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CU feliows make me sick, talk-
ing about the quality of Michi-
. gan apples! I use large quanti-
ties of apples for’baking purposes and
can’t get Michigan apples that will
fill the bill. ”
The speaker was a member of the
Detroit Farmers’ Club, a group of De-

' troit busineSs men who own farms in

adjoining counties and seek to operate
them on a practical basis. The state-
ment was made in one of their weekly
meetings in which the members dis-
cuss their‘agricultural problems and
experiences, just like the rest of us
dirt farmers. The man who made it
is also one of the proprietors of the
largest of the high-class restaurants
in Detroit; In this case, he was speak-
ing from the consumer’s rather than
the producer’s 'standpoint.

Other members of the club knew, as
we all know, that Michigan produces
’as good apples as grow anywhere.
Most of us. believe they are better than
are grown anywhere else.

But.this man knew his own prob—
lem. His restaurants are operated on
the serve-self plan. Baked apples are
a. constant item on his menus. They
must be uniform in appearance, qual-
ity and size. Michigan growers do not
pack their apples that way. Western
growers do. On this account they are

  

MICHIGAN

better adapted to his use, so the west-
ern product enjoys this important con-
sumer market, as well as the fruit
stand market and a very considerable
portion of the general retail market,
just because standard quality has at-
tracted consumer demand. And these
consumers are paying higher prices
than the Michigan fruit, which this
product displaces, can cemmand in the
same market.

The western product is sold cooper-
atively, but that fact in itself does not
give it first call in the consumer mar-
ket. That is due to its standardiza-
tion as to pack, which can best be ac-
complished by cooperative methods,

‘but without which no kind of selling

methods would have accomplished
these results. _

On the menu cards of many good
hotels and restaurants, Idaho baked
potatoes will be found listed at a
charge of fifteen or twenty cents each.
That the patrons like these potatoes is
evidenced by the fact that they are to
be found on an increasing number of
menu cards, also by the fact that Idaho
potatoes are at all times to be found
in our wholesale produce houses,
where they command a fancy price.

They are good potatoes, but no bet-
ter than can be produced_in Michigan.
Yet the Idaho growers have grabbed

A Practical ”Journal for the Rural F amfly
SBCTTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS-

  

  

off this special consumer market for
them at a fancy price because they
are well matured stock and graded as
to size to suit the Special demand for
baking purposes.

The two products above Jnentioned
reach the consumer through the regu-
lar channels of trade which the great
bulk of all our farm products must
traverse. They have displaced our own
products in our own markets simply
because their growers have marketed
them in a form which made a special
appeal to consumers.

‘Perhaps these western growers did
not have a broader vision than did our
own producers. It is certain that they
labored under a greater handicap in
marketing their. product, with long
hauls and high freight rates between
them and the ultimate consumer. Ne-
cessity, in this case, may have been
the mother of invention, but the result
was a better solution of the marketing

problem, and we may well profit by"

their experience.

An _almost endless number of in-
stances might be cited in proof of the
established fact that a standard pro-
duct of quality is the basis of suc-
cessful cooperative marketing of farm
products, whenever marked success in
this line has been attained. It is true
of the great cooperative marketing de-

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1e Farmers Marketing Problem

T .66 Consumer Factor [72 It: Solutzon. By I. R. Wateréury

velopment in Denmark, so often cited

,and which has been a strong factor in

inspiring the development of American
cooperative enterprises.

But we do not need to go outside
our own state- for evidence to Support

\this idea Among our cooperative de-

velopments in this state, none has
been more striking than that of the
seed department of the Michigan State
Farm Bureau. While not strictly a
cooperative marketing agency. in all
its functions, it serves the farmers of
the state in this capacity in addition
to beingva source of supply of grain
and grass seeds of quality. It is the
example most often cited by the aver-
age farmer as the most beneficial de-
velopment of the organization.

Evidently because farmers are no
exception to consumers in general in
appreciating standard quality in the
goods offered them, and in being will-
ing to pay a premium for quality if
necessary.

We would, then, urge the reader to
keep this idea in mind in his search
for a solution of his personal market-
ing problem, whether he attempts to
solve it for himself or in cooperation
with his fellows. The evidence all in-
dicates that it is a basic principle of
successful marketing which it does
not pay to overlook or neglect.

“Bill”. Livingston—--On the Hog

T flirty Years wit/i Pure-Med Hogs’mzd Some of the T fling: T flay Haw T augét
By P. P. Pope

HEN we begin to look around

for an authority on any subject

we like to find that authority
backed up by experience. And when
wefind a man who has spent thirty
of the best years of an active life rais-
ing hogs, we naturally conclude that
he should be a good authority on the
Subject. Especially is this true, if, in
that thirty years our party has not

o"gone broke” in his various feeding,

breeding, buying, selling and pedigree
building operations, but has steadily
moved forward, always keeping in the
forefront, consistently breeding prize
winners year after year, and making
it pay. ~

We take off our hats to that man,

' and the one we have in mind is W. E.

Livingston—commonly” called “Bill"
by several thousand farmers and live

. stock breeders who enjoy a first name

acquaintance with him—and he lives
among the hills. over in Jackson coun-
ty. Take a good look at the accom-

' panying picture and‘ you will under-

stand why it is so easy to call. him
"Bill." That genial smile of his is
always with him and he has conferred
it lavishly upon the Poland China
breeders of many states.

place, and, although most of them get
filcst ameng the hills before they reach

there, they alv'vay‘s find a warm wel-4

'geeme when they arrive. ,

Mr. Livingston does not depend up-

 

   

 

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. Hundreds of '
them have made the pilgrimage to his,

“ alone. He conducts a diversi-7 1 way. If the neigh-

wonderful daughter, who goes about
things like her energetic sire, and a
capable son-in-law who has purchased
the farm next door and is head farmer.

Of all the activities of the farm,
however, Mr. Livingston likes the hogs
best. They are his hobby, his special
interest that admirably supplements.
the affairs of the general farm, and
helps him to keep
young Ask him a
few questions and
he naturally lets

~loose a flow of gen-

ial wit _and homely
philosophy that is
(good to hear and
contains. much
practical common
sense. Listen while
he talks to you for
a. while.

“It does not pay
to harp too much
about. your~ own
hogs,” he 'says. “If
a customer comes
and does not find
just what he wants, ,

«don't .be afraid he-
will go to,.your-
neighbor's and find
something better,’
take him there, _or
direct”. him the best

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long. You may be selfish and gain
one sale today but lose two friends to—
morrow. I have no respect for the
“hog” in the hog business.

“In regard to feed, there is no use
trying to raise good hogs without good
feed; it can’t bedone. 1 like to feed

my hogs a variety of feeds and a bal-
anced ration.

We don’t have much
skim-milk for our
hogs so we feed
some tankage, some
oil meal, and occa-
sionally we get a
barrel of semi—solid
buttermilk: These
feeds mixed with
ground grains and
fed with ear corn
balance the ration
in good shape and
keep the hogs grow-
ing big and smooth
and slick all over.

“What do I think
about extremes in
type? Now, you’ve
started something.
Do you want to
know what I think
of these extremes
in type? I think if
God wanted hogs to
be elephants, he
would have put
trunks on them. If
he had intended

them to wriggle along through the'
376 may. and, it your eyes one madam «snake, he would have left

If all he had aimed at
rainbow he would have

the legs on'

  

“ Livingston talks.

  

instead of down here for us to eat.
Don’t get the idea that I do not like
them big, or that I do not like them
long, or that I do not like a nice uni-
formly arched back. But I insist upon
lots of feeding quality. I want them
big, but I want them to weigh it as
well as look it;' I want them long, but
I want four good straight legs out un-
der the corners 50‘ they can walk
without interfering; I like a nice arch-
ed back, not a hump back, and I want
the underline down where the pigs
can reach it. These hogs that you
have to help up and then hold while
they eat: Not for me. These hogs
that get the squeals and die before
they are eighteen months old: _The
other fellow who has money to lose
can have them. When we lose sight
of the pork barrel in producing hogs,
we are on the wrong track and that
is all there is to it.”

These and a. whole paper full of oth-
er things are characteristic of the
spicy remarks you will hear when Mr.
Hogs _is his favorite
topic of conversation and he concludes
by saying, “The last thing I hope to
do is to feed the hogs.”

GREASE TH E .WAY.

 

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drive much easier in seasoned wood.
so will a little of the oil of human
sympathy and interest make» the ways
of life more smooth for those whose
yokes are heavyl Furthermore, as the
grease tends to prevent the nail from
rusting in the wood, so will the syn-
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CURRENT COMMENT

One scrub bull will easily spoil the
whole herd.

The owner who cares well for his
cows, is well cared for.

Good crops can no more be grown
from poor seed than high-grade calves
cdn be produced from scrub cows.

Sam says: Folks who worry about
getting credit for what they do, never
seem to get anything done.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the man
who is selling the best live stOCk and
grains today is the man who in the
past has followed the sloganof “Keep-
ing the best and selling the rest.”

HROUGH organ-

Potato iZi‘d effort over a.

- - period of years the
Varieties

Michigan potato crop
has been very largely
standardized as to
variety and type. The great bulk of
our crop is now of the so-called Late
Petoskey or Russet Rural variety.
This is a strong. vigorous and good
yielding variety, of good, though rath-
er extreme russct type. It has appeal-
ed strongly to growers and has result-
ed in better average yields and a gen-
erally better quality of product in our
commercial potato crop.

and Prices

Standardization is an undoubted
benefit to any industry. it has been
a benefit to our potato industry.
but there is sonic evidence to show
that we may have adopted a too ex-
treme type in this case for best mar~
ket results, particularly in the eastern
markets, whore round white varieties
or light russcts seem to have the pref-
erence. This is also true to some ex-
tent in the Detroit market. One large
operator is shipping \Visconsin round
white stock to this market under a
special brand name and this. stock is
bringing a' premium of twenty-five to
fifty cents per sack above the ordinary
run of Michigan stock. Part of this
difference, at least, is undoubtedly due
to the fact that this brand is much
more carefully graded than the aver-
age shipments of Michigan stock and
that this high grade is 1carcfully main-
tained in all stock marketed under
this special brand. This fact, coupled
with the better appearance of these
potatoes, both as to color and ma-

‘ / turity, is responsible for the premium

which they command in this market.

Opportunity form“ who are not con-
’structkveiy inclined in 'f , . .

quantities of these potatoes at the pre-
mium which they command in this
market, which is evidence that a con-

siderable percentage of average com.

sumers prefer them.

Just how much this preference is
due to the superior grading and ma-
turity of the stock and how much to
the color of the tubers, is problemat-
ical Both are undoubtedly factors in
the selection.

Another similar evidence, is to he
found in the demand which has been
developed for Idaho potatoes in this
and other markets.
toes are largely russet varieties, they
have a much lighter skin than our
Michigan russets. These potatoes com:
mand a still higher premium in this
market. than the brand above men-
tioned. Again this is in no small de-
gree due to their superior grading and
better maturity, but a marked differ-
ence in color is also a probable factor.

While it would not be desirable to
abandon the idea. of standardization in
our potato-producing industry, or dis-
count the progress which we have

\made through it, it is always good pol-

icy to keep an eye to, alldevelopments

in market demand and take steps to‘

meet them. Our certified seed grow-
ers would do well to experiment in
the matter of lightening the russet
coat on our standard variety, and to
give thought to providing a vigorous
white round type for their eastern
trade and for local producers who lean
toward such a type, whowiil doubt-
less rapidly increase in number if the
indicated consumer preference should
become permanent or more general.

The first mentioned expedient would
seem to merit most thoughtful consid-
eration, since a modification of type to
fit this market demand would seem to
be preferable to a course which would
nullify previous efforts toward stand~
ardization.

HERE is no doubt

Leaks in but what stand-
ardization is the great

S {andflr ‘1' need of agriculture,
rzatzon especially for s u ch
products as fruits and

vegetables, for to standardize the

grade, pack, package and even the
name will take much of the grab-in-
the- bag methods out of the merchan-
dising of these products.

Especially is standardization needed
for Michigan grown p1oducts, as the
fruits and vegetables of the west are
capturing our markets, not because of
their quality, but solely because of
their standardization.

Michigan, however, has recently
made great strides along these lines
and the State Department of Agricul-
ture, which has the enforcement of
these standards under its control, is
to be complimented for the way in
which it has carried out the provisions
of the law. But there are still loose
ends to this standardization work
which they can not get hold of, and
which must be left to the grower’s
cdoperation to maintain.

First, there is the bulk carlot ship~
ments of fruit which does not come
under the provisions of the present
law. This permits buyers to come to
our shipping points to buy all the poor
stuff they want to, and ship it to con-
suming centers for sale as Michigan
fruit. However, this practice may soon

be eliminated, as the fruit interests of '

the state are now behind an amends
nient to the standards law to include
the carlot as a closed package, thus
making it Come under the provisions
of the law.

Another great leak in maintaining
the present standards is the trucking
business. Each season thousands of
truck loads of fruit are carried out of
the state‘ to nearby markéts without
any restrictions as to grade. .

The roadside market is also another

where the customer sees and selects “
his own goods is using, connid'erable ‘

While these pota- '

. potentate.

   

that you can get around most any law
if you are so‘inclined. Our pica. is to
Michigan growers that, when they are

offered opportunities to sell through.
they offer‘

these loophole methods
nothing that is not in keeping with the
Michigan standard grades. Thus they
can help make a reputation for Mich-
igan products by selling something
Which they are not ashamed of them-
selves.

UT in the busi‘

our ness world there
G d is iittle’ opportunity
9° for you to choose the
Fnends persons with whom

you associate. In so-

cial circles it is easier to be with those~

most congenial to your nature; yet,
even there one is far from being mas-
ter of the situation.

But in the library you are king and
You can say to Scott,
Browning, Longfellow, Shakespeare,
or any of the great dignitaries of lit-
erature, “You are not for me tonight,
I shall have a quiet time with Ma.-
caulay.” And they will remain right
in their place while you enjoy the
richest companionship with the author
you have chosen for the occasion.

God pity the person who, during the
active years of his life, does not be-
come intimately acquainted with a. few
good books. To experience the sensa-
tion of having the soul exalted to the
skies, or buried under fathomless
depths, gives life a zest and worth-
whileness scarcely ever to be found
in the ordinary hum—drum of life.

To aid those who desire to be sup-
plied with good books, new and old,
this journal started with the first is-
sue of the year, a column to be devot-
ed to reviews. We trust it will be of
some real service to our thousands of
readers.

Beans and Beets

Growers of t/zere Crop: to Hold

Two Important M eez‘mg:
T /m M om‘lz

MEETING of bean growers, repre-

sentatives of, the State Farm Bu-
reau, and bean jobbers, has been call-
ed by A. B. Cook, president of the bean
growers' association,‘for Owosso on
January 18, both forenoon and after-
noon. Every person interested in
Michigan's bean crop, whether grower,
jobber, cooperator, or what not, should
plan to attend the'session.

The purpose of this meeting is to
find some way around difficulties now
besetting the orderly marketing of this
important Michigan crop. President
Cook will lay before the meeting con-
ditions, some of which he believes
should be changed. President Breisch,
of the Michigan Bean Jobbers’ Asso-
ciation, has promised to contribute of
his experience and observations, and
render‘all the aid possible in getting
the bean market upon a more depend-
able basis. ..

There will also be present R. L.
Churchill, manager and secretary pf
the California Lima Bean Growers’
AssociatiOn. He is coming across the
continent to tell Michigan bean. men
how the western organization is work-
ing out.

We are informed that two main ob-
jects will dominate the meeting: ‘ A
move looking toward the more orderly
marketing of Michigan’s big cash crop
of beans, and, second, a discussion of
ways and means of advertising to the
consumer the place beans should have
in the diet’of an American. _

Sugar "Factory Abandon: Fifty-fifty

' Contract.

The fifty—fifty contract put out by '~

the Owosso Sugar Company last
your has, according to reliable anthem.

ity, been abandoned. In its stead. 111s
‘iabovc company; together with moth».

Tmnaso leaping." mitt-‘1’ mam... stitutéd ”a; forty five

tion‘fwork are just further indications.

-—the forty-five pcr cent of the income
going to the groWer.
tract places open the Sugar companies
the responsibility of securing labor.
but, according to our information, plac-
es that labor under the excl-naive can~
.trol of the manufacturers.

A number of features of this con-
tract, including the above and others,
are being unfavorably criticised by
some of the growers. Among them;
critics is C. E. Ackerman, of Durand,

manager of the Michigan Sugar Beet,

Growers’ Association. In a. letter Mr.
Ackerman urges that grbwers from
every producing district send dele-
gates or attend in person, a' meeting
of growers and manufacturers with
representatives of the federal govern-
ment at the Agricultural College, Jan-
uary 21-25.

The understanding is that A" 6515
first two days the federal representa-
tives will hold a conference with the
manufacturers and on the remaining
days will convene with the growers
regarding findings made this past sum-
mer in the sugar beet fields and fac-
tories of the state.

It is being urged that growers do
not sign contracts with the sugar com-
panies until after these conferences.

Tacér

I’VE been studyin’ about birds, and

that made me think about tacks,
’cause birds don’t have’ to pay no
tacks. They kin just fly around and
sit on anybody’s fence and eat any-
body’s cherries, corn, etc., without
payin’ no tackses. Gee! I wish I was
a bird. Sophie heard me say that
oncet and she said, “Yes, you'd make
a peity good goose ”

Now, this here income tacks is some-
thin’ new, but I can’t figure why it’s
called a income tacks, unless it means
tackses is comin’
And seein’ as

in all' the “ time.

your money is go-
in’ out all the
time, so it looks
like to me that it

. ought to be the
outgo tacks.

But they say this income tacks is
better'n the others, ’cause when you
ain’t got nothin’ comin’ in, you don't
have to have nothin’ goin’ out.

Just what the outcome of this here
income tacks is goin’ to be is some-
thin’ I don’t know nothin’_ about. But
sometimes I don't see the point about
this tacks business until I sit on it.

Jim.Hudson says we oughtta be pat-
riotic enough to pay tackses for to run
our glorious country. Well, I suppose
maybe he’s right, and we oughtta say
like Pat Henry said, only differunt,
“Give me tackses or give me death.”
But maybe most 0’ us like death bet-
ter, ’cause it lets us go where there
ain't-no tackses, but we get both of
them, ’cause there ain’t nothin’ more
certain than tackses and death.

You know, tackses is'the finest thing
out for the other fellow to pay. For
that reason, I’m strong fer the income
tacks, ’cause I ain’t had no income fer
a long time. And I believe them fol-
lows what is makin’ money doin’ noth-
in’ should pay more tackses than we
what is makin’ nothin’ fer doin’ some-
thin’

 

in all the time..

tackses is comin’.

Y— Vs contrach '

'The‘ new con- 7:

The way the situashun Is now, thok

more‘ you do for nothin’ the more you
get tacksed fer doin’ it.

instead of, the income'basis, . ’cause,
these fellows what Is got big incomes.
is havin’ lots 0' fun gettin’ mkscx-
emptshuns. What we want is tacks

exemptshuns fer the ones what can’t.

pay and tackses fogi those who
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“ Wheat. - They are distributed

more uniformly throughout the
world, however, and are produced by

 

_ more people, perhaps, than any other

' ' , commercially important agricultural
1 “product
.. delicate food commodity they are
‘wareho‘used and

Although eggs are a very

shipped leng dis-
’tances and sold on a futures market
the same as wheat.

'Much' has been heard recently about

. the marketing of both eggs and poul-

try through cooperative organizations.
and a lot of good wo'rk has been done.
However, before organizing to market
all of the eggs and poultry of the coun-
try through ”ecoperative agencies, it
may be well to look at the elements

~of strength and the elements of weak-

lness in these organizations.
First, let us look at some of the ele-
ments, of weakness that have been re-

cently‘ observed in a number of poul- .

try and egg marketing organizations.

Tendency Toward Price Control.

Most corn belt egg producers feel
that they should have more to say
about the price of their eggs. Not long
ago the producers of every commodity
,wanted to get a monopoly of all of
that particular commodity, place the
commodity then under one control and
make the consumer pay a price that
would cover the cost of production,
plus a reasonable profit

When followed to a practical con-
clusion, “reasonable profit” will be de-
termined by the producers—themselves.
and being a democratically controlled
organization, the board of cooperative
directors will be obliged to put the

‘ price high enough to keep the poorest

'and least efficient producers in busi-
’ ncss as well as the most scientific and

most efficient. This naturally stimu-

‘ lates production of that commodity by
' attracting men into that business be-

cause pfoflts are practically assured.

The Outlook For Farmers In 192

ggs Cooperatlvely

Wéat Experience in: Tough m Cooperatzce Dzylrzéutzmz

By]. D. Harper

These facts are now being more
widely appreciated and cooperative
managers have been demonstrating to
their boards of directors and to the
producers, themselves, that supply and
demand are factors closely related to
the question of price control. These
managers have shown that high prices

' and also low prices will curtail con:

sumption. People won’t buy when the
price is too high and when the price
keeps going down they wait to buy
because it may go lower.

- Extravagance and lnefficiency.

Incompetent management of cooper-
atives and lack of proprietary interest
leads to extravagance and inefficiency
because employes and even directors
of cooperative organizations too fre-

too little supervision. In this instance
the manager through lack of supervis-
ion leads the business out of the con-
trol of the board and very shortly the
business is a stranger to the board
and the board, likewise, is a stranger
to the business. '

Hastily Built Without Educational

Foundation.

Whether a cooperative succeeds or
fails depends upon whether or not it
has the intelligent support and fullest
cooperation of its members. This
weakness usually results from an
undue haste on the part of those far-
seeing producers or promoters who
want to make a big showing by hand-
ling» a large, volume of business the
first year with as many members co-

 

 

quently assume the same attitude to-
ward the funds of the association that
many public officials and others do to-
ward public funds which are entrusted

, to them. Such money is more easily

spent than other money. Producer
members of the board of directors
vote themselves a perdiem of say $10
per-day and expenses for attendance
at board meetings, and when work is
slack at heme it is convenient for the
board tormeet frequently, and so, funds
are sometimes needlessly spent. There
may just as likely be a fault in the
opposite direction of lack of control
of the organization by the board, by

ope1ating as can be obtained.

Time and effort is 1equi1ed to in-
fo1m egg producers as to just what
the eiganization can do and what it

cannot do. All agree that cooperative
egg and poultry marketing organiza-
tions must have a well informed, well
posted, membership to succeed. Egg
producers must feel the pressure of
need before they can hope to build a
successful cooperative. The necessity
for the organization must actually ex-
ist economically and the producers
must see that it does. They must see
that there are some serious obstacles
that prevent producers from getting

theii fair share of the returns from

eggs or poultry before they will co-f-

operate to remove them. This can
only be done by an educational cam-
paign which requires time.

Unstandardized, Poor Quality Product. .

The first plank in a cooperative plat-
form should be standardized “quality
products.” Business dealings and
trade practices in all lines today re-
quire standard grades
quality goods. The cooperatiVe that
fails to build a reputation for stand-
ardized uniform quality products. has
laid its foundation on shifting sand
and is doomed to failure. Successful
cooperative marketing of eggs and
poultry begins with the production of
uniform high quality products.

Lack of Volume.

The necessity of having a sufficient
volume of business to take care of the
overhead has been overlooked in start-
ing some cooperatives. This consti—
tutes a serious element of weakness.
Most of the organizations could pro-
rate a larger part of the consumer’s
dollar to producers if their business
were larger. When in operation for a
short time all cooperative organiza-
tions realize that the fixed charges
must be met and that a uniform pro-
duction throughout the year of sufli-
cient volume to distribute the over-
head expense is essential.

Secondly, the essential requirements
and the fundamental strength of coop-
erative poultry and egg marketing or-
ganizations as I see them are:

Orderly Marketing.

This is without doubt one of the
greatest functions of a cooperative.
As an Oregon banker put it, “if every-
body knows that the producer can
store his eggs through his own organ;
ization and borrow money on them to
pay his bills, 110 buyer or combination

(Continued on page 60).

 

Prospect: Indicate Improved Conditions for Rural People
By Our Market Specialist

YEAR ago we stated that condi-'

tions and tendencies then ,pre-

vailing indicated that “the farm-
er’s position will become better in
1923 than it has been in four years,
unless European affairs result in a
smaShup. ” That such a conclusion was
justified is Shown by a total value of

, $8, 322, 695 000 for thirty principal crops

based on 1923 yields and farm prices

FARM PM“ CAMEO lN

“Cl" “w ‘ “ED 0'.
TOTAL VIEWS All. m
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All! UV! mat

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YEAR AMI
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1, compared with $7,449,:
an increase of
twelve per c.ent Compared with 1921,
the 1923 values have risen forty-eight

values of twenty-three /of these

 

crease

5 fare very well potato growers in the

amounts of each crop sold or consum-
ed on the farm would not greatly af-

fect the percentage of change in
values.
Both Crop and Live Stock Values

Gain.

Returns to producers for the princi-
pal kinds of live stock and live stock
products in 1923 also were greater
than in 1922. This statement is based
on average prices at the farm as re-
ported each month by the U. S. De—
partment of Agriculture and the vol-
ume of sales or receipts at principal
markets. The figures were not weight-
ed according to months, however,»in
making the calculations. Hogs were
an exception in this group as prices
declined more than enough to offset
the increase of about twenty-five per
cent in the number marketed. The
percentages of change in total .returns
from each kind of live stock or live

- stock product also are shown on the

chart. The total from all live stock
and animal products combined increas-
ed apprOximately ten'per cent.

