It is no more desirable to

encourage small inefficient. peasant

farms in this country than it is to en-

courage. large holdings by landlords.

The Federal Land Banks should so op-

erate as to aid and encourage owner-

operated farms of such size as will

make possible the efficient utilization

of the labor and managing ability of

the owner. The Joint Stock Land

banks are not subject to the present

limit of $10, 000 and the existence of

this limit with reference to the twelve

Federal Land Banks handicaps them

in competition with the former class

of banks.

tionable since the Joint Stock Land

Banks may loan to landlords, while the

Federal Land Banks are authorized

only to extend loans on farm lands ac-

tually operated by the owner.”





Jack Frost‘ was responsible for nu

merous fluctuations in the hothouse

leaf lettuce market in Michigan. After

dipping to eleven cents a pound, the

Grand Rapids Growers’ Association

gradually moved up its bid on this

product until the market opened this

week at seventeen cents a pound. As

each freeze set back the outdoor crap,

the price moved up one to two cents

a pound.





N.. DenHollander, 'a gardener, sold

the first home-grdwn silver skin on-

ions this season of the Grand Rapids

market on April 29. This was about

a week later than last year When this '

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.taxes to meet the government’s ex-



pense account and, a half-billion-



dollar deficit in revenuegin the fiscal

. year beginning July 1,’ next.



Several‘ billions of war obligations

are coming due that year,_4_ including

$125,000,000 of accumulated interest

on war savings stamps. Much, ifwnot





’ all, of this huge amount will have to





be refunded. Even then, Secretary of

the Treasury Mellon says the govern-

ment will lack one-half billion dollars

of meeting its expensesfor the year.



By "lapping off one and one-half bil-

lions of expenditures—a World record

in economy—the Harding administra-

tion has brought us through the pres-

ent fiscal year ending June‘ 30, with-

out a deficit and_with a few millions

to spare. But on this reduced scale

of national living, expendituresfor the

next fiscal year beginning July 1 will

exceed the government’s income by

about $500,000,000 because federal

revenues are shrinking. 0‘



As calculated by Secretary Mellon,

all the government’s sources of income

for that year will not exceed $3,298,-

000,000. Expenditures will reach $3,-

657,000.000. This shows ,an ,outgo ex-

ceeding the government’s income of

$359,000,000 to which must be added

the $125,000,000 interest due on war

savings stamps January 1, 1923.



I used to think an era of high taxes

for Americans would be a blessing in

disguise. That was before the war.



I believed high taxes would quicken

the coming of a business-like adminis-

tration of public affairs, local, state

and national, and teach us to use pub-

\ lic funds to the best advantage. _



The war has since brought the high

taxes and with them the most urgent

need of economy and ”efficient manage-

ment in government this country has

ever known. But we are not getting

results from its lessons in economy

when congress unhesitatingly adds

tWenty4four more or less unnecessary

federal judges and their supernumer-

a‘ries to the government’s payroll, nor

‘when $15,000,000’can be flung in a mo-

ment into that sinkhold of iniquity and

untold millions, the¢river and harbor

bill,‘ merely as a political gesture.



New York newspapers are boasting

that ’New York’s representatives in

congress voted this $15,000,000 addi-

tion to our great national “pork” pro-

ducer, to obtain southern» support to

defeat the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence

waterways project, which, if realized,

would bring Europe’s markets virtual-

ly t6 our'national doorway and put a

great many millions annually into the

pockets of taxpayers in nearly all the

great producing states for years to

come. ' '





 





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gT‘may be necessary to invent new ’





That makes this appropriation a sort

of double-barreled sin, for as I see it,

any public enterprise which will bring.

new wealth and new business to mil-

lions of taxpayers, is but another way“,

of reducing or lightening their tax

burdens through making it easier to

pay the taxes.



From now on we cannot expect to

reduce governmental expenses by bil-

lion dollar sums. We have got to get

'down to small change such small

change, for instance, as the useless

free-seed graft which throws away only

a third of a million a year. We must

shut off absolutely all new public

buildings, eliminate all appropriations

for river work to that which is strictly

and immediately necessary on rivers

now supporting navigation all the year

around.



The government must get down to

the economy basis of a private busi-

ness in hard times and that means

looking into every expense account,

also cutting to the bone the minutiae

of traveling expenses and perquisites

which combine into a great total.



Thank goodness it will soon be nec-

essary to keep the railroods busy haul-

ing regiments and detachments of the

regular army back and forth across

the country from or to little army

posts in order to keep a few soldiers

at this or' that place, or to maintain

and police all this useless government

property. Many such posts have had

no excuse for being since the days of

Indian warfare, but probably would

have been maintained until doomsday

if the taxpayers were not balking.



Aside from the administration’s sur-

passing and successful efforts to re-

duce expenses and thereby lower tax-

es, I am so far forced to admit that

taking. the rest of the country as a

Whole, we have broken few recards

either in governmental retrenchment

or efficiency as yet. If. we do not do

much better taxes will continue to

mount. A big fire cannot be put out

by squirt-gun methods, and taxes may

easily become a consuming fire which

will devour initiative and 'enterprise,

and then progress. Our most urgent

governmental need at .this time is

economy.





 





CHILE TO GROW SUGAR‘BEETS.





 





REPORTS come from our counsel



in Chile that a company is prepar-

ing to manufacture beet sugar at Val-

divia. The firm has already contract-

ed with farmers to cultivate beets and

it is estimated that a total of from

eighteen to twenty thousand metric

tons are available. At present the

greater portion of Chile’s sugar supply

comes in the raw state from Peru.





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





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Potash for Swamp Land





DOES the corn grown on your

swamp or muck land look like

the large ear or like the small one? The

small one shows the kind of corn pro-

duced on potash hungry muck land.

When 100 to 200 lbs. per acre of

Muriate of Potash, or 400 to 800 lbs.

of Kainit, are broadcasted on potash

hungry muck, full yields of sound corn

are produced.





For onions, on such lands, 100 to 200 lbs.

per acre of Sulfate of Potash is the

right amount to produce full yields of

sound onions that ripen normally and

keep well.





With potatoes and truck crops, like

results are obtained.





Even at war prices potash gave a good profit

on swamp lands. Now it can be bought for

very much less. It will help you reduce the

cost of production, and greatly improve the

quantity and quality of your crops. There

is plenty of it if ' you Will take the trouble to

insist on having it.





SOIL & CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE

H. A. HUSTON, Manager





42 Broadway New York





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A party loaned $1, 000 to a son and

the note was signed, giving said party

seven per cent interest. The one loan-

ing the money agreed to board at $10

a week. Party boarded up $490. He

now has called for payment to be

made on note. He allows a deduction

of $490. Is first party entitled to seven

per cent interest on money advanced

to -buy food fer him for nearlya year?





The acceptance of " payments on a

part paid—J. R. R.





T-RESPASS BY. ANIMALS.





 





Is it lawful to keep tame rabbits

and allow them to run at large? I own

eighty acres on the north side of the

road and have good woven wire fence

for stock.‘ But neighbor on the south

side has no road fence and his one

hundred chickens and rabbits are de-

stroying my field of wheat. Is there

a way of getting pay for what they

destroy?——J. H. L. .



The owner of the rabbits and chick-

ens is liable in damages for the injury





done by them.—-—J. R. .R. .





SOY-BEANS.





 





Can you tell me about how much

soy-beans to plant with corn for filling

silo? ,Also, how much is required per

acre when sown alone twenty-eight

inches apart ?—R. D.





When soy-beans are planted in twen-

ty—eightinch rows, from thirty to thir-

ty-five pounds of seed is required per

acre when a crop is to be harvested

for seed and from thirty-five to forty

pounds of seed per acre when the

crop is to be harvested for hay.



When soy-beans are sown with corn

for ensilage, from four to six quarts

of seed per acre is sufficient. A more

even stand will be secured if a soy-

bean attachment is used on the corn

planter. Soy-beans are smooth and

round and when mixed with corn an

uneven stand is frequently secured. If

only a small acreage is to be sown,





lay his fingers on—-—is yet to be determ-

.' ined. It will depend largely upon who

{sends it out and the use farmers make

of it. Any system, however, radio or

otherwise, which hastens the distribu-

tion of accurate, unbiased news of the

world’ s agricultural markets is highly

beneficial. Through the radio, the

sale of farm products can be put on

the same basis as commercial busi-

ness. The farmer will get from his

radio set news as “hot” as that which

the business man reads from his

ticker.



’The fact that accurate, up- -to-the-

minute knowledge of current market

returns is to be made available to farm-

Iers can be turned into substantial prof-

it; For instance, a farmer may have

ordered a car for loading his hogs at

the siding to be shipped on the follow-

ing morning. 4The noon radio market

reports bring news of an unexpected

down-turn in hog prices at the market

for which his load was slated. If the

farmer has been following the market

news regularly and intelligently, he

can decide in his own mind whether

the break is a temporary one due to

., heavy receipts which will not last long

' or whether it is the beginning of a per-_

‘siStent price decline and act accord-

ingly. Without the radio service, the

news of the unexpected lower prices

wduld ‘not have reached the farmer un—

" “after his load had been shipped.

Thisds but one example of how the

radio will , save money for the man





 





 





 





 





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SOME COMMUNITY QUESTIONS.





 





Can a person enter suit against per...

sons for playing cards in the Farmers’ :,

Community Hall? We play cards at:

Dances and meetings? are?

free, but outsiders are charged for us-.

ing the hall; The community cut fire--.

wood and hauled it to the hall. Can.

the wood 'be taken away, as this com-j

munity-wants to give up’the hall; 133.3!

a person the right to carry hidden fire-

arms without a license? What can be.

done to such a person?—W. J. .



Playing cards without gambling is

not unlawful, gambling is. The wood

'may be moved by the owner of it. Car-

rying arms without a license is a mis-

demeanor. ——J. R. R.





VACATING HIGHWAY.





 





I own eighty acres of land, and there

is a road crossing my farm about in

the middle. It has been there for,

thirt -five or forty years. Can 1 com-

pel t em to make the new road on the

line and keep them from crossing my

farm?—B. B.



If the road has been accepted and

improved by the public it could be va-

cated only by proper legal proceedings

to vacate in which the owner of the

land crossed has no enforceable right.

——J. R. R.





SOME FERTILIZER QUESTIONS.





 





Could I mix and use to advantage

the following: Phosphate, clear pot-

ash and lime, to be sown with a grain

drill. What proportion should I mix

it? For oats, for corn, for beans, for

potatoes? Of the two fertilizers, p0t—‘

ash or phosphate, which feeds the ke1-

nels, and which the stem and leaves?

——L. K. 0.





Owing to the bulk of lime applied

per acre I do not think it advisable

to try to run this material through the

ordinary grain drill. It would prob-

ably be more economical for you to

spread the lime through a- lime sower





out on the land who is not directly

connected with the telegraph; and rthis

amounts to the same thing as making

money for him.



For years it has been possible to

obtain market news promptly through

the use of the telegraph but such mes-

sages were much less frequent.jthan

the radio offers and their cost was pro+

hibitive to the individual farmer. With

the radio in general use it ‘~will no-

longer be possible for a buyer to slip

out into the country after the market

has gone up and buy. live stockzor

grain on the basis of old quotations



Weather reports are now being

broadcasted to farmers in many sec-

tions The immediate receipts of such

material is of immense value in the

production and harvesting of crops

when an hour’s delay in the cutting

of hay or the harvesting of grain may

mean the loss of many dollars.



With the radio service as its aid,

3. national agricultural ‘body”'with the





cooperation and confidence of produc-





ers could direct the marketing of all

farm products in, a way that would

make for decidedly orderly marketingfl

For many years the sale of citrus

fruits has been directed. by wire. Cars.

of fruit are sent out and as the market

changes, the destination of the cars is

changed For instance, the cars leave

the coast, headed for Chicago. Careful

trace ofuthem is kept so that their po-

sition is known at alt times-.11? when





   





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. and for the crops you have mentioned





I think you should include some nitr01

gen in your mixtures. Oats, two per

cent ammonia and twelve per. Cent

phosphoric acid; corn, two per cent





ammonia, twelve per cent phosphoric '





acid- and two per cent potash. Pota-

toes, three per cent ammonia, twelve

per cent phosphoric acid and four per

cent potash.



The potash and phosphate function

throughout the entire growing period

of the plant. While analysis shows

that most of the phosphorus is in the

kernels and most of the potash in the

stems and leaves, I do not think it can

be truthfully said that one, element

feeds kernels and the other stems and

leaves as both foods are essential in

kernels and stems and leaves—G. G.





 





WILD RICE.





 





Would wild rice have any bad effect

on stock that runs in the field where

it is growing? Also, would it spread

to high land?—~A. E. S.



I know of no instances of wild rice

damaging live stock by pasturing in a

field where it is growing. Wild rice

will not spread to high land since it

requires an ample supply of water for

growth. It grows only in shallow wa-

ter or occasionally in marshy places.

—J. F. C.





SWEET CLOVER FOR POOR SOILS.





 





Would you advise sowing sweet clo-

ver on poor soil, a little sandy, just

clay ove‘r?——C. D.



Sweet clover is one of the best

crops for the improvement of poor

soils that are low in available plant

food and organic matter, regardless of

whether the soil is of sandy or clay

nature.





Soils that have been cropped heav-





Market News Fills the





least, the man who is directing the

1 movement has bad. word that theiChiw





cago market is glutted with the fruit

but that St. Louis is low on it, word





is sent by wire for the cars to go to





St. Louis. In this way the fruit is put

on the market where it is needed and

prices obtained are usually advantaga

eons. In' time the radio will probably.





be used instead of the telegraph wire.





in the directing of this work.

-'The same' practice canvbe used in-





'the marketing of perishable fruits and

,vegetables, grain and live stock. With

a capable directive agency, an'exten-





sive radio system and growers who are

willing to follow directions, produce





can be put on the market so that





heavy receipts at any one terminal and

dearth of receipts at others will be a

thing of the past and more uniform

prices will be inevitable.



The field of radio telephony is new

and there are many of its problems

still to be solved. One of the first to

be considered is whether 0r not..the

dissemination of news by-wireless is

to remain in the hands of the three or

four large agencies who are at present

able to, dictate just what news can be

used. Until information. can be sent

out unrestrictedly. by those. who' are

interested in aiding the producer and

in .making him acquainted with the

nervs 'of his trade, the farmer will not

be served by the radio. as advantage-

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.ily. over a. period of years .are quite

‘.likely..to hedoficient in lime; Sweet

clover seldom produCes a satisfactory

growth on acid soils. The. use. of two

tons of ground 1'1mestone.or from three

to five cubic yards of marl per acre

usually makes. 1t possible to get a good

seeding of sweet clover under these

conditions. 1



Sweet clover will catch on soils that

are so low in available fertility that

alfalfa and red clover fail. The seed—

bed should be well firmed. It is sel-

dom that a good stand of sweet clover

is secured on a loose seed-bed. From

twelve to fifteen pounds of scarified

biennial. white sweet clover seed

should be sown peracre. Early spring

seedings are advisable.



If either cats or barley are used,

not more than a bushel of seed should

be sown per acre. Also the use of’a

fertilizer containing phosphorus, and

potash will likely be found profitable

on sandy soils. Sweet clever is excel-

lent to precede alfalfa—C. R. M. '





BUTTERMILK FOR PIGS.





 





Is buttermilk good to feed to pigs

gvhichP are four or five months old?-——

E





Buttermilk has practically the same

composition as skim-milk and feeding

trials at several experiment stations

where the two have been compared,

show little difference in their feeding

value. The results of numerous tests





_ would indicate that skim-milk or but-





termilk is worth about one- fou1th as

much per cwt. as cereal grains when

fed as a supplement to them. Also





that the best results are obtained when ,





not more than three pounds of milk

are fed to one pound. of grain. And

that pigs under 100 pounds in weight

will make a slightly better use of it

than pigs over that weight.



You: will find a fund of valuable in-

formation in Special Bulletin No.92 of

the Michigan Station, East Lansing,

Michigan—P. P. P.





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American Farm' Bureau Federation is

now supplying news to be sent out at

the Westinghouse broadcasting sta.‘1

tion in Chicago.‘ Ultimately it is the





Contmum’ from

Page .5 74





hope of the federation to have‘a send+‘





ing station of .its own from which

news supplementary to the brief, al-

most technical material now going out

will be broadcasted.





There are other changes to bemade'

and problems to be solved as the radio

As an aid

to the farmer in his problems of farm

marketing and as an instrument of

lessening rural isolation,. its possibili-

ties are particularly promising, and un-

doubtedly the next few years will find

farmers everywhere profiting by the

material they are receiving via their

wireless sets.





The radio will not supplant either.





the farm paper or the newspaper as a.

means of education, information and





entertainment. It leaves no permanent





record which can be recalled for refer-

ence and has limitations as1to the

amount of material Which can be

transmitted. In the field of market

news it will be restricted largely to

quotations and» to current conditions

which are continually changing. It





cannot furnish analyses of factors ,





which bear on the market’s

which, after all,





constitute the most





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IRON SULPHATE FOR DANDE-

‘ LIONS.

ANY people are not impressed

with the beauty of the dandelion

in their lawns and seek its eradication.

For eight years the Geneva Experi-

ment Station has been using iron sul-

phate spray to rid lawns of dandelions.

‘ The spray solution is prepared by

dissolving in one gallon of water one

and one-half pounds of the iron sul-

phate, also known as green vitriol or

copperas, and is obtainable at most

hardware 'or' drug stores. This amount

of spray will cover about one and _one-

half square rods of lawn. While fairly

good results are obtained when the

spray is applied with the ordinary-

sprinkling can, much better results

will follOw when put on ,with .a fine

mist nozzle that carries the liquid well

down into the foliage of the plants.

The solution should be made in

wooden or earthenware vessels, as it

corrodes metals. Care should also be

taken to keep the solution from wet

ting cement or stone walks, the foun-

dations of buildings, clothing, etc., as

it leaves a ’stain which is extremely

difiicult to remove.

The spray should be applied in May





 





.just before the dandelions start bloom-





ing, and should be repeated once or

twice at intervals of three or four

weeks. One or two additional applica-

tions can be made late in the summer

and fall if necessary. Where proper-

ly done, spraying every third year will

keep the'lawn practically free from

dandelions, according to the above ex-

periment , station. ’



The blackening of the grass immedi-

ately following each application should

occasion no alarm, as this will soon

disappear where the grass is growing

rapidly. Bare spots, which are due to

the killing of the dandelions, should

be reseeded to grass





TRANSPLANTING JUNE GRASS.





 





ANY times June grass will die



out on small portions of a lawn

and it is”diflicult to reseed these poor

places. Some people have resodded

these poor spots, others have attempt-_

ed to reseed. Either way is very sat-

isfactory. The resodding always shows

plainly in the old lawn, more like a

patch one. man’s coat.



An excellent way to handle these

poor places or any other places where

June grass has failed to catch and do

well is to take small pieces of June

grass sod, put them down' on the

ground where the grass has failed, and

then chop them fine with a sharp

shovel or spade, strike hard enough so

the sod is thoroughly mixed with soil

underneath then pack the ground,

either by tramping on it or rolling it.

The June grass roots have thus been

transplanted into the soil and will





.usually make a quick growth and be-





fore the season is over one can scarce-

ly distinguish these patches from ”the

better portion of the lawn—G. B. D.





FOX mousr’nv GROWING.





T is estimated that about eight mil-

, lion dollars is invested in the fox

industry in the_;United States. A sur-

vey shows at least five hundred ranch-

ers raising silver foxes and indicates

that there are between twelve thou-

sand and fifteen thousand foxes in cap-





tivity. The modern fur trade has beim ,

. a great impetus to the development





of fur farming. Michigan is one of‘

the leading states in the Union in the

breeding of silver foxes.





. ‘. NobOdy would 1:111;sz anything about





 





   

   





   





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





-- BATIERI ES -





The impulse to fly





'- ,' ’ The propeller revolves and, like a liberated



. bird, an airplane soars into space. The spark



. of ignition comes from an Exide Battery used

in so many of our airplanes.





Not only in the air, but on land and sea and

under the sea, Exide Batteries play an active

part in. the affairs of men. They propel sub-

marines when beneath the surface; they run

the locomotives used in mines; and on the

land Exide Batteries drive street vehicles, sup-

ply the current for the telephone system, oper-

ate fire alarms and railway signals, and fill

many other vital needs. “





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





In building ruggedbatteries for farm light

and power plants experience counts heavily.

A great majority of all such plants are equipped

with Exide Batteries.





Many a farmer learns of Exide’s dependable

power through the battery in his car. And he

learns that the Exide saves him money because

it does not get out of repair and because it out-

lasts other batteries. Do not put up with bat-

tery troubles when there is an Exide made for

your car.





The Electric Storage Battery Co.

Philadelphia ‘





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your present: battery needs '

repairs, no matter what

make it is, it will be re-

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Farms and Farm Lands





Lakeside Michigan Farm $4500

160 Acres With 20 Cattle and





Horses, implements. tools thrown in; big yields all

crops; good money from dairy and stock; R.R. station.

good markets and advantages convenient: machine-

'worked fields for 300 bu. potatoes. 30 bu. wheat or 2%

tons hay acre; pasture. woodloc; good 2-Htory 6-room

house, o4-ft. barn. stable. gara e. poultry house.

Owner called by other duties Barri cos $4500, part cash.



ull details page 9?. Illus. Catalog 1200 Bargains.

FREE. STROU'l‘ FARM AGENCY. 814 B0 Ford

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. at a Fair Price—854 acres of

A Real Farm fertile land in Lowndes

County. Georgia. Over 200 acres in cultivation and

pasture; 52.00000 worth of merchantable timberzgood

.ences; fair buildings; mild winters: long growing

masons: all crops do well; particularly fine for dairy

iarming or hogs; pork can be made cheaper than in

buy other pnrl of the United States. Reason for sell-

rig—owners cannot live on or look after it. Address



J. J. NEWMAN, Vuldosta, Georgia.





SACRIFICE SALE





160 acres. clay loam soil. some rolling. small house.



small barn. fine orchard. close to school. on good



road, six miles to good town. hall’ cleared. if ro-



, perly farmed will make enough this year to alf



pay for itself. Price $25.00 per acre. Half down and

ten years time on the remainder. Write owner.



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,Furniture, Horsesys Cow; and

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Poultry - Dairy - Truck - General Farms

Fully equipped anduueqnipped. Priced from 81500

up. sy terms. Rich fertile valleys; well watered

by brooks and springs. Write your wants or come

on see us. Best markets. Good roads. Schools.

Ohurcheu. Interstate Farm Agency. Waverly. N. Y.





