1' . : a.“ 1"» .<«.. m._ A-.V . ...- A“ a”, ._... \\ mum“ x .INWE-uimmywmmv n ”my! . ,w n a "th!lItllmfimmiIii-lml""=|ll| ‘WHHH‘illllllIHlIHIIHH "I'lNIHUNIHNHIIHIIIIHUIIIlHHIHIIIHIIIIIIIHHMIIHIIIHHIIIIHIIIIHIHIHHHIUIIIIHLIIlfl ’. v01. am. No.‘ Whole"rlnmber 42 3 _.__.___.____) n \ ' xHHHlllHHHu‘H‘ IHIHHHI "KI‘HIHIHIIIIIHIIIIH'iHHIIlIlNIHIIIIINIHIIHHIIHlIHIIHIllIIX’IIHHIHIMIHHHIIIHHIS!!!”H|HHHHHHHM|\\\“.J“(tau ONE YEAR 81.011 FIVE YEARS 83.00 ‘IIEIIMiI>L1HHVIy~HMLILHHll glam}infinyflunlmw .. _ _ , _,, :Jmmwuuummm H h . Hmum hm~‘nuvnumummumLHII/bflfir}; “"“"""”' ”"’ " '“”"“'"'HHUIHI‘H”HIHIHIlll!”ll'HHllflljill|III“IliNIHIHHIIHflH\\\ y .JL'W p. .4 4?": 4-3:! l] punWme The Standard of Comparison 7 It has the new Buick valve-in-head engine providing greater power. There is complete and automatic lubrica- tion of the motor—keeping the crank case filled to the proper level is all that is necessary. There are the four- wheel brakes [on all models] which add so much to driving safety. And also there is the greater beauty contributed regarding this four-cylinder, five by the distinctly new body desxgn. A a I BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, It AUTOMOBILES «a; sure, no. 2 . . , .1.I.//////4,../\ \ l hogan/V; ,\ BETTER Prices 1'. o. b. Buick Factories; (overnment tax to be added. 1&7/ M; /w\ Five Passenger Double Service Sedan Seven Passenger Touring - - Four Passenger Coupe - - . Three Passenger Sport Roadster Two Passenger Roadster - . . . Five Passenger Sedan - - . Five Passenger Touring Two Passenger Roadster — . - - Five Passenger Sedan - - - - - Seven Passenger Sedan —, - - 1" our Passenger Sport Touring Brougham Sedan - 1" our Passenger Coupe - Five Passenger Touring WHEN nu“..- — w.-.“ T L up?“ . “mam W .‘-’~‘ “I“ . fa : v/vw‘ ' 7 ~m~e ~< '-‘~ .1 . .,_.____. _ VOLUME CLXI / MM; PSHUBLI DWEEKLY. A Praetical Journal for the Rural Family :MTCHXQAN SECTION Tar CAPPEK FARM PRES5 QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE NUMBER FOURTEEN ACH poultry problems. season in turn brings its We must not ‘ forget in our rush to harvest the. pumpkins and corn, the beans and po- tatoes, and to Sow the wheat, that we have a poultry crop to transplant if we are going to ' get good yields. We are frequently asked when pullets should be housed and what care they should have in preparation for winter. The real foundation for a good pullet flock has been laid much earlier in .the season and started last spring when the breeding pen was selected or the baby chicks were purchased. How- ever, the summer care plays a big part and now on every care must be exer-. cised to maintain health and vigor if maximum results are to be obtained. Early hatched pullets should be housed and laying by this time but the great majority of this year’s pullets were later hatched. We usually plan on large plants to have the pullets in laying quarters when they are six months» of age. Leghorns and Anconas can be housed earlier by ten, days or two weeks, as they usually come into production considerably younger. For the average farm flock where the pul- By Clarence M. Ferguson Mgr. Michigan-International Egg Laying C 0mm lets vary in ages, it is usually best to plan on having them housed by Octo- ber 15. Birds which are still growing and are immature will do better on range so we hesitate to shut them -up until they are nearly ready to com- mence laying. The houses should be gone over and given a thorough cleaning, disinfecting and overhauling. There are sune to be window panes missing, which will give better service replaced than sub- stituted, by a gunny sack later in the fall. Repair all loose boards and bats where drafts might originate, and see that the roof has no leaks. Nothing will help the general appearance of a house as much as a good coat of white- wash. This aids in keeping down dis- eases and adds to the efficiency of the lighting. The more sunlight we can utilize by having plenty of glass, kept clean, and by supplying a' reflecting medium as whitewash, the less arti- Poultry Houses Should be Put in Good Condition Before Flock is Put in. 311 Management Of the Flock Some Eyremm/ Factory 222 Gettmg Poultry Ready for Winter ficial light is required during short days. Poultry house floors have always been a bone of contention. We have about concluded that a floor may be made of anything if it comes up to two or three standards. It must first be durable, easily cleaned and dry. Low, damp floors are injurious to gen- eral conditions and health of the birds. It may pay you to replace old dirt floors with concrete. In so doing he sure to have a few inches of some in- sulating material, such as cinders or coarse gravel under the cement. A two-inch floor is plenty heavy enough and can be put in fairly cheap. We have put a coat of asphalt over con- crete to prevent capillary water and find it gives excellent results. A straw loft arrangement will be found beneficial in many poultry hous- es, particularly those of the gable roof type. This can be readily put in by running a few two—by-fours across the house and covering with narrow lum- ber of a cheap grade. We usually rec- ommend leaving about four inches of space between the boards. This is (Continued on page 343). The Narrow Way to Good Dairying Supp/31mg Me Full Needy Ufa Good Cow IV IMO/12‘ 11/6152? 145mm: Profit: By M. G. Rebert ISTEN to what the department of agriculture did with a mature Holstein cow. The animal was fed on good pasture in summer and corn silage and alfalfa hay in winter, but she was given no grain. That cow consumed an unknown quantity of fresh grass during the 140 days she was on pasture, and ate 9,014 pounds of alfalfa hay and 8,985 pounds of sil- age during the remainder of the year ~—a matter of some nine tons of rough- age. The cow produced” 14,210 pounds 0f milk, which contained 470.24 pounds of butter-fat. In the succeeding year, when, in ad- , dition to about the same amount of roughage, the cow ate 7,056 pounds of grain, the animal yielded 25,499 pounds of milk and 823.11 pounds of butter- fat. Thus by the addition of a rela- tively small amount of the right sort of food the butter-fat production was almost doubled. What such facts means to the farm- er indollars and cents is shown by an- other recent investigation made by the department of agriculture. This in- vestigation proved that cows ,which produced an average of 3,250 pounds * of milk per annum showed an average yearly income of $32.25 above the cost of feed, while those averaging 13,250 pounds yielded an average income per annum of $218.10 above the cow’s feed. .The cows in this latter group produc- ed less than four times as much milk as. those in the first group, while the Everage income above the cost offeed was nearly seven times as great. A cow is merely a machine for mak- ing milk. To be run to capacity she . must be fed scientiflcally—that is, giv- an every food: element neCessaI-‘y for mere maintenance ration will not en- able the cow to produce milk in any quantity. It is the balanced ration, provided over and above the mainte- nance ration, that enables the cow to make milk. Unless this is provided in proper and sufficient quantities,‘what is fed for maintenance is largely wast- ed. And this feeding question offers a. very nice problem in mathematics. Now, a balanced ration does not consist of a scoopful of this and a pail- ful of that. It is a mixture of grains, with roughage, of which the protein, carbohydrate, fat, and fiber contents are known and provided in definite proportion, so as to form a. scientifical- ly compounded ration that will give a cow all the nourishment of every sort she needs and yet not waste anything, And when it is compounded, the farm- er must learn, by trial, experiment, and record, to feed each cow the max- imum quantity she can use profitably and yet not waste anything. It is a nice little problem that calls for a keen, analytical, observant mind. It goes without saying that a farmer who doesn’t know whether his cow gives fourteen quarts or eight quarts at a milking can never figure out for her a balanced ration, or feed her properly if someone else balances it for him. Such a problem cannot be satisfac- torily solved without the use of figures ——actua1 figures in black and white—— for there must be exactness. The milk must be weighed, the weights must be recorded, the butter-fat content must be ascertained, the quantities of feed consumed must be recorded, and the record must be studied. Without such * decade. records one can never know how much milk a cow gives, how much butter-fat she produces, how much she eats, or how much money is made or lost on her in a year. For, strange as it may seem, no farmer really knows about the yield of any cow unless he weighs and re- cords the milk production. The rea- son is that cows vary so much. Some milk heavily for two or three months after freshening, and then fall off rap- idly. Some never give much at a milk- ing, but their flow continues unabated throughout their lactation period. Only by keeping careful records can one ascertain how cows vary in produc- tiveness. The University of Illinois found, af— ter long and careful investigation, that the dairy cattle of the United States might be divided into three classes, with about equal numbers in each class. The average-yearly production of the first third was estimated at 134 pounds of butter-fat. The second class averaged 198 pounds of butter-fat. The third produced 278 pounds. The cows in the first class actually impoverish their owners. Those in the third class are the mainstay of the dairy business. On the other hand, there are a number of cows which have produced more than 1,000 pounds of butter-fat in one year. “Breeding up” and “feeding up” are steps in the solution of the milk prob- lem. Proper feeding alone would vast- ly increase the amount of milk sup- plied by the present herds of the coun- try. Proper breeding would, in the course of a decade, work wonders. That means five generations of cows. The use of pure— -bred sires, the proper balancing and feeding of rations, and ._ j. 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The road leading to a permanent scheme of orderly marketing Will sooner or later pass through the field of orderly production. It is quite as important to ventilate the brain with a little good reading and by the inspiration of associating with some man of noble qualities, as it is to ventilate the dairy barn. Back in 1917 farmers had much now ble in getting their supply of good seed corn. From many sections come reports that the situation does not look real favorable for an adequate supply of good seed for the 1921 crop. It is yet time for our farmers to fore— stall such an emergency. But this thing will likely happen, that out of the abundance of well—formed cars on the good farmer‘s cornstalks will be gathered enough for himself and to sell at high prices to a slothful neigh- bor. ARKE-TS which Needs have no bottom are a great detriment Better. to the growers of Foundation peaches, plums and other perishable fruit. They come, undoubtedly, because a large crop must be handled in such a short time. ‘At such times, the buyers bear the market and make conditions even worse than they would be normally. But buyers, being human, want to “get theirs” when they can, so they can not be looked to to help in tho situa- tion. The farmers themselves have to ' take care of it. . With the buyers, bus- iness is business. With us the busi- ness of marketing should be our busi- ness, for the remedy lies in rectifying marketing conditions. The grower should use. such means as are neces— sary to lengthen the marketing season so that the market will keep just a little hungry for the fruit. The erec- tion of coolers in fruit sections will undoubtedly do this. This factor is already being realized, and coolers are being erected, mostly by cooperative organizations. We feel sure that members of such associations which have refrigerating facilities available, will get much bet- ter prices than those who have mar- keted their crop hap hazardly. The more organized and standardized the e Certainly do not grow more of these perishable's than the county can con- sume, but we do grow more than it sometimes can handle in a short time. The bottoms of our markets will be more substantial when we build better foundations for them. HE really tragic thing about agri- Agriculture culture today is that In Per- we do not know where spective we are going. For in- stance, one group is earnestly going in the direction of price fixing, while other groups are taking entirely different roads. This is unfortunate, since so many offmts are now being made in behalf of agriculture. These efforts are not guided by. any common end and are, L as a lesult, often at cr-oss purposes. It would seem, therefore. that some com- prehensive plan should be fmmulated which, when carried out, should bring about something worth while to agri- culture. In harmony with this general idea, the farmeis, extension men and farm leaders of Colorado have gotten to- gether and mapped out a course of worlt. In fmmulating their plan, they did not fo1 a moment forget the real conditions of the farms of the state, nor the relations of the farmers to other groups. Their code was worked out from the ground up, and not from the top down. It has much to cem- mend it to a wider circle of farmers. We give, herewith, the full text of the code. Farm returns commensurate with ability, risk and investment involved. A. .To adapt production to market re- quirements. 1. Su1veV ma1.kets a Consumption requirements of maiket centers. b Production costs. Transportation to consuming centers. 1. Cost. 2. Service. 2. Market crops through your own live stock. a. Grow' crops to be fed. Amount of each. 3. Grow kind of cash crops mar- kets will handle. Amount of each. 4. Standardize on variety ”and quality of cash crops . Ordeily marketing. .Honw market the filst to be supplied. a Faim home supply. b. Local maxkets 7. Adapt farm business and iota. tion to meet economic condi- tions above outlined. 8 Farm financing. B. To make 1ural home life attrac- tive 1. Balanced diet fox the family. of local and outside and marketing 630‘! 2. Th1itt and attiactiveness in dress. 3. Labo1 saVing devices and con- veniences C. To interest children in practical farm work and faim home life thiough club wo1k. D. To develop p10g1essive communi- ties 1. Whom leadership is developed. 2. Closer 1elationship between town and country. 3. Good schools, churches and rec- reational centers. With such a declaration of purpose definitely before them it is not going to be difficult for the farmers of Col- orado and their leaders to coordinate their efforts and, thereby, not only make those efforts more effective but, because of the saneness of the pro gram, attract the cooperation of. many strong men who could not be appealed to by some less comprehensive pro— gram. ' ‘ N ,days gone by . The bunko men played S]! (I the shellogame to ad- 3 vantage, .but in these Game modern days they have. f o u n (1 better methods of working their game. Although it is not proper, or fitting, to compare poultry iraisers with bunko men, the fact remains that most poul- " 0. yet found anything better“ 118 something—with-a-shell-around-it to the grocers and getting some of the neCes- sities of life in exchange. . In the past, the buying of eggs was having somebody work the shell game on the consumer.\ Sometimes he got good eggs and sometimes he didn’t. But now days the men in between the producer and consumer have taken the guess out of the business by candling and grading, and are selling selected eggs instead of hermetically sealed packages.of mystery. However, poultrymen are fast learn- ing that it is not necessary for an in- between man to do this. They are starting to do it themselves. By co- operation, many egg marketing associ- ations have been formed, ‘and'reputa- tions are being made, increased by standardized and efficient farmer marketing. Michigan has made a start along this line. Last month the Michigan Poultry Association was formed. Its ultimate purpose -is to improve the quality of Michigan eggs and thus gain them higher recognition on the coun- try’s markets. The start is small and plans still somewhat indefinite, but it is a.start, nevertheless. It is a start in the right direction for it will ulti- mately bring Michigan poultry produc- ers out of the shell game and into real honest-to-goodness marketing. This association therefme warrants the loyal support of all Michigan poul- try producers. HE excuse often Expensive given for not put- Live ting some good ani- mals in the herds or Stock flocks on many of the farms of the state is that such stock is too expensive. But we are moved to ask as to the basis on which we should determine whether an animal is expensive or a good investment? Should it be the price paid alone, or the purchasing piice set off against the income secur- ed f1om the animal bought? F01 instance, a. littel from a scrub sow often weighs less than a thousand pounds at six months. There are many sows giving their owners litters that will go over the ton mark at that age. One sow, of which we have just heard, produced a litter which, when a half- year old, tipped the scales at 2,970 pounds. It is certainly not difficult to see that a farmer who paid twenty-five dollars for a sow that brought him less than a half ton of pork per litter at six months was buying a far more expensive animal than did the farmer who paid fifty dollars for the one that brought into this world a litter that weighed nearly a ton and a half at the same age. Too frequently the scrub animal is the most expensive animal to buy, and the best are just as frequently the cheapest, despite the larger number of dollars required to get title to them. x HE well - known Holding ” B‘i b l i c a l_ verse, t I! Where their treasure . e is there will their Boys hearts be also,” states a principle as true in the lives of our boys as in the expe- riences of adults. Evidence of this truth has just come to us in the form of statistics on the training of boys in rural high schools. The Federal Board. of Vocational Edu- cation has just compiled this data gathered from the several states. These figures show that fifty-nine per cent of the boys who have had vo- cational training in the public‘schools are now engaged in practical farming, six per cent more are engaged in oc- cupations related to farming, while nine per cent are enrolled in agricul- tural colleges This makes a total of seventy-four per cent who are making . ' parent plont use of their agricultural training. wed 45.2 per cent in agriculture. and profits , "271 Such rural high schools in one; State showed but 3.3. 6 per cent of the graduates interested in agriculture, while" the high Schools with agricul- tural training in the same state show- About the same ratio held in the other states. In addition to this, the school “mor- tality” .rate, or the number who ‘do not complete their school work, is only two-fifths as great in schools provid- ing agricultural training as in other high schools“ This loyalty makes for efficiency and economy in the admin- istration of such schools. We confidentially believe that the agricultural Work in our high schools will, in time, become a real factor in promoting a better agriculture. Mum‘é \ teacher play a piece. First it was ‘ Hhe other day I heard Sari’s piano like a man whistling out in the fields, kinda happy like, then there was what you call slight noises like thunder a comin’. This kept acomin’ stronger and stronger. Then come the patterin’ of rain, and still stronger and stronger the thunder, when all of a sudden, biff, the lightnin’ struck. Then there was what you call lots a noise and con- fushun. But soon that gets less and less and the thunder gets to be just a rumble way off. In a little while everything is peaceful and quiet like. We got through that storm all right, but, by gum, you know I was reachin' forumbrellas, dodgin’ lightnin’, and doin’ such- like while it was goin’ on. But af- terwards she p1ay~ ed a piece about babblin’ b r o o k s and sunshine, so I got the happy, sunshiney feelin’ agojn. This just shows what musick kin do to you. It’s a kind of a languige. It’s what you call universal. ’cause the Dutch- man and the Hottentot kin understand it the same as we, even if we can’t understand the Dutchman or the Hot~ tentot. It is the languige of life, and like life, it’s got what you call climax— es, babbling brooks, storms, and etc. Musick is educated noise. It agrees with itself and the folks what hears it. Thore ain’t nothin’ what is so disa- greeable as musick what don’t harm" onize with itself; for inst, like when Sari is practicin’ her piano lessons. That’s somethin’ like war must sound. There’s musick in nature, like the whistlin’ of the winds and the babblin’ of the brooks and there’s musick in voices, like the mooin’ of the cow and the crowin’ of the rooster and the lafiin’ of the school teacher over near Randall’s creek Sophie also makes musick. ithen she says, “It’s time ta eat,” it sounds nice, but when she says, “Hy, come on, it’s time to get up,” it don’t harm- onize with me atall. The piano teacher says musick is made a notes, but they ain’t the kinda notes the’bank knows anything about. But there’s somefolks what has cashed in on their music notes. For inst, some get more in a night for makin' educated noise than we do in a year for growin’ corn and pigs. Maybe it's ’Cause the corn and pigs don’t make the right kinda noise. Anyhow, musick is all right, ’cause it helps in enjoyin’ life. The more musick we get in our lives, the more we like to live. HY SYCKLE. Many potato growers‘practice the selection of seed from'the bin. This method," while desirable in itself, will not accomplish all that the grower may ope. It is far better to select the t bars in the hills,- then one can: judge as to the general. italit of 4:119 .av—u-v l i I ... I” tw-‘K‘M / A» Wee... «mm-xv,“ A. A ._ \ NDOUBTEDLY it was the pio- U peering instinct which brought ., -Mr. Frank Love to that part of ”Michigan whichlies between Roscom- man and Grayling on state highway M. 18- It must have been so, for he set his stakes there in 1875, th1ee years before Crawford was made a county and when evlerything was woods. ' One might say that he literally went to the tall timbers, but the unusual Frank Love, a Persistent Farmer. part of it 'was that he did not go there - as. a woodsman; he went there to farm. He'cleared land to go farming , while" most everybody went there af— - ter the timber because it was a means of immediate profit. now, he showed good judgment in be- , coming one of the few farmers of that section, because the lumber camps be— came his markets, with no middle- man’s profits, or_transportation charg- es to take toll out of the consumer’s dollar. And now he has a substantial and profitable farm, while his neigh- bors—well, they’ve cut and gone, try- ing to work out an existence elsewhere. The Love farm consists of 360 acres, " As we see things _ of which 120 are cleared. The 240 not cleared is in a good piece of timber which has escaped many a forest fire. These 240 acres will prove a nice her- itage for someone, and at the same time they are paying for themselves trong or A Crawford County onneer ano Started as a Farmer Instead of a Lanzéer [act and Profiled T nereéy regarding his cow returns, and has maintained that if one charges the feed at market prices, makes a labor charge and adds all the other costs that the cow is responsible for, a $60 net profit is not a bad profit for a good by a conservative cutting. This