Conditions varied greatly with the
section, with the type of farming, with
the individual farmen Wheat farmers
were in distress, more western cattle--
men Were obliged to liquidate, the
Pacific Coast ' fruit growers did net

son, bad weather and the weevil leftT
11113 but little cottonwmme plantatiggésg

40.11.31 atm the good uric

and hog producers were in the 'red
again on the basis of market prices
for corn and hogs. Many of the farm
folks 'who had been hanging on by
their eyelashes let go during the year,
voluntarily or‘ through compulsion
from creditors. Secretary Wallace, of
the Department of Agriculture, reports
that in fifteen corn and Wheat states
over five per cent of farmers had lost
their farms since 1920 through fore-
closure or bankruptcy and 4.5 had
turned over their farms to creditors
without legal process. An additional
fifteen per cent were holding on
through leniency of their creditors.

Further Improvement in 1924.

Standing on the threshhold of the_

new year and surveying the forces and

trends which seem likely to dominate"

its character, it can be said with fair
assurance that 1924 bears promise of
being at least a little more of a money
maker for farmers generally than was
1923. While the diagnosis of further
improvement may not be quite as pos—
itive as last year, the question marks

 
      
   
    
 
 

may be a little larger, yet there is lit-
tle to indicate that the general level
of agricultural returns will fall be-
low 1923.

Improvement in 1924 is not likely to
develop astonishing proportions, how-
ever. No agricultural boom is on the
horizon. More of those farmers 'who
are hanging on by the courtesy of
creditors will be obliged to liquidate
and, if we read the “Indian signs”
aright, the agricultural problem will
not vanish altogether.

Urban Prosperity to Continue.

Prospects for industrial activity are
in the forefront of any analysis of the
agricultural outlook. Beliefs 'on this
point are divided but those who expect
a reasonably good business year seem
to have the stronger argument. This
means continuation of the high rate

of employment and the maintenance'

wage scales in industry which assure
the farmer of a broad demand for
xmeats, dairy and poultry products,
fruits and the finer vegetables. Po-
tential demand for wool and cotton
goods will not be restricted by a' lack
of public buying power, although ac-
tual consumption of both may be re-

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tilled by high prices resulting from

   

Business Forecasters Disagree.

, f'Eyer since the minor reaction in
. trade and industry started last spring,
. the business doctors have been in dis-
, agreement. as to what the future held.
~ {in one side were those who believed

I vthat, owing to high wages, taxes, over— »

, head costs, the farm depression, finan-
cial conditions in Europe, and too
many automobiles, the foundations of
industrial activity were unhealthy and
'that‘readlustment would be necessary.
Others contended that expansion had
occurred since 1921 in spite of such
handicaps and that they constituted no
final reason for terminating the period
of ’ industrial activity. This group
placed easy credit conditions in the
key, position in forecasting the busi-
ness future. ‘

A recent expression from Babson
runs to the effect that present condi~
tions are not alarming, but readjust~
ment of prices and costs must go
further before any prolonged expan-
sion can take place Moody is ranged
on this same side of the debate and
states that indications are for a mod-
el ate fall in commodity p1 lees a slight
deCline in some wages, a moderate in-
[crease in unemployment, and a large
'fall in production costs. He states,
however, that the unhealthy conditions
01' 1919-1920 are absent, that money
promises to be easy and that, in gen-
eral, we are in a trade reaction rather
than a period of severe depression. As
a result, improvement may take place
long before 1924 is over.

The Harvard Committee on Econom-
ic Research takes the more hopeful
view and states that “the outlook for
the first half of 1924 is for a firm or
moderately rising price level, the
maintenance of a normal manufactur-
ing output, and the continuance of
generally good business conditions. An
easing of money rates has recently oc-
curred, and no adverse influences are
now discernible which would render
the money market an obstacle to the
maintenance and improvement of the
general level of business.”

The Brookmire agency states that
its forecast line points upward, indi-
cating that both security and commod-
ity prices are in the major upward
move and that the volume of business
activity is due to expand. The An-
nalist barometer line also has turned
in significant fashion, although it has
not gone far enough as yet to consti-
tute a positive forecast of a renewal
of business activity and expansion.

Building Activity a Big Factor.

Activity in the building and auto-
mobile industries were at the btotom
of the large manufacturing volume in
19235. Iron, steel, lumber, hardware,
paint, leather, house furnishings. the
railroads and numerous other lines
shared in the building boom. Another
big year in the construction industry
is the foundation of the forecast of
continuation of urban prosperity in
1924. The decline in building costs
since last summer has uncovered a
latent demand and, as a result, build-

? ing permits issued in the principal cit-
ies in October and November showed
gains of thirty-one and twenty-three

-per cent, respectively, over the cor‘
responding 'months of 1922. These
projects will be carried out for the
most part in 1924. Architects and con-
tractors both report that a large vol-
ume of building is being planned for
1924. The railroads have not complet-

- ed‘ their repair and construction pro-
grams, huge developments in electrical
construction are under consideration,
and road building will go ahead on a
large scale.

Federal Reserve a Factor.

. A more abstract but none the less
UpOsitive factor in the business outlook
:_is the- federal reserve system. Among

many business observers, the opinion

been gradually shaping up that
so; the first time we are beginning to

c benefit of the stabilizing in- '

the system which was put

   

in operation nine years ago for the
specific purpose of preventing business
crises because of money shortage. Dur-
ing the war period the system had but
little opportunity to function normally.
It may be that our bobms and depres-
sions hereafter will swing over a much
shorter range from top to bottom than
they have done heretofore and that
the intervals between will be-consid—
erably longer.
Moderate Rise in Price Level.
’ The farmer's interests are closely

bound up with the trend 'of the general f

price level because of its influence on
prices of the products which he must
buy as well as on his own commodi-
ties and the relationship of these to
farm land values and costs of perma-
nent improvements, the returns from
which are distributed over a great
many years. Some of the most thor-
ough students of gold production and
the relationship of the volume of mon-
ey to price levels believe that no de-

cided trend either up or down is to be ‘

expected in prices during the next four
or five years, but that they will fluctu-
ate around a level perhaps-fifty per
cent higher than pre-war. Those who
were most positive that prices would
trend downward during the next few
years appear to be less certain of their
position. So far as next year is con-
cerned, if the prospects of business
activity are correct, prices are likely
to go moderately higher, in which
movement farm products should share.

In this connection an underground
belief that a definite effort will be
made by strong financial interests to
inflate prices during the coming year
is worth noting. While a moderate
advance in the price level will con-

 

"tribute its-1mm activity. it manta”

recognized} that an extreme 311p
would create an unhealthy situa
which could only be corrected by a
period of forced liquidation. later on. '
. The present price situation is cov-
ered in the last report of the U. S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics . which
shows the index number for all com-
modities in November at 152, compar-
ed with 156 in November, 1922. ' Farm
products on the other hand, have gain-
ed the index figure being 146 compared
with 143 a year ago. It would be un-
fair to the situation to overlook the
fact that in the closing days of 1923,
prices on a majority of the principal
farm products were lower than at the
same time a. year previous. This con-
stitutes probably the most unfavor-
able item in the array of signs and
portents as to 1924.
Foreign Outlook Uncertain.

A year ago the outlook for exports
of farm products was highly unsatis-
factory. Nevertheless, ruined Europe
proved to be a good customer for
most of those farm commodities, of
which there is a surplus which must
find a market abroad. Both on the
basis of theyolume exported and the
dollars paid, our sales abroad of the
principal agricultural exports were
larger than in 1922. Wheat was an
exception, although this was due to
the fact that Europe could buy'more
cheaply elsewhere, rather than be-
cause of failure to buy in as large
volume as during 1922.

In view of the record of our foreign
trade in 1923, there is little reason to
assume a pessimistic attitude for 1924'.
While numerous bad spots exist in the
foreign situation, most observers be-

 

 

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DRAlNlNG SEWERAGE.

 

Can an incorporated village dump
its sewerage through an open ditch

-across adjoining fa1 ming land? If not,

how is one to proceed to stop it?—_—
G. W R.

Such acts constitute a. trespass. and
a nuisance, and will be enjoined by a
court of Chancery—Rood.

DOWER RIGHTS.

 

When a man’s wife dies and leaves
six children and he marries again,

what share. in the husband's property

can the second wife hold in case the
husband dies leaving no will?——S. M

The second wife takes dowez' in the
husband‘s property and is one of his
heirs if he leaves no will, regardless
of how he acquired that property.—
Rood.

DITCH TAX.

 

Do we farmers, who are taxed on a
certain drain, have to pay taxes this
year? The ditch job was let as a
clean- out job. It was let last February
and was to be finished by May 15, and
is not done yet.——C. C S.

See Compiled Laws 1915, Sec. 4903,
4916, 4917.

The statutes require the drain com-
missioner, at the time the drain is let,
to announce whatper cent of the drain
is to be spread on the tax for that
year, and within ten days from the
determination to compute the amount

of the cost, and on or before. the last‘

Wednesday in September file with the
town clerk a special assessment roll
of the ditch tax. The tax may be col—
lected before the ditch is finished.—
Rood.

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TOWNSHIP LIABILITY.

 

Is a township liable for accidents

ty feet high the road itself about six-
teen feet wide, and no fence or guards
on the side. 9—0. M

By Compiled Laws 1515, Section

45.846, it is made. the duty of 11191019: »

 

11”.”. cu Mun. o-J “:11“ _'-;—; 50:”
Sol-wed (“not Lo Cums to Unequal

- streets,

where there is a grade fifteen or twen~_

NT

ships, villages and cities, “to keep in
reasonable repair, so that they shall
be reasonably safe and convenient for
public travel, all public highways,
bridges, sidewalks and cul«
averts that are within their jurisdiction

_

I ulna. .3 Mafia“,

ottorc

and. under their care and control."

What is reasonably safe is a mixed
question of fact and law to be 'deter-
mined on the circumstances of each
particular case—Rood. '

SHARE PROPOSITION.

 

I am letting my fields out to be

,worked to B, and B. furnishes all the

seed and does all the work. He gives
me one- -third and cuts the hay and
gives me one-half of the hay. I fur-
nish all of the clover seed Now, if
B cut the clover seed what share
should he give me? .

The big difference in expense be-
tween the hay crop and the clover
seed crop is the cost of hulling. A fair
method would be to divide the hulling
costs equally between the landlord and
tenant. Thus dividing the seed equally
between the two parties—F. T. R.

OUSTED WITHOUT CAUSE.

 

I rented a farm two years ago, and
have a year more. But the owner of
the farm has discharged me I have
done lots of plowing. Could I colledt
for same? How much is it worth per
acre? Also, I have given a note to an
insurance company. Could I refuse to
take the policy and not have to pay?
Could I be forced to payf—J. F. C

The note being given for value, the
insurance company is entitled to be

paid, regardless of matters between
.the insured and other persons.

The
lessor cannot terminate a lease with-

out the consent of lessee and without

cause before the term expires. If the
lessee voluntarily surrenders, he has
no claim for damages. If he is ousted

  
      

for cause, he has no claim for dank,
' If ousted without cause. he is;
entitled to recover the value of the;

fig88

rest of the term. ~4Bood

  

improving A settlement of the Gen-

on, man reparations problem appears clos- '

er than a year ago, although few

would have believed at that time that .

progress during the year would be so
small.

Adjustment of Production Under Way.

Total volume of production of farm -

commodities is not likely to be much
greater than during 1923. The drift
from the farm to the cities as a result
of high urban wage levels is still un-
der way, the number of farm which
will not be operated may increase
slightly, and high prices for farm la-
bor will tend to cut off any material
expansion in output.

Onthe other hand, a good deal of
adjustment as between different kinds
of farm products is likely to take
place. This is shown already in the
decline in wheat and rye acreage
planted this fall. Corn, flax and hay
and pasture will tend. to replace the
acreage in bread grains which. have
been selling at extremely low prices.
Hog production will probably be cut
down more nearly on a par with the
size of the corn crop. .Sheep will re-
place cattle to some extent in the west
and hogs in the middle west. More
acreage may go into cotton in the
south than the record area plazited
this year. ,In general, the tendency
will be to diversify, particularly along
the lines of dairying and poultry pro-
duction. It is possible that poultry
men, dairymen, and sheep and wool
growers will be obliged to operate on
a narrower margin than last year. In
general, agricultural income is likely
to be more uniformly distributed
among all farmers than in the last
year or two.

Little Chance for Lower Costs.
Costs of production are not likely
to be much lower than they were last
year, although a good deal of the out-
lay for machinery, fertilizer and farm

labor during the first six months of _

the year was made at a time when a.
labor shortage existed and when com-
modity prices were close to the peak.
This year markets may be a little bit.
more in the buyer's favor during the
first half of the year, with a rising
tendency in the latter half. So far
as taxes and interest are concerned,
1924 threatens no greater burden' than
1923. On the other hand, a large vol-
ume of farm indebtedness which held
over from 1920 and 1921 has been paid
during the last twelve months so that
the total interest charge to be paid by

- farmers should'show some diminution.

Not 'to be overlooked in a survey 01’
future possibilities is the political fac-
tor. While this may tend to restrain
business expansion, there can be no
question of a desire by the party in
power to bring improvement in the ag-
ricultural situation so far as possible.
A government corporation to export
wheat and hog products,'a food loan
or a gift to charity to Germany, official
encouragement of cooperative market-
ing and of diversification in agricul-
ture, reduction of freight rates on ag-
ricultural commodities, and modifica-

tion of the rural credit laws to make‘

them more workable are some of the
legislative possibilities. Some reduc-
tion in national taxation is probable
although this touches farmers less di-
rectly than general business. The ef—
fect of a bonus will be to cause infla-
tion in the early future, although'its
long distance effects involve liquida-
tion and further taxation.

Instead of the mild improvement in
agriculture outlined in the foregoing,
it is possible that mere radical chang-
es will take place. The psychological
reaction of the public to good business
prospects, to an abundance or invest-
ment funds and to the failure cf the

4 present trade recession to develop ser- _« _
ious proportions might result in cmn-
.away movement On the

  

 


 

  

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TANDARDIZATION is ,the key«
stone of successful merchandising.
It ‘is the very foundation upon
which farm marketing organization
and advertising must build. Though
the American farmers did a $1, 000,:

“ 000,000 business through theircoopery
’ ative marketing associations last year

(1922), no cooperative association has
ever advanced, nor lOng survived, that
failed to adhere to standard grades in
the growing, sorting, packing, ship~
ping and selling of its Commodities.
During the pastdwenty—four months,
a greater number of permanent and
tentativevofl‘icial grades for farm pro-
ducts have been written into the laws,
or promulgated by vested federal and
state authorities than ever before in
the'history of agriculture. The grades
apply on practically all fruits, pota-
toes, dairy and poultry products, hay,
grain, beans, wool and live stock.

. For the most part, if not entirely,
the establishment of .these grades is
the natural outcome of farm organiza—

C

tions. When the grower quits dump- ‘

ing his collective production at a flat
-“buyer’s price," and begins to mer—
chandise his crops through organized,
intelligent channels,rthe benefits and
the dire need oflstandardization be-
comes instantly apparent.

It was the Michigan State Horticul~
tural Society that took the initiative
in the writing of the State Apple Grad-
ing Law in 1917. Standardization—in
the variety and the quality of the
product—is just—as essential as in
sorting, grading, packing, container
used, and branding when shipping.
Recognizing this, this societyuin co-
operation with the Horticultural De-
partment of the College, several years
ago endorsed a restricted list of varie-
ties of apples for commercial planting.
The Potato Growers’ Exchange and
Producers’ Association are recom-

‘ I lit Program and Economic Value
W. P. Hartman

cod: and Stanl'ardr, State Dept. 12/ Agriculture ‘ ~

 

ci'f‘iigan " F ruits "

mending a limited number of varieties

‘of potatoes—~suiting varieties to soils, .

Sections and market demands.

Last year, grape growers, through
their local organizations, requested the
commissioner of agriculture to exer-
cise the authority and responsibility
vested in him by Act No. 91, P. A.
1915, in the matter of promulgating
grades for grapes and providing means
for the enforcement thereof. The
growers’ associations paid the entire
salary and traveling expenses of nine
inspectors working under the direction
of a supervising inspector of the de-
partment. The grades made manda-
tory proved a success The growers
then caused the grades to be written
into basic law by the last legislature.
Again, this year, they defrayed part of
the inspection cost.

At the request of the peach and
potato growers, grades for these com-
modities were promulgated this fall by
the commissioner of agriculture. The
pear growers have petitioned for
grades, and the onion, cantaloupe, cel—
ery, cabbage, and other growers have
indicated a desire for official state
grades. Wherever consistent, the
state grades should be identical to U.
S. Grades. Nationally uniform stand-
ards promote marketing efficiency.
This was not possible for grapes—-
we are the only state now having
grape grades and the U. S. authorities
have not yet put out tentative grades
011 this crop. We can very easily
apply the United States grades
for potatoes, peaches, pears, on—
ions, and many other commodities.
With the apple, we have to reckon
with certain peculiarities in production
and sales not so common with many
other products, so that whether or not
Michigan will be ready by the conven-
ing of the 1925 legislature, or ever, to
adopt the U. S. Grades, is entirely up
to this society to determine.

 

 

T. A. F arrand

By Granger W/zzmey

When the snows upon the hillsides melt beneath the spring time sun
And the gathering waters glisten as to stream and brook they run;
When the fruit tree buds are swelling, when they later burst in bloom,
And to kindly tillage yielding one can see the harvest loom,

As the patient horses, plodding, till the fertile orchard soil,

‘There’s a kindly spirit present with me in my daily toil.

In the green and blooming orchard Where the thrush and warbler lurk
There’s the shade of T. A. Farrand close beside me as I work,

Gentle shade of T. A. Farrand at my elbow as I work.

All the countryside is haunted by the memory of this man;

By his patient earnest efforts bloom the hills of Michigan,

And our daily life is sweeter from the friendship we have known,

And our orchards bear the stronger for the aid that he has shown.
Where the peach trees of Grand Haven pink and fragile blossoms fling,
On the rolling hills of Traverse where thecherry blossoms spring,
Where the fragrant apple blossoms draw their beauty from the soil
We are haunted by a. presence at our pleasant fruitful toil,

Kindly ghost of T. A. Farrand at our elbow as we toil.

7, When the harvest season’s over we will gather once again
To'discuss our wide experience and report our orchards’ gain.
Men of wisdom there to aid us with the knowledge they have found,
Kindly friends again will greet us from the countryside around.
We will miss his sturdy action, helpful, sacrificing, strong,
Miss this man who gave his service with devotion deep and 10ng.
Gathered in the busy city once again old friends to greet
We will miss his friendly presepce as again old friends we meet
Kindly shade of T. A. Farrand at our elbow as we meet.

If I live to please my Maker till the harvest time of life
When I'm gathered to my fathers from this world of love and strife,
, When the great divide is traversed this would be my great reward
That I have the boon to labor in the garden of the Lord. .
7. And there may be orchards blooming when we reach the other side
2 And there may be fields to harvest, woods and pastures green and wide
If there are I’ll meet a soul there, one who knows not how to shirk
Who’ll be a guide and aid to me if this may be my work-
'Kindiy soul of T A. Far-rand at my elbow as I work.

QTE. -_-.Most of our readers know Mr. Farrand as the geni l horticul-
C. ., and as secretary of th Michigan
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HE fourteenth annual conference
of the American Farm Econom-
ics’ Association, held in Wash-
ington during the week ending Decem—
her 29, was largely attended by econ-
omists from every part of the nation.

In outlining a national agricultural
program, Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace emphasized several outstand-
ing points, among which were the de~
velopment of good farming in a broad
sense, including the use of high qual-
ity seeds, and the best methods and
culture; good farm management, in-
cluding proper organization so as to
make it profitable from every point
of view making available knowledge
of finance, of government functions
and of economic conditions the farmer
cannot obtain for himself; speeding up
*the use of credit facilities to tide the
farmers over the. present, critical pe-
riod at lower rates of interest, reduc-
tion of freight rates and increased
transportation facilities.

It was predicted by Secretary Wal-
lace that unrestricted Operations of
economic laws would better conditions
for the farmer and that the demand
for food will eventually bring a fair
price to the farmer for his products.
He condemned the present demand of
certain interests for land reclamation
in the far west by irrigation.

Believes Farm Profits Should Increase.

Discussing a paper by Roger W.
Babson, entitled the effect of business
upon agriculture, A. B. Genumg, of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
pointed to the fact that imports of
agricultural products last year for the
first time exceeded the exports, as an
indication that within the next ten
' years, when we shall have a popula~

tion of 125,000,000 in this country, of
whom 90,000,000 are non-agricultural,
the increased demand will insure the
farmers a more profitable home mar-
ket.

Thinks Facts Regarding Production

Important.
There is a close relationship be-
tween prices and acreage of crops har-
. vested, according to G. C. Haas, also
~of the Bureau of Agricultural Econom—
ics, who declared that farmers in com-
.mon with business men, attempt to
make production adjustments to meet
price conditions, but the process is
necessarily slower, and they some-
times go too far. He thought the best
.remedy was to keep the farmers in~
formed as to the present world supply
and demand, changing conditions of
trade and crop production, and prob-
able trend of prices. They cannot
have full control of crop production,
but of live stock they have absolute
control.
General Price Trend Downward, Says
Warren.

An attempt to determine the future
. trend of farm prices was considered
by Dr. G. F. Warren, of Cornell Uni-
versity. Taxes and interest. are both
practically fixed, says Dr. Warren. The
farmer is concerned wtih the purchas-
(ing power of his products in relation
to tax receipts. Falling prices will de-
crease the' farmer’s ability to pay tax-
es and interest. He predicts that there
is to be an adjustment of prices to
pre-war levels. That means a decline
_ in prices of farm products, but prices
' of most other commodities will decline
more because they are now higher than

agricultural products.

During this decline which may cov-
er a period of eight or nine years,
there will be fluctuations and lecur-
rent agitations, with labor dis-satisfied
{and frequent periods of unemploy-

, Farmers who are out of debt may
.Pontinue to operate their farms as us-
feeling that in time a reward will

 

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American Farming in tfie War: A fiend

come. Other farmers who have loans
and can extend them over a thirty-tive-
year period, by means of home, help,
and a favorable market, ‘may do fairly
well.

Those engaged in agriculture will
work harder, because the more the
farmer has to sell the more he will
get. .As a Iesult of low, but fluctuat-
ing prices, farmers will rush from low
to the higher priced products, and
thereby lose much that they gain from
increased labor. The importance of
saving labor by the use of better equip-
ment and the advantage of raising
home food and feed will become more
apparent. Farmers on poor land will
do more outside work, and all farmers
will confine their labor and efforts to
the more fertile parts of their farms.
The expansion of agriculture will ‘be
checked and cooperative marketing as—
sociations will be subjected to severe
strain.

The price of export farm products
must be low. Wool prices may not re-
main high as at present, but may be

relatively higher than other farm pro-'

ducts. Horses will be higher in about
ten years, beef cattle in seven years,
and hogs will reach a higher level
within two years, according 'to Dr.
Warren’s predictions.

As Dr. Warren based his predictions
of price declines upon conditions fol—
lowing the Civil War, some exceptions
were taken to his views on the grounds
that prices after the Civil War were
paper prices which shrank as the coun-
try turned to a gold basis while We
are now on a gold basis.

’ English Agriculture Declining.

Some interesting lessons from the
present land situation in England were
contained in a paper by J. I. Falconer,
of Ohio State University, who has
spent some time investigating farming
conditions in the British Isles.

The landed aristocracy of England
is rapidly being, crushed out, accord-
ing to Mr. Falconer. The breaking up
of the large estates began in 1906,
when not over 4,000 persons possessed
an area equal in sizeto the state of

 

 

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SECRETARY OF WAR BAC'KS
DOWN.

 

"HOUSANDS of farmers from the
northern states have parked their
cars in the Washington tourist camp
on the Potomac flats. Secretary of
War Weeks recently ordered this camp
closed, but owing to the efforts of the
American Automobile Association and
the Vl'ashington commercial organize:
tionthhe secretary of war has with-
drawn his order, and the camp will re-
main open until another suitable camp
site can be found for the use of tour-
ists visiting or passing through the
Capital city.

WATCHING DAIRY INTERESTS.

 

’1‘HE American Dairy Federation,

the new overhead organization of
which Ex-Governor Frank O. Lowden,
of lllinois, is president, has two work-
ing committees functioning in Wash-
ington for the. purpose of looking after
legislation and other, matters affecting
the dairy industry. The committee 011
the dairy tariff consists of John D.
Miller, of the Dairymen’s League; A.
M. Loomis, secretary of the National
Dairy Union; C. \V. Holman, secretary
National Milk Producers’ Federation.
and Henry N. W'oolman. representing
the Philadelphia milk dealers.

The first work of this committee will
be on the casein tariff, and the second
on the relationship of cost of skim-
milk to that of whole milk.

The other committee, which is on
imitation dairy products, consists of
John D. Miller. R. ‘W. Balderson,‘ of
Philadelphia; H. N. VVoolman, C. W.
Holman, and A. M. Loomis.

 

THE ALIGNMENT ON FEDERAL
TAXES.

 

AX reduction promises to be alive’
issue in congress from now until
the end of the session. Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon says he is con-
vinced that “if the tax reduction pro-
posals are enacted into law and the
sound policy of retrenchment in ex—
penditures is continued, the coming
year will witness a steady improve-
ment in the favorable conditions which
have already begun to make them-
selves felt, and this country will enjoy
prosperity in 1924. ”
Notwithstanding this optimistic pre—
diction by the secretary of the treas-

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ury, it is apparent that his proposal
for a uniform cut in income taxes will
have a rocky road to travel through
congress.

It is evident that the radical group
led by Senator ‘La Follette will opopse
any out in surtaxes. The house farm
block‘ shows indications of a willing-
ness to make concessions, compromis-
ing on a reduction in surtaxe's from
a maximum of fifty per cent to around
forty per cent. They will also insist
upon an increase in present personal
exemptions of $500, for the purpose of
giving additional relief to'the farmers.
It is estimated that by making such
an increase ninety-five per cent of the
small farmers would pay no income
tax. An increase in inheritance taxes,
a tax on gifts and on undistributed
earnings of corporations is popular
among the representatives from agri—
cultural sections.

