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VOLUME CLVIX [NUMBER TWENTY-ONE





DETROIT, NOVEMBER 18,1922





CURRENT COMMENT

THE. MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:





 





 





‘Selfishness does not gain lasting sat-

isfaction.





It is not the man who can who al-

ways does, but the man who does al-

ways can.





Our sorrows are as essential as our

joys. They are needed to increase our

appreciation of the happiness which

comes to us.





Evidence is piling up showing that

seed potatoes grown in cool soil has

greater vigor than tubers produced

where the climate is warmer. "





HE success and





Gen eral perpetuity oil a de-



~ , mocracy is dependent

Election upon the int c r e s t

Results in a n d independent





thought on public

questions by the great body of its cit-

izenship. That the great body of Amer-

ican citizens are showing both inter-

est in, and independent thought on

civic questions in this country cannot

be doubted after a review of election

returns in recent general elections. In

the short space of two years the two

dominant political parties have been

“vigorously spanked by the voters of

the country, as shown by the general

trend of election results. Further than

a more or less general disamroval of

party accomplishment, a close study

of the returns in each case Show a.

very decided independence of public

thought in the choice of candidates

favored with general approval as well

as in discrimination as to policies and

principles to which they were com-

.mitted. ,

Regardless of whether the individual

voter is pleased or displeased with the

result of the recent election, this gen-

eral public interest in governmental

affairs is a matter for congratulation

so far as the future well-being of our

country is concerned. It is unmistak-

able evidence that public leadership

must keep pace with rapidly changing

conditions to meet with public approv-

al. While this fact may make con-

structive leadership more difficult, it is

perhaps necessary to overcome the in-

ertia of adherents to old and firmly

established partisan policies.

_ Notwithstanding the growing diffi-

culties of successful public leadership,

hiring to an increasing class con‘scious-

as among our people, there is prob-

sblya greater opportunity for con-

re public leadership than has





'prcsent generation There still re-





the . xp’erien





mains a great common ground between

..the extremmf conservatism and rad-~





icalism in which constructive leader?





ship Is needed to guide our national

policies along lines which will be for

the best interests of the whole people.

We believe that this leadership will be





" developd in the present emergency as





it has been in past national crises, and

that our democracy will, in the words

of the Immortal Lincoln, remain a.

government of, by and for the people:





HIS is a good



price for hay.



Hay Any farmer _will ad-

$60 mit this much, espe-

Per Ton cially in a year like





the present. We are,

however, pretty apt to question such

statements, yet a Kalamazoo farmer is

receiving that price for his crop right

in his own barn. He has the docu-

mentary evidence to prove that he is

not only receiving this amount for his

hay, but that his corn is bringing $1.87

and his oats $1.00 per; bushel.



It is unfortunate, of course, that this

market is limited. He is entitled to it,

however, since it was developed on his

farm through the aid of a man who

came once each month to work out

the problem. This visitor was no oth-

er than the man Who tested the cows

and determined the relationship be-

tween what each cow ate and what she

produced. This made it possible to

sell the unprofitable cowsand replace

them with better ones. Every time a

poor cow left the farm and a better

one was placed in her stall, the prices

of. hay and oats and corn went up.



This principle of animal economy

should dominate the mind of every

man who keeps live stock for the pur-





' pose of making money. He should de~





velop hogs which wiltconvert corn

and other feeds into the maximum

amount of high-quality pork; sheep

which will take legume hay and grain

and make of it the greatest amount

of mutton and wool; cattle which will

turn these and other feeds into the

most valuable cuts of beef and dairy

cows that will perform most econom-

ically.



This, the greatest of'all farm manu-

facturing businesses, must be put upon

the highest efficient 'basis. If animal

products can be produced with greater

efl‘iciency, it will indirectly aid in the

marketing of practically all other

products. -





T all





times, but



Eliminating Inge Pamcularly

F at th1s t1me, when



A arm farm commodity pric-

Loss es suffer in compari-





son with those of oth

er commodities, is a sane and sensible

economy desirable. In order to weath-

er this period of adjustment to best

advantage, the farmer should practice

efficient saving. This does not mean

miserliness, but often requires spend-

ing in order to make greater savings.



There is, however, one actual saving

which every farmer can make, and

should make, regardless of his finan-

cial condition. This is the saving of

his farm machinery ‘by protecting it.

Each year, through carelessness, the

farmers of the country lose about one

quarter billion dollars by‘farm machin-

ery depreciation, much ,of which could

be eliminated by proper protection,

Just ordinary care would save them

$150,000,000, while scrupulous consid~

eration would add another $100,000,000

to the savings.



It seems that often our human im-

pulses prompt us to do things which

judgment would direct us to do other-

wise As, for instance, many farmers

would go to considerable eflort 120"

house their gasoline buggies of various

degrees of worth, but never think or





string protection mi their motors dusted cro' of





 





cis- .

the protectidd of the auto as the auto

certainly has a. higher degree of social

standing than the common work‘s-clay

tractor, cultivator or otheragriculturah

implement. But even so, we must gIVe

due recognition to the unpretentious,

hard-waking farm. implement for what

it has done toward helping us to earn

money enough to buy that aforesaid

auto. With a sense of justice we must

treat our worthy servants with at least

some degree of the consideration that

we do our pleasure companidns.



If we do use scrupulous care in our

implement management, perhaps we

may approach the record .of the Mis~

souri man who harvested his hay this

year with a mower forty—one years old.

And furthermore, if we bend our ef-

forts -in that direction, we may be able

to buy a "better grade of auto next

time with’ the implement money we

saved, and thus go up another step in

our social standing. *





NEW book just





from the. press



, On , deals, with farming

Rural and rural life in this

Michigan state. The book is

‘ entitled, “Rural Mich-





igan.” It was written by Lew Allen

Chase, a member of the faculty of the

Northern Michigan Normal School and

author of “The Government of Mich-

igan." Mr. Chase is also a regular

correspondent to the columns of the

Michigan Farmer and our readers have

become familiar with his short newsy

items dealing particularly with farm-

ing practices and agricultural move-





' ments in Cloverland.





This volume is worthy of wide read-

ing, not only in Michigan, but also in

other states. It gives the reader a com-

prehensive idea of the factors of agri-

cultural production in this state, of

the progress made in marketing farm

produce, the situation in rural life, the

status of rural manufacturers, our ag-

ricultural societies, educational enter—

prises, government work for country

life, etc. Especially do we feel that

this volume will fill a need in our pub-

lic schools and also public and private

libraries.



We desire to congratulate Mr. Chase

for his successful effort in bringing

together such a fund of interesting

and helpful information.





EARLY every



farmer in Michi-



Apples 'gan (is interested in

And one r’or the other of

Potatoes these two’ crops. He





is interested in. both

the production and the consumption of

them. These facts would indicate that

there Will be a large and active farmer

attendance at the big Apple and Po-

tato Show planned for December 5-8

at Grand Rapids. ‘

Combining the exhibits of these two

major crops of the state is a new idea.

Whoever conceived it should 'be con-

gratulated. The questions involved in

the production and the difficulties en«

countered in the marketing of these

crops are similar, or sointer-related,

that there should be a great deal of

active cooperation between the fruit

man who makes it his business to grow

apples and the farmer who looks upon

the potato crop for a substantial pro-

portion of his income. -

Then, too, the volume of business in

these two crops in this state should

enlist for this show a very generous

patronage: not only from farming see-





. tions but likewise from our towns‘and





cities. There are millions of dollars

invested in land and equipment, and





«other millions required for distribution.





The November report of the federal

crop reporting board tells us that

Michigan ranks second in th

tion of potatoes thisy~





 

 





 





Vwe need gun he further to and ram"





for akin'g‘ a. real noise abdut this ex:





posil ion. .

The organization of the show should





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prove a real constructive step in Mich- ' '





igan agricultural a’nnals. We need it.

Every farmer wants, or should want,





higher ideals toward which to work in -





the productiOn of these crops. But

possibly even more important is the

matter of interesting the general pub-

lic in the size and remarkable'quality

of the apples and potatoes produced in

Michigan. '

lems to work out that require the sym-

pathetic interest of the consumers.

Such a show will furnish’a real chance

to enlist this interest. The first con-

dition, however, will be that the farm—

ers themselves must be fully awake to





'the opportunity, "and for this reas on





alone we urge our readers to plan ,now

for attending the first session of the

MichiganApple and Potato Show.





Some lVeéé/y T/z oug/zts





0U know, folks, a Oughto makes

lots of 'difterunce in a. fellow’s life.





 





For inst, I don’t know so much about,





our neighbors now. When I ain’t doin’

that necessary evil (work) we are rid-

in’ in the old bus. And when we go vis-

itin’, we men folks talk about carber~

ootcrs, differe‘n‘shulls, transmisshuns,

cowel dashes and such other things

what sound like we knowed all about

foreign languiges. But the preponderin'





subject ‘is, how many smiles you kin \





git outa a gallon

of gas. I want to





too many smiles

outa a' gallon is

what made Jim

Hudson run his

Oughto up a tele-

phone post.

Of course, the

wimmen folks/kin

talk about them things and lots else

besides. So, once in a while, Sophie

tells me like, .for inst, Hiram‘Jones

is sportin’ two wivesgtone in Goldwater

and the other in South Bend. Seems

’cause one wife is in one state and

the other to home in another, the what

you call interstate commerce commis-

sion is after Hiram. And it seems

lately Hy is sometimes in Goldwater,

but most of the time in hot water, and

sometimes he’s south,.. bending’ his ef-

forts in tryin’ to repair what you call

his moral deflchuncies. _ ”

Like Mr. Jones, I got suflishunt rea—

sons for regrets. For inst, the other

day I took down a good load of pota-

toes and brought home apair of shoes.

I wore my others out growin’ the pota-

toes I took down to buy the new ones

with. Seems like I Woulda 'saved con-

siderable of my natural. resources if .I

didn’t grow no potatoes a tall. But





 





then, the shoe man. wouldn’t 3. got his. -





profit on a pair 0’ shoes, so I guess it’s

all right. Anyhow, Sophie thinks it

worth a pair 0’ shoes to keep me

working.



With potatoes so low and coal so

high, I’m glad I gotta wood-lot. I’ve:

sawed so much wood I. can’t hardly

see' no more. We kin keep comfortable





all right, but my regrets is that my .





Oughto ain’t fixed'up for burnin'saw-

dust,

money for gas.



But I guessthat’s all right, too,

’cause I see Jonnie Rockafellow and

Hank Ford is runnin’ a neck to neck

race to see—Which is the richest man.

So I guess I’ll wear out my Oughto

burnin gasoline to see which one I

kin make the richest. Hank’s ahead

’cause I bought my Oughto, but I think

Jonnie will be ahead before I buy an-

other Oughto,





Don’t you2





We have marketing prob:





say, that gettin’:





’cause I got more 0’ that than





’cause I'm helpin’ him '

now by buyin’ the gas to run it 1th.

'I always like to
HE winter is coming and with it





After. the fireWood is cut, the

fences fixed, and the farm generally

cleaned up and everything put in

shape for a good start next spring,

most farmers find that they still ‘have

some spare time on their hands. This

is generally called an “enforced vaca».

tion Without pay.” Many of you can’t

afford it and try to find some Way of

earning money during the winter.





Most farms have a “sort of” a wood-

lot. By doing away. with the “sort of,"

the wood-lot can be managed so that

it will not only pay you your wages

during this slack winter period but

amo furnish a profit. A good wood-lot

will grow over a cord of: weed per acre

every year. I know of a farmer who,

besideshis wages for the actual time

spent working on his wood-lot, is get-

ting $10 profit per year out of every

acre in woods. And it doesn’t take any

special training to do this either.

Farmers who have wood-lets can do

the same thing. Every farmer, with

his wide experience in plant growth

can manage .his wood-lot so that it will





 





 





SELECTING THE GOOD SEED.





 





HIS is an interested group of Kent

county potato growers getting a





practical demonstration in the selec-





tion of seed potatoes from a field of

well-grown tubers.

at this time because it shows that

farmers are downright interested in

the matter of improving the seed that

they plant. We venture that another

spring the demand for well-selected

stock will eXceed the supply. Every





 





one who has gone to the trouble of

sorting out the promising tubers

should not feint now, but rather,

’should give these potatoes good hous-

ing this winter in order that they will

not disappoint whoever plants them

next spring. You know, if they grow

well and you keep in the business of

producing seed potatoes, that the tes-

timolny of this buyer will help next

year.





 





 





earn him money. Always remember,

too, that your agricultural college has

men on its force who can give you ad-

vice whenever you are in doubt as to

just what to do. '



The wood crop has a number of ad-

vantages that the other crops do not

have. Trees don’t .need care at any

particular time, like corn‘and wheat.

You can put off tending to your wood-

lol where you can’t do that with other

crops. If you haven’t got a good mar:

ket for wood one year, why you can





keep it a year or so without any Toss. ~

'Another advantage is that the best



’ time to work on'your Wood-lot is in the ,.

'winter, just when you have the spare





Stumps sprout better when the





"time.





trees are cut in the winter. and the _ f‘ _,

'd cut shows less rotting, staintrig, . .





 





 





crimes the farmer’s “vacation." ,





The picture is run~





Mata Your Wood-Lot Do Ilfor Yoztr—By Paul A. Herder! of Me M A. C.





 





During the Winter Season the Farmer Can Profitably Employ Himself Tak-

ing Out the Matured Trees.





Now let me list just what goes into

the ‘ make-up of a wood-lot that will

make money for the owner. Later I

will try to explain each item and try

to show you how you can bring your

wood-lot up to this standard:



1. The Wood-lot must have as many

trees in it as it can profitably grow

there.



2. The trees should all be sound.



3. The. trees should be straight and

tall, with long, clear trunks.



4. The trees should be of all ages

and sizes, from young seedlings to

trees ready to harvest.



5. There should be several kinds of

trees in the wood-lot. These should,

naturally, be the kinds that are worth

most.



6. There should always be a. good

layer of humus and leaves on ground.



7.‘ The edge of the wood-lot should

be dense. ,



8. Fire and cattle should be kept

out. .





“The wood-lot must have as many

trees as can profitably grow there.”

That's common sense, but just how

many does that mean? The best an-

swer to that isn’t a figure, (although

I will give you that, too), as actual

number depends on the age of the

trees, the kind, and the soil, the same

as any other crop. If you find a place





‘ where briers, weeds, and grass, are





growing, why, that’s a sure sign that

there aren’t enough trees at that spot.

Those briers, weeds and grass are tak-

ing food that could and should he go-

ing into tree growth. Now, the best

way to get trees into such an opening

is to plant them there. Cut down the

briers and weeds, and plant either the

seeds direct or seedlings dug from an-

other part of the wood-lot. Better still,

plant some tree seed in the corner of

your garden this fall or the coming

spring and then you, will have good-

sized seedlings for planting up those

openings next fall.





 





 





Mating Ewe Lambs





REEDING ewe lambs before they

have reached full maturity is not

to be recommended. The practice not

only impairs the development of the





'ewe lambs, but is likely to produce





lambs with weak constitutions. Ewe





. lambs immaturely developed at mating





time are most apt to intensify physical

defects and deteriorate breed type.

Sheep of different breeds vary some-

what as to age of coming to maturity,

but it is a, wise rule to follow not .to





mate ewe lambs of any breed the first‘





season. 'I know that some flock own-

ers claim that by proper feeding of the

ewes and lambs during the suckling

and weaning periods the lambs may

be brought to breeding maturity and

mated the first year without injurious

results. Good care and feeding goes

a long way in bringing to early ma-

turity any kind of breeding stock, but

if best results are sought it is advis-

able not to ferce animals for the pur-





pose of early mating. Ewe lambs in

particular need good care and feed to





‘come to full maturity and prove strong





healthy breeding stock.



'Ewe lambs coming to maturity need

all their strength to build framework

and muscular tissue. If mated the

first season the ewe lambs are called

upon to do double duty, first to sustain

themselves and secondly, to grow their

unborn young. One or the other are

likely to suffer.



Progress in building up flocks of

sheep comes from the gradual and

permanent strengthening of the pro-

ductive qualities of each member of

the flock. Matured parent stock is es-

sential to assurance of meeting this

desirable end. I have never made it

a practice to mate ewe lambs, but I

have had instances 6‘ccur of ewe lambs

being mated the first season through

accident, and the results were not sat-

isfactory—Leo C. Reynolds.





 





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But very many woodlots are too

open all over and not in any particular ’

spot. They look more like groves of

old trees with no young trees at all.

This is usually caused by cutting trees

out and never giving the wood-lot a

chance to grow young trees to take the‘

places of the ones out. When you

have cattle grazing in the woods that

is just what happens. The only rem-

edy is to keep the cattle out. After

that you can either plant or you can

let nature fill up the gaps. Nature will

do it if you give her a chance. It will

take longer but if you haven’t much

time, or the woodlo't is large, it is the

best way.



But you say that you need that

wood-lot for pasture? That’s poor bus-

iness; if you really need pasture, make

a regular pasture out of all of it (if

you need that much more pasture).

You lose by trying to grow trees and

grass together. First of all, very little

grass grows in a wood-lot compared to

an open field, and second, the grass

that does grow there isn’t worth very

much; the cattle don’t like it. Many

farmers allow their stock to run in the,

wood-lot more for the shade and to let





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 





 





YIELDS OVER TWO HUNDRED

BUSHELS.





 





HE field pictured yielded 201 bush-



els of potatoes per acre with just

common farming. There are ten acres

in the field. It is sandy soil and was

plowed last fall. It was put in shape

this spring with a tractor. Planted

certified seed with a horse-planter in

rows thirty-six inches apart and twen-

ty inches in the row. The field was





 





 





harrowed three times after planting

and before the plants were three inch-

es tall, after which they were cultivat-

ed at once. The crop was dug with a

digger. Picture was taken July 26.—

W. J. Flely, Wolverine.



(Will be pleased to report any yields

of potatoes which excel that of Mr.

Fiely. ——Eds.)





 





 





the cattle get away from the flies,

than for the grass. But why let them

ruin your whole whodlot? A herd of

twenty-five head wouldn’t need an acre

to supply the necessary shade and

protection. And so if they don’t have

any shade elsewhere, the thing to do

is to fence off a little corner of the

woodlot. for them and use the rest for

the business of growing trees.



To get back to the first point again.

How are you going to tell when you

have too many trees on a piece of

land? Well, it’s something likehav-

ing too many corn plants in the same

hill. They grow spindly and weak, and

then after a time some begin to fall

behind. Fine, then ‘why not grow:

trees so that each tree has all the

room it wants? This is where item

three comes in, “All trees should be

straight and tall with long clear;

trunks.” If you give every tree"

much room as it wants, you don‘t get

“tall, straight trees with longjfclesr?

(Continuation page 582). i:
LATE AG RICULTU‘RL





 





 





 





 





VALUE OF RADIO SERVICE.





 





HE efficiency of the international

. radio crop reporting service of the

Federal Department of Agriculture

was demonstrated the other day by

the receipt of a radiogram from the

department’s Berlin representative re-

garding beet sugar production in Ger-

many. The report which traveled be-

tween Berlin and Washington at the

rate of 186,000 miles a second, was

relayed throughout the United States,

the news being in the hands of the re-

ceiving operators all over the country

in less than five minutes after leaving

Berlin.



The department officials relate that

recently a farmer in Kansas was about

to sell his cattle. On the morning of

the day the sale was to be made, this

farmer’s boy who had rigged up a

home-made wireless outfit, received

the market report from the Kansas

City stock yards. This information

enabled the farmer to receive several

cents a pound more for his cattle than

he would otherwise have received.





BUREAU OF FEDERAL STATISTICS

PROPOSED.





 





NEW bureau of federal statistics



is proposed. It is planned to take

over and enlarge the census bureau,

so as to include the statistical wdrk of

all the executive departments. The

aim is to correlate these statistics so

that overlapping will be eliminated

and the statistics made available for

piactical use.



It is explained that the new name

would be more appropriate to the wOrk

of the bureau of the census than its

present name. The recommendations

include provision for remaining exist-

ing divisions to be divisions of popula-

tion statistics, farm statistics, and the

like. The division of tobacco and cot-

ton statistics would be consolidated

into the division of farm statistics.





FARM TAXES GREATER THAN

INCOME.





 





HE statement on taxation recently



issued by the National Grange rep-

resentative, in which he asserted that

“the total amount of taxes farmers are

called upon to pay this year in the en-

tire United States amounts to a larger

sum of money than the profits of all

the farms of the United States this

year over the cost of production of the

entire farm crop of the country,” has

been sent to one hundred economists

throughout the country with the re«

quest that they carefully consider the

proposition and if true suggest a

remedy.





FARMERS’ CLUBS TO HOLD

ANNUAL SESSION.





 





HE annual meeting of Michigan



State Association of Farmers’

Clubs will be held in the Assembly

Room of the State Office and Library

Building, Lansing, Tuesday and Wed-

nesday, December 5-6. A program that

I will discuss from every angle the bet-

terment of agriculture is being prepar-

_ ed and every one interested is invited

to be present.

. Every club in the state is asked to

send delegates to this meeting and be-

come members of the association. A

great work has been done by our as-

.‘so'ciation and a much greater work

could be done if every club in the ‘state

,g-would become affiliated with us. We

"must educate, we must agitate and we

midst organize if we will have agricul-

ture‘ take its rightful place among the





industries of our country. Let every

club become a part of this organiza-

tion and work for the betterment of

agriculture.



That the association may get in

touch with every club in the ‘state not

affiliated with us, it is asked that the

name of the club and also the name

of the secretary of same be sent to

the associational secretary at, once.—

Mrs. I. R. Johnson, Secretary-Treasur-

er, Rushton, Michigan.





FEDERAL HAY GRADES.





 





HE hearings on hay gardes called

by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco-

nomics of the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture was well attended

by representatives of the hay trade

and the large hay shipping associations.

Some of the trade representatives were

in attendance at all three of the hear-

ings in Chicago, New York and Wash-

ington. They gave their unanimous

endorsement to the grades proposed by

the bureau, with a few unimportant

changes. The bureau will put the new

hay grades into effect on October 30.

Inspections will be made at New

York City, Chicago, Richmond; Va.,

several up‘state points in New York

state, and Philadelphia, to start with.

A hay exchange is now being organized

in Chicago to take care of this matter.

The system of grading includes tim-

othy, clover and mixtures of the two.





There are to be two closses, timothy-





and clover, and four sub-classes, light





Wednesday, November 8.

MINE blast at Spangler, Pa., caus- mas cards, because they interfere with





t ed the death of over seventy-five.

—For the first time in Chicago’s his-

tory, 100 federal deputies have been

selected to guard the polls during elec-

tion, because of intense political feel-





ing.———One hundred thousand barrels





of oil are on fire at Elderado, Arkan-

sas. - The section for miles around is

a roaring furnace.

Thursday, November 9.



HE Canadian grain interests are



much concerned over the intention

of the Interstate Commerce Commis-

sion to declare an embargo on grain.

——Election results in Illinois indicate

that the light wine and beer amend-

ment won—President Harding has

called an extra session of congress for,

November 20.—The government plans

'to sell by auction the famous Hog Is-

land shipyards on January 30. '





Friday, November 10.

HE Hilliard Hotel Company, which

manages the famous Vanderbilt

hotels, is planning to build an eight

million dollar hotel in Detroit. It will

be the finest in the country. ———Great

Britain is preparing for a clash with

the Turks because of the Turkish de-





mand (for the allies to get out of Con— r





stantinople.—Detroit voted down by a



big majority the amendment prohibit-



ing interurbans entering the city.

Saturdanyovember 11.



A NOTHER uprising of the republic



forces in Dublin caused the death



of three and the wounding of twenty-





 





 





clover mixed, medium clover mixed,

heavy -clover mixed, and very heavy

clover mixed.



’There will be five grades in each

class. Color will be the distinguishing

characteristic. The basis of grading

will be the condition when cut: No. 1

hay in the bloom. stage; No. 2 in the

dough stage; No. 3 hay containing ripe

seeds. Weeds and foreign matter will

be handled on the percentage basis.



It is announced that these hay

grades hearings will be followed by a

“Better Hay” campaign thorughout the

havogrowing regions, especially in New

York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,

Wisconsin and Minnesota, to be pro-

moted through the state extension ser-

vice.





ROAD PROBLEMS TOUBE Dis.

cussso.





 





EXT week from Tuesday to Thurs-



day'at the Coliseum, Grand Rap—

ids, a program of addresses and dis-

cussions by men active in the business

of building, maintaining and using

good roads will be presented by the

Michigan Good Roads Association. The

three days’ sessions cover a wide

range of topics, including up-to-the—sec4

and problems of practical road build-

ing; needed legislation for protecting

roads, people and property, and the

greatest of all road subjects—~road tax-

es. The gasoline tax, franchises for

common carriers upon highways, reg-

ulation of trucks will be given special





 





couraging the use of odd-sized Christ-





the rapid handling of the mail. '

Sanday, November 12.





HE report of experts who have

German





been investigating the

financial Condition say that a two-year

moratorium would help stabilize the

mark and put Germany in a better po-

sition to pay her debts—M. Clemen-

ceau, the famous French “tiger” will

visit America to tell of French condi-

tions.—The.Fascisti revolution which





- has been successful in Italy, is spread-





ing to Bavaria—Since the recent eleci

tion, the republican majority in the





’ house of representatives is eight, and





in the senate four.



Monday, November 13.



T is figured that the new tariff will



increase the United States revenue

$100,000,000 in the fiscal yeah—Gov-

ernment statistics show that the indi-

vidual wealth increased forty'cents per

person during October. —The banks of

Scandinavia have loaned 100, 000, 000

marks to the Finnish government.—

The Natibnal Milk Producers’ Federa-

tion, in session at Springfield, Mass”

re-elected Milo D. Campbell, of Cold-

water Mich, as president.



Tuesday, November 14.!

[\‘LLIED troops seize Constantinople

‘ customs ofi‘lce and will declare

martial law there—The congestionof





.. grain is so great at Buffalo that one





ship had to wait three weeks before

unloading—An earthquake and tidal

wave' caused the death of over one

thousand persons in the ports on the





two. —A new marketing place at the Chill, South American, coast. «41 fire

Detroit Municipal Markets with indoor ’at Selfridge aviation field near Mt.

stalls has been opened .——The United Clemens, caused over a million dollars

States Post one; Department is dis- damage ' - ‘





 





consideration. Farm bureaus, granges.





gleaners and farmers' clubs ought to.

send delegates to this meeting.





-., LOANS BEING PAID.





 





HE War Finance Corporation is



now receiving repayments on loans

at a far greater rate than, ,it-is advanc4

ing funds on loans.

to October 31, the repayments received

by the corporation totaled $9,471,736.

of which $9,207,519 was on agricultural

and live stock advances. From Octo-

ber 16- to October 31, the corporation

approved twelve advances, aggregating

$301,000, to financial institutions for

agricultural and live stock purposes,

The War Finance Corporation has ten-





tatively approved the appliCation of





the Peanut Growers’ Exchange, of Suf-

folk, Virginia, for an advance of one

million dollars for the purpose of.

financing the marketing of peanut-3..





TH E EGG-LAYI NG CONTEST.





 





HE Michigan International Egg-



laying contest started on Novem-

ber 1 with ninety-five pens in place.

The contest promises to be of interna-

tional interest, as it contains entries

from New York, Washington, Missouri,

Rhode Island, Tennessee, Connecticut,

California, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, New

Jersey and Canada. Two pens were

entered from England, but at the last

minute they were cancelled.



The White Leghorns are in the

greatest majority, there being entered

fifty-two pens of that breed. There are

also eighteen pens of Barred Rocks,

nine of White Wyandottes, seven or-

Anconas, six of Rhode Island Reds, two

of Brown Leghorns and one pen each

of Buff Leghorns, Buff Rocks, White

Rocks, Buff Wyandottes, Black. Minor-

cas, and Black Orpingtons.



Elmer E. Shaw’s pen of White Leg-





_horns from South Haven, had the lead





at the end of the first week, with a

score of forty-three eggs. W. A Downs'

Leghorns, from Washington, Michigan,





‘ came second with thirty-nine eggs to





From October 16 ,





their credit, and E. D. Taylor’s pen>





from Kalamazoo, was third, and that

of Alfred TerHaar, of Hudsonville,

waS‘fourth with thirty-six. The last

two pens were also Leghorns.

“ The pen of H. E. Dennison, of East

Lansing, Michigan, leads the Ply-

mouth Rocks with twenty-seven eggs

to its credit"; that of Clyde Hollis, of

Hudsonville, Michigan, leads the wy-

andottes with twenty-three eggs, while

the Rhode Island Reds belonging to L.

O. Dunning, Delton, Michigan, leads

that breed with twenty-three eggs.



At the end of the week all pens were

in place, making a total of one hun-

dred pens of ten hens each.





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ATTACK NEW GRAIN LAW.





 





UITS attacking the constitutional-



' ity of the new grain exchange con-

trol«-law_ have been filed at ’Kansas

City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Duluth and

St. Louis. A test case will be tried

at Chicago, November 13, after which

it is probable that the act will again

come. before the United States Su-

preme Court for a final decision.

~—~————-—- o

. SOLDIERS ATTENTION.





