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s USual, Michigan Again Leads





I‘ll/[544k Breeder and Feeder Fm! to Secure Premzum OflErea’ éy Paeéers





IS was never figured upon.

The arms of the most optimis-

tic anti-tuberculosis fiend did





not hug to his bosom the little fact

that the hog population of those sec-

tions from which tuberculosis cattle

were eliminated, would be more valu-

able for human food than those com-

ing from infected territory.





The packers

They became

wise to the as-

surance of a. high

degree of health

in 5 win e pro-

duced under this

situation. So to

make their posi-

tion .clear it was

agreed that for

all hogs coming

from these clean

counties a premi-

um of, ten cents

per hund red

would be given.

_ Since Michigan is

' Mr. Bowditch. the leading north-

ern state in respect to the amount of

territory which is practically clean of

bovine tuberculosis, it is rather nat-

ural that some of her farmers would

be first to benefit from the offer.

So here is the first consignment of

hogs in the United States for which

a premium of ten cents per hundred





But here ,we are.





abdve selling price was paid because .,





the hogs were bred and fed in a

tuberculin tested accredited county

These hogs were produced on a

Michigan farm and sold on the Buf-

falo market Monday, July 31st, at the

top price of $8.25. After the sale the





commission firm presented a certifi-





cate which read as follows:





“Hillsdale, Michigan,

" July 28th, 1923.

To Whom It May Concern:



This is to ceitify that Hillsdale

County, Michigan has been official-

ly designated by the United States

Department of Agriculture and

State of Michigan as a modified ac-

credited area, all cattle having been

tuberculin tested according to reg-

ulations prescribed and that this

consignment of hogs, thirty-nine

(39) in number of the Hampshire

breed, weight 7,600 pounds, were

bred and fed by Chas. Bowditch &

Son in Jefferson Township, P. O.

Osseo, Hillsdale County, Michigan,

who are entitled to receive the pre-

mium of ten cents per hundred

pounds live weight above selling

price.—~CHAS. T. KIMBALL, Chair—

man, Board of Supervisors, Hills-

dale County, Michigan.”





The packers of the northern states

having previously" agreed to pay this

premium as per resolutions passed by

The National Live Stock Exchange,

Jacob Dold & Company of Buffalo

gave a premium check to Mr. Bow-

ditch in the amount of $7.60. The

hogs, therefore, brought their owners





a total of $8.35 per hundred.

Chas. Bowditch came to the United





.States from England working by the





month as a young man until he ac-

cumulated a sufficient sum with which

to buy a farm of his own. For years

he has been a successful breeder of

Shorthorn cattle - and Hampshire

swine for which he has gained an en-





viable reputation in breeding circles.

Mr. Bowditch and son Rred are





proud of their residence in a county

which, by ‘the enterprise of its peo-

ple in appropriating county funds to

supplement state and federal appro-

priations, made it possible for them

to be the first to benefit in the man»

ner just related—H. R. SMITH.





 





 





First Consignment of Hogs to Receive the Ten-Cents Premium.





How About the “Air” in Fairs?





Or ”My Some People Do and Orders Do [Vat Alter/d Tflere flzmzm/ Events





HY do folks keep on going to



fairs? This is a momentous



question for fair managements

as well as a reasonable one for the

people who attend, and also for those

who do not.



Let us be charitable and say 'that

the first reason for folks attending

fairs is to gain \information. It must

be remembered that the demonstra-

tion method of education has long

been the method used by our fairs.

In fact. here is where'this approved

method of gaining first-class know-

ledge was introduced to the world.



As an illustration of how this plan

is now used to improve our intellec-

tual equipment, we might refer, to

the old farmers’ institutes. The gen-

eral Scheme of these institutes was

to exchange knowledge by word of

mouth. ‘Today, however, extension

men are using the demonstration

method almost entirely. They find

the eye a far better medium through

which to carry intelligence. to .the

brain than the old institute workers

found the ear to be



A second general reason for folks

going to fairs is to be amused or en-

tertained. This is no small reaso

In fact, if we could poll the uncolox ed

reasons why all our folks go to these

annual events, the writer is not cer-

tain but what the, idea of being

amused” o'r entertained would bring

-.me niajorityxpt votes." ' ‘





d not .depricate this phase ;





adapted for providing a reasonable

amount of good amusement than are

our fairs.



Finally, a good reason for attend-

ing is to take the children. Often

the question as to who is to have the

privilege of doing this works no little

disturbance in Our domestic relations.

However, the reason is a valid one,

for the fair is a great storehouse of

things which every child in

home should have the opportunity of

seeing.



'Why Do Folks Stay Away From



Fairs?

Let us now review briefly a few of





every '





the reasonswhy some folks do not

attend these annual events. In the

first place, many find it impossible to

do so. Their duties are so arranged

that they cannot leave when their

particular fair is on. Again, many

of our people lack the necessary

funds to permit them to attend. Or

atleast, they think they cannot af-

ford to devote the time and money

for what they get out of it. Also,

there are a few who, no matter how

broad may be thepolicy of a fair

management, cannot be appealed to.

They are either subnormal or abnor—

mal and are too far away from the





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





limits of the average person to be

impressed with the public fairs. Their

religious principles or indifferent no-

tions are a barrier to the encrouche

ment of such institutions.



Should Be Interested In Many Things.



Psychologists hold that a wise con-

duct of life is made far easier through

the possession of a wide circle of

permanent interests. They hold that

our world of living can be no wider

than the number of objects to which

we can attend with interest. We may

move among many other things; but

only those parts of our surrounding

to which we can give attention

measures the world in which we

move. In other words, our experience

is what really gives life its deepest

significance.



It would appear, therefore, that the

leading managers of our fairs have

worked out in a practical way the

discoveries of these psychologists.

Certainly there is no institution mak-

ing a more all-around appeal to hu-

man interest than does the up-to-date

fair association. Only a few days ago

we were talking with Secretary-man-

ager G. W. Dickinson of the Michigan

State Fair. He clearly demonstrated

to us that his organization has devel-

oped a program which cannot by any

means present a monotonous phase.

to the most critical person.



All are too well acquainted with

the virtues of the stock, dairy and .

poultry shows to review them here. , 1' ,-

The same can be said of the fruits, ..

grains, and floral departments of our

Michigan Fair. Patrons are also well





   

   

 





 





 

 

 

 





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VOLUME CLXI NUMBER SEVEN





DETROIT, AUGUST 18, 1923





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





Booze and automobiling do not mix.

One or the other must go. Some poli-

ticians would have all the families

give up their pleasure that an occa-

sional dad might have his “toddy.”





N old produce



He Paid buyer was “hard-

f put” when a friend

0’: in the commission

Quality business suggested

that he adopt the





quality basis of paying for the goods

he purchased. His associates protest-

ed that the move would destroy

whatever business he had left. Never—

theless, he. made the, plunge.



At first, buying was light. Farmers

did not wish to trust to the sliding

scale program adopted by this man,

but Mrs. Jones, down the road a few

miles, received three cents more for

her butter than the other buyers were





giving. She was happy and told a

neighbor, who also made good butter,

of .the experience. This neighbor





took advantage of the quality in her

product and also secured a premium.

The news spread, and soon the buyer

was receiving an attractive volume of

high-grade produce.



011 the other hand, the fellow with

poor goods was (locked. He found it

to his advantage to sell to the mer—

chant who paid “so much” for butter.

Other producers bringing inferior

goods did likewise. in a compara-

tively short time, the majority of the

good farmers were taking their pro-

duce to this man who bought. on qual-



* ity, while the poor stuff was delivered

elsewhere.



Here, then, is what happened. These

goods were packed under the “Three-

Stars” trade mark and were shipped

to a New York commission house.

Jobbers soon learned the merits of

the goods and in a short while were

ready to pay a premium for them.

This enabled the commission man to

pay the country buyer a premium

and the latter, in turn, could thereby

meet the higher prices which he was

paying to producers.



To us this seems to be the first big

lesson which we all must learn before

the marketing of farm products can

be placed on a substantial basis. It

means the standardization of farm

produce which materially simplifies

’ distribution, cuts marketing costs, and

:reduces waste.



. Since this standardization work .

.tmust begin with the production of



h-grade products, we believe that

y farmer who fails to, do his part

. hastening the day when a' larger





Ia quality best .113 standing

light'.‘

ing Of a very deemed stand for

standard grades and, standard pack~

ages. ‘ '





MONG farmers in





Land the lower coun-

Cl . ties of Michigan

‘2“?ng there has been some

Justified. criticism of the land-





clearing work of the

Agricultural College which is being

conducted in the northern part of the

state.



The basis of this criticism is largely

that state expense is being incurred

to bring about heavier production of

farm crops at a time when the very

life of agriculture is in peril from

over-production.



A better understanding of the situ-

ation in the north, however, will

bring this criticism to‘ an end. Most

farmers in the Upper Peninsula and

in many parts of the upper portion

of the lower peninsula, do not have a.

sufficient amount of cleared land to

grow their living. These men have

been working in the lumber woods in

the winter to secure cash for carry-

ing ‘on, while wives and children look

after the farm and chores. Now that

work in the woods is considerably

reduced, these men must choose to

clear more of their land in order to

produce more, or to move elsewhere

to earn their living.



The local demand for the bulk of

the produce raised on these farms is

such as to justify the larger produc-

tion. To date the workers in the

woods and the mines have been get-

ting supplies from the west to care

for normal needs. These supplies can

be provided locally.



Since the land-clearing specialists

have been devoting their time to help-

ing pioneer

land cleared to support the owners,

we feel that the work of the college

extension men is justified and that





this explanation is due those who

have misunderstood the situation.



NE of the first



After the cases of adjust-



Dairy ment in tariff rates



to be brought before



Farmer the United States





T a ri ff Commission

affects the dairy farmer. Application

for a reduction of the tariff on casein

has been made by the coated paper





,, ivh

His interests warrant the. tale-





farmers to get enough.





 





called for this week. . “ ‘



Casein is recovered from skim-milk

and affords a considerable outlet for

this by-product of creameries in the

large dairy districts of the country.

About 20,000,000 pOunds of casein

were annually produced in the United

States until five» or ,six years ago,

when importations from Argentine

.began arriving in increased quantities.

. The recent tariff of 2% cents .per

pound, is again encouraging produc-

tion of casein in this country. How-

ever, as soon as the trade learned of

the above-mentioned application for

a reduction in the tariff, quotations

on the product began falling, and al-

ready the price, which was twenty

cents per pound, has declined to

around fifteen cents.





I There may be some significance to

the fact that the first case of tariff

adjustment attacks rates protecting

agricultural products. The 1920 tariff

law is the first in our history to give

real protection to farmers on certain

lines of product. Casein is one of

these products. It has been suggested

that the rates of tariff on this and

other dairy goods were merely camou-

flage to enable other interests to

secure a high tariff rating on their

commodities with the intent of at—

tackin‘g the rates on agricultural pro—

ducts at the earliest opportunity.



It is to be hoped that Congress did

not intend that the flexible provisions

in the tariff law should be used as a

means of holding the tariff issue con-

tinuously open, thereby nullifying all

the good effects of the law by keeping

business in an unsettled state. Or-

ganized dairy interests are watching

closely the above situation. However,

congressmen ought to keep informed

regarding the farmers’v attitude.





HILE Michigan





The is not primari-



ly a wheat state, her



Wheau farmers have been

Situation affected by the situa~

tion in that grain



during the past few years. These





farmers have been induced by high

prices to grow more wheat than her

normal pre-war production to the ex-

tent of 79,000 acres.



While we will have presented to us

various remedies to correct the situ-

ation, the fundamental fact is that an

adjustment of acreage is necessary.





 





 





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porting countries show an increase of

28, 000, 000 acres above normal with





the United States claiming 50% of,





that for her share; Seme’ of the

countries affected adverSely .by the

war, are now rapidly getting back to

theirnormal production and will in

a short time be able to raise their

own requirements and have a surplus

for export





It is plainly evident that regardless





of what is done to alleviate the im-

mediate situation, the American farm.-

er must take a step to adjust his

acreage to the present situation.

Judging from our increase own nor-





mal, Michigan farmers must do their





share.



The present price will undoubtedly

bring about a reduced acreage; While

We are not strong for predicting what

will happen in the future, we feel in-

clined to say that the price situation

will undoubtedly cause a. reaction

which, in a few years; will bring

about satisfactory wheat prices.



Production adjustments, especially

those due to unusually high or row





prices, invariably go beyond their nor-I





mal needs. Our present potato and

bean crops are examples. The same

influence undoubtedly will bring the

wheat industry to its proper place in

the economics of our agriculture.





Heredity /





HE other day I see a fine lookin’

cow what was the champion

milk pail filler of her state. The man

what owns her told me lots of names

with a lota swearin.’ Every little

while he’d say dam and sire, and outa

that dam and such like. Then he fin-

ishes up by sayin’ that “that is what

heredity does.” If heredity kin make

you pull cows what kin fill milk pails

like that cute. dams, I wanta know

more about this heredity business.

My book a learnin’ what Mr. VVeb-

ster got up, says heredity is the doc-

trin’ that the offspring inherits the

characteristics of the parunts. It

kinda

me like they

must a done a lot

a doctrin’ to get

that cow to fill a

milk pail like

that. I don’t know

what they docter

unless its them

characteri s tic s

and I' don’t know

just where on a cow them things is.

But anyhow the fellow what has a





 





.cow what has them things doctered





gets’a bigger cream check then I do.



They say this characteristics busi-

ness works with folks too because we

have parunts like the cow has. For

inst. they say that Sari hasgot some

of my characteristics "cause she

shows her teeth when she smiles like

me. And Sammy is got his character-

istics from Sophie ’cause he ain’t go-

in’ to be heavy like me.



Somebody says we inherit disposi-

shu‘ns the same as characteristics. I

know Sophie got a disposishun from

somewhere ’cause she just can’t seem

to stop tryin’ to make me

more’n then I feel like doin’. But I

don’t think I got a disposishun from

my folks ’cause I ain’t got no disposi-

shun atall Ito work.



Seems like folks think coWs, pigs,





and etc. get all their good points from 1





their pa’s a‘nd ‘ma’s. But with us all

what you cal our undesirable qualifi:

cashuns comes from our ancestors

and- all the good ones is our own ac-

complishmunts.



, Anyhow, I am goin’ to study this

heredity doctrin’ business ’cause I

wanta havejmy cows give more milk,

my chickens more eggs, and my child-

run do more Work then me. Sophie

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SEEK REDUCTION OF TARIFF _

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EFERRING to ‘ the- hearing on

August 13 before the U. S.‘Tariff





Commission on the application made





by the coated paper manufacturers

for a reduction of the tariff of 2%

.cents a pound on casein, President

John D. Miller of the National Milk

Producers’ Federation says:



“It is significant that among the.

first cases scheduled fof’ investigation

the rates on dairy products were at-

tacked. It is believed that there is

little danger of. reduction of rates on

any dairy products, including casein,

but there is real danger to American

farmers in the-existence of the power

to reduce these rates. This danger

is illustrated in the casein case. For

over two months it has been'a matter

of public knowledge in the trade that

an application has been made for a

reduction on the rates of casein. Dur-

ing that time there has» been a grad-

ual reduction of the market price of

dried casein from twenty cents a

pound to fifteen cents a pound. The

mere filing of an application has en-

abled the speculator to~ get in his

work and unsettle markets. If the

mere knowledge that a reduction in

rate has been asked for has had this

effect, it is obvious that a reduction

in the rate would be ”much more in-

jurious. «



“Several associations affiliated with

the National Milk Producers’ Federa-

tion produce large quantities of casein

and the prices that the members re-

ceive for their milk has been directly

and adversely affected. The federa-

tion will therefore be represented at

the hearing and will try to prevent

any‘ reduction in rate.”





 





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MB. A. J. PIETERS, agronomist in

charge of clover investigation of

the Bureau of Plant Industry of the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture, has been making a survey of the

clover resources of this territory re-

cently. Mr. Pieters toured the Ontona—





gen Valley, whose heavy clay soils -





produce remarkable crops of tame and

wild clovers, and is reported to have

expressed great admiration for what

he saw there. It is understood that

Mr. Pieters’ visit has something to

do with the commercial development

of the Upper Peninsula clover resourc-

es and county agents have been invit-





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Results from Much of Our Soil It Must Be Tiled.





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ed to submit to him, through the Up—

per Peninsula Development Bureau, re—

ports on the clover situation in their

counties to assist the investigator in

securing as complete information as

possible on this subject. ‘





 





RECOMMEND INSPECTION AND

GRADING OF HAY.





 





THE National Hay Association has

announced that it will give its

support to the Department of Agricul-

ture in devising a workable system of

inspection and practical grades for

hay. An effort is being made to pro-

mote better marketing of. hay, to the

advantage of both producer and ship-

per.



The shipping point inspection plan

is making rapid progress. Between

10,000 and'12,000 cars, or ‘60 per cent

of the Maine potato crop will be inr

spected at shipping points this year,

according to F. G. Robb, specialist in

the Federal Bureau of Agricultural

Economics. Last year less than 500

cars of potatoes were inspected at

shipping point by government inspec-

tors.





 





WHEAT GROWERs GET A NEW

. VISION.





 





O sioned by atoo large surplus of

UT of all the excitement occa-

wheat in this country, there is coming

a new light to the farmers of the

wheat belt. These men now see that





dertaken. No longer can they stick

to the One—crop idea. They must

search for a diversity of crops, not

only to improve the markets for

wheat but also to provide for them‘

selves much of their own living. This

tendency on the part of farmers, not

only in the wheat regions but in the

corn belt as well, re-emphasizes, to

the tillers of the soil in Michigan,

the necessity of producing crops

which can be consumed within the

shortest radius of the point of pro-

duction. There, of course, are some

exceptions to this general proposition.

But in the main, farmers will do well

to plan their crops to this end—W.





 





The Big Rapids Cooperative Cream-

ery Association have selected B. A.

McGill as their representative at the

dairy congress in Philadelphia. Mr.

McGill will also be the oflicial repre-

sentative of the National Creamery

Butter-makers’ Association at the

World’s Dairy Congress.





 





 





 





It costs no more





 





to buy a Kelly





This is not an empty catch-phrase but

a Cleancut statement of fact.





In dollars and cents Kelly—Springfield

Tires cost no more than you are asked to

pay for brands that have never borne the

Kelly reputation. In some cases Kellys cost 19

you less than you are asked to pay for un—

known makes.





