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I: New in ’P/ace mid Proper/y Oiled





. ‘ RRANGEMENTS have been com-

A pleted for intermediate farm,

_ . credit operations under thenew

agricultural credits act Which may ul-

timately sclve the problem of giving

“agriculture 'credit accommodation suit-

ed to its speciaL needs. ’

The act provides for the establish-

ment of a federal intermediate credit

bank in each city now having a federal

1 land bank. This has been done. 'Ofii-





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”cers and directors of, the land banks

are exlofficio officers and directors of

the new banks. Preliminary rules have

been laid down governing interest

rates and methods, of making a'd-

vances, and applications are pending

for charters creating national agricul-

tural credit corporations to take ad-

vantage of the facilities provided.



Few Loans Made to Date.



To date the volume of business done

by the new banks has been small.

This is accounted for in part by the

continued operation of the War Fi-

nance Corporation, whose life was ex-

tended to February 29, 1924, by the

same law that created. the intermed-

iate credit banks. It is also due in a

measure to the prevailing easy condi-

tion of the money market, and to the

fact that the Federal Reserve Banks

are now permitted to rediscount agri-



‘ cultural paper for periods up to nine

months. ’-



It is expected the business of the

new institutious will increase as their

facilities become better known. Co-

operative associations especially are

likely to find them useful. ‘



But the utility of the banks will not

be wholly indicated by the business

they do. They are chiefly/valuable as

a reserve source of credit to which ag—

riculture may turn in an emergency.

Their mere existence, as a potential



her than a constantly employed

credit agency, may prove an inestima-

ble benefit, say officials of the depart-

ment of? agriculture.

.- In support. of this view the experi-

‘. A» ence of the \Var Finance Corporation

is cited. A considerable amount of the

. $457,070,378 of advances approved by

I l the corporation up to May lilast has

never been drawn out by the institu-

tions accommodated. Apparently the

knowledge that, funds were available

idid all that was necessary. It gave

confidence and opened up private

sources of ‘credit, in a, way that en—

hanced the value of the corporation’s

. ~~ service beyond anything measureable

by the\amount of money actually ad-



vanced. -.—~ , ,



" Use Existing Financial Machinery.



’ Rules laid down for their operation



'prov-ide facilities whereby advances

may be obtained by banks, trust com-

panies, cooperative credit associa-

tions, agricultural credit corporations,



‘ and incorporated live stock loan com-



. panics. Loans are not made available

direct from the intermediate credit

banks 'to individuals.





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' " tablish‘a personal“ credit system “which“

.would reach fanniers in all parts of

country- without the use of banks

her organisations as intermediar-

flggie ‘ anisgto make use of exist-





ing machinery as far as possible. Co-

operative associations of farmers are

the only channel through which indi-

viduals canlget funds without the in-

tervention of a" bank or other credit

agency. It is not thought that in prac—

tice this condition will put any diffi-

culty in the way of farmers getting

the kind of credit which the intermedi-

ate credit banks have been created to





supply.

Under the old system the trouble

has been that intermediate term





credit, ‘though indispensable for the

crop or live stock turnover, has been

obtainable only by the renewal of

short-term loans. In time of strin-

gency difficulty has arisen about re- .

newals, because the loaning institu-

tions themselves have been .under

pressure 'for liquidation. Now there

will be no such pressure on them for

the liquidation of rediscounts obtained

from the intermediate credit banks. In

‘consequence, the farmer in turn will

be relieved of pressure to pay‘loans

before his crops or live stock have ma—

tured. In fact, the farmer likely will





get as much benefit from the contem-

plated indirect loaning through finan-

cial institutions as he could get from

any other system.



Fixes Rate of Interest.



As a starter, the federal farm loan

board has fixed five and one-half per

cent as the rate on rediscounts at the

intermediate credit banks. The spread

over this rate on loans to the farmers

must not exceed one and one-half per

cent. It has also laid down the rule

that, for the present, no paper will be





Loans ‘





vMacéifléry for Bringing to Farmers Me zit/vantages“ of [fie Intermediate Credit Act





them to meet the intermediate credn

needs of farmers, without lying . up

their own loanable funds in non-liquid

paper. '



Where banks fail to cooperate in

making the new system effective, it is

probable, say government officials, that

special farm credit institutions will be

formed to bridge the gap between the

individual farmer and the new source

of intermediate term credit.



Although the agricultural credits act

makes provision for a capital of $5,-





taken with a maturity longer than 000,000 to be furnished each of the in-

nine months. Loans can be made now immediate credit banks, only $1,000,-

against grain, wool and live stock. 000 has been advanced to each of them





This list of commodities will be ex-

panded when warehousing conditions

and other necessary conditions permit.



It is expected that: the requirements

will be liberalized as the board finds

it possible to get rid of the initial difi'i-

culties that necessarily occur in get—

ting the machinery of the banks into

working order. Much will depend on

the attitude adopted by country banks.

It is not doubted that many of them

will recognize the opportunity afforded





 





 





Sand Land Demonstrations





County flgefitr Gather at Demomtmtz‘on’ Farms 2‘0 Study #76





 





   

 





T was a warm day and an interest-

ed crowd assembled. The occasion

brought forth a representation of





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sandy soil students from half the

counties of the state. D. L. Hagerman

was host? chairman and marshal of

the day. He is the man behind the

gunS'at the Howard City demonstra-

tion farm, owned and operated by the

Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway, now

a part of the Pennsylvania System.





This farm has been in operation for

seven years and its object is to study

and assist in the solution of the dairy

problems of the farmers living in their

territory. The man of average means

is always kept in mind and visitors

are welcome at all times.





There were but eighty acres in the

original farm, and the soil is of a very'

sandy nature. Realizing that soil of

this type may be quickly depleted by

the ordinary farm practices and event-

ually thrown into the discard, these

people are attempting to take the_'best

teachings available and put them into

regular. practice-upou this farm with

the idea of deveIOping a system of,





 





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these light lands.





The outcome has been, after long





permanent, profitable agriculture for





so far. This was done because it was

recognized that the \Var Finance Cor-

poration will continue making inter-

mediate term loans uflil next Febru—

ary. and because, in the present highly

liquid condition of the commercial and

the federal reserve bank, there is no

prospect of an curly heavy demand for

additional agricultural rediscounts.

Moreover, as short-term credit must

always i'orm a large part of the farm-

cr’s need for financial accommodation,

it is felt lhat the demand for intel“

medialetcrm credit may not. be as

large as was expected.



The important thing, according to

department officials, is that agricul~

lure. now has a guaranty against sud—

den pressure for liquidation, a safety

('rcdil i‘csm'voir in time of need. It is

believed that before the next time of

acute financial stringency comes,

enough experience will have been gain-

ed in running the intermediate credit

banks to make them entirely ade-

quate against such conditions as those

that plxvcd havoc with agricultural

finance in 1920 and 1921.





PUT UP FOR THE BUSY MAN.





 





 





It is reported that'ten per cent of

the Holstein cows making high aver-

ages in the United States are owned

in Michigan.



Varieties of tomatoes are being test-

ed by the Botanical Department of the

Michigan Agricultural College to dis-





 

 

 





   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





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experimentation and study, the work-

ing out of a rotation of crops, which cover kinds which will be resistant to .

Mr. Hagerman has chosen to call the diseases under hot-house conditions. ' ‘

“Keystone Rotation,” because the key-

stone is an emblem of safety and sta-

bility. Somewhat remarkable results

have been achieved on this and adjoin-

ing farms which show the rotation to

be well named.



A little booklet describing the prac—

tice in detail has been printed and

may be secured by addressing the

home offices in Grand Rapids. It is

Well worth. the careful study (of those

whose fortunes place them on sand

land farms.



The g00d work done by this organ-

iZation has been well received and is

"being watched closely by many soil

students. The occasion above mention-

ed will result in a better understand-

ing of sandy soils and in spreading

practical information regarding the

.managementof them to many estab-

lished sand land- farmers throughout

the state.





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The low prices which are now pre-

vailing for broilers and other poultry

is the sufficient reason for housewives

and young folks in widely scattered

sections of Michigan to engage in can-

ning them for future consumption.





 





Federal entomologists report that

the army worm is not likely to invade

Michigan territory during this season.

Michigan is also likely to escape ser-

ious inroads of the seventeen-year lo—

cust, the insect having passed to the

south of this state.





 





Mrs. Brummer, of Holland, is finding

new joy in farm life now that their

splendid strain of Barred Rock fiowls ,

entered in the International Egg-laying

Contest at M. A. C., has for several“

weeks been leading that breed in this

big event.
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VOLUME CLXX NUMBER TWO





DETROIT, JULY 14, 1923





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





Sensible living makes a ready man.





Bad habits are not compatible with

rendering the best service.





Most of us Vould be a bit happier

and possibly more useful if we could

sprout a few new ideas in our intel-

lectual garden.





The real secret of keeping a healthy

interest in this great business of liv—

ing, is in constantly getting a mental

grip on‘new aspects and relations of

life.





HERE is a lot of





truth in the old



Kori! adage, “All werk and

08.. ccom- no play makes Jack a

pllshment dull boy,” but Jack is





pretty apt to keep a

reasonably good balance on this ac—

count. In fact, grown-up Jacks could

often profitably take a lesson from

even the hard-worked boy in this re-

gard. '





Farmers occupy a different position





than do any other of the world’s work—

ers. This is particularly true of the

American type of' farmer who owns

his own farm in the majority of cases

and his own farm business in practi-

cally all cases. 01' necessity, as a fac-

tor in the successful operation of the

business, he has the working habit. Of

necessity, too, he is in most cases

obliged to work early and late during

this strenuous summer season on ac-

count of shortage of help. Of neces-

sity, too, his wife goes him one better

in this regard, and easily puts in still

longer and more strenuous days.





Too many of us who have the work-

ing habit well established, however,

do not think clearly about work. We

are apt to regard it as a great per-

sonal virtue, when as a matter of fact

there is little virtue in work for work’s

sake. There is virtue in a task well

accomplished. There is virtue in ac-

complishing it in an easy and quicker

way than we have been accustomed

'to accomplish it. We are ”too apt to

compliment ourselves, or, worse yet,



, indulge in self-pity, because we are

busy rather than because of our actual

accomplishment. As a matter of fact,



' we would do better to plan more care-

fully and efficiently to make our work



. count in visible results, and to con—



1sider well the saving in work which

might be effected by the use of labor-



I, saving devices on the farm and in the



7} _- There has been a great advance-



finent' along this line in the past gene;-





a





ing‘ like





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"the. strenuous propositi n. '. '

was” a generation, ago”, yet] there is- a? .

great opportunity for'furtberjm'prOVe- ’

ment along the same line on the aver-



age farm, and still greater opportunity.



for similar improvement in the aver-



age farm home. Laborisaving equip-



ment within reasonable limits is a.



profitable investment -for the farmer



who can keep it employed enough days



in the year to make it profitable. It



is a still better investment for the



farm home where the number of hours



in which the equipment can be utilized



during the year is much greater



than is the case with labor-saving farm



equipment.



While labor-saving equipment re-

quires an initial investment which may

call for some sacrifice aIOng other

lines at the time it is purchased, if

wisely chosen it is bound to be profit-.

able through making the work on the

farm and in the home more effective

in results, thus leaving more time for

better planning and needed recreation,

which will keep the'farmer and his

family physically and mentally fit, and

give them a more pleasurable and op-

timistic outlook on farm life.





OR a number of



Being Put years past, .the

Danish cooperatives



to the have been held up to

Test us as models of mutu-



al farmers’ organiza-



tions. Certainly these institutions





have wielded a wonderful influence in

rehabilitating the agriculture of the

little country of Denmark.



At the present time, however, these

cooperatives are being put to a severe

test. The big market which they have

been years in developing has suddenly

gone to other lands for supplies. In

other words, England has turned to

the southern hemisphere and made

contracts with New Zeeland for alarge

tonnage of butter. As a result, butter

prices in western Europe have each

week been going lower and lower until

profits are no longer possible under

the most efficient marketing plan.



We cite this merely to indicate that

it is always a more Or less hazardous

thing to dispose of our products on a

far away market. Usually the greater





 

 





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equal, the home market is the ‘best

market. For this r’eason,‘ we thorough

1y believe that Michigan farmers will

not go for wrong in deliberately going

about to produce products which can

be soldto the people living in the in-

dustrial centers of our state.





N another page of





this issue appears .



,Tfie , a brief account of the

Keystone recent gathering of

Rotation c o u n t y agents and





others interested in

the management of sandy land at the

demonstration farms of the Pennsyl-

vania Railroad at Howard City.



On this farm a rotation has been

adopted which seems to meet quite

fully the needs of our lighter scils.

Already, this rotation has been in use

there for several seasons and the re.-

sults show considerable improvement

in the productive power of the land

and at the same time there has been

removed harvests which exceed those

of sandy farms where ordinary crop-

ping is practiced. The designation

given this system of farming is the

“Keystone Rotation.”



The following is a brief statement

of the crops used in the rotation:



First year—Peas and oats seeded to

SWeet clover. -



Second year—Sweet clover seeded

to rye and vetch.





Third year—Rye and vetch seeded'





to rye and vetch.

Fourth year—Cultivated crops seed-

ed to rye and vetch or peas and cats





with sweet clover, clover and alfalfa.’





The advantages of the system are

that a legume is growing on the land

at least three of the four years; the

ground is nearly always covered; the

full growing season is utilized; the

crops are adapted to sandy land; the

labor requirement is reduced to a min-

imum, and the crops provide for the

keeping of a reasonable quantity of

live stock.



The usual precautions required on

sandy land must, of course, be taken.

Sour soils will give little response un-

less limed. A firm soil should be con-





 





 





 





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The consistent use of barnyard mas"

nures, intelligently supplemented with?

additions of commercial fertilizers, is

quite as essential here as with ordi-

nary methods of'farmjng. " \





We "wish to commend the good work '





being done on this demonstration





farm, and it is to be hoped that the .





lessons taught will receive the thought-

ful consideration of_every reader who





- may have land of this type to farm.





T is an unwritten





Kee law of the universe

p that the only way to



0’} keep up is to keep go‘

Cozng ing; This law may be





broadly applied. It is

applicable to many things. and to all

people. ’ -



It is a long trail that has no turning.

We have been following its rough and

rugged course already far beyond

where the turn should have been; still

it is not in sight. Shall we give up

and stop? When the bicycle stops it

falls over.



There is but one safe thing for us

to do, and it isthe only way of keep-

ing ourplace in the Sun, and that is

to keep on going.





B amps





UMPS are the things that make



life interestin’. They’s interestin’

’cause there ain’t no anticipashun con-

nected with them. And anticipashun

is what takes lots of joy outta reliza«

shun, ’cause relizashun ain’t never

what anticipashun wants it to be.



Now, bumps is lots of times one of

the pleasures of life, ’cause they come

when you don’t expect them. And,

what the perfessors call the unexpect-

ed, that’s always interestin’.



For inst., Jim Hudson thinks he is

some horse trader. Well, Jud Simp-

kins had a roan mare what was pleas-

ant to look at. Jim '

trades his dabble

gray for the roan,

’cause grays ain’t

in style no more.

But when he gets

the roan home,

he finds that the .

looks of that

horse was What

you calls its chief

assets. For inst., he found that its

reverse, gears wouldn’t work at all,

’cause the horse wanted to see where

it was goin’. And it heated up power-

fully when you tried to put it into

high.



Now that was a awful bump for

Jim, but it come so. what.you call upon

pected that Jim is goin’ to have the

pleasure of thinkin’ about it all his

life.



There’s folks what sell courses for

[your memory, but they ain’t got the

right system. If you could get a bump





 





 





 





 





' in connecshun with each think you





wanta remember, you would remem—

ber it. For inst., one day I was drivin’

down town on a Saturday afternoon

with Sophie, and there was a nice

lookin’ girl comin’ along. Then I got-

ta bump. The‘telephone post got in

the way of my car and I had my repu-

tashun as a driver bent a whole lot.

Besides, it cost me $23 to have the

oughto fixed up.

goin’ to forget that girl.



One oil the best indicashuns of the

value of bumps is that the man—what





p makes the oughto what gives the most





bumps for the money, sells the most

of them.





Sophie just gave me a bump by tell- .





in’ me it’s tim‘éto go to bed. I thought





it was half-past seven, and she says





it’s as late as half-past e1





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field 111 tiply length by breadth . »





HE farmers came in for more-



gratuitous advice and a due pro-



portion of gratuitods criticism

than any other class. It has become

a custom, or fad, to advise or lambaste

the farmers.





Favored above all other trades by

the government in having advisers in

all the counties, and experiment sta-

tions and experimenters frequently to

instruct him in growing food products,

the country weeklies also: run several

columns in their ready-prints, and





”even the city dailies are running a





page weekly devoted to farming inter-

ests. With such a surplus of sage

sapience sifted out for his instruction

he ought to be sufficiently informed

in ways and methods of running his

business. And some of them are.



And one of the stock criticisms most

irrequently indulged in and oftenem'

ployed to. account for his impoverish-

ed condition is his failure to keep his

tools and implements under cover.



A certain banker who interested

himself in matters pertaining to farm-

ing and spoke frequently in farmers’

institutes took a virtuous delight in

relating the number of larms he pass-

ed on a certain tour through the coun-

try where the tools were left out in

the weather. Np doubt if his atten-

tion had not been required in driving

his car he might have discovered

mgre of them. It is remarkable how

tender and sensitive the conscience be-

comes when it comes to repenting of

other people’s sins, but it is notice-

able that confession of such is not at-





‘ tend-ed by that degree of humility that





is supposed to accompany the ac-

knowledgement of delinquencies of a

more personal nature.



But when people take it upon them-





selves to indulge in wholesale criti—.





cism of people in other lines of enter—

prise it sometimes occurs that there is





 





 





”A M easgrz'ng Device





 





 





 





IF” you wish to know how many rods

of fencing you will need for a field

or if you wish to measure the area of

a field, spend a little time first in

making a measuring device. It is a

handy thing to have around the place

lots cf bother when

rough measurements’ of distances Or

areas are desired.





The device in question is made like ,





wbig compassand it will lend itself





.most readily to subsequent calcula-





tions if the distance between the two

points is exactly half a rod. With this

instrument in hand, “walk” it along

two sides of the field to be fenced, or

around all four sides if the field is ir-

regular in shape. Keep a straight

course and count the half-rod “steps”

In the case of rectan-





 

 

   





_ present rates would cost $500.





S0772e Fzgures W/zz'c/z S/zoala’ at Least E72coz2rage t/ze M012 Eficzent Use of





Machinery Storage Room





further information due them. And

it will perhaps appear so in this case.



What is the actual loss on the aver-

age farm occasioned by leaving tools

unhous’ed? A teacher of mechanics in

one of our large colleges said in the

writer’s hearing that the interest on

the money required for a building to

house the tools would amount to about

as much as the depreciation of‘ the

tools when left out in the weather.



How much would tools go down

when so exposed? On an average they

would doubtless last ten years, so the

loss could not be over ten per cent.

But natural wear would amount to

something. No ordinary farm imple-

ment could be expected to last more

than fifty years if kept, under cover

constantly except when in actual use,

so that at least two per cent must be

allowed for natural wear, and not over

eight per cent should be charged to

loss from exposure.



What would be the cost of housing

the tools on the ordinary farm? For

it must be borne in mind that build-

ings are costly these days. I have

made a list of the tools commonly

found on the farm, with their prices

as given in the catalog of a catalog

house, and the estimated square feet

of floor space they would occupy in a

tool house.



Floor





Price. Space.



Sulky plow ............$ 40.90 60

Walking plow . . . .. .. . . . 12. 85 15

Sulky cultivator . . . . . . 29. 75 60

Disc harrow ........... 26.45 80

Spring-tooth harrow . . 10.75 30

Corn planter . . . . . . 47.450 60

Wagon ........... . . .. 110.50 160

Manure spreader . . 107.00 160

Mower ............ . . . 63.80 60.

Grain drill ...... . . . 78.75 96

Hay rake ........ . . . . 36.45 80

Land roller . . . . . . . . 48.30 80

Total ............... $613.00 941





If eight per cent is allowed for de-

preciation then the annual loss on

these implements would amount to

$49.04. A building providing room to

cover them would have to be at least

twenty by fifty feet on the ground, and

ten feet high, and a wider building

would be better. Such a structure re-

quires approximately 4,000 feet of lum-

ber besides shingles or roofing mate-

rial for floor, and with labor at the

Few

farmers have that amount in ready

cash to put into such a building, and

to borrow it at the bank calls for sev-

en per cent interest,.or $35 annually

Perhaps $40 or $50 might be saved by

leaving one side open, but that wou ‘d

allow storms to blow in, and, m01e-

over, the hazard from winds would be

greatly increased, and the small sav~

ing would not be worth while. And

this makes no provision for more tools

that may be needed, such as a hay

loader and tedder and perhaps a trac-

tor with its accompanying tools. Nor

is space allowed for a buggy or auto.



And besides the annual interest

charge the fire hazard is much great-

er, both on building and tools, than

would be the case with the tools scat-

tered about under trees, and cost of

insurance must be added. There must

be something allowed, too for depreci-

ation of building, probably estimated

by insurance men at, two per cent at

least. Nor is such property concealed

from the tax assessor; If we are to

tabulate these expenses we shall find

something like this.



Annual interest charge .......$35. 00

Insurance 2.00





Depreciation, two per cent . . . . . . 10. 00

Taxes, say .0275 on $300 valu“tn 8.25





Total . ...$55. 25

If we are not overestimating, then,

in order to effect a saving of $49 by





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housing his tools, the farmer is insur-

ring an expense annually of $55. This

does not appear like a large economy.





But this is not all of the story. The

average farmer does not anticipate

carrying his indebtedness and paying

interest definitely, but expects to have

to pay his debts within a limited time.

And to raise $500 within any reasou-

able time is going to call for some

pinching, even if he might expect to

get along without any loss of animals

or sickness in the family, or buying

some tool or implement. At best he

starts in with the season with a gam—

ble whether he will come out even at

its end, and no possible insurance

against loss. The treasurer of as pros-

perous a township as there is in west-

ern Michigan told the writer a year

ago that twenty-five per cent of the

farmers had to borrow mOney to pay

their taxes the previous winter. He

is human, too, and when he goes to

town with his family he likes to see

them presentable, at least, and this

calls for some expenditure for clothes.

So that, even if there might be some

saving in the long run by putting up a

suitable tool house, he doesn’t care to

do the necessary pinching now.





The w1iter heleof has no desire to

encourage improvidence on the part

of farmers, and good buildings, with

tools well housed, present an appear-

ance of thrift that is attractive and

commendable, but in View of this

wholesale criticism to which farmers

are subjected by those who haven’t

gone into this matter thoroughly, it

may not be amiss to advise such that

there is still some information due

them.





NEws BRIEFS.





 





Delegates are in special conference

in Chicago considering plans for a fed—

eration of farmer and labor groups for

political activity.





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OthESizes equally low priced.

Over 5,000 dealers carry these

engines in stock and will save



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County Agent B. E. Shaefer, of Mont—

calm county, resigns to take 11p gov-‘

ernment work in Washington. No sue,

cessor has been appointed. 2

1



Holstein bleedeis of Wes t Mlchig 1nI

are planning on an annual picnic lml

August 7- 10. The picnic may be sup-

plemented with a short tour 01' Hot,

stein herds in the vicinity of Grand‘

Rapids.





 





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Manufacturers Chicago





 





If normal weather continues, bump-1‘

er crops of wild berries will be har-

vested in the northein counties. Huck-l

leberries, red and black raspberries!I

and blackberries are among the varie-‘I





 





ties which promise to give large mops





 





The Traveise region will have a non;

mal cherry crop this year. Groweis

are speculating as to what the price;-

will be. Thus far, no offers have been:

received from either canners or out-

side buyers. l





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The state public utilities commis-

sion has granted an order giving the

Manistee & Northeastern Railroad au— 1

thority to take over the Leelanau Tran—g

sit Company’s equipment. This road '

is used principally for hauling fr-uiti'

and tourists. ‘





 





 





 





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give Listing stretch. Mlllxons know

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Suspenders, 75:; Carter: 501:,“l

“08¢ Supporlen 25c, éorul

Sew- Om, 25c,- Hose Supporter

, Harness, 50c.





Ask your dealer} If llcwcm'l Ih—pply you. .

send dlrcfl. giving dealt-1- 1 name. ‘





 

 

   





 





   

   

   

 





 





 





 





 





Experience'with their common air- ',

cooled storage plant has convinced

Henry Craft & Son, prominent Kent __

county fruit growers, that it pays to . T-m) 57????

store apples in seasons when bumper 5'“ .‘4 .

crops are grown. They figure, for in- ' A M" “"3 "e" ““"f'f‘fd‘" ""

stance, that during the past year the

storage added thirty cents a busher

.to the fruit which they stated.





 





 

 

 

 





 

 





 

 

 

 





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The most valuable qualities you can get in a farm tractor are

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tion these important advantages are gained:





3. In case of replacement, the new part falls automatically into per '





fect alignment because this frame cannot change in shape, nor

can the bearing housings wear.



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5. With this frame the weight is distributed so as to secure the great

est possible pull at the drawbar.





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Our Week! .

HEN one pays a visit to the

cathedral of Saint Peter’s, in

Rome, he is impressed and

amazed. As one stands under the vast

dome it seems almost like being out

of doors, so great are the spaces. A

guide will tell him that fifty thousand

people have been in the building at

one time. As he stands and watches

the crowds passing through at almost

any time of day, or when he climbs to

the roof and looks over the city, he is

more impressed with the magnificence

of the brain that designed this «struc-

ture. And finally, as" he goes away, he

remembers that it is all in honor of a

fisherman, Simon Peter. It was part

of the luck of this fisherman to be so

remembered; in fact, to be honored by

a branch of the Christian church as

the greatest of men, and to be hon-

ored by all branches of the church as

one of the Immortal Twelve.

Probably Peter belonged to a family

of some means. Apparently it was a

property—owning family, and Peter was

a respected merchant. He had quali-

ties that made an

a p p e a l to the

Master, when He

was on the 1001'-

out for a member

of a band of pu~

pils. One day the

impulsive fisher-

man was told that

he was henceforth

to “c'a'tch men,” which is more inter-

esting than catching fish. There was

a certain quick mental quality about

this brawny son of the out-of-doors

that appeals to us. He was the first

to recognize the Meesiaship of Christ.

The discovery was so important that

his name was changed from hence-

forth, from Simon to Peter—that is, a

Rock, a person of unusual qualities.





 





HERE are many traits which en-



dear Simon Peter to readers of the

Bible. He was very impulsive, very

ingenuous, and very human. Anything

that impressed him he immediately

blurted out. He could keep no secrets.

He was open and free, like the winds

that had tanned his breast in the old

fishing days. One day he became dis-

couraged, and asks his Master what

he and the others are going to get out

of all this inconvenience of leaving

home and family and wandering from

place to place. He receives that mem-

orable reply, as good now as it was

then: “There is no man that. hath left

house, or brethren, or sisters, or fath-

er, or mother, or wife, or children, or

lands, for my sake and the gospels,

but he shall receive an hundred fold

now in this time, houses, and breth-

ren, and sisters, and mothers, and chil-

dren, and lands, with persecutions;

and in the world to come eternal life.”

One night when the “spirit” proved to

be their Lord, walking on the water,

he instantly desired to see what suc-

cess he could make of that kind of

pedestrianism. And then there is the

Transfiguration, one of the greatest

scents of the New Testament. When

the glory was on them, and the mys-

tic voice was heard in the cloud, once

more Peter's quick and ardent nature

responded: “Lord, let us build three

tabernacles here;"»and the writer then

adds, “not knowing what he was say-

mg.





HE scenes at the last were typical

of Peter’s whole past. First he

said he would die with his Master





started out to make his vow good, for

he carried a sword, and_..used it On a





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Peter had only known that it was to

be a servant, a girl, who was to scare

him it would have been different. But

he didn’t. He was looking for a com-

pany of soldiers, and when they came

he was going to fight. But when the

Master told him to put up his sword.

it seemed to take the life out of him.

He had done his best. He wasn’t

looking for more trouble. But when it

was-an over and he heard the fateful

crowing of the cock, “he went out and

wept bitterly.” It is in the unexpected

times and places that men deny Christ.

A smile, a joke, a sneer, a casual res

mark will do it. ' ' "





   

 





But Simon Peter still had love for '





his Christ, and before many days he

was to learn that} his Christ still had

love for him. Shortly after the cruel-

fixion, it was rumored that there had

been a resurrection. Very early Sun-





day morning, two women had been to.





the sepulchre and claimed that they

had seen an angel, and that the tomb

was empty. Peter said he would go

and see if it were true—oh, if it only

were true! He and bins old fisherman

l‘riend, John, went together to‘ the

tomb, outside the city. But they could

not wait to walk. They ran. Moreover,

they ran fast. They ran a race, and

John was there first. His quiet and

reverent nature, however, would not

permit him to enter the tomb, but he

crouched and looked in. But when

Peter comes up, panting with the run,

he does not stop, but goes in. How

important a figure Peter was after"

ward, we all know. He became a spe‘

cialist, as an evangelist to the Gen-

tiles. The sermon on the day of Pent:

ecost showed the new Peter, clothed

with the power of the newly found

Holy Spirit. '





OLUMES have been written con-



cerning this man. For instance,

there is the story that never fails in

interest concerning Peter and Mark.

Mark’s gospel was written by him on

information which Peter supplied, and

thus it might be called, the Gospel of

Peter. The question as to whether

Peter founded the church at Rome and

was its first bishop will never be set-

tled, probably. Perhaps it is true that;

he did. But he was a. tremendous

power in the early church, there can

be no question on that point. He

wrote two little books which found

their way into the New Testament.

The authenticity of the second has

been questioned, but never the first.

In it occur the well-known words, “For

the time is come that judgment must:

begin at the house of God: and if it

begin at us, what shall be the end of

them that obey not the gospel Of God?

And if the righteous scarcely be sav—

ed, where shall the ungodly and the

sinner appear? ”



The story of this man is an encaur-

agement to all followers of the Great

King. It,l so useful a messenger could

be made out of such unpromising ma-

terial, is not almost anything possible

in Christian work? The most careless,

giggling, shallow minded girl may be-

come the pride of the church and of

the community. Moreover, it is” well'

to be reminded that even tempera;

ment is not a final barrier. The rough

places in Simon’s temperament were

smoothed out. The uncertain spots

were strengthened. “Amid all Peter’s





. stumbles and falls this always set him

on his feet again—his enthusiastic ,





love‘and adoration for his Master.”





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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JULY 15.





SUBJECT :——Simon Peter.





 





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_ hence andbarn, and‘is one Of the most"

appreciated buildings on’the farm. “





‘Built approximately 161132“ feet, it





,1 contains. a roomy work-shop with

equipment for working ‘with both 'wood





and iron,‘bins forthe storage of fuel

or seed grains, and a second story,





 

 





 





title“ Re “tot; 1h er,- ha‘s some to us





“stint-ought the“ use fof‘ :retardin'g rdams.





These maybe built by placing posts





' in a line across the gulley and stretch-





ing some fencing on these posts so

that refuse will collect behind the

wire and hold back the rushing wa-





ter following a stream. Or, brush may





be thrown into the gulley to do the





 





The Equipment in this Shop Enables the Owners to Make Good Use of

Rainy Weather and Winter Months.





nice enough to live in, whichk‘f‘u‘rnishcs

ideal storage for seed corn and numer—

ous articles not wanted in house or

barn. ‘



Mr. Cummings believes in having a

place for everything and everything in

its place. This house is a very great

help. It is to the farm what the desk





and filing base are to the office.





‘FERTILIZER SAVES BEETS.





 





NUMBER of beet fields in this

locality have suffered severely





:this year from attacks 01? little bugs.





The insects seem to put in their ap-

pearance all at once, and almost be-

fore one knows it the beets are gone.

The most damage, thus far, has been

done before the beets were thinned,

after that the beets appear to be able

to take care of thmselves.





'We’have also observed this, that the





insects do not work so freely on fields ,





Which have been well fertilized. We

do not know whether it is the fertil-

izer that acts as a repellent, or wheth-

er the increased growth enables, the

plant to better take ‘care of itself. We

would be pleased to learn Whether

other farmers growing beets' have

made observation along this line.

through additional fertilization we can

ward off the damage done by this pest

we shall be. most happy—H. Wasson,‘





. Gratiot County.





BEAN CULTIVATOR IN ’THE BEET

’FIELD. ‘ '





 





. f

HE cultivator which handles three

-rOWs of beans at a time‘is doing

in the beet field.

.Scarcely no readjustments are requir-

ed,‘since we drilled the beets in rows





' twenty-eight, inches apart, the same as

. w‘é did the beans. '





Every farmer knows that it is some

chore during the very busy season to

change an‘implement set for working

under One condition, so that it works

Well under other conditions. To save





. these minutes~ and hours] was the big





reason for putting in the beets as wéi

did. Now that the preSSing work ‘is‘

'on we feel‘thankful that our head was

on the 10b when the beets/'were'going

into the ground—R, Isabella County.





sou. EROSION WORKS HAvoc.





 





OBSERVE that inhson‘i’e sections of.

the state soil erosion does "a, great





j deal ofwdainage "to" forms. In some in-‘

' {stances fields are pretty much; ruined

by the gullieeand thedeposits result-





 





 





 





If,





same thing. Avoid plowing or in any

Way stirring thersoil in or near these

gullies. This breaks up the plant

roots in the soil and destroys the bind-

ing influence Which they exert. ~S. C.

Isham.





 





MORE INTERESTED .IN ' BUSINESS

METHODS.





 





HERE was greater interest among



farmers in keeping records of their

business operations last year than any

preceding period, according to the

farm management records of the hu-

reau of agricultural ecouomics. More

than 62,000 farm account books were

ordered by-i’armers from state exten—

sion forces. In addition 11,000 books

in which records of individual crops

were kept were distributed.



This work has been in progress for

ten years, having been begun in Mas-

sachusetts, New York and Ohio in

1913, During this time more than 50,-

000 farm accounts have been analyzed

by farm management experts connect-

ed with the department oi‘ agriculture.

It has proved a definite aid in formu-

lating farm management programs for

entire communities. .. As a result of

this increased interest in farm ac.

counting last year, nearly 3,000 farm

businesses were reorganized. More

than 12,000 farmers made imp0rtant

changes in their business.





Study and master the mechanism of

your farm machinery. Instruct those

who handle it to operate it correctly,





, and Without strain upon brakes, gears,





or any part where friction may occur.





 





Take time to figure out exactly how

much you have saved on the average

job by having power machinery, and





‘this will be a distinct encouragement





to use the best methods in the doing

of all jobs. “





 





Learn the amount of. lubrication

needed. Too little means friction and

worn parts. Too much means a gum-

ming and a clogging of parts, and the

fouling of spark plugs. Enough is

enough. Know how much that is.





 





Take out insurance coverage as a

matter of business policy. The wise

man does not run any risks from which

he can protect himself. "A talk with





a. reliable insurance agent will prove

illuminating, and .the relatively small

amount spent fer insurance protection“,

‘is’wbrtli-While in satiéfatztion, peace of

mind, and possibly in the settlement

of'so'me' unexpected claim.





 





 

 

 

 

   





 





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——under the. greatest heat any motor can develop. It has

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bearings and cylinder walls which prevents friction. That

18 why the use of En-ar-cp in your motor increases the

work you can get from 1t. That is why it saves expen-

swe repairs.





Give your motor a real chance by using a real oil. Order En-ar-co to-

day—order it in quantity. This means a big saving in money and the

assurance of having a supply on hand when you need it. Ask your

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below and'get .





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MU LE-HIDE





‘NOT A KICK .,

INAMuuo/vrlrf

ROOFING

“AND—





© 1923





Mule-Hide SlateKote

Roofing is made in

two welghts,90 lbs.

per roll of 108 square

feet and 105 lbs. per

roll arms square feet.

Furnished in unfad-

ing red and green

colorings. Nails, ce«

ment and directions

for applying packed

with each roll.





Manufactured by





THE LEHON C0.

CHICAGO





“NOT A KICK IN A MILLION FEET”





The Tuffest Asphalt

Reofing Made





T





HE unequalled durability

of Mule-Hide roofing is not

an accident but the result of a

sincere desire to make the best

overhead protection on earth!





That toughness for which it is

famous is built into it through

the careful selectidn of genuine

Mexican ashpalt, all rag long‘

fibred felt and skilled workman-

ship of exceptional character.





Repair

Rebuild





 





 





 





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OFFER No. 584.

MICHIGAN FARMER .....

Capper’s \Veekly ..............

Household



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





All for $1 .30





OFFER No. 578.

MICHIGAN FARMER .........

,Capper’s Weekly ..............

Breeder’s Gazette



Total value ............. $3.00





All for $1.75





OFFER No. 579.





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MICHIGAN FARMER . . . . . . . . .

Mother's Magazine ...... . . . . . .

Household » ............. . . .....

Good StOries ...................



. Total value ............. $1.75





All for $1 .30





'2 OFFER No. 582.



- ::’ MICHIGAN FARMER . . . . . . . ..

Fruit Belt



'Power Farming ................



Modern Poultry Breeder . . . . . ..



" Total value . . . . . . 00





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. MIEHIGAN FARMER,

,: _.. Detroit, Michigan:





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which send me the papers named

in ClubNo. ............‘



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LAWYER. 952 Southern





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’struction book and "Record I





r ' " 1' k. . . . .

:fiefizge‘gimgoé’er"... 833,51. cow wluclrleaks her milk badly. Could 0t condensed 1Y8. bUt It seems to have





Bldg.. Washington. D 0





“'9' ‘M.f::;2r.f.i‘r:z¢1‘:z.t:t;:..



son .would- anticipate, he is liable to.



_ the OWner’of the poultry for the dam-

I own a farm which has Lake Mich- age thereby sustained—Rood.



igan for its west boundary. I would .





like to know if I have the right to .



stop people from hauling gravel off my WANTS TO LET MARE 0N SHARES‘



beach, and if a notice on the beach is ’



sufficient warning to trespassers?——



E. L. ' ' -

Trespassers are





. gravel. Notice is necessary—Rood.





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mare to dgaw thati is lgt outdto {aisie

- - co tson s ares, wt .t e un ers an -

liable for taking ing that the mare is to work and pay

' for keep, excepting the first eight or

ten weeks after the colt is born, when

the mare ,is to run out in pasture in

order to give the colt a start? The

balance of the year the mare will do

. farm work to pay for her keep. Now.

Road contractors have cut a ditch what share ought the man that owns

three feet 'deep in front of our house. the mare get in‘the colts ?——Reader.





Do they not have to bridge this so I There are difierent ways of figuring





can get in and out?—H. F. .,

Concerning the right of township a fan return f.” the horse keep.,but

no doubt as fair 3. way as any 18 to





officials to construct a road gutter in allo th 0 f i . o 1? his

front of a driveway without replacing . w e. wner a a r inc me or

investment and risk.





the same, you are advised that there The following example will I've a.

is nothing in thestatute that-requires basis for figuring out what the ilwner

a municipality building a highway to should receive for his investment and

,provide driveways for abutting prop- risk assuming the horse is worth $100





eity owners. H' N” Partlow. Interest at six per cent ........ $ 6.00

’ M Depreciation at seven per cent. . 7.00

PARTNERSHIP. Taxes, insurance, two per cent 2.00

Service fees (estimated) 25.00





keeps the bOOkS, has the other part- Total .................. .......$40.00

ner a right to look the books over? 1f the CO“ is worth $50 the owner

:Vlhat ist the penaléydif onet parliner of the horse should have eighty per

3. es on money an oes no ma e a . - . -

record of it? Would there have to be cent 0f “.5 value 1n order to make 312:

more proof than that they admit tak- per cent interest on his investment.—

ing the money and refuse to tell how F. T- Rlddell- ’

much? How large an amount would

be necessary, to make it a crime?——

Subscriber.



Each partner is entitled to access to

h 00k tll'm . A ‘0 'a'n

t e b S a ”a ti es 'ppi‘pri‘tio Please tell me if the contents of a

M partnership funds to either paitner chemical toilet will freeze. In all the

is embezzlement and a criminal 0f.~ advertisements I ever saw, no mention

fence regardless of amount—Rood. was made Of this fact. I wish to in-

‘ stall one in a fuel room entirely sep<



. arate from the house, if practical. Also



COW LEAKS MILK- in regard to a kitchen sink, the waste

pipe is entirely filled up. It has no

four-year—old Holstein bend or trap, I have put in four cans





 





1, NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE

DRIVEWAYS.





 





 





 





 





In a partnership, if one partner





 





 





 





CHEMICAL CLOSETS AND

CLOGGED PIPES.





 





 





 





have a





you advise any remedy for this ?_.cR_ no effect, except to heat the pipe clear

~ ‘ to the floor. The pipe runs under the

floor and it would be a very difficult





 





 





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FAR QUHAR





WILL DIG

YOUR

(POTATOES





_ studied the economical

harvesting of potatoes. and now offer a

Ffrqgih'ar Digger suitable for every condition

0 801.





We have long





The No. 1 Elevator Digger 'shown

above is a general. faVOrite built to stand

the strain of hard Continuous usage.

Rigid tongue construction, and the choice

of Cross Bottom or Riddle Bottom type of

Elevator. It digs clean, and leaves the

potatoes convenient for picking. Large

No. 2 Elevator Digger for deep digging

and bad conditions. Engine drive if desired.





Our“Succeu Jr." Plow Digger gets more

potatoes in one trip over the row than

a turn plow in three. Price so low it

is within reach of the half acre grower.





I! you grow potatoes you can't afford to

be without a Digger. Illustrated Catalogue

explaining why that Diggger should be a

Write for





copy today. \

A. B. FARQUHAR co., Limited

Box 212





York, Pa.





   

 

 

 





“Success Jr.”





A Plow Digger for

producing more

less labor





I thi k t1 m t'sf . . . .

f 11 1e OSt if; h actory remidy Job to take it up. The pipe discharges

or your COW W0“ be to mllk er into a so-called cess pool, simply a





three times a day. Your veterinarian barrel sunk in the ground—M. F. C.

.might scarify the opening in the teat The contents of a chemical closet

and cause it to grow smaller but it is will freeze. The temperature at which

rather a delicate operation and I it will freeze depends upon the

should hesitate to try it on a cow that strength of the liquid originally put

was very valuable for fear of making into the tank and upon the dilution of

matters worse—Pope. the chemical with which the tank was

—————»~——-———— charged. The contents would prob«

DOES VACCINATION HURT MEAT? ably not freeze sufficient to burst the

tank and the contents would not he

Are hogs that were vaccinated for offensive or harmful when frozen.

hog“ cholera perfectly good to eat?—- In regard to the stoppage in the

Mrs. 0' BI . . . waste pipe. I will say that concentrat-

There IS nothing about vaccmation . - . .

to injure yo“ meat in any way. Ot’ ed lye would have little effect if it

could not get an opening to get through





course, for a few dai’s after “163.01,?- as it would only work a little below

ation while the vacc1ne is working, it .

the surface of the stoppage 1n the





1 ' . . . .

wou d not be policy to butcher the hog pipe. If it would be possmle to run a.





. i l . il .

Occas onally, a Sfo’ an abscess w 1 Wire through the pipe so that the lye

form at the pomt oft injection and . . . .

. . . could follow it, it might work its way



might cause the wasting ot a pound 0r



through, although I would not expect

so of the meat—Pope. . . . .



it. The stoppage 1n the pipe is, no

doubt, from fats, when fat and lye is





 





NEGLIGENT INJURY.





 





l o 1

My neighbor scattered grasshopper 1:: ess hyth could tgetdp exity 0f water

poison along his road fence, well away roug e pipe 0 1880 vs the soap





from his own buildings, but toward and carry it out. you would be no hot-

mine. The grasshoppers ate the poi- ter in the second case than in the first.

son, but as it does not immediately You probably will have to ‘take the





kill them, some fly into my place and . .

are eaten by my chickens and turkeys, pipe apart suflicrently to get a wire 01'

it for the purpose oi





which results in their death. My poul- rod through

try are fenced in’ so do not go on the cleaning—F. E. Fogle. '

road, and are. therefore, 'being poison-

ed on my own place. Have I any re-

dress ?——E’. M.

Every person is liable to anyone in- ‘

jured through the natural conse- , IS 3. 39391511 war veteran (receiv-

13 his own acts to tble extent mg a pensron) exempt from taxatIOn

quences 0 the same as a G. A. R. soldier? If so,

that a reasonable Person could in ad- how much and where can’it be found.

vance anticipate such consequence. in the law book?—A. C. S.

And the probability of poisoned gr‘ass- Homestead of Spanish-American war

hoppers straying away into the adjoin- veteran is exempt to the extent of

ing enclosure and poisoning poultry. $1,000 by Stat. No. 331, Sec. 7. Sub. 11,





‘TAXATION EXEMPTION.





 





 





 





 





that being such as a roasonable per— 01' Public Acts of int—Rood.





 





What share rought a good‘ breed, i





brought together soap is formed and,-
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~ state’s apple industry.





 





APPLE s‘usvsv REVEALS’ INTER-

Esrm‘e FACTS.





 





N a report just issued, the Pennsyl-





vania State College and the State'

Department of Agriculture publish the ‘





results of their joint survey of the

Perhaps \the

most significant fact brought out by

the report is that only those who are

qualified to grow apples on a strictly

business—like basis can hope to suc-‘

ceed. '



In view of the rather couflicting tes-

timony regarding orchard fertilization,

thepracti'ce of the Pennsylvania ‘Or-

chardists may be enlightening.



. Two-thirds of the sod orchards and

most of the cultivated orchards were

fertilized. Most of the orchards were

manured, the average being from five





- to ten tons per acre, every three years. ,





:‘vegetable crops.





powder containing three to five'per

cent of nicotine and is very efficient





- 'in controlling the cucumber beetles.





Diseases of the cucumber and mel-

ons maybe controlled by spraying

with Bordeaux mixture, using the 4-4-

50 formula—that is, four pounds of

copper sulphate, four pounds of stone

lime or six pounds of hydrated lime,

to fifty gallons of water. Very heavy

applications of slaked lime very often

check the growth of the plants and

may cause some burning as you have

already found from.the use of this

material.



Ammonium sulphate is a very effi-

cient materialgfor fertilizing all of the

A small amount ap-





plied to the soil around the plants will

stimulate a more vigorous growth and

help to overcome the troubles affect-

ing them.





I do not know of any bet‘





 





 





Potato Growers Have Become Convinced that Bordeaux Applied with a High

Pressure Sprayer Keeps Down Pests and Builds wp Yields.





Most growers using commercial fertil-

izers, applied them every year, the us-

ual mixture being acid phosphate and

nitrate of soda, spread at the rate of

ten to fifteen pounds per tree, usually

prior to May. The effect of fertilizer

treatment, on all the trees surveyed,

was as follows:



In the orchards which were fertiliz-

ed the percentage of good trees found

was sixty-two; of medium trees, thir-

ty-three per cent, and of poor trees,

five per cent. In the orchards unfer-

tilized the percentage of good trees

fell to twenty, trees in medium condi-

tion dropped but little to thirty-one

per cent, while those in poor condi-

tion run up to forty-nine per cent.



While other factors may have play-

ed a part in bringing about these con-

ditions, it is reasonably certain that

the additional plant food. supplied by

fertilization was largely responsible in.

keeping the trees in good condition.





,VINE CROPS ARE SUFFERING.





 





What causes my muskmelons, wa—

termelons and cucumbers to be eaten

or chewed up, and yellow spots to de-

velop upon them? For the spots I





' have sprayed with Bordeaux with but





little apparent good. I also dusted

with slaked lime, hut to me it seems

to have- burned the plants and stop-

ped them from growing. Would am-

monium, sulphate help the growth?

Poisoned bait did not seem to help

destroy cutworms. Also advise best

spray for small’tomato'plantsr—H. L.





Cucumbers and muskmelons are

commonly troubled \with the striped cu-

cumber beetles. This insect may be

controlled by dusting with hydrated





" lime to .which a; small amount of Paris





green or arsenate of lead has been





added. Sometimes a little turpentine

. mixed with‘ the lime will act as a. re-'

, pella’nt and "keep the insects aWayfrom

. the pants. one at“ the best materials



,whighfins come into recent tune is

W m :18 '5 misting-





3‘9“?“





ter remedy for the cutworms than the

use of poisoned bait.



Muskmelon aphids or lice are usu-

ally found on the under sides of the

leaves. These are usually green in

color. Some of the winged'generation

may look like a small beetle or fly.

These aphids may be controlled by the

use of the nicotine dust which I have

mentioned, or by thorough spraying

with a tobacco extract. In sprayingi

for this insect it is important that the‘

spray be directed so that it will strike

the body of the insect. This means, of

course, that the spray material must

be applied mostly to the under side of

the leaves. It is possible that the

small insects which you mention are

the flea beetle. This is very common

early in the season and is found on

many plants. This insect may be con—





trolled by thorough spraying with





arsenate of lead. _



The best material for spraying t0»

mato plants is freshly prepared Bor-

deaux mixture to which some arsenate

of lead has been added.——R. E. Loree.





A small, hard stream of water up—

sets the domestic affairs ot', the mealy-

bug which so often damages the

house-plants. Or the plants may be

washed with soap-suds.





 





If the cabbage plants are not head-

ing, the cabbagerworm may be con-

trolled by spraying the plants with

kerosene emulsion, or with Paris

green to which a sticker has been ad-





~ded. After heading has started then





hellebore should be used instead of

the poison.





 





“The little fruit worm which feeds

on gooseberries may be kept in’check

by turning a liberal number of hens in

the gooseberry patch. Clean cultiva-

tion also aids in keeping down the





pest. . . ,





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EAD helps to protect you from



famine. Each year your daily



food supply grows more dependent



upon the proper use of the fertil-

izers lead helps to make.





Enriching the soil





Phosphates are the basis of

nearly all artificial fertilizers. The

phosphates mixed with sulphuric

acid give one of the elements plant

life needs. Because lead success—

fully resists the action of sulphuric

acid it is used for lining the rooms

and tanks in which the fertilizer-

manufacturing processes are car-

ried on, for making the pipes which

convey the corrosive liquids, and

for the pails and other containers

used about the factory.“





Lead aids the farmer in protect-

ing his fruit trees, yincs, and truck

crops. He sprays them with arsen-

ate of lead to poison insects that

would otherwise destroy them.





Lead in batteries





In the modern farmer’s tractors,

trucks, and automobiles a storage

battery, mostly lead, provides elec-

tric current for starting, lighting,

and ignition. Lead-tin solder seals

gasoline tank and radiator. Lith-

arge, a lead oxide, is used in refining

the gasoline that makes the tractor,

truck, and automobile go.





Electric light bulbs and lamp

chimneys throughout house and

farm buildings are made of a supe-

rior lead glass.





Painting with lead





As paint, lead helps to protect

the farmer’s house, farm buildings,

and equipment.



.Red—lead, an oxide of lead, makes

a paint that guards the metal of his





 





How lead keeps the wolf ' ‘





from your door





windmill and machinery against

the attacks of rust and thus pro—

longs their usefulness indefinitely.





Whitc-lead is the paint usually

used for wood and other non—metal-

lic surfaces on farms and through-

out the world. Practically every-

where one goes—on sea or land——

he can see or touch white-lead

paint.



More property owners than ever

before are learning the value of the

phrase, “Save the surface and you

save all.” And they are saving the

surface with white-lead, or at least

with paint containing a high per-

centage of white—lead.





Look for the Dutch Bay





National Lead Company makes

white-lead. of the

highest quality

and sells it, mixed

with pure linseed

oil, under the

name and trade-

mark of Dutch

BoyWhite-Lead.

The figure of the

Dutch Boy is re-

produced on every

keg of white-lead

and is a guarantee of exceptional

purity.



Dutch Boy products also include

red-lead, linseed oil, flatting oil,

babbitt metals, and solder.





Among other products manufac-

tured by National Lead Company

are bar lead, litharge,’ glassmakers'

red-lead, lead pipe, battery red-

lead, orange mineral, and die cast-

ings.



More about lead

If you use lead, or think you





might use it in any form, write to

us for specific information.





NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY





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«Mrs; a,” M “A“*L,&~¢é“ Q ~. »
NOT A KICK ..

IN A Min/0N rt! 7





"The Tuffest Asphalt





Reefing Made





THE unequalled durability

of Mule-Hide roofing is not

an accident but the result of a

sincere desire to make the best

overhead protection on earth!





That toughness for which it is

famous is built into it throngh

the careful selectiOn of genuine

Mexican ashpalt, all rag long .

fibred felt and skilled workman-

ship of exceptional character.





ROOFING





“NOT A, KICK IN A MILLION FEET”





© 1923





Mule-Hide SlateKote

Roofing, is made in

two welghts,90 lbs.

per roll of 108 square

feet and 105 lbs. per

roll of108 square feet.

Furnished in unfad-

ing red and green

colorlngs.

ment and directions

for applying packed

with each roll.





Manufactured by





THE LEHON C0.

CHICAGO





Repair

Rebuild





Nails. ce-





   





 





 





 





Reading

Bargains





OFFER No. 584.

MICHIGAN FARMER

Capper’s \Veekly

Household



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





All for $1.30





OFFER No. 578.

MICHIGAN FARMER

,Capper’s Weekly ..............

Breeder’s Gazette .............



Total value ............. $3.00





All for $1.75





OFFER No. 579.

MICHIGAN FARMER . . . . . . . . .

Mother’s Magazine . .

Household -

Good Stories



. Total value ............. $1.75





All for $1.30





OFFER No. 582.

MICHIGAN FARMER . . . . . . . ..

Fruit Belt

‘POWer Farming ................

Modern Poultry Breeder .......





..............





....................





 





.........





 





 





 





Total value ...... .00

All for $ 1.60

MICHIGAN FARMER,

Detroit, Michigan:

Enclosed find 3. . . . . . . . for





which send me the papers named

in Club No. ‘ ‘



Name

Postofllce

‘State R F. 1)....





eases-ensue.





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sketch or model for per-

onal opinion



CLARFNCE O’BRIEN, REGISTERED PATENT



LAWYER. 952 Southern Bldg” Washington. D O





tod 1y for free in-





 





 





 





   





FAR QUHAR

WILL DIG

YOUR

(POTATOES A .-





 





 





We have

harvesting of potatoes

Ftprquhar Digger suitable for every condition

0 Soil





studied the economical





long

and now offer a





The No. l Elevator Digger ’shown

above is _a general favorite built to stand

the strain of hard continuous usage.





Rigid tongue construction, and the choice

of Cross Bottom or Riddle Bottom type of

Elevator. It digs clean, and leaves the

potatoes convenient for picking. Large

No. 2 Elevator Digger for deep digging

and bad conditions. Engine drive if desired.





Our“Succeu Jr." Plow Digger gets more

potatoes in one trip over the row than

a turn plow in three. Price so low it

is within reach of the half acre grower.





I! you grow potatoes you can't afi'ord to

be without a Digger. Illustrated Catalogue

explaining why that Digggcr should be a

‘ Parquhar mailed free on request. Write for

copy today





\





A. B. FARQUHAR CO., Limited

Box 212





York, Pa.





 





“Success Jr.”





 

 

 

 





A Plow Digger for

producing more

less labor





 





 





 





 





 





 





- Occasionally,





 

 





”we” Gun ”a." an“.





 





mull

Sol-we)“ Cause! 1.: ‘I'.. to ”I'll..‘





50-49" a Ma ’

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TRESPASS ON SHORE.





 





I own a farm which has Lake Mich-

igan for its west boundary. I would

like to know if I have the right to

stop people from hauling gravel off my

beach, and if a notice on. the beach is

sufl‘icient [warning to trespassers?——

E . .





Trespassers are liable for taking

gravel Notice is necessary. -——Rood.





i NOT REQUIRED To PROVIDE

DRIVEWAYS.





 





Road contractors have cut a ditch

three feet deep in front of our house.

Do they not have to bridge this so I

can get in and out?——H. F.





Concerning the right of township

officials to construct a road gutter in

front of, a driveway without replacing

the same, you are advised that there

is nothing in the statute that requires

a municipality building a highway to

provide driveways for abutting prop-

erty owners—H. N. Partlow.





/





PARTNERSHIP.





 





In a. partnership, if one partner

keeps the books, has the other part-

ner a right to look the books over?

What is the penalty if one partner

takes out money and does 'not make a

record of it? Would there have to be

more proof than that they admit tak-

ing the money and refuse to tell how

much? How large an amount would

be necessary to make it a crime?—

Subscriber.



Each partner is entitled to access to

the books at all times. Appropriation

of partnership funds to either partner

is embezzlement and a criminal of:

fence regardless of amount.——Rood.





COW LEAKS MILK.





 





I have a four—year-old Holstein

cow wliiclrleaks her milk badly. Could

you advise any remedy for this?—R.





I think the most satisfactory remedy

for your cow would be to milk her

three times a day. Your veterinarian

might scarify the opening in. the teat

and cause it to grow smaller but it is

rather a. delicate operation and I

should hesitate to try it on a cow that

was very valuable for fear of making

matters worse—Pope.





DOES VACCINATION HURT MEAT?





 





Are hogs that were vaccinated for

hog cholera perfectly good to eat?—

Mrs. C. B.





There is nothing about vaccination

to injure your meat in any way. Of

course, for a few days after the oper-

ation while the vaccine is Working, it

would not be policy to butcher the hog.

also, an abscess will

form at the point ofI injection and

might cause the wasting of a pound or

so of the meat—Pope.





NEGLIGENT INJURY.





 





My neighbor scattered grasshopper

poison along his road fence, well away

from his own buildings, but toward

mine. The grasshoppers ate the poi-

son, but as it does not immediately

kill them, some fly into my place and

are eaten by my chickens and turkeys,

which results in their death. My poul-

try are fenced in” so do not go on the

road, and are, therefore, being poison-

ed on my- own place. Have I any re-

dress?—E. M.



Every person is liable to anyone in-

jured through the natural conse-

quences of his own acts to tble extent

that a reasonable person could in ad-

vance anticipate such consequence.

And the probability of poisoned grass-

hoppers straying away into the adjoin-

ing enclosure and poisoning poultry,

that being such as a reasonable per-





 





son .hwould anticipate, he is liable to'

the OWner of the poultry for the'dam- -





age thereby sustained—Rood.





 





WANTS TO LET MARE ON SHARES.





 





What share fought a good' breed. '1





mare to draw that is let out to raise

colts. on shares, with the understand-

ing that the mare is to work and pay

for keep, excepting the first eight or

ten weeks after the colt is born, when

the mare is to run out in pasture in

order to giveathe colt a start? The

balance of the year the mare will do

farm work to pay for her keep. Now,

what share ought the man that owns

the mare get in~the colts '.'—Reader.





There are different waysof figuring

a fair return for the horse keepbut

no doubt'as fair a way as any is to

allow the. owner a fair income for his

investment and risk.



The following example will give a.

basis for figuring out what the owner

should receive for his investment and

risk, assuming the horse is worth $100.





Interest at six- per cent ........ $ 6.00

Depreciation at seven per cent. .

Taxes, insurance, two per cent 2.00

Service fees (estimated) 25.00





Total . ..'.$40.00



If the colt is worth $50 the owner

of the horse should have eighty per

cent of its value in order to make six

per cent interest on his investment.—

F. T. Riddell.





lore...





 





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CHEMICAL CLOSETS AND

CLOGGED PIPES.





 





Please tell me if the contents of a

chemical toilet will freeze. In all the

advertisements I ever saw, no mention

was made of this fact. I wish to in.

stall one in a fuel room entirely sep-

arate f1 om the house if practical. Also

in regard to a kitchen sink, the waste

pipe is entirely filled up. It has no

bend or trap, I have put in four cans

of condensed lye, but it seems to have

no effect, except to heat the pipe clear

to the floor. The pipe runs under the

floor and it would be a. very difficult

job to take it up. The pipe discharges

into a so called cess pool, simply a

barrel sunk in the ground—M. F. C.





The contents of a chemical closet

will freeze. The temperature at which

it will freeze depends upon the

strength or' the liquid originally put

into the tank and upon the dilution of

the chemical With which the tank was

charged. The contents would prob-

ably not freeze sufl‘icient- to burst the

tank and the contents would not be

offensive or harmful when frozen.



In' regard to the stoppage in the

waste pipe. I will say that concentrat-

ed lye would have little effect if it

could not get an opening to get through

as it would only work a little below

the surface of the stoppage in the

pipe. If it would be possible to run a

wire through the pipe so that the lye

could follow it, it might work its way

through, although I would not expect

it. The stoppage in the pipe is, no

doubt, from fats, When fat and lye is





brought together soap is formed and,





unless you could get plenty of water

through the pipe to dissolve the soap

and carry it-out, you would be no bet-

ter in the second case than in the first.

You probably will have to ‘take the

pipe apart sufficiently to get a wire or

rod through it for the purpose of

cleaning—F. E. Fogle.





‘TAXATION EXEMPTION.





 





Is a, Spanish war veteran (receiv-

ing a pension) exempt from taxation

the same as a. G. A. R. soldier? If so,





.how much and where cans‘it be found





in the law book?—



Homesteadiof Spanish-American war

veteran is exempt to the extent of

$1, 000 by Stat. No. 331, Sec. 7,8111). 11.

of Public Acts of 1919 .—Rood. ~ .





7.00 '
APPLE SURVEY REVEALS' INTER-

‘ESTIN'G FACTS.





 





I N a report just issued, the Pennsyl-





vania State College and the State’





Department of Agriculture publish the

results of their ‘joint siirvey of the

state’s apple industry. Perhaps \the

most significant fact brought out by

the report is that only those who are





'qualified’to grow apples on a strictly





business-like basis can hope to suc-‘

oeed.



' In view of the rather conflicting tes-

timony regarding orchard fertilization,

the practice of the Pennsylvania ‘or-

chardists may be enlightening. -

- Two-thirds of the sod orchards and

most of the cultivated orchards were





fertilized. Most of the orchards were





manured, the average being from five





- to ten tons per acre, every three years.





powder containing three to five per

cent of nicotine and is very efficient

in controlling the cucumber beetles.





Diseases of the cucumber and mel-

ons maybe controlled by spraying

with Bordeaux mixture, using the 4-4-

50 formula—that is, four pounds of

copper sulphate, four pounds of stone

lime or six pounds of hydrated lime,

tofifty gallons of water. Very heavy

applications of slaked lime very often

check the growth of the plants and

may cause some burning as you have

already found from.the use of this

material.



Ammonium sulphate is a very effi-

cient materialwfor fertilizing all of the

vegetable crops. A small amount ap-





plied to the soil around the plants will

stimulate a more vigorous growth and

help to overcome the troubles affect—

ing them.





I do not know of any bet—





 





 





 





e

Potato Grower's Have Become Convinced that Bordeaux Applied with a High

Pressure Sprayer Keeps Down Pests and Builds urp Yields.





Most growers using commercial fertil-

izers, applied them every year, the us-

ual mixture being acid phosphate and

nitrate of soda, spread at the rate of

ten to fifteen pounds per tree, usually

prior to May. The effect of fertilizer

treatment, on all the trees surveyed,

was as follows:



In the orchard-s which were fertiliz-

ed the percentage of good trees found

was sixty-two; of medium trees, thir-

ty-three per cent, and of poor trees,

five per cent. In the orchards unfer-

tilized the percentage of good trees

fell to twenty, trees in medium condi-

tion dropped but little to thirty-one

per cent, while those in poor condi-

tion run up to forty-nine per cent.



While other factors may have play—

ed a part in bringing about these con—

ditions, it is reasonably certain that

the additional plant food. supplied by

fertilization was largely responsible in

keeping the trees in good condition.





 





,VINE CROPS ARE SUFFERING.





 





What causes my muskmelons, .wa-

termelons and cucumbers to be eaten

or chewed up, and yellow spots to de-

velop upon them? For the spots I





‘ have sprayed with Bordeaux with but





little apparent good. I also dusted

with slaked lime, but to me it seems

to have burned the plants and stop-

ped them from growing. Would am-

moni-um_ sulphate help the growth?

Poisoned bait did not seem to help

destroy cutworms. Also advise best

spray for small'tomato plants—H. L.’

. Cucumbers and muskmelons are

commonly troubled \with the striped cu-

cumber beetles. This insect may be





controlled by dusting with hydrated





" lime to which a small amount of Paris





green or, arsenate of lead ', has been

added. Sometimes a little turpentine

mixed with' the lime will act as a re-





pellstnt‘andfkeep the insects aWayfrom

. fitheplants’. one .of the best materials





@3118 "is a dusting





v





has 3 come" into recent use is





. kerosene





“ded. After heading has started then





 





ter remedy for the cutworms than the

use of poisoned bait.



Muskmelon aphids or lice are usu-

ally found on the under sides 01' the

leaves. These are usually green in

color. Some of the winged generation

may look like a small beetle or fly.

These aphids may be controlled by the

use of the nicotine dust which I have

mentioned, or by thorough spraying

with a tobacco extract. In sprayinga

for this insect it is important that the

spray be directed so that it will strike

the body of the insect. This means, of

course, that the spray material must

be applied mostly to the under side of

the leaves. It is possible that the

small insects which you mention are

the flea beetle. This is very common

early in the season and is found on

many plants. This insect may be con~

trolled by thorough spraying with

arsenate of lead. 7



The best material for spraying to-

mato plants is freshly prepared Bor-

deaux mixture to which some arsenate

of lead has been added.———R. E. Loree.





 





A small, hard stream aof water up-

sets the domestic affairs of, the mealy—

bug which so often damages the

house-plants. Or the plants may be

washed with soap-suds.





 





If the cabbage plants are not head

ing, the cabbage-worm may be con-

trolled by spraying the plants with

emulsion, or with Paris

green to which a sticker has been ad-





hellebore should be used instead of

the poison.





 





“The little fruit worm which feeds

on gooseberries may be kept in’check

by turning a liberal number of hens in

the gooseberry patch. Clean cultiva-

tion also aids in keeping down the,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





How lead keeps the wolf





 





from your door





EAD helps to protect you from



famine. Each year your daily



food supply grows more dependent



upon the proper use of the fertil-

izers lead helps to make.





Enriching the soil





Phosphates are the basis of

nearly all artificial fertilizers. The

phosphates mixed with sulphuric

acid give one of the elements plant

life needs. Because lead success—

fully resists the action of sulphuric

acid it is used for lining the rooms

and tanks in which the fertilizer-

manufacturing processes are car-

ried on, for making the pipes which

convey the corrosive liquids, and

for the pails and other containers

used about the factory.“





Lead aids the farmer in protect-

ing his fruit trees, vines, and truck

crops. He sprays them with arsen—

ate of lead to poison insects that

would otherwise destroy them.





Lead in batteries





In the modern farmer’s tractors,

trucks, and automobiles a storage

battery, mostly lead, provides elec—

tric current for starting, lighting,

and ignition. Lead-tin solder seals

gasoline tank and radiator. Lith-

arge, a lead oxide, is used in refining

the gasoline that makes the tractor,

truck, and automobile go.



Electric light bulbs and lamp

chimneys throughout house and

farm buildings are made of a supe-

rior lead glass.





Painting with lead





As paint, lead helps to protect

the farmer’s house, farm buildings,

and equipment.



.Red-lead, an oxide of lead, makes

a paint that guards the metal of his





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windmill and machinery against

the attacks of rust and thus pro-

longs their usefulness indefinitely.





White-lead is the paint usually

used for wood and other non-metal-

lic surfaces on farms and through-

out the world. Practically every—

where one goes—on sea or land—-

he can see or touch white-lead

paint.



More property owners than ever

before are learning the value of the

phrase, “Save the surface and you

save all.” And they are saving the

surface with white—lead, or at least

with paint containing a high per-

centage of white-lead.





Loch for the Dutch Bay





National Lead Company makes

white-lead. of the

highest quality

and sells it, mixed

with pure linseed

oil, under the

name and trade-

mark of Dutch

Boy White—Lead.

The figure of the

Dutch Boy is re-

produced on every

keg of white-lead

and is a guarantee of exceptional

purity.



Dutch Boy products also include

red-lead, linseed oil, flatting oil,

babbitt metals, and solder.





Among other products manufac- \

tured by National Lead Company

are bar lead, litharge, glassmakers’

red-lead, lead pipe, battery red-

lead, orange mineral, and die cast-

ings.





 





More about lead





If you use lead, or think you

might use it in any form, write to

us for specific information.





NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY.





New York. 111 Broadway: Boston. 131 State St.: Bill-lo. 116 Oak 3&4 .-

Chieuo, 900 West 18th St.: Cincinnati. 659 Freeman A_ve.: C eve!



820W”! Superi rAve.; Pittsburgh. National Lead and Oil Co.of P... 31

Fourth Ave.; P iledel his. John T. Lewm &

St. Louis. 722





Bros. (30.. 437 Che-ton!

heetnut Sn; San Francisco. 485 Celifornn Sty.’





 





 





 





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XPERIMENTS over a long



period of years by the Experi-

ment Stations of six of the leading

winter wheat states show the follow-

ing average acre yields of wheat:





With fertilizers ...... 24.6 bushels

Without fertilizers . . . 13g bushels

Increase ............ 12 bushels





Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizens pay

big profits—in increased yields of

better quality grain, in a better catch

and better yield of clover and hay

following the wheat crop.





To escape the Hessian fly, your

Experiment Stations advise you to

plant your wheat late. To minimize

the loss from winter freezing and

killing, a good fall growth is neces-

sary.



Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers for

wheat provide the available plant

food to produce the strong root

system and heavy top growth

necessary for the wheat crop to go

through the Winter.





Buy the right fertilizers

for wheat



For over 50 years, Swift 85 Company

has maintained a reputation for

making each Swift product the best

of its kind. This reputation stands

back of every bag of Swift’s Red

Steer Fertilizers.





 

 





'Wheat yields .

nearly doubled





Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers for

wheat are made from the highest

grade and mest productive sources

of plant food, properly processed

and combined to make the farmer

the biggest yields, the best quality

crOps and the most net profit.





Protect your investment in land,

preparation of soil, seed and seed~

ing, by using Swift’s Red Steer

Fertilizers—fertilizers that you

know are made right.





Leain'what service means





Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers may be

obtained from the A.S.A. (Author-





. ized Swift Agent) in your town.





The A.S.A. is not content simply

to sell fertilizers. He is pledged to

co—operate with the farmer, the

county agent and the State Agri-

cultural College in the promotion of

better farming methods.





Particularly is he pledged to know

the kind and amount of Swift’s

Red Steer Fertilizers to apply for

different crops and different soilsto





make the farmer the most net profit.





Give the A. S.A. a chance to know

you and render a serviceworthwhile.

If you do not know the nameof the

A. S.A.in your community, write us.





Become one of the many satisfied

users of Swift’s Red SteerFertilizers.





Swift & Company





FERTILIZER WORKS. DEPT. 45





 





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A. S. A. says:





Every farmer should send for circular bul-

letin No. 53, “ Standard Fertilizers for Michi-

gan,” issued by the Agricultural Experiment

Station, East Lansing, Michigan. The fol—

lowing analyses are recommended for wheat

and rye:





Sand, light sandy loams, heavy sandy

loams, silt loams and clay learns—With no

mixed meadow, manure or green manure in

rotation, 246-2 or 2-12-2; with mixed

meadow, clovers, alfalfa or soy beans, or

manure, in rotation, Acid Phosphate.





Muck soils—O- 1 2-1 2 or Muriate of Potash.





SwiftBs Company is co-operating with the

Michigan Department of Soils by selling

analyses as recommended above. These

high analyses give you the most plant food

value for your money.





Come in andlet us select the analysis that ,

meets your soil and crop requirements.





A utharixed Swift Agent





 





 





 





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BUT while her rider drew her head

back till her ears touched him, the

man on the ground huri 1ed over to the

barn-door and seized her by the bridle,

holding her till the man jumped from

the saddle. She was glad to get back

into her stall and allowed them to tie

her without a protest. The saddle was

removed from her wet back and sides

and the bit was removed from her

blood-stained mouth. ,



She was dizzy and her heart pound-

ed at her sides. From her wet dis-

tended nostrils the breath came like

the roar of the ocean. Two sores on

her back itched almost unendurably.

Both sides were pierced by the cruel

spurs and blood-stained. An aching

pain gnawed in her palate and she

could not throw off the painful sensa‘

tion of grating iron from her teeth.

Her body throbbed as a steamer throbs

with the pounding of: its engines.



They threw hay into her manger but

she only sprang back and looked at

them with moist, glowing eyes. They

stopped in front of her manger and

talked. While they talked she held

her terrified eyes upon them, watching

for what they might show evidence of

wanting to do next. In the next stall,

the two big horses, apparently uncon-

cerned about the Weight of harness

still on their backs and indifferent to

her troubles, stood with their greedy

heads right over the hay in their man-

ger and noisily and rapidly ground the

hay in their months as if they were

afraid that they would be taken out

before they could devour all that lay

before them, When the men walked

into their stall and untying them start-

ed out with them, each one eagerry

stretched his head backward to take a

last large mouthful.





UEEN looked after them as they

went and experienced great relief

at their departure, worried only by the

fear that they would be coming back

again. When a few minutes passed

and the doorway remainsd unobstruct—

ed, she turned her head back again

and sank into a doze which was con-

stantly disturbed. What troubled

Queen most was the shattered condi-

tion of her nerves. The slightest sound

sent her into paroxysms of fear, mak-

ing her heart beat with a sense of im

pending calamity and sending chills

and waves of heat, by turn, over her

body. The voices she heard coming

frbm the yard oppressed her with a

constant threatening suggestion of the

men's return. .

Then, some time later, she became

aware of the fact that the noices

Were withdrawing. She heard the wag-





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on rumbling away and even the bark-

ing of the dog grew fainter in the dis-

tance. A sweet slience, as refreshing

as the cold water she longed for, fell

upon the little farmyard; and the feel-

ing of being alone was like an opiate.



But she was suddenly alarmed by

'the sensation as of some one present

and turning hastily about, discovered

a woman in the doorway Of the barn.

Queen was badly frightened. This crea-

ture was different from man but it

was only a different sort of man. She

gazed at the apparition which was

talking in a voice that was softer than

that of the men. The woman was car-

rying a pail full of water and came





ing a cow. Behind her, pushing its

little muzzle into her hand, came a

little calf. The cow walked into the

stall next to Queen and there, like the

horses, she rummaged about for food.

For some reason known only to the

cow, she did not like the hay that the

horses had left, but cast her cowy

eyes upon the hay that was heaped

much higher in Queen’s manger. She

thrust her peculiar wide muzzle be-

tween two beams into Queen’s manger

and with her long tongue gathered

some of the hay and pulled it into her

own stall where she chewed it with

apparent relish. Queen took a mouth-

ful and chewed it as if the cow had





 





 





T/ie O/a' ‘Scfioolbome





Earl L. Osterhout





The schoolhouse where I used to go

Is shabby, yes, and old



The stove is almost rusted thru,

The room is drear and cold.



The feet of countless children

Havev worn the old oak floor



And signs of age are present

From the platform to the door.



The desks all bear initials

0f the kids I used to know



And my memory takes me backward

To those days so long ago.



And the memories bring a feeling

That is pleasure, yes, and pain



As I think of some old schoomates

I may never see again.





For they’re scattered from the eastland

To the mountains of the west

And \a/few have heard the summons

Calling them to their long rest.

Now the schoolhouse where we studied

Played and quarreled is to be sold;

It is now no longer useful,

It is out oil date and old.





So we’ll build a nice new building

For the children of today

With everything to help them

Make their studies seem like play.

And it surely will be splendid,

This fine new school, I know

Yet fond memories take me backward

To the school of long ago.





 





 





with it to the front of the manger.

W'hen she lifted it to set it down into

the manger, Queen sprang back, fright-

ened.



“Dink, Dora, you poor little wild

thing," said the woman, backing away

a bit and looking at her commiserat-

ingly, “you’re taking it so hard, you

poor little Dora.”



Despite her fears, Queen’s ears Went

up straight and the glow of fear in her

eyes dulled slightly. The woman went

on talking to her‘in the same low

tones, so different from the harsh,

staccato sounds of the men and the

boy. When the woman went out of

the barn Queen turned her head and

looked after her till she had disap-

peared. Then she turned to the pail

of water and sticking her burning lips

into the cool liquid she drank without

a stop until there wasn’t a drop of

water left.



The woman came back again driv—





reminded her of what she ought to do.



“Some more water, Dora?” said the

woman coming around to the front

again, and as Queen jumped back

frightened, she went 011, “Don’t be

afraid of me, Dora. I won‘t hurt you.”



She took the empty pail and went

out with it, coming back a-few min-

utes later with the pail refilled and

setting it once more into the manger.

She talked to her a few minutes, then

went away. Queen saw her sit down

beside the cow and soon heard the

peculiar sound of milk streams beat—

ing against the walls of a tin pail. She

watched her and listened for a while

but since the cow who was most con-

cerned in the matter seemed not the

least worried, she turned to her water.



When the woman was through milk—

ing, she drove out the cow and fed the

calf and then sending it out too, she

came back to Queen. She stood lean-

ing forward against the manger and





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





talked to her for a .long time. There

was something about that voice that

made Queen think of ducks paddling

on the surface of a pond at night, or





the songs with which they sang them-





selves to sleep. ItI was a sound as of

birds on branches of trees overhead

pushing into each other and express—

ing the desire for warmth or the com-

fort of having it. The words followed

each other slowly and softly and there

was neither threat nor authority in

them. Queen studied the strange face

with the light playing upon it. She

was stilhslightly uncertain about the

eyes that she was afraid of and that

strangely' fascinated her.

afraid to look into them, yet there

was something in them that was in a

way overcoming her. ‘Was it the wet:

ness about those eyes that in some

way, perhaps never to be known, af-

fected Queen? Was it the sympathy

that the suffering have for the suffer-

ing that Queen recOgnized and that

mad her blindly place her hope in this

new and mysteriously different human

being? '





W HEN the woman went out Queen

felt as she had felt on many a

winter night in the wilds when some

warm body next to her suddenly got

up and left one side of her disagree-

ably cold. For the rest of the after-

noon she kept turning her head to-

ward the doorway and pricking her

ears with more hope than expectation,

and throughout the long disappointing

hours the voice of the woman poured

through her mind like a stream, like

a long persistent melody, and its even

flow was rhythmically measured by

the one word that she remembered

most clearly. “Dora " What it meant





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vague way, when she heard it, that it

applied to her.



Next morning her

saddle on her again, and thOugh she

was very nervous and afraid and

would have fled at the first real oppor~

tunity, the lesson went by without

much, of the pain and agony of the

first lesson. She began to understand

what every pull of the reins meant and

even the differences she heard in the

man's voice helped her to avoid trou-

ble, as for instance, when by the

sound of his voice she knew that he

was impatient with her going too

slowly and she sprang forward into a

more rapid gait before the man felt it

necessary. to apply the spurs.



In the afternoon the woman came

into the barn to give her water and to

talk to her. When she patted her

forehead, Queen did not resist and in





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Dayafter day she had her little run

over the fields and as her fear of the

farmer lessened slightly, she began to

enjoy the exercise. It broke the crush-

ing monotony of standing in the barn

and gave her a chance to .look at the

plains she loved. So too it gave her a

chance to see the other horses, none

of whom were kept in the barn any

longer. She found that the group in

the corral had been very greatly re-

duced and the mysterious reduction

worried her. The brown stallion was

gone and with him all the horses she

had known, except the little bay mare,

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i“ Gossip from Cherry Hill





By 0. W. B.





ENRY’S letter to his uncle sug.

H gests the probable reason for the

city minister giving up his

charge at Cherry Hill. _

Cherry Hill,

June 30, 1923.

DEAR UNCLE DAVID:



I been thinkin’ ever since I read

your last letter that our correspond-

ence has been kinda onesided, an Vera

said tonight as we was eating supper

out on the side/porch what we have

screened in, that the proper apprecia-

tion of a letter from one’s relatives

was expressed in a prompt reply. Vera

usually hits the nail on the head when

she says something, so I made up my

mind after chores was done to start

rite in an‘tell you the latest news

from Cherry Hill.



Well first thing off the box is that

we don’t have no preacher no more.

You know that feller who used to

come out from Carey every Sunday

afternoon wen the weather was good.

Well, he kinda got tired of comin’ any

more for he wasn’t gettin" the kind of

results he wanted. Fur as I...kin see-

the results he wanted was to get our

church tired of itself and then we'd

come in to swell his growin (?) city

congregation.



Well, we ain’t missed him much yet

an I reckon we won’t either. He didn’t

fit in here much. He didn’t grow up

in this country and didn’t seem to

want to know much about us either.

Leastwise he didn’t try to learn to

think like we do much. Sort of felt





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talked like we did somebody might

make a mistake some day and call

him ,a country preacher. and he wasn’t

endowed with any ambition to be a

country parson. '

Some of the boys sort of lal’fs when

they talks about the question he asked

Harry Smith, that’s Hank Smiths boy

other side of the crick. He says to

Harry one day when he was visitin’





,his folks, Harry was out hoein’ a row





of beans, “Harry them’s purty fine to-

matoes you got there.” Harry thot

he was lookin’ at the tomatoes in the

hot bed but when Harry looked up he

couldn’t see the tomatoes at all an

then he sorto laffed an didn’t say

nothin’, but I bet he that a heap.



I guess the parson missed his oppor-

tunity that day with Harry. At dinner

they had Lima Beans an they was

mighty good .if you know anything

about Mrs. Smith’s cooking. Well, the

parson" asked if he might have some

of them beans so he could plant some

in his garden. So Mrs. Smith did him

up a package but they wasn’t shelled

so the minister, took them home and

one day when they had been planted

for a wile Jack Stackem called, that’s

the Implement an Feed Store man an

a, pillar in the minister’s church in

town. Well, Jack waspver to the min-





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self and at. the call of Queen would





come rushing to the wire fence and

beg her to join her '



One day the boy jumped upon her

back.‘ The man stood by and watched.

The boy annoyed her’by the way he

sat and by the way he held the reins

and she could hear the man angrily

instructing him. She could feel him

changing his ways and realized that

the man was taking her part, some-

how; but when they got away off on

the fields, he tormented her. He kept

digging his spurs into her sides even

while she was runriing her best and

he pulled steadily on the reins.



(Continued next week).





about gardens an the minister said

“Come out an see my beans, they’s

something the matter with them,”

Well, they all went out in back of the

parsonage where there’s alittle two by

four plot, an Jack dug up some of the

beans wat was looking kinda sick, and

what do you think, that minister had

planted the beans right in their pods.

Well, as Hank Smith says, “Wouldn’t

that frost the nose off a brass

monkey?”



Jack thought that was too good to

keep so he told Charley Gilkey and

Charley Gilkey told Hank Smith and

of course Hank told his wife, and you

know they have a telephone so that’s

how we all know it and the expression

most common in these parts is that

“the minister don’t know beans,” which

is literally true and figuratively about

the same in regard to preachin’ an

leadin’ country folks.





Well our Sunday School is goin’ fine

and so is the Christian Endeavor but





sometimes I kinda think they both‘





need revamping or a new foundatiori

or somepthin for I guess they are in a

rut. A rut you know is like a grave

with both ends kicked out. Some

chance left to get out. -



I been teachin' a class of boys an

the other day wen the weather was

fine an the grass green I took em out-

side of the church cause the church

smelled musty an it was so nice an

fresh outside, and we sat down under:

the trees an the boys liked it fine and|

paid good attention. The lesson was‘

that one about Elijah an how God ted1

him in the wilderness. l





Well the parson complained after—i

wards that it looked a leetie like l‘or—j

sakin’ the house 0’ God an he wished}

the teachers would stick to the church?

Ain’t all out 0’ doors God’s churchfi

uncle? VVel‘l he ain’t comin’ no more,1

an we are trying to get courage enough;

[up an money enough to hire a honest—

to-goodness preacher what can minis—E

ter to us intelligently an be a sort oil

leader in the community and live here!

with us an be a part of us. i



One trouble with our ex-brother was}

his particular denomination. I guessi

the Lord ain’t worrin’ much about the

particular method. Well it took the.

parson a long time‘ to make up hisi

.mind to let us go to perdition; buti

he’s started now an so are we, an we

are hopin’ to get a good start with the‘

right man to help us. i



Our ex-parson says, we is a lot of

cranks wich reminds me of a story 1‘.

read. Father yells down from upi

stairs an says “Helen, isn’t it time for“

the young man to go home?” and the

young man says, “Your father is an

old crank!” an the father listenin"

over the baznister heard his daughter

say, “Well, when you don't have a self-

starter a crank comes in, mighty

handy.". ~ --



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H! the peace and the beauty of

0 this farm scene on a hot July



day! The corn is better than

knee-high and.has had its third culti-

vation. The wheat and rye is cut and

in the shock, and promises well. Oats

are well-headed, and the second cut—

ting of alfalfa is in process of being

Cattle

graze in the pasture and the spring

shotes grunt contentedly in the shade.





They rouse themselves just a little as .





Farmer Brown and his hired man, Ed,

their shirts and overalls wet with per-

spiration, drive up the lane with an-

other mammoth load of alfalfa.



And there is the house, and the gar-

True, on a day





Mrs. Brown but there are windows on

three sides of the room to catch any

breeze that may be stirring.



Strawberries have come and gone,

but not all of them, for there is a row

of twenty cans on the cellar fruit

shelf. Also the cherries. They were

used lavishly during their season, and

nineteen cans stand guard in the cel-

lar, waiting only for Winter appetites.



The Scene Changes.



But there is a dark cloud hovering

over this peaceful farmstead, for some

time. They have discussed it on var-

ious occasions, but have been able to

reach no conclusion. Every year of

their married life the evil has been

With them and of late years it has

been worse. They do not suffer alone

for their neighbors are in the same

plight. Did not the Jenkinses last

year have someone every day and hour

for seven straight weeks, and the

Smiths down the road had fourteen at

one time, and in all thirty-two!



Behold! A car drives in at the gate

and stOpS. Shrieks and laughter are

heard, even before the occupants be-

gin to pour forth, Mrs. Brown feels

herself growing weak in the knees,

for she knows that the Worst has

come! Her city relatives!





She takes one last loving look at»





her garden whiCh she planned and

planted with so much care. And her

berry patch! Gone for this year all

hopes of canning raspberries and

gooseberries, for the vandals have

come early.

will rend the Orchard limb from limb;

berry patch and garden will be bare

as city asphalt. With the quick

thought that she can hide her cherries

and strawberries back of the potato

bin, Mrs. Brown puts a smile on her

face and goes forth to extend the glad

hand of welcome. After all, they are

her brother’s people.



And Farmer Brown! It made him

feel uneasy to have a car drive in the

yard, for all the morning he had had

a premonition that this would be the

day. When he heard the shrieks and

laughter he knew the blow had come.



He stood speechless for a moment,

gaping foolishly at Ed, who was mak-

ing ready to send up a sling load of

alfalfa Ed. seeing the stupefied look

on Brown’s face, sought to make light

of the calamity.



“Well, you are fixed so’s you can

lock the hen house this year, anyhow,"

said Ed. “And the calves are in the

back pasture where ’taint likely they'll

go just purpose to chase ’em.’ .



This failed to cheer Brown. He'sat

down on an empty potato crate with

his head bowed between his hands.



“All5this summer’s work gone toe





Before they leave they'





nothing,” he moaned. “Truck patch,





garden, orchard! All gone! And I

just nicely got'the fences fixed from

last year.





After a few moments he arose. Well,

after all, they were Martha’s folks.

With the thought that he would have

to keep the feed room locked, Brown

put a smile on his face and went out

to welcome them.—-—Clifford Froh.



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blessed with city cousins are not alto-





 





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ations- as the. one experienced byvthe‘

Browns, and would be pleased to hear

of your treatment of the case. Per-

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ence might strengthen the knees of

other Mrs. Browns as they begin to

tremble under the weight of the ad—

ded burden of entertaining. In

letter, tell





arranged, how you entertained them,

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Oakland’s Annual Picnic





Farm W omen Enjoy Studying Home Management





ORGETTING household cares and



home duties on Wednesday, June



27, the farm women of Oakland

met for their annual picnic at Mace—

day Lake, near Pontiac. Both place

and day were ideal for the gathering,

and a goodly number of the county’s

busy housewives left the home estab-

lishment in care of the older daughter

or dad (we won’t say hired girl), and

motored to the picnic grounds to





spend an enjoyable day in association





with. new and old friends who have

the same little daily woes and worries.



After a sumptuous picnic lunch, sea-

soned with the usual amount of bark,

bugs and fresh air, which Mother Na-

ture contributes to every' picnic re-

past, all listened to an interesting pro-





perience with the numeroushome con-

veniences to' know which ones are

really useful in each individual case.



Evelyn Keyes, of Milford, described

the good times experienced at the

girls’ camp last year and urged every-

one possible to attend and join in the

good times this year. Miss Garrett ex-

plained the program for the Mothers'

Camp which is to follow that of- the

girls.



Some of the various communities

represented performed some very

unique stunts as their part of thepro—

gram. About twenty ladies of the

West Highland organization recalled

olden times by dancing the Virginia

Reel to a lively tune played 011 a har-

monica. The Waterford group very





 





The Housewives were Very Much





gram. Community singing was led by

Rev. Steven Clarkston. In an interest-

ing way, Mrs. Charles Pittenger, of

Milford, told of her pioneer experi-

ences with a fireless cooker thirty

years ago. She believes that no one

should be Without a fireless cooker, as

it is so inexpensive, saves so much

hustle in preparing a meal, and much

work over a hot stove. She likes her

home-made cooker as well as a com-

mercial one, except for its appearance.

.Miss Rogers, home management Spe-

cialist from M.‘A. 0., made manifest

the rural housewives’ opportunity for

happiness. She contrasted the house-

keeper and the home-maker and show-

ed that it was a combination of the

two that made the ideal mother who,

together with a “heap 0’ living in a

place" created what we would always

hold in our hearts as Home.





Miss Woodworth, demonstration

agent of, Wayne county, carried the

home thought into a different channel,

and conjectured that if each one Could

have a home just as they wanted it

would they be sure as to how they

would 99$? that home Jt takes ex-





Interested in Home Conveniences.





cleverly portrayed the seven ages of

women.



After the program, some enjoyed a

swim and a boat ride, while those who

did not hang their clothes on a hick-

ory limb spent their time examining a

very complete display of household

conveniences collected by Miss Rog-

ers, ranging f1om a patent mop wring-

er to a\Wall paper duster, and includ-

ing a steam pressu1_e cooker, steam

cooker, vacuum cleaner and numerous

handy things.





All together, it was an enjoyable





day, and the picnickers went home‘





with a pocketful of encouragement- to

complete a busy summer’s work.





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VEN’ in the busy canning season,

many mothers took time-to write

th‘eir opinions and experiences in

’training children. The prize letter ap-

pears here and the remaining prize

winners, Mrs. F. J. L., Galien, Ohio;

Mrs. H. M., Hanover, Mich.; Mrs. c.

S., StepensOn, Mich., and Miss R. A.

R., Holland, \Mich., respectively, will

appear in a later issue.





First Prize.





Mrs. W. H. K., Adrian, Michigan.

Vacation time brings with it added

probems in discipline. We make a

mistake when we think of discipline

, as only “making children mind.” That,

properly understood, it is_an effort on

the parent’s part so to regulate the

instinctive desires of the'child that by





his oWn efforts he gradually fits him-’





self to be of worth to his generation.





The ideal is fine and helpful, but

two little daughters, aged six and nine,

sometimes‘ cause me almost to lose

sight of it. They are quite different

in temperampnt and I find that what

works with one is not efficacious with

the other.

visit at a neighbor’s, and after she had

been over several times Irecentl'y, I

suggested that she should play at

home that afternoon. When she dis-

obeyed and went over there, I brought

her home, gave her her supper, and

put her to bed. It was only an hour

before her usual Hedtime, but she so

loves to sit up after daddy comes in

that it has kept her from running away

since. Sometimes she gets angry and

strikes. Then I tie a carpet rag loosely

around her arm, telling her that when

daddy sees that, it will make him

know that the little arm has been

naughty again. She would rather be

punished in any way than to wear the

rag on her arm. I never have to leave

it on more than a few minutes before

she comes to me repentant and begs





#‘me to forgive her.





The above methods do not work at

all on the older child, and never did.

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loves to read,y'and whpn I want to get

her to do the-things "that fit her to be

of worth,” all that is necessary is to

say, for example, “Jane, you may read

after you have practiced your music,

not before, remember.” To be denied

her book is far more of a. punishment

than to be disciplined in any other

way.,



But. these ways don't always work.

Sometimes I get so discouraged that,

were it not for our little bedtime talks,

when the girlies and I go over the

mistakes of the day and resolve to

make a fresh start with the new morn-

ing, I should feel like giving up en—

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Two cups white flour

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Five tablespoons ol molaSSes

Two tablespoons sugar

One teaspoonful soda

One-half teaspoonful salt.

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Fifth Prize.



Mrs. C. A., Grand Ledge, Michigan.

Graham Gems.



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CANNING STRING BEANS.





 





I would like to know why my beans

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We are having trouble with our

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peat the proquss 01’ a new brine as,

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be well to make some of the side pork

into bacon.





 





 





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Letters from Pals for Ozlr Correspondence Comer





Dear Uncle and Cousins: ,



Hello! all of “U!” I have not writ-

ten to “U” for nearly a year, but now

“u. c.” I plucked up courage and de-

cided to let “u’ know I am still alive.

Yep, and feeling kinda foxy, too.



I have about twenty correspondents

now, (all girls, too), and I sure re-

ceive nice snappy letters.



Well, our school building is well un-

der way and next term I’ll go to school

in it. Oh! that seems nice, and to

have a bus come and get me, for we

have a consolidated school.



Well, I must say “so long for this

time." Myrtle YValker, Woodland, Mich.





You are running quite a correspond—

ence club of your own. Perhaps that’s

because you are a good correspondent.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: -

Hurrah! I have finished my Pal-



mer Method writing and school is out



today. Anyone who takes the Palmer





 





   





TERROR





As the Other Fellow Looks.





Method and likes it, please write. I

don’t like it.



Talk about smart cats, one of mine

mewed the other day and made me

lollow it until 1 saw where one of our

cows was in the hay field.



\Vell, I must close. Your niece,

Edith Parks, Nashhville, Mich.



This method and other school work

would be good subjects for discussion

in these columns. Let’s hear from

others on these subjects.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Well, I am trying the contest again.

This is about six times I have tried.

That old waste basket must he get-

ting fat off of my letters. Don’t you

think so?



My brother, Harold, won a prize on

“Who is the smartest, boys or girls?”

Don’t you think he wrote an awful

letter, Uncle Frank? .



The schools in Hillsdale county had

a play called the “Historical Pag—

eant.” My brother, Harold, is a big

Indian chief.



Mr. Waste Basket, I will call again

soon. Birdene Coles, Montgomery

Mich. '



I don’t suppose you have bobbed hair

or wear knickers, your brother being

the champion of long hair and skirts.





I bet your brother made a good Indian.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:'



I have tried the contests many

times, but not since the Merry Circle

began. So here I am again, trying to





win a prize or receive a Merry Circle _

button and membership card. ‘





I read the letters in the Letter Box ‘

and ' likeythem very much. I also





 





 





like to read All, Acres and Hy Syckle.



Oh! Uncle Frank, won’t you please

put a picture in the paper of you that

you have just had taken lately? The

picture was cute you put in the boys’

and girls’ page of you when you were

little, but I want to know how you

look now.



I will close now. Your niece, Dor-

othy Cail, Saranac, Mich. .e.





I am glad to see you back again.

That picture business is quite a prob-

lem to me. I’ll have to do something

about it.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: -

Though I am a big girl, and not a.

“farmerette,” I hail the coming of this

paper with undisguised eagerness.

Anxiously l have scanned the letter

corner for a. word from Harold Coles,

defending his much mutilated advice

to ladies of the “knickered and bob~

bed family. And at last he has re-





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.Drawn by Viola Dankenprlng.





turned into the fray and I raise my

voice and shout, “Bravo, Harold Coles,

bravo!" Had I have been Haroldeoles,

I’d have been afraid to show my face

for a year. Remember this, Harold

Coles, the feminine sex will have the





 





‘ Wré to Win?





HIS week the contest is go-



ing to be more like a puzzle

and one that will make you

think. You are to study our

motto, “Work to Win,” and by

rearranging the letters make as

many words as possible out. of

it. The rule is that you cannot

use the letter more than once in

the word unless it occurs twice

in our motto. ' ' ‘





The two sending in the long«

est list of correct words will re-

ceive handy pencil. boxes. The

next three will receive nickled

pocket pencils, and the follow-

ing five maps of the world and

New Europe. ‘



Address your letter to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, De—

troit, Michigan, before July 20.





 





 





 





last word, whether or no. Isn’t that

true,~ Uncle Frank?





‘ It's all right for him to preach and





hand out his priceless advice, 'but just ,;





let him try the life for one week. How





would you, Harold Cole, like to run

a .





around for one short week, a‘ warm





week, with a couple of feet of hair '





hanging down your back, or piled onto





your head? How would you like going I





on a hike into the woods and lalling

over logs and tearing your skirts eve-

ry time you turned around?

when you wanted to. go-somewhere it

would take you a full hour to' comb

your snarled locks, and ”after ’it was“

complete you must go around placard-

ed, “Handle with Care” or the Whole

thing falls down into hopeless confus~

ion.



Picture 3. nature-loving, athletic girl

in such a fix. Nonsiree! Me for the

knickers and shorn locks, no matter

what he says, he cannot know! “We”

speak from experience, don’t we, girls

of the “Family?” 'And Uncle Frank

surely agrees. I can see it in his face.



I certainly have enjoyed the indig-

nant defenses from the girls, and I

felt it my duty to help the cause aIOng.

Hope I have.



Hail thee, dear ever-waiting waste

basketl~ I have only expressed my

sentiments.



Love to all of the writers—especial-

ly belonging to the “Knickered and

Bobbed Family.” .



Your niece to be, Edith H. Brown,

Newberry, Mich.



I think‘ it useless to express my

opinion regarding the “last word”- be-

cause you, being of the feminine kind

would have the last word anyhow.

You have made a good defense for

your side of the question.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:.



1 got. the mail and found that there

was a letter for me. I opened it and

when I saw the membership card and

button I was so surprised. _I thank

you very much for the them.



How old are you? I suppose you.

must be very old. ~ I will guess once

and see if I strike it. Uncle Frank,

you must be sixty years old already.

Didn’t I strike the right point, Uncle

Frank? Another niece Frieda Kraenz—

lein, Saginaw,7VV. S., Mich.



Why must I be old? One can be

Well along in years and still beflyoung.

You are at least within thirty years

of my right age.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am interested in your contests and

have often tried, I think over ten

times, but have never won. So you

see the motto, “If at first you don’t

succeed, try, try again,” stands good

with me. The first time my sister tried

she won a map. Sometimes after I

look through the paper and do not find

my name among the prize winners, I

get discouraged, but I soon work out

the next contest.



Why wouldn't a. contest on “The

oddest thing I ever saw or heard,” be

good?



I am your niece, Elsa E. Herman,

Caledonia, Mich.





You certainly ought to be compli—

mented' for your stick-to-it-iveness.

You are the kind of niece I like to

have. Your contest suggestion is good.

I will use it some time.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I write to you once a month, don’t

you think that's fine? I do, because

you are the only person I have energy

to write to. ' 3



Uncle Frank, do you make a person

not win if his pen is to blame? I hope

not, because my pen is very bad, and

I have not much ink.



. My mother and brother went to, town





and I had to stay home alone, but ‘





my mother brought home a hat for me/

and some cookies. So I was satisfied-

Wouldn’t you be? Your affectionate



niece, Helen Paul. ‘ ‘





All other things being equal, neatii". _'





papers are preferred to others in: the

contests. I like papers nicelyafrang-





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HE l _ errl' this "a. were both

fearitil and interesting. .But if

every case proved that eaCh One

was working to overcome their foot-

ish fears. I ~ ,

Perhaps /the boys were trying to

show how brave they were by not‘tell<

ing their fears, for in. the number of

letters received the girls beat them

again this week.

The winners are:

Pencil Box.





Florence Nelson, Memphis, Mich.

Evelyn Batten, Galien, Mich.





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Pencil. .

Violet Kimball, Reed City, MlCh.,

R. 4. .

Gertrude McKibbin, Cloverdale,





Mich.

AlbertaReitz, Rose City, Mich.

Map.

’Frances Ruesink, Adrian, Mich.,

R. 4.

Johnny DeWitt, Hudsonville, Mich.,

4





Burton Thorn, Prescou, Mich., R. 1.

Marion Schoeneherr, Utica, Mich.

Vilita Ripley, Charlotte, Mich., R. 4.





4—.—





By Florence Nelson, Memphis, Mic-h.



Those who travel a great deal by

auto, or moderate people who stay at

home more and enjoy reading the daily

papers, knovlr what causes me to be

afraid most of automobile driving.



I am afraid not because we are care-

less in driving our machine, but be-

cause of the carelessness of other

drivers along the highways.





 

 

   

   

   

   

 





Our. county has a network bf good"

roads. About the only good We get

out of them is driving over them, and

we ”farmers" that have a heavy tax

to pay/tor these roads, do not get the

chance to travel them much, on ac-

count of having to work to meet this

tax. But when we do go we always

meet fast drivers, careless drivers, and

sorry to say, intoxicated drivers. ‘ So

our lives are sometimes missed “by a

hair’s breadth.”



We try to remedy this, as much as

we can, by going back roads,‘ when

they are passable.





 





By Evelyn Batten, Galien, Michigan.

I hate the rats and love the cats,

I hate mice even more.

_I loathe the dark that seems to lurk

Behind the closet door.





When in the dark without a spark,

To light me up to bed,



I hurry past to draw at last

The covers o’er my head.





'No, rats and mice they are not nice,

No pleasure do they bring.



But, Uncle Frank, I fear a spank

As much as anything.





My sister Lou, and brother, too,

Put on a lot of swank.



What e’re they do or say

They are too big to spank.





So now I know the way to go

Or so, at least, I figure,



To save the tear and cure this fear

I’ll grow a little bigger.





 





 





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out in the open feeding space, so that

a new suppy of fresh feed is let down

automatically as the fowls clean away

“what is out in front—F. R. Teppen.





 





STARTING NEW POULTRY

BREEDS.





EW breeds have attracted more in<

terest than the Jersey Black Giants.

They grow to a very large size and ap«

pear to be a good substitute for tur‘

keys on farms where a large bird is

desired and they can have a'large

range. For producing large capons

the Giants have been very satisfac~

tory. There has been some complaint

that their eggs do not hatch well. Like

all ‘large fowls they must be fed

, abundantly. They cannot‘ be expected

to lay like Leghorns or heavy laying

types of the American breeds. No

poultry breed is so perfect that it con-

tains every desired quality and no

. faults. . _,

Breeders who take up a new kind





 





   





 





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of fowl have to help with the pioneer

work of educating the public to like

that breed. The breeders who raise

the old substantial breeds find a large

sale to buyers who already know the

good qualities of their stock. The be-

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an established breed, but poultry rais-

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were not for the many breeders of

fowls of all types and colors who are

vigorously boosting their own stock.

If you have the only flock of your

breed in your county you may be able

to start a hundred or a thousand other

breeders with that breed by advertis-

ing and showing the stock—R. G. K.





 





H EAT KILLS DUCKLINGS.





 





What shall I do for ducks that dump

around for a day or two and then die?

I feed them 'middlings, bran and crack—

ed corn made ‘into a mash. Please

give proper rations for young ducks.—

A. McL. '



Ducklings may die because of ex-

posure to extreme heat, or a lack of

vitality due to the breeding stock. Corn

meal in the mash will probably prove

better than cracked corn as the diges-l

tive system of ducklings will handle

mash better than hard grain.



A good. ration for ducklings consists

of one part bran, one part corn meal,

one part ground crackers or stale

bread made into a mash. Then ten

per cent beef scrap is added, as well

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Be sure that the bread is not mouldy

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I think that many ducklings died

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would have lived in a cooler tempera-

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fresh, cool water in such weather. A





short exposure to very hot sun fre- -





quently will cause them to die.





 





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birds for next year.

All stock is guaranteed to be satisfactory to you.

Write to us for description and prices.



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Hatch of July 11th $14 per 100; $7.50 per 50;

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Also Black Leghorns, Brown Leghorns. Bufl Leg-

horns, Black Minorcas. R- 0.. Rhode Island Reds.

Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Plymouth Rocks.

Silver Wyandottes, White “ yandottes. WE HATCH

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White liox, Barred Plymouth . R. I. Reds. or

Black Minornas. 13%(3 each. a,

nouns or Broiler Chi; 12¢ each in 100 lots.

less than 100 lot 140. Order now {or June. July and

August. Our 13 years producing vhix that please.

Sept. Chlx ‘15". straight. ’GreenLawn Poultry Full.

South of High School. Fenton. Mich.





Baby Chicks IOOandu





Hatching eggs 81.50 per setting to 815.00 per 1 .

We are listing 17 varieties of pure bred fowls; Chick-

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HE milk in this can is from con-

tented cows”—-so runs the leg-

end to be seen on a. certain

brand of evaporated milk. Finding

ourselves in close proximity to one of

the large farms, where such cows are

kept, we went out of our way a bit

to make the personal acquaintance of

these much advertised contented cows.

The first thing to greet us upon en—

tering the big dairy stable were two

conspicuous signs which gave us to

understand that the advertising slogan

was backed up by practical methods of

dairy work. One of them read: “N0

Swearing Allowed. These Are Con-

tented Cows.” The other advised us

that “Kindly Treated Cows Give More

and Better Milk.” We hunted up the

barn boss and asked him to tell more

about the phase of the work suggested

by the placards.



“Well, you see, it’s something like

this,” he replied. “ThOSe signs mean

just what they say. You can under-

stand that in a big place like this we

get all sorts of help. The average

helper around dairy stables is more or

less of a drifter unless he happens to

be some young agricultural student

who comes here for a bit of experi—

ence.



j‘Among the men who come and go

there is a certain percentage always

that is accustomed to

around, speaking harshly to them, and

all that. If they do not learn any-

thing else while they are here, they

at least learn that a. cow is one of the

most sensitively strung of farm ani-

mals. She can tell a cross word every

time from a kin-d one.



“And we know that a large portion

of the milk drawn at any milking is

manufactured so to speak, while the

cow is at the pail. If a cow stands in

fear of a cuff or a. kick the production

is curtailed. This is an important fac-

tor with us for we have at all times

a. number of high-producing cows on

test and the ‘holding back’ even of a

small quantity of milk at each milk-

ing makes quite a difference in the

final total. -





Kind Treatm‘cnt'l’ays





culling cows ~





“When. a new man comes into the

barn we advise him as to our rules in

[regard to the kind‘treatment of our

animals. We 'show him these. signs.





We impress it upon him that theyare '





not intended for the amusement of

visitors, but as a. rule of conduct for





the men who handle the animals. As.





a rule, our men fall into the spirit or

the thing quite readily. Now and then

we have to let a man go because he

has become too set in his way.”



As we‘drove on, the phrase, “Kindly

treated cows give more and better

milk,” kept recurring to us. , Then we

remembered that the Swiss peasant

usually croons to his'cow while heis

milking her. We recalled, also, of hav-

ing read of someone who operated a.

phonograph in his milking stable at

milking time. . ,’



Here it evidently appears, is a. bit of

cow psychology that has been o‘ver-





looked by the average dairyman. The '





harsh word, the whack over the back

'with the milk stool, the 'cuff. andthe

kick should go _ into, the discard‘ in

stables Where itis desired to secure

“more and better milk” withouta sin-

gle extra cent oflexpense for addition—

al overhead.~—O.S C. ‘





CLEANLINESS IN THE DAIRY.





LEANLINESS is the most import-

ant factor in the production of

clean wholesome milk. Much of the

dirt and filth that gets into milk and

produces deterioration, comes from

improper methods of handling after

being drawn. ‘ V "

However, brushing off the loose dirt

and dust about the Hanks and udder

and wiping the udder With a, dry’ cloth

materially assists in lessening the

danger of dirt getting into the milk at

milking. Cows during the summersea—

son, “if stabled at night or confined to

a yard, become more or less dirty





about their rear quarters and should *





be thoroughly cleaned before being

milked. ;



1 milk, my cows in a clean, sanitary

stable. I spray the cows before milk-





 





 





   

 





One day it dawned on him that

the stock tank in his barn lot, lying

on the other side of the highway, is

considerably lower than the position

of his pump and windmill near the





‘ house. He decided to take advantage

- of this fact, and in this way. eliminate





:alot of hand-pumping that was neces-





V nary in order to keep the stock tank





 





 





 





Builds Satfifbctary Water System,





P HILLIP HOFFMAN is a dairyman.





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wéll supplied with clean, fresh water.

Accordingly he built a concrete res-

ervoir at the base of his windmill.

The tank'Was sunk some six feet in

the earthfiA concrete cover with ‘man~

hole was provided. Now he pumps

water by windmill power into this res-

ervoir and. permitsgravlty to do fthe

work of keeping the barnyard tank

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STICKS TO HOLSTEI NS.





A FTER forty-six years of continuous

dairying, James Wilder, of Bay

City, still maintains that Holsteins are

best adapted to his conditions. He is

now milking fifty cows. In his herd

are two pure-bred sires and six prom-

ising young fellows coming along.

"Herb," the, son, is living proof that

all boys are not leaving the farm. He

is .now successfully handling the Won-

dermeere estate. t;





 





GOOD COWS ON SERRADELLA

FARM.





 





HE pure-bred: Holstein, Beauty



Petertje Canary Vale, owned by

Carl E. Schmidt, proprietor of Serra-

della Farm, in Alcona county, has cap-

tured the state milk production record

'in a recent test by producing 652

pounds of milk in seven days. The





gan for heifers in the senior two-year-

old class. We are pleased to see that

northeastern Michigan is

ahead in every line of the dairy bus-

iness. ‘





GETTING SET FOR HOLSTEIN

TOURS.





 





OUNTY agents in the twenty-five

counties in which Hoisrein tours

are to be staged this summer as men-

tioned in a recent issue, are complet-

ing arrangements for the line of march

and for the noon meetings. Mr. James

G. Hayes, of East Lansing, who is

'keeping track of this ambitious pro-

gram, states that Roy W. Weinberg, of

Hillsdale county, and R. W. Tenny, of

Eaton county, have already sent in

their schedules

The opening leg of the tours will be

staged during the week commencing

July 23 in the counties of Macomb,

\Vashtenaw, Wayne, Monroe and Ing-

gam. Definite dates for these and oth-

er counties will be published next

week.





 





 





THE HANDY

ANS CORNER-—





 





Generous Users of Rope





ROPE is peculiarly suited toa wide

variety of uses by the farmer.

There are, of course, certain general

purposes which everyone thinks of

when they speak of rope. The hoist-

ing of hay into the barn, and the tie-

ing of stock are perhaps the two most

common needs which the farmer has

for this article. But he has others as

are suggested by the following letters:





CAN LEAD UNRULY CATTLE.





 





TO lead unruly cattle take a short

piece of rope and tie around the

animal’s body. A longer rope with one

end fixed “Y” shaped is then passed

through the rope around the body and

each branch of the “Y" end is tied to





 





Getting By Me Dry

Periodl~





XTENDED dry periods have



brought losses ' to almost

every farmeerow to keep such

damage down ,to the minimum

is a. question in which we are

all very much concerned. Soil

management, changes in rota-

tions, more live stock, irrigation,

all come in for consideration on

a topic of this kind.



Let us ~have the benefit "of

your experience. A high-class

satiety razor with blades, goes to

each of the writers of the best

five letters on this subject. Ad-

dress yours to the Handy Man,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, (in or '

before July 18.





 





 





 





a front rope. Take hold of the end

extending behind the animal. When

she attempts to goltoofast a little pull

will bring the animal to its‘knees and

a few such experiences will take all

the fight out.—John Bos, Osceola Co.





 





“covert DRILLED GRAINS.





 





N..,drilling corner beans with a grain





drill tie a horseshoe at one end Of

.a piece of rope and fasten the other so

a; on .





 





 





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It will pull the earth over any seeds

or kernels which are not otherwise

properly covered. I also use rope for

lines when. driving three or more hors-

es abreast. It is cheaper than leather

and easier to adjust—E. Thorne, Liv-

ingston County.





 





KEEPS LICE FROM PIGS.





URY one-half of an old wagon tire



in the ground. Wind a piece of

rope about the other half, and then

soak the rope thoroughly with old oil

taken from the crank case of the car.

This will give you a hog oiler which

will keep the lice thoroughly cleaned

from the little pigs as well as from

the larger hogs—R. Wattles, Branch

County. '





TIES CORN SHOCKS.





 





USE a three-eighth-inch rope twelve



feet long, with a ring in one end

for tieing corn shocks. I throw the

ring end around the shock, pass the;

other end through the ring, draw tight:

and tuck the 1008e end under to hold;

until I can tie the string about the!

shock.





HOLDS ON LOADS.





 





FOR tieing on loads, rope cannot bej

beaten. I am thinking particularly,

of loads of baled hay. Any person who

has had experience in drawing baled!

hay over rough roads knows how difli-I

cult it is to keep the top tier in place?

A rope about fifty feet long, 'drawn'

tight around the top course of bales

will hold them in one solid cluster:

Each bale then helps to hold the othei.

~A. E Eaton, Eaton County. i

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AIDS DURING BUILDING TIME.





 





FIND rope indispensable whenl



erecting big buildings on the farm,‘

for pulling up materials, such as shin—

gles, boards, rafters, and even in get-

ting the frame in place.——~W. E. Mc-

Mullen, Huron County.





 

 





 





If' angleworm 'persist ‘ in damaging

special plants they can be controlled





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Question and





a Reasonable Answer





The question is sometimes asked

us, although less frequently as more

and more De Laval Milkers are put in

use and the wisdom of the De Laval

method is demonstrated, why we make

only single unit milkers.



The De Laval Milker Unit is de-

signed to milk one cow at a time. Of

course as many units as





Numerous tests have shown that

two single units milk about one-third

faster than one double unit, and one

man can handle two single units faster

than one double unit. In actual prac-

tice many De Laval operators are

handling three units alone, and each

unit will milk about ten average cows



or more an hour.





 





desired can be used in

an installation, and all ‘

of the units, no matter

how many are used,

work with exactly the

same uniform and

pleasing action. This

method has proved to

be the most practical as

well as the fastest.





With a double unit it





6%.





 





Easy Terms

You can get a De Laval

Milker for 10% down

and the rest in 15

monthly payments of

Use a. De Laval

while it pays for itself.





Another advantage of ‘

the single unit, which

is very important espe—

cially in purebred test

work and for which

many De Lavals are

now used, is that it is

possible to weigh each

cow’s milk when indi-

vidual cow records are

desired.





 





 





is necessary to arrange



the cows so that those which require

about the same length of time to be

milked are placed side by side, and it

is practically impossible to do this

unless the cows are constantly re-

arranged, which causes confusion

and delay. Thus with a double unit, if

the cows do not milk out in exactly

the same time, part of the outfit is

Idle or is left on the cow too long.





Of course this is only

one of many features which 18 making

the De Laval Milker so popular with

dairymen everywhere. On more than

12, 000 farms the De Laval Milker is

saving time and labor, increasing the,

production of milk, producing cleaner

milk, and making dairying more

pleasant and profitable. If you are

milking ten or more cows by hand,

you are paying for a Do Level





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To (In Friends and

/Cu1tomm: Owing to

the great expansion of

or business In Hoosier

Building 'Nle It has been de-





c1ded to adopt I corporate name

that will better describe our company and service.

111°refore,tho HoOsior Silo Company 0! Albany Indiana.

in changed its corporate title to t o Hoosier Building

Tile & Silo Co. The Company organizngionf is exactly the

one as before, except in name. er to or illustrated

Circular on Hoosier Silos & Hollow Tile. Hoo-ier Build-

Ing Tile & Silo Co. Dept. M- 99. Albany, Ind.





 





F RM Opportunity for man

0 .

. wrth twa grown sons

, who can make invest.

ment of at least $5,000. 160 acre farm near

Detroit, modern equipment. Milk contract at

1top price. Can show chance of life time to

1good man who is honest and industriOUs.





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I am then ready for the nextl

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winners at the la'r‘er shows a practi-

cal prices. Herd coded by at ht

Edge 1101”. one of two sons ofpc ect-

.ion Fairfax out of a daughter of the

Famous Diaturbcr. 'l'. .> . Sothain &.

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Our sire





sunburst Origas - Maiesiy





Whose 3 nearest dams

‘ average 802 lbs.





For sale a Bull calf of correct type

and priced to sell.





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FIVE PINE FARM

R. 1. Kalamazoo, Mich.





BROUKWII TER JERSEYS



BULL CALVES FOR SALE

From Register of Merit dams nd sired by MajestY'S

Intense 127191 and Breakwater eda's King 696

Write for Prices and discripcicn. Herd is on

accredited tuberculosis free list.





BROOKWATER FARM. . Ann Arbor, Michigan

11. W. Mumford. Owner. J. B. Andrews. Lessor.





E BULLS

BUTTER BRED new.“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM,

Eilver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





Jere Bull Jacoba's Minuteuun No

For sale 21397832 yrs. old; Sirercoba's Irene'

Hero, Dam Brown Lassie's Ethel. Any one intereste.

write to. E. V. Lamb. Jeddo. Mich.

Jersey





F O R S A L E I f o r acrylic}: readfl





A

cows Re '.ter of Merit. Accredited herd.

Bligri‘i'l‘li AND PARKER. R. 4. Howell. Mich.





Registered J ersey,





J. L. CARTER,





federal





cattle. young bulls. for

sale. Tuberculin tested

Lake Odessa. MicIi.





ish to exchange a Registered Jersey bullcalf two

VV months old and from my best cow. [for one as





 





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' AberdeemAngus 10 heifers. 6 bulls

RegIStered from eight to fourteen months.

Best of breeding. The growthy kind that make good.

Reasonable. Inquire of F. J. Wilber. Clio. Mich.





Registered Guernseys





A fine Bull ready for light service. special

terms if you wish. J. M. Williams, No. Adams.

ich.





Wallinwood Guernseys





Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale.

I“. W. WALLIN. Jenison. hiich





 





F sale Registered Guernsey cows. May Rose Breed-

or ing also bull calves $00 each. Registered A. ll.

dams. JOHN EBELS. R. 2. Holland. Mich.





WINNWUUD HERD





Registered Holsteins





 





Ask us about a Real Bull 3

Maple Crest or an Ormsby.





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





The Traverse Herd





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

fine growthy type. guaranteed right in every way_

They are from high producing A. R. 0. ancestors

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

quotations, stating about age desired.





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WANTED About ten good grade Holstein Cows

for farm near Northvillc, Wayne

County. Must be good milkers or to freshen this fall'

Must be sound in every particular. tuberculin tested

and subject to 60 day retest. Advrse price and parti-

culars. Box llizMichigan Farmer, Detroit.





 





H I i ' Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred

o 3 am registered and high-grade. rice up.

Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re

quirements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw N. Y,





 





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‘ 600‘ IIIIIB istered Holstein bull calves. Quality

of the best. and at prices within reach of all. Write

GEO. D. CLARKE. - - - near. Mich'





HEREFORDS





[0 extra nice Repeater and Fairfax heif-





 





ers from 14 to 20 months 'old for sale,‘





also 10 cows.

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good. Albert Fay. Levering. Mich.

30 Head of Jersey cows and heifers forsale . Chance

to select from herd of 70.Some fresh. others bred

for fall i'reshening. Colon CI, Lillie, Coopersville. Mich

Bidwell





Shorihorlls Sire, Revolution, Dam. Maxwalton Rose-

wood 3d. 2d Dam, Imp. Rosewood 86th. Now offering

one good man two year old bull out of a. Marr Meri-

gold dam. also a few cows and heifers safe in calf.

Prompt attention to cor respondence--visitors welcome.

State Accredited herd. One hr. from Toledo. 0. N.Y.C. By.

BIDWELL STOCK FARM. Tecumseh. Mich.. Box D





Revolution Jr. heads herd.





Francisco Farm Shorthorns





and Big Type Poland Chinas. One 2 yr. old bred

Heifer, 8200. Two choice yearlings.3150. each. Three

bulls. $100. up. 3 boars.825 each. Lots of spring pig.

of March farrow, P. P. Pope. Mt. Pleasant. Mich





Two Scotch Shorlhom Bulls For Sale





J. A. BARNUM. Union City. Mich.





Bichland Shorthorns





Special offer; Twelve Bulls from twelve to twenty

four months old- Red, White. Roan. Good size.best

of breeding-from good milking dams. Priced for

quick sale. Write for particulars.





0. ll. Prescott & Sons,





(mice at Tawas City, Mich. Herd at Prescott, Mich





URON County Bhorthorn Breeders’ Assn. can

supply your needs with high class individuals.

Write for list to E. E. Twing, Bad Axe, Sec-Tress.





 





' Cows and heifers from the

For Sale ai a Bargain. Maple Ridge herd of Short-

horns. Representatives of the Oxford. Peri. Young

Mary and Phoenix families, All T. 13. tested. J E.

Tanswell. Mason. Mich.





 





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Mllklng credited herd selected for beefnuaiicd

milk. Behind and Belsnd. Tecumseh. Michigan





 





 





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Woodlawn Farm $3223., magma?

ments. length. size and qualit. Young stock for

sale at reasonable rices and in! guaranteed. Write

your wants. '. E. BARTLEiY. Alma, Mich.





 





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’IAM OFFERING BRED sows





fall. yearling and spring gilts. bred for March and

April furrow. that are tops. Muted to O. C. K. 00].

2nd and Orion Giant Col. Write for price list.



W. C. TAYLOR. Milan. Mich.





Is It Worth While?





A real boar pier sired by Woodf d Se

Dams of Defender or Puhrindergeedixiz‘mn’





If so, .

We have them of Sept. (arrow. not only showing





extreme unlity. but greater size than u '

expect to d. Follow M 29 to yo mu





Kope-Kon Farms, Coldwater,Mich.





UROC JERSEYS Spring pigs either so f

DAer and May furrow. sired by three Oixligtii‘iiglrgg

herd boars. It you want size ty e and quality combined

come and see or write us. F. J. rodt. Mourns, lich. R. i





 





 





A few Pathfl del’

Duroc—Jerseys med ,0 a “god “gig;





Fonet's Top 001., E D. Heydcnberk. Wayland.Mich





‘ April furrow 812.50 re . f

Durocs, m, .umm *to :25. hindrfifiiyf‘fi‘i;

"faction or money back. B.E. Klee Hillsdale. Mich.





 





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THE SHORT‘HO—RN SALES.





HE sales of- pure-bred Shorthorns

. on the Prescott Ranch at Pres-

cott, and the Bidwell Stock Farm at

Tecumseh were the outstanding cattle

events of late June.



The Prescott’s draft /of around fifty

head from their Richland herd, which

contains more than 200 pure-bred cat-

tle, was an excellent lot, and as. was

anticipated and desired. were dissemi-

nated largely through Northeastern

Michigan. Several of Mr. Bidwell’s

best buyers were also these near

home. . ’



These progressive breeders glean

considerable satisfaction from the Way

their neighbors have taken hold of

their offerings, as well as evidence

that their product is appreciated

abroad, by the fact that a number of





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Farms at Prescott, Michigan’s





the good ones in each sale Were pur-

chased for shipment to old Mexico.



Prices did not rule high, $275 being

the top in the Prescott sale for a good

young cow, going toKan Indiana buyer,

and $300 taking the outstanding cow ,

in the Bidwell sale, going to the milk-

ing herd of Beland & Beland, but even

at prices around $140, the approximate

average, Mr. Prescott says, “what is

there on the farm that pays better

when they are grown largely on cheap,

grass?”



As in the recent Hereford sales,

many new breeders have shown wis-

dom by getting into the business at

the very bottom where there is no

top-heavy load to overcome. There can

be but one way for, their venture to

grow, and that is up.-—Pope.'





 





ROTATING SH EEP PASTURE.





HEEP should have a frequent



change of pasture during the sum-

ufer season. Where pasture» is. grazed

for any length of time it becomes

what English flodkowners term “sheep

sick,” or dry and woody. Sheep do

better if changed from one pasture to

another, thus allowing the pasture to

rest and recruit a new growth of ten-

der palatable feed.



Pastures grazed by sheep for months

at a time are subject to parasitic 'in-

fection which often causes loss to the

flockowners, There is no,method of

ridding pasturewhen once infested;

the only effective means of combating

the. evil is prevention. Where sheep

are kept on the farm year after year

every precaution should be exercised

[not to allow the flock to graze for long

periods on the same pasture, but alter-

nate frequently as the change is not

only a. preventive to pasture infection,

but stimulates appetite and promotes

the growth of grasses. '





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of supplemental forage near the field



I am planting later to nice for sheep

pasture, and in this way the forage,

crop helps out the pasture.



Stubble fields, meadows after the

hay has been removed, and even pas-

tures that have been grazed with cat-

tle'the fore part of the season,.are

good sources. On several occasiOns I

have been able to rent a stubble or

meadow field for a few weeks to sup— '

ply my flock with a change of pasture.

—Leo C. Reynolds.





 





 





CATTLE MARKET GETS A BUMP.

C ATTLE prices received a. severe!-



‘ jolt last week when arrivals at the

leading markets increased about eight

per cent and accumulation of dressed





beef as a result of the recent hot spell

made slaughterers indifferent. All





Largest Shorthorn Institution.





kinds of steers, cows and heifers de-

clined in value. .



Losses of seventy-five cents to $1.00

were scored on light, half-finished

yearlings at Chicago as the high price

of corn and approach of the harvest

season encouraged premature market-

ing while the public seems to want

the better grades of beef or none at

all. Long-fed, mature steers and the

few choice fat heifers and cows arriv-

ing suffered least, but are fifteen to

twenty-five cents lower than a week

ago.



During the first half of July, market

arrivals are unlikely to increase much

and prices even on grassy kinds may .

work up again. But, before the month

is over, Kansas and Oklahoma grass-

ers will be filling southern markets,

and the vanguard of western rangers

will appear at northern points. These

additions to present sources of supply

will tax beef trade channels. While

southwestern pastures are said .to 1

have fewer mature cattle than usual,

the percentage of feeders will not be

extremely high, as the pastoral areas

have had plenty of moisture and

should be able .to put most of their

inhabitants into killing condition. For

the same reason, the range beef har- .

vest should be well distributed‘over

the season.





"Stocker‘ and feeder demand subsided

last week as farmers are extremely -

busy. Old corn is high priced, the'newvr “ ‘

crop is not yet assured, and the prob-

able supply of late summer and fall '4

forage is uncertain. July always is! ,

dull month in. this division, but if ‘the

corn outlook is favorable, a broad de

mand can be expected a month hence.





 





 





In several section of 1 Michigan





.there is an unprecedented demand for





millet and Sudan grass seed, due to

the shortageof the hay crop. ‘Where

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to nations or not! some say it is no





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~ I can see no reason why a steel oil

barrel should not make a first-class





‘ swill barrel.. I have one made of steel





that has been in use for several years

with the best of results—Pope.





 





PIGS LOSE USE OF HIND LEGS.’





I have nine little pigs nine weeks

old, which have lost all use of their

Their appetites are good.

We have tried to doctor them but

nothing‘seems to be any good—G. B.



The ration of your little pigs, and

perhaps of their mother, has been un-

doubtedly unbalanced. It is hard to

tell the cause or suggest a remedy

without knowing more abOut the con-





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nought-ups“ »

, As goods. remedy as we know of, is

made up or three grains of santonin

and. two' grains of: calomel fed in a lit-

tle slop on an emptystomach (eight—

een hours off feed). This is a dose for

a fifty-pound pig. -



If pigs are allowed free access to

mineral mixture made up of wood ash-

es, salt, lime, sulphur and charcoal, it

will go a long way toward avoiding

such troubles as you are having. After

they go down, however, it is advisable

to adopt more heroic methods.



A remedy that often proves effective

in such cases as yours is as follows:

To each fifty pound pig, one table-

spoon of cod liver oil,fifteen grains of

phosphate of lime, and three drop's of

fluid extract of nux vomica daily, di-

vided into two feeds and given in a

1ittle¢ slope—Popes





 





 

 





ERHAPS it is too much to expect

P that the ordinary farm, like ours,



which is no exception t6 the aver-

age good farm 013 Michigan, should al-

ways appear in keeping with our de-

sires, yet the farm that is to pay divi-

dends at this particular period must

surely return from each acre a satis-

factory crop and at a very conserva-

tive cost.



Beets Leoking Good.



Bob says we are going to have a

good crop of beets, anyway. Although'

it has been necessary for us to take

to the hoes ourselves and go into the

best of the beets, in order to keep the

blockers good-natured and on the job

to the finish, the blocking is at last

finished and at good job done.



Another day will” clean out the green

blotches of corn and grass and this-

tles that show up here and there over

the field and' leave it in very present-

able shape.



We are delaying the hay making a

little in order to do this work our-

selves. The beet workers would do it

in time, but we snatched a bit of time

to remove these big weeds that the

cultivators have missed, and that sap

the moisture, rob the beets, and hurt

the eyes.



Next Comes the Hay.



Nearly a half of the clover blossoms

are now turning brown. The mow-

er must start at once. There is a

beautiful crop of clover to harvest. A

seeding of six pounds of June clovter,

two pounds of alsike, and two pounds~





— of alfalfa per acre on the wheat, fol-





lowed by a spike drag to help cover,

has left a perfect stand. It is thick

and even all over the field and the top-

dressing that the manure spreader

gave after the wheat was removed last

summer has not stunted it any. It is

lodged in many places, and in walking

through the thick wooly mass, one

gets a sensation down in the pedal

extremities similar to that acquired in

wading up stream in water so deep.





We like to do the mowing for each

day’s haul late in the afternoon or

before noon of the following day, al-

ways putting hay that has partly cur-

ed, in the windrow that evening. Dew

falling on cured hay in the swath and

drying off again will cause many

leaves to shatter and be lost, and hay

raked up when thoroughly cured and

just previous to hauling, will be loose

and fluffy, and be hard to ,handle.

While hay raked the day before it is

to be hauled, and just as soon as it

has cured enough to rake good, will

finish its curing in the Windrow, with

,as little. as possible of its leafy surface

exposed to dew and sun. It will settle

in the windro’w. require less tramping

fan the load,_~and,.the loader will .do a





 





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cleaner job gathering it up when it is

ready to go into the barn.



Hay of the best possible quality can

be made in this manner in the short-

est possible time and with a minimum

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

en. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

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

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

o‘ervice becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed. ,





 





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Fetlock Joint Lameness.——Early last

spring a swelling appeared on fetlock

joint of mare; this swelling increased,

and now it reaches hock. She is not

very lame; have applied three appli-

cations of Gombault’s caustic balsam

and rested her for the past three

weeks. When she walks fetlock joint

knuckles over. I did hard work with

her all last winter. C. E. S., Gros Cap,

Mich.——You are treating the case in-

telltigently, but the mare needs more

res .





Long Wart on Udder.——I have a two-

year-old heifer that has not yet fresh-

ened but she has a growth much like

a wart situated close to teat, and it is

the same size as her teat. What can



do to remove it? L. B., Le Roy,

Mich—A wart of this kind can be

safely out off, or tied off, using a silk





 





or'linen thread. Apply boric acid to

wound three times daily.





Infected Ud‘der Following Wounded'





Teat.—l have a heifer that has been

milking for four months; one month

ago another cow stepped on her ud-

der, cutting teat. In a week her bag

congested. Since then I draw only a

little stringy, watery milk and her

quarter is hard. Is she apt to lose this

quarter of udder? R. S., Lambertville,

Mich—Apply equal parts of tincture

of iodine and camphorated oil to quar—

ter once a .day. She will perhaps lose

the use of this quarter, especially this

season.





Seed-wants.——I have heifer calf five

months old which has what I call seed-

warts, mostly on head, but few on oth-

er parts of the body. W. E. D., Men-

don, Mich—It" you will apply olive oil

freely to warts once or twice daily,

and give her thirty drops\ of Fowler’s

solution of arsenic at a dose twice a

day it will cure her. In my practice I

invariably cut out warts; they are only

skin deep and the wound soon heals,

therefore much time is saved, and re-

covery more cbrtain.





Heifer Has Never Been in Heat.—

I have a heifer which has failed to

come in heat. What can I do? She

is the making of a fine dairy cow, if

she breeds. H. M., Rosebush, Mich.—

The‘ best known remedy for this kind

of case is Yohimbine hydrochloride,

and/it should be given three times a

day. Tablets are sold under the name

of vetol for: use in veterinary practice.

If she is a twin and has a brother she

may never breed.





 





 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





   





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North Western Ontario (Canada)

Comprising the District of Kenora,

Rainy River and Thunder Bay.





A Great Opportunity For

Intending Settlers





The land is easily cleared; grain and vegetables

grow as well and in as great variety as in the older

part of the Province. Wheat has been produced or as

good quality as "Manitoba No. 1 Hard." Game is

plentiful and of many kinds and fish abounds in the

rivers and lakes.



The summers are warm and the winters cold and

bracing but the dryness of the atmosphere makes the

cold less felt.



Much of this land is within ten or fifteen miles

of large cities or towns. With excellent railways and

highways, good markets are assured.



It you are planning to own a. farm of your own,

you may have 160 acres of this rich agricultural

land. in some Townships free, and in others at 50

cents per acre. Land closer to centres not owned by

the Province may be purchased from $2. per acre up.



For information write:

S. H. WILSON.

Ontario Government

Colonization Agent.

Port Arthur. Ont.

Hon. Manning Doherty,

Minister of Agriculture.

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0 I c One last fall boar.10 last fall gilts bred. 100 thi-

- - -_ 3 ring pigs. recorded free, Kmile west of Do-

pot. Citz sPhone. Otto B. Schulze, Nashville. Mich

O I C March pigs. single or in pairs. 3!”

' 0 ' bred gilts for August ' furrow.

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.

-. 7 One yearling imm- and March p .

0‘ I. C 8 Young Brown Swiss bull. Milo

Peterson. Elmhust Farm, Ionin. Mich. R





 





Quality Poland Chinas





tilted by a good son of Orbngo Olansman. Now offer

ing afew fall gllts and spring pigs of either sex.





S. S. BURRILL Reese, Mich.





 





Big Type P. 0. some very choice boars doublein

mune. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows fro-

Iowa's greatest herds. E.J.Mathewson.l3urr Oak.Mioh





Line Bred Liberator:





By Revelation and Peter. The Great. boars. The last

word in Poland China Breeding. Bred sows and spri

pigs of either sex. Prices right. Vanghan's S





 





 





Farm. Ovid, Mich.

RADIO GIANT

Represents the worlds largest strain of Poland





China Hogs. Bears. flows. Pigs at bargain prices from

Mich. pioneer herd. We have bred them big for-3.

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Toronto. years. We can furnish nt

JNO. O. BUTLER. Portland. Mich

“065 L 'I' P C

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A fe Duroc Gilts bred to _ ; .,

FOR SALE the vliest ‘sire in Michigan. Chome Gilts 52:) to $40. Boar‘s $30. Fall Pigs 815.





CLARENCE B. OALKINS. Wayland, Mich.





‘ ' 9 Early maturing,'prolific,heavy

Ben'am'n S weight,prize winnerkind from

BIG TYPE bloodlines of Champions and.





Grand Champions, now making





CHESTEBbig money for thousands.

have started more breeders on

road to success than an living

man. Letmehelp on. asyto

WH ITE’S start.Costslittle. _S_B.n}amin

II. F. D. 10. Portland. Mich.

CHESTER WHITES WATCH our ad for fall

. . bred sows and gilts.

WEBER BROS. 10 Mlle Rd. West Royal Oak. Mlch.

Chester Whites S::d:sds‘.:a£br.ta:





Two great Big Typo hours of the breed.

Fltls‘l) L. BODIMER. Reese, Mich





 





Gilts bred for fall. also

spring pigs. C, 0. D. re-

Clinton. Mich.





Chester Whites





corded free. Albert Dorr.





 





HES’I‘ER White-2 Show boar prospects by Prince

CBig Bone and Advance Type. Gilts bred for Aug—

ust furrow and spring pig. Priced reasonable and sat-

isfaction guaranteed. John C.Wilk, Alina, ”Mich.





O. I. C’s and Chester Whites





Gilts sired by Mich. State Fair Gr. Champion

1921, and bred for March and April farrow to

Mich. State Fair Jr. Champion 1922, the common





sense type and price.

ANDY ADAMS, Litchfield, Mich.





 





 





0 t C and Chester Whites. Spring Boats sired

. ' ' ° by Monster Boy. Col, Denby and Hill's

Big Buster. Bred gilts all big type reg. free.



J. W. Howell. Ovid. Mich.





 





o I C’s Orders booked for late farrowed

' ' ' spring hi 5 at $10 to $12. each. Regis-

tered free. 0. J. THO





ON, Rockford, Mich

(I B rin '33 single or in pairs. Price

0' I' C' right}z Siatl'sfaction garanteed.

E. 0. Badgley. Jackson, Mic . R, F. D. 1.





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





Louis, Mich.



BOARS READY for service. Spring boars at

. . weaning time and slits bred to (Ambit.

ion Agarn) for Sept. furrow. They are priced to sell-

and shipped on approval. Dorus Hover. Akron. Mich_





Large Type P. C.





A few fall pigs for sale.

a grandson of “The Rainbow and Big Bob” the great-

est yearling boar I ever owned has size combined

with quality. Come and see the real kind.



W. E. LIVINGSTON. Pal-ma. Mich





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.



N. F. BORNOR. Parma, Mich





 





Largest in Mich.

Sired by “The Wolverine"





 





 





Large Type _ Poland Chinas





For sale Fall Bears, Gilts bred or open. Herd head

ed by two Grand Champion boars.





A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester, Mich.





 





' 2 nice gilts with pigs by 3116. also

Large Slram P- 8- pigs at weaning time. I '

H, 0. SW ARTZ, Schooloral’t, Mich.





 





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fALLNU’l‘ ALLEY Big Type Poland China Boar

pigs ready for new homes. Give me a chance



to tell you about them. A. D. Gregory. Ionia, Mich.

Big Bob and Peace and





B‘ T' P' C' Fa“ sows! Plenty strains. Bred to





a son of Alaska. M. 0. Mount, Mayville,MiCh.





 





 





L.T. P. (‘.Sprin i s d .

Lone Maple Farm Also y‘r. boar. W'gr'i‘legfdflieli-





cription and prices. F. R. Davxs 4h Son.Belding. Mich.





 





for sale. Rez-





Large Type P- C. Pigs istered 8l5.’En-





quire Sunnyside Farm. Hillman. Mich.





 





' A few bred gilts left. Place our

HamPShu'es order now for your boat pig. airs

not akin. 10th ear.





JOHN .BNYQER. R. 4. St. Johns. Ilioi
.:.; ,'I

.





 





GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Monday, July 9.

Wheat.





Detroit—No. 2 red $1.15; No. 2 mix-

ed $1.15; No. 2 white $1.15. ‘

Chicago—July $1.03$§; September

$1.031/2@1.03%; December at $1.06%.

Toledo.—~Cash $1.14.

Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow at 920;

No. 3, 91c; No. 4, 89c. ‘

Chicago—July 83c; September 7673

@77c; December 635/8@63%c.

Oats.

Detroit.—-Cash No. 2 white 48c; No.

3, 47c; No. 4, 460.

Chicago—July 393/80; September at

35%c; December 37%0.

Beans.

Detroit.—-lmmediate

shipments $5.75 per cwt.

Chicago—Choice $7.50; red kidneys

at $8.15..-

New York.——Choice pea $7.75; red

kidneys $7.75@8.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 69c.

Chicago—July 65%0; September at

651/10; December 70%0.

Toledo—Cash 671/20.

Barley.

Detroit—Making 720;

Chi-cago.——62@68c.

Seeds.

Detroit.~Prime red clover cash at

$10; alsike $9; timothy $3.30.

Hay. ,

Detroit.——No. 1 timothy $17.50@18;

light mixed $16.50@17; No. 2 timothy

$15.50@16; No.1 clover at $12@14;

No. 1 clover mixed $14@15; straw at

$11@11.50.

Feeds.





Bran $31; standard middlings $35;

fine do $38@38.50; cracked corn at

$40.50@41; coarse cornmeal at $39;

chop $34.50 per ton in 100-15. sacks.





Fruit.

Apples—Good $3.50@4 per bushel.

Strawberries.—24-qt. case, Michigan,

good $4@5.

Cherries, Michigan, 16~qt. cases at

$2@2.25; sweet $5 per bushel.





WHEAT





Wheat prices have shown no decid-

ed trend in the last two weeks but

have fluctuated over a narrow range

slightly ab0ve $1 at Chicago. The

Winter wheat harvest has been pro-

gressing favorably and early thresh-

ing returns have averaged about as

expected. Black rust has appeared ov-

er a large territory in the northwest

in the last few days with weather con-

ditions in its favor. Little damage has

been done so far but there is much ap-

prehension and a cron scare may de-

velop at any time which would have a

pronounced effect on the market.

Canadian crop prospects are brilliant,

although storms have caused some in-

J'ury recently and black rust is a men-

ace. Foreign wheat crop reports are

mostly favorable. Italy will have 44,-

000,000 bushels more than last year

and ”France 33,000,000 bushels more,

according to latest estimates. The Ar-

gentine acreage for harvest next De-

cember and January promises to be

larger than last year. Receipts of new

wheat at the primary markets are in-

creasing. Foreign buyers are not ag-

gressive as the European harvest is at

hand and surpluses in exporting coun-

tries look ample. The slump in for—

eign exchange also blocks export busi-

ness. The stability of the market at

the present level is a hopeful sign.





OATS





Oats prices declined to the lowest of

the season last week. They are cheap

compared with corn, receipts are not

, large and the visible supply is only

8,532,000 bushels compared with 42,-

743,000 bushels last year. The new

crop is maturing under favorable cou-

ditions with strong prospects of a

larger yield than in 1922.





CORN





Corn has made rapid growth in the

last few weeks but is not yet up to nor-

mal at this season. Many fields are

weedy also. Unofficial estimates on

the acreage are far apart, some indi-

cating an increase and others a de-

crease as compared with last year.

Cash demand has broadened ‘again as

industries are expanding. operations





and prompt





feeding 680.





'andtpurchases by“ feeders are rat—her .

_ persistent. The live stocleprodpctiOn 2

. outlook suggests heavy domestic con-





1 sumption during the next twelve





The ,





 





. V I I, j .3 “1.3395; ,

'AMARK'TP





mont s. Export sales are small. Re-

ceipt of corn at primary markets

have been gradually increasing and

last week the heaviest'since April. The

visible supply issmall but increased

slightly last week, so that the tension

may gradually reduce for a while.





SEEDS





Clover seed prices are still weak

and at the low point of the seasOn,

with alsike now quoted nominally

higher than red. New crop prospects

continue favorable. Timothy seed

prices are stable. -





FEEDS





Feed markets are declining again as

interior demand is dull, stocks are

ample and offerings are increasing.

Bran for September and October ship-

ment is quoted at $1.50 below prompt

shipment prices and new crop cotton-

seed meal is quoted .at a. discount of

$3 to $5 below prevailing prices. Coin-

pared with prices on feed grains, by-

product feeds are beginning to look

cheap, suggesting that the market is

nearing bottom.





HAY





The department of agriculture re-

ports that the 1922 hay crop has been

well cleaned up with 90 per cent of

the market surplus of timothy, and 98

per cent of the alfalfa and 97 per cent

of the prairie hay disposed of by June

15. A little more timothy but less al-

falfa and prairie is on hand than at

the same time last year. Besides the

rather light carryover, the new crop

is not yielding well and much of the

first cutting of alfalfa was spoiled by

rainy weather at cutting time. Al-

though receut rains should be helpful,

pastures are not up to par in many

sections and the demand for hay on

most markets is more active than us—

ualat this time of the year. Some of

the best new hay is being warehoused

in anticipation of a heavy fall demand

from the southeast





WOOL





The wool market- manifested a bet-

ter tone last week and the end of the

recent sagging tendency appears to be

at hand. Most of the weakly held

wools have been disposed of. Mills

are beginning to buy once more and

find few bargains offered. Foreign

markets are firm at the recent decline

especially at London with Continental

cOuntries the chief buyers. Mills are

still consuming wool at a high rate on





~ and 1918.





 





old orders. - In the west conditions re-

main quiet. In the bright wool states

46 to 48 cents is the going price for

most clips with «choice wools up to 50

cents or slightly higher...





BEANS ,





Demand for beans increased slightly

after the July 1 inventory period but

it is uncertain how long the spurt will

last. Choice hand-picked whites are

quoted at $6 per hundred pounds f. o.

b. Michigan shipping points and light

red kidneys: at $6.90@7. Shippers cs-

timate that between 400 and 500 ”cars

are left in the state and, if demand

continues fairly good they will be

cleaned up, but if the demand tapers

off the market is likely to sag. No

official estimate of the Michigan

acreage is available'but unofficially it

is placed at 10 to 12 per cent higher

than last year, which would be prac-

tically equal to the acreage in 1917





ment from the new crop are quoted at

$5.50@5.75.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Scarcity of good quality eggs lent

support to the market last week and

prices for this grade will probably

reach a slightly higher level. Produc-

tion still exceeds current consumption

and warehouses are full, so that it is

not probable that the general run of

eggs will sell much better than at

present. As the supply of hot weather

eggs increases during the next few

weeks, a wider spread on prices can

be expected. A “bearish ’report on

storage holdings is expected, as the

opinion is Widespread that the leport

will show holdings to be the largest

on record.



Chicago.——Eggs, miscellaneous 21@

211,60; dirties at 18@19c; checks 18@





19c; fresh’ firsts 21%‘@22c; ordinary

firsts 20@20%c. Live poultry,.hens at

24c; broilers 33@34c; roosters 120;





ducks 200; geese 18c; turkeys 200.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and

graded 23@24c. Live poultry broilers

4501:1480; heavy hens at 23@25c; light

hens 300; roosters 14c; geese at 120;





ducks 24c.

BUTTER





With an active demand for butter

for storage in distributing markets

and a shortage of top scores as a re-

sult of recent hot weather, the butter

market developed strength last week

and prices were maintained without





 





 





 





, DETROIT»





Cattle.





Receipts 507. Market steady at last

weeks’ close. -

Fancy light yearlings. . . .$ 9.50@10.00





Best heavy steers ....... 8.7.5@ 9.25

Handyweight butchers 7.5061) 8.50

Mixed steers and heifers 6.50@ 8.00

Handy light butchers... .. 6.00@ 7.00

Light butchers .......... 5.25@ 6.00

Best cows ., ............ 5.75@ 6.25

Butcher cows. ........... 4.00@ 5.00

Cutters ................. 2.50@ 3.00

Canners ................. 1.50@ 2.25

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

Bologna bulls ............ 5.00@ 5.50

Stock bulls ............. 4.00 (11 4.75

Feeders ................. 5.50@ 6.50

Stockers 5.00@~6.00

Milkers and springers. . . .‘ 40.00@80.00





\





Sheep and Lambs





Receipts 496. Market steady. ,

Best lambs ............. $15.00@15.25





Fair lambs ............. 12.00@13.50

Light to common ....... 9.00@11.00

Fair to good sheep . 5.00@ 6.00

Culls" ................... 1.50@ 2.50

Yearlings ............... 7.00@11.50 ,





‘ Veal Calves.

Receipts 569. The market is $1@1.25





sigh“ ' $14 00@ 15 00 “093'

est . . . ..... . . . . . . . . - , - Receipts 20 cars. Market hi her. ' ‘



Others ............... n . 8.00@13.00 'Heavy $840@850' yorkers and'g-pigs guifi'i'nggtlfii":npml§gt3:32:53 “rod-£120? . J '

Fair to good 12 00@13. 00 $8 65@8 85 ’ ‘ : . ford Sim Perfection Fairfax. and another out of I " '7

. . ....... e n o a - o - 1- . . _ . - . .1 fire“ d‘ufihter of Befiu Mmht.t.. ‘0 .OO'I. m -‘ .. ‘»

nght to common. . . . . . ._-,8-00@1,1..-00 ki-r- Sheep and Lambs. _, « 5&6? A 1‘ $1?“ a???“ blood “presented...

f. : “ .- sacs-4 . _ . firmfvwimgffi«iii-ff"?m“?. 3. esn‘iis'srfilft’fifld "‘ ' ’



.Receipts 968. Market acti‘ve'i '7 "We tiers” $7250" 8.5.0} ewes ~$5.7. ‘, 1 ' Ti? ‘ Afikfio





.Mixed hogs and yorkers. .$ 7.85'@ 8.00 .,





 





Cers at. $10.75@11.25.





Live Stock MarketSchice I





Monday, July 9.





77.25





Pigs

7.00@ 7.50





Heavies





CHICAGO

, Hogs.



Receipts 85,000. Market is fairly ac-

tive on good kinds; slow on others.

Bulk of good 180 to 250 lbs., average

$7.40@7.60; tops $7.65. A few good

and choice weighty butchers sold at

around $7.45; packing sows brought

$3.725@6.40, and good weight pigs $6.50





Cattle.



Receipts 23,000. Market is fairly ac-

tive. Better grades of beef steers and

yearlings ‘sold steady. Lower grades

were slow. Top steers brought $11.50;

she' stock and veal calves were gener-

ally steady; bulls ruled strong to 15c

higher. Bulk of good bologna bulls

$4.75@5; bulk of calves went‘to pack-





lSheep and Lambs.



Receipts 21,000. Fat lambs mostly

25@50c lower. Good and choice na-

tives sold at $15; culls at $8@8.50.

Sheep were offered in small numbers

with the market steady, medium to

heavy ewes brought $56126.





BUFFALO

Cattle.





Receipts five cars. Market is slow.





 





 





 





 





Beans for September ,ship- .





 





difl‘iCulty.‘ - This was-contrary to the

expectations of many dealers who had





been predicting declines of three 'to. :





four cents'on top scores‘during the

course of the month. Reports on the

make for _

week ending June 30 sho‘ch a de-

crease as compared with the preced-

ing Week, indicating that the peak has

been passed. Imports. at New York





for the week consisted. of 2,817 casks





of Danish, Esthonian and Holland but-

ter. Danish butter is s’elling'in New

York at prices as much a one cent

higher than that generaly paid for

domestic .92-score. . - ’



Prices on July 7 were: 9Z-score

fresh butter, Chicago 37 %c; New York,

38c; Boston 39c; Philadelphia 390 per

pound. 90-scor_e centralized carlots,

Chicago at 370; New York 37@379§c;

Boston 380; Detroit fresh creamery in

tubs sell for 35@3617éc.





CHEESE '





The recent declines in the Wiscon—

sin cheese market failed to have much

influence over distributing markets

where prices were firm at from one to

one and onehalf “cents over the coun-

try quOtations. The recent hot weath-

er was reflected in poor quality re-

ceipts so that‘the buyer of fancy

cheese had trouble in locating sup-

plies. This was a steadying factor.

Storing of cheese is going on on a.

larger scale and stocks are heavy com-

pared with last year. '





POTATOES '

Potato prices advanced sharply

last week. The tOtal value of ship-





ments from producing sections has

been declining gradually for several

weeks. Shipments of new potatoes for

the season to July 2 were only 20,993

cars compared with 29,459 cars last

year. Advance reports indicate a ma-

terial reduction in the acreage in the

late potato states. Carolina Irish Cob-

blers are quoted at $5.75@6.50 per bar—

rel and Bliss Triumphs at $1.75@2.75

per 100 pounds in leading midwestern

cities. Prices are 25 to 50 per cent

higher than last year. ”





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Buyers were anxious for tomatoes,

spinach, asparagus, strawberries, cher-

ries and raspberries, while the call for

peas, eggs, radishes, onions and pota-

toes is moderate. Those offering let-

tuce, beets, rhubarb, cabbage and car—

rots are meeting a slow demand. Out-

side tomatoes began business here at‘

$3 per basket. The [supply of pota-

toes is light at ‘75@85c per bushel,

‘with the bulk at 80c. Cherries are

selling at $4@4.75 and are in moder-

ate supply. Cabbage is coming fast

and selling at $1.50@1.75 per bushel.

Veal is light at 15¢ per pound. Straw-





berries are now in good demand and ~





the price is up to $7@8 for fancy 24-

quart case offerings. Peas go to the

$3 mark fer fancy. Eggs wholesale

at 28@3OC and retail at 30@400. Live

poultry are in light supply at 24@280





 





wholesale, and 2560300 retail. Broil-

ers' are at 35@40c. ,

LIVE STOCK SALE.

Holstein.

July 17—1.. E. Conell, Fayette, Ohio.

Herefords.





Chester, Mich.





 





 





 





Mr. L. Whitney Walkins





Requests the honor of your presence at.

W A T K I N S 1’ II R M

Near Manchester, Michigan

on Thursday, July 26 th, 1923





10:30 A. M. RECEPTION; Michigan Hereford

Cattle Breeder’- Au’n. and visiting Fume".

manage» LUNCHEON Barbecued Hereford





a o .

1:30 P.M. AUCTION- 1 t Ann I W tkl

so. of a: neurotic cat-he? "' Fm”.





 

   





 





 





 





Calves at $14. '





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





the whole country for. the





July 26—L. Whitney Watkins, Man-
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fthat county. As .yet the Southern part





 





- a. th theistic

ppe'r‘s ’is on dn‘ the





oil that county is having no trouble.

Reports from_Grand Traverse, county

indicate that no material damage is

being done there by this pest. The





. greatest damage is being done where





farms are located in. proximity to

large tractsof cut-over land.





 





FEAR GYPSY MOTH IS IN STATE.





 





FEAR is expressed that the gypsy

moth, said to be one of the most

destructive insects in the world, pos-

sibly has found its way into Michigan.

Requests have been sent out by the

State Department of Agriculture ask-

ing that farmers and others who have

received shipments of nursery stock

from Massachusetts submit them for

inspection. The state of Massachu-

setts has spent around fifty million

dollars in an effort to exterminate this

pest. It is, therefore, important, that

if it has arrived in the state its pres-

ence be known early in order to stamp





\ it out before it is widely spread.





 





BAN ON ENGLISH LIVE STOCK

CONTINUED.





HE ban on the importation cf- live

stock from England because of the

persistence of the hoof-and-mouth dis-





‘ease in that country, will be continued





indefinitely, according to a department

of agriculture statement. A new out-

break ofl the disease has caused aban-

donment of plans for lifting the em-

bargo. The welfare of the entire live

stock industry in the United States,

the department specialists declare, de-

mands the utmost care be exercised in

keeping out such a dangerous :enemy

as foot and mouth disease.





 

 





‘Corn is doing well.

fa, is light. ”There issome milk being .





 

 

 





, a ,. _. , . __

, . but have an excellent color.

Hay, except alfali





are :sho





sold. 'Farmers are discouraged be-





~ cause farm products are on the down-





ward trend in prices, while supplies

are advancing—W. W. M.



Jackson 00., July 5.——-Corn, beans

and potatoes are looking fine. Rye

and wheat are about eighty-five per

cent of normal. Outlook for apples is

good. The help situation is in a bad

way. Practically all farm work is be-

ing done by the older people—J. W.



Berrien 00., July 1.—Wheat is rip-

ening fast and oats are heading short,

due to heat and dry weather earlier

in the season. Plenty of, rain recently.

Hay is a light crop. Corn is looking

very good. Late potatoes-are up and

the stand is encouraging. Mint fields

are promising. Pears are light, apples

are heavy, while peaches show about

One-half crop. Grapes are about nor-

mal, with many vines turning yellow

from some unknown cause—L. D. R.

. Schoolcraft. Co., July 2.—-Fruit and

grains are looking excellent. Only a

few potatoes have been planted. The

farmers are growing such crops as

they are able to handle with their own

labor.——F. G. '



Lapeer 00., July

has been broken. Wheat looks the

best it has in years. Hay is short and

corn not as far advanced as it should

be. Sugar beets were planted gener-

ously and look promising. Late pota-

toes are just coming up. Only an ce-





2.-—The drought





» casional field of early potatoes can be





found—A. C.



St. Joseph 00., July 1.—All crops are

about the average, except clover and

timothy hay. Alfalfa is fine. Cher-

ries are good; corn is up to the aver-

age; wheat is thin; rye a fair crop.

Farmers are busy haying and cultivat-

ing. Corn fields have many weeds.

No crops to market at this season of

the year. Grain is ripening fast. Farm

prices are too low as compared to la-

bor and manufactured articles—H. S.



Antrim 00., July 1.———Potato acreage

is smaller due to the unfavorable mar-

keting conditions of last year and to

the labor situation. Hay and grain are

good on low land and a little short on

high land. Fruit prospects are favor-

able—O. J. 0-. '





 





News





 





B‘ANKS AID FARMERS IN SECUR-

ING DAIRY CATTLE.





UDYARD, of Chippewa county, is



the center of a flourishing dairy

section. A little while ago a second

carload of high-grade cattle was ship-

pedto this district. The banks at the

Soo cooperated in making possible the

purchase of this stock. To meet the

demand for a broader market for the

products of these rapidly increasing

herds, a creamery has been opened.





 





WOULD SELL SPHAGNUM moss:





ANY northern Michigan farmers



are interested in the market for



Sphagnum mos-s. - This is used for var--



ious purpose-s, chief of which seems to



be for packing, and by nurserymen in



' general.'Th0se interested should write



Apiary Inspector, Department of Agri-

culture, Lansing, Michigan.





 





GOGEBIC LOOKING AHEAD.





N the economy of her agriculture



Gogebic county is looking to the

,dairy cow to pave the way to a larger

and more'substantial income. Under

a cooperative plan a carload of pure

bred stock has been- added to her

herds. . -



The banks financed the purchase of

the cattle,_ which were distributed

from the Ironwood fair grounds. Un-

der the arrangement the cattle are be-

ing paid for, by the proceeds from the

sales of milk. Farmers are to be given

three years to pay up the loans, which



‘ can be done. in monthly. installments





of 1th less'thanfthree dollars; _

Some-conditions Which purchasers -





 





LDVERLAN I





FREIM





 





are required to meet, are to breed to

pure-bred sires, to make daily weigh-

ing of milk, and monthly tests, to keep

these records, and to follow the advice

of the county agent in feeding.





 





Nothing takes some men so com-

pletely off their feet as seeing a com-

fortable chair.





Holmes,Sluwe Co.,2429 Riopelle 31.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves.

Poultry, Live & Dressed. Provisions, etc. Correspon

deuce Solicited. Ref. Wayne Ocunty & Home Savings

Bank. Bradstreet. Detront, Mich. Cherry 7654





 





W'hy not spend Saturday

night and Sunday in





‘DE‘I'ROI‘T?





HOTEL





FOrt Shelby





Lafayette Blvd. at Firfi St.





Michigan peOple prefer

this hotel for its service,

courtesy and fairness of

charge. The Fort Shelby

Garage is one of the finest

in the world. Great excel-

lence at moderate prices

in the Cafe. .

Kc - dd and u

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MISCELLANEOUS





LEAF TOBACCO, five pounds chewing $1.75: ten.

$3.00; twenty, $5.25: five pounds smoking $1.25; ten.





$2.00: twenty, $3.50. Pipe and Recipe free. Send

no money. pay when received. United Tobacco

Growers, Mayfleld, Ky.





 





’l‘OBACCO——Natural Leaf, 4 years old. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Chewing, 5 pounds 31.50. Smoking.

5 pounds $1.25. Second grade smoking 6 pounds

$1.00. Pay when received. including postage. Cob

pipe free. Hancock Pool, Hawesville. Kentucky.





 





CORN

windrows.

Corn Binder.





HARVESTE'R cuts and piles on harvester or

Man and horse cuts and shocks equal

Sold in every state. Only $25 with





foddcr tying attachment. 'l‘cstlmoniais and catalog

FREE showing picture of Harvester. Process Har-

vester (‘o.. Selina. Kansas.





 





 





REF}. SCOTCH COLLIE PUPPIES and brood ma.-

trons. Natural heel drivers. $10 and up. Silvercreat

Kennels, Gladwin, Mich.



PERSONAL





 





$25 REWARD for information leading to recovery

of Francis Sowden. age 15, fair hair. blue eyes. eyo~

brows sandy and rough, teeth large and crowded,

height his it... weight 120 lbs. Missing since June

14th. VI'hen last seen had bicycle painted red. to.

hdwardVan Assche, Vernier Rd. Grosse Point. Mich.





 





 





BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES





 





FOR SALE Up-to—date Meat Market. will sell or

lease the building for same. Doing a good business,

reason for selling is on account of health. Box 352.

Mason. Mich.





 





 





POULTRY





klll‘lUDE ISLAND REDS—Rose Comb Cockcrels. hen-

lmtchcd, farm raised. Big, thrifty dark colored

birds from prize winning strains, 34 to $7.50. Two

specials at $10 each. Careful attention to mail orders.-

Bidwell Stock Farm, Tecumseh, Michigan.





 





l'l?l.l.ETS—-—l£nglish White Leghorns, eight to ten weeks

old. Write for latest prices. Pine Bay Poultry Farm.

ll«l, Holland, Mich.





RUFF LEGHORNS. Old and young stock for

\Villard \V'ebster, Bath, Mich.





 





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BABY CHICKS





BABY CHICKS. 15 Leading varieties. 2% Million

for 1923. The kind that lay early. Large, vigorous.~

fluffy kind. Lowest prices. Send ior large catalog.

1). '1‘. Farrow Chickeries, Peoria. 111.





 





 





QUALITY CHICKS. prices cut.

Rocks, Reds, Orpingtons, Wyandottes

11c. Prompt free delivery. Catalog.

Farms, Columbia. Mo.





Leghpms. 100:

12c; Assorted.

Missouri Poultry





 





NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO. Chewing 5 lbs., $1.75:

10 lbs. $3.00. Smoking 5 lbs.. $1.25; 10 lbs. $2.00,

Pay when received, pipe and recipe free. Farmers Co-





 





 





‘(HK‘ralivo Tobacco Union, Padurah, Ky.

TOBACCO—Extra Smoking, 5 lbs, $1.00: 10 lbs.,

$1.50; 20 lbs. $2.75. Chewing. 5 lbs, $1.50: 10 lbs.,

$2.75. Quality guaranteed. O'Connor Smokehouse.

8-133, Mayfleld, Ky.



MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS, 6% interest. No

commission. No mortgage tax. Security Mortgage





Corporation. 1018 Majestic Building, Detroit.





 





 





DOGS





FOX ’I‘ERRIERS. Collies. Bulls. Pointers,

and Hounds. Curl I’oos. Dearborn. Mo.





 





Setters





Strong





STERLING QUALITY CHICKS-14 varieties. Bo 8

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livcable chicks. Catalog free. P. in Clardy.

lithcl, Mo.





 





 





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\V.\.\"l‘l‘.‘llfilll‘llulABIA‘), ENERHI‘YI‘IC llIEN to sell

“llngnfritz” fruit trees and shrubhery. Unlimited

ommrtnnitics. Every property owner a prospw-tivs

custumm‘. (Inc of our men drew ovrr $3,300 in 1922.

Outfit and instructions furnisln'xl frm‘. Steady cm-

ploynn-nt; rash Weekly. Write for terms. I. E. Ilgen-

t‘ritz’ Sons 00., The Monroe Nursrry. Dept. "C."

Monroe, Mich. Established 18-17.





WAN’I‘ED»-Man and Wife for Farm, 90 acres: First

class field crops; Jersey Cows; 1:! acres orchard.

Manf‘onipetent to take charge of work. Permanent:

position for capable people who can give references.

mtute Farms Association. Kalamazoo, Michigan.





 





 





 





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PAY N0 ADVANCE FEE; don‘t give option or

tie up real estate for any kind of contract without first know-

ing those you are dealing with are absolutely honorable. re-

sponsible and reliable.





INTERESTED IN '





Sheep or Cattle?





THEN LOOK!

3200 Acre Central Michigan Ranch.





A11 fenced, good buildings, large feeding bar-115.8110,

170 acres cleared. splendid land. A sea of Grass,

Alfalfa, Clover and Blue Grass. Wonderfully wat-

ered lakes and streams. N0 droughts. Location,

close to Chicago and Buffalo markets, alongside the

largest Grain Bins in the world—The Corn Belt of

America. Indiana. Ohio. Illinois, Iowa. $12.50 per





“cm Tem- PORTER & WYMAN

112 W. Western Ave. Muskegon, Mich





65 Acres, Horses, Cows, R‘oultry,





Grownng Crops, Implements.

Twenty minutes drive to 2 large market towns. mail

delivered. 52 acres productive loamy tillage, 13 acres

wood and stream watered pasture. several 'hundred

cords wood. milk and cream collected. 6 room house,

painted. cellar, well water. 80 ft barn. Vhen house.

granary, tool shed. aged owner must retire. includes

2 horses. 3 cows. 3 calves. I25 poultry, farm tools, IO

acres oats. 9 acres corn. 4 acres beam. . acres pota-

toes. 2 acres millet. hay. 6120.. Price $3700, Small cash

ayment. possession at once. rite or see L. E,

LOTT. Elmdale. Mich.. or MICHIGAN FARM

AGENCY. 628 Ford building. Detrmt.





In Noted Resort Section

66 Acre Equipped Farm





BetWeen Detroit and Chicago: all ready for business;

up; acreage, crops now growing: near R._R. town:

loamy fields, Spring-watered pasture; attractive 7-mom

house, barn. poultry house; quick buyer sets 3 horses,

3 rows. hogs. poultry, cream separator, implements,

tools and to settle now ‘A & potatoes. 8 a. hay.

16 3. cats. 12 a. rye. 14 a. com, 1,5

berries, alfalfa included: only 5,500, . e«

tails page 18. 1118. Catalog. Cbpy free. STROUT

FARM AGENCY. 427KB. Marquette Bldg" Chicago. II)-





 





TEXAS~ ARKANSAS grasingaoil. farm, or timber

land. Get particulars. No obligation. Gull Realty Com-

pany, 102'] Bedell Bldg. San Antonio, Texa-





mms-sunn 360mm JERSEY deterrent:





Out. Copy Free. Stocked and equipped. Some r uire

only $00 cash. Income reducing homes. Vine and

Farm Agency, 540 A. 1. di- Avo., Vinoland. N. J.





by I k (I

Sell Your Farm ”$34.“? will 2:3

we". Send for articular-s. Albert J. Shir ey. Box





 





mlmazoo. Ich. ,

25 ACRES I: 5° “to loll or excl“ for

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59¢ Milli BASH: 50¢ IGHE MONTHLY BUYS'





For Sale,--by( Owner





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Improved Farms—Tracts 40 to 1000 Acres in

0KLA.. ARK, LA., N. MEX.. Small cash pay.

ment. balance on time. low interest rate. Buy

now while lands are cheap. Lands are already

going up. Sendfor booklet describing 200 Farms.





American Investment Company



Oklahoma City. 603 Colcord Bldg., 0H3.

In Minnesota. Dakota, M .



9mm: Farm tans, Idaho. Washinggolh





Crop payment or any terms.

erature. Mention state. H. W. Brady. 7} North





 





 





Pacino. Ry.. St. Pull. Minn

or Trade fox-Fr . Se . .m

For sale located in J acksfz‘m‘?I criminals-fits] 85.





per month. Give description, rice taxes on

JOSE n .i. MARTINI





incumbrance in answer.





R. D. 3. Albion. Mich.



Owning 3 (arms. must seIIOan

FOI' sale fairbuildings. all cleared, rich 1.173%

soil except gravel pit, I0 minutes to Lansing. 92.0%.

down. balance easy. ARNOLD. Box 64 Lansing. Mich.





85 down. 35 month-





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Poor Man 3 Chance 1,. buy. 40 m...





productiveland near town. Some timbo . P ‘

Other bargains. Box 425-2. Carthage. IEO. rice 82%-





80 Acres Improved 3,31,99,20 $53,839:"

proved $67.50 acre noon on h.’ THE ‘

COUNTY I ES TMENT 00.. s 1018. Kangalsf‘m





CASH YOUR PROPER." QUICKLY.

material. Give but price. Unlverul am





Box 43. N. Topeka. Kano.



to hear from part h i f

want Give garticulara anili 133:5 p322 for “a“.

JOHN J. BLA K. CapverBt.. ChippawaFallc.Wil.





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merce, Hanford, California. for free booklet.



FOR SAL Southeastern Colorado—irrigam

d -



ranches. on non irrigated farms Ill





Write for tree informant .

Company. Lamar. Colorado. on Gregg m





r {gill your property quickly .

or c . t unit-u (no.

Real EstaterwSall‘émzh Oldiefamlgcgmnell.’ 1.111301%. Ne!»





Good farm for sale 76% Acres. Good buildin III

fruit trees mile to la 0 store, 01m '

school. Write (I? W. Shanafe t. Evarh‘n‘lch. “go...





I Want Fum‘ gr Mich. for sub buyo-

mribe and It tin

R.A, MoNown. 324 Wilkinson Bid!" Omaha-gin:





Near h l: t t each

me‘med no... {Had-.1 cawmgfifi‘. ‘





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Farm “I'll“. BALDWIN.’193| Flor-eat. St. L335. M:





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WANTED W°wwmitrhmlm .;
Ensilage Cutters





BEFQRE you decide on any

. Ensrlage Cutter—at any price

the coupon, or a post card,

for full information regarding the Ross.

'This eturdy, low-speed, emooth-

tanning machine has led the field for

years—end it is better this year than

ever before!





BETTER SILAGE

Less Power Needed—

and Built for Heavy Duty.





The Ross stands right up to the work.

No matter how heavy the corn. it runs

smoothly. steadily, cutting every. piece

flick and clean—savin all the rich

juices. No mashing. No e ewing. No



The Ross is a reel cutter!





“ionth at once lot cataloc- prices—lull inform-

Find out about the Ross borler plate nesl

blower and cutting appsrstus-ball- -bearin; end -

-positive yustmcnt. Get a l the

fade-and tlren decide.





- E. W. ROSS “Swag?“ CO.

Successor: la The E. W. Ross Co.



Dept. 214 Springfield, Ohio

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Shims warm or cold milk. Different

. 1mm picture which shows larger ca- .

ty machines Get our plan of easy





HDNTHLY PAYMENTS





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B-K in water kills the germs in

tubes and cups. The standard .

chemical sterilizer for l 0 years.





Write for new bulletin 124-1.

“Helps for Milking Machine

Users.” Includes care of milker

—coWs—calves and the barn.

Gives results of years of eXperi-

.. . ence andtests under practical



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At progressive dealers. Non o_e

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SAFETY IN THE $11.0. .\





SHORT time ago a. flarmer was

asphyxiated while working in a

silo. This recalls the fact that





'deaths have occurred on several occa—

:sions in this manner, and in View of





the constantly increasing importance





‘ l of the silo it seems wise to give a few

{ ! wo1ds of warning.





i The danger comes from exposure to

§the carbon dioxide gas that accumu-

lates in a partially filled silo. This

gas is an essential feat—are of silage, in

fact, it is the p1incipa1 prese1ving

ragent. There is little or no danger

iduring the ordinary process of filling.

iIt requires frOm several hours to sev—

1eral days for the gas to accumulate,

and so long as the work goes on it is

fanned away. The trouble comes when

fa silo is pa1tially filled and the silage

jallowed to stand for a day or several

Edays, or merely overnight in some cas-

'cs. By that time the carbon dioxide

has had opportunity to accumulate and

imay have gathered in sufficient quan-

tity to move dangerous. The gas is

heavier than air and does not give

much wa1ning to one who is a few

fleet above it; thus a person jumping

idoWn on to the silage might be as-

'phyxiated without realizing the dan—





l

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*1gel.





; To avoid dange1 always test the ai1

‘at the level of the silage before enter-

Eing a silo in which gas has had a

chance to accumulate. The test may

be made by lowering an open lantern

to the su1face of the silage. If its

flame is dimmed in any degiee it is

an indication of ca1bon dioxide, and

the gas must be fanned away before

any one can w01k thexe with safety.





Should a wo1ke1 be affected by the

gas the only thing to do is to get him

jinto the flesh air as quickly as possi-

ble and give stimulants. If he has

stopped breathing he may be restored

Iby artificial respiration, going through

exactly the same p1ocedure as you

would to restme breathing in a diowu-

ed pelson.



Well 1ipened silage does not 101m

so much calbon dioxide gas, n01 does

it form so rapidly. The time for spe-

cial watchl'ulness is when filling a silo

with immature corn, cut into fine piec-

es. The silo doors above the level of

the silage should be held open so long

as the silo is in process of filling.





BABY’S SORE EARS.





 





I have a baby six months old who

has sore ”ears; the cans are not sore

on the inside but just behind them.

The baby seems to be very healthy

and does‘ not scratch his ears. —Mrs

B. De V.



This is probably a form of‘eczema'.

It seems to be a mild attack and in

such cases all that is necessary is to





 





'apply pure olive oil to soften any





scabs, and keep the surfaces clean.

Do not use any force in removing .the

scabs. Don’t try to wash the ears with

water. Use the oil, and clean gently

with a piece of soft linen.





DROPSY AND EXERCISE.





 





.Would like to know if exercising

would help a person if their flesh sis

of a dropsical nature. Please let me

know if it would help me; ’Or what

would you recommend?——Miss E. M.

Drapsical swellings are very differ-

ent from good sound tissue.' Such en-

, largements are apt to be due either to

heart or kidney disease. In either case

violent exercise is harmful. The that





step is to have an exammatlon that

will show the exact cause of the trot»

Then proper treatment may be





ble.

given.





 





 





 





A rolling landside supports the rear, making an “all-wheel-



. carried," level-running plow—all weight is rolled—none



dragged. No bottom friction against furrow wall. or furrow

bottom—no “sledding” or “running on its nose.” That’s



why unusually good work and unusually light draft are fea-





tures of the

John Deere





Syracuse No. 110 Sulky





Plows at desired depth when turning-square corners—the

lever that controls the front furrow wheel is-right at the oper- -‘

ator’s hand. Wherryou reach the end of the field, all you

have to do is release the lever latch. The front furrow wheel

casters on the tum—guides the plow perfectly. Then, as the ‘

plow settles on the straight-away, the lever seeks the proper

position and locks automatically.





Here are other features you are sure to appreciate: The

close-fitting shares are quick detachable; the two-axle front

furrow wheel support prevents binding or cramping; the

bearings are sand-proof; the plow 1s simply made and strong

in every part.





John Deere dealers can furnish this plow with the type of

bottom adapted for best results 1n your soil.





FREE BOOKLET describes the No. 110 Bulky Plow. Write today,

address John Deere, Molina, 111.. and ask for booklet C1422.





 





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THE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY MADE FAMOUS BY GOOD IMPLEMENTS





‘ Join the thOusand-s '

of progressive ' farmers

‘ who are cutting the high costs of their farm implcx





ments by buying them Where selling costs have been

cut to the bone and marketing cecnomy is a fact





under the





OLIN





It eliminates all the wastes of the old system of distri—

bution and shares the Savings with you.



The Moline Dealer will gladly help you save money.

If there rs no Molina man near you, write us today for

the facts you ought to know. ._ -





The farmer must pay less for what he

buys—and get more for what he sells





MOLINE PLOW COMPANY, INC.





REvORGANIZBD} POWERFULLY CAPITALIZED

Makers of High—Grade Implements for 60 Years '

MOLINE, ILLINOIS





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