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Q /‘rm~"f\ ac..‘..._~ .-——§-«~—— j. .7 e...» ‘ A .; vonm M ‘ \ poultry farms reveal the tact that seventy per cent of the en- ' tire flock should consist of pullets if economic Vprodu‘ctionis the objective. The pullet flock, moreover, shbul‘d'be ‘-early hatched, well-matured and capa- ' 7 yard bio of a heavy fall and winter pro- duction. It is common knowledge. that the pullet production exceeds by twenty The Kind of Mother'Your Chicks Ought to Have. five per cent the number of eggs pro- duced in any subsequent year..' There may be a few individual exceptions to this rule, but this variability of pro- , duction is generally true. Success or failure in the poultry is. therefore largely dependent :upon the number cf high-quality pul- ? . lets produced each year. Egg produc- tion costs usually increase in direct 'proportion to the number’of old stock maintained. For this reason the bus- ”iness poultryman produces a. surplus i of early hatched chicks, thereby per- . mittingrigid culling before placing the a. pullets in' winter quarters. The baby Chick problem must be- ;. seriously considered because it is the poultryman’s financial barometer that 5 may forecast either success or failure. . The destiny of the chick is largely - determined before the egg is laid and i'for this. reason too much care cannot ‘ ;« be exercised in selection and manage- _ ,ment of “the breeding flock. 3;} the combined problems of breeding, In fact, feeding,“ housing, incubation and brood- .' T ing are all involved in successful chick _ raising. Breeding Stock. The numerous advantages derived 1; from maintaining only purebred stock i outweigh all considerations favoring mixed breeding or mongrel stock. The increased interest and pride taken in ; I pure-bred stock, usually gives rise to Lbetter care, which results in greater ,i profit. .31”; tiveness and economy of production, both of eggs’ and flesh, the pure-bred ‘ “0°“ has repeatedly demonstrated su- From the standpoint cf attrac- perturity. The; present low cost of pent; should likewise he well-matured. Y. PUBLISHED WEEKL ~MICHIGAN ByE.C. ~ A Practical Journal for the Rural F amily. ‘SBCT'ION THE CAPPER FARM1PKESS Sscntlals of Baby ChiCk For Success I72 t/ie Poultry Burma: It I: Mcesmry to Start Rig-fit i“ A SURVEY of the most successful ~ F orcman / Prq/yuor qf Poultry Huibandry, M A. C. member of the breeding pen should be pure- -bred and selected on the basis of constitutional vigor and heavy egg pro- duction. . V Inbreeding, or breeding from low vi- tality stock should be carefully avoid: ed. Immature pullets that are laying small eggs do not make very desirable breeders, although well developed pul- lets laying normal two-ounce eggs gen- erally give highly satisfactory results, both in the percentage of eggs that hatch and the low mortality of their progeny. Forcing for production is 'usually detrimental to the .hatching qualities, this is especially true among the heavier breeds and to the limited extent among the lighter egg' breeds. A more rugged type of fowl should be bred', that is capable of withstanding forcing methods, including both arti- ficial illumination and highly concen- trated feeds. The desirable type of breeding male is one that has 200-egg breeding, ma- tures early, feathers quickly over the entire body, especially the back reg— ion, crows early, and when mature, has a large, solid, compact body. The head should show a welldeveloped hatching until the first egg is produced should he demanded of all pullets in- cluded in the breeding pen. The bet~ ter laying strains, including the heavy breeds, will have a large number of pullets laying when 165 days old. Yearling hens are generally consid- ered the most desirable breeders, al- though well-matured pullets mated strong, well—developed males will pro- duce strong vigorous chicks. Feeding the Breeders. The importance and influence of proper feeding is seldom recognized or appreciated in the production of good hatchable eggs. The breeding stock should be sound constitutionally, and moreover, they should be properly fed to maintain the best possible physical condition. Over fatness due either to faulty feeding or to the natural‘disposition of the hen usually results in a high percentage of death in the shell. The feeding prac- tice should be so designed that the hens are continually busy. Deep litter feeding of scratch feed is important, in maintaining healthy, vigorous breed- ing stock. Heavy feeding of wet meshes during @ Part 6f the Agricultural College Flock. comb, bright prominent, expressive eyes, moderately narrow skull, full face of medium length. ‘ Ordinarily the male bird that shows young, will prove a valuable breeder .of early» laying stock. In body confor- mation the ‘ male should possess a broad flat back asindicated by the: Width across the hips; which should carry back uniformly to the pelvic arch. A deep angular body is also de- sired in selecting an egg type male. Slow feathering males, with abnormal or twisted wing feathers should be discarded. The progeny of such males are usually slow developing and diffi- cult to raise, in addition to being in- vferior producers. The females used in flier breeding cold winter weather usually suppress- es all inclinations .to exercise and may even be followed by outbreaks of colds if large numbers are confined in single units. The huddling that usually fol— lows heavy wet mash feeding, during cold weather, is almost a sure indica- tion of off condition, which registers a corresponding slump in production. Forcing methods also. exact their toll, usually by lowering fertility and hatchability. This is to some extent an individual characteristic as some hens are naturally more rugged than others, and the physical strain'of pro- duction affects individuals differently._ The feeding. practice will have to be‘ modified and to some extent regulated according to the age and general flock conditiOns. Protein rich feeds, :espe- cially those of animal origin, with the exception of mill? byproducts, have a A slightly detrimental effect on the eggs ‘ hatching-j qualities. For this row? QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE ' ‘— NUMBER THIRTEEN \ the breeding stock should be fed liber- ally on skim~milk, butter-milk or some of the other milk by-products This will permit of reducing the meat sorap content of the dry mash from twenty" to ten per cent, without lessening pro- duction and at the same time improv- ing thegeneral physical condition of the hen to such an extent that the eggs produced, hatch approximately ten per bent better. extremely important factor in relation to hatchability. The ritamines that are so essenial to both health and growth are found in quantity in the more common green feeds such as sprouted oats, cabbage, etc. In addi- tion to containing these physiological" indispensable substances, green feeds are extremely palatable, stimulating the hen’s appetite, thereby increasing food consumption Wiiha correspond- ing increase in production of good hatchable eggs. A good feeding practice is one that will keep the hens in good flesh, there— by indicating that the physical strain of production is in no way interfering with “quality of eggs produced, and at the same time avoiding all tendency towards sluggishness or fat produc~ tion. ' The hen that is sufficiently rugged to yield heavily during the winter months, with or without the aid of artificial illumination and shows- no inclination towards moulting, in addi- tion to producing eggs normal in size, shape and shell texture is the most desirable type of breeder. The following ration is suggested for breeding stock: Scratch Feed.—»Three parts cracked corn; two parts wheat; one part of heavy oats. Dry Mash—Thirty per cent corn- meal; twenty per cent bran; twenty: per cent middlings; twenty per Cent ground oats; ten per cent meat scraps. Skim-milk or buttermilk. Green Food—Choice of oats, cabbage, etc. Oyster Shem—Grit, granulated bone. sprouted Housing the Breeders. Damp and unsanitary housing condi- (Continued on page 457). We Benny, to WK? :1 9°“ Raising: {.54 l i 1 Green feed is an _ e- 4... is} '4'»; rs. as! i;- _ 3,: :1 ublished ”Weekly Bubluhed 1843 Wt” The Lawrence Publishing Co. Editors and Proprietors ‘ . .1632 Lafayette Boulevard Detroit, Michigan , ~ Telephone Cher-11 8384 ' I I‘ NEW ronx OFFICE 501 mm Ave. 1 (11111311 OFFICE 1119 No.31." comm '1) 011111011 1011-1013 Orelon Ave.. N E. Turnout-Em 01111101: 161- 263 out can 8t..__ “sign 0.1991111 ............. . .......... President ‘MARro mom ............... ram. LAWRENCE . .......... ' ....... Vice-$01113: 1r. H. NANCE .............. . ....... . 1‘ 1. R. WATERBUBY ................. . 1311111; WERMUT ....... . ............ . Amen-to FRANK 11. ‘1? EN ........... . ..... mum-a g'IIAP.Al’0PE .......'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.°.'.III.I..meld Editor 1 R. WATERBURY ...... '. ...... Business Manager TERM: or SUBSCRIPTION 1- 112mm ................ , ........ ..s1.oo.. $23“, ITLM,“ 156 issues ...................... $8.83 Five You. 260 .................... .53. issues . All Sent Postpaid I Canadian Written 5011 a. year mm Qot palm KATIE OF ADVERTISING cent line agate typo measurement. or $7. 70 per “ 151151-11 (1: 3:19 limo per inch) per insertion. No adult:- tlsement inserted for lossthun 81. 65 each Insertion o objetuonoblo advertisements Inserted at any time. t. moored as Second Class Matter at. the Post W373 Detroit 11611111111111. Under the Act of March 3 1 Member Audit Bum of Circulation. NUM'BER THIRTEEN VOLUME CLX DETROIT, MARCH 31, 1923 CURRENT COMMENT Unselfish leadership is the most val- uable factor in community advance- merit. The following of carefully planned rotations will/lend to standardize pr0« duclion and, therefore, prices. At, such a time as this it is‘ all im— porlunt to lower the cost of producing farm productsand'no field of agricul- ture offers greater opportunity in this line than does the production of live stock. Zoroaster expresses this thoughtful sentiment: “He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires 3. ~ greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.” ‘ T is a fixed policy . of the Michigan Vote on the Farmer to present to Amend— its readers the best ment ‘available information on all constitutional amendments just prior to the elections 21! which amendments are to be sub- mitted. Al the spring election on April 2 only onc amendment to the state con- stitution will be submitted as recently authorized by the present legislature. This proposed amendment will appear on the ballot as follows: “To author- izc the legislature to provide for the incorporation of port districts and con- for power and authority upon them to engage in work of internal improve- ment in connection therewith.” The occasion for the submission of this amendment at this time is the pending project of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway which will eventually, and probably sooner than we now realize, open our Great Lakes to ocean traffic, and make our cities sea-ports during the navigation sea- son. In this event, ships'will discharge and receive their cargoes where prop- er facilities are offered for handling ‘at a fair charge the commodities shipped. _ " This proposal contemplates confer-: ring upon the legislature‘the power to enact laws pmviding for the incorpor- :_atlon of port districts and conferring “upon them the authority to engage in swork of internal imprdvement for the handling of such foreign shipping film local taxation within tlm dis- ture contingencies in the provision of 1101111 {militias for the handling of for; sign commence at 5116.1 time as some may be needed as a result of the do velopment of a, deep lwaterway open- ing 'our GreatLakes’to ocean com- merce. E are often mis- _ "led as to the' The“ value of a product. Be't Two things. must be Hay taken into considera-‘ tion when determin4 ing such value. We should know the cost and then the income which will result from the use of the article. In determining the value of hay, this same method should be followed. Ono Mr. Wilson, of Livingston countyr recently had an experience that dem- onstrates the necessity of looking be— yond its mere cost. Mr. Wilson is a dairyman and recently became a mem- ber of a cow-testing association. He was obliged- to buy hay to feed his dairy cattle. The cow-tester was able to tell him the value of this hay in terms of milk checks. He was paying fourteen dollars per ton for alfalfa. When the returns were ‘checked over, it was discovered that‘alfalfa at four- teen dollars per ton. gave the same returns as mixed hay at eight dollars per ton. This not only points out the neces~ sity of considering the feeding value of hay in estimating its worth, but also leads us to give more emphasis to the general movement among Mich- igan farmers to increase their acreage of alfalfa. N investigation Sugar by federal author- , ities into the type of Beet labor employed in the Labor sugar beet fields of this state and also the conditions under which this labor has been employed, has led to much publicity and criticism. A bill has just been introduced into the state legisla- ture which is designed to correct the abuses in this connection. - According to. the report and first- hand knowledge of thewlabor condi. tions in sugar beet fields, the viola‘ tions of reasonable working conditions has occurred largely in families which have been imported froni other sec- tions to perform this Work. There is only a small ”percentage of Jesidents against whom the charges are made.’ It might be stated that the margin of pmfit to the producer of sugar beets has been so narrow that in some cases extreme measures have been neces- sary, and further, that the supply of labor is often so scarce as to oblige growers to go to extremities in order to save c1ops after they have been] planted. ~ In dealing with this matter, the us- ual aversion to the employment of children and women .in factories and other unhealthful places need, possi- bly, be modified. This work, in the first place, covers only a short period of time. It, also, is carried on in‘the sunshine and fresh air, which condi- tions are not so detrimental to health as is the case in many of the cotton nulls and other places lacking proper housing, personal facilities and neces- sary equipment. We believe tholbughly, ‘however, that proper safeguards should be 113-. tubllshed by our leglmture to protect these anthem and children. They should be Mttedr‘b mako their {gill The adoption of this «amendment> would merely provide for possible fu- ‘ sci-nose thereon W CONDITION to be ' deplored 1is that . '77” which 1s taking Sow". Farm_ many good farmers Exodus out of fields today and placing them in city surroundings. This movement has ‘ grown nutty there is scarcely half the needed supply of farm labor and many rented farms are tenantless. The ex- t1emely undesirable position of the farm for the past few seasons, as compared to most other ialustries, has made it very discouraging for» young man Who has cast his lot with agriculture and ‘gone heavily in debt - for a farm. Likewise many who have contemplated such a ‘move are now thinking differently. It may be argued that this condition will only bring back quicker the day when farm, prices will again assume their normal position. It lsno doubt two, and the heavier this movement the quicker and the higher will come back the prices for farm produce. These rapid and extreme fluctuations are not conducive to the comfort and contentment of the people, however. Those who stay right by the ship through thick and thin and do their best will come out all right; but the experience of first a feast and then a. famine, is not real soothing to the nerves, nor does it spell contentment. That great fluctuating element of our population that attempts to ride the tide usually succeeds in getting in at the flow and out on the ebb, thus “get- ting it in the neck” both going and coming. They are largely responsible for these fluctuations and the ones who suffer most by them. The common law of “supply and de- mand” is surer in its workings than the laws made by congress, and the reason for it is that just as soon as there is an oversupply of corn, wheat or meat and the price is low, we all quit-raising it; and when the automo- . bile factories are behind with their orders we all rush in and soon make an oversupply of them. That is where we stand right now. It is a matter for conjecture as to how\ long before the price situation will be reversed. ' l .. UR last census Sam e shows that there are about th1rty—two 1': arm million people out of Figures the one hundred and six million who live in the open country. These people earned last year about nine million dollars, on an investment of seventy million dollars. In other words, these thirty-two million made gross earnings of less than eight per cent. ’ The question is,»doesn‘t it seem al- most paradoxical to class these people as pursuing a‘ gainful occupation? An other question which comes tomind: isn't all the Ileglslatlve consideration which is now being given thefarmer justified? We believe it is more than justified, and this because it ,is essen- tial to the country’s good that over one-fourth of 0m people who are len- gaged in a very necessary occupation be on a basis on which they can see their way clear financially. However, we feel that there is great v‘ hope in the situation. Like everything else, farming has gone and is going" through rapid 3change-11. Thlng‘s have moved ’fast in the past fifty. years and farming has moved with’ the the ~ ’ inst, [The néxt great step is tho-use oil , business in timing Modern bisinoss methods are new and have [1911111119 11 great factor in! our eclmomic llfo. A." raritd development is 3131110111 11 Wen-rounded one. Farming- has been so busy: in makllig rapid changes halts productive departments that it has not been able to assimilate all the im- - movements in business But does not the trend or aflalrs very strongly indicate that we are now at that stage of agricultural develop- ment When the business side of farm- lug will be one of its chief considera‘ tions‘! If that is so, is it not quite cor- 1am that we can expect great improve- ment in the financial side of agric\111- are? . I Two [71 One 8 UNDAY-is goin’ to be what you call ’ momentous occas‘hun. It’s goin' to be two things what is opposite. For. it’s goin’ to be April Fool Day and also a holiday of the spirit what keeps folks from bein’ fools. That day is Easter. 4 Seems like foolishness is liked beta ter' than fineness, feastin’ better'n fastin’, fasinashun better’n facts. We like such things so well that we are forgettin’ about what Easter is for and are makln’dlt/ the day when we km show our new clothes. if we got any, and feel ashamed of the old ones if we ain’t got 'new ones. The clothin’ mer- chants is profitin' more from Easter than the churches is, ’cept in the country where most of us is too poor to have new clothes. On that account maybe we pay a little more attenshlun. to re- ,ligun. For Sunday I am goin’ to brush up my old black b1oadcloth suit ,and Sophie‘ is goin’ to press the pants. Be.- sides, I am goin’ to wea1 a tie 1'01 the spechul occashun Now, this ain’t in honor of April Fool, but because or Easter. Last Easter. did not come on April Fool, or vice versie, but Sophie press- ed this same suit fine. She was what you call real proud of her job. And so was I for awhile. At church, Jasper Hoski s says: ’ "Hy, where did you get on to that new-tangled style? You kinda look sideways to yourself.” I says. “What’s [the matter, Jasper?“ And Jasper says, “The creases of your pants is on the side instead of in, front so they kin cut the wind.” That just kinda made me feel kinda, flattened out likeI ' This yearl’m goin’ to watch Sophie, 'cause I don't want to feel ,like one of the things what Sunday is the cele- bratin’ of. , , Another thing, I am goin" to be care- I fol of 1‘s them Easter eggs. Just like folks, poor innocent chickens’ eggs is got to be dressed up so they don't luck > natural. On most Easter-s they fix up the outsides of ‘theso eggs but for Sunday I am goin’ to inspect the in- sides, too, cause most likely they will be fixed up .‘so‘ they wOn’t be natural too. ‘ i am gain! to use what you call! precauslnm . 4 . ,‘I know I got to be careful of myself .1 4 \ 1' 1 4 A.» . . . . . um 00-. I! ”Home. 01111100. .NATCO 5 nos axed hollow tllc‘ Thesmooth, wallsof'aNAT OSiioabsolutely exclude air and moisture and are heavily reinforced to withstand wind pressure from without and silage pressure from within. ' NATCO Silos Ink for genermons and keep mlage sweet and suc- culcnt all the year round. Present reduced prices on NATCO Silos bring them within the reach of every farmer. Write for 1/1: new “Natco on tin Pam" boat. Complete. in. tcresting. profitable. NAT (‘Oa'arT [LE NATIONALFIRE PRGDFlNG COMPANY 1310 FULTON Buuomo PITTSBURGH. PA. -__ :TO GET. 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Dmnm Iona SAVE MONEY Make your own found. . fists, walk. allot. . em come tax directly, without a constitn- benefit tumors in the price of every- - t, tional amendment, as readied should thing he 51138 or Sells- He definedf that the New England states one get- , 1 M {‘f son, of Antrir‘n county. in a bill ( ) Harvuflng Machinery ; ) Show DID I _ iati‘o'ns' that have red 11: almost every part o athe nountry, has brought outa ' " wealth of information on the possibili- ties of: dairy-cow immovablent and the efficiency of various methods and practices. From the latest-producing group of cows to the highest-producing group every jump of any, paunds in animal butter-fat production was accompanied , g 7 more important than. the practice or ' ' clipping dairy cows at regular inter- - va-ls. This practice not only makes for healthier and mere contented animals but adds greatly to the production and to thepurity of the milk. As a. matter or fact, the health department of the District of Columbia,” on its official ’score card, makes adeduction of twen- . ty per cent from the official test score of milking cattle when the udders, flanks andtails are not clipped. Heretofore, the clipping of cows has In No Type of Farming is Cleanliness More Important than in Dairying. by an increase of about $16 in income over cost of feed. The more fat pro- duced the bigger this income. . The records show that selection of animals and better methods of feeding and car- ing for them raise production very materially. While mos of proper fee farmers know the value for their cows, not all of them recognize the fact that sani- _ tary conditions for the animals are necessary to bring about the best re- been confined largely to pedigreed an- imals to'Vbe exhibited at county fairs and live stock expositions, because the .clipping process was a more or less tedious affair with 'the instruments available. Through the invention of ~the present new form of clipper, how- ever, the process is so simple and easy that no farmer, even if he has-but two or three cows, can afford to neglect this important practice—R. H. Moulo ton. Checking. Up the Dairy Cow POINT often overlooked by men "milking cows is feeding ac- cording to production. Many feed each cow in the barn the same amount of grain mixture without tak- ing into censideration the amount of milk she produces, and the grain mix-~ ture is the expensive part of ration. When a herd is fed in this manner the owner loses money in two ways: The low producing cow gets more grain than she utilizes for milk produc- tion, thus causing a loss; and the high producing cow does not get enough to produce her maximum. ' A good general rule, when corn sil- age and a legume hay is fed as rough- age, is to feed one pound of grain per day, for each three or four pounds of milk produced, the mere grain being :fed to the cow producing the richer milk. This simply means taking the grain - ”away from the cow that does not make it into milk and giving it to one that does. A dairyman in Ingham county ’ recently decided to try this method. of '-‘ feeding, and] feund that with no more . ‘ expenditure on feed he received a gain ‘ in milk produced edual to $1. 85 a day. Feeding a herd this Way does not call * for a lot of extra work as most farm- ers think. It simply calls for the in- . vesting in a pair of milk scales and a ’little time each day. The amount of . grain fed each cow can easily be found by weighing the amount contained in ~: the measure used in feeding the grail-1.1, This saves the grain twice daily. found by weighing Then the meme, pf mills produced by ‘- tained free from the county agricul- tural agent or the dairy extension de- partment, M. A. C. The sheet is tack- ed on the wall at a convenient point and the scales hung so that the light from the lantern or other light falls on both. The adjustable hand on the scale is set with the pail at zero so that' it takes only a moment to weigh and record the amount each time a cow is milked. ' The added interest in the milking operation, and the fact that one can tell at once anything wrong with a cow by her lessened milk' flow, more than makes up for the little extra time spent in weighing milk.——-J. G. Wells. HELPS OUT THE WOMEN FOLKS. .ERE are seme of the things we do to get ready for the spring work: Cut, split, and pile wood to season. Draw'manure and straw. Oil and re- pair harnesses. Put screen doors and windows in order. Make wife some chicken coops and feeding racks. This year I alSo made cedar chest to hold woo1ens. I shell seed corn and grade, and clean seed oats and barley. Ma- chinery is put in condition. The doing of these things keep me busy and II have no time to find fault with my neighbors. It also helps me w0nder- fully to keep my work up during the summer months—Frank Rawson. Germination tests in three Counties ‘haVe discarded for seed onerthird or the corn: tried. This can be cut down by not bringing to test any ears with soft, starchy. grain. nor with shredded '. and discolored butts. can: Mourns martyr what youve been missing » Postum. . ~ ‘ AN Y people deny them- selves the comfort of [a hot drink with meals, because they find coffee and tea detri- mental to health. For many, the drug element in coffee and tea irritates the nerves, retards digestion and often prevents natural, restful sleep. If this fits your case, try This pure cereal beverage supplies all the pleas— ure and satisfaction that a hot mealtime drink can give—in- vigorating warmth, fine aroma and delicious flavor. And you can enjoy it in the full assur- ance that it cannot harm health. Postum FOR ‘ HEALTH or ldvl'ovonon nth-flow 3 1'» .0 l “ T here’s a Reason Your grocer sells Postum in two forms: Instant Postum (in tins) prepared in- stantly in the cup by the addition of boil- ing water. Postum Cereal (in packages) for those who prefer to make the drink while the meal is being prepared; made by boiling fully 20 minutes. ’9 Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Mich. Big Money In Custom Sawing'o Hfiwé’, , 8,“, made in severalsizes suitableior tractors of any size. Also Edger-a. PM“ Lath and Shingle machines. Write for tree Catalog, 3- 8. R. R. HOWELL 8: 00., Mfrs. a SAW YOUR OWN LUMBER with a Howell Portable Saw Mlll. high price building lumber at the more cost of sawing. Big lumber, lath and shingles. Keep your engine busy the oycar to Turn your standing tlmhol Into demand tor bbors. mils are yourn Mlnneapolls, Mlnn. 'snd giving strength. ition that, has mad? Kow- un «1211- car. like this one tram J The delayedaidormant spray comes , . YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE SICK OR BACKWARD COWS 'Kow-Kare Insures Profitable Dairying for Thousands All Over the Country Cut out the constant leaks of dairying that result from sick cows and disappointing milk-yield, and you will begin to reap the real profits. Stop looking upon cow diseases on inevitable; they CAN be prevented. The cow’s winter diet is hard on her di- gestive and genital organs—runs them down. Overfeedmg of rich concentrates only az- gravates the condition. What is needed is to keep the milk-making and digestive or- gans healthy enough to maintain top-notch production and at the same , time throw oi!_ disease. ' Kow-Ksre has the medic- inal properties to accom-. plish inst that. directly on the vital organs of the milch cow, toning up It is this marvelous rebuilding ac- Karo famous ' in the treat- ment of cow diseases, such as Barrenness, Retained Af- herblrth, Abortion, Bunches. ‘ Seours‘ll. Hilk' Fever. Worst thomnds of let- Germsnu. Farm- E "lhdthr‘eo can this‘ was done up completely from cal and could not get up or walk and I had o valor- inarian with no good results. I began feeding Row-Kare and she is able to [0 b pasture with the other cows now. ‘know I Would have lost the tines I! I not had your medicine." Remarkable increases in winter mi onIO can be attained by feeding just a tabllekmoono 111] of Kow-Ksre twice a day for one wosk in each month. Try it, and you will never to through I winter WWI“- out Row-Kare. Our 82-11:" book on our diseases. free. Kev-Karo I. ' sold by feed dealers, maul stores and druggist. If your dealer is not suppllod. :eumoil the remedy put- a DAIRY_ ASSOCIATION CO” Inc. uncenvm " limit”, ‘ _ if f. ' W. ‘1?" ”‘1. , 3.11 . 't - 3:. *1" 1. £9 iii iv: , .‘f . w‘ ‘61. rawhat it will do in the fieldzi “The ~'. ve’r’,”a‘ee‘d"" aids and seeds. itality, Description and Purity is guaranteed to be 8" represented 'to the full ‘ _ amount of the Purchase .~R-:e. , .Ii . .1.