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CURRENT COMMENT

THE MICHIGAN FARMER SAYS:





To every member of the great Mich-

igan Farmer family, we wish a “Merry,

Merry Christmas.”





We are not going to eat too much,

but will appreciate to the very limit

all the good things that come to us.





The “peace and good will spirit” of

this season ought to make that oldest

and gleatest coopeiative enterp1ise,

the family, still more potent in adding

to the richness oflife





And in and through it all, may we

not f01get that g1eatest gift, the sup—

ply of which increases the mme we

lavish it upon 0111 fellow beings, the

gift of love.



URRENT reports



indicate that the



'ship subsidy , bill is

likely to be sidetrack-

ed in the U. S. Senate

for the consideration

of pending measures for the relief of

agricultu1e. Among these measuxes

fo1 which consideration seems assured

at an eaily date are the bills provid-

ing for the extension of 1u1a1 credits,

and the NOII'lS bill, which p1 ovfdes for



a big g0ve1ument corporation to buy



and sell farm products and finance



their distribution, which was favor~

ably reported by the senate committee

, on agriculture last week.



It is probable that the Norris bill

will meet with determined opposition

as it would put the government into



' business in a big way,

come of its consideration by the sen-

ate is problematical. But the favor-

able consideration of an adequate rural

credits bill is practically assured. Sen-

ator Capper, charman of the agricul-

tural bloc, has declared that the pros-

pects for the enactment of this legis~

lation by the present congress are

growing better every day. P1esident



Harding indorsed the extension of rur~



211 credit in his recent message to con-



gress. _ . .



Secretaiy of Commerce ‘ Hoover,

Adolph C. Mille1,1nembe1 of the‘ fed-



‘ eral reserve board, and Eugene Meyer,



‘Jr., managing director ‘of the War Fi-

‘nance Corporation, told delegates to



the First National Council of Farmers’

Coupe‘rative Marketing Associations,



. fin session at Washington last week,



' ' that these cooperative associations had

done more toward reaming financial





Farm Bins

Strong in

Senate





3 f stability inthe United States than any,





, "athe! factor. The council had under





~15, 'comments on "other

‘are not





and the out- ‘4





"a1 crod11 and is eXpected- at this writ-1





ing to make specific recommendations

for rural credits legislation.

tiori of the council is not likely to take

the form of an endorsement of any

particular bill now pending, but rather

the selection of various features of

several of the pending bills which the

organization will support, and possibly

proposals which

considered sufficiently con-

structive. -

In addition to the favorable senti-

ment in congress and administration

circles. and the pressure which is be-

ing brought to bear by farmers’ organ-

izations, there is a. definite and grow-

ing realization on the part of construc-

tive economist‘s and financiers that ag-

riculture must be stabilized on a per-

manent basis if general business is to

be permanently prosperous. There is

thus every indication that beneficial

agricultural legislation will have ser—

ious consideration in the present con-

gress and that substantal progress will

be made' in the advancement of the

agricultural program which has_been

developed by the agricultdral bloc un-

der the leadership of Senator Capper.





HE justice of the

truth - in - fabrics

Truth ,bill has been every-

In-Fabrrcs w he 1 e recognized.

Bin And f-uithermore, the

American people want



this bill enacted into law. They real-

ize that the labels on clothing give lit-

tle proof of the quality and kind of





The ac- '





practices (it today;





may contain only a. man percentage

of virgin wow. Indeed, there. may be

no virgin wool at all in such a suit.





.Frequently it is found that even cotton





is used in clothing and so labeled as

to mislead the public to think it is

wool. .



It is the purpose of the truth-in-fab-

rics bill to protect the public against

these practices. This bill is again be

fore congress. It is ready now to be

reported out by the committee of the

senate and will soon be considered on

the floor. The attitude of congress is

influenced by public sentiment. If our

congressmen are reminded again and

again that Michigan farmer voters are

anxious for the passage of the measure





these congressmen will be more aux--





ious to lend their vote to the support

of the bill. Farm associations and co-

operative organizations ought also to

urge their respective congressmen and

senators by wire and letters at this

time. The situation demands promp.

action.





00! Ray! Christ-



mas is here again.

‘How good it is that

it. comes every year.

.‘And the greatest

thing about Christmas

is the Christmas Spirit.



Oh, of course, there are the big din-

ners, the‘chicken, the sweet potatoes,

the cranberries. But (what man is

there with a healthy outlook on life

who does not take delight in" such





The

Christmas

Spirit





Another Man Joins Staff





Take: Up buffer as Fir/d Editor.





_ VERY artisan seeks information

E" and news about his work. He is



anxious, however, to know that

the information he secures is reliable.

If it comes through thosewho have a

working knowledge of his particular

line of business, he then has confi-

dence that the news is authentic and

worth while.



Farmers are like all other artisans.

They want experiences and news about

farming. But they are equally anx-

ious to have the' news come through

reliable sources.



This is the reason why, in building

tip the editorial staff of the Michigan

Farmer, men who have had practical





experience at farming have been se-





lected. The management has also 1n~v

sisted' that they have an intimate

working knowledge of the particular





 





‘ stand for Perly. Putnam,





line of agriculture in which they rep-

redent this journal. Furthermore, men'

have been considered because of their

ability to work and manage Michigan

farms.



Another member has just been adv

tied to the editorial staff. Theabove'

principle has, been followed in‘making

the selection. This man is not unknown

to Michigan Farmer readers. He is.

Mr. P. P. Pope whose antes in these





columns during the past year bake





brought forth so many favorable coma





snents from readers. Hereafter he will

be known as our Field Editor We





show his picture ‘here in regular uni- ‘





l'.orm



Mr. Pope is a real farmei. He knows

farm problems and has a close knowl-

edge -of and full sympathy with rural

folks. While the editorial staff will

have the full advantage of Mr. Pope’s

practical knowledge and judgment, he

will spend his time on farms gathering

firsthand material for the (readers of

this journal» All will be interested,





therefore in‘knowing something about ‘





Mr. Pope. We asked him for facts

about his life and work. Here is whht

we got:



' “Was born in Ohio from good old

New England stock. Came to Fran-

cisco Farm in 1902. My years are forty.

Still have a little red hair, measure

five and two-thirds feet perpendicular,

and weigh about as much as a one

hundred fifty pound pig.



The two P’s in front ’of my name

IV. The I

was' killed in the revolutionary war;

the II dropped dead in a sugar camp;

the III was killed in the Civil War;

it’s my turn to drop dead, but I’ m not

ready.



Have gone to college, four of them,

enough to learn that I don’t know





much. Lost a good father twenty





years ago and have been a regular

farmer ever since. The only time my

fingers have laid aside their mourning,

is the time spent in college and‘ as a

county agent during the war.



“I have inherited a thousand dollars,

a quick temper and a» weak‘stomach,

and my worldlylpossessions consist of

one gobd farm, equipped with fair

buildings, small herds 'of pure-bred

stock, and a mortgage. I also 'lay

claim to the two best .women In the

world, my wife and my mother, and

one fine kid, who takes after her dad,

‘Nuf Sed.’ Oh. yea! I’ve never been

pinched but oncei’ . - » .~ >'





. shuns.





ortune time for all

of us to be young folks”) And theta '

are the Christmas .tiees, and the

Christmas holly, and the Christmas

bells; red bells, green bells, white ‘





.'bells, . and joyous Ldecoratiohs : of all,





kinds and designs, all of which are but

outward expressions of that divine“

spark of love and good will which we

please to term “The Christmas Spirit.”





we learn frbm him whose birth we

commemorate that it is more pleasing

to give than to receivo’. It‘ is not nec-

essarily the most expensive gifts that

mean most. It is the‘ spirit in which

the gift is given that counts. The

thoughtful word, the friendly deed, the I

kindly act, things that. cost little, but

carry with them a feeling of friendli-

ness, and helpfulness, and good will,

we the things that bring joy. and are

contagiods.





Forget yourSelf and try these things

on ’your family, your friends and your

neighbors. Then note the peaceful

pleasure that follows. The true spirit-

of gdod fellowship toward others never

fails to come back to you. - It is “The-

Christmas Spirit.”





Xmus Sfioppz'n





MUS, shoppin’ is the physicul en-



deavor andthe finanshul expendi-S

ture what comes in from of what you

call holiday festivities; It is what

makes your pocket .book flat in your

endeavor to get presents enough to go

’round. It is also for the purpose of

makin’ somebody happy, iincludin’ the

mer chunt.



Woman is the main Xinus shopper,

’cause she is the world’s greateSt ex-

pender of man’s finanshul accumula-

And she does ’it with what you



' call a Iconsidera-

ble assumpshun

0f authority. Like

,most men, I gotta

go with the other

half of the house

on her shoppin‘

expedishun, and

it sure ain’t no

pleasure trip. For

inst., Sophie is



buyin’ a pair of silk stockin’s for her

cousin’s cousin and she asks me if I

think they are 0. K., and I just begin

to say, “I don’t know nothin’ about ,

the temperature of the young lady's

understandin’ but maybe she’d like.

woolen ones better so she him keep

her tootsies warm,” when Sophie says

to the clerk, “These is all right, wrap

them up.” ,And to me she says, “Give

the lady two dollars and'a half}?- and,

“Here, you carry them,” not considerin’

atall that I feel embarrassed about car-

ryin’ ladies’ stockin’s in my pocket.



She used my judgment, pocket book

and carryin’ ability in the same way

for lots of other things, so when we

got home’ my pocket book was empty

but my arms was full and Imever had

such a poor idea of my judgment. But

Sophie was in her glorifacashun, may?

be ’cause of her accomplishument in

makin’ me feel what you call decrepit.



I think .Sophie is doin’ the same by

me as last year. I‘m sure she is buy-

in’ me another of \them sofie pillows _

for the .sofie in the parlor. _I think it

has “Rest. in PeaCe” or somethin’ like

that on it.



For her I’m goin to get one of them

gasoline coupon books, so she won’t

feel so bad when I get the Oughto

Itank filled up. Maybe\I kin use some

of the Xmus gasoline to take them

school gills ridin" again. ‘



Betwixt‘ times in this shoppin’ en‘v _

counter I’ve accumulated some wishes :

for 'a “very Merry Christmas,” which .» "

I 116w dispense to all you mtg; -
‘ 1 i lege.‘





 





: ‘ ‘ff.





.3“. considering env1ron1nent in rela-





can to poultry hygiene we find that -





a number of factors are inVOIVed.





' such as climate soil, houses, yards and





. .:'ran_ges. -- .

. “Eliminate as such cannot very well be

put down as a cause of disease, but

the seasonal occurrence of certain ail-

. merits suggests that some disease- -pro-

7_ dining agents are favored by given

.weather conditions. We should there-

fore try to mitigate the unfavorable

influences of extreme heat cold and

humidity by supplying our flocks with

adequate hygienic shelter. '

Location of the Poultry Plant.

Low ground and heavy sbil are un-

favorable to successful poultry raising

‘ due to the ill effects brought about by

“ dampness. If a poultry plant isto be

’ located on heavy soil and low ground

'it‘must‘ first be ascertained, as to

whether efficient drainage is obtain-

able. Should this be impossible it will

undoubtedly be better to forget about

the poultry and use the land for some-

thing else. High ground and light soil

properly drained, either naturally or





Free Range Helps in Poultry Hygiene.

' Farr'nerette Helps





cleaning and disinfection.





Bynfl. J .-Stafscth





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artificially, are tobe preferred. This





does not mean that the plant «should,





be placed on the top of 'a' hill where

it wOuld be unduly exposed to, stormy

weather. The best location for a poul-

try plant is on ground sloping gently

towards the south. Precautions should

be taken to prevent surface and drain—

age water from running into the house,

a thing Which is not uncommon where

the poultry house is located on a hill-

side. .

The Poultry House.



As plans and instructions for the

building. of poultry houses are,obtain-

able through the Department of Poul-

try Husbandry at M. A. c., the com-

ments made here will be limited to fea-

tures touching directly upon hygiene

and sanitation.



From a sanitary point of view con-

crete floors are recommended because

of their smoothness, which facilitates

The ten





Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Pierson’s

Feed the Peultry.





.which is difficult to





Dept. of Bacteriology, M. A. C.





dencyofconcrete floors to become cold

and damp may be overcome by provid-

ing an airspace between the ground

and the floor. This can be‘accomplish-

ed by filling in beneath the“ concrete

with hollow tiles; crushed rock or cin-

ders. It is a‘good plan to slant the

floor sufficiently to allow spilled drink-

ing water or water used for cleaning

to drain off.





The walls, whatever material they





.are made of, should be smooth and





free from cracks and crevices in order

to prevent drafts and to eliminate the

breeding and hiding places for para-

sites. In wooden walls cracks are usu-

ally numerous and should be filled in

with thick coal tar or whitewash. Some

sections of the country are subject to

extreme variations in. temperature. In

such places it is advisable to guard

against easy heat and conduction by

building double walls with intervening

air- spaces. These air spaces should be

filled in with Cinders and pieces of

glass or any other material which will

serve the purpose, to make them unfit

as breeding and hiding places for pred-

atory animals. A fight ceiling will

help to equalize the temperature in

the summer and winter. This may

also be accomplished by making a

straw loft. The latter is objectionable

due to the fact that rats, mice and

carious parasites will, as a rule, soon-

er or later invade the straw.



The fixtures should be of such con-

struction and should be so placed as to





make the work in the poultry house'





as convenient as possible. This will

greatly encourage -cleanliness, and

cleanliness is one of the enemies of

disease. If there is a nook or corner

reach, one will

very often pass it by without making

any strenuous efforts at cleaning it

out. Such a place may prove one of

the starting points of trouble.





amtatlon





Second Article on Me Prevention of Poultry Dimmer - '1. j





The roosts must be placed so that ..





the birds will be well protected from .'





drafts during the period that they:

spend on the perches. There should

be six to eight inches of perch space

to ‘each bird. The perches must be.

free from sharp corners which might





Fig. 2.——Sanitary Water Equipment.





cause injury to the feet. If the perches

are too thin. the birds will be forced

to grip them in order to maintain their

balance and this will interfere with

their rest. In order to- prevent injur-

ies to the feet of the birds when jump-

ing from the roosts it. is well not to

place the perches too high. This is

especially important if the floor is

rough, hard and uncovered and when

the flock consists of heavy birds. Bum-

ble-foot is a common ailment under

such conditions. .



The droppings boards should pref-

erably be removable, or at least read-

ily accessible for cleaning and disin-

fection. To prevent birds from walk-

ing on the droppings boards is a good

plan from a sanitary standpoint, be-

cause most of the poultry diseases of

a communicable nature are transmit-

ted through the droppings. A two-inch

wire netting placed between the perch-

es and the droppings boards will do

for thispurpose.



The hoppers rhould be constructed

so as to prevent the chickens from

contaminating the mash with. their

droppings. The hopper shown in Fig.

1 is very serviceable.



When used indoors it is advisable to



(Continued on page 676).





ichigan Farmers Set a New Pace





Exfliéitr from Michigan T are 61 Matt Larger Séare of Me International

Hay and Grain S/iow than Téey Did (1 Year Ago





farmers have

past





HI'LE Michigan

established ,records at

International

Shows, which placed this state on the

pinnacle of crcfii fame, they simply cut-

did themselves in the show just past.

December 2-9 was Michigan week in

Chicago, so far as the Grain and Hay

’Show was concerned, and as class after

“class was judged, Wolverine agricul-

,turists saw their splendid records of

the past fade before the new and great-

er"_achievements of 1922.

“Adapted varieties are moving the

.borders of the corn belt northward,"





’was a slogan in the crops display put .





on by the Michigan Agricultural Col-

This slogan ‘was wonderfully

supported by" the entriesof corn ’by

Michigan farmers. The first féur plac—

es en yellow dent in Region II, came to

Michigan exhibitdrs; nine out of the

first eleven and a total of fifteen out

of a possible twenty-five This in com-



tition with other ninety samples of





Grain and Hay'





Michigan to the front as a northern

corn state.



To L. H. Laylin, of Mason, goes the

credit for exhibiting the winning sam-

ple. It consisted of ten moderately

smooth, deep and vitrious kerneled,

straight cylindrical ears of Duncan

Yellow Dent, a popular Michigan vari-

ety developed by J. R. Duncan, corn

breeder at the Michigan Agricultural

College.



Pressing Laylin’s entry closely lor





first honors, was the richly colored and-





splendid type of Laughlin corn, exhibit-

ed by H. W- Mann, of Dansville, Mich-





, ‘-;co1.'n_ from" northern Iowa~from '





fMinnesota Wisconsin, '. .—





‘ “Pd:





igan. ,This is the variety developed by

Charles Laughlin, ol' Dansville, one of

the state’s most successful corn grow—

ers and exhibitors. and it is becoming

very popular in Mr. Laughlin’s com.

munity. Not only was-this variety

awarded second honors,‘ but Ingham

county entries exhibited byT. H. Han—

na, of Dansyille; F. \V. Mann, of Ma-

son, and Robert Laughlin, of Dansville,

won third, sixth and eighth places re—

spectively.



Besides the sample of Duncan corn

which captured premier honors, a Dun—

can entry shown by A. ,W. Jewett, Jr.,





Show at Grand Rapids Early this Month Demonstrated the Fact

h" an Cari Grow Quality Fruit. All it Need: is Better Packing and





to Put Michigan Quality Actress. These Shows Should

flairs' as §h§1¢l what Mlchlgan cab Do. . .. _





of Mason, won

shown by P. A. Smith, of Mulliken,

won eleventh. Mr. Smith’s sample

comes from the highest yielding fields

of corn in Michigan and he is doing

much to further the spread of this ex-

cellent variety by having available sev-

eral hundred bushels of field-selected'

seed certified by the Michigan 'Crop

Improvement Association.



Other samples of Duncan corn won

eighteenth, nineteenth twentieth and

twentythird, and Pickett corn as ex-

hibited by Roy and I). V. Bow, of Sag?

inaw, and D. A. and Raymond Geddes,

of Swan Creek, won ninth, tenth, six-

teenth and twenty-fourth. ' .



Laylin duplicated his feat of winning .

first in the yellow dent class by taking

highest honors with Flint corn, closely

follOwed by the ent1ies of six of his

fellow stateisu



In the single ear class it was H. W ,

Mann, of ansville, whose entry. cart _

ried away the blue ribbon. This bar,

was of the Laughlin com/and time

the two hundred competitors, five oth

er Michigan entries 1epresenting _

different varieties placed awltlr the



. (Continued on page 6771'.“





fourth. and another
HE fiftieth annual convention of

Michigan State Grange was

. . marked by one of the largest and

~most harmonious four-day meetings

‘ever held since the State Grange was

3 organized in Kalamazoo, April 15,1873.



The history of the Order in Michigan

shows steady advancement almost

frbm the beginning. There'have been

periods of depression and more or less

wide variation in gains in membership

and finances, just as in other success

ful organizations. '



The sessions were held in the Ma-

sonic Temple auditor ium, and the seat~

ing of the delegates on the main floor,

with visitors in the commodious gal-



_ lery, made a convenient and enjoyable

convention hall. Much complaint has

been found with some locations in the

various cities, and that is why there is

so much time and investigation spent

in selecting cities for the next yea1’s

0’ convention. Muskegon was finally

made the place for 1923. ' The big din-

ing- room in the temple basement was

utilized for the noon meals and the

banquet of Thursday evening. The

Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce din-

ed with the grangers Friday noon in a

big community meet.



The big single feature that so many

enjoyed at this “Golden Jubilee” was

the talks and visits of the older mem-

bers of the Order regarding the old

times at “State Grange.” The writer

visited State Grange for the first time

in the winter of 1904 with M. J. Law-

‘ rence, who had just purchased the

Michigan Farmer, and was his guest

and room-mate in the old Hudson

House, Lansing. The grange sessions

were 'held in the Capitol.





Some of the old timers at Kalamazoo ,





this week talked about these sessions.

of Mr. Lawrence, and the measures

discussed. No one now could tell those

old stories so well and interestingly as

Jason Woodman.



It was advertised in some of the

newspapers that there would be a hot

time in the grange when J. W. Hdme

started in. Jim was present all through

and took part in the discussions on res-

olutions, and those present saw no evi-

dence of any fight. In fact, it seemed

to be the feeling among the delegates

and visitors that the four days should

reflect marmony and that all were

working together for the good of the

Order and also for the entire member-

ship in the state of Michigan.



Master A. B. Cook’s address the first

day stressed the financial situation of

the potato growers with plenty of po-





tatoes and little money coming in for





them, and urged wider diversification

of crops and other farm products.

Beans are yet too low, considering the

market cost, but the state now has a

better plan of marketing The grow-

ing of beets is falling off and he hop-

ed would continue until an equitable

contract is available. Grange institutes

will be held in the beet growing sec-

tions this winter and good results are

hoped for in a. sort of fifty-fifty, con-

tract.



