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NUMBER TWO





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT

THE MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:





Plodding mediocrity usually accom-

plishes more than a variable bril.

. liancy.





Modesty is not a matter of clothes;

it is an attitude of mind.





He who spends for false pleasures

loses what he had and gets less than

nothing in return.





~Even the rich should be conserving

.of the natural resources as extrava-

gance on their part makes less for oth-

ers to use, and adds to them the bur-

den of higher prices.





HAT a r e the





. . prospects for

EleCtr'c’ty electricity on the

on the farm? This is a rca-‘

Farm sonable question to





ask, and in considera-

tion of recent developments we are

inclined to believe thatsthe prospect

for the general use of electricity on

the farm is promising.



There is one fundamental question

involved in bringing current from some

central plant to the farmer’s premises.

This question is the cost of iinstallas

tion and maintenance. At a confer-

ence of representatives of farmers’ or-

ganizations of the state and of electric

power companies held in Lansing last

week it was reported that the average

cost of maintaining lines running to

farms would be around forty dollars

per annum. This does not include the

cost of curreint which, it is estimated,

would bring the total cost for the av-

erage amount of service per farm up to

about seventy-five dollars each year.

In spite of this comparatively high

cost it was the opinion of the farmer

representatives present that some plan

could .be worked out to the mutual ad-

vantage of the farmers and the elec-

tric companies. The companies mow

report an unusual demand for such ser-

vice from farmers who live within a

reasonable distance from service lines.



But this is not the only source of



electric current for rural folks. ’The

isolated electric plant operated by gas-

oleine, water, or wind is becoming rap~

idly popular with the farm people and

they are being installed by the hun.

.dreds in every part of the state. Like

his city cousin, the farmer has devel—

oped an appreciation for electric pow-

:er, light and heat. Cleanliness, avail-





: fl? ability and economy have been quali- »

:.j ties which have captured his attention ' '





In some man-





 





and that of his family.





"probability centrally developed current

, will be used where it is more readily





available while the isolated plant will

find favor on farms more remote from

the big generating plant 3'1" transform-

ing station. ,





- WIDE interest is





being taken, in.



Better methods of marketing

E49. eggs. Just .now co-

Llarketzng operative marketing





of this product seems

to be developing much more rapidly

than along any other line. On the Pa-

cific Coast a merger of the four lead-

ing cooperative egg marketing associ-

ations is now being completed. Min-

nesota reports that six hundred thirty

cooperative creameries in that state

have started buying eggs. In Nebras-

ka egg marketing organizations are

about to be launched in forty-seven

counties. There are now two hundred

seventy—five cooperative exchanges in

Missouri, while' eight cold storage

plants will handle two thousand car-

loads per year. Four counties in Wis-

consin will be organized this year. In

southern Illinois six counties have an

association each. The New England

states, together with New York and

New Jersey, have awakened to possi-

bilities along this line. Connecticut,

New York and Massachusetts are con-

ducting educational campaigns to ac-

quaint farmers with the fundamental

principles of cooperative marketing of

poultry products. In all, it would seem

that there is likely to be a change in

the general plan of handling poultry

products. We are wondering just what

effect all the activity will have upon

the egg market. We are inclined to be

optimistic since an improvement in the

quality of eggs as they are delivered

at retail stores is quite certain to stim-

ulate consumption.





HE first thing nec-





. essary, if we ex-

Plawng pact to be successful



the in playing the game,

Game is an understanding





of the rules and regu-

lation by which it is played. No

amount of strengthfor mental alert-

ness, or skill of hand will make us a

good sportsman unless we know how

to take our part.



Then to this knowledge must be'ad-

ded skill of hand, head and heart to

put the rules into execution. Often

there are men in the bleachers who

can repeat every word of the rule book

forward and backward, but who can-

not play a single position on the team.

They may preach, but they do not





to exercise the body as well; as- the

mind.



Finally, We must cooperate and not

knock. If we insist on having our way

regardless, then we are likely to be





put out of the game, even- though we





may have a knowledge of the rules and

the physiCal and mental ability to play.



And these suggestions apply to the

great game of life. First, we should

learn the golden rule and then fit our;

Selves to practice it, which means co-

operation with our neighbors.



I





F we are picking





Our potato bugs, using



, a thsk broom, or

Bug handling a spray gun,

Burden we are doing our





‘share in a war that

is greater than we realize.



This war is not one in which we can

hope for a decisive victory, but it is a.

struggle in which we must stay on top,

for it means either the bugs or us.



In a way this struggle is one which

we have brought upon ourselves for,

under matural conditions, there would

be a balance between things which

would prevent any one insect becom-

ing a. pest. But we have changed the

face of the earth to suit our conven-

ience and must therefore pay the

price.



This price means about $10,000,000

a year for the control of the little San

Jose scale, about $200,000,000 worth of

each year’s cotton crop to feed the boil

weevil, and other losses too numerous

to mention.



The total annual loss in this country

is two billion dollars, which is the

price we pay in order that we may I'e-

tain an. appreciation of Mother Na-

ture’s bountiful response to our efforts

to get nourishment from her bosom.





TUDENTS of vital





statistics find that



More. there are likely to be

Deaths ”1 more deaths from 'ty-

Country phoid. fever in rural





districts than there

are from our cities. The main reason

generally ascribed for this is that cit-

ies have made adequate provision for

the proper disposal of sewage. In

country places, this generally hasnot

been well cared for.



The situation, however, is being

gradually improved. The farmer is

much better acquainted with the ad-’

vantages of a good sewage ‘system

through the general education he has

obtained by visiting his city cousin.

Thisfirst-hand knowledge and general

propagainda showing the dangers of





 





 





Vote in the Good Will Election





HE American Committee for De-



vastITted France, with the cfo-opcr-

ation of the Detroit News, is conduct-

ing a popular contest in Detroit for the

selection of a delegation of busi-

ness women to visit the devastated

section of France, carrying a message

of good will to the unfortunate victims

of the war, and particularly ‘to the or-

phaned and suffering Children, and to

lay the foundation for more substantial

aid. III this campaign a contribution

of ten cents or more qualifies the con-

tributor to vote in the contest, one vote





' for each ten cents contributed.





There are many candidates in the

field, from whom the successful few

will be chosen, according to the votes

cast for them. Among these candidates

is one farm girl from western Michi-

gan, Miss Jean Bronkan, in whose can-

didacy many who are interested in or





idcntificd‘with agriculture have taken

an interest. Mr. George W. Dickinson,

secretary-manager of the Michigan

State Fair, is contributing his services

as her campaign manager. . The Michi-

gan Farmer is co-operating by giving

its readers an opportunity to contribute

as they may desire to this, worthy

éause, which is more than a charity,

and which'will be rewarded by first

hand information from Miss Bronkan

on conditions in the regions which she

will visit, if she secures the votes to

qualify her as a Good Will representa-

tive.



Fill in the coupon and mail with your

contribution to the Michigan Farmer,

and we will turn contributions and

votes over to the proper representa-

tive es of the committee. Do this today,

as all votes must be filed by July 15,

to count in the contest. . .





 





The Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan:





Enclosed find ..... ‘ ..... for the GOOd Will fund of the American Committee

for Devastated France. Please forward it to the committee, together with





.......... votes for Miss Jean Bronkan





Signature. . . .





in the Good Will contest." 3





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‘- rather urgfnt- demand for information





 

 





on the erection of farm septic tailiks.”

lin order to supply farmers with direc~

tions, the farm mechanics department

cf the Agricultural College, at, East ’

Lansing, has prepared blue printsand

suflicient descriptive matter to enable

the handyman to go ahead and con-

,struct at low cost one of these septic

tanks;





counties to solve problems connected

with the installation of these health

conservers.



This may be the wrong time to urge

action along this line, but withal,"we

believe that at the present‘charges of

undertakers the installation of one of

these tanks and the necessary appur-

tenances may be much cheaper than ‘a

funeral.





 





One 'Faufl/z





LIKE our birthdays, the anniversary



of the birth of our country comes

once a year, whether we want it to or

not. But maybe it is all right, ’cause

it gives folks a chance to work off a

accumulashun of what you call pa-

triotism.



I paid homage to this Land 'of Free-

dom by buying one-fourth of a dollar’s

worth of gasoline so me and the fam-

ily could see the parade, which had

.for its special attracshun Jason Gould,

' drum maj o r of

the village band.

Jason surely kin

swing a wicked

stick. .Maybe he

gets practice us-

in’ the yardstick '

in Smith & Johin-

son’s dry goods

store.



Next we listen-

ed to John Cavanaugh, the aspirin'

young lawyer who won the case for

the electric company against the city.

He talked on “Our Duty to Our Gov-

ennment, this Land of Freedom.” It

sure was perspirin' talk.



Next I got a man to sell me balloons

at wholesale, gettin three of them for

one-fourth of a dollar. I also a quart-

er’s worth of Son-of-a-Guns, which cost

a cent apiece, but sounds like the Rev-

olutionary War. Then I bought one-

fourth of a dollar’s worth of them

Roman candles and pinwheels so I

could fill the» night air with beauty.



We ate our lunch in the park, gettin’

one-fourth of a dollar’s worth of hot

dogs to go with it. And, after we talk-

ed about nothin’ iin peticular with. no-

body in peticular, and seen Jim Mun-

son ketchthe greased pig, and George

Mackey win the fat man’s race, we

went home to give ouI strenuosity a

rest.



After milkin’, when it was dark, I

shot off the fireworks iwith a lotta

“ah’s” from the kids, and then went to

bed feelin’ like we done our duty.





After a while I got thinkin’ about the

.birth of our country. It was born Just

like us folks, through a lotta pain and“

sufferiin’. But what gets me is that,

‘While we hear a lot about the father of

our country, we hear nothin’ of its

mother. Maybe’she was what you call '

in disrepute. But, if Great Britain was

the mother, Daddy George sure did

treat her rough, and it seems like they

got a divorce before the child was .

born. George was fightin’ for freedom

and it looks like he got it, alright.



~You know, I can't see why we gotta

spend a lotta money to celebrate our '-

'holidaysh In all, I spent a dollar and

didn’t get no satisfaction out of it, and

I don’t think my country did either

It just seems like we are commerci

izin’ too mamy of our feelin's of?

niflcance. ‘ . ‘





 





 





 





   

 

 





 

   





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





County agents also devote time ‘ g:

in' helping farmers in their respective “
~ . . pearance.





I . pounds.





31;;‘it has no definite percentage.

powder was originally designed for





CT long ago investigation showed

that some takers were actually

selling farmers ground cocoanut





I "'Wshells as a special cattle food. A good

Inany of the fattening and condition-

‘ing preparations were net very much





better, it was found But the shell of

the ~cocoanut is practically hard wood,





' and it does seem abominable to give



,. ..poor,’



Vbrutes, ground hardwood, as a medici-



‘ nal food. And it was certainly hard



‘2' upon the feeder to swindle him into

' paying his hard cash for'such trash.





ailing, breeding or growing





7- But, Come to think of it, there is a

place in our feeding bins for the shells

of nuts—some, nuts at, any rate. The





little oblong nuts on the wheat plant,





for the wheat itself has a‘shell of its





'own, composed of what is much like

»wood. Everyone knows how valuable

a stock feed this shell, husk, or bran





is, used in reason. For many years——

back to times immemorial, braln has

been used as a feed. But never so in-

telligently as since the latter half of

the past century.



It was a lot of pigeons experimented

upon by same scientists interested in

feeding problems that made known to

us the real value of bran and some

other cattle feeds. The birds were fed

.with the polished rice, which is often

sold in the stores and often tempts the

good housewife by its handsome ap-

It is a fine old proverb

which warns that “handsome is that

handsome does," and so is that other

which warns against judgmg by the

outward appearance.



In a few days the pigeons fell sick.

They developed the disease known

commonly as beri—beri in men. Since

ingthe case of human beings, this ter-





How T m: Linn W a: Discovered and W not It Means to Farmers





- bohydrates (sugar, starch or cellulose-





By Earle W. Gage





ribly fatal disease is caused by an un-

balanced food ration, the scientists set

about restoring the balance in the pig-

eon’s food by feeding them with rice-

bran. It.is unlikely looking stuff to

use as food, but this rice-bran turned-

the trick; The doves got well speedily

and that set men to work to try to

find out just what food substance it is

in bran which gave it such value.

That was how it occurred that what

are called by the rather clumsy name





imals. or mam. For lack of better

names they are usually known as vita-

mines A, B and C.



Vitamine A concerns growth. With-

out its growth is slow, the bone poor

amd_resistance low.



Vitamine B is an anti-neuritic, a sort

of nerve sustainer. Without it beri-

beri and similar diseases of the nerve

government, lack of virility, may be

expected.





Vitamine C is an anti-scorbutic.





 





 





The Wheat Field Furnishes





of “vitamines” came to be discovered.

There, was something lacking in the

polished rice ration, as sailors found

long ago there was something lacking

in a preserved food ration. Green veg-

etables, and lime juice completed that

latter ration it was discovered, and

prevented scurvy.



But green vegetables and fruit juices,

could not prevent beri-beri from set-

ting in. Nor could the bran-or a

yeast which was found to have similar

effect—that cured beri—beri, prevent

scurvy.



Different things were lacking in the

food rations it will be noticed. So far





we have discovered three of these, the





lack of which upsets the health of an-





an Abundance of Vitamines.





Without it scurvy and such troubles

may occur.

Vitamines Essential to Life.



Evidently these vitamines are, and

always have been necessary to animal

life. Wild, things get them naturally

It is because our amimals are no longer

wild, and no longer live andfeed in

their natural countries and manner,

that we have to look after them arti-

ficially.



All animals whether meat-eaters or

vegetable feeders, get their vitamines

from plant life. It is true that meat,

animal fats and milk contains vita-

mines, but they all come from vegeta-

ble life.



All food of animals must contain car-





fats), proteins—albuminoids, alnd cer-

tain salts. We have known that all our

lives. To be perfect they must contain

vitamines as well. Naturally we look

for these first in vegetables.

a lot to be found out yet about these

principles. The farmer'is, in fact, nev-

er going to be done with learning. And

it looks as though the chemist is go.

ing to be his best teacher for a good

malny years to come. It might be a.

good thing to insist upon having chem-

istry taught in all the schools, instead

'of “dead languages” (which are sold

dom ‘used by farmers).



In the future, the country which has

the most competent, best trained farm-





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ers is going to take the lead when the‘





war-tossed world settles back into its

old, or should we rather say, settles

well into its new stride.

trained farmers will be those who,

among other necessary things, know

their chemistry best



We have already found out that cer-

tain vegetation is richer in vitamines

than others. Cabbages—or the cruci-

feral as their family is called—are

very rich in Vitamine C, for example.

Young plants are much richer in vita-

mines than others. Dead-ripe plants

contain practically none at all. Is that

a fact worth remembering at haying

time?



Therein is a most important argu-

ment for the silo. With labor at pres-

ent prices, and Adam’s ever-present

curse of weeds, it is not easy to make

it pay to grow roots. But silage is an

admirable substitute, perhaps a more

valuable food.



In fact, the silo is one of the prin-



(Continued on page 39).





PicricACid "for the Fall of 1922





GOvernment Gives Fnrtner Eneonragement to Land Improvement

By 'A. J. McAdams





HE scourge of picric acid will

again prevail ’on stumps of Mich-

igan this fall. During the winter

the Bureau of Public Roads made a re-

allotment of the war salvage picric





I acid stored at Fort Wingate, New Mex-





ico, and the state of Michigan is to re-

ceive about a million and a quarter

This material is being distrib~

uted through the Land Clearing Divis-

ion of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, with L. F. Livingston, Land Clear-

ing Specialist, M. A ..,C in charge of

the distribution.





Last fall the Michigan Agricultural





College distributed 624, 000 poundsof

this war salvage explosive at a savnng

of about $60, 000 to the farmers.

-uring an average saving of eight cents





Fig—





per pound on the picric acid, the 1,250,-





, 7000 pounds to be distributed this fall

. “should effect a saving of $100, 000 to

WMichigan farmers. It is estimated that

*the new allotment of picric acid should

" - (add about 30, 000 newly cleared acres





to the state.

,Picric acid is a limo, dusty, yellow,





_ "crystalline powder which is non-freez-

' . ing and non-headache. ,It does not ’con- .





tain nitroglycerine and for that reason

war purposes, but extensive experi-

outs and field tests proved that it





As "a war salvage material, pic-

’ {it ‘_,,.co1npntes with dynamite, but,





 

 

 





This ,





sine suitable for land-«clearing . ‘





up in cartridges resembling dynamite

and is handled in the same way that

dynamite isused. Because it is- so

powdery, picric acid runs about three

sticks to the pound. Each hundred-





’pound box contains about 270 sticks.





Picric acid is very much more insen-

sitive than dynamite and for that rea-

son it requires a No. 8 blasting cap to

make it explode completely. It very

often happens that a No. 6 cap will

cause it to explode, but upon closer in-

vestigation it will be found that the

explosion is not complete. A No. 6 cap





will blow part of the picric acid away

lemon colored smoke,





and cause a





while the No. ‘8 cap will give a light

gray smoke which disappears very rap-

idly. It is suggested that every effort

possible be made to secure the large-

sized caps to explode the picric acid.

The distribution of the picric acid

is being handled by the county agri-

cultural agent system of the Michigan

Agricultural College and by the var-

ious farm bureau organizations of the

state. Delivery is made in carload lots

only. It is suggested that farmers de-

siring picric acid this fall get in touch

with their county agent or their farm

bureau organization as soon as possi-

ble. The material will cost seven cents





 





 





f Thje Picture Gives the Reader an idea what Picric Acid will do to a Healthy

‘ “ . _ 33 . .. Pine Stump. .. .





 





per pound, plus the freight from Fort

Wingate, New Mexico, to the local dis-

tributing points. In counties where

there are neither county agents nor

farm bureau organizations, the county

clerk has been supplied with informa-

tion regarding the distribution of this

material.



Mr. Livingston has been in touch

with several thousand farmers who

have been using picric acid this spring

and he has yet to find one who was in

any way dissatisfied with the explos~

ive. As far as he has been able to as-

certain, this material will do the work

stick for stick with dynamite. Mr.

Livingston says: “It should be borne

in mind that the farmers are being





supplied with picric acid at a cheap l.





price because it is a war salvage ma-

terial. If picric acid was purchased

on the open market, cine pound of it

would cost as much as three pounds

of dynamite. The farmers are being

supplied with this explosive at the cost

of cartridging plus the freight to their

local station. I would also like to lin-

press on the various agencies of the

state the necessity for early orders.

We are a long distance from New Mex~

ico and although we are guaranteed

shipment forty-five days after the car-

tridging plant receives the order, I

would like all of this material to be

in the state for use this fall.

at Marquette is being flooded with in-

quiries regarding picric acid, so I





 





 

 





Would suggest early action on the part

of those who wish this war salvage.





explosive." . ‘_ ‘ .





And the best *





My office .H
LATEAG'RicULTURAL'NEWS"





 





 





 





 





ORGANIZE TO GET LOANS ON

FARMS.





 





ENTY farmers near Sandusky,

Sanilac county, recently completed



the organization of the Sandusky Mu~

t-ual Farm Loan Association. These

men have made application for loans

aggregating $87,000 for periods rang-

ing from five to forty years. The in-

terest rate is five and one‘half per

cent. The organization is a branch of

the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul,

Minn. Mr. Summers, of Deckerville,

is president, and County Agent John

Martin is secretary-treasurer. Profes-





sor Elliott, of the Michigan Agricultur- _.





31 College, aided in perfecting the as-

sociation. The farmers are able to loan

up to fifty per cent of the cash value

of their land, and twenty per cent of

the valuation of their buildings.





SHIP SUBSIDY.





 





S an argument for the farmer’s



support for a ship subsidy, Chair-

man Lasker asserts that “the farmer

is vitally interested in the merchant

marine in many ways. It is probable

that the great carrying nations of the

world owing large sums of money, may

attempt, so far as they can, to buy

their agricultural needs elsewhere.

We must insure under our flag such

speed and prompt delivery to their

shores of our agricultural products as

will force them to buy from us.”





CONTINUE WORK AT MUSCLE

SHOALS.





 





HE house. by a vote of 145 to 105



voted for the senate amendment

appropriating $7,500,000 to continue

the work of building the dam at Mus~

cle Shoals, with the provision added

that work should not begin until Oc-

tober.



This is regarded as a victory for the

friends of the Ford offer. It was sup-

ported by the friends of the Ford

proposition in the house, and by the

American Farm Bureau Federation.



When the house action was referred

back to the senate for concurrence,

Chairman Norris, of the Senate Com-

mittee of Agriculture, who is leading

the fight for government development

and operation of the Muscle Shoals

power and nitrate fertilizer plant,

made a vigorous attack on the house

proposition to postpone work on the

dam, charging Gray Silver, legislative

agent of the American Farm Bureau

Federation, with attempting to coerce

congress into a position where it

would be compelled to accept the Ford

offer. Senator Norris undertook to see

cure a vote of the senate against con—

currence with the house, but in this he

was defeated, and the senate concur—

red with the house upon the amended

amendment, and the bill is ready for

the President's signature.





FOREIGN WHEAT CROP.





 





SMALLER! production of wheat in



Europe is indicated in a report re-

ceived by the department of agricul—

ture from the International Institute

of Agriculture at Rome. This is due

to reduced acreage and unfavorable

weather conditions. In British India

there is an increase of 3,076,000 acres

over last year, and angincrease in pro-

. duction of 120,288,000 bushels. The

'2 _ Australian wheat crop previously esti~

“mated at 136,168,000 bushels has been

reduced to'132,288,000 bushels, which

’15" 91.9 per cent of last year’s yield.

_ The production of corn in the south-

' hemisphere is 261, 940, 000 bushels





 





‘ance with the sta—





against 285,874,000 bushels in 1920-21.



Samples of honey are being received

by. the department of agriculture from

bee~keepers 1m all parts of the coun-

try, in connection with work of estab-

lishing reliable color grades for ex-

tracted honey.





MR. NOON TO DIRECT MEMBER-

SHIP CAMPAIGN.





 





R. M. L. NOON, prominent county

farmer, and vice-president of the

State Farm Bureau, will direct the





State Farm Bureau’s second members"





 





Mr. M. L. Noon.





ship drive which opens August 1 in

Allegan county, according to Clark L.

Brody, secretary of the State Farm

Bureau. ’

“Beginning this fall,” said Mr. Brody,





 





   





“State Farm Bureau memberships

signed" with 97,000 Michigan farmers

in 1919 and 1920 begin to expire. The

coming campaign will seek renewal of

these membership centracts. The pres-

ent three-year farm bureau member-

ship has built a great cooperative ser-

vice, sales and purchasing organiza-

tion with headquarters in Lansing. The

bureau handles seed, markets grain,

hay and beans, purchases supplies,

pools wool and represents its vast

membership in legislative, transporta-

tion, taXation and other matters of

public interest. It is affiliated with the

American Farm Bureau Federation,

which speaks f0r 1,500,000 organized

American farmers."





CAPPER-TINCH ER BILL PASSES.





