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VOLUME C‘LX-l NUMBER TWENTY





DETROIT, NOVEMBER 17,1293





 





CURRENT COMMENT





The big obstacle having been remov-

ed, there seems to be no reason now

why we cannot enjoy the blessings of

a. gasolene tax.





Sooner or later we must learn that

the success of cooperation, like the

success of every private enterprise,

depends not upon the size of the sal-

aries paid the help. but upon the good

hard work done by all who are inter-

ested.





The showings made by boys in var-



‘ ious competitions this fall, indicate



that father and son partnerships may



well mean more than a mere efiort to



keep the son 'on the farm. It is quite



as possible that it may mean the keep-

ing of dad there also.





T is a generally ac-





Farmers’ vcepted view of tax-

T ation that the only

ax just tax is one the

,‘Burden other fellow has to





pay. We all pay our

taxes grudingly and complain about

it vigorously, but generally inedectn—

ally. It's difficult to interest other

people, and particularly people engag-

ed in other lines of business, in the

problem of cutting down this burden.

even though it may be unjust.

Farmers are in an unfortunate po-

sition so far as taxation is concerned.

Their property is all visible, as com-

pared with varying degrees of “Low

visibility” in other classes of proper-

ty. As a natural result, farmers as a

class have always borne more than

their just share of the tax burden.

But because of the general view above

noted, other classes of property own-

ers have not believed this, and, unfor—

tunately, economists and even tax offi-

cials have apparently not taken these

complaints seriously. The operations

of our own tax commission, created

for the express purpose of equalizing

the tax burden in Michigan, have not

relieved this burden, as every farmer

will appreciate shortly when the tax

collector’s “season” opens.





Taxes are too high all along the

line Government expenses of all

kinds have increased enormously in

récent years. An era of economy in

government is sadly needed, and our

individual and collective efforts should

be constantly directed toward» that

end. But even greater than that need

is the need of equalizing the tax burs

den and relieving the farmers of the

,.country of an millet share of this bur-





,' MW“ was: was





The Lawrence. Publishing Co. '.





' ed by more an thirty omitted Ha

tibial- Associations of Manufacturers-





in dimerent lines This board has.

worked outéth‘e ratio of taxes to in-

come for the farmers and the remaind-

er of the community in the United





5 States forvarious periods before and





sincethe World War.



These figuresishcw that in the year

beforethe war the farmers’ tax ratio

as compared ' to income, m. more





~than double that, .of the rest of the





community. In 1919 it was about fifty

per Cent less than the ratio for the

rest. of the community. due, doubtless,

to the operation of the-excess profits

tax on war profiteers. {b.1921 the

farmers' tax burden was again greater

than that of other classes, and in

1922 the ratio of farmers’ taxes to in-

come was. nearly. fifty per cent higher

than that of other classes combined.

This report will be published in our

next issue. We bespeak for it a care-





ful reading by all, and especially by,





tax officials of every class, including

township boards, county boards of

supervisors, and members of the leg-

islatnre.





URSUANT to leg-





qud islation enacted by

Credit congress to provide



intermediate credit to

{LOW farmers, a series of





federal intermediate

credit banks have been established in

this country, for the purpose of facilt

itating commercial loans to farmers,

either through established banking

channels or through agricultural cred~

it corporations organized for the pur-





pose under rules prescribed in the-





law. These banks are located in the

same cities as the federal land banks

and are conducted by the same offi-

cials. The seventh district, in which

Michigan is included, also includes the

states of Wisconsin, Minnesota and

North Dakota. -



We are informed that Michigan is

the only state in this group which has

not sought this additional facility for

agricultural credit through any of the

channels offered, viz., national banks,

state banks, trust companies, agricul-

tural credit corporations, incorporated

live stock loan companies, savings in-

stitutions, cooperative banks, or co

operative credit or marketing associ-

ations of agricultural producers.



This fact speaks well for the finan-

cial situation in Michigan agricultural

communities. Notwithstanding the un-,

doubted apposition of bankers, partic-

ularly those affiliated with the. big

banks of the state, and of the state

banking department as shown in rela-

tion to war finance corporation loans,

if the need were dire our farmers

would have availed themselves of this

credit privilege through organizations

of their own making. But there may





be some communities not served by





adequate banking facilities where this

additional credit facility would be

most desirable. If so we should be

glad to be informed of the fact.





E have just re-





Do turned from a

It trip twice across the



state. On all too many

Now farms we have seen





tools out in the fields

getting a real airing. A stranger from

Mars might think that we are work-

ing under the apprehension that tools,

like cattle and men, need much fresh

air. But they don’t. They do need to

be covered from exposure.



It is anomalous that we, as farmers,

should complain so much about the

high cost of farm machinery, and it is

too high, while, at the same time, we





just back or the barn.





The wonder is the me, since on I





the average farm one; can generally H

find ample room to house the machiir ,





ery. MOSt farms have some sort of

a tool shed. Others have room in the

buildings already up, where, by a. lit-





tle ingenuity, the tools could be stor-





ed until needed next spring





The trouble is that after our Stren-

uous work, we relax and then keep





putting off from day to day this im-'





portant job; It often requires more

urge than we can bring to bear upon

ourselves to get‘at the task.



These paragraphs are sent out for

that purpose. If your tools are out,

get up same meaning, and say cour-

ageously and fearlessly that “This day

I am gaing to see that my farm tools

are housed ”





stable





OUR most





The and staid indus-

‘ F try, farming, is gain-

a'm ing a reputation of

Turn-Over changesbility. During





the past few years”

farmers have come and gone more

than ever before. This is proven by

the figures which the Federal Dopart-

ment of Agriculture recently gathered

in a survey of the year of 1922.



These figures show that one farm

in five in this country changed occu-

pants that year, and one in sixteen

changed ownership.



These changes have undoubtedly

made good business for real estate

men but have not always been favor-

able to better farming. Real progres-

sive farming needs a plan of crop or

live stock endeavor which covers a

period of years. A farm needs build-

ing up the same as a business does

and, as in business, there is ,a lean

period in its development which has

to be survived.



Undoubtedly on many of these farms

which have changed hands, 'well con-

ceived plans have gone to the winds

because the farmer got tired of trav-

eling in the Valley of Depression ag-

riculture has been in.



These. changes denote adjustMent.

They probably mean the elimination

of lands for farming purposes because

they were not good enough to make

farming worth while. They also prob-

ably mean that men who, never were

good farmers, and never will be. have

left for other employment.



We feel sure that when the promise





Which is now on the horizon is ful-’





filled some of the numerous farm real

estate men~ will have to' seek other

jobs, because agriculture is normally

not a changeable industry. Its stabil-

ity, its stay—putness, is what makes it

the bedrock of the. nation’s progress,

and the farmers, insignificant as each

may seem, are the stabilizers of its

activities.





F you should go to





Why We the stock yards at

’ - Chicago today you

Like It would see a bustling

Better scene of confusion.‘





- Hurrying trains of

dump carts are pulling this way and

that, their loads of materials; while

busy groups of carpenters, painters,

plumbers, electricians and decoratdrs

are working hard to make ready the

buildings for the forthcoming Inter-





national Live Stock and Hay and .-





Grain Exposition.





- Since the management. ofthisgreat

show included hay and grain ass-part .





of its entries, Michigan has. become

peculiarly interested. 'Before, Our





 





 





 

 





ing. It has served, as mother com-

pctltion could, to bring to the farmers





of Michigan the fact that our farms ,





Tare peculiarly adapted to the means-

tion of a superior class of seed stock.

When We couple up with these favor;-

ing conditions, the intelligence and

purpose to keep in the lead, cortex-m

will, inarealagdeuiturdSense,be-

come the breeding ground of the crops

of the nation. The International is not

only helping us to advertise that fact,





’butalsoservestourgeusontohigb





:ereM'tsinthedemiopmcntofthe

crops and the live stock we grow.





Dad and. San



W0 years ago I made a speech

before a dad-and-son supper, and

they forgot how bad it was, so they

get me to dispense a little wisdom and

advise what would help the young

men to take care of their tomorrows.

After gettin’ myself properly pre-

pared by eatin’ baked beans, raisin pie,





 





lemon cream. pie, scolloped potatoes, '





light and dark cakes, pickles, ice





cream, a hunks. meat and a. stick 0’

celery, I was





settin’ in contentmunt

and self-glorifica-

vshun, when the

,toastmaster call-

ed ‘on me as the

speaker of the

evenin'. .



Says I: “Young

men, you are the

jproduct of par-

ental achieve—

munt We look

with pride upon you, ’cause you sit

here as the culminashun of our ef-

forts. VVe have cuddled you and we

have spanked you and have moulded

you to the wonderful manhood you

now; enjoy.‘ We now feel rewarded

for the sufferin's' we went through

while administerin' the necessary pun-

ishmunt upon you.





“But, young men, you have now

come to that time 0’ life when you

will leave our council-and will travel

the uncharted secs 0’ life without our

guidance. I say, yojung nien,‘be care-

ful of your tomorrows. Make your to-

morrows what your yesterdays has

been and you will? be 0. K.”



, Right here one : kid. says: "‘Mr.

Syckle, I don’t think; I’d like‘to go’ back

to safety pins and talcum powder.”



“Nope,” says I, “But if you get the



right kinda wife, you’ll have to come

back to ,them someday."

I Continuing, I says,

the days of anticipsshun'; yesterdays"

is the days of realizashun.

have many days of anticipashun, while

we olde1 folks is got more of the yes—

terdays of ieaiizashunb We are look-

in’ back; you are lookin’ forward.

Make your lookin forward such that

your lookin’ backward, won’t be no

discomfort to you”





I thought I was gettin’ along fine

when the toastmaster woke me up by

sayin’, “It is gettin’ kinda late so we

won’t. disturb Mr. Syckle’s sleep by

cailin’ on him.”



I gets up and says, “Mr. Toastmast-

er, I enjoyed the dinner anyhow, for





 





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’cause a full barrel can't make mmeh '~::

noise like. a empty one, so I dentist; ‘

'wanta compete with nobody here. A ‘





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“Benton Harbor and St. Jbe, Michigan.





5 also relates to grapes in a much





larger .sectiOn of the country in the





same pattern? the state.





Whereas the peach farmer of old

shipped his product by boat (11' rail to

some central market—+us’ually Chicago





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'4. node and the automobile are » ‘

. rapidly revalutionizing the manner of

marketing peaches in the famous





idea was yet in the formative stage,





Good roads were not as numerous as





’they are new, and ,automobiling for





pleasure was largely confined to thick—





ly populated centers, or at least in and





near cities and towns. People- did

their, marketing with the family gro-

cer, and the‘farmer, as a rule, carted

his produce to, town and sold it for





"what some dealer took a notion to pay





him 'for it" The dealer set the market

price, and it never gave the farmer a

living profit.



Today, because of changed condi-





tions, the farmer sets the price on his





produce, and the town dealer, if. he is

lucky enough to have, any of it offered





 





George Pullen &. Son Market their 10, 000 Bushel Peach Crop at their

' Roadside Market.





in‘g. Now it is a case with him of

producer-toconsumer, and if there is

any profit to be had he gets it, which

is as it should be.





- A decade ago this would have been





impossible, .as the wayside-market





him, pays the ruling market price set

by‘ihe farmer, or goes without the

goods. The farmer is now boss, and

it his turn to smile—a facial illumina-

tion that has too long been delayed,





‘but which has now come to stay,





thanks to the sane, practical modern





methods of marketing farm produce.



Take the case, for instance, of Goo.

Pullen & Son, who operate a sixteen-

acre peach farm four miles north of

Berrien Springs, Michigan, and who





.sell every, peach they raise over a

. counter at their front door.





In 1922

they disposed of ten thousand bushels

in this manner and this year did the

same thing at a fine profit, although

the yield was not quite as large.



On the occasion of a trip through

the“‘Fruit Belt” in September, I stop-

ped at the Pullen farm, being attract—

ed by the sight of more than a score

of autos in- front of the place and hun-

dreds of bushels'of fine peaches piled

up in the yard, baskctcd and ready

for passing purchasers.



In, the hour, that I was there watch-

ing a live~wire wayside farm market

in full action, Mr. Pullen and his as-

sistants sold 111010 than $5 0 wo1t11 of

f1uit, which, he assuwd me. was not

unusual on a Sunday afternoon.



“Is there any secret in the methods

you use in making your roadside fruit

market such a splendid success?” I

asked Mr. Pullen.



“None at all,” he replied; “if is all

as simple as can be. I simply have

applied business methods ‘10 the job,

and by keeping cvcrlasiingly at it

have bemgsucccss‘ful. An experience

I had last season dccidcd mu once and

for all never again to ship a peach to

market, but 10 market. my own fruit.

I shipped a carload of peaches 10 (3111-

cago on what 1 had been led to be—

lieve was a'fair and rising market.

When I came to settle with the rail—

road company and the commission

firm that handled the consignment I

found myself out $350, not counting

in my time. .



.“For the balance of the season I

sold my peaches at my front door and

had 110 trouble whatever in disposing

of them at a price satisfactory to my-

self and the purchasing public. In this

I was largely aided by a bulletin board





 

 

 





prominently displayed and upon which

I daily scheduled prices. I cannot too ,

strongly recommend a working bulle-

tin board in connection with a way-

side market.



“In addition to a bulletin board I

advertise in several newspapers in

this section, and station a. man in Beré





 





 





Mrs. A. Kreager Takes in Over $100

Per Day in Rush Times.



rien Springs to hand out cards to pros-



pective buyers. 1 find that this pays



handsomely. '



“Where one uses practical methods

in marketing peaches or other fruit, a.

ready sale will be found for it at the

farmer's door, and at his own price,

providing, of course, the price is rea-

sonable. He finds himself no longer

in the grasp of commission men and

other dealers—the middleman~but at

the head of a business of his own.



Another instance of systematic mar-

keting is found in connection with the

fruit farm of Mrs. A. Kreager, two and

one-half miles west 01‘ Bangor, Mich—

igan. She has thirty—five acres of

peaches, as well as a great many

strawberries. cherries, apples and oth-

er varieties of fruit, all of which she



(Continued on page 506).





ch- house Lights Help Poultry Profits





Longer Working Day: Mean Greater Feed C onsnmptzon and Egg Production





URING the last few years the

D subject of artificial illumination



for poultry flocks has been a.

topic of keen discussion. When the

idea. first became popular it was sup-

posed that. by some psychological

process the hen was made believe that





'she was going through two days in-

' stead of q/neand naturally the bid er-





roneous adage, “An egg a day” would

mean two eggs 8. day. The process is

purely a physiological one, however,

and not One of psychology at all.





At present we can find records at

most college plants and experiment

statiOns' which all point in the same

direction—more winter eggs.



The underlying principle of artificial

illumination is a problem in feeding.

It is said that the crop of a hen Will

contain only enough feed to keep the

digestive tract busy for a period of

four 0r five hours. In other Words, in

the short winter days a hen goes to





.. roost about 4: 30 or 5' 00p. :11. We





have always attempted to send her to

bed with a. full crop. but now we see





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'and’ distribute it over

.months while prices are better.





ByC.M.





Ferguson





Managey Midligan- International Egg Laying Canter!





tissue must .be replaced, energy must

be supplied and the natural secretion

must be kept up. These functions we

find- take from three-fourths to four-

fifths of all the feed consumed. The

excess, 11’ any, will be used for pro

duction, or in the case of a hen, for

reproduction. We find that in the

short winter days the hen has a small

amount of excess food to be used for

production, due to; the short feeding

hours and the long hours'of inactivity.



The economics of artificial lighting

mveals an increase in winter produc-

tion which means an increase in eggs

when the price is high. While a slight





increase can be expected in early





production this is not great enough to

add materially to the _‘ profits. We.

really take :the heavy .spring laying

the winter





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the winter moult avoided. This ena—

bles the commercial poutlryman to

hatch early and get the best price for

boilers and at the same time to a

large extent, avoid the usual fall slup

large extent avoid the usual fall

slump due to moult. Late hatched pul-

lets can be brought into production

earlier than they would ordinarily.

The practice of taking cull hens and

using lights on' them has been carried

on by some, but the profits would

doubtless be greater if the. culls were

sold and their places taken by pullets.

Old hens do not return as good profits

from lighting as do pullets. Lewis, in

experimental work at the New Jersey

Expeiiment Station, 1"ep01ts p1 ofits

from 600 pullets without lights to be

$3.30 per bird, and 500 pullcts with

lights to be $5.07 per bird. These fig-

ures cover a. period of nine months.

The fuel and operating costs vary with

the type. of illumination, but again





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one,





quoting f1om Lewis. who says farm



plants were used, the cost was .044



cents per bird. It can be seen that a.



very slight increase in production will



more than pay for the current used.

All Kinds of Lights Used.





Electric. gasoline and kerosene

lights are used, but the most econom-

ical and successful is electric current.

We find many people using gasoline

lights and having excellent results.

They are not quite as satisfactory,

however, for a large plant, due to the

labor in. tending the lights. Kerosene

barn lanterns do not give very satis—

factory results. Automatic devices

can readily be arranged for electric

lightsfthus reducing materially the

labor. Where electric current is avail-

able two forty or fifty W. T. lights

will light a pen 18x20 quite nicely.

These lights should be arranged at a.

point slightly forward of the middle

of the house and spaced about evenly

from the ends. This reduces the shad-

ows to a minimum. A single light

tends to produce more shadows. _The

lights may be fastened to a. rafter or

joist. It is not necessary to drop the

light closer than six or six and one- 4

half feet from the floor. A reflector,

will aid materially in lighting up. the

floor area. One gasoline lantern will

illuminate a pen 18x20 quite efl‘lciently.





(Continued on page. 523)
TH E. WHEAT REPORT.





 





. 0 new thought or suggestion is

‘ s contained in the report to Presi-

dent Coolidge on the wheat situation

made by Eugene Meyer, managingdi-

rector of the War Finance Corpora-

tion, and.Frank W. Mondell, director

of the corporation, upon their return

from a trip of investigation through

the wheat growing states of the north-

west. As one farm organization Wash-

ington representative sees it, the re-

port could have been written by a

clerk in the office of the corporation

without the expense of the trip.



Messrs. Meyer and Mondell claim to

have found very much more opposi-

tion to government price-fixing in the

agricultural districts through which

they traveled than there was support

for it. They say there was some sent-

iment in- favor of having the govern-

ment buy the so-called (surplus wheat

with a view of exporting it to-foreign

markets, providing a way could be

found to segregate \the surplus wheat

from the other kind. ‘





 





THE GOVERNMENT PROFIT.



A WIDESPREAD opinion has found



' that the government made a prof-

it, estimated at $58,000,000, in connec-

tion with the operations of the United

States Grain Corporation, and some

expressed the view that the reported

profit should be refunded to the wheat

growers. How this distribution is to

be accomplished was not explained.

The expense attending the distribu-

tion would probably be more than the

$58,000,000, judging from the way such

things are done in Washington.





DIVERS! FICATION H ELPS SITUA-

TlO_N. '





 





N many places increased freight

Irates, resulting in a dislocation of

available markets, were presented as

a factor of 'vital importance. “There

is evidence, however,” they say, “that

a very considerable readjustment to

changed conditions is taking place.

DiversificatiOn in many areas is mak-

ing notable progress. Particularly in

sections remote from large markets

where permanently higher freight

rates make inevitable a change in the

direction of production, the develop-

ment of the dairying industry is grad-

ually, but definitely going on. This

last information evidently is of some

interest to the eastern dairymen who

is no doubt wondering what effect this

extension of the dairy industry in the

far west will have upon the future of

the industry in the east.





 





GRAIN FUTURES ACT BACKED.





ROPAGANDA against the grain



futures act does not meet with

much favor in congressional circles.

Senator La-dd, of North Dakota, says

that any attempts by the gnain gamb-

lers or their dupes to repeal or de-

stroy the grain futures act will result

in amendments to strengthen the law

and give it more effective teeth. 'The

.farmer knows the kind of propaganda

the country has been flooded with to

influence wheat prices and to force

the repeal of any legislation not to

their liking. I-do not believe they will

be deceived by ~~this kind of propa-

ganda and I hope they will continue

the fight for a square deal.”





 

 

 





CANE SUGAR MEN LOWER

- PRICES.





 

 





HE eastern seaboard sugar refin-

~,j_.' ers have made a reduction in. the

price fistg‘hr since the western beet

3;: $39.: crop Wan coming onto the

'fmarket,‘ [It is widelybelieved‘thatthe‘





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





eastem" refiners of Cuban sugar have

been holding up prices for the purpose

of inducing congress to remove the

tariff on raw sugar. ' ' .





FARMERS WANT TO BE coN-l

' VINCED.





 





N conference with President Cool-



idge, Charles S. Barrett, of the Na-

tional Farmers’ Union, who claims to

“represent a million real dirt-farmers,”

told the President that the country is

greatly dissatisfied with conditions as

they now exist, and that something

must be done to convince the farmers

of the country that the government in

Washington is run for them as much

as for the big interests.





APPLE VINEGAR. UNDER HANDI-

,, , CAP.





 





N application for-a writ of cor--





tiorari, made by the solicitor of

the department of agriculture to the

supreme court of the United States,

in the case of the United States vs.

the Douglas Packing Company, a firm

of pectin manufacturers, has been

granted, and it is promised that a de-

cision will be announced ,within the

next sixty days. ‘



This is the “waste vinegar” case in

which apple growers throughout the

country have special interest.



For many years, manufacturers

have been making what the ‘trade calls

“waste vinegar,” from evaporated ap-

ples, skins and cores and evaporator,

pectin and cannery refuse of all de-

scriptions. It has been held in the

trade that when this product was call-

ed “cider vinegar” or “apple vinegar”

it was misbranded. 'Some manufac-

turers make it— and retail it legitimate-

ly under the name of “Evaporated Ap-

ple Vinegar,” or “Vinegar made from

Evaporated Apples.” Until some two

or three years ago no manufacturer of

this type of vinegar had seriously con-

tested seizures that were made under

the pure food law by the department

of agriculture’s agents, and the rec-





ords and notices of judgment are filled",





with case after case. where vinegar of

this type has’been declared misbrand-





ed and adulterated, and condemned.





Some two and a half years ago the

Douglas Packing Company, very large‘

manufacturers of this type of vinegar,

contested a seizure on the ground that





' their product did not differ chemically





from cider vinegar and consequently

was entitled to that label. Their'suit

was tried in two federal courts, with

a sweeping opinion by Judge Weston-

haver, in the United States District

Court in Cleveland, in which he held

that the, goods of the Douglas com-

pany had been misbranded and con-

demned the shipment in question. The

Douglas Company appealed to the‘U.

S; Circuit Court oprpeals, Sixth Cir-

cuit, from JudgeWestenhaver’s decis-

ion. and in April 'the circuit court re-

versed Judge Westenhaver’s decision

and held that the Douglas Compwfs

product was entitled to the label of

cider vinegar. with the msult that the

government has carried‘an appeal

from this decision to the supreme

court. ‘



it is unfortunate that'whatever the

supreme court may decide it will not

help the apple growers this \season.

The "waste vinegar” manufacturers,

taking advantage of the delay in the

case, are flooding the country with

their product labeled as .cider vinegar

and quoted at prices with which the

manufacturers of genuine cider vin-

egar made from fresh whole apples

are unable to compete successfully. -



The immediate result has been that

prices on cider apples have been so

low that the farmers in the big apple

sections have not bothered to pick

them up. Fruit growers in western

New York have been especially hard

hit by this unfair competition.





STRONG FOR PROHIBITION.





 





HE agreement is unanimous-upon

Senator Capper’s statement that

congress must see to the vigorous en-

forcement of the liquor laws and per-

mit no amendment to the Volstead act ‘





 





 





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HE substitution. of a sales tax on



all sugar consumed for the tariff

taxes” upon imported. sugar, is the

proposition now being advocated by

the United States Sugar Association,

representing the eastern renner‘s. “If

a flat sales taxof'two cents per pound

upon sugar consumed in the United

States were substituted for the pres-

ent tariff taxes,” they argue, “the cost

of sugar to consumers would be no

more _than under the present tariff

rates, and the government would an:

nually derive $228,155,558 instead of

$124,112,384 as at present. This addi«

tional $104,042,674 could be applied to-





ward the revenueneceesary ‘to be rais- ‘





ed for the soldiers’ bonus. Boiled

down, his simply a question at wheth-

er we should continue to pay this

money as a subsidy to the domestic

sugar production, or, as a. bonus to the

cat-service amen." ' _



Those new-found friends of the sol-

diers’ bonus say that forty-two per

cent "of the sugar consumed in the

[’nited States not only escapes taxa-

tion, but the producers of domestic

cane and beet sugar areas take advan-

tage of the tariff rates imposed upon

the imported portion «of consumption

to raise the price of their product to

the full cost of these rates.





The falsity of this statement is ,seen,





in the fact that in the spring and sum-

mer when the. market is supplied al-

most wholly with Cuban sugar. the

price of sugar is boosted to the max-

imum notch that the consumer will

stand, while in the late fall and win-

ter when the American-grown beet and

cane sugar is on the market the prices

decline to the lowest limit.



This eastern refinery Cuban sugar

combination is evidently determined

to destroy, if possible, the growing

beet sugar industry in this country;





 





FOR REDUCED FREIGHT RATES.





 





HE decision of the railroad execu-

tives not to voluntarily grant a.

reduction in freight rates for the

transportation of wheat intended for

export in no way alters the determina-

tion of the American Farm Bureau





, Federation to ‘insist before the Inter-





state Commerce CommiSsion that the

rates be lowered, according to an an-

nouncement «from the Washington

oflice.



Among the things the federation in.

tends to ask the Interstate Commerce

Commission is why the Canadian rail-

ways can haul wheat so much cheaper

from Alberta and Saskatchewan to the.





head of lake navigation than can our ‘





railroads just across the line. It finds.

for instance, that the rate

Coutts, Alberta, to Fort VVilii-am on

Lake Superior is twenty-seven cents

a hundred, While the rate from Sweet

Grass, VMontana, , just a .few miles

across the line, and 200 miles nearer

to the lake terminal at Duluth is forty-





three cents. ._





FOR RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION.





 





ENATOR ALBERT B. CUMMINS.



chairman of the Senate Interstate

Commerce Committee, on his return

to Washington, «says he is gomg to

make a fight for compulsory consolidw

tion of the railroads in congress this

winter. The plan in his proposed all





~ merger bill gives the railroads seven

years iii/Wthh to bring about regional ‘ '. -

consolidations. If at' the end of that .

period this "consolidationhas not w.





 





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crop ” I now say ,Sp “ ecial crep, because

of the indefinite interval which is like-

1;» to: elapse before the fine crop of





spdds harvested by the reader who





makes a specialty «11.11113- crop can be





I , converted into the cash which they





ought and which he hopes they will

bring him. '

A Generation of Experience.



I- have grown potatoes as a special

crop in a small way on my Oakland

saunty farm for something over thirty

years.





and fully appreciate that in this par-

ticular line of production, "The labor-





or is worthy of his hire,” and that the





grower is entitled to a. reasonable re-





turn in cash for the hard labor in—’





vol‘ved.



During the balance of the period i

have hired the work done and have

arrived 'at an even better understand-

in mg of the need (if a liberal cash re

turn from this special crop in order

to pay a fair labor cost, to say nothing



of overhead items, such as taxes, in-

terest on invested capital, and upkeep

of the farm plant, and forgetting en-





. tirely any remuneration for such man-





agerial ability as may result from a

full generation of experiencein this

line of production.



One does learn considerable in a

generation of experience in this line,

as well as in any other line of human

endeavor. But we generally learn

backward 1?me experience. This is a





Far more than a third of that

period I did most of the work myself,‘





slow and expensive method of acquir-

ing knowledge, hence our duty to pass

on to a younger generation some of

the results of such experience.



In thirty years of experience as a

potato grower one is bound, if he is at





era/flog from Long Experzettce in Potato Marleetmg

' - By I. R. Waterbury





potato growing a satisfactory busi-

ness. But-I can see mere hope of this

for the future than I have been able to

see at any previous time, in spite of

new and Serious handicaps, if we po-

tato growers take intelligent stock of





 





 





classes:





well developed in this state.





before the late crop matures.





 





 





Better Price: for Potatoes





OTATO growers can help themselves to better prices if they

will definitely align themselves with one of the following





1. Growers of late potatoes who will make a seasonal pooling

contract with their cooperative selling organization,

other growers representing a minimum of fifty per cent of‘ the

total acreage in the‘important potato-producing states. '



2. Growers who specialize in certified seed along lines already





.‘ ‘ 3. Growers located near good local markets who specialize in

the pI‘OdIICtion of medium varieties which can be marketed just





along with





 





 





 





 





all an apt pupil,_to learn a. good deal

about efficient production methods. I

grow much better average crops of po

tatoes than I did at the beginning of

my experience, or than I did twenty

years ago or ten years ago. So does

the average potato grower who makes

this a special crop.



I believe, also, that I get better av-

erage cash return from the crop, but

I have, in common, I believe, with oth-





—er Michigan growers, a long way to





go in both directions in order to count





the situation and act accordingly, both

individually and collectively.



Marketing Our Greatest Problem.



In illuminating this outlook, let us

pass by the discussion of production

except as it affects marketing prob-

lems. We are making more general

and rapid strides in increased produc-

tion efficiency than ever before, and

object lessons in every community

may be depended upon to keep up the

geod work in this direction.



We have also gotten a fine start





toward the ultimate solution at the"





marketing problem through the devel-

opment of a great cooperatiVe mar-

keting organization, but because of

our lesser years of experience prog-

ress along this line is not as marked

as is the case with production meth-

ods and there is greater need that we

take stock of the present situation in

this direction, if our experience is to

aid us in increasing cash returns from

future potato crops.



Notwithstanding the progress we

have made in marketing methods, both

in cooperative selling and in thepro—

portion of the crop trucked to com-

mercial centers and sold direct to con-

sumers by the growers, Michigan po-

tato growers this year find themselves

in possession of a fair crop of very

good potatoes, for which there is no

present market at prices which cor—

respond to the statistical position of

the crop.



Why?



If we are to profit by our experience

and successfully solve our future mar-

keting problem, we must find the cor-

rect answer to this question.





A Transition Period.



Harking back over my long experi-

ence as a potato grower in seeking a

reason and a possible remedy for this

present situation, the great change in

marketing conditions is emphasized.

When I began to specialize in this

crop, local and transient buyers were

numerous. One could haul a load of

potatoes to town any day from dig—

ging time until late spring, and be



(Continued on page 504).





Sonic Produaive Winter Work





Suggestion: 072 How to Put tée S/acé Time to Profitaé/e U56

._ By J. L. Justice





HAVE been thinking over the edi-

tor’s suggestion recently in regard

to productive employment on farms

during the winter months where little

or no live stock is kept or produced,





1 and I recall several instances where





farmers were turning their time into

cash in a number of different ways. I

am sure that the ones I mention are





"only a few of the innumerable ways in





which many otherwise idle days might

be turned to profit.



I know“ one farmer—he feeds live

stock, too, on a mediumosized farm--

who 'has made it a. practice for the

last three or four years of building

self-feeders for hogs. The self-feeder

is quite popular now wherever hogs





are grown or fattened, and by making - ‘





only one design with a. small and

large size, the lumber is purchased to

advantage at a. Cost of five to eight

dollars, a thousand under the retail

price.





piovides a market for the finished

product. -



It is the advertising that counts for

best success in such a venture. For

instance, one farmer With an. eye to





, business in gettingorders‘ found where





he could buy good solid barrels at

small cost, so he built a neat, light

self-feeder for growmg pigs, loaded

it on the side of his flivver and took

it around to every public sale gather-

111g in the country, where he get ord-

f-“ers “tar all he could build in his spare

time Along this same line, one could

build portable inhog houses and farrow-





 





Suit'able hardware is easily se- .

cured, and a little local advertising .





were supplied he and his two boys

made tile for- their neighbors at a

cost below what they could be pur-

chased for on the market. 'This sort





,of a project could not be carried out





in freezing Weather without using a.





less than they would have had to pay

elsewhere.



A fruit man who had to buy a great

many wooden boxes and receptacles





”to market his fruit in, utilized his win?





ter days in cutting and making his





 





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. This Handy Stoneboat Can be Made During Spare Time.





heated building or a place where the

concrete would not. freeze. To this

might be added the moulding of con-

crete posts and blocks.



One man who kept a few cows and

ground his own feed had so many

requests for-grinding that‘he bought

a good-sized grinder and with the use

of, his'out'fit made quite a,little profit

from the business It was found that

mere neighbors wanted ground feed





, dgring the winter and spring months

‘ , thesummer pasture sea»

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" “ 1., middle of March They butcher 1mm





own” boxes. He installed the machin-

ery to saw and utilize the timber on

his own place and found a market

right in his own community for all his

surplus boxes, as it happens to be a

community partly devoted to fruit

growing.



A friend who happens to be agood

hand at butchering started to doing

butchering for a few neighbors. So

many requeSts came in that he con-

ceiVed the idea of purchasing a full

butchering outfit, loaded it all on a

light truck, and with his son and son-

in-law he folloWed the business as a

regular thing from November to the





 





a thousand to twelve hundred hogs

every winter and have a splendid sys-

tem for quick and profitable service

within a radius of six or seven miles,

and turn down many requests that it

is impossible for them to meet.





I heard of a rather unusual idea. re»

cently which should be workable by

the right sort of a man. Having a

reputation for making such a fine qua].

ity of potato chips, this farm wife

made batches occasionally to sell to

friends. Her husband had a large crop

of potatoes which were of a variety

that made exceptionally good potato

chips, so they converted many of the

potatoes into chips and disposed of

them in the bulk to grocers and cafes.





A young farmer who was somewhat

of a natural mechanic, enlarged his

workshop, and repaired all kinds of

farm machinery that it was possible

for him to do, including trucks, trac-

tors and automobiles. Another who is

handy at plumbing work does a great

deal of the plumbing for farmers in

his community at a charge far below

that of a union plumber.





The testing of seed corn was made

the principal work of a young man

and his sister, but they found it diffi-

cult to interest farmers in this Work

until after the fi1st of the year or

along toward spring. This is partic-

ular and exacting work but may be





done by any intelligent person who ‘





will study the principles involved, es-

pecially in detecting the disease of

corn called rootrot, which can be de-'

termined only on the well-germinated

kernel. I could mention other ways

that ingenious farmers have used

their spare time to advantage, but the

above list will’show some of the in-’

numerable plans devised, some of





which may be an inspiration to other'fi

farmers in helping them out of a Mr ‘V





culty.
conrnsc‘rso P'mcs. '





 





If a. milling company agent came:





through selling feed, stating that feed





would cost under $45 per ton, and I=[

sign up for feed, and in about thirty .i

days the company sends price of feed ;:





to be over $50 per ton am I obliged to

take the feed and pay the $50? There

was no price listed on the contract

—J.



The price is a palt of the contract

and the purchasei is not bound to pay

:any more than the price stated when

_the order was given. “Rood.





JOINT TENANCY.





 





If at the death of father and moth-

er, two of the heirs buy out the oth-

ers and have a icint deed and one of





the two dies, do the others come in:





,for any of his propeitwy or does it go

to the survivor?——VV. W.





At thecommon law a deedto two

or more persons, created a joint ten-

ancy, unless on its face it clearly“ in-

dicated an intention that they shall

take as tenant in common; but by the

statutes of this state, it is provided

that they shall take as tenants in com-

mon unless the deed provides that

they shall take as joint tenants. This

rule applies to all conveyances, except

to husband and wife; executors and





 





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-EXCESSlVE INTEREST ON NOTE.





 





How could one get at a. banker for

charging eighteen per cent on Wk

papeI or note?— B.



It would be impossible to answer

the Question without knowing Ithe ex-

act facts. There is no law forbidding

transfer of commercial paper ata. dis-





( count, and probably this is what hap—





wpened If the note was made to draw

.a greater rate of interest than seven

per cent, no interest at all can be col-

lected. "Rood.





COVENANT 'N'OT’TO 'ASSIIGN. ‘





 





Last May I sold a house and lot on

a contract. They pay $35 per month,

taxes and repairs. Now they wish to

sell it to people I do not think are

desirable. Can they do this unless I

gimswilling? .I still have the deed.—





In the absence of covenant in the

contract not to assign, the right of the

purchaser to do so is undoubted, but

the original vendee would still be 118:





At Me ‘ ‘ Tim 0’ Modigan Potato Sfiow”

' a Lad of Swimmer! Carrie: [fwd/y ti}: flight! Honor:





F you travel west out of Rogers

City on M-10, after a/few miles, the

road turns south.

turning with the road, yen 'take 'an

:angling trniftoward' the northweSt to

the little town" of 0m, pass

through and on to the north you "will

,come to the home 012 August G. Domke.

Mr. and Mrs. Domke are the proud

parents at nine children. seven of

whom are boys. One of these boys is

named Edward. Edward is seventeen





years old. He is liaia', large, muscular, .

has hands that arehardened by much _





work, quite retiring, but shows a keen

eye’ and an intimate knowledge of the

things with which he has had to deal.

. One of these things is the growing

“or potatoes. In 1922 Edward not only

won out in competition with the club

boys of his own county. but when he

came in competition with the winners

from some sixty other counties of the

state, at Lansing, the judges declared

that he was entitled to the highest

honors in the production of certified

potato seed. He also was‘awarded a

place of honor in the club exhibits at

the Grand Rapids Potato Show a,yea1'

ago-



But last week Edwind added great-

er lauxels to his crown. This year he

was one of eighty-two others to enter

Rural Russets at the Top 0’ Michigan

Potato Show, held at Gaylord. There

was real competition. Prof. F. C. Gay-

lord, of Purdue University, who judg-

ed the exhibits, said it was distinctly

an outstanding Show, with the high



j quality of the exhibits far above what

one sees, even at many of the interna-

tional events. .



With so my’entries in this class,

and with the quality so uniformly high

that Judge Gaylord was willing to risk

his reputation on saying it was one of

the very best shows he had seen, the

peck brought in by young Domke was

fi-i'filly placed first in this class. Then

when the pack exhibits of all varieties

was placed in competition for the

, , i patch- the lb .0 clean, enl-

typy tubers, em on the silt





If , instead of:





cure proper temperature, keep dowc





soil of August Dom‘ke’s farm by his

son, was awalded the highest honor





the show could give the grand sweep- _





stakes. Everyone present who knew

potatoes concurred in the opinion of

the judge that Edwa1d’s potatoes was

without question, the best in the ..show



Indiana Wants Michigan Seed.



- Befme giving a full list of the plac-

ings at this splendid show, let us get

a slant on this new business of grow\

ing and merchandising certified seed.

potatoes.

certified down in Indiana by the train

load. Two hundred cars Were bought

last year, said Professor “Gaylord 'in

the opening nuniber of a program put

on by the Michigan Potato. Producers’

Association and presided over by Tom

Bnell, of Elmira, the president.



“We are going to keep right on buy-

ing this seed because actual field ex-

perience shows that through the use

of Michigan-grown certified seed we

are able to produce from fifty to 198

bushels more potatoes per acre. It

really," continued Professor _Gaylord.

“has made it possible to again grow

potatoes over a large section of our

state. And the fact is that we‘ply for

certified whether we buy the seed or

not. through the (Inference in the yield

and the quality of the product-raised.”



He emphasized that, in the long run,

Michigan producers of table stock

should see to it that they ship better

eating potatoes into Indiana, since the

people there are apt to become critical

ofthe certified seed if theshipments

of table stock are not up to grade and,

quality. ‘Seed, 'soil‘and intelligent‘cub

ture are the big factors in putting

quality into tubers. Big yields invar-

ia’bly mean good stock. _



‘ Ventilation Looms as Important.



Do you realize that one of the big

factors in the keeping of potatoes is

an ample supply cf oxygen? This was

emphasized in a demonstration talk





by F. E. Fogle,of the farm mechanics





department of the M; A. C, on venti-

lation. Ventilation can be used to se-





_ 5 EN: Name and admin:

as Sans notary $1qu Cannot be Gun to “Mtg





if property is hold by joint .

5 tenancythe survivor takes all, if by

" tenants in common the survivor has

only his undivided share as before.—— 1

‘ Rood.





The farmers are buying‘





~ possible.





 





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flIi Letters





no for the payments. The validity or

the covenant not to assign has' been





presented to our supreme- court sev-

eral times, but as yet there 19 no flat "

If such covenants‘





decision upon it.

are valid the land may. be made per-

manently inalienable.—+Rood.





.TENANT OBLIGATIONS.





 





I am working a farm on shares;





stand half of the expenSe, and get.





half The owner of this farm is going

to put. up a barn. Are we supposed

to cook for men that work on barn





. if owner pays «us for it?—-C. E.





No. The tenant is not under obliga-

tions to board the men unless agreed





upon in lease or otherwise. —F. T. R ‘





'ALFALFA vs 1111156111138.





 





I have ton acres seeded down four

or five years ago, and there must have

been some alfalfa seed in it, as there

are big bunches of it two feet high

all over the field. Will you please tell

me the best thing to do with it? I

don't know anything about alfalfa, and

I, don’t want to break it up if I thought

it would fill in all right. It helps the

hay out now.—-A. B.



It is rare that alfalfa will gain any

headway in a. meadow where June





grass and timothy are established.





* such as corn. beans or potatoes.





Alfalfa should be seeded on clean .1





ground following a cultivated crop,

De-

pendable results can be expected it

northern-grown seed is properly han~

diod. Twelve pounds per acre or

Grimm, Michigan-grown Lebean. or

northern-grown common should be

plantEd, inoculating. with culture so-

cured from the Michigan Agricultural

College.



If clover fails habitually on your

land. and .you think it needs lime.a. .a.

sample. of soil should be .sent to the





'Michigan Agricultural College” Soils





Department, for analysis for lime de;

termination.



One bushel of barley or cats can be

used as a companion crop for plant-

ings of alfalfa made in early- spring.

‘I would slgsest planting anotheI field

to alfalfa, and hold your ten acres

until the new field, is established, then





crop the tenure piece .for one or two 1





years, with cultivated crops befbre

seeding to alfalfa—J. F. Cox. <





The man who nourishes potatoes

with that dairy product known as mas

nnre, will be able in the days to come,

to serve scalloped potatoes upon his

table.





Boy Loads T 6111





,tfie Best Sfiaw Yet Held m Mzcfizgan,





humidity and aerate the potato house





It is impoSsible to ventilate a poorly

insulated house





providing a sufficient number of air-

spaces, waterproof paper and sheet~





’ing. A cross-section of an insulated





wall from the outside would shell

first the siding, then paper, cleats to

provide an, air space. sheeting nailed

to the studding between which stud~

ding is a second airspace and. on the

inside of thestuddin'g a covering of

matched lumber. Then. comes a layer

of waterproof paper, more cleats, and

finally the inside wall sealing.- "The

roof, likewise. should be. insulated.

There should also be space, between

the potato bins and outside wall. This

space, for best results, needs to‘beitwo

feet wide. ‘ '





Seventyfivo per cent & the damage

done to the potatoes in'storog'e‘ Ml-

ly occurs during the out When one

crop is carried from we held to the

house much heat is taken, in. This

heatsbouldbe removed as quickly as

Fbr this a large volume of.

air moving through is needed. By aca-





son of its apacity the Rntherfinrd sys-





tenofvenfllaflonservesbestfortall.

It adults outside air to the bottom of

storage and allows it to 'leave'at‘the

top. The King method admits air at

the ceiling and takes it out at the

floor. Hence, the movement of air is

slow, which adapts it to extremely

cold weather. The air volume of the

Rutherford plan .- can , be regulated by

the use of dampers in the flue. - '





By running the intake under the.





ground for some distance before it

enters the storage,- air can be consid

erany reduced in temperature during

warmer weather. The circulation of

air through the bins of potatoes'ls

facilitated by having false-floors or

channels running underthe bins. dou-

ble slatted bin-partitions and a good





outlet which will inmeaso the rapidity . _, _





of elucidation.





Insulation be ‘ex-1

plained; was properly accOmplished- by j





‘_ Chief among thesis is frost.

several degrees of freezing. The mild-





 





more slowly, and, if feasible, might be

heated to keep the tubers from getting

-cbillcd.

5toragc Troubles. ,

The man. who stores potatoes has

certain troubles to contend with.

There are





er forms often do net show up for sev-

eral months, while the more severe

freezing breaks down the cells in a

short time. Potatoes freeze around

twenty-eight and one-half degrees—-

late potatoes Standing, by a_ degree or

so, more exposme than early varieties.

Sound tubers are less susceptible to

cold and less damage is done when

the cooling and warming are gradual.

Handling when temperatures are low

should be avoided. These were some

of the practical statements of J. E.





.Kotila, of the M. A. C.





He further advised the keeping of a.

good thermometer in the Storage to

know exactly at all times what the

‘temperature is. The storage tempera-

ture should be from thirty—fem; to

thirty—eight degrees. with the range}?

possibly running up to forty when the:

house is first filled.



Breakdown is due to the lack of

oxygen. It usually starts in February

and grows worse until May, when

black heart starts. The extreme full

houses and the long storage period of

last year, occasioned by the poor mar-

kets, resulted in an unusually large

peIcentage of tumble of this chalac—

ter Bins filled to the ceiling are not

easily ventilated. l

' Rots cause only a small percentage

of storage loss. They result Iaixely

from rough handling Blackleg causes





rots, as is, also, the case with late .

”blight.





Standardizing the Crop. _.



It is possible to merchandise only

after We have standardiZed, stated W.

P. Hartman, of the State Department;

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sure of selling them at some price,

generally unloading them direct into





a car. The price was not always sat-

isfactory. In fact, it generally was

not. But in those days we had less

knowledge of what the consumer paid

for the potatoes we sold, and if we

got as good a price as was being paid

in other towns with which we could

keep in touch, We were fairly well

satisfied.



I have since come to the conclusion

that we had reason for this feeling,

and that the competition which then

existed, and the methods of distribu-

tion which then prevailed, afforded po-

tato growers a pretty fair market.

Most of these local and transient buy-





ers then operated on “joint account”-





with wholesalers in commercial cent-





ers. These wholesalers in turn sold.





in jobbing lots direct to grocers who

distributed them to consumers. This

was a pretty direct and economic

route f distribution.



Later two more factors and two

more potential opportunities for profit

were injected into the trade. Large

jobbers or shippers employed buyers,

or sent them out on joint account.

They also purchased extensively from

local dealers. These shippers sold in

turn to the wholesalers in commercial

centers. These wholesalers jobbed

them to another class of middlemen,

who in turn supplied the grocers with

small lots to satisfy their daily needs.

Then we began to note a wide spread

in price between growers and consum-

ers and to kick ineffectually about

the profits of the middlemen.



Stopping the Leak.



Something over twenty years ago, I

resolved to try to cut out some of

those profits, though not in a wholly

public spirited way. I entered into a

joint account arrangement with a man



‘ who had experience as a small job~

ber of potatoes in Detroit. I furnished

the capital and bought the potatoes,

while he furnished the trade experi-

ence and sold them. At the end of the

season we had reversed positions. At

least I had the experience which con-

vinced me that shipping potatoes was

a hazardous business.



I didn’t get rich out of it. And truth

compels me to acknowledge ‘that

neither did most of the men whom I

knew who followed the business. Most

of the local buyers made much the

same kind of a living as did the local

growers Some of the big shippers

were successful. Speculative buying

periodically “cleaned” most of them.

But. toll continued to be taken too

many times between producer and

consumer, with the preSent develop-

ment of cooperative marketing as the

natural result.



The Present Situation.



Today the whole situation is entire-

ly different, due largely, I believe, to

the development of an entirely new

factor in the trade.‘ We now have no



. local potato buyers in. my community.

.We have a cooperative elevator, of

which I am a member.



I grew several thousand bushels of

potatoes this year, and in accordance

with my usual custom, planned on

marketing a portion of the crop this





the Matter wit





 





(Contz'nuea’fiom Page 50])





fall.

sold to groups of city consumers, but

I have been unable to Sell any consid-

erable pmtion of the crop at what I

thought was a fair price.



The cooperative elevator of which I

am a member isn’t buying because of

the unsatisfactory market conditions,

and the fact that most of our local

growers are trucking their potatoes to

Detroit and selling them on the city

market.- I visited some wholesalers

of my acquaintance in Detroit and

found their houses well stocked with

potatoes which were moving slowly, at

prices well below their ’costte them.

They‘complain that “peddlers” are not.

taking them any more, and that groc-





A few, truck loads have been ticularly during the early marketing,





season. But if fifty per cent or more

of the total crop could be pooled by

growers under the so-called California

plan and this proportion of the crop

marketed in an orderly manner, each

season’s results to growers should be

better, instead ‘of‘worse, because of

this. cheapening of 'the cost of distri-

bution. The law .'of supply and demand

would then inevitably operate in their

favor as , the season advanced.



This is a not generally recognized





.but very potentreason for the adop-





tion of this plan in Michigan as well

as in the other large potato-producing

states, since if “Dumping” continues

to be largely practiced in any import-





 





 





ers are not stocking up as they used

to do.



Apparently, the middlemen are not

responsible for the present situation.



What, then, is the answer?



The Chain Store.



There are in this city about one thou-

sand so-called "chain stores.” These

stores are making.a “leader” of pota-

toes. They are selling them to their

“Cash and carry” customers as low

as nineteen cents per peck, and by

the sack as low as $1.85 for one hun—

dred and fifty pounds. They buy them

in the open market where they can

buy cheapest, and sell them at cost as

a means of attracting customers to

their stores. They have cut out all

middlemen’s profits in the established

lines of distribution and have, tem-

porarily, at least, “beared” the market

to the positive benefit of consumers

and the present detriment of growers.

And what is true in this city, is true

in some measure, at least, in most

large cities and in very many small

towns.





But this does not necessarily mean

that this step in the evolution of po-

tato marketing need move a perma-

nent detriment to potato growers. In

fact, it should prove to be an ultimate





benefit to them if the th/eory of the





benefit to be derived from the elimi-

nation of unnecessary middlemen’s

profits in the distribution of foodstuffs

is sound. /But if it is to be an ulti~

mate benefit, rather than a permanent

detriment to potato growers, they

must turn it to theirown account.



How can this be done? ‘



, Centralized Marketing.



This; tendency toWard centralized

retail distribution of potatoes on a

large scale must be matched by cen-

tralized selling by growers on a still

larger scale if just price levels are to

be maintained under ordinary crop

conditions, else it will have a strong

tendency to hold the potato market

down to comparatively low'_ levels, par-





 





ant productiou center, the. result is

bound to be disastrous to the growers





of the entire countryunder these con--





ditions. ‘ .



These conditions have made me de-

cide to store the bulk of my crop in

the hope of a better future market. I

believe this hope would be a certainty

if the orderly marketing. of even fifty

per cent of the season’s potato crop

could be insured. ‘But in the present

situation it is a mere hope,



Three Classes of Potato GroWers.



As I see the situation, commercial

potato growers in this state must

align themselves into three classes for

bestfuture results. '



First, and most numerous among

these, must continue to be the major-

ity of growers who produce the bulk

of the acreage of-late potatoes. These

growers must unquestionably market

their crop cooperatively, and under a

seasonal pooling arrangement: for. best

results. They already havethe best

nucleus existing in the country for

this purpose in the Michigan Potato

Growers’ Exchange. But they have

not yet gone the whole of the way in

making it serve them to the best ad—

vantage. .But this they can and will

do, as the advantage of this course

becomes apparent to them and experi-

ence teaches them how it can be done.



Another, and I believe rather large,

group of growers will find it to their

advantage to engage in the special

line'promoted by- the Michigan Potato

Growers’ Association of growing Certi-

fied seed, for which a very consider-





able market is being developed in oth-.





,errstates and should. be developed in

our own state.



Still another, and probably larger

class of growers will find it profitable

to devote their energies to supplying

a local or nearby market demand

which they have heretofore very gen-

erally neglected. There is nearly al-

ways a period “Between hay and

grass” in the potato market which, of-





Potatoes?





the late potato. market.





’ potato grower.





' state,





fers an opportunity to enterprising

growers to increase their profits. Al-





'mOSt every year the last of thesouth—





ern crop is exhausted before our late

crop matures, and a. demand exists

which the early crop of the northern

states is- insufficient to fullysupply. 5



The Profitable Local Market. ,



Those of us who are close to good

markets should be supplying this de-

mand at a. good profit instead. of com-

peting with more distant growers on

‘ We should

not attempt to supply this market with

extremely early. and low-yielding vari-

eties, but with medium varieties, such

as Irish Cobblers, or even Green

Mountains, which can be planted early

and gotten onto the market. in late

August or early September.



I lay no claim, to this as an original

idea. It is not even new. I’ve known

it for a long time, just as have many

other potato growers, but it did not

fit into my preconceived plan of op-





erotica.





'I know a man who followed this

practice very suCCessfully twenty

years ago. So successfully, in fact,

that he is now a banker instead of a

‘I happened to meet

him on attain the other day and got

him to recount his experience to me.



.He lived in. a southern Michigan

county near a. small» town from which

tam railroads rundown into Indiana,

touching a number of good towns in





a non~potato producing section. .He‘





grew about forty" acres of potatoes 'a

year- on this plan, andestablished a.





line of grocer customers who would:





take a few sacks at a time. He began

digging about the middle of August,

whenever he had orders, and by the

middle of September had his crop sold

at a good price and the money in the

bank. 1





“They’re All Right!”



What ,he did then others who are

adjacent to a good local market can

do now with a measure of the same

success. The local market is gener-

ally the best market, and when we





,-have learned to market Michigan po-





tatoes to the best advantage there will

be little room for spuds from other

states in our market, while under the

present conditions they make us sick

of the game nearly every year.





When that time comes, if anyone -





asks 'us, “What’s the matter with po-



tatoes,” we can reply with some en—



thusiasm, “They’re all right." '

We can all help to bring this about



quickly in one of the' three ways above



mentioned if we will only get busy.

Let’s go!





’ro FIND FARM LIVING cosrs.





 





INVESTIGATIONS into the living

costs of farmers by economists of

the department of agriculture cooper-





ating with the State College of Agriv





culture, which have been completed

in an area in western New York, are

to be extended to thirteen states, in-

cluding Ohio. A number of represent-

ative farms in various parts of each

including those operated by

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WHEAT SITUATION ANALYZED.





' FTER having read the numerous

A accounts of the troubles of our





wheat growers and then reviewed an '





analysis of the situation, a thoughtful

farmer burst forthwith the oft re-

peated words, “What do you know

about that?” '



The facts are that there now prom-

ises to be a scarcity of wheat east of

the Rocky Mountains. This will be

due to prohibitive freight charges for

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The account stands ”semething like

this. In the states east of the Rock-

ies, there was.-a carry-over of 91,000,-

000 bushels, and a production this year

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of 736,000,000 bushels, according to

Murray, Clement, Curtis & 00. Our

domestic requirements amount to

about 611,000,000 bushels, and to Octo-

ber 15, we had exported 43,000,000

bushels, which makes autotal of 654,-

000,000 bushels, leaving- for carry-over

and export 82,000,000 bushels, which is

less than the carry-over alone on July

1 of this year.



For the states west of the Rockies,

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000,000 bushels, with domestic require





ments at 58,000,000 bushels, plus 7,-

000,000 bushels exported up to Octo—

ber 15, making a grand consumptive

total of 65,000,000 bushels This leaves

82,000,000 bushels as a. carry-over and

fer export from these western states

alone.



Nevertheless, the whole situation is

not so incomprehensible, asvwe were

led to think some months ago.





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O appalling is this annual waste



and, at present high price of fuel,

so expensive. to the public, that our

government has gone into extensive

research of this subject, reaching‘the

following conclusions. In still weath-

er‘ the cracks around the doors and

windows are not so objectionable, for

the air in an occupied room of the

home _should be changed about once

But theininute the wind

starts blowing each ”crack starts coSt-

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or storm the air changes, in the aver-

age leaky house, about six times an

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1TH just two emceptions the.





four highest pens in the Barred.



. -Rock, Wyandotte, Rhode Isa

land, .Ancona: and '.White Leghorn.I

classes were hens from some Michi—'

gan farm. This remarkable record?

tends to substantiate claims of Wol-i:

verine poultrymen that they have:

within the state fowls of as good-





f breeding for egg production as are to





be found anywhere in the world.



The highest peniin the contest was;

the Leghorns owned by E E. TShaw,;

of South ;Haven. For almost nine





‘ months this pen had. been leading, but‘





toward the close went into a‘sluniipp

and was almost nosed out by the

White Leghorns owned by O. F.

Thompson, of Allen. Thompson’s

fowls produced 2,097 eggs, as against-

2,125 eggs from Shaw’s birds.





\V. C. Eekard, of. Paw .Paw, swaS:

owner of the third highest pen, also-

White Leghorns, which finished with

2,079 eggs to its credit. George B.

Ferris, of Grand Rapids, had the

fourth highest pen, also Leghorns,‘

which finished with 2,070 eggs to their'

credit.



The heavy breeds were pe1fo1ming

beautifully at the close of the contest

and the race between some of the

pens was in doubt until last week.

Mrs. W. H. Chilson’s Barred Rocks,

products of Grandville, .Kent county,

shelled out 1,913 eggs during the year





 

   





 





 





and was awarded the bane ribbon in

this class. The pen iron the Quickie '_

Agricultum dollege was: the nearest.





'rival, producing LM eggs in the salsa

period. Robert Chfistophal’s pen of

Barred Rocks from Holland cattle in





third, ”with 1,812 eggs chalked to its

credit. The pen owned by W. H. B.

Kent, Casnovia, New York, was fourth j

in this class, with a production of



1,795 eggs.



Going intoasevere slump during the

last few weeks of the contest the pen

of White Wyandottes: entered by the

Evergreen Poultiy Farm, of Green-





l-ville, lost. the blue ribbon in this class.





The honor went. to a pen entered by

B. H. Smith; of Niles, which shelled

out 1,520 eggs, or twenty-seven more

than‘the Greenville birds. .The other

high ones in this class were pens en—

tered by. F. W- Sinks, of Farmington,

1,297 eggs, and H. A. Keister, of Ban»

gor, 1,296eggs.



Four high pens in the Ancona class

water, 1,636 eggs; C. M. Beckwith, of

1,726‘eggs; E N. Manning, of Cold-

water, 1,636 eggs; C. M. Beckwith, of

Milford, 3,571” eggs, and Frank A. Van

Free, of Zeeland, 1,567 eggs.



High Rhode .Island pens were: C.

N. Whittaker, of Lawrence, 1,622 eggs;

Mrs. E. SgTravis, of Vicksburg, 1,467.

eggs; Mrs. W. Cross, of South Haven,

1,423 eggs, and L. 0. Dunning, of Dal-

ton, 1,361 eggs.





 





The Roadside Market





(Continued from page 499).





ma1kets in her front yard by the use

of bulletin boards.



“I shipped one carload of peaches

this season,” Mrs. Kreager told me,

“and they netted me fifteen cents per

bushel. I will never again ship am

other basket of fruit, as I find I can

sell all of it, and more if I had it——at

home.”





At the time I was there 1111‘s. Kreag—

er had sold nearly five thousand bush-

els of‘peaches this season by means

of her front—yard wayside market. She

told me she had sold as high as $100

worth of fruit in a day, where the pur-

chases ranged from twenty-five to fifty

cents, making more money, of course,

by selling in small lots than in large.

Her prices I found. Very reasonable,

ranging from fifty cents to $1.50 per

bushel for peaches, with the better

quality strictly in favor with the aver-

age buyer.





! interviewed a. dozen other'wayside





' market proprietors in the “Fruit‘Belt”





and their stories were about the same





Ias those of Mr. Pullen and Mrs. Kresg-





er. They were unanimous in the sent-

iment that altogether the best way for

the fruit farmer to market his produCe

is through the medium of the roadside

mart, backed up by one or more bul—

letin boards intelligently used—used

every day and used consistently. Ex-

perience is proving that Where the

farmer makes full use of his “silent

salesman”—«the little bulletin board-—

it increases his front-yard market

sales amazingly. It is his mouthpiece

and heralds the nature of his wares

for sale, and often the prices. It works

the same with the farmer that an ad-

vertisement in a daily ”paper does with

a merchant. It is the old story of “It





pays to advertise.”





And it is the same in every part of

{the United States. Through the me-





‘: dium of the wayside market the farm—

.’:erat last is comiugfntohis amend





and consumer are brought together by

gasoline and cement, and the lure of

the roadside mart.





RASPBERRY DISEASES.





 





Have a red raspberry patch set out

four years ago on clay loam. Have

always pruned it well after bearing,

fertilized it with barnyard manure, _

but now in two places there appears

a disease. Noticed it, about berry-

picklng time. There seemed an un-

usual amount of berries on the affects

ed area, but very small. The leaves

curled up and finally died, although

we could find no lice or insects. Could

you tell. us what to do with it?





Judging from the description you

give of your raspberry patch, it has

the disease which is quite common.

Iiow among. the brambles, which is

called Mosaic. This disease and the

yellows have proven quite trouble-

some to raspberry growers, and dur-

ing‘ the past few years, many patches

have been dug out because that seem-

ed to be the only method of cure;



It is hard for us to diagnose defi-

nitely what the trouble is from a- writ-

ten description, so we would suggest

that you get in touch with your county

agent. He might be able to inspect

the patch for you and advise treat-

ment.



We are inclined to think, however,

that the trouble is one of the two

referred to above, and your only meth—

0d of procedure is to dig out the af-

fected plants. using care not to touch

the healthy ones when doing the'dig-

ging, and to burn them up.





Arley Blud and his wife have'been

having a ruckus. She boiled up his

bare! mail order cigars and used'the

soup to spray the rose bushes. Then.

he took her box of Christmas talcum





powder and Sprinkled it on the pota-





toes. Then she took his razor and .



opened a can of fish with it. So he'



grabbed her powder you nd shined?

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-HAT the Soils and climatic fea-





tures or the Upper Peninsula of ‘





Michigan are particularly adapted to

the raising of Green Mountain seed

' potatoes; that there is an urgent and

almost nation-wide demand for this'

variety of seed, and that the farmers

of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

are overlooking an unusual commer-

cial opportunity in failing to give more

attention to this agricultural feature

- is the opinion of Chris Bemis, man-

agerpf the certified seed department

. of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-

change, who recently visited the pen-

insuia in the interestspof the seed

potato production.

Mr. Bemis visited most of the ag-

ricultural communities throughout the





peninsula, and in company with sev». I





eral of the county agricultural agents,

visited some of the best potato fields.

.“While it is true that there may be

some over-production of common table

stock potatoes, there is a decided lack

of the certified seed potato variety,

which is now in such urgent demand,”

er. Bemis declared. “We are receiv-

ing constant and urgent calls/ through

' our Exchange. for, carload lots of

Green Mountain, Russett Rurals, Irish

Cobblers, Early Ohio, and other varie-





5 f tically every' section of ,the' country.





“The great need right now is for

the Green Mountain variety. We have

1' had, for the most part, tomeet the



immediate; demands for the other cer-



tified seed variety from Tour lower



Michigan fields. Green Mountain seed,

. however, is typically adapted to the,



' soil and climatic conditions of the Up-



per Penlnsula of Michigan, and it is



frdm this section that the best seed

has been shipped. Thus far, we regret

to say, only one potato groWer in the



Upper Peninsula has met our inspec-



tion requirements, and that man is



John Deiongchamp, of Champion,



Michigan, and we have purchased his



‘entire crop for this year.





“We are making every possible ef-

fort to encourage the Upper Michigan

farmers to adopt this feature .of agri-

' culture. We understand that a 'few

have started in on the Russett Rural

variety. We do not believe that this



. is advisable for the upper Michigan

territory; largely for the reason that

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and we have been able to secure a

more desirable product from that sec-

u‘l, .tion'of the state, and our demand for





', at this time. - 7

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T. B. ERADICATION WORK.



OGEBIC county is proceeding with

. ”its eradication of bovine tubercu-

losis. ‘Three veterinarians have been

working in the county. By October

25, 4,000 cattle-had been examined

and sixty-four reactors were discov-

ered, which were shipped to Milkau-

kee for slaughtering under federal. in-

spection. The Globe, of Ironwood, re-

ports that most of the reactors were





' found, not in the country“, but within





the city limits or in mining locations

where stables had .been constructed

with little regard to ventilation and

lighting, and where cattle are permit-

ted to run at large or in community

pastures. This promotes contagion.

Farm conditions are ’much more fav-

orable to good sanitary conditions.‘





MANY CLUBS ORGANIZED;





 





TWENTY-FIVE boys’ and girls’

clubs were organized in Menomi-

nee county in one week recently. In

addition a training school.- for teacheis

was held at Stephenson at which

twenty-two were present.





WILL OPEN NEW TERRITORY.





 





UCH new farming and timber



country will be opened up with

the construction of the extension of

state trunk-line M 35, known as the

“Baraga Trunkline,” which has now

been definitely determined upon. The

new construction calls for about twen~

ty miles of highway through virgin

country. The heavy stands of hard

woods indicate good soil in this re-

gion.





NEW CAMP SITES.





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EMARKABLE public spirit has



been shown in Iron county in so

- .

curing possession of four tracts of for-

est lands close to state trunkline No.-

12, for park and camp-site purposes.

These all possess scenic attractive

ness and will be greatly appreciated

by tourists as well as local residents.

One of these sites at Golden Lake

consists of three forties and has been

donated to the county by the F ox Von—

Platen Lumber Company.



There are two other tracts consist-

ing of eight forties, each of 'which

have been purchased by the county

outright, I am informed, and negotia~

tions are pending for the purchase of

the estate of Rev. William Poyseer, of

nearly 160 acres. This property is one

of the finest sugar-bushes in the state,

Mr. Poyseer having combined with his

religious duties the business of cham-

pion sugar producer. He desires, how-

ever, to unload his agricultural burd-

ens, and it is likely that the county

will take over his property on Fortune

Lake for park and hospital purposes.



This will put Iron county at the

forefront in such facilities. That this

renascence is not confined to thelctmn.

try is seen by 'the fact that Crystal

Falls has instituted public and private

additions and improvements during

the past year which are estimated to

amount to $1,000,000 in aggregate val-

ue.

ought to be encouraged.





HEALTH CONDITIONS IN MAR-

QUETTE COUNTY.





 





'ARQUETI'E maintains a. health

department in charge of a, quale

ified physician, Dr. C. P. Drury. The

health officer recently made. public the

reéults 'of his examination of the 3.600





bechool children of the city. which

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m forty per- cent had unfilled ca

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who are also acting as club leaders,.





All this is splendid work and-





itiés in permanent teeth. four per cent -





had nasal obstructions, sixteen per

cent had septic tonsils, forty-nine per

cent had enlarged thyroids; twenty-





two per cent had poor nutrition, re- '





suiting in undertveight in the ease of

ten per cent; the per cent had enlarg—

ed lymph glands. These figures are

regarded as typical ‘for town or coun-

‘try. Sixty 'per cent had uncorrected

defects, of which notice was given to

parents, and, in thirty-six per cent,

action was attained. The health offl-

cer points out that, in nearly two-

thirds of the cases reported to par-

ents, nothing was" done about it, thus

prolonging a situation ,which may

have serious effects in later life. The

experience of Marquette, as here giv‘

en, is regarded as very conservative.

Bad teeth among young children is

universally encountered, with few ex—

ceptions, even baby teeth in many in-

stances being involved. Future health

is closely‘related to these conditions,

and the Marquette Lions’ Club is pro-

moting a dental clinic for the city. '



Meanwhile the rural sections of

Marquette county enjoyed the bene-





fits of fourteen dental clinics in seven '





remoter townships of this, the largest.

county in Michigan, during the past.

summer. The Red Cross nurse of

Marquette county, in reporting on this

work, states that of 202 pupils exam-

ined, only one had had his teeth treat-

ed by a dentist. An average of one

extraction per pupil examined was

made by the dentist in charge of these

clinics. There were 422 fillings in-

stalled, and seventy-four prephylactic

treatments were given. The cost of

the. clinics- was approximately $350,





exclusive of the salary of the Red ‘





Cross nurse, which is paid by the

county.

the fund collected by the Junior Red

Cross drive, last spring.





ADVERSE To STATE HUNT svs.

. TEM.





 





GOOD deal of dissatisfaction has



from time to time been given ut—

terance against the present state prac-

tice in disposing of wolves and coy-

otes and other noxious, animals as

being inefliec-tive. The State hunter

system has its defenders, but one

gathers from a poll of the Upper Pe-

ninsula press that the préponderant

opinion ishadverse. Anyhow, supervis-

ors in five Upper Peninsula counties,

this fall, voted county bounties for

wolves, the amount to be paid being

ten dollars in each case.





There was a. concerted effort to -~





.bring an Upper Peninsula counties in

line, for it was felt that, if some coun-

ties refrained from such action, wolves

killed «there would be transhipped into

bounty-paying counties to collect the

bounty there. Apparently there has

been a. good deal of such fraudulent

practices in the past. This year, in

voting the bounty, Gogebic county

even went so far as to require the





production of the carcass of the wolf ..





in the clerk’ 5 office, before the bounty

could be paid.



Bounties were also voted in Chip—

pewa, Dickinson, Delta, and Menomi-

nee counties. Marquette county would

probably have taken similar action

had ml the prosecuting attorney railed





" it to be illegal, on the ground that the





legislature had previously repealed

acts making provision for the payment

of such bounties. It appears that the

attorney-general’s office at Lansing

takes this view and that the eiIort to

secure county provision for these

beauties will be brought to naught.





That wolves and coyotes are in- v





creasing seems to be pretty generally

held and there pane





 





 

 





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;. o, glues" . ”But not any

'V. ollins, of the lows. Agri-





tutural¥ allege, has inVenwd a by





(fraulic wagon that registers exactly

f‘iwhat a horse. can do in harness.





The idea is so simple that it is a





wonder no one thought of it before.





The action of this horse dyhometer





is similar to lifting a weight from a





“smell by pulling on a rope running over





a pulley and supporting the weight,

but is accomplished in a different

manner. , '



A team unde1 test by the dyna-

mometer pulls on a. cable passing

around sheaves carried On a frame

built over a Iwagon and to which the

weight determining ‘the pull is at-

tached. It is clear that aslong as the

weight is suspended freely by the ver-

tical ends of the supporting cable, the

weight represents the pull of the team

under test. While a test is being

made the forward mOVement of the

apparatus is controlled by an auto-

matic governor so that the weight is





“To Hold Fox - Exhibition





*PREPARATIONS are being" com-





pleted for the fourth annual live



silver fox show, which will be

held in Muskegon, November 22-26.

This will also be the annual conven-

tion of the National Silver Fox Breed:

ers’ Association of America.





It is eXpected that this will be the _





largest exhibition of its kind ever

held. The three previous shows were

held in- -Muskegon, Michigan, which is

the center of the industry in the Unit-

ed States. After Michigan, \Visconsin

ranks second in't’he number of foxes

and fox farms. Entries indicate that

over five hundred silver and black

foxes will compete in this show.

These foxes will represent an invest-

ment of between one and two ’r_n_illion

dollars, being the cream of the aristo-

crats of fur-bearing animals.



There are two national‘fox breed-

ing associations. A favorable vote

has been cast by both these organiza-

tions for amalgamation, and commit—





‘ tees have-been appointed to meet- and





.make recommendations, for bringing

these two organizations into one large

central governing. body. Under such

an arrangement, there will be but one

herd book, and one standard for judg—

Local state” associations





 





 





 





 





 





 





-suspended while a test is being made-





 





 





suspended at all times; that is,

tom of the guides.

The method of keeping the weight





is of interest. This is accomplished

byfthe use of a rotary pump to fur-

nish the necessary braking effect. In

the apparatus this pump is geared to-

the wagon or truck’ wheels. The force

required to rotate the pump or to

move the wagon depends upon the op-





ening of the. discharge valve on the

pump. When closed, the pump and

wagon are practically locked; when

the Valve is wide open there is little

resistance and the pump rotates very

easily.



The discharge valve on the pump is

so connected to the weight that when

the weights are at rest the valve is

closed, and when the weights are in

their higheSt position the valve’is

wide open. When a test is being made

the weight will take some intermedi-

ate position which will furnish just

sufl‘lcient braking effect to keep the

weight suspended. ‘





can then be organized under charters

granted by the new association.



At a recent meeting of the National

Association, a resolutidn was passed

which provides for the inspection for

quality of all foxes offered for regis-

tration in this association. The foxes

are to be personally inspected by

qualified men appointed by the asso-

ciation and, to , be registered, they

must score eighty points or better. To

protect buyers, each fox meeting the

necessary requirements for quality

and breeding will be tattooed in the

ear and these tattoo numbers and let-

ters will be recorded in the herd book

and appear on registration certifi-

cates. Inspections will be made dur-

ing the months of October, November

and December, when the fur is prime,

‘or nearly so.





The association has been fortunate

this yea1 in procu1ing the services. of

three men who are leaders in'the fur

business to place the foxes at the Mil-

waukee sh0w.’ They are: Robert A.

Pfeiffer, of Traugott, Schmidt & Sons,

Detroit; Robert Frazer, representing

Lamson & COmpany, of London, and

George B. Herzig, of New York. J E

Smith, of Muskegon, is secretary of

the national association.





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naked me when 1 was going to wear

this pair out; Ind I told him that l1 I

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would dooo .Eo said he would, too.





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(Slcnode WALTER HOFF,

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and to avail himself of its warmth, but

not to renew the water. No stream

besides, the cold blast of'

the wind, shrilling through the open

hood, accomplished the purpose more

easily. Again a sally and again a stop.‘

And Barry was thankful, as. huddled

and shivering in his light clothing, he

once more sought the radiator. Vague-

ly there came to him the thought that

he might spend the hight somewhere

on the Pass and go on with the flush





of morning. But the thought vanish-.





ed as quickly as it came; there was

no shelter, no blankets, nothing but

the meager warmth of what fire he

might be able to gather, and that

would fade the minute he nodded. A1-

ready the temperature had sunk far

beneath the freezing point; the crack-

ling ot' the ice in the gulleys of the

mad fairly shouted the fact as he

edged back once more from the radi-

ator to his seat.



An hour-wand three more after that

—with the consequent stops and paus-

es, the slow turns, the dragging proc;

ess up the, steeper inclines of the

road. A last final, clattering, journey,

and Barry leaped from the seat with

something akin to enthusiasm.



Through the swirling snow which



.sit’ted past the glare of his headlights,

he could discern a sign which told him

he had reached the summit, that he

now stood at the literal top of the

world.

’ But it was a silent world, a black

world, in which the hills about him

were shapeless, dim hulks. where the

wind whined, where the snow swept

against his face and drifted down the

open space of his collar; a wmld of

coldness, of malice, of icy venom,

where everything was a threatening

thing and never a cheering aspect ex'

cept the fact; that the grades had been

accomplished, and that from now on

he could progress with the knowledge

that his engine at least need labor no

longer. But. the dangers! Barry knew

that. they had only begun. The de-

scent would be. as steep as the climb

he had just made. The progress must

be slower, if anything, and with the

compression working as a brake. But

it was at .‘east progress, and once

more he started.





HE engine clanked less now, the

air seemed a bit warmer with the

down grade, and Barry, in spite of his

fatigue, in spite of the disappointment

of a disabled car, fell. at least the joy

of having conquered the thing which

and sought to hold him back, the hap-

piness of having fought, against obsta-

cles, of having beaten them, and of

knowing that he now was on the down

trail. The grade lessened for a few

hundred feet, and the machine slowed.

Houston pressed on the clutch pedal,

allowing the car to coast slowly until

the hill became steeper again“ Then

he sought once more to shift into gear

~and stopped short!

Those few moments of coasting had

been enough. Oven-heated, distended,





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, l'engine boiled and Barry stopped, once ..

more to huddle against the radiator,-





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‘ the bearings had. cooled too suddenly

-about the crank shaft and frozen there





with a lightness that neither the

grinding pull of the starter .nor the

heavy. tug of the down grade could

loosen. Once more Barry Houston

felt his heart sink in the realization

of a newer, a greater foreboding than

ever. A frozen crank shaft meant

that from now on the gears would be

useless. Fourteen miles of down

grade; faced him. if he were to make

them, it must be done with the aid of

brakes alone. That was dangerdus!





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Again he started, the brake bands,

squeaklng and protesting, the machine

sloughlng dangerously as now and

again its sheer weight forced it fer-

ward' at dangerous speeds until lesser

levels could be reached and the hold





-of’ the brakebands accomplish their





purpose again. Down and down, the.

miles slipping away with far greater

speed than .even Barry realized, until





at last——





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He grasped desperately for the

emergency brake and gripped tight





 





 





THE D YING DESPO TI.“





By Hugh Kephart





Sure, they used to burn the witches

And they trafficked, too, in slaves.

Then were drunkards found inditches



Or were placed in paupers’ graves.

Those were times of sin and sorrow,

And not many now would choose



To return again tomorrow

To the witches, slaves and booze.





But a span of time is measured

Hem for everything on earth,



And we cling to all that’s treasured

For its just degree of worth;



While we spurn with equal quickness

All the’wIaste and vile refuse



Which accounts for public sickness

Of the records not by booze.





Tho’, of course, booze isn't friendless

Some of them rank high enough

And the stunts they pull are endless~

To secure. the vilest stuff,

But those friends are disappearing

Death 59 often proves their views

For such loyalty unerring

To a dying despot, Booze.





l'll apologize to slavery, _

And to witchcraft, too, as well

When I link them up with knavery



That’s too black for earth or hell.

For l try in every sonnet

To give each his honest dues

And l’ll gladly bring his bonnet

When old Booze hic's his adieus.





 





 





He cupped his hands and called—in

vain hope that the stories of Hazard





.Pass and its loneliness might not be





true, after all. But the only answer

was the churning of the bank-full

stream, a hundred yards away, the

thunder of the wind through the pines

below, and the eerie echo of his own

voice coming back to him through the

snows. Laboriously he left the ma-

chine and climbed back to the sum—

mit, there to seek out the little tent

house he had'seen far at one side and

which he instinctively knew to be the

rest room and refreshment stand of

the summer season. But he found it,

as he had feared he would find it, a

deserted, cold, flapping thing, without

a human, without a single comfort, or

the possibility of fire or

through the night. Summer, for Haz-

ard Pass, at least, still was a full

month away. For a moment he shiv-

ered within it, staring about its bleak

interior by the aid of a flickering

match. Then he went outside again.

It was only a shell, only a hope that

could not be realized. It\ Would be

less of a hardship to make the fight

to reach the bottom of the Pass than

to attempt to spend the night in this

flimsy contraption. In travel there

would be at least action, and Barry

clambered down to his machine.





 





 





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upon it, steering with one hand. For

five minutes there. had come the

strong odorof burning rubber; the

strain had been too great, the foot-

brake linings were gone; everything

depended upon the {emergency now!

And almost with the~first strain——





Careening, the car seemed to leap“

beneath him, a maddened, crazed

thing, tired of the hills, tired of the

turmoil and strain of hours of fight-

ing, racing with all the speed that

gravity could thrust upon it for the

bottom of the Pass. The brakes were

gone, the emergency had not even

lasted through the first hill. Barry

Houston was now a prisoner of speed,

»—c1 amped in the seat of a runaway

car, clutching tight at the wheel, lean?

ing, white tensexfaced, out into the

snow, as he struggled to negotiate the

tuins, to hold the great piece of run-‘





,aw’ay machinery to the crusted road





and check its speed from time to time

in the snowb'anks.





MILE more—halted at intervals



by the very thing which an hour

or so before Barry Houston had come

almost to hate, the tight-packed banks

of snow—then came a new emer-

gency. One chance was left, and Bar-

ry took it—the “burring” of the gears

in lieu of a brake. The snow was fad-





072 #1: Acre’: Line.





2-





. s pace.





' , 'al, for the? last time.-





-an’s hand can give.





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had he in his light clothing, attempted . .

to spend the night in the open. If the





barred gears could only hold the car'





for a mile or so moro—~ .

But a sudden, snapping. crackle end-

ed his“ hope





and meshing, had broken. Again a.





wild, careening thing, with no snow, .





banks to break the rush, the car was

speeding down the- steepest of the

grades like a human thing determined

upo'n‘ self-destruction. '



A skidding curve, then a straight-

away, while Barry clung to the wheel

with .flngers that were white with the

tightness of their grip. A second turn,

while ,a wheel-{hung over the edge,,a

third and—5‘ .



The awful suspended agony of

—A-1cry. 'A' crash and a dull,

twisting moment of deadened suffer-

ing. Afterthat—blackness. Fifty feet





‘ below the road lay a broken, crushed





piece of mechanism, .its wheels still

spinning, the odor- of gaosline heavy

about it from the broken tank, one

light still gleaming, like a blazingeye,





_ one light that centered upon the hud-





dled, crumpled figure of a man who

groaned once and strove vaguely, diz-





- zily, to rise, only to sink at last into

- unconsciousness.





Barry Houston had

10st his fight. -





How long he remained there, Barry

did not know. He remembered only

the falling, dizzy moment, the second

or so of horrible, racking suspense,

when, breathless, unable to move, he

watched the twisting rebound of the'

machine from which he had been.

thrown and Sought to evade it as it

settled, metal crunching against met-

After that had-

came agonized hours in which he'

knew neither wakefulness nor the

quiet of total unconsciousness. And

then—— ""



Vaguely, as from far away, he heard

a voice—the sort of a voice that spell<

ed softness and gentleness. Some—





thing touched his forehead and strok—





ed it, with the caress that only a wom-

He moved slight-

ly, with'the knowledge that he lay no

langer upon the rocky roughness of a

mountain side, but upon the softness

of a bed; A pillow was beneath his

Warm blankets covered him.

The hand again lingered on his fore~

head and was drawn away. A mo-

ment more and slowly, wearily, Barry

Houston opened his eyes.



It was the room of a mountain cab

in, with'its skiis and snowshoes; with





its rough chinkings in the interstices





of the logs which formed the mainstay

of the house, with its four-paned wins

dows, with its uncouthness, yet with

its comfort. ,Barry noticed none of

this. His eyes had centered upon the

form of a girl standing beside the lit-

tle window, where evidently she had

gone from his bedside.



Fair-haiied she was, though Barry

did not notice it. Small of build and

slight, yet with the health and vigor

that is typical of those- who live in



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Congoleum Gold Seal Art Rugs are the most popular





This is the beautiful Gold Seal Congoleum Art Rug

floor covering known. They are rapidly becoming the national





as shown at the top of this page. On the floor, it looks un-

floor covering-highly prized in good homes for anyand all rooms.

MW No burlap for water to rot.

Surface is hard, smooth and wear-resisting. Does not stain.

Not marred or hurt by spilling of hot liquids.

W from the first moment without fasten-

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need to tack or fasten them down. Dirt cannot accumulate

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colorings bright.

No laborious cleaning, no sending to cleaners. Ab-

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believably like an expensive woven rug. The richest blue color

dominates the ground work. Mellow ecru, 01d ivories, and

light tans, set off the blue field. Mingled with these lovely

tints are peacock blue, robin’s egg blue anc‘ darker tones. Old

rose, tiny specks of lighter pink and dark mulberry are

artistically placed. Darker browns and blacks lend dignity

and richness.

The border background contrasts With the blue all

over center by reversing the color scheme. Ecru and tan shades

form the border background. In this rug you have all the ad.

vantages of design and coloring so much sought after in high

grade pile fabrics.

An ideal all purpose rug, beautiful in any room.

Perfect for living room or parlor. Lovely in bedroom or dining

room. Charming in the kitchen. A real boon to the women

folks on the farms. Saves endless drudgery.

Send Only $1. 00 with Coupon—$1.50 Monthly



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1 enclose $1 for the 4 Gold Seal Congoleum Art Rugs—exactly

as described —in the pattern selected below, on 30 days free trial.

I“ return them, you are to refund my 81, also all transportation

costs. OtherWise I willdpay $1.50 monthly, until special bargain

price of $11.95, is pai .





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' blue eyes that snapped even as darker

eyes snapped, as she stood, half turn-

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ing with evident eagerness the ap-

proach of some one Barry could not

1 see. The lips ca11i‘ed a half-smile of

' A anticipation. Barry felt the instinctive

' urge to call to hei, to raise himself—





 





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sharp, yet aching throb of agony which

involuntarily closed his eyes and

clenched his teeth until it should pass.

When he looked again, she was gone,

l and the opening of a door in the next

room told him where. Almost wonder-

ingphe turned his eyes then toward

the blankets and sought to move an

arm—only to desist in pain. He tried

the other, and it responded. The cov-

ers were lowered, and Barry’s eyes

i started down upon a bandaged, splint-





, edleft arm. Broken.

l E grunted 'with surprise, then

yr, somewhat doggedly began an in-





spection ol’ the rest of his human ma—

chine. Gingerly he wiggled one toe

beneath the. blankets. It seemed to be

in working order. He tried the others,

with the same result. Then followed

his legs—and the glorious knowledge

that they still were intact. His one

free hand reached for his head and

felt it It was there, plus a few ban-

dages, which however, from their size,

gave Barry little concern. The inven-

tory completed, he turned his head

at the sound of a voice—hers.——calling

from the doorway to some one with-

out. .



“He’s getting along fine, Ba’tiste.”

Barry liked. the tone and the enthusi-

astic manner oi speaking. “His fev-

er’s gone down. I should think—”



“Ah, 011i!” had come the answer in

a booming bass. “And has he, what

you say-come to?"





 





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soon.”‘

“Oui! Heem no ver’ bad. He be





all right tomomorw.”



“That’s good.

him to be unconscious so long. It’s

been five or six hours now, hasn’t it?”



“Lemme see. I fin’ heem six o’clock.

Now—eet is the noon. Six hour.”



“That’s long enough. Besides, I

think he’s sleeping now. Come inside

and see—” .





come in the minute

he know heem.”





1y lost their curiosity. Thayer? That

cOuld mean only one Thayer! Barry





from him. the. information that he was

anywhere except the east. For it had

been Fred Thayer who had caused

Barry to travel across country in his

yellow Speedster, Thayer who had

formed the reason for the displace





 





ment of that name plate at the begin- .





A} ning of Hazard Pass, Thayer who——

“Know him? Is he a friend?”

“Oui. So Thayer say. He say he

, think eet is the M‘sieu Houston, who

own the mill.”





“Probably coming out to look over _





things, then?”

“011i, Thayer,he say the young man

1, write heem about coming. That is how

" he know when I tell heem about pick-

ing heem up from the machine. He

1 say he know M’sieu Houston is com-

ing by the automobile.”

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blinked rapidly and frowned. He had ‘





wrtiten Thayer nothing of the sort. He

had—~. suddenly he stared toward the





   

   

 





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state universities have extension

, departments, for carrying the

message of 1 better” living all over the

ifstate. Some of the big corporations

‘print magazines for their employee

and the buying public, and others send

out lecturers, who are well informed

on business and industrial conditions.

The most disinterested form of exten-

.sion work of which we know, is that

of the Christian missionary. He car-

ries his message without expectation

of financial returns or honor. Many

modern scientists also have a large

share of this attitude. They conduct

their researches and publish their find-

ings without thought of returns in

money.

The prince of the missionaries was

Jesus Christ. He was the principal

1 lecturer in the

world’s greatest

extension service.

The fact that he

came to earth at

all was founded

011 His desire to

bring a new mes-

sage to men. “All

things were made

by Him; and without Him was not

anything made that was made. In

Him was life, and the life was the

light of men.” And this was the Man

who started the whole missionary

idea. It appears that the beginning

-of the missionary impulse lay in

Christ’s value of the human soul. We

'probably do not have any conception

of how highly He looked upon the

ordinary man and the ordinary soul.





 





VVENTY thousand persons are

killed yearly in the factories,

mines and railroads of America, and

we think little of it. Seven hundred

thousand are injured in indUStry, and

but small effort is made to prevent

these accidents. Evil influences sur-

round the average growing child, even

in the best of communities. We are

told that twelve hundred girls came

to New Yo1k last year and disappear-

ed, never to be seen again by their

parents. And yet the value which

Christ placed on the individual soul

was so high that we comprehend it

with difficulty. “And whoSOeVer shall

give to drink one of these little ones

a. cup of cold wate1 only in the name

of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he

shall in no wise lOse his reward.”

“And whosoever shall receive one such

little child in my name 1eceiveth me. ”

“I say unto you that the1e is joy in

.the presence of the angels of God over

one sinne1 that repenteth.”

The value of human life comes out

vividly when one loses a child, as re-

cently took place in the city of De-





troit. Professor James Stalker, of

Edinburgh, in «his book, -“Imago

Christi,” says, “Is it really true that





one soul (that of the thief dying to

day in plison, or of harlequin who

was glinning last night in the circus)

is more precious than the gold of Cal-

ifornia or the diamonds of Golconda?

To multitudes, if they would confess

the truth, such an assertion has no

meaning. Yet it was made by Him

who, while living here below in time,

lived also. aloft in eternity and could

look clearly along'the track of the

future, seeing all that the soul can be-

come, both the splendid possibilities

it may develop and the depths to

. which it may fall.”





F the human soul is of such incal-

culable value, its g1owth and devel-

ment should receive every atten—

tion at our hands. Growing one hun-





 





fired bushels of corn to the acre is





 





fig' business; growing a thousand

ls of apples without one wormy



big business; but bigger than



”c growing of a soul And



11111 111/} of farming in which



‘ .Even if we grow-





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MOST of the larger colleges and ' sick of the farm and make for the tall ,





. habits.





‘showing such intelligent concern in





smoke stacks, the clatter of street

cars, the rush of the city, we still re-

tain some interest in agriculture, for

we are in the business of cultivating,

watering and developing a soul.





The other day I was reading how

many farmers are waging a war on

runts. “Need runts among farm ani-

mals be accepted as a necessary evil ?”

asks this writer: “or can they be pre-

vented?” It was shown that the in-

come from several ’hundred farms

would be increased thirteen per cent,

if the runts were absent. Fourteen

million runtsin the country-make a

long procession and mean a good

many hundred thousand dollaIS of

loss. Several farmers state that by

careful breeding, feeding and housing

they had reduced the runts to zero.

Others admitted that in spite of all

their efforts they still were unblessed

with a few. Qne Stockman said that

he bought a runt pig for fifty cents,

when a few weeks old. It was so weak

he thought it would die in the wagon

011 the way home. But by giving it

special attention it developed into a

287-pound hog at nine months. All

the correspondents,however, were em-





phatic that there is but little money





in runts. The only sensible policy is

to get rid of them altogether, whether

they be pigs, calves, chickens or what

not. When I read this, instantly .I

thought of human runts; dwarfed, un-

der—developed, unprivileged children

and adults. .





0U can always tell an animal runt



at first sight. But you cannot al-

ways tell a human runt, because he

may be normal in bohy, but abnor-

mally under-sized in character or

brains. If the human soul is as price-

less as the Savior said it was, has

the modern community any right to





 





brought 11110336111191 with the teach-

ings of the Chriist who loved; children

so; the other tho'uswds who never





have had a wholesome, inspiring book'





read to them, and who know nothing





‘of the beauties of hero-Worship, which





is the very life and marrow of the

growing boy and girl;

sands who nevé’r look fortirard to any-

thing in particular, but who “get a.

job,” and exist from day to day——

what of all these? Such dwarfings





may be prevented? Runts from such





sources are inexcusable.



The teachings of the Master Misa

sionary ’are not for the next world

only. They are not intended simply

to keep good people out of hell, and

get them safely landed in heaven. No.

Christ wants men and women to have

the life of God in them now, so that

they have the zest, the outlook, the

f1eedom, the joy that come of a new

life. “To be saved," says a modern

prophet, “is to becomes. new kind'of

person, with a new inner nature, a

new dimension of life, a new joy of





scul ” And people who come into

such an experieDCe will never be spir-_

itual dwarfs. They will never be

runts. Moreover, they will try to pass





this experience on to others, else they

will lose it entirely; fo1 religion, like

water, must be kept in circulation in

order to be pure. Much more could

be said on this.





A





SUNDAY NSCHOOL LESSON FOR

NOVEMBER 18 8.





SUBJECT:—Our Lord Jesus is a mis-

sionary. ' Matthew 9: 34- 38. Mark

I: 2939. Luke 8: 1 3 and 10: 1. John

3. 16,17.



GOLDEN TEXT. —God so loved the

world that He gave His only begot-

ten son, that whoesoever believeth

on His should not pelish, but have

eternal life. John 3 16. ~





 





 





 





 





WEALTH ACCUMULATES AND

MEN DECAY. '





 





HERE will be no decay of the

men of Ame1ica1 while they

spend mo1e and more time plan-

ning fer good minds and scund bodies

fo1 the child1en of the schools. United

States Commissioner of Education





John J. Tigert is promoting American .





Education Week and calls particular

attention to Saturday, November 24,

which has been designated as Physi-

cal Education Day. Anyone desiring

special ‘information about program,

stunts and features for the celebra-





.tion of the day insuch a way as to ,





bring joy to the heart of every boy

in.the community, should write to Mr.

Tigert at the Bureau of Education,

Washington, D. C.



M1. Tige1t starts his propaganda

with the striking cOuplet:

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a





prey

Whered wealth accumulates and men



eca

He goes on to tell that the purpose

of physical education is to promote

normal, growth and organic develop-

ment; to develop leadership, loyalty

and sportsmanship;

healthful and intelligent interest in

active exercise,





It is certainly fine to‘ have's'o 1111-.





'portant a government omCial as the





chief of the Bureau of Education





these basic principles for building men





rather than wealath

_ Mr: Tigcrt’s program {er the eels-1;

brati'On of the day includes he; only ”





an essay contest, but goes- inf. such"





to piomote a'





to establish health





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practical and attractive features as a.

health? parade, with floats and ban-

ners. The floats need not be anything

expensive. They may :berhauled' by

the children on their own express

wagons; yet they may show a lot of

invention and originality. Children

dressed to represent vegetables, such

as “Billy Beet,” “Jimmy Onion,” etc.,

would be in this parade. To wind up

he would have some competitive

sports with prizes offered by promi-

nent citizens or clubs. Both boys and

girls could enter these sports and his

circular gives an interesting outline

fm an afternoon field meet, going into

minute details as to its management.



In conclusion, it is suggested that a

local committee be organized to plan

the field meet, provide officials, secure

and award the prizes and give appro

priate newspaper publicity, all of





which should tend to promote the 7





thought of healthful outdoor play for

young and old.



We may well feel proud that we

have such a commissioner of educa-

tion, and it is to be hoped that many

communities will be moved to send

tor his program. —.





.—_..—_





WASH THE FACE CLEAN





 





I am a boy seventeen years 'of age.





I and troubled with my face being cov-’





cred-wt th pi‘m les. What remedy do.





for them ?-——3. L.W



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enamelware, cause trouble if swallow-





ed with the food?—-Mrs. W. C. .





It is not likely that it w‘bul‘d cause 6’

trouble. We swallow indigestible mat»





ter every day, that is sent through the

stomach and intestines without dain-

There is a possibility that a.





enmeshed in the mucous lining ofthe

stomach. It is: just possible that it

might produce ulceration. This, how-

ever, is not at all likely, and when you

consider how many sharp-pointed arti-

cles, like pins, are swallowed and:

passed without serious harm, you will

see that while there is danger it is

not great.





ACETYLENE GAS LESS HARMFUL

THAN COAL GAS. -





 





I would like to ask if acetylene

lights are injurious to health if there

are small leaks, where you can smell

it slightly? What about the hot plate,

or would an oil stOVe be better?—A

Reader.



Acetylenegas is made from calcium

carbide and‘is much safer than coal

gas. Small leaks in a room of good

size Would not be injuiious. The odor





'of acetylene gas is so characteristic

that a leak large enough to do serious





harm would be very conspicuous. I

think the hot plate safe enough for

ordinary use.





 





TH E WHITE DESERT.





 





(Continued f1 om page 517).

p1ise in his coming, some one who

realized that his mission was that of

investigation.



The names of two persons flashed

across his mind, one to be dismissed

immediately, the other



“I'll fire Jenkins th eminute I get





back!” came vindictively “I’ll—



Hechoked his words. A query had

come from the next room.



“Was that heem talking?”



,“No, I don’t think so He groans

every once in. a while. Wait—4’11





look” , .



The injured man closed his eyes

quickly, as he heard the girl approach

the doOr, net to open them until she





had departed. Barry was thinking and





thinking hard. A moment later—



, "‘How' s the patient?” It was a new

voice, one which Barry Houston re-

membered f1 om years agone, when he,

a wide- -eyed boy in his father’s care,

first had viewed the intricacies of a

mountain sawmill, had wandered about

the bunk houses, and ridden the great,

skidding bebsleds with the lumber

jacks in the spruce forests, on a nev-

er-fOrgotten trip of inepeotion. It was

Thayer, the same Thayer that he once

had looked upon with all the enthu-

siasm and pride of boyhood, but whom





he now vieWed with suspicion and dis- 6

, trust. '





Thayer had brought him out

here, without realizing it. Yet Thayer

had known that he was on the way.

And Thayer must be combatted~but

how? The voice went on,

consciousness yet?”



“N0 :1

is__ - ,9



“Of course, then,





“Gained '





The girl answered. ‘f'l’hat





he hasn’t boon ”

able to talk. Pretty sure it’s Houston, "

though. Went ever and took a. look

Coleman license on

it, but the plates 166k pretty new, and ‘

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— with their blg“bang bangs”





.‘ this, until. a into hour.

. Owl wanhoofln‘gseveno’cloek, from

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Bmm’ 1 Sleep 2: Dz'rturéed





HEN [Rally Rabbit had finished



tellhg 'of the sad accident to



, his wife, Bruin; felt very sorry

for him.



Times were





’ certainly changing. '





, Their oWn country, ”the Big Woods,





was hardly asafeplace for the people

in Animal Land to live. The hunters,

that fright-





ened and killed so many of ‘ their





4 frieads,we1e coming farther and

‘- farther trite their woodland. »





Bruinfand Rolly Rabbit talked about-

: When Billy





big spruce me, they decided to go

to he}. . ‘



molly. Wt lc'd the way into the

house and in the guest-room; “I be-

lieve you will find everything to make

yourself comfortable for the night,

friend Bruin. But if you do not, just

call me,"'said Rolly Rabbit. “I’ll put

some more medicine on yom bee

stings now, and the swelling will be

about gone in the morning."





 





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~Rofly Ruched in to See What Was

. . the Trouble.‘

“Thank you, " smiled Bruin, “you

have been so kind to me, I don’t know

how to repay you”





— . #1011. we won’t 1111111: of that,” said .

. Rollyranhe finished (lecturing the bee

- stings





“Sleep as late as you wish

Good 4145th Btu}n.”



"Good-night. Roliy Rabbit,” he ans:

swered.



It had been. a long. day for Bruin.





V He hurriedly. prepared £01 the night.





After saying his prayers, he climbed

into bed Rolly Rabbit was not in the

habit of entertaining beais at his





‘ house. so the bed was a little small,





Bruin curled himself up as much as

he could, and managed to get himself

all into the bed. But how it squeaked





K and grcaned with its heavy load!





Everything went well, though, until

Bruin wan-ted to turn over. This was

quite a. task for him. for he seemed

wedged on every side. He tried it

twice without success. The third time ~

be stretched a little too far.



“Squeeee—ek, squee-ee—ek‘, squawk,

bid, bang, bang.” Down went the bed,

right in the middle, leaving Bruin on

his back with the bed so close around

him that he just couldn‘t get up.



Hearing. the terrible cram Rally

Rabbit came rushing in to see what

was the some. »



When he saw Bruin on his back,

sqnéeled down between the four sides

or the bed, how he wanted to laugh.

It was such 5. funny eight. But Rolly

was too petite'fer that. Bruin was

his guest, and he must at all times be

a host. ‘\



Aflor much" pulling and groaning, he,

finally got Brain 4111' on 1113' feet again-

He Wanineth'mt by the fan, and only.

a little shaken up. -- .



As it was getting rather late, they





thought it mid be best to wait to fix ,1





the bed in the morning" So Ro'lly





'made Bruin a nice soft bed on the





floor, Mensch wentou’te Slammer-

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V-Mr. Judge.





 





Woodland





I will describe myself My hair is

lbrown and my eyes are brown.





I go to school every day and like it '





fine. I am in the fifthg rade.





Well". I guess I better gclose now, so“ V





good—bye. ——From your niece, Marian

Price.





A HALLOWE'EN Fnouc.

Dear Aunt Martha:





 





I thought I would Write and tell you





what fun I had on Hallowe’ on. We

had a social at our school and I had.





three pieces, and I didn't know myf





one piece, and I got upon the stage

and I had to laugh, and then all the

other people laughed too.



We had pumpkin faces and they

were all lit up. They had all kinds of





 





Dear Little Folks:



The postman brought me a lot



of‘nice letters this week I wish

1 0011111 plint all of them so you

might enjoy them, too



Quite a number were succe'ss- -

ful with the farmyard puzzle and

the riddle. Many said they liked

puzzles, so we will have more 1

later. Remember, this page is

just for you, and at any time 1

send in your own little stories ‘

and drawings, and I will be glad

to print them.

, Another riddle was sent in by





This is it: “Four legs have I 1,

. but only one foot, a head, and

yet I never talk, a spring and .

yet I am always thirsty? What

am I.” .

\Vho can guess?

Sincerely,

AUNT MARTHA.





 





 





 





faces and we had afiShing pond and

I got a little Looking-glass. ‘-



My box went 1'01 $1.10. We had an

orphans‘ box and it went for $17. 45. ——

Yours truly, Gertrude Hensfeten. 1 ..





some PUMPKIN.

Dear Aunt Martha:





I am going to tell you what we had

for Hallowe' on. We had a pumpkin





 





{lwo feet high and two feet a1 ound \\ e , \





ad a hex social and I was pretty neai

not getting any. —~Your nephew, Hany

Gregersen.





A CORRECT GUESS.





Deai Aunt Maitha:



I like the story of “Doing in \Vood-

land” very much.



I am a little boy and I like to read

stories.



I was wading the story about Bruin

and saw a puzzle and traced it and it

was a hen.—~Your nephew, \Vcndell

Wood, Quincy, Mich.





 





 





 





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Don't let disappointment scare you.

Maybe it’s just sand thrown on your

track to prevent skidding.





 





Judge—- “Now, I don’t expect to see

you new again, Rastus.”

RaStus-“Not see me here again,





resign yo’ job, is. you, Judge?”





 





Little Robert while out walking with

his nurse saw a. blacksmith shoeing a

horse. Upon returning home he said,

“Mamma, I saw the man who makes

ho1ses.”



“Are you sure you did?” asked

mamma.



. “Of course I am," replied'Robert.

“He had One nearly finished when I

saw him. He‘ was just nailing/on its





Frank Boyd for you to guess. , ‘





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From a drawing mode a!

Cosflcton, Sept. , 1923. by

Herbert Morton Stoops.





 





 





 





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HAT a. genuine spirit of thank-



fulness' is the proper seasoning



for the Thanksgiving menu is

something that the hostess should not

forget at this season of the year. But,

if she, as further proper seasoning to

this feast, will substitute a few new

dishes and add a. few frills there will

be a. note of up ”to dateness to‘ her on-

tertaining that will be a pleasant sur-

p1ise to her guests.



To begin with, serve an apple appe-

tizer. This is made by adding two

cups of diced apples, onehalf cup of

preserved cherries, to one—half cup of





sweet cider and the juice of one lem-

on and one orange.



If you have planned on stuffed fowl,

use a. new kind of dressing. The ad-

dition of raisins, nuts or celery is a

pleasing change. When roasting a

fowl, the trussing is very important.

I11 order that the wings and legs may

not become dryer than the other

parts, they should be held fast to the

body. To accomplish this insert a

skewer through the wings and breast.

Then thrust another skewer through





the fowl just underneath the, legs.

With string tie the ends of the legs to-

gether and fasten by means of .the

string to the tail. Then wind the ends

of string~ fastened tothe tail around

the ends of the skewer which are pro-

jecting from the fowl. Cross the ends

of the string Over the back and wind

them around the \ends of the skewer

through the wings. Tie the strings

together at the back. If these direc-

tions in trussing are followed, there

will be no string marks across the





breast to mar its appearance when





served.





 





Undoubtedly Mr. Rooster Has Forgotten that Thanksgiving is Nigh.





If you serve roast fowl without



dressing, then you might'serve stuffed

and baked vegetables, such as oniOns

or tomatoes. Diced carrots; turnips

and peas, combined with white sauce

and baked, is delicious.

. Some candied cranberries will make

a. tasty garnish for the Thanksgiving

feast. Instead of just jellied Cranbe1-

1195, Why not serve spiced cranberries

as a change?



A celery salad, made by the combi-

nation of diced celery, apples and





 





 





ice supply.





canning.





fuel in cooking.





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supply will be found 011th





W/zy Cm; Meal on MeFaMz?





The popularity of the coldepack canning method for fruits and vegetables

just natu1 ally (haws us to the canning of meat.

us we can p1 ese1ve in a healthful form any food by canning.



It is difficult to keep flesh meat on the fa1m without a. refrigerator or an

Even with these conveniences,

long as the supply would last if the daily consumption was kept at normal.

The farmer who is without his home supply of ice ‘often loses some of the

fresh meat by spoiling, or is compelled to use more than he needs if the

weather tu1ns suddenly wa1m after butchering time.

impo1tant and relatively expensive food product which may be avoided by





In fact, science has taught





the fresh meat will not keep as





This 1811 waste of an





With a. goodly supply of home- canned meat stored on the canning shelves,

the housewife can, on short notiCe, prepare a complete appetlzing meal

company amives unexpectedly, her feais are assuag'ed' for she" knowsthat

with her meat all cooked dinner can be ready in short order



Home- canned meat makes prsible a more varied diet by lessening the

dependence upon salted and smoked meats, and is a. saving of both time and





When





Overcoming Prejudice Against Canned Meats.

Many people are timid about canning meat for fear it will not keep.

With care it can be canned just as safely as any fruit or vegetable.

Bacteria are the most troublesome foesto conteStiball canning.

follow the same careful rules for destroying this bacteriapwhen canning meat

that we do for fruit and vegetables, we will be rewarded ‘with success.

certain poisonous compounds are formed when an, early stage of de-

composition begins in foods rich .in protein.

portance to use only absolutely fresh‘and'cleanfoods for canning. Meat that

is canned before the slightest trace of spelling has commenced, packed in a

sterilized air-tight jar, properly sealed, and processed for the time and

tempo rature required will be a wholesome and healthful food when served.

‘ The condition of canned meat should be carefully noted when the can is





If we





It is, therefore, of utmost 1111-





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Thanksgiving Cheer In the Menu

C/zcmgey from t/ze Ora’mary 101/] Add aortas-Define” 1‘0 Your Entertammg .





inuts, served in red apple cups, will

give an individuality to any Novem— .





ber dinner.





Bits of preserved ginger added to'





whipped cream and fluted around an

ordinary piece of pumpkin pie will





make the guests wonder why it tastes ~





so good. Or individual pielets will

please the little folks as well as the

grown-ups.



If you have served soup as first

course, nothing is better as a desert

than a. frozen fruit ice served with

wafers. But when the first course has

been a fruit appetizer, a pudding—

pe1haps English plum pudding—quakes

a good finish to the dinner. . i ; .





TRY SOME.POTATO CHIPS.





 





POTATOES are a. general food, and

share honors with bread as the

staff of life. When you are puzzling

over what variety you can add to the

school kiddies’ lunch basket, why not

try some potato chips?



They are easily and quickly made

if a few simple instructions are fol-





lowed. FllSt, select a. few mature po

tatoes. New potatoes in the spring

or early summei do not make good

chips. They should not be used be- _





fore the skin sets. Use potatoes that





' are high in starch value, for a‘waxy.

soggy potato will not fry to a good





crisp.

Pare the potatoes, slice thin—about





one- sixteenth of an inch-v—and let soak -





in cold water two hours. Change the

water during this time to get rid of

as much of the outer starch as possi-

ble. Then drain, dry with a. towel,

and place in hot deepfat for three to

five minutes, depending upon amount

of chips to be fried. ,





A deep f1y1ng kettle with wire bas-

ket to fit inside to hold the chips, is

best to use, although a skimmer 0r

wire spoon will prove quite satisfac-

tory in removing the chips from the

fat. Place on brown' paper to drain.

and sprinkle with salt.



When packed in a. lunch basket. the

chips should be wrapped in heavy

waxed paper. g





POTS FOR HOUSEPLANTS.





 





IN cans and old kettles and pans



have been‘called mouse as flow-

er pots, about as often as' regular pots.

but pots are so inexpensive that if we

can get them they will add somuch to

the beauty of the window that it will

pay. If we cannot get pots conven-

iently then we can use cans, but they

should be painted a. neutral tint to

make them less conspicuous. If we





use cans it is best to out the top off





just below. the rim and carefully





pound the edge into a little r011 out-'

ward This rids it of sharp edges and

will permit plants being shaken out





without danger to the roots. ,.

The shape and size (if [pots should

suit the plants grown:





there is a half-depth 1161: made that

will give them plenty of soil and Save

much heavy lifting Sofie plants, like

geraniums, will bloom best in Small

pots so the roots will bo pot-bound





while others, like cellos or 01117111111- .





themums, want plenty





 

   





Ferns will do,

best in a. shallow pan, and for bulbs“





~ to.“ firmwu .
1“ . ed Vne'SGnZany occasioh.‘

. , it will‘be.q;siwelc0me at the afternoim

tea, as. in the, workingman’s lunch-box.

,You will find it desirable to use bacon

, frequently as .a_garnish and in combi-

nation with'oth‘er dishes. Its appetiz-

ing Qualities are such as to make oth-

er dishes taste-better, and to improve

the whole "meal.

Hot Bacon Sandwich. ‘

Cook the bacon until it is crisp.

Butter slices of bread and spread

'lightly'with salad dressing. ‘Add a lit-





   





mato which has been seasoned with

salt and pepper. Add crisp bacon, put

the remaining slice of bread on top,

and. then serve. The salad dressing

and chopped lettuce may be omitted

and the whole sandwich toasted in the

oven.

Bacon and Onion Sandwich.



Cut thin slices of onion and serve

with bacon in *bread or roll sandwich.

' ' ' For those who like the onion cooked:

A Slice or chop the onion, then brOWn in



pan with some bacon fat left by first



frying, the bacon to be served with

the onion. ‘ Sprinkle with salt and pep-

’ per before serving.





fa.





 





‘ ‘ SAVING THE PENNIES.





 





HERE are some of the ways I use

“cast-offs” or save a few pennies.

How many use inner tubes Where

, elastic is needed in children’s gar-

; ' ments? These bands also make good

a ' fasteners to hold the strainer clOth

on the separator tank. I sew a small

piece to a fly-swat handle and save

buying a new one. .

\Vhen the wire separator brush is

Worn at the end, I bend it back and

it lasts still longer. ' . '

. The glue paper tape I had left from

- i making a dress-form is handier than

- string, when wrapping parcels, and I

also” use it im‘ labeling fruit jars.



I want Staten you all about a piece



~ of furniture I made-myself. i have a

kit of tools of my own which I know

how to use. -



I bought a cheese boxior ten cents

from the grocer, and ten feet of one

inch by one inch pine for ten cents.

I used the cover for upper part of my



. ° sewing stand, open side up, and nailed

the four two and one-half—foot lengths

to it. The bottom part was placed

the right ‘height from the «floor and

fastened in place. A ten cent canof

dark oak stain made an agreeable

finish. After I had fastened in place

several’muslin pockets, I had a work

basket like I had been wanting fir

years, for the cost of forty cents.—

Mrs. A. P. '





 





common causes or CANNING

FMLones.





HIS is the time of year when

housewives wonder why things

which they have put up for the ‘win-

ter do not always keep. .

Shrinkage of material in the jar

‘may be due to packing the jars too

tight at canning time; to overcooking,!

or to air spaces left between the foodj

materials when the jar is packed.





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- packing firm, but not tight, to within

a half-inch of the top of ‘the jar, and‘

by leaving this half-inch of spacefor

expansion duringcooking. ~





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giving cooking'time for different fruits

and Vegetables,‘will settle the second

trouble. To avoid the third difficulty,

exclude the air by inserting a spatula

’or thinbl‘aded knife in the jar before

putting on the lid. '





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ble, also arises from over-packing, but

is mainly duel» allowing food to stand

in a semi-heated condition at any time

-' during means-mg process. ,

When the fruits float, the jar may





 





 

 





 





tle chopped lettuce and chopped to- '





VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY . GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN

‘ Blue Ribbon Lump is the Ideal domestic coal for Furnace, Heating and MICHIGAN FARMER PATTERN

;, Cook Stove use. It is thoroughly screened over 4 inch shaker screens. It SERVICE‘

' - contains no slat-k or slate. Igniuks {rm-1y. makes a, lasting tire. does not

clinker. and burns to a soft wliltc ash. Farmer Agents Wanted to '"’“_

solicity orders from their neighbors. You will be surprised to know how ,

quickl' orders can be obtained for a. 40 or 50 ton car at a nice profit. -. 0111‘ new F2?“ and VVlnter FaShion

Get our low price by mum mm fatalog contains five hundred of the

T E . a est appropriate models for ladi ’

H O. BURT & SONS M Ir -. . . 33-

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The first difliculty can be met by:





Strict adherence to'a. canning table,i





‘fFlat sour," affother common trou-I





_ warmed '0? overcoat“





 

 

 





 





Those women who have become ac—

quainted with the superior quality of

LILY WHITE FLOUR, “The Flour the

Best. Cooks Use,” use it exclusively for

every requirement of home baking.





 





 





 





 





 





 





occasions. Along with this valuable

collection of patterns it gives a con-





TRY a MiChigan Farmer Classified Liner—They cost cise and'comprehensive article on

little and bring big results. dress-makmg-





 





 





Send fifteen cents, either in silver or

stamps, for this up—to-date Fall and

Winter Fashion Catalog, to the Michi-

gan Farme.r Pattern Department, De

troit, Michigan.





‘No. fi486——Ladies’ Dress. Cut in

seven Slzes, 36. 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48





inches bust measure. A 38-inch size



requires 5% yards of one material



36 inches wide. The width of the

0 . E?” at the foot is 21/4. yards. Price

g P c. .





 





 





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I millions of





   





No. 4484—Ladies' Coat. Cut in four





BAKING POWDER ”stairs:terse its;

0 bust measure. A medium SlZe requires

16 1t 51/2 yards of 44-inch material. Price





\ ‘ . uniform and depen used. on , 12°





 





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No. 4535—Gir1s’ Dress. Cut in fo r



gigs, 8, 10, 12_ and 14 years. A 1‘12-

r Size requires four ' ' .



inch material. Price 120Iyards 0f 32..





No. 4536—Girls’ Dress. .Cut in f

sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A20





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





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Use this department to hel "solve

your household roblems. ddress

your letters to artha Cole, Michi-

gan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





 





 





FOR ROUGH HAN D8.





 





When doing my housework, my.

hands are always so rough. Can yen

tell,me something for them.——Mrs. A.





For a lotion, mix two ounces glycer-

ine, the Juice of two lemons, two ta-





blespoonfuls of water, six drops of

carbolic acid. Bottle and shake well.

Use after washing your hands each

time.





HOLIDAY MENUS.





 





I am planning on company from De—

cember 24 to January 2, and would

like a menu for the different days dur-

ing that time. There will be nine peo-

ple, six grown-ups and three children.

I have the following supplies: Pota-

toes, cabbage, turnips, beets, onions,

apples, canned tomatoes, cherries,

strawberries, peaches, plums, cur-

rants, pickles, beans, dried corn and

apples. I will also have cuts of meat

from a freshly-killed pig, with grocer-

ies, including raisins, rice, both kinds

of flour, etc, together with plenty of

eggs, cream, milk and butter.—-—Mrs.

J. D. *





Space will not permit the complete

menus here, but if you find yourself





 





to of examiner; value. Book, Parent-Sense, . .

am. 795 scum-gm. n.c. nun. x on.





in the same. quandary as Mrs. J. D., I





 





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will be pleased to forward you‘this





ihiormation.-—.,—-Martha Cole. 7 « -





CLEANING GREASY WOODWORK.‘





 





Will you. please tell me how to clean -





greasy woodwork that is painted, so

as not to injure the finish ?—-Mrs. R. W:





Greasy painted woodwork should be

cleaned with a cloth dipped in turpen-

tine and then with a cloth dipped in

clean water, to which a little kerosene

oil has been added. ‘





TO REFINISH KITCHEN FLOOR.





 





I would like to do something to my

kitchen floor, but it is. so rough. Can

you tell me how to fill these small

cracks?-Mrs. '1‘. D.‘





Before varnishing or staining an old





_ floor which is scarred, mix putty with





a darker stain, fill in the crevices or

knot holes, and then varnish over all.

using a good floor varnish.





TO REMOVE PUTTY.





 





Will you please tell me how to re

move hard putty from ,around win—

dow panes?——-Mrs. W





Putty may be removed from glass

by rubbing the surface with a hot

iron. The putty will then become soft





' off. I; ~V'W‘ash" the»





 





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FIRE INSURANCE



COMPANY '

Hartford, Conn.





Gentlemen:

I own (manage) 1----..acrc farm.





 





 

 

 





 





Please send me a free copy of your

inventory book—“MY PROPERTY".





Name





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If you have failed to take an inventory of the

property on your farm and have a Serious fire

you will probably forget to make claim for

many items that have been destroyed. I

Send today for the Hartford free inventory

book, “My Property”. It will help you make

. the proper record on which to base a sound





insurance policy and will prevent you from '

forgetting valuable articles should you ever





make a claim for a loss.





 





Dinil this; (four) or:





 





 





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‘ 'AKE your plans for Christmas





gifts early." That's just what





you promised yourself to do lastyear .

when you Were in the last minute's 7"





mad rush of preparing gifts. _vThen,-.§t‘





the. last minute, because you had no

more spare time, you had torbu‘y sev- -

. eral gifts, losing all you had saved





by making the others. ' _

With the holiday less than six weeks





away, it is vital that we make use of ,





all our spare. time to avoid that last

minute’s rush and hurry.



Here are some suggestions by which

you could make pleasing gifts that

would be dainty

as well as prac-





,.‘ ' tical. This pret-

‘ ty basket design

%% o G ' would add just

E ' / . ye the right touch

Vv 5‘6 3 "to a dainty

an." ' "f handkerchief or





» some hand-made

underwear. The design is shown in

Book 302, which contains some ten

different basket dsigns, together with

dress trimming patterns, alphabet for

pillow covers, and a collection 'of sev-

en kittens to be used on a child's bed-

spread. - p



The crocheted chariot wheel illus-

trated here would make an attractive

design to use on any table runner or

buffet scarf. The directions for mak-

ing it, together with sixty other pat-





 





terns, in edges, insertions,‘ medalionsr

and yolks will be found in Book I.



If you can tat, this clo‘ver leaf edg-

ing is very simple, yet effective, when

used on collar-and-cuff Sets, handker—

chiefs or guest towels: You will find





this with directions for making in our





 





art needlework Book No. 3, that con-

tains over a hundred other tatting

patterns. '





Any of these books may be obtained

by sending fifteen cents to Needlework

Department, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Michigan, with your address

plainly written. ‘ I





 





When making 'apple and celery sal-

ad, to two cups of diced apples, add.

one cup of diced celery, one-quarter

cup of nut meats and one-quarter cup

of diced carrot. Season ‘withsalt and

add mayonnaise. Ga‘Fnish with celery

tops. ‘ ~





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wHo PUT 'L {NTO chosr

I, said .tfitie draft, l'catche ’em fore and

a ':





I, said infectinn, I do it byinr-ction.‘

I,\ said had air, I catch-’em al 1701' lair.

I, said; wet feet, Ido ’emvup neat.

Then they allvsang'r together .

We cream in all weather ‘ '

We, keep ’em in, though it is .sin, ‘





i If they’d go ’out and ‘walkabout “ M

’Tweuld. break the, spell,-;. there'd9 be _





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Favorite: with firm" for 30 years.

Dreuand Sonia timothy men and

ye atoll husband on good lea~

malmwfifbygled shoemaker-s.

, wemn e

our («tea on ur 8&1;ng

our store sells a ' s, or will

get them for you. Handsome flea

booklet on request.





limb-sums “moo. Grand fluid-Junk.





NEW [AMP BURNS

‘ '94 % All

’ BealsElectric or Gas





A new oil lamp that, gives an (amaz-

ingly brilliant, soft, white ht, even

~ better than gas or electricity, been

tested by the U. 8. Government and 35

leading universities and found to be

superior-to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It

burns without odor. smoke or noise—

no pumpi .up,'is simple, clean. safe.

Burns 94 a air and 6% common

kerosene (coal oil).

The inventor in

lamp on 1. runs trhl, or even





 





. tion and at .a much less cost.





’ ments.

’ ordinary tumble switch set out from

- the wall.





4





slate. mos iii entrails a ma.





‘ ing 'prnétice".'it" will} be seen that it

-, must.~be' verygf'mgular and never‘ra‘il-

,- mg, This has led to the use of sev-





eral" automaticdevices being invented,





to turn the lights“ on and off. This is

, practical only where. electric lights





are available. ' Missy large plants use

a time switch." This is an instrument

designed" tagturnfthe‘ lights on and off

automatically. ,While the original cost





. is rather high it is doubtless a‘ good





investment on a large plant where

many birds are being kept. We have,

however. manysimple home-made» de-

vices which rank with equal satisfac-



These .

usually. Consist of alarm .clock attach-

Posmf’bly‘ the simplestis an





The alarm; clock is then

placed so the winding stem in turn-

ing throws the switch over. I have

seen several modifications of this same

idea but they are all relatively sim-

ple, inexpensive and reliable. Any one

who hes a mechanical turn of mind

and a genius for invention can easily

fix up a homemade dewice at a very

smu cost. ’





Early Breakfast or Late Supper.



Pooltrymcn are employing several

systems of illumination which might

be summarized as ioilows:



1. Morning light.





 





2. Evenins Mt.



3. Combination of morning

evening light.



4. Night lunch method. .



These possibly explain themselves.

Where morning light is used the lights

mturnedon about 4:00amand off

at daylight. This system has an ad-

vantage where electric lights are used;

No dimming device is required as is

necessary with evening lights. Feed

and water can be put in the pens the

night before and the attendant gets

away from late hours at work. This

system has a strong appeal to the

hired man whose interests in the

evenings are not in the chicken coop.



The evening light is often used

éwherc gasoline lanterns are used. The

lights are put in at dusk and allowed

to stay on until 8:30 or 9:00 p. m. A





and





. dimming device is necessary with this





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system in order to get the birds to

roost. With lanterns this is accom-

plished by gradually turning down the

light.



A combination. system is commonly

Used by farmers who make a practicc

of turning the lights on in the morn-

ing when going to do their chores,

and again in the evening.





The night. lunch system originated

.in. New Jersey and consists of allow-

ing the birds to go to roost as usual

and putting the lights on about 8:00

o’clock for an hour while the birds are

given a feed of scratch feed. This

‘system is most economical on fuel,

the lights being on but for a short

time.



It is considered that a. fourteen-hour

day is possibly the correct length of

lighting. We would not recommend

using lights in excess of that amount.



Feeding Birds Under Lights.



Birds under lights must be fed more

‘,than they otherwise would and must

be kept constantly busy. The birds

are in heavier production andflare ex-

posed to just as much severe weather.

The grain ration should be increased.

Fourteen pounds of grain per day to

each 100 hens would not be too much.

This should be given in four feeds.

The common practice where morning

lights are being used is to feed the

night before for morning. Grain is

fed again at 8:00 o’clock, right after





dinner, and again before the birds go





to roost. The last feeding should be

the heaviest, with a liberal feeding in,

the morning. .If thebrids do not con-

sume largeamounts of grain they are





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neg-1995.1 '





'visable' to increase the corn content





ten per cent to aid in maintaining

body weight. The common practice

where evening lunch is being used is

forced three times a day on grain. In

the morning about three pounds; at

noon about two pounds, and at dusk

about three pounds per 100 birds.

Then when the lights are turned on a

feeding of about six pounds.





In addition to the above methods,

care must be taken to keep a supply

of clean water before the birds at all

times. This is sometimes difficult in

mornings when the water freezes over

night. If there is snow on the ground

dump the water in the evening and

fill the dishes with snow. This will

give very good results until water can

be supplied a little later in the morn-

ing. Do not neglect the green feed

and oyster shell.





Lights in Spring.





Many persons using lights have had

an unhappy ending to a productive

winter by turning the lights off too

suddenly in the spring. Any sudden

change must be avoided and we usu-

ally take from two to three weeks to

complete the change, cutting them

down gradually a few minutes each

day. This should be done about April

15. We plan on having the lights off

by May 1,. The early and late feeding

must be continued even after the

lights are turned off.



Pullets on range will be well round-

ed up this month and should be ready

to go into business by November 1.

When bringing them in grade them as

to size and age. Some of the later

hatched pullets will do much better in

a pen by themselves. The old hens

should be kept separate and allowed

to go through the moult normally and

regain some surplus fleshing. They

can then safely be subjected to lights

about January 1 and will respond

very well.





RETAILlNG EGGS.





OUL'J‘RYMEN who sell strictly



fresh eggs to private customers

certainly earn the retail price per doz-

en that the stores are charging. Some—

times the price can be higher. But

some city customers expect wholesale

prices on small orders and may not

consider the extra time involved in

making small sales. When the entire

production of a. week can be sold in

one lot at a certain price, the price

must be higher to pay for selling the

same number of eggs divided into

small orders—G.





GETTING NOVEMBER EGGS.





ROPERLY matured pallets are the



cash producers in November. The

birds of that type are the result of

six or eight months of steady work.

They are not produced in a. few weeks.

If your pellets are not ready for pro-

duction now you can profit by the ex-

perience next spring. Remember that

early hatching and plenty of feed are

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Dear Uncle Frank: . 7 '



I have been reading “the. Michigan

Farmer for the last few months, and

decided that I would like to join the

Merry Circle. ’



My sister is teaching our school.

She ought to write on, “What I Fear

Most.” The boys bring in snakes and

mice to frighten hen—Wayne Van

Camp, R. 2, Rapid City, Mich. .



I am glad you want to join us. Tell

your sister that the most dangerous

snakes are the kind men get when

the drink firewater. “Hooch” has

killed and injured more 'people than

all the snakes in the world.





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Dear Uncle Frank:



This makes the fourth or fifth time

I have written and I haven’t seen any

of them in print. The Waste Basket

must know me by this time.



I have received a membership card

and a button and a map and I cannot

thank you enough for them, UnCle

Frank.



One letter I was very sorry that it

, couldn’t be in print. It was the one





 





 





 





 





telling about our-club picnic on the

island in Ann Arbor. I had my cam-





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Siiberman

F " “5 Grades Fairest

Pays Best Prices

Are Worth

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direct with headquarters.

have sentail their furs to us for years.

like the following come right along.

of our square deal methods:

"Am sendin furs b ex ress. Kee me ed on

market. Huge sbi pin t2 you for 18pyesrmd al-

ways best es."

. H. SI KENSTRICKER, Delaware, Ohio.

"Returns received toda . Have dealt with Silber-

man {or many rs. ways found

Only Wish I eou d t more furs to sen





JOSEPH to You.





ASCNACH, Fowler. Indiana.





era there but I failed to get your pic-





 





 





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‘ her leg brokenby a car whenshe was

coming home from schodl. She is at

Alma now. We expect to' bring her



home about the middle of this week,



if we can. '





I sure do receive lots" of advertise-

ments now days. If would like to know

how they found my name. And some

new friends also. ‘ ‘ . .3 :7

. I. think the club is all right just as

it IS, for now anyway. I also think--





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Dear. Uncle Frank: ., ~ : j . 1".-



I think; this is the fourthg'letteril,

have written. 5- I hope this ‘Oneémjfi'iles

interesting enough not togo'f'as'the

others did, to the Waste Paper Basket



I ama girlten ears oldiand'in-t-he

seventh grade. ur school received

$8.90 prize money for dravfin'gsvsentio

the Allegan County Fair,.,}"-‘ , "5F 5

i 'We. alsoWhad akbozrI s’oéialé't 2‘ Hal-

'owe’en. ./ e spo e=p e‘o’es andfbed a.



dialogue. We got $12.75-i’or; the boxes.



Our money will :buy a.book case and



some other /needed things" for the



school. ' ' "



, Let Uncle Frank be manager. I den’t

- see how it would beqeflt’ihe Merry

' Circle to elect officers; tbeing thatit





 





L is such a wide circle. . :‘





May I suggest thatwé have a con?





0 test for tongue-twisters, such as: What





sort of a noise annoys an oyster? VA



noisy noise annoys an oyster. ‘

Iioping to get'a _ prize, Doris Mo.-



Bride, M. 0., Hopkins, Mich, R. .1.





Your school activities are interest

It would .be nice to hear from

others on school entertainments. You

are doing well to hem the seventh

grade at ten years of age. Thanks for





your tongue twister suggestion.





 





 

 

 





MONEY





Ship every pelt to Silhermsr-fur buyers for 57

years—and get every cent your sbigament is worth.

Deal any shippers

Letters

Here’s proof





‘ S.SILBERMZIN





1117 W. 35th St. Dept. 814 Chicago. III.





M. 0., Chelsea, Mich.





 





up the picnic.

don’t you?





I like Island. Park





Dear Uncle Frank:





go where the other

you? I received my

and Merry Circle pin.





ODCS





ganize a debating club?





niece, Rose Lieber, M. C.,W'hittemore,

Mich, R. _1.





Your suggestion is a good one. Now,

will someone suggest a subject to de-





 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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allow the successful shippers—send your

furs to Trangott Schmidt & Sons. Detroit.

Let us send you "Successful Trapping”—

a valuable book that tells how to set furs

and bow to sell them for most money. Also.

dependable price-list, market news and

shipping tats. ALL FREE.

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I give the campers useful instructions.

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Dear Uncle Frank:



I received my pin and membership

card some time ago, but have been so

busy lately, and my sister, age six, got





Washtcnaw





HE third year of the Washtenaw

County Boys’ and Girls’ Club

Camp was the most successful,

127 boys, girls and leaders attending.

This is the only exclusive County Club

Camp in the state 01‘ Michigan and is

entirely self-supporting.

The aim of those in charge is to





 





A. L. Watt, Washtenaw Club Leader,.

Apparently Takes Camp Life Ser-_

iously, While Miss Elda, Robb, Aa- '

aistant State Club Leader, Seems to

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ture, but just the same I have seen

you—Another niece, Florence Laird,





I, too, am sorry that I did not have

room for that Island Park letter. I—Iow-

ever, you probably saw that I wrote





Say. Uncle, you won’t let this letter

went, will

membership card





Say, Uncle Frank, why don’t we or-

lt would be





fun to debate on other things than

bobbed hair and knickers—From your





. fire entertainment.





The“ boys occupied the camp ~froni«;'Ewst .Lansingf'andgotliensr '





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Theodora Poole,

school girl of Lansing,

first prize in the Second National

Safety Essay Contest against 400,000

other school children. She gets a gold





medal and a





igan, schools.





thirteen-year-old

Michigan, won





free trip to Washington.

Her essay was written when she was

a student in one of the Pontiac, Mich-





Dear Uncle Frank and Circlers:





While the voting question is on hand

I want to give my opinion of it. I

_ “Merry Circle Club” is all

‘right the way it is now, rather t n

have other officers scattered throng -





think the





out the state.





I think the Correspondence Scram-

nicer if it was divided

according to age.

One up to twelve years and the other





ble would be

into two groups,





over twelve.

I received a letter





heard from one nearer my age.

lieve others feel the same way.





“Group Two,” you could





 





tell to which bunch it belonged. _





 





the neighbor M. C.’s





know .of.—--Yours respectfully,

Howd, M. C., Breckenridge, Mich.





There are other M. C.’s in your

neighborhood. We can give you their

I wonder if

others are also receiving advertise-





names if you wish them.





Club Camp

July 30 to August 4, and the girls dur-

ing the week of August 6.



Through the kindness of Mr. L. Rei-

man, in charge of the U. of M. Fresh

Air Camp, Mr. Lockwood, naturalist,

and an Indian chief and Wife spent a

day at camp and entertained at camp

fire. .,



A senior scout from Ann Arbor

spent the week at camp and assisted

in instruction, first aid, rope splicing,

knot tying, etc. '



Mr. V. 0. Nelson, Secretary of'the

Y. M. C. A., gave excellent instruction

in swimming and resustication.



Dairy extension specialists took up

milk testing, judging, fitting and show-

ing calves.



Professor Bartlett, head of the U. of

M. Botanical Department came out for

a day each week and gave intensely





interesting talks on his subject and





travels. .



During the girls’ week, Miss Elda

Robb, assistant state club leader, took

up basket weaving, making artificial

flowers, sewing, canning, judging and

games. ’ ‘ . . .



The evenings were spent in camp

Talks were given

by Dr. .G. G. Alway. of Ann Arbor;





Professor. Dartlett, .U. of Mg; Profes-

sdnrordasdfi Dr. :Pit‘xhiénu‘Siate Nor-V

inal College;v- Mr. 'L. 'Ifeinian. iUniver~ . ,

' it'y‘ Y"; in: C.;A’3fi‘M1§s.-' non tockinan ‘





 





would be all

right, but there are no other M. C.’s



where I live, to have. parties, tlgttg

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l Bet Mary Stroud, of Chassell, is a

Regular Outdoors Girl.

ture.





I think the contests, scrambles, etc.,

are much fun.——Your niece, Florence

Nelson, M. C., LeRoy, Mich., R. 1.





Your suggestion regarding

scramble is a good one.

in our next Scramble.





the

I will use it





 





Dear, Uncle Frank:



I' think this club should be left just

as it is. I’ll side with Rex Ellis for

that, you bet. " , ,



I think Martin Lerg’s suggestion to .

collect a sum of money from Merry

.Circlers and sending it to the poor

starving children, is good. ‘ .



We, my mother and grandmother,

are sendin clothes to Poland to my

great gran mother, because they Can’t

get the things they want, even if' they

have the money to get it. - . . 7



There. are a-lot of ‘geople we «can.

help if wejust get rigt down to,__it.‘

It is our duty'and we ought to do it.



, Uncle. Frank, would you havepthls

printed, as I wouldliketo hear from

others who if

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from a girl nine

years _old, and would much rather have





Ibe-





If, on the outside of the outer en-

velope was written, “Group One,” or





more easily





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: By lda Gryderman, East Tainae, Mich.





Midnight! The three girl occupy-





H" in'g llghtéhousekeeping rooms at Wid-





ow ,Mth’s awakened as one. Breath-

leisly they liStened; alarm changing





' to terror as they recognized sounds of





a struggle below stairs.

“Burglars,” shuddered Martha.





in last and I'locked every door. O-oh!”

Another crash and a .cry of “Help”

drowned her words,





“Mrs. smith is being murdered," an— .





nounced kene, getting resolutely out

of bed, “We’ve got to stop it.”



After muCh coaxingthe others fol-

lowed- and the three tiptoed down the

stairs in eerie silence. The lower

rooms were undisturbed.



“The basement," said Irene sudden-





ly, "come."





She switched on the. cellar stairway

light and recalled in horror. At the

foot of the stairs was, apparently, a

pool of blood, and a gasping sound

could be heard in the cellar. With one

accord the girls ran, unlocked the door

and scurried outside.





Irene recovered first and walked





courageously toward the house, say-





~ ing,‘ “Girls, we must find out.”





This time silence reigned in the cel—

1111-. The girls had mustered courage

to descend one step cellarward when

'the kitchen door burst Open and Mrs.

Smith flopped her many pounds down

on the kitchen floor.



“Lucile,” she’gasped, “You locked

me out and I tried (gasp) to get in





T the cellar window (gasp) and I stuck.”





“But the bltmd,” shouted: the girls,

pointing, “What—”'



“Wei, if I didn’t spill that whole can

of red paint When I was threshing

around trying to get loose 0’ that win-

dow. ~Wal, ain’t that a shame!”





ERlC, THE ERRING 'ERO.





 





By Rex Ellis, M. c., Reed City, Mich.



It was late afternoon. -The sun

was slowly sinking below the western

horizon.



Sir Eric 'Melinffok sat placidly puff-

ing away at his old briar, wondering

at the monotony of'the hour. Nothing

ever seemed to happen to change the

daily routine of this “one time” royal.

personage. Life held but little inter-

est for Sir Eric, save, on the eve of

his departure for the “unknown,” he

had pledged his undying love to Anna,

the beautiful daughter of 'old .Fedot‘.

Talmasofi‘; She had promised to await

his return.



Two years had passed since he

came to this little Mexican border

town for his health.



Just yesterday he had received a

summons from a friend, bidding him

to 'join them in a. week-end frolic at

their Long Island summer home.



Languidly lifting 'his pen from the





Jack, he scribbled a short but firm





refusal.



But suddenly new life seemed to

spring into his being as he thought of

Anna. “Why not?” he asked himself.

No sooner thought, than, seizinghis

pen. thesecond time he wrote her of

his sudden plan to return.



Glancing at his watch, he saw he





‘just had time to mail it before the





ofl‘ice closed.

Hurriedly addressingan envelope he

snatches thek missive he had written





, to his .“one and only,” ,(or thought he





did), and quickly saddling his pinto,

he sealed it as. he galloped’ away.

Time has passed and we find our





‘ friend mountingthe steps of a house.





Aft-er ringing the door hell, he is





shown info a; wellslighted hall. "\Standa R 1

. ing there, he feels at a loss, wonder-g R 6





mg what 'is‘ wrong, that he seems un-'





hat is this lovely vision of

descending the stairway?





“It ‘

can’t be,” chattered Lucile, “I came





 





’ saw the man she had given her prom-





ise. But instead of smiling and rush-

ing into his smile, she. receded and

clasping her hands to her throat she

cries, “How dare you?"



Staggered for a moment, Sir Eric

stares at the beautiful form he had

expected to clasp'in his arms. “Anna,”

he finally said, “didn’t you get my

letter?” ,



“Yes,” she hysterically screamed,

“and here it is, with the ring I have

.so long cherished.” So saying, she

threw them at his feet.



Gazing at the missive that lay face





-W—_~—. . .





 





C arrerpona’eizce





Scramé/e





HE Scrambles are still en-

joyed, so we'll have another

this time.



This Scramble will be the

same as the others, except that

we will make use of the sugges-

tion sent in the other day. We

are dividing the letters into two

divisions, A and B. The A divi-

sion will be for those under

twelve years of age, and the B

section will be for those from

twelve to eighteen.



Please don’t forget to enclose

with your letter to your un- .

known friend an envelope on

which you have a stamp and

your name and address.



The envelope in which you



enclose these should be address-

ed to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. In

the lower left hand corner of en-

velope the words “Correspond-

ence Scramble,” with the letter

“A” or “B,” depending upon

..your age. The letters will be

scrambled November 3, so be

sure to get yourslin beforethat

,tim-e.





 





 





 





upward, he read What he had swiftly

scribbled in a refusal to the Long Is-

land frolic.



“I see my blunder now. Oh, my

darling, how can you ever forgive

me?” And he told her of his swift

decision to return, and how he had

not detected his mistake.



The missive read:



“Have changed my mind.

wait for me.”——Eric. ‘



Needless to 'say, they were ‘married'

and lived happily-ever after.





Do not





THE STORY WRITERS.





 





0 many girls and boys showed



story writing ability that it was

difficult for me to pick the winners.

Only one thing helped me a bit and

that was because so many confused

the telling of incidents and the giving

of descriptions as stories.

'Our old-time prize winners capture

the first prizes again. But they really

did.it on merit. Both of the stories

on this page are very close to good

story form. They have a plot and a

surprise at the end. So, .Ida Cryder—

man and Rex Ellis win flashlights.





The three who won fountain pens





are'

Gertlude Hoeve, Zeeland, Mich.

Alice McDonald, Long Rapids, Mich.

ROlpal L. Beilby, Centeiville, Mich.





Boxes of Candy

RJulia E. Hibbard, of Sturgis, Mich.





Zona L. Amos,- Owosso, Mich. R. 7. 1

Floyd Simons, Shelby, Mich” 1.

Lettie Gullickson, of Manton, MRich”





Bethe! Hallock, of Hastings, Mich,





Solomon Kuhn who has a job down '

is already considered one of .

jtheir leading citizens.





town,

He leads the

banker's cow

,gutilre imam: and back every night-*-

unshine H’ollowz-_ ~ ,





 





 





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HEN folks went to



bed with the chick-



cns, the old rooster was a



7 good enough alarm clock.



Electric lights, automo-



biles, radio, R. F. D., on—



courage folks to stay up past

the chickens’ bed time.



So Westclox got a job on



the farm. They call at





WESTERN CLOCK C0., LA





 





 





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Whatever time you set, and

time the household work

throughout the day.



Today progressive farm-

ers are just as particular to

see that the trade mark

Westclox is on the dial of

the clock or watch they buy

as to see their favorite mark

on an implement.





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Good“ or Bad. Bulls

'By A. C. Baltzer ' '





WHO knows the true value of-a. pure-bred bull?. Who can tell

accurately the damage and loss incurred by a scrub bull?





In the purchase of any standard commodity, for example, an au-





tomobile, a certain performance is expected and found. This is





not always true with dairy sires. When a. scrub bull and a pure-

‘in the milk-producing abil-





bred bull are compared, big variations





ity of their) offspring are found.





J. W. Hoffman, tester in the Arenac County Cow-Testing Asso-

ciation, has been active in promoting dairying. Recently he to«





taled his six months’ work. He found a member in his association

who had a cow with two daughters. One daughter was sired by

a. pure-bred bull, and another daughter, out of the same dam, was

sired by a scrub bull. All three cows were under the same feed





space taken by each animal, the





ens of other things involved; but

with twelve such cows.





 





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story.





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and ,care and freshened. at the same time.

for six months for the cow and her two daughters.





Returns



Above



Lbs. Lbs. Value Feed Feed



Milk. Fat. Product. Cost. Cost. '



Dam .................. 4548 147.9 $ 77.36 .$32.82 $44.54

Pure-bred bull daughter 5528 190.6 101.09 37.31 63.78

Scrub bull daughter. . . . 1224 58.4 28.84 23.33 5.31





The same amount of work involved, the same amount of





milk, and care for these cows——and just see the big difference. It

would take twelve cows—ax barn full of cows—to make the

returns above feed cost, namely, $63.78, the amount of returns

above feed cost made by the cow sired by the pure-bred bull. This

makes twelve times the barn space, the labor, the feed, and doz-





The scrub bull is the greatest single source of

loss—to all Michigan dairymen—not alone to a few dairymen in

Arenac county—but all daieren everywhere. The scrub bull and

the grade bull are the grindstone about the dairyman’s neck. Eve-

ry cow-tested, every C. T. A.~ member, every county agent and ex-

tension worker, every good farmer and dairyman should‘wage in-

cessant warfare in the battle with the grade and scrub bull.





cow-testing association. The feed and ration used,is not the whole

The sire used leaves a permanent imprint.

today is definitely going to stamp the profit—whether big or lit-





Here are the records





barn

same amount of time to feed,





same





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better production through the





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SOY BEANS MAKE GOOD DAIRY

FOOD.





OY—BEANS as a feed for dairy cat-



'tle are very much under-rated.

They may be used as a hay or forage,

or the bean may be harvested, ground

and fed to the dairy cow. Soy-beans

are very high in protein and fat, con-

taining thirty-six and eighteen per

cent respectively. As compared to cot—

icnseed meal, Soy-bean meal has been

found somewhat superior, pound for

pound, for milk production. Ground

soy-beans when fed with alfalfa hay,

silage, ground corn and oats, are





 





‘ worth one-third more than oil meal.





The protein of soy-beans is of high

quality. It is‘very efficient in promot—

ing growth. Vitamines A and B are

present in considerable quantities.

The high oil content of the beans

may cause the meal to heat and spoil

on standing. This can be overcome

by grinding a, small quantity at a time.

—-C. W. Hoffman, Dairy Department,

M. A. C.





 





T. B. CAMPA'IGN SUCCESS.





ASHTENAW county has just

completed their tuberculbsis ‘

campaign, during which 43,936 head

of cattle were tested and 1,059 react-

ors found. The total per cent of re-

actors for the-county was 2.4. Ypsi-

lanti township had the most-"reactors

at eight per cent. Several of the town;

ships went under one per Cent. In—





 





;fection seemed to be worse .‘around

‘ Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, whichgis the





principal dairy section. . _

Work in the county was, started’





about fourteen .monthsgagonynr. F.2W.





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of the work in the county. The eifi~

cient way in which he has handled the

work has met with the general ap-

proval of the live stock breeders of

the county.



Six townships have had two com-

plete tests. 0n the first testlin these

six townships the total number of cat-

tle tested were 8,980; 229 reactors

were found, or 2.5~ per cent. On the

second test in these same townships

7,826 cattle were tested and thirty~one

reactors found, which is .4 per cent.

These tests show that if the work is

continued infection can be greatly re-

duced, if not practically eliminated.



The board of supervisors at their

October session appropriated funds for

the secqnd drive which will take place

in September, 1924. Live stock breed-

ers of the county expect to reduce in-

fection below one-half of one per cent

so that VVashtenaw county can be-

come an accredited area.





FEEDS .CORN‘MEAL T0 COWS.





 





 





IT has been 'my experience that dur-

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cows is wasteful; yet, in the Winter

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include it in fairly liberal quantities.



The quantity to mix in the ration

depends»-upon' the roughage ration.

When I iced corn silage and clover or





L‘alfalfahhay, then I plan to. feed from





fourto five pounds of cornmeal in the





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’ > .- ,testing:assdciationshhav‘e'the ser-

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H 7 conceived investigation.





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. looked for in the good dairy cow.

.7 however. the heifer has inherited from

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' 'ing. One of them was well-fed, proC





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injuring heifers intdoin‘g. this, for if

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the" surplus fat soon after calving.

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1, Genesee No. .3, Shlawassee, Clinton-

Shiawassee.‘ Lapeer, Van Burch-North,

Kent-Alto, - Kent-West, Kalamazoo,

Ocarina," 'Gogebic,'

North, EatonaSouth, Kalkaska-Macki-





ingston No. 1. Newaygo, Ingham-

Lansing. ,

All herds in the following assOcia-'

tions are T. B. tested: Livingston No.

l, Livingston No. 2, Kent-Alto, Kent-1

Jackson-Grass "Lake, Jackson-



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wassee, Kalamazoo, Ontonagon,





Mason. . ’





HOW SHALL we FEED THE .

.HElFER CALVES?





 





S a superior or interior cow born

or grown? Answering this com-

mon question has calledfor a great

deal of investigation. and the matter





of aid to the 'dairyman who is looking

forward to getting a better foothold in

the game, and who is not satisfied to

just Stand still. Feed is supposed to

shoot size, type and production, and

though it would take a large book to





may contain the substance of the facts

thus far learned by careful and well





There is no doubt that a heifer fed

a heavy grain. ration will develop into

a larger cow- than one reared on

roughage alone; but the difference in

size is much more marked during theq

first few years and less so at maturity.

Experiments conducted in Missouri

showed the height at the withers of

an eighteen-mnths-old. heavy—fed

heifer. to be 3.5 inches more than for

the poorly fed one, while at maturity





instead of the angular conformation

If,:





production she will usually “milk 0 ”

this additional fat during her first

lactation period and ultimately devel.

op into as good a. producer as her

more scantily-fed mate.



A few years ago experiments were

conducted with twins, so ‘as to mini~

mize the chance of error due to breed-





ducing 11,392 pounds of milk, testing





lactation, and qualified for Record of





Performance; her sister was not well“





fed. . produced 3,767 pounds of milk

testing 4.45 during the first two perlw





ode, and could not, of course, qualify '





for Record of Performance. By ex-

periments conducted in various parts

of the United States it has been shown

that the milling tendency of} a cow,.

when matureris notinfluenced to any





variations in the'ration fed during the

growing period.





Under certain conditions, such as '





preparing pure—bred stock for sale or

exhibition, or when it is desirable to

increase size somewhat, it might pay

toffeed very heavily on grain, and it

must ‘be said that there is no fear of





course to follow will bean intermedi-

ate one, between the two extremes;

on very good pasture, no concentrate,

ind at other times, all the clover hay





roots when available, and a grain ai-

piowance- of from two to three pounds





 





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016 bull, grandson of Murne Rowan, out of mand

daughter of Spotswood Daisy Pearl, two former wo1ld

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GuernseYto 75 her cent breeding of Norman's

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Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale

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some A. R. Record May





Be Guernsey cows.

8 herd bull $100.





103080 breeding. $2. (300 for all;

John Ebels. Holland, Mich.. R. 2.





 





Registered Holsteins For Sale





Six or 8 Good Young Cows, soon to freshen.

Several Young Bulls of Excellent Breeding,

7 to 10 mos. of age, at Reasonable Prices.

$130 sell my Sr. Herd Sire, Traverse Echo Sylvia.

lug Apple No. 336126, 3%; yrs. old. Sire. Echo

Sylvie. King Model. the best proven son of Chem-

pion Echo Sylvia Pontiac. Dam, a Great 28—lb. 4-

yr.-old daughter of Admiral Colantha Walker. If

you want a Good Herd Sire come and see this Bull 7

and his daughters. Send for Pedigree. A Healthy

1!





Also

from

Would





 





scotch and ten bed cattle.

and beef. 33mm top 6111111: 11111121101111 and hell'-

ers. 5 cows with calves at side. Write for catalogue.





Melvin Glsynool and Leonard Meltox,’ ammo. Mich.

605301), 3 Sale Andy A 1113.





‘ Auctioneer.



S H O R T H 0 R N 8



Revolution Jr. 573988



ccredited herd



7. Now alluring 20111111111.” smith bull calves of

excegv tmionsl reasonnbl prio ode



BIDgV ELL STOO FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. Mich





Branch County F arm





Breeders of High— class Poiled Bhorthom Cattle. For

Sale, 6 fine bulls nearing service us. Also a few

cows and heifers. Quality and price will suit.

GEO. E. BURDICK. Mon. Goldwater, Michigan.

Registered Yearling Short-





FOR SALE ho orn Bull, Roan. Welfare





Breeding. Clair I. Brown. R. 10, Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 





Two Shorthorn Reg. females. 3 and

For sale 5. Fresh in December. Wm. J.





McCarthy, R. 2, Ada. Mich.





 





Wm'i‘ to buy 3 or 4 Brown Swiss cows. Must be

near fresh, and go od.quality Address G. J.

Goosin. R. B. 1. Washington. Mich.





 





011 SALE—Brown Swiss 19 Registered Cows

F and heifers, and 5 young bulls. priced for quick

T. H. Mlch.. R. 3.





sale Love. Howell.





 





On Cornwell Cattle Ranch

eleven miles north of Clare,

Mich., 700 YEARLING and

TWO-YEAR-OLD STEERS,

and HEIFERS, 500 BREED-

ING EWES. For particulars

write W.C. Cornwell, Saginaw

or Wade Cradit, Clare, Mich.





HOGS





VERY'S LARGE TYPE BERKSHIRES were shown



at 8 fairs in 1922 and 1923. and excelled all

others in size. type and quality: 15 years of con-

strur t1vc breeding tells the story. If you are looking

for bigger and better Berkshires. why not come to

where they are bred? W H. Every, Manchester.

Michigan.





DurocJerseys





Better material all the time. We are

breeding the greatest array of sows you

ever saw to Topmast Sensational, the

leading sire of the state. For two years we

have won Grand Champion sow at Mich-

igan State Fair. We will ofi'er a few

breeding privileges to Topmast Sensation

at Fifty Dollars each, you needagood

boar pig.



“As ye sow so shall ye reap"





LOEB FARMS





Virgil Davis. Supt. of Swine

Charlevoix, Mich.





 





 





 





 





end. I. w. Shomsn. Fowlervillc. Mich.





 





A young Holstein Bull nearly

For sale ready for service. A splendid in-

dividual. yen light in (olor. Sired by the great Bull

Maryland \iutuai (,‘olantha. whose dam is twice a

thirty- -pound <0w.11nd whose sire is by Colantha

Johanna Lad. who has 134 A. R. 0. Daughters. The

dam is a. twenty— six pound Jr. thrce- year old, who is

n Grend- daughter of King Segis Pontiac, the sire of





 





veloped in form; a. valuable. practical type.





DUROC JERSEYS





We are offering this fall 60 very fine Gilts of a

breeding that is valuable to the farmer who wants

to grow a. herd of hogs for the pork mrket.





This stock is especially long in body and well do—





Send for photographs and full





 





 





high— —priced sons. Whitney Bros... Onondaga. Mich. price of this Aexceptionel practical Btocdescrlption and

11111 PURE 11131101311111 m... m "m E ”“3 “WNW"-

also younger stock. 103 NorthA Rose Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

IguonAablleJ gicfild BLA‘llRO D RESEARCH FA A.B.M

ox or n to on etroit.

‘ ‘ and most complete herd of pure-bred

The Largest Duro1s Michigan must be sold.





record registered Holstein





A high

W Price Bull 2 years





From a. clean

herd 8100.





old.

inc. 0. Butler, Portland, Mich.





This is youi opportunity.in

We guarantee satisfaction





boars. sows andmss

"Everything immunized.

ich .





Michigana Farm. Pavilion,





 





F O R S A L E. Jersey bulls ready DUROC Spring boars sired by Brookwator

cows Register of Merit Accreditgdrh8m.Vice s :1 B cultiifsction 8th rammivgi’rmm and

ensa on by. rces reasons a. e us your



BTMI H AND PARKER BJ- Howe“ Midi. wants. Norris fitock Farm. Casnovie. Mich.





 





 





Registered Jersey





cattle. Tygeung bulls. for

J. L. CARTER.





rculln tested

aJeLaTlio Odessa. MiOh.





 





I Cows, 4 bulls from R. of M. (lows. Chance





DApril and May furrow,

herd boars. If you want size Jug” and quality comb

come and see or write us.





UROC JERSEYS Sprin 8‘“ pinsy either sex of March





three ontstandireigl

in

dt. Monroe. Micki!





 





to so] eotfrom herd of 70 Some fresh. others bred

lorfsll freshening Colon C. Lillie. Ooopersville.Mich.





 





FOR SALE 3,"





line stock. Cholera lmmdns. “Satisfaction guaranteed.





Husky Duroc Jersey

inbou-





s from large pro-





 





 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 





0 Jesse Bliuh A8011. Henderson, Mich

Registered Purebred Herefords

Produce Baby Beeves in the shortest UROC fall and spring been of the but breeding

possible time and in the most econom— D and quality. at prices to sell. Fall pm at bar-

icdl manner. They realize extreme top gain prices. W. C. Taylor. Milan. Mich

Drieessséais, $11511: 0139 hU::(1:llerf the

o m s sin 6 rom

arasé‘éness‘lsf‘ifimfizi ”1.23" “33‘ he; DUROO JERSEYS IIIII DELIIIIE IIEIIIIIIS

from 750 to 850 lbs. It is to “your CAR!“ 1). EDMONDS' E‘smn'lmh'

interest to investigate this system.





Repeater, Fairfax, Beau Donald

Breeding at practical prices for reis-

in: beef. Terms. Auction Sale 75 held. November

Id. 1923.111 St. Clair. Mich





 





 





F. B. 80



(Herefords since 1139")



Choice 11111;.me Cows 3with “calves, 1

some to freshen soon. 3.1





For Sale .01....“

Meat once to 0110.9. 3. Barkers, cm. Mich.





numb Hereford Breeders’ Association





roux-needs with outstanding. well bred





, words: either sexes, polled or horned

‘ble; cea. haul of. .- 1‘ IN .

u; Mana.ii:'w"“"





Duroc Fall Pi s :13,” “fig? my,“ 31°.





f

. . Chum 8' “my “mand' “M pure-breds and develop their flocks to

Wet‘cis-i’rriimn. Q. I. C" and Chester Whites meet their own farming codnitions.

Gilt: sired by Mich- 8% Fair Gr. Ohmpion ,do not do well together in the same

pasture, he says, has been exploded ‘-

by practical experience. and the dog

; evil is largely a. groundless 1111311on



in





“11:11.89” Fair Jr. 01131391031932 the common

sense type and price. ' '





ANDY ADAMS. , I

Méf‘fl'm Sufi!!! 50:58 from him





headlorbothmilk'





who sometimes

downtrodden, will go abroad they will

find that they are much better off than

wool growers of England and other

countries, says Mr. Willingmyre. They

will come back looking upon their

own country as a heaven blessed land

favored above all Others in advantages

possessed by the farmer and wool

grower.





 





 





SUPPLY PIG PENS WITH GUARD

RAILS.





 





RECORDS from twenty farms on

which hogs are a. major crop show

that the protection afforded young

pigs is a. real factor in determining

the margin of profit upon a hog farm.

On these farms 484 of the 1,532 pigs

born, were lost before weaning The

farmers who lost heavily of the yOung

pig crop, usually found the income

from sales of hogs less than expenses.

On the other hand those who saved

a large percentage of the pigs, were

the farmers who made a profit.

Of the losses mentioned, forty-six

per cent was due alone to over-laying

by the sows. Probably one-half .of this





. loss could be saved by supplying ade





quate guard railsin the pens. This

inexpensive equipment might well

mean all the difierence between profit

and loss to the average bog raiser.





 





URGES‘THE KEEPING OF MORE

SHEEP.





HE farmers. and more especially

the wool growers, do not appreci-

ate What the wool growers of Eng—

land, South Africa, Australia and oth—

growing countries are up





er wool





large number of dogs are kept

thinks the dairy farmer would have

cleaner, better pastures and increaée

his income by keeping a few sheep.

Speaking of the recent eitportations

of wool from this country to England,





Mr. Willingmyre 93173 that these Wools '





being exported are prindipdlly 10w-





grede, coarse foreign wools, which are -





being re-shippecl. 1.11119 domestic wool

is being exported to England or any.

‘ other country.





 





. VISIT KINCl-I i'FAnms.





 





AWAY up at the tip of the Thumb,



where the waters of Saginaw Bay

spread out into old Lake Huron. lives

Frank Kinch with his very capable

Wife and a wonderful family of daugh-

tors.



The Kinch farms are- among the

oldest in that rich section. They are

well stocked with high-class live stock

of several breeds, and equipped with

substantial buildings.



The farm is one of the largest in

Huron county, comprising approxi-

mately 1,400 acres. The largest barn

in the county is on this farm,, and a.

very large, fine house with modern

improvements provides a comfortable

home for the family and, situated on





 





 





again-st, says George T. Willingmyre,

in charge of wool investigation in the

Federal

who recently returned from a. visit to

the wool producing sections of the

British Isles.

would be beneficial to the wool grow-

ers in this country to investigate and

study conditions of their industry in

other countries.





.Department of Agriculture,





'He believes that, it





If wool growers in the United States

feel that they are





He thinks that conditions here would.





warrant the starting ofanother cam-

paign to immerse the production of

wool and mutton in this country, es-

pecially on eastern farm's.

vises farmers to start with a. few

sheep. they need not be pure-breds.

After theyrhave learned how to care





' 'He ad-





or their grades they can‘work into





 





921.1nd bred for March and April lorrow to





radon Mich.





 

 

 





.GW 3





 





 





The old idea that sheep and cows”





.1an





 





 

 





 





Besides Being the Court of Last Resort in the Exhibits 0‘! Fat Stock, The

International will Display a Great Exhibit of Grains and I-Iay‘.





the high banks directly above the

rocky flats along the shore, commands

a delightful View of old Lake Huron.



Mr. Kinch does a, rather excellent

job of general farming, and practices





vwhat he advocates in the use of the





best of seeds. His long suit, however,

is sheep, of which he keeps as high as

a thousand head at times. Many of

these are pure- -bred and registered and

carry an abundance of Quality. His

winnings at several of the fairs this,

fall, both in the various sheep classes

and in the swine departments—their

swine herd consists largely of Tam-

worths—have been flattering, indeed.



The Kinches are outstanding leaders

in their cemmunity and naturally are





'the first to attempt the establishment





of the annual pure-bred stock sale, as

a method of reducing their everhin:

creasing herds and 1106113 to proper

proportions. They are not only con-

sidering their Own convenience in this

respect, but are looking forward to

the time when their community may

be headquarters for earload lots of





top-notch pdrebreds that the ranges





of the southwest demand.

Their recent sheep sale was a. start

er in this direction. These are not





n times When agricdiuire, or anything

connected therewith, is marked by,

great enthusiasm, 1111‘ till .silrd 1113108

was no; exception. VN ‘ "





 





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Vom'qe'





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ammo;





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. . a

. on _

. gang‘- Breeds!“ Herd





 

 

 

 





 

 

 





I ‘ , ' ates , 33.



lbs. 5 time. 33,3 lbs. salt and

, 0.1 {unlebouisedmcaicmf A 100 percent unner‘ al

iced without





or . .

Writefort’ree' ’et‘guinernlsforFarmAni-

m .





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,

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Chester Whites Fall mg, 81..., by “The





Pilot." 2nd prize senior

pig Mir-h. State Fair. ‘23. Measuring 62 inches long,

33 inches high at 11 mos.





Special offer to Mich.

buyers during Nov. Write Clare V. German. Snover,

Mich.





' - 10 to $15 each. C. 0.



Chad” White ROMS l). on approval. Guar-



anteed. W. H. Bentley. Lcnox, Mich. ,



' Service hours at attractive



Chester White miccs, also fall pigs. F. W.

Alexander, Vassar. Mich.





I Marh boars, and Sept. Digs. Bired'by Giant

0J3 soBoyf Senior Champion at West Mich. State





 





Fair. 1923. Milo H. Peterson. Ionia. R. 2. Mich.

Bl Type. Will sell cheap. Spring Dist

0. l. c. skid by Lenglity Monster. Wt. 665 lbs.





at 16 mo. 8 days old. We bred ‘snd showed more

first prize winmrs at Mich. finite Fair this ren- than

any two bréedcrs in state. Newman‘s stock Farm.





Mariette. Mich.

n boars of prize .

O. I. C. 3"" ‘ 5mm c. o. n. a





blood.

free, I. W. Howell. Ovid. Mil-h.





O. I. C’s.





Monroe. Mich.



0 1 C ’ 75 Sarina Digs. pairs not akin, from

' ° ‘ S 3 good sires. also fall pigs. recorded



free. Otto Schulze & Sons. Nashville, Mich.





ins

Reg.





25 choice young hours for fall

service Clover Lea! Stock Farm.





a





 





' ’ 0. l. C. Service Boars and Bred

Registered Gilts. Also a few tried eows. due

$0051, {pug Beagle hounds—Joseph R. Vsnetten. Clif-

Ol‘ . A it! .





 





EC. 0. I. C. Yearling Boar's. Extra Yearling and

Spring save. Satisfaction or no Pay.





on approval.



0 I -C Choice young boars for tall service

' and Red l’olled bulls. Jacob Bel-nor



8: Sons. Grand. Ledge, Mich.





0 I Cfsa few good spring boars

‘ ' prices. Registered free.

guaranteed. Lee E. Gale. Morons.





 





 





at farmers'

Satisfaction

M irhigan.





 





L ARGE Type Poland China Spring Boers. Sired by

Hove” Liberator 4th, prim age boar at Detroit.

and auto! Gertsdaie Lady 5m. Fifth prise age sow

at Detroit and champion sow .st Saginaw. Fall pigs

not. skin. Writemrprlces. Dorus Hover, Akron-Mich.





 





PC 50 head choice Bonn and Guts, Sir-ed by .a

. - son World Champion Big Bob. Peter s. Pan

son 1,075 Peter Pan and Model Ciansman. C. E

Gamant, Eaton. Rapids, Mich.





at half price. Big Type ’Poiand

BOARS China. The kind that pay a profit

or; high-prices?) laid. Our 318511;} the Pig Club. gained

. in ya on s. of i . .

Butler. Portland. Mich. gran. Jno C





WESLEY .HlLE

P0 LAN DS





For Sale—30 gilt. and com: 10 o boars.

Includes Nos. 1-2-3-4-8 & 9 of air SSa‘ltr‘ofi’ering

of Oct. 17. {‘6 head Were cataloged but darkness

caught us With but 33 head sold. They averaged

“9.65% very satisfaq hie. Ruther- than put

‘on another sale at tins time we are selling at pri-

vute ts'sat)’. » » '



Will sell ‘8 _- of our choice. young herd sows with

breeding pmlege to Emandpmor 2d or our Liber-

sbor boar. Includes both Glover sows. Buster

Maid 'und the Reserve Grand Champion Sow at

Detroit 1922. Some fine boar omspects for sale:

priced at $20 up. Every Animal Immuned and





Guaranteed n Breeder.

Ionia. Mich.





'Wesl’ey Hile,





Old Fashioned





 





 





 





Spotted Poland Urinals





“The Hog of the Hour-The Feeder’s Type”





Prize‘wnners of hoth'sexes {or sale.





"sEng Baook rm, Three Oaks, Mich.

Spotted Poland China:





Michigan‘s Ls ord-sflub M

.' Premier chain's Eihlbltor's “bird.





 





newsflash-magma:





 

 





 

 





' ' it private

Foxy Clans:





' on.





in

Fred W. Kennedy, B. 2, Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





 





“cssnum‘n BY on. w. drum





Advice through this cote-in in given flee taper suburb-

Letwro should state fully use history and symptoms 0!

pooh ascend (in. ”enamel the writer. Initials

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

unwise becomes private practice and 81 must be enclosed.





   





 





 





Abnormal Foot—My twelve-month-

old sow has litter of pigs five weeks

old; one of her claws seems to have

grown too fast and turned up, making

it almost impossible for her to walk-

She is down most of the time. J. S.,

Caro, Mich.-—Doubtless the surplus





”horn should be cut off, then she could





better handle the foot. If she has

partial loss of power, this may come

from lack of exercise, or result of

eating too much corn. and not enough

exercise. Mix equal parts of crushed

limestone, salt together and give her

some in feed twice a. day. Feud less

corn, more oats, bran, middlings and

green feed.



Sows Fail to Come in Heat—Have

three nice sows which had pigs last

April; since then none of them have

come in heat. W. B., Baroda, Mich.—

Give vetol three times a day. Keep

the sows warm and feed plenty of

grain to stimulate them.



l'ndigestion.~—Wh-at can be done for

calf that bloats nearly ever‘ time I

feed it milk? Calf is three months

old, is fed some oats. J. H. D., White

Cloud, Mich—Add a teaspooufui of bi-

carbonate of soda to its milk each

feed, and heat the milk to body tem-

perature. It is perhaps needless for

me to remind you of the importance

of using clean feeding utensils.





Breeding and Feeding Questions.—

How old should.a. sow be before she

is bred? What is the gestation period

for swine? Can I afford to buy all the

feed and fatten three pigs during the

winter? Also, will it pay to buy feed

for sixty hens? We work no land.

Should pigs seven weeks old be taken

away from their mother? L. P., Onon-

daga, Mich—A sow should be from

eight to twelve months old before

they are bred. The duration of preg-

nancy is seventeen weeks. You can

buy pork for less than you can pro-

duce it on a small scale. By good

management you might perhaps keep

chickens without loss, but unless you

have had some experience you had

better leave it alone. Pigs are usually

weaned when six or eight weeks old.





 





 





HOGS





by Michigan Liberator. a Son of Liberator. the

King of Sires; and Giant John. a grout son of the

noted Checkers. Goo. F. Aldrich, R. U, Ionia. Mir-ii.





P I d; lIolsteins—March boars and sows. 1 crack

can 9 yearling boar. Bull calms 1 to 6 mos.

old. Chas. Metz, Ewart. Michigan.





HAMPSHIRE SPRING BOAR





Here's a real smooth. growthy and well-marked boar

by the Cyclone. Will soil reasonable. Ed. Faulman,

B. 7. Mt. Clemens. Mich.





 





AROE TYPE POLANDS-Boars and Gilts. sired





every COW.





1: l w





n





The PrOfit from’





You do not expect bumper crops from your

fields without fertilizing und extensive cul-

tivation. Why, then. expect a maximum milk

yield from your'cows unless you keep their

milk-making organs in top-notch health?

The hard-worked milk-producing functions of

the cow, need frequent aid to keep up a full

flow and retain the stamina to resist disease.





Kow-Kare has such positive action on the

digestive and genital organs that its benefit

is soon shown in the milk yield. Thousands

of successful dairymen are

regularly about one week in éach month for

Especially during the winter

months it' aside in keeping up a full yield

from dry rough feeds.





now using it





Dairy authorities say that the average

dairy can double the net profit if measures

can be found to increase the milk 10%. Kow-

Knre is a regular part of the feeding course

in thousands of dairies where surprising in-

creases in milk yield are being accomplished.





Row-Kare, of course. ls primarily a cow

medicine. It increases milk flow only because

it builds up the same set of organs that must

be reached when cow diseases are being treat-





ll 5 or e9





Your Cows I





ed.

Retained Alterbirth. Scouts. Bunches, Milk

Fever, Last Appetite can be successfully

eliminated by Kow-Kare because it restores

health to the genital and digestive organs.





There is a definite profit advantage for

every user. of Kow—Kure. Cow heulth and

big milk yields are inseparable. Our free

book, "The Home Cow Doctor," is yours for

the asking. It tells the various uses of Kow-‘

Kare, wrth which every cow owner should be

familiar. ' -

Feed Mammal-ll

stores and d 'Itl

sell Kow-XAreWJS

and 66c sizes. if deal-

er is not I plied,

order direct. “5w?

903383.





Q my , LL

nun Assocumos WKARE





CO.. INC.

Lyndonville, Vt. .





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Such troubles u Barr-anneal, Abortion.





 





Dr





Losing Their Calves

~ From Abortion! .





You Can Stop Them Yourself

AT SMALL COST .





Ask for FREE copy of “The Cattle





Specialist,





questions





any; n; 3:; L .7;





" our cattle paper. Answers all

asked during the past thirty years





about abortion in cows. Also let us tell you how to get the “Practical ,

Home Veterinarian”. a Live Stock Doctor Book, without cost.Veterinary ‘f

advice FREE. Write tonight. .

David Roberts Veterinary (10., Inc., 1536mm] Ave., Waulresha,





_ _r-- I ~ r a 3.. -

- :_/— -‘- 1.,»— -.,_I.





A postal will do.





 





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Auction ear,





COL. PERRY.





 





4 mi. N. of N. Brag





olumbus, Ohio





For Catalog, Write M. A. ’Sams,





Under Cover Rain or Shine.

SALE STARTS AT 12 O'CLOCK. CENTRAL STANDARD TIME



This stock consists mostly of young cows, fresh or soon to freshen—among them

a 27 lb. J., 3 years old; a 27 lb. 5-yr.old; a 23 lb. In, 3-yr-old;16.75 lb. yearling;

a 16.55 lb. 2-yr-old;onc aged cow, dam of State Clmmpion in year record for 4-yr-

olds; one 5 months old bull, sired by AVON PONTIAC ECHO LAD, dam a

946—lb. year record cow; one 30 lb. prize winning 4-yi'-old bull—won Swgcpstakes

wherever shown; one 31.86 lb. bull; one bull 3 years old, whose dam has 810 lb.

year record at two years old. ’





Ass’t Auctioneer,

R. R. PATTERSON,

N. Bradley,





DISPERSAL SALE





'HOLSTEIN-FREISIAN CATTLE

60 Head of Pure Breds—T. B. Tested





SIMS d. HIGH HERD: and Consignment by H. J. Bouih ll Flowater Farm





Icy, Midland C0,, Mich.

mi. S. of Beaver-ton.





5 mi. E. and 1 mi. N. of Coleman, Mich-





All Roads are Good Gravel





WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5,1923





Free Lunch Before the Sale.





Pedigree Reader

F. G. JOHNSON,

Columbus, Ohio.





R. F. D. 4, Coleman, Mich.





Mich.





 





 





 





F ' ft ilampshire Hogs. for sale at bargain

l y rices. All sorts. from a two-year—old

boar. peer to any of the breed. to pigs six weeks old.

All registered or eligible. Best blood lines. thrifty

condition, perfect belts. Montgomery Company. Col-

oola. Michigan.





 





. ‘ spring Boars and Gilts. and fall pigs.

HMPSIINCS Pairs not akain; 11th year. 150 to

select from. John W. Snyder, St. Johns, Mich., R. 4.





SHEEP-

OXFORDS For the best. Write Wm. Van





Sickle. Dockervilie, Mich.,

'Rams and Ewes.





For Sale Oxford Rams & Ewes





good quality. Geo. '1‘. Abbott», Palms, Mich.





Registered Hampshire Hams





 





and ewes. Size. type.

quality and good





 





breeding. W. W. CASLER. OVID, MICH.

Cotswolds, Lincolns and Tun-

Sheep For Sale is Rams. Lambs. Ewes. L. R.





Kuney, Adrian, Mich.





Shropshire Rams For Sale





W. E. Morris): Flint, Mich. R. E





 





NE of the finest Delalne stock rams in Ohio.

Large size. heavy shearer, Also yearlings. Writs

Sanders, R. D. 2, Ashtabula. Ohio.





0





8. H.





 





E w E S For sale in car lots. 2 yrs. old.

to solid mouths, mostly black

laced. In good condition. B. CHAPMAN &





SON. So. Bockwood, Mich. 'Phono Newport.





 





’ ' A few rams and owes oi’ Buttar

ShYOPShu'es and Senptar Bibby blood lines.

C. J. Thompson, Roekford. Mich.



-Yearllng ram with quality. and





SITTOPSDII‘CS ewes of various ages. Write your

wants. _W. B. McQuiilan. Howell. Mich.





 





 





Shropshire Rams and Ewes

write or call on Dan Booher. IR. 4. Evert. Mich





Sonic fine mares in tool

we 0“" Fm' by our Grand Champion

Stallion. "Garibaldi." N0 better 'Belfllll DI'Q’H: Horses

embelomdiuthemrldmsnwears scaring. If





 





 





   

 





 





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and others.





time.





 





Auctioneer Col. W





any herd in the state.

buy a hog you cannot fat.

Andy Adams, Litchfield, Auctioneer.

represented at the sale.





W. E. LIVINGSTON,

CLARK & RINGQUIST, ADRIAN, MICHIGAN “T





SPOTTED POLAND





afflo





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Se





ml fills to either In our are at Adrian.





or 5 tri





“When Better Poland China: Are Raimi Limingxton Will Rails T/Jem"





- PUBLIC SALE





of the Real Big Type P. C.





at my farm 4 miles northeast of Parma, nine miles northwest of Jackson





Nov. 23, 1923 Rain or Shine





Sale will be held under Cover.





Consisting of 30 Spring and Fall Gilts and 6 Spring Boars.

Wolverine 471763, B’s Clansman (Grand Champion Mich. State Fair,

M. & VV.’s Orange, Alask, Better known as Daddy Long Legs, Black Buster



. These Boars are all Prize Winners and sire of Prize Winners:

ThlS herd has produced more Prize Winners and Grand Champions than

Extreme size and quality has been my motto. Don’t

Hot lunch 11:30. Sale starts 12:30 sharp. Be on





Gravel roads from both Panna & Jackson





Six-ca by the





1921),





The Michigan Farmer will be





PARMA, MICHIGAN





WILL SELL





CHINA BOARS & curs '

_* Saturday, November 24, 1923 at '1 P. M.





’ I At Farm 3 Mlle. North of Adrian on Bent Oak Road

Thirty head or more will sell, including 20 s

-boars all sired by our great herd Boar, Y’S PACIF

ling, Ohio State'Fair, 1922, winning over

tion‘al Swine Show. The best blood lines

the ottering is strictly high—class.

extras may be added, including 4

. there is a demand. All cholera immune.





   





pring gilts and 7 sprl



IER, lst prize junior yegbg

boar that took first later at No;

of the breed are represented and

Some great herd boar prospects. Ate! '

ed sows with or without litters, it:
' likely to be small.





 





 





 





 





GRAIN' QUOTATIONS





Monday, November 12.





.Wheat.





‘ Detroit.——-No. 1 red $1.10l ; No. 2

red $10956; No. 3- red $1.0 $4; No. 2

white $11054; No. 2 mixed $10915.

Chicago—«December $10234; May

$1.07%@1.07%; July $1.05.

Toledo—Cash $1.091/é@1.10%.





' Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 2' yellow $1.07;

No. 3 yellow 97c.



hicago.——December at 76%@76%c;





May 74-%@7414c; July 7494c

Oats.





Detroit.-—-Cash No. 2 white at 470;

No. 3, 45¢. ”





Chicago—December 4127/8c; Mary at'





4414c; July 43%0.





Rye.

Detroit.——Cash No. 2, 73c.

Chicago—December at 677/30; May

727/3c; July 72140.

Toledo—730.

Barley.



Barley, malting 75c; feeding 710.

Buckwheat.

Buckwheat.——New milling $2.10 cwt.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipments $5.30@5.35 per cwt.

(é‘lgicago.——Clioice $6; red kidneys at





New York—Choice pea, 1923. $6.75;

red kidneys, 1923, $7.90@8.



Seeds-



Detroit.—-—Prime red clover cash at

$13.40; alsike at $8.10; timothy $3.60.



Hay. ‘



New Hay.——No. 1 timothy $22.50@

23; standard and light mixed $21.50@

22; No. 2 timothy $20@21; No. 1 clo-

ver mixed $19@20; No. 1 clover $19

@20; wheat and oat straw $11.50@12;

rye straw $12.50@13.



Feeds.



Bran $35; standard middlings $34;

fine do $36; cracked corn $44; coarse

cornmeal $42; chop $37 per ton in

100-lb. sacks.



Fruit.



Chicago—Apples, barrels, “A” grade

Greenin s $5; Snows $4.50@5; Jon-

athans §5@5.50; Grimes $5; Spies $4

@5; Kings at $4.50@5; Baldwins $460

4.50; Wealthies $4.50.



Grapes—Climax baskets, 16 lbs.

Concords at $1.25.





WHEAT





Wheat prices declined last week to

the lowest point since late September.

The report of the Meyer and Mon-

dell commission did not indicate any

immediate aid from the government.

Domestic flour trade became. less brisk

and export difficulties were heightened

by the slump in European exchanges.

Receipts of wheat at primary markets

during the last month have been the

smallest for the corresponding period

since 1917 when the crop was much

lighter. Nevertheless, stocks have ac-

cumulated at terminals because of'the

smaller movement for export until the

visible supply is over 69,000,000 bush-

els, against 31,278,000 bushels a year

ago. Much of this increased volume

of wheat is hedged, the hedges being

bought by speculative interests in the

belief that the government would do

something to advance prices. These

holders are becoming uneasy as the

time approaches when deliveries may

be made on December contracts and

selling out by them was a factor in





the break.

CORN





Corn prices fluctuated wildly last

week, advancing sharply early only to

break with wheat at the close. New

corn has not come forward fast

enough to supply the demand, primary

receipts declined and stocks at termi-

nals were pared dOWn to one of the

smallest figures ever known. But coun-





, try advices indicate that gathering the





new cropis, proceeding rapidly under

favorable weather and that larger re-

ceipts can be expected soon while in-

dustries are disposed to buy sparingly

at prevailing prices. There is every

indication that the total amount of

live stock to be fed is larger but econ-

omies in feeding, enforced by high

prices, will bring consumption within

the limits of the supply. Exports are





OATS '





"The oats mafket shows little inde-

endence of action. _ Primary receipts

ave declined so that the visible sup-





‘ _'pl- _is probably near its peak. An in-

g ;‘ equate movement for export, and

Me visible supply, offset the small

We of theme crop. The flax crop is p





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r» 9,". .,



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about two-thirds larger than last, year

but is below average domestic con-

sumption. Prices leompare favorably

with last year at t is time.





SEEDS





The November estimate of the clo-

ver seed 'crop was 1,121,000 bushels,

compared with 1,251,000 bushels a

month ago and 1,875,000 bushels har~

vested last year. On this basis, the

1923 crop is the smallest in a number

of years, and below requirements.





FEEDS





The feed market was quiet last week

with western mills offering the wheat

feeds to the east for immediate ship-

ment at slightly lower prices. Future

shipment quotations were firm. The

cotton crop estimate caused southern





shippers to advance cottonseed meal





prices- but demand from consumers

was light and export inquiry negligi-

ble. Linseed meal prices were easy

as offerings are heavy and in excess





of the demand.

HAY -





Light receipts and a good demand

caused a firm tone in hay markets,

with higher prices at several points

toward the end of the week. Dairy-

men were good buyers of alfalfa at

Kansas City.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Receipts of fresh "eggs showed a

marked falling off last week. Prices

advanced sharply but declined when

the output of storage stocks increased

as dealers supplied more of their

needs from this source. As fresh eggs

continued scarce, however, the mar-

ket recovered part of its loss and any

further advances are not improbable.

Cold storage holdings of eggs on No-

vember 1 amounted to 6,658,000 cases,

the largest on record for the corres-

ponding date. -



Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 40@

45c; dirties 24@26c; checks 20@23c;

fresh firsts 45@5OC; ordinary firsts 32

@40c. Live poultry, hens 180; spring-

ers 18c; roosters 13c; ducks 180; geese

180; turkeys 350.



Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and

graded at 43@5lc; storage 27@291/3c.

Live poultry, heavy sprmgers at 20c;

light springers 17c; heavy_ hens 22c;



alight hens 200; roosters 14((14150; geese

200; ducks 23@24c; turkeys 35c.





BUTTER





Butter prices remained practically

unchanged last week. Receipts of

fresh butter are declining gradually as

is usual during the late fall and re-

ports from production centers indicate

further shortening of supplies. Stor-





 





age butter withdrawn to supplement

the fresh last week kept‘,£rices from





advancing. “COld. storage oldings on

November 1, according to the prelimi-

nary report, were 76,630,000 pounds, a





surplus over last year of only 2,773,?





000 pounds, indicatinga fairly rapid

out of storage movement ‘at'the in-

terior .points. Thus far this month

withdrawals at the four' leading mar-

kets have been in excess of the same

period last year. Dealers view the

market with confidence, although pric-

es are not expected to advance into

much higher ground before the first

of the year. ‘ ~ ‘ ,



Prices on 92-score fresh butter were

as follows: Chicago 5171,40; New York

521/2c. In Detroit fresh creamery in

tu-bs sells for 44@‘48c per, pound.





POTATOES





The November estimate of the white

potato crop was 417,000,000 bushels,

an increase of 16,000,000 bushels over

a month previous,‘mostly in New York

and Pennsylvania. Sweet potatoes

were estimated at 97,000,000 bushels,

or an increase of 1,000,000 bushels ov-

er last month. The combined .yield of

514,000,000 bushels. compares with

561,000,000 bushels harvested in 1922.

Carlot shipments from producing sec-

tions have declined over forty. er

cent in the last month and furt er

shrinkage can be expected up— to the

first of the year. Prices were practi-

cally steady last week with New York

round'whites at $1.65@1.85 per 100

pounds sacked and bulk in eastern Cit-

ies, and northern round whites at $1

@120 in Chicago. ‘





APPLES





The commercial apple crop estimate

was increased slightly in the Novem-

ber returns to 33,522,000 barrels; com-

pared with 30,955,000 barrels last year.

Carlot shipments from producing sec-

tions last week were about one-third

less than two weeks ago, but consum-

ing markets have not recovered from

the heavy movement and prices have

not made much progress. New York

Baldwins were quoted at $4 4.50_per

barrel in eastern cities, and ichigan

A—214-inch Jonathans at $5.50@6 in

Chicago, with Spies at $5@5.50.





BEANS





. The bean market was .quiet last

week, with price-s practically unchang-

ed. Choice hand—picked whites were

quoted at $5.60 per 100 pounds f. o. b.

Michigan shipping points for immedi-

ate shipment. Demand was less brisk





‘as wholesalers have not disposed of





all their purchases'in the last two





 





I Live Stock Market Service]





 





Monday, November 12. -

DETROIT CHICAGO

Hogs. . '

Cattle. Receipts 70,000. Market is mostly





Receipts 2,035. Market is steady on

good, slow on others.

Good to choice yearlings.$ 9.50@10.25

Best heavy steers ....... 8.25 9.00





Handyweight butchers . . 6.50@ 7.00

Mixed steers and heifers 5 00@ 5.50

Handy light butchers. . . _. 25@ 5 25

.Light butchers .......... 50@ 4 00

Best cows ..... 450@ 500

Butcher cows ........... 3 00@ 4 00

Cutters 225@ 275

Canners ................ 2 00@ 2 50

Choice bulls ......... 4 50@ 5 00

Bologna bulls .......... 4 00@ 4 75

Stock bulls ............. 3 00@ 4 00

Feeders ...... . ......... 4.00@ 6.00

Stockers . . . . . a. ...... 3.50@ 5.50

Milkers . .‘ ................ $ 40 a 90





Veal Calves.

Receipts 550. Market slow.





Best .........$ 12.00

Others ................ '. . . 3.00@11.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 4,230. Market 50@75c high-





er on lambs; sheep steady.

Best lambs . . . . . . . ...... $12.75 13.00

Fair lambs .......... . . . 10.00 11.50

Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 5.50@ 6.50 .

Gulls 2.00@ 3.50

Light to common . . . 7.00@10100

. Hood, -



, Receipts 3,730. Prospects fare: ,

Mixed hogs ' - -





..._............._.....s7.4o





.. wctherser 37;





10617200 lower. Light pigs 15@25c off.

Bulk good and choice 200 to 2354b.

butchers $7.50@7.60; tops $7.50; good

160 to 190-lb. average mostly at $6.75

@710; packing sows largey $6.50@

6.75; better grades weighty slaughter

pigs $5.75@6. .

‘ Cattle.





Receipts 25,000. Market-fed steers,

yearlingsand good beef heifers strong

to 150 higher. Stots more, and good

choice yearlings of practically all

weights. Early tops at $12.50. Kill-

ing classes plain. Run includes 6,500

western grassers. Lower grades of

fat she stock slow. Stockers and feed-

ers and fed steers showing advance.



Shee and Lambs. . .



'Receipts 24, 00. Market is. active.

Fat lambs are unevenly strong to 25c

higher. Others and sheep are steady.

Bulk fat lambs $12.80@13; to s to

shippers $13.25; good clippers at £12. 0

@1225; ‘cull natives $9.50@10; good

mixed and h‘andyweight fat ewes at





"$5.75,@6.25; heavies around $5; feed-





ing lambs averaging around 70 lbs. .at





$12.75. ~. .

BUFFALO

. Cattle.





Receipts 15 cars. Market steady. .

Calves at $13. . . ' -





 





eight. per cent, means she





cumulat‘e‘ big stocks. 4.

ing out slowly ‘so that there is, no





pressure on the market, but supglies

are coming forward fast enoug .to

take care of the present demand. The, ,

. crop estimate for. Michigan was raise





ed to‘ 6,532,000 bushels in the, Novem~

ber return-s which, with a 'pickage "of



11 6,000,000

bushels of merchantable beans.





Produce buyers} began scouring the

country this week for turkeys, paying

30@32c a pound for young turkeys, 8

lbs. and up; 28@30c pound far 6 to 8-

pounders, and 25c pound for old toms.

Competition was keen as representa-

tives of, eastern houses are active in

this Section for desirable Thanksgiv-

ing fowls. The market was steady on

chickens and hens, and the demand

was slightly better fer young geese at

17@18c lb Receipts ’of fresh eggs

were lighter and bids advanced to 5 c

per dozen, a new high record; for the

the year. Onions were slow at $1.40

for U. S. No. 1 grade, and potatoes

were in moderatedemandtaround 50¢

a bushel. Live stock Was easier and

hides one cent lower. Farmers are

holding their wheat and rye for higher

prices, but beans are being offered at





$4.75 per cwt. for white, and $6.50 cwt.





for red.





WOOL





A better tone was reported in the

laggard Boston wool market last week

with medium wool prices tending up-

ward. Fine wools are inclined to be

slow. Values on imported wool are

stiffer but a substantial amount was

sold for re-export last week. Foreign

markets are strong with all. the price

changes toward a higher levelfiStocks

from the spring clip in this country

still in the hands of growers are firm—

ly held. The goods market shows but

little change for the better or worse,

but manufacturers are buying wool to

fill in for present needs.





 





THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.





 





No new clouds are apparent on the

busineSS horizon to suggest that a

storm is brewing. Developments of

last week contained a reasonable pro-

portion of sunshine. In the farm mar-

ket field a more steady undertone in

cattle and hogs, the advances in corn

and cotton, and the evidence of sus-

tained consumption of dairy and poul-

try products at_good prices, But the

mgjorityof changes on the favorable

81 e. . ' -

The Brookmire Economic Service

says with emphasis:



“Fundamental conditions point to a

good steady volume of business at

steady or slightly rising prices at least

through the winter months and prob-

ably considerably beyond that. time.

The outlook is decidedly for a situa-

tion in .which business will be “good"

with fa1rly narrow fluctuations either

way, but withthe main trend in prices

and production moderately upwar ."



Roger Babson looks for a further

reces'smn in business and industrial

actiwty 1n,the immediate future but;

is hopeful of improvement in the farm

field, with a possibility that before the

end of next year, farmers may even

be in a better

their city brot ers.



The November review of the Cleve-

land Federal Reserve Bank makes

this statement: ‘



“Business has entered into the ii al

quarter of the year with' roductfon

less active in certain lines an it was

a month ago, but still large in vol-

ume, and sustained by the consump-

tive requirements of a well employed

population. -



. “Agricultural conditions are show-

mg a steady improvement and it is’the





opinion of those in close touch with





the farm trade that farmersin certain

sections are coming into the market

for those necessities which they have

needed for the past three years.”





COMING Lives-rock SALES.





 





 





Holsteins. .,

Dec. 5.—-—M. A. Sams,_Co_leinan, Mich.

Poland ,Chinas. . 2





my. 20.—_Wes1ey'?Hue, Ionia, Mich.





Hogs. -- -' .,

Receipts 20 cars. Market is steady. .





jHeavy $7.85;Ayorkers-$7.5 .65’;-pigs~' M

$6.75. W _F





, SheepgandLambs, ‘~

Receipts ve‘ s. -,Mark ‘0 .

Top lambs 13.504" .‘ ,f, " s \





   





Nov. _23.-=-”-W.

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months and stetnot mused-10' “ e;

Bean. . ’8 arepic '. .





osition financiallythan _ '





a 1411711188?”sz {*7 '

steaming; magnum. giants '
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infirm them‘van increase of forty-





 





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Mugs-10¢ tortilla save an increase of





We hm jut started was (a new

Wt d 31%,th Mr. Harte

nan. hflepwemwhevegone one

better M whet M by making



m UMer this law the

met has Meets on cases if the

stock he M“ a not a marked. The.

next m said Mr. Hartman, is to ed-

nests the. housewife to buy potatoes

as she in” cereals, or soaps, by ask-





, 1115er S; No: igrad'e. .,





W the benefits to be derived

from this standardization is the pro-





' motion of future sales, moref. o. b. ’and





in mull: sales, facilitation of govern-

ment inspection at. terminal markets,

better storage restate, no



or





 





iness men age visitors joined in a

most We bouquet. All were

made to feel very much at home, and

thereby exemplified the spirit of good

fellowship and cooperation which

should. ever' characterize the relations

between those who produce and those

who consume.

The Awards.





The full list of awards as placed by

Judge Gaylord is as follows: ‘



Ru1al Russets. —In this section

eighty- 1wo exhibits were shown. First

prize went to Edward Domke, of 0c-

queoc, Presque Isle County; secbnd,

Walter Barlow, Al ena; third, Charles

Hen 011, Hubbard ake; fourth, Frank

Rot1e1,A1anson; fifth,J. Fred Brudy,

Wolverine; sixth,1‘rank Wyrick, Alan-

son; seventh, C. G. Brody, Wolverine;

eighth, WilliamvShann, W olverine.



. White Rurals. -—-First, Morel] Fox, of

Gay 101d; second, Michael Smilowski‘,

Gaylord; third, E. S. Brewer, Onaway.



Irish Cobbler. ——-First, John Mosser,

Weadock; second, R. C. Campbell, of

Heatherton; third, John Allen, Hub-

bard Lake; fourth, Steven Hartman,

Alpena.



Other Varieties. ~—-First, C. G. Brudy,

Wolverine, on Bliss Triumph;.second,

Nellie Feldhouser, Frederic, on Early

Northern; third, Wilbur Broadbent,

Gaylord, on White Wonders.



In the county exhibits, Otsego was

placed first; Cheboygan, second;

Presque Isle, third, Alpena, fourth,

and Crawford. fifth.



In the certified seed exhibits of 100

pounds, first place was awarded Frank

Wyrick, Alanson; second, Jacob

Weiss, Levering; third Charles Her-

ron, Alpena; fourth, Walter Barlow,

Lachine. .-



Awards. (1 merit in- thisclass. went

to H. S. Moiineaux, Wolverine; E.

Pettifor, Gaylord; Hamid Bailey. Gay--

lord; Harold Bennett, Levering; J. F.

Brudy. Wolverine; John Spreeman,

Vanderbilt.



The Sunny Side Potato Club,. of Che-





,bo oygan. took the. honors in the best-

-club exhibit. In the individual club.

exhibits, C.





J. Wester, of Cheboygan,

took first on Rural Russets; A.

Wester, of Cheboygan, second; Ru-

dolph Badman, Cheboygnn, third, and

Jack Winn, i Clieboygan, fourth:

In the to Run: entry; J. A. West-

e{,e of Cheboygan; was awarded first

p ace



In the Detroit special class, J. H. D.

Myers, of Lev‘ering, was awarded the

blue ribbon, Charles Herron, of Al-

pena, Second; E. Pettifor, of Gaylord,

third; George Coultes, Gaylord, fourth.



Charles Herron, Alpena, was award-

ed first place in the Detroit News spe-

and William Feldhouser, Fred-

erick, second.



In the Consumers’ Special, Charles

H. Shaub, of Elmire, got first; Charles

Herron, Alpena, second; J. H. D. My-

ers, Levering, third; Valentine Man-

kowski, Gaylord, fourth.



The Sweepstakes for the best peck

in the show went to Edward Domke,

as mentioned earlier in this article.





Among the demonstrations was one

on the work done by the Grayling Ex-

pertinent Station; which showed ex-

cellent results £14111;.grewlng potatoes

on sweet clover bed which had been

limed, mounted and realized” This

exhibit was put on by R. D. may.





twuty-two bushels per acre.





was All. A. C. Wented a display of





modeler». ventilation, of plants used





by bees. in the manufacture of honey,

of bottles of honey made from various

flowers and of several bags of certi-

fled seed. The State Department of

Agriculture demonstrated how pota-

toe-s and apples should be graded,

what had been accomplished in tuber-

culo'sis campaigns, and in cleaning up

foul brood, besides several other in-

terestlng features. _



The man upon whom the big burden

of the show fell was County Agent

Lyt-le, of Otsego county, who 'Was ably

assisted by Mr. Lenhouts, of the Mich-

mammal Lines, the county agents





f: 1d , .gthe' other counties, participating,

when. is; c "and the State Department





”of Agriculture, the Michigan Potato





J: '10- 1111'





 





Producers Exchange, and the North-

eastern Michigan Development Bu-

reau. ' ‘



The Top 0’ Michigan Potato Show

should be made an annual event. The

success of this year’s show is suffi-

cient proof. A crowded house made

up largely of growers and their fam—

ilies who listened to the good program





proves that the interest is among the





farmers where it should be.——B. W.





 





SOTHAM HEREI—‘ORD AUCTION.





AT Herefordia, the Hereford farm

of T. F. B. Sotham & Sons, at St.

Clair, was held their first public sale

on November 2. This enterprising firm

is working hard for the Hereford cat-

tle interests in Michigan and Ontario.

The results of the numerous sales and

shows which they have been active in





 





promoting, not only speaks well for‘





the firm and their

methods, but indicates that prominent

place the pure-bred Hereford is des-

tined to take in the future of Michigan

agrciulture.



This sale was held with the object

of reducing the herd to winter pro-

portions. The cattle had just come off

from pasture, and, as many of them

were nursing calves, were in very or-

dinary condition. The outstanding at-

traction» of the sale was the great

young bull, “Bean Kingston,” that was

champion at several Michigan fairs

and stood eighth'in class at the last

International Live Stock Exposition.

He has all the earmarks of a realherd





bull and sold to .Charles Kolb, of'





Capac, for $300. Mr. Kolb also so





cured several of the better class of --





females in, the sale. The fifty-five lots

catalogued sold for $6,050, an average

of $110 each. They were distributed

to the following buyers:





TOBACCO





TWUCE our star. brand Green River Leaf

Tobacco will sell ten pounds mild smoking (or $1. 75.

pounds Green River and Burley smoking for

$2.55. Tenpounds cheering for $3..“ and give you

a genuine $1. 00 Wellington French Brlar pipe free

with each order for ten pounds. Postage extra. Sat-

isfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Fifteen

pounds Common Smoking Tobacco for only $1. 45 and

postage. Kentucky Tobacco Company.Dopt.15,

Owensboro, Ky.





TOBACCO—Select Smoking 10 lbs. $2.50; Good Smok-



ing 5 lbs. '31. 00: 10 lbs. $1. 50; :20 lbs“. $2.75: Select

Chewing 5 lbs. 32. 00; 10 lbs. $3. 50. Quality Guaran-

teed. (lo-operative Tobacco Growers. C133. May.flefd

Ky.





TOBACCO—Extra Fancy Smoking. 10 pounds $2. 50:

Good n. 5 pounds 81:10 pounds $1. 50; 20

pounds $2.75: (Mowing. 5 pounds $1.5 0: 10 pounds

$2. 75. Quality Guaranteed. O’Connor Smokehouse,

8133. Mum Ky.





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Five pounds chewing. $1. 75:

: twenty, $5. 25 Smoking. five pounds,

' ten. $2 00; twenty. 33.50.1’1113 and TH 1pc

free. Send no money. Pay when received. Ken—

1ch Tobacco Company, Paducsh, .





1.73: Ton





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consume





LEAF TOBACCO. ——Fi\e pounds chewing

$3.00. Five pounds smoking 81.25; Ten

when' received- pipe and recipe (rec.

Farmers. Paducsh'. Ken





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and“; “Man... Olld lulu

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Collies. Shev-





 





clean business .





' -mail you. prepaid. a fine four- piers set of miniature





in perfect running order. Fred Stein. 1!. 2. Box 130.

Inkstcr. Micll.

'WANTED—Roots and barks: $1 pound. Box 27.





   

   

 





LIVE STOCK





RNATION AL

EXPOSITION .-5





DEC. 1, to Dec. 8





UNION STOCK YARDS

' CHICAGO





 





 





 





Supreme Court of the Pure-Bred Live Stock Industry.

Round-Up of the Master Breeders and Feeders of the Continent.





 





See the Aristocracy of the Animal Kingdom.





Learn Economy in Production.





.Enjoy the Great Spectacular Features.





Profit by Investing in a Trip





to





THE WORLD’S GREATEST LIVE STOCK SHOW.





 





BAIL Y PUREBRED SALES





ABERDEEN-ANGUS

Wednesday, Dec. 51h, 1:00 P. M.

For Particulars write Chas. Gray,



Union Stock Yards, Chicago





HEREFORD SALE

Friday, Dec. 7th, 1:00 P M.

For information write R. .Kinset

300 W. llth St., Kansas ity, Mo.





SHORTHORN SALES

Shorthom Sale, Thursday, Dec' 6th. 1 :00 P. M.

Milking Shorthorn Sale. Friday. Dec. 7th, 10 0.0 A. M.

Polled Shorthom Sale. Wednesday, Dec. 51h. 10:00A M.

For catalogs and particulars of all 3 sales. address





American Shorthom Breeders





Assn. 13 Dexter Park Ave.





Union Stock Yards, Chicago.

CLYDESDALE SALE

Thursday, Dec. 6th 10:00 A.

For information write American Clydesdale Assn.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago





And Other Pure-Bred Live Stock Sales.





 





See the





INTERNATIONAL HAY & GRAIN SHOW





For Chicago Board of Trade Premiums.

Ask R. R. Agent about Reduced Fares





A Season of Education, Pleasure

and a TRIP TO CHICAGO





 





 





Small advertisements

using miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





consecutive insertions 6 cents 11 word.





display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances





llnlmum chum. to words.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





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

bring best results under classified headings.

Poultry advertising will be run in this department

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



Rates 3 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions: for

(‘ount as a word each abbreviation, initial or number.





Rul estate and lln stock advertlulnl have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Try it for want ads and for adver-





four or more

No

must accompany order.





 





Rates In Effect October 7, 1922





One Four Four

Words time ti mes time:

52.40 88.24



2.04 0.40



2.88 {.72



3.12 8.90



3.36 7.80



3.60 1.44



3.84 7.08



4.00 1.92



4.32 8.16



4.56 8.40



4.00 8.“



5.04 3.88



5.28 0.12



5.52 9.38



5. 76 9.80



6. 00 9. H





   





All dunking an.

SPeCial Notic dimntinnmnu ndtrr



or that!” of up] in-

tmdtd~for flu Clam/led Department mun rmth thi: Jr: MI

do]: in advantt ofpublim lion date.





 





MISCELLANEOUS





NAMES WANTED. —Tcll three of your neighbors

that we trade phonograph records and player rolls.

Send us their names and 12c in stamps and we will

furniture. National Record Exchange. W-.lzhita. Kans.





CHOICE Silver Black Foxes from Registered parents.





 





for sale at farmer's prices. W. H. Wilbur, Route 0,

Pontiac, Mich.

HOW TO TAN all kinds of Furs at home. cheap,





The St‘erI. of tanning sent to any address,





easy.

E. Davlson, Mcvosta, Mirh.





One Dollar, Address L.

I‘lant,





SILENT Alamo Elm-trio 1 Delco Pump. both





 





Michigan Farmer.





BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES





FOR. SALE—To close an estate. 40- acre farm and

country store. J. G. McClure, Merrill, Mirh.





POULTRY





MI(‘HIGAN' S BEST Giant Bronze Turkeys. Anofir

or excellent flmk ready for sale. We place 100

breeders in Michigan each year. Furnish unrelated

s-tork. Save by buying early. N. Evelyn Ramsdell.

Ionla. Mich.

SINGLE COMB REDS— aCodereis and bullets. March

and April handled. 1M prices for quick sale.

win, lay. weigh and pay. Harry J. Theis. 288

Hunter St., Battle Creek, nit-l1.





FINE ROSE (”MB 3. I. Red kaercls $2 each.

mus ms 39. Hens 87.

m Boxwood, 3. 0. Charlemix. Mich.





r011 SALE—Superior Ringlet Barred 11ml: Cookerels.





For: SALE-3m1rbtm 11m Turkeys,





LIGHT BRAHMA COPKERELS~White Holland tur-

key Toms. and Toulouse Gunders. A. W. Chase, II.

F. I). No. 5. Plymouth, Mich.





BAIHIED‘ROCK (SOCKI‘llll-ZLSWFrom high egg-pro-

ducing 11117.9, winners. $2.50 to $3.50. Dawson Farm.

Muskegnn. Mich.





 





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MAMMOTH Bronze Turkeys, Tom Barron and Kim;





 





-,G+-orge strain. large, healthy, grown on range. Toms

$15; Hons $12.50. Remit with order. Mrs. Wm. (Y.

ltyno, Edwardsburg, Mil-l1.



APRIL '(‘OCKEREIJS~;Englisl1 Strain White Leg--

horns. M. A. (‘. stock. (‘hoite Birds. $2.50 and





 





$3.00 each. John ‘R. Brinks 11.3. Zceland. Mich.

)0 'Breeds Chickens. Turkeys, Ducks. Goose, Bantams,

Gumoas. Englism Bulls, Fox 'l‘crrier Pups; 300 l’ekiu

Ducks. Jesse Bumsidc, Judson. Mich.





 





PURE—BRED Giant Bronze turkeys. unrelated. Hens.





 





 





‘37; Toms. 38; until .Nov. 24. Mrs. Ida Darcy, Ells-

worth, Mich.



l’lTIlH—BIU‘ZD Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. For brood-

1ng only. Write Johnson Turkey Farm. Six Lakes,

Midi.



sl'URl‘l— BRET) Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, lam. vig-

orous birds. reasonably pri1ed. Mrs. Ralph Shem-k,





Caledonia. Michigan.





 





$3, Unrelated:

Rudolph Ha sslcr. Sandusky.





also African vasv.

Mich.





$10 a pair.





 





 





 





F01: S..\Il2.«;largo “hire Holland Turkeys. very

tame. Mrs. D. E. Dean. 11.2, Milford, .‘III‘II.

BOIRBON RI‘D TIYIKKEYS Hons $8; Toms $12.

II. 0. Rugglvs, Mllfonl. Mir-l1.



VV-ZIIITI HUI. LAND TURKEYS {Toms $7: hens 50.

A . I". Shier “'olwrlnc, Mir-h.





 





MAMMOTH bronze turkeys from best breeding stock.

Mrs. Eugene Rams-dell. Hanover. Mich.





s. c. RUFF LEGHORN cockerels.

and description. Willard Webster.





 





Write for prices

Bath, Mich.





 





'NARRAGANSI‘JTTE TURKEYS~Thc Big Kind. Tom





$12, hen $8. Mrs. Wm. B. Nowell, Ousted. Mich.





 





 





HONEY AND BEES





 





INSTllUtTION 110011191 free. explains how you can -,





r1 ad your favorite bco- -keeping book entlrely free.

Write for it. Hi 11- Spencer Apiaries. West.

Aussies. Calif.





 





 





HELP WANTED -





PAY YOU at. the rate of $8. 00 per barrel 2





WEWIIL

sealing duality lubricants to auto and tractor owners.

garages and stores. Sell now for immediate and sprint.

delivery. We have been In business 40 years

Manufacturer-3' Oil and Grease Company.

Cleve] and. Ohio.





 





Cocks. Hens and Pullsts .Show Birds and“

J‘.’ L. W 11111.





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Toms $10. Hens





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than Stren





 





How an added quality gives “U. 8.” Boots longer. wear .





Rugged strength—that’s what mostfarmers

look for when they buy boots. Strength to

stand kicking around the barnyard—tramp-

ing over rough ground —— through ice and

slush.





“U. S.” Boots are built strong. But

they’ve got something more than strength.





Into every “ U. S.” Boot is put one of the





most elastic rubber compounds ever”





used in boot construction.





Cut a strip of rubber from a i“ U. S.” Boot

-——and you’d find it would stretch more than

five times its length without breaking!





The tough fabric reinforcements of “U. S.”

Boots are anchored in solid rubber as live

as an elastic band.





That’s why “U. S.” Boots have unusual

fiexibilityas well as strength. That’s why

they stand constant. strains without cracks

ing or breaking. That’s why bending and





 





 





 

 





 





 





 





flexing thousands of times each day leave

them tough and resisting. And that’s why

thousands of farmers in every section of the





country are turning to “US.” today.





Be sure to ask for “U. S.” ”It will pay

you to get the longest wear a boot can





give you-





Other “U. S.” Footwear built

for long, hard service





You’ll find every type of rubber

footwear in the'big “ U. S.” line.

There’s the “U. S.” Walrus, the

-~ famous all-rubber overshoe—,-the

' “U. S.” Bootee, a lace rubber





work-shoe for spring- and fall-.—--.





“U. S. ” Arctics and’Rubbers——all

styles and sizes for the whole





family. Look for the “U. S.” ,





trademark whenever you buy——

the; honor mark of the largest

rubber organization in the world.





United States Rubber company





 





 





 





'ms meme—A boot has no Jac-

ing 131 front, like a_ 1110:, to give

art you walk. Every mile you go,

the rubber bend: 'and buckle: 900





times. W e’vr put a series ofgradu- ’





atcd reinforcing layer: into the

imtep, combining unusuelflem:





Vbility with :urpriflng strength.





A. strip of rubber cut fromva “U.‘ 8-.” Boot ‘ _.

stretches more than 5 times its length with» ,



out breaking—and snaps back into shape



like an. elastic band. This live, elastic rub-



ber is one of the reasons for the unusual





”flexibility gandlo‘ng wear'of “U. 8.” Boots.-





 





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