SOME FARMERS OPPOSE FED:
ERAL TAX CUT.

 

T is indicated by letters from farm-

ers to the \Vashington office of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
that many farmers do not want a re-
duction in federal taxes. They seem
to feel that it would be better to pay
the debts while dollars are compara-
tively cheap, instead of waiting until
there is a further drop in price levels.
Their reply to the argument that un-
der the present law rich men escape
taxation is that rather than reduce the
tax es the government should enact
legislation to put a stop to tax evas-
ions.

LACK OF HARMONY ON TAX- EX-
EMPT SECURITY SITUATION.

 

ENTIMENT is divided in regard to

taxjexempt securities. As the fed-
eral farm loan system and the inter-
credit banking system are
based upon tax-exempt securities,
some farmers have grave doubts as to
the advisability of eliminating these
securities. ' This agitation against tax-
exempt securities is believed to be a
move to destroy the federal farm loan
system. Senator Smoot has already

introduced two bills in congress, One.

providing that there shall be no more
joint stock land banks established and
the other providing that the joint stock
land banks now in operation shall so
out of business at an early date. . ‘

Ohio. In .1913 only ten per cent ofthe
farms were occupied by their owners,
while. in 1918 the percentage had in-

creased to twenty.

The cause of the breaking up bf

‘ large estates in England is that they

are not economically profitable. Many
landlords receive no returns from
them, and agricultural land has be-
come less profitable since the war.
Taxes have increased 100 per cent
since 1914, but there has been little
increase in rentals. .

The. English labor party, which .is

coming into power, is committed to a'

policy of land nationalism and cheap
food. It has opposed every bill that
would benefit agriculture, which makes
the outlook almost hopeless for Eng-
lish agriculture. The former tenants
who have purchased land are not as
well off as the tenants, as they are
suffering from the same condition that
is driving the-landlords off the land..

Mr. Falconer thinks the situation is
being shaped for land nationalism by
the labor party.

During the World War the British
government undertook to establish
prefit sharing farm colonies and settle-
ments of small landholders to take
care of the war veterans. These small
farm settlements have since been de-
clared a failure and the ~operating loss-

es of profit sharing Colonies have been

very heavy.

Harking back to the reform act of
1830 in England, to give the laborers
the vote, Dr. B. H. Hibbard, of the
University of Wisconsin, said it was
then predicted that if the laborers were
given the vote they would loot the
landlords. After nearly 100 years, this
looting is taking place, there is not
much left of the landlord class. Eng-
lish agriculture is n a bad way.

These conclusions are in line with
those of the American Farm Bureau
Federation delegation, who report that
the English‘farmers are lasing money
on their tilled land, and the tendency
is to let the fields revert to grass. “It
seems strange,” they say, “to see
farmers within hail of the greatest
markets in the world finding the same
difficultythat our more distant farm-
ers do in making their incomes cor-
respond to their outgoes. Parasites in
all lands prosper while the indispen~
sible farmer struggles for existence—-
except where national policy deliber-
ately concerns itself with him.”

Holds Forecasting Real Service to

Farmer.

Closer commodity cooperation was
urged by H. E. Erdman, of the Uni-
versity of California, and “Agricultur-
al Forecasts, their Use and Value,”

,was,-the subject of a paper by Dr. H.

C. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Ag-
ricultural Economics, who said:

“The purpose of, agriculture fore-
casting is the wise guidance of pro-
duction in order that there may con-

tinue to be proper balance between.

the various lines of production and be«
tween agriculture and other industries.
Agricultural prosperity in general de-
pends primarily upon the ability of
farmers to anticipate the future. While
wheat today holds the center of the
stage in that play of economic forces
which constitute the agricultural situ-
ation, it may soon be hogs and even
tobacco. Cotton and corn may again
be found in the foreground it great

' wisdom is not used in making read-

justments.”
The American Farm Economic As-

sociation elected the following oficers :

for 1924. President, Dr. E. G. Noutse,

of Ames, Iowa; vice-president, W I._ ., \.
Myers, of Ithaca, New York; secre-
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For Michigan, the Michigan Agricultural Expe-

riment Station recommends the following analyses:

Corn—Sands, light sandy loams: without
mixed meadow, manure or green manure,
4-12-0; with mixed meadow, clovers, alfalfa or
soybeans or with manure, Acid Phosphate.
Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams:
Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-12-12, 0-8-24,
Potash.

Oats, Barley (with spring seeding of alfalfa or
clovers)—Sands, light sandy loams: without
mixed meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 4-8-6; with mixed
meadow, etc., 0-14-4; with manure, Acid
Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams,
clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc.,
2-16-2; with mixed meadow, etc., or with ma-
nure, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0—1 2-1 2, Potash.

Alfalfa, Clover—Sands, light sandy loams:
without mixed meadow, etc., 0-12-6; with
mixed meadow, etc., 0512-6, 0-14—4; with
manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy
sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without
mixed meadow, etc., or with mixed meadow,
etc., 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate; with manure,
Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-12—12,Potash.
Potatoes——Sands, light sandy loams: without
mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 3—8-6; with mixed
meadow, etc., 2-16-2, 2—12-6, Acid Phosphate;
with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy .
sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without
mixed meadow, etc., 3-1 2-4, 3-8-6; with mixed
meadow, etc., 2-16—2, 2-12-2, Acid Phosphate;
with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Muck:
0—8-24, Potash.

Sugar Beets—Sands, light sandy loams: with

mixed meadow, etc., 3-12—4, 2-12-6, 4-8-6;

with manure, 0-12-6, 3-12-4. Heavy sandy

loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed
‘meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 2-16-2, 2-12-6; with

mixed meadow, etc., 0—12-6, 2-12-6, 2—16-2;

with manure, 2-16—2, 0—14—4, Acid Phosphate.

Muck: 0-8-24, Potash.

As Authorized Swift Agent for the sale of Swift’s
Red Steer Fertilizers, we are co-operating with the
Michigan Agricultural Experi-
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brands recommended above which
apply to local conditions.

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Low Box—Easier to Load-

lngh Drive Wheels - Pulls
Lighter

Users unhesitatingly say that the easy loading fea-

ture on the John Deere saves them about half the.

labor of loading. Think what this saving means to
you and the boys who perhaps spread from 100 to
500 loads of manure every year.

It is only‘ 36 inches to the top of the box on the John

Deere—from 6 to 10 inches, lower than on others.

This

extra height saved on the John Deere is where the hard part

of lifting the manure comes.

And don‘t forget your horses.

8
You know how much easier

they pull a high wheel wagon than a low 'wheel truck. The
drive wheels on the John Deere Spreader are high—~from 4

to 8 inches higher than others.

Furthermore, the load of

manure in the box moves back to the beater on an endless
apron mounted on 48 rollers~there is no drag.

Other Features that Result in Better Spreading
and Longer Service

The beater is low to the ground
———manure is not thrown high—
side winds do not cause drifting.
The spread is even the entire
width of the beater—not heavy in

usefulness materially prolonged.

These important advantages on
the John Deere Spreader are not
found on other spreaders because
the beater on this machine is mount-

   
 

ed on the axle—a patented feature
which has made these advantages
possible.

Put this machine to work this
spring and let it lay the founda-
tion for bigger crops and larger
profits. See your John Deere
dealer.

the middle and light on the edges.
Patented revolving rake prevents
bunching—~good work in all kinds
of manure is assured.

T here are no clutches, no
chains, no adjustments to make—-
extremely simple. Repair ex-
pense is reduced and the years of

     
 
     
 
       
     
 
  

   
    

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OST certainly the electric lights

come first. and next the electric
helps, such as the ‘washer; wlrnger
and iron. Then, I place running water
in the house. The kitchen cabinet
where one can make a cake or pie
without moving is a great help. indeed.
My dilmb waiter saves miles of steps
by avoiding the cellar steps. A soiled
clothes chute runs from the bath room
up stairs to the basement. -0n the
first floor is a door through which the

 

Doing Farm Work Now

HAT are you doi11g,'or go-
ing to do this winter that

lighten your farm work next.
summer? The present farm la-
bor supply and lack of funds

causes almost. every farmer to
reduce the days of hired help to
the lowest point. One way of
eliminating much of the need of
outside help is to get every—
thing in readiness for the sum-
mer’s campaign of work.

Tell us briefly in a letter what
to' do now that will help out in
the busy season and mail to The
.Handy Man, Michigan Farmer,
Detroit. To each of the writers
of the five best letters we shall
send one dollar. Letter must be
mailed not alter than January 16.

 

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soiled clothes find their way down to
the basement for wash day. An iron-
ing board in the wall is another nice
thing. Round glass blocks from the
hardware store saves much awkward
sweeping when placed under the stove
legs. Castors on the woodbox, little
hooks in the mop and broom to hang
them up by, a covered garbage pull in
the kitchen are among other things
which the housewife will find extreme-
ly helpful in saving steps.-—G. Lafree.

IN MODERATE CIRCUMSTANCES
BUT- HAS THEM ALL.

DO not like this spirit of antagon-.

exhibited when the
conveniences

ism so often
question of household

.comes up, so much stress being laid

on the man’s abundant supply of tools,
etc. I find very often the wife is slow
to put in improvements when she her-
self has the money. A hearty cooper-
ation between husband and wife is the
better way. I have never yet been
obliged to ask for any kitchen conven-
ience. Our house is equipped with:

1. Electricity. We have a power
washer, iron, and vacuum cleaner,
lights in all rooms, including closets
and dark corners. -

2. Two electric water systems, one
for hard water. and one for soft. These
systems have no torage tanks (ex-
cept the cistern for soft water), and
were installed by my husband him-
self, thus saving much expense. The
hard water is piped to the kitchen
sink and the bath room, besides three
out- door hyd1 ants for sprinkling lawns
and cleaning porches and windows. It

is also piped to the hen house and.
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is piped to‘the bath room and kitchen

sink and the range reservoir.

3. A large kitchen cupboard, eight
feet long and as high as the room.
This cupboard is made in two parts
with a space of eighteen inches be-
tween. The lover cupboard is ten
inches wider than the upper one, mak-
ing. a large convenient shelf for set-
ting things, this shelf being covered
with aluminum. The lower part is fit-
ted with a covered tin bread box.
above which is a bread board which
pushes in when not in use. '

4. A11 enameled sink, seventy-two

inches in length, with front apron,_

high back and two diain boa1ds, all
This sink has fau-
cets for warm and cold soft water and
for cold hard water.

It has taken many years to accom-
plish all of this, as we are in very
moderate circumstances. but please do
not talk to me about stingy husbands.

                   

CONVERTED BEDROOM INTO
BATHROOM.

HAVE several conveniences in my
llOllll‘ which save me time and
lighten my labor.

Some time ago I had a small bed-
room refinished and converted into a
modern bathroom supplied with hot
water and cold soft water. My kitchen
is also supplied with hot and cold wa-
ter. At one end of the sink is a soft
water pump and at the other end is a.
hard water pump.

Two or three steps from‘my back

 

kitchen door, and on the level with it,

there is a building twelve by sixteen
feet. In this there is a gasoline en-
gine which supplies power for my
washing machine and wringer, churn
and cream separator. My washer is
connected with the main drain from
the kitchen.

Other conveniences in this room are
work tables, a large refrigerator and
a four-burner oil stove. My gasoline
flatiron is also a great labor saver.——-
F. J. Maya.

BUILT SPECIAL CUPBOARD.

 

Y good husband took a strip four

feet six inches off one side of
our medium-sized kitchen and in the
middle of the strip built spacious cup-
boards from floor to ceiling with doors
and two drawboards. At one end of
this strip be fitted a full-sized door,
the newly acquired space here opening
into the cellarway. In here he put
a number of cleats full of nails to hold
kettles, frying pans, griddles and pails,
and in back of the‘cupboards some
open shelving for food, making a slid-
ing door of a window screen, thus
keeping out the mice and flies. An
outside window gives light and air
and its new wide ledge affords a safe
place for pies to cool.

At the opposite end of the cupboard
was put a narrow door into a “catch-
all.” This space has shelving room
for boxes of caps, mittens, overshoes,

sunshades, and much else out of sea-p

son. A row of short shelves is fitted
in here back of the cupboards, and
cleats full of books line the rest of
the wall space and hold hats, over-
shoes, coats, etc., in season. This
room holds also laundry bag, ironing
board, broom, carpet sweeper, boots.
overshoes, and one thousand other
things.

. The kitchen is now very handy, and

:since my husband has provided a place

for everythtngit'fiip tomato keep

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3‘ . -me causedextre‘mely 3.0V:- prices
which, in "turn. were ‘re‘spensibl‘e for
reducing the. amount sold from farms
stimulating domestic: consumption . on
a lavish scale, andyg-reater . exports,
‘and furnished the motive for the mark-
ed expansion in hog production.

As consumption gained on the sup-
ply, prices advanced with only 'small
interruptions until in October, 1923,
they reached a higher point than most
observers would have dreamed possi—
ble a few months before. For a few
days, corn sold higher than wheat. As
prices rose, corn was fed more spar?
ingly, exports fell off, and the present

- tendency is to sell more; from farms,
curtailment of- hog production has
been started, and cattle feeding oper-
‘ations have ceased to expand.

The peak oi?~ prices . probably. was
reached in 1923 unless a crop failure-
occurs next year. When new crop be-
gan to move freely in the closing
'weeks of 1923, prices dropped to about
the same level as in the correspond-
ing period in 1922.

Oats prices have been moderately
higher than in 1922, partly in sympa-
thy with corn. Rye has reflected the

 

‘depression in the finer bread grain:

Flax prices have held up remarkably
well in'spite of an increased crop. The
demand for paint as a~ result of activ-
ity in the building industry is the chief
explanation, together with, the fact
that we have been growing much less
than our domestic requirements.
Old potatoes moved at extremely
‘low prices early in 1923. The early
new crop seld to good advantage but
prices on the late crop dropped down
almost to the same disastrous point as
in the fall of 1922, in spite of a smaller
yield. ‘

Boosrs POTATO INTERESTS.

 

O A. C. Lytle, county agent of
Otsego county, goes the credit
for the success of the Top 0’ Michigan

_ Potato Show.

_In the open-hearted nature of this
genial county agent, Otsego county, in
fact, northeastern 'Mlchigan found a
man who had the ability and the re-
sourcefulness to see the show through
to a successful close.. A true son of

' the soil, born and raised on a. farm,
with the interests of the farmers ever
uppermost in his mind, the north—

 

country agricultural agent carried, over
the vision of helping his co-workers,
the potato growers, realize greater re-
turns from their farms and secure just
returns from the growing of their star

' pie crop.

He has been tireless in his work

among the grewers to help them better,

' their conditions. He has rendered
scientific advice wherever it has been
needed.,I—Iis visits to the farmers have
resulted in leaving each time some
”new idea are vital hint which always

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If a new one-inch rope could stand
the strain of two 60 horsepower
tractors going in opposite directions,
each 7,500 pounds pulling power-
would it be a strong rope?

Yes, but in addition to having
great strength, the rope you buy
must last through months of hard
wear on every kind of job around
the farm. And because of its long
endurance, such rope will actually
cost you less.

To be sure of getting rope like this,
ask for H. 86 A. “Blue Heart"
Manila Rope. Untwist the strands
before you buy. Look for a thin blue
thread marker running between the
strands—the “Blue Heart” pledge
mark of long wear in rope.

What the “Blue Heart”
signifies
The “Blue Heart” Marker means:

(1) That the rope is genuine H. 85
A. “Blue Heart” Manila Rope—
spun from high grade, pure selected
manila fibre.

(2) That it is spun by rope makers
of the highest skill, possessed of the
accumulated experience of more than
half a century.

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“Star Brand” Binder
Twine

, evenly spun from the best fibres,
is of full yardage, ample strength,
and is used from coast to coast
by farmers who claim it is never
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[Why it wears longer

Expert selection of just the right
grades of pure, long manila fibre;
the exact “drawing”, “spinning”,
and“laying”whichinsurethesmooth
working of each fibre, yarn, and
strand; the proper degree of lubri-
cation without overloading—these
things give to H. & A. “ Blue Heart ”
Manila Rope its great strength and
long resistance to wear and weather.

Buy rope scientifically. Know
what you are getting. Untwist the
strands and look for the “Blue
Heart”-—our registered trade mark
that assures you of dependable rope
value.

For sisal rope
For other jobs where a high grade
sisal rope is wanted, use the best-—
H. 85 A. “Red Heart” Sisal Rope-
spun from selected sisal fibre by the

' same skilled rope makers.

Whatever may be your use for

  

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endurance

rope you will find an H. (is A. brand
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Guarantee

H. Be A. “Blue Heart " Manila Rope
. is guaranteed to equal in yardage
and exceed in tensile strength the
specifications of the U. S. Govern»
ment Bureau of Standards. Any H.
85 A. “Blue Heart” Manila Rope
found not to be as represented will
be replaced.

Special offer!
The coupon below with 25c will en-
title you to our special Halter Lead
made from H. 86 A. “Blue Heart"
Manila Rope. It is % inch in diam-
eter, 7 feet long, and is fitted with a
snap at one end. It is offered to
introduce to you the great strength
and wonderful wearing qualities of
H. & A. “Blue Heart” Manila Rope.

If your dealer does not carry H. &
A. “Blue Heart ” and cannot supply
you with this grecial Halter Lead,
fill out the coupon below and mail it
to us with 25c, coin or stamps, and
your dealer’s name. A Halter Lead
will be sent you prepaid at once.

The Heaven 8:. Allison Company
“Spinnerrof fine cordage since 1869”
Xenia, Ohio

 
 

Gentlemen: MF. 1-12
Enclosed is 25c for which please send

me one H. & A. “Blue Heart” Manila

Halter Lead.

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Address ...........................

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gang; . economical method of protecting
Mr: 0" fruit and crops frOm the ravages of in-
pm” sects and disease. ~
23:22.0“: Iii the first place you use air instead of
MOM, water to carry the fungicide and insecti— 7
Mmeet cide. This saves all the labor of pumping
diflerent water—mixing solutions and hauling the
y 0’01? water all over the farm'as in the case of
. reguzremmlr. liquid spraying. ‘
Gf” ”'3 The chemicals used in dusting are funda-
Z‘Zéam mentally the same as in liquid spraying.
for)“, You 31mply blow the r1ght pmson in the
{am right place,and because thorough dusting

can be done‘at the rate of 5 acres of mature

or low crops per hour, you am
(1th (1/! Me Hopi at jut! t/ze rig/1t
time. 7714! it the dig feature of
t/ze darting met/10d.

If you want to save time,
work, and money, it will
pay you to call on the
Niagara dealer or write and find
» out just what model Duster and

  
  

 

 

' what Dusts are best for your use.

(/Vl'agata SPRAYER COMPANY
Middleport, New York

Implement dealer: write for our sales

  

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TAKE FRUIT PRIZES.

 

PPLE growers of Ontonagon coun—

.ty- are proud cf the record at the
recent State Apple and Potato Show
held at Grand Rapids, where there
were taken twelve first, eight second,
six third and two fourth prizes in the
apple exhibit. The varieties exhibited
included the Northwestern Greening,
. McIntosh Red, wealthy, Duchess, Wolf
.River, Snow, Gideon, Ben Davis, Pe-
waukee, Alexander, Hyslop, Hibernal,
Northern Spy and a seedling.

SUGAR FACTORIES MERGED.‘

 

HE only beet sugar factory in the

Upper Peninsula, at Menominee,
has been merged in ownership with
two sugar companies in northeastern
Wisconsin. This will avoid duplica-
tion and result in large savings, it is
stated. A representative of the com-
pany points out that it is possible to
pay farmers in this section fifty cents
a ton more for beets because of the
' larger sugar content of the beets. He
attributes this to the cool weather of
September and October, but probably
the longer day and twilight period of
the northern latitude has a good deal
to do with it.

FULL-TIME DAIRY_ EXPERT
WANTED.

 

HE Upper Peninsula Development
Bureau has requested of Prof. R.
’5. Baldwin, director of the- Extension
Department of: the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, that a full-time dairy
specialist be assigned to the Upper
Peninsula to promote better dairying

 

 

here. Ten of the fifteen counties of

 

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Ohio Experiment Station
Increases Apple Yield
24 Barrels an Acre with
2% lbs. Nitrate per Tree

The Ohio Station found that where 21/2 pounds of Nitrate
of Soda, 5 pounds of Acid Phosphate and 2%; poundsof
Muriate of Potash per tree were used the simple adoition of-
an extra 2% pounds of Nitrate of Soda per tree in

the yield of apples 24 barrels per acre.

Nitrate of Soda

Experiment stations throughout the apple districts report that
the early spring application of nitrogen is necessary for the
best growth and most abundant fruiting. They are, therefore,
recommending Nitrate of Soda used in uantities of from
2 to 10 pounds. per tree in the spring be ore blossom time.
My Free Bulletin Service gives practical information on the
use of Nitrate of Soda for apples and all other crops. If you
, desire these Bulletins write me surname and addwss. and
g j to identify this advertisement add the number‘ 1527

Dr. Wm. 8. use... Director, mums mmn com-1m

 

 

25 Radian. Avenue. New York ‘

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pure—bred sire campaign by mid-De-
cember. Schoolcraft was the first to
organize for the campaign. Other
counties include Iron, Delta, Menomi-
nee, Gogebic, Dickinson, Alger, Mar-
quette, Luce and Ontonagon. Local
county committees are composed of
bankers, manufacturers, lumbermen,
mining-men, supervisors, grangers, and
commercial clubs’ representatives.
These county committees consist of
from fltfeen to twenty members and
a central committee representing the
cooperating agencies has general sup—
ervision of the campaign.

 

A‘ BETTER-STOCK GOSPEL TRAIN.

 

better dairying will be conveyed
to the farmers of the Upper Peninsula
was explained recently by Mr. J. A.
Jeffery, land commissioner of the Du-
luth, South Shore. & Atlantic Railroad,
formerly of the Michigan Agricultural
College. This train will be run on the
lines of the principal railroads of the
region at their expense. There will
.be sufficient passenger cars to take
care of the speakers and other per‘
sonnel, baggage cars for cattle, flat
cars for equipment. With the train
will go representatives of: the rail-
roads, of farmers’ organizations, of lo—
cal committees, and of commercial
clubs. There will be about forty stops
throughout the peninsula.‘

 

INTERESTING FACTS ON HOME
' EQUIPMENT. ‘

 

EPORTING on dairy progress in

' Gogebic county, Mr. C. E. Gander
son, county agent, points out that of
the. county’s cow-testing association,
I seventeen members own. silos, twenty-
one have cream separators, three own
electric lighting plants, seven own
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tricity, thirteen have telephones, ten
have cows in stanchions, seven have‘
automatic drinking cupsI for cows,
three have milking machines, thirteen
have furnace heat in_ homes, three
have city water, three have their own
water plants, five have‘ washingma—

chines, sixteen have touring cars, sev- '

en have trucks, aght have phono-

graphs, four have pianos, three have

organs, one has a radio.

There are twenty-six members of
the association. All members have
pure-bred or high-grade cattle. All use
pure—bred sires. All weigh, test and
keep a record of their milk production.

BIG PROGRAM AT ST. PAUL.

 

T the fourth annual TI‘i—State De~

veiopment Congress to be held at
St. Paul, Minnesota, January 24-25, the
principal themes will ,be forestry,
transportation and taxation, it is an«
nounced. The program has been an
ranged and will be of interest to Up-
,per Peninsula people, some of 'whom
will be present at the meeting. The
meeting a year ago was held at Me—
nominee.

Raphael Zon, of the Lake States
Forest EXperiment Station, will dis-
cuss the place of forestry in the future
of the lake states. Other aspects of
forestry that will be considered will
be its commercial features and taxa-
tiOn, presented by several experts in
these problems. Mr. John' C. Watson,
of the Illinois Agricultural Association,
will discuss the land’s burden of tax-
ation, while Mr. E. G. Quamme, presi-
dent of the Federal \Land' Bank'oi St.
Paul, will speak on taxation‘and land
values. Taxation problems of undevel-
oped lands will be presented by the
famous Wisconsin economist, Dr. R. T.
Ely. Dean H. L. Russell, of the Wis-
consin College of Agriculture, will dis-
cuss the interdependence of agricul-
ture and industry.

Canadian and American viewpoints
in regard to the Great Lakes-St. Law-
rence Deep Waterway are to be heard
from representatives of both coun-
tries. Railroad and highway experts
will also have their say. There will be
a “personally conducted” tour of the
great Duluth Terminal Warehouse. A
distinguished array of agricultural, for-
estry and transportation experts 'has
already been secured, and Michigan is
to be represented on the program.

‘ ARE ACTIVELY lureaesreo m
PREVENTING FIRES.

 

UT of the discussions of the forest
fire menace, recently taking place

at the sessions of the Congress of
Michigan Game Associations at Mar-
quette, came the adoption of a reso-
lution recommending the appointment
of a committee to investigate methods
of forest fire prevention used in other
states, such as Minnesota, Pennsyl-
vania and New York, where, it was
claimed, more eificient' means are em-
ployed. It was also insisted that the
fire [fighting force should be enlarged
during periods of special fire hazard.
Iron county sportsmen reported that
5,000 trees had been planted in devas-
tated regions in that county, the past
spring, and that 3,500 are still alive.
This planting is said to have cost
Iron county under $150. ‘ It was stated
that during the danger season the
Iron county club had thirteen men in
the woods on the watch for fires. 'It
was reported that one of these men in
following an automobile, put out sew
eral small fires started by men in the
car who were from time to time

throwing’.-cigarette ends by thereon-g .
side, thus igniting the dry leaves and »_ .

