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No adver- tisement inserted for less than $1.65 each insertion. No objectionable advertisements inserted at any time. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at . Detroit. Michigan. Under the Act of March 3,1879. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation l NUMBER THREE VOLUME CLXII DETROIT, . JANUARY 19, 1924- - CURRENT co MMENT Meeting tax obligations taxes the in- genuity of most of us. It is getting to be seed catalog time. Has the mail man delivered your sup- "ply of picturesque pamphlets yet? If not, it may be your fault for not hav- ing sent requests for them. The cow-milking and wood-chopping contests in Washington got much pub-' licity because such rural activities are so rare at our national capitol.’ On the other hand, milking the public has become so common as to lose all its news value. When the winds are blowing, and the storm raging, then is the man for- tunate who has a work shop with an . ambitious stove in it, for he can spend many a pleasant hour tinkering around and incidentally getting things ready for another season. N discussions of the Fixing farmers' marketing Mar he tin problem in the col- . . g umns of the Michigan P0116188 Farmer, an honest at- tempt will be made to bring out the limitations and 'weak points in cooperative marketing organ- izations as developedlin this state, as well as their undoubted benefits. It is only through the general rec- . ognition of these limiting and weaken- , ing factors, and their correction so far . as possible, that the most rapid pro- : gress along right lines can be made. For best results, or even satisfactory ., results, the cooperative marketing organization must be thoroughly well informed re- , garding the policies and methods of [operation of the organization with . which they are affiliated. The very nature of these organiza- tions makes their democratic control, so far as the fixing of marketing poli~ cies is concerned, an absolute essen- tial to their highest success. When those policies are fixed in accordance with a majority opinion of a well-in- formed membership, the rest of the members will go along with the ma- jority, at least until it is evident that the established policy does not give the results which. its advocates expect- ed. And in this event it will be easy . to change the policy in accordance with a changed majority opinion of the membership. Any other method of , . fixing marketing policies is almost cer— , tain to defeat the larger aims of the of many of its members. Cooperative leaders and managers...-' . ._ are your apt to reach the conclusion 'marketing organization entire membership of a organization through the disaffectionsf "that. through their closer touch 1111117“ " _ , -- 3' , g are at hand to William. - .- the afiairs of their respective organi- zations, they are better qualified to fix sound policies of operation than are the rank and file of the members. In. many cases there may. be a good foundation for this idea, which is one of the weaknesses of the system. It is a serious mistake on their part to be- lieve that they can go ahead along , new policy lines in advance of the in. telligent approval of a majority of theirmembership. To do this is to court the ultimate failure of even sound policies. On the other hand, the members of cooperative' marketing organizations make an even greater mistake in tail- ing to take an active interest in shap— ing the policies of the organizations with which they are affiliated. This is a responsibility which goes with mem- bership in such an organization, and the member who shirks it has no license to complain about results. Cooperative marketing organizations belong to their members, not to their managers or the directors who are del- egated with powers for their actual operation. It is the duty as well as the privilege of individual members to attend all meetings of their organiza- tions and take an active part in the deliberations in which their marketing policies are fixed. Without general in- terest of this kind there can be no worth-while results from attempts to solve the farmers’ marketing prob- lem by this means. Every member of every cooperative in the state should attend every meeting of the or- ganization, familiarize himself with every possible detail of its operation and take an active part in the discus- sion of marketing policies. insure a crystallization of membership opinion along constructive lines, hold managers and directors within desir- able bounds, and contribute to the suc- cess of cooperative marketing organi- zations in this state as nothing else can do. I-IE little girl had Let The her playmates in Children a few nights ago. Dur- ing the evening a bas- Lead ket of fruit was pass- ed. As the basket went by, each one took what appeared to be the best apple then remaining. That was perfectly natural. These children did just exactly what we grown-ups do in our every-day life. “'9 bring home from the store the goods that make the strongest appeal to us. J Right at this point seems to be the place where we have fallen down in the marketing of Michigan potatoes. There is general, in fact, unanimous, agreement among those who see our stock upon the marts of the country from an unprejudiced standpoint, that it lacks in grading and much of it is This will ‘ The children, perhaps. could lead us out of our dilemma. ' SHORT time ago The an investigation F ‘ was made by the U. m II, 1. S..Departmentsof Ag- Alti‘o rlculture which show- ed that 9-23 farmers out of 1,371, owned a total of ,1,000 autos and trucks. One, "especially a city men, would be. led to think after a cursory glance at those figures that, “By gum, them farmers is livin’ high, with all them autos. lots of money on what they’re sell- ing us.” Such would be the thought of sun. face thinkers; but a search below the surface would reveal an entirely difr ferent condition. It was shown that nine-tenths of these cars were "farm business cars," two-thirds were of the low-priced tour- ing-car type, and most of‘them were seven to eight years old. Next came trucks, which constituted about twen- ty-five per cent of the number. Road- sters, sedans and coupes, those which are used for pleasure and comfort, made up only one-tenth of the number. It is surprising to us that more of the 1,371 did not have cars, as autos are as essential on the farm as any other piece of machinery. Timeis one of the great elements in farm activi~ ties, and the auto is the greatest saver Of it 4’ Most every farmer has a mowing machine because it saves him time in cutting grass, as compared with the scythe. 'Why should he not have an auto to save him time in going to town, as compared with Old Dobbin? Nobody says anything When he pos- sesses a mowing machine, but an auto, . “I that’s different. As far as we can see, one is as important as the other. The only trouble is that the farmer can not use his mowing machine to take his family on picnics occasionally,'or to enjoy the roads and the fresh night air after a hard day’s work Perhaps it is unfortunate that. the auto is so adaptable that it can be used for both employment and enjoyment, but-we feel sure that most of us are glad to have such a misfortune to contend with. CHURCH with Buildin boarded windows, On g and an unpainted schoolhouse, with un- Sand hinged blinds broken glass, a crumbling porch, and outbuildings leaning, d001- less and filthy, were located near each other in a. rich agricultural section of this state. " The writer did not learn indetail the history of these institutions. But without doubt, the community had lDDlES, bugs. barns, cial attention. f V . agricultm at College Pack Your Grip flna’ fltftvm' t/IF Best FA’RJlERS’ WEEK Ever Put 071_ At '171e XVI. A. C. brooms, for their due share of consideration at Farmers’ Week, to be held at the. Agricultural College at East Lansing, February 4-8. . Every kind and combination of farming will receive very spe- ' Thirty active state farm organizations will meet during the week. Crop improvers, breeders and feeders, beekeep~ ers, potato growers. muck farmeis, men, and every other sort f10m the thi1ty-sevcn corne1s of Michi- gan will be there with questions and infmmation. Exhibits mo1e varied than ever before—exhibits that silently talk and carry deep into the minds of men their unerring messages, will crowd every campus building. _ ~ Then over and above all will be the geneial sessions. broad men, specialists who have had the opportunity to get a long 1ange on 9111 day, will talk. They will diagnose the p’ast'and\from it give us a look into the futu1e———a real slant on what may be im- mediately ahead in the farming business. It will be a pity, indeed, if you cannot arrange for the chores, bundle up mother, and Spend the t1me from February 4 to _8 at the brains and business will come in fruit men, dairymen, chicken Big men. l It just shows they’re makin' 'g' d panda co spirit which kept alive interest in the general Welfare. Today there is ovary evidence that both the leadership and . " the spirit are gene. We are satisfied in this particular instance that the neglect of these institutions Was not a matter or abil-. ity to finance. The fine homes, well- kept premises. high-priced automobiles belie the suggestion. Rather, we be- , lieve that the Spirit of fellowship and unselfishness had gone out of the ' pedple. Communities change, some times for better, and again for worse. Usually when they grow less efficient the first evidence is seen in the schools and the churches. These public institu- tions tell quite accurately the condi— * tion of the soul of the community. The growing of a generation of men without the aid of «the school and the church is like building upon the sand. In due season the winds and storms of life will work havoc. . K2213 M a and Sophie is havin’ quite a an- gument about kids, ’cause our kids is gettin' old enough so they know ~ more about what you call disobey- mlus Now, Sophie thinks our kids is gotta stop their raskaddlin’ around. She, says by this time they is supposed to know better, whether they do or not. And if they don’t, we gotta stop them anyhow. The main thing with Sophie is. we gotta make them stop. Now, I thinks kids is kids, like colts is colts, ’ and calves is calves. And I see colts and calves don’ t always be- have. For inst. when Mr. Jason Foster came out to see us from the city, he was goin’ to tie our brindle calf” by the road, but the calf kinda. thought he was playin’, so s h e pulled him all ov- er the forty-acre field without gettin’ ' tied up. . Maybe the calf knew Mr. Jason Fos- ter wasn’t his parunt, so didn’t behave for him,’but I don’t think so, ’cause kids generally behave for other kidse’s parunts better than their own. That’s ’cause ~ they don’t know: the other kidse’s parunts so well. ' Now, when I was a kid I never liked to do what you call obey, ’cause it ”ain‘t what you call democratic, and that’s sayin’ lots fer a fellow whose father was a republican. If somebody was sayin’ to me that if I' was a good boyI would get another piece of cher- ry pie, I’d be good. Or if somebody says that if I do somethin’ it would hurt somebody else, and then asked me if I’d like to be hurt that way, I’d think about it. What made me sit up and take notice more’n anything else was to have somebody tell me what ’ l was doin’ did to somebody else. ’Obeyin’ ain’t no fun to nobody, spe- cially when you don’t know what you ale obeyin' about; times when kids is asked to obey when they is just havin’ a little innbcent fun. The trouble is we old folks want our kids to walk around with their hands folded like the deacon of the, chulch. So, I just kinda feel I like to be my kid’s paruntal advis'or instead of- their paruntal ruler. Seems like I tell them they are goin’ to get their hands'burnt by touchini the stove, and then when they get them burnt maybe they will get a little what you call confldunce in - me and come to me about other things. Gettin’ the kids’ confidence is What counts. The whole trouble is, we old folks dOn’t use what you call pashunce and tact. Sophie just says to me “No wonder I ain’t gctino pa.- chance; I use it all up on you.” ‘F 13°. l‘c‘wgh“! ‘ & Theie is lots 0' . wifv my itll- 1di~— ‘ ion the 11d. 'ms )8- 39 3’3 t’s er i f , x - . . _ ‘ i 5- 4w, , . _ ‘ Wm (“M . ' keepers. T is often remarked that the num- ber of beekeepers is steadily grow- ing smaller Fairly accurate rec- "ords show that in Michigan the num- ber of beekeepers is considerably less than it was ten or twelve years ago. During the war‘ When the price of hen- ey was very high, there was a tempor- ary increase in the number of bee- . A succession of rather hard 'winters since then has practically wip- ed out all Of the gain that was then ‘made. ‘ While there are p'oS‘sibly eight or ten thousands of people in the state that keep bees yet,‘ the most of the bees and by far the largest production ‘of honey is with about one-tenth. of that number.' It might be interesting to analyze this situation and possibly answer the question as to why the number of beekeepers is growing less in the faceof a steadily increasing consuming population. The average person gets a feeling that they are always a mark for bee stings whenever and wherever they get within stinging range. This feel- ing naturally suppresses any natural desire to take beekeeping up as either a vocation or a side line. There are only two things, in my opinion, that prevent an over production of honey; they are the. fear of bee stings and the diseases of the bees. The fact re- mains that bees sting. This is the one big‘compelling reason for the ab- sence 'of bees on most farms. The turnover in beekeepers is tre- mendous. There are hundreds of»pe0a ple making a beginning in beekeeping in Michigan every year. Every fruit grower and seed groWer realizes more or less clearly that bees in close prox- Some Pros and Com on Keeping Bee: on tfle Farm. By B. F. Kindig imity to his farm is a big asset. With the one aim in mind, that of assisting in the pollenizing of his flowers, many farmers secure one or more colonies of bees each spring. Each following spring finds a large number of such colonies dead. Such persons’ usually ascribe the cause to winter-killing. Winter-killing covers a multitude of sins in beekeeping. The greatest single handicap to suc- cess in beekeeping is not “hard luck” but just ignorance. Not that the per- sons who fail are igorantor not capa— ble of learning, but most of them are not informed regarding the simplest rudiments of successful beekeeping. The average person cannot grow up in the country or small town without absorbing quite a fund of knowledge regarding. the crops and animals com- monly kept on the farm. They learn of the proper time for sowing wheat, for cultivating corn, for spraying the fruit trees, for putting up silage and .the how and when of most farm oper- ations. They unconsciously absorb such information in the ordinary course of their experiences. But a. farmer may rear a family to maturity on the next forty to a beekeeper and the children may become men and women without ever finding out that drones do not sting and that the queen lays all the eggs. With the advent of nature study in theschools some such A a The Abundance of Honey Crops Makes Michigan a Favored Bee State. things are being taught, but there is precious little that the neighbors see andunderstand about what the bee- keeper is doing. The result is that when such a young man takes a farm of his own and decides that a few col- onies of bees would be of benefit, he is not in any way prepared to intelli- gently attack the task that is before him. He usually does What most of us would do—he flounders around for a season or two and quits in disgust be- cause his life’s experience has not taught him methods of beekeeping as it has taught him the approved meth- ods of dairying, fruit growing or truck gardening. All of which indicates that beekeep- ing is a very special form of agricul- ture. The specific causes of the fail- ures and ways to prevent them are subjects worthy of consideration and in the weeks to come I will take them up in the detail that each one requires. Speaking in a rather general way, the errors that are frequently met with are general lack of care, permitting bees to starve, failure to protect in the winter, and disease. The average farmer has his hands full with the major operations of his farm. He knows that if he neglects his plowing until sowing time has passed, that he cannot reap a crop, and so he plows and sows and hopes that the bees are getting along well without him. As long as bees are fly- ing from the hive the colony islappar- ently prospering. Cows must be milk- ed with regularity or the milk flow will suffer. Therefore the farmer tends to that duty religiously, forgetting that When the cows go on pasture and re- (Continued on page 94). When Clover Fails, What? How One Farmer Malta: H15 Farm Produce Large Crop: of Legumes. By]. L. Justice LOVERS are wonderful crops. When I see them growing abun- dantly on a farm I feel some- how that that farm has been well kept and that clovers will continue to keep it. A field of fine clover is. an inspira- tion, it is lively, it suggests an active soil, it inspires a vision of full barns, well fed livestock, a safe plan of farm- ing. ~ Aside from “clover sickness” or a. root rot infection that attacks the ,plant, and some .insect attacks, there may be several reasons why clovers give only a. fair stand which farmers may consider to advantage. A very important one is found in the use of inferior seed. Clover seeds depeciate very rapidly when not stored in good condition. Many of our state seed in- spection and labelling laws protect the farmers now in the purchase of their seeds,~but cheap seeds may still be of- fered to the farmer, so it will pay him well to know the meaning of every- thing on the labels that must be at— tached to the bags of seed. It is best to buy only good seed that has a high per cent of purity and is above ninety per cent germinable. You don’t take a big chance with this kind of seed if it is kept dry until soWn. I have seen the results of inferior and cheap grades of seed too often. ,A thin stand is often due to too light seeding When seed is-high in price - and scarce there is often a tendency to make the few bushels of seed '(spread over too extensive an area. If 'the season is good, with plenty of .moisture and rain, a. desirable stand .' my result, but too often such seed- e inadequate and partial failure ‘ ~A iittle heavier seeding will good stand. Even though we have little trouble in getting good stands of clovers, we always sow enough to in- sure a full stand. Where clovers are seeded systematically in the rotation there is always a tendency for some clover to come as volunteer, from seed perhaps that has lain in the soil with- out germinating for two years or so. This seems to be especially true of alsike, red and sweet clover, the seed of which is hardy. I have seen alsike clover come in a field of volunteer where' none had been Sown for six years. Where seed comes this way lighter seedings may come or appear to come ‘good and thus the farmer will believe that light seedings are satis- factory as a general practice. Inoculation has been proven to be quite a figure in inducing clover stands to come satisfactorily. It has always seemed to me that where L_._.m I» (1...; clovers have been grown regularly in a rotation that the greatest success with them has been secured. How- ever, when sowing alfalfa and sweet clover in a field where they have not been growu before, we always inocu- late the seed thoroughly before sow- ing. This is much better, I believe, than spreading the inoculation on the soil. It is an easy and cheap way, and it insures inoculation on every seed when it is properly applied. We have tried inoculating the soil, but sometimes the work is delayed for other things. When applied to the seed it is put into soil where sunlight cannot destroy or vitiate it. Another worth while measure that may be adopted is to get the seed into the soil so .that moisture will reach it immediately and start germination of the seed. When clover is seeded with spring grains as a nurse crop, it .>. is a simple matter to get the seed cov- eled by harrowing or working it into the loose seedbed at the time of sow- ’ ing the grain. The practice of seed- ing clover on winter wheat and rye by broadcasting the clover in February or March and letting the late freezing and thawing work the seed into the soil has been pretty generally satis- factory. However, those who have tried it say that the seed is better distributed and more evenly sown when applied with a regular disk clover seed drill. They maintain that they can get a better stand with one-third less seed for the reason that every seed is put into the soil at the 1ight depth and properly cove1ed up and that all the seed begins to ge1m1nate right away. It is a practiCe that will be adopted more generally in the future when it seems that more clover will have to be grown to supply the farmers’ needs and to maintain the fertility of the soil. Some farmers in our section sow clover seed on the heavy clay soils during the late fall, making the seed~ ing after any likelihood of its ger- minating that fall; that is usually in December. The seed will be well worked into the soil before it ger- minates in the spring. The chief ob- jection to this method is that, should the fall sown grain on which the clover is seeded be winterkilled or flooded, the loss of the seed may re stilt unless some spring sown grain is Adisked into the soil before the clever seed begins to germinate. Excessive er abundant weed growth often holds in check 'or chokes out what might have proven to be a good stand had the weeds not offered such strong competitiOn while the clover was young. The best method of bold- . :e $72"!- ’ i, . ‘~ 'ing either weeds or grass in check is to pasture the grdund rather heavily during the spring or early summer, and judging from our experience, I think pasturing preferable to clipping. If the clover is clipped it will only set the grass and clover back a short time the same as it will the cl'over. Pas- turing with sheep and cattle will kill out many of the weeds, keep the grass short, and while keeping the clover short, too, it will also permit the 'clover to make continuous growth of both root and top and make splendid pasturage. \Vhen I speak of grass I include tim- othy, as the majority of farmers mix timothy with their clover seed, believ- ing that should the clover fail to come they will at least have timothy and something therefore to cover the ground. In most cases the timothy is sown so heavy as to secure a good 'stand of it should none of the clover come. If the clover comes good there will be a strong competition between the two crops as to which shall occupy “the ground. " or the two, timothy“ is the‘ stronger competitor; it will crowd out the clover just like blue grass ‘or other grasses do. A light seeding‘of tim- othy may be desirable, however, in some instances, when it would not come thick enough to offer such stiff- competition to the clovers, though we have eliminated it'entirely from our" seedings, exceptingbwhere it may be sown along with sweet clover, because we have not been able to see Where it was an advantage to grow it. I would as soon have goOd bright straw to feed along with the clover as to: have the mixed hay of clover and tim- othy, and pure clover hay is far more desirable for all the livestock. A little grass seed mixed with sweet clover may be desirable. Once estab- lished and inoculated, sweet clover produces a wonderful growth, and there is roam beneath it for several tufts of grass to grow while the sweet clover is nearing maturity the summer of its second year. By the time the sweet clover has matured, the grass c will be.- .providing. fresh pasturage,‘ though red, alsike or alfalfa clover' may just as well be substituted in", place of the grasses. Soybeans have been hailed as a splendid substitute for our clovers, but the soybean has the disadvantage of being an annual crop. It does not pro- vide winter covering for the ground. But the root system of a clover crop is more extensive than that of the shorter-lived soybean, and a more complete opening and penetration of the soil is secured by the fibrous roots that have a growing period about twice as long as the soybean. I am making no attempt to depreciate the value of the soybean, for we believe in it so thoroughly as to include it as a regular yearly crop on its own merits, but I desire to make a comparison to show why clover should be a regular crop and to encourage growing it for the great possibilities there are in it for the farmer. There was a period several years ago when we began to find it a little dificult to get the good kind of stands ~ of clever we wanted. The crop would if be fine in places and thin in others. especially light on the high ground. -We changed the system of handling“ 0 the crop to see what advantage could be gained from it. Instead of putting so much hay into the barns all the livestock was turned into the fields in May and left there for the summer. Cattle and hogs sought the heavier growth, the sheep stuck to the clay knolls. All manure was spread on the clover fields to stimulate the g1owth of the young clover, and it was evident that where clover followed again in the rotation it came thicker and more vigorously and showed the value of that plan of handling. We are still following that plan, fibut of later years have added sweet clover to provide a still greater amount of soil building material and to further encourage the growth and establishment of alfalfa. ing 'how such a system will open the way to obtain better stands of clover. The Farmers’ M arkcti‘n’g Problem L066 .4/1 Wortfl- Wéz/e Movement: Me Growté of Cooperatzon flay oom Slow. By I. R. Waterbury HE writer has a veiy vivid re- membrance 01 his fi1st ventu1e in a cooperative enterprise. It was back in the early “nineties? Some Michigan Farmer readers will remem~ her those strenuous days, compared with which present-day farm market- ing problems seem easy of solution. I was just starting in the farming bus- iness on my own account, with heavy obligations to meet and on a farm of only fair fertility. Crops were not Very good and prices were worse. “heat was fifty cents per bushel, beans the same, potatoes were ten cents, and other products in propor- tion. Labor and goods Were compar- atively cheap and taxes were compar- atively low, but dollars were very scarce and high and it was impossible to get enough 01 them to make ends meet. It was very evident that something had to be. done to improve this situa- 1ion, which was typical ‘of that of other farmers in the community. The thing we did was also typical of what might be expected of a bunch of farmers without much business experience. A good salesman representing a pro- gressive dairy supply house came into the community and sold some of the more progressive farmers on the idea that what we needed to remedy our situation was a cooperative creamery and cheese factory. The income from cows would be regular and depend- able, and would solve our financial problems. Incidentally, he was an ex- perienced organizer, and offered his services to sell other farmers of the community on the proposition. He made the details easy. His firm would sell all the equipment at a wholesale price. In addition they would build the factory on an efficient design and turn it over to us, all ready to begin operations, all for the sum of $5,000. The plan worked and a hundred of us farmers in the community contrib- uted $100 each to buy the plant and provide working capital for the enter- prise, and we were ready to start, also much nearer the finish than we reali~_ ized. When we were‘ready to start we found that our troubles had just begun. The first and main trouble was that we were not dairymen. We didn’t have and didn‘t get good cows. We didn’t know how to feed such cows as we had for best results. Our pat- ions were scattered .so as to make the problem of hauling the milk a difficult 'one. Our product was of ordinary quality. Our management was ineffi- cient. The net result was that after some two years cf operation the busi- mass was closed down, the factory and equipment sold for what it would efficient dairymen. ‘, bring, and a score of us who stuck to _ too unfavorable time to prove effec- the finish chipped in $125 each to set- tle the remaining indebtedness. This was hard on us, but in the light of later developments an undoubted benefit to the community, as it was the beginning of the development of a profitable dairy business in a' commu- nity which is now largely composed of And they are sell- ing the product cooperatively, too, as will be noted later in this discussion. Most of the other cooperative under- takings of a similar period were of like nature and sporadic in their in- ception. Many of them were much more successful, some of them endur- ing to this day. They were local or— ganizations, operating independently and without any federation of 1nte1 est But they gave theil membe1s needed service, and were the real pioneers of the cooperative movement in this state, paving the way for the applica- tion of the principle of cooperative selling in the same line. The Michi- gan Milk Producers’ Association, which isperhaps the most successful cooper- ative selling organization in the state from the standpoint of recognized ben- efit to its members, was a logical and natural outgrowth of this scattered co- operative experience among dairymen, and a long step in advance in the mat- ter of cooperative marketing ‘of whole milk contributing to the milk supply of many Michigan cities. Another important early develop- ment of cooperation in this state was along general, rather than commodity lines. Gleaner elevators were organ- ized and operated at a number of points in the state with varying suc- cess, depending upon the quality of local management. Coordination of their activities was finally attempted, but unfortunately too late and at a tive, and the movement failed. But again the plan did not fail, for there are more local cooperative elevators Have you 472 Electric H6” 072 your Form? ----- ”/ W7”, \‘ NEVER Mme Brow, season WORKS 20 Henge ’ M5 -ADAY.-T00!' ~ » othei . , sentiment crystallised along construe- . ,tive lines. , , now operating in the state than ever before, and more successfully, too, due to the advantage of their coordination through the medium of the Michigan Elevator Exchange, a department of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. The organization of the Michigan Potato Exchange was the first attempt ' at coordinated cooperative selling at a central point for scattered local member organizations. It started off under flying colors, and has just about held its own as to volume of business in the five years of its activity. That it hasaccomplished certain benefits for its members in the stabilizing of the markets at local shipping points in the northern counties of the state is generally admitted. That it must either go forward to a greater useful~ ness to its members, or decline in im- portance as a factor in the solution of our marketing problem from this time is apparent. The results rests with its membership as well as with its gov- erning board; But whatever the out- come the final solution of the market- ing problem will have been advanced through the experience gained by its embers.