 





NY ex-soldier desiring information

as to how he may reinstate his in-

surance should take the matter up





can at Washington, ‘D. G. In request~

ing this information the‘ writer should





 

 





with the United States Yeterans’ Bur- ‘ '





give his name and address, his certifi- .

rial number and rapk‘





 





 

   

   





 

 





 





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village of Ovid, .over on the bound-

ary line between. Clinton and Shi-

awassee counties, lies the beautiful

seed farm of H”. C. Owen. As I remem-





J UST at the edge of the cozy little





‘ber it, the farm contains some four





hundred acres and is devoted to the

production of vegetable, flower and





A m! Some Porters A 50m" Wflieé He Can Ml] Feel Proud





By P. P. Pope





are all descendants of an old “A Won-

der” sow, no doubt the only living

daughter of that noted old boar still

left in the state. She was shown to

us in fine form and with a nice litter





 





 





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The New Hog House on the Owen Farm is Unusually Well Lighted.





farm seeds and bulbs. *An extensive

farm house of masonry construction,

and of liberal dimensions over in the

town furnishes storage for the prod-

ucts and equipment for clearing and

preparing them for the trade. As side

lines Mr. Owen has some choice pens

of pure-bred poultry and a high-class

herd of pure-bred swine. It is the- hogs

and the new and up—to-date hog house

that this letter“ is written especially

about



Several days ago, on a bright, fresh

frosty morning it was my privilege,

in company with a few other pure-

bred swine “fans” to view the herd

in their everyday‘ surroundings and

inspect the new central hog house.

First to call for attention was the sen-

ior herd sired by the national grand

champion Poland China boar, “Reve-

lation.” To date he has never been

fitted for show but just kept in good

growing condition and used heavily in

the breeding herd. He has a wonder-

ful back, perfect head, good set of feet

and legs, a pleasing disposition, and a

great ‘bunch of sons and daughters.

The brood sews are a good lot. They





ICHIGAN will be there. The

spirit of friendly but mighty

keen_~ competition is apparent

among farmers in every county in the

state. The International Grain and





Hay Show is the big event that is stir--





ring up the enthusiasm ‘these days.

Over in Coopersville the grange held

a little preliminary workout of their

own. It was a corn and grain show





and every entry was ,of a type that





would do honor to Michigan, even at

the big international. Farmers at.

Coopersville say they are going to

make that a seed corn center and they

are all exhibiting atthe International

Grain and Hay Show next month to

“tell the World” what good seed corn

they have ..,

Michigan’s famous ROSen Rye will





 





of pigs a'week or so old by her side.



Perhaps the greatest attraction from

the breeder’s standpoint, was the jun-

ior herd sire which the capable herds-

man, Frank Revise by name, seemed

to delight in showing. And who could

blame him. The‘pig is sired by “Peter

the Great.” He is a recent arrival

from the celebrated Glenwells herd of

G. H. Glover, at Grandview, Missouri,

and there seems to be no limit to his





capacity for rapid growth. He is the ~





extreme in big type and combines a

goodly degree of quality with enorm-

ous size for age. You look at him and

smile in wonderment, ask again about

his age, then look some more and mar-

vel that so much bulk could grow in-

side a hog’s hide in so short a time.

He will be mated to a choice lot of

Revelation gilts and the outcome of

the venture watched with interest.

The hOg house, as shown in the illus-

tration, is of the semi—monitor roof

type. It is sixty-six feet long by twen-

ty-eight feet in width. There is an

eight-foot feed alley with a row of pens

ten by twelve feet in the clear, on

either side. These are so arranged





certification of-their rye. Last year

Michigan rye growers took the first

twenty-five out of thirty awards. One

grower said, “The only reason Michi-

gan didn’t take all thirty was because

there were only twenty-five of us ex-

hibiting.” Competition is getting keen-

er, though, and growers in the Wol-

verine state are going to have to put

some extra elbow grease on their fan-

ning mill, stick close to the purest Of

Rosen seed, and not forget a little acid

phosphate and other elements that

help make winners, if they are to con-

tinue the splendid performance of the.

past three years.



Read Rockwheat, another big inter-

natiOna‘l winner, will be there in force.

0. D. Finkbeiner, of Clinton, already





has won laurels for Michigan and him-

_ self A butane! of his Certified Red





that temporary partitions may be plac-

ed through the center of each pen,

making double the number of pens

each six by ten feet, so that twenty

sows and their litters may be accom-

modated at one time if it is so desired.

The lighting is well-nigh perfect. The

house faces the south and the windows

are large, and there are lots of them.

A feature wbrthy of mention is the

manner in which the floors are laid.

They are of hollow clay tile, covered

with an inch or so of concrete. This

leaves a dead air space underneath the

floors and thus removes the curse of

cold and dampness always associated

with solid concrete floors and so dead-

ly to new-born. pigs. My attention was

called some time ago to a hog house

floor that was laid one-half over hollow

clay tile and the other half of solid

construction. The surface presented

exactly the same appearance to the

eye but the hogs would continually

fight for a bed over the tile, refusing

to lie on the solid concrete if there

was room to crowd in on the other.

Another feature of this hog house

that is different is the feeding arrange-

ment. The troughs are of solid con-

crete and are built within the eight-

foot space devoted to alley, leaving

the pens ten feet deep in the clear.

The floor of the feeding alley is raised





 





 





A Son of Revelation.





to a level with the top of troughs and

has a slight crown, so I say all that is

necessary is to spill the swill on the

alley floor and the hogs are fed.



The front walls of the pen are

made to slope outward toward the al-

ley at thebottom, the bottom of these

walls being fastened to irons imbedded

in the concrete at the alley edge of

the trough, while the top rail is direct-





ly over the inner, or pen side, of the '





trough. An open space of a feW inch-

es between the bottom of this partition

and the edge of trough makes the feed-

ing very convenient.



Mr. Owen and his assitant, Mr. Re-

vise, are both gentlemen of the ap-

proved type, who take both pride and

pleasure in doing good work, and do-

ing it well. They are destined to’be

heard from in the better line stock

field in the not distant future.





 





GlrandSOn of an International Champion Enjoying the Sunlight on the South

Side of their Well-constructed House.





.Michigan Farmers Will Be There





By H. C'. Ratéer





Rock entered at the International

Wheat Show at Wichita, Kansas, won

first in the class for soft red winter

wheat and another bushel won third

in the open class, competing with hard

winter and spring wheats as well as

wheat of its own grade. This news

has awakened the interests of a lot

more of the Red Rock growers to the

opportunities at Chicago.



There'will be entries of Shepard’s

Perfection, too. Michigan climate,

Michigan soils and Michigan varieties

combine to make wheat of outstanding

quality and it will not be surprising to

see Michigan growers carry effigthe

majority of the soft winter wheat

awards as they have done in the past.



‘One of- the interesting features of





~Mi‘chigan’s record at past international





shows has been the ' fact that the





experiences in keen competition. .





awards did not go to the socalled pro-

fessional type of exhibitors. Instead,

the big honors, the big money premi-

ums, the trophies and medals have

gone to practical farmers, like Charles

Laughlin, of Dansville; the Hutzlers,





the Johnsons, and Irwin Beck of South»





Manitou; W. O. Skire, of Cedar Run;

J. W. Vietengruber, of Frankenmuth;

Ray Brothers and Farley Brothers, of

Albion; Ralph Arbogast, of Union City;

Gifford Patch, of Clarklake; L. L. Law-

rence, of Decatur, and many others.

Here are men producing their crops

on a field scale, entering into the real

spirit of grain shows by exhibiting





samples really representative of those _ _





crops, those same crops being good





enough to win their honors in compe-





tition with the best in North America.



Every season adds to this list the

names of men inspired by a desire for

like achievements, learning from th





   





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:sussrrrurme BRAN'AND MID-

DLIENGS FOR OATS.





I have on hand a quantity of bran

and middlings mixed, carrying 15. 50

per cent protein. ‘1 feed silage con-

taining a good supply of dented corn,

and cut stover from which the corn

has been husked in the morning, and

silage and alfalfa or clover at night.

Can I get as good results by using the

bran and middlings in plaCe of oats?

—-M. T. B. .



Since oats contain 10.7 per cent of





 





”digestible protein, while your bran and .





middlings mixed contain between

twelve and fifteen per cent, it will not

require 200 pounds of the latter to take

the place of 200 pounds of oats. In

fact, 150 pounds of bran and middlings

would replace that quantity of oats so

far as the protein is concerned.





WHEN AND HOW TO APPLY LIME.





 





I would be pleased to know the best

time to sow lime. Can it be sown

with a grain drill?—C. H.





The proper time to apply lime is af-

te1 the land is plowed and before the

crop is planted. Lime should not be

plowed down. It will leach through

the soil fast enough. Lime applied in

the winter time is liable to be carried

off by surface water during freshets.



A grain drill is not suitedto the

work of applying lime. The lime will

not feed through satisfactorily, nor

will such a drill have capacity for ap-

plying enough. It is not practical to

put on less than a ton of ground lime-

stone per acre. A good lima drill can

be purchased now for fifty dollars or

less. They distribute the lime evenly

and will put on sufficient quantity. If

you can'provide no lime spreader, a.

fairly good job of spreading may be

done from a wagon with a shovel. A

little experience will enable you to ap-

ply the right quantity.





 





SEEDING ALFALFA.





 





I have a field of rather poor sandy

loam soil which stood in sod a number

of years as pasture. This year raised

a fair crop of corn This fall I ap-

plied 300 pounds of sixteen per cent

phosphate per acre and 1,200 pounds

of g1ound limestone pe1 acre, and sow-

ed to rye and vetch, and I have a good

stand of it. I want to know the quick-

est and best method of getting this

field into alfalfa. I haven’t any barn-

yard fertilizer to use, but am willing

to use whatever lime and chemicals

are necessary. I have a field of sandy

loam which grew a good 010p of red

beans—thirteen bushels per acre this

yea1 without fertilizer of any kind. I

want to plant this field to corn in 1923

and have no barnyard fertilizer for it.

I would like to know what chemicals

to use, when and how to apply them

to get best results.--C. P.



In order to get a stand of alfalfa as

soon as possible I would suggest that

you allow the rye and vetch to stand

in the spring until it is about four to

five inches high, or until it is all thor-

{oughly green, and then plow the same

down, taking extra care that all ma-.

Nterial is turned under. This will dis-



,‘pose of the rye and vetch and at the

same-time add a small amount of or-

ganic matter to the soil. Roll the soil

with a heavy roller, or better, with a

oultipacker. Make another application

of lime, either of a finely ground grade

of limestone at the rate of about one

and one-half tons to the acre, or marl,

if such is available, at the rate of about

three cubic yards ‘per acre. Work this

material into the soil with a spring-

tooth or Spike tooth harrow. If the





 

 

 





"ably be advisable to harrow the ground

\ abeut once a week for about ‘two to

"hree weeks to kill the young weeds.

_ of. more than a week previous to

T"seeding,- an application of a 2-12-4 or





   

   

 

   





 

 

 





 

 





gland contains weed seed it would prob- ,'





2-10-4 fertilizer at the rate of approxia

mately 250 pounds per acre, either ap-

plied with a grain drill or broadcasted

and worked into the soil will prove

profitable. ‘



Obtain Grimm seed from a reliable

source andinoculate.





ical laboratories of the Michigan Ag-

ricultural College, East Lansing, Mich-

igan. Full directions for inoculation

are furnished with the cultures.





Seed the alfalfa when the ground is

moist in the first part of June. The

rate of seeding for Grimm seed is ten

pounds per acre. 'In case you cannot

obtain the Grimm seed and are forced

to use the common, then seed at the

rate of about fifteen pounds per acre.

Seeding can either be done with a

drill or broadcasted and worked into

the soil. Extra care should be taken

not to get the seed too deep,



On a sandy loam soil corn usually

responds well to a 2-12—0 fertilizer at

the rate of about 250 pounds per acre.

This fertilizer applied broadcast and

worked into the soil or through a grain

drill a short time previous to seeding

is usually the best practice—G. M. G.,

M. A. C.





NUISANCE.





 





If A leaves a dead horse unburied,

can he be compelled to bury it? The

health officer is this party's father, so

there is no use of complaining to him.

—E. K. R.





Nuisances may be abated by act of

any person specially injured without

any legal proceedings; or they may be

abated by injunction order, or. suit for

damages may be maintained to re-

cover the injury suffered thereby; or





Farmers’





The inoculation

can be Obtained from the bacteriolog-





‘the party may be convicted Criminally





for maintaining a nuisance. No one

can abate the nuisance nor maintain

an action for the injury therefrom un-

less he suffers special damage there-

from different from the general pub-

lic. —Rood.





 





CHILDREN OF‘ DIVORCED

COUPLE.





 





. My wife and I are living apart. She

went away on her own account. We

have three girls and a boy, all of them

with me. Can She distribute those

children to whom she pleases, without

my consent ?——Subscriber.



She cannot disturb custody of ch11-





dren without order of court—Rood.





A CONCRETE CHIMNEY.





 





Can I use concrete to build a serv-

iceable chimney for my house—F. H.





The walls of a chimney used for

stoves, fireplaces, or heating furnaces

may be satisfactorily built of concrete.

The chimney should be lined with fire

clay, flue lining made for the purpose,

and have walls not less than four inch-

es thick, exclusive of flue linings. If

the concrete is poured in place it

should be reinforced, both vertically

and horizontally to avoid the possibil-

ity of cracks due to settling of founda-

tions 0r temperature stresses. Con-

crete blocks should be similarly rein-

forced in both directions. A quarter-

inch rod vertically in each corner

about one and one-half inches in, and

a No. 9 wire around these every six

to eight inches, will be Sufficient. Wov-

en wire fence of No. 9 wire would be

satisfactory and probably more easily

placed.





In frame buildings the chimney!





Week at M. A. C.





Preliminary Announcement





N connection with the announce.

ment of dates for Farmers' Week,

which will be held at M. A. C. from





January 28 to February 3, agricultural.





leaders call attention to the strategic

part it now plays in the whole program

of agricultural extension: This annual

round-up, which brings to East Lan-

sing several thousand persons each

Winter, has become the foremost agri-

cultural meeting in Michigan, and from

it radiate most of the farm activities

of the entire year.





Farmers’ Week is significant primar-

ily for the definition of the issues fac-

ing agriculture, as set forth by‘ men

prominent in the nation's affairs. Usu-

ally these speakers are so chosen and

their subjects so assigned that a few

vital subjects—cooperation, or credit,

or effcient production—are emphasiz-

ed. Press despatches carry what is

said to all points of the state, and-the

farmers who hear the addresses help

to spread the ideas broadcast. In this

way the attention of the entire state

is focused upon the most pressing

problems of the moment.





Another importantresult of Farm-

ei's' Week is the centralizing of the

activities of a dozen or more leading

agricultural associations, which hold

their annual meetings at the college

i~1 cor-.ma-tttion with the general gather-

i'1g. 15y canvmiing simultaneously,

the organizations are able to work

"1 harmony and to plan programs for

the yeai that will accOmplish a maxi—

mum in the betterment of MiChigan’s



agriculture.





\ Perhaps the most distinctive of the

benefits accruing from the rennin}





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111) is the fine opportunity it affords

to farmers to visit their agricultural

college. Besides listening to- the ad-

dresses at the general sessions and at-

tending the separate association meet-

ings, visitors are able to see exempli-





fied in actual practice themetho‘ds ad»





vocated by college experts; They are

invariably interested in the barns and

laboratories where the soil, crops,

dairy, plant disease and other prob-

lems are werked out. A number of





special exhibits planned for the week-





stress the various phases of efficient

production. The “parade. of agricul-

ture," inaugurated last year, gives the

farmer a concrete notion of the live

stock and equipment owned by the

college and of the multitude of activi-

ties carried on by students.



Merely to absorb the. atmosphere of

the campus for five days and to come

in direct contact with the men who are

blazing the trail in modern agriculture





is in itself an inspiration for, the farm- _





Aer. It’s hard to keep a vision when

you’re engaged day after day in the

routine of chores and farm work. The

man who spends a week at M. A. C.

each year goes home resolved to bet-

ter his own methods of production and

to do what he can to persuade his

neighbors to adopt the same methods.



It is probably safe to say that of

the five thousand farmers who visit

M. A. C. each year a-large portion as-

sume places of leadership in their

home communities; Michigan agricul-

ture is thus given a progressive lead-

ership” from within itself which sup-

plements and makes far more effective

the efforts of the extension workers

sent out by the cellege.-—Henshaw.





 





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should always be built from the

ground up or on the basement wall.

The foundation _should be at least





twelve inches wider on all sides‘than





the chimney



The concrete should be a 1: 2: 4 mix-

ture consisting of one sack (one cubic

foot). of Portland cement, two cubic

feet 'of sand, and four cubic feet of

gravel The material which will pass

through a quarter-inch mesh screen is

classed as sand and that which passes

ove1 as gravel. A mixture of 1: 5 of

cement and bank- -run and gravel in

either case should be free from organ~

ic matter and clean and sharp.



If circumstances make it possible for

a man to do his own labor in building

a chimney, reinforced concrete may be

economically used, otherwise brick

will be found to be cheaper, and a ma-

terial which in many ways lends itself

more readily to this particular use.—

Floyd E. Fogle, M. A. C.





RENTING ERUIT TREES.





 





I rent a farm of B, except the or-

chard, which was rented to another

man. There are three cherry trees

away from the orchard and are in a

field I leased for beans. Has B a right

to lease the land to one man and the

trees in the same field to another? 01'

have I a right to half the fruit on the

trees in my field ?———J. N F.



The lease of the land includes the

fruit from the trees grown thereon and





the lessee is entitled to it.—Rood. '





 





LAN D CONTRACTS.





 





A buys farm on contract. A has

lived on farm two years, but his wife

did not sign contract. Is "it good?—

H. C. J.



Signature on the contract by the

buyer is not necessary, and even if it

were it would not be necessary for the

wife to sign. But the signature of the

wife of the seller is necessary to bar

dower, and if the property is a home-

stead to make the contract valid.—

Rood,





FISHING FROM SHORE.





There is a certain farmer who has

his barnyards'and barn on the Sagi-

naw Bay shore. His cattle pasture

around his own fishing front" as- he

has leased the fishing front. He has

a neighbor Who trespaSses on .his

yards, opening gates and letting cows

out. ,He claims that it is a pdblic

highway. There is a road every half

mile where this man could get to the

shore. The farmer has sign up, but

still his neighbor passes, and some-

times destroys the signs; Is. the man

allowed to fish on this farmer’s fishing

front?—A. P.





The public has no right to fish from

the shore, and the shore is not a high-

way- unless made so by regular pro-

ceedings.—Rood.





 





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VALUE OF SILAGE.





 





Will you kindly give the. value of

good silage per ton ?—J. H. S.





The common price for silage is one:-

third the price .of ‘mixed‘hay in' the

barn. In, other words, if mixed hay is

selling for $12 in the barn, silage

could be figured as worth $4.00 per

ton. If mixed hay is $10 per ton, silage

would be worth about $3.50 per ton.





DAMAGED BY EXPRESS COMPANY.





 





I sold a three-barrel gun. It was sent

by "express. It was bent and dented

past repairing. The company reques

to’pay for it, saying that if it can» be

fixed they will‘pay for it; but it cannot

be fixed. What steps should I take to

get my pay for the gun. 9—‘J.



The express company is liable for





negligent iniuljy to the gun wbile in its. 3

nonunion—39911. '





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





.fl _ -M<' "‘-"w.- ~ _ ,'.4-.‘,_.,.-‘.
‘- » ,HE commercial fruit interests of

Michigan realize that one of the

' greatest weaknesses in the fruit





sectionsof this state has been the

- multiplicity of varieties grown. 'Many





of these” varieties are not best adapted





' to the localities, while the great num-





ber of varieties produced makes it.

impossible to ship single varieties from

many of our‘sections in carload lots.

With the idea of presenting to the

growers a limited number of the best

varieties of fruits for commercial pro;

duction in the several fruit sections,





 





The Recent. Newaygo County Community Fair at Fremont was a Great Suc-

cess. The Exhibits of Fruit and Vegetables were Especially Good.





and the hope of overcoming some of

this weakness of producing such a

multiplicity of varieties, the experi—

mental committee of the Michigan

State Horticultural Society, which is

composed of representative growers of

the several fruit sections of the state

and representatives of the horticultur-

al department of the college, presented

a list of varieties to the State Horti-

cultural Society for general planting

in Michigan. This list is not recom-

mended for the fruit sections about

Grand Rapids and Detroit, but is for

commercial plantings of growers pro-





ducing fruit for the general market.





.It is hoped that for future plantings

these growers will very seriously con-

sider the varieties recommended by

this committee. The varieties are as

follows:





Apples.-——Wealthy, Jonathan, Grimes

(double-worked), McIntosh, Fameuse





(Snow), Rhode Island Greening, Red’





Canada (Steels Red), Hyslop Crab;

Duchess plantings to be 5 limited to





‘ southwestern Michigan, the Spy to

- southern and central Michigan, and





the Wagener to northwestern Mich-

igan. ’ .. 4



Since the Grimes is so susceptible

to collar rot, it is desirable in growing

this tree to purchase it already double-

worked or to plant some other hardy

variety and top-work it to Grimes. The





committee did .not feel that it could





recommend the Duchess for planting

in Oceana county or in, any of the

counties north of this point or the





Wagener‘ 9 for planting in -southern'





Michigan; » .

There are other varieties being ad-





, vertised today that mayprovevmrthy

. 'of recommendation in such a list some

. time in ‘the tuture,.but-;thus. far the





committee- feels; that they could not





_ be recommended. at this time; .

‘ ‘ThegElberta, peachwas theoniy va-r



.rietyf; qr. peach; that they could 'recOm-'

,.'men£1.ior aengmrmmmercm Planting-

m1wchigan ‘ The list got pears recom-





 





 





.‘igiigchigan Standard Varieties

Standardzging F1 uit2Variéz‘ier Will Add to M ic/zzgan’:

’ ‘ Prertige In Outside M arhetr





«HOWell and Bose, together with the





forum grapes which were used former-





s





mended and adopted by the society is

as follows: Bartlett, Kiefier and Seek-

el for general planting, and the Clapp,





previous varieties, for planting in

southwestern Michigan.



The above varieties will be gener-

ally recommended by the society and

by the horticultural department for

Michigan planting until such time as

other varieties prove more desirable

from further tests and it is to be hoped

that all growers and nurserymen inter-

ested in the production of tree fruits





 





in Michigan will be guided by these

recommendations in selecting varie-

ties for Michigan planting.





PEACHMOND, A NEW FRUIT.





 





EPORTS have come from Mexico



that Dr. John Belme, a plant ex-

pert of the Mexican Horticultural De-

partment, has produced a cross be-

tween a peach and an almond, which

combines the flavor of both.





For seven years Dr. Belme has been

endeavoring to cross the sweet almond

with a fine sweet freestone peach

which he procured from the United

States. At last he has succeeded in

producing a fruit which has eliminated

the useless bitter kernel of the peach

and substituted a valuable article of

commerce. The seed of this fruit has





 





a shell 3. little thicker than the ordi-

nary almond, but the kernel is sweet

and about the size of an almond, The ‘

flesh of the fruit is sweet and juicy,

and many experts believe it is supe-

rior to its peach parent.



If this fruit should prove of 'commer-g

cial value, it may be that soon we will i

be able to buy fruits and nuts com-i

bined in one article.





 





GRAPE EMBARGO.





 





HE Erie Railroad has announced a



permanent embargo on all east-

bound shipments of grapes. This ac—

tion was taken because of the great

congestion of grapes at the New York

terminal of the road. Most of these

grapes have come from California,

Michigan and New York.





One of the" officials of the road says '





that grape shipments have increased

greatly during the past four years, be-

cause of the eastern shipments of Cali-





ly togmake wine._ Since the advent of

prohibition the California wine grape

has become popular3 for fresh fruitcon-

sumptipnand also as crushed fruit:





 





   





   





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





If youftzizktook a knife





and sliced it through

—here’s what you’d find:





First a series of strong reinforcements, at every point

‘ of strain and wear——





A flange-shaped sole of one Single, solid piece of

rubber, extending from toe to back of the heel—





Tough, flexible rubber everywhere backed by heavy,

close-woven fabric——





A special lining that adds stiffness to the upper and

prevents wearing out from the inside.



The diagrams below show you some of these details.

Every one means longer wear and greater boot comfort.





We’ve been making rubber footwear for 75 years.

Our factories are manned by craftsmen who know the

value of painstaking care. And we’re proud of the

results-and of the satisfaction “U. S.” Boots are giving

to farmers everywhere.





Other “U. S. ” Footwear—all built for long wear





You’ll find every type of rubber footwear in the big U. S. line.

There’s ‘the U. S. Walrus, the famous all—rubber overshoe—

the U. S. Lace Bootee, a rubber workshoe to be worn over

your socks for spring and fall—U. S. Arctics and Rubbers—

all styles and sizes for the whole family. Look for the

“U. S.” trademark before you buy—the honor mark of the

oldest rubber organization in the world.





United States Rubber Company





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





THE ANKLE-—

An extra “col-

! a r ’ ’ r u n .r

round the leg,

and on top of

that a heavy

ride-nay.





 





THE sons—A thick,

single layer of tough-

est rubber. It: flange

shape mean: extra

duck and rubber. wear. '





run msrnP—A rarity of nkcx or run unst—

’raduated reinforcing One of the strongest

ayer: in the inrgp com- point! of the v .role

bine: flexibility with :ur- boot—II layer: of





pricing strength.
Worn by 3 generations -

of Michigan famifie '---

Herold-Bertech is a household

word for shoe qualityin thou-

sands of Michi an farmhomes. ‘

Father, son an grandson have

found the famous H-B Hard

Pan a shoe that will wear like

iron and keep feet comfisrtahle and

dry during a hard fall and winter.

Herold-Bomb. line of dress shoes

are comfortable, stylish and modern

ately priced.



In almost every Michigan villa e

and town you " d a reha

shoe store featuring the Herold-

Bertsch service shoe line at 33 up,

and dress shoes at ‘5 up.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.



Grand Rapids, Michigan.





   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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These time-tested long lasting batteries deliver a con-

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lights burn brilliantly and steadily-no flickering—and

provide abundant reserve power for heavy dug.“ As

standard equipment on many of the best Farm Light,

Plants. thousands of them are now giving uniform

satisfaction everywhere.





521 Experiments

Don't buy an unproven battery. Twenty ears oi

successlully building batteries for every ki 01' use

are behin every UniverseL 2

throughout these Years, have developed these truly

wonderful all-duty powerful batteries.

sealed glass jars are oversize. use low gravity acid.

making plates last longer. Extra—size sediment space——

no cleanin necessary. Universal Batteries come to

you fully 0 god and sealed—ready to connect right

up to your plant-no assembling. *

We also make‘kadio and. Automobile Batteries

and Repair Parts For Any Make Battery.





Battery Guide Sent FREE



No matter what kind of Plant you have. this inter-

book will show you just how to renew the system



with Universal Batteries. The right size for every

Farm Power and Light System made. It also lists

Parts for all makes 01 batteries. “Care of Batteries"

is another valuable treatise; i also be sent tree

with the new Universal Batter? Guide. When you

write, mention brand—name an age of your present

batteries so that we can give you the correct allowance

figure Write today. (133)





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—wear the 'Brooks Appli-

ance. the modern scienti~

fic invention which gives

rupture sufferers imme-

diate relief. It has no ob-

noxious springs or' pads.

Automatic Air Cushions

bind and draw together

the broken parts.No salves

or plasters. Durable.

Cheap. Sent on trial to

prove its worth. Never on

sale in stores asevery ap-

pliance is made to order.

the proper size and shape

of Air Cushion depending,

oaths nature of each case.





 





   





 

 

 

 





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AN UNIQUE EXEIBFHON.

AKEFIELD will see on Novem-

—- bar 22 a. very interestflig exhibit-





 





. lot the handicraft of many nations, pro-





duced by residents of Gogebic county

of varied European origin. There are





I said to be fifteen different nationalities

‘ represented in the city, all of Whom





are asked to be represented at this ex-

hibition. The affair is under the aus-

pices of the Americanization commit-

tee of the women’s club.





 





SIGNS TO BE REMOVED.





 





IGI—IWAY superintendents of the

‘ Upper Peninsula have received

positive instructions from Mr. E. F.

Rogers, state highway commissioner,





‘ ‘to remove all signs along trunk-line





highways in the district, as the law

requires.





 





ANOTHER COU NTY PARK.





 





GOGEBIC county has established a

park and camp-site on the shore

of Lake Superior at Little Girls’ Point

north of Ironwood. There is a fine

beach and woods. Tables and other

accommodations for travelers and

pleasure-seekers have been provided.

There is a fine road to Ironwood, sev-

enteen or so miles distant, running

through much virgin forest of hard

woods on land that will some day be

under the plow. Indeed, the Ironwood

end of the road exhibits some very fine

farms already.





 





ROU-NDING UP CLUB MEMBERS.





 





OUNTY Agricultural Agent L. M.

Geismar, of Houghton county has

been holding a series of meetings for

the purpose of meeting the boys and

girls who are interested in club work

during the coming year. Mr. Geismar

finds that excellent results have al-

ready come from these clubs and he

wishes to establish more of them.



The two other matters which are in-

teresting Houghton county farmers are

the securing of. federal farm loans and





' securing markets for the very large





potato crop, this fall. In southern

Houghtoni county, farmers have; pro«

d-uced a large quantity of cabbage for

which a. market is being sought.





 





MORE TRACTORS EM PLOYED.





 





THE increasing use of tractors in

the Upper Peninsula as a substi-

tute for horses in the hauling of logs

and for woods operations generally, is

illustrated by the recent practice of a

saw-mill at Lake Linden, which. now





woods. Two tractors hitched to nine

wagons hauled ten thousand feet of

Miler to the mill in one operation.