An adequate price study proposition

was outlined and must be worked out

just as is done in other lines of busi-

ness. Systematic feeding of our mar-

kets and the sustaining of prices on a

reasonably remunerative basis would

ease up the need of a system of farm

credits. The taking over of the Mich-

igan Patron by the master, lecturer

and secretary was described in detail.

‘ For several years this grange paper

had been edited by J. W. Helme and

he had been averse _to letting it go into

other bands. .



The National Grange Monthly was

igiily endorsed and the plan of its

filtration and distribution detailed.





 





 





 





rangers In Annual ” Meetmg





Delegate: Meet at Kalamazoo for Golden Juli/re Convention





It has a very extensive circulation in

every state and Brother Gardner has

won much praise for his editorial man-

agement. _

The agricultural college has never

been so satisfactory to the farmers of

Michigan and to every granger as to-

day. President Friday and every one

connected with the management and

teaching force were warmly praised.





The defeat of the income tax was de-

plored and was laid to ignorance'of

the subject by "the average taxpayer.

The Oregon tax law was urged and

will be studied. The gasoline tax prop-

osition was favored by the master.

Special mention was made of the life

and good deeds of Brother George B.

Horton and how he would be missed

at this session.





The grange purchasing contract de-

partment was highly commended and

the master has studied the plan more

since Brother Horton died. The grange

fire and life insurance organizations

were endorsed and all members urged

to patronize either or both.





The leading feature of the grange

banquet Wednesday evening was the

address of President David Friday of

the agricultural college. He advocated

removal of farm products in Michigan

from the international market, reserv-

ing them for home consumption as a

means of increasing returns to the

farmers of this state, without increas-

ing the cost of foodstuffs to the con-

sumers: Michigan can consume every-

thing it produces, if the Michigan cit-

ies will divert their power of consump-

ton to Michigan-grown products. Un«

der this plan conditions will be vastly

bettered for all concerned.





President Friday declared that the

working out of such a plan whereby

such a situation could be brought about

is a part of his program at M. A. C.,

and he requested the support and co-

operation of the grange in the under-





 

   





production situation Industriai._.insti-, p

tutions, locking for‘ivard to. a slump in





buying, can govern preduction accOrd-

ingly. They quit buying raw material.

They lay off workmen, they lower pro-

duction to a point in keeping with the

demand, and thus, in a great measure,





,keep their prfces advanced to a profit





point.



On the farm however, the owner is

the laborer. gHe cannot quit produc-

ing for the minute he does,_all revenue

is cut off. He must produce to live;

so with buying power curtailed in our

cities and community centers, an over-

production of farm produce results, and

.prices are forced down. This situation

is world-wide and there is no relief in

sight in the immediate future. It will

require several years for‘the condition

to adjust itself. Under the present

system of marketing, the price of our

surplus is determined in foreign mar-





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ma , .

1km§~ Twenty years Iago there was one





person in this state for every hereon





in the city Today the ratio is three





and one-half to one, and with three





and one-half persons in the cities can:





suming, for every one in the country

producing, it is (nuts possible for Mich—

igan farmers to market their entire

products within the state.



By so doing it would not be neces-

sary for the farmer to compete with

foreign markets. He would get better





prices for what he produced, and he ‘





would not be faced with an over-pro—

duction every time he was successful

in harvesting a good crop. , Once an

intia-state marketing plan is worked

out, freight rates from other agricul-

tural centers into Michigan will oper-





ate as a protective tariflf, making it 1103- -





sible for the plant to succeed.

(To be continued).





 





 





Late Agricultural News





 





 





FOR STABILIZING WHEAT PRIQES.





 





PRICE stabilization bill introduc‘

ed in the house by Congressman

Edward C. Little, of Kansas, author-

izes the secretary of agriculture to buy

wheat at not to exceed $1.10 a bushel

and not to exceed the market price ex-





cept when wheat is being sold at less'





than $1.00 a bushel, when he may pay

$1.00 a bushel for the wheat f‘if he

deems best."



The secretary is to store this wheat

in elevators under warehouse receipts,

and he can sell the wheat from time

to time at not less than the market

price in leading markets. Whenever

wheat can not be bought in Chicago

and New York City for less than $1.85

per bushelthe secretary of agriculture

shall proceed to sell as much wheat





 





 





News of the Week





 





 





’ Wednesday, December 13.



VIOLIN owned by J. B. Downing



was insured for $10,000. It was

valuable because his father won the

name as “Fiddling Pilot” with it.—-‘

Moonshine “whiskey was used in the

ceremonies for laying the cornerstone

of the new county jail at Morgantown,

West Virginia.- .





Thursday, December 14.





IT is 1epo1ted that Pola Negri, the

Russian movie actress, will. marry

Charlie Chaplin in January. —-The Brit-

ish debt parley breaks down, but will

reassamble in Paris on Januaiy 2.

The allied poweis asks United States

cancellation to save the Entente.——The

government will take no action on the

packer combine between Morris & Co.

and Armour & Co: '

Friday, D'ecember 15.



HE Michigan United Railways has



gone into receivership—John Wan-

amaker, the famous Philadelphia mer-

chant, died Tuesday, December -12.——

The Ford factory bank in Highland

Park was robbed by a bandit who wait-

ed his turn in the pay-roll line.—

Georges Clemenceau, the famous

French “tiger,” returns to France after

spending several weeks in this country

explaining the French situation.



Saturday, December 16.



IN Lawrence, ..,Mass the doc'tors are



writing prescriptions for coal, and

the coal dormers are honoring them.—

Berlin pahers feature the announce-





 





 





 





ment of the possibility of a.$1,500,000,-

000 loan to Germany by .the United

States in order to save a clash at arms

in the German reparation dispute.

Sunday, December 17.

HE governor of Indiana is reported

as having received a death threat

letter from the Ku-Klux-Klan.——At‘a

national conference of the State Man-

ufacturers’ Association, the govern-

ment was urged to lift the immigration

laws sufficiently to let foreign laborers

in.——F0r the first time in ten years the

state finds itself at the end of a bien-

nial period with a surplus in its treas-

ury. The surplus is $4,330,860.

Monday, December 18.

HE health department of Boston

says that there are more rats in

that city than human beings—At a re-

centconvention of Michigan canners,

William McEwen, of South Haven, was

elected president—The under-gradu-

ates of the Wesley University ratified

by a two-thirds majority 21. plan“ which

places in their hands the punishment

of any student who violates the Vol-

stead Dry Act.

Tuesday, December 19.





OLAND is on the brink of civil war -.





,vfollo‘aring the assassination of its

president, Gabriel Narntowicz .——-The

farmers around Herr-in, Illinois. have

formed a protective society to guard

witnesses in the Herrin mine case

against the miners. eTwenty-se‘ven are





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lost as a tug founders near Scull: Ste, greenPoultry Farm It Magic





held in storage as he “deems wise" at

such prices as shall be considered

properby him, and so continue as in





his judgment such sales shall be to '





the bestinteres'ts of the nation, and

the funds so obtained. shall be return-

ed to the fund appropriated to make

the purchases as a revolving fund for

the purchase of more wheat.





BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT SEEN.





 





EPORTS that come to the bureau



of agricultural ecOnomics of the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture from the various states on the

agricultural situation carry a‘ note of

optimism. Prices have risen slightly

and the general price level is upward.

The purchasing power of farm prod-

ucts based on the index figure of '100

in 1913, in October was sixty-five, com-





pared with sixty-four in August and





September.





THE EGG-LAYI‘N-G CONTEST.





 





HE White Leghorns belonging to

Elmer E. Shawstill lead the con«

test, having a ten-egg lead on the pen

of the same breed owned by \J. A. Han-

son, of Corvallis. The pen belonging





-to E. D. Taylor, of Kalamazoo, which

tied Shaw’s pen for a while, is now in





third place. It has a total production

of 222 eggs, while Shaw's pen produc-

ed 235 eggs. . '



H. E. Denison’s pen, of East Lansing,

leads the Plymouth Rocks with 207

the White Wyandottes

owned by Evergreen Poultry Farms, of

Greenville, Michigan, lead that breed

with 198 eggs. A. A. Raalte’s Anconas,





from Zeeland, lead the AncOnas with ’





127 eggs, while the leading Rhode IS»

land Red pen belonging to Leon 0.

Dunning, of Bolton», Michigan, has 156

eggs to its credit.



The honor at the close of the first

month for an individual bird goes to 3

Plymouth Rook, which completed the

month with a total of twenty-seven

eggs ‘to her credit.

mouth Books are tied for second with

twenty-four eggs each to their credit.

The highest Leghorn have produced

twenty-three eggs. There are four of

them which havelaid that number.



Artificial lights are now being used

in the contest pens. The lights are





being turned on in the'morning and it -





is expected that the production will

increase in the next few weeks. ‘

The high pen for the week was the

Wyandotte pen belonging to the Even:

. e‘a foil-





' TWO other Ply-~
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must be a good battle feeder._

1’ e times he has taken away the premier honors.

this year's'winnings, in that eveyy-

:Wlm 3131:) 1nd h-sought. prize, were 92 his Own ,





ChenoWeth Jock





 





How t/ze Grand C/zanzpz'on at t/ze Recent International Grew Up





champion steer of the recent In-

ternational, was 68.6 per cent car-

cass. At the time of purchase, Cheno-

Weth Jock weighed 1,010 pounds and

he dressed out 704.1 pounds of beef.

That is Said to be the highest dress-

out on record.

The grand champion was a little less





C HENOWETH JOCK, the grand





‘ than fourteen months old‘ on the day





he c‘ompeted for the big prize. He was

owned -by W. J. and D. A. Thomas, of

Chenoweth Farms, .Shelbyville, Ken-

tucky, and was [fitted for the ring by

Joseph Reid, superintendent of the

Thomas herd of pure—bred Shorthorns.

The steer was auctioned at $1. 25 per-





.pound, which was fifteen cents higher





than was paid for Lulu Mayflower, last

year’s champion.

Jock was a precocious calf. He early





showed signs of being something un-





usual. We are informed by Mr. Reid

that Jock ”was picked for a winner be-_

fore he had been registered in the

Chenoweth herd two days. The rapid,

advance of this offspring of the sire,

Harviestoun Grandee and Blythe Vic-

torian, is told in the words of Super-

intendent Reid: 1





“We just let Jock run with his moth-

er until last spring and then put him





' with a. nurse cow. While he was still

-with the nurse cow, we gave him light





feeds of equal parts of bran and oats

three timesa day, and about a pint of





cracked corn each day. Later, a. gal-x

.lon and a half of cooked barley was





mixed with the feeds each day. Over—

night Jock was turned out into a blue-

grass pasture and he was kept in a

stall dur1ng_ the day. He has consum-

ed about four gallons of milk a day





during the last six months, and has

been given all the mixed timothy and

clover hay that he could eat. He was

not given any grooming until ten days

before the show. Then he was wash-

ed regularly with warm water and

soap, and his coat brushed and combed

once a day, at least.”



In addition to winning the grand

championship, ’Chenoweth Jock won

first in the senior Shorthorn steer calf

class, -the championship pure-bred

steer honor and the championship in

the class for steer calves of all breeds

and ages.



J. M. Strickland, the judge from Eng—

land, w.ho awarded the grand cham-

pionship to Jock, pronounced him

“The best calf I ever saw—the best

fatted calf I have ever seen in any

show ring.”





The 68.6 per cent dress-out'was ap— ‘





proximately three per cent higher than

the dress-out of last year’s grand cham-

piOn heifer, and averages two and one-

half per cent better than other Inter-

national grand champions on record.





MICHIGAN BOYS DO WELL.





HE'team of Michigan boys made



up of winners at the State Fair

judging contest finishéd seventh

among the nineteen state live stock.

judging teams at the International

judging show at Chicago. Virginia,

Iowa and Georgia ranked first, second

and third respectively. Cecil Lumus,

of Jackson county, was the high indi-

vidual on the Michigan team for get-

ting eighth place among sixty contest-

ants in the club judging division.





 





 





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Cbicago Meeting of American Orgamzatwn Séow: Hogress i7: Maréermg,

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HE challenge accepted by. the



farmers of American three years



ago to function in a cooperative

body in the solution of their problems

is still carried forward, ”and the third

year shows the organization has a re-

markable record behind it and as great

a task still for the future.



A definite program must be adhered

to that will concentrate on the work

already started, rather than to expand

on new projects. The excellent work

in cooperative marketing of farm pro;

duce must be continued, as it is the

keynote to the situation and offers the

greatest hope for the future continu-

ance of: the farm bureau 111(1ven1em.



Such, in brief, was the keynote to

the fourth annual meeting of the

American Farm Bureau Federation at

Chicago, December 11-14.





More than fifteen hundred were in

attendance; every state represented,

with Ohio, Illinois and Iowa leading in

numbers. It was a truly representa—

tive group of farm leaders who com-

prised directors and delegates from the

State Farm Bureaus, and they faced

the situation of the day exactly as it

came, talked over their problems in

a sane. broad—minded way, without any

radicalism, and charted their course

for the future by profiting through

their successes and failures of the last

three years



Membership for the entire count1y

was increased in 1922, although a few

states could not report as large mem-

bership. The treasurer’s report shows

that for the year the finances received

were twenty per cent greater than last

year, the total being $286,265 in 1922.

Only one state showed any material

drop in funds turned into the national

association.



<‘ President Gives Address.



“Farm bureau prospects for the com-

ing year1are very good,” said President

J. R. Howard, in his annual address to

the convention, “and it is not a time

to look backward, but only to look

forward}:



Commenting on the fact that while

credits had been improved he said the

past year was another hard one for

the farmer, for while prices for farm

produce had improved, prices for other

commodities had risen more in propor-

tion. Transportation, in his judgment,

is now our greatest problem, and he

urged some action to reduce freight

rates on farm products. ~





Cooperative marketi'ng loomed up as

the great point in the convention, and

President Howard lauded the accom-

plishments of the year, especially in

selling live stock, fruit, wool and milk.

~ Legislative accomplishments of last

year have been the greatest in any

year in history so far as farm progress

is concerned. He urged greater finan-

cial relief to farmers through a credit

bill, and favOred a graduated inher-

itance tax.



His remarks‘brought rounds of ap-

plause when he'stated that the real

purpose of the farm bloc is not to pass

so many laws as to prevent the pas-

sage of laws inimical to the farmer’s

interests, and again when he declared

that a farmer-labor party is a political

and econdmic impossibility.



The president closed his. annual mes-

sage with stating that he has a greater

abiding faith in American agriculture

today than ever before, even though





he did not see ahead 21 quick conclu-





$1911 to the depressing times that have

V. W farmers for the last three years.

He admitted that in the solution of





that it must now consolidate effort 011

what it already has under way.

Marketing Fight Loom.» Up.

From early the first day there was





a feeling of skepticism and doubt as to





the final outcome at the Farm Bureau

Federation meeting of any action re-

garding the conference of the coopera-

tives at Washington the same week.

and as to the future leaders of the





organization. Many expressed the hope





that the national federation would





profit. by its previous mistakes and del-'

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forence~ with some tangible results and

a definite program for the future and

some. definition or just what the farm

bureau is to do.



They got a good share of this early

Tuesday, after some of the reports had





.been given by those in charge of co-





operative marketing. There was evi-

dent fear that the‘meeting of the co-

operative marketing organizations at

Washington might set up some new

national machinery to carry on their

work, and the Farm Bureau Federa-

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MAIL ROUTES.





We live about one and a half miles

from the main county road and trunk

line. But the road leading to our farm

is also a country road. Rural mail

carrier says he doesn’t have to deliver

our mail at our house. We think he

ought to deliver it at our house. Who

is right ?—M. D.



The mail routes are laid out by the

United States Post Office Department

at Washington. with the assistance of

the local postmaster. See the post-

master..—.Rood. ‘





SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.





Can parents be forced to send chil-

dren to school that live more than two

miles from the school house and have

no road that is passable? \Vhat are

the requirements for owner living on





unimproved land to be exempt from.





taxes? To whom should he apply for

exemption?—R. C. P.



Attendance of children under nine

whose parents reside more than two

and one-half miles from the school

house, by the nearest traveled route,

is excused by statute, unless transpor-

tation is p1 ended





The exemption of purchase1s of cut-

over lands from taxation requires: (a)

that they actually reside on the place;

(b) improve not less than“ two acres

each year; (c) that the acreage does

not exceed eighty; (d) that no part of

it has ever been cultivated; (e) that

the application for the exemption be





made to the supervisor at the time the.





assessment is made each year. The

exemption can be had only five years.

——Rood. ~





CONTROL OF CELEfRY‘BLIGHT.





Please give me some suggestion on

how to treat celery blight.~—J. V. B.





Seed treatment alone will not con-

trol celery blight. We. recommend

seed treatment as a precaution against

introducing the disease in the seed-bed

but this will not prevent blight from

developing in the field. The seed

should first be soaked for one~half hour

in warm water then placed in a one to

one thousand solution of corrosive sub-

limate for another half hour. '





dried. The seed after treatment will

not germinate so well as untreated

seed. For this reason you will have to

use a larger amount. Timely and thor«

'ough spraying with Bordeaux mixture.

beginning while the plants are still in

the seed-bed, the number of applica-

tions varying with seasonal conditions,





is the only method of controlling the ~

disease in the field. The fungus lives

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It should.

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will contract the disease from spores‘

splashed by rain from the old trash

to the lower leaves of the plant. 'In

normal seasons four or five applica-

tions of spray will insure a clean crop.

-Ray Nelson.





SEEDING ALFALFA.





I would like to know whether I shall

sow cats with the alfalfa seed this

spring, or alfalfa alone—K. Mo. K.



For early spring planting on clean

ground free of quack grass or June

grass we would suggest seeding ten or

twelve pounds of Grimm alfalfa with

one bushel of cats per acre, making

seeding in April or early May. If. the

season proves to be very dry the oats

can be out while in the milk and used

for hay. If your land is not free of

grass I would advise discing or har-

rowing at intervals of ten days or two

weeks, planting alfalfa alone in late

July. Seed should be planted from

one-half to'three—fourths of an inch

deep on a firmly rolled seeddbed.—J. F.

Cox, Professor of Farm Crops.





RATION Fon JERSEY.





I should like to have you send me

a balanced ration, as nearly as possi-

ble, for my cow. I do not have the ad-

vantages I should have. It is quite

impossible for me to get clover hay,

almost alltimothy, with about one

twentieth of clover. My cow is of a

Jersey type, is in the stable all the

time, especially during the winter. I

have timothy hay, bran, oil meal, mid~

~dlings, cornmeal, ground cats, with po-

tato palings nearly every day at noon.

If you could give me, as nearly as

possible a balanced ration from these,

I should appreciate it. ——E. A. D.





The following grain mixture fed to

your Jersey cow at the rate of one

pound .to every two and one-half

to three pounds of milk produced daily

‘should give good results: Commeal,

200 pounds; bran, 100 pounds; ground

oats, 100 pounds; oil meal, 300 pounds,

and cottonseed meal, 100 pounds. You

can profitably feed all potato parings

and other green foods that you have

available.——J. A. Walhron.





RIGHT OF ABUTTlNG QWNER lN

.HflEDGE. .





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Have a hedge about tWelve feet

,high'. It was set out to protect pear

trees, but now the pear trees are out

.and I wish to set cherry trees and

have the hedge to protect them from

the north winds. Can neighborsforce

me to trim earn? dOWn to four 'fefet?

The hedge is on he roadside—G. R ‘





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ed with reference to these subsidiaries.



Chairman 0. E‘Bradfute, 'of the res- ,

olutlons committee, introduced the res-

olutions and they Were passed by large

accor (1. These resolutions urged further

progress tOWard proper marketing of

farm products, and continuance of the

federation’s policy to strengthen and-

encourage these commodity marketing

organizations. It further stated, “that

the Farm Bureau Federation maintain

a division of cooperative marketing to

be managed and'directed by capable

and experienced cooperative marketing

specialists.”



It will be the business of this divi- .

siqn of ma1ketlng to promote the co-

operative movement, to formulate the

fundamental principles of true »com_-

modity marketing as exemplified by .

previous experiences of successful

farmers’ cooperatives, to give counsel

to state and district organizations, and

to unify or coordinate all these agen-

cies in a. united program of coopera-

tive marketing throughout the United

States. '



This was the most important step

taken at the entire meeting of the

Farm Bureau Federation. It defined

exactly the position of the national

organization to head up all the work

in cooperative marketing and direct lt.’

Farmers want to organize to sell their

products, but there is still much to be

learned in how to conduct these co-

operative agencies successfully. The

American Farm Bureau Federation as-

sumes to render that service.



There must be the right harmonious,

relationship between the general fed-

eration and the specific marketing

groups. The Farm Bureau Federation

should rightfully assume this proper

leadership and direct the future work





.in marketinggrain, wool, fruits, milk,





tobacco, cotton, live stock and other

commodities. ‘

E. H. Woods, of Kentucky; Howard

E. H. Cunning-

ham, of ‘Iowa; Walter Petit, of Texas,

and J. G. Brown, of Indiana, were

chosen to represent. ‘the American

Farm Bureau Federation at the Wash-

ington conference. There threatened

to be a little mutiny in the ranks at

this point, particularly by Minnesota,

who tried at brings. resolution before

the convention directly -on the floor

after it had been refused by the reso-

lutions committee; and again in the

choice of delegates, some wanting to

adjourn the convention and reconvene

at. Washington, and still others voting

to send a representative for each ma1-

keting group.

Market Reports Show Huge Savings.

Every marketing g1 oup had a report

which carried with it the true ring of

the dollar saved for the farmer’s pock-

etbook,’ except with grain. The com;

modity organizations have been the

strong buoy that have kept up the mor-

ale o'flthe entire organization.

President E. H. Cdnningham, of the

U. S. Grain Growers, reported the ac-

tion of the Chicago Board of Trade in

denying him membership. Similar ac-

tion was taken at Omaha, although the

right to operate on the exchange of

the Minneapolis Chamber. of Com.

merce, was granted to the manager or





“the saleS‘ company there. The new





management of the'U. S. Grain Grow- ‘-

ers' is striving hard to rehabilitate the

old organization and make it function-

at a national grain marketng institu-

tion.



Live stock' marketing has an excepc

tional report of progress fort-the

The national com
1. one quart er the oil is sum-





‘- oil with a brush or rag. Especial care.

’ 3111111111 “be taken to make the applica-

tion thorough on the upper parts of

the neck and along the back from the

poll to the base of the tail. Attention

*1 enculd also be given to the shoulder

tops", the folds of the udder and the

escutcheon. Be sure to use raw lin-

seed oil and not boiled linseed oil. The

s latter will irritate the skin. The treat-

ment should be repeated in about two

weeks and thereafter about once a

month in the winter.





 

 

 

 

 





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He, instead of using the customary in

~ borious method of sawing ice by hand,

has attached a buzz saw to a frame

carrying a gasoline engine. The saw





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will cut into the ice the required depth.



- By starting the engine and pulling the

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CROP MEN HOLD ANNUAL MEET-

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HE International Crop Improve-



ment‘ Association, of which the



Michigan Crop Improvement Aesocia-



V tion is a member organization, held its



- feurth'annual meeting, December 4-5,



at the Stock Yards Inn, ,Chicago. Sev-



eral Michigan men were in attendance



and filled important places in the pro-

gram.



Prof. J. F. Cox gave the leading talk

Monday evening, telling of Michigan’ s

organized system for the develop-

ment, production and dissemination of,

improved crops varieties. .J. W. Nicol-

son, manager of the Farm Bureau Seed

Department, opened the disdussio‘n on

the‘LCapper federal seed registration

bill, and while not averse to suitable



. legislation along this line, the Interna-

tional Crop Improvement Association



i went on record as disapproving the

particular features of this bill.



', . H. C Rather, of East Lansing, was

secretary of the board of reviews of

the International Association, a board



. which is working towards a standardi-

zation “of inspected seed requirements

for all crop improvement associations



_ ;', in the United States and Canada. G.



' W. Putnam represented Michigan on

" the committee on corn certification, a

committee which 1ecommended inte1

national standards for this work. A

. similar committee reported favorable

. progress in soy-bean certification work.

_> Officers elected for the ensuing year

3 ., ‘ warez. J. W; Nicolson, orMichigan',

, \president; A. C. Newman, .01? Ontario,

i; fl ‘ first vice-president; A. J. Ogaard, of



1 - " Montana, second vice-president; W. G.



Wysor‘. of Virginia, third vice-president



3 9 ~ - and J C. Hackleman, of Illinois, sec-



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The hand moves a switch, and the current from

an Exide Battery sets in motion the motor that

does the work.‘ So also in railway signals, the

Exide Battery says the word that speeds your





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There 13 an Exide Battery made for every pur-

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ground to prOpelling submarines under the sea. .,.

A great majority of the thousands of electric .2. I

light and power plants on farms get their current . ""1 '-

from Exide Batteries. It is wise to make sure

that the battery in your plant 18 a rugged, long-





lasting Exide.





The first successful starting and lighting bat-

tery for automobiles was an Exide, and more

cars leave the factories today equipped with

Exides than with any other battery. The Exide

means something more to you even than the

comfort of uninterrupted service in your car. It

means dollars-and-cents economy, because an





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their respective local fanners’

program and debated a Score of sub-

jects and issues growing out of the





thirtieth (annual meeting of the State

Association of Farmers? Clubs held at

Lansing. .



The secretary’s report by Mrs. I. R.

Johnson gave special emphasis to the





erated committee of the farm organi-

zations of the,state. ,Professor Hen-





of the University of Michigan, believes

that agriculture will have as important

a part in moulding the civilization of

coming generations as it has had in

the past. “The world, must learn,” he

said, “that every man is your brother.

All must have goods and these must

be supplied by the farmer.”



In the president’s address stress was

-laid on the need by farme1s of mo1e

intimate knowledge of crop produc-

tion at planting time This was em-

phasized by Dr. Mumford, of the M. A.

0., who also declared that we should

take hope because agriculture had

reached the low point in its downward

swing, and that bright clouds are just

ahead.



Important resolutions were adopted

as follows:



The congIessional farm bloc and the

No1ris bill, providing for an export

commission, financed by the fede1al

government to calry on foreign tlade,

were endorsed. '



Resolved, to give their organized

support to candidates for public office

who are pledged to uphold the eight

eenth amendment and to opposc in any

way the weakening of the Volstead act

in order to permit traffic in wine and

beer for beverage purposes.



‘They declared far the public control

of watex powe1 and its deveIOpmen‘t

directly or indilectly by the tederal

govemment.



They ask for a. higher tax on motor





held in conjunction with the an

nual meeting, of the National Silver

Fox‘ Breeders’ Association of America,

one could view about half a million

dollars worth of silver foxes in a very

short time.

About three hundred of the best sil-

ver foxes in ,the country, which for

breeding purposes were Worth $2,000

or over, vied for prizes in‘a hotly

spirited contest- The winnings at this

show meanmuch to the breeders, as

the judging was done by'experts and

the best quality must be shown in or-





der to successfully compete. There

were tWenty-four classes in which

these foxes contested 1’01 premiums.





Because of the lack of space we can-

not give the Winnings of all of these

classes, but the main Winnings were

as follows:



The sweepstakes for highest scoring

standard- -brqd fox was won by Bore-





Astone Robert 4th, score 94, owned by





R. P. Moore, Onawa, Maine. ,The high-

est-scoring Alaskan-bred fox sweep-

stakes. was captured _by- Hercules

Nancy, score 90%, exhibited by J. S.

Chastek, Glencoe, Minn. Wausau Bab-

bitt, owned by C. E.‘ Beyreis, of Wau-

saw, Wisconsin, won the highest scor-

ing female pup trophy by making a.

The best matched pair





 





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3 by Claude Cole, of Grand Rapids, Mich-7

.i‘g'an

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The highest scoring dark fe-





 





‘ , .-»“State doberman adermerr. can Hold

VER eighty delegates, leaders in."





j clubs, listened to an. excellent





, present agricultural situation, at the





work and opportunity offered the’ fed-'





derson, of the extension department





vehicles used for carrying passengers ' l





and freight for hire, and the use or

the proceeds from this tax for highway

maintenance. A gasoline tax was also





favored, the proceeds to be used fer .





the same purpose



A reselution asked that quail be

placed on the list of Michigan ‘song

birds in order that it may be unlawful

to shoot or trap them. ’



The present burdensome tax situa-

tion was responsible for the conven-

tion declining to endorse a national

bonus for World War soldiers. The

conference did express a willingness,

however,’ to deal liberally with all

needy veterans Should congress enact

a bonus bill, the convention went on

1ecord against legalizing the manufac-

ture and sale of beer and wine to pro-

vide' the. necesSary funds.



There existed an unanimity of senti-

ment in favo1 of a state income tax.

On this subject the following resolu-

tion was adopted: The need of an

agricultural conference for Michigan

to establish a working program, or bet-





— ter unde1standing, was made apparent





 





through 'the discussion in Michigan

farmers’ clubs; therefore, be it resolv-





ed, that the president of the associa- ’l





lion assume the initiative in effecting

a committee of th1ee to provide for a

conference at a 1easonably early date.

The committee appointed by the pres-

ident for this pu1pose cousists of Dr.

Eben Mumford, of the Agricultural Col—

lege; A. B. Cook, master of the Michi.

gan State Grange, and James N. Mc-

Bride, of Shiawassee county.



The organization also endorsed the

broad economic program laid down by

Dr. David Friday, president ‘of the

Michigan Agricultural College.



The following officers were 'elected

for the coming year:

S. Noble, of ,Oxford; vice-president, W.





A. Cutler, of Grass Lake; secretary-

treasurer, Sara 0. Brodebeck, of Ith-

aca. G. A. Millspaugh, of Oxford, and ‘





W. J. Bookins, of Ovid, were elected

to the board of directors.





Silver Fox Men Meet





T the silver fox Show which was Lakes Company, of Muskegon.





The

highest scoring standard- bred male

pup was Wausau Ivanhoe, owned by

C. E. Beyreis, score 92. Duffus’ Fox

won the highest scoring light male pup

premium, making a. score of 91%.



The meeting as a whole was an in-

dication of how fast this new industry

has developed. It is also an indica-

tiOn of the part that Michigan is tak-

ing in this new industry. Muskegon

is new known as one of the biggest

centers in the world‘for fox breeding.

A few years ago there Was only one

pair there but now over thirty-five.

breeders have well-stocked ranches.



That this industry will continue to

increase is indicated by the fact that.

’the pelts.of these well-bred shy Rey-

nards sell all the way from $300 to

$1,000 each, and at" the presentit is

almost impossible for milady to get

black fox fur, thus indicating that the'

market is greatly undeveloped.



At the election- of officers, E. E.

Ransford, of Muskegon, was relelected

as president; Peter Volmari and W. G.

Bower, also of Muskegon, as first and.

second vice- ”presidents and P T. Cor-

win, of Hait, Michigan, third vice-pres-

ident. Earl Alberta and Justice E.

Smith, both of Muskegonk, were elected

trea‘surer- and secretary respectively.

The director‘s for' he follovving year.

are:

Minn, ' J. S. Chastek and J. S. Star--

ling, both of Lake Placid, New York:-

H_. A. Bauknedit Herman Working



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President, Lee ,





Arthur/Some ixéi, of Lake City, . '
‘ "non of high-duality apples has been

.L' the leading industry of this immediate

;yicinity,__ and we have seemed to have

,. rather. a monopoly in this line, but re-





.reason our apples are not‘ sought in





_ner as ours, and that there have been





_ to box (their apples). In that way





. what difference it would make in other





-be to your [advantage to use the. box





V'w‘hich you have used boxes for your

, fruit, you have established an excellent





' and allow the western grower to “look





emarket‘b—L R. Taft, State Horticul-





‘ ' IfYakima, Washington.

:FOI' the past ten years the produc-





ports are filtering in to us that the





the middle west and the Atlantic coast





' as h'eretofore is that your state has a ,





record crop and that in the past few

years your old orchards have been

pruned and4sprayed in the same man-





a great many new orchards planted

that are now coming into bearing, and

I am writing to ask if, without too

much bother, you can give me some

statistics on this industry, particularly

regarding the care given the o.1chards

in your, state and the number of acres

set out to new orchards in the last ten

“.years



"You may think that this is a matter

that does not concern me, but I want

to be in a position to lead the people

of_ this part of the northwest in the

direction of some other paying crop if

our apple industly is being affected by ,

.the reasons I have named above."



The following is an extract from a

letter sent by line of the leadingfruit

growers and apple shippers in south-

ern Michigan:



“I am pleased with the new (apple

grading) law, and do not consider the

standard any too high. Good Inspect-

ors are absolutely-necessary to estab

lish a reputation (for Michigan fruit).



“I see no reason why some of our

best growers should not be encouraged





western box apples would be kept out ‘

of our markets”

” The following is from one of the

Detroit commission houses, after hand-

ling over 4,000 boxes of: Michigan-

grown fruit for the party to whom the

letter was addressed :‘ . ,

“We are in receipt of your letter

of November 13. We note what you

say relative to packing in boxes, bush-

els or barrels. We cannot say just





markets‘but from the standpoint of

this market wé believe that it would





again next season just as you have this

year. We have done quite a little mis-

sionary work on your shipments this

year and_have.go'tten the trade lined

up pretty well and we believe "that,

considering this is the first year in





reputation for your boxed fruit in th1s

market. ”



Last year single commission houses

in some of our smaller cities used from

10,000 .to 20,000 boxes of western-

grown' apples. ‘If they can get equally

good Michigan-grown fruit. honestly





packed so that they can rely‘upon the ;'





grade. they would prefer to use it.

Will you help to supply this demand-





for some other paying crop,” or will

you drop out of the apple game and

let the western fruit grower have our





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By N. A. McCune

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thought he was prepared, but





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wasn’t.

of unprepardeneSs.

the story in modern form: ”A certain

rich man’s lands,” 'he said, “yielded

abundant crops, and he debated Within

himself, saying, ‘What am I to do? for

I have no place in which to store my

crops.’ And he said to himself, ‘This

is whatI will do: I will pull down my

barns and build larger ones, and in

’them I will store up all my harvest

and wealth; and I will say to my life,

‘Life, you have ample possessions laid

up for many years to come: take your

ease, eat, drink,

e n j 0 y you1 self.’

But God said to

him, ‘Foolish man,

this night your

life will be de-

manded of: you;

and these prepa-

rations, for whom

shall they be?’ So

it is with him who

amasses treasure

for himself, but

has no riches in

God."



It seems that it is awfully hard to be

rich, and to be good. Perhaps that is

.the reason why so many of: us remain

poor. We could not be trusted with

wealth. It would ruin us. We are bet-

ter off as we are. The mouks had a

proverb, -“Godliness brings forth

wealth, but the daughter devours the

mother.” Says the late Professor

Rauschenbusch in one of his books,

“Quite a list of novels could be made

up that deal with the problem raised

by Jesus: Can a rich man be saved?

And the general reply is, it can be.

done, but it takes an heroic cure to do

it. Howells bankrupts Silas Lapham;

Mark Twain turns a prince into a

pauper; William Allen White breaks

the heart of a Certain Rich Man; and

Rudyard Kipling, that glorifier of the

strong—armed class, rolls the son of a

railroad magnate from the deck of an

Atlantic liner and quarantines him on

a Gloucester fishing smack among the

Captains Courageous, in order to save

his poor Soul.” And later on, Rausch-

enbusch says, “After a man has eaten

a thousand five-course dinners they

give him little more enjoyment than

country sausage and buckwheat cakes ’

used to do, and after he has acqui1ed

a liver and a waddle, they give him

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HOW the rich man with high ideals

can use his means is instances in

the case of William Sweet, elected

governor of Colorado in the recent

‘election. More than a year ago Mr.

Sweet gave up business to devote him-

self exclusively to bringing about bet-

ter relations among laboring men and

their employers. He ran for oflice on

the democratic ticket, and on what

was considered a very radical platform.

Almost every paper in the state was

against him, but he Won by a narrow

margin. Without considering whether

everything he advocated will be for‘

the best interests of the state, it is an

' instance of what a Christian“ con-

cience can do with a man who wants

to follow it.





F course, it is easy to criticise."

wealth. Like the weather. it is ,

«Imuch talked about and much maligned.

. “But. would we do better? Is it not a

New Testament teaching that we are

' by what we have, not by what

‘~ not have? The servant who





 





 





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‘Fairchild watched him as he boiled

.the,needle over the little gas jet at

, the head of the cot, then dissolved a

"white pellet preparatory to sending a

resuscitory fluid into Harry’s arm.



“You've been to Judge Richmond’s '2”

he asked at last.

1 “Yes.” Then the doctor stepped close

to the bed. “I’ve just closed his eyes——

forever.”



Ten minutes later, after another ex-



amination of Harry’s pupils, he was





gone, a weary, tired figure, stumbling





home to his rest—«rest that might be

‘disturbed at any moment—the reward

of the physician. As for Fairchild, he

sat a long time in thought, striving to

findsome way to send consolation to

the girl who was grieving now, strug-

gling to figure a means of telling her

that he cared, that he was sorry, and

that his heart hurt too. But there was

nonep_



Again a moan from the man on the

bed, and at last a slight resistance to

the sting of the batteries. An hour

passed, two; gradually Harry came to

himself, to stare about him in a won-

dering, vacant manner and then to

fasten his eyes upon Fairchild. He

seemed to be struggling for speech, for

coordination of ideas. Finally, after

many minutes~



“That’s you, Boy?”



“Yes, Harry."



“But where are we?"



Fairchild laughed softly.



“We’re in a hospital,

knocked out.

you’ve been?"



“I don’t know anything, since I slid

down the wall. ”



“Since you what?”



But Harry had lapsed back into

semi-consciousness again, to lie for

‘hours a mumbling, dazed thing, incap-

able of thought or action. And it was

not until late in the night after the

rescue, following a few hours of rest

forced upon him by the interne, that

Fairchild once more could converse

with his stricken partner.



“It’s something I’ll ’ave to show you

toexplain,” said Harry. “I can'ttell

you about it. You know where that

little fissure is



_ away back in the stope?”

' “Yes.”



“Well, that’s it.

out.” .

“But what happened before that ?"



“What didn’t ’appen?” asked Harry,

with a painful grin. “Everything in

thesworld 'appened. I—but what did

the assay show?”



Fairchild reached forth and laid a

hand on the brawny one of his partner.



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Queen!” ‘ ,

“The bloody ’ell it is!” Then Harry

dropped back on his pillow for a long

time and simply grinned at the ceiling.

Somewhat 'anxious, Fairchild leaned

ferward, but his partner's eyes were

open and smiling. “I'm just letting it

sink in!” he announced, and Fairchild





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was silent, saving his questions until

“it” had sunk in. Then:



“You were saying something about

that fissure?”



“But there is other things first. After

you went to the assayers, I fooled

around there in the chamber, and I

thought I’d just take a flyer and blow

up them ’oles that I’d drilled in the

’anging wall at the same time that I

shot the other. So I put in the powder

and fuses, tamped ’em down and then

I thinks thinks I, that there’s some-

body moving around in the drift. But

I didn’t pay any attention to it—you

know. I was busy and all that, and

you often ’ear noises that sound funny.

So I set ’em off—that is, I lit the fuses

and I started to run. Well, I ’adn’t any





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more’n started when bloey-y-y-y, right

in front of me, the whole world turned

upside down, and I felt myself knocked

back into the chamber. And there was

them fuses. All of ’em burning. Well,

I managed to pull out the one from the

foot wall and stamp it out, but I didn’t

’ave time to get at the others. And’

the only place where there was a

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the chamber. Already I was bleeding

like a stuck hog where a. whole ’arf the

mountain ’ad ’it me on the ’,ead and I





' didn’t know‘ much what I was doing. I





just wanted to get be 1nd something——

that’s all I could think of. So '1 shied

fcr that fissure in the rocks and crawl-

ed back in there, trying to squeeze as

far along as I could. And ’ere’s the





funny part of it—I kept on going!"





“You what?”



“Kept on going. I’d always thought

it was just a place where the ’anging

wall ’ad slipped, and that it stopped a

few feet back. But it don’t—it goes

on. I crawled along it as fast as I

could—I was about woozy anyway-—

and by and by I ’eard the shots go off

he 1nd me. But there wasn't any use





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in going back—the tunnel was caved

in. So I kept on. f



“I don’t know 'ow IOng I went or

where I went at. It was all dark—and

I was about RnOCked out. After a

while, I ran into a stream of water

that came out of the inside of the ’ill

somewhere, and I took a drink. It

gave me a bit of strength. And then I

kept on some more—until all of a sud—





. den, I slipped and fell, just when I was





beginning to see dyelight. And that’s





‘ all I know. ’Ow long ’ave I been gone?”





“Long enough to make me gray-

headed, ” Fairchild answered with a lit-

tle laugh. Then his brew furrowed.

“You sayy you slipped and fell just as

you were beginning to see daylight?”



“Yes. It looked like it was reflected

from below, somewyes. ”



Faiichild nodded.



“Isn’t there quite a spring right by

Crazy Laura' s house?”



“Yes; it keeps going all year;

there’s a current and it don’t freeze

up. It comes out like it was a water-

fall—and there’s a roaring noise be-

’ind it.”



“Then that’s the explanation. You

followed the fissure until it joined the

natuial tunnel that the spring has

made thiough the hills. And. when you

reached the waterfall—well, you fell

with it. " ' .



“But ’ow did I get ’ere?”



Briefly Fairchild told him, while Har-

ry pawed at his still magnfiicent mus- ~

tache. Robert continued: ,



“But the times’ not ripe yet, Harry,

to spring it. We’ve got to find out

more about Rodaine first and what

other tricks he’s been up to. And

we’ve got to get other evidence than

merely your own word. For instance,

in this case, you can’t remember any-

thing. All the testimony I could gIVe

would be unsupported. They’d run me

out of town if I even tried to start any

such accusation. But one thing’s cer-

tain: We're on the open road at last,

we know who we’ re fighting and the

weapons he fights with. And if we’ re

only given enough time, we'll whip

him. I’m going home to bed now; I’ ve

got to be up, early in the morning and

get hold of Farrell. Your case comes





“And I’m up in a ’ospital!”



Which fact the court the next morn-

ing recognized, on the testimony of

the interne, the physician and the day

nurses of the hospital, to the extent of

a continuance until the January term

in the trial of the case, A thing which

the court further recognized was the

substitution of five thousand dollars in

cash for the deeds of ‘the Blue Poppy"

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the telegraph office. A long message

‘ was the result, and a money order to

' Denver that ran beyond a hundred dol-

laxs. The instructions that went with

it to the biggest florist in t0wn were

for "the most elaborate floral design





possible to be sent by express for.





Judge Richmond’s funerale—minus a

card denoting the sender. Following

this, Fairchild returned to the hospital,

only to find Mother Howard taking his

place beside the bed of Harry. One

more placed called for his attention—-

the mine. _



The feverish work was over now.

The day and" night shifts no longer

were needed "until Harry and Fairchild

' could actively assume control of opera-

tions and, - themselves dig out the

wealth to put in the improvements

necessary to procure the compressed

air and machine drills, and organize

the working of the mine upon the scale

which its value demanded. But there

was one thing essential, and Fairchild

procured it—guards. Then he turned

his attention to his giant partner.



Health returned slowly to the big

Cornishman. The effects of nearly a

week of slow poisoning left his system

grudgingly; it would be a matter of

weeks before he could be the genial,

strong giant that he once had repre-

sented. And in those weeks Fairchild

was constantly beside him.



Not that there were no other things

which were represented in Robert’s de~

sires—far from it. Stronger than ever

was Anita Richmond

thoughts now, and it was with avidity

that he learned every scrap of news

regarding her, as brought to him by

Mother Howard. Hungrily he listened

for the details of how she had weath-

ered the shock of: her father’s death;

anxiously he inquired for her return in

the days following the information—

via Mother Howard—that she had

gone on a short trip to Denver to look

after matters pertaining to her father’s

estate. Dully he heard that she had

come back, and that Maurice Rodaine

had told friends that the passing of

the Judge had caused only a slight

postponement in their marital plans.

And perhaps it was thiswhich held

Fair-child in check, which caused him

to wonder at the vagaries of the girl—-

a girl who had thwarted the murderous

plans of a future father-in-law—and to

cause him to, fight down a desire to

see her, an attempt to talk to her and

learn directly from her lips her posi-

, tlon. toward him—and toward the R0

daines,



Finally, back to his normal strength

once more, Harry rese from the arm-

chair by the window of the boarding

house and turned to Fairchild. .



“We’re going to work tonight,” he

announced calmly. ‘



“When?” Fairchild did not believe

he- understood. Harry grinned. “T0-

night. I’ve’taken a notion: Rodaine’ll

expect us to work in the daytime.

We’ll fool ’im. We’ll leave the guards

"on in the daytime and work at night.

And what’s more, we’ll keep a guard

on at the mouth of the shaft while

we 1e inside, not to let nobody down.

See?“



Fairchild agreed. He knew Squint

Rodaine was not~ through'. And he

knew also that the fight against the

man with the blue-white scar had only

begun. The cross-cut had brought

wealth, and. :the promise of riches to

. Fair‘child and Harry for. the rest of

2 their lives. But it had not: freed them

from, the danger of one mam—a man

who Was willing to kill, willing to’

j-‘maim, willing to do anything in the



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sing a monotonous song, the refrain of

which is, “There’s likely to be another

war.”

Things are" not, right, and that is all

the greater reason for an attitude of

trust. Looking back, we see where the

world has lost millions—millions of

lives, millions of money, millions of

peace and. good-will because govern-

ments were bent on getting ready for

war.

tude.

America, and a man with vision pre-

sented a plan for a world-wide brother-

hood of nations, we were not ready

for it.





and goes, and the Christmas season

follows rapidly on its heels, it is well

to think of those who labored to es-

tablish the republic, and how many of

them were men of religion.

experiment, and a rather dangerous

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was faithful in the use of the money

entrusted to him was put over five

cities, and another over ten. What

do you do with the money you have

now? Did you ever hear the conver-

sation between two native converts on

the misSion field? Listen:



Said the first native, “If you had a

hundred sheep, would you give fifty of

them for the Lord’s work?” "Indeed

I would,” said the other. “Would yen

if you had a hundred cows?” “Yes,

to be sure I would.” “But you would

not do it if there were one hundred

horses, would you?” “Oh, yes I would.

I would gladly give half of my hundred

horses to the. Lord.” “But if you had

two pigs, would you be willing to give

one of them?” “No, I would not; and

you have no rmht to ask me, when

you know that I have two pigs.”



Onefiof Roosevelt’s mottoes was, “Do

the best you can with what you have

where you are.” It is not great gifts

that the Kingdom stands in need 01'.

It is the consecration of the ifts we

have. A man with a very moderate in-

come has for years maintained a na-

tive worker in India, at a cost of forty

or fifty dollars a year. A man whois

a Sunday School superintendent for

years paid with his own money for

much of the printing and advertising

that made his school a. success. ' A man

on a small income tells this of him-

self: “There have been times in these

twenty years when it was not easy to

tithe, for I have never had other than

a small salary, yet I have never had

reason to regret the giving, even when

I gave as much as three tenths. I have

been blest with excellent health, a hap-

py home, good friends, joy in service

and the added joy of giving.”





HIS brings us to the matter of



trust in God. The rich man find!

it harder to trust in God because he

has so much himself that he feels he

doesn’t‘need to. But all, poor, rich,

and the moderately well off need the

lesson of trust in a loving God. And

this seems about as 'hard for one class

to learn as another, thou‘gh here the

poor man has the advantage. He has

no great store of this world’s goods to

fall back on, and he has greater occa-

sion for trust. Perhaps that is the rea-

son so many of the saints have been

poor men, though it would not be safe

to state this as a general principle.

Not a few men have had wealth and

‘given it all away, as a beginning of a

life of trust. The life of trust is now

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LEASE, pass the potatoes, Dad!”

How many times we have heard‘

this écho across the table at 7:00

a. m., 12:00 m., and again at 6:00 p. m.,

from boys and girls hungry from the





.healthful exercise in the out- of— doors.





Being a food high in starch value and

containing protein and basic salts, it is

truly an indispensable food for our

daily menu.





There are three textures of flesh in

the cooked potato which may be de—

termined by their chemical composi-

tion, the soggy, the waxy and the

mealy. The soggy potato is usually

low in starch and relative high in pro-

tein. When cooked, the tiny starch

grains will swell up, _but not sufficient

to burst the cell-walls which would

give it the starchy and mealy condi—

tion. A potato of this content readily

absorbs water and becomes wet. and

soggy in the center. ‘





Potatoes that are of a waxy texture

have a greater proportion of starch To

protein. _The protein acts as frame-

work to prevent the starch from form-

ing a flaky mass when cooked, and

holds the potato together=bette1x This

class of potato is much in demand for

making salads and cream potatoes.



In the case of the mealy potato, each

cell is well filled with starch grains

and when cooked these grains burst

the walls of their prisons and the re-

sult is a flaky mass. If the starch pro-

portion is too high the potatoes will

fall apart when boiled, causing a waste

as Well as a messy appearance. How-

ever, they are very good when baked.

Potatoes with a netted skin and crisp

flesh are likely to be mealy when

cooked.





There will be changes in the com-

position of the potato no matter 110W

carefully they are stored. These chang-

es are taking place continually. Each

have their effect upon the food value

of the potato. By these changes the

starch and sugar are broken up and

water is given off with the result that

the potato tastes sweeter. As spring

draws near’ and the potato begins to

sprout, a distinct change from the

mealy condition may be ‘noticed.



Michigan housewives who have paid

out their good money each year for

baking potatoes grown in Colorado and

Idaho, were not aware that Michigan

is producing a variety of spuds almost

as good, and less expensive, according

to J. W. Weston, one of the‘ leading

tuber specialists of the Michigan Agri-

cultural College. The Petoskey Gol-

den Russet potato, when properly pre-

pared,‘ will bake up as mealy as the

Idaho Rural or the Colorado Russet

Brown Beauty. He states that experi-

ments have shown that by dipping

Chief Petoskey potatoes in butter. or

grease before placing in the oven, a

coating is formed over the skin which

remains until a high temperature is

obtained in the oven. . ,



The method of cooking potatoes may

have some effect, upon the quality and

food value, Because of the change of





other substances during this process.

Boiled potatoes in jackets lose about

one per cent of their food value while

those peeled lose about seven per cent.

ments or quality.





potatoes either in the vegetable cel-





 





 





the texture or the addition of tats and.





Baked potatoes lose very little in nutri:





With this season’s bumper crop of__





The P0331b111tles 0f  the Ptato





egg, is. bit of onion juice or chapped 1 .. -;

Form ' “





opportunity. _The present problem of

the growers is how to unload this ov-

e'r-supply drop on the market mid not

affect to any great extent, the market

price. There are many varied and ap-

petizing ways by which the potato may

beprepared for servingrand by taking

adyantage of these, the consumption

may be so increased as to benefit both-

the grower and consumer.





Some‘pota‘to recipes follow here, and -





others will appear -f om time to time

in the tested recipe column.

Potatoes En Shamrock. ‘



Remove the seeds from one-half of

a Sweet green pepper and chop with

_an onion and a bit of parsley. Chop

cold boiled potatoes, add salt and the

chopped mixture. Place in a steel

spider with two tablespoons of hot but-

ter. Cook slowly and when brown.

turn out and serve.



Potatoes with Cream Sauce.



Rub two tablespoons of butter and

one tablespoon of flour together in a

frying pan. Add one cup of stock or

milk and stir until it boils. Remove

from fire, add five tablespoonsgrated

cheese, salt, and one green sweet pep-

per chopped fine. Put a layer of this

sauce in a baking'dish then a layer





of sliced (boiled) potatoes and repeat .





until dish is full, finishing with a layer

of sauce. Sprinkle this with bread

crumbs and _bits of butter and bake for

fifteen minutes.

Potato Croquettes.

To two cups of mashed potatoes, add

one tablespoon of butter, yolk of one





 





onion, Salt, pepper and parsley.



into patties and .fry in hot fat.

Potato Omelet.



Put one cup of mashed potatoes





through the ricer' and mix with three .

eggs, beaten light, and salt. Drop from '

well-buttered skillet. ‘





spoon on hot,

Brown on both sides.

Creamed Baked Potatoes.



Medium-sized potatoes (twelve) one-’

half cup 0f *lcream, one cup of milk,

three-quarters of a teaspoonful "of salt.

Pare the potatoes", and place in the bot~

tom of. a pan, cover with milk and

cream and add the salt. Then cover

the pan and-place in the oven. Keep

the. pan covered until the potatoes are





almost done; then remove the cover . -





"and allow the milk and cream tocook

down until it is thick. '



Creamed Potatoes and Peas. ' .

‘ Three pints of steamed or boiledpo-

tatoes, one can of peas, one cup milk,

two tablespoonfuls of flour, one table-

spoonful of butter. Thicken the milk





and cream with the flour, braided with '





a little milk saved for the: purpose.

Add the butter and cook for fifteen

minutes. Put- the peas in and pour

over steamed potatOes.'



Stuffed Potatoes. »



One medium sized potato, one tea-

spoonfiul of cream and one teaspoon-

ful of butter. Remove the inside of

the potato with a spoon; masn and

mix with the cream and butter. Fill

the potato shell with the mixture and

leave in the oven for five minutes.





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to House/told Editor, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, M2cl1.’ '





 





 





SOME READERS' SUGGESTIONS.





 





To rid an old house of bed bugs, put

two ounces of corrosive sublimate into

a tight bottle and fill with wood alco-

hol. Shake this well and apply with

a feather to every crack and corner of

the floor and around the Window as

well as in the beds and bedding. Do

this once a week until rid of the posts.

Mrs. J. R. B.



If Miss M. M. will use hydrogen per-

oxide on hairs on face every day for

a year it will kill the roots. Keep

pulled out with tweezers' while treat-

ing—Mrs. H. C.“



Would like to say to Mrs. M. 0., try

floor wax on your kitchen linoleum.

Get. a one-pound can and put on by

directions. It will preserve the figure

and save labor. I pay fifty cents for

a pound can and it lasts me over a

yea1.——-T. M. L.





 





LIVER SAUSAGE.





 





Can you tell me how to make liver

sausage?——Mrs. '





The following is a recipe for liver'





sausage as recommended by the de-

partment of agriculture:



Remove the membrane and cut away

the large bloodve‘ssels. , Soak in water

one to twohours to draw out blood.

,Boil until). done. When cooled. put

through‘ a- food: chopper or grate , fine.

Take ,half as much boiled fat. porkas

liver. Divide this fat into tWO por-

tions; chop one portion into three-quar-





 





 





ion to-taste.

joram may be added to suit the taste.

For a liver weighing three pounds, add

one- and one-half pounds of fat pork,

from six to eight teaspoons of salt, one

teaspoon of cloves, one teaspoon of

pepper, two . small onions, half tea.-

spoon thyme, and pinch of marjoram.

This mixture is stuffed into large cas-

ings, or clean, white muSlin casings

may be used if others are not avail-

able. } Cover with boiling water, bring

to a boil, and boil for ten' minutes

Pack in cans and fill in with the water

in which the sausages were boiled.

Cap, exhaust five-minutes if cOoled (if





packed hot, exhaustingpis'not, neces- .





sarY). tip, and process.

No.2 cans, fifty minutes at 250 de—





grees F.,' or fifteen pounds steam pres- ,





sure.

No.3 cans: sixty-five minutes at 250

degrees F. or fifteen pounds of steam





pressure.





This liver sausage may also be made

from raw liver and raw pork. In that





case proceed in the same manner as _‘ ' _

just described, but process the cans ten _ ..





minutes longer at temperature given

It may be served 'hot or cold.





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my linen tablecloth Is? there anything;





that will remove this tainwlth tin-





 





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._ter‘-inch cubes: pass the 9th,: portion -
UDGING' from"the returns of the



' cocky contest, our readers certainly

keep their cocky jars well filled. A

goodly. number of recipes were receiv-

ed. In fact, therewere so many that

we might say the cooky contest took

the cake, for it surpassed all others in





‘ the numberof letters received.





,Following are the \‘five ~chosen be-

cause they received the most points





for being economical, tasty and easily





combined.

First Prize.

Mrs. C. A. Camden, Michigan.



My days of filling lunch :pails are

past, as my little folks are all big

folks now, but I still have, and often

use, at their request, their old favorite





, cookie recipe, which they called “None





Such.” , - -

Mother’s _Fruit Cookies.

1 cup apple sauce prepared as for





 





Merry C/z mktmar





TO the readers of this depart-

‘ ment is extended the mes-

sage of love, faith and cheer, as

befits the Yuletide season; of

love, in memory of the birthday

of our Savior; of faith, because,

by that staunch quality all t at

is great and good is consumma -

ed; or cheer, because, with love

and faith a spirit of cheerfulness

follows as light follows a burn-

ing torch.



May each and every one of you

have more than a stockingful ot'

Christmas blessings—Household

Editor.





 





 





 





the table.



1/; cup each of nut meats and raisins

chopped fine.



2 cups sugar



1 cup milk, 1 cup lard



2 teaspoons cinnamon



'1/2 teaspoon cloves



1 teaspoon salt



1% teaspoons baking powder.



Flour to roll. All measurements are

level except shortening, which should

be rounding, and one can use sour milk

and soda if they prefer.





 





, Second Prize.

Miss A. R. C., Britton, Michigan.

Orange Drop Cookies



2 cups sugar , -



1 cup‘shortening, two-thirds butter

and one-third lard, and cream these

together.



1 cup sweet milk



Juice and grated rind of one orange



5 cups of sifted flour



1 level teaspoon soda and two tea-

spoons baking poWder, rounding



A little salt.





 





Third Prize. /

Mrs. L. E. Deerfield, Michigan.

Butterscotch Cookies. ,



2 cups broWn sugar



1%, cups shortening



2 eggs



1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 2 ta~

bleSpoons water'



1 teaspoon (munding) cream of tar-

tar in



-3 cups flour



Lemon flavoring



Roll'into. two rolls (or loaves) at

night and leave on moulding board till

morning: Then out in 'half-inCh slice

and bake. ‘





 





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Fourth Prize. ’

' Mrs. A. ..Fl, Mornice, Michigan.

. , Oatmeal Cookies.

.1 cup. brown sugar, 2 eggs - .

~1 cling‘hDI‘PBEiM (butteran‘d lard)

P“. ‘ ’ milk . .1





 





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' OHIO farm wives who are working





. of a bread-board. A Softer dough can,g





 





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cups oatmeal.

cup chopped raisins

cups flo’ur ,

scant teaspoon baking powder

teaspoon cloves ‘ . ~

teaspoon cinnamon



Mix all together well and drop by

spoonful in a greased tin.



Bake in a moderate oven.





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Fifth Pnize.

Mrs. R. 3., Portland, -Michigan.

Graham Drop Cookies.



1 cup sugar, one egg



1 cup sour-cream



1 tablespoon molasses



1 teaspoon salt



1 teaspoon soda



21,5 cups graham flour



1 teaspoon cinnamon to season.



Sift all dry materials together, flour-,1

soda, salt, cinnamon and stir into the:

creamed egg, sugar and cream, drop‘

in small spoonfuls on buttered tin and'

dot with raisin or nutmeat. ,





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with home demonstration special-j

ists of the state extension service in

trying out various home conveniences,

are finding a bread-mixer next to indisg

pensable in the home that bakes for

itself.



“A bread-mixer answers ‘yes’ to eve

ry question that ought to beraised be-

fore purchasing a piece of labor-sav-

ing machinery,” continues Alma Gar!

vin, extension specialist in nutrition:

at the Ohio State University. “It is

used often enough to pay for its keep?

It saves time and labor. It is durableg

It is easily handled and easily cleaned;



“Any member of the family—even:





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These dark Winter mornings

and early evenings — lights

house, barn and outbuildings

-runs cream separator, feed

grinder, etc.—— pumps water

for stock and for house.





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F.O.B. East Orange. New Jersey





Complete with batteries, $245 -





Weighs only 1001!):

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The ,Simms MagnetoCo.





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How Do You Do It?





T the suggestion of several



of our readers, our contest



\ this week will be, “How I take



care of meat to the best advan-

tage.”



Just send us a letter giving

your method of cutting, canning,

packing and pickling, and also

recipes for making sausage,

headcheese and mince meat. The



‘ first prize will be an eight-quart

aluminum preserving kettle with ‘

cover; second, a three-quart

saucepan. with cover; third, an

eight-inch frying pan With cover.

The fourth and fifth prize win-

ners will receive fancy six-inch

scissors. '



Address all letters to House-

hold Editor, Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, Michigan, before Decem- ’

ber 29. '





 





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father—can turn out a good loaf of

bread with a mixer, if he makes care—

ful measurements and follows a relia-i

ble recipe. Mixer-mixed bread is more'

uniform in quality than hand-mixed;

bread.



“The mixer means less time spent:

in kneading, and, since the dough can.[

be mixed, kneaded, and left to rise in

the mixer, it does away with the need;





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thus be used, and this makes a better1

bread. ' 5 .





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‘ Paper flour sacks can be cut down

one side and around the.bottom so

they will lay flat. The inside is clean

and usually ‘a pleasing shade. This

heavy paper can be used in many ways

about the house. Lay it under the can

that or rug; sew together, lay on

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enable your church to obtain a cash gift of $50?

Of course you would, every church member

would. You can secure a gift of $50 or more

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Our plan is easy, pleasant and certain. Clergy-

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, --!f you have not yet shipped to Fouke

‘ ' split your next shipment nityoflity. skin.



' , for skimgrademrgrade. Bend ‘

one-half to the house you've

been shipping to and the

other half to Fouke st ones.

We believe you'll get about

20% more money for the furs

you ship to Fouke. Let‘ the checks tell

’ the story. Fouke grading always

makes your for checks



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winter's wood in a few aye. WITT .

Bun sows are built in sizes—small, medium

and In e. Engine and Sew Complete wlth

loll. very farm should have no. We slso

make Lo Saws Tree Saws and b Portable Saw

Rigs. Te 1 us Size Engine or Saw still; you can

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“~TANNERS





of CATTLE, HORSE,

CALF, COON, FOX,

SKUNK, MINK, MUSK-

RAT, wooncnucx,

Doc, CAT and RAB-

, BIT SKINS.





What kind of skins have you?

We make up and line Men’s &

Ladles’ F u r C o a t. s, Scarfs,

Mufl’s, Capes. Collars.

and Mittens from raw skim

Circulars Free. Use plenty of

salt on green hides.





W..W. Weaver, Readmg,Mich.

Custom Tanner. 30 yrs. Experience.

a ‘

and make to your order from your

, cattle. horse and all

~ and furs. men’s fur coats, robes, caps,

- gloves, and mittens, ladies’ fur coats

andd‘ur sets. Remodeling and re-

pairmg in latest styles.

your work and save one-half.

Galloway coats, robes, gloves

mittens for sale. We are the oldest



Galloway farmers; 34 yea-s continuous busincs.

Free style catalog, prices and samples. Don’t



° ship your hides and fur: elsewhere until you

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Dear Uncle Frank: .



I have " been a silent reader of the

Letter Box in-the Michigan Farmer for

some time, and am ‘wondering if you

have room for another niece to join

your merry circle. I had made up my

mind I was too old to join, but I see

the limit is eighteen, and as I am





 





“Uncle Frank,” by Harry Alfredsorr,

Whitehall, Mich1, First Prize.





somewhere between fifteen and eight-

een I thought I would write.



By ‘the way, Uncle Frank, do you

ever send a snapshot of yourself ’to

any of your nieces and nephews? Im

rather curious to know what my new

uncle looks like. If you ever do, and

you have an extra one, please send it

up this way. .



I would like to correspond w1th some

of my “cousins,” as I will answer all

the letters I receive from them.



Well, I think I have used my share

of letter space so will close—Your un-

known niece, Fannie Hunter.



It is nice that you broke your silence.

Keep acoming. No, I don’t send out

snapshots of myself, especially when

I can get such good imagination pic-

tures made of me. I will .show you

others later. ~ '





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have been reading the bOys’ and

girls’ department and am going to try

my luck at writing a letter and answer

your imagination contest. .

Say, did you ever hear of chickens

growing to be ten years old? I have

two little bantam chickens that were

ten years old this fall. I am going to

see how old they will live to be, as I

get an egg every other day from the

two.



I have’ been trapping a little this fall

since the law was out, and caught rab-

bits and four skunks.



This summer while I was living in

Indiana I won $5.00 on a pig essay and





 





" Found In Our-Lcttcfloxii”





Some Letters from Pal: for t/ze. Correrpondénce Comer ‘





club, and $3.00_for a prize on a ,milk





essay, and I thought I would try your





contest.



Well, when I get some time I shall-

write again—Your nephew, Lawrence

Brandeberry, White Pigeon, Mich., R. 2.



Ten years is a. ripe ~ old age' for

chickens but not for boys. You must

have taken good care of those beauties

or they would not be laying now.





I





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am trying your imagination contest

and I‘ sincerely hope I will win, be-

cause I had to stay after school for

drawing this picture.



I don’t think you look quite as bad

as I havepictured you to be, Uncle

Frank, but this is just the way my





 





.Merry Christmas

.0 Pals, and all those near

and dear to them, I wish a



Merry Christmas. I



, May this be a time of rever-



ence due the spirit of Him whose

birthday we. honor on, Christmas



Day.



' _ May this also be a.day of hap-

py unselfishness.



It is my wish that you will be

made merry at this time by feast-

ings and festivities for the mind

and spirit, as well as for the

body.



That Santa Claus will be good

to you, is the hope of your pal.



UNCLE FRANK.





 





 





 





hand guided my pencil. You will have

to put your picture in the paper so I

can see how near I guessed how you

look.



I go to school, am fourteen years old

and in the seventh grade. I would

rather draw pictures than study, but

I guess it isn’t a very good plan to neg-

lect one’s studies, because sometimes

you have to 'stay after school, which

isn’t very much fun.



Hoping that I may win this time,

because I have tried before and failed.

»—-Y0Lur nephew, Edgar Rathbun, .Web‘

verv1lle, Mich., R. 3.



I am sorry, but you did not win.

Too bad you had to stay after school

but I. guess drawing my picture is not

part of school work. Try again, but

outside of school hours.





Dear Uncle Frank:



I picked up the Michigan Farmer a

few minutes ago and saw where you

wanted the girls and boys to draw

your picture. . ' ‘



I should think you Were about fifty,

but my brother says, “No, he's seventy

at the least, and I’ll bet he’s bald-head-





 





 





 





ed, fool” -so I drew a. picture or you

representing a man of seventy, but I’m

sure you are not ’baldo‘h’eaded yet. -‘



,1 have tried in 'your contests before

but have never got a prize, but “if at

first you don’t succeed, try—try‘again,”

is my motto and I have found it very *

encouraging in my tests in algebra,





Well, I _must_ close, ' hoping this ‘





doesn’t come in contact with that trou-





blesome waste paper basket—:Yours





gulzy, Irene Genter, Scottville, Mich.,,





A poor guess but a. good drawing.

You succeeded this time...so you know

it pays to try. , > c _





Dear UncleAFrank:



May I enter the contest? I am a

miss nine years old, and am" in ~the

seventh grade. ,I enjoy school very

much. History and reading are my

favorite subjects. My sister Evelyn

and I' have one and a quarter miles to

walk 'to school. She is six and in the

second grade. We attend Cascade Dis-

trict School No. 3. We live on a nine-

ty-six-acre farm, which is level, have

five horses, nine head of cattle, sheep

and hogs. Last summer we helped

mamma raise four pet lambs. It was

lots of fun. When papa sold them last

September they were like sheep.



I don’t think, Uncle Frank, you are

funny. or you would not write so busi-

ness-like.

you as a prosperous, business-like look-

ing gentleman. Enclosed find your pic-

ture—Your new niece, Jennie Rich-

ards, Ada, Mich., R. 4.



Thanks for your compliments, Jen-





nie. I am sort of a cross between a





 





‘Uncle Frank,” bnyelen Mg'Haystead,

Britten,”Mich., Second Prize.» ,

prosperous business man and a trendy

—little> of each and not much of eith-

er. A'nice letter for a. nine-year—old.





 





. ’ .

THE PICTURES ON THIS PAGE.





WANT to let you know that the



prize-winning pictures on this page

were not selected because they look

like me.

_prize looks as little like me as any. It

'and, the others Were selected because

they were good drawings. I believe

‘you boys and girls are either poor

guessers or can’t draw what you guess.

-—-Uncle Frank.





“ Wflaz‘ I T hit-é, Uncle Fro/”é Look; Like” ——-‘By Prize Wzi'rmerri '





So I have tried to picture ,





In fact, I believe the first.
. ground the boys are’superior.

‘it comes to strength and hard work, I





3‘ stenographer.





. i By'tlze





d.





‘ f; magma, Tribby, coldWater, Mich.

Iglbelleve boys are smarter than girls _

_'althpugh mest ‘girls will ;uphOld, their





side of, the argument. , . .

They are better talkers than boys,



but that'is attributed‘to a boy’s back?



Wardness, and when you get one that





' can talk he most generally says some-





thing worth while. At school they are





‘most generally about even, as far as





studying isconcerned, but on the play-

When





think boys are a little the better, as

they can" do a girl’s work with a little

practice, while it would take a girl

quite, a while to do something a boy

has to; , . '



As they grow up the boys seem to





I be inthe lead, as they make better





soldiers, ball players, and the greatest

imajority of our senators and repre-

sentatives are still men. Our Presi-

dents were all men and it looks as

though they were still going to be for

a while. I ‘



Although Women took no actual part

in the fighting of our last World War,

we must not forget their help through

the Red Cross and Salvation Army.

Our great poets and writers, such as

Longfellow, Poe, Hawthorne and

Shakespeare have no equal and they

were all men, but still the women have

two worthy writers in Harriet Beecher

Stowe and Fannie Crosby.



In many instances boys and girls,

men and women, are about even, but

most of our machinery and- diderent

conveniences which help both men and

women, will have to be contributed to

our men inventors. I believe when the

worth. of each is weighed in the bal-

ance the men Will-prove .to be the

greater.~





 





By Louise Lamph‘ier, Oxford Michigan.



I believe girls are smarter than boys

for these reasonsf I am a girl of fit-

teen' and can“ take a boy’splace in

plowing, dragging, cultivating and eve-

rything there is to do in the field.



.Then I can do all the chores in the



barn when Dad’s gone. 'I can doall

the work in the house, too. '



I went through the eighth grade. I

have a brother that is going through

high school and he can do the chores

in the barn, but when it comes to get-

ting himself some dinner, and washing

his dishes, or sweeping, or making his

bed he isn’t‘ smart enough: to do it.

That’s my first reason.



My second reason: If the women

were not smarter than men, they never

would have gotten women’s rights.

And it’s ‘plain to be seen that women

are taking men’s places in factories

and every kind of work. All the men

can' do is grumble about it. If the

boys were the smartest, they would

never have let the women get the start

of them like they have. See how quick

the state went dry when women could

vote; the men had been trying it for

years. The women were smart enough

to get out and work on it, and in years

to come women will show their smart-





_ ness.





 





By Verda R. Cole, Mt.‘Pleasant, Mich.

I think girls are Smarter than boys

for the following reasons:

1. They usually number two tojone





in school, and in some schools more





than that. ‘



2. Taking them as a whole, they re-

ceive' a higher average percentage in

their lessons. ' "



3. There are many‘more"'girls who





~ are stencgraphers than boys, and it





certainly takes intellect to be 'a good





4, A watchman [at oneot‘lthe dan-





gerous railroad 1, crossings in Chicago

$3 , $113 “Minuet! .33.th drivers





 





 

 





 





men want to beat the engine to it. It

doesn’t take much brains to take a

foolhardy'chance,_but it does show in-

telligence to avoid risk. .



5. More girls solve the puzzles in

the contests than boys.



Therefore, girls are smarter than

boys.





 





I .



By Miss lrene ‘Warsow, Bay City,



Michigan.



I think that, as a whole, girls are

smarter than boys. I do not think it

comes naturally to the girls. I think

girls study harder than boys: If a girl





 





Resolution Contest





T is the custom to turn over a





 





- . 1 . ‘.. _c

Brzze Winner: .- ‘





 





new leaf at the first of the

year and to make some resolu-

tions to which we expect to re-

ligiously adhere. I think we all

need some good ones to abide by

during the coming year. I know

I do. So, I ask yo’u at this time

to send in the five best resolu-

titons you can think of; For the

ten best papers we will give

prizes as follows: The first two,

Michigan Farmer pencil boxes;

the next three, nickled pocket

pencils, and the next five, Mich-

‘igan Farmer maps of the world

and new EurOpe. Address all

of your letters to Uncle Frank,

' Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich-

igan, before December 29.





 





 





 





receives a high mark she knows oth-

ers will praise and will compliment

her. She stays in evenings and stud‘

ies, knowing that, as a reward, she

will receive a high mark.



A boy is just the opposite. He is

afraid that, if he stays in evenings and

~ studies, and then receives high marks,

he will be called a “sissy.” I think it

is wrong fora boy to think this and it

is also wrong for one boy to think of

another as a “sissy” because he re-

ceives high marks. I think it is an

honor. So I think that if boys would

only try harder they would be just as





smart (and maybe some might be





smarter)"as the girls.





 





By Kenneth Munson, Constantine,

Michigan.



I think that girls are not as smart

as boys, and these are the reasons:



1. Boys are'out of doors most of the

time and therefore have healthier

minds and bodies.



2. Because 01' the outdoor life they

learn more about nature than do the

girls. A.



3._ Look at our great men, the world

over, they were once boys and they





would have to be smart to hold such '





high positions.



4. Boys have keener brains for in-

venting, and so must be smart in ma-

chinery and chemistry in order to In-

vent such wonderful and useful things.





. 5. It is easy (for the boys) in read-





ing to picture to themselves the

thought in the story, because they are'

out of doors a good deal of the time.





THE PRIZE WINNERS.





 





!

HE first two above won Michigan,

Farmer pencil boxes; the next:



three,.nickled pocket pencils, and the;



following five, Michigan Farmer maps!

of new Europe and the worldz’

Percival Gifford, ot‘ Ludingtbn, Mich.,

care Charles Gibley. ‘

Opal Bogart, 'Lapeer, Mich., R. 3.

Harold Coles,'Montgome1'y, Mich.

Albert Juille‘rat, 76 Palmer Street,





 





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Anna. Wetgzel, Romeo,1Mich., B. 1.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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one or as many of your friends as you want to

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anuary, 1922. We will give 100 Grade “A" chicks ‘





to the customer who will beat this record, with

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?GERMOZONE ‘





find some moons of keeping the birds





 





from roosting on the happers. This





\ may be accomplished by placing 9‘. cou-

ple of wires or a. revolving board on





the cover of the happer, as shown in

Fig.1. ‘





As contaminated drinking water is sufficient, but in larger houses one





one of the most commbn causes

through Which infectious diseases are

spread it is, essential that efforts be

made at keeping the water as free

from contamination as possible. By





- doing away with the large open .drink-





ing vessel, through which the bird may

walk, and into which every kind of

contamination easily finds its way, and

in place of using this an arrangement

such as the one shown in .Fig 2, one

could avoid such trouble. ~



If the poultry house is correctly con-

structed and the lighting system is ad-

equate it should permit as large a por-

tion of the floor as possible.to be ex-

posed to direct sunlight. This is very

important because direct sunlight is

very destructive to many disease-pro-

ducing organisms and one can then

get some work done by “Old Sol”

which would otherwise have to be done

by manual labor. However, this should

not lessen one’s efforts at keeping the

house clean. In fact, the sun cannot





 





 





 





do much unless thé h ‘

filth will protect the organisms 1

the deStructive action of thé rays. ~ j.»

Ventilation is another matter of

great importance.

door and window ventilation may be





 

 

 

 





must provide for special ventilating

systems





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Fig. 1.——Feed , Hopper.





of the Foreméfn poultry house in which

lighting and ventilation as well as the





proper placing of r‘oostsai'e well taken.





care of. The idea Of this ventilating





 





 





 





.THE RIGHT” use 10F DRUGS.





 





ATELY it has become the fashion



to speak very slightingly,

disparagingly, of the use of drugs. This

is partly because the term “drug fiend"

has ‘becomevery common in its appli-

cation to those addicted to the use of

narcotics and other habit-forming

drugs, and this term is, of course, one

01' reproach. The terminology is wrong.

It is a serious matter _to put the great

variety of helpful drugs that we pos-

sess under a ban of rem-ouch because

of the evil done by certain of the fam~

ily that are habit-forming and'destru'c-

live if wrongfully used, though of vast

benefit properly administered.



Recently I returned from a long trip,

just about used up, and knowing that

the most sensible thing for me to do

would be to enter a hospital. But the

time seemed inopportune. It was my

busiest season of the whole” year and

it seemed quite imperative that I stay

on the job for

weeks. I knew of a remedy, a “drug”

if you please, ihat should be helpful,

and this I applied. This _help and a

Sunday’s rest renewed my tissues so

that I was able to go right along with

my work; and it was a case in which

I knew well that rest alone would have

been inadequate.



Eveiy doct01 who has had the joy

of seeing sick people givenireliefi'by

the application of some‘ well chosen

remedy is a. staunch believer in the

efficiency of drugs. The. trouble is not

with the drugs. They are remedial

agents of the highest efficiency The





even '





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at least a few more.





 





who do not even guess their power for

good or evil; who do not understand

the workings of the organs upon which

the drugs hre designed to take effect.

Such people may Well be said to imply

drugs,_'the properties of which they

know nothing, to act upon organs the

workings of which they understand

even less. 4 ' ,





Let us have the benefit of d1 ugq by

all means; but let us use them gnly in

an intelligent manner. Then ,we shall

learn that drugs are among the most

beneficent of the natural forces creat-

ed £01 the good of mapkind.





BAD BREATH.





Please tell me about Halitosis. Does

it mean bad breath? I am told that

it may be responsible for terrible

things, even to the extent of divorce

proceedings. Can you prescribe a

mouth wash that will be a sure Cure?

—Anxious.





The medical discovery says that Hal-

itosis is “any abnormally odorous con.-

dition of the breath,” but I think that





“bad breath” covers its ordinary appli-





Cation. I believe it is a5 serious prob-

lem and can well understand that a

thing apparently so slight may yet

have caused young men’ to "lose good

positions, young women to lose pros-





VpcctiVe husbands, and older personsuo

lose their standing in polite society. I _"





do not thinkihat any mouth Wash will

be a sure" cure, ‘ though perhaps help-

in]. But there are so many things to

say about Halitosis that I have prepar-





ed a special letter which I Will send to





In small houses, “





l or less.





5 . 15 pounds.”





   

 





 





 





inches cross pection of inlets as well,

as outlets, are required for cach‘ bird?

In order to obtain sufficient suction

through the outlet the flue should ex-

tend far enough ab6vé the roof so that

it will at all times be exposed to the

wind. -



For the purpose of facilitating pre-

vention and control of_.contsgious .dis-

eases large houses should ,he‘divided'

into smaller compartments by means

of tight partitions. '1 ,



The time and care that one is will-_

ing to give,the flock will ’largely de"

termine the number and Size of the

individual compartments. It is how-

ever, best from a sanitary standpoint

to ke'ep a‘ close watch over every bird

as far as posisible and this would of

necessity limit, the number of birds to

be placed in each pen to three hundred

(To be continued). -





MINERALS iNCREASE EGG PRO-

DUCTIQN.





. ' _N a test it the Purdue University it

. was found that adding mineral ma-





terial to the regular mash had a very

favorable effect on » egg production.

-The mineral matter consisted of solu-

ble bone,limestone and common salt

mixed in the following proportions:

Soluble bone,.21 pounds; ground lime-

stone, 24 pounds, and common salt,

The hens were fed the reg-





ular Purdue ration often pounds of





V—corn, ten pounds of wheat and five





pounds of oats. The mash mixture

consisted of five pounds of bran, five

pounds of middlings and four pounds





. of soy— beans in place of meat sc1aps or





tankage. In addition, six-tenths of a.

pound. of. the mineral mixture above

was added to the mash. The claims of

'those making the tests are! that the

egg production was increased three-

fold without the use of meat scraps or

tankage, but using soy beans and the

mineral mlxtme instead.





POULTRY HOUSE CURTAINS





u





I am building a hen-houses. What

would you suggest to use as Windows,

glass or cloth? What kind of cloth is

used for this purpose and where canit

be bought?—E. L. ‘





It is usually best to use a combina-

tion of glass and cloth for the poultry

house windows. A geneial rule is to

allow one square foot of glass for eve—

ry sixteen feet of floorspace. , One ..

square foot of muslin is, allowed for





   

 





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fan-«aw





Jim-r no our in

”a. l'=





Fig. 3.--End View of Foreman House. '





each eight square .feet of floor space.

So in the poultry house you have twice .

as much open front covered with quar-

ter—inch mesh wire and protected by

muslin curtains as yOu have in glass

Windows.



With bOth glass and muslin in the

windows,,the birds receive light





   

   

 

 





the curtains At the some -tlhlc h

muslin Curtains allow enough fr

1 e ten; Very satfs ct ry c





 





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as been estimated 9 that about four .2.
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(Continued from page 661).





prize ‘ winners. Charles Laughlin, of

'1 ,‘Dansville,"With corn of his own breed-

ing; Lester Milham, of Kalamazoo,

"with Silver King; Clyde Hallis, of Hud-

fisonvillé, and Edward Davis, of Sagi-

naw, with Pickett, and A. W. Je‘vctt',



Jr., of Masom with Duncan, were all in



the select group.



Second only to their unparalleled

achievement with com is the record of

Michigan growers in the soft red win:

ter wheat class. Here the competition



‘ is open to every grower of wheat of

thisclass in Nbrth America, and here,

too. Michigan growers were outstand-

ingly foremost. The first six places

were taken befme the neighboring

state of Indiana was able to squeeze in

a winner, then thiee more to Michigan

in order, with a total of thirteen prize-

winners out of a possible twenty-five

and this ‘in competition with over

eighty samples from every soft red

winter wheat section in the continent.



C. 'D. Finkbeiner, whose Red Rock



wheat won highest honors at the In-



ternational Wheat Show of ' Wichita,



Kansas, repeated his accomplishment



at Chicago, but the place was hotly



contested by the samples shown by A.



W.’ Jewett, Jr., of Mason, and J. -W.



Veitengruber, of Frankenmuth, these

, growers winning second and third.



Following so closely that the ordi-

nary laymen could hardly recognize

differences, were the samples shown

by Lynn Jewell, of Leslie;~ A. J. Lutz,



.of Saline, and Orrie Bell, of Mason,

while other entries of superior merit,



all of which placed were made by R.



F. Jewett and L. H. Laylin, of Mason;



F. L. Houghton, of Alto; Carl Vietzke,



of Rapid Riveer. T. Barnes, of Bir-



mingham, and B. W. 'Alcott, of Marne.



' Every Michigan winner and several of

those from,other states was of the

famous Red Rock variety developed by



Prof. F. A. Spragg, plant breeder at



M. A. C.



Rosen rye, another of Professor

Spraggs’ achievements, continued its

outstanding (record of the past, win-

ning twenty-nine of the thirty awards

on rye. In so doing, it demonstrated

its ve1 y great range of adaptability for

the winning Rosen rye did not all come

f1om Michigan. The filSt prize sample

was produced by John W. Lucas, of

Cayley, Canada, thus for the first time

in the history of the International, de-

priving Michigan of this honor. Other

samples of Rosen rye shown by growé

ers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South

Dakota, Colorado and Indiana were in

the winning class, proving the adapta-

tion of this Michigan protege and mak-

ing the competition more keen for the

Michigan growers. The latter, how-

ever, did win twenty of the thirty rye

prizes, nine of the Michigan entries



' rangingfrom second to eleventh place.



L. H. Laylin, of Mason, led Wolverine

entries with a second, while W. H.

Warner, of Concord, won third. Among

the other successful rye exhibitors

were Garfield Farley, of Albion; M. J.

Smith,"9f Springport; Mrs. B. Johnson

& Son, and George and Louis Hutzler,

of South Manitou Island; J. B. Strong



and Lewis .Brothers, of 'Jerome; L. D.



Hess, of Ceresco; A. M. Berridge, of



Greenville; Vernon Everett, of Kings-



ton'; G. W. and H. q. Ray, of Albion.

and H. C. Oven, of Ovid.



To continue the st,o1y of the 1922 In-

ternational Grain and Hay Show is to

add still "more to the record of crops

progress being fnade by Michigan

farmers. 'Not satisfied with their win-

nings in' corn.,w,heat and rye, they car-

ried oi! eighteen of the thirty-five oat

mines, when in previous years three or

well down the line were wont .to





on haywith a volume of Other wine





nings in this division of the show,.and

placings in white corn, barley and oth-

er classes, all adds to the prestige of

Michigan as a'crop—producing state ‘and

bring credit to her farmers who have

made these records possible.



The oat victories furnish ahother

boost to pedigreed varieties developed

at M. A. C. The Worthy variety exhib-

ited by Laylin, Jewett, and others is

one of long standing for heavier Mich-

igan soils, while Wolverine oats, prob—

ably adapted to a wider range of Mich-

igan conditions than any other variety,

won for G. D. Dailey, of Kalamazoo;

Alfred Grueber, of Frankenmuth, G. R.

Wheeler and P. P. Pope, of Mt. Pleas-

ant; S. M. Powell, of Ionia, and others.

The sample shown by Mr. Grueber

came from a four-acre field, which pro-

duced 425 bushels, weighing thirty-six

and one—half pounds per bushel from

the machine, while the Wolverine fields

of Powell, of Ionia, and Wheeler, of

Mt. Pleasant, both produced over sev-

enty bushels per acre, demonstrating

the productivity of this variety as well

as its quality.



. The accomplishment in the hay ex-

hibit is especially noteworthy. A. W.

Jewett’s bale of timothy not only won

first. in its class; but was rated the

best bale of hay at the show, and Mr.

Jewett is the proud possessor of the

great silver trophy presented by the

National Hay Association. Michigan

farmers won the first six places on

timothy, the first three on clover and

six of the fifteen awarded on alfalfa.



The crops display put on by the

Michigan ‘Agricultural College was

very well received. It featured the

work that isbeing done to lower crop

production costs, calling attention in

a simple, coucise manner to the values

of alfalfa, successful growing methods,

and the great strides 'made by Michi-

gan farmers in recent years. The ex-

hibit also emphasized the importance

of productive seed from high yielding

and adapted c1op varieties and peo-

ple were given an opportunity to study

various half-bushel samples of Michi-

gan pedigreed seeds as well as 100-ear

samples of the corn varieties that are

proving so well adapted to Michigan

needsf





Particularly interesting to visitors .





was the display of certified Russet

Rural seed potatoes, an exhibit which





appealed to city consumers as well as .





agricultural producers; The Michigan

Potato Producers’ Association has

available 300,000 bushels of this seed,

which is being marketed through the

seed department of the Michigan State

Farm Bureau and the Michigan Potato

Giowers’ Exchange at Cadillac.





Several Michigan men attended the'





International Grain and Hay Show in

official capacity. Ray Turner, state

club leader, had charge of several boys’

and girls’ club projects on display; H.

C. Rather, secretary of the Michigan

Crop Improvement Association was

Michigan’s representative at 'the show-

in charge of all competitive entries

from this state. G. W. Putnam, or the

M. A. 0. extension staff had charge of

the farm crops department educational





display,.and C. R. Megee, assistant pro- _





fessor of farm crops, was on the com-

mittee of judges for small grains.





 





Late selected seed corn is a good

second best. Pick from the crib if

you failed to pick from the field, and





~store it away from rats, mice, mould





and weather.





 





Shallow-set tile won’t shed' water.

Deep drainage is the best way of un-

locking underlying soil resources.





 





Says Sam: Cheer up! If it was

easy to make a- living farming, we’d

have all. them bookmakers, boot-loggers



ileum Murderer





 





I spurt ’0

years in perfect-

ing thia Tmic.



Gmm- Hus.



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MILKERS PAY





Every cow in your herd can be made to pro-

duce up to her full capacity



—-if you look well to her ration, her health,

her appetite and her digestion.



Balance the ration. Feed bran, oats and

corn, or their equivalent, cottonseed or linseed

meal, clover hay, alfalfa, silage—pasture in

season.



Remember, the better the appetite the

greater the food consumption, the greater the

milk production.





llll. HESS 8100K TOMB





Keeps Cows Healthy ,Makes Cows Hungry





It conditions cows to turn their ration of

’grain, hay and fodder into pails of milk.



It contains Nux Vomica, greatest of all

nerve tonics. Quassia produces appetite, aids

digestion. Salts of 11 on keeps the blood rich.

There are Laxatives for the bowels, Diuretws

for the kidneys, to help throw off the waste

materials which so often clog the cow’s system.





Excellent for cows at calving. Feed it be-

:fore freshing. Good alike for all cattle.





Tell your dealer how many cows you have.

He has a package to suit. GUARANTEED.





g5-II). Pail $2.25 TOO-II). Drum $8.00

Except in the far West, South and Canada.

Honest goods—honest price—why pay more?





DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, 0.





Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfectant





Keeps the Dairy and Stables Healthful and Clean Smelling





 





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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





GUERNSEYS aalfiglhtfdfilfngfiolafi





 





 





 





of world champions. A. R. cows. Fed oral inspggfed.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us “'CKS' GUERNSEY FARM‘ sum" w 3

Ten Days before date of publication





ready for light service. Bred heifer,

508m“! BU“ Yearling heifer. Adv. Reg. breeding

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





 





For sale Registered Guernsey cows. hiay Rose Breed-

ing also bull calves $50 each. Registered A. R,

dams. BELS, R. .. Holland. Mich.





WINNWDDD HERD





Registered Holsteins





 





5 Grand Champions 2





and other prizes.





have strivcn.’





ls not tolerated





improve yourE herd.

into your herdE and you will have individuality. distinc-

tion and quality.

The services of our Gnnd Champion Stallion.



RY





are available.





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

Our success is the-natural culmination of

our efforts and our reward for years of careful and costly





breeding. Ours is debolic of the beat. Mediocrity JOHN H WIN" Inc

- I 9 'I





Our success can also be yours.

are the finest examples of breeding and will do much to

AGet the blood of the King of Sires



AMENY





Our young animals





|

T Ask us about a Real Bull a

Maple Crest or an Ormsby.





Rochester, Mich.





The Traverse Herd





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

fine growthy type, guaranteed right in every way. '

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

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





 





 





Your corr __





W. E. SCRIPPS, Prop.





‘ r“ are invited.





w1Lowooo FARMS . ,

ORION MICHIGAN .TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL

SIDNEY SMH'II, Supt.





' quotations. stating about age desired.





Trave se City, Mich.





 





 





"DISIBln Friesiandhgixfgr hand bull calvef. purebred





 





grade roe :20 up.





 





Registeredm from





a show bull. lame an





Browncroft Farms. McGraw, N. 21





 





COLANTHA BULLST-





 





next dear nets-1’14 ;





 





Registered Guernseys





«Mum-m heir





Be at d Abe . All ages. from hi h-producin dams. Also a tow V

1791:] [all]? :13 11311539093: registered“ and hlg- rade Ho stein cows at former! 3

00





teen an prices upon request.

herd “Ponder oderal nu ervisio on. ,

31‘! NE FARMS. Whitney. Mia):





11 ‘ I 5-: 31ml." asap-elite:





Dnvlson. Mloh.





 





 





 

 





 





 





Splendid inl vldunls and breeding. Write us youtreo’



rdeen- Angus outta! 9. Two bulls quimmenta

me ht to ele ven months old. One

riced reasonable

Inquire of F. J. WILBEB. Clio. Mioh'





FOR SALEM





various ages.
Just how does

Kow Kare increase

the ~milk yield ?





5:. Maybe you have been a regular user of Row-Kare



a in treating cow diseases, but you may have never

\l fully realized that this famous cow medicine' rs being

used regularly 1n rheusands of dairies to increase the

winter milk yield.





 





. 1‘, 4,3 = a?

\ t“ ' F

(5521;? ,Y” Both uses are equally logical. Cow Diseases—

I 0:1” “Ago, \ ”I? nearly all of them — arise from a lowered vitality of

WW” \l .1; \R/ the genital and digestive organs. Kow- Kare re-

l] i, I’ll/mi I///’\\\\ W0 moves the cause by reaching these very organs and





1“ The milk yield is controlled by the





restoring vigor.





\\\l same set of organs. Dry winter feeds put a greater

strain on their functions and produce a lowered

FREE Cow Book vitality and yield.





We publish a very valua-

ble book on cow diseases

called. The Home Cow

Doctor' We will gladly‘

send you a copy tree it you

give us your dealer‘s name





’ The expense of this Kow-Kare treatment is de-

cidedly small. Most dairyrnen give a tablespoonful

morning and evening in the feed, one week out of

each month. The increased milk- -profit pays for this

a hundred— fold. .





No cow medicine can equal Kow Kare for the

treatment of actual disease. For twenty—five years

it has been the standard remedy for Barr-entrees,

Abortion, Retained After-birth, Scour-s, Bunches,

M1111 Fever, Lost Appetite. *





Row-Kare, fed moderately and regularly, gives to

the milk-making organs the added strength they

need to offset winter feeding conditions. A greater



, milk yield cannot fail to result.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





Sold in two sizes—large package $1.;25 medium 65c.

at feed dealers, general stores, druggists, If your

dealer is not supplied. we send postpald.





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UAlnY ASSOCIATION co., Inc.

Lyndonville, Vt.





 





 





 





cepted in payment of finely bred reg - ~

‘ Good "Ole atiaered Holstein bull calves. Quality

of the best. andeat pr 1: as within reach of all. W r1te ere or s or a e

GEO D (‘LARKE' V‘I‘R“ M” h 5 -‘. and 3 1 car old registered Polled heifers, with l

eilel calves b1 side. price $150 to $175 each EV





Yearling Bull, $ 1 00 Also 2 bull calws born ill April. price $75 each





COLE & GARDNER

Pure bred registered. gfederally tested. Dam 11 JR ll1.





Hudson, Mich.

3 yr old daughter of King Segis Pontia1. 37 lbs. 6111111





in1ii1i1l11al mostly white.(xu.1r1nteed llE‘ililil‘ H E R E F. 0 RDa Herd Header for sale.

2 000 lb. tried sire.





Priced to sell 1111l1‘ kly. Pedigree. 11n)reque.~'t h'

ALBF ll 1‘ (1 W ADI” W mm X lgeon Mk 15““ 1.111 show his progeny. Can' t use alomnger. priced to sell.

J LOR. Fremont. Mich





REGISTERED HOLSTEINS l

Young Hulls that will please you in breeding, i11di1'11i- Herefords Far Sale. Endlligiiersmw

uaiity and price. Some of them are 1ery desirable RALPH CALHOON, ‘Bronson, Mich.





for heading Ipu re bred herds. Federally accredited

BlDWELL 5.11.11.11.11

BUY A BULL





SHORMAN, Fowlerville Mi1‘h_

that will put weight on your dair r§calves —the difi-

erence will soon play for the bull. ow selling good





I I I Scotch and Scotc topped yearlings.reasonably priced.

or a e lng egls ree Inlg We guarantee every animal to be a breeder Federal

'1‘.est. One hour from Toledo. Ohio, N. Y. C. R.

BI‘DWELL STOCK FARM,





Box D, Tecumseh, Michigan





' ' Shorthorns priced reasonably. An ac-

Mllklng credited herd selected for beef and





Beland and Beland.

JERSEY Herd Bulls Serviceable age and younger

for sale. Sire. a





 





 





 





a randson of King of the Pontiacs. Aver-

For sale 111,5: of three n1‘ar1 st dams 30... " B. Darn

2:3. 8'). B. A1v‘1le1iited held ltemly for service. Also

females 1“ RFD l’LlCSS, 11.1, Brighton, \lich.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

   

 

 





Nine months old bull, whose seven nearest dams

average 27 72. This 1s the last of my nineteen of

this age. The others are all sold.





.. « . Grand River Siock Farms

f" Corey J. Spencer, III E. Main St. milk.

. JACKSON, MICHIGAN





Tecumseh Michigan





R. of M son of l’ogis 99th I : R SALE





Dams and granddams have good R. >~ ' .

of M. 11‘3eootrds. CI O‘E'Illoblimyd l‘haAullPiog LongMD‘ilsl; Polied Shorthorn COWS & Heifers

t e ter 11w a ee 5. so ersey

023:5. Fd‘rhallo Lucia 711100 111s. M 31601119 1.111.111 1“ calfand 09'1be Side A150 New YO1111&bu115-

yrs Herd accredited. Prices $30 andnp. Write your Herd headed by Victor Sultan and Royal Non-





wants. 0. C. 011 EEK. pareil





of Hood Farm.





Montpelier. 0.





E 1 r quality at farmers’ Eprices

BUTTER BRED J rid)? aligns GEO.E BURDICK Mgr





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM. Branch County Farm. Goldwater. Mich





Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





SALE HIGHLAND 3110111101le

cows Refister of \ierit A1 credited her '





AND PARKER. R. 4, Howell, Mich.





 





 





 





. , We are offering two splendid white yearling bulls

Lllhe Farmqmad Jerseys For file’ 3 heifers yImp. Newton Champion and a few extra good





bred to freshen this fall. ‘2. blll calves, 6 to!)

1 mo. 111d Col on O. Lillie. Coopersvillel Mich. Egil-fgallaggaggflggcavfigwfly attractive prices.





. RegisteredL Jersey ggfg‘eggrggcg‘ggitggr C. H. PRESCOTT & SON,

OLARTER. Lake Odessa. Mich. Herd at Prescott. Mich.

’ Office at Tawas City. Mich





H E R EF ORDS 5.3.7 M111. 5110.11.11... Breeders’ Assn





l both ilk d beef breedin. all ages

ofler Wfi’r sa M.eE. WELEEnSec y. Gree'nvl ls, Mich.





 





 





 





For Sale at Farmer’ 5 prices.

5 yearling bulls 8 yearling heifers -

10 of the above sired by our §r 200 Repeater bull.

We have others not related. his is an opportun-

- ity to start in good stock at a moderate price. "





ALLEN BROS.





51,5 So. Went St.,

‘ F“ Sela tinsel,”





 

 

 

   

   

   





 

 





Milkin$ Shorthorns 2,“? 3:39.303?

MARY FARMS. Williamaton, Mich





Chm yton Unit “mm" Em ..a°‘l.ui.1 nrdhnrthoiii‘





 

 





we andw heifers





 





We can please you in richly bred cattle with





“nausea, Midla forsals all ages. W.J ink key, Sec" 3. Flushing. Mich.





'- A New Hog House





A Low T rzp/e-Pztc/zea’ Reflro‘wde: More ng/zz‘ and W armtfi





By Harley M. Ward





HE profits from the hog crop



“form a very important‘item of



the total profits from many

farms. . Mr. Lawrence realized that

this profit depends in a large measure

upon the care of the hogs, and good

care of the hogs calls for an up—to-date

and sanitary hog ”house The true val- ‘

us of warm, dry, sanitary, healthful

farrowing quarters cannot be over- em-

phasized.



While Mr. Lawrence’s piggery is by

no means among the fiISt of this de-

sign to be erected, it possesses a num-

ber of desirable features not found in

most struétures of the kind. It differs

chiefly in the construction of theroof.

Whereas most hog houses have an or;

dinary gable or gambrel roof, this

building is covered with a roof having

a triple pitch or slope; the portion





 





The Triple Shaped Roof of this New





glass size is twenty-tour inches wide

by twenty- eight inches long and. the

ventilators are twelve inches in diam—

eter with a revolving hood Which is

covered _ with bird- proof screen. A

twelve-inch ventilator of .the revolving.

head typewill furnish sufilcientventi-

lation for four sows and litter. ‘



The foundation, madeof concrete

and hollow tile, six inches thick, ex-

tends two and one-half feet below the

ground level'.



The side walls of the new house are

very low andbuilt of hollow tile. The

north wall is‘ five feet above ground

and the south wall is four feet. Air

is part of the building material that

goes into the construction of these

walls, making them warm. _



Heavy building tile laid flat and 00v-

ered with an inch of concrete was used





.





Hog House Offers ‘M'any Advantages





- , Over the Ordinary Style.





which contains the metal roof win-

dow,s is much steeper than the lower

part. This form of construction affords

sevelal distinct advantages over _the

single slope (roof as ordinarily con-

structed.



The ceiling can be kept very low and

the structure is therefore easy to keep

warm, as there is less air to heat. It

is unnecessary for a hog house to have‘

a high ceiling. ,In .l‘act, it— is objec-

tionable from the standpoint of heat-

ing. A height which assures head

room in the pens for the caretaker, is

sufficient. '



When‘the part of the roof contain-

ing the roof windows has a steep pitch,

snow slides off the glass readily. But





derived from placing windows" at a

steep angle (that in Mr. Lawrence’s

hog house was about forty’five de-

grees), is the added amount of‘direct

sunlight which is brought into the hog

house at the proper time, that, is ,when

the sun’s rays strike the floor of the

farrowing pens. ’



The windows are on the south side

of the roof and therefore are not ex-

posed to the cold north winds. The

glass used is a heavy ribbed glass that

is almost a quarter of an inch thick,

which is hail proof and has no screen

covering to catch leaves and snow to

shut out the light. This glass spreads

the sunlight over a large surface.





A) low building always has certain

advantages in .its favor. It is _better





taller structures.

cheaper to construct, as less seathId-





ing. and other maintenance jobs are

jalore easily done. . . '

VThe- illustration show ‘my plainly





 





 





by far the greatest advantage to, be ’





able to resist violent windstorms then.

It is easier and.





lag is required, and repairing, paint?





‘ 33y}





for the floor of the pens. IThese tile

are 411121112 and were laid on a'tw'o-

inch layer of sand and~covered with

concrete made from a mixture of one

part cement ‘to three parts sand. For

best results the surface is not trowel-

e'd smboth and should slope two inches

in the length of the pen to the alley.



Altogether this house has many ad-

vantages which recommend it to the

average farmer. If the house is too

large or too small for the purpose of

any indiVidual reader, he could follow

the same plan of construction and fit

the size to his needs.





\ MACK SAYS STRAW.





HAVE been trying of late to teach



the 'choreboy the value of straw for

the stock. Straw under foot, I mean.

Straw on the farm is one of the things

we like to be extravagant with.



You know how good itxfeels to crawl

into a nice, clean, comfortable bed. It

feels the same to the cattle. They will

lié down a great deal if they have a

comfortable bed to lie on, and it is

then that the feed they have eaten is

getting in‘ its good work.



Robert Mackie, the faithful Scotch

herdsman down at the college- said to

me soon after he took charge there.

“You kin as. has thlm contented it





they hae to sleep in the filth: Neither, .

_ kin they. do well if they are not con-





tented and comfortable. If, I has to





be short on either I would rather be





short on hay than on straw.”





I





like. And the cattle lie down, on

their curls and grunt, as. ‘ ‘

“so mote it be’: *





 





 





 





 

 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Plenty of feed in thefimok‘s and lots _‘ '

of straw u1'1derfbot,"that is what we
j comma





 

 





 

 





BY on. W. o. FAIR.

~ I Advice throughthls column lsglv‘en‘ free to our subscrlh;

Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of





 





. era. .

e’sch ease and give. name and address of the writer. Initials





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





H service-becomes private practice and ‘1 must be enclosed.





 





i-‘Gar et.——From one quarter of bag

my: 's x-year-old cow .‘gives thick,

stringy stud, and commercial remedies

fail to help her. C. J; M., Montgom-

ery, Mich—Apply camphorated oil

gaily, milk her. clean three times a

ay.‘



. Mouth Trouble.-—Cow two anda half

years old chews hay, then spits it out,

but she is not seemingly sick. H. B.,

Garnet, Mich—Closely examine her

mouth and you will perhaps find ab-

normal tooth or foreign body in mouth,

which,. .when removed she should be

well. ‘ .



‘ Worms.——Our seven-year-old horse

has been troubled with Worms for

some time. Our local veterinary has

given him capsule, besides I have giv-





ven him worm remedies: but he still





hassome worms. H. E. H., Bath,

Mich—Give one ounce of oleoresin‘ of

male fern, one ounce of oil of turpen-

tine‘in ‘one pint of raw linseed oil

twice a Week for two weeks. .



indigestion.——I. bought a Holstein

cow a few days before she came in,

but did not get possession until three

days after she calved. The cow was

thin; the owner stated that she gave

sixty pounds of milk daily, but I failed





> to get more than twenty pounds a day.





. cleaned all right.





ointment.





She does not eat enough food, hair

stands on end, mucus runs from the

mouth. I am not certain that she

Mrs. F. Y., Howard

City, Mich—Give her one dram fluid

extract of cinchona, one dram fluid ex-

tract of mix vomica, half ounce of tinc-

ture gentian (comp.) at a dose three

times a day, and increase her feed.

Perhaps you should change her feed.



Rlngworm.——-I have a cow that has

sore patches on body and whatever is

wrong, she seems to grow worse.

These sore parts of skin spread out.

one is the size of my hand, and th

disease must be contagious, for I have

contracted the disease, one of the sores

having started on my wrist. W. B. H.,

Oxford, Mich.-—Doubtless you have

two cases of ringworm, one on the cow,

another on your wrist. Apply iodine

ointment every day or two. Every

druggist can supply you with iodine

This iodine ointment is a

proper remedy for your wrist, but it

might be best to have your family

physician prescribe for you.





Slavering-a—Bloody Milk.—I have a

mare eight years old that\ has been

slavering more or Jess for the past six

months. She does it while eating and

working. Have cow that came fresh

July 3,'calf sucked her for three weeks,

milk all right for four weeks, since

then some blood comes from two

teats. J. W., , St. Clair, Mich—Exam-

ine mouth and throat carefully, you

Wlll perhaps discover the, cause, and

by removing cause recovery- should fol-

low. Uneven sharp points on grinder

teeth may be causing it, but when filed

off, slavering may cease. A piece of

Wire or splinter of wood wedged be-

tween two molar teeth will sometimes

cauSe slavering. Wash out mouth with

borax and water, or use salt and wa-

ter. Rough milking may cause cow to

give bloody milk. Has she plenty of

bedding? Dissolve one ounce of ace-

tate of lead in one quart of cold water

and wet bruised quarters twice daily,

after milking. ’





Collie Lacks Courage.—I have a re

male Collie seventeen months old

which was spayed when she was six





. ,_ months old. She seems to lack intelli-





o





gence and when some distance from

stock barks at them, at other times

she pays no attention to them. Some-

times she ‘is quite disinclined to go

with me when I call her, preferring to





loaf around and sleep. The man who





sold her to me advised me to keep her

away from live stock until she was

twelve months old and I have done it.

Her forehead is,’flat, should she have

bunches over the eyes? She has al-

ways been kindly treated, is inclined

to remain thin, but has a good appe

tite. ”I. ‘E. 8:, Buckley, Mich.-—Some-'





timessexing a bitch will do]! and take

”(away some or her courage and this is





perhaps,what happened to your bitch.





>Wltl’r7age she may get to have more

courage, Agile less, grather than more





unintelli





_ at Collie do ,0

3 has g n





no vs. no. .A shy. lazy,-





..





[‘8 n

_ 'Mloh. El

118% on the term, only _





x





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‘. .gonerggom. sou-1g”. 4s Herefords can 13:.

47 " lbs: 84 Shorthorns coo lho'.





All are steers and the best of quality. dark reds. de-

hornbd. each bunch even in s . good grass flesh.

Also know of other bunches. one just fair flesh

account short pasture. Your choice from any bunch.





VAN V. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wapello 00.. Iowa





Hoes ’





D u r 0 c-Jerseys

TOPMAST SENSATIONW





is at his home





 





The sensational, undefeated pig of1922.

Sired ' by UNIQUE SENSATION, unior

Champion, National Swine Show, 192/ . We

are breeding only a limited number of sows

to this boar. WE HAVE ONLY A FEW

SPRING ‘BOARS LEFT. Prices very rea-

sonable. WRITE IN NOW.





LOEB FARMS *

Charlevoix, ‘ Michigan

"The Home of Grand Champions”





BROOKWATER DUROC JERSEYS





Ready for Service Bears

Sir-ed by Panama Special 55th and Big Bone Giant

Sensation.





BROOKWATER mm.

H. W. Mumford. Owner.





 





Ann Arbor, Michigan

J. B. Andrews. Lessor.





 





Duroc Fall Yearling





and spring boars. Some real herd prospects sired by

0 O. K. 001. 2nd. All Col. of Sangamo and Diamond





 





gee. iPrilced trasell. Fall pigs either sek Write for



t on n roes.

es" 9 a p ' w. o. TAYLOR, Milan. Mich.

Duroc‘ Hogs meet





Woodlawn Farm mam day mum

ments, length. size and qualit . Young stock for

sale at reasonable rlces and ful naranteed. Write

your wants. . E. BABTL . . Alma, Mich.





DUROC-JERSEYS spyiggggl'ggg

for Mar. and April far-row. priced right.

RUSH 3303.. Romeo. Mich.





urocs—choice lot spring boars.sired by Great Dur-

ation. Brookwater Satisfaction 8th and Greater

Orion King. Norris Stock Farm. Casnovia, Mich.





ndefeated under year Duroc boarof Michigan and

U junior champion at state fair and a number of other

boars for sale. Sensation and Pathfinder breeding

predominating. Michigana Farm. Pavilion. Mich.





': Gets or a 8 Choice Gilt: 825mm. Boars‘830. Fall Pigs 813.

HART AND-CLINE. Address I". T.HAR1‘. 8t. ._





 





: L. T PC , '





Louis. Mich.





 





Big Type £19. some very choice boars double im-

mune. out OOlb. sire and mammoth sows from

Iowa’s greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson.Burr 0ak.Mich.





LARGE TYPE P. C.





Largest in Mich. Pl ready to ship. why not order

(tom the herd that as iven so man their start in

the hog business. the k that m es good. they

have quality as well as size.



W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich.





 





 





eonard's Big Type P. C. guts sired b Leonard's

Liberator and Orange Clansman and all Pig at

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





BIG ,TYPE POLAN OS





A few choice boats of March farrow sired by Eman~

olpator 2nd. Double treated for cholera. and ready

for service. Come over. or write.



WESLEY HILE, Ionla, Mich.





 





Lar e Type POIands. Spring boars and gilts, sired

g by Michigan Liberator and Bi Checkers.

Immuned by double treatment. Also ta 1 igs both

sexes. ‘ George F. Aldrich. 11.6. Ionla. ichigan





 





Large Type Poland Chinas

Splrlng boars sired b Foxy Clansman 1922 Grand

0 amplon and by F": lansman1920 Grand Champion

Mich. State Fair. Also~two choice 1921 fall boars. All

immune by double treatment. Come and see them

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





   





 





. ' .' , ‘7 ' y _\ . r _ ‘.

l Francisco Farm Poland Climax

real smarts!“ v m



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

alnnt Alley Big Type P. C. gilts now ready‘to





shl the are bredtotheb ch Ih

this fair. I. n. GREGORY, eiz anions? £4.13?





glaggpe Poland Chinas '





 





RDNER.. B. 2. Mlddlevllle. Mich.





‘ ' ' ’ bo ' and bred .‘ts from

I'Idampsllll'e; grgggébtzazgl‘i? £533. lace your

0 W , . 08".



9' "Earth” yid'dfi‘infnfi? i174. sw’ohns. Mich?





 





' Bred llts $20. 825: bred sows 830.

Hampshire 850. ngnrantee safe delivery. reg-

[stored free. 0. F. LUCKHABD. Bach. Mic .





 





 





SHEEP





Kope-Kon Farms

Offers the best in yearling Shro shires

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 0““ t0 the





farm or write

Dan Booher. R. 4. Evert. Mich.





 





 





 





' From Mich. Pioneer herd



Boats at Half Pflce of Big Time Poland Chinas



We have been breeding them big for 30 years. Our



hogs represent the blood lines of Giant Buster. The



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

\Vrite for what on want.



J 0. C. BUTLER, Portland. Mich





 





I 0

Big TypevPoland China 2321",“ Was:

service weighing over 200 lbs. Sired by ‘Hover's Lib-

erator lst rize Jr. yearling at Tuscula. Sanilac and

Saginaw fairs, Also fall gigs at 815 each. Shipped

on approval. D. OVER. Akron. Mich.





L. T. Poland Chinas $385,322: 3:51.

sonable prices, also fall. pigs either sex of popular

blood lilnee. Aberdeen-Angus bulls. Heifers and

Cows that are show winners. Write or come



‘ E. A. CLARK. 3. St. LOuis, Mich.





 





 





L T P C Gilts bred or open, two good boars

‘ ‘ ' 'left. They have always made good.

and will again. Write for my lan of selling.



M. M. PATRIC . Gd. Ledge. Mich.





 





' ready for service. Priced to

ChOlce Boats sell. Also sows and gilts.

O. E. GARNANT. Eaton Rapids. Mich.





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

Slmng shire rams priced right. Tell us what you

want. Maplewood Stock Farm,





0 ford rams and ewes all ages. guaran-

For sale taxed breeders. Write or call at farm.

Geo. T. Abbott. Palms, Mich.. ’l‘el. Deckervllle 78-3.





 





cOlSWOllls flock in State.

A. M. 1301mm. Britten.





Write or phone

Mich. Phone no. 708.





‘ e es. Also ram lambs.

Reg‘ HamPShlre 82st of breeding. Priced

to sell. W. W. CASLER, Ovid. Mich'





1400 Breeding Ewes

FOR SALE





in lots of 50 or more, black faced. from 1 to 4 yrs old:

no broken months, in good condition, located 22 miles

S. W. of Detroit, on Detroit and ’l‘olcdo electric and

Dixie Highway. Telegraph address. licokwood

Almond B. Chapman. So. liockwood, Mich.





 





 





Registered Delaine Ewes Brad

F. E. It





LSSELL. Wakoman, Ohio





 





 





 





D sprin boars, 'gilts. summer and fall pigs

um for sa 6. ' Reasonable prices and satisfaction

guaranteed. Jesse Bliss a Son. Henderson, Mich.





DUROC‘JERSEYS Pathfinder boar lg?





E. D. HEYDENBERK, Wayland, M ch.





 





D U R o C-JERSEYS an: 3°”

CAREY U. EDMONDS, Hastings/Mich.





 





'all ages.very rolitic, big bone. 00d bre .

”limos Write for office. age. etc. atlsfactIgi‘ingr

money back, 8. E. KIES. Hillsdale. Mich.





315 my CHESTER WlllT_E§





The i'lze winner kind from the best prize winner



blood ines.‘ Early developers; ready for market at



six months old. I have started #10113 breeders on the



road to success than any man “V1118. I want to lace



anei bag in each cerium:n Hum advertise my erd.

r to or a ency an my '



e. s. BENJLMIN. n. I?- D. 10. Portland. Mich.





 





W e sold out of Boers. Choice

CheStexs snail}; pigs. For immedla eshlpment

of spring 183. write WEBER. , ya Oak.

Mich. 10 m . and Ridge Rds.. Phone 408.





CHESTER WHITE BOARS





P inc lnners. from lze winning stock. for sale at

ternsonzblo prices. E? L. Bodimer. Reese. Mlch.





Ch I Whites. Choice 8 ring gilts bred to Giant,

es er 2nd prize boar at tate Fair. Also fall gilts.

LUCIAN HILL. Tekonsha. Mich.





Registered 0.]. C. Boar's





J. CARL JEWE'I‘T, Mason. Mich.





 





o I C 50 . last spring pigs either sex not



' ' . akin. Big. growthy stock. recorded

free. 5‘ mile west of Deémt. Citizs. Phone.



OTTO B. S HULZE. Nashville. Mich.



0' 1' C' type with quality. The kind that



gzmw Int 9. A few spring pig: either sex.



ewmnn 8 Stock Farm, , 4. Marlette. Mich.





 





 





Sprin lite and service-boars for





sale, r ces rl ht. .

J. BARKER rt SON, Belmont. Mich.





O l C’s Spring plgs. Pairs not akin. AlsoJul“,

' ' .Aufiust, and Se t. pigs. ILO H. PE -

ERSON. Elm urst





Farm, onia..Mich. Citz. Phone



Registered O.l.C. s 2‘} Egrrgeg'g? (£1331;

CHAS H. STEEL. R. 8. aton apids. Mich.



o n I _ C . 16large growthy Mar. boars





at Farmers‘ rices.

CLOVEBLEAF STOCK FARM, onroe. Mich.





‘ Register’eid- O. I. C. Bears





. W. MANN. Dansvllle. Mich.





 





 





 





 





Do you wantagood "





dc Chester White Swine strictly big.





tising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





consecutive insertions 8 cents a word. Count as





display type or illustrations admitted.





Minimum charge, to words.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





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

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.





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

Baths 8 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions; for four or more





Remittances must accompany order.

Real estate and llvc stock advertlslng have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.





Try it for want ads and for adver-

Poultry advertising will be run in this department





a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No





 





 





Rates in Effect October 7, 1922





   





. 0 All adverthing rap]

pec‘a otlce dimmn‘nuana order:



or thong: of copy in-

tended fir the Clanlfied Dtpartmmt 71th reach rhll oflicr m:

Ida]: in advance of publira flan date.





 





 





 





GET EVERGREEN POULTRY FARM'S cheap

0 F ' prices on pure bred poultry. chickens. turkeys. ducks,

One F0“? ”3 0‘" geese. guinens. baby chmk- best laying strain. Illus-

Words time times Words time times . trated catalog free. l-lvelgreen Poultry Farm Hatch-

10 80 33%? g? -------- $3.11? $32; ' cries. Hampton, Iowa.

. 2 ........ 2.24 3.79.

3% 23 ........ 132 5_95 ‘ BABY CHICKS. Save 83m $10 perlOO by lacing order

3.36 30 ________ 2.4 7.20 _ now. Pulletsnlay at 4 monthsage. rite for free

3.60 31 ________ 243 144 3 catalog. 1). I. Barrow Ch'ickerres. Successors Far-

3.“ 32 ________ 2.56 7.88 l row-Hush Company. Poona. IllanlS.

4.08 33 ........ 2.64 7.92 ‘

4.32 34 - ~ 8‘16 SELECTED CHICKS from best strains at living

4.56 35 . 3-40 prices. All popular varieties. First hatch in Jan-

4.80 36 2. 8.64 nary. Hatching eggs. rite for circular and price

fig; 3; 3.04 33:3 list. thchfleld Hatchery. Litchfield. ich.

24“" ' ' Egg :8 """" g; 333 - FOR. SALE single comb Ancona cockerels. She -

_25 2'00 600 41: 3:28 934 pard strain. also S. C. Rhode Island Red Cockere s





at $1.50 to $3.00. Will (‘hriscmske, Imlay City,Mlch





 





OltPING’I‘ON'S White and Black Cockerels and





i Pullets. Howard Luther. li'alrgrove, Mich.





 





EXTRA line utility Single Comb \Vhite Leghorn Cock-





crels. $1.75 each. Harry Franks, St. Louis, Mich.





 





MISCELLANEOUS





 





10 pounds. 83: 20 pounds. 55. moking; 5 pounds,

$1.25; 10 pounds 32; 20 pounds. $3.50. Send no

money. pay when received. Co-Operatlve Tobacco

Growers. Paducah. Kentucky.





 





NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO. Chewing: 5Pounds,

81.75; 10 founds. $3; 20 ponnds,D85. Smoking:

5 Pounds. 1.25: 10 pounds, 32. Pay when received.

Tobacco Growers' Union. Pnducah. Ky.





 





WANTED to buy horseradish in large quantities.

State price in first letter. Joe Mlinarlts, 8927 Kel-

ler St., Detroit, Mich.





 





WANTED to bdy choice and No. 1 Timothy, Clover

and Alfalfa Hay. Car lots. Broadwater Feed Co.,

Appalachia, Va.





 





COLLIE PUPPIES Natural workers. Plenty of grit.



Pedigrees furnished. Write for descriptive list and



It‘ll”?! December ofier. Clare V. Dorman. Snover.

c .





 





FREE CATALOG Car enter's Auction School. Larg-

est in world. Terms. one soon. Tuition 8100. Hall

Bldg" Kansas City. M ssourl. and Atlanta. Georgia_

*—



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rounrnv





 





5ng Boats Now Ready To Ship





H. O. SWARTZ. Schooloraft. Mich.





 





, , L'T. P: 0. March Hours and llts

lo". "IBIS Pam ready. Prices reasonable. stocIr as





represented. F. R. Davis l Son. 11.3. Beldlng.Mlch.





B'g Type P.0' Spring boats and gilts ready for

new homes. also so d i .

carom FISHER. "sanm'éfifmoh.





LARGE TYPE POLANDCHINAS





'I

, : GI . 4 . _

is 8171365330 fumed ook





 





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DON'T BUY CHICKS & HATCHING EGGS UNTIL

you get our catches and prices on Barred Rocks.White

Leg. Anconas. rite today. Discount on early or-

ders. Model Poultry Farm & Hatchery. R. 4. Zoe-

land. Mich.





BHODE. ISLAND REDS. R. 0. Large t‘ancy cooker-

Caymlldiic ullets at $3 each. Burt Sisson. Imlay





B. C. REDS. This retrain winners State Fair Laying

Contest. hes tiful red k . . . .

a. 1. East. Ln:sln2.MICL? l" ”o“ n W_ “hum





 





 





FamimgAIfiEPuor: brad thBuli' Orpinfin Geckos-gels.

O 0 resa .1309. 5.

rant Selway. Swaddle. ‘Minlnxp- _ r





       





 





 

 





 





new“ '





 

 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO. Chewing; 5pounds, 81.75;:





PUREBRED Light Brahma Cockerels. Will Ray-

mond. Bailey, Mich.





SILVER Spangled Hamburg Cockerels at 813.00.83.00

and $5.00 each. J. G. Philpott, Port. Huron. Mich.

R. F. D. 1. Box 44.





 





 





68 VARIETIES Fine purebred chickens. ducks,geese,

turkeys. stock eggs, chicks. Large catalog 50. A.A.

ZIEMER‘, Austin, Minn.





 





ONE DOLLAR each twenty thoroughbred Ancona

nockerels from best known strains. Log Cabin Farm,

Beulah. Mich.





BARRED ROCK Cockerels for sale.

Fennvllle. Mich.





TURKEYS. Mammoth Bronze Beauties.

Eugene Ramsdell. Hanover. Mich.





 





HenryVVlckery-





 





 





GIANT Bronze Turkeys, pure bred,

toms $8.00. hens $6.00. E. J_ Love,

Michigan, R. 1.





large type:

Bloomingdale.





 





GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS from prize winning

strains. splendid size and color. .mrs. LaVerno

Brownell. Belmont, Mich.





GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. Vigorous purebred

stock. Best strains. large type. line coloring. Unre.

lated stock. Write Mrs. erry Stebbins. Saranach'Ilch'





 





 





.200 GIANT 8.0. Black Mlnorca cockerels none better

82.25 each. Mike Schael’er. R. l, Essexville. Mich





 





GEESE—Tculouse. African, Emden. DUCKS—Palm).

Rouen, Runner. Muscovey. Price reasonable. John

Hess, Bettendorf. Iowa.





PEAFOWLS. Pheasants. Bantams. Pigeons. Guinea

Pigs. John Kass. Bettendorf. Iowa.





HELP WANTED





EXOEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY. I want acorn

tent farmer mar e for gay farm near Flint.

with .- umbitlon to make it babe“ in Michigan.

modern machinery. will





a moving ox noes.

be ‘ex rienced in feed ngy shaman-913mg):- '





Will a so employs-W: on our recomme

assi . . i . 00$}.

rsfothn‘lldl'n's. "ii." an” n n .





 





 





   

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





   

 





 

   





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Still have slow or those goodlyoungtlfioarsuad lg .

gs e or





Allegan. Mich





530 head Rams and Ewes all ages. no better I





Mrs.
- , GRAIN QUOTATIONS





~.began to move.





' . cheap,





Tuesday, December 19.

Wheat. -

Detroit.——No. 2 red at $1.41; No. 2

mixed $1.39; No. 2 white $1.39. .

,Chicago.—No. 2 hard $1.27@1.28%;

December $1.271,é. .

Toledo—Cash $1.42@1.43.

Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, Sdléc;

yellow 7935c.

Chicago.———No. 2 mixed at 76%@77c;

No. 2 yellow 761/,g@771/;c.

Oats.

Detroit—Cash No. 2

No. 3, 510.

Chicago—NO. 2 white 46lé@481/4c;

No. 3 white 441/1@451,§c.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate

shipment $7.50. .

New York—Choice pea at $7.75@8;

red kidney $8.25.

Chicago—Michigan choice

picked $8.50; red kidneys $9.50.

Buckwheat.





Clean milling grain $2.35 per cwt.





No. 3

white 521/20 ;





and prompt





hand-





Rye.



Detroit.—Cash NO. 2, 940.



Chicago.—91@91%c.



Seeds.~



Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$13.30; March $13.45; alsike at $10.75;

timothy $3.40.



Toledo.—»Prime red clover cash at

$3.40; alsike $10.95; timothy, new, at

$3.50; old, 253.57%. _



Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy $16.50@17;

standard $16@16.50; light mixed $16@

16.50; No. 2 timothy $14@15; No. 1

clover $14.50@15; rye straw $11.50@

12; wheat and oat straw $11@11.50

per ton in carlots.





Feeds.



Bran $33@34; standard middlings at

$32@33; fine do $34@35; cracked 00m

$36; coarse cornmeal $34; chop at $29

per ton in 100-1b. sacks.



Fruit.



Apples.——Jonathans $5125.50 per bbl;

W'ageners $4.50; Greenings $5 per bbl;

Kings $4.50@5; Northern Spies $5@6;

Baldwins $4@5; cranberries, boxes,





$6@7

WHEAT





Wheat prices advanced last week to

the highest point. since the new crop

The upturn was based

largely on prospects of legislation fav-

oring government. assistance ‘to ex

ports of farm products. Domestic flour

trade has become less active although

this is not unusual at this season. Ex-

port sales of Manitobas have increased

and France was reported to be in the

market for the first time in many

weeks but foreign demand is partial to

Canadian. Argentine and Australian of-

ferings which are cheaper than United

States wheat. Higher prices next

spring appear quite logical based on

conditions now known. How the mar

ket will perform in the meantime de-

pends on the workings Of speculative

energy. the attitude of Argentine grow~

ers. the continuation of rapid domestic

disappearance, extension of

credits. and improvement of

financial conditions.





CORN





Demand for corn from points outside

the surplus states is less ,brisk, but

export buying is reviving and in the

big feeding districts in the corn belt

local prices are higher‘than at termi-

nals.‘ The winter movement from the

farms has not yet started in earnest





foreign





and it does not reach its zenith as a-





rule until January. Thus far primary

receipts have been readily absorbed

but offerings are increasing and would

bestill larger, if growers were not gen-





erally convinced that this grain is in





a strong position.





OATS





Oats prices advanced last. week to.





the highest point. since March, 1921, be-

came Of the improved demand. the

strength in other grains and the real-

ization" that oats are intrinsically





’ SEEDS





. Clover seed prices reached the high-





 





 

 

 





   





ght. Timothy Seed has held. at a ut





:thé:.sa,me level for several weeks. ‘ he





puissant on the coverages top





foreign' ‘





 





 





was 1,875,000 bushels, compared with

1,538,000 bushels last. year and alive-

year average of 1,560,000 bushels.





. FEEDS





Strength in coarse grains has helped

the market for by-product feeds. ' The

demand is better in the» west than in

the east or southeast and shipments in

transit to the latter are quoted below

western prices. Production is rather‘





heavy. '

HAY





The hay market is unchanged to

slightly lower at the principal mar-

kets. Receipts are only fair and coun-

try loadings of small volume but the

demand is very light and limited most-

ly»to local needs.





POULTRY ”AND EGGS





Statistically the egg market is grow-

ing stronger. Re eipts at the .four

principal markets In the last two

weeks were slightly smaller than in

the same period of 1921 and in this

interval 37 per cent more storage eggs

were disposed of than last year. Total

distribution of eggs promises to set a.

new record for December‘With storage

reserves brought down to average size

by the first of the year. Prices are

holding fairly well but receipts of fresh

eggs invariably increase in January,

especially from the south so that a

downward trend may show up at any

time. Poultry prices are depressed

but have not. reached the extreme low

prices expected early in the season.

Storage holdings are piling up rapidly

but are 20 per cent smaller than last

year atthis time.



Chicago—Eggs. checks at 24@26c;

fresh firsts 51@550; ordinary firsts at

48@50c. Live poultry hens 19c; spring-

ers 171/20; roosters at 130; ducks ISc;

geese 18c; turkeys 35c.



Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and

graded 50@53c; storage 26@3tlc. Live





 





'poultry 21@22c; light hens 14c; 'roost-





ers 14c; geese 21@22c; ducks 18@210;

turkeys 43@45c.

. BEANS ~



With growers not making deliveries

and an unexpected buying for immedi-

ate delivery by the wholesale growers,

bean prices were advanced sharply

last week to $7.50 per 100 poundsufor

choice hand-picked whites f. o. ‘b. Mich-

igan shipping points. The final esti-

mate on the total bean crop Was 11,-

893,000 bushels, a decrease of 1,120,000

bushels from the preliminary estimate

issued in October. Last year’s crop

was revisedto 9,150,000 bushels. The

average crop‘ in the five years, 1916to

1920, was 13,317,000 bushels. '





BUTTER ‘ '





The outstanding feature Of the' but-

ter market last week was the decline

on higher scores at Chicago which dur-

ing the preceding two weeks have been

out of line with eastern points. Fine

butter lost three cents per pound at

Chicago, while eastern points were un-

changed and the lower scores and stor-

age butter at practically all points held

relatively firm. During the first half

of December,'total distribution of but~

ter at the four leading markets was

the largest on record for the corres-

ponding period.



Prices on 92-score fresh butter were

as follows: Chicago 521/20; New York

54'1/éc. In Detroit fresh creamery in

tubs sells for 49@5OC.





POTATOES





The potato crop was increased in the

government’s final estimate to 451,185,-

000 bushels making it the largest crop

on record compared with 361,659,000

bushels last year and an average ot’

373,417,000 bushels in the five years,

1916 to 1920. The sweet potato crop

likewise was of record size at,109,534,-

000 bushels. The potato markets were‘





 





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Wednesday, Deecember 20.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 410. Market is slow and





steady.





Best steers ............. $ 9.00@ 9.25

Handyweight butchers 7.50@ 8.00

Mixed steers and heifers 5.50@ 6.75





Handy. light butchers ..... 5.25@ 6.00

Light butchers .......... 4.00@ 5.00

Best cows ............... 4.50@ 5.50

liutclger- cows ........... 3.506) 4.00

Common cows ..... , . . . . - 2.75

Canners 2.25@ 2.30

Choice bulls . ,. .......... 5.00@ 5.50

Bologna bulls ......... . . 4.25@ 5.00

Stock bulls .............. 3.00@ 4.00

Feeders . . . .' ............. 5.500.; 6.5



Stockers ................ 4.50@ 6.0



Milkers and springers. . . .$ 40@70.00





Veal Calves.

Receipts 500. Market steady.

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

Others .................. 4.00@11.50





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1,860. Heavy lambs slow;‘





others steady.

Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . . .$14.50@14.75

Fair lambs ........... ' . . . 12.50@13.50





Light to common ........ 9.00@10.50





Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 6.00@ 7.50

Culls and common ’ 3.00@ 3.75

Hogs. *

Receipts 2,810. Market 100 higher.

Mixed ‘hogs ......... . . . . 8.60

Pigs and lights . . . ..... . 8.60@ 8.65

Roughs ................. 7. 5

Stags . . . . . . . ........ . 4.50@ 5.00

CHICAGO

Hogs. ‘





Estimated receipts today are 23,000;

holdover 9,290. Market lew and 5@'

100 higher. Bulk of sales at $8@8.25:

tops $8.30; heavy 250 lbs up $8.10@

8.30; medium 200 to 250 lbs $8.15@





8.30; light 150 to 200 lbs $8.20@8.30; ~





light lights 130 to 150le 38.150830:

heavy packing sows 250 lbs up $7.50@

7.85; packing sows 200 lbs up $730623,

7.60; pigsrl301bs down $8@8.25-. "



Estimated receipts "was. ,are 1





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slow. Beef steers medium and heavy

weight 1100 lbs up $11.40@l3.10; do

medium and good at $7.50@11.40; do.

common $6@7.50'; light weight 1100 lbs

down $9.40@12.75; do common and me-

dium $5.75@9.40; butcher cattle heif-

ers $4.25@10.25; _ COWS at $3.60ffi7.90;

bulls bologna and beef at $3.50@6.35;

canners and cutters cows and heifers

$2.50@3.60; do canner steers at $3@4;

veal calves light and handyweight at

$8.75@10; feeder steers at $5.35@7.50;

stocker steers at $4.25@7.50; stacker

cows and heifers $3@5.25.

' Sheep and Lambs.



Estimated receipts today are 14,000.

Market steady‘to weak. Lambs 84 lbs

down $12.75@15.15; do culls and com-

mon $9@12.75; spring lambs $9@12.75;

ewes $4.75@7.75; ewes cull and com-

mon $2.50@5; yearling‘wethers $12.75

@14.75. ‘ ~





BUFFALO

Cattle. ’



Receipts 10 cars. The market is

dull. Good to prime shipping steers

$10.75m11; good to choice shipping

steers $9.25@10.25; heavy grass steers

good quality $7.25@8; medium to good

$7.25@7.75; fat, coarse $7@7.50; light

native yearlings, fancy quality $10.50@





'11.50; medium to good at $8.25@9.25;





best handy steers $7._50@8; plain $6.50

$7; handy steers and heifers at $6.75@

7.25: western heifers $6.50@7; light

Michigan butchering he't‘ers $6@6.50;

best fat cows at $5.50@6‘: medium to

good $3.50@4; cutie—s $2.50@3;‘ can-

ners,’ good weight $1.75@2;' common

and old rims» §1_1((Z§1.50; best heavy hulls

$4.50@5.40; heavy bologna bulls $4.50

@475; common bulls $3@3.50; best

feeders 700 to 800 lbs at, $6.50@7,50;

medium feeders at $6@6.25; stockers

good $5.50@6;_'1ight common at $4@5;

best milkers and ,springers $60@100‘;

common and medium'$35@50' ‘ .





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.xgalves are steady with time 'at $13..





, _, Hogs. . . ,.

Receipts 40‘ cars. ‘ Market is stead .





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in the east. ,

ing districts',- are falling Off rather

steadily but have not yet dropped to

the usual winter leyei. Northern round,

whites U. S. Grade Nos. 1 are quoted

at 75@95c in the‘Chicago carlOt mar-

ket, and 85c@$1.10 in city markets.





APPLES -. ,





The apple crop estimate changed but. . .





little in the final returns. The com-





mercial crop was placed at. 31,090,000" ’





barrels against 21,557,000 barrels last

year and'an average of 26,779,000 bar-

rels in the five—year period. Apple ship-

ments are lighter, with the movement

of boxed apples about twice as heavy

as baITeled apples. Prices show‘no

pronounced trend either ways Bald--

wins are quoted- at $4.25@4.75 per bar-

rcl in'eastern citiestand $4.50@5.50 in





Chicago.

WOOL _





The wool market is quiet as most or

the staple has left first hands, but

since manufacturers and dealershave

smaller stocks than usual and domes-

tic consumption continues at a high

rate, prices are holding firm. British

and Australian auctions show much the

same situation as a week ago with

fine merinos lower and cross-breds

higher than in Noyember. Buyers are

resisting recent advances on woolen

goods but prices are holding firm. At—

tention is turning toward the probable





level at the opening of the heavy

weight season next month. The Bos-

ton market is quoted as follows:





Michigan and New York 'fleeces, de-

laine unwashed 54@550; fine unwash-

ed 48m49c; half-blood unwashed 52,@

53c: three-eighth blood unwashed 51@

52c; quarter—blood unwashed 50c.





GRAND RAPIDS ;





. Confidence was lacking in the turkey

market in Grand Rapids early this

week owing to the great variance in

prices on outside markets. With De—





troit bidding 40@45c per pound, New .





York 40@50c per pound, and Chicago

350, local buyers were admittedly con-

fused. A statement issued by one of

the big Chicago packers predicting

lower prices just before- Christmas

tended to further complicate the situ-

ation. Chickens and fowls were in

, good demand. The decline in eggs was

checked by cold weather. Beans were

higher and wheat bids noware about

400 above their harvest level. «Prices

are as follows: Eggs 45@46c; beans

$6.75 per cwt; wheat at $1.27; heavy

fowls and springers 17@19c; ducks

20c; geese 18c. ' , ’





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Hens are firmer and -other poultry '





steady, except turkeys which are not

moving v‘ery freely.

scarce and are in good demand. Po-

tatoes are getting firmer because the

cold weather is holding up shipments.

There is still a. slow demand for on-

ions, parsnips, carrots, pumpkins and

squash. "Apples are in good. demand

and sell for 75c@$2.50 per buy celery

brings 40@500 per dozen bunches; cab-

bage 75c@$1 per bu; eggs 70@80c per

dozen; dry onions $1@1.50; potatoes

50@60‘c; poultry, live 25(7'1128c; ducks

26@28c; geese 27@280; turkeys 50c;

pumpkins $1 per bu; squash $1@1.50;

veal 14@16c; hogs 12@14c.





COMING LIVESTOCK SALES.





 





 





Shorthornsvand o. I. c. Hogs.—-—Jalnu-"





ary 23, Claxton Brothers & Dieck,

Swartz Creek, Mich. , .



Chester Whites.——.March 8, F. W. Alexa

ander, Vassar, Mich. , ,-





 





LIVE STOCK'MElN M'EET."





 





At a meeting of the official bOard oi

the Michigan Live .StOCk Exchange

held . at . Detroit; ‘ Tuesday, _December





12, State Manager E. E. Compsonwas‘ .

chosen..,as a delegate. to represent the '

exchange at the National Co—dp. “Con; .

,ggress at Washington, ,‘D. C..‘~D9¢emberh '





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slightly «stronger last week.\especialiy

Shipments from produc— .v





Fresh eggs are'





. ‘-
”trait" Stock Yards was

on.





~ ~:’_me"exhibits showed excellent flesh and

I a" flnefinish. ,7 It is the purpose of those

.-interested’in improving the quality or

the" stock coming to Michigan’s me-

tropolis, to make this an annual event.

Another year preparations will be

started earlier and a more pretentious

exhibition will undoubtedly result. As

it was, the people at Detroit and the

surrounding territOry took unusual in-

terest in theevent. ' '



In the - cattle department, grand

championship award for the best fat

steer went to W. ‘E. Scripps, of Orion.

on a well-fitted, deep-fleshed Aberdeen

Angus steer. This steer weighed 1,650

pounds and was tWo years and‘ five

months old. The reserve grand cham-

pion was awarded to R. Binder & Com-

pany, of Battle Creek, on a Durham

steer. Binder & Company were award-

ed third place on a well~finished Here-

ford steer. While the last position

awarded in this class by the 'judge

went to A. & E. Lesser, of Dexter, on

an Aberdeen Angus yearling.



In the carload lots, a well-finished

load of A'berdeenJAngus yearling steers

were selected by premier monors.

They were exhibited by A. & E. Lesser.

Binder & Company, of Battle Creek,

took second place on a load of Here-

fords. Another load of Herefords

shown by George B. Conley, of Mar-

shall, was given third premium, while

A. E. Beamer, of Blissfield, was award-

ed fourth place, also on a load of Here-



' fords.



For carloads in the lamb depart-

ment, R. Binder 8: _Company were

awarded first premium; George B. Con-

ley, second, and L. W.-Collar, of Clin-

ton, third.



For the best carload of hogs, J. L.

Underwood, of Britten, carried away

first honors on a - load of Chester

Whites.‘ Jacob DeGeus, of the Owosso

Sugar Company, at Alicia, Michigan,

was awarded second honors on a car-

load of Duroc Jerseys, and third pre-

mium was given to A. J. Spittler, of

Saline, on .a mixed car of Poland

Chinas and Chester Whites.



At the auction on Wednesday, the

grand champion steer brought eighty

cents per pound, while the grand cham-

pion carload sold at thirty-five cents.





FARM BUREAU CLOSES ANOTHER

YEAR. ‘





(Continued from page 664).



- operatively, including the organization

of the National Live Stock Producers’

Association, with subsidiary commis-

sion associations at terminal markets.

These have been set up at St._ Louis,

Indianapolis, Peoria, Chicago, Detroit,

Buffalo and Fort Worth, and all have

been handling large shipments of live





stock and effecting a huge saving





thereby. Others are to be started at

Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.



The dairy marketing department

during the yearconducted an investi-

gation in cooperative selling of milk

and finally worked out a new plan

which has been .. put into operation in

the Chicago territory. Last week at

Milwaukee further plans were effected

looking to a national sales agency for

the cooperative marketing of butter,

cheese and other dairy products.



The Federated Fruit and Vegetable

Growers, *Inc., will be ready to operate

Januaryr 1 as the new sales agency for

the cooperative handling of fruits and

vegetables» About 140 sales ofiices in

. all the principal markets of the United

States will be maintained, with A. R.

Rule as general manager. Tho-same

oflices“ and, force of the North Ameri-





can'Fruit, Exchange will be continued E





,zb‘y‘this. purchase. -‘ . . . .

one; election , of officers Oscar, E.

colonic. Obie. was elected





 





are stock. shes. tolbeheid" years, refused



‘ , reelection.



_, [las’t‘mek Over thirty car-

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THE FAaM eusmsss OUTLOOK.





 





THE outlook so far as farmers were

concerned improved decidedly last

week. The bill providing more satis-

factory production and marketing

credits for farmers made progress and

the prospects of some form of govern-

ment credit to foreign countries

through the War Finance Corporation

to facilitate exports of farm products

were said to be fairly bright. '



. France and England were said to be

nearing an agreement on the cancella-

tion of debts of smaller nations to

France and of France’s' debt to Eng-

land, thus paving the way for readjust-

ment of reparation claims against Ger-

many, which country is on the verge

of financial collapse with circulat‘on of

paper marks increasing about fifteen

per cent a week.



Exchange rates on nearly all of the

principal countries advanced because

of financial and political developments.

In the case of sterling which rose to

$4.69, the highest mark since the gov-

ernment props were removed from un-

der it in March, 1919, the ektreme ad-

vance to within four per cent of par

was not fully understood. Dutch ex-

change also is practically at par while

Swiss, Swedish and Canadian monies

are at a premium. Gains were made

in Italian and French exchange and

even in German marks.



Domestic conditions continued favor-

able to higher prices for farm products.

Employment and industrial activity

were well maintained; The most as-

tute students of banking state that

further development of present bank-

ing trends such as growth of loans,

broadening of discount operations with

federal reserve banks, expansion in

deposits and bank note issues may eas-

ily lead to “inflation.” -



Commodities in which speculative

activity has free play responded dur-

ng the week to the foregoing influ-

ences. Wheat reached the highest

point since the end of last May, oats

highest since the spring of 1921, corn

the highest since the fall of 1920, and

cotton recovered a good deal of its loss

since late November.





c’oyERNMENT ISSUES FINAL chop

ESTIMATE. .





HE final estimate of the depart-



ment of agriculture shows a corn

crop of 2,890,712,000 bushels against a

revised yield of 3,068,569,000 bushels in

1921. In neither caSe were the“ figures

changed much from those already is-

sued. The average corn crop in the

five years, 1916 to 1920, was 2,831,000,-

0000 bushels.



The estimate for winter wheat was

placed at 44,000,000 bushels higher

than in the preliminary report with a

total crop of both winter and spring

of 856,211,000 bushels.

last year, was revised-upward about

20,000,000 bushels, making it 814,905,-

000, confirming to that extent the be-

lief at grain statisticians that it had

been underestimated originally. The

average wheat crop in the five years,

1916 to 1920, was 799,083,000 bushels.



The most striking revision was in

rye which was raised to 95,497,—

000 bushels, the largest crop on rec-

ord, furnishing a larger apparent sur-

plus for export than originally expect-





ed. Last year’s estimate was revised‘





to 61,675,000 bushels. The average in

the five preceding years was 67,762,000

bushels. ,



The cats 'crop was estimated at 1,-

215,496,000 bushels, against a revised

yield of 1,078,341,000 bushels last year

and a five-year average of 1,413,000,000

bushels. The final figures made but

little change froin the preliminary to-

tals. Barley was placed at 186,110,000

bushels, against 154,946,000 bushels

last year and a five-year average of

197,447,000 bushels. . ‘



The flax crop was estimated at 12.-

238,000 bushels, an increase of fifty per

cent oVer last year’s crop, of 8,029,000

bushels. The five-year average crop

is 10,972,000 bushels. The final esti-

mate on tobacco was 1,324,840,000

pounds against 1,069,693,000. pounds

last year and an average crop of 1,377,-

866,000 pounds from 1916 to 1920.





 





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POULTRY

Bred-To-Lay White Wyandottec





8 ecial sale of cockerels from 200 egg hens for 85.00

i taken early. EVERGREEN POULTRY FARM.

Blending do Sons. Grecnvil Ie. Mich.





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000 Chicks per,- weok. Also hatchin eggs, Write for

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$1000 Cets 235—Acre Farm

9 Cows, Horses, 100 Bu. Cats





75 bu. buckwheat. 200 cu. potatoes. 10 bbls.a pies.

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to settle quickly. “the best tradeIever made' you

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FREE LAND—J" o... .0. M...

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