Kelly deallers will sell you Kelly—

Springfield Tires at a price that will meet

any reduction in reputable makes now or,

hereafter. Learn for yourself that actually-— -





 





 





 

 





It costs not more

to buy a Kelly
bute of respect to Warren G.

Harding in deep sorrow and

‘ grief. When the special train bearing

the body of the late .President ar-

rived on the evening of August 7, it

‘seemed as though the flood gates of

the nation’s tears had opened in the

Capital city.



The people wept, and their hearts

were saddened. Nowhere is the death

of the President more deeply felt, ex-

cept perhaps in his home community,

than in the nation’s capitol. Here we

had come to know him‘ as a friend,

a neighbor and beloved citizen. Both

the late President and Mrs. Harding

had entered so heartily into our com—

munity, civic and religious life that

they were looked upon as Washing-

tonians.



A vast throng of grieving citizens

met the train at the railroad station,

and lined Pennsylvania avenue, as the

mortal remains of the beloved Presi-

dent was carried to the White House.



The following day, with impressive

ceremonies, the body of President

Harding, enclosed in a flag~blazoned

casket mounted on an artillery cais-

sdn and escorted by the Army, Navy

and Marine Corps, was carried to the

capitol and placed in the rotunda

Where funeral services were held.



In the funeral line was Woodrow

Wilson, former President, sad faced

and silent, who against the advibe of

his physician, came out of his retire-

ment to pay a last tribute to his suc-

cessor in office, who was his friend

and for whom he had great respect.

This is the third time that Mr. Wilson

has participated in public ceremonies

since leaving the White House, once

when he sat beside President Harding

in the inaugural procession on March

4, 1921, and another time when he

attended the services in honor of the

unknown soldier.





General Pershing, as commander of





ASHINGTON paid its last tri- _





Six generals of the army and six ad-





mirals of the navy acted as guard of ,





honor to the caisson bearing the re-

mains. Seven senators and

representatives joined members of

the Cabinet in acting as honorary

pall bearers. .

Republic, United Confederate Veter-

ans, American Legion and many other

military, fraternal and civic organiza-

tions‘ composed the civic procession.

On either side of the long “Avenue

of Sorrows” were crowds of silent,

grieving citizens, all the way to the

Capitol. .



The invocation at the funeral ser-

vices in the Capitol was delivered by

Dr. Freeman Anderson, pastor of Cal-

vary Baptist church, which the Pres—

ident attended. “Lead Kindly Light,”

the late President’s favorite hymn,

was sung by Calvary Baptist male

quartet.



Scripture selections were read,

which included the 23rd Psalm, the

eighth verse of the sixth chapter of

the book of Micah, “He hath showed

thee, 0 man, what is good; and what

doth the Lord require of thee but" to

do justly and to love mercy, and to

walk humbly with thy God,” which

was Mr. Harding’s favorite verse, and

the‘first five verses of the 22nd chap—

ter of Revelations.





Dr. James S. Montgomery, chaplain

of the House of Representatives,

prayed, and “Nearer My God to Thee”

was sung. The services we1e closed

by the benediction pronounced by Dr

Andelson.





Shortly afterward the people began

viewing the casket, passing by in a

continuous procession until six

o’clock, the hour when after the fir—

ing of a salute of twenty—one guns,





seven





The Grand Army of the'





Every Clo/1": Bowed m Sorrow of Respect for Our Late President

By Our Washington CerreSpondent





the military escort, led the procession. ‘





the body was taken from the Capitol

to the funeral train for the journey

to the late President’s Ohio heme.





Mr. Harding was L119 most, demo-

cratic of Presidents. The White

House lawn was always open. It be-





came the children’s playground. The

latchstring of the White House door

was always out for visitors. He had

a friendly greeting for everyone. His

handshake was the grip of an honest,

sincere friend. '



The late President was deeply in-

terested in the farmer’s welfare. He

spent much time studying the agricul-

tural situation. No man ever had

greater respect for the farmer and

his calling, or was more desirous that

the farmers of the country should

have their just share of the nation’s

prosperity. The/ farm organization

leaders were invited to the White

House on various occasions to talk

over the situation and suggest reme-

dies. They always received a friendly

welcome and a respectful hearing.





The farm organizations and the ag-

ricultural bloc in Congress did much

to advance agricultural legislation

during Mr. Harding’s administration,

but they could have accomplished lit-

tle had it not been for the cooperation

of the President.





The Harding administration has

been severely criticised by some of

the Northwestern farm organization

leaders and politicians; but it is prob

able that no man’ could have done

more in Mr. Harding’s position for

the one-crop farmer ‘who persists in

growing a surplus in spite of repeated

warnings given out by the Depart-

ment of Agriculture.



In time a proper perspective of Mr.

Harding’s achievements will give him

credit for being a true friend of the





farmer' and of mankind in general,

and one of the world’s great men.



There is considerable speculation

as to the attitude of President Calvin

Coolidge on, agricultural .questions.

The new President‘is not a farmer,

but he was farmer raised and has

spent. his vacations on his father’s

farm in Vermont, where he has done

much work in the hayfleld and caring

for the dairy herds. He comes nearer

being a real farmer than any Presi-

dent since Washington’s time.



The New England"farmers say the

President is very friendly toward ag-

riculture; that he

agricultural situation and will use his

office to promote what he conceives

to be for the best interest of agricul-

ture, providing it is also at the same

time of the best interest to the nation

at large.



Senator Arthur Capper is quoted as

saying that “there is a general dis-

position throughout the West to get

in back of the Coolidge administra~

tion. The people in my section of

the country feel very kindly toward

the new President.” \



President Coolidge is a plain, blunt

man of few words, but strong in'ac-

tion. He was elected governor as a

progressive,

land standard of progressiveness, and

showed the political bosses that he

was capable of running the state gov—

ernment without their advice or in-

terference. He has made little refer-

ence to agricultural questions in his

speeches thus far, as far as l have

been able to ascertain, but What he

has said has been to the point—~and

full of good common sense. In a re-

cent address he said he believed the

government’s efforts should be direc-

ted to the prosperity of the men on

thefarms. “If the "farmer is made

successful and secure there will be no

lack of others to enter the field, and

use all.the available land.”





Fruit Growers Annual Travelogue





Pour Hundred Spend Tflree Days Gettmg Fzm and Foot:

By One of the Tourists





tural tou1, which occured Aug-



ust 7——,89 was the best yet is

putting it mildly. We doubt if there

ever was a farmers’ tour put on in

the state which was so well planned

and carried out. Even the details

were not forgotten. Signs were put





r’l"0 say that the annual horticul-





up along the road indicating the

route of the tour, flagmen were pro

vided for railroad and other danger-





ous crossings, and a truck followed up

.in the rear to carry excess baggage

as well as gasoline, oil and auto re-

pair'equipment. An auto mechanic

accompanied this truck to give ser—

vice to those who were experiencing

mechanical troubles with their cars.

The tour started Tuesday noon with

a grand' get-together at the Graham

Experiment Station, near Grand Rap-

ids. Usually tours start with small

numbers which increase as the tour

progresses, but in this case there

1 must have been fully four hundred

who.gathef'ed to go through the Ex-

periment Station and enjoy the feed

provided by the Horticultural Society.

Everything, including ice cream, was

plentifully served in cafeteria style.

After dinner, the tourists went to

,the Fuinlan orchards to look over

some fertilizer experiments on Duch-

ess apples, where the fertilized plots

"averaged four times the yield that the





ixty acres is‘in Winter

this year shows a





   





 





From here the tourists went to the

Wilde and Wilder faPm where much

interest was shown in the icescooled

storage \that Mr. Wilde has used so

successfully for ten years or more.

The last stop of the day was at the

farm of Grand Rapid’s most popular

florist, Henry Smith, where two-hund-

red—forty acres are given :to diversi-

fied farming and forty acres to the

growing of. flowers and vegetables un-

der glass.



The first stop of the second day of

the tour was at H. A. Schaffer & Sons’

farm in Ottawa County. Hererwere

splendidly kept orchards of apples,

plums and peaches. A thrifty grape

vineyard on a single wire created

much interest. From here the tour-

ists made their way to the orchard

of Jule Henry, who had eighty acres

ofapples that were efficiently sprayed

and well cultivated. The next stop

was at the big orchard of John Fra-

liegh, west of Casnovia. “Jack,” as





{he is commonly known, has a crop





this year that is estimated about 30,-

000 bushels.



The last stop of themorning was

at the farm of F. R. Davis, who is

Casnovia’s foremost banker. He has

ninety-two acres of apples, some of

which were dusted through the entire

season with quite satisfactory results.



Th'e‘real event of the day was the.

chicken dinner served by the Cas-f

novia business men. Full-y four hund-





r was; eaten, mm9,.,-F





salad and sandwiches, cookies, iCe

cream and ice tea, while an orchestra

at one end of the hall and a band in

the other gave musical selections. As

they were competing for the plaudits

0f the crowd, their selections were

unusually good. ‘



On the way to Kent City, the tour-

ists drove through the farms of Chas.

Montgomery and David Blush, where

ideally kept orchards of plums and

peaches were witnessed.



At Kent City the tourists ‘ went

through the W. 'R. Roach Canning

Factory where the methods of hand-

ling the various fruits and vegetables

were explained, and the canning of

string beans was watched.



The Thome spy orchard, which has

been dusted once a week, was the

next attraction. The results showed

the value of dusting as a supplement

to spraying.



After a drive through Gilson’s Jon-

athan orchard the fluit growers

stopped at Henry Kraft’s farm. Much

interest was taken in the cold-storage

plant WhiCh Mr. Kraft built in 1914,

using entirely his own plans. At

present it is conceded by state and

federal authorities .to be one of the

most efficient air-cooled storages"i‘n

the country. Mr. Krafthad some last

year’s Jonathan apples, which showed

no evidence of shrimiing or other

effects of store .— ‘



_ a drive through





 

 

 

 





Old. Soldier’s Home, the tourists

wound up the day with a visit to J.

P. Munson’s farm, where the famous

Vinecroft grapes are grown. After a

trip through the orchard, the North

Grand Rapid’s Farmers’ Club serVed

a lunch of weenies, potato salad, pie,

cake and coffee. The day’s activities

ended with a short program on the

lawn in front of Mr. Munson’s home.



The third was started with a drive

through the Grand Rapids greenhouse

district where so much of the famous

Grand Rapids lettuce is grown. The

first stop was made at the V. R.

Mathews’ Orchard near Lowell. Mr.

Mathews has a hillside air-cooled

storage which Prof. R. E. Marshall

commented upon and compared with

that on the Kraft farm, seen the day

before ‘



The next place of interest was the

orchard 'of thinned Spies, owned by

Gordon Frost. The condition of this

orchard in every respect spoke highly

of Mr. Frost’s ability to grow fruit.

A short stop‘was, made at the five-





acre orchard of mixed varieties owned -





by Henry Dibble. Mr. Dibble has had

remarkable success with this old or-

chard, whichrhe set himself, some of

the crops averaging returns 'close to

a thousand dollars per acre. Next to





Mr. Dibble’s five acres wasthe forty _





acre orchard of Hall Orchards, in.

which the tourists made a brief stop.





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and ,. eEmrire “are

State Public Util-

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Commerce ‘Commission to retain. the

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eastern Railroad which has been serv-

ing that section. ‘





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'The Fenville Fruit Exchange start-

ed its season’s run of packing about





mom of labor-saving devices, the ex-

change is better equipped to handle

the fruit of its patrons than it has

been heretofore. .





 





J. D. Wedge has resigned as mana-

ger of the \Allegan Farm Bureau Co-

operative Association. He has acted

in this capacity since the organization

of- the association. Mr. Wedge will

give his entire attention to his fruit

and dairy farm.





 





Fully 150 Grand Traverse farmers

attended the two-day instruction on

how to get the most out of the poul-

try flocks. The school was under the

direction of County Agent C. E. At—

water and R. D. Ure, of the Michigan

Agricultural College.





 





The unusually excellent quality of

celery being grown ‘at Manton, in

Wexford County, is finding an increas-

ineg large market in the resort dis-

tricts of the state. F. J. Dontje, for-

merly a Kalamazoo grower, sis devel-

oping the work at Manton.





 





The prbducers’ association at Cas-

novia have planned to build an addi-

tion to their cold storage plant and

warehouse. The addition will be

5011200 ft.





 





Fiity fields of potatoes in Wexford,

Mis‘saukee, Lake, Osceola, Montcalm

and Mecosta counties will be inspecr





ted by representatives of the Agricul- '





tural College for certification.





 





ACcording to director Broughton, of I





the Bureau of Dairying, of the State





Department of Agriculture, Michigan ,





produced 147,549,301 pounds of evap-

orated‘milk as compared with 101,717,-

422,pounds for the previous year.





in the amount of evaporated milk pro

duced in Michigan since 1914.





 





The Manistee fruit growers hope to

take advantage of visiting tourists to

advertise their-fruit. The plan is to

see that all tourists have opportunity»





to buy the fancy fruit produced in ‘





that section. ’This they hope will en-

courage these people to ask" for “fruit





irons Manistee growers whjen.-they re: .





turn to their‘respective homes.





 





New York bean growers have plant-

ed a considerable acreage of Robust





beans, a disease-resistant develOped ,





by Prof. Sprague, Michigan’s. noted

plant breeder of~ the Michigan Ag-

ricultural College.





 





Montcalm County potato growers





will make a tour of potato fields in





that county between August 20 and

25. The tourists will be'accompanied

by specialists from the Michigan 'Ag—

ricultural College. ‘ g





 





. The cattle” department of the Ionia‘





tree fair will show ’only local stock.

Applications for space by resident

breeders have been so large that the

association cannot accomOdate addi-j

tional entries. - - ‘ . .»





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A. E. Dick, of Kalkaska‘ County,

claims to have produced $500 worth

of momma . overbearing» straw:

berries onuanacre or plain-lands. The

berries are sold to nearby resort



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This has been made possible

because Delco-Light helps on

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And the advantages of Deleo-

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See your local dealer. He will

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put DelcmLight on your





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plan made so easy that you

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Grape-Nuts—made from wheat and barley—fie

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GRAPE-NUTS

ICE CREAM





Prepare plain flavored ice

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Four children, all married. fell heir

to real estate. Their interests in the

premiSes were equal according to pro-

bate court ruling. One of the daugh-

ters died (without children) where-

upon one-half of her interest reverted

to the estate again and one-half was

retained by the husband.- This hus-

band, the widower, married again. In

quit~claiming his one-eighth interest,

which he nowdesires to do, will it be

necessary for his second wife to ~sign

the deed with him?———A.‘F. N.‘





Whenever a man owns real estate

in land whether entire or on undivid-

ed interest; his wife, upon marriage

or later acquisition of the property

acquires an inchoate right of dower

in his interest, and if she survives

him without having released it may





and would inherit from him unless he

disposed of it in his lifetime—J. H. R.





ON MAI—\IUFACTUR_ING CIDER.





\Vill you please state the law on

making apple cider and selling vine-

gar, and what I would have to do, to

sell vinegar legally-7G. R. G.



Public Acts, 1919, No. 259, providing

for the licensing of the manufacture

of soft drinks provides “no firm or

corporation shall manufacture for

sale at wholesale any soft drink or

other non-alcoholic beverage except

apple cider within this state without

having first filed with the food and

drug commissioner an application for

” etc. And Act No. 338, Pub-

lic Acts, 1917, prohibiting the manu-

facture and sale of vinus, malt,

brewed, and fermented spirituous liq-

uors, as amended by Public Acts 1921,

No. 336, declares, “Provisions of this

act shall not be construed to prevent

the manufacture of cider from fruit

for the purpose of making vinegar

and non-intoxicating cider and fruit

juice for use and sale.”



I am not aware of any status mak-

ing it illegal to sell vinegar.~—J. R. R.





DIFFICULTY OVER STOCK

INCREASE.





 





I rented a farm, bought the farm-

ing equipment and team and one-half

interest in a herd of registered Hol-

stein cows. I paid $1,100 down and

the man took a chattle mortgage on

cows, team, farming equipment for

remainder of $2,000. We each fur-

nish one—half seed, feed, etc., and

each receive half of increase and pro-

duce. Chattle mortgage mentions

nothing of crops or increase. Has the

man the right to register the increase

in cattle all in his own name, or

should they be registered jointly?

Can he claim our share of increasf?





 





The statement indicates a sale of

the half interest in the cows and

though mortgaged for the unpaid part

of the price, the purchaser is entitled

to have the increase registered in the

name of himself and the owner of

the other half as tenants in common.

The increase also belongs to the two

in common—J. R. R.





NOTE IS COLLECTABLE.





 





‘Will you please advise me if a col-

lateral note is collectable after three

years. I became a member of a Co-

op. marketing association in April,

1920 and this July they demanded

$100 to pay up the $9000 which the

directors borrowed from local banks.

I was not notified that the note was

due or asked »-to renew the noFtJe.





The note bears no" date but appar-

ently contemplates that it may be ne-

gotiated at any time within 3 years

from date. As I read the note it ap-

pears to me not to contemplate the

payment of any money to the associa-

tion but merely to authorize the 8‘8-'

sociation if need be to use the note

to obtain credit.

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A. hired B to work by the month

(verbal agreement), to do general

.farming. ‘ Part of B’s wages included

tenant home and garden.

garden and then Quit, moving to an-

other farm. A-worked garden for two

months. What right, if any, does B

have to garden?



A’s children contracted a disease

which a local physician diagnosed as

small pox. B’s children took the dis-

ease which another physician diag-

nosed as chicken pox. A state doc-

tor was called, who called all cases

chicken pox. Will A be liable for

charges of this doctor.—Reader.





B’s right in the garden terminated

when he quit. A physician, like any

other person holding himself out as

qualified to do a particular kind of

work, does not guarantee infallibility,

but is required to possess the skill

and exercise the care of persons com~

monly engaged in that occupation. It

does not yet appear which diagnose

is right. Theldoctor is entitled to

pay for his services—J. R. R.





 





HOW TO KILL HORSE NETTLES.





 





Is there any way of killing horse

nettle-s? Have a little patch in the

yard. Have been hoeing them every

morning during July and August for

three years without. any satisfaction.





Horse nettles are not as difficult

to eradicate as Canada thistles or

quack grass, because they do not pro—

pogate by means of underground root

stocks like the two last named plants.