 





HE; CappervTincher bill to 'regulate



grain exchanges, known as the

“Grain Futures Trading Act," passed

the-house on June 27, after a lengthy

debate. The bill is designed to correct

the grain futures act in it defects

wherein it was held unconstitutional

by the supreme court on May 15. It

Was opposed by several members of

the grain exchange bloc, representing

the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas

City districts, but the farm bloc held

firm control of the situation, and every

amendment proposed by the grain ex-

change representatives was voted

down, while a few minor amendments

supported by the farm block were

adopted.



Speaking of the former.law, Con-

gressman Tincher, of Kansas, said that

“in no time in the history of our gov-

ennment was there less manipulation

of the grain market or less complaint

of manipulation of the trading than





Auto Touring Camp





HE above map indicates the loca-



tion of the score or more of free

camping sites in Michigan. The sites

marked “S" are State Free Parks,

while those marked “F” are free but

have been provided by local munici-

palities or through the generosity of

private parties. Any ,





for the purpose, or, if preferred, burn~

ed or buried.



Care must be used with fires. In

extreme dry times they should not be

built. At other times they may be

made in acceptable sheet-iron or stone

fireplaces. Fires should never be left





 





good road map of

Michigan will give

the necessary infor- 0,9

mation for reaching

these camps. Should

one desire more data

a letter to the editor

of this journal will

bring it. -



A few simple rules 1

should be followed ,'

by the users of

these parks in order

to make them of the

greatest value to the

people of the state

and to our visitors

from other states

and countries.



You may camp in

the public parks one

week or less without .

a permit; for longer ,

periods a special per-

mit is required.



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used for fireplaces.



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“I have never said that the sale of

wheat for future delivery should be

entirely wiped out or the sale of fu-

tures should ,be wiped out, but I have

always said that to let a few gamblers

manipulate the grain market was not

only unfair to the consumers, but un-

fair to the legitimate trade, ” said Mr.

Tincher. ‘





“The question of false crop reports

that have been given out from tinie

to time have been the means of more

losses in the grain market to the pro;

ducer than any other meams that have

been used in this country, and that is

one of the very things this bill intend

to correct," said Congressman Fred B.

Gernerd, of Pennsylvania. “Where

anyOne connected with an exchange

knowingly sends out information that

he lanows is not accurate, but is intend-

ed to deceive and mislead and create

a false situation in the market, it is

wrong, and there ought to be some-

body for that reason under whose con-

trol the stock exchanges should be

placed, and there is no other instru-

memtality in this country that can con-





trol that situation better than the Sec—





retary of agriculture.”





NATIONAL BUTTER STANDARD

BILL.





FTER a brief hearing on the fed-'





eral butter standard bill, the house

committee on agriculture reported out

a bill defining butter as a food prod

not, which is made exclusively from

milk or cream, or both, with or with-

out salt, and with or without coloring

matter, and containing not less than

eighty per cent to milk fat. The pro-

posed“ clause limiting the maximum

amount of water to less than sixteen

per cent was eliminated.





If this bill passes we shall have a

law fixing the butter-fat "content at

eighty'per cent, and a ruling under the

Internal Revenue Bureau, now in force,

limiting the moisture content to six-

teen per cent.



The farm bureau representatives

favored the eighty per cent butter-fat

limit, but thought it should apply only

to commercial butter manufacturers

and not to farmers making dairy but-

ter. It Was contended that while the

farmers aim to make good butter,

mostly running above eighty per cent

fat, few of them are equipped for reg-

ulating the butter-fat or moisture con-

tent of butter, to an exactness required

by the proposed law.





WORK T0 RETAIN FORESTRY DE-

PARTMENT.





 





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HE American Farm Bureau Fed-

eratio'n and the National Lumber

Manufacturers’ Association are cooper-

ating in a movement to prevent the

removal of the forest service from the





department of agriculture to the inte'





rior department.



In accepting the aid of the lumber

manufacturers, Gray Silver, of the

Farm Bureau'Federatiom, states that

if the forest lands were to be sold off,

he would be willing to agree that they

should be in the department of the,





Linterior with the restrof the public do-

main, but the farmers of the country ,

are unanimously ingfavor of inauguratr



ing a general foreSt policy that would_,~

supply and .' ' "

~ , _ make sylvaculture a permanent infinity“

turbing of wild animals, birds, or bird 3 alane and on leaving they should be try He is convinced that we must





insure a future timber





have adequate fire protection

syste‘m of nation th" 1: wil





during the time when this law wa’sin?

force. No man ever heard a complaint. ‘
ITHIN the last year or two po-

tato growers all over the coun-

~ try have been noticing an in-

' iacreasing loss in their crops, due to an

apparent blighted condition of the

fields. Especially during the hot, dry

weather the plants were observed to

turn brown and to die as if struck by

a severe attack of blight.



Certain indications, however, point-

ed to something else besides blight.

When the progress of the disease was

watched it was seen that the leaves

_ turned brown at the tips and died back

I .along the edges which curled upward

towards the center of the leaf This

was very characteristic of the disease.

Often the entire leaf was killed. This

disease has recently been named “hop—

perburn. ”



Hopperburn is caused by the potato

leafhopper. This is a small, pale

greenish insect about one-eighth inch

long when full-grown. The , leafhop-

pers are found on the underside of the

leaves and when numerous the adults,

if disturbed, ’fly out literally in clouds.

The hoppers feed on the larger veins

of the leaves, extracting the juices by

~ means of the fine needle-like bristles

, of the backs Apparently some poison-

ous substance is_injected which kills

.the tissues, thus cutting off ‘the sap

supply from the rest of the leaf and

eventually resulting in its death. Even

one or two leafhoppers can produce

sufficient hopperburn to kill an entire

plant.



Although the potato leafhbpper is

‘present almost all over the United

States and in parts of Canada, hopper-

burn seems to be confined for the most

part to the middle western “and eastern

states. During the past three or four

years hopperbunn has been most se-

vere in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne-

sota, Pennsylvania, New York and

Ohio and the trouble is apparently on

the increase.

Copper Sprays Prevent Damage.

Extensive field tests have shown

-. conclusively that hopperburn can be‘

successfully and profitably controlled

by the me of Bordeaux mixture or

other good" copper sprays. Thoroughly

covering the leaves with such mate-

rials prevents the adult hoppers from

feeding and laying eggs and kills many

of the young insects.

Three sprayings last year in IoWa





gaVe 110 bushels per acre of first-grade





potatoes, while unsprayed fields yield-

ed on the average only about fifty

bushels of mixed grade. The sprayed

potatoes were of superior quality and

sold for $1.00 per bushel, field run,





ppe’r’burn 0n Pctatoes





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while the unsprayed potatoes did not

bring ninety cents per bushel and then

only when they were graded. The net

gain per. acre from spraying was $53.75

after deducting cost of materials, labor

and depreciation an the spray machine.

These results were entirely due to the

effective control of the leafhopper.



In Ohio in 1921 hopperburn was the

principal potato trouble. Forty-seven

growers in nine counties made sixty

tests. The average increase. from con-

trol, of hopperburn was thirty-one

bushels per acre and four applications

showed 'a net gain of $55.70 per acre

over unsprayed fields.



Last season was one of the driest

on record in Pennsylvania and hopper-

burn was severe. Over ten thousand

acres were sprayed under careful sup-

ervision. Spraying gave an average in-

crease in‘yield of seventy-four bushels

per acre, or nearly fifty per cent im-

crease over the unsprayed fields.



In Wisconsin the yield has been in-

creased over 100 per cent on early po-

tatoes and over fifty per cent on late

potatoes by proper spraying to control

hopperburn.



How to Obtain Results.



If you really mean business, hopper-

burn can be profitably controlled, but

strict attention must be paid to the

following points:



Spray Under Side of Leaves—Since

the potato leafhopper feeds on the un-

derside of the leaves it is particularly

important that the spray be applied to

that part of the leaves.





Use High Pressure—One hundred_





fifty pounds pressure or more is nec-

essary to break the spray up into a

fine mist, thus coating the entire sur-

face with a protective covering. Sev-



Use Three Nozzles to the Row—It

is absolutely essential that three noz—

zles be used to each row, so arranged

that one sprays downward on top of





the vines and one from each side in- ,





ward and upward. For the “backyard

gardener” a good type of hand-sprayer

which can be carried on the back will

give satisfactory results, provided‘it is

equipped with an extetnsion rod and

angle nozzle so that the underside of

the leaves can be thoroughly covered.



Use Enough Material.—Fifty gallons

of material per acre is the minimum——

100 gallons or even more is better.



When ,,to Spray.——Spray at least

three times at intervals of about two

weeks, beginning when the hoppers

first appear on the vines. A fourth ap-

plication Should be made if the season

is hot and dry and leafhoppers are

still abundant—M. D. Leonard.





 





 





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,,What is the threshing law, or is

there any? Suppose a thresher thresh-

‘es all the jobs on one street except

one man. Is there mo law to compel

him to thresh. his grain ?———F. S. G.



. There is no law requiring a person

ofiering to do threshing to do work for

[every applicant. Like'other persons,

he may work for whom he pleases.—

Rood.





BUYING BEES.





 





I would like a little information on

bees. I have one swarm and would

like to get more but don’t lonow where

to send for them, or the price of a

good swarm. There is no one here that

has them for sale—R. C. S.





Before answering the above inquiry,

I would say that there is always ser-

ious danger in purchasing bees of bee-



-' keepers who are not making a living

from the raising of bees and selling of

homey. This is because of the prev-

alence of bee diseases in various parts

of the state. These beekeepers who

do not pay much attention to their

bees often have disease among them

and do not know it. The bees die out

in the winter because of disease and

the owner often ascribes it to “Winter

killing.”



I would, therefore, suggest that you

purchase your stock from some of the

breeders whose yards are under the

supervision of the state apiary inspect-

ors.——B. F. Kindig.





 





' PRIVATE ROAD BECOMES PUBLIC.





 





Is there any law that, after a road

has been used for several years, it can

be opened to the public, there being

a laid-out road eighty rods away. This

road is to avoid a hill—Subscriber.





Inn reply to your inquiry, please be

advised that Section 20 of Chapter 1

of the General Highway Law provides

that:



“Roads that shall have been used as

such for ten. years or more, whether

- any record or other proof exists that

they were ever established as high-

ways or not, shall be deemed public

highways, subject to be altered or dis-

continued aCCording to the provisions

of this act.”



You will therefore understand that

a road which has been used ten years

or more by the public becomes a public

highway and can only be abandoned

or discontinued by proceedings in ac-

cordance with the statute.——-Partlow.





 





EYE AND VETCH FOR PASTURE.





 





I have five acres of corn on sandy

and gravelly soil, which I would like

to sow to rye and vetch early this fall,

for early spring pasture, to be plowed

under in June and sowed to buckwheat

and seeded to sweet clover. Would it

be the proper thing to sow the rye and

vetch in the corn in August and culti-

vate it in before the corn is cut, or

wait until the corn is cut and then

sow it?~ How much vetch should I sow

to the acre, and can it be mixed with

the rye and both sown at the'same

time? Some of my neighbors have

Sewn vetch, but had trouble with it

winter-killing. Is it because it was not

sown early enough in the fall? W hat

stage of maturity should rye and vetch

be plowed under to be of most value

to the ground ?—R. N.



If you have sufficient moisture at

the. time of the last cultivation of your

corn, it is a splendid practice to sow

the rye and vetch then.



In fact, many people sow them even

‘~if the ground is dry, because rye and

‘vetch are pretty hardy seeds and will

7 lay in the ground for a considerable;



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flw'shén the rain comes, but it is possibly

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the corn crop matures and then seed.

You will have to be your own judge

of the moisture conditions.‘



From fifteen to twenty pounds of

vetch, and from one to one and one-

half bushels of rye, depending some





what on the condition of the soil, is ,





about the right amount to sow. The

vetch can be mixed with the rye and

the seeding done at one operation.



Hairy vetch is a hardy plant and

usually winters as well as any forage

plant you can grow. ‘



I am surprised to learn that your

neighbors have had difficulty in this





respect, and I apprehend your idea is





correct—that it was sbwn so late in

the fall that it did not get properly

established before freezing weather.





All green malnure crops give the best

results if they are allowed to grow

practically to maturity before they are

plowed under. At this stage of. the

development they contain much more

vegetable matter to be plowed under,

and in the case of the vetch, much

more nitrogen would be added to the

soil than would be if the plants were

plowed under earlier in the spring.





COVERT ROAD ACT.





 





Is there a law in Michigan against

Covert roads running parallel, being

built one mile apart?—0. Y. Z.





There is no law which prohibits the

construction of ,so-called Covert roads

lying one mile apart.



The 1921 legislature provides that

no Covert Act road should be construct-

ed without the approval of the state

highway commissioner, and“-the com-

missioner and his advisory board have

adopted a ruling where no Covert

Act road will be approved unless they

are on the proposed county road sys-

tem adopted by the .board of county

road commissioners—H. H. Partlow.





SWEET CLOVER FOR PASTURE.





 





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would make growth enough to turn in'

first thing in the spring. Soil is rather

light, what would you advise?-—C. M.





If you sow biennial sweet clover this

spring this will make about as early 9.

pasture next spring as you could get.-

In fact, almOst as early as the June

clover. ‘ .



The annual sweet clover which

wOuld have to be sown next spring,

starts rather slow and makes its great-

est growth later in the season.





I apprehend that you have not sown‘





the ground yet and this should be done

at once. It takes the biennial sweet

clover, the same as red clover, the‘

first season to get established, then

the next season it makes its vigorous

growth and matures.



These clover plants are usually sown

in the spring on wheator with cats or

barley, but. you can prepare the land

now and seed to biennial sweet clover

and get it well enough established so

that you will have a. fairly early pas-

ture next spring.





GAR'N ISHMENT.





 





I sold' a saddle to my neighbor’s

hired man for $12. He paid me $5.00

down and promised to pay the rest on

pay-day. Instead he went away and

has not been heard of since. His em-

ployer told me that he has$16 coming

of his wages. Have I the right to col-

lect the amount due me?—-—F. T.



There is a right of action for the

balance, and if the man is not married

all but $8.00 would be liable to garnish-

ment, which would leave something to

be credited on the account after pay-

ing the costs—Rood.





DAMAGE TO PASTURED LIVE

STOCK.





 





A friend gave me a fifteen-year-old

horse to pasture. I kept her in the

barn for a few days and then put her

to pasture. On the same day I missed

her. We looked over the farm, but

failed to find her. I inquired of the

neighbors, notified the owner, and the

next day called on the neighbors in the

whole community and placed an ad-

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fourth day I found the horse mired in

the pasture and three days later she

died. I cared for the horse as though

she were my own. Am I liable for. the

horse? I did‘not solicit for the horse,

my friend made the suggestion, and I

did not make any promises "of any I

kind as to safety, eta—J. D. ,2?"

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ture are, liable only for ordinary care, ' ' '

the Same care they would give to their

own stock, in the absence of express .

agreement imposing a greater liabil- ' ‘ ‘4

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If a husband leaves home on other

business and the wife has to hire'a

man to take his place on the farm,

can the husband compel her to pay

him out of her household. allowance? .

Can a husband sell all the stock off

the farm and use it besides what he

makes elsewhere and not give any

thing to the support of his family? If

husband refuses to support fami .

what course cam the wife take ?——M. .





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property without consent of the wife.

She is not liable for his debts, nor to 1 _

maintain his property. To protect her— I it

self she should see a. local attorney. '

—Rood.





CONTROLLING BINDWEED. _.





 





I have a fine. patch of strawberries

which are being smothered out with

wild morning glory and another weed "i

that forms a carpet on the ground and

nothing can grow through it. It has

a small white flower of five split petals

which form a hull and has tiny browm 4

seeds in. Could I spray. this vine and '

kill it after the beries are through -

bearing? I have another piece of

ground that is covered with this weed

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er of these weeds can be controlled-





, by spraying, for the same sprays that





will kill them will also kill the straw-

berry plants. If it is desired to" save ,

the strawberries, it will be necessary ' .

to dig out all of the roots~byhand and i

then to go through the patch at least

every four or five days and by means

of a sharp hoe chop off as‘deeply as

possible every Inew stem that pokes

its head up through the soil. '





If it is not intended to save the

strawberry plants for another year,

and if the patch can be fenced off so

that no stock can get into it, the fol-

lowing poison spray may be used:





Five pounds of white arsenic, five

pounds of soda ash; (carbonate , of

soda), ten gallons of water. Boil until

the solution is clear or nearly'so, usu

ally about fifteen minutes. Dilute to .

make 100 gallons. You do not have to ’ a

make so much concentrated solution ,if , ‘

you do not . need so much of the

diluted. ' ’ .



This should. be applied with a spray ‘ .

rig such as is used for potatoes so’as . ‘ ,‘

to have a fine mist deposited " oniall' ' ' ' ‘ ‘

parts of the plants. This will kill the

plants down within a week or so and

kill part of the roots. Any shoots,

should: be

sprayed again as soon as the leaves

are well developed. It may be neces-

sary to make a third application early

in September. This .should kill out

most of the weeds so that if cultivated

crops are placed on that field next

year the pest can be controlled. '

~ In using this spray be exceedingly

careful to‘ keep it away from aniriials

an small children, as it “is very poison-V"

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thusiast, Robin Carr, in the way“





of constructive breeding. This was the

result of a cross made with the .view

, of getting type, as he already had

some '4 creditable records. The mating

of sons and daughters from his old

herd sire has produded this show stock

aind‘he need not be bashful about men-

tioning some of the records. As a Jun-

ior three-year—old, one made twenty-'

six pounds of butter, 540 pounds '"of

.milk in seven days, and at; five years





of age, made over 1,000 pounds of but-:1

_ ter, 27,000 pounds of milk in 365 days.





Now a son of this LOGO-pound cow is





These Eight Cows Owned by Mr. Carr





Silage Cuts





Expen'mentr "and Experience: Pro‘ve I t





AIRYMEN have found that the

cow’s board bill is the largest

item connected with cost of milk.





' The man who buys a first-class dairy





herd is inclined to believe that the

original cost of the cows is the expen-





__ sive part. After he has a few years"

of experience he changes his mind.





It

is the feed bill, in season and out, year

after year, that totals up the big ex-

pense.





Our experiment stations have 'con—

ducted many tests to determine the

value of silage in the ration. The fig-

ures vary to quite an extent, but they

all show the economic value of silage.

The Ohio Station several years ago





‘ ‘showed that corn silage saved the dairy





farmer ten cents a pound on the cost

of producing a. pound of butter, and

forty cents on the cost of producing

100 pounds of milk. Many of the early

cow-testing associations demonstrated





' that the Silo was one of the most im-





pertant factors in lowering the cost of

milk. All of these experiments and





. tests, however, is only a small partof





the proof of the economy of the silo.

The most important proof is the fact

that one-half million silos are now be-

ing used by our most progressive

farmers.



Silage is a succulent grass-like feed.

It is. cooling in effect, aids digestion,

stimulates appetite and is an excel-

lent balance for high protein concen-

trates. A dairy ‘cow requires such a

feed because she is doing hard work





“when producing a good flow of milk.





e cow by nature is‘ a user of rough-





age, and when fed in am artificial Way





on grains or high nutritive value there

for a cooling grass-like, feed,

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Cazmty' Breeder Did





being used, as herd sire where the re-

sults are appearing equally as good.

The first offspring. which' came the

past 'winter, are individuals to be

proud ofi'and all are anixously waiting

to see what the effects will be from a

producing standpoint. _



Note the uniformity of type he has

developed, and the creditable records

made by these animals haVe proven

to the owner .that his efforts have not

been in vain. Livingston county, no

doubt, can show a large mumber‘of

animals just like these, which have

been the results of constructive breed~

ing. The army of men who believe in

good breeding is growing—C. L. B.





All Show the Influence of Same Sire.





Milk Costs





content, but water is an importamt

item of the ration. Milk is eighty-sew

en per cent water and beef over fifty

per cent. '





Many dairymen who complain over

the high cost of producing milk could

quickly correct this trouble by feeding

more silage. This " feed not only low-





ers the cost of' producing the stock and »





stock products, but it also serves as

an insurance for many crops. There

are few forages, grains or grasses

grown on the farm that cannot be

made into silage. Plants producing

large tonnage can be turned into a food

supply for the cows and growing stock

and silage has the advantage of always

being in a succulent and edible form.





In times of drought a liberal ration

of silage will stimulate large produc-

tion and will keep the cows in a good

condition for fall and winter produc— ~

ers. Those who have had the most

experience will tell you that the silo

should be used for summer as well as

winter, especially by the dairy farmer.

A crop safely stored in a silo is a





sure and dependable asset to the stock- 1





keeper. As for the dairyman, every

test has proven that silage is a most

important item in economic milk pro-

duction—A. H.





 





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There are just six parts to

the De Laval Pulsator—only one

of which moves, and it never

requires oiling.



A pulsator is a very impor-

tant part of a milkingfimachine.

It governs the periods of suc-

tion and squeeze or massage,

which must be of correct fre-

quency and exact and uniform

in duration, in order that the

cow’s milk-producing organs

may be stimulated to greatest

activity and production. With

the De Laval these periods are

just right and absolutely uni-,'

form, which means that your

cows are milked the same morn;

ing and night, year after year.



The De Laval Pulsator can-

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is practically fool-proof.

Compare the De Laval with

pulsators on other milkers which

have from 30 to 60 or more

parts, consisting of spring,

screws, adjustable devices, etc.,

and you will realize its greater

value. Then keep in mind that

the same thought and care in 1

designing the De Laval Pulsa-

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milker, all other parts being

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‘ On thousands of dairy farms

the De Laval Milker is proving

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cheaper, cleaner, and more prof-

itable and pleasant than any

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Widely Known Scientist Discovers Wonderful

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Flies are one of the most dangerous

and annoying things with WhICh the

farmer has to contend. Now, through

the discovery of E. R. Alexander, Widely

,known scientist, you can rid your house and burns

and livestock of these pests almost instantly, and

with no trouble at all. This discovery is In the





form of an organic chemical that is fatal to

files. and similar pests. such as chiggers. moon

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i‘his new discovery which is called Alexs‘

nnder's Rid-O-Fly, is not a poison. Though it‘

kills flies like ms is, farm snunnls snd.humss_s

.beings are not a ected by it at sll. ln ada-

‘dition to killing these insects. Rid-O-Fly is"!

strong repellsnt. Flies will not come nest'

stock or buildings where Rid-O-Fly has been

used. Rid-O-Fly is particularly valuable for

’cows and horses. as it is a known fact that files

do ‘unmld harm to these animals.



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of these pests that he alien to send e 32.00

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i’How To GET MORE FOR MICHI-

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THERE has been a great deal on

propaganda coming out of the

northwestern and southwestern states

to make the consumer of soft wheat

flour believe that good bread can not

be made from our home-grown soft

wheats. It is perhaps true that it is a

little easier to bake with hard or west-

ern wheats, but it is not true that they

will produce a better loaf of bread.



Furthermore, the Michigan mill that

is wide-awake can, by careful Selection

and a slight blending of strong west’

ern wheats with Michigan wheats, pro-

duCe a 'more desirable type of flour

for general purposes than any flour

coming from either the northwest or

southwest. Mills failing to do this in

their local territory are doing them-

selves and the farming community an

injustice.