“ . some: -field_and' #‘c‘m‘a’o ' 9 Wm" arm ‘ ' do; g f i. Certified Seed Caro - Beans Soy Beans Never before has it been possible to purchase in quantities at low prices such high yielding varieties of seed corn and beans in Michigan. . Farm Bureau Brands of Seed Corn are high yieldinfig varieties most of which were developed through careful bree ng.at_ the Michigan Agricultural College and certified by the Michigan Crop Improvement Association. - They include certified M. A. C. Yellow Dent,‘ Golden Glow, Duncan’s Yellow Dent, Silver King, Pickett’s Yellow Dent, also limited quantities of Illinois and Iowa grown fodder varieties. we have seed corn adapted to all sections of Michigan of varieties that will give big returns for the slight increase cost of seed. Farm Bureau Brand certified Robust Beans are the highest yielding white beans in Michigan and Highly resistant to disease. Farm Bureau Brand Soy Beans, Black Eyebrow, Ito San and Mid West are excellent for an emergency crop, for ensflage, hogging- _off with corn, and for green manure. This spring purchase seed certified asto orgin, purity and adapti- bility and you know your money time and labor Will be invested not spent. . Buy Farm Bureau Brand Seeds of known value . . f throughyour. LOCAL corormmu. {If they . ‘ cannot supply you write direct to the ‘ ' - “ Seed Deparfmem‘ MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU LANSING . MICHIGAN PERMA nanny min anddtld. A No wood to rot, no painting. no fillhh hoops to tighten. Fire and wind f "ill ' proof. Ended on bur place by ‘ our crewa. Write neareat plant for circular and Early Saleleacounta. Manta Wanted MADISON CEMENT STAVE .. SILO COMPANY r Madiaon,Wia. Honcho-LVN“. Ill 3 9 mlllllllm Izlllllllllil nlllllllllll alllilllllll 'e! 252:" “My"?K II n so rTl E C“ PS ‘ Spana.Wia. Chippewa FangWIa. ‘ m ‘ wxu. n1 ALL snumao MILK aomrs ‘ ‘ . ‘ WIUDICB. WlI. Who“- “In. ‘ .) rmrmw AM) rnmro are mu: arsncn. s1. 00 12;, aox mar-rinsing. ur cars u zuo WITHOUT ' m/y up. MlCELPosTPREMID—ORDL’IAIOX NOW A BOX \\_,, Ill “WC“ Ill! CAP cl. 5 IMllllSllll Sllllll. illllll. ll"; ’ ‘-'-' ' « at raw or;' the Work N31. ._ - 6 H. p_ ofa Team 7: -' ‘ ' ~ " "" cw ' at Belt POINTS THE WAY A no 1" a Ton TO BETTER FARMING. The only small tractor that will pull a riding sulky with a 10 or 12 inch “tom—any smaller plow will not do good plowing. Plowing is your first big Job—the "ARO" will do it. An A. ’Round Power Hunt. It will do discing. seeding, cultivating. belt work. etc” As easy to handle as an . auto—and the operafor rides. Only a few moments are needed to change from a plow to a discor any other implement. . ' PROOF OF PERFORMANCE . The {clawing letter from a user tells . "ARC" will do as much plowing as :f . any team with a walking plow". ' 17 'L. W. FAHLGREN, Dayton’s Bluff, Station, St. Paul, Minn. R. R. No. 4. .f" writ. for run doiafla on on. wonderful little machine .RAY- E. MeH‘UGH. souvenirs-um. if *_"»93°..s..woucw AVE? .1- , ~=-= WGMICH . monuments: “ r as . ‘ .' 3".» ' “agar. ; ’- - '. gag‘ee. . A widow’s promise is as .valid the common. " Michigan—grown alfalfa} ‘ '7 V M‘WJSEWanfi‘fk , 'ciTIzE'NsHi-P. , rs . " .. .g years.“ 9 7A ' woman born in-thé‘Uriitéd States- marries! a man bonijn a foreign scorinr try, and he does not become an Amer- ican citizen. Can the woman vote? If a woman is born in a foreign country . _ and her husband 13 JAmei-jcan born. geod: catches ot clover. Twelve pounds 081178118 V0t8?.—-H. 0- , of Grimm seed and fifteen pounds :of ‘A'W-Oma-ll citizen 01’ 111811th States: common alfalfa seed should be planted logos her citizenship bymarrying an per, acre. The seed—bed should be alien, though she resides in the Unit- firmly rolled beforeplanting. Alfalfa ed States. And an alien woman_be- seed, 311mm] be Dl‘lde. ’at a depth of? conios aecitizen of the. United States framionemaif, to'.t‘liree’lnt§h'ee. “ ; W110i! she marriesa citiaen, mam re- Culture for inoculation may": be‘tsej siding "abroadfi—TBOMJ) ' . ' cured» from the department or haste? 7' ' ‘ ' riology or the Michigan'fiAg'i‘icultural' College, ,, East Lansing. The price is in the spring”? with good-assurance» ofx success on. soils sufficiently well sup- LAND” ‘coNTRAc'r‘s. bottle contains sufficient material to inoculate a bushel of seed. Directions to mortgage it for the amount he has for application acc0mpany the mate- ln, it. If_3._make_s monthly payments, rial. . . , guuegggiiirgedk'foaiggi‘iizg iggégggulo‘; . For. best results with the alfalfa it mortgage'accordingly?—-S. W. H.‘ ' would be advisable to use only one According to your answer to a ques-' bushel of barley rather than the usual tion‘ last week, a wife is: not liable for six peeks 0,. two bushels. a debt'and note made Jonitly by a man . . and wife. If so, then is a widow’s note liable for a debt? If so, when a married woman has the advantage. If not, than how can a‘ widow borrow money, as her note would-be no good? S. W. H. I . _ has a good line fence. B.’s fence is 80 Th5? “and” can mm‘tgage 1‘18 re poor the stock go through it. Both maimng interest after executingaland A. and B. pasture the land. contract. The purchaser is net meagu‘resbwilll A_. haveto twake to com- bound topay to the vendor after he pe . 0' ml hlS. fence? Vill B. have. . to pay for building the fencein his has paid down to the mortgage. I—le taxes?—C. W. D. m”. "‘S‘Sl'on’ the mf’rtgdg‘? bimg (“3' If the fence is not repaired on re- chaiged °l paying direct. to t e mort- quest; call the fence-viewers, get an "o”rder'to moan? and. i' that is int obeyed, build the fence and report the cost to the supervisor of the town to be. assessed and collected as a tax 01! the land chargeable—Rood. / ' A. sells house and lot to B. on con- tract, _but A. claims he still-has a right ' ~ I COMPELLING REPAIR or LINE FENCE. A. and B. have, farm adjoining. A. as any person’s promise—Rood. . THE BEST BREED OF CATTLE. I am figuring on buying some thor- oughbred calves and would like to know what kind would be the best for ' dairy and butter-fat. also be good for beef cattle?—.—A. S. ’ FISHING. There. are three inland lakes within non. He must confess that he, “993 {1123: {iii}; 22.321;tieamfytrtfill—tl’fi not know. However. he doesnt reel as long as I‘don’t sell fish. The game so much embarrassed as might be ex— warden-says I haven’t the right and. pected because of the fact that he fined me $75 for getting a little lmeizs doubts .very much if any one having Of fiSh"—F' H‘ * T "had experience with ,more than one The fiSh are‘public game, protected breed and having had opportunitiesot‘ by the game laws, the same as other observation, if he will speak the truth, game, and FH is "able for taking can do any better. , , them in violation ofjthe fish laws.— ’ 'It would seem that the inquirer has ROOd' 1 good for,mi1k and beef. A special dairy breed like the Holstein or the Jersey, 0133 special beef breed lik? the Can a person be exempt from taxes Hereford or Polled Angus would not on cut-over land after living on place be his? best breed. ‘ ‘ one and one~half years, and supervisor I In the opinion of the writer, two did not take assessment? Will he have . to pay’ this year‘s tafxes? Can he at breeds stand out prominently that will his five-year exemption ?—H. G. g meet his idea, of the best breed: The statute manifestly contemplates namely, the dairy, Shorthorn‘ and theihat the, exemption shall be claimed Bed.-—‘Pblled. He should investigate for the first year, but probably‘it would him‘self as f81‘ as poslsible and form be held applicable, though not Claimed his own opinion. The writer can only till later. ‘ The statute, C. L. (1915), say that in his Opinion he would make Sec. 4193, reads:_ “Any person claim: no mistake in selecting either one of mg exemption under this act shall the‘se breeds. " ' make application to the supervisor for eitemption at the time assessment is madeyand the supervisorvshall enter the person’s name upon the assess- 1 would like to know if 3111119 211- ment rolland the‘d'escription- of the falfa seeds are alike. Also, I .wo d land the same as though taxes were like to find out if it will be all rig t to be . . . . . . . . . spread upon the-“land, and refer to put out alfalfa with barley in the the. application to the l a. rd of i‘eview,. spring, or will it be *better’if I prepare .. the land for fall sowingalfalfa alone? who shall, if the conditionsentitlins to ——‘— N. ‘ - ‘ g . ,. y , '4 exemption have been complied with, y The Grimm alfalfa Vvi'thaiidier. and. order to be written after the descrip- will give more enduring, stands .than tion: ‘Exempt under the cutover land ' act, first year’.” To have the benem; seed of the Lebeau. strain, produced in Offllé 301'— lt- must be land from Which MOnroe eounty'. is of anWn hardihood. ti_1¥lbfir,.has, been removed, 3110 part, 01’ in Michigan. and is. _of,__e.xcellen_t Legal-{thcllhal‘ .9391? been'cultiVQted, Wilt I ity and germination. Iii..tests covenofidflacthally codified to main home 'ing‘ E'two-year period at M! A. CL it n " ' N H ' CUT-OVER LAND EXEMPTION: ALFALFA QUERIES. 1 - sons-entry.» sell fihfilflfimé? Grimmbul ié'idd"not‘yet- knoir'its * .-.. ' 7' ~ ’-----:‘mté>x.o.x comparative value over‘a. period of '- .Airairo; may, iio seeded with; tony '. ‘ plied with lime and fertility to,give . twenty-five. cents per bottle, and ‘one ‘ What ' The writer can’t answer the ques- the boundary lines of my farm.~ Have . in mind; a dual purpose animalwne' ——~—-——— “ FOR COLORADO BEETLE The ordinary potato bug Do not wait until they grow up. The young ones do most of the damage. If their first meal is Pyrox, they won’t grow up. . 'OU MUST SPRAY—so while you are at it do a good job; do three jobs at once by using Pyrox. It kills bugs, __Mw.h“to you controls blight, puts so much extra pep M unbiased whom into the plants that they live longer and tiW-di‘wssm °‘ “5°“ produce more and better tubers. All pests and plant diseases Xflfi:f¢gf§;§§fif§;§; , this at only one time-and-labor cost for a cure-all, and lets users ' . tell you in their own spraylng. words, how Pyrox saves - them time and money. ‘* Pyrox is a'smooth, firm paste—a chem- You won’t have the latest 0 _ . spraying ideayntil you ical blend of deadly pmson and powerful get this finely illustrated . - . . . authoritative hand-book. fung1c1de. Used for twenty-four .years. Send In it to-day ‘ Will not injure foliage. Pyrox is milled like the finest paint; easily mixed; sprays in a fog—like mist through finest nozzles, and therefore covers more‘foliage. Pyrox sticks like A BOOK You Cannot Buy FOR FLEA BEETLE The little black jumper - M. -EWW ”on ~ . , , ‘ O , ‘ I"! 4- l 1‘ : K ‘ ‘ \ l I . v 'O They make a leaf look like a sieve. Blight starts easily in the punc- tured leaf. Pyrox is a. flea beetle repellent. s V . . . . . ’ , HOW'to Spray palntt even 1n heaVy rams. Always um- ’ 1' K t ‘ form in quality, dependable; home-made ‘ '3 9°" ”"r P‘.” ' sprays are not. Fine for HOME GA‘R— ,. 2. Spray thoroughly . . 1, j 3, ’51,“, “on” ,igmfim. * DENS, small fruits, flowers, shrubbery, * , FOR . - , 4. Use proper strength sprays 7 and all kinds Of tI'UCk. ' LEAF_HOPPER ' ' , 5. Spray for Night before it , o . T]! t. ( ‘ '“PPm' -_ 1 ~ Morepmson than standard require- 9 my 3"“ “'P' 6. Spray under side- of leaves, ' . - sucker nil ‘ "d "w“ . ments—Extra high copper content They make the leaf P . 7. Use enough pressure to give . _ gradually turn black 5 “ a” m?” . . and curl at thqedge. " A a. “ 3_ U“ emu gype=°g_.p,.yer Pyrox to-day 18 better than ever—a more bad pest. Pyroxhelpr ; for your crops deadly ponson; a stronger fungxcxde. Once repel them. ‘ l , 9. Kill three bird. with one used, you will consider it,as vital as fertilizer. ’ ‘t°"° by “"“g PY’°"' a“ . Sold everywhere, in glass jars, cans and bar- ”w"’"“""°""'“"“_""" rels. The PYROX BOOK. gives all details. Send for it and learn the facts in users’ own words. ' We‘a'lso‘make Arsenaite of Lez,acl,.Calcium Arsenate, Bede, Paradichloroben‘zene and‘ "-FORV.‘ -. ‘3 I ' ' ’ ‘Paris Green " HEALTHY " _ , . - .. , FOR, ’ TUBERS BOWK‘ER‘INVSECTICIDE'COMPANY , LATE 3”ch ' Thebl'glnealyhind I i 49 Chambers Street, Hey York City The cause of dry rat :5 The deadly enemy. Con- trol it by constant spray- , . ing "with Pyrox. Begin . when plants are six ' inches high. . ,_ . ,\ 25. A, I, ‘ Plyeox'invigorate‘s the . “1W!“ thwsnfiueflz Clrweglel-g , ant. Makes it ’live, ' r . , .» . h. ., ,. onger and produce more. ,Pays to spray with PyronforfthisLif ’ for nothing else. ; p . I ‘ \.._. , ' fieflspAtoei. ALL’S Nicotine Sulphate kills plant lice and simi- lar insects. You can depend upon it to rid your trees of ' these pests. Being a vege- table extract, it will not harm fruit, flower or foliage. It is very economical also. Made up as a spray, it costs less than 2c. a gallon. Buy from your dealer. If he is not supplied, send us your order-along with his ‘ name. HALL TOBACCO CHEMICAL Co. 3951 Park Avenue, St. Louir, M0. ‘A «41‘ ‘NI—COTINE @% them every time - 10 lb. tins . . $13.50 \ n: ‘ T ‘93:; “CE: 0" a At" .4- SULPHATE 1 Ww,/ HALL 5T. . ' . 2 lb. tins. . 3.50 , 5.5 lb. tins . . 1.25 1 oz. bottles .35 1“ — =- - ca _ E \fl 5lbs Sl: delivered any- where in Michigan. Winter Problem solved by the Inner Overcoat Hive. Sand for illustratedpatalocue 32 pages of bee keepers supplies. Bee- wsx wanted. Best white Michigan honey for sale .3 lbs. $1.20. 10 lbs $2.25, 60109. 810. Goldenrod A. G. WOODMAN CO., Dept. M. F.,Grand Rapids, Mich. Strictly I Pure GARTE durable colors. all exposures and really wmns‘ III"! A soft paste which is thinned with pure linseed oil and turpentine to make white paint. Simply tint with colors-in-oil to make beautiful grays, creams and other Dries hard and glossy, wears Well on the right to expect of good paint. concentrated Paint _ Sold by the pound— You get your money’s worth. gives the service you have Planet Jr. No. 17 single wheel hoe opens and closes furrows for seed and fertilizer, hoes both sides offlie row when plants are small. and cul- tivates deep enough for all garden t purposes. makes thorough hand cultivation a pleasure. no user): and a. mom "‘flonel Jr." (datum our mu You Can’t Eat Money! The most importantcash crop you - can grow is a good home vegetable garden. It keeps the money at home and pays high in a better living and better health. Nothing can 32qu fresh appetizing vegetables right out of the garden for flavor, tenderness and food value. Give the boy or ”girl at Planet Jr. No. 17 wheel hoe. The)? ll gladly run the garden, then. Write or ask your forming. S.LAllen&Co..lnc. ' noses. .. ,. idiotic-lured“ i‘ . one sustaining weasel... apples, . although every apple in our stores at present cams from~ the far west. ,_ They are selling at five cents each. I want to discuss the grape situation this time. ‘ ' I set one (more) acre of grapes two years ago. The plants cost» at that time $50. Two hundred posts at thirty cents, made 360 more. Two hundred pounds of wire at $4>00 meant $8.00 more. Total cost of setting was _'$118. Besides that I have lost the use or the ground for two years without one cent oh income from that acre. The dots is worth at least $250. Interest on that amount for two yeai‘s at six per cent is $30. Tax in this section averages at least $3.00. per acre. I have kept no account of time spent in working the ground, setting plants, set- ting .posts and putting lip wire, but I put that at about $50, and that is very conservatiVe. I may get a light crop this year but not enough to pay for the work which must be done, such' as pruning, tieing up vines, plowing, hoe- ing, spraying and cultivating. It takes' four years from setting before grapes produce a paying crop. . On the othenhand, a grape vineyard. will last indefinitely unless the plants heave out on heavy ground. The posts must be reset after from ten to fifteen years and wire lasts about twenty years. A‘grape vineyard greatly in- creases the acre value but the assessor also takes that into account. Right “after the war" there was ‘a veritable grape craze. The Volstead act drove millions of people into wine making. This reacted into an increas- ed demand for bulk grapes. We speak, in company, of juice grapes and bulk grapes, but among ourselves we speak right out in meetin’ and. say “Wine Grapes.” ’ . Now, the Concord grape is an excel- lent table grape, a fine juice grape and a wine maker par excellanz. With the inereased demand, prices rose to un- heard of heights. The result has been the planting of thousands of acres; not only in this section but in every grape section. California has 62,000 acres coming into bearing this year, besides the old vineyards. New York, Ontar- io, Nebraska and Michigan have in- - creased plantings by the hundred thou- sand acres. Five years ago we har- vested our grapes almost entirely in the four or six-quart basket. Now we use the jumbo or twelve-quart basket alm0st exclusively. Insteadof selling by the basket we sell by the ton. Bas- kets have risen from $20 to $90 per thousand and will go still higher. The past two years we have: had a. veritable plague‘ of market inspectors. Beardless youths who practically nev- er saw a grape‘ before have climbed upon our wagons and ’pawed over our baskets. If we even dared to protest we were summarily dealt with. This has resulted in practically driving the table grapes off from the market. We market in bulk and mark the product “Unclassified,” thereby getting away from the inspector’s insolence. ’ {Our local sales associationmis‘man- aged matters last year ‘so thath’row- (are lost thousands of dollars, zit least those who marketed the crop early in the s‘eason.“This year they propose to hold back twenty per cent of the sell- ,ing pric'e'and’ refund at the end of the season if there is anything left. gentlemen go to an! eyener .thirstier place than this._;,0ur salvation, in the face . of a dimiiiishing. wine 'demand' and an unwisely" increased acreage.» lies in cultivating a demand‘for table grapes and grape \juice. We'must wid- . en our market by a system of adver- tising and wider distribution. Michi- gan alone should absorb all the grapes grown in Our state, but we have de«- pended On a Pittsburgh market; While northern Michigan folks have been go- ing Without grapes, we/ have been flooding the great cities of the east in an endeavor to ‘sell to the foreign- . born laborers. We should «adopt a pol- icy of Michigan products for Michigan people. , Our local groceries, in the heart of the peach .belt advertise California canned peaches, Oregon grown‘apples, Ohio canned peas, New York canned corn, Idaho potatoes, Colorado grown beans, Kansas flour, Indiana buck- wheat flour, ‘Iowa pop corn, Illinois , canned tomatoes, Chicago pork and beef, ‘and Missouri eggs. Michigan produces all of these in abundance.‘ 'VVithin fifteen miles of the biggest vineyards in Michigan, the table grape baskets bear a New York label. Now that thefarm bureau has taken over the sales force of the North American Fruit Association We hope for better things. We need’ big men at the head of things. Men with vis- ion, imagination, honesty and ability. So many good men are simply good for nothing. So many men fill a Small place acceptably but fail” miserably when»._given great opportunities for service. We should send a grape mis— sionary to Petoskey and Cloverland. They should send us a potato mission- ary. Why should we buy Wisconsin potatoes and they buy New .York grapes? My last grocery purchases were, Colorado beet sugar, Indiana bread, Illinois syrup, New York beans, and Kansas City bran? The grocer was a German, the store was built Of Louisiana lumber, the delivery. truék was builtxin‘ Ohio and only the ground the store stood on was Michigan. Oh, yes! I overlooked one thing. The man who, made the purchase was Michigan with an intense, fervent, un— quenchable love and loyalty to the old home state. - COST OF POTATO PRODUCTION. FARMER living in the \Cadillac district gives the following figures of the cost of producing his potatoes. The figures are for the production of five acres of potatoes and include plowing, $15; dragging, $2.50; mark- ing, $2.50; cutting seed, $6.50; certi- fied seed, $60; fertilizer, $75; drag- ging after planting, $10; cultivating six times, $30; spraying six times, $30; spray materialhtfio; digging and hauling to market, $85, and land rent- a1,$5_0. . ' . fl . _ - This makes a total of $466.23 for the full five acres, which yielded at the rate 0': 200 bushels per acre. The cost per bushel, therefore, Was approxi- mately forty—seven cents. 'The wages- of a man and, team was figured at '36, and the _man alone at $2.50. | ' »‘ p i." «5 ‘ . ‘_ ii". ‘ " {-'3*t‘hink i .see signs treat» ,ithsiicércea ' ’ thirst: brought on by. the; racism. act is Waning. The wine grape mantel: promises, to diminish " es 3 the young generation comes on and the red-nosed . . Aw. a. W". .,~ ~~—.__.. " on 111111 our 011m 100,000 Miles Without Stopping for Oil * An inventor who could develop an automobile, a railroad car or any ‘ other conveyance on wheels which Would perform such afeat would - ' . be considered a Wonder. 9But such is the record of regular ' ' r. , , ' accomplishment by the Auto-oiled Aermotor during the past ‘ , . eight years in pumping water. Did you ever stop to think how many revolutions the wheel of a windmill makes? If the wheel of an Aermotor should roll along the surface of the lground at the same speed that it makes when pumping water it would encirc e the world m 90 days, or would go four times around' 1n a car. It would travel on an average 275 miles per day or about 30 miles per hour or9 hours each < day. An automob1le which keeps .up that pace day after day needs a thorough oiling at least once a week. 1511’ t it marvelous. then, that a windmill has been ea of. Agricultural ~ ' 0.096113% with better product must be so timed and ‘ " usetts divis-iomof markets Placed as to let every consumer who . a“ makings; study of the D1181? -cart_ ped- desires to buy be able to obtain the 9‘ ,9 dler. This. study has attracted more SOOdS when Wanted. . "than unusual attention because it Seventh, the farmer who makes the 9 bears upon a phase of marketing better product, must receive the better . .wh-ich: 1111‘s; been given little attentipn price. 111' other words, each farmer 9 heretofore The purpose of the study must be enabled to get what his prod~ Inl G Silo (30., Dept. mKaIanauo. Mich. . x "9’ 9; . is to find out C133 value and influence “Ct sells for to the consumer, 1933 only . ., madewhicb willgoSOtimesaslongasthe bestautomobilewithoneoiling? } l " ' I of the; push-cart vendor in the m1 ket- actual merchandising cost. - The Auto-oiled Aer-motor after 1} full years of serviceinevery 9 _ 7.1 ~ 1 d tabl The stud part of the world has proven its ability to run and give the most reliable service , ingot fljll ’65 an vege 95 Y ' m, with one oiling a year. The double gears, and all moving parts. are entirely _ 1‘ lv Will be complete/d by June 11 and the FARM ERS, MUTUAL FIRE INSUR' ggmraggcgoggegamthe oiloall ggf time. It 031Vtes mtliret Sel'VlCedngi lesssfattentiog) than - ‘ ' _ 1n n f.arm ,. P - ' Tammi thich {fun b; 0:] uxlllsual’lt inter ANCE, Auto-oiled Aerrnotor, the midst eflicient windmill Totfiel: hearseevaesriblezerlvgadg sa 1 action uy the est, wil‘ e. 'pu is e s or .y a er. , , , ForMinfor- AEBM cm a pause Mud... . _______.. . ,. , . _ . 0T0“ 900' 11113511011, Minneapolis 0mm ‘ " . GERMAN FOOD CONSUMPTION .UTUAL fire msurance 3m°n8 - ‘ . DECREASING , farmers 1s no longer an experl- ‘ .. . . . . o. 1 . . .- I i, y , ment. .SOme of the old compemes are . . now nearly a hundred years old, and Leamhow “The Kalamazoo Wa .. 1 11 Id' h ~ y lsrcvo ut1on1z1ng u1 mg met ods. ' l I HE cgonsumption of nearly all the over tWO hundred Of them have- been House your cattle, hogs and equ1pment under conditions that increase pro- l? . ‘ lilac: Sines Sf fife by :39 (gang: in' business for fifty years or more. At duction,reduce expense and earn more profits. Learn about our complete building plan service.' 33:? Gas Zigiieg vfiiheiiie lsglgeGer- present, there are about two thousand ama 00 Glazed Tile Buildings and Silos f companies which carry between seven ’ . man ration. . . , . Tile Bulldmgs are beautiful, economlcal, practical, everlasting. Save repa1r and 1’ The use Of bread cereals shows a and eight bilhon dollars worth 0f “Sk' . paint bills; warm 1n winter, cool 1n summer; decay, storm and 5 The average COSt Of insurance in ’ vermln- -proof; willnot burn. Threedeadairspaceamakeperfectlnsulatlon. decrease from 239 kilograms D81 cap- , 51 Kalamazoo'l‘ileis madefrom selectedquality fir’eclayinourownplant " ' ‘ these companles for the country as a . locatedinthecenteroftheflnestfireclay districts. M ‘ ‘ ita. in 1913, to 180 'kilograms in 1922. . ht wan-1111.1. 111.11 Departmentholpyou. Writefordescrlp- / ‘ The use Of r e ShOWS the reatest de WhOle IS about twenty-five cents per tivellterature. Freeestimatesoureceiptol'yourroughplanl. ,. 1 y g hundred dollars per year. This low . Kalamazoo Silos ‘5‘ ‘ crease, as rye for distilling pu1poses . . -—choiceofWoodStaveor Glazed fine. Productof 111m has reatly 111.111.1511“ The decrease “999 9 99999 99999919 by 999 91999999 1:19;:11119131391559.199ssaEisnerairtime .g tion of the large overhead which is ua. _I ”ll lnvutment M‘s" after year. Writel‘or Free Silo Book I ually carried by other companies ._ TBSted, Certified and l , ,, 4 i . a e i _ , l I « . _ ' ' .Look for HROUGH .CO-OPERATION i , I with the Montana State Depart- , . seal . _ , ;::;:&\-:\. ment of Agriculture, Dickinson of- z. I ‘ . fers Michigan Farmers Genuine i- ' ‘ " _ . Grown Montana Alfalfa — abso- .1; . . 9 ‘ ‘ lately certified and securely sealed 5. This Pict'ure' Shows Clearly th‘e In. _ ---------- - N“ -- “ 93”}99 in 150 H" and 60 lb' bags' net’ With 1, 7 l creased Production of Oats Result- :—-—-‘ ~--" 40 t». 4 9 , lead seals. 1 I ingxfrom the Application of Manure 1‘4, / a; 9"“ ”mm"- ~— 9?: Dickinson has taken this extra re- of wheat is partly due to the abandon— E caution to insure the en . e tgall 9:39 '. ment of the making (of macaroni, 3:; g Ill!) , I noodles and fancy bakery goods. Po- E farmers. .1 f - "tato consumption fell from 656 kilo— g _ ' . ’ I ; grams, per capita to 342 kilograms: It E. It Is Dtckrnson a guarantee to you 3:3: -is thought, though, . that “the. bag, de- E DISKIN‘ZUNS of pure, hardy, Montana Alfalfa i9 I t C \ ' . it . .' ' crease 11 Dow" ponsmptlon IS “8 to E .. . . - Seed and th1s seed has also been cleaned and refined by 1 the cessation of alcohol manufactuiers :fil'. \I I' II \ I I.‘ “T II." IIJ] ’ . _ I 9 from potatoes. 5’"? " I . I ,9— the Dickinson Private Refinmg Processes. , ___________ E 1lllNll\1\1\ ALI- ALH ~ 9?? 1 SEVEN ancwuas OF COOPER- E. . - ‘ Dickinson’s 99"“ f t N a recent booklet on what cooper— :— ._. . . ’ : seeds 9 l . ative sales organizations contribute 7;: Qx$\';l‘-‘:f' .2. i ‘ Pine Tree Brand ‘ to the merchandising of jarm products, g '"u " . , i l ' Professor Theodore Macklin, of the E; 711.11ng: $3M“ :4 The Hon. Chester C. Dav1s, Secretary of Agriculture of Montana has , l " University of Wisconsin, gives the 1901- E: ‘ fink. , .:._ even sent his personal representative to our warehouses 1n Chicago, 1‘ lowing seven principles of successful :j 56%.:- - g) ariange that 3111' stogk sf Gensilclle Grown Montana Alfalfa . 91-" cooperative merchandising: g}; \ -.=- . > 3” ee be certifie and t e ags se . 1 First, there must be a cooperative E; 1:111: 9,5,2 , ' 9 commodity marketing company owned :5 - , Ask for and get DICKINSON’ S PINE TREE BRAND MONTANA by farmers. It must be so created and g ALFALFA—it’a tested, it’ s certified and it’s in sealed bags. . . ,o erat d that it d 1111' s; I . . . egrvic: with the gfeitzzi egfi‘fifiye ; For a lifetime, seed merchants and farmers have known that when ‘3 , ‘ SecOnd farmers must delive1 to 5:5 1 they purchased DICKINSON’ S SEEDS, they would always get , i I this, their. own company, all of the :3: what they bought—for nearly three quarters ofacentury,chkinson y. commodity , to be commercially sold, E 1 has stood for Quality and Reliability. 0 ' ‘ . which they produce, and for the mar— §_-f 9 j . keting of which this company was 335‘ ASK YOUR DEALER, or write us direct, and we will try to see, 3 l' . built by them. \ :3; that you are supplied as long as our stock lasts. . 9 I ’ ' - Third, better roducts must be o- .55.- " ' duced for this :ompany and .mustmbe 32:3: FARMERS— NOTE WELL -— DICKINSON’S PINE TREE rigidly standardized in quality and .~ BRAND FARM SEEDS ARE ALWAYS THE GENUINE—5 'g, ’ pack. ‘ , BEEN 1.3:. 1: _.__._. .__.,_ . .. .. . ‘ 2;: the dyed 1n the wool— “and of the quality recommended by Experi- Fourth, this better standardized . . 9 _ “" ment Stations." , _ 1 . . , product must be narhed attractively " ' ’ ‘ 9 -, j; _. 111131 advertised. This means that it 999 9 9'99 9°99 9 9999 The -‘ ”Albert Dickinson Company 1 , ’ “ _ Farm Seeds—Globe Feeds-Nod-O-Gen 44* CMO U; S. A. 2" This Self-Feed ‘ Saves You Money ~ The 1923 improvements on the Papee’s ‘powerful compression’ 'Self—Feed make it a better-than-ever Ensilage Cutter. This Self- feed saves you money—does the work of the men at the feeding table and does it better. You can buy this new and improved Cutter backed by the Papec Guarantee, at. a new low price. The simple design, tremendous production and speaalized machinery make this possrble. /THRows’ \ AND BLOWS F 111111 Account , Book FREE Our Farmers’ Record and Account Book will help you find and stop the money leaks It contains 50 pages arranged for farm and household inventories, crow and breeding records, cash account etc rite us, telling the size of silo you ow n. or intend to buy, and mention yo _r dealer’ 5 name and addxess. We will mail you t is Account Book free, also the 1923 Pupec Catalog. PAPEC MACHINE COMPANY - 150 Main Street Shortsville, N. Y. .36 Distributing Houses enable Papev dealers to awe prompt service. ENSILAGE CUTTER_ SAVES ONE MAN 7/7 sucrose '- PRISON ,Fonf KEW-EE- 1 out, jtravel wears rapidly and roughly, the l roads become dusty and are expensive :to maintain Traprock wears well and, gmakes an isurfacing. Whether or -not the prison NAW.