 

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“A BIT wasstlll plow’weather up in this

neck of the woods beyond the mid-
dle of December. Such a thing has
seldom been known. Perhaps it is just,
to compensate us for the last start we
got this spring. We have always been
‘a believer in nature's laws of compen-

sation, as Emerson describes them

~ But, what puzzles us is to know
whether this particular warm spell is
making_up fer the bad weather we
have had in the past, or whether we
are to pay for these pleasant days

with a “ripping cold” time in the fu- 5

ture. However, we have learned that
our. controlling powers are very inef-

,fectual when applied to the weather .
so we try to make the most of it, as ,,

.we find it and keep ourselves in a
mood with Riley, when ’he says, “Ain’t
no use to grumble an’ complain, just
as well be happy an’ rejoice, when
God sorts out the weather an’ sends

., rain, then rain’s my choice.”—TPope.

 

 

 

Thls Grange Band Has Proveh‘ 5 Real

Community Asset.

 

 

TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS.

 

No. 1.

ANUARY 1, 1924, marks the begin-

ning of the period for filing income-
tax returns for the year 1923. The
period ends at midnight of March 15,
1924. Heavy penalties are provided
by the revenue act for failure or wil-
ful refusal to make a return and pay
the taxon time

Form 1040A, heretofore used for re-

,porting net income of $5,000 and less,

from” whatever source derived, has
been revised in the interests of the
largest class of taxpayers—wage earn-
ers and salaried persons. Reduced
from six pages to a single sheet, Form
1040A is to be used for reporting net
income of $5,000 and less derived
chiefly from salaries and wages. Per-
seus any part of whose income is de-
rived from a business or profession,
farming, sale of property, or rent,
though the amount is~$5,000 or less,
will be required to use the larger form,
1040. The use of Form 1040 is required
also in all cases where the net income
was in excess of $5,000. regardless of
whether from salary, business, profes-
sion, or other taxable sources.

-It being impossible to determine at
this time which form is desired, copies
of both forms will be sent taxpayers
who filed individual retans for the
year 1922, and may be obtained'also
at the offices of collectors of internal
revenue and branch ofilces upon writ-

ten request

Harrison Muggins has been trying

:“to‘5trade in his-old flivver for a new

‘ car. The Ben Ton garage have de-.

‘ cided they will be willing to take the

never y only adding {860 to’the price ~
- car. Th Ben Ton garage

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WORLD’S CHAMPION.
AGNES WALLACE
Helped by Kate-Kare

M. G. Welch & Son, Burke, N. Y.
‘ write: Enclosed find picture of
our four-year Ayrshire cow, Agnes
Wallace of Maple Grove (25 171),
champion four-year-old Ayrshire
cow of the world, with a record of
17,657 pounds milk and 966 pounds
butter in one year. We have used
Kow-Kare in our herd for years
and would not think of getting
along without it. We consider it the
best cow tonic known.

“Our imported herd sire, Auchen-
brain Brilliant Sun imp. 23664 new
weighs 2100 pounds and eats Kow-
Kare whenever I think him in need
of a tonic.”

DURING CALVING

, Rollin H. Maxfield, Erie, Ill. says:
" We have been using your Kow-
; Kare for over five years and think
. It the best thing for cows at all times
’to keep them in condition. We find
It especially good when used about
a month during calving time, two
weeks before and two weeks after."

i USED ROW-KARE FOR 22 YEARS

John Moeer. Lisbon, 0. writes: I have
used your Kow-Kare for 22 years. I keep
it in the barn all the time and I wouldn t
be without it. I am about to feed it to
my large herd of cows about one week
out of every month to maintain a good.
healthy condition."

RESULTS AFTER ONE WEEK

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Noted dairy experts say that in the
average dairy one tenth more milk
will double the net profit. They say
this is conservative. It costs no more,
for instance, to house, feed and care
for a good milker than a poor milker.
After these items of fixed expense
are met, every quart of milk is net
profit. What other effort on the farm
will pay you so handsomely a8 inten-
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Keep the milk-making organs
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The reputation of Kow-Kare fot
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SUGGESTION cornea tron 0th
that could well be adopted by the
farm wives of Michigan. Thusugges-
tlon is to prepare a score card and
have the husband to carefully so over
the kitchen and measure Its conven-
iences by points on the score card.
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of a perfect score card are awarded
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she had
- ‘ time o: trouble and it was only
natural that now——

L “01‘ course ” came his answer.
. “Come, I'll have you made comfortable
in the cottage." Then, as he started
,‘ away, “May I see you, Ba’tiste, some~
. ; time tonight?"

“Ah, oui.” The Canadian was mov-
ing toward his wagon and the waiting
dog; "In the cabin.”

Three hours later, the last of the
men paid on, Agnes installed in the
“best of the three little cottages in care
of the motherly old cook, Barry Hous-
ton approached the door of ‘Ba’tiste‘s
cabin, the wolf-dog, who had picked
him up a hundred yards away, trotting
beside him. There was a light with-
in in the shadows by the grate, a
form moved—~old Lost Wing. Medaine
was there, then. Barry raised his
hand to knock—and halted. His name
had been mentioned angrily; then
again—followed by the voice of the
girl;

“I don‘t know what it is, Ba’tiste.
Fred wouldn’t tell me, except that it
was something too horrible for me to
know. And I simply can’t do what
you say. I can't be pleasant to him
when I feel this way.”

“But—”

“Oh, I know. I want to be fair, and
I try to be. I speak to him when I
meet him; isn’t that enough? We’re
not old friends; we’re hardly even ac-
quaintances. And if there is some
thing in his past to be ashamed of,
isn’t it best that we simply remain
that way? I——-”

\

HEN she ceased.

knocked on the door. A second
later, he entered the cabin, to return
Medaine Robbinnette's cool but polite
greeting in kind, and to look apple
hensively toward Ba'tiste Renaud. But
the old man’s smile was genuine.

"We have been talk' about you. oui,
yes!" he said. “Eh, Medaine?”

It was one of his thrusts. The girl
colored, then turned toward the door.

“I'm afraid I‘Ve stayed longer than

, I intended,” she apologized. “It‘s late.
Good night."

Then she was gone. Houston looked
at Ba’tiste, but the old French- Canadi-
an merely waived a big hand. .

“\Voman,” he said airily. “peuff! She
is strange. Eet is nothing. Eel will
pass. Now," as though the subject
had been dismissed, “what mus‘ Ba’-
tegse do?”

“At the mill? I wish, it you don’t
mind, that you’d guard it for me. I’m
going to Denver on the morning train
to hire a new crew. I don’t want Thay—
er to do anything to the mill in my
absence.”

“Ah, out. It shall be. You will sleep
here?”

“If you don't mind?
ernacle.”

“Bon-good! Golemar!”
dog scratched at the door.
shall go to the mill.
watchmen, yes?”

“But I didn’t mean for you to start
tonight. I just thought~”

“There is no time like the minute,”

ways been near in

Houston had

It’s nearer Tab-

And the
“Come, we
We are the'

usroN smiled at her. True, " " "

answered the Canadian quietly. “To-
night, you shall be Ba'teese, oui, yes.
Ba’teese shall be you.”

Pulling his knit cap on his head, he
went out into the darkness and to the
guardianship of the mill that belonged
to a man who looked like his Pierre.
As for Houston, the next morning
found him on the uncomfortable red
cushions of the smoking car as the
putting train pulled its weary way
through the snowsheds. of ‘Crestline

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'den cringingu In that moment as he

.stood outside the door of Ba'tiste’s

cabin, he had heard himself sealed and
delivered to oblivion as far as she was
concerned. He was only an acquaint~
ance—one with a grisly shadow in his
past—and it was best that he remain
such. Grudgingly, Barry admitted the
fact to himself, as he sat once more
in the red-plush smoking car, sur-
rounded by heavy—shouldered, sodden-
faced men, his new crew, on route to

 

 

AT THE SIDE

OF THE ROAD

By Harlan Babcock

Since the coming of the highways,
Such as builded in the past

By the wise and doughty Romans—
Made for centuries to last——
There has come along these speed-
ways,
First-hand service to afford,
Brother Farmer with his market—
And its little bulletin board.

By the roadside by the thousand
Are these rural marts of trade,
Where the farmer sells his produce,

All attractively arrayed.
Every section of the country
Pays its willing tribute toward
Brother Farmer's wayside market,
With its little bulletin board.

Thithcr flock the city people,
Out to flout the middleman,

Liking well the roadside market,
With its' money-saving plan.

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Mountain, on the way ever the range.
Evening brought him to Denver, and
the three days which fOIIOWed carried
with them the sweaty smell of the em-
ployment. offices and the gathering of
a new crew. Then. tired, anxious with
an eagerness that he never before had
known, he turned back to the hills.
Before, in the days agone, they had
been only mountains, reminders of an
eruptive time in the cooling of the
earth——so many bumpy places upon a
topographical map. But now—mow
they were different. ‘They seemed like
home. They were the future. They
were the housing place of the wide
spaces where the streams ran through
green valleys where the sagebrush
dotted the plateau plains, and where
the world was a thing with a rim about
it; hills soft blue and brown and gray
and burning red in the sunlight. black,
crumpled velvet: beneath the moon and
stars; hills where the pines grew,
where his life awaited him, a new
thing to be redeed nearer to' his own
desires, and where lived Ba’tiste, Ag—
nes—and Medaine. _
Houston thought of her with a sud—

AL ACREb—S/im Start; A Gripping Tale

While the farmer sells his produce,
Adding thusly to his hoard—

Gives his wayside stand the credit,
Aided by the bulletin board.

Like a mighty wave these markets
Day by day are spreading out,
Serving both the tOWn and country,
Putting Old Hi Cost to rout.
Furnishing a ready outlet
Through which tempting wares are
poured,
Hand in hand the front-yard market
And the little bulletin board.

Now the middleman no longer
Gets the profits of the soil—
Brother Farmer and his family,
Reap full payment for their toil.
Thank the roadside mart idea,
Which has confidence restored
To the farmer, who gave credit
Largely to the bulletin board.

4’

Empire Lake. It was best. There
was Agnes, with her debt of gratitude
to ,be paid and with her affection for
him, which in its blindness could not
discern the fact that it was repaid
only as a sense of duty. There was
the fight to be made—and the past.
Houston shuddered with the thought
of it. Things Were only as they should
be; grimly he. told himself that he had
erred in even thinking of happiness
such as comes to other men. His life
had been drab and gray; it must re-
main so.

AST the gleaming lakes and eter-
nal banks of snow the train crawl-
ed to, the top of. the world at Crest-
line, puffed and clattered through the
snowsheds, then clambered down the
mountain side to Tabernacle. With
his dough-faced men about him, Hous-
ton ‘sought transportation, at last to
obtain it, then started the journey to
the mill.
Into the canon and to the last rise.
Then a figure showed before him, a

. gigantic form, running and tumbling

through the underbrush at one side of

cities Batiste, .e

. ' side- hi
ml- deceit,- his
arms waving like mama. his voice
booming even frdm a distance: ‘ ,
“M’sieu Houston! M sieu Houston!
,Ba’teese have fail! Ba’ teese no good!
He watch for you—he is glad you
come! Bgteese ashame’l Ashame’!”
He had reached the wagon now,
panting, still striving to talk and fail-

king for lack of breath, his big hands

seeking to fill in the spaces where
words had departed. Houston leaned
toward him, gripping him by a mas~
sive shoulder.

"Whats happened? What’s—”

- “Ba’teese ashame’!" came again be-
tween puffs of the big lungs. “Ba!-
teese watch one, two, t’ree night.
Nothin’ happen. Ba’téese thinkabout
his lost trap. He think mebbe there
is one place where he have not look’.
He'say to Golemar he will go for jus'
one, two hour. Nobody see, he think.
So he go. And he come back. Blooey!
Eet is done! Ba’teese have fall!”

“But what, Ba’tiste? It isn’t your
fault. Don’t feel that way about it?
Has anything happened to Agneis?"

“No. The mill.”

“They’ve—‘2"

“Look!”

They had reached the top of the
rise. Below them lay something which
caused Barry Houston to leap to his
feet unmindful of the jolting wagon,
to stand weaving with white-gripped
hands, to stare with suddenly dead-
ened eyes-—

Upon a blackened, smoldering mass
of charred timbers and twisted ma-
chinery. The remainder of all that.
once had been his‘milll

CHAPTER X.

ORDS would not come for a mo-

ment. Houston could only stare
and realize that his burden had be-
come greater than ever. In the wag-
ons behind him were twenty men;
guaranteed at least a month of labor,
and now there was nothing to provide
it. The mill was gone; the blade was
still hanging in its sockets, a useless,
distempered thing; the boiler was
bent and blackened, the belting burn-
ed; the carriages and muley saws and
edgers and trimmers were only so
much junk. He turned at last to Ra’-
tiste, to ask tritely what he- knew
could not be answered:

“But how did it happen, Ba’tiéte?
Didn’t any one see?”

The Canadian shrubbed his shoul-
ders.

“Ba’teese come back. Eet is done.”

“Let’s see Agnes. Maybe she can
tell us something.”

But the woman, her arms about
Houston’s neck, could only announce
hysterically that she had seen the mill
burning, that she had sought help and
had failed to find it;

“Then you noticed no one around the
place?”

“Only Ba’tiste.”

“But that was an hour or so before.”

The big French-Canadian had moved
away, to stand in doleful contempla—
tion of the charred mass. The voice
of Agnes Jierdon sank low:

(Continued on page 53).

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“I don’t know, Barry. [don’t want

'to accuse—-”

“You don’t mean—”

"All I know is that I saw him leave
the place and go over the hill. Fifteen
minutes later, I saw the mill burning
and ran down there. All about the
place rags were burning and I could
smell kerosene That’s all I saw. But

. in the absence of any one else, what

should a person think?“

Houston’s lips pressed tight. He
turned angrily, the'old grip of sus-
picion upon him—suspicion that would
point in time of stress to every one
about him, suspicion engendeied by
black days of hopelessness, of despair.
But in an instant, it all was gone; the
picture of Ba’ tiste Renaud, standing
the-1e by the embeis, the honesty of
his expression of sor1ow, the slump of
his shoulders, while the dog, unnotic-
ed, nuZZIed its cold nose in a limp
hand, was enough to wipe it all out
f01ever Houston’s eyes went st1aight
to those of Agnes Jierdon and center-
ed the1e.

“Agnes," came slowly, “I want to
ask a favor. No matter what may hapo
pen, no matter what you may think
personally, there is one man who
trusts me as much as you have trusted
me, and whom I shall trust in return.
That man is Ba’tiste Renaud, my
friend. I hope you can find a friend
in him too; but if you can’t, please, for
me, never mention it.”

“Why, of course not, Barry.” She
laughed in an embarrassed manner
and drew away from him. “I just
thought I’d tell you what I knew. I
didn’t have any idea you were such

warm comrades. We’ll forget the
whole incident."
“Thank you.” Then to Ba’tiste he

went, to bank him on the shoulder,
and with an effort to whirl him about.
"Well!” he demanded, in an echo of
Ba’tiste’s own thundering manner,
“shall we stand here and weep? Or—”

“Eet was my fault!” The ’French-
Canadian still stared at the ruins.
“Eet is all Ba’teese’ fault—”

“I thought you were my friend, Ba’-
tiste.”

“Sacre! I am.”

“Then show it! We’ll not be able
to make a case against the firebugs—~
even though you and I may be fairly
sure who did it. Anyway, it isn’t go-
ing to break us. I’ve got about fifteen
thousand in the bank. There’s enough.
lumber around here to build a new,
saw-shed of a sort, and money to buy‘
a few saws, even if we can’t have as
good a place as we had before.
can manage. And I need help—I won ’t‘
be able to move without you. But—-”

(60ui?”

“But,” and Barry smiled at him, “if,
you ever mention any responsibility.
for this thing again—~you’re fired. Do’
We, understand each other?”

VERY slowly the big trapper turned
and looked down into the frank,
friendly eyes of the younger man. He
blinked slightly, and then one tremen-
dous arm encircled Houston's shoulder"
for just a moment. 'At last a smile
came, to grow stronger. The grip
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ly to give way to a whanging blow, as
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self as though for some physical en-
counter. -
He bellowed.

“Ah, 011i!" “Oui, oui,
oui! Ben—good! Ba’teese, he un’-
.stan’. Now what you want me to do?”

“Take this bunch of men and turn.

' to at clearing away this wreckage.

Then,” and he smiled his confidence'
at Renaud, “make your plans for the

building of a sow-shed. That is—if you .

really want to go through with it?"
“All out—owl!” The canadian my.

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type through all the centuries. He
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Americans. And for this he should
not be too severely censured. He was
trained in deception from childhood.

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times. The fool-
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.is told is simply
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told. When Jacob says he is afraid
that he will be detected in the theft
of the birthright and will bring on
himself a curse rather than a blessing,
his crafty mother says, “Upon me be
thy curse, my son; only obey my
voice.” We cannot help thinking of
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her wavering 'husband, “Only screw
your courage to the sticking—place, and
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worked word), every time. Our hero
is the man who has risen from log
cabin to the presidency of a billion
dollar corporation, or the unerring hit-
ter in some national base ball team.
The man of philosophic thought, the
man who can hear and interpret the
inner voice has not much place
amongst us. Yet what hustling mil-
lionaire has had or ever will have, the
influence in history of George Fox or
John Wesley, or St. Francis of Assisi?
We will have to admit this, however,
that the man of action is a much more
interesting specimen of humanity
than his meditative, unambitious
brother.
ica at present to magnify the Isaacs.
The rush and clatter of modern busi-
ness does not lead one to the Land of
Promise, as many weary and disap-
pointed business men will testify.
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praising the Esau type; the hunter
who loves the hills, the sounds of
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silent places. And who will dare say
that the Burroughs, the Muir type does
not get vast enrichment out of life?
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Lloyd-Georges and Garfields. There
are men who seem destined to a life
of adventure. They escaped in situa-
tions that would be the end of the-
ordinary man, and go from one dan-
gerous and dizzy height to another.”

The other day I read, “Beasts, Men
and Gods,” by Dr. Ossendowski. It is
the record of.his experiences in escap—
ing from soviet Russia through Mon-
golia, Tibet, into China, two years ago.
It is an almost unbelievable tale. Os-
sendowski went through experiences
that killed off some of his most hard-
ened companions, passing within an
inch of death time and again. Yet he
came at last to his destination in
Peking.

The baker is hanged, but Joseph
lives to see himself next the throne.
“There’s a divinity that shapes our
ends, rough-hew them how we will."
In the last analysis we must say that
there is a Providence. Why He per-
mits some to proceed and others to be
cut down we cannot say. Yet the beau-
ties of Providence are as manifest as

  
 

one: can explain exactly how he

was with him. ”

.OSEPH’Splan for 'saving'the‘ nation 1 ’

was a good one for those times. 'It ‘
has been much criticized because it
tended to enslave the people, putting
them at the mercy of” the king. “And~
Joseph bought all the land of Egypt;
for the Egyptians sold every man his
field, because the famine prevailed ov—l
er them? So the land became Phar-
oah’s.” _Hoover did not try anything
like that when he brought over ship-
loads of supplies for the'people of
Belgium. It would not have worked if
he had. We have learned to believe
that such a line of action would not be
right. We have advanced beyond the
ethical ideas of even so'good a man
as Joseph. Another'fifty years will see
common practices of today ruled out
of the business world.

Again the law of compensation is at
work. The brothers of Joseph sold
him into a foreign land. After some
years a. famine comes on. The same
famine that lifts Joseph into the seat
of prime minister of the empirersends
his. brothers into that land to buy
grain, and there they meet. We can-
not escape the consequences of our
OWn acts, be they good or bad. “The
mills of God grind slowly, yet they
grind exceeding small, though with
patience he stands waiting, with ex-
actness grinds he all. ”

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
JANUARY 13.

SUBJECT:——The long
Egypt. Genesis 37 to 50.

GOLDEN T:EXT -——Jehova.h will keep
thee from all evil, He will keep thy
soul. PS. 121..7

 

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APPENDICITIS.

 

SUBSCRIBER writes me that she
fears 'she has appendicitis, but
she’ is taking a medicine that has
been recommended as a. sure cure, and
what do I think about it? I think that
she is in about the same position as

'the old Irish watchman who sat on a '

keg of powder and smoked his ,‘pipe
because he had to‘have something to
quiet his nerves. The medicine an-
swers the purpose of the pipe, in that
it soothes her nerves, but while she is
dallying with it an explosion is likely
to come at any moment.

Let me tell you something that
comes to me by personal observation.
Recently I made a. study of the death
certificates of the state f01 a. year.
There are a. great many deaths from
appendicitis. Two-thirds of these cer—
tificates show that the patient was

treated without surgical operation. For -

the other third, operations were per-
formed, but not until pus had gathered
or the appendix had become gangren-
ous. Deaths from appendicitis when
early operation is performed, are so
few as to be negligible. These are
facts, and facts are stubborn things. I
am not saying that no case of appendi-
citis ever gets well without surgical
operation. Very many persons go

through one acute attack, recover, and-

are never troubled again. But let it
come back, even once, andyou can
never feel safe until thatappendix is
removed.

The first onset of appendicitis is an
acute attack. In this attack there is
always fever and pain. Usuallyithe
pain is in the right side of: the abdo-
men. butfllOl, elm???- ». “'

 

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mon for the patient to locate the pain
“right in the pit of the stomac ;”
Often it runs down into the right thigh
or scrotum. Vomiting is a common
symptom of appendicitis but may be
absent. Usually there is obstinate con-
stipation and the patient cannot even
pass gas.

This acute attack may be of brief
duration or may last several days. If

it passes away completely the patient - I

is cured, but very often it leaves be-
hind a low grade of inflammatitm or
ulceration which gives constipation,
much gas in stomach and bowels,
regurgitations, and frequent periods of
abdominal uneasiness. Nausea and
even vomiting may be quite frequent.
Such symptoms in a patient who “has
had one, attack indicate chronic ap-
pendicitis. When the more definite
symptoms of recurrentattacks are ad-
ded the diagnosis is reasonably sure.

Chronic appendicitis is very danger-
ous, since it may flare up at any time
and produce pus and peritonitis. Sur-
gical operation is the only reliable
treatment. .

THE BEST TEST FOR TUBERCU-
LOSIS.

 

Please tell me if a doctor can 13111le
a blood test and tell whether one has
tuberculosis. -—M. '

Blood tests will not positively decide.
whether one has tuberculosis. ‘An’ ex-

amination of the condition of thelungs . N
If the germ of tuber- . “I;

is more reliable.
culosis is found in the sputum: that: 111'
positive evidence, but it is mate posi-
sibie that a. trier-sen whose 1; . ‘
shows no germs may yet? ‘ ’

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All day long they wandered among .

We must not stand
Let’s get busy and
real detectives,’.’ said

IGHT, ho!
here idly.
become

"Rolly Rabbit, as soon as they found

Bruin gene from the trap. “Who will
help me?”
“I—-I will—I,” chorused Frankie Fox,

'VVillie Wo‘odchuck and the little

“We will let wise Frankie Fox be
“He is always
so clever at finding out secrets.

' After Frankie had looked everything

_' over car-efully and had made several
. trips out among the trees, he said:

“It
is just as Rolly Rabbit thought first.
Bruin went in that direction,” pointing
off toward the east. “His tracks seem
to follow a man’s and he must have
We will

then plan some way of getting him
away from the man. I am sure Bruin
(lid not go away without being forced.”

.“So am I,” chirped the little squir-
rel. . "He was dreadfully afraid the
man would come before we got back,

 

When the Squirrel Tickled His Little
Toe Bruin Woke Up.

and he did. But I ran just as fast as
I could."

“You did your best, and if we are

, careful we may find Bruin before it

gets dark,” answered Rolly.

So of! they started, Frankie Fox
fust, then Rolly Rabbit, then Willie

Wood chuck, and trotting along behind
was the little squirrel. Every few min-
utes Frankie would sniff the earth and
nod his head, but they never stopped

After a while it became dark, and
they could go no further. So they all
curled up in a little nest of leaves by
a big tree and went to sleep. Early
in the morning they started on their
way again. But Frankie Fox had slept
so hard he just couldn’t remember
how Bruin’s tracks smelled, and soon
they were of! the trail and lost.

Coed Reading

“Feet of Clay,” by Marguretta

' Tuttle, $2.00.
This book is a masterpiece of fic~
It reaches a high mark of artis-
try and has a much deeper value than
a passing book of fiction in its reflec-
tion of modern standards and modern
ambitions.

“Feet of Clay" contrasts the world
of luxury and fashion. idler‘s and wast-
ers, and the world of working folk, or
those who struggle. for near and dear
dependents. This is a book most peo-
ple will read more than once with
much pleasure and profit. “Feet of

. Clay" can well be listed among good
fiction.

“lf Winter Comes,” by A. M. S.
Hutchinson, $2.60.
It _I had the necessary means, I
011111 send a copy of "If Winter
tor’ every reading portion on
the globe. I have person-
1!

\burden one has, bringing winter to our

, -“Danie Boone, Wilderness Scout,” by

~can frontier.

    

Woodland

the trees, and it was a weary and dis-
couraged group that curled up on a
bed of leaves that night.

Bright and early the next morning,
just as the sun was getting up, the
little ”squirrel got up too.

“I’m so hungry, I must find some
berries,” he said. “I’ll slip out quietly
and not get far away.”

Nearby he found a fine patch of
blackberries and» when busily munch-
ing them right in the middle of the
patch, he stepped on something that
caught his foot and made him fall.

“Ouchie, 0w!” said the little squir-
rel, rubbing his bruised knee. “What
was that? Why! It is Bruin's hand-
kerchief, for it has his name on it.”

Scampering back to his friends, he
told them of his find and soon they
were all on the right trail again. It
was just an hour before they came
upon Bruin sleeping by a log.

“Buzz-zz-zz! Buzz-z! " He was snoring‘
so he never heard them.

Frankie Fox got a long blade of
grass and tickled his ear, and Willie
\Voodchuck tickled his nose with a
little twig. But when the squirrel
tickled his toe, he jumped up with a
start.

“Well, where did you all. come
from?” blinked Bruin, rubbing his eyes.

Then Rolly told him all about the
dreadful time they had finding him,
and Bruin told them about the man
and how the little boy had unfastened
his chain. “With his sharp little
knife, Rolly cut off Bruin’s muzzle and
they all started home, happy to be to-
gether again.

A NOTE FROM AUNT MARTHA.

 

Dear Ltitle Folks:

The answer to the riddle was guess-
ed to be “wind, breath,” and several
other thingsgbut only two guessed the
right answer, which is air. The two
lucky ones were Alice Luchies, of
Newaygo, Michigan, and Ali Jarman,
of Farewell, Michigan.

Here is another one, sent in by
James Mllborn. What is that which
everyone can divide but no one can
see where it has been divided?

I am still receiving some fine let-
ters telling how kind »St. Nick was to
many of our readers. Ali Jarman says
he received a toy1 tractor. Now he
will know how to run daddy’s when he
gets older.

Sincerely, Aunt Martha.

No comment I can make about this
book can do it justice, or can it reveal
the fine humanity of this story. It is
not a “mere” novel. It will live for-
ever, I believe, as an immortal book
of great beauty. It ever man was re-
created—reborn—a spiritual man—it
is indeed the hero ’of Hutchinson’s
story, "If Winter Comes.” It reveals
the many truths which make for fine
living, making the book enjoyable
reading from beginning to end, and it
leaves with us the thought that, no
matter what the care, the sorrow or

doors, that spring is not far behind

Stewart Edward White, $1.75.
Daniel Boone was the best scout
that ever lived; A scout of the Ameri-
It is written by a man ,
who is the greatest living writer on
frontier history. This is a story of~
abiding interest to all who love the
1 the American frontier. “L

THE MICHIGAN FARMER

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A/Test for Rest-—

F TER the sleepless night, and you
wonder about the cause, has it

ever occurred to you that it may be :,
caffeine, the drug in coffee, that keeps 1.
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At your first sip of Postum, you
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preferred equally {01' its delicious
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Postum is absolutely free from the
coffee drug, cafieine, or anything that
can cause restless nights or uncom-

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Postum

for Health

“There’s a Reason”

Your grocer sells Postum in
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[in tins] prepared instantly in
the cup by the addition of
boiling water. Postum Cereal
[in packages] for those who
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by boiling fully 20 minutes.
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Hospitals use Muco Salve for thé
treatment of colds upon advice of

physicians and nurses. Muco Salve
is an external treatment. Apply in
nostrils. Clears the head instantly.
Rubbed on chest at night it is ab-
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HE greatest value of the church
supper lies not in the financial
returns, but in the fact that it
is an excellent means of getting ac-
quainted with other people.

At any rate, that is the way a lot
of people have sized it up, and these
suggestions are passed along by our
home economic specialists. '

“Why not have the young boys and
girls in the church do the serving?”
asks one specialist. They will then take
a. more active interest in the supper,
and the women will be free to attend
to the kitchen work. If the crowd is
not too large, often it is a good plan
to have the guests line up in cafeteria
style and serve themselves for the
first course, and have the waiters just
serve the dessert. As each person is
the best judge of his own appetite this
may eliminate considerable waste.

“Plan a menu which can be served
easily and quickly. People do not want
a cold meal. Veal birds or pork chops
are particularly good because they do
not need to be carved at the last min-
ute. For a lighter supper, cheese
fondue is easily served.

“Suet pudding or nut and raisin pud-
ding, made several days before and
Steamed
Boston brown bread or nut bread has
the advantage of not requiring jellies
or other sweets ’which rob the home
larder. The following recipes may
prove especially. inviting:

Pork Chops.

“Season each pork chop, cover with
moist bread dressing, place half an
apple (cored but not peeled)\on top.
Bake in a moderate oven until the ap-
ple is done. The chop is done at the
same time.‘

Veal Birds.

“Cut thin slices of veal, the size for
a serving, fold with savory dressing
inside and fasten with a toothpick. Set
close in a pan. Sprinkle with flour,
pepper and salt. Bake in a hot oven
until brown on top. Then put about
an inch of water in the pan, cover, and
bake for an hour and a half, slowly.

Cheese Fondue.

“Butter thick slices of bread and
place in a pan until it is two-thirds
full. Take enough milk to practically
Cover the bread. For each cup of
milk add one beaten egg and one-half
teaspoon of salt and one cup of cheese
run through the grinder. ‘Pour over
the bread and bake until it rises in
the middle, about thirty minutes.

Coffee.

“Something nice and hot to drink
is always part of a good supper,”
points out one demonstrator.

“Cheesecloth bag. One pound of cof-
fee for every fifty cups. Eight quarts
of rapidly boiling water. Drop bag in
boiling water. Pour water with cup
over bag until soaked. Remove coffee
from fire. Stir bag in it for five min-
utes. Lift bag and drain. Remove.

Hot Chocolate.

“Twenty-five servings. One and one-
half cups grated chocolate, three—
fourths cup of sugar, three-fourths tea-
spoonful salt, three cups boiling wa-
ter, one gallon of milk and two and
one-half teaspoonsful of vanilla. Mix
dry ingredients with boiling water and
boil until smooth " and glossy. Add

utes. Add vanilla just before serving."

DRINK SEVEN cusses 0F , ’

 

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pounds carries in the fluids and

 

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Wiles Qf his body GDI’WY

eighteen gallons of water.

Anybody who ‘wants to can figure
their own water content. Just take
threeouarters of your total weight
and divide that by 8. 34, the number of
pounds in a gallon. The human body
is three-fourths water.

The amount of water needed daily
varies with the age and activity of the
individual, and with the volume of oth-
er liquids taken, but in general six or
eight glasses a day' is not too much
for an adult, advises nutrition special-
ists. The best times to drink water
are on rising, in the middle of the
morning, in the middle of the after-
noon, and before..retiring at night. A
glass of water with each meal is now
considered a good thing.

It is explained that water contributes
to bodily well- being by softening food
in the digestive tract, by keeping in
solution waste materials of the body,
by enteiing chemically into the com-
position of body tissues and fluids, and
by helping regulate the body tempera-
ture. Too little water in the diet is
said, further, to reduce healthful ac-
tivities of the kidneys and ~of glands
secreting digestive juices.

WINTER-BLOOMING PRIMROSES.

 

HERE are three primroses com-«

monly grown as window plants,
and all are pretty. They are catalogu-
ed as primula sinensis, or Chinese
primrose, primula obconica, and prim-
ula Forbesii, the dainty little baby
primrose. The Chinese primrose has
been a popular window plant for many
years, but the baby primroses not so
long. While obconica has been grown
some, it did not come into prominence
until some twenty years ago, but the
improvement has been rapid and now
they are grown more than the Chinese
primrose. All are easily grown from
seeds or may be purchased of florists
in the fall. Seeds should be sown in
August for blooming after New Years,
or sown earlier‘they will bloom earlier.
Sown in May they will be blooming
before Thanksgiving. Sow in a seed-
bed composed of two parts of garden
soil and one part leaf mold, with a
liberal portion of sand. Press the soil
and moisten it well, and when settled
sow the seeds in rows, and press into
the moist soil and sift a. very light
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took her aftérnd‘on nap where she

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Tasty Eats for Winter “Soc1ab1es

Cafeteria Style of Semmg Eliminate: W are and Satz'sfies Z/ze Ina’zozkz’ualflppelz'z‘e.

‘up the little seedlings When large

enough and repot as needed, and al-
Ways keep in a cool window. The
seed-box may better be kept in a shady
window and the plants Will grow at
any time in much shade if they have
a good light. Be' very careful in all;
pottings to set the plants so the growth
will be Supported by the soil, but the
crown must not be covered. This is
no place for carelessness, for
need to be set just right to make good
plants. The plants are perennials and
may be kept over summer-in a cool
place, preferably outside in a. shaded
cold frame if given good care. Insect
pests do not trouble primroses to any
great extent, and they have the name
of being poisonous to hands, but we
have never had any trouble with this.
—Agnes Hilco.

AN INEXPENSIVE WASTE BASKET.

 

NEEDED a new waste basket for
my guest-room, but all I Coveted
in the stores were expensive. Casting
about for some expedient, I began with
a stout pasteboard packing case about
ten inches square and a foot high. I

covered it inside and out with plain, ‘

 

heavy wallpaper, pasting the paper ‘

on neatly, Next, I ,cut some stout,
bright-colored cretonne into strips an
inch and a half wide’ and bound all
edges and corners. The clothalso was
pasted. Cut-out patterns add a pretty
touch to the sides of the box. Wall
paper beider and designs may be ap-
plied in the same way.

Now I have a neat, attractive and
strong waste basket at a very low
cost. If you use care in selecting the
colorcombinations these baskets would

_make pleasing gifts—J. E. Teal.

HOME.SPUN HINTS.

 

UT angel cake so as to preserve

its delicacy of texture, divide an-
gel cake by pulling it apart with two
forks instead of using a knife. Sponge
cake may be similarly divided.

Save bacon rinds for flavoring soups
and dried peas and lima beans.
Spread over the top of Boston beans
while baking, they take the place .01
the usual piece of salt pork,in'1part-
ing flavor and protecting the top layer
from burning.

To remove bluing stains from fah‘ ' ‘

rics soak in strong ammonia water,

soak in kerosene and wash with hap- I

the. seap in lukewarm water.

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delay be sure to mention size
Send fifteen cents for up-todate Fall
and Winter Fashion Catalog.

No 4621—Ghilds Dress. Cut in four '

slat-,8 2, 4,6 and 8 years. A four-year
size requires 21,5 yards of 2. «inch ma-
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No. 4620—Boys’ Blouse or Smock
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years. A four-year size requires 31,;
yards of 27—inch material. Price 12c.

'No. 4406—Ladies’ Under Garment.
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48 inches bust measure. A medium
size. requires two yards of 31-inch ma—
terial. Price 12c

   

No. 4612—Ladies’ “House" Frock
Cut in four sizes: Small 34-36; medi—
um 38-40; large 42-44; extra large 46-
48 inches bust measure. The width
at the lower edge is tWO yards. A me—
dium size'will require 5% yards of
27—inch material. Price 120.

No. 354—Juniors' Dress. Cut in
three sizes, 12, 14 and 16 years. A l 1-
year size requires 41,4 yards of one
material 32 inches wide. Price 120.

 

No 4633~Girls’ Blouse and Bloom-
e1s. Cut in five sizes, 4, 6, 8, 10 and
12 years A 10-year size requires 314
ya1ds of 36-inch material. Price 12c.

No. 4614~Ladies’ Dr.ess Cut in six
34, 36, 38, 40. 42 and 44 inches
b’ust measure. A 38-inch size requires
35 {g ya1ds of 54-inch material. The
width of the dress at the foot is 1%
yards Price 120.

 

No. 46264418. A Stylish Suit. Coat

' 4626 cut in three sizes, 16,18 and 20

years for misses and small women.
Skirt 4418 cut in seven sizes, 16,18

'and 20 years, and 31, 33, 35 and 37'
. inches waist m’eaéure-for ladies.
width, at

The.
the foot is 2% yards. To
0 this suit for a medium size will
5% yirds of 40-inch material.
patterns 12c for each

 

  

Use this department to help solve
your household problems) Address
your yetters to Martha Cole, Michi-
gan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.

REQUESTED PR-ETZEL RECIPE.

 

This is a. pretzel recipe which Ihave
used for years, and we like it very
much. ‘

1 tsp. salt
4 1b. sugar

In the summer I used three cups of
boiling water and turn over this. In
the winter time I use only two cups.
In the summer time I use three cups‘
of milk and in the winter time only
two Cups; three cups of cold water in
summer time and two in Winter time.
Dissolve one yeast cake in onehalf
cup lukewarm water and stir in
enough flour to make a hard loaf. Let
rise over night and in the morning
knead down and let rise the second
time. This dough is then cut for pret-
zels.——»Mrs. F. H.

2 th. . lard

LIVER SAUSAGE.

 

 

Please send me a recipe for liver

sausage. W
H. B.

                           

The following is a well-recommend-
:ld recipe for liver sausage:

For mild sausage add five pounds of
well-cooked pork or beef liver and one
pound of flour to eight pounds of well-
cooked pork from bones, hogs' heads
or jowl's. Cut the meat into small piec-
es, mix thoroughly with flour and put
through a food grinder. Spread out
and sprinkle with six ounces of fine
salt, two ounces of finely ground black
pepper and one ounce of finely ground
sage. Re-grind, adding one onion if
the onion flavor is desired. Stuff in

Tempting the

l‘ is when your patient is first be-
I ginning to recover that you find it

the most dilficult to coax him to
eat. And in this it is well to rememc
her that the way to a convalescent’s
stomach is through his eye. A tray
covered with spotless and dainty linen
and set with attractive china will do
more toward persuading your patient
to eat than any amount of nourishing
food, even though the best cook in the
land has prepared it.

The. first thing to select is the tray.
The round ones are not nearly so
handy for a convalescent to handle as
a. square one with rounded corners,
though the oval ones are also suitable.
If the tray is prettily enameled it will
not be necessary to use a cloth that
entirely covers it. Instead, a little
square lunch cloth may be laid on,
corner-wise. This may be decorated
with bright colored embroidery or ap-
plique work. Large doilies are also
suitable.

Aluminum trays are light and easily
handled, or if a cheap tray is desired
the paper mache ones may be used, as
they are easily cleaned. though they
do not last long.

If you‘ even pretend to be a thought-
ful nurse you will not ask a patient to
balance a tray on his knees. In some
households a bed-side table will‘be
found, but lacking that a very good
substitute may be made: I use a bun-
dle of old papers, piled evenly and
securely tied together. One of these
piles is placed on either side of the
patient and as close to his body as
possible. Then the tray may be set
across it.

The doctor will be apt to tell you
just what foods the patient can, and
can not have. Keeping this in mind,
try to vary the menu; every'~.day, ass.

 

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meat into round casings or hog bunge

 

and cook in boiling water ten min-
utes. Cool in ice, or very cool water,
and hang up to dry.

RYE BREAD.

 

 

W'ould like a good homemade rye
bread recipe.——Mrs. I. B.

For a good home-made rye bread the
following recipe comes to me thor-
oughtly tested:

21'ults milk 81’; cake years or 2 ti).

3 tb. shortening potato yeast
5 tb. brown sugar 3 cups flour
11,1; tsp. salt Rye meal

Scald the milk and add the salt.
W'hen lukewarm add the yeast and
beat in sufficient flour to make a thick
batter. Cover and let stand over night
1:1 a warm place. Add the melted
shortening and the butter in the morn-
ing. Stir in the remainder of the flour
rye meal to make a
dough stiff enough to knead. Knead
until the dough becomes smooth. elas-
tic and no longer sticks to the hands
or a clean board. Let rise, shape into
loaves, let rise again, and bake.

PEAR CO'NSERVE WITH RAISINS.

This is a recipe for pear conserve
I would like to forward to “A Reader.”

 

1 Dl‘t‘k nears 1 orange
2 lbs. or cartons. of 2 lemons

raisins 2 or more cups of
12 cups sugar nutmeats.

Pare and core pears and put through
food chopper, together with raisins and
orange, place over fire, add sugar and
sliced lemons, cook slowly for two
hours, stirring often to prevent burn-
ing. Vthn done add nut meats. I
used home-grown hickory nuts and the
more one puts in the better it is.

This will keep in glasses like jelly
»—»Mrs. N. E. D.

Convalescent

convalescent’s appetite is apt to be ,

“finicky.” And never tell your patient
before meal time just what his meal
is to consist of. It is the surprise that
pleases. A few minutes’ thought will
wear off the. novelty, if he is told’of
it before the meal is served.

Often a short, humorous skit or bit
ofvverse will prove amusing to the
patientr—Nellie Portrey.

LINOLEUM IS ECONOMICAL.

INOLEUM is a very: satisfactory

covering for the kitchen floor. It
is relatively durable, comfortable for
the feet, and easy to clean. It is man-
ufactured in a variety of colors, de-
signs, and qualities the better grades
will be, found most economical in the
long run. Varnishing or waxing lin-
oleum is said to protect the surface
and make it Wear longer.

HOME- SPUN HINTS.

To prevent boiling over, grease the
inner rim of the kettel 01' saucepan to
the depth of an inch from the top, and
the contents will not boil over.

\Vhen a hole has been made in a
garment by the tearing out of a. but-
ton, cut around a button on a dis-
carded garment so as to leave it at-
tached to a square of cloth larger
than the hole to be repaired. Push the
button through the hole from the back,
the attached square of cloth forming
a patch.on the under side. Fell this
down all around and catch down the
torn edges of the hole. This method
is particularly eflicient for children’s
clothing and men’s overalls and jump-

‘25-5‘7' _

Aspirin

Beware of Imitations! _

 

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have been proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians over twenty-
three years. Aspirin is the trade mark
of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic—
acidestcr of Salicylicacid.

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Round Herring. 4;
Large Dressed. 35:
Round Cam. 6;
Dressed Pike, 15:
Round Perch. 6% ;
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of Fruit Trees, plants, Omamentals Garden and
ll lower 81eds. 3 to 4- foot Apple 251:; 3— foot l’rmh 20c
tauh postpaid. Send for 1924 catalog of Reliable
Tum; and Seeds Seed
Geneva, Ohio.

STRAWBERRY PLANTS

Raspberry. Blackberry, Grape. etc. Complete line rea-
sonably priced. Thirty years experience. Illustrated Cat-
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Our Special No.988
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roomy, soft lea-
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last.
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Ask for
No. 988

H-B Dependable Footwear

Favorites with farmers for 30 years.
Dress and Service shoes for men and
boys of all leather and all good lea-
ther. Made by skilled shoemakers.
Goodlooking, long-wearing, easy on
your feet and on your pocketbook.
Your store sells H-B shoes, or will
get them for you. Handsome free
booklet on request.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOECO. Grand Rapids.Mich..

 

 

Ship all your turn to Fouke NOW. Re-
gardless ot the fur market at any time.
_ depend on Fouke forthe most
continuous. reliable and re-

‘ flteble outlet forall your urs.
Tie a Fouke tag on your next
shipment. See how much bet-
ter grading you get--Seohow
much quicker you get your
retumso-See how much more

money you get for every skin. See
for yourself that-

Fouke Grading MakesYour
F Fur Checks Bigger. ,

Fun Co.‘§i3fi%‘ii‘£

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address at once.

 

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voun mus. .

Horse or Cow hide. Calf or other skins
with hair or lur on. and make them
into coats (for men and women),robes.
rugs or gloves when so ordered: or we
can make your hides into Oak Tanned
Harness or Slouohtor Solo or Bolt Leath-
er- your oeiloklno Into Shoe Leather. -
Colors, Gun Metal. Mahogany, Russet or
lighter shade. Calfskins tanned in the ' ,
lighter shades of shoe leather. also ‘ .
make elegant otend end table covers;
great for birthday, wedding and holi-
day gifts.

LETUS FlX YOUR ,
WORN FURs .

treshen, repair and reshape them ii‘__w~e_ _ _
needed, Furs are very light weight, - -
therefore it would cost but little to send them in to us
by Parcel Post and get our estimate at soot: then we
» will hold them aside awaiting your decision. If you say
“no eheed." very well: we will do so and hold them
tree of storage until you want them. 11' you say “no."
we will return them post-paid. '
Our Illustrated oetalou and style book combined gives
a lot. of useful information. It tells how to take oil
and care for hides. About our onto dyeing process on
cow and horse hides, calf and fur skins. About dressing
line for skins and making them into neckpieces, muris
and garments. ‘About taxidermy and. Head Mounting.

The Crosby Frisian Fur Company.
571 Lyell Ave" Rochester. N. Y.

  
   
 
   
  
  
  
  
  

 

Lake Land Fur Exchange, Salem,Mich~

Write for four grade price list >-
shipping tags. etc. Had no com-

plaint from a. shipper in over two

years. Our treatment and prices

are the cause, prices alone mean

nothing.

 

 

HIDES TANNED $3.50 to $5.50
Tm Hide and Make Robe Complete. using No. 1
Plush Lining, $10.00 to $12.50. All work guar-
anteed. Write for samples and prices
Badger Robe a Tanning 00.. Stevens Point. Win.

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THE MEDFORD ROAD.

 

By Julia E. Hibbard.
HE old Medford Road wound laz-

efliciency straightened it and built it
across the -marsh._ This became a fine
highway for tourists, but it took the
road from the old Nelson place. How-
ever, nobody lived there now but the
sad-eyed old Mrs. Nelson. What mat-
tered the road when she had known a,
great loss?

One rainy night when a fog hung
over the marsh, a. solitary automobile
crept through the mist. Suddenly it
stopped, and refused to start. The

 

Lela Cooley, Lansing R. 1, is the Larg-
est One in this Picture.

driver got out to investigate—to find
that he was fast in the mud of an
abandoned road instead of on the grav-
eled highway of a half mile back. Be-
wildered, he looked about. On the hill
glimmered a light.

' His rap startled old Mrs. Nelson,
nodding by her fire. Picking up the
lamp, she opened the door and peered
out into the darkness. A moment she
looked up at him then she pulled him
inside. “

“Who are you?” she quavered.

“John Nelson,” he said, glancing
wonderingly around the room, a. far-
away look in his eyes.

“Where am I?”

“Home!” she exclaimed, clasping his
hands and telling him of the boy lost
years ago in the crowds of Detroit, and
never found till now, when the fog had
brought a man to her door with the
look of the little boy’s father in his
face. Then the man knew why the
room was so familiar. Once he had
played there.

And so the road that had deserted
the old mother’s house put the happy
light back into her old eyes.

 

HIS PROMISE.

 

By Zona L. Amos.
It is a beautiful morning in June.
The sun has risen, but let us take a
look into the home of the Lovejoy’s.

bing of a ten-year-old boy, who is sob—
bing for his mother to come back.

For days she has laid between life
and death, and now the boy is realiz~
ing how much he loved her, and how
much he needs her to grow up as a.
good and useful man.

Often he had disobeyed his mother.
Many times he has left the water pail
unfilled, and the woodbox empty.

“Oh, Mother,” he sobbed, “Come
back to me and I’ll never disobey you
again.” , ‘ - .

Finally the cries reached his moth-
er’s ears,‘a.nd slowly she came back-to

 

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Some Prize. Short, Stories

By Context W inner;

ily around the lake until modern.

Everything is silent except the sob-l

  

have: never heard wt: such~e~plaeer

  

her boy and life. Half an hour ’later
the nurse told the boy his mother
would live. It was weeks before she
could leave the house, but the wood—
box was never empty and the water

pail was always full to the brim with

pure water. He tended her garden
and brought her choicest flowers and
fruit. ‘ _

Many years have passed, and the
boy is a. grey-haired man. After many
years of hard work he has become
famous, but still he never forgot that
beautiful morning in June, and the
promise made on his‘tenth birthday.

 

KIN'DNESS TO ANIMALS. ‘

 

By Floyd Simons.

The wagon was heavily loaded with
bars of iron. It looked too heavy for
a. single horse to draw.‘ The patient
creature had strained and tugged until

~he succeeded in reaching the top of ,

the hill. Now hemust back the heavy
load in atthe open door of the barn,
“Back, Jim! back!” said the driver,
pulling lightly at thehreins. The horse
braced his forefeet .and pushed, but
the wagon did not move. The man
got down from the seat, went to the
back of the truck and pulled. —

“Back!” he cried. The horse straln- '

ed every muscle.

“Back!” cried the driver again. The
wagon moved this time at least a. foot.
Once more the driver pulled and the
horse pushed together. “Back!” With
the last command, the great horse
shoved with all his might. There was
a sound of splintering wood, and the
wagon rolled back. Not‘ a, blow had
been struck. Only gentle words had
been spoken, and the horse had done
the rest. The man went to the horse’s
head, took his nose in his hands, patted
him between the eyes, and said:

“Good old Jim! - You did it, didn’t
you? I knew you would.” The horse
rubbed his nose against the man's
cheek.

‘—< .— . ~- v'-;-~~‘.,-l~—Ww~v--w
n..-a_._1m.-.._.w‘ -53.

 

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

As I have never written to you, I
expect this letter will find the waste
paper basket.

I am going to the Milford High
School and like it just fine. Ninety-
slx is my general average for the first
two months.

Probably you will not read this let-
ter from a. Hoosier gril.

I must close. With best wishes to
you and all M. Q’s—From your would-
be—niece, Gladys VVeybright, Milford,
Indiana. .

I’m glad to hear from a Hoosier girl
and to know that she. is doing so well
in school.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I’ve been away all summer, and now
that school days are fairly on their
way, I have so much to do. But at
last I found a chance to visit Uncle
Frank and my cousins of the Merry
Circle. , _

Do you laugh very much, Uncle
Frank? I do. I just love to laugh.
But that isn’t all I do. No, indeed. I
help my mama and papa all I can, at
least, I try to.

Well, I guess I’ll close now, and give
some other Merry Circler a chance.

Good—bye, for a little while, Uncle
Frank—Yours truly, Susie Lurtz, M.
0., Fair Haven, Mich.

Glad to see you back again. Yes,
once in a while, just for a change, I
laugh. I’m glad you do something be-
sides laugh. but sometimes laughing
helps, too

4

Dear Uncle Frank: ’

Say, Uncle Frank, I‘think that you
are a nice one to tell what Aunt Mar-
tha’s full name was, and not tell your
own. Most boys, when asked what
their name is, say, “Old John Brown.
Ask me again and I will knock you
down.” ,

Well, I must close. Your hope-to-
g); xlileice, Elsie Cobb, R. 4,Willia.mston,

1c .

 

I wouldn’t do such a. rude thing and ,

I don’t think M. C. boys would either.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I wrote to you about a_ha1f _dozen
times but never saw any in print. I
have also entered a. lot of the contests
already, too. But I never won ,any-
thing. - ,, .

I am in two clubs at~school, the Hot

‘Lunch Club, and the Garment Club.

I like club work. /

A .want-to-be niece, Helen Duffrln,
R. 1, Stephenson, Mich. .

This time you win. Such a. good
club member should win Once in a
while. Write again, ;Miss Want-tube.

 

Dear Uncle» Frank ‘ ' ‘_
I‘live in India ‘Creek. Maybe,

  
   

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it is a. very beautiful place to live.
There are many hills and trees here.
In the winter we can slid down the
hills, and skate on the ponds. .

I made my first spending money in
raising potatoes. I sell them to,my
papa, and afterwards I eat them, too.

Your nephew, Martin Ver Hage, M.
(3., Hudsonville,Mich.

,I wish I could work the same scheme
you do. I might become rich if I
could sell everything I ate instead of
buying it. I think you are a. shrewd
business man.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: .

I think there are more boys and
girls joining the department all the
time.

Uncle Frank, what is your last
name? Won’t you tell us?

We have an Uncle Frank without a
last name, isn’t he a funny one, boys
and girls? I think so.

Now, Mr. Waste Paper Basket, I
want you to hide, this time, so I can
not. find you. Well, good-bye. Your

niece, Dorothy Salsbury, M. 0.; Mont-
gomery, Mich. ‘

If you don’t like Puddin’ Tame and
insist on my having a, last name, why 7
not call Uncle my first name and

 

Elaine Markey, of Bay City, R. 4,
Enjoys ’l-ler Pets.

Frank my last One? Anyhow, my last
"name has nothing to do with getting
M. C. after yourlast name.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: ,

I told my friend about the Merry
Circle and she wantedto write, so I
read the Contest to her over thetele-
phone. So she wrote and got a Merry

:Clrcle pin. She was very. glad to get
,it. The next week I' took

the a ‘to
hen—Jessie; White, > M. p per

Your friend , apparently because;

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. Iwinmymoithethlnglam
most afraid at and «1111113111; only
' thing is snakes. When I see them,I
juét shake with fear. When I go to
the forest I always see if there are
snakes around. There are no rattle-
,snakes around, not other ones, but
those grass snakes, and the only thing
I am doing to get over this fear is to
go. around lots of snakes and try to
kill them, or snlapjtheir. neck off.

_ Most, people say whoever kills a
snake. becomes a charmer. But do
you. think so, Uncle Frank? I don’t.

If it is so, then my brother ought to \

become a charmer. He kills lots of
snakes. “'hen he kills
tails do not‘ die until the sun goes
.down

 

MY GREATEST FEAR.

 

.By Vilita Ripley, M. C.
I fear to get up befiore a crowd and
speak, because one Christmas I was
. in ten diflerent things and I was afraid
’ I would get them mixed up, and it
Imade me so *nervous that for two
years I could not speak good. ,But
now I try to prevent it by not taking
so many pieces, and by thinking, “I
Can speak good if I my.” So now I
Speak a lot better.

STORY OF AN ACCIDENT.

. By Ardith Rowland.

Once upon a time, my father and I
were riding near little when we saw
a car on one side of the road, and
another on the other side. There were
five people in one car and eight in the
other, and only two were alive. when
. we found them. “'0 went on into Hale
and told the storekeepnr, and he noti—
fied somebody. They went out there
and came back in a few minutes and
called for witnesses, so we had to go

back. Of all the questions they asked\

us I could not begin to tell. We found
them at four o’clock ill the morning.
We had the back end 01' our car full
of berries, so them was just room
for one to sit in the back to watch
the stuff. One car had drunken people
in but the other people were not
, drunk. When We got through there it
was dinner time, so we drove 011 until
we got to the other side 01‘ Hale. Then
we stopped and ate, and had some ice
cream. And, gee, it was good.

 

LOST MERRY CIRCLE BUTTONS.

UITE a few Merry Circlers have

-written that they have lost their
buttons, which they regretted Very
much. I, too. am sorry that they have
lost their buttons, for I would like to
have every Merry Circler wear this
outward indication of the fact that
they are Merry Circlers. I wish it were
possible for me to replace, free, the
buttons which are lost, but that is im-
possible under the present circum-
stances. So, in order that those who

wish'can replace their lost buttons,l

will send another for ten cents, which

is to cover cost of button, postage, etc.
The mere fact that these buttons

 
 

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them their.

.canbepumsed doesnotindicate.
that everybody can buy them. 0111y§.
."those inside the Circle”

them, :to replace a lost one. All oth-
ers will have to qualify for member-
ship before they get a button and
card. So please do not send money
for :a button" unless you are already a
member. as we will look up each name

 

THINK it is fitting that we

make the first contest of the
year one of the good, old popu-
lar Read-and-W’inners, don’t you?
This cold, crispy weather will
make hunting answers all the
more interesting, I believe.

Look through this issue for
the answers to these questions.
Make your answers as short. as
possible, and please do not write
out the question. Don’t forget
to give the number of the page
on which you find the answer.

The‘two neatest correct papers
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pens for prizes. The next three
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Send your letters to Uncle
Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Mich, before January 17.

1. “'1“ the sheepmen of this
country have to meet foreign
competition?

2. \l’llat fanned Oswold’s
id cheeks?

1 3. Who located a carload of
cow—testing Guernseys for Illi-
nois buyers?

4. What is the only reliable
treatment for chronic appendi-
citis?

5. Have the egg dealers been

pal-

slow to buy in the. basis of
grade?

What pmtion ot‘ the body
is water?

7. Is thele an aglicultural
boom on the horizon for 1924?
8. Vt hat garage is offering a

.1013 fliv ver tree?

9. “’110 is due. the credit of
the Top 0’ Michigan Potato
Show?

10. \Vho said, “I think if God
wanted llogs'to be elephants, He
would have put trunks 011
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member.

“'e really do not care to sell these
buttons, but are making this offer so
that those who have lost theirs may
have the opportunity to replace them
_, llncle Frank.

THE M. c. s olsAPP‘OINTMENT?

By Elizabeth Baker, Bradley, Mich-
M. C.’ s are always there,
They ale found even Whel'fi
Our leader is Uncle Frank
Once he plaved a prank.
It was about his age.
We. felt like putting him in a cage.
We thought that he was a. good old
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year are batched
in Buekgw Incubators

  

Yes—and 150 Mil-
lion Chicks are raised '
every year by the
Buckeye System of
Colony Branding

Thousands upon thousands of Buck- the combined total of the next three
eye users have discarded other ma- leading manufacturers. More Buck-
chines of various makes—actually eyes are exported toforeigncountries
thrown them away and replaced than the total of all other manufac—
them with Buckeyes. For Buckeye turers. Almost everyone of the great
has restored their faith in poultry agricultural colleges use Buckeye
raising as a safe, sound, profitable equipment.

“5’"‘9‘5- "How can I save my chic/as from dying
It has taken the gamble out. in the shell? How can I prevent tze
Bucke e Incubators hatch eve frightful mortality duff" fau ty broo ,'
hatchabble egg— every time hatg "3? The Buckeye 1.26““!le ’
’ __ Cataloganswersthesewtal questions

after hatch, year after year and
- , and many more. It tells why Buckeye

bring forth the finest, strongest
chicks you ever saw Incubatorshatcheveryhatchableegg
' , and whyBuckeyeBroodersraisethem
Buckeye Colony Breeders raise every all to maturity. Send for it today.

ralsable chick, savmg millions of
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half the labor and expense. WW1!“ 143"!“ Mafldmum "f
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incubators,” K.3 etc. 1-. ..él' ' ‘ - . Redwood. coveral-
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lve eivery gusran c . .
_ _ Our chicks are from pure—bred flocks, carefully
nusogmalmyglkcguiisf page cat culled by experts. Anconas are direct from Sheppard.
WOLVERINE HATCHERV Leghorn flocks headed by males from Michigan Ag.
2 B 20 Z l d M' h. College. Rocks are from a. 230-302 egg strain. Reds
R' ' ox ’ as an ‘ 'c " are ledic'oat s best. Write for catalog and price list.

It will save you money. Bet, Dundee State Savings

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Loghorns, Rocks, Reds as low as $12. 00 per 100.
Write for price list M at once. Connors Hatchery.
269 80. Parks st" Pontiac. Mich.

1 0 7 Discount on orders for chicks booked
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Baby Chicks

From Best Egg Layln ng
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Are the best laying strains on earth. Genuine Barron English White
Leghorns. Brown Leghorns and Anconas backed by 19 yearn ’actual breed-
in: on our own farms. Experts cull out our flocks yearly. and mate them
with large. vigorous 260-288 Egg Pedigreed Males from Hol llywood & Fun
Farms direct. This guarantees—not II few high record bird 300 but an
extraordinary flock average. During 1924 we will sell 30. weekly»
of these active, healthy carefully hatched baby chicks— the kind that will

   

      

  

in: Bi Profits. It will pay you to buy our Etn-
Bred Iu'cbe. Our 1924 catalog tells the whole story.
it' a tree - write for your copy tonight.

WYNGARD'N FARMS fiflAl‘CHERlES

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of buyers is going to get those eggs
below the market price with a. compe-
tent manager on the job.”

The great bulk of the eggs are pro-
duced during about one-third of the
year,land when these eggs are being
rushed to market and into. storage the
price always goes down. By putting
the surplus in storage the \producer
makes a, better market during the
spring and summer seasonvand there-
by equalizes the market with the fall
and winter months when the storage
eggs are brought out to supply the
market.

Standardization and Grading is Done
Near the Point of Production.

Grading is absolutely essential and
the cooperatives have used it to the
advantage of the producers. Returns
made to the producer on the basis of
grade educate him most quickly as to
market requirements and stimulates
better production methods. Better pro-
duction means higher quality products
and these, of course, pay higher/prices
—the one big incentive to progress.
By grading at or near the point of pro-
duction economies are introduced by
cooperatives because the cost of trans-
porting and handling the low-grade
eggs farther down the line on their
journey to the consumer is an unneces-
sary expense. Egg dealers have been
slow to buy on the basis of grade.
Successful cooperatives do make a
saving for the producer by so doing.
The quality producers get more and
the low-grade producers get less when
eggs are bought on grade, this tends
toward specialization and standardiza-
tion in production.

Large Scale Operations which Reduce
Overhead.

Economics are further introduced by
having a sufficiently large volume of
assured business so that wholesale
methods may be employed. This takes
'care of many of the problems of trans-
portation, wholesale purchase of sup-
plies and economical use of labor, etc.,
factors which are not usually as effi-
ciently handled by the small dealer in
the egg business,

Controlled Production.
Service is rendered by cooperative
organizations to both consumers and
producers by encouraging the produc-
tion of winter eggs. These winter eggs
help supply the market for strictly
fresh eggs when such eggs are scarce,
they return to the producers a high
price and enable the cooperative sell-
ing organization to maintain their or-
ganization economically. Winter egg
production will, no doubt, be still
further encouraged, according to *the
views of some leaders, by writings.
production control clause in the co-
operative contracts of the future which
will still further tend to encourage
uniform year around production. This
clause will provide for rewarding the
good poultryman in addition to the in-
creased price he gets for winter eggs.

Earl W. Benjamin, manager of the
New York office of the Pacific Egg
Producers, and one of the leading egg
marketing authorities of the country,
says on this subject of cooperative
marketing of eggs and poultry:

“No miraculous changes are brought
about by cooperation; there. [is no
Utopian condition which will be at-
tained by the universal adoption of co-
operative effort, as distinct from ordi-
nary business effort; “but there are
gradual improvements in business
methods which may be brought about
by cooperation. On the Pacific Coast,
many eggs are still being marketed by
private dealers; in some~instances,
they are better than the “cooperative
eggs,” and in some they are poorer.
The poultry cooperative organizations
undoubtedly have exerted a whole-
some influence upon the independent
dealers and have been the means of
raising the quality and the price of-
eggs and poultry. for producers who

    
   
   
    

    

 

 

  

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helped his members buy a dozen cows
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drinking cups and tank heaters, while
H. E. Frank says three of his mem-
bers’ barns were whitewashed. Hans
Kardel wielded a hammer and saw to
help remodel two barns, in addition to
his many other activities.

Carl Olson and County Agent Turner
up at Escanaba, roused their C. T. A.

Holstein breeders to action and organ-4

ized a. Holstein Breeders? Association.
Olson has pushed better feeding meth-
ods, better ventilation, and better barn
lighting. J." J. Hill and D. L. Bliss re-
port excellent sale prices on C. T. A.
cattle, and Sam Parker says one of his
members had the‘ best average’price
on twenty Holsteins received in a. joint
dispersal sale of fifty cows at Cole-
man, Michigan. ‘

Casper Blumer reports six members
who have installed drinkingcups and,
further, he has every one of his asso-
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profitable cows were sold out of the
oldest cow-testing association in the
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Scrubs Grow Unpopular-
How Mr. Saul Bull Is Falling Out wit/z Hi: Old] Friend;

‘TATING that only about one—fifth
of the bulls in the Upper Peninsula,
are pure-bred, E. G. Amos, assistant
state leader of county agents,- is urg-
ing farmers to rid their farms of the
scrub bull as. the cheapest way of
building up herds of high-grade stock.
A series of meetings have been held
at various places in the peninsula,
where farmers and business men have
been addressed by representatives of
the Michigan Agricultural College and
the Upper Peninsula Development Bu-
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and girls’ -club work. Further, they
have gotten up feed orders among. the
members in the Genesee Associations
and are talking tuberculin testing.
Geiger, Johnson, 'Dobson and Brown
are figuring the cheapest pound of pro-
tein, and Jennings is operating in one
of the best graded-up cow circuits,
Alpena county, long famous for, its
Guernsey Bull Association. Now that
the Cow-testing Association is operat-
ing in Alpena. county, through the
work of County Agent McCrary, great-
er dairy. progressis expected to result
in the little community at Leer... Gale .
and County Agent Clark are stressing
succulence in the ration, either in the
form of silage or root. Krum, Leisen-
ring, King and Mathiesen are pushing
alfalfa hay before the cows in their
associations. Raab and Foster have
suggested the weighing cut of, the
grain ration to the actual needs of
each cow. All of the other testersare
likewise busy with some of these ac-
tivities. ‘
These items cannot begin to tell 91' . .
the range of usefulness these mom—and
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Fifty farmers, business men and ag—
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tique recently to consider this ‘move- ‘1
ment under the auspices of the local ' i
civic club, and much local interest is
reported: Ironwood reports similar in- ..
terest in a. recent meeting heldgfthere.»

It is proposed, to block off Gd‘gebicr
county for the purpose of locating all .
scrub bulls, whereupon a. group of, .,
three or‘four men will visit scrubbull V
owners for the purpose of convlncing
them that: the scrub ought to laminae
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' many pure-bred sires as' tour yam. .,

go; but the end is net yet, There
arefhow seventy pure-bred sirespwide'

iy placed throughout the county, it is
stated.

' At Marquette plans ‘ for the cam— .

. paign were laid at a meeting" held at
"‘ ' the Court House, on December 21,
where arrangements were made for a“
'1 committee that would assist in locat—’
his the scrubs. placing of posters, get-
‘ ting farmers out to meetings, assist
in procuring the enforcement o’f the
law [must scrub bulls running at
large, Iandwork out a plan for financ-
. ing the purchase of pure-breds. At
this meeting there were present real
”farmers, representatives of the board
.of' supervisors, the Marquette Rotary‘
, and Lion’s Clubs, the, county agricul-
, .tural society. Michigan Agricultural
College, the Grange and Farm Bureau,
and the banks, which indicates the
~ widespread interest in this movement.
fllitesolntions were adopted invoking the
,aidot the board of supervisors in pro-
.moting the movement and enforcing
the lawin regard to bulls running at
large. ~
The practice of permitting farm an-
imals to run at large in the highways
(is more common here in the great cut-
over, region than in the old settled sec-
tions of the southern. portion of the
state; This makes the effort at build-
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more difficult and progressive farmers
have a real interest in seeing that the

15m. is duly observed.

lDickinson county will also join the
anti-scrub campaign, according to the
county agricultural agent. It may be
expected that eventually most, if not
all. of the Upper Peninsula counties
ivill go after the $1,000 prize money
which the development bureau is offer-
ing. 'This prize money must be used,
it is announced, for the promotion of
calf club work, giving a rebate on bulls
bought, dairy tours, scholarships, and
the establishment of a revolving fund
fox-"the purchase of improved dairy
cattle. Meantime, Iron county has or-
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THE BREEDERS OF BLACKS AND
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THE Annual Banquet of the Michi~
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will be held on the night of Monday,
February 4. The annual meeting will
be held the following day, Tuesday,
February 5, at the Michigan Agricuh
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Moscrip, of Minnesota, probably the
best known dairy cattle judge of the
United States, will be present to dem-
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high-class sale of selected Holsteins at
the College during the afternoon of
February 4. .

'MICHIGAN’S SECOND FORTY-
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seed meal or other protein concentrate, it gives us the most satis-
factory and economical ration we can
on this feed, giving
and physmal condition and de

man mam '

Sclmmacher Feed as the maintenance part
for years and find that when fed with cotton-

buy. Our cows do splendid}

us maxim-um milk yield—stay in splendid flesh
er well developed strong calves.”

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Brookwood Farm .

Registered Guemseys of both sexes for
sale at reasonable prices. Young stock
from A. R. dams. Herd is Federal
Accredited.

JOHN ENDICOTT, Owner

Bl RMINGHAM, MICH.

TWO

§
Registered Guernsey Bull Calves, Ad-
vanced Registry Records. Herd on the
Accredited Tuberculin free list. Priced right for
quick sale. One Born Nov. 23rd, 1922. and one Feb.
26. 1923. Knapp GI. Woodwcrth. R. 2. Watcrviiet. MIch.

Wallinwood Guernseys ,

f A. R. s for an 1.6
Young ballli'éw rorn WALLIcl‘il).w Jenison. Mich

Re Guernsey cows. some A. R. Record May
10 R030 breeding. $2. 600 for all: herd bull $10 0.
John Ebels. Holland Mich.. R. 2.

Two Nice Bulls. nearly ready for
88%; Guernsey; service. Special terms if desired.
.9. Williams. North Adams. MIch.

EGISTEREDC GUERNSEYS--T. B. Tested. Young
RB Bul ls.$:>0 ; 5 Cows and o Heifers. Prices reason Able
.R. Baker. 4800 Fort St. . West. Detroit, Mich

O I
Registered Holstein Bulls
Up to eleven months of age. Good individuals and
good breeding. at low prices. Also a few young cows
or heifers soon to freshen. A healthy herd. I. M.
SHORMAN. Fowlerviile. Mich.

Brookwater Jerseys

Bull calves for sale. Majesty breeding. Herd tuber-
culosis free. Come or write. Brookwater Farm. Ann
Arbor. Mich

FINANCIAL KING BULLS

We have for sale a few bulls ready for service. also
bull calves sired by Financial Kins Sensation. son of
Financial Sensation, the $60,000 sire. These bulls are
from R. of . cows. Write to Goldwater Jersey
Farm. Goldwater. Mich.

Hood Farm breeding. Cows and
Jersey cattle bred heifers. bull calf for sale.
Herd under state and federal supervision. Address
inquiries Ira W. Jayne, County BuIldlnp. Detroit.
Jayne Hill Farms, (one mile south). Fcnton. Mich.

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FOR SALEV Jersey biillscovrvgadfiegigrersegr

Merit. Accredited herd'.1 eWould take a bankablc
note. SMITH AND PARKER. IL 4. Howell, Mich

 

cattle. young bulls. for
al.e Tuberculin tested
Lake Odessa. Mioh.

Registered Jersey...
J. L. CARTER.

15 Oows.4 bulls from R. of M. 00w w.s Chance
to select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred
forfall freshening. ColonO. Lillie. Ooopermi le. Mich.

Association
well-bred
polled or horned

TWINS. 8co-

Thumb Hereford Breeders’

can supply your needs with outstanding.
registered Herefords.
at reasonable prices.
Tress"

either sexes,
Inquire of E. E.
Bad Axe. Huron Co.. Mich.

HEREFORDS

Registered BreedIng cattle. T. 8. Tested
at practical prices for production of
, Hereford Baby Beeves profitably. all ages.

T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS

  
  

  

   

[III Farms

Our herd contains the 1922 Junior
Champion. Senior Champion, Grand
Champion and Reserve Grand Cham-
pion Sows. In 1923 we won Senior
and Grand Champion Saws, Reserve
Senior Champion Boar, Reserve Jun-
ior Champion Sow.

Our herd is headed by TOPMAST

SENSATION, the Premier Sire of the
State. We are offering some excep-
tional fall pigs, either sex, sired by
TOPMAST SENSATION.

Write us your wants.

' LOEB FARM

Th6 Home of Grand Champions

iril Davis, Supt. Swine
CHARLavde 1V. lCHlGAN

 

0
Registered Durocs
FOR SALE. -——Young boars gilts bred from the
best herds in Michigan and 0 io. at reasonable pric-
es and fully guaranteed. W. E. Bartlcy. Alma. Mich.

by
DUROC Satisfaction 8th. Greater Duration and
Sensation Boy. Prices reasonable. Write us your
wants. Norris Stock Farm. Casncvia. Mich. ._

 

Spring boars sired Brookwater

 

DUROC JERSEYS Spring pigs either sex of “arch
April and May tarrow, sired by three outstanding]

herd boars. It you want size ty and quality combine

come and sec or write III F. J. rodt. Monroe. MiohJL

 

Bred Sows and Gilts.
each. Fall pigs, $12.11 Reg. and
alt's Top Col. breeding. None better.
&Son. Henderson. Mich.

lluroc Jerseyv :25 m :40
gnaranteed

Write us. Jesse Bliss&

 

UROC fall and spring boars of the best breeding
and quality. at prices to sell. Fall pigs at bar-
gain prices. W. C. Taylor. Milan, Mich

llllllllc JERSEYS lllll DElllllE MElllllIlS

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Mich.

f winni took,

Chesters vsvfixlmsgiiigogds apligrrgvafidghclera Ilngimfined.
Fred L. Bodimer. Reese. Mich

O. I. C’s.

Monroe. Mich.

 

 

.25 choice young boars for fall
service. Clover Leaf stock Farm.

 

O I C.’ 75 spring pigs, pairs not akin. from
8 Hood sires. also fall pigs. recorded
free. Otto Schulze&

&Sons. Nashville. Mich.

 

' 0.1.0. Service Boers and Bred
RegIStered Gilts. Also a few tried Bows. due
soon, four Beagle hounds. -—Joseph It. Van Etten, Clif-
ford. Mich.

 

EC. 0. C. Yearling Bears. Extra Yearlingand
Spring Bows. Satisfaction or no Pay. Shi ppod
Fredw. Kennedy. R.2 .Plymouth, Mich.

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on approval.

0 I. C Choice young boars for fall service
audited Polled bulls. Jacob Berncr

& Sons. Grand Ledge. Mich .

 

 

01C, Sept. pigs. Sired by "Giant Boy." Senior
3 Champion at West. Mich. State Fair. 1923.

Milo H. Peterson.R ..2 Ionia. Mich. “Elmhurst Farm. "

L T P C Bred Gills out of the most pop-

' ular blood lines. They have al-
ways made good and will again. Write your wants.
also for plan of selling. M. M. PATRICK. Grand
Ledge. Mich.

 

 

Livingsinn’ 3 Big Polands

Our thanks to all ose who helped make our first
public sale a SUCI Our hat is still in the ring

 

 

(Hereford? since 18.19) for bigger and betl Folands. Come and see. W. E.
on Clair. Mich. LIVINGSTON. PA ...IA. MICH.
' I
t h if ri c. Big P I d
HEREI‘ ORDS Most. BOARS China: Thackind thatTIyJ’d; 3 mt

Bulls. Heifers and Cows with Calves by side.
popular strains. Alien Bron. 6l6 6. Westnedoe 8t..

 

Kalamazoo. Mich.
S H O R T H O R N 8
Revolution Jr. 6 73938
heads accredited herd

Now offering 2Januisry roan bull calves of
reasonah' priced
BoxD. Tecumseh. Mich

289“ ti 1 m
0108!) one me
BIDWELL smock FARM

' ' 3 weeks to 8 mo.
Milking Shorlhorn Bulls 8...... by 00......
man's King. a great son of Glenside Dairy King and
out of Bessie Thorndale 3rd. record 12,759 pounds.
From Daughter of General Clay, Glenside Bell Boy,
etc. $75 to $150 each. Herd T Irvin Doan
& Sons. Creswell. Mich.

ested.

Milking Shorthoms. An accred~
WIIdWOOd Farmited herd bred for beef and milk.
Headed by King Sales. grandson of Glenside Dairy
King. Visitors welcome. Beland GI. Beland, Tecum-
seh. Mich. Paved Road No. 50.

. P I] d B 11
When In Need glowsnod” fishers. ‘Busy

from Michigan‘s leading herd owned by Westbrook
‘Brot.. Ionic. Mich.

V For «Polled Shorthorns

Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.

Milk
sex.

either
Quack,

strain.
Paul

on high- -priced feed Our pig. in the Pig Club. gained
70 lbs. in 30 days on 98 lbs. of grain. Inc. C.
Butler. Portland. Mich.

BIG T P C Aug and Sept. piss sired by our

'herd boars, $10. 00 up. Also 2
herd boars at. $75 each. Winter sale Feb. 20 1924.
Order quick for choice. E. A. CLARK. st. Louis, Mich.

l.. I. P. 0. Bears

man, :40.
A. A.

Large Type Pbland Chinas

Boars $25 each. Satisfaction guaranteed, all stock
shipped on approval. DORUS "OVER. Akron Mich.

. Shamrock Stock Farm Polands
Spring Bears and Gilts. a few yearling sows. One
of the breed's best boars heads herd. Bee. 0. Strong,
Burlington. Mich.

Hampshire: Spring Boats and Gllts and fall pigs

Pairs not akain;11th year. 150 to
select from. John W. Snyder. St. Johns. Mich. R. 4.

or Best Blood lines: 100 Bred Gilts
Hampshires and Bows. some fine Bears Luck-
hard’c Model Farm, Bach. Mich.