~ ‘ . Other local cobperative selling agen- cies were developed along difierent commodity lines. Then came the farm 1 bureau movement, and the organiza- tion of the Michigan State Farm Bu- reau, with the history of which Michi- gan Farmer readers are generally £3.- miliar. This organization found a ma- jority of the farmers in the state ready to lend their support. It started out to do the whole job all at once without proper business organization or super- vision and was‘soon in deep water. More conservative policies were then adopted and its activities were limited to fewer lines, with better supervision and a greater degree of success, and cooperative ciganizations were affiliated with it. _ While the great marketing problem of Michigan farmers has not been solv- ed _by these various cooperative at- tempts, a purely abstract analysis of, the situation would seem to indicate that an encouraging degree of progress has been made in that direction. There are, however, unmistakable indications that very many of the farmers who have been identified with thesetdeveb , ' opments of the cooperative selling idea in this state are notgas well sat- isfied with this progress as the leaders in the movements believe they, should be. It is for this reason that this dis- cussion has been undertaken at this ‘time, to the end that‘a better mutual ,, understanding of the prOblerns involv- ,- ed may be reached and ‘cooperative \\ It is surpris- " “Hem—«W. ‘ “an”? ‘ .‘.,. fit » (in, '1“:HO“ ‘v—w-vavwwl-u \ ,, Servant of the Millions ' W OUNDED on the principle that abusiness earns the right to exist only as it serves, the Ford organiza- tiOn has grown to be more than a business. It is an institution that serves its millions. Through 29,000 service stations in America its stewardship reaches out to every one of the Ford Cars, Ford Trucks and Fordson Tractors on every street, highway and farm the length and breadth of the land. The nearest service to every farm is Ford service—a very potent reason for standardizing on Ford equipment. @0167“?me CARS - TRUCKS ‘ TRACTOKS _ Ask Any Ford Dealer ’5—73‘ .3 -. é 3,57." \N I 9 c. ‘ . 5.: \\Eg ’2 ‘.' ‘ A 1 a! glfig‘au‘fiwmfikx; w. “figs .1_. my insAGRICULTURALNEQS‘ ., AN EXPENSIVE EXPERIMENT. THE government’s experiment in railroad operation under the rail- way administration has cost the tax- payers of this country $1,690,000,000, according to \the report of James -C.’ Davis, director-general of railroads. Mr. Davis says that all claims arising out of government railway control have been settled. WOULD ENCOURAGE CONSUMP- TION 0F MILK IN ENGLAND. AN Englishman, Major Arthur D. Allen, is in this country to find ways and means of getting English people to drink more milk. The milk sold in English cities is not as good as that sold in American cities, accord— ing to Major Allen, owing to lack of proper facilities for handling and dis- tribution /and poor transportation facil- ities. POTATOES GRADE HIGH. HE market specialists of the hu- reau of agricultural economics are pointing to the splendid quality of last season’s potato crop. Of the potatoes produced last year in the nineteen sur- plus late potato states, about sixty- four per cent would grade as U. S. No. 1, or the equivalent state‘grade, ac- cording to reports received from .grow- ers and shippers. age for the same states was sixty per cent. The quality of this year’s crop is particularly good in New York state. BELIEVES THE YEAR AHEAD FULL OF PROMISE. HE outlookifor the farmer in 1924 is more hopeful, reports the com- mittee of statistics and standards of the department of commerce in its re- Last' year the aver-‘ view of general business conditions. The price spread between agricul- tural: products and manufactured arti- cles is becoming less pronounced. The general liquidation of past obligations by farmers is an encouraging feature of the“ agricultural situation. “Upon the whole, the situation seems healthy and strong, with con- servatism strongly in evidence in all sections, and -the general conviction that a continuation of the policy of ‘staying in the middle of the road’ and proceeding along constructive ways is the surest road to progress in the near future.” ' WOULD SIMPLIFY HAY GRADES. _ P UBLIC hearings on the proposed changes in hay grades will be held at the hay standards’ laboratory in the department of agriculture in Wash- ington, January 22. Everybody inter- ested in the subject is invited to come. It is proposed to eliminate some of the classes by slightly increasing amount. of clover in the timothy class, and cut- ting out one clover mixed and two grass mixed classes. Color determina- tions will also be simplified. WOOL GRADES WELCOM ED. VERYBODY engaged in producing, handling or manufacturing wool, including college wool specialists, fav- ors the federal wool grades, according to letters being received by the Fed- eral Department of Agriculture. A prominent wool growers’ associa- tion writes that every one of the 210 members have been benefited by the samples, which have helped to bring about a grading system to be used in 1924. ' The wool specialist at the Ohio State University says he has used the sam- ple grades each year with a class on the subject of. shipper, dealer and man- agement. The samples have also been used during farmers’ week .in'connec- tion with demonstrations in weal grad- ing. , . , ‘ URGING BETTER GRADING OF I FARM PRODUCTS. HE American Railway Association has been cOnducting a campaign to eliminate losses in shipment. Em- ployes have been instructed as to the necessity for better handling of per- ishable' farm products. Producers have been directed to the advantage of the standardized products, carefully grad- ed, and packed in. substantial con- tainers. " The results of this campaign have been very satisfactory. In 1921 the loss and damage claims paid by the railroads on fruits and vegetables amounted to $14,000,000; in 1922, $9,-' 000,000; butter and other dairy pro- ducts in 1921, $820,000; in 1922, $403,- 000; eggs, 1921, $1,000,000; 1922, $711,- 000; live stock, 1921, $3,500,000; 1922, $2,000,000; grain, 1921, $6,000,000;, 1922, $2,750,000. Of the claims for fruits and vegeta- bles, white potatoes were largest, eighteen per cent of the total, and ap- ples came‘next. WANT LOANS CANCELLED. HE northwestern wheat growers are not only asking for a federal appropriation to set them up in the dairy business, but they want relief from payment of the funds theyhave already borrowed from the govern- ment to enable them to buy seed grains, where the crops were cut short by drought. A yield of five bushels or less per acre of wheat or rye, ten bushels of barley, or three bushels of flaxgrown‘in the drought-stricken reg- ions from seed purchased with money borrowed from the federal govern- ment 'istefined as a crop failure in a bill introduced by Representative‘Sin- clair, of North Dakota. The borrower whose yields are not above these fig. ures is released from repayment of loan, and if he has already made pay- ment on his loan, the money shall be returned to him. ' . SENTIMENT FOR DIRT'FARMER Is GROWJNG. HE movement to secure the ap- pointment of a “dirt farmer” on the United States Shipping Board is growing. Senator Willis, cf Ohio, has ' presented to. President Coolidge the names of three farmer condidates for the position, any one of whom he thinks would be acceptable to the farmers of the middle west. They are J. R. Howard, of Iowa,’ late of the American Farm Bureau Federation; H. L. Keefe, of Nebraska, and W. F. Hill, of South Dakota. It is argued that as the United States Shipping Board is to become an advisory regu- latory organizatiOn, occupying practi- cally the same position with ocean shipping, as the Interstate Commerce Commission holds in regard ‘to the railroads, it would be right and proper to have a farmer on the board to look after the producers’ interests in ocean transportation. SEEK INFORMATION ON GRAIN HE senate has adopted the Ladd ‘ resolution directing Secretary Wa1« lace to determine through ,the grain futures administration the extent to which the wheat market is manipulat- ed by professional speculators and members of the large futures commis- sion houses of the Chicago Board of Trade. \ [ EILIR HIRE INDEPENDENT CON. TRAcroR. I expect to build a barn in the spring, and will hire by day. If‘ any of the men meet with an accident, will I be liable for damages ?—A. H. Building of a barn is not farm labor. It is the character of the work done, and not the occupation of the employ- er that decides the question. The rem« edy is to insure or contract the build- ing to an independent contractor.— Rood. WANTS FENCE RESTORED. II bought 160 acres of land. There is no fence on the north end 0f line, the south end is fenced, and that be- longs bo the 160 acres. What would you advise? The north end is all gone, and I want to turn cattle there this spring—F. J. B. , Unless the land against which you wish the fence is “enclosed,” the own-' er cannot be compelled to contribute to the cost of the fence till he uses it. The answer is to be found in the con- dition of the other sides of the oppo- site tract.——Rood. ' SAVING ONION SEED. ' 7 Is it necessary to have a special . drill for sowing onion seed? Do they ‘ have to be thinned by hand, or is it » true that the seed is planted so thin that cultivation is all that is neces- . saer-e-E. F. A. Onion seed is usually sown with an flordinary' garden seed drill. However, there are special: onion drills on the When 5 InquIrIes ,' as SitIsfaciory Serwcs Cannot be GI'van in Human“! Letters market which sow several rows at a time. Regardless of the type of seed- er, great care should be taken in reg- ulating the seed drill before starting, as success depends to a large extent upon a uniform stand of plants. heavy seeding means extra expense in thinning, while a light stand means a lighter crop. A good method is to run the seeder over white paper until a uniform drop is obtained. The usual rate of seeding is four to five pounds per acre. This would require thinning, but insures the grower of a perfect stand. In order to reduce the labor, many growers plant three and one- eighth to three and one-fourth pounds of carefully tested. seed and do not thin. This method results in smaller and less uniform bulbs, but is a great saving in labor. thinning and get a good start, the seed should be germinated accurately.—E. P. Lewis. REFUSES To PAY. In 1922, a. contractor purchased grav- el of me to the extent of $250. I was promised immediate payment for same but when I tried to collect he put me off, saying he would pay when he re- ceived payment from the state, as it was used on a state road. I now hear he has made affidavit to the state that all his materials were paid for, and he has received payment from the, state and will not settle, and‘l cannot collect. What steps should I take2—M. J. Undoubtedly the contractor-isliable personally. Perhaps payment might .be induced by complaint to the prose- _ A , To dispense with _ , cuotr for the perjury in his affidavit. If his responsibility was doubted, no- tice should have been given to the highway commissioners at the time of furnishing the material—Rood. WHO GETS THE STRAW? A. puts in~a field of wheat for B., furnishing everything, paying for all expenses and doing all the work, and received two-thirds of the wheat. Can A. hold any of the straw, there being nothing said about the straw? There was no written contract, only verbal agreement about everything—O. H. A. is' entitled to two-thirds of the straw in the above case, if the under- standing was that«he should receive two-thirds of the crop. The general practice is for the landlord to stand his share, one-third of such expenses as seed, fertilizer, twine and threshing bill, and receive one-third of the crop. —F. T. Riddell. OF NOTE SHOULD BE INDORSER , . NOTIFIED. . A.“ lends B. $100 for one year. B. giVes common note, At end of year A. fails to present note for payment un- til six months afterward. B. refuses to pay note and is not worth it. . A. notifies the signer and he refuses to pay, saying A. should have notified as soon as the note was due. A. secured the note for only one year. Is it nec- essary to take anew noteveach year if time~is~~extended?—-J. S. "It is not necessary to take renewal . 'when the note becomes due, butvin'. 31;: (181' to hold any indorser, it is necessary. to present the note at the place speci-. tied for payment at the date it is due, and if not paid to notify the indorser of such default at once unless over his indorsement he waves presentation and notice—Rood. ‘ ‘ * PREVENTING”E66UST§ FROM SPROUTING. In regard to your question on the cutting of locust, would reply that the best time in the year to cut locust in order to prevent their sprouting is in the summer so that the sprouts which spring up will still be succulent in the fall and,hence be killed back by the frost. Locust, however, has great sprouting ability and the stumps will push out new sprouts in the spring which, however, will not grow nearly as vigorously as the first set of sprouts. To‘prevent absolute sprouting of lo- cust it is suggested that after the trees have been removed that the stumps be painted with a solution of arsenic, which should kill them and thus prevent sprouting. This solution is prepared by adding one pound of arsenic and three pounds of soda to one gallon of water. First dissolve the soda in boiling water and then slowly stir in the arsenic and alloysr it to boil for about a half hour. Arsenic is a deadly poison and care should, be tat: en to see that‘people andanimals m f 3m J ‘thé ms has wash the k t 3W8! 1:170:11. the poisoned W X». '. M‘M '_UVII'I—‘IV‘FIF'—l-"u . I l l i l Aunts massed . ' ‘ xularr, ‘~ ' o ll‘ MICHIGAN growers of the new -' Hardlgan alfalfa have an unusual opportunity at the coming show of the Michigan Crop Improvement Associa- . tion during Farmers’ Week at M. A. C. 4 The Solvay Process Company is of- fering 20 tons of Pulverized Limestone for the best peck of Hardigan alfalfa " exhibited at this time. 'This amount ‘ of the Solvay product will properly lime 10 acres. of ordinary sour land and make it suited to alfalfa growing, and is worth considerably more than $100 to the farmer who grows alfalfa. Hardigan is. the new variety of alfalfa developed by M. A. C. plant breeders. It ranks with Grimm and other of the hardier varieties in its ability to produce forage abundantly and withstand severe Fwinters, two years testing at the College finding it , Eight at the top. ' It combines with this productivity a. very profuse blossoming habit, which makes it the most dependable variety for Michigan seed production. More than fifty farmers of this state have made a start With Hardigan The Silver Fox is Fast Becoming a Part of Farm Live Stock Raising. for seed production, and most of them will exhibit their seed at Farmers’ Week. Interested farmers will have considerable opportunity to learn more of alfalfa seed production during the Farmers’ Week activities—R. SWEATIhLG ROOT CELLAR. Will you please tell me how to keep my root cellar from sweating? I have built a cellar in a hill, with 3.6-inch pipes in roof, and leave the door open ' all the time, but the water drips from the walls—A. W. F. Moisture on the walls and ceiling of a root cellar may result from one of .two causes. It may be that the roof of the cellar is not thoroughly water- proof, and you have 'some seepage from the soil above. The remedy would be to remove the soil, wash the roof thoroughly, give it a coat of hot asphalt or give it a thin coat of a rich' mixture of cement, using one part of sand and one of cement. Carefully troweling the surface ‘would help to make this layer waterproof. , ‘ It is more probable that the mois- ture is the result‘of condensation on the walls. ‘ This is caused by the walls of the cellar having a lower tempera- ture than the air in the cellar. The openings in the roof are probably not large enough to permit a sufficient es- cape of air to carry out the ‘moisture and keep the humidity low. -Also, if the entrance to the cellar is not at or below the ground level there would be condensation. .An out-take flue one square foot in sectional area is sufficient to ventilate a storage cellar with a capacity of” 2,500 cubic feet. If doors and'windows are not used for intakes the intakes sEould- be of somewhat greater ca- pacity—F. E. Fogle. ‘ ' WANT FARME'R ON SHIPPING ' BOARD. ' M ANY persons have been asking the President to‘appoint a farmer on the United States Shipping Board. 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F orty- r. -. ~ Praise 8:; 'Reproof. For» Us ‘ M ic/zigran Potato“ Aroma Comment 0] Potato Armi'iatz'm Of America . ’. _ ,-MONG the 3,500 scientific men all over the United States and Canada, who met in Cincinnati last week to discuss all the sciences from astrology to zoology at the an— nual meeting ofthe American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, were a large number of the leading potato experts in the country. ' In separate sessions,’ the various problems pertaining to the potato bus- iness were carefully analyzed and dis- cussed. Almost eyery important po- tato-producing state from Maine to Minnesota was represented by some of its experts-buyers, and growers. The matter of fertilizers and control of diseases received some attention, but by far the greatesr part of the dis- cussion was devoted to the marketing problem. To a quiet listener from Michigan this meeting presented the. experience of “seeing ourselves as,others see us.” We in Michigan have been boosting our potatoes so much that we have failed to observe what other folks think of our product and we have missed some very pertinent facts— facts such as were presented at the Cincinnati conference, as well as those revealed in the discrimination of prices against our potatoes. We can do this gracefully by accepting this outstanding fact that Michigan produc- es some' of the best potatoes in the world, and also some of the poorest. By mixing them up and trying to get the consumer to take all of them, we are receiving less for them than grow- ers from other states, compelled by state law or adverse circumstances to separate the poor from the good, re- ceive for the good ones. The consumer determines the price and he will not buy the mixture except-at a great re- duction. -< When methods for securing higher prices for potatoes were discussed it was surprising how closely three speakers, representing three distinct selling agencies, agreed. A represent- ative of a corporation in Boston which handles hundreds of cal-loads a year said, “If our growers furnish us with high-quality potatoes we can always make a sale that is satisfactory to pro— ducer, consumer and ourselves. It is the poor stuff that wrecks the mar— ket.” The representative of a cooper- ative association said, by orderly marketing we can get the price, pro vided we can keep the quality up.” A large potato producer from New York said, “I always get from fifteen to twenty—five cents more per bushel than my neighbor because I make it a point to grade better than is required for U. S. No. 1.” In other words, they all agree that proper grading provides the quality for which the consumer pays a price that brings profit to the pro- ducer. . Naturally, the question arose as to Why Michigan lagged behind her sister states in enactment and enforcement of proper grading laws. We Were told that “we understand that some forces were bitterly opposed to such a law in 1918 and they built up public senti- ment against it.” Mr. C. W. Waid, now of Ohio, but formerly of Michigan, confirmed this. From all this it would seem that the Michigan potato has fallen into dis- repute because of improper grading. The most powerful factor in the world —the consumer—has decreed that either the producer must keep his poor potatoes at home or accept a discount as well as paying the extra handling charges. This fact was confirmed at the convention at Cincinnati, and pointedly applied to Michigan. Some bouquets, however, were hand- ed to Michigan when the certified seed was discussed. Dr. E. ,L. Nixon, Po- tato Specialist” of the State College of Pennsylvania, commented very gener- L ously on northern Michigan’s seed pot. tatoes. Mr. E. C. Hardenburg,~of New York State, spoke highly of the exhib- Its of seed potatoes seen at the Grand Rapids show. Favorable mention of the Top 0’ Michigan Potato Show was also made. Where an entire afternoon was de- . voted to the discussion as to the men- ace of scab on potatOes, several citing cases of seeing acres of potatoes dug without a single bushel salable on ac- count of scab, it was pointed out that Michigan’s Rural Russet was practi- cally immune to it. Naturally, that makes our seed more popular. The impression here made was that Michigan can produce as good pota: toes as can be grown under the s” and when the shippers leave the poor ones at home, the buyers ahd consum- ers will recognize it and we will have an equal show with the rest of the states in markets of the country. AFTER THE HIGH SALARIES. A BILL to amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, introduced by Senator Borah, of Idaho, promises to develop some interesting discussion in commit- tee hearings. Its aim is evidently to “get” Judge Lobdell, who resigned from the Federal Farm Loan Board with its $10,000 a year salary and soon after was appointed counsel of the board at a salary of $25,000 a year. . The bill would supplant the present Federal Farm Loan Board with a new« ly created board, including the secre- tary of the treasury and four members to be appointed by the President. The members shall devote their entire time to the business of the board and shall receive 'an annual salary of $8,500. It also provides that no salary of any official, employe, attorney or agent of the Federal .Farm Loan Board, Federal Land Banks 01: the Federal Intermedi- ate Credit Banks shall be in excess of v $8,500 per annum, and that all em- ployes of the board who receive an annual salary in excess of $3,500 shall hereafter be appointed by the Presi- dent with the consent of the senate. FARMERS PETITION FOR LOWER TAXES. . -PETITION two miles long and bearing the signatures of 345,516 farmers asking that congress cut gov- ernment expenditures so that taxes may be thereby reduced, was present- ed in the house on January 7, by Rep. resentative George P. Darrow, of Pennsylvania. ' Of the signers to this petition, 67",970 were from Ohio, 30,739 from Indiana, 29,073 from Iowa, 23,780 from Penn- sylvania, 22,000 from Kansas, 21,472 from Wisconsin, 20,594 from Minne- sota, 19,362 from Texas, 17,408 from ‘ Michigan, 16,469 from Nebraska, and 14,114 from Kentucky. There is an insistent demand com- ing from all parts of the country for economy in government and tax re«' duction. The administration’s plan for a. cut in taxes, is a clean-cut, workable proposition that would accomplish this object. Senator Capper undoubtedly voices the sentiment of a large number of farmers when he says that “tax relief should come first to those upon whom the burden bears the heaviest. The man who works for his income, farm- er or laborer, and the man who derives it from his ability, initiative and capi—z tal invested in his business, factory or farm, should be given real relief. He should not be penalized by- securities and stock dividend melons.” '1 PreSident Coolidge is opposed to the compromise proposals on the ground that they] ’gdiscourage. investment in businésé. 'enterpfiseéi‘ljathér “IEn “1 ’ taxi-free securities. ., A V w...” W ,— f . two. dollars above the cost of produc- rs . “opihién- held’brmany that. , , F harvested beans," these that were :cut after the. heavy rains that pre- “trailed "dining the early fall mouths, would be greatly, superior in quality to . those ,cut during the wet weather, has "not beenvsubstantiatedjby facts. - . ‘ 'While the beams? that stood upright andrbushy undoubtedly did benefit by being left standing until dry weather came, the same was not true of; those ' that'spread over the ground in a viney‘ manner. The pods on these grew on or near to the ground where the rain washed the soil up and around them. These have proven to be the heaviest pickers ' to come onto the market. Beans of this sort, were they ripe dur- ing the rainy season, would have fared much better if they had been cut, 'for they could have been turned, keeping them at least out of the ground. Beans raised on low ground tend to 'spreadxover the soil like pusley. A great many of the pods on vines of this type are close to or directly upon the ground and are badly damaged during excessive rainfall. On this type of soil a strain of bean should be planted that possesses as far as possible a tendency to develop an upright bushy stalk. The chemical composition of the soil can be im-' proved by adding elements that con- tribute to the developing of a firm up- right stalk—G. Ever-m. Michigan-grown Spuds of Real Quality. LIKES. WATER SYSTEM seer. Y husband has bought and made ~ several household conveniences for me, but the one I enjoy the most is a water‘ system, including washing machine and wringer run by a two and one-half horsepower gasoline en- gine. He has piped both hard and. soft water into the basement and kitchen so that I have no- carrying of heavy pails when washing ,or doing ' other housework. The system is sup- plied with two thirty-gallon hot water tanks so that an ample supply is al‘ ways at hand when we have a furnace fire- In winter the furnace heats the” water and in summer a laundry stove with a hot water jacket is used. As the." 00K at your farm as a factory. is it turning out enough of the profitable crops to pay you a proper return on your investment? Or are you burdened with "loafer"land that ought to be earning money? Farmers who are planting more of the right crops are mak- ing good money today. in l923, crops brought, on the average, 2l% more than in 1922, according to Government figures. Increase your profits by reclaiming your waste land—wand partly cultivated land—removing stumps and boulders and draining swamps. More crops on more land mean more cash in the bank. Du Pont provides the'most efficient tools—- explosives, made for agricultural work, the result of '22 years’ experience—Dumorite or Red Cross Extra for stump blasting, 50 or 60% Straight Dynamite for ditching? Let your local hardware Or general store estimate the cost of your work, and write us for free I lO—page,“Farmers' Hand- book of Explosives,” giving full instructions. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURIS St CO., INC. McCormick Bldg, ' Hartley liltlg" , Chicago, 111. Duluth, Mm. he put in the furnace and did all the - piping himself thezeost was not great. i --M. E. Skelton.‘ . ’ HOW INCREASED ACREAGE PRO- DUCTION CUT COSTS. ERE is a specific case of reduc- ing costs by increasing per acre yield. The Cornell experiment station investigators found a wide variation from a‘ first-hand study of accaunts made on farms growing peas. The returns for man labor on 80 farms growing an average of 2,989 pounds of peas per acre was $1.59 per hour; on 101 farms averaging 2,138 per acre the returns were 83 cents per hour, and on farms averaging 1,492 pounds per acre the returns for man labor were but 31 , .“cents per. hour. While the group of ‘ farms giving the largest acreage yield 1 produced crops at an average cost of g the with the} group of lowest yield- 1 ~ era.“ me._,msomp on. .the ~ largest Yield- , fauna was. 3.62. per, . acre-steami- .. ithgéfnghtse'xt yielding magma . _j : 681,6 2. d3 . F0 Twa. T d ‘ misstatm'tf‘smit 1 r men. Open dninm tiling or lrri- , cation. Low Price. Owens Weber 5 Brad" 00., Inc. 2015 mm for Ford Trucks ’ Cir/0r AUXILIARY ANSMISSION New you can afford real Z—ton truck capacity No need to cramp yourself on hauling. Warford transmiSo sion in the Ford pulls 2 tons in gumbo, loam or up a moun— -» tainside. Gives you overdrive , for high speed running light. You never saw such all-around performance. Costs you $1500 less than any truck that does as much. Lowest upkeep. .IfyourFord dealer can’t supply you, write to us. TransmissionSal‘es Co. STOCKBRIDGB, MICH. It PAYS to GRIND ALLGRAINS Look to the Grinders. They do the work I Bowsher's Cone - Shape , grinders are the correct principle 6 in Fwd Mill construction. They \‘ mean larger grinding surface close tocenterof Shaft;thus Ion Capacity. Usher Draft. Longer Life. as:- rsftra: weird-am was: :1: Nu“:- ‘ms' . . was... a. rep-in." R. .175“. Noises‘mtoZEHJ’. was. ‘~‘ : T , 4‘5": A New and Better NEW IDEA SPREADER THIS announcement is of interest to every farmer in America: . . fA new, and better NEW IDEA Spreader —- the crowning achievement of twenty—five years of undisputed leadership! The NEW IDEA is the original loW—loading, wide—spreading spreader. Practically every big improvement in spreader mane _ ufacture has originated in the NEW IDEA plant. And now—- on the’ eve of its SILVER ANNIVERSARY—NEW IDEA offers greater dollar—for'dollar value than ever before! All NEW IDEA dealers will soon have this new spreader on display. Its new features, such as its steel construction, will be a revelation to you —and it will be priced at a figure that will interest you. THE NEW IDEA TRANSPLANTER Here is another big achievement of the NE\V IDEA organization— a new and better transplanter that takes the guess—work out of plant—setting. The NEVVvIDEA is the first and only transplanter with the driver's seat behind the plant setters. All the work is under the direct control of the driver. He engineers the job. \ See both of these new and better machines—the NEW IDEA Spreader and the NEW IDEA Trance planter—at your NEW IDEA dealer’s. Write today for 11' 'in- - “ formation on either machine, or both. ----'--------—- I nu: NEW lDEA SPREADER co., _‘. THE NEW IDEA . . SPREADER co. I Wm" °'“°' I "Spica ‘1" SM,“ 1,“... 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An all . Qualit at Bargain Prices Emu mesa are lower becanee— uro n from Inigo warehouses in Chicago. Prieeaas / 'nllal'nnd mmgfilnuare cheapergye b u in low a: .80 (nwoney down). 0:- on em . Moo-qua ea; mammot- ae- moathlypaylne ‘, ' cmbwhoicktraeeazwoaelldiroet toyon WT. VODAY for ulcer and descriptive folder. Made in all risen. , run "an IEPMAM one. am. no us sum n..am. ,1; France, Germany. Belgium and Denmark. ‘for a day or so. M terror for‘the American tourist whose _- travels and dreams abound with hot- _ n s‘ssAc'mAw on ‘v FKRMER" _ BEAwficHAMPIDNt ‘ 1; x of the running. for the state bean grower championship. While McCreary had a production of 222 \bushels from a. seven-acre'fleld, Dennison harvested 196 bushels from 5.11 acres. Robust beans were the 'va- riety in both casos.