Many elevators in Michigan have

been led, by this propagamda, to buy

western flour in carload lots and,

strange to say, you will find this to be

the case among many cooperative ele-

vators. This policy is so shortsighted

that it is almost unbelievable—Lthat

booperative elevators would consider

fer a moment the purchase of western

flour. Surely, they must realize that

every time they dispose of a sack of

western flour they lower the value of

the very grain their members are rais-

ers of.



If this were brought to the attention

,of the individual farmer, particularly

the managers of cooperative elevators,

this shortsighted policy would certain-

ly be discontinued.



Even the up-to-date bakers are be-

ginning to realize that to produce a

fine loaf of bread they must give up

the idea of taking into consideration

only the grade of wheat that will ab-

sorb the most water and they realize

they must blend our choice soft wheats

to produCe the best bread and they are

blending more heavily each year, par-

ticularly this year with the great dif-

ference in the price of the two grades

of flour.



If the commercial baker sees this

opportunity surely the farmers and

consumers of flour in Michigan should

patronize their home industries. If

they will do this you will see Michigan

wheat selling nearer to $1.50 per bush-

el than the $1.00 it is bringing today.

We would suggest that the farmers of

Michigan and cooperative institutions

give this matter serious consideration.

-—George A. Amendt.





FAVORS CENTRALIZER.





 





S a reader of the Michigan Farm-

er, I am inclined to believe that

the Farmer can be of great help to

enlighten its readers on how to im-

prove their herds and reap a harvest

out of their dairy cows, providing the

local or cooperative creamery does not

trim them out of .what is rightfully

theirs. I am inclined to believe that

there are few local creameries to be

found who give a correct test on the

farmer’s cream; at least, that is the

'situation in my locality. It is my firm

belief that the Michigan dairyman cam

overcome this evil by preaching cen-

tralizing, thus helping its readers to

test their own cream and learn that

'the cream delivered to the local cream-

ery should test thirty-six imstead of

‘ twenty-eight.

Under the present system of all the

- '_’-ereameries I ever had dealings with,

21 'am fully convinced that the only

«fixing left for the farmer is to encour-

_ the cantralizers, and deliver their

to them. And the sooner the bet-

This y!!! help the farmers of.





'.p1n10ns and ,

from Michigan Farmer Readers





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Michigan to- swell their bank accounts.

——J. C. Fillman.



(We feel that Mr. Fillman has a

wrong impression of local creameries

in general. Would like to have some

further discussion of the subject.—

Eds.) '





 





ATHE RURAL ‘MAIL BOX.





 





DMEBODY who has not traveled far;





and wide, seems to carry an idea

that all rural routes are in the back-

woods. Evidently, also, they forget

that rules of the road were establish-

ed before any one thought of building

left-hand “drives.” The},r should save

their wrath to pour on their own

heads, as the post office department is

not guilty of establishing the one or

building the other. Nor are they too

blame for the mud and water in front

of our own gates. Nor should We wor-

ry about the carrier’s pants.



All this is what we think. What we

know is quite another matter. Some

of us know that not all the rural

routes are located in the back coun-

try, or that some are graveled, some

stoned, some built of concrete. We

also know that near centers of popu-

lation rural routes divide the road be-

tween rural carriers and some metro-





 





trucks use the roads at a” free-tow

speed, not counting the slow horse or





 





, the heavy teams or the cloud of dust ‘





that hangs over the roadway like a

pall. «We know the road is somewhere.

ahead; we also know it islsomewhere

behind. We also know there is a ditch

on each side of the‘road which We are

forbidden to use for travel, not by

order of the post office department but

by the law of self-preservation.



We know there are autos ahead—~we

know there are autos behind, travel-

ing at unknown 'speed. What sane

man would use the left side -of the

road? Let alone cross and recross the

road twenty to forty times in a stretch

of four to six miles 'of the most con-

gested road, at the busiest hours in

the afternoon.





Only about one-half of the rural pat-

rons are affected by the order of right-

hand delivery. What is the other half

kicking about? Ask the carriers what

they would prefer under circumstances

as set forth above. . Fifty per cent

would probably say the righthand de-

livery is all right. The other fifty per





cent would prefer the left-hand deliv-‘





ery if it was not for that rule to keep

to the right. Laws and rules are ob-

served by a majority of the people

when life and limb 'are at stake, and

broken by a few highflyers who are a

menace to public safety. Laws and

rules are made for all and should be

observed—Val Katzenberger. '





An Improved Horticulture





Change: 272 Hortzcu/ture Department at M. A. C. W21! Mean

C/orer Cooperatzon amt/1 Frzm‘ Gro‘wrrr





CTION taken by the State Board

A of Agriculture in approving .rec-



ommendations (if President Dav-

id Friday to reorganize and expand

the horticulture department of the

Michigan Agricultural College repre-

sented a complete victory for the

Michigan State Horticultural Society.

In some respects it is more than a vic

tory. Not only will the department he

revamped to better serve the fruit

growers, but also is to be made second

to none in the United States.





The expansion program as approved

by the board calls for the hiring of

additional instructors and at least one

professor. The new men will be an-

thorities in their line. Professor V. R.

Gardner, of the University of - Mis-

souri, one of the leading pomologists

in the country, will head the improved

horticultural department, while Prof.

(1.. P. Halligan will have charge of the

newly created Department of Land-

scape Gardening.



Prof. V. R. Gardner is the son of a

prominent ' Lansing attorney and a

graduate of the horticulture depart-

ment of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege in 1905. Since the day he was

handed his sheepskin at East Lansing,

he has been actively engaged in teach-

ing or doing horticultural research

work. He has been associated with, or





over, some of the leading pomological ‘





specialists of the "country, and has

trained and developed many of the

country’s largest and most influential

commercial orchardists and fruit grow-

ers. '



Professor Gardner came into the

pedagogical field at Iowa Agricultural

College in the fall of 1905 as an in-

structor. He studied as he worked,

and two years later received his mas-

ter’s degree from the horticulture de-

partment of that college.



The Umiversity of Maine was .looking

for a professor of horticulture in 1907

and its college officials were attracted

by the exceptional .work which Mr.

Gardner had done along horticultural

lines in Iowa—a corn state. He ac-

cepted their offer and until he resigned

' 3 later he served that ism-a





 





 





tution as head of its horticulture div-

ision and part of the time as assistant

dean .of agriculture.



A ‘desire to take up research work

prompted him to leave Maine and be-

come associate professor 'of pomology

at the Oregon Agricultural College. At

that time Oregon was in the field to

build one of the strongest horticulture

departments in the country. It brought

twenty of the leading experts of the

nation into its faculty, among them

Prof. E. J. Kraus, at one time men-

tioned for this post, and Prof. C. I.

Lewis, who has just accepted an isnvi-

tation to become editor of the Amerl~

can Fruit Grower. Research work was

extensive and a number of discoveries





in pruning, pollination, strawberry

breeding, fertilization, mutritional

problems were released to the in-

dustry.





After getting the training he felt

necessary for his future work, Profes-

sor Gardner next moved to the Uni-

versity of Missouri, where he became

head of the horticulture division. Here

he showed his ability to take young

men among his staff of workers and

mold them into efficient research men

and instructors. In four years time

he has built up a strong horticulture

department in Missouri, almost entire-

ly of young men. ‘



Mr. Gardner

years old.



Professor Gardner visited the college

early in April and made an inspection

of the experimental projects at the

Graham Farm near Grand Rapids, and

the other projects at South Havetn and

Paw Paw. While Missouri attempted

to hold his services, he was so thor-

oughly impressed with the opportuni.

ties awaiting him here that he accept-

ed the Wolverine offer.





President Friday can see a bright

future for the fruit industry. He es-

timates there are 5, 000, 000 bearing ap-

ple trees in Michigan and that, in the

next decade 15,000,000 more will be

planted. These will replace half of

those killed in the middle west during

the last decade by treat and scale. He





now is thirty-eight





   





the legislature and ask for an appro”





p‘riatioln 01‘ $400, 000 for a new horticul-

ture building,





building. In that case work.~ would be-

gin at onceuon the structure. " '





 





MISSING HILLS NOT A TOTAL

LOSS. '





 





THE yield of the two plants on eith-





er side of a missing hill in the po. '





tato field is increased sufficiently to

make up about one-half the yield that

would have been obtained. from the

blank space if a potato plant had

grown there, say experts at the Geneva

Experiment Station, and support their





claim with evidence from eXperiments‘





conducted on the station grounds.





. These blank spaces, therefore, are not





a total loss, as might be supposed, but

repre'sent a loss in yield of only about

one-half ‘a normal hillof potatoes.





TEACHES METHODS oi= PREPAR-

ING sees.





 





HE details required in assembling





eggs in carload lots for distant

markets are now being taught by the

extension experts of the University of

Minnesota. Model methods of grading

and packing eggs are demonstrated.

Eggs from country merchants are stud-

ied to determine the ’ condition in

which they ordinarily reach market

and how the product can be improved

through care in handling.





LIME NECESSORY FOR BREEDING

STOCK.





 





HERE marsh hay has been



grown in districts deficient in

calsium or lime, trouble in breeding

animals has been observed. Investiga-

tions have led to ‘he general sugges-

tion that the cause may be due to a

deficiency of calsium in the diet. Sup-

plementary investigations indicate that

young animals from mothers who have

received .45 of a pound of cadsium ox-

ide per day are strong and healthy

where other conditions have been nor-

mal.





 





POTATO SCAB IN THE SOIL.





 





IT has been learned that the potato- '





scab disease persists in the soil for

a long time after potatoes have been

grown there. This is particularly true

of clay and loam soils. Less trouble

is experienced on sandy land. Seed

tubers should be disinfected in the

usual Way with corrosive sublimate or

formalin. This treatment will prevent

scab in soil that is free, from the dis-

ease, but if the soil is already badly

infected, then the seed treatment is

likely to be of little benefit. In such

instances the best course is to grow

other crops on the land for a few years

and probably plow under a green ma.

nure crop, such as clove); or rye. The

decomposition of these crops develops

an acidity which will prevent growth

of potato scab.





N EW POTATO GRADES.





 





HE potato industry was not fully

satisfied with the old grades as

established by the government. .In re-

sponse to a widespread. demand for





modifications, the department of agri‘w





culture has now modified these grades.

This revision provides for the e‘limi---





.nation from the _f‘United State's Num-

‘ber One” grade misshapen potatoes ,

and potatoes effected by hollOw heart. .



The change also provides for the add





tion or a grade known as “

one Small”. The new - _ ‘





 

 

 

 





 





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,. HERE are'some varieties of gar-

‘- den truck which must have the

v: p , g 3 entire season in which «to ma-

“ .it'ure. These, will not be ready for use

until-autumn, but the early planted,

, early maturing garden truck, or those

4 «which are .lit for use before their ma-

. turity are now ready. for useand will

soon be gone.

more of these for fall and winter use.

Winter cabbage plants should be set

out during the first part ' of July. If

ou have not grown your own plants,

,. sure and purchase plants of the

winter variety, as the keeping qualities

of earlier strains are not good. Danish

Ballhead, Danish- Roundhead and late

.Flat Dutch are some of the most popu-

lar. of the late varieties. ‘

String beans, peas, beets and sweet

corn-are all fit for table use before they

reach their maturity. A planting of

these now will insure a good supply

for table use in the fall. Probably

there is more Golden Bantam sweet

corn seed used for July plantings than

any other kind. There are several va-

rieties of string beans which may be

planted as late as July, as nearly all

kinds are fit for use in six or seven





weeks from date of planting. 'Beets,





too, will beam. for use in about the

same length of time as the string

beans, therefore there are many vari-

eties of them which may be sown in

July, but mamy gardeners believe the

long and half-long kinds to be the best

to sow for fall and winter use. These

varieties may be sown even as late as

the very last of July or first of August.

Of the peas, the “Telephone” is one

of the most common of late varieties

although there are several other good

ones. _



Don’t forget a patch of tunnips. They

are good as fertilizers, godd for the

stock and nice for the table. With the

exception of one or two of the very

early sorts, almost any variety will do



’ well ‘when sown in July.



In July, too, should be sown the win«

ter radish. This, as its name implies,

is the radish which keeps for winter

use. There-are a number of varieties

or these and they may be had in three

colors—rose Color, white and black.



Swiss chard, kale, kohlrabi, corn sal-

ad, endive and parsley are some of the



2 other things we may-plant in July in

our garden. These are perhaps not as

commonly grown as some of the other

things in our garden, but you will want

them again, once you become acquaint-

ed with them. Swiss chard and kale

are used as greens while young and



‘ tender. Later the midribs of the Swiss



chard are cooked like asparagus or

made into pickles. 'Com -salad, endive

and parsley are used in salads and in

garnishing dishes. Parsley is also of-

ten used in soups. Kohlrabi must be



_ used while young and tender. Later

the bulbs become tough and woody.



These bulbs, while young and tender,



are sliced and cooked like turnips and



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. A PPARENTLY our fruit growers

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ner-in which Federated Fruit Growers,

Inc., a farmers’ cooperative selling or-

ganization fostered by the American

Farm Bureau -Federation effected a

great national fruit marketing ex-

change. , ,



A contract has been completed for

taking over the North American Fruit

Exchange to become effective January

1, 1923. The Federated Fruit Growers,

Inc., was organized. in Chicago last

April, with James Nicol, president of

Michigan State Farm Bureau, as its

president, and James S. Edwards, of

the ‘ California Fruit Growers" 'Ex—

change, as general manager. Arthur

R. Rule, who has been manager of the

North American becomes the manager

of the new institution.





Fruit Farm Notes

By L. B. Reber -





 





HIS has been a wonderful grow ,





ing season so far but there is



more ’ twig blight than usual.

Blackcaps seem to be especially sus-

ceptible to twig blight this year. I

note that the Cumberland caps are

badly blighted, while the Plum Farmer

does not blight though it grows very

near to the Cumberland. Cuthbert and

Marlboro raspberries are about wiped

out in this section because of curl leaf

and leaf mosaic, but King raspberry

seems to be resistant; I note, though,

that the “Kings are becoming leSs re-

sistant every year. We shall soon have

to seek another variety of raspberry.

The Syracuse is highly recommended

but the nurserymen want five dollars

a dozen plants and that is a. prohib-

itive price.



Corn will have to go some to be

knee high by the Fourth of July. At

present, my corn is about knee high

to a grasshopper. Yes, I got stung

again. That much heralded Chinese

cabbage all went to seed almost as

soon as the plants were set out in the

garden. Now I read that the plalnts

should not be set out until September

1 so that the cool weather will prevent

them going to seed. I shall save some

seed from these first plants and try

again this fall. The seed man did not

print such directions on the packet.



The usual onslaught of striped bee

tles, Colorado beetles, rose. chafers and

leafhoppers are making life interest~

ing for the fruit farmer while the plum

curculio is busy cutting down the plum

and peach crop. Isn’t Emerson’s law

of compensation a beautiful thing?

That looks like a diversion from my

theme but it isn’t. If it was not for

the bugs and slugs we should have

such a fruit crop that the markets

would be flooded and the prices vanish

below the profit point. Well, the sun.

is shining again and the mam with the

hoe must get busy. This will be a fine

time to mow off a lot of weeds and

sumach which are bothering me in odd

corners. Did you ever see the time

when a farmer couldn’t find something

to do?’



Remember that the strawberry is

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RADIO ON A VACATION TRIP.





 





 





 





HE summer time is not the best

season of the year for radio, it is

true; nevertheless a great deal of en-

joyment and actual benefit can be de-

rived by packing up the radio set and

taking it along when the family goes

on the summer vacation trip. Several

of the large broadcasting stations in-

clude news and current events in their

daily program and the radio receiving

set may be made to serve as a subsit-

tute for the daily paper.

. At first thought there might seem

to be too many things to hinder taking

the set aIOng, but it is not such a task

as it may seem. If’one has a good

outfit at home it is a simple matter to

disconnect such parts as are necessary

for the vacation set, pack them in a.

small box‘ and set them up for tempor-

ary 'use. The biggest item as far as

weight is concerned is, of course, the

storage battery, but it is not necessary

to take it along. If the trip is made by

automobile two wires may be run out

to the car and the lighting and start-

ing battery in the car made uSe of, or

if this is impractical four dry cells will

serve the purpose and they may be

purchased at the hardware store of

any small town. It is best not to try

to install an amplifier with the temp-

orary set and if only one tube is used

four dry cells will last nearly a month.

The aerial is a big consideration, of

course, and yet it is surprising the

good results that may be obtained

from a makeshift antenna. Tie a stone

to one end of a wire and throw it up

into the highest tree; connect the oth-

er end to the set and it will be found

" that in dry weather the signals will

come in quite as well as with the

aerial at home and only a slight de-

crease will be noticed in wet weather.

Drive a pipe five or six feet into the

ground for the ground connection.

If the trip is made by automobile

and a stop made each night with a.

tent, the set may be grounded to the

car and left connected up. The body

of the car is not connected to the

earth it is true, nevertheless it will act

as a ‘fcounterpoise” ground and will be

found to work very well. Good results

are oftentimes obtained by stringing

wires back and form over the car a

few inches above the top and using

. this for the aerial.

As has been mentioned before in

this column, the ordinary regenerative

receiving set may be made to act as a





 





transmitter for short distances( ‘ one-

quarter of a mile or less).3 In order

to transmit, it is necessary to have

the bulb oscillating and‘this condition

may be recognized by a3 mushy sound

in the receivers. When this occurs it

is merely necessary to talk into one

of the receivers and the speech will be

heard over short distances. A low re-

sistance microphone placed in the

ground will give slightly better results.





It is not necessary to throw any'

switches when changing from trans~ .





mitting to receiving, but it is neces-

sary to alter the plate variometer a

little in order to cut out the mushy

sound when reception is being carried

on. If this were not done the incom—

ing speech would be distorted and un-

recognizable; Tw'o camping parties lo-

cated near together will find that they

may communicate in this way .quite

easily.





AFTER TH E RAT.





 





VIGOROUS campaign has been



started against the rat, and if all

the forces work together we will great-

ly reduce his numbers. The Depart-

ment of Agriculture recently reported

a rat-killing campaign where 670,000

rats were destroyed. County agents

cooperated in this work, and the re-

sults were startling and most bene-

ficial.



All kinds of poison, asphyxiating gas

and animal rat destroyers have been

brought forward. But we should keep

in mind that one of the most import-

ant methods of rodent extermination

is to take away his food supply, and

we should do this also for the sake of

economy, sanitation and mamy other

vital and economic reasons. Corn and

grain of all kinds should be so housed

on the farm that rats and mice will be

prevented from eating and otherwise

destroying the crops. Metal and ce-

ment bins can be used to this end.—

A. L. H.





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0U can get the potato leaf hopper



by using Bordeaux mixture. The

formula employed consists of four

pounds of copper sulphate, four pounds

of unslaked lime to fifty gallons of wa-

ter. The spray should be applied to

the under side of the leaves thorough.

ly, using at least 150 pounds pressure.

This pressure gives a fine mist spray.

At least three applications are recom-

mended and a fourth might be given

to advantage. Both sides of each row

should be thoroughly' sprayed to make

the job complete.





 





 





 





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HE job of pulling the hay carrier

‘ 'and fork back after each load has '



. been dumped in the mow can be elim-

..inated. Use a heavy wire cable about





"twenty-five feet longer than the barn,-

gfattaching it ‘to the end of the hay

fl heam. The other and should be secur-





 





 





as shown in illustration. A pulley car--

rying a weight operates on this cable»

A rope attached' to the weight and

passing through a pulley at the end of

the hay beam has its other end attach-

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makes an easily adjusted weight.—

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The recent fire at Arverne, Long Island, destroyed over 400 build-

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The memorial recently unveiled at

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With a load of American corn.





 





 





 





The remarkable nature photo of two rare bald

Americam eagles, taken in the Wild state, in

the state of Maine.





\ - Starving Russians in Vaseliewka, kneeling in thanks to George M.

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Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Den-

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The annual Vassar daisy chain which was shown by students on

Class Day. Several Michigan .girls are in this group of Vassar

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A five-minute gale in New

death of fifty-three, seven of which occurred

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Preparing the S. S. Leviathan for sea again; This was formerly a

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A general view of the Commencement exercises of the West Point

Military Academy. ASecretary of War Weeks is delivering the

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- CHAPTER V. ‘

MPATIENTLY Fairchild awaited

Mother Howard’s return, and'when



at last she came forth from the kitch-



en, he wrew her into the old parlor,





.shadowy now in the gathering dusk,





and closed the doors.



“Mrs. Howard,” he begaln.



“Mother Howard,” she corrected. “I

ain’t used to being called much else."



“Mother, then—although I’m not

very accustomed to using the title. My

own mother died—shortly after my

father came back from out here.”



She walked to' his side then and put

a hand on his shoulders. For a mo‘

ment it seemed that her lips were

struggling to repress something which

strove to pass them, something locked

behind them for years. Then the old

face, dim in the half light, calmed.



“What do you want to know, Son?”



“Everything! ”



"But there isn’t much I can tell.”



He caught her hand.



“There is! I know there is. 1—”



“Son—all I can do is to make mat-

ters worse. If I knew anything that

would help you—if I could give you

ainy light on anything, Old Mother

Howard would do it! Lord, didn’t I

help out your father when he needed

it the worst way? Didn’t 1—”



“But tell me what you know!” There

was pleading in Fairchild’s voice.

“Can’t you understand what it all

means to me? Anything—I’m at sea,

Mother Howard! I’m lost—you’ve

hinted to me about them~—but that’s

all. Isn’t it'fair that I should know

as much as possible if they still exist,

and I’m to make any kind of a fight

against them?”



“You’re right, Son. But I’m as

much in the dark as you are. In those

days, if you were a friend to a person.

you didn’t ask questions. All that I

ever knew was that your father came

to this boarding house when he was a

young man, the very first day that he

ever struck Ohadi. He didn’t have

much money, but he was enthusiastic

-—and it wasn’t long before he’d told

me about his wife and baby back in

Indianapolis and how he’d like to win

Q“. for their sake. As for me—well,

thEy always called me Mother How-

ard, even when I was a young thing,

sort of setting my cap for every good-

looking young man that came along. I

guess. that’s why I never caught one

of ’em—I always insisted om darning

their socks and looking after all their

troubles for ’em instead of going out

bugquiding with some other fellow

and making ’em jealous.” She sighed

ever so slightly, then chuckled. “But

that ain’t getting to the point, though,





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“If you could tell

father—”



“I’m going to—all I know. Things

were a lot different out here then from

what they were later. Silver was

wealth to anybody that could find it;

every month the secretary of the

treasury was required by law to buy

three or four million ounces for coin-

ing purposes, and it meant a lot of

money for us all. Everywhere around

the hills and gulches you could see

prospectors, with their gads and little

picks, fooling around like life didn’t

mean anything in the world to ’em.

except to grub around in those rocks.

That was the idea, you see, to fool

around until ,they’d found a bit of ore

or float, as they called it, and then fol-

low it up the gorge until they came to

rock or indications that’d give ’em

reason to think that the vein was

around there somewhere. Then they’d

start to make their tunnel—to drift in





 





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on the vein. I'm telling you all this,

so you’ll understand.” '

' Fairchild was listening eagerly. A

moment’s pause and the old lodging-

house keeper went on.