 

 

and Gilta all go at private
treaty. Service to Foxy Clans-
Michigan Champion herd for 3 years.
Feidkamp. Manchester. Mich.

 

 

 

Registered Shorthom Bulls, Tubercu-
F or sale lin Tested. Yearling Berkshire Boar.
Simon Y. Maichelc, R. No. 5, Middlcville. Mich.

HOGS
DU ROG JERSEY GILTS

Especially long in body and well developed in form:
a valuable. practical type. Send for photos and full
description and FD“ cc of this exceptional practical
stock. STATE ARMS ASSOCIATION. 307 North
Rose Street. Kalamazoo. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

SHEEP
Choice Bred EWes

400 for sale in cariots. yearliugs to solid mouths.
black- faced. in good condition. bred to lamb April
10th. Located 25 miles south of Detroit on Detroit
& Toledo Electric. and on Dixie Highway.P oTelegraph
Address. Rockw o.od Phone om

South Rockwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMANfit 5. 80M.

 

 

ShrapShire Rams and Ewes
write or call on Dan Booher. R. 4. Evan. Mich

 

SINCE 18891

The State of Michigan

began breeding purebred Holsteins thirty-five years

ago, when the Traverse City State Hospital herd was established In 1889. Now‘
thirteen state institutions have herds made up at least in part of purebred Holsteins.

Bull calves and service bulls for sale.

Address all Inquiries to
Q

BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY
, DEPARTMENT c.. ~ , -_ .
memo, memoirs - v~ .

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HERE is need for a. considerable

expansion of the sheep industry
in the United States. The future holds
promise of much greater stability for
it than it has enjoyed in the past, say
workers of the department of agricul-
ture. They believe its expansion in
the future will be characterized by
less violent fluctuations than have
been common heretofore because there
is relatively little unoccupied land to

pioneer phase of mutton and wool pro-
duction-is rapidly passing.
Nevertheless, sheepmen in this
country will always have to meet se-
vere_ foreign competition. They must
also compete with producers of other
live stock, for land, labor and mach-in-
ery of production. There is the further
problem of getting an adequate place

Plan for More Sheep
Needjor Expamzan of flu? S/zeep I ”durtry I: Seen

ust they should be held a few weeks__"-;:g

which the industry can turn, and the.

 

 

or shipped to feed lots.

The problem of increasing consump-
tion in this country is an important
one. Largely because of the dual char-
acter of the sheep industry, which re-
quires a steady market for both meats,
and wool, the sheepman’ 3 marketing
problems are more difl‘icult than those
of either the cattle or the hog pro-
ducer. People in this country prefer
strictly fresh, rather than freaen,‘ lamb
and mutton. But mutton can not be
stored satisfactorily without freezing
for more than a short time. It ‘is

therefore difficult to move sheep from
distant points of production to con-
suming centers without deterioration
There is quite frequently heavy loss
through shrinkage and other causes
reSulting from long hauls.

Extension

 

for lamb and mutton in the diet of the
country.

Moreover, the recurring cycles of
prosperity or depression that have
been the bane of the sheep industry
in the past can not be altogether elim-
inated. When prices for mutton and
wool are low, producers naturally re-
duce their flocks. This action increas-
es the number of sheep marketed and
causes additional price depression.
Later on when the supply of wool and
mutton gets low prices rise again.
Then producers once more enlarge
their flocks until the demand is over-
shot again and the cycle is repeated.
The'sheep industry reached a low
point during the recent period of linen
cial depression. It is'now building up,
but no early saturation of the home
demand is expected because the mar-
ket for mutton is continuing strong
and our wool supply is half imported.

Scientific Knowledge Essential.

Eastern and midwestern farmers can
now more readily meet the competi-
tion of the west range operators. The
eastern men have good nearby mar-
kets and in many cases can raise sheep
at a. lower cost than is possible under
some western range conditional Rapid
increase in the east seems, however,
to be limited by lack of knowledge
concerning the care of sheep, and also
by the attractions of other branches
of farming. In the west expansion is
expected to be on the basis of higher
operating costs than formerly.

One of the greatest problems in mar-

gestion during the three months’ pe-
riod from August 15 .to November 15.
Lamb receipts at leading markets in
this three-months’ period are frequent-
ly much greater than can be readily
absorbed. Such gluts always break
prices.” 4
vated by the practice of marketing
lambs of inferior quality at. this time.
These inferior native lambs have a de-
pressing influence on the market. Be-
sides hurting the sale of good lambs.

' they generally fetch prices below pro-'v
Sheepmen who can get .

duction costs.

   

 

keting lambs is that of avoiding con?

"Autumn congestion is aggra-v

 

Every Operator of a Diversified Farm will Find Sheep a Most Promising
Factor in the Economy at His Farming Operations.

of the domestic market for lamb and
mutton, and improvements in the
method of supplying it are thus vital
needs of the industry. —

Good Wool Demand Apparent.
Though the United States is the
third country in wool production and
has produced an average of 300,000,000
pounds a year for the last thirty-five
years, it has never met the home de-
mand Imports for some years prior

to the war averaged 200,000,000 pounds. ‘

They reached a. peak at 453,727,000
pounds in 1918. Probably a normal
annual amount whichniust be import-
ed isaround 300,000,000 pounds. Amerv

ican sheepmen have therefore no need" "

to be afraid of overshooting the home
demand for wool. Since 1921 wool
prices have more than doubled. The
problem of selling wool is not to cre
ate a market, but to take the best ad- v
vantage of the one that exists.

 

MAPLE HILL FARM GROWS BEEF.

HAVE- just come from the beautiful
country home of George R. Wheely
er, known to passers-by as “Maple Hill
Farm.” This gentleman had the nerve
to come to our house and captivate
my ydungest sister several years ago.

but, he being a real good farmer, 1

forgive,him. I have to gouhowever,
now and then for a good square meal
and a romp with the kiddies. There
are three of them, fine husky boys
from one to seven years, and when I
arrive there are four of a. kind, and
Mother has her hands full.

Mr. Wheeler is working out.,a"beet ..

cattle breeding plan. He has recently
purchased from the T. F. B. Sotham
outfit a dozen or more head of regis-
tered Hereford females and a high-
class sire. He figures, after a few at-x.
tempts in trying to buy high-class"

feeders, that he can breed. them on tire ~

farm Just as economically as he can

 
      
  
 
 

   

 

 

 

  
  
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

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layers. Breeding stock, hatching eggs and baby
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INTERLAKES FARM
Box 39. Lawrence, Mich.

 

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A. O‘BRIEN. Registered Patent
Lawyer. 6513 Security Savings & Com‘l Bank Bldg..'
directly across St. from Patent Office. Wash. D. C.

APPLE AND PEACH TREES: ‘
any. Incmso your income.“ Pitant fruit tires"
vines and lants this spring. tr recs grow. ‘ree,
WITCHELL'S NURSERY, BEVERLY. 0.

POULTRY

DAY "OLD BHIEKS

S. C. Barred Rocks, S. C. White Rocks,
5. C. Rh. 1. Reds, White Wynndottes,
Orpington, S.C.Eng. White Leghorns,
S. C. Br. 8: Buff Leghorns, S. C An-
conas, S. C. Minorcas. ' -

Strong. sturdy. heavy-laying strains, from large,
vigorous you-ling hens raised on our farms, and culled
by expert poultry men, to a. high quality of Certified
Utility Flocks. also. Extra Selected Flock»; and from
Blue Ribbon Pans;

Babions Fruit and Poultry Farms
. run, it. 7. men.

Whittaker’s R. r. Reds.

Both Combs. Michigan’s Greatest Color and Egg
Strain. Best You of Beds at the M. A. C. Laying

Improve your/pr. op -

catalog.

 

Contest. .Ono customer reports 1.633 eggs from 30. '

bullets during December and January. Another, two
mum! broilers at 7 weeks. Another, 21711-de broil- '
(‘E at 9 weeks. Bred from 14 generations of winter

 

Roul‘ producers. Flocks culled by

PURE BRED CHICKS

   

export. Beautiful breeding stock
‘ Barred Rooks. ll. I. Reds. 50 $ ,
~ 100, $1.5; 500. $72.50 Wh. Log-

horns, Anconus. 50, $7; 100, $13;
500. 862.50. Leghorns are Barron
stock. None better. 100 per rent
live delivery mmrcntced. Order from
this ad and set chicks when you,
”‘k‘k' . want them. You take no chances.
“.9; ’4 Ber... Molmo‘hlin State Bank. this city.
Petersburvh Hatchery. Petersburoh, Michu

Early Maturing BABY CHICKS

These chicks are from nooks headed
by cockemls of high producing bloou

 

 

   

 

 

lines. Cullcd by experts. Each flock
personally supervised. Pin-sawed. $13

per hundred up.
We have a limited number
outings. Write for

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description and

prices. 100 per cent livr- delivery, Ref. .15,
Milan State Savings Bank. -- .- :3
Milan Hatchery. Box 4, Milan, mich.

 

EmgnG-BRED CHIX

Strain s. c. Englirh Type White Leghorn:
and Brown ”worm. Lowe looped-comb, deep-bod-
l?‘ type. 12 years of breeding for high cog-production.
(awfully selected breeders. headed by large, vigorous
males, combined with many years of highly success-
ful latching Mods. gives vpu chicks that will brim:
you access. in mama inn arrival guaranteed;
Write for catalogue and Juices today.

' ROYAL "AMERY AND FARMS.
R. 2. Iceland, Mach. 3. P. Wimma. Owner.

b March t on A i 1

Fe .. m. Heavy rhrm‘ler chkzlcs 12c. Barred.
Rocks or Rods 17c; Anoonss. Black Minor-cos 16c:
White or Brown Leghorn: 1’5c; White Rot-ks. White
Wynndottes. Buff 'Onmingtons 17950.. Extra selected
chicks. .blult directly from contest winners. 4c per
chick more. Add 30c if less than 100 wanted. Hatch—
ing m Catalog. Good reference. Beckmnnn
Hatchery. THE 26. Lyon St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Pure Bred Big

Beat poring standard varieties from healthy frne range utility flocks. carefully inspected
culled. and Hogan tested. Quick maturing: High Egg Pordnctlon. Each

8. 0. White. Brown and Bud Leghorn: ................................ ..... ’.....l4c
~- ' 8. C. Murat. s. c. B. Mlnorcu, narred Rocks. 3. Reds ...... . ..... ......... we
«run locks, R. c. n. 1. Rolls. worn Wyandotles .................................. 170

8. c. Bull, 8. C. White, Brainstorm
Muted Varieties Broilers .........

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”new big margarine catalog and prices .on our Ill-Quality Chicks. It is Free.

 

 

June grass ”will be his mum reliance
for seven months, of the ,year, and his
cattle have crime in off the pastures
looking 'fine. For winter feeding his
barns are stuffed to the limit with al-
falfa hay, and the big silo is full to
the top.‘ There are also such cheap
roughages as- bean pods, cornstaiks,
beet tops and straw, the usual unmar-
ketable accompaniment of diversified
farming; that these store cattle make
the best kind of use of. His equip-
ment thus leaves little to be desired
and the outcome of the trial will be
carefully recorded and watched with
interesthope. “

MUCH POULTRY MARKETED.

URING' the month of November
" there were 57,819,000 pounds of

‘poultry marketed in the five largest

markets of the country, as compared
with 45,171,000 pounds for the same
month of 1922. On the other hand,
egg receipts at these markets showed
a decline, the total this November be-
ing 568,000 cases as compared with
831,000 cases for the game month of
the year previous. '
WHEAT PRODUCERS START
ACR'EAGE REDUCTION.
HEAT prices have been trending
downward since 1920, and aver-
aged lower in 1923 than in 1922. The
surplus producing countries had an in-

 

creased amount to sell abroad and the
surplus in the United States was a
dominant factor in setting the price on
wheat consumed at home.
for part of the year, the market dis—
played unusual stability in the face of
, depressing «conditions, suggesting that
rock bottom had been reached.

In the lat-

The most hopeful development of

 

THE TREND OF WINTER ADD SPRING
WHEAT PRODUCTION '

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the year was the recognition that ex-
pansion of wheat production in other
exporting countries and, particularly,

8 ' the probable revival in Russia, means

a new deal in wheat growing in the
United States. As a result, a moder-
ate reduction was made in the winter
Wheat acreage planted during the fail.

The exportable surplus of the Unit-
ed States reached an extremely high
point in 1921, from which a sharp de—
cline has occurred in the last two
years, but we are still about seventy-
.five per cent above the pro-war aver-
age. Canada has shown rather steady
growth since 1918 and in each of: the
last two years more than two and one-
half times the pre—war amount was ex-
ported from that country. Argentina
shows a fifty per cent gain, although
rather marked irregularity from year
to year is noticeable. Australia is not
exporting so freely as in the three
years 1919—1922, but is above prewar.
lndia’s population is consuming more
of the home crop, and India is grad-

' ually losing her importance as a com-

petitor of the American wheat grower.
From a pro—war average surplus of
162,000,000 bushels of wheat, Russia
faded from the exporting map in 1916.
She is gradually coming back, how-

‘Value chicks

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J heriu a dry \warm place.

ever, and exports in the last half of
1923, based on incomplete data, total-
ed about 13,000,000 bushels. Romania
exported about 52,000,000 bushels in
pre—war years, ,and has come back to
the extent of 10,000,000 bushels in
1923.

Pro-war exports from the chief sur—
plus countries averaged about 616,000;
000 bushels, and in 1923 they approxi—
mated 670,000,000 bushels. This shows
the extent to which increased produc-
tion in the United States, Canada and
the southern hemisphere offset the
loss -of Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria.
The effective demand for wheat in! im-
porting countries as based on their
purchasing power 'is not much, if any,
greater than in pro-war days. Some
duplications ignored in the foregoing
due to exports from Canada to the
United States, would reduce the in-
crease shown in 1923 as compared
with pre-war by about 20,000,000
bushels.

In order to promote their trade in
manufactured products, it is believed
that the wheat importing countries of
Europe will be inclined to buy their
requirements in Canada, Argentina
and Australia, and in Russia and Ru-
mania as fast as those countries re-
turn to the exporting column, rather
than in the United States. Higher
costs of production in the United
States than in the newer countries of
the world also will handicap our wheat
farmers in furnishing a. surplus for
export.

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with sore neck, but not raw. E. H. B.,
Romeo, Mich—Dissolve quarter pound
of acetate of lead, three ounces of sul-

phate of zinc, half ounce of alum in,

one gallon of cold water and apply to
.sore parts three times a day.
Worms.—-—I have forty-eight hogs of
all ages which are not doing well. I
am sure they are troubled with worms.
Have given them several commercial
worm remedies with poor results. They
cough as though they had something
in their throat, and they are thin. D.
C. G., Paw Paw, Mich—Fast a 100-
pound hog for twenty-four hours, give
one fluid ounce of oil of chenopodium
and either give two ounces of castor
oil before or soon after, and you will
succeedfin destroying many of the
worms.

However, you must collect all ‘

their droppings and either lime or burn ‘

them. This is removal of cause and,

of course, does much good-in prevent-j
ing reinfection. Spread powdered lime

on pen floor.
Young Pigs Root—“fill you kindly
tell me what to do to prevent young,r

pigs from rooting or rubbing one an-‘

other, as they do their mother while .'

nursing? These pigs were weaned

when four weeks old, supposed to be‘

the-proper time, if there is anything
in Signs. They have rooted each other
so much as to make sores and remove
the hair. F. H. C., Applegate, Mich.~—
i have observed that pigs thrive best
that are not weaned too early, six or
eight weeks old is better than four;
by this time they usually eat well, but
not always when four weeks old. Ap-
ply vasclino to sore parts twice a day.
Are they kept clean and dry?
Convulsions.—About a week ago I
lost a calf. When it came it was stu—
pid, refused to suck, so I fed it by
hand. I placed milk in pail, then let it
suck my finger, and I believe it got
too much milk. It took sick, ran in a
circle, and died of spasms. The cow
seems to be in perfect health. A. H.
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to get the first milk of its mother, it
‘is generally necessary to give castor
oil to open the bowels and in some
cases to keep giving occasional doses
of either castor or mineral oil to pre-
vent constipation, which may lead to
indigestlon or fits, resulting in death.
If you attempt to raise another calf
by hand, use great cleanliness and
don’t overfeed calf, but feed often.
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old that 13 showing considerable stiff-
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better give her? W. H.,W., Kingston,
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times a day. Bub hind quarters with
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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Wednesday, January 9.
Wheat.

Detroit. —No. 1 red $1.14; No.2 red
$1.13; No.3 1ed $1.10; No. 2 white
$1.14, No.2 mixed $1.1

Chicago. —May $1. 085’ 635@1. 08%; July
$1. 06%; September $1.05

Toledo —Cash $1. 111/2@1. 12.

Corn.

Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow at 81c;
No.4 yellow 780; No. 5, 72@74c; No.
6, 69((0710.

Chicago— l\--Iay 76778613770; July 78@
781/30; September 787/80. .

Oats.
Detroit—Cash No. 2 white at 500;
No.3, 80.
Chicago—May 46c; July 440; Sep-
tember 421,40.
Rye.
Detroit.——-Cash No. 2, 731,50.
Chicago—May 6953c; July 747/110;
Septembe1 75'1/20.
'l‘oledo.~—73 'l/Zc.
Barley.
Barley, malting 720; feeding 68c.

Buckwheat.
Buckwheat—New milling $2 cwt.

Beans.

Detroit. —— Immediate and prompt
shipments $4. 75@4. 80 per cwt.

Chicago ~——Choice $5.30; red kidneys
at $7 30.

New York—Choice pea at $5. 50@
5.75; red kidneys $7. 25.

Seeds-
Detroit.——Prime red clover cash at
$13.70; alsike $9.50; timothy $4.05.
Hay.
St1011g.——No. 1 timothy at $23. 50@
24; standald and light mixed $22 50@
3c; No 2 timothy at $21@22; No.1
clover $21@22; wheat and oat straw
$11.50@12;1yc stiaw $12. 506513.

Feeds.

Bran $35; standard middlings $34;
fine do $35; cracked corn $37; coarse
cornmeal $35; chop at $33 per ton in
100—lb. sacks.

Apples

Chicago—Barrels, “A” grade Green-
ings at $5@5.50; Jonathans $5@5.50;
Grimes $4; Spies $4.50@5.50; Kings at
$5@5.50; Baldwins $4@4.50; Spitzen—
berg $4@4.50.

WHEAT

Wheat prices were rising at the
close of last week. This level may
represent the basis on which the crop
can be merchandised, although there

..is some evidence pointing to artificial
support. Domestic flour trade was
practically up to normal for the holi-
day season. Canada is selling wheat
below the United States and Argentina

, is below Canada. Russia is not push—
ing sales vigorously at present. World
shipments have dropped rather sharp-

' ly in the last four weeks and the quan-

tity on ocean passage has declined
about thirty—five per cent. The new
crop is making fair progress although
reports are not uniformly favorable as
drouth, cold weather without snow,
and the Hessian fly have done damage
in spots. Fall wheat in Europe as a
whole has obtained only a fair start
and there are indications of a decrease
in acreage. Average yield per acre for
the world-as a whole was 15.9 bushels
in 1923, compared with 14.5 bushels in

1922, and a five-year average of four-

teen bushels. Probably the wheat sit—
uation will be partly corrected next
year by lighter average yields.

RYE

Rye is influenced largely by Wheat.
The visible supply is too large and ex-
port sales too small for a strong ris-
ing market. Russian shipments have
not. home out the large sales reported
during the fall.

CORN

Corn prices were buoyant last week
and advanced to the highest point for
several weeks. Since November 1, the
primary receipts have been only about
the same as a year ago and, in spite
of the reports of a slower demand, the
amount disappearing into consumptive
channels has been about the same as
last year. The visible supply is gain-.
ing but is smaller than last year or
two years ago. The large quantity of
_ live stock on farms and the high per-

centage of soft corn probably offset-

‘ ,1 open weather and the tendency to use
. Learn more economically so that farm
“disappearance during the winter is
3 bound to be heavy. Lower prices have
. 12331111911 in a modeiate increase in ex-
Amps

AS

OATS

Primary receipts of cats since Aug-
ust 1 have been heavier than a. year
ago and disappearance from commer‘.’
cial channels has declined slightly 'but
reserves at terminals are smaller than
at this time a year ago andconstitute
a Constant source of strength.

ANS

Good bean weather and passing of
the holiday season broadened the de«
mand and helped the bean market last
week. Choice hand-picked whites ad-
vanced to $4.95@5 per 100 pounds f. o.
B. Michigan shipping points, while the
Great Northerns were quoted at $5.80
for hand-picked and $5.50 for 'choice
recleaned. Dealers do not look forany
big advances from this level during
the-next month or two, as there ap-
pears to be a good supply of beans

available.
SEEDS

The seed market has been relatively
firm for several weeks and present
prospects are for higher prices. The
depa1 tment of agriculture reports that
only about thi1ty- five per cent of the
marketable supply of red clover seed,
and thirty per cent of the alsike re-
mained in growers hands on Decem-
ber 11,1923. The timothy seed crop
is still more completely marketed. For-
eign seed markets also have been firm
recently and the margin below our
prices is not large enough to stimulate
substantial purchases for import.

- FEEDS

Feed prices were practically steady
last week although production in most
cases is in excess of the demand. The'
stormy weather caused a stronger feel-
ing among distributors last week, es-
pecially at western markets, but it re-
mains to be seen whether buying by
consumers will increase. Canadian
mills are offering bran in the east be—
low western mill prices.

HAY'

Hay prices during the last few days
have recovered practically all of the
loss during the holiday period of dull-
ness. Receipts are light and demand
is fairly good for the better grades,
with some urgency shown at a few
mar.kets Dai1y alfalfa especially is
wanted.

POULTRY AND EGGS

Egg piices advanced last week, re-
acting to the general cold weather.
Receipts at the leading markets have
shown no apparent dec1ease but the
movement into consumption is large
enough to absorb supplies.
will begin to increase before long,
however, so that much higher prices
are not likely. Receipts of fresh eggs
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Receipts ‘

cember were fifteen per cent heavier

than in December, 1922, and as the
weather this year was favorable to egg

production, it is probable that a larger

proportion than usual, of the move-
ment into distributing channels repre-
sented fresh eggs. Withdrawals from
storage during the month were much
smaller than a‘year ago and holdings
in the entire United States on January
1 probably passed the 2, 000, 000 mark.
Chicagow—Eggs miscellaneous 41@
420; dirties 26@27c; checks 24@25c;
fresh firsts 43@431/zc; ordinary firsts
37@4OC. Live poultry, hens at 23c;
springers 201,40; roosters 13c; ducks
23c; geese 15c; turkeys 24c.
Detroit.~—Eggs, fresh candied and,
graded 39@41c; storage 24@270. Live
poultry, heavy‘springers 240; light do.
23@24c; heavy hens 24@25c; light do.

23@24c; roosters 14@150; geese 19@>

200; ducks 23@260; turkeys 25@26c.

BUTTER

Butter prices advanced slightly last
week as supplies of fancy butter were
limited, production reports showed a.
decreased make and consumption was
excellent. With- stocks of fine storage
butter being cleaned up rapidly, medi-
um and lower scores of fresh found a
more active demand. The decrease in
production is probably only temporary
and will be decidedly reversed with

the freshening of many cows in Winter,

dairy sections. Consumption, which
was considerably heaviei during 1923
than in 1922, shows slight falling off
so that prices probably will not go
much higher. Lower Danish prices
make offerings from that country very
attractive. During the week 7,875
casks -of Danish and 91,200 pounds of
Canadian butter arrived at New York.
A large shipment of New Zealand but-
ter is due to arrive January 21.

Prices are: Ninety two score Chi-
cago 55c; New York 550; Boston 550;
Philadelphia 551/2c; 90- s-core centraliz~
ed carlots, Chicago 511/20. In Detroit
fresh creamery in tubs sells for 44@
49c per pound.

' CHEESE

Cheese prices were unchanged last
week but a more confident tone was
apparent as dealers felt prices had
reached their low point. Trading
showed some improvement and with
colder weather delaying shipments
from producing sections, an advance
would not be suiprising.

POTATOES

The carlot movement of potatoes
from producing sections declined again
last week and is down to normal size
for this season of the year. Demand
is good at most centers and shipments
from producing sections have been
light for the last five or six weeks so
that the shipping demandat the large

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Wednesday,

BUFFALO
Cattle.
Receipts 10 cars.
Calves at $16.

Market is slow.

Hogs.
Receipts 70 cars. Market is lower.
Heavy and yorkers $8@8.10; pigs at

$7.75.
Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 40 cars. Market is lower.
Top lambs $1425; yearlings at $11@
12.50; wethers $9@9.50; ewes $7@8.50‘.

DETROIT

Market slow and weak.

Good to choice yearlings. $9. 50@ 9.75
Best heavy steers ...... 8.25@.8.50
Handyweight butchers .. 7.00@ 7.50
Mixed steers and heifers 575@ 6.25
Handy light butchers ‘. . . . 4.75@ 5.00
Light butchers .......... 4.00@ 4.25
Best cows ............... 5.00@ 6.251
Butcher cows ........... 3.50@ 4.50
Cutters ................. 2.50@ 3.00
Canners ................ 2.25@ 2.50
Choice bulls .......... 5.50@ 6.25
Bologna bulls . . . . . 4.50@ 5.25
Stock bulls ........... .. 3.25@ 4.25
Feeders .......... '. ...... 5.25@ 6.25
Stockers ................. 5.00@ 5.75
Milkers .. . . ............. $ ‘45@ 80
Veal Calves. '
Market Slow.

Best . . .................. $15. 50 .16. 00
Others 700 14.50
Hogs.

Market 20c lower. ‘
Mixed and heavies . . . .3 ' 7' 40

   
 

Pigs _

   

January 9.

Roughs ................. 6. 25
Yorkers ................. 7. 40
Stags ......... 4. 00@ 4. 50

Sheep and Lambs.
Market steady.

Best lambs .............. $13. 50@13. 75
Light to common . . . . .. . . 6. 00(6010. 00
Fair ..................... 6.50@12.25
Fair to good sheep ...... ' 5.50@ 7.00
Culls and common ....... 1.50@ 3.50

CHICAGO ’

l-Log

Receipts 48, 000. Market slow. Most-
ly 100 lower than Tuesday’s average.
Good and choice 150 to ZOO-lb. average
$7@7. 15; better grades of 225 to 300-
lb. butchers $7. 20@7. 25; tops at $7. 30;
packing sows $6. 55@6. 75. No purchas-
es by big packers. Tops 15@25c lower.
%%og5and choice weighty pigs at $6. 25

Cattle.

Receipts 17, 000. Market moderately
active. Better grades of beef steers
and yearlings steady, 10@15c lower in
spots, some kinds selling at $9 and be-
low. Long yearlings at $12. Handy-

'weights $11. 65, bulk choice steers at
$7. 75; fat she stock 15@25c off. Other ,

killing classes slow, about steady.
Sheep and Lambs.

' Receipts 20, 000. Market slow. Few-

early sales. Fat lambs weak to 25c
lower. Sheep steady. No
of feeding lambs.

from readings to

Feb. 5.—eDetroit Cream

early sales , , cry
Top fat lambs to-~ ‘ ' ' '
city butchers 313. 85; medium to good; 4
1 kind to packers" around at 313; good ' -
- wrung iwethers $11.- Wth . ."

distributing markets has

increafi: ed. »‘-_
Prices have advanced with U S o. g .
~1'northern round WI)

31. 25@1. 40 per 100 pounds sacked in
Chicago, and 313513150 in bulk. The

eastern round whites are selling at
$1. 75@1. 90 sacked and bulk in eastern ‘
Since the carlot movement up ,

cities.
to the present time from the leading
late potato state; has been about the
same as a yeara

in those states was materially less
than in 1922, it is probable that the
supply remaining to be marketed is
figgh lighter than at the beginning of

WOOL
I
The total consumption of wool by
mills in the United States for the cal-
endar year was about the same as in
1922 when it was at a record level.

The decline in the rate of consump- '

tion in the last six months was ofiset
by exports of about 25,000,000 pounds
and lighter imports which totaled only

113,000,000 pounds in the six months f

ending October 31, compared with 164,-
000,000 pounds in the same months of
1922 so that the supply of w001 left in
this country is not at all heavy. For-

eign wool markets are buoyant but on ,-

this side the tendency_of manufactur-
ers is to await the opening on heavy-
weight goods excepted around January
21. Some inquiries are in the/market,
however, and values are firm. Sheep
are wintering well in the west and the
new clip promises to be a. good one
unless unfavorable weather develops
in the next three months. Stocks of
old clip wools in first hands are small
and are quite firmly held.

’ GRAND RAPIDS

The cold wave has strengthened all
potato maikets and prices to growers
have advanced materially. Farmers
are now making sales in Grand Rapids

at 50@60c a bushel, but owing to the»

weather conditions, offerings are very

light, mostly potatoes that were placed.

in storage here last fall. At Green-

ville shippers early this week were
Little im-.
provement has yet been noticed in the

paying 70@80c per cwt.

demand for onions but a continuation

of low temperatureswill have some in-
fluence on prices, the trade believes,

The furniture season which has
brought hundreds of buyers into Grand

Rapids has bolstered the poultry mar-

ket and prices on heavy fowls and
springers have been marked up 2@4c
a pound. Heavy fowls were in de-
mand this week at 20@220 a pound.
Eggs were stronger, produce houses
bidding 38@400 a dozen early in the
wee .
able to get 45@50c'a dozen for their
selects, sold direct to consumers.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

The let-up in the cold snap and the
increased strength in the market for
some products brought in a. good num-
ber of farmers to Tuesday’s market.
Buying an the whole was quite active
and supplies of all, save of some po-
tatoes and apples,
cleaned up early. The market for po-
tatoes was stronger and early selling
was active at 85@95c per bushel, with
some bringing $1. Cabbage, carrots
and beets sold readily, but the move
ment of parsnips, turnips and greens
was slower. The small offerings of
“squash'moved readily at $2.50 a bushel
for the best grade. Apples were in
heavy supply with sales slow, even for
the better grades. Few chickens were
offered and the small supply of dress-
ed pork was slow to sell. Eggs were
slow sellers.

Ap,p1es fancy $2@2. 50 bu; No.1,
31. 25@1.75 bu; beets $b1. 256131. 50 bu;

cabbage, late $1. 75@2 bu; carrots at -'

$1. 7.5@2 25 bu; celery 65c dozen, on-
ions, small 31 bu, green 600 dozen;
potatoes 85@95c bu; winter squash at
$2@2 50 bu; turnips $1. 25@1. 50 a bu;
parsnips $1. 50@1. 75 bu; horseradish
$3@ @4. 50 bu; eggs, wholesale 50c doz;

retail 60@75c; springers, wholesale at
23@25c pound; retail 23@280;
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HIPMENTS a: butter and cheese to
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A FARM CENSUS IN 1925.

C ONGRESS has already passed the

We law for taking farm census

" In 1925. This is important, inasmuch
_ as the 1920 census figures fail to re-
:vflect normal agricultural conditions.

This action of congress has been heart-
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PERFECT PROCESS FOR FIXING
FREE NITRQGEN. ‘

AN imDor-tant step in the develop-7

ment of a chemical agent used in
recovering nitrogen from the atmos-
phere, has been solved by government
chemists. ,As far as we have been
able to learn. says a report from the

‘ government, there is no country in the

world which new has 5 process supe
rior to that worked out by these men.
A method developed for manufactm-
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.. chemical; control of the product, and
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MORE ABOUT HARD-IGAN
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ll have written from time to time

. in these notes about the progress
of our experiment with Hardigan a1-
falfa. It" has been encouraging to

. watch its development.

rTo review briefly: We planted it
in the spring of 1922 in rows thirty
inches apart. It was cultivated several
times and out once the first year. This
year there was a prodigious growth,
With a liberal accompaniment of grass
and weeds. Our object was a crop of
seed and judging from the profuse
blossoming this first crop would no
doubt have produced heavily, but in
spite of our efforts there would have
been mixed with it a ghat deal of
weed seed So this first crop was cut
for hay and immediately thereafter the
ground was worked thoroughly with
the spring-tooth barrow. The new crop
came on rapidly, made a strong growth
and set nicely with the little spiral
seed pods. The few weeds that re
mahed', whose seeds would bother,
were pulled by hand and carried of!
the field.

The seed was cut with the mower.
, and carefully bunched, and when thor-

'oughly cured and put through the
thresher we. had a full bag of good
quality seed There was one and one-
quarter acres in the piece. We had
expected to sell it as the seed is worth
well toward a dollar a pound, but we
have also been wanting to try it out
under field conditions. We will saw
one long narrow field of about twelve
acres along the road. the field that
grew sugar beets this year, to barley
and alfalfa in the spring. The field;
all but the remains of an old orchard

at one end, has grown alfalfa before

so' the soil is well inoculated, and we

‘ haVe quite made up our mind, instead
. of selling our Hardigan seed, to sow it

upon this field

Hardigan alfalfa is really a strain of
Grimm, especially hardy. and with an
inherited tendency to seed heavily un-
der Michigan conditions. Many of us
are finding it easier to get a stand of

alfalfaonouriarms than“ :0ch;
rant men—Finest mm. Barred Rocks. Win

andtheacreageotitzsbotndtoino
As this takes place and the

; great advantage to.

that is a gependnbk

W. at new
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INTERESTS CLASH ON IMMIGRA-
‘ ITION. RESTRICTIONS.‘

'mmncs on the immigration hm
limiting the ratio to two per cent
are now in progress. Union: labor
leaders are arguing for the complete
stopping of immigration, the industrial
interests .are demanding a more lib=
era! immigration policy, and the farm
organization representatives are tak-
ing a middle ground position.
Resolutions from many state and
county farm bureaus have been re-
ceived. at the American Farm Bureau
Federation headquarters, the tenor of
which is in favor of inspection at port
of embarkation and a two to five per
cent ratio based upondhe figures of

1890. The farmers evidently would.

welcome a larger immigration from
northern Europe and the British Isles.

WHEAT AVERAGE REDUCED.

DECREASE in acreage of winter
wheat. seeding in United .States,
Canada and Roum’ania as compared
with last year, is reported by the Fed—
eral Department of Agriculture. The

area seeded in the three countries is
estimated at 44,273,200 compared with ‘

51,384,900 acres reported the same
date last year. The fall wheat acreage
in the United States is about twelve
per cent less than last year, and in
Canada it is about nineteen per cent
less. The area of fall-sown wheat in
Canada, however, is small compared
with that in the United States.

The exports of wheat from the Unit-
ed States in December were 4,7,50 000
bushels compared with 9,700,000 bush-
els in December last year.

Hflmesfiluwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St.

Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. calves,
Poultry. Live & Dressed. Provisions. etc Correspon-
dence Solicited. Ref. Wayne County & Home Savings
Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Mich. Cherry 7654

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

SALVAGE OATS AND BARLEY:—For carioad buy-
ers of eeds we have ’a lot of 30 cars of salvage oats
and salvage barley, and some rye. If you are a rye
feeder of hogs or sheep. write us at once for samples
and prices on economical feeds in carloads. Oats and
barley for sheep, dairy and fat tattle. or you can
grind it for hogs. Write at onm if you are going to
feed now or next month. as the suppli “out last
long C. E. Dingwall (1.0, Milwaukee. Wis Eco-
nominal feeds for feeders.

 

WE ARE in position to supply you at all times with
good second-hand egg crates. including fillers and
covers, complete for shipping. at the following, rates:
Can-load lots F. 0- B. Detroit. 141: each; less than
cal-load lots. 1150 each. Wm. Spitz &'Sons. 20-15
Clicne St., Detroit. Mich.

 

LARGE OREGON PRUNES DIRECT: 100 lbs. me-
paid $11.;90 spetial 12% lb sample prepaid $1. 954'
‘Klnnwood Orchards, Salem, Orctmn.

OIL \lEA-L— Stock and chicken feed. wholesale. E.
G. Beuuler. 2063A sbland Ave , Toledo. Ohio.

TIMBER for sale. Also White Orpington C ockercls.
,li. W. Anderson. L‘larkston. Mich
._.___.__

TOBACCO

 

 

HOME SPUN TOBACCO—~Fivo pounds chewing. $1.75;
ten, 53. 00; twenty, 35. 25. Smoking. five pounds,
31. 25; ton. 82.00: twenty. $3.50. Pipe and recipe
t.ree Send no money Pay when received. Ken-
tucky Tobacco Company. I’aducah, Ky.

 

LEAF TOBACCO:—Chowing. five pounds. $1.75: “‘11.
$300: Smoking, five pounds, 31.25; ‘ten. $2.00; min-
and. recipe free, pay when received. Cooperative Fann-
crs' Paducah. Kentucky.

 

lac-Bret. .
grinning, dependable variety for both

 

PAY In Al‘lllcl FEE: don’t give option or tie
l may for on: W.

W
lO—Am Orchard, 6. Com, Crops,
Tools wrth so Acres; All W
Matedsoofmmcm.mflomm
route now in operation. improved passes. 60
acres tillasc. ”«ccw posture. woodlot, 10- -acro hear-
ing apple orchard, cherries. grapes; comfortable 2-
story 8- -room house both, electric lights: 64—“.
basement barn. silo. my. granary. poultry lieu use.
etc. Owner called awn: low price ”.000. city milk
romp, . 6 cows. gas chum. mania.
crops etc” included. Part cash. Details andpic<
1m page 39 Newd mus Weaning Bargains through,
out Mich..- 111., Ind other states. Copy free.
szgolfllzkll AGEICV. OOHIII. qupcm mu.
m. '

‘ Button Land. Not
For Sale 40 Acrés 3",”.- Sand, Lam
on Clay Bottom. All can be cultivated. No stones.
15 acres cleared. rest easily cleared. A small 3‘rcom
house. Located 3- miles south of Houchton Lake, a
popular summer resort. Can grow anything, and sell
all you grow. Sale Price, $1. Address CHARLES
BOBGESOI. Howhhn Luke. Mich.

3500 Acres of Cut-over Land

For sale at bargain prices. Will sell any part. Most
of tho land; is well watered but not. swampy. Well

adapted for cattle or sheep pasture. Growl Lumber
co; For information write F. W. Growl. Harbor

 

Farms and Farm Lands For Sale

than you are-gaunm with are ob“!

FOR SALE Dr EXCHANGE

Right h at 880 of In
I“, hwsm lit: ( 1 acres mi. partly an

In Male
CITY SURUMN REALTY” COIPANY.
. 615 W Building, Lullflll. "Ionian.

it!“ $383 Improved. ammonia

gigmezoodwe2192 1.1x {Woman mu.-
m e 0

TON mans. Edmonton. 'Alllormmgcnnda.

Sell your property qu ckly
for cash, no matter when located Particulars (no.
Real l-‘suu Salesman 00., 515 Browne“, Uncoin. Nob.
With our liberal

"my 01:13in a Home? tea-no.
White people only. good land. healthy pro-
grossive country. Write for8 list. Mills Land 00..

Bonneville. Ark.
Unlmproved, 12 miles

180 ACRES east of Lake City. Mich.

Address L. W. Glider-sleeve, Porcupine, So. Dak

" i C
Ir ")0 MIT T0 LIVE é‘oun,‘;'"3$‘:.b;m&‘c‘m“'
mereo. Hanford California. for free booklet.

 

 

 

 

 

C ‘1‘ Buyers want farms—various localities. Do-
! scribe mm and give best price. 11. s.

 

In southern Midland County. Michigan. in parcels up
to 1.060 acres. roads and water. Shipping
points. Shepherd, 8!. Louis, Breckenridge or Mid—
land. Write W. S. ROOT, Mason. Mich.

' AND IVEARY of the severe wine
I" A" “‘9 ters up there. COME TO STUART.
.You will be delighted with the climate here. A haven

for farmers. For information Write CIVIC COM-
MITTEE. STUART, FLA.

 

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ANT to rent 60. 80 or loo—acre lam, 300d
land and buildings. Cash rent: years on
present farm. Gus Thomas. New Lothrop, Mich.

 

amass. ”chinan. Agency, Box 43. North Topeka,
ANT To HEAR from party having farm for sale.
Pasture Land For Sale (1... particulars and lowest price. mm J. Black.

Copper SL, Chippewa Falls. Wis.

 

F OR RENT 240-.(31’6 farm near Marshall. Mich.
Desirable place for reliable m None other
need apply. duress M. Jacobs. 1 ll Mich.

Nou- school: at spot cuhp
Farm wanted Moan business Fuller. Wichita. I:
101‘". Well 11111155 acres bottom well located.
3 $3,500. plenum G. Jones. Ava. Mo.

WMO to hear troin owner of land for sale.
Hawlay. Baldwin. Wise c.

 

 

 

Small advertisements bring best results under chm

display type or illustrations admitted.
Mlnlmum char", l0 words.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This classified advertising department is established lie-(IO! the convenience of Mlchiuu farmers

thing miscellaneous articles for sale or exchhnte. Poultry sanitizing will be run in this department
at classified rates, or in display columns at 0011111chan rates.

Rates 3 cont: a word. each insertion. on orders for it: than four insertions: for four or moi-'9
consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as a word each abbreviation, initial or uuxnber.1Vo
Remittances must accompan
Real estate and live stock advertising have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.

it [or want ads and for adverv

 

 

 

Rates in Effect October 7. I922

 

One Foot One l'our

Words time time: Words time time.
10 ........ 6 ,80 $2.46 26 ........ 2.06 66.24
ll ........ .88 2. ........ 2.16 6.46
12 ........ .96 2.82 29 ........ 2.24 6.72
13 ........ 1.04 3.12 29 ........ 2.32 6.96
l ........ 1.12 3.36 30 ........ .40 7.20
15 ........ 1.20 3.60 31. . 2.46 1.44
........ 1.26 3.84 32. .56 1.68
1.36 4.08 33. 2.64 7.92

1:44 4.32 34. 2.72 9.16

1.52 4.56 35. 2.80 8.40

1.60 4.66 36. 2.96 8.04

1.68 5.04 '37. 2.66 8.88

. 1.76 5.28 38. 3.04 9.13

. . 1. 64 5.52 39 ........ 3.12 9 36

. . . . . 1.92 5. 76 40 ........ 3.20 .60
25 ........ 2. 00 6. 06 ........ 3. 28 9.64

 

”4411371111711 {0}]

peeia otice dimtinmma M'dl"!

or change of [0)] In

remit/I for the Clanifitd anrmum my»: reach thi: Mice in:
day: in advance (ffiubh'ca u‘on date.

 

BABY CHICKS and Custom Hatching. Bred- to—Lay
l‘ nails-h While Leghorns. Also Barred Rocks and
Reds from good. form flm ks. Booking orders for
March delivery. Gorrt's Poultry Farm, L'orunna.
ilich.

10 Breeds Chickens. Turkeys, Ducks. Geese, Bantams.
Guineas, English Bulls, Fox Terrier l'ups; 300 .l-‘ektu
Ducks. Jesse But-inside. J‘udson. Indiana.

 

GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS from prize winning
birds. Largo. healthy. unrelated stock furnished.
Mrs. La Verne Brownell, Belmont, Mich.

 

'68 VARIETIES of Fine pure—bred chickens. ducks.
geese, turkeys. fowls. eggs. chickens. Large catalog
5c. A.‘ A. Ziemer, Austin, Minn

 

lllNGLET Barred Rock Cockcrels. Exhibition and.
laying strains. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Earl Mur~
plly, Britten, Michigan.

 

WHITE LEGHOILN COCKERELS—J‘hicks, Eggs from
best flock in country. Catalogue. Oak Dale Farms.
Box Y, Leltoy. Minn.

 

BARRI‘ZD ItOCKeI‘ockerels, Chicks, Eggs. Chicago
Winners, Great Layers. Catalogue. J. A. Schneider.
llox Y, Lelloy Minn.

 

GIANT BRONZE Turkey Toms and Barred Rock
C(K‘kfil‘t‘ls. Choice Stock. Mrs. Geo. Robinson. Lake
Odessa. Mich.

 

M USL‘OV Y DUCK S —-r}ireeder.<,
:anl ducklings. G. E.
ll(' 1.

drakvs. hatching eggs
Henevcld, ll. 1. Grandville.

 

QUALITY CHICKS. eggs; fifteen standard bred vari—
eties; best winter laying strains. Free delivery. Res.-
sonablo prices. Catalogue free. Missouri Poultry
Farms. Columbia. Mo.

 

BABY CHICKS from heavy laying strains. All lead
111:; pure breeds. Low prices. Prepaid. Live delivery
guaranteed. Catalog Free. Smith Bros ' Hatcheries.
Mexico, Mo.

 

HA! LOOK! 100,000 chicks 121:. and up, 15 vario-
tics. From highest producing contest winners. Hatch-

 

ing eggs. Circular. Lawrence Hatchery. ll. 7, Grand
Rapids, Mich.
BABY CHICKS—25 years Heavy Laying. 73 Acres.

(‘ntalnmxe Free. lit-chorus, Rocks. Rods, Orpinlzlons.
(loshen Poultry Farms. Goshen, Indiana.

 

Leghorns. Allt'OnflS, Barred
Oak halo Hatchery.

BABY L'IIJCIiS—-Wh~1m
Rocks, Low. Prices. Catalogue.
Box Y, Lelloy. Minn.

 

VIGOROUS Giant “hits Holland Turkeys, pure whim
strain. Toulouse Geese. Stamped enwlupc for reply.
Alden Whitromh. Byron Center, Mir-.11

 

PURE—BRED Light Brahma (fockcrels. $4 each. Mrs.
E. It. Willing, Reading, Mich.

 

SILVER. LACED and White Wyandotte Choice Cock-
cre-ls. t‘. W. Browning, Portland. Mich.

 

\VHITE ROCK COCKERELSwChoice stock. $3.00 and
$4.09 ouch. “'esley 11110, 1011111.. Mich.

 

l’lTRR-BllPID Giant Strain Bourbon Red Turkeys.
Airs. llcna Met-k, Belmont. Mich.

 

MAMMOTH bronze turkeys from best breeding stock.
Mrs. Eugene Ramsdell, Hanover, Mich.

 

FOR GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS~——Toulousc (km.
llutl' ()rpingtons. write to M. B. Noble, Saline. Mich.

 

JUMBO BRONZE TOVS -Hi1kon Hill

tr '
Archie Bennett, Rockford, Mivh 8 am.

 

S. C. Bl’J’F‘I‘V LEGHORN Baby ChICkS from good lay-

 

 

TOBACCOH—Extra Fancy Smoking. 10 pounds. $150;
Good. Smoking 5 pounds, 31; 10 pounds. $1.51); 20
pm1nds.$2.75.€l'1ewinlr. 5 pounds. $150 : 10 pounds,
$2.75. Quality Guaranteed. O’Connor Smokehouse,

 

BOURBON RED turkeys; Regal-Dumas White wy-

uudotte cookerels. L‘has., A. Boatty, Milford, Mich.

 

 

QUALITY BIRDS CHEAP -l'ure—hred Pullcts, lions,-
Cockerels. Turkeys. Geese, Ducks. Bantams. Guineas.

iug strain. Willard Webster. Bath, Mich.
' BUF‘F WYANDOTTE COC‘KERELS for 51119. J
POULTRY Lance, Inkster. Mich. . G.
\VIIITE HOLLAND TURKEY'S —Lul‘,w‘ vigorous

birds. Henry Griffin, NapolLon,Mitl1.

 

513“- 1113419111 1" Baby i‘hil‘ks. Satisfaction (hiamgteed. Catalogue 1 B D
Free. Evergreen Poultry Farms, atcheries, smp- P'UR‘I RE Bourbon Red Turkeys tor bio-(ding 0
PET STOCK ton. l'uwn. IL 0.111128165. Milford, Mich. nly

 

 

FKRRL‘TS trained for hunting Rats, Rabbits and
other game. have white or brown. large or small.
Mules, $5. 90: females. $5.50: pair, $10: will ship
. 0. D. anywhere. J. Younger, Newton Falls, Ohio

GERMAN Shepherd. Airédalofi. Collier. Old English
Shepherd dogs; Puppies: 10c illustrated instructive
list. W. B.“ imam-.30: 30:35 Macon. Mo.

1211111111211th rats, rabbits. skunk. mink, etc. Book
Thus. Seams. New London, 10.

 

BABY cmc’xs

PURE-333D BABY CHICKS—Barred! Rock, Buff

White Wyomiat Rhoda Island Reds.
. :1 mm b; April. 16th, $15.90 per hum-ed.
Alter April 15th 313.00 per hundred. 98 per cent
Live, delivery mutant Brookdate Poultiy Form,
Box 622, Paw Paw. Michigan.

‘

11.1mm
Brahms. White We, 615.00 per 106. $8.00 pa
M. HatchWh every My. Met hum ad. Mamba
International and. 11111191 3 Baby Chick soot-110112.
midis Hatchery 06 Ottawa St. . Earlvlle, minong~

wow—20 WW...»

mamas. “Monet-WM

acct-106‘

 

was.

SINGLE 00th BED8~L 0'. hotels and Bullets; larch
and April hatched Reduced. prices for quick sale
Tin-y win, lay. weigh and DN’. Harry J. Theis, 283
Hunter St., Battle Creek. Mich.

 

MAPLEWOOD FARM HATCHERY, Dept. l. Wabash.
Indiana. All our breeders have been blood-tested for
bacillary white diarrhea. by accredited state veter—
inarians. Send for catalogue.

 

smoLn c0111; WHITE LEGHORNS~TnDnested

l‘edigrlod. Hatching Elms, Chicks in 1.00 to 1.000
lots. and Pedigreed Cor-.kerels IV. C. Ecknrd Paw
Paw, Michigan-

BARRED ROCKS—State Fair Winners; All (ll-ping-
tons. “Tapered" White Leghorus. Guineas. Circu-
lar. Fourier Bailey, Montgomery, Mich.

WHITE “TANDOTTES from my prlzo- winning.
heavy- daring strain. 20121123 and 85.“i Female: 33
each, 85 pair. David Roy. Ypsilanti.“

 

mmfi—i’iirobred. dark,
louis Morris, Mt. Morris

8.28.1.BED
color, 33 and 35 each.
Dash. 1.

humans 11m warms W2.
on. largo}1 86.60am. Mallow-LR.

 

you We HM Mus. m.
m. .

 

W,Wf'°.'tm

“humanism-L

,mtb introduction:
mm

(muss—43mm. leading varieties. Free ‘L‘ircular.

John Boas, Bettendorf, lawn.

WHITE CHINA GEESE, excellent 1 '
Mrs. Alice Borrow, Mattswan, Mich“ "S $10.00‘tno.

HONEY AND BEES

BlcEchEl’E RS' booklet, "Starting Beck 1” very
interesting, explains how to begin beekmlfiz, hunt
2:6 “Meal xfatgh swrgrtms. increase bees, make hives.
1: 211 9( Ice Spencer A l "
Angeles, California. D ”168' West Los

 

 

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MARRIED FAle WANm~Want good 0m-
sive farmer to go in sheep and poultry bums? wl

,me. flow: 400 acres land, line house. machinery. 0

money needed. Will give man that h h good —
parlance in above business a very mgfi‘w
hetoukozullchuao. Inductance. C A:
' .
WI: PAY 9209 salary. finish car and m:-
untamed poultry undated

 

mflnnmm ”We 1M
( sum-noise wmu
wax: 31')“ Palm
i $005-$315. Gare [arm ”..me mm

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