‘ McCreary’s yield was 31.714 bushels per acre, while Dennison had 38.356 bushels, or 6.642 vbushels more. per acre than the former record. Who ‘can beat this? Who is the champion bea grower of the state ?——Mills. » HOW I SAVE TIME DOING CHORES.» . FTER walking through the feed room, I take fork and clean. man- gers. Our central. feed alloy is twelve inches higher than the bottom of the mangers, which have no partitions. With the fork I clean these mangers as fast as I can walk down one side and back on the other. Then I am ready to feed silage. ' I fork the silage only once from the time it. goes through the silage door till i: is at the manger of the cows. This I am able to do through the'use. of a silage. cart: and a box with slant- ing/bottom located in the silo chute. The cart has a box twcniy—six inches deep and twenty-six inches wide, and five feet long on top and four feet at the bottom. It is supported by three wheelsw—iwo buggy wheels at. the sides running on a drop-axle, and in front an old wheelbarrow wheel with the hub sawed off and fitted into a. swine fork made by ”the local black- smith. Didn"t: cost much, but with its aid I can feed my thirty cows in less than ten minutes. ' The box in iho silo chute is large enough to hold a second car load. It is so arranged that ihe cart can be placed along one side and both filled as tho silage is pitched from. the, silo door. A piece of canvas prevents the silage from falling over ihu sides of the box. One side of the box is slat gate. When I have delivered the cart full oi.‘ silage lo the cows, 1 return, set the. cart. along the side of the box by the gate, raise it and the silage slides down the slanting boilom and fills the (“all again. This provides enough silage to complete the feeding. When the cows are. led silage, I go to the feed room with the cart, Shove on a box of grain and march down “main street." again, giving each cow, the portion of grain shv desm'vcs. Every cow, call" and bull has a. drink- ing cup so it requires no time to do the watering. I keep all the young stock in a pen on one side of the feed alley. These pens are supplied with stanchions. When the feed is placed in the manger and each call’ has his or her head in a stanchion, I simply pull a chain and all are secured. The gutters behind] the cows are twenty inches wide, twvlvc inches deep on the side next. the, cows, and eight inches deep on the other side. The manure is taken from the gutters, thrown into the carrier which, when full, is shoved over and dumped into the spreader. It is then drawn direct- ly to the field. The gutters are wide enough so that, in case. of bad weath- er, I can allow the manure -to collect I am now building a manure pit to use in rainy weather and during the busy weeks of the year. By these conveniences I save a lot of time, enough to permit me to .do considerable work in addition to look- ing after the herd.—--L. Bradford, Kent County. " '- is being consumed iii-Germany has no -. :R. W. n: DENNISON, Saginaw , county farmer, is out vwith_a ', claim that puts the record of Fred, . McCreary, Midland county farmer, out i a movable . The news item telling that dog meat. . "h..- Arfer30 Pays 7278i gentler mybiznewlree lame. book. ' . " ell. how I send Walsh N B' Home“ on N flayo'l'ree trial. Use lt—-prove (atom . that ill: atronger. easier to handle. Outweori buckle harness became it baa no buckler to tear ltrapa. no than to wear them. no buckle holes to weaken them. Amazing mean—thousand.“ one in every lute. . s. (Zolol:awl.ruba-—.I Wears Long or veareoa rs. sh Ipeclal 900rt it i is explained in bi (no book. cc flaw“; will? ' any size horse. Ma 2 in allotyleo: backpad.aide'backlt . breechlnglesgete. $5 ihr days (rink—balance ll ' ‘ paid monthly. Return to me it not aatiafa’c- ' Cory. ertetoday l or my his free book, prices. easy terms. Sold. to you by mail only. I I. M. WALSH. Pros. NESS 4n. V , v. . , . h. fiwmamm lnts. ere" direct to you eel. Save ~M‘ :rofaetion. 1" Edwards .“Roo” Metal Shingles ' rrwam'meamaamm Goeourwondertnlly ' low ieea and- free , “In. pomweseu. , to m . Samples 31 .quomg Sooki at of It. We can ' . now sell Ext-ell Metal -' j.‘ fins. 28 anus - .. .. .. . . . gated at only $3.45 per 100 In. ft. painted. Galvanised . onlfi 84.80. If you have been waiting for metal roo n2 cal to come down. here they are—di- rect from factory prices—lower than you can get anywhere clan. Send for our New Catalog covering all at lg Metal Rooting. Siding. Shins Rig zinc. eilinz, etc" will save you money. PREPARED noorm our 3105 Don’t buy Roofing, Paints. Fencing. Gas Engines, Titer—anything on need until you get our latest catalog. on can see and try our roofing before youpay. aol onlnoney back guar- antee. Write for Money Saving Catalog today. ‘The llnilod Flamenco. “3.?“er _ SPOHN’S — DISTEMPER . COMPOUND g1 Horses and Mules can be kept on their feet and work- ing if owners give “SPOHN’S” for Distemper,lnfluenza, Shipping Fever Coughs and Colds. Chea est and surest means of escaping t ese dis- eases. Occasional doses work won- ders. Give “SPOHN’S” for Dog Distemper. Used .for thirty years. 60 cents and $1.20 at drug stores. " SPOHN MEDICAL Co. COSHEN. lup.UfS.A. . mainland ' . sun-ts oilero And Tub all other can on leprwentmileuemowen oxib , ' on o t on low. Model: 'orany truek.tnotor,marinaoa stationary ma Makes can better than new. Suourwondo‘rttlmilmmran for um. ml. 300.. ”.2431“. Mum l. Bulekd...flml. Muslim. ramps) 30%. MB...wth0Ht3....g::-. Emé'iragli Hm... In ... Ml" .. ' maul. Douro dog signs. . ‘11s 7? simmer- 25‘“ -sa‘JiFNEwW‘Ae-bm». an e ' A, .1" . . claw—fl MM “his“... 4..-, .~] ' ADVISES FARM-E'RS’TO snow seep POTATOES. l . ' EPORTING‘on an investigation of ‘ the method of growing certified seed potatoes employed by Mr. 'John De 'Longchamp of Champion, Mr. A. J. Lonsdorf, county agricultural agent of Dickinson County, says this grower has about the coldest spot in Mich- igan for a. winter residence, but ideal for grewing potatoes in the summer season, where there is good air drain- age and where Lake Superior breezes can reach his fields and prevent-un- seasonable frosts. . The record the past season was about .421 bushels per acre on this farm, and Mr. Lonsdorf reports neither large nor small potatoes in the bins. Mr. De Longchamp has practiced hill selection for years, taking hills that have from six to ten nice uniform seed potatoes and [only hills that showed good health all summer. In this fashion he has developed a uni- _iorm tyne that run about eight ounces each. .Seed potatoes on this farm are placed from ten to twelve inches apart in the row, thus preventing over-sized potatoes on very rich soil. Flat culti- vation is employed. Thus moisture is conserved and root-cutting prevented. Barnyard manure and phosphates on clover sod are used. Planting five to six inches deep in the early spring is the rule. This year, reports the agent, every seed' potato yielded a disease free plant. . Mr. Lonsdorf is advising his farmers not to grow tablepotatoes for the Chicago market, but to grow seed potatoes instead, for which there is a strong demand, where northern Mich- igan stock is involved. “w. “-. .... , - 1' n; < QM * _ .vndumr‘.“ is“ , , am; E... Wm MWM . ’1 DISTRIBUTE GARDEN PRIZES T its annual distribution of prizes in the flower and vegetable gar- den contests, the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, one of the largest corpora- tions operating in the Upper Penin- sula, recently distributed $490 to resi- dents of Ishpeming, Negaunee, North Lake, Republic, Iron River, Gwinn, Princeton and Alston. This is an an- nual event looking to the improvement of gardening in the district. , Some years ago Chippewa County established an agricultural school with private aid, under the name of the Dunbar Agricultural School. Under existing auspices it proved not to be a success and as a school it has been discontinued. An; effort has since been made to interest the Michigan Agricultural College in a proposal to use this school as a preparatory school for the college. Work of the two lower years might, it is pointed out, be carried on at this and similar schools throughout the state, thus re- ‘0 lieving congestion at East Lansing and permitting students to remain nearer home. Variety in local conditions could thus be recognized and smaller classes handled. It is stated that the College will reach a decision on the Dunbar project following a soil sur- vey next spring. WISH CATTLE TESTED.» T is announced from Sault Ste. Marie that Rudyard dairymen have requested the State Department of Agriculture that about 200 of their dairy cattle be tested for tubercu- losis. The reason given is their de- sire to protect their families and cus- tomers from infection. They point out that it will cost $30 to $35 to winter a tubercular cow, which mean- while may infect well cattle in the herd. It was desired to clean up these herds because of the increased danger of communication of tubercu- losis in the barns in winter. Rudyard farmers took this step voluntarily. They are establishing fine herds and developing a prosperous milk and cream business, which it is desired to protect. Dairy products instead of hay is becoming the basis of agriculture here. ,TH ESE RANCH ERS ARE SUCCEEDING. S EVERAL years ago, when western ranchers were in severe difficul— ties because of drought on the ranges, numbers of them moved into the Upper Peninsula to take advan- tage of the great extent of well—grass- ed range in this section. Some 'of these ranchers, it is well known, did not make good here, because western methods were not adapted to this sec- tion, and because many did not suc- ceed in solving satisfactorily the prob- lem of winter feeding. An exception to this condition ap- pears to be Mr. John Cassabone, of Kenton, who is reported to be winter~ ing 900 ewes and is marketing 600 lambs. He reports the average per year cost of keeping these lambs to be $3 per head, while the proceeds from the sale of them is expected to yield about $6 per head. Meanwhile, an Ontonagon County farmer reports unusual success in dis— posing of two carloads of lambs and sheep on the Chicago market. He dis— covered that Upper Peninsula sheep have there a reputation for dressing out a higher percentage than is com- mon with other sheep. He says his grass-fed sheep from the Upper Penin- sula sold for a better price than corn- fed sheep from Missouri. A worker is known by the condition of his tecls. \Vhere, and in what con- dition are yours? . 1. _. . 7"; “Nirvana at ' gvfiitnl Me’e‘tlnurfings'o com‘mon‘OVQr the State. {st-"gm Kn owledge is Foundln the Field and _ Seed Growers, Philadelphia ‘ V we pram ‘ ' - first» new: ”igssos e” THE LEADINGAMERICAN SEED CATALOG LANTERS in all parts of America are coming more and more to realize that it pays to sow good seeds. Burpee Quality Seeds are the standard by which others are judged. It is well known that the House of Burpee has introduced more distinct new vegetables and flowers that are now in general cultivation than have any three other American Seed Houses combined. For 1924 we are offering Some of the finest new varieties that have been introduced in recent years. Amongst the Burpee Novelties is our wonderful New Sweet Pea, The President Harding, which was named by special permis- sion of the late President of the United States. In our new catalog we are also now offering for the first time the Philadelphia Bush Lima, which is the earliest and most prolific of all Lima Beans, and the two New Sweet Corns,Delicious and Sunnybrook,which are a newdevelop— ment out of our famous Golden Bantam. New Giant Snap- dragons, New Zinnias, New Dahlias, New Gladioli,[and a New Self-Pruning Tomato are some of the new crea- tions which are offered this year exclusively by W. Atlce Burpee Company. , Burpee’s Annual is our catalog. It is the catalog that tells the plain truth about the Best Seeds That Grow. If you are interested in gardening Burpee’s Annu 1] will be mai‘ed to you free. Write for your Annual» today. Just tear out the coupon and fill in your name and address below, TEAR HERE W. ATLEE BURPEE CO. ——————-————_——_—_ ————_——.—_———~_n Please send me a free copy of Burpee’s Annual. Name R. D. 0r Street _. ' - State ' Poetflffice‘w ~ .. i Help Farmers Get Ahead. THROUGH membership in /a mighty cooperative loan sySa tem, nearly 300,000 farmers are paying off their mortgages. Through the twelve Federal Land Banks these farmers are securing better terms and lower interest rates. Be51des, every borrower shares in the profits earned Already, more than $7,000,000 has been paid as dividends. Money for these mortgage loans is gotten through the sale of Federal Land Bank Bonds. Money invested in these Bonds helps to build up the farming business by providing needed capital. Federal Land Bank Bonds have all the safety of good farm . mortgages, plus additional guarantees. Federal Land Bank Bonds are free from all taxes, except "inheritance taxes. Interest received from them is free from income taxes. You can turn Federal Land Bank Bonds into cash on short notice or use them as security for a bank loan. Federal Land Bank Bonds yield a regular income, payable twice a year. Price and interest rate on request. Federal Land Bank Bonds may be had in denominations to fit your bank account: $40, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. Your choice of coupon or registered form, delivered by registered mail. Correspondence confidential. Remember, the words “The Federal Land Bank” appear at the top of every bond issued by, a Federal Land Bank. Should you desire a Federal Farm Loan, apply to the _Secre— tary—Treasurer of the nearest National Farm Loan Assocxatlon. Your County Agent can give his name and address. Write today for free pamphlet, “Getting Together To Get Ahead.” Address the near— est Federal Land Bank or the Fiscal Agent at Washington. D. C. Support your only national cooperative lending and investing system, by putting your surplus funds into Federal Land Bank Bonds. . ' Federal Land Banks are located at . B u , , federal land Bank bond} Columbia, S. C. ' fi ld.Mass. St. Louis, Mo. Louisville, Ky. gianér‘leans, La. Berkeley, Cal. 'St. Paul. Minn. Houston,Texas Wichita, Kansas Omaha, Nebr. Baltimore, Md. Spokane.Wash. o Fiscal Agent FEDERAL LAND. BANKS Washington, D. C. How Federal Land Banks 0‘ 0' 1 $90 I from MD Clipped ’ ‘3 Grown FromSelectStoclI Cows ‘ —None Better— 54 years It pays tochp u d d e r , flanks and underline of stabled cows once a month. Clip them all agar this 9 {lug ClKeeras them _in t we mreehifilinl‘i?bucé‘i’iit.°%ll§ in. Stewart No. l Clipping Machine Best made. Bell bearing. Easy running. ONDOM- IAIN Ioo‘g. Blmple to use. At den - are $12.76: or send and any balance on dellw on. Gunnnteed connector: or money back. CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT COMPANY ~ selling good seeds to satisfied customers. Prices below all others. Extra lot free in all orders . I fill. Bil free cata- logue has over 700 pictures of vegetables and flowers. Send your andneighbors’addresses. I. II. SHUMWAV. Rockford. I IBARGAIN CATALOG of Fruit Trees. plants. Ornamentnls. Garden and . Flower Seeds. 3 m 4—foot Apple 25c: 3-foot Pest-h 20c qu§§76r§mk¢$°éihgfifi° h each postps'ld. Send for 1924 catalog of Reliable M Mm... Comb“ “by," Ms“ Trees and . Allen’s Nursery Seed House. Geneva. th0. Time spent with a Planet Jr. seeder or wheel hoe in the garden pays the biggest cash return on the farm. Grow what you eat and , keep that 40¢ at . e Departm nt of Agriculture says is what the American farm home spends out oi every food dollar for “store” food. Planting with the Planet Jr. No. 4 combination drill and wheel hoe is a matter of minutes. Use the horse hoe if you will, the wheel hoe for closer work. I \ Planet Jr. implements are made by a house specializing for 50 years on seeding and cultwationequipment, the largest manufacturers of field and gap den tillage tools excluswely in the world. The new catalogue tells the story. Get one from your dealer or from us. S. L. ALLEN & CO., Inc. ‘ Largest Manufacturers of S ' I' J Field and Garden Tools in 71:33:57.! ”‘P‘ 5” nah... ; Planet Jr. . 5th & Glenwood Ave. Look for "Planet Jr. ” Lars THE ens {MANDO IT. ‘man. My supply tank for keroe sene for the tractor is elevated eight feet. The oil man carries his five-gal- lon can up the steps and fills this sup- ply tank. A pipe leads from this tank down to within reach so all I need to do when I want to fill the tractor is to insert end of hose in tractor tank, turn a valve and in due season’ the job is done without an effort on my part. ’lsually, I can have the tractor oiled by the time the tank is filled—L. Bradford. WANT BREAD LOAVES STAND. , ARDIZED. IT is believed that much is lost by consumers owing to short weight loaves of bread. To remedy this evil, ‘Representative Brand, of Ohio, has in-, “ i troduced a bill, known as the “Federal 'Bread Act,” to establish standard ,weights for loaves of bread. I only provides that each loaf of: bread shall weigh one pound, one and one— :half pounds, or a multiple of one ipOund averdupois weight, but shall be i completely wrap ed in a. manner so as ’ ,to exclude contamination. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION DEFENDS COOPERATIVES. I g i HE Minneapolis Chamber of Com- ; merce, the largest grain exchange I in the United States, has been ordered lby the federal trade commiSsion to I cease unfair methods of competition in ‘its efforts to destroy farmers’ cooper- ative grain markets and to retain its monopoly of the grain trade in Min- lleapolis. The farmers’ organization concerned is the Equity CooperaLiVo Exchange, with the Minneapolis market because it returned the earnings in excess of expenses to the grain growers in the i form of patronage dividends. 5‘ “False and misleading statements [‘concerning the financial responsibility land methods of transacting business in grain by the Equity Cooperative Ex- Ichange,” the commission found, were lmade “by respondent: chamber of Icommerce of Minneapolisin trade and daily papers, including the Coopera- tive Manager and Farmer and the Na- tional Grain Grower. In these papers the Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce pretended to offer expert advice on cooperative marketing of grain at the same time conducting a'campaign ing," it is alleged by the federal trade commission. WANT DAIRY DIVISION. HE Federal Reserve Board bulletin agricultural situation which is out- standing in point of accuracy and prac- tical conclusions. Leading dairymen are pointing out, however, that While grain, live stock, cotton, tobacco and other branches of farm production are given attention, no consideration is given the dairy industry; It is thought that this great industry, the largest in the United States, is worthy of more attention than it is receiving from the governmental departments. A group of dairy organization lead- ers, headed by M. D. Munn, president of the American Jersey Cattle Club, have been ill Washington in the inter- est of the proposal to advance the dairy division to a, bureau in the de- partment of agriculture. Mr. Munn considers the dairy industry the great- He says we have increased the con- sumption of dairy products in this country sixteen per cent in the last two years, and he predicts that the in- crease in consumption of milk will be larger during'the next two years. To meet this increase he says the dairy- men will have to produce more efll- . kciently. . HERETB how I put it over the oil ' 'It not. i l i l i l . . . ‘and was relused busmess connection 1 against cooperative -terminal market-1 gives a monthly summary of the- est stabilizing influenCe in agriculture. , Fruit Fog Sprayers Mechanically perfected—not only guararr teed to develop 300 pounds pressure ear' in, year out but. so simply m construct on that there is little to get. out of order. Every part is eatslly accessible. The «pump is corrosion- proo . - Pay No More Than You Want You can» pay whatever you went'for Ha es Sprayers. Vie quote them in sizes rang n‘ from 3% to 16 male. per minute. with or with out. trucks. engines or special equipment. Hayes Power prayers vary in capacity only. The smallest maintains same pre- sure and is as efficient and satisfac. tory as largest size. SEND FOR CATALOG showing power Spra ore. for every spraying need. A in l line of barrels. bucket. wheelbarrow and other hand sprayer-s at prices that are right. 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RSERY co. 313“”, N” Fuiboult. mail. ‘KNIGHT’S Strawberry—Ila:pherry-Jlackberr y Currant—Qooseherry—GrapeuAsparagus Same high quality we have supplied for nearly 40 years, but we have made A Big Reduction in Prices" Our catalog tells how to grow big crops of fine fruit from Champion—Tho Boot Evorbenror , and many standard varieties. Cultural direc- tions make the book of great value—but we send it free. write today. DAV-in KNIGHT s. 80H, Box 28. Sawyer. Mich. . BERRY PLANTS W More and Better / Wome gownfyruit ' to eat and preserve. 7101061? to beautify the grounds. Our New Catalog Illustrated in ndtural colors from actual specimens, is yours for the asking. ‘ CHASE BROTHERS COMPANY " - Tbs Ruhutn‘ Nururiu Service Dept. D Rochester, N. Y. sixty-seventh Year STRAWBERRY PLANTS Raspberry. Blackberry, Grape. etc. Complete line rea- sonably priced. Thirty years experience. Illustrated Cat- alog free]. N. Bohiy (5 Son. 8. 6. Bridgman, Mich. Stvevensille ‘ Strawberryl’lan . 0 ll mm... m... m- f""f“% m ‘ . ' as: W... L}? gé‘tgmm iam“? mango, '- 3”. n. P’” p a”. n. P’" .1 qu int at the Tax Rells M y T ax Receipt Reveals Some Interesting I ”for/72am): . By L. B. Reber ’ LL aboard folks, jump right on for a free ride; I am going to ride my pet hobby and there is plenty of room for you. A nice storm has caused me’ to hole up‘for a while and I.have spent some time analyzing my tax. receipt. A rough but fairly accurate analysis of the little piece of paper shows the following results: Per Cent. State tax ............ . ..... *. . _.11 45 County tax .................... 38.14 School tax ... . . ..... .. ......... 11.58 Township tax . . . . . ..:. . ...... 40.33 This plainly shows that the major part of the tax is local and locally imposed. There is very little hope of cutting- down the county expenses. For instance, we have a county treasurer, an assistant to the treasurer, an as sistant to the~assistant to the treas- urer, and during the winter'months, an assistant to the assistant to the as- sistant to the treasurer, all of these are drawing a county salary. We also have an assistant p1 osecut- ing attorney, a superintendent of road ., maintenance who never saw a foot of road built, a county engineer with an assistant, and a Whole room full of assistants to. the assistant, and the other county offices are in about the same condition. A, year ago we had a county nurse who drew a salary and expenses. Her bill for gasoline was submitted to the board of supervisors. 'Some curious person figured out that to spend that much for gas she must have averaged 178 miles a day with her Ford during every day in the year. She went some, also she went out of her fat job, but we have another. Nuff said on that subject. Possibly this will wake you up until you too will begin to wonder where all this county tax money goes. We have our special quota of old skinflints whoSe childrenhave grown up and who kick loudly at school ex- penses. No one really regrets school taxes, but even here there is an op- portunity for retrenchment. There is 115‘ valid reason why young, inexperi- enced school mams should draw three times as much salary as they did “before the wah,” while farmers draw thirty-seven per cent less for their produce. Coming right home with this I find that my township tax is divided as fol- lows: Township expenses, including a sexton; expenses of the administra- tive board; board of review; elections ;' maintenance of the town hall, and all incidentals takes 12.39 per cent of the township tax; the other 87.61 per cent of the township tax is for roads. This year our local taxes are twenty-seven per cent higher than they were last year; last 'year our local taxes were twenty-tWO per cent higher than, the year before, and two years ago they were seventeen per cent higher than the year before. During these three years the farm incomes have actually decreased, due to the lower prices re- ceived for all farm products. This in- crease in tax is entirely due to the road building. Now let us see how these road taxes are raised. Our procedure is doubtless duplicat- ed in every township in the state. .Tawn meeting day, some one blessed .(?) with gab mounts a chair and makes an eloquent plea for the im- provement of a certain road; he winds up with a motion that ten, fifteen or twenty thousand dollarsbe raised to improve that road, the motion is sec- ended and the chairman puts it. Every person living along that road, every hired man and half-grown boy in the hall join in a loud yell of aye. If any man thinks that the burden will be excessive and) dares to say no, the gang turns on him and makes him feel that he is a full cousin to a yellow dog. Now for a bit of constructive crit- icism. Any proposition to raise more than $500 for any one fund should be voted by ballot and never by acclama— tion. No one should be allowed to vote on that proposition unless he (she) is a property owner and taxpay— er in the township. At our last two meeting, out of a voting strength of nearly 500 regis- tered voters, about 100 were present; at least twentyfive per cent of these were non-taxpayers. Yet we voted 8. direct tax of $12,000 for one fund, the macadam road fund. Now, don’t get me wrong. I am in favor of new road building and all im— provements, but I favor going about it in a sane and lawful manner, instead of forcing a program of taxation \which is rapidly leading to confiscation. Have You Symptoms of C/zarz‘z'z‘zer? 'F ‘Ibu ARE TROUBLE!) WITH ZIG ZAGS 'N FRONT OF YOUR EYES' - .01? YOU FIND YouI? FEET TRACKING A'PATH LIKE THIS To This/BARN - 9 EXPORT OF WHEAT FROM‘ u. S. m: an. m: my] Km M M are .91. .mlnn rm ' BUSHELS ~ .— l ' \ w/ , --., . r 3512, 000 000 . . l poo. 000,000 r ' -~ ' l u ‘4 5,- I 350, 000.000 200,000,000 1 - 1 .‘\ w. 4 BRING THE R THERNIOMETER NuRSE BE EAREFUU DONT - MN one EARM GRAPII 0F? CHART A o‘Av' 01? You MAY END up LIKE ms' M, .. . The “U. S.” Walrus can be ' washed clean instantly. Its surface is as smooth and waterproof as a boot In the mire one minute-c;- in the kitchen the next! But your feet are dry and the house is clean when you wear a pair of “U. S.” Walrus} Out to the barn a dozen times a day- through muck and mire you don’t want to track into the house! That is when you’ll appreciate the con- Venience of the “U. S.” Walrus. Water- proof as a boot—and you can slide them on and off over your leather shoes as easily as you slip into an overcoat! And afterwards—it makes no differ- ence how thick they’re plastered with muck. One good douse under the faucet -—and their smooth rubber surface is clean! Cleanliness—convenience—protection ——-all these together make the “U. S.” Walrus ideal for the farm. Other “U. S.” Footwear—- all built for long, hard wear “U. S.” Boots, built so tough and rugged they’re famous wher- ever boots are worn—Rubbers and Arctics, all styles and sizes for the whole family—“U. S.” Bootees, the all-rubber, lace shoe, for spring and fall use—every kind of rubber footwear you could possi— bly need is included in the big “ U. S.” line. Every single one is backed by 75 years of skilled experience. It will pay you to look for the “U. S.” Trademark—the honor mark of the largest rubber organiza~ tion in the world. Unitsd’States Rubber Company Easy to slip on and of?! One of the big convenz‘en t fea tures of the “U. S.” Walrus \ “AA QUALITY.” . This Trade Mark on a bag of fertilizer gives the best assurance of crop-grow- ing success. It means that the plant foods are selected for their crop-producing, value rather than for their mere chemical analyses. It means that the fertilizers are properly mixed and are in the best mechanical condition; that the great organization manufac- turing them ‘stands squarely be- hind them with all its resources, all its experience and all its efforts to make them profitable to YOU. ‘THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL} CHEMICAL CO. Ofl‘ices in 22 principal cities “ Worth more per dollar because they produce more per acre” PayLess for your implements by buying them under the MOLINE “ Plan See your Moline dealer or write us for details NEW mourns PLOW co. . ‘ _ MolfneJll. FREE TRIAL Whether you have one belt or a hundred we want you to try DETROIT Wire Hook BELT LACING at our expense. We will send postage paid, this complete outfit including large box of belt hooks to lace every kind and thick- ness of belt together With a (Vise Tool belt ‘ lacrng machine. fyou want the outfit after trying it, send us your check. for $5, if not-re- turn it at our expense. Laces belts for one cent an inch. Delrort Bell Later Cm, Detroit, Mirh. GRAIN SHOW .PREM'IIUM. LIST OUT. 3 annual meeting and show of the Michigan Crop ImprOvemen‘t Associa- tion, to be held in connection with Farmers’ Wéek at the Michigan Agri- cultural College, East Lansing, Febru- ary 4-8, is 'now out. ' sent upon request 'to ‘H. 0. Rather, secretary-treasurer of the organization, at the above address, ' Judging from the interest of farmers throughout the state, and from the suc- cess in other states with seed devel- oped through the association, there is promise that the coming show will prove of great educational value to the farm folks of the state. ' TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS. No. 2. » EVERY single person whose net in- come for the year 1923 was $1,000 or more or whose gross income was $5,000 or .more, and! every married cou- ple (living together) whose net in- come was_ $2,000 or more or whose gross income was $5,000 or more, must file an income-tax return. ' Broadly speaking, gross income is all income received by the taxpayer during the year from salary or wages, business, trade profession or voca- tion, dealingin property, interest, rent, or dividends, or from the transaction of any business carried on for profit. Net income is gross income, less cer- tain specified deductions for business expenses, bad debts, taxes, etc. The exemptions are $1,000 for single persons, $2,500 for married couples (living together) whose net income for 1923 was $5,000 or less, and $2,000 for married couples whose net income was in excess of $5.000. An additional credit of $400 is allowed for each per- pendent upon the taxpayer for chief een years of age or incapable of self- support because physically or mental- ly defective. of the exemptions and credits. and eight per cent on the remaining net income. M. A. C. GRADUATES FARMERS. OUR-FIFTHS of the graduates and tural College, that the college alumni office is able to trace, are engaged in some The list of graduates includes all but fifty-four students, while the non-grad— uate list is not so complete, data on the occupations of 315 individuals not being available. There are 1,403 out of the total num- ber accounted for by the college now associated with agricultural pursuits, while 357 followed other lines not con- nected with the farm. All but last year’s graduating class are included in these figures. Farming, of course, engages largest single group of the graduates, while 116 individuals are teaching ag- riculture in high schools, and 257 are teaching the various agricultural sub- jects in colleges,'connected with the United States Department of Agricul~ ture being included in this number. Twenty-nine M. A C. menare spe-' cial agriculturists for industrial con; cerns, while twenty-four help in the manufacture of dairy products. Eight- een follow the occupation‘of agricul- tural writing. Attorneys and physicians lead the list of those who follow other lines of endeavor, with twenty-five men each. Fifteen are insurance men, ten are claimed by real estate, and thirteen have become merchants, seven minis- ters, two missionaries, two printers, etc—B. V. H. _ . - - Biddy will do her best if she retires withka full stomach. . -» Q . HE premium list for the thirteenth V Copies will be ' son (other than husband or wife) de-f support if such person is under eight- , The normal tax is four per cent on. the first $4,000 of net income in excess former students of the Agriculturall Department of the Michigan Agricul-- line of agricultural endeavor.” the I “g lgse MY ERS 3": SPRAY PUMPS % the ital/”R I la ydfi‘ll 15 ‘ ‘1' Phil...» with“ RCHARD and~ Vine. _. yard. truck patch and ' cums grove.colton and tobac- co. vines; shrubs and flowers 1 e s,pou an 03 ounce. fences, wals and outbuild- ings must be whitewashed. painted and disinfected. You can do any or all of these things quickly, economically and elficiently’with o MYERS ISpray Pump. “learn; ME??? or every urpose, t best of its kind. on . MYER ' a... an” -.':.::..