“Your father was one of these men.

‘Squint’ Rodaine was another—they

called him that because at some time

in his life he’d tried to shoot faster

than the other fellow—and didn’t do

it. The bullet hit right between his

eyes, but it must have had poor pow-

der behind it—-all it did was to cut

through the skin and go straight up

his forehead. When the wound healed,

the scar drew his eyes close together,

like a Chinaman’s. You never see

Squint’s eyes more than half open.



“And he’s crooked, just like his

eyes—” .



Mother Howard’s voice bore atouch

of resentment. “I never liked him from

the minute I first say him, and I liked

him less. afterward. Then I got next

to his game.



“Your father had been prospecting

just like everybody else. He’d come

on float up Kentucky Gulch and was

trying to follow it to the vein. Squint

saw him—and what’s more, he saw

that float. It looked good to Squint——





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and late that 'night, I heard him amd

his two drinking ' partners, Blindeye

Bozeman and Taylor Bill—they just

reverse his name for the sound of it—

talking in Blindeye’s room. I’m a wom-

an——” Mother Howard chuckled—“so

I just leaned my head against the door





and listened. Then I flewdownstairs‘





to wait for your father when he came

in from sitting up half the night to get

an assay on that float. .And you bet

I told him—folks can’t go sneaking





things around me and get away with





it, and. it wasn’t mo’re’n five minutes

after he’d got home that your father

knew what was. going on—how Squint

and them two others was figuring on

jumping his claim before he could file

on it and all that.



“Well, there was a big Cornishman

here that I was kind of sweet (in—and

I guess I always will be. He’s been





gone now though, ever since your fath-

er left.





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help. And Harry was just the -kind of

a fellow that would do it. Out in the

dead of night they went and staked

out your father’s claim—Harry was to

get twenty-five per cent—and early the

next monning your dad was waiting to

file on it, while Harry was waiting for

them three. And what a fight it must

have been—~that Harry was a wildcat

in those younger days.” She laughed,

then her voice grew serious. “But all

had its effect. Rodaine didn’t jump

that claim, and a few of us‘ around here

filed dummy claims enough in the vi-

cinity to keep him off of getting too

close—but there was. one way we

couldn’t 'stop him. He had power, and

he’s always had it—and he’ got it now.

A lot of awful strange things happen:

ed to your father after that—charges

were filed against him for things he

never did. Men jumped on him in the

dark, then went to the district attor-

4ney’s office and accused him of mak-

ing the attack. And the funny part

was that the district attorney’s office

always believed them——and ”not him.

Once they had him just at the edge of

the penitentiary, but I—I happened to

know a few things that—«well, he didn’t

go.” Again Mother Howard chuckled,





 





 

 

   

 

 





 





   

 

 

 





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only to grow serious once more.

“Those days were a bit wild in Ohadi

—everybody was crazy with the gold

or silver fever; out of their head most

of the time.

for your father and Harry disappeared,





or. got hurt accidentally in the mine'





or just unit through the bad name; it

was getting. Once Harry, _' coming

down from the tunnel at night, stepped

on a little bridge that always before

had been as secure I and. safe as the

hills themselves. It fell with hint—-

they went down together thirty feet,

and there was nothing but nature to

blame for it, in spite of what we three

thought. Then, at last, they got a fel-

low who was willing to work for them

in spite of what Rodaine’s crowd—and

it consisted of everybody in power—

hinted about your father's bad reputa—

tion back east alnd—”





“My father never harmed a. soul in

his life!” Fairchild’s voice was hot,

resentful. Mother Howard went on:





“I know he didn’t Son. I'm only tell-

ing the story. Miners are superstitious

as a general rule, and they're childish

at believing things. It all worked in

your father’s case—with the exception

of Harry.and. ‘Sissie’ Larsen, a Swede

with a high voice, just like mine.

That’s why they gave him the name.

Your father offered him wages and a

ten per cent bonus. He went to work.-

A few months later they got into good

ore. That paid fairly well, even if it

was irregular. It looked like the bad

luck was over at last. Then—”





Mother Howard hesitated at the

brink of the very nubbin of it all, to

Robert Fairchild. A long moment fol-

lowed, in which' he repressed a desire

to seize her and wrest it from her, and

at last— ”





“It was about dusk one night,” she

went on. “Harry came in and took me

with him into this very room. He kiss.

ed me and told me that he must go

away. He asked me if I would go with

him—without knowing why. And, Son,

I trusted him, I would have done any-

thing for him—but I wasn’t as old then

as I am mow. I refused—and to this

day, I don’t know why. It——it was just

Then he asked me if

I would help him. I said I would.





“He didn’t tell me much; except that

he had been uptown spreading the

word that the ore had pinched out and

that the hanging rock had caved .in

and that he and ‘Sissie’ and your fath-

er were through, that ‘they were beaten

and were going away that night. But





—and Harry waited a long time before .

he told me this—‘Sissie’ was not going .





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3m” ‘won’t be there—and I can’t

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' '-thet he :13.me voice is just like "Sis-

Youve got to help us out of-





town.”



“And I promised. Late that night,

the three of us drove up the main

street, your father on one side of the

seat, Harry on the other, and me,

dressed in some of Sissie’s clothes, half

hidden between them. I was singing:

that was Sissie’s habit—to get roaring

drunk and blow off steam by yodelling





song after sang as he rolled along. Our





voices were about the same; nobody

dreamed that I was any one else but

the Swede—my head was tipped for-

ward, so they couldn’tlsee my features.

And we went our way with the miners

standing on the curb waving to us, and





' not one of them knowing that the per‘





son who sat between your father and

Harry was any one except Larsen. We

drove outside town and stopped. Then

we said good-bye, and I put on an old

dress that I had brought with me and

sneaked back home. Nobody knew the

difference.”



“But Larsen—‘2”



"You know as much as I do, Son.”



“They told me nothing and I asked

’em nothing. They were my friends

and they needed help. I gave it to

them-that’s all I know and that's all

I’ve wanted to know.”



“You never saw Larsen again?”



“I never saw any of them. That was

the end.”



“But Rodaine?”



“He’s still here. You’ll hear from

him—plenty soon. I could see that, the

minute Blind Bozeman and Taylor Bill





but you’ve got to helpns."





began taking your measure.

ticed they left the table before the

meal was over? It was to tell Ro~

daine.”



“Then he’ll fight me too?” ‘



Mother Howard laughed—and her





. voice was harsh.





"Rodaine’s a rattlesnake. His son’s

a rattlesnake. His wife’s crazy—Old

Crazy Laura. He drove her that way.

She lives'by herself, in an old house

on the Georgeville road. And she'd

killfor him, even if he does beat her

when she goes to his house and begs

him to take her back. That's the kind

of a crowd it is. You can figure it out

for yourself. She goes around at night.

gathering herbs in graveyards; she

thinks she’s a witch.

mutters to himself and hates any- one

who doesn’t do everything he asks—

and just about everybody does it, sim-

ply through fear. And just to put a

good finish on it all, the young ’un

moves in the best society in town and

spends most of his time trying to ar-

gue the former district judge’s daugh-

ter into marrying him. So there you

are. That’s all Mother Howard knows,

Son."



She reached for the door and then,

turning, patted Fairchild on the shoal-

der.



”Boy,” came quietly, “you’ve got a

broad back and a good head. Rodaine

beat your father—don’t let him beat

you. And always remember one thing:

Old Mother Howards played the game

before, and she’ll play it with you—-

against amybody. Good night. Go to

bed—dark streets aren’t exactly the

place for you.”



(Continued next week).





 





 





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HERE is at least one manly char-



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young men with great anxiety which is

never coveted by any women of how-

ever masculine type; that is the

grthh of hair hpon ,the face. I know

of no facial disfigurement that creates

in a man so much complacency or in

a woman so great consternation.



What can a woman with a tendency

to superfluous hair do about it? Must

she just give up and let it grow?



It depends very much upon the

amount and character of the hair. If

there are only a few strong, aggressive

hairs, the electric needle will make

short work of them. The needle must

go to the follicle of each hair, so it is

a tedious job if there are very many,

and I do not advise that it be attempt-

ed unless the hairs are so few that





_ they can be readily counted.





Where there is a large surface, cov-

ered with vigorous hair, I do not ad-

vise the use of the needle, neither do

I think it is worth while to try to re-

‘move such a growth of hair with drugs.





.' I have often wondered what objection





there can be against shaving in such

a case. It is true that shaving will

make the hair firmer and stronger, but,





' even so, it is seldom indeed that hair





growing on a Woman’s face is as ag-





, gressive as the softest type of heard





in a man, and the man with a mild





' beard can easily keep his face clean





by applying the safety razor daily. I

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with a clean face that gave some evi-

dence of acquaintance with a razor

blade than one with a straggling





' growth of nondescript hair.





Drugs knewn as depilatories are fat-

Some very good





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electric Ineedle. But there are many

cases in which the hair is not very vig-

orous nor does it cover any great sur-

In such cases a good depilatory,

applied by a careful doctor, gives very

satisfactory service.





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. I am recommended by a friend to

soak the nipples that I use on the

baby’s bottles in a boric acid solution.

She says that it makes them safer for

use in hot weather. Is it a safe thing

for the baby, or is there possibility of

poisoning?—Y0ung Mother.



A solution of five per cent is strong

enough for such purpose and is per-

fectly safe. A rough method of esti-

mating this is to mix one level tea-

spoonful of boric acid in one pint of

warm water. When you take the nip-

ples from the solution for use it is best

to rinse them in clear water because

babies sometimes object to the anti-

septic taste, but it is quite harmless.





LUNG TROUBLE.





 





Would like to ask if one’s lung

would sink from any cause except tu-

berculosis? Can it be cured, and if so

how? Can one lung be affected and

the other sound? I have a pain under

my right shoulder blade and it hurts

worse when I throw my shoulders back

and when I hold my head down with-

out bending my shoulders down. It

seems to draw. I have a baby nine-

teen months old. Can T. B. be in-

herited?-—Questioner.



An abscess of the lung of non-tu-

berculosis origin would explain the de-

formed appearance as well as tubercu-

losis, but it is more likely the latter.

Tuberculosis is not inherited but quite

contagious. Your baby should be care-

fully protected froin contagion. Tu-

berculosis is curable by the use of rest

in bed in the 'open air; good nourish-

ing food and freedom from worry and





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New Process Requires Only

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By Ann Proctor





 





The greatest cooking authorities in

this country—Good Housekeeping In-

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are hailing with delight the New Certo

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now make jam or jelly of excellent

quality, With any kind of fruit in a few

minutes. Only one minute’s boiling is

required, and the result is one-half

more product from the same amount of.

fruit. '



Certo (Surejell) is ' a pure' fruit

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With it, jam and jelly making is a fas-

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HE memory of the oldest inhab



itant will have to be stretched



a great deal to match the pres-

ent fruit season. Here in early July

strawberries and cherries are gone,

and berries' of all kinds are obtainable.

Watermelons are on ice, and the July

fruits are coming along with a rush

which promises to engulf all but the

swiftest moving housekeepers.



'Instead of proceeding on a. leisurely

way, doling out canning recipes once

a week, it‘ looks as if. the Household

Editor had better lump them all in

one article, lest corn canning season

arrive and go by before the raspberry

recipes are in type.



The process of cold-pack canning has

been given somany times that it does

not seem necessary to repeat it here.

Remember to blanch greens with

steam; do not dip in boiling water.

This may be done by suspending the

cheesecloth like a hammock over the

water in the canner.



. If asparagus, beans, peas, and corn

are allowed to stand too long before

canning, a sour taste often develops.

They should be camned as soon as

picked. Never let more than two or





. three hours elapse before canning.





Corn turns dark for three reasons:

Using corn .too old; canning with wa-

ter that contains iron; blanching too

long.



Corn becomes waterlogged for four

reasons: Allowing it to stand too long

in the cold water after blanching; let-

ting the cans stand om the table after

they are packed. Always plunge im-

mediately into the canner; heating

corn in warm water overa slow fire;

opening cans to serve and allowing the

ears to stand in the cold water. Re-

move cans as soon as opened.





your meat dish during theSe

warm summer days be white

and gold? The housewife whb has giv-

en little or no thought to the compo-

sition of eggs has much to learn of

their nutritive food value. Care must

be taken in their cooking, however, if

this food value is retained. ' In the

words of the poet,

“0, egg, within thine oval shell,

What palate tickling joys to dwell.”

One of the simple things to remem-

ber in the cooking is that the albumen

in the egg coagulates at a high tem-

perature. In order to have that soft

creamy consistency so much desired,

the egg should mot be subjected to ex-

tremes in heat or length of time in

cooking. , _

Hot or warm water makes a much





WHY not let the color scheme for





I more tender omelet than milk and there





is little excuse for failure of these

toothsome dainties if one'is reasonably

careful. A‘ good omelet pan is neces-

sary. This steel spider must be smooth

and at the right temperature to insure

success. ‘ . ’

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. Canning Helpers





By A. L.'L.





Beets lose their cOIOr because tops

and tall are cut too closely. Leave on

at least an inch of the top and all of

the tail while blanching» Then'scrape

instead of peeling.





Peas turn cloudy for three reasons:

Cracking the skin of the pea; blanch-

ing too long; using very hard water or

mineral water.





, Be sure to make ‘currant.jelly. Do

not pick. currants after a rain. Look

over carefully and remove bits of leaf,

wash and drain, but do not stem. Put

in a porcelain, or acid-proof, kettle and

cover with water. Cook until currants

turn white, then drip through a jelly

bag, boil juice ten minutes, add sugar

which has been heated in the oven,

allowing cup for cup of sugar amd juice,

and boil for three mniutes. Then test

by taking a little juice in the spoon

and pouring off the side. When two

thick drops form on the side of the

spoon" it is done. ~ .



Raspberry, blackberry and strawber-

ry jelly may be made by adding equal

measures of apple juice, or by using

a commercial pectin.



In making jams allow three-quarters

of a pound of sugar to every pound of

fruit. Crush the fruit and put it on

stove to heat slowly while the sugar

heats in the oven. When berries are

heated through add one-third of sugar

and boil ten minutes. Then add one-

half remaining sugar and boil for ten

minutes. Now add all the sugar and

cook until thick enough to spread.

Store in glasses like jelly.



A glass of jam added to a pintof

Whipped cream makes a delicious,

mousse.

and salt and let stand three. hours to

freeze.





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ful ‘of butter in a steel spider and heat

slowly. Break four eggs into the bowl

and only beat enough to thoroughly

mix the whites and yolks, add four

tablespoomsful of warm water, a little

nutmeg and salt. Draw-l. spider to the

hottest part of stove and when butter

is hot, not browning, add the eggs. Let:

cook a moment, and then with the spat-

ula, .loosen the-omelet at the edge, al-

lowing the uncooked part to run under

and continue until the omelet is “Set.”

Now sprinkle with finely chopped pars-

ley and with the spatula tunn o'ver

one-third of the omelet, then fold once

as you turn out. Serve at once. This

omelet may be varied by adding ’chop-

ped ham, peas, tomatoes, bacon or

cheese, just before folding.’ '

Creamed Eggz—Chop five, or six

hard-boiled eggs, not too fine. Make a

white sauce of a cup of milk,~'a table"

spoon of butter, a tablespoon'of-nour

and salt and pepper. When this, is

cooked, put in the eggs and stir gently

fora few minutes. ' ,Serve' hotjona .

dish with suitable pieces of toast.

Egg‘Gems:——Use one

cow meats; one teas "





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bread crumbs. Add the butter, salt

and pepper and enough milk "to bind it

together nicely. Have ready gem‘ pans





well greased and fill with the mixture. .





Break an egg on the top of each, sea-

son with salt and pepper and Sprinkle

with cracker crumbs. Bake eight

minutes. -



., Egg -S_alad:——Boil the number of

eggs required 'for twenty minutes.

When cold shell and remove whites

carefully from the yolks. - 'Ghop the

whites and leave the .wolks whole.

Serve on lettuce leaves with a boiled

dressing and small balls of cottage

cheese. . .



Escalloped Eggsz—Moisten bread

crumbs with milk or meat broth—Place

a layer of this in a well-buttered bak-

ing dish, slice some hard-boiled eggs

upon it with bits of butter here and

there. Then place a layer of minced

ham, veal or chicken, then bread

crumbs. Bake until well heated and

crumbs are browned.





 





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HE bedspread illustrated may be

easily copied without stamping. It

is of homey-comb cloth, the heavy ma-

terial commonly used for bedspreads.

The patches are four inches square, of

dark blue Peter Pan cloth, placed four





 





inches apart, and are- sewed on with





the over-and-over stitch. The flowers

are all French knots, worked in two

shades of blue, a dark blue matching

the patches and a very pale blue. The

vine is a. simple running stitch. Any

color may be used, yellow, rose, pink,

but the floss 3'should always match the

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HE book of Daniel is one of the

most intereSting books of the

Old Testament. In fact, if many

people had their choice of all the books

prior to New Testament times, they

would choose Daniel. It breathes cour-

age, its pictures appeal to the imagina-

tion, its stories grip the heart, its be-

lief in a world kingdom to come, stir

all readers. Modern study has made

Daniel more meaningful even than it

used to be.’ We lnow know pretty defi-

nitely that it was written about one

hundred sixty years before Christ, and

it was written for a very specific pur-

pose, namely, to encourage the-people

to hold fast to their faith, no matter

what the consequences might be. The

situation was something as follows:





Palestine was under Greek domin-





‘ ion, and Antiochus Epihpanes was the





king. He reigned

from 175 to 164

B. C. Antiochus

was determined

to .introduce

Greek ideas and

the Greek religion

everywhere in his

dominions, includ-

ing Palestine. To

this end a corrupt

and money—loving

high priest was

placed in office.

This high ’priest, Menelaus, paid for

the office witha huge sum of money.

He raised the money by plundering

the temple treasury. In 169 B. C'. An-

tiochus resolved to make the subjuga-

tion of the Jews complete, and he took

Jerusalem by a sudden attack and

placed soldiers within the very pre-

cinctS‘of the temple. Next he forbad

the observance of the Sabbath and the

practice of circumcision. All books of

the law that were found were destroy-

ed. As the climax of profanation, he

set upa heathen altar in the temple,

and sacrificed swine on it. (See Mat-

thew 24:15, the “abomination of deso-

lation, spoken of by Daniel the

prophet).”





 





Y this act the Jews were stung to

, , fury. The holy religion that had

been theirs since Moses 'had led their

fathers out of Egypt, and which was

part of the very blood that coursed in

their veins, was made a mockery, and

the crown of indignities was heaped





- upon it. Rebellion was inevitable. The





leadership for this rebellion came, as

it so often does, from a very unexpect-

ed source. -An old priest, Mattathias,

living in a village, killed a man who

attempted to profame the altar at

which he ministered. It was the call

to war.



People flocked to his standard.

Dwelling in caves, and carrying on a

guerilla warfare, the Jews under Mat-

tathias, began to achieve military suc-

cess. Mattathias soon died, but he left

five of the most heroic sons who ever

lived, known as the Maccabees, from.

the name of'Judas, whose other name

was Maccabeus. Some .of the-victories

of Judas Maccabeus against over-

whelmingly large forces, seem almost

incredible.





It was as the rebellion of Mattathias

and his sons began, that the book of

Daniel was written. Its purpose is

plain, namely, to’ encourage the Jews

to faithfulness under all circumstances.

As one writer puts it, the book “sprang

from the deepest necessities and the

noblest impulses of the age” The

method is simple. The story opens





-. ';.,with a Hebrew youth who lived three

hundred years before;





and who had

been taken to Babylon, as a slave.

erehe is honored by being selected

‘ ‘ rsonal attendants of





 





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Our IVeeI/y Sermon—By IV. A. Mchme





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religious belief, and will not eat of

the forbidden food that was set before

him. In the face .of death he is true to

his God. Lions’ dens, fiery furnaces,

have no terrors for him. He never

gives up, and in the end he is im-

mensely honored and becomes second

ruler in the kingdom. Among other

things,/he prophesies that certain king-





doms will fall, and that there is an‘





“everlasting kingdom, and his domin-

ion is froin generation to generation."

One can readily imagine what an effect

such writing would have on people

who were suffering the' hell-fires of

persecution. It was stay, then. It

would sustain and comfort them. It

would nerve them to endure anything.

The fact that the author was unknown

would add to the mystery and power

of the book.





HE book is written with the avow-

ed purpose of being mysterious,





except to those who understalnd the"





times. It can only be understood now

by a fair knowledge of the circum-.

stances under which it was written.

But we may be certain that the veiled

references were very plain to the peo—

ple living then. The king, who is the

monster who has caused the persecu-

tion, is not named. That would be dan-

gerous. But the allusions to him would

be understood by the people of the

day. And as to that, the book of Dan-

iel is mighty good reading. Its mes-

sage is needed now. There are many

people who face difficult, sometimes

heart-breaking situations, and these

need courage. They need to be told





and told again that there is a just God ‘





in the world, greater than all Nebu-

chadnezzars, whose kingdom will (nev-

er end. They need reminding that it

pays to do right, and it never pays to

compromise with wrong. They need,

too, to have it told them once more

that prayer will fortify the soul to the

point of resisting all attacks of temp-

tatidn. .





HIS brings us to Nebuchadnezzar’s



dream. The kingdoms that are seen

in the dreamIare five: The gold is the

Gabylonian; the silver is that of the

Medes, who came next; the brass rep-

resents the Persians, and the iron is

that of the Greek. But the author of

Daniel also mentions another kingdom,

which is yet to_ come, the kingdom of

the Messiah, that will never come to

an end.. This kingdom interests him

more than the others. Thus in the pag-

es of the Old Testament there’is a.

hint, more than a hint, of the kingdom

of which Christ taught.



Is this kingdom present or future?

Christ's vision of it is, of course, clear-

er than that found in the prophets,

and' He teaches that it is both present

and future. “Repent, for the kingdom

of heaven is at hand" (right now). One

finds churches where the members

have a much greater nearness to real

kingdom conditions than in other

churches. The same holds for homes.

some homes have an atmosphere

about them that makes you want to

stay there. Others make you want to

—get out. Of course, there will never





be an ideal society until kingdom con-





ditiolns prevail. And that is what the

church member should work toward.

It is not a question alone of getting to

heaven. Salvation is a dynamic force,

not a through ticket to paradise.





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

July 9.





a

SUBJECTz—Daniel Interpreting Neb-

uchadnezzar’s Dream.

LESSONt—Daniel II.

GOLDEN- 'TEXT:—The kingdom of

the world is become .the Kingdom

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UR county club leader, Miss Ann



Banks, wanted me to join the



County Pig Club, which I decided

to do. I know what it means to get

good breeding stock, Which [ did,

knowing of a good Duroc—Jersey breed-

er in Ohio, Mr. Eli Miller & Son. I

wrote him and bought the best male

and gilt that he had out of his spring

litter of fifty head.