‘ T has been seriously proposed to establish a branch state prison in. 1 Keweenaw countyt—he most northerly county of Michigan and the eastern county of the Copper Country. Here are large formations of trap rock suit- able for road-building material, and it is proposed that prisoners be set to work getting out this rock for the, re- quirements of the state highway de- partment in- both peninsulas. The gravel of the Lower Peninsula is a poor material for road construc- tion, because of its lime content, and is softer than that coming from the trap-rocks, green-stones and other homogenous rocks. In former times, when traffic was lighter than at pres- gravel did very well, but now ideal bottom for ‘concrete' idea has merit in it is for the legisla- ture to decide. CLOVERLANDERS INCREASE FLOCKS. URVEYING the sheep situation in the Upper Peninsula, Mr. D. L. Mc- Millan, superintendent of the State Experiment Station at Chatham, be- lieves that there is no doubt about the future of farm flocks in this territory. \Vith the exception of the two years following the war, there has been no time in thepast fifteen years, he says, when [arm flocks here were not profit- able. He thinks they will be much more profitable during the-next three flocks in the central and eastern states are reestablished‘ He thinks the price .of wool will continue high for a con- siderable time, due in part to tariff restrictions and, industrial prosperity.‘ The war-time surplus is well used up. A JUNIOR POULTRYMAN. RANT GALLUP, of .Iron county, is twelve years old. was the Michigan State Poultry Club champion, firstoyear product. In 1922 he, took second-place honors for the State Poultry Club championship. In the same year he also took high indi- widual honors in poultry culling at the Upper Peninsula club camp at Chat- ham. He was a member of the first prize culling team which won a trip to the State Fair at Detroit. The valu- ation of the poultry stock owned by him is $488.91., The cost of mainte- nance for one year was $269.63, and his net return was $219.28. FARMERS TO RAISE BLUEBER- RIES. WELVE Upper Peninsula land- owners will undertake the experi- mental raising of blueberries on com- mercial lines during the coming sum- mer, it is announced. Pine barrens have been acquired, which are consid- ered best for blueberries, and the first burning-over will take place early in the "spring. The tracts are found in Marquette, Delta, Chippewa, Alger and other counties of the Upper Peninsula. poofi°lilfiuGERs Known everywhere as the 2 , standard in quality. Exclusive patented Adjustable and Stayon features mean better wear. service, and satisfaction. Twelve styles--- :1 type for every need. Give weather- proof doors that always push or Dull easily. Your dealer who hand- les the famous Myers line of Pumps and Hay Tools 3130 has Myers Door Hangers. ee him today Let him 11% fioint out the striking erslmprovementsor write us for catalog. 1 The F. 2. "you & Bro. Co. - mgWqu Church St" Alhllnd, 0. FOR-EVERY PURPOSE Reduce Your 1 FORDSON Operating costs with :1 Pierce Governor Holds the engine at a uniform .1 .spced, regardless of load. Saves fuel and oil. Helps prevent bumt- out bearings and scored cylinders. ‘ Pays For Itself A Pierce Governor can be in- stalled in 20 minutes without _ ‘ removing carburetor, radiator, timer or {an and will save its cost in two weeks. Troctorper- forms better under all m1- ‘ lions. Saves one man's time on all belt work: instantly adjust- u m- ed for different speeds. Sold on am money-back guarantee. Duhr Pierce Governor Co. 313'; Lanai. Governor . made satisfactory pmgress, Francisco Farm N otcs By P. P. Pope I HE affairs at Fraincisco Farm have run along quite smoothly the past winter. The cattle have wintered well, the swine herd has and the feed supply has held out and will see us through to grass. The cattle will do well to get the surplus roughage worked over and under foot. ‘ Hired Help. ~ The thing that is bothering us just now is how we are going to get this “under foot” goods out on the' land Where its fertilizing value will return to‘us promptly. To accomplish the things expected of us, an extra hand is essential. “There are we going to get him? Goodness knows. We have been on the lookout for three months and not one acceptable prospect shows up. They‘have all gone to Lansing, or Flint, or Detroit, to get some experi- ence with “big pay” and high living costs, and may not be back for three or four months. I have a feeling that many of them will be ready to return by that time, and let us hope the ex- perience gained will make them more contented on the farm! In the mean- time, it will be a case of "Paddy pitch in" and be content to let remain the things that can’t be om. ‘ Zero—Baby Pigs-gate Hours. rIfhere are four big brood sows con— . fined to their respective wards in the “maternity hospit .1‘ It is located in the Yer end»! the big basement barn. Ordinarily it is immune to inclement weather, but a stmgeast wind will deep drifts, while the mercury de~ scended constantly. “Big Bone Lass" has chosen this opportune time, as is the custom with well-behaved brood sows, to deliver to the cold world a baker’s“ dozen and one; and‘one of her grown-up daughters, not to be out- - dOne by her aged mother, . promptly ushered in the same number.‘ Twenty- eight tiny babies and five below is a combination that calls for “late hours" even in the best appointed hog houses. So Bob took his sleep in catnaps last night. Now, when I speak of “Bob,” in these notes, I mean the tall, red-headed, good-natured lad who has been engaged to act asfarm foreman, head herdsman, general all- round overseer. Every- body likes Bob, even his wife, and he is the man who is always on the job at Francisco Farm. .Have just been out helping him to nip off the little needle-like tusks that ' often cause trouble in large litters. They have been usihg them freely on each other and on their mothers, caus- ing them often to "jump up and scold and occasionally tread on one. It was interesting to. see how quiet they lay after the dental operation on the little, fellows. and how much more peaceable the whole family kept at their work. A little attention at the proper time costs extra. eflort, to be 81111;“ 'there are few things on the form that pay us better than such little details ' 311' these then weather- and ,other com ,diiions determine the necessity ' or four years.— He' bases this concIuSion . upon the very strong demand for 3 breeding’e‘wes‘ attire present time and ' this demand“ will continue until west- ' ern flocks, aregback‘to normal, andv‘, In 1921 this boy ' . . 1 '4 chief engineer, and for Good Looking Shirts ' ’ that Wear Better VERY man who ever were 'VanWert ExcelsiorWork Shirts is a booster for them. They are made of the best ’ materials, attractive patterns, full length and roomy with sleeves plenty long enough, carefully cut and sowed,-=-at prices that look gbod to you, too. ' _ 'Ask your dealer to show you Van Wert- Excelsiore next time. They are fully guaranteed. Manufactured by I The Van Wort Overall Mic-Go. Van Wert, Ohio 1 VAN WER'I‘ Twice the wear: some cost. Full year 's wear guaranteed. No rub- ber. but lots of easyJast' at'retch In every pairo Suspendersl «l/ Slip-loo back gives ease an comfort. Will not pull buttons. Price 750 per pair. ’Nu- -Way Wide Web Garters " - - --so comfortable on forget you x I have them on. Ll’o metal touches the leg. Every pair guaranteed for long wear. Price 5043 per pair. Women and Children —-find comfort and guaranteed serv- ice in Nu-Way Supporters and Cor- set Sew-One. Price 250 pair. If yourdealer can 't 311 you with the full Nu: .1ne, send direct giving dealer 3 name , HID-WAY STRECI'I SUSPENDERC (2.0 _ Dept.“ Adrian, Mlch. .‘Penusuuu—A Work sun that for so , years has held to its original standard of good duality and big value-—is the shirt for you. Yen’ll appreciate such ‘ features as double stigching, pointed neck-yoke and 36-inch length found' in Ask. your dealt-ti these shirts. 'W ‘~ .ed by practicing limited or retarded otherwise digestive disorders are liar . ously been heated. Clean white sand first two Weeks. .- tial in getting the digestive tract in , «good working order ready for the first _ f'emL Spur skismnil ' ' he. Essentials 0f Chick Raising (Continued from page 447). tions are ruinous to‘ production, fertil- ity and health. . An abiindant' supply of fresh air, combined with dryness and comfort, are fundamentally important production of husky, 'vigoro’us chicks, Overcrow'ding, ”especially of pullets, usually causes rapid dampening of the litter, with the‘ usual disastrous re- ,sults. A system of ventilation should be installed ,in all breeding pens, that ‘will maintain» pure air conditions. Deep dry litter induces exercise and there- fore promotes health. Four square feet of floor space is a safe allowance for units larger than one hundred and six square feet per bird in small single matings. . Incubation. The recommendations given with each incubator should be carefully fol- lowed. Porous, chalky, or eggs of.11n- even shell texture, should be diSCard- ed. Uniformity of color, shape, and size ofeggs can be greatly improved by selection previous to incubation, but the eggs so selected should in eye- ry case come from high-producing - stock. _ Feeding the Baby Chicks. Much of the success of our laying pens depends upon the way in which the chicks have been reared and grown. «Good healthy robust chicks mean strong, vigorous layers capable of a large and profitable winter pro. duction. While there is possibly no one best method of~ feeding for. most rapid growth and low mortality, a number of conditions are imperative. for op-4 timum ' results. The ,,chicks should receive no'set~ backs from the time they are hatched until they are placed in the laying- pens. This can most easily be avoid- early feeding. The appetite of the chick must be closely watched and the amount of food fed, regulated so that they will always be hungry and keen for the next meal. Nature has provided the chicks with a “bread-basket” containing sufficient food to last three or four days. Before the chick emerges from the shell, the remainder of the yolk which has been used for nourishing the growing, em- bryo is absorbed into the intestine. For this reason limited early feeding should be practiced until the yolk is completely assimilated by the chick, ble to occur. First Day. —After incubation the chicks should be left in theincubator to “harden off." During warm weather the incubator door may be opened slightly to provide a. good supply of fresh air and reduce the temperature within the machine. Second Day. —Remove chicks to the brooding quarters which have previ- makes an ideal floor covering for the The chicks will piCk at, and consume sufficient of these gritty soil particles which are essen- or buttermilk, in ‘the value of. the skim-milk also stimulates the chick, causing rapid growth "and developing strong resistant powers. Sour skim-milk should not be fed in galvanized dishes because lead impur- ities are found in this metal which may be released upon the addition of sour skim-milk. The lactic acid is lia- ble to cause this chemical reaction which can generally be noted by the changing. color of the galvanized drink- ing fountain. Glass, earthen ware or wood receptacles are ideal containers for sour skim-milk. ‘ Third Day.———The initial food given should be easily seen and nutritious. The growing embryo was developed on raw egg, so by ‘using the infertile eggs that were taken out at the first test and carefully preserved in a cool place, we have an ideal starter. Mix two handfuls of clean bran, two handfuls of rolled oats (breakfast (Continued on page 469). King of the Late Potatoes! Resists heat, drought and disease. Our Michigan grown Certified Seed Potatoes produce the largest yields. In 1922 Certified Petoskeys gave Michigan growers 61 bushels per acre more than the yield from all . kinds of seed. In Indiana, Certified potatoes out- yielded ordinary stock ’ 'fifty bushels per acre. Production costs were the same except the small additional. cost of Certified Seed. If your Local Cooperative Association or County Agent cannot take your order write to " Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange .- Cadillac, Michigan or : Michigan State Famfiureau SEED DEPARTMENT “Rural Russets” Please Mention Michigan Farmer When Writing To Advertisers l 2 HATCHABI LITY Every Poultry Raiser Wants These 4 Results ——now you can get them! Higher fertility and stronger germs—larger hatches with fewer chicks dying in the shell--greater vitality—quicker gains. These are the four things you want in your flock. And now a remarkable new development in feeding is making them possible. - Increases fertility The fertility of eggs depends on the potency and activity of the parent birds. The vital elements contained in yeast have a direct influence on the reproductive organs of fowl. Feed Fleischmann’s Pure Dry Yeast to your hens and cockerels and you will have more fertile eggs in:your incubator. [Increases hatchability Hatchability‘is possible only to strong embryo chicks. If they have inherited the strength of a yeast-fed hen, they will break through and there will be less dying in the shell. Inoreases vitality Greater vitality and less loss are found in young chicks fed early on a mash'containing Fleischmann’s Pure Dry Yeast. Leg weakness and white diarrhea are prevented. . Increases rate of growth Growth—normal and better than normal—is the result of feeding yeast. Two-pound broilers in 2 months when Fleischmann’ s Pure Dry Yeast is added to the mash. Fleischmann’s Pure Dry Yeast comes in 21/2npound cans, contain- ing “7 tablespoonfuls, or enough to last 10 hens or 50 chicks for 4 months. With each can is a booklet of complete mature birds. Mail the coupon today for a big ZVz-pound can by prepaid parcel post. Costs less than 2c a table- spoonful. 1 1 7 tablespoon- FEW“!!! ful: to the can—enough to team: last 10 hens or 50 chicks "’l' l 53,. . 82'! South Male 81.. for 4 months. 1/ . me,“ In. . ’9’ Enclosed, and two / dollars ($2.00 ). P1080. / send me a. 2Vz'pound can / of Fleitchmann s Pure Dry ’I Yeast by prepaid parcel pea / Name; ...... boos-QQQIIDOOOOO cuuolg‘. i / stfuh and number" 0......0l010::0ifi;0 instructions for the care and feeding of chicks and I his Meet the man who will help 'you to equip a farm like this The: e are farmers in your community who .1pparently have succeeded in grow- ing " :wo blades of grass ” where only one grew before. A1 nost always, they are the more pros- perous farmers—the men who live in comfortable modern homes, with lighting systems and plumbing and other conven- iences, with pianos and phonographs and fine furniture. with automobiles and tractors and silos and other adjuncts of up-to-date farming. There is a man in your town who will help you, as' he has helped others in the past, to have amodern farm equipment and the luxuries which make farm life more enjoyable. Who is this man? He will do this by helping you to make your farming operations more resultful. He will help you to grow more on less land, to increase your acre yields without increasing the acreage, to improve the quality of every crop you raise. This man is the Authorized Swift Agent in your town—the man or firm or store selected by Swift . 85 Company, after investlgation, to supply the Swift’s Red Steer ertilizers required by the farming community. Backed by the resources and reputa- tion of Swift 8; Company, he is equipped to render a very real service to the farm- ers of your county. He will advise with O . . you as to your crop and soil requirements, and he will provide the Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers which are best adapted to those individual requirements. “ It pays to use them ” He recommends Swift’s Red Steer Ferti- lizers because he knows that “it pays to use them”-—and because he knows that back of every bag he sells are the vast, resources, the supplies of raw materials, the manufacturing skill, the chemical and agricultural knowledge, of Swift & Com- pany. ' He knows that Swift’s Red Steer Fer- tilizers are high in available plant food; that they are made of the right elements for each particular crop; that they are accurately and uniformly mixed; and that when properly applied they will return the farmer’s investment many times over. Meet the man who will help you to build a finer home— the Authorized Swift Agent. Talk over your fertilizer prob- lems with him—he Will give you the infor- mation you desire or will get this informa- tion for you. Get acquainted with him now—it will pay you. If you cannot locate him readily; write our nearest sales division. - Swift 85 Company yenrruzflnn worms. near 43 Ham nhmond 1nd. RED' STEER BRAND “ADE MARK CIQISTEIID ' ,é Ami uxnebriflilgég A. S. A. says: In a recent trip through a neighboring state I called, whenever possible, upon the Author- ized Swift Agent in the towns I visited. All of them seem to have the interests of the farmer very much at heart, and—are making a very real efl'ort to render service in their communities and to co-operate intelli- gently with the farmers in working out their fertilizer problems. In a very few towns I found that there was no Authorized Swift Agent, and once or twice I pointed out to responsible merchants the opportunity offered in representing Swift’s Red Steer Fertilisersin their communities. Certainly there should be‘ an Authorized Swift Agent in every town. ' And he should be the livest merchant in that town. If you can qualify, why not act .on'this tip and write to Swift &-Company at once? » l vIQT PAYS T0 A 'When completed the Navy’s tons of gasoline and will withOut a stop, even to make a trip over the north-or south pole. Fall, who has resigned. ‘ 'ng" " . .' at ’ newest dlrigible ZR-l will carry \ten be able to travel five thousand miles Dr. Herbert Work, formerly Postmaster-general, has been sworn in as United States Secretary of Interior, succeeding Albert Bacon 4. .. a; 1,", . . . ‘ This railway trestle in Ireland is This new machine, invented by a farmer in Louisiana, can plant After 53 years of service, George believed to have been wrecked ‘ enough strawberry plants for a whole army supply of Shortcake Bemis, of Indianapolis, retired ‘ by Republican forces. and does the work of twenty men. as a railroad engineer. it» 5 ' i _ _ 4 1m...“ «Aim- \ t _, ,, ,, Thousands; including a lax~ge"congressi0nal delégationfmourned at By putting skis on this plane it is possible to fly close to, and even the bier of W. 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Red streaks appeared above the southeastern hor- izon and tinted the heavy clouds that were slowly and ominously coming out of the north and packing the center of the sky. The air was clear and cold. The earth and all things on it were covered with a thick layer of frost. Every blade of grass was dressed in fanciful and luvul 1ant whiteness. Eve- ry mm on he1 mother’ 5 body had turn- ed white and thick save on a small spot on her flank where the warmth of her little head had driven the frost away. All around her lay the still forms of mares and colts and horses. Many of the strangers had already distinguish- ed themselves from the others in her mind. The whiteness that covered them all interested little Queen. She had seen-that whiteness on them be- fore, but never had she seen them so completely covered with it. She turned her little head to see whether her own body was coveu'd Ewith it. The discovery that it was "rather pleased her; but the lifting of her head resulted in a slight annoy- ance. Her lip touched the frust and became wet and cold. She began to rub the wet- lip on the warm spot on her mother’s flank. Her mother called sleepily to her as if the movement bothered her, so she pressed the lip tight against the warm spot, delight- ing in its comfort. In that position she watched the details of the world aho11the1 as they appeared in the g1 owmg light. SHORT distance from her, beyond a mare '5 back in front and newer to her, she spied the black head of the mischievous coll only partially covered with frost. He was apparently still ‘ sound asleep. She was gazing at the two'frost—covered ears with uneasiness and irritation, 'when suddenly as she raised her eyes a bit. he saw a coyote come out of his den way off on the other slope 01"1he valley. She watched ed him with fear and absorbed atten- tion. She remembered having seen one, once before. somewhere. She re- membered, too. that her mother had become alarmed at sight of him and she began to worry as she watched. She. saw that he was interested in the forms lying about her. She saw him stretch lazily, yawn and gaze down at them. He trotted away up to the very. rim of the bowl and there he sat down on his haunches and continued looking at them. Little Queen lowered her head not to be conspicuous and contin- ued from that position to watch his every ,move.‘ She had been looking so intently at him that she did not noticea - a second coyote only a few‘paces from the first. When she did notice it, One of the horses jumped to hisfeet, shook the frost from his body and began ran- ning about to warm up. Another of the horses followed the first and: when little Queen turned to look at them, she lost sight, of the coyotes. She searched for them on the whiteness, for some time, then discovered them ‘ I'v'vaVYYVVVVYYVVVYV 1. up the black colt and thefcoyotes. ”The ‘ eiiclesabout her mother was altogether too small for the expression of her 10y and she undertook to make a circuit about the lake with the tire other horses that were running. She had gone only halt way when she became wire of the black colt, rebing' after he: {She did not see hinitill she had turned and as soon as she spied. him— she sent an urgent call for help to her mother, and bounded away with eyes aglow. Her Call ‘brought her mother to her feet. The old‘mare galloped EASYER GLflDNESS ' By Edward]. Archer The happy spring again is‘ here, The buds of promise rich appear, All nature doth with verdure shine, Our hearts are filled with joy divine; For Easter bells so sweetly ring They ring The glory of our risen King. Behold the strickened watch at dawn, For, lo, the Lord of life is gone; _ Saw but the place where Jesus lay; Angels had rolled the stone away, ' The conqueror of death’s dark night, - We hail, _We hail Him as the Prince of Light. The budding and unfolding bloom Pot-trays theu- rising from the tomb, ' (leasing the dormant prison bower, Endowed with beauty, grace and painter. Then for the love that crowns our days We give, I We give Him our exalted praise. Bornon .the wings of faith, weisec : ’That we shall in His likeness be, At home on that immortal'shore, Where Jesus lives to die no more; ‘ The Christ “fulfilled his promised word... We crown, - We crown Him as our living Lord. sitting so still that she had mistaken them for stones; but the horses that had got up ran off» in their direction and he saw the two coyotes take to their heels. The manner in which they loped away, continually looking back as they went, showing that they were afraid that the horses meant to run after them, lessened Queen’s fear .of them slightly; and, tired of lying there, she too, rose to her feet and shook the’ frost from her body. Like the big horses she felt that. she wanted exer- cise so she frisked about her mother, keeping an eye all the while upon the black colt who had by this time awak- ened and _who was now sleepily watch- ing her. But as her blood began to circulate lapidly, her delight in motion g1ew _apace and in her delight she forgot- away in the opposite direction, intend- ing to meet her before the black colt got to her. The excitement mused the last of the sleepers and soon the air was filled with the thumping of lively hoofs. got safely out of the way and went‘on, indifferent to the racket, to eat his breakfast. ' x ‘ HE buckskin -mare got to her daughter in time to. prevent the colt from fleeihg and nipped him sav- agely on the hip. ln-the meantime his white mother had reached, him and' quite naturally interceded in his be- half. She made an attempt "to:- nip.the buckskin mare, but backed 'away ,in time to avoid two buckskin legs which had shot into the air. The white mare then turned quickly around and with her hind legs replied in kind. ' Only the old sorrel work-horse ' The rest of the horses seemed 111 think it just the proper fun to ocean- pony morning exercises and after a. few moments of exhilarting kicking- there followed a joyous stampede re.- sulting at last in their division into smaller groups, each group in its own corner grazing away peacefully as if nothing had ever happened. After a preliminary breakfast or milk, little Queen joined her mother in a profitable search for the sweeteSt blades of grass, and grazing side by side they wandered from the lake shore, up the slope and away over a. level bit of prairie to another hollow where a. slough had completely dried 11p,~ leaving 'a small, barren, muddy, bottomexposed. 7 The grass was ex- ceptiopally good arbund that spot and when little Queen had eaten all she could 'eat, she stretched out. on. the ground in the early afternoon and slept a long while. . ’ ‘ She awoke suddenly. She was ‘very cold and felt that she had been'cold for a long time. A gloomy heaviness hung in the air and the sky was thick with thieatening clouds. All the de- siresin her little soul merged into the one great desire to get to her mother. She jumped to her feet intending to stretch and rid the joints of the sleepy feeling, when there came upou her ’ the fear that she was alone. She look- c‘d annously. and rapidly in sateen directions and then sprang oil! into space. A great wave of uneasiness reached up from her heart and con. qued 1191. HE had been running around for _ some time when she discovered four buckskin legs sticking up out of a trough~llke hollow in the dried mud .She rushed with fear to 'her mother who lay motionless upon' her back. either unable to get up or stiangely unwilling to. She was very glad to see her and much of the fear that she had just experienced left her at the very sight of her "beloved mother; but she slowly became conscious of some- thing incomprehensibly dreadful in the situation. Queen looked at herzcuriously and called half anxiously, half admonish- ingly, as if to say, “Why do you lie there like that when I want you, and. want you standing up straight as one ought to stand 1’" Receiving no answer to her calling~Queen ceased and gazed at her-with growing terror. There was something so frightfully unusual about, her. » Queen began to shake heiself as if she, hoped to shake of! something that seemed to cling to her and dim and blur everything for her. She sniff- ed at the dear. old head and sprang ; . ‘5‘ w l1 AL ACRES—Go to 1/1: Head of t/ze Clary, Slim. 1—3} FrankR. Lee, _ HEY VAL' ‘ 1.0011 your You uncoveeen'. WHY rr's AN mleN SKULL. ~-THI$ HILL MUST HAVE BEEN AN mmAN MOUND! SHRDOYQU Know w»? OUR ' owns Ass SHAPED THE ) "I WAV THEY/(res? . _. ‘ SURE AL! 1 w " Q SO THEY-1.1. Frr - ' - the more intense grew- her fear it P ‘ strangely lost all desire to eat. .. and to wait for morning. .‘i there was sun nono nor beloved ~ ‘ "mother, so capable of solving the hard- ' ' est problems. would solve this' one. '. She Walled groin ami shifted. and .. sniffed: and called and called. 8% the, more she opined and called in mm, .11" S "-IE raised her little head high and gazed anxiously away through the thickeninggloom. A last flock of geese was flying south and the familiar honk- ingwhich before thishad only aroused . hep curiosity, n‘owfhlled, her with'fore— boding and loneliness. Loneliness was a state of mind heretofme unknown to her; but now it brooded over the plains like a nebulous dragon dropped .frOm some other world, waiting for ' an. opportunity to devour her. She’walked off slowly and listlessly to where she had been asleep, intend- ing to while away the time by grazing until her mother should wake up; but she could not eat. It’ was not many minutes before she was walking right back again. calling more loudly than ever. Getting no response, she stood still, and looked at the body she loved, trying very hard to understand. All the while the day waned. The sky grew blacker. The wind blew stronger and in the air the something that had' been threatening all day seemed to have come nearer. Grass blades. and. rosebushes nodded 111011111- fully over all the lonely earth, and lit- tle Queen imagined, as 'she turned round and round. to 100k into every- gloomy; direction, that the prairie *had» i- . . head andi‘started'nway, Shepnlled‘ her become peopled with dangerous forms who always fled from sight iust as she turned her eyes toward them. She made several attempts to graze; but she could not eat. A sickening feeling like a lump in her throat bar- 'red the way l‘or't'ood and she had At her mother’s side she remained as the king, fearful moments dragged, sniff- ing at her occasionally, calling to her at times in the tone of one who ex- pects no response and looking off into the desolate wastes with 1i half-formed _ wish that something would arrive to help her, yet tearfully worried of what might come. - DarkneSs began lowering more rap- idly and the wind swept over the plains moaning with disturbing sad- ness. , Little Queen became desperate. She pushed at her mother with her nose in passion born of fear, then re- realizing how useless that effort Was, called with all her strength and ran about her wit-hout'plan or purpose. ,FLAKES of snow had been falling now and then 1'01 some time. The) A , rapidly and to» - choke up the atmnsphere, whirling] ‘through it with a. sort of light indiffer- ",ence and cruelly, boastingly 'foreshad- began to fall more owing the approach of a mo1e heart- less blizzard Queen decided at last that there was nothing for her to do but to lie down beside her cold mOthel whimpm'ingly loworing herself to the g1 ound when she caught. sight of the skulking form of a coyote in the gloom ' to her sido and sprang back upon her feet. She was. Again one began to urge her mother g1ey gloom and discovered a second 101m behind the that In an efl’ort to move nea1er to her mother she stop. pod on the hard side, tripped and fell; and asshe got up to 11131 feet again, ‘ there came out of the boundless (hor- ror of the wind-swept night a blood- curdling howl. Leaping clearly over her mother’s body she fled from it, and loped away in the direction of the , bowl like valley and the lake. SOME of the horses were still graz- ing near the lake, as if they real- ized that a blizzard was coming and desired to store away in their bodies all the food they could gather. They cropped the grass most rapidly as the wind, tore at their with their colts and one 110:39 was drinking atpa hole in the. ice; while the old sorrel work-horse stoOd near him patiently waiting for his turn at the water. [\Vith an anxious whimperl she sidled up to the old sorrel who replied at once with his soft, tremu— lous whinny ol' good will. When at last- he- drank,- she cautiously lowered her head too. and seeing that he had no objections, slle- drank as if there werefires‘in her little he‘art‘that she i. n'oulquuencli.. Milieu, he raised» his head out of the water and ran after him as if it had been her mother that had started away and was about to leave her behind. The old- sorrel lumbered off to the spot where he had slept the night be- fore and Queen forlornly followed him, . stepping several times as she went to look into the darkness where she'had ‘ left her mother and where she still hopedto find her when the day came again. The old l'ellow painfully lowered his body. groaning like a rheumatioold man. Many years had he toiled in the harness and his limbs were stiff. Queen waited till he was at lest, then she approached him humbly and whin~' nied questioningly. P1 0111 the ugly old head came a soft balely audible neigh which was diffelent 110m that of any horse she had evel heard. 