<":.w.,ns washorpamu. 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New known tin-on An: an (or la superior-it . blag-r ”mun“ nor-mum t or onto" h by 3&3; re ow- tho luv-hide lo the completed hm ltep Write for Free Book .. "gigarmmm rs. sea-“muons“ nanso‘h ones. no.1. 2921 ~ son- on.» and mu one. man. BOLENS POWER HOE a n d L a w n Mower Tractor It seeds, lt cultlo votes. it mourn the lawn. It flu plies power (or .operatingl t machinery. The BOL S has a. when arched axle for clearanoeamdn . toll control foraecurnto guid .- Eu. ance in close weeding and oul- ~ b“--- tinting. A dlflerential drlv. . nukes tut ing easy. All attachments have snap hitches an are instantly lnterchan cable. A boy will run it withdellzht. Sendforftll gar-lioness. 3|5 Hill 81.. GILSOI Iffirfll. Pall WAS IIGTOI.WIS. eager-9 “we ‘ I Few games require, more nerve The officers of the bureau of the League of Nations recently met France has chosen Quentin Roose- than ice hockey, but it does not in convention at the Hotel De Ville, Paris. The fourth from the velt, who was killed in action 1n daunt Mrs. M. B. Marshall. left is Branting, of Sweden, president of the session. 1918, “Ideal American Soldier. -mmm may .‘ 7’ Lady Terring-t'on. Liberalis-t member of Parliament, is much inter- ; . ~ «g ‘ ested in the radio. She is listening to an instrument operated p p ; by H. Powell Rees, in London! which can reach New York. E ,5 ' 3 2‘ i I. “ When Howard Nickolson, famous American fancy skater, of New This is the sextette of American speed skaters at Lake Placid, N8_W York, performed this thiller, it is a question as to which took York, 111 the uniforms in which they Wlll appear at the Olympic the 111055 nerve, to leap or to DOS“. 13085 at. Chamonix next nlonth. 3 \ This typical Amercian girl is so fond of crisp The smile of as great courage! All France paid honor to Mme. Currie recently ~. 1 Winter 311‘ that she curls up in a snow—covered Though deaf, dumb and blind, in a formal celebration of the twenty-filth an- . ‘ tree for an hour with the best authors. Helen Keller is an author. nlversary of her d1scovery of radium. I l ' ‘ ~ 1 l s Fire destroyed the tuberculosis pavilion. at the Chicago State In- - sane Asylum. It is reported that eighteen patients met death, ' and about fifty others escaped or_ wandered away at the time Copyright by Underwooq‘glglidqrwoodivNe'w for! ~ »._...4. 5...", better be going back? Thm 1811' t ' just the place for a woman, Agnes.” "Why not?” ‘ “Because—well, for one thing, this ’ is a man’s life out here, not a Wom- . an’s. 'Th-ere’s no place for you—~noth- ing to interest you or hold you. I can’t guarantee you any company ex-’ cept that of a cook—or some one like that.” “But Mr. Thayer—” and Houston de- tected a strange tone in the voice— “spoke of a very dear friend of yours, in whom I might be greatly inter- ested. ” . “A friend of mine?” “Yes—la Miss Robinette.’ Fred said that she was quite interested in you.” Houston laughed. “She is—by the inverse ratio. So much, in fact, that she doesn’t care to_ be anywhere near me. She knows~—” and he sobered, “that there’s some—3 thing—back there.” “Indeed?” They had reached the cottage and the subject was discon- -tinued. Agnes lingered a moment on the veranda. “I suppose I’m never to see anything of you?” “That’s just it, Agnes. It makes me feel like a cad to have you out here—- and then not be able to provide any entertainment for you. And, really, there’s no need to worry about me. I’m all right——with the exception of this broken arm‘. And it’ll be all right in a couple of weeks. Besides, there’s no telling what may happen. You can see from the burning of this mill that there isn’t any love lost between Thayer and myself.” “Why, Barry! You don’t think he had anything to do with it?” “I know he did. Directly or indirect~ 1y, he was back of it. I haven’t much of a chance to talk to you, Agnes, but this much is a certainty: Thayer is my enemy, for business reasons. I know of no other. He believes that if he can make the going rough enough for me that I’ll quit, lease him my stumpage, and let him go into business for himself. So far, he hasn’t had much luck—except to tie me up. He may beat me; I don’t know. Then again, he may not. But in the mean- while, you can see, Agnes, that the battlefield is going to be no place for a woman." “But, Barry, you’re wrong. you’ve done an injustice to—” “Please don’t tell me that, Agnes. I put so much faith in your beliefs. But in this case,‘ I’ve heard it from his own lips—I’ve seen his telegrams. I know.” I think HE woman turned quickly. For a moment she examined, in an ab- sent sort of way, the blossoms of a climbing rose, growing, quite uninvit- ed, up the porch pillar of the cottage. Then: “Maybe you’re right, Barry. Prob- ably I‘ will go away. But I want to be sure you’re all right first.” “Would you care to go to the vil- lage tonight? There’s a picture show there~and we could at least get a dish of ice cream and some candy.” “I think not,” came the answer in a tired voice. “It’s so far; besides, all 11L ACREb--fl/ Says The ON’T you think, ” he asked, as“ they walked siting, “that youhad it $382383 this excitement has given me a head- ache. Go back to your work and for- get about me. I think that I’ll go to bed immediately I’ve had something to eat.” “You’re not ill?” “Only a headache—and with me, bed is always the best place for that. I suppose you’ll go to Denver in the, morning for new saws ?” “Yes n ‘ “Then I’ll wait until.you return be-' fore I make up my mind. . Good-bye.” She bent forward to be kissed, and Barry obeyed the command of her lips with less of alacrity than ever before. Nor could he tell the reason. Five he Whlt Desert By Courtney Ryley Cooper . WWW“ meow» ...«m..««»3:««3¢33333 2933”" ”H””W°H’33WW€33323 the scraggly hills on the other side, '4 I cut acress the road and detoured into without noticing the appmaching Houston in the ~shadows. But Barry 3 ‘ had been more fortunate. The moon- . light had shown full on the man’s lean : . ' - face and ,gangling‘ form; it was um: i U He stopped just at the entrance to the mill clearing and looked toward the cottage. It was darkened. Barry felt that without at least the beckon- ing' of a light to denote the wakeful- ness of the cook, he could not in pro- priety go there, even for an inquiry regarding the condition of the woman whom he felt that some .day he Would marry. Aimlessly he wandered about, staring in the moonlight at the piled: up remains of his mill, then at last he seated himself on a stack of lumber, to rest a moment before the return journey to Ba’ tiste’s cabin. But sud- denly he tensed. A low whistle had come fi’om the edge of the 'woods,a Keeping Fataar 072 The .Farm By Al. Rice . We eat the farmer’s bounty, But we've left him to his fate; For his address is a county Up th’ State. There was lots of agitation When they tried to keep us down; But we thought that our salvation Was in town. 0, they ain’t no way 0’ keepin’ Either lass or farmer lad, But what interrupts our sleepin’, ls, how to keep Old Dad. Young America is reachin’ For the city’s golden charm, And they ain’t no use 0’ preachin’ ’Bout the farm. And you cannot keep ’em on it When they want to go away, For the city sings a sonnet Bright and gay. But the thing I wish to mention, And the thought that’s uppermost; For it merits our attention: Keepin’ Father at his post. 0, it beats the very dickensl. For he’s slow upon his legs; But he keeps a lot 0’ chickens Layin’ eggs. 0, he’s slow—he’s just a plodder— Doing all his age allows; Putting Up the hay and fodder For his cows. Sends us lots of eggs and butter And a ham or two'o’ meat—- 0, We won’t know how to “cut ’er” When Old Daddy quits the “beat.” Yes, we eat the “Old Man’s" bounty, But we’ve left him to his fate; For his address is a county Up the state. When the winter wind is rearln’ , Fore the sky-line meets the sun, He has spent two hours a-shearin’—— 0n the run. But a painful thought ‘encroaches, And it fills us with alarm; For we know the time approaches When our dad will quit the farm. minutes more and he was back at the mill, giving what aid he could with his uninjured arm. Night, and he traveled with Ba’tiste to his cabin, only to fret nervously about the place and at last .to strike out once more, on foot, for the lumber camp. He was worried, nervous; in a vague way he realized that he had been curt, almost brusque, with a wom- an for. whom he felt every possible gratitude and consideration. Nor had he inquired about her when work had ended for the day. Had the excuse of a headache been made only to cover feelings that had been deeply injured? Or had it meant a blind to veil real, serious illness? For three'years, Barry Houston had known Agnes Jierdon in day-to—day association. But never had he remembered her in exactly the light that he had seen her today. There had been a‘ strangeness about her, a sharpness he could not understand. *Pare 1: Perfect hundred yards away, and Barry list- ened attentively for its repetition, but it did not come. Fifteen minutes he waited, then rose, the better to watch two figures that had appeared for just a moment silhouetted in the moon- light at the bald top of a small hill. A man and a woman Were walking close together—the woman, it seemed, with her head against the man’s shoul- der; the man~evidently with his arm about her There was no time for identities. A second more and they had faded into the shadows. Barry rose and started toward the darkened cottage, only to turn again into the road. “Foolishness!” he chided himself as he plodded along. “She doesn’t know any one but Thayer—and what if she does? It’s none of my business. She’s the one who has the claim on me; I have none on her!” And with this decision he walked ’ I doubtedly Fred Thayer. .He was still in the neighborhood, then. AD he been the man in the weeds —-the one ,who had stood silhouet- ted on the hill top? Barry could- only guess. Again he chided himself for his inquisitiveness and walked on A1- most to Ba’tiste’s cabin he went; at last to turn from the road at the sound of hoofbeats, then to stare as Medaine Robinette, on horseback, passed him at a trot, headed toward her home, the shadowy Lost Wing, on 1 his calico pony, straggling along in the rear. The next morning he went to Denver, still wondering, as he sought to make him- self comfortable on the old red plush seats, wondering whether the girl he“ had seen in the forest with the man he now felt. sure was Fred Thayer had > been Agnes Jierdon or Medaine ‘Rob- inette, whom, in spite of her coldness to him, in spite of her evident distaste ‘ and revulsion that was so apparent in " their meetings, had awakened within ' him a thing he had believed, in the drabness of his gray, harassed life, could never exist—the thrill and the yearnings of love. It was a question which haunted him during the days in which he cut into his bank account with _the purchase of the bare necessities of a sawmill. It was a question which followed him back to Tabernacle, thence across country to camp. But it was one that was not to be answered. Things had happened again. Ba’tiste was not at the mill, where new foundations had appeared in Hous- ton’s absence. A workman pointed ‘ l vaguely upward, and Barry hurried on toward the lake, Clambering up the hill nearest the clearing, that he might take the higher and shorter road. He found no Ba’tiste but there was something else‘ which held Houston’s interest for a moment and which stop~ ped him, starmg wondermgly into the distance. A new skidway had made its appearance on the side of the jut— - Ba tlste could afford to start cuttlng . Aways-3*” .. 7 ting mountain nearest the dam. Logs were tumbling downward in slow, but steady succession, to disappear, then to show themselves, bobbing jerkily outward toward the center of the lake. That skidway had not been there be- fore. Certainly, work at the mill had not progressed to such an extent that Wharf timber already. Houston turned back toward the lower camp road wonders ing vaguely what it all could mean, striving to figure why Ba’tiste should have turned to logging operations in- stead of continuing to stress every workman’s ability on the rebuilding of the burned structure. A mile he went ——two——then halted. A thunderous voice was booming belligerently from the distance: (s. .“You 1ie«——un’stan’? Ba’teese say By Prank R. Leet (H pRooFS THIS ONE R NMKIEOOSK You AL‘ HERE ARE THE THAT WOTOGRAPH FELLE 160K OF ME THE OTHER DAY, WH‘CH ls THE AND You LOOK REAL HUMAN IN 1mg PRINT ms EXPRESSED . m DU STRY BUTTHISJS THE mosr NATURAL ONE SLIM'. 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Go ’long!” Faster than ever went Barry Hous- ton, at last to make the turn of the road as it followed the flume, and to stop, breathless, just in time to escape gigantic Canadian, squared as he was, half across the road. Facing him were five men with shovels and hammers, workmen of the Blackburn camp, in- terrupted evidently in the building of some sort of contraption which led away into the woods. Houston looked more closely, then gasped. It was an- other flume; they were making a com nection with his own: already water had been diverted from the main flume and was flowing down the newly boarded conduit which led to the Blackburn mill. A lunge and he had taken his place beside Renaud. “What’s this mean?” he demanded angrily, to hear his words echoed by the booming voice of his big com- panion: “Ah, Huh?” The foreman looked up caustically. “I’ve told you about ten times,” he answered, addressing himself to Ba’- tiste. “We’re building a connection on our fiume.” “O-ur fiume?” Houston gasped the words. “Where do you get that ‘our’ idea? I own this flume and this lake and this flame site—” “If your name’s Houston, I guess you do,” came the answer. “But if you can read and write, you ought to know that while you may own it, you don’t use it. That’s our privilege from now mi, in cold black and white. As far as the law is concerned, this is our fiume, and our water, and our lake, and all our woods back there. And we’re going to use all of ’em, as much as we please—and it’s your business to stay out of our way!” CHAPTER XI. HE statement took Houston off his feet a moment; but recovery came just as quickly, a recoil with the red splotches of anger blazing before his eyes, the surge of hot blood sweeping through his veins, the heat of conflict in his brain. His good hand clenched. a leap and he had struck the foreman on the- point of the chin, sending him reeling backward, while the other men rushed to'his assistance. “That’s my answer to you!” shouted Houston. “This is my flume and‘—” “Run tell Thayeri” shouted the fore- man, and he turned for a cant hook. But Ba’tiste seized it first, and with a great wrench, threw it far out of the way. Then, like some great, human trip hammer, he swung into action, spinning Houston out of the way as he went forward, his big firsts churning, his voice bellowing his call of battle: “Climb up me! Climb up me!” ,The foreman stooped for a club—— and rose just in time to be lifted even higher, at the point of Ba’tiste’s right fist, then to drop in a' lump. 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Add to the six hun- dred thousand at least as many more children; indeed, there would be more than six hundred thousand yOungster's, . for the Hebrews were not a sterile That Moses had difficulty with this uncount- ed multitude of ignorant and sup- erstitious people is not surprising. That he made any headway at all with them is well nigh miraculous. “The Revolt of a. Tartar Tribe,” of which De Quincy writes with picturesque power, was no such vast undertaking as that which faced Moses, while the largest number of men in any of the famous Crusades of the'middle ages, was one hundred forty thousand. folk. The figure of Moses loomsas one of the giants who will never be forgot- ten. His achievement would rank him as a. very great leader. One never opens Exodus or Deuteronomy to any passage that shows him mean or big- oted or selfish. He had 'a royal tem- per that sometimes generated white heat, but-,that was only human. No man without temper could have en- dured. He lost all patience with the shallowneSs and fears of his followers, but who would not? ANY way you look at him he is big. The legend of Hercules is, that the moment one saw him,he knew he was a god. “The moment my eyes fell on him,” said Iole, “I was content. When I beheld Theseus, I desired that ‘ I might see him offer battle, but Her- cules did not wait for a contest: he conquered whether he stood, or walk- ed, or sat, or whatever thing he did." A writer said of Lord Strathcona that to shake hands with him was like shaking hands with a. section of the British Empire. That describes Moses to a nicety. ’He knew nothing of the modern man’s back—patting gospel, with its mottoes on the wall‘telling him to smile, to be brave, to. be gener- ous, and all that. He would not have known what to make of such vapidity. It was characteristic of such a man that he was slow to acceptvresponsi- bility. To hear his excuses when God called him to his heavy task was like listening to some people when—they are asked to undertake church work. He wasn’t well enough known, he said, he wasn’t a, good public speaker, there were others better qualified, and so on. But once he sets himself to his work His timidity van- ishes, he is a. different man. The edu- cation of. this man was the best that could be- devised. He was “learned in all the/wisdom of the Egyptians.” But he was more than- that. For forty years he was a sheep herder, a wan- dered in the hills and forests of Mid- ' ian. There is something about the open spaces that develop a man. That is why so many men of brawn and brain have come from the farm. He had a chance to think. He was face to face with the forces of nature. He was in the presence of God. He must have prayed much, for later we find that prayer was a settled practice with him. His oppressed and suffering .. people were much in his thoughts. - , James Hastings says,“‘;As he wanders' KNIGHT LIGHT. CO..M3H" “In“ M- . through the round of successive bea- "oses call to Our‘ W eefly Sammy—By N A. M 6 Cum sons over the blistering lands and up: the grim wadies, whose silence is un- broken for weeks save by the bloating of flocks and the screaming of vul- tures, the pass-ion, the self-will, and presumptious recklessness of the first. phase of character in which he has been presented to us die down to the rootskamd this change in the man has changed the history of the world." HIS. problem was an economic one. His people were under the lash, but how liberate them? It is easy for a. young man or two to run away, not so easy when there are several hun- dred thousands of people, many of them old, vast numbers of them .chil- dren. his escape. He was a. free man. He could live to a. ripe age amid the hills, surrounded by his hardy children, and die and be buried where the setting sun would linger every night over his well-kept grave. But no. He could not do that. The cries of his oppress- ed fellow countrymen sounded in his ears. Sometimes he could not sleep, thinking of them. There must, he thinks, he a way out. When at last he heard the message at the burning bush, his heart must have leaped up: “I have .surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and. have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows: and I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians.” CONOMIC injustice has existed long in the 'world. In modern times it. has been fought with some degree of success, yet its chief victor- ies are yet ahead. Ebenezer Elliott, the corn~law rhymer cried out in 1830: “When wilt thou save the people? 0 God of mercy, when? Not kings and lords; but nations Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flow’ rs of thy heart, 0 God are they, Let them not pass like weeds away, Their heritage a sunless day, God save the people!” Bishop Grundtvig heard that cry in Denmark. The nation had sunk very low. The best provinces had been wrested away by Germany. A leading Danish educator said the people might as well talk German, and teach it in the Schools. Then Grundtvig arose, declaring that the salvation of Den- mark lay with Denmark herself. He established schools for the farmers, where they might attend during the slack winter season. Singing of na- tional songs was taught as part of the curriculum, and the people were taught the beauty of knowledge and the dig- nity of work. And there appeared-a new Denmark. “I have surely seen the affliction of my people.” God will always work for the liberation of the people, when they Will work for Him. The general impression of the Ex- odus is one of largeness. Nothing is done on a small scale. One reads of the plagues taking place “over all the land of Egypt.” The. deliverance is for the whole nation, not «for an indi- vidual here' and there. It is all on a grand scale. wise, when the God, “I am that I am," was directing it? If religion today is on a petty scale, and there be a few at church, few in the community who practice it, the fault must be ours, for God works in a. large way. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR JANUARY 20. SUBJECT ——-Moses called to deliver Israel. Exodus 1: 1 to 12: 36. GOLDEN? TEXT: -——-By faith, Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son or Pharar'ih's daugh- ter; choosing rather to share ill geatngent .gvlththtl; geop18":2§vfwslu an 0 en oy , gto‘ra amen be. 1.245% W Moses himself had made good' How 'could it be other-. 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"Everyone was so excited abdut this: There was hus; 'tle'and bustle throughout all VVood-f 'land as each one made preparations: new kind of a party. At‘ the appointed hour they gathered at Rolly’s house. And what a jolly time! :When the'greetings were over, Rolly Rabbit came out all dressed up as‘old Mether Goose. What a funny picture he‘did make with his full skirts and white apron and a. little white cap. "“Now each one must guess who the “A Merry Old Soul is He." J other represents. The one who guess: es the most right‘will get this,” ‘ex- claimed Rolly, holding up a pretty redf package. Then all the animal folks: began to puzzle their brains. '-Little Molly VVoodchuck carried a my sheep, and was Little Bo Peep. Benny Fox carried a little pie and was Little Jack Horner. But his pie was to tempting that before the game was finished, the pie was finished too. Mrs. Jackie Rabbit wore a long string of red hearts and was Queen of Hearts. Please Mention The Micki "There isn’t room to tell you about the :rest. But Little Mary Mink won the prize, which was a nice book of Moth- er Goose stories. "If you went into a restaurant,” ask- ed Rolly, “what would you order for Supper?” And he read these sugges- tions to help them: . 1. What Tommy Tuck‘er had for his Supper. 2. What Queen of Hearts called for. 3. What the little pig had. 4. What Curly Locks fed on. ' 5. What the Man in the Moon burn- ed his mouth with. 6. A dainty dish for a king. Granny Fieldmouse guessed the an- swers all right like this, and won a pretty picture of Old Mother Hubbard. . 71 Bread and butter. 2. Tarts. 3. Roast beef. 4. Strawberries and cream. 5. Cold peas porridge. 6. Bird pie. Talking about good things to eat made them all so hungry that they sat down to a' bountiful feast of all the Woodland goodies you could think of. 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It has now been on the market six years. Thousandsofsat. isfied users tell me I've succeed~ ed. I'm proud to have this engine hear my name." -A. Y. Edwards ,_ —. EDWARDS gan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers . WEngineDoes theMrk Read the Amazing Facts About This Wonderful Farm Engine The regular powar jobs on your farm probably vary from about 1% to 6 H. P. Yet there's no need to have two or more engines for these Jobs. Today you can get six engines in one. You can get an engine that. will tellver 1% H. P. for the little Jobs. 6 H. P. for the heavy work. or any de- sired power in between. You can change Dewar as you change jobs—change power instantly. And you will not high ofic‘imoy and low cost at all powers. No Other Engine Like It Therejs no other farm engme ilk e the Edwards. t pumps, wa s h e s, c h u r n s, l mi ks. runs an -inc grinder. 0-inch saw sheller, small silo filler. concrete mixer, spray rig, etc... and does every job easdyand cheaply. N oothcr engine can do this. It is Easy to move and can set: anywhere and put to work without: fastening down. Burns kerosene or gasoline. Smooth running. No vi- bration. Safe—no crank- ing. Safety fly-wheel and all moving parts enclosed. Anyone can operate it. What Users Say Fred Dunderi, Stratll- cona, Minn., says: “ I cer- tainly like my Edwards Engine. Runs an .8-inch burr mill full capacity. Has plenty (3‘ power and then some. It certainly works fine. I like its vary- ing speed and power and its light; Weight, it is so easy to move from job to Job. Best and handicst en< glue I have ever seen or used and wouldn't’ part. With mine at any price if I couldn't get another one and I wouldn't go back to the old-fashioned heavy type engine to use as a gift. The Edwards does all the company claims for it. "One of my neighbors was looking over my Ed- wards and I ran it for him and changed it all the we from 1 to 6 H. P. He wil buy one right away. He in Using a 4 H. P. at present but at times needs 6 H. P. so this Would be the very engine he wants}? A. C. Lukehart. Dayton Pa.. says: “Well leased with my Edwa a and Would not trade it for any other kind of engine than I know of as it is so handy to move from one Job to another and the company has been fair and square to deal with". Free Trial Ofl‘er Now—I know I am making some extraordi- nary claims for my engine. I want to prove them to your satisfaction. I want £0“ to try the Edwards ngine absolutely free. Don't send me a penny. Don't send me an order. Just write your name and address on the co on be- low and I'll send on com- plete information about: the Edwards. togetherwith my straightforward. un- conditional free trial offer. iYou will not be obligated nany way. --A. Y. Edwards EDWARDS MOTOR CO. 31 9 Main St.. Sprinzfiold. 0. free trial ofier. , Name run. nus council N‘ow EDWARDS moron co. 319 Main Sh, Springfiold, Ohio Without coat or obligation, send me complete description of your engine. also details of you! a \ . ' Address nae. ‘._" Wagons. also sit-- lt t ' a! WWIIMICO. 35 £Io stalling!!! Catalog in colors explain. how you can save money on Farm" Truck or Road or wood wheels to N loosing Book mum . Written by land cl m. lxplnln- tho diner-en: method- nnd toll: «hon each in - at. Write Coda for {m 6091- Now ow price- snle prices. We expect much higher 'ees later. We can save you money on beat ester) seed. We bought early big stocks on lower markets. Our prices amazingly your seeds until no write for our prl “Y lea on Clover, Altai n Timnth . t Road hooded. On: his seed caudal?» Samples Froo-with lowest whole-Q m low. Don’t l and out lovor at m American Field 800d 00.. DC“. 131 «"00“ [IL 33% , hnl duodenal and world in. in: you want. hm. fashions. question stories. and. Chooklullol us: thoundofdlmrul-l entertainment and Instruction for oil. Exciting nod Ind-hut Send 15c (eolnu- sumpn) today {or this bin 81 spot 1) weeks. Money book it not satisfied. sample ‘ on too. wmmuoln. mum it... 0.9.: '--FISH-- Fresh Frozen Fish, 100 lbs. net weight. Round Herring, $3.85; Dressed Herring or liluviins, $4.85; Pickercl, headless and dressed. $12.35: Salmon, $14.35; Floundcrs, $10.35: Smoked Fish, 10 lbs, mt weight, Blucfiris, $1.00; Fancy Fat Lake Clmbs, $1.80. Write for complete price list all varieties, frozen, salted, spiced and smoked Lake and Ocean Fish. A satis- !actory deal positively guaranteed. JOHNSON FISH 00., Green Bay Wis. 115 lb. box Herring, $4.35. SmokedAFish, 10 lb. box, $1.00. "Send for complete Price list. CONSUMERS FISH 00. Green Bay, Wis. border and ceiling, samples. Chicago You, too, may as well save from one- third to one-half on YOUR wall paper. Ward’s paper is not cheap paper. It is all standard Quality, made lower in price by manufacturing in immense quantities. Think of papering an entire room 10x12 feet, side walls, for only 82 cents. Choose our paper ’ . . best patteyrns—tapestries, fabrics, “allovers’ and stripes. Prices from 3 cents to 35 cents per single roll. Sample Book Free—Over 100 Actual Samples This sample book will go into over one million homes. Why , not into your home. too? Whyvnot see the best new patterns and save one-third to one-half? paper? Write today for your copy of this free book of wall paper Address Our House Nearest You. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. Kansas City Puma. on. Ft. Worth omdlm for selling only 40 packs vegetable or flower aoedl mention which) at loci-r19 pack. a 31- pieceBlueBu-dD nnerSetg‘lvenaeeord- .' in: to plan in catalog. Send no money. America- u Lancaster 7Fino Fresh Frozen Large Round Herring. 4c; loo-pound lots $3.50; Large Dressed, 5c; loo-pound lots, $4.50; Round Carp, 5c. Dussod. 60; Ilound Pike, 1359c: Dressed. 15('; Round Perch. 0‘, c: Dressed I’ickcrel, 12c; Round Blue Pike, 12c; lounders. 10c: Sole. 14c; Salmon, 14c; Steak Cod. 12c; Mackerel, 14c; 10-pound Basket Smoked Blucflns, $1.00. Packing Charge, 100 pounds. 