The sire of the male pig weighed

1,005 pounds'at that time, being the

largest hog that had ever been record—

ed in the Duroc-Association. His name

was Gialnt Top Lad, known by all breed-

ers. My pig’s name is Wolverine

Giant and he is some pig. He won first

at the CheboyganCounty Fair in the

open classes and in the pig club in the

breeding class. So he got two blue rib-

bons. I think a lot of my Wolverine

Giant and I think that he will make a

wonderful large hog as he is getting

larger and higher. I want to show him

at the fair next year. Boys come and

see him and get interested. I like to

see good ones.





I think that more boys should join

the pig club. Just a little good feed, a

good brush and warm water, and then

stand back and watch your bank ac-

count grow. My brother, Ray, and I

are'in the hog business now. ' I think

that there is room for quite a number





By Wayne Church, Hudson, Michigan.

Age Sixteen.



Where we live we expect to work

and farm life means pretty much of

outdoor work, while city life means

mostly inside work. Out of doors there

is always plenty of good fresh air, of-

ten scented with sweet blooming flow-

ers, while inside the air cannot be per-

fectly fresh and is often scented with

stale tobacco and coal smoke.



on the farm the wonders we see are

made by God. Im the cities nearly ev-

erything is made by man. Although

man has made wonderful and beautiful

things they do not compare with the

works of nature.



The farmer never knows his exact

income. There is always little mys-

teries being worked out. One year one

crop will do extremely well and anoth-

er will nearly fail. The same way with

the stock increase. There is always

wonder and. expectancy that keeps one

hoping. The city man can figure ev-

erything in plain dollars and cents, but

loses much in anticipation.





The farm is the ideal place for chil-

dren. Here they can run and play

over acres of green fields without be-

ing in danger of losing their lives by

the traffic. They can gather beautiful

flowers by the wayside without fear

of rebuke. Running brooks are free

for their pleasures. They learn many

lessons from nature and learn to fear

God instead of the cop.



' Give me the farm life for all around

natural existence.





 





By Gertrude McKibbin, Cloverdale,

. Michigan. Age Sixteen.

I'have always lived on a farm and

will tell you why I like it. .

The air is, pure and healthful and





‘void of disease germs. 'A great variety

' of amusements cam be found on a farm.





I like the woodland swing, horseback

riding, and even riding cattle—which





 





 





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fident and Walter-H. Smith.“





more Cheboygan county boys and girls

in this business. g



Now, I am quite well pleased that)

Miss Banks got me interested in the

club work. Miss Bamks, with the help

of Mr. Jewell and Mr. Baltzer, from

M. A‘. C., trained the stock club mem-





bers in judging. I steed fourth in the , V





contest, scoring 300 points out of 400.

Don Williams, of the State Farm Bu-

reau, was the judge, amd Mr. Mussel-

man, from the club department, con-

ducted the contest with the assistance

of Miss Banks. We met several times

for judging and heard Professor Reed,





' Mr. Waldron and Mr. Baltzer talk on





“Better Sires at the Train. ”

I will say no more about Wolverine

Giant at this time.

Expense.

Value of pig at beginning of





Work I...I......UCI-IIOO......s25000

Value of feed... . 4.35





Value skim—milk and waste feed 1.32





 





Value of labor at 100 per hour. . 1. 70

Total expense... . . . . . . . . . .$32.57

Receipts.





Pig for breeding purposes, its

weight in lbs. 284, and value" $100. 00

Summar





Weight at beginning,l lbs. . . . . . . . 52





Weight at end of contest, lbs. ... . 284

Total gain in weight, lbs. . . . . . . .232

Number of days fed ..... . . . . . . . 120

Average daily gain,- lbs ..... . . . . 1%

Cost per pound of gain, cents. 4%

Final net p10fit...........$67.43





Why I Like the Farm





animals. It is a pleasure to gather

eggs and hunt nests, feed the stock,

milk, and drive cattle to and from the

pasture and water.





I like to pick berries and work in

soil, drive a team and dress as a boy

and roam at will all Over the farm.





I find real fun in picnics in the woods

and a plunge in the lake on a hot,

dry day. .



The birds makemusic to wake me

in the morning and 'the hill back of the

house furnishes excellent coasting in

winter. The lake over the hill furnish-

es skating.





The farm gives you a broader mind

and good judgment. It makes you

think clean thoughts and you are not

always spending money on movies.



I enjoy telling visitors about the

farm and explaining about the use of

each thing.





I find many things to like about a

farm, but very few to dislike.





 





 





DUROCS FOR PIG CLUB MEMBERS.

THE first shipment of Duroc-Jersiey ;



pigs, shipped by the recently form-

ed Benzie County Duroc-Jersey Asso-

ciation, moved recently from Beulah .

to Midland county. All of the stock .

shipped was raised by boys or mem-





bers of the Honor Pig Club, and went

to Midland county boys who are in a; ,





.club being formed by County Agent ~





McMurtry, of Midland.





The Honor Pig Club was formed by

County Agent J. L. Kraker, of Benzie.

county, and has been in existence for

two years, and at the start of the third

year, felt that they wanted. to take in ,

some of the older men of the county—l:

who have become interested in 113111111311.a

Therefore on May 29 the Bernie.

County Duroc—Jersey Association was

formed, with Ellsworth Joy
7 . HIS letter box 'willbe where the boys andgirls can express their

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





advice. The most interesting letters each ‘week will appear here.

Address your letters to me.—-Unc1e- Frank.





 





 





 





.Dear Uncle Frank:



I received your letter and the check

for one dollar yesterday. I can not

tell you how pleased I was to getboth.

You can see_my motto is, “If at first

you don’t succeed, try, try again.”



I live in town but I read my uncle’s

Michigan Farmer.



I have one brother, he is twelve

years old and enters high school next



'year. He took two grades last year. I

passed my grade, and have had good

marks all the year. I like music and

take lessons. I like your contests very



‘much, but the Read-and-Win Contest

'makes you think and teaches one to

be a careful reader. ‘



Thanks again for, the prize money.

-—Your friend, Amna I. Salmon, Pitts-

, ford, Michigan.



That 'motto worked with you all

right, didn’t it? It usually does if you

try to do a little better each time you





try.





Dear Uncle Frank:





We have taken the Michigan Farm-

er for some time and I have always

been interested in the Boys’ and Girls’

Department, but have failed to see any

letters from Ohio. That is why I have

never written before, but I hope I

may be permitted to join your pleas-

ant circle. ‘



I am sixteen years old' and will be a

senior this term. We live on a large

farm in a beautiful farming district.

Raising chickens and flowers is my

hobby. We have about 300 little chicks.



I am very fond of athletics and have

played on the first basket ball team

for three years and have also played

_at the county tounnament three years.



Wishing all the boys and girls of

this department the best success.—

Your Ohio Niece, Cleo Moore, Hoyt-

ville, Ohio. '



You certainly are welcome, Cleo. I

think it would be fine if you and some

of the Michigan young folks corre—





sponded. Also, please write me again.





Dear Uncle Frank:



We have taken the Michigan Farmer

for a long time. We live an a farm of

160 acres. I like to live on' the farm.



My mother lived here when the In-

dians were here. When. Indian Chief

Ogemaw was alive he visited her par—

ents’ home quite oftem. Our county

was named for him., There was an

Indian graveyard about a mile and a

half from her home—Vera Andrus,

. West Branch, Michigan.



Can’t you write us more about what

, your mother has told you about the

Indians? I know we would all be in-





terested. .





. Dear Utncle Frank:





I am sending the words I found. I

hope I win, for I’ve tried several times

but am just not, going to give up,

that’s all. ‘



My school is ou now so that I’ll be

a junior next yea , as I.passed im all

my subjects in the finals. Next year

I plan to take English XI, plain geom-





etry, American history and chemistry. '





Is chemistry hard? Lots say so, but

I think it will be interesting.



This year I took biology. It was the,

most interesting thing I ever studied.

I love to study about plants and ani-

mals, catch butterflies and. other in—

sects, and leann about one’s body and

how to care for it. Today I caught a

very pretty butterfly which I will add

to my collection. Wouldn’t you like

to see it?



I could tell you lots about my school

and farm life, but must close—Sin-

cerely, Dorothy Wellfore, Sunfield,

Michigam.



I truly like your attitude regarding

the contests. To some, chemistry

comes hard; to others it is easy. It

depends much upon one’s inclination.

Write again, Dorothy.





Dear Uncle Frank:





I am twelve years old and in the

seventh grade. I had some rabbits for

,» pets but some dogs got in one night

-; and killed them. We have two kittens



and three old cats. The, mother cat

stand on her hind feet and catch

milk as you milkwin a stream from





" If you. don’t, 4





milk she will match for it‘ with her

paws—Earl ‘ Johnson.

Your cat must be interesting, but





you were unfortunate with rabbits.





Dear Uncle Frank:



I enjoy the contests as much as

ever, also the letters and essays which

appear each week.



Strawberry and gardening time

brings more opportunities for every-

one to be with Mother Nature. -



We have ten varietigs of reses and





 





Our Poetry Contest





OR this week I am going to

use another suggestion from

one of my Pals. This is to be

a Poetry Contest. Any original

poem by a boy or girl under

eighteen years of age can be en-

tered in this contest. Prefer-

ence will be shown poems not

over twenty-five lilnes in length.

Please address all» letters to

Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, Michigan.

This contest closes July 13.





 





 





 





it is my privilege to care for them. I

have many bouquets, so I can remem-

ber a lot of friends, as well as giving

my teacher a bunch to put on the desk

in our room at school. Wish that you

lived near enough so I could send

some to you—Best wishes, your pal,

Helen Moerdyk.



I am glad you find opportunities to

enjoy Mother Nature when picking

strawberries. About all many people

find when doing this, is ‘the backache.





Dear Uncle Frank:



We have been taking the Michigan

Farmer for several months and We are

much interested in the paper, especial:

ly the contest department. I have six

brothers and the youngest is two years

old. I am fifteen and my brother John

is seventeen. The paper comes to my

brother, Bernard, who is ten, and he

used his spending money to subscribe.



There was an article about raising

geese in a recent number, and we read

it all because we ha’ve a pair of Tou-





louse geese and six little goslings. The "





gander is pretty mad if we come too

close to his little family, and he takes

a good nip at us if we are not careful.



I am going to high school this fall,

because I want to be a teacher.—Yours

truly, Arthur O’Neill, Paris, Michigan.



Your brother, Bernard, seems to be

a wise spender as all of you can en-

joy his purchase for a whole year.

Write agaim, Arthur. I would also be

glad to hear from your brothers.





THE RIDDLE WINNERS.





Here are the names of those who

gave the correct answers to the rid-

dles, gave their answers most concise-

ly, and had their papers the neatest.



Clara Lyons, Elsie, Mich.



Mary 13., Dodge, Romoe, Mich., age

twelve years.



Abbie Brouwer, Kalamazoo, Mich.



Walter Ninke, Kibbie, Mich., age

eleven years.



Boyd Zacharias, Marne, Mich.





ANSWERS TO RIDDLE CONTEST.





The following are the correct replies

to the riddle contest which appeared

in our issue of June 24:



1. The Sandwich Isles.



2. He always has a pupil under the

lash.



3. Lady’s Slipper.



4. Because the others are all week

(weak) days.



5. The Beach.



6. Blast of a horn. or echo.



7. They are stationery (stationary).



8. Because it is most useful when

most widely extended.



9. Heartsease.



.10. Only one,.because then the stom-



ach would not be empty.’





- 1000 $110 00





 





‘ Day Old Chicks

Special for June and July '

$10.00 and $12.00 Per 100.





Our English Type White Leghorns and Brown

Leghorns are the greatest Iaying- strain of

today.



Eleven years of breeding has made this stock

good. With long deep bodies and large

combs. They have the egg producing qual-

ities in them.



31;,“ Will Tell Eleven years of hatching and shippir‘i’g chicks

assures you good first 0 ass chicks. e guar-

antee safe arrival and satisfaction, or your money back.





17,000 Chicks Every Week Till August 15th.





Prices for June and Julyl1922. '

S. C. English type W ite Leghorns, ‘are -good and profitable layers, and our

extra selected are of the very best layers. ~

It has never been our aim to put out cheap chicks, but to give our customers

chicks that will be good layers and bring our customers a good profit.

We have been in the poultry business eleven years and are offering you chicks

of the best layers at a very reasonable price.



‘ Per 25 Per 50 Per 100 Per 500 Per 1000

S.C.Eng.Type W.Leghorns,extra selected $3.00 $6.00 $12.00 $57.50 $115.00

S. C. English Type White Leghorns 2.50 5.00 10.00 50.00 100.00

S. C. Brown Leghorns, extra selected 3.00 6.00 12.00 57.50 115.00

S. C. BroWn Leghorns, standard 2.50 5.00 10.00 50.00 10000

We ship chicks by parcels post and pay the postage up to your door, and guar-

antee safe arrival. Our terms are cash with order, but we will book your order

if you send one-fourth of the amount with the order, and the balance just





before chicks are to be shipped.





Prompt Shipment





Order from this adv. to save time and we will write you at once when to look

for the chicks and also will mail you our instructive catalogue, or write for

catalogue before ordering.





The Wolverine Hatchery, 1





H. P. Wiersma, Proprietor, Zeeland, Mich.





Ancona Baby .Dhicks





The S. c. Anconas have proved to be the most valuable fowl

for the farmer today. We have the Bred-To-Lay Sheppard Strain,

‘ . -and are offering these chicks at extremely



.- '- low prices,let us have your order and prove to



you the wonderful laying ability of our birds.





For those who prefer S. C. White Leg-

horns we have some of the very best stock

obtainable. Get some of our chicks and you

will be on the road to success. We pay all

Parcel Post charges and guarantee chicks to

reach you in first-class condition.



Prices of Selected Chicks from June 20 to August I.

per 50 per 100 per 500

$5.75 $1 1.00 $52.50 $100.00



5. 0. While Leg. 55.25 s l 0.00 $47.50 3 95.00





Order direct from adv. Prompt shipment. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Write for prices on yearling hens.





II. II. Wyngarden, ll. 4, Zeeland, Michigan





[PULLETS





If you want fine Pullets for fall and winter eggs. we

can furnish ‘

Leghorns, Anconas, Rocks, Reds, Buff

. rpingtons

Eight. weeks and three months old; also other breeds.

' Yearling Hens and Cockerels



Wl'lte us for description and price list. “'9 will

send you stock from our Pure Breed Practical Poul-

try—stock that will make money for you on your farm.





STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

201 Chase Building, Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 





er 1000

S. c. Anconas p





 





POULTRY





ABY CHIX





The Old Reliable Breeds

S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS





English and American Strains

Barred Rocks Anconas

S. C. Brown Leghorns





HERE we are. just a few hours from your

door, with baby chix from the best breeds.

Our growth from one small incubator to

22,000 egg capacity has been steady and de-

notes honest dealing. Get our prices on chicks

from our healthy. free range, heavy laying

stock. Send today for handsome catalog In

co ors.





CITY LIMITS HATGHERY &. POULTRY YARD,

RouleS, Box ll Holland Michigan





HICKS





From Michigan's Old Reliable

Hatchery. American and Eng-

Ilsh White -Leghorns. Anconas.

Barred Plymouth Rocks and R. I.

Reds. Strong sturdy chicks from

Grand bred to lay, Hoganized, free

range breeders. Sent by Insured

Parcel Post. prepaid. 100% live de-

livery at your door. Guarantee

satisfaction, or your money back.

15.000 each week, 14th season. Get

my low Juice and valuable illus.

trated 1922 free catalog on place your May and June

orders where you not best quality at lowest prices.





W. Van Appledom, R. 7‘, Holland, Mich.





BABY CHICKS





300”“. White Leghorns 100. $10.00; 500, 847.50:

Park's Strhin Barred Rocks 100. $12.00: 500. $57 50;





 





 





 





200,000





Baby Chicks





FOR 1922



Shepard’s Anconas, English Type White Leghorn:

and Brown Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Why pay

two prices when you can buy direct? Our chick.

are from strong. vigorous flocks of fine duality and

excellent layers. Chicks are shipped prepaid with

100% live arrival guaranteed. Order now, cata-

logue free. ‘-



KNOLL HATCHERY,

R. 12, Holland, Mich.





DAYOLD CHICKS





White Leghorns $12 per 100: $0.50 for 50; and

33.70 for 25, Barred and White Rocks,White ann- ‘

dottcs and Rhode Island Reds $17 for 100; $79.00

for 50: and $4.75 for 25. Order from this ad. terms

cash with order. Custom hatching 5c per egg,

hatchery capacity 9000. Hatchery 4 miles east of

Mt. Morris on lit.l\lorris road one mile north and

one east. Valley Phone No. 14.5. ROSS WADE.

Prop. Meadow Brook Hatchery, Mt. Morris, Mich.





Large Type Cockerels and Pallets. I

Now Three Months Old





WHITE LEGHORNS AND MOTTLED ANGONAS

Also Black Leghorns, Brown Leghorns. Bufl L'

horns, Black Minorcas, R. 0. Rhode Island BO 3.

Barred Plymouth Rocks. White Plymouth Roe

Sllve; Wyngdotteis. rants; Wyagdottes. WE HAT

eggs rom ogan as or a on me ran 01186 1'

farms. ' Where our chicks are raised. so I):

Send for Price List.





' CRESCENT EGG COMPANY I





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





:moalllealithli. chicks. ode}; anaemi- 7": ms. M

* Ve fl “8" “Hum . roe "150‘ l

PINE on 900mm Iii urn"- snow-33d. Mich‘ Al
nowucomapmcas





, OfSuperior _ , p _

‘Baby Chicks and 8 Wk. Pullets-





TOM BARRON .« ENGLISH WHITE LEGHORNS

BROWN LEGHORNS ANCONAS





Thousands ofsatisfied customers are making money with

Superior Baby Chicks and stock. .





Read This One.

M r . R . L .

Holmes of Eas-

ton Missouri

saysz—The 300

Tom Barron

chicks arrived

here on March

29 in fine con.

dition. There

were 12 extras

and all were

alive. I would

like 500 or 800

more.





 





Read This.





Earl Danton of

Manton, Mich.

says :— Receiv-

ed my order of

chicks all 0. K.

and they sure-

ly are a fine

bunch. There

were 1020 and

they are start-

ing fine. I want

to congratulate

you on the





This Hen Imported Direct From Tom Barron By,Us.

Trapnested and Pedigreed 272 Eggs One Year.





Brown Leghorns ......................................

Anconas ....................................................... ..





Broiler or mixed chicks. Odds &

Remember these are not just ordinary stock

8 weeks old pullets at bargain prices.

complete satisfaction and live arrival.





 





Amer. white Leghorns............. ............... .....





 





Tom Barron Ex. Sel. Eng. White Leghorns

Tom Barron Spec. Pen Star Mating Cihicks..." .

n s ......... . ........ ... ........ .





Baby Chick Prices for June, July and August delivery. . I





ORDER DIRECT' FROM THIS AD.

AT THESE BARGAIN PRICES





stock on put



out. ill want



2500 next year.



per 50 per 100 per or 1000



$5.00 310.00 850.00 100.00

. . .. . 5.00 10.00 50.00 100.00,

............. 6.00 12.00 57.50 110.00

..... 6.00 12.00 57.50 110.00



8.00 16.00 75.00



4.50 8.50 40.00 80.00



but purebred. The best that money can buy.





Send for free Bargain list. we guarantee you





Superior Poultry Farms & Hatchery, Box .2053, Zeeland, Mich.





 





 





 





POULTRY

Guaranteed





LOOk Baby Chicks





White Leghoms andk Angtcilnas exclusively

the lar est chic r ucing cen er in

from g the woiild. Remember this

is not just ordinary stock.

Our females are all selected

birds and are bred for egg

production. Our flocks are

culled by M. A. C. experts,

andlare headed by Vigorous

igreed males.' We are

getting testimonies every

day from our customers such as “118;, “The

best lot I ever got from any hatchery. One

order will convince you_ Write for catalog

at once.

Barron English White Leghoms. extra se-

lected $10.00 per 100. English White Leg-

horns. Standard stock $9.00 per 100. An-

conas,extra selected $10.00 per 100.: Anconas

Standard Stock $9.00 per 100.

SILVER WARD HATCHERY

, Box 252, Zeeland, Mich.





'PULLETS





S. C. W. LEGHORNS

OUR SPECIALTY





2000 April Hatched Pullets {or July delivery.

- We sell our own stock only. Bred and raised

on our own farm from our strain of Ameri-

can English Leghoms carefully bred for Egg





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





Production. None Better any where at

our rice.



8.Weeks Old Pallets .................................... 31,00.

Choice Breeding Cockerels .............. . 1.50

Yearling Hens ................................ . .............. 1.00





SIMON HARKEMA & SONS,

HOLLAND, MICHIGAN





CHICK$\





Three Leading Breeds. Tom Barron English While

leghorns. Parks Barreg Bocslés. ls. c. "600' oils.





- 000

' White Le her a 82.50 8500 $10.00 347.50 895.00

B.RocksfS.Ol.'R.I.Reds 3.00 6.00 12.00 53.50 115.00

Broiler Chicks ‘ 7.00 30.00

elected Pens $1.00 extra per hundred.

We can fill orders for Leghorns the same week re-

ceived. Stron healthy chicks from tested heavy

producing stOc correct in lumage and color as well

. as being eacellleitit layers. 02 or 061115 liveI deiigery

arantee ~ n eres ng ca so no ree. mp0 or.

“u 30 BRUMMERS POULT YFARM

”Box .





 





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Holland, Mich





some ”Lil 0K!





POSTAGE PAID, 951 live

arrival guar anteed.

' MONTH'S FEED FREE

with each order. A hatch

every week all year. 40

Breeds chicks. 4 breeds duck-

ilngs, selectand exhibition





 





 





 





Stet, our ‘Jlow

* » . uneprices, une

, chicks for De-

cember layers.





 





 





 





July, Au... and Sept. Chix





Order now. Barred on White Plymouth Rocks. 8. I.

Reds. Black Minorcas. White Leghorns or Anconas

814.00 per 100 prepaid, 160 each in 25 or 50 lots. 100 i

live delivery guaranteed. Orin 12 year dproducing chix

that please. Order direct from this a .



Green Lameoultry Farm. B. 3. Fenton. Mich.





Ohix. Order now. 8. O. Whl

July “d AuguSt Leghorns 25 or 1000 at 10c each?

R. I. Reds, Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes, 814 per

100 865 per 500, 8120 fiat 1 . Prepaid guaranteed

delivery. GOR T BROS , Oomnna, Mich.





horou hbred Chicks. Le horns lie. 13 a Roe

TReds 3c. Broilers lOc. $ost aid. Arrai‘vlfi guarakiiz





teed. Cat. free. Hayes Bros. atchery. Decatur, Ill.





WHl'l'l'AKER’S R. l. RED CHICKS





CUT PRICES FOR JULY



Grade "A” Both Combs $20 'per 100. Grade “B"

Rose Comb, Hatches of July 5th and 12th. 515 per 100.