again-cow. indicates Mr. Love’s good judgment, and his foresightedness in the consera vation of natural resources. _Mr. Love has kept the 360 intact, although the scarcity of labor at times makes it a little hard to care for, be- cause he figured he could leave each of his children a good farm. But, in— stead, most of the children have left him for other activities and their in- terests are elsewhere, although one son is at home helping him now. This is not mentioned because it is unusual, but because it has occurred in many a farm home throughout the land. The rapid advancement of industry in the last decade has called many younger people to the cities and, therefore, the carefully thought out plans of rural parents fer their children’s future have often gone unfulfilled. About seventy acres of the farm are worked in a rotation which consists of clover hay, corn, and oats. This rotation has proven very satisfactory. Alfalfa is not included as one of the farm crops, since clover has not run out like it has in some parts of the state, and it fits in the rotation better than alfalfa would. Mr. Love lets none of his crops go off the farm in the raw state, but puts them through dairp cows and takes the finished product away in cream cans. At present he has fourteen crop refineries in the shape of Durham cows. He has selected this breed be— cause experience has shown him that they are good cream producers and when he wants to get the animals ready for the block, he can ask the butcher for a bid on a good carcass. These cows are bringing a net profit of about $60 each, not a very high re- turn, some dairymen think. In fact, Mr. Love has had some interesting discussions with prominent dairymen In this he uses good business sense, as it is better to discount your profits than to flatter yourself in endeavoring to show big ones. The former system will urge one to improve his methods and management, while the latter will tend to make one careless with ex- penditures. ’ Mr. Love has kept his farm methods efiicient by using the non-flattering method of keeping books. The cows are kept in flush produc- tion during the summer, as Mr. Love’s best markets are at that time of the year. . He sells his cream to the camps and resorts on Higgins Lake and has found that a very fine market. When the resorting, hunting and fishing sea- sons are over, the cream is made into, and sold as butter. The fertility of the Love farm is kept up entirely by the rotation and the use of manure and lime. No other fertilizers have thus far been used. In connection with the discussion of the maintenance of the fertility of his farm, Mr. Love put in a good word for the manure spreader, saying that arming By Fran/é A. lVi/éen five loads of manure broadcasted by the spreader will do as much as fourteen to fifteen loads did before. This is, almost entirely due to the uniformity with which the spreader broadcasts the manure. Mr. Love is one of the progressive farmers of Crawford county. He is a strong supporter of the county agent work which R. D. Bailey is doing in that county. He attends many of the doings of farmers around the state and so keeps informed of all the latest de- velopments in agricultural lines. It was not hard for us to find the Love place, because it is kept up in a progressive way. At the time 6! our arrival Mr. Love and his son were at a neighbor’s, swapping cows. Even though Mrs. Love was busy washing, her house was as neat as a pin. While waiting we replenished our camping commissary department with eggs, but- ter, milk, and salt-rising bread from Mrs. Love’s pantry. The bread and butter especially, bespoke of the effi- ciency of Mrs. Love in the regular rural housewife duties. And when Mr. Love came—well, you can see by his picture that the only kind of a talk you could have with him would be a wholesome, good- hearted and interesting one. And that is what it was. The Love Farm Home Has the Appearance of Orderliness. A Blast for Land Clearing 0r tne Attitude HE Michigan Agricultu/ral Col- ' lege recently took steps to cut in half the extension work in land clearing that is being carried on by the College. It has been stated that the College authorities have been influenced to take this action by the attitude shown by some of the farm organizations of the state. \. The farmers living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with whom ,most of this land-clearing extension work has been done, regret and dis- agree with this attitude and action of the farm organizations and the Agri- cultural College. They believe that Lower Peninsula people should not at- tempt to dictate what types of exten- sion work the Agricultural College should carry on in this new country, or what land should be croppedjin the Upper Peninsula. The Upper Penin- sula taxpayers feel thatthey have a . right to determine for themselves what‘ form of agricultural extension work they think is most needed'in their section of the state. ’On the oth- , er hand they do not have any desire ; to dictate to IpWenPeninsula farmers 13 they should raise, or what to support their families. By W. N. Clark thousand farmers in the Upper Penin- sula. Two-thirds of these farmers do not own sufficient cleared land to ena— ble them to get a living from their farms. A portibn of the year, they have to spend in laboring in a logging camp, a mine, or on the roads, in order These eight or ten thousand farmers will never have sdfiicient farm incomes, and the families who are living on these farms are doomed to poverty and failure in their farming business, unless they can get more land cleared on their farms. The measure of the prosperity and the success of these farmers de- pends upon the amount of newly clear- ed land they can achieve in the next of Zipper Mienzgan Farmers on ' tfle Land Clearing Program five or ten years. It is not too much to say that the agriculture‘bf the Up- per Peninsula of Michigan will stand or fall on the progress Upper Penin- sula farmers make in land-clearing work. . To show the direct benefit rendered to Upper Peninsula farmers by land— clearing extension work, the following example is cited: During the 'past six months, the Ontonagon County Agri- » cultural Agent has distributed four car-loads of picric acid, totaling 76,000 pounds, for land-clearing purposes in Ontonagon county. The total saving- to Ontonagon county farmers on this 76,000 pounds of picric acid and the 76,000 blasting caps, purchased during the past six months, has been $15,000. Yet, there are farm organizations in the state of Michigan which recently have passed resolutions declaring that this form of extension work should not be carried on, and whether, be- cause of this, or for other reasons, the Agricultural College has taken steps to severely cut down the activi- ties of the land-clearing extension forces of the state. , It is not a question whether or not; ' . th reeare good and sufficient reasons i: for the state not using public funds.- to encourage the opening up of news (Continued on page 328).~ , ‘ LATE AGR LCUL MICH IGA‘N" Anoprs STAN D'ARD POTATO GRADES. ONFORMING to the resolutions and written requests of the Mich- igan Potato Growers’ Exchange, the Michigan Potato Producers’ Associa~ tion, the State Potato Shippers’ Asso- ' ci’ation, 'the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege, and others, rules and regulations establishing and promulgating stand- ard grades for Michigan potatoes have been issued by Commissioner of Agri- culture L. Whitney Watkins. The grades are “U. S. Fancy No. 1,” “U. S. No. 1,” “U. S. No. 1 Small,” “U. S. No. 2,” and “Ungraded.” These ofiicial grades are effective October 1, and are mandatory in that all ship- ments of potatoes in the future must go out under one of the grades so de- fined, and the bags or other containers are required to be branded or labeled showing the name of the grade and net contents. Thus Michigan growers have forged another strong link in the chain of standardization, recognizing that to compete with other producing states and to insure the preferential markets and the premium prices that the qual— ity of Michigan fruits and vegetables justly merit, it is imperative to pack and ship under standardized grades, and in the adoption of the U. S. Grades for Michigan potatoes,all con- suming markets are at once familiar with what may be expected when bid- ding for the Michigan product. MICHIGAN MAN ELECTED. T the fifteenth annual vegetable growers’ convention, held in Buf- falo, New York, George Starr, of the Horticultural Department of M. A. C., was elected secretary to succeed P. H. Nissley, of New Jersey. This is the second time within recent years that a M. A. C. man has held this most im- portant office in the vegetable garden- ers’ association. C. W. Wald, now of Ohio, was long active in that office. The chief subjects of discussion at this convention were on advertising and marketing vegetables as the great- est problems and opportunities of the vegetable growers lie in those two subjects. The vitamine content of vegetables makes a big talking point in urging the greater use of vegetables in the daily diet. The real big problem of the vegeta- ble growers, however, is the lack of good marketing organization. This, with all the main factors of efficient marketing, were ably discussed by Aaron Sapiro, of the American Farm Bureau. Other features of the convention were a discussion of municipal mar- kets by G. V. Branch, of the Detroit Municipal Markets; talks on necessity of good seed by various college ex- perts; a trip through Eric county, and a fine banquet tendered by the New York vegetable men. All the old officers were elected, ex- cept the secretary. The first two plac‘ es in the celery contest were won by groWers from Oregon, while the third place was captured by a grower from Ontario. Ohio got the banner for hav- ing the greatest attendance from an" outside state. TO STUDY HANDLING OF AMER- ICAN GRAIN IN EUROPE. NVESTIGATIONS of the methods “ of discharging and handling Amer- ‘ican grain at the original points ’of entry in Europe are to be under- taken by the department of agricul- .ture. “gs Thirty large farmer-owned or. farm~ fer-controlled grain "marketing associa- tions are now in operation, say the ‘marketing specialists in the depart-_ ment of agriculture. Some of these organizations are pools organized up- on 'a state-wide basis, others are sell- ing agencies serving individual grain growers or federations of local elevat- ors, while others are selling agencies operating in terminal markets. During the year ending 'July 31, 1923, the Northwest Wheat Growers’ Asso- ciation, of Portland, Oregon, handled approximately ten million bushels of' grain on the Minneapolis and Duluth markets, and six million bushels through the Portland and Seattle terminals. RAISIN GROWERS WILL REORL GANIZE. HE representatives of the coopera- tive marketing associations all over the country have been interested in the case of the California Raisin Growers’ Association. The announce- ment is made that Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace has approved the re- organization of the association under' authority of the Capper-Volstead co- operatve marketing act. The right of the association to take controlling title to products by contract with the growers is recognized,and no further investigation of the old raisin growers’ association will be made by the de- partment of justice. The statement made by the depart- ment of justice that the new associa- tion organized under the (Zapper-Vol— stead act, will come under the juris- diction ot‘ the secretary of agriculture, is considered'by Secretary Wallace as more'significant than it may appear to be on first reading. It is significant in that it recognizes the jurisdiction of the department of agriculture in the matter of farmers’ cooperative as- sociations under the Capper Volstead act. It had-been reported that the de- partment of justice was questioning the right of the Raisin Growers’ Asso- northwestern wheat belt, ciation to take title to the “raisins turned in for market by the indivdual members; also that the‘department of justice rhad -questioned the penalty clause of the contract between the members and the .association. PRESIDENT. STUDIES WHEAT SIT- UATION. FTER consultation with various farm leaders and politicians, Pres- ident Coolidge has received from Sec- retary of Agriculture Wallace, a com- prehensive survey of the world’s wheat situation. Among the suggestions dis-‘ cussed was one proposing a reduction in freight rates on' wheat and flour for export, and one inereasing the tar- iff on imported wheat. It was pointed out, however, that as some of the roads depend largely upon the trans- portation of wheat for their revenues, it might be necessary to increase the rates on other commodities, in case rates on export wheat were lowered. The President has met a delegation of bankers and congressmen from the who, with Secretary Wallace and Secretary Of Commerce Hoover, and Chairman Meyer, of the War‘Finance Corpora- tion, in the conference, talked over-the situation. The President has listened to many propositions for relievingthe farmer, from government price fixing of wheat at $1.75 per bushel, to wiping out the Federal Reserve System, repealing the Esch—Cummins law, and turning what is left of Muscle Shoals over to Henry Ford. , Those who have been called into consultation with him say that he is an attentive listener,.who is appar- ently seriously concerned over the ag- ricultural situation and trying earnest- ly to find in the tangled mass of nos- trums a practical remedy for the farm- er’s troubles. ‘ But he is finding that being Presi- dent is no small job. Every politician Kernel Koé’r Revue of Last Mom‘fi NO'. GENTLE READER THISOLD LADY ISN' T MAKING APPLE BUTTER SHE— ISBREWING‘ TROUBLE AND SHE STIRRED UP QUITE. A MESS THIS MONTH v “' 7-; FEDERAL INvEsn GATORS SAY UNCLE SAMS CORN AND DAIRY BELT Is GROWING GOODBY SON! ' . I'LLSEEYOU ' ._ AGAINWHEN i in congress from the wheat belt is. capitalizing the farmer’s distress as a means of boosting his own poutical ambitions. It. is unlikely that even after congress convenes in regular ses- sion an agreement can be reached for some time on any definite program of action. And it is doubtful if the farm situation will be settled by legislation at least to the satisfaction of those who are promoting the more radical schemes. Senator Capper was right when he said that “Congress cannot perform miracles.” If unable to force the Plesident to call an extra seesion of congress, the prog1essive group in the house and senate, under the leadership of Sen- ator LaFollette, say they will hold a conferen’ce in Washington early in No- vember to adopt a legislative program. MUSCLE SHOALS DEVELOP-I MENTS. ' HE sale of the Gorgas steam plant and "transmission lines from the Muscle Shoals system to the Alabama Power Company, by Secretary of War Weeks, was heralded by the corres- pondents, who evidently got their in- spiration from the war department’s information service, as the collapse of- the Ford plan to develop Muscle Shoals as a great power and fertilizer plant. Mr. Ford had asked for. an ex- tension of time, but Secretary Weeks claims that the Alabama company re- fused to grant an extension, that is, the sale was a ’Virtual‘ foreclosure against the government,‘ something quite remarkable in the annals of gov‘ ernment transactions. “The result of this action is to re. move this power from the service of the public, as proposed in the Ford tender, and place it instead in the hands of private interests to exploit the public,” says .Gray Silver, of the American Farm Bureau? Federation. “The farm bureau will not change its policy that this Muscle Shoals enter- prise and other waterpower- must be eventually developed for the service of the people and not for exploitation by private interests. " . The information is given Out from the White House that President Cool- idge does not regard the sale of the Gorgas plant as having any material effect upon Mr. Ford’s iplan for the ' lease of the Muscle Shoals dam and development of, his fertilizer project. But further negotiations depends upon Mr. Ford making a revised offer ex- ' cluding that part of the syst’emturned .overto the Alabama Power Company. There is considerable speculation as to what will be done-with the Muscle ~Shoals project in case Mr. Ford does not resume negotiations. The govern- ment is already committed to the com. pletion cf the dam. Millions of dollars are now being spent on construction work, in accordance with'the govern- ment ownership scheme promoted by SenatOr Norris, of Nebraska. It is not I. believed that anything will be done by the government toward the devel- opment of the fertilizer plant, but that when the dam is completed the gov- ernment will have a vast amount of power on its hands, which it can sell at their own price to, the big power companies now monopolizing the transmission lines and hydro-electric power privileges in that part of the country, or it can let the power go to waste and charge the loss to war. ex-_ penditure's- it is probable that the big .power companies will get'the benefit, I > of the government’s millions spent in the development of Muscle Shoals. It is not a pleasing situation that has been brought about under‘*8e ‘v « < ¢~.\A Jf—w N . ‘ “A” as. LN,“ igs‘ .. ,_ ~. ,‘m“- -e\"_‘_‘;..... ., . gl s.—,,_-- , / Where else can you n. sir?" i F are: 3. snotty Style - Silk Seal Plnsli Coat for Women and . Micses . ~ $109% W a genuine silk seal plush coat of this jaunty style and splendid quality. for such a low price? 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Has wool fleece lining and windproof exterior, snap fasteners. Warm as an overcoat, costs less than a good sweater. "Washes and wears like iron. Ask for the OLD RELIABLE, Brown’s Beach Jacket. Three styles~—coat with or without collar, and vest. .1511 YOUR DEALER. BROWN’S BEACH JACKET COMPANY Worcester, Memchueette v ICHIGAN 'FARMER Classified Liners bring . 1 the inclosed. e 6' K D“ ‘ 1‘” f "Set-“~10! “of“; LAWFUL FENCE. What is a lawful fence? 8. poor, unlawful fence, and B.’ s hogs get through, can A complain? Are there any laws in regard to hogs and bulls ?——W. R A lawful fence is four and one-half 1feet high and sufficiently tight and strong to turn the animals ordinarily kept on the farm andnot of a breechy disposition. This includes hogs and bulls.-—Rood. INHERITA‘NCE. ' My husband (who had been married before and had one son) died over a year before his father did. Father left quite a lot of property Do I come in for a share or does my step— son get it all?—Mls. . M Only those living at the decease of the ancestor are heirs. The husband of the questioner never had any inter- .est in the property, and she acquired , none—Rood. A RENTER’S RIGHT. 011 July 10, 1923, A rented a house Eand garden from B with the veibal understanding that A was to have pos- ,session of same until November 30, 51923. First receipt was made out, like ‘ Now Mrs. B. demands possession of her house September 1 31923. Can Mrs. B. put Mr. A. out of .lhe house? M1. A. has a fine garden land does not want to move. Cou‘ld A. demand the right to hold possession lot place until November 30,1923?— 1R J. TheM 111ceipt, f'01 the rent recites that i there is a lease to November 30. This ‘being so, the lessor has no right to [dispossess the tenant, nor disturb his possession during the term if the ten- ant performs the covenants of his leaseusuch as paying the rent, et.c.~— Rood. WHAT GRAIN TO BUY. Please give me a balanced ration for my Guernsey cow. I have some car- rots and mixed hay with not very much clover in it. Kindly tell me what grains I have to buy to balance this. Grain prices seem pretty high to me.~T. H. llarrots are about the best roots you can get and any kind of roots make a splendid succulent food in a, ration Where you have no silage. It is not good policy, however, to feed too lib— erally of them. Twenty pounds per HEAR the hum of 'the tractor out in the wheat field, and occasionally the sing of a disc as it strikes a stone. It is fully time now that the seed was in "the ground, but the frequent and copious rains of the equinoxial period have delayed the planting for a few days. The fitting of the seed-bed is about completed now, however, and with a continuance of fair weather, like the delightful hazy Indian sum- mer that prevails today, the seed will soon be on its way to next year’s bread. No Frosts Here. The recent frosts that have seared the crops in many sections of the state, and even did much damage south of the state line, have very . graciously spared 11.13, to date. The late corn, that seems to be having a harder time than usual in maturing this fall, is still very green and succulent. It is quite well cared for and will make silage cf the highest quality, but like most all of the corn in our section of the state, it is blown down badly and will be hard to harvest. 1 results They cost Little. The Silo filling is the next job‘ on 11 A. 1.1.; FRANCISCO l-‘AIIH NOTES;- .. av ELEDPE \ .crop badly. tangled, and extra help 3‘ day is sufficient, and even better than to feed more A cow should have all the hay or other roughage she will eat up clean without waste. Roughage is cheaper than grain but a Cow can not do her best'on roughage alOne, she can not consumeenough of it to .get ‘ sufficient food nutrients. For a grain ration feed two pounds 'of oil meal, per day and corn and oats equal parts, or corn, oats and bran equal parts, 01' corn and bran, two parts bran to one of corn Feed the oil meal and a sufl’icient amount. of the other grain to make one pound of grain to every four pounds of milk the cow gives in a day. That is, if the cow gives thirty-two pounds of milk in a day, give her two pounds ‘of oil meal (one pound each, night, and, morning), and also six pounds of the other grain, making eight pounds in all. , TH E WATER SEPARATOR. We are using a water separator and we let the. milk set for twelve hours before it is drawn off. Does all the butter-fat raise with the use of a water separator? If not, what per cent does not? A cream sepaiator agent told me all the c1eam would not raise by gravity. ——T W. It is true you can not get all the cream to iise by any giavity p1 ocess. 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The best is wheie you set the; milk in deep cans in ice water and; even with this there is quite a loss, " many times flom one- -half to one per cent, while a good centrifugal sepa1- ator will skim as close as 1-10 to 1-10() of one per cent. If you are raising calves or pigs and feeding them the skim-milk, this but- ter-fat is not all loss, for it is good, though expensive, food for them. The creameries and condensaries are pay- ing fifty to sixty cents per pound now for butter-fiat. There is this to consider, however, if you only have a few cows it will take a long time to save enough to pay for the separator. The value of butter produced in the United States in 1921 was greater than the value of her cotton crop for that yean w ‘1' .1..- ”m. the docket, and we hope to have it full to the top before this reaches the reader. It is hard to tell just what to look forward to, however, as regards the amount 'of time or help it will take. Most of the neighbors, who have harvested their corn so far, have had to go into the fields with corn knives and cut the crop by hand. This is a clean way to do the work, biit it is slow and tiresome. A part of our field stands up well enough to permit the use of the corn binder without too much waste, but other parts of it, I am afraid, "11111 look like a hopeless task, except to go after it one stalk at a time with the corn‘ knives. We shall not try to hurry the Work of silo filling, as we have our own power and our own filler, and no one else waiting for it. So, you see, with a silo capacity of 150 tons, the corn none too plentiful, we expect to have corn harvesters’ appetites for several days to come. 