350; 50 pounds, 30c; 25 pounds or less. 25c on Froz- en Fish only. For finest Quality at right price Mail your Order or send for complete catalog of all kinds of fresh, salt, spiced, smoked and canned fish. Badger Fish 00., Dept. 5. Green Bay, Wise. from actual free samples of all the newest, by pay almost double for your Writetodayfor F r e e W a ll Paper Sample Book No 37.W St. Paul HIS seems to be the day of stand- ardization, of surveys, and investi- gations and comparisons. The United States Department of Agriculture has been making a survey to determine' something concerning the comparative value of the stand- ards of living of city dwellers and farmer folk. The purpose of this is to find out whether those living in rural districts actually get adequate returns in comfort, increased health, and wholesome enjoyment 'for their expen- ditures. ' In order to make the investigation referred to, an area in Livingston County, New York, was mapped out for intensive study. This particular territory‘was chosen because it was considered typical of average farming conditions and would present a. fair .view of average conditions. In this part of the country, the main products are hay, corn, wheat, oats, beans, cabbage, peas, garden products, and some dairying. It was found that the average ex- penditure by farm families in this locality, was approximately $2,012 each year. About one-third of this was obtained from the farm, in the way of fuel, the use of the farm' home, and food stuffs. Expenditures were as follows: For food ...................... 39.5% For clothing .................. 13.8% For health maintenance .. ..... 4.1% HE addition of a bit of crochet- ing or tatting gives a touch of beauty and charm to the house- hold linen that amply rcpays one for the time spent in making them. This tatted edging and corner is very becoming on a. buffet set or small guest towels. Made in fine thread, it looks well on handkerchiefs. Directions for Making2—Make upper half around outer corner and down as follows: Ring 5 d, p, 5 d, p, 5 d, p, 5 (1. Tie on second thread, turn. Chain 5 (1, then 5 p with 2 d between each, 5 (1. Turn, ring, 5 d, p, 5 (i, join to center picot, 5 d, p, 5 d, close. Chain 3 (1. Repeat ring and chain and ring. Then start first’ring of corner design, 5 d, p, 5 d, p, 5 d, p, 5 d, close. Then chain as before, making group of four rings, join to middle picot. Continue same chain and rings. Lower row: First and second figures as shown joining only center picot of rings. Then to make turn, chain 5 d, p, 5 d. Make first ring down side, 5 d, p, 5 d, join to picots of outer rings, 5 d, p, 5 (1, close. Chain 5 (i, join to first picot of chain, 4 p with 2 d between, 5 'd, close. Continue rings and chain down side. This design is found incur Needle- work Book No. 3, which contains over 10 00ther tatting designs. . Here is a crocheted edging that looks much like tatting, but is more simple to make. It gives 'a real ex- l ‘pensiVe toufli to curtains of marque— Clothing the family on $277 Investigation S/zowr t/zaz‘ t/ze 'fmm Family ‘ « . Reduce Clot/2mg Bill agreeable work-is done; Exerczim 77m]? to For education, recreation, reli- gious and social activities....15.9% For personal“ expenditures . . . L . . 1.2% The clothing expenditures of‘13.8% 'figured’ out to about $277' per family for clothing. It would be extremely interesting to have comparative fig- ‘ures at this time, with percentages, showing the relative expenditures in the same lines, of city families. If the above figures are based, as we assume they are, on the fact that the average American family consists of five people, the clothing expenditure for the family on the farm is a. must reasonable one, figuring only $55.40 each. Where there is a father and mother and children, the father and mother'will usually use more than a. fifth of the money for their ' own clothing, for the children are frequent- ly dressed, in part at least, in neatly made—over garments of their elders, and father mends their shoes. Nevertheless, it is obvious that thrift, economy and real resourceful- ness is to be exercised constantly to furnish the average farm family with clothing for the different seasons of the year, at the figures mentioned. Investigations of this character have a value, provided we think about them individually, and when the time comes not upon authoritative findings cola lectively. Work is very necessary, but we need to think, and to plan for the future as well as to work in the pres- ent—~13. G. W. Designs you can make ‘ sette or scrim. Directions for Making—Make a; long chain. \Vith another thread 3 SI sts over first 3 sts, ch 9, skip 9, 81 st, forming rings. Second Rowz—Lower, 1 tight 51 st in center 31 st, 4 81 st, 1 p, 5 31 st, 1 p, 4 81 st, over a, half ring. A tight s1 st in center of the 3 below, 4 51 st, 1 p, 3 s1 st, now, ch 10, turn, fasten over center st of first ring, turn, 3 51 st, 1 p, 3 sl st in this loop, ch 9, take loop from hook, insert in 81 st last made, draw loop of thread through and work 11 SI st in this new loop. Now in remaining loop, 3 51 st, 1 p, s1 st, and 3 s1 st, 1 p, 4 51 st in ring, right sl st over the 3 below. Upper Part—‘4 s1 st, 1 p, 3 s1 st over half of ring. Ch' 6, start in second st from ' hook, working 1 s1 st in each st for the little stem, then over the ring, 3 s1 st, 1 p, 4 s1 st and 1 tight 8] st over the center of 3 s1, st below. Second Row—S1 st in stem, ch 9 between. Third Row—10 s1 st over 9 chs, 1- over 51 st of stem. ‘ Directions'for this design are found in our Needlework Book No. F, which gives directions for making numerous crocheted edges and corners. ' Any of these books will be sent’ upon receipt of fifteen cents at our Needle- work Department, MiChigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. ‘ Before blacking the stove or'work- ' ing in the dirt, rubsOap into the tips of the fingers, and it will not be dim; cult to clean the'handswhén‘the d19- .. a . w - ‘1 ..-...._._..~._n..,x_,._‘.--._ .. . .. . no extra \ “ apples are fresh. Homemakers By Our XPEBIENCE, teaches,” says an old adage, and I wish there might be more space to pass on the re sults of the experienCes with house- hold conveniences Sent in for the con- test this week. The postman brought us a generous response, and when totalled up was something like this. Thirty- sev en per cent recommended running water; twenty per cent the power washer; sixteen per cent the ever-handy kitch— en Cabinet, and fifteen per cent the dish drainer. Among the miscellan- eous group was the vacuum sweeper, the wheel tray, the mop wringer, lin- oleum, the bread mixer, convenient vegetable slicer, a food grinder, sew- ing machine, oil stove, recipe file and houisehold scales. The five leading letters appear here, and each was awardedanest of mixing bowls—Martha Cole. Running Water Saves Labor and Steps. . Of all the dozens of conveniences that have been invented for the home, the one I have found to be of the greatest help is a constant supply of running water in the kitchen and base ment. The shining faucets above the kitch< en sink are not very ornamental, but they have become a great joy and com- fort to me. The canning season, com— mencing in June, and often-ending in December with the canning and pack- ing of the meat supply, calls for much wa:er. With running water there is carrying and lifting of water from the well to the kitchen. In the family laundry work, it is indis- pensible. Running water in the kitchen really keeps the time spent there from run- ning into hours—«Mrs. S. E., Three Oaks, Michigan. Power Washer Does Good Work. The power washer saves me the most time and labor of any of my home conveniences. It is run by gas- oline motor, with wringer attached. Hints from the Saltcellar T has oft been repeated that “salt is just salt.” but the experienced housewife who gives careful consider- ation to the expenditure of the family food budget is convinced that there is a difference in salt. Through her per- sonal experiences she has learned that because of its preserving and purifying uses, it pays to buy only the best. In the proper curing and preserving of meat. salt is a principal ingredient. .In this curing process, it is absolutel'y necessary to use a good grade of salt. Any adulterations or impurities will entail a great loss of a valuable food product. Without salt, much of the real flavor of food is lost. Besides its use for p1 eserving and flavoring, salt becomes great convenience in solving many household problems The odor of onions lingers long on knives and cooking utensils. If they are rubbed with a damp cloth and then - with salt before washing in warm wa— ter, the disagreeable odor will be gone. This same operation will remove the odor of gasoline from the hands. When making cooked icing, if a pinch of salt is added to the sugar the icing will not grain. If a berry pie or some other dish boils over in the oven, a handful of salt thrown in on it will help to avoid -a disagreeable odor. Apples that are too long out of the storage room will become withered. To freshen them, wash clean and place in crock with brine—one handful of salt to three gallons of water Change the water every six hours until the 3' Reader: EXperiences I do washing for a family of seven, and sometimes have as many as twelve shirts for the men. I put my white clothes on to boil the first thing in the morning, and when eight o’clock comes they are ready for the washer,, and by ten- thirty everything is on the line. ' The men buy what is needed for outside equipment, girls, let us buy conveniences for our work.'—-—Mrs. B.. E. It, Sparta, Michigan. Cabinet Saves Steps. The greatest invention for saving time, labor and shoe leather is the kitchen cabinet. With a kitchen cab- inet and a little time and thought giv- en to the arrangement of the kitchen equipment, two-thirds of the usual morning steps in the kitchen can be saved. All food materials which do not have to be kept in the cellar, together with spices, cutlery, spoons, and the kitch- en linen can be kept in the cabinet—- Mrs. J. W. L., Paw Paw, Michigan. Dish Drainer Saves One-half Hour. Considering price, I believe I derive most benefit from my Wire dish-drain- er. The one I have is large enough to hold dishes for a family of six and has a wire basket attachment for holding cutlery. It sates at least one-half hour in drying dishes at each meal time. It might be employed as an incentive when little daughter is asked to do the dishes—Mrs. E. B., Bear Lake, Mich. Wheel Tray Does Many Things. My wheel tray is my constant house- hold companion. It is made from an old washstand, with wheels put on. and then enameled. 0n cleaning day I place on the tray brushes, furniture oil, dust cloths, dust pan, etc, and they are always handy. I always use it when I clean the cupboards, sew on the porch, put away the ironing, wash the windows, and always when clear- ing and setting the table—Mrs. J. D. Goldwater, Michigan. To remove iron rust on white ma- terial, rub with salt and lemon juice and place in the sun to bleach. Mix equal parts of salt and flour with enough vinegar to make a paste, for Cleaning brass or copper. Let this paste remain on for an hour, and then rub off with a soft cloth. Wash with a soft brush and polish. If salt is rubbed on china, it will remove tea stains and other discolor— ations. Egg stains on silver can be removed by rubbing with a damp cloth which has been dipped in Salt. For polishing a mirror, sprinkle fine salt on a woolen cloth. ' A paste of salt, alum and boiling wa- ter makes a’ fine cement for floor cracks. If equal parts of salt and ashes are mixed with water to make a paste, it makes an excellent cement for stove cracks. HOMESPUN HINTS. "Well begun is half done” is most applicable in cooking. Materials in- sure better results when carefully‘mix— ed and assembled than when thrown together haphazardly. When washing glassware, add a few drops of blueing to the water, and the glass will be sparkling and clear. To clean ivory or celluloid knife handles, rub with a slice of lemon dip— ped in salt. This will whiten them and they can then be washed and dried in the usual manner. No wick to clean No noise No soot . N o smoke Marvelous Oil Stove Converts Kerosene into Gas—Gives Clean Blue Flame A speedy cooker—bakes, roasts, boils same as a gas range. This is the range people every- where are talking about. It created a sensation at the State Fair. Thou- sands saw it subjected to tests that would cripple any other oil stove. Thousands of hardware and furni- ture dealers all over the country are now selling it. People every- where are enthusiastic about it. Go and see it before buying any range. It is an all-year range. Has Gas Range Advantages ”because it burns gas You Will like its beauty, its con- venience, its cleanliness. It gives you a new and wider range of ser- vice. It will enable you to do better cooking, baking, roasting with less effort and no disappointments be- cause you can regulate the heat— you turn the flame up or down with a lever valve same as a gas range. Each Vapo Burner is a Miniature Gas Plant It makes hydro-carbon gas from kerosene. It is smokeless, sootless, odorless and wickless. It does not burn a thin film of oil; it burns gas. You get a clear BLUE flame of powerful heating intensity. You get a cooking, baking and roasting ability that is entirely new and unprece-‘ dented in an oil range. 32 to 36 hours of heat , from 1 gallon of kerosene —And that by using burner turned on fully. You get 50 to 60 hours’ serm’ e with burner regulated to am enng' heat. Lever valves of automatic locking type give perfect control of flame. You can tell whether ON” or ‘ ‘OFF" at a glance. Safety lock prevents accidental altering of flame. Sight feed in our patented valve enables you to see oil feeding drop by drop. Oil tank is conveniently placed for easy filling. And Range sets flush against the wall. ’ Built-in Bolo Oven Insures Quick Baking Each Vapo Range with oven has BOLO type oven—Big or Little -—ma_de big or little by Bolo plate for slow and faSt baking at the same time.‘ Oven is ventilated insuring light pastry, cakes and bread. The Bolo feature cuts down fuel bills as well as insuring quick results. Every- ' thing that hampers you in the use of ordinary oil ranges is banished from the Vapo. Other Important Features Big Cooking top enables you to speed up meals. ~High Shelf does not interfere with use of wash boiler on top. White Enameled Splasher, oven door. and legs are easily kept clean. Lever valve easily and surely regulatech Burners easily cleaned. Durable construction equal to finest gal ranges. Very compact: Vapo six-burner type goes in space of ordinary four-burner stove. Furnished with or without oven in three- burner, four—burner, and six-burner styles. Right or left-hand oven. Take this advertisement to your dealer and ask him to show you a Vapo range. If he has none is stock, write us and we will no that you are supplied. THE VAPO STOVE COMPANY, Lima, Ohio Oil Ranges Heaters Hot Water Heaters INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE 88~20 [THE MICHIGAN FARMER JAN. III. 1-3:. sé’Vnman s ImeResI‘sI I . I a I o , F" . .. Clothlng thC fanniy on $2M ‘ liziII’Ifz'Q‘Izt/I/I/ S/mcxs‘ f/zdz‘ f/II’ film! [um/{y Fxci‘c‘z'Iey {£777er]? ['0 ' ]\r(/7l(t (/Of/z/mg Iii/l ‘ HIS PAW-INC III lII- IIII» IIIII' IIt‘ SIZHHII II‘III- IIIhIIInIiIIII. 1an III-3mm I. ‘=i-- (ll‘kHZZLIitfll. 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AS A VETERINARY LINIMENT Gombault's Balsam also is the remedy which years of use have proved effective and safe formost horse ailments. The Lawrence- Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio. . COM BAULTS BALSAM HEALING and ANT-[SEPTIC Dear Uncle Frank: I don’t get much time to write for I am at school so much of the time. I go five miles to high school and I ride horseback night and morning. It is not so very cold riding for there is enough motion to keep you warm. Say! Did you ever ride horseback? I have ridden a horse for about five years and I sure think it is great sport. They have a high school orchestra of about twenty-five pieces. I play a C Melody saxaphone. 'I always was fond of good music. ' ' Well, I am taking quite a lot of space, so will close.——Culmer Peterson, M. (3., Ionia, Mich. ,. a week I didn’t find it comfortable to Margaret and Helen Shelby, of Cole- Beware of Imitations! Genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”- have been proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians over twenty— three years. ASpirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic- acidester of Salicylicacid. 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 -yoars. Our treatment and prices are the cause, prices alone mean nothing. The weather is with you in this favored land of mild open wmtcrs and long growing . seasons, With no extremes of heat or cold. N 0 long hard winters; no raging blizzards to keep you shut in for days at a time. No 1‘ early osts to ruin your crops. Southern Maryland Summers are long, but no warmer than those you now ex- perience. , raising very profitable, as little shelter is needed. Five cuttings of alfalfa. possible in one year. Big money in intenswe farming of few acres, in fruits. truck, tobacco; profit- sell your crops on the farm. your farm. Send for the whole Story. 7 Southern Maryland immigration Commission, College Park, Md. The mild Winters make stock— ~ hundreds of dollars per acre . 14, .000 consumers within 300 miles of ' man, Mich., when they were Moth- er’s “Boys.” sit down. I am glad you are interested in music. So am I.. Dear Uncle Frank: I would like to be a Merry Circle girl. . I have one sister and one brother. We have a pig and four sheep. We bought our first sheep with thrift stamp money, $5.00. Then they multi- plied until we have four. We saved our money until we had $4.00 and then bought a pig, which is very nice. I have not had a standing below ninety-three. Is that very good? Will you write me and tell me how I can be a Merry Circler? I must close. From Virginia Wall, Cedar Springs, Mich. I would consider myself a good scholar if I had an average of ninety- three. If it wasn’t for sheep and pigs being able to multiply, there wouldn’t be much profit in them. Just answer M. C. before you know it. , Dear Uncle Frank: May I call you Uncle Frank? I don’t know how many uncles I’ve got, but you are the one I would take the most interest in if you will be my uncle. Describing myself, I’ve got light brown hair, and eyes of the same color. I once had long curls but now I’ve got it bobbed.» Don’t scold me, Uncle Frank. . Say, Uncle Frank, let’s have another contest on “My Greatest Scare.” Well, I will have to ring off. Your want-to—be niece, Alberta Brandt, R. 2, Munger, Mich. . I certainly will be your Uncle. How could I fail to be, with such an induce- ment? No, I won’t scold because of your bobbed hair, as I like bobbies as well as the long-haired girls. Dear Uncle Frank: This was the first time I ever won a prize. to be in the Michigan Farmer. thanks for the box of candy. I do not think Lu Eddie Blake could. have expressed the’ thoughts on the W. B. much better. ‘ Tonight we were changing pigs from one pen to another, and they got out and were hard to get in. We had lots Many - of running to do. \ I‘did not know pigs were so contrary.——Your niece, Helen Shelby, Coleman, Mich. Lu Eddie’s poem certainly was a dandy, wasn’t it? Yes, pigs as well as people are, contrary. at times. Dear Uncle Frank: . , 7 _ . ‘ I think the‘ Circle is just .9.’ dandy, Found in OurLetter Box Some? Interesting Merry Circle Letter: Yes, I rode horseback once, and for 4 the contests and, you will become an I was glad that my name was ' v and that we owe a lot to ydu, Uncle Frank, for making it so. . . _. I am fourteen years old and afresh- man in high school. I live on a farm for the present. Farm life is great, If you look at it the right way. I don’t think very many girls and boys who live on a farm realize how lucky they are. ' .I fancy finding you yawn by‘ this time, Uncle Frank, so will stop my chattering and remain, your friend, Beatrice Perkins, Argyle, Mich. You said it about farm life. A lot depends on looking at things in the right way. Don’t forget, I am hav- ing as much fun out of the Merry Cir- cle as my fellow M. C.’s are. Dear Uncle Frank: . Knock! Knock! Knock: ‘ Well, well, if it isn’t Uncle Frank himself answering the door. I am bringing my brother and sister this time. We hope Mr. Waste Basket feels as well as ever. (I give him my best wishes because he did me a favor by letting me pass it by). I received my card and pin. Thank you very much for it. I was to school when it came, so papa opened and read the rules. He said I should try to follow them. I shall try. If I do I shall have to.change my ways a lot. (My school teacher could tell you that. Ha! Ha!) Armistice Day was our teacher’s birthday. We had a surprise for her. (She is worth all the surprises we can give her anyway, because she is kind but stern, and best of all, she is jolly. You know when she really means any- thing, but itis hard for us to behave —especially me. We give our best regards to Mr. W. B., and hope that he will not be greedy ———but what’s the use of hoping?—Your would-like-to-b—e-niece-and-nephew, and M. C. niece, Alta, Elvern and Mary Fleury, M. C. \ ’It pleases me to know that your father thinks the M. C. rules are good ones to follow. If it is hard for you to- follow, then I would suggest that you change your ways. However, I don’t think you are as bad as you want to make yourself. Glad your brother and sister came this time, too. Dear Uncle Frank: I have a Merry Circle button and ' card, and I thank you so much' for them. I tried in a correspondence scramble and received the nicest letter from a. girl named Hazel Pearce. We live quite far apart, but that doesn’t keep us from writing to each other. I don’t care if this letter finds its way into the paper or not, *for I just wanted to thank you for my button . When the winds'blow raw and chill and rheumatism starts to tingle in your wants and ._ muscles get out your good , friend . usterole. ' _ _ Rub this soothing White ointment gently over the sore spot. ,As Muster- ole penetrates the skin and goes down . to‘the sent oftrouble, you feel a gentle, ’ healing warmth; then comes cooling, welcome relief from Old ManPain. Better by for than the old-fashioned mustard plaster, Muc'terole does the work without the burn and blister Grandma know so well.’ I For oroupy colds, sore throat, rheu- matism and congestion of all kinds, ‘ just rub on Muster-ole. _ Don't wait for trouble; keep a for or tube on the bathroom shelf. To Mothers: Musterole is now mode in milder form for babies and small children.AskforChildren’sMusterolo. 35c and 65c jars and tubes; hospital size, $3. The Musterole 00., Cleveland, Ohio Color Your Butter “Dandelion Butter Color” Gives That Golden June Shade which Brings Top Prices . Before churning add one-half teaspoon ful to each gallon of cream and out of yourchurn comes butter. of Golden June shade. “Dandelion Butter Color” is purely vegetable, harmless, and meets all State and National food laws. Used for 50 years by all large creameries. Doesn’t color buttermilk. Absolutely tasteless. Large bottles cost only 35 cents at drug or grocery stores. " Wells & Richardson Co., Burlington, Vt. FREE MEATCURING BOOK ~ To learn the best methods of curing meat, write to E. H. Wright Co., 843 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., and get’ absolutely free a new $1 Book. “Meat Production on the Farm”, which tells all about meat curing. Free to farmers only. Send name today. and make to 4"“; E h eTan yourorder from :15: your Cattle, Horse and all kinds of up“; \ Hides and Furs, Men’s Fur Coats, 1 ._‘ .' Robes, Caps, Gloves, Mittens, *‘ 7 Ladies’ Fur Coats and For Sets. Repairing and remodeling latest styles. Ship us your work and save one-half. New Galloway Coats, Robes. Gloves and Mittens for sale. ,We are the olden Galloway runners; 36 years continuous busineu. Free Style Catalog. prices and samples. Don’t ship your hides and furs elsewhere until you get our proposition. fiixr-awfirw‘y’ ’ l l l . I “a... and card. , I must close now as my letter is get- ,- HILLSDALE ROBE & TANNING CO. Hillsdale, Mich. - ' ° 1 ~ HIDES TANNED $3.50 to $5.50 Tan Hide and Make Robe Complete. using No. 1 Plush Lining. $10.00 to $12.50. All work guer- anteed. Write for samples and prices _Baduer Hobo a. Tanning 00.. Stevens Polnt, Wis. "i— Doris 'l'ruex, a Camel!" Mlch., M. 0., is an Outdoor Girl, I Bet. ting long—Your niece, Erma Church- ill, M. 0., R. 6; Brown City, Mich. I am. glad you have gotten such a nice, correspondent through , the seramble. It also pleases metohave young folks write me .without the am Lederberg thought of having the letter appear in” p _, 01m '- Mg. , . ! Now Treat - f ,‘ Baby’s Cold 2 Salve . f , Muco Salve is mother's favorite - {treatment for children’s colds be~ i cause it is applied externally. Nor do children have to be coaxed‘to use it; they actually like Muco Salve and soon learn to use it themselves. Applied in the nostrils, the vapors automatically reach- the upper rejs- -' piratory tract, soothing and healing the . inflamed ; membranes. Very , , pleasant. Easy to ,use. Equally 61d 1 « tective‘ for 'adult's, colds. " In'dorse , 9 . by physicians. Try it. . - , .j j: ‘1‘ Lag." ‘ N my . _ ' . . . ' briCk “manna ailsthe equipment of an T’oflice, I have enjoyed, I believe, about all of the ‘Winter sports ageing. Through the reading of :the Sport Contest papers I have experienc- cd' all the thrills of gliding over a smooth expanse of ice on- a pair of 'sharp skates. and seen stars when I took my bumps. I'have felt the thrill of speed, the brush of the cold air against my face and-the tumble into the snow while coasting. - ..:I. have glided over hill and vale and through the air on skiis. I have gene hunting, speared fish,~played snow ball, built snow 'men and caves; and enjoy- _ as many of the other winter activities. I want to thank every writer of a "Sport'Contest paper for all the experi- . ences I have. enjoyed. It made me anxious to get out and limber up my .old bones. ., The contest papers were fine; it was ‘ hardrfor'm'e to pick the winners. How— . 3 ever, it helped me some because'many did not tell the reason why they en— joyed the sport they preferred. A few of the prize winning papers are below. I will endeavor to run the others as soon as possible, so thatyou may read what thrill others are enjoying while you are enjoying winter thrills your- ‘ self.~~Un-cle Frank. By Blossom Barrett, Davison, Mich. it doesn't seem hardly fair to dis . criminate between the winter sports, because I likethem all so much. But since it is necessary, I think the most people can get the most pleasure out of ice skating, and l’m sure that I can. It doesn’t take such expensive equip- ment as ice-sailing, toboggoning, ice- racing, with cars or horses, or even skiing, becausm as a rule, you break several pairs of skiis in learning. Of course, sleds for coasting don’t cost so much as skates, but it takes more of them for the same amount of fun. For instance, my two brothers have so far had six sleds between them, and there is only one left of the six, and that'one is not in good repair. While they wear their skates until they outgrow them; and they really seemed to me to get the most enjoyment from the skates. Then when it comes to the number of people who can enjoy themselves all together, what can surpass skat- ing? I’m not saying that there may not be one, but I have never seen a hill large enough to permit all the people who wanted to, to coast on it at the same time. While on Michi- gan’s spacious lakes there is always room for everybody, and a few more. But the reason why I like skating best is, well—dust because I like it. With a pair of neatly-fitting, well- sharpened skates, i can get more en- joyment out of a sheet of ice than all the machinery in the world. It makes Your blood race and tingle, gives you a , keener, more sensitive view of life, and just makes you feel good all over, to get on a. smooth expanse of ice and “strike out” with your friends. By Mildred Miller, M. C., Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Muffled from head to foot in warm, snug clothing, and ready for a coast— ing party is, I believe, one of the sports I like above all others; When, after hauling tho toboggan to the top of a steep hill, and all are packed on it amid much shoutingr and laughter, the ward “go" isrgiven; like a flash the cold air rushes by, I hold my breath,, and could shout for joy for the. sheer happiness of living; then "I may truly say that coasting is my favorite sport. .. Many feeltthat the‘llong haul of the coasters up hill takes the fun out of coasting, but I look forward ’with . greater anticipation for the next slide, and feel thatallihe work is worth that which“.9911}932.3fl}€!¥q;'._' .. _ : , ' Not. dug-:15 »»’¢Ofiéfissistest. Isa; .bst office chair, ”attenuated“ by I I have played hockey . "91 nterSporc ‘ healthful. Many who have been work ing all day in. an oifice or in a home, « and are dead tired when evening comes, find that the cold, bracing air and walk uphill is just what they need to relax the body, drive the dullness from the mind and give ‘them a restful, refreshing sleep. Often I know older people envy the children, and wish they were back in their childhood days to have a good Sunday C enter; UNDAY is a different day than .. the rest of the week; it .' -should have different activities, as it is a day set aside for dif- : . ferent purposes. I believe that .the use of Sunday should be thought ,of by all of us, so I am asking you to write in 250 words or less, on How I Use my Sun- days and How I Would Like to Use Them. Here is a chance for an interesting discussion. For the two best papers, we will give our handsome nickled ' fountain pens; for the next three best, our handy tubular flash- lights, and for the next five, cute little boxes of candy. All who write good papers and are not Merry Circlers will get M. C. membership cards and buttons. Those who are M. C.’s should not forget to put M. C. after their name when 'writing. . The contest closes January 24. Send your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De— troit, Michigan. slide once more, but if, instead of dreaming, they would act, 1 am sure that they would find they are not too old or too stiff to enjoy it as wel young people do. By Olive E. McCloy, Fairgrove, Mich. “hen the bright colored leaves of tall are covered over by a downy his very goOd exercise, and also ,r ' ,. Cattle and the Soil EN who\were brought up on farms in the very districts Served by the New York Central Lines now compose the Agricultural Relations Department of this railer system. A thorough knowledge of the farmers’ problems as well as those of the railroad enables these men to work for the common good of these two inter- dependent interests. To improve soil conditions the Agricultural Re- lations Department has established 525 limestone demonstrations in cooperation with county farm bureaus and experts from various colleges of agriculture. The department has materially assisted in estab- lishing a Better Sire Campaign for the introduc- tion and breeding up of dairy cattle. It is the task of the department to foster co- operation between agriculture and transportation and to bring an ever-better service to the farmers of the country. \Hv YORK iNlfiRAL blanket of pure white snow, when the thermometer registers below zero, when Jack Frost bites your fingers NEW YORK CEN and toes~and every vision that ap- pears on the landscape sp<-aks of “Old King \Vinter” announcing his arrival—— then is when my heart is gay and my spirits light, for what does snow speak TRAL LINES . 