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N 0 Danger from

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For seventy-four years, “R. H. Co.”

Lightning Rods have been giving per-

fect protection against lightning.

During all of this time there has never

beena loss of any building on which

these rods have been maintained prop-

erly!





Think of such absolute protection

being available, then consider that

approximately $10,000,000 is. lost by

farmers each year because of lightningl





“R. H. Co.” Lightning Rods are

approved by insurance companies,

(The National Fire Ins. Co., of Hart-

ford, allows a ten per cent reduction

in cost of policy) , government bureaus,

agricultural colleges and farm author-

ities. They are made correctly; they

are applied correctly by our competent

dealers. -





Just because you never have had a

lightning loss doesn’t mean you never ‘

will. You can’t tell where lightning

may strike. But you can prevent it

destroying your property and endan-

gering the lives of your family.





Let us tell you how you may secure

“R. H. Co.” Lightning Rods now,

before the storm season begins. Ask

us for free booklet, “Do Lightning

Rods Protect?”





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821 Broadway Cincinnati, Ohio



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, from Michigan

RAILROAD oiscaIMINATion.





T does seem to me that there is .no



reason .for the railroads applying

rates that make it difficult for farmers

of the‘ northern part of the state to

‘compete' with farmers in otherl sec--

tions.

than on the main lines; but as I see it

these roads will not be able, without

lowering-their rates, to build up their-

business in the secions against which

theirmates forbid, or at least handij

cap, the forward progress of the farm-

ers. I do not believe that any other

one thing will aid more in putting the

unimproved agricultural land of' the

northern counties under the plow than

a reduction of transportation rates to

a level prevailing in other sections.—

J. N. Snorther.





WORK AND PLAY.





ENJOYED the editorial in a recent





entitled; “Sacrificing to 3. Fault.” Too

many mothers are working harder

than there is any need of. Children

will have greater respect for these

mothers if they instil into their off-

spring the spirit of industry instead

of trying to shoulder all the burden in

order to give the youngsters more time

for enjoyment.



But, on the other hand, there are

parents who go to the other extreme.

They ask too much ofthe children and

give too little. They do not meet the

boys and girls" half Way.

parents are the ones that bring the

farm into disrepute.. [The young peo?

pie from homes where there is all

work and no play go out into the world

and‘tell of their farm ekperiences. It

puts the farm in the wrong light, yet

you cannot blame the children, only

the parents.



There is a happy medium where the

joy of life is full. Parents should be

pals with the children. They should

work together and play together. ,The

home life should make for a. strong

family. spirit. This spiritwill make the





boys 'and girls will keep close by, or

if perchance for any reason they get





when they can return or visit the old

home—Mrs. H. Wilson. '





WHERE BLUFF FAILED.





NEIGHBOR, Mr. B.,' went to his

local bank and asked Mr. Banker

for a loan of $200. Mr. Banker inter-

rogates the prospect of his financial

condition and needs, and asks whom

Mr. B. can get to endorse the paper.

Knowing both parties well responsible

he grants the loan, but advises Mr. B.

that the state law-will not allow the

banks to make loans for a longer pe-

riod than six months. and if Mr. B.

wishes to carry the loan for one year,

he will have to renew the note at the

end of six months. Both maker and

endorser being of the faith that seven

per cent was the rate of interest to be

charged made no inquiries, and the

banker made no attempt to advise

either party of what he was doing.

The banker added ten per cent to

the face of the loan‘, making the note

read $210, with seven percent after

due. The note was signed without

either maker or endorser noticing the

amount of the note or the crossed out

phrase. ’ _ ’

The note became due and Mr. B.

went to the bank without his endorser





‘ and asked for extension of time for





another six months. The banker 'got

the ”note, charged;,Mr._.B,,jltwelvep‘er





 





 





 





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Naturally there‘ds less. traffic “





number of the Michigan» Farmer,‘





I think such '





pull of the home so strong that the





away they will anxiously wait the time ’





FortnerReaders. .

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Mr. is. ‘wi'thout a thought paid'and'

took the receipt. The banker laid the





note aside with the notation that in-'





terest and extension were paid, and

advised Mr. B. to return the next day

with his ,endorser .to make the re-

newal. ~ . ~ .. . . .



'In the meantime Mr. ‘B. began :to

use a little of his idle gray matter,- and-

to his surprise found that he was pay-

ing in excess of twelve per cent in-





stead of his suppOSed seven per cent”.





Upon returning to the bank the next





day he asked the banker about the





eigcess interest charge, but Mr. Bank-

er, knowing that Mr. B. was unable to

pay the note at the time worked his

gag and advised Mr. B. that he can

get all that, on all the bank’s money,

and if Mr. B. did not care to deal he

may as well pay the note. The note

was renewed. As time went by the

note again came due, but Mr. B. was

ready. He went to his attorney and

related the facts in the case. The

attorney advised that the. party who

attempted to or who did charge an in-

terest rate in excess of the legal seven

per cent could collect no interest on

the loan whatsoever. Mr. B. went to

the bank well prepared, took with him

two witnesses. Mr. B. wrote a check

for $201.40 including the face of the

note plus interest paid, minus excess

charges, although allowing seven per

cent on the loan for one year. The

banker refused the check on grounds

of incomplete payment and demanded

currency to the amount of $210. Mr.

B. waspg‘epared. He had his witness

count out $187.40 in} cash and a state-

ment of the bank’s receipt of $12.60

interest paid six months before, and

advised the banker he protested pay-

ing interest on the loan. The banker

took the cash and the statement for

$12.60 but refused to give receipt or

give up the note. Mr. B. would do no

more. The banker threatened to sue

but failed to do so. A few days later

the bank charged' off to loss the inter-

est for one year on Mr. B.’s note of

$200 and mailed the note, stamped

paid, to Mr. B.—A Reader.





MUSCLE SHOALS.





EARINGS are now in progress be



fore the senate committee of ag-

riculture, on the Muscle Shoals nitrate

plant proposition. The American Farm

Bureau Federation has made a state-

ment in which it says the federation

has always vigorously supported the

completion and operation of the Mus-

cle Shoals development in a broad

way.



The farm bureau statement says

that a reasonable expectation from

such a development by Mr. Ford would

be the cutting of the farmer's cost of

commercial fertilizer in half. Such a

result would save the farmer $100,000;

000 a year and provide a lower cost

factor in the production of food and

clothing. If these results are to be

soon secured, and since Mr. Ford’s pro~

posal has already been. under consider-

ation for nine months, work on the

fertilizer development must be- started

and the construction of the dam re-

sumed as promptly as possible. The

American Farm Bureau Federation un‘

reservedly advocates the acceptance of

the Ford proposal before congress ad-

journs.





 





Says Sam: One way to add to the.

number of farmers would be to take

the census around election time.



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DATES FOR PLANTING ~CORN.





 





HERE is a best time for planting



corn in every Section of the state.

Of course, this time varies somewhat

with the different years. However, the

sum total of experience in any locality

gives the wide-awake farmer a line on

when he should attempt to have his

corn crop in the ground. It is well to

determine this date as closely as pos-

sible and then make every possible

effort to have the field ready for plant-



‘ ing at the proper time.



Experiments have been conducted to

determine how much the farmer loSes

when he fails to put in his corn crop

at this optimum time. For instance,

corn planted on the dates generally

accepted as the proper time, yielded

sixty-our bushels to the acre. Corn

planted two weeks later yielded fifty-

three bushels, while corn planted four

weeks later yielded forty-one bushels.

This variation in yield would justify a

few farmers in a. community getting

together to compare notes. and estab

lish as nearly as possible the time

when their corn ought to be planted.





WHO KNOWS THE POSSIBILITIES

OF HUBAM CLOVER.





 





URING the spring of 1921 Hubam



clover was seeded with red clover

and timothy on a portion of a field in

winter wheat The season was very

unfavorable for seeding, but on the

more moist portions of the field there

was a fair stand of Hubam. Much of





cut it when the wheat was harvested.

The Hubam then came along after the

harvestand produced a crop of seed.

Many of. the plants were three and

one-half and four feet high, and thrifty.





Now the land is covered with self-

seeding which is all in among the'red

clover and timothy. As the red clover

and timothy is a rather poor stand

owing to the unfavorable conditions

last season, it is possible that the

Hubam will thicken up the stand 0nd

make a favorable addition to the crop.

It may be that it will pay Well to

seed Hubam in connection with red

clover every year, not only for the

seed crop which can be produced after

harvest, but also for thickening up the

stand in the new seeding—G. B. D.





THE LOCAL MOVEMENT OF HAY.





 





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sections are now going to districts

with a surplus to meet current hay

needs. Western counties are noticing

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FEW_ weeks ago I expressed my-

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~notes, regarding the way the al-

falfa had come' through the ice storm

and the winter. But now after a month

of April weather my fond hopes have

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ise of a returning crop of choicest

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grew but an inch or'two, only to with-

er and die. The destruction is com-

plete. Perhaps there are enough liye

plants on the ten

acres, \if they

could be coralled

to give a satisfac-

tory stand on one

acre, not more

than that. The

field will be plow-

ed and grow corn.



I have just this

morning looked

_over two other

. neighboring fields

of common alfalfa in vain for a live

plant. The best field of the common

variety that I know of in the neighbor-

hood looks at this date, May 1, to be

about half of it alive. Mr. Wilson, a

farmer living over near the little town

of Shepherd has a piece of alfalfa,

sown last July, on which a few spots

are badly killed. He plans on reseed-

ing the barren places either this spring

or perhaps dragging them up and seed-

ing after the first cutting is .removed.

Patching up an injured stand of alfal-

fa is not always a howling success, but

under present conditions it is no doubt

the proper procedure wherever the

killing out occurs on portions of the

field only. Several years ago we tried

tearing up a badly killed field of al-

falfa with spring-tooth barrow, disre-

garding what live plants remained and

reseeding the whole field. We secured

a good thick stand but the new seed-

ingnever caught up with the old and

the field always looked patched up.

The heavy soil I am sure would have

furnished a more congenial abode for

the alfalfa rootlets had it been deeply

plowed and thoroughly fitted. This

year, however, with the prospects for

a good leguminous hay crop very poor

in this central section of the state I

should hesitate before plowing even a

partial stand of alfalfa.





 





The demonstration of which I start-

ed to tell, and which to me is an eye-

opener, is the comparison of these

fields of common alfalfa with an eight-

acre field of Grimm alfalfa on the

Maple Hill Farm of George R. Wheel-

er. . We dare not say much about Mr.

Wheeler himself for he is a graduate

of the Agricultural College, president

of the farm bureau, a teacher of agri-

culture part of the time and all the

time a real dirt farmer, but this Grimm

alfalfa of his is ankle-deep at this writ-

ing. A few spots, perhaps, half an

acre all together, where there was no

surface drainage and where the water

and the ice accumulated, the alfalfa

is killed. In the draws where the wa-

ter runs naturally on the surface there

is more or less damage, but over most

of the fieldthe new growth is strong





and vigorous. It is the first time that

we have seen demonstrated so plainly

under actual farm conditions the

greater hardiness of the Grimm vari-

ety. of alfalfa, but the evidence is con-

clusive. Henceforth, We sow only the

genuine Grimm. '





 





To UNFOLD MICHIGAN’S POSSI-

lemes.





 





AN extensive development program

is being arranged by the State De-





partment of Agriculture to be carried .





out during the coming season in west-

ern Michigan. Commissioner of Ag-

riculture John A. Doelle announced

that it will embody expansion of seed

production, development of the region’s

‘fruit possibilities, more efficient dairy-

ing through the use of better sires and

growing more leguminous crops, and

giving encouragement to farmers ‘de-

sirous of entering poultry raising on

a larger scale.



The horticultural possibilities will

be taken up first, Mr. Doelle announc-

ing that he will send Prof. L. R. Taft

in the region tosecure information

for a bulletin (hi this subject. When

published it will be distributed through-

out the country in an effort to bring

in more settlers and prospective fruit

growers. '



The development program is to be

a cooperative affair. Mr. Doelle is in-

viting the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, the Michigan State Farm Bureau,

county agents, and the United States

Department Of Agriculture to join in

the work. Part of it is already along

the line of work being conducted by

the college and Mr. Doelle's stated his

proposals would dovetail perfectly

with those at the college—R.





 





WILL START R EORGAN IZATION

CAM PAIGN.





 





HE leaders of farm bureau work in



Illinois start this week with a

membership drive. Thirty counties are

scheduled for the spring, summer and

fall. The organization-publicity pol-

icy, adopted by the national organiza-

tion will be followed in this work.

This movement will be watched by

farmers and farm bureau workers

throughout the country since it is the

first attempt to resell farmers solicit-

ed in the big drive two and three

years ago.





 





HOPE TO RETAIN MARKET SER-

,, VICE.





 





IF the necessary finances can be rais-



ed and the United States Bureau of

Markets will cooperate, the State De-

partment of Agriculture proposes to

maintain the market office in Grand

Rapids during the fruit season and dis-

tribute daily market reports on the

condition of the middle west and east-

ern markets to farmers, shippers and

buyers.



Director of Markets William P. Hart-

man recognizes the importance of such

a service, especially in years of large

production, such 'as seems to be in

prospect for this season,'but it first

will be necessary to find a way to meet

the expense thus to be incurred. Fre-





 





 





 





 





" samba. Lloyd A. Bhefleld, East Lansing. Mich.





 





 

 





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ble' ‘_informatiémg has been

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service similar Ito that now given by

the? bureau of markets would prevent

such 'occurrenCes to a large extent,

Mr. Hartman believes, and "would save

Michigan growers and shippers thou-

sands of dollars. ‘

The potato reportS‘ for the past

month have been issued under a co-

operative arrangement. Mr. Hartman





estimates there still are more than-





1,500 cars of potatoes in the state and

he proposes to keep the Grand Rapids

ofl‘ice open until the bulk of holdings

are sold or the movement ceases. If

the fruit office is maintained, the first

reports probably will start with the

strawberry crop the first of June—R.





 





CAYUGA PEAR RECOMMENDED.





THE Geneva New York, Experiment

Station is recommending Cayuga,

a promising new variety, to the pear

growers of the state.‘ The Cayuga is

a seedling of Seckel, with fruit nearly

as large ‘as the Bartlett. In color, it

is greenish-yellow with a handsome

blush, and in quality is said to be near—

ly as good as the Seckel. The fruit

ripens in September and will keep

through October in common storage.





 





 





WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BEANS.





 





(Continued from page 573).

sown. A. B. Cook, of Shiawassee coun-

ty, seeds beans after clover where pos-

sible. The success enjoyed by these

men would lead to the natural conclu-

sion that no definite rotation can be

set down as the best to follow. It

should be observed, however, that all

of these men, and many others with

Whom we have corresponded, insist up«

on the use of other legume crops than

beans in the rotation.





An error frequently made with the

bean crop is to plow the land too late.

Professor Cox, of the college, insists

that early plowing is an important fac-

tor. Upon reading the letters received

from our correspondents, it ~ appears

that they, too, urge either fall plowing

or early spring plowing. Mr. Jadwin,

mentioned above, who, when he fol-

lows corn with beans, plans to have

this ground plowed early in the spring,

but if a sod field is used then he tries

to plow it in the fall. Naturally the

season and the type of soils have

something to do with the time when

plowing can be done to advantage;



On our own lands, we plow at a me‘

dium depth of about seven or eight





inches for this crop. Our correspond- _.





ents appear to hold generally to this

opinion. In the rotation where corn

iollows beans, Mr. Jadwin suggests

that he simply plows deep enough to

turn the old sod and humus up to the

surface.



No set program for fitting can be

worked out.

well as the kind of soil, will largely

control. All good bean growers, how-

ever, hold that thorough preparation

of the soil not only prepares the way

for a good crop but also keeps down

production costs. This is the cheapest

time to cultivate. By using the smooth-

ing barrow once each week on the

land for a, few weeks previous to plant-

ing time enables the farmer to not

only put the soil in first-class condi-

tion but 'also to destroy practically all

weeds. This practice also tends to

settle the soil and thereby establish

good capillary connections with the

sub-soil, thus better insuring the crop

against a failure for lack of moiéture.





In the second installment of this an

ticle, which will appear next week, a

discussion of varieties, fertilizers,

time to plant, the .weed problem, etc.,

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ROFITS in hog feeding depend not



a little upon the manner in which

the young pigs are started on their

career. When from two to three weeks

old, the little fellows should have a

yard where they may be fed. This

yard should be so arranged to keep

the older hogs from interfering with

the youngsters. A‘little grain can be

{fed at this age. Skim-milk is also very

good and may be used with flour mid-

dlings. Later ground oats and stand-

ard middlings can be mixed with the

skim-milk. Corn meal is also a valu-

able substitute.



At five to six weeksjof age cracked

corn and whole oats can be fed and a

little later whole corn and oats make

a good ration to keep the pigs grow-

ing. As early as possible, the sow and

litter should'have pasture. Good green

clovers or other legumes should be

available throughout the summer.





CUTTING SEED POTATOES BE-

FOREHAND.





 





E observe what has been- said

in the Michigan Farmer regard-

ing the use of cut seed potatoes. The

drying out of cut seed is one big ob-

jection to the practice. It also fre-

quently happens that for one cause

,or another the farmer is obliged to

leave out seed lying about for one day

or several before it can be planted.

There is considerable loss of moisture

resulting from this exposure of the

cut seed. If such seed is placed in a

dry soil, a poor stand is almost cer-

tain. .

At the Ohio Experiment Station,

some work has been done to prevent

rot in cut seed. This station is rec-

(immending that the cut surfaces be

coated with sulphur.’ This'protects the

tuber against rot. The seed should

be treated with either formaldehyde

or corrosive sublimate to protect

against scab and rhizOctonia.





SUGAR. IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL

INCREASE.





 





HE exports of sugar from Brazil



increased fifty-six per cent in 1921

over the preceding year. The ship-

ments for 1920 were 68,400 metric tons

as compared with 106,700 tons in 1921.

The exports during the two years show

great variation. In 1920 the United

States took 40,900 tons, while last year

she took only 200 tons. On the other

hand, Argentine increased its pur-

chase from 200 tons in 1920 to 14,200

tons in 1921. Uruguay took 2,000 tons

in 1920 and 19,200 tons last year.Eng-

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respective purchases were 3,700 .tons

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Plants for sale. All kinds-of trans lant-

ed vegetable plants, bedding and fewer-

Ohelsea Greenhouse, Chelsea. Mich.





Leather Soldch'et-t and Custom. Tanning

THE COOHRAIj TANNINGgog, grooming. Mich.





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Bee Hives, Section Boxes





Comb foundation. Smokers. etc.

Complete outfits for beginners. Agents

for t e A. I. Root Company. in Mich-

igan. Send for catalog; Beeswax

. , wanted.»



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Berry Baskets q u an

crates. A grade wood quart

baskets, and waxlined paper

baskets. Special offer of 200

waxlined paper baskets post-

paid for $1.70. to towns within

150 miles of Lansing.





: Send for Price List.





M. H. HUNT 8: SON,

Box .525, Lansing, Mich.





PAIN ""25





Per

Order Direct From Factory





We will send you as many gallons as you





want of good quality red or brown.





BARN. PAINT





upon receipt of remittanoe.We are paint spec.

ialists and can supply you with paint for any

urpose.Tell us yo_ur wants and let us quote you

fair prices. Weoen save on money by shippelgg

_ ‘ direct from our factory. atlsfsctionGnu-nnt

On order: for ,thlrty gallons or over we will preppy

the height within e radius of three hundred miles.





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Club Prices Slashed





OFFER No. 509. '

MICHIGAN FARMER, one year. .$1.00





People’s Popular Monthly, one yr. .35.



Gentlewoman, one year ......... .20



Good Stories, one year .......... .25



Total value .................. $1.80

All for $1.45. '





 





OFFER No. 525.

MICHIGAN FARMER, one year. .$1.00

Capper’s Weekly, one year..'.... 1.00

Household Magazine, one year... .25»

Total value ........$2.25





All for $1.65.

Use This Coupon for Your Order.

THE MICHIGAN FARMER,





- Detroit, Michigan.





Gentlemen2—Enclosed find $ . . . . . . .

for which send me Michigan Farmer

and publications in Club Offer No.. . . .

each for one year.





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News From Cloverland





By L. 1!. Cfiase





 





 





 





 





 





 





CONSERVATION WORK.





 





HE Michigan Conservation Com-

mission, it is announced, will hold

its next meeting at Marquette on May

25. It is expected that Governor Groes-

' beck will be present. Immediately fol-

lowing this meeting, it is announced.

the committee which is considering

the location of proposed new parks

_, and fish hatcheries in the upper penin-

sula, will begin their work. It is plan-

ned to have "the Upper Peninsula. De-

velopment Bureau and the. Calumet

Chamber of Commerce represented at

the National Parks Conference at the

Palisades Park, New York, May 18-19.

' with a view to promoting the estab-

lishment of a national parkon the up—

per Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Su-

perior.





MORE LAN D-CLEARING SCHOOLS.





 





HE series of land-clearing schools

that are to be held in upper Mich-

igan, this spring, was started off at

,Menominee with a big ditch-blasting

demonstration April 29. The schedule

of schools provided for one at Steph-

enson on May 1 and at Powers on May

5. Large posters have been prepared

and are being displayed in each neigh-

borhood as the date for the schools

approaches. The train carrying the

men and equipment consists of eight

cars—~a sleeper, a day-coach, which is

also equipped as a field office, a box-

car diner and a box-car kitchen, a box-

car carrying small tools and another

carrying the explosives. Heavy ma-

chinery, such as stump-pullers, trac-

tors and trucks, is carried on two flat-

cars. The train has been provided

gratis by the South Shore, 800 Line

and the Northwestern Railroads. The

school starts at nine a. m. Each farm-

er is registered, and, after having done

actual land-clearing under trained

guidance, receives a signed certificate

at the close of the day. As illustrat-

ing the local interest manifest in such

schools by business men as well as

farmers, it is stated the meeting at

Powers was fathered by the chamber

of commerce and that a local banker

furnished two teams to help with the

hauling.





,BOYS AND GIRLS LINING UP FOR

CLUB WORK.





 





i ‘ NE hundred and ten boys and girls

of the upper peninsula have been

enrolled in calf clubs, under the gen-

eral direction of Mr. A. G. Kettunen,

of»Marquette, assistant state club lead-

er, he reports. During the past two

years, one hundred and twenty pure-

breds have been placed on our farms,

at a total valuation of $11,567, it is

stated.



Iron River is credited with what is



probably_the most active calf club in

the peninsula. It was instituted

through the efforts of Mr. George E.