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Send Check or Money Order today to the Auto describing school. Address A. G. Zeller. Presi- i11sure early delivery. Radio Cigar Co. ’Detroit, Michigan. , 468 Breinerd St . Every man who milks cows for a liv- ing knows that Yield is one of the best reasons for Holstein Yield To You Will Mean: Dependable Cash Income 19 Profit: Bank Account - Independenhe Better Thing: for the Family Holsteins hold all world'e records and average highest over all breeds for both butter-fat and milk yield. / Let us téll you about Holstein. ' nxrnxsrou service. Them-Prim rleeluAeoocietienof non-nomem m... 1111. .. resisting 1"o1e1ing that sticks as tight. as the skin' met-ma "A “canon—Ham", Ilots of apples, MICHIGAN FRUITS SPECU- > LATED IN. OME interesting figures have been gathered by Prof. Roy E. Marshall, of M. A. C ., showing that Michigan apples are marketed more irregularly than those of many other apple pro- ducing states. For instance, Professor Marshall found that Michigan shipped ninety- six per cent of its crop at harvest ’ time, that is, between September and November,’and thus only four‘per eent remained to be distributed during the months from December to April, when the prices average from twenty-five to one hundred per cent higher than dur- ing the harvesting months. " In contrast to Michigan, the state of New York shipped only sixty per cent (if its crop during the harvest months, ; less than‘thirty per cent from Decem-. her to February, and over. ten per cent . ‘ during the remainder of the winter . crop season. Even Virginia does more storing and more evenly distributes her crop than Michigan. The reason for this condition is be- lieved ”to be the lack of storage facil- ities in' the Michigan; producing sec- tions. The buyers and speculators knowing this, buy up the crop at har- vest time and distribute it at a profit or put it in storage for an increase in price later on. Most of the Michigan fruit goes to Chicago for distribution. In. our own Michigan markets it is usually diflicult to get the home-grown product after the first or the year. It - is perhaps for this reason that the western-grown fruit is so frequently sold to’ people who live in one of the greatest fruit-growing states in the Union. NON-P‘RUNING BRINGS EARLY ' PRODUCTION. PLOT of Duchess apples four ‘years’ old, at the Graham «Experi- ment Station, produced a good-sized crop of fruit for trees of_ their size. This plot was part of a pruning test and was the unpruned plot. In contrast to this plot were the _ trees which were pruned normally. They had practically no fruit on them, and were smaller in size than the un- pruned trees. Trees which were lightly pruned and those which were budded showed a settling of fruit in a. reverse ratio to the amount of pruning that was done. Similar conditions were noted in blocks of Grimes Golden and Stayman Winesap apples. GOOD MARKET FOR MICHIGAN FRUIT. N years past we have indicated to southern " Michigan farmers how they. may. profitably sell fruit in the Upper Peninsula. There are signs that the suggestions that have been here made, are being acted upon. Farmers are accompanying carload plums, peaches and grapes from southern to northern , Michigan and disposing of them out of the car at good prices. Peaches and plums were thus sold in Marquette re- cently at three dollars per bushel. Lower Peninsula farmers should un- derstand that there is excellent direct rail and water communication with the .Upper Peninsula. The Grand Rapids & Indiana, and the Michigan Central Railroads come: clear through to the Straits of Mackinac, where there is a ' - now a state-owned auto- ,. action at the western end, and to the copper ,Upper Peninsula at Milwaukee, Man- Menominee or Mani‘stique. ’ tremes of the peninsula—to Sault Ste. Marie at the eastern-end, to Ironwood and iron countries between. Farmers living along the lines of the Pere Marquette and Ann Arbor Railroads can use this route, or they can ship in unbroken carlots via the car ferries at such points as Frank- fort, Ludington or Grand Haven, con- necting with lines running into the itOwoc', The remotest railway points in the" Upper Peninsula can thus be reached. What is the best route, will depend, sour-.255 Alan-llamas“- 032M toss FARMS Mines Clw— M—————————- 52.? Lb;- sa.oo so. a curl"... Hemmfieefiuuelwmudddmiamnhumwflu counter-um was FARMS Owl-u use... The Order Blank Loeb Farms Uses in its Direct to the Consumer Trade in Apples. _______._.__.______.__. of course, upon circumstances peculiar to each case. At the Upper Peninsula destination of the shipment, there is a local newspaper usually, in which a small advertisement can attract the attention of customers. At Ironwood, Iron Mountain, Houghton, Hancock, Calumet, Marquette, Escanaba, Me- nominee and Sault Ste. Marie—all siz- able t6wns with good local markets—- are daily papers. Customers can be notified to take away their purchases or a local one- horse drayman can be secured to de- liver purchases. Fruit may be handled in bulk or baskets, as appears best. The shipper, while north, may want to look around and pick up a car of fence—posts according to his own selec~ tion; or, if he has a turn for sport, he may do a little hunting or fishing, ac- cording to the requirements of the season—L. A. Chase. * PEACH GRADES ESTABLISH ED. ICHIGAN peach growers and shippers have long wanted peach grades similar to the official grades for apples, in order. that the Michigan product might be standardized more easily. In compliance with the grow- ers’ requests, Commissioner of Agri- culture Whitney Watkins, recently is- sued orders from the State Depart- ment of Agriculture that four grades would be effective. These are: U. S. Eancy No. 1; U. S. No. 1; U. S. No. 2, and U. S. No. 3. As in the case of apples, these grades are based on size, colorand freedom from blemishes. A provision of this order requires that all closed containers must have stamped or printed in conspicuous places the name of the firm or person under whose authority the peaches were packed, also the true name of the variety, the name of the grade and the numerical count or net weight. This law is a great step forward for the peach growers of the state, as it will help to bring Michigan products 2 .cm exit. ““3", nildo — lineal feet. “inf,“ high, 72in nchelhigh. perhol no es ence No. SA-G. Made of No.11 top wire and No. iiintcrmediatewireand stay wires. Specedfi in. :garth 4,,4}; 5% and ne., epocfidbed 'from bottom 26in. high. per 24; 33.” 30¢ Consists of white cock and sup 1 pipes. No. SA-Icg 3solnplete. . . , Savings than Ever” Barbed Wire Sna4poII :lufiéoengonumduhm in two heights. Bneles contain 150 $240. .................................... 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A Hoosier farmer, with a HERCULES .Sawmg outfit, cut 25 cords of firewood from straight poles 1n ten hours working time, with one man to carry and-clear for him. His 7-.h.p. engine, in those ten hours, burned less than 50 cents worth of gasoline. The wood’was wort-h $8 a cOrd right on the ground. Figure the earning for yourself! What’s the reason you can’t cash in on uordwood the same way, all winter long? What’s fuel going to be worth this winter? Answer that query according to where you live! Most of us will be glad to get any old wood at most any price. Mixing wood with even poor coal makes a won— derful fire, and cheap! There are down trees rotting away all over America. Must be plenty» near you. Turn them into dollars with a HERCULES. Saw wood. It pays! Anybody can learn in an hour to run the HERCULES Sawing Outfit. It is self-adjusting, absolutely safe, runs on kerosene or gasoline, turns out an enor- mous amount of sawed wood—and the engine will do all kinds of other farm- work when you are not sawing. Some- body near you can make you an interest- ing price on this outfit, or another of different capacity. Write us to learn who to talk with about it. THE HERCULES CORPORATION Engine Division, Dept. K Evansville, Indiana SAWING OUTFITS Pay Their Wayflaybyflay SPECIAL FOR $3.00 ‘ I will ship. well packed, by Express the following true «to nuns. {m from disease, well rooted Trees 3 to 5 feet “OI 40“ 131. .. mm...“ . 1 2- ”is? rem ' i ‘ 3 MM 11 - 2m Sam : den Bins l‘(Sum 2 Elbert. Plum not) 2 Delicious (winter) 2 Concord Grove Vim mammwhm’m 11.! M gong,“ . 1 m arduous. “Wm M Ont-09.111 mm1 I malw “eat-Wflm ELOW are given some of the rea- sons why‘ farmers are keeping tractors upon their farms. From the many letters received on this sub- ject we have awarded the prizes to the following: - CUTS COST OF CLEARING LAND. I I use a tractor: First, it is the cheapest heavy duty power that I can get; and second, it gives me concen- trated power in a single unit. Under the first reason, my tracte1 does the work of..six or seven horses, and yet costS/less to keep. Under the second reason, I find my W/zy a Radio ? ANY farmers have receiv- ing sets in their homes with ‘which they' can pick up the programs of the various distrib- uting stations. While a few have trouble with their equipment, the great majority are delighted with this means of keeping in touch with the outer world. Would you urge your neighbor to put in'a receiving set? Why? Give briefly your reasons and mail to the Handy Man, Michi- gan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, on or before October 10. To the writers of each of the five best letters we shall send a first1class flashlight with batteries. greatest advantage. I can go into the field and plow three furrows at once, thereby taking the place of three men; and at this time this is an item to be reckoned with. Having settled on a tract of cut—over land in northern Michigan, I find my tractor especially valuable in clearing up my farm. I was told that the tram tor wouldn’t work on this rough land, but we take it out among the logs and stumps and run it over cradle knolls and when we hitch it on to a log, \vhether ten or forty feet long, we take it right along to the pile. The same way with stumps. I had a blacksmith make me a heavy hook out of a plow beam 011 which handles were fastened for quick and easyhandling. Fasten- ed at the end of a twenty—foot cable, the tractor can pull stumps that are somewhat lotted faster than by any other method of which I know. Also, the cradle knolls are leveled by use of a dump scraper attached to the tractor with a chain. It makes little difference how much grass, weeds or brush are growing on the knolls, the tractor pulls the scraper just the same. This work would re- quire at least six horses which would not be practical to work under these conditions. We also use the power ‘ for silo filling, wood sawing, grinding feed, etc —E. B. Storm. HE reason I continue -using.the tractor is because of getting my work done in a comparatively short time. With the tractor, I am able to mostly alone, except during harvesting time. I can also work it long hours without its getting tired. The tractor has come, and come to stay. on our farm. We ‘find it actually cuts our field work in one-half and also. furnish- es ‘bél‘t power if we need it. We use ”$10-20 type, which 13‘3”?“ am»m11.-m of Tuongsnu. Men A. Locum not”. to make amid outfits . a Why I Keep . ‘a Tractor HERE are two main reasons why ’ CUTS FIELD WORK IN ‘HALFu ’ do my work on one hundred acres- 0119 I011 - put it. It is expensive, but so is hired help. You -.can put me down, Mr. Handyman, as a satisfied tractor own"- er and 'an interested reader of your journal—Henry E. Lehman. COULD NOT FARM WITHOUT IT.- -Y reasons for keeping a tractor are these: First, by the use of the tractor, deeper and better work can be done. Second, plowing can be done :so much more quickly than by horses. Third, the crops can usually be planted in season. Fourth, when the tractor is not in use, it does not eat. We have had a tractor nearly two years and would not feel like farming without one. ———Geor.ge Fisher. IT KEEPS THE BOYS AT HOME. HAVE used a tractor for three years, and believe it is the power to,use, because farm help is so scarce and one can do more than twice the work with a tractor. In hot weather you can keep‘ going all the time. I have a boy twelve years old that can take the tractor and do as much as any two men with team, and he enjoys it, too; while if he were to use horses he Would not accomplish much. It helps to keep the boys on the farm. It is also very useful for belt power, such as g1inding feed, buZzing wood, filling silos and husking corn —-Erne_st D. Benedict. KEEPS HIM ON THE FARM. FOR the past three years I have used a tractor for the heavy farm work. If I had to .do without this im- plement, I think I should quit farming. The tractor enables me to do more work alone than 1 could~ possibly do with horses, thereby saving hired help, which is an important expense item to the farmer these days. This feature alone makes the tractor cheaper .pow- er, if properly cared for. It also saves hard work through enabling us to buzz up wood, grinding feed, and doing other belt work. There are so many jobs on the farm which make the trac- tor useful that the longer I use it the more necessary it seems to be to the farmer—C. 0. Bailey. THE TRACTOR AND THE HORSE. I have heard them talk and argue ’Tween the tractor and the horse; One would like this one the 'better Than the othe1 way, of course I am just a humble falmer with Little experience in this line— There’s a place where horse is better The1 e’ s a place where tractors shine. I have run a kerosene tractor, I have Run it day and night; . I have plowed in dew of mowing, I have plowed by lantern light. As a 1101 se may be unfaithful, or a Tractor be untrue, But with both in running order both , Will do what they’re meant to do. Then, again, the knockers tell me that It takes a lot of kale And, to burn up all the profits, that The tractor is a whale. How about the average farm horse, Are they not expensive, too. Just to feed, to care, and house them Every day the whole year thru? There is no winner or no loser, lf‘i't came to an honest race; Each will do what is required, when Put in their proper place. - As a horse, so is a tractoT, young 0raged,neworold—- 1 If you give them caref111 ’ They’ll return it bundr ——Henry E.Loh111am .. Theseureflsefianswhen them- 111“ momma 1“ ”my." M.».1.._.. ~__ .— . A...»o—~_m‘.‘-——- C"...— ‘T‘. “’1: ’M‘A1fi’hv‘ ’1 " WWW ._.' A‘AHQHL'J-vv-In in o—lun—as—rk. / 1 fill-IU'HHA a mnomnzmu—cAE-‘MAHA.HH-L_J V anfihflnm 1'." EdG-CANURH.UI nfleneeunsnweeemeemeeqmeo 1— it my... ,- .unu. . W” Ts made in rows sh 1 ' teams were able to pull all the ' I‘ ’ way from 8 6 to 21.2 horsepower and exerted from 2,000 pounds up to 23, 000 y of tractive pull. The silo is one of the most import- ant factors in bringing profits on the live stock farms. Profits are increased by either getting more'for what we produce or reducing the cost of pro- duction. The silo not only reduces production costs, but when the silage ‘is fed to dairy cows, it increases by a considerable margin, the pricerreceiv— ed for what is sold from the farm. GIVE MANURE ITS DUE. N incorrectly reported test of the value of manure .made by the North Dakota Experiment Station and published in a recent number of this journal, is hereby corrected. As re- ported, unmanured alfalfa was credit— ed as yielding fifty per cent more than manured alfalfa. The statement should have read that over a period of seven 'years unmanured alfalfa yielded fifty per cent more hay than manured ' brome—grass land. \.. _ FARMERS WILL GO LUMBERING. T is reported that numerous farmers from VVJsconsin and southern Mich- igan have come north with a view to relieving the financial pressure by un= dertaking logging operations during the coming winter. A few farmers club together and take a job of. log- ging, it is stated. They use their own labor and that of their sons. Some- thing like that happened last winter, but there is said to be much more in sight for the coming winter season. There remains some uncertainty re— garding the prices at'which logs are to be sold, though stumpage prices are i said to be very high. -———._.,_ w.e..~. “—u—r'lv‘w‘ , '.__ BRIEFS FOR +HE BUSY FARMER. HE Grayling board of commerce recently started a movement along similar lines of, work as that under- 3 taken by the Standish Board of Com- merce. The introduction of pure-bred l} cattle will be one of the important I, undertakings. The board members 1' will cooperate with the farmers by making available funds for the pur- chase of pure-bred stock. Mr. Livingston, who is looking after i .. ‘ land—clearing in northern Michigan, ‘ states that there is no more danger in the use of sodatol, the new war salvage explosive, than in the use of , any other material of this character. g Ordinary care must, of course, be I used. Sodatol requires a number six i eap instead of a number eight cap, - which was so necessary to use with ? picric acid. I Dr. David Friday, recently president of the Michigan Agricultural College, hasbeen chosen as a director of the Research Council of the National Transportation Institute. In view of the fact. that transportation legislation is to be one of the most important I subjects before the coming congress, I, and that government ownership will ll undoubtedly be championed by certain , groups of our populationJ it is highly { important that the public secure un- l I‘ prejudiced information on transporta- tion. The immediate work of the in- ? stitute will be devoted to a study of rates with reference to railroad invest~ t ments, transportation costs, distribu- § tion of freight charges among various l industries, the effect of freight rates . on thegeographical distribution of in- dustry and agriculture, the relative efficiency of privately owned and gov- eitnment ,pfned roads, the relation of fgf investment in railroad securities to ~ ”Io-flu; Hymns-”NW "hm.“ _....\ mm ”mm I -. WAO€ BAL LBAN " MARV‘ The Right Boots for the job Boots for work—boots for plays—boots for mud or water-slush Or snow—boots that are always comfortable. _ Wool Boots and Socks, also Rubber Shoes and Arctics, that keep your feet warm as well as dry. “Ball-Band” (Red Ball) Rubber and Woolen Footwear is made in as many different styles as there are kinds of work and weather. Go to the store that carries “Ball-Band” and look at the assortment. You will surely find dif- ferent kinds to fill your various needs. 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NEW: government explo'sive; call- “sodatol,” is now- being distribut- ed to farmers of the Upper Peninsula the Michigan Agricultural College. The price to farmers is $6.25 per one hun- dred pounds in car-lots, which also in— cludes one hundred blasting caps for each one hundred pounds of the arti- cle. This, explosive is produced from salvaged government stocks of war ex- plosives and is packed in fifty-pound boxes. It is said not to freezegand in several particulars .to be more satis- factory than other forms of explosives hitherto used. It is somewhat more energetic than dynamite and more sensitive than TNT. County agents are urging local bankers to assist in finahcing purchases of sodatol. To FORM MARKETING ORGANIZA. TION. HIPPEWA county farmers are working on a project to incorpor- ate a stock company for the purpose, it is stated, of marketing their prod- ucts and purchasing commodities for farm use. Meetings held through the county early in September are said to have showu an almost unanimous sent- iment in favor of the new organiza- tion. Representatives of the State Farm Bureau *and the Michigan Agri- cultural College are assisting in the enterprise. The new organization, it is proposed, will act as sales agent for an the farmers of the county, and as purchasing agent for such standard materials as feeds, twine, flour, and salt. Farmer members will own the stock of the company. PLANS TO FEED THE FISH. R. W. E. MANNING, of the Unit~ ed States Biological Survey, has been at work in the Upper Peninsula, this season, carrying forward the sim- ilar work begun last year by Mr. Met- calf. This work consists of a detailed investigation of the shore line and bot— tom of each lake visited, the collection of specimens of vegetation growing there, the charting of the lake and the preparation of a report recom- mending the planting of such ‘duck and fish foods as have been found adapted to local conditions. During the present season the survey has been completed 'in Marquette County, and Au Train lake in Alger county has also been surveyed. Portake lake, in Houghton county, has been sur- veyed on its eastern shore, and the work was then wound up in Iron coun~ ty. Many additional requests for this work are 011 file at the office of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau, Marquette, and assurances have been given that the survey will be contin- ued next summer. ' SOME FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF CLUB MEMBERS. ESULTS coming from club work are revealed in a. recent statement from Dickinson county, where there are twenty-eight calf club members. Fred La Vuie sold six small pigs that brought him in $50, and with the pro- ceeds purchased a. calf. Ethel David- son bought a. pure-bred Guernsey calf three years ago, and by way of return in addition to milk sales, has sold one calf for $55 and has another calf to be disposed of. HELP FARM eovs ANID‘ GIRLS. _ ,NDER the. auspices of the Ameri- , , can, Red CrossLMarquette County - Chapter...‘thirty~four Marquettescounty. . through the land-clearing service of. rural children had their tonsils remov- ed during the summer. Three clinics were held in as many hospitals of the county. Money for this work was de ’ rived from the junior Red Cross fund and the total outlaywas $647. Dental clinics have also been held throughout the county. . A BLAST FOR LAND-CLEARING." (Continued from page 321). farms at this particular period when agricultural products are bringing rel- atively low prices. This is not the work that has been carried on by the land-clearing extension forces of the Michigan Agricultural College. The picric acid that has «been purchased through the M. A. C. Land-clearing De- partment, by Ontonagon county, and the other counties of upper Michigan, has been used by the farmers already located on farms, in an effort to place their farms on a paying basis. Most of these new farmers put all of their small savings into their farms, which they are hewing out of the Wilderness by means of their strength and perse- verance, and the sacrifices 'of their families. A large share of these per- sons purchased this farm land in Mich- igan upon the solicitation of the regu- larly constituted officials of the state. If the state should take official action at this time, refusing to cooperate with these persons in bringing these farms to a paying basis, it would be as clear cut a case of abandonment and two« faced dealing as it would be possible to picture. The farmers of the Upper Peninsula. have no desire to pick a quarrel with their brothers below the Straits, for there is no particular movement now going on. towards the opening up of new farms in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There is a very decided movement which aims to place the farms now\occupied on a basis where the owners can make a living from their land. Land-clearing has gone for- ward during the past two years at a rate much greater than ever before. The citizens of the Upper Peninsula expect to continue their cooperative efforts towards making the financial condition of the Upper Peninsula. farms more secure. They believe all the citizens of the state Will gain by . having these Upper Peninsula farmers in a position to pay their taxes, the interest on their investment, and a liv- ing for the farm family. There is no form of agricultural extension service which can be rendered by the state that will be so valuable to Upper Peninsula farmers as land-clearing work. They would like to have this assistance from the state continued. and, whether it is continued or not. land-clearing on the farms in the Up- per Peninsula must not and will not stop. A large majority of the farmers in the Upper Peninsula are dairy farm- ers. The price of dairy products, as everyone knows, has remained rela- tively high as compared to other farm products. Lower Peninsula. farmers have nothing to fear, .in the way of lowered prices for dairy products from the land-clearing work now being done on the farms of the Upper ‘Pe- ninsula. No proof has ever been giv- en that the volume of dairy products that will be produced in the Upper Peninsula in the next ten years will have any appreciable effect upon the supply and demapd or price in the United States. In this connection, there is a question whether the price of butter is not determined by interna- tional factors, rather than just the sup- ply and demand in the-UnitedStates. Selfish lives: are as .eankerous 1n communltr work ”intensities on can!“ . .. .: ‘ I it - ' a r a FARMIN .4" .~’~"‘-‘_‘“ i‘ ' « ‘ a}... .0 Q—vx‘ah ‘ cw ‘-—-—-. . N view of the fact that some advo- .'eate a quart of milk per day for every child, while others believe that a smaller amount may do as well, the New York Association for Improv- ing the Condition of the Poor, with the cooperation of the ‘ Department of Chemistry of Columbia University, un- J , MA; I y (D \ 'V w £5.va 1e ’ dertook an extended series of experi- |8 l ments upon children from three to IE3 f over thirteen years of age, to deter- id ; E mine what quantity of milk per day,_ 9‘ , taken as a part of a normal diet, 1d ' would induce the best storage of cal- n. i, cium and phosphorous in the body of 13' the growing child and hence, presum-‘ :e I ably, the best development of bones 51 . ' V‘ and teeth. The ‘investigation was if , made pOSsible by a grant from the re- :h 3 search fund established by Mrs. Eliza- 35 beth Milbank Anderson. The experi- ments were conducted by Miss Edith Hawley under the general direction of the writer. Groups of average children were tak- en from' city? homes to the suburban house maintained by the association, where they lived normally for periods lh , of from ten to fifty days under the con- ' stant personal supervision and control 3' I » y...” *--—-\..A,-J- 1 IS 11‘ i of the research worker (Miss Hawley) 0- who slept in the room with the chil- le ‘ dren, prepared their food, and record- ‘ ‘ ed and analyzed the complete food in- la take and excretory output of each :h child separately throughout its experi- >r mental period. ‘ w H The investigation was divided into of l four progressive series of experiments of including in all, twenty-one children id i between the ages of three and four- 18 teen years, and covering a total of 417 re experimental days: m In the first series of experiments the DI" children received an ordinary mixed 3. ' ' diet containing 750 grams (about e. 9' three-fourths of a quart) of milk for la each child fdaily, this being about the re , amount they were supposed to have al l . la - ill )3; . rs :1 T 1e l 10 , 2e , te . er 1g l. is u“, d, :5 It. 5 D- i . 0t Produced 19,154 lbs. bf Milk, and 607.8 _ lbs. of Fat in Eleven Months. Prop- ln , erty of E. M. Stewart, of Wayne n- 5, County. 0 is ‘ i “1;“. -.._ _ :1 I had at home. This diet resulted in rs { ' . their storing calcium in small quanti- of ,5: ties approximately proportioned to ts it their body weights. In the second ser- 1g l ies, when the amount of milk was in- ‘e— ,_ creased to 1,000 grams (one quart) of V- ’3 milk per day, the storage of calcium ts ‘ [wasomaterially improved. Very care— er 1 . ful studies with systematic increases ill , l and decreases in the daily allowance 1e 3 , of milk led to the conclusion that a 1e quart of milk per day must be fed to n 'f insure the optimum storage of calcium _ c ' ‘ and phosphorous and the best develop- a— ment of bones and teeth. The third ,p- andfonrth series of, experiments show- 5. ’ . ed the superiority of vmilk over vege— _ ‘,tables as a source of calcium (for grow- m ins “tren- .' , . ' ' ' m - -' ~ ed , editorially ,in .the .3 31 Medical A? see re» - Milk forChildrenr By Dr. Henry C. Shermanbealuméia University - sults: “The dietary rule of a quart of milk each day for every child is much more‘than a precept based on individ- ual opinions or drawn by analogy from the results of feeding experiments with lower animals it now \rests on scien- tific evidence obtained by extensive and intensive experiments directly on the children themselves.” COMMAND HIGHER PRICES THAN A YEAR AGO. URE—BRED dairy cattle brought relatively higher prices in 1922 than other pure-bred animals, accord- ing to a recent survey made by. the This Jackson County Leader, Owned by L. A. Sedgwick, Gave 979.4 lbs. of Fat in Two Years, Milked But Twice a Day, and Dropped Two Calves. United States Department of Agricul— ture. Prices did not reach the peak of 1920, yet the averages indicate that dairy cattle have been produced at a profit to dairymen. Reports were received on a total of 7,597 dairy animals, divided among the breeds as follows: Guernsey, 2,160; Holstein, 2,796; Ayrshire, 509; Brown Swiss, 157; Jersey, 1,975. Average prices received were, Ayrshire, $181.- 73; Brown Swiss, $123.53; Guernsey, $273.36; Holstein, $187.15, and Jersey, $186.50. The highest prices by breeds were, Ayrshire, $3,000; Guernsey, $7,500; Holstein, $5,000, and Jersey, $5,000. A NEW COUNTY DAIRY CAMPAIGN. HE Extension Department of M. A. C. has planned dairy and alfalfa campaigns in eight counties for this fall. The counties are: Ottawa, St. Joseph, Midland, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Arenac, Barry and Newaygo. All of these counties are ideally located'ior the expansion of the dairy business, and the extension department antici- pates a 'big reception for the special- ists it sends out. These county campaigns have prov- en very popular in the past few years. The dairyand crop specialists sent, out by the college can put their mes- sage across in the field or barnyard much more quickly than they can from the platform. In every case, where the county campaigns have been held, a big improvement’in the dairy and crop practices have been notiCed. Many cow-testing associations have been formed as a result of these cam- ’ paigns. In spite of the fact that milk is sev- en—eighths water, it is one of the most important of foods. 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A view of.the classic old baseball grounds at New York which Was. turned mto a huge arena for world’s heavyweight championship bout in which Jack Dempsey knocked out Luis Firpo. Twin monuments of scientific pro~ gress, the vworld’s largest air- ship and sky-scraper. Lieut. Harold J. Brown, of U. S. N., and the Curtis racer in which he has attained a record speed of 255 miles an hour. He will This American delegation to "Conference of Inter-parliamentary Union recently assembled at Copenhagen. In center, with hands on back of chair, is American Minister to Denmark, Dr; Prince. . . . w ‘ v‘J Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Nethox-k fly for the Pulitzer trophy at St. Louis. 1-!" Wu 1..- can 1w 33.1. qi»mwfw.v .:__ _ 1611 "o 'indatietp \ Utter what she says1 Don't you,‘ know ‘5iit’s a dare? Air you going to take a fidare? Why, use usen"t_. to when you fiwas‘ a baby! When you year that :fdurned new Laugh of Sally’s can’t you see that somesing’s wrong? She’s drinking! That’s what! You think 'she’d laugh so and drink if she was happy? You was a fool—yas, a durn .ifool. It’s_you1' fault. Go right up to her like a man and say so.” “I did,” 'said Seffy. “Hah, you did?\An’ what she says?” “She said she knowed it!” .‘ .“Well——-begoshens! She’s a worse Idol. Gather he1 in and make a fool :off of her and git efen! Turning her fback on an 01’ man that harms no one ‘——and he1 gua1deen yit!” .Alas, this was another thing he had done to secure the pasture-field—made .himself her legal guardian! “I’ll gif it u11-the guardeen. Yassir. ‘She ken take keer herself. Fool—of course. Bose tools! You wait tell she marries that durn molasses-tapper if you want to see fun!” Theie was such real agony in the old man’s voice that Seffy suffered, too. “Pappy, . I expect. I guess I’ll go away before the wedding.” “wedding—«wedding! You ain’t goin’ to let that wedding go on? And him git the pasture—field? Put him between us and the railroad!” “How can I stop it, pappy ?” “By marrying her yourself!” “I got enough, pappy,” said Seffy hopelessly. “They’l lynch me if I tried it again. I guess I’d better go away.” Quick anger flamed in his father’s face at this invertebrate submission. And his voice, when he spoke, was harsher than Seffy had ever heard it. “Got enough—got enough~—that’s all you know! And go away! That’s all you ken say, you bull-headed idjiot! Go and apologize and git her back. Don’t run. Then marry her next day. That’ll settle the molasses-tapper, I expect, and show that you got an inch or two of backbone! Choke her- chloroform her and carry her off!” Seffy laughed at the absurdity of the thing. But it was unmirthful. “Gosh-a—mighty! On a time like this you kin laugh! You right, you ain’t no good—no, begoshens! You ar an idjiot and fool! You no man! No, nor nefer will be! I’m sorry I’m your daddy. I am, begoshens!” Then, as his wrath mounted, he rais- his huge fist and threatened Seffy. “Git away from me, or I’ll break your head! I can’t stand you no more! You no good~to nobody. You look like you’ mammy’s relatifesv—and they was all no good~git away, I tell you!” He roared ominously; for Seffy, amazed at this from his gentle old father, was looking straight up at him out of a child’s 1ound eyes, his lips parted, his th1 oat exposed. Slowly, as his pa1ent heaped contumely upon him, his sensitive young face whiten- ed, and the light left it. Only, when his father mentioned his mother’s name, he said with infinite softness: WW9] ‘3‘»: ’/7/// ”7/ /// N/ ‘ M/ 31117,, fly ‘nullfluml i '8 FUNNY WY 5‘4" 0015111 GET 0N THE Job! HERE 11 1:“ Lnosr norm Aug lSN'T UP YET: _ // ’ I ll 1 '1. ‘: r am 1v camt she‘éwaiits you? It do11’t mat- Copyrizht 1905 .The Bows-Merrill Company A LITTLE COMEDY OF COUNTRY MANNERS “Why. nappy!” ' But he stood without fear under the great fist—as he had often done. “You hear! I told you to git away or I’ll smash your face in! I don’t want you no more. Go to your mam- my’s relatifes out west”———he laughed horridly—“and see what they’ll do for you! You’ll live on bread and water they ain’t got nossing else! You’ll stood that he had done it and with a savage animal-cry he swept the boy into his arms. Seffy doubled inertly upon him, as the dead do. His father raced frenziedly home with him, leap- ing fence like a bound. He put him upon the pretty white bed the boy had been wont to make with such care for himself. It was dainty and smooth now. The blood dripped from Sefly’s 1‘0 .4 (Helen. T By A. W. Peach Wee fiddler of the autumn dusk, ‘rThe music that you play Does not remind me of the James Forever passed away. ‘I do not think of grieving winds, Of flower petals blown, 0f mournful brooks who" wander down The songless vales alone. To me you play a merry tune . Of cheery minstrelsy Though others think your tune is sad With autumn’s mystery. I think of bins that overflow ’ With fruit of harvest spoil, ‘ I think of long sweet nights of rest That follow days of toll. I think of homelights-gleaming bright Across the quiet miles, Of loved ones gathered at the hearth, Of happy words and smiles. 80, little chap, play on, play on, Your fiddlefiat your chin-— You play the sweetest autumn song Upon your violin! - work all day and all night—and you’ll haf no fun—they don’t knowno bet— ter-hgo!” “Yes,” away. There was no doubt that he meant to go now. His dumb acquiescence in his sentence raised his father’s wrath to fury. “Yas~—go, and be mighty quick about it. I’m chust.itching to smash you. I’ll nefer send for you if you rot in the poorhouse. I’ll nel'er mention you’ name as long as I 1if~—no! I disown you! Never let me see you face again ——go!” It was all so utterly unbelievable that Seffy turned back. This raving madman his jolly old father, who had reverenced the memory of his mother and had taught him to do so—-to men- tion her every time he prayed? The old man had turned, but Seffy came close and touched him gently. The caress only maddened him. Seffy cow- said Seffy turning dumbly ' ered at the passion on the face of his father. He raised his fist. “Git out!” he shouted. “If you‘ don’t——” But the boy could not, now. The huge fist trembled. on high a moment, some instinct of sanity stxug- gling to control it—-then it fell on Seffy’s upturned face He dropped among the clods-his pale hair mingling with the dust—his hands inertly outlying—terror still quivering in his lips and nostrils. Blood slowly oozed from his mouth and nose, and a livid red mark began to grow upon the depression in his forehead which the blow had made. One moment—twomthe old man looked down at this. Then he under- AL A C RES-— ch’r/zapr S/[m I; Really Going to ll/af/c, IN 550 Too! HE MUST BE‘ mo HE WAN‘rs Hl$ DlNN Ea GEE GOSH, AL. I‘M FIVE MINUTES- AWFULSICK' we OUGHTD LATE To wopK! face and from his own beard and stained the white coverings. The sight was full of horror! He staggered drunkenly away. He looked 'hastily for his gun—~111eaning, perhays, to kill himself. But. then it seemed to him that Seffy sighed. He fell on his knees and agonized for the life he thought he had taken. Then he felt a pulse-beat. With a hoarse cry he rush- ed out into the road, calling for the doctor. Two people were coming to- ward him. It was Sam and Sally, re- turning from their marriage.- By what he saw on Old Baumgart- ner’s face and hands, Sam was sober- ed. Both understood that they were approaching some tragedy. “\Vho?” asked Sally, suddenly ob- livious of Sam. “Seffy.” “Sam!” she turned upon her ‘hus- band with command. “Bring the doc-1 tor!” Sam went with satisfactory haste. “Who hurt him?” asked Sally, as if she were ready to slay him who did. “I. I killed him because he wouldn’t marry you! You wouldn’t marry him! 011, you devil!” / It was at that instant that the great change in Sally came. She leaped; be- fore him int'o the house and up to Seffy’s room. When the old man slow- ' 1y followed she was there~with eyes bent upon Seffy bloody, unconscious face. So she kept her eyes. .She did not speak. And when the doctor came, she was still there—as at first—uncon- scious as he, the doctor said. He was not dead, and presently he breathed again. But his eyes remain— ed closed, and, late that night, when 0 light, with a bundle of papers in his CHAPTER x1.“ x ‘ - When'Spr-lng Came. T for the old man. ~The bay mare stood in the stable and whinnied for Softy. The old house wasvfull of harsh echoes. Its spirit seemed to have gone. Seffy’s father knew now what a rare thing is joyeand what a joyous ‘creature Softy had been. . The ground was hard to till. And often he thought about what he had said. of Sefly’s mother. Then he would toil up. theisteep stair to the garret—he had become quite feebleLand take out of an old German chest a daguerreotype of her with Softy in her arms. And some- times he would cry over. it until his heard was Wet. . “God bless you, my little boy,” he would sometimes .say, “that you cared for her more than I did. You nefer called her no names. “I “I didn’t know I could be so mean to the dead—who don’t deserfe it, and can’t talk back. And, God?a’mighty! If any one’s to be called names, it’s me !—not her nor—you, Seffy, nor you! For I expect I’m a murderer!” - ,_ And sometimes when his loneliness was too hard to be borne, he would go out and sit for hours and‘talk to the old bay mare—about Seffy. He fancied she quite understood, and I do, too. When the spring came he plowed alone. And this was hardest of all. To plow mound and a1ound his vast fields with no one to meet in the othei fu11ow—no one to talk, to smile to sit undex the shade of some tree 1edolent with men1011es.ot thep1etty little boy, where he and Seffy had sat, HAT Was a coldand lonely winter '. to laugh to—then, when no one came, 1 from his childhood to his manhood, and eat the food which choked! Oh, if he could only have laughed—~ at himself, at Seffy, at the mare, at anybody or anything! If he could only have laughed! l . And he knew that every animal on’ the place wondered and hungered for little Seffy and questioned" him with pathetic eyes, while he, at first, guilt- ily kept silent—then tried to confess his shame to them. “Yas ,”.he told the mare, “I done it ——-I stluck him—heie, right here! In the face——while his eyes were looking in mine—pleading—~and heie was blood—and here and he1e-and dust in his hail—and his eyes we1e closed ——and when I run home wiss him his legs dangled like he was dead. And he crawled away somewheres to die-— I don’t know why they don’t come and hang me. I haf told e’m all that I killed him. But no one don’t arrest me.” CHAPTER XII. . The Kiss Like Seffy's. NE day 'he went unto the vine coveredhouse' on the Hill 'of De- hand “See yere, Sally” he said senilely, “yeies you’ papers.- I gif up the guardeenship. You ken git another one if you not On age yit. I don’t keer ByLan/é R‘. Lee: Y SAY Vou DO WE won YJJEEE I‘M TRYlN‘ ‘mA FOUR HOUR WORKIN' DAY Aw I'VE new To GET m A~DAY’8 WORK Barons SUPPER! ‘m ._ ._....—_ i i i ,1 ~ ’ yet lofing Sef. and more ; together. . Sally dropped her head. “Yes,” she said so humbly' that he relented a little. ' .... “I got to do it. I ain’t no account no more. I ought to hat a guardeen myself. And people’s making such a fusswyou, ain’t treated us right—no, you ain't! I guess 1 had better not be mixed in. They say that you married a drunkard, and killed—a man—and got to be a drunkard yourself. But I know better ’bout one, sing. I killed him. Yit they say that you married Sam chust to spite poor Seffy—-and Oh, Sef—Sef—why didn’t she tell you so!” He went on heedlessly till he knew that Sally was sobbipg. He raised her face and looked into it curiously and saw for the first time that pathetic wanness of which, also, people began to talk. “Sally,” he well?" “Quite well,” said Sally. said then, “you not “Then you got trouble—trouble, too, Sally?" “Oh, pappy," she pleaded breath- lessly, “don’t you turn away from me, too. I have no one but you! No. I have not treated you right. But, oh, life is so hard to me!” “No,” he said, smoothing her hair with his gnarled old hand. “I’fe had my eyes turned‘within. But I didn’t know you had trouble. I heerd that Sam had took to. hard drinkin’ and I sought you didn’t keer. You was so rackless—J’ “Yes,” she sighed, “I am reckless! And—~yes—~I drink sometimes. But it is that way I can forget.” “I don’t turn ag’in’ no one in .trou- ble, efen if they don’t treat me. right# and drink—-” “Forgive me! py! The suffering is mine “Yas,” he said, “yas—don’t cry. But the suffering ain’t all yourn.” “No,” she said. “Not all—not all!” “But, Sally, if I take the papers back, you won’t drink no, more? It ain’t nice—«efen if you air the wife of a drunkard.” “No. If you will be my friend, I will try to be what I would have been as Seffy’s wife!” “It’s a bargain—and I’m sorry I spoke so harsh, Sally. Mebby, mebby ——(}od knowsl—we ken comfort one Oh, forgive me, pap- [’1 another. I—vSally—I need some one, too!” “Yes! Will you let me? I will have no friend but you!” “Yas! And I won‘t have no friend but you, Sally.” “Will you let me kiss you?” “Do you want to?” he cried tremu- lously. “Yes,” whispered the girl. “Me? Sally, lem me kiss you!” “She put up her lips almost solemnly and with that their compact was sealed. CHAPTER XIII. One Blow for That to Seffy. 'E took the papers home again, and was gentle with her afterward, for the things which the world blamed in her. His was the only real kind- ness she knew. Her little canting world had no pity for her. But to her drunken husband, in spite of all, she . was a loyal wife, and the old man liked her'the better for it. So it came to pass that they two, the bent old man and the girlish wife of the drunkard, separated more and more from the world and came more And‘often they were seen in the fields together and walking along the roads arm in arm. With Sally’slittle fortune, at com- mand, Sam had gone rapidly to' the ‘bad. And Sally came to know what tears were, and'that dreadful kind of -. waiting which falls to the lot of such women—the waiting for the fall of a footstep which makes one shudder yet " rejoice. , , They teld her to get rid of him, but . .3116 311.091: her head and thought of WWI?“ haw-seeding mg- Afteraw e i was maniw‘h helped toniako“ these vigils‘ less - intelerablee—igoing away .stealthily by the back door when Sam’s unsteady step was heard at the front—an angel of light if ever there was one in plow- man’s jacket. - - It fell grimly to! his lot, too, to pro- vide for Sam by diminishing the little farm he had longed and hoped for, acre by acre. There was no conten- tion between them as to this. The young wife’s wishes were his law. "‘He married me for that,” said Sal- ly, the first time, “and I let him marry me for that—just for spite. Only no one was spited but me—but me—well, he shall have it—all—ail”—her voice broke a little——“a11 but them—pasture- field—that—no one shall have but—- you——or Seffy when I die.” Only once he interfered. Sam raised his hand to strike her and he laid the drunkard at his feet with a blow‘ such as he had struck" but once be- fore in his life. “I am her .guardeen!” he cried as he struck. “By the‘ Lord, I’m her guard- een!” For a moment he gloated oVer the prostrate brute. Then he stood up trembling before Sally. “Forgif me,” he begged. “But I couldn’t help it, It done itself. Mebby mGod-a’mighty only knowsi—it was‘a chance to efen up for the other one. And yit it was a righteous blow—yas, it was a righteous blow!” Sally put her hands into his and sobbed. “Yes,” she said. “You are the first that ever saw—”, . (Continued next week). Does the safety of your live stock mean anything to you? Is the safeguarding of your crops and property of value to you? 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The biblical writer is particular to impress this on us. He leaves the land ofahis birth and starts on a journey of three hundred miles, as the crow flies, across the desert. years old when‘he departed out of Haran.” Twenty-four years later he receives the vision which has made his name great. It is unusual for an old man to re- ceive a new idea. It_is extraordinary for an old man to act upon a new idea The tendency of the age is to look towa1d the past, and count the depart- ed glories. But when a person of fan advanced ye‘ars does undertake with vigor and decisiveness to live in the tiful Sir John Franklin was eag- er to command an- other arctic ex- ploring expedi— tion, and the first lord of the‘admir- ally said to him, SirJohn, you are sixty, are you not?” "‘Oh, no, your lordship, only fifty-nine.” Wesley act- vd upon a new idea. at seventy-seven. Seaman A. Knapp, at seventy, began his ‘agitation’for a more prosperous agriculture in the south, by securing from the federal government a grant of a quarter of a. million dollars with which to fight the bell weevil. “Old- fogyism, in short, is the inevitable terminus to which life‘sweeps us on,” says an American educator. But old- fogyism seems never to overtake some people. They are too open-minded for it. Boswell says of Doctor Johnson, “At the age of seventy-four he was more severely afflicted than ever, but still the same ardor for literature, the same constant piety, the same kind- ness for his friends, and the same vivacity, both in conversation and in writing, distinguished him.” From the standpoint of his mental outlook, and his bodily vigor, therefore, Abraham He seems to have been of the same temper as the Greek hero Ulysses, "strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” E grows on us, as we read the fascinating story in Genesis. “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house.” “And Abram, took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.” There were no half-way'measures. There was no leaving of relatives behind to whom one might return, in a pinch. And there was no stopping this side of the goal. “Into the land of Canaan they came.” He believed in Providence. He bé~ lieved he was acting in accord with the loadings of Providence, hence fear tions. A positive conviction leaves lit- tle room for fear. Only once did he yield to craven impulses, and he was so humiliated by his experience that he never did it again. Pioneering is never built on negatives. The man who goes before must believe that he is going to an Eldo‘rado, else no one will follow him. . noting that pioneers. are more, often ' Their experi- be in the realm of religion primarily, but in the back of their minds they, hold to an ever-present Deity. which qheartens them, as they go on their' ' way. Thisis true of the greater part. . h , HAT surprises us with re’spéct '. “And Abram was seventy and five resent, it is beau-L played but a. small part in his calcula-~ Moreover, it is worth, dred years. Lord Kelvin, Romanes,‘ Drummond, Faraday, Dai- ton, maxwell, Raleigh. Aaassiz, Gray, Dana, Henry, were all pioneers and they were all religious men. To speak at the Puritans is to open up a uni- verse of religious belief, while the ear- iy Dutch settlers, the Quakers, the“ Germans likewise went forth into, the new World not without taking account of the guidance of Providence. The early history of Ohio has a. most in- teresting chapter gm the Moravian set- tlements, which appeared before the Revolution. The history of the Amer- ican Indian would be a different chap- ter, had all white men adopted the creed of the Moravian brethren, just as the history of. Christianity could be, written in letters of gold, if all leaders had had the deep faith and the steady vision of Abraham. r LIKE other men,.the characteristics which distinguish this man are represented by certain remarkable ex- periences. There was the time when hisherds were separated frbm the herds of his nephew. The attitude of each man toward the transaction is a perfect limner of his character. In a generous, easy manner, the older man told his nephew to choose the land that looked good to him, and as for himself, he would take what was left. With such an attitude, Abraham would not have out much of a figure among several thousands, making a rush for government homestead lands. If he adhered to that spirit, he would not have gotten far as a corporation law- yer. ous for his clients. And yet we in- stinctively believe that such a meas- ure of magnanimity is above\ all the ambitions rivalries and all the grand scheming of which small souls are capable. And there is that other scene in the. life of this mam—the hour when he- Was asked to sacrifice his son! To modern ears this may sound like an impos’sible tale. The very thought of it is barbarous. No father could offer up his own son. But are not men constantly offering up their sons for objects less w01 thy? This man of the long ago was giving his son as an offering to_A1mighty God. But many modems give their children away, not ' for the asking, but before they are asked, for money, for business success, for social position, for pleasure. After driving some such intelligent bargain as this, these parents wonder why they are not more happy. Abraham had the best of all such; his object was high and worthy; it was to honor God. A company of American visitors were being shown through Ely Cathedral, England. One of them remarked, “Ely must have been a very large city, to require so large a church as this.” The old guide turned about and said, “This cathedral was not built for Ely. It was built for the glory of ,God." But the end is filled with rugged beauty. There is the voice from the Unseen, “Lay not thine hand upon the 1and;” the sacrifice that suddenly ap- pears, the, great, undying le"sSon in obedience. Abraham earned the title that was given to him long after— “The friend of God. ” SUNDAY SCHOOLLESSON FOR OCTOBER 7. ,. SUBJECT: —Abraham,a a Blessing to the Whole World. Genesis 12: 1 to 4; 18. 17,18 22: 1t018';' Heb. ‘11: 8110 10,17 to 19. GOLDEN TEXT: ——-in thee shallall gie faigulies of the earth be blessed. en The test of a man is whether he ages gracefully or bitterly \PaatSWe He would have been too gener- V “ 1 .1 I ,7 .,..,_, ‘ . -—~———-—~—- “VW - wax-r w ‘- "w ‘1 W ‘1”‘WT‘A “gm" O \ fr. 1". M— ._ .w “'W a W” ‘ a," w x w m,w v-‘wl‘wfl'Kt -—-—-—f' “fin—”I’V‘fME ‘—."w w— .._...v .V M“... O 51.... 1“ 1" .18 " ' “Finger Prints” ’ T is always just heaps of fun to make “finger prints.” You have done it before, haven’t you? Either out in your sand pile on a warm, sunny day, or in the soft fleecy snow in the winter time. Pe1haps your little chubby fingerp1ints are also in some new cement father has recent- ly made. I am going to tell you about a new way of making finger prints, that Emest Thompson Seton 1ecommends. It is very likely grandmothe1 will re- member of doing it when she was a little- girl going to school. We will not make our own finger prints this time, but those of leaves. So when winter comes and the leaves have fall- en and are covered with snow, we will have a picture of them. To make these pictures, or finger prints, you will want a thimbleful of unsalted butter or lard, a common candle,.or else an oil lamp with the chimney off, some sheets of common soft paper, and last, a selection of or- dinary leaves. Choose those leaves which have large veins, and you will have better luck. First, grease the sheet of paper, rub- bing the grease on evenly. Then light your candle or lamp and hold the pa- per with the greasy side down, over it until it is evenly smoked and a jet My Dear Little Nieces and Nephews: E are, going to have a cor-’ ner here in the Michigan Farmer all ‘to Ourselves, and I am wondering just how many of you there are. I want those of eight years of age and younger to feel at home here. We will have little things to do, games to play, puzzles to work out, rid- dles to solve, and a heap of oth- er things; but best of all, in a short time, we will have some' stories. We all like stories, don’t we? If you make pictures of leaves " as it‘ tells about here below, I would like to hear about it and what fun you had. Do you ”like this little puzzle?” If you do, we may have more later. Write your letters to Aunt Martha, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Mich. Watch for the story. It’s com~ ing. Sincerely, AUNT MARTHA. black. Keep the paper moving all the time so that it will not take fire. The smoking should be done by grown-ups, for it is not well for little folks to play with fire. Next lay the smoked sheet on the ‘table, the smoky side up, on top of one or two thicknesses of cloth to make a 30ft, smooth pad. 011 this smoke sheet lay the leaf that is to be printed, with the underside to the pa- per. On top of the leaf place another sheet of paper. Hold it down tight with one hand, and with the finger tips of the other, rub the upper sheet all over so as to .press the leaf well into the black of the smoke. Lift/ off the top sheet, and take the leaf by the stalk and lay it on a sheet of clean white paper. Lay another clean sheet on this, hold it steady so that neither leaf n01- paper will slip., Rub all over, the top sheet so as' to- press the leaf at all points. ' Now we are. ready toLtake OK the top sheet and leaf, and look! We per ‘91 firmer at of the leaf. of Leaves One leaf will make as many finger prints as you desire. It is the black smoke With the grease that makes a . carbon ink that is lasting. The chief mistakes you must avoid are putting too much grease on the paper, and letting the leaf slip. Write the name of the leaf on the print and the date on which you made it. This will help you to soon become familiar with all the different names of the beautiful leaves Mother Nature is growing for us every day. LETTEKA K @(12? WP E’s WAL ?‘ {+17 4; J??? Can you solve this little puzzle? Sometimes the pictures mean words and sometimes only letters. Try it and save your answer. The correct answer will be printed next week. “By the Way” M1s. Flinn——“Our daughter has tak- en to housewoxk since going to col—, lege." Mr. Flinn—“ls that 1ight?” Mrs. Flihn— “Yes, she writes me she is on the s01 ub team." Sleepy little Betty was asking for a bed—time story. Mother—“And what one shall .1 tell ' you tonight, dear?" Betty—«“Oh, I guess the one about Puss and the Bootlegger.” In the course of his address a lec- turer described some of the sights he had seen abroad. spectacles,” he said, forgets.” “I wish you would tell me where I can get a pair," exclaimed an old lady in the audience. “I am always forget- ting mine." “A dime’s worth of sodium bicar— bonate for indigestion at this time of the night!” cried the infuriated drug- gist, who had been aroused at 2:00 a. m., “when a glass of hot water would have done just as well!” “Weel, weel," returned the Scotch- man hastily, “I thank you for the ad- vice, and I’ll no bother ye after all. Good nicht.” “Are you saving money for the rainy day?” he asked. “I am not,” was the reply. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s raining now.” “You, Josie, that snappin’ is drivin’ me wild, An’ as sure as myname is O‘Grady . I’ll be cgiviln’ yer gum to the Holligan If you can’t learn to chew like a lady.’ Kull. Invest in- afew smiles daily and you will always‘have interest in retur‘h. “There are some , “that one never} . as the speed of an automobile has made travel swift and sure, so is meat curing made more certain by a salt that is Quick dissolving! RY salt or salt brine is used to preserve the meat and stop decomposition rather than to flavor it. Curing starts on the outside of the meat and works inward. As the salt dissolves it penetrates and protects section after section of the meat from damaging germ attack. This is only possible as the salt thoroughly dissolves and penetrates the meat. If a crust forms on the outside of the meat, it keeps the “pickle” from working into and through it, thus causing an imperfect, incomplete cure. How This Proves Salt Is Not “Just Salt” Seen through the eye of the micro- scope, it is easy to understand the cause of salt crusts and why one salt is so much different from the other. The tiny particles of different kinds of salt are of many shapes and forms. On its shape and form depends the action and result of the salt. Of the three types most commonly used for general-farm purposes one is Cube shape. Like a cube of ice such salt is of a hard and compara- , tively non-porous form, slow to dissolve—slow in penetration. The second looks like a crystal of glass—flaky but hard. It, too, is slow to dissolve and of low penetrative value. The third isa soft, po- rous flake—not unlike a snowflake. This is Colo- nial Special Farmers . Salt. Being of a texture - that instantly and com- pletely dissolves, it thor- oughly and evenly pene- trates to the very center of the meat. The tiny particles cannot cement together in a solid mass flake. firm fiber. MELTS LIKE A SNOWFLAKE These new 1711th are up- setting lhe old idea that salt is just salt and proo- inglheu'isdomoj demand- ingfor all form purposes salllhal mel/s like asnow- Meal cured with Colonial Spec iol F (""1818 Salt always comes out evenly cmed, finely fla- vmed am! with a pleasing natural color and tender. to resist the dissolving action of the water of the brine or the moisture of the meat and stop the cure. Buying Standards N ow Changed Whetherit’s for meat curing, baking, butter making or table use your salt cost isa small first Cost item. Un- known, cheap and slow dissolving salt may ruin products worth many times the price of the salt. You avoid risk when you use Colonial Special Farmers Salt. You use less of it because it is all salt—— pure salt with all the moisture removed. And it does not form in waste— ful lumps. A 70-pound bag is as big as a 100- pound bag of ordinary salt. Is always packed in a branded 70—pound bag. The linenized ma- terial makes fine towel- ing. Send for “Meat Curing and Butter Making on the Farm," a valuable booklet of information. THE COLONIAL SALT COMPANY, Akron, Ohio Chicago, 111. Buffalo, N. Y. COLONIAL Boston. Mass. Pittsburgh. Pa. Atlanta, Ga. SALT SPE CIAL FARMERS Colonial Special Farmers Sal! beats Block Salt for cattle feeding. I! is pu1e.eo'aporoted Salt—never causes sore tongues 01 sore mouths—always insures animals getting enough. ICHIGAN FARMER‘ Classified Ads. pay well. Try one. SAVE MONEY Buy Batteries Direct Protect yourself against battery troubles. Make this winter driving a pleasure. Equip you1 car with ‘a N 0 V A GUARANTEED BATTERY. Absolutely guaranteed for one year. Ford. Chevrolet, and similar makes of cars~$14§95. Buick. Studebaker. 20. 50. and similar makes of cars— , Order immediately. Why pay more when you can guy a battery that is guaranteed to give you satisfac- on. THE llllVA STORAEE BATTERY STATION, (was: 111111013 2411 hwfllflllmlifl V— Advertising that Pays RY a Michigan Farmer Classified Ad. to sell your surplus poultry, or to get that extra help. . They bring results with little '1 tost, see rates on page 179 of 2' Chis issue. The Michigan Farmer, ; Detroit, Mlch ‘ I . apart. AVEIyou forgotten how you en— vied your neighbor’s bed of tul- ips last spring? And how you vowed you would have some on your lawn next spring? If you really meant what you said, now is the time to get busy, for spring flowering bulbs must be planted in the fall——any time now, until the ground freezes. October is an ideal time for plant- ing, for planting at that time allows the bulbs to become established and make some good root growth before freezing weather puts the bulbs to sleep. First thing to consider is drainage. The bed must be in a well-drained place. Fertilizer is another requisite. Put on a good application of bone meal -—an inch deep is none too heavy—and spade into the soil. Mix it well with the soil. Tulips, hyacinths and narcissus should be planted about four inches deep, and from five togseven inches Anemones should be one inch deep and from four to six inches apart. Note the chart. Be sure that bulbs of the same kind are all set at the same depth, so that there will be a uniform development in the spring, thus making sure that they will all flower at the same time. It is advisable to mulch the beds with straw, leaves, or strawy manure after the ground freezes. This keeps the frost in the ground and prevents the alternate freezing and thawing which causes the soil to heave, thus injuring the roots. This mulch should be re- moved early in the spring before the bulbs start into growth. The Darwin tulips are the finest of all tulips. The Cottage, Breeder and Parrto types should be planted more widely. Dutch hyacinths are the ones to plant out of doors. Rowan hyacinths are seldom used except under glass. Singles are generally more satisfac- tory than doubles. Among the Narcissi there are sev- eral types which may be used. The Daffodils with large, medium, and short trumpets, come in the yellows, white, and colors the singles are bet- ter than the doubles, the Jonquils, the Poetaz, and the Poetioustypes. The Polyanthus type, which includes the Paper White and the Chinese Sacred Lily, is not hardy, and so should not be used out of doors—E. A. K. COMBINATION CAKE. HIS is a. good recipe for dark cake which my family is very fond of. ' 1 use the same recipe with slight var- iations for layer cake, drop cookies, lin. fruit cake, or gingerbread made in a dripper. Layer Cake. 1-3 on shortening 2 egg yolks 1 cup w ite sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon 1A: cup molasses 1.4 tsp. ginger 1 cup boiling water Salt 2% cups flour 1% tsp. soda Bake in two layers, and ice' with I boiled white icing made of one cup of sugar and half cup of water boiled to- gether until it hairs. Stir this syrup Plant Bulbs Now for SpringF lower. Put Your Plan: for an Ear/3117701067” Garden [7210 Action T fiz’s Momfi will not shrivel. Tops .of vegetables should be removed, of oeurse, before storing. Do not cut beet tops close. Large Quantities—Store in root” cel- lar in bulk, or in outdoor pits, as fol- lows: Make excavation six or eight inches deep, four feet wide, and as long as necessary. Cover ground with layer of straw, and place vegetables ' in conical heap of any desired length. . "’ a Well-chosen Flowers About the House Attracts the Eye of Every Passerby. into the two stiffly beaten egg whites and beat until creamy. For dark drop cakes I use the same recipe, adding two whole eggs, two teaspoonsful cloves, one table- spoon cocoa, and bake in gem pans in moderate oven. For gingerbread, make as for drop cakes, but bake in a dripper. For“ fruit cake add one—half package ' of raisins and one cup flour. Bake in deep pans. This will make two fair- sized loaves.———Mrs. W. G. S. STORAGE or: VEGETABLES Eo'fi HOME USE IN WINTER. T is to the interest of every family to grow each season a supply of those vegetables suitable for storage, ‘ and to see that they are properly stor- ed for use during the winter months when prices are high and vegetables often hard to get. Less work and less expense are involved in keeping them by other methods, as canning, drying, and preserving, and the product re- tains its characteristic flavor. Potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, winter radishes, turnips, rutabagas, salsify, kohl-rabi, may be stored as follows: Small Quantities—Store in boxes (or heaps) of slightly moist (not wet) sand or sandy soil in a cool cellar. Put in alternate layers of sand and vege- tables. Vegetables stored in this way ~ .\' 2' g mangoes; Cover with twelve to eighteen inches of straw. On the layer of straw’, as the weather gets colder, place a layer of soil four to six inches in depth. If some straw is left protruding at the top of the pile at first, it will provide for the passing off of any heat which may be generated when the vegetables are first covered. This protection will suffice except in the most severe weather, when an additional layer of straw may be added. In removing the vegetables from the pit after the layer of soil is frozen, a small hole may be chopped in one side and the vegetables needed taken out. DRYING DAINTY LINE'NS. HAVE an old dresser with a broad marble top and consider myself in luck. I find it'the most convenient thing on which to dry dainty, flat lin-. ens, although a porcelain top kitchen table would answer the purpose. After washing the linens, I lay them per- It m4: mi? fectly flat on the smooth marble, pat- ting the edges downwell. When dry they are lifted up and folded, with a great saving of heat and labor.—-G. S. BORDEAUX SAUCE. _ Y winter larder would not be com- plete unless I had several jars of this sauce, which is excellent to serve with meats. ; Bordeaux Sauce. i iiiag’ififibé‘é’é‘“‘°“ i333°§nf§é§iy q green peppers . 4 cups sugar 1) 01110118 ' Chop green tomatoes and cabbage fine and let stand one hour in salt water. Drain and add the remaining vegetables, chopped fine, along with the vinegar and sugar. Boil this mix- ture for two hours and pack in ster- ilized jars.——~Mrs. A. D. M. KITCH EN SUGGESTIONS. HEN wishing to make a fancy cake, it is rather hard to get your design in the right proportion to the size of your _ cake. If you will cut a piece of pa- per the size of the top of your cake, cut the design you wish in the paper and fill in the cut-outs with colored frosting, you will have bet- ter success. If time is lacking, the red sugar used for cake decora- tions may be sprinkled in these 'cut- outs, leaving a very attractive design; ——Mrs. F. R. . ' If you wish a salad and: have. no mayonnaise dressing at hand, a good dressing for a fruit salad may be made by beating one-half glass of apple or currant jelly with the stifily beaten white of an egg and a tablespoont‘ul of confectioners’ sugar.—-Mrs. C. E. ' Things to remember when planning meals: ‘ - _ Fried foods should be used sparing- _ ly, especially where there are children. The iron _requirement of children and women is greater than. for men. For Late Season Canning HE following recipes are all a bit different, and will fill your shelves with delicious additions for winter menus. The recipes given all use the “garden’s last offerings,” and may be made after the'weather begins to get cooler. . Quince-Apple Preserves. Put six quinces and three sweet ap- ples through the food chopper. Boil the quince parings in enough water to make one quart after the parings have become tender. .Drain off the ‘ juice and add two quarts of sugar. Boil until it is syrupy, then add‘the quince and apple pulp and cook 8 owly _ until it is as thick as jelly. Pour nto jelly glasses, and when decimateal with, vm'elted paraffin. ‘ , _ . Tomato andApple Relish} Grind ito‘sethei‘ twelve ‘ an ‘ six ‘gr‘eén tematoes, SQdedMing’Add‘ ples, six and ‘a'néi’t teaspoon celery seed, and one table- spoon of salt. Cook for one hour, stir- ring occasionally to prevent Sticking and burning. Pour into jars and seal. Horseradish and Beet Relish. One pint of beets, cocked and chop- ped, one-half pint of grated horserad- ish root, one teaspoon of salt, one ta- blespoon of sugar, and two-thirds cup of vinegar. Pack in- small jars. Sweet Apple Pickles. For these, use small apples. Cut them in half and remove the core, but do not peel. ’ Pack closely in a steril- ized jar and fill with the following:" To_ one quart of water add oneand a. half cups of-dai-kbrown syrup. a scant ‘ cup of vinegar, twofo'r three sticks of cinnamon, broken up, and a tablespoon pf Whole-"cloves. Adjust rubbers and screw thé’itopsmafefl'ifi? " . .witli’atheth‘umb " ' " ' ‘ ‘ . so myriad Lhmts"'wem "sent in i' . ' . ‘ misiw'eek onjhow to save the dollar - _ . that it makes me feel wasteful mg: to - . - -' ublish more of t em. ven . . _, 11;): ablfvtg gannat now put into practice ‘ ' . . Stove A 3 E] ”a ' - “i - » . 1m 6 m e to - non W , certain thrifty suggestions, we ntiay ~ W.,,gneiniftfw us. ”do“ secon s— - on n ,v i it” asthma“;than: .2 ‘ . i .... ,.. a er .I . u won- a Properfiood Selection - ‘ , striving as weare to economize. . . . ' 35.31.13mi’m‘1fifn m,“ o, furnace. Make: one of'our readers said that in talk' ' offree aingtimestclii: geatoflzilléltggrgofiisqn ing with her .friends many had ex— . . gggggwggg acgolgoggtggfigz D3313. Chmpg'd pet- to .. Nounshment— crepe-Nuts were ereem ee ..mebez‘.” ~ department.but were afraid theymight good milk contains every ele- nboutNU-HEAT.Mentioniiyouhavemge.heater,ium , make some mistake in writing. t f f t WADE HILL MFG. cannot. x55.8t.Lonis,Mo. ‘ Perhaps those ladies are forgetting inetn necessary 01' Per 90 nu“ ' that we all make mistakes. When I 1‘] 1011. . . , receive your interesting letters, I am . . attraCtlve—Clean - not looking -for grammatical errors or Digestlblllty- Grape-Nuts lS partially pre- IQ‘V 35123911085 BE-m‘“ W Door ”penmanship, but to grasp the - : ~ . —-¢1ed-nickeium.' OrnImmP . . digested by 20 hours baking . . . . .V i new' suggestions, reelpes, and the , , , . . ° -, clean; mslnble;ummy;cook -, ,1 friendliness you have expressed there. It IS eas11y aSSImilated by child 1 “WWW” All the material is edited before it is or adult. def/ti: ”Jeff-fl . 7V printed in the paper. So cast away the fbrcatalogue,fi'ee. we .3] fears of mistakes and whenever you _ I Compemive L; _ feel like writing about your little dis— , FlaFUOT— Giff); BITUtS’. made Of. “heat R323 191ny, U. S. A. coveries or telling of your home difli- an ar ey, lS sweet Wltl’l nat- ’ culties, I shall ever be glad tthear ural sugar self-developed from . frolm you. No 11:13:65 are PubliShed . the gram in the making. It has ‘ un ess you re‘ques 1 . . . a The third, fourth and fifth prizes, a delightful, nut llke flavor. . ? won by ‘Mrs. S. L. B., Dunningville, . Mich. Mrs. R. 8., Mt. Pleasant, Mich, Character— Grape-Nuts 18 real f00d_the and Mrs. .0 W., Elba, MlCh., W111 ap- kind you can depend upon for V pear next week—Martha Cole. strength and energy Its crisp 55's? ~ First Prize. granules invite thorough mas- 5i lVIlMShAbg. B.,_Hasil;ingsi)MichI%ar‘il.se- , tication, thus helping to keep g y “ o y"s1nce ’ve een a o w keeper, is economizing. We have a the teeth and gums healthY' fice pnges on . «j, .7 family of three children, the oldest a - _ ghfetaafilés: 2;.‘3114’:§"3:33 "i girl of fourteen who is in high school, sconomy__ Grape-Nuts IS SO compact that Berries; 1%“; Ziggy???“ , and two boys fourteen and twelve' for a package contains many serv- cufis‘ir‘r'isireis'. In? «23;: whom I have never bought a yard of . . d h . 2; Harness.Wagon ‘- 2K ,’ g}: woolen material, nor a woolen garment lfigS, an eac serving PYO' Csigelfigs'rggljgedla‘fiic: "11$: ,e. since I bought their baby flannels. Vides unusual nourishment. " Roofingl'itc. Writefol'wpy: 3: ' ' ' Arm CzNh S 1 Co. 25;, Relatives and friends who know I [Xi portloln f0: thg ,cereal part Deu.'12()yBoxl835lliicI-:fn§,llinhi. . o a mea ‘cos 8 a out one cent. For Our Little Fo/éi‘ L ITTLE Folks are the sun- shine of the home. Their - 1'8 6: uts early training and entertainment ‘ demands much attention for Mu QM. they are the men and women of See'it'xffgy-u FOR H EALTH \ tomorrow. . A FOOD “ , ,9 Help them to and the new mess-ms ,Theres a Reason . “Corner” on page 335, created 'meCONoMV i { cial 055 t t - :«mjfifl‘mrz Made by Postum Cereal Compan . Inc. ! 5’3 er 058°“ 3 ff” “me 9‘8“ years °1d a.“ 2"...” 12:“ same Creek, Michigan. y ' , 1:93:42?masmahfifla‘maraam: 3 ounger. ‘ ' Acorn Brut MIC- cm. 1032 mu..eum I». “make over,” are glad to hand down .. their casteoff Vclothing. It is indeed surprising what remarkably good-look- ing garments come from the worn and faded clothes, when they are ripped, , " cleaned, pressed and turned. ' Last winter I made each of my boys a suit from women’s blue serge suits. Our daughter feels well-dressed in a high school of over five hundred pupils, and has never had a new dress or coat in her life, except as they have . _ been made from old. - This week I’m making for myself a . . . new cost from my old faded four—year- All the nutriment and flavor of the old one, and no one except my nearest neighbors will recognize the old coat, natural gram IS possessed by LILY for in turning it I shall also modernize 2", 't, d 'h t b'tf , “ W hxfelhtvzdl' 33:82:81: ra 1 0 expense _ WHITE FLOUR, The Flour the Best . Cooks Use,” which also has the additional ,. J U‘ l' Second Prize. " Mrs. C. 8., Stephenson, Michigan. ' ‘ ' e .- : This spring 1 wanted a bed bolster » . advantage of being given the extra touches very badly. So my husband sawed ' - p ,1 three round pieces or light-weightlume Of dehcacy made pOSSl-ble bV forty years, her eight inches in diameter, also eight f 1 H11 - 5 it halt'einch strips fifty-two inches long, SUCCESS 11 m1 111g CXpCI‘lCflCB. it ‘ off irom- an inch board. Then I could 1- proceed myself by nailing these strips , ' '- to the-eight-inch circles, leaving a two- ; inch space between each strip and a ’ it' good space on the bottom where the ‘ I: pillows might be tucked in. I .covered this with brown wrapping paper and 3: over that I made. a. covering of clean flour sacks, which were ripped and ~ patched together, padding the ends'a . . I ' ‘ ‘littlaslfignd'mnehpleasure in using , . . _ VALLEY CITY MILLlNG COMPANY - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN J this brie . l .J'w. fol. .. f1(-'.,‘ . " pm, new _ ‘ A Stirring Novel of America’s Last Frontier The ALASKAN L“ By the man who wrote The River’ 5 End, The Country Beyond, etc. JAMES OLIVER lCURwooo Here is Curwood’s most dramatic novel—an irre— sistible romance, abreath’ taking adventure. Read——. and glory in the daring of a girl—in the bravery of a man. Read4—and thrill as they face death. Read— of a love so wonderful that it could even deny itself. Millions have bought Curwood’s books. Millions have read his serials. The best of Curwood is in THE ALASKAN. GET YOUR COPY TODAY $2.00—Everywhere—$2.oo @opoiiian Book @oration 119 Wesl 40111 StreetNewYork _ Please Mention The Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers A SLIP, a fall, strain- ed ligaments, sin and soreness. om- bault‘a Balsam soothes and heals. Gives quick relief. For forty years an ef- fective remedy for sprains strains, cuts ms, rouchial an chest colds, muscu- lar or inflammatory rheumatism, sei- atica and lumba- go. At your drug. are or d direct orSlfll” ttlelasts along time. The Law. canoe-Williams Co., d, Ohio. GOMBAULT’S BALSAM ‘//n' [/11,1';:.:I'/1".r’ / '.'.'I/.'I.Iit’z‘1’ ’ lN!EHl.l'li§, Use this department to help solve your household prOblems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michi- gan Farmer, Detroit, Mich SPICY TOMATO CATSU P. Will you please give me a recipe f01 tomato catsup like that we buy. 9—— Scald one-half bushel of ripe tomat- oes and remove skins. Add one-half cup of salt, one pound of sugar, one tablespoonful of cayenne pepper, three teaspoonfuls each of ground mace and celery salt, two tablespoonsful ground cinnamon and two quarts of vinegar. Cook slowly until reduced one—half. Pass through a. sieve, reheat and store in sealed bottles. RECIPES FOR THE SWEET TOOTH. I would like a recipe for chocolate candy and pink candy. ——Mrs. A W. By pink candy, perhaps you mean fondant. This will make a candy which you can keep for a long time, preparing only as needed. 1 cup sugar 1 tb. light corn syrup i". cup water yfi tsp. vanilla. Put the sugar, water and corn syrup into a saucepan and cook, stirring con- stantly, until the sugar is dissolved. Then remove the spoon. When the candy begins to boil, cover the sauce— pan and cook for three minutes. The steam formed will wash down the crystals. Remove the cover and cook until it forms a soft ball in cold wa- ter. Pour at once on a cold, wet plat- ter. Cool until lukewarm, add the vanilla, and beat and knead until the mass is smooth and no lumps remain. Into this may be worked any coloring or fruit which you wish. Work into desired shapes and serve. Chocolate Divinity. 2 1- 3 cups sugar 2 egg whites 2 3 cup light tom 3 cup cocoa. syrup 1 cup nut meats 1A; cup water 1/2 tsp. vanilla ’4 tsp. salt Put the sugar, corn syrup, salt and water into a saucepan and cook, stir- ring until the sugar is diSSOIVed. Then cook for ten minutes. Remove from the fire and gradually pour the syrup over the egg whites which have been beaten stiff. Beat as the syrup is be- ing added, and then add cocoa and beat until the candy will hold its shape when dropped from a spoon. Add vanilla and nut meats and drop in a greased pan. GOOD RYE BREAD. Would you be so kind as to send me a good recipe for making rye bread? I seem to have bad luck with the 1ecipe I use. ——Mrs. J. E As you did not tell me the recipe used, I am at a loss to know where to help you. However, the following recipe comes to me thoroughly recom- mended by one of our readers: 2 cups scolded milk (according to kind) 1 tsp. salt cup lukewarm water 2 tb. sugar 4 cups rye flour 2 tb. shortening 2 cup water 1-3 to 3 yeast cakes Enough whole wheat flour for knead- ing. TOMATO PRESERVES. Please send me a 1ecipe for preserv- ing husk tomatoes. ——Mis. A. B To make husk tomatoes into pre- serves: Take equal weights of tomatoes, with the husks removed, and sugar. To each pound of suga1 add one cup of watei and heat to the boiling point. .After skimming, add the tomatoes cut in halves and cook slowly until the preserves. are transparent. A few sticks of cinnamon and a bit of cloves adds to the flavor. Pack in sterilized jars and seal. The more a person works the more ' energy- yielding foods are required. Klever Kinks. for Busy Bodies HEN you wash your new silk blouse for the first time, it is ., well to play “Safety First” and wash a sample first. Use lukewarm water with a neutral soap in a solu- tion. Never rub soap directly upon the silk fiber. Wash quickly, gently kneading the material in the soapy so- lution rather than rubbing it. When clean, rinse thoroughly and squeeze out the water by pressing in the, hands. Do not twist silk to get the water out. ,Roll in a heavy bath towel and let stand, then iron on wrong side with a warm iron, or on the right side with a cloth over the material. When washing ribbons or ties, never put them into water, but use a bowl of warm, soapy water and a sponge or cloth. Lay the ribbon on ‘a table, flat. A marble or porcelain-top table is preferable. Wash the ribbon thorough- ly and rinse by .drawing it carefully through a bowl of clean water. Dry by laying flat on the table, making sure there are no air bubbles between ~ the table and the ribbon, or wind on a tall bottle until dry. Any article of clothing will last longer if it is protected from strong light and dust by a cover bag. --These bags are very simple to make and are sewed up the sides with an envelope opening left at the bottom so that the bag can be slipped over the garment. An eyelet is made at the top of the bag just large enough for the hook of the hanger to. slip through The bag should be longer than the garment so as to prevent crushing. Cambric, cretonne, silkalinebr uni bleached muslin, all make gbod bags, , since they turn dust and; will stand ring- Partial launde ly won #1le 1131:1911 tBWel. slips make very good cover bags also. In these days when we have so many weighted silks and adulterated wool'material, it becomes quite neces- sary that the housewife can tell whether the material she is purchas- ing is worth making up, and whether or not it is worth the purchase price. To test wool for cotton, ravel out warp and woof threads. Break the threads. Wool pulls apart with kinky ends, while cotton breaks. Wool burns very slowly, and gives off odor 0f burnt feathers and leaves a large amount of ashes while cotton makes a flame and leaves a fine gray ash with an odor of burning leaves. The ends of cotton threads spread out when burning. The reason that silk dresses and blouses sometimes break at the seams or crack soon afte1 they are made up is that they are weighted. Burn the sample of silk True silk burns slowly, the ash curling up into a tiny ball on the edge of the burning material. An odor’of burning feathers is given om“. If weighted, silk burns slowly and the sample will retain its shape. The more weighted silk is, the shorter will be its life. When white wash silk becomes yel- low, it maybe bleached by using a solution of hyposulphite of soda. Dis- solve one-quarter cup of the crystals . in four quarts of water and divide the solution into two parts. The clean silk is first dipped in one portion of the liquid and allowed to stand five min_- utes, after which it is immersed.- in the second. portion for five minutes Rinse} :- the garment thoroughly 1.119; isoll in mm 011 the wrong while only Slightly damp . 2 Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer product pre. scribed by physicians over twenty-two years and proved safe by millions. Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” only. Each unbroken package contains ‘ proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug- gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. Color Your Butter “Dandelion Butter Color” Gives That Golden June Shade and Costs Really Nothing. Read! 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' Acquiring a medical education is a long process. Following the graded school must come a highlschool course and then two years of regular college work before the student even gains admission to the medical college. Then he studies for four years more and is graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is not yet ready for general practice, however, but must serve an interneship of at least one, and preferably two, years in a general hospital. The fees of medical colleges are much higher than formerly. When I went to college we paid $65 per year, and the very best colleges in the land charged only $100. Now a big school like Columbia charges $332 a year. Rush charges $240. The lowest priced medical schools are those of the State Universities, which fortunately pos- cess the additional qualifications of being among the best. University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Ar- bor, charges $180 for each of the four years. Formerly the college year was .short ‘and a student had six months of each year in which he might devote his whole time to outside work. Now he is required to study from September 25 to June 16, so he has little time for outside working. The bright side of the story is that poor boys still do Kmanage to work their way through colleges of medicine and when through they have a worth- while foundation. Many of the best colleges stand willing to help by giv— ing free scholarships. The thing for the boy with a desire for the study of medicine to do is to pitch right in to the studies now before him—the rural school, high school or whatever they may be—and go ahead one year at a time, with confidence that he will win his way as he goes. KEEPING AWAKE AV HURT HEAD. My three-year-old boy fell off a gate and hurt his head. He cried a great deal at first, seeming in much pain, but finally quieted downand was go- ing off to sleep when grandma came. She woke him up at once and said it was very dangerous to allow a child who had an.injury to his head to go to sleep as he might become uncon- s100us. _So we kept him awake until our bedtime, though it was a hard job, and he was very cross. ~He seems all right now. I want to do the right thing by my children and I wish you would tell me why it was necessary to keep the boy awake—Mrs. T. R. P. ' I know of but one reason—to please grandma. The idea that a child with a head injury must be kept awake is a very old superstition. 'It grows out of the fact that cranial injuries of a serious nature do not show their worst Symptoms at first. There is a slow hemorrhage.‘ After the first shock of pain, the childhtops crying and seems to feel better, but gradually is over- come-by stupor-[which is due to the V meaning zliemorrhsSs Seeing ‘the clfilusinkiiito" a: new "and perhaps a stove. never awaken, those who did not.un- derstand the situation have thought that if only the sleep could have been prevented the child might have recov— ered. Thence comes the argument that an injured child should be kept awake. But it is all fooliShness. If it is stupor overpowering the little one, no efforts will prevail against it, and if it is natural sleep it is to be encour- aged. Let the child sleep. OVERWORK OR WHAT? What is the difference between symptoms of anemia, muscular rheu- matism, and overworked or broken- down person. I am a man thirty-five years old, not able to do much.~W. K. The only way to diagnose anemia is by a test of the blood. It always re- sponds favorably to rest and proper feeding. Muscular rheumatism is rec- ognized by its aches and pains. Gen- erally some focus of infection is found to account for it and this being re- lieved the case clears up. Men of thir- ty-flve seldom break down through ov- erwork. If the break comes it is in later years. ING_ROWN TOENAIL. I have an ingrown toenail which is getting gradually worse all the time. It is grown in not only at the corner but clear along the side. I have scrap- ed it thin through the middle, cut a V out of the top, put cotton under it, and even cut the nail out along the side, but when it growes. back it is worse than ever. Can you tell me what to do for it that I have not done?~A. B. G. ‘ The things you have done are all good and should cure the ordinary case of ingrowing nail. I have found that the extraordinary case is frequent- ly accounted for by some other foot defect, such as a broken arch. People who always “tread over” are very lia- ble to ingrowing toenail and always get along better if they are careful to keep the heels of their shoes in good repair, as well as allow plenty of room in the toes. In- cases that stubbornly refuse to get well in any other way a cure may be effected byrhaving a surg- eon remove a portion of the matrix of the nail. PREGNANCY. Anxious—The first child is usually felt by the pregnant woman early in the fifth month. De— livery should follow in four and one- half or five minths. The pain of child- birth can best be reduced by having a good doctor manage the case from the start. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. Would like some information in re- gard to killing superfluous hair. Is there any danger of scars?——E. L. The most safe and successful meth- od of removing superfluous hair, at present known, is by the use of the electric needle. A skillful Operator can remove as many as forty hairs in an hour without a great deal of pain to the patient. 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I have read the Michigan Farmer for a long while, and I have just. picked up nerve enough to ask if I could become one of your nephews. is the best paper in Michigan. very time I get it I always read the Boys’ and Girls’ Department over. , ' From a want~to~be—nephew, Kenneth E. Crysler, Reed City, Mic . ‘ The letter catcher didn’t get this ‘ one. I’m glad you got up your nerve, and hope you will keep acoming. I also hope you will win a. Merry Circle membership soon. Dear Uncle Frank: Say, Uncle Frank, your waste paper basket must be full with my letters by this time. I have entered so many contests, but never won anything. But I am going to live up to the motto, “Work-to—Win,” so I will keep on try- ing until I win something. I think Rex Ellis is right abouthim winning so many prizes. Why, any- body could win a prize if they only tried hard enough. The trouble is, they don’t try. Wishing you every success in your work, I am, your niece, Elizabeth Mar- cis, M. C., North Branch, Mich. I am glad you are going to stick” to our motto. Here’s hoping you win soon. Perhaps you have not tried hard enough. Dear Uncle Frank: I received my Merry Circle button and membership card a few days ago, and I thank you very much for them. I am proud to be a member of the Merry Circle. I can hardly wait until the Michigan Farmer comes so I can read the boys’ and girls’ page. The other day when we were taking Second Prize,Verda A. Cole, Mt. Pleas-I ant, Taking Her Annual Bath.’ our cream to town we turned too short a corner and the cream fell over and the cover came off. were a the road, with cream all over our clothesand hands and faces. ,tO’ turn Mother said now that we 3 illed the I can tell you we pretty looking sight to be .on We had around and go heme then. , ( man Wrestle with a'lio cream we, couldn’t go to the igcircus at Kalamazoo, but we all went, just the same. , ' ' ’ I‘like ideas the an , , .a,,.cireus. : Theyhad a nicebwfifich I on eyed very much. ' I also 611.10 (1 yeseens-a. .Vrrm; ‘ . B Found In the Letter Box" Some Interem'ng Leftism from M erry Circler: I think the Michigan Farmer ,apcr First Prize, Photo Contest, Herman King, Grand Ledge, with His Little Brother. prizes at .both the county and state fair. These prizes, with other earni- ac ings, "paid all. expenses ' and ma Well, I. will close, hoping the old waste paper basket will not get my letter. Yours sincerely, Pauline E. Gerould, M. C., Vicksburg, Mich., R. 3. P. S.——I would like to have some of the boys and girls write to me. ' I suppose if that had been cold cream it wOuld have been all right on your face. It must have been a nice job to clean up. Am gladpyou liked the circus, but who doesn’t, once in a while. . ' Dear Uncle Frank: . I am very proud to be able to add M. C. after my name, because I just got my pin and membershipcard last Michigan, Teetering Thursday. I surely worked to Win it, and now that I have it I’m going to work harder still to make the Merry Circle 3. real live club. “We have a 100~acre farm and I wouldn’t live anywhere else but right here. There’s only one thing I don’t like, and that is, there isn’t any kind of a club here. I would like to start a poultry club, but I’m not at home dur- ing the school term, because I go to high school, but I hope some day we will have one. . Say, Uncle Frank, won’t you please spill a little glue on your desk so this letter will stick there, instead of sail- ing into that horrid waste basket? Well, good-bye for now, your niece, Markaret Taylor, M. 0., Milan, Mich. Among the Club Workers . ceiVed. I am figuring on you as one of the active Merry Circlers. It’s fine you like the farm so well, and I hope some time you will get your wish regarding a club. he‘s? Uncle Frank: I have Wriften several letters to our page, but have so far failed to see any of them in print, but as I am a, Merry Circler I am not going to get discour- aged and give up.-. I'»am-just_going to keep on working till .I win—for I want to sit right close, among you all. I have corresponded with fifty'three boys and girls—and although I do not correspond with near allof them now, I still hold them in sweet memory, for. their letters were always gladly fre- Many tunes I read over them and laugh and cry, for some were very merry letters, and same were very sad. I am sure we were all very glad to see you, Dear Uncle, after such a long wait and wonderment. _I am inclosing my picture in return for yours, which I put in my album ._among my many other choice photos. - I .wouldlike to write. several pages more, but I know poor Uncle Frank is pretty well crowded, so if he Will just squeeze over and make room for me among you, I will be just as small as I can. I don’t just like the bobbed hairfl—end knicker argument in our page. It's too much like quarreling. I’m for Uncle Frank. Let’s change the subject. Glad I have met your,all. Good-bye. Eathel Fay Sharp, M; C., Akron, Mich. I guess I can squeeze over to make room for you. You have had some boys’ and girls’ correspondence. Your picture is also going in the Merry Cir- cle album. Dear Uncle Frank: It has been quite a while since 1 called before, hasn’t it? I don’t know whether I thanked you for my mem- bership card and button, or not. But I thank you ever so much for them. I think your picture looks just like a young man that lives over where I used to live. It is a good picture and I am going to keep it. Don’t you worry about it spoiling. Well, Uncle Frailk, it’s bedtime for me, but I don’t sup- pose it is for you. Your friend, Floyd gargtwright, M. C., Tekonsha, Mich., I am sure I am not the young fellow you refer to, but I am glad I look like somebody you know. I don’t know whether it was bedtime for me or not, but I like to hit the feathers early. DorOt/zy H olden Keepf Up Family Int-“ere” OROTHY HOLDEN comes from a family which has been active in Michigan agriculture for a long time, for the Holdens are. well- known in Grange and other farmer ac— tivities. _ She is maintaining the interest in club work which her older sisters and brother had. Her brother at one time won a trip to St. Paul for his work in a calf club; and With the same vim Dorothy is adding club laurels to her name. She“won the county championship in sewing this year, and, therefore, was one of the girls who enjoyed the do ings during Club Week at M. A. C. this summer, and was one of the dem- onstrators at the State Fair this fall. She finished sewing and hot lunch projects last spring and has been in' canning club work this summer. The canning club she belongs to consists of ten members who meet every week. Their canning is being done as a club project. first started last year, they got a little financial help; ~ but the holding of a lawn social last summer paid all, in- debtedness and left some besides. ' When they The club was successful inywinning automates and constructive skim-- club’s treasury at the end of last year’s work. This year the club has not canned on a club basis, but it has met for social gatherings and for the purpose of discussing various phases of canning. Each member is canning on his own account, however. 'Dorothy said that club work. has been a great inSDiration .to her. It has. Itaught her, many . _things and has broadened her 'view oflifeandits put: poses. ,. She has foundii wholesome 1‘ an .. , evfll‘w l-I‘. gun-I v n—Iv Venn-Hy VW‘O \Vuw‘T By John .,Genrich Three Oaks, Mich. My ambition is to go to high school I and also to college to become a base- ”ball player. Almost everyone knows that one must go to high schodl in order to go to almost any college. After I finish high school, I want to go to college and becoinepan athletic teacher. The reason why I want to be an ath- letic teacher is that it will give me more ,of a chance to become a base— ball player. The reason I want to be- come a baseball player is because that is a good clean American sport. 1am an American, and this is one reason that I love the sport. I think a baseball player is some- thing w0rth-while being, because it teaches team-work. It teaches one to use his physical powers as well as mental. The spirit and excitement in it is enough to fill one with vim and pep. I have known men to bite holes through their hats in some exciting moments of the spirited game of base— ball. Baseball helps one to keep fit; it brings honor if he is a good player in a big, strong team; it trains the mus- cles of the body and makes them strong; it makes one ready to expect anything and keep cool; it teaches one the boy scout motto, “Be Prepar- ed;” it brings. a good salary and is a good job for anyone who is physi- cally fit.’ By Catherine Manseur, Yale, Mich. My highest ambition is to be a nurse when I grow older. When I think of those poor men, women and children suffering from all kinds of sicknesses, I think I would be doing my little share in this world by helping to relieve them of their pains, or at least, trying to. I think trying to cure people from pain and getting results, is a great re- ward, don’t you think so? I am twelve years old and I am go- ing to start into training for being a nurse as soon as I possibly can. I think if I would start in by helping my little brothers ease their pains, as cuts and such things, I would get a lot of experence in that way. We used to have physiology in the seventh grade, but now that I am in the eighth grade I do not have it .any smore, and I was very much disap- pointed when I heard of it, but I was benefited quite a lot by it when I had Girls Join 3 Clothing Club By E/da R055, Affirm”! State C/ué Leader AST winter a very successful sea- son of clothing club work was car- ried on in the state. Three hundred’ and sixty-one clubs were organized, with 2,922 girls carrying on the work. The project is divided into four con— secutive years’ work, beginning with elementary sewing during the first year and continuing through the more difficult work of the Second, third and fourth year projects. Each girl keeps a recdrd of the cost of the various garments made,» and the store value, should she haVe to buy those garments from a local store. The value of the garments made by cloth- ing club members last winter was $10,663.10, while the actual cost was only $5,171.47, showing that club girls had saved $5,491.63 by making their own garments. Clothing clubs are organized in the fall and the work is carried on during the winter months. In the early spring each club holds an exhibit, and their work is judged, a local club champion being determined in each club. "*A county Achievement Day is held Billie inter lithe spring. at which y Ambition and Why By #26 Przze W 272mm . and why. Many told what they want- ‘ed at the closing banquet of the week. our clothing club work, and we are ' East Lansing, Michigan. it in the sixth and seventh grades. I have read many books about the body that are suitable for a girl of twelve to read. . I would ask nothing better than to be helpful to the sick and helpless. I have not known just how to state my feelings about being a nurse, but- I am trying to, and no one can do more than to try. 1 AMBITIOUS WINNERS. HE ambitious contest brought an I interesting lot of papers. The ambitions ranged from a plain, honest woman, to a millionaire’s wife, for the girls, and for the boys, from Exper fence Context JUST got a suggestion from Marguerite Hudson, of Che~ boygan, that I am going to use immediately. She suggests that The Most Thrilling Experience I Have Ever Had would be a good subject, and I agree with, her. Please tell us your experi- ences in about two hundred words. The usual prizes will be given for the ten best papers. All who send in good papers will get Merry Circle membership cards and buttons. Please send your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, before Octo— ber 11. Don’t forget the M. C. after your name if you are one. auto baseball players to farmers. The first prize was not given to the base- ball ambition because John wants to be’ a baseball player, but because he. stayed to the subject better than most f others. He told what he wanted to be ‘ ed to be and then filled in the rest of the space with some of their experi- ences. The writers of the papers above won the pencil boxes. The other Win- ners are as follows: - Pencil. John Booth, Lewiston, Mich. Elsie Reetz, Rose City, Mich. Zona Amos, Owosso, Mich., R. 7. Map. James Brower, Holland, Mich., R. 2c Emma Kushmaul, Coleman, Mich. Rutherford Bauer, Vassar, Mich, R. 1, Box 24. Dorothy Henry, Camden, Mich., R. 1. Charles Wilder, Sherwood, Mich. time all the local champions exhibit their work, and the county champions are determined. These count-y cham- pions, together with the county cham- pions of all the other projects, are the ones who are eligible to attend the annual “Club Week” held at the Mich- igan Agricultural College each year in July. During this week the work of the county champions is on exhibition, and the state champions are announc— Each state champion (the one win- ning first place in each year’s work), receives a scholarship should he come to M. A. C. to college. A great many have already taken advantage of this scholarship, and we hope every state champion will in the future. ' It is now the season to again start hoping for a larger enrollment this year than ever before. Any group of girls who are interested in organizing a club may receive further information in regard to the work, by writing the Boys’ and Girls’ Club Department, at , ONE] DISAGREEABLE M'OTORING EXPERIENCE after dark on the trip to or frdm town convinces the farmer of the necessity of an EVEREADY FLASHLIGHT. The safe, reliable, portable light. Safe, because it . has no fire hazard. Reliable, because you can carry it in driving wind and rain. 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Minn. stein Association are busy round- ing up a herd to represent Mich- igan at the highest-class show held each year in the U..S. A.—\The 'Na- tional— Dairy Show. This premier ex- hibition is being staged this year in Syracuse, New' York, with the Holstein judging day falling on Monday, Octo- ber 8. Two of the most famous judges of the breed, W. S. Moscrip, of St. Elmo, Minnesota, and T. E. Elder, of Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts, will pick the Winners. The priZe money offered for the best state herd of ten animals starts at $750 for first; $450 for second; $375 for third, and on down to $150 for sixth place. Individuals comprising the state herd must also be. entered in the regular open classes of the show. Not more than two head from any one individual breeder can be en- 0 FFICIALS of the Michigan Hol- _ pion at Grand Rapids. Some of tlze Holrtezm Clzo'ren to Make tfi‘é T rzp to Syracuse ‘she took the blue. so it is to be ex» pected that with proper fitting she will“ ~ go strong at Syracuse. ' . When it comes to four-year-old cows there is talent galore. Two grand champion females are available. Baynewood Daisy, owned by E. M. Bayne, of Romeo, the Detroit top notch cow, finds a worthy rival in Starlight Veeman Hengerveld, theggran‘d cham- ~She is owned by Garret Buthfjunior member ot'the well-known breeding firm of John Buth & Son.‘ Both Bayn-e and Buth agree to send their‘cow and it will takeiolose side-by-side comparison to pick the proper one to carry the honors into the ring at the National. It is more than likely that both.‘these outstand- ing matrons will be present when the ten Wolverine entries enter the. ring at Syracuse when the superintendent bawls out “State Herds.” tered in the state herd. At least five states must enter herds 1'or the class to be declared filled. New York, Penn- sylvania and Ohio have already sent in their entries. State Holstein men are encouraged to send a herd this year on account of the wonderful showing made at the State Fair at Detroit, and at Graf‘nd Rapids by the black—and-whitesn The problem is to pick the necessary ten head from the tops of these two high- class shows. To start with, a bull two years old or over is needed to head the state herd. The choice lies between County More Wear Famous Black Gun Metal Shoe A favorite of thousands. Extra wear,extra value. Room ,good- docking ' 8tur___y_ made to tho 3 last stitch. Moderately priced. Your 1 store has it. For Dollar Farmers Prefer Dependable H-B Shoes--- For 30 years our skilled shoemaker-s have been satisfying the middle statesfarmers withDress and Service Shoes combining good leeks with exceptional wearing qualities. A complete line for men and boys, :11- cluding the 1-1-5 Hard Pan that wearsli kc iron. Fairly priced, easy oayour feet and pocketbook. nanom- WMECO.,Gnnd Rapids.licl1 I Hanan-4 booklet fm. Veeman Segis Piebe, the grand cham- épion bull at Detroit; Maryland Ruth 'Colantha Alexis, the Grand Rapids grand champion, and Sir Hengerveld Pietertje Ormsby, the first prize aged bull at the State Fair. - The owners of “Count” are a little backward about sending their $9,000 beauty, and Pietertje Ormsby is hardly in show shape, being purposely keptin breed- ing condition. So the choice will un- doubtedly be Dudley Water’s bull, who repeated this year as grand champion at Grand Rapids, Maryland Ruth Col- antha, a smooth bull of unusual qual- ity and finish will make a. fit leader for the state herd. To fill the balance of the bull class- es calls for a yearling and a calf. The logical yearling bull is Rinkland Hen- gerveld Rhyma, owned by Rinks and Baumgarten, of Warren. This straight- backed fellow, junior champion at De- troit last year, came back this season as first in his class. For [calf there is County Veeman Segis Piebe 6th, the classy youngstei who took junior championship this year at the State Fair. He is owned by Lambert and Weber, of Clarkston, who are proud to send him with the bunch. The female make-up of the herd starts with aclass of three cows three years old or over. Babbling Brook Segls ’Pontiac, Owned by Otto Meltz, 'of Mt. Clemens, should make a credit- able showing as Michigan’s three-year'- , old. Her ownerpled her into their'l‘ng ,, \ So Many Top-notch Holsteins in Michigan Made it Difficult to Pick the Indi- viduals to Represent the State at the International Dairy Show. Backing up this pair in the mature female division will be Waters’ Bessie Fayne Johanna. who took first in the five-year-old class at the Rapids ;' and Topsy Pearl DeKol, the black beauty owned by J. B. Jones, of Romeo.’ This cow came to the Jones’ herd from Kentucky where, according to ringside report, she was grand champion of that state, and she was only stopped from the same honors, probably in her new home state by Bayn'ewood Daisy. As it was she pulled in close second at Detroit. The two-year—old class in the state herd calls for one entry. This should be easily found in the Bayne herd as heifers standing second, third, and fourth at Detroit were Baynewood- bred. The top in this bless at the State Fair went to an Ohio heifer owned by Ansted of Monclova. It is just a question of which Baynewood candidate is showing the best form at V show time for her to earn the trip. Detroit Creamery Company Farms have gladly offered their first prize- winner at Detroit to represent Michi- gan in the yearling end of the state herd. Netherland Queen Piebe is the senior offering. She was reserve jun- ior champion at Detroit. The junior yearling must be bred by the exhibitor, so Velvet Clio will be the Creamery Company’s bet in this division. Nothing remains to consider as part of the state herd except the baby, the heifer calf. This is easy, as John H. Winn, of Rochester, raises ,winnjng heife1 calves in bunches His entries have won three years in succession at the State Fair in the get-of—sire Class. The sire is Sir Ormsby Skylark Burke. His daughters took the three first plac- es in the junior heifer calf division at Detroit. Winn has agreed to send along a bouquet of heifer calves so. the youngest Holstein to uphold Mich- _lgan’s honor in the State herd is as- sored. With a state herd composed of such 'outstanding individuals, with supple- mental entries that may be‘ discova :1 cred, Michigan breeders'are at‘Detroit right out‘of the memos .and‘ " " lore and- ring lent .ure ssie the .uty .‘his tom side of ped her lsy. ond ate ‘ old as N- the 'Lfer -supe1ior to 10 ordinary oil lamps... 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The loss of three L3 do“? worth of our valuable poultiy from proceed: “humiliation to discover the most that has eien dim .colds. cunker.d1phtherla. ' Nails chicken-pu. cent of \our money back. if .1: museum thde testimonials on file Sehuette. Box 47'. .W alas: mlm 101111 6.1119. ‘ SMOKE J’EM” is a. wonder- itte yourself and to our molt to its wise I 1'! wr 01‘ us at our mils(Moe does the wor " You owe Farm 'Po‘ultlry - outfall information tor-- we have a meat .3. .111. ml FALL MANAGEMENT OF FLOCK. (Continued from page 319). covered with a foot or so of straw and acts as an insulating layer and also as an absorbent of moisture. This plan would be a big improvement in. many of our farm poultry houses. It was not my intention to write an article on remodeling poultiy houses, but the1e are a few suggestions which we find help us to min: 0111 housing problems. Make Final Culling of Old Hens. A final culling of the old hens should be made prior to bringng the pullet-s in. Only the very best old hens should be held over it winter eggs are to be a major factor. These will ’make ex- cellent breeders for another year and should be housed separately if possi- ble, in order to allow them to come through their moult and get back into condition before the breeding or hatch- ing season commences. The pullets should also be gone over and all undesiiables culled out. Birfids showing a decided lack of vig01 and constitutional fitness should be dis- carded. Those which are off color and type always detract from a flock and‘ are bettersold. If the pullet flock is large enough to permit rigid selection, better results will be obtained by close culling. Select, then, the most typical pullets showing plenty of size and sub- stance and carrying plenty of surplus fieshing. These will stand the strain of production. “hen the poorer indi-] viduals soon use up their little surplus 1 fat and being unable to stand the speed, fall down or moult. Feed‘ Wheat. This year with Wheat at low-water mark, it. would be folly to purchase mill feeds at prices out of proportion. Whole wheat, finely ground and sup- plemented with‘ about twenty per cent of bran to make it more bulky will replace the bran and middlings of a; laying ration at less cost. Two parts of this mixture, one of corn meal, one of finely ground oats, supplemented with ten per cent meat scrap, makes a very' satisfactory mash mixture for pullets going into winter quarters. Feed in addition to this, some skim- milk for drink. Do not neglect the oyster shell, and green food. These are essential for shell manufacture and maintenance of health. Treat the'pullets for lice, while you are handling'them. This can most easily be done with sodium fluoride as described in a recent issue of this pa- per. One treatment this fall and one next spring should serve to keep them free from lice. TURKEYS HAVE COLDS. ' I have a mi key that seemed to have a cold. Its head was swollen, but not discolored. This happened the lattei part of last wintEI. It was with the catch it until just lately. Now some of the young tu1keys have it. They don’t seem to die. In fact, the first one is heavy and eats good, but has a cold, with bunches on both sides of the head near the bill Is there any cuie, or neatment?~F. The bunches are the result of the accumulations of pus due to the cold. .It is of a hard cheesey nature and can only be removed by making a rather wide incision and picking it out with a. knife. Then the wound can be wash- ed by' flushing it out with a medicine dropper filled with some coal tar dis- infectant. The mucus can be removed fiom the nostrils with tissue. paper and the disinfectant injected with the medi— cine dropper. Sometimes the wound 'must be cleaned and disinfected sev- eral times befme it completely heals. :31er with romp or colds should be isolated from the flock as the trouble can be easily spread through the feed other birds all summer but they didn’t -r.."“r;1,\_ , u , A j ' , *zrx/ : ’/ // .\ \\ "' ”‘ ffé tag \s‘x « / A9 _ E l , DEALERS, If Dyour L-Dupplfi“ of sum lee runs out,wr1te us for new supply. ear Me icine 00.. Get your hens Read my FREE offer on flnlefieark Poultry Prescription I want every poultry raiser to know the pleasure and profit of gathering big num- bers of eggs every day now.- I want you to hear the proud cackle of egg-layers all day. That’s why I make you this FREE offer of my Poultry Prescription. My Prescription is We“). not simply a rem- 1.1111... edy. It’s a pre- scription for prac— tical results. It purifies the blood; improves digestion»; sharp- ens the appetite and keeps the bowels open. store about run-m N. twelve months. CENTRAL FEAT CORP. 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Ask at store. my Poultry Use Dr. LeGear's Dipdt Disinfectant U. 5. Pat. 0!. OUR PEA T LITTER Will last six to Capac, Michigan TRADE MARK use 1111031111 nouns 11111111116 TILE for all permanent buildings for farmorcity. Best material obtainable for dwallings, store rooms, gar ages, hog barns, poultry houses ahd all classes of per— manent buildings. Saves painting, makes a warm building in winter and a cool building in summer Economical. Tile furnished in smooth glaze orMat Face finish. Estimates of cost gladly furnished free. Getlnformation before starting your building pro- ra.m Write for liters fiOOSIER BUILDING TILE & 8111000. Dept. M-W, Alba 11). Indiana POULTRY the drinking water. LEGHORNS Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Coc 25c; heavy hens 270; light hens 17@ 4c; roosters 15c; geese 15@160; ducks 23@24c. POTATOES The potato market has been ex- tremely weak in the last ten daysand prices have declined almost to'the level reached during the heavy ship- ping season in the fall of 1922. In spite of the smaller crop, carlot ship- ments from producing sections in the last five weeks have been about the same as in the corresponding period a year ago. Prices are probably close to bottom as the peak of shipments will be past in two or three weeks, and at prevailing levels both consum- ers and storage operators are likely to take hold more freely. Northern round white, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at 90c@$1.15 per 100 pounds, and Red River Ohios at 75c@$1 in the Chicago carlot market. APPLES ‘ Carlot shipments of apples continue to expand and the market is dull. Wealthies are quoted at $3.75@5 per barrel and Jonathans and Golden Grimes at $5@6 in midwest consuming markets. BUTTER Butter prices are. lower than a week ago, but a steady tone has developed in the last few days. Statistically, the market is rather strong owing to the small stocks in storage compared with ‘last year and broad consumptive de- mand. Production also is declining from week to week. On the other hand, the make is running larger than last year, receipts at the leading mar- kets in September have been about 17 per cent larger than a year ago and withdrawals from storage at those cit- ies during the month have been much smaller than in September, 1922. Some foreign butter is coming in, but not in sufficient quantities or at great enough discount below domestic pric- es to exert much influence. Prices were as follows: 92-score I Live Stock Market Serviced Wednesday, October 3. DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 653. Market slow. Good to choice yearlings.$10.00@11.50 Best heavy steers ...... 8.50@ 9.00 Handyweight butchers . 7.00@ Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ Handy light butchers.... . Light butchers .......... Best cows Butcher cows ........... Cutters Choice bulls Bologna bulls ........... Stock bulls ............. Feeders ................. Stockers . . , Milkers 45@ $100 Veal Calves. Rteceipts 527. Market 50c lower. es Others .................. 11.50@13.00 Culls and common ...... 8.00@10.50 Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 2,245. The market is 20@ 25c lower. Best lambs . . . . . . . . . . . ...$12;75@13.00 Fair lambs ...... . . . ..... 11.00@12.50 Light to common . . . . . . . 9.00 10.50 Fair to-good sheep. .. . ‘ 6.00 Culls 2.00 . Hogs. 7 - g , ’. Receipts 2,416. Market steady. _ .. Mixedhogs “8.60. ’ 8.35@ 81.60: ‘ 3.00: Yorkerss......-......,-.'.* ies. ' ‘ ..,.....g.-...'..._..‘..‘: I .................... $14.00@14.50' 6.50 . ,; Receipts - .flye‘ cars 1;, o1 I- ,7314; , readings 3 9911;}there 25 8.50;.ewcs3 .6. , 7 ' CHICAGO r Hogs. Receipts 22,000. Market is mostly steady. Strong on weighty butchers. Good and choice 250 to 325-113 average $8.20@8.35; tops $8.40; good 170 to 190-lb average $7.90@8.15; bulk better grades 160-lb average at $7.25@7.85; packing sows largely $7@7.25; bulk 120 to 140—”lb pigs $6.50@7. Cattle. Receipts 10,000. Market on best steers, yearlings, fat she stock and stockers and feeders is strong to 15c higher. Western grassers $6@8; top matured steers $12.50; best yearlings $11.40; many loads of fed steers $10@ 10.50; bulls are steady, 25@50c lower. Bulk at $13.50. Shee and Lambs. Receipts 22, 00'. Market fairly ac- tive, killing grades steady. Bulk of westerns at $13@13.25; natives $12.50 @1275; sheep scarce; feeding lambs weak to lower; bulk $7.50@12.60; a few around $13; BUFFALO Cattle. Receipts 20 cars. Market is slow, Calves at $14. H . .- ' o \r . a. , _ , Receipts 15 'cars.9 Marketvis 'stron' . ggavy $8.75; yorkers. $9;-.pigs $7., 0 I ' Sheep and La he... I ; \ EMS at I; ‘ I 1‘. V ‘ ” Dimond'ale, Mich. , ,. . October 10.+Clayton‘ Winte ,Shorth‘drn .. xBree‘dggs’ A‘s-octet“) ' fresh creamery, at Chicago 440; New York 46%c. In Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells for 43@44c. , WOOL . Domestic wool markets have turned firm in,the last two weeks and price - changes have been slightly in favor ~ of holders. The London auction is holding at the initial advance, a strong tone prevails at the Australian auc- tions of the new clip and South Afri- can and Argentine markets are quoted higher. Since prices in‘ this country are below the outside level plus the duty, and mills are still using up wool at a fairly high rate, there is no jus- tification for a lower market in the early future. ' The Boston market is quoted as fol- lows: Michigan and New York fleeces, delaine unwashed 50@510; fine un- washed 46@47c; half—blood unwashed 5269530; quarter-blood unwashed at 46 @470. Wisconsin, Missouri and aver- age New England, half—blood 51@52c; three-eighth blood 46@47c; quarter- blood 45@460. DETROIT CITY MARKE- Heavy shipments of potatoes has brought prices down; 150-lb. Michigan sacks selling for $1.85@2 on track, while on the farmers’ market spuds are bringing $1@1.50. Apple offerings are also liberal, with Wealthies and Wolf Rivers jobbing at $1.25@1.50 per bushel. Snows and Jonathans are $1.50 @175. Farmers are selling their ap- ples at $1.50@2 per bushel on the market. Damson plums job at $1.50@ 1.60 per bushel, and pears at $1.75@ 3. Market is over-loaded with wine grapes, but table grapes bring $2.50@ 3 per bushel. Kalamazoo celery, is plentiful at 35011500 per dozen, while local stock sells for 60@75c. Onions are plentiful at $3.25@3.35 per hun- dred-pound sack for shipped-in stuff, while farmers are selling for $1.75@ 2 per bushel. Cabbage is coming in freely at $1 per bushel. Eggs whole- sale at 42@45c and retail at 50@55c on the farmers’ manket. Old hens' wholesale at 22@26c and retail at 28 @320; springers bring 22612350, de- pending upon quality. > GRAND RAPIDS All Grand Rapids markets are being over-supplied with-potatoes, but other commodities are steady. Prices this week were as follows: Potatoes 60@ 75c bu; cauliflower $1@1.75 flat; to- matoes 750@$1.50 bu; onions $1@2 a bu; celery 20@5OC dozen; cantaloupes, Osage 75c@$1.25 bu; Hearts of Gold 75c@$1.501 bu; leaf lettuce 500 bu; head lettuce 75@900 bushel or box; Peaches, Banners, Gold Drops, Smocks and Chili $1@1.75 bu; plums, Mon- archs and Grand Dukes $1.50 bu; pears Anjou, Duchess, Claigeau. and HoWell $1.50@2 bu; Seckle $1.25@1.50‘ bu; apples, Wealthies 75c@$1.25 bu; Shi- ‘awassees .$1@1.25 bu; Strawberry $1@ 1.50 bu; McIntosh $1@1.50'bu; Snows $1 bu; Pippins 65c@$1 bu; poultry, heavy fowls 20@22c lb; heavy spring- ers 18@220; light fowls and springers 13@160; ducks, no demand; eggs are. sllghtly unsettled; receipts heavier; large firsts 36@37c. COMING LIVE STOCK (SALES. Poland Chinas. October 11.—Vaughan’s Seed Farms, Ovid, Mich. -_ October 12.-—Francisco Farm, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. ' October 17.—Wesley Hile, Ionia, Mich. OcT‘Efibfir 18.——Himm Bros, Chesaning, . c . Octo er 19.—E. A. Clark, St. Louis, Mich. October 120.-—A. D. Gregory, IOnia, Mich. ‘ , . , Holsteins. . November 6.——Eaton County. Holstein Breeders’ Association, A. N. Loucks, secretary, Charlotte, Mich. October 10.——VVest Michigan Holstein Consignment Sale, West Michigan State Fair Grounds, Grand Rapids. - W. R. Harper, Sales Manager, Mid- dleville, Mich. . October 18.——Howell Sales 00., Fair . Grounds, Howell, Mich. W. I. Griffin, . Secretary. - . - Shorthorns.‘ , ‘ , October 10.—— . E. Cummings, Cole— man, Mich. » ‘ . . " October 30—Wm. Geisenhafer & Sons, .11.; of Genesee fetuses . noun "J .- «and Rink up. / is.» I. "" ‘dh. GE. newsman 0W . fl -‘ . ' .. ‘ ‘ ‘ 81611:!!! 5th., ' Filth" prize a soy :EldDgt‘lglg‘mampion .m at Saginaw. F31 pigs not. akin. wntelowrlfies. Donia 1.10"?" ‘AkromMich. . , . . ‘ Vaughan 5 Seed Farm Poland's . ' ' - uni Herd go o inimiltidmfi“; Tint"... “in. com. 11.. Send for catalog and come to the sale. H. C. Oven. Man. Ovid. Mich. : L. T-i P. C. _ I l i 3 ' $25 to :40. 80311830. Fall Pigs.815. ‘ liTi‘ic'd (Edi) CLINE. Address r. r. HART. SLI‘ Louis. Mich. . WESTERN nun rounn onus Most popular blood-lines. with type and quality to match. Herd stock bred out West. Public sale of glhfi(haogh%tg., Chesaning. Mich. ‘ O I , . FranciscoEarm Poland Chinas 1 .. 0F .40 HEAD OCT. 12th. Come on EiijdE-Jlghiglallnrfor.dinnerl. Get your mum on the list for catalog; P.' P. POPE, R. 3. Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.‘ 2 Large Type P. C. lamest in Mich. t r sale. Sired by “The Wolverine" téifnlilgnpdlsmim Rninbow and Big Bob the great; est yearling boar I: ever owned has size combine ' th real kind. m“ “am“ Wmidil‘iavi‘iieosi‘on. Parma.Mioh Large Type Poland Chmas ' nd ,Gilts‘ by “The Wolverine,” and gill-"5. 133.84? ethane." Our herd sows won lst, 2nd and 3rd at Jackson-Fair. 'Pigs are well-grown and of the right type. Prices in keeping With the times. -N. F. Burner, Ii. 1, Parma, Mich. Poland Chinas or March and April Far- Large 333? hotnaexes. Bred right. Priced right. George F. . ch. R 0. Ionic, Michigan. ' ' P. C. som'e very choice boars double in Bla'm'ligfwout 11001b.. sire and mammoth sows from iown's greatest herds. E.J’.Mathewson,BurrOak,Mich Spotted Poland Chinas 11' hi sn'. Largest Herd—State Fair winnings include Pr‘dmildr ahamoion Exhibitor’s Herd. Premier Cham- pion Breeder's Herd. Ovcr 200 head to select from. G. S. COFFMAN, 1% miles East of (‘oldwaten Mich. 'Spring boars and (tilts. Choice Spotted PONRIld individuals, best of breeding, cholera immune and registered. Write for description and prices. Clark & llingquist, Adrian. Mich. Poland China Sale Gregory and Barnard will sell jointly, 40 head of high-class Poland Chinns on Saturday. October 20. 1923, at Live stock Building, loma Fair Grounds. Large Type Poland Chinas For sale Fall Boers, Gilts bred or open. Herd head ed by two Grand Champion boars, Mich. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester, RADIO GIANT Represents the worlds largest. strain of Poland China Hogs. Boar's. Sows, Pigs at. bargain prices from Mich. pioneer herd. We have bred them big for 30 .W {.111 has ouwant years ,_ 9 “13:23.16. EUTLyER. Portland. Mich your Place 1. airs - ' A few bred gilts loft. “my‘hllfi order now for your boot pi . r. . ' '0‘ 3k "Joan Wé'aSNYDER, R. 4. St. Johns. Mich ,__ ell. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms“ each case and give. only are published. mice becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed. 'Farmer, and would like to know what old sorrel mare, veterinary prescribed lead and zinc lo- BY DR. W. C. FAIR. Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib- CO namc and address of the writer. Initials When a reply by mail is requested the Alslke Poison—Irritation of the Skim—I take a. lot of interest in your veterinary column in 'the Michigan I should have done for my ‘nine—year- which has white face and white legs, poisoned by running in alsike pasture. The skin has been irritated for the past three weeks. Our She seems to be failing, grow- ing thin, andwhen out in lot wanders as if she did not know where she was going. When in stable is inclined to climb wall, does not eat well. Our veterinary is treating her for brain fever, placed ice on head, gave her potassium bromide, her head swelled. I consulted another veterinary and he was inclined to believe she suffered from blood poison. She could not get up; we raised her with sling, but after doing all we could for her she died. What caused her death? E. McD., Whittemor-e, Mich.——Your veterinar- ians treated the symptoms and pre- scribed proper remedies. I am inclin- ed to believe she died from the effect of food poison, but it is not always possible to tell what kind. Quittor.——I have a six-year—old horse that has a sore low down on legato top of hoof; pus has been running from it for the past eight months,l and it seems to be growing worse. He has.been treated by two‘ different vet- erinarians, without results. E. H. M., Tecumseh, Mich.——Mix six parts of subnitrate bismuth, white wax and soft paraffin, each one part and twelve parts vaseline. Boil and mix, keep in 3 clean jar. The ointment is softened} by heat and with glass syringe or rub- ber tube, fill the fistula and keep lt‘ filled. Before doing so, liberate pus by means of hydrogen peroxide. Lame Cows.—-—We have a herd of Jersey cows that lately have been go- ing lame. First notice cow walking some stiff, next day a little worse, grunting as if suffering from indiges- tion, and about the third day, front ankles swell just above the dew claws. Their fetlocks are very sore to the touch. They feel as it full of pus. These cows slip on barn floor and they may hurt themselves. I gave each of them small dose of salts. soon as they . acted sick and appeared gaunt. C. 0 j, M., Parma. Mich.-—Give each cow aj teaspoonful of nitrate of potash in feed or in drinking water two or three times a day, Wet swollen parts, with equal parts tincture of iodine and spir- . its of camplior daily. tion. \ Large Yorkshires Spring Boars and Gilts. Pairs and Tries, not. akin. Prize winners at Detroit. Saginaw and Grand. Rapids fairs. Chas. Wstzsl 5. Sons. R. 5. Ithaca, Mich. SHEEP SeveralCars of Delaine Breeding Ewes Yearlings to four-year-olds. Shear 10 lbs. HIGHEST PRICE WOOL in the WORLD. Car lots at prices which one crop lambs and wool will MUCH MORE than pay. Healthiest and hard- iest breed of sheep in America. They will not last long ‘at the price. Must close out. Geo. M. Wilber, Marysville, Ohio Registered Hampshire Bans Efliii‘él'es‘ .31.?“ 3333 breeding. W. W. CASLER, OVID, MICE. FOR SALE. Reg. oxford Rams and Ewes Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write Your Want: Geo. T. Abbott, Paints, Mich. “can: Mun“. 73-3 Idle Wild Stock Farms. 0hr! 80 - registered Shropshire rams and 40 ewes. Remember. $15 flock won all the ionships at mmcL FORD 8109131014. on. Mich. barn floor to prevent cows from slip- ping. ~ Bunch on Jaw.——I have a heifer with 'bunch on jaw, caused by kick from a horse. I was afraid it might be lump- jaw. Is the flesh of this heifer fit for food? C. L. P., Chesaning, Mich.— This is not a case of lumpjaw. Her flesh is doubtless fit for food. If you will clip off hair and paint bunch with tincture of iodine daily it should rc- ‘ duce it somewhat. HONEY Rich, thick, and delicious; extracted Wliitc l‘lover; (i—lb. can, delivered, $1.50. B. J. Whitney, R. 5, Royal Oak, Mich. SHEEP I BAMBOUlLLEI RAMS Haw twenty—me good strong Lyonr-old Rambouillet rams for solc, thc kind that increases the weight of the fleece. Fine wool sclls for the host price. Pounds are what pays. . 8: F. l’AltMl-lNTER, Durand, Michigan. ' Shropshire Sficcp, 40 ewes 1 to 4 RegIStered yrs. ‘50 ewes and ram lambs, a. few yearling rams. Flock established 1800. C. Lemcn & Sons, DcIter, Mich. OXFO F. D Rams and Ewas. Sheep For Sale Kuncy, Adrian. Mich. For the best. Write \Vm. Van Sickle. Dcckerville, Mich, Colswolds. Lincolns and Tun- is Rams, Lambs. Ewes. L. R. NE of the finest Delaine stock rams in Ohio. Large size, heavy shearer. Also yearlings. Write S. H. Sanders, Ii. D. 2. Aslitabula, Ohio. - ' Ewes. 50 pure-bred ewes for sale. Delmne Good size and heavy fleeces. B. J. Cowan. Bockiord. ’Mich. extra, tine ones. DELAINE RAMS, Photos Free. 1". B. Bussoll.R 3 . Wakeman, Ohio. Yearling, Paid. Hampshire Rams, Lambs. and Two-year-old. Express Clean Thomas; Bears, Mich. Registered .rAY N0 ADVANCE Spread sand on 11 The k”... to... 'Market Place FEE: don't glvc option or tic} kind of contract without first up real estate for any dealing with are absolutely knowing those you are honorable, responsible and reliable. I I 80 Acres, Team,§Cowa l Poultry, Crops, Tools, Furniture. I l Settle right down in this pleasant home and start, with an income; well loc-ntcd on improved road, 1 mi. I to electric car line, 3 ml. to It. R. town with advan- I tages, good neighbors. with many fine farms in view, i 80 acres nearly level, some black muck, plenty wood, I variety fruit; (i-‘room house. cozy cottage design. large I porch glossed and screened, excellent water, good cel- l lar, pretty shade. Barn 31:144. ties 5 head. 3 stalls, l poultry house, granary, quick buyer gets 2 horses. 2‘ cowe, poultry, farm tools. some furniture, vegetables. and farm crops. l’ricc $3,200——$1,000 cash, easy terms. Write or sw’Mllton Hopkins, ville, Mich.. or MICHIGAN FARM AGENCY. Ford Bldo.. Detroit. balance Coopers- l 628 60 Acres On' Improve Road. Stock, Tools; Crops; Only $3700 Income starts at once; pleasant‘year-round home as- sured; 55 acres level loamy tillage, creek-watered wire- t‘enccd posture; woodlot; 35 apple trees. pears, chor- i‘les; 11/; acres strawberries; good 2‘story, S-room house, porch, barn, granary, poultry and hog houses. Owner unable operate, all for $3,700, and if taken now, horses, 4 cows, heifer, hog, poultry. implements, vehicles, tools included. Part cash. Details page 152. New Illus. Catalog. Bargains many states. Copy free. strout Farm Agency, 427KH. Marquette Bldg" Chicago, Ill. Fine 80 Acre Farm For Sale (‘Tlose to Grand Rapids on Main traveled cement road. Good soil, good eight-room house, well house and milk house. Well equipped (-attlc burn for 36 head. Additional barn for 20 more. Throt- largo tilc silos. hog house, chicken house, two thousand bushel corn crib, tool house and electric light plant. Four acres wood-lot, creek runs through the farm. Price $10,500. $2,000 down will handle it with Option on stock, crops and tools. ARMSTRONG Gr 00.. 2|!) Houseman Bldg.. Grand Rapids. Mich. ' 6 ‘ S, ' ' ’ ,' ’ A Very Desirable Farm 03.3176 549333213212! iii. Buildings are worth. Sarah I’laytcr. - Pay cash for American Farm. No n-gcnts. Raymond Smith, Morris, Manitoba. in Mich. for cash buyers l Want Farms . - Dcscril e and state he ILA, McNown. 324 Wilkin son Bldg. Omaha, N31). 9 FarmWanle CASH BUYERS want farms. Give description. price. J. W. Leader-brand, 15—30. Cimarron, Kansas. Farm Wanted Ncair school: zit spot. ('nsli‘price. Mean business. li‘ullt-r.W'ichitu. Ks. Special discount given when used in combination with. 7 special real estate advertising rates on these papers w FOR SALE new, chard. Alba , for cash, no matter where located. lleal Estate Salesman 00., 515 lirownell, FIRM stock and For M Estate Advertising On This Page 35¢ a line per issue on 4 time orders 40c n line per issue on 1 time orders other Copper Publications. Write for breach overs million andohalft‘amiliu Q . Best producing 40~ncre harm in county, only 100 rda. to modern high School. Woodlot, buildings" or— team. hay. Write or see owner. E. D. Post. Mich. quickly Particulars free. Uncoiii Ne}. {Sell your preperty For Sale, 80 acres, 10 miles from Alpena. Best of Soil, good buildings. Equipped with tools. Sanford Smith. Owner. Alpena. FOR SALE Low price, I). Z. terms, or will trade 880 acres cut— ovcr land in Alpena County. Mich. Land lies close to Railroad, good county road and in farming section 111011.. R. about 1% miles from town. M. MITSHKUN 00.. Detroit, Mich. C h Buyers want farms—various looalities. Do- 33 scribe fully and give best price. U. 8. Agency. Box 43, North Topeka, Kans. ' ' of 80 acres for sale. improved. MlClllgaIl Farm $03 per acre. $2,000 down. Bal- ance easy. Arthur Davis, Livingston. Ills. 240-8.ch farm on State Trunk Line Road No. 37 within 15 miles from Grand Rapids. Large brick liousc. li‘llllnl house. largo barn and two sites. Equipped with good working tools. or will rent without tools. Address Fred P. Gcil). 323 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids. Mich. FOR RENT Farmers Wanted Real dirt farmers seeking own . good land cheap. Ask any authority about Alluvial delta lands of Arkansas. Miss SlSSll‘Ill, Louisiana. Little or no cash, long, easy terms. Booklet free. Southern Alluvial Land Asso- ciation, Memphis, Tenn. ' Would With our liberal terlns. good land. healthy pro« Mills Land 00.. you Buy a Home? White people only. grcssive country. Write for list. Boone-ville, Ark. 200 Acres rich, level land. 190 acres under cultiva- tion, 10 acres timber. Splendid buildings, finely located one mile west of (Iroswell on state reward road. James Regen, Croswcll, Mich. in California write Kings .. ll' Ill“ WAul To UV County Chamber of Com- merce. Hantord, California, for free booklet. Want LIIhBaI‘ from party having farm for sole. Give particulars and lowest. price. JOHN J BLACK. Cuppcht.. Chippnwa Falls. Wis. Farm Wanted WANTED to hear from owner of land for Wanted 0. II. llawlcy. Baldwin. Wise. Mrs. Roadhouse. W. Roberts, Illinois. Send particulars. 320 E. Tray, To hear from owner of Farm for sale. Describe—J. W. Houck, Titlin. Ohio. sale. using miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion, consecutive insertions 0 cents a word. display type or illustrations admitted. Minimum charge. 10 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING This classified advertising department is established for the Small advertisements bring best results under classified headhigs. . Poultry advertising will be n: classified rates, or in display columns at commercial rates. on orders for less than four insertions: for tour or more (‘ount as a word each abbreviation, ' Remittances must accompany order. Real estate and live stock advertlslno have separate departments and are not accepted as classified. convenience of Michigan farmers. Try it {or want ads and for :1th- run in this department initial or number. l\o Rates in Effect October 7, I922 One Four One Four time times Words time times 0. . . ..... $0.80 $2.40 26 ........ $2.08 86.24 .88 2.64 27 ........ 2.16 6.48 .96 2.88 28........ 2.24 6.172 1.04 3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.98 . 1.12 3.36 30 ........ 2.40 7.20 15 .. . 1.20 3.60 31... ..... 2.48 7.44 16. 1 28 3.84 32.... . 2.56 7.68 17. . 1.36 4.08 33..... . 2.64 7.92 18...... . 1.44 4.32 34...... 272 8.16 19....... .52 4.56 35. 280 8.40 20....... 1.60 4.80 36. . .. 2.88 8.64 21 . . . 1.68 5.04 37 ........ 2.96 8.88 2.. ........ 1.76 5.28 38 ........ .04 9.12 23 ........ 1.84 5.5 39 ........ 3.12 9.36 24 ........ 1.92 'i 76 40 ........ 3.20 9.60 L ........ 2.00 b 0" 1........ 3.28 9.81 1". . All adwnidnz rap] peela diicontinuana order: or (hang: of tap} in— tmdrd for the Clnm'ficd Departmmt mutt rmth this ofl‘ice rm day: in advante ofpubflra lion dart, MISCELLANEOUS CALIFORNIA FRUITS —~Introductory assortment 25 pounds Fancy .Di'icd Fruits: 5 pounds car-11 Apricots, Peaches, Large l’runcs, Eight pounds Raisins (3 vari— eties), 2 pounds l‘oai-s. $5.00, Express Prepaid. Price list freight. shipmcnts Dricd and (‘iiuucd Fruits. Nuts, etc. maili-(l upon rcqucst. (Inlii‘oriiin. Products direct to consumer sincc 1008. California, Fruit Products (30., Box II, (loltoii, i‘iilil'oriiin. LEAF T()B.‘\L‘(‘()‘-~3 years old. Nature ri‘ured. Ever- lieiuiy Snt‘ctv linzor and six blallcs. or Imported Brier pipe free with Ill-lb. order. 10>"). packages, select chewing. $3.50: sclcct smoking, $3.00: medium smok- _ _ .___.—_.__, 1.. ,.___..__.,._A ing, $1.75. Pay for tobacco and postage on arrival, Farmers' Union, Iliiwcsvillc, Ky. NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO. Chewing, 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs.. $2. 00. Farmers" 10, lbs.. $3.00; Smoking, 5 lbs” $1.25; l'ay when rw-civcd, pipe and recipe free. T0l)il(‘!'(l Union, ll-l. l’uiluculi, Ky. LEAF TOBACCO—Chewing, 4 lbs, $1.40: Fifteen, $4: Smoking, 4 lbs.. $1.00; Fifteen, $3.00. Pipe and rod- no free. Pay when rcccivcd. United Tobacco Grow- crs, Pnduculi. Ky. TOBACCO—Extra Smoking, 5 lbs.. $1.00: 10 lbs., $1.50: 20 1135., $2.75. Chewing. 5 lbs., $1.50; 10 lbs., Quality guaranteed. O'Connor Smokehouse, 8133, Mayfleld, Ky. , LEAF TOBACCO—Five pounds chew-ing. $1.75: ten. $3.00; Smoking, Five pounds, $1.25; Ten, $2.00. Pay when received, pipe and recipe free. Cooperative Farmers, Paducah, Kentucky. YOUR auto equipped with the Torson Patented Power Attachment, saws wood. grinds feed. pumps water. runs all farm machinery. Price $5. Torson Auto Power 439.. 2300 Washintton Bird” Kansas City, Kan. shamanism 4&8an wing-3:, 3143!. 31" r 1921 on 1‘“ Run lilac swam. c. ,amn of Mn. . Abo. I .. . . _ “3w. . r r bich .3. R K ’Miclii .n icon-recon.“ . en twi‘gw:.s;1u.:p?igég_oa ’ . new " " :0fldi‘tgipdtf5n‘t mine. Mich. ~. .. Shropshire and ‘ Prices Bight. ,, A few rams and fives of -511 , imnnd Senator Bibby blood .11. .‘I. mm Rockford, men. » HORSE-LS r u R E .5. 12:...“ ismmnwnsc so .. mono WRJS. A. stock to'r'buyer; Mrs: M. .1. Hunt, Augusta, Mien. Box 54. Butter lines. For. WNW new; a-ton. mm. ,st timber. 3100. annual. Bergman. Box 151, Martinique. ‘Micli. rumogamrninemer and piano ions ex Trade 0 d for new. EL, Wichita, Kans. kRAIL’GIIAY, POSTAL ~0LEBK8-.—Btart;- 8133 month: railway mas expenses paid, Questions free. Colum- bus Institute. R. 6. Columbus. Ohio. 14-“. platform, 3-inch rite G. ”A. ‘ [sou WANTED to buy in car lots, No. 1 Timothy IIui'. 1V). 1 (Ion-r IIsy, (‘lioice I’eagrecn Alfalfa. and l’otzr toes. Brondwarcr Feed 00., Appalachia, Va. 3": PET STOCK FOR SALE—Pooh. Skunk, Mink, Fox, Wolf and R - bit Hounds. C. L. Demon, Ramsey, Ills. ab GERMAN Shepherd. Airedales. Collies' Old English Shepherd dogs; Puppies: 100 illustratodi t list. W. Ii. Watson. Box 33 hint-(iii. Mn, us "leave HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS (‘llt‘fllk Free Trial. Ixaskonncls. Mb‘l). Iii-i'rick. Ills. ~ FOR SALE——Slictlaml pony and buggy, safe for small cliildrcu. Earl Ilall, Millington, Mich. POULTRY SALI'ZdImported Scotch White Leghorn stock. The kind that lay. weigh and pay. Also breeder of S. (‘. Buff Loghorns. Visitors welcomed. Ii‘airi'iew Poultry Farm. C. J. chct, Prop” Ann Arbor, Mich. BAllRlSl) ROCK l’ullI-ts. (5% months old), ccckerels 4 months old. some blood 111105 as my winning pen at State Fair Laying (Iontcst. All I’ullcis iii produc- tion. (‘. D. I‘VIIIKIJL‘lnL‘l', t‘linton, Mich. YEARLING HI'INS."‘EngllSlI and American White D. l.cgliorns and Anconas. Reasonable prices. M. “yngardcn, ltoutc 4. chland, Mich. S. _(I. W. LEGHORN COCKERELS—Pure young strum, unlimited rnngc, very reasonable priced. A. ll. Atlici‘ton, Marcellus. Mich. COCKERELS—White Leghorn, from same stock as my leading pcn at Lansing contest. Orme Thompson, Allen, Mich. FOR SALE—~10 to 100 Yearling Leghorn Hens, $2.00: April (‘oclu-rcls, $3.00 to $5.00; 1924 Baby l‘hicks, $25 hundred. Elmer E. Shaw, South Haven, Mich. S. C. BUFF LEGHORN ceckerels. and description. Willard Webster. Write for prices Bath, Mich. changed. Stamp brings catalogue, Fuller HELP WANTED FARMER. WANTED—Married man for dairy and gen- eral farm near Detroit, who thoroughly understands care of herd (not registered), and is reliable, all around farmer. Milking by machine. Applications must state fully age. size of tamiLy and former expe- rience. Write or apply Buhl Land Coi. No. 6 Buhl Block, Detroit. WAflTEm—FRUIT TREE SALESMEN—Protitable. pleasant, steady work. Good aide line tor tuners, teachers and others. Permanent job for good were. Write for terms. I. . ' ritz Sons C12,. The Monroe Nursery. Monroe; much. Econ. 1847.. . 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