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Ask for our handsome catalog of depenuame trees-"it's free. a handsome, thrifty, Michigan- buehee, roses and ealthy and true to name. )Dr- : THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. OLUM-ES have been written about the country. doctor, some of them placing him on a very high plane; but usually the thought is that there is not much to be expected from him other than very common work; You folks in the country grumble a. great deal about the class of doctors you have to wait upon you. Now and then I hear a good word for the country doctor; but your usual plaint is that you get nothing but the callow boys, fresh from college, or the old moss~ backs who are too lazy to better them— selves. It happens that I have a rather wide acquaintance among‘country doc- tors, and I know so many excellent men that it hurts me to think they quite willing to admit that they are not all beyond criticism. / Are you satisfied with the service that your home doctor gives you? bet me tell you how you folks who depend upon country doctors can improve your stock if you so desire. Give the doctor a. little encouragement to buy books and make occasiOnaI opportuni- ties for additional study and post-grad- uate work. You can do this by paying your bills cheerfully, and refraining from grumbling if the doctor does run . ‘off occasionally to go to a. medical society meeting 01' take some extra hospital work. Give your doctor your full confidence in every case. Perhaps some special work is needed in your case for which he is not fully qualified. Do not slight him for that» reason. The best city practioners do not try to do all of’their work, but make great use of special- ists. Give your doctor the same chance. Let him call a. consultant or refer you to a good specialist, which- ever seems best to him. You will be a. lot better off than if you try to pick someone for yourself, and your home doctor will still have the run of your case. There are many things that the may be pretty confident will never be revealed directly to you,_and it is to your great advantage that the home man know them. » Try to give your doctor a little spare time. Arrange to let him know of your need for his services early in the day whenever possible. Try to leave his evenings undisturbed so that he may have a. little time for recrea- tion and study. And if you expect to keep a. really competent doctor, to serve your community faithfully, do not expect that he will be “cheap” in his services. If he is the man you want he will take care to be reason- is worth just as much as in town. I think there will come a time in the not very distant future when rural communities will maintain laborator— ies and emergency hospitals, making a. complete health center available for the use of their own doctors, relieving them from the necessity of going to the city "for every thing. / HAS RAPID HEART ACTION. What is the cause of too rapid heart action, and can anything be done for it? My son, twenty-five years of age and apparently in perfect health, is refused by an insurance company as a. risk, for that reason. He is a hust- ling farmer and likes the work, but I wondered if office work would be any betterfor him. He has a high school could take a. business course—A. M. S. " I should be inclined to suspect some deeper trouble. Rapid pulse is not sufficient reason for-\refu-sal by a life insurance company. The excessive use g ’7’. [err/go should be held so lightly, though I am' specialist might say to him that you ' able, but medical work in the country, education and one year of college and ‘ i ~ "’2 V a . _ ., ,, .. 5W _ l . of tobacco Often causes a rapid pulse and other bad habits may do so. ,I think he should have careful tests of blood pressure and heart action. I would not advise change of occupa- tion. Does NOT RECOMMEND NUXATED mow. »_ . Is nuxated iron safe to take during pregnancy ?——A; M. A. - Any drug taken into the system dur- ing pregnancy'may react upon the child. I do not recommend this prep- aration at any time—certainly not dur- ing pregnancy. HAS PYORRHVEA. My gums bleed when I brush my teeth, and are inclined to pull back from the teeth at the roots, and grow between the teeth almost to the top. Also are swelled, red and angry look— mg. What does it indicate. What can I put on them? I must be very careful as to what‘I use. I have a. heart that .does not tend to its busi- ness all the time. Also a. stomach that gets off duty quite often. And 1 have rheumatism that affects the joints of my hands. Fingers on right hand are inclined to be stiff. This is all that ails me at the present time. Please tell me what to put on my gums, the ‘lower jaw only-upper jaw has store teeth—R. J. E. You have pyrrhea and there is a. good chance that it is responsible for your rheumatism and heart trouble. I am inclined to think that you should send the lower teeth to join those of the upper set and see if it will not clear up all your trouble. WILL AGAIN APPEAL FOR REVl-' SIGN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL FUND LAW. Twill be remembered that at the ’last session of the Michigan legis- lature an effort was made to secure a new law which would apportion the state primary school interest fund on the basis of the ratio between school attendance and assessed valuation per district rather than the present basis of the school census only. Credit for the new plan is given to secretary O. I. Bandeen, of the Escanaba Chamber of Commerce. It was deemed unviise to attempt to secure consideration for the plan at the recent special session, but it is proposed to continue the agitation for the adoptiOn of the new system by the legislature of 1925. It may be ex- pected that Escanaba. will be active in promoting this further effort. The matter was again brOught to the at- tention of the Escanaba board of edu- cation recently by Mr. W. E. Olds, superintendent of schools, in submit- ting a discussion of the project formulated by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Thomas E. John- son. Under the proposed change more of the fund would reach rural school districts than at present. - The source of the primary school in- terest fund is the net proceeds from the sale of school lands donated by ”the United States to the State, the taxes on railroad and certain other transportation properties, the inheri- tance tax and some other minor rev. _ enues. Mr. Johnson desires an inves- tigation to determine whether the .state, and consequently the primary school fund, should not receive a larger revenue ' from railroad taxes than at present, it appears from a. brief which was recently laid before' school officials of the state—Chase. A man to thOm three years of study . \have home no fruitwould; be hard to find..—Confucius. ‘ . ‘ “ . .. . under hens. neighborhood market for . a, large amount 0! grain. :1. Otes Byj‘R."G‘.i_Kii"bJ ‘ ' 7 ,7 HEN saving winter eggs for hatching, try andkeep themjn a temperature between forty and fifty degrees. Eggs that go below thirty-five degrees may be chilled. 11" they go about sixty degrees a rapid deterioration results. It pays to gather the hatching eggs often in Winter, so that most ‘of the eggs are taken from Visiting the laying pens every hour from nine until early after- noon, will usually save most ofthe eggs produced from being chilled. Eggs that weigh close to two ounces each are the best for hatching purpos- es. There is a tendency for hens to lay eggs close to the sizegof the eggs that’ produced them. We do not wish to oversize eggs as it costs too much to produce them. Small eggs are not desired by the bestmarkets. A stand- ard two-ounce egg is just about right for both market and hatching purposes. Dampness in the poultry house is reduced by frequent cleaning of the dropping boards. The droppings con- tain a large amount of moisture. Over- crowding of the poultry house soon contaminates the litter and makes the house damp. . Keep up the supply of green food .' ‘\ for the hens that are laying eggs for , hatching. The vitamines in both green feed and milk seem to enable hens to lay eggs 'with stronger germs. Many failures with early incubation are due to the quality of the eggs and not \to the incubator. Breeding stock that lack green feed and exercise contrib- ute many eggs that are either infertile or develop chicks that die in the shell. .Poultry Breeding Stock. Nearly every farm flock, no matter how carefully culled, contains a few birds of much better quality than the; general run of the flock. If these hens can be isolated during the breeding season and mated with the best cock- erel obtainable, it is a great help in increasing the per cent of fine individ- uals in the flock. The large number of cockerels which can be raised from the special mating can be carefully culled and usedas breeders for the free range flock the next year. The records of the laying contests prove that ZOO-egg hens are rather scarce as far as flock averages are concerned. So it must be necessary for many farmers to keep a lot of hens which do not lay more than 140 to 160 eggs. Such hens can be profitably maintained as layers on the farm, al- though they may not be included in the Special breeding pen. For early hatching eggs this special breeding pen can be placed in a colony house, an old shed or in a part of the laying-house wired off from the re- mainder of the flock. \Vhen enough eggs have been obtained from the spe- cial mating all of the birds can run together on free range. It is not al- ways necessary to have special laying houses and long fenced yards inorder to do a little useful work in the im~ provement of the farm flock. , Home-grown Feeds. A dry mash uSed by some practical poultrymen can be made largely of home—ngn feed or grains bought in the community; It consists of 300 pounds of. ground wheat, 300 pounds of ground Corn, 200 pounds of ground oats, 100 pounds of bran and 100 pounds ofrbeef scrap. When poultrymen can buy grains in their own neighborhood they save a haul from the elevator for themselves and a haul to-market-for the neighbor. The dealrmay be beneficial to both parties concerned. The poultry farm is an egg factory requiring raw mate- rial in the form of grain; The poultry specialist seldom has the time or the acreage _'for extensive grain raising. In some. sections the large, well-man- aged. poultry farms. are a benefit to the. grain producers as they furnish a What some new neighbors taught an old Poultryman Burt Lavin Gives Credit . Where Credit Is Due [By WILLIAM R. DURGIN] BOUT a mile north of Kansasville, Wisconsin, on the Bay road you come to a large poultry farm owned by Burt Lavin. When you View the well- dcsigned chicken houses and long neatly fenced runs thickly populated with Barred Plymouths you sense that Mr. Lavin makes a business of “Regulating Hen: Was a New One Io Me“ elements that would really make more eggs it was worth seven or eight cents a year per bird! Being a practical poul- tryman he kept close account of results, and this is what he found: Some Startling Figures On Laying Costs poultry and eggs—and makes it pay. But how it has paid of late! ' “The year just closed paid me twice what the same flocks netted me in 1922,” says the owner. And when' you attribute the gain to good judgment he smiles andsays, “No—just a case of good neighbors.” This is the story: Eggs—and More Eggs "When a young couple took the adjoining farm there was nothing remarkable about their small flock of clgickens, DON’T GUESS! The free bulletins from ‘Pratts Poultry Institute, Philadelphia, farmers all over Amer- ica advised on the lat— est and best methods of caring for poultry. This service is conducted for YOUR benefit; have you put your name on the list to receive it? A flock of 150 hens was given regulator in with the regular ration for two months. The cost of their feeding, including the regulator, was $71.60 and their eggs brought $201.06—or a gross profit of $129.46. Another group of the same size, fed the same mash but no regu- lator had a feed bill of $7.25 for the same period but egg sales totalled only $104.32—— profit $37.07 but showing nearly a lzzzmlrml dollars loss l/zrouglz l/ze lower pro- duction: Does poultry regu- lator pay? Burt Lavin says keep except the large number of eggs produced. Every trip to town there were baskets and boxes of eggs for the store. Even when cold weather set in the daily dozensof eggs did not seem to diminish. It had Lavin puzzled, and the first time the newcomers dropped off to get acquainted he soon turned the talk to “eggs.” It was the woman who frevealed the secret of their luck with layers; “It isn’t entirely what hens are fed, or what they get from the soil,” she said. “\Ve regulate our hens, and Mother‘Nature does the rest.” What is meant by “regulating" hens? Simply the regulation of the birds’ sys- tems through their feeding. Not by changing their feed, but by putting nec- essary egg elements in with it. You can feed birds on the fat of the land and not add one egg to their usual lay. But add egg-making minerals, natural digestants, vitamins and other health aids-and their egg~laying tendencies never fail to respond like magic. Mr..Lavin decided to give-the regu- lating idea a trial. If a small amount of rare seeds, herbs, and barks gath- ered from foreign climes could provide it does! llc will wind up the year with about 336,000 clear after paying for some building and repairs, and with the largest and most vigorous flocks he has ever had. You can adopt the same plan with the same propor- tionate Here’s the way to go about it: Get some Pr'atts poultry regulator at any store selling poultry preparations. They all have it; you may have seen it and thought it was a remedy or tonic. Mix the small amount required with the feed or mash you now use. You’ll soon see the difference! Those birds that may now be slackers will Commence to lay eggx; .thc laying of your prize biddies will speed up. Your entire flock will radiate health. Three Free Offers Pratts experts will advise you without cost if you write them for practical sug- gestions on any poultry problem. This service gives you the benefit of more than 50 'years’ experience. gain. You may enroll to receive the free bulletins issued by the Poultry Institute and thus keep posted on discoveriesjand developments on the huge experiment farm where the Pratt organization has re- duced poultry raising to a science. 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Mr. Porter has spent a lifetime in this work. producing one improvement after an- other until this, his crowning achievement. SOFT HEAT Is superior by 26 distinctive points. Porter Sor-"r HEAT mourn-roe. Sam money. time, work, chicks. No lift»- ing or removing trays. . - l H 5| II “J":i‘l’: MT" ms. t semi-auto- matically. Centerlamp —equal heat. Exclusive patented moisture de- Automatic con- trol of heat. manure, and ventilation. One nuing of lamp for complete hitch. crl a“. my chick hotelier-lee msy furnish a better spite of the improvement in the farm flocks there are many sections where it is difficult for a. new hatchery own- er to line up enough good flocks to in- sure a, steady Supply of high-closes hatching eggs. Every time you think that perfection is a. trifle, and quality poultry is plentiful, just start out look- ing for it and you realize there is still room formore good flocks. On pleasant winter days he sure the poultry receive their rightful share of your time. Clean the dropping boards and spray them. If you don’t like to breathe the spray then paint the roasts with metrong solution of disinfectant. Keep the dry mash, owster shells and grit hoppers filled'and the litter clean. Then if storms arrive, or you are half sick with a. cold, you can cut the poul- try work to a minimum without den- ger of reduced egg production or in- jury to the health of the flock. Separate Pullot Eggs. It is best to separate small pullet ‘ eggs and sell thenfiat a lower price per dozen rather than include them with standard two-ounce eggs. I know of one poultryman who sold: pullet eggs for thirty—five cents per dozen, when the hen’s eggs were bringing sixty cents. At the reduced price the customers who obtained them were glad to take pullet eggs. The pullets soon produco a. larger sized egg that can be classed with hen’s eggsand the customers of that breeder were not called upon to pay a high price for the small eggs. When undersized eggs are mixed with large ones it often low- ers the price of a consignment so that the large eggs do not bring full value. Hens like germinated oats. Fill a. galvanized pail with cats and then pour on warm water until the oats bulge upward in the pail. After they have soaked about half a day, drain. off-the water and place the oats near the stove where the temperature will be near to seventy-five degrees. Stir once a day until germination starts. Then place the pail in the hen houSe and the birds will soon clean out the oats. ' My hens like soaked oats that have not had time to germinate. After a couple of hours of soaking they swell up almost like plump kernels of wheat and seem much more appetizlng to the birds than the papery hulls of dry oats. I_ still think that many farm hens receive to‘o much corn in winter and not enough of the other grains. Corn is the best winter grain, but wheat and oats are also useful in the ration and help in egg production with out making. the hens too fat. WHY NOT SOME HONEY MONEY? (Continued from page 71). quire- more buckets for holding the milk, then is the beginning of tre— mendous activity in the hive, and more room is needed to hold the increasing family and the stores they are bring- ing in. But such neglect does not kill the colony, and later on when the hay is in and the wheat is shocked, and a. day for fishing has been had. then the bees begin to hang out in great num- bers in front of the hive and the farm- er puts on some supers to hold the crop' which has already been lost. Then in the fall, when the silo has been filled and the wheat planted and the apples picked, the farmer wraps him- self ln towels ,.and sweaters and with many mittens on his «hands he bravely goes forth some chilly day, and to the utter astonishment of all the family, he marches up to the hive and gives the super a jerk. Much to his dismay it sticks as though nailed and the whole hive is aroused by his hurried ' attack. After a time a. chisel is secur- ed and the unruly super is pried off, but not before the angry bees have found the vulnerable points around the. shoe tops and their ancient fee 1'95 treatsin disorder, forgetting to put spring egg market for many farmers 7 h ' who do not sell hatching eggs. In. ' . . h. l. Reds. White Wyendottu. Orpin sisters, 5. C. Eng. White Leghorns. S. C. . a. Buff ‘Loghorns. c nos, 8. C. Minorcu. strong. sturdy. hem-lulu stains, from inn. vigorous yearling hens rsised on our forms. and culled by «rpm poultry men. to s hish quality of Der-titled Utility mocks. else. Extra Selected Flasks end from Blue Itibbon Pens. Bablons Fruit and Poultry hunt mm, n.7, mm Both Combs. Michigan's Greatest Color and En Strain. Best You ‘Rof llsed the M. L Contest. One customer reports 1.683 eggs from 30 pullsts during December and January. flier pound broilers st 7 weeks. Another alt-no nod orbroil- in st 9 gears.“ Bred from;1 ghfenerstions of winger syerl. r stock a on em and chicks. Write for free cstolos. by INTER KES PA M Box 39. LA Laws-once. Mich. PURE BRED CHICKS Real producers. Flocks culled by export. Beautiful breedgnsstook. 50. 38: o ' :7: 106. as: 500, $82. . Lesborns sre‘ Barron or 100 . chem ‘ Ben. McLsoblin State Bu .this 0'13. Petersburnh Hatchery, - Peters . M 'Early Maturing BABY C‘ HICKS These chicks are from flocks headed by cockersls of high producing blocs lines. Cullod by experts. Each flock personally supervised. Pure-bred. $13 per hundred up. Special: We have a, limited number of superior grade chicks from special matings. Write for description and prices. 100 per cent livo delivery. Ref. , Milan State Savings Bank. Mllsn Hatchery. Box 4. EGG BRED CHIX zoo-one Siraln s. c. Ensllsh Tyne White Leghorn. and Brown Leah orns. Lsroe looned- comb. dun-bod- Isd i no. 12 years oi’ breeding for high 090- wroduotlon. Care ully selected breeders, headed by large, yisorous melt-s. combined with many years of highly success- ful hatching methods. gives you chicks that will bring you success. loo per cent live Iirrlvsi numnieod. Write for cataltnglle and prices today. ROY LHATCHERY AND yFARMS R. 2. Iceland. Mich. s. P. Wiersml. O I D Highest Quality Chicks Feb-March prices. Ilvnvy broiler chicks 12c. Barred ltmks or Reds 17c: Anconss. Black Mlnorcu 16c: White or Brown LeIIhorns 15c: White Rooks. White Wyundottcs. Buff Orpingtons 17%0. Extra debated chicks. built directly from contest winners. lo not (link more. Add 300 if less than 100 wanted. Hatch- es.“ (‘oatul 0.3 Good reference. Becker-on Hatchery. TMF. 28 Lyon St. Grand Rapids, Mich. EGG-- 7" . m Milan. molt. WM?- VWMMRUI Nb“ CERTIFIED CHICKS BRED TO MY STRAINS I"'.'.”"';'..’:{[a. Best“ Quality Certified Chicks pay “9- lletf profit. Our (hicks are from ,_ our own Free Range flocks of Shannard’s Famous 33! sag strain of Ant-mm. heavy winter layers of largo white eggsmollywood and Tom Barron s. C. White Leghorns: and Everlay 8d. C. Brown Leghorns. Carefully selected at ed by experts and certified 1) ,Michigan Babyand Chi Ass’n. Brod for quality and iah egg mold for 11 years on our own farm. Strong. vigorous. full of vitality. per cent vo dellmry guaranteed. Low prices. irated ca aloe Free. Townllne Poultry Farm &. Hatchery. lend d. Mich. Member MithWest and Baby Chick Assn. S. C. WHITE LEGHORN S l Bred for egg production since D\ Dent.' M. Zes- International 1010 Our 13 years of expe- ricnce in hsmhmg and ship- ping chicks gives you the big. strong, healthy chicks tint grow to maturity in the short.- est posslblo time. 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. Let us ms. all you our 32-min» cat- alog with price list. it W20LVERINE HATCHERY. I l / “.1 l Mimi? fTry our llvelyand arouscksehl bred- to- -lsy and uhihitioiil hens. {1513"}, will make You angmqngngi have the qualityand ll:wifi’con< he'bit head into vines you. VBABY‘I‘JHICKSQ’ H rdfialitlss mb nit'dstsnds um mco S- Ct B.'f°d Roch. 8. Co W!!!“R Roch. ‘ Sec MU, Whittaker’ s R. l. Reds, Box 20. Zeoland,’ Miami ’ Chicks vvith Pep" All leading varieties. so. deliv- ,e. Propel Prices 'richt. Bonk. 'rerierence. illustrated “octane L .V I gel-[alt dmmfim «um flaw” ‘ ' [halt in a ‘couple of ants ' for man: I’nars. ’ 'vi 1101111 ifimus CHAMPION “IMAM roduoee finest I. call”. Save: ' for utI, hulls.s Full llLIIII e Sue-r Mak- . Ir'I Milli“. climbs Evaporator 011.. unison. Ohio W L’or free Ill. catalog and n: o n I; I o n how many - true you up High-Tact: Chemical For Indoor Clout. ”Direct From Manufacturer 81. 50 per. gal. Duble the strength of ordinary Chemical. one an lasts 0 months. Works in any style toilet. Speeiil price on quantities of from 3 to 10 ions. Dealers wanted everywhere. SANIT *3 RY PRODUCTS CO., Sal - I Division Ava. 5., Grand Rapids. Mich. d [40 I 991m (Ibo/or $1323 50 lions Irinl rel htPugmtetthe . .l' - ' '—d in ill—d arm- “..:;1:.. ...? - ‘17-'75 - 15.7. . 22.00 140 mineubator and Breeder 100 Inimubater Alone - - no la Incubator and Breeder I“ I“ Incubator Alena - . . 12.7! 350 In Incubator and Iroedelr - 81. 00 sac cutgssssmgrsrumpus. ot.pleaud ftno readytoor or now. don’t Wham until ”“000 get our 1984 catalog whichdhowa mull IIWMTOI G0. hit 120 MM. Us. Er Sick Chic Den' IMIOIDCP, OOLDC. “6". III IOIINIAD. IOWII. E300- LIA“. .unyoutpnlu. I I cure or prevent. :01“ "$1.2...“ u pun. by: CEO. ll. yLEE. leIII about poultry r7! ailments. bowie detect, whliwdo. ole e. Germorone 15c and II. lo aim) and "III II book at dud «Ind Ilene. or pouuld (III-n WSWWESPOT one. It. 11:00. Omebmw Let me “SUCCESS“! l" nli‘éiiu‘y’af: Ififin‘u’é '~ T. Ientlruon request. Catalog FREE. Make green. egg- I mum feed in “succue ' WI." Grain torque-re. WINTER EGGS ARE PROFITABLE McCurdy’ s gable top bar Feeders and winter Fountains will produce Winter EGGS. Open construction. saniury. economical. eeds from both sides. pm 84; 8-bu 92- inch feeding sum 8for catalogue of larger Feeders and winter Fountains. Freight prepaid at catalogue mica east 0! Mississippi River. space. 37'. 50. ’fstEBAB (1115311 WORLD’S common Lived-s gamma: 1230—. ins-1mm; at National swim" I”:&' QUALITY“ Glam ”3‘3 r"! "$321?“ ”I: ”I . Sllxtll l.( (l on ‘ Torder-I. Val l‘)(i~:i('l~”~l We 0mg. n 2.: "WWW? run. as. umm gaging.“ Mao glam 7 VISA [HAW HATCHEIIY. Inn-15. ANN ARBOala‘w MICHIGAN. _Z Baly clicks ”5853, w. iaglmms 1 o 91 , Discount on orders for chicks booked- 0 More Feb.1st..to be delivered any time this season. strong, via gorous, pure—bred chicks. bred [or egg production, 100 per cent llv.e postpaid. Leghorn. Rocks. Rods as low as :12. 00 per 100 “rite for price list M at once Connors 269 31:. Parks St. Pontiac. u loh Hammer” kAt “I 31 AM “my”. u' .'u' 30' “mm I: III “Molina-z 'PURE BRED BABY CHICKS We have been carefully devel- oping our flocks for eight years. 'Every chick pure- -hrod and from stock carefally culled. for and production. Our chicks give .imactm. Order today and set chicks when you want them. 50 800 one .............. 87 .00 13.00 62. Bd. nooks. R. l. Reds. . . . .8.00 $15.00 ‘72.83 VIII. Wyanduttee. W11. Rooks 8.50 I6. 00 77.00 100 per cent 1;” delivery. You take no 11’ nk. this Whom HTE- .. pedigreed wficwmrmma {on 'beekeeper because he, has too many 1 time each week to tend to the bees, ’ . and he must stick religiously to that 1 bill. , cheesy pus to accumulate. B‘lnsaaesdflostm unfipmfifiimgfi 1 “our own ea”? convince ,for feed in flocks under observation in the death Is found about six months too late. The memory of the last har- rowing experience is still fresh in his, mind and the frames are kicked out and the hive is given to mother for a hen's nest. Hundreds of such bee hives are now serving a useful pur- pose. The above narrative of a year’s bee" keeping on the farm is not as much overdrawn as one may think, and doubtless many readers will identify themselves as the chief actors in one or more scenes in the tragedy. The writer pleads guilty. It was his expe- rience to inherit seventeen unruly swarms back in the late nineties and he still cherishes the memory of night attacks and hairbreadth escapes, and it was in such a way that he learned that you cannot sneak up on a colony of bees and tend to them when they are not looking. The average farmer will not be a. other things to do. If he will succeed, beekeeping must, be made one of the major projects and must be given needed attention with the same regu- larity and care that is given to other animals of the farm. Further, the farmer must study beekeeping more consistently than he has studiedmost farm operations because his experi- ence is less. H12 must make up his mind that he will make the. necessary cash outlay for the equipment that is needed. He must set aside a definite program. Sometimes it may take thir- ty minutes, and sometimes longer, but regular attention must be given. He should attend beekeepers’ meetings and visit the apiaries of other bec- keepers in order to supplement the knowledge that he gains by study and observation. He must learn disease and its treatment. The above array of “musts and shoulds" may be appalling to the be- THE.MDCHIGANI . the lid on top. Next spring when the , bees fail to fly at the proper time, the 1 farmer investigates and the cause of [I hens \\§\ ~FUL'O You can get more eggs too if you will start feeding your make eggs—it keeps hens healthy and makes 'em lay. IFIKIiiiiifihgfiifififik FARMER Since I have been 5 Feeding My Hens FuI-O-Pep Egg Mash ‘ 4111‘ I 1| l5 51 That’s the good news that comes. from poultrymen, Just as soon as they start feedin SFul-O-Pep Egg We discovered long ago that a hen would lay in winter as well as summer, if she was providedy with the right kind of feed to keep her well nourished and supply her with egg making mate- rials. We combined such ingredients in Ful- O- Pep Egg Mash —— now season makes very little difference to Ful- 0- Pep users—they get eggs all the time and a lot more than they did before. The value of or. - - PupL MASH EGG as an egg producer has been proven daily on commercial poultry farms and in the pens of thousands of back lotters all over the country. Hens raised the Eu] OPeRfWay have broken records in the Egg Laying Contests In Texas and Issouri in 1922- 23. M this great egg producing feed. It is composed of materials that sags spar; 2;: xx ,. ). ’7 1.. Write today for free copy of our 1924 FuI-O-Pep Poultry Book and learn how you can get a lot more eggs right through the winter months when your neighbor's hens are not laying and when FULOPL‘P’ 1’ (8) ginner, but if he hasn’t backbone enough to tackle that, he will not haw g the preseverance to follow it to a suc- ‘ cessful conclusion and so had better not make a start. The logical persons to really take up this subject are those farmers who are now the owners of a few neglected colonies. Michigan does not need more beekeepers, but it needs better beekeepers among those already in the business. , POULTRY SURGERY. Our pet hen, a beautiful full-blooded Rhode Island Red, has a swelling which continues to increase in size. It started about three months ago and is located between the ear and the She eats well, sings and lays eggs. Her feathers are smooth and her eyes bright. Will you kindly advise us in regard to a diagnosis and a rem- edy?— ..A A lump of this type is often the le- sult of a catarrhal cold which has caused the nostril to clog and a hard, The symp- tom may be similar in the first stages of roup and this condition may devel- op into roup. The only way to save the bird is to make a Wide and deep incision in the lump and take out the leathery pus which has gathered. Then wash the wound with commercial coal tar disin- fectant by injecting the disinfectant with a medicine dropper. It is usually necessary to clean the wound several- times, at intervals of two or three days and disinfect it thoroughly. The bird, should be isolated from the flock until healing results and the nostrils are dry Severe cases of roup take so much time to cure that the hatchet is usu- ally recommended. In a special case such as you have described you possi- bly can afford to .give the bird careful treatment and save her. During November it cost an average of approximately three cents per egg Allegan county. Egg you can get top notch prices. and keeps them healthier. grow ’em quick with less death losses. get our FREE Poultry Correspondence Course. The Quaker Oats Company .6? Mash—how to feed it and why it makes hens lay more eggs Also tells how to raise young chicks- TelIs also how you can Write today. Poultry Service BM. 1628 Ry. Exchange Bldg. Address Chicago. U. S. A. This book tells all about Ful o Pep “a. 5 - , 1 ...“ ‘ J ”.5, \ Highest Quality Berilfied Baby (Illicit: F‘rom Michigan's Old Reliable Hatchery, IIII' stt muippod and most modern Enid!- ery in the State. l’uro—bn-d 'l'om Barron English and American White Leghorns, An- conas. Barred Plymouth Marks and lthode island ltcds. Strong. well-hatched (Thick: from tested lloganizvd free-range star-k that make wonderful winter layers. Chicks sent by ln1:1r1d l'-nr11l l’ost. lrepaid to your (l1mr.100 per can live delivery We antccd.i~llxn~1n years of exper-IInI-c In producing and shipping (‘-.hl1ks giving absolute satisfaction to thousands. “rm-im- Iulushln illustrated free catalog and price list. lowest price on best quality chicks below p141 1m. your order. W. VAN APPLEDORN, R. 7, Holland, Mich. Postpaid. to you, FLOCK Fine We ha tch HUBER'Sm RELIABLE HATcHaEBY. East "lab 81., BABY CHICKS Send for descriptive .matter and prim list of our ' Pure Bred Practical Poultry Some line breeding this your in improvvd egg qual- ity stock: Cookers“. Whit: Vi’yandottos and it. ('. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. year. Whittaker s Reds Chicks . And eggs for hatching. Michigan's greatest color and egg strain. fourteen generations of winter layers. HUBERSRELIABLECHICKS.OUR y *Ioooooo fir 1924 VISth 100 per cent live deliwry Glu: us your ord1r for our reliable (hicks and we will prove it better chicks could be hatched tor the mom-y we would be hatching them. PURE BRED CULLED BY EXPERTS Illustrated Catalog Free. Tells how we prodm-e Reliable (‘hllks that have pleased uric-lies. Combination (him. \aiuablc book given ”his with each order. Fosteria, Ohio. BABY CHICKS and standard qualities combined All popular varieties. lligh egg production V‘Ofl i: 51813. ends on 12 (ntrim in production (lasts Mi1-.II Fair. Nu better chicks available at same pri12-. booking orders rile for tirculnr LITCHFIELD HATCHERY, LITCHFIELD. HIGH. Leghorn Bn-UABYCIl-l-X Heavies Black Brown Buff “mire. Reds, limits. Wyandottea. Ant-onus and klinorcas. Brahmas and Onrinztons. Allegun Hatchery on Highway No 88. Send {or 1924 price list. Crescent Eu Company. Aliens. In. DUNDEE CHICKS PUR E-B RED CULLED FLOCKS 5 sec- State "New I0 LEADING VARIETIES. customers’ egg records from MOI‘k 0! last a. few unsold in Barred Rocks. ltcds $3.00 and $4.01). Manoic Temple, _Kalamazoo, Mimic—an. Rose and Single (’ombs. Bred from Write for {rt-v catalog. Interlakes Farm. Box 39. Lawrence. Mic'h Our chicks are from pure- —bred flocks, carefully 1uilcd by experts. Am onus are direct from Sheppard. Boy 5 T 6 L Icngligh White Leghurm, Leghorn flocks head1d by males from" Michigan Ag. ,l .. 0 . Larger hens. [mum win. (Hollege ltucks are from a. 230- 302 egg strain. Reds ‘ tor layers. Chicks. hatching eggs. Free catalog do- are llddimat' s best. w rite {or catalog and price list. scribes them is'full of practical money-making poul~ try information gend for it. Miohiqan. it will save you money Bank. this city. Dundee. Michigan. Re!” eeStaie Sm DUNDEE "DATCHERY. Boxing: A. Wauch ek. Goblet. Pure Bred Big Value chicks Best paying standard varieties from healthy free range utility flocks. carefully inspected. culled. and Hogan tested. Quirk maturing. llish Egg Porduction. ch Bis Ofl’er on Broodtrs. [Ialclllllg 81 Breeding Bo" Dept. 5. Bibsoahurg,we S. G. White. Brown and 81m Leuhorns ................................. . ........... Ho 8. c. Avicenna. s. c. B. Minor-cat. Barred Rocks. 8. Reds .......... ._.... ........... I“ White Rocks. B. c. R. I. Reds. White Wyandottes . .......... ............. .......... We 8. c. Bull. 3. 6. White. Orpinotone ..................... . . . . . . .‘ ......... ....III Assorted Varieties Broilers ................ . k. . . . ............ ... .. ... .....Ize ' our big illustrated catalog and prices on our 31- -Quellty Chicks. It is Inc; ’ pennants humour 7' Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us Twelve Days before date of publication 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 BIRMINGHAM, MICH. Reg. Guernsiv l)u11.1 years 0111, well For Sale marked, quiet and gentle, a sure excellent A. R. s.ire Dams A. . record . granddams A. It. rocOIds 599. 82 lbs. and 5986 lbs. butter-fat. Also bull calves and Reg. cows and heifers. L .L. Barney, Watervliet, Mich. R. Record May herd bull 3100. ’ 10 Reg. Guernsey cows. some A. R0 so breeding. $2. 600 for all; John Ebels. Holland. Mich" R 2. Two NiIe Bulls nearly ready for "ei- GUOIIISBYS service. Special terms if desired. 1. Williams. North Adams, Mich. EGISTERED GUERNSEYS--T. B. Tested. Young Bulls. $50; 5 Cows and TIHe'Ifers. P rioeo reasonable Dr.W.R .Baker. 4800Fort St. , W est. Detroit. Mich 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. that make a horse Whoeu Roar. have Thick Wind. or Choke-down, can be reduced with also other Bunches or Swellings. Noblister. no hair gone. and horse kept at work. Eco- nomical—only afew drops required Iran 3?”: cation. 32. 50 per bottle delivered. M3 ABSOBBINE. JR, the antiseptic liniment for man- kind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen Veins and Ulcers. 81. 25 a bottle at dealers or delivered. Book“Evidence" free. w.F.YOUNe.Illc.,468 Lyman 81., Springfield. Ilse. Registered Durocs FOR SALE—Young boars and slits bred from the best herds in Michigan and Ohio. .at reason lo pric- es and fully guaranteed. W.E .Bartley. Alma, Mich. DURQC JERSEYS Spring pigs either sex of Merch‘ April and May tar-row. sired by three outstanding herd boars. It you want sizetyyfis and quality combined come and see or write us rodl‘. Monroe. Mich.“ .l Bred Sows and Gilts. numc Jerseys each. Fall pigs. $12. 1 Reg. and guaranteed. Wall‘s Top Col. breeding. None hotter. Write us. Jesse Bliss & Son, Henderson, Mich. $25 to $40 Al SHORMAN. Fowlerville, Mich. $300 Buys two good, large, Registered- . Holstein cows. duo to freshen soon. Good for 150 pounds of milk Dtl‘ day. Regis- tered heifer calves, $50 each. Registered bull calves. $30 each. Bulls ready fo1 scnice, priced to sell. B. ltem'cy, Akron. Mich. Breakwater Jerseys Majesty breeding. Herd tuber— Brookwoter Farm, Ann Bull calves for sale. ,culosis free. Come or write. Arbor. Mich. FINANCIAL KING BULLS “’9 have for sale a. few bulls ready for service. also bull calves sired by Financial King Sensation. son of Financial Sensation, the $60,000 sire. These bulls are from R. of M. cows. Write to Goldwater Jersey Farm, Goldwater, Mich. UROC fall and spring boars of the best breeding D and qualit at prices to sell Fall pigs at her- galn prices. W. C. Taylor, Milan. Mich. DUROO JERSEYS AND DELAINE MEBINBS CAREY U. ED\IONI)S Hastings. Mich Spring boars from prize winning stoek, ChCStel’S will ship on approval. Cholera Immuned. Fred L. Bodimer. Reese. Mich. O. I. C’s. Monroe. Mich. O I C9 75 spring pigs, pairs not akin. from ° 83 3good sires. also fall pigs. recorded free. Otto Schulze & Sons. Nashville, Mich. 26 choice young boars for full service. Clover Lent stock Farm, FOR S ALE Jersey bulls ready for ser- _ vice. All cows Register of Merit. Accrediud herd. ii’ould take a bankable note. ShIlTH AND PARKE.“ R. 4, Howell. Mich. ' 0. I. C. Service Boars and Bred Registered Gilts. Also a. few tried Sows. due soon. four Beagle hounds—Joseph R. Van Ettcn, Clif- ford. Mich. cattle. young hulls. for Tuberculin tested mLake Odessa. Mi0h. Registered Jersey“, J. L. CARTER. 15 Cows 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance to select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred for fallfreshening OnionO. Lillie, Coupon-wills. Mich. ’ I 0 Thumb Hereford Breeders AssocIahon can simply your needs with outstanding, well-bred registered Herefords, either sexes, polled or horned at reasonable prices. Inquire of E. E. TWING, Sec- Treas.. Bad Axe. Huron Co.. Mich. HEREFORDS Registered Brccdingcattlc. T. B. Tested at practical prices for production of Hereford Baby Reeves profitably, all ages. T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS (Herefm d3 smcc 1839) St. Clair, Mich. HEREFORDS Bulls. Heifers and Cows with (‘ :Ilies by side. Most popular strains. Allen Bros.. BIG 8. Westnedge St" Kalamazoo, Mich. .3 . “p, - .1 S H O R T H 0 R N 5 Revolution Jr. 573938 hdeas accredited herd 28917. Now offering 2January roan bull calves of exceptional merIt reasonnbi priced. BIDWELL smock FARM. ox p Tecumseh, Mich Milking Shorthorns. An accred~ WildWOOd Fannited herd bred for beef and milk. Headed by King Sales. grandson of Glenside Dairy King. Visitors Welcome. Beland 8:. Beland, Tecum- seh, Mich. Paved Road No. 50. - of Red l'olicd Bulls. When In Need (‘ows or Heifers, Buy from Michigan's leading herd, owned by Westbrook Bros" Ionia, Mich. For Polled Shorthoms £53," "135$"? 0333" Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. ’ HOGS Yearling, spring and fall pigs of Berkshire Hogs eithtr . sex. pric‘d 1 rca. 4]}. Jimmy, Akron Mich. L cry sonable DU ROG JERSEY GILTS Especially long in body and well deIelopId in form: a valuable. practical type. Send for photos and full description and price of this exceptional stock. ST ATE FARMS ASSOCIA ATION, floss street. Kalamazoo. Michigan. Raise a Topmost Sensat- ion Litter and ' raise the best. at: are :ll’erlilng bredl El?“ and gilts. Let us quote W10 5 a rea oar piv 'd SENSATION. Write us youi" rights. by TOPBMST LOEB FARMS Virgil Davis, Supt: Swine ' Cheri evoix Michigan practical 307 North HQ. 0. I. f‘. Yearling Boats. Extra Yearling and Spring Sows. Satisfaction or no Pay. Shipped on approval. Fred W. Kennedy. R. 2, Plymouth, Mich. 01C, Sept pigs. hired by “Giant Boy,” Senior s - 8 (‘hampion at West. Mich. State Fair. 1923. Milo II. Petirson R. 2, Ionia. Mich. "Illmhurst Farm " L T P C Bred Gilts out of the most. pop- ' ' ' ' IIlar blood lines. Théy have 111- woys made good and will again. \Vrite your wants. also for plan of selling. M. M. PATRICK. Grand Ledge, Mich. - Livingston’s Big Polands Our thanks to all those who helped make our first public sale a. success. Our hat is still in the ring for bigger and better Polands Come and see. W. E. LIVINGSTON. PARMA. MIOH. ’ BO ARS at half price. Big Type Poland China. The kind that pay a profit on high— —priced feed. Our pig, in the Pig Club, gained 70 lbs. in 30 days on 98 lbs. of grain. Jno. Butler, Portland, Mich. BIG T P C Aug. and Sept. pigs sired by our ' 0 'hord boars. $10.00 up. Also 2 herd boars at $75 each. Winter sale Feb.20,1924. Order quick for choice. E.A c.LARK. St. Louis. Mich. l.- T. P. ll. Bears treaty Service to F0 xy Clans- man, $40. Michigan Champion herd for 3 A. A. Faldkamp. Manchester. Mich. years and Gilts all go at. private L a Large Type Poland Chinas Boars $25 each. Satisfaction guaranteed, all stOck shipped on approval. Bred Sow Sale Jan. 30. DORUS HOVER, Akron, Mich. ' ‘ Spring Boats and Gilts. and fall pigs. Hampshires Pairs not akain;11th year. 150 to select from. John W. Snyder. St. Johns. Mich. R. 4. Of dBcst Blood lines: 100 Bred (‘ilts Hampshiresan S,ows some fine Bears. Lllck- hard’ 3 Model Farm, Bach, Mich. SHEEP Registered Hampshire Ewes I have for sale a few Iegistered Hampshire ewes, all ages, bred fm last of April and first of May lambs to an excellent heavy breed good wooled and short' legged ram. A First Prize winner. BoIne City, Mich. Choice Bred Ewes 400 for sale in carlots, yearlings to solid mouths, black— faced, in good condition, bred to lamb April lOth Located 25 miles south of Detroit on Detroit & Toledo Electric, and on Dixie Highway. Telegraph Address. Iiockwood, Phon no Newport Post Office. South Rockwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN 81. SON. Haire, Shrapshire Rams and Ewes write or call on Dan Booher. R. 4, Evert. Mich’ S IIROPSHIRES—Am offering 19 young ewes of Buttar and Senator Bibby blood lines for $20 each. C. J. Thompson, Rockford, Mich. 1889 PROGRESS 1924 Starting with purebred Hoisteins thirtydive years ago, the State of Michigan whee thirteen Holstein herds totaling nearly 1,600 females, of which more than 1,000 are purebred registered Holsteins. Bull calves and service bulls for sale. Add:css all' Inquiries to “BUREAU" or ANIMAL INDUSTRY . 5 DEPARTMENT c.,4 , g ,, _V LANSING, MICHIGAN Over 300 of these have A. R. 0. records. GIVES SHEEP PLENTY OF FRESH AIR. IN my experience in‘keeping sheep I find that fresh air is an inexpensive but; important item in the comfort of the flock. So long as the sheep are, dry they will scarcely ever‘of their own will and- accord seek! protection from chilling winds and cold weather. Housing breeding ewes too closely is poor practice. Like many a flock owner, I have closed the doors of the shed on stormy nights and forgotten to open a. few windows. The follow- ing morning the air in the shed would be stifling with the sheep logy from rebreathing the foul atmosphere. In arranging for an ample supply of fresh air, I planned to prevent droughts from hitting the animals. This is easily done by opening win- dows on the side of the shed opposite the direction from which the wind blows.——-L. C. R. curs COST AND INCREASES IN- COME 122 PER‘CENT. HE herd of Everett Rockhill con- sisted of eleven cows. Each cow had been receiving twenty-four pounds of silage and thirty-five pounds of al- falfa hay. No grain was fed. The av- erage production of milk was twenty- balanced ration the milk increased (117- . - er fifty per cent. The 'value of the product increased over fifty-three per cent. The feed cost decreased approx- imately ten per cent per cow. Thain- come over feed cost increased. 122.8 per cent. The silage fed was valued at $5. 00 per ton alfalfa $15 per ton, and the grain mixture was valued at eighty- .three cents per bushel for ground corn; $1. 95 per 100 pounds for oats and $3.10 per 100 pounds of cottonseed meal, ‘7 This ration, having been extensively ,tried out in Indiana with widely satis- factory results, has been adopted asa standard. It consists of a grain mix- ture of 400 pounds of ground com, 200 pounds of bran or ground oats, and 100 pounds of cottonseed meal fed with silage and alfalfa. T‘RAIN THE COWS TO EAT. \ E best milking cows in my herd are the best eaters. A good appo- tite seems to be a prerequisite to heaVy performance at the pail. Since certain foods stimulate the appetite. I find that the good dairyman can have much influence over the milk output through the right“ sort of feed- ing. When I feed the cows largo One Can Understand Why this Dairy Farme‘r is Realizing a Premium for His Milk. Quality is a Big Factor in Marketing. 1' three pounds per day. were low in condition. ‘ In this ration there was sufiicient protein for the production of over The animals forty pounds of milk daily after the; maintenance requirement for each cow had been supplied, but the supply of total digestible nutrients would pro- duce only less than half of this amount. The animal had to draw on their reserve stores of flesh to meet the deficiency. . This ration was losing money for the owner. Fortunately he belonged to a. cow-testing association. After studying the record, condition, live weight, pounds of milk and‘butter— fat produced and the amount and kinds of feed fed each.cow, the tester calculated a. balanced ration and rec- ommended that the-consumption of a1- falfa. hay be reduced to ten pounds‘per day. The amount of silage previously fed was considered satisfactory. A grain mixture consisting of 500 pounds of ground corn, 200 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of cottonseed meal was recommended. This mixture was ad- vised because the herd was somewhat 10w in condition. The grain mixture was fed at the rate of about one pound of grain fer every three pounds Of milk produced daily. This change in feed; ~ was made gradually.’ - ~ . As a result or the feeding of- this amounts of over-ripe hay, frozen corn fodder with much of the leaves shaken off, or other foods of low digestible value, then the appetites of the ani- mals seem to become more or less sluggish. But when Lplace before the same cows some succulent food like silage or "roots, improvement started in a. very short time. They not only eat the succulent food more ravenous- ly, but their appetite for the dry feeds is stimulated. g . Plenty of good water, fresh air and a feed combination with a. reasonable amount of succlency, have gone along way in bringing up my milk, yields. These provisions will do much for others, and since they are well within the means of nearly every man who keeps dairy cows, there is not much excuse for so many low-producing cows with the cost of milk above the income. L. R. HOLSTEIN BOOK JUST OUT. Announcement 18 just made of the publication . of “rK ”Herd-A Che. ter in Holstein istory. This boo deals with ‘t betterment of dairy came. especially Holsteins. . No trouble or expense has been spared In - ~. its preparation. ‘ trig bushfire; es cw: / a" J a" v1 i Wan to. 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Non—If you have need Corona and drums: cannot cups you and ‘ on prefer larger can. order direct mm «1.30 on. can pesto-Id 01.5. 75 Down after Free Trial for this Complete Milker ! / But first, 30 days free triial. No .money own. no 0. 0. D. At last! - the milker for the lar er dairyrnsn also for the man with 6 or 6 cows! Does the work and does It right. No electricity, no gas :nginet. Try it—re- urn s our expense . , if not said-fled after ~ trial. If satisfied, ulymonthly payments of $30. 75—total only $123 yesonly $138 I Comes mplete and {sadyttlouusm ,Nothing one no expense, whether. Simlflole, easy toclean. So easy to pump a imp to: atenthfprin and vacating] rovemen n mac no 8986‘ GEM-bottom price direct. g l““RFREE Book Sendfwourfreebook on milkin . Aned tion! Malamuwm whuemifflmpecma'lrcéi n luhPusCssfll W.hhh..0sk.9701,€flau.lll. cod lulu-n maid One-third the“ work- part- of any other will. Whirl? "11.3: ”gamm—F‘ ° 3' - n easel. dale-.01 mic the Ito M you llnlon Slut Products Co. Ltd. flesh“. Albion, llclllgan, 0.8.A. Use 2 large cans. Cost $2 50. : Mono oy book if not satisfac- ‘ wry 0necsnat81.250nen sufficient. NEW O’N 8 Compound for Worm Ex- polling, Conditioning. 91......" ewe-1... as. and 131°" I‘l‘l‘.‘i°i“°“' cans. es ers 01‘ the NEWTON R£M£DY 00.. Toledo. Ohio r WILL BUILD COOPERATIVE ' CREAMERY. WITH 9. menthly shipment of 125,- 000 lbs. of cream from the Bruce' s Crossing-Paynesville section of Onto- nagon County, local farmers have I 1 taken steps for the establishment of a co—operatiye creamery that will take care of the product. At an organiza- tion meeting held in December it was reported that seventy—five farmers had agreed to invest $50 dollars each in the enterprise. ‘ The building and equipment will call for an outlay of about $10,000, it is stated. Farmers in other neighboring communities are said to be interested in the project and to have agreed to help finance it, because it will afford a good local market for their cream It is claimed that a co—operative creamery handling large quantities of cream can, if well managed, pay from ' one to five cents per pound more for ‘butterfa’t than the city creameries getting their cream by rail. .It is . planned to produce 'ice cream as well .as other cream products at this fac- tory. EVERYONE lS HELPING TO PUT ogr THE scnus. REVIEW of the Upper Peninsula press shows great local interest in ' all sections of the peninsula in the anti-scrub sire campaign which is be- ing fostered, this year, by the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau in co- operation with extension workers and the railroads. Most of the counties have already signified their intention of cooperating in the effort that is now under way. amount to $1,000. These consist of a first prize of $500, a second prize of $250, a third prize of $150, and a fourth prize of $100. The prizes go to those counties showing the greatest or greater number of scrubs-bulls re— placed by pdre-bred stock. A REAL CONVERT\ HE experience of'Robert Lantner, of the Leelanau Association, dem— onstratcs that a Cow-testing Associa-‘ tion saves money. The first month that Mr. Lautner was in an association. his herd of thirty milking cows re» turned a net income above feed cost of exactly $31. The next month, with the same thirty cows and one fresh one, the net income above feed cost was $190. Of course, one extra cow didn’t make the difference. ~It was simply a case of feeding the good icows more and the poor cows less. §There was no difference in price re- lceived for product or paid for grain. It costs Mr. Lautner approximately $55 to belong to the Cow-testing As- sociation for a year. He saved over twice that amount in one month—H. E. Dennison. Bloody Milk.-—One of my cows gives bloody milk from one teat. Is her milk fit for use? J. C. A., Elkton. Mich.——Apply equal parts of extract of Witch-hazel and cold water to briused quarter three times daily. No risk in using such milk. Rough milking is frequently the cause of a. cow giving bloody milk. Only the rich have time to walk these days—the rest must hustle around in automobiles to make money for tires and gas. BIG TYPE POLAND OHINAS E. J. MATHEWSON, BURR OAK, MIGH. Will sell 40 head of Bred Sows and Herd Boar Prospects THURSDAY, JAN. 24, |924 The sons are bred to four as good hours as will be found 1n any herd. Outcross Giant. Outcross Star, Peter he Giant. and Wriglies Great Giant Jr. No better breeding to be found' In America a. , Write for catalog. Auctioneer-sf ‘Wliliam Waffle and John Hoffman Fieldman P. P. Pope TrobswlflbemctatStungisonhl.Y.CandflottswsonG R.&I. 7 ,emgg M ICHIGAN FA RM F R The cash prizes_ milk and by its pleasing, uniform -. Dept. 532 action usually causes cows to give “‘ Name -m milk. More I 15000 users ...... will tell you so. Town ------ ............................ Send coupon for complete information. R F D De Lava] For Fen-'6." Pounds 11/ Butler the Rest 1:: E1151, Mum/flu , Pl’rllmcnls Greater Value. Present-day purchas- ers of De Laval Cream Separators are getting more value than was ever be fore possible. In 1913 it took 231 pounds of butter to pay for a popular- sized De Laval. Now it requires only about 188 pounds (average prices for years 1913 and 1923) to pay for the same machine—43 pounds or 18% less butter. In addition, the present~day De Laval is at least 20% better, hav- ing 10% more capacity, a bell speed- indicator, self-centering bowl, and many other improvements and refinements. Self-Centering Bowl. The De Laval Bowl is so designed as to center and balance itself when it attains sepa- . rating speed, which causes it to ru smoothly, without vibration, an adds to the cfiicicncy and life of th machine. It also gives the less , #3., possible resistance in being re- ”"c‘ volved, which together with the automatic oiling system and superior design and construction of the driving mechanism, causes the De Laval Bowl to require the least power (per pound of capacity) to drive. All-Around Superiority. A combination of , - V. the foregoing featu1es, together with superb ' -' ority of De Laval design, workmanship and ’ ‘ materials, enables a De Laval to separate more thoroughly under all conditions of use, deliver a smoother cream capable of making better butter, to separate a richer cream with less loss of butter-fat, and to separate with greéter efficiency at lower temperatures. Remarkable Record. Not only was the De Laval the first: continuous centrifugal cream separator but ever since it has been first in popularity, in numbers in use,in effici- ency and length of service. Pays for Itself. There are many worn- out and inferior cream separators in use today, wasting enough cream to pay for a new De Laval in less than a year. You can buy a De Laval on such easy terms that you can use it ' while it is paying for itself. Ask Your lie Laval Lli'dler For A Ifyoumilktenor Vs, , \ morccows,aDeLavai " 1 L’L”?‘1(‘-Il$ll‘dlli)ll Milkcr will soon pay ‘~ . for itself. Besides saving a great deal of time and drudgery, it produces cleaner 3 New York, 165 B'way Chicago, 29 E.Mad. St. Send Separator D Milker C] catalog(chcck which). N Cows.... The ease of milking, and the amount of the yield is quickly afiected by any external scratch, cut, chap or inflam- mation. It 15 foolish and costly to neg- lect these apparently “small" hurts. Apply Bag Balm to the injured part, and healing begins at once. The pene- trating, soothing action of Bag Balm protects the wound, restores healthy circulation and promotes quick healing. Soft, silky udders and teats, free from scars and hurts make easy milking and a full yield. Keep Bag Balm on hand for any emergency. Large lo-ounce package, 60c at feed dealers, general stores and druggists. Write for tree booklet, “Dairy Wrinkles." DAIRY ASSOCIATION C0., lac. Lyndonvllle. Vermont :‘23' '5 .r.‘ . :' fl ‘- n ,0 I imam» N11 .:.:' . a» > 2 SAW YOUR OWN LUMBER with a News" Portable Saw Mill. Turn your standing timber Into ' . high price building lumber at the more cost of‘sawlng. Big demand for lumber. lath and shingles. Keep your engine busy the year round making ' .' for your neighbors. Big Money In Custom Sam mg Howe, , 5,... mm, are made in sever-a lsizee suitablelor tractors or any size. Also Edgers. Planers. Lath and Shingle machines. wm. for free Catalog, 3- 8. R. R. HOWELL 81 80., Mfrs. Minneapolis, Mlnn.. Dairymen! Holstein Breeders! Fourth Michigan State Sale 4.5--Healthy Holsteins, Selected Stuff-45 Mon. Afternoon, February 4th, East Lansing 40 young cows fresh or ready to freshen and five young 30 pound hulls one mature s1re with splendid yearly dam. Good individuals. good A. R. 0. back- ing, from clean herds under State and Federal Supervision. Sale under auspices and management Michigan Holstein Friesian Ass’ 11. J. G. HAYS, Sales Mgr., East Lansing, Mich. RY a Michigan Farmer Classified Liner———They cost little and bring big results. Socrates on page 67. ' « pression. m ..g.. -.. 'ang.a .€:=~ r: n ."z: M.C.R. i'llq. GRAIN QUOTATIONS Wednesday, January 16. Wheat. Detroit—No. 1 red $1.14; No. 2 red $1.13; No. 3 red $1.10; No. 2 white $1.14; No. 2 mixed $1.13. Chicago—May $1.0914@1.09%; July $1.07%@1.077/3; September 31.06%. Toledo—Cash $1.13. Corn. Detroit—Cash No: 3 yellow at 84c; No. 4 yellow 81c; No. 5, 75@77c; N0. ago.——May at 79%@797/gc; July 80340; September 81%0. Oats. o. 2 white at 530; Detroit—Cash No. 3, 51c. ‘ Chicago.-May at 47%0; July 45%6; September 437/80. Rye. Detroit.—Cash No. 2, 73350. Chicago—May at 70c; July at 750; $13.65; alsike $9.50; timothy $4.02. Toledo.——74c. Barley. Barley, malting 72c; feeding 68c. Buckwheat. Buckwheat—New milling $2 cwt. Beans. Detroit. —— Immediate shipments $4.75 per cwt. New York.—~Choice pea at $10; red kidneys $7.25@7.50. ’ Seeds- Detroit.—-Prime red clover cash at $13.65; alsike $9.50; timothy $4.02. Hay. . Strong—No. 1 timothy at $24.50@ 25; standard and light mixed $23.50@ 24; No. 2 timothy at $22@23; No. 1 clover $21.50@22.50; No. 1 clover mix- ed $21.50 (022.50; wheat and oat straw $11.50@1 ; rye straw $12.50@13. Feeds. Bran $35; standard middlings $34; fine do $35; cracked corn $37; coarse cornmeal $35; chop at $33 per ton in 100-lb. sacks. and prompt Apples. Chicago—Barrels, “A” grade Green- ings at $5@ .50; Jonathans $5@5.50; Grimes $4; pies $4.50@5.50; Kings at $5@5.50; Baldwins $4@4.50; Spitzen— berg $4@4.50. WHEAT The wheat market keeps within much the same range as during the past few months, but displayed a fair degree of firmness last week. In sev- eral directions conditions appear to be more healthy. Export sales of Mani- toba wheat have quickened decidedly and Liverpool prices have gained about three cents on Chicago in the last two weeks. Argentine wheat nor- mally cannot reach Europe much be- fore March 1 and wet weather in that country is delaying the movement and caused damp grain so that European buyers are compelled to buy in North America for a while. Arrivals of Rus- sian grain also have been damp. Ex- ports from the United States are con- fined largely to the Pacific Coast w ere the bulk of our exportable sur- pl s is located. On this account, it is fortunate that non-European countries, especially Japan and China, are much heavier buyers this year than last. The restraint shown by producers in both Canada and the United States in mar- keting their holdings is an important factor in sustaining prices at Liver- pool which is regarded traditionally as the price-setting point. Looking ahead, the situation is gradually becoming more promising. The factors include ' reduced acreage here and small reduc- tions in several European countries and the probability that future yields er acre may not be so high as in the ast two years in Canada or in the last three years in Argentina. CORN Corn prices advanced last week to the highest point in a month. .The re- ceipts at primary markets during Jan- uary and February dropped off in Jan- uary as compared with December- Weather conditions have not been a sufficient explanation of the light _re- ceipts or of the small offerings on bids made to the country from termmal oints. These, conditions point to eavy farm disappearance during _the .winter and continued heavy receipts ' of finished hogs and reports of num- .. here of cattle on feed confirm this im- " Cold weather has stimulat- ed the demand for corn in commercial g1 hole, the stocks accumulated in "gnvisible supply are not large and a . healthy expansion in exports has tak- , ‘ ein the last five weeks. The ' "at. may weaken during. the next ' th" but no serious decline in prices as expected. . -' * Good to choice yearlings.$ 9.50@ 9.75 Best heavy steers ....... 8.00@'8.25 Handyweight butchers .. 6.75@ 7.00 Mixed steers and heifers 5.75@ 6.00 Handy light butchers. . . . 4.50@ 4.75 Light butchers .......... 3.75@ 4.25 Best cows ............... 5.00@ 6.00 Butcher cows ........... 3.50@ 4.25 Cutters ................. 2.50@ 3.00 Canners ................ 2.25@ 2.50 Choice bulls ........... 5.50 6.00 Bologna bulls ........... 4.50@ 5.00 Stock bulls ............. 3.25 4.25 Feeders .......... 5.25@ 6.25 Stockers 5.00@ 5.75 ,Milkers . ............... ..