Horse nettles will not live at all in

a plowed field, so you can kill them

by spading the ground. If you do not

wish to ‘spade up the ground, and

have only a small patch, you can

smother them by covering the spot

with building paper, boards, manure,

straw, etc. Or, if you will cut them

off with a sharp hoe just beneath

the surface of the ground, leaving

no leaves or top above the ground,

they will die. If some survive, cut

them off again. Don’t let any plant



breath and you have it conquered in

a few months.





VARIETY OF GRASSES FOR

PASTURE.





 





Have a sandy field which has been

sown to rye, seeded and pastured two

years. Intend sowing to rye this fall

again and wish to know a good com-

bination of grasses for pasture.



—C. A. D._



In laying the foundation for a per:1

manent pasture, one should not de-

pend on one or two varieties or

grass. By using a combination, a bet-

ter sod will be formed and the pas-

ture will furnish feed more continu-

ously throughout the season. "



Sow this fall with rye, 2 lbs. Ken-

tucky blue grass (common ‘June’

grass), 2 lbs. orchard grass, 2 lbs.

red top. Then early next spring sow

2 lbs. red clover, 2 lbs. sweet clover,

2 lbs. alfalfa and 2 lbs. white clover

per acre. These clovers should be

sown on the rye before the frost is

out of the ground, then the heaving

of the soil caused by frost will prop-

erly cover the seed.‘



You can afford to fertilize this field

Well. It will pay you well in pasture

yields.» If it is acid, use at least one

ton ground limestone per. acre this

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URING the spring months we

are usually quite willing to give

. the berry patch its needed at-

tention, as we are expecting to soon

,- . a be repaid with a harvest of delicious

‘- ' . fruit After the harvest is over, how-

' ever. we are apt to neglect the care of

the berry patch. Perhaps we think

it will get along without much care

until the following spring but this is

not the case. There are several

things that need to be done during

the late summer and fall months, if

we would insure a full crop of fruit

1 the next season.



, Strawberries, raspberries and black-

) berries must all be kept clean in or-

- .der to bear well. Frequent cultiva-

' (l . tion with some rotted manure worked



f around the hills and between the rows

9 is what they need now.

‘ ‘ _ If the strawberry bed is past its

second year, it is time to renew it if

it is to be allowed to bear again.

First cut off the top with the mowing

machine. Set the knives so that it

will cut all the weeds and the top

leaves of the strawberry plants. At

a time when the ground has plenty

of moisture in it, but is dry on top,

burn the top over quickly. Leave

«. just enough of the old straw mulch

E. on the berry patch to help carry the

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row into the center. Leave the plants

6 to 8 inches wide in the rows, cut-

ting out the weakest plants and

leaving the others from 12 to 18

inches apart in the row. Level the

plowed space with a 5 tooth culti-

vator. This work of renewing the

strawberry bed should be done quite

early in the season, generally the

earlier the better. as it gives the

plants left a chance to get started

before cold weather stops theirl

growth. ‘ I

. Probably you set out a new straw-

berry patch last spring. If so there

may be some spaces where the

plants havedied. Select some of the

best white reoted plants which were

discarded in renewing the old straw-

berry patch and set them in these

spaces. I do not advocate fall setting

of the plants in general but it always

seems a pity to throw them away.

Not all of them will live probably

but some of them will, and they will

help fill out the new bed. .



After the harvest of raspberries

and black berries the old canes should

be cut out and burned. If allowed to

remain they harbor various injurious

pests. Some of the raspberries and

blackberries may also have too many

. new canes to do well. From 3 to 5

i good raspberry canes should be left

. to'each plant, and about 4 blackberry

‘ canes to the plant. Now is the time

2 to dig out surplus. suckers of the red

raspberry.



As soon as, hard freezing weather

comes the strawberries should be well

mulched. This is more necessary in

localities of variable climate than in

localities where the snow remains on

the ground throughout the winter. A

thick blanket of snow takes the place

:‘ . of the mulch. Raspberries and black



berries, too, need mulching. An' or-

, dinary mulch will protect the roots.

1 In some localities where the winters

E ' are very severe, the supporting

1. stakes are removed and the canes al-

‘ lowed to lie on the ground where they

l are covered with a mulch. Certain

varities, of course, are more adaptable

to drooping over than others If you

f find it necessary to mulch in this way

i be sure to set varities which are not

erect in growth.





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I have two ugly wens on ~my scalp.

I am very anxious to get rid of them

but don’t want any cutting if it can be

helped. Is there some application that

will-absorb them?+B. B.





I know of no way to absorb wens by

external applications. A wen is a se-

baceous tumor. The only positive cure

is by making a small incision through

the skin and removing the tumor, be

ing particular to include the capsule.

When this is properly done there will

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becomes soft by suppurati‘on so that

a mere prick of the skin will drain

away the contents, but the capsule will

fill up again. A wen should never be

left to suppurate.





HAS HEART TROUBLE.





 





About two years ago I had a bad

cold and when I finally got better it

seemed to settle on my lungs so that

if I work a little hard I get out of

breath. About two months ago I had

the grippe and a bad cold again. 1

am better now but .my lungs seem _to

'be worse than before. If 1 am qmet

and do not work any I scarcely no

tice anything wrong. I am fifty—Six

years of age and would be able.to

work quite hard but the least exertion

puts me out of breath and pains my

lungs. If you could tell me what I

have and what I can do for it I would

appreciate it very much—G. S.



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toms seems to be that you get out of

breath on slight exertion. This does

not point so much to lung trouble as

to a heart leak. Get a doctor to ex-

amine you for this.



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SIDE LINES.



N the appeal for experiences re-

garding side lines in farming the

following were given the prizes: A.

F. Mead of Calhoun County pins his

faith on bees—claiming that during

a long period of years he has realized

no less than $400 per year from this

source. S. P. Kelley adds vegetables

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The easiest and cheapest

method of manufacturing ani-

mal products is from the pas-

ture lot where the animals do

their own harvesting. Some

farmers are realizing more from

the pasti'fre than do others.



Just what can be done to give

the maximum results from the

pasture lot is the subject of our

letters for next week. Write a

brief description of your plan

for improving pasture feeding,

and mail to the Handy Man,

Michigan Farmer.



To each of the writers of the

five best letters a modern safety

razor with five blades will be

sent. Be sure that your answer

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keep a little coin jingling in the bot—

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of Lapeer County gets a little farther

away from regular lines of agriculture

by going after skunk, mink and musk-

rats during the trapping season. Bert

Edwards, also of Lapeer County, puts

across his stunt with carrots, onions

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ble. The youngsters of two and three

years of age fairly laughed at her,

reaching her While she struggled

with might and main and leaving her

behind with a few easy bounds. But

it is a poor effort that accomplishes

no result whatever, and though she

could at no time outrun the younger

horses, she daily managed to leave

some older horse behind her.





One day she tried her old trick.

Very early in the race she happened

‘ to be in the lead, having started the

race. When the younger horses saw

her leading a few of the old plugs,

they started after her, soon, of course,

overtaking her. Dora swerved to the

side, in the hope that they would fol-

low her, and found herself alone. They

not only refused to follow her but they

did not even look back to see what

h'ad happened to her. Dora was so

unhappy she started off again after

them, but soon stopped, realizing that

she could not catch up to them and

that she would soon be out of breath

once more. She stood still a while

and watched them enviously. Then

she turned, intending to paw the snow

for grass, when she saw another group

of horses coming from the southeast.





struggle with the basket, down the

fuzzy little fellow’s forehead, murmur-

ing tremulously. The proud‘ young

mother looked on almost eagerly and

commented softly and good-naturedly.



But when the big group returned





ugly red mare seemed to think that

there was entirely too much fuss made

over Queen, and turned upon her with

open mouth. White-black, right he-

hind the old nag, nipped her severely.

A quarrel followed which spread to the

rest of the group and- finally ended in

a race which divided the two groups,

Dora going off with her friends. All

day the two groups dug the snow a

goodly distance apart and in the eve-

ning came the worst storm of the

season.



The storm approached quite sudden-

ly, though all day there had been





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vague signs of its coming. A northern

gale blew up, tearing the weaker

branches from the trees and sending

them sliding over the surface of the

snow, tearing up the looser snow and,

blowing it into their eyes and ears

and nostrils. Queen led her group to

a fairly sheltered spot in among the





trees near by and together they lay

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DORA raised her head and looked



With absorbed interest. The wind

lifted her mane and fluttered it grace-

fully in the air. For a few moments,

absorbed in the creatures that moved

toward her in single file, she looked

like Queen once more in all the glory

of her regency. When they were a

hundred yards away, Queen neighed

with all her strength. At once the

marching line stopped and all heads

went up high in the air. Then from

the rear of the line a white horse

broke from the path he had been fol-

lowing and with a call of recognition

started hastily toward her. It was

VVhite—black and, with a strength born

of the very sight of him, Queen loped

to meet him.



Four of the other horses recognized

her, too, and the air vibrated with the

music of that happy reunion. Noses

touched noses and happy whinnies

greeted happy whinnies. With the

five of them had come a young moth-

er, a sorrel mare with a fuzzy little

colt who had been borne in the spring.

“Then the others had gone to meet

Queen she remained in her tracks,

hesitating to get into any kind of an

assembly where through joy or anger

her colt might be hurt. He stood

right behind her, his fuzzy little head



‘against her haunch, his eyes filled

with wonderment.





When Dora had greeted her old

friends, she went to greet the mother

and her colt, running her old muzzle,





The warmth of their bodies one

touching the other, was so comforting

that the slightest move on the part of

one of them brought a low, patient

protest from the rest. The night came

rapidly. The wind grew more and

more furious, howling and shrieking

overhead, and the tall poplars groan-

ed as they bent with its lashing.

Gusts of wind, loaded with snow,

which it raised on the open, struck

the trees and the snow fell in powder

upon them below, Covering them as

with a blanket.





In the open the savage north wind

went mad. It tore along at a terrific

)rate, taking everything that was loose

with it, then, as if it had in its sav~

age eagerness fallen over itself, there

was a pause for a moment, after

which, picking itself up again, it went

on with even greater ferocity, shriek-

ing as with some ineffable, primordial

pain. It siezed the fallen snow and

whirled it around with the falling

snow, scattered it high in the air,

lifting it again when it had fallen and

sending it like waves across the

plains, gathering great showers of it

and hurling them against the wall of

the woods, sending these showers





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dOWn upon‘ the tree tops, tearing it

all up again as soon as it had fallen

into drifts below and once more hurl.-

ing the restless dust into space——a

display of insane, futile effort—a cos-

mic passion bereft of purpose.





UT if this wild night could have



been wilder and had raved with

even more threat in its raving, it

could not have diluted the content—

ment in Queen’s heart. The touch and

the subtler feeling of the presence

of her companions did as much to

keep her warm as the heat of their

bodies, and, like a light, illumined the

long trail of life behind her. ‘ She

moved through the corridor of her

past like a curious child, walking in

its sleep and dreaming of a beautiful,

incoherent fairyland. The light was

silvery as that of the moon and in

the shadows detached images which

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like reflections on the snow. And

when dawn ushered in a calm day

Queen rose with a feeling like that

of having returned home from a long

visit and shook the snow from her

body.





Queen knew the country there as

none other knew it. Leading the lit—

tle group to the best feeding grounds,

she took her place once more at the





head, for at the head only could

Queen be happy. In spite of the deep

snows through which they were





obliged to plow to get their food,

Queen began to fill out' rapidly and

the greater part of her old strength

came back to her. With the return”

of her strength came the old fear of

man. Every move was accompanied

by an investigation and in every

sound of wind and tree she seemed

to hear the sound of a voice.





There followed a long period of fair

weather in which the snows hardened

and shrank and then one day, as they

were digging for grass, they were

surprised by three men on horseback

on a hill to the south and east, less

than a quarter of a mile away. The

horsemen had come upon them so

suddenly that Queen, confounded,

stood looking at them for a few min-

utes, transfixed with fear. She rec-

ognized the man who had captured

her on the big horse that had worked

beside her in the plow. Next to him

was the boy on the little bay mare

and his cry of “There she is!" fully

aroused Queen.





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difficulty in_. getting away from them,

because they had no burdens onvtheir

backs and they were now more used

to the deep snows on the open plains

than the horses that were chasing

them. The horsemen kept behind

them for a long while and then disap-

peared. But Queen was too wise to

end their flight there. She knew that

even though the men gave up the

chase that day‘ they would appear

again the next, or soon after that.





Out_ of the misery and discomfort

of her captivity she had just emerged.

She had found her companions and

the life for which she had hungered

all through those, unhappy months.

Hardly had she realized the full ex—

tent of her good fortune when man

reappeared to take it away from her.

But Queen was in no submissive

mood. She had fought for her free-

dom and she would fight again. She

would watch with such care that she

would not again be caught at a disad-

vantage. She hardly gave herself

time to eat. Her ears were constantly

pricked high. Her eyes, aflre with her

emotions, never for a moment aban-

doned their vigilance. But her ner-

vous dread of man soured the sweet-

ness of the wilds and Queen moved

over the snows with the old feeling

of the trap beating in her heart,

moved without resting and, out of

habit, moved northward.





HEY came next day to the strip



of woodland whose heroic pop-

lars silently guard the Saskatchewan.

There they stopped and there the full

horror of the trap took possession of

.Queen. She was afraid of her own

shadow and the slightest sound start-

A ‘partridge drumming in

the woods sent her madly loping

through space. ‘





The winter evening came early. The

distant sun lowered in the southwest

with a sad,’ yellow glare; and in the

north a‘gleaming, pearly streak fore-

told a brilliant display of northern

lights. That streak interested Queen

and she watched it as the darkness

thickened, and as she watched it,

looking up from time to time, it grew

brighter. Faint shimmering colors

appeared at the eastern end of the

streak and slowly moved across it to

the west, vanishing in the west and

reappearing brighter in the east.

Many times she had seen these

lights, but only once, somewhere in

her half-forgotten childhood, had she

seen them so bright and so fascinat-

ing. '





They were standing directly . in

front of a cleft in the shadowy wall

of trees. The cleft led like a road-

way to the banks and the river be-

low. There they could see more of

the lights, the portion that glowed in



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Our Weekly Sermon—By u. A. Mchme





OME years ago the writer visited



Rome. Among the hundreds of



historic spots which the stranger

hopes to visit, are ‘the catacombs

These lie outside the city a couple of

miles. They are deep, winding, sub-

‘terraneous passages where the early

Christians worshiped. Here also they

fled. when under prosecution, and

found refuge. Rough, simple pictures

are to be seen on the walls, by the

dim light of your candle. Sometimes

the figure is that of a fish, which was

the symbol of the Christian, and

sometimes it is a lamb. The visitor

feels, as he emer-

ges above ground

and ,comes back

to the day light,





treading ‘on holy

ground. In such

places as these,

the faith was

. nourished and

preserved, in the long ago.



Now this study of Stephen as the

first Christian martyr, takes on a like

tone. We are treading on holy

ground. Here a man gave his life for

the truth which we so lightly and

pleasantly believe. It is like walking

the seventeen miles from~ Cambridge,

Massachusetts, to Concord, where the

“Minute Men” of 1776 fought the

British. I’ve walked that seventeen

miles more than once. It gives me a

more realistic grasp of what America

means, to read the inscript‘ons on the

stones that are set tip along this road,

which show the various stages of the

fight. And at'the end of the journey

one comes to the “rude bridge,” as

Emerson called it, in Concord, where

the last part of the tragic struggle

was staged. British soldiers are bur-

ied hard by. One of the stones along

the way runs like this: “On this spot,

Joseph Whittaker, then 80 years of

age, shot and killed three British sol-

diers, Apr. 19, 1775. He was shot,

beaten, bayoneted and left for dead,

but recovered, and lived

years of 'age.”





 





0 think of Stephen and his act is



to produce a like feeling to-

ward one's Christian faith. It shows

at what price it was bought and kept.

Stephen comes before us as a deacon.

There were many Jews from outside

of Jerusalem, who joined the young

Christian colony. Some were widows,

and in the distribution of food it was

cemplained that some were favored

above others. Hence, seven men were





‘ chosen to look after the whole inat-





ter of living conditions. The first of

these was Stephen. Of his work as

deacon we know but little. He be-

came president, but not thru this kind

of work. As some one has said, we

know about Stephen on account of the

events of a single day. He was ac-

customed to preach frequently on the

new religion, and in so doing he fell

into an argument with some Jews.

They were no match for him, and re-

sorted to the common practice of ap-

pealing to force, to the mob. The en-

tire staging of his stoning and death

was that of mob mind. He was a

victim of the_mob.. He was surprised

and hustled into the presence of the

Sanhedrin. False witnesses swore

they heard him say that Jesus “shall

destroy this place, and shall challenge

the customs which Moses delivered

unto us.” ' _



In the life of Dr. Kidd, of Aberdeen,

it is' related how one night a servant

came and said that there ‘was a poor





‘ dying woman who wanted to see him

before she died. She desired to tell .





something which she would tell no

He went. “The men took

the Gallow-gate, and into one





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lay stunned for some time, while the

scoundrels had some persons brought

to witness ‘his emerging from a place

of ill-fame!” “False witnesses are

risen up against me, and such _. as

breathe out cruelty.” W\

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AT this point Stephen made his de-

fense. His speech‘ in the .7th





Chapter of Acts is that of a man

pleading for his life. It is like Paul’s

speech before Agrippa. Looked- at





from the point of View of oratory, it

is a splendid effort. He reviews the

history of his people from the time

of Abraham to his own day. But the

moment he turned to characterize the

Jews. of his day, they were furious,

and rushed upon him. “Then they

cried out with a loud voice, and

stopped their ears, and ran upon him

with one accord, and cast him out of

the city and stoned him.” Bishop

Lightfoot describes how stoning was

generally done. “A crier preceded the

doomed man, pitbclaiming his crime,

till the place of execution was reach-

ed; where, after he was stripped of

his clothes, the two Witnesses threw

him.violently down from a height of

twelve feet, flinging upon him two

large stones. If death did not at once

ensue, the whole multitude lent their

assistance.” It is of deep interest to

note that this is the only death in

the New Testament that is described

in detail, except that of Christ.



But there is a very great difference

between the deal“ of Christ and that

of Stephen. Christ voluntarily deliv-

ered his soul up to the Father. Christ

said, “Into thy hand I commit my

spirit.” Stephen said, “Lord Jesus,

Receive my spirit.” Christ prayed to

the‘Father, Stephen prayed to Christ.

Christ said of his murderers, “They

know not What they do,” being able

to read exactly the hearts of his en-

emies, and determine their guilt. But

Stephen cannot do that, and does not

try. ' He simply prayed for his assas-

sins. When Joseph Parker, the fa-

mous. English preacher was a young

man, he was accustomed to argue

with infidels who worked in an iron-

works. One day an infidel said,

“What did God do for Stephen?” And

Parker answered, “God gave him

power to pray for the forgiveness of

those who stoned him.”





HAT good was there in this



man’s death? Was it providen-

tial? Why did God allow it? We

ought always to remember that Chris-

tianity is not a lightning rod which

one may put up and thereafter be

sure of protection from evil. Hard

experiences do come to good people.

Death came to the early Christians

more than once. If one becomes a

Christian at so niuch per head,

not worth much. If one is to be paid i

for everything he dOes, in earthly}

coin, there is but little to it. In;

Stephen’s case his death meant that!

the converts went everywhere preach-E

ing the new faith. The persecution]:

scattered them in all directions. That}

was one gain and it was a great gain. !

For another thing, it showed howl,

serenely a believer in the risen Christ :

could meet death, and it encouraged





the faith, fearing nothing. The mar-

tyr deaths which followed that of

Stephen in the next hundred years,

were as thick as grain before the

mower’s scythe. Without them there

might be no Christianity today.





‘SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

AUGUST 19.





 





SUBJECT:—- Stephen the Martyr.

‘Acts 6:1 to 8:3.





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reducing my ironing. For others who

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Window curtains will need no iron—

ing if made of different kinds of

crepe. ‘Curtains of this material, af-

ter being laundered and dried with

a reasonable amount of care, are

ready to be rehung at once.



For the bed-rooms the dainty,

white, mercerized plisse ,makes the

prettiest glass curtains, and then

these may be covered by draperies





.of flowered crepe in either plisse or





the Japanese crepe. These all come in

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ers, and bed spread in striped seer-

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plain white to match the other wash-

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crepe could be used, and in the kitch-

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visable.



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can make a vast reduction of ironing

by providing yourself-with a supply of

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the full size of your table may be

used for dinners and the luncheon

sets of individual pieces for break-

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The question of eliminating the us-

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use of plain White paper napkins.



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in the kitchen, by all means use the

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is no small part of the'average family

ironing. Here, crepe is easily sub-

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gowns; also'for underwear and for

dainty frocks for the little girls. Rip-

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ble to replace worn or lost parts, and,

too, since the retailer may quit selling





that particular kind of stenctled‘.ma- ‘





chine at any time and the purchaser

does not have. a company to stand

back of the machine.



To get the best work out of the

sewing machine, it should be kept in

good condition and not used when out

of order. The cause of disorder in

sewing machines usually results from

lack of oil or dirt or from both.



To clean a machine remove the

thread, bobbin case, needle and pres-

ser foot, sometimes it is necessary

to unscrew the throat plate (this is

the plate directly under the presser

foot) then with a fine brush and sti-

letto remove all the dust, lint, and

threads which have collected around

the feed points. If the machine runs

hard perhaps too heavy an oil has

been used and as a result the machine

has become gummed. If this is the

condition clean the machine thorough-

ly with kerosene, then wipe off all

the kerosene, and oil with a fine sew-

ing machine oil. Oil wherever. there

is friction. In most cases, these places

are indicated by oil holes. Just a drop

of oil in each hole. It is always ad-

visable to stitch on a scrap of white

cloth after oiling the machine to ‘see

if an excess of oil is discharged.





HAVE SINK AT PROPER HEIGHT.





 





OW many rounded shoulders and

bent aching backs can be traced

to sinks and tables so low that the

worker has to lean over constantly?

The bottom of the sink, its working





surface, should be high enough so the.





woman can just touch it with her

clenched fists, held straight down in

front of her.

stand erect in washing dishes. If the

sink is too low and cannot be raised,

a wire standard can he purchased





for a quarter that will hold the dish,





pan steady at the right height





This means she can.





1‘ Iron





number of dishes prefer using the

sink itself as a dish pan and close

the drain pipe with a flat rubber stop-

per made for this purpose.





Small pieces of soap may be econ-

Omically used, and suds can be made





 





Pumping Water Is Good Exercise, but

the Farmer's Wife ls Not Always

In Need of It.





in very hot water if a wire soap shak-

er is provided.



The dilficulty of keeping a dish-

mop clean has kept many women

from using one, but a new type with

straight threads can be purchased

that can be kept sanitary with a little

care—M. ROGERS, M. A. C.



.._.__.___.__.._.L_

HANG UP YOUR BROOM.





 





WHEN I get'a new broom I soak

“ the straws up to the head in

warm salt water till it is thoroughly

wet. ,Then dip in clear fresh water

two or three times to rinse. Then

hang up to dry. By hanging up I

meant to hang with the brush part

down. My mother always used to

drill a hole thru the end of the

broom handle and tie a leather strigg

in it to hang it up by. But since I

began keeping house, I take a pegging





:awl and make a. hole in the end of





the broom handle, then screw in a.

screw-eye and hang up by that. I use

anfleye” large enough so I can hang

it on various nails wherever I happen

to be at work. I get" small headed

finishing nails to hang up things on.

when I do the carpenter work

around the house. If a broom is wet

and hung with brush upwards, the

moisture soaks down into the head

and I soon have a very crooked brush





part. I wash my brooms often, and

they are straight until worn out.

—MRS. W. J. B.

Wexford Co.





FEED THE FAMILY GRAHAM

BREAD.





 





VER near Brighton, Mich. this



little housekeeper feeds her fam-

ily on graham bread and this is the

way she makes it.





Graham Bread.



Two cup‘s graham flour



One cup wheat flour



One teaspoon baking powder



Two cups sour milk

\One‘teaspoon soda



one cup ‘-raisins.



Mix soda with sour milk and baking

powder with flour.

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radish? I would like tfiasgnlostgrn)? it?

keep. for winter-as we—MRS. F. E.



Will some one who has been suc-

cessful in canning horseradish please

tell Mrs. F. E. how they did it?



—-MAR/THA COLE.





 





CAN THE CULLS.





 





Please send me a recipe for can-

ning Chicken—MRS. E. L.



To can chicken dress the bird care-

fully, wash and dry. If you desire

to have it roasted or fried, this pro-

cess must be completed as serving for





‘4





Daz'mjy Salads





OTHING adds quite as



much to the appetizing ap-

pearance and tastiness of a din-

ner as. does a dainty salad. Each

one‘xersed in culinary art has

his owu version of combining

these dishes.



This week our contest is to

be “Recipes for Dainty Salads.”

For the best recipe we will give

.an aluminum double boiler; the

second prize will be an alumi-

num' serving tray, while the

third, fourth and fifth prizes will

be aluminum sauce pans.



Address your letters to Mar-

tha Cole, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Mich., before August 24.





 





 





 





the table before the canning process

is begun; excepting perhaps, that it

is not cooked quite as done as when

served directly. '



Remove the cooked chicken from

the bone in pieces suitable to be easi-

ly packed in thoroughly sterilized





- jars, fill the jars to within half inch





of the top with gravy. If there is not

sufficient gravy for all the chicken to

be canned, distribute it evenly be-

tween the jars and fill with boiling

water.



Process pint jars thirty minutes

under 15-pound steam pressure in a

pressure cboker, or for two «hours in

a hot water bath.





 





CAN GREENS FOR WINTER USE.





Can you tell me how to can kale

and other greens for winter use?

’ —MRS. C. J. W. .

To can kale or greens for winter

use, one should be rather careful with

every detail as a very poisonous bac-

teria forms sometimes. To prepare

the greens for canning, wash them

carefully in cold water and blanch

4 to 5 minutes in boiling water.

allows them to shrink so that they

may be packed very easily in the jars.

The jars should be well filled, but not

too firmly packed as they may not

be thoroughly sterilized in the center

of the can if the mass isKtoo firm. To

each quart jar add one teaspoon salt

and what other seasoning desired,

chipped beef or other meat; then adJ

just rubbers in position and take one

turn back. Process them three hours

in hot water bath, or 60 minutes un-

der 10 1b. of steam pressure. ’





 





For cleaning the lavatory, sink and

bath tub, kerosene mixed with vinegar

and oil of lavender in proportion of

one-half pint of kerosene, ten drops of

lavender and one tablespoon of vine-





‘ gar. This cleans thoroughly and leaves





a delightful odor, something that ker-

osene alone will not do. Rub with a

.coarse cloth, old‘ wool if possible, and

wipe dry with anold linen towel. ,





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A New Discovery ,

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Better Baking N ow Possible.





During the past three months a new process for milling

flour has been perfected. It revolutionizes the making of flour.





To the home baker it means better, Whiter bread, bread that

is better looking, will stay moist longer, that will. bake easier,

and have better texture and flavor.

leased mill is the only mill producing flour milled by this new





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even Lily White has been improved.





It is an established fact that 30% of the efficiency of protein in

flour is destroyed when the wheat is crushed or flattened by smooth

Under this new milling method, however, the cfliciency of

the protein content of the flour is increased 30 per cent. This permits

free action of the yeast on 100% of the flour instead of only 70% in

making good bread.





For —25 years efforts have been made to perfect this new system.

Now, all that we ask is that you try Lily White.

results are positively guaranteed.





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Send 120 in silver or stamps for

our up—to—date Fall & Winter 1923-1924

Book of Fashions.





 





4470——Girls’ Dress.





Cut in 4 sizes,

6, 8, 10 and 12 years.





An 8 year size





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Price





 





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8.10.12 and 14 years. A 12 year size

re uire





133%. yards of. 44 inch material.





 





4551—Ladies’ Coat.

34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust .





Cut in 7 sizes,





measure. A.38 inch size requires 4%

yards of 54 inch material. Price 120.





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34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust,

measure. A. 38 inch size requires 5%

yards of 40 inCh material. The width

of tleie 125mm at the foot, is. 2% yards.





 

 





   





 





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foot is 2 and ' '





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4461-Ladies’ Night Dress. Cut in

4 sizes, small, 34—36; medium, 38-40;

large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches

bust measure. A medium size requires

fig/8 yards of 36 inch material. Price

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Dress. Cut in 7 sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40,

42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure..

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HOW I





HE first money I received was

for working for a grocery man,

I worked for him all vacation time.

He was a kind gentleman giving me

my money every week, which didn’t

amount to very much but was enough

for me. I got a lot of experience

working for him. ,I knew all the peo-

plefaround and learned everything

in the grocery line. After working all

vacation I had $54.00 in the bank.



Then the school time began and I

had to attend. I bought a suit for

$15.00, shoes for $3.00, a shirt for

$1.25, cap for $1.25, necktie for 75c,





 





 





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to the Heart of a Farm Boy





and bought books for $5.00. That was

all I bought and it amounted to

$26.25. The rest I left in the bank

for future use—Louis Mulker, R F.

D., Metz, Mich.





 





I earned my first money this year

by picking greens, .or this princess

pine that grows in the woods. It is

used for decorations in all large

cities. It. is not hard work and it

pays well.



The plants and roots are pulled up

and tied into bundles which are in

turn tied into long strings.





The strings are weighed and you

are paid four cents a pound for them.

I made over a dollar a day.



The money was spent in getting

me new clothes for school next fall.—





Eed -M





Helen E. Lardie, M. C., Garnet, Mich.





 





One day my brother and I found a

nest of little chicks. There were

eleven of them. Our mother said we

could have them if we would feed

and‘ care for them. So my brother

fixed up a shelter over them and all

summer we" fed them. ' ‘



They were late chickens but by fall

they were larger than mother’s.



We sold them and with the money

we bought three pigs of my father.



He fed them for half of what they

would bring When ready for market.





 





In the Eyes of These Wide-awake Boys There Are Few Things that Bring





More Pleasure than a Pony.





They sold for $136.08, my brother

and I each receiving one—fourth of

that amount. ~



We enjoyed caring for the chickens

and by investing what we recived we

gained both in money and experience.

——Doris Badger, Sherwood, Mich.





 





I earned my first money when sev-

en years oldby gathering up old iron

around the farm. .



I was very proud of it as it was the

first money I had ever earned. It was

a dollar and a half and I thought it

was a great lot of money. (It was for

me.) "



I gave it to Mother to buy me a new

hat, because I wanted the honor of

helping to buy a new hat.-——Alta H.

Swinehart, M. C., Edwardsburg, Mich,

R. R. 2. .





 





 





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I received my Merry Circle button

and membership card. I thank you

ever and ever so much for it. And I

want to be a faithful member in your

Merry Circle. I think the blue and

white colors mean so much to the

Merry Circle. Don’t you, Uncle

rFrank? -

I am a little girl twelve years old.

I like the farm better than the town.

I will close—Sincerely, Arlene Ruth

Lipp, Riga, Michigan.



I am glad you want to be a faithful

member. The meaning of the Circle

colors should not only mean much to





the Circle but to each of us.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I received my membership card and

button and I am writing to thank you

very much for them. I have read of

your club colors which are blue and

white. I try “to spread happiness and

cheerfulness wherever I' go' but with

are" cross and cranky, it





 

 





 

 





 





     





 





 





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like ' ve -" muchvtot .1 411?.





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tions. when. .

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56 actual words were gotten out of

the motto, and I had 59 words; you

said “actual” words so I thought some

of mine were not actual words.

Well, I, must close now with love

to you and the club—Sincerely Yours,

Clarissa Englebert, Concord, Mich.





It is hard to make happiness spread

among. cranky people but when he

succeeds, he really does something

worth while. You-did not have enough

“actual words” to be among the prize

Winners. ‘





 





Dear Uncle Frank: ' ,

Just a line to you, Uncle, and a few

suggestionsrwhich I wish you would





Why don’t .we Merry Circler’s o_r-

ganize and elect a president and vice

president? "That’s the * way, other

clubs ,do. I, think it would be fine if

we did that‘and, then have a treasury.

And have: members send in centripur"



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, Dear Uncle Frank:





 

 





 

 





 

 

 





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gestions and find out how the others





stand, I remain your niece, Myrtle ._

Walker, Woodland, Mich. ' ‘





Glad you wrote about organizing.

I’ve been thinking about it for some

time but thought we had better. get

some more M. C’s. before we did..- ‘

Your contributing idea is also a good

one. The money collected could be

put to charitable use. ' ,





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



Why don’t you call yourself.“Baby

Frank?” I think that would go better L

with that picture you had printed

than “Uncle Frank.” , l



Must close to give“ you time to read

some of the other letters—Another

niece, Sylvia Botsford, Conway, Mich.



I almost Bo—ho—ed after reading your

letter. I’ll just have to do something

about it to show that I am really





“growed up.”





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



My! but I’ve been having a, fine

time lately. To start with, I went to

the Epw‘orth League institute at Al-

bion. I was there six days. Then I

went to Nashville and stayed there

two days. While I was there I had

the best time of all my vacation. I





all the cherries I wanted. I did, too.



he next day we ate more cherries,

cracked walnuts, and made maple

sugar. That was the first time I ever

ate real, for sure, maple sugar. Oh!

My! But it was good. It makes my

mouth water to mink about it.



Next, I went to Detroit, where I



lost my pin. I spent a week there.

I hate‘ to tell you, but I don’t like your

city. Albion is better but Alanson is

best. There‘is too much noise. And

I never saw as many dogs before in

one day. ' About every sixth woman

had a dog with her.

, Uncle Frank, I intended to come

and visit you while I was in Detroit,

but my friend told me maybe your

wife didn’t like to have young girls

visiting you, so I didn’t come. I was-

n’t sure you'were married, but if you

are I wouldn’t want your wife to beat

you up because I came to see you. (I

don’t want to scare any one out of

getting a wife, but I just want to

say that wives are fierce things.)



Maybe, if I don’t stop writing there

won’t be any room for any other let-

ter in the waste basket, so I will close

and try to remain—Your niece, Mary

Ethel Conner, Alanson, Mich, R. 2.





You certainly must have had a nice

time. Nobody would ever object to

a neice calling on me. How is it you ,

come tq know so much about wives? i

I am just a little glad you did‘not

like our town. It’s too big for me, , ,

too. '





 





 





Dear Merry Circlers:



Of course, this includes you, too,

Uncle Frank. I am not one as yet,

but I intend to work hard to win a

M. C. after my name. .



I think that the motto is very nice,

as it suggests to anyone that intends

to join that they have to work hard

to win a place among the M. C’s.



. My ambition is to make this a live



club and I think .that with some of ‘

the older-boys and girls to help, it

can be made so.- Don’t you all think

so, too?



Now, since we have the motto and

club colors, another nice thing would

be if we could elect a president and

vice-president. I remain, Theresa

Kerblowski, Mt. Clemens, Mich, R. 1.





Glad you are so interested. Yes,

some day we will have to have an

election, but now there are other

things we want to do. ,





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cacity engendered by your contests,

which I have been following forisome





 





 

 

   

   





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HE Correspondence scramble is



. sorambling all right. Many letters

have acme. ' They are being mixed

up, put into other envelopes and sent

out again. After those who have tak-

en, part in this scramble get their re-

turns, I wish‘they would write me and

let me know how they liked this





. stunt. If it is liked, we will work it





again.



I promised to run the rest of the

prize songs but have not been given

space this time to do so. Please keep

your copies of the first prize winners

published last week, so that you can

compare them with the rest which I

am sure willflbe printed next week.

After we print them all, we’ll want

to take a vote on them.



' Ethelyn Spreckiel, of Mo Bain,

Mich., offers the suggestion that we

call the Letter Box “Part of What

the Postman Brings.” instead of





Gossip from

By 0.





“Twin Elms.”

Cherry Hill, R. F. D. 1.

DEAR UNCLE DAVID:



Been a long time since I wrote but

couldn’t be helped. You see, Vera

an I figured we was entitled to a

leetle vacation after putting in a hard

year an'so we “wound up Elizabeth”

an were away about two weeks.





.Best thing I see about a vacation

uncle is gittin’ back home. ,Road up

to Cherry Hill never looked so beau-

tiful to me as the evening we drove

into the sunset an the gate at Twin

Elms. But we had one grand and

glorious vacation and expect to take

another one next year just like it.

Don’t know whether to tell you about

the vacation or about Cherry Hill Gos-

sip but I guess while the vacation is

fresh in my mind I’ll tell you about

that.



Fred, our hired hand, said he

guessed he could manage the place

while we were away an as we have

learned to put a lot of trust in our

hired man we felt easy in getting off.

Fred is a hum-dinger of a feller. Best

thing about him seems to be his gen-

uine interest in the farm and the live-

stock. -





Fred’s had his misfortune; first one

then another. First he married a

wife who didn’t pan out as she

should. She up and left him with

their little boy three years old. Fur

as I kin figure Fred was good to her

and her goin wasn’t no fault of his

and besides the little boy ought to

have had some pull on her heart

strings but he didn’t. Some folks

don’t seem to have no heart. Least

wise Bell didn’t have none from all

appearances.





Well, Fred lived on Burt Newell’s

farm then an he managed to get along

but he couldn’t take care of the little

boy and do his work too an the re-

sult was that the little boy got sick

and died. One of Cherry Hill’s trag-

edies. Bell never come to the funer-

al. Didn’t know where she was but

she knew the little boy had died. So

Fred’s had a purty heavy cross but I

know his heart’s right and pray the

Almighty will remember to even up

his: score of sorrow with a little joy.





One day I was comin’ round by the

pig-lot and I heard Fred’s voice. He

didn’t know where I was. Fred had a

little pink piggie in his arms an he

was talkin’ to him an pettin him an

the little pig didn’t object atall. Jest





, lay in /Fr_ed’s arms an snuggled his





little nose in the palm of his hand.

I heard Fred say. “You poor leetle





~ : cuss you ain’t got no me. neither an

I fool’s 11111111":r for you, you got a

he'1l never let you





Merry Clrcle Comment

' By Uncle Frank





“What the Postman Brought.” I guess

she is right. when she says that the

title she suggests is more true than

the one I use. Therefore, thanks for

the suggestion, Ethelyn.





The Prize Contest.





 





This is the time for another Read

and Win contest but'I haven’t the

space to run it. So this week we’ll

have a contest suggested by Mae Mor-

gan, of Iron River, Mich. Please write

for this week a letter of not more

than two hundred words on The

Oddest Thing I Ever Saw. The usual

ten prizes will be given; pencil boxes

for the two best letters, nickled

pocket pencils for the next three and

maps of the world and Europe for

the next five. Merry Circle buttons

and cards will be sent to all who send

in good letters on the above subject.





Cherry Hill





line of affection that he kin provide.”



I didn’t let Fred know I had heard

him but I scooted round the barn an

then I got out my ole red bandanna

an had to blow right hard to keep

the tears from dimmin my eyesight.



We didn’t stop at any hotels on our

trip. First reason was that the hotels

aren’t reducing their rates any, an be-

sides we carried our hotel rite with

us. YOu know they got a nice little

bed that fits right into the sedan an

we had one of them and cooking ap-

paratus so that we was independent

as a “hog on ice.” We “Camped just

where our notion overtook us an

whenever we found a purty place that

we liked we put on the brakes an we

was home. I ain’t had so much fun

in a. life time as I had during those

two weeks tourin in our “Lizziemo-

bile.” The great automobile manufac-

turer, I bet, never dreamed he was

measuring out such \a blessing when

he built that little roadcootie.





Well, we’d stop usually hear some

stream of water or a lake. Have a

good old swim and then cook our sup-

per, and say! What a Whale of an ap-

petite we did have.



We stopped at farm houses‘ some-

times an it was surprising how friend-

ly the farm folks were. Lots of them

when they knowed who we were

asked us to stop in their front yard.

Sometimes we did but mostly we tried

to get away from folks. Seemed that

was what we needed, to get away an

be alone.



I guess I thought out a lot of prob-

lems that had been troubling me an I

guess Vera did the same thing. Vera

didn’t want to camp out at first. She’s

always been a little timid about being

away from home at nite but once she

got into the spirit of the thing she

liked it bettern’ I did.



Our destination was Niagra Falls.

Everybody makes at least one “honey-

moon” pilgrimage to the great an

only. We was to busy farming when

we first started out an I guess this

experience was even better. For we

both had sorto got settled an knowed

each other better an could appreciate

each other more than we might have

at first.



Vera’s a good sport Uncle and I

never was so glad for a true help-

.mate as I was on our vacation. We

saw lots of country. Some fine farms

and cities but there ain’t no place

quite equal to our own and, as I said

before, the best part of a vacation is

getting home again which is saying

a lot for the time between going an

coming back is jam full of good

things as Vera’s jam cupboard is.

Hoping you are the same. , '

From your nephew and niece...



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NEIGHBQR who raises Bourbon

Red turkeys finds they do not

wander like the Bronze turkeys.





A Bourbonwhen and her poults con-‘





fined in a small alfalfa field did not

attempt to leave their limited range.





. Other hens and poults never went far





from the house and barns.



The Bourbon Red turkey is large.

enough for the average turkey dinner.

The adult Bourbon cock has a stand-

ard weight of 30 pounds while the

Bronze should weigh 36 pounds. The

adult Bourbon hen should weigh 18

pounds which is 2 pounds less than

the Bronze hen. It seems that the

diflerence in weight is not large and





 





ular substitute for game birds in

some cities. The White African

guineas-are becoming popular because

of the white plumage which prevents

the pin feathers from showing easily

on the dressed carcass. The white

birds are also somewhat of a’novelty

as only a few breeders have them.

The Pearl guineas are rather attrac-

tive in plumage and most often seen

on the farms.



Guineas are ' often termed the

watchdog of the poultry yard. Their

incessant clack helps to drive away

hawks and also acts as a. warning call

when thieves come around or stray

cats prowl among the growing chick-





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More and More We Are Coming to a Realization That the Type of Poultry

Building In Which the Flock ls Housed Is a Most Important Item in

Determining Our Success With This Branch of Agriculture.





the Bourbon turkeys should be more

widely raised, especially on farms

with a limited acreage. .



I have seen few more attractive

sights in the poultry world than- a

long line of White Holland turkeys

strutting through a nicely cultivated

peach orchard. These birds had a

large range consisting 'of orchards

and clover fields and required very

little feed until fattening time in the

fall. Many breeders like the White

Holland‘because of the white plumage

and the medium weight which makes

them desirable for the average family.

White Holland adult cocks should

weigh 28 pounds and adult hens 18

pounds



Sickness among turkeys is some-

times caused by eating cull fruit

dumped on the poultry range. One

recent case is thought due to eating

a large amount of cherries. Others

have possibly been due to eating to-

matoes. Provide turkeys with plenty

of fresh drinking Water so they will

not be tempted to gorge on fruit to

obtain the moisture



In spite of the investigation of the

blackhead disease of turkeys no sure

cure of preventative seems to be

known. Turkey breeders must rely





for success on breeding from vigorous ‘





unrelated stack. Then'plenty' of clean

mm, a good free range and freedom

from parasites will help to keep down

disease.



The great disadvantage of the nar-

row turkey range is the inoressed

danger of contaminated soil“ The

wild birds are not limited .to a small

section and do not have to live in





fathers ever saw wild turkeys bumped

up in the fence corner with black-





' head, roup or any digestive disorder.





So the turkey breeder with a large





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-let them grow up together.





during the winter.

also has a good selection of the best ‘





I doubt if our grandw

__on their pedigree alone. . ¢

two occkerels from the same mating .

showing great variation;

slow feathering type and about half

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ens. But if you have a nervous dis-

position and do not like their rasping

chatter it is better to confine the

guinea flock to a. very few birds.

Guineas Seem more resistant to dis-

ease than other types of poultry.

Guinea chicks are sometimes hatched





as late as September and in about





four months they will .weigh about

two pounds. However, April and es-

pecially May hatching are probably

best for this gives the guinea chicks

more favorable growing weather.





The new guinea is a. rival of quail

when properly prepared and in many

hotels it is served as a. desirable sub-g

stitute for the game birds that were

prominent on the menu a number of

years ago. The farm table deserves

the best food available” as a compen-

sation for the workof raising it, so

the guinea fowl will make a pleasing

variation from the regular chicken

dinners.





Buy Cookerels Now.





When new cockerels

for a'range flock it Often pays to

select. them in the late summer and

' This pre-

vents a. lot of fighting that may re-

sult if full grown cockcreis from 'dif.

ferent sources are placed together

The‘early buyer





early maturing males at a price much





below their winter value. .





The best breeding cockerels are





birds that show signs cf. good size for

“the breed, early maturity and a bright





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MICHIGAN RANKS SECOND IN

ACCREDITED HERDS





UBERCULOSIS eradication work

has reached a stage Where it is

almost essential ,to have the herds ac-

credited tuberculosis free. The Bu-

reau of Animal Industry some time

ago issued an order which prohibits

‘the shipment of dairy cattle from one

state to another unless accompanied

by a certificate from the OWner that

the animals have been tested and

found to have no symptoms of tuber-

culosis.

The accredited herd work has prog-





ressed to such an extent that seven-_





teen -counties in the United States

are accredited tuberculosis free, and

an order has recently been issued per-

mitting the interstate shipment of cat-

tle from these counties without the

necessity of obtaining certificates.

The packers have also announced

that they will pay a premium of ten

per cent on all shipments oi" hogs

from these seventeen counties.

Among the counties are Dearborn

county, Indiana; Hillsdale, Charle-

voix, Antrim and WEmmet counties,

Michigan; two counties in Tennessee

and ten counties in North Carolina.

BEANS REDUCE COST OF PRO-

DUCING‘ MILK.





 





 





VALUABLE suggestion has been



brought out through work done

by theISouth Eaton, Cow—testing As-

sociation. This association has tested

the value of cooked cull beans for the

production of milk.



The herd of six pure—bred Holsteins

owned by Chappell & Smith of Char-

lotte was used in the test. Compari-

sons showed a reduction in the cost

of producing both milk and butterfat

where the cooked beans were used.

Hans Kardel, the testor, states that

the beans were bought and cooked at

a cost of $20.00 per ton. Each cow

consumed from twelve to eighteen

pounds of the cooked beans per day,

no other grain being fed. With this

grain ration, alfalfa and clover hay,

corn fodder-and ensilage were fed as

roughage. The beans were thrown

on top of the silage and a little salt





was added. The cows ate the beans

readily and suffered no ill effects,

even though the ration of silage





amounted to forty pounds per day.





- . Although Mr. Kardel vouches for the





reduction in cost, he has not been

able to give real definite figures show-

ing exactly the percentage of saving.





DAIRYING Is G'Rowmc.





ROM almost every farmingx dis-



trict of the upper peninsula

comes reports of increased interest

in the development of the dairy in-

dustry. More efiicient cows and bet-

ter marketing institutions such as

creameries, are in evidence in nearly





all the better agricultural sections of '





Cloverland, Business men are like-

wise taking an active part in backing

the farmers to enable the latter to

purchase pure-bred stock. This branch

of agriculture will receive particular

emphasis at the local fairs this fall.





(MICHIGAN BOYS TO VISIT

’WISCONSIN.





HIRTY-SIX boys, representing the

various calf clubs in upper Mich-

igan, 'will’ be given a trip through the

dairy regions of Wisconsin under the

auspices of the Michigan Agricultural





College and the Upper Peninsula De-





Mont Bureau. The latter organi-

film has subscribed the sum of one





 





organizations have done and can do





 





most up-to-date dairy institutions

throughout the country. Local com-

mittees in each community are ar-

ranging to give the boys a good time.

Assistant state club leader, A. G. Ket-

tunen, will be in charge. The party

will leave Powers on August 15 and

will be occupied every minute of the

time until August 25.





CARE OF CHAPPED TEATS.





HAPPED or cracked teats in the

Cows are more common than us-

ual this summer, probably due to the

dry season, although this condition

may be brought about by many caus-





es, such as walking in wet grass or'





through mud holes and streams; also

from wading in manure or lying in

wet bedding; it may be caused from

the nursing of the calf or from milk-

ing with wet hands; or again, from

cold air.



The extent of the trouble will vary,

depending upon the sensitiveness of

the skin, the manner of treatment that

the condition has had, the length of

time the animal has been affected,

etc. At first the teat is very dry and

red, tender to the touch as shown by

the restlessness ol‘ the cow during

milking. If this is allowed to exist

for any length of time, without treat-

ment, 'deep cracks will form in the

teat.



Treatment should be given early,

and then it should cause very little

or no inconvenience.- Teats that ,are

sore and tender should be treated af—

ter each milking with an ointment

made of vaseline, ten parts, and oxide

of zinc, one part. If the condition be-

comes pretty serious before treatment

has been started, it may be well then

to use an antiseptic solution and

bathe the teat in this; for this, bi-

chloride of mercury can be used, one

part to one thousand parts of water;

a two per cent solution of cresol or

creolin may be used, but the mercury

is as good as any. Fill a cup with the

solution and place it against the ud—

der, with the teat suspended in the

liquid for several minutes; this should

be used after each milking. Then paint

the teat with the following: One part

of tincture of iodine in four parts of

glycerine; paint this on with a camel-

hair brush.-E. W. G. '





IS A REAL DAIRY SCHOOL.





NINE-DAY dairy university,”

——is what the National Dairy

Exposition which is held on the New

York state fair grounds, Syracuse,

October 5-13, has been termed.



Farm leaders of New York and oth-

er eastern states are supporting it

unitedly because of its tremendousi

value in bringing before the farmer,

methods of better dairying which

have proven successful in difierent

sections of the country and in Canada.



They are methods which have ac-

tually been worked out down on the

farm and for that reason carry a mes-

sage of greater prosperity to those

who visit the show. W. E. Skinner,

manager of the show, believes thiS1

seventeenth annual Exposition will

prove even more interesting and suc-

cessful from the farmers’ view-point

than previous ones, and farm leaders

are expecting from 200,000 to 300,000

visitors.





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WILL DEMONSTRATE AT 'THE

FAIRS.





LARGE number of the cow-test-

ing associations of the state are

preparing to demonstrate what these





at their respective local fairs. Bull

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There are three kinds of creamery systems: the local creamery. the centralizing

system with its cream stations, and the Blue Valley Creamery System with its

three simple steps from producer to consumer. The first two systems have many

expensive steps between the cream producer and the butter consumer. There is

in those systems, between you and the consumer, the creamery, and most of the

time the cream station, the commission man, the broker, the speculator and

others in between—and finally the retailer. Each step takes something outof the

price you get for your cream.





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The Blue Valley Creamery System cuts out the cream station, the commission

man, the speculator. the broker and others. It receives the cream direct from the

producer. makes the butter and sells it direct to retailer. That's one big reason

why Blue Valley shippers receive the highest average cream checks the year

round. But there are two other big reasons why Blue Valley can and does pay

more for cream.





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Blue Valley makes and sells millions of packages of Blue Valley Butter every

year. With an experience of tv1 ent\ three yems and with the most improxed

methods of l ig. unifmm \11111111e, naturally Blue Valley expense per pound is

less than that of smaller creuineries.





Because of the reputation of Blue Valley for uniform high quality built 111) over

a period of twenty-three years, Blue Valley Butter is in constant demand at a

price above the open butter markets. Selling Blue Valley Butter direct to the

retailer. Blue Valley receives all that price in full. Our shippers get the benefit.





The demand for Blue Valley Butter is greater than the supply. This Blue Valley

direct market is already established, waiting for you. All the expense of build-

ing up this market, all organization expense has been paid for by us long ago.

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Easy to Ship to Blue Valley





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to send di1ect to your door by prepaid parcel post one or two extra heavy shipping

cans 11 hich you can pay for out of your cream checks after 30 days free

trial. 5 gallon, $2.35: 8 gallon, $3.25; 10 gallon, $3.60. Send no money be‘

cause you are free to return cans at our expense within the 30 days.





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LlTCHFIELD, MICHIGAN

Michigan’s Leading Live





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ORION, MICHIGAN

W. E. SORIPPS, Prop. SIDNEY SMITH, Supt.





 





 





 





 





. Aberdeen~Angus 10 heifers. 6 bulls

ROgIStered from eiglfit £0 gorgtttaen kmonthds.



fl ceding. The growt y in a. ma egoo .

fightsgna’gle. inquire of I“. J. Wilber. | Clio. Mich.





Registered Guernseys





A f‘ e Bull ready for light service. special

terms i? you wish. J. M. Williams, No.





Mich.



R v. Guernsey Bull Calf, 8 mos. old.

For sale AesLhow bull May Rose breeding Sire

and Dam. Dam on A. R. test. Accredited herd. Price

right. Gilmore Bros. Camden, Mich.





For





dams.





For Sale





Kahler. Jones.





For Sale





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. 1 Re istered Guernsey cows, May'Rose Breed.

ihge BIS?) hull calves (l .Leach. Registered A. it

JOHN EBELS. R. 2, Holland. Mich.





one bull.

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Six Guernsey heifers,

from four to fifteen months.

Mir-ii.





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a grandson of

for light ser—

Mich.





registered Guernsey bull,

lienilworth's Gold. ready

llAT’l‘ & SON. Napoleon,





WINNWUUI] HERD





Registered Holsteins





 





Ask us about a Real Bull a

Maple Crest or an Ormsby.





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





The Traverse Herd





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

line growthy type, guaranteed right in every way_

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

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

quotations. stating about. age desired.





TRAVERSE CITY STATE HOSPITAL





Trave se City, Mich.





I i - Friesian heifer and bull calves. purebred



"0 s em re istered and high-grade. r.ce up.

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Splendid individuals and breeding. Write us your re



uulrements. Browncroft Farms. McGraw N. Y.



' One and two years old fresh-



PIIIB Bred "OISIEIlISy ening between Sept. and Jan»





nary. One 201i). 11 years old. Approved note accepted

in payment. Geo. 1). Clarke. Vassar. Mich.





 





 





 





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Brennan, Fitzgerald 8:1





Sinks Jersey F arm





United States Government

.Attectecl Herd '





F armington, Mich.





offer for Sale or

Bull Calves:





FRANK TANNER RALEIGH, 2 yrs. 4 months. 151:

Prize, Junior Calf, 1921; lst Prize, Junior Yearling.

1922; Reserve Jr. Champion, 1922. Mich. State Fair.

Dam: Ids. Raleigh Ksrnek. Record. milk 6,784.2;

fat 383.39, as 3 year old.





ACTRESS GAMBOGE, 1 year. 5 months. lst

Prize. Senior Calf, Michigan State Fair. 1922. Dam:

fiatchwork, Miss. Record, milk, 7883 lbs; (at 407.48



5. . ,





Lassa the following Bulls and





MAYS FAIRY RALEIGH. 1 year. 3 months. Dam:

Mays Fairy Elf. Record, 343 lbs. of fat.



BULL CALF, 8 months. Dam: Millies Kamak.

Record. milk. 6.156 lbs; [at 393.36.



BULL CALF, 3 months. Dam: Raleighs Calico

Primrose. Member of Show herd. Record, Class

A. A. A., milk. 7786 lbs.: fat 342.75 lbs.



ACTRESS RALEIGH, our prize winning Herdsire.

is Sire of all Bulls. '



All records made on twice a, day milking.



All Bulls and Calves will be shown at Michigan

State Fair, 1023.





C. NIELSEN, Mgr.





 





Breakwater Jerseys





Ready for service bulls for sale from Register of

Merit dams.

Herd sire: MAJESTY'B lNTENSE 127191.

Herd on federal accredited list as tuberculosis free.





BROOKWATER FARM. Ann Arbor, Michigan

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





 





BUTTER B-RED ”page“

- CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FABM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





FOR SALE: for service.





cows Register of Merit. Accredited herd.

SMITH AND PARKER. 11.4. Howell. Mich.

Jerseys.





F o R S|A L E. m...





L. R. Kuncy. Adrian, Mich.





 





Jersey bulls readlyl





 





Fresh Cows. Spring-

Heifcr Calves.





 





cattle. young bulls, for

sale. Tuberculin tested

Lake Odessa, Mich.





Registered Jersey

J. L. CARTER,





 





30 Head ofJersey cows and heifers for sale . Chance

to select from hard of 70.80am fresh. others bred

for full l'reshcning. Union (1. Lillie, Coopersrirle.Mich





JERSEY BULIES FOR SALE





otten Farms,





 





from tested ldamsr

Majesty breeding.

Grass Lake, Mich.





 





HEREFORD FACTS





3 Public Sales of Purebred Registered

Herefords in this state during June

and July, consisting of 110 lots, sold

for an overuse of $150.00, most of

which were yearlings. WHAT

is THE REASON FOR THESE

SUCCESSFUL SALES? It is this.

l’ui‘i'hrr‘d ilerefords under the 30th-

rim l-iarliripe Beet Plan are 'making

money for farmers producing Earli-

ririe Hereford Baby Beef. Write,

yourself with a plan that has proven

lIei-eferds at practical prices. '



. F. B. SOTHAM 81 8 NS.



(Hereford: since [839) St. Clair, Mich.





HEREFORDS





Five extra. nice Repeater heifers one year old. for

$500, also 10 cows with 10 nice lusty calves by side.

for sale. If in want of bulls. write us.





ALLEN BROS.





616 50. West St.,





 

   

 

 





and acquaint

profitable.





 





Kalamazoo, Mich .





 





 





(or sale.





Registered Herefords cows an

Cal





dYoung bulls. also

con. Bronson. Mich.





heifers—Ralph





Francisco Farm Shortliorns





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

Heifer. 8200. Two choice yearlings. 8150. each. Three

bulls, 8100. up. 3 boars.325 each. Lots of spring pig

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





Two Scotch Shorlhom Bulls For Sale





J. A. BARNUIU, Union City, Mich.





Bl I] W E L L Shorlhorns





Revolution Jr. 573938 heads accredited herd 28917.

Now offering 2January roanlbull calves or excep‘

tinnal merit. reasonably priced.





BlDWElL STOCK FARM, Box I), Tecumseh, Mich,





 





 





‘ Shorthorn Breeder's Assn.

Central MlCh- offer for sale 13 Milk Beet

type bulls. some females. Write your wants to

M. E. Miller, Sec'y. Greenville. Mich.





HURON County Shorthorn Breeders' Assn. can

supply your needs with high class individuals

Write for list to [$115. ’l‘wing, Bad Axe, Sec.-’1‘reas_





 





' ‘ Shorthorns priced reasonably. An ric-

Mllklng credited herd selected for beef and

milk. Beland and Beland. Tecumseh. Michigan





 





breed, including all

sexes, at private and auction sales,

was as follows:

Chester-White,

$45.91; Hampshire, $44.42, and Poland

China, $41.98.

ages were from $10 to $25 above those

sold at private sale.

ed for by the fact that a large num-

ber of pigs under eight months old

were sold at private sale.

reported at less than $7.50 a. head

were omitted.





was

China, $500; Hampshire, $500; Duroc-

Jersey, $500; Berkshire, $250.





$150 or more.

as follows, according to breeds: Berk-

shires, 19; Chester-Whites, 158; Dur-

oc-Jersey, 130; Hampshires, 47; P01-

_and Chinas, 67.





 

   

   

 





 





woor_- CLIP excssos THAT

~ or 192g.





 





HE preliminary estimate issued



by the United States Department,

of Agriculture places the 1923 wool

clip‘ at 228,031,000 pounds, exceeding

the 220,155,000 pounds clip 'of 1922

and the 223,062,000 pounds clip of

1921, but is below the clip of 1920.

which was 235,003,000 pounds.





 





SURVEY PURE-BRED SWINE BUS-

INESS.

A RECENT survey was ,made by

the Bureau of Agricultural Eco-

nomics to determine the extent of the

pure-bred swine breeding industry.

Reports were received on a. total of

30,382 hogs sold in 1922, five breeds

being represented.

Of this number there were 1,762

Berkshires; 8,922 Chester-VVhites;

8,556 Duroc—Jerseys; 4,910 Hampshires





and 6,232 Poland Chinas.

The average price received for each





AWCattle-feeding Barn Typical of the

Black Creek Stock Farm of Hal H.





Three or More Carloads of Cattle at a Time.





ages and both





Berkshire,

$42.72;





$30.57;

Duroc-Jersey,





The auction sale aver-





This is account-





All sales





The highest price paid by breeds

Chester-White, $740; Poland





0f the 30,382 hogs, 421 were sold at

They were distributed





 





CARRYING STOCK THROUGH WIN-





TER AT LITTLE COST.





‘ L N interesting bit of livestock feed-





ing information was brought to





the attention of the writer during a

recent" trip through Cloverland.





The





Public AUCTION





Aug. let at Six Lake's", Mich.





6 Head Reg.Roan Durham Females

A Fancy Pair of Young Mules,





 





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For Sale—Eighteen Grade Holsterns

due to freshen August. September and October.

Good Size. scold Milkers. gwo yegxfiipteéght years old.

orres on once so ci e .

inspection anwc C. Handee & Son. Pinckney. Mich





Bull, pure bred Ho stein

ready for service, reasonable price. Address

RESEARCH FARM. Box A, North End Sta... etrolt.

WANTED To hear from owner of fl\‘0 to



g. 25 cows for sole. preferably Hol-





M. > W. Caldwell & ‘Son. springport, Mich.





 





 





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merits. length. size and“ qualit

sale at reasonable

your wants.





 

 

 





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Well Broke, and Farm Tools.





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Woodlawn ‘Farm ”“00 Hoes meet





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farther north we go, the more im-

portant is the question of carrying

stock' through the winter months.

This is particularly true in some sec-

tions where the feeder expects to

secure a pertion of the' growth from

cheap pastures. ‘ ,

On the Triangle ranch near Amasa,

in Iron County, three hundred and

fifty head of Hereford cattle were

carried through the. winter of 1922





,and 1923. These animals were brought





to the barns about November 15. They

were then put on millet and 1 wild





grass hays» for a. period of





 





 

 





dividends a total 3 ‘bt 7}





without any grain whatever. In March. h M





they were put on a straight hay raé

tion, mostly clover, until turned out to

grass.



Naturally, one would expect that

these animals would be in a very poor

condition. They were. But in July,

according to Supt. MacMillan, of the

Upper Peninsula Experiment Station,

these animals were in' the very pink

of condition. They were among the

best which Mr.~ MacMillan has ever

‘seen on feed in the state. This may

not be a scientific method of making

beef, but this company has sufficient

faith in it to undertake the develop-





ment’of 'a very extensive feeding bus?





mess in that county of Michigan.

”B. We





 





SWEET CLOVER PASTURE.





I WAS over northeast of Bowling



Green, Ohio, the other day, on the

farm, of D. H. Loomis, whom I choose

to call “Uncle Dave,” saw some sixty

head of white faced yearlings. They





“ no:





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a Capacity For





 





Blissfield Section.

Sheldon and Has





were quietly grazing near the road.





These calves were purchased in the

open market in Kansas City last May.

They were turned into pastures where

they could have a choice of June

grass, mixed with clover and timothy,

and sweet clover. They have very

decidely shown their preference for

the mixed grasses and even vines and

weeds along the fence rows before. be-

coming at all interested in the sweet

clover. They have, however, made

good use of the sweet clover after

all other growth had been , cropped

close. This is only an example of

how calves from the western grazing

grounds take to, or fail to take to,

sweet clover as a forage crop. We

should not draw the conclusion from

this one instance, that it is unsuitable

as a. forage for cattle.





 





DE’NMARK’S SWINE mpusrnv

- lMPROVES. . -





THE swine industry in Denmark

has partially recovered from the

depression of the” war period. While

the number slaughtered and on farms

last year showed a. considerable in-

crease over any of the four preceding

years, they are' still below those for



the years 1914-18.

LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE DOES BIG

BUSINESS. , ‘





 





 





by federal agencies, the Michigan





Livestock Exchange at Detroit hand- . ‘





led during the past fiscal year 4,129





ears.» During this time ther'é’was} re-





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. . about the best tiine to cut al-

falfa. At, least the evidence is con-

vincing enough to .cause us to watch

closely and think of practicing later

cutting. \

We have generally practiced cut-

ting as soon as the new buds began

.to appear at the base of the plant.

Recent developments and observa—'

tions lead to the conclusion that wait-

ing until these buds become plentiful,

and the crop is in full bloom may re-

sult in more ‘hay and a greater vitali-

ty in the root of the plant. , ,

Several years ago on Greenwood

Stock Farm the mower wasstarted

in the alfalfa field at the usualrtime.

A rainy spell delayed further haying

operations for some time and there

was fear that the second crop would

.sufier where the first had stood so

long. Imagine our surprise and won-

der to see the reverse of what we ex-

pected to happen. The early out part

of the field produced a rather light





crop for the second cutting, while

the late cut --portion grew to nearly

The vi-





twice the size of the other.

tality of the root seemed to be great-

ly weakened right to the line where

the mower ran.



So firm is our belief in our early

teachings, however, that we paid lit-

tle farther attention to the demonstra-

tion, but have gone on cutting year

after year when the buds first ap-

peared. This year the demonstration

repeats itself, only in the two adjoin—

ing fields. One was out early and the

second crop is very light; the other,

on account of the shortage of help,

was out two weeks later, and the sec-

ond crop has come on quickly and is

heavy. Observations on several other

farms‘indicate a similar result. /



There have been a great many late

cut fields of alfalfa, scattered all over

Michigan this year, fields that have

reached the full bloom stage, before

the pressure of other work and lack

of help could permit the starting'of

the mowers. It would be interesting

to know—and I am sure the Michigan

Farmer would be glad'to publish—

the effect that this late cutting has

had upon the second crop.



If the experience generally corres-

ponds with ours, which would point

to the advisability of cutting alfalfa

when in full bloom rather than when

the buds start, or ten days to two

weeks later than is the prevailing

practice, the sooner alfalfa growers

know it the better.



__________._—





HOW ABOUT THE “AIR” IN FAIRS?





 





(Continued from page 135)

informed on the apiary work and the

efforts which have been put forth to

interest the women folks. However,

those interested in educational work

and fine arts are often appealed to.

But here at the Michigan State Fair,

these departments are receiving spec-

ial attention. Then, too, the plans

for the boys and girls increases the

interests of the great majority of our

families. Furthermore, the education-

al work coming from the better

babies-contest, carries the interest

still another step mward including

the entire family in the fair scheme.

The dog and cat shows, Michigan

wild life, the .extensive exhibits of

machinery all add to the distinctive

educational phases of this great in-

stitution.



To these can be added the other

attractions, such as, the horse races

“with the ‘keenest competition and in

‘which Peterf Manning, the world’s

fastest trotter. will be driven by Mr.

Murphy against the Michigan. trotting

, record of 1.59% minutes. ‘The speed

autos will belch out their ignited gas.

The “Burnfng of Smyrna’t and “India”

will be depicted in two big fireworks





Wclfliin.Wh10h a caraoad of .fire—





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“band's Strout's Military





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Cervones Concert Band and the 91st

Highlanders’ band in k‘ilties.



Then there will come the parachute

races, acrobatic stunts, women’s gym-

nasts, 'Saber acts and other perform-

ances by Troop A of the fourteenth





"United States Cavalry, a million-dol-





lar live stock parade and so many

other features that space does not

permit their enumeration. All of

which goes to prove our contention

that at least the management of the

Michigan State Fair has in some ‘man-

ner gotten the idea of the phsycholo-

gists by bringing together the widest

possible circle of interests for-the at-

tention of those who pass the turn-

styles between August 31stland Sep-

tember 9th.





 





BEYOND ROPE AND FENCE





 





(Continued from page 144)

the lower part of the sky and danced

about over the shadowy tops of the

trees on the other shore.



It was during a moment when the

lights were so compelling that all of

them had stopped to look when there

appeared in the cleft the giant body

of a moose, his antlers like'a magnifi—

cent oak cut clearly against the

scintillating colors of the aurora

borealis. His coming had been so

swift, so sudden, and so imperceptible

that it took them some time to realize

that a living thing stood within a few

yards of them, looking at them. The

herd hastily retreated a short dis-

tance; but as soon as they stopped

to look back the enormous animal got

frightened, turned and vanished down

the banks.



Queen was very curious. She trot—

ted carefully after him and the rest

of the herd kept to her tracks. When

Queen’s head appeared where the

plains turn over the banks, the moose

looked up at her a moment and then

like a rabbit shot straight across the

river. Beyond the center of the froz-

en river he stopped for a moment to

look back once more, then leaped on

"and vanished in the woods beyond,

leaving behind nim, across the ice of

the erstwhile invincible Saskatchewan

the defiant shadow of his trail.



An overwhelming impulse flared up

in Queen’s soul. A great confusion

of fear and hope seized upon her

heart. So nervous that every muscle

in her body trembled, she made her

way down the banks and with infinite

fear and caution she took the trail

of the moose. She walked along

slowly and very carefully and stopped

often to take bites of the snow on

the ice as if she were testing it and

at the same time trying to quench

the fires that were burning within

her. The others hesitated a moment,

but-when they saw her nearly half

way across, they faithfully followed

her. »



In the woods north of the river

they camped for the night. Next day

they went on, penetrating the woods

and following the trail of the moose

till they came upon an open space

a mile beyond the river. There they

remained for the rest of the winter,

feeding upon grass the like of which

they had only at rare times come up—

on. - '



Succeeding snowfalls covered their

tracks and when spring came, melting

the snows and filling the ‘desolate hol-





lows with quivering, rippling ponds,'





loading the lonely air with the whir

of duck wings and the happier honk-

ing of geese, the roar of the swollen

Saskatchewan had placed the final

seal upon their emancipation.



And here the story of Queen Dora

must end, for in that new world be-

yond the trail'of the moose her strug-

gle against the usurpation of man

was over. It was-long after her gen-

eration that man ventured into that

desolate region where she found per-

fect happiness, as perfect a happiness

as may come to living things. _Grass





 





Band, * the '





and water, leisure and activity, com-

. Sept. 25—29. .





as the air and as limitless in their

abundance. No enemies, no conten-

tion, preferences without hatred, joy-

ous play and eternal good will, she

looked toward each coming moment

with no fear; while the glowing sen-

sations of fading yesterdays only

sweetened the music of her existence.

(The End)





 





MICHIGAN FAlR DATES, 1923.





 





Allegan County Agricultural Socie-

ty, Allegan, Aug. 28—31.



Arenac County Agricultural Society,

Standish, Sept. 18-21.



Armada Agricultural Society, Arm

mada, Sept. 18-21. l



Calhoun, County Agricultural Associ-l

ation, Marshall, Sept. 18-21. “



Caro Fair and Night Carnival, Caro,-

Aug. 20-24.



Cheboygan County Fair, Wolverine,

Sept. 25-28. i



.Chippewa County Fair, Sault Stew

Marie, Sept. 10-13. l



Chippewa & Mackinac District Agri-

cultural Society, Pickford, Sep-t. 17-19.



Clare County Agricultural Associa-

tion, Harrison, Sept. 18-21. 5





l





 





Clinton County Fair, St. Johns, Sept, big money for thousands.

3'6. 9 have started more breederson





Copper County Fair, Houghton,

Sept. 25-29. . j'



Croswell Agricultural Society, Cros-l

well, Sept. 11-14. '



Delta County Agricultural Society,‘

Esoanaba, Sept. 18—21. i



Dickinson County Menominee Range

Agricultural Society, Norway, Aug. 31-

Sept. 3.



Eaton County Agricultural Society,

Charlotte, Sept. 25-28.



Emmet County Fair, Petoskey, Sept.

11-14.



Genesee County Fair, Davison, Aug.

27—31.



Gogebic County Fair and Agricultur-

al Association. Ironwood, Aug. 28-31.



Grange Fair of St. Joseph County.‘

Centerville, Sept. 17-22. l



Grangers’, Gleaners’ and Farmers”.

Fair, Big Rapids, Sept. 25-29.



Greemille Fair, Greenville, Septem-

ber 12-14.



Gratiot County Agricultural Society,

Ithaca, Aug. 28-Sept. 1. .



Hillsdale County Agricultural Soci-

ety, Hillsdale, Sept. 24-29. :



Huron County Fair, Bad Axe, Aug.

28-31.



lmlay City Fair, Imlay City, Sept.

11-14. 1



Ionia Free Fair, Ionia, Aug. 14-17. '



Iosco County Fair, Tawas City,

Sept. 11-14.



Isabella County gricultural Socie-

ty, Mt. Pleasant, Sept. 4-8.



JacksOn County Agricultural Socie-‘

ty, Jackson, Sept. 10-15.



Lenawee County Fair, Adrian, Sept.

17-21.



Livingston County Fair Association,

Howell, Aug. 28—31. "

46Luce County Fair, Newberry, Sept.



Mackinac County. Fair Association}.

Allenville, Sept. 20-22. ,



Marquette County Agricultural Socifi

ety, Marquette, Sept. 10-15.



Mason County Central Fair Associa-

tion, Scottville, Sept. 12-14. .



Michigan State Fair, Detroit. Aug.

31-Sept. 9.



North Branch Fair Society,

Branch, Sept. 18-21.



Northwestern Michigan Fair Associ-

ation, Traverse City, Sept. 17-21.



Northeastern Michigan Fair Associ-

ation, Bay City, Aug. 27-31. ,



ngland County Fair, Milford, Sept.j

12-1 . :



Oceana County Agricultural Society,’

Halt, Sept. 1821.





North





Ogemaw County Fair, West Branchn

Sept. 5-7.



Otia Fair Association, Brahman»

Sept. 15. l





1 (gtsego County Fair, Gaylord, Sept:

8— 1. ‘ , i

Presque Isle County Fair, Millers—i

burg, Sept. 12-14. '



St. Clair County Agricultural Socie-T

ty, Yale, Sept. 25-28. ’



Saginaw County Agricultural Fair,

Saginaw, Sept. 10-16.



Sanilac County Agricultural'Society,

Sandusky, Sept. 4-7.



Schoolcraft County Agricultural So-

ciety, Manistique, Sept. 25-27.

' Shiawassee County Fair,

Aug. 21-24.



South Ottawa & West Allegan Agri-

cultural Society, Holland, Sept. 11-14.



Stalwart Fair Association, Stalwart,

Oct. 4-5. '



Tuscola, Huron and’ Sanilac District

Fair, Cass City, Aug. 14-17.



Van Buren County Fair, Hartford,

Sept, 25-29. '



Washtenaw County Fair, Ann Arbor,





Sept. 18-22. ,

Wayne. County Fair, Northvilie,





Owosso,





 

   





We have them of Sept. furrow. not only showing

extreme quality, but greater size

expect to find. Follow M 29 to .





 

 

 

 





Hoes





, - . . ' , o

Is It Worth While?

A real boar pie sired by Woodford Sensation.

Dams of Defender 01' Pathfinder breeding.



If so,





than you will





Kope-Kon Farms, Coldwater, Mich





 





‘D. I. (L's—Good March Bears and July Pigs





. Milo H. Peterson, Elmhurst Farm. Ionia, Mic-h. K 2





, Choice Gilts $25 to 5540. Boats $30. Fall Pigs {$15.

\HART AND CLINE. Address F. T.HAR’1‘, St. -; .

3 Louis. Mich.





‘. A few fall pigs for sale; _

‘ a grandson of "The Rainbow and Big Bob" the great-





, The Real Kind. A few of those big, smooth.stretchy,

‘ bred gilts for sale.





 





 





 





F3113 Grated 3‘9““





UROC JERSEYS Spring pigs either sex of .'\ arch

April and May furrow, sired by three outstanding

herd boars. If you want size ty 9 and quality combined

come and see or write us. F. J. Eh‘odt. Monroe. Mich. R. l





 





Pure bred Duroc sows and gilts bred for August and

'September litters. also spring pigs.Now is the time

to get. in the hog businss, not out. Michiguna Farm,

Pavilion. Mich.





DUORG JERSEYS 2.1.3321 ’Q’Eé‘gsiiulfiml'iiid'ri‘éf

row.~—li. D. Ileydenberk, Wayland. Mich.





DUBOC JERSEYS MID DELAINE MElllllUS.





AR EY U. EDMONDS, Hastings. Mich





 





 





Duro Apr. farrow $15.00 reg. for short time. IFall

‘cs, gilts $20 to 82x) breeding and quality. Satis~

faction or money'back. B. E. Klemflillsdale, Mich.





FOR SALE A few Duroc Gilts bred to

the best sire in Michigan

CLARENCE B. CALKINS. Wayland. Mich.





‘ ° 9 Earl maturing, rolific, heavy

Ben’am'n s weig t, prize winger kind from

BIG TYPE bloodlines of’ hampions and.





Grand Champions, now makini





road to success than an li-vmg

help on say to





W" ITE’S flighggstt'snl‘lttle. .s.ionlaplin



IJ‘. D. 10. Portland. Muell-

GHESTER WHITES 3332.2...2‘15‘5"Z‘iffl.‘

WEBER BROS. 10 Mlle llll. West Royal 0ak,'Mlch,





.. ' Th l' k'

Boars--Chester Whites. 11:33:56,353





Cholera Tmmuned and guaranteed, Ship on approval

or C. t). 1). Fred L. Bodimer, Reese, 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.

March pigs. single or in pairs. also





0' I' C' bred gilts for August farrow,

CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.





 





 





 





0 | c! 3 last fall gilts to furrow in August and Sept.

- - s-TS spring pigs. not akin, good big stock

recnrdt'd free. ()tto B. SChlllZO& Sons. Nashville. Mich.





Quality Poland Chinas





Sired by a good son of Orange Clansman‘. Now offer-

ing a few fall gilta and spring pigs of either set,





S. S. BURRILL Reese, Mich.

BOARS READY for service. Spring boars at.





weaning tlme and gilts bred to (Ambit-

ion Again) for Sept. farrow. They are priced to sell.

and shipped on approval. Dorus Hover. Akron. Mlch.





L ine Bred Liberators





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

word in Poland China Breeding. Bred sows and spring

pigs of either sex. Prices right. Vaughan's See

Farm. Ovid. Mich.





L. T. P. C.





largest in Mich.





Sired by “The Wolverine"





Large Type P. C.





est yearling hour I ever owned has size combin

with quality. Come and see the real kmd. '

W. l‘l. LIVINGSTON. Parma. Mich





Large Type P. C.





Bred for March, April and May

Priced right.





N. F. BORNOR.





Large Type Poland Chinas





For sale Full lloars. Gilts bred or open. Herd head

ed by two Grand Champion boars,





A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester, Mich.

RADIO GIANT





Represents the worlds largest strain of Poland

China Hogs. Boars. Sows, Pigs at. bargain prices from

Mich. pioneer herd. We have bred them big for30 ‘

years. We can furnish what you want. .

JNO. C. BUTLER. Portland, Mich

ig Type P. 0. some very choice boars doublelm

anne. out 1100 lb. sire and mammoth sows frog:

l'nwn's greatest herds. E.J.M athewson. Burr ()ak,Mich





Big Bob and Peace and

B‘ T- P' C“ Pan sows) Plenty strains. Bred to

a son of Alaska. M. 0. Mount. Mayville.Mlch.





furrow. .

Parmn, \ " Ich





' 2 nice gilts with pigs by side. also



Large Slram P. 0. pi s at weaning time.

H, O. SWARTZ. Schoolcrnft, Mich.

“I ALLNUT ALLEY Big Type Poland China Boar

pigs ready for new homes. Give me a once

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





.. L. T. P. C. Spring pigs ready.

[one Maple Farm Also yr. boar. Write for dos.

cription and prices. F. R. Davis & Son.Belding. Mich.





° A few bred gilts left. Place your

Hampslnres order now for your boar pig. P i





81‘s

t kin. 10th ear.

"0 3 JOHN w. SNYDER. R. 4. St.Johns.Mioh





SHEEP





Lincolns and Tunis sheen. rams.

COtSWOldS ewes.. lambs. the same that I .

have shown at Michigan State Fairs. and they are

ready to show now. L. R. 'Kuney. Adrian. Mich.





' For sale in car lots. 2""

Breeding Ewes m on, ,0,“ mum,

mostly black faced. In good condition. A. B. '





CHAPMAN & SON. .So. Rockwood, Mich.





DELAINE RAMS, extra. fine on“,





Photos Free.

I“. H. Russell. R 3 . Wakeman. Ohio. ,
low price of cats and the small hay

crop. prices for this grain appear to

be on bed rock. .





GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, August 14.





 

 





~Wheat.



Detroit—N0. 1 red, $10515; No. 2

red, $1.04%; No. 2 mixed, $10415; No.

2 white, $1.041,é; No. 3 red, $



Chicago.———September / @

December at $1.041,é@1.04%;

May, $1.09%@1.09%.



Toledo—Cash, $1.03@



Corn.





Detroit—Cash No. ..

92%0; No. 3, 91%0; No. 4, 89%0.

Chicago—September at 767/8@77c;

December, 63Q26?6%tc; May, 64%c.

a s.





Detroit—Cash No. 2 white at 47c;

No. 3, 451,“; No. 4, 44c.

Chicago—September a

ember 38%0; Mary, 41%





Bean prices moved up slightly last

week. Demand is a shade better and

the old crop is well cleaned up so

that shippers are unable to replace

their holdings from the producers and

are inclined

hand-picked whites

$5.25 for prompt and September ship-

b. Michigan shipping points

§V5fih October and November beans at





 

 

 

 

 

 





are quoted at





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





seed prices

were practically steady during

past week. Reports of

ous sections are still mixed but on

the whole indicate a smaller out-turn

of red clover seed than last year. New

timothy seed will begin to come on

the market in volume before long.





5 36%0; Dec' yields in vari‘





Detroit. —— Immediate and prompt

shipments $5.15 per cwt. _

Chicago—Choice $5.50; red kidneys





New York—Choice

red kidneys $7.25@7.50





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 711/.)0.

Chicago—September 65c;

ber 68%0; May 717/30.

.Toledo.——Cash 68%0.





pea. $6.25@6.50;





Wheat feed prices declined slightly

last week as flour mills are expanding

operations and demand is only fair.

Strength in the corn market is sus-

prices on gluten and hominy

But little old cottonseed meal

is available and prices





Detroit—Prime I'Bd Clover 03,311 at premium over new crop offer.





$10.00; timothy $3.30.

ay.



New Hay: No. 1 timothy, $19.50@

@1900; No. 2 timothy, $175061)

mixed, $17.00@

clover, $15.00@16.00;

wheat and oat straw, $10.50@11.00;

rye straw, $11.50@12.00.





Bran $28.00;





y crop forecast was again

n the August report.

total yield of wild and tame hay is

now placed at 97,300,000

pared with 112,800,00

The 1917 to 1921 ave





 





0 tons last year.

rage is 99,500,000

The reduction in the crop is al-

most entirely in tame hay and is most

acute in the eastern states.

section have been par-

recently as a result of





standard middlings

$33.00; fine do $34.00; cracked corn

coarse cornmeal

chop $34.00 per Ftontin 100-lb.





Apples.——Michi





in the latter

ticularly firm

light receipts.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Prices on top quality eggs are firm-

use of limited sup-

ality of receipts is

w improvement al-

tlle arrivals are still

pts are running slight~

volume moving into con-

sumptive channels and withdrawals

stocks in storage have

supplement the supply



Excess holdings over

of 229,000 cases as shown

y report of 10,390,000

t 1 of this year as

0 cases in 1922 and a

,8].1,000 cases,



general esti-





..,

.l

' it

as

‘ A

r

l

f

1

:y.‘

l

:1»

.

u





gan, Transparents at_





Weal hies, $1.00@1.25 per bushel.

Plums.——24—qt.



basket 50@75c.

2Cherries.—Michigan, 16-qt cases at

50





ppg, $2.00@2.25





ly. maintained beca





beginning to sho

though most of

. . _ irregular. Recei

Pears—Mich. 1y behind tlle

per bu.; Bartletts, $2.2



Berries. —- Blackberries $2.00@2.25

per 16—qt case; black raspberries 16-qt

case $2.50@2.75;

$3.00@4.00 per 24—pint case; blueber-

cultivated $3.00@3.50;





WHEAT





Both winter and spring Wheat fore-

casts were reduced in the oflicial re-

port as of August 1, the total yield

793,000,000 bushels

compared with 862,000,000 bushels

harvested last year.

20,000,000 bushels in

only partially offsets this decrease.





of short held

been made to





raspberries at of good eggs.





against 10,161.00

five-year average of 7

were greater





being placed at





The increase of

the carry-over





mates of dealers by nearly 200,000 wool to make‘trouble. The shortage

cases. , of fine wools, especially from Aus-



Chlcago.—Eggs, extras, 31@32c;' tralia, has stimulated more buyingof

miscellaneous, 23@231;éc; dirties, 20@ that grade than of ether kinds.» The

20%c; checks, 20c; fresh firsts, 24@ program for selling the new Austral-

250; ordinary firsts, 22@22'1,§c. Live ian clip estimated at 1,610,000 bales

poultry, hens, 24c; broilers, 260; provides for beginning the season on

springers, 300; roosters, 14c; ducks, September 17 and distributin sales





220; geese, 20c; turkeys, 2055c. ' over the following eight mont s.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and ‘

graded, 25%@27c. Live poultry, broil- APPLES





ers, 32@35c; heavy hens, 250; light





hens, 18@200' roosters 15@160' l -

. ’ 4 ’, ’ y the same as a month ago in spite

geese, 12c, ducks, 25@26c. of reports of an extremely heavy sum-

BUTTER mer drop. The commercial crop is

placed at 32,900,000. barrels compared

A Shortage of only 2,182,000.130und8 with 31,000,000 barrels last“ year‘and

0f butter ”1 001d storage holdings on an average of 25,700,000 barrels from

August 1 compared with a year ago 1917 to 1921. The carlot movement

as shown by the oflic1al report on is not expanding very rapidly as the

warehouse holdings, was far out Of summer apple crop is proportionately

llne Wlth the general expectancy 0f smaller than the crop of winter vari-

the trade. However, consumption re- eties. Duchess and Transparents are





mains excellent and the output of but—

ter is falling off considerably each 959%,, agefiefegzdg_$l'50 per bushel





week and consiixltlelgtlyyunning behind

a year ago, so a prices were ma n-

tained even in the face of the “bear- Th PEACHES‘ ti t d t

ishn report. . e peach crop is now esd miltlf 53.

Foreign butter markets are reported 47’300’003 bruslhels iompare 3V . 6':

to be declining so that if domestic 700'000 us es las year an an 3Y7

prices continue on the upgrade, sub- erage 0f 42,700,000.bushels from 191

stantial imports may be resumed. to 1921- The .dgcllne .compared Wlth

Purchases. of 2 000 casks of New Zea— last year ‘5 Primarily 1n the southern

land and Danish butter to arrive late states 50 that liberal supplies are ex-

in the month are reported. pected during the late summer and

Prices for 92-score fresh creamery fa“- In Splte 9f the lighter southern

were: Chicago, 42c; New York, 43%,}; crop, carlot shipments for the. season

In Detroit fresh creamery in tubs to August 6 ggere 14'485 cals com-

sells for 38@391/2c. . pared With 13, 8 cars a year ago.





POTATOES ~ GRAND RAPIDS.





The August 1 potato crop forecast New potatoes were lower and early

was 380,000,000 bUShEIS compared apples were dull to slow as a result

with 451,000,000 bushels last year and of heavier supplies offered on this

an average 0f 388,000,000 bUShels for market early this week. Tubers eased

the five preceeghns years. Based on to $1@1.50 bu. Apples were quoted:

past records Wlth such a supply, the Duchess 40@75c bu. ; Red Astrachans,

market outlook for the fall and winter 500((03125 bu.; Transparents, 50c@

is favorable. Carlot shipments 'of po- $1.25 bu. Prices on other farm pro-

tatoes are not above normal for this ducts were; Plums, Gold» Drops, $1.50 ~

time. of year and prices have been a half bu; red varieties, $1@1.25 half

holding fairly steady. Irish Cobblers bu.; peaches, Deweys,‘$2@3 bu.; Tri-

aro QUOted at $1.80 to $2.10 and Early umphs, $2@2.75 bu.; blackberries, $2 ~

0thS at $1-70 to $1390 per 100 pounds @250 case; cherries, sour, $1.25@1.50

on midwest consuming markets. case; tomatoes, outdoor, 50@75c bas-



ket; hothouse, 65@90c basket; celery,

WOOL 20@60c bunch; head lettuce, 50@85c



The wool market is still rather bu. or box; cantaloupesl $4@5 bu.;,

sluggish as the response of buyers to Wheat, 85@860 bu.; rye, 520 bu.; eggs, .

opening prices 011 spring goods by 24@25c doz.; fOWlS, 15@2001b.; broil-

lmillslhas not bheen such as to stimu— cm, 15@250 lb. .

a e arge purc ases of raw material

by the latter. Buying in both the DETROIT C” Y MARKET





range and bright Wool sections is still - - -

slack. Foreign’markets also are inac- The JObbmg prices onkoldTplotatoes

tive. Raw wool is low priced com- $318.9 $é§0j€§g20£t %ir5(}s&05 00 pelt? 11,1ng

pared with goods prices, mills are still while on the farmers' market home:

consuming at a relatively high rate rown stock was’ bein offered at

and there are no heavy supplies of g1 75 . g -

. @200 per bu. At the commis-

sion houses Duchess and Transparent

apples were moving at $1.75 per bu.





The aple crOp forecast is practical-





Sweet Boughs were selling for $2.50





I Live Stock. Market SCfViCC‘ {£2 $223322,“Eirttf‘tfgflsgfieit £3





with corn have stimulated broad in-

terest in the feeding of wheat and the

process of disposing of a much larger

fraction of the crop than usual via.

that route appears to be already un-

In addition, the symptoms

uction in acreage





Wednesday, August 15.

BUFFALO





Receipts 5 cars.





Market steady.

Calves at $14.50.





of a substantial red





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





lstriagngthened the wheat mark Receipts 20 cars;





Heavy and pigs,

ers $9.25@9.35; pig

Sheep and Lambs.



Market is steady.

0; yearlings, $9@

@850; ewes, $6@8.





DETROIT





Receipts 387. Good dry

slow on common.

Good to choice yearlings

Best heavy steers .

Handyweight butchers ..

Mixed steers and heifers

Handy light butchers. . . .

Light butchers





Butcher cows





Market is steady.





.250. ; -

Foreign buyers have $8 @850 york





aroused over the changed crop out-

look in North America.

world surpluses still look ample for

the effective demand abroad and for-

eign finances would hardly permit

buying extensively for future needs.





 





Receipts 3 cars.

Top lambs, $13.0

11.00; wethers, $8





_ The August forecast for the corn

crop was 2,982,000,000 bushels or a

shade less than the average of the

Most of the critical

period in which dry weather injures

the crop has been passed.

must still run th

frosts, however.

Corn is still scarce in commercial

and is broad enough

thin 2 or 3 cents of





—fed strong;





last four years.





e hazards of early





channels and dem

to keep prices wi

the high point of the season.

course of the market is uncertain as

, a moderate increase in

' ducers could cause a su

a decline in the movement

primary markets '

. further advance

v, _, negligible visible

. to act-as a balan





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Choice bulls . . .

Bologna bulls . .

Stock bulls . . . . . .





note-eonooo-eleu





sales by- pro-

bstantial set-





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as there is only'a

supply at terminals





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Veal calves. . ,_ . .

444. Marketstmn‘g ‘to-5'Oc





_....,:~.........s14.-00 145041,.





 

 

 

 





_ The- oats,,harv§st4 is. well advanced

' ts have increased

. product is 1,316,; ‘

hels «1.115.000.1300 bu 913'

Mt, your Considering; e





 





   

 





 





@275 per bu. for fancies and $1.50@

2.25 for No. 1. Kalamazoo and Dewey

, , peachets wsezremlggngo sold bly theAfafrm-



ers a . . per u. ew

Best lambs . . o . e u . o . . . . .$12.50@13.00 plums are moving at $2_75@300 per





Fair lambs. . . n . . o . . . . . . . 10.50@11.50 bu. Eggs are coming in moderate





 





nght to common ....... 8.00@1000 amount with the demand good. At

Fair to good sheep. . . . .. 5..50@ 6.50 wholesale they bring 32@35c per doz;

Culls -'-- - - - - - - - - . - ~_- - - - 1-50@ 3-00 retail, 35@45c. Old hens are selling

“098- at 24@260 wholesale, and 25@30c re-



Receipts 1,057. Market prospects tail. Broilers bring 35@45c per lb-

are: Sweet corn brings 13@‘25c per doz.;

Mixed hogs ................. $8.85 cabbage. 75@900 per bu.; cucumbers

Pigs ..... $8@8.25 g5cgl,$ll.25. and beans $1.00@1.25 per



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CHICAGO

Hogs. . LAMB SUPPLY BELOW NORMAL.





Receipts 22,000. Market for desir- ,

able grades rule mostly from 15 to Receipt of lambs are not expanding

25c higher. Offerings averaging from in, seasonal f shion as the total at

160 to 230 pounds went at $8.50@8.65; seven market last week was the

tops, $8.70; bulk of desirable 240-325 smallest for the corresponding wek

pound butcher stock, $7.90@8.40; with one exception in a dozen years.

packing sows were largely" $6.20@ Taken -in connection with the light

6.50; good strong weighty pigs $7.75 movement for the past few weeks it

@800. ' seems to herald a relatively small



Cattle. _ run during tho fall. Range lambs are



Receipts 10,000. Better grades of ”Gt movmg freely 3.5 yet and the 5‘11"

bulls and killi g classes were steady ply of natives has diminished. Dressed

to strong, whfie other classes run lamb markets have recovered. from

‘around steady. Top steers brought a their recent indigestion and prices on

bid of $12.50 and the best yearlings the hoof advanced sllghtly last week.

went to $12.35 mark. Numerous loads Feeder lamb values moved Wlth the

of» beef steers and yearlings brought fat lamb market. and. breeding ewes

$10.25@11.50. Veal calves went to 1‘0“ about. 31: Yearling, ewes DOW b9-

packers at $11@11.50 and to outsiders ing quoted up to 311‘ ,

at $12.50. Bulk of .heavy bologna , _ .- ' , . .. .

bulls sold at, $4.40,@4.60. _ , ,r _ , ‘ COMING. LIVE STOCK SALES.



.. ,Shee. ' ‘ .



.Receipts_were.15.800. Market. for — . ” ’

fat lambs Was 25c higheg; culls ruled ‘ 3'?

Steady. and sheep ~were up- “@861;- 391%”

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T seldom happens that. two large

apple crops .are produced in suc-

cessive years, yet. both the State’s

and Nation’s crop is larger than last

. year. -The August estimate is for a

commercial crop of 32,877,000 barrels

‘ for the United States as compared

with 31,090,000 barrels in 1922. New

York’s crop is placed at 6,212,000 bar-

rels; Pennsylvania’s at 1,249,000, Vir-

ginia’s' at 1568000; Michigan’s at

2,008,000; Colorado’s at 840,000, Ida-

ho’s. at. 1,319,000; Washington's at

8,683,000, and Oregon's at 1,712,000.

Notwithstanding the larger crop in

prospect, the quality is also much bet-

ter this year. This will improve the

demand which was somewhat lacking

during the early ~part of the market-

ing season last year because of the

'flood of inferior fruit which always

tends to stunt the appetites. of the

consuming public. The quality of the

Michigan crop is said to be the best

- in years, due to unusual care on t e

part of growers in spraying and to

the favorable season for controlling

Saab and insect pests.

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POTATO SITUATION MORE

PROMISING.





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HE 'discouraging price conditions



that farmers experienced last

year in connection with their potato

crop are not likely to be duplicated

this year. A crop of 451,185,000 bush-

els was produced in the United States

in 1922, and if it had all been moved

there would'have been no spring mar-

ket at any price. High freight rates

and car shortage in some sections

prevented large quantities being

shipped, particularly from the western

states where the largest increase in

production took place.



The outlook is quite different this

year. The severe losses sustained by

growers in the western states caused

them to reduce the acreage planted

and Michigan and Wisconsin growers

made a moderate reduction in their

acreages. While the crop depends

upon future moisture conditions, the

present prospect is for a production

of 379,558,000 bushels which does not



' exceed the country’s normal con-

sumption.



The Michigan crop is placed at 29,-

297,000 bushels as compared with 37,-

842,000 grown last year, according to

the August report issued by L. Whit-

ney Watkins, Commissioner of Agri-

culture and Verne H. Church, Agricul-

tural Statistician for Michigan. The

figures for the other leading potato

states are as follows: Maine, 26,045,-

000; New York, 30,365,000; Wisconsin,

27,211,000; Minnesota, 37,510,000;

North Dakota, 12,621,000; Montana,

4,754,000; Colorado, 16,671,000; Idaho,

12,081,000 bushels.





HORT TRAVELOGU E.





 





(Continued from page 138)

Hall Orchards, Inc., east of Belding.

These trees are headed low so that

a. great share of the fruit can be pick-

ed from the ground. No attempt is

made to cultivate beneath the trees,

but the rest of the ground is kept in

good tilth. Before going through the

orchard the tourists made away with

fourteen hundred sandwiches, thirty

gallons of ice cream, as well as heaps

. of potato salad, and plenty of coffee

‘ so liberally furnished by Mr. B. F.

Isiall' of the Hall‘Orchards. After din-

ner much interest was taken in the

dusting experiments and spraying ex-

periments which were explained by

Prof. Dutton and Mr. Wells of M. A.

_C., who had the work in charge.

The mid-afternobn stop of thiscar—

'avan of fruit growers was at- the

Luther Hall orchards, near Ionia. Mr.

Hall’s orchard, is unique in that the

trees areheaded high, but the bearing

the limbo-with thefrlit

low, 4 Mr.,m,.sprays entirely

01 Bar ‘eaux Mixture hitting “the





I 1 at -_ the: ‘Sixtysacre ~ orchard 5612', ' Spies





at: ease, as. .1, Was "made.





near ‘Muir, 'whiCh’ is owned by Oscar

Brahman of Grand Rapids. In this

orchard, as well as several others

which Were visited, ducting. supple-

mented spraying. 'Here also the sod-

mulched; method was carried out quite





' efficiently.





This tour was so full of good things

both from the mental and phySical

standpoint that it is possible to give





.in this small .space just a bare out-





line of it. At most every stop the





‘orchardists gathered around the own-





er of the place while he told of the

history of the orchard and answered





questions regarding his 'various or-

chard practices. » Prof. Gardner and





'others from the horticultural depart-





ment of the college were also present

to help the fruit growers with any





questions which might come to their

minds.





 





FEDERAL CROP REPORT.





HE federal crop reporters indicate



a heavy reduction in the wheat

production of the United States as

compared to their estimates for the

first of July. Present figures are for

a crop of 793,000,000 bushels as com-

pared with 862,000,000 bushels as the

final estimate on Dec. 1, 1922 and 3.

average for the five years 1917 to 1921

of 835,000,000 bu.



The corn crop is now estimated at

2,982,000,000 bu., compared with 2,891,-

000,000 bu. for 1922 and a five year

average of 2,931,000,000 bu.



Oats are promised to the tune of





 





1,316,000,000 bu. which is more 'than





the 1,201,000,000 bu. of last year but

less than the five year average of

1,378,000,000 bu. ~



Barley is up with 202,000,000 bu.

this year, 186,000,000 bu. in 1922 and

192,000,000 bu. for the five year aver-

age.



Rye is light this year, showing a.

crop of 64,800,000 bu. for the current

year, 95,500,000 bu. for last ‘year and

70,300,000 bu. for the five year av-

erage. '



Buckwheat is also light, the report-

ers putting the expected yield at 13,-

500,000 bu. for this year, 15,000,000 for

last and 14,900,000 for the five year

average.



Irish potatoes are also off. The es-

timated yield this.year is 380,000,000

bu., for last year 451,000,000 and for

the five year average 388,000,000 bu._



Tame hay is short with 81,300,000

tons this year, 96,700,000 tons for 1922

and 83,300,000 tons for the five year

average.



Sugar beets run to 6,530,000 tons

for the present yedr,

for a. year ago and 6,930,000 tons for

the average for five years.



The commercial apple crop is esti-

mated this year at 32,900,000 barrels

as compared with 33,100,000 barrels

1n the past year and an average of

25,700,000 barrels for the five years.



The peach crop has an average of

42,700,000 for the five years, 56,700,000

for 1922 and this year 47,300,000 bu.

are promised.





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Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

crl. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of





each are and give. name and address of the writer. initial. ‘ -





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

oflvxee becomes private practice and 31 mutt be encrooed.





 





Lymphangitis.——A while ago one of

our cows developed a. swelling in the

foot; it swelled until the whole leg

was swelled from the knee down. In

a day or two it broke. She was very

lame.for.a few days and now the

swelllng 1s gone, but -»I found nothing

wrong with the foot. Last week we

had a similar case, but the cow re—

covered at the end of four days. The

leg of another cow swelled up to the

knee; she is too lame to walk. The

swelling has not broke open. We are

told of other cases in this vicinity.

What ‘shall we do for them? Thomas

N. ,Hurd, Port Hope,. Mich—During

hot weather cows that have access to

ponds or creeks are inclined to re-

main in the_water too ‘much of their

time. If so, the glands of the leg may

become inflammed and the animals

_show many of the symptoms you

mention. If you can locate the sore

ness, apply camphorated oilonce or

twice a day. Give each cow a dessert

spoonful of acetate of potash in

drinking water three times a day. 'If





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





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ofteat stricture in cows? Is there a

remedy for this ailment? I bought

two cows this Spring and when they

came fresh, I found’ that they were

both afflicted with this ailment, one

so badly in both front teats that I had

to secure'tne services of a veterinar-

ian to open the ducts by an operation

with a knife. Now I have to use a

milking tube to draw the milk. The

other cow has slight closing of duct

in one teat. C. V. Thayer, Spruce,

Mich—Thickening of the mac mem-

brane and closure of the mil“ duct

is often the result of inflammation

extending from without, inward; a

gradual narrowing of the milk duct

may occur from thickening and nar—

rowing of its lining membrane. It

may also close by the constriction of

its lining membrane at one point, us-

ually without thickening. The closure

usually takes place while the cow is

dry; otherwise its progress is slow

and gradual. Doubtless your veter-

inarian treated the ease properly.

Sometimes a small wart grows in the

teat canal, blocking the milk flow.

Warts.——I have a heifer which. has

growth on bag, another bunch of

same nature on side of leg. These





growths look like warts, they are

gradually growing larger; first no-

ticed them two months ago. Ray T.





Stoddard, Dryden, Mich.—Doubtless

your heifer is troubled with warts and

as they are only skin deep, you can

safely cut them out and the wounds

Will soon heal. If you will apply

strong cider vinegar to warts it will

take them off. If olive or castor oil

be applied daily it might take them

off, but in my practice I usually cut

them out. This is quick and satisfac-

tory treatment.



Bloody Milk, Slimy Milk.—VVe have

a ‘cow five years old that gives bloody

milk from one quarter, but only oc-

casionally. At other times her milk

is stringy. This quarter of bag is

feverish, not painful when pressed,

and I might add, she has been tuber-

culin tested, showed no reaction. 0.

M. Corn, Lansing, Mich.—~I am in-

clined to believe your cow bruises her

udder by it coming in contact with

some hard substance. If you can as-

certain the cause and remove it, her

udder will soon be well. Apply cam-

phorated oil to inflamed quarter twice

daily. Give her a teaspoonful of ni-

trate of potash in drinking water

twice a day.



Loss of Power.—My 150-lb. pigs are

ailing. One first lost pOWer in hind

quarters and afterwards died. An-

other lost all power in his legs; theyl

doubled up under him. The others'

are weak and walk with their knuck-j

les forward. Appetite is good and the 3

pigs eat anything placed before them. }

These pigs are in good condition and .'

I have been carrying them along on“

milk, corn and a little pasture. Thei

pigs have been on this pasture for

three weeks and did not develop this





 





trouble until let" out or the 4pm if. .





E. Overdorf, Birmingham, Mich.—,—-~’



Doubtless you have been feeding the

pigs too much corn, not enough tank-

age, roots, clover, alfalfa, and miner-

als. Perhaps you had better slaugh-

ter them now: Their flesh is fit for

food. Try feeding them some crushed

limestone rock, bone meal, salt—equal

parts in ground oats and wheat bran.

The grass they eat should benefit

them. No doubt the exercise hast-

ened the attack, but did not cause it.





 





 





 





 





 





 





“By the Way” _





“Chickens, sah,” said the negro

sage, “is de usefulest animal dere is.

You c'n eat ’em fo’ dey is bo'n after

dey’s dead.” '





 





 





 





First Farmer—“How do you find

your new hired man, Ezry?”

Second Farmer—“I look in the





shade of the tree nearest his work.”





 





“Is Mrs. De Muir an active member

of your sewing circle?”

“My goodness, no!

a word to say—just sits



sews all the time.”





She never has

there and





 





Son: “Pop, can I ask just one more

question?”



Father: “‘VVhat is it. my son?”, _



Son: “Who’s gonna’ preach for th’

last man’s funeral?”





 





The while I swat

The buzzing flies,

I can’t restrain

My thoughts and sighs.

I needn’t swat

Until I’m blue,

If Noah had

Just swatted two!





——Edgar Daniel Kramer

Chester Knutt, who is tighter than

the tire on a flivver, makes the kids

chew gum when they are picking

raspberries. This saves quite a bit of

berries. And the kids have to furnish

their owu gum—Sunshine Hollow.





1‘61wCOMPOUND

_ ’5‘) FOR

as“ .romsernwe,

3325 Box guaranteed to give satisfaction or mon-





ev back. $1.10 Box Sufficent forordinar cases-

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consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as





display type or illustrations admitted.





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

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Try it for want ads and for adver-

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11 ........ .88 2.64 0.48

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13 ........ 1.04 3.12 6.96

ll ........ 1.12 3.36 7.20

15 ........ 1.20 3.60 7,44

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17 ........ 1.36 4.08 7.92

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'21 ........ 1.68 5.04 . 8.88

22 ........ 1.76 5.28 . 9.12

2". ........ 1.84 5.52 39 ........ 3.12 9.36

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TOBACCO, five pounds chewing $1.75; ten,

five pounds smoking $1.25; ten.

Pipe and Recipe free. Send

received. United Tobacco





LEAF

$3.00; twenty. $5.25;

$2.00; twenty, $3.50.

no money, pay when





Growers, Mayfield, 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. Quallty guaranteed. O'Connor Smokehouse.

S-133, Mayfleld, Ky.





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

10 1115.. $3.00. Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25: 10 lbs.. $2.00

Pay when received, pipe and recipe free. Formers'

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MONEY T0 LOAN ON FARMS, 6% interest. No

cmnmissinn. No mortgage tax. Security Mortgage

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES





GERMAN Shepherd. Airedales. Collies; Old English

Shepherd dogs; Puppies: 10c illustrated instructive

list. “ . It. \\ atson. Box 3.3. Macon. Mn. ,





 





FOR SALE—Pedigreed Airdale Pups. Oorang Strain.

$10 and 815. F. H. Aldrich. Saranac. Mich. 11!, d.





 





 





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ltllODE ISLAND REDS—Rose Comb Ceckcrels. hen-

llatched. farm raised. Big, thrifty dark colo

birds from prize winning strains, $4 to $7.50. Two

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

[lidwcll Stock Earm. Tecumseh. Michigan.





. C. BTYF'F LEGHORNS. Old and young stock for

sale. Willard \Vebs‘er, Bath, Mich.





; S. C. BLACK MINORCAS—Very fine quality. Priced

right.-—Frecman E. Hofl'man,_ Columbia City. Ind





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CHICKS. prices cut. Leghorns. 10c:

Orplngtons. Wyandottes. 12c; Assorted. .

Catalog. Missouri Poo-7





QUALITY

Rocks, Reds.

9c. Prompt free delivery.

Farms. Columbia, Mo.





 





 





 





HELP WANTED





WANTED——Rclinblc. energetic men to sell “Ilgen—

fritz" fruit trees and shrubbery. Unlimited oppor-

tunities. Every property owner a prospective cus-

tomer. One of our men drew over $3.500 in 1922.

Outfit and instructions furnished free. Steady em-

cash weekly. Liberal commission.

Ilgenfrltz Sons Co.. The

Established 1847.





ployment:

for terms—I. E.

Nursery. Monroe. Mich.





Monroe





WANTED—Farmer for dairy and general farm, on

share or salary basis. Farm strictly modern and





fully stooked and equipped. Give experlence, an.

and size of family. Permanent position. Write-

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FOR SALE or rent.‘ up-to-date meat market, will

sell or lease building for same. doing a 800d busi-

ness. Reason for selling, roll account at .hoalth.

Box 352. Mason. Mich.





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Daring drivers in

swift cars will

appear in the

most thrilling

contests ever

witnessed in

Michigan.





   





This, program is y

only one on the 7 f 7’":

$50, 000']

‘ list of he e

attractions.





 

 

 





 





 





 





Horse races, two great fire-

works spectacles three famous

bands, parachute races, acro-

bats and many others. '





T wenty-two great midway shows,

the west’s greatest dOg show and cat

show, and a score of other Special

attractions. -





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Michigan State





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