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VOLUME CLXII

DETROIT, FEBRUARY 2, 1924

NUMBER FIVE

 

CURRENT COMMENT

Humility should not necessarily less-
en the knowledge we have of our own
powers.

The man who cultivates a taste for
reading will undoubtedly use better
taste in cultivating his fields.

Perhaps the greatest knowledge a
man can have is to know that he does
not know.

The farmer is going forward, even if.
only “’on low.” It will be but a short
time when he can probably “hit on
high” again.

T would be inter-

Safe esting to know the
Investments amount of money
which the farmers of

For Farmers this state have invest-

ed in stocks of doubt-
ful value through the efforts of smooth
tongued stock salesmen during the pe—
riod since the close of the war. It is
safe to say that this amounts to many
millions of dollars. An official of the
National Association of Credit Men is
authority for the statement that in a
single state at least $2,000,000 of farm-
ers’ money has been so invested dur-
ing this period.

The farmers of this state bought
their quota of liberty bonds during the
war with generally less effort in the
way of solicitation than was the case
with the people of the cities and
towns. In practically every liberty
bond drive the strictly rural counties
of the state were first in subscribing
their quotas. It is a sad fact that
these farm-owned liberty bonds proved
a seductive bait for stock salesmen in
every kind of enterprise imaginable,
and a very large proportion of these
securities were transferred to the
pockets of smooth tongued salesmen
for the purchase of stocks of every
description, most of which are of far
less value at the present time than
the bonds turned in in payment for
them, and many of which have proven
to be entirely worthless to the in-
vestor.

The development of this new field
of effort for stock salesmen has
brought to the attention of farmers
opportunities for investment of their
savings, which are always placed be-
fore them in the most glowing terms,
with promises for a dividend return
far in excess of what might be reason-
ably expected or is ever realized, with
the-natural consequence that millions
of dollars of country money have con-
tinued to be poured into these specu-

‘ .ulctive channels.

_ Most of us farmers have been edu-
'ted to the idea- that big business

 
   

- Farm Loan Bonds

‘ can
and this effort to 881i in on the
of big business is but a natural con-
Sequence. There are, however, exam-
ples in- practically every rural commu-
nity- in Michigan which should con-
vince every reader that speculative In-
vestments of any kind are not good
business for farmers. It is far better
for farmers. to invest savings firstin

their own business, if it requires” ad-~

ditional capital, and second.in abso-
lutely safe securities that yield an in-
terest return commensurate with their
safety. Other things being equal there
can be no better field of ‘investment
for farmers’ savings than Federal
which afford an
interest yield commensurate with their
safety, and the money from the receipt
of which is loaned to other farmers
to build up theirflbusiness on the best
of first mortgage security.

The Federal Land ,Banks are in re-
ality coOperative borrowing and in-
vestment institutions for the farmers
of this country. Of the $42,000,000 of
stock in these institutions outstanding,
all but $24,000,000 is owned by farme'r
members. Nearly 300,000 farmers are
borrowers from the Federal Land
Banks at the present time. The funds
of these banks aflord an absolute safe
avenue of investment for the six mil-
lion farmers, which will conserve their
capital and aid in the extension of the
benefits of this source of farm loans to
hundreds of thousands of other farm-
ers in all parts of the country.

There are many other safe invest-
ments open to farmers who will con-
suit their bankers regarding them.
None‘of these offer a high rate of in-
terest but any farmer who is offered
an investment on which the salesman
hold§ out the prospect of large earn-
ing power, is‘ safe in the immediate
conclusion that the investment is of
a speculative nature with the chances
against even a moderate return, to say
nothing of the high return held out
as an inducement. Safety of capital
and high returns on investments do
not go together, and safety of capital
is the first principle in sound invest-
ment. It is the principle followed by
bankers and financiers everywhere,
and is the only safe principle to fol-
low in the investment of either small
savings or large accumulations wheth-
er the investor be a farmer, a banker,
or a capitalist.

E hope there is

For The not a reader of
W]! I this journal who has

0.8 not informed himself
Family or herself of the, big

Farmers’ Week pro-
gram to be given at the Agricultural
College, February 4-8. A portion of
this program is run on other pages of
this issue. A study of the portions
published will indicate that those who
planned it had in mind the entire
family

This is a great annual event. It is
at once an outstanding fair with edu-
cational demonstrations of the most
practical and progressive type, and
again a school which provides class
rooms for every variety of agriculture
which is being practiced in the state,
and this under the most inspiring and
practical teachers. .

The program is crowded into a five-
day period.
There is so much going on, so many
things to see and hear that if the ses—
sions were longer the scholars might
develop mental indigestion. But any
average person can go it for five days;
and by the aid of his note book,"which
we advise him to have constantly in
his pocket, he will carry home brain
food enough to keep his mental proc~
esses functioning for months to come

The important point is that no farm-
er should hesitate to take the whole
family, or any member thereof. The
well-rounded seséions set for the wom-

en folks, the boys’ and girls contests,

the music and other entertainment, the
wide variety of associational meetings
touching upon soils, crops, fruit, live

olitthe g 'la 35 "g ’ L.
noon and evening in the college gym-

   

This 1may be fortunate-

   

nasium. all these make up a wonder-

fully well-balanced program of prac-

    

tical agricultural education for all
thoughtful farm felks

HIS is the time of

Sugar year when sugar
Beets In beet growers are mak-
. . ing contracts with the
Mmlugan " factories for the com«

.ingseason’s crop. In
other words, arrangements for market-
ing are being made before the seed
goes into the ground. Naturally the
farmer should work for the most fav-
orable contract he can get with those
who take the crop. To this end an or
ganization of growers under the guid-
ance .of sane leadership should prove
most helpful.

An important phase of the situation
is that under average conditions the
farmers of Michigan cannot afford to
allow sugar beet growing to go into
the discard. It is a valuable asset to
our agriculture and a revenue produc-
er of the first order for those located
where they can grow a few acres of
the crop.

There are several reasons for this.
As a nation, we import from outside
our insular possessions about one—quar-
ter of our supplies. A large portion
of this shortage could be grown to
advantage in our own country and
state. And in addition to this general
economic situation the most depend-
able figures available show that the
crop is the best paying annual cash
crop which the farmers of Michigan
have.

Then, too, the soil, climatic condi-
tions and rainfall of the Saginaw Val-
.ley and other portions of the statepro—
vide the most ideal conditions to be

found in the country for growing,

beets. Our system of farming is also
such that, through crop rotations, it
is possible to keep down diseases and
pests and maintain soil conditions at
less expense than in most other/ im-
portant beet producing areas in Amer-
ica. » We are also in the center of a
great consu'ming area protected on
either side by railway tariffs.

These reasons and others make it
desirable that the beet industry of the
state be maintained and, if possible,
doubled in magnitude in the dozen or
so counties suited to the culture of
the crop. Ohio farmers are now work-
ing to increase the number of factor-
ies in that state to eighteen, the num-
ber now operating in Michigan.

Should not all agencies of the state

interested in the industry and in agri- ,

culture generally, join in a sane pro-
gram looking toward the expansion in
the production of sugar beets-?

E read that a

Prunes single prune in
In Germany costs a mil-

. lion marks, more or
Germany less. This price is

_ due to the scarcity of
prunes and the abundance of marks.

Incidentally, the German grocer has to\

say to the customer, “Ya ver haben

kina trockenen pflaumen,” which in
strictly modern English is, “Yes, we
have no prunes today,” that is, of

course, if the customer has the million
marks, more or less, to buy prunes
with.

One may naturally be led to ask,
“\Vell, what has that got to do with
buying automobiles in America?” The
facts of the matter are, that many
California people are not trading their
1920 Packards for 1924 Ferds because
Germany is not buying prunes and oth-
er dried fruit.

Germany has been a prolific consum-
er of American dried fruit, taking at
least one-half of the total apricot crop
but since she has gotten in a bad way,
the common boarding-house prune-has
assumed there a social standing
snails’ eyebrows, or such delicacies,
have here. It is only when a man is

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tryingtowinhlswaytothelady’e

This status of affairs has the Call-

fornia' whiter in “dutch.” He has a. ’
big carryover frOm 1m“ year’ s. crop -
and the promise cf increased produc-
tion for next year. They are facing a
situation comparable tax that of the
wheat grewers. ey have the disad- '-
vantage of not being able to cut down ,
their acreage, but they have a big

point in their favor in that they know
how to creeperate, which the Wheat
growers do not. They do not look
upon the situation as a life and death
matter, but as a necessity for more co-
operation. They are planning now a
cooperative organization Of‘ coopera-
tive organizations. In other words, the

present organizations are going to co-

operate to solve the situatiOn. ,

We, in Michigan, will be glad, or rath-
er fortunate, when we really know how
to cooperate}- let alone super-coopera-
tion. But, meanwhile,.we mayfrest.
assured that we will be eating more
prunes in the near future because of
the cooperation which cooperates in
California.

 

Stated

ELL, in what you call accordance

with the announcemunt last
week, me and Sophie went a skatin’.
In this exhibishim of skill Sophie spe-
chulized in straight skatin, while I did
the fancy stuff. .

After supper a coupla nights ago, I
says, “Sophie, I got the old skates
sharpened, let’s try them ou .” So we
went. We didn’t go by the hon-fire,
’cause I says to Sophie that we want
to try the dumb things out before we
make our public appearunces. So we
goes to the end of the pond and puts

our skates on. I
find my 3 k a t e s
was a c o u pl a
inches too short,
so as long as I
. stood on my heels
I was alright, but
I couldn’t do no
toe dancin’.
When I got, on
the ice I found the two feet tryin’ to
part company, one was goin’ west and
the other was goin’ east, and I was
stayin’ right where I was, tryin’ to
bring the opposin’ facshuns together.
Well, I was Succeedin’ but the two
feet come together about eighteen
inches in front 0’. me. I couldn’t catch
up fast enough, so the ice and. that
part 0’ me what is fartherest behind,
come- together.

Sophie was .standin’ her own purty
well, so she' helps me up, and tries to
help me get started. Well, I didn’t do
no better than when I was learnin’ to

 

'walk, and Sophie gets tired of foolin’

with me,'an~d goes skatin’ off like a
dove, while I was standin’ there like a
goose.

You know it’s bad when musick
keeps your feet from behavin’ , but its
awful when skates do the same thin
Sometimes, the way my feet was goin ,
I felt I.was goin’ to be like a butchered
hog, kinda split up the middle. I know
now that when'a fellow is down he is
purty near out, ’cause it’s so hard for
him to get up again.

But I kin say my skatin’ was lots
differunt from the other folks. It was
mostly ups and downs instead of for-
wards and backwards, but that made
my skatin’ what‘you call distinctive.

One of them high-school girls comes
and says, “How are you comin’, Hy?
Let me help you a little.” ’ I give what
the perfessor calls silent consent and
in a little while another comes, 301
had one holdin’ my hands on each side
of me. Well, you know, then I kinda
didn’t care if I never learnt. '

I didn’t know what Sophie. was doin’
meanwhilst. But when it comes fito
skatin’, Sophie is too fast for men She
kin play to: and such like While I'm
takin’ lessons. we . I’m sain' skat-
images; ’eudeeltllhlllte’lotso fun.

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EALIZING that there was a splen-

did Opportunity to do some inter~
_ '_ estli'ig and pé’ihaps valuable Work
on the fruiting- habit and pruning of
raspberries, the horticultural depart-
\ment decided to start a project which
I ‘was delegated t6 the South Haven Ex-
1,perime‘nt Station.
, . Some striking results were obtained.

In fact, it was thought that they were
of sufficient importance to make a pre-
‘ liminary report at the end (if one sea-
"‘son's work. It is to be distinctly un-

By Stanley Johnson

,X‘fl' Scat/E Haven Experiment Station

growth. For example, the buds on the
cane where the laterals were pruned
short, responded with a vigorous
growth and were fruitful, while on the
laterals left full length, the buds on
the cane made only a very short
growth, which soon dried up. This dis-
covery was of great importance, as it
simply narrowed the proposition of

.derstoed however, that what 1 am go-- pruning raspberries down to the num-

, ‘l’ng to say is by no means final.
' It would probably be wise to briefly
.. explain just what was done in the
'way of actually carrying out this pro-
ject.‘ First, I will discuss black rasp-
b.erries Two series of plants were se-
‘lected; one, with plants having three
canes to the plant—the other, with
four canes. The pruning in each ser-
ies was otherwise identical. For in-
stance, the first block in each series
was pruned with the laterals approxi-
mately‘ four buds in length. The sec-
ond was left with the laterals medium
~ in length, while in the third, the lat-
. erals were left full length, the winter-
injured tips being cut o.ff, Realizing
that there might be some advantage
in thinning out laterals, the three
blocks just mentioned were duplicated
only instead of leaving five laterals to
the cane, three were left—each block
consisted of ten average plants.

Ten average'canes were selected in
each block for special record taking.
A complete bud record was the first
record taken. That is, a record was
made of what every bud did, whether
it was fruitful, vegetative,
,winter-injured or mechanically injured.
This record proved to be of real value
as "it shoWed that practically every
bud in araspberry cane is fruitful if
given a chance, to make a sufficient

dormant; thinned out.

her of buds a raspberry cane should
carry to best advantage without being
overloaded.

The next record that was taken on
these special canes, was during the
fruiting season. At that time, strings
were tied on the cane and on the lat-
erals at every fifth bud. Then, during
the picking season a record was made
of the total number and total weight
of berries for each picking. It can
readily be seen that this procedure
gave us a very complete record of
what every portion of the cane and
laterals actually did in the way of pro-
duction under every type of pruning.
Besides these records, a yield record
of the rest of the caries in each block
was made, thereby giving us a very
complete record of each block.

Block B-A, in'the four-cane series,
with all the laterals cut backto four
buds, gave us the best results when
size of fruit and total yield are both
considered. This block was second in
total yield, being only slightly exceed-
ed by block A-F in the three-cane ser-
ies, with the laterals full length and
Block B-A had fruit of
much better size than any of the
blocks Where the laterals were left full
or medium in length, and was only
exceeded in size of fruit by the bloCks
pruned in a similar manner in the

tlh'ee-cane series, or where the short
laterals were thinned out.

Probably it would be well to com-
pare block B-A with block AF and
also with block B-B, which was in the
four-cane series with the laterals me-
dium in length. This last block we

 

Fig. 1 .—-Black Raspberry Canes Prun-

. ed in Accordance with the Results
Obtained in the Raspberry Pruning
Project.

Cane A is fourteen thirtyseconds of
an inch in diametel six inches above
the surface of the ground, and the lat-
erals are cut back to foul buds in
length.‘ Cane B is seventeen thirty-
seconds of an inch in diameter, and
the laterals are left six buds in length.
Cane C is twenty thirty-seconds of an
inch in diameter, and the laterals are
left eight buds in length. See discus-
sion for pruning black raspberries.

considered approximately commercial
pruning, as it is practiced in the South
Haven District. For the purpose of

aspberrles

3;} ., .. Some New 4724’ Interesting Information on Me Suéject

making this comparison, Table No. 1
has been prepared.

Table No. 1. j
Cases Berries
Bl'ock. Per Acre.
B-A 210.3 1.81-,‘.‘27 ~
A-F 220.9 2,372,241
B-B 200.9 2,162,145

teen quart cases). However, it will
also be noticed that this increase in
yield was obtained at the expense of
picking 552,514 additional berries. The
berries were sold to the cannery at

$1.75 per case—Lthis would give A—F an

increase in money return over. B—A of - '
Now, if 552,514 ber-'

$18.55 per acre.
ries is divided by 1855 cents, it shows
that it was necessary to pick 298 extra
berries to earn one cent. In this kind
of picking 298 berries would mean
about threefourths of a quart. With-
out a doubt, it is very unprdfltable
picking to pick three-fourths of aquart
for one cent.

A comparison of block B—A with
block B-B, the commercially pruned
block, shows both yield and size of
fruit to be in favor of B-A, which pro-
duced 9.4 cases more at a saving of
342,418 less berries to pick.

It is apparent therefore, that the size
of the fruit in block B-A was much
better than in the other two blocks—
in fact, the berries produced in block
B-A were of good size through all the
pickings. There were no small crumbly
berries. The opposite was true in the
case of the other two blocks, as many
of the berries were small and crum-
bled when they were picked. If the
sales had been made on the fresh fruit
market, the money returns for block
B—A would undoubtedly have been
greater thanfor the other two blocks.
While it was impossible to keep ac-

(Continued on page 142).

Christmas Trees as a Farm Crop

Here Is Anotéer Diversion [Vflzcfl Many Micflzgcm Farmers Could Advantageomlyv

\
HIS year saw the' usual trenem—
dous output of Christmas trees.
The custom in the United States

for using evergreens for Christmas
consumes annually over 5,000,000 small
trees. It is estimated that Michigan
alone uses annually over 500, 000 such
trees.

The retail price this year ranged
from ten cents to fifteen cents per

’ year of growth, this being generally

somewhat higher than in the past.
This was mainly due to the growing
scarcity of the trees, but also to some
extent, to the embargo-on evergreens
from the northeast and the greater
vigilance of the state and private own-
er in preventing theft. Naturally, as
the trees in the more accessible local-
ities are cut, increased freight rates
further raise, the retail price. This
year a carload of Christmas trees was

shipped all the way from Oregon to'

Pennsylvania, a distance of over two
thousand miles. The freight charge
on that one carload was $7 00.

In the past few years considerable
agitation has been carried on to abol-
ish'the use of Christmas trees. Young
trees, some argue, should be allowed
to grow to timber size and thus aug-
rment our waning timber Supply. De-
spite this agitation the demand. for
Christmas moawiu not diminish. This

delightful custom, which brings 103:

 

 

Include: In Tflezr Farmmg Program
By Paul A. Herbert

Christmas greens are .a legitimate use

for trees. When the trees are more
valuable for large timber than for
Christmas trees, no business man will
sacrifice them for Christmas decora-
tions. Trees will always be used for
that purpose which brings the most
profit to the producer. Prices of Christ-
mas trees in years to come will in-
crease as the source and the supply of
tree growth becomes more restricted.
Furthermore, there is no chance of an
over-production.

 

Comparatively few kinds of trees are
used for Christmas decorations. The
balsam firi‘is, perhaps, most preferred
because of its blunt needles and frag-
rant odor. Our western firs have much
coarsern foliage and are not so frag—
rant. At present they are used only
locally, although higher prices will
soon bring many of them to the gen-
eral market,

The commonest Christmas trees are
the spruces. The needles of these
trees are stiff and prickly. They are

 

 

 

The Christina: Tree Farm of A. E. Dinet,’ of Whitehall,

 

Michigan, Showing
Norway spruce Trees Tm Years After- Planting In Sandy Soil.

not nearly as fragrant as the firs.“
However, their abundance and adapta-
bility to many soils makes them gen-
erally the, cheapest tree in many
regions.

Douglas fir, a western tree, having
characteristics quite similar to the
spruces and the firs, will with increas-
ed prices, be found on the eastern
market for many years to come. Ced-
ars are quite common on the southern
market. Other kinds of evergreens,
such as hemlock and pines, are as a.
rule only used locally.

The ideal Christmas tree is conical
in outline with wide-spreading branch-
es! with approximately ten inches be-
tween the whorls. Trees from three
feet to eight feet tall, and from five
to twelve years old, are in greatest
demand. The tendency in recent years

is toward the smaller tree, one that .

can be placed upon a table. Of late,
potted, living trees of from eight inch-
es to times feet in height have come
into vogue. These can not only be
used for Christmas trees, but also for
decorative purposes during the rest of
the year. With proper care such pot-
ted trees can be used for a. number of
years for this purpose, and then when
too large, can be planted out in the
open.

Michigan, is well located for Christ: 1
The close proxJ

mas tree production.
imity of Chicago, Detroit, and the large

cities of northern Ohio and Indiana in.
Any surplus

sure a constant market.
that might possibly occur can readily
be shipped east. Cleared, or W

Per Acre... -

In Table No. 1, it will be noticed '
that block A-F outyielded block B—A." ‘
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"cleared land of low agricultural value
- will " ‘show excellent returns when
growing this crop. It requires very lit-
. tle'fattention, and then not at any par-
ticular time. If for any reason it is
not found expedient to harvest these
trees when planned, they will not de-
teriorate, ,. but will increase in value
year by year. Michigan soils and cli-
mate, are well suited for the groWing
of our commonest Christmas tree, the
spruce. Norway spruce Christmas
trees have already been grown at a
profit in Michigan as a farm crop.
Michigan farmers who have more land
than they can profitably work or who
have land of low agricultural value,
will find such a tree crop a profitable
investment. '

The best species for Christmas tree
plantations in Michigan is the Norway
spruce. This tree is a native of Eu-
rope, but is thoroughly adapted for
planting in the eastern part of the
United States. It is being grown suc-
cessfully in Michigan today. Norway
spruce is similar to the native white
spruce (also called cat spruce) except
' that the foliage is dark green instead
of being covered with a whitish bloom.
The pungent and at‘ times disagreeable
odor of the white spruce is lacking.

  

Norway spruce grows rapidly on a
large variety of soils. It thrives on
sand dunes after temporary cover has
fixed the sand. A successful experi-
mental Christmas tree plantation car-
ried out by the forestry section of the
experiment station at East Lansing
was located on a stiff clay soil. Soil
requirements, therefore, are not very
important for the growth of this tree.
However, it requires a fairly well-
drained soil. It will not grow in a
swamp, nor will it make satisfactory
growth on exceedingly dry land such
as one commonly finds on the jack
pine plains.

The growth varies, naturally, with
the site and the care which the trees
are given. Exceedingly rapid growth
is not desirable as it will make the
tree too open and lessen their sale
value. One foot 3. year is the maxi-
mum heighth growth desirable in
ChriStmas trees. Norway spruce will,
under ordinary conditions and on soils
usually available for tree growth,
make this maximum growth after the
first two years.

Most farmers who intend to put in
a small acreage will find it more eco—
nomical to buy the small plants in-
stead of attempting to grow the trees

_from seed. Seedlings require consid—
erable attention during the first year
or two and losses are often heavy.
Seedlings and transplants can be pro-
cured from many commercial nurser-
ies throughout the country, or from
the forestry department of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College at East Lan-
sing.
- The tendency is to buy the biggest
stock available in an effort to shorten
the number of years required to pro:
duce the desired size trees. This is
often a mistake, as the larger the
stock the more care and time required
in planting, the greater the cost of the
stock, and the bigger the losses in the
first year. Smaller stock can better
survive a drought just after planting
than the larger stock.

Four~year-pld transplants are usual-
ly considered the best size and age for
Christmas tree plantations. Such stock
costs from $3.00 to $25 per hundred
F. O. B., depending on the size of the
plants and the concern from which
they are purchased. The selling prices
of the various nurseries differ consid-
erably on the same class of stock.
Nurseries operated on a cost basis,
such as are maintained by many
states, usually quote the lowest prices.

If the farmer has the time and the

' inclination he can grow his own stock.
Norway spruce seed can be procured
' from all forest seed houses at a price
‘ ranging from $1.60 to-$2.50 per pound.

A pound of such seed should, under
Wumgconditions, produce approxis

 

‘ growing space.

mately. 23,000 seedlings-Thesauri... _ . 1. , a1. _: , ,2,
shouldbe sown. broadcast in bedsrin‘} .' jUnies's the farmer intendsrto junta ,
the late fall or: in the early 'spring.‘ '
About. 'onesixth of an ounce of seed

  
 

per square foot of seed-bed will usu—
ally produce the desired stand. -
Special care must be taken to pre-

vent losses from damping off diseases,”

birds and mice. Damping off can usu-
ally be prevented by using sterile sand
for! the upper two inches of the seed-
bed and by not wetting down the bed
too much.‘ Birds and mice can be kept
out by framing the bed with wire nets
ting. As the. seedlings require partial
shading during the first growingsea—
son, a slat frame should be placed
about six inches above the surface of
the ground. This frame may consist
of inch slats spaced an inch apart.
Other forms of protection are at times
used, such as cheesecloth and mulches,
but none are as effective as the 'wire
screen frame .with a slate sun shade.
Hand-weeding will be necessary at
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be found advisable to purchase the?»
stock ready far 7field planting or for
the transplant rows. Arrangements
for stock should. be, made early the
winter previous to planting so as .to
assure the necessary :3th and prompt
shipment as desired. As soon as the
stock is received it should be exam-
ined to see if the roots are dried out.
If they are dry the trees are dead and
no amount of watering will makethem
grow." It will simply be a waste of
money to plant such stack. The roots
should at all times be kept moist and
should under no conditions be exposed
to the sun and wind. The trees should
be taken directlyi'to the field in which
they are to be planted, the bundlesl
opened, the treesspread out slightly,'
and the roots then well Covered with
moist soil. The tops should be clear
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first, but a good stand of seedlings will
soon prevent the growth of additional
weeds later on. .