This is a tremendous saving of. horse

flesh. On the other hand, Iron Moun-

tain reports that the car shortage is

interfering with, shipments of lumber





by rail.

A GOOD YEAR’S WORK.





 





LAND-CLEARING Specialist L. F.

Livingston, of the Michigan Agri-

cultural College, has returned to his

office in the .Marquette county court

house after completing the land-clear-

ing campaign in sixteen counties of

the northern section of the Lower Pe-

ninsula. Twenty-dye » demonstration





at Cheboygan, September 14; thirty-

one selected areas were cleared of

stumps. in the‘presencer and with the

assistance oi: 4,000 mm« farmers.





 





 

 





m ' ; co. 392 Stats 8h, Immunol-





013 the farmers present, 1,265 will re-





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cei've short-course [certificates as a1 re»





employs five of thme machines in the,





schools were held, beginning with that .





   





 





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suit of their participating. in the work

of these schools.



— Mr. Livingston reports ' that ‘ one-

fourth' of the. farmers who attended

these schoolswere without experience-

with dynamite previous to the holding

of the schools, and it issaid that these

farmers were gratified from learning

the possibilities of this explosive. In-

quiries from other sections of southern

Michigan received at the Marquette

office indicate that other farmers are





, becoming interested in the land-clear-

‘ ing. methods that Mr. Livingston and

‘ his assistants. have demonstrated thus





effectively. Equipment similar to that

used in the Upper Peninsula campaign,

last spring, was employed, including

a mixed train of flat, box and sleeping

cars.





 

 





 





 





 





THEMenominee Rfiver Sugar Com

pany—e-the only beet sugar factory





.in the Upper Peninsula—was due ,to ,





open about October 12. It 'wll-l run





until about Christmas, it is reported. .





The yield of. beets in its territory.

which includes the] southern portion

of the Upper Peninsula, is said to

have been unusually heavy.





SOLDIERS WANT LAND.





 





MERICAN Legion men in the cop-



per country are manifesting cons

siderabte interest in the plans of the

State Department of Agriculture for

placing service men on. the land, and 1a

meeting for the consideration of this

subject was held at Calumet, Novenr'

her 9, and was addressed by'the State

Commissioner of Agriculture, Mr. .1.

A. Doelle. The meeting was held un-

der the auspices of‘ the Legion posts

of Calumet and Keweenaw.





 





l8 OPPOSED T0 LOWER‘ING IN.

DEMNlTY FOR T”. B. CATTLE.





 





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UNDERSTAND that there is a sent-



iment favorable to reducing the

amount of indemnity paid for cattle

found affected with tuberculosis. This,

I think, is entirely wrong. It is my

opinion that the farmer ought to have

more than he is getting now. When

the state condemns a piece of prop-

erty for public good'they expect to pay

the owner what the property is worth.

If the state takes a man’s animals for

the public good why should they not

pay what those animals are worth?—

W. R. Hogan, Saginaw County.





BOYS’ AND GIRLS' WORK IS’ IM-

PORTANT.





 





HERE is no work being done by



the educational institutions of the

country that quite equal, in my estima-

-tion, the value of that done in the

clubs for the boys and girls. The way

these club members look after their

job is amazing. The valuable things

they learn is beyond me. Through the

leaders being developed in these or-

ganizations I have faith that the next

generation of farmers will not be the

unskilled farmers and the poor busi-

ness men that we farmers of the pres-

ent day are—L. G. Strait, Oceana

County.





HELP ounsvass.





 





HILE we are complaining so gen-



erously about our condition, I

think we are just making ourselves

less fit to do our work. When a fellow

can lay the blame on some one else,

then he goes at his work just half-

heartedly. And everyone knows that

to go at farming at the present time

in a. half-hearted manner means fail-

ure. We must sow good seeds on fer-

tile lands, grow good stoCk and then

go about the marketing problem in a

way that we may be able to learn the

fundamentals as we go.——B. C., 'Gratiot

County. ,- ' ' '





 





STANDARD VARIETIES AGAIN.





 





SEE that Professor Marshall Jdoes



not agree with me in regard to

varieties to. plant. He is right, of

course, but the difference between us

lies in the fact that he is speaking

frbm the standpoint 'of the best. varies

ties for Michigan, while I have- the





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dollars and cents- viewpoint. Green

apples simply will not sell, no matter

how high the quality. The Greening

is an excellent apple, but if people Will

not buy them, why set out trees of

that variety? McIntosh has been very

much overplanted and. I fear it will go

the same way the Duchess did, i. e.,

not sell for enough to pay for the

freight and packages. I have in 'mind

the law of supply and demand. The

lowly Ben Davis is a. most excellent

keeper and the market demands a red,

red apple. Along about February, the

Ben Davis will bring a nickel apiece.

If people are bound to eat inferior fruit

such as. Ben Davis apples and Elberta

peaches, then it is a. great deal more

profitable to supply the demand than

to educate the consumer.





As an instance of this I refer to the

«past summer. The Prolific and Cap-

tain Eads peaches are far superior to

any Elberta ever grown. Many people

around here had set out orchards of

these varieties and had a big crop.

The buyers would not even look at

them, but demanded Elbertas only.

Only for the tourist, roadside market

the growers would have been unable

to. sell these peaches, and even so,

there were hundreds of bushels that

were never picked. Personally, I am

chuck full of altruism, but when the

kids need new shoes and winter clothes

it is the Elberta peach, the Ben Davis

apple and the Keifler pear that pro-

duce the necessary spondulicks. But

enough of that. Far ’be it from me to

stand" in. he way of educating the comb

sumer to higher standards.—-—L. B. R.





FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE

TABLE.





 





How the farmers are going to get by

with the help that is now available

in the country is more than I can

figure—R. ’1‘. Smith.





The present coal situation makes us

farmers wish many times that we had

the 01d wood-lot in the condition it

once was—S. Brackett. ‘





I have been in the west. It is ap-

parent to me that the prospects for

farmers in Michigan are grand, as com-

pared with the'butlook' for the west-

ern many. They are simply up against

the. impossible 'until the railroad rates

can be reduced, or' until they attract

more industries into that sections-W;





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I
bulls used by dairyme'n.





’ do likewise.





 





 





 





 





,ir, tari’tairisaa that “thetbull‘ is





,j. .- Khan the herd.” but the truth of the





‘ matter is. that, weighed, in the milk

scales'vand in the annual balance sheet,





'he'isfar more thanhalf the herd. In





truth, the‘whole success and future of

the dairy industry depends upon "the

'The'pure-

bred sire indelibly stamps his progeny

with, the “trade—mark” of his own

breed, and his owner soon feels the

direct benefits resulting therefrom.





For the farmer of average means the

best plan is to buy a young bull whose

maternal ancestors during several gen-

erations showed great yearly “milk and

butter-fat production records. Only

bulls which have the backing of close-

ly-related, high-producing ancestors

can improve. a herd. Keep this point

in mind: Most good bulls are regis-

tered, but not all registered bulls are

good. The prepotent bull stamps his

calves with his own desirable quali-

ties. Therefore he must have desir-





_ ByW A F/zf





grewing ration for the young'bull is:





Skim-milk, clover or alfalfahay, silage





or roots, one to five pounds, depend-

ing upon his age, and one-half to one

pound of the following grain mixture:

Oats, three parts; wheat bran, one

part; cornr one part; and oilmeal, one-

tenth part. The mature bull requires

feed that gives strength and vitality,

but not fat. ,He should receive from

eight to- fifteen pounds of silage daily,

but no more. A good ration for him

is: Silage, eight to fifteen pounds;

hay, eight to twelve pounds; and grain

mixture, two to four pounds, consist-

ing of three parts of cats and one part

of wheat bran.





AN EXPERIMENT IN LAND'MAR-

’ KETING.





 





PRACTICAL demonstration of the

advantages in producing high-

class lambs was given recently at the

Jersey City lamb marketwhen two





 





A Shrong Outside Enclosure Arranged so the Bull Can Have Exercise will

Improve His_ Health and at the Same Time Keep Him in Better Temper.





able qualities, and he must be strong

and energetic in order to unfailingly

pass them on. ' Look for the wide muz—

zle, the broad forehead, prominent

eye, deep chest, big barrel, open-joint-

ed frame, long, straight rump and

loose skin, all combined in the good-

sized animal.

ing masculinity, strive for vigor and

vitality in the new herd sire. Beware

of the undersized, lazy, dull-eyed bull;

he is never a money maker for his

owuer. ’





See that the bull gets plenty of ex-

ercise. It will improve both his phy-

sical condition and his temper. Do

not keep him “jailed”.day after day

in a small box-stall. Give him a strong-

ly fenced exercise lot, provided with

some sort of shelter against sun and

rain and files; here he may exercise

at will. Feed him for masculinity rath-

er than for fat. See that his winter

quarters are light, well ventilated and

sanitary. Handle him frequently and

gently while he is still young; it will

then be easier to manage him when he

grows older. Use a bull-staff at all

times, and insist that the hired men

Remember that it is the

docile bull—so-calle’cl—~that does the





damage and gives us the fags for-





items such as this, so commonly seen

in daily and weekly newspapers;

"Farmer Gored‘t'o Death by Bull." How

often the report goes on to state that

the offending animal was the “pet of

the family.” The safe bull is the one

that is‘never given an opportunity to

be otherwise, and that is not permitted





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carloads of lambs from West Virginia

that had been docked and castrated,

and which had been well cared for,

topped the market at $16.25 per 100

pounds, $1.00 above the next highest

price paid that day. One load of 189

lambs averaged sixty-five pounds in

weight. '



The second load included 211 lambs

which averaged seventy-five pounds in

weight. The commission firm making

the sale informed the representative

of the United States Department of

Agriculture that $16.25 was the high-

est price secured for lambs at Jersey

City in a long while, but the lambs

were very fancy, and desirable from

the standpoint of the butchers. The

department official says the price was

from fifty cents to $1.00 higher than

would have been secured for the same

weight of mixed bucks and ewes, and

shows the advantage from‘the produc~

er's standpoint of trimming lambs in

the country.





 





GERMAN POTATO CROP POOR.





 





FFICIAL data confirm reports that

potato growing in Germany has

probably suffered more from the war

than any other major agricultural

crop. Production has dropped more

than fifty per cent. The reduction has

broken down many prosperous indus-

trial enterprises such as, the manufac-

ture of potato flour and starch and of

industrial alcohol. Animal husbandry

has also been placed under a severe

handicap through the shortage of po-

tatoes for feeding purposes. The hog

industry in- Germany is quite depend-

ent— up0n the potato crop. While be-

fore the war less than thirty per cent





of the crop was used for human food,





nowabout seventy per cent is sold for





. that purpose.





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trunks.” You get posture trees. You

have to grow them close enough to-





straight. And what is just-as import-

ant, if they are too far apart you will

get branches on the sides of the trunk.

Remember that‘every branch means a

knot. By shading the sides of the

trunk. few side-branches will grow, and

those that 'do‘ will-- die early, leaving

only small knots. Lumber is worth

more. than cordwood and clear lumber

mere than knotty pieces. Trees grown

in the open yield practically nothing

but cordwood, with perhaps a little

knotty lumber.





Item four reads, “The trees should

be of all ages.” That doesn’t mean

that you must have trees, one, two,

three, etc, years old, but it does mean

that your wood-lot should have trees

of all age groups and hence all sizes.

Every woodlot managed as an uneven-

aged forest should have seedlings, sap-

lings, poles, and so on up to mature

trees. By having trees of all ages you

will always, have some that are ready

for cordwood and others of lumber

size. It will give you a little to do

every winter instead 01' having it all

crowd on you in one year and then

have nothing to do‘for a long time. It

is also usually considered possible to-

get, more out of a piece of land by

having the trees uneven-aged.





There should always be more of the

younger trees. As they grow older

some of them must be cut out to make

room for the others. Therefore of the

oldest trees there will be fewest. The

following figures will give you some

idea as to how many trees a typical

broadleaf wood-lot should contain. The

trees run from seedlings to trees

eighteen inches in diameter at. (D. B.





 





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H.) four and a hall" feet from the

ground.

Size of Tree.

D. B. H. Number.

1 to 4 inches 250

4 to 6 inches 100

6 to 8 inches 68

8 to 10 inches 39

10 to 12 inches 25

12 to 14 inches 19,

14 to 16 inches 13

16 to 18 inches 10

Total, per acre. . .524





The next question is “When is :1

Trees decrease

in rate of growth as they grow older.





.Unless you have an especially good





market for large trees it isn’t good

business to let trees get over eighteen

inches in diameter. In the preceding

table it was assumed that all trees

were cut when they reached the eight-





een-inch diameter class.





It is also very- important that you

have the right kind of trees 111 your

Trees that grow fast, live

long. aren’t likely to rot, andhfurnish





:good quality timber are the kind that

.yOu. want.





You should help such trees

by cutting out less valuable kinds

when they interfere-with them. If any





(continued from page 525)





getherto: force them to grow tall and





of these trees grow in your locality

you should favor them: basswood,

white ash, walnut, chestnut, black

cherry, and red oak. - Please note that

I said, f‘If these treesgrow in your 10-

cality.” Don’t plant a tree because

you have seen it grow like a. weed in

another state. If you must experiment

do. it. on a. very small scale, and don’t

charge it to the woodw-lot’s account.

Your experiment station is better able

to carry on such experiments and you

may be sure that if they ever discover

a tree which will bring phenomenal re-

turns they will tell you about it. Na-

ture usually ‘knows what will grow

well in your wood-lot, and if it hasn’t

been cut over too heavily, you Will

find everything right there which na-

ture found worthwhile.





'Then there are some trees like 3113- .





ar maple, yellow birch, white oak,

hickory, and elm that may be placed

in an intermediate class. These trees

are valuable: but not as valuable as

those listed in the last paragraph. The

following list includes those trees

which are as a rule, least valuable.

They should be cut out of your wood-

lot in favor of the more valuable trees

already mentioned. They are: Aspen

or popple, dogwood, pin cherry, beech,

red maple, June berry, alder, sumach,

ironwood, blue beech, Witchhazel, etc.

All of these trees have some bad points

which makes their presence undesir-

able. Also it is usually better to have

trees of several varieties in your





woods. Remember the old saying about .





putting all your eggs in one basket.

Several kinds of trees protect you

against complete loss, as most insects

and many diseases only attack one

species. Besides the different trees

give wood of different quality 'to suit

your various needs.



Just how to proceed with this wood-

lot program will be described in'an

early issue, probably next week. Watch

for it.





TO FIGHT GRAIN RUST.





N November 14 the second annual



conference for the prevention of

grain rust will be held at St. Paul.

Minnesota. Here will gather members

from twelve north central states in

the spring wheat area. The conference

will review the work done during the

past year in eradicating the common

barberry as a means of checking the

ravages of the black stem rust and will

also discuss plans for aiding the Unit- ‘

ed States government in the continua-

tion of this work.



Michigan is vitally interested in this

subject and will take a prominent part

in the program. Members who will

likely attend the conference are Gov—

ernor Groesbeck, James Nichol, presi:

dent of the State Farm Bureau, H. H.

Halliday, secretary of the Agricultural

College, and Dr. G. H. Coons, plant

pathologist of the college. .





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~ Coinmodity’i Cooperative ' marketing as-

sociauiéns ”called by Senator Capper,

,iamdfto'ibe held at Washington, Decem-

, ' her 14:16, win pe rural, credits legisla-

‘ tion from'th’e' standpoint of. coopera-

tive marketing associations. The com-

‘mon problems of cooperative market-

mg associations, and particularly the

problems attending the handling of the

various commodities will be presented.

Each commodity group will hold a sep-

arate ‘meeting. ‘

One of the chief objects of this con-

ference is the establishment of an ov-

erhead organization in which it is hop.

ed to federate all farmers’ commodity

cooperative organizations. The com-

mittee of organization announces its be-

lief “that the future of agriculture, and

that means‘the future of the country,

is bound up in the success of commod-

, ity cooperative marketi g of farm

products, and that this meeting of

' men, and minds, to hear the leaders, to

’exchange experiences and ideas, to

discuss common problems with the

representatives of other groups, will

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Have the Bees Been Given Attention?





 





 





CONTROL WHEAT RUST





 





HE farmers of European countries

have eradicated wheat rust by





eliminating the barberry bush from‘





their respective countries. Five coun-

tries have accomplished this largely

by means of laws. In England the

farmers took matters in their own

hands and eliminated this bush. In

Denmark, where the bushes have been

removed, farmers are no longer trou-

bled with outbreaks of the rust, while

in Sweden this disease is extremely

destructive, because there little at-

tempt has been made to get rid of the

barberries.





 





PLEASED WITH FEDERAL EOIATO

GRADES. '





IF reports can be truSted, g very

great majority of the buyers of po-

tatoes in carlots are demanding that

shippers do business on the basis of

United States‘ grades. Many buyers

declare that it is almost impossible to

sell any potatoes except those graded

strictly United States No. 1’s. The

buyers also insist that each bag be

properly tagged.





 





WORTH TEN CENTS PER BUSHEL





STUDENTS of grain production and

marketing estimated that were the





St. Lawrence waterway in operation-





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When the smashing. price cuts on genuine Rex Tops make



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Check over the list of popular-make cars at the

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the interior. With the Rex Top you forget the

leaky, flapping curtains; you have all the protection

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which is “tailored” to fit your car.





Your Dealer Will Gladly

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The dealer from whom you bought your car will

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you how easily they are adjusted for every season

of the year (see pictures below) and explain how

Rex patented construction holds the weight down

(saving tires and gasoline) and still keeps the top

free from squeaks and rattles—absolutely noise

proof. '



He will also tell you about the big price cut on Rex

Tops—and how little it costs to install the particular

model which fits your car.



Prepare to enjoy your car this winter by getting in

touch with your dealer at once.





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mouse, as well as the biggest rat.





As a special inducement to get you to try

Youngstown Expanded Metal for rat-proofing

we have a limited quatity of this material in

narrow widths and varying lengths to be Sold

at 3c per SQU’II'C foot, freight paid to your

d at. Figure up the quantity you can lish

a ew dollars invested now will more than pay

the slight expense of rat—proofing your build-

ings. Don't board rats at $7.00 or_ more a





year each!

The

Youngstown Pressed

Steel Company

WARREN, OHIO





flocks from which the members of 'morning is to encourage the hens to

the Michigan Baby Chick/ Association eat the mash, so as to get their re-

will secure their eggs for hatching quired proportions 0f meat scraps.

purposes is already under way. Each Hens naturally like scratch feed the

hatchery man or commercial egg man best, but if fed light early in the day,

is culling the flock from which he gets they Will fill up on mash and then in





his work, he notifies the Chairman of feed. By this system of feeding, they

the certification committee, and then W11! eat more than they would ordi-

when the local work is done the poul- narily. _ .

try experts of M. A. C. will check up In order to keep the hens in 800d





certification. . |

This certification work is only one as recommended .above.” In other?

of the activities in~which the Michigan words, Leghorns W111 receive approkr.

Baby Chick Association is engaged to mately 099 pound 0f scratch fee‘? ml

put the business of its members on an the morning and three in the evening-s!

honorable and unquestionable basis. Thls 15 to encourage the hens to eat!

The constitution and by-laws of this more mash in order that they be pro-5





association contains a code of ethics pared to do their active laying during‘





to which all members must subscribe. “.19 fa“ months when egg prices are

It is as follows: high. Starting November 1, the scratch





 





 





I 1’ The Over-Night Remedy





sign in poultry. It usual-

] ‘ ly means deadly Roup. A

few drops of Roup-Over

will quickly clear the air

passages, and the sick fowl

is soon all right. Nothing

else like it for Roup, Colds

and Canker. At your deal-

er’s, or send 500 for a. bot-

tle (extra. large size $1) by

mail prepaid. Money re-





CANKER funded if not satisfied.





 





   





Running nose is a danger ‘





 





Burrell-Dug‘ger Co., Jndianapolis, Ind.





 





 





 





POULTRY





 





svldPlIllETSW





This space belongs to Simon Harkema

and Sons. Breeders of American—Eng-

lish Strain of S. C. W. Leghorns.





Chicks, Pullets and Breeding Cockerels

in season. Sold out for season of 1922.





Simon Harkema and Sons,

Holland, Mich.





Emma-K!





POSTAGE PAID, 95‘ live

arrival guaranteed.





 





 





 





A Hatch Mlohm‘n'ls lgEElzo gandn

w t use or or we 3



Every week chicks, 4 breeds ducklings,

A“ Year select and exhibition grades.





 





Catalog free, stamps appre-

ciated.

Dept. 15.





 





NABOB HATCH'EBY.





PULLETS





Weret hm a few hundred Pulletl lnLeghorns.

Barred Rocks, White Wyandottes and Orplngtons.

The most of these Pallets are now near laying age

and should be at into winter laying uarters soon.

ou want. a ock of winter layers. w to to us now.

Iso Cockerels, Bronze Turkeys, Toulouse Goose

and Pekln Ducks.





STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

V Kalamazoo, Michigan





Pullets and Hens





Beacon Strain S. C. W. Leghorns and Parks strain

B. Rocks. Large pullets starting to lay 81.75 each. 12

weeks old pallets $1.25 each, 8115 per 100. Selected

S. . W. :zhorn hens 81.00 each. 590 per 100. Good

healthy birds no cul-ls or weakllngs.





Gambier. O.





 





 





 





. _ mm BAY POULTRY FARM. Holland, Mich.

' ' $12.00 per

Baby Chicks ,0, ..... ..





~_€6tchl'nfi eggs. 81.50 per setting to $15.00 per 1 .



:~ tare sting]? varieties of pure bred towls: Chick-



our. east. Ducks it Ina-D. also breeding stock.



. ' for prices and clr solar. Booking now rearly

err. CLINTON BAa’l'CHEBY J: P0 LTEY

Wilmington. Ohio.





I. lat-rod. Rock Cockerels





stilt): brad. oocksrols at 82:16am





 





 

 

 





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“We possess the greatest faith in feed should be increased gradually:

the baby ChiCk industry. " . untll the full amount IS given. I

We believe that baby chicks possess . He says many poultry feeders makel

the factors of convenience, safety, cer— Inquiry about the use Of tankage, in-I

tainty and economy in replenishing the stead Of beef scraps. From h1s expe-i

poultry flocks, rience he finds that tankage will not!

We pledge our earnest cooperation produce the number of eggs that beet!l

with and protection of the public scraps do. But it it can be bought at:l

through honest, truthful advertising; $10 per ton less than meat scraps, 1t;

honest, upright business methods, hon- would be worth usmg as a substitute,

est production and sale of chicks as as the meat scraps will not Pm“???

represented. enough more eggs to make up the dit-

Lastly, We believe in the Michigan fel‘ence “1 Go“-



Baby Chick Association, subscribe to '

the principles for which it stands, and

agree to be bound by its rules.”



The action of the principal chick .

hatchers of Michigan in forming this C OLUMBIA BELL, a White Leg.

association to assist them in building horn hen at Santa Cruz, California, I

a business on such a basis is certainly which was entered in the California

a laudable one. A baby chick is sure Farm Bureau Federation Contest by

to be a big factor in the development L. H. Stewart, broke the .world’s rec-

of the poultry industry of the state, 0rd by laying 324 eggs in a year. The

and the action of these hatchery men previous world’s record was 315 eggs

in their endeavors to give quality in a year, which Were also laid by a

stock to their customers will certainly Leghorn hen.



have a great and favorable influence

in putting Michigan in the front rank .

as a state of profit producing flocks.





 





LEGHORN BREAKS WORLD'S 0

RECORD.





 





 





PROFESSOR FOR EMAN SAYS:





 





FEED sprouted oats when they are





FEEDING SYSTEM BY ILLINOIS about an inch long. When they





his hatching eggs. After he finishes the evening will finish up on scratch





Motisfiens Laid 39 Eggs I





“Have, been using Don Sung since Jan.

191:. My 46- hens are very healthy, and the

extreme cold weather doesn’t seemito affect

the egg production at all. Last week they

averaged" 39‘ eggs a da . My purey‘blooded

dock is the centero attraction in; this

neighborhood.”——Alice M. Diefl'énderter, 199

30. 2nd St, Hughesville, Paj.



It you think your hens can't lay as Well,

right through the winter months, yOu're

making an expensive mistake. A little

Don Sung in their food

costs but ,a trifle, and

shows an amazing ditto:-





 





us, at our ri , start your





Here's our offer:



Give Don Sun to 15

hens. Then watc results

. for 30 days. If it daesn’t

_ ‘ show you a big increase in

eggs, if it doesn’t pay for itself and pay





 





 





the work and rate the flocks. If the laying condition he recommends that» you a good gen-oat besides, tell us and your

poultry experts give their stamp of the scratch should gradually be cut: money Wm





promptly refunded.

Don Sung (Chinese for egg laying) acts





approval the Michigan Baby Chick down, starting about the first of! directly on the egg-laying organs. and is





beneficial in every way. It makes hens





Association will ' s certific to of MarCh’ until about the firSt 0f Novem'i healthy and happy. They scratch and sing.

IS ue a. a

her they will get about half as much; Pallets develop earlier. The whole flock





lays regularly in any season, in any

weather, when eggs are scarce and high.

Can 'you afford to ignore the wonderful

reports you are hearing from Don Sung

users everywhere? Why not let us show

you the same results, with your own flock?

Don Sung is no trouble to use. It costs

nothing to triv. All we ask is a chanceto

prove our cla ms, entirely at our risk. . Get

Don Sung from your local dealer, or send

50 cents for package by mail prepaid (large

size. i$1. holds three times as much).





Burrell-Du get 00.. 424 Columbia Bldg., '

ndisnapolis, Ind.





 





 





Braver: lion-Fresze Lamplm Poultry Fountain





Keeps water at a drinking ten»

Demure winter and summer.





s eh: o'f'g'mrmoal s it? “'wihui

n a o a

find and sealed ros bo-

twcon. U





l "L. 32.50 -- 8 for 83.75



2 1-2 “L. 8.50 - 8 {or 9.50



5 (IL. 4.50 -- 8 for 12.”



Writ. M 0 til I Poulh

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mouse Inc. em. a... no May. up.





 





 





 





 





 





LEG BANDS





Red, White and Blue Cellu-

loid leg bands at 65¢ per

100. Post paid. State size

and color wanted.

John Nies’ Sons,

43 E. Eighth St.

Holland, . Mich.





POULTRY

BarredRocks Si€h°°fe‘::¥a‘l“‘.%°’2“sfi"£“§§335 £3.35





er settin re aid by P'. P. Circular free.

p g pinion ASTLING. Constantine. Mich





S. C. Anconasand

S.C.White Leghorn





yearling hens- at bargain prices.

Write your wants.

M. D. W n arden Zeeland Mich.

9 9

KC.'B'. hum Pekln Ducks. W. Chinese

birds. Mir-famed: 13%??? bfiiifigigffii’cdhimn





 





 





 





 





 





 





EXPERT. get longer "and the green color "devel-





ops, much- of the food value of the cat





nois University Poultry Depart- “D in growing the sprout.



ment, was one of the participants in The Agricultural College will have

the recent Michigan Chick Hatchers’ ready a. bulletin 0n chick feeding in. 3.

Association Poultry Tour. few weeks. The culling bulletin is be-

During this tour, he gave a. talk on i113 revised and will be ready 30°”-

poultry feeding, the gist of which is as

follows:



He recommends a mash, cousisting .

of equal parts of bran, flour middlings, SEVERAL requisites are necessary

cornmeal, ground heavy oats and beef '





 





 





IMPROVING THE EGG MARKET.





 





scraps. Heavy ground oats was spe- eggs through the cooperative method. “”333 3"“ ““10"“-





Whittaker’s R‘. l. Reds





P ROF. 1:. E. CARD, head of. the 1111- is lost because the vitamines are used €3.13“.1§£°énofie§Se”“.li°‘§oti”.§9nt‘l’5§$& .33:





blood tested for- bacll lary white diarrhoea. Write.

for catalog. Interlakes Farm. Box 39, Lawrence.Mich.





“WWII“ E LEGHORNS





255nm cusp-spear. Winners“ fill-hows.

Chicks, mpullsu, hound naiushipped C.0.D

Writs May (or can] and sample:



lnlormsfisn to the World's W horn Fm

GEO. a. Barium-m. um um new





 

 





 





PULLETS & COCKERELS





Now Four Months Old





for the successful marketing or WHITE? LEGHQRNS AND MOTTLED. ANCON'AS





aok Lezhorns, Brown Leghorns. Bum 1353—

R. 0. Rhode Island R 8.

Plymouth Rocks. 'Whito Plymouth Rocks





Day.





 





ence in the eg record. Let.

hens laying right now.»





 





 





cifically mentioned for this mash, as

the hens cannot stand very much food

fiber such as may be found in light

oats. For a grain feed, he recommends

equal parts of corn and wheat, the

measured part of which should be

kept about even. For instance, for

Leghorns, he recommends the feeding

of two pounds per hundred hens of

scratch feed in the morning and six

pounds in the evening. For the heav~





 

 

   





 





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First of all, honesty and integrity lie

at the bottom of this mutual planlot‘





ucts. There must be a sufficient quan-





Ba

Silva; Wyafidotteis. 33m; Wyartirdottes. wn Heron

eggs roar o e . es ange- to

farms. Whergagull- chlglr‘s 33:31.3“; 9n cepnra

Send for Price List.