Bishop, the present secretary-manager

of the Upper Peninsula Development

Bureau, which will serve to indicate

that Mr. Bishop is something besides

a land-booster. Mr. Bishop persuaded

two Iron River banks to finance the

boys in their calf venture, so that each

could purchase a pure-bred calf.

. Seventeen calves and two purebred

bulls were procured at Waukesha, Wis-

c0nsin, and brought to Iron River, on

May 5: 1921. The club members met

the calves at the station, which were

.then apportioned by lot among the

~‘ boys and girls. Weekly meetings of

the club members were held, each ad-

{caressed by a prominent farmer, agri~

cultural expert or business man of the

’tbw’nship.





 





This club has through: its members

taken honors repeatedly at stock-judg-

ing contests. At the -Farmers"Round~

up at Chatham in 1921, the Iron River

team won 1,428 points out of a possi-

ble 1,800 points. ‘Baraga ecuntyclub-

ists took second place with 1,418'—a

close second. These two teams got a,

free trip to the State Fair at Detroit

last year.



One member of the Iron River Club

—Russell Hartley—todk highest indi-

vidual honors, making 185 points out

of a possible 200. and received as his

reward a purebred Holstein calf, val-

ued at $150, which was presented by

the experiment station. Another Iron

River boy—Iver Peterson—won a pure-

bred Duroc—Jersey pig for his achieve





 





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my won first in hogs, cows; ands eep .~



judging, taking 506 out of a possible

' 3600 points.





The boys then enjoyed a

week's camping by the creek at the

station farm. *



' -Walt'er Loaney, of the Iron County

poultry team, was declared the' best

'poultry 'culler in Michigan. At the

Iron County Fair, last year, the boys





of thecl-ub captured all the prizes-





away from the adult farmers of‘ the

district, it is reported. Through the

generosity ofthree’ banks-of Iron Riv-

er and Stainbang'h, three of these club

boys received a free trip to the Inter-

national Live Stock Exposition at Chi-

cago, Illinois.





 





TH E CLOVERLAND TRAIL.





 





HE.“Cloverland Trail”, will be





marked with the sign of the clo-

verleaf between Powers and Ironwood,

timing the first two weeks of May, it

is announced.





 





Rural Boys and Girls





By W. L. Coffiy





Deputy Supt. of Public [attraction





HE education of the rural boys





and girls is one of the big prob-'-





lems of today. It IconCerns the

man who lives in the city or town as

well as the fathers and mothers of the

vast army of country boys and girls

who start out every morning to the

little schoolhouse by the roadside.



The country boys and girls of Mich-

igan are her best product. Her wealth,

her property, and her resources of to-

morrow will depend upon how well we

train in our schools these boys and

girls of today. There must be no dif-

ference in the educational opportunity

afforded one class of Michigan's boys

and girls from that afforded another

class. The boys and girls of the towns

of this state are no brighter nor keen-

er, and no more industrious, self-reli—

ant nor courageous than the country

boys and girls. They have no better

parents. They have no greater mission

to perform, and yet when the school

bell rings, it calls to the one-room

school the country boys and girls,

where they receive only limited atten-

tion from the teacher. For them their

education is completed when eight

grades are finished, unless the parent

is financially able to pay board and

transportation to some high school. It

means leaving home and the care and.

guidance of a father and a mother..

The rural boys and girls must do these

things, while the more fortunate boys

and girls of town and city have at

their command the opportunity for a

high school eduCation.



Education is a state matter. The

courts have ruled that the direction of

education is a state matter, not a local

matter. The legislature in granting

authority for divisions of the state for

school purposes made it possible for

inequality of school taxation. A few

communities have been given an as-

sessed property valuation that has

made for them low school taxation.

Such communities are not paying an

equitable contribution for making our

state better educationally. They have

the equal protection of our laws, they

enjoy the privileges offered by the

state, they benefit by the accumula-

tion of our wealth, but they do not

buy their share of the educational

stock, although they receive their full

quota of dividends which education

produces. ,



The man who sharpens his .pencil

and with a few figures proceeds to'poi-

son the minds of his neighbors, his.

friends and his associates by stressing





 

 





encouraged ” ._





the enormous tax burdens from school

taxation for better schools surely can-

not have measured this cost with that

of other costs which We people of

Michigan pay every year.



.During the year 1921, according to

the report of the Internal Revenue Col-

lector, Washington, D. 0., Michigan

paid a total of $203,000,000 as her pro-

portion of the following luxuries: Per-

fumes, soft drinks, moving pictures,

candies, and tobacco products.



But what did Michigan pay for edu-

cation in 1921, based on the amount

paid in 1920, the lass year for which

we have a report? The total amount

she paid for all forms of education





from that of the rural school to that





of the normal schools, colleges and

the university, was as follows.





State tax for education. .$ 5,047, 300. 04

Elementary and second-





ary schools . . . . ... . . . . 37, 151, 445. 00

Denominational colleges 415, 000. 00

Private schools, acade-



mies, business colleges, .



etc. .................. 447,000.00



Total ................. $43,060,745.04





Two hundred and three million dol-

lars for luxuries andalittle more than

$43,000,000 for education. Who paid

for these luxuries? Everyone of us;

farmers, town people and city people.

Every time we paid one cent in 1921

for education of the boys and girls and

young men and young women of the

state we paid nearly five cents for

luxuries. The amount paid for luxur-

ies in Michigan in 1921 would build

and equip 2,030 consolidated school,

houses, with accommodations in each

one for more than five hundred rural

boys and girls.





In other words, Michigan spent in

1921 for luxuries sufficient money to

furnish first~class high schools for

more than 100, 000 rural b0ys and girls.

There were in the rural schools in

Michigan in 1921 about 190,000 rural

boys and girls. At the rate we spent





'money for luXuries in 1921 we could





build consolidated schools .with high

schools for rural boys and girls of

Michigan in two years, if all these

boys and girls were living in commu-

nities that are accessible.





The ordinance of 1787 so far as 'it





relates to education is just as applica- ‘





ble today as it ever Was. “Religion,

morality and knowledge being neces-

sary to good government and the hap-

piness of mankind, schools and the

means of education 'shall forever be





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right education The been competition





- of business and its ability to organize





for business and commercial purposes

make it necessary that rural education

be enlarged so, that there may be

training in ecoperation and organiza-

tion. The consolidated school pro-

vides a center about which farmers

may organize for not only social, but

business purposes. If money were the

only motive-for consOlidation, it would





.pay through this opportunity, for an





enlarged unit for business activities as

well as educational opportunities.





We discarded the sickle and pur-

‘ chased the cradle because it would ac-





complish more in the same time. We

discarded the cradle and purchased

the reaper because we could plant larg—

er acreages of grain.

the reaper and purchased the self-

binder because it not only meant larg-

er acreage but a better and easier way

of harvesting the grain. We discarded

the buggy for the car, and the wagon

fer the truck, because of their in-

creased efficiency.





Should we not expect that the‘ same

good judgment should prevail when

we are asked to furnish funds for a

first—class school for boys and girls?

The‘sa‘me reasoning that purchased

the auto and the cream separator will

build consolidated schools.





V





FARM NEWS IN, BRIEF.





 





Retail grocers inGrand Rapids have

petitioned the city commission to bar

consumers from the wholesale market

until after seven a. m., charging that

they disorganized the market. Farm-

ers declare the consumers frequently

stabilize the, market.



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Michigan canners are opening an of-

fice in Grand Rapids‘with a view to

conducting a campaign to increase the

consumption of Michigan canned

goods. The larger the, demand, the

fruit and vegetables will be needed to

supply these home markets.



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Farmers with foresight and suitable

sites are planting peach trees, accord

ing to Prof. Roy E. Marshall, of M. A.

C. Losses by'wintenkilling have not

been replaced in many instances, and

this shortage of trees, he believes, in-

dicates that there will be an excellent

demand for this fruit for two or three

years until good prices force larger

plantings and increased productibn.



III * *





Molesta Brothers, owners of a large

greenhouse near Grand Rapids, sold

the first hothouse cucumbers of the

season in that city on April 26. Their

first picking consisted of two dozens

of beautiful cukes.



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Michigan fruits rotted in the or-

chards and fields last year because of

the excessive freight rates charged by

railroads, F. G. Pick, manager of the

Port Huron Chamber of Commerce,

told the Michigan Public Utilities

Commission, in his plea for lower rates

on Michigan products. He declared

thousands of bushels of apples went to

waste because the farmers couldn’t

get haulage charges out of them.



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A Leghorn hen owned by J. D.

Thorpe, of -,Kaleva stretched a point

the other day when it laid an egg

more the size of a duck egg. It meas-

ured eleven and one- -half inches in di-

ameter.



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Fremont is to become a better mar-



ket for cabbage as a result of the Fre-





' mont Canning Company making plans





to add a sauer kraut unit to its .pres-

ent factory. It proposes to contract

one hundred acres of cabbage this sea-





 





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HE farmer" who intends. to produce

his own supply of seed potatoes

should now \plan for the crop. The





seed plot should be removed some con— ,





siderable distance from the main crop

of potatoes and - special hill-selected

seed should be used for planting. Dur-





‘ing the growing season this plOt needs





to be carefully sprayed and any hills

showing disease should bemercilessly

removed. Seed for next year’s plant-

ing can best be selected at digging

time. The‘best hills Would naturally

be rem0ved first andmarked for use in





the home seed plot‘for the following





year. The remainder of the plot can

then be harvested and this see’d used

for the main crop. Following a pro-

gram of this kind will enable the care-

ful farmer to develop a satisfactory

strain of potatoes that will be especial.

1y adapted to home conditions.





MICHIGAN FRUIT UN'INJURED.





 





HILE ’recent cold waves have



done much damage to fruit

throughout the Ohio valley, Michigan

orchards and small fruit lots have suf-

fered scarcely none from this cause.

Buds were not sufiicientlyfar advanc-

ed and‘ the freeze was comparatively

lighter here than farther to the south.





Owners are making every effort ap-





parently to care for their prospective

fruit crops, believing that the produc-

tion may be short and prices conse-

quently higher. '





TO PROMOTE FORESTRY WORK.





 





THE" local press is featuring a let-



ter recently written by Secretary

of Agriculture Wallace to Senator Nor-

ris, of Nebraska, pointing out the de-

sirability of establishing a United

States Forest Experiment Station in

the northern lake states. Secretary

Wallace points out that Michigan,

which once held first place as a lum-

ber producer, now yields less white

’pine than Massachusetts by half. This

territory is now importing pine and fir





: from the far south and west—sand, the

secretary might have added—it is

cheaper than the home-grown variety,‘





if I am correctly informed by the local

jobbers. A similar situation‘exists re-

garding pulp wood, yet this lake terri-

tory has 20,000,000 or more acres suit-

able for fOrest growth 'that is now out

of use. , '

The reforestatidn of these idle lands

should not be left to chance, says Sec-

retary Wallace. Fire control and re-

forestation should be scientifically

handled, and there should be accurate

information regarding the rate of

growth of timber‘in this area—all of

which can only be determined by a

forest experiment station situated in

the region itself. The secretary advo-

cates the establishment of a. regional

experiment station in this territory

where investigations and demonstra-

tions can be carried on. This work is

not a side issue, Mr. Wallace says, but

is absolutely basic in maintaining a

forest industry in the United States.





 





RAG hICKERs' BLOC.





 





ANOTHER bloc has been added to



the list,at Washington. The latest

addition to thefamily is called the

“Rag Pickers’ BlOc.” This line-up .con—





. sists pf. senators and repreSentatives





Who are opposed to the. Caliper-French

truthvin-fabric [bill which provides for





the labeling-.01? Wooten'gQOds‘ so as. to





 





 





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I IAY machinesthat bear the above names may always be relied ' ;





on to put your hay where you want it, the way you want it,

in the quickest, most economical manner: McCormick and Deering "~

mowers can be depended on to cut hay every minute. International

tealclers hasten, and insure, better curing. McCormick and Deering

self-clump rakes are known the whole World over for their quick,

clean work and light draft. , The International combined side-

clelivery rake and tedder is a saver of time and labor.



Look at the farmer in this icture, pulling two wagons and two

International loaders With the fi‘itan tractor. He is sure to get his

hay out of the way for grain harvest.



International sweep rakes and slackers provide a quick method

of getting your hay to the stack.



International power hay presses put the ha in neat tight bales

that keep better, are easier to handle, store an feed, and that bring

the top price on the market.





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





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IT is a scientific fact that soils treated with 31% be-



come so rich in plant food content .(mtrates, sulphates, lime)

that plants thrive for a much longer time on a. given amount

of water than they do on soil not treated With 31m

increases all crops. It has actually increased alfalfa





 





 





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1203' c. R. Savings Bank Bldg}, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Enalliihed in 1856 Manufacturer: 0 .

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Agricultural Gypsum "For Plastering "For Plastering Larger

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Sen. Dunlap $3.00 per 1000





also 81.00 per 1000 011' on all kinds of StrawBe

plants Offered in our common sense free catalotub

50 villi-lattes. :vexathiing tto plant. wal‘ix‘iotoP‘i-i?" ove

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l. T is generally Concededthat two

' ' men and a team can prune, culti-

.' vate and fertilize more than twenty-

five acres of orchard», but that they

could not with one liquid spray outfit

- do full justice to more than twenty-five

,acres. The limiting factor of an eco-

, nomical unit is therefore the spray rig.

:.A dusting outfit can easily take care

; of sixty acres of orchard in one- sea-

son, and if dusting is equal in pest con-

. trol to spraying, the change to dusting

: would have the effect of increasing the

economical unit of fruit orchards and

.- make cultivating the limiting factor in

.determining the maximum area that

"one team, two men and equipment

:"could care for, or the economical unit

.ifor fruit proddction. «But the tractor,

especially the lighter types, has come

to the aid of the fruit grower, by sup-

plying this limited cultivation factor,

which performs, more economically,

an increased amount of work than men

and teams can perform.

The reputation of dusting has in the





 

 





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past been the reputation of sulphur,

dust; it might be best to enumerate

some of the advantages, questionable

points and disadvantages of dusting.



The advantages of dusting that are

generally. appreciated are:



1. Greater. speed in application. = A

dusting outfit is capable of treating

from five to ten times as much or-

chard_or vineyard as a spraying outfit

in a given time. ,



2. More suitable timing of applica-

tions. Owing to the rapidity of appli-

cation the grower can time his appli-

cations to better suit the weather and

the stage of the fruit.



3. Less waste time. Dusting opera-

tions should be done during weather

unfit for most agricultural field opera-

tions, such as immediately following

a rain or very'early in the morning,





while spraying operations require the

best of weather. I ' '

"4. LoWer cost of machinery. The





initial cost - ofwdusting outfit is! two-

thirds that- of a sprayer, the cdst of f

upkeep is less,: meggasoline used is





less and the duster is‘a longer—lived

machine. ' _ _ p ' . 2 s

5. . Lighter weight of’dusting appar-





atus. ' ‘A dusting outfit withdust and:





operators on it does not weigh more





than one-third the weight of a Sprayer '





ready for Operation, so .it can" be- taken

over hills‘and otter ‘wet ground-Where

a sprayer would mire.



6. Less-_ liability to trouble" and

breakdowns. A dusting outfit in prac-

tice is a reliable machine and is not

responsible for delays due to leaky

valves, blowouts, etc., which frequent-

ly occur with high-pressure Sprayers.





7, Simplicityand speed...Th‘is,makes



a grpater-fappeal to the grower. More

~ fruit growers will dust than will spray,

[even if the total cost is the same, be- —

feaufief-Ii‘tgis less trouble. This is highly

important, especially in an orcharding-





 





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Your neighbor’s home, where Deleo-

Light is used, is a home of happiness and

contentment—where there is time for

reading, study, play—and a joy in living

that makes farm life the best of all.





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Visit Your Neighbor Who .

Electric Light and Power





OMEWHERE, close to your home, there is a farm



equipped with Delco-Light, and there you can find



what electric light and power would do for you.

Your neighbor’s chores are done in half the time. His

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'It is must curious to flnd‘t‘hat' on a'v-

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Nova Scotia, that the total av’erage

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six’teen’ years of .thirty' experiments,

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per cent on worms, and 22.2 per cent

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number of sound apples. '



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Here is where Premier Lloyd George stays while attending Genoa

conference.

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ruined by a fire, which was started by a cigarette stub left by a





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used in cross channel passenger service, after it crashed in mid-

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The first king of Egypt since the days of Phar-

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“.Very well; I am going to consult

with you now. I have an infirmity, ‘as

you know, Avery; I am blind. I have

just found out that for several yeais—

'i'or about five years, to be exact; that

is, for about the same length of time

that you have been with me—my blind-

ness has been used by a certain group

of men to make me the agent of a

monstrous and terrible injustice to an

innocent man. Except for my blind-

ness—except for that, Avery, this in-

justice never could have been carried

on.' If you find a certain amount of

bitterness in my tone, it is due to that;

a man who has an infirmity, Avery,

cannot well 'help being a' little sensi-

tive in regard to it. You are willing

I should consult with you in regard to

this?”



' “Of course I am at your service, Mr.

Santoine.” Avery’s voice was harsh

and dry.



The blind man was silent for an in-

stant. He could feel the uneasiness

and anxiety of the man across' from

him mounting swiftly, and he gave it

every opportunity to increase. He had

told Eaton once’ that he did not use

“cat and mouse” methods; he was us-

ing them now because that was the

only way his pu1 pose could be

'achieved.



“We must go back, then, Avery, to

the quite serious emergency to which

'I am indebted for your faithful service.

It is fairly difficult now for one con-

itemplating the reverence and regard

.in which ‘big’ men are held by the pub-

lic in these days of business recon-

struction to recall the attitude of

only a few years ago. However, it is

tions certainly true that five years ago

the American people appeared perfect—

ly convinced that the only way to win

true happiness and perpetuate prosper-

ity was to accuse, condemn and jail for

life—if execution were not legal—the

heads of the important groups of in-

dustrial properties. Just at that time,

one of these men—one of the most effi-

cient but also, perhaps, the one per-

'sonally most obnoxious or unpopular -

committed one of his gravest indiscre-

ticns. It concerned the private use of

deposits in national banks; it was a

federal offense of the most patent and

provable kind. He was indicted. Con-

sidering the temper of any possible

jury at that time, there was absolutely

no alternative but to believe that the

man under indicment must spend

many succeeding years, if not the rest

of his life, in the federal penitentiary

at Atlanta or Leavenworth.





“Now, not only the man himself but

his closest associates contemplated

this certainty with dismay. The man

was in complete control of a group of

the most valuable and prosperous prop-

erties in America. Before his gaining

control, the properties had been al-





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most. ruined. by differences betu'een

the minor men who tried to run them;

only the calling of Matthew Latron

into control saved those men from

themselves; they required him to g0v-

ern them; his taking away would bring

chaos and ruin among them again.

They knew that. Therewere a num-

ber of important people, therefore,

who held hope against hope that Lat-

ron would not be confined in a prison

cell. Just before he must go to trial,

Latron himself became, convinced that





   





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the motive for the crime; fer, though

I had‘never met Overton, I knew that.





he had lost the whole' of a large for-

tune through investments recommend-

ed to him by Latron.

convicted, sentenced to death; he es-

caped before the sentence was carried





out—became a fugitive without a‘





name, who if he ever reappeared would





be handed over for ‘execution. For the.





evidence had been perfect—complete;





 





 





T fie Piné The rmd Me Star





By Hattie Washburn





In the vaulted blue a shining star,

Brightest of the hosts on high,

Sheds its radiance from afar,

A rare jewel of the sky.





A humble pine tree on earth below

Lifts its arms unto that star,



Like a giant index it doth show

What it worships from afar.





The pine tree can not the star attain,

It stands rooted in the clay;



But worship of the orb shall not wane

’Till the tree shall pass away.





Winds the pine tree’s branches toss

and sway,

But the gale it still defies





way

To its idol in the skies.





My soul looks upward to heights of

fame,

As the pine tree to the star,

In dreams I see an immortal name

Where Fame’s deathless glories are.





And does my soul look up all in vain,

While my feet cling to the clay?

Should I scorn heights I may not



attain

And choose a more humble way?





Better that my soul should ever yearn

For heights I shall never know,



Than to be content to humbly turn

Into ways obscure and low.





- - As the pine points to .the star on high

And with its giant finger points the”





It grows ever straight and true;

And uplifted ever, so may I

Attain some small glory, too.





 





 





he faced confinement for the rest of

his life; then fate effectively interven-

ed to end all his troubles. His body,

charred and almost consumed by

flames~but nevertheless the identified

body of Matthew Latron—was found

in the smoking ruins of his‘shooting

lodge which burned to the ground two

days before his trial. I have stated

correctly these particulars, have I not,

Avery?”



“Yes.” Avery was no longer sitting

on the arm of the chair; he had slipped

into the seat-he was hunched in the

seat watching the blind man with grow-

ing conviction and fear.





“There were, of course,” Santoine.





went on, “many of the violent and pas-

sion-inflamed who carped at this time-

ly intervention of fate and criticised

the accident which delivered Latron at

this time. But these were silenced

when'Latron’s death was shown to

have been, not accident, but murder.

A young man was shown to have fol-

lowed Latron to the shooting lodge; a

witness appeared who had seen this

young man shoot Latron;' a second

witness had ‘seen him set fire to the

lodge. The young man—Hugh Overton





he had shot Latron purely for revenge,





,killed him in the most despicable man‘





ner. For there was no doubt Latron

was dead, was there, Avery?”

Santoine waited for reply.



“What?” Avery said huskily.



“I say there was no doubt Latron

was dead,”



“None.”



"‘That was the time" you came into

my employ, Avery, - recommended-to

me by one of the men who had been

closest to Latron. I was not connect-

ed with the TLatron properties except

as an adviser; but many papers relat-

ing to them must go inevitably through

my hands. I was rather on the inside

in all that concerned those properties.

lint I could not myself see the papers;

I was blind; therefore, I had to have

others serve as eyes for me. And from

the first, Avery, you served as my eyes

in connection with all papers relating

to the Latron properties. If anything

ever appeared in those papers which

might have led me to suspect that any

injustice had been done in the punish-

ment of Latron’s murderer, it could

reach me only through you. Nothing

of that sort ever did reach me, Avery.





 





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You must have made quite a good

thing out. of it."



“What." ,



“I say, your position here must have





been rather profitable to you, ‘Avery;





I have not treated you badly 'mysel‘f,

recognizing that you must often be

tempted by gaining information here

from which you might make money;

and your other employers must have

overbid me."



“I don’t understand; I beg your par-

don, Mr. Santoine, but I do not. follow

what you are talking about."



“No? Then we must go a little

further. This last year a: minor reor-

ganization became necessary in some

of the Latron properties. My friend,





Gabriel Warden——who was an honest ,





man, Avery—had recently greatly in-

creased» his interest in those proper-

ties; it was inevitable the reorganiza-

tion should be largely in his hands. I

remember now there was opposition to

his share in it; the fact made no im-

p1ess1on on me at the time; opposition

is common in all things. During his

w01k with the Latron properties, War-

den—the honest man, Avery—discov-

ered the terrible injustice of which I

speak.



“I suspect there were discrepancies

in the lists of stockholders, showing a

concealed ownership of considerable

blocks of stock, 'which first excited his

suspicions. Whatever it may havetbeen

Warden ceitainly investigated furth‘

er; his investigation revealed to: him

the full pa1ticulars of the injustiCe

done to the nameless. fugitive who had

been convicted as the murderer of

Matthew Latron. Evidentlythis help-

less, hopeless man had been thought

wo1th watching by some one, for War-

den’s discoveries gave him also Over-

ton’s address. Warden risked and lost

his life- trying to help Overton.



“I do not need to draw you atten-





’ tion, Avery, to the very peculiar condi-





tion which followed Warden’s death.

Warden had certainly had communica-

tiOn with Overton of some sort; Over«

ton’s enemies, the1efore, were unable

to rid themselves of him by deliveiing

him up to the police because they did

not know how much Overton. knew.

When I found that Warden had made

me his executor and 'I went west and





took charge of his affairs, their difficul- .





ties were intensified, for they did not





dare to let suspicion of what had been-





done reach me.‘ There was no course

open to them, therefore, but to remove

Overton before my suspicions were

aroused, even if it could be done only

at desperate risk to themselves.

“What I am leading up to, Avery, is

your own connection with these events.

You looked after your own interests

rather carefully, I think, up to a cer-

tain point. When—knbwing who Ea-

ton was—you got him into a polo game

it was so that, if your interests were





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d9 so without revealing thegrea source

of your knowledge of him. But an un-’

foreSeen event arose. The drafts and

lists- relating to the reorganization of

the Latron properties—«containing the

very facts, no' doubt, which first had

aroused Warden’s . suspicions—were





. sent me through Warden’s office. At





first there was nothing threatening to

you in this, because their contents

could reach me only through you. But

in the uncertainty I'felt, I had my





_ daughter take these matters out of





your hands; you did not dare then





. even to ask me to give them back, for





fear that would draw my attention to

them and to you. _ .



“That night, Avery, you sent an un-

signed telegram from the office in the

village; almost within twenty—four

hours my study was entered, the safe

inaccessible to you was broken Open,

the contents were carried away. The

study window had not been forced; it

had been left open from within. Do

you suppose I do not’know that one 'of

the two men in the study last night

was the principal whose agents had





' failed in two attempts to get rid of





Overton for him, whose other agent—

yourself, Avery—had failed to inter-

cept the evidence which would have

revealed the truth to me, so that, no

longer trusting to agents, he himself





. had come in desperation to prevent my





learning the facts? I realize, Avery,

that by means ‘of you my blindness

and my reputation have been used for





five years to conceal from the public ‘





the fact that Matthew Latron had not





been murdered, but was still alive!”_





The blind man halted; he had not

gone through this long conversation,





. with all the strain that it entailed upon

. himself, without a definite object; and





now, as he listened to Avery’s quick





breathing and the nervous tapping of

~ his fingers against the arm of hischair

he realized that this object was ac?





complished. Avery not only realized

that the end of deception and conceal-

ment had come; he recognized thor-

oughly that Santoine would not have

spoken until he had certain proof to

back his words. Avery might believe





~ that, as yet, the blind man had not all'





the proof in his possession; but Avery

knew—as he was aware that Santoine





. also -knew-that exposure threatened





so many men that some one of them





._ now, was certain to come forward to

-save'himself at the expense of the’





others. And Avery knew that only

one—and the first one so to come for-

ward—could. be saved.





So Santoine heard Avery now get





up; he stood an instant and tried to

speak, but his breath caught nervous-

ly; he made another effort.



“I don’t think you have very much

against me, Mr. Santoine,” he manag-

ed; it was—as the blind man had ex-

pected—only of himself that Avery

was thinking.



“No?” Santoine asked quietly.



“I didn’t have anything to do with

convicting Overton, or know anything

about it until that part was all over;

I never saw him till I saw him on the

train. I didn’t know Warden was go-

ing to be killed.”





“But you were accessory to the rob:





bery of my house lest night and,





therefore, accessory to the murder of.





VVallaCe Blatchford. Last night, too,

knowing Overton was innocent of ev-

erything charged against him, you

gave orders to fire upon him at 'sight

and he was fired upon. And what were

you telling Harriet when I came in?

You have told the police that Overton

is the murderer of Latron. Isn’t that

so the police will refuse to believe

anything he may say and return him





to the death cell for the sentence to-





be executed upon ”him? The law will

call these things attempted murder,

Avery ”

The blind man heard Avery pacing

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Needs OUr Kind of Service





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in service.





That means having water put in at

least twice a month, and seeing to it

that the charge is kept up to the





proper point.





Also to go straight to the nearest

» Battery Headquarters the minute you

suspect your battery isn’t up to the





mark. Each one of the names listed

below is Battery Headquarters in its

community, equipped and organized





to give battery service according to





the .Willard Standards.





It makes no difference what make of

car you drive, or what make of battery





is on it. Willard Standards of Service





provide for exactly the Isam'e care and

attention to all batteries regardless of

make or any other consideration.





All the dealers listed below give the Willard

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3 the prison reformer of England. On

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and unfrequented path to immortal-I





ity.” That might well be the epitaph

of John Frederick Oberlin. 3 People

commonly regard the rural pastorate

as an obscure and thankless job, with

small pay and many discouragements.

But here is a. country preacher who

won a very substantial earthly immor-

tality. One of our largest colleges'is

named after him, and educators recog-

nize him as an educational leader far

ahead of his time. 'At the same time

he was not primarily an educator. He

was a minister. His chief work was

the cure of souls; But therein lies the

greatness of. the

man, -for he did

not consider the

cure of Souls as

securing a sure

and safe passage

to heaven only,

but as touching

on the whole

man. Hence his

great interest in

schools, fruit

growing, tree

planting, g o o d

roads, bridge building, the teaching of

proper manners, the thorough teaching

of the Bible, and the spread of this

wholesome gospel through the" sur-

rounding towns.





Oberlin’s parish was in the Vosges

Mountains, in Northern France. It was

a. wild, barren region. The people were

ignorant, superstitious, and content to

remain so. There were but few roads,

and scarcely anything was exported.

The brilliant young pastor, with his

college degrees, including the degree

of doctor of philosophy from the Uni-

versity of Strasbourg, felt the call to

go to this uninviting region. He re-

mained there nearly sixty years, dying

at eighty-six. He first built a school,

going in debt for the money. His sal-

ary was two hundred dollars per year.

The people were highly incensed over

the new school, fearing they would be

taxed to keep it up. “Our pastor is

too fiery,” said a group of them, and

they decided to waylay him and put

him under the pump, to cool him off.

Another circle resolved to catch him

at night and give him a whipping. In

each case Oberlin went to the conspir-

ators as soon as he heard of their plan.

Nothing came of it, except that he

made friends, by his manly action. It

seems almost incredible in those days

when schooling was confined to learn-

ing a little out of books, and when it

was administered with a birch rod, to

read Oberlin’s instructions to his

teachers. In addition to the schooling

to be had from the three r’s, the chil-

dren were. to he taught about the

weather, production of crops, habits

of animals, proper food and clOthing.

They were to draw rocks, trees,

flowers and animals. Thus he began





 





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was enormous, for years afterward vis-

itors to the Ban-de—la-roche region tes—'





3 tified that they had never found such





a. degree of wholesome» intelligence,

and such perfect manners as were ob-

servable among the mountain ‘children

that- had attended these schools of

Oberlin. =





E is a great road- builder. The

state highivay department should

have had him for chief publicity agent.

One of his first acts was to construct





a road between two of the towns





where he preached. The roadway was,

but a path, clogged with snow and wa-

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._cott_on factories which he started, is

still in operation.

.‘idea. There had never been. :a- good 3.





road there and why have one now?

Ignorant. people are never so “set’.’ as

when they are opposing something.

But in a day or two they were amazed

to see their young pastor with two‘ or

three others at work with pick and

shovel. Others gathered aboutxhim

and the road was built, including a.

stone bridge. A recent visitor to the





'region says the bridge is still doing





serviCe.



He loved to plant trees.

annual letter to each family asking

whether they had planted a shade tree

where it would do good to the weary

passer-by. He introduced the potato,

and many new varieties of apples and

other fruits. The farmers looked on

with amusement as they saw him dig

up the parsonage garden into ditches

and fill in with new soil. But in a few

years the orchard was. one of the top-

ics of conversation among the moun-

taineers. He organized a “Village Im-

provement Society,” and no one was

admitted to membership who had not

planted at least two fruit trees.





- At fifty-six he was urged to go to

America, to become the pastor of a

thriving colony of immigrants in Penn-

sylvania, but he declined it. “No, I

will never leave this place. It took

me ten years to learn every head in

this parish, making an inventory of

the moral, intellectual and domestic

wants of each. I must have‘at least

ten years to carry these into execu—

tion, and I shall need the ten follow-

ing to correct their faults and vices.

God has confided this flock to me.

Why should I leave?





LL through his long ministry



among these simple folk he show-

ed how deeply he believed in environ-

ment. The community is to be saved

as well as the individual.

that has been renewed by the grace

of God may keep its new life and make

progress in a very unfavorable envir-

onment, but we also know that many

do not progress under these conditions-

The community must be touched by

the spirit of God as well as a person

here and there in it. Oberlin prepared

his sermons with great care. A stu-

dent of the original languages, he thus

got at the deeper meaning 'of the texts

on which he preached. He never

preached over the heads of his people,

but aimed to talk 'in so plain a manner,

using illustrations from the life about

them,» that the ordinary peasant farm-

er would understand him perfectly.

There were many Catholics in the reg-





ion, but they came to hear him gladly.-





In. old age he was honored by the

French king by receiving the decora-

tion of the Legion of Honor. At his

death, people came 'for miles, includ-

ing Catholic priests, and united in giv-

ing expression to their common loss.



There are a. few reflections that may

not be unprofitable, after this outline

of this great man’s life. First, Oberlin

was a thoroughly educated man. He

had~ taken full post graduate; work at

one 'of the great, European universities.

Many 'rural pastors are only high

school graduates and a good many

have never even proceeded that far,

and it is a great misfortune. One may

succeed with this handicap. But he

would do better if he had had a more

thorough preparation Further;- Ober-

lin was not afflicted with wanderitis.

He stayed. A preacher who is contin-

ually watching the church papers for

possible vacancies in the City 11111] nev-





er. attain the. highest success in the-





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among them; though I also suspect-—

from what I have learned about your

character in the last few days—that

you’ll, take any means open to you to

avoid sharing their fate.”



“I suppose you mean by that that





I’ll turn state’s evidence if I get a.





chance, and I might as well begin now.”





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with the simultaneous arrest of a cer-

tain number of men in different places

whom I know must be implicated———will

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of your group in the contingencies

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I offer you nothing now, Avery—no

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ing. If you prefer to have me learn

the full facts from the first of another

who breaks, very well.”





Santoine waited. He heard Avery

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they were uneven steps as Santoine

heard them; then Avery stopped once

more.



“What is it you want to know, sir?”



“Who killed Warden?’,’



“John Yarrow is his name; he was

a sort of hanger-on of Latron’s. I don’t

know where Latron picked him up.”





“Was it he who also made the at-

tack on the train ?” ‘

“Yes.”





“Who was the other man on the

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ward?” ’

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shore where Latron has been living.

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He’s been a sort of go-between for Lata

ron and the'men—those who knew—

who were managing the properties.

I’d never met him, though, Mr. San-

toine, and I didn’t know either him1 or

Hollock on the train. As I said, I

wasn’t in the know about killing War-

den. ”



“When did you learn who Eaton was,

Avery?”





“The day after we got back here“





from the west I got word from Latron;

they didn’t tell me till they needed to.

use me.” Avery hesitated; then he

went on—he was eager now to tell all

he knew in his belief that by doing so

he was helping his own case. “You

understand, sir, about Latron’s pref

tended death—a guide at the shooting

lodge had been killed by a chance shot

in the woods; purely accidental; some

one of the party had fired at a deer,

missed, and never knew he’d killed a

man with the waste shot. When the

guide didn’t comeback to camp, they

looked for him and found his body.

He ‘Was a man who never would be

miSsed or inquired for and was very

nearly Latron’s size; and~t~hat gave

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“At first there was no idea of pre- ’





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the coroner who first suggested that.

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Dear, brave lads,





the circumstances, as they were made

public.

:out or some one else be charged as the

murderer. That put it up to Overton





He’d actually been up there to, see'

Latron and had had a scene with him .

‘which had been witnessed. That part

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that he shot Latron afterwards—was-

perfectly true. He thought that Lat-

ron, as he Was about to go to trial,

might be willing to give him informa-

tion which would let him save some-

thing from the fortune he’d lost

through Latron’s manipulations. The

circumstances, motive, everything was

ready to convict Overton; it needed

very little more to complete the case

against him.”



“So it was completed.”



_ “But after Overton was convicted,

he was not allowed to be punished."



Santoine’s lips straightened in con-

tempt. “He was not allowed to be

punished?” ’



“Overton didn’t actually escape, you

know, Mr. Santoine—that is, he could

not have escaped without help; Lat-

ron was thoroughly frightened and he

wanted it carried through and Overton

executed; but some of the others re-

belled against this and saw that Over-

ton got away; but he never knew he’d

been helped. I understand it was evi-

dence of Latron’s insistence on the

sentence being carried out that Warden

found, after his first suspicions had

been aroused, and that put Warden in

a position to have Latron tried for his

life, and made it necessary to kill

Warden."-



“Latron is dead, of course, Avery,

or fatally wounded?”





“He’s. dead. Oven—Eaton, that is,

sir—hit him last night with three

shots.”





“As a housebreaker engaged in rif-

ling my safe, Avery.”



“Yes, sir. Latron was dying when

they took him out of the car last

night. They got him away, though;

put him on the boat he’d come on. I

saw them in-the woods last night.

They’ll not destroy the body or make

away with it, sir, at present.”



“In other words, you instructed them

not to do so‘ until you had found out

whether Overton could be handed over

for execution and the facts regarding

Latron kept secret, or whether some

other course was necessary."



(Continued next week).





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Dear little lads, I lov’d them true,

It seems but one short day

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They skipped about at play.

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Their clhildish love Shone bright and

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The hours seem so long and drear

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SPARAGUS is a vegetable which

A no farm should be without. Few

indeed, are the persons who do

not like this delicately flavored, easily

raised vegetable, and coming so early

in the spring it is doubly welcomed

in most households. Once started, a

bed of asparagus is easily cared for,

and might be a source of pin money to

the woman who has less fortunate—or

provident—neighbors.



Asparagus is largely water, ninety-

four per cent, according to Atwater,

and its fuel value per pound is only

105 calories. Nevertheless it is of val-

ue in the diet because of its mineral

salts and the appetite which it helps to

give for more hearty foods.





The time for cooking varies with

the age of the vegetable. If you raise

your own asparagus and know it is

young and tender, twenty minutes

should be enough. If it is older, it

should cook at least a half hour. The

best way of cooking is to cut in uni-

form lengths, snapping off with the

fingers all the tough white ends, wash,

and scale. Tie in bunches, head end

up, and cook standing on end in boil—

ing water with the tips out of water.

The tips are more tender than the

stalk and the steam will cook them

sufficiently while the ends are boiling.

If the asparagus is fresh, salt may be

added while it is cooking and this will

help to preserve the green color. If it

is older salt added while it is cooking

will have a tendency to toughen the

fiber.



When tender, remove from the wa-

ter, add a bit of butter to the liquid

left, and if salt has not been added,

salt to taste. Pour this juice over

slices of toast, and serve the aspara-

gus branches on the toast. Or the as-

paragus juice may be reserved to use

in soup and a white sauce poured over

the asparagus and toast.



If preferred, the asparagus may be

broken in pieces, boiled and served

with a white sauce or with the juice

to which has been added butter and

seasonings. Use only enough water

to cook nicely, so that none need be

» poured off or wasted. ’





Asparagus and Cheese—Make a

white sauce of one cup of water in

which the asparagus was cooked, a

half cup of cream, three tablespoons of

butter, and three of flour. Season with

salt and pepper and add two egg yolks

and two tablespoons of grated cheese.

Stir until the cheese melts, but do not

let it boil. Then arrange asparagus

and sauce in layers in a' baking dish,

in the order named. Cover with but-

tered cracker crumbs and put in the

even just long enough to brown the

crumbs. Serve at once.





Asparagus Soup—Break twelve

stalks of asparagus into pieces, throw-

ing tips in one dish and stalks in an-

other. Cover tips with one cup of cold

water, and stalks with three. Cook

tips until tender, and stalks twenty-

five minutes. Then press the stalks

. through a sieve, and thicken the stock

3 with three tablespoons of butter and





1:].three' of flour, prepared as for white;





{sauce In another stewpan scald two.

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When milk is scalded remove onion

and pour the milk into the thickened

asparagus stock. Add seasonings to

suit, pour over the cooked tips and

serve.





Canned asparagus will give you the

base for a Sunday night supper next

winter. Of course, it should be cold

pack. Blanch for eight minutes, and

plunge in cold water until it feels

chilled to the touch. Then pack in

wide-mouth cans, tip end up, add a

teaspoon of salt, cover with boiling

water and process two and one—half

hours. Do not pack jars too full, or

you will break it in getting it out.

When storing wrap the jars in paper

to prevent bleaching.





WOMAN KEEPS CIVIL SERVICE

JOB.





 





OUT in Colorado they tried to leg-

islate some office holders out of

jobs by changing the titles of offices





held and making new rules. Mrs. Alice‘





Adams Fuller, who had a civil service





 





‘ appointment as secretary of the State





Board of Charities and Corrections re-

fused to be legislated out of her job

and brought suit against the State

Civil Service Commission, the head of

the State Board of Charities and Cor-

rections, and the state auditor and

state treasurer. Meantime she attend-

ed to her work every day, though _she

was refused a salary. .. In January,

1922, the supreme court decided in her

favor and ordered her back salary be

paid up to date. '





TO MAKE WASH DAY' EASIER.





 





F you can’t have stationary laundry



tubs—and most of you can’t—take

your galvanized iron tubs to the tin-

smith and have him cut a hole in the

bottom and attach to a faucet. The

tubs may then be- quickly and easily

emptied. .



Do not attempt to wash in the old

laborious way of rubbing every gar-

ment. Use a good washing powder,

which, with the soap, will remove the

dirt from the cleaner clothes. There

are many on the market which are

harmless and make rubbing of all but

badly soiled parts unnecessary.





Controlling the Wily Moth





By M are M ”edit/1 .





F you want to avoid any possibility

I of finding woolen underclothes,



' Winter coats, furs, or your precious

blankets riddled with moth holes next

year when you want to use them again

you have to be very careful how you

pack them away. This is the time of

the year when the clothes moth is

busy finding the spot in which to de-

posit her eggs and she usually makes

a beeline for the finest woolens.



The safest way of all to defeat the

moths is to put the garments into an

airtight bag or box and seal the box

up securely. Before doing this, how-

ever, it is necessary to well brush and

even beat the clothes, for one can

never be absolutely sure that moth

eggs have not already been deposited

on them. If this has already happen-

ed the most elaborate precautions will

not prevent disaster.



Grease in particular must be remov-

ed for moths will always select such

spots in preference to any other. An-

other point to remember is that wool-

ens should be washed before they are

put‘away. It is a fact that moths

much prefer anything that has been

near the body to perfectly clean gar-

ments. ‘



So few of us possess airtight boxes

that a few alternatives which have

been proved successful should be use-

fulto the housewife. One method is

to first put the garments into a card-

board ‘box and sprinkle with naptha

or carbon balls. Then wrap the box

in several thicknesses of newspaper





and paste down securely so that the .





moth cannot possibly find entrance.

The box, of course, can be dispensed

with and more newspapers used, but

the box helps to keep the garments

from creasing.





A covering of newspapers and finally .

.tar paper ’is usually .IsucccSSqul. and





 





fastened. at the open end, is an easy

way of dealing with the trouble, but it

is not so easy to be sure that the fast-

ening is really secure.



It is a mistake to put the packages

in a dark cupboard or anywhere where

there is the least suspicion of damp.

A light, dry cupboard is better.



Don’ t on any account use pepper. It

it true .that moths hate pepper, but

the dangers that await 'the‘ reopening

of pepper-laden garments are too great

to be risked.





TO SET COLORS IN WASH GOODS.





 





Reds and Pinks—Soak in a strong

solution of salt and water for one hour.



Greens, Mauves and Purples.—Wash

thoroughly in a solution of one ounce

of alum to one gallon of water. .



Blues, Browns, Tans and Lavenders.

—Soak for several hours in one gallon

of water in which one ounce of. sugar

of lead has been dissolved.



Blacks, ’Grays and Buffs—Use one

tablespoonful of black pepper to a gal-

lon cf water.



If one cannot trust to memory .to

recall these directions just when they

are needed, copy the above or cut it

from the paper and paste onto the can

where you keep the powdered alum

and the sugar of lead, and place on

the shelf with ammonia, ’blueing and

other materials used on wash day.





PREPARING THE SURFACE FOR

PAINTING.





 





T is a common practice when we do

an odd job of painting around the





home to simply apply the paint with--





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out thought. in regard to the surface.





for foundation.





 





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(no matter how good the paint, the re-





Isult\ will be far from satisfactory if





attention is not given to this detail.



In the} first place, the surface to be

painted must be clean, dry and free

from dust, grease and dirt. On new

work, a thin coat of shellac should, be

applied to all knots and sappy places.

0n work that has been previously

painted, use a wire brush to remove

all loose particles, and spots that are

entirely bare where the paint has

chipped off,» should be given a priming

coat of paint reduced with turpentine.





-Th,e extra labor in thus‘properly





preparing the surface will be more

than justified‘in the durability of the

paint coat and the smooth, uniform ap-

pearance of the finished surface.





NEW WAYS TO CLEAN WOOD-

'-WORK.





 





OUSEWIVES ln‘ our neighborhood

are enthuisastic over the follow-

ing method of cleaning varnished or

waxed woodwork and floors: To one

quart of lukewarm water add one ta-

blesipoonful of vinegar, and one of oil,

olive oil or a vegetable oil. Of course,

any quantity of water may be mixed,

but these are the proportions: Wash

the wood with a soft cloth, and rub

dry immediately with cheesecloth.

Clean only'a small. space at a time,

and rub with the grain of the wood.

It is claimed that the vinegar re-

moves the grease, while the oil gives

the desired polish.





‘ A decorator advises washing wood-





work and floors with_ gasoline every

spring. This cuts all the old dirt and

polish Which has accumulated through

the year, and leaves a clear smooth





surface. Follow the gasoline bath with





with a good rub with wax for‘waxed

surfaces, and with-oil for varnished

surfaces.



A cheap and good furniture polish

for varnished wood is one pint of par-

affin oil and two ounces of turpentine

shaken together. Moisten the dust-

cloths with this the day before you

wish to polish the furniture, and keep

them rolled in the oiled paper that

comes around bread, or in a tin syrup

pail with a tightly closed cover.





LEARN TO EAT “ANYTHING."





 





EALLY there are very few food



prejudices that are not a mere

matter of habit. We like the thing to

which we are accustomed. It very sel-

dom happens that a personal dislike to

any wholesome, article of diet is based

upon a physical .. antipathy for it. So

in the matter of seasoning, the amount

of sugar in desserts, the use of flavor-

ing—we 'usually like things the way

we have become accustomed to» them.

If for any reason yen have to drink





, coffee without sugar for any length or





time, you will get so you prefer it

that way. Children who eat cereal

without sugar, after a time, like it

better without, providing, of course,

that they have a well-rounded diet Ibe-





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'HOIVIE TREATMENT 13 BEST. ,





 





VEN among the «intelligent read-,



are of this paper I observe a ten—



dency to feel that serious compli-

cations of health can always be bettei

treated by some- one in a diatant state.

Instead of going to the home doctor,

telling him all about the case, and set-

ting all of .his intelligence to» work in

their favor, they are attracted by the

possibility of sending off, for treatment

to New York or Chicago or Rochester,

Minn. This is all wrong. The home

man is the best man for your case, at

least nine times in ten. He knows all

about you and the conditions under

which you live. He can see you every

day and carefully keep watch of your

condition. He knows your possibili-

ties and the circumstances of your

family. It is to his interest to give

you a square deal because he has to

make his living right in your neighbor-

hood and your personal endorsement

means much to him.



Recently a lady wrote to meabout

taking treatment of some far-off doc-

tor for cancer. She had had some cor-

respondence and he had assured her

that she had cancer and he could cure

her for so much. She did not doubt

his diagnosis, but before sending her

money she had the good judgment to

refer the correspondence for my en-

dorsement. After looking over the pa-

pers I concluded that she did not have

cancer at all and sent her to her home

doctor for examination. You will be

interested in her letter:



“Thank you very much for writing

me so fully. I have gone to a good

physician here and he says that I have

no cancer. He says the same thing

that you do, that when you have sev-

eral lumps, as I had, instead of just

one single lump, the great probability

is that none of the lumps mean can-

cer. He says that it is a reflex condi-

tion caused from qmenstrual disturb-





ances, a swelling of the glands. So my

mind has been set at ease.

“The doctor, of Buffalo, New York,





to whom I wrote, told me that I had

cancer He said that he was a cancer

specialist and wanted fifty dollars a

‘month for treating it. ”





ONLY CASTOR OIL.





 





A doctor told me a short time ago

that the most wonderful medicine for

summer complaint that he knew any-

thing about was 01 Ricini. Will you

please tell me what this is and where

it can be obtained ?—Young Mother.





01 Ricini is the medical name for

castor oil. I think your doctor is right,

but a better way is to avoid summer

complaint.





POLYPUS IN NOSE.





 





I have had polypus removed from

the nose by operation three times, and

now must have it done again. Can it

not be removed so it will not come

back? Is there not something one

could do to prevent it?—~F .A. L





It is quite common for nasal polypi

to recur because they easily grow

again on the old site. But a skillful

operator can remove a polypus in such

a way that it will not return.

pends on getting the whole pedicle of

the polypus, down to sound tissue.





TROUBLED ABOUT HAIR..





 





' What can I use to grow hair on the

body or on the legs or make the hair

grow thicker that is on the body? Why





do men get bald when they grow up?—

Reader. ,





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watched anxiously for hirsute proofs

of maturity. Sol will just tell my boy

that there'is no way to hurry nature

along. But I might add that it is pos-

sible to assist in keeping the hair that

nature puts on the scalp, by treating

it so that it will feel at home and stay

along time. The treatment is daily

vigorous brushing with a stiff brush so

as to stimulate but not irritate the

scalp. Begun ’early and maintained

regularly this treatment is superior to'

hair tonic.





‘TROU BLED WITH STYES.





 





For the last five or six years I have

been having styes. Sometimes I have

had from two to thiee at a time. I

have now three, two on one eye and

one on the other. I wish you could tell

me something to cure them. I have

used gold rings but that only keeps

them away for awhile then they come

right back. I am fifteen years old.—

M. A.



A good local application for styes is

yellow oxide of mercury ointment, but

it must be used only under a doctor’s

direction as it may do harm. A safer

application is an ointment containing

boric acid. Chronic styes are often

cured by the fitting of proper glasses

that relieve the eye strain. ‘





HAS TROUBLE H EARING.





 





I would like to have your advice as

to ear trouble. As a gene1al rule I

have to ask people to repeat what

they have said to me. I haven’t had

any earache to speak of, but the win-

ter winds have had some effect on

them. '1 went to a specialist to have

my throat examined and he also exam-

ined my ears. He told me to have my

tonsils removed and my ea1s treated.

Do you think my hearing would get

better without the treatment if my

tonsils are len1oved?—S. B.





Defective hearing is very often de-

pendent upon disease of the tonsils.





In such a case they should be removed ,_





at once. It is quite likely that you will

need no other treatment. As a matter

of fact, there is no treatment of the

ears themselves that gives much relief

in deafness.





“LIVER” SPOTS.





 





Could you tell me' of anything that

will remove those brown spots from

my face that appeared and remained

after pregnancy? What is the cause

of those spots remaining and is there

anything that will remove them?

A. P.





The brown spots are deposits of pig-

ment that have some connection with

the maternal functions—just what no

one has yet explained satisfactorily.

They are commonly called “liver

spots” but the condition of; the liver

has no connection with the spots. I

can only say that the better the gen--

oral health of the patient the fainter

do the spots become. Many women

who are disfigured by them throughout

the whole child-bearing period are

made to look years younger after the

“change of life” by the spontaneous

disappearance of ‘these blotches.





INGROWING TOE-NAILS.





 





Can you give a good‘ treatment for

ingrowing toe-nails ?—Subscriber.





The best way to cure ingrowing toe-

nails is to remove the pressure. Pay

no attention to the ingrown part, but

after soaking the foot in hot water,

take an old safety razor blade and

scrape and pare the upper surface of

the nail until it is as thin as it will

stand without breaking. Of course,

you must wear sensible shoes, too.





 





Brushing the lower crust with egg

whites, some housewives say, e limi-





 





 





 





 

 





 

 





   

 





 

 





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The Thrifty Citizen

W110 Caught the

Plugged Nickel





his lunch and had paid his bill.

cautiously he counted his change.

“Here!” he said, sharply,

back this plugged nickel and give

me a good one!"





Mr. Brown walked proudly out.

They couldn’t fool old Brown.





But old Brown had fooled himself.





Brown’s day was heavy and dull. He lacked

There was a mid-afternoon drowsy spell

when he needed to be awake—the direct and natural

result of heavy, starchy breakfasts and lunches, taken '

on faith and without question as to value—just be-



cause the food looked and tasted like food.





- Thousands of shrewd business men who count

their change, take their food for granted.





That’s what builds up the sanitarium business,

and puts the tired “all-done” feeling into the mid-

afternoon of a business day.





Grape-Nuts is a scientific food whose delicious,

appetizing flavor and crispness are an introduction

to well-balanced nourishment—a nourishment easily

and quickly assimilated, so that body, brain and ‘

nerves are well fed and kept free of the stored-up

poisons left by so many ill-selected foods.





Served with cream or good milk, Grape-Nuts is

a complete food, always ready, always a delight to

the taste—and always a safe selection for the man

who thinks his stomach is entitled to some of the

same protection he gives to his pocket.





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appreciation as to what a —boy





tackle a man-sized job, that the writer

never hesitates to show his unbounded

faith in their ability to achieve. It has

been a greater privilege for the past

twelve years to live with boys and

girls as a. leader in Boys’ and Girls’

Club work, and many interesting stor-

ies show what they will do if givena

fighting chance.



A few years since one of the club

boys by the name of Niles Hagleshaw,

a country boy of Michigan, who had

to go three miles to school each day,

took up poultry as his project.



He failed completely the first year

so far as financial returns were con-

cerned, but went out to win the second

year, saying, “He’d be hanged if he’d

let a bunch of chickens get his goat.”

He became chanmpion of the many

clubs in his county that year, and the

next year became champion of all the

clubs of Michigan. He finished that





HERE is often such a lack of





or girl can do ‘when inspired to.





Perseverance. Gets Results

Boys and Gzr/r’ C/ué flccomp/zr/zme‘rzts Ofi‘efl Dave/0p Into a Lzfiz lVoré





By C. E.Ack1ey





year with two hundred and fifty as

fine White Leghorns as any one would

care to own, and knew to a quarter of

'a cent just how much each bird cost.





VHe put the poultry business of that,





farm on a. paying basis, disposed of

the mongrels and non-layers, and to-

day has one of the most profitable

flocks of White Leghorns in his county.



He believes in“culling, and has done

much of this in his own flock, and has

materially raised the standard of the

flocks among his friends and neighbors

by culling for them. Some time ago

he was elected secretary, of his local

grange and director of the Grange

Fair in his community. Just recently

he was elected as vice-president of the

County Fair Board, and his new vis~

ion of what a county fair ought to be,

is working itself out in the minds of

the other members of this fair board.



Mr. Hagleshaw is still a very young

man. He has a clear vision of the im-

portance and possible ways of the

country folk working together. He be-





 





advice.





 





Our Letter Box





HIS letter box will be where the boys and girls can express their

views, tell of themselves and things about the farm, or ask

The most interesting letters each week will appear here.

Address your letters to me.——-Uncle Frank.





 





 





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Dea1 Uncle Frank: 4



I am a girl sixteen years old. This

is out second year on the farm, and

we hope to stay a good many years to

come. If I had to live in the. elty now

it would be against my w111.—Anna

Sukupchak, Bridgeman, Mich.



You know both city and country life

and I say you have chosen wisely.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



We have taken the Michigan Farm-

er a long time but I have never tried

to win any prize yet until now.



I am fourteen years old, I passed the

eighth grade last spring, but couldn’t

go to high school, but am planning on

going this fall. I would like to be a

school teacher some day.



I always have had a liking for mu-

sic. I never took any lessons but my

mother knew how to play and She

taught me how and now I can play





lots. I have a piano, just got it Sun-

day. I always have had an organ be-

fore that.





I have three sisters and two broth-

ers. My brothers have a pet lamb, two

kittens and two doves. We live‘ on a

farm of nineteen acres.



We have twenty-five little chickens,





ing fo1 115 eggs.



Will send my answers in, hoping to

get a dollar, but if I don’t I wish .to

congratulate all who do.—M11dred

Hamp, Burlington, Mich.



I am glad you like music. I do, too.

His nice, too, that you have ambition





to be a teacher.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am sending in answers to the read-

and-win contest which I found for the

first time in last week’s paper. I have

not been in the habit of reading the

Michigan Farmer, but I think I will

read Our Letter Box each week, as it

is so interesting.



I am twelve years old and'in the

fifth grade at school. I haven’t missed





I am working for a year‘s cer-





I live on a farm of 160 acres. My

brother and I have a pony all our own.

I take her every night when I go after

the cows. It’s lots more fun to ride





year.





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heragoing after the cows than it is tog





six hens setting, and the incubator go-V





a day at school or been tardy yet this.





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walk. We have twelve cows to bring

hoine. We also have six yearlings and

five calves, twenty little pigs and their

two mothers, and some hens, a pair of

geese and three ducks. .



There are so many interesting

things to write about. The wild flow-

ers are just beginning to blossom and

the trees are budding. Everything

speaks of pleasant things to come.—

Willie Riness, Vassar, Mich.





I am glad you have become inter-

ested in our department. Your great

variety of live stock must be interest-

ing to you.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

It won’t be very long before we will

have three months’ vacation fro-m

school, then we will haVe lots of fun.

We can go in swimming, instead of

staying in school and working about a

dozen hard arithmetic problems.



I think the read-and-Win contest is

very good, especially in the summer

vacation, because it will make our

brains work to find the answer. The

contest is also good help for our pen-

flagship —-—Ryan Terpstra, Kalamazoo,



1c





While vacations are fine, arithmetic

problems are good, too, even if they

are not so much fun. I am glad you

anticipate some brain work on the con-

tests this summer.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I am a boy eight years old. Have

not missed a day at school this term.

I like my teacher, her name is Miss

Fundy. School will be out. May 19. I

am in the third grade.



We keep six cows. I milk three, dad

milks the other th1ee. We also have

pure- -bred PolandChina hogs and White

Rock hens. We have a lot of little

chicks.



I would like to enter some of the

contests. but mamma thinks I am too

young. I think the boys’ and girls’ let—

ters are good. I read them every week.



With best wishes to you and all the

boys and girls, I will say good- -bye.—-'—

Avery C. Moore, Yale, Mich.





No, Avery, you are not too young to

enter the contests. I think you are

doing fine, doing your share of the





 

 





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lieves in his fellows. ,Hé'has' the fac-

=ulty of working with others. He is





bound to win, as evidenced by the fact ‘

“he’d be hanged





that as a mere lad,

if he’d let a bunch of chickens get his

’goa .” The new day has brought the

country .folk face to face with the cold

fact that them is an almost tragic lack

of the Hagleshaw type of trained lead~

ership to meet the present day tasks.

If we show progress during the next

ten years in harmony with the oppor-

tunity that is ours today, leadership

must. be trained in terms of the needs

of the new day. This leadership must

come from the open country, and the

great bulk of it must necessarily ceme

from the farm boys and girls now in

their ’teen age.



This leadership must be resident,





fundamentally honest, with a great ca-1





pacity to believe in folks; must be un-

selfish, able to play the team game,

and with a conviction and vision of

community and world needs sufficient-

ly strong to set aside gossipings, petty

jealousies and personal ambitions, that

a greater service may result.





There are two outstanding organi-

zations at work in the open country

today, that rural America will do well

to take advantage of in face of the ob-

vious need of such trained leadership.

These organizations are the Boys’ and

Girls’ Club work under the department

of agriculture and the rural or county

Y. M. C. A. work under the national

association. These institutions are

training the ’teen age boys and girls

in them great fundamentals. They be-

lieve in giving these boys and girls a.

chance.





 





A MONEY-MAKING» STUNT.





 





By Bernice Wright.



One spring a few years ago I resolv-

ed to make some money. I thought

that keeping chickens would be an

easy way. I decided to have Plymouth

Rocks as they are quite large and-

would sell for more than a smaller

chicken in the fall. After I had thirty

eggs which I had bought of my mother,





.I could hardly wait until they were ‘





hatched. As I was so honest about

promising to pay for my eggs my

brother suggested that I pay for the

rent of the incubator,'which I did.



When they hatched the chickens

were healthy and so very hungry that

I fed them too much and they all died

but two. I was now in debt two dol-

lars and fifty cents and nothing to

show for it but two chickens and the

experience.



As long as I was this much in debt

I decided that I might as well buy

some more for I wouldn't be apt to

even pay my debt with two chickens.



In a few weeks the second bunch

hatched and they proved to be just as

healthy as the others. But I was more





‘careful this time. .





Sometimes I would get very discour-

aged as I th0ught of the heavy debt

over my head; For every day the debt

was growing larger, for as the chick-





ens grew they ate more.





About the last of October I sold all





of them but three chickens and aroost- .1





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- 'HE letters I_,receive_»are getting

more numerous and more inter-



’. esting every day. Our Letter

Box is 3 certainly, popular as it is full

and overflowing most all the time.

This just goes to show that the boys





and girls, my nephews and neices, are-





writing letters that are interesting to





‘ other boys and girls.





The letters, the messages we receiv-

ed and the messages we Write so often

have a vast influence on the lives of

those for whom they are intended. So

we must be sure to make our letters





 





, The Winners





OLLOWING are the names



of the boys and girls who

won in the riddle contest of Ap-

ril -29. None got the answers

exactly as I have them, but

those named below came the

nearest to it. The results show

that the girls are more interest-

ed in it, or better at riddles than





the boys. .

Leta Pearson, Bloomingdale,

Mich. . .

Florence Howes, Ithaca, Mich.

Virginia Wiley, ‘ Kalamazoo,

Mich. '

Helen Moerdyk, Oshtemo,

Mich.

Annabel DeForest, Memphis,

Mich. ’ ‘





 





 





 





good and wholesome and write them

so that they will bring, good cheer if

we possibly can.‘ I am very glad to

say that the letters I get from the

boys and girls more than fulfill my an-

ticipations in this respect.





While the letters we write have an

influence, those we do not write, but

should, also have an influence. It

seems that we are all inclined to en-

joy receiving morethan giving in let-

ters as well as other things. So to the



B boys and girls who have received let-

ters and have not answered them, I

say, “Please do.”

how someone may be looking each day

with anticipation for mail and get noth-

ing but disappointment. Especially do

I ask you to do this if you are away

from home or those near and dear to

you. It is one of your duties to keep

them informed, but it should be a

pleasurable one. .





It may seem thatlhave failedin the

very thing I ask you to do, as many

boys and girls have written me whom

I have not answered. I wish it were

possible for me to answer all by mail

or through the paper, but it is not. I

also wish I could .use in our Letter

Box more of the interesting letters I

receive. But it would take p several

pages of each issue to do this and that

would be impossible. So, if you letter

has not been answered personally, or

has not appeared in the Letter Box,

I ask you to be patient and try again,

and perhaps some of these days you

will get results.





Many of the boys and girls, girls

mostly, have expressed a wish in their

letters, that other boys and girls write

to them. There is nothing nicer than

a wholesome correspondence between

young folks who have common inter-

ests, and I like to encourage it. It is

impossible to print the letters of all

who make such requests so I am ap-

pending the names and addresses of

some who have recently indicated such

a desire. The names follow:



IlaJ. Purdy, Orleans, Mich.





Margaret Campbell, W ‘

Baiy CityfiMich., RR 3. .‘ enona Beach



rene 'ughes, Pontiac, Mi h.

Ina E. Miller, Midland, Migh.’ RR 2'

Doris Fletcher, Melvin, Mich.

Melvin, Mich.





   





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Elizabeth Maynard, Clinton, Mich,

R 3. '

, Frances Hedden, Imlay City, Mich,

RR 1.

Kathryn Komulainen, ' Drummond,





Mich.

Esther Sturm, Rhodes, Mich., RR 1.





Lillian M. Hawkins, Laingsburg,

Mich., RR 2.



Amelia Warczinsky, Minden City,

Mich.





Jessie Knapp, Kibbie, Mich.

Bernice Patterson, Levering, Mich.

Irene Pierce, Pewamo, Mich.



Elvira Black‘man, Arthur Bay, Mich.

Goldie King, Stockbridge, Mich.

Marie Church, Iron Mountain, Mich.

’Sylvia Church, Iron Mountain, Mich.





I ask that you maintain a helpful

correspondence and not a Correspond-'

unce, as Hy Syckle calls it, with em-

phasis on the dunce part of the word.

If there is anything peculiar or ques-

tionable about the letters you receive

bring them to the attention of your

parents or let me know about them.





The Contests.



The-riddle contest was a little hard,

as one has to guess at the answers

unless he knows them. Really, no one

got all of them exactly as I have them.

Apparently the last three were easy,

as most everybody had them right, but

riddles one and two were stumbling

blocks for most everybody.





The Riddle Answers.



These are the answers to the rid-

dles in(our April 19 issue:



1. Smiles, because there is a mile

between the two S’s.



2. The 1 in 10.



3. Wagon.



4. Ohio.



5. Shoe.



This week we are back to the good

old Read-an’d-Win Contests again, but

when vacation starts and you have





 





Read and Win





E are coming back to our



old brain teasers again

this week, because they are ap-

parently the favorites among the

boys and girls. The ansWers to

the ten questions given below

can be found in the pages of this

issue. The fiVe most neat and

concise papers by boys or girls,

having correct answers, win.one

dollar each. It is not necessary

to repeat the questions, and give

the page on'which you found

the answer. Contest closes on

May 18. Send all letters to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Michigan.



1. What will protect cut seed

potatoes from rot?



2. Where did a fifty-cent piece

“reside?” '



3. What makes a good furni-

ture polish?



4. Who was a lover of people?



5. How many acres in Michigan



ought to be in forests but

are not?



6. How much difference in the

corn yield did two weeks’

difference in planting time



f make?



7. What are the other names



for iron sulphate?





8. What does the free seed

graft cost the government

each year?





9. What is the most urgent gov-





ernmental need at pres-

ent? l



10. How many goose eggs will a

hen cover?





 





 





 





more time, we are going to try some

more short essay contests and perhaps

some drawing contests. If you wish,

we could also have a photographic

contest. I would be more than pleased





to have you offer suggestions as to .





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





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guaranteed- 0. BO EN. R. 12. Holland. Mich.



ghite and Bull





BABY CHI CKS e orns. Barred





Plymouth Rocks. Hui! Plymouth R0 Whl -

mouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and0 White tV8912;-

dottes.?.5 for $0.25 50 for 810.00.100 for 818.00. FEN’I‘ON

CHICKEN HATCHERY. Box 244. Fenton. Michigan



from high pro-





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DAY OLD CHICKS





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strain Brown Leghorns. Anconas. Reds. Sen for

price list. Hillcrest Hatchery. R. 2. Holland. Mich





5 to 6 Lb. White Leghorns





Larger hens. better winter layers. Free catalog des-

cribes them. tells a new way to cull hens. feeding





 





 





 





 





 





waste feed or clog. and other information.

A.WAUCHEK. Gobleville, Mich.





 





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Prices. Barred Plymout

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parcel ost prepaid. 100‘: live delivery guaranteed.

Our 12th year producing t e kind of chix that lease.

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arred Rock. Hatching eggs from Parks 200-eg

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Baby Chicks and Hatching Eggs





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

producing strain from our own free ran e poultry

arm. Circulars free. VILLAGE VIEW OULTRY

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NU“. Mich” Feb- 14. 1922

811mm Harland and Mt.

Holland. Mich. '

Dear Sin: V ’



= 771:7!)1 of June Ian year 11:: bougbr 600 chix fromyou

and bad Jplmdid mm” with rhm. Raised 550. have 100

that ba'ue not been culled. btgan laying Nov. 15 and an now

living from 60 to 70.31 pn- dqy. J (ochre! and 2214””:

no! In and 3rd1rlzu at our poultry show her: at Nil”. (1:.

Mn. MarI‘nglmer.

Nile: Midi. \





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Holland, Mich.





 





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lncona d Minorcas 15. 8.00 4.25



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Barred Rocks 15.00 8.00 4.25

Bull s Wh. Rocks 16.00 8.60 4.50

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Buii‘ Orpington 10.00 8.50 4.50

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Hill's heavy-Ia ing rizs-winning

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100. 89.00 prepaid. Lucian Hill, R. 3. Tekonsha.Mich.





Barred Rocks from Rocky Ridge





Hatching eggs from Park's Pedigreed Selected Stock

$2.00 per 15. Prepaid by P. P. Booking orders for day

old chicks. W. T. Richardson. Hanover, Mich.





' Of ure bred fineste g

100,000 Chicks 10“ a up. {oxucing flocks. Bui t

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hatching eggs. Duck ings. Catalog. varieties. Early

bookings avoids disappointment. ‘Beckman Hatchery.

26 E. Lyon. Grand Rapids. Mich.





egg contestwinners.eg sfrom st i

Barred ROCIIS Zith records to 290 as year. $60

per setting prepai by P. P. Circular tree.

FRED ASTLING. Constantine. Mich.





' Cockerels all sold. Remember

Nlngiei Bari'ed Rocks me foreggs thisseason;ran cor

special matings. Robert Martin.R.3. Woodland, ich.





 





 





 





 





Barred Rock Eggs Elg’d‘i‘éki’i‘ii'ii':

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8. 0. Beds, W. W and tte ,

Barred ROCkS Bred-today stockBayby olfickg.

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Buy Chicks Where Ocaliiy Counts.





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00K. 133 W. Main St.. Zeeland. Mich. —





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Old Chicks. 8. 0. White Leghorns. The are

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





S. C. Bth Minor“ Eggs No. l pen 33.00 per





setting. From No. 2

pen 82.00 per setting. R. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.





 





 





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35,00 per 30. Write for m! mating list.



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single settings or quantity. C.J .Deedrick, Vassar,Mich





 





silver Laced and White Wyandottes. Eggs from live

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post prepaid. 0. W. Browning. R. 2. Portland. Mich





TEN EGGS accustomream”

(84.50). insured parcel pogt' ' aid “’9 an ty cts.

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AMY sour WORTH. Allen, Mich.

' oose eggs 400 each. Pek' k

w.CI“nm for 8 R. 0. Br. Leghorn lglflfilic tot-“lg





ssoo per 100. Min. Claudia Betta. Hillsdale. Mich,





i Bally Chick Prices Slaughter;





En hob and American Le horns now 812.



do] vered. Anconas 815.00. [locks 817.00. Ofipghdgg

cannot be beat for egg production. Our Anconas are

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color. BAL'PH s. rorrnNinnricc-rord. (iiigii.





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Baby Chicks "





chicks. but cheaglatdthe price. Compare them wit '

n .





1 : OME poultry breeders hays miich"



better “luck” with Setting hens

than others and the manner of build—L ‘

ing the nests may have something‘fto ’





do .with' it. _ ~The’"hen- that steals her

nest in’the hay} usually has a nest that

is, just a shallow depression in the

hay. It is deep enough to hold the

eggs together. The hen simply steps

on 'the eggs when returning to her

nest. She does not jump down upon

them as is the case when nests are

built in deepboxes.

eggs are broken by hens jumping down

upon them. So the setting hen box

should contain enough litter to permit

the hen to step from the box to/ the

eggs. At hatching time it may be nec-

essary to place wire, or boards around

the'nest to prevent lively chicks frdm

falling out and becoming chilled.



_Wh"en a nest is made in a. dry build-

ing it pays to place a moist sod in the

bottom of the box. The moisture in

the earth will prevent the eggs” from

becoming too dry and give the hen

conditions rather similar to the stolen

nest on the ground in a cool moist

fence corner. Observation proves that

such nests on the ground usually bring

forth plump lively chicks that have

no ti'ouble in emerging from the shell.

This damp sod in the nest box helps

to produce those conditions. Scatter

a small amount of litter over the sea

and be sure that the corners of the

box are filled so that no eggs will be-

come lodged there and chill.



If the hen is protected from lice the

boxes will not need much spraying to

keep them free from lice. So dust the

hen or protect her with blue ointment

before she is placed on -the eggs. It

is nothing but creulty to expect a hen

.to set three weeks while tortured with

lice—R. G. K. ,,





 





BROODINESS iN HENS.





HREE days is the time we usually



take to change our hens from

broody into laying hens. .Our jail has

a. slatted bottom and the hen cannot

warm it. She is right clcse to the,

scratching floor and sees Other hens

busy. She is provided with plenty, of

corn and water and eats and drinks,

having nothing else to do. Result, she

soon layer—Agnes Hilco.





 





CARE OF GOOSE EGGS. -





I have read in your paper about

geese, but nothing about taking care

of their eggs. I have been told if you

move‘the eggs away from the nest the

goose will leave it. I would like to

know all about setting them and what

to feed them when setting, and the

care of their eggs—F. E. H.





Geese will make their nests on the

floor of their house and a barrel plac».

ed on one side and blocked may make

a. good place. It often pays to keep

the geese confined on a limited area in

the morning t6 prevent the eggs being

laid on the range and possibly lost.

The eggs can be removed from the

nest and placed where the tempera-

ture is around fifty or sixty degrees

until enough are obtained to start

hatching.



A goose can be given about ten

eggs, A hen mother will _cover four

goose eggs. They take from twenty-

eight to thirty days to hatch and

should be frequently sprinkled.



A mash of equal parts of middlings,

ground oats and bran is a good morn-

ing feed for laying geese. The mash

is better if mixed with milk. Corn can

be fed at night. Plenty of-green feed

is very necessary in the ration ofi

breeding geese. ’ '





 





‘ RAISING YOUNG TURKEYS.





 





Is it necesSary to'have a tom run.

with the hens continuously, or is one





breeding sufficient for each setting?”





turkeystueljl. A. K.





 





 





 

 





 





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. , Remarkable-Experience cs Mrs.





. many. losing .their little chicks with





, germ is transmitted. to the baby chick





. egg. _

. of sWhite Diarrhea.





‘ raised over 500 chicks and I never lost





- Diarrhea.

. and was about discouraged with the





5’ emitted.-

u ' g





' tellnarrhea





AC.M. Bradshaw in PreVent-

' ing White Diarrhea





The foHOwing letter will no doubt

be of utmost interest to poultry raisers

who have had serious losses from

White Diarrhea. We will let Mrs.

Bradshaw tellof her experience in her

own words:





“Gentlemen: 'I ”see reports of so





White Diarrhea, so thought I would

tell' my experience. I used to lose a

great many from this cause, tried

many remedies and was about dis-

couraged. As a last resort I sent to

the Walker Remedy Co., Dept. 507,

Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko White

Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c

packages, raised 300 White Wyando’ttes

and never lost one or had one sick

after giving the medicine, and my

chickens are larger and, healthier than

ever before, I have found this com—

pany thoroughly reliable and always

get the remedy by return mail.—Mrs.

C. M. Bradshaw, Beaconsfield, Iowa.”





Cause of White Diarrhea





White Diarrhea is caused by the

Bacillus Bacterium Pullorum. This





 





through the yolk of the newly hatched

Readers are, warned to beware

Don’t wait until

it kills half your chicks. Take the

“stitch in time that saves nine.” Re-

member, there is scarcely a. hatch

without some infected chicks. Don’t

let these few infect your entire flock.

Prevent it. Give Walko in all drinking

water for the first two weeks and you

won’t lose one chick where you lost

hundreds before. These letters prove it:





Never Lost a Single Chick





Mrs. ,L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek,

Ind.,.Writes: “I have Alest my share .0





 





I sent for two packages of Walko. I





a single chick from White Diarrhea.

Walko not only prevents White Diar-

rhea, but it gives the chicks strength

and vigor; they develop quicker and

feather earlier.”





Never Lost One After First Dose





Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shenandoah,

Iowa, writes: . “My first incubator

chicks, when but a few days old, be-

gan to die by the dozens with White

I tried different remedies





 





chicken business. Finally I sent to the

Walker Remedy Co., Waterloo, Iowa,

for a box of their Walko White Diar-

rhea Remedy. It’s just the only thing

for this terrible disease. We raised

700 thrifty, healthy chicks and never

lost a single chick after the first dose.”





You Run No Risk





We will send Walko White Diar-

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—postage prepaid—so you can see for

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chicks. So you can proveh-as thou-

sands have proven—that it will stop

your losses and double, treble, even

quadruple your profits. Send 50c for

package of Walko— give it in all drink-

ing water for the first two weeks and

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little chick saver you ever used, your

money will be instantly refunded.

WALKER REMEDY CO., Dept. 507.‘



Waterloo, Iowa.





Send me the [ ] 50c regular size or



$1 economical large size) package of( ngk1

White.Dinrrhea Remedy to try at your risk.

Send rt on your positive guarantee to in-

stantly refund my money if not satisfied in

every way. I am enclosing 50c'(or 31.00).

(P. 0. money order, check_ or - currency ac-

ceptable.)





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ting of" eggs. . I-think'most ‘poultrymen

althe turkey toms to run with the

heirs throughout the breeding season

atleast.’ . _ ' - '





consists of fine oyster shell and bread

soaked in milk and squeezed out. Some

breeders use a little .cottage cheese

with a sprinkling of black pepper as a

first feed. Green food such as grass,

chopped onion or lettuce should be





' given young turkeys until they are





strong enough to forage for green food“,

Turkeys are seed-eating birds and do

not thrive on sloppy meshes.

they are a few days old they can eat

Wheat. -





POU LTRY TROUBLES.





 





I have lost a rooster and a setting

hen within the last four days. They

were sick about four hours. The combs

turned black. Neither one was dump-

ing around or seemed sick except only

a few hours. They were both fat and

I cut the hen open and her liver was

enlarged and had White spots all over

it. It also was very soft. As I cut,

her right side open some blood ran out

of it, just as though a blood vessel had

burst. My sisterlost about eleven

hens the same way. They have been

feeding shelled corn this winter until

about a week ago when-they started

feeding some that is on the cob and

shelling it themselves,.and that is just

what I have done. I thought they

might have gotten something poison

but since her chickens died I think it

must be the corn. Our corn had those

worms in it last fall, and lying on the

cob all winter. might poison it. My

hens have had corn, oats, and mid-

dlings.——H. T.



When .the comb of a fowl turns

dark it is usually a sign of liver

trouble. This enlargement and fatty





condition of the liver may be caused-





_ f. by heavy feeding ofcorn. and lack of.

chicks from White Diarrhea. Finally





exercise. Of course, a hen might oc-

casionally have liver trouble under the

best possible management. There is

no cure for the trouble but it can be

largely prevented by a balanced ra-

tion and plenty of exercise.



The white spots 0n the liver are an

indication of tuberculosis although the

case may possibly have progressed

slowly and the hen died of liver trou-

ble. Before a. hen dies of tuberculosis





and become very light.





hens any damage or that the eggs of





hens. I know of several flocks which

ate many corn worms last fall and

have eaten corn more or less wormy

throughout the winter. All of those

flocks are in fine condition this spring.

Corn that has become mouldy in the

crib during the Winter is very danger-

ous feed for hens.





LEG WEAKNESS.





 





We have about sixty hens; seem in

fine condition and are getting thirty

to thirty-five eggs a day. Some nights

we will have one or two hens which

cannot walk. Eat and act all right.

We have had five that way at different

times and the next day or two they

walk and are all right. They are all

laying hens. They do not seem very

fat. We feed them in deep litter,

(straw), some corn, oats, barley, and

some wheat. They have before them

at all times bran, oyster shells, sugar

beets,» sweet skim-milk and fresh wa-

ter, and clover chaff to pick at.——B. W.



Leg weakness may occur in a. hen,

due to some error in feeding. The

trouble is not thoroughly understood.

A hen may be weak one day with a

sort of paralysis and all right in a

short time, as You have indicated.

There is no satisfactory treatment ex-

cept to give the birds the best of care.





As your hens seem to be doing well

for the season there is probably” noth-

ing seriously wrong with the manage-

ment and the leg weakness will prob-

ably not occur this spring when they





 





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A good first feed for turkey poults





When ,





 





she would probably emaciate rapidly:





I do not think the corn worms do;





the corn worms hatch out and kill the ‘





 





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NORMAN’S Missaukee Red Rose

89724, a Guernsey cow, bred, own-

ed and tested by Arthur M. Smith, of

Lake City, Michigan, is the breed

champion in the junior two-year-old'

division, by having produced 5,122.3

pounds of milk and 760.72 pounds of

butter—fat. She carried a calf 265 days

of her testing period and thereby qual-

ified for the championship in both

classes G and GG.



This accomplishment has never be-

fore been credited to any cow of the

breed. Moreover her production has

not been equaled by any cow in the

two and one-half, three, three and one-

half, or four and one-half—year-old di-

visions of the double letter classes.

Only seven cows in the mature divi—

sion, and one cow in the four-year—old

divison of the double letter classes

have exceeded her performance.



Eight years ago Arthur M. Smith

retired from active service of twenty-

five years as a Presbyterian minister.

He invested his savings in a 280-acre

trace of unimproved timber and cut-

over land in Missaukee county, in

north central Michigan. After eight.

years of hard and conscientious work

he is knoWn as a. leading farmer in

his county, is nationally known among

Guernsey breeders, and is the owner

of a herd of eighteen high-producing

purebredGuernseys, cows of which

Norman’s Missaukee Red Rose 89724

is a member. The herd also includes

the senior and junior herd sires and

sixteen head of young stock.





J. V. S/zeap T 31/; Our Reader:





OMEONE has said with much

S truth that it takes a greater artist



than the painter, or the sculptor

to improve gradually year by year liv—

ing animals until they approach the

breeder’s ideal. '



One of the farms helping to make

Holstein history in Michigan is the

Shiawana Farms of Ovid, of which E.

Bolby & Son are proprietors. Jay

Bolby, younger member of the firm,

who handles the dairy herd, says he

has been tied to a cow’s tail ever since

he can remember but he seems to like

it. When he came to the place where

he felt the need of more knowledge he

went out and got it by working on

other successful dairy farms, one year

being spent by him with the Avondale

Farm, Ontario, Canada. '



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The foundation pure-bred herd, pur-

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two-year-old heifer, Alverda’s Glen-

wood Queen 59269, and her dam, A1-

verda of Pittsfleld 18074. Alverda’s

Queen 59269 was later bred to Norman

of Chesney Farms 39657, and produced

Norman’s Missaukee Red Rose 89724.



The junior two-year—old champion

has never been weighed, but the own-

er estimated that at the end of her

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tween 1,350 and 1,400 pounds. Her

length and depth of body are espe-

cially notable,‘and she does not lack.

refinement. Her udder is wonderfully

well proportioned and her teats are

set right and are of the proper size.

She is vigorous and active, and her

fondness for her attendants is a nota-

ble feature. She seldom eats while

being milked, but instead seemingly

concentrates her entire attention on

making all the milk possible.



Mr. Smith perSOnally manages the

herd and feeds. the test cows. He alone

has milked the champion. The barn

is an inexpensive one with no Special

ventilating system or so-called modern

equipment. All the cows stand in

rigid wooden stanchions, test cows in-

cluded. In the summer time the cows

are in pasture night and day, except

for a short time When they are being

milked and fed in the barn. On stormy

days in winter they are watered by

hand in the barn, otherwise they are

watered from a tank in the yard.





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some years ago. They invested in a

few well-bred cows and from this foun-

dation have developed an unusual herd.



Dairy products being the main out-

put of the farm, feedstufifs are the

chief crops of the farm. The crops

grown are alfalfa, corn and oats with

wheat or beans as a cash crop. The

average production of the cows on

Shiawana Farm is away above the av-

erage for Holsteins.





Several exceptionally good records

have recently been completed. Everett

Laird, ofl‘lcial tester for Michigan, has

this to say about the records: “The

senior three-year-old, Idlewild Johanna;

Korndyke Weg, made a record of 31.59

pounds of butter from 550.5 pounds of

milk, making her one of the youngest

thirty-one—pound cows in the state 0'3

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the senior.





dyke Weg has a. senior two-year-old

record of 21. 87. pounds of butter from





513. 8 pounds .of milk in seven days and





85. 81 pOunds of butter from 2,.057 0



pounds of milk in thirty days.

Another outstanding cdw in the B01-



by herd is Idlewild Colantha Segis





Korndyke making a 24. 96 pounds, sen-l





ior two-year—old record from 432.2





flpounds of milk and stands near the

-. top for her age in Michigan.





- She‘ is

sired by Segis Cynthia 2nd, a thirty-





.three- pound sire that is sure to be

:heard from in the future

'. this young bull’s daughters, whosedam

-is a twenty-pound junior two-year—old





Another of





daughter of Sir Korndyke Veeman

Hengerveld, produc'ed 21.25 pounds of





 





junior two-yearaold. 'These two heifers

are among the bull’s first daughters to

freshen, but the Shiawana herd has a

fine lot of his young daughters. They

are good typey animals and judging

from the records of his first daughters

to freshen, one may anticipate a high

percentage of good .uproducels





This herd also has two daughters of

Johan Hengerveld Lad. One of these .





is a yearling while the other has, just

finished a record of 20.17 pounds of

butter as a junior two-year—old. A jun-

ior three-year-old sired by Traverse

Dutch Weg, and whose dam is a daugh—

ter of Cornucopia Waukesha Prince,





just finished with 477.7 pounds of .milk r





containing 22.61 pounds of butter. . She

did this without previous fitting, which

shows that here is another good pro

ducer. "





Choice Holsteins to Be Sold





By Horace Norton, Jr.





WE have just sent in the twelfth





entry to the sale committee,



thus completing the Michigan

quota for the National Sale. It is

quite a task, too, this inspection of a

large number of herds in various sec-

tions of the state and the final selec‘

tion‘ of twelve animals to represent

the industry at the great national

show and sale, especially as the Mich-





' igan consignment at the Syracuse Na-





tional last June carried off first honors

and the breeders of the state feel that

this reputation must be sustained if

in any way pos‘sible.



The task of making these selections

was delegated to Prof. O. E. Reed, of

the Dairy Department of the Michigan

Agricultural College, and it has been

very interesting to me to accompany





» Mr. Reed around the state on‘ these





visits of inspection. Reed came from

Missouri, and it is quite natural that

he should be keen to “show” the peo-

ple from his native state as well as

other sections, of the country 'that

Michigan hasreal Holsteins, and, be-

lieve me, he will have the evidence

with him at Kansas .City in June. Mr.

Aitken went with us part of the time,

and Mr. Spillane, of Flint, took us

around in his car for a two days' trip

through Oakland, Genesee, and Sagi-

naw counties.



It would take a'lot of time and

space to describe the animals in this





consignment and do justice to them,

rbut a brief summary is all I will at—

"tempt here.





G. L. Spillane & Son Company are

sending five animals, including a fam-

ily of four‘ generations headed by Vale

Cernucopia Fayne, No. 268667, a won~.

derfully good seven-year-old daughteri

of, King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne,,





:one of the best bulls ever owned in

,- Michigan. She has a 32.5-pound record

.at five years and is due in August from.





service to. a. 1000-pound son of King





.Ona.





The second generation of this re-.

markable family is represented by Eva.





'Fayne of Cluny, No. 401615, who has.





just completed a year’s record as a





'junior four-year~old with 961 pounds

of butter and 22,756 pounds of milk.





She is sired by a son of’Maplecrest»

Pontiac Application, the 35-pound

daughter of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke

with a yearly record of 1, 344 pounds,

and will freshen in July to King Bert-





‘ jusca.





The third generation, Vale Mobel

Fayne of' Cluny, is a beautiful three-

year—old daughter of Eva Fayne of

Cluny and was sired by a‘grandson of!





3Mabel Segis Korndyke. She will fresh-





en in the fall to King Bertjusca, and

her six-months old calf is by this same





This family of four generations of





A287, is a beautiful,





pounds.

'1’. Pontiac Lass, the first forty-four-





. ‘tution





The other Spillane entry, Johanna

Korndyke DeKol Aaggie Vale, No. 241,-

light-colored cow,

straight as an arrow. She is well

along on a yearly test and should fin-

ish with 1,000 pounds. She has five

30-pound sisters and her sire is a

grandson of Belle Korndyke, dam of

Pontiac Korndyke.



Mr. Aitken will send Rosie Mercedes

Butter Boy, No. 210351, the thirty-one-

pound cow which you will remember

as the champion at the Syracuse Na-

tional last year. She looks better than

ever now and has just completed a

record of 965 pounds of butter from

20,250 pounds of milk in the year and

will freshen early in the fall to a

1,000—pound son of King Ona.



The other Aitken entry, Bertha Vale

DeKol, No. 243074, is a wonderfully

deep-bodied, low down cow with a

great udder and veining system. She

has just completed a seven-day record

of 818.3 pounds of milk and 30.28

pounds of butter and has been bred'

recently to a son of King Ona.



One of the most interesting jour-

neys made during this inspection was

through the Frankenmuth district in

Saginaw county to the farm of Conrad

Hecht, where we found Pietertje Jo-

hanna King Hengerveld, No. 303075,

one of the largest cows of the breed

and the largest cow we had ever seen.

She weighed 2,225 pounds‘just before

freshening and had» calved the day be-

fore we arrived. She is a-remarkable

cow in every way, a wonderful indi-

vidual and a great producer. She has

a record of 746.4 poands of milk and

33.995 pounds of butter in' seven days,

and 3,012.4 pounds of milk with 141.23

pounds of butter in thirty days. Her

sire, ~King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne,





has already. been mentioned as sire of ~





the 32.5-pound cow, Cale Cornucopia





VFayne, in the Spillane consignment.





With the big cow will go her daugh-

ter, Pietertje- Elzevere- Cornucopia,

who was on test when we visited the

farm and'had better than tWenty-eight

Her sire is a grandson of K.





pound cow.



Mr. Hecht has a small herd, but he

has some wonderful animals, including

five daughters and a son of the thirty-

four—pound cow, as well as her dam

and a number of her granddaughters.



Loeb Farms at Charlevoix will send

Charlevoix Marbury Pledge, No. 681-

453, a heifer of wonderful type and

conformation. She stood first in her

class at the West Michigan State Fair





last fall and her sire, Charlevoix Mar— .

bury, was the first prize yearling bull





at the National Dairy Show at Chicago

in 1920.‘ Her dam-ass. yearling has a

record of 14,626 pounds of milk'and

503 pounds of butter. She is a fine

representative from this great insti-





(Continued on page 590) 4





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G U E R N 5 EV s BULL CALVES





Containing blood of wo rid champions. .

HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM, Saginaw. VV.S. Mich.

uernsey Calves, bull and heifer not related. also

yearling heifer. Ancestors include mos noted

animals of the breed. G.A.Wigent,Watervlie Mich





Registered Holsteins





It was through the daughters of

Flint Maplecrost 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 m'

dividuality and production of your herd.

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

have bulls at the breeder's price, from dams With

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

1168 lbs of butter in one year.

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





JOHN H. WINN, lnc., Rochester, Mich.





 





 





' ' ' ore-bred bull cal-

Holstein-FrieSian 365. tuberculin tested

herd. Prices are right. Larro Research Farm,

Box A. North End. Detroit. Mich.





BARGAIN PRICE





for Pure Bred Holstein year old bull whose four year

old dam has just completed semi-ofiiicial ear test

producing 1023 pounds of butter from 20.9 1 pounds

of milk. Pedigree on application.





JOSEPH H. BREWER. Grand Rapids, Michigan





. ' oil‘ors Holstein-Friesian bulls ready

WISGOgIIl Farm for light service. From sire whose 6

nearest dams average 33.31 lbs. butter for 7 days. A.R.

O. Dams from 18.33 to 21.51 lbs. Herd under'stiite and

Federal Supervision Oscar Wallin. UnionVille.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

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

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Traverse City, Mich.





32 Lb. Bull, $150





Pure bred. registered. federally tested. Six nearest

dams avers e 30 lbs. Good individual , mostly white.

2 yrs. old. uaranteed healthy and breeder. Priced

to sell quickly. Pedigree on request. _ _



ALBERT G. WADE. White Pigeon. Michigan.





$ 1 00 EACH





Bull calves ready for service. Grandsons

of King of the Pontiacs. From dams with

A. R. 0. Records of 27 to 29 lbs. for seven

days—Federal Tested.





J. B. JONES FARMS

Romeo, Mich.





 





 





. accepts d in payment of finely bred 1' eg

S 600d "ole istered Holstein bull calves. “Gila!

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of the best and at prices within reach of all.

an . omens. . . . .





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' Friesian heifer and bull calves, purebred“

"Skim" registered and high-grade. rice up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re-

quirements. Browncr oft Farms. McGraw, N. Y.





Vassar. Mich“





 





 





 

 

 

   

   

 

 

   

 





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3-1000 1b. cows.





lO-yearly record cows

‘01 yearly record cows.



38-daughtcrs of 30 to 38



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6 to 9 months bankable

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Registered Holstein Bull

born Nov. 3. 1919. Dam at 8yi‘. 22, 920 milk.895 lb.

butter: at 7 yr. 305 days 16.281 milk. 654 lbs. butter. She

has three A. Ii. 0. daughters. one. above 23 lbs. in ’7

da. 99 in 30 days. He is sired by a 24 lb.. grandson of

Colantha Johanna Lad. Also three heifers 2 yr. old.

one fresh heifer calf by side. Other two due in May.

Bred to sire above. State and Federal full accredited

herd. Pi'lced‘for quick sale. Pedigrees and photo on

request. VERNON E. CLOUGH. R2. I’arma. Mich.





HERE IS A GOOD ONE





Born June 2d 1920 by Maplecrest DeKol Hengerveld

whose three sisters have each produced over 1200 lbs.

of butter in ”a year. Two of them former World s

Champions Bulls dam has just been tested and made

nearly 27 lbs. We believe .she will make 30 lbs. at

her next freshening. Write for pedigree.



F. B. Y. Kalamazoo, Mich





Whitney Farms Holsteins





A grandson of Duchess Skylark ()rmsby ready for ser-

vice. Nicely marked bull calves from three weeks to

six months of age. These calves have the type and

are priced to sell. .Herd under Federal supervisiion,

Pedigrees and prices from WHITNEY FARMS,

Whitney. Midl-





3 Registered Holstein figi‘sofl, "£103“ ,1;

$200, from tested cows. Sires and dams by King Ona.

Maplecrest and Segis Dairy Tipe. Farm in city lim-

its. Will meet you.. Phone 1369 J. F. J. BRANCH.

705 East St. Flint. Mich.‘





$250 Buys three high grade Holstein heif-





ers. two yrs. old. all milking and

one registered Holstein hull. old enough for service.

Herd under federal and state supervision.



HENRY S. ROHLFS. R. 1, Akron, Mich.

HOLSTE!N and Guernsey calves.” weeks

old. 31-32nds pure. $25. each



crated for shépment. Satisfaction guaranteed. .

ED EWOOD FARMS. Whitewater. Wis.

a re istered Holstein Bull readyfor

$75 buys servige. Sircd byz9ll). bull. nearly all





white and not a reactor in our herd. . '

DORUS HOVER, Akron. Mich.





 





 





 





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Registered Holstein heifer calves and our bull Cali“

Rag Apple-Pontiac breeding. a bargain for a trio-

H. Schlader, R2. Freeland, Mich.





,SOTHAM’S





Earliripe

Hereford Beef





Contract





Will insure your getting highest possible rices for

young Hereford Beeves. Out of the procee< s of such

beeves you pay no (jOmIDlSNIOTlS.'YETd or Feed Charges.

Produce quality beef at the minimum cost and do away

with speculation in feeders. Raise your own and‘ be

assured of receiving the highest posmble price. 'lhis

“Sothams Eairliripe Hereford Beef Contract” guaran-

teesyou.



"Eariiripeiflereford Beef" producers in over fifteen

Michigan Counties. ‘



“Earliripe Hereford Beef" is cut in many of Detroit's

finest markets.



Write for furtherinformation or investigate person-

-a y. \ '





T. F'. B. SOTHAM & SONS,





(Cattle Business Established 1835')

Saint Clair. Michigan





HerefOrds





Repeaters, Beau Donalds. Fairfaxes. and Farmers

represented in our herd. Repeater 17_3rd, 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.





a few choice October bull calves

Herefords ready to shi . Come get your iok.

E. J. TAYL R, Fremont, h igh.





Several co ws. Geo.





 





 

 





 





 





 





Registered Herefords gag-fig... 3.3}:

RALPH CALHOON. — Bronson, Mich.





Jersey Thoroughbreds.





Few g: ‘ s and bull calves. d‘Best breedingllne.





 





 

 





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A " .RL’B. Marne...   .

Consignment Sale '

Howell, Mich, May 20th, 1922

'75.--Head of Quality Holsteins--75

A 4-30 1b. COWS-:2 above 32 lbs.





4-daughters of 30 lbs; cows.

4-30 lb. bulls—4 bulls with S. O. dams.





. bull. .





Now is the time to buy them—and here is the

place to buy foundation blood with both short

and long time record backing. ‘





Bring your bank references.

Send for your Catalog—=Ready May 10th. .





R. Bruce McPherson, .





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Howell, Micli.





Lillie Famistead Jerseys gyglfiiv‘ggwfgom

COLON C. LILLIE. Coopersville, Mich.





BUTTER BRED middling?“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.



ready for service;





. I

For Sale Jersay Bu‘ls Ralei h. xford

Lad. Majesty breeding. WATERMAgl dz WATER-

MAN. Packard Rd.. Ann Arbor, Mich.





8 ermfield Owl hreedin .



Jersey BU“ or sale £83m tuberculin tested.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Age six months. .

Fred L. Bodimer. Reese. Mich,





 





 





 





Francisco Farm Shorthorns

and BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

New ofi'eringz—Three bulls ready for service. Masto-

don. Olansman. Emancipator blood in gilts bred for





spring farrow. See them.

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





FOR SALE





Polled Shorthorn Cows & Heifers





in calf and calf by side. Also a few young bulls.

Herdlheaded by Victor Sultan and Royal Non-

parei

We can please you in richly bred cattle With‘

quality at farmers" prices.



GEO. E. BURDICK. Mgr.

Branch County Farm. Goldwater, Mich.





Richland Shortliorns '





Annual Sale June let at the farm. {

Thirty Heifem~Fifteen Bulls. Best lot We have

evenoffered. Write for Catalog. Plan to attend.

Specxal prices on Bulls in order to make room for

this Sale. Office at





C. H. Prescott & Sons,

lien! at Prescott. Mich. , Tawas City, Mich.





 





 





 





' Shorthorn Breeders’ Assn. Scotch.

Clayton umt Scotoh‘To a’nd Milking Shorthorns

forsale all ages. W. J. Hink 6y. Sec'y, Flushing, Mich.





Milking Shorthorns Bull calves for





sale. Also 2 cows.

ROSEMARY FARMS. “’llliamaton. Mich





Central Mich. Shorthom Breeders’ Assn.





offer for sale both .milk and beef breeding. all ages

‘ Write _ M. E. MILLER. Sec‘y, Greenville, Mich.





The Maple’s Shortliorns





Kirk Levington Lad, by imported Hartforth

Welfare, in service. Bulls and heifers for sale.





J. V. Wise, Gobleville, Mich.





 





 





 





 





BIDWELL s§9§ifllflsv





that will put weight on you dairfi calves -the dill-

erence will soon ayfor the bull. ow selling good

Scotch and Scotc ~topped yearlingsmeasonablgpriced.

We guarantee every animal to be a breeder. ederal

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





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,





Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan

Claradale Milking Shorthorns





We invite the discriminating breeder and farmer.who

is inhieed of a real bull. that will transmit the com-

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

character. beauty. We do state official milk testi .

Come and see us or write for circulars and reasons!) 9

prices. F.W.Johnson, Custer. Mich... Mason 00. 80:26





 





 





- ' Sim the t best-B t b ee'dina.

Milking buiira. ”Wadi hgitm 1:19:31;

E. H. KU TZ. Mason, Mich

9 . . and She thorn. 'riced

D011 t you want ianfixeeplng :lth'tbe fluxes?

_ ROBERT MARTIN. .R- 3.’ ' Woodland. Mich.

s s ’ '1 ‘ ' _

Milkinz~Shorthoms'f.§‘°fi¥.°lfizfmfiiitzil‘f.

sell. few females. IRW _ DOAN, (figswell. Mich.





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





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WEANINGI THE Pies. .-





 





gle litter of pigs during the year

it is permissible at times to allow her

'to wean' the pigs herself. Ordinarily.

h0wever,.it is better to see that the

'pigs are independent of their'mOther

at from nine to ten weeks of age. Re-

duce the amount of feed allowed the

mother and' remOVe the pigs to other

quarter's. If the sow can be kept on,

dry feed in limited supply, she will

soon dry up. The pigs may be fed on

the same rations as they had before

weaning. The pasture should be con-

tinued. If possible‘provide alfalfa or

some other legume crop and give them

all the oats that they will clean up.

Corn and tankage can be fed at this





LIVE STOCK MEN HAVE OWN COM-

MISSION HOUSE.





IVE stock men and farmers 'of



Michigan have their own commis'

sion house for the selling of live stock

on the Detroit market. The house is

now doing business. Secretary-Man-

ager C. C. Compson, of the Exchange,

writes us as followsr'



The Michigan Live Stock Exchange

has purchased, the office, equipment

and alleys of the firm of Sande], Stacy,

Beadle & Green, commission .mer—

chants, of Detroit, and started busi-

ness May 1.



They have secured the services of

some of the beat known and most com-

petent men on the Detroit market as

salesmen and yard men. John Beadle,

well known to all Detroit shippers as

one of the firm of Sande], Stacy, Bea.-

dle & Green, is hog salesman and man-i

ager. Charles Culbert, of the Same

firm, is sheep and calf salesman, with

George Boutell, of Perry, as assistant.

John Ahearn, who has" had seven years

of experience on ‘the Buffalo market

as cattle salesman, with Mr. Carr of

Huron county, as assistant.



This commission house is the result

of uhtiring effort to establish a place

Where farmers can sell their own

stock. Call at the office and get ac-

quainted with your hired men, 'and

(make yourself at home.





WILL FIGHT SPREAD OF CORN

BORER. ‘





 





URING the" present year special



efforts to prevent the European

corn borer from extending its depreda-

tions to the corn belt will be made by

the department of agriculture and oth-

er agencies. Perhaps the most im-

portant' single measure will be the

rigid enforcement of federal quaran-

tine regulations in cooperation with

the Canadian government and the var.

ious states where the pest is now

known to exist. This action should

prevent other infestations reaching

this country and also prevent. to a





the borer to other parts of the coun-

try. A bureau of entomologists‘ will





study the habits 'of the borer along

the shores of Lake Erie to learn if





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HERE the‘sow raises only a. sin; . .





time to advantage. ~ ‘





large degree, at least, the spread of , ‘

be established at Sandusky, Ohio, to-





poSsible, any further practical meas- '-

ures looking» toward the repression of V
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'ot Ohio Grand Chanvisinn. Get on mailing list for





' eral extra line





‘~‘ Miners is your comrtunlty to at a real herd

, . W h . b0 '

I!” boar” 5 are are grad byl'aust.





 

 

 

 

 





 





"Listen, to

' me son





”YOU’LL soon have to earn

your oats. But, before you

feel the pinch of a girth,

here’s one bit of horse sense.

“WHEN you, et a good boss

— work wi all four feet

and both ears. It’s easy to

tell a good’ boss. A ood

boss uses Gombault’s aus—

tic Balsam.



“AND it’s true! The greatest

horse breeders, the finest

trainers, the wisest owners

all use”—



GOMBAU LT’S CAUSTIC BALSAM

It does the work better than

firing. Hair will positively

grow back natural color.



'A reliable remedy forCurb, Splint,



Sweaty. Capped Hock, Strained



Tel-dons. Founder, Windpufl‘r,



Skin Diseases, Thrush. 8min,



Ringboue. Throat and Bronchial



Troubles. W ill not mrorblenu'sls



Superades all firing and watery.

Sold by druggists, or sent by per—

cel post on receipt of price $1.50

per bottle.



AS A HUMAN LINIMENT

It is unsu aseed for muscu‘

lar and ' matory rheu—

matism, sprains, sore throat,

burns, bruises, cuts, etc.



97¢ WRENCEWILLIAMS .



LA Cleveland. Ohio Go





 





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GOMBAULT'S

Caustic

BALSAM





HOGS





‘BERiflCgHIRES





I . . REY. ' '

2428-30 First National Bank Building. '

Detroit, Michigan





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





Blankwalm Dillon Jerseys ~able vaginal discharge.





Gilta bred for summer furrow. Only a few left.

Fall ilts - open. Very good



Fall are. Large enough for light service.

Prices reasonable Mail order: a specialty.





BMOKVIATEB FARM,





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

All ARBOR, fllcllllikll





 





 





Sprin pigs by Walt’l

ion, irat Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackson,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 19!!





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.

Sows 8: Gilts





bred for July. Aug. and Sept. farrow for sale at

reasonable prices. Also a few high class spring

and fall boars ready for service and one 2 yrs.old

boar.a grandson of Panama. Special. at a bargain

if you can use him. We guarantee satisfaction.

Write for prices and description or better come

and see them. Visitors always welcome. Sows

bred for spring farrow all sold.



Tiles. llmlerhill a Sen, Salem, Mich.





AM SELLING





a great ofl’ering 'of bred Duroc sows and glit- M a h

4th. They are mostly bred to Orion Giant 001., $11





 





 





catalog. 0. TAYLOR, Milan. Mich.





WHITNEY FARMS ' DUROCS





Well grown fall elite. either bred or open. A most

excellent line of sprin pigs at farmers





 





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and prices from Will ney Farms. Whitney. Highs





 





 

 

 





 

 





 





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, (Continued from page 597).



The Traverse City State Hospital

herd will be represented by 'one heifer

and a young bull, both sired by Echo

Sylvia King Model, No. 266177, the

May Echo Sylvia bull now at 'the head

of the herd and whose three nearest

dams average above- thirty-eight

pounds. .



The heifer, Traverse Echo Butter

Girl,'No. 679020, is a fine, well-grown





. specimen of the type and capacity that





has made the Traverse City State Hos-

pital herd famous the country .over.

Her dam has a twenty~five-pound three-

and-a-half-year~old record and promises

to do much better at maturity.





The young bull, born in October, is

a wonderful calf. He has great width

of back and hind quarters, with an ex-

cellent top line and a square rump,

and looks like a real bull. His dam

has a Seven-day record of 615 pounds

of milk and 29.59.pounds of butter at

six years, with a 305-day‘record as a

flve-year-old of 932.6 pounds of butter

from-20,078.? pounds of milk.



These two calves will represent this

great herd of 180 head, one of the

really remarkable herds of the coun-

try, for last year the average produc-

tion of eighty-two cows and heifers of

all ages milked during the year was

above 14,600 pounds of milk in 365

days. '





 





 





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CONDUCTED BY DR. w. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

'each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initials

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

service becomes private practice and ‘1 must be enclosed.





 





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Chronic Cough—I have a three-year-

old heifer that has had a cough for

about two months. She contracted a

cold at a sale on a cold day. She was

exposed for a long time at sale during

a cold day, and being accustomed to

a warm barn she caught cold. J. G.,

Batavia, Ill.—Give her four drams of

amonnium chloride in soft feed three

times a day, rub throat with camphorv

ated oil twice daily. ' .





Warbles.—I have a cow that ha

worm-like bodies under the skin on

her back. Is it possible to remove

them? C. A. J., Zeba. Mich—Place

the neck of a bottle over the bunch,





. apply pressure, then bot will pop, into





the bottle, kill bot, apply boric acid to

wounds daily. .



Vaginitis.——I have a cow that fresh-

ened three weeks ago, and about ten

days ago she. began to have consider-

Occasionally

she-will pass large quantity. She had

no trouble calving. H. E., Spencer,

Mich—Flush vagina with one part ly-

sol and fifty parts water once a day.



Azoturia.-—One of our horses had a

bad attack of azoturia; now he is weak

in one hind leg, besides the hip mus.

cles are growing smaller. G. S., La-

peer, Mich—Feed him well, exercise

him, keep bowels open; apply to hip

muscles equal parts turpentine, aqua

ammonia, raw linseed oil once a day.



lndigestion.—I would like to know

the cause of my horse having indiges-

tion and gnawing wood. W. C. T.,

Lewiston, Mich—Feeding an unbalanc-

ed ration may cause a horse to gnaw

wood, or it may be a habit. Feeding

a poor quality of food, feeding too

much nutritious food to animals that

have no exercise is likely to produce

more or less indigestion. Change the

food supply and increase the exercise

is the remedy for your horse.



Surfeit.——Small bunches appear un-

der the skin, produce increased heat

and irritation and in a few days go

away. A. L. S., Bloomingdale, Mich.~

Bathe the parts with saleratus and

water, or apply pure vinegar daily.

Feed cooling laxative food and stint

the supply for a few days.



Abortion.——One of my cows gave

birth to a. dead calf last December;

another cow gave birth to an eight-

‘month calf which is alive, but small.

Both cows seem to be well. J. P.,

Norwalk, Mich.—’-—Clean and disinfect

your stable and breed cows again.





 





erswatmm and 535

‘35 ,mmuieh.





l? £12300!





Next calf Will perhaps be carried full

gestation period. , _ ' .





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tion to the





includes——





1-32 lb. Cow.





in one day.





.“TopNotch”

HOLSTEIN S





McPherson Holstein Sale





‘ to be held at Howell, Mich.,

. Saturday, May 20, 1922





13 Daughters of 30 1b. Sires.





1 A. R. 0. Full Sister to a 30 1b. Cow.

1 Daughter of a 25 lb. Cow that milked 98 lbs.





3 Daughters of 24 lb.

4 Daughters of 23 1b.





1 Daughter of a 21 lb. Juniorthree year old

daughter of a 29.40 lb. cow.





3 A-l High A. R. 0. Record Bulls.





McPHERSON FARMS CO.

. ‘ HOWELL, MlCH.





(Breeders of the only 800 1b. 7 Day Cow

having an 800 lb. Daughter)





, Herds Under U. S. Supervision.





Cows.

Cows.





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Woodlawn Farm Duroc Hogs





ll k t herd. best of blood lines. with size and

fire‘gding zpualities. stock of all ages for sale at rea

sonable prices. W. E. HARTLEY. Alma. Mich.





Michigana Farm Durocs





Boar‘s. open and bred sows and spring pigs. Satis-





facmn guariilltdiiiiGANA FARM. Pavilion. Mich.





Duroc Jersey Hogs; we usually

Pure—Bred have good boars and sows of all

ages for sale. Reasonable prices. Larro Research

Farm, 801 A. North End, Detrmt. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS: firéizlfi§°l£$





sale. CAREY U. EDMUNDS. Hastings. Mich





Bred sow's all sold. Bookin orde 5

o. I. C' for spring pigs. g r

H. W. MANN. Dansville, Mich,





 





’ Choice Aug. and Sept. open ilts also

0' 1° C S bookin orders for spring pigsg.

CLOVER L AF FARM, Monroe. Mich.





 





Orders





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C Bred gilts all sold.

0 ' booked for spring pigs.

A. J. BARKER dz SON. Belmont, Mich.





 





o I c Hogs big Type. Two Sept. boars ready for set-

- - - Vice. .Also spring pigs, prices reasonable. Pa-

pers free. BRUCE W. BROWN, Mayviile. Mich.





pigs at very reasonable ric f

00 I. C. June and July shipment. p es or

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.





 





Westview Duroc Bred Sows





all sold. Have twodsprifng bAoarel lgilt‘at apreasonable

' . Will book or ers or H ay lgs. .

price ALBERT EBERSO E. Plymouth. Mich





 





DUROC—JERSEYS





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





heavy boned, low down type

Duroc Jerseys breeding stock for sale.

CHAS. BRAY, Okemos. Mich.





Bred Gilts all sold. Now

Duroc Jerseys offering some choice fall





b0 1' i 8 large enough for spring service.

a p '3 RUSH BROS. Romeo. Mich.





81.9 TEE CHESTER Wills





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 llvxng. I want to glare

one hog in each cognnunllty to advertise my erd,

W to for agency an my D an.

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

We are all sold out of





CHESTER Boar. Bred Bows and Gilts.





F0 3 ring pigs write WEBER BROS. Royal Oak.

Migh..p10 Mile and Ridge 13d, Phone 408.





Chester Whites E3133? ii‘iiebr’éilgfiiigii





Raleigh 3.. Choice) Prince and others. Money back

guarantee. Fred L. Bodimer. Reese, Mich.





‘ bred gilts and fall pigs of excel-

Chester Whites! lentvauality and breeding. Satis-

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





' All sold. Spring boars at

CheSter Whltes weaning time. 315.

ALBERT DORE. Clinton. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





0 | c and Chester White Spring Pigs from prize-



- I - winnilclzg stock of the most popular blood

lines. We ship . O. D., re later in buyer‘s name and

guarantee satisfaction.





Jo n 0. Wilk, Alma, Mich.

l -

’ S . i Bi



0. l. C. 8: Chester White Tyi‘éiltl? $31?th

We are sold out of everything but a few choice

tall gilts. Will book orders tors ring pigs. 0f the

best Prize winning blood lines. ill ship 0. O. D.

And rccord them free in urchas r's name.

NEWMAN'B STOCK FA M. R. . Martlette. Mich.





 





 





o i C fall slits rose; to breed. Orders booked for

- s ‘ sprin pigs. rite or call and see our herd.

We shi C. 0.





 





 

 





‘





 





. and Re ter free. '

_ GE .M. WELTON SON. Middlevllle._uich.





L. T. P. C. Fall Boars





atbargnin prices. Fall gilts open or with breeding

privilege. Write or see them.

A. A. FELDKAMP, it. 2, Manchester. Mich.





 





Big Type Poland China 3’3: 233;“

Sired .by Clansman Buster and Hovers Liberator:

Also gilts bred for Sept. furrow at 840 each. All stock

shipped on approval. Come and see them or write



DORUS HOVER. Akron. Mich.





 





30 years we have been breedin Bi T

For Poland China hogs on the names farlgn. W3

have sold'over 10C head each year for the last 15 years

for breeding purposes. There's a reasonl The former

has found our kind very profitable. We now offer %

sows and glits bred for summer farrow $30-$50.

JNO. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.





Gilts bred for Spring litte ll

L0 1" P. C. sold. Am offering ver choicerguin-

met-Grits bred forJune and Julvlittersalys





‘ _ . 0 Fall B

and Spring Pigs. Clyde Fisher. it 3. St. Louis, Ming:





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





Sprlng pigs lwith real breeding at the above

prices. We are also offering a few choice fall gilts

bred for summer iarrow. Hart dz Cline. Ad-

dress F. T. HART. st. Louis. Mich.





Large Type P. C.





Largest herd of indivduals in state. Everything sold.

Nothing to offer until spring pigs are ready to ship.

I thank you. W. E. LIVIN GSTON, Parma. Mich.





 





Big ’l‘gpe P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson, Burr Oak. Mich.





BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS





Bred gilts for sale. . Choice individuals of rich breed—

ing at prices Within your reach. Come see them or

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





 





' P. C. nothi f

Large Strain at present. Int‘i'lulilkoigufd “h

H. 0. SWARTZ. Schoolcrnft. Mich.





 





is Type P. C. Boar pigs that can't be beat in Mich.

Sired by Big Bob MastodOn and PeterA Pan. 60'

head to pick from. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rapidn,Mich.





 





Additional Steels Ads. on Page 601
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Tuesday, May 9.

Wheat.





De'troitr—Cash No. 2 red $1.37; No.

2 mixed and No. 2 white 81.35; May





81. 37.

Chicago. —No. 2 hard 81. 37@1.381/é;

May $1. 377/8.

Toledo.——Cash 81.35%; May 81.35%.

Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 670; No. 3 yel-

low 6515c.





Chicago.—--No. 2 mixed 62@621,§c;

N0. 2 yellow 62@62%c.

Oats.





Detroit.—-Cash No. 2

asked; No. 3, 421/20.



Chicago ——No. 2 white 39%@411’zc;

No.3 white, 38@40c.



Beans.



Detroit —lmmediate

shipment 87. 25.



New Y01l.1—~—Choice pea beans 87. 35

@7. 50; red kidneys $8. 35@8. 50.



Chicago.——Michigan choice, hand-

picked 8750; red kidney, according to

quality $8@8.25.





Rye.



Detroit—Gash N0. 3, $1.08.



Toledo—$1.06.



Chicago—$1.06.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover, cash at

813.75; alsike $11; timothy 83.25.



Toledo—Prime red clover at $13.70;

alsike $11; timothy 83.10.



Feeds.



Detroit—Bran $31; standard mid—

dlings $31; fine middlings 833; crack-

ed corn $30.50; coarse corn meal 828;.

chop $24@24.50 per ton in 100—pound

sacks.





white 441,50





and prompt





Hay. .



Detroit—No. 1 light timothy at 822

@23; standard and light mixed $21@

22; No. 2 timothy $20@21; No. 1 clo-

ver mixed at 817@17.50; No. 1 clover

816@17; rye straw $14@14.50; wheat

and cat straw $13@13.50 per ton in

carlots. '



Pittsburgh—Receipts are extremely

light; No. 1 timothy $24.50@25; No. 1

light mixed $22@23; No. 1 clover at

$12250@22; No. 1 clover mixed $21.50





WHEAT





Reports upon the condition of the

winter wheat crop are more hopeful,

unofl‘icia1_returns suggesting an aver-

age condition of about 82 with acreage

abandonment placed at 12 to 15 per

cent and the estimated yield around

575,000,000 bushels, which is equal to

the ten-year average. East of the Mis-

souri river the average condition is

around 90 per cent or better. Although

the season is a little late, most of the

spring wheat crop has been planted

in fairly good time. Planting in Can-

ada is progressing rapidly although in

that country also the season is one to

two weeks later than normal. Crop

conditions in Europe are mixed with

Germany as well as France sending

the most unfavorable reports. The

acreage in the leading European coun-

tries outside of Russia shows a de-

crease of about 10 per cent although

this reduction is partly offset by an

increase in rye. The acreage in Rus-

s1a is estimated at 20 per cent less

than last year. Spring wheat is the

leading crop in the latter country and

part of the seed shipped from North

America will arrive too late for use.





CORN





Although corn is not disappearing

into consumptive channels as rapidly

as in midwinter, the rate of export re-

mains far above the average and do-

mestic disappearance isquite satisfac-

tory. Exporters are still selling corn

rather freely as competition from Ar-

gentine corn has not become severe.

Demand from industries is rather ir-

regular. But little change is expected

in the corn acreage. The prospective

increase in the northern states due

to a late oats seeding season will be

largely offset by decreased acreage in

the "cotton belt.





OATS





Unofficial reports point to a de-

crease of about ten per cent in the

acreage of oats. Exporters have been

buying this grain rather freely in the

last week or two and the domestic de~

mand also has broadened. Good-sized

'decreases are being made in‘the visi-

ble supply each week. The reduction

‘in the last week in April was 3, 916, 000

’ buShesl but the total is still 55,837,000





"'51 . ~

:2: I‘lle'I-I'T‘IHI I

:‘flm ”





bushels as compared with about 70,-

000,000 bushels at the high point.





SEEDS





Demand for clover seed has almost

faded away and prices slumped last

week. The prospect for the new crop

which has received a favorable start

is attracting attention. Prices for fall

delivery are about 82 lower than the





cash market.

FEEDS





Country demand for all feeds is

light but prices are holding fairly

steady as stocks are not large. Jobbers

are disposed to lower wheat feed quo-

tations but mills are holding steady.

Cottonseed meal prices are at the

highest level of the year although the

stocks at mills are believed to be as

large as at this time a year ago.





HAY





The hay market has been unusually

stable, receipts being light enough to

offset the very limited demand. The

premium on the better grades remains

wider than usual.





POULTRY AND EGGS ..





Cold storage holdings of eggs on

May 1 according to the preliminary





report were 4, 627, 000 cases, compared.





with the record May total of 4, 909, 000

cases held a year ago. The five year

average on May 1 is 3,077,000 cases.

The season of heavy production this

year started about two weeks later

than last spring and therefore may

continue later intothe summer than

it did a year ago. If it does, a new

record in cold storage holdings when

the season’s high point is reached will

not be surprising. Present prices .very

largely discount such a possibility,

however, and no decline of any conse-

quence is probable. The eggs produc-

ed at this. season are counted as the

best of the year for storage purposes.



Detroit—Eggs fresh candled and

graded 24@251/zc; storage 271/30. Live

poultry heavy springers 29c; light do





22@24c; broilers 45@500; heavy hens

29c; light hens 29c; roosters 18c;





#geese 18c; ducks 33c; turkeys 300.





BUTTER





The butter market slumped sharply

last week due in part to relief from

the speculative tension which support-

ed the market at Chicago up to the

last day of April and partly to con-

vincing evidence, that the spring flush

period is at hand. Production is in-

creasing rather steadily, receipts at

‘the leading markets are becoming

larger almost every week and the

amount which must be withdrawn

from cold storage in order to supply

the trade is diminishing. In another

week or two it is probable that the

tide in cold storage operations will

move in the other direction and the

accumulating period will begin. Any

further readjustment in prices is not

improbable as storage operators are

not anxious to load up much above the

30 cent level in the middlewest. Cold





storage holdings on May 1 were only-





3,834,000 pounds, the smallest on that

date since 1917. The five-year average

is 7,613,000 pounds. Prices on 92-score

fresh butter on May 6 were as follows:



Chicago 3495c; New York 37c.- In

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs is sell-

ing at 85c per pound.





4 POTATOES





Potato prices advanced sharply for

several days last week but reacted to-

ward the close. Shipments from pro-

ducing sections each week continue to

run considerably ahead of any recent

year although they are not so large

as a few weeks ago. About 1000 cars

of new potatoes are coming forward

each week compared with an average

of about 400 cars at» the corresponding

time during the three preceding years.

Northern sacked round whites are

bringing -81.65@1.75 f. o. b. shipping

poin'ts. The Chicago- carlot market

lost ground for the week closing at

$1. 70@1. 75 for the sacked northern

whites.





 





 





Live Stock Market Service





 





 





Wednesday, May 10.





DETROIT





Cattle.



Receipts 494. Market steady.

Choice steers . . . . .8 7.50@ 8.10

Handyweight butchers 7.50@ 8.25

Mixed steers and heifers 7.00@ 7.50

Handy light butchers... 6.25@ 7.25

Light butchers .......... 5.50@ 6.00

Best cows .............. 5.50@ 6.00

Butcher. cows ........... 4.50@ 5.25

Common cows .......... 3.50@ 4.00

Canners 2.75@ 3.75

Choice light bulls ....... 5.50@ 6.00

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . 4.25@ . 4.50

Feeders ' ................. 6.0061) 6.75

Stockers L ................ 5.25@ 6.25

Milkers and springers. . . .8 45@ 75





Veal Calves.

Receipts 1295. Market strong to 500





higher.



Best ........ ' .......... 8 9. 50@ @10. 00

Culls and common ...... 5.00@ 800

Hogs.



Receipts 2937. Market steady.

Pigs .................... 11.10

Mixed hogs ............. 11.10

Roughs ................. 8. 55

Heavies . . . .. . 10. 25@10. 50





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 151. Market steady.

Best lambs ............. $13.50@14.00





Fair lambs .......... . . . . 10.00@12.00

Light to common ........ 5.00@ 8.00

Fair to good sheep ...... 7.00@ 8.00

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





, CHICAGO

Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 15, 000;

holdover 8, 958. Market steady to 100

higher. Bulk of sales 810. 35;@11 tops

811; heavy 250 lbs up 810. 50@10. 75;

medium 200 to 250 lbs at $10. 65

light 150 to 200 lbs 810. 90@11; ight

lights 130 to 150 lbs at 810. 65@10. 95;

heavy packing sows 250 lbs up 89. 50@

9. 85, packing sows 200 lbs up 89. 5.0@

9.;60 pigs 130 lbs down 810. 50@10. 75.



‘ Cattle. ' '

Estimated receipts today are 13, 000.





Market slow, weak to 15¢ lower. Beet





shipping steers 88@8. 25;





steers medium and heavy weight 1100

lbs up at 88. 65@9. 25, do medium and

good 87. 65@8 65 do common at 87@

7. 65; light Weight 1100 lbs down 88. 25

@9. 10; do common and medium $7.15

@825 butcher cattle heifeis at $5. 90

@850; cows common at 84. 75@7. 35,

bulls bologna and beef at 84. 75@6. 65;

canners and cutters cows and heifers

83.70@3.75;,do canner steers 84.75@

5. 75, veal calves light and handy-

weight 86. 75(99; feeder steers 86. 25@

7.;85 stocker steers 86@7. 75; stocker

cows and heifers $4. 25@6 25

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 10, 000.

Market steady to strong. Lambs 84 lbs

down 811. 75@14. 25; do 85 lbs up 811. 25

@1;4 do culls and common 88@11. 50;

feeder lambs at 813. 50@15. 75; spring

lambs $9@12.; ewes 85. 25@8 25 ewes

cull and common 82@5.





BUFFALO

Cattle.





Receipts 100 cars. Market strong.

Choice, prime shipping steers 1400 lbs

and up at 8,8. 25@8. 90; good to choice

light native

yearlings good quality 88 50 9; best

handy steers 87. 50@8;

and heifers 87. 25@7.75; western heif-

ers 87. 25@7. 50; light Michigan butch-

ering heifers at 86 25@6 75 best fat

cows 85. 50@6. 50; cutters at 83@3. 75;

canners 82@2. 50; best heavy bulls at

84. 75@5. 50; heavy bologna bulls 84. 50

@5; commdn bulls 84@4. 50; best feed-

ers 700 to 800 lbs 86. 25@7. 50; medium

feeders 85. 50@6 25 stockers good at

85.50@6; light common at 84@5; best

milkers and springers 860@85; medi-

ums 835@50. Calves, receipts 2,;500





steady; tops at 8960.





Hogs.





‘Receipts 90 cars. Market is strong.

Medium and heavy at- 811.25@11.50;





‘yorkers, and pigs 811. 50@11 65. . 7 ~





Sheep and Lambs. .

Receipts 50 cars. Market is lower.





Vrop lambs $13. 50@14; yearlings sue ~





11150, wethers 99am; ewes ties





 





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Stocks of beans held by wholesale

grocers ran low last week and numer-

ous orders were in‘ the market with





the result that prices advanced to

87. 35 per 100 lbs. f. o. b. Michigan





shipping points fer choice hand-picked 7





stock. Kidney beans held steady at

88. But few beans are left at country

stations and most of these are being,





“held for seed. Stocks,elsewhere are





almost exhausted. Thus far no im-





ports of consequence have appeared. .





The high price has stimulated interest

in the crop and a record acreage this

year is expected.

Michigan is estimated unofficially at





.100, 000 bushels.





wooL \

The wool market advanced again

last week with fine wools in the west





selling at a range ,of 35@42c for fine





wools. Dealers appear anxious to bag

the new clip, as sentiment is qute gen-

eral that further advances will occur.

Foreign auctions show a rising ten-

dency, some grades being 15 per cent

higher at the last London auction. In

spite of the quiet market in this coun-

try during March, imports in that

month were 43,071, 000 pounds, the

largest since April, 1921, the month

which preceded enactment of. the emer—

gency tariff. Consumption of wool by

American mills in March totaled 62,-

385, 000 pounds, including 7,170,000 lbs.

of scoured wool and 2,608 000 pounds

of grease wool. This compares with

72,721,000 pounds consumed during

January, 1920, when the post-war boom

in wool manufacture was at flood tide.

' With a prospect of higher prices for

wool and for cloth, the demand for

goods has improved. Woolens have

been relatively more active than the

worsteds for several months, but the

worsted market has responded notice—

ably in the last few days.





GRAND RAPIDS





Outdoor spring vegetable crops

made rapid growth in the Grand Rap-

ids territory last week and offerings

of .asparagus, rhubarb, spinach and

hothouse leaf lettuce showed a mark-

ed increase with the market easier on

all of them. Asparagus fell from 82 a.

dozen bunches to $1.25 a dozen bunch-

es; rhubarb sagged to 81 and 81.50 a.

bushel; spinach went to 82 a bushel;

leaf lettuce dipped from 160 a pound

to 100. Old potatoes turned easy after

rising to 81 a bushel. Butter was un-

settled at four cents a pound under

last week but eggs were steady at 22@

230 .a bid. Poultry was scarce and

higher.

@260; and broilers 50@60c a pound.

Live stock was steady. In grains

wheat was five cents lower than the

Opening prices last week; others were

unchanged with practically no deliv-

eries.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Supplies were heavy on the market

but the demand cleaned up offerings

in good shape. Asparagus sold well

and so did tomato and cabbage plants.

Carrots were in slow demand. Aspar-

agus sold for 81.25@2 per doz. bunch-

es; cabbage plants 8@15c per dozen;

1)cgrrots $2.50@2.75 per bu; eggs 25@



0;

bunches; potatoes 81. 20@1. 35 per bu;

poultry 29@35c; rhubarb 30@75c per‘

dozen bunches; tomato plants 20@35c

per dozen; veal 13. c. -





THE DEMAND FOR DRAFTERS

INCREASES.





 





 





LTHOUGH the farm chunk trade

has all but disappeared,

the rank and file of medium weight

horses without a satisfactory outlet,

much more interest is being shown in





draft horses than a month ago as in- >





dustrial revival is exerting its effect.

Teaming concerns are after rugged

workers and ice companies are prepar-

ing for summer trade. Choice draft-





’ers are being sought also for the Maine

At Chicago good and'





potato section.

choice drafters bring 8175@240; com-'





Juan and medium drafters 8140@175: '

jfarm chunks 8114@160; wagon horses,

8100@175,





 





COMING SALES.





Holstelns.——May 2 McPhe on F

re It B. McPherso m





 





The increase in ,





Heavy fowls were quoted 25’





green onions 30@500 per dozen,





leaving .
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I THE handling of poultry products





through cooperative organizations

is being tried out. in a number of

states. The most recent undertaking

along this line has been in Illinois.



At first the sales ofthese. coopera—

tives ran close to those made through

the regular commission houses.

the season advances, however, the

margin begins to Widen. This is due

largely through the ability of the men

handling the stocks of the cooperative

association to secure a higher quality

of 'goods.~ Through these institutions

the producers are instructed to handle

their eggs and poultry as they should

be handled. -



Last week the premium paid in Chi-

cago for eggs coming through the co-

operative egg and poultry shipping as-

sociations of Shelby and Clay coun-

ties, Illinois, amounted to one and one-

half cents over the extreme top prices

paid for eggs through other'channels.

A number of these associations are

now in the process of formation in oth-

er. sections of Illinois.





 





MARKETING PROGRAM 'TO BE

HELD IN ABEYANCE.





EFINITE arrangements for the:

carrying on of the agricultural





work of the Detroit Board of Com-

merce, which met with some criticism

during the recent reorganization of

board affairs, were

by the directors. Supervision of the

activity was placed in the hands of a

committee, John A. Brown, one of the

directors last year, being announced

as chairman. Among the members of

this committee will be C. A. Bingham,

of Birmingham, originator of the agri-

cultural work of the board and first

secretary of the Michigan State Farm

Bureau. Other members will be an-

nounced later.



The agricultural activities of the

board in the ensuing year, H. J. Camp-

bell, secretary of the organization,

said, will be built largely around the

city farmers’ group in the board. This

includes about fifty Detroit business

and professional men who also oper-

ate farms in the nearby counties.

Their combined farm holdings are esti-

mated after a survey as being in ex-

cess of $3,000,000'in value, and include

more than 11,000 acres, 2,188 cattle,

and 1,993 hogs mostly registered stock.



“While there has been some talk of

possible elimination of the agricultural

work by the board, because of the ne-

cessity for greater economy in the gen—

eral operation of the institution, the

directors were agreed that the funda-

mental problem of food production for

the people of Detroit and more con-

genial 1‘elations between the city and

the rural territory adjacent must re-

ceive continued attention,” Mr. Camp-

bell said in announcing the agricultur-

al committee appointment.



He also said that because general

business conditions were not being fav.

orable at this time the completion of

the farm products marketing organiza-

tion as fostered by the agricultural di-

vision will be held in abeyance. ‘





THE DECLINE IN HOG MARKET IS

CHECKED.





ECEIPTS of hogs increased sharp-



ly in the last two weeks and the

total at the eleven leading markets

has been running ahead of the ten-

year average.

year the supply has been less than

normal. The increased runcaused a

sharp break but the country again cur-

tailed» the supply and the market turn-

ed upward in the last few days, mak-

ing some net gain for the week. The

demand for pork as well as beef seems

to have increased as prices in eastern

cities made additiOnal advances last

week. A further increase of ten or





“fifteen per cent in the supply of hogs





an be expected before the high point

the early summer run has been





As-





made this week .





Most of the time this





 





and the break in prices will not be

drastic. '



Reduced slaughter of hogs during

most of April is reflected in the report

of storage holdings of hog meats at





the six leading western "packing points-





on May 1. A decrease of about 3 ,,-000

000 pounds occurred in these holdings

and the total is only 211,820,000 pounds

compared with a five-year average of

364, 000, 000 pounds. Lard stocks, how-

ever, are accumulating, the increase

during April being slightly over 12, 000, -

000 pounds, or about twice the five-

year average increase. Holdings on





May 1, however, were only 56, 891, 000 ~





pounds compared with a five-year av-

erage of 73, 500, 000 pounds.





STOCKERS AND FEEDERS AT THE

YEAR’S HIGH POINT.





STEADY increase in the demand



for stocker and feeder cattle has

Occurred in the last- four weeks. With

suitable material hard to locate, prices

have advanced to the highest point of

the year. Quotations have been cut

of line with values on killing grades

and many prospective buyers have

been discouraged from entering the

market. But few' steers, even of or-

dinary grade, are available for less

than $6. 50. Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and

Michigan have been the prnicipal buy-

ers at Chicago. Wisconsin grazers

took fleshy steers of high quality away

from killers at prices as high as $8.25.





April

A Banner Month





Automobile insurance is a

necessity and the careful au-

tomobile owner will select a

company that has stood the

test for eight seasons. The

company has paid out for

claims over a million dollars

and has added something to

surplus each year. It started





at the right time and obtain-

ed a large membership which

enables it to have an organi-

zation of adjusters and attor-





neys in every part of the state

to give the policy holder ser~

vice. The month of April was

one of the largest in the his-

tory of the company, the

claims and expenses amount-

ing to $33,897.31 and there

was $21,865.77 added to sur-

plus. '



Why not insure in a well

established company able to

stand the shock of heavy loss-

es? See local agent for





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why not orderrasupply of the correét

grades as specified by our Chart of Rec-

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you in drums or cans of convenient size.





Not a gasoline byvprodudt

NINE OUT or TEN lubricating oils on the

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That IS one of the many reasons why Gar—

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and leaves less carbon.





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crude oils chosen for their luérimting qual—

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