During the first winter the bed
should be covered with burlap or
mulched with straw orleaves. The
seedlings will be from three to six
inches high at the end of the second
year, and must then be given more
If the trees are to be
planted on prepared ground on a fav-
orable site they may be set out im-
mediately. But if the field upon which
they are to be planted is rather dry
or covered with a sod or a heavy weed
growth, it will be best to place the
seedlings in transplant rows about two
to six inches apart for another year
or two.

‘At three years of age (two years in
the seed-bed and one year in the trans-
plant row) the trees should be six to
eighteen inches high, at which size
they are best able to compete with the
weeds and other unfavorable condi-
tions found on many planting sites.
Root pruning in the third year is re-
sorted to at times When the trans-
plants are growing too fast or are to
be planted upon very adverse sites.

 

Root pruning increases the production,
of, fibrous lateral roots andreducee

will keep for weeks if the planting has
to be delayed. ,

It will save the farmer much annoy-
ance and petty theft if he will choose
finds many motorists out in the coun-
for a planting site a field back from
the public highway. Christmas time
try foraging for greens, some of whom
still regard tree growth as public
property. . .

A comparatively well-drained area
should be chosen for best returns.
Plowing, while not really essential, will
materially shorten the number of years
necessary to bring the trees to market:
able size. If time is available plow-
ing will more than pay for itself. The
ground should be prepared in the fall.
The use of commercial fertilizers is
not recommended. Barnyard manure
can be used to good advantage, if
available. ' '

The trees should "be planted 'in the
early spring as soon as the frost is
out of the ground. By planting than
in staggered rows three feet apart

"each way, the ‘ maximum. amount; of .

stock of approximately 5,580 trees .can
be set out on each acre. The best tool
to use in the planting operation is the

grub hoe. _With it ahole‘large enough.
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atom; each. tree asheplan

pail shouldbe partially filled with wet

moss orthln'mud‘,"thus4preventing any ' g. ,‘

possible. chance of , theivroots drying

out during tlfe planting: The root. col-.

lar should not be set over a half-inch
deeper than “it, 'Was origin-ally. Greater
depth causes the roots to die back and

thus stunts" the trees, 'or,even causes ‘
them to die. ‘ Two good men working .

together as here'described can plant

"approximately 2,000 trees in a nine-

hour day.

‘While no cultivation is absolutely
necessary, one or two times over the
area with a shallow-set cultivator dur-
ing the first two years, will materially
aid in the maturing of the crop. The
growth during the first year while the
plants are’getting established will be
very small, but by the third year the
growth on average sites will be about
one foot pen year. If four-year—old
transplant stock is used, the plantation
will usually begin to show crowding
by the end of the fourth ‘year. The
larger trees then, where necessary,
should be removed at Christmas time
and sold. An annual thinning will be
required thereafter until the final har-
vest. The final harvest will ordinarily
come about the sixth or the eighth
year after planting. This will vary,

naturally, with the kind of soil upon

which the trees are planted, the. care
given them, and the size stock desired.

The profits obtainable depend on the
vaLue of the land, the cost of the stock
and labor, the rate of growth, the dis-
tance from market, and the selling
price of the trees. These items vary
so much, that a general statement can
not be made. The facts and figures
here given will, however, enable any
farmer, knowing local conditions, to
determine approximately what he can
expect from such an investment as is
here outlined.

AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM IN
HOUGHTON COUNTY.

 

OW the county'agricultural agent

has assisted in the agricultural
progress of Houghton county—One'of
the largest agricultural counties in the
state—4s revealed'in a recent report
of Mr. L. M. Geismar, agricultural
agent, to the board of supervisors of
that county. '

-Time was, as the present writer
learned through the study of the rec—
ords of importing houses at Eagle Har-
bor, when this section was an import-
ing region, even" hay being brought up
from Detroit by boat. Now, as Mr.
Geismar is able to show, Houghton
county is an exporter of potatoes, and
.the yields of oats, wheat, rye and corn
has been greatly increased, while va-
rieties have been improved through
the use of better seed. The desirabil-
ity of raising canning-peas‘has like«
wise been demonstrated.

The agent has promoted the intro-
duction of pure-bred live stock, the
purchase of cheap government explos-
ives, and the organization of farm-loan
associations. Mr. Geismar claims to
have organized the first county potato
show held in the United States, and
pure-bred seed potatoes have been in-
troduced to the farmers. Instead of an
annual shipment of sixty cars of pota-
toes into Houghton county, there is an
export of eighty cars. .

The use of home—made dairy prod-
ucts has been increased, and the im-
portation of stock feeds and forage

‘has been restricted through the erec-

tion of silos and otherwise. Four local
flour and grist mills have been erected
as a result of the agent’s'efforts, it is
stated. There. is now one dairy cow
for every eight inhabitants of the coun-
ty,where_ there formerly was "one cow

for thirtiipeome. All in all, it is la.‘
_very,,credi_table showing and one that.
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A new year dawns on the farm
‘ with the coming of spring work.

Whether it is to be one of profit

.on your farm quite frequently
depends on the use you are able
to make of the time when the
soil is just right for breaking
and seeding.

Many thousands of farmers
face this new year with conv
fidence that their labors will
be rewarded to the utmost.
Their Fordson power assures
that spring ’work will be
done when it should be done.

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.

TANDARDIZATION of farm prod

ucts, especially fruits and vegeta-

bles, assist greatly in putting the
marketing of these products on a bus-
iness basis. The benefits of standard-
ization may be classified as follows:

1. Encourages future contracts.

2. Promotes sales f. o. b. and in
transit.

3. Facilitates government
tion at terminals.

4. Affords comparisons of commodi—
ties and prices.

5. Graded products hold up in stor-
age. .
6. Eliminates freight and other
charges on culls and inferior products
that should not move to consuming
Centers.

7. Discourages and reduces specu-
lati‘on.

8. Sound advertising can be based
only on standard grades.

9. Fosters confidence and good will.

10. Creates preferential markets and
premium prices. _

But some who are inexperienced in
market requirements and commercial
practices will say: “These points, or
most of them, are hypothetical. Just
what do they mean to me, as the pro-
ducer, in dollars and cents, in increas-
ing my net earnings? We have been
grading our apples—more or less—for
the past six years. Just what are the
actual results?”

The following quotations are from
letters received during the past two
weeks from men in the markets of the
cities referred to, who, by reason of
their positions, know more about the
actual conditions in that particular
market than any other one man:

Chicago.——“The consensus of opinion
is that there has been a noticeable im-
provement in the grading of Michigan
fruits during the past two years. The
trade here feels that Michigan apples
are good this year.” ‘

Milwaukee._“There has been a de-
cided improvement in the general run
of Michigan apples, peaches and

grapes this year, both in grade and
pack. This improvement has been not-

inspec-

" What Standardizati

Some ’ Wortéwfli/e Rem/t5 Already Nomi In Th:
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Hartman

Deputy Cambriuioner of Agriculture

ed by the trade and favorably com-
mented upon.”
Cleveland.——“Regarding the quality
and pack of Michigan fruits, and also
the quality of potatoes received in
Cleveland, from our observation of the
cars inspected and the comments from
the trade, the stock on the whole, is
at this time generally satisfactory.”

Detroit—“The trade here seems to
be of the opinion that considerable im-'
provement has been shown this year
in the apple grades, with the result
that- very few rejections have been
made. \Vith reference to peaches and
grapes, from personal observation, as
Well as impression gained by com-
ment made by the trade, both the
grading and packing of these commod-
ities this year have, in general, been
very satisfactory.” ,

Detroit—“On the whole, the trade
seems to feel that the grading has
been a distinct help, although the re-
sults are not so measurable in many
cases now as they will be later. Some
expressed the opinion that buyers are
accepting the goods with greater con-
fidence and less inspection.

“Of course, it is evident to observ-
ers at this end of the line, and it ought
to be made plain to the grower, that
the value of careful grading does not
reach its maximum in a brief space of
time. Confidence in the mind of the
buyer is a thing that must be gained
by persistent effort. . With most crops,
Michigan has got to do considerable
work to bring them up to the standard
of the products which come in from
other states.

“I agree with you fully that work
should be done to encourage the house-
wife to buy by grade so far as possi-
ble. Our newspaper publicity, in the
future, will be framed in such a way
as to show the housewife the benefits
to her of grading, and that much of
the value is lost unless she help the
thing along by demanding graded pro-
ducts from her retailer.”

On every hand, the moment Michi-
gan fruits are mentioned, the instant
come-back is to the effect that none
question the superior quality of our
fruits, but why is it the western pro-
ducts outsell us in all of the markets?
Even our home markets feature west-

ern apples. The westerners'were forc-
ed to cooperative organizations, and
they headed their organizations, either
in the very beginning or eventually,
with high-pressure, highly trained men
for the jobs assigned them. Advertis-
ing was imperative to move their nor-
mal crops, and particularly to profit-
ably sell during seasons of abnormal
production, or to meet peculiar market
conditions. Today, the Western grow-
ers and canners are spending two mil:
lion dollars in newspaper, magazine,
bill-board, street car, placard, and oth-
er advertising, telling the nation con-
sistently and persistently about their
oranges, lemons, walnuts, prunes, rais-
ins, peaches, apples, eggs, canned
fruits and vegetables, etc. During 1922,
the raising growers alone spent two
million dollars in advertising.

Standardization enables the shipper
to safely guarantee, and the distribu-
tor, dealer and consumer to have eve-
ry assurance that even though he must
pay a premium price, he has actually
saved money, because every fruit, eve-
ry box and every carload W e of the
standard grade sold, bought "and paid’
for. The housewife in the city will
soon be educated to buy her perish-
able products by grades.

If we standardize and advertise ’and
merchandise only our best products,
what is to became of the under-grade,
cull or inferior portions of our crops?
Every one of you progressive growers
assembled here today will agree, I am
sure, that the day has now arrived
when, following our own individual ex-
periences and observations, and the
findings and teachings of the college
and experiment station, it behooves us
to produce less inferior stuff. In other
words, conforming to the manifest re-
quirements in the matter of varieties
to be propagated, tillage, fertilization,
pruning, spraying, thinning and har-

on” Is m.

{paring raw, products;
coupled with the reasonably high-pric- »

State »
vesting will, under normal conditions,"
give us a negligible volume of unmet-
charitable products. That is the first

' and most important answer to the
We ,
neednew and additional facilities for

question. The second answer is:

storing and utilizing.

Folks in the cities are rapidly con-
densing into hat box living quarters
called apartments or flats; their time
is divided between factory, shop, of-
fice or store, and the theater, golf
links, club meetings, etc; They have
little space in the home for storing
and little time in the kitchen for pre-
all of which,

ed, high-quality canned products, is
rapidly increasing the per capita con-
sumption of, and developing Still great-
er demand for, canned. and. dried
fruits and vegetables. We haven’t a
single operating dehydrating plant in
the state, but we do have.123 licensed
commercial canning factories, putting
up thirty-three kinds of fruits and veg-
etables. The quality of the Michigan
pack of 1923 is conceded to stand out
unexcelled in comparison with the can-
ners of any other state. ‘

We are the third state in apple pro-
duction, but rank only sixth in vine-
gar. We have over 400 custom and
commercial cider mills; about twenty
of any real commercial importance. In
the past, a major part of the whole-
sale sales of Vinegar has been shipped
in from other states.

Hundreds of thbusands of dollars’
worth of farm products were sold at
road-side stands during the past sea~
son. A new and profitable system of
selling and offering unlimited opportu-
nities by way of improving display,
better grading, and using containers
adapted for the purchaser to carry
away, or to mail or express.

Horticulturally, Michigan has occu-
pied a leading position for more than
half a century, yet only the cynic or
confirmed pessimist will deny that we
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LATE AGRICULTURAL NEWS .

 

 

 

MUSCLE SHOALS ISSUE PRO-
GRESSING.

 

HE house military affairs commit-
tee has received word from Henry
Ford that the McKenzie bill, which

would authorize acceptance of his bid,.

was satisfactory if the Madden amend-
ment providing for the replacement of
the steam plant was adopted.

Mr. Ford will be invited to appear
before the committee to explain some
points in his offer, after which it is
promised that a decision will be made
in the matter. The committee is prac—
tically agreed that no offer will be ac-
cepted which does not include the pro—
duction of air nitrates for fertilizer
purposes.

 

BILL PROVIDES FOR STUDYING
FARM AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTION.

 

A BILL providing for expansion of
the service now rendered by the
Federal Department of Agriculture in
gathering and disseminating informa-
tion regarding agricultural production,
competition and demand in foreign

countries for the purpose of ’ert- ' .
.THE first ; report of the President

)i‘ngr'the. sale of farm products abroad,
. has been introduced in'the house by
' Representative Ketcham, of Michigan,
pond in the senate by Senator Copper.
“iris honeyed that this infemflqn

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The state department would be re-
quired to accredit, in the same man-
ner as a secretary of an embassy, as
agricultural attaches with diplomatic
standing the‘agricultural commission-

ers at present representing the depart-..

ment of agriculture in foreign coun-
tries. In addition to gathering infor-
mation, these attaches would be re-
quired to cooperate with producers,
farm organizations and others, both
individually and collectively, in pro-
moting sales and purchases of agricul-
tural products by establishing and
demonstrating universal standards for
agricultural products.

sues ARE EXPENSIVE.’

 

STIMATES made by the insecti«-

cide and fungicide board show that
farmers of the nation are annually
spending $40,000,000 for insecticides
and fungicides to control insect pests
and fungusdiseases. Since the insec-
ticide act was passed in 1910 the board
has prosecuted 900 cases and secured
a verdict in all but a few instances.

TARIFF commsSwN REVERSED.

 

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made by the federal;tarifl commie
sion under «the flexible pmisiom of
the tariff act. has been reversed by
metastases-m!

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dence in any recommendation of the
United States Tariff Commission re-
specting industries in which partici-
pating members of the commission are
financially interested. It has been as-
certained that Commissioner H. H.
Glassie,-his wife and relatives own all
the stock in a sugar mill in Louisiana

DOES NOT.FAVOR MELLON PLAN.

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HE American Farm Bureau Feder-
ation is not in favor of the Mellon
plan, H. C. McKenzie, tax representa-
tive of the federation, told the com-
mittee on Ways and Means, on the

grounds that “it makes all the reduce

tions, except two or three minor ones,
in the income taxes and leaves the
90,000,000 whose income is below the
income tax level without substantial
benefit. It still further shifts the per-
centage of taxation from income to,”
consumption taxes, or from ability to
paypto necessity to consume."

Mr. McKenzie said the tax bureau.

{needed to be radically overhauled. The
1922 returns are untouched, only an
insignificant beginning has been made
on the 1921 returns, while portions of
titanium far 1.917 and $918 in still
awaiting final adjustment. “(the de-
partment t as that they expect to.
be up to the current yen within eight:

   

of tax appeals, independent of the ,tax
unit, may help but. does not reach the
main trouble, which is within the de-
partment.”

Speaking of the tax-free securities
question, Mr. McKenzie said that the
final remedy for tax dodging by the
tax-exempt securities route “seems to
be a constitutional amendment but
there is a partial remedy that is sim-
ple, fair and'easily applied; it is that
all deductions and exemptions be first
set off against tax-free income. The
American Farm Bureau Federation. is
committed to thegeneral principle of
abolishing tax-free securities and any

deviation would have to be abundantly

justified. If congress is in favor of
taxation according to ability to pay,
there is no reasonable excuse for not
adopting this partial remedy.” He also
declared that money derived from the
sale of stock dividends should be tax—
ed as if the dividehds had been de:
clared in cash. ' These means of es-
cape have made the payment of the
higher cur-taxes larger optiOnaI.

 

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HAT does it cest to raise a prime

beef calf? During these days

7 of high-priced labdr and low-

priced farm products, this is a ques-

tion that is very often ceming up. The

raising of beef cattle Suitable for fin-

ishing into prime beef. at‘an early age

is rapidly gaining favor with many cat-
tle men in Michigan. .

The old stock argument, that it did
not pay to keep a cow 3. year just to
raise a calf, is being exploded in the
realm of baby. beef production. ,The
popularity of baby beef feeding has
increased greatly in the paSt ten years,
with the inevitable result that, as the
demand for choice feeder calves has

'grown, the price has increased. The

question now is, has this price not
reached the point where we in Michi-
gan can ‘well afford to compete with
the west in producing these calves for
our own feed lots. Many men are
thinking that, considering the high
freight rates, the heaVy shrinkage and

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and made lively by a pair of happy-
hearted youngsters.

Q As I remember, there are some three
hundred acres in Allen Dale Farm.
More. than 100 of these acres lie on
the high land back from the bluff that
originally formed the shore line of
Lake Huron. This is most excellent
farming'land. One hundred and eighty

acres are rocky flats that occupy a

strip varying in width along the lake
front. This land is very good for graz-
ing, but too thickly coated with great
rocks of luxuriant proportions, to be
of muCh use for anything else. It is
split lengthwise by one of Michigan’s
great trunk line highways that passes

.over a great stone arch, or culvert;

through which the cattle readily pass
from .one pasture to the other.

These good grazing acres combine
very nicely with the rich uplands that
produce alfalfa, barley, oats and corn,
to make conditions ideal for live stock
farming. The feeding plant is unpre

 

 

The Cow Herd with the Calf Creep in the Background, the Rock-bound Pas-
‘ture and Old Lake! Huron as they Appear wheh Viewed from the Allen

Dale Farm.

the risk and loss from the longship-
ment, the west has nothing on us.

It isn’t often, however, that we get
a real intelligent answer to this ques-
tion. Our farmers, stock men, and
dairymen are too prone to look upon
their gross receipts 'as profits, and
then wonder where all the money
goes to. I think I have heard a hun-
dred Idairymen tell about their milk
checks. But, I say, these things mean
nothing at all to me until I can com-
pare them with the costs. If I make
a million dollars and my expenses are
a million and one dollars, my business,
however attractive it may look, doesn’t
amount to much.

W. E. Ramsey, of Harbor Beach, is
a good business man as well as a good
farmer and a good feeder. His answer
to the ever-recurring question was,
“Let us go to the house and look up
the records.” There was more than
one reason for my acquiescence, as it
it was cold outside and almost dinner
time. So we went to the house, a com-
fortable, but unassuming structure
commanding .a wonderful view toward
the rising sun and out over the blue
waters of old Lake Huron. Far out on

’ the great lake at most any hour. of a

clear day can beseen the ~longl black
streamers ceaselessly being poured
from the smoke stacks of huge freight-

ers that form a constant procession}
both’going and coming, ~We always '

experience a feeling of reverence, a
sense of our own insignificance, and a

certain lightening" or . . responsibility; ,

when “we can standby, before such
mighty power and watch the business

  

the world so majestically going by .-

_tentious,‘just a good big barn with full
roomy basement and a tall silo. The
cows. run to the paStures whenever
weather conditions permit.

The Breeding Herd.

Mr. Ramsey’s inclinations have led
him to adopt the Hereford as, a breed
best suited to his beef—making opera-
tions. Because of their great grazing
and early fattening characteristics, and
their hardiness and regular breeding

tendencies, he has chosen wisely, and

has bought and bred and selected until
his herd new numbers forty-four head
of pure-bred females, all of producing
age. Every cow on the farm, at the
time of my visit, was either suckling,

- or had just weaned, a big lusty white-

faced calf.

It is these calves that represent the
annual production ’of the herd and
provide the cash income. Some of the
best of them are retained each year
for the breeding herd, or sold for
breeding purposes, but a large part
of the crop finds its way into con-
sumptive channels via. the baby beef
route.

I have always been an admirer of
good beef cattle. I love to size up
their good beef points and run my
fingers through their mossy coats. My
grandfather learned the “feel”, of. a
good steer’s mellow hide when my
mother was a baby, and I think there
is‘where I\ got my first lesson. So it
was an inspiring sight to me, this uni-
form herd of curly, white-faced babies
and their broad-backed mothers, as
they grazed oontentedly over those
broad, rock-bound pastures.

’ The Balance Sheet.

There are things in the country, and
in gauging. and in the live stock busi-
ness, that are,. no’ doubt, of more im-

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GETTING STAND OF ALFALFA.

 

,vI am a resident of Lapeer county
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The soil is a clay loam and well-drain-
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to June clover on wheat ?—L. J.‘ M.

Good stands of alfalfa are fréquent-
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should be seeded.

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In buying a city lot on contract, is
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Please give me the amount of taxes
or rate of taxation per $100 on real es-
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entitled to before I am taxed on same?
I have no more this year than for sev-
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taxes to the amount of $4.001. Amount
is not much, but taxes are high enough
on this worn-out land. I have two
cows, two heifers, two small calves,
one hog, two horses, wagon, necessary
farm implements. Havel more than
the law entitles me to without tax?—
M. V. E. J

We are not aware of any statute or
constitutional provision limiting the
total amount of taxes for all purposes.
The only personal property of private
persons exempt from taxation are:
Library, school books, family pictures,
sewing machines, wearing apparel,
household furniture, fuel and provis-
ions to the value of $500; working
tools of a mechanic to the value of
$100; mules, horses and cattle not
over one year old, swine and sheep
not over six months old, and persOnal
property used by any householder in
connection with his business to the
value of not over $200.—Rood.

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RAISING DORSET SHEEP.

 

I am a boy seventeen years of age
and wish to start sheep raising. I
live in the Upper Peninsula. and would
like to know what breed of Sheep ‘1
could raise here. I like the Dorset and
think they will do well here. Can I
buy the ewes from~the Chicago Stock
yards by 'the head or by the pound?
At what price? To whom should I
write to get the ewes. I wBuld‘ like
fifty to 100 ewes and a. pure-bred ram
to breed them—E. W. » '

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portance, is by no means as important
as the care and management given
a number of breeds that you might
select and make no mistake. It will
be more difficult to get a flock of Dor-
set sheep than some of the more popu-

. lar breeds in'th'is. country. It is hard

to tell why they are notmore numer-
ous. Probably because many other
breeds were introduced first and being
found satisfactory have been widely
diStributed and held in favor. While
the? Dorsets are good sheep, and popu-
la‘r in some parts of England, they are
not claimed to be superior to other
well-known breeds, except perhaps in
one particular—the production of early
lambs. They are not heavy shearers,
they are not superior mutton produc-
ers, they are not more hardy, but it is
claimed that many flocks, where right-
ly managed produce two crops , of
lambs a year. ‘ .

You may have some trouble in get—
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stackyards, because they are not wide-

ly distributed here.‘ Take the matter '

up with your local'shipper or shipping
association and probably they can .as-
sist you. You can write to a. commis-
sion man at the stock yards and find
out if you can be supplied. In case
you can not get the kind of Dorsets
you want, do not let that deter you
from keeping sheep. You could pur-
chase grade ewes of most any breed
and cross them with a pure-bred Dor-
set buck and in a few years have a.
high-grade flock of grade Dorsets. Or
you could select another breed, Shrop—
shires‘ or Hampshires, etc., and later
on change if you felt it desirable. Of
course, one is more apt to succeed
with a. breed or an animal that he‘ fan-
cies, but you will learn to admire other
breeds equally' as well, especially if
they make you more money.

A SUBSTITUTE FOR HAY.

 

I find that I am going to be short of
hay this year and will have to sow a.
substitute. Would you please tell me

'what to sow to take the place of hay

to the best advantage? The land is
a. black loam, well-drained, reasonably
fertile, and has a, small amount of
sand. I desire to feed this hay to
horses—H. S. A.

Any of the common grains, such as
wheat, oats, barley, make good hay if
out at the proper stage of develop-
ment, which is at the period of blos-
soming. That is when the plant con-
tains the largest per cent of digestible
nutrients. It is not common to use
these plants for hay in'this country.
Most people seem ,to think they can
get more out of them by allowing them
to ripen, saving the grain and feeding
the straw. .

Peas and oats sown together and
cut when the oats are in the milk or
a little before, make most excellent
hay. Horses and all kinds of stock
relish it and do well on it. Millet,
which is usually sown as a. catch crop,
makes excellent hay for all kinds of
stock if out early enough. It must be
cut before the seed forms. Sudan
grass, which is not well known in this
state, is very popular in some sections
and is well worth trying, perhaps in a.
small way at first. Then we have soy-
beans that make a. hay superior to
clover hay, and equal or superior to
alfalfa for any kind of farm animals.
For hay they may be sown broadcast
and harvested the same as any hay
crop. .,

Corn fodder drilled quite thickly, a.
bushel per acre so the stalks will not.
get too coarse, and but few ears form,
makes good roughage. It can be har-
vested with a grain binder if too short
and thick for a ,corn harvester. It
should be fell-cured in large shocks
and ,then stored in,the bundleso it
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day Kalamazoo 'GaZette; Kalamazoo

I -~ is pointed as the leading, celery‘ pro-. . .

ducing center of Michigan, having an

' acreage of 1,055 acres and a ' carlot

production this'year of 282 cars. The
Decatur association this~ week has
compiled figures showing the Decatur
crop and acreage and find, them .both
in excess otthe Kalamazoo figures.
Within five miles of the village of De-
catur the past year 1,200 acres of this
crop was grown and the actual carlot
shipment was 491 cars by freight and
express. It is claimed that at. least

. thirty per cent of the crop was moved

in small shipments and 'by truck and
is not included inthe figures given.
Decatur leads in the production of cel-
ery. When you think Celery, forget_

\Kalamazoo and ’ think of Decatur,

Michigan—E. V. Root.

 

The French government has awarded

the Croix de Chevalier du Merite Agri- '

cole to Corey J. Spencer, of Jackson,
in gratitude for two pure-bred Holstein
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farmers of that country in rehabilitat—
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Pnop‘osss ALL-AMERICAN WATER
hours TO OCEAN.

 

HE all American Great Lakes to

Ocean ship canal proposal has
again reached congress in a bill intro-
duced by Daniel A. Reed, of New York
state, to incorporate the “Lakes to
Hudson Ship Canal Company.”

This company proposes to construct '

a ship canal thirty'feet deep and 300
feet wide at the top, with locks .660
feet long and seventy feet wide, and
with headway of 120 feet under
bridges, to start in Lake Erie near
Buffalo and cross New York state to
Lake Ontario, thence through, the lake
to Mexico Bay and across country to
Lake Oneida and down the Mohawk,
enlarging the Barge canal, to the Hud-
son River.

Among the advantages claimed for
this plan over the proposed St. Law-
rence river scheme, are an all-Ameri-
can route, a longer season of open nav-
igation, five feet greater depth, gov—
ernment control of locks, and lower
freight rates. Being an all American
waterway it would provide for our na-
tional defence, and it will not cost the
federal government one penny. The
United States would not be liable for
any debts or liabilities of the corpor-
ation, which agrees to maintain" the

‘ship canal, including lights and sig-

nals, with no tolls charged for passage
through the ship canal. The corpora-
tion will secure its income from the
sale of electric power.

- This is not a new scheme. It car-

I

ries out the recommendations of a fed-
, eral invesugating commission hack in

the days of President McKinley. But
in the present bill the proposal is re-
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' Pruning Slack . as
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thirty-scoonds or an mo: in diameter,“

curate time records: ,in picking these

: blocks, due to so many records of size
, and weight of fruit, still all three of
. us who were working on the project

agreed ithelt we could pick half {again
as many plants pruned. with theLlater—
3.18 short, as where they werelpruned
with the Zlaterals medium or full in
length. This is an important point
from a. commercial standpoint as
more plants could be picked with the
same number of pickers. Alsb the
pickers Wduld be better satisfied and
possibly the rate per case could be
reduced.

The appearance of block B-A was
very attractive. The leaves were large
and of good color. The berries were
all large and the canes were carrying
their crop well. On the other hand,
blocks BB and A-F had smaller leaves
pf a light yellowish green color. The
berries were in many cases small and

crumbly, while the canes did not hold-

up the fruit as well.

Bloc-k BA with the very short later-
als, ripened its fruit somewhat earlier
than the other blocks. In fact, on the
first picking, B-A yielded four times as
much fruit as A-F with the long later—
als, and twice as uch fruit as B-B
with the medium laterals. The same
ration existed on the second picking.
0n the third picking they were all
about equal, while on the last four
pickings the blocks with the longer
laterals somewhat outyielded block
B-A. To some growers, this pOintpf
getting larger yields earlier in the sea-
son might be valuable. '

As’_ we were picking the fruit, it
seemed that the large canes were pro-
ducing more and larger fruit than the
medium and small canes. In order to
check this point more thoroughly, all
of the special canes were calipered at
a. point six inches above the ground.
The diameter of the cane was then
compared with the total yield and size
of fruit. It was discovered that the
larger the cane, the greater the quan-
tity of fruit that was produced, and
also that the berries were larger. This
is a. finding of great importance, and
is directly applicable to the actual
practice of pruning. Table 2 shows
the average size of canes compared
with the total average production and
average size of fruit for all pickings.

Table No. 2. .
Ayerage
Diameter Yield Size of
of Cane. 1n Oz. Berries.
16 32nds in. 6.16 .034
18 32nds in. 8. 92 .039,
21 32nds. in. 12. 27 .039

A study of Table 2 shows that the
canes twenty-one thirty-seconds of an
inch in diameter yielded practically
twice as much fruit as those Sixteen-

‘and that the berries werealsb larger.
No doubt this idea can be applied to
block '73-). which We have just been
discussing. For instance, We did not
realize when first doing the pruning
that the size of the cane was 'of much
importance—therefore, all canes in
block B-A had the laterals cut back to
four buds in length. It is new evident
that possibly we pruned the large
canes too severely. A study of all our
records would substantiate this view-
point. No doubt canes over sixteen-
thirty-seconds of an inch in diameter
could handle laterals six buds in
length, and very large canes over
twenty thirty-seconds of an inch in
diameter could handle laterals eight
buds in length.

Now, as to suggestions for pruning
black raspberries as a. .result of this
work.

First, the number of canes to leave
in each plant will depend entirely up—
.on the vigor of the plant. Only medi-
um and large size canes should “be left.
The average number will probably be
four in most plantations. However,
some plants will only be able to han-
dle two or three canes properly while
others will be able to handle five canes.

All of the laterals on the cane
should be left and pruned back in ac-
cordance with the size of the cane.
Canes that are less than one-half inch
in diameter at a point six inches above
the ground, should have the laterals
cut back to four buds in length. (See
Fig. 1. Cane H). Canes over one-half
inch in diameter should have the lat-
erals pruned back to six buds in
length. (See Fig. 1. Cane B). Very
large canes over five-eighths of an inch
in diameter, (should have the laterals
cut back to eight buds in length. (See
Fig. 1. Cane C).

New canes should be pinched back
at the height of twenty-four to thirty
inches instead of eighteen inches, as
has been customary.- The buds on the
cane itself produce the best fruit when
these buds are given a, good chanCe to
grow, as they are when the laterals
are cut'back as described above. By
pinching the canes high from fourteen
to eighteen fruit buds are left on the
cane itself, While only approximately
five fruit buds are left on the cane
when pinched at the height of eighteen
inches. With the laterals pruned
shorter than has been customary, there
is no danger of the canes breaking
over, even when pinched higher. Also,
the work of pinching new canes is
much easier to do at the height of
twenty—four to thirty inches, while
picking the fruit is rendered much
easier.

 

 

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LIJVERLAN I

FREIM

  

 

LOAN ASSOCIATION HOLDS AN-
NUAL MEETING.

 

HE Houghton-Chassell Farm Loan

Association held its annual meet-
‘ing at'Houghton recently, electing offi-
cers for the ensuing year. It appears
from the report of the association that
during the past year it has placed
among farmers loans aggregating $182,-
000. This brings the sum of all loans
since the establishment of the associa-
tion to $355, 000. The 118 members of’
the association hold $17, 750 in stock.

 

WOU LD PROTECT PARTRI DGES.

 

OCAL spertsmen expect that short-

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J ; ridge will be considered at the spring
~~f_ meeting qt the Upper Peninsula sports-

men'e Association Sportsmen here,it

 

.1. memesiimawen Mala

two will close the partridge seasmi en-

, tirely for the lower state and, in order

to prevent the extermination of the
bird in northern Michigan through the
crowding of hunters into the northern
woods, it is deemed desirable that the
season here should be shortened.

 

EVERGREENS SH ELTER BIRDS-

 

AT 3. recent meeting of the Ishpem—
ing’s Sportsmen’s Association
there were presented reasons against
the cutting of Christmas trees which
are somewhat different from those
commonly heard. It was stated these
trees are the houses of partridge and

other birds, and provide them wit-h '

shelter from stems and predatory an-
imals. It was reported that land-own-
ers in Keweenaw county have posted
tbeh' lands against, impression and

that actress were cultures-e wrait-

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'1‘ is none‘too early __ ‘
plans for the crop. season of 1924.
One‘farmer who believes this, is plan-

' ning definitely, on paper'Ju'st what he

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proposes to do with each field. He
says that no'doubt hisplanswill need
revising, but the 1924 creps will go in
only after a lot of careful thought.
He is making alfalfa one of the staples
in his _‘ rotation, and thoroughly be-
lieves that this crop is going to do
much toward making his farming more
successful.

 

HA8 UNIQUE METHOD OF TREAT.
me yVHEA-r.

 

THE copper carbonate treatment for
stinking smut of wheat is now be-

ing quite widely practiced where this .

smut is giving trouble. Many ditferent

' methods of applying the chemical has

been worked out by farmers. One of
the most successful is that devised by
C. T. Gregory. His apparatus consists
of a barrel mounted so itcan be turn-
ed with a crank, and in the side 'of
which a door has been cut. Through
t is door wheat and the necessary
copper carbonate is placed in the bar-
rel, which is then revolved. One farm-
er was able to treat 124 bushels in
four hours. This treatment is so easy
that farmers suffering loss from this
smut should take advantage of its an-
other year.

DOING BIG BUSINESS.

 

ORE than two billion dollars of

business was done by farmer bus-
iness organizations in 1923, according
to estimates made by the United
States Department of Agriculture. The
estimates are based upon reports from
6,639 organizations which did a total
business of $1,200,000,000. Reports.
have been received from 8,313 associ-
ations and additional reports are yet
to come in from approximately 2,000
organizations.

Of the 3,313 organizations reporting,
approxmiately ninety per cent were
primarily engaged in selling farm pro-
ducts, and about ten per cent in the
collective purchasing of farm supplies.
Grain marketing organizations com-

prised more than thirty per cent of '

the associations; dairy products twen-
ty-two per cent;-—live stock fourteen
per cent, and fruits and vegetables
eleven _per cent.

REVIVES NATIONAL BLUE-SKY
' BILL.

 

HE Denison blue-sky bill aimed at

fake oil, mining and other compa-
nies, which passed the house last year,
will be reported to the house at an
early date, with probabilities that it
will become a law. The Denison bill
would forbid the use of the mails and
other interstate agencies for transport-
ing, promoting, or procuring the sale
of securities contrary to the laws of
At present offenders es-
cape the state laws by reason of their
residence in other states, and there'is
no federal statute to cover their case.
Maximum penalties of $2,000 fine, two
years’ imprisonment, or both, are pro-
vided for the first offense under the
proposed law. Subsequent offenses

would be punished by $5,000 fine and ‘

five years’ imprisonment or both.

 

TO SELL. SEED IN SEALED SACKS.

 

HE Michigan State Farm Bureau

has decided to distribute all field
seeds, with the, exception of cereals,
in sealed bushel, half-bushel, and peck
bags. The ultimate consumer will get
a sealed package when he goes to buy
seeds ‘from his organization. The or-
ganization hopes hereby- to prevent
loss and deliver thiss‘eed to the final
consumer in the best possible shape.‘

 

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Wot tune to
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But a ' mighty good time to be considering
whether or not you can depend on your old
plow to prepare properly your fields for biggest
possible yields this year.

Thousands of farmers everywhere find their

 

confidence in the
James Oliver
No. 11 Sulky
has never been
misplaced. It
has always been
their depend-
able helper in
raising bigger
crops.

For full information and name of your Oliver
dealer write the nearest Oliver branch.

ILVER

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SOUTH BEND, IND.

 

 

 

 

 

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0013 stands of clover and alfalfa
are essential to the prosperity of
, Michigan farmers. There are

» many factors entering into the' scour-

ing of good stands and good crops of
these legumes, not the least of which
is the quality of th-é‘ seed sown. With-
out good seed of a hardy strain, suc-

cess with these, crops is doomed to

failure from the start.

Government statistics on the produc-
tion of clover seed during the past
season, give the ‘total as 75,060,000
pounds, as compared with 112,500,000
pounds the previous year. This is a

smaller crop than has been produced

since 1919 when the crop Was 65,940,-
000 pounds. In the sprfng following
that short crop, clover seed was so
extremely high in price as to greatly
curtail the acreage sown.

At the present time clover seed is
not abnormally high, considering the
comparatively short crop in the United
States last year, but clover seed of
the quality which should be sown on
Michigan farms is not as plentiful as
in most seasons, and every farmer
should pay special attention, not only
to the apparent quality and purity, but

' to the source of the clover seed which

he purchases for next spring’s seeding.

Reliable information indicates that
the short crop in this country is being
supplemented by liberal importation of
foreign clover seed. A recent report
from the United States Department of
Agriculture indicates that- between
July 1, 1923, and January 15, 1924,
close to seven million pounds of red
clover seed has been imported into
this country, and that over two million
pounds of this amount came in during
the first fifteen days of January. Pre—
vious reports indicate that this for-
eign clover seed did not start coming
in to any great extent until the first

'of December since which date importa-

tions have been averaging chose to a
million pounds a. week, and available
information indicates that large quan-
tities are now in transit.

Mr. J. C. Hackleman, of the Uni-
versity of Illinois, and secretary of the
International Crop Improvement Asso-
ciation, places his estimate on the
threatened importation of foreign clo-
ver seed as high as thirty million
pounds, or enough to seed three mil-
lion acges, which- is coming mostly
from France, Italy, South America and
South Africa. Without counting on
probabilities it is certain'that enough
of this foreign clover seed has already
been imported during the last six
months to seed well toward a. million
acres. ,

This report also indicates that be-.

tween July 1, 1923, and January 15,
1924, over eight and a half million
pounds of alfalfa seed was imported
into this country, over one million of
which came in between January lst
and 15th of this year, which shows
that this seed is still coming in large
quantities, largely from the same coun-
tries from which the clover seed is
coming as indicated above. '

The significance of these large‘im-'

portations of clover and alfalfa seed,
and the danger to farmers who pur-
chase their seed on the open market
without reference to its source, is in-
dicated by the fact that experiments
in our own state, and many other
northern states, indicate that much of
this seed is nearly worthless for seed-
ing in our latitude. It winter-kills
badly during the first winter, and what
does come through the winter gives
poor yields as compared with hardy
strains of seed adapted to our latitude,
with little aftermath following the. first

, cutting.
Importers of this foreign seed have,

made the claim thatcweeplng state-

mentshagainst 13}de deed are mi—

M are Eyrdence xfgmms‘ the U16 of Seed from Abroad
By I. R Waterbury '« . 1

justified for the reason thateeed from
England and Germany and North Cen-
tral sections of Europe is adapted to
our American climate. ~The report of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, however, shows. that compar-
atively little of this better grade of
foreign seed is coming in. For the
first fifteen days of January the report
states that 74, 700 pounds of seed came
from England, and 22,000 pounds from
Germany, making‘a'total of only 96,700
pounds of a total of 2,035,000 pounds
imported during this fifteen-day pe-
riod, or less than one-twentieth of the
total. According to this report about
1,750,000 pounds came from France,
54,000 pounds from‘Italy, and 91,000
pounds from Chill during the first fif-
teen days in January.

In view 'of these facts, and the
further fact that results of experiment-
al trials in this country in various
states indicate that our own seed (Pan
be expected to give better results than
any of this imported seed, and the
fact that the great bulk of this foreign
seed has been indicated to be prac-
tically worthless in our latitude: it
stands Michigan farmers in hand to
secure their seed from a reliable
source, getting Michigan-grown seed if
possible, or seed from some known
northern section from a source of un-
doubted reliability if Michigan-grown
seed is not readily available.

Michigan had a fairly good crop of
clover seed and farmers who get busy
at once should be able to fill their re-
quirements with the local product.
There is every reason for taking early
action in the securing of clover seed
for next spring’s sowing. The present
price is not excessive considering the
country’s short crop in 1923. The prob-
abilities are that the price will grow
stronger instead of weaker, particu-
larly for good-grades of seed, but in
any event this is a particularly poor
time to buy a. cheap grade of seed.
This is always poor policy, but even
poorer this year than usual for the
above named reasons.

There is every reason to believe
that these heavy importations of for-
eign seed will continue, due to the
need of an outside market by Euro-
pean farmers and the profit which im-
porters can make from it. It is only
by early purchases of clover and al-
falfa seed from the most reliable
sources that Michigan farmers can be
sure of getting a quality of seed best
adapted to their use and avoid the
danger of possible serious loss through
the sowing of seed containing a heavy
mixture of this imported stock.

1',

HAS BOX FOR SACKING GRAIN.

 

HE accompanying sketch of a box

which I have drawn Will, if built
according to measurements, hold one
bushel of-the small grains. The dimen-
sions for a box that will hold half a.
bushel are ten inches square on the
bottom and ten and three-quarters

 

 

 

inches deep, inside measurements.
To sack grain with this device is a

real pleasure after sacking with the

ordinary steel bushel measure.

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can hold your sack under the and and
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CCORDING to the best authorities,
' - the recent order of the Interstate
~ ~Commerce Commission, abolishing one
of the freight rate zones in this state,
will save farmers in thirty- two coun-
ties at'least $500,000 on outgoing and

. der, the zone: System‘still stands but
f" . g has been greatly modified to the ad—
' » vantage of the shippers.’

WILL INCREASE PACKING PLANT
CAPACITY.

MENOMINEE has a packing‘plant
which is of interest to local farm-
ers, and the recent report of the sec-
retary shows that this industry is forg-
ing ahead For example, last year this
.plant pi‘oduced’11'2,000 more pOunds of
sausage than during the previous year,
the aggregate output being close to
1,000,000 pounds. The slaughter of an-
imals at this'establishment amounted
last year to 1,200 head of cattle, 2,000
calves, 3,155 hogs, and 150 sheep.
Over 50,000 pounds of lard were .turn-
ed out, while the ham and bacon prod-
uct amounted to 125,000 pounds. The
farmers and wage-earners serving the
plant received $217,000. The United
States government maintains an in-
spector at the plant. It is stated that
farmers receive Chicago prices for
their stock'; thiis saving freights to the
,3 close-by local market. The establish-
ment‘plans to expand' its facilities in
accordance with the expanding live
stock industry of the section.

 
  
 

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N a survey of 1,200 representative
, farmers by the department of agri-
5 . culture, more than fifty per cent own-
‘ edtube radio sets, employing three or
I" more tubes. More than seventy—five
different makes " of sets were found
among the manufactured sets purchas-
ed, although the bulk were confined to
about fifteen makes, which have been
more or less widely advertised. The
average cost of the manufactured sets
was $172. Comparatively few of the
home-made sets operate crystal receiv-
ers. The average cost of the home-
made tube sets was $83. The survey
was made in practically every state in

‘ the Union.

TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS.

 

IF you are single and support in your

home one or more relatives over
whom you exercise family control, you
are the head of a family and entitled,
in your income—tax return for the year,
1923, to'thee same exemptions granted
a married person. These are $2,500
if the net income was $5,000 or less,
and $2,000 ifxthe net income was more
than $5,000. In addition the head of
a family may claim a $400 credit for
each person dependent upon him for
chief support if such person is under
eighteen years of age .or incapable of
self-support because mentally or» phy-
sically defective.

For example, a son supports in his
home an aged mother and two sisters
{ fourteen and sixteen y'ears of age. His
net income for 1923 was $3,000. He is
i \ entitled to an exemption of $2,500 plus
, J , a $400 credit for each dependent, a.

1» total of $3,700. While he pays” no tax,

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income was in excess of $1,000.
An exemption as the head of a fam-
ily can be claimed by only one member
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l,a:f;._5 . , . The discovery of things which here-
.‘ tofore have been hidden to you, is
_what makes life worth living.

   

Wisconsin farmers used 75,000 tons
t limestone, in 1923,9311! there is a

  

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Essex closed car comforts now cost $1 7 0 less than ever
before. Also with this lowerprice you get an even
more attractiVe Coach body and a six cylinder motor
built'on the principle of the famous Hudson Super-Six.

It continues Essex qualities of economy and reliability,
known to 135,000 owners. It adds a smoothness of
performance which heretofore was exclusively Hud-
son’s. Both cars are alike in all details that count
for long satisfactory service at small operating cost.

Gives Ideal Transportation

You will like the new Essex and its nimble ease of oper-
ation. Gears shift quietly. Steering is like guiding a
bicycle, and care of the car calls for little more than
keeping it lubricated. That, for the most part, is
done with an oil can.

The chassis design lowers the center of gravity, giving
greater comfort andsafety at all speeds, on all roads. You
will be interested in seeing how this is accomplished.

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Greater fuel economy is obtained. The car is lighter,
longer and roomier. You will agree that from the stand-
point of appearance, delightful performance, cost and
reliability, the new Essex provides ideal transportation.

   
   

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Farqurmsw’ Weak at M.

promises to be the most care-
fully studied program yet put on
at the Agricultural College at East Lan-
sing, have been completed. Below are
given the main features of both the
program and ‘the exhibits, except the
women’s schedule, which appears else-
where invthis issue on the Household
Page.
Monday, February 4.

:30 P. M.——-Motion pictures.
:30 P. M.——Music.
8:00 P. M.——Debate, two members of
’Varsity Debating Team.

8'45 P. M.——‘Play. by M. A. 0—. Col-
umbine Players. ,

Tuesday, February 5.

1:30 P. M.—'—-Band concert.
2:00 P. M.-——Address, “The Railroad
and the Farmer,” E. E. Ewing, Traffic
Counsel, Michigan State Farm Bureau.
2:45 P. M.—‘—Address, “Effect of Tu-
berculosis on Live Stock. Marketing
Prices,” H. R. Smith, Live Stock Com-

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missioner, Chicago, 111.

3:30 P. M.——Music.

3:45 P. M.-——Address, “Agricultural
Conditions in the British Isles,” O. E.
Reed, Professor of Dairy Husbandry,

M. A. .

7:00 P. M.——Formal opening of New
Home Economics Building, and recep-
tion by M. A. C. faculty.

Wednesday, February 6.

1: 30 P. ‘ M.,—Band concert.
2:00 P. M.——Address, “Increased
Market Prices Through Standardize-
tion of Grades,” W. C. Hartman, D1-
rector, Bureau of Foods and Standards,
Michigan Department of Agriculture.

2:45 P. M.——Address, “Effect of De-
pendable Seed on Agriculture,” J. W.
Nicholson, Manager Seed Department,
Michigan State Farm Bureau. s

3:30 P. M.—Music.

3:45 P. M.—Address,' “Influence of
Social Life on the Future of Agricul-
ture,” L. J. Tabor, Master National
Grange, Columbus, Ohio.

7:30 P. M.—-Basket ball game,M. A.
C. vs. University of Michigan,.(300
seats have. been reserved and Will be
sold-to Farmers’ Week visitors at gen-
eral admission prices). .

7:30 P. M.—A four-act comedy Will
be given by the College Dramatic Club
in the Home Economics Building for
those who do not attend the game.

ThurSday, February 7.

1:00 P. M.——Michigan Agricultural
College parade.

1:30 P. M.——Band concert.

2:00 P. M.——Address, “Problems of
Successful Agriculture,” Eugene Dav-
enport, former Dean of Agriculture,
University of Illinois, Woodland, Mich.

2:45 P. M.—Address, “Cooperation
in Our Future Agriculture.” J. T. Hor-
ner, Associate Professor of Economics,
M. A. G.

3:30 P. M.—Music. .

3:45 P. M.—Address, . “Marketing
Opportunities for Michigan Farmers,”
Verne Branch, Director of Mun1c1pa1
Markets, Detroit, Mich.

6:30 P. M.—Motion pictures.

7:30 P. M.—Address, “The Future of
Agriculture,” Dr. Robert S. Shaw, Act-
ing President, Michigan Agricultural
College.

8215 P. M.——Music.

8:30 P. M.——Address, “Germs— What
They Can Do to Us and For Us,” Dr.
Hugh Cabot, Dean of School of Medi-
cine, University of Michigan.

 

FEATURES FOR FARMERS’ WEEK.

 

(Pavilion, Agricultural Building).

Monday—Sale of Holstein—Friesian
cattle. .

TuesdayflLive stock judging contest
at eight d’clock, open to the general
public. Awards will be made to the
winners. .

1:00 P. M.——Judging conference led
by William Moscrip, famous Holstein
judge. .

Wednesday, 8:00 A._ M.——Judging
contest open to the public.

Thursday-High school students’
judging contests in live stock, grain
and horticulture.

Friday—Shorthorn cattle show and

sale. .
ASSOCIATIONAL MEETINGS.

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HE number-after the name of each
association indicates the room in
the Agricultural. Building, or other
building where sessions are to be held.

Farm Bureau, Thursday, Room 402.
Crop Improvement, Wednesday and
Thursday, Gymnasium.

Breediam’ and Feeders’, Tuesday,
Gymnas um.
Sheep Breeders’. and Feeders, Wode-

nesday, in 111.

 

It . Feiéltllrés .' of til 6

ETAILED arrangements for. what I

  

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Oxford Sheep. *
Shorthorn Breeders, Thursday, 3:30,
Room .109. '
0Hereford Breeders, Tuesday, Room

Aberdeen Angus, Tuesday, Room
102

Jersey Cattle, Tuesday, Room 110.
Ayrshire Breeders.
4012-Iolstein-Friesian,

’ Swine Breeders, MOnday, Room 402.’ -

Duroc Jersey, Monday, Room 213.
Poland China, Monday, Room 402.
logismpshire Swine,‘ Monday, Room

Chester White, Monday, Room 207.
10SHorse Breeders, Wednesday, Room
OPotato Producers, Tuesday, Room

Soils, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs-
day, Room 207; Friday, Room 206.

Muck Farmers, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, Room 206.

Poultry, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, Poultry Building.

Press, Thursday, 1:00 P. M., Room
207; Friday, Room 207.

Economics, Friday, Room 109.

State Nurserymen, Wednesday and
Thursday.

County Agents, Monday, Room 206.

Home‘ Demonstration, Friday, Home
Economics Building.

Boys ’and Girls’ Club. Friday, Agri-
cultural Building.
High School

Pavilion.
Holstein Sale, Monday, Pavilion.
Shorthorn Sale, Friday, Pavilion.
Judging Contest, Tuesday and Wed—

nesday, Pavilion.
Housewives' Congress,

Home Economics Building.
Military Exhibitions, Tuesday, Wed—

nesday, Thursday and Friday, Home

Economics Building.

0. I. C. Swine, Monday, Room 111.-
Brown Swiss, Tuesday, Room 1,

Dairy Building.

County Y. M. C. A., Monday, Tues-

day and \Vednesday, Room 101.
Spotted Poland China, Monday,

Room 110.

Contests, Thursday,

Tuesday,

EXHIBITS.

 

Central Michigan Rabbit Association.

Blue Ribbon Poultry Show.

Michigan Crop Improvement Grain
and Potato Show.

Horticultural Show.

Engineering Exhibits.

Military Demonstrations and'Parade;

POTATO PRODUCERS’ MEETING.

 

HE following is the program of the

Potato Producers’ Association, to
be held in Rom 109, Main Agricultural
Building, February : i

Thomas H. Buell, Chairman.

Potato Market Requirements, by G.
V. Branch, Director Municipal Market,
Detroit, Michigan. '

“Lessons Learned from Market Re-
ports," by R. H. Shoemaker, Bureau
of Markets, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“Standardization,” by W Hart-
man, Director, Bureau of Foods and
Standards, Department of Agriculture,
Lansing, Michigan.

“Results of Investigations Made on
Potato Markets,” by Dr. J. T. Homer,
Economics Department, M. A. C.

“The Quality Factor in Cooperative
Potato Marketing,” by M. J. Wager,
Sales Manager, Michigan Potato Grow-
ers’ Exchange, Cadillac, Michigan.

“The Producer’s Problem,” by H. «C.
Moore, Potato Specialist, M. A. C.

_ This meeting is not- the annual meet-
ing of the Michigan Potato Producers’
Association.

GRANGE OPPOSES SALES TAX.

 

R. A. M. LOOMIS, representing

the National Grange, spoke in op-
position to a sales tax and any reduc-
tion in surtaxes, and urged the repeal
of the War tax on telephone messages.
He favored amending the income tax
law to provide tor the taxing of stock
dividends, and an amendment to the
Constitution forbidding the issuance of
tax-exempt securities.

S'anieness makes life monontonous.
Vary your interests and you will add
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Red Polled Breeders, Tuesday, Room
1guernsey Cattle, Tuesday, Room

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From

sichigan‘ to Boston
A National Grange T our in 1924 Under Ampzcer

oft/1e" “Mic/agar: Automaéi/e T ours”
By J. H. Brown

/URING the 1923 tour to washing-
\ton we were repeatedly urged to
conduct a special tour for the
National Grange. National Master S.
J.‘Lowell, Editor. Charles M.- Gardner,
of the National .Grange Monthly, and

the masters of several state granges,

especially Harry A. Caton, of Ohio
‘State Grange, asked us to make the

‘ 1924 tour one in which the grange

could have an official part and call it
a National Grange Tour.

After thinking the matter over we
decided to lay out the route for the
sixth annual “Michigan Automobile
Tours” over an entirely different sec-
tion of the country, going by way of
New York City and Boston, and thus
make an ideal tour route that the

/ grange could utilize in the most prac-

tical and profitable manner. And so
we have laid out an 1,800-mile route,
over paved roads all the. way, outside

rangement we have made so the tour-
ists can spend two full days sight-see-
ing in New York ity and sleep in
their own beds in and around their
cars each night. It is but twenty- four

‘. miles from Tarrytown to Old Trinity

Church on lower Broadway,and the
fare is but a few cents each way on
the suburban cars. It will make a
fine and economical plan to see the
big city and have no hotel bills to
pay. We have already made contracts
for special rates for boat trips, sight-
seeing. cars, etc., in New York and
Boston.

Next day. drive by way of Danbury,
Waterbury and Hartford, to Spring-
field, Massachusetts. The National
Grange, the granges of New England,
and the Springfield city officials and
chamber of commerce, will give us a
splendid reception, with bandsmfire-
works, and a fine program all day. So

 

 

 

 

A Group of the 1923 Michigan Farmer Tourists on the Lawn at Mt. Vernon.

of Michigan, and a portion of the On-
tario road, to take three weeks and
twodays’ time during the month of
August.

The Michigan Automobile Tours 1924‘

caravan will gather at the Horton
Farm, at Fruit Ridge, 911. Thursday,
August 7. It looks as though there
would be cars enough registered long
before spring. to make up the limit of
three divisions. Over fifty Michigan
cars are registered to date, many of
the owners having been in the Wash-
ington tour last August, and some
have been with us every year. We
have promised Harry A. Caton, Master
of_ Ohio State Grange, to accept fifty
cars from that state. There Were
twenty-seven Ohio cars in the tour last
year, and Master Caton was with us

, all the way. He has referredto these

tours in his annual address to the Ohio

State Grange, and has asked us to '

allow a goodly portion of the evening
camp fire programs to be devoted to
grange interests.

-We have promised to register a few
cars from Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Jersey, New York,‘Connecticut
and Massachusetts. Owners of cars in
those states will join the tour at the
nearestlcamp and will accompany us
on the return to Niagara Falls, and
some will come through Ontario to De-
troit and attend the State Fair.

The tour route we have decided up-

on is by way of, and with camps at,
Elyria, Ohio; Ashtabula, Ohio; Fre-

' denia, New York, Olean, Empire, Lib-

erty, New York, all single night camps.

‘Atlantic.

stop over two nights.

Next day drive to Newburgh on the!
:‘hudson and stop for noon lunch That’
" has been made public

we have arranged to stop over two
nights in this city. Next day drive to
Boston and camp out for four nights.
Spend one big day in a steamship ride
over one hundred miles out into the
One day to Plymouth Rock.
The last day seeing the historical
places in and around Boston.

Return by way of and camp at
Greenfield, Massachusetts,‘ reaching
Saratoga Springs the next day and
Take the day
for side trips to Lake George, Mt. Mc-
Gregor, and to visit the mineral
springs.

Next day drive to Syracuse, follow—
ing day to Niagara. Falls and stop over
one day, Then on to London, Ontario,
Port Huron and Detroit.

Those who wish to plan for taking
the 1924 tour should send in their ap-
plication and car registration fee of
$5.00 and mke sure of having aplace
in the caravan. The electric light
plant and" official baggage cars will ac-
company the caravan the same as dur-
ing the last five years. The tourists’
heavy tents and bedding is carried
free of charge on the baggage cars
Write the tour manager at Battle
Creek.

LOOKING AHEAD.

 

ONTONAGON. county is already
thinking about the 1924 Michigan
Apple Show, and the county agent,
Mr. W. N. Clark, is making prepara-
tion for an even larger 'entry of local
apples than that which took numerous
prizes at Grand Rapids the past yea1.
The list Of winners at the 1923 show

 

We wonder where they get all the

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Years of
Service

On March 15, 1917“, Delco-Light Plant 12652 was
started on a life test. It has now been in operation,
under full load, over 24,000 hours. Estimating 10
hours per week battery charging for average farm
requirements, this Plant has given the equivalent of
over forty- six years of average farm service.

During all this Time

This Plant has been overhauled

but twice.

On only four occasions were minor
repairs and adjustments made.

‘ The total cost of labor and parts
amounts to but $82.36.

The average cost of maintenance,
excluding .fuel and oil, has been
approximately $1.80 per year.

The actual experience of this Plant, backed by the
experience of over 225, 000 users, has proved that the
owner of a Delco-Light Plant has but little need for
parts and service. Yet the purchaser of a Delco-Light
Plant has at his command the services of the largest
and, most successful organization of its kind in the
world. Modernize YOUR farm with electric light
and power supplied by the Delco-Light Plant. See
your local Delco-Light dealer.

Buy Delco-Light Now!

DELCOQLIGHT COMPANY
DAYTON, OHIO

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General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
l8 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
212 N. Erie St., Toledo, Ohio

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Please send the Demo-Light catalog new
prices and details of easy payment 1) an.

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Pringle-Mathews Co.
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Fertilizer must be “cured”

a Great bins of Royster Fertilizer "cure"
or "age" . for months so that your
results from its' use will smell the
earnings from your land.

ERHAPS yOu didn't know that fertilizer should

be “cured." Such ”details" as this represent the
difference between Royster's Fertilizer and less
carefully prepared foods——and the difference between
profitable crops and crops that are not so profitable.

To keep vast quantities of fertilizer for months
represents an enormous supply and a tremendous

capital. Therefore, only a large company like
Royster's can offer this more effective ”cured"
fertilizer.

Rid yourself of the idea that all fertilizer is alike.
This is no more true than that all land is alike. The
truth of this’can be proven—~not alone by the enthu-
siastic praise .of successful farmers who have used
Royster's, but by your own experience.

Crow better and larger crops by using fertilizer
that has been "cured"—that is free from lumps—~—
that has been proven chemically correct—and that
has established a record for good works over a long

period of years. Look for the name "ROYSTER"
on the bags.

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Toledo, Ohio

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
as of December 31, 1923

Cash in Banks and Office ................................ $309,271.06
Municipal Bonds ............. ' ................. ‘ ........... 28,947.45
Building and Real Estate ............................... 27,727.44
Furniture and Equipment ................................ 12,000.00
Salvage ................................................ 9,350.00
Accounts Receivable ............................... . ..... 6,662.25
Accrued Interest ....................................... 3,725.35
Total. Assets .......................... . .................. $407,683.55
Total Assets, December 31, 1921. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . .$137,392.51
Total Assets, December 31, 1922 .......................... 226,499.45
Total Assets, December 31, 1923 .......................... 407,683.55

During the year 1923 the assets of the company increased $181,-
184.10.

The total claims paid for the year 1923 amounted to $402,422.11.
The total claims paid since organization amount to $1,664,120.10.

The company made a state-wide record for the. year 1923, writing
and renewing 46,050 policies. With a state-wide organization to write
insurance and adjust claims the company is prepared to continue to
give efficient service for 1924. No automobile owner should drive a
day without insurance. Select a well established company that is pre-
pared to stand the test of the serious claims and that has had experi-
ence in handling the complicated automobile claims.

Ask any sales agency and they will name you the agent for this
company. The rate is very reasonable and you can obtain any kind
of policy that you may desire to meet your needs.
morrow may be too late. Write

’Citizens’ Mutual Automobile Insurance .1;

, Company . _
Well, Michigan

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UTTING' cost of producing good
C sugar beets was the main issue
running through the ’ excellent
program put on by the M. A. C. and
the Federal Department of Agriculture
at East Lansing last week for sugar
beet growers and factory field men.
There was an unexpectedly large at-
tendance and the sessions showed a
wonderfully fine spirit of cooperation

and the beet interests of the state.

Beets have, according to the best in-
formation obtainable, given the high-
est acreage returns of any other Mich-
igan farm crop this past year, and the
manufactured products are used in
such volume that the American people
are required to import one—quarter of
their supplies. These twb reasons, in
the opinion of Professor Cox, of the
farm crops department of the college,
should make this a crop, the acreage
of which should be expanded in this
state to, at least, twice its present
magnitude; and, to this end, we should
not permit a small group of ill-starred
men to keep our agriculture from ben—
efiting thereby.

Adam Krauss, of Bay county, pre-
sented figures showing the result of

* drilling beets different distances apart.

The tests were made by planting one
acre each eighteen, twenty, tWenty—two
and twenty-four inches apart upon the
same type of ground, with the same
preparation, fertilization, seed and cul-
tivation. One-half of each acre Was
harvested before a rain, and the other
half after. The crop from each acre
was carefully computed, both as to
weight and the character of the beef
for sugar production.

Here are the results: The acre
planted eighteen inches apart produc-
ed nine tons and 368 pounds. The

HOUSANDS of bushels of pota-

toes are lost to Michigan farm-

ers every year, due to two dis-
eases which occur frequentlyand are
preventable with proper precautions,
according to J. -E. Kotila, research
botanist on the staff of the Michigan
Agricultural College Experiment Sta-
tion.

These diseases are chilling injury,
or “field frost,” as it is sometimes call-
ed, and breakdown. The first of these
two diseases is caused by slight chill-
ing of the potatoes after they are dug
from the ground or are in storage or
transit: Potatoes subjected for periods
as small as three or four hours, ac-
cording to Mr. Kotila, at temperatures
near the freezing point of water, thir-
ty-two degrees,-are affected. Often the
tubers are normal to 98 external ap—
pearances, but when cut open show
brown or grayish—black areas in the
flesh of the stem end, about an eighth
of an inch beneath the skin, the fieSh
being somewhat withered at these
places. Others show a blackening in
the interior part of the flesh, which
may extend for a considerable distance
into the tuber from the stem end.
. When cooked, such tubers, instead of
being white and mealy, are blackened
and soggy, much to the chagrin of the
- housewife.

“Breakdown of potatoes may be of
two [types-the one a superficial dying
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flesh. The surface breakdown of pota-
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beets tested 18.5 per cent and had a
purity coefficient» of 87.3. " K

On the acre where the rows were
twenty inches apart, the production
was ten tons and 836 pounds, the test
18.8 and the purity coefficient 89.-

The twenty-two-inch rows gave a.
crop weighing eleven tons and .330
pounds, a test of 19.3 and a. purity co-
efficient of 89.1. v i

Where the rows were twenty-four
inches apart the acre produced ten
tons and 1,097 pounds, the test was
18.7 and the purity‘lco-eflicienti887

Mr. Krauss also gave figures on the»

cost per acre for growing a forty-acre
field. The items took into considera-
tion all the direct expenses of prepar-
ing the land, cost of seed and fertil-
iZer, cultivation, harvesting, hauling,
investment, managerial

work, etc. The books at the end of

'the season showed that each acre of

this forty acres cost just $65.83.

In storing beets it was shown that
circular flat-topped piles lose less in
weight and sugar content than do long
ricks. Experiments also show that
where the beets are improperly topped
the respiration is greater and, conse-

quently, the loss of sugar is higher ,

appearance after the tubers havebéen,

than with beets having all the green
part removed. ' ,

If the average beet tonnage of eight'
tons per acre for the state was raised
to ten tons, the production of the crop
would be placed upon a far more fav-
orable economic basis.

Seventyfive per cent of the beet
crop of the state is grown in the ten
counties where the largest investment
has been made in drainage. Adequate
tile drainage, according to the esti-
mate of growers will increase the ton-
nage on the average beet land from
two to three tons per acre.

Air Your Potatoes . .
Succerrful Storage Depend/r M uc/z Upon Good Vnti/ation
’ By Benj. V. Halstead

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slightly sunken, round or irregularly-
shaped spots varying in size from one-
sixteenth to three—fourths of an inch
in diameter. ‘The borders of the spots
have a bulish or gun-metal hue. Upon
cutting these sunken spots with a
knife, it is found that they are only
skin, no rotting has progressed into
brown layer of deadcells beneath the
skin, no rotting has porgressed into
the tuber. This surface breakdown is
the so~calléd “Buttonrot” of the trade,
but it is not a true rot of the tuber.

“The pitting of the tubers becomes
more pronounced as the season ad-
vances, and with the coming of warm
weatherlin the spring the most severe
symptoms of breakdown are seen.
Many tubers are found ,to be soft and
mushy, and others, when cut open,
Show black centers, a 00ndition known
as “blackheartfiz Blackheart often oc-
curs in refrigerator car shipments or
in shipments where stoves cause over-
heating of the tubers.’ It is common
with pitted potatoes when the spring
weather is excessively warm.

“The enormous loss caused by
breakdown each year can be prevents
ed by giving more attention to ventila-
tion in the construction of new potato
storage houses or by remedying the
defects of those already constructed.
The following recommendations are
made:

, 1. Provide each potato cellar or stor-
age house with inlets for fresh air and
outlets [or foul air.

2. , Provide false floors and walls for.
the. bins. . , .

" 3. Provide air spaces between mas. ‘

4. Never'store' potatoes in we: we
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HE government marketing cor-

pOration "‘propbsit‘ion advocated

by. Secretary mt Agriculture
Wallace, is now before congress in the
form of a bill' introduced by Senator
Charles L. McNary, of Oregon. It pro-
vides fonthe marketing of our surplus
wheat and other farm‘products abroad
through government agencies, with the
home market effectively protected ‘-by
a tariff. '

Two organizations are created under
the bill, the agricultural eXport com-
mission and 'the agriCultfiral export
corporation. The commission is a sup-
ervisory body representing the produc-
ers and consumers. It will consist of
eight members, the secretary of agri-
culture, commerce and treasury, chair-
man of the federal tariff commission,
and four members to be known as com-
missioners. The appointment of com-
missioners will be by the President
with the consent of the senate. The
administrative commissioner and man-
aging director of the export corpora-
tion will be nominated by the secre-
tary of agriculture.

The agricultural export corporation
will be the business agency composed.
of five members, the secretaries of ag-
riculture and commerce, and three di-
rectors, managing director and one
other to be nominated by the secretary '
of agriculture and one by-the secretary
of‘ commerce, but appointed by the
President. Each director will receive
$10,000 a year salary, and the life of
the corporation is limited to ten years.
It is capitalized at $200,000,000 to be
advanced from the federal treasury,
as needed, but returned;

The corporation is given authority
to buy and sell here and abroad, and
to enter into all necessary business re-
lations. The. corporation and tariff
board are given authority to recom—
mend to the‘President, and he may de-
clare an increase in duty, or even an
embargo, on the commodities efiected
by the bill in order to maintain a rela-
tive price level equal‘ to, but not high-
er than the ten-year average price per
unit which prevailed during the pre-
war period of 1905—1914 inclusive. In
an emergency the President, upon rec-
ommendation, may direct the corpora-
tion to segregate the exportable sur-
plus. »

To cover the loss sustained in buy-,
ing wheat on the protected higher do-
mestic market and selling it on the
lower world market, the corporation
is empowered to issue scrip stamps
which Will be purchased by all who
buy the commodities. of the farmers
and which will be paid them as repre-
senting their face value

The corporation is authorized to re-
deem these stamps at the end of the
year when it has been determined how
much their intrinsic value is, which
is based upon what has been the rela-
tion between the total crop, that ex-
ported, the domestic price ,and the

AdmmntwtrmBz/lthv Before Cohgiim Providesfir
, Marfiéfiizg OahSurpzu: Product; Ahead

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world price. The commission will de-
termine in cooperation with the de-
partment of agriculture, the export-
able surplus, and this will govern the
total purchased by the corporation in
any one year. ' ‘

It is intended to make purchases on
a monthly basis and at a price which
will give the community a price in line
with the monthly average during a.
corresponding monthly period fer the
1905-1914 period. Should the domestic
price fail to respond to within ten per
cent above or below the desired level
the corporation may buy future month-
ly. quotas or sell in the domestic
market.

This bill has the support of the
American Wheat Growers’ Associated,
Incorporated, and the department of
agriculture, and assurances are given
that it will have the backing of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The federation is querying the state
farm bureaus as to their position upon
the Wallace—McNary bill.

 

WOULD CONTROL TRANSPORTA-
TION.

A GIGANTIC scheme for ‘federal
control of transportation is con—
tained in a bill by Senator Norris, of
Nebraska. This bill provides for the
creation of a government corporation
empowered to operate railroads and
ships, buy up coal properties, and con-
struct power plants. The corporation
would be known as the Federal Trans-
portation Company. It would have au-
thority to construct or purchase rail-
roads connecting Atlantic and- Pacific
ports, the Great Lakes and Gulf of
Mexico by a network of lines sufficient
to give it control of rates.

Control of: the corporation would be
vested in a board of five directors at
a salary of $20,000 each per year, Who
would be removable by concurrent res-
olution of congress.

Cost of developing the system is to
be met by issues of bonds by the sec-
retary of the treasury not to exceed
$5,000,000,000, at [an interest rate not
exceeding four and one~half per cent.

GRAPE SHIPMENTS LESS THAN
LAST YEAR.

REPORTS made public show that

the shipment by,~—the SouthernK

Michigan Grape Association the past
fall was 681 cars of grapes, which
brought the growers $418,564. This
was a big falling off from last year
when the association sold 1,194 cars
which brought $818,963. The associa-
tion during the past year did business
amounting to $100,000 in the handling
,of supplies for the 500 members. The
board of directors have named as offi—
cers for the coming year, George Dun-
ham, president; H. L. Sutton, vice-
president, and O. B. Wheeler, secre-
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ORDERLY EXPORTING OF APPLEBJ
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- IGHTY-FOU-R per cent of the ap-
ples reaching the English markets
are sold through auction houses. ac-

agricultural Commissioner at London,,
who is now in Washington.‘ The chief
distributing markets are London, Liv-
erpool. Southampton and Glasgow.

criminate against American apples in
England. says Mr. Foley. The chief
trouble comes from gluttlng the mar-
kets. He thinks that if American ship-
pers sent a third less apples in an
even flow they would get as much
money as they now receive by the

. present fluctuating shipments.

The northwestern box apples are
preferred by most dealers, because
they are less liable to get “stuck" than
when buying fruit in barrels. The
eastern fruit belt is not up to the
northwestern in packing and grading,
and enough poor stuff reaches the

‘market to make the English buyers

suspicious of all eastern fruit. But the
chief hindrance to developing a large
British trade is the fluctuations of
shipments.

The English consumers prefer a
small hard apple that will give them
the most for their money. The best
apple grown in England is the Cox
plppin, which is a small hard apple'
and sets the public standard for all
apples. Among eastern varieties, the
Baldwins and Kings are popular, but
the tendency is to regard apples as
apples, regardless-“ variety.

Mr. Foley thinks the great need—of
American apple shippers is a market-
ing system which will enable them to
market their apples in an even flow
during the season when American ap-
ples are indemand in the British mar-
kets. With proper distribution and a
better understanding of the tastes and
requirements of the British consum-
ing public the sale of American apples
in England could undoubtedly be in-
creased to a considerable extent.

 

SNOW TOO DRY FOR LUMBERING.

 

N Ishpeming report states that log-
ging operations in that district are
hampered by the dryness of the snow,
which was very late in coming, which
prevents its packing well. Labor is
plentiful but heavy draught-horsesare
scarce. There are said to be thirty
to fifty small jobbers between Ishpemi
ing and Michigamme, getting out pulp-
wood and mine-timber as well as saw-
timber, some of whom are supplying
the mills at Iron Mountain and L’Anse.

WHEAT ACREAGE NEARLY NOR-
MAL. 3

 

HE last crop report of the, State

that winter wheat in the Upper Penin-
sula has an acreage which is ninety-
eight per cent of last year’s crop and
a condition of ninety-two per cent.
Taking the acreage per cent for the
counties for 'which reports are given,
We have the following: Chippewa, 92;
Delta, 99; Hougton, 92; Iron, 109;
Luce, 104; Mackinac, 99; Menominee,
82; Ontonagon, 129; Schoolcraft, 99.
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going to find out about this. I can}:
get a maclflne at Tabernacle to take
me over the range; it may save me
time in catching a tnain at Dewar.
There’s some fraud, Ba’tiste. I know
wit—and I’ll prove it if I can get back
to Boston. We’ll stop by the cottage
down here and see Miss Jierdon; then
I’m gone!"
‘ “She no there. She, what-you-say,
. smash up ’quaintance with Medaine.
She ask to go there and stay day or
two.” .
f‘Then she’ll straighten things out,
Ba’tiste. I’m glad of it. She knows
the truth about this whole thing—eve-
ry step of the way. Will you tell her?”

“Oui. Ba’teese tell her—«about the
flume and M’sieu Thayer, what he say.
But Ba’teese—J”

‘GWMt?”

The trapper was silent a moment. At
last:

“You like her, eh?”

“M edaine ?”

“No—the other.”

“A great deal, Ba’teese. She has
meant everything to me; she was my
one friend when I was in trouble.' She
even went on the stand and testified
for me. What were you going to say?”

“Nothing,” came the enigmatical re-
ply. “Ba’teese will wait here. You
go Boston tonight?”

“Yes.”

And that night, in the moonlight, be-
hind the rushing engine of a motOr
car, Barry Houston once more rode
the heights where Mount Taluchen
frowned down from its snowy pin—

‘nacles, where the road was narrow
and the turns sharp, and where the
world beneath was built upon a scale
of miniature. But this time, the drifts
had faded from beside the highway;
nodding flowers showed in the moon-
light; the snow flurries were gone.
Soon the downward grade had come
and after that the straggling little
town of Dominion. Early morning
found Houston in Denver, searching
the train schedules. That night he was
far from the mountains, hurrying half
across the continent in search of the
thing that would give him back his
birthright.

Weazened, wrinkle-faced little Jenk-
ins met him at the office, to stare in
apparent surprise, then to rush for—
ward‘ with well-simulated enthusiasm.

“You’re back, Mr. Houston! I’m so
glad. I didn’t know whether to send
the notice out to you in Colorado, or
wire you. It just came yesterday.”

“The notice? Of what?”

“The M. P. & S, L. call for bids.
You’ve heard about it.”

But Houston shook his head. Jenk-
ins stared.

“I thought you had. The Mountain,
Plains and Salt Lake Railroad. I
thought you knew all about it.”

“The one that’s tunneling Carrow
Peak? I’ve heard about the road, but
I didn’t know they were ready for bids
for the western side of the mountain
yet. Where’s the notice?”

“Right on your desk, sir.”

Abstract-edly, Houston picked it up
and glanced at the specifications—for
railroad ties by the million, for lum-
ber, lathes, station-house material,
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other lumber items that go into the
making of a road. Hastily he scanned
the printed lines, only .at last to place
it despondently in a pocket.

“Millions of dollars,” he murmured.
“Millions—«for somebody! ”

A ND Houston could not help feeling
that it was for the :one man he
hated,.ili‘red Thayer. The specifications
called for freight on board at lthespurs
at Tabernacle, evidently soon to have
cometition in the way of railroad
lines. And Tabernacle meant just one
thing, the output of a mill which could
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“Only one, sir.”
’“one? What!”

“The one you signed, sir, to Thayer
and Blackburn, just a week or so be-
fore you started out west. Donit you
remember, sir; you signed it, together
with a lease for the flume site and
lake?”

“I signed nothing of the sort! ’7.

“But you did, sir. I attested it. iI’ll
show it to you in just a moment, sir
I have the copy right here.”

A minute later, Barry Houston was
staring down at the printed fines of a
copy of the contract and lease which
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point cheaper than any other. The
nearest other camp was either a hun-
dred miles away, on the western side,
or so far removed over the range in
the matter of altitude that the freight
rates would be prohibitive to a cheap-
er bid. Thayer, with his ill-gotten
flume, with his lake, with his right to
denude Barry Houston’s forests at an
insignifiacnt cost, could outbid the oth-
ers. He would land the contract, un-
less——

“Jenkins!” {Heuston’s voice was
sharp, insistent. The weazened man
entered, rubbing his hands. '

“Yes, sir. Right here, Sir”

“What contracts have we in the
files?”

“Several, sir. One for mining tim-
ber stulls, logs, and that sort of thing,
for the Machol Mine at Idaho Springs;
one for the Tramway company in Den-
ver for two thousand ties to be deliv-
ered in June; one for-—”

“I don’t mean that sort.
any stumpage contracts?”

Are there

in the mountains of Colorado. Blan‘kly

he looked toward the servile Jenkins,
awaiting the return of the documents,
then toward the papers. again.

“And I signed these, did I?”

“You certainly did, sir. It was about
five o’clock in the afternoon. I remem-
ber it perfectly.”

“You’re lying!”

“I don’t lie, sir. I attested the sig-
nature and saw you read both con-
tracts. Pardon, sir, but if any one’s
lying, si’r—it s yourself!”

CHAPTER XIII.

EN minutes after that Barry Hous-
ton was alone in his office. Jénk‘
ins was gone, discharged; and Hous-
ton, felt a sort of relief in the knowl-
edge that he had departed. The last
of the Thayer clan, he believed, had
been cleaned out of his organization—
and it was like lightening a burden to
realize it.
That the lease and stumpage con-
tract were fraudulent, BarryyHouston

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Which he was unaware. But would
such a statement hold in court? Hous-
ton learned, a half-hour later, that it
wouldn‘t, as he faced the family attor-
ney, in his big, bleak, old-fashioned
office.

“It’s all right, Barry, for you to tell
me that you didn’t sign it ” came the
edict. “l"d believe yM——because I feel
sure that you wouldn’t lie to me. But
"it would be‘pretty a(Shim stuff to tell to
a jury. There is the contract and the

~ lease in black and white. Both hear

your signature which, you have declar-
ed in the presence at witnesses, to be
genuine. Even when a man signs a

paper while insane, it”: a hard job to ,

pull it back; and We'wuinly wouldn’t
have any witnesses who could swear
that you had lost ym reason."
“Nope,” he concluded, giving the pa-
ipers ,9, hip, as thogh disposing- of the

,whole matter, “somebody has ,just

worked the old sewing-machine racket
on yew—with trimmings. This is an
adaptation of a game that is as old as
the hills—the one where the solicitors
would go up to a farmhouse; sell a
man a sewing-machine or a cream :sep-
arator at a ridiculous figure, let him
sign what he thought was a contract
to pay a certain amount a month for
twelve months—Land then take the
promissory note which he really had
signed down to the bank and discount
it. Instead of a promissory note, they
made this a contract and a lease. And
just to make it good, they had their
confederate, a legalized notary public
put his seal upon it as a witness. You
can’t remember when all this hap-
pened?”

“According to Jenkins—who put the
notary seal on there—the whole thing
was put over about :a week or so be-
fore .I left for the west. .That’s the
date on them too. About that time, I
remember, I had a good many papers
to sign. A lot of legal stuff, if you’ll
remember, came up about father’s es-
tate, in which my signature was mBre
of a form than anything else. I nat-
urally suspected nothing, and in one
or two instances signed without read-
ing :5

“And signed away your birthright—
to this contract and lease. You did it
with no intention of giving your land
and flume and flume site away, that’s
true. If one of the men would be will-
ing to confess to a conspiracy, it would
hold water in court. Otherwise not.
You’ve been bunked, and your signa-
ture is as legal and as binding as
though you had read that contract and
lease-form a hundred times over. So
I don’t see anything to do but to swal-
low your medicine with as little of a
wry face as possible.”

.T was with this ultimatum that

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glad to be out of Boston, glad to be
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Personally, he could not answer the
question, and he longed for the sight
of the shambling little station at, Tab-
ernacle, with Ba’t‘iste, in answer to the
telegram he had sent from Chicago,
awaiting him with the buggy from
camp. A‘n‘d Ba’tiste was there, to
boom at him, to call Golemar’s atten-
tion to the fact that a visit to a phy-
sician in Boston had relieved the ban-
daged arm of all except the slightest
form of a splint, and to literally lift
Houston into the buggy, tossing his
“baggage in after him, then plump in

beside him with excited happiness.

“Boni” he' rumbled. “It is good you
are back. Ba’teese, he was lonely.
Ba’teese, he was so excite’ when he
hear you come. He have good news!”

“About what ?”

, “The railroad. They are near’
through with the tunnel. Now they
shall start upon the main road to Salt
'Lake. And they shall need timbers—t
beaucoup! Ties and beams and mate-
rials! They have ask for bids. Ah,

out. Eet is, what-you-say, the swollen

oha’nce! M’sieu Houston shall bid low-‘

or than—”

“How, Ba’tiste ?" Houston asked the

question with a dullness that caused

the aged trapper to turn almost an-

grily upon him.

“How? Is eet phtty that you are

made of ? Is eet——but no, Ba’teese, he-
-what-you-say, misplace his head. You

think there is no chance, eh? Mebbe

not. Mebbe—~”

“I found a copy of that contract in
our files. The clerk I had in the office
was in the conspiracy. I fired him and
closed everything up there; as far as
a Boston end tothe business is con-
cerned, there is none. But the damage
is done. My lawyer says that there is
not a chance to fight this thing in
court.”

“Ah, oui. I expec' that much. But
Ba’teese he think, mebbe, of another
way. Eh, Golemar?" He shouted to
the dog, trotting, as usual, beside the
buggy.” “Mebbe we have a, what’you’
say, punch of luck.”

Then, silent, he leaned over the
reins. Houston too was quiet, striving
in vain to find a way out of the diffi-
culties that beset him. At the end of
half an hour he looked up in surprise.
They no longer were on the way to the
mill. The road had become rougher,
hillier, and Houston recognized the
stream and the aspen groves which
fringed the highway leading to Ba’-
tiste’s cabin. But the buggy skirted
the cabin, at last to bring into sight a
snug, well-built, pretty little cottage
which Houston knew, instinctively, to
be the home of Medaine Robinette. At
the veranda, Ba’tiste pulled on the
reins and alighted.

“Come,” he ordered quietly.

I‘But__’, ‘

“She have land, and she have a part
of the lake and a flume site.”

Houston hung back.

“Isn’t it a bad bet, Ba’tiste? Have
you talked to her?”

“No—I have not seen her since that
day—-at the flame. She is here—Lost
Wing is at the back of the cabin. We
will talk to her, you and I."

“Very well.” But Houston said it
against his will. He felt, in the first
place, that he would be presuming to
ask it of her—himself a_ stranger
against whom had come the accusa-
tion of murder, hardly denied. Yet,

withal, in a way, he" welconmd the;

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than he could tell: He had gone into
the west, believing, at worst, that he
would be forced to become the general
factotum of his own business. Now he
ifound that there was not even a busi-
ness; his very foundations had been
swept from beneath him, leaving only
the determination, the grim, earnest
resolution to succeed where all was
failure and to fight to victory—but

Fred ,jrm‘yer had ‘sent
Then as; Suddenhope Came: ‘Ba'tiste :
had said that Agnes Jierdonhad be-,
come friendly with her; certainly she? »
had told! the truth and righted the?
wrongs of a milicious treachery. He‘
joined Ba’tiste with a bound. A mo-‘
ment more and the door had opened,
to reveal Medaine, repressed excite;
ment in her eyes, her features a trifle
pale, her hand trembling slightly as
she extended it to Ba’tiste. Houston .,
she received with a bow, forced, he .
thought. They went within, and Ba'- "
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his head, to crush it in the grasp of
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daine,” he announced with a slight
show of embarrassment. “M’sieu Hous-
ton, he have need for a flume site.”

“But I don’t see where I could be of

any assistance. I have no right———”

“Ah! But eet is not for the mo—

ment present. Eet is for the spring-
time.”

HE seemed to hesitate then and
Houston took a sudden resolve. It

might as well be now as later.

“Miss Robinette,” he began, coming

forward, “I realize that all this needs
some explanation. Especially,
halted, “about myself.”

,!

and he

“But is that any of my affair?” Her

old pertness was gone. She seemed
white and frightened, as thought about
to listen to something she would rath-
er not hear. Houston answered her
as best he could:

“That depends upon yourself, Miss

Robinette. Naturally, you wouldn’t
want to have any business dealings
with a man who really was all that
you must believe me to be. It isn’t a
pleasant thing for me to talk about—
I would like to forget it. But in this
case, it has been brought up against
my will. You were present a week
ago when Thayer accused me of mur-
der.”

“Yes.”
“Eet was a big lie!”
“Wait just a minute, Ba’tiste.” Cold

sweat had made its appearance on
Barry Houston’s forehead. “I—I—am
forced to admit that a part of what
he said was true. When I first met
Ba’tiste here, I told him there was a
shadow in my life that I did not like
to take about. He was good enough
to say that he didn’t want to hear it.
I felt that out here, perhaps I would
not be harassed by certain memories
that have been rather hard for me to
bear in the last couple of years. I was
wrong. The thing has come up again,
in worse form than ever and without
giving me a chance to make a denial.
But perhaps you know the whole
story?”

“Your story?” Medaine Robinette

looked at him queerly. “No—~I never
have heard it.”

“Then you’ve heard—”
“Only accusations.”

“Is it fair to believe only one side of

a thing ?”

“Please, Mr. Houston,” and she look-

ed at him with a certain note of plead-
“you must remember\that I~well, 'I
didn’t feel that it was any of my busi-
ness. I didn’t know that circum—
stances would throw you at all in my
path.”

“But they have, Miss Robinette. The
land on my side of the creek has been
taken from me by fraud. It is abso-
lutely vital that I use every resource
to try to make my mill what it should
be. It still is impossible for me to ob-
tain lumber, but to get it to the mill
necessitates a flume and rights in the
lake. I've lost that. We’ve been hop« .
ing, Ba’ti‘ste and myself, that we would
be able to induce you to lease us your
portion of the lake and a flume site.
Otherwise, I'm afraid there isn’t much
hope.”

“As I said, that doesn’t become my
property until late‘spring, nearly sum?
mer, in fact.” _ ‘ ’ .

“That is time enough. We are hop-’

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HE Old Testament is the book
for farmers. Its backround and
setting is alm-osli'. wholly rural.

‘ In Leviticus XIX something like thirty

laws are enumerated, nine or ten, of
them appertaining to country life. The
26th of Deuteronomy is the chapter of
curses and blessings, a chapter which
it would profit this generation to read
with frequency. Most of .these delight-
ful blessings and most of the curses
are eduched in terms of live". stock,
trees, soils and crops. “Jehovah will
make thee plenteous for good, in the
fruit of' thy body, and in the fruit of
thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land, which Jehovah

‘ sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Jehovah will open
unto thee his good
treasure the heav-
sens, to give the
,rain of thy land
'in its season, and
,to bless all the
(work of t h y
‘hand: and than
15 h alt lend unto
many nations, and thou shalt not bor-
row.” Over against this is the curse:
“Jehovah will smite thee with con‘
sumption, and with fever, and with in-
flammation, and with fiery heat, and
with the sword, and with blasting and
with mildew; and they shall pursue
thee till thou perish.”

The'emlgrants who were painfully
moving Canaan-ward were now. in the
pioneer stage. They were the forty-
niners of the Bible. Warren H. Wil-
son’s words concerning pioneers in
America are perfectly applicable to the
Israelites: “Their communities were
pioneer communities; their religious
habits were suitable to frontier experi-
ence. Modern men would find much
to condemn in their ways; and they
would find our typical reactions sur-
prising, even wicked. ‘But each con-
forms to type, and obeys economic
necessity.”

 

THOU shalt have no other gods be-

fore me.” The average Bible
reader will think that this was a most
wholesome injunction for that day, but
that it is not required now. However,
it can be asserted that such a. com-

~mandment was never more needed

than at the present time. We Ameri-
cans violate it consistently and con-
tinuously. We bow before the God of
Success, we worship at the shrine of
men, who have madetheir pile, we
rural folk hasten to move to town
where we too can Join with these de-
vout worshipers. Idolatry no longer
is kneeling before an image of silver
and gold, but is far more subtle and
dangerous. It is valuing things more
highly than we value God. It is put-
ting success before duty. Worse than
that, it is using religion as a means of
attaining success. Christ phrased the
first commandment in a. new way:
“Seek ye first the kingdom, and all
these things shall be added unto you.”
The modern revised version is, “Seek
ye first the kingdom of things, and all
righteousness shall be added unto
you." But it does not work. In reg-
ions where the soil‘ is rich, farmers
often accumulate a fair competence,
whereupon they move to toWn, while
a. tenant takes the farm. Some one
has worshiped the wrong god; not the
farmer alone, but the church, - the

schoolmaster, .the rural merchant. If

they had put first values first, if they

had thought of God as friend and mum-
selor, a society might have been built '
ideal for stock-raisin. Mild winters make hei huentir tireueondfloor 11p g00d enough and attraCtive enough

. was wrogégcolummd for any one to live in, and the town-
hastening farmer would have been as

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Southern Maryland Immigration M loner-mus “I'M". modern ears. “The land is mine, ” said

Jehovah. That appears odd, and is

not. William Smith owns the quarter '_

  

section today, sells tomorrow to John

James, Jr. John James, Jr.. dies, and 1
his widow disposes. of the plaCe to

Thomas Thoman, and Thomas sells to

a fellow from the city, who thinks he - .
is going to show the rustics how to g .-
farm it. The generations come and
go. The owner (if forty years ago is
forgotten. Somehow the feeling grows
that the only constant and unchanging
owner is the Almighty. He never signs

 

a deed orpays interest. “The land is .1
mine ” and if that fact had been rec- i’
ognized, and the soil reverently cultl- l
vated and fertilized as a loan from i

God, many dreary chapters in agricul—
ture would never have been written. ’
Liberty H. Bailey wrote a book hap-

pily named, “The Holy Earth.” The 9

earth is holy. From'it is derived life

 

itself.
IF one is looking for genuine neigh- -J '
borliness hereit is: “.And when yo

reap the harvest of your land, thou

shalt not wholly reap the corners of

thy field, neither shalt thou gather the
gleanin'g of thy harvest; thou shalt

leave them for the poor, and for the
sojourner.” The book of Ruth is based

on this beautiful, ancient custom. Ruth i
went out to glean the ungathered cor- l
ners. Like other laws, this can be bet-

ter obeyed in the spirit than in the
strictness of the letter. Ungathered
corners with a modern self-binder

would be few. But there are spiritual
ungathered corners, in every life. The

other day I sat with a group of buslo

ness men and heard them discussing

how to get Arthur Nash, of Cincinnati,

to come and speak in the city. Nash

is working'out the golden rule in his
factory, with astonishing results, and

his employee rise up to call him bless-

ed. The gOlden rule is the ungathered l
corners in New Testament dress. Like- 1
wise I sat in a hotel lobby on New
Year’s Day, 1-924, and overhead several
conversations on how New Year’s eve

was celebrated. “Yes, they carried

some of ’em up stairs about three this
morning.” “Well, I Come through the
celebrations a little soberer than us-

ual, this year.” “Yes, you could have

gone to such a place and seen them
pouring liquor down women’s throats,

and down their " necks and their
sleeves." These folk, though belong-

ing to the same race as those who

wrote Leviticus, were as far from the

spirit of the ungathered corners as i
Jerusalem is from New York.

Q
TJH (HE Hebrews invented one way of
showing good will to the poor and
unfortunate. It was based on the kind “ l
of life which the people then lived.
Apparently it worked. We must be
as inventive in good in our day as they
were in theirs—and ours is much the
harder task. Life is complicated and J
involved to a. degree that would have
bewildered or crazed the man of M08— l
es’ day, and yet we must find a. way
out. If Christianity has the vitality
which we attribute to it, no difficulty r.
is too impossible. The poorare as
numerous now as then, and with less
excuse. “Poverty even in the United
States,” says Professor Ellwood, “is
not only widespread and bitter, but for
miny it is practically hopeless, and
hence. degrading.” ~
Christ boils down the laws of Moses
into loving God with heart, mind and '
strength, and one’s neighbor as one-
self. St. Paul condenses it still fur-
ther and says, “Love is the fulfilling
ofvthe law.” '

 

 

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Q. tell us a story, Uncle Rally,”

begged little Jennie and Jackie

' Rabbit.“ as the climbed upon
Rally Rabbit's knee.

Little Jackie and, Jennie always had
to have a story every time they came
- over to visit Uncle Rally.

“All right, children, but after the
story, you: must be off for home or
- your mother wfll'be scolding me for

keeping you so late,” said Uncle Rolly.
' “Let’s see! I guess I’ll have to tell
the story of little Bobby Rabbit. Once
upon a time,” for that was the way he
started all his stories, “Grandpa Rab-
bit planted a garden. Above all the
, good things this garden contained, he
prized the row of young cabbage plants

. the most. Very carefully he hoed them

every day. .
. “At Grandpa Rabbit’s house there

 

 

“Did You Do It?"

lived four little rabbits, Frankie, Sam—
‘ mie, Sally, and little Bobbie.”
“Was Bobbie littler than I am?” ask-
ed Jackie Rabbit.
“No, he was just about your size,
Jackie,” answered Uncle Rolly. “And
‘ one bright sunny day, he went out to
~ roll his hoop all alone. He rolled it
and relied it without letting ‘it fall
until it rolled right into Grandpa Rab-
bit’s garden beside his row of prize
cabbages.
“ ‘How nice and crisp they look,’ he
thought. He sniffed, ‘My! How good
And he was hungry. He
nibbled first one, then another. Soon
he was clear to the end of the row and
all that was left of Grandpa Rabbit’s
prize cabbages were little stubs.
“ ‘Bo’bbiede, Bobbie, where are you?
Lunch is ready: called Grandma Rab-
bit. But Bobbie couldn’t eat any lunch.
He had eaten so many young cabbage
plants that his little stomach was
. chuck full. .
“ ‘You must be sick, Bobbie," said
Grandma, looking at Bobbie’s untouch-
ed plate. ‘
“ ‘No, Grandma, I just am not hun-
gry,’ answered Bobbie. But Bobbie
' had to take the usual medicine that
Grandma Rabbit gave all sick bunnies.

. “When Grandpa Rabbit came home
that night and found nothing left of
his young “Cabbage plants but little
stubs, he was very angry. By thelit-
tle tracks down the row, 'he knew the
guilty party. ' ‘

“After supper was over, he called

the four little bunnies before him.
With a very stern look that made each
one wish he had always been good, he
said, ‘Someone has eaten all my young
cabbage plants. Did you do it,
Frankie?”

“ ‘No, Grandpa,’ he‘ answered.

.“ ‘Did you do it, Sammie?’ he asked.

“‘No, Grandpa,’ answered Sammie
“ ‘Did you do it?’ he asked. of little
Sally. ‘ .

“‘No, Grandpa,’ she answered very

‘ meekly.

. 3“ ‘Did you do it, Bobbie? he asked
of “the littlest one, who stood at the

’ ,7.i‘:.§nd*of the row, trembling. - . ' .

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sorry,’ 'answered little Bobbie with
tears in his eyes.

“ ‘My little fellow, .I am proudthat
you. have told me the truth,’ said
Grandpa Rabbit. I will not punish you
for this, but see to it that it does not.
happen again. I hope you will always.
be as honest as you have been today."_

“Thank you for the story,” said little.
Jackie, “I’m going to always tell the
truth just as Bobbie Rabbit did,” and.
he skipped off tow‘ards home.

“And so am I,” said Jennie, as she
followed him.

A NOTE FROM AUNT MARTHA.

 

Dear Little Folks: ~ .

Since I wrote you two weeks ago, I
have received malfy nice letters. These
letters are all very neat and show real‘
effort. It pleases me to know you do
your written work carefully. I hope
you will always follow this practice in
your school work.

Many asked to have their letters
printed. I am sorry that we haven’t
space to do this every week.

Anna Harris wants to tell the read-

ers how she manages to have a new'

dress for her doll every time she takes
her out. She said it took so much
cloth, Mother wouldn’t give her any
more and now she makes crepe paper
dresses for her. By this plan she
doesn’t have any washing to do.~—Sin-
cerely, Aunt Martha.

TH E WHITE DESERT.

 

(Continued from page 153).

ing to be able to bid for the railroad
contract. Ibelieve it calls for the first
shipment of ties about June first. That
would give us plenty of time. If we
had your word, we could go ahead, as-
semble the necessary machinery, snake
a certain amount of logs down through
the snow this winter and be in readi-
ness when the right moment came.
Without it, however, we cah hardly
hope for a sufficient supply to carry
us through. And so—”

“You want to know—about heem.
You have Ba’teese’s word———”

"Really—-—” she seemed to be fencing
again.

I—Iouston,.with a. hard pull at his
breath, came directly to the question.

“It’s simply this, Miss Robinette. If
I am guilty of: those things, you don’t
want to have anything to do with me,
and I don’t want you to. But I am
here to tell you that I am not guilty,
and that it all has been a horrible
blunder of circumstance. It is very
true in one sense~—” and his voice low-
ered—“that about two years ago in
Boston; I was arrested and tried for
murder.”

“So Mr. Thayer said.” 3

“I was acquitted—but not for the
reason Thayer gave. They couldn’t
make a case, they failed absolutely to
prove a thing which, had I really been
guilty, should have been a simple mat-
ter. A worthless cousin, Tom, Lang-
don, was the man who was murdered.
They said I did..it with a wooden mal-
let which I had taken from a prize
fight, and which had been used to
hammer on the gong for the beginning
and the end of the rounds. I had been
seen to take it from the fight, and it
was found the next morning beside
Langdon. There was human blood on
it. I, had been the “last person seen
with Langdon. They put two and two
together—and tried to convict me on
circumstantial evidence. But they
couldn’t convince the jury;
free, as I should have done.”
(Continued next week). ‘

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HEN my children first went to
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11:30 and came home for dinner. How-

they used to rush into the kitchen
“hungry as bears ” wash and comb,
and be all ready when their father
arrived.

When we came to the farm to live,
school was too far away, so I packed
their lunches. At first they liked stay-
ing at school during the noon hour.

_But with the season for coats and
caps and mittens, the cold lunches lost
their popularity. A cold lunch may be
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really need something warm.

At first I thought of consulting the
teacner and the other mothers in re-
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busy teacher. I decided to try some-
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It happened that we had thick rice
soup with tomato sauce for supper one
night about that time, and one of the
children watched'me dish it up and
said, “I wish we might have some of
that for our lunch tomorrow.”

“Well, I guess .you might,” I said.
It is one of our favorite soups and is
very nourishing. It is made this way:

Put into a frying pan two table-

spoons of pork gravy, or lard, and
when it melts add one cup of washed
rice.“ Stir until the rice browns then
add four or five raw tomatoes or some
tomato sauce, and set on the edge of
the stove to simmer for an hour. Sea-
son while cooking, with onion, salt and
pepper. If necessary add water.

When I put up the lunches next
morning I put the cold, thick soup in
the bottom of a broad, oblong dinner
pail and (laid the wrapped sandwiches
on top of it. The dessert and fruit
went in last.

At noon the children took out the
other articles and put the soup on the
stove to heat. At night they were
very enthusiastic over their warm
lunch, and I found that I had started
something, for they all wanted to know
what they could take to warm on the
following day. -

Plan Ahead for the School Lunch.’

So I began saving out something
from supper or breakfast, or making
something extra to put in the lunch
pail to be warmed.'Sometimes a small
granite dish of baked beans, some-
times scalloped potatoes, creamed car-
rots or turnips, macaroni and tomato
sauce, stewed meat with vegetables,
mashed potatoes with gravy, or some
of the rice soup.

Every day that winter the children
had something to warm in their school
lunch. On mild days and cold days, in
sunny weather and stormy weather,
when there was a path to follow and
when they had to break their own, the
children went to school. They were
not sick once and never missed a day.

Just how much'the warm lunch had
to do with it I cannot say, but I be-
lieve it helped and they never went
unwillingly to school. And when their
father and I sat down to our own warm
dinner we ate with more relish know-
ing that the children too had a satis-
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rice, oatmeal, and cornmeal'have a

richer flavor when cooked in milk in—

stead of water. Soups, creamed and
scalloped dishes, and souffles offer an
unlimited variety of ways to use milk
with vegetables, Cornstarch, bread,
and tapioca puddings, as well as ice
creams and frozen custards have milk
as a foundatibn. 7

Unusual china may induce the child
to drink milk. One mother persuaded
her daughter to drink milk by serving
it to her in a, “Peter Rabbit” cup. Lat-

‘er she allowed her to pour her own

milk from her miniature pitcher.

Milk drinks may tempt the child
when he dislikessmilk plain. Next time
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will be delighted. To prepare a. milk

drink, put a few drops of flavoring 171‘

a glass, add one to two teaspoonfuls
of sugar, and fill the glass with milk.
Juices from fresh and canned fruits or
chocolate syrup might be used.

Milk drinks may be carried to school
in half~pint milk bottles. To make this

«plan successful, it is advisable for the.

mother to keep a supply of paper milk
caps and straws on hand.

Reflections Of a Farmwife

OW hard it is to awaken and re-
alize that the dream you had is
not a reality? Last night I
dreamed that I went about through the
rural communities and wherever I saw
a. hard-working, discontented woman,
I knew at once she was envious of that
city friend who seemed to have things
so much easier and nicer than she,
and I tried to tell them in my feeble
way ~how appearances are sometimes
deceiving. “All is not gold that glit—
ters,” you know.
To the rural housewife life may
seem hard and the days long, but we

have the quiet, restful surroundings
day and night for which our city
friend is constantly seeking. From one

year’s end to anotherhthere is not that.

ceaseless clanging of the street cars
as they continue to pick up that never-
ending stream of pleasure seekers, go-
ing somewhere, they know not where,
to get away from the noise and dust
which we do not have.

Dust? .I hear you‘ say. Yes, but it

is such a. different dust and we can '

hang that snow White washing on the
line, and take it” down Whiter than
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Farm Homes Lik_e this One is

have compensations 'which our city
friend knows naught of. Many things
the rural housewife has and uses com-
monly that would be considered lux-
uries by our city friends.

What city housewife would not give
a great deal to be able to go into a
store-room like those found in farm
homes which gives up treasures of
health equal in value to those of Al-
ladin’s Cave? Such canned fruits, pre
serves, jellies and pickles cannot be
bought, and many times when we have
seen her dressed up, down town she
has been searching for a substitute
for these treasures. . ,.

What city houSekeeper would not be
envious of the opportuntiyto dip into
that cream can or that egg basket'on
bake-day? Baking—day? 'No, she ord-
ers her baked, goods by telephone and
she and her family eat substitutes.

How many mothers of little ones
would give up most anything to be
able to sit for a few hours under that
beautiful shade tree on our wide, green
lawn, to rest and satisfy that incessant

 

the Envy of Many City“Fo|ks.,

ered with the smoke from the factory.
Our “Fountain of Youth” is found
in our gardens, and at the same time
we 'create the supply of vitamines
needed for the health of our family,
while the city home-maker must resort
to golf and the h'ke to keep in trim.

Then, too, we may think that our in- ‘

comes are small, but did you’ ever
count the cost of milk, cream, eggs,
poultry, fruits and vegetables you use?
With those we sell, together with the
prOduCe hquand sells, exceeds the in-

come of the average city dweller. $250 '

to $300 per month sounds like a nice
sum to us who‘do not get much re
muneration for our labor, but when we
consider that everything has to be
paid for by the city friend, your bount-
iful supply leoks' larger to 11's.‘
Country friend, I know What I say is
true, for I have been the country lady
and I hate been the city friend, and
now I am the country lady again. God
forbid that I shbuld eyer have to live

.anyWhere than in His great, Wide.

open country where I can breathe the
perfume of the orchard and pine trees.

"__ar_1d eat of His fr' 1111 green herbs and 7;

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PARTY.

'1‘ the Valentine Party, hearts,
darts and cupids run riot. In
these, cupids seem to favor pink,
but the appropriate color for the sea.-
son is red.

If you wish to give your guests a.
real “hearty” welcome, festoon the
room _with red cardboard hearts
threaded on cord or ribbon. Hearts
and darts, lovers’ knots, little doves

and cupids in action also have their"

part in decorating for the Valentine
party.

An effective decoration for the cen-
ter of the table is a mail box. It can
be made of a pasteboard box covered
with paper suited to‘ the color scheme.
Streamers lead from this mail box to
“each place at the table. When all are
seated, the streamers are pulled and
there is a surprise at the end, such as
a. small favor, a valentine, or a clever
joke tied in a peanut shell.

An appropriate luncheon may be
served of heart-shaped sandwiches and
dainty cakes held together by darts.
The valentine salad is made by slicing
apples crosswise about one-quarter of
an inch thick, and cutting it heart-
shape. In the center where the core
is removed, place a red cherry. Place
this on a crisp lettuce leaf with a.
tablespoonful of diced pineapple, dot
with mayonnaise and sprinkle with
chopped nuts.

A “heart to heart” hunt for partners
for the evening will help to get the
guests acquainted. Divide small red
hearts of various sizes into two parts,
but divide no two hearts alike. Hide
one part in one room and the other
part in another room. Each girl must
find a. part of the heart in one room
and match it with the part found by
a boy in the other room. These two
are then partners.

An archery contest will cause no
end of fun. Fasten to the wall a large
pasteboard heart with the outer circle
of red, then one of black, then one of
yellow and then one of white in the
center. With a. small bow and arrow,
the guests in turn try their skill at
piercing the heart. For those hitting
it in the red circle it foretells courage
and love; for the black circle, single
blessedness; the yellow circle, extreme
jealousy, and for those whose arrow
strikes the white circle, an early mar-
riage is predicted.

(If you are planning a party and
have questions regarding the entertain-
ment or refreshments, address them to
me and I will be pleased to help you.
Martha Cole).

MAKING SAVVORY SAGE.

 

HE other day while I was going

through the mail at my desk I
continually smelled sage. Where this
odor was coming from puzzled me un-
til I opened a letter from Mrs. W..V.,
of Niles, Michigan.

She says that through a happy in-
spiration she has discovered a short-
cut in pulverizing sage. When the
leaves are thoroughly dry, she puts
them through a food chopper, using
the smallest plate. The year’s supply
can be made in a few minutes and is
then kept in an air-tight can.

The sample Mrs. W. V. sent in was
of such a bright green that I was anx-
ious to find her method of curing. She
says that as soon as picked she
spreads the leaves on papers on the
floor of the store-room. Here the light
is dim, but the ventilation good, and
it dries quickly. ‘She stirs it occasion-
ally‘until dry, and then stores in pa-
per bags to exclude the light until
ground—Martha Cole.

 

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A stove that minds
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The Florence helps you to re-
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MEAT CANNING PROBLEMS.

I am inexperienced in the cold-pack
process of canning. Should, water he
added if the water boils down in the
boiler? How 10mg should beefsteak
be processed?——~Mrs. F. C.

”In the cold pack process of canning,
do not add water to the boiler when
the cans are’in it if the Water be-
comes boiled down. Prevent much of
the steam escaping by fitting the cover
on the boiler as tightly as possible.
Lay a. thin towel or a piece of muslin
over the top of the boiler before plac-
ing on the cover. .

If you can your beefsteak‘raw, it is ‘
necessary to process it three hours.
But if you fry it down, and can it in
its own liquor, one and one-half to two
hours is long enough for the process-
ing period. Cooked meats are not
processed more than two hours. ‘

PROPORTION FOR PIE CRUST.

Will you please tell me how much
lard to use in pie crust, and also send
me a recipe for making dumplings ?-——
Miss E

The following is a good recipe for
rich pie crust:

4% cups flour 4 tsps. salt
1% sups shortening Cold water to moisten

Mix the flour, salt and shortening to-
gether. The fat may be cut in with a.
knife. Add just enough water to make
the particles adhere together. Turn
on a.’ lightly floured board, roll thin,
handling as little as possible. This
makes three two-crust pics of ordinary
size.

For dumplings use two cups of flour,
onehalf teaspoon salt, three-fourths to
one cup milk, or chicken or meat
stock, four teaspoons baking powder.
Sift dry ingredients together and stir
in the milk or stock gradually. Drop
from spoon into hot stock and do not
uncover the dumplings until done.

COOKING ON A PLANK.

I received a new plank platter for
Christmas, but do not know how to
use it. Can you please help me?—
Mrs. A. O.

The plank, which isrusually -of oak,
may be used both as a. cooking utensil
and as a platter for serving food. Us—
ually the food is cooked in the oven,

F illa-Seat in
“boss of the ranch”

HEN the
starts for the Agricultural Col-

lege next Tuesday, don’t let him
go alone. Pack up- the kiddies and
come along, too. There will be spe-
cial programs for the womenfolks as
well as the men folks, and joint ses-
sions together. _

The following is the program of good
things of special interest to the farm
wife that has been lined up for'the
week: ,
Housewives' Congress.
(Auditorium, New Home Economics

‘ , Building): 7

. , . Tuesday, February 5.

950.0 A. M.—Recital by Music De-
partmen't, M.'A. C. ‘

.“Value‘of Salads in the Diet,”—-wlth‘
demonstration—miss Adele Koch, As-

\ sistant State Leader of Extension.

“What"flats Make of Us," Miss Em-
ma ‘ P.“Ga7r1ji§on, Assistant- Professior of
Home Economies- . .- ,. '
“B‘inwcial- Arrangements”. a. .play_'

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or under‘the broiler until nearly done,

and is then placed on the plank and,

reheated in the oven. The food is
served from the plank at the table. In
using planks for cooking, the first step
is to heat it thoroughly in a. hot oven
for about fifteen minutes. Sprinkle the
plank wtlh salt and brush with butter
before placing the food on it. '

b Foods that require less than an hour
for cooking may be entirely ooked on
planks.” Fish and chicken are usually
split before planking. Steak and'chops

are especially good served from the

plank. Steak should be cut from one
and a half to two’inches, thick.

‘ BLOOD SAUSAGE.

Will you please- tell me how to make
blood sausage ?——M. G. -
This is ‘a well recommended propor-
tion for sausage: '
25 lbs. cured fat black or
shoulder {at ~
7 lbs. cured fat skins
6 lbs. blood
116 lb. onions
Cook the fat, which has been cured,
or sweet pickled, for‘ about an hour,
and the skins two hours. Put through
grinder, add thé blood and seasoning,
and mix thoroughly. Stuff into large
beef casings and boil in the same wa-
ter in which the meat was cooked,
until the sausage floats. Dip into cold
water and hang in a. cool place.

lb. salt

oz. sweet pepper
1 oz. sweet major-am
1,4 oz. cloves

 

A BULLETIN TABLE.

U NDER telephone is placed a. small
table. Upon this is placed a. pad

to receive lists of groceries needed, (a,

pencil is fastened to the table), tele
phone messages for the absent ones of
the family, cards of social or business
callers, daily papers, interesting circu-
lars and mail for the absent members.
of the family—Mrs. F. K.

 

HOME;SPUN HINTS.

FTER damp or frosty weather we

found it impossible to raise Our
windows until I hit on the following
plan: I put a. tin box 1x2 inches, di-
rectly under the sash at one end. A
tack held it in place. Now I use any
piece of tin that‘willslightly raise
sash. Knife blade is O. K.

The syrup in pics often cause them
to stick ‘to plate when cold. Try put-
ting them on stove for half a minute.
and you will save pie crust, time and
patience—Mrs. R.

the Congress

partment, M. A. C.

“How to be Wise when One Buys,"
Miss Julia. Tear, Assistant Professor
of Home Economics.»

“Step-saving Suggestions,” Miss Mar-
ion Rogers, Extension Specialist in
Home Management. -

“Arrangement of Furniture and Fur-
nishings,” Miss Winifred Gettemy, As-
soc. Professor of Home Economics.

Thursday, February 7.

9:00 A. M.—-Recital by Music De-
partment, M. A. C. ,

“Ri‘ckets, the Most Universal Dis-
ease of Infancy,r”xDr. Mdrie Dye, As-
soc. Pr'ofessor of Home Economics. ,

“From. Danger' Valley to Safety
Hill,” a. health. play for children.

’ Friday, February 8..

9:00 A. M.——Recital by Music De-V

partment, M. A. C. * , , » .
. f‘EancyWork.” hrs. ‘flért Needle,
We; Miss Eunice Ryan,- Exté " on
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‘ HERE are people so constipated
that they'are never clean. They
have an unclean skin, an un-

clean color, and an unclean odor.

They “pass their days in a condition of

poor health and their lives are soured

and‘ stunted , without their actual

knowledge of the reason. Such people

find constipation'a real curse. A diet

of spinach and other greens would go

- far to sweeten and brighten their lives.

'(7 Far more ‘people are there who are

so obsessed by the fear of constipa-

tion that they never allow the bowels

to perform their normal function. They

must be ‘forever I dosing themselves

with this pill or that salt, perhaps be-

cause of some inordinate fear that na-

ture, in resentment that man no long-

er sways his body on all fours, will

refuse to allow his scavenger system
to function. -

This dread of constipation is decid-
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less good judgment is in control. If
the patient who happens to miss the
daily evacuation of the bowels simply
says, “I must attend to that. I must
drink more Water. I must eat some
fruit, er spinach or head lettuce every
day,” well and good.

But that is not‘ the usual outcome.
Eating fruit or drinking water is too
normal a method of correction to com-
mend itself to the average person as a
remedy for constipation. He must
have something strong (and usually
nasty). A pill or a dose of salts are
the common agents employed and
since one dose calls for another the
taker soon becomes a regular devotee
of the pill habit. Far better for him
to make up his mind that nothing very
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Most Thrilling Experiences

By Context Wmner: ’ _ -.

By. Rena Pater, Hudsom'rille, Mich.

The most thrillingexpefience I ever
had was on a. warm, sunny day last
June.

It was about three o’clock when I
told my brother to get my pony be
cause I wished to go out for a short,
ride.

I had gone about a half mile when
my pony who was thirsty saw a pool
of clear water near the road. ‘He did
not surprise me by walking right up
.to it and ‘taking a drink. I could not
blame him much, because it was very
hot and dry.

A little boy, who was our neighbor,
came walking past, but as I did not
see him, and he being very naughty,
threw a stone at my pony, scaring him

so much that he took one" big jump-

throwing me over his head into the
water. _

When I came once more above the
water I felt very queer having my
face, hands and clothes so full of mud
that I could not see, hear or-think.
But when I came near the bank I
found my pony waiting for me, and the
little boy laughing at me so hard that
he had to hold his stomach to keep
from getting a fit.

As soon as I got home I was cleaned
up and felt much better, though very
much disgusted.

 

By Helen Fritz, Lawrenca, Mich.

One Christmas we had a lot of com-
pany, and among them were some chil-
dren. We had a. large collie dog that
would pull a. sled or anything you
hitched him to.” I was driving him
around on a sled when they got ready
to go home.

They forgot their gifts, so I started
after them I called to them and hol-
lered giddap to the dog. The cars had

, made a. deep track in the snowJ and

the dog insisted on running in“ the
track, and so one runner was up and
the other down. But I‘stayed on the
high Side.

After'a half-mile race I overtook-I

them and made them stop. Then I
said, "I will race you home.” They
went so fast I had to stay by the side
of .the road. My sled hit a Stone and
I fell off and lost my lines. I ran and
laid «down on the sled. The dog turned
such a short corner when going in the
yard that the sled turned bottom side
up. But I hung on and won the race.

 

By Frank R. Kaniarz, Pellston, Mich.

The most thrilling experience I ever
had was in the woods about six miles
away from home. ‘

It was at about twelve o’clock and"

it was a. very dark night to be in the
woods alone.
As I nudged along, catching spider

webs with my face, getting plenty of,

brier Scratches, em?" I heard a rustle
around me, and I looked into two glar-
ing, angry eyes. '

My hair stood up on 'my head, as

the animal approached a step nearer
to me. ‘
g I turned and ran, the animal in pur-
suit, and I continued to run until I
could get a. tree to climb into. To this
I succeeded, for right ahead of me was
a. tree with 10W branches, into which I
ascended like a cannon ball.

I sat down on a branch and looked
down, and there was the animal with
shining eyes still looking up at me.
I fell asleep, not knowing where I was
at dawn, when the sun shone straight
into my eyes;

Remembering the animal, I looked

'down, and there was Pooch—my own

faithful dog.

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

This is the first time I have written
to you. If the waste basket is hungry
this month, I will try, try again till I
succeed. When I WIitc Uncle Flank
it feels like I am writing to my daddy,
as his name is Frank, too.

I am twelve years old, and am in the
fifth grade in school. We have a sew-
ing circle! club in our school, of which
I am a member, too.

I must help my mother now to wash
the dishes, as I am mother’s “Little
Helper.”

So good-bye, from Anna J aarda, R. 3,
Box 82, Holland, Michigan.

I am glad it seems like writing to
your daddy when you write to me. I
bet that mother appreciates the help
her “little helper” gives her.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I am fifteen years old and in the
tenth grade at Ann- Arbor High School.
I like English and‘ algebra. Algebra
is quite hand, but then, what isn’t
these days? I also belong to the man-
dolin and guitar club. We have seven-
teen members now, I think.

A girl, who lives in the city, once -

asked me if I did not get lonesome
over vacation. I do not see how any
girl who loves the faIm can get lone
some. There is so much work, and
then we have so much room to run
and play with our pets

_ We have a. dog and three cats. I
have one cat which is my favorite She
always comes to the house to see me.
The dog does not like her very well,
but he has learned to keep away from,
hen—Your niece, Viola Stein, 1,
Ann Arbor, Michigan.

‘ Everything worth- while is hard.

= Things which come easily are usually

not appreciated. Your dog must have

 

 

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quite a little self-control to get along
with three cats.

 

Dear Uncle‘ Fiank:

But a few hours and we will enter
the year nineteen hundl ed twenty-four.
Yet. I may not let this year pass with-
out thanklng you for the Merry Circle
card and pin received some time ago.

I dare say I was a little proud when
I received that card and pin. Yes, in-
Ought not
one to be proud to be a. member of
such a, circle as this is, with so many
boys and girls who have such talents?

And then, again, my proudness van-
ishes as lightly as it comes, for Why
should I be proud? That there are
members with poetic talent, or com-
pbsers, or artists, or of whatever kind
they may he, wouldn’t do me any good,
only to admire their talent. O, that I
would rank among these brightest.

I wonder if any of you ever visited
Lucas. If any of you ever do visit
here, you will want to stay. It is very
much like the “Grove of Daphn,” we
read of in “Ben Hur,” and that is only
making it very mild.

My hope is very vague that this let-
ter will escape the waste basket but
if, the hope only grows.———Your ece,
Garret Kling, Lucas, Michigan.

Your hope grew to fulfillment with
reference to this letter. ‘I hope it does
with reference to youriyambiti'ons. I
am glad you are proud of.your M. C.
And, too, I am glad you- had M. C.
thoughts at the close of the year.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: .

‘ ce inly enjoy theM 0. letters
anId wou d like very muchto um. I
have no children of my age 0 ass by

 
 
 
 
  

   
 
 
 

I put in. full time playing at school .

noons and recess. In our new consol-
idated school, where there are 257
scholars enrolled, we have glarious

     

times, getting acquainted with some- -

one new every day; We enjoy our new
schoolhouse, have been to entertain-
ments in the auditorium; it Is fine.

I love my music, and take a lesson
every two weeks during school. My
big yellow Kitty sits in my little chair
by me while I practice. Wish you
might all see him. He came here two
years ago, a great big stranger and
has made his home here ever since.
He Is a. real pet. ——Your niece, Clara
Garlnger, Woodland, Mich.

It is fine that you enjoy the new
school so well, and I, am pleased to
know you like music.

parently your cat does also.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:
. I wish to thank you for that flash-
light. I use~it when I go to basketball
games, and say,’lt’s sure better than
stu-bbing your toes over roots and
stones.

I’d like to express my opinion of the

 

 

The Way Frances Butler, Augusta.
Mich., Looked Three Years Ago.

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piesent “political” divisions of the
“Merry Circle” right now.

Why should we elect ofl‘lcers, what‘

good would it do? Why isn’t the
Merry Circle all light as it 18?
course, we want to be progressive but
why not have b1 anch “clubs” with offi-
cers? Have each club send in a re-
port and try on contests together, and
have a general good time at it?

I think it would be nice for us to
send in contributions, which could be
given to the poor.

Well, I’ll have to ring off. -From
Frederick Reynolds, M. C., Waldron,
Michigan.

There really is not much “political.

division” in the M. C. We are just a.
merry bunch together, trying to put
some good into life so that we may
get some good out of it. I like your
branch club plan; it will undoubtedly
be a. development of the future.

 

Dear Uncle Frank.

I have never written to you before,
but I have read the “Letter Box” in
every Michigan Farmer, although I am
not a member- of the Merry Circle.

The pupils In the high school went
to the sugar beet factory at Caro,
Michigan. The sugar beets are sliced,
then ground and put, into a tank and
diluted with water so as to make it a
thin liquid. Then it is boiled so as to
make the water evaporate, and is un-
ally made into white sugar, which is
in lumps. But it is screened and part
of it made into fine granulated sugar.
It is hot when it first comes out, but
it soon cools.

Some of the members of the Merry

'Circle do not like the Waste Paper

Basket, but just think what Uncle
Frank would do without W. B. be-
cause the papers would be all over
the floor.

I would like to have a discussion on
“Women’s Right to Vote.”

We organized our class last year,
and our class motto is "Dig.”

ton,R .Fostofia,M

Your 2sugar factory trip must have
As you say, W. B...
You also hit « ~.
11: right regarding my getting knowl- . _, ~

been interesting.
serves a useful purpose.

   

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Wnine—thirty we start for church.

' , the good, old Gospel hymns.

”host thing to church.

By E. Gertrude Collins, Onaway, Mich.
I think that Sabbath, or Sunday, is

the best day of the week; the one day '

or the week that I look forward to
with pleasure.

It is a day of rest, not only from
work, but from worldly thoughts and
It is a day when weshould
turn our thoughts to "The One from
whom all blessings flow.” Not only
for the short time' we‘ are in church,
but for all of that day. That is what
mother has taught us children was
right. '

I go to Sabbath school and church
in the morning. When we get home
we have dinner, then go for a walk

' m n er brother and sister in ‘ . '
Wlth y you g 'sometimes inconvenient to be present

the woods. Sometimes we take some-
thing to read and sit in the shade of
the trees and quietness of the woods,
and read. At other times we just talk.

Sometimes mother goes with us. In.

the winter we go to church just the
same, but. in the afternoon we sit
around the fire and read a while, then
we go for a brisk walk through the
sharp cool air, then back to our books
and papers again.

 

By Goldie Klelnhardt, M. C., 3452

Hendricks Street, Detroit, Mich.

After the religious part on my Sun-
day program, the day is half gone and
the afternoon is clear. Clear? vWell,
not exactly, as we are sure to have
the afternoon in company entertain-
ing. It is not fully my choice, as I
would rather be alone on Sunday and
enjoy the sweet calmrgass of the day.

Oh! just to be on a farm and hear
the chimes of the bells in the distance,
and use my legs to press upward to-
ward the little brown church on the
hill. That alone would almost tell how
I would like to use my Sundays. The
mornings would be used the same as
in the old program, but the aftennoons
would be entirely different. I would
either use its precious minutes visit-
ing the sick, strol'ling through the
woods to see God’s beautiful nature,
or choose a comfortable little nook in
a quiet corner and read.

 

By E. Lucinda M. Wingate, M. 0.,
Manchester, Michigan.

For me, Sunday is the most pleasant
and enjoyable day of all the week. It
brings a day of activities absolutely
different than any other day. It leaves
behind a week of various occupations
and comes as a sacred day set aside
for rest and attending church.

I find a real joy in attending Sunday
school and church in the forenoon each
Sunday. Again in the afternoon I go
to another place to Sunday school and
church. I frequently attend- church
Sunday nights, but ifI cannot, I spend
my time reading the Sunday school
papers. A few times this winter the
weather was not permissible for at-
tending church, so I was compelled to
stay at home all day.

As for how I would like to use my
Sundays, I could think of no better
way or one more enjoyable. I. have
played ball and other games on Sun-
day, but now I prefer my present meth-

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By, Grace Wilterdink, Holland, Mich.

I rise at an early hour Sunday morn-
ing. After breakfast is over I take
my quarterly and look over the lesson.
When I finish looking -up some Bible
references, I study the golden text. At
Ser-
vices start at ten o’clock, and after
church we have Sunday school. I am
present at both services.

In the first part of the afternoon I
usually read my “What to Do,” a pa-

. per I receive in Sunday school.

During the long winter evenings our
neighbors come over to sing. ,We sing
We all
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"We are unable

‘How I Spend My Sundays

By til: Prtze W Inner:

to attend evening service during the
winter evenings.

Summer evenings I go with our folks
to church. If convenient I attend
Christian Endeavor. Summer after-
noons I walk to a nearby woods. There
are many wild flowers and I enjoy
picking them. Sometimes I take a
book along to read.

We have an orchard about a quarter
of a mile from our house.
I take a walk down there to eat pears
and other fruit. The orchard is on a
high hill. The scenery is beautiful.

If the weather is rainy I write let-
ters or I play the piano.

Living quite far from church it is

at the evening services in the winter.
I would like to be present at God’s
house the whole year around.

This is the way I spend my Sabbath.

(THE SUNDAY CONTEST.

 

I AM glad to see that going to Sun-

day School and church is promi-
nent in the Sunday activities of most
of the Sunday contest writers. Con-
trary to the opinion of many, most of
the writers find these church activities
real enjoyment. The balance of the
day with most is usually spent in
wholesome pleasures, such as going-to
the woods, auto trips, skating, or in
other ways communing with nature,
which is God’s handiwork.

One fellow said he saw a preacher
wrestle with a chair and swear. What
he would have liked to have done was

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go hunting. Another admitted that be
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said he liked Sunday School real well,
but he' (1 rather be a dog than be wash-
ed up for it.

The writers of the first two papers‘

above‘ won fountain pens; the other
two won flashlights. Other prize win-
ners are:

Flashlight.

Thelma McMahon, Beaverton, Mich"
care V. V. Knox

Candy

Rosina Colby, Denton, Mich.

Hugo Hallstrom, Eben Junction,
Mich.
William Conner, Ypsilanti, Mich.,

'Reka P. Klynstra, R 3, Hudsonville,
Mich.
Douglas Baldwin, R 1, Paris, Mich.

Correspondence Scramé/e

0 many Merry Circlers write ex-
S pressing a wish that some of their

fellow Merry Circlers would write
them letters. I think it is great that
they should want to correspond with
others interested in the same line of
activities, but I have often wondered
why they did not start writing them-
selves, instead of asking some one
else to do the starting.

The lack of space prevents me from
running the names of those who wish
to write, so my only means of getting
correspondence started between Mer-
ry Circlers is through the Correspond-
ence Scrambles. '

To those who have not taken part
in these Scrambles, and as a reminder
to others who have, I give the follow-
ing suggestions:

Write a letter to an unknown Merry
Circle friend, then address an envel-
ope to yourself and place a stamp on
it. Enclose the letter and the ad-
dressed envelope in another envelope
addressed to Uncle Frank, Michigan
Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. If you are
below twelve years of age put in the
lower left hand corner of the envelope,
“Correspondence Scramble A.” If you
are twelve, or over, write “Correspond-
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hand corner.

This Scramble closes February 15.
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FIND that farm house floors are
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01' dying in the shell.———K.

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OOR hatches may result from op-

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The ventilation in cellars can some-
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My Wyandotte hens have laid heav-
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past week. Hadn’t lost any for two
years. They die suddenly, do not act
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in them. They have hard, knotty
growths on the intestines, some as
large as a. pullet’s egg, and some small
as a berry; also spots ‘on the liver.
The last one that died had blood on
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I SAW in a recent issue of the Mich-
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young goslings?” I don’t believe the
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green grass when two days old.

They will not eat much and should
not be fed very much for the first two
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very best “starter” for them, and just
a. little dish of fresh water, warmed a. '
little. But do not let them get wet by
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Little goslings have to be handled
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feed, but kept warm, as bowel trouble
is apt to follow if allowed to get wet
and cold. After the first week, I add
rolled oats to the bread and milk, some
may think this quite an expensive feed
but it pays nevertheless.

Last year I hatched fifty- four gos-
lings, and raised everyone except two,
which smothered under the hen. I
didn’t have a gosling get sick and die.
It is a. good thing to dry egg shells
and add one to the mash each feed, as
it gives them plenty of grit. I do not
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geese, but by hand. They are so apt
to smother under the hen.

Now, in regards to geese eggs hatch-
ing: Last year I had a one-year—old
gander and my geese hens were two
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I always give my geese a balanced
ration at laying time, but not whole
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prised how they will eat it. Give plenty
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Don’t try to choose the place for
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Careful breeding. tip (tensity and trapneetmg has roduced our world-famous
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KARSTEN’S FARM, Box v, ZEELAND, MICHIGAN
"BABY

WNGARDENSI‘EG G 'BRE CHICKS

Are thl best laying strains (in earth. Egg- Bred Barron English While Leg-
hon-s. Brown Leghorns and Anconas backed by 19 years' actual brood-
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with large. vigorous 260-288 Eu Pedigroed Males from Hollywood & Funk
Farms direct. - his fluarantces -not a few high record birds -— but an
extraordinary flock average. During 1924 we will sell 30,000 weekly of
these- active. healthy. carefully hatched baby chicks — the kind that will
hoop your Egg Basket full. Hundreds of our customers are mak-
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Early Maturing BABY CHICKS D U N D E E CHICKS

These chicks are from flocks headed
PURE-BRED CULLED FLOCKS

by cockeiels of high producing blood
lines. lfoiled by experts. Each flock
persona y supervised. Pure-bred. $13 Our chicks are from pure- -bred flocks careful
per hundred up. ‘ . I culled by experts. Anconas are direct from. Sheppardy
Special. We have a limited number Leghorn flocks headed by males from Michigan Ag.
of superior grade Chicks from special College. Rooks are from a 230- 302 egg strain Reds
are Liddlcoat's best. Write for (atalog and price list.
It will save you money. Ref” Dundee State SaIings

matings. Write for deSCription and

prices. 100 per cent live delivery. Ref.
Bank. this city. DUNDEE HATCHER
Dundee. Michigan. Y Box A'

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Write for catalogue and prices today. price. net ctlon and 109 per '
them in a cool place. but not to chill, AL Harcusnv AND yranms. "m 'V' ““"n' ”mid-W ‘
Int-er -I‘rsdericlIssa Poultry Fern. Box 20 Ileilaad. Kiel.

R. 2, RIceland. Mich. 8. P. Wiersma. Owner.

 

the light hurts them, and if it is quite'
cold when setting the first eggs do not
put over four or five under a hen. Turn
them every day after the first week,
and the fourth week sprinkle three or
four times with warm water. Give your
breeders a warm place to sleep nights,
but let them out through the day.

I hope I 1.... made this plain, as I

my breeders and young goslings like
this, and am glad to “pass it On” to
someone else who is trying to raise
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Pure-bred Tom Barron English and American White Leghorns, An-

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Broader Stove factory which .1:
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my Improved Brooder Stoves.

Ball Improved Brooder

BOTH OIL AND COAL BURNING
The OIL BURNING STOVE has an absolutely wicklsss burner

*‘ osslbla to sleep nights without fear of chicks chil
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also manufacture CHI FOUN OUTERS.
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. We ‘th a, dockiofobmé; ;
White . cg Dru-hens, of Willa" .
one-h teach of oldrhenS’an . .,
year’s pullets. We feed a, ration (sof-
laying mash and scratchfeed in addi-
tion to which we feed— cabbage, etc...
for green feed, and ., every odon we
feed a. wet mash of potatoes, cooked,
table scraps. and mash. The pullets
were supposed to be pure-bred stock.
Now we are getting a. few dark-shelled
eggs, which will not pass for white on
the market. Why do our hens lay
these dark-shelled eggs? Is it due to
the feed? Would the hatchery where
the baby chicks were purchased, and
which guaranteed them to be pure-
bred S. C. White Leghorns, make it
right with us ?—-—Mrs. G. B.

Brown eggs would not be produced
by White Leghorns because of the ra-
tion. The English Leghorns commonly
known as the Tom‘ Barron strain oo-
casionally produce a. few tinted eggs.
Often this can be bred Out of a flock
by careful selection of the eggs used
for hatching.

Leghorns do not often produce eggs
that can be classed as brown in color
although thee;r frequently produce eggs
that are not exactly chalk white. If
the birds look and act like Leghorns
it is hardly likely that they contain a'
mixture of foreign blood, although that
fact might be suspected’if they con-
tinue to produce a. large number of
eggs which are distinctly brown in col-
or. . Have some experienced Leghorn
breeder in your vicinity make a per-
sonal inspection of the flock and give
his opinion after seeing the birds
which are producing brown eggs.

  

 

 

DUCKLINGS LACK RANGE.

My young ducks have spells of going
so lame that they can hardly walk,
and then they get all right again. Then
at times they flirt their heads in the
air and fall around as if they were
having crazy spells. They are running
in a small range about four feet by
ten feet, and I am feeding them bran
and corn meal, wet, and lettuce for
green food. They are about two
months old. I have lost quite a. num-
ber from the same disease—M. J. R.

I think the lossesamong the duck-

and the extreme heat at certain times
this summer. Ducklings cannot stand
exposure to the hot sun without dan-
ger of loss. On a. range four feet by
ten feet there is great danger that the
birds will lack exercise and the soil
become contaminated.

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POULTRY QUESTIONS.

Will clipping the wings of chickens
prevent their laying eggs? Will a. two—
year-old gobbler be more preferable
than a young one?—-J. H. R.

Clipping the wings of hens may slow
down egg production because of the
fright attending the operation, follow-
ed by clumsy attempts to fly. If nec-
essary to clip the wings it is best ‘to
do it at night when the birds are eas—
ily caught. It may slow down produc—
tion for a few days and then the birds
will usually return to normal. ,

A two-year—old tom is preferable to
a. cockerel for producing vigorous
poults. Some breeders use early-
hatched, well-matured cockerels with
good results. Late-hatched toms sel-
dom attain the size and vigor neces-
sary for good breeders the first year.

 

FEATH ER MITES.

I have a. flock of blooded White
Rocks, all pullets one year old. They
lay well, but have something wrong
with their feathers. Some of them are
nearly naked. It does not seem to be
the feather-eating habit, but they seem
to 100k as though the feathers were
broken off—Mrs. T. D. C.

Poultry are sometimes troubled with
feather mites which bite the skin at
the. base of the feathers, causing a.
loss of the plumage. 'An ointment
made of four parts lard and one part
flowers of sulphur can be lightly rub-
bed where the festhers are missing
. Carbo-
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We’ve been told we dobusiness in an “old
tashloned” way. Perhaps we do. We know
that we always try to absolutely stick to the
truth in our advertising and to test everyone
lalrly and equal-lay. If that is being "old
fsshioned”we’re glad we are old fashioned and
we believe our customcs are clad too. for
they keep on buying from us year after year. _ ,

Our chicks are all from pure-bred heavy
laying slrslns. They have been hogan tested
and carefully culled and selected for many
years to bring them to their present high
standard of health, strength. vltallty and
heavy wlnler laying. Our flocks are all
oertllled by the Michigan Baby Chick Associ-
ation. Our prices are low ard we guarantee
1 00% llve dellvsry. We advise you to order
early. Write for Free Catalog.

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DAY OLD BHIGKS

S. C. Barred Rocks, S. C. White Rocks,
S. C. Rh. l. Reds, White Wyandottes,
Orpington, S.C.Eng. White Leghorns,
S. C. Br. 8: Buff Leghorns, S. C An-
c. nas, S. C. Minorcas.

Strong. sturdy, bonny-laying strains, from large.
vigorous yearling lions raised on our farms. and culled
by expert poultry men. to a. high quality of Certified
Utility Flor-ks. also, Extra Selected Mods and from
Blue Ribbon Pens.

Babions fruit and Poultry Farms
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Better Herds

By Clair T aylar

, HE Newaygo Cow-testing Asso-
ciation has just finished a" very
' successful year, With 223 cows
completing their records for the entire
year, twenty-five cows having been
sold as undesirable, and sixteen cows
and four pure-bred sires purchased
during the year.

The results of the work show a great
improvement over that of 1922, accord-
ing to figures given below:

The average production of all cows
in the association for 1923 is 6,755
pounds of milk, 321.0 pounds butter-
fat, while that fer 1922 was 7,112
pounds milk, and 302.3 pounds butter-
Also, the average profit per cow
in the association was $104.61 over
cost of feed for 1923, while the aver-
age profit fgr 1922 was $53.87 over the
cost of feed. The average cost for feed
in producing 100 pounds of milk was,
respectively, $.99, and $.24 per pound
for butter-fat.

Forty-eight cows in the association
made over 365 pounds of butter-fat

ing so heavy, while as a matter of
fact, he has at no time fed over one
pound of grain to 'three pounds of
milk, and his cows have not been “off
their feed” once during the year. His
herd average on five cows is 8,257
pounds of milk and 464.5 pounds of
fat, with an average profit of $173.65
above cost of feed, which is the high-
est in the association:

Mr. Nelson states that the success
he has lhad during the past year is due
entirely to his following the feeding
practice recommended by the tester,
and he further states that during the
year 1922, when he did not follow this
advice, his production was only 5,816
pounds of milk and 312.0 pounds of
fat, and his cows were continually off
their feed. Mr. Nelson’s books for both
1922 and 1923 are open for inspection
and he will welcome any investigation
by any one interested, for he is one
who is interested in the betterment of
dairying methods of his community
and believes that any dairyman who

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during the year, while seventeen out
of the twenty-seven herds averaged
over 300 pounds, and four over 400
pounds of butter-fat.

The high cow in each herd averaged
8,482 pounds of milk and 404.3 pounds
offat, returned $140.18 above feed cost
and produced milk ‘for $00.80 per 100
pounds, butter-fat for eighteen cents
per pound for cost of feed, and the av-
erage return for every dollar expend-
ed for feed was $3.14.

The low cow in each herd averaged
5,159 pounds of. milk and 238.6 pounds
of butter-fat, returned $67.55 above the
cost of. feed, produced milk for $1.116
per 100 pounds, butter-fat for twenty-
six cents per pound for feed, and the
average return for every dollar ex-
pended for feed was $2.11.

Pure—bred cows have appeared in the
“high ten" each month 2.1 times as
often as' did the grades, and “Grand-
father’s Pride" (the scrub' with no
pure-bred breeding) has not appeared
once.

Six members have completed ,rec-
ords for two years and their average
production is 547 pounds of milk and
32.7 pounds of butter-fat above that of
one year ago. This demonstrates the
fact that the cow-testing association is
a benefit and a business proposition
for the dariyman, even if he thinks
he knows what his cows are doing af-
ter one year’s membership in the as-
sociation.

What Proper Feeding Does.

The high cow in the association for

19.23 is a registered Jersey owned by

. A. 0. Nelson, of Bolton, and is one of

the most efficient cows in the associa-
tion, her average production for the
year being 8,787 penndS/ of mi1k_and
5867 pounds of butter-fat, which is
932 pounds of milk and 131.7 pounds

.of,.fat above her production for 1922.

During the past year this cow con-
sumed $41.28 worth of roughage and
$59.72 worth of concentrates, or grain,
and produced at a profit oi?~ $234.95
above cost oi; feed. »
Mr. Nelson’s neighbors have pre-

. ,-':'d1¢.’§9d disastm‘ for the practice he has
. ...P.§"e.n

-.; gnawing, stating , that .he would

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‘ will look into these facts anti figures
will profit by his mistakes in 1922 and '

success in 1923.

E. E. Price, of Fremont, is the own-
er of the herd of Registered Guernseys
which holds the highest herd average
for the year of 9.918 pounds of milk
and 490.3 pounds of butter-fat. Mr.
Price is also an advocate of correct
feeding, he having had charge of the
renowned “Carrie of Hillhurst,” at the
time she made a world’s record. Mr.
Price’s records do bring out one start-
ling fact, and that is that the above
records of his herd were made entirely
from home-grown feeds, and in follow—
ing this practice he has made a profit
of $160.80 per cow above cost of fded.
Mr. Price is also a constructive breed-
er and today has left for another part
of the state to bring home a sire to
head his herd, which was grand cham-
pion at the Western Michigan Fair at
Grand Rapids, and the first prize year-
ling sire at the Michigan State Fair at
Detroit in 1923.

.A short time ago a dairyman stated ;

that he did not believe in the so-called
“balanced rations,” as he had tried
out fifty pounds of them in his herd,
and had received no results. For the
benefit of those having the same expe-
rience we give the following:

One week before the arrival of the'
tester at the herd of Martin Zerlaut,
of Holton, Mr. Zerlaut started feeding
a ration which had been recommended
by the tester the month previous, and
upon taking the results found that the
herd had only made a profit above the
cost of feed, of $26.13, which looked
pretty small. However, upon the ad-
vice of the tester, Mr. Zerlaut contin~
tied the ration, with the result that
the following month his herd showed
a profit above cost of feed of $117.13,
which was in spite of the fact that his
herd was one month further along in
lactation. This only emphasizes the
’fact that a cow cannot turn the ba1~
ance in the right direction by simply
receiving a correct ration for a Week
or two, but it takes time and patience
*to get results. ‘

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THE FARMER.
"A {STUDY of the figures published
monthly .by the cow-testing assoch
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on the farms of the association mem-
bers is not paying much of a profit,
for this average cow is producing just
about 240 pounds of butter-fat at a.
feed cost of $120. This does not leave
much of a. margin, and remember, this“
being an average cow there are just
as many producing less than 240-
pounds as there are producing more.
But the association also shows that

there is a handsome profit in a herd
of good cows.

Dr. T. C. Tiedbold, of Covert, has a
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fat per cow. The highest producing
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month sixtyseven pounds. During
these ten months the cost of feed for
this cow was $145.65 and she made a
net profit above feed cost of $429.45,
which is more than many herds in the
county made. During these same ten
months the average profit above feed
cost’ on the eighteen cows in this herd
was $214.31 per head.

Cow-testing records show the profit
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profitable herd and every farmer keep:
lng cows as a. business proposition

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the cows than by drawing them to the
market. Furthermore, I can manage
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also,- in the summer time, much of the
grass that grows along the creek and
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is to keep his , milkers satisfied.
'He can usually secure men for the
fields and other Work, but the men
who take. the 'milk from the cows
change often, and generally are not
the experienced men they, should be.
One eastern dairyman has instituted

a system which is giving such excel-
lent satisfaction that the other men

out. .
This man keeps around seventy
‘cows. Two men do all the milking,
but nothing else. They‘only draw the
milk and weigh it. All the other sta-
ble‘vvork is done by other hands, even
to the brushing off "of the cows.

These two men work five hours in
the morning‘and five hours in the af-
ternoon. . They start milking at two
o’clock in the morning, finishing that
milking, and then start on the cows in
the same order at two o’clock in_the,
afternoon and complete their task at
seven in the evening. .

This arrangement gives to the men
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ing to two in the afternoon to do what-‘
ever they wish—read, sleep, play, ride
or what not. Although the men work
ten hours each day their time is so
divided that they prefer to do milking
than the other work on the farm.

 

HELPS” BUILD BETTER HERDS.

 

(Continued from page 165).
results of the association work in 1923
is that of “Old Guernsey,” owned by
Dan Rousch, of Fremont, who offered
her for sale in 1922 to the butcher for
five cents per pound, who fortunately
refused her, and in 1923 she produced
12,318 pounds of milk and 5404 pounds
of butter-fat, at a profit above cost of
feed of $158.04, and also gave birth to
three calves during that time.

We believe that the above facts, all
of which can be substantiated by rec-
ords, should prove beyond a doubt that
the cow-testing association work of
Newaygo county has been an import-
ant asset to the dairymen of the coun-
ty, and we are glad to report that as
the result of the recent dairy and al-
falfa campaign the indications are that
we will see organized two additional
associations in the county during the
year 1924. '

We feel that the‘ association has
been very fortunate in having had the
services oi~Mr. Shisler during the past
two years. and a. good deal of credit is
due him for the success of the asso-
ciation during that time. We regret
very much that he will not be with us
during the coming year, owing to the
fact that he has accepted a position
as tester in. the state of Virginia, but
we wish him success in his. new field
and the dairymen of that state are to
be congratulated in securing the ser-
vices of a man of his caliber.

 

PRESIDENT MAKES APPOINT-
. MENTS.
RESIDENT COOLIDGE has decid-
ed to appoint George B. Christian,
who was President Harding’s secre-
tary, as a successor to‘ Victor Murdock
on the federal trade commission. The
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It is also" given out that President
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Especially in Michigan, Railroad transportation is subject to
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To vanquish these obstacles—to accept and deliver freight and
passengers in the teeth of a midwinter blizzard, when necessary
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Even in a comparatively open winter, the Railroads must always
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Winter railroading in Michigan is seldom possible at a profit.
Often it can be accomplished only by large financial loss. Yet,
despite the handicaps of climate, the cars move, and Michigan
continues warm, well fed and prosperous.

Do you appreciate the foresight, determination and fortitude
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sound a reliance. The Railroads will be pleased and helped
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Michigan Railroad Association

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‘ 7— V flocks owned and cdevelopgiurlpybruds
(or 15 years. Leghorn males from
cig hens. Free catalog. Write for
prices. RELIAB E. HATCHEBY AND FARMS. 74
E. no. St. Holland. UM.

        
           

 

  

 
 
  

  
 
 
 

 
 

 

 

   
 

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strains of = . C. White haugwa .330"
(lattes. Al from pure bred. In “I!

vloorooo oiook, carefully called and ‘ '12:: ,
touted to insure your citing chick. that
will be oooy to nice, evelop rapidly and
become bow pod

     

 

       

 

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many years experience, brooding and
oolooll . lI'hey are lorflo “I‘d-m
deep wedge shaped bodies, keen
combo. _Tllo land you will boprood
y buly. Shipped postpaid. 1W Lived.-
mnteed. llustrnted catalog sent rm.
ARD HATGHEIV. Box A. Iceland, .loh.

Chicks with Fe

Try-our lively and vigorous chick.
from bred—today and exhibition hens.
They will make you money for thq
have the quality and egg-laying mm
bredintothe. Atrialwillcon-

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All leading varieties.
cry. Prepaid. Prices right.
relerence. Big. illustrated catalog

free.
Holgato Chick Hatchery, Box M, Hdgoto,0hi¢

leghom starts—1.x lleavi;

Black. Brown. Bufl.White. Brahma and i

Ansonas and Minomu. l Reds, Bosch. me‘
Allegm Hatchery on Highway No. 89. Send to:
1924 price list. Crescent Eu Company, Alleges. Mich.

our laying; out
unrnw mm .....,

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4‘ "7 and sire of win’ners.

     

      
  

  

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WILDWOOD FARMS

ORION, MICHIGAN

 

 

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

 

 

Brookwood Farm

Registered Guernseys of both sexes for
sale at reasonable prices. Young stock
from A. R. dams. Herd is Federal
A~credited. .
JOHN ENDICOTT, Owner

BIRMINGHAM, MI( H.

Reg. Guernsey cows. some A. R. Record May
10 ltose breeding. $2,600 for all: herd bull 8100.
John Ebels. Holland, Mich.. R. 2.

Two Nice Bulls. nearly ready for
GUBIIISGIS service. Special terms if desired.
. Williams. North Adams, Mich.

Ileg.
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A Great Opportunity.

We are offering a young Holstein bull ready for ser-
vice, by a 32.03—1li. son of Matador Segis Walker.
a brother to Segis I’icterje Prospect, the World's
Champion. The dam is sired by a 35.73~1b. bull.
Also some fine heifers for sale,
HILLCREST FARM. KALAMAZOO, MICH.

Registered Holstein Bulls
Up to eleven months of ago. Good individuals and
good breeding, at low Drives. Also a few young cows
or heifers soon to freshen. A healthy herd. l. M.
SHORMAN. Fowlerviiie. Mich.

C
Maplecrest Holsterns
FOR SAL]: —'l‘wo Registered Holstein Heifers, Born
last May. Beautifully marked. fine individuals. whose
sire is from a. 30—lb. (laughter of a 31—11). cow. Also
one fresh 2-year-old heifer. and one bred heifer. flno
individuals. Whitney Bros" Onondaga. Mich.

' , Nearly white. sire by a. 30-
HOISIEIII Bu“ Cd" 1b. Bull. dam 05 lbs. 4 per
cent milk. milked twice per day. Ask breeding. etc.
$40, registered. 8. E. Kies. Hillsdalc. Mich.

FOR SALE Jersey bulls ready for ser-
Vii'e. All cows Register of

Merit. Accredited herd. Would take’ a bankable

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

Brookwater Jerseys

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

FINANCIAL KING BULLS

We have for sale a few bulls ready for seriice. also
bull calves sired by Financial King Sensation. son of
Financial Sensation, the $00,000 sire. These bulls are
from R. of M. cows. Write to Goldwater Jersey
Farm. Goldwater. Mich.

' c: trle. young hulls, for
RegIStered Jersey sa‘le. Tuberculin tested
J. L. CARTER. _ Lake Odessa, MiOh.

15 Cows, 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows. (‘hance
to select from herd of 70.Sorne fresh. others 1 red
for fall freshening. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvi 1e. Mich.

HER EFORDS

Registered Breedinzcattle. 'I‘. 8‘. Tested
at practical prices for production of
Hereford Baby Becves profitably. all ages.
T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS
(Herefords since 1839)

St. Clair, Mich.

Th :mb Hereford Breeders’ Association

can supply your needs with outstanding. well-bred
registered Herefords. either sexes. polled or horned
at reasonable prices. Inquire of E'. E. WING. Soc-
Treas., Bad Axe. Huron Co.. Mich.

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

 

. $9 eat-n.0n free. fenced 200.-
‘000 “'gh'Grade HerefordsOOO-acre range; positively
droughtless; separate winter range. abundant water
and f Homestead. Hogan's, Clifton. Arizona.

Stanway Bred Hereinrds

Breeding stock
them. 108.
Miohican.

 

Come and see

either sex. for sale.
Clinton 00..

T-‘ELDPAUSCH, Fowler.

 

Bulls. Heifers and Cows with (lalies by side. Most
popular strains. Allen Bros" (BIG 5. Weatncdge 3L.
Kalamazoo. Mich.

and T. B. tested Shorthorn bulls for
TWO R980 sale. 9 and 14 mo. old. Price $75
each. .I. A. CRAIG. stockbridge, Michigan.

 

-heuls coo .
Now offering 2Jon’uary roan bull calm ,

28917. .
reasons!)

excegvtlonal marl
BID

. ' orth . accred~
Wildwood Famiflék‘ii’grasim $535M“ milk.
mason of Glensidmmey .D‘agy

gemmrbyshmm wish are priced mso
. ‘ n e
m re cowéaiand '&. Bound, Tecumseh. Mich.

ltors welcome.
Paved Road No. 50. ‘ . ,,

' of Bad Polled Bulls.
W hen I n Need Cows of Heifers. Buy
from Michigan's Iloading herd. owned by _ Westbrook

Bron, Ionia. Mic .

Milk strain. either

Paul Quack.

For Polled Shorthor'ns a...

Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.

'i‘s'Ho-nrilonus', -
Revolutionmglgdd’ligig

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ELL scroo . FARM. box I). Tecumsehuioh

  

BABY Besvss‘ ,m-z'r 39:00 eAcH.
J‘osEPH . FELDPAUSCH Elves: on .a; ._
rich level farm near the little town

of Fowler, in Clinton‘county. Fora
few years past he has been raising.

 

RED POLLED CATTLE £1,215: {’32 k§°ffi°2

Swine.‘ E. S. CARR. Homer. Mich.

 

 

HOGS

Hereford cattle. He recefiy shipped
a, bunch of calves consis g of four
steers and four heifers, to the Detroit
Packing Company, which sold for
twelve cents 'per pound. These calves

 

DUROC JERSEYS SOWS

Bred and open Sows of the finest practical type.
Farrowod April 15 to May ‘15. 1923. Long. well-
rounded body. Send for description and photos.

Fred Vreeland writes:

every respect."

Every shipment guaranteed to be satisfactory.
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Masonic Temple,
Kalamazoo. Michigan.

Registered Durocs

FOR SALE—Young boars and gilts bred from the
best herds In Michigan and Ohio. at reasonable pric—
es and fully guaranteed. w. E. Bartley, Alma. Mich.

DISPERSION SALE

Michigans. Farm is disposing of its entire herd. Sows
and gilts bred to a great son of Supreme Col. Fall
boars and gilts. All registered in your name. Prices
are very attractive—hogs more so. - Come or write.
Michigana Farm. Pavilion, Mich. ,

 

 

 

DUROC JERSEYS Spring pigs either sex of March
April and May (arrow, sired y three outstanding
herd boars. If you want size ty 9 and quality combine

come and see or write us F. J. rodt. Monroe. Mich. R. I

Bred Sows and Gilts, $25 to $40
”"703 Jerseys each. Fall pigs. $12. All Reg. and
guaranteed. Walt's Top Col. breeding. None better.

Write us. Jesse Bliss & son. Henderson. Mich.

 

UROC fall and spring boars of the best breeding
D and quality. at prices to sell. Fall pigs at bar-

gain prices. W. C. Taylor. Milan. Mich.

0UROG JERSEYS MID DEUINE MERIIIIIS

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Nlich.

\
5 ring boars from prize winning stock,
CheSteI‘ will ship an approval. Cholera. Immuned.
Fred L. Bodimer. Reese. Mich.

Chester Whites

Williams, Tekonsha. Mich.

O. I. C’s.

Monroe. Mich.

Gilts.

Farrowing. Aldrich

26 choice young boars for fall
service. Clover Leaf Stock Farm,

0 i C 7 75 spring pigs. pairs not akin, from
' ' ' S 3 good sires, also fall
free. Otto Schulze 8; Sons. Nashville. Mich.

 

0 l C’ Sept. pigs. Sired by "Giant’Boy." Senior
. . 3 Champion at West. Mich. State Fair. 1923.
Milo H. Peterson. R. 2. Ionia, Mich. “Elmhurst Farm."

 

25 Reg. 0. I. C. Sows. Brod for April and May
Farrow. AIL Stock Shipped on Approval. Priced
Right. Fred W. Kennedy, R. 2, Plymouth. Mich.

L T P C Bred Gilts out of the most pop-
' ~ ' ' ° ular blood lines. They have al-
ways made good and will again. Write your wants.
also for plan of.selling. M. M. PATRICK, Grand
Ledge. Mich. _

3101‘ P C Aug. and Sept. pigs sired by our
' ‘ 'herd boars. $10.00 up. Also 2
hard boars at $75 each. Winter sale Feb. 20. 1024.
Order quick for choice. E. A. CLARK, st. Louu. Mich.

 

 

L T P c B and Gilts all go. at private
- - - - oars treaty. Service to. Foxy Clans-
man. 540. Michigan Champion herd for 3 years.
A. A. Feldkamp. Manchester. Mich.

 

Large Type Poland Chinas

Boars $25 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. oil stock
shipped on approval. Bred Sow Sale Jan. 80.
DORUS HOVER. Akron. Mich.

"I am pleased with the
Sows and assure you that they are satisfactory in

Bred for Spring

pigs. recorded

were, about fifteen months old and af.
ter all expenses of marketing were
paid, Mr. Feldpausch had left $89.00
apiece for them. Considering ,that
these calves were the tail ends of the
season’s crop—the best of them hav-
ing been reserved for breeding pun»
poses—Mr. Feldpausch says, "I think
that was good and we didn’t do any
milking to get it.”——Pope. ‘

A LITTLE FEED, A LITTLE LABOR,
RETURN GOOD PROFITS.

HERE is a horse that I would give
$200 for,” said a. well-known deal-
er who is shipping to the eastern mar-
kets, “if he were in good flesh and
short-haired. As it is, I dare not pay
more than" $140 for him, and even at
that I take a chance of losing money.
Long-haired, thin horses are much.
more susceptible to disease, must be
held in our stables for some time until
they get in better condition, and the
risk and expense, and the fact that
they are not salable until they are in
better flesh, makes a. horse of that
kind less deSirable to me at $140 than
the same horse would be at $200, if he
were in fit condition.” ‘
Other dealers corroborated his state-
ment and added that while it was un-
profitable to put feed into a. $50 horse,

‘ it would certainly pay to put thirty,

days’ feed and some grooming on
horses weighing 1,500 pounds or over.
Twelve quarts of oats per day, plus
plenty of good forage and a little oil
meal (say one-half teacupful at each.
feeding time With the oats), will put
horses in very much improved condi-
tion for sale in thirty days” time, if
they are kept in clean stalls, well bed—
ded, and given a. thorough grooming
every day. I ’
‘Fifteen dollars’ worth of feed per
horse, plus some work, will make from
$50 to $60 difference in the selling
price in any good horses that are to
be sold this spring; and while horses
. are a. by-product of the farm, it is
worth while having such by-products
in fit condition to bring top price.

 

PIG SURVEY.

... Var-

 

 

' Chester White bred sows and gilts.
Blg Type Sired by and bred

prize winners. Lucian Hill. Tekonsha. Mich.

I
Fa“- P125 Wolverine. Priced' reasonable. Best
of dams. W. E. Livingston, Parma. Mich.

' Saws and gilts. a. choice lot, bred to
HamPSh'res big Franklin P. First year we
have offered sows bred to him. His pigs sell. Sept.
pigs. pairs not‘ akin. Get my terms. Dr. Grlhbs,
Three Rivers. Mich.

to State Fair

either sex, by the great Boar, The

HE pig survey taken by rural mail

carriers throughout United States
on December 1 shows some very inter-
esting comparisons between different
sections of the country, says, V. H.
Church, agricultural statsitician for
Michigan. The report indicates that
there was an increase of 4.7 per cent
in the number of sows farrowing in-

 

Spring Boers and Gilts. and fall pigs.

Hampshires Pairs not akoin: 11th year. 150 to

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

the fall of 1923, as compared with the
previous fall, and a decrease of 10.5

 

or Best Blood lines: 100 Bred Gilts

HamPshlres and sows. some fine Boers. Luck-

 

hard’s Model’Farm, Bach. Mich.

7 Combination Sale Duroc Jerseys -

Feb. 1 1th 1924, F air Grounds, . Hillsdale, Mich.

Forty head of sows and gilts carrying the blood of Orion Cherry King, Joe
Orion II, Jack’s Friend, Walt’s Top 001, and other noted sires.

Six head won six places at State Fair;

4 Seconds, 3 Thirds and 3 Champions. , ~ -.

The boars these sows are bred to are Double Ideal, a. State Fair. W. inner ,
d" - ‘

1st. prize boar pig at Hillsdale, an,.outsta.nding

Sensation’s Masterpiece,

[H r r:

ramton

' Mich.

r , ’_r “

rgndson of Sensation Leader, Sensation Demons 9
are-..sent east. Write for descriptive catalog. .
V ' . H B «Kelley. . r0.

. Hmong, Mics; -» ~ mamas, rides

mmw'wimm A New “*1

at Hillsdale Co. Fair, 5 Firsts,

“he heel-.-.‘Yfififilfi-brgrl

 
 

     
 

  

per cent as compared with last spring.

Wisconsin and North Dakota.” were the
only other co‘rn belt states reporting
an increase compared with one year
ago. For the c‘orn,belt as a whole the
number is 6.1 percent less than one
year ago,‘and 43.6 per cent less than
last spring. The number of pigs sav-
ed in the fall 'of 1923 in Michigan is
“5.8 greater than in the "previous fall
and 9.8 percent less than last spring.
For the corn belt, the number saved is.
“5.8 percent less than one year ago,
and 43.1 per cent lessgthanlagst spring,
. A decrease of 2.0 percent innum-
bers or cows. abredfordncended to. be

    
 
 

 
 
 

 

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boi' ‘of‘pigs saved infer litter lastfollin I
the state was 5.03.5 comparedl‘wlth 5.8.

last springhand 5.9 the preview" on

The corresponding figures for the en-
tire corn belt wei'e 5.02,, 4.93 and 4.90 .

per cent. Emperience with preview
surveys has shovvn that actual farmw-

ings have fallen Considerably shorter

eXpressed intentions. j . -
The decline in production and ten-
dency for a further decrease isdueio

the lower prices that have prevailed

for some time, and the relatively bet-

ter price of corn. Receiptsof hogs at-
stock yards during the last few months

have been the‘heaviest in many years.

 

SPOTTED POLAND BREEDERS To
__ FORM STATE ASSOCIATION.

/

N Monday, February 4, of Farmers'
Week, the Spotted Poland breed«
ers of Michigan are planning to hold
a. meeting for the purpose of organiz-
ing a State Association of Spotted
Poland Breeders. 'This meeting will
be held in Room 110 of the Agricultur-
al Building, Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, East Lansing, and, will begin at
ten o’clock in the forenoon.- .
All of the swine breeding associa-
tions are meeting on Monday and all
join together at three o’clock in a.
meeting of the Swine Breeders’ Asso-
ciation in .Room 402, Agricultural
Building.

 

 

GROWS PRIME BEEF.

 

(Continued from page 139).

ertheless, if the dollars and cents do:

not balance on the favorable side of
the ledger, some of these other worth-
while things are going to suffer. So.
as I said before, we went to the house
to look up. the records. We give here-
with a. brief but very accurate state-
ment of the way the enterprise
stacks up. ‘ \

Here are the maintenance costs of
cow herd forethe year. Feeds grown
are figured at farm value:

55 tons alfalfa hay. .. . . . . . . . .$ 550.00
100 tonssilage.............. .
180 acres pasture, interest on ’

, value and taxes 369.00
Veterinary fees, insurance, in-
terest, taxes, service fees,
equipment, depreciation and

incidentals . . . . . . . .T. . . . 510.40

 

Total ...l...........‘.......$1,829.40

The average cost per cow for . ~
maintenance 41.57

What pasture the calves consumed
is included in the charge made to the
cow herd. They were self-fed in addi-
tion, from the time they learned to eat
grain until marketed, a. mixture of
ground feed made up of corn, oats,
barley aiid cottonseed meal, and worth
at the farm $1.25 per cwt. Charged to
the calves we find:

86,194 pounds ground feed. . . .$1,077.42-
15 tons of alfalfa. hay. . . . . . . . 150.00
10 tons of silage............ 40.00

Total cost feedln calves. . 1,2 7.4
All other costs charged to thes 6 2
cow herd 1,829.40

 

 

Total cost of mi

feeding baby beevg;?gfoarg¥i-
_ four head . .1. . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,096.82

The net‘returns at the farm, all sell-
ing and transportation charges do-
ducted, are as follbws: .
16 head sold for breeding. . . .$l,935.00

22 head sold as bah beeves.. , .
6 head retained ..y....._.;... 183372

Total net returns. . . . . . . . '. 34,430.72

 

"Less total c‘osts............. 80i682

Profits .. . . . . . . .3133533390
In view of thefact that most ‘of the

 

feed was raised ‘on'tthe farm, andthht
general farm‘ cohditio’nshave not been ..
..floul'isbins. Mr»: Ramsey feels-very!"

  

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Champion Sylvia Skylark

.rouo orroorumrr
To Boyllris Good Heifer

HIS heifer, bred in the pur-

ple, is, on her sire’s side,
a great grand-daughter of the
world’s champion milk cow, May
Echo Sylvia; while her dam is a
fourteen - pound, two - year - old
daughter of Utility Segis Hen-
gerveld Lad, the sire of many
show animals, and himself the
son of a four times thirty-pound
COW.

The People’s C rch of East

Lansing, which se es the stud-
ents of the M. A. C., and hence
has all Michigan for its Parish,
owns this heifer, it having been
given to the church by Corey J.
Spencer, of Jackson, to aid in
financing the construction of a.
new’ church edifice.
. The Heifer is now being fitted
for the Holstein Sale to be held
at the Agricultural College, Mon-
day Afternoon, February 4.

The Highest bidder will do two
things—put this valuable heifer
in his herd, and aid in building
this much-needed and worth-
)While church building.

Forty other females and three
males will be sold at the same
sale. Every lover of good Hol-
steins will” be eager to attend.
But whatever you do, don’t over-
look this double-barreled oppor-
tunity on February 4 at East
Lansing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Is Your Herd Average?

The average production of 830 cows
and heifers of all ages in Michigan
State Institution herds last year was
9,207 lbs., nearly two and one-half
times the average annual production
of the cows of the state.

Increase your herd average by using
a sire from one of these herds. Write
for sale list. -.

Bureau of Animal Industry,
Department C
Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

 

SHEEP

 

I

Registered Hampshire Ewes

have for sale’a few registered Hampshire ewes. all

ages, bred for last of April and first of May lambs
to an excellent heavy breed good wooled and short
legged ram.
Boyne City, Mich.

A First Prize winner. C. U. H

 

400 for sale in cmlots.
black-faced.
10th. Located 25 miles south of Detroit on Detroit
d: Toledo Electric. and on Dixie Highway. Telegraph
Address. Rockwood. Phone Newport. Post Office.
Southnoclrwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN It SON.
, . . .

Choice Bred Ewes

yearlings to solid mouths.
in good condition, bred to lamb April

 

Shrapshire Rams and Ewes /

write or ooh on“ Dan Booher. R: 4. Evert. Mich

 

 

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by Michigan Shorthom Breeders’

at Michigan Agr’l. College, East Lansing, Mich.

Friday, Feb. 8, 1 924
Show 9:00 ,A' M. Sale 1 1:00 A. M.
1 4 Bulls

4-8 F emales

CONSlG-AORS:

H. B. Peters & Son, Garland, McLachlan Brothers, Evart,
Mich. Mich.

Carr Brothers &. 60., Bad Axe, Michigan Agr’l. College, East
Mich. Lansing, Mich.

John Lessiter’s Sons, Clarks- L. C. Kelly & Son, Plymouth,
ton, Mich. Mich. -

S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe, G. H. Parkhurst, Armada,
Mich. Mich.

Every animal guaranteed tuberculin tested, and sold subject to

60 days’ retest.

The BEST BREEDERS in MICHIGAN are contributing to this
Several animals are out of STRONG SHOW HERDS. A few

sale.
were shown at the 1923 International.

A number of each of the following POPULAR FAMILIES are
offered: Rosewood, Augusta, Mina, Rosemary, Village Maid, Orange
Blossom, Claret, Nonpareil, Miss Ramsden, Lovely.

ed by GRAND CHAMPION BULLS.

This is an Outstanding Opportunity to get Show Animals

of Best Blood Lines

Auctioneers: Cnrey M. Jones

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The lmporlanl Trade Event In
Breeders’ Year!‘

International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois.

be held Tuesday evening.’
ient Central point.

Congress.

replace them with a few high-class,
Shorthorns.

Be sure and write for catalog.

l3 thter Park Avenue,

Dr. J. P. Hutton
Write for Catalogue

W. E.JUDSON EDWARDS, Mgr.,
EAST LANSING, MICH.

Sevenllr Naiional Shorllrorn Congress

SHOW and SALE

200 Head—155 females 45 bulls-«200 Head

of high-class Shorthorns to be showu Tuesday, February 19th and
sold Wednesday and Thursday, February 20th and let, 1924, at the

The banquet at which an interesting program will be presented will

A rare opportunity for buyers to. make selections and purchases of
top Shorthorns from the country’s best herds, collected at a conven-

Unusual attractions are in store for .the buyer of Shorthorns at this
Consignments are already m from the country’s leading
herds, insuring well-bred cattle of outstanding individual merit.

This is the logical time for Shorthorn breeders to cash non—produc-

ers, cattle of plainer breeding, and those requiring segregation, and
well-bred foundation breeding

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KEEP THE BOYS ON THE FARM

Poland China. aged boars outweighed aged boars

By planting Pure-bred Poland China hogs on it.

of every breed at the recent National Swine Show. and one other

heavier than every other breed in every class. even junior sows, March pigs, weighing 83 pounds more

than those of one other breed. A Poland China barrow holds the

centsge. .92. of edible meat. Poland Chlnas hold the record for average weight in ton-litter contests. The

heaviest single pig in 1923 contests weighing 364.5 at 180 days of

Poland Chinas are prolific. profitable. interest the boys and keep them contented on the farm. Resthsven
Farm has Poland-Chloris. any number. any use. to offer the beginner or the veteran.
corded in the buyer‘s name. vaccinated against cholera. and guaranteed satisfactory or we refund your

Catalogue free.
RES? HAVEN FARM,

money.

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS
' Wednesday, January-30.
Wheat.

Detroit. ——No. 1 red $1.15%; No.
red $11414; N013 red $111115; NQ
white $1.15%;No. 2 mixed $1.141.

Chicago. —May at $1.103/3@1.101,§;
gililys/ at $1. 087/8@1.;09 September at

0 1
Toledo. ——Cash $1.15@1.1517é.
Corn.
. Detroit. ——Cash No.3 yellow at 85c;
No.4 yellow 83c; No.5, 78@79c; No.
6, 75@76c.

Chicago. ——_May 791/2@795/8c; July at

79%@80c; Septembesr 80%c.

MN

Oat
Detroit. «Cash Nos 2 white at 530;
No 3, 511/20.
Chicago. ——May at 48%0; July 45%0;
September 431/20.
Rye.
Detroit. —Cash No. 2, 74c.
Chicago. —May 7395c; July 74%0.
Toledo —74 c.
Barley.
Barley, malting 76c; feeding 720.
Buckwheat.
Buckwheat—New milling $2 cwt.

Beans.
Detroit ——Immediate
shipments $5 per cwt.
New York WChoice pea $5. 75@6; red
kidneys $7. 25@7. 35.
Chicago. ——Choice pea $5.30; red kid-
neys $7. 30.

and - prompt

Seeds-

Detroit.——Prime red clover cash at
$12.. 5; alsike $8.80; timothy $3.95.

Hay.

Sliong. -—N0. 1 timothy $23. 50@24;
standald and light mixed $22. 50@23;
No 2 timothy $21@22; No 1 clover at
$20. 5011121; No. 1 clover mixed $20. 50
@21; wheat and oat straw $11. 50@12;
rye straw $12. 50@13.

Feeds.

Bran $35; standard middlings $35;
fine do $36; cracked corn $39; coarse
cornmