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VOLUME CLXI NUMBER TWENTY ON!





DETROIT, NOVEMBER 24, 1923





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





Never leave until next, spring what

can be done this fall.



Michigan exhibitors haw» entered

333 head of live stock at the interna-

tional this year.





The tag ends of this season‘s work

should interlock with preparations for

next year;





We see that our five per cent poli-

tician has come down one and a half

per cent to the summer beer stage.

Tl‘apering off seems to be a politician’s





,method of trying to get in right. after .





he has been in wrong.





The Illinois Agricultural Associa—

tion offers awards for the apprehen-

sion and conviction of tuberculosis

bootleggers who violate the state law

prohibiting the importation into the

state of tubercular affected cattle.





T is not our pur-



Lowering. pose to enter into

. technical phases of.

PraduCtlon the. important and

Costs complicated subject



of production costs,





but merely to give the results of a few

observations, the value of which the

average person will be quick to rec-

ognize. .



Years ago, it became apparent that

milk is produced upon the general





farm cheaper than it is on the special '





dairy farm. This is true because

much of the feed, and a good deal of

the. labor used in the. dairy branch of

the general farm work is otherwise

partly or wholly wasted. And further,

the good‘feed used is charged, not at

market, but at farm values.



The same is true of poultry produc-

tion. This line also fits into the labor

and feed economy of the general farm-

er’s programs. By feeding the low-

or grades of grain and taking advan-

tage of the labor of the household and

of the children it is possible to cut

the per unit cost far below what the

poultry specialist must get' for his

product in order~to break even. The

latter, like the dairyman who produces

milk as his only marketable. product,

must charge full prices for both feed

and. labor. .



Now comes the potato gr.ower In

particular cases covering a fairly wide

territory, we find that the men who

growz'potatoes in connection with oth-

er lines of farming are producing

larger crops at less cost per bushel





than those who are making the grow-





: “ing of offices their sole farming pro:

flagrant “This, too,- is due to the oppor-

1‘,in of using labor to better advan-





 





ter service secured tram comment.





the specialist saves, by extra ‘labort

saving equipment. But the, heaviest

investment on most farms outside of

buildings, is usually in farm .power,

whether horses, tractor, electricity, or

all together. By the very nature of

things, the diversified farmer, as com-

pared with the specialist, can keep

this farm power operating to produc-

tive advantage over a far greater por-

tion of the year and not be obliged to

supplement'with as much extra power.



With a labor, fertility and equip-

ment advantage much in his favor, it

becomes easier to understand why the

farmer following a diversified program

has suffered less than the farming

specialist or the one-crop man. The

suggestion is, that those who have

unfilled spaces in their year’s program

look about to see what other farm line

or lines may be found to better occupy

the year's supply of both 'man and

team labor.





FEW years ago



The youth was not in



D good standing in



- ay world activities. The

of Youth young doctor, preach-

.er, lawyer, or what





not, did his best to coax a real full;

grown mustache and" beard. Unfortu-

nate was the man who failed in this,

for he could not present the appearance





of age thought necessary f01 well-rip-





ened wisdom



But now things are different. The

wielding of the razor is a daily duty

of all men, except those whd are fol-

lowing the dictates of King Ben. Prac-

tically all of us, including the ladies,

are seeking everlasting youth until

the day We die, for. the day of youth is



here and the visions and constructive

activities of youth are recognized.



' Nor is agriculture free from the in-

fluence of youth. The club activities

and the winnings of the boys and girls

in competition with older and more

experienced farmers, show that the

young folks are making themselves

felt.



It is well that this is so. The future

belongs "to the young, not to us. So it

is our dutyto help them shape the

present in order that they may come

to a happy and helpful realization in

the future. To give them our cooper-

ation instead of our dictation, will help

them just that much more toward get-





ting themselves established in work





which will be a credit to themselves

and theil community.





‘INCE the days of





Again our pilgrim fath—



. ers it has been a‘cus-

We Gu’e tom with us to ob-

Thanks serve Thanksgiving





Day. We had to take

a bitter dose of privation, hunger and

Cold before we learned what it meant

to be truly thankful for the comforts

of life. " After a long New England

winter, with insufficient food, clothing,

or shelter, buffeted by the stmms

without, and sickness and death with



1, those of our forefatheis who sui-

vived truly had occasion to be thank-

ful for the bountiful harvests that the

following season had brought. After

all had been garnered and safely stor-

ed away, one whole day was devoted

to giving grateful thanksto the A1—

mighty for the prospects of security

and comfort that the season’s harvest

furnished.“



With the years of plenty that have

followed succeeding generations all

through this prosperous land of ours,

the spirit of Thanksgiving Day has

grown, Mixed with the thankful atti-

tude for the things that bring comfort

in life,>there is now a keen wense of





A trend Mzcfizyan 1‘ 3th Farm Poultry S/Iaw

at Grcma’ Rapzdr NW 27-,1





This last adVantage- is sometimes

questioned, the opponent holding that





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generations _

churches, } our communities,’ our

friends, or our families; we praise God





   





 





for the wonderful scheme of nature:





that assures us each year a seed time

and a harvest;

merry because of the gladness in Our

hearts for the good days in which we

live.



There have been many discourage

ments in the recent past for those of

,us who farm for a living. Most of ns

have seen our little fortunes—as

measured by dollars—greatly reduc-

ed; many have seen them swept away

entirely, yet throughout the rural sec-

tions there is an appearance of plen—

ty. The fields are checked'lwith .great

shocks of gOIden corn; the potato bins

are full; the mows bulge with feed

for the stock; the pork barrel is far

from empty. - -



The past is gone. It can not be re-

The future is before us. Let

us look that way. After all, is it not

‘goods instead of dollars that lepresent

real wealth. Goods without dollars,

and we continue to live in physical

comfort. Dollars without goods, and

we die. Once more there .is abundant

occasion, at the waning, of the harvest

moon in 1923,,for making a thankful

celebration of our nation-wide. Thanks~

giving Day.





OR some years at





A fairs in Denmark,

prizes have been



Good awarded for bulls up-

Team on the basis of the



' milk tests of the



bull’s progeny. The idea in establish-

ing such a class was to encourage





dairymen to keep in mind the ability

of the sires to father profitable dangli-

ters. '



But the Danish farmer,

American farmer,

habit which makes it difficult to enter

stock in such a class. He is disin-

clined to keep the bulls longer than





like the





two or three years, which does not

give opportunity to test out the

progeny.





, We here have some hope, however,

that through the combined work of

bull associations and cow-testing as-

sociations, we may be able to learn

in the future more about the value of

good bulls. 'To this end, it will be to





our advantage if the plan being tried





out in Livingston county, of combining

the two organizations, is followed by

progressive dailymen in other parts

of the state.





N the exhibit that





,Get ,. Michiganis prepar-



. for the great Interna-



‘n tional Hay and Grain

Step .Show at Chicago next

month, alfalfa will be



featured. Our plant breeders have





been doing real work with this 'crop





andhave made progress which offers

hope of prizes on alfalfa as we have

abundantly won them on rye, Who-,at

hay and other crops entered at pre-

vious sessions of this show.



The instance reminds us that the

greatest contribution made to practi-

cal agriculture during the past decade,

has been received from the hands of

the plant breeders. Their efforts have

resulted in the production of varieties

which produce larger yields, have

qualities better suited to their pur-

poses, or are more resistant to plant

diseases;



Probably no other state has fared_

better along this line than has Mich-

igan. Theconstructive plant breeding

work done at the Agricultural College

grounds has added millions of dollars

to the crop capacity of the state.

Rosen rye, Red Rock wheat, Robust

beans, Wolverine oats, Hardigan a1-





 





:So we gathi ‘With an“.





we.~ feast and make.





has gotten into a .





' for. For inst,





efilcient plant breeders are given they





‘1 support of a large group of progres--

sive farmers through the Michigan

Crop improvement Association.

organization has made it possible, not





only to demonstrate the advantages - ,

of new varieties to the various dis-t"





tricts of' the-state, but also to giva a

volume -'of production? which enables

all ordinary seed requirements to be

satisfied after a comparatively short

period of time.



In spite of these advantages

are still a large per cent (if oui

ers .who are going along year after

year with inferiorseed.‘ It should not

be so. No fainter ‘can afford not to

investigate without delay the advan-



_ tages of the, improved varieties of

crops which he grows. Outof self- in-

terest, he should get in step with rural

progress and take advantage of the

work the plant breeder”‘offers him.





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W November is comin’, like it al-

ways does, in the last week (if the

month. It is likewise Thanksgivin’,

which I am writin' about. \

This‘day is the one what we are ast

by the President to oflichully feel

thankful. So we just do feel mighty

fine that the turkey crop is” good and

cranberries is not so high so the, city

folks kin eat them. And seein’ as we





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ain’t got no turkeys; we’ll eat pig, the .





same as we do when we eat meat on '





Sundays. And after eatin’ a extra

piece-0’ pic, 01 two, most 0’ us feel we

have flifulled our duty When we have

filfulled our stom-

achs, and there-

fore s 1 e ep in

peace the rest of

the day.





, Now, Thanks-

1 givin’ . is supposed



to be the day' of



appreciashun o f

_"the fulfillmunt of

' the season’s har-

vest. But most 'of us folks is strong

on filfullmunt and forget about‘ appre-I

ciashun.



They' s lots 0’ things to be thankfui

the dollar what is worth

only sixty-five cents; we should feel

thankful for that dollar, .’cause it is

teachin’ us how to do what'the per-

fessor calls economize. This. econo-

mizin’ is great stuff, ’cause it learns





 





. a fellow how to do without what he





don’t need



F01 inst, there’s ~Seff Jones, what

has learnt by economy that he don’t

need to wear a tie, ’cause his whiskers

is a article of adornmunt, and what

you call a personal accomplishmunt,

and there ain’t no need 0’ wearin’ a

tie when nobody don’t see it.



Cal Mason says the. only thing about

this economizin’ stuff is, when you get

so you kin save, you’ye got money to

spend, and then you keep it, ’c‘ause

you don’t know how to spend it.» So,

maybe some day we farmers will have

some money, and we oughta be thank-

ful for these economizin’ days.



.If we kin just get the spirut of the





occasion, there’s lot 0’ things we'kin '





feel thankful for. The whole trouble

is, so many think the spirit, of the .oc-

casion comes in bottles. The other

day Jed Smith bought a pint and now

he says he’s glad it was cold tea in-

stead 0’ wood- alcohol. Jet 'got left

on the spiruts, but he’s got the right

spirut.



We kin find lots 0’ blessin' s in dis-'

gust if we ’Will only look for them,- If .

we will. just figure a little we’ll find





that the Lord goes more’n' fiftyfifty.‘ V





with us. So, instead of blamin’ the

Lord for what we don’t do ourselves,

we oughta be thankful to Him,





, Even clouds has a. lver linings, and I fit

think Thanksgiving is. a nice-taunt; ;;

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in season, like a good, thick lay-

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, ' For me, though, it would be accept-‘

able at any time of the year; in fact,





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How come, we don’t have it every

Because cream is the market-





By C. L. Belander





just as well give’him my farm. You

can’t haul lime ten miles and break

even.”



But listen again, friends, this is what

happened. After a search, a marl de-





posit was discovered in a worthless





 





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able product which helps Mr. Prosper-

ous Farmer on his way. '



“But listen, what is the basic foun-





dation of

Farmer?"



He answers, “A good source of raw

material, preferably alfalfa hay."



Mr. Loser Farmer says: “Get‘that

out of your system! You know I have

tried to raise alfalfa and sweet clover

for the past five years and haven’t any





cream, Mr. Prosperous





. more now than when} started, plus





the fact that some of my cows have

starved to’ death waiting for it. And





. here just this week, the county agent





was out and said I would never raise

' alfalfa on my land. ‘He said it‘ was

sour. It reacted so bad, I think, his

jaws weie cramped. He told me lime

or marl to the extent of from two to

two and one-half tons to the acre was

the cream covering I needed.

“By the Pink Toed Prophet, I might





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arI-‘will be Left Until Spring.





marsh‘ near by. It was a regular lay-

er of whipped cream, but it was not

on the field. Oh, some more work!

You can’t get it out. anyway, with a

pie crust of muck eighteen inches

thick all over the cream.” Well, it

can be done and he did it.





Such was the grit of J. R. Crouse,

a Livingston county farmer, living

twelve miles from a' railroad. On the

shores of the lake adjoining his farm

was a- good deposit of marl. A little

mechanical ingenuity, inherited from

his sixteenth century ancestors, help-

ed solve the problem that was most

difficult under his conditions, as you

may note from the picture.





" Too often the soil, where marl is

found, is so marshy that the horses

Will mire or be unable to pull a load

after it is on the wagon. Mr. Grouse

used a plank runway, as shown in_the





illustration. .This runway was made

portable so it' could be moved when

desired, which was a rather important

factor in making the operation more

efficient.



To start with, a plot about twelve

feet wideand thirty feet long was un-

covered and then the runway was laid.

To eliminate lifting the marl too high,

this twelve-foot covering was divided

in two parts and only one side worked

at a time. When one side was dug

Out a couple of feet below the runway,

the runway was placed in the deepest

half, and loading was then continued

from the other side.



This system was followed to a depth

of eight feet. Even deeper excavation

could be done if desired. The end to—

ward the dry land is excavated less

each move, to make a. gradual slope,

thus letting the wagon down at the

deepest point without any difficulty.





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This also made it easy for the team

standing on dry land to move the

loads to the stock pile.



The getting out of more than 250

loads has proven to Mr. Grouse and

his helpers that it was a worth "while

job. Figuring 200 tons of ground lime-

stone in sacks at approximately $5.00

f. o. b. cars, plus $2.00 per ton for





hauling twelve miles, makes the total 7





cost of lime $7.00 per ton down on the

farm. Two hundred tons would cost

approximately $1,400. Two hundred

and fifty loads of marl will no doubt

make 200 tons of dry marl, as they

were large ones.



Three men and a team working for

eight hours per day have gotten out

approximately twenty-three loads a.

(lay, at a total cost of less than seven-

ty-five cents per ton, thus on 200 tons

of marl would mean a total outlay of

$150 instead of $1,400, a difference of

only $1,250 which, to a farmer, is

worthy of some twentieth century con-

sideration.





 





 





A Very Economical Method of “Minin g" ~Marl.





756 first of a Series of Arno/es Giving Some Interesting Fact:





T this season of the year we are .

all reminded of taxation and

sometimes wonder why such tax—

es; and it is believed some facts con—

‘cerning assessment and distribution

‘ will be of general interest.

, The state constitution of Michigan,

Article 10, provides.



“Section 7. All assessments hereaf-

ter authorized shall be on property at

its cash value.”



“Section. 8. In the yeai nineteen

hundred eleven, every fifth year there-



- after and at such other times as the

legislature may direct, the legislature

shall provide by law for an equaliza-

tion of asSessments by a state board,



' on all taxable property, except that



' taxed under laws passed pursuant to

sections four and five of this article.’



By Compiled Laws 1015—Section

4144, it is made the duty of the gov-



. ernor to appoint three freeholders of

the state who are qualified electors, as

a state board of tax commissioners;

|and by Public Acts 119, No. 330, a.

state board of equalization is created,

consisting of the auditor-general, pres-

ident of the live stock sanitary com-

mission, and the members of the state

commission. The present members of

the state tax commission under the

above provisions are, William S. Lin-



. ton, Saginaw; Nathan Simpson, Hart-



: ferd, and George Lord, of Detroit, and



’ they, with auditor-general Oramel B.

Fuller and L”. Whitney Watkins, State





‘ Commissioner of Agriculture, consti-y





ct'ute the state board of equalization,

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By John





At the time this apportionment was

made, it was announced through the

press that the assessment of crawford,

Huron, losc‘o, Manistee and Roscom-

mon counties was reduced $50,000

each; that Luce was reduced $95,000;

Delta $109, 000; Newaygo $150, 000, and

Schoolc1aft $94, 000. The facts are that

the assessment in all of these counties

was very largely increased as indicat-

ed below, but not so much in piopor-





tion as in other paits of the state:

1922.1923.



Crawford ..... $ 2,935,000 3, 800, 000

Delta . . . 19, 538,000 29, 900, 000

Huron ........ 36 737, 000 46, 050, 000

Iosco ...... ‘ 6, 924 4,000 9,000,000

Lake .......... 1,931,000 2,500,000

Manistee ..... 13,516,000 17, 500, 000

RosCommon . 1,752,000 2, 250, 000





The increase in the assessed valua-

tion'has been stated to have no effect

at all on the' amount of taxes levied.

The statement'is not true. By law a





fixed tax of six-tenths of a mill on .





each dollar of the assessed valuation

of the property of the state (not ex-

seeding $3, 000, 000 in any year), is

levied for the use of the University of

Michigan, and in like manner one-fifth

of a mill 0n the assessed valuation of

all preperty in the state is required

by law to be levied for the benefit of

the Agricultural College, the Upper

Peninsula Experiment Station, other





1 experiment stations and college exten-.





gsion work; and by Section 26 of Arti-

.cle 8_ of the constitution, the amount

of taxes that can be levied for road





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purposes by counties shall ’not exceed

in any one year $5.00 upon each $1,000

assessed valuation for the preceding

year; and in numerous other respects

the increase in the assessed valuation

produces an actual increase in the

amount of taxes levied. In fact, the

only object and purpose of a general

increase of assessed valuation is to

increase the taxes and taxing power.





The state tax commission operates

continuously; but the state board of

equalization has made new equaliza-

tions since 1910, only in 1911, 1914,

1916, 1919, 1921,‘ 1922 and 1923. The

distribution of state taxes in inter-

mediate years have been based on

these‘ eq‘ualizations; and for the pur—

pose of comparison with the United

States Census of 1910 and 1920, the

assessments for those years are used

in this table. The assessment for 1910

is taken from the auditor-general’s re-

port for_1911. The assessment for

1920 is taken is taken from the report

of the state tax commission for 1922.





Theequalization of taxes between

the counties by the stateboard of

equalization does not necessarily affect

the amount of local taxes otherwise

than above indicated; but it does af-

fect the propoition of the burden of





state taxes to be borne by each cou'n- ,

ty, since every dollar oftaxes paidv





(throughout the state, about twenty

cents is for State taxes, or $1. 00 in

$5 00. For example, in 1921, of the





ichigan





072 State Taxation





taxes raised in the state, $20,452,380 '





were state taxes; $16,909,979 were

county taxes; $2,512,802 were town-

ship taxes; $45, 633, 328 we1e school

taxes, and $10,872,863 were highway

taxes. The state taxes assessed on

property for 1923 are $16,000,000.





From the foregoing it appears that

the taxes in any community are most-

ly local; and that no adjustment of

the burdens ofstate taxes could en-

tirely relieve The poorest communi-

ties. But the state taxes do amount

to about a fifth of the total burden;

and it would seem the part of states-

manship and justice, so to adjust the

load as not to cast an excessive weight

on those least able to bear it. But the

most casual glance at the accompany-

ing tables will demonstrate that the

very opposite of this course has been

pursued by our state board of 'equal-

ization. Those most able to pay are

as subject as anyone to the tempta-

tion to shift as much as possible of

the burden onto someone else, and

have been on hand with argument and

political influence at the meetings of

the board to get all that is coming to





them, and more if possible; while the ,

poorer communities being less active-'





1y represented, and having less of

these means of persuasion have fared

as indicated in the accompanying

tables.





draw the comparisons most interest-

ing to himself;





(Continued on page 536).; .





Any reader may, from these tables, '





but for the sake of '

concrete example, and not because the .
, l



lnstnnce'is more striking than many

others that might. be named, look at.

Wayne anti losco counties. in 1910

the. property in losoo county was as-

Sesswi at $1,845,516: in 1930 N was

placed at $9,145,145. in the decade

hetWeen i910 and 1920 the population

tit-the. cmlnty. as indicated by tho

‘l‘nited States census. decrensed near-

ly sixteen per cent, and the assess-

ment was increased nearly 400 per

Cent. The actual values decreased

during the period. Now, turning to

\\'ayne county. we find that in the.

same decade its population increaSed

1231 per cent and its assessment was

increased less than that 01‘ loscocoun-

ty. Nor do these ilgures tell the

whole truth. Many persons who still

retained residence in the upper coun-

ties. were actually present at work in

the city factories.



Now. it‘ we turn from the tax rec-

ords anti look at. the two localities. we

find that no developments ot‘ any con-

sequence occurred in iosco county dur-

ing the decade, and the sound ot‘ the

hammer was heard only on the atto-

tion block, whereas in Wayne county.

during that period, lletroit burst its

girth. spilling out all over the country

for miles around. and what was vacant

land in 1910 became. in 1920, boule-

\srds lined with expensive houses;

and in the downtoun sec,tion block

atttt block of old shacks disappeared

to make way for steel and reiniorccd

concrete buildings stretching up where

the air is thin.



As concrete evidence ot‘ this change.

the building permits issued in the city

of Detroit from 1910 to 1920 and since,

are printed below:





 





might not he tuniss.





 





(Contzmzea’from Page 535)





He purchased





some property from the state in Octo-‘





her and the following May it was ap-

prtaisei iOi taxation by the Michigan

state tax commission tit just two and n

times the price.

property‘the preceding October; and

it is doubtful whether there is a single

county north at Bay City in which it

would not be possible to purchase im-

iund from numerous

traction



notwithstanding





bait





mense‘ tracts of

u small

valuation,





0 W 114‘ 1'5 461





paid 1‘01





the





their





state.





Not so.

business in





would, bring a very much higher price.



The reader may think this article is

merely the out-spoken expression 01’

the writer’s reSentment.

is commorant and in

Wayne county, and by far the larger

part oi? his taxes are paid there.

continued imposition of an excessive

share of the tax, burden on the. com-

munities least able to bear it, can in

the. end but bring disaster to the whole

These undeveloped communi-

ties should be. encouraged by assist-





He





The





assessed

the constitutional requirement and

sworn duty 61‘ the tax commission to

assess property at. its cash value. On

the. other hand. it is believed that

there is little property in Wayne. coun-

ty that could not. be sold for cash at





once rather than strangled by oppres-

sion; and their development. would re-

i'iect and produce prosperity for the

whole commonwealth; whereas, their

destruction means that eventually, and





very soon, an iticrpased burden must ..





 

 

 





 





Number

New

Buildings

and Estimated

Yea! Alterations. Cost

1910 .......... 5.498 $17. 415. 950

1911 .......... 6.664 19, 012 670

1912 .......... 7,992 25. 586’. 470

1913 ......... . 9.326 110.434.1380

1911 .......... 7.844 28. 207 .395

1915 .......... 8.966 32. 235. 550

1916 .......... 16.489 51, 068. 310

i917 .......... 12,109 39,666,800

1915‘ .......... 7.011 18 2:36. 8323

i919 .......... 21,471» \‘23, 995. 071

1920 .......... 19.423 77. 737 .165

Total ...... $4:3f. 588.

192i .......... 11.61.) 858.086.081

1922 .. ..... 5,460 94,615,093

192“ to N0\.127.736 95,163,609

'1‘ otal. Nov. lst,

.1910. to Nov. ‘

151,1923“ $670,453,376





These figures do not include the vil-





lages of W'ayne, Dearborn, Redford.

Oakwood. Ecorse. River Rouge. \\f.van~

dotte. Trenton, Plymouth. nor any of

the wide fringe outside of the corpor-

ate limits of Detroit in the year the

permits were. given. It. will be noted

that in the decade the number of per—

mits per year increased about 350 per

cent, and the total in dollars increas-

ed over 500 per cent. Part of this is

accounted for by the extension of the

corporate limits.



As a check upon the business activ-

ity of the Detroit community. it may

not be amiss to compare her bank

clearings of 1910 and 1920. which are

as follows:





1910 .................... $ 910. 835, 006

1929 .................... 6. 104, 323, 703

1923, to Nov 1 .......... 5,564,066,197





It will be noted trom these clearings

that the growth of the Detroit com-

munity is considerably in excess of

the increase in assessment and is very

much in excess of what would be indi—

cated by the growth of population.

One dollar spent on buildings usually

adds three dollars to the community

property; but the biggest item affect-

ing values in any community is always

increase or decrease of population. In-

crease in population increases demand

for land, decrease throws a surplus on

the. market with no one to take it.



As a sample of the methods of as-



. sment, in these upper counties, 3.



a from the writer’s experience





.‘&-‘





77:7." ..





its assessed





valuation.





Much





01‘ it





Population and Taxation





County.





Alcotta .

Alger

Aliegan

Alpena . . .

Antrim

Arenuc

ilaraga

llarry . . .

Bay

llcnzie

lierrlen

Branch

Calhoun . . . . .

L‘ ass . . . . .

Chatlm oix . .

(‘l tebot gan . . .

Chippewa .. . .

Clare

Clinton

Crawford

Delta

Dickinson . . . .

Eaton . . .

Emmett

(‘renesee

tiludwin

Gogebic .. . ..

(ind. Trav. .. .

Gratiot





oooooo





......





.........





......





......





........





-----





uuuuu





Hillsdale.





Houghton



Huron .. . .. .

lngham ......

lonia





iron

lsubella . . .

Jackson . . ...

Kalamazoo ..

Kalkaska . . . .

Kent .. . . .

Keweenaw '. .

Lake

Lapeer

Leele now

Lenaw ee

Livingston . .

Luce

Mackinac . . . .

Macomb

Manistee ....

Marquette .

Mason ........

Mecosta

Menominee

Midland

Missaukee

Monroe . ..

Montcalm . .

Montm‘ncy . .

Muskegon . . ..

Newaygo ... . .

Oakland





.........





........





.....





.....





.....





Ogemaw . .

()ntonagon .

Osceola . . .

Oscoda

Otsego ..

Ottawa

Presque isle. .





. Roscommon





Saginaw

Sanilac

Schoolcraft .

Shiawassee

St. Clair .....

St. Joseph

Tuscola .

Van Buren . . .

Washtenaw ..

Wayne . ..

Wexford





27,938, 835

3,244, 330

27,929,561

19,718,510

43,817, 548





11,690,889 .





3. 013. 500

19,871,885

1,820,197

9,381,000

10,775,756

22,648,615

8,026,729

39,864,336

1,992,369

12,352,804

12,026,483

14,861,600

22,017,388

93,039,019

14,740,199

30,989,229

21,062,100

1,845,516

6,022,554

9,718,779

38,389,855

37,716,900

3,597,839





111,192,989 ,





7, 639, 253

2,56 055

16,144,090

3,005,172

39,792,425

15.705.975

2,833,030

3,394,720

26,938,755

10,064,300

26,481,846

7,094,170

5,170,030

10,386,138

5,362,339

2,104,400

20,225,405

11, 461,035

1,032,940





5,262,060

4,472,010

1,020,960





2,781,435 7





24,944,590





3,025,390





1,503,407

42,066,055

14,177,798



2,990,331





21,310,290 .





30,833,093

17, 62,678

14, ,690

16,191,586

40,024,831





.431 440.046





7.232.270





0 CD

3—» 6’5 E Q) 8 . a d) v

_ g 8 S 5 g ”‘3 8 g 3% Population.

53 we". 2‘: ' “gé 8°. 9

owggm so”, 338..." 1910 19.0

93H m mflnfl mflofl

4,843,867 * 326.477 3.665 5,703 5,912

14,329,923 242.256 30.072 7,675 9,983

44,806,599 93.546 5.723 39,819 37,540

15,525,345 101.189 *10.498 19,965 17,869

8,861,830 66.771 l"26.440 15,692 11,543

7,479,775 263.842 "' 1.867 9,640 9,460

7,078,091 106.026 25.053 6,127 7,662

24,332,915 70.294 "' 5.523 22,6' 3 21,383

81,618,037 192.131 1.920 68,238 69,548

5,132,908 58.211 *34.696 10,638 6,947

65,360,472 134.019 16.842 53,622 62,653

29,320,220. 48.694 " 6.280 25,605 23,997

89,578,204 104.434 28.744 56,638 72,918

25 ,1]0,319 76.002 * 1.110 20,624 20,395

12,542,837 93.828 I"17.586 19,157 15,788

8,r m7,879 28.075 I’21.716 17,872 13,991

28, 466, 703 143.409 1.414 24,472 24,818

7,745,166 157.015 "' 1.714 9,240 8, 250

33,968,060 70.935 * .082 23,129 23,110

4,259,285 134.001 2.923 ,93 4,0

21,098,958 124.9 1" 2.660 30.108 30,909

15,639,941 45.140 * 5.204 20,524 19,456

36,324,065 60.381 * 3.679 30,499 29,377

14,911,777 85.776 ‘"15.742 18,561 15,639

179,149,353 349.353 94.668 64,555 125,668

9,318,877 367. 728 4.921 8,413 8,827,

68,961,8414.58 265 42.395 23,333 ~~ 33,225

15,511,235 28 976 *17.936 23,784 19,518

55,012,082 270.163 17,675 28,820 33,914

35,533,015 61. 386“ * 5.096 29,673 28,161

91,878,050 1. 248 *18.35" 88,098 71,930

37,342,870 153. 340 * 5.674 34,758 32,786

163,722,135 428. 319 52.981. 53,310 81, 554

35,663,224 69. 324 * 1. 380 33,550 33,087

9,145,145 395. 532 *15. 934 9,753 8,199

40,297,158 569.104 38. 051 15,164 20,934

24,740,235 154.561 * 1.819 23,029 22,610

114,953,445 199.437 35.775 53,426 72,539

96,265,770 155. 232 ”19.145 60,427 48,858

4,871,840 35 410 ‘31.123 8,07 5,577

253,374,953 127.870 10.515 159,145 183,041

21,995,233 187.924 I"11.655 7,156 6,322

2,751,640 119.069 I"10. 162 4,939 4,437

32,065,676 98. 622 * .96 26,033 25,782

6,696,937 122. 847 *14. 583 10,608 9,061.

75,078,058 88 674 * .472 47, 907 47,681

22,205,783 41.384 "‘ 1.207 17,736 17,522

10,105,565 256.705 03.571 4,004 6,149

8,629,770 154.212 I"13. 223 9,249 8,026

57,951,290 115.122 16.859 32,606 38.103

19,072,420 89. 506 *21. 691 26,688 20,899

64,104,096 142.068 * 2.039 46,739 45,786

19,092,365 169.128 * 9.165 21,832 19,831

16,403,326 217. 277 * 8.738 19,466 17,765

20,590,615 98. 250 * 7.291 25,648 23,778

17,034,350 217 666 23.077 14,005 17,237

5,344,404 153.963 *15. 105 10,606 9,004

46,568,816 . 130.249 12. 753 32,917 07,115

36,533,180 218. 759 "‘ 5.077 32,069 30,441

3,726,660 260. 782 8.895 - 3,755 4,089

76,289,877 320.578 53.688 40,577 62,362

' 21,035,080 249.224 9. 844 19,220 17,328

135,672,409 243.223 81. 640 49,576 90,050

12,829,724 121.844 *15. 115 18,379 15, 601

6,876,705 200.043 *12.586 8,907 7, 786

19,064,038 262. 292 43.676 8,650 12, 428

13,666,270 205. 594 I"14.914 17,889 15, 221

2, 260, 540 121.413 “12.037 2,027 1,783

6, 858, 435 146.576 * 7.769 6,552 6,043

53,152, 798 113.083 5.170 45,301 47,643

7,949,694 162.766 7.841 11,249 12,131

2, 372, 716 57.822 ‘10.642 2,274 2,032

137,101, 475 225.919 12.315 89,290 100,286

37, 469, 395 1 4.282 7.937 33,930 31,237

‘12, 047, 801 3 2.892 14,929 8,681 9,977

39, 10 0,6 20 83 510 8.055 33,246 35,924

80, 547, 67M61. 238 10.894 52,341 58,043

32,881,655 88.354. 5.173 25,499 26,818

33, 355, 870, . 123.375 * 4.563 34,913 33,320

32,323, 340 _ 99.631 7.443 33,185 30,715

79, 583, 655 ' 98.836. 10.748 44,71 49,520

2,1313955ul82 “394,34 121.544 531,590 ' 1,177,706

_ 7,820. 7 181.149 12.336 '20, 769 18.2





s





 





be carried by the older communities.





in M z'c/zzgcm‘ Countz'er





 





* The figures marked with star indicate per cent of decrease .in population





happen again, thatpthe major portion

of these properties will entirely dis-

appear from the tax rolls, a_.nd 'the

state will receive from them no-‘sup-

port at all. '





it is suggested that each reader ex-

amine the accompanying table,

from ittdraw such comparisons as his

knowledge of his own and other com-

munities will enable him to ‘make.

I





 





 





' Handyman’s Corner





 





VENTILATING THE CELLAR."





 





OME of our readers have taken oc-



casion to admonish us for discon-

tinuing this department for the past

two weeks. Two reasons moved us to

do this: One, an unusual rush of dut-

ies. anti the other a desire to know

whether the department was

what. the readers hoped it snould be.





From the reaction we have come to

believe that the Handy Man's Corner

was getting hold of experiences by

anti for readers in a way that was

being morq fully appreciated than we





 





I Ito/raring Winter Profit:





ERE we are with another

contest. We want ev’ery

reader who has a profitable win-

ter job to tell us briefly what it

is. Many~ farmers could make

things go along much better

financially it’ they know how to

use the winter months to better

advantage. Besides the various

outside jobs, we should also like

to hear from those who use 'the

winter months in preparing the

products of the farm for the

markets and in getting ready

materials for the coming sea-

son’s farming.

To each of the writers of the.

five best letters mailed to me,

The Handy Man, care; Michigan

Farmer, Detroit. not later than

November 28, a high~grade flash-

light with batteries, will be sent

post paid.





 





 





 





had been led to know. This much we

have. said, then, on the ventilation of-

our own “cellar.” Now, I am going

to direct you to a. little idea which

may be ot.‘ value to you in ventilating

the. cellar under your house. '





The idea is not mine. It comes from

the farm mechanic's department of the

M. A. C. And anyone who desires full

details 'should write to that depart-





ment at East Lansing and get work- 1





ing drawings of the portable ventilat-





ing flue. which is built to attach over'





a window to bring cold air in at the

floor of the basement to force the

warm air out at some higher opening.





This flue is made with an opening

which will fit tightly over one of the

more exposed cellar windows. The

fine turns directly dOanard far

enough to reach the floor, having the

bottom opening facing toward the cen«

ter of the cellar. It is made of match-

ed material and built. tight to secure

the maximum movement of air. It is





“fastened to the window by- means-of





hooks and can be removed at will.





Such a. flue does not provide an ideal

means, of ventilation. It does give,





however, aimeans of reducing temper- :

atures in a~basement cellar where po~.

tatoes or other roots are being stored ‘

in quantities, costs very little, and can.“ ' -

be odwtpd to mgrect variety oi cellar '

conditions. 4 _





It has happened before, and, ii the“

present course is persistéd in, will





and ..





just"
U- “‘I‘





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lTH due respect to law, and

with a regard £01 our own

safety, we were rambling, or

rather rattling, along at thirty-five

miles per hour, on about the nicest

piece of road you ever saw, when we

came to a detour sign. That stopped

us, and gave our old bus a breathing

spell. Incidentally, .it also gave us a

chance to see what the surrounding

country was like, and right: there

where we stopped we saw a real bus-

iness-like looking farm. As we were

looking for farm stories, we wont in

and found one

All this happened on the Dixie High-

way, just north of Hart, Michigan.

The farm at which our spurt 01' speed

ended was the Corwln Silver Fox

Farm. As we discovered later, the

name is incomplete; it should be The

Corwin Silver Fox and Silver Medal

Jersey Farm, because the Jerseys are

as important on this farm as are the

foxes.





A Micflzga’fl Farm Corporation Idea Mat 21- Wanting Out Success/idly





By Frank A. Wilken





As soon as we made ourselves

known, we were taken right in by Mr.

Thomas P. Corwin, the general man-

ager oi’ the farm, with a real welcome.

We were only going to stay a short

time, but a greater part 01’ a morning

was spout in looking over what this

farm company was doing.



There has been considerable intcrost

shown by our readers in the idea of

incorporating i'arms for the purposes





or carrying out agricultural activities





in a larger and more business-like

way. Here, we. learned, the comma-

tlon l'arm idea was being worked suc-

cessfully by combining one man‘s bus-

incss ability with another's agricul-

tural knowledge and exl’ierlonco. That

fact increased our interest in tho farm

and what it contained.



As stath before, We wvrc warmly

wr-lcomed by Mr. Thomas P. (.‘orwin,





-4... m.-. . .- ._..,. '2 . ”w





 





 





The Home of the Corwin Silver Blacks.





. Can We Grow Sugar Beet Seed?





Tflzs Story Suggests POUIéZ/Itlef Wflzcé May ”/0736 to Me Advantage of( framers

By L. A. Chase





the Upper Peninsula that root—



crops, such as beets and turnips,

and also p‘otatoes,’ do not usually

freeze in the ground, if left out during

the winter, because of the heavy

blanket of snow, and will start grow-

ing again with the resumption of

warm weather in the following spring.



This circumstance suggested that it

should be possible to grow suga1- -beet

seed simply by leaving the beet roots

in the ground through the winter

without the necessity of raising the

beets and resetting the stocklings the

following spring.



In accordance with this opinion, sev-

eral experimental plots were tried out

the past season with interesting re-

sults. What these results are have

been set forth for me by Mr. Milo J.

Slagg, formerly principal of the John

a. Doelle Agricultural School, and



now in charge of the flou1-mill at

Houghton.



The beet seed for these expeiiments





IT is chaiacteristic of conditions in





'was obtained frOm the Michigan Sugar





Company and three plots were plant-

ed: One at the Michigan Agricultural

College Experiment Station at Chat-

ham, Alger county; one at Otter Lake,

Houghton county, and the third on the

site of the village wateiworks at

Houghton, where other experimental

undertakings already noted in The

Michigan Farmer, have been' tried out.



Mr.~Slagg and Mr. Charles Jenkins

we1e in charge of the Houghton plot,

Which consisted of very sandy loam

previously used for. garden purposes.





 





’The land was thoroughly cleaned and





ultilvat'ed before the beet seed was

, on August 5. The resins were

we feet apart, the beets being





 





 





   





into in ordcr that there might bu. small

ones to hill up for winter.





Early in November the plot was di-

vided into three portions. In Section

1 the beets were covered entirely with

two or three inches of earth. in Sec-

tion 2 there was used a garden culti-

vator equipped with hillcrs to draw

the earth about the beets Just enough

to cover the crowns. Section 3 was

let't uncovered save by the snow

throughout the winter.



\Vhen spring arrived and the beets

had just started to grow, the beets

that had been buried with earth were

uncovered. Those beats that were





sational Lad,





the business man. But when we were

ready to inspect the agricultural activ-

ities of tho farm, in keeping with the

practices of corporations, he introduc-

cd us to the man in charge of these

activities. This man was Mr. Ali'rcd

iionrickson, who is well known by the

Jersey enthusiasts of the state as Soc-

retary ol' the Michigan State Jersey

(tattle Club. Ills major interests be-

ing Jerseys, he naturally took us first

to’tho barns to show us the herd which

is conceded to bc one ot‘ the bust Jcr-

scy herds in the stat“.



'i‘his herd is hcado-d by Noble Sen-

the only silver medal

aim in Michigan. Hc has fifteen Reg-

istcr oi" Merit daughtcrs with an aver-

age of 508 pounds of buttoni'at at the

average age oi‘ thrco ycars. His first

mature daughter, Scnsational iris, was

being tcstcd and was vxpmztcd to qual—

il'y for a gold medal. ’l‘wo othcr daugh-

tcrs are also on tt-st, one of which

will make close to 800 pounds of but.-

Icr-l‘at l'rom prcscnt. indications.



The junior lli‘i‘tl sirt- ir.it‘allvit:'s(}ol—

dc-n I’rlncc, a tlflllbii' grandson of Fau-

vic’s Prince, 21 I’togiste-r of Merit. silvcr

and gold modal bull. om~ ol‘ tho two

bulls in the World to win this distinc-

tion. The dam of tlw junior herd sirc

is a lull sislcr to l-‘amic‘s Xvnia, :1

Register 01' Mcrit. silw-r and gold mcd—

al cow with a rocord oi 951 pounds of

butlcr—i'at. Shc is also a half sister to

Fauvic’s Star, world's champion milk

produccr of tho .lorsry brvcd, who also

has a record 01' 1,006 pounds of but

tor~i'at.



'l‘llis ill(.‘illii9'$‘. lilt,‘ simi-





hcrd also





slightly hillcd were untouched, as were

also those that had been uncovcrcd

through the winter. "i‘hc beets were

then thinned so as to lcavc one hardy

plant each sixteen inches. They were

kcpt free from Weedsduring the grow-

ing season.



Those beats that Wcrc slightly mn-

od produced the most vigorous plants.

Those covered with earth were not as

vigorous and were slower to Start af-

ter being uncovered. Those that Were

unmulchcd exhibited more wintcr'kill-

ing than heels in Section 2.



The plants grow high~~as much as

five and one-half feet in some cases,





 





 





. ,7





5-.





From SMQ to sugar, Boot, Growing M ay Soon he Entirely Michigan.





champion three-yearvold Jersey cow,

McKay’s SWoot Dream, who has pro-

duced 6,989 pounds of fat at two years

and nine days, also the three highest

butter-fat producers in the United

States in the twoyoar-old class, and

the sire and dam of the bull. heading

the M. A. C. Jersey nerd. Mr. Hen-

rickson showed us numerous other an-





 





Noble Sensational Lad, the Silver

Medal Bull.





imals of high breeding, and the calves

in thc model and sanitary dairy barn,

which curtainly show promise of good





future production. Mr. Henrickson

gave us the names, records, and her-

itago of all lhcsc animals, just as it it

was an cvory-day affair. To us, part

of it. soundcd like a foreign language,

so we Wui't‘ only able to assimilate the

outstanding parts 01' it. However, we

got. the dccidml gcneral impression

that. it onc wit-7110s) to find Jersey qual-

ity in Michigan, Ills: Corwin farm is a

mighty good plum: to go.



\l'c- had hard work tearing ourselves

away from thosc- deer-like beauties of

.lcrscys, but, wvrc repaid when we

wont. owr to tho tox department to

look at liiosc glossy, black denizens



(i'oniiilumi on page 541).





tht fit id ayxvsiagc



and 0m: v'hali l'vct.

not as great. as in the case of seed



boots produccd by large stecklings



which have bccn siloed through the



winicr. The estimated rate of produc—



tion was 2,400 pounds per acre.



()11 advice,- of a representative of the

Michigan Sugar Company, thebeets

wcl't- ilal'\’i‘.~'li‘(.i August 20. Th6 stocks

wcrc stackcd looscly in small piles and

cured thoroughly before threshing.

IIand-lill‘vshing “as here necessary.

although an ordinary thresher could

have dons,- it.



The chiei’ chemist. of the Michigan

Sugar Company, who examined the

seed, is reported to have stateduthat

the Houghton seed here produced‘was

in quality far superior to that com-

monly shipped in from Europe and

that it was even finer than that from

farther south. Tho.- Houghton experi.

ment is thus regarded as successful.

although further trials must determ-

ine the ultimate commercial possibili-

ties of beet seed production in the

manner here described.



The experimental plantings at Chat—

ham and Otter Lake were a failure.

due, Mr. Slagg thinks, tower. soil in

which the beets were standing over

the winter. It is expectedrthat Mr. L.

M. Geismar, county agricultural agent.

will assist farmers in makingptheir

own experimental plantings in Hpugh-

ton county during, the ensuing, sea-

son, in order that they maxascertain

for themselves what can _be accom—

plished in this direction. ~



Undoubtedly there is ground for

hope that northern agriculture has

something to gain from this new en- ,

deavor. Market conditions will have to

be considered in determining thecpgao

ticability of beet-seed growing. , ‘





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PRODUCTS ADVANCE TH E

LEAST.





HE effects of the deflation of farm



products on certain industrial

lines used largely by farmers, during

1920 and 1921, are graphically brought

out in the Federal Trade Commis-

sion’s report 011 prices and profits of

stove manufacturers.



It is shown in an investigation

made by the commission that an av-

erage profit of about seventeen per

cent was made by the stove manufac-

turing industry in 1920, but the manu-

facturers made. practically no profit in

1921. In December. 1922. stove prices

were 120 per cent above pre-war level,

whereas all commodities were fifty-six

per cent above, and farm products

forty-five per cent above their pre—w'ar

level. .



STATE FARMERS' CLUBS TO

MEET.





 





HE annual meeting of Michigan

State Association of Farmers’

Clubs will be held at The Michigan





Agricultural College. in Agricultural

Building, Room 402. on Tuesday and

\Vednesday, December 4-5. 1923.



All clubs in 11113 state are invited

and urged to send delegates to this

meeting as matters of vital import-

ance are to be discussed.



Plans are being made

commodation of all that

this be the greatest meeting

sociation has ever held.





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THE FARMER AND THE MER-

CHANT MARINE.





l—lAlRMAN FARLEY, of the Unit-



ed States Shipping Boaid, was on

the Leviathan when the American

Farm Bureau Federation representa-

tives went abroad, and in conference

with them discussed the interests of

the American farmers in the mainte-

nance of an American merchant mar-

ine. Mr. Farley held that the farmers

could not safely entrust their inter-

ests solely to foreign ships, and should

therefore, support ship subsidy legis-

lation.



The farm bureau men told Mr. Far-

ley that the farmers were united in

favoring the merchant marine, but had

not authorized anyone to speak for

them as to ways and means of pro—

moting it. Mr. Farley was informed

that the farm bureau would soon take

a referendum vote.



“Our country is producing a surplus

of agricultural products which must be

marketed abroad,” said Mr.. Farley.

“The foreign service of our steamship

companies will prove of the greatest

assistance in locating purchasers of

our agricultural products. it is the

business of the steamship company to

Obtain cargoes. Its representatives

can be relied upon to use their utmost

endeavors to place American products

in the hands of the consumers of

other nations.”





 





“NO SUCH ANIMAL.”





 





PEAKING of the wheat surplus,



Representative Edward C. Little, of

Kansas, says there “ain’t no such ani-

mal.” Instead of there being an over-

supply of wheat in the United States

and in the world, it is questionable

whether this country actually has

enough to supply the mills and for

feed and seed.



“Representative Anderson says we

should cut down ten per cent of our

wheat production. Secretary Wallace





figures that we will consume. this year .





537. 000 ,000- bushels, which, according

to the _ res of his department, pre—

paSt consumption, ‘would





 





accept his minimum ‘estimate and

compare it with Representative Ander-

son’s statement that we ought to cut

our wheat production down from 781,3

000,000 bushels to ten per cent less,

Mr. Anderson would not leave the peo-

ple of this country enough wheat for

seed and feed, and we would make it

impossible for our

wheat to Europe.”



“Since July 1 wheat has gone up in

the west from seventy cents to over

a dollar, simply because the speculat-

ors recognized the fact that there is

no oversupply anywhere. If the facts

can be given to the public, wheat will

soon bring $1.25 and the farmer will

begin to help the rest of the country

to good business.”





INCOME TAXES.





GENERAL reduction of federal i11-



come taxes, aggregating $323,000,-

000 next year, is proposed by Secre-

tary of the Treasury Mellon in a state-

ment; of recommendations he will pre-

sent to congress. His plan provides

for a twenty-five per cent reduction in

the taxes on earned incomes; reduc-

tion of the normal taxes on incomes

from four and eight pel'chnt to three

and six per cent, application of sur—





LOWER





taxes at $111,000 instead of $6,000, and





scaling them upward progressively to

twentytive per cent. 011 incomes of

$10 001).



The secwtan ot the tieasury would

11am: the tax law Stiengtliened so as

to better enforce the tax collection

provisions. He maintains that his

proposition would favor the man with

small income, but such revision would

be impracticable if the soldiers’ bonus

Iegislntion should be enacted.





MORE BLOCS.





HE organization of the farm bloc

in congress has given rise to a

numerous variety of blocs. The pro-





gressive bloc is now much in the pub—





farmers to sell'





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ments by its ‘ members, will demand

more and cheaper fertilizer, poisdn for





the boll weevil, and lighter taxes for





the planters.



The cotton bloc will hold a confer-

ence November 30 to lay plans for

congressional action



If this bloc idea continues to de-

velop we may expect soon to have a

wheat bloc, a cattle bloc, a potato bloc

and all sorts of blocsin congress.





TH E IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.





 





HE inferior class of European im—

migrantsthat are coming to this

country is giving alarm to business

men who formerly were favorable to

letting down ' the immigration bars.





They see a lowering of our standards





of civilization if the present condi-

tions continue. This information is

given out by Secretary of Labor Davis,

who.is advocating a selective immi-

gration bill, including a provision for

enrollment of aliens.



Secretary Davis has been informed

by leaders in congress that his bill

will not receive consideratiOn during

the coming session, but he is assured

that the present three per cent immi-

gration law, which expires next July,

will be extended until a more effective

law can be enacted.





 





BETTER SIRES MOVEMENT.





 





HE “Better Sires-Better Stock”

campaign being conducted by the

Federal Bureau of Animal Industry,

is making very satisfactory progress.

[7p to date 12,002 persons have en-

rolled in the movement, with 446,881

animals and 921,852 poultry listed.

Three new counties qualified for the.

honor list of counties having 100 or

more enrollments during the quarter

ending September 30,’namely, Wind-

sor, Vermont; Henry, Ohio, and Lewis,

\Vest Virginia. This increases the to-

tal in the whole country to twenty-

ejght, of which ten are in Ohio. Pul-





 





 





 





lic eye, and there is forming a cotton aski county, Virginia, stands at the

planters' bloc which proposes to look head. ,

after the interests of the cotton farm- Ohio, which is the foremost state

ers. ,This bloc, according to state- in the “Better Sires-Better Stock”

, ‘ a I

[Came] K05 s Tflmzérgz‘vmg Sermon

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"should secu1e amendments at the firét ‘ '- ‘

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,;1'stutes the} Iagws are 31 my





m0vement, now has 2,758 persons on-

r,olled With 96, 832 animals and 274,144.

poultry.



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THE CIDER VINEGAR MATTER,





 





HE department of agriculture has



been severely criticized because

of" its alleged unsatisfactory adminis-

tuition of the Stock Yards and Packer

act, and the wheat growers hold the

department in part responsible,

through its crop reporting service, for

their troubles.





These complaints may be unmerited,

but the apple growers and cider vin-

egar manufacturers feel that they

have well-founded grounds for their

charge that‘the department’s action,

or lack of action in the matter of mis-





branding of cider vinegar is causing ,





them the loss of this year’s market for

both apples suitable for vinegar, and

also for cider vinegar.



The department has refused to use‘

its authority to seize alleged mis-

branded vinegar in states not affected

by the decision in the sixth circuit

court, on the grounds that it might be

accused of attempted persecution. It

has apparently taken little interest in

bringing the matter to a decision in

the supreme court. it is alleged by

the apple growers and cider vinegar

manufacturers that it has given the

waste vinegar manufacturers the ad-





. vantage of every doubt, and made it





extremely difficult to secure a decision

favorable to the apple growers. .



The case has‘a preferred position‘

on the supreme court calendar, but its

progress will undoubtedly be .slow.

Meanwhile the apple growers and cid—

er vinegar manufacturers will contin-

ue to pocket their losses.





M. A. 0. TO BROADCAST FARM

. NEWS.





 





HE Agricultural College extension

service is making plans to use tlie

radio as part of its educational ser-

vice this winter. The plans are to use

the college station WKAR, at East

Lansing, to send’ out talks by college

specialists on subjects of interest to

Michigan faime1s.

On certain nights talks on agricul-





‘tural matters will be sent out, on oth-





ers engineering subjects will predom-

The college also plans to offer

the use of the 1adio to the state de—

pal tments of health, education and ags

riculture.



At present all the WKAR statiOn-is

being used for is to send out weather

and market news at noon. The plan

is to imp1ove the equipment so that

the station’ 3 sending radius will be ex— '

tended to 2000 miles.





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CO-OPS. HAVE DEALER LIABILITY.

IT has been decided by the internal

revenue bureau that an association





composed of grovvers of leaf tobaCco .

which “contracts with its members to





handle cooperatively as principal- the





purchase and sale of leaf tobacco” is

subject to the liability of a. dealer in

leaf tobacco under present laws. '

The bu1eau 1uled that aSSOCiations

of this chaiactei am in no sense farm-

ers or g1owers of leaf tobacco, and

therefore, can claim no exemption};

from the liability. .

Officials .of farm organizations

should at once have an examination

made of their respectiVe state laws

they find them deficiént.‘





ture Wallace, who Says 111111 in some
amo Mustard seed;





LOng ago it was written that faith, even

tho small as a grain of mustard seed,

could remove mountains.





_ . _, _, Henry Ford, with unbounded confidence,

5 y’ . “ :- ‘ ‘ ' _ , has labored for more than twenty years

‘ ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ A ' to remove the mountain of difficulty

standing in the way of modern transporo

tation. He has sought always to give the

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.FOrd—owned sources the raw materials

. are brought by Ford transportation units

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A WIFE’S ESTATE...





 





A .wife dies, leaving a husband and

four children, all of age. One-half the

property was sold just before she died

and the other half shortly after. Hus-

band and wife held a joint deed. The

wife left no will.’ Can the children

claim any share in the money? If' so,

how much, and how should they pro-

ceed to get it? The husband is get-

ting ready to marry again—L. J.



The land not sold during the life of

both survived to the husband and the

wife’s estate has no interest in it. One-

half of the proceeds of the land sold

during the life of both belongs to the

estate of the wife. Have an adminis-

trator appointed, [and recover' it.——-R.





ALFALFA 0N LIGHT SAND.





 





I am located at Muskegon. Soil is

light sand. Wish to arrive at alfalfa

as soon as possible. Would like some

information on fertilizer, lime, land

plaster, etc. Of course, -I ,realize you

cannot give me much, without details,

but believe you know that region" and

general conditions well enough to give

me somebgeneral ideas along this line.



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In order to make sure of success

with alfalfa on light sandy soil, the

soil ought to be improved by plowing

down green manurial crops, orapply

a good application of stable manure.

This sandy land needs more vegetable

matter and especially to get a good

start of alfalfa if the land is in quite

bad shape. You could seed this land

to peas and oats early, when they get

fairly matured plow them down or





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disc them up, then seed to soy—beans

and do the same with these and the

land would be in a much better shape

to seed to alfalfa next spring. How-

ever, you could seed to alfalfa this

spring.and use a good supply of com-

mercial fertilizer and if the season is

at all favorable so far as moisture is

concerned, you will probably get a

good stand of alfalfa. In either case,

the soil" should be well limed. As

much as two tons of ground limestone





per acre is none too much for alfalfa.‘





I don’t think it would pay to use land

plaster on this soil. What you want

is ground pulverized limestone and any

good commercial fertilizer, one con-

taining three per cent nitrogen, eight

to ten per cent phosphoric acid and

three to four' per cent potash will be

very helpful in getting alfalfa started.





-COWPEAS.





 





I would like, if you could advise me

as to sowing ecowpeas, if they will do

well in this par’t.._of. the state. What

kind to sow, if there are different

kinds, the time to sow, and how many

to sow per acre. and if there is a mar~

ket for them as hay ?—«A. L. D.





Cowpeas will grow almost anywhere

in Michigan, and they are splendid to

improve the soil. The concensus of

opinion, however, is that soybeans

are more practical and more adapted

to our soil and climate than cowpeas.

Many times cowpeas will not ripen.

They are more difficult to harvest be-

cause they .do not stand up like soy-





 





 

 





NOTHER season comes nigh to



its close, and in spite of very



difficult times we find we have

lots to be thankful for. This great

American dollar of ours, that we com-

monly use as a guage to measure our

accomplishments, has not recently

been very ardent in its courtship of

us farmers. Nevertheless, there is an

abundance of wholesome food to keep

the wolf from the door, and plenty of

feed for the stock. The comfortable

and secure position of most Mic igan

farmers may well be envied by those

cf many other lands and climes.



The fields on Francisco Farm have

each yielded their harvest for the

year. For the. most part, their produc-

tion has been quite satisfactory. The

crops have been converted into cash

or are securely stowed away in the

silo, the mows. the bins or the cribs.

The hog crop, which is annually a

leading feature, has come, grown to

.hoghoodsand gone into the channels

of trade. : Only the breeding herd and

a few young ones remain. The " beef

breeding herd has given a 100 per cent

increase, each one of the mature fe-

males now raising a big lusty calf.

Even the big brood, mares have raised

us a pair of fine foals this year, in ad-

dition to doing steady hard Work in

the fields. The good wife reports from

the “Greenwood Stock Farm,” our

Ohio home, that the beetsare all haul—

ed, the apples all picked, the cabbage

and potatoes in the cellar, and most

everything ready for winter. The lit-

tle school girl gathering walnuts, the

hired man shucking corn, and “149

gallons of cider yesterday, come on

over.” - - .



' . Turning the Sod.



No sooner do we close up the work

for the season of 1923 than we start

‘operations-for 1924. That is ever the

way of the farm and it is well. Look-





 





 





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busy. That is what helps to make the

farm a good place to be. Our theory

is that contentment comes, not. so

much from the dollars we accumu-

late, as from steady work that we like

to do, from thinking and planning

ahead for that work, and from a real-

ization of having done it well.





So, now that we can look backward

to the fields of ’23, we pause only long

enough to appreciate what they have

meant to us, and to reverently give

thanks to the Great Creator for the

fulfillment -of another season’s prom-

ise, then we get out the plows and

proceed to turn the sod for next year’s

corn. As we have stated before in

these columns, our chief appreciation

of fall plowing is in making use of

time when the .work can ‘be done to

best advantage. A day saved in the

fall is a day gained in the spring. I

know of no time quite so suitable for

sod plowing as, the late fall of the

year. The Soil works nicely, the weath-

er is cool,'the teams are hardened in

to heavy work and are not badly need-

ed for other field operations.





Some years there is a disadvantage

due to soil erosion on our farms that

are more or less rolling, but heavy

sods will turn over loose and friable,

and will absorb a great. deal of mois-

ture before the waters begin to flow

off on the surface. We feel than. on

the whole, the saving-in time, which

gives greater assurance of getting the

crops planted in good season next

spring, is more than enough to count-

'erbalance the risk of soil washing. So

we will, if possible, finish turning the

sod field—~which is to 'go to, corn in





' the’springmbefpre the ground freezes

.up for winter.





A few good days with.

the tractor will do the ’job, and, then

but :a few more days with tandem disc

and spring-tooth when the‘war’m days

come next spring will put the soil in

perfect shape to receive" the seeds of





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soy-beans you wfil'hav'e no trouble, in

finding a market for them, I'because

they are in great demand for. seed.

Very many people are planting them

with corn for ensilage, and soy-bean

seed is very high at the present time.

If you plant soy-beans in drill, twenty-

eight inches apart, it will take about

one bushel of seed. per. acre. -It will

pay you to inoculate the seed with

proper bacteria. You can sow soy-

beans broadcast as you would 'cpreas





or field peas, but they grow, better and ‘





yield better if sown in drills and given

inter-tillage.





QUACK GRAss.





 





Will you please give me some sug—

gestions on the eradication of quack

grass ?——A.v B.



Shy-beans make a quick and some-

what rank growth, but Will not be

successful in smothering lout quaCk

grass unless the eradication was start-

ed several months before planting.

Mid-summer is. the best time of the

year to start eradication since at this

time of year the root. stalks are at

their lowest state of vitality. The

quack grass sod should be plowed, cut-

ting just under the turf and in about.

ten days thoroughly disked. Repeat

every week or" ten days until fall, and

disk again during the spring.

weather conditions havebeen favor-

able the quack should be well sub~

dued so that soybeans, field beans or

other cultivated crops may be planted. .

——C. R. Megeev





SALE OF COWS.





 





Has Michigan at law prohibiting the





sale of dairy cows or any other cattle .





from one county to another without

mg (Izcws being tuberculosis tested?





Compiled Laws 1915, Sec. 7310:, em‘

powers the state live stock. sanitary

commisSion to establish such quaran-

tine as it may deem necessary to ’pro-

tect against malignant diseases of

stocks—Rood. '





GARN ISHMENT.





 





'I bought a second-hand clutch and





rim, but did not have the ready cash.

But as the car was out of commission,

1 put it in the barn and it stood there.

My crops were a failure, and still I

could not pay the $10. The mangtold

me to either return the parts or pay





at once so I returned the parts, which





he again sold. But now ‘he claims

that I .still owe him the money. I did

chores for a man who had. a farm in

Michigan and resided in Chicago. He

paida few dollars and then quit._ I

wrote him twice asking for money,

and then gave the account to a lawyer

who got $25 and a bank draft for $30

for me. The auto dealer garnis'heed

the draft. As draft was for personal

labor, can I hold. sixty per cent? Does

the-draft being in the bank change in

anyr wFamey getting sixty per cent?





When the seller demanded and re-

ceived the return of the parts he re-

scirided the contract and‘there is no

further liability by the purchaser. The

garnishment exemptiOn extends to the

wages until ,they are received into





the hand of the person entitled to the -





exemption in cash.—~Rood.





. MANURE AS P-Ropsnrv.





 





A. rented a building and barn ’of B.

A. procures strawof C. to use as bed-

ding for horse, .with agreement to ,let

C. have manure made, to pay fer the

Straw. D. buys ‘bufilclings of B., and

claims the manure as real estate;" and

threatens A. “for disposing of it.——B.





'E. Y.





Manure produced at a boardingista;





.ble is personal Netty;- Manure pro-

duced in thef-courseJ-of agriculture is #

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breeding. We were





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Here, coal black pups

looked at us inquiringly and playfully,





I . while their mothers and dads showed





the fox’s native caution and fear of.





I. strangers. ~





Here, too, we found high quality of

introduced to





David Arthur, who grand-parents are





.Sir Arthur and Lady Evelyn, who have





produCed more wealth to: their own-

ers than any known living pair of

foxes.



Sir Arthur and Lady Evelyn a1e at

the Willow Hill Ranch, on Prince Ed-

ward Island, which was started with

this pair of foxes in 1910. Up to

March, 1921, this ranch increased to





'eighty- -six high-grade breeding foxes,





and, besides, from the single pair

$286, 405 worth of foxes and 'fuis have

been sold. '



But to get back to the Corwin





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'live stock endeavor, and he is backing





 





business man who has big interests in

Columbus, Ohio, where most of his

time is spent. His hobby in the farm

line, however, is foxes. He believes

there is greater opportunity with the

silver blacks than any other line of





his thoughts with a substantial invest-

ment in high-quality animals.



Mr. Alfred Henrickson is vice-pres-

ident and treasurer of the company,

as well ‘asits Jersey specialist.



Mr. C. W. Corwin, a brother of

Themas P., is secretary, and also ac-

tive manager of the fox department.

Mr. C. W. left business activitiesbe-

cause the memory of his boyhood

days on the farm gave him the urge

to get back to the land. Besides the

breeding stock referred to' before, he

has seventy-six pups under his care.

The increase of, 126 per cent during





 





 





Where Mr. Henrickson Keeps the Jerseys.





Ranch; it is also the home of Lady

Hilda, the first prize silver female at

Be-

sides, it contains seveial othei plomi-

nent winners at that show, including

sons, daughters and sisters of the

grand champion pair. Adelaide’s Prin-

cess and Hilda’s Prince, bred and

grown on the Corwin Ranch, each won

the blue ribbon at the 1922 Muskegon

show in competition with the best fox-

es in the country. -



Every precaution is used here to

keep the foxes in good condition. As

you enter the ranch enclosure, you'are

requested to step into a shallow pan

of disinfectant. This is to prevent the

carrying in of I‘abbies and other dis-

eases which may come from dogs, cats

and other domestic animals.





The feed for these foxes is produced

almost entirely on the farm. It con-

sists chiefly of sweet milk, fruit, cer-

eals, vegetables, 1abbits, h01se meat,

poultry and eggs The principal addi-

tion to this farm-produced ration is the

tripe and other meat' obtained from

the local butchers.



The kitchen of the ranch is perfec—

tion itself, for it is “as neat as wax.”

All the utensils are cleansed by live





steam and the stockof meat, etc, is





kept fresh in a refrigerator. The

equipment includes meat and bone

grinders and a, large number of China

"bowls which are used to feed the fox-

es in. . Occasionally a feed of cow or

calf hide is given the foxes to ex-





, terminate worms and to prevent the





habit of chewing the ends of their

tails.



The Corwin farm corporation idea

is comparatively new. Thus far, must

of the time has been spent in devel-

oping the Jersey and fox departments

of the farm. However, the farm con-





tains a fine modern hog house in‘

which a few high-bred Hampshh es are ‘





quartered. .Th'e poultry house is also

ve1y modern, and is the home of the

nucleus of a 1eal quality flock of White

Wyandottes The hog and poultry ac-

tivities will be increased as Soon as

' opportunity pel m1ts The Gorwin farm





consists of 295 acres, part of which is"





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the past yea1 is an indication of his

good management.



The Corwin fox activities have been

recognized by the National Silver Fox

Breeders’ of America by electing Mr.

Thomas P. Corwin its third vice-pres-

ident.



When we left; we were filled full of

the fulfillment of our expectations to

see something. The only thing was

that the detour upheld the reputation

detours have for roughness and crook-

edness. However, we took the bumps

with greater apparent ease, because

our minds were 011 what we had just

seen and heard.



MOST M. A. c. GRADUATES ARE ‘

FARMERS.





RECENT survey of the occupa-



tion of graduates of the Michigan

Agricultural College shows that 20.3

per cent are farmers, While'fifty-foul

per cent follow other agricultural pur-

suits, while only seventeen per cent

are engaged. in non-agricultural occu-

pations.



At present, three presidents and five

deans of other agricultural colleges

are counted among the alumni of M.

A. C.





CHEAP MAnL _|N MANISTEE.





N Manistee county, the county farm



bureau has purchased a marl ex-

tractor to mine marl .from James

Lake. This marl will be sold to local

farmers at sixty cents a yard. As the

soil in the surrounding country is very.

acid, this presents areal opportunity

to the farmers there. The“ price-is

also very low, when one considers that

last year marl was offered at, $1.10 a

yard and pulverizeddimestone costs

$4.20 per ton at the trackside.



Incidentally the digging of this marl

willhelp the reclamation of thousands

of acres in 'Manisfee county. Similar

p1opositions could be walked in other

cOunties, as the supply of ma1l, like

g the need for it, is practically unlim-

"ited. Most every lake or stream'has

a marl bed in it, and many farmers

have their own private, marl beds in

swamps.- ' '





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‘ANY people who drink coffee regularly are .

troubled with insomnia; or they feel nervous, '

“headachy,” or suller from indigestion;





It may be hard for such men and women to believe

that cofiee is responsible for the way they feel. Be

cause they have always drunk cofiee, it hardly seems

possible that this old habit could cause trouble.





. But there is one sure way to find out whether cof-

fee is harming you. Just stop its use for a week or so,

and drink Postum,





Postum is a pure cereal beverage—absolutely free

from calleine, the drug in coffee, which disturbs the

health and comfort of many.





After a week or two on Postum, you will sleep

better and feel better; then your own good judgment

should decide whether you go back to collee or con-

tinue on the Road to Wellville with Postum.





Sold by grocers everywhere!





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Year grocer sells Postum in two forms:



t Postum [in tins] prepared in-

stantly in the cup by the addition of

boiling water. Postum Cereal [in pack.

ages] for those who prefer the flavor

brought out by boiling fully 20 minutes.

The cost of either form is about one-half

cent a cup.





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DANGEROUS person is one who

is inimical to your interests.

Thus the members of. the W. C.





T. U. for years were regarded by the

fsalobn owners and the brewelies as

‘the most ‘dangerous citizens in the na-

;tion.





The anti—saloon league workers

also were dangerous people. To the

smuggler; the revenue officer is the

least desirable of humans,





Now, missionaries are certainly dan-

If you don’t believe‘ it,

And the

worst of it is, that all church mem-

bers are supposed to be missionaries.

That is what the—lesson for this week

says, and the New Testament is its

authority. If a

church is not a

m i s s i o 11 a r y

church, the ques—

tion may well be

asked What that

particular church

exists for. Chris-

tians are suppos-

ed to be prolific.

They were intended to “be fruitful,

and multiply, and replenish the earth.”





 





- There seems to be a secret to it, some





way, for there are churches that grow

'and grow, even in communities where

the population is stationary. And

there are other churches that do not

grow, even in the most favorable hu-

man environment. Again, there are

churches that send out young people

to become messionaries, while others

have never seen any 01' their boys in

Sunday School become ministers or

missionaries. They are not success~

ful, seemingly, in reproducing them—

selves.



It is natural to increase. A breed

of swine that loses its vitality so that

the litters are small does not sell

readily. Something must be done to

build up its vigor. An apple orchard

is supposed to produce enough fruit





‘HRISTIANITY is a religion intend—



ed to grow and multiply. The

book of Acts contains many state-

ments showing how the early church

grew. “And the number of men came

to be about five thousand.” “But the

word of the Lord grew and multi-

plied.” “So mightily grew the word

of the Lord and prevailed.” “And the

word of God increased and the num-'

ber of disciples multiplied in Jerusa-

lem exceedingly; and a great com-

pany of the priests were obedient to

the faith.” It sometimes looks nowa-

days as though the church had gone

Why

is this? For one thing, we do not

spend enough money. \Ve invest the

price of an ice cream cone on each

child, in our Sunday School w01k, each

year. That won’t buy a good cigar,

smokers tell me. The numbe1 of chil—

dren and youth in Ame11ca who do not

enter any church or church school is

something like twenty-six millions,

and that includes all faiths, Protestant





' and Roman Catholic- Has the church





lost the secret of increasing? Has

something fallen out of our machin-

ery, our prayers, vour teaching and

preaching? No, the secret has not

been lost. System and devotion will

still achi'eve'the impossible. Look at

In the eighteenth century mis-

sionary efforts were prosecuted spas:

medically and fitfully. The results for

one hundred years were something

like seventy thousand conve1ts. This

is speaking only of foreign missions

in the nineteenth century, leaders in

the church were aroused. Missionar-

ies were trained andsent to the most

strategic centers. Results? Eleven





- mill-ion. You see, it can still_'_be done,

'when the church really wants to do it;

' which means, or course. when you and _

-i 1 wt to do it. .,





 





’. Our W eat/2y Sermon—By N A. M 602023





and the'

Lthief looks upon the judge and the

:prosecutor as worse than unnecessary.





To quote a line or two from Doctor

R. F. Horton:





the gave of a missionary, John

Geddes, and an epitaph: ‘When he

came in 1848 there was nota Chris-

tian; when he left- in 1872 there was»

not a single heathenl.” Have we the





'courage to believe'that the time will





come when there will not be a heathen

in America? In the world? “He shall

not fail nor be discouraged till he

have set judgment in the earth.’.’ '





Not long ago I was reading about

the work of boys’ and girls’ clubs. A.

few years since, this Was an experi—

ment in rural work. In 1920, 216,000

boys and girls were engaged in club

work. _ These were influencing 14,000

communities. Farmers in some places

are raising better pigs because their

boys have taught them how. The corn

crop is larger and of better grade in

other localities because the boys be-

gan to study corn judging. The

finances of these clubs three years

ago amounted to $4, 600, 000. That is

growth, of a very useful and. beautiful

kind.



And what reasons we have, for

spreading Christianity! Did anything

ever rest on a. broader foundation than

the Christian message? What men

have espoused its cause. What giants

have given of their might ‘to sow its

seeds! What heroes have fallen, face

to the foe! ‘ ‘





HEN one gets dyspeptic or acid-



ulated he needs to turn to some

such record and refresh his soul. For

instance, listen to this: John Smith

was a missionary on the island of

Demerara almost a hundred years ago.

“The planters did not resent so much

the preaching as the teaching. They

dreaded the hour when the slaves

would learn to read. There are some

uncomfortable things for slave owners

in the New Testament. Native risings

gave them their occasion to deal with

Smith. He was accused and tried be«

fore a court martial and on the most

flimsy and contradictory evidence was

condemned to be hanged for partici-

pating in the rebellion. The execution

was deferred, for even the court mar-





tial did. not dare to flout theehome.





government so scornfully as to hang a

British missionary off-hand. But be-

fore any answer came, Smith died in

prison, a martyr to the cause of the

education of the slaves. The death

of a delicate man in prison was the

signal for an outburst of indignation

in England. Wilberforce made his

last speech on the subject. A young

man, Macaulay, made his first public

speech, and a fine piece of rhetoric it

was, on the same subject. Lord

Brougham pulled to pieces the illegal

methods of the court martial, and in

general it may be said that the death

of Smith marked a. landmark in the

progress of slave emancipation. This

humble man, dying, did much to set

free his dark friends in the West

Indies.” This man, Smith, was an-

other of these dangerous folk.





1





HERE are many missionary forces



in the church. Take the organized

Sunday School class, for instance. Not

long ago I sat in a convention and

listened to the reports of these organ-

ized classes from all over Michigan.

Many had had conversions of young

people during the year. Others had

formed other classes in other churfih—

es. They did big things .





 





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Governor Trapp holds reins of Ok-





government,





outcome of Gov. Walton’s tria‘l.





 





 





 





American sculptor, Oronio Ruotolo, is making

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wizard of mathematics and electricity.





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After having been brought up together, thishoun’ dawg and Sir

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United States Navy submarine 0-5 sunk in collision with the S. S.

Abangarez. Two men were rescued from the sunken submarine

after being imprisoned for thirty-one hours.





 





 





 





 





 





When time hangs heavy on the hands of women jurors at Cleve-





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Dan Beard, National Commissioner of Boy Scouts, and other “buck

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Theodore Roosevelt to pay homage on Roosevelt Day. »





 





 





 





 





 





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anchors the giant navy dirigible,

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About 100,000 Masons watch ed President Coolidge spread the first

mortar for, the corner-stone of the National Masonic Memorial

to George Washington at 'Mt. Vernon, Va.





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‘Mustapha Kemal Pasha and wife,

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1
swer, and Barry listened with

interest. Evidently. he had struggled

to his feet during the night—though

he could not remember it—and striv-

en to find his way down the mountain

side in the darkness, for the story of

Ba’tiste told Barry that he had found

him just at dawn, a full five hundred

yards from the machine.» '



“I see heem move,” the big voice

was saying, “just’ as I go to look at

my trap. Then Golemar come beside

me and raise his hair along his neck

and growl—~r-r-r-r-r-u-u-f—f—f—like that.

I look again—it is jus' at the dawn. I

cannot see clearly. I raise my gun to

shoot, and Golemar, he growl again.

Then I think eet strange that the bear

,or whatever he is do not move. I say

to Golemar, ‘W’e will closer go, no

c’est pas?’ A step or two—then three

but he do not move——then pretty soon

I look again, close. Eet is a man. I

pick heem up, like this—and I bring

heem home. Ne c’est pas, Medaine?"



Her name was Medaine then. Not

bad. Barry thought. It rather matched

her hair and the tilt of her nose and‘

the tone of her laugh as she an-

swered:



“I would say you carried him more





like a sack of meal, Ba’tiste. I’m glad

I happened along when I did; you

might have thrown him over your





shoulder!”



A booming laugh answered hel and

the sound of a light scuffle, as though

the man Were. striving to catch the

girl in hisfiig embrace. But the cold

voice of Thayer cut in:



“And he hasn't regained conscious-

ness '.’”



“Not yet. That is, 1 think he’s re,-

covered his senses, all right, and'l'all—

«11 immediately into a heavy sleep."



“Guess I’ll go in and stay with him

until he wakes up. He's my boss, you

know—since the old man died. AWe’ve

got a lot of important things to dis-





cuss. So it' you don’t mind——”

“Certainly not.” It was the girl

again. “W'e’ll go in with you.”

“No, thanks. I want to see him

alone.”





Within the bedroom, Barry Houston

gritted his teeth. Then, with a sud-o

den resolve, he rested his head again

on the pillow and closed his eyes as

the sound of steps approached. Closer

they came to the. bed, and 'closer. Bar~

ry could feel that the man was bendw

ing over him, studying him. There

came a murmur, almost whispered:



“Wonder What the damn fool came

out here about? Wonder if he’s wise?”





CHAPTER III.





T was with an effort that Houston



gave no indication that he had

heard. Before, there had been only

suspicions, one flimsy clue leading to

another, a building block process,

which, in its culmination, had deter-

mined Barry to take a trip into the

west to see for himself. He had be-

lieved that it would be a long process,

the finding of a certain telegram and

the possibilities which might ensue if

this bit of evidence Should turn out to

be the thing he had suspected. He





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the lips of the man himself a confes-

sion that conditions weie not iight at

the lumber mill of which Bariy Hous-

ton now formed the executive head;

to receive the certain statement that

somewhere, somehow, something was

wrong, something which 'was working

against the best interests of himself

and the stern necessities of the future.

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only to desist. Then, hesitatingly, he

turned and walked to the door.

1 “Ba’tiste."

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that person crossfed the brightness of

the window and turned toward the

bed. And when at last he did look up

into the narrow, sunken face, it was

with eyes which carried in them no-

light of friendship, nor even the faint-

est air of recognition. - Thayer put

forth a gnarled, frost-twisted hand.

“Hello, kid,” he announced, his thin

lips twisting into a cynical smile that





her who he is.”



“Ah!” Then came the Sound of

heavy steps, and Barry glanced toward

the door, to see framed there the gi-

gantic form of a grinning, bearded

man, his long arms hanging with the

looseness of tremendous strength, his

gray eyes gleaming‘with twinkling in-





 





 





Y‘H/INKSGIVING/





By James E.





When the turks have ceased to gobble,

An’ are bein' stuffed to eat,



An’ the ducks no longer wobble

On their pigeon-toey feet;



When the odors from the oven

Come to tempt the sons 0’ men,



It’s a sign that that ol’ lovin'

Day—Thanksgivln’s here again!





When the pumpkin, fat an’ juicy,

is transformed into a pie,

An’ your Ma an’ Aunt Jerushy

Keep the kitchen stove “on high;”

When the cellar’s store 0’ cider,

Pickles, jellies an’ preserves,

Makes you let your belt out wider,

To accommodate the curves;





,terest, his whole being and build that

of a great, good-bummed, eccentric

giant. His beard was splotched with

gray, as wasthe hair which hung in

short, unbarbered strands about his

ea1s But the hint of age was nulli-

fied by the cocky angle of the blue-

knit cap upon his head, the blazing

1ed of his double- breasted pearl but~

toned shirt, the flexible freedom of his

muscles as he strode within.

him trotted a great gray cross-breed

dog, which betokened collie and tim-

ber‘ wolf, and which prOgressed step

by step at his master’s knee. Close to

the bed they came, the gleat ,f01m

bending, the twinkling, shaip eyes

bming /into those of Houston, until

the younger man gave up the contest

and turned his head—~to look once

more upon the form of the girl, wait-

ing wonderingly in the doorway. Then

the voice came, rumbling, yet' pleas-

ant:



“He no remember, eh?”



"No. I know him all right. It’s





'H u ngcrfo rd





When the air is full 0’ spices,



An ’the scent 0’ things a-bake,

An’ the freezer’s freezin’ ices,



An' there's frostin’ on the cake;

When the folks—both kin an’ neigh-



bors,



Start appearin’ on the scene,

‘Lookin’ hungry-like, b’jabersl—



You can guess what it may mean!





\

When the guests have all foregathered,

’Round the moanin’, groanin’ board,

An’ their smilin’ lips are lathered,

An’ their appetites have soared;

When the gobbler’s stuffed .with

dressin’,

To be gobbled up by men,

You can thank God for the blessin’

0' Thanksgivin’ Day, again!





 





Barry Houston—I’ve been expecting





 





Thayer had turned away and evi-

dently sought a Chair at the other side

of the room. Barry remained perfectly

still. Five minues passed. Ten. There

came no sound from the chair; in-

stinctively the man 011 the bed knew

that Thayer Was watching him, wait-

ing for the first flicker of an eyelid,

the first evidence of returning c011-





sciousness. Five minutes more and

Barry rewarded the vigil. He drew

his breath in a shivering sigh. He





turned and groaned——quite naturally

with the pain from his splintered arm.

His eyes opened slowly, and he stared

about him, as though in non-under-

standing wonderment, finally to center

upon the window ahead and retain his

gaze there, oblivious ot'~ the sudden

tensity of the thin-faced Thayer.

Barry Houston was playing for time,

pla'ying a game of identities. In the

same room was a man he felt sure to

be an enemy, a man who had in his

care everything Barry Houston pos-

sessed in the world, every hope, every

dream, every chance for the wiping

out of a thing that had formed a black

blot in the life of the young man for

two grim years, and a man who, Barry

Houston now l'elt'certain, had not held

true to his trust. Still steadily star-

ing, he pretended not to notice the





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him to drop in most any _day. Of

course, I haven’t seen him since he

was a kid out here with his fatherw

but that doesn’t make any difference.

The family resemblance is there—he’s

got his father’s eyes and mouth and

nose, and his voice. But I can’t get

him to remember it. He can’t recall

anything about his fall, or his name

or business. I guess the accident~"



“Eet is the~” Ba’ tiste was Waving

one hand vaguely, then placing a fin-

ge1 to his f',01ehead in a vain snuggle

for a word. .f‘Eet is the—what-you-





in days gone by had passed as an at-

l'ectation. Barry looked blankly at

him. ‘



“Hello.”



“How’d you get hurt?"



“I don’t know."



“Old Man Renaud hele says you fell

01 91 the side of Two Mile Hill. He

picked you up about six o’clock this

morning. Don’t you remember?”



“Remember what?” The blank look

still remained. Thayer moved closer

to the bed. and bending, stared at him.





“Why, the accident. I’m Thayer, ~say_”

50.“ know—Thayer, your manager at “Amnesia.” The answer hadcome

the Empire Lake mill.” ‘ quietly from the girl. Ba’tiste turned

"Have I a manager?” excitedly.

“Ah, out! Eet is the amnesia,





THE thin man drew back and stood

for a moment staring down at



Houston. Then he laughed and rubbed

his gnarled hands.



(“I hope you’ve got a manager. You

~—y0u haven’t fired me, have you?”



Barry turned his head wearily, as

though the conversation were ended.



“\Y0u—don’t—say, you’re Barry

Houston, aren’t you?”



“I? Am I?"



“Well, then, who are you?”



The man 011 the bed smiled.



"I'd like to have you tell me. I

don't know myself.”





Many time I have seen it—” he waved

at hand—“across the way, ne 0 ’est pas?

Eet is when the mind he will no Work

mwhat you say———he will not stick on

the job. See—e” he gesticulated now

with both hands “eet is like a wall.

I see eet with the shell shock. Eet is

all the same. The wall is knock down

——eet will not hold together. Blooey

—” he waved his hands—“the man he

no longer remember!”



This time the stare in Barry Hous-

ton’s eyes 'was\ genuine. To hear a

girl of the mountains name a partic-

ular form of mental ailment, and then





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man. He had half eXpeCted the girl

to say "them” and “that there,” though

the trimness of her dress, the smooth-

ness of her small, well shod feet, the

air of refinement which spoke even

before her lips had utteied a wo1d

should have told him differently. As

for the giant, Ba’ tiste, with his out-

landish clothing, his cordu1oy trousers





and high-laced, hob-nailed boots, his*





fawning, half-breed dog, his blazing





. shirt and kippy little knit cap, the sur-





prise was all the greate1. But that

surprise, it seemed, did not extend to

the other listener. Thayei had bob-

bed his head as though in defeience

to an authority. When he spoke, Barry

thought that he discerned a tone of

enthusiasm, of hope:



“Do they ever get over it?”



“Sometimes, yes. Sometime—no.

Eet all depend. ”



“Then there isn’t any time limit 011



athing like this.”





       





“No. Somet'

a week—sometime never. It all de-

pend. Sometime he get a shock“

something happen quck, sudden—-





blooey—he come back, he say ‘where

am I,’ and he be back again, same

like he was before!” Ba’tiste gesticu-

lated vigorously, Thayer moved to-

waf‘d the door.



“Then I guess there’s nothing more

for me to do, except to drop in every

few days and see how he’s getting

along. You’ll take good care of him?”

- “Ah, oui.”



“Good; Want to walk a piece down

the road with me, Medaine?”



“Of course. It’s too bad, isn’t itw”





THEN they faded through the door—

way, and ’Barry could hear no

more. But he found himself looking

after them, wondering about many

things—about the girl and her interest

in Fred Thayer, and whether she too

might [be a part of the machinery

which he felt had been set up against

him; about the big— grinning Ba’tiste,

who. still remained in the room; who

now was fumbling about with the bed-

clothes at the foot of the bed and——

“Ouch! Don’t—don’t do that!”

Barry suddenly had ceased his

thoughts to jerk his feet far up under

the covers, laughing and choking and

striving to talk at the same time. At

the foot-of the bed, Ba’tiste, his eyes

twinkling more than ever, had calmly

rolled back the covering and just as

calmly tickled the injured man’s feet.

More, one long ’arm hard outstretched

again, as the giant once more reached

for the sole of a foot, to tickle it, then

to stand back and boom with 1aughte1z

as Barry involuntarily sought to jerk

the point of attack out of the way.

For a fourth tifne_he repeated the

performance, followed by a fourth out—

burst of mirth at the recoil from the

injured man. Barry frowned.

“Pardon me,” he said rather caus-

tically. “But I don’t get the joke.”

“Ho, ho!” and Ba’tiste turned to talk

to the shaggy dog at his side. “L’en-

fant feels it! L’enfant feels it!”

“Feel it,” grunted Houston. “Of

course I feel it! I’m ticklish.”





“Youhear, Golemar?” Ba’tiste con-

torted with merriment, pointed vague-

ly' in the direction of the bed, “M’sieu

1’ Nobody, heemfis sticklishvl”



“Of course I’m ticklish. Who isn’t,

on the bottom of his feet?”





The statement only brought a new

outburst from the giant. It nettled

Houston; further, it caused him pain

to be jerking censtantly about the bed

in an effort to evade the tickling touch

of the trapper’s big fingeis. Once

more Ba’tiste leaned forward and wig-

gled his fingers as «if in preparation

for a new assault, and once more Bar-





”ry withdrew his pedal extremities to

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,, hi. the woods was a bit ,

past the comprehension of the injured





”a long moment.





head, then twisting, Ian





ternoén—eif you’ve got to play these

fool games—I’ll feel better—”



The thunder of the other man’s

laugh cut him off. Ba’tiste was‘now,

it seemed, in a perfect orgy of merriw

lnent. ,As though weakened by his

laughter, he reeled to the wall and

leaned there, his big arms hanging

loosely, the tears rolling down his

cheeks and disappearing in the gray

beard, his face reddened, his whole

form shaking with series after series

of chuckles.



“You hear heem?” he gasped at the

wolf-dog. “M’sieu l’ Nobody, he will

play with us this afternoon! M’sieu

l’ Ticklefoot! That is heem, my Gole-

mar, M’sieu 1’ Ticklefoot! Oh, how—



“.What in thunder is thebig idea?”

Barry Houston“ had lost his reserve

now. “I want to be a good fellow-m

but for the love of. Mike let me. in on

the joke. I can’t get it. I don’t seei

anything funny in lying hele with a

broken sum and having my feet tick-E

led. Of course, I’m grateful to you for 3'

picking me up and all that sort of

thing, but—J’ _



Choking back the laughter, Ba’tistc

returned to. the foot of the bed and

stood wiping the tears from his eyes.



“Pardon, 111011 ami," came seriously

at: last. “Old Ba’tiste must have his

joke. Listen, Ba’tiste tell you some-

thing. You see people here today, 0111,

yes? You see, the petite Medaine?

A11, oui!” He clustered his fingers to

his lips and blew a kiss toward the

ceiling. “She is the, whatyou—say,

line 111 keetl. She is flu-1.11011 belie! Q

You no nev’ see her before?"



Barry shook his head.

went on.



“You see M’sieu Tliayer? ()ui?

know heem?”



“No”



“You suie.





‘Never saw him before."





 





 





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“So?” »Batiste grinned and wagged

a finger. “Ba’teese he like the truth,

yes, oui. Ba’teese he don’t get, the





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truth, he tickle M’sieu’s feet.

“Now listen! Please—fl J

“No—11o!” The giant waved a hand

in dismissal of threat. “Old Ba’teese,

he still joke. Ba’teese say he tell you

something. Eet is this. You see those

people? All right. Emu—good. You

don’ know one. You know the other.

Yes? ()ui? Ba’teese not know why

you do it. 3a’teese not care. Ba’teese

is right-——in here.” He patted his

heart with a big hand. “But youw

you not tell the truth. I know. 1'

tickle your feet.” l

“You’re crazy!” 3

“So, mebbe. Ba’teese have his trou-

ble. Sometime Ba’teese wish he go:

crazy—like you say.” . .

The faCe. suddenly aged. The twink-E

light left the eyes. The big hands.

knitted, and the man was silent 1'01

Then, “But Ba’ teeseg

He pointed to his‘

his MP1

down his spine. “When eet is the

what-you-say, an111esia——~tl1e nerve eet

no work in the foot. I could tickle,

tickle, tickle, and you would not know.

But with you»—blooey~-—rigl1t away,

you feel. So, for some reason, you are, '

wh‘at-you-say ?—-shamming. But youi

are Ba’teese’ gues’. You sleep in 1311’—

teese’ bed. You eat Ba’teese’ food. So

long as that, you are Ba’teese friend.

Ba’teese—” he looked with quiet,

fatherly eyes towald the young manl

on the bed~“shall ask no question~

and Ba’ teese shall tell no tales!” ;





he know~—-see?”—





 





(Continued next week). ' l





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HEN our .colonial ancestors



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ing to God for their new coun-

try and home, they set aside a day in

November to be devoted to prayer and

thanksgiving. Families gathered at

grandmother’s house to participate in

a real harvest feast, and the day was

called Thanksgiving Day.



This delightful custom has been

handed down from generation to gen-

eration with a few changes, but the

original spirit of litankfulness and fes-

tivity still prevails.



The big question of the hostess pre-

paring l'or this festive occasion is,

“What will I serve for Thanksgiving

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When Trussed Like This There Are

No Marks on the Breast.





of course, that one may prepare at

this bountiful season of the year. But

to arrange a menu to suit both the

pocketbook and the appetite is rather

puzzling.



The menu and recipes appearing

herewith may contain some sugges-

tions for you.





Bisque of oyster Toasted bread sticks

Roast fowl Cranberry sauce

Mashed potato Squash on half shell





Stuffed celery Fruit salad

Pumpkin pie Olives Cheese balls

Orange ice Coffee





Bisque of Oyster.



Boil one quart of oysters in their

own liquor with a pint of white stock.

After cooking one-half hour, add one

quart of milk, one-half pint of cream.

Thicken until smooth and velvety.





Squash on the Half Shell.



Cut squash into convenient pieces

for serving, without peeling, the shape

depending upon the ingenuity of the

hostess. Bake in a moderate oven

until well done. Just before serving,

add a bit of butter and a dash of





‘paprika to each piece. ‘





Stuffed Celery.



Select small crisp stalks.of celery.

To one cup of creamed pimento cheese

add\ two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise

and one tablespoon of minced olives.

Blend well and fill the stalks with this

mixture.



_ Fruit Salad.



7T0 two cups of diced apples, add

one cup halved white grapes, one-half

Blend with





, I , Orange ice. , .

._4 To met; cups of orange juice add





 





   





 





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T HERE are tricks in every trade



and the home decorator some-

times has to use a good many to

make interiors and furnishings appear

what they ought to instead of what

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as they are and it’s a fortunate trick

that will make things look better, a

thrice fortunate trick that will hide a

defect and give a feeling of comfort

and pleasure.



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solved easily if you know the under-

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that seem crowded and lack repose?



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Long horizontal lines, the lying-down

position, express tranquility. Vertical

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striving, inquietude. Broken lines and

slanting lines express motion, activity.



Too many objects and too many con-

trasts take away space and the feeling

of repose.



How are the pictures hung? By two

slanting cords that show plainly in

contrast to the. background? Two ver-

tical cords will be better, and a hang-

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Either make the cord so short the pic-





ture hides it, or make it the Color of

the wall. .



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tally are more reposefu-i than narrow

up and down ones. Small pictures

hung in groups that follow an oblique

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the eye up and insist on activity.



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OPINIONS ON THE MOP WRINGER.





 





HAT the mop wringer is a con-

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Mrs. G. K.’s request, for opinions as to

the practicability of this labor-saver.

The following is a portion of the

opinions of housewives who have giv-

en the mop wringer a thorough test.

The mop wringer certainly does

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Mrs. M. D. '



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Mrs. G. K. to get a mop wringer. If





 





 





How to Cm: Meat at Home .





In order of greatest consumption of meats

The greater

primarily to the fact that the home-curing of





beef, mutton, chicken and veal.





on the farm. comes. pork,

consumption of pork is due

pork is an old practice and





beef, in the past, either had to be corned or‘ieaten fresh. Recent scientific

discoveries in canning methods have proven that beef and other meats can

be canned satisfactorily, giving the farm family the privilege of enjoying

their own home supply of fresh meat during the spring and summer months

instead of depending upon the butcher. - . >





Meat is ready to be canned as soon as the animal heat is out of it, and





cut up in pieces favorable for handling. It

clean manner and may be packed in \the cans raw or

prefer having it cooked first, forcing the

of the meat. This cooking process may he





should be handled in a

cooked. Many people

'gument that it adds to the flavor

ther by boiling, roasting, stewing,





frying or broiling, using the process most suited to the cut of meat.





It is not necessary to make this cooking process complete.

seasoning is thoroughly cooked intothe meat.





may be cooked only until the





The meat





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it should be in the hot water bath the same





' If meat is only partially cooked,

length of time as the uncooked





meat, but if thoroughly cooked the processing period may be shortened.

Wipe the meat with a damp cloth and slice and cut in pieces convenient





for serving, removing gristle, bone and

oughly sterilized jars to within one inch

fat to the top, fill the jar with liquor in which the meat was Cooked.

is not a sufficient amount of this liquor

When raw meat is being canned, the jars are filled with boiling





be added.





water and a teaspoonful of salt to each

and lids, screw the lids down into position and

the jars in a hot water bath prepared as follows:





surplus fat. Pack closely in thor-

of the top. Add a small piece of

If there

to fill all the jars, boiling water may





quart is added. Adjust the rubbers

take half turn back. Place





In a wash boiler or large kettle place a wire or wooden rack so the jars





will not rest directly on the bottom.





the water level is within two inches 0





or kettle closely and heat

hours.





Fill the boiler with Warm water until

f the top of the jars.

gradually to the boiling point, and boil f ..

Remove the jars and finish sealing at once, store in a dry cool place.

For those who possess a steam pressure cooker,





boiler

three





Cover th





the packing process is





the same, but the jars are completely sealed and placed in the cooker accord-





ing to the time designated on the meat canning table,





a pressure of fifteen





pounds for forty minutes. ” The cooker is then removed from the stove and

the pressure allowed to drop gradually. This is necessary so that the con-

tents of the jars gradually cool and will not break when cold air strikes them.





Any kind of meat scraps,

canned after this method and





stews, roasts, steaks,

the housewife can





sausage~ or soup may be

always feel certain of a.





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g and canning of the/homemeat:





yourfloors are unpainted. it is a sim-

ple task to keep them white with no

bad effects on the hands. '1 bought

mine twelve years ago at the State

Fair, and wouldn’t do without it.-‘—

Mrs. L,- 'W. -



Have used my mop wringer for sev-

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I can use much hotter water and don't

need to bend nearly as far to wring

out the mop—a boon to a tall person

like myself.—-Mrs. N. F. B. ‘



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span. I paid $3.50 for mine, which





 





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TASTY VEGETABLE RECIPES.





 





THAT the housewivesoi' the state,





believe in vegetables .for vita-

mines was shown in their» contribu-

tions in this week’s contest. 0; a large

number of varied recipes, the follow-

ing were chosen as the prize winners:

Scalloped Corn. .

In the bottom of a baking dish, place

a layer of cracker crumbs, a layer of

corn (the dried corn may be soaked),

then salt, pepper and a. sprinkle of

sugar. Then repeat the '

crumbs, corn and seasoning, finishing

with a layer of cracker crumbs. Add

enough milk to sufficiently moisten the

crumbs, and dot'with butter. Bake

three-quarters of an hour. . Tomatoes

and onions may also be served this

way—Mrs, C. B., Ifitchfieid, Mich. ‘

Creamed Turnips and,Cel‘ery. '

To, two cups. of diced cooked tur-

nips, and one cup of’diced cooked'cel-

ery, add salt, pepper and {heaping

tablespoonful of butter.” Serve with

a whitesauce madebf one tablespoon-

ful of butter blended with one table-

spoonful of flour and one cup ofhot

milk—Mrs. W. P, Caro, Mich. '

Escalloped Cabbage;,_"_ ‘

Cut a medium-sized cabbage“ into

small pieces and 0691: in saltédwater

until tender. Place a layer of" the





cabbage in a baking dishg‘and cover





well with white sauce, thén‘a sprink-

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some time after Rolly had helped

him when‘the bees became so

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Each had his own work to do. it

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would do the housework, while Bruin

brought the food and cut the wood.



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hunting food all day, he came home

very tired and hungry. As he stepped

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At the door he called, “Roll-e-ey,

Roll-e-ey.” But no answer came.



Where could his friend be? He won-

dered what he should do. Perhaps

Rolly was only calling at a neighbor’s

and did not realize it was getting late.



He would ,go and see. When he

called at Sammy Squirrel’s, he was not

there. At Willie VVoodchuck’s house,

Mrs. Willie Woodchuck said she had

been away all day visiting so had not

seen him at all. At other neighbors

where Bruin called, they could tell

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sat down to eat alone.





Suddenly he heard a noise outside. .

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he could.





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asked Bruin as he came in. “I have





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Thanksgiving is almost here,

and you are all planning on what

a big time you will have that i

day, when you won’t have to go i

to school. i wonder who (can

tell me why we have Thanks-

giving Day and what the people

(lid on the first Thanksgiving

Day.



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Dear Littlt- Folks: i

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is another riddle that

was sent in for you to guess.

One-half of twelve, divide by

one-fifth of seven, and you’ll

soon decide that the. anSWer is

eleven. That is a regular arith-

metic problem for you to think

out. it was sent to me by Ray-

mond Huntwork. Perhaps his

name accounts for its being a

hard one.



The postman brought me some,





nice drawings, this week, too,

and i will try to print some

soon.





With Thanksgiving greetings,

AUNT MARTHA.





 





 





 





“I was just over to Frankie Fox’s

house,” answered Rolly. “I heard to-

day that Frankie Fox was sick and I

went over to see if I might help him.

I found Mrs. Frank with very little

Wood, and so I spent the afternoon

cutting some for her. Before I fin-

ished the pile it was growing dark. I

am sorry to have caused you so much

worry.” .

| “As long as you were doing such a

kindness, we won’t think about that,”

smiled Bruin.

that it doesn’t ever pay to worry.

Let’s finish supper now. You must be

hungry, after chopping. so much

wood.” ‘ 4



“Right you are,” said Rolly sitting

down to the table. “Please pass the

porridge.” .





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Dear Uncle Frank:



I wrote to the Letter Box onCe be-

fore but. did not see my letter in print,

so thought I would try again.



I hope to be a Merry Circler soon.

_ It makes me out of patienCe when I

read all the nice letters other boys

and girls write, and to think I can’t

write one.



Well, my letter is getting pretty

long, so I think I will quit—Your lov~

ing niece, Esther Hickmott, 526 Pine

Street, Rochester, Michigan.



Why should you be out of patience?

You may write letters even though

you are not a Merry Circlcr. How-

ever, writing letters will never make

you an M. C. You will have to work

the contests to' become one.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



How are you and your best friend,

EV. 13., coming along? 1 hope you are

no.



There is a club dowu here in Stand-

ish but I didn’t join it. Do you think

I should?



i am eleven ycars old and in the

seventh gradc at school. My average

last term was one that no one could

beat, because it was 100. Was not

that good?-—Your niece, Anna E.

Smcla, M. C., R. 1, Standish, Mich.





Yes, I would join the club if I were

you. Congratulations on your school

standing.





Dear Uncle Frank:

I received my card and pin some

time ago, but could not find time to

thank you for it.



While I was on a vacation this sum-

mer I fell sick with diphtheria. I was

4uarantiined for eleven days. I found

it rather long. After I got well again

I went home. I had no thought. of

writing then.



I am going to school and I like it

very much. I am in the tenth grade.

My subjects are- algebra, physical

geggraphy, modern history, and Eng-

lis .





Thomas Hurd said you would like

to hear from someone that likes a1-

gebl‘a. Ido. _

Many thanks for the card and pin.———

Your niccc. Doris Dcsormcau, M. C.,

Schaffer, M‘ich.



I am glad to know that quite a few

Merry Circlcrs like algebra. You cer-

tainly had hard luck on your vacation.





 





 





Dcar Uncle Frank:

I would like to become a niece and

Merry Circler. I am a city girl, but





 





 





 





F ound“ in Our, Letter Box





Some Interwtz'ug Merry Circle Letter:





 





have been a. reader of the Michigan

Farmer for some time, and am espe-

cially interested in the girls’ and boys’

page. '



I read~ in last week’s issue, a. letter

written by Thomas Hurd, M. C , who

would like to hear from somebody

who finds algebra easy. Well, that’s

myself. I certainly do like algebra,

and equations are the easiest things

to work out. Algebra doesn’t get me

in the neck. I got ninety-three in it

last month.



I would like to have some of the

boys and girls write to me, as it really

does cure the blues.



I have often thought. of writing to

you, but never got around to it, but

the incident about algebra just whis-

pered into my ear, .“Here’s your

chance,” and I got my paper ready

and wrote to you—Your would-like—to-

be niece, Kathryn Kul'ry, Hancock,

Michigan.





I am glad the algebra incident got

you started. It‘s nice for young folks

to write to each other. I know from

cxpcricncc that letters help the blues.

A good way to start a correspondence

is to take part in the correspondence

scramble. ' '





Dear Uncle Frank:



Just to let you know that going to

high school hasn’t killed me yet, I am

writing this letter. .



Well, uncle, how many “windows

have you soapcd? None? Well, isn’t

that fine? Neithen have I. There

isn’t much fun in making other people

work, is there?



Do you remember the time I won

that pencil? Well, anyway, I have

used it almost continually since I got

it. Although it has given me, if one,

at least ten scares. I wouldn’t want

to part with it.



I hope to remain your freshie niece,

Lucille, Stuckcy, R. 3, Redford, Mich.



No, I behaved on Hallowe’en night.

You have the right attitude regarding

pranks. The way some of the M. C.’s

have written me, it is apparent they

think 1 am a sort of pranky Frank, but

I am not. Sometimes I am as sober

as a deacon.





Dear Uncle. Frank:



This is my first letter and I am an

swcl'ing the riddle contest. Uncle

Frank, do you have a vivid imagina-

tion? I have. My English teacher

tells me that I write cxccllent stories."

I started to write a. continued story

for our school paper, called the “.Aw-





 





 





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with fifteen other teams in the state.





Northrup, of Wayne county,





 





in judging dairy cattle at the State Fair.





of Ann Arbor township; in the center is

ship, and on the right is Walter Maler, also of Northfield township. . .

As individuals these boys ranked first, ninth and seventh respectively

among forty-five competitors, and as a. team they were. fifty-three points





State Champion Dairy fudgzhg’ Team





 





HESE three boys from Washtenaw county won the state championship





They won out in competition

The one to the left is Roland Stein,

David Mayer, of Northfiétd town-





ahead of the team winning second‘place.

Roland Stein, with James Galluo, of the Upper Peninsula,





and Starr





(the two boys ranking assecond ,Zand'pthird in-



represented the Michigan Boys“. and Girls‘ "

Clubs in the Dairy Judging Con-test of the National Dairy Show at Syracuse, '

New York. They won third place in '00

stood ninth among sixty competitors.





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gOWan."

means? .



You asked to know who liked alge-

bra. I loved it. Geometry islhard,

but very interesting. Every time I

say something I have to {gave it! '



I think I should lm‘Ie to an author

in the future!

eth of the idea? _.



Gee, I hope I win. I’ve tried my

very . best.«——A-soon-to»bo-niece,' Mamie

Bal ch,R. 1, Benton Harbor, Mich.



A proper‘ mixture of perspiration

and inspiration make a good author,

provided you have“ patience enough to





hold out until the public recognizes





you as one. Perhaps you will say,

“Ah! go on,” to that. You must be

unusual .to like the necessity of prov-

ing everything you say.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: *



I have answered contests before but

have never won. It. is a lot of fun to

answer contests whether you win or

not. Do the other cousins thing so?

I used to live in Michigan but am now

.living in Columbus, Ohio. While we

were in Michigan my father ordered

the Michigan Farmer. We still get it

and enjoy it very much.



I wondered if I could enter in con-

tests if I~do not live in Michigan? I

have received a Merry Circle card and

pin, and enjoy wearing it a great~ deal.



I will close, hoping to be accepted

as a, niece—Elizabeth Szalcy, M. 0.,

.1349 Parsons Avenue“ Columbus, Ohio.





Yes, you can take part. in all the

activities of the Merry Circle, whether

you live in Michigan or not. I am

pleased to know you are so interested.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

I was pleased that I

bership card and pin.





Last week we had a social at our‘





schoolhouse. It was a pie Social. I

had a good time. I took a. pie.



We had some Hallowe’en plays and

l was a ghost. We had some good

cider, too. There were thirty-one pies

and we got $41 out of just pies.



They sold candy and older for $52.





v—Your niece, Grace Silvis, M. 0.,

Pctnwater, Mich, R. 1. '

I bet your pic was good. I am won-





dering what kind of a. ghost you would





make. Were you the spooky kind?





 





Dear UnclerFrank:



I think it would be an: excellent

plan to have smaller branches of the

Merry Circle distributed around in the

different localities where there are

Merry Circlers. I know we could get

quite a few members in this neighbor-

hood and I am willing to do my part.

I think it is lots better than electing

certain officers and have it all in one.

We could have you as the bee. uart-

ers, and have meetings and every ing

and have lots of gun. I also believe

that this may star club work of some

kind, as we haven't any around here.



Hoping this will meet with your ap-

proval, I remain an interested M. C.—

Lucille Gilbert, M. 0., Portland, Mich.





I am glad to get your viewpoint on

local circles. We do not want our

circle to compete with any other boys’

and ,girls’ club activities which are

now going on. We want something

different, but still useful.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: .



I would like to join your Merry Cir-

cle. I have been reading the letters

of the other boys and girls, so thought

I would write, too. I hope I receive

a. pin and card. _



I wonder how many boys and girls

are interested in rabbit. raising. _I

have nine rabbits. Two are old ones,





one is a Belgian and the other is the “





same color, but is an Angora.‘ Seven

are about a month old. I am raising

them to sell, . ‘ “



It would be impossible to have a

local circle here, as I have never seen

a, letter from this part of the country.

It think the circle is all right just as



is. -

.. Hope the waste paper basket and

this letterdoesn’t become friends——

Yours truly, Charles Lester, May‘ville,

Mich, R. 1. ~ ,



Apparently (you are rapidly, getting

into the rabbit business. Because you





have not seen, letters fromyour seer.





tion in: the Letterhexddep Q~ indi- ,. v .





cote there





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Do you catch on to what_it'





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_ well, or, at least,-

ymn‘ letters do. ‘Also‘, most of us think:

we: can write poetry. and the peculiar

thing is Molten the younger poets

are‘the beation'es. So, with good ac-

quaintance? with the waste basket, and

poetic ability, it seems to me that .I

ought to get some good poems on the

Waste Basket. ,For that reason, this

week .weuwlll have 9. Waste Basket

poetry contest. ' ‘ a



The two'gbc‘st poems will'bring their

writers handy tubular flashlights; the

next three, handsome nickled fountain

pens, and the next five, cute little boxes

of candy. All good poems will bring

their writers Merry Circle buttons and

cards if they are not now M. C.’s.



The poems must be in on or before»

November .30, as the contest , closes

Perhaps you had better write

your poem before Thanksgiving, as it





. is'hard to write a poem on a full stom-





ach—or, ‘I should say, write a poem

when the stomach is full: ‘



_M. Cfs', please don’t forget the title

after your name. .



Send your letters to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.





 





THE CORRECT ANSWERS.





The following are the correct an-

swers to,the'Read-and-Win questions

of November 10.:



‘1. 12,000.——13-485.



2. Twenty-eight inches—«6478.





 





SOmc Trapping Secrets-

‘ By [Mac Mater 1 'l '





lar hole in the ground four or

five feet deep and some three

feet square, in a part of the woods

which you know is frequented by

them, and near a stream of 'water.



Into this hole throw a quantity of

.crawfish and other small fish. Coons

are very i'ond of fish, and when they

find them here they get into the hole

after them and cannot get out again.

The sidesshould be smooth and per-

pendicular, and it,’w'ill be better if the

soil is loose and loamy rather than

hard clay, so the coons cannot get a

foothold in it and climb out. If the

soil is loose it will crumble when they

attempt to climb up the sides.



"A trap ofthis kind may catch a

mink, as they are also water-loving

animals, and fond of fish, but are a.

good deal more suspicious of anything

'to which human scent attaches. To

catch a mink'the pit should be five

feet deep, as a mink has a longer body

than a coon, and can jump higher.



Muskrats can also be caught in this

manner if near the water, though if

you don’t visit the place soon they

may dig out and get away, A better





T O catch coons dig a perpen<.licu-





Way to catch muskrats is to sink a‘





barrel into the ground near the water,

'with the". top just level with the sur-

face of the ground, and put some

green vegetables, parsnips or turnips,

in the bottom. The inside of the bar-

'rel should be smooth, otherwise the

muskrats may get out, though they

are not very good. climbers.



Another way to'catch muskrats is





, to take a thick, heavy, water-tight bar-

rel and sink it into the water out in



‘ some shallow pond or lake where you

know the-re are muskrats, and where

_the water remains at about the same

Select a place

where the water comes up to within

two or» three inches of the top of the

Put sufficient rocks inside the

_ Throw in

ahuantity of vegetables. or fruits, such

as apples. parsnips, .turnips, cabbage

Visit the barrel

‘in your boat early every morning, and

* you are apt tosuflnd anywhere from one

C to ~a'tit'i‘zeii'‘ii’i'tfisflltr_a.ts in it. They get

“in matter, the irdits'and vegetables, and

‘ ’* ‘ ‘ " In very cold





height all - the time.





barrel.

= barrel to weight it down.





leaves and the like.





‘0. “01: get out again,





 

 

 





ners: .





en, Mich.





R. 3.





 

 





hfimxmu'

. spo , .

.afilfii ‘ fixi- hot snaps—15487.

7. Yes; practically—49230.



8. Now, or in fall—M91.



9. R. B. Haber—7479.



10. With each succeeding rest pe-

riod—449048. . ‘ .





THE HEAD AND WINNERS.





 





 





E had an excellent response to

the last Read-and-Win Contest.

Quite a few had all the answers right H

so We had to make neatness the prime

consideration. Those who failed most-

ly had question number two as the

cause of their stumbling block.

The following are the prize win-





Flashlights.





Martha Ferron, Powers,

Maydah Al» Neddermeyer,





Mich, R. 1.

Fair Hav-





Fountain Pens.

Georgia Brown, of Hastings, Mich,





Clara Lyons,’ Elsie, Mich, R. 1.

- Victor 'Sisson, Freeport, Mich.

Candy.

Dorothy McGinn, Brutus, Mich.

’i‘helma'Corey, Litchfleld, Mich.

Bernice Wright, Saranac, Mich.





L h lard-and ,, I





 





 





Lillian Olsen, Iron River, Mich. .

Dorothy Gittins. South Lyons, Mlch.





Several have asked it the Rex Ellis

who wrote the memories poem which

appeared in the magazine section, is

th M."C. Rex Ellis. Yes, he is the

same, fellow.





Remember that muskral‘ pelts are

worth real money nowadays. A friend

in Iowa wrote me not long since that

a prime muskrat pelt would buy ten

bushels of good Iowa cOrn.



To catch wolves, foxes, Wildcats,

opossums or coons in a steel trap take

a barrel 'and knock out both ends.

Drive a staple on the inside, about

midway from the ends, and tie a live

rabbit or chicken by the legs close

down to the sfaple. Then take the

barrel out some distance from the

house into the field or woods, or

wherever you have seen Signs of any

of these animals, locate it in a smooth

place and prop it with rocks or pieces

of wood, with the side 10 which the

chicken or rabbit is tied resting on

the ground. Then set four good No.

11/2 or No. 2 steel traps, two at each

end of the barrel, so that an animal

cannot reach the chicken or rabbit in-

side without getting caught.



In winter, when timber wolves, coy-

otes and foxes are hungry, and inclin-

ed to prowl around farInhouSes, this

is a good way to catch them, for when

the animal in the barrel sees them ap-

proaching it begins to flutter or jump,

and in the case‘ol‘ a chicken it will

doubtless squall, and this will excite

the night prowler, and in its eagerness

to seize its prey it will rush up to it

regardless of human scent about the





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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don’t hesitate to bait with a chicken,

for if the four traps are set properly





an animal will be almost sure to get





a foot'into one of them before it gets

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/ It will be best to fasten the chain

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number of birds, grade of turkeys and

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Line the barrel with clean manilla

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a. folded strip of clean paper or by

slipping a. small paper, sack over it

and tieing it on. Be sure thebird is

absolutely clean, particularly the feet.





Pack tightly, placing the back to

thewall of the barrel and leaving the

body and legs well straightened out.

Follow around the barrel until a layer

is complete, then place. ajlayer of j

clean paper and another layer ,of tur-

keys until the barrel is filled. Pack

them tight so as to permit as little

moving about as possible. Do not head

the barrel, but nail in cross cleats and





 





pad well with clean paper and cover _

_. with iburlap. Only. one grade of turf





keys should be packedflin a single OQITi'L

tainer. Barrels should-:hold’from ' 209“





 





URKEYS should first be depriv-m





“hours, but given plenty of fresh '

clean water which helps to clean the

crop of all feed. When ready 'to kill,

hang the'bird up by the feet, lock the

wings over the back, then holding the

head in one hand, With a sharp, nar-

row-bladed knife cut across the veins





f .

the throat, about three-quarters of an I





After making this cut,

thrust the knife blade up through the

groove in the roof of the mouth and

into the brain at the back part of the





When the brain is reached, the bird

This loosens the feathers





If the bird

has been properly stuck the feathers

Remove the main tail

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A twist removes the

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Last Spring’s Chicks Should Now be in Permanent Quarters.





they do not catch cold. The hen

catches cold and her nostrils immedi-

ately close. The accumulations of

mucous begin to gather and the bird

has to breathe through its mouth. This

increases the danger from bronchitis

and pneumonia~ The gathering infiam-‘

mation soon closes one or both eyes

and the bird is usually said to have

roup. If you give birds the best of

care they seem to thrive, but the con-

struction of the nostrils seems to give

them a handicap in keeping well un-

less the living conditions are right.

Many failures with largeflbcks may

be due to the constant inroads due to

colds and various respiratory infec-

tions. ‘ ' '

On the sunny fall days use the time

.to advantage in cleaning thefdropping

boards, filling mash hoppers, and re

filling the nests with straw. Then a.

day or two of bad weather will cause

no trouble in the management of the

flock. The poultry keepers who neg-

lect the birds on sunny days because

the birds don’t need the care, are apt

to fail. 'They are al‘So'the same ones

who neglect the birds in bad weather

because the 'work is then very un-

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LIGHTS» lN POULTRY ‘HOUSE‘.

ARTIFICIAL lights seem to" ad-

vance the date of heavy predile-

tion tothe months when fresh, [eggs





 





 





- are scarce and high in price. Poultry-





men with large flocks of mature pul-

lets seem to find the lights profitable.

.When there isonly one flock of poul-

try owned and they are allito be used

as breeding stock, I think little ."is

gained by using lights. Increased win-

ter 'eggreceipts are often canolallediin:

lowered production at the time' for

early hatching and the chicks may be

lacking in vigor.-K. '





 





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auspices “at-(Grand Rapids; “ ;





her one turkeys , should be well 74181118-

r, grown, 'in, geod-iieshand well dressed.

A torn skin, crooked breast honour. a;

poor dress may mean a nurhber two

“or a cull. , Number one turkeys are in

Be sure. you danot lower





THINK that plenty of new- hard ,

corn in the fall ration of the pullets ,

It helps - ~

indirectly'by fattening the puliets and

the fat plumppullet seems the most

The birds. that,

sneeze th’e'guickest are apt to be thin,

‘ late-hatched 'pullets that lack a. Dad,

the chilly -





- One of_ the bad features of intensive”.

poultryjkeeping is that. fact that ha} -

ture-does not seem to have construct-

ed the nostrils of fewls to live where

there is any dust, dirt or respiratory

germs. The wild birds live in the open

where the ventilation is~wonderful and





Hbut" even then “it

annual, beauty.”





 





 





those” who are grommets: . _





The .. aesociation





keting grades of eggs.





Chick Association, will be. one of the

principal speakers, and on Wednes-

. _ day, November 28,‘.M,r, Hale Teflnant,





of 'the‘ markets division at the College,





tion in the needs and possibilities of

cooperative egg marketing“ and - will

suggest a plan for this state. I. ' «



This will be the multrymen’sgreat

geotogether, so don’t fall to attend.'.





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WHEN . MALE snaps, noun”.





 





SOME poultry keepers have won-

, ,dered, if the moulting period of

male birds has any relation to the





produce. I can find no experimental

data. on that Subject, but do not be-

lieve the moulting period of a cookerel

has much relationto its value as a

breeder during .the following year.

Moulting of hens hasbeen considered

a point in culling because of. the rela-

'tion of the moulting to continuous egg

production. The late moulter has had

a longer period of production through-

out the fall season when eggs are

bringing g00d prices. I .



Some poultrymen believe that hens

which moult very early and those that.

moult very late are the best layers.

The hens that moult in between- are

not so good. The early moulter some-

times finishes the moult and lays

throughout the fall. The late moulter

continues to lay in the fall before her

moulting period. But the hens that

moult in late summer and very early

fall often fall down on their autumn

egg records. The value of the moult-

ing test for layers seems more under

fire than other points in culling.——R.





 





BUYING smos m FALL.





 





“I HEN buying pullets without see



ing them first,‘it is well to re-

m'ember that the word pullets is a

very broad term. They may be prop-

erly matured birds, just about ready

to lay. Sometimes they are late hatch-

ed birds which have been underde

and trampled by older stock. Such

birds may not lay until nearly spring

in spite of the best management. Then

their original cost plus the winter

feed bill often cancels the chancesfor

profit. I think pullets should be sold

according to their weight rather than

according to the hatching date. I do

not mean at the market price per

pound. Birds hatched, in May weigh-

ing four or five pounds in the fail

might be better winter egg producers

than March hatched birds which were

victims of bad brooding conditions '

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WATCH TH E'RAM. up and it has been found that but, two

of the original eighteen were able to

make the mark, and one of these was

a girl.



The girl is Helen Strange, a pig club

girl of Oneida township, whose nine

pigs at the age of 180 days weighed

2,014 pounds. Her pigs were of the

Duroc breed.





IMAKE’it a point to see that the

. > ram is thrifty, vigorous, and not

over-fat at mating time. if the ram

is too' fat, he will be clumsy, slow,

(«ind likely to prove impotent. ’



The mating season is strenuous for

the ram, and he must be in the best

physical condition. This requires that,

he have plenty of exercise; a regular

supply of salt and fresh water; a suit-

able grain feed, such as equal parts of

corn, oats and wheat bran.



VVc-often find that a ram which did

excellent service one year will not al-

ways render the same quality of ser-

vice the following year. Nor can one

depend upon a young, strong-appear

ing ram lamb. The good sheep breed-

er must have first-hand knowledge of

the condition of the bond of the flock

through frequent examinations; «Roy-

nolds.





lvan Burslcy also made the ion lit-

ter with his ten pigs from a Poland

China sow and a Duroc sire weighing

2,055 pounds. Mr. Burslcy is declared

winner ol' the contest, receiving a free

trip to the lnlcrnaiional at, Chicago.





EAT SCRUB BULL. 1





HE farmers of Ogcmaw county fit»

tingly celebrated the passing of

thr- lasl scrub bull owned by members

of the ()gcmaw Cow—testing Associa—

tion. This hull was iitliugly honored





   

 





 





 





 





by being barbecued last. month. Over

5H0 people enjoyed a mammoth l‘uust.j





DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BUCK





'LAMBS. of bull meal on the farm of Enos}



. _,,,, -. Roscbrugh, near “"05! hunch. Aboui l



, , . ~ . 301) pounds of moat, ill loaves or



HR 1b 15 a} tendency 1:1 1.11“ mar- broad, illld a. lot of oihcr trimmings?



kels to discriminate against ,tlm wvro cousumml, tho business men ()l"



meat of buck lambs. An“. ”I“ fly“ \Vcst Brancn (-ooporaling in furnishing‘



01 August, those lambs develop it Hi“ supplv. , .

strong taste and odor. \thenr-w-r a ‘





consumer gets the illi'lil of ihcsc buck

lambs served, he, right away, begins

to lose his appetite for lamb. wilh tho





WITT BROTHERS’ FOURTH AN-

NUAL SALE.





rc’sult that consumption is reducm. ,

This, in a spurred war. H‘ducrs thv HE \vm Brothers, Folix and .loo,

price that might Otherwise be rccciV- live down in that rich section of

8d for the lamb Cl‘Oll— Farmers MOD“ Lcnawoo coumy. near the state line.





can remedy this situation by seeing

that the ram lambs which are not, to

be retained for breeding purposes are

castrated at the proper time.





They are good farmers, good hog men,

and good follows. There was a jolly

crowd present. at their late sale ol'

lig Poland (‘hinas, and cvoryonc

seemed to have a good time. l



The offering had boon well cared

for, was very growihy, and for 1110‘

most, part. showed a type known 10

good hog mcn as up-lo-dalc. The get:

of lhcir herd boar, "Rainbow Giant";

the- sire of many of the State Fair.

winners, was in strong demand. A:

junior boar pig sired by him that stood ‘

second in a strong class at the State

Fair, was the sensation of the sale.

Hi‘ was finally declared the property

of F. E. Haynes, of Hillsdale, at $275,

and will no doubt continuc to create a

sensation in future swine shows. The

prices all through the rest of the sale

ran quite uniform, and can best be

described conservative but satis-

factory. Thirty—two head, mostly

spring pigs, sold. for $1,112, an average

of $34.75 each. The names of lllt‘ buy—

ers are as follows:



L. \V. Seiglc, West Unity, Ohio; F.

E. Haynes, ()ssco; XV. O. Hackman,

Napoleon, Ohio; Elmer Mellen, Adri—

an; Sherman Charles, Radnor, ()hio:





FEED TO MAKE MEAT.





XPER’J‘S ol' the United States De-



partment of Agriculture have been

studying the amount of food required

to make a pound of meal. Their in-

vestigations so far have indicated that

it takes six pounds of grain and six

pounds of hay to produce one pound

of lamb live weight. Ten pounds of

hay and ten pounds of corn will make

one pound of beef, while five and six-

tenths pounds of corn will make one

pound of pork. '





THE TON LlTTER CONTEST.





215





A T present, 21 Poland China litter of

ten pigs is leading the Michigan

ton litter contest. These ten pigs

weighed 2,840 pounds on the day when

they were 180 days old. _Thc litter is

owned by B. J. Brown & Son, of Jones-

ville. ‘



There are fourteen ton litters in the





. C. A. Close, Morenci; W. E. Living-

contest at present, live 91 them are ston, Parma; leorgc Tompkins, Ce-

Chestcr Vi/hitcs, one is Berkshire, and ment City; and “1 L. Ayres, Kuncy

the rest is split evenly between Pol— Iffland, Paul Bury, John Bury, "aul





and Chinas and Duroc Jerseys.



The leading litter has made remark-

able growth, especially in the last two

months when the porkcrs were putting

on weight at the rate of 2.32 pounds

per head per day.



There were four litters whicn gain-

ed the ton mark in this contest at six

months. One litter of nine pigs weigh-

ed 2,060 pounds within that time, while

a litter of twelve half-blood Duroc Jer-

sey-Poland , Chinas weighed 2,630

pounds within six months. This litter

led the contest for a short time, but

dropped back because of insufficient

mineral matter in the ration.





Iffland, Fred King, R. C. Rickard, lr~

Vin Reed, Claud Kinnamon, Gus Van

Fernetti, all local people.l—Pope. ‘





OH l0 LITTER CONTEST.





 





N the Ohio ton litter contest, forty



litters qualified by coming within

the ton limit.- In one county, there

were seven such litters raising by five

men, two of the men raising two ton

litters each.





These finals show that more than

forty—five tons of pork were raising by

forty sows within six‘months from the

day the litters were farrowed.





Some of the high marks in this con-

test were twelve pure-bred Duroc—Jer-

seys, weighing 2,651 pounds; eleven

pure-bred Poland 'Chlnas weighing

2,600 pounds. Nine half—bred Poland

Chi-nae and Duroc Jerseys, Weighing

2,149 pounds. . 4





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TON LlTTERS lN EATON COUNTY.





N Eaton County, there has been

.quite a little activity in a ton litter





ed to produce, a' ton of pork in- one}

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‘ riders in one week av:

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Breeding at. practical prices for raia~

g Terms. Auction Iale 75 head, November

2d 1923. at. St. Clair Mich.

r. r. e. 501111111 a 8011 11.3

(Henlerds since 1839) St. Clair. Mieh.





 

 

 





 





'For sale:

heifers, 7 bulls.





Registered Hereiodrs 12 ”3311??





CALHOUN. Bronson. Mich.





 





R Herefords. cows, heifers and yearling bulls for

98° sale at. a bout. (“price Write your wants.

Merle H. Green. Ashley. loh. »





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28917. Nov: oflealng 2Jan£§ry r2351 bull calves of

ti a mer reasons pr1ce

fiibini‘tt Brock FARM. x n. Tecumseh. M1011





 





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Revolution .11". 37393113





Branch County Farm





Breeders of High- -class Polled Shorthorn Cattle. For

Sale, 6 fine bulls nearing senice age. Also a, few

cows and heifers Quality and price will suit.



GEO. E. BURDICK. Mun. Goldwater. Michigan.





M Dark Roan from 1,-500 lb. good roan Clay bred

Cow, and Sired by Countryman's King. a great son

of Glenside Dairy King and out of Bessie Thom-

dale 3d. 0rd 12,759 lbs. Also one red with

little white, same age and breeding Price $75.

Herd tested. Irvin Dean & Son‘s, Croswell. Mich.





 





11.1mm Shorthorn Bull, Calvcd Sept. 25, 1923.





Re Milking Shorthorn heifers. One

For sale: roagn two- year~old. one white two-

ono- year old. hot in roans. Write M.





year-old, two. _

Mich.





B. Hallstod. Orion.





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Duai- -purposo Shorthoms,



For sale, sex. anv age. \Vrioe M. E.

or. Sec' y. Central Michigan Shorthorn Breeders‘

socialion. Greenville. Mich.





NT to buy 3 or 4 Brown Swiss cows. Must be

“7 dear fresh, and of good quality. Address G. J.

0005111 R. R. 1. Washington. Mich.





 





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WILDWOOD FARMS ‘ 0R SUN—enrown Swiss _ _ > .

1‘ 11nd hcifcrs,11nd 5 \oung hulls. priced ior «11111-1.

ORION: MICHIGAN sale. T. H. Love, Howell. Mich.. R. 3

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

HOGS

Bull valves $50. A. 11. brooding, 50 . ,

Guernser 75 per cent. breeding of Norman’s DUROC For Sale. Yearling Gills and

Missaukce lied llose. Bull soon ready for gown.“ Brood Sows,b111d to htter mam





5100. M. Smith, Lake City. Mich.





 





0R SALEA—Guernsey COWS and Bred Heifers, May

Rose Breeding. A. R. Backing Bull (falt' born May

2. 1923. Dam on A. ll. Test. Aocredit llcrd. Seothcm

to appreciate them. Gilmore Bros" Camden, Mich.





 





EGISTERED GUI‘RNSE YS--T. B. Tested. Young

Bulls, $50; 5 Cows and .1 Heifers. Prices reasonable

l)r.W. R. Baker. 450011111tbt .IWest. Detroit, \li1h.





 





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bred. T. B.





Guernsey Heifer Cal e3 W...





Walter Phipps. 23»! Alfred St,



10 Reg. Guernsey cows. some A. R. Record May

Rose breeding, $2, 600 for all: herd bull $100.



John Ebola. Holland, Mich” R. 2.





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Registered Holsteins For Sale





Six or R Good Young (‘mvs soon to freshen Also

Several Young Bulls of llxwllcnt Breeding from

7 to 10 mos. of age. at R1ason11blo'l’ric1xs.Would

also sell my Sr. Herd Sin Tiavcrse L1 ho Sylvia





Rag Apple No. .361213, 3%; yrs. old. Sire. 1121-110

Sylvia King Model, the best proven son of Chain-

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

yr.-old daughter of Admiral (lolantha Walker. 1!

you want a Good Herd Sire come and see this Bull

and his daughters. Scnd for Pedigree. A Healthy

Herd. l. W. Shaman. Fowlerville. Mich.





Holstein Bull Heady ForService





Sire has 7 tested daughters all with 17 to. 20

pounds at 2 years. and is from same dam as former

world's record 4~yua1‘-old.



Dam was second prize 2—year-old in Michigan in

1920-21. Good individual. $150. Send for pedigree

and particulars.





SERRADELLA FARM

Oscoda, Michigan





 





 





A young Holstein Bull nearly

For sale ready for service. A splendid in-

dividual, very light in color. Sired by the great Bull

Maryland Mutual ()olaniha, whose dam is twice a

thirty- pound 1,,ow and whosc sire is by (‘olantha

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

dam is a twenty- 511— pound J1. tl11eo-year-old.wl1o is

a Grand—daughter of King Segis Pontiac, the sire of

high-priced sons. Whitney Bron, Onondaga. Mich.





BULL, PURE BRED HOLSTEOIN .110 mu...





reasonable prices. LAR RESEARCH





Box A, North End Station.O Detroit.



$1 gets granddaughter of Maplecrost. Korn.

liens. and 42. 58- lb. 1:.11w Bred to 858- lb bull.



Federal tested. -M. McLaulin. Redford. Mich.



3 Registered Holstein bulls about ready tor $111110.



. Extra well bred and 1hoico individuals. l’1iced



right. Merle H. Green Ashley. Mich.





Breakwater Jerseys





Bull calves for sale. Herd tuber—





 





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FOR SALE: A.





the Chamiion Junior Gilt. also in 'frco-tm- all”

ii... at Static Fall, and Sired by GREAT ORION

SENSATION two runs champion at the Interna—

tiona1,lo1 April far.1ow Double immuned. Write at

once t‘oi lllltt‘s and l)1eeding.Satisfa1tion. or momy

bath. 8. E. Kiss, Hillsdaie. Mich.





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1. , 11 long in body and well devdopod in i‘;orm

isghililzbil‘. prartical type. Send 101 11110103 and full

description and 111118 of this exceptional 111a1t1111l

stock. TE FARMS ASSOCIATION. 307 North

Rose Street. Michigan.





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We guarantee satisfactwn.

Michigana Farm. Pavrlion.





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and most complete herd of pure bred

D11r018 in Michigan must be sold.

Good basis, soWs and puts.

Everything immunized.

Mich.





C Spring boars sired by Brookwater

DURO Satisfaction 8111. Greater Duration and

Sensation Boy. Prices reasonable. Write us your

wants. Norris Stock Farm, Casnovia. Mich.





OC JERSEYS Spring pigs either sex of March

D231] and May (arrow. sired by three outstanding

herd boars. It you want sine ty er and quality combined

come and see or write 11s.. t. Monroe. Rich. .1



Bi; Husky Duroc





F 0 R S A LE spring boars from lsrse pro-





lific stoek. Cholera immune. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Jesse Bliss & Son. Henderson, Mich.





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UROC {all and spring bears or the best breeding

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gain pilces. W. C. Taylor. Milan, M‘lch.





DUROG JERSEYS All!) DELIINE MERIIDS





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Mich.





O. I. C’s and Chester Whites





Gilts sired by Mich. State Fair Gr. Champion

1921. and bred ior March and April iarrow to

Mich State Fair Jr. Champion 1922. the common





sense type and price

ANDY ADAMS, Litchfield, Mich.





Srin boars from prize winning stock,

CheSters will fhip- on approval. Cholera Immunéd.





Fred L. Bodimer, Reese. ich.





Chester ,Whit‘ts





pig Mich. State Fair, '23.

33 inches high at 11 mos.

buwxs during N01 Write Clare V.

Mich.





Chester White Boers.) 51°





ante H111 \V. 11. Bentley. Lenox,





Chester White





Alcxand1 1‘, Va ssar, Mich.





Fall pigs Sircd by “The.

Pilot.” 2nd prize senior

Measuring 02 inches long,



Special offer to Mich.

Dorman. Snover,





C. .0.

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to $15 each.

on approval.

Mich.





 





Service boars at attractive

prices. also fall pigs. F. W.





 





0 '0! _Llarch bears, and Sept. pigs. Sired by Gianti

SaBoy, Senior Champion at West Mich. State:

Fair, 1923. Milo II. Peterson, Ionic. R. 2. Mic-11..





first prize winners at Mich. State Fair this year than

any two breeders in stem. Newman's Stock Farm. -

Mariette. Mich. \





 





cows Rsegister of Merit. Accredited herd.

SMITH AND PARKER. R. 4, Howell. Mich.





 





cattle. young bulls. for

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Lake Odessa. Mioh.





500m, 4 balls from R: of M. Cows. Chance

smasher. from herd of 70.801110 fresh. other: bred

got-fa fmhening. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.





Registered Jerseys,“

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, LANS for enlarging the. activities

P of the National Milk Producers’

-3. Federation were taken at the an-

nual meeting of the organization at

Pittsburgh, November 8-9, and this as-

sociation now plans to be the national

voice of American dairymeir especially

concerned in legislative activities. The

by-laws were revised to" include organ-

izations of cheese- makers and cooper-

ative creameries. ‘



Cooperative marketing of milk has

made rapid progress within the last





years. The reports of these various

associations, of which there are twen-

ty-seven in the national federation,

were presented at this annual conven-

tion; and every one from the Pacific

Coast to the New England states"

shows that the producers are now

coming to have an equal voice with,

the milk distributors; that the deal-

ers almost universally are recognizing

the strength of the cooperatives; and





 





 





Traverse lnka Johanna 2d, Owned by

State Hospital at Traverse City, is

the State’s Champion Holstein But-

ter Cow, Giving 980.7 Pounds in Ten

Months.





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that the dairy farmers, the last two

or three years, have felt the pinch of

low prices less than any other large

group of farmers.



What Milk Producers Are Doing.

Only a few organizations have de4

veloped to such’ an extent that they

are distributing milk, although several

associations have taken the intermedi-

ate step and handle their surplus,

making ice cream,»che’ese or butter.

The Dairymen’s League is the largest

member of the fedeiation, made up of

957 locals, embracing 74 ,000 members.

The League now owus about eighty of

the 130 plants it operates. , Thenex-

pause for adminimration, advertising,

etc., runs about eight or nine cents

per hundred pounds.



one of the outstanding reports was

that from Harry Hartke. from Pure

Milk Company,’ of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Today, this 'corpo‘rative oWns four

plantsand thirty-five distributing wag-

ons. This week they are to vote on

taking over the largest independent

distributor in the city, with a plant

wortlraround $3,000,000. In this ter—

ritory producers signed notes. for‘ $20

per cow to finance their organization.





All milk is sold in a graded pool.





How Milk Consumption Was Boosted.

How a. «cooperative can help in in-





creasing consumption was told by C.

E. , Hough, of Hartford, Connecticut,

where the price of milk is the highest

and the consumption per capita is the

greatest in the United States.

average consumption is more: than a,

pint of milk per person daily. Produc-

. , ers’ cooperatives tries to stabilize the .

supply, improve the quality and adver-

1:11.: tine their product. - '

Figures compiled by the New Eng-

land Milk Producers Associati "





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General Progress 1.1 Ina/water! 5}! Report: Made at

Ammo! Meeting of National Federation.





few years, particularly the last three.





Schilling on the executtve

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that this fall, milk prices were sixty-

five per cent above the price for pre-

war years (1910-1914) while the prices

for all commodities are fifty-seven per

cent above the pro-war level, butter

. fifty-six per cent; grain forty-eight per

cent, and hay tw'entyceven per cent

ab0ve pre-war levels, while farm wag-

es are eighty-three per cent above pre-

war figures.

Michigan is' Heard'From.



N. P. Hull, speaking for the Michi-

gan Milk Producers, urged the feder-

ation to come to Detroit for their con-

vention in 1924.

his talk on the growth of the Michigan

organization, that there had been de-

veloped a better class understanding

between producers and dealers by

their price conferences. The Michi-

gan Association is a non-profit organ-

ization, with nine directors who

choose its officers. It has been able

to conduct its business. on the low

figure of two cents per hundred

pounds commission for operating ex-

pense, and has now built up a reserve

of $88,000. One of the outstanding

features contributing to the success

of the organization is the care exer-

cised in choice of dealers, and before

any dealer can buy from the associa-

tion he must open his books to their

auditors and furnish evidence of.,good

financial standing.



Some Legislative Matters.



Passage of the Voigt anti-filled milk

bill was the biggest item put over by

the National Milk Producers last year.

The fedelation also aided in establish-

ing the tariff of eight cents a pound

on butter, aided in the passage of

some state laws regulating milk and

butter substitutes, and constantly

guarded against the importation of

vegetable;oils. Charles W. Holman,





 





 





BRAN.

Bran, bran, bran! ‘

It’s higher than the wheat;

The shuck has beat the kernel

And the bone has beat the meat.





Bran, bran, bran!

Oui‘ hats are off to you——

We bare our heads in honor

To the sti aw on which you grew.





Bran, bran, bran!

The system is complete

That gives the place of honor

To the shavings from the wheat.





Bran, bran, bran!



' A relish for the kings,



While wheat is but a. ration .

For the cows, the pigs and things.





Bran, bran, bran!

Gee-Whillikens and Whizzl-



A quart of milk is cheaper

Than a. bottleful of “fizz."





Bran, bran, bran! -

The wheat is “out 0’ luck”

When ev’ry juicy kernel,

It is cheaper than the chuck.





 





 





the secretary, in' his annual report,





mentioned that the greatest menace to I





the dairy industry today is this group

at Washington whoare trying to break

down the restrictions to allow free im-

portation of vegetable oils and fats.

John D. Miller, was. reelected presi—

dent; F. P. Willits, treasurer, and

Charles W. Holman, secretary..while

Richard Pattee and Harry Hartke

were elected vice-presidents. N. P.





Hull, of Michigan, succeeds W. F.-





 





 

   

   

 

 

 

 





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if '-.- »".‘ 1m ‘ _ oung boars' for’full (servlé‘?

O. E” Co. Ch ', Red Polled .bulls. Jacob Berncr

& 'gonn. amid _ ' so. 'Mich.



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’- "l'tw ood. spririg hours at farmers’

0310C 8-31-1132; 8 egis'tered free. Satisfaction '





slammed. Lee E. ale. Mecosta. Michigan.

Anon 'rype Poland China. Spring Boers. Slred by

Hover's Liberator 4th. prize age bosrnt Detroit.

and out of Gertsdale Lady 5th. Fifth prlzc age sow

at Detroit. and. champion 'sow at Saginaw. Full pigs

not akin. Writefororlces. Dorus Hover, Akron..\lich.





C . 60 head choice Boers and Gilts. Sircd by a.

P. 0 son World Champion Big Bob. Peter a‘ Pen

son 1.075 Peter Pan and Model Clansman. C. .

Gil-nun. Eaton. Rapids. Mich.





BOARS at half price. Big Type Poland

. .Chlna. The kind that pay a profit

on high-priced feed. Our pig. in the Pig .Club. gamed

. 70-lbs. in' 30 days on 98 lbs. of. grain. .lno. C.

,Butler. Portland. Mich. _





.‘WE‘SLEY HILE

.POLANDS





For Sole—30 gilt: and sowg; 10 young boa-rs.

Include. Nos. 1-2-3-4-8 &9 of our Sale offering

of Oct. 17. “head were catalog but darkness

caught“! with but. 33 head sold. cy averaged

“9.65—5 very satisfactory lsale. Rather than put



I on another sale at this time we are selling at pri-

vate twenty. ' . _

Will cell 8. ofour chorce..young herd sowsyvith

breeding privilege to Emancnpator 2:1 or our Liber-

ator boar. Includes both Glover sows. Buster

Mid and the ReserVe Grand Champion Sow at

' Detroit 1922.‘ Some fine boar prospects; for sale;

priced at $20 up. Every Animal lmmunod and





Guaranteed & Breeder.

Ion1a,_M1ch.





Wesley-‘Hile,





Old Fashioned

Spotted _ Poland Cinnas

“The Hog ol the Hour The Feed er’rs Type"



Prize winners of both sexes for sa 3





Spring Brook Farms, Three Oaks, Mich.





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”Spotted Poland Chinas





lchl en's Largest HerdLState Fair winnings include

gin“: champion Exhibitor's Herd. Premier Cham-

nlon Breeder’l Herd. Over. 201 head to select from.

G. S. COFFM'AN. 15} miles East of Goldwater. Mich.





 





I. Pure-bred Spotted Poland (‘hlua pigs. citiier sex.

100for sale cheap if sold soon. Merle H. Green,





Ashley. Mich.





. and Gills all go at .private

I.- I- P. c: Duals treaty. Service to Foxy (‘lans—

mm, 840. Michigan Champion. hcrd for 3 years.

A. A. Foldltamp. Manchester. Much.





- ABGE TYPE I’OLANDS--»l.lom-s and Gilts. Sired

L by Michigan Liberator, a Son of Lilwraior. the

King of Sires: and Giant John. a great son of .the

noted Checkers. Geo. F. Aldrich. ll. H. Ionia. Mu-h.





 





Holsteins—Mnrch boars and sows. 1 crack

POIII'IdS, yearling boar. Bull CEIlOS 1 to 6 mos.

old. Chas. Metz. Evert. Michigan.

P C Hours and Gilts go at private sale. l'rlro with

' 'the tilnes. Write for plan of selling. M. ill.

Patrick. Grand Lodge. Mich.





HAMPSHIRE SPRING BOAR





Here's a. real. smooth. growthy and well<markt~d boar

by tho Cyclone. Will sell reasonable. , Ed. Faulman,

R. 7. Mt. Clemens. Mich.





F‘ft Hampshire Hogs. for sale at bargain

l y prices. All sorts. from u two~yea.r—old

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

All registered or eligible. Best blood Illll‘fi, thrifty

condition. perfect belts. Montgomery Company. Col-

omn. Ml Inn; ,





 





 





shire Spring Boers and Gilts. and fall pigs.

8 Pairs. not akaln: 11th year. 150 to

select from. Jonn W. Snyder, St. Johns, Mich. It. 4.





 





 





‘ SHEEP

OXFORD ' For the best. Write Wm. Van

Sickle, Deckervrlle. Mich.





Rams and Ewes.





For Sale Oxford Rams & Ewes





goodqunlity. Geo. ’1‘. Abbott. Palms. Mich.

and ewes. Size. typo,





‘llagisimdllampshiro Rams an...” and good





breeding. \ W. W. CASLER. OVID. MICE.





Sheep For Sale





liuney. Adrian. Mich.





Shropshire Rams For Sale





W. E..Morrlsh. Flint, Mich. R. .5





E w E s to solid mouths. mostly bla.





faced; In mod. condition. A. B. CHAPMAN &

SON. So. Rockwood. Mich. 'Phone Newport.





‘ irop’sh‘ir A féw rams and ewes of Butte

03 and s - . 1'



‘ enato B bb l _



C. J. Thompson. Rockford. Mic-hr, l y bood 11”“





. SWMOS ewes of various ages.





wants. ' W.‘ B. McQuillan. Howell, Mich.





Shropshire Rams and Ewes

write or call- on Dan Booher, It. 4. Evart. Mich





HORSES

I‘ ' Som fin ‘ r

We or... For Sale . ° anarchists





. our

Stallion; “Girlbaldl.” No better Bel lan Draft H e

can be found in the world than wagers offeringorili

“you know what we have done in the, show ring. you

can. make up your mind that we can start you out

right end sell you the best of foundation stock at o

rumble price. male for catalog and come sud see





 





 





 





Cotswolds. Lincolns and Tun-

is Rams, Lambs. Ewes. L. B.





 





For sale in car lots, 2 yrs. 013k





Write your





or my day In the week except ,

Sana 6mm: We Farm. “(first-Ida). 07%;:





 





PM ' ' N SEABEIGN'WR' sum—

.tsress‘... Mi. list" 8"“ ”y

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CONDUCTED .BY DR. (w. 0- FAIR.





Advice through this. column is given free" to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of





 





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

"nice becomes private practice and 81 must be CIICIOICd.





 





Malignant Sore.—I have a twelve-

year-old mare that got cut on wire

fence about a year ago. The wound

is on front part of hock. She has not

been lame until lately. She is too

lame for use, but would like to put

her in driving condition and have her

ready to use when roads are unfit for

auto driving. J. F. C., Whitmore

Lake, Mich—Apply equal parts oxide

of zinc and' boric acid twice daily.

Give her a teaspoonful of acetate of

potash at a. doSe in drinking water

three times a day.





Stiffness—J have a sow due to far-

row in December. She is stiff in all

four legs, is growing thin, has very

irregular appetite. B. F. H., Monroe,

Mich—Feed- less corn, more oats,

bran, tankage, clover, alfalfa. and

green feed. Give her 15 grains of

sodium salicylate in feed three times

a day. Her bowels should be kept

open.





Worms.~—For some time my horses

have been troubled with worms. The

remedies I have given to these horses

has failed to do them much good. W.

H. E, Bailey, Mich—Mix equal parts

of powdered sulphate of iron, powder-

ed gentian, flowers of sulphur, fenu-

gree , salt together and give each

1101' e a 'tablespoonful at a dose in soft

feed twice daily. The best vcrmicide





for horses is santonm and the dose for 1





a. horse is from one to four

but this IS an expensive drug.





Coffin Joint .Lameness (Navicular

Disease).——About twelve months ago

I purchased a mare, seemingly sound,

except slightly sore and lame in one

front leg. The man who sold her to

me said it was caused by going with—

out shoes. She seldom stands with

full weight of body on both front feet.

1 am told she is sweenied. G. L.,

’Hermansville, \Mich.-A chronic ail-

ment of this kind is usually incurable;

h0wever, by standing her in wet clay

two hours dally_it might palliate her

lameness. It is good practice to apply

a blister to coronet twice a month.



Umbilical Aliment—The navel of

my three-weeks—old heifer calf has not

healed. There is a skin grown down

which is an inch and a half to two

inches long, and about an inch in

diameter. The cord inside is hard. Is

there any help for this? Mrs. A. B.,

Rives Junction, Mich—Some surgical

work should be done on calf, for cord

Should be shortened, and it is possible

there is-a rupture; if so, your veter-





inarian can easily effect a cure. Paint-

ing the bunch with tincture of iodine _





might have a good effect and cause

absorption of swelling and close ab-

dominal opening. .





Corneal .Opacity.—What can be done

for young cow that is almost blind?

Local veterinary said it was caused

by poison ivy. F. V. W., Port Huron,

Mich.~—Blow one part calomel and five

parts boric acid into eyes once a day.

A bright light always irritates ~sore

eyes, keep her in a. shaded place.





.Contagious Abortion.——Every one of

our cows have lost their calves, ex-

cept two head. The first one aborted

during the. month of February. Can I

prevent the remaining two from los-

ing their calves? \Vhat is the cause?

Will it do to breed them? H. G, Hill-

man, Mich—Breed your cows, clean

and disinfect your cow stable. Leave

the two that are with calf alone. If

any of your cows have vaginal dis-

charge, flush .with one part lysol in

fifty parts. clean tepid water, daily. If

your cows are pedigreed stock and

deep milkel's, don’t beef them, but

keep them.





Teal: Infection—«I have a. valuable

cow that has made me lots of trouble

all summer. She has the teat infec-

tion, a. sore appears in center of end

of teat, which closes teat opening, but

I draw milk through milking tube. If

I don’t use milking tube, opening clos-

es, then it bothers me to. pass milk-

ing tube. C. E. J., Fremont, Mich.—

In treating this kind of case, either

burn sore with red hot Wire, or apply

carbolic acid, full strength—~cautious-

1y. This treatment kills the infection,

but the milker must ,treat this case

last, if not he may innocently spread

the infection to other cows he milks.

Dissolve a teespoonful of boric acid

in aquarter pint of water, immerse

teat in this solution, for fifteen min-

utes,“ two or three times daily. It is

good practice to occasionally paint the

sore with tincture of iodine. Don't

forget to sterilize milking tube each





 





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time before it is used.





etch use and give. name and address of the writer. Initial. ‘





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Now, the pasture field and range

must give way

—-to the stall and manger, the feed

lot and self-feeder, the barnyard and.

fodder rack. .





Include





on. mass srocx tone





in the ration





3, You have often noticed stocking of the

legs, roughness in the hair, highly colored

urine——-all on account of the change from

i . grass to dry feed.

i Not so where Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is fed.

The Tonics, the Laxatives, the Diuretics,

take careof all that. No worms; the Vermi-

fuges settle them. _



Then you are all set for heavy feeding, a

good yield of flesh and milk throughout the

winter.



Tell your dealer what stock you have. He

has a package to suit. GUARANTEED.





. 25 lb. Pail $2.25 100 lb. Drum $8.00

‘ Except t'm the for West, South and Canada.





Honest goods—honest price—why pay more?





DR. HESS & CLARK Ashland, O.





 





 





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MICHIGAN JERSEY BREEDERS ATTENTION





COMPLETE DISPERSAL





25 H E A D 25

Owner JESSE A. KLINE, Coleman, Mich. ‘





DECEMBER 6, 1923





7 cows with R. of M. records up to 7361 lbs. 3 sired by OXFORD

DAISY FLYING FOX. 3 by GOLDEN GOSSOON and LI-BY

FOX SUPERB EMINENT. 8 daughters of GOLD MEDAL TOR-

MENTOR sold for $1000 at auction. This choice herd carries the





F. and other great sires. Write for catalogue, it tells the rest.





M. E. 31088, Sales Mgr., Swartz Creek, Mich.

J. E. Ruppert, Auct. Perry, Mich.





IF you have a Farm or‘Far'm Land for sale, let the. Mich-l

- 'gan Farmer find van '_a buyer through an advertisement





 





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blood of CH’FLYING FOX, EMINENT, LASS 64, POGIS’9‘9 of H.
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around $4.50@4.6o. It'is believed that "





well as domestic, the latter shouldslight springers 1-2@13c: heavy hens

GRAIN QUOTATIONS command a big premium. Growers of 21@22c; light hens 16@17c‘; roosters $4.50 will be a resistance level, ho‘w- -





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Wednesday. November 21- cloverseed are selling more slowly at 14‘@15c; geese 20@21c; ducks 22'@ ever. Pintos also are lower anal-a e

. Wheat. than last year. . 23c; turkeys 33©35c. guotgd at b$4.75hifor Ngvfrembegh 4.1.5 ,

Detroit.-'~No. 1 red $1.08; No. 2 red . ‘ TT , , 01‘ ecem .97 S pmen ’- .9- - 3.0 9'

$1.07; No. 3 red $1.04; No. 2 white ‘ Wh f FEEDS B it . .BU ER i ll rado points. , , _ , . ..

$1.08; No. 2 mixed $11”; eat eeds were weak ineastern u er prices were pract ca y un- . WOOL

Chicago—December $1 00%@1 02V . markets but western points are not changed last week, receipts of the NW ' . , . . - .

May $1 08% (1108%' July “$1 065% 4" pressing offerings so that quotations ter scores were light and thetone of The wool market strengthened ma- ' ' i 4

Toledo—(gish $1.07@1.08. - ' ' have' held. Country demand remains the market was firm. Production re- terially last week. Mills are buying





dull and transit feeds are offered at ports indicate that the falling off in . th 1' free] and om ‘c 1 tiv

Corn. di 0 . ‘ th make is. r win smalle' from La e ' y . 8 9 .spe ua e.

Detroit—Cash N0. 3 yellow at 380; mzrggxtlsts arclidnufggg 12:01 agigtéfimiggg wgek to week, igvliich §naxy meafn that purchases are ieported 3’10me the





172% 4 yellow, 84c; No. 5, 780; No. 6, prices were reduced about $2 per ton, the production barometer. will begin to change in sentiment which has taken





, place during the last few weeks. The



- _ reflecting the decline in cash corn. rise soon and the anticipated heavy f i rkets till sh ' an 11 a d



, Chicago—December 73c; May 73% winter make will augment receipts. ore gn ma 8 to“? pw r

@7340; July 7816:“ ' HAY Withdrawals of storage holdings at tendency in Great B” ,n, Australia





and South. America” and American

buyers are said to be operating more





The better- grades of hay are in the four markets since the first of No- 3

vfreely although prices are above an 9":





Detroit—Cash No. 2 White at 46c; good demand while receipts are light vember have been heavy. compared





No. 3, 440. . , . with a year ago, and are likely to con- - . , ood . .

Chicago—December 421/20; May at $1.39,? riclesdédvafinced 13!“ week. i 31318 tinue to show such favorable compari- 131111201} level“ Tiget gmms market 1: g

44%0; July 43%@43%0. The alfgalzi‘a hay ecrtliltlio‘iflvgg gugtghge: 1%; 13°“. ~With rising prices for butter in i3; ediiugs‘i'hiigdscatie ands 33.31%???

Rye. duced by wet weather during the final the United States, there is renewed weight manufacturing season which V

Detroit—Cash No. 2 7115c cutting in the southwest. interest in foreign goods. Good-sized requires a larger poundage of wool is ” .4 '

Chicago;——Decembei"at 68%0' May ' V lots or Canadian butter arrived last not far ahead ‘V - ‘

73%0 July 72%0. ’ RYE week as well as 1,000 casks of Danish Ohio and ’ Boston prices follow:

'i‘oledo.-——720. ‘ - and 602 casks 0f Siberian butter. Pennsylvania flne combing 53@EEC' "

Barley. The "ye market is “filling Wheat ‘Prices 0‘1 92-30019 were: Chicago one clothing icic- winced combing 52’: .

B ' _ .. _ _ _ Primary receipts are too heavy for 51‘l,§c; New York 540. Ill Detroit fresh @54c- ,/ -blood ’clothin' 47@480° 5%- '

arley, malting 450, feeding :10. the limited export movement which creamery in tubs sells {01:45@4gc_ , 2 - .3 '

Buckwheat has been much lighter during the last b100d combing 52@53C, %-blood cloth-

. . '. - k . . POTATOES ing 47 @48c; 1A-blood combing 47412480;

Buckwheat~New milling $2.20 cwt. Sill} we? Sam“. at any “Gym“ time llt-blood clothing 42@44c; common .

Beans. tlishca en art 3’5“?“ 17T3¥1992 363111))“ hsnlp~ Receipts of potatoes at the leading and braid 36 37c. _ .

Detroit. —- Immediate and prompt Sqflala‘stgnfiilgrg thoan ’twenty-fiyes 2:1: cropsuming Parke? rengain libeiral 39d Michigan, eW York, Wisconsin and .

shipments $5.10@5.15 per cwt. cent of the 1923 crop The light ex- S pments “0m DIOduc Hg 38“ OBS 111‘ Missouri wools one to two cents less.





73151i0ag0-mCh0iCP $6; I'Hl kidneys at ports i‘il-omhthis countiky in spite of the 351?; dsliglflllyyelslifecihfiyk'onpiligethtg‘: than above.

. . unusua c eapness o rye s ow t e ’ - . .

New York.~Choice pea, 1923, $6.50 indifference of the foreign buyer. round whites Whmh ale quoted at 900 GRAND RAPIDS "





. ., H 1.05 per 100 pounds for bulk U. S. - - "'

@075; red kidneys, 192... $00.38. @$ . , . Dissatisfied With prices now being

Seeds. ‘ C . POULTRY AND EGGS £115; éuofigdcggcgfg'5@lfasfiem maikets paid for turkeys many farmers in ‘

Detroit—Prime red clover cash at Receipts of fresh eggs are steadily ‘ , ‘ ' western Michigan have decided to hold

313; alsike $915; timothy? 3.60. declining as is usual during Novem— APPLES their birds tor the Oh stmas market .

. H ‘ her and December, the low months in g _ 111 hopes that prices Wil move to high- ', ‘

ay. , . production, and prices advanced last The apple markets were ractically er levels by that time. Many of the

New Hay.~No. 1 timothy $22.50((D week. '





With fresh eggs higher up the steady last week, with mid lewestern birds are rather thin anyway, and

_ 7 price ladder, storage eggs are proving Jonathans and Northern Spies A-21/2- feeding for another month would.

22; No. 2 timothy $20@21; No. 1 do more desirable and are nlovjng into inch quoted at $5.50@6 per barrel in greatly improve their value. Bu ers

ver mixed $19@20; No. 1 clover $19 distributive channels at a more rapid consuming. markets. Baldwins and are bearish on turkeys as they 0 aim » fi

@20; wheat and oat straw $11.50@12; rate. During tiie first half of the Grimes are bringing $4@4.50. 'Ship- holdings in cold storage are excessive. ’





23; standard and light mixed $21.50@





 





rye straw $12-50@ 13. month the movement out of storage at ments of apples from producing sec— Most of the produce houses early this

Feeds. the four leading cities was greater tions are falling off rapidly. Stocks of week were bidding 27@_30c<a pound.



Bran $34; standard iliiddlings $33; than during the same period last year, apples in storage on November 1 com— live weight. The market was steady ‘ JV

line do $35; cracked corn $41; coarse which shows decided improvem nt. prised 4,121,000 barrels, 5,358,000 box- on other poultry atrthe following pric- ‘ _

cornmeal $39; chop $36 per ton in Poultry prices are lower as recei ts es and 1,101,000 bushel baskets, com- es: Heavy hens and springers 16a); -

100-11), sacks. . are in excess of consumptive demand, pared with 4,133,000 barrels and 4.- 180; light hens and springers 10@~14c; :



Apples. with the flush season of receipts still 164.000 boxes 138i year. ‘ dUCkS 18@19C; geese 16@170- POW . l





w - .. .. u . , to be encountered. Stora e holdin s - toes were weak at 50 cents a bushel.

mgbslllgilgsg.@—)5Bairigéz,maAnS g;?(l$%glse5e§f for the entire United Stagtes on Ngo- BEANS - and onions were 510W at $1.25 a bUSh' ’.. y,



‘ Grimes. $4- spies $5@s- Kings 3346 Vi‘mbel‘ 1 were more than thirty per Bean markets declined last week as el. Other vegetables were steady. .

4.50. Baldwins $150. 'Sp’itzenberg $21” cent heavier than at the same time a result of liberal offerings with a Hothouse lettuce was steady at 7@8c





last year. light demand. Choice hand-picked per pound, Beans were weak at $4.65

WHEAT Chicago—Eggs, checks at 20@23c; whites are quoted at $5.40 per 100 @4-75 per cflt. Apples were in heavy ,» y

in spite of the initiation of a tariff fresh firsts 45@51c; ordinary firsts 34 pounds for immediate shipment f, 0, supply and Weak on all except fancy iii





. . _ . @40. Live poultry, hens 13@201/é0' b. Michigan points $5.35 for ten days grades.

"1qu 0’1 wheat, mic“ have declined roosters 130' ducks 1‘90' geese 19c: and $5 25 for December shi ' TY -

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$05103“tfiignttiléhgnlgwnl?fliffilérltléfilgaig tugkeys 280.F f h d (1 Earlier in the, fall Michigan growers DETROIT CI MARKET

. _ . . . _ . etroit.— .ggs, res can 1e and sold sparingly whenever the price to f i f t toes

Kim; Eligggeseli’gégfitbflf’gfé esltghilgigtt; graded at _48@55C; storage 2615630300. them dropped below $5, but that point aré‘iea‘c‘g‘fiified‘gfl’; 132, 03.21110, £31? the - 'l‘ ,t

returns. Stocks at terminal points Live poultiy, heavy springers 20@21c; has been passed, present prices being market dull at $1.55@1.65 per 150.",_





have continued to accumulate until . sack. 0n the farmers’ market. supplies





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   

 

 

 





 

 

 





   

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





they total 71,445,000 bushels and they ‘ , ' . are abundant and selling .at 7.6@85c1 ,. '

are stiléhgaiining. Expolrtslof wheat 0 ' O llggefililtihggofiglgfscgg gginggl; fidriac‘hk ., -

uring e st two wee s lave been L S k M k S j . ' ~ —; ' '

the smallesta‘for any like interval lve tOC ar Ct e! v Ice , irglgitieangaggflfiségifiigggglggcgpggifitggomé ’ 0

since April. Clearances of flour, how- . ‘ - ~ ., ,

ever, remain rather high. although it $1.25@1-50 per bushel. On farmers /

ise stusgectedd that hpal-ti 01' thege'repre- Wednesday, November 21. $Z§§e;13g.§150%23fggb1§10é itsg%%%geigg

s n ana ian w ea groun in our ' ' . ' , , - '

fiiisanflguéiéfiigfiat‘t Iii-3331133211115. DETROIT CHICAGO it?el’Cag’fiagiarfifiiietmi‘v’giit$1.33

ums on high-grade wheat has taken ‘ - Hogs. , ~ and lower at $20@22 per ton for Dan-

place during the last two weeks. The Cattle. Receipts 27,000. Market mostly 10 1811. ‘Buyers, pay 75@90c per bushel on.

mills have been chiefly responsible for M k d t @200 higher. Big packers inactive. the iarmers market. Large onions at

these premiums which placed such ar 9‘ “.93 y '0 strong. Bulk good and choice 200 to 325-lb, $2.75@3 per OWL, and on farmers’ mar-

wheat beyond the reach of exporters Good to (3110108 yearlings.$ 9.25@10.25 butchers $7.20@7.45; tops $7.50; bet- ket at $1-75@2 per bushel. Poultry is

World conditions are bearish on wheat Best heavy steers ....... 8.50@ 9.25 ter grades 160 to 190-lb. average $6.75 offered freely, with swingers at 21@

but. prices are moderately above the Halidyweight butchers .. 6.75@ 7.25 @710; killing pigs 250 higher; bulk 23c wholesale, and 23@280 retail, Old

world level and may hold more owing Mixed steers and heifers 5.25@ 5.75 good strong weight $5.25@6. hens 22@25c in wholesale lots, and re»

to certain factors of strength in the Handy light butchers.... 4.50@ 5.25 Cattle. tailing at 24@25c. Eggs are scarce , l,

domestic situation. . Light butchers .......... 3.75@ 4.25 Receipts 11,000. Market on fed and retailing at 75@90c. Ducks and

CORN Best coWs ........ _ ...... 4.50@ 5.50 steers and yearlings sluggish. Early geese retailing at 24@280; turkeys at‘ “-..

. Butcher cows ........... 3.00 4.25 trade steady to weak, with yesterday’s 400.; veal 15@170; light 11083 11@140; . ‘

Corn prices moved downward last Cutters ....... . .......... 2.25 2.50 extreme decline. Early top yearlings live roast pigs $3-50@5 88011

week. Primary receipts increased and Canners ................. 2.00@ 2.25 $11.75; some held at about $12; best ‘ .

buyers are delaying purchases iorlOW- Chmce bulls .......... 4. 4.50@ 5.00 handyweight $11.50; heavy steers and The movement from the leading ' i

er prices. 'But. arrivals. are lighter Bologna bulls ........... 3.25@. 4.25 westerns, stockers and feeders strong; -stockyards to the country_ during the .

than usual at this time at year as the Stock bulls .. . . ....... 3.00@‘ 4.25 stats higher; other classes are about last two months has fallen slighuy'be‘. _"

new crop is slow in drying out, and Feeders ....... 4.25@ 6.50 steady: . hind that of last year, which is all- r

producers believe that corn prices will Stockers .............. .. 3.75@ 6.00 Sheep and Lambs. . other. symptom of! a fairly healthy

25$?th gighfitlsaggkswyiigegfiiga‘g €01; Milkers W3 45@ 85 Receipts 9,000. Market slow; Bet- market later on. Demand for thin

g y - - V ter grades of fat lambs are steady to - steers has developed more breadth but. . _

light to create an easy Situation. The eal Calves. t , th d feed 11 buyers resisted all attempts'to ad- if

trend of prices during the next two ' . B rong, 0» ers an ers genera y ~ ~ - I -' ~ _.

months is like] to be downward Market steady. steady; most fat lambs early at $12@ vance prices, showing a prevailing _ , . l,

y = Best ....... .....;..$12.00@12.50 12-40: topslo city butchers at'312-50; m°°d 0‘08“.“0‘1- . . 7 ' ' ‘ “

OATS . Others ........ . ......... 3.50@11.00 few choice lambs $11-35: 00d feeding ‘ . ’ ‘ * ‘ ’,

Sales of oats by producers and the so d L $35115? ”@1125; 1’8?” 15 lb- ewes at. comma LIVE erocK 'SA’LESJ - it. 4

shipments irom country points show , . up an ambs. _ ' ' . _. .. ‘ ' y .7 , ' ' ‘

engineers. '25: district: .eser 15m mm s..., BUFFALO > . -. . 1...“... ggggiggimm

since ttl‘iet hieavlié after-lialaest moxir'e- Best lambs . . $1175 12 25 R lei t 10 Cattlefi k Wd ‘4 r ' .'J‘.fiéy. -,_ , ' 4 , ,' ’ y ‘

men s e . is pro a y near 3 Fair lambs 10‘50 11'25 cc 1) s cars. ar et stea y. - Dec 6 .Iesse A. Iélin 061 m " .‘5‘: ;

ccccccccccc on. u . . ‘-——L . an,» .

gga‘éllefggOtgfisgaellls gainngisglgltwtfihaggg Fair to good sheep...~... 5.25 6.00 calves at “2' ~. * .‘ Mich. , . ~ '~ 9‘ - e ' . ‘

82,7 000 bushels last yeg'r “ - ’ Gulls ........ .. . . ... ... . 1.50 3.00 ‘ , H098. _ . , _ ‘ p ' Poland chinac; ‘ -

. - - . Light to common 7.00@10.00 . Recei is 40 cars. Market is strong.‘ Nov... 24;...(313141'; ;&,:Ringim§t,' Adrian ..

SEEDS . ‘ Hon: ‘1 ~’ Heavy . ((37.50; yorkers‘and"mixed ' . 1h. - . .- 2;. '





 

 





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- u ' - .. " . $7.25@7.36; p’igs,$6.50@7.

‘ 'Thgrffigfgfigmyggkfntflge‘:0390211111; ’ Market steady and 10°. higher 2 pigs ”1 ' ‘ - Shunahdvlsambs; . '-‘~ "

‘ {lililirchases . o: ‘ foreign seed to ‘250-higher. * - : - fienel'ptsfzs cars. .M' . at is lower.“

m dam . the fall and Winter. Pigs o o n o a a I I c a o Q‘s... 0 t u l I: 6.25%. 6060 Ten ' lam“ $12.§0@12‘7’6:2me , ‘ ‘$8.

nice foreign seed does not thrive so Heavies a... 7.25 7.45 @‘10; wethers $71.50 new 1 ~-.:"





 

 

 

 

 

 





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'21: ‘6. . ..

"5:4 flint a ‘l'srser‘ acreage of

corn 19 the light of the records of the





‘- last few years. Only twice in the last

eighteen years has the average yield





fallen below thirty bushels per acre.

For the five—year period, 1918 .to 1922,

inclusive, the average‘has been 31.1

bushels, as compared with 35.1 in Illi-





nois, 42.1 in Iowa,vand 27.5 in Mis-





"' souri.





When 'account is taken of the

higher prices that prevail in Michi-

g,an the returns per acre exceed those

in any of the big surplus producing





'states Where corn is lauded as king.

,FOr the above five-y ear period. the av-





erage annual value of the crop per





,Sed with 31,090,000 barrels





~aCre in-Mi‘chigan was $35.98;

’nois,‘ $32.91;





in Illi-

in Iowa. $33.60, and in

Missouri, . $27.65.



These-figures place Michigan corn





‘ in a very'favorable light, and the 1923





.yield, .as shown by the November re-

port issued by L. Whitney Watkins,

commissioner of agriculture, and

'Verne H Chu1ch, agricultural satisti-

clan, is thirty- -five bushels per acre,

making the fifth good crop in succes-

sion. The total production is estimat-

'ed ,at, 59,010,000 bushels. ()1 this

amountpthirty-two per cent has gone

into silos, leaving a. net grain produc-

tion of 40,127,000 bushels, of which it

is estimated nine per cent was bogged

down. The average yield of silage is

7.5 tons per acre. An inquiry con-

cerning the amount of “old corn car-





. ried over indicates that only 5.5 per





cent of last year’s crop still remained

on farms on. November 1._



Michigan ranks fourth in the pro-

duction: of buckwheat, the estimated

crop being 852,000 bushels, with an

average yield of 14.2 bushels per acre.

A little was frosted in some northern





’ c'ountiesi but the greater part of the





crop matured well and is (if good qual-

ity. The production for the country as





. a .whole is. estimated.” at' 14,511,000





bushels, as compared with 15,050,000

last year. . .



.As a potato state, Michigan holds

third place with prospective crop of

34,980,000 bushel A very rapid

growth took place after the fall rains

and resulted-in an average yield of

110 bushels, per acre. Thecrop is un-

usually free from disease. but many

of the large potatoes are hollow as a

result of the rapid growth. The pros—

pective yield in a number of other

states has; also increased since last

report, and the total United States’





crop is now estimated at 416,722,000





bushels, or about 34,000,000 bushels

less than'the 1922 production. Re-

ports from competing states received

by telegraph are as follows:. Maine,

33,480,000; New York, 39,406,000; Wis-





consin; 26,112,000; Minnesota, 38,304,-g





000000; North Dakota, 12,284,000; Col-

orado, 13,440,000; ‘ Montana, 4,070,000;

Idaho, 11,725,000, and California, 7,950,-

000 bushels.



Michigaxngalso' has an, enviable rec-

ord in the production of- apples, rank-

ing third among, the states this"year.

The crop averagedlseventy-seven per

cent of a full one and the commercial

production amounted to 2 .118 .000 bar-

11313, as against 1,699, 000 bairels in

1922. The size of the fruit was below

normal in the heavy-laden orchards,

but very; little scab or other disease

was prevalent. The nation’s crop is

placed at 33,522,000 barrels as compa1-

in 1922.

Washington leads with 9,075,000 bar-





~rels, and New York is Second in rank

'with 4, 512, 000 ’barrels.





Other import-

ant apples states report as follows:

Pennsylvania, 1,266,000; Virginia, 1,-

797,000; Cdlorado, .803, 000; Idaho, 1,-

318, 000; Oregon, 1,680, 000, and Cali?

fornia 1,602,000 barrels.



A later inquiry on beans raises the





average yield from 11 0 to 11 5 bushels





per acre.- This increases the Michiganim





V' production to 6,532, 000 bushels, and





bably a larger qflantity of white





 





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”average price

ens 0112 October 15 in the. leading states





is as follows: New York, 33 90;

11.241.43.20; Wisconsin, $4.00; Color-

ado, 34.20;Ca1nm~n1’a, $4.15; Idaho,





$3. 55, New Mexico, $4. 60, and for the

United States, $3. 73.



Another important c1 op in Michigan

is clover seed, in which the state usu-

ally ranks about ,fifth. This year the

crop is estimated at 147,000 bushels as

compared with 240,000 bushels in 1922.

The early crop was light, but the sec-

ond cuttings filled well and produced

the major pmtion ol? the seed this

year.



Michigan also continues to maintain

its reputation as a sugar beet state,

ranking third in that product. The

crop is estimated at 952,000 tons, as

compared with 593,000 tons last year.

It is outranked by Colorado with 1,-





863,000 tons to its credit, and by Utah/





with 978,000 tons. Other leading states

reported as follows: California, 553,-





000; Idaho, 380,000; Nebraska, 511,-

000; 'Vt'isconsin, 138,000; Ohio, 387,-

000 tons. These figures will be revis-





ed later when the reports of the beet

sugar companies become available.



The final report on grapes shows a

production of sevemty-two per cent of

‘a full crop. The quality is rated at

eighty-nine per cent as ompared with

a ten-year average of eighty-seven.

The pear crop yielded better than ex-

pected and reached sixty per cent of

-a full crop. Michigan ranks third in

the number of bearing grape vines

and of bearing pear trees.





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Farm Wanted Mean business inure en Wichita, K-

11 Acres

f3,fil0.





well imp. 55 acrcs bottom. WL‘ll located.

Jenkins 3. Jones. Ava. Mo.

BEST 435 ACRES i’.‘....’.."“i§2:‘.‘ 435‘ 721.13} .033:





 





 





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consecutive insertions 6 cents a word.

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

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. m it i’or want ads and for advel" -

Poultry advertising will be run in this department -

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Rates in Effect October 7, 1922





 





BARRED ROCK (.‘OI‘KERElrs From high egg-pro—

ducing prize winners. $2.50 to $3.50. Dimson Farm.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Good Smoking, 5 pounds $ : 10 pounds 31. 5:0 20

pounds $2. 75. Chewing. 5 pounds $1.50:10 pounds

$2. 75. Quality Guaranteed. O'Connor Smokehouse.

8133, Mnyilcld, Ky. .





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES





FOR SALE

country store. J.





-—To close an estate. {ll-awe farm and

G. McClure. Merrill. Mich.





 





 





IIOME 81' UN TOBACCO—Five pounds chewing...$1 75:

ten, 33. 00; twenty, $5. 25. Smoking. five pounds,

31. 25; cm. 32. 00; twcnty. $3.50.1'Ipe and recipe

free. Send no money. l’ay when received. Kcn—

tut-ky- Tobacco Company, Paducah, Ky.





 





KENTUCKY Natural Lcaf Tobacco.

10 s. .. $2. 50; mod um, 10 lbs., $3. 00;

Chewing. 5 lbs.. 0; 12 11114.. $4. 50.

grade Tobacéo. We ship no lugs or trash.

Farmers’ 'l‘obamo Association. Murray, Ky.





Smoking. mild.

15 lbs., $4.50.

This is best.

,'\alley



Box 292.





TOBACCO. —1‘ive pounds chewing $1.75: Ten





 





 





 





LE F

$3.35 Five pounds smoking $1.25:Te11 $2.00; pay

when received, pipe recipe free. Cooperative

Farmers. Paducah, Kentucky. .

PET STOCK



gnu MANSheplmed’. Alrellalon. llles. 014‘ English

hepherd Pngges: illuo rated instructive

list. W. 1LW-atsomx85. soon. Mo.

REGISTERED COLLIE PUPPIES-Na healers.

both sexes. Silva-cred Kennels. Gladwin. Mich





 





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‘ _ 0 ........ $0.80 $2.40 26 ........ $2.08 ”.24 ‘ .

1349 Adel-{(10, Detroit, Mich; ........ .88 2.64 27 ........ 2.16 6.48 MAMMOTH Bronze 'lul'kers. Tom Barron and hing

. . 12 ........ .96 2,88 23 ,,,,,,,, 2.24 3,72 (.corgc strum, large. healthy. grown on range. Toms

Wmcuafor Particular: 13 ,,,,,,,, 1,04 3,12 29 ,,,,,,,, 2,32 3.9:; $15; llcns $12.50. Remit with order. Mrs. Wm. C.



14 ........ 1.12 3.36 30 ........ 2.40 7.20 Ryno. Edwardsburg. Mich.

' l5 ......... .20 3.60 31 ........ 2.48 7.44



Ha and Grain lo the OLD ll! 16 ,,,,,,,, 1.25 3.34 32 ________ 255 733 Al Itll. (“OI‘ KICRF LS English Strain .WTte Lap

17 ........ 1.36 4.03 33 ........ 2.64 7.92 mrns 1\ 1‘. stOc (10in Birds 2.50 and



Your y ”ABLE "0035 18 ........ 1.44 4.32 34 ........ .72 8.16 $3 00 Huh John R. Brinks. R. 3. Zceland. Mich.



. , . 19 ........ 1.52 4.56 35 ........ 2.80 3.40



“0' E ROGERS l. 00, Pltlsburgh,Pa 20 ........ 1.60 1.80 36 ........ 2 88 8.64 10 Breeds Chickens. Turkeys, Ducks, Geese. Bantams.

21 ........ 1.92 5.12); g; ........ 2.36 5.23% Guineas. English Bulls. Fox Terricr Pups; 300 Pckin

22 ........ l. 5. ........ . .- 1) dis. .l~s~l£ '."l‘..ld.‘ . 3"}.

I Will Condition 8 Horse or 23 ........ 1.3. 5.32 1‘8 ........ 3% 3:33 W“ “ ‘°" ““

2 ........ . 9 5 ........ . . ,4 .- . , -

Cow m Twelve Days , 6:03 ........ 3... m 1.901331115111211 ’ 13:93:99.... 31::

Put flelh in its bones UiVe it life All domain: on 1 worth, Mich.

-' and vigor. Call add 50% to looks peCia otic4e diunntinuant: "an l

’and Value. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. ”than” of up; in- 1 1.17"”.BI”.;1, Mammoth 1mm... Turk,._,.s_ For hm-

[fligi postal for free 0381' :01de fur thz Clrmifitd Department mun rmch thunfitt ml , me only. Write Johnson Turkcy Farm. Six Lakes.

F ST, BRYN MAWR, PA. do]: In advent: ofpublita lion do". 5 M1111.

il'lllltlv BRICI) Mammoth llronzc 'I‘urkcys. large. vig—

- TOBACCO MISCELLANEOUS loious birds, rtasonably priced. Mrs. Ralph Sherk.

NAMES WANTEll.-- Tull [lucid of your ncighbfrs } ( .1lcdon1u. M1ch1gan. ‘

. that we trade phonograph rcco s and player m In ‘ ‘ .

$3b31§0T§O$ULE tgglrpsfigldsbfggg grgfinngllgersfggf Send us their names and 12‘, in stamps and V". will l FOR SALE. Bourbon Ited'Tupkpfi-s, Toms $1.0. Hens

'I‘en [wands Green River and Burlev smoking for mail you. prepaid, a fine four-piece set of miniature g *5- Unrelated; H‘lsn Afrh'all_ Geese. 310 a pair.

52 05. Ten pounds chewing to, $3 45. and gm, ,0“ furniture. National Record Exchange. Wichita. kans. l Rudolph Hasslvr. Sanduskr. Mich.

a. genuine $1. 00 Wellington French Briar pipe free ‘ . _ - .. . , , , .. , . . .

with en‘ch order for 14-11 pounds. Postage extra: Sat- CHOICE Silver Black Foxes from Registered Dawn... ; 11 known} MAMMO’III BRQN/J‘. 'IURlthsv—

islet-Lion guaranteed or nwney refunded" 1.11an for sale at farmer’s prices: W. H. Wilbur. Route 1:,‘3mmpmu Mram.‘ Large and Amorous Unrelated

pounds Common Smoking Tobacio for only $1.45 and Pontiac, Mich. ' Rock. Mrs. ll. Smalls, ll. 1, Last Jordan. Mlch.

postage. “WW“? 1‘0wa Company, Dept. 15; HOW TO TAN all kinds of Furs at home rhea i

Owrnsbom K" easy. The sccrct of tanning sent to any address. ‘ $311(>11?1\ll(ll}.l;l.itl.l:S 016040301. “’- L- West &

One Dollar, Amp-«5.. 1.. r2. Davlson. Mccosta. Mich. 1 ' ~ ' "“ ‘3’““6- ‘ “ ‘-



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3339‘1g30 5°5g‘f.§5“‘;§§nggll_°50 1112s“ $12520 53(7)?! 8932‘. RAILWAY POSTAL (‘LI'JRKS sum #13:: mourn;I my; ifilfg'nmfiun ““"h Lh’léfif.‘ .dTurkBM- VOW

Chewing 5 111.}. $200; 10 lbs 33. 50 Quality Guamn— railway puss, cxpcnses ‘puld. Questions frcc. i'oluln- ' ' ‘ “ ' " can. ‘ “' ‘ 1 or ' Mich.

ism L'0~operatlvc Tobacco Growcrs, (3133. Muyllcld. ”‘3 "WWW“ "- "~ “"“““’“‘" ”'“U' :BOI'RBON 11111) drum-11's, llcns $8; Toms $12.



’ FREE CATALOG, Carpenter's Auction School. ‘ ”~ 0- ““331“ 1111mm. “1"“-

l.argest 1'11 world. Ilall Bldg, lumsas City. Mo. ' . . -

TOBACCO- Extra Fancy Smoking, 10 pounds $2. 50: WRIT). IIOIIAND TDRREYS- Toms $7: hens $6.

F “11161, \Vohcrinc. Mich.





 





\l\.\l\lO'l‘H bronze turkcys from best breeding stock.

Ilanovmu Mich.





b1 st breeding stock.

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1.0} “RON REI) Tt).\iS---From

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POULTRY

INFORMATION on incubation (‘ inular 11w. 'l‘ur-

kcy booklets 25c. Poultry Plan! for “ll 1.01m lu- '

crs. Silverlakc Farm. Tillon. N. ll.

MICHIGAN'S BEST Glam Bronze Turkc) s. Anoth-

er excellent flock Nady for sale. We place 100





S. P. BUFF‘ LEGHORN cockerels. Write for rl

and dcscription. Willard \Vebster. Bath, Mlch.p- cos





 





NARRAGANSE'I‘TF TURK EYE—The Big Kind. To

$12. hen $8. Mrs. Wm. B. Nowell. Ousted. oh. m





 





 





 





 





Hunter St... Baltic Creek. \Iich.





FINE ROSE COMB R. I. Red Cockcrels $2 each.

Giant Bronze Turkeys. Toms $9, chs $7. Mrs.

‘Albert Harwood, R. 4. l‘hurlevoix. Mich.





FOR SALEv‘SUDL‘I'IOI' ltlnglet Barred Rock Cockerels.

Cocks. Hens and l’ullets,Sl1ow Bird, and Breeders.

‘.J Wyndham. Timu. Obi o.





BARgAINS—Muscovey Ducks. $7 trio; 20 breeds of

Geese, Turkeys. All higins breeds chickens.

Clues Smiley. Judson. Ind. -





LIGHT BRAIIMA COCKERELS——Whlte Holland tur-

Toms. and oulouse (ladders. A. W. Chase. R.

'.F D. No. 5. Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





 





 





' Market.

‘ him: district.





breeders in Michigan each ymr.N liurnish lunrolsul-il



stock. Sayi- by buying early. 1'. 'imlyn buns c .



lonia. Mich. HELP WANTED



SINGLE COMB naps (ockcrcls and pullets.\lar1l1 WANTED~~—I«‘RUIT TREE SALESMAN-Pmfltab1m

and April hatdxed. Reduced prices for quick salc.|’19353nt. steady work. Good side line for fame“

They win. lay. we club and pay. Harry .‘I. Thcis, 293 teachers and others. Permanent job for good workers.





Write for terms. I. E.





Ilgcnfritz Sons‘

Monroe Nursery, Monroe, Mich.





Co.. The

Established 1847.





 





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





FARM MANAGER—experienced in Reflex-cl farming ‘

and dairylng wants position. Apply Box 21.111116»

gan Farmer.





 





COMMISSION FIRMS





SHIP vour live and dressed ul . veal;

direct to John R. Tyler & 831113213. 954 “MW“-

Chicago. in the very hedrtot oldie his lobe
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VERY common and unpopular ail-

ment is that generally designated

‘ , as “gas on the stomach.” Its

victims usually think of it as a disease

in itself, rather than a mere symptom,





GAS ON THE STOMACH.





 





and are inlclined to the belief that it p





can be disposed of by taking “some-

thing to break up the gas.”



In their desire for relief they are

willing to take soda, charcoal, dys-

pepsia tablets, or any medicine that

any person may suggest to them, but

seldom indeed do they seek the real

foundation of the trouble and show

themselves willing to correct their er-

rors in diet or to seek for theother

physical errors that lie at the real

seat of the trouble.



Gas on the stomach is not always a

trivial matter. It always causes dis—

tress that is quite out of propdrtion

to its apparent importance and makes

the patient Willing to do anything to

get relief. Sometimes there is a feel-

ing of pressure upon the heart that

terrifies the patient exceedingly, and

this terror is not always without foun-

dation, for the poor digestion and

sluggishness of the alimentary tract

that allow the condition to exist may

be dependent upon a genuine heart

lesion.





Temporary relief can usually be ob-

tained by taking a glass of hot water

containing from half to one level tea-

spoonful of bicarbonate of soda. But

the person who has this warning

symptom and is content with some—

thing to take in order to get immedi—

ate relief is very short of vision. The

symptom, if of frequent recurrence, is

a warning of more serious things. The

patient should at once find out the

cause of the trouble. If dietetic errors

exist, they should be corrected with

promptness and severity, no matter

how much denial of appetite is de-

manded. The heart action and blood

pressure should be carefully examined

to make sure that all is safe in that

direction. The trouble generally calls

for an all-round examination and it

should be made by a doctor who is

‘not inclined to wave the matter away

with talk of “a trifling indigestion,”

but is willing to go to the bottom of

‘matters.





The best treatment for “gas on the

stomach,” therefore, is:



a. Careful selection of foods, avoid-

ing those that tend to fermentation;-

thorough mastication, slow eating.



b. Drink half a pint of hot water,

fiust before each meal, thereby stimu-

lating the action of the stomach.



0. Determine if condition of prolap—

sed stomach exists, and correct it.



d. Ascertain if any disturbance of

heart action or blood pressure, and

correct it.



e. Maintain

habit. ‘





regular, daily bowel





HOW TO REMOVE WARTS.





 





Can you give me a remedy for small

warts on children’s hands? My child

has several on both hands.-Mrs. A. R.





Such warts may be safely removed

by the application of glacial acetic

acid. This agent is quite mild and

several applications may be required

before the warts are entirely removed.





WHY NOT use A RAZOR?





 





Is there any safe way of removing

superfluous hair from the face other

than the electric needle?-——Reader.





. A few prominent hairs may be re-

moved'tofgood advantage by the elec-

tric needle, but it is no good to at-

. :EQQDtathifi where there is (a prenounc-

ed growth, ,Th'eregare many depilafi-

<,torles" on themarket. Most of them

are harmless“ but disappointing, be-'





’





. H Zernga





—,/ .—'

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cause'the hair soon comes back, pen .





haps a little coarser.- I can lee; no

reason why a woman should not‘u'se a

safety razor to remove objectionable

hair. There is ‘no foundation for the

idea ’ that it will produce a , heavy

growth. The renewed growth is a





atories, but the razor is convenient,

safe, and can be used as required.





POSTULES ON NECK AND FACE.





 





Please let me know what to do for

acne on the face and neck. Is there

any cure for it? And what does 'it

come from? Has the blood anything

to do with it?-——D. R.





Acne is a local disease of the skin

dependent upon the condition of the

sebaceous glands, and is not a blood

disease. Excellent treatment is a

brisk bath and rub all over the body

every morning, using as cold water as

\can be borne with comfort. A diet

that excludes sweets and fats, and in-

cludes a good amount of fruit and

green vegetables is helpful. In severe

cases physicians often prepare an au-

togeonous vaccine, using matter ex-

pressed from some of the acne pos-

tules. This has cured some very ob;

stinate cases.





BAD AFTER EFFECTS OF OPERA-

TION.





 





Give me your advice of my case. I

was operated On for appendicitis more

than a year ago and my side seems to

get no better. Am nineteen years old

and would like to regain my health if

possible. My doctor says I ought to

have the side reopened and examined.

~Subscriber.





Your doctor should tell you what he

expects to gain by reopening the

wound. Your description cf symptoms

is too vague to give me much of an

idea of the trouble, but if the appendix

is safely removed I fail to see what is

to be gained by a second incision, and

if the trouble is not appendicitisbut

some disturbance of the pelvic organs

there are methods of examination noit

nearly so radical.





OUTDOOR SLEEPING.





 





A patient with tuberculosis who has

been sleeping on an outdoor porch for

almost a year feels the cold ‘very

much, and wonders if 'it would not .be

as well to sleep indoors during the

severe weather.——K. P.





Not if any provision can be made

to make sleeping on the porch' com-

fortable. Many outdoor sleepers for-

get to protect the bed, sufficiently from

below. The first thing to go on the

springs should be a. pad of several

thicknessesof wrapping paper, then a

substantial mattress, and then blank-

ets and comforters, so prepared that

they form a sleeping bag. The pa-

tient should wear a warm suit of un-

derwear, woolen stockings, an" arctic

suit with hood, and also should have

some artificial heat. With such pro-

vision for his comfort he will get along

very well, even in the coldest weather.





ROARING NOISES, ‘





Every night just before I go to sleep

my left ear has a roaring noise. It

has been roaring for a short time only.

What shall I d0?—R.‘ P. ' '





 





Any attack of middle ear catarrh‘ ,





may cause roaring in the ears. Usual-

ly the first attacks are Off short dura-

tion so it is probable that your trouble

will be over before you read this. ’Do

not slight the warning, however. 'It is

an indication that your hearing is

threatened. Avoid colds. .Cure ca-

tarrh by outdoor living and sleeping.

If you have enlarged tonsils or ‘ade-’





   





'noids I have‘zthem "rammed. {Get ”the

‘ throat and‘nasal'hflsfiégesziuggood can... '—





   

 





little coarse, just as after using depil- '





 





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fellow.





 





 





 





 





 





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