CRESCENT EGG COMPANY

Allegan Michigan





 





 





tity of the product to warrant the

building up of an adequate system. A.

year-round supply is necessary. The

members should have a desire to ship

their eggs cooperatively and to facili-

tate this, they should make every effort

to produce the highest quality.





 





 





 





RALPH 5." “POWER.





RHODE ISLAND WHITES





win, over all based: at the egg Iayin contest. 305m

80: 3038; 100115 order from this as. Home chicks

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





S‘. C. White Leghorns

.Cocks and Cockare , '

Pittnford, Mich





 





Single Comb Buff Leghorn





Earlylkntchediolgls. W‘i‘mu-dl Webster. Unhelflch





WHITE , WYANDO





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"PLANTING. _ ‘





HEN I. c. Holdridge, a regular

. farmer of Livingston county,

had the larger part Of his field of Bus-





set Petoskey potatoes planted, he no-

ticed that he was going to 'run out of





seed. His neighbor, being his only

source. of supply, could furnish him

with the same variety of potatoes, as

he had a number of bushels left over

after finishing his planting. These

were cut and ready for planting. They

had been cut for fully a week while

those that Mr. Holdridge had already

planted were out immediately before

planting.





The story of this unthought-of ex-





periment resulted as follows: The

yield per acre of the area where seed





was out immediately before planting





was 145 bushels per acre; where the

seed was out seven days before 'plant-

ed and properly stored the yield was





193 bushels. This makes a difference

of forty-eight bushels, which, at sixty

cents per bushel, the price they were





selling for at digging time, will make

a difference per acre of $28.80.



This, on a large acreage, would fre-

quently mean the difference between

success and failure. The value of cut-

ting seed beforehand to give ample

time for the cut to heal up in good

shape, and the proper storage of this





cut seed, apparently is not only a ben-





efit in a dry season, but works equally

as well as in a wet season—C. L'. Bo-

lander, County Agent, Livingston Co.





 





 





 





If You Put Poor Hay in Center of the

Bale, this Man will FindrYou Out.





 





 





POTATO GROWERS SHOULD

GRADE STOCK.





 





ORE than ever before the na-



tional and state authorities have

urged potato growers to grade their

stock before placing it on the market.

The large crop this season makes it

necessary for the marketing of only

well graded stock, in order that the

producer may receive a fair return for

his product. A large quantity of po-

tatoes on the market makes it easier

for buyers to select their purchases,

and they will naturally give preference

to the high quality product.



By grading, the growers can reduce

the handling charges, save transporta-

tion charges, and also cut down on the

use of sacks, besides they will secure

a higher price for the grade of stock

alone than for a larger quantity of un-

graded potatoes. it is reported that

one association received premiums 01’

from ten to twenty cents per sack for

the graded stock over the ungraded

product.



“There never was a time when there

was more need,‘ more necessity for





those who can teach people by the





rvvoice of the word and through the

> . animals of our cotmtry than the pres-





 





 





 

   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





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met and decided on the armistice that ended danger of continued

warfare in that section of the country.





 





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After several such “stack-ups” as this, Georgetown finally won the

game with a score of 28 to 13, from Fordham at Polo Grounds

at New York City.





 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





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Miss Ailsa Mellon, only daughter of Secretary

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spectacular moving picture production.





 





 





 





Mrs. Howarth is first white woman

‘ to scale Andes Mountains, which

are 10,600 feet above sea level.





 





 





Showing the escape of crew of the cross-continental dirigible 042,





as it collapsed and burst into‘ flames, while leaving the hangar

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It was nip and tuck in the first official International Fishermen’s

Race off Gloucester, Mass, when the Henry Ford, the American

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Marian E. Parks succeeded M. Car-

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For a long moment, Fairchild said

nothing, then as Harry came from the

staging, he moved to the older man ’8

side.



“1—! didn’t quite catch the idea,"

came at last. Harry pointed with his

sledge.



“I’ve been noticing the vein. ‘It

keeps turning to the left. It struck

me that it might ’ave branched off

from the main body and that there’s a

bigger vein over there some’eres. We.

will just ’ave to make a try for it. It’s

our only chance."



“And if we fail to find it there?"



“We’ll put a couple of ’oles in the

foot wall and see what we strike. And

then—”



“If it ain’t there—we’re whipped!"



It was the first time that Harry had

said the word seriously. Fairchild pre-

tended not to hear. Instead, he picked

up a drill, looked at its point, then

started toward the small forge which

they had erected just at the foot of

the little raise leading to the stope.

There Harry joined him; together

they heated the long pieces of steel

and pounded their biting faces to the

sharpness necessary to drilling in the

hard rock of the hanging wall, temper—

ing them in the bucket of water near

by, working silently, slowly—hamper-

ed by the weight of defeat. They were

being whipped; they felt it in every

atom of their beings. But they had

not given up their fight. Two blows

were left in the struggle, and two

blows they meant to strike before the

end came. The next morning they

started at their new task, each drill-

ing holes at points five feet apart in

the hanging wall, to send them in as

far as possible, then at the end of the

day to blast them out, tearing away

the rock and stopping their work at

drilling that they might muck away

the refuse. The stope began to take

on the appearance of a vast chamber,

as day after day, banging away

at their drill holes, stopping only to

sharpen the bits or to rest their acn-

ing muscles, they pursued into the en-

trails of the hiIIS‘the vagrant vein

which had escaped them. And day

after day, each, without mentioning it

to the other, was tortured by the



thought of that offer of riches, that



mysterious proffer of wealth for the



Blue Poppy mine—tortured like men



who are chained in the sight of gold



and cannot reach it. For the offer

carried always the hint that wealth

was there, somewhere, that Squint Ro—

daine knew it, but that they could not

find it. Either that—or flat failure.

Either wealth that would yield Squint

a hundredfold for his purchase, or a





 





sneer that would answer their'offer to

sell. And each man gritted his teeth





and said nothing. But they Worked on. ’





October gave up its fight. The first

day of November came, to find the

chamber a wide, vacuous thing now,

sheltering stone and refuse and two

struggling men—nothing more. Fair-

child ceased his labors and mapped his

forehead, dripping from the heat en-

gendered by frenzied labor;

the tunnel opening, the snow lay deep

upon the mountain sides, for it had

been more than a week since the first

of the white blasts had scurried over

the hills to begin the placid, cold en-





without





f‘Coimting ‘ what we borrowed from.





Mother ’Owa-rd'?”



llYes ”



Harry clawed at his mustache. His

nose, already red from the pressure of

blood, turned purplish.



“We’re nearing the end, Boy. Tackle

the foot wall.”





' They said no more; Fairchild with»





drew his drill from the “swimmer”.or

straightforward powder hole and turn-

ed far to the other side of the cham—

ber, where the sloping foot wall show-

ed for a few feet before it dived under

the muck and refuse. There, gad in

hand, he peeked ,about the surface,





 





 





DIRTY HANDS





’ By M.





R. S.





l have to wash myself at night, before I go to bed,



An' wash again when I get up, and wash before I’m fed.



An' Ma inspects my neck an’ ears an’ Pa my hands and shirt;

They seem to wonder why it is, l’m so fond of dirt.



But Bill—my chum—an’ I agree that we have never seen



A feller doing anything whose hands were white an’ clean.





Bill's mother scolds the same as mine an' calls him in from play,



To make him wash his face an’ hands a dozen times a day.



Dirt seems to worry mothers so, but when the plumber comes



To fix the pipes, it’s plain‘to see, he never scrubs his thumbs. .

His clothes are always thick with grease and his face is smeared with dirt,

An' beis not ashamed to show the smudges on his shirt.





The ‘motorman who runs the car has





hands much worse than mine,





An' I have noticed when we ride there’s dirt in every line.

The carpenter who works around our house can mend a chair,

Or put up shelves or fix the floor, an' mether doesn’t care

That he’s not in his Sunday best; she never interferes



An’ makes him stop his work to go upstairs to wash his ears.





The fellers really doing things, as far as I can. see,





Have hands and necks and ears that





are as dirty as can be;





The man who fixes father’s car when he can't make it go



Most always has a smudgy face, his hands aren’t white as snow.

But I must wash, an' wash, an’ wash, while everybody knows

The most important men in town have dirty hands an' clo'es.





 





 





wrapment of the winter.

ment, then:



“Harry.”



“Aye.”



“I’m going after the other side.

We've been playing a half-horsed game

here. ”



“I’ve been thinking that, Boy.”



“Then I’m going to tackle the foot

wall. You stay where you are, for a

few more shots; it can‘t do much good,

the way things are going, and it can’t

do much harm. I was at the bank

today.”



“Yeh.”



“My balance is just two hundred.”





-





A long mo





seeking, a spot where the rock had

splintered, thereby affording a softer

entrance for the biting surface of the

drill. Spot after spot he prospected,

suddenly ,to stop and bend forward.

At last came an exclamation, surpris-

ed, wondering:



“Harry!"



“Yeh. ”



“Come here ” __.



The Cornishman left his work and

walked to Fairchild’ s side. The young-

er map pointed. '



“Do you ever fill up drill holes with

cement ?J” he asked.





“Not as 1 know of. Why?”





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“There’s one. ” .Fairch-ild raised. his

god and chipped. away the softer sur-

face of the rock, leaving a tubular

protuberance of cement extending.

Harry stared.





“What the blOody4 ’ell?”. he conjec-._





tured. “D’you suppose'—” Then,'with

a sudden resolution; “Drill there!

Gad a ’oleoi'l to oneside- a. bit. and

drill there. It seems. to me Sissie Lar-

sen put a ’ole there or something—l

can’t remember. But drill. It can’t

do any arm”



The gad chipped away the rock.

Soon the drill was biting into the sur-

face of the foot wall. Quitting time

came; the drill was in two feet, and

in the morning, Fairchild went at his

task again. Harry watched him over

a shoulder. ‘





“If it don’t bring anything in six

feet—it ain’t there,” he announced.

Fairchild formd the humor to smile.



“You’re almost as cheerful as I am.”

Noon came and they stopped for lunch.

Fairchild finished the remark begun

hours before. “I’m in four feet now

and all I get is rock ”



“Su1e now?”



“Look.”



They went to the foot wall and with

a scraper brought out some of the

muggy mass caused by the pouring ‘of

water into the “down-hole" to make

the siftings capable of removal. Harry

rubbed it with a thumb and forefinger.



“That's all,” he announced, as he

went back to his dinner pail. Togeth-

er, silently, they finished their lunch-

eon. Once more Fairchild took up his

work, dully, almost lackadaisica‘lly,

pounding away at the long, six-foot

drill- with strokes that ,had behind

them only muscles, not the intense

driving power of hope. A foot he pro-

gressed into the foot wall and changed





drills. Three inches more. Then— 2

“Harry!”

“What’s ’appened?” The tone 'of





Fairchild's voice had caused the Corn-

ishman to lean from his staging and

run to Fairchild’s side. That person

had cupped his hand and was holding

it beneath the drill hole, while into "it

he was pulling the muck with the

scraper and staring at it.



“This stuff’s changed color!” he ex-

claimed. “It looks like-"



“Let me see!” The older man took

a portion of the blackish, gritty mass

and held it close to his carbide. “It





looks like somethingjit looks like

something!” His voice was high, ex-

cited; “I’ll finish the ’ole and jam! '





enough dynamite in there to tear the

insides out of it. I’ll give ’er ’ell.

But ‘in the meantime, you take that

down to the assayerl”





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5..
, his tobacco can, which had been stuff-





heavy, looks black and all that.

it might not be anything but straight

lead with a sprinkling of silver.

seen stuff that looked a lot better than

this not run more’n fifteen dollars to

the ton. And then again—”





pottery. He dragged out a scoop from

somewhere and prepared various white

powders. Then he turned to the fur-‘

nace, with its Ihigh-chimne‘yed draft.

and filled a container with the con-





 





tents pf' the tobacco can.





.. niacin nauseammwf Serap-

1 ing‘tliowiuteryconglaneration into

a tobacco“ can, he throw: on: his coat

and-ran for the shaft- Then he pulled

him‘selt up. Singing, and dived intothe

. fresh-made. drifts of anew storm asahe





started towird town; nor did he stop '





to investigate the fast fading foot-

prints of some one who evidently had

passed the mine a short time before.

Fair-child was too happy to notice such

- things just now; in a tin can in his

side pocket was a blackish, muggy

mixture which might mean worlds to

him; 'he was hurrying to receive the

verdict, which could come only from

the retorts and tests of one man, the

assayer. ‘ “



Into town and. through it to the

scrambling buildings of. the Sampler,

where the main products of the mines

of Ohadi found their way before going

to the smelter.‘ There he swung wide

the door and turned to the little room I

on the left, the. sanctum of white-hair- !

ed, almost tottering old man who wan- ;

dered about among his test tubes and 1

“buttons” as he. figured out the var-J

ious weights and values of the ores as ’

the samples were brought to him from ’

the dirty, dusty, bin-filled rooms of the

Sampler proper. A queer light came '

into the old fellow’s eyes as he looked ‘

into those of Robert Fairchild. I



“Don’t get ’em too high!” he admon- l

ished. Fairchild stared. ’



“What?” )



“Hopes. I’ve seen many, a fellow;

come in just like you. I’ve been here

thirty year. They call me Old Under» !

taker Chastine!”



Fairchild laughed.



“But I’m hoping—”



“Yep, Son." Undertaker Chastine

looked over his glasses. “You’re .just

like all the rest. You’re hoping. That’s

what they all do; they come in here

with their eyes blazing like a grate fire

and their faces all lighted up as bright '

as an Italian cathedral. And they tell

me they’ve got the world by the tail.

Then I take their specimens and I put

’em over the hurdles—and half the

time they go out wishing there wasn’t

any Such person in the world as an

assayer. Boy,” and he pursed his lips,

“I’ve buried. more fortunes than you

could shake a stick at. I’ve seen men

come 'in here millionaires and ,go out

paupers—just because I’ve-had to tell

’em the truth. And I’m soft-hearted.

I wouldn’t kill a flea—not even if it

was eatin’ up the best bird dog that

ever set a pa’tridge: Add just because

0’ that, I’ve adopted the system of tak-

ing all hope out of a fellow right in

the beginning. Then if you’ve really

got something, it’s a? joyful surprise.

If you ain’t, the disappointment don’t

hurt so much. So trot ’er out and let

the old Undertaker have a look at ’er.

But I’m telling you right at the start

that it won’t amount to much.”



Sobered now, Fairchild reached for





 





 





 





ed full of every scrap of slime that he

and ’Arry had been able to drag from

the powder hole. Evidently, his drill

had been in the ore, whatever it was,

for some time before he realized it;

the can was heavy, exceedingly heavy,

giving evidence of purity of something

at least. But Undertaker Chastine

shook' his head.



“Can’t tell,” he announced.





 





 





 





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OME years ago I heard the Rever-





end Charles L. Goodell tell the fol-_





lowing story, He was, when this

happened, the pastor of a church in

Boston. A man who had for years

been pretty well given up to drink

came to the church and was convert-

ed. He was very happy, and the

church folk promised to do all they

could to help him keep in the way'that

he had started. He soon got a place

as street car motorman. All went well

for a number of months, when he got

gloriously drunk. He came to the

church and cenfessed it, and made a

fresh start. That night after church

the pastor went home with him. He

lived in a room on the top floor of a

rooming house. When they had gotten

to the top of the first fight of stairs,

he said to Dr.

Goodell, “You

don’t need to

come any farther,

I can get along all

right.” But Good-

all said he guess-

ed he would go

up one more

flight. At the top

of the stairs the

same conversa-

tion was repeat-

ed, and at the

next, Goodell always saying he guess-

ed he would go up one more flight. At

last the room was reached, and the

pastor assisted his friend to undress

and get into bed. Then he bade him

good-night. Billy never fell again. A

few months later he was sitting in a

restaurant waiting for his order, be-

fore going on his car for the'night’s

work. His head fell over on the table,

he slowly slipped down to the floor,

and he was gone. He had made his

last street car run. Friendship saved

this man, nothing else.





Russell H. Conwell, the famous

preacher, and the lecturer on “Acres

of Diamonds,” tells how he was

brought to his senses, and brought in-

to a new life, by the steadfastness of

a boy in the army. Conwell re~enlisted

in the Union Army, and was commis-

sioned captain. A boy whose name

was Johnny had no mother, and want-

ed to enter the army as personal aide

to Captain Conwell. The first night

Johnny came into the captain’s tent,

took out his Bible and began to read

it by candle-light. The captain said,

"Johnny, you can’t read that in my

tent.” "Why," said he, “what is the

matter, Captain? This is my mother’s

Bible, and father told me to read it in

memory of mother." He said, “you

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Johnny went, after that. into the or-

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FEW~days after that, there was



an attack, and the Union . troops

were driven . back. Convlrell’s‘ men“

swam across the river and set the

wooden bridge on 'fire. Just then

Johnny remembered the gold-mounted

sword that had been given to thesau-

tain when he went away to war. He

turned and rushed back to get it. He

found it and started to run back across

the burning bridge. They shouted to

him to. jump into the river, but he did

not hear them. When he get to the

other side his clothes were in flames.

They put. him in the river and extin-

guished the fire in his clothes, but he

was insensible. He was taken to the

hoSpital, and three days later he ,re-

gained consciousness. “Where am I?”

he asked. “Where is the Captain’s

sword? Won’t you bring it in, so I

can put my hand on it? Isn’t the Cap-

tain coming to see me?” The next

night he awoke, and said, “Hasnit the

Captain come yet? I wanted to give

him this sword myself, so he will know

how much I love him.” That night

the nurse, who was a Christian wom-

an, said to Johnny, “You are going to

see your mother.” “Do you think I

am going to die?” he asked. “Yes, I

will tell you the truth. You will not





~, live more than twenty-four hours.”

Johnny put up his hands and whis-





Ipered a prayer, and then he said,

"‘Will you tell the captain that I saved

his sword?” “Yes,” said the nurse, “I

will tell him, but I hope he will come

before you go.” Says Dr. Conwell,

“When they told me that he was dead

no man can describe the horror that

came into my soul.”





Dr. Conwell describes what befell

him later. “Six months afterward I

was left for dead on the field of battle

at K-enesaw Mountain. I was taken to

the hospital, and when I came to my-

self I said to the nurse, ‘I want the

chaplain.’ The chaplain came in and

said, ‘What do you wish?’ ‘I want to

be forgiven! I want to find the Lord.

Will you pray for me?’ He made one

of those formal prayers that one hears

sometimes. It didn’t do me any good,

and I was angry. I said, ‘I want to he

prayed out of my sins somehow or oth-

er.’ I told him how Johnny had read

the fourteenth chapter of John. He

read it, I couldn’t see anything in that

then, and I told him so. The chaplain

said, ‘There’snothing I can do for you,

Captain. You will have to go to God

for yourself.’ Some time during the





night I felt, a strange sense of dying,





a fading, falling out of life, and I said,

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ANY churches and other institu-

tions have been successful with

the social and physical development

of their communities, but the building

of the Taymouth Community Hall in

the Saginaw Valley district, will be

the first endeavor to serve practically

all the groups of the rural community.

This hall will be under the guidance

of the Taymouth Presbyterian Church.

In its gymnasium there will be pro-

vided activities for men, women and

children nearly every day in the week

except‘Sunday. Room is provided for

the development of boys-and girls’

club' activities, which will be carried

on in cooperation with the agricultural

college.

y Group organizations of women will

be formed to affiliate with state and

county organizations engaged in social





~ tractive.





chine willbe installed in the Muesl-

um to provide wholesome entertain-

ment by means of educational films.

A stage is to be erected at one end of

the gymnasium to provide for home

talent productions.



In connection with the church there

is already organized a recreational

club to which about fifty boys and

girls belong, although Taymouth is not

even a cross-roads. ‘





This is probably the first endeavor

.in Michigan in which all of the relig-





ions and social needs of the commu-

nity will be provided for by the cooper-

ative efforts of all the people of the

community regardless of religious

views. A well organized (30mmunlty

endeavor of this sort would do much

toward bettering rural social condi-

tions and making farming more at-





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came over me, and I called "upon 3n

imknoWn 90d for forgiveness and ask- '





ed Him, to reveal Himself. «The nurse

came in and I. asked her'to read a

prayer. A few minutes later my heart

opened. I cannot describe it, the ilk

stinctlve need for the love of God, and

that warming of the heart which came

to me.’ But‘the final sense of final for-

giveness seemed to fill 'my soul with

light,- and I began to shout, ‘I have

found the Lord! I have: found the

Lord!’ The steward came in and said.

‘You must be a little moreiquiet'.”





ANY years have passed since



_ then. Dr. Conwell is an old man

now, and‘has for many yeras been the

pastor of one of the largest churches

in the United States, and president of

Temple University. He says,“‘Every

morning, before I kneel to pray, I say,

‘Lord, if‘ Thou wilt help me today I

will do J ohnny’s work and mine.’ When





people ask me why I have tried for





fifty years to do two men’s work—six-

teen hours a day, seven days in the

week—I tell them, ‘I have-been fifty

years trying to do two men's work—

Johnny's and my own—in order that

when I go home to heaven I may say,





‘Johnny, your life went out early, but *





I did the best that .I could to make up

for the unfinished life’.” Conwell is

what he is because of this lad, in the

long ago. .



That is a peculiarly impressive

scene, where this woman comes in, and

washes the Master’s feet with her

tears and wipes them with her hair. It

seems that uninvited people could

come to banquets, and stand or sit

around near the wall. The guests, of

course, were reclining on the floor, af-

ter the manner of the oriental. And

While ChriSt’s host thought that this

woman should be put out, because of

her unsavory reputation, Christ shows

him that she is more worthy than he,

“for she loved much.”





 





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

NOVEMBER 19.





LESSON. ——-Luke7

SUBJECT: —Jesus, the Friend of Sin-





GOLDEN TEXT. -—Faithful is the say-

ing, and worthy of all acceptation,

that Christ Jesus came into the

world to save sinners, of Whom I

am chief. I Timothy 1.15.





 





 





GRANGE REPORTS ON TAX SITUA-

TION.





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IN response ,to numerous inquiries

for details as to the large increase

in the tax burden of the people of the

various states, .the Washington office

of the National Grange is making an

effort to secure complete details from

all the states as to state, county, town-

ship and municipality taxes for several

years for the purpose of making a

more complete comparison than the

one recently given out by the Wash-

ington Grange representative. \





Enough has been received, say the

grange officials, to make it safe to as-

sert that the state and local taxes are

today double the taxes paid in 1912 in

practically all the states and will av-

erage more than that amount. This,

however, includes all taxes assessed

on property owners.





 





PLANNING 'FARMERS’ TOUR.





 





RRANGEMENTS are being made

for the Michigan Farmers’ Tour,

which comes to Washington in 1923,

the tourists spending a week in the





capital city. According to .J. H. Brown, .





manager of this trip, who has been in

Washington arranging for the tour,





the party will travel in military forma- .





tion, carrying its own Commissary

equipment and tents and will; campin





   





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“That's the only way. Let ’er roast— were, to mix in with your own prod-

Or planting them where they

can be found easily by a prospective





and while it’s getting hot, well, you not?

just cool your heels.”



Long waiting—while, the eccentric

old assayer told doleful tales of other

days, tales of other men who had rush-

ed in, just like Fairchild, with their





buyer ?”





moved slowly. Then he





knowledge that they were no richer

than before, days when the news of

the demonetization of silver swooped

down upon the little town like some

black tornado, closing down the mines,



g shutting up the gambling halls and

great saloons, nailing up~the doors,

eVen of the Sampler, for years to

come.



“Them was the times when there

was a lot of undertakers around here

besides me,” Chastine went on.“‘Eve-

erybody was an undertaker then.



We’d

been getting along pretty well at nine-

ty-five cents and a dollar an ounce for

silver, and there was men around here

wearing hats that was the biggest in

the shop, but that didn’t come any—

where near fittin’ 'em. And then, all

of a sudden, it hit! We used to get whole being trembling with excite-

in all our quotations in those days ment. “You’re not kidding me about

over the telephone, and every morn- it? You’re sure—you’re sure?”



ing I’d ’phone down to Old Man Saxby “Absolutely! That’s why I was so

that owned the Sampler then to find careful for a minute. I thought maybe

out how the New York market stood. you had been doing a little high-grad-

The treasury, you know, had been buy- ing or had been up there and sneaked

ing up three or four million ounces of away some of the ore for a salting

silver a month for minting. Then proposition. Boy, you’ve got a bonan-

some high-falutin’ congressman got za, if this holds out.”



the idea that they didn’t want to do “And it really—~”



that any more, and he began to talk. “It’s almost identical. I never saw

Well, one morning, I telephoned down, two samples of ore that were more





suiting questions.





“My partner and I drilled a hole in the

foot wall of the stope where we were

working, hoping to find the rest of a

vein that was pinching out on us. And

we got this stuff. Is it any good?”



“Is it good?” Again Old Undertaker

Chastine looked ’over his glasses.

“That’s just the trouble. It’s too good

“it’s so good that it seems there’s

something funny about it. Son, that

stuff assays within a gram, almost, of

the ore they’re taking out of the Silver

Queen!”



“What’s that?” Fairchild had leaped

forward and grasped the other man by

the shoulders, his eyes agleam, his





Fair-child’s chin,set, and his arms

laughed——

laughed at the small, white-haired, ec-

sample of ore; only to depart with the centric old man who though his very





weakness had the strength to ask in-





“No—I’ll give you my word I haven’t

been high-grading,” he said at last.





 





and silver’d dropped to eighty-five. The alike. Let’s see, the Blue Poppy’s

next morning it went to seventy. The right up Kentucky Gulch, not so very

house or the senate, I’ve forgotten far away from the Silver .Queen, isn’t

which, had passed the demonetization it? Then there must be a tremendous

bill. After that, things dragged along big vein concealed around there some—

and then—I telephoned down again. Where _that splits, one-half of it run-

“‘VVh_at’s the quotation on silver?’ I 11ng through the mountain in one di-

asked him.” rection and the other cutting through

“ ‘Hell, says Old Man Saxby, ‘there on the-opposite side. It looks like

ain’t any quotation, Close ’er up— peaches and cream for you, Son. HOW

‘ close up everything. They’ve passed thick is it?”

the demonetization hill, the president’s “I don’t know. We just happened to

going to sign it, and you ain’t got a put a drill in there and this is some of

job.’ the scrapings.” .

“And young feller—” Old Undertak— “You haven’t cut into it at all then?”

er Chastine looked over his glasses “Not unlessHarry, mypartner, has

again, “that was some real disappoint— put in a shot since I’ve been gone.. As

ment. And it’s a lot worse than you’re soon as we saw that we were into ore,

liable to get in a minute." , I hurried away to come down here to

He turned to the. furnace and took get sun-assay.”

out the pottery dish in which the sam-

ple had been smelting, white-hot‘now.





He cooled it and tinkered with his that vein’s only four





“Well, Son, now you can hurry back , °

and begin cutting into a fortune. If Lambert'VIlle





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chemicals. ~He fussed with his scales,

be adjusted his glasses, he coughed

once or twice in an embarrassed man-.

ner; finally to turn to Fairchild.

“Young man,” be queried, “it ain’t

any of my business, but where’d you

get this ore?"

“Out of my mine, the Blue Poppy! ”

“Sure you ain’t been visiting?”

“What do you mean?” Fairchild

was staring at him in wonderment.

Old Undertaker Chastine rubbed his





hands on his big apron and continued \for the last time, “that you don’t want





to look over his glasses.





“What’ll you take for the Blue Pop- \





py mine, Son?”

“Why—it’s not for sale.”

“Sure it ain’t going to be—soon?”

“Absolutely not.” Then Fairchild

caught the queer look in the man’s

eyes. “What do you mean by all these

questions? Is that good ore—or

isn’t it?” ' -

“Son, just one more question—and

I hope you won’t 'get mad at me. I’m a

funny old fellow, and I do a lot of

things that don’t seem right at the be-

ginning.‘ But I’ve saved a few young

bloods like you from trouble more than

once. You ain’t been high-grading?”

"You mean—” . ‘ _

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drill must have been into it several





inches wide, . , » » -

you’ve got plenty to keep you for the “ - ' ,’

rest of your life.” '

“It must be more than that—the





inches before I ever noticed it. I’d

been scraping the muck out of there

without paying much attention. It

looked so hopeless.”



Undertaker Chastine turned to his

work.



“Then hurry along, Son. I suppose,”

he asked, as he looked over his glasses





 





me to say anything about it?”



“Not until—”



“You’re sure. I know. Well, good

news is awful hard to keep—but I’ll

do my best. Run along.”





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cold wind and the fine snow that it

carried on its icy breath.





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\ ND now comes another question

on home canning. Is it practical

and worth While to can pumpkin





and squash?





Yes, most emphatically. Neither

pumpkins nor squash can be kept very

long in the average home cellar or

storage space without rotting. Fortu-

nately, pumpkins and— squash are a

most splendid,~economic and delicious

food product when canned, either in

glass jars or tin cans. By following





product is ever ready for use as a veg-

etable dish throughout the winter,

spling and summer months, and al-

ways ready fo1 pie filling. Here is the

way to can them.

Canning Pumpkin.

Select firm, ripe pumpkins and cut

into halves. Scrape out the seeds and

spongy pulp. Cut each .half into strips

one and one-half to two inches in

width, and with a sharp knife cut off

the outer rind. Cut the strips into

convenient sections and blanch in

steam ten to fifteen minutes, or until

tender. Mash with a potato masher'or

put through a sieve. Pack immediate-

ly into hot jars or enamel-lined cans;

add salt and other seasonings, or

spices if desired. Sterilize in hot wa-

ter canner for two to three hours, ac-

cording tosize of can, and far fifty

minutes have the steam pressure can-

ner under ten pounds of steam. Re—

mOVe jars and complete seals at once.

Tin cans should be plunged immedi-

ately into cold water, thus being cool-

ed quickly.

Canning Squash.



Cut squash open; remove seeds and



core. Cut into sections and place in





the cold pack method of canning the .





   





More Pumpkin Pie





oven to bake until pulp becomes sort

or easily removed with a large spoon.

Pack contents into hot jars or cans

directly upon removing from rind and

follow the same process as in canning

of pumpkin. (Some folks prefer to

steam the squash in removing from

rind—G. 0. S.



Following are some tried recipes by

which these two vegetables may be

made tasty.



Scalloped Pumpkin.



'Cut the pumpkin in slices, peel and

boil in boiling salted water for twenty

minutes. Drain and put into a butter-

ed pudding dish' in layers, seasoning

each layer with sugar, powdered cin:

namon, grated nutmeg and small piec-

es of butter, pour over all one-half cup-

ful of milk and bake in a moderate

oven for one hour. Serve in the bak-

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Squash Pie.



One cupful of squash, made very

fine, one-half owpful of sugar, two eggs,

one-half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful

of milk, one-half cupful of cream, one

cupful of chopped dates. Add fruit

and salt to cooked squash. Beat eggs

light, add sugar, milk and cream, and

mix all together. If no cream is used

stir into the squash a lump of butter,

While squash is still warm.



Pumpkin Fritters.



Beat up one egg until light, add one-

half cupful milk, one teaspoonful salt,

a few grains of red pepper, sift in one

cupful of flour, add one teaspoonful of

olive oil, and one cupful of stewed

pumpkin. Mix until smooth and glos-

sy, and drop by spoonfuls into smok-

ing hot fat. Fry a golden brown, drain

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UDGING from the letters received



" this week, the housewives of this



fruit grouting state» have; beenvdoing

their share in preserving the abundant

fruit . and vegetable crop for which

there appeared' to be no active market

at the time it was mature. They have

canned, and then canned some more,

until their cellar» canning shelves are

groaning from their heavy burdens.

This supply will not be amiss, though,

when the winter days roll around.

Many seem to have taken advantage

of the large supply of certain fruits,

and have canned a sufficient amount

for two seasons. In nearly all cases

the canning budget equals and often

surpasses the one worked out by the

Home Economics Department of the

Michigan Agricultural ‘College. Many

mothers are proud, and rightfully, too,

of the experience and expert knowl-

edge their daughters have received

from the canning clubs of which they

are members.



First Prize—Mrs. N. M., Hanrietta,



Michigan.



I started canning as early as March

this year, canning at this time mostly

meats, pork, beef and a late fall hatch—

ing of chickens, the stock from the

bones being made into vegetable soup.



I also canned whole onions at the

same time before they started to

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make the best of it. We have. canned ' 17'0” Today?

540 quarts of fruits and. vegetables,

consisting of strawberries, blackcaps,

red raspberries, plums, pears, peaches,

tomatoes, blackberries, elderberries

and apples. Also peas, beans and car—

rots. Besides these we made cucum-

ber pickles, French pickles, beet pick-

les, peach pickles, green tomato pick-

les, chili sauce, catsup, jglly and jam.



We used the cold-pack method, and

the hot water bath for our berries and

plums. We raise all our fruits and

vegetables. Our twin girls, thirteen

years of age, were in the Canning

Club this summer, and their club won .

first prize of the county at the Hills-

dale‘Fair. They use the cold,pack

method almost entirely. We, are a.

family of six. ‘ E



My favorite pickle recipe is French}

pickles: One gallon cucumbers; half;

dozen onions_sliced together. Put in:

small half-cup of salt, let stand over}

night. Drain in the morning. Let]

come to a boil one quart of vinegar,

two and one—half cups of sugar, then

drop in cucumbers and onions and let

boil till done.



Dressing:—Three heaping teaspoons

flour, half teaspoonful celery seed,

half teaspoonful mustard, half tea-

spoouful tumeric and half teaspoonful,

pepper. Stir into cucumbers and boili

all together from three to five minutes.





. Third Prize——Mrs. F. M., Croswell,

Michigan.



How I wpuld love to reach out and

pat each one of those dear ladies on

the back who wrote those helpful, in-

spiring letters on economy. Some-

times when I make soap, made-over

clothing, etc., I think I am the only;





 





 

 





Good November Food





For Men on Farms





The reading of newspapers and farm journals in easy chairs





one who has these tasks to do; but 1‘ calls for different kinds of food than plowing days require.





believe nearly every farm mother is





Inactivity is particularly the foe of good health on the farm.





 

 





 





 





of one of our readers, let your

letter this week contain some

short-cut in needlework that

you have found useful and help-

ful in doing the home sewing.



The best letter will receive a

threepiece kitchen set, the next

two will each receive a two-

piece kitchen set, while the fol-

lowing two will each receive a.

pair of fancy six-inch scissors.

Address all letters before No-

vember 23 to Household Editor,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





 





success, and these little

show that “thrift” is our watchword.



Don’t you just love to step into your

cellar these bright, crisp mornings and

be greeted with the View of rows of

nicely packed barrels of apples, pears,

cans of fruit; what a lot ,of stored-up

summer pleasures, as well as work,

etc., those shelves of delicious fruit

contain. First, there are fifty quarts

of strawberries, picked from our

own vines. Then about ninety quarts

of red raspberries, from our own bush-

es. These I did cold-pack method. I





 





 





creamed onions during the summer noon, then pick fruit in the afternoon, fauce‘l’a“ and bring to bou'





when onions were expensive. The can-

ning, of about fifty quarts, was all

cold-pack method.



The next. canning of whatever hap-

pened to be ready first was as follows:

One hundred qts. string beans; 60 qts.

corn; 8 qts. wild berries; 60 qts. cher-

ries; 65 qts. tomatoes; 30 qts. apples;

50 qts. cucumber pickles; 60 qts, of

peaches (the only fruit bought); 10





qts. plums; 6 qts. pears; 41 qts. differ--





ent kinds of jellies and preserves,

mostly cold-pack method.



There are only four in our family,

but l allow for our school’s hot lunch-

es, grange dinners, company, and, of

course, give some to others.





When the rush is I'over, all emptied

cans will be refilled with beets, apple





sauc‘e,’and later sauer kraut,’ and stilt/Inward seed; three pounds 0f brown





later with .meat. -

Our favorite pickle recipe is tumeric

pickles: Eighteen No. 2 cucumbers,

sliced, soaked in salt water a while

and‘ then drained; nine medium-sized

onions sliced very thin; two cups of

.sugar;‘ one teaspoon each of. celery

and mustard seed; one teaspoon of

tumeric; a pinch of red pepper. Cook

all till tenderin one quart of vinegar.

Second 'PI‘lZFP-Ml's. D. B., Litchfield,

. p .: Michigan.

“ .We surely. bade 806d Vegetable and

{out sesdngand- we have tried, to,





   





a





new broom has nothing on a new vac-

utnn cleaner.” ;And it'saves no end of

mother’s time, and energy. .



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would do my family work in the fore-





look it over and get it into the cans

in the evening, hop up in the morning





while it was cool,

method. I use a large wash boiler

witha perforated board in the bottom

for cooking the fruit. .



I also have cherries, black and red

currants, gooseberries and wild black-

berries, about thirty quarts. There are

also about eighteen quarts of plums,

thirty quarts of peaches and about the

same of pears, jam and jellies and lots

of pickles and relishes.



Here is my favorite, pickle recipe,

because it is ”so easy and sure:



One large stone crock; one gallon

of good cider vinegar; one cup of mus-

tard; one cup salt; two ounces white





sugar. Mix all together and as you

pick cucumbers wash and lay them in,

cover with a plate.



We have a family of five to feed,

three children, all healthy and strong.





 





Because of lack of space the letters

of Mrs. S. W. S., Ypsilanti, Mich., and =

Mrs. B. H. T., of Holland, Mich., who

won fourth and fifth prizes respective-

ly, will appear next‘week. .





 





 





 





 





 





 





I When it comes to sweeping clean, at





doing her uttermost to make home a;

economies





and get it cooked and out of the way.





_ ling very

by the com paCR, served in small portions.





 





 





 





; You need foods then that tend to do what exercise does dur-

J ing busy times. -





Stewed Raisins are luscious and effective





Stewed raisins served with cream is a most delicious breakfast fruit-dish,

, and one that brings real winter benefits.

5 Eat them frequently when exercise is lacking. For raisins are 75 per

'cent fruit sugar in practically predigested form.





 





 





‘z Stewed Raisins



i One package Sun-Maid

lRaisins. one slice orange

for lemon rind, 2 cups cold

water.





' Put raisins and water in





' And this sugar and the raisin skins make a

mildly laxative food that’s the most effective

natural fruit—laxative we know.





Raisins furnish food—iron also—fine food for the

blood. _



You need but a tiny bit of iron daily but that

need is vital. Stewed raisins will help you get your

daily portion of it in a most attractive way.



The fact is, you will like this dish so well that it

will be your regular morning fruit—food the year

round. .



Try it now and note how delicious.

morning for ten days as a test.

also a health food that you need.



Always ask for





Sun-Maid Raisins





mg point. Add slice of

orange or lemon and cook

for 30 minutes. Sugar may

be added. but it is not nec-

essary. Stewed raisins be—

rich should be





Try it every

Decide then if it’s





Sun—Maid Raisins should

cost you no more than the

following prices:





Seeded (in I5 02. blue





pkge.)-—20c

Seedless (in l5 02. red Get delicious Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins from your

pkge.) 18c





grocer. Stew them as directed in the column to the

left. ,





Mail coupon for valuable free book, “Sun—Maid





Recipes,” describing scores of other luscious raisin

foods.





Seeded or Seedless

(ll oz.)—-15c





Sun-Maid Raisin Growers

Membership 13,000





 





DEPT. B—25l I. FRESNO, CALIFORNIA

CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT I

I Sun-Maid Raisins Growers, l

Dept. 132.711. Fresno, Calif.





Please send me copy of your free book, “Recipes I





 





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American house.-

wrves are using

Calumet Bakmg

Powder today

With the same

success that their

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mothers





enced overglllurd





of a century ago.

This pe etual

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near or user s made





’ CALUME





My trauma POWDER





-oales over 150% greater than that



of any other brand.



There isn’t a baking powder of great-



er merit—there isn’t a leavener ob-



tainable that will produce more satis-



factory or positive results. hatfs



why the largest baking powder factories in



theworld are alWays busytuming outenough '

Calumet to supply the great demand.





A pound can of Calumet contains full 16

ounces. Some baking powder: come in 12 ounce

instead of 16 ounce cans. Be sure you get a

pound when you want it. »





   





 





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MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERNS.

POPULAR WINTER STYLES.





 





     





 





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Ur: as:





take wax from a

have tried hot "vinegar, kerosene and

gasoline but to no avails—Miss L. A.





         





House 01





to Homellold. Editor,





ro‘nsuove WAX.





 





Will you please tell ‘me what will

slate blackboard? We





I





Try scraping on' as much of the wax





with a dull knife as is possible to get





off, and then rub the board with tur-

pentine, it will remove the remaining

substance.



\A strong solution of washing soda

applied hot may also help.





 





PATTERNS IN BEAD-WORK.





 





I am writing for help. Can you give

me any information on making bead

necklaces or anything of head work,

and where I may obtain a bead loom?

—E. M. H. »



Space will not allow the illustration

of the various designs and uses for

which beads may be used. ,But if you

will write or visit the needlework de-

partment of . any large department

store they will furnish you with these

designs, and looms also.





HAIRS 0N FACE.





 





 





I have some hairs that grow on my

face and would like to get rid of them.





DW ‘ I»: l t ta‘Halp Solo: YmLHmelo

V Michigan- Fafiner, Detroit,





 





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roblmo.





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I A'Yflddm: all

_ all. ‘ .





v

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V would‘not advise you to do anything

‘ to them unless you are in a position





to have them removed by an electric

needleunder the supervision of a good

beauty specialist.



There are many preparations on the

market to remove hair from the face

that are very good, but the hair will

continue to grow, and will be stiff and

hard after it has been once used.

However, if you desire to try one of

these preparations your druggist can

advise you as to the best one he has

in stock. ‘ -





 





TO PAINT WEEDS.





 





Please tell me the directions for

painting wild flowers and milkweeds

used in the painted bouquets, and what

kind of paint to .use.—-J. B. G.



If you write any general paint com-

pany cr‘any art store they Will supply

you with a special kind of paint

known as. “weed paint," to be used

in painting fall weeds for art bouquets.



The kind of paint to use depends a

good deal upon the selection of weeds.

Some are stained by dipping, while

others are painted with a brush. All

weeds of a firm fiber may be painted

or tinseled with a brush, while those

of a more fuzzy type will have to be





It ' ’“2





How can I do it?—Miss M. M.

Unless the hairs are very bad, I





TO many housewives the uses of

crepe paper are associated only

with the making of children’s May

baskets and to festival decoration. But

I have'found it to be a real household

help.



In the kitchen it has numerous uses.

I always keep a bunch of plain white

crepe paper‘sheets on hand to be used

as hand towels, saving much hard

laundering. Also, these sheets are very

handy as rough sink cloths and for

cleaning out dirty cooking utensils be-

fore washing them.





 





rs“ teens





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Slovf P013?“ R 5



‘61" You should use Black Silk I

Stove Polish to prevent rust because it saves

the stove as well as shines it! Rust can 3





iron and wears it away. Black Silk Polish

protects your stove as well as beautifies it.





lhsullli





gives a gloss which lasts four times as long so

ordinary polish and wlll not rub OE or dust

ofl’. It’s economical,roo. It won’t cake in



can and you use every drop. See your dealer.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





   





 





 

     





 





 





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:‘2...:-' .1- 4153’ S"





\



No. 4153~Girls’ Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10-year »

size requires 4% yards of 32-inch ma-

terial. Price 12c.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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No. 4102—Girls’ Coat. Cut in five

sizes, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 y:arsf.44A 1% g; mmgfim MM!“

. ‘ . _.n . .

$233.2? ‘ia‘i‘i‘é‘éeizéur 5"“ S ° 1 ° Block sax. Stove Polish Works

' SterlinJflinois





Use Block om: Air-Drying Iron Enamel on

gates, registers, stove p pee—prevents rusting.



so Block Sllk Maul Polish for silver,niekel,ot

has. ltbssnoequsl for use on automobiles.





 





 





I never think of using anything but

[paper napkins in the school and pic-

nic lunch basket and throughout the

year they are used/ on the kitchen ta-

ble in place of linen napkins and tray-

cloths, which require ceaseless laun-

dering to keep them looking good.



To keep a fresh, clean cloth cover-

ing on a plant stand is next to impos-

sible, for the plant pots always make

noticeable stains on the cloth that are

exceedingly hard to wash out. So the

white sheets of crepe paper c0me into

excellent use here, as well as serv-

ing the purpose of a covering for the

pantry and window shelves. 1 have

made stained and nicked plant jars

look quite attractive, too, by covering

them with the colored sheets of paper,

gathered in at the top with a narrow

band of the same paper. ’



In the dining-room, too, crepe paper

can lend itself usefully and artistical-

ly. To add just the right bit of color





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Golden June Shade and Costs

Really Nothing. Read!





 





ful to each





 





18-year size requires 4%





 

 

 

 

 

   





Purely vegetable, harmless,





~ No. 4162—Ladies’ House Dress. Cut .

and National food





‘ ”in seven sizes. 36, 38, 40, 42. 44, 46 and



‘48 inches bust measure. ’ A 38-inch size

requires 6% yards of 324nm material. ‘

.‘l‘he width at ,th foot. is 3% yards.





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





   

   





 





Color Your Butter





Before churing add one-half teaspoon-

gallon of cream and out of your

chum comes butter of Golden one shade





inch material. The width at the foot addl ounce of weig tto butter- large bottle:

is two yards. Price 12c. ' cost only 35 cents at drug or moieryauatgm.

mee I C





laws. Used for 50 years-by

all large creameries.'Doesn’t'color buttermilk.





 





to‘the general tone of my dining-room,

I purchased a light wire lamp shade

frame and covered it with several

sheets of crepe paper, of theedesired





“Dandelion Butter Color" Gives That shade, shirring it slightly at the top





,and bottom of frame and finishing with

tape, glued on. ,

About this time, too, the covering Of

my serving tray needed attention. So

I covered it with a sheet of crepe pa-





. 6-— ’ ‘ . ‘C ‘n ,

thiI‘qeg Sigzis, 13585125 3.111311%?)s years‘ft A111 to bring you top prices. “Dande on Butter per the same — color as that of the

yards of 38- Color"costs nothin be'caureeach ounce used shade. Beneath . the glass, it looked





like expensive crepe cloth. Mats for

the dining-table, I find, are very ser~

viceable and can be made very lat-

tractlve, offibraided crepe paper, made

a various mafiiidflmlimfi he

insidious.” .





   

 

 





 





Crepe Paper Uses





stained by dipping.





#—-—

_“—





Most porches are exposed to all

kinds of weather and much trampling

of feet. Table and stand covers and

door mats are alv’vays bound to get

shabby after a while. A carpet, and

even a rug, is apt to become too soiled

to be cleansed in a short time, espe-

cially in rainy weather. Braided

crepe paper rugs and table mats are.

just the thing here, for they can be

burned when they have become soiled.

I was surprised to find how easily and

quickly they can be made. And if-

dark colors are used for these, their

time of service is lengthened—Hester:

C. Cunningham.





 





My Favorite Cale Recipe





 





Following are two of the prize will.

ners of last week’s contest:



Fourth Prize—Carrot Cake.



One-half cup mashed carrots



One cup sugar



One-third cup shortening



One teaspoon lemon extract



One scant cupmilk.



Measure two cups flour before sift-

ing and sift with one teaspoonful salt,

one teaspoonful of cream/of tartar,

one-half teaspoonful of soda, one-halt





cup chopped raisins and add the re»





maining ingredients. Bake in a quick

oven and be careful not to burn—Mrs.-

E .S., Petoskey, Mich. '

Fifth Prize—Prune Cake.



One cup sugar



Four level tablespoons butter



Yolks of two eggs



One cup prunes



One cup juice of prunes



One cup raisins



One teaspoon soda .



One-half teaspoon cinnamon



Two cups flour.



.Mrs. C. U., Mt. Clemens. Mlclia





 





{‘PASS IT om





 





“Corrugated .papér can be cut in neat,

squares topput under hot dishes, also

large pieces placed under the dishpan,

or used for covers. Sugar sacks‘can





be. baught at grocers for invoice“; '

3‘ V L





There is no 'gprintingptflhey are

' 11 ‘ «dis , ale o





 





   

 

 





’ H ““v-‘ewwmn I
garages





 

 

 

 





 

 





   





Unless] you see the name “Bayer”

on package or on tablets you are not

getting the genuine- Bayer product pre-

scribed by physicians over twenty-two





 

 

 





'Sayi“Bayer” and Insist!





 





 

 





 





 

 





HOT LUNCH FOR SCHOOLS. an incubator if equal care is given. The





little one, will not stand much hand-

ling. No washing should, be attempted

beyond rubbing the body with warm

oil once in two or three days. The

baby should not be dressed, but wrap

ped in cotton from head to foot and





 





W HAT about the school hot lunch



' at this time of the year? Does

your school serve it? If not, are you

not missing a good chance to give val-

uable help to your cnildren and to





 





 





your community?





I used the word “comm-unity” advis~

edly. The boys and girls who are go-





placed in a bed kept warm by hot wa-

ter bottles or some other method of

supplying gentle heat. The child





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mtfiefiatfi-mmslielf

sham flmddhmmmmi

muster ‘plaster was the

immmmrmmdyfinrMm-

madam, lumbsgo, colds on

the chest and sore throat.



It did the work all right,

but. it was sticky and messy -

to apply and my how it did

burn and blister! ,



The little white iar of

Musterole has taken the

place of the stern old mus-

tard plaster.





ing to your school today will be the

men and women of your community in

another decade or so. The physique

and mentality they are now building

will count tremendously then.



What diflerence does a hot lunch

make? Try it for yourselves. It has

passed the stage of fad or experiment.





should be fed with a. medicine drop-

per, getting a teaspoonful every two

hours the first day and gradually in-

creasing the amount up to one ounce

at a feeding. If at all possible he

should be fed with breast milk. If the

mother cannot supply it there is usu-

ally some other source available. A





Keep this soothing ointment on

your bathroom shelf and bring It

out at the first cough or sniffle. st

rheumatism 's first warning tingle.



Made from pure oil of mustard.

with the blister and sting taken

out, Musterole penetrates the skin

and goes right down to the seat

of the trouble.





 





 





I

Blame: mister: .. as

I Y 7 “1 esg§holgutsr§mw

3111310 per some





years and proved. safe by millions.

Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”





only. Each unbroken package contains

proper directions. Handy boxes of

twelve tablets ecst few cents. Drug-

gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100.





Wherever it has been inaugurated it

has become a fixture. Try it in your

schooL'





The hot lunch at school does‘not

mean that the teacher prepares a pot





Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer roast with various seductive extras.

Manufacture ’ of Monoaceticacidester Nothing of the kind. Its chief value





of Salicylicacid: does not consist in the additional food





that it gives to the children, so much

as in the added palatability and diges-

tion given to the lunches that they

bring from home.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





In most rural schools one hot. dish

. each day is all that is attempted. This

-‘ dish may be nothing but hot cocoa, it

may be a milk soup, it may be a veg-

. etable soup. The fact that stands

prominently forth is that the children

, who get this‘ addition to their fare be-

come brighter students, stronger in

frame and better nourished.



No doubt very much of the improve-

ment is due to the fact that instead of

gobbling their cold, dry lunch as has-

tily as possible, the addition of the

extra dish gives somewhat of the cere-

mony of a meal, thus encouraging

them to eat and digest the food

brought from home to a very much

better effect.





Weineed not bother about the ex-

planation. The absolute and verified

facts are that the hot lunch, even in

its simplest form, is a good thing for

your children, and a practical thing for

any school to give; and this is just

the season to begin.



The expense need not be very great.

One cooking vessel of large size help-

ed Out by serving dishes brought from

the homes of the children has been

the start of the hot lunch experiment

in many schools. But to do it prop-

erly it should be handled as an experi-

ment in teaching domestic science and

sufficient money should be appropriat-

ed to purchase a modest outfit of cock-

' ing and table utensils.





 





O 0

Build Roads With

0

the aid of

O .

Whitlock Rope

Use a rope that is ranteed

to stand up under t e severest

strains; a rope that lasts longer

without fraying or breaking; a

rope made to combat dirt and

water; a rope made of high

quality Manila hemp.

A 1-inch diam. Whitlock All—Manila

Rope should be used on a‘iob like this.

Write for the booklet, ‘The Right

Rope For Every Use." It contains in'o

font-tion which will save-you money.





WHlTwCK (Emmet: (‘pMPANY'

66 South Street. New York





 





 





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INCUBATOR BABIES.





 





I have just come back from taking-

care of my daughter, whOSe baby was

born prematurely. It weighed three 1

and a half pounds and lived four days.

I suppose itwould have had: some

Show if it had been put in. a. baby incu-

; baton Please tell us Whether there is

“any chance to raise a baby like this

any other way. Did you ever know

one to survive that did not have the

care of the hospital and the incubator.

-—Grandma. .

Incubator babies are doubtful risks

under the most favorable circum-

stances. To rear them successfully by

the aid of an incubator one needs also

the aid of a special nurse whose sole

duty is to watch the baby and the in-

cubator.





ture of the air must be kept exactly

right all the time. The feeding must





, The Coleman lamp do.

\ Chicago, IIIIIIIII





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Savanna





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





_ MW“ not-amen of, the baby’s life must have careful

M meW . . supervision. It is quite possible to-

.“fi m «'- u ‘ - raise Such a baby without the» help of





     





that comes once in a while in my chest. l

I bloat terribly at that time and my!

breath shortens so I can hardly stand,J

the pain.

hours. My home doctor says itisacute;

indigestion but I don’t think so, as I

can eat anything and it does not hurt





trouble to be gall-stone or kidney colic,

most likely the former.





X-Ray pictures will help in diagnosism





for my children.

thing like an itch, terrible itching and





It is only on their bodies, not on their

faces—A Mother.





The temperature and mois- its.





ment in strength of five to ten per cent

will cure it," but you must first give a

be carefully watched and every detail hot bath and scrub all the scabs on? so

that the sulphur may reach the para-

site.

-mon soap for this. ‘ ‘ '





little warm water may be given but

this is not urgent if the milk is taken

well. The important things are regu-

lar feeding, even temperature, and ab-

solute rest. With these supplied a pre-

mature baby may be raised at home.





 





MALARIA CARRIERS.





 





I am interested inxthe theory that

malaria is caused by mosquitoes. If

that is so Why do not all of us become

ill with malaria and where does the

mosquito get it in the first place?—

J. J. K.





Malaria is not caused by the mos-

quito. It is due to a microscopic ani-

mal parasite which gets into the blood.

The mosquito serves only as a carrier.

First he must bite some person already

infected, then he transmits the infec-

tion to his next victim. Ordinary mos-

quitoes cannot even act as carriers.

Only the kind known as “anopheles”

does this fell work. However, the only

practical way to get rid of malaria is

to exterminate all mosquitoes. '





 





Order Musterole today from



druggist. He has it in_ 35c an 656



jars and tubes; hospital size, $3.

The Musterole 00., Cleveland. Ohio

BITTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTIR





 





 





 





ZERO WEATHER COMING





Have you selected your





winter underwear?

Be comfortable this winter. Keep warm. Avoid

colds and influenza. Wear the kind of undergar- ‘





ment that has been the favorite with outdoor men ,

for fifty years.





 





TAKING TEMPERATURES—ADMIN-

ISTERING CH LOROFORM.





 





How many minutes does a thermom-

eter have to remain in one’s mouth to

get the right temperature in case of

fever. Also please explain how to ad-

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AM a calf club member. When I



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judge (dairy cattle, how’t‘o feed and

manage young calves, and also how to

cure diseases of calves.



Our club selected the Guernsey

breed because they give rich milk and

this country is a good place for Guern-

sey cattle. ,



Every club member borrowed mon-

ey from the American Security --Bank

of Iron Mountain. We paid seven per





cent interest on the money.





The pure-bred bull, which is now

nearly a. month old, is getting along

very‘ fine. His name is ~Beaty’s Novel!

of Magic. I have no papers on him

yet, but I intend to get papers very

soon. .



I stopped the growth of the bull’s

horns when he was five days’ old. I

have the bull outside a little while for

exercise. I keep salt and Water for

the bull at all times.



We have had quite a few. club meet-

ings this summer and from them I

have, learned how to judge and feed

dairy cows_ and pigs—Willem Bloom-

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colors Gun Metal. Mahogany Russet or

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lighter shades of shoe leather. also

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day gifts.





LET US FIX YOUR

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tsshlon. repair and reshape them it

needed. Furs are very light weight.

therefore it would cost but little to

send them in to us by Parcel Post lee our estimate at

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cision. Any estimate we make calls for our best werli.

Our Illustrated catalog and style hook combined gives

s lot of useful information. 1: tells how to take 0!

and care for hides. About our sale dyeing process on

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d garments. About our sharp reduction In menu-

eturlng prlees. About Taxidermy dud Head Mounting.





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Write Abraham For Go. for Free instruction and

advice which will enable you to vastly increase your

income from the trap line. We want to show you

how to buy Trap rs‘ So plies at bargaép prices.

We operate the srgest upply De t. 0 any fur

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my calf at

thirteen months old.





would follow me like a dog and had

been trained to lead by its recent





owner.

My calf has been very healthy. It





Mr. Miller, the county agent, bought

Algoma, Wisconsin, of

acob J. Blahnik for $125. It was then





When I got it, it became my pet. It





has had no sickness whatever as long

as I have had it. ‘ '

M'y calf won first prize at a school

exhibit last year.



When my calf was sixteen months

old I had it bred by a pure-bred Guern-

sey bull. After it was bred I took

great care of it. I fed it as good as I

knew how, and kept clean, dry bedding

under it at all times. .

When 'the heifer Was twenty-six

months old she got a. calf and 'it was,

a. bull.



The first day and night I let the cow

be with the calf. Then I put the cow

in a stable and milked her and gave it

to‘the calf. The first week I fed the

calf four pounds of its mother’s milk

three times a day. ~



During this time I also kept a milk

record. She milked 160 pounds the

first week, 189 2-10 pounds the second

week, etc. ,



We have a. scrub cow that calved

during the same month as mine "did.

My pure-bred cow milks twice as much

as the scrub cow. My cow has much

richer milk and is better than the scrub

on all points.





I-IIS letter box will be where





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

Well, Here I am trying in another

contest, for the third time. I have nev-

er won before, but you know the old

saying, “Three times and out}? so may-

be I will win this time, I hope so.

Now, .Uncle. Frank, I am going to

tell you something which I think very

queer, because I have an Uncle Frank

besides you, also a cousin Frank, and





Now. isn’t that. queer? ,

We don’t live on a farm now, Uncle

Frank, because we just «:moved. into





‘Fari’ner‘ and, will continue to dose.





 





 





 





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wen. Uncle Frank. I" mint close .tor





   





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town. but~ we "still take the. Michigan;





son County, 1922.