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It was not a. growth spread ove’r a long peri- od, and receiving gradual accre- tions of strength; but it sprang sud- denly into exist- ence, and it swept irresistibly over the Whole body of disciples. 0f the force and universality of the belief there can beno doubt.” And then he says later, lably momentous results must have had an adequate cause. No apparition, no mere hallucination of the senses ever yet moved the world.” And we know that the Resurrection has moved the world. Now let us sup- pose that this event never took place. A good many things. For one thing, we will be obliged to change the language used at the graves of the departed. You can no longer say, ,“ForaSmuch as it has pleased Almighty God in Hiswise providence to take out of the world the soul of our departed brother, we therefore commit his 'body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, looking for the general resurrection in the last day, and life in the world to come.” That must be crossed out. HE minister when he speaks at the funeral service must not refer to a future life, because that is wholly guess. ’ It may be, or it may not. No one has ever come back, hence it is all dark. Then, there are the words of farewell, spoken by many a soul about to depart for the other world; the “words of farewell, with the hope of meeting again. The old fisherman dy- ing said to his wife, “Come soon.” The wife of a clergyman who had but a ’T few hours to live said to her husband, “I shall wait for you, over there.” The visions of great soul-s, such as Browning’s “Prospice,” where the writ- er says. of the future meeting with his wife, best to the brave, the black minute’s at end, and the elements rage, the fiend voices that rave, shall dwiili'lle, shall blend, shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, then a light, theh thy breast, O, thou soulof my soul! ,; I shall clasp ~~thee again, and with God be tlw rest!" All such be; liefs would be out of place andvfounda- tion‘less, had there been no Resurrec- tion. To be sure, there was much speculation about the future life be- fore the advent of Christ. was all it could be-—speculation. There was no settled belief about it.‘ No one knew No one had ever come back from the land of shades to report._ But the Resurrection meant that some one had come back! And the absolute certainty that this was true gripped the very souls of the early Christians They were certain of tyre flange—Christ was divine and he had been raised from death to life. Bishop and there are errors in grammar. “A belief that has. had such incalcur “For sudden the worst turns the: But that in the life of those who believed it. He speaks or the tombstones of weal- thy Romans, and the epitaphs on them. All is uncertainty and gloom. The parting of members of the family has been with but small hope of reunion. Near by are graves of Christians. Some of these evidently were poor and ignorant people, though not all; The inscriptions are sometimes misspelled. But the hope! the eXpe‘ctation that is re- flected! The parting has been but for a. time: the beloveddead have gone to be with Christ; the others will follow in a little time, and all will be;r.eunit- ed in a kingdom where death is un- known. Thus early‘did the Resurrgc- tlon lay hold of the hearts and convic- tions of the people. ' ’ T is easy to see why, the belief in this event spread so rapidly and gained such a hold. The evidence for it was from the mouths of eye witness: es. When th’ese died, it was from those who had heard and seen the eye witnesses. - Meantime all the gospels were written, which show that they had been penned by men who Were present at the scenes of the events dscribed. One may pick such passages almost at random. It is stated repeat- edly that the disciples ‘did not expect to see their Lord again, when he was crucified; They were in utter despair. ‘When certain women said they had seen Him, early Sunday morning, the report was not believed. It seemed like an idle tale. Then you have such scenesasthat of the two men running to the tomb, one of them 'outrunning the other and getting there first, and stooping down and looking into the tomb. 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As a matter of fact, only a very ,small .prOportion of such disturbances have anything to do with the kidneys The genito- urina1y system is a very cemplicated a11angement as you will see when I mention a few of the simplest facts about it. In the first place, let us consider the kidneys, two distinct organs, each about four inches long, two inches Wide, and one inch thick, and weighing from four to six ounces. The substance of the kidney is composed of the uriniferous tubules and a little connective tissue'that holds them together. All the blood of the body passes through these tissues every few minutes. and the special properties, of the kidney lining allow it to take from the blood the offensive substances that are to be passed off in the waste. Certain watery elements are also extracted by the process of filtration. Thus it is that normal urine is cdmposed of a mixture of water and body waste. It is well to remember this. Frequently I have letters from those who seem surprised because the urine contains sediments. Of course, it does; the removal of waste is the big end of its job. ‘ The kidneys empty their effluent in- to the bladder, through two quill-sized tubes known as the ureters, one for eachkidney. These tubes are from sixteen to eighteen inches long and run from the pelvis of the kidney to the base of the bladder. The bladder itself does not make urine; it is simply the reservoir that holds it until a convenient time for passing it out of the body. But the ‘bladder is subject to infection and to ailments that may seriously change the qualityl-of the urine. Ordinarily the adult bladder will hold from six to ten ounces of urine before‘ it demands evacuation, but when inflamed it may refuse to tolerate a~single ounce. From the bladder the urine is passed out by means of a urinary canal known as the urethra, much shorter in females than in males, and this ure- thra is itself a common source of in- fection'and creates serious urinary dis- turbances. I have cited these anatomical facts to show you the absurdity of taking medicine for “kidney trouble" without knowing what part of this complicated apparatus is involved. Kidney trouble is a serious matter. The first step in its treatment is a careful examination "by ia skillful physician, of the urine and the urinary apparatus. Even though you are unconscious of any such trouble; every person forty or over should have such an examination atloaSt once” each year. OALY, HAIR. . Please say what to do for 0in hair. I cannot do it up properly for oil .——.D A cornmeal shar'npoo will remove the 01! so that you can do your hair to better satisfaction. Any hair dressing "é'containlng alcohol or bay ru'm’ helps 1 f to remove an oil-.4 But such workouts >- ’_ generally some in connection with ex-v Wonmthewholesm Sucha ‘ foods. patient must be careful as to diet, being particular to cut out the fats and sweets as far as possible. CONSTIPATION. My little girl is constipated. She is two years old. \Vould it. be harmful to give a teaspoonful of milk of mag— nesia?-Mrs. ‘S The dose would not be dangerous, but I do not think it should be neces- sary to continue such treatment. A child of two should not be brought up to the habit of relying upon laxatives. She is old enough to eat a. variety of‘ She can take scraped apple and other fruits. She can eat leafy vegetables. There is no objection to spinach, chard, and even a little well- cooked cabbage. Are you careful about insisting upon regular attention to the toilet? She should be placed on the toilet at a regula1 hour 9 rcry day and kept there for ten to fifteen minutes regardless of her desires. Be sure that she gets plenty of water to drink. DIFFICU LT BREATHING. I have been troubled for nearly five years with hard b1eathing There is a. close. tight feeling about my chest. It takes all the pep out of me. Do you think it is due to my nerves? Could worry cause it?—H. J. S. Thistrouble may be of a nervous. character, but more likely there is some organic fault. I should have a careful examination of heart action, blood pressure, and lungs. It suggests asthma. in some ways, but there is al- ways a cause for asthma and it is well to find it. / ABOUT BIRDS. F the pheasant is finding it difficult to winter in the north Michigan country, it seems to be otherwise with the robin. The Daily Mining Journal has published observations made by Dr. J. N. Lowe, of the Department of Biology of the Northern State Normal . School, showing that robins were seen in or near Marquette on December 16, 1922, February 11, 1923, and at other times. Dr. Lowe states that he has every reason to believe that robins winter regularly in the North Mar- quette swamp and also at Middle Is- land Point, Lake Superior. Robins are also reported from Lake Michigamme and from Houghton in the copper country. County Agricul- tural Agent Shane, of Schoolcraft county, calls attentivto the great economic importance of songbirds, noting that the song—bird has been known to consume half' its weight in insects in one day. The same state- ment applies to the consumption of weed-seeds. ‘Mr. Shane calls attention to the recent resolution of the Michi- gan State Farm Bureau asking for the prbtection of the quail as a friend to the farmer. Mr. Shane suggests that bird life be promoted by the provision of food, shelter, drinking-water, dry sand and water baths, (and nesting planes. He makes a special point of the value of the birds that have re- 'mained here during the winter, or re- turn early in the spring. ‘ For bird foods he suggests cocoa- nuts cut in half for chickadees, alsos raw peanuts ground in the meat-grind- er which will not be carried away by the larger birds before the smaller birds 'get at them. He‘suggests a food- ball, made by heating soot in the oven, mixing‘Vwith‘ ground raw; peanuts or other nuts, and breadcrumbs. This is kneaded into a hell and hung up in a mesh beg. ' 'OHOICE SlHlWBERM PLANT The big, heplthy t feeti on. inmomers moo en- sore late. Men were will all other kxyn We also eaveyoe money on the most thrlf . fitable varieties of Strbw rape. Raspberry Blackberrj ' and Dewben y plants yérown in famous reach you fresh and vigorous... We direct to you at whole“ ehl rates if you ordor‘ new. 1'!) l routes and long exper- . 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It gives you . 100 to 150 rods of ditch each day , -every foot crash, smooth. true to grade and ready for tile. rur- nlshes its own ower.0perates1 .well in swampy ad. Get This Free Book "Write” us today and let us send a y of our big book. , “Dollars in tches.’ .. Our service engineers will show you how to get started rial. lit-show ~ you how others make big money- andliowyouoanrnaluutao. , ‘Writs today for full details. is) 4 ‘ early days. enormous plows had not been preserv- , ater and when the spring rains came- 0 portion of the country 111113 more ‘fortunate in the chalscter 1 of its. pioneers than southern Michigan. The first settlers were near- ly all from the eastern states, 111.1 gely from New England and New York. The few of foreign birth were.from the same racial stock. As a rule these early settlers were moral, law—a hiding citizens; vigorous mentally and physi- cally. _ The pioneers were equally fortunate in the natural advantages of the coun- try they settled. The land was rapidly brought. under cultivation. It produced good crops and was easy to work. Its natural dryness was a great advan- tage. Farm work could be carried on systematically, the primitive highways were seldom impassable and it was not difficult to keep farm dwellings and their surroundings neat'and clean. While the fields were being broken up by pioneer farmers, pioneer mill- wrights were building saw mills and grist mills along the numerous little streams that furnished cheap and abundant water power. The larger and taller oaks of the openings fur- nished timbers and ‘lumber for build- ing frames, and from the not‘dlstant timbered lands came sufficient quan- tities of the finest white wood lumber for siding'and finishing. The pine for- ests along the western shore of the state and to the north furnished shin- gle bolts. “Shingle weavers” split and shaved by hand the material for roof- ing, and nothing made of wood ever equaled those shaved shingles of the early days either in appearance or durability. As a‘general thing the log house era on the Openings was brief. In a few years after settlement they were dot- ted over with well built, substantial frame houses and barns. Many of those farm houses built sixty to ninety years ago with frames' of‘oak, sided with white wood, and originally roofed with shaved pine shingles still stand in good. repair, as substantial as they were the day they were completed. These articles are being written in one of those ancient Michigan farm homes. “Breaking” the Openings. These lands were not ”cleared” in the ordinary meaning of that term. There was no laborious felling, logging up and burning of tall, thick heavy forest timber before crops could be grown. In the early spring the settler on the openings “girdled” the scatter— ed oaks on the twenty, thirty, or more acres that was to be that year’s addi— tion to the cultivated portion of the new farm. Some time during the sum- mer the “land breaker” came with his mighty breaking plow and his numer- ous pails of oxen and "broke up” the new field. In one of the papers on the “Early Pioneers” written by my father in 1894 there is a description of the equipment used in breaking the typical openings and the stool grub lands He says: “The ground contained heavy roots and it 1equired a powerful team and an immense plow' to eradicate them. Therefme, ten, twelve and sometimes fifteen yoke of oxen were used. I have seen 12 yoke cf oxen attached to one of the great breakers used in those What a pity one of these ed and exhibited at the World’s Fair at Chicago. Daniel Webster’s big plow By Jason Woodman exhibited in the New Hampshire sec-- tlon of the agricultural department would have been a baby beside one of 'our immense breakers. The boom of one of those p10ws would compare fav- orably with a. beam in one of our old barns. Then the great plowshare, three or four feet long, kept almost as sharp as a knife, the ponderous ecultr er, the wheel with its appliances that gauged ”the depth of the furrow. the- huge clevis and long heavy chain that reached forward between the oxen and to which they were attached. Then the three or four drivers 'with their long whips, a stalwart man at the handles, and the procession was ready to move. When it-did move it left its mark; nothing but a. tree could stop its‘ pro- ./ I ,J gress. If the plow became fast, oxen and handspikes were necessary to lib- erate it. After breaking,:the land was harrowed with a great A-shaped har- row, the roots were piled up and burn- ed and in‘ the fall the field was sown to wheat. ” On the timbered openings where the trees were more numerous, much smaller breaking plows andonly three to five yoke of Oxen were used. The land was not as well broken and many heavy oak roots were left in the ground to interfere for several years with cultivation. Generally two or three crops of Wheat in. succession were grown among the girdlings. Af- ter the final crop of wheat, while the land was not being cropped the dead trees were cut down, the straightest- grained logs were split into rails and the rest of the timber was piled up and burned. Years passed before the .oak stumps could be disposed of. They were not, however, as much of a nuis- ance as one might imagine, for wheat and oats were sown, cut, and bound by hand; corn was planted with a hoe and worked with one- horse cultivators The typical “openings” were natur- ally deficient in organic matter and would not stand continuous grain crop-_ ping. After‘three or four successive crops production fell off, then at first theland was “rested? In a, year or two, as a rule, 'a thick growth of white cloveiflwould cover it, renewing the supply of Organic matter andnltrogen and the land .again produced satisfac- tory crops. Red clover was soon .in- _txoduced and in- a short time its use became general. It was sown “in the chaff. ” There were no .clover bullets in those days. Very rarely did the farmer on' the'openin'gs fail to get a catch; he scatte1 ed his clover seed “in ' the chaff.” over his snow~covered Wheat fields during the latter part of the Win- nature -did the rest. Lrlc soils canned? fr teen per cent of organic mutt . heavier beech and maple (new lands and the chocolate covered open: ings containea. from five to nine per cent. The lighter colored and: looms from two to four. per cent. _ This lack of vegetable. matter was not a serious handicap. advantage for it led to the liberal use of clover, to balanced. crop rotations, and a. mixed husbandry that included the keeping of live stock. Clover grew to perfection (on the openings.- The annual burning of the tall grass which had been practiced by the Indians for many years, probably for a century or more, had deposited a liberal supply of potash, phoSphorous, and lime in their most available forms on the sur- face of the ground. There were no clover insect enemies and the second growth filled with seed. The flail or the feet of oxen or horses hammered it out of the “straw” on the threshing floor and the seed “in the chaff" was the unfailing resource of the opening ' farmers of the forties and fifties. Clo- ver produced an abundance of hay and pasture and enriched the soil for the following crops of grain It seems impossible to believe that eighty years ago there was no farm machinery. For thousands of years farm crops had been planted, cultivat- ed and harvested" by hand labor. In scriptural days grain was cut with a. sickle and the «threshermen of those days were admonished to "muzzle not the ox that treadeth out the corn ” Ninety years ago my father was taught by his father to reap wheat with a; sickle, although about that time the grain cradle, the first important agri- cultural invention, replaced the sickle.’ When my grandfather came to "MfCh- igan he purchased several parcels poll land so that his sons as they grew up should all have farms. A few years later my father came into possession of one of these pieces of land situated in the southwest part of. Paw Paw township. He thus describes some of his" early experiences as a. farmer: “I‘ girdled twenty acres, broke it. and sowed it to wheat. The wheat grew tall and lodged badly, so badly that fivé men with cradles could cut only seven acres in one day. The wheat was threshed by being trampled out with oxen, on a threshing floor made of- boards. After clearing .off the girdled timber two years later the field was seeded to clover and an enormous crop was raised. It was mown, raked, and handled by hand. The man who could mow one and one-half acres in a day had to be an expert with a scythe.” This was eighty to eightyfive years ago. In eighteen centuries the only marked changes in agricultural imple- ments Was the substitution of the ~ grain cradle for the sickle, _ and the gradual evolution of the wooden mold board plow from the crooked stick of the ancients. ~' Why has all the agricultural machin- cry of today been the product of the last three-quarters of a century and all of American origin? Here was a‘ ”country and a gorernment where.all men were secure in the “sacred right to acquire and hold private property" and under our patent laws the prcduct of aman’s brain wars. part (this pri- Nate property. ,‘genius, Amerlcan inventive safeguarded, by: In one respect it. was an‘ ’cunstitu- “ , a .- f, ‘ space. '11011e at all. " When Twas a small boy, hack of my \ fathers buildings m ’a yrooden frame that-V had carried the first “threshing: Com machine used in this locality. Corning it David Woodman Wrote: f‘The first threshing machine used in this county my father ordered from Brockport New York. It was shipped to Detroit and be hauled the whole. Concern to Paw Paw on a wagon, the tiip taking eight days. The machine consisted Of a portable horsepower and a cylinder which threshed the g1aln, the straw being raked off by lha‘fld This machine, with good luck, could thresh two hundred bushels in ' one day but the chaff had to be sep- mated frbm the wheat With a fanning millarterwards.” Later a fanning mill , 'was'built into the machine back of the ‘appeared from the fields. Cass. This machine was brought to ' Michigan about 1848. It was last used in, 1863. ‘ Farms on southern Michigan “open- ings" had passed the pioneer stage before the beginning of the Civil War. Well- built houses had replaced the cabine. Substantial barns had been built. The oak stumps had largely dis- Live stock was kept on every farm; machinery was taking the place of much of the old-time hand- labo1; .schoolhouses, and chorches dotted' the landscape. Nu- merous villages supplied the necessary trading facilities, railroads cannected farm and village with’ the outside world, and all this had taken place in \a quarter of a'century. ' _The Farm Heme AttractiVe (Coutinued from page 449). A good lawn may be said to be more important than any other fea- ture: Neither shrubs, flowers nor hous-e es will look well unless set off by lawn Use good seedand give the permanent grass liberal applications 01‘ fertilizers. Many farmers feed eve- rything about the farm but the lawn :rrass. Constant care is necessary to make a good lawn, though when the 1mm is well established care may be given at odd moments. Neglectnat the outset will prove disastrous. -A thrifty laWn is an insurance against weeds. The customary use of vines and shrubs to cover unsightly places is a misuse. The aim should be to so im- prove the grounds that there is noth- ing to hide. In arranging the planting about the farm home the less-that is used to obtain an‘effect .the better. Study the scene as it will look when mature. For illustration, lilac bushes growto large size, and each' should be allowed plenty of space to develop instead of crowding the bushes in or- der to obtain a quicker effect. It is betterto use individual bushes atthe corners of the house or in groups about the porches than to plant an un- broken mass of shrubs about the base oiflthe house. A continuous fringe of’ plants is almost as monotonous as Three trees, more or less, planted about the house will afford shade and give the house its back- ground and frame. Elm, sugar maple, oak or similar tall, strong trees are , best..These afford shade without keep- ing air currents and light from the ' house. .. ' There are three ways in which vines may be used to advantage: First, to cover fences, walls or arbors; second, to cover, and thus prevent the wash of steep banks; third, and more import- ant, to drape and adorn doorways. No matterth vines‘ are used about the faimyard, the best should be reserved to mark the entrances to the house» Bitter- Trumpet and to festoon the porches. sweet, Virginia greeper, . creeper and such old-fashioned vines are "all good for walls and ’arbors. A flower garden is a béautiful part of the. farm surroundings, and an ob- ject seldom seenyon farms. A garden is Supposed to be a place for flowers, but it lna-y also be a place for plants in. which one is espec1a )y interested. The old-fashioned garden was a jum- ble of hardy shrubs, perennial flowers and annuals. Those who are fond of novelties of the nurseryman' s catalog ' .e rare indivi ,nal peoimens for their es "noh as the" all such plants may be gathered. Inasmuch as walks and drives are the most conspicuous, these should be made as direct and short as possible. When .dis'tances are short, straight lines are best; but where terminal ob- jects should be hidden, practicable curved lines may be contrived; the grades of Walks and drives must be easy, not only for progress alone, but to prevent washing. Crown the centers of the drives to prevent them-from be- coming muddy, using gravel for the walks and drives where possible. Aside from the domestic attractive- -.ne’ss which follows time and energy expended in beautifying the farm home,surroundings, the value of the farm on the market 'is increased. Al- though the farmer may he satisfied and intends to remain on the farm, and is ,not eager to dispose of‘the place, he should consider it his duty to maintain the highest valuation of .his farm possible. The day has passed when farmers are afraid to plant shrubs, trees and vines, and keep an attractive surrounding for fear the as- sessors will‘\ come along and run up the valuation and thus increase the tax bill. Farmers are now thinking more and more of the welfare of their families, of having contented wives and children, and every progressive farmer will welcome the day when he may possess' a farm home that will cause envy to those passing through the country. ' MARCH BLUES. ' BY C. E. GERBERICH. The day is dark the air is chill, The snow lies deep on vale and hill, Outside it storms, the north wind roars, i hate to think of doing chores. The country roads are drifted deep—- Enough to make our carrier weep. My engine’s balked, it will not go, I have to feed the cattle snow. _ Our pump is buried to the spout, Each day I have to dig it out“ The furnace woodpile has grown small, I fear there’ll soon be none at all. Oh, how I long for gentle spring, When sllulgl frogs croak and blackbirds W'hen Agril showers the lowlands 00 And deep snowdrifts give way to mud; When icy winds no longer blow, When grass and "yarbs" begin to grow, When oguophers from their holes come And garden weeds sprout; When flowers bloom beside the wall, When flies upon the windows crawl, ‘ When winds blow soft and days are brig ’ht, And rainbow trout begin to bitel Oh, I could make ‘a lot of noise In elm 1' 1:83, commence to P - '- hands of my father Who thrashed with ' it, not Only in this county but in the adjoining "counties 0f Kalamazoo and . 7m in 1.111111. 5: -.... “fits; 32%“ H" I. 1%lwwm Now taking orders for 1923 pups for Sept. or Oct. delivery or will ranch them for you if desired. Quality guaranteed. A visit to my ranch will con— vince you of the prolific strain that is helping to make The Moon Fox Ranch famous. For more information write MOON Fox Farm, Brunswick Mich. The Real Estate Market Place Special discount given when used in combination with 7 other Capper Publications. special real estate advertising rates on these papers which reach over a million and a half familial RA TES For Real Estate Advertising On This Page 35¢ a line per issue on 4 time order. 40c 11 line pel' issue on 1 time order. Writefol PAY NO ADVANCE FEE; don't give option or me up real estate for any kind of contract without first kown in: those you are dealing with are absolutely honorable. rc- sponsiblc and reliable. Auction Sale APRIL 3,1923 A Ideal 1Dairy Farm having: a distance of only 1/ mile to railroad Depot. A creek originating from aspring right on the farm. Running water at the house furnished by Ram at S ring. Largest barn in communit. arge comfortable house and welarranged outbuildings. Size of about 170 acres. WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION On easy terms. By widow of late owner, Mrs.A.Wilkens. There will also be sold, 1 Cletrac Model M. Tractor. 1 Samson Tractor. 1 Oliver it bottom Plow. And complete equipment of Farming Implements. All in first class condi- tion, at NESSEN CITY, MICH. NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE (M. & N-E. R.R.) 1‘20 acre farm all under cultivation For sale 11 miles from Bay City on gravel road- 2% miles to cement pavement into city. Good soil in high state fertility. good drainage Fenced and cross fenced. ’lwo deep wells. Bearing orchard. House with full bnscn1.ent and cistern. Cow barn 3§x70,si.'o‘16x30. cement floor and stanchions. hip roof barn 40x80. horse barn 36.x44 Tool shed and other buildings. 36 registered Jerseys. 