$ 45@ 85 OATS Oats have strengthened with corn, although primary receipts are holding up fairly well, and the visible supply terminals has recovered all its loss during the fall. It now stands at the high point for the oats crop year, al- though it is small compared with the same time in either of the‘last three years. SEEDS The seed market advanced sharply, last week under an improved demand. Country dealers are accumulating for their spring requirements which are expected to be fairly large because of a shortage of local seed in many sec- tions, high prices for hay and the ten- dency to seed down some of the land which has been producing wheat. The foreign clover-seed market advanced sharply with indications that more has been sold for export than was avail- able. FEEDS Feed markets are quiet with wheat feeds extremely dull. .Western mar- kets are pressing feeds now stored in late warehouses for sale. Storage stocks, especially of wheat feeds and oil meal. are reported heavy. New pro- duction of most feeds is at a fairly high rate. HAY Hay prices advanced further last week. Receipts were light at most points, while the demand was urgent at Chicago and Minneapolis. The south was reported to be a free buyer of tim- othy at Cincinnati and of alfalfa at Kansas City. POULTRY AND EGGS Fresh egg prices broke sharply last week under the depressing influence of heavy receipts, mild weather and reports of a continued good lay. Re- cent colder weather in producing sec- tions may check the decline. Storage holdings of 1,920,000 cases of eggs on January 1 were shown by the prelimi- nary report. These compared with 1,311,000 on the same date last year and are far beyond all previous rec- ords. Although storage eggs were un- profitable property last year for the most part, prices on eggs for April de- livery are equally as high as at the corresponding period last year. Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 34 @350; dirties 22@24c; checks 20@ 210; fresh firsts 36c; ordinary firsts 32@33c. Live poultry, hens at 21‘1/20; springers 19c; roosters 14c; ducks at 19c; geese 13c; turkeys 220. Detroit.——Eggs, fresh candled and graded 361,§@38c; storage 24%@26c. Live poultry, heavy springers at 21c; light springers 20@210; heavy hens 22@23c; light hens 21@220; “roosters 14@15c; geese 12c; ducks 23@260; turkeys 25@300. _ . BUTTER Butter prices declined last week as receipts were' liberal, dealers were anxious to keep their stocks moving, and buyers were cautious. Quality of receipts was irregular and the better grades suffered in competition with foreign butter. Although there is lit- tle butter of good quality left in stor- age, it is being moved out in good vol- ume. Holdings on January 1 as shown by the preliminary report were 30,- 549,000 pounds as compared with 26,- 819,000 pounds on the same day a year ago and a five-year average of 46,312,- 000 pounds. 'Large imports of foreign butter bought at attractive prices as compared with the domestic market. including 10,325 easks of,Danish; 750 boxes of Argentina;_ seven cases of Italian-and 29,400 pounds of Canadian, arrived in New York last week and more is due to arrive soon. Ninety-two score creamery, Chicago 531,“; New York 53%0. In Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells for 49@ 51c per pound.‘ POTATOES Potato prices advanced last week although the trend was downward at the close as a result of increased ship- ments from producing sections and a moderate demand partly on account of the presence of‘ considerable frozen stock on the principal consuming mar- kets. Eastern round whites were quot- ed at $1.85@2.10 per 100 pounds saCk- ed and bulk in eastern cities, and northern round whites at $1.35@1.50 sacked in Chicago. ' APPLES The apple market is dull and prices have remained in about the same notch for several weeks. Shipments from producing sections remain rather heavy but stocks in storage are locatj ed mostly in the states near the prin- cipal consuming centers so that prompt distribution should be promot- ed. Export demand which slackened in November has been increasing in the last few weeks. Total clearances to date are about 70 per cent heavier than to the corresponding time last year. New York Baldwins are quoted at $3.50@4.50 per barrel in eastern cit- ies. A-2%-inch Northern Spies are quoted at $5.50@6 in Chicago; Green- 'ings at $4.50@5.50; Baldwins $4@4.50, and Jonathans $5@ 5.50. leive Stock Market Service J Wednesday, January 16. ' - DETROIT Market very slow. Veal Calves. Market 50c lower on good, $1 lower on common. Best .................... 14. Others .................. 6.00@12.00 , Sheep and Lambs. Market 15@25c higher on good lambs; sheep steady. - Best lambs .............. $13.75@13..85 Light to common . . . . . 6.00@10.00 Fair ... . . . .- ......... . . . . 10.50@12.25 Fair to good sheep. . . . . . . 5.50@ 7.00. Culls and common . ... .. . 1.50@ 3.50 Prospects steady. 7 Mixed and heavies . . .$ ' 7.50 Pigs IntonIOOOOOOOD—DIICO‘O. 6:75' StOCkel‘B oiooooo-uaauoooo ~ '- 7.35 tags or-ooo‘ocooon-oocuco 4o00® 4.50' " cameo Hogs. » ' " - Receipts 311000. _ Market moderately - 8 60 . $6.275@6.75. 3,, _ . gig lambs... at. snagfifiearncss . $. 1 active, and around 20c lower than. on Tuesday. Bulk at $7; choice medium and heavy butchers $7.30@7.35; tops $7.40; bulk good 170 to 210-lb. average $7.15@7.25; packing sows largely at $6.65@6.85; killing pigs slow, mostly Big packers not buying. Cattle. Receipts 11,000. Market on most of. killing classes steady to strong; 10@ 15c higher on yearlings and handy- weight beef steers. Long yearlings at $11.50; best heavy steers $11; some 1,635-1b. average $10.75; bulls steady; vealers largely 500 higher. Bulk is around $10.50@11.50. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 17,000. Market slow. Best ' feeding lambs strong; sheep around steady. Wooled lambs early $13.25@ 13.50; some held higher; three good loads of feeding lambs at $12.65; best handyweight fat ewes $7.7 . BUFFALO Cattle. . Receipts 10 cars. Market steady. Calves‘at $14.50. , _ Hogs. HReceiptsd 50 (gags. hggglgeotlzigo strong. ~ ea an y are : . ;_. pigs and hts $7@7.50. _ ' "I- ' ‘ Sheepiand Lambs“. eceipts 3 ewes. at ' $ 0;“ wethers $9@ 9 III five " oars? Market jeans. ‘. . WOOL" ‘ . The wool markets are strong_every- . where. Seaboard markets reported a‘ spotteddemand last week as mills are ' waiting for the opening on the'heavy- , weight goods, but prices are slowly creeping upward. Australian auctions resumed after the holidays with val- ues 5@10 per cent higher and, New ,Zealand. South American and South African wools also are dearer. Amer- ican buyers are taking moderate quan- tities but there is no likelihood of a. repetition of the heavy import of the early part of 1 st year. It is doubtful if wool consu ption in the United States in 192 will equal the pace of the last two ears, but the strength abroad an be small domestic pro- duction sure the maintenance of pre- vailing or higher prices. ' ~ EANS ‘ Excitement has been absent from beancircles lately, with local demand easy and trading slow. No change is noted in eastern centers where holders are asking six «cents per pound for choice hand-picked beans and making a few sales at that figure. ~ Red and white kidneys have likewise evinced a tameness, with prices steady. The strong position of limas which are now selling in New York at 1034c per pound may assist a little in other types. This week a meeting of Mich- igan growers and jobbers .is, being held at Owosso to learn what can be done to aid the trade in pea beans. GRAND RAPIDS The potato market was weaker in Grand Rapids early this week. As prices began their downward ‘move- ment in outside markets, farmers be— came free sellers here and as a. result buyers lowered their bids to 55@65c per bushel as they became well stock- ed. The fresh egg market was fairly steady, with dealers paying 35@36c a dozen. The demand is picking up and -this may tend to arrest the lower price trend for‘a time, or at least until the supply begins to exceed the de- mand at present prices. Peultry con- tinues firm here, with fat fowls in de- mand at 20@220 a pound. Veal-also is stronger at 15@17c a pound. Beans are unsettled as a result of heavy sales by growers to pay taxes. Other- DETROIT CITY MARKET Saturday’s market was well supplied with produCe, with offerings of pota- toes and apples quite heavy. Buying was slow and there was not a strong demand for anything. There was a heavy supply of potatoes and selling was light with most moving for 90@ 950 a bushel. Apples were in abund- ant supply, but selling slow and light. The liberal supply of poultry had little demand, even for best stuff. There was a large offering of dressed hogs and the call was mostly for the light weights Veal sold easily. Eggs and dressed poultry had 'little’demand. Saturday’s prices were: fancy $2@2.50 per bu; No. 1, $1.25@ 1.75 bu; beets $1.25@1.50 bu; cabbage red $2@3 bu; late $1.50 2 bu; car- rots $1.50@2 bu; celery 3 @500 doa; onions dry $1@1.50 bu; parsley 50@ 60c dozen bunches, $1.25@1.75 per bu; potatoes 85cfiJ$1 bu; winter squash $2 bu; turnips $1.25@1.5O bu; parsnips at $1.50@1.75 bu; horseradish $4@5 bu; leeks 50@60c dozen bunches“; bagas $1 bu; kale 75c@$1 bu;-eg 3 retail at 50@600 dozen; old hens, w olesale at 25c pound, retail 27@30c; springers, wholesale 23@25c, retail 25@280 1b.; ducks, wholesale 250 lb. retail 25@ 30c 1b.; veal 19@20c lb.“ hogs 11@12c 1b., light 13c 1b.; geese 25c 1 . comma LIVE s'rocK sALss. Holstelns. Feb. 4.——Michigan State Holstein As- sociation, East Lansing, Mich Shorthqrns. ' February 19-21—American Shorthorn' Breeders’ Associatien,~J. L. Tormey, Secretary, 13;,Dexter Park Avenue, ’Chicago, Ills. ’ ‘ ‘ ' ~ - Durocs. , ' _ ' Feb. 20.—-Detroit Greenery. Farm, Mt; Clemens, Mich. » February 11—H. ~‘ F. :Cramion, H. B. ‘ Fair Grounds. , r Kelley and W. H.;Schroy; ‘Hillsdale Polan‘dsc'hlnas.’ Jan. 30,—noris Hover, Akron, Mich... s. Jafii 24.—-:E. J. Mathewson, Burr Oak, _ Feb. BaaDetreit e-reamery'm It. ,. :. Clemensuxch» ' ""’-.7ir.i';i " Apples. ’ ' :11 ..‘WA. A"- -4. -.. 4-- ‘ m. “-1—. “note fiheetsin oil as vs’ni-sed roofing l new metal'roofin; '9‘ and o l EST PAINT! \ flier-Med best quality plot as augmpernnon...” ow.9or¢allon........ " ‘ new .FENCINGI $1.85 $1.85 _ . ”4 Write” our lnewlow grim" ”film gummfinry 36mins. Big money _ I l ‘ m , D W! . . use “4. Four point. 3 in. heavy weight o...--- s-n-s sons: .. 1 .~ - wghi 68 list. eon- ’ lm’d rem mi" . 51-40 ”“35“ ' no llll . r . ‘Fkllal'll-“IXREES quorum-Maple Bendllmsery ~ ' E munmri‘n: .111 “8113!.” 'mbllm [third of t field for Coulom, ‘ Lock Box .142, Perry, Ohio H‘GAN rune-R: — CLASSIFIED ADVERTISI using mlscellsneous srticles for sale or exchsnte. one: 3 cents sv word. esch consecutive insertions 6 cents s word. display type or ill trstlons admitted. Real estate so Minimum ohms. lo words. This classified “trimming“ mannmtdis legt‘lli‘lliihoii! in them :enu ertlsements . is un er :9 are 1: es s. ' 11 Mr M Poultry savanna; will be run st clsssifled rates. or in display columns at commercial rstes. insertion, on orders for lea then {our Count u.s. word est-h sbbrcvistlon. initial or Remittances must accunw live stock advertising have manta departments and f 31499 ‘; *mnvenlmee of Mlchlzon {In ' it for want sds sad (or save - in this deportmmt insorflonl: for four or more number. No ‘ 0rd at or. ‘y are not scented ss classified. llllPPEllS Send For ‘Free Milli. LllllES Sample sent to test it out expense. {Highest prices I paid for rsw l'urs. Send your name in today. - : ills L Frank 1 Sons Company “Wail?“ .. 1 u: om a: ill. Hay and Glalll Lind nous: sro. E. noses: s. to, Pllisburgh.Ps. Make B Money in Tile D telling! ' OTE three or'tour months . (your slack ones to contract ditching with this Buc eye Ditcher -ond add {tom $2,000 to $4,000 to your mus] income! Here is a fair ad squsrs. high- elsss business proposm. If you want sll the fuels ’ Write for FREE BOOK Find or! what other use. like nurse“ ,‘L have done in this olitsble business. ‘3- Write for booklet! y. No obligation. THE BUCKEYE TRACTION 2 means co. ' ‘b 171 Crystsl An... , .1. FINDLAY. OHIO j P German Almanac 192i I Containing over 100 page s . fine German reading matter. We have several hundred topics to distribute to those — sending their name. SENT FREE TO YOUR parents, relatives and friends by sending . us 3c for the return postage' _ DETROIT ABEND POST -'~Michigan’s German Daily 1442 BRUSH, DETROIT, MlCH. ! -. . I L/ ’ Yntented lockin corner makes It unbreakable. ill" lento-heavy" will last s lifetime. Send 25c. _ G. W. Sailings, Min. .108 We“ ~ . . ' . Atwster St.. Detroit. Mich. You furnish the raw beef or horse hides or raw furs; We do the tanning in our ’own plant. We make up coats, robes g l o v e s, mit tens, c a p s, vests. The fin- est kind of fur work done on ladies’, fine furs coats, c a p e s ‘ chokers, hone hide shoe lager. costs. sheep lined coats, l . PAY no ADVANCE FEE: Imptove your prop- P ACH TREES: APPLE AND E Plant fruit trees. erty. Increase {gm income. Ou tr C grow Free "nos and plants is spring. r c -s . analog. MITCHELL'S NURSERY.‘ BEVERLY. 0. MICHIGAN FARMER Classified Ads. pay well. Try one. ' faded fir the Classified Depanmmt must reach thi: oficr tan dm in advent: sfpub/lm lion date. M ISCELLANEOUS WE ARE in position to supply you at all times with good second—hand egg crates. including fillers and covers, complete for shipping, at tho following rates: Carload lots F. O. B. Detroit, 14c ouch; less than cnrlosd lots. 16c Cill'll. Wm. Spitz ls Sons. 2045 Cherie St.. Detroit, Mich. GLADIOLUS BULBS~0rdcr now. for April la? de- livery. Mixed colors, $5.00 per 100. Enjoy flowers all stunmer. George Hunter, 412 Evergreen Ave. East Lansing. Michigan. WE WILL PAY YOU at the rate of $8.00 per barrel selling quality lubricants to auto and tractor owners. garages and stores. Sell now for immediate and spring delivery. We have been in business 40 years. The Monufscturers’ Oil Mid. Grease Company, Dept. 18. Cleveland. Ohio. . ‘ __-—__'___——M A TOBACCO . ‘ , ,1. . ll 00 D E II S M“ l“ 5“” 0‘3“" 7’ "22 r BABY omenswwllge Leghorna. Ancenss. Ber-rod Buy dimlfrom inc- 3:: fix. our Rocks. Low l'rlpes.’ ‘mtzyogue. Oak Dale Estchery. tory sndssve mon- ‘ __ ' ‘89 use ,8 1“ Box Y. Lenny. Minn. 1 .L. . . Wepay 61911353 . . .88 2.64 I.“ _ . C urges. Write tO— l2 ....... .96 2.88 3.72 BABY ("HIf‘KHrflfi (I. W. Loghoms. mated ,to m- dsy for freecetslo: . 1.04 3.12 ms lywood Pedigree (Yorker-sis. zoo-egg strain. Send tor andnewlow prices‘ 14...”... 1.12 3.36 :1: (-etslomle.h Snowflake Poultry Form. B. 5. Middle- " 5 . 1.20 3.60 . \lllv, 1m.- . inter-sale we: 60., }6~----- 1 28 3 s, u. 30=____,_1__,___5Ish “‘ ll M M' ii {22 1-3: H: s. c. RUFF LEGHORN Baby Chicks from good ny- ill """ 1‘52 ('56 3:“, lug strain. Willard Webster, Beth, Mich. , 2032311212 1160 4.80 s.“ . . . . ll 21 ........ 1.68 5.0-1 sag POULTRY A Job lhat Will Pay You We . g; ....... . H: g: 3.36 _ In} ........ . . o FORDSON OWNERS and FARM]!!! AGENTS-r 24 ........ 1.92 5,15 3, 9.60 B seetimoworkeo‘liin .onrllnetoFoi-dsonowuers 25.:...... 2.00 5,00 41 ________ 333 9.34 EQUALITY Blips C~HEAPB~PiIiKre—l§edtl’ulleg. 1Hens. “french Ford dealers. rite {oily shunt yourself . . . .1” ”My" aw run-rile. Tu eys, Geese, no 3, so some 31”“. V TE CO dimymnuanu Mm .uhy ( hicks. Satisfaction Guaranteed. s a one ' BETRO‘T HARVES R ' ' Cl 0 IC Frm. luvurgreon Poultry Farms. Hatcheries, Ham). assumes. An. Dept G. Dotroit, Mich. p E or than: of up} in— ,0". Imm- SINGLE (‘OMB REDSAAIOckerels and pullets. Much and April hatched. Reduced prices for quick sa‘ln. ’l‘ln-y win. lay, weigh and pay. Harry J. 'lEhels. 283 lluulrr St, Battle Creek, Mich. MAPLHVVOOD FARM HATCHERY. Dept. 1. stesh. lmlismi. All our breeders have been blood—tested for lmcillary white diarrhea, by accredited state veter- inarians. Send for catalogue. SINGLE COMB “WHITE LEGHORNS-—Trepneated. l'n'rligrrwl. lion-hing Eggs. Chicks in 100 to 1.000 lots. and .l’erllu'recd Cockcrcls. W. C. Ersksrd, Paw Paw. Mlohiuu n. BARRED BOOK l‘()(‘.KERELS~—Bilz. Vigorous Fellows from Hons with ()lllcial Contest Records. 200 to 293, $5.00 and $7.00 car-h. Also chicks and eggs. Order now. (i. Cabal]. Box M, Hudsonvllie, Mich. WHITE “'YANDOTTES from my prize—winning, heavy laying strain. Males $3 and $5. Females $3 each, 35 pair. David Ray. Ypsilanti. Mich. S. (‘. ll. l. man ('(N‘Kl‘lltlflfli«Pure—bred. dark. even ('Olur, $3 and $5 ouch. Louis Morris. Mt, Morris. Minh., R. FARMS AND FARM LANDS FOR SALE don't give option or tie of contrsct without first , for kind up real estate any are absolutely knowing those you sre dealing with honorable. responsible end relisble. 102-m-re Fsrm in Monroe For Re‘n t County. Ash Township. nine miles north of Monroe. 25 miles from Detroit. _ on good roads (wlegrsph road). Good land and build- lugs. inquire o. W. Grow, 739 Waterman Ave., Detrort. ()ll HAL'l-‘rvvRO-al-re farm, free and clear. in Calhoun county, within 2% mill-s, of Marshall. 0n very good urnwi 'rozld, in good community. Offered by administrator at a real bnruniu price of $4,500 cash to close estate, or terms with at least 31,500 down. Russell A. Cole. l538 Woodmerc Ave., Detroit. Mich. One of the best lamps in Mich- For Sale igun. Ill-n of Soil and Build- ings. lU-room llouse with il‘urnm'e. Basement Barn. 40:04. All other Buildings needed. 5-tousculcs, end 20 llt'l‘i‘fi wheat included. 40 rods to school. 3 miles to Laknslng. 122 acres for $10,000. Reason for sell- ing. mm and poor health. Stuphcn Iicmpy. .ll. 7. Lansing, Mich. Pa sture Land For Sale In southern Midland County. Michigan, in purr't‘ls up to 1,000 n'cres. flood roads and water. Shipping points. Shepherd. St. Louis, Breckenridge or Mld< land. Write w. 8. ROOT. Mason. Mich. ANT to rent 00, 80 or 10011011) farm, good hind and buildings. Cash rent; 13 years on present farm. Gus Thomas, New Lolhrop, Mil-h. FOR SALE 6r EXCHANGE Eight hundred eighty £880) acres of land. partly cut. owr, in Sunburn township, Alpcuu t‘uunly. This hind is free and cit-or and is in one [luri't‘L one-half (1,5) mile frorn the l). & M. Railroad, and on high- way known as l\l~10. Considerable timber left, and the lend itself is above the average for this section. CITY SUBURBAN REALTY COMPANY. 6l5 Oakland Building, ' AND VVICARY of tho severe win- lo“ ‘fe Iliad tr-rs up there. (‘OME T0 S’l‘UAll’l‘. You will be delighted with the climate lu~nn A haven for farmers. ll‘or lufornmliou “lilo (‘lVIL‘~(‘OM- .lI'l‘TEE. STUART, FLA. Lansing. Michigan. Improved, a port. yielded 32 1.916 Acres$38,320 M M 1.... school, etc. Good well, 2 mi. lake frontage. H. MIL- TON MARTIN. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sell your property qu'ckly for cssh. no matter where located. Particulars lleal rismu Salesman 00., 51.”; Brownell. Llncom ' would nrcssive ihmnevillc, in California write Kings lF you WAHT ‘0 I.” louuty Chamber of Com~ merce. Hartford. California. for free booklet. tree. Nah. you Buy a Home? White people only. country. Write for list. Ark. With our liberal terms. good land. healthy pro- Mills Land Co.. HOMESPUN TOBA(?CO—»~Five pounds chewlnl. $1.75: ten. $3.00; twenty, 85.25. Smoking, five pounds, 31.2 ; $2.00; twenty. $3.50. Pipe and recipe free. Send no money. l‘ny when received. Ken- tucky Tubal-co Company, l'aduceh. Ky. LEAF TOBACCO: *(‘hcwingn five pounds. $1.75; ton. $3.00: Smoking, five pounds. $1.25; ton. $2.00: pipe and recipe free, pay when rcceivod. Cooperative Farm- ers' l'sduuuh, Kentucky. TOBACCO ~Extrs. Fancy Smoking, 10 pounds, $2.50: Good firnokinu, 5 pounds. $1; 10 pounds, 81.50; 20 pounds. $2.75. .(lhewins. 5 pounds, $1.50; 10 pounds. 52.75. Quelity Guaranteed. O’Connor Smokehouse. 8133. Mayfleld. Ky. liOlillSl’l'N 'l‘OllAl‘l‘O—Phowimr, 5 lbs” $1.75; ’l'on, $21.00. Snwklng, 5 llm.. $1.25; Ton, $22.00. PM when re, lye-d. Nile and I'Cl'lllfl free. Fanm-rs' Union l’lr (lllf‘lill. Ky. 10 Breeds (thickens, Turkeys. Ducks, Geese. Bantams. Guineas, English Bulls. Fox Terrier Pups; 300 l'eliin Ducks. Jesse Burnside, Judson, Indians. PET Lsroér’? 08 VARlli'l‘ll-ZS of Fine goose, turkeys. fowls, was. So. A. Zivmvr, Austin, ducks. Large calnlou pure-bred chickens, chickens. Minn. lilNGlJfiT Barri-<1 lint-k (‘or-kcrels. laying strains. phy, Brilton, Exhibition and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Earl Mur- Michigan. “'lll'l‘lfi LEGHORN COlYKERELS-d‘hicks. Elms from best fllll'h in .-oumry. Catalogue. Oak Dale Farms. Box Y. lmlloy, Minn. llAllltl'lll lllll‘K (,‘orkorols. (hicks, Eggs, l‘hil'slm \Vllllll'l‘b, (ircut Lsyt-rs. Catalogue. .l. A. Schneider, Box Y. Lulloy Minn. (‘llAN'l‘ BRONZE 'l‘urkoy Toms and Barred Rock (.or'kvrclx‘. I‘hoin-u Slot-k. Mr» G00. Robinson, Luke Odessa, Mil-ll. s GERMAN Shepherd; Aircdaleellollios: Old English Shepherd dogs: Puppies: lllo illustrated instructive list. W. H. Watson. Box 35, Macon. Mo. Fla‘llllE'l'S. for rails. rabbits. skunk. mink, ch'. Book M USN "H7 Y ill 'I ’Kh‘ ”remit-H, :mll (lip-Minus. U. l'.'. .‘lli'll. drakcs, huh-hing e s Ill'uvvl'ld. H. “g 1, Graudviilo. SILVER l..\l‘lv.‘l) and White Wyandotw Choice Cock- yrcp. Clhos. Brim“. Sow London, Ohm. l'l'l‘l.\. l‘. W. Browning, l’ortlund, Mich. lll'2(:l.,"l‘llllli'll) ('lll.l.ll‘.‘ l’l'l'l’ll'ZS Numx'nl hm-h-rs. MAMMU'l'll brolm‘ turkeys from best brooding stock. BABY ('lIllJlx‘fl \Vyurulotlus, llull’ .lmhnms, While Loghorns, 50. Hull-h vii-11v Tuesday. Order from lid. Mrmhor lnlcrnuliomll :md lllinois Ruby (‘hil-k Associations. Eui'lvillc lluh-ln-ry, lll‘. Ottawa SL. lllzu'lvilhu lllinois. Finn-51. quality. Burn-d li()('k§, White (lrpinmolH. S. ‘('. Rule, Light $15.00 per 100, $3.00 pol“ BABY (lllIl‘Kso20 lending heavy laying strains. where in the U. S. for catalog and prim 4551, Lam-aster. Mo. varieties hatched from Live delivery uuumntowd any- Lowcst prices over ofl'cred. \Vrlto list. Miller Ililll'llt'l‘ll'S. 'Dox BABY l’llli?l\'.\'~ 100.000 English White lrcqhoms. Vigorous. Frt‘l‘ range. $14.00; 500, 07.50; 1.000. $l30. poslpuid. Lin- rival. Bunk Rel. Lilwrnl discount on nearly Valuing. Highland Poultry Farm, ll. 9. Holland. Mich. if, 100. Arv orders. Box C, IiollywootkBarron S. ('Illl.S()N llAllllllll) lll)“.l\'l~‘~llalx‘hing eggs and Rally Chicks. Winning pcu nli homy breeds Michigan international Egg (‘ontnsl 1023. Michigan's greatest egg and color strain. “The for price list today. Mr. & Mrs. “K H. (.lhilson, Rf l. (lmndvilh', Mil-h. 4‘” ll ‘KS approved. livery. Mon! nllo llichvsl. quality “Barron Imuhorns." Stale Womh-rful layers. 100 per cent livc i'n-pnid. l’ricm inw. l'utnlog on request. llilll'lll‘i')’. ll. l-M, Holland. Mil-h. BABY _(‘Hllfi\'.S~Wrilc for our new frco (‘affllog and price llsl. Eight years' cxpcx‘lem‘c. II. I l'icrl'v. Jcrozm‘. Mir-hignn. Buyers want farms—various locolities. scribe fully and give best price. . Box 43. North Topeka, Ksns. Cash De: Agency. W ANT TO HEAR from party having farm for sole. ‘lee particulars and lowest price. John J. Block. Copper St, Chippewa. Falls. Wis.‘ Farm Wanted Well imp. 55 sort-s bottom. Well located. "HANG: 33,500. Jenkins 3. Jones, Ava, Mo. 1 6 o A 120 under cultivation: 40 pasture: electric lights and running water. $102 per A. Guy ll. Bell, Snovcr, Mich, 1t. 2. -320 A . Good Building. near school. with crops, tools, tractor. 9 head of cattle and one team. Will sell cheap if taken at once. ll. ll. Phillips. Owner. Lechine. Mir-h. illllE 'Glllll' 5311533431“ ,’x§°"ln{2.‘.‘el’sm'§ We; Near school: at. spot cash price Menu business Fuller.Wichltu. Ks y “.1 Bond or'circulsrs. tell 'us what you have too. We “8W“,\ 9 _ , , . ' V we“: “Mi“! 2”“ I‘. -,. i Chamber ‘ot Commerce, lies-atom. Colorado. BABY (‘Illl‘lx’fi and Custom Hatching. Brod-to-lny English \Vhilc Leuhorns. Also Barred Rocks and llwds from. good farm flocks. Booking orders for Marvh dl-lm-ry. Gorct's Poultry Farm. (,‘oruumt, Mich. QUALl'l‘Y ("IlIlClCS. cults: fifteen standard bred rari- rtres; best wmlcr laying strains. Free delivery. Ilea- sonable prices. Catalogue free. Missouri l’oultry Farms, Columbia, Mo. BABY (‘Hlf‘KS from herwy—isying strains. All lesd< ing pure breeds. Low prices. Prepaid. Live delivery glisrsntwd. Catalog Free. Smith Bros.’ Hatcheries. Muxu‘o, Mo. EA! LOOK! 100,000 ’ohloks 12c and up, 15 varie- ties. From highest producing contest winners. Hatch- ing eggs. Circular. Lawrence Hatchery. R. 7, Grand Rapids. Mich. de— ' BRED-TO-LAY CHICKS from my own flock of B r- red Rocks. Write for description sud prices. Deliv- Guaranteed. Krueper Poult Farm & 11 Hi '. lsn..Mich.. R. 3. . ry} -. M er} both sexes. Silvervrt'sl Ronni-ls. Glxulwin, Mich. 31H. Hum-no.- "ohmic-ll. lianovvr, Mich. ll‘Ull (lllN'i’ BRONZE ’J‘URKEYSr—TOHIOUSQ (lee i BABY CHICKS nutr ()rpinclons, wrll«~ m M. n. Noble. Saline, mgr: i’UlllCJllll'ID BABY ”Imus Hurrcd Rock, lull .lll.\ll:() mmxzu TOMS --lll'k ‘ ()rpinlltons. \Vhilc “(rumour-s, llhodu l~laml lvds. AI‘I'M': “I‘HIH'H. Rockford. Mir-h.‘ ory Hm glrsln. ll‘cbruary 15th to April 15th. $15.00 pvr hundred. Alix-r April 15th. $13.00 per hundred. 08 per cent . _ 7 . I.i\o delivery guaranteed. Brookdalc Poultry Farm, BULLHON “l3“ lul‘kv'ys; Rr‘lzahDOI'l‘ll-‘l “'hite W!" Box 522, Paw Paw. Michigan. “”1”” """lmr'q’" "“4”- A- Bl'fltll'. Milford. Mich. llllll‘ll‘ \\’Y\Nlll)'l"_l'ld (‘Ol‘KlGlll‘lLS for Salt). Lunar, .iilh'hlt‘l‘. .‘lll'il. J. G. Mll‘llltlA'N'h' liliN'l' GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS lilll‘riwmfllsfhm, Mirnins. Vigorous breeders. both . 1y out unm'. 'Lxlru. good value. in 'luu' lN. Ian-1511 liziuwlull, Joniu, Mil-h. ‘ 3’ E, toms. “'lli'l‘l'l birds, HOLLAND 'i‘llllKl-ll’an, n. J, ram ~ lln'm'y (il‘lllln. arm" “"0 . Nulmlmm, Mich. l'l'lll‘I-lllll'lll Bourbon llcd Turkeys for hrv ' U n. o. humus, Mlllord. Mich. sum. only' (ll‘Il-ISI‘I Dilr'lm. leading John lluss. varieties. Hvtmmlorl‘, lowa, Free Circular. \i‘lli’l‘ld l‘lIlNA Glu‘lu‘Slv}, excellent layers, $10.00 trio. Mrs. Alive Bonow, Multawun, Mich. (“ANT HHUVZI" TUI’KFYS fr ' 'nmn‘ _ . ‘ . A s A 0111 ' buds. Largo. healthy. unrelated stoiilrruafurl‘rlrli'iihedl Mrs. Lo. vao Browneil, Belmont, Mil-h. ;\[.\.\l.\l()'l'll BRONZE fi'lllUiEYSr—Toms. 20 to 23 lbs” $123: hens, l: ”N. "" \Vaillr-r llillluun. Dou'ngiuv,$llilv‘llljud markings. hits. HONEY AND BEES illu'lih’ lilil’idllb" booklet. nut-rusting, explains ln-o trees. van-h elm- Mailed A nuol 0s , “Starting Beckreping," huw ll) swarms. free. M. California. . very _ begin beekeeping, hunt mcrcose bees. make hives. Spencer Apiarics. West Los SITUATIONS WANTED WANTED rl'osllion as fern .. ‘ -. ~ . . 1 manager, either (is' ' Hmml lsrnunu. ‘ " ' ‘ In or Mirhiwm. . G. t. {urine}, R. 1. Birmingham, :Z“... HELP WANTED WE PAY $200 monthly pcnses to introduce our powders. seisry,tegi(rirnish car and ex- . ‘ gusrsn Doult H Blgler company, X683. Springflleldfullllisntgsf hogs and chickens The 6m 0 work “ml com' ' follow team Must be ex or to help milking mend V . . perienced wuh mode i’ machinery. Both must be hard it Good"1 ’ psld. Write stutinwiogc experiwor ers. mm , . . . e . ’ ' (lief F. Scrooge-n. Harbor Springe laugh-mtlonsltty. WANTED—~Singie msn reliable ’ mum ‘ I work unwell ll ' m ’ i “l . o. J. Feldtamrquwnepm. m” “m" M M IIII IIIIII"""""""""I""""""""""II"""""""" IIIIIIIII:I IIIII"""II"I'IIII~III IIIIIIIIII IIIIII" [III 1-1 Ian, {I IIIIiI’I' I "III!" II" .I IIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIII II I III II III \ III II" .. _ ._ I I" "III III III , II IIIII IIIIIIIII 465.33.. I II . I; .. II ; IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII II II IIII IIIIIIIIIIHI ImIIIII 8 I III IIIII .\ IIIIIIIIIII IIIIIII “I \ \\\\\\\...11111IIIIIII[I .11.? SEE 1%? MONEYW1 SA E , on Fencing, Ga res, Ste 61 P05 ts, R0 ofmys and Pa int " Farm 8: IIIIIII Ill‘ IIIIII II II III'I III’IIII" 'I‘ . “ Seeing 1s believing.” Get my new 1924 catalog and see with your own eyes L W n the extraordinary money- saving values I am offering this season. #3321"? .-. a .7 When you get my big FREE 1924 Bargain Book, and compare my prices with "“Iwégd " - F E N G E what you have to pay for similar things elsewhere—then and only then will you 2353333 I Over 100 styles to begin to realize how much money you can save by buying from Jim Brown. wags You see I manufacture these goods in my own big factories—the entire output is sold direct to my customers With only one small manufacturer’s profit added and | Pay the Freight Right to Your Station This plan cuts the cost to you fully one- -third. My three Big Factories, located select from—a style for every purpose—prices rock bottom. BO0Flll0 Choice of several ,." grades, whether . You want a roof 1 t at Cleveland, Ohio, Memphis, Tenn. and Adrian, Mich., also shipping points at ' ggfiggfixflg Kansas City, Mo. and Daven nlport, Iowa, enable me to ship all orders promptly gnfgtyggggrg; and make quick delivery.T e saving and satisfaction that my 800 000 farmer _ buying from my customers get is expressed' in hundreds of letters I receive every day—here’ s ates three—read what they say: , My catalog shows numerous styles of Farm and drive gates— made with Carbon Steel Rust- proof frames—the kind that never wears out. My prices . show big saving. Steel Posts My Carbon Steel Fence - Posts—both Angle and Tee posts are a real sensation in a “better quality post" “heavier, sturdier, stronger. My low prices make them . cheaper than wood posts. ltd SSA -.—,_.._._.‘.. _:_- .. Alsoa Big 39- lection in Saved $58.43 'Received my order of1 fence promptly and am certain 1103! well pleased with it. You save 1 /4c per rod over local prices on hogf ence and 75¢ per spool on barb wire,mak- ing a saving on the order of $58. 43. You can depend o it. I'll always order from The rown Fence Wire Co. ,whenever I need Fencing, Gates ,Roofing or Paints. I like your way of doing business and it cer- tainly makes a fellow feel good to be able to make such a big savin E..D Matheny. Okolona, MISS. Better and cheaper "I have one mile of your fencing on my place and am going to put up more of it. It 1s by far the best fence I can get and a, lot cheaper. Your system of paying freight is good— no guesswork about what it will cost laid down at my R. R.Station. Your fence lasts much longer than other fence. because it don’t rust so quick —your dsuble galvanizing certainly does the trick." Carl L. Erickson, Pierz ,Minn. Saved $60.00 on’Palnt “The Wearbest paint I received is mpre than satisfactory. The painter says is the best paint he ever used. I am located on the Interurban and State Highway where there is im- mense traffic and since I completed - the painting there are numerous com- ments on the fine appearance. I have not seen a job that equals it: and I saved $50.00 on the paint by buying from you. H. 0. Pearce. Braz1l Ind. Notice that my customers are not only pleased with the big saving in money but also 1n the quality, and that’s just a point I want to impress on you. Price don’t mean anything without quality. I guarantee you the BEST cost. quality that can be produced at the LOWEST That’s a combination of satisfaction-givmg that has made such a big hit with my customers and I know you’ll appreciate it too. Remem- Colnposulon Shingles Choice of single or strip shin- gles—also ch01ce of color. My ow pnces will surprise you. “00' SIVOI'W don for "new egg: end everything you buy from Brown carries my personal guarantee—— is e G 2 t e and that means satisfaction or your money back. g'gwgmumm we. .1- “? 0 g » t “W _ , GO / you. . ‘5 .. .’. Posts Don tWait Another Day—Send for Free Book "0W °‘ ' 0,. "' 0°04; Don’t put off sending for my Bargain Catalog—even though you are not in the market for '- _ 6’6; Fencing, Barb Wire, Gates, Steel Posts Roofing or Paints right now, send for the book my a g .430 0.,“ way. I want you to have my catalog—sooner or later you are going to need some of these fig..." E .0 4’0 4‘ things and I want you to be posted on the big money you can lgave by ordering from my gag; I ' 0c 4 Bargain Book. Mail cou n or send postcard today. JIMB ROWN, 5555 ; Q’s “:9 é’r {JO gI :2 ” I» .11? 5: \ . . 1m.“ The Brown Fence 8: Wire Compan 5° ' .. sees); Dept. 2814 ~ Cleveland, Oluo ‘ ‘ 1'