 





EFFECTIVE SETS FOR MUSK‘RATS.





 





BY JOHN 0. ROBERTS.





MUSKRATS are prolific, bearing





four or five litters of from six to





nine ,young each season. They are





 





Boys’ and Girls’ Calf. Exhibit at Felch Twp., Dickinson 60., Community Fair.





found throughout the United States

and Canada, especially along the nu-

merous rivers, swamps and creeks of

Michigan.



Muskrat are most often caught at

the foot of slides ;- the trap being plac-

ed under about three inches of water.

Always set your trap with,the spring

turned toward the trigger jaw so that

the rat may, in nearing your trap, not





’ have to go around the spring and not





step on the pan.



Apples, carrots and pasnips are used

by many for bait. Corn also may be

used. I personally prefer corn and

parsnips. \ ,



Traps concealed in. runways with

parsnip scattered about is a. good set

or they may be set in the entrance at

the holes in the. bank if located. _



By gouging out a. hole at the water

line with the toe of your boot and

plastering the upper edge with corn,

'the rats mistake it for one they dug

and are sure to get caught. In making

Water sets always stake the chain in

deep water as the muskrat upon being

caught dives for deep water. The

weight of the trap drowns, it quickly.





, Our Letter Box





the boys and girls can express their





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.——Uncle Frank. .





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this time, with .love to you and, all my

cousins. Frances Chamberlin, Ponti-

ac, Michigan.



I hope you will substitute the ex-

:pression, “If you don’t succeed, try,





try again,” for “Three times and out.”





Write again, “Frank.” '





 





Dear Uncle Frank: , 4

Your letter received in the 11:30

mail, and gee! but it was quite a. aura

prise, .as I did not expect any mail

whatever. ‘- .\ _ _ ‘ ‘ ., - ‘

I. cannot say. very .much 313915.!

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~ gum! some real useful things in it. '





* old.

Thomas.





that ZJLEZU contest.





   





Uncle Frank, I never see any neph-





‘ - ews or nieces of my age writings. I





am ten years old. Am I the youngest?

Your sincere nephew, Thomas Morris,





er.,i Clarkston, Michigan.





No, you 'are' not the youngest. 'I

have'had letters from some eight years

Come again when you can,





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I live on an eighty-acre 'farm. We

have a wonderful grove, it is beautiful

in the summer. We have five cows,

two horses and some young stock.



My people are grangers. The grang-

ers were to organize a juvenile lodge,

but every time they had a meeting

there wouldn't be enough children

present. I hope they will soon organ-

ize it, although I’ll soon be able to

join the other one, but it will be nice

for the other children.



I answer every contest in the Mich-

igan Farmer. I have won two prizes.





Some





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"girls. .. " 1 -"

'I write the news



It has been bitter cold here the last.

few days and we are only too glad to

hug the stove. There was two inches

of snow on the ground this morning.





Winter will soon be here. Yours sin-

cerely, Thelma Johnson.





It is fine that you are acting as a

newspaper correspondent; the training

is good. I am glad you take such in-

terest in the contests.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



It seems I did not quite understand

the Read-and-Win Contest conditions,

and so made my answer entirely too

lengthy.



I am working on a. radio outfit, one

of the battery kind. I have made sev-

eral galena sets. I get Detroit and

Pittsburgh, Pa.——Your nephew, Wilse

Burlington, Rushton, Michigan.





Yes, you did make your answers

too lengthy. ' I bet you get a lot of

fun out of your radio.





Puzzle Pointers





B y Uncle F rank





HE biggest ever” is the way the

circus advertiser would descm‘be

But really, in

plain English, it did bring by far the

greatest number of letters of any con-

test so far.



The puzzle was easier than I thought

it would be. This was probably be-

cause it was made up of a verse which

was quite familiar to most of us. Be-





 





UTIQE OSN UHNT





tahw rep tenc to cimiaghn

lectat rae ecruburalt?





Just a little more mixed Eng-

lish, or rather, a Read-andWin

question mixed up a bit.



First find out what the title

and the question are, then look

through the paper and find the

answer to the question.



When sending in your an-

swers, give the correct title and

question, your answer and the

page upon which the answer was

found. ,



To‘ the ten who send the most

correct, concise, and neat papers

we will give prizes as follows:

The first two, Michigan Farmer

pencil boxes; the next three,

handsome nickled. pocket pen-

cils, and to the next five, Michi-

gan Farmer maps of the world

and new Europe.



Send your papers to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Michigan, before Novem-

ber 23.





 





 





 





cause it was a well-known verse, some

pals made a mistake on it, as they had

the last line, “And a pleasant land.”

If they had worked out all the words,





they would have found that “pyhpa”'





could never make “pleasant.”

Others showed that they worked out





all the words, but were not very famil-





iar with the verse, for they had the





next to tht last line, ‘_‘Make a mighty





canoe,” which could be made out of

the letters in that line, but it would





* not make sense. At least, I would not





care to have a canoe made out of little





drops of water and little grains of





sand. Would you?





Many answers lost out on account of

Now, I know it





'the lack of neatness.

is much harder for some to write neat

letters than others. For instance, I





am one who finds it hard to write a





nice hand, and those in the office want

to know what those mark-spare, when

I am Writing “juSt plain English.” But,

even if One can not write neatly, he

can at .leaSt make an effort toward

néatnes‘s. The endeavor to, be neat





counts as much in these contests as

neatness itself. I like to see all who

try these contests stand high in effort,

at least.



80 many had the answer correctly

and neatly done that the only way I

could be fair in picking the winners

was to put all the good letters in a

basket and have an uninterested per—

son pick out the winners. '



The mixed English contest has prov-

en popular, and so have the Read-and-

VVin contests. So, this week we have

a combination of both.



I want to thank my many pals for

the nice letters they sent me this

week. I wish the management would

turn over the whole paper to me so I

could print a big bunch of them.





PUZZLE WINNERS.





 





Here are the winners of the Novem-

ber 4 puzzle:

Pencil Box:

Anna Haystead, Britton, Mich.

Marvin Dick, Ionia, Mich., RR. 7,

box 51. .

Nickled Pocket Pencil:

Esther Gebauer, Elkton, Mich., RR.

1, box 3.

Marie E. Kirchoff, VVixom, Mich.,

RR. 1, box 55.

Delmar Gieseler,

RR. 2, box 110.

Maps:

Effie Dyhenga, Ellsworth, Mich., care

Mrs. I. Tornga.

Lawrence Smafield, Melvin, Mich.

Ethyl Cranke, Grand Junction, M‘ich.

Gertrude Johnson, Bark River, Mich.,

box 57.

Ella Stephenson, Sault Ste. Marie,

Mich., RR. 3.





Barryton,





TH E PUZZLE ANSWER.





 





Puzzle.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make a mighty ocean,

And a happy land.





WANT TO CORRESPON D.





 





The following girls and boys would

like to receive letters from other

young folks who are interested in this

department:



Myrtle Greenman, Topinabee, Mich.



Lelah Greenman, Topinabee, Mich.



Betty Schlasser, Fairgrove, Mich.



Dora Achambeault, Cooks,

R. F. D. 1.



Lillian Hunter, Bailey, Mich.



Zelda Farmer, Elba, Mich., R. F. D. 1.



Martha Buss, Manchester, F. F. D. 2.



Mabel White,,Hermansville, Mich.,

R. F. D. 1.



Mary E. Putnam, Coiling, Mich.

FEDlzibeth Weaver, Ithaca, Mich., R.

DFé'eda Sparks, Saranac, Mich., R. F.





Mildred Walters, ,Eckford, Mich.

Iris Peabody, Sunfield, Mich.

Grace Schlader, Freeland, Mich.

RAi‘lidB :Vestus, Grand Rapids, Mich.,





for our county-pa- ' ‘

- periand must close and complete it.





Mich.,





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HERE'S SOMETHING for you. Mr. \-

Trspper snd~Fur hippcr—somethiuf \\

very important to YOU. Prices of rsw urs

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urs. but also contains msrhet information thst

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It will make money for you. t will put you in position



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slwsys know just whst prices your furs should command. isn't

such information worth money to you? The msrk ct reports published in

"yin Dhuhnt .huwrr” are slwsys based on true facts concerning condi-

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Without obligation send me “a I» ”aim!

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SEE THIS PENINSULAR

Sheep lined coat No.26





Just the thing for Dad or big brother!

\Vhen he sees the name Peninsular in

his coat he knows he has a coat that is

gnaranteed to give him the utmost

satisfaction. This coat is belted and

is 36” long, made of selected, long

. wool, “live” skins. Peninsular brand

of men’s apparel has been a leader for

48 years. There must be a reason!

Their quality of goods—workmanship

——and roominess with an ideal fit has

made then so. Sizes 38 to 50 priced

at $12.00. If your dealer cannot

supply you write us direct. '





Geo. F. Minto 8: Co.





Dept. F. Detroit, Mich.





 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 





Penimular shirt-r, lzoriery, underwear,

etc., in :uitable weight; for all rearom.

Also maker: of the famous Flrxlernit

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CRAFTS ‘





MEDICINE FOR

DISTEMPER





The mdud preparation for Coughs, Colds.

Distal-n er. All Druggists.

Write for FRE Book on Horse Diseases.





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POULTRY

Bred-To-Lay White Wyandottes





Sfpecial sale of cockerels from 200egg hens t I“ 85.00

i taken early. EVERGREEN POULTRY ARM.

Blanding ch Sons. Greenville. Mich.





Michigan’s Best Giant Bronze Turkeys





Healthy rsnge~hred birds from world’s best strains.

Urirelattidii lstock furnished. N. Evalyn Bamsdell,

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of pure-bred Holsteins- at. the



Grand River Stock Farm. at Ea.-

ton Rapids, was the program arranged

for by Corry J. Spencer, owner of the

farm. Members from the M. A. C. fac-

ulty and from the State Department of

Agriculture addressed those attending

the sale on the importance of cleaning

up and building up our dairy herds.



A haltrsa million dollars yearly for

a. period of five years would be suffi-

cient, according to Horace W. Norton,

of the State Department of Agricul-





A. N outstanding feature of the sale





Introduces InoVation





Farmer: Enjoy Educatzona/ Feature: Put On 53! Mr. Spencer

at Recent Sale ‘





in the vicinity of the agricultural col-

lege,” declared Professor Reed, head of

the dairy department at that institlk

tion, who followed Mr. Norton on the

program. “I wish, therefore, to enlist

the support of the men in this oom-

munity for the betterment of all, be-

cause the man with a few cows is real-

ly the backbone of the dairy industry.”



Describing the dairy and alfalfa

campaigns which‘ were started in

Clintdn county and will be extended to a

score of others during the fall and

winter season, Professor Reed urged



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OYT SISLER, Newaygo county cow-tester, demonstrates at-recent local



fair that some cows are better than others. In one herd he found “Snow

Ball,” a cow that brought her owner a. loss of $22.96 in ten months.

duced 172 pounds of butter in that period. .

same herd, produced 581 pounds of butter in the same time and made a.

profit over feed cost of $107.33. There are thirty-two cow-testers in the state

making similar discoveries every week.

The dairy department of the M. A. C. will be pleased to help start this work

if you and your neighborsare interested.





She pro-





Another COW, “Millie,” in the





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ture, to 'clean up the dairy herds of

Michigan. “While this seems like an

immense sum of money,” he said, “Del-

aware county, New York, is now in

such bad condition that they estimate

it will cost one and a half million dol-

lars to clean up that county alone.”

Three and a half per cent of the

cattle in the state are tubercular, ‘and

this, in the estimation of Mr. Norton,

is the biggest argument for proceeding

with as much speed as possible and

get the disease eliminated before it

spreads to a point where the cost of

eradication will be almost prohibitive.

Mr. Norton remarked that there is

considerable talk that the indemnity

should be reduced to a level of that

paid in other states. The department

does not like to see a reduction made

inasmuch as the farmer who owns re-

actor cows is now the heavy loser, even





presented, showing the large sum of

money that will be necessary to pay

for reactors, there probably will be a

tendency toward lowering the indem-

nity rate.



To indicate the progress made in

this work, Mr. Norton stated that

eighteen months ago there were only

four hundred cattle under observation

in this state, while at the present time

there are about two hundred thousand.

Professor Reed Talks Straight.

“It is diflicult indeed, to get the

proper interest in the ‘dairrbusiness'





 





though he is paid the present indem-~

‘ nity. When, however, the figures are





the active cooperation of all farmers,

and particularly the men interested in

pure-bred stock. These campaigns will

promote a better appreciation of the

good dairy cow, the advantage of pure-

bred sires, the value of properly bal-

anced ration and above all, a careful

weeding out of the inferior cows and

the breeding of the good ones to the

end that the farmer may secure a max-

imum return for every dollar invested

in the feed given to the animals.



Professor Reed declared that the av-

erage of 3,600 pounds of’milk per year

per cow as indicated by the federal

census is not far from correct. Re-

cently factory managers who were tak-

ing large quantities of milk daily and

who knew the number of cows being

milked 'by their patrons, calculated

that, the animals were producing from

3,600 to 4,000 pounds of milk per cow.

This means that there are probably

half of these animals producing 4,000

pounds or less, and the 4,000-pound

cow, according to Mr. Reed, is an in-

efficient animal.



Out of 19, 000 of the better milk pro-

ducers in the state of Michigan, there

are less than one hundred who are at-

tempting to make milk records. “This,"

said Professcr Reed, “is one of theme-

grams we hope to put over in Michi-

gan. We now have thirty cow-testing

associationis in this state, and I am

quite sure that the men connected with

the pushing of this work will have one





hundred in operation betore lbng.





 





 

 

 

 

 





There ought to be a Way of destroy

ing scrub bulls and replacing them? ’





with pure-bred sires. The average





' farther cannot afford, to own a pure- ~

It has got to be a neighbor»





bred hull.

hood prOpositlon. In some way four

>or live farmers must own such an ani-

mal jointly. There is , nothing that

can be done toward insuring better re-

sults than providing a pure- -bred sire.

It will help the individual farmers and

will be a great booa to the commu-

nity. —The organization of a bull asso-

ciation should be heralded by bankers

and business men as well as by farm-

ers,’ _ Sines it is introducing 8. worth-

while economic factor into the com-

munity.





Professor Reed closed by appealing

for greater loyalty on the part of_ farm-

ers to their own interest. “Don’t eat

butter substitutes and expect sameone

else to pay a good price for the butter

you produce. I discovered in a small

town in Allegan, that thirty-six per

cent of the farmers were eating oleo.

I started to investigate and one of the

grocers told me that he had four

brands of oleo, but had no butter for

sale. I asked him why he handled this,

and he said he had to do‘so in order

to hold his trade on other articles. The

farmers demanded oleo.”





Professor Dennison, of the M. A. 0.,

who had charge of the program, next

introduced Reverend Parrott, who

stated that when he came to Jackson

he asked where he could get milk from

tuberculin~tested cows and was advis-

ed that he could get it almost any-

where. This, he stated, aroused his

respect for the‘farmers in this locality





and with such a start the outlook was.





promising.

The Sale.



' Regarding the sale, Mr. Spencer

states, “This was our first sale to be

held‘ in the community and the first

dairy sale that was ever held here,

and we really look to it as being a real

success on account of the interest man-

ifested by those at the ring side. A

great many bulls remain in the com-

munity to improve both grade and

pure-bred herds right around us, only

one of the sires going to New York

state.” Evert E. Price, former herds-

man at the M. A. 0., fitted the animals

for the show ring. The selling was

done by the 'veterans, J. E. Mack, auc-

tioneer, and S. T. Wood in the box.

Mr. Spencer states that plans are al-

ready being made to hold another sale

of this nature next spring.





 





CULLING OF DAIRY HERDs SAME

As ADVANCE m PRICE

OF MILK.





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WHEN the lowest-producing cows

in the herd of pure-bred Jerseys

maintained on the experiment station

farm at Geneva, New York, were sold

recently, the average annual yield of

butter-fat for the present herd was

increased fifteen pounds per cow.

These two lowest-producing animals

were readily identified by means of

the records kept- Th9 average yield

of the herd before these two cows

were disposed of was 337 pounds of

butter—fat. per year per cow and this

was increased to 352 pounds per cow

with the sale of the two poorest cows.

Assuming that the cost of caring for

the cows is the same, this sale of the

two lowest producers is equal to a





raise in the price of milk from $2.00 '

to $2.10 per hundred Weight, declares "‘





the station dairyman. A raise ,of ten

cents per hundred weight in the‘price

paid to the farmer for his milk wOuld

attract much more attentionithan an





.mcreaso in the productiOn of butter-fat ' :1 ‘

or fifteen pounds per cow per year; al.-





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 

 

 





 

 





 





   





 





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GOD dairymen are finding it a





r:

g .- _ . wise-practice to: feed well the cows

' _ ; which. are dry, or nearly so. The big

:3 I , milk producers, during the period of

“.3 " - heavy production, conimonly draw up-

1_ - p . on the supply of mineral elements in

It , their bodies. This supply must be re-

3- : placed. The time to replace it is when

a l , the cow, is yielding little or no milk.

d‘ l . . Then it is that a surplus of these im-

9 . portant elements should be stored

1): 3 ~ ready for the following season‘ of heavy

,3 - , production.





Certain feeds are richer in linie and

. . . phosphorous than others. Alfalfa, clo-

1' ver, soy-bean and cow-pea hays are

especially rich in lime. Phosphorous

in feeds is found in the largest quan-

g - . titles in wheat bran, cottonseed meal,

1' . standard wheat middlings and linseed





 





it ‘ meal. Where these hays and Concen-

e . trates are given in appropriate quanti-

r ~ties to the cows, the best results will

ll 1 be obtained. '

r

). I DANISH AGRICULTURE SUFFERS

9 DEPRESSION.

r . __

r » N an address delivered before the

5’ Farm Hands’ Clubs of Washington,

r Dr. S. Sorensen, agricultural represent-

9 ' ative from Denmark, said that while

Denmark isa small country its surplus

.. production of butter, bacon and eggs

t has considerable influence upon the

0 world’s markets.

‘1 Previous to the war the Danish farm-

“ ers enjoyed a long period of prosper-

" ity. They imported large quantities

" of feedstuffs and exported vast quan-

3 titles of dairy, hogxand poultry prod-

? ucts.

3' Agriculture in Denmark suffered se-

— verely during the war. The farmers

could have sent their surplus products

,- . to Germany, but for patriotic reasons

3 they sent their butter, eggs and bacon

t to England instead at much lower pric-

., es than they ‘could have received in

1 the German markets.

’. After the war the Danish farmers

I experienced the most serious depres-

.- sion in the history of agriculture. The

1 number of cattle and hogs declined

, sharply. In 1915, there were exported

r 200,000,000 pounds of butter; in 1919,

,- . 30,000,000 pounds. Less than one per

3 cent of the bacon 'exportedin 1914

3 was exported in 1919. .

3 Danish agriculture has comeback

:. rapidly, however, the experts of butter

. (reaching over. 200,000,000. pounds in





 





 





 





1921, and bacon exports reaching the

same figure, about two-thirds of the

. 5 prewar exports. Import-s of feedstul’fs

~are ' again about normal, a larger

'- amount being received from the Unit-

ed States now than before the war.





 





BETTER PURE-BRED SALES.





 





 





HERE are too many public sales

of dairy cattle being held in which

the offerings are decidedly inferior, is

the opinion of a Holstein breeder with

whom I talked recently. He had just

, , come from a sale in which the highest

’1' " priced animal brought $250.

This breeder had‘ gone to that sale

with the intention of buying, but he

didn't. Not that he suspected any

”shady practices or even the health of

'the animals, but the cattle being of-

, , fered simply were not of the proper

-_ l quality to have been admitted to a sale

.' of that kind.



“The consignors to that sale,” he

declared, “had overlooked one funda-

mental factor when organizing the

sale, namely: the selling value of con-'

dition. Many of the cows looked sick-

ly; most of them were thin; none of

. them were well-groomed. There were

‘='"- too many old cows, for another thing."

‘ ' This is a lesson it'seems very hard

, for those. who sell live stock to learn,

‘ if that {good-appearances. spell profit.





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shown- to“ advantage, and they also» see

to‘it that the cattle are well fed and

well groomed. Many fariners, how-

ever, merely show 'a buyer through

their pasture and let him look at ani-

mals in the rough, or they take these

same cows right out of pasture and

consign them to some sale.



I well remember attending a sale

some years ago in one of the greatest

dairy sections in Wisconsin. It was

the first sale that these people had

held, and they chose a day in spring

just about a month after pastures “had

been opened. Every single one of the

consignors had driven his sale stuff

into the pasture and kept them there

until two days before the sale. Then

some of the cows were walked as far

as twenty miles to the sales pavilion.

You can imagine the condition those

cows were in.



Of course, there is nothing specially

wrong about holding that kind of a.

sale, but it does disappoint both buyer

and seller. Such a sale is simply a

poor business proposition. It does not

bring out full value for the \cattle of-

fered, and it does a great deal to make

the buying public indifferent to all pub-

lic sales.



Good condition in live stock is like

the fancy wrapper around the food we

buy. There may be no real increase

in value because of the fancy wrap-

per, but our .eye is attracted so that

we buy the good looking packing and

pass by the unattractive one.





 





CO-OP COMMISSION HOUSES ARE

DOING WELL.





 





ICHIGAN cooperative live stock

shippers have opened a coopera-

tive commission house at the Buffalo

stock yards, the only one on that mar-

ket. Their cooperative commission

house at the Detroit stock yardsmthe

Michigan Live Stock Exchange Com-

mission Merchants, is handling from

111 to 122 cars weekly, better than

one-third the volume of stock sent to

the Detroit market.

Buffalo is an. important outlet for





Michigan, Ohio and Indiana live stock. .‘





Accordingly the Michigan Live Stock

Exchange and the live stock exchang—.

es of Ohio and Indiana farmershave

cooperated with the State Farm Bu-





'Producers’ Cooperative Commission.

Association at East Buflalo. Elmer A.

.Be.amer,. of Blissfield, Mich.,is presi-

. dent of the Buffalo. commission house.

.P. M. Granger, of Charlotte, and J. H.

O’Mealey, of. Pittsford, are directors.

The Buffalo cooperative commission

house opened business November 1

with twenty carloads. The cooperators

have an excellent crew of salesmen;

Ernie Prentiss, of Buffalo,.is their cat-

tle salesman. They took P. C. Flour-

noy from St. Joseph, Mo., as hog sales-

man, and Joe Quinn from South St.

Paul, as calf and. sheep salesman. The

Buffalo house is located at the New

York Central Stock Yards, East Buf-

falo, New York. According to reports

from Michigan Live Stock Exchange

locals, their Detroit cooperative com-

mission house is giving excellent sat-

. istaction.





CURRENT EVENTS FOR FARMERS.





Corn huskers are in demand in Ill-

inois.

The government of Saskatchewan

.will distribute four million forest

trees next spring.

PresidentxHarding is impressed with



- the predicament in which agriculture

finds itself and emphasizes» the need

of better systems of marketing and

transporting farm crops and in financ-

ing the farming business.

Exports from Canada for the past

year equal $150 per ‘capita, which is





not say too much





for me to take care





other work. You

make no mistake in

ing one.”



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the De Laval and





 





This statement was. recently made

by a De Laval Milker user to us in a

letter, and he goes on to Say: “I can-





Milker as my cows are milked better

than they were by hand and it has

solved my labor problem. Thousands

of De Laval Milker users

have experiences such as

this and the following:

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cows alone and do all my





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“My DeLaval Milker pays me better;

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—“ I have now used a De Laval

Milker for three years and will never

milk by hand any more.”



We could quote indefinitely from

among the thousands of satisfied De

Laval users; but “The Better Way

of Milking,” a beautifully illustrated

book, contains the ex—

periences of De Laval

Milker users from all sec-

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Other bargains. Box 425-.Z. Carthage, Mo.





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here; on StateHighway, .

rohs; WANTED—Jamil 100 acre farm in exchange for my

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farm. Box 0-21, Wehigun Farmer, Detroit.

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or exchange for stock of not b dis

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Farms wanted cash5rice. Quick sales.





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5 Grand Champions

28FIRSTS





and other prizes. Such was the remarkable performance

of our animals at the 1922 Michigan State Fair. What

could be better proof of the unvarying quality of our

animals or more representative of the ideal for which we

have striven? Our success is the natural culmination of

our efiorts and our reward for years of careful and costly

breeding. Ours is symbolic of the best. Mediocrity

is not tolerated.



Our success can also be yours. Our young animals

are the finest examples of breeding an? :illeo mtfmsh to

improve your herd. Get the blood 0 t e In: o Ires



EDG GAR 0F DALMER . _ .

into your herd and you will have indivIdualtty. duttnc-

tion and quality. G d Ch Stalli n

The services of our ran ampion o .



GEORGE HENRY

are available.

Your correspondence and impaction are invited.





WILDWOOD FARMS

omon. MICHIGAN

w. r. SCRIPPS, Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.





 





 





 





 





Ab deen- Angus cattle. Two bulls

RegiStered froeuli eight to eleven months old. One

0 show bull. large and growthy. Priced reasonable





. Terms if wan





’

tested. Darla

“aeration“! good

11:11) El Pediwee on request.





hite Pigeon, Michigan





3 ydr. old dang tor of

ind ilvldua . mostly



Priced to sell

ALB EBT G.





‘ i- 111 1.1 d hte 1 Ma l



°§§ Ea“: “disguised “$15.5.th

m r. o



m 9° “£3. "if. LanMcLaulin.m Redford. mob





Pure bred. register-edged

hte





BUTTER BRED JERSOEY ”BELLS





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FgARM.

, Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





 





Registered i:;‘:,’.§:§£‘§o.§,‘gfi°m "m b.3233 Bhorthorn steers 51m State number and weight

spare a few cows t1? freshensoon. record‘s",e kethI preferred V. BALDWIN, Eldon. Iowa,

accredited. J. HOARTER Lake Odessa, Mich ‘





 





 

 

 





stone.





1 Mmfidifhiimo

no. no





 





90-00. Mich.





Steers For Sale“





All are dehorned mflhe best of quality Must

be sold at once your choice one load or all.



Most all bunches [Herefords (Weightooolbs. to

1000 lbs. and each bunch even in size. some just

fair flesh. account short pasture. Know of light





 





Jerse bulls ready for service. cows

For sale: and hyeifers due to freshen soon. All

cows Revfer of Merit. Accredited herd.

ITH AND PARKER R. 4 Howell. moi.

JERSEYS Registered bull calves. two to

four months 815 and so” Fl yin:

a





Fox breeding. Tuberculin tested. mmot

Bronze turkeys. Ten Have Farm. 3.2 .Hlolland. Mich.





 





 





FOR Sale registered Jersey Cows. some due to fresh

on now, one bull two years old and bull calves.

C. H. FRENCH. Marian. Mich.





Lill- Farmstead Jerseys For sale. 3 heifers

1e bred to freshen this fall. 2 bull calves. 6 to 9





mo. old. Col on C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.





Jersey Bull calves 2‘11 381.22.332: ”Fling: :2?“

LSEY. Homer. Mich.





 





Young stockd for sale. Ac-

OcreIdthedh ord

ER. Reese, Mich.





BID “U ELL BUY A BULL

11 ill at eight on your dai calves -the did-

grgrttc: w1llp soorli' ay for the ho] l. rNow selling rEOOd

Scotch and Scotch- topped yearlmgs. reasonably





W arantee every animal to be ab breeder odor-l

T1313“ One hour from Toledo. Ohio. N.Y C. R. R.





BIDWELL STOCK FARM,





Jersey Cattle





 





Inquire of F. J. WILBEB. Clio. Mich: 808 D, Tecumseh, Michigan



. bl A -



FOR SALE 8...... mm... gggrdeen, Milking E?.‘lll%3"l‘.2"22‘l.$°:§°‘ltr 1...“.23.

,A AnguBs 8“] is an e are 0 milk. Beland and Bel land. Tecumseh Michigan





variOus ages. BR 8.. Davison. Mich.





Registered Guernseys





Another crop of calves Choice bull calves $75, their





ll l so on.

breeding “nfyfecordivslw‘ IApli‘dlS. y No Adams. Mich.





 





l For Sale Guernsey Head gullno

i) gill. ‘23.“?32‘3132'32bl) 1““..“3 3‘19}? 81?: 1ce°§175.000m 1i





at A credit He r.d

bull calves GbL $81396 EROTRERS, Camden. Mich.





—REGISTERED BULL



G“ E R N S EYSB, Calves. .Fo'gntzln:ing bl‘godd

ld h Ins. cows. e or nspec



filliit's' 31133515st FAllliM. Saginaw. w.s. Mic





Wallinwood Guernseys





R. for sale.

you“ bull‘s. tWMWAALLI.%?.M Jenison. Mich-





read for light service. Bred heifer.

Guernsey BUII Year ing heifer. Adv. Reg breeding.

Free from disease. G. A. Wigent. Watervliet. Mich.





 





s'sle Registered Guernsey cows May Rose Breed-

For iiig also bull calves $50 each. ' Registered A





dams. JOHN EBELS. R 2 Holland, Mich.





WINNWDDD HERD





Registered Holsleins





 





Ask us about a Real Bull 3

Maple Crest or an Ormsby.





JOHN H. Wlllll, lnc.. Bochesler, Mich.





The Traverse Herd





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

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way_

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

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

quotations. stating about age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

Traverse City, Mich.





 





- Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

“OISIBIII re istered and high-grade. rice up

Splendid in ividuals and breeding. Write us your re-

quirements. Browncrott F arms.- McGraw. N. Y





For Sale King Sogls Breeding





Bulls of show type that are but of

A. R. O. Dams.





Grand lliver Stock Farms





Gory J. Spencer, III E. Maln SI.

JACKSON, MICHIGAN





COLANTHA BULLS





All from high-producin dams. Also a few

egg-led and high rade Ho ein cows 0t f0 or-'

prices upon request. A c





 





goes rd dedi refs “Ila rvlsion sen

er I:

9. u” " vitamins FARMS. Whitney. Mich





 





7 _ I A M I...“ accepted inpayll editing“ finely bred rag

«screen ”if”





unwithinroach





calms-it:





 





 





BUYING F EEDERS

AND SELLING FAT





CATTLE





-4 :3' At present,is too much like





’ GAMB BLING





All experience proves Baby-Beef Growing





THE ETTER WA





GROW HEREFORD BABY BEEVES

Our Contractors are guaranteed top prices by Detroit

Packing Co. Commission. Yardage. Feedand dall other

expenses, except transportation—only: are cut out.

Our plan age 11s the way to profitable beef— making by

MichIgun armors. In no other way can as much

money per cow be earned with so little labor. If

you have no beef- bred cows we have them on hand

or listed Study our Lplan“ vand heconvinced. Come.

wire or write. Right



T. F. B. SOUTHAM & SON



(Cattle Business Established 1839)

Phone 250 t. Clair. Michigan





HEREFORDS





For Sale at Farmer's prices

5 yearling bulls 8 yearling heifers

10 of the above sired by our $5200 Repeater bull.

We have others not related. This is an opportun-

ity to start in good stock or a moderate price.





ALLEN BROS.





616 50. West St., Kalamazoo, Mich.





Herefords For Sale.





RALPH OALHOON.

for sale three young bulls





Polled Hereiords, ,ndmmetemale,

GLEN GOLDEN. Angola. Ind.

For Sale





ure bred Hereford stock 1 bull.

DAN SLOWI





   





 





 





ulls.

and heifers

Bronson. M ich,





00'!





 





cows 2 earling heifers and l calf.

SKI. Lake Odessa. Mich.





 





P " d Herefords—A few past yearling heifer-we for

0 e sale. Also some cows due to col soon.

for prices. Lloyd F. Willion. Angolanw Ind.





 





feeders and stockers several loads all

For Sale Herefords. each bunch uniform in

dgar Sedore. ()ttumwa. Iowa.





FOR SALE





Pulled Shorthorn Cows & Heifers





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

Herd i1headed by Victor Sultan and Royal Non-

Dare

We can please you in richly bred cattle with

quality at farmers’ prices.



EO E BURDICK. Mgr.

Branch Counth Farm. Goldwater. Mich.





HIGHLAND sd‘onmonds





We are oflering 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.





Central Mich. Shorthorn Breeders’ Assn





f l b th milk and beef breedin all ages

onel-Vrite or sIzheE .OMILLER. 880’ y. GreenviIIe. Micli





ENTIRE lherd just

ate Tnberoul osis test

Union City. Mich.





size and color.





 





 





Shorthornsmd '°' “'e'

J. 4.5;?“ RNUM.





Milking Shorthorn5.3};l °i.‘;°2‘°o$.°.;o





ROSEMARY FARMS.





For Sale Shorthorn Bulls Berkshire





'SIMON G. MAIOEELE. Middlevil lo. “Mich.





 





 





mm .. g ,. a





‘ em; Mmfitfii ”7&1.





'-





Hoes





 





' have roven their so eriorlty

5,911! 3 BerkSIIINS at th: leading Michigpan fairs

You want the best at. Let us he pyou to get

started right. firm“ boars priced reasonable

. H. Every. Manchester. Mich.





 





Berk-hire pigs two months old 810 each. Sprin pigs

820. 00 each. Goodt gen. and Rthrififi individuals unr-

anteed O Y. Akron. Mich.





Cosmos. Duroc nan, Lyons,Mich., 11.1.

Greatest Blood lines in Duroc Hogs





Herd Boots 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 hours

registered. Sold under a positive guaranteeend

worth the money. Write for prices.



I... A. BURHANS, OWNER





DUROC-JERSEYS





Mr. Breeder Mr. Farmer



Have £011 selpcteg your BO‘AhR yet? We l1211.0voe'someh big.

rowt s r n oars we g 1n over



gresired y b; asgn of GR EPAT 063 BION SENSATIOII



and one by F0 US'I‘ L. Get our prices on



them before buyingEB Write [1? now!





F.» RMS

Charlevoix.

“The Home of Grand Champions"





 





Michigan





 





Woodlawn Farm Duroc Hogs

b‘ :31] kept llitgrd' bgst ‘1‘)! Tot“! linear. with] size and



re mg no 163, soc o a t.

sonable pr ces. W. EBARTLaEeYa. 31731256313.





Reg. Duroc Jersey Swme

tin and Fall Boars of quality Hired by 1921 Mich.

ran Champion and Grandson of Scissors. World‘

1917 Gr. Champion.

Spring. Fall and yearling sows of above breeding.

on or breeding privile e to the undefeated Door

I, at 1922 Fairs. a son of nique Sensation. World’s

9 lJunior Champion. -

Personal inspection invited.





EIMS a SON. Davison. Mich.





Duroc Fall Yearlmg

and ospringbo are. Some real herd prospects sired b

01. 2nd All Col. of Sangamo and Diamon

Joe. Pricedto sell. Fall pigs either sex. Write for

description and prices.

W. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.

Wetsv: ew Duroc Bred Sows

all sold. Have two spring boars leit at a reasonable

price. Will book Orders for A ril J; May Pigs

ALBERT EBERSO E Plymouth. Mich

t! hoice gilts of Orion

Oakwocd Farm (Chili-5y cKin and Walt's Top





0 l. b di bred to Pathfinder rion for An. and

Sgpt. grog} RUSH BROS. Romeo. ich.





 





 





W h h i e lot of

Duroc Jerseys. tyaggg 2:... .0.

service. Will shi on up rovn fill; atisfwtion guaran-

teed. WED]? Monroe, Mich-





DUROCS of Sensation and Pathfinder blood

lines. erantee satisfaction.

MICHIGANAe A.RM Pavilion. Mich.





urocs—choice lot sprin boars. sired hby Great Dur-

ation Breakwater Sat sfacti on hand Greater

Orion King Norris Stock Farm. Casnmia. Mich.





BROOKWATER DUROC JERSEYS





Ready for Serv1ce Bears

Sired by Panama Special 56th and Big Bone Giant

Sensation.

BROOKWATER FARM.





H. W. Mumlord. Owner.

D U R 0 C S either sex of Orion breeding

good ualltiy.sfiring $25 t0835,

few yearliugfiiltsK at 340 an ols tie n if.ers

ESE LER. Cassopolls. Mich.





Ann Arbor, Michigan

.Andrews. Lessor.





 





100 head, all ages verv roliii ,

Duroc'Jerseys big bonexood breeding Stldrt noew

and grow ure bledD oos. Satisfaction or money

back. E..KIES Hillsdale.Mich.





 





sprin boars gilts. summer and fall 1 s



Duroc for as e. Redeemable prices and satisfactldgn



guaranteed. Jesse Bliss t Son, Henderson. Mich.

Do you wantag





DUROEBJERSEYS Pathfinder boar8 {1) ii?





IMHEYDENBERK Wayland. M

Sting Boar-

r so e.





DUROC-JERSEYS f:





CAREY U. EDMONDB. Hastings. Mich.





D U R005...- 59““ boars end gilts. Pathfinder

cmnsnclo B. bl'oslfims. atmd’vi'i‘ylilindflitch





Pleasanl View Duroc: 9.335333," ggd an. 01101..





re

prices. W. O. Burlingame and Son. Marshal‘lsoll-dtlglie.





BIG TIP__I_5_ cd_ss___ru WHl_T__ES





‘1'!” winner kind] (”in the “but mize“---I---vri1'111e1-~

bike ines. dove“ 0991's read _! for market at

“affiliates-o?“ th hm manllvinz tin tto 1



an an any - an _ ace



ad be my id.





:11 achcommunlfyn to

eel" mud ff." D. 10. _roruans..uiqh.~

of Bon- Choi





Chester-aw ““4 °“



spring mediateshl ment

%m 3 Bo o .



31,1331 iii‘nl in" mi“... 11.1.. "511;:1210 y“ a





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





4 months, old Jersey .





 





sheep men are insisting upon the

enactment of the federal truth-

ric legislation and consumers are even

more deeply interested. ‘ -



These people contend that shoddy is

the cheap substitute for; virgin wool.

This shoddy used in wool cloth and

clothes is sold under the same names

as virgin wOol, and the “public is per-

mitted to belieye that shoddy is new

wool. This fraud on the public takes





standing. of the term “woOl” and there"

by destroys the possibility of develop-





FROM every section cf the country





Indeb-





v





advantage of the people’s mlsundef-'





ing a prestige Which this industry!

might enjoy if virgin wool goods could _





be properly marked.





Not only would the public be saved .





great expense, but the sheep industry

of the country would be placed on a"

much superior basis should the pro-

visions of the Capper-French truth—in-

fabric bill be enacted and become eli-

fective throughout the country. ‘





TO SAVE VALUE OF MANURE.





'1‘ Geneva, New York, bacterllogists



have isolated an organism which

seems to be especially‘active’ in break-

ing down the nitrogen cempounds in

manure. While additional work must

be done by the scientists, it is possi-

ble that this discovery may open the

door toward practices which may help

the farmer to reserve for agricultural

use much of the nitrogen now lost be-

fore the manure is placed where the

plants can make use of the nitrogen-

ous constituents. -



To check the loss of nitrogen from

fertilizer, these specialists recommend

scattering acid phosphate on manure

as soon ,as possible after it is voided.

This practice preserves the nitrogen in

the manure, is inexpensive and easily

carried .. out. Not only this, but the

acid phosphate increases the fertiliz-

ing value of the manure.





 





use POTATOES FOR SILAGE.





ANOTHER method of disposing of



an excess of potatoes is suggested



by M. J. Thompson, of Duluth, as fol-

lows:



“The large crop of small potatoes,



left after grading. can be converted



into silage by using ordinary barrels





for silos or, better still, the larger type -





swch as salmon casks,’if' available. If

some kind of a straw or root cutter is

available, it should be used to break

up the potatoes, for exposure of the

white starchy portion hastens fermen-

tation. Place a. layer, six inches thick,

at. the bottom of the barrel and cover

with a light layer of cornmeal. Then

another layer of potatoes covered with

cornmeal. Continue to alternate these

layers until the barrel is full. Use

about two per cent of cornmeal, the

purpose being to' stimulate fermenta-

tion. Cover and weight down. Open

in a few weeks and begin feeding

about one gallon per feed, spread on

the grain or silage. '



“When the barre1,or little silo, has

been emptied, it can be filled again

and again with other lots from the

roothouse.” . 7 . -





 





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MILK PRICES FOR OCTOBER.





ACCORDING to a. survey of'the Oc-



tober milk market in seven Mich-

igan titles, it appears that the highest

prices were paid 1’. o. b. milk at Kala-

mazoo, while the lowest was paid at

Lansing.





The ,Me





1'





The Detroit price was 82. 60.7

the Battle Creek price 22.45@2. 50, the '.

Ann Arbor price 82.26, and at Grand ‘-



Rapids 82@2. 25
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connocrnn'nr' on. w. 0. ram.





Advice through an. colufinl. given free to our subscrib-

ero. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of





each case and give. name and addreu of the writer. Initials _





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

”:5“ becomes private practice and 31 must be enclosed.





 





Teat Polypua—About two weeks ago

a lump about the size of a‘white' bean

formed in cow’s teat, midway between

end and udder, but this bunch does

not obstruct milk flow. Some blood



(comes with milk and a second hunch

is now forming. W. L. K., Merrill,



, Mich—Ask your veterinarian to re-

move growths, or leave ‘them alone

and milk gently’.



ISore Shoulder—Sore Neck—Bruised

Shim—For some time one of my "hors-

es has been troubled with sore shoul-

der, caused by collar; also tell me

what to do for a horse with sore neck..

I have a‘flve—year-old‘ mare which got

a knock, just above fetlock, and since

then she has limped, when trotting

.she is out of'line. The shin and fet-

lock joint are not swollen. C. W. C.,

Pickford, Mich—Apply hydrogen per-

oxide, then apply equal parts of oxide

of zinc and boric acid twice daily. The

same remedy for sore neck.





Founder.—My five-year—old mare is

now suffering from the effects of first

eating too much new corn, now she is

badly foundered. I called our local

veterinarian, who gave her mineral

oil. Now she runs in pasture. What

can ‘be done for her? M. F., Caro,

Mich—The front feet should be kept

cool and moist, if they are too hot,

stand her in wet clay for two or three

hours daily. Protect the bottom of

\fore feet with wide-webbed shoes, but

no calks. Such cases are usually in-

curable.



Scratches—Stocking—I have a two:

-year-old filly that has been troubled

with scratches for some time; the

sores are low down on one hind leg.

I also have a nine-year—old mare that

has been worked hard all summer

until lately, now she rests part time,

hind legs are badly stocked. C. H.,

Petoskey, Mich—Apply one part car-

.bolic acid and thirty parts water to

sore heel twice a day, and give her a

teaspoonful of acetate of potash in

feed or drinking water daily. Don’t

wash heel often. Give your mare a

teaspoonful of nitrate of potash and

one dram of ground nux vomica in

feed once a day, and give her daily

exercise.



Vertigo—We have a Collie-dog that

has peculiar sick spells, he will bark

and run rapidy and halt for nothing;

he seems to be foolish and does not

know any of us until after the sick

spell leaves him. It is not unusual for

him to be gone for hours and when he

returns he is wet and we believe he

goes into the creek. M. S., Dundee,

Mich—If bowel parasites are the

cause of his ailment, give him twenty





drops of' fluid' extract of spigelia, and,





twenty drops of fluid extract of senna

at a dose in the morning, daily for two

or three days; this shouldvrid him of

worms.



Paralysis.——I have a Cooker spaniel

dog that suddenly lost the use of his

hind legs about one week ago, appar-

ently without being sick. He has no

pain, but I find a sore spot on back and

sides. A. J. N., Remus, Mich—Doubt-

less he met with an accident, either

displacing or fracturing one of the

bones of back; if this be true very

little can be done for him. Apply hot

water bottle or bag to back.



Collar Galls.-—-I have a pair of black

mares that are troubled with shoulder

galls. J. J. S., Metropolitan, Mich.—

Apply equal parts of oxide of zinc and

boric acid to sore shoulders. two or

three times a. day. ‘



Indigestion—My horse is thin and

in a sort of rundown condition; occa-

sionally I notice a few worms in his

dung. H. E. H., Bath, Mich—Mix

equal parts of’powdered sulphate of

iron, powdered gentian, powdered cin-.

chona, and salt together. Give him a

tablespoon at a dose in ground feed

twice‘ daily.



Diseased Molalr Teeth—The early

part of last spring my nine-yearvold

mare commenced to discharge mucus

from. one nostril; lately mucus comes

from-both nostrils, but} she has never

coughed,_nor seemed topbe sick.,.0. S.,-

Georgetown, Mich—Make a; careful

examination and you will perhaps find



the ; fourth molar (grinder) tooth in

especially the root.

”teeth- is. the only





 





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[norsrsm éDISPERSAL





‘Bridgeman, 'Berrien County, Mich.





'76 rnile‘a from Chicago on‘P. -M. Railway





FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1922





Beginning at 11 A. M. Sharp the undersigned will sell at Public Auction





48 REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE





Consisting of 21 head of cows, mostly high in calf, the majority of which have cred-





itable 7 day records.





Balance of herd consists of 16 females in junior and senior





yearling and calf form, and 10 young bulls, 3 of which are ready for service.



The young animals, are all sired by King Valdessa Pontiac Master No. 273071, a

32 pound son of King Valdessa Pontiac No. 189344, the former Bell Farm 40 pound

herd sire whose daughters at Bell farm are proving very sensational producers.



All the cows inthe herd are bred to this Splendid young bull, who is also offered





for sale.





- The herd is free of Tuberculosis having been tested at regular intervals by approv-

ed state vets. and a retest privilege will be given all purchasers.

Six months time will be extended to those desiring it on approved notes.





DATE HOLSTEIN FARMS





Bridgeman, Berrien County, Mich.





Sidney 5. Date, Ema; J. E. Mack,





Auctioneer; W. Osborn, Pod. Man.





Grant E. Volland, Mgr.





PUBLIC SALE

0f Shorthorn Cattle





November 22, at l‘o’ciock P. M.

At Farm of





Frank Rohrabacher Laingsburg, Mich.

Farm one-half-mile East and one-half

mile South of Laingsburg. Write for





Catalog.

18 HEAD

l3 Females 5 B ul 1 8





Frank Rohrabacher, Owner

John P. Hutton,,Auctioneer





HOGS





' Chester Whites. Spring boars and



Big Type tall boar pggslgiregthév Eli‘lll's Big Bua-'

d ize earling at t e 2‘. a 9 air.



ter' 3r m y LUOIAN HILL. ’l‘ekonsha, Mich.





CHESTER WHITE BOARS





Prize winners, from rize winning stock. for sale at;

reasonable prices. g‘. L. Bodlmer. Reese, Mich.





' O. I. C‘s. won four silver

saglnaw valley cups at. Saginaw Fair on

aged boar and sow, Jr. Sow and Sow Pig: also Grand

Champion Sow at. West MlCh. Fair. “arouse the

hogs that has the prizes. Serviceable boars at 825.





a f h (1.

PW" "m" e JOHN GIBSON. Fosters, Mich.





O l C, Breeding stock of all ages. 20boars, buy

‘l 0 3' now. Grand Champion Boat and Sow at

Michigan State Fair. Stock c olera immune. Will

ship on a proval. Come and see my herd. Farm

located 8- of Flint. on Atherton Rd. next to D.U.l{.



EARLE R. MORRISH, R. 6, Flint, Mich.





Registered 0. I. C. Bears





J. CARL JEWETT. Mason. Mich.





I 50 last spring pigs either sex not

0- 0 ' akin. Big. growthy stock, recorded





t E De oil. Cltizs. Phone.

me' x mueolre'i‘oon. sdnULG. Nashville, Mich.





’ «Ch ions. Grand Champion and



0' I. C S Regal/’9 Champion Boar and Sow at



Nllchl§nn State {gin lilver gntl’ydshown won;l rib-

. .toc chin e. Ippe ona prov .



b” “$121.11: R. moanrsn. n. 6. lint,_Mloh





9 S rln gilts and service boars for

.0. ‘0 C 3' sa’le.





riccs ri .



A. J. BARKER & SO . Belmont. Mich.

7 ti igs. Pairs not akin. AlPanly,



0.l. C 3 i3. “ipand Sept. pigs. L0 H. PET-



ERSON. Elm urst Farm. Ionla, Mich. ‘Citz. Phone





A ll B also July

Registered 0.1.Co p 1;. sfiiarged 0. o_ D.

CHAS H. STEEL, R. 8' Eaton apidn, Mlch.





I C Roars and Gilts sired by 1921—1922 G.

0. o 0 Champion at W, Mich. State Fair.

GEO. M. WELTON a SON. Mlddleville. Mich.





151arge growthy Mar. boars

O 0 ‘ ° at Farmers' rices.

CLOVERLEAF STOCK FABM.~ onroc. Mich.





'Registergid O. I. C. Bears





. W. MANN. Dansville. Mich.





- P. C. A few spring yr. guts bred

Lar 8 Type 1 A . «150 .f rrow.

g H. 0. SIWAullzTE? Sgltioolcraft. Mich.





B Ty . Poland China. the kind that

Walnullllty}. migkes Egod. Boats and gilts ready to

80. A. D. REGORY. R. 3. Ionln,l\1lch.





L. T. P. 0. March Boats and gllts

LONG "all“, Farm ready. Prices renwnable, stock as

represented. F. R. Davis Jr Son. R. 3. Belding,Mich.





'. P.C. 8 ring boats and gllts ready for

B-g Type new hgmes also sows and pigs.





CLYDE rIs'HEa. St. Louis. Mich.





LARGE TYPE POLANDCHINAS





Bears and gllts for sale from one of the best herds in

Mich. Sired by B's Clansman Mich. 1931 Grand Cham-



lon. Alasha. M and W's Orange and Daddy Long

Legs 2nd. Give us a visit and look them over if not

write to N. F. BORNOR. Parma. Mich.





'L. T. P. C.





Choice Gilt: 825 to 840. Bears 330.. Fall Pigs 815.

HART AND CLINE. Address F. T. HART. St.

Louis. Mich. .





'r P. ammo ve onclcc boars doubleh-

Blgnngfwout 1100 lb. slroVand mammoth cows. tom

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





LARGE TYPE P. C.





m... t in Mi h. Pl ready to ohip.whynotox‘dor

l‘le-on the. hex-donut E

no “man... ,



7'79““ w. n-uvfiicsrcn.‘ 2mm.





 

 





xi enoom fibell'stnrt in.

litlnt Excellent]. the!





Leonard’s Big Type P. C. gilts sired by Leonard's

Liberator and Orange Clansman and fall Pigs at

bargain Prices. E. R. LEONARD, St. Louis. Mich





‘ P. 0. Boats of all a .m.

Large Type low prices. Satisfactigsis (natal?-

tecd. R. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.





 





Ty Polands. Spring boars and ilts.

Riga googdo big ones weighing up to 260 lbs.P§lcod

r g .





ARTHUR S. COBB, Stockbridge. Mich.



' ready for service. Priced to

ChOIce Boars sell. Also sows and gilts.



0. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich.





' ' I 8 ring boars now ready. lace

HamPShlre gut order soon. 10th year. p

JOHN W. B YDER, R. 4. St. Johns. Mloh.





 





 





 





‘ Hampshires top the

HamPShn'e Boars market. why not raise

that kind? We have sons and grandsons of Maple-

wood Payroll. lat prize aged boar Mich. State Fair.

1922 and other State Fairs.Spring boars wt. from 180 to

2'10 lbs. Immuned. G. H. DODDS. R. 5. Kenton. 0.





 





' 18 mos. old,l‘e istored

HamPShlre Boar cholera immungd. alsd

tall pigs. E. 0. REIGLE. Marcellus. Mich.





 





 





SHEEP





Ko‘pe-Kon Farms





Offers the best in yearling Shrogshires

of course. Also choice of the est lot





 





. of Ram Lambs you will see this year.





Follow M 29.

S.L.Wing, Coldwater,Mich.





SHROPSHIRE RAMS 9,213,803.33





Dan Booher, R. 4, Evart. Mich.





 





BIG TYPE POLANDS





A few choice boars of March farrow sired by Eman-

cipator 2nd. Double treated for cholera. and ready

for service. Come over or write.



wEsLEr HILE.





‘ I

Large Type Poland Chmas

8 ring boars sired b Foxy Clansman 1922 Grand

C nmpion and by F's lansman1920 Grand Champion

Mich. State Fair. Also two choice 1921 fall hours. All

immune by double treatment. Come and see them

or write. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester. Mich,





- ' From Mich. Pioneer herd

Boats at Half Pflce of Big TypePoland Chinas

We have been breeding them bigfor 30 years. Our

hogs represent the blood lines of Giant Buster. The

Clansman. Liberator. The Yankee. Big Bob, etc.

Write for what on want.



J O. C. BUTLER, Portland. Mich





Big Type Poland China





8 ring boars now ready for service weighingZOO lbs.

Sued by Clansman Buster and Hover‘s Liberator 600

lb. Jr. yearling. Come and see them or write



DORUS HOVER. Akron, Mich.





Ionia, Mich.





 





 





 





 





L I P 0 Spring boars and gilts now being shipped,

- I I - at. farmer prices. They never last long.

There's a reason. They talk for themselves. Call or

write M. M. PATRICK. Grand Ledge. Mich.





 





Must sell registered spotted Poland China Pigs at

Drayton PIains.Mich.Prices reasonablebr. M eyer.

Morganfi Wright.Detroit,Mich. Phone Edgewood 3660

BIG TYPE Poland ChinasJeading strains



at lowest prices. Both sex. all





ages, an 1 bred sows and gilts.

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





 





 





. Large Type Poland China Boar pigs

For sale ready for services. at reasonable price.

SCHAF ER BROS. Comstock Park. Mich.





Francisco Farm Poland Chinas





Still have a few of those good young boars read for

service. Also Top Notch fall pigs either sex. Eoth





pigs and prices are right.

P. P. POPE, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





 





8i robust one and two yr.old Wool-Mutton Shrop-

long shire rams priced right. Tell us what you

want. Maplewood Stock Farm, Allegan. Mich





SHROPSHIRE RAMS gr :22:





sonnblo prices. W. E. Morrish. R. 5. Flint. Mich.





 





: Rams with uality sired by an import-

Shropshires ed ram. A so ewes bred to imported





ram. W. B. McQUILLAN. Howell. Mich.





SHEEP FOR SALE





475 western breeding ewes in good condition from

yearlings up. no broken months. also about. 100 coarse.

wool natives. Will sell in lots to suit purchaser

Ewes on my ranch at Gladwin. Mich. See Wm.

Neely of Glndwln. Fred Randolph. Jerome.Mich.





FOR OXFORDS, ”12%;...Tfiic

WM. VAN SICKLlC. R. 2. Decker—ville. Mich.

R ' r d R b '11

FOR SALE r2135!2355(indlvldauzllsf’g‘xtgg

heavy covering and best of breeding.

ROBE T J. NOON. R. 9. Jackson. Mich.





 





 





and owe





 





Sal Oxford rams and ewes all ages. gunran.

For e teed breeders. Write or call at farm.

Geo. T. Abbott. Palms. Mich. Tel. Deckerville 78-3.





 





c t Id 50 head Rams and Ewes all ages, no better

0 SWO s flock in State. Write or phone

A. M. BORTEL. Britten. Mich. Phone no. 706.





70 Breeding Ewes





1-2-3 yearsin ood flesh. 2.3 owe lambs. 35 Wethers

lambs all Ox ord Grades. Near Manistee at 810 per

116811.;9. 0. Box 254, Grand Rapids. Michigan





REG. DELAINE RAMS





At Farmer Prices. Write or Come.

CALHOUN BROS. Bronson, Mich.





F O R S q I E 75 good breeding ewes in lots

to suit purchaser at. $8.00 per



head. Also 401502: rling ewes at 310.

G URGE D. DUSTER. Doster. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





Additional Stock Ads. on Page 553





 





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using miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word.

display type or illustrations admitted.





Ilnlmum charu. l0 words.





 





Rates in Effect October 7, 1922





 





Four One Four

times Words time times

$2.40 26. . . . . $2.08 $6.24

2.8 27 ........ 2.1 6.48

288 28........ 2.24 8.172

3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.98

3.36 30. . 2.40 7.20

3.60 31. ....... 2.48 7.44

3.84 32......” 2.66 7.68

4.08 33........ 2.84 7.92

4.32 34...”... 2.72 8.16

4.56 8.40

4.80 8.64

5.04 8.88

5.28 9.12

5.52 9.86

5.76 9.60

6.00 9.84





 





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25 . . . . .

0 0 AH advancing an

peel otlc dimntinumm ordm



or change of to): in-

mdcd fir llu Clamficd Departmnlt mm! mull rho warm

dry: in advance afpublim tin: data.





MISC ELLANEOUS





TO INTRODUCE our three yr. old tobacco will sell

ill-Pounds “Regular Smokln ' 95c. Best Weak Smok

has $1.45. Best Smoking 82.5. Best Bul'ley Smoking

3.35. Medium Chewln £1.95. Best Chewing $3.25.

3-pounds Best Burle 1.00. 100 Fine Ci are 83 as.

Pay when received. ound Sample repai 300. Sat-

isfaction Guaranteed. Catalogue rec. Kentucky

Tobacco Company. Owensboro. Ky.





SHORT COURSE IN NURSING—~1‘ne Michigan State

Senator-tum for Tuberculosis offers a one year's

course in nursing approved by the State Board of

Registration for Nurses and Trained Attendants.

which qualifies for registration as Trained Atten-

dants in Michigan; Applgflto Superintendent of

Nurses. M. 8. S., Howell, chigan.





WOOL WANTED—We m

Downy Batting. Fleecy Blan ts. Com Auto Robes.

Yarns. Snitl .We also sell above so c.0ircnlnraon

request. Woo en Mills. Reed City, Michigan.





 





ufacture our wool into





 





nor mm. cleans manor. rm Hand Modes

Pro aid 81.50. Hunchback if disc-t oiled. Atlanta

,wanged. Havana Bmo h . Homelnn .





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers.

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.

Poultry advertising will be run in this department

at classified rates, or in display columns at commercial rates.



Rates 8 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for less than {our inset-1.1mm; for four or more

(‘ount as a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No

_ Remittances must accompany order.



Real estate and live stock advertising have separate documents and are not accepted as classified.





it for want ads and for adver-





WAN’I‘ED—SINGLE MAN for general farm work and

milking. Wages $50. Gordon Jackson. Iron Moun‘





 





 





 





 





tain,

POULTRY



SUPERIOR llinglet Barred Rock Cookerels. early

hatched. extra fine. Prices reasonable. J. L.

Wyndham. Tlifln. Ohio. I



EUR]?! BAKED Aiammothb'Bsonzg Tim-keys. Exfiep-



iona urge. v serous r a. ct sexe .

Ralph hark. Caledonia, Mich. 5' m

‘ refiners Tum-sinnmwss is:

. me an . en . . . .

Ousted. Mich. 3 rs e





 





 





MICHIGAN’S best pure bred Bronze Turke s. good





 





ones. order earl . Mrs. W'lll m T to k -

ville. Mich. y l a an n’ W er

GRABOWSKE'S 8. C. White Leghorns. cooker-ole





and pullets for sale. Leo Grabowske. R. 4. Merrill.

Mich.





NARRAGANSETT TURKEYS . Toms $10 up, hens

88. Get your order in early while choice is good.

Ernest Clement. Ionia. Mich.





 





JAPANESE SIIJKIE BANTAMS. Beautiful and use-

ful pets. Ideal for the backyard flock. Ashley

Phelps, R. 3, Ionic, Mich.



PUREBRED Imperial Pekin ducks and drakes 33

each. Shirley Barrett. North Street.Mlch.





200 GIANT 8.0. Black Mlnorca cockerels none better

2.25 each. Mike Schaefer. R. l. Essexville. Mich





LIGHT Etahma Cockerels.





 





$3.50. William Adams, R.F.D. 5, Plymouth, Mich.

W11 ll d 'l‘ rim a. May hatched. toms.”

eachlfrE 3%.?111193‘: olverlne. Mich.





 





PURE BRED Mammoth Bronze Togas 810. Mrs.





Irving Charlton. 3.7. Hastings. Mic .





TURKEYS. Mammoth Bronze Beiruties. Mrs. En. ~





gene Ramsdoll. B. 1. Hanover. Mic .





. 3' M ' 0th Bronae Turkeys. Write me.

'ganEon'fignl-kgffiirm. R. 1. Six Lakes. Mich.





ENNIS. Pile-anti. Ban

5... John Haas. Bettendorf,lown..





Fine big utility birds ’





hmzl’iaoons. Gum '
‘ 4:3:-





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Tuesday, November 14.





Wheat.





Detroit.—No. 2 red $1.32%; No. 2

mixed $1.301/2; No. 2 White $1.30%.

Chicago—No. 2 red at $1.29; No. 2

hard $1.19@1.2014; December $1.17%.

Toledo.——Cash $1.33.





Corn.





Detroit—Old, Cash No. 2, 78c; No.

3 yellow 77c; new, Cash No. 2, 760;

No. 3, 750.



Chicago—No. 2 mixed 70%@713Ac;

No. 2 yellow 711,9@721/ic.





Oats.





Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 490; No.

3, 471/2c.



Chicago.—No. 2 white at 43@45c;

No. 3 white 42%@43%c.



Beans



Detroit—Immediate

shipment $6.75.



New York.—~Choice pea at $8@8.25;

red kidney $8.50@8.75.



Chicago.—-—Michigan choice hand-

picked $5; red kidneys $5.50@6.



Buckwheat.





Clean milling grain $2.15@2.25 per

cwt.





and prompt





Rye

‘Cash No. 3, 900.

Chicago.—861/z@87c.

Toledo.——88c.

Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$13; March $13.20; alsike $10.75; tim-

othy $3.40.

Toledo—Prime red clover cash at

$12.95; alsike $10.80; timothy $3.45.

Hay

Detroit—No. 1 timothy $17@17.50;

standard $16.50; light mixed $1650qu

17; No.2 timothy $15@16; No. 1 clover

$15@15.50; rye straw at $11.50@12;

wheat and cat straw $11@11.50 per

ton in carlots.

Feeds.

Bran at $32.00;

dlings at $33; fine do at $35;

cracked corn at $33.50; coarse corn-

meal $32@33; chop $28.50 per ton in

100—lb sacks.





standard mid-





Fruit.

Chicago.—Grapes small baskets 45c;

Climax baskets 75G‘Q80c; apples, Jon-

athans $5.50@6 per bbl; Wageners at

$4@5; Greenings $5 bbl; Kings $4.50@

5; Northern Spies $5@6; Baldwins at





$4@4.50.

WHEAT





Wheat prices remain close to the

highest figures since the 1922 crop be-

gan to move in volume.‘ Domestic

mills are the chief factor in the mar-

ket and the scarcity of choice Wheat

is exemplified by small purchases of

Canadian wheat. Moderate sales for

export are being reported every day,

mostly Manitobas, but clearances of

wheat alone from United States ports

have been averaging over 3,000,000

bushels each week.





CORN





The government’s estimate upon the

new corn crop and carry—over was 110,-

000,000 bushels higher than the pri-

vate reports. However, the official fig-

ures showed a total supply, including

stocks at terminals, of only 3,084,000,-

000 bushels, compared with 3,385,000,-

000 bushels last year and an actual

disappearance of 3,197,000,000 bushels

in the last twelve months. New corn

is being offered more freely, the car

situation is becoming easier in the

surplus states, and the export demand

has flattened out with Argentina un-





derselling us.

OATS





Production of oats in twenty-seven

cduntries for which comparable data

are available totaled 3,017,538,000 bush-

els in 1922, compared with 2,742,438,-

000 bushels last year, 3,269,712,000

bushels in 1920, and an average of 3,-

007,788,000 bushels in five years 1909-

1913. Domestic demand for oats con-

tinues brisk, as the south and west are

buying and industries are using more





than last year.

- EEDS





The November estimate upon the

clover seed crop was 1,878,000 bushels,

.compared _ with 2,033,000 bushels a,





only 1,411,000 bushels and the average





’ amonthago. But last year’s yield was





it;





A ‘.





V

0 ~-





l

it 1L-

5 mum w. l





‘1'





 

 

 





of the five years, 1916-1920, is,1,564,000,

bushels. Prices for both clover and

timothy seed are firm.





FEEDS





Demand for feeds is said to be light,

with—little export buying. Production

of all classes is rather heavy and the

car situation is loosening up slightly

so that the movement is improving.

As a result markets are unsettled with

wheat feeds slightly easter.. '





Hay prices have changed but little

in the last six weeks. Light receipts

sustain the market and a little im-

provement in demand is noted at some

points as a result of buying by the cot-

ton belt.





POULTRY AND EGGS





The reduction in storage holdings of

eggs in the United States during Oc-

tober was 2,150,000 cases which was

larger than expected, based on partial

returns, and the largestfor that month

since the records have been compiled.

The remainder on November 1, how~

ever, was 5,715,000 cases, the largest

ever known on that date. Since fresh

receipts usually are lighter in Novem-

ber and December than in October,

distribution of storage eggs during

these months should be as great as, or

greater, than in October. If such



Chicago—Eggs checks 19@200;

fresh firsts 40@480; ordinary firsts at

32@38c. Live poultry hens 210; spring-

ers 19c; roosters 14c; ducks at 22c;

geese 220; turkeys 35c.



Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and

graded 45@52c; storage 26@28c. Live





 





 





 





poultry, heavy springers 20@210; light

springers 16@17c; heavy hens 23@

24c; light hens at 14c; roosters 15c;





‘ geese 20@22c; ducks 21@23c; turkeys





’36@37c. - -

BUTTER



.The advance in butter prices was

checked. last week as a result of an

unexpected increase in receipts. Some

Canadian butter arrived in the east

and New Zealand butter is offered for

late November shipment at prices a

little below the demestic market, but

no sales were reported. _



Prices for 92-score fresh butter on

November 10, werezChicago 4895c per

pound; New York 49390. Fresh cream-

ery in tubs at Detroit, 40@43c. '





POTATOES





Potato shipments from producing

sections are falling off so that prices

in city markets show more stability,

but no upturn has been effected. The

recent cold weather has damaged a

large quantity before digging and in

transit. A further Increase in the

movement from first hands is due in

the next few weeks and values should

respond as potatoes are not apt to

come out of storage at this level. The

northern sacked stock is quoted at

$1.15@1.25 per hundred pounds in mid-

western cities, 70 to 90 cents for car-

lots in Chicago and 65@70c f. o. b.

shipping points.





APPLES





Apple prices are strong with the

movement from producing sections

lighter. Shipping point prices are

around $4.50@4.75 per barrel 1:. o. b.

for Baldwins. Greenings and Baldwins





 





 





Live Stock Market’ Service |





 





Wednesday,

DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 317. Market steady.

Best steers ........... . . $ 8.00@ 8.50

Handyweight butchers . . 7 .25@ 8.00

Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 6.75

Handy light butchers. . . . 5.50@ 6.00

Light butchers ..... . . . . . 4.75@ 5.00

Best COWS season’s-coon. 4:50@ 5.00

Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . 3 25@ 3.50

Common cows 275@ 3.00

Choice bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 5.00

CaDDeI'S ooo‘“..ceooooonooco 2.00@ 2.55

Bologna bulls . . . . . . . . . . 3.50@ 4.50

Stock bulls 2.75@ 3.50

Feeders 5.50@ 730





Stockers 6:00

Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@85.00

Veal Calves.





Receipts 720. Market steady.

Best . . .. . . . .$12.50@13.00

Others 4.50@11.50





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 3,200. Sheep steady; lambs

25c lower.

............. 14.00





Best lambs

Fair lambs .. . . . . . . . . 11.50@12.50





coco.- ooooooooooo 3





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

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.00

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

Heavy sheep . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00@ 5.50





‘ Hogs.

Receipts 2,780. Market steady.

Mixed hogs and pigs . . . .$ 8.53





Roughs

Stags 4.50@ 5.00





. CHICAGO





Hogs.





Estimated receipts today are 28,000: .





holdover 6,818. Market is strong to

higher. “Bulk of sales $8.10@8.40; tops

$8.70; heavy 250 lbs up $8.25@8.50;

medium 200 to 250 lbs at $8.30@8.45:

light 150 to 200 lbs $8.25@8.35; light





lights 130 to 150 lbs $8.25@8.35; heavy ‘*





packing sows 250 lbs up $7.70@8.20;

packing sows 200 lbs up ‘$7.40@7.75;

pigs 130 lbs down $8.25@8.40. ‘ .





dame.





E ‘ t d cei tstoda are 16,000; i~ . , .

Stlma e re p y 'f Top/lambs $14.75; iyearlings- $10612"





Market slow, steady} togwlower. Bee





g: 41 u',,...r..,»~..-» y... .w . 91,-..."





   





steers medium» and heavyweight 1100' ..





   





November 15. .





lbs up $7.75@13.50; do medium and

good $7.15@11.75; do common $5.50@

7.15; light weight 1100 lbs down $8.50

@1275; do common and medium $5.25

@950; butcher cattle heifers $4.50@

10.50; cows at $3.40@8; bulls bologna

and beef $3.50@6.50; canners and cut-

ters cows and heifers $2.40@3.40; do





' canner steers at'$3@3.75; veal calves





light and handyweight at $8.25@10;

feeder steers $5@7.75; stocker steers

$4.25@7.75; stocker cows and heifers

$3@5.25. , .

Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 18,000.

Market steady. Lambs 84 lbs down at

$13@14.80; do culls and common $9.25

@1275; spring lambs at $9.75@13.25;

Iewes $5@8; ewes cull and common

figg@5.25; yearling wethers ‘$12.25@





- v BUFFALO





“Cattle





Receipts five cars. ’Slow. Choice to

prime shipping steers 1000 lbs and up

$10.50@11; good to choice shipping

steers at $9.50@10.50; heavy grass

steers, good quality $8@8.50; medium

to good $7@8; fat $6.50@7.50; light





native yearlings, fancy quality 511(0),





11.50; medium to good at $7.50@8.50;

best handy steers $7@8; 'plain $6.50@

7; handy steers and nelfers $6636.50;

western heifers $5@6; light Michigan

butchering heifers at $5@6; best fat

cows $5.50@6; medium to good at $4@

4.75; cutters $2.25@2.75; canners good





weight $1.75@2.10; common and old 922 1916-1920



rams $1.25@1.75; best heaVy bulls at Crops. Preliminary. . Average.

$4.75@5; heavy bologna bulls at $4@ Corn 2,896,108,000 2,830,942,000

4.75; common bulls at $3@3.50; best Wheat . 810,123,000 799,083,000

feeders$7@8; medium feeders at $6@ Oats .. . . . . .1,229,774,,000 ' 1,412,602,000

6.50; stockers good at $5.50@6; light Barley ...... 196,431,000 197,447,000

common at $4@5; best milkers and Rye 79,623,000 67,762,000

springers $60@100; common and med- Buckwh’t 1... 13,643,000 14,426,000

ium $35@50., Potatoes 433,905,000 ' 373,417,000

Calves steady-with tops at $13.50. Hay, tons" .. 108,736,000, 102,129,000,

’ , ‘ , Peaches .. ,. 56,125,000 . 43,632,000

~ .3998- Pears 17,772,000 , 14,085,000



“Receipts 30" cars. Market is slow.*APP1933 j .— ‘ ‘-



Medium and heavy $8.90.@9; yorkers Total bu. . 205,539,000 ‘ 179,208,000 -

and pigs» $91@,9.25_' cm rl bbls. 31,901,000 126.779.000 ..

. . ‘ . _ Sug. bts, tns‘ 5,000,000 " ' 6.623.000

Sheep and Lambs. _ - . Beans





Receipts 15 cars. Market is lover;





$5.50@6.25 in midwesterncities.



' , , BEANS . y , _

Stacks for immediate reguirements



are short and the prices tonnew goods





”coming in are firm. The prices are





tending higher on. red kidneys. It is

apparent to the New York market men

that Michigan growers know the sta-

tistical situation and are therefore

holding on to their crop. Transporta-

tion congestion also has Some effect on

beans moving eastward.





WOOL





.Wool markets report more caution

on the part of buyers, although mills

are still disposed to purchase when-





ever they can at prices ruling recent- ;





1y. The goods market continues, heal-

thy and the American Woolen Com,-

pany is operating at ninety per cent of

capacity compared with eighty per

cent a few weeks ago.





‘ GRAND RAPIDS





With warehouses in western Michi—

gan filled to capacity with potatoes and





practically no cars available to move ‘





the tubers, prices on this vegetable

have sagged to the lowest levels of the

season. The current price in and

around Grand Rapids and Greenville is

35@40c per hundred pounds. The tone

of the market is decidedly weak.

Beans struck a weak spot late last





week but had apparently passed over "





it early this week when the tone seem-

ed immov'ed. Large supplies. of hot-

house leaf lettuCe has unsettled the

market and prices have eased to eight

to ten cents a pound. With the excep-

tion of cabbage all other vegetables

were moving fairly well. The Grand

Rapids Growers’ Association has hand-

bled 200 tons of cabbage in the -last

two weeks at $6.75 per ton. Supplies

of poultry continue heavy at 11@17c

bid for springers and fowls. Turkeys

are slightly higher at 30@33c bid.

Fresh eggs are scarce at 50@52c bid.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The market is liberally supplied,

with prices tending lower. Receipts

of potatoes are large, celery and spin-

ach are also plentiful and lower. Re-

ceipts of poultry are moderate and

prices held firm. Good grade butter

is in light supply and firm. Storage

eggs are plentiful but the fresh kind

are scarce and bring good prices.

ples sell for 75c@$2.50.per bbl; celery

15@600 per dozen bunches; cabbage

35@50c per bu; carrots 30@50c per

dozen bunches; dry. onions 750@$1.25

per bu; pOtatoes 55@75c; poultry 22

@30c per pound; pears 65c@$1.50;

spinach 75c@$1; veal 16@17c.





BUSINESS EXPANDS.





 





THE business of the Michigan Farm

Bureau Exchange has been stead-

ily expanding since operations were

started in June. The total transac-

tions for that month aggregated $15,-

000; for July it increased to $30,000;

for August, $34,000; for September,

$42,000, and for October $51,138.04. ac-

cording to a statement just“ made by

Manager F. L. Bloom.





 





FEDERAL CROP REPORT.





 





THE Crop Reporting Board of the

‘ Bureau of Agricultural Economics

makes the following estimates'i‘rom

reports‘ of its correspondents and

agents for November 1:



1





   

 





 

 

 





 





13,013,000; ~ --13.317.900

20.309.4000 16.66.71.990





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PROOOOE





EXOHANOE





The only produce

commission house in

Detroit owned and

controlled by farmers.





Works for interest of

the producer at all

times. "





Well-trained, exper-

ienced salesmen in all

departments.





Products Handled





We are handling to

advantage, p o u 1 t r y,

eggs, apples and other

fruits, potatoes, celery,





onions, carrots, cab-





bage, rutabagas, pur-

ple top turnips and

other vegetables.





Increase Net Returns

By shipping to us

through your local

Co—opin carload lots.

Carload shipments

save you extra charg-

es that go to trans-

portation companies





.on less than carlot





shipments. They a1-

so enable us to divert

when other markets

would net more than

Detroit’s.





1 Producers' who' are

unable to ship through ‘

a Co-op should write





us for information on

how this service may

be obtained.





Farm Bureau “‘0'.





Once Exchange





92729-29731 Russell 51.,





Detroit, Mich.





Phone Cadillac 2270





 





 





 





‘ .I December 12-15.





THE 'BUSINESSOUTL00K' C





 





,HE ’barometers of business con-

tinue to indicate expansion in

’trade and industry.



Freight car loadings in the week

ending October 28 were above a mil-

lion for. the sixth time on record, and

were never exceeded with the excep-

tion of one week in October, 1920.

Loadings of general merchandise were

by far the largest ever known. The

tremendous par shortage is a natural

outcome. Unfilled orders for cars in

the week ending October 28 reached

166,349, the largest on record, and six-

teen per cent of the total number load-

ed in that week. Furthermore, railroad

oflicials hold out but little‘hope that

the car shortage will improve soon,

although the peak of freight loadings

generally is reached about this time

of the year.



Building trades are unusually active.

Textile mills are operating at a high

per cent of capacity. Pig iron output

for October was the greatest since

December, 1920. The steel industry is

running at seventy-five per cent of

capacity and producing more steel

than in the best times before the war.

Automobile and truck production is

phenomenal with the total for the first

ten months of 1922 but little short of

the output for the full year in 1920,

which until now has constituted a rec-

ord. Retail business in most lines is

good. A comprehensive survey shows

that retail sales in October were fit-

teen per cent above the five-year aver-

age. Sales to farmers were twenty-

two per cent higher than in September

and six per cent below the five-year

average. Wholesale trade is thriving

as the public is buying, and distribu-

tors show a greater disposition to

stock up ahead than at any time in

months. The periodical'bulletins of

banks are almost uniformly favorable

with the note of caution less promi-

nent than for two years or more.



Part of the expansion is merely the

return to normal from the extreme

contraction of industry which became

most acute about eighteen months ago.

But the pendulum is swinging up on

the prosperity side and is apt to go

further before turning back. Most

views favor an additional year or more

of progress in the direction we are

now going.



Relatively low prices for farm prod-

ucts, the European situation and the

possibility that too much capital will

be put into fixed forms, such as resi-

dential and industrial construction, are

the forces which may. check the ex-

pansion process.



If this analysis is correct, demand

for farm products in general will be

broad as long as the expansion lasts.

Practically universal employment of

labor means heavy' consumption of

foods, especially those representing a

higher standard of living, such as

meats, butter and eggs, which eventu-

ally, assists thegrains used in their

production. Wool is aided likewise,

and the decrease in recent cotton

crops more than ofisets any decline in

foreign demand so that this fiber is

benefiting greatly from the revival of

domestic business.





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Feeders. --November 20. C. 0. Judy,

Tallula, Ill.





Holsteins. —December 1, Date Holstein



Farms, Bridgeman, Mich

Shorthorns.--November 22, F. Rohra-

bacher, Laingsburg, Mich. '





FARM MEETINGS.





 





Michigan State Association of Farm-

ers’ Clubs, Lansing, December 5-6.



International Live Stock Exposition

and Grain Show, at Stock Yards, Chi-

cago, 111., December 2-9.



Michigan State Apple and Potato

Show, Grand Rapids, December 5- 8. ‘



National Silver Fox Breeders’ Asso-

ciation, Muskegon, December 6- 8.



State Grange meeting, Kalamazoo,





 





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International





Live Stock





trONfiL LIVE

FTXPOSITION

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Exposition

Dec. 2 to Dec.9





‘ Union’ Stock Yards ,





CHICAGO





Supreme Court of the Pure-Bred

Live Stock Industry





Round-Up of the Master Ereeders and





Feeders of the Continent.





 





See the Aristocracy of the Animal Kingdom

Learn Economy in Production.

Enjoy the Great Sp ctacular Features.

Profit by Investing in a Trip to





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LIVE STOCK SHOW





 





DAILY PURE-BRED SALES





ABERDEEN- ANGUS SALE





Wednesday, Dec. 6th, 1:00 P. M.

For particu ars write Chas. Gray.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago





.. SHORTHORN SALE





Thursday, Dec. 7th, 1:00 P. M.

For catalog write F. W. Harding,

Union Stock Yards, Chicago





MILKING SHORTHORN SALE





Friday, Dec. 8th. 10 :00A. M.

For information write F. W. Harding

Union Stock Yards, Chicago





HEREFORD SALE





Friday, Dec 8th, 1 0.0 P. M.

For particulars write R. J. Kinzer

300 W 11th St., Kansas City. Mo





BERKSHIRE SALE Wednesday, Dec. 6th. 1, 00 P M.

And Other Pure-Bred Live Stock Sales





 





SEE THE





INTERNATIONAL GRAIN AND HAY SHOW





FOR CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE PREMIUMS





Ask R. R. Agent about Reduced Fares





A SEASON OF





EDUCATION





AN

TRIP 1T0





1) A PLEASURE

CHICAGO





 





 





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of this factoryis STRICT-

LY HAND MADE——





That means something to

particular smokers—





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CIGARS





27 years of leadership—-

no blending or artificial

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SHIP

YOUR DRESSED CALVES

TO DETROIT BEEF CO.





In business at the same location and under

the same management for thirtv- three _\ ears.



Our capital and surplus of $250 000 00 in.

sures financial reliabilitv and sure returns.

We deal honestly with every shipper and

handle his goods as though they were our

own.



Write us for instructionshow to dress calves

and prepare them for shipment. Itis very

Simple Quotsti 03. and shipping tags furn-

ished on spplicat





DETROIT BEEF CO.

Detroit. Mich





 





 





 





BARREN cow 3:311:27

CONTAGIOUS ABORTION





Prevent this by usinfl ABORNO.

Easily administered by hypodermic lyr'

inge. Kills abortion germs quickly with'

out harming cow. Write {or booklet with

letters from users and full details



of Money-Back Guarantee.





ABORNO LABORATORY

‘4 Jet? St. Lancaster, Wis.





A BETTER COMMISSION SERVICE





If you appreciate honest returns. quick service.

and courteous treatment you will consign your

poultry. dressed veal and hogs and eggs to

Gunsberg Packing Co., Inc.

2460 Riopelle Street, Detroit, Mich.

Write for tags and quotations.





BEANS WANTED





Send one pound faii sample State how many. Give

shipping point. We will bids ostraight price your

station. Clover Seed wanteda



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C..O Detroit Mich. 30 year-sin business.





 





 





FARM HELP





 





F ARMER WANTED





At 01110 011 modern dairy and general farm, 3%

miles S. F. of Billtville Mich. Want practical.

general farmer who knows how to handle herd milk‘

ing by machine. Apply in person or write. stating

experieur e to Kiskadden Farm. Bellcvllle Mich.





 





 





SHEEP





1400 Breeding Ewes

FOR SALE





in lots of 10 or more. black faced from I to 4 yrs old:

no broken months in good cendition. located ‘32 miles

S. W. of Detroit on Detroit and Toledo electrit and

Dixie Highway. Telegraph address. Rockwood

Almond B. Chapman So. Rockwood Mich.





 





ewes. Also ram lambs.

Reg' HampShigve Beast. of breedmg. Priced

to sell. LER, Ovid Mie'h





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' t n ones bred for

Delame Rams, ml“ .111" m... 111......

free. F. H. RUSSELL, Box 41. Wakeman Ohio





FOR S ALE A few choice (‘otswold land Lei-

cester sheep, both sexes.

W. T. SHUTTLEWORTH R. 4. Ypsilanti. Mich.





Hampshire Rams. Prices Right





.MOSHEB & SONS. Osseo. Mich.





Please Mention The Michigan

Farmer when writing to advertisers





 





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Chart of Automobile





Recommendations





(Abbreviated Edition)





HE 'correct grades of Gargoyle Mobiloil for

engine lubrication of both passenger and corn-





mercial cars are specified In the Chan below.





A means Gargoyle Mobiloil “A" 7

B means Gargoyle Mobiloil “B"





How to





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Chart:





Where diffe





and winter

be follow





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Are means Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic ‘





Chm 0f Tractor





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





BB means Gargoyle Mobiloil “BB"i





E means Gargoyle Mobiloil “E" '





 





 

 

 

 

 





Recommendations



(Abbreviated Edition)



THE correct grades or Gargoyle Mobiloil for

engine lubrication of Tractors‘are specified in



the Chart below. i





How to

Read the

Chart:





- . A means Gargoyle Mobiloil “A".





a





B means Gargoyle Mobiloil uB" ‘

BB means Gargoyle Mobiloil “BB"

Arc means Gargoyle Mobiloil Arctic





.Where different grades are recommended for summer

and winter use, the winter recommendation should be

followed during the entire period when freezing tem-

peratures maybe experienced.





This Chart of Recommendations is compiled by the

Vacuum Oil Company's Board of Automotive Engi-

neers, and represents our professional advice on correct

tractor lubrication. ‘ '





 





 

 

 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 

   





 





 





   

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   





 





 





 





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(l2 8 A B A

" Mod A BB A BB A BB A BB A

AllWork A B A B A B A B A

Andrew: Kinkade A B ‘A B A .I . '.

Appltueon .. A B8 A BB A BB A BB A

Am I. A A A A ..

Aultman-Ta 1(18—36l2245l BB A BE A BB A BB A BB A

(lSJ)(\l\aukeshaEng)BB A an A BB A BB A

herModelt B A B' A B A B A B A

Automotiv ve ................. BB A BB A BB A BB A .

.(S-lO) .......... A Are. A Art'. A Arc. A Arr.

fwlotorCirltivanrkPlanru) A Are. A Arc. A Arc.

All IOIlIet Model B A B A' B A B A B A

. A A A A A A A A . .

. B ‘.A B A B A B A B A

. . BB A BB A BB A' BB A BB A

Bee . A A A A A A A A A A

Best ancklayer ............. . B A . B A B A B A B A

48k 0-20) A A

(lO-la, 11- 2515-2782040) BB A BB A BB A BB A BB A

.AlthteIModelI B A ~B A B A B A

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(mushy... . . a A s A a A a A B A

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Franklin- Bullock B A B A B A

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" ..A AllOlhc! Model: B A B A B A B A B A

.. . B A B A B A B A B A

..(Culrivalor) . A A. A A I.\ . .. .

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HoltCuerpilleIl lliviodrl I5 . .. . .. BB A lg} A BB A

[Mr «Models A B A B A A B A

A'B A ..... .,

B A BB A BB A BB A BB A

B A B A B A B, A B A

'al. B A B A B A .. . ..

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..ltZ -20 I6—30k20-40 B A B A B A BB ,A BB A

.AIOII "Model: B A B A B A B A B A '

EB A BB A BB A 38 A B A

. B A B A B A B A B A

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. A A 'A A A A A A A A

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“otherhlodals B A B A B A B A B A

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BB A BB A BB A BB A -

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-' “ Transmission and Differential: -

For their correct lubrication. uae Gargoyle Mobiloil “C”

“ch0": . .. . .

available at all dealen.





r' Chan





 





Transmission and Differential:

For their comet lubrication. uae- Gargoyle Mobiloil ”C...”

‘by Chan





 





 





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available at all dealers.





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Time’s toll on Profits





, --high or low.





INVESTIGATION shows great vari-

ation in tractor repair bills. And

some tractors give two or three times

as much service as others before their

useful life is over. Why? Because of

the difference in care and operation.

“The engine of a tractor covering

20 miles per day makes more revolu—

tions than the engine of an average

car which has run 200 miles. And it

works continuously at 70% to 80% of





its 1‘21th capacity—a stress rarely put ,





upon the automobile.’



What toll 15 time taking from your

profits?



Correct lubrication and your own

care in operating are the only means

you have to keep that toll low.





Beware of

by produét oils:

Inferior lubrication follows

the use of oils which are





 





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by— products in the manufacture of





gasoline. Nine out of ten oils offered





you fall In this class.



Gargoyle Mobiloil is nota b y-product.



It is produced by lubrication spe-

cialists who are recognized the world

oVer as leaders in lubricating practice.

Gargoyle Mobiloil is manufactured

from crude oil chosen for its luérz'mtz'ng

qualities—not for Its gasoline con tent.

Gargoyle Mobiloil lS manufactured ”by"

processes designed to bring out the

highest lubricaling value —-— not the

greatest gallonage of gasoline.



Send today for our'booklet “Correct ‘

Tractor Lubrication.



Warning: .



Don't be misled by some similar sounding name. Lookon.





the container for the correct name Moéiloil

(not Mobile) and for the red Gargoyle.





Don t believe false statements that some

other oili 3 identical with Gargoyle Mobil-

oil. Gargoyle Mobiloilismade only by the

Vacuum Oil Company in its own refineries,

and is never sold under any other name.





 





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Address our

nearest branch :

New York (Main Ofire)





Indianapolis





Chicago

Bufi'alo

Rochester





Boston

Minn eapolis‘





M ake t/Ie did” your guzde .





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Philadelphia \

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