4 bars on Will sell all or farm alone Owner LAWRENCE RUHSTORFEB. Kawkawlin, Mich. For Sale on Easy Terms ON ACCOUNT of old age, my 80 acre farm. or without stock and tools. room house, silo, windmill, and all other buildings. Running water in pasture. Carbide lights in the house, house and ham rodded. One of the best dairy farms in the county. Can raise all kinds of crops. Is located 3% miles S. E. of city of Fremont. write owner, H. H. Westra. R. 7, Fremont.Mlcl1. LET ME TELL YOU HOW. 'Do obtain 40 to 640 acres of valuable cut—over farm land in Gladwln County, Mich” at $100 an acre down payment. small payments on balance, 5% tin terest. Improved farms at a low price and my terms. U. G. Reynolds, Gladwln, Mich. 40 acres all improved but two FOR SALE acres of small timber, good seven room house with cellar. hip roof barn 36:48. wagon house. hen house and garage. fruit. good coll level. well, fenced, water, school. church closo,§ miles to town. 7 miles to railroad station. 8100 per acre. $1500 down. balance easy terms. onion as once. GLEN ALLEN, R 8-,37 Ann rbor.Mlch. lNVESTlGAT paved territorial road 50 miles from Detroit. Any reasonable offer accepted C1111 be purchased for the price of many smaller farms Sold to close an estate. The Owner. 624 Locust St... Kalamazoo.l\ilcl1. with Has a. large barn, 10 A 275 acre farm near For Exchange for Smaller Farm 720 ACRES, 400 acres cleared; part level, some roll- ing; part not cleared. good pasture; well watered; just. one mile out of Evan. on state trunk line high- way; flue dairy barn. steel stanchions, individual drinking cups for cows: fine milk room in connec- tion with engine to run mllker, and cream separator and plenty of water: large hog barn: modern and up-to-date 3110: good 7-room frame house; corn crib; sheds; poultry house; and all buildings that go to make up an up- -to- -date farm. Included with this place are 36 fine Guernsey cows; some of which are mg'istered; a. number of horses; sheep; chgickens; hogs: young cattle and other live-stock; 11.1302 trac- tors; manure Spreaders; binders; and all other farm machinery; them is also a. milk route in the city of mm, which averages $15. 00 a day the year around. Cash price of this total proposition. $40, 000. 00. This property is free and clear. Owner 11 take smaller farm as part payment and will take a mortgage back on the farm from. 10 to 20 years at. 6%. Write W. F. Umphrey. Evan. Mich. Equipped 160 Acres on Main Highway Near Large City Including 3 horses. 3 cattl e, chickens. farm imple- ments, some furniture. only 1 mile to town with store, school and churches, short drive over improved road to large city, mail delivered, telephone, products sold .at door: 80 acres slightly rolling tillage, fine pasture, Watered by -creek. wood for home use variety of line fruit; 2 story, 8 room house, painted. full basement, flne water, pleasant surroundings: 40 ft. basement ham, nementedp mly, hay fork. other buildings. Price for all only $5700 with $1500 cash down. easy. This fine fertile farm may be yours if you act quickly. er ilton Ho kins. Coopersvllle. M111" or M‘IGHO-IGAN FARM A ENOY. 628 Ford Bldn . IJlotrot. $1500 Gets So. Michigan Farm 80 Acres Fully Equipped no“ bu. com, 26 bu. beans. 60 bu. oats 18 T. sugar wn to acre: schools, stores. churches; conve- nlent R. town: city 111 arkets; 70 acres tillage. wire- fenoed [mum-e; apple's. pears. plums. cherries. peaches, he‘s-lea: unable 2-3141 -room house. 70- ft. hosemeut barn. granary gwnor unable. Cooperate. 16.800 gets it: 3 horses, 100 hens, vehicles, Wild!" CM» mu. oaoo o to Detroit. ”mph. ‘5' Own: a Farm In Minnesota, Dakota, Montana. Idaho. Washington or Oregon. Crop payment or easy terms. Free lit- erature. Mention state. H. W Byerly, 71 Northern Pacific Ry., St. Paul. Minn. ' Dry snd Irrlgated Wyoming Agency lt a n c h es. Chicken Dairy and Stock Farms, Homestead Relinqulshment: glieagi Trades. City Lots. Stores. Summer Homes. 1' ts. Licensed and Bonded Dealer, Glendo, Wyoe in the great fruit and tannin Buya Farm country of Northwest Arkansas where land is cheap and terms are reasonable. For free literature md list of farms write J. M. Doyel Mountalnburg. Arkansas. F A R M S Sunny Southern Jersey. Many a bargains Catalog just out. Copy tree. Stocked and equipped. Some rec only $500 cash. Income producing homes. Vineland Farm Agcy” 549A-1 Landm Ave. Vlneland. N. J. Polorado -— irrigated FOR SALE Soudthcasternrflg‘med non-l ranches. Write for free information. Company. Lamar. Colorado. GRAB THIS. Forty acres. famous fruit secotl on. Good hone. Plenty fruit. Railroad {are paid. Only $800 needed. Free list other Michigan farm bargains. Allin! Sh irley, Rose St., Kalamazoo. Mich. FOR SALE—147 acres. good land, new bull 3 miles to town on reward road. consider trade for smaller property, going to sent» the best offer soon. Geo. Rundle. Olivot. 1513131113311. 160 ACRESh A" fenced ‘30 groom lmlgro'dc, be an 11 a. 'r 1101:1111. “ab“ a are or rou 5 91111141011153 sooner. velro-s. telephone andB. PHD Good 0lil‘. North 11113:: cm Mich Development Bureau Box 2. Bay City. Mich. ESell your property quickly for cash, no matte: when located. Particulars on. Realm Salesman 011.. 515 Bmwnell. Uncoln. Nob. Poor Man’ a Chance 1’???» “mm“ Broduotlveu land 113:; mg: nghimbor. "11mg . :; ewv‘fixw " l. ',, L. K ‘ . ‘ Choice location. - 80 Acre l ed'lls W “W was” was «saw-e WILL BUY“ Mos.” 2121 (“art Ave. aw. 1 $928 597' Formulas for ' PRINGTIME is the season when S soap—making is of most interest F on the farm. In earlier years soap was produced in the home, but now-a-days this industry has passed to the factory, and fewer homes take advantage of the’ opportunity to make up a" supply of soaps for home use, due probably to the fact that few housewives now living on the farm know how to perform the task. A few simple suggestions may help. Soap is made from combining fat with lye. These must be used in defi- nite pioportions so that there will not be an excess of eithei Excess oi lat causes a greasy soap; excess 01 lye causes a (-austin soap. The poor qual- ity of the usual home-made products results from the fact that it is not often possible to tell the exact nature of the lat, and then it is impossible to know the correct proportions 01‘ a1— kali to put with it. In general, soaps may be classified as mild, medium and strong. The mild soap-s contain no free alkali. The me- dium and strong soaps centain free alkali, the latter more than the former. Free alkali may be detected in soap by touching it with the tongue. If alkali is present it will nip the tongue. Soaps very often have something ad- ded to increase the cleansing powers, and thus we. have borax and naptha soaps. Borax soaps have borax added to them and naptha soaps have some petroleum product in them. Naptha soaps .should be. used with, cold water, as hot water may cause the petroleum product to vaporize, and thus the cleansing effect is lost. Soaps may also contain resin. It is hard to‘say when resin ceases to be , a favorable addition and becomes an adulterant. In small quantities resin .is valuable, as it whitens the clothes and helps in making suds, but when resin is used in such large. quantities that it gives a dark-brown color to the soap, it can be considered an adult~ erant. ’ Soaps may also contain an excessive amount of water or some insoluble substances which simply increase the weight and bulk. Soaps that float have been kneaded so as to incorporate air. Usually they are made. of good mate- rial and are good soaps, but the float- ing adds nothing. to their cleansing properties. The same amount of ma terial in a much smaller cake would do as much cleaning. Why do we use soap? Rubbing and water alone will remove most dirt, but the removal of dirt is accomplished more quickly by the ,use of soap. The soap-suds penetrate the fiber more completely than does water alone. It. softens the dirt and emulsifies the fat, breaking it up into very small particles, which can be flushed out of ' . the material. . Aside from facilitating theQremoval ‘ of dirt, soap has antiseptic properties. ,Although it is not an efficient disin- fecta'nt in cases of contagious discos. es, it is nevertheless valuable as a firmer for ordinary household Wash- akmg cap at T flat are Practical aim’ 4 Saving to Me. Family Pocéetémé By G. W. Earle air reach it. Dried soap is more eco- nomically used than new soap, as it does not become soft in water as read- ily, and therefore does not waste away so quickly. Laundry soap, if exposed to the air for some time may lose as much "as twenty-five per cent of water. Good Soap Formulas. . A reliable formula for making laun- dry soap is: One pound of lye dis- solved in three pints of cold water, and five pounds of fat clarified and melted. When the lye mixture has cooled, add it to the fat and stir until as thick as honey. Pour into wooden or pasteboard boxes lined with waxed paper, and set away to harden. Either two tablespoonfiuls of borax or one- haif cup of household ammonia, or. both, may be added to the fat before adding to the‘ lye. These simply in- crease the cleansing powers of the soap. Another good soap formula,- contrib- Rose Design in F 1161:- HIS handsome design may be used appropriately on .. dining- room or bedroom linens, curtain edges, runner ends, etc. The upper part may be made as an insertion and works up prettily~ in curtains, etc. The complete design as illustrated will 'make a pretty yoke i‘or camisole, slip— over garments or “nighties.” Use hard twist crochet’ cotton 'ot‘ any desired size, and a steel hook of a size to carry the work easily. Make a chain (ch) of 59 stitches (st), turn. First Row—18 spaces (Sh) Ch 5 to turn. Second Row.~—14 sp, 1 block (bl), 3‘ sp. Third Row—~3 sp, 3 bl, 6 sp, 1 hi, 5 sp. Fourth Row ——5 sp, 3 hi, 4 sp, 3 bl, 3 sp. Fifth Row.—3 sp, 4 bl, 3 sp, 3 bl, 5 sp. . Sixth Row—5 sp, 4 bl, 2 sp, 3 hi, 4 sp. Seventh Row. ——5 sp, 2 bl, 1 sp, 4 hi, 6 sp. Eighth Row. —5 sp, 1 bl, 1 sp, 1 hi, 1 sp, 2 bl, 2sp,1bl,1sp,1bl,2’sp . Ninth Row—2 sp, 2 bl, 7, sp, 1 bl, 1 sp, 1 bl, 4 sp. Tenth Row.——1 spfl bl, 2 sp, 1 bl, 2 sp, 3 bl,"1-sp, 3 bl, 4 sp. Eleventh R0w.-——3 sp, 3 bl, 1 Sp, 5 bl, 2 sp, 2 bl, 2 sp. Twelfth Row. ——4 sp, 8 bl, 2 sp, 1 bl. 3 sp.: , Thirteenth Row.—4 sp, 2 bl, 3 111,4 sp. 5 sp. Fourteenth Row. ——5 sp, 1 111,1 sp, 5. bl,1sp,8bl,2sp ~ - Fifteenth Row. ———1 sp, 3 111,1 sp, 7 ,b1, 18p,1b1, 48p. ' Sixteenth Row. —~3 sp, 2 111,1 sp, ‘7 bl, 1315,2111 2313. , Seveneenth Row. -.‘-3 an, 1 111,. 1 sp, Zblzsp,3b118p..1bl4ap _ Eighteenth Row—5 sp. :1 hi 1' sp, .2 ems first located By Gracia 5/2 24/! '* Nineteenth Row—8 sp, 3 bl, 7 sp. Twentieth Row.——9 sp, 1 bl, 3 sp, 1 hi, 4 sp. Twenty-first Row—3 sp. 2 hi, 2 sp, 1 bl, 1 sp, 1 bl, 3 sp, 1 bl, 4 sp. Twenty-second Row—3 sp, 2 bl, 2 sp., 2 bl, 2 sp, 1 bl, 3 sp, 1 bl, 2 sp. Twenty-third Row.——4 sp, 3 bl, 2 sp, 2 bl, 3 sp, 1 hi, 3 sp. / Twenty-fourth Row—2 sp, 1 bl, 4 sp, 1 bl, 4 sp, 2 bl, 4 sp. Twenty-fifth Row.——4 sp, 1 bl, 1 bl, 6 sp. Twenty-sixth Row—5 sp, 1 bl, 12 sp. Twenty-seventh Row—18 spaces. Repeat the design to length desired, The lower edge of the design is made in a dainty “Baby Irish” pattern. It is made in this way: Catch hook in chvcr Kinks IGHT curtains and children’s thin dresses may be made practically fire-pr‘bofby rinsing in a solution made of eight ounces of alum, ‘eight ounces of‘ ammonium carbonate, two ounces bf boraxL and five quarts of water. Either rinse the fabric in this or use the solution in place of water in mak- ing starch. 6 SP. One housewife makes a substantial saving each year by‘ preparing her own baking powder. The importance is Stressed of obtaining pure ingredi- ents and sifting these together four or five times until they are thoroughly incorporated. A quantity is done at once and stored in perfectly clean and dry frurit cans, a smaller amount being dipped out into an air-tight._‘co'ntainer for everyday use. The rule is. Pure bicarbOnate of soda or regular baking sdda, eight ounces; pure cream of tar-- tar, sixteen ounces, or one pound; cornstarch, four ounces; rice flour, four ounces. “ If the rice flour is not at hand, wheat flour. may be used, or eight ounces of cornstarch. This makes two full. pounds and is used in the regular manner. Once maths have attacked a gar- meat, its value is depreciated and for Woolens and , “ ' desired omit the resin. uted by one of our readers, is as fol- lows; ‘ ‘ Take nine gallons of rain water, bring to a boil. add one pound of .pul- verized resin, one pound of borax, let dissolve sixteen pounds fit . soap grease. Stir, all of the time, four cans of lye to one gallon ‘of rain water, ad“ ding a small amount at a. time, boil the mixture two hours; Stir quite often then let cool, and when cold out in squares and place in wooden or paste- board boxes to dry. if soft soap is This makes a. very good soap. , ' [Crochet first sp and fasten thread firm-1y. ‘ ch 7, picot, ch 7, picot, ch 3, skip 2 spac- es, single‘ crochet 1, ch 6, skip 2 spac- es, single crochet 1. Repeat from * to length of lace, break thread, start at first picot loop and make second row. Second Row—Fasten thread firmly in center of loop between picots. “ ch 7, 4 treble crochets over 6 ch in pre- vious row, ch 7.1 so between picots in next loop. Repeat from * to length of, lace. Break thread. Third Row.———Catch in center of lst 7'ch, * ,ch 10, so 1 over next 7 ch. Repeat from! to end of lace. Break thread. f” Fourth Row—Nine treble crochets over lst 10 ch, * sc over next, 9 treb- les over next. Repeat from * to end of lace. -Fasten. ’ 1n the Home erly Hone at home and are decidedly soiled, it is best to have them steam- cleaned and pressed. Furs should be shaken and lightly beaten to dislodge . any of the insects. or their eggs, but nothing rough should be fused" which will wear or tear the fur or the skin. Mix the following powder in a bowl and dip it by spoonfuls into cheese. cloth bags three inches square. Fill these very loosely. Take clean sheets which have ~been freshly'launde'red.“ Old ones will do. Lay each piece ”of “fur byitself in a separate cheat or cloth and put two or three 0f the pie- ventive bags, according to the size of the garment, in place Fold and pin. Here is _ the moth powder rule: Powdered cinnamon two .ounces; powdered ~ ands, two. ounces; thrum powder, eight ounces; Scotch snuff, two ounces; gum camphor, one ounce; cedar sawdust, eight ounces; napthalene, eight ounces; oi-l of euca- 1yptus, two ounces. Blend the cinnamon the ems. séw- ' - dust, napthalene; pynemmm, and the" gum camphor together Laetly, “stir in. the oil of eucalyptus and the: Scotch Snuff, Cover the nose while .blendingfy-j, ' in the sting. .Fut at once into hasn't: = PYI'B' ‘ tA i,mak’e linoleum of a worn- rug, , tatoes, then pare. them in cold water. for a short time, ,tbor thin or they, will break.- Fry them sl‘owiy in butter a light brown color and drain them from grease ,%.-1er Hutu/raid Problems laidrm aII Letter: 6*, 1411:4me Matt, M 10!." '. -. ~4 ' 1. CANN ENG BULLETINSL Can you. give me the address where to send fer a geod cold-pack Canning bulletin on how to can the different fruits, vegetables’ and meat?—Mrs. A W. . If you will w11te the United States Department of Agriculture at Wash- ington, D. 0., they will furnish you with the bulletins you want. ' "SUBSTITUTE LlNOLEUM. I Would like to know just how t1; as have heard of it bemg, done Is it: practical, considering expense and durability?——Mrs. R. B. It is possible to make a home-made linoleum. Use iold rag ,or ingrain car- pet or matting and paint with the de- sired color. If a border is desired, the pattern may first be oulined. in chalk and, then the design painted. It is nec- essary to give two and sometimes three coats of paint, according to the grade of paint used. If. a cheaper and lighter paint is used: three coats are necessary. Let each coat become thor- oughly dry before the next one is ad- ded.‘ After the last coat is thoroughly dry, it adds greatly to apply a coat of water-proof varnish. Following these directions carefully one will have a good substitute for floorcovering. It can be made cheap- , r ’ er than commercial linoleum can be, -purchnsed; but it is not always prac- ' tical. If the right kind of paint is not used, it will sometimes clove off in small "places and the carpet will be- come water-soaked when cleaned. The additional amount. of money needed to purchase a. good grade of linoleum is well invested for it-wiil last a long time if well taken “care of. HOM-INY' WITH SODA.- ‘ *‘fi ‘ Look over carefully three pints of sweet, or white corn. Set iron ket- tle over the fire and 1111 half full of hot water. Pour in the corn and add three heaping tablespoons of baking soda. Boil steadily for two hours, or until the hull is loosehed on the corn. Pour off what water is left and empty corn into large pan half full of cold water. Wash corn thoroughly, rubbing between‘the hands to remove the' hull and the little black points- After thor~ oughly washed, return to [kettle and boil for ten minutes. Change the wa- ter again and boil until the corn is done, when each kernel will be soft and tender. Put into a crock and heat as needed, seasoning with butter and salt—Mrs. M. W. I wish to thank all the readers who so willingly contributed this recipe for hominy.—Ed. Easter Dinner Goodies 0 Surprise her family and guests with a new food or with a “unique way of‘ serving an old one, is the happiest of feats : in the home-makers’ bag of tricks. When you are planning your Easter dinner, per- haps some of these “will strike the spot” needed to sharpen the appetite when it begins to lag in the spring. Cream 'of Celery Soup—A pint of milk, a tablespoonl’ul of flour, one ta- blespoonful ofi butter, a head of celery, 3. large slice of onion, and a small piece of mace, boil celeny in. one pint of water from thirty to forty-five min- utes. ge-ther. Mix hour with two table- , spoonfuls of cold milk and add to boil~ , jug milk? Cook ten minutes. Mash celery in the water in which it has ‘been cooked and stir into boiling milk, add butter 'with salt and pepper to taste. Serve at once. Ham Salad. ——Cl1op fine one pint of lean cold boiled’ ham, or take equal quantities of deviled and freshly boil‘-. ed ham.\ Soak one tablespoonl‘ul of granulated gelatine in three table-l spoonfuls of cold water, and when soft add it to one scant cupiul of boiling stock and stir until dissolved. Mix this with the ham, seasoning highly with. paprikamustard and a few drops of catsup, and put aside until it is cool and just beginning to thicken, stir in lightly the stiflly whipped white ' of one egg and one-half cupful of whip- 'ped cream Turn into vetted moulds and stand in a cool place until firm, ‘ turn out on a bed of 111311ch lettuce and garnish with mayonnaise. , Potato Ribbons. —Wash several po~ When. peeled lay than pare them round as you would for an nipple, but do not cut the curls File the Boil mace, onion and milk 10-- ribbons on a hot dish and serve. Easter Cup Cakes.—One~ha1f cupfui of butter, one-half cupful of milk, one and one-half cupi’uls of sugar, two cup- fuis of flour, three eggs, two teaspoon- fu-Is of baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, then flavoring, add the milk, then'the bak- ing powder, sifted with flour, and last- ly the whites beaten stiff and dry. Bake in deep gem. pans and frost with O A Sunday Dimzer in 1425er l A S the weather commences to I break, and spring begins to bud, the spring fever creeps into our bones and our appetite seems to flee with King Winter. Mother’s big job is to think of something that' will stimulate that appetite. This week for/the best letter‘ with menu and recipes suitable for .a Sunday dinner in April we will give an aluminum double boiler. The second prize will be an aluminum preserving kettle, while the third, fourth and fifth prizes will be aluminum sauce pans. ‘ Address your letters to Mar- tha Cole, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Michigan, before April 13. E white frosting. A small toy chicken placed on each will make them very attractive 1’01 Easter. lee Creadedding—Heat in double boiler one smart of sweet milk to boil- ing point, yolks of two eggs beaten light, four tablespooniuls of sugar, two tablespoonfnls of cornstarch, one-' ._ half teaspoonful or vanilla, one-hilt magnesium of lemon extract, whites '94 two eggs, beaten totroth. Mix sags , ‘ar and cornstarch and add to boiling- ... 61111111,me addeggsJetboilror three minutes, take from stove and .._oool._~ that till lever not, beaten whites. Put on top {or frosting - um, large and extra large. a i" " 9 i. 4’: Send all orders for patterns to Pan tern Department, Michigan Farmer, ' Detroit, Michigan, and be sure to state . also wanted, . 4303 No. 4300—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in seven sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 51/, yards of 40-inch ma- terial. The width at the foot with plaits extended is 2% yards. Price 120. No. 4303—Misses’ Dress. Cut in three sizes, 16,18 and 20 years. An 18-year size requires 5%, yards of 40~ inch material. The width at the foot is 2%, yards, with plaits extended. Price 121;. id 4.319 No. 4319—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 6, 8,10 and 12 years. A ten- year size requires 17/8 yards of 36-inch material for the waist and 1% yards of contrasting material for the skirt. To make of ne material requires three yards 3 inches wide. Price 121:. No. 4320—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12- year size requires 41/4 yards of 36-inch material. Without the bertha 3% yards is required. Price 12c. No. 3809—Ladies' Work or Home Dress. Cut in six sizes, 34, 36,38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38- inch size requires five yards of 36- inch material. The width of the skirt a; the foot is about two yards. Price c No. 4306—Ladies’ Apron and Dust Cap Cut in four sizes: Small medi- A medium size requires 21/2 yards of 36-inch ma— terial for the apron. ‘For the cap three-quarters of a yard is required. Price 12c 21.0.. wing-Child’s Play Suit. Cut in fountains. 2;.4, 6 and 8 yam“ .20” - , your also requires 3% yards of 82-inch ,1. ~Attractwe Sty/e: that will Help Y on with Your Spring Sew: " .saflr material. To trim as illustrated quires flve-eighths of a yard 01' c trusting ,_ material 32 inches wide ‘ Price 12c. \; No. 4325—Gii‘ls’ Night Gown and; Bed Socks. Cut in seven sizes: One, year, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. .A‘ six-year size requires 2% yards 0!; 36-inch material. One pair of cooks. requires five- eighths of a yard of ma-s firial 22 inches wide or wider. Price c. . No. 3736~—Ladies' House Dress. Cut in six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size will require 514 yards of 38-inch mate~ rial. Price 12c. No. 4276—“Easy to Make” Apron Cut in four sizes: Small, medium, large and extra large. A medium size requires 21/8 yards of 36-inch material. Price 12c. No. 3930—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. A simyear size requires 31/, yards 01 32-inch ma- terial. Price 12c. No. 4152—Girls' Dress. Cut in four sizes, 6, 8,10 and 12 years. A 10-year size requires 2%yards of 44-inch man terial. Price 120. No 3705~Ladies’ House 42%! in seven sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inch bust measme. A 38-inch size will requiie 6% yards of 27-inch mate. rial. The width at the foot is 2% yards. Price 120! No. 4261—Ladies’ Home or Porch Dress. Cut in seven sizes, 34, 36, 38. ‘ 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 47/3 yards ‘1 32-inch material. The width at the foot is 214 yards. Price 120. , Nd. M11116 Rmm—flh' musings 2,4, 6and§yeam Exocr- your size requires 2% yards 04 ”40.211 mater-hi . Price 120,-- , No. madman Dress .Cut in four. ‘ stalemz ,4. s and 8 years. - Affirm Mdflvim‘fl! ”nib? lPx-icel Baby Chicks Put Avicol 1n the Drinking Water Most people lose half of every hatch, 'and seem to expect it. Chick cholera, or white diarrhoea, is the cause. An Avicel tablet in the drinking water will save your chicks from all such diseases. \Vithin 48 hours the sick ones will be live- ly as crickets. Mrs Wm. May, Rego, -'Ind., writes “I was losing 10 or 15 Chicks 11 day from diarrhoea before I received the Avicol. I haven’ 1'. lost one since. " It costs nothing to try Av.icol Use it either for preventing or treating white diarrhoea and all bowel diseases of poul- try. It not satisfied, your money will be promptly refunded. old by your local dealer. or send 50c for package by mail {repaid (or $1 for” large size holding 2% lmes as much) BURRELL -DUGGER CO. 424 Columbia Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind. EVERLAY- Leduonns :Et‘ltnlu boslness benl Woods 'm teat G Hm wt N AY I n m M." 0' or - (Isle-go. d vigorolll .gs. Chick‘; ,shlpped . . Cataloguing. - many nuns Isa fl GEO. H. Lee's 'Just Out- 400. 000 Copies Tells about poultry trouble and disease _ - —how to avoid, ow to remedy when already presen at. Mr Lee isthe most wid consulted ' chicken doctor’fin the world. his latest book is much ter- containin NEW POULTRY 300K AND see arcono rats one you have. GEO. I'LLEE Col-5L5 Haney Ste.. Omaha, Neb. Detroit Incubator $1215 [a Size— Guaranteed —- has double walls. copper tank. tull- size s|.ursery automatic regulation thermometer held so that chicks cannot break It when hatchln. Detroit Incubator Co." .11; ”Opt- 1 1 Merritt 5L, Detroit. Mich V. l40/nfxgfior Made of alifornin ‘ . Redwood. covered with galvanize: . iron double wallsai 3 space between, built '~' to last tor years: deep ' chick nursery, hot water heat. win. copper tanks. Shipped complete, setup,readytorun, freig htp 140 £00 IIGUBITOR WITII BINDER $19. 75 250 E00 11111111111011.1101; OI". 23. 50 200 E00 “003"”, WITH BINDER 32. 90 at days' trial-money incl: if not 0. K ~FllEE catalog Ironclad Incubatorco. 391191 Racinew $139: Buys 140- -Egg Champion Belle CityI Incubator not-Water. Copper Tank is Wallss Flreh Board, 8&1! Re lateodés . 0r evenlys .95 Buys 23o-Egg‘ Incubator- ck Brooder .995 Buys 230-Chi Both When opreaa Prepaid Rockies and Allowed West 3:103ng 01 do: now. 1 o 0:13;". boar-"11.1 acts. " It he‘ll-m overythin‘J JcMTPg-u - VOItyInoub-t ‘ rco. . l4 Racine Wis. 34-, ”gigglmulrymrslggs 30 Days [rial Freight Paid east of the ‘ Rock k,1es Hot water ' p_er tanks—double walls—dm‘ V air space—double glass doors —a real bargain at $18.25 Shipped complete, set up ready to use. 140 Egg Incubator and Breeder - 317. 75 130 Egg Incubator Alone - .. . 15.75 180 Egg Incubator and Broader - sec El: incubator Alone - - - 350 la; Incubator and Broader - ladsofCalifornis Redwood—lasts lifetime. Positively the beetal val no on the market today. Order the size you was“; direct from this ad. 80 days trial—money back . If not ready to order now, don't‘ buy 1111921“ “Isstalc helm. (Us. , ”um .800l8ll "0'0"“ 00. .4 . 3. ~ More Chicks --- Less Cost -Tl11s brooderV 1s a chick-saver and a money er. it raises more and better chicks, at oth hr d Stove 1s best . mimosa“... 1.31.1 {iii—553.11 1.1 and ac . g. It burns soft- chea br let fuel fllfarfedStly' (Stills fuel costs in Stove w1l'V -aleo burn hard coal, woo , 1 coke. etc. Rexula’tormain-. talus even heat night-and ' _ day. 5N0 trouble. fiVSiseie ' make an ac UBERCULVOSIS might occurin' the best managed flocks of poul- try. but here is my experience and observatidn‘. Most of the losses,- occur in flocks that are pourly housed and fed. Many poultrymen who have been in business for years now have healthy, vigOrous flocks because they have always paid strict attention to sanitation and car‘elul V'bieeding meth- ods. Until more knowledge of avian tu- berculosis is obtainable from the fine work 01 such scientists as Dr. Staf- s',eth of the M. A. C., the 1111101113111 This leads up to the poultryman s" relations with the trained veterinarian... I believe that there has, generally been . . little demand for a veterinarlun’s ser— . vices among poultrymen. When hens have died they have usually died one at a time. The farmer reasons that the loss is small, so why bother about it. If all the unnecessary losses of a' year are added up it may equal the loss of a 09111 or a couple of hogs. Then it is Worth considering. Vete1inarians cannot be blamed for a lack of interest in poultry. Their business comes from the owners of poultrymen will have to follow out methods which are now known as con- dusive to poultry health. All 01' us who have money invested in poultry have 10 take the risk of diseases the same as is “he of breeders of other kinds of live stock. Those who are careless with their birds are literally sitting on a keg of- dynamite all the time. All of us can afford to give the college the best support possible in its work to eradicate poultry diseases. I try and read all the bulletins I can obtain which discuss tuberculosis of fowls so I can use that information to prevent the trouble in my own flock. In many different fax-1n journals in- quiries from 'subscribers are frequent— ly printed asking about tuberculosis and describing symptoms which prove that; disease is present in their flocks. It is interesting to read the answers of the various poulti'ymen who are us- ually practical poultry raisers. Some of these answers are very discourag- ing _to the owners of the flocks. A farmer’s wife writes in and tells that the flock is suffering constant losses from a disease which the editor knows is probably tuberculosis. The owner of this flock says that most of their cash income iS'l'rom the hens and they live on a mortgaged farm \Vhat. can the answer be? In many cases it is very discouraging. The poultiy owner is told to kill and burn llie‘sick'birds and then sell all of the good ones for meat. Then wait about six months and alien Va thorough dismfection of the premises sta1t own .with new stock from a healthy flock. When I get an i11qui1y like that I always advi 1se consulting the local vet- erinarian who can inspect Vthe flock pe1sonally and 'give his 1ecommenda-v tions after noting all of the birds and observing their condition. He can find out a lot about the housing conditions and the methods of feeding which may have some healing on the cond1t1on of the flock. ' Tuberculosis in a valuable flock of poultry is too serious to permit any snap judgment or long distance .reo ommendations. _ As Dr. Stafseth advis- the layman is not equipped to; 1, an olmeaVi'nV‘V wh1ch is a sparrow VbrVe'ed-V fie Ediégnosls of {liber- Visor: Then immerses: for abeiit‘ a: ;;'cm1sjm “fowls, A's “even skilled v’et ”95581! W Vsée thatfino unhealthls signs'VM co-V' erina'rians may have to make labor- 3925831? ,atOry‘ examidations to mak3“""" “53 . cur-ate diamosis .. V‘_“V' . 