July 19th, 814 per 100 July 26th. last hatch. 313 per

100. Single Comb one cent per chick less than Rose

Qombn Add one cent per chick on all orders for on]

2:). Michigan's Greatest Color and Egg Strain. Al

breed stock blood tested for white diarrhoea by

Dr. H. . Stafseth of M. A. 0. Order from this adv.

to secure prompt delivery. or write for flee catalog

and cullinficharl. .

lNTERLA ES FARM, . Box 39. Lawrence. Mich





To install new blood in

USGfUI Anconas your next years matings.

to improve theirlaying qualities, to increase their

beaut , your cockerels early, a grand lot of young-

sters rom prize winning Ho an tested layers at bar-

gain prices, sent on approve . Utility breeding hens

at reduced prices to ma e room for pullets. Order

now before it is too late. My 18 page booklet“Useful

facts about Useful Anconas" furnishes real informa-

tion and tells you all about them



Hillsdale, Mich.





College View Farm, R. :11.

O 0

Buy Chicks Where Quality Counts.

All my flocks culled. You get chicks from nothin

but best layers. Safe arrival guaranteed by re a d

HERfiAgl J.





parcel post. Ask about 8-week ll t .

COOK. 133 w. Main Bt., Zeelaiid, f isch.





BABY CHICKS 3.9.2.?” “iilm 1'33"





. 3‘

horns.White Rocks. Bur Or in , h a k

aed Roctkes.dR. I. lied; Blacka ngi-Icas.u8. Winkfizs

uaran 6 pure to an ve arrival. Post ’ aid

DURAND HATOHERY. Fellini:co icli.





Barron White Leghorn 3:33;. 319

3:15 153:5; Egg: Parrod iligiokfl pallets 10 weeks

. . e or s cc ' ' .

ROBT. UHRISTOPH L. 31.!)4, eggdll‘aliidfgllifili.





NOW IS YOUR CHANCE





Put in your order for J une chicks at 9% cents. And

April hatched pullets. Bred from Heavy English

Strain _ amour own free range poultry farm. 1001:

live delivery guaranteed.



Village View Poultry Farm, 11.3. Zeeland. Mich.





RHODE ISLAND 'WHITES





win over all breeds at the e glayln co t t.

- - :15 order from‘this a . 3036 331i?! ‘8'.

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





S. C. BlaCk 233%?“ Hatchin E’s: Our choice





ettin $1. , r 50 $3.00; 100

Eggs 86.00. 0. J. DEEDEEICK. oVassar. Mich.





Single Comb Buff I eghorn





Early hatched ckls. Willard Webster. Bath, Mich.

Spanish. MinOrcas.Rocks





Top Quality CthlIS Reds myandottes. 03:21;





tons. 'TYRONE POULTRY FAR Fenton.





”WHITE ll A: $900. $000

average. as m in s, or, . ,. ‘

”rif‘infrrs'aihat “sir“h‘sssiul‘m...





 





 





 





 





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53°63 fig’l‘lflfi.“mge;¥?igfmm Gambler. 0.





 

 





Bourbon "Cd Turk , IWe have'thein.‘ Order your.

_ g , .. - 'wgsiigifnd Burma. _. .





 

 





 





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POULTRY RARAGRAPH’S.





 





Capons are [fine food for the home

table but a set of instruments is not a

sure road to poultry : profits. Ca'pons

take a lot of feed to make their growth.

The cost of this feedmu‘st be deduct-

ed from the selling price. Capons are

not appreciated on many small-town

markets. The producer must find the

right kind of a, market where a premi-

-um is paid for capons. Capone are

well worth‘ t trouble for home use.

But when you make it a. business prop—

osition on a. fairly large scale you must

study that business and keep careful

records or it may not be profitable.

Crosses sometimes produce very

good market fowls in the first genera-





. tion but their progeny is seldom of





any- unusual value. The best results

in breeding poultry have come when

one breed has been carefully bred for

one purpose. Crosses of two good

breeds will be apt to spoil aim; of,-

good breeding work that has been dome

separately with each breed. ‘

The breeding cockerel business is

not all profit. You must consider the

meat value of the bird plus the cost

Of shipping and correspondence. Occa-

sionally a customer will not be satis-

fied but expects a cockerel from a. two





Square Garden, for about two or three

dollars. The only salvation of the

pure-bred poultry business is the fact

that most people are honest and this

keeps poultrymem from becoming too

discouraged.



There is a great difference in the

quality of birds that can be obtained





price. Sometimes the price a. breeder

asks depends more on his nerve than

the breeding of his stock. Often the

owner of very fine birds does not have

the confidence to ask the amount they

are worth. It pays a breeder to keep

buying until good ones are Obtained

and then raise nearly all of his own

stock. It is the mam who sells poultry

that gets good money.





 





GOOD FEEDING NECESSARY.





 





00R feeding is pretty certain to



put a lot of good hens into the cull

list. A mash is necessary to keep up

egg production in hot weather. Grain

alone will not do it. This mash should

carry some protein feed, such as milk.

Here is a suggested mash for summer

feeding: An abundance of milk, say a.

gallon per day for thirty hens, fed in

a trough, and then fifty pounds of bran

and fifty pounds of middlings mixed

together and fed dry.

available, then thirty pounds of high-

,grade tankage should be added to the

bran and middlings.

The important thing to watch during'

the summer is to get the hens to prop-

erly balance their ration. They should

eat as much of the mash as they do of

the grain. This cannot be done by the

self-feeder method. The hens like the

grain better, and" will fill up On it and

neglect the mash.

Here is a plan of feeding that gives





 

 





 





hundred egg hen fit to win at Madison





from different breeders at the same





. meal.





If milk is not.





 





‘ At this ‘Demonstration. Prof. _ E. c. fireman-confined.

._ OWN cull?” t.‘ ACQMWM””-:Wi





geod results: Feed ailight grain. is- ',

than in \the‘ morning, then put extra

mesh in troughs in (the shade where

the hensstay during the "day. Have‘;





water close to the mash-“ Feedino'

grain at noon. This will encourage a'





larger consumption of the mash- and

thereby promote heaVier productmn.





 





CAPONIZE LATE COOKER/ELS.





 





. HE late-hatched cocker'els will not





- . bring high enough prices to make

them very profitable, but as capOns

they'will make a. very desirable size

for‘the season when capons are in de-

mand from New Year on until broilers

come'again. » You can get a good price





for your late cockerels thus and at the "





same time have a. much greater" total

product. While I thinkit pays to sell

the very early cockerels as broilers

when the price is high, it is a lot of

trouble to rear them while small only

to have two pounds each to sell. With





. the late cockerels they may be kept

- until, for the same care as the little





chicks, we get from eight to twelve

pounds to sell. '

The new implements for caponlaing

are much better than the old sets and-

the work can. be done easier and with





more certainty. Directions come with '





the sets and the operationbis not diffi-

cult nor very cruel, ‘





 





MASH FOR CHICKS.





 





What should I use in mixing a dry

mash to feed growing chicks? They

are eight weeks old now. What else

should I feed in order to give them a

balanced ration? Please give the ap-





proximate cost of the mash. Can buy .





a good commercial mash here for $4.50

per hundred pounds. Would you adviSe

using this? The chicks have plenty of-

range.—H. A. H. ‘





‘ A good dry mash for chicks from six

weeks of age until laying time can be

made of three pounds each of wheat

bran, cornmeal, wheat middlings and

meat scrap, and one pound Of bone

The scratch grain mixture can

consist of equal parts wheat and

cracked corn. . i ‘



It is difficult to figure the approxi-

mate cost of the‘mash for publication

as prices change rapidly and there is

a variation in the prices charged for

the materials at different points. The

best grade of beef scrap costs the

most but is usually considered- the best

investment. ‘ '



Unless you have a. large flock it will

pay you to buy the mixed mashes, es-

pecially if you have to buy all the Sep-

arate ingredients. If you have hom'e-_

grown grain that changes the situa-

tion. You can figure the cost of the

items in the mash at your eleyator and

can easily determine which is the best

by comparing that price per one hun-

dred pounds with the” cost of the mix-

ed dry mash.





This season we havenever had to .'





pay as high as $4.50 per one hundred

pounds for commercial growing mash.

We can Obtain mashes for $3.50 and

less which have proven very satisfac-

tory.





 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





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. rancisco'Farm Notes

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. ‘ F‘ Thou Seekest a Beautiful Penin-

' sula, Look Around." How often,

when we can pause in our work

long enough to look up and away over

the Michigan landscape, do we repeat

either audibl’y or to ourselves the mot-

to of the great state' of Michigan.

'There is text enough for dozens of art-

icles, lectures, sermons, or whatever

One may choose to make of them, in

those few words. Ever since we first

entered the state twenty years ago,

we have been especially appreciative

of the beauties of the Michigan land-

scape. There have been times, of

course, when the everyday hum-drum

problems of existenCe have weighed

heavily, and have kept our attention

centered closely on the ground at our





'feet, almost‘to the exclusion of all





thoughts of the beauties and glories of

One' who 'can live

through a Michigan summer, however,

and mot find time to just look up from





. his work occasionally and drink in the





wonders of the big world about him,

is missing a lot of the best there is in

life. Michigan is at her best just at

this time. She is glorious, of course,

all the year round, even her snow

drifts and her ice storms are wonder-

ful, but for six months in the summer

she is simply incomparable. Of all

these months, June is the best.





It has been our privilege just at this

time to take the family and view her

farms and woods and pastures from

the car as we bowled over many, many

miles of her smooth roads. How did

we ever find the time this busy sea-

son? We just took it. It may cost us

something, but it is worth something.

We are combining business with duty

this trip, and incidentally getting a

heap of pleasure out of it. As I write

these lines we are with the home folks

two hundred miles from the farm. We

will soon be back, however, rested and

refreshed in body and mind and ready

for a fresh grasp on the affairs of the

farm. In addition to the beneficial efJ‘

fects of a little vacation on each mem-

ber of the family, we will have gained

a broader knowledge and a keener ap-

preciation of this great state of ours

thanvever we have had before.



Along the route we noted many in-

teresting things. Very few fields of

wheat are to be seen. The best beets

on the whole route were on the corner

of West Shepherd, where M—14'tunns'

north. Some fields of beets have been

torn up, and the ground planted to

beans. I think I have never seen such

a large acreage of beans, especially in

the central counties, as there is this

year. Some stands are suffering from'

the ravages "of the bean maggot. The

warm wet weather has recently been

favorable to the development of this

pest where the ground has been plow-

ed late and a sod or manure turned un-

der. The insect breeds in decaying

organic matter, and the best remedy

seems to be plenty of cultivation to

break up their breeding places. Corn





, seems to be rather later than usual and





while we saw many good fields of corn

we also saw many poor ones. There

are many poor stands and much re-

planting has been done, especially in

the southern part of the state and in

northern Ohio. In only a comparative-

ly few instances have we seen corn

larger than that on Francisco Farm,

and in many fields even these: two

hundred miles south the corn is much.

smaller. This is unusual. - -.



The. wheat back home wwill, ripe





earlier "this year on account of the red

,3 -' rust; which (is quite generally prev--

.1 giant... but will be perhaps a week later.





'thanhere.‘ There appears to be a more'





filters! acreage of all the small grains





hall.





 

 





, that [a fourth vitamine, a vital food

which prevents rickets in children had





new“ Association. that vitamines. are





as»... our route the new of:

alfalfa was going into the barns. Half .~

.way dewn the making of the clover





Was in full swing. ' Here the timothy

alone remains.



‘ The farms and scenesin Michigan

are all interesting, look which ‘way we

may, and although we may not at all

times be privileged to “look around"

from a fast-moving automobile, if it is

the beautiful in nature that we

looking for we will find it by just liv-

ing up to the mottorof our great state

and looking around from Where we

are.





THE MISSING LINK IN FEEDING.





 





(Continued from page 23).

cipal answers to the chemists’s de-

mands for vitamines to perfect the ra-

tion. Something to prevent. the loss

of flesh and the lack of growth, all our

farmers have for many years looked

for. It may be that it is only now the

answer to this desire is reaching the

feeders of live stock, who seek to ful-

fill this new demand for vitamines.



Vitamines and Spring Food.



Heretofore, science has been con-

sidering these food elements as applied

to human feeds. [It is about time we

found out just what vitamines mean to

the animal world, though we know

enough about them already to assure

us that no ration is perfect without

them properly balamced.



All animals, man as well as the low-

er animals, need a definite quantity of

vitamines to maintain health. Young

animals require much greater propor-

tions of vitamines than do mature an-

imals. On this basis, let us consider

the question from the farmer’s stand-

point. He has to maintain inahealthy

condition all his stock, both young

and old, and in all probability vita-

mines play an unexpected large part

in this.



All the young animals draw their

vitamines—and their requirement is

heavy—from their mothers in the first

instance. The food supply of the suck-

ling mother has thus to be rich in

vitamines as well as in other nutri-

ment. The milk supply of the mother

is also affected by the vitamines sup-

plied. In some cases where the vita-

mine supply. is low, the milk supply

will decrease so as to 'maintain its

vitamine content. In such cases the

young animal will starve, and perhaps

die, or will, if it survives, be stunted,

while the health of the mother suffers.



In other instances the milk supply

will remain unchanged, but the vita-

mine- content drops. Here the young

amimal suffers from lack of vitamine,

in which case its growth is seriously

affected, and a rickety animal will at

best survive the ordeal. Usually the

young animal dies, however.



An animal suckling young should

have its food adjusted so that a good

supply of vitamine, to meet its own

and the needs of its young, may‘be

insured. The old custom, of giving a

breeding cow as much green fodder as

possible, is one we now know to be

wonderfully correct. It is interesting

to see how, with the progress of

science, many old customs based pri-

marily an observation and experience

and handed down by tradition, have

been found to be correct.





 





CANNING DOES NOT DESTROY

VITAMINES. .





CLOSELY following the announce-



ment of Dr. E. V. McCollum, of

Johns Hopkins University, at the H01-

stein-Friesian ’ breeders’ convention,





been found, comes , the statement by

H. M. Loomis, of the National Can-





not destroyed by the canning process.

In fact. canning protects the vitammes





 





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Brookwood Guemseys

Birmingham, Mich.





During the past year we have completed Ad-

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which were heifers with their first calves



The average butter fat production of these cows

Was 650 pounds. and three of them were leaders

of their respective classes for the State of Mich.



.We have for sale a number of good bull calves

from these cows and their daughters. sired MRI

Rosetta’ s Marshall of Waddington. No 0.



Grand Champion Bull at the Michigan State Fair

last year.



Our herd is not large. but it is select. Visitors

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sonable. considering the quality of the sto





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Calves. Contammg blood



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Breeders of Guernsey Cattle.

61E. and]. B Evans 4 bulls read for heavy ser-

vice for sale. Ship anywhere, al T. B. Tested.



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Registered Holsteins





It was through the daughters of

Flint Maplecreet Boy that





Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke

Our Junior Herd Sir:



produced the Junior Champion and Reserve Grand

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His get won first 1n Calf Herd. also “first in get of

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A sin of either of these great bulls will help the 1n-

dividuality and production of your herd.

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

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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





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accepts din payment of finely bred r e

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They are from high producing A. R. 0 .... 4 ,,_

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TraVerse City, Mich.





$ 1 00 EACH





Bull calves ready for service. Grandsons

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Holsteins for sale at all time both sexes

BGSISIemd best of breeding and priced rifiht. Our

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Hengerveld Herd under state and federal supervis-

ion HENRY YB. ROBLES, R. 1. Akron.





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375' 00 Buys serzl cits: tillers six near

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[Cattle Business Established 1835] -

Saint Clair, Michigan Phone 250





Herefords





Repeaters, Beau Donalds. Fairfaxes. and Farmers

represented in our herd. Repeater ”am, a son of

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





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For arm at Paw Paw Mich.)

Office 616‘ So. w.» 51.. ICaIamahoo, Mich.

for sale. A few extra good





HEREFORD fall calves for as e.





RALPH CALHO ON. Bronson, Mich





Brookwater Farm

JERSEYS and Duroc JERSEYS





Bred sows and gilts. boar pigs. Jersey bulls from

tested dams.e Tuberculosis free herd



Com to the farm or write for prices.

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11. W. MumIOrd. Owner. J. .Andrews, Lessor.





 

 





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0 l breedin Herd tuberculin tested.

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mo. old. Col on. 0. Lillie, Coopersville. Mich





Milking Shorthorns“ Bu" $33303?

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Central Mich. Shorthorn Breeder‘s’ Assn.





al both milk and beef breedi all ages

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VITAMINES IN MEAT.





 





CIENTISTS now tell us that vita-

mines ‘also exist in 'the muscle fiber

of beef, veal, mutton. lamb and pork.

The latter meat is said to bc, particu-

larly well supplied with these vita.-

mines.

Various cuts of the different kinds

of meats were fed to rats and pigeons.





In every instance pork was found to.





be relatively rich in vitamins content.

It was fed in the form of pork tender-

loin, fresh ham, smoked ham and press

ed boiled ham. The results were much

the same in each instance. In lamb,

the amounts varied greatly, while beef

and veal showed a relatively lower

content.



In considering this evidence the

reader should (not be led to the con-

clusion that certain meats are low in

nutritive value because they may be

deficient in vitamines. Even though

none was found in‘ meats they would

still have the distinction of ranking

among our most important foods.





WHY PIGS DIE.





NE of the chief reasons given for



the heavy loss of spring pigs dur-

ing March and April is the ,ration

which the sows had been supplied dur-

ing the winter. Corn was cheap and

protein feeds Were comparatively high.

The result was that farmers naturally

fed little muscle and bone-building ma—

terial in the rations. Fat sows usually

farrow weak and improperly nourished

pigs.





DIPPING THE LAMBS.





HE presence of ticks on lambs and

sheep often cause much annoy-



ance and occasionally result in stunted

grpwth, and even a loss in bodily

weight. These ticks can be easily dis-r

covered by parting the wool. ‘



The insect is killed by dipping. One

dipping will kill all the living ticks.

but the eggs then on the sheep will

hatch when a. second dipping is neces-

sary. This should be given about ten

days after the first one is made.



There are a. number of standard dips

on the market, any of which are good.

Directions are always given on the

package and these should be followed

closely. Where many sheep are being

dipped a tank should be provided. This

will save much time. In case only a

few are treated, a barrel or tub can

be employed. The water should be

heated slightly and the mixture thor-

oughly stirred into the water before

using. The bottom of the tank or bar-

rel should be kept well agitated. Hold

the sheep in the mixture for one or

two minutes before removing. The

work should be done on a. warm day,

preferably right after the sheep have

been shorn.





KEEP THE LAM BS' GROWIN'G.

_1_. '





T is an excellent practice to have



growing some palatable forage near

the regular sheep pasture for the

lambs to feed upon while they are

still suckling the.ewes. If the forage

crop is sown in an adjoining lot, a.

small opening can be made through





the fence so that the lambs have ac-

,cess to the supplemental feed.. They

will soon learn the trick at running to ’

the forage feed and in this way will ,

stimulate flesh and bone growth. Rape .

is \an excellent forage for this purpose. :





New clover is splendid. I like the rape





because it can be sown at any time ,





 





islets in balancing up the green forage.

A grain ration composed of equal parts.

by measure of coarsely cracked com.

oats and wheat bran make an excel-

lent feed. The lambs may be supplied

with a light, ration twice daily before





weaning. Place it in a low trough-





either in a, small pen adjoining the pa’s—

ture or at the ham—L. C. Reynolds. ,





 





THE HEAVY vs. THE LIGHT Ho's."





 





HILE_ there are but \three months

- of the year, November, Decem-





ber and January when the heavy30ll-





pound'amd heavier hog enjoys anypres-

tige over his lighter rival of 180 to

225—pound rival in regard to price. Dur-

ing those months they sell around ten

to twenty cents per hundred above the

lighter’variety; The. remaining nine

months the heavy hog suffers a. serious

jolt, dropping from five to sixty-five

cents below. It would appear that he

was losing favor, too, as feeders are

learning that it requires more corn to

produce the third hundred than either

of the first two.





I considered the method followed by

my father an ideal one. Our hogs were

farrowed in April. They run at large

in the orchard, where they grew ramgy

upon the roughage that they were able

to salvage for themselves. Weaning

them in season they reached the fat-

tening age at corn husking time.



It was my father's practice to husk

corn by hand.

cribs we always sorted the corn by

hand, throwing the large sound ears in

the crib, laying out the very choice

ears for seed then driving over to the

hoghouse we scooped the soft and nub-





by com overhead to be fed to the hogs. '





While this method consumes a little

extra time, it fills the cribs with sound,

uniform ears, free from silk or' husks

to be ground into feed during the win-

ter mo.nths





Before the low grade corn had been

consumed and when the husky porkers

had reached a. weight of approximately

200 pounds, they were loaded into the

wagons, taken to the depOt and ship-

ped. Of all farming operations. that

resembled the finding of buried treas-

ure more than anything else. '





We feed the remainder of the soft

corn to the sows and when that is gone

draw upon the crib corn for the re-

mainder of the winter and spring—u.

Everitt.





WATCH THE STAi/E leo.





S the hot dry days of summer ap-



proach, the farmer who has a

wood stave silo should give it special

attention. The staves will dry out

considerably when the silo is empty.

This allows the hoops to become loose,

and thereby weakens the structure.

The hoops Should be tightened in the

absence of other supperts to the

staves. The tightening of these hosps

keeps the staves firm and rigid. Such

attention may prevent the silo from

being blown down or twisted cut of

shape. »





 





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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column in given free to our subscrib-

ers. letters should note 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 11 requested the

mice becomes privm practice and 31 must be enclosed.





 





 





 





Indigestion.—-My cow is inclined to

bloat; after each attack she gives less

milk. I feed her grain and grass. 0.

W. L. Lansing, Mich. -—Give her a ta-

blespoonful of powdered gontian and

two tablespoonfuls of powdered wood

charcoal in feed twice a day. Stable

her when the grass is wet.





Cow Leaks Milk.——I have a fine large

cow that leaks milk badly. She gives

very rich milk, so I do not like to lose

her. She leaked milk when nearly

dry. What shall i do? L. J. LaB.,

Wolverine, Mich—Milk her three

times daily, or use teat plugs, or dry

end of teats and apply flexible collod-

ion each time after milking.





Acute lndigestion—Bloat.'—I am anx-

io'us to know what ails my cow. She

frequently bloats, bloat continues from

one hour to several hours, but after

she purges bloat goes down. She is

in same pasture all the time. A. C.,

Hardwood, Mich—Stable her part of

the time, feed some dry feed amd she

will eat less grass and perhaps not

bloat. She eats too much grass.



Infected Stifle Joint—Colt six weeks

old has stifle joint trouble. Local vet

erinary prescribed limiment, and he

thought joint was inflamed. Also what

had I better feed young turkeysl D.

H. R., Linwood, Mich.——Apply one part

tincture of iodine and two parts cam-

phorated oil to stifle three times week.

Doubtless you have a case of bacte-

rial navel infection and colt will be

slow in getting well. Feed some com,





‘ wheat, oats, and milk and let them run

-on grass. ~-~





Congestion of the Liven—My hens

don’t seem to be sick very long, but

some of them die very suddenly. The

combs retain their reddish appearance.

I opened one, her liver was very large,

soft, and the color of blood. M. McC.,

Charlotte, Mich.———Doubtless the Cause





’of death is due to an active congestion





of the liver, followed by acute inflam-

mation of, the liver and death. The

ailment is usually incurable, but less

feed and more exercise will perhaps

prevent other birds taking it.

Warbles—Blind Teat.—Is there any

cure for little round bunches on the

If so, I would like to

I have a

fresh last





know the best treatment.

five-year—old that came





'March, while calf sucked her she went





dry- in one teat. J. K., Whittaker,

Mich—Restrain the animal, place a

pint or pop bottle upside down over

bunch, apply pressure, downward, then

the grub will pop into bottle, kill the

grub for, if not, it will grow and de-

velop into the warble~fly and produce

more of its kind. The teat will re-

main blocked.





Pencarditis.—Recently we killed a

rooster which seemed to be in perfect

health, was quite fat. When I had

about finished cutting it up I discov-

ered a sack around the heart, filled

with yellow fluid and some substance

much like the yolk of an egg. What

ailed the rooster? M. H., Olivet, Mich.

—-Your rooster suffered from an in-

flammation‘ of the pericardium, or

heart sack; there is often an effusion

about the heart, called aropsy of the

heart. Treatment is unsatisfactory;

numerous cases may occur in the same

flock, but it is almost impossible to

make a correct diagnosis during life.





Collar Gallo—Horse Collars—Kindly

inform me how to treat and cure col-

lar galls and sore shoulders. When

horse loses flesh from hard work and

the neck decreases in size. is it wise

to use pads to make the collar fit prop-

erly? G. L. S., Birch Run, Mich—First

apply hydrogen peroxide to remove the

pus. Dissolve quarter pound of ace-

tate of lead, three ounces of sulphate

of zinc, half-ounce of alum, in one gal-

lon of cold water and apply to sore

shoulders three times a day. I have

always preferred a nice fitting leather-

faced collar and if possible get along

without sweat pads, but remember, the

collar should fit, must not be too large

or too small, and if pads are used, few-

er different sized collars will he need-

ed. I have thought it paid to have two

pads for each collar, they can be kept

dry and /clean.





 





The bigger they are, the harder

they fall. Get weeds when they’re





 





I ~ CATTLE





. ° Shorthorn Breeders' Assn. Scotch

C" on UN! Scotch To and 14111111.; Shorthorns

forsale all ages. W. J. Hink ey. 800' y. Flushing. Mich.





 





 





for sale. White and Roan bulls

Shorthomsb Ififiorted sires or from Im

ed darn. UM Union City. ich.





BID i“ ELL BUYA BULL

that will put weight on your (1 on im -the d11-

orence will soon guy for the bull. ow selling good

Scotch and Scotc toppedyearl immasonably. rieed.

We guarantee every animal to be a breeder lederal

Test. One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N. Y.C RUB





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,

Box D, ' Tecumseh, Michigan





 





 





Fairacres Stock Farm





Otne light man. the year old. Sher-thorn boil for sale

at reasonable price Fine animal. Write George

“C Miller. 1639 First National Bank Bi‘dg.. Chicago.





FOR SALE





Polled Shorthom Cows 81 Heifers





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

Herdl headed by Victor Sultan and Royal Non.

pare1

We can please you in richly bred cattle with

quality at farmers‘ prices.



E0. E. BURDICK. Mgr.

Branch County Farm. Goldwater. Mich.





HIGHLAND SHORTHORNS





Welare offering two splendid white yearling bulls

by Imp. Newton Champion and a. few extra good

heifers and young cows at very attractive prices.

For full particulars write to





C. H. PRESCOTT & SON,





Herd at Prescott. Mich.

Office at Tawas City. Mich.





Claradale Milking Shorthorns





We invite the discriminating breeder and farmer,who

is in need of 11 real bull. that will transmit the (cm-

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

character. beauty. We do state official milk testing.

Come and see us or write for circulars and reasonable

prices. F.W.Johnson. Custer, Mich.. Mason Co. Box 26





 





 





 





 





' ' Shorthorns of best Bates breeding,

Mllklng b11118. cows and heifers for sale

E H. KU R'.I‘Z Mason, Mi(h





 





’ a good Bhorthorn. priced

Don t you want 1.. 1...... m. .1... mm

ROBERT MARTIN, R. 3, “'oodland. Mich.





row. A few choice ready for

Ship ed on approval. Satisfaotl

112.1". Drodt R. 1. Monroe. Mlc‘hn





service boars.

guaranteed.





offers choice elite of Ori

OIkWOOd Farm Cherry King and Walt’e Top





 





Sept. furrow .. ich.





DUROC-JERSEYS l’:..’§:.:.“t§:.‘°°i





E. D HEYDENBERK, Wailand.M1cI§.





Romeo.





 





we are with a nice bunch of DurooP the

"“3 big boned kindM $10. 00 ouch with pedigreeiis

EA .LA lid SUN, CnsSOpolis. Mich.





DUROG JERSEYS- - fil’:§£.’°‘h§‘ii





Matthysse. Outlerville, P. 0. Byron Center. Mich.





315 Tvr_1 c11_13__31111 w1_1___11'rs





The prize winner kind from the best prize winner

bloodlines. Early de1'eln1Ie1's,1eady for market at

six months old. I have started more breeders on the

road to success th. 1n any man “Hug I want to Elace

one hog in each community to advertise my erd.

W rite for agency and my I) an





 





 





 





G S BENJAMIN 11.10.Porcland.M1ch.

O I C and Chester Vi'hite' s. Strictly big type

11itl1 qualit1.I lune nothing to offer





at present. as I hmo sold my largest herd an en-

tire herd I was fitting for the large shows.

Morrish, of Flint. Mich I am confident Mr Morrish,

now has one of the very best herds in the State

ALBERT Nl!‘ WMAN R. 4, Mariette. Mich





' F rom Bi T pe Wonder.“ 9



0. l 0. December GIIls m... "gay... 1mm. 1..



Oct. by Silver Horde, extra good young boar direct

from Silver a. Booking orders for sprmg pigs. .



CHAS. H. S’l‘l"l§l.. ll. 8. Eaton Rapids. M1oh.





Chester White March boars. Sired



Big Type by \lodel' 3 Giant and Hill' 5 Big

Buster. Out of graUqulzkughtors of Alfalfa Wonder.



LU NHILL, Tekonshu. Mich.





CHESTER WHITES S . . .. rim



with a Boar



Pig from MONSTER 1110.107335. They are hard to



beat. FRED L. BODIM ER. Reese. Mich.



We are! sold out of Boars. Brod sows



CheSters and gil ts. For immediate shipment



of spring pigs. write WEBER ROS. Royal Oak.

Mich. 10 mi. and Ridge lids. ., Phone 408.





f ll in: d to breed Orders booked for

0' l' C a g 8 ran rite or call and see our herd.





sprin pigs

We slfiip C. gigs and Register free.





M. OWELTON dc SON. Middleville, Mich.





furrow '111 Aug. and





o I C Gilts to

' Be t. and March boar pigs

CLOVERLEAF STOC FARM. Monroe Mich.





O I C Bred gilts all sold

' ° ' booked for spring pig

A. J. BARKER & SON. Belmont. Mic h.





Orders





0 I C Bred 3011 's all sold. Booking orders

' ‘ 1‘ rs nun 1igs.

oH?W.1\/iANN. Dnnsville. Mich.





pigs at new reasonable prices for

cJune 11nd July shipment





O. l. C.





 





Purebred Shorthorns. two cows, two

For saleh boilers and two lgulls. all good ones.

..A Batcheler. 3. Howell. Mich.





 





Registered Brown Swiss 2,633}; 9““1‘3, ‘3?





breeding. H. J. CUBE, Sunfield, Mich.





 





HOGS

BERKSHIRE sows 1163.59.55.22:





priced reasonable. B. B. Reavey. Akron, Mich.





 





 





 





Spring pigs by Welt’o

Orion, First Sr. Yearling

Detroit, Jackaon,Gd. Rapids and Saginaw 1919





Phillips Bros,Riga,Mich.





.J. THOMPSON Rockford,‘ ich.

9 last fall gilts due Aug and Sept.

0' I' Cc 5' Spring pigs not akin. Big 'lype.





1-2 mile west. of De 0t Citizen Phone .

OTTO §_ SCHULZE. Nashville. M1ch





L T P C Bouts ready for service also gilts,

' bred sows out of best odf blood lines.

They are right. so is the p1ice.Nufsed.

M. M. PATRICK. Grand Ledge, Mich.





L. T. P. C. Fall Boars





at bargain prites, Fall gilts open or with breeding





privilege AVVrito or see the

.ll‘L‘LDKAUP. 11.2. Manchester. Mich.





Blg Type Poland Chma 25%“: 223;”

Sired by Clansman Buster and Hovers Liberator.

Also gilts bred for Sept.i‘.1rrow at $40 each. All stock

shipped 011 apprr11al.()on1e and see them or write



DORIIS HOVFIL Akron. Mich.





 





 





F I" 19.1” we 111119. been breeding Big TWO

0 Pooland China hogs on the same farm.

have sold over 101 head club year for the. last 1:3 years

for breeding purposes. "1 here’ 14 a n. asonl The farmer

has found our kind ve1y profitable We now offer 25

sows and gilts bred for summer furrow $30— -$50.



JNO C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.





 





SoWs 8: Gilts





bred for July. Aug. and Sept. furrow 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 furrow all sold

Thos. Underhlll 81. Son, Salem, Mich.





 





Collinsdale Duroc Farm, Lyons,Mich., P.l.

Greatest Blond [Ines In Duroc Hogs





Herd Boers by Great Orion Sensation, Pathfinder,





' Duration and Great Wonder I Am. Now have





for sale three yearling boars by Wolverine Sensa-

tion. For sale at all times, sows, gilts or boars

registered. Sold under a positive guarantee and

worth the money. Write for prices.



L. A. BURHANS, OWNER





AM SELLING





11 great offering of bred Duroc sows and gilts M arch

4th They are mostly bred to Orion Giant Col... son

of Ohio Grand Cham ion. Get on mailing list for

catalog. .0. '1‘.AYLOR Milan, Mich





 





Woodlawn Farm Duroc Hogs



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

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

sonable pr ces. .BARTLEY, Alma. hiich.





 





. MichiganaE Farm Durocs





Boers, open and bred sows and spring pigs. Satis-

faction guaranteed.

MICHIGANA FARM. Pavilion. Mich.





uroc Jersey Hogs: we usunll

Pure-Bred £11 ve ood boars and sows of all

s for sale. Reasons p.rices Larro Research

arm. BoxA. North End. Detroit. Mich





DUROC JERSEYS: brgihx‘iiifi





sale. CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Mich





 





 





Duroc Jerseys §°"'1n‘;°§¢%‘s1'i3r‘i§i$ m”





CHAS. BRAY, Okemoe. Mich.





Westvie 1! Duroc Bred Sow:

all sold. Hunt two: has ra-leit eta reasonable

ril b May Piss.

Plymouth. Mich





 





 





PM. Will batiknordig‘m





L T P C Gilts bred for Spring litters all

P 0 ° ' sold. Arn ofiering very choice Sum-

mer Gilts bred for June and July litters also Fall Boar-s

and Spring Pigs. Cl1de Fisher. 1i 3. St. Louis, Mich,





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





Spring pigs with real breeding at the above

prices. We are also offering a few choice fall gilts

bred for summer furrow. Hart 61 Cline. Ad-

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





Large Type P. C.





Largest herd of indi1d11als in state. Ever thing sold.

Nothing to offer until spring pigs are ren y to ship.

I thank you. W.l< J. LIVIN GST ON. Perms. Mich.





 





 





 





- We have a fine bunch of

8‘3 Time POIands spring pigs representing the

best blood lines and all cholera immune. We raise

them to sell. If in need of 11 real hard boar prospect.





come over. Visitors are always weir-om 111.9

WESLEY HILE. Ionia. Mich.





 





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars double im-

mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa’ 5 greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson.Burr Onk.Mich.





P. C. nothin





 





A‘R’l Z Schooloraft. Mich.





1g Type P. C.Boar pigs that can ‘t be beat in Mich.

BSired by Big Bob Mastodon and PeterA Pan. 50

head to pick from. C. E. Gnrnant Eaton Rapids, Mich.





P 1 dCh 1 d1

BIG TYPE 1110133951 £1,355. who'd? 3235'





ages and bred sows and gilts

G. A. BAUMGARDNER R. 2. Mlddlevllle.Mioh





 





EONARD'S B. '1‘. P. C. Herd headed by Leonard's

Liberator Orders booked for boar pigs at weaning

time Call or write ER .LlCONARD. St. Louis. Mich.





C Swine. Sows and pigs, sows bred for Aug. and

P- Sept. farrow. spring and fall boars. best of breed

ing, satisfaction guaranteed. R. W. Mills, Saline. Mich





 





ook our order for spring boar pigs now

HamPShlJrgs A fvvewy i.lts now readyf or summer for-

row. .SgYND R. RJ. St Johns. Mich.





SHEEP





Shropshires





that will win at the State Fairs. I have





them for sale.

rams as usual and priced reasonably.





KORE-K031 FARMS,





 





 





' s. ‘1. Wing, ”09.,





Coldwatar, Mini).





Wu 1833;! sows and elite bred for Aug and





Col. breeding bred to Pathfinder Urio f A .

RUSH BROS n or rig/[and





Large StrainS ,, Amsem 11 .3133... fortune.





A big bunch of yearling '
GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Wheat.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red at $1.19;

No. 2 mixed and No..2 white $1.17.

Chicago—No. 2 hard $1.18; No. 2

mixed $1.12%; September 1.16%.

. Toledo.——Cash $1.201/é; July $1.181,§.

Corn.





Detroit—Cash No. 2, 671120; No. 3

yellow 66c.

at 64@641/éc;





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Chicago-No. 2 mixed

N0. 2 yellow 64%@64%c.

Oats.

Detroit-Cash No. 2 white 41%c;

No. 3, 39%0. .

Chicago—No. 2 white 381/2@4214c;

No. 3 white 36%@381,§c._





Beans.



Detroit—Immediate

shipment $9.



New York—Choice pea beans at

$10.50; common to fair do. $10@10.25;

red kidneys $9.25.



Chicago—Michigan choice, hand-

picked $10.50@11; red kidney accord-

ing to quality $8.



Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 3, 880.



Chicago—890.



Toledo—890.





and prompt





Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover,



$13; alsike $11.50; timothy $3.

Toledo—Prime- red cl



sike $11.75;





cash at

25.

over $13; al-

timothy $2.85.



Feeds.





Detroit—Bram at $25; standard mid-

dlings $26; fine middlings $30; crack-

ed corn $29.50@30; coarse corn meal

$27; chop $24 per ton in 100-lb. sacks.



Hay. .



Detroit—No. 1 light timothy $20@

21; standard and light mixed $19@

20; No. 2 timothy $18@19; No. 1 clo-

ver $15@16; rye straw at $14@14.50;

wheat and oat straw $13@13.50 per ton





in carlots. ‘

WHEAT





Tentative estimates of the reserves

of old crop wheat above the domestic

needs on July 1 in the United States,

Canada, Argentine and Australia, the

four countries which have furnished

most of the wheat for 'export in the





72333.7: ,...

w - ' .-





m.

..





northwest, but the demand is quiet and

prices are unchanged. The cottonseed

meal market is quoted lower in the

east. Quotations on corn feeds and

linseed meal are largely nominal as

but little is being sold.





HAY ‘





Only timothy hay is selling to good

advantage at present. Pastures have

become dry in a few sections but thus

far demand for alfalfa and clover hay

has been limited. Receipts -- of low

grades remain heavy. Unless the dry

area spreads the trend is likely to be

slightly downward until the movement

of new hay has been fully discounted.





BUTTER





The butter market reacted moder-

ately from the extreme levels reached

a week ago when the order for low

grades for export was being filled. Re-

ceipts are falling off in spite of the

attraction of relatively high 'prices





_confirming the general belief that the





peak of the flush period has been pass-

ed. The supply is enough heavier than

last year, however, to cut down stead-

ily the shortage in cold storage hold-

ilngs compared with a year ago. Prices

on 92-score fresh butter on July 1

were: Chicago 360; New York 38 0;

Boston 380; Philadelphia 38%0; e-

troit 34@34’7§c.

‘ CHEESE



Further advances were made in

cheese prices last week due to the

strength in country markets which

have been setting the pace for the last

month. Storage operators appear to

have given up hOpe of being able to

buy at lower levels and are purchasing

rather freely. Storage holdings at the

four leading cities are slightly less,

while receipts are running about equal

to the average for this season during





the three preceding years. The de-

mand for white cheese has improved

amd small premiums have been paid

recently on twins and daisies over col-

ored cheese;





. WOOL





Wool manufacturers appear to be

playing a waiting game in the hope

that the permanent tariff will be enact-

ed in the next few months. Sentiment

shows some revulsion against extreme-

ly high duties and this may show up

in the tariff schedule. There are abdut

86,000,000 pounds of foreign wool in

bond at eastern ports which will be

available as soon as the tariff is set-

tled. Wool prices have receded slight-

ly but growers are resisting the de-

cline so that only small sales to deal—

ers have been made at country points

in the last two weeks. There is a

keen demand for fine wools in foreign

markets but cross-breds are not mov-

ing so easily. About 35 per cent of

the stocks of Merilno wools in Aus—

tralia were disposed of in the first

quarter of the calendar year, whereas

only 10 per cent of the coarser grades

were sold in the same period. In spite

of the advance in prices, cloth mar-

kets are in good shape. Demand for

worsteds especially has increased.





POTATOES





Potato prices declined last week and

the trend still appears to be down-

ward. Receipts are slightly. above the

average for this time of the year and

a relatively heavy supply looks prob.

able right along.‘ Old potatoes now

compose only about 10 per cent of ar-

rivals. New stock is coming from

states as far north as Kansas. Bliss

Triumphs No. 1 are quoted at $2.50@

2.80 per 100 pounds sacked, with Irish

Cobblers at $3.90@4.75 per barrel in

middlewestern consuming markets.





 





 





Live Stock Market Service .





 





 





Wednesday, July 5.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Cattle.

Estimated receipts today are 13,000.





~ require a big crop to fill up the chan-





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





'mates last year.

'erage about 2,80





‘ in 1921.





last several years, indicate total hold-

ings of about 125,000,000 bushels, com-

pared with an average of 145,000,000

bushels. Besides these four countries





Receipts 571. Market opened slow,

closed more active and steady.

Best heavy strs, dry-fed. .$ 8.50 9.00





Ilndia also has a surplus of 55,000,000 Hindywelght 9“” dry'fed" 8‘00 . 9-00

bushels for export if her home needs Mixed strs, htrs., dry-fed 7'00@ 8'00

are no greater than the average. But Handy hght bu., dry~fed.. 650@ 7'00

her preceding crop was so far below Light butchers ........... 5.00@ 6.00

domestic requirements that invis’ible Best COWS '''''''''''' 5'00@ 6'00

supplies undoubtedly were depleted Butcher COWS ........... 3-50@ 4-00

and replenishment of these will cut Common COWS """""" 3‘25@ 3'50

down the qualntity for export. Thresh- Canners. ................ 2.50@ 3.00

ing is now fairly general in the south- Chorce hght bulls, dry-fed 5'00@ 5'75

ern part of the American belt and Bologna bulls 4.50@ 4.75

nearly all reports tell the same story Bologna bulls ........... 4.90@ 4.75

of disappointing returns_ On the Oth‘ Stock bulls ............. 3.u0@ 4.00

er halnd, spring Wheat iS improving. Feeders ................. 6.00@ 7-00

Stockers ................ 5.00@ 6.00



RYE Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@ 70





Besides a heavy carryover of old rye

the new crop appears to be about 20

per cent larger than that of last year.

The European acreage also is com-

paratively large. The harvest of the

new crop in the northwest will begin





Veal Calves.

Receipts 710. Market opened steady

but closing 500 lower.





Best .................... $ 9.00@10.00

Culls and common ...... 5.00@ 8.00





in another week or two. Owing to Hogs.



the greater abundance of rye as com- Receipts 1,213. Market 10c higher.

pared with wheat it is selling at a wid- Mixed. hogs and pigs. -'- -$ 1110

er discount than its value for bread Roughs ................. 8.50

justifies. Unsettled political condi~ Extreme heavies ........ " 9.50@10.25

tionsin Germany are interfering 'with Stags ................... 5.50@ 5.75





foreign outlets.





OATS





Although the oats crop is fairly good

in some sections, most reports are un-





_Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 334. Market steady on the

good grades; common very dull.

Best spring lambs ...... $13.00@13.50





favorable from Illinois, Iowa, Nebras— Fair spring lambs """ 10‘00@12'00

ka, MISSOUI‘I, Ohio and Indiana. Pri_ Light to common ........ 7.00@10.00

vate reports show a loss of about 100,- Fa" to 300d sheep ' ‘ ' 5'00@ 6‘00

000,000 bushels during June. Oats Culls_and common """ 1‘00@ 2‘00'

prices have responded to some extent Yearlings ............... 5.00@10.00

t0'the poor outlook but demand is not Heavy sheep """""" , 3'00@ 3'50

e ce t' n l.



,x p 1° a CHICAGO





CORN





The corn crop prospect appears to

be slightly less than the initial esti-

Private estimates av-

0,000,000 bushels, as

compared with 3,080,000,000 harvested

Exporters have been buying





Hogs.



Estimated receipts today are 25,000;'

holdover 13,256. Market steady to 50

higher on better grades; others. weak

to 10c lower. Bulk otv'sales $93561),

10.85; tops $10.90; heavy 250 lbs up

>$10.40@10.65; medium 200 to 250 lbs





 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

   

 





 

 





.$6.25@6.75





Market steady to strong. Beef steers

medium and heavyweight 1100 lbs up

$9.80@10.25; do med. good $8.35@9.80;

do common $7.25@8.35; light weight

1100 lbs down $9.10@9.85; do common

and medium $7@9.10; butcher cattle

heifers $5.50@8.75; cows at $4@7.75;_

' bulls bologna and beef at $4.40@6.75;

canlners and cutters cows, and [heifers

$2.75@4; do canner steers $3.50@5;

veal calves light and handyweight at

$7.50@9; feeder steers at $5.65@7.75;

stacker steers at $4.75@7.65; stocker

cows and heifers $3.25@5.75.

Sheep and Lambs. .



Estimated receipts today are 8,000.

Market mostly 250 higher. Lambs 84

lbs down $12.50@13.75; do culls and

common $7@12.25; spring lambs $9@

11.75; ewes $4.50@7.50; ewes cull and

common $1.50@4; breeding ewes full

mouths to yearlings $6@11.25; year-

ling wethers $11.50@12.50‘.





BUFFALO





Cattle.





Receipts 80 cars. Dry-fed 25c high-

er, others steady; choice to prime ship-

pilng steers 1400 lbs and up at $9.75@

10.50; good to choice shipping steers

$9@9.50; light native yearlings, good‘

quality $9@9.60; best handy steers at

$8.50@9; handy steers and heifers -$8

@850; western heifers $7.25@8; light

Michigan butchering heifers $7@7.50;

best fat c0ws $5.50@6.25; cutters at

$2.75@3.50; canners $1.50@2.50; 'best

heavy bu ls _$4.50@5; heavy bologna

bulls $4@ .50; common bulls $3.50@4;

best feeders $7@8; medium feeders at

; st'ockers good at $5.50@6;~

mon $4.50@5.50; best milk- .,

pringers, $65@75; ‘ mediums

Calves, receipts 2,000; tops





light com

ersand s

$35@50.

at $10. . _

~ . _.H°93-' , 2 .

' Receipts 70 Cars. Market is Strong.

medium and heavy $11.15@11.25’;. mixw





 





 





 





_ . ,, ~ . . .. point this; year- cannotwbe .to

, agggggedggggfsfggggggeffigy fifidofifi. $10.55,@10.85; light 150 to 200 lbs _at. $5311'25’ ”mm ”“1 915'“ «(51,149?- rams bu it newscast:

grains. $10.80@10.’85; light lights 130 to 150 ‘ ‘ , - - " ' ”10““. Dawn?“ W

h" FE s . lbs $10.25@10.75; heavy, packing sows . ‘ «Sheep and.Lambc. . , , hamlets“

. . ED . 250 lbs up new»; packing'eowszoo eR. ., » : aha, wan

...flerin88~0f ,wlleat;1eeds.'are. 92% men igtfiiesyw Piss ”madam- ,, .

, g. .917 11811» 329‘.” ‘mnlafl. ., 19.80 , ‘ ’





ends of strawberries $2@3.50 3. cases

Eggs 19‘@2‘Oc. Po

Leghorn _broilers _

Red broilers 30@32c; ducklings 25c,

but dealers would rather not buy ducks

until later in the month. -'





~ July frequently is the m

-est prices on stacker,

Whether _ it will ‘prcyg “to be .





 

   

 





 





: POULTRY AND EGGS,

, The egg “market has become fairly.

stable again after the-recent decline.





, Receipts at the leading cities have de-





creased 35 per cent or more from the

high point of the Season late in April

and early in May but there is still a.

surplus to be placed in storage, and

such accumulations generally continue

until August. Cool weather will help

.to maintain production during the sum-

mer but under the most favorable con-

ditions the supply is. sure to decrease

in the next sixty" days and prices on

fresh eggs__should take an upward

trend before'long. Whether they will

advance enough tomake the seasOn a

profitable one for cold storage operat-

ors is another matter. Receipts of

dressed poultry at the four leading

markets since January 1 amount to

90,669,188 pounds compared with 78,-

665,643 pounds to the same date last

year. Current arrivals are not suffi-

cient .to supply the entire demand,

however, and cold storage holdings are





being reduced.





. Chicago—Eggs, fresh firsts 21%@

22c; ordinary firsts 20@20%c. . Live

poultry, hens 21c; broilers 26@35c;

roosters 14%0; ducks 20@23c; ge’ese 12

@23c; turkeys 250.



Detroit—Eggs fresh candled and

graded 23@23%c. Live poultry, broil-

ers 420; heavy hens 240; light hens

22c; roosters 15c; geese 13c; ducks

20@22c; turkeys 30c. ‘





BEANS





0 Prices for beams are largel nomi-

nal and" changes in quotations sent out

do not indicate any wide change in the \

situation. The market is iln-sellers’

hands and the small holdings are held

confidently. The new crop is coming

good in‘Michigan, recent rains imsur- ,

ing a good start for the plant 'over a ‘i

verylarge portion, at least, of the reg-

ular bean district. However, it will





nels in the trade and take care of the I.

wider demand that is developing for

the Michigan product. Consumers are

learning that the highest quality of

navy bean is grown in this state. .





GRAND " RAPIDS





Many Grand Rapids folks were able

to eat Michigan sweet corn and new

potatoes on the Fourth of July this

year as a result of small lots of corn

and fair-sized loads of potatoes coming

on the Grand Rapids markets late last

week and early this week. New pota-

toes started at $2.25@2.75 a buShel,

but fell to $1.80@2 whencompetition

from southern-grown had a bearish ef- ’=

feet on prices. Corn sold at 50c per - 5

dozen ears. Vegetables in general i

were lower, old potatoes sagging from

$1.40 a bushel to $1; wax beans from - 1

$5 a bushel-to $2; pears from. $4.50 to

$3; celery from 50c a bunch to 35 anf ‘

400; hothouse tomatoes from $1.40 to ;'

900@$1 a seven-pound basket; carrots ' ‘

20@25c a bunch; beets 30c a bunch;

turnips 40c a bunch; cauliflower $1.50 1

@2 flat; asparagus $1.50 per dozen

bunch-es. Grains were steady with the '

movement of the new crop of wheat l .

and oats expected next week. Live ,

stock was mainly steady, with the.

movement. of grasser cattle tending to , ,_ r3-

weaken bidding locally. ’The markets . I

were fairly steady on fruits. SOur ‘ . “=7 I

cherries held at $1.50 a case and the - ,

sweets had a range of ¢2@3 a case. , ,

Red ragpberries moved none too brisk . _. ll

at $3.7 @4 a case of 16 quarts‘, but

blacks were‘steady at $2.50@2.75. Oth- _ .‘ ' ‘

er fruits were: Huckleberries $3.50; 7 ‘ ' .

gooseberries $1.75; curraznts $2; tag ’





 

   

 





ultry, fowls__18@220; ' '

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amnion lo ’

and, feeder "steers
‘f’waiter if possible.'

., “horse at night.





 





N '- K'alkaska.‘ and ~ 'Axitrnn densities,

.; JMr. Drake, county agent and exten-

asu- fi'el’dme'n from the Michigan Agri-



, cultural Collegerhave, effectively got-

ten together fifty men» for two new

cow-\testing associations. This is fur—

ther indication that' not alone will

these counties be known as excellent

potato-growing localities, - but also‘ that



5 they have'eflicient economical produc-

tion of butter-fat. Mr. B. C. Melleln-

camp, who is finishing in the agricul-

tural course at M. A. C. this month,

will take up the testing work July 1.

Mr. Hans Kardel is the new tester

for the Eaton County Cow-testing As—





sociation and has just started his work





in the association. Eaton county is

planning on a second association to be-

gin early this autumn. _



Mr. L. Simmons in the South Van

Buretn Cow-testing Association, has

found the 'value of fall freshening, to

“gather with summer grain while the

,cows are on pasture. He, is building

up his soil fertility by getting the ma-

nure back into the-.soil and growing

alfalfa.



L. D. Leisenring, the tester in Oce-

ana county, accompanied the Jersey

Breeders’ Association on their Jersey

tour. Four Jersey farms now in the

Cow-testing Association were visited.

Indications are that this association





will prove Ocealna county one of the





leading Jersey sections in the state of

Michigan.



Wayne County Cow-testing Associa-

tion, Mr. Mathiesen testing, has finish-

ed its first year’s work and is continu-

ing right on to the second year. We

are glad to see this interest on the

part of members and the satisfactory

service being rendered by the tester.

It is possible that a second association

will be working by autumn.



Prospects in Allegan county point to

a “cashing in” on the dairy and alfalfa

campaign held last November. Three

new cow-testing associations are being

planned by Mr. Alfred Bentall, county

agricultural agent. Overeisel and Fill-

'more townships are orgalnized for a

new association, the Burnips Coopera-

tive Creamery in Salem township is

lining up an organization, and the

Hopkins Cooperative Creamery at

Hopkins is making up the third new

association. This is indeed good work

and will give Allegan county 3. total

of five cow-testing associations. .



MrflWatkins, manager of the Hop-

kins Cooperative Creamery, personal-

ly saw to it that thirty-five creamery

members put in new seedings of al-

falfa this spring. This is just one lit-

tle incident of the many definite re-

sults going on in many different coun-

ties where these dairy and alfalfa cam~

paigns were put on during the past

winter by the dairy and crops depart-

ment of M. A. C.





HOT-WEATHER RULES FOR THE

HORSES. ' '





1. Load lightly, and drive slowly.



2. Stop in the shade if possible.



3. A sponge on top of the head, or

even a cloth, is good if kept wet. If

dry it is worse than nothing;



4. Water your horse as often as pos-

sible. So long as a horse is working,

water in small quantities will not hurt

him. But let him drink only a few

swallows if he is going to stand still.



5. When he comes in after work,

sponge off the harness marks and

.sweat, his eyes, his nose and mouth,

and the dock. Wash his feet but not

his legs.



6. If the thermometer is seventy-five

“degreesor higher, wipe him all over

“with 'a' damp sponge, using vinegar

Do not; wash the





‘, 7'. Saturday night, give a brain mash,

historic . ; and add a. tablespoonful 'of





 





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SWeating..snd_denly, :or, if he breathes





“shoa- ~and ‘Quick, 'orfif' his ears moon,





or if- he stands with his legs braced

sideways, he is in danger Of a heat or

sunstroke and needs attention at once.

" 9. If the horse is overcome by heat,

get him into the shade, remove harness

and bridle, wash out his mouth, sponge

him all over, shower his legs, and give

him two ounces of aromatic spirits of

ammonia, or two ounces of sweet spir-

its of nitre, in a pint of water; or give





 





which “can sometimes be determined

by‘a postmortem, which Will show the

condition of the internal orgams. Dried

bread mixed with milk and squeezed

nearly dry is a good feed for goslings.

Some breeders give only fresh grass

the first two days. Then a moist mash

of one-third cornmeal and two-thirds

wheat middlimgs is given fouror five

times a day. ‘





HOW TO USE DISINFECTANTS.





him a pint of coffee warm. Cool his ‘





head at once, using cold water, or, if

necessary, chopped ice, wrapped in a

cloth. ‘ .



10. If the horse is off his feed, try

him with two, quarts of oats mixed

with bran, and a little water; and add

a little salt or sugar. Or give him oat-

meal gruel or barley water to drink.’



11. Clean your horse at night, so

that he can rest well, and cleam him



thoroughly. The salt dandruff drying

I on his skin makes him uncomfortable,

and often produces sores under the

harness.



12. Do not fail to water him at night

after he has eaten his hay. If you

don’t he Will be thirsty all night.



13. If it is so hot that the horse

sweats in the stable at night, tie him

outside, with bedding under him. Un-

less he cools off during the night, he

cannot well stand the next day’s heat.





GOVERNMENT ECONOMY NEEDED.





EED of retrenchment in govern-



ment expenditures is emphasized

in the statement by the treasury de-

partment that government tax receipts

decreased more thaln $1,000,000,000

during the eleven months of the past

fiscal year, as compared with the we

vious year. Nevertheless the naval

appropriation bill as agreed to in con-

ference carries about‘$293,000,000, and

the army bill provides for an army of

125,000 enlisted men and 12,000 offi-

cers.





CARE OF CHICKS AND GOSLINGS.





We have had splendid luck with our

hatches, but cannot seem to get the

chicks started right. According to the

directions with the incubator, we are

not supposed to take them from the

incubator until the twenty-second day,

which we have never done, and have

never fed them for forty-eight hours.

I have read that one should not feed

them until the yolk is all absorbed.

Would like to know how many days it

takes to absorb the yolk. I cannot say

that they have diarrhea, but their

wings begin to stick out and in a little

while their heads get weak and are

drawn back. They lie there in what

I call spasms, give a peep and are

soon gone. Would like to know what

might be the cause of goslings getting

poor and dieing, when they are a few

weeks .old. They grow nicely for a

’few weeks, and the first thing we know

begin to get poor, and in a day or two

we find them dead. They have plenty

of water around the buildings, and can

go to a small pond. What is consider-

ed the proper feed for young goslings?

———E. R. L.



I take the chicks from the machine

the twenty-second day and after brush-

ing the trays, I replaCe the chicks in

the machine and keep it dark until the

chicks have an average age of close

to sixty hours. The egg yolk seems to

be sufficiently absorbed by that time.

Then We give them sour milk for the

first drink, and also fine sand for grit.



After the chicks have had a chance

to pick at the grit for a couple of

hours we giVe them a little of the com-

mercial growing mash as a starting

food. Dry rolled oats are also good.

Gre'en food is essential and can be giv-

en in the brooder house in the form of

fine-cut onions or mangels. We find

the commercial mashes are economical

in starting young chicks as they pro-

'duce bone, blood and feathers rapidly

and seem to help in cutting down the

mortality rate. " "



Goslings may die because of weak-

}‘ness ln'the breeding stock or exposure

$126 he sun. tor banner: of other reasons,





I





F housewives could realize the dif-



ference between the real work of a

disinfectant and the merely cloaking

of an offensive odor, there would be

less sickness, and less work for the

board of health. One of the most in-

expensive disinfectants is wood char-

coal. So great is its absorbent power

that -in twenty-four hours freshly burn.

ed and powdered charcoal will absorb

ten to fourteen per cent of its own

weight in moisturevor gases, from the

atmosphere. It acts quickly and effect-

ually. If a thin layer is put over

putrefying matter it will immediately

absorb the effluvia and leave the air

above it pure and sweet. Decay is not

stopped, understand, but goes on with-

out sending off gases or odor. It is

well worth knowing that foul water

may be rendered pure and sweet smell-

ing by filtering it through a layer of

charcoal.



Another very cheap and efficacious

disinfectant right at the housewife’s

hand, is quicklime. It will render the

premises sweet and wholesome. It

takes up moisture in a wonderful way.

It may be sprinkled on damp ground

and it will restore grass which has

grown mossy because of the wet

ground becoming sour. It may be free-

ly sprinkled in damp cellars in the dry

unslaked form. For disinfecting close

ill-smelling sick-rooms dilute the quick-

lime with a little water and place in

shallow plates about the rooms.



Chlorine is still another ready disin-





fectant, but the odor is so penetrating 5





and pungent that it may be used only

where liberal ventilation is possible,

and for this reason is not always popu-

lar in the sick-room. When fumigating

unused rooms, its qualities are increas-

ed by adding a little vinegar.—M. C.





NEW COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE.





NE of the new cooperative enter-



prises of St. Clair county is that

of the Marine City Farmers’ Cooper~

ative Elevator Association. This as-

sociation is composed of 143 farmers

in the vicinity of Marine City and Al-

gonac. They have purchased the Bald-

win elevator property. In addition to

the hay and grain trade, they expect

to handle coal, feed and such other

supplies as may be purchased in large

quantities. .



At their first annual meeting held in

Marine City, Wednesday, June 28, the

following officers and directors were

elected:



John Volker, Marine City, president;

Robert Baker, Marine City, vice-pres-

ident; H. A. Shaw, Algona, secretary;

Andrew Hahn, Marine City, director;

Robert Folkerts, Algona, director;

Charles Reichle, Marine, City, direct-

or; H. F. Labuhn, Fair Haven, di-

rector. ~



They have secured the services of

Mr. L. Thomas as manager. Mr. Thom-

as, who is formerly of Grand Blanc,

is considered one of the most success-

ful cooperative elevator managers of

Michigan.



This territory comprises one of the

best farming sections in St. Clair coun-

ty. With this as a foundation on which

to build, the Marine City Association

bids fair to become one of the strong-

est cooperative marketingassociations

1n this section of the state.——C. M. K.





 





ESTATE BY ENTIRETY.





A and wife have a joint‘deed to their

farm. If A’s wife should leave him,

would she lose her rights to the farm,

or could she still hold a share?——C. S.



.The estate by entirety can be de-

stroyed only by death, conveyance ex-





;ecuted by both, or decree of court.—

Rood. ' ‘ - , ‘ - ' . ‘





   





 





We here show the "Farquhar

,No. 1,” an Elevator Digger that

gets the potatoes out~of the

ground clean and rows them con-

venient for picking. It is fully

adjustable so as to suit different

conditions, light of draft and

long lived.



For small growers the “Success

Junior” Walking Digger insures

more potatoes with less labor.

Also "Special Elevator," a. large

ball-bearing digger for either

horse or engine drive.



Illustrated catalog of Farquhar

Diggers tells how you can most

economically harvest your po-

tatoes. Write today for free copy.





A. B. FARQUHAR (30., Ltd., Box 212, York, Pa.



We also manufacture Engines and Boilers,

Tractors, Sawmills, Thrashers, Hydraulic Older:

Presses. etc. Ask for literature.





 





 





 





 





 





7719 DE RFECT

CORN HARVESTER-





SoIdDirect $21 -’5 ”.f's’l’ifli‘zfr'fi‘é‘“





     

 

 





 





 





Works in any kind of soil.

Cuts stalks, doesn't pull

like other cutters. Absolutely no danger.

Cuts Four to Seven 'Acres (1 day with one

man and one horse. Here 18 what one farmer says:





WORKS IN ANY KIND OF CORN IN ANY SOIL.





Gentleman—The Corn Harvester worked fine in

medium, corn on sandy land. Although I am an

old man 63 years old, I cared for ten cows and

out 1.30 shocks a day. I recommend your machine

for work in any kind of corn in any soil.





   

   

   

   

   





 





 





 





 





 





Yours truly, Silas Shallenbarger. Colon, Mich.





SOLE DIRECT TO THE FARMER

Send for booklet and circulars telling all about this Ia-

bOr-savmg machine: also testimonials of many users.



LOVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Dept. 27 Lincoln, Illinois





Holmes,Stuwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves,

Poultry, Live & Dressed. Provisions, etc. Correspon

deuce Solicitcd. Ref. ‘Wayno County d5 Home Savings

Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit, Mich. Cherry 7654





FRUIT





___For Large Oil Refining Co. Fro



salesmen Well to Consumer direct. Liberia?!

Commissmn. Prompt Settlements. N0 delivering.

No collecting. Experience not necessary. Yellow

Creek Refining Works, 1171 Mallers Bldg. Chicago





   

   

   

   

     

 





 





 





SHIPPERS FOR HIGHEST PRICES

Quick Returns Cousign to The E. L

Richmond 00., Detroit, Est. 1893.





 





 





‘A] Single man for Herdsman, sin le m



anted for all around man on modergn dag};

farm. Must be man of good character. Best work.

ing and hung conditions. State wages and experience

G.E.Emstrom, Maple Hill Farms, h‘armington.Mich-





 





 





Farms and Farm Lands





Money-Making Michigan Farm $1650

12 Cattle, 25 Acres Crops





3Horses. poultry, tools and full implements included

if you come now; mutt-bless opportunity on good road

near schools. churches, etc.. 40 acres mostly tillage,

adapted alfalfa. clover. corn, vegetables; pasture

\voodlot; lots of fruit; comfortable 5-room house:

good basement burn, granary. poultry house. etc.

Age forces early sale, $1650 takes all with 27 acres

clover, alfalfa, grain. corn, vegetables thrown In if

taken now. Part cash. Details page 118 Big Bar-

gzun (‘ntalog FREE. STROUT FARM AGENCY

814 BC Ford Bldg” Detroit. Mich. '





Lakeview Farm Only $4000

Growing Crops, Auto Truck and





 





 





Horses. cows. sheep. hogs. poultry,tools.vehicles,





etc. included for quick sale; 30 acres; mile villa e.

andh'ity markets convenient; 29 acreseasi y-

worked tillagecpasturugc: orchnrd for 2(l0bbls. up Ies.

herriesg‘l-storiv. 6.room home worth $3000; cool shade

and delightfu Nicw nearby lake; ample barn. poultry

house. etc. Owner cullcd away. 34000 takes it and if

taken now, about :0 acres potatocs, vegetables. rye,

berries thrown in. only 5120“ down. Come at once.

FRED W. HAMLIN. Chelsea. Mich.





$1200 Gets Farm Near Lansing





Horse, Cow, Poultry and



Equipment included to early buyer: 77 acres in pros-

perous con munity, easy walk village, high school. etc.

40 acres loamy tillage for hay, corn. potatoes. vege-

tables; spring-watered pasture. woodlot, orchard,

berries; good 8-room house. cool Screened porch,

pleasant surroundings; harmpnultry house, are e.

Other business forces stile, $3850 gets all, onfy ӣ00

down. Get. here first Ray Chafi'ee. Byron. Mich.





FOR SALE 640 ACRES





of rolling loam laud suitable for farming or grozlnf.

watered by fine spring trout stream. located one all 0





 





East of Loranger on Ni. O. R,

way, and about six miles‘ from City of West Branch

the county seat of Ogemaw County, one of the fin





counties in Michigan, at $12.00 per acre ifsolduln‘ ’





block. on terms to suit. purchasers. wner

WILLIAM T. YEO, West Branch. Michigan





‘ h e to moral, .'



If You Want To Sell gasses“... ’ ~. i’.

JEROM’E PROBST, Ann Arbor, Mich,



Wnter Front Farm, 198 acres near Sallsbnry,Mn§.

Janixrlce ”3.000. Fullpaitlculan uddrm , ~‘ : -

8. In. ‘NKLYN,WOQDVOQO ., ~ , NU: “Kt;





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R. and trunk line high- ,
“The '

Road of a Hundred TrOubles”





Your own Common Sense tells you that there

is a better, more economical road to travel





HROUGH THOUGHTLESS BUYING, thou-



l sands of farmers get lubricating oils



which are mere by-products of gasoline.



These cheaply-made “oils” cannot begin



to give the protection to which you are

entitled.





The reputable dealer‘does not like to

sell you such oil. He knows that it puts

you on the road to trouble. For at least

50% of all engine troubles are due to the

use of incorrect or low-quality lubrication.





Why not begin today to use Gargoyle

Mobiloil?





Every time you say “Give me Gargoyle

Mobiloil—~the correct grade for my car"

you smooth the way to operating economy.



You get all wlzielz practically every experi-

enced dealer and motorist agree: .i: of the

very big/zest quality. You get oil whose

character and body scientifically fit the

needs of your car or tractor. You will

rarely find either a dealer or an experienced

motorist who does not thoroughly respect

the Oil, the Chart and the Company which

stands back of both.





Gargoyle Mobiloil costs more to pro--





duce, and hence may cost you

a little more per gallon than

other oils. But the resulting op-





this‘slightly higher price.





' ' I711 VZII/l’

crating economy far outweighs ,///////é//”





// /

1 ./..’v ./ / 3

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Not a gasoline byproduct

Nine out of ten lubricating oils on the

market , are simply by—products in the

manufacture of gasoline.



Gargoyle Mobiloil is not a by-product.



It is produced by lubricating specialists

who are recognized the wbrld over as

leaders in lubricating practice. Gargoyle

Mobiloil is manufactured from crude'oils

chosen for their luarieating qualities—not

for their gasoline content. It is manufac—

tured by processes designed to bring out of

the crude oil the highest lubricating value——

not the greatest gallonage of gasoline. '



as a: at -





Make the Chart your guide. If your

car is not listed in the partial Chart shown

here, send for our booklet “Correct Lubri-

cation.” It contains the complete Chart





which specifies the correct oil for every





make and model. ~





Warning: .



Don’t be misled by some similar sounding name. Look



on the container for the correct name Mobiloil (not

Mobile) and for the red Gargoyle. '



' ' Don’t believe false statements that



aome- other oil is identical with Gargoyle



Mobiloil. Gargoyle Mobiloil is made



// only by the Vacuum_ Oil Companygin



ea; 7 my own refineries, and is never aold

’ / ' under any othcr'name. '





Mohiloil «





Make t/ze e/zart your guide





Boston

Minneapolis





Domestic





New York (Main 01$“)

Branches: ‘





Indianapolis





' Buffalo





Detroit

Dallas





Philadelphia -

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Pittsburgh





Chicago ,

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