4-5"}: the can; a ot‘ii: makde A Unique Poultry Sorting Coop Used by E. E. Shaw, South Haven. horses, cows. and hogs and the d0g re- ceipts are no small item to some Vcity veterinarians. If poultl'ymen want vet» erinariafls to study their problems and be qualified to handle cases of avian luberc’ulosis (hey must be willing to pay 101' the service and realize that their flock is worth accurate advise in time 01' trouble. I hope that all veterinarians will fol- low the Work of D1. Stafsetwh of the Michigan Experiment Station, for the poultrymen of this state. It will en- able them to be very helpful in solv- ing the poultry problems of some see tions and I hope the poultrymen will be willing to pay adequately for the service. When a flock of hens On the farm were only maintained for home use the cont1ol 0f disease caused little w01'1'.y When ihe flock is worth from $500 to several thdusand dollars, and f'utule business operations are based on the flock continuinanV h_'éalth it is another prOblem. - Practical Methods. 1 have not had any trouble with tu- be1culos1s and know a lot of farmers who have avoided that t1 ouble. I have had a great many 'inquiries from farm flock owners who' had fowls evidently dying of tuberculosis. I haVe conclud- ed that Careful management is a great facto1 in eon11ol. I think lice and miles are an important cause of hens go'in‘g’ light and haying tubercumsis, Lids and mites soothe st1 ength of the hens and undermine their Vitality. This makes them more subject to dis- case ‘1‘" SparroWs can carry tubercuIOSis. They Can be c0ntrolled by covering the open fionts'of houses with fine' mesh wire, Th'ei Vbreedmg pieces can be destloyed and rappmg, shooting and pmsonmga‘WIllsbe helpful The spar;_ row- pest is (11111:; to centre] because entire seemed/Side not fight them: at- once 0.111; Jaimer may fight them quite successfully while another 1111's ing establishment be of utmost interest to poultry ra'iser‘s who have had. estrous losses from White Diarrhea. We will let Mrs. Bradshaw tell of her experience _in her own words: _V V ‘ “Gentlemen: I are reports 'of so White Diarrhea, so thought I would tell my experience. great many from this cause, tried many remedies and was about dis- couraged. As a last resort I sent to the Walker Remedy (20., Dept: 507. Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walks mWhite Diarrhea Remedy. I used 50c packages raised 300 White Wyahdo‘ttcs and never lost one or had one sick after giving the medicine, and my chickens are larger and healthier than ever before. I have found this com- pany thoroughly reliable and. always get the remedy by return .--Mrs. .M. Bradshaw, Beacons‘fie Iowa.” Cause of White Diarrhea White Diarrhea is caused by the Bacillus Bacterium Pullorum. This germ is transmitted to the baby chick through the yolk oi the newly hatched egg. Readers are warned to beware of White Diarrhea. Don’t wait until it kills half your chicks. Take the “stitch in time that saves nine.” Re- 5member, there is scarcely a hatch *without some infected chicks. Don’t ilct these few infect your entire flock. » Prevent it. Give Walko in all drinking ' water for the first two weeks ahd you won’t lose one chick where you lost hundreds before. These letters proVe it: Never Lost a Single Chick Ind., writes: “I have lost my shareo chicks from White Diarrhea. Finally I sent for the packages of Walko. I raised over 500 chicks and I never lost a single chick from White Diarrhea. Walko not only prevents 'White Diar- rhea, but it gives the chicks strength and vigor; they develop quiCkcr and feather earlier.” Never Last One Alter- Firsi Dose lithe Rhoades. Shenandoah, Iow'ars, V tes: “ My first incubator chicks, w en but a few days old, he- gan to die by the dozens with White Diarrhea. I tried diifcrcnt remedies and War about discouraged with the chicken business. Finally I‘ sent to the Walker Reality. Cd. Waterloo, Iowa, for aibox of VWVa-lko, White Diar- rhea Remedy I just the only thing for this :tcrrible disease. We raised 700 thrifty, healthy Chicks and never lost a single chick after. the first dose.” You Run No Risk We will send Walko White Diar- rhea Remedy courtly at our risk —post gc cprc'paidé—so you can see for yourse edy it is for White Diarrhea in baby chitks. so you can prove-418 thou; Sands have prawn—that it will stop your losses and double, treble, ev'etr quadruple your profits. Send 50c for package of Walke— give it in all drink- ing fater for the first two weeks and we lye/results. You’ll find you won’t lose one chick: where. jail lost hun— dreds before. It’s .‘a fictitive feet. We guarax’itce .it. The Lc‘avitt' & Johnson National Bank, the oldest and strong-4 es 111 WatL'rloo, flows, mas bag): 19; fee; You run no money will be Instantly. refunded. ‘—————~_ WALKER scissor 9°» Dept. s‘o7 '~' Waterloo. Iowa. .. 1 , Buymg miegtod stpck is a' source of 8"“! “A: tuberculgsis =w11é" great care should’i- birds c1111; all.‘ s pf health and _I have occasionally seep hens Vtvpoadtry shows th'btc lbbk" _VVVe‘d about 61.1 . $th be: buying new birds V'IV k'en‘ which» out 3.5511111.) v, _v . '. .1 - V . _ .: > 71H", ”1‘5 The following letter willrrto doubt many losing their little chicks with I used to late a - Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, , what a wonder-working rem- ~ aVVVou’t fidd. it: the greatest ~ little chick sa'v'cr you ever used, ytiur. \. .__,..__ .M—n—v-u-‘N. / ~. giving the poultry good .care‘. balanced mash. green 4 V £696 and: clean .w-ater help toms-kc the birds resistant to disease Many flocks .’ ' that scorned infected with tuberculosis are carelessly: fed in the winte1;_Some-- tithes ea‘r‘ (an-n side're6 good enough to keep them alive until swing. Often the houses one damp and dirty and Contain no scratching lltte1. Such houses become very dangerOus. . Culling has done a lot to 1educe the losses of tuberculosis. Birds that were unthrifty and an easy prey to disease have been thiown out. The vigorous and alert pallets which scratch and sing and lay a1e the most resistant to disease.- ‘ According to Dr. Stafseth there is an increase in tuberculosis of hogs and thirteen. per cent of the hogs slaught- ered in this country are tuberculous. It has been l‘ound that the tuberculosis of poultry can be transmitted to hogs. This is certainly an added point for Many farms with only a small flock of hens could not afford to have those‘hens i11- jure the hog profits- which are a large source of the farm income. In conclusion. I would say that the poultryrnen 01‘ Michigan are fortunate in having a 1112111 who is taking a spe- cial interest in the investigation of poultry diseases. It is a workthat , has been very superficially covered in most states and all the work that Dr. Statsetb-can do'to: help us to prevent poultry diseases Should be appreciat- ed. The old advice to take the axe to every sick hen was a cure all right but not a. satisfactory one. All of 11s with money invested in the pOultry business want to succeed and keep down the woriy as much as possible. We can do it by practicing sanitary methods and making every effort to keep only vigozods and thrifty fowls which are the ones most resistant to disease. THE INTERNATIONAL EGG-LAY- lNG CONTEST. ‘llE recent st01m caused a slump oi show. 300 eggs in the contest moduction during the week ending \Iarch 20. \Iost of the slump came hugely from the heavier breeds. The contest birds were also having some tiouble with fowl cholera, and a few birds have been lost as a. result of an acute form 01 this 1. isease. Reports that contest authorities are getting in- dicate that the disease is prevalent throughout the state, consequently they are doing some experimental work and hope to have some informa- tion to offer for cholera control. .. The White Leghoms owned by Mr. Shaw strengthened thei1 position as leaders by the high week- production of titty—five eggs. This pen now has a total production of 845 eggs. Next comesthe pen of \Vyandottes of the Evergreen Poultry Farm wit-h a total production 01'790 eggs. The Plymouth Rocks hold third "place because the pen belonging to the Brummers’ Poul— try Farm has a total of 741 eggs. H. E. Dennison’s Rocks 'hold fouith place with 710 eggs. and O. S Thompson’s White Leghorns follow closely with 708 eggs. EXAMINE} INTERNAL ORGANS. chickens get the diarrhea and can' walk. Some get over it in a day or two and some linger as much as two weeks. They have a nice coop and dry litter to scratch in. I feed oats, barley and cracked corn and in the evening c n on co sour \milk, dry bran and mddlings. What would cause it; J. C ' “ digestive lie to some : no mouldy' corn. and ice water is c0n~ 'wet cabbage leaves, potato peelings, ' (11‘ commercial Chick feed, thxee feeds just as quickly as the chicks can han- dle it. weeks old. Free range with plenty of green foOdI and shade produces the .most economical g1'0wth. fifty per cent cxacked corn. bran; twenty per cent middlings: . meat scrap; five per‘cent buttermilk (powdered). 'able. / . f1'_om rough activities on the part of the male bllds in the flock. Lameness may also be due to rheumatism caused by dampness and exposure. Lameness accompanied by rapid emaciation is often a sign bf tuberculosis The spots on the liver are also a symptom. A laboratory emulation is necessary to definitely determine if fouls have Illtube‘i'culosls. , . . . that is present onlya few days may be due to rheumatism. Continued lameness and lapid emacia- tion aie symptoms of tuberculosis. . Try giving the hens some powdered charcoal and be s111eithat they receive Possibly the condi~ tion of the flock will show rapid im- piovement as soon as they can get cut on the range SICK RABBlTS.I ~ Please advise me what to do for my tame rabbits. They seem to have a diarrhea and will sometimes live a week or so, but there seems to be no way 01‘ saving them. \l‘e lost seven or more last summer and now there is one sick, They are real fat and seem healthy-until they come down with it. ——A. H. Digestive disorders in rabbits usu- ally occur from too rapid changes in the diet or the feeding of too much juicy green feed. A heavy feeding of etc. might catise‘ the trouble. A few feeds of dry barley meal are good for rabbits with diarrhea- When acorns can be obtained they can be powdered and ‘fed in skim-milk with beneficial results. .There is much less trouble in raising hutch rabbits when their diet" is confined largely to dry oats, milk, clover hay and occasionally a carrot. The use ofa large assortment of mis- cellaneous green feed is always caus- ing sudden changes in the diet with danger of bowel trouble. ESSENTIALS OF CHICK RAISING, (Continued l'rOJn' page 457). , food, and one Jaw egg This proper-- tron Should give the proper consist-1' ency and makes a very palatable and nutritious chick feed. Feed five times, every two and one-half hours apart.- Keep skim-milk available throughout the growing season if possible. Fourth Day.———Feed commercial chick feed twice. Feed egg mixtu1e thiee times at reguhu intervals throughout , Filth to Foulteenth Day. —-Two feedsl of egg m1xtu1 e, one feed of green food, 'sprouted oats preferred. Place bran in flat hopper available at all times. ' Fourteenth Day to Ten Weeks. ——.The quickest gains can be secured by moist mash. Feeding of the following in- giedients, bran middlings, ground oats, and corn meal in equal parts. This should be moistened with skim— milk. If skim-milk-is not available, ten per cent meat scrap or high-grade} tankage should be used in the mash to' supply the animal protein. Coarser grains such as cracked corn and wheat can be substituted for the chick feed If labor is scarce the grain can be hoppe1 filed after the chicks are six Tenth Week to Matu1‘ity.——Segregate Sc1 atch Feed. ——Fifty per cent wheat; "€15.55 The Best laying one... an Ear“: ' Barron English Wh‘itc Leg homo. Brown km and An- - N .fI,’ canal. Dunn¢1923 we will sell so me strong, healthy manger- . . hatched chicks weekly, bred from strai ns lucked by 18 your: m“, of actual egg breeding on our Farms. '1‘ be enormous output these quality chicks enables us to sell than Money makers gt a price unequalled. Our 000 ks are culled out annually by poultry exp crts and are mated ' to large,- vigorous 2601-288 egg FedizreeJ Mala from mink Farm direct. . Hundreds of customers Reporting Profits «u A. Ball Port Huron. Nllch. The pullots E01 hBe fifflgt‘gh‘fle: £3? ‘sgnleg‘gz began to In) at 4‘15 months old and .11 crazed o'ver £13300 clear 1.11.16: last. year. 351”" “'3“ each h" ”"9 “0“)" W V vant. Harbor pr ing Mich writes. F. I Hess. Chicago. Ill. writes. I moraged m 1 .r’ Il'.’ eggs is day from 140 hem-1 .1IInd sold We gotlfi‘fieggsiu lanuniy {rum 180 pulleh . 3'. '18 "(I of em in l'elnuary. Raise Good Stock and Reap a Golden Harvest We don't boast on a few high record birds but our extraordinary flock‘ 3 average has at- tained our present high 5 andard. Intelligent chick buycIrsI look for these qualities and we assure you we have them. Get our 1923 large catalog now. it' s free. Wynganlen Hatchery, Box M, Iceland. Michigan Vigorous High Producing PureBred BabyChicks (”may 150' 000 “‘““",”,f,";"" Fully guaranteed, direct from Trapncstcd. Pedigreed Tom Barton and Holly- »-,\ ‘ ' letting wood Imported White Leghorns. World' a champion layers. Not iust a few ‘ ' I 300- 131 birds but I high flock average egg productionwthnt s where you make your profit. Halr‘hed in the largest and fine-st Hatchery in Michigan. by tho-e who know how. Bar‘aln prices if you order now. We can also save you money on Brown 1.:1 g,l1nrmu Ancnnns, Barred Rocks Rhoda Island Reds and White Wynndottel. Satisiaction guaranlood or your monoy back. Handsome, complete catalog fro. for m asking. Writ. for it today. SUPERIOR P001. ' FARMS. Dept. 101 Iceland, Mich, ILSJL BABY CHICKS Pure Bred to lay from carefully mated Flocks of standard Quality and for Egg Production. We offer you exceptional values in the breeds, Leghorns, Rocks, Reds W. Wyandottes Orpingtons, Minorcas and Anconas. Our prices are right when Quality IS 1'11: '- consideration. This should be the main point in view. For suc- 1 uses, get our Big Catalog of Chicks and Brooders we have a special offer for on also how to care for your chicks after you have them. It is ree. Wolf‘llalclling 81 Breeding co. Dept. 10, Gibsonburg, flhio l BUY HUBER'S <5 RELIABLE 011an Our 14th Year ---- 1,000,000 for 1923 By Parcel Post Prepaid -100% LIVE DELIVERY. Give us your order for some d our RELIABLE CHICKS and we will prove that We give you better chick: for the money than xou can get elsewhere. COMBINATION OFFER and SPECIALS OFFERED. Order early. Write for prices and Free Illustrated Catalog HIber’s Reliable Hatchery, East High St., Fostoria, Ohio BABY CHICKS Postpaid to your Door, $11 per 100 Up FROM HOGAN TESmhlllll r‘lll-I-l‘ l1\\( 1 HE. A'\ l LAYING FLOCKS. ALL V ARIETIES. WHITE, BROWN and BUFF Ll‘( 3011\8 and ANCUNA‘ ............................................. $1301) BARRED ROCKS and R. I. REDS ................................................................... $14 00 WHITE WYANDO’I‘TES WHITE RDCKS, BUl' l" ROCKS S -‘ R1. AC’K MINORCAS. BLWB‘ ORI’ING'I‘ONS ......................................................... 5151.11 EXTRA SELEX‘TED I'DOCKS ........................................................ $2.00 per 100 mg 131' All lots of 500. or more discounted I. urge Price list for return mail Postpaid lull llv'e deliveiy guaranteed. Hatchrd b1 the most modern mtthod of 11111111311011 110m good. vigorous. pure- bred varieties. carefully selected and safely pained No tnlalogue. Order right {rum this ad and save time and disappointment Reference. Chenninz State Bank or any business in Chesaning “dross BABION’ 5 FRUIT AND POULTRY FARM. Guy I... Bablon. Prop. .. Cllesanlno. Mich. Buy “Better Quality” CHICKS We are in a position to furnish (hi1 ks from some of the best flocks of ENGLISH “'Hl'lr: LEG'HORNS and ANCONAS to be had. regardless of price. from which we 11111.1 l1 our chitks and have them inspect our modem equipped hatchery broilers and hopper-feed both scratch 100% good Hue chicks and your absolute satisfaction guaranteed. feed and dry mash We will be phased to show any prospective unstomer the docks (‘hlcks sent postpald. Instructlve catalogue and prices tree on request. QUALITY HATCHERY, Lock Box 42, Zeeland, Mich. Dry Mash—Thu ty five twenty per per- cent cent corn meal; twenty Grit and skim-milk should be avail- \ . A bird-”may be llamed apparently l GUARANTEED EXCEPTIONOAILM VALUESI IN HIGHEST QUALITY. PROVEN IAYERS . noun: Holy! wintorlny root from Room 1335'” live delivery "3.1-:an 300,000 CHICKS Guaranteed Michigan Bred and Hatched ENGLISH WHITE a BROWN LEGH‘ORNS. SHEPPARD’B Famous Stlrain A2400 8. .1‘ 50‘. 87; 100 :.500 a). 3A RRED ROCKS. ers OER D8.50 88.50100 6-600.NA5. ' ‘ 1000 orders 5.: mrmm.SRHODI-1 ISLAND 311208.100. 18, mflflfi. Postpaid, full llvo deliver-i gum-ant sod. 11.11 yil'rjoroun Chicks from heavy laying. flocks. Order ri t (rout land. WE SATISPSYT OUR 810M [2.88 Catalog tree. Reference Holland -" -State Bank. BOX "9 Holland, Mic}!- CHICKS RURAL LuLoms envy yi I on. Built to! constant breed“: In: coffin“: 1321" Select An large modern “sketching and breeding institution AWtook soient ally Bcdllzd vlmo' vicomuuw males P1110 mcs. 0111c]: 1m mt catalog. It‘- freak FARM, .M- "a zeaana. m/ _, . . When You Write to Advertisers Please Say “I Saw Your Ad. 111 The Michigan Farmer Bred for 1923~ unssive I " influential (“I ' iii! A 60% guarantee ofsex, giving a majoritycot‘ ”either cockerel” or puller chicks, as ordered, plus unsurpassed qualityin high egg bred chicks, bespeaks Utility Hatchery & .Farms mecca, the satisfaction of its customers. Grade AAA. decks are sired by males, sworn records from 250-287. Grade Manx! GradeAfromtestedandselected flocks of exceptional merit. ' gilt? ‘1‘.'.'..‘....l.s.""""°‘.?.7 iii-’25. 3:321.“ “"' “M“ The Utility Hatchery a Farms in giving away 35,” word! of Stock in Amazing 5 ial Contact. Inlommion on contest sent upon receipt oi rec S. C. White Leghorn order. Don't delay. Get started now. Order toni‘ht. Terms cosh. unmmadmmfi‘ down. "minder ”who!“ ‘ A ‘ ORDER FROM UT [TY THESE PRICES s. c. wmrs LEGHOW HATC ERIES 82:: A _ lg; ANDFAR MS cfgfta-sfin- ‘°° —pt. 32 S:C. W‘Wm‘. [7° ZEELAND,MICII. ggggrmgtl. Broiler Chicks _.,__ 10t- "('J'llICKs You can now send your order for Chicks In ll breeds of the Pure Breed Practical Poultry that is making Barred Rock: egg records in the handsot our cus- White Rocks tomers on their own farms. If you own stock that is guaranteed. stock az:1%zh§:d‘ that will make you real money. send Orphinntons for our description and price list .All Le horns— stock guaranteed100%: post paid: We w: B Bufl' want you to try our stock this year. Ancdnalt" It is of the best practical stock you can buy. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION 21." Chase Block. Kalamazoo. Michigan. . .EXEM‘“ iliZLllllK! POSTAGE PAID, 95‘ live arrival guaranteed. MONTH’B FEED FREE with each order 40 Breeds chicks, 4 breeds ducklings, select and exhibition grades. A Hatch Every Week ' All Year NABOB HATCHERY. Catalog free, stamps appre- ciated. Dept. 15, Gambler, O WOLVEBlllE BABY CHICKS Are chicks that satisfy. \ Bred for egg production 13 ,Yrs. , We hatched and shipped chicks ' for 12 years. This assures you " success. English type white and brown Leghorns. 100 i. safe arrival guaranteed. Write for catalogue. It's free. WOLVERINE HATCHERY ZEELAND, MICH. R z Pedigreed Stale Approved 8. 0. w- Leghorn Clilx American-English Strain Ar 8 you going to buy them from a hatchery or from a BREEDER? Buy from Michigan's Largest \ Leghorn Farm and insure success. We hatch our own eggs only. Supply limited. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Descriptive circular tells all about lhcm. It's free Simon Harkoma a'Son, R. 1, Holland, Mich Hardy Northern Bred CHI KS Barron S. 0. White Leghorns. Parks’ Strain Barred Rocks. The greatest egg reducers known. Heavy winter layers. gee record of our pen 16 now at the Michigan International Egg Laying Contest. Get Quality Chicks at Reasonable Prices {Torn HOLLANDS‘ PIONEER POULTRY FARM. Catalog Isl-fell. PINE BAY POULTRY FARM c n 4 Holland. BABY CHICKS of ”SUPERIOR QUALITY From 12 select heavy laying varieties of Standardbred poultry. free range and Ho‘ I gun tested. 31.. per 100 up. Fullyaiue for your mono . Shipped by prepaid parcel \ post and M live delivery guaranteed. Send for [fee catalogue and prices. Bowling Green Hatchery &. Breeding Co. _ Box 115M. Bowling Green, Ohio Pioneer ‘BABY CHICKS Bargain Prices from our Superior Egg Breeds. English White Leghorns & Barred Rocks. V r- _ ous,healthy.early maturing chick from our ice in; strains will start you right in the poultry business, or now-for early deliveries, valuable catalog free. Write tonight. . _ PIONEER POULTRY FARM G: HATCHERY, Box A. R. 10, ‘ Holland; Mich. OIIIGKI &~ '1."th 'Fron our on: Vigorous “SUP ’ ' firsfifif‘awxfi fowI m3? Oat-lion 1m” _ .7 - ‘mF ~ ”a?” "T°',"3¢‘.'f°‘y 33m A t our Dear Uncle Frank: How happy I am! I had such a sur- rprise tonight when I got home from school. Mamma. asked me if I could guess what‘ I had, but I could not. Then she showed me, and I almost held my breath. It was my Merry Cir- cle, button and also membership card, and you don't know how many thou- sands of times I thank you for 11:.— Florence Schultz, Monroe, Mich., R. 1. Merry Circle buttons and cards bring such pleasure. I hope you will be a real active members of the circle. Dear Uncle Frank: I have never written to you before, but I have started many times but never finished. ‘ white Pekin ..ducks.' One day there were two hens fighting over at our neighbors. The drake saw them and One of Our Boys and His Lamb. ran as fast as he could to where they were. He stood between them and pulled feathers from each hen. The next day both ducks went to the neigh- bor’s shed and found a setting hen. Then the drake pulled the setting hen off so the duck could set on the eggs. —Daisy Knapp, Pullman, Mich. I am glad you finished this time, otherwise we would never have heard about those intelligent ducks. Write again when you can. Dear Uncle Frank: I want to ask you if I can be one of your nephews? I hope you will let me. We live on a forty-acre farm, and have a lot of fun, any way, more fun than when we lived in the city. I just about forgot to thank you for the Merry Circle button and the card. I will try the contest again. Well, I guess I’ll give, my little thinker a rest for once.—-From your would-be'nephew, Roy Wertstra, Mus- kegon, Mich., R. 6. \ I am glad you prefer the country to the city. That alone qualifies you as a. nephew. Keep acoming. Dear Uncle Frank; _ Mamma is going to give us four hens and we will set them. When the eggs hatch we will take care of the chicks and ‘when they are sold we will get the money. Don’t you think, that will be nice? Contest and I wish to ask a few ques- tions about it. , . . Do you want us to write with pen and ink? Are some of the answers to the ad contests in the issue before the us to write only " on one side of the paper? - ' .- '_ J . . oping, this — escapes the . waste: has- , hit, I am flyour‘niece, EleanonFrederf ickson, Petoskey, Mich; _ . Your mother's; plan is a good one. I: wish every country beyond girl, had some animals 'or‘ a_ garden .to senator and .jprQfit‘ by.) ‘ Ink? 513‘. not was” Found In Our Letter!i Box! .Lgtt'er: from Palrfir‘Our Coherpondmce Cofmr -. - It makes me happy to know that the > I am going to tell you about my- I am answering the Read-and—Win ’ oneit is announced in? Do you Want ., .- ln the issue announced. Please write Read-and-Wln answers separately on letters and sign your name and ad« dress to each. ' ' Dear Uncle Frank: , , I have been a reader'of the Boys’ and Girls.’ page for quite a. time, but never knew whether I should try, to win a prize or not. So here goes! Last winter when there was lots of snow, . my friend, my brother, and I used to go sliding down hill. There was “one hill very steep and below there was a little brook. I thought I would take a ride, and down I went. Phew! It was thrilling, and the first thing I knew I was sitting in the brOok. Let me tell you, I was out of that brook in a hurry. My‘friend laughed till her sides almost bursted. I sure hope that my poor letter es- capes that most despised waste has- ket that you have in your ofllce. I will close, hoping you will accept me as one of your nieces, Martha Rol- lenhagen, Revenue, Mich., R. 2 It seems to me that your thrill had a rather wet ending. ’ I presume you broke the ice in the creek. ‘You have also broken the ice in talking part in' the contests. So come again. This, at least, won’t get you wet. Dear Uncle Frank: We live at the edge of a big grove. The bluejays come and eat peas from the pig trough; We often see part- ridgesjn thetrees close to our house. One day dad found a dead partridge near the barn. One foot was frozen off and the toes were frozen on the other foot.. 3 Hoping I win a button, I will close now—Percy White, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., R. 2. It must be interesting to watch the birds and study the woods. Dear Uncle Frank: May I become one of your nieces? Now, if you say no, I will be very dis— appointed. Thls is the first time I have written to you, but I am sure it will not be the last time. This letter will find the waste basket, sooner or later, I am sure. I read the Michigan Farmer nearly every Saturday, especially the' girls' and boys’ page. Sometimes when I \ MICHIGAN CLUB WORK FOR 1922 IN A NUTSHELL. ‘ Counties conducting the work, sixty- three. I». Dilferent club projects organized, thirteen. ’ ’ , Clubs organized, 1,320. Club members.enrolled, 18,056. Members completing the work, 11,- 537. ‘ V Seventy—four and eight-tenths of the ,members completing the work were in" twenty-seven counties employing coun- ty club agents. ‘ ‘ Twenty-five and two-tenths of fthe‘ members completing the work were in counties not employing county club agents. ' ' ‘ Persons serving as adult lo'cal club leaderswithout pay, 1,320. Club members who won scholar- shipsat M. A. C., ninety-three. Club memberswho won trips-to‘the, . International Live Stock Show at Chi- cago, eighty-six. ~ * _' ' ‘ - fClub members who exhibited, their products, live stock, etc, at‘fiftyelght" community, county, state and, _.,lnt¢r‘- state fairs, 12,100. , 9'" ~ .‘ $8,445. . 1: .. . . ~ *" Mailed ,DY‘ 583“ 'tO' Puréhase (>113) live stock, $42,592.. .. m: - m ' read the Michigan Farmer! put ma. . ‘ f Ida’s spectacles on andthatm «. words larger. Now, "please do '1; laugh aboat this. but I, really—put them on. In the: summer Iido thin “out in the barn. and out-ot-doors, sue ashaying and ham chores. ,, , g _ -. Well, this letter is getting quite long for the firsttime, so I will close. From, Dora Evans, Romulus, Mich.” . _ You won't be disappointed as you can be one ofymy nieces. 1"think we Shall have to call you little Grandma. How’s that? Anyhow, I am glad you like the Michigan Farmer..' ,. Dear Uncle Frank: . , - I live on a farm of 142 acres, but we do not work itall. 'It belongs to the“ Airplane Company at present. I have seen a lot of accidents, too, but I like to watch them leave the ground. Our barn burned down last April. We had some excitement then. Noth- ing burned except a few chickens. Some man set it afire. ' We had an auction sale last fall and sold all our c'ows, we had thirteen. I - hated to part with them because I milked \four of them twice a day, and: they were pets. Bye-bye, Uncle Fran . Edward Van Dyke, Grand Rapi s. Mich., R. 10. » I ‘feel sorry for those chickens. They must have suffered intensely for a. While. I, suppose you’ll want to be a. flier some time. Dear Uncle Frank: I have written you before but I did not see my letter in print. I guess it must have reached the waste'basket. I'll .bet that. waste basket wouldn’t last long! if some of the boys and girls could see it. They would sure make hash of it. I The other night momma and I were gomg out to the barn and just as I opened the door I saw a big rat. I set a trap for it. And what do you think? I caught my own chicken right by the toe. But I set the trap over again. I think I will catch the rat this time. 01' course, the trap was baited With com. -—~,Lona Pettit, Alger, Mich. - I don’t, think the waste basket would make good hash. We often catch things we dont intend to catch. The other day I caught a cold and didn‘t use a. trap either. . ’ Dear Uncle Frank: - . I win the eight gradeat school and enjoy it. , - ' I wrote some time ago but I lost the letter, and after awhile I heard from brother that he enjoyed the: letter. which was meant for you. So you see you didn’t get it at all. I don't agree with some of the peo- ple about the waste paper basket as a horrid thing,“ because I think that if my letter was not so good as someone else’s, mine should go in the waste paper basket and I don’t think I should feel, hurt about it. I must close, with much love to you By Roeland tietzke,‘_dAge.~J‘hirteen. _ ' Bath, Michigahi-J ~~ VilieerflL N ‘,. . . ' .j‘I p You take 'a7very senhiblejfsiefw of the" .Waste“i}Ba$k'etflsg Qité‘ri: .thbush. even all: your nlece, :wuma Frith, Nash- esthei' “ . somcxiéi’ygoéd’-letters, cannotrbe used Awarded in. premiums, prlzgs, Qt§,,‘fl..hees{use oi the lack of space, ' ‘* f 5’» ‘ivz-t.‘ M 4 By the’Pme W'miers 1 5;. Thai Prizewinniog itunts are print ”.17 ed below. The? are given at this time 3;: ' ” 3079“ 09st try a few or them. I though,_that,none of you will try any but good stunts as, you know Easter and April Fool come together this time. In fact, if you can observe only one holiday at a time, forget April Fool and pay attention to Easter, it means so much more.~Uncle Frank. The Calf Stunt. One April Fool’s Day I came running hyvigorous Chas _ v ’ home from the barn _and told my faith- er that the head was stuck on the calf. He was very excited and ran to the barn to release the calf. On re- turning he said,,“The head was not Spring Poetry PRiNG is here. If ever one gets the feeling that he i— hope, ‘ [BABY CHICKS—$1 o per me e selected, Ibeavylgayi . lvigorousadhens. 11.1.50. 86.75; 00higl1‘er. ed in modern machines full live arrival guaranteed. feet)! Catalog Free. Mixed Chicks 50 Octet WINSTROM FARM 8: HATCHERIES, White and Brown Rocks 530 {8.50:1 006.81 oily and correc y packed a'nd shipped. .- Bank rel‘erence and this guarantee 1111.1.»wa per- ' 6Le’sg‘lforns.E Ance- in orderi ering direct from this ad. NOW. Get them when you mm. All orders have our careful personal attention. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. ’ Bo: H-S, ZEELAND, MICHIGAH We are reliable in have been inrnishin so satisfactory that!) chicks are produ ' Pedigree matings. able, 100 foundation stock EGG BRED BABY CHICKS Reliable Hatchery and Farm. RELIABLE CHICKS business of Hatching and selling chicks. nfithe public with high class chicks. which have proven - % of our business' 15 ced from selected heavy laying hens on free range, with which are strong and vigorous State approved Barron Strain Eu%glish White Leghorns and Park' 3 Barred live delivery guaranteed. For yeah we ; now from old customers Reliable Rocks. Prices reason- Get our 1923 Catalogue now for your 92 E. 17th St., Holland. Mich GUARANTEED T0 SATISFY ‘ ENGLISH TYPE WHITE LEG” BROWN LEG. Selected breeders. high record hens. makers. Our prices are teed. P ilnspeectegl 019?} agprovedd alndt blended by large vigorous male; from or rec mg an s 0 111g experience assures you 0 strong chicks that are hatched right. shipped right. and will grow up. into real money i the lowest. qnal ty considered arcc Mt paid. Write today for free catalog and Prices. 100 per cent live arrival guinea: ROYAL HATCHERY 81 FARMS S. P. WIERSMA, wants to write poetry, this is the time. I‘ want to give you boys and girls a chance to work out that poetic feeling, so announce -for this week aISpring Poetry Contest. Write your poems about, spring, and please writé’ them yourselves, don’t copy them from somewhere else. ‘The ten best poems will get the usual prizes besides the Merry Circle but- ton and card. The contest closes on April 5. Address all your letters to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, — Detroit. Michigan. Mr. M. W. Sellers Route 1. 4% Months Old ”4 Laying this vicinity. ATTENTION--GUABA NTEED BABY CHICKS WORLD’S GREATEST EGG PRODUCERS Tom Sheppard Barron Famous I mportod White Anconaa Leghorns Direct stuck on the calf." I said, “Sure, it always has been.”——Clarence Carlsou, Ishpeming, Mich., R. 1. April Fooling. I April-fooled my teacher Thelother day in school. And this is how I did it: “I minded every rule. I studied all my. lessons. And didn’t talk or play, And teacher says she wishes, I’d fool her every day. -—-Andrew Talsma, Shelbyville, Mich. An April Fool Letter. A good April fool stunt is to take an empty ink bottle and put some water and enough ink to color it. Get a. pen, a sheet of writing paper, and an en- velope. Give these to a friend asking them to write an April Fool letter to a particular friend of yours, explaining that you do not‘want to write it be- cause. they know your hand-writing. After they have tried and tried to make the pen write s'ay, “April Fool.” —Ardena M. Dunn, Big Rapids, Mich. \ The Endless Thread. From grind selet ted flocks 011 free range, built direct from lung contest winners. Strong. vigorous chicks that will prove great layers. Flock culled by poultry experts and headed with vigorous pedigreed males from the best laying strain in the courmw. postpald. Full live delivery guaranteed. Fine instructive cata- tree Reference two banks. lSliver Ward Hatchery, Box 30. BABY GHIGKS BEST PAYING HEAVY LA Y- ][NG. PUREB D Torn Barron English White Leghorns. S C. Rhoda Island Reds.Pa1-k (5 Bar- red 0038. STRONG HEALTHY CHICKS hatched from and best incubator (‘ hicks are ghen full twenty- one days and hatched under Iceland. Mich. reatest nown. proper tem erntuie. F rank ulkerson Niles. Micb.. writes as follows. “From the 66 ullets we raised from your stoc is last year along wit the thirty which we had. we got 1610 eggs in December. Can you beat it?” We are the first and oldest importers of White Leg- horns in this state. Watch our pen number )7 1n the MichiganEg {Laying Contest. It' s (‘oming Strong! All ocllst homugbly culled and pro rly mated to pure bred oockerelsL Try Some Real 0b ks '1‘ his Year Order Now a! NewL ow Prices. lmtructive Catalogue Free Brumsr-Frsdriokson. Poultry Farm Box 20 Holland, Mich. Whitlaker’sllllleds Michigan's greatest color and egg strain. Bred from winter layers for thirteen years. Customers report- flock average of 24 eggs per hen for January. 2 pound broilers at 7 Weeks, 2% pound broilers at 9 weeks. Write for free catalog quoting prices on eggs and the ~ , ' ' Hum Lay S. C. White Leghorns in- Headed by males from 227' to 300 egg {the hem. g Circular Free $118 ’ Live delivery and Satisfaction Guar- long antced. m, iEEnu eaovE 1001111 film you R. R. 3 Holland Mich. in: Selected Pumbred m \ Day "ill CHICKS m H t bed from rodu i tw ear hens that l W6 1111111“.me p c hnfih'y o “y ”the “ tom mat Ban-ed ache,.T on save White and Brown ind Sheppard: Strain llk ' Account Getvrpficelbeioreyoubuynswcgusr- - 9 antes tossveycvu money. of ’ fled customers report bi rofits. Live delivery ,pri], guaranmed postpaid. Re? wo Banks. Members IOth- of M. B. C Als’n :ens. .n. . l FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM l- g ' R. 2 Box 1101- ZEELAND, MICH. 38 “‘1 BABY CHICKS an H 5' From heaviest laying strainsof Barron WhiteL horns and Barred Rocks. Strong. sturdy. and healtehy ‘ chicks that will live and Brow oney makers. l00 .hey per cent live arrival guaranteed. Prices reasonable. Satisfied customers our speciality. Valuable catalog for free. 1 be . Highland Farm Hatchery Route No.9. Holland, Mich. it; BABY CHICKS did ’3 ' insure your success in the IS it 7 poultry business by “charting ket .. . witt1“CLOVER LEAF chicks. last "- , Every chick guaranteed. Send 'irls g for free catalog. Don’t want. fake ? " Cloverleaf Poultry Yards ' _ (H. J. Cook) vere ._ Route No. 2. Zeeland. Michigan MS I ’ - set ‘ um ‘ .~ B-A-B—Y C-H-l-X the Order Now For 1923 1- I 5‘ “Issuer’s“ Assesses. 13.09:: - 0' i 1233’. ‘33?“ 34.13233: assistant: om. “ E13533 Wyafigiies. 111211: Wyandottes WEE Tori -. eggs from Hoganised tloc on free range on separate 1!! (arms Send tor Price l. at. D“ CRESCENT EGG COMPANY . Etch ‘ Allegan Michigan The V... Baby Chicks i Barred Rocks, R. C Rhode Island Reds, Anconss. , andLWhite h.oms , Chicbe that grow fast, mature quickly and lay i100! early. Our prices are exceptionally low. Write ' for catalogueand panelist. the EDUNDEE“. HATCHERY, ram Box A. Dundee, Mich. :zter, . C H I C K S peo- « ALL FLOORS on Free Range, insuring strong. vig- "as ‘ umus chinks of quality and laying ability. Fast it if - growers. Slfe mm guaranteed, prices right. Buff .‘ Kooks. White and Br. Leghorns, Barred Rocks, Black 108,112: M inorcss. Wyandottcs. Anconss. mm THE. MONROE HATCHERY W. Third St. MONROE. MICH you ’ BRED TO MY CHICKS , Direct from large modem: 65- acre , luau-g. e on us. breedinl for heavy” notion. Winners at leading shows. A. C. inspected and agpmved. 100% live arrival guaranteed. hipped Postpai Bank references. Order at once at. these prices or write for ._ Cat. ~Barron Dig. AWhite Leg., Brown ‘ Leg, 0. Extra ’ teat. 0050. $7. 50: 50100 “3148. 00: 500. n$65. 00. 1.000.: \ $125 Select: 86.:‘50 100. $12. 50; 500. 360.0 1 0000081115.“. hownline Poultry Farm. Dept. M Zeeland, R. 1, Michigan I,” ‘ Strong. sturdyy. I S. C. White 9 (English Scraoin) from lei-gumbo; ye?“d 6113;:le . . rred Roc‘lrs and Rhode Islands Reds from of laying all. strain. Send for our ilustratcd catalog free. Hillcmt BPouItry Farms & Hatchery, .. R 2. 30! Bio! and. Mich. Ish- a... Baby Chicks van ” “me“ look-- It. 0 mam... non. Anson“. 86d , Whité Leghorn. (II-glint Sir-111.1 nonsmoking! ' mm" Wbflfinllo WM”. 9“ 1"‘1’9 ”Vivi-iii modem“. ”been ‘ ' o 08: ‘thread a needle, not breaking thread Before going to a friend’s place- from spool. Put the spool in your in- side coat' pocket and pull the needle through the coat, leaving the end chicks. Bose and Single Combs. INTERLAKES FARMS Box 39, 'Lawrence, Mich. hanging. When'your friend sees the thread, he will try to pull it out, but will not come to the end. After he has pulled out some of it, say “April Fool.” , The. Candy: Treat. I think a good fool stunt is to make some candy from corks, garlic and - beans. Melt some chocolate with a little cocoa butter added, and cover the garlic and corks and fix the beans like peanut clusters. Let dry and ar- range ‘on a plate or in a bag and treat your friends It's lots of fun. --John 00mins, Elka, Nevada. The following won maps. Lacks space prevents printing all the stunts thgdtimg‘. C (131. Stanwood. no 111.11 mm... KNEE: Roy Ill $M:h°g§' GROW AND PAY 1.; range. CHICKS White Leghorn; and Anoonas. Our stock is scientifically culled by nfihealthy. bruit“ e. That will live and grow. Live do- livery ranteed Cat- Sterling Poultry Farm e Hatch cry. Zeel and. Mich. pure-bred looks free Head for znfi- 1% 1 ‘S- ' CHICKS. P r o p . R. 2. Zeeland, Mich. DON’T BUY CHICKS until you get our prices as we can Barred Rocks and Ancon as, save yomoncy on English Leghorns, that will lay when egg prices are highest. Saginaw Mich” writes‘ ‘I made better than $1200; 00 last year from 425 pullets 1n 5 months". Write today for free catalog and our contest offer and our ironclad guarantee. We are breeders and practically about the only so advertised poulry fann in IIIVERVIEW POULTRY FARM, Route 2, leeland.lllcl1. CHICKS WITH PEP Try some of our guaranteed Hogan Tested, Dont-S Stop-Laying kind of chicks They will pay you big. Rocks. Reds, Wyandottcs. Leg horns. Minorcas. A n c o n a s . Orpingtons. Catalog Free. Post. paid Safe Delivery. Member I. B. C. Association Holgate Chick Hatchery, Box M. Holgate, Ohio Eight Million chicks This is approximately what Zeeland Poultry Breed- ers will reduce this year Our catalog tells about Zeeland a large chick industry; also our stock and prices. Chicks 10c up Writ to Zeeland Poultry Farms ‘ ZEELAND, MICHIGAN \ BABY CHICKS 01' quality from real wmter layers. mated pedigreed males from bflrhigan Agri- cultural College. All our matings are inspected and accredited by our state Dept Agri. as to their laying ability and health By close culling year at” year we can say we have a real im- proved egg machine in S. (1.. American and Wish strain, White chhoms and S C. Sheppard strain. Anmnas. Write for our 1923 catalogue and rifl- list, it's free. (‘hirks 10 cents and up. Roi bl. Poultry Farm & Hatll1cry,Zlel.1ntl R. l. Mlhc h. White Leghorn CHICKS 033 Leaving. pure tolu'eil. English strain. ~l'locks cull obi trout. hetlthi chicka.100 §er cant live de Iver guar- antoe wPostsmal Catalog. low or on Is! true. ”or lepslirou Hatchery, box 1 .l.2.iiollui.llich- THAT MAKE PROFITS. CHICK Strong vigorous well hatched from leading breeds of heavy lay ers Mod- erate prices. 1001 live delivery guaranteed. Postpaid. Catalog eiv ing full particularsfreo Bank reference. BLU FF TON HATCHERY. Box M. Blutfton. Ohio. ‘ Selected chicks from the heart of the Baby CI’IICIKS baby- chick industry. leading pure breeds from heavy egg producing strains. Alive de- livery guaranteed. Send tor catalogue and prices. L. Van Haven & Bro, Zeolsnd, Mich. S. C Wu Leghorn Baby CW type Ameli- oan Strain of heavy winter egg producers. All as set produced by our own breeding pens. Price 312 pot .Oruso a Warner. Hudson. Mich. ggs and bab chicks from Silver BEWCIIROCKSF cup winners. Eggs $2.00 per 15 deliv- ered by P. P. Cflcular free. RAED S.'l‘LING Constantine. Mich BABY CHICKS of superior ital White Leghorn“ from our own breeding q no exclusively. Rafe arrival tuaranteed. Circular tee. THE MARION HEATCHER R..6 Marion, Ohio Bally ch‘ 0&3 White Leghorn Barron Strain from I our own selected flock 815 per 10011. White and Barred Rooks. But! Owingtnna. S C R R EDS. DURAND HATCHERY. Fenton. Mich. O. B. Minorcas. Pen 1 wonderful pen. eggstfipe sotti 11g. Pen 2. almost. as [$011. eggs :4 per setting Satisfaction guaranteed. R.W .i‘M lls. Saline. Mich Stxirdlest, healthiest chicks .Hatched from heavy laying and culled flocks. AEnglish strain White orn. Write for prices Brewers Poultry Farm and Hatchery. Hamilton. Mir-h. R 1. > 100 Weill! 1211 1111.20 pure bred certified eag- -tested exhibition varieties. Hatching our: Catalog“ Irma Bate tcbery. 26 E. Lyon, Grand Rapids. Mich HIE!) ”I'm ml” “‘tcbtngfigcflm fullblood. J‘ 11.1111an ““0” Git-r. Inch. fl‘Ruc.¥' “wk" We.“ “5" per 15 gag.” (Iv-1:0 poll. 81 50 for 8. Mrs. Claudia Bette. "Killed-Io. Mich. '_ 00310; 500 £50. Wellhlintliit‘. - -.i_i ’ch‘afige of Copy or Cancellations must reach us Ton Dara before date of publication And Adams LITCHF ELD, MICHIGAN Michigan’s Leading Live Stock Auctioneer ' DATES and TERMS on APPLICATION Col. Frank Piersall Watershed Michigan. experienced somonm. vtti h PEP Write for terms and reference. WA." —_ . 51"” 5 12%?!” “53' George Dalmony Ilenry 5 Grand Champions ZBFIRSTS and othei prizes. Such was the remarkable per‘formance of our animals at the 1922 Michigan State Fair. What could be better proof of the unvarying quality of our animals or more representative of the ideal for which we have striven? Our success is the natural culmination of our efforts and our reward for years of careful and costly breeding. Ours is symbolic of the best. Mediocrity is not tolerated. Our success can also be yours. Our young animals are the finest examples of breeding and will do much to improve your herd. Get the blood of the King of Sires EDGAR OF DALMENY into your herd and you will have individuality, distinc- tion and quality. The services of our Grand Champion Stallion. GEORGE HENRY are available. Your correspondence and impaction are invited. WILDWOOD FARMS ORION, MICHIGAN W. E. SORIPPS, Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Supt. Excellent herd ofi Aberdeen Angus For sale Cattle. seven cows with calves at foot. Three cows with calf Fourheifers one yea old. One registered bull three {leans old. Just the kind for build- ing upnhigh- grade erd at a reasonable first cost. Nine months time on bankable notes. J. D. "AR'I- OTISVILLE MICHIGAN WOUT F. D. No. 2. Aberdeen Angus'lO heifers. 6 bulls RegiStered from eight to fourteen months. Best of breeding The growthy kind that. make[good. Beqsonable.lni1uire of F. J. Wilber. Clio. Mich. GUERNSEYS Some fine young bulls for sale to close out the herd Breeding of the best and at rices that are lower than we gavelfve; oflferl‘ed esine took. of the N b s o t 9 best 9 ET. AUSTEIrfle. FARMS. Jackson Mich. Sons Registered Guernseys A fine Bull ready for light service. special J. 1\l.Williams.lNo Adams, terms if you wish. hiich. GUERNSEYAS of world champions. HICKS' GUERNSEY FARM For dams. WINNWililll HERD Registered Hogisieins —REGISTEREI) BULL Calves. Contnmmg blood cows. Fed deralinspected. Saginaw. W .S. sale Registeritlad Gluernssfiy 0011111111. a! By Rosedeeed- l b ca ves 0 one egistere ing a so 8 EN EBELS. R. 2, Holland Mich. Ask us about a Real Bull 3 MapleECrest or an Ormsby. Jiliiii ii. Wiiiii, Inc., Rochester, Mich. THREE 30 LB. Holstein Bulls For Sale No.1—Bom Feb. 12 1922. Dam has just com- pleted test making 30.17 lbs. butter, 560 lbs. milk in 7 days 3% Jr. 4» yr. old. As Jr. 3 yr. old .she has A. R. 0. record '28. 73 lbs. butter which was 2ndh best Jr. 9 r. old rocord in state for 1922. No. 2—Bor11 Dec. 1001,1922. Site's demand nearest dams of his sire average over 36 lbs. butter in 7 days. May Echo Sylvia Bre>edir13 Dam just made record of 3163 lbs. butter, 638.4 lbs. milk in 7 days. Has made 3 records above 1'0 lbs. No 3—Bom Feb.4. 1923. Dam same as dam of No. Sire same as like of N. l. A. KIDNEY, Brant, 2l\/li¢:higan The Traverse Herd ‘We have what you want in BULL CALVES. thalarge. 00 "-1111. growthy type. guaranteed right in every way They are from high producing A. B. 0. ancestors " Dnm' a records up to 30113 Write for pedigree. and , (situations. stating about age desired. “AYERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL, » Traverse City, Mich. g groan ores: £6 how soon poundeof 2"limit in a rearto . You will nodoet tmthis coweh‘ow’san notices of 4001. This milk production oombin iced wl ow. type is a decided not as )tutnre herdsire 91111111 IIIVER 8100K FARMS desktop, Mich. Gorey J. Spencer, III E. Main 81. . . h. I Charievolxiinisiems We are now booking orders for our bulls from high- producing dame. Get our low prices and let us tell you mere about them. LOEB FARMS CHARLEVOIX. ‘ MICHIGAN B II adv.Jan.27 sold to Ex-Gov. Warner. De hters u of his bred to son of largest semi recor hell!- or in Wayne 00. Terms 850 a e.ar Federal tested », M. L. McLAUL N. Redford. Mich. accepted inp ment of 5.11er bred re ‘ 600d "III. istered Holstzln bull cal ves. unlit: of the best. and “E prices within reach of all rite .OLA RK - - - Vassar. Mich' HEREFORDS IO extra nice Repeater and Fairfax heif- ers from 14 to 20 months old for sale, also 10 cows. ALLEN BROS. 616 So. West St.. Kalamazoo. Mich. HELREFORDS Young Cows with calves by side consis- ting of blood £10m America' s foremost herds at piices that. enable them under Earliripe lle1eford Beef Plan to pa V for themselves within a year to 138, months. Bulls including prize .\ innors at the larger shows at practi- cal p1ices. Herd headed by Straight Edge 1169786. one of two sons of perfect- ion Fairfax out of a daughterh of the Famous Disturber. T. F. B. Sot ham 5: tons. (Herefords since 1839). St. Clair. Mich. I 6 Registered Hereford 31.1115 8 to 12 monthsIold. for sale at 875 to 8100 each. Fair- fax brEeeding. RLE H. GREEN. ASHLEY, MICHIGAN Meadow Brook Hersiords fifiégfifig “1‘3. 32.333355 breeding stock for sale. both sexes. any a e. Call. phone or write. Earl C. McCarty. Bad Axe. uron Co. BUTTER BRED ”1%“ ailing (‘RYSTAL SPRING STOCK' FFARM. Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan. Jersey bulls ready FOR SALE: for-service. cows Register of Merit. Accredited herd SMITH AND PARKER. R. 4. Howell. Mich. Lillie 1110. old. Farmstead Jerseys For sale. 8 heifers bred to freshen this fall. 2 bull calves. 6 t09 Col on 0. Lillie, Coopersville. Mi i.ch young bulls. for erculin tested aleLake Odessa. Mich. d FOR SALE “33:9Zieiiees‘ifiimfilfl'm‘lfififi. FRED‘IDONALD. ‘Oxtord, Mich iiichland Shorihlrns Special offer on several bulls at Farmers' pric- es. Suitable for grading up purposes where beef is required. Also several high class herd headers of the best of breeding ii. II. Prescott 81 Sons, OIIice at Tawas Ciiy, Mich. Herd ‘aI Prescoil, Mich. ‘ Bidwell Revolution Jr. head h d‘ SIIOI’IIIIIIIIS Sire Revolution. Dam. Maxwaltoan Rgxse' wood Iid. 2d Dam. Imp Rosewood 88th. Now ofi'ering Registered J ersey “film J L. CARTER ‘ one good roan two year old bull out of a Marr Mari- gold darn. also a few cows and heifers sate in calf. Prompt attention to cor respondence--visltors welcome. State Accredited herd. One hr. from Toledo. 0 N. Y. C By. BID DWELL 8100K FARM. Tecumseh. Mich" Box I) Dual Shorthorns CLARADALE FARM. w. an-.. I Dueheu heifers and a yon-l Bull, to mum at. $600 for the lotl 100 f R of M Breeding. We can sell you a bull fit to head the best herd. also 0 ows all a es. bl pod JOHN 331%?“ Myasonc 00. .. Michigan 805% NBONC Maplewood Milking Shorthorns Drawer 26 For sale a few choice heifer and bull C8IV9I,rfl'om t four th s. b a lewoodJ w ler ' °n° ° fft‘irn‘we md'iii. Jeniidxi.” Mich. Milkin Sherthorns priced reasonably. An nac~ , g credited herd seen acted for beef and milk BeIund and Beland. Tecumseh. Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’ Clayton Unit scotch To and Milking horthornii forsale all ages. W. J. Kink er. Sec’ 7. Flushing. Mich FOR S ALE Shorthorn “cattle tuberculin tested SIMON G. MAICHELE. i1. 5. l'QdMiddlevsare e.Mlchi UBLMt d Foiled 8110 one. milk at ‘ oBuile de‘l‘leIae rsall a Etgrmets rain on! Quack. Ban Csrirdnfik“ as ... 7’. lite. vans. m‘c' . . ' UBLICITY lsbeing given to a rice cislon by the United States Court of Appeals affecting the. advertising and recording of two so-calledi breeds of white hogs. These breeds, Chester White and the O. I. 0., are of such 5 similar, if not" identical, origin and .to snob extent, eligible to registration in either record, that it would be better if only one breed name existed- ‘ Of course, as most of our readers may have guessed, a rivalry between the owners or officers of the two rec: ord associations largely is responsible for the controversy. This came to pub- lic attention in connection. with action brought before the‘federal trade com- mission to restrain the'L. B. Silver sums In. making this ruling the red- ” ' ’eral departinent Indihated that it did not consider the scrub cow as being entitled to a breeding stock classifica- tion. Another interpretation of the ruling may be that thenkilllng'» of the scrub in itself is a sufficientgaln to recompense the farmer. By the ward "scrub” unregifstered bulls are meant. The ruling went into effect March 1 LOCATION OF WINDOWS lN HOG ‘ HOUSE. ' E note in a. recent issue. of the Michigan Farmer an article by- Mr.Har1ey M. Ward, regarding hog house with an unusual arrangement for the root Frankly, we do not agree with ,Mr. Ward in some of the state. Black Printer, Grand Champion Steer State Fain} Owned Company, prominent in the 0. I. C. record’s affairs, from doing certain lthings, which were reviewed in these columns at the time. The court of appeals decision is a reversal of some of the findings of the federal trade commission, and leaves the L. B. Silver Company free to ad- vertise the hogs they handle as O. I. C.’s, and’ to use publicity pertaining to alleged weights of ancestors of the present representatives of the breed. Also, doubtless, Moore Brothers, who have been active in this controversy and 'who are leading figures in the standard Chester White Association, can accept for registration‘in their rec- ord some. of the same hogs recorded and advertised as O. I. C.’s, and hav- ing done this, can advertise them as Chester Whites. This is one of the peculiarities of the private enterprise system of recording pedigreed animals in this country, and constitutes one of the many good arguments in favor of having the work of all such records consolidated under the supervision of the United States Department of Agri— culture. Private snaps, salaries, polit- ical control and privilege have engaged altogether too much attention from the live stock registry officials of this coun- try, as compared with the attention given to the real interests of a million, farmers who produce the pure-bred an- imals and support the asSociation. —'.I;. W. Morse. 'C 1 GOVERNMENT DISCRIMI NATES ‘ AGAINST SCRUBS - Over All Breeds at the 1922 Michigan by‘ w. E. Scripps. ments that he makes regarding this hog house as, from the study of the photograph of the illustration, we do not believe that the windows are locat- ed to obtain the maximum efficiency. The reason for puting windows in the roof of a hog house is not alone to obtain light, but to get direét sun- light on the beds at farrowing time. If it were just 'a -matte‘r of getting light into the room, .the most desirable arrangement would be to have wins dows in the side walls and then to have hay or straw storage above the hog house since the second floor stor- age would be very valuable from the standpoint of insulation. This, how- ever, is not the~case. It is very im- portant, as we have stated above, that the rays of the sun shall strike direct- ly on the bed and this, of course, can only he‘done by the use of roof win- dows. _ With“, regard to the lower windows, the. same condition is true. The light from these windows would apparently fall just back of the mint where the troughs are ordinarily located .and no direct sunshine would ever reach the floor close to the south wall. This difficulty could be overcome by the, use of side wall windows. ’ ' ' Another neint to consider in the Ito-7 cation of W‘lndOWB in a hog house roof, and a. fact which is generally overlook- ed, is that the rays of the sun are not at right angles to the ridge 9‘, the roof '. except at twelve o’clock and that early . in the morning and late attemoon, light passing through a- wind he by- 08 nt ee :e-. lie in- . llB ' 0...... .w cm " * , .3... shelter... «1.... a. .1... j... std: M’ ~ . Lenore should nightly the history and moon or ‘31:. care'sntl fire. name-ind address of the writer. initials only are published. When a reply by mail." requested the "nice becomes printepncucc and 81 m be me. .‘ ‘ l' ‘ Gammon—Can, much he done for a. horse that has white growth caming overboth eyes? I. W., Bellevue, Mich. .. No, leave his eyes alone. All in Horses' Lena—Should the 10:3 pillairg be clipped off the legs of a horse?“ f0. F., ‘Elkton. Mich—Dur- ing mild weather the hairy legs of some breeds of horses had better be clipped. the animal is more comfort- able wlthout this long hair. but during ' cold weather leave it on. Periodic Ophthalmiaé— Have twelve- year-dld mare that. has been troubled with sore eyes for a long t1me. Both eyes have been affected, are now_cov- ered with a white film. F. R., Bristol, Ind.-*Thi8 is an incurable eye disease, the very best your veterinarian can do for you is to postpone loss of vismn. Stocking.——One hind leg of my horse stocks; his bowels are costive; _what shall I do? F. P., Brooklyn, Mlch.—— Give him acetate of potash to cause kidneys to act. two drams at a dose two or three times a day, .when requir- ed, also give mineral oil to open the bowels. Hand-rub and bandage leg. Bone Spavin—Windgall.———We have a horse that has “Jack” developing; my neighbor says he has windgall. S. , 8., Kingsington.—Give him abso-, lute rest, no exercise, clip off hair, ap- ply one part red iodide mercury and four parts lard'every ten days until he is well. Loss of Appetite.—For the past two weeks my heifer seems to have— lost her appetite. P. S. G., Bellaire,,Mich. —Give her enough epsom salts or min- eral oil to open bowels, also give thir- ty drops of fluid extract of nux vom- ica, one-half ounce of tincture of gen- tian at a dosefthree times a day. Offer her roots to eat. Partial .Loss of Power.—~My eight- year-old more was cut on 'barbed wire, wounding shin near the knee. When walking she wabbles with hind end. Do you suppose it comes from wound? W. E. J., Harbor Beach, Mich—No, not from wound, but perhaps result of an injury. Give her one dram ground nux vomica atga dose in soft feed three times a day. p a l N E STOPS . A B S D - MMENES‘ (mm 3 Bone Spavin. Ring Bone,- Splint. Curb.-Side Bone. or similar troubles and gets horse going sound. It acts mildly but quickly and good re- sults are lasting. Does not blister or remove the hair and horse can be worked. Page 17 in pamphlet with _ each bottle tells how. ' $2.50 a bottle delivered. Horse Book 9 R free. ABSORBINE, JR.. the antiseptic liniment {or mankind, reduces Painful Swellin‘ga, En- larged Glands, Wena, Bruises, Varicose Veins; heals Sores. Allays Pain. Will .teLl you ' more if you write. 81.25 a bottle at dealers or delivered. leersltrlal bottle for 10¢ stamps. mnrouue.’ are- 2681M“L80rlngllold.flasa. SPOHNS DISTEMPER COMPOUND IAre your horses ‘ couahing or. running at the nose? _ t' so give them “Spohn’s.” A valuable remedy for . Coughs, Colds, Distemper. Influ- enza, Pink Eye and Worms among horses and mules. An occassronal dose-‘tones”' them 'up. Sold at "all drugstores. 3 , ‘ spew MEDICAL :<3. assets. we. USA. r ,l .“ v r l * anha ‘ syn ‘ We offer these Cattle for April Delivery . WIRE OR WRITE ' R. BINDER co. Battle Creek, Mich. lin s. ”5989, Son of Flint Bertjuca Pauline 75817. Sale held under cover, . Write for Catalog, Route No. 7. WM. HULIZER Auctioneer No. 2335—35 lines ’ P .- O O h 0 Disabled! Cost 13 Doubling. WHEN you can’t work because of his lameness the horse costs you for feed and your loss of time—perhaps a lost cm or a skimpy crop through delays. With Save -The— orse you can cure SPAVIN. Ringbone Thoro in, or.—-Shpulder._Knee. Ankle. Hoof and ’l‘endon isease while working. You take no risk. We ive signed MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. Write today fin- I’REI 96-point Save -The-Horse 8005. on how 0 locateknndorst‘andflnd treat allalggrggess. {as ' sum e o aran ee. _ pert - :‘re-i‘rirlcrgaal‘lavlce—all so” 0%:- 350.000 satisfied users. Don’t hesitate—delay is costly. , TROY CHEMICAL (30.. 320 State St, Biuglumton. N. Y. At Dru gists and Dealers with Signed Eontract or sent prepaid. FREE BOOK on CONTAGIOIJS ABOlll'loll Describes can " effects and treat- ment; tells how armor-r in all parts 0 . . are. stopping the ravages of this costly mu ady. Write for free copy today. naonuo LABORATORY 44 Jon emu. Lancaster. was. Is your own horse ifllleto‘df H E AV E 8 mo 2 large cans. Cost 32.!“ Money back if not satisfactory 0H6 on at “.25 emu ancient. In powder torn. Moat for cost N EWTO "is I .A voterinary’s compound for WT- Horses. Cattle and Hogs. Heaven. Coughs. Distemper. ‘ ‘ ._ guilgostlon. Wong elxerg‘llor. 80 r’ l ndltioner. At an or parcel . . THE NEWTON BEIEDV 00.. m“; 0M. Purim SALE- , Registered Jersey Cattle. THUR. APRIL 5th, 1-923 A'l' om: ‘o'cwcx 14 Cows and heifers fresher soon to be fresh. two bull calves, tested foi- T. b. An . ' try to buy. real quality Cattle also willed! Farm. of 315 acresgood «soil and buildings. two’mileo south or *Fenton' or 311mb? _, W???" ‘39??? B. H. MADDOCK & SON -. Prop. Complete. Dispersal Sale 15-0-REGISTERED HOLSTEIN CATTLE-45 - . ON THE B. H. MADDOCK FARM Pontiac, Mich. Wednésday, April 4, 1923 An absolute dispr rsal-- a 60 day retest privilege given. size. individuality and breeding stamped right on them. All Fresh and S Herd headed by Pontiac Orchard Beach De Kol who is to be sol Record 4 1-2 yr. 33 , Prudy 351711 A R. 0. Daughter of Hesseltje Korndylre 31438. The Cattle sold at 12:00 p. Farm 2 miles East of Pontiac_on Perry St. Route No. 1. Every cow in this herd is a producer; has pnnger cows. 4 calves, 2 year- d. Sire. Flint Hengervcld Lad .llB 723.40M. Dam Pontiac ‘ _ re never has been a reactor. m. Pontiac l8 located 25 miles north Of Detroit. R. A. BACKUS Pedigree Expert HOGS BROOKWA TER DUROG JERSEYS SPllllG lilLTS BBED FOR MARCH MID APllll. LlTTEllS _ A U A FEW GOOD B ABS Herd sires: Panama S eclal 55th. Big one Giant Sen- sation. Breakwater rincipnl Col. and Brookwater ()rion Sensation. All are exceptional individuals and have proven their ability to sire good ones. BROOK“ ATElt FARM. Ann Arbor. blichigan II. Vi . Alumford. Owner. . Andrews. Lei-7501‘. Whitney Farms DuroCs We oll'er an excellent line of bred well as two boars that are real sires. Write for pedigrees. WEI’l‘l‘lEY FARMS. sows and gilts as Priced to sell. Whitney. Mich Woodlawn Farm Dumc Hogs meet . present da re ' - merits. length. size . and- quality. Young )smclrmggr sale at. reasonable prices and fully guaranteed. Write your wants. W. E. BARTLEY. Alma. Mich. lAM orrEer BRED sows fall yearling and spring gilts. bred for March and April furrow. that are tops. Mated to 0. C. K. Col. 2nd and Orion Giant. Col. Yl'rite for price list. W. C. CIAYLOR.‘ Milan. Mich. Billions—Special sale on 'big fall yearlings and spring farrow. Also fall lappi:5quwgvivletisghi229300lfbosr All sired by (1)551}ch to Sta ’ ' to Fair winners. HIGANA FARM.’ Pavilon, Mich. Duroc Jerseys. Bred gilts to farrow in March and April. Prices reasonable. '6 breed those that have size. type and guilty. A few select fall boars ready for service. . J. DRODT, Monroe. Mich. 12 bred ilt . l " ' - Duroc Jerseys ed bracts: 3.3.22?” ”3‘3“” CAREY U. EDMOND. Hastings, Mich' _ ‘A few Pathfi d r ' ' Duroc Jerseys Bred to a gdlode scans; Faust 8 Top 001.. E I). Heydenberk. Wayland.Mich. Is It Worth While? A red! boar pig sired by Woodford Sens t' Dams of Defender or Pathfinder breeding.a Ion, If so, . We have them of Sept. farrow. not only showing extreme quality, but greater size than you will expect to find. Follow M 29 to Kope-Kon F arms, Coldwater,Mich. -V ‘ ’0 Earl matu ' .‘ rolifichea Ben min 8 mandamus: 68 0 weig t, W bloodlin ions and. BI , PF Grand Champions. mfw making big money for thousands. have started more breederson road to success thnn an lwmg ~ ’ man. Letmehelp on. yto WHITE’S W... wru- .h.r.n.10. .hrtlaul. uh. ‘ We are cflerlng some ChPSte!’ Whites, choice (all pigs. also bred sows and auto. Prices reasonable, Weber Bros. 10 Mile and El go this. Royal Oak. Mich. Chester Whites “sailor-Bred 3”“ . . norm as. Clinton. won. “08'" WhitsmGlltagtrggfpr April and ynygfii I'D" ‘ 1' '1 Ellen. ‘Anudi’m HILL. " “rmg‘woh Chester Whites filahajfizo. ' '_‘°"I Gills sired by Mich: State Fair”? Gr. Champion 1921-. and bred for Marchand April {arrow to ndle Heref ords A I Mich. sum Falr Jr. Champion 1922.the common,“ .98 0' 0 (-1- _ ' GOOD STANDARD. GRADE .‘ < ' Dehornéd 'White Face Steers g Yearlings, Per. Head '. _ .. $38.00 - ' TWO Year Olds, Per H cad $52.00 F. O. B.‘ LOADING STATION, TEXAS sense type and price. ANDY ADAMS, Litchfield. Mich. 0- I. C’s. s.:s::rr..§g~.rr:.m;sx.r o . t . l 9 west t. olta's phone. "”fded IPilgr'r’d ri'.’ ULZE. fp‘hmmue. Mich. O l 20 large growthy glits farrow in Mar ' ' also to lboar ' ' r . CLOVER LEAF swoon $383M. Monroe. Mich. lug 300 all on either sex. trod by Mich Falr'22. EWMAN'SBTOCK FARM. Marlette.Mlch. 0 I C’s March boars. breed gilts. July and Aug ' ' to. oung Brown Swiss Bulls. Milo . Peterson. lmhurst Farm. R-2 ’Ionia. Mich. o I (:95 Am ofi'erlng a few fall hours and ' ‘ ' Sgllts bred for May furrow. C J. 'I' 0MPSON. Rockford. Mich RADIO GIANT Represents. the worlds largest strain of Poland China Bogs. Boers. Sows, Pigs at bargain prices from Mich. pioneer herd. We years. We caanfiirnish what. y?“ w ant 0. C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich. Leonard's Big Type P. C. gllts sired by Leonard's bargain Prices. E. R. LEONARD. St. Louis. loh ' .9. st rWh Swln . Saginaw Valley Herd oi (LLB. rocdfeaeeuel‘ima if, C. . Mioh. Boy and Selection 1st. bred to Jumbo's Giant lst. son of Grand Champion Boar at Mich. State Fair. hotos on request. John Gibson. Fosters. Mich R. 2. - L. T. P. C. Choice Gllts $25 to $40. Boar‘s $30. Full Pigs $15. HART AND CLINE, Address F. T.HART. St. Louis. Mich. ‘ o o 7‘. . | ' r Fall Pigs Either Sex m; EyEfi’XfiRR‘? Gilts will be bred to that first prize boar Tuscola Clansman forAugust and September furrow. They are as good as the breed affords. Come and see them or write. DORUS HOVER. Akron Mich. Big Type P. C. some very choice 'bonrs doublelm mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows from Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson, Burr ()uk.M ich Large Type P. C. Largest in Mich. A few full pigs for sole. Sired by “The Wolverine" a grandson of "The Rainbow and Big Bob" the great- est yearling hour I ever owned has size combined with quality. Come and see the real kind. W. E. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich L T P C Grills and boars all sold. Thanks ' ' ' ' to my customers for the patronage of the past. M. M PATRICK. Gd. Ledge. Mich. Walnut Alley Big Type P. C. gilts now ready to ship they are bred to the best. hour I have seen this fall. A. D. GREGORY. 1:3. Ionia. Mich. L. T. Poland Chinas Spring ““3 “‘1 bred sows at rea- sonable prices. also fall pigs either sex of popular blood lines. Aberdeen-Angus bulls. Hoil’crs and Cows that are Show u iuners. Write or con 8. E. A. CLARK. it 3. St. Louis Mich. ‘ Poland Chillers. Attractive spring Maplehl" gilts bred to a grandson of Liberator. Now ready for sale. (leorgo R. Wheeler Mt. Pleasant. blichigan. Large Type P. C. The Real Kind. A few of those big. smooth.stretchy. bred gilts for sale. Bred for March. April and May furrow. Priced right. Parma. Mich. N. I". BORNOR, Large Type Poland Chinas Fall pigs of either sex. Sired by Foxy Cinnamon 437975 Mich. Sr. Chump. 1932. ‘l"s Clansman 391211 Mich. Sr. Champ. 19:1) and T's Big Orange 4814”, Write or come and see them Manchester. Mich. A. A. FELDKAMP. I 0 Francrsco Farm Poland Chinas Two choice gilts bred for early April furrow. Ono outstanding fall boar. $25.00. Five cows to date have {arrowed' 62 pigs. 1’. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant. Mich. Big Type Poland Ch' . Lone Maple Farm Nothing for sale at prohggz’ F. R. DAVIS & SON. Balding. Mich, ' P. C.. a few choice gilts left. Bred for Large Slralll April farrnw. You can’tbeat the breed ing nor price. H. (l. SWARTZ. Schoolcruft. Mich. Choice gilts sired by a. son World Chum i0 13' Pic- Bob and 1075 Peter Pan. Bred to Moddl Clan: mamalso fall pigs. C.E.Garnant. Eaton ltapids.Mich. . ' Poland China Hogs from rize w' l Big Type stock. (all pigs. either sex, ellgible tbnllengg. ister. W. E. LECKY. Holmesville, Ohio. The Five great mt: .torage ‘ til. Hog lint 11. Owners in 1903'-55,000 Toda Why this enormous increase? They top the maria! Packers chores—Five Straight years grand champion car load of fat hogs at Chicago Fat Stock Show. Fu- mous Foragers-greatest gain on cheapest! feed. Write to Michigan's Leading Hampshire Breedeml Armstrong and George Cassopolis Donald 0. Eagle Jonosvllle James G. Art or - Grass Lake Lloyd Aseltine kernos John . Snyder St. Johns Clarence L. Campbell Pa an Jolflr . Landon _ Addison S. an Marter, and Sons Perms ___‘D. I. McBean Manltou Bench ' ‘ sprlig hours . and bred lto flo- HamPShresz’» cows to select from. we your order now or you ma" be too late. l0tthear. . JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4. 8t. ohns. Mich. m 3 HORSES . I ‘ , l . FOR SALE Slaw: Reg-rtfgoeds amt-Mon“. LEMAN C. BISHOP. St. Johns. Mich. not M: a“. , m ,‘ “tails?" $133133. lee-e. Mich , l 4 . . . r... Sole. ails. Mg“? ”5"? . II hummus-wort _ n9! ’ :3 5}. C’sendgChosger Whit» '7 o I c Big ti 9. May gllts due Apr..20th to Ma 5th - - - Welg b3. F ‘ an Jumbo 2nd Grand 0 amplon.Mich.Btate ~ have bred them big for30 ‘ Liberator and Orange Clansman and [all Pl at ‘ I GRAIN QUOTATIONS Tuesday, March 27. Wheat. -. Detioit—-No 2 red at 31.3555. No. 2 lo. 2 White .1 miéfilicféogiNld. 2 red 311201411611. 20% , No. 2 hal'd a‘t $1.191/2(D1.201/§; May at $1. 19% Toledo ——Cash $1. 331/2(g>1.36. Corn. Detroité—Cash No. 2, 80c; No. 3 yel- ' 10%h7itgtggo.—~No. 2 yellow 74@74'1/2c; No. 3 mixed 74@741/2c. Oats. Detroit.~—Cash . No. 2 1 No.3, 481,60. . ‘ Chicago. "No 2 white 4514711460; No. 3 white 44((1451/20. Beans. Detroit k—lmmediate shi ment $7. 40 bid. . Cphicago. M-(‘JlOitt hand- pitlted Mich- igan beans $8; red kidneys $8.60. Rye. Detloit —~(‘ash 81' “or Chicago. HNO. 2, 8214c. Seeds. - 1,)et1"oil.~~Prime red clover cash at $12.25; April at $11.90; alsike $10.25; timothy $3.40. Toledo-Prime red $12.40: alsike at $10.50; - at 83.47%. and prompt (-lorer cash at timothy cash Hay. 1)et1oit-»No. 1 timothy $16@16.50; standard $15.50(1.16; light mixed at $15 .100 16: \‘o. 2 timothy at $14@15; No.1 (lover $130114; rye stlaw $11. 50 @12: wheat and oat straw $11@11. 50 per ton in callots. Feeds. - Blan $3 8: standald middlings at $37. 500138; fine do $38. 50((1>;39 Clacked c0111 $36; coalse cornmeal $34; chop $30 per ton in 100- pound sacks. Fruit. Apples wJonathans $6. 50 a 11111.: Kings $5.50@5.15;N01the1n Spies $6 @7; Greenings $5. 50; Baldwins $5. 50 @575. WHEAT \Vheat prices .still Show inabil- ity to get 1.11' eitllel up 01 down. 113x- pmt sales lilted V‘dllltS slightly eally last week but. the adxante was lost before the- close. 1' ulopean buying was fairly prominent. and absorbed several million bushels more or" low- priced Manitoba wheat as Well as moderate quantities of durum and small amounts of hard winters and Pacific Coast wheat. Domestic. milling demand for wheat has been about as good as could be. expected right along so that the market has stood in great- est need of a foreign outlet. The course 01' prices depends largely upon . whether the recent rate of buying con- tinues or not. Crop news is likely to favor a higher market in the next few weeks. But little growing weather has occurred and dry weather is still a consideration in the southwest. » CORN Expert demand for corn has revived materially and it is reported that most of the grain held at eastern ports has been sold for shipment. Outside mar- kets have been out-bidding Chicago in the country .111 order to fill sales to ex- porters or domestic industries. Severe weather is sustaining the feeding de. mand.' Chicago has the largest stock of corn on lecord, however, and until it. begins to decline, prices are not apt to make much headway. OATS 3 '- ~ The severe freeze of early last .week did serious injury to new crop oats in the southwest and considerable re- seeding will be necessary. In the nmthern states the planting season promises to be rather late, with very little.g1ain put in befol'e April ]. The cash demand tor oats continues to ‘make steady inroads into the stocks [held at visible supply points. ' . ' SEEDS Clover seed prices advanced Slightly meted some Wilesh buying £3 is disappointing, boWBver, as the horde grown seed. white at 500; ‘ ‘. $7@.,:735 pigs 130 lbs down 86.756118 * eet’ steers fairly bettva; “St Week as the previous decline zit-‘13 The de- ‘ consuming states have large 1" Ship- ments of red clever Seed from Toledo illustrate the situation as the total fer the season to date is the smallest. in five years ‘-while leceipts at the same points are the highest in a similar period. FEEDS Consuming demand for feedstuffs is not equal to the offerings and prices tive demand is broad so that prices appear to be on a firm foundation); Chicago.—f—;Eggs, fresh firms at 2361). 2386c; ordinary firsts at 21%é@22l,éc. Live poultry, hens 26c springers 310; roosters 17c; ducks 28c; geese 15c; turkeys 25c. , Detroit. ~Eggs, fresh can'dled and graded 241,6@2-.5c Live poultry, heavy ' springers 29@300; light springers 26c; ale easing. Wheat feeds and linseed heavy hens 300; light hens 20@26c; meal are decidedly weak and cottOn- loosters 17c; geese 20c; ducks 25c. seed meal is quoted 81@1.50 lower . “ than a week ago Gluten feed prices BUTTER . , are in more complete control of manu~ facturers and are unchanged, but hom- iny teed is declining. . HAY Hay markets are fairly firm, largely because of light receipts and restrict- ed country loadings due to bad roads. Demand is less urgent than a short time ago, owing to the _applhoach of warm weather. POULTRY AND EGGS Egg prices dropped to the lowest point of the season last week. Re- ceipts were extremely heavy and were slightly above normal requirements for immediate consumption. Since pro- duction is running so high in spite of bad weather, it is evident that the supply will be extremely lalge as soon as conditions ale favorable. Very few eggs have been placed in storage as yet, however. and this demand will probably prevent prices from dropping lower as soon as suitable eggs begin to arrive. Receipts of dressed poultry are gradually declining and the same is true of live poultry. Increasing withdrawals from cold storage are necessary right along and consump- the four leading markets keptprices last week unusually Close to the mid- winter level. Stormy weather which delayed shipments was partly respon- sible. Because of the high level of values a decline is expected soon as delayed shipments alrive and signs 01 the spring increase in production be- come apparentso that the market shows a nelvous, unsettled tone. Some California and Algentine butter reach- ed Chicago and easteln markets and was an additional unsettling factor. The general trend of buttel plices in the next month 01' two is quite certain to be downward although values may fluctuate sharply in the course of the decline to a stming level. as follows: Chicago 511/21}: New Ymk 501/2c. Fresh creamery in tubs in De- troit for 50@510. POTATOES The department of agriculture esti- mates that stocks of white potatoes in the hands of growers and dealers on March 1 wele 171555000 bushels, of which 59,795,000 bushels were avail- able'for movement out of the counties Live Stock Market Service Wednesday, March 28. R IT lbs down $9.35@10.10; do common and DEg‘mO medium at 863656119. 35; butcher cattle a e. heitels $5. 50@9. 65; COWS $4. 25@7. 65; Receipts 460. The -n1arket is slow bulls bologna and beet at $4. 75@6 75 and steady. canners and cuttels cows and heifers Best steers ............. $ 8.00@ 8.50 $3.- 50@4 25 do canner steers $3. 75@ Handyweight butchers 8.00@ 8.50 5; veal calves light and handyweight Mixed steers and heifers 7.00@ 7.75 87 75@9 75 feeder steers $6. 35@8. 35; Handy light butchers. . .. 6 00@ 6.75 stocker steers $5618; stocker cows and Iéight butchers .. ........ 2.23% 2.33 heife1s $3. 50@5. 75. est cows .......... . ' ’ ----- - Sheep and' Lambs. lgutcher COWS ------------ 4-50@ 5225 Estimated receipts today are 11,000. Common COWS ---------- §§g@ :33 Market slow, steady to strong. Lambs Cl'lnl'ersb ll """"""""" ' ”‘5 @ '00 84 lbs down $13. 25@15; do culls and B 0 ce “.5 5' 0017 6' common $10@13. 25; spring lambs me- ologna bulls . . . . . . r. . . . 5.00@ 5.50 Stock bulls _ 425@ 475 dium $9. 75@14. 25; , ewes $6. 75@9 25 Peeders """""""" 6006) 7'00 ewes cull and commou $3. 75@7; year- Stockel's ................. 4. 75@ 6 25 hug “the“ $13 25@14 75' Milkers and springers. . .. ‘Veal Calves. Receipts 610. Market slew and 500 BUFFALO Cattle. 4 low e1. _ ‘ . .‘ Best ..................... $12. 5001713. 00 Receipts five cars. Market steady. Othels . . , ............. 6 00@12 00 Choice prime shipping steers 1,400 lbs and up $9.25@9.50: good. to choice shipping steers at 88.506119; heavy fat medium quality $8.25@8.50;; medium . Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 480.' Market slow. ' 15.00 1391.51. lambs ...... ' ....... $ 10 good at $7 50@8'1'light native year, , , y . . . , . lighlfigggrfirh'dfi """"" lggggfi'gg lings fancy quality $9@9.50; medium Fair to good sheep """" 7'50@ 9'00 to good 881038. 50; best handy steers at Culls and common """ 2'00@ 4‘00 $7@7. 50; plain $7@7. 25; handy steers ' ' “l and heifets $7. 25@7. 50; western heif- HOQS- . ers $7 50@7. 75; light Michigan butch- Rec ‘ ts 2,800. 'P'igs steady; mixed ers’ heifers $6.75@7.25; best fat cows hogs 2 c lower. ‘ $6.50@6.75; medium to good185@5.50: Pi gs ................. . .88. 00 cutters 83. 75@4. 25; 'canners 'of~’good Mixed hogs and yorkers. 8.65 __weight 82. 25@2 50; commOn and old rims $1@1. 50; light fat bulls $6. 50@7‘ best heavy 1111.115 at 85. 506117 75; heavy -bologna bulls 8‘4. 50@5; common 1111114 83. 50@4; best feeders 70011) 800 lbs $6. 50@7; medium feeders at 86@6.25; 'stockers good 85. 75@6; light common 84@5; best: milkers and springers 860 @80: 40111111355114 medium “35 n 40 Calves. -—-The market is steady with tops at 815. " CHICAGO Estimated receipts today are 30, 000; holdover 11, 417. Market dull and most» ly 20c lower. 13qu of silos at 87. 85@ 8.30; tops 88. 40; heavy 250 lbs up at. $7. 95@8. 20; medium 200 to..250 lbs at 88. 05@8. 30; light 150 to 200 lbs 88 '15@ 8.4.0; light lights ‘130 to 150 lbs 87. 75 @8. 35; heavy peeking s‘oWs "250 lbs up 87. 25@7. 50; padking sows 200 lbs up u .‘W‘HD‘QS. f. ...; Q ' Cattle. EStimated receipts today are 1'0, 000.; 88@ strong '10@ _ . ., 15c higher; other: Shandy; calves 25@. .. 500 lower. Beet steers 11116111 _5' and ' heavy weight. 1100 1133' up... ‘ do medium and. 11931111011 «86 76@8 Extremely light receipts of butter on .- United States on March of 2,,012 000' barrels and 5,,578 000 box- es. Total holdings were equivalent to 3. 872,000 barrels compared with 3, 090,- 000 barrels last year and a five-year average of 2,901. 000 barrels. were reduced 1, 460. 000 barrels during Februaly compared with an average ieduction of 1,,300000 barrels during that month. Shipments 0f apples from producing sections have dropped down close to a normal figure for this time of year. with Baldwins quoted at $5@6 and Greenings at $5@5. 75 per barrel in the city markets. . Prices f'01 92- some fresh butter were ' '75c@$1.10 per cwt. _ higher 111 415340.611 More than hblf at this , 111151111111 is located in Michigan, Wls- - . _ 40113111, Minnesota and birth Dakota. The total stocks in twen ei'n states which produce about four- fift'hs of the crap, were estimated at‘ 152,117,000 bushels this y,ear compar- ed with 1.02, 764. 000 bushels on March 1 last year. last‘ week to the highest point since, last fall; tively heavy,' compared with 102, 764, 000 bushels on MarCh 1 last yea-’1' Y'Ono north; Potato prices advanced Although they are still" rela» shipments fell off as APPLES Storage holdings of apples in the 1 consisted. Stocks Plices show little change, BEANS Bean prices advanced slightly last week to $7.75 per 1.00 pounds for the. choice hand- picked 11 hites f. yo. b. Michigan shipping points. kidney beans are quoted at $8. 25 while Light led dark red beans are not ayailable. The supply situation shows no change as' holdings are light and mostly in ele- vator hands. The advance last week was due to more numerous inquiries rather than to actual buying. WOOL Wool prices strengthened slightly last week, as buyers for several of the leading mills bought more. freely at seaboard markets. American buyers were more active abroad also than they have been recently. 'F‘or'eign mar- kets developed a more healthy tone with the London sale. closing higher in some cases than in January. In the west, buying of the new clip has been resumed with 52c paid at the ranch for fine and medium Arizona wools compared with 500 earlier, in the sea- ' GRAND RAPIDS Potato prices to growers in western , Michigan soared to the highest levels of the season this week when compe- tition betWeen locals of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange and old-line buyers aided by a strong bulge in out- side markets caused bids to run up to The Greenville market was the highest in the state. While road conditions have been very bad, receipts have increased at most points as many growers believed a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and they were out) selling. This market was slightly stronger on eggs early this week as a result of the con- tinuation of the price war among the chain stores ,which were paying farm- ers around 22@23c per dozen and sell- ing them at 18@19c., Easter eggs may be retailing at 15c it” the. war contin- ues.’1"he warring factions alone will require between 1,000 and 1,500 cases to supply their trade. Beans continue - wobbly at 87@7. 25 per cwt. to grow- ers. _ DETROIT CITY MARKET With 11 1145113111115 supply apples .hold the most active demand on the our ket. prices pies sell Ior7 ‘ 73139533 50 per. bags 755514225; carrots 59o@._ 27@35c; horseradish 8mm 1111; (by 91110115 81511150,, . @1. 50", potasoes 6 @7041" .. ‘ 32@35!:: turnips 98w . Receipts 40 cars We is steady *5?“ ”@192 Heavy2 88 40@8 50. yorker-s 89;; Digs 1 Poultry has recovered from l'aSt, week’s slump and is Selling we'll. 04111., ,_ bage is also 011":ng demand. The, . potatoes have . brought more on thermarket 111111111214. _ - )Mm m . « i. 4 5W. «6” ”'5 _, 1111a I...“ If “mi, . v W’s-aw»; . .1 pa-r- ‘ .rch .ced nce *ela» on the ited ‘ b0x- t to )90; rear lcks ring 'age ring rom own Lime n ge, and the last the . b. red file The 1 as‘ ele- reek tries ‘htly the r at yers than mar- tone gher l the been such tools sea- ltern evels. "1.13-9‘ dgan l-line out- l'p to “fine into. very most ed a l {the This eggs con- :'- the i'arm- sell- may liltin- will lases tinue - {row- ET .hold mar l’aSt Cab-f "V . emu/r u u "high grade W2er.1‘his would make “pine plant food in the low grade mix- farm‘s cost sixteen cents per pound. The increase is attributed in part to "a disproportionate increase in assess- ed yam based on high ma prices dull using and following the Win, and in part to increased cost of state and lo- cal government. In Indiana 11 tax of 2. 09 cents whe- levied on each acre in 1922, compared with ninety cents in 1914;, in Michigan, 31.58, pared with sixtyesix cents; Flown $1. 49, com- pared. with sixty-eight cents; Idaho, ‘ $1. 40. compared with fifty cents; 'Ohio, $1. 24 compared with sixtycne cents; illinois, 31.23 compared with fifty-six cents; Wisconsm, $1.23 compared with fifty-fire cents; Massachusetts, $1.20 compared with sixty-three cents; New York, $1.13 compared With fifty~nine cents; Pennsylvania, $1.11 compared with fifty-eight cents. There are thirteen states showing a higher percentage of increase in tax- es on. farm lands during this period, than occurred in Michigan. A COOPERATIVE SELLING SUC- CESS. HE raisin growers of the Fresno Valley, in California, have made all outstanding success in cooperative packing and marketing under the name of The Sun Maid Raisin Grow- CI'S. This organization was started twen- ty years ago, and now spends about $2,500,000 per year to advertise its product. When it first started, the raisin growers were getting about three and one-half cents per pound. Now they are getting over twelve and one-half cents per pound. During the early history of the company the *growers got as low as sixtyvone per cent of the gross sale price, but effi- cient business methods have increased this margin until ‘now they get eighty- six per cent of the gross receipts. As the Corporation is now organized,I it has an authorized capital stock of $5, 000 .000 in shares of one dollar each. There are over 13, 000 stock holders, abOut ninety-three per cent of all the raisin grape growers of California! The average stock invested is about $200 and the stock is not permitted to earn more thanheight per cent. In 1921 the sale policy of the corpor- ation was changed so as to dispense with the use of brokers. Fifteendivi-. sion sales ofllces were established in the United States and one in Canada to deal direct with wholesalers. Dur- ing the past year four more offices have been opened in Canada and this cooperative organization has its, own Offices in London, Shanghai and Am- sterlhm. fit is also well represented in. (the Latin-American countries. COST OF FERTILJZERS. D came .1922, a large number of fertilizers were tested by the New York Experiment Station. The aver- age "retail price of the lowest grade fertilizer was $3,0 willie the average for the highest grade was $41. 70 The average amount of plant food per one hundred ponds was 9. 4 pounds in the low grade 111111755 pounds in the and in the 151311 grace fertilizer 11. 9 . n—l' 1-9 acre in 1% compared with thirtymo * cents in 1914 Shepherd docs: Puppies: . lstl W > . ‘ ‘convnhllr Wellhlll lm md 1m bomb: Ta .lt r ¢.wout. Ida and for nonr- of- “airman, M? {or le an four turnout; for four or mile on in Width! nulhel. Nov and“ or Ms be in on deport-nit. ' £23.17 ln‘w run is S in] Nut! ’- Mmmm‘ ' I nlhmatf-filn- undad firth Cluilfill DQaflmm mu: nod! dilate: day: (“momma-um ‘ ' ' Mimi-WEISS BOYS. GIRLS—15 bk packages cucumbe- paid $1.90.; value. mum 1m crap. This means dependable. oulc germination—the seed Minoan“ M i moon-, and than to your. W mm W. min. $330 $1.50 415; $3.7M; 31.93—100. Prepaid. lira. Earl. Mum. Yuburen. Ohio. , yfinnnahnocx‘ S—Sanlh’g’em lune strain. aGot 01:3: tee mourn-lo. A. Knitwear. alBoutel. UBBED-TO-MY Barred Bock hatching eggs. Parks stain. $1.50 for fifteen postpald. orders booked and ,fllled promptly. P. L. LaVanture. Cadu- Mich. WHITE' LEGHORN COCKERE‘LB direct from For- r‘ls. 390 u; strain, $5.00. Blanche Boss. Ellsworth, Michigan. :- amen-ac ' hitching 90,309.15: “13113.09. pal-00. E .gyoer Alamo. few chicks m WANTED farm work. Modem house Qur-\ slated. Mm must be clean and tidy in every re- .. Give references as 1“) fix-Mala mtllv' mugs; and state salary expected ll rst r. one 11 good men need apply. Address Box 8-1-3, Michigan Farmer. WANTED—Representative in each County to cell small farm tractor. Unusual opportunity to one thal ml denote time to proposition and has wide acquainh once among farmers. Small capital required. Write now. LOCK BOX 212. Dowagiac. Mich. wn PAY sm monthly salary and {mulch rig ma» expenses to introduce our guaranteed poultry and . powders. Blgler Company. X 683, Springfield. Illinois. WANTED—Single, middleaged Experienced. By month or year. Mason, South Lyon, le'h. man for farm work. Slate wages. John KENTUCKY NATURAL LF “0 TOBACCO-(‘h9wlnm 5 pounds $175: 10 pounds 33. 00; 20 pounds $5... 25 Smoking]? poudds $1. 251: 1‘0 pounds 32. 00. Send no - money av Wlen recs vc Farmers' Co- crative Tobacco Union. Paducall Ky 0D Route 2, Zeeland. Mich. BABY CHICKS. From Michigan' 8 Champion Layers of best Barron Strain. Oflirial en average 232 eggs per hen in one yr. All mate to Pedigreed Cock birds. All birds Trap Nested 'Free desrriptilo catalogue. Live arrival guaranteed. Strick Poultry your nel hbon want. Gum-an ee: money refunded for , - WANTED—Man for general farm work. Either mar- md rot Orda- now, pa. when reviewed. Sweet ’ 50 Giant Black Minorr-a Cockerels $2.25. Ea: $8. 00 ‘ . ll. (‘. le . 0., It. 30. Home Seed Farm. Perltwtlter,y ' (per 100. Mike Sanger", Essexville, Michigan rled or single. Courtland Marsha on y -_ HOMESPUN mmoco Chew! ewinz: 5 pounds :1. 75: MARTIN w. Wyandotte «:32: $1. on per 15 0. 11- POSITIONS WAN'ED 1 10 pounds. 33: 20 pounds, $5. 25. Smoking: 5 Summer Rosebush MD ' ' ‘ pounds. 5125 10 pounds $2; 20 poun $3.50. Send COLLEGE MAN will work on farm near Detroit. pay when received. (1' -0PE”RA'ITVE PEAFOWL. Pheasants. Bantams. Pl eons, Free oir- month expepges and railroad fare Can Northway TOBACCO (moms. Paducah [Kentucky cular. JOHN BASS. Pettendorf OM 3156 or address 5024 Cass Ave. Mr. Phelps. SPECIAL GRAPEVINE WEEK' 20 vines $1.00 'D'd ' — ' I . 335 aggdofcdlum BlucICmimld :4 No.1 lll'hitc,2 .. “riled. - BABY CHICKS POULTRY n . up we adc your choice Climbing Rose tor 3ND 'l'I'E . - gfldnl Wreath. Marv other bargains. No oxen figrfir‘gg “(105415? [311-] dzsltocks‘nzm 1-5;;5 13d Fables. Mich. .. Nurseries. Solo Growers, lndlana Beautty RI 1. Beds $17 De, 100- $3. 75 for 50 and $4.50 for 25. White25Legril‘oms $l4hperltl}100;d$750f fotr150 twig HIGHEST ’Q A c $4. 00 for crms cas w or er 0 a 6115 SWEET CLOVER SEED—White or yellow biennial for each 100 chicks ordered. balance one or two weeks he Old Inoculator for alfalfa sweet clover. soy beans. Best before chicks are to be shipped Meadow Brook Mic lgan’ 3 -‘ pure culture bacteria in soil base. Guaranteed. Hatchery, Mt Morris. Mich. ' Bushel- -size can postpaid 75c. n E. Basil. Sweet Reliable Hatchery Clover Grower. Iatfy. Ohio. CHICKS GUARANTEED— Healthy, eturdv thriv~ (771 d d but equipped ing chicks. Flocks that are mated with L ichigan "77”" "w "'3 “I: ) 5 HOMESP'UN TOBACCO—Chewing. .1 1115,,5175; 10 Agricultural College cockerels, Barred Rocks S Hatcbm mz “141! _ Ihs.. $3. 00. Smoking. 5 lbs 31. 25: 10 lbs. $2 00 Anconas. Willie and Brown Leghonls. pullets and English and Amer- ‘ Pipe and l'cnivm free Send no innncv. pay when breeding cockerels. Safe arrival.Dosta86D81d eata- Pure Brad loan 3 W. Leg- Elgcived. UNITED TOBACCO GROW-ERS,M11yflcld, log free. Fairvlew Hatchel'y and Poultry Farms. horns: S.C Auconfs. Barred ’ . 10 :25le _ HOLLAND MICHlGAN from tested Hoganized free range stock that make wonderful winter In ers. Chicks sent by Insured ucel Post Prepaidto your door. 100: live delivery guaranteed. Fif- teen years of experience in producing and ship- money. postage unpaid. SPMAWAY Farm Golden Russet Certified Potatoes. . Single bushel or car—load lots. Write or wire for m1ccs.Geo.Har-lMontion Size . Black or Brown. .1 Soft 11111 leather slipper. model .5211") buttons. w! Cushion insoles. filledium rubber-M 11:311.” leather soles. ~A‘ . 15 to 8. Wide 1 s I{$62211 1111311111 “2 p owmmw3 I1! . C“ no MOHCY.‘ 8y ‘n ‘- no 1111 1111111. 5 81.21.1911 1w“. ,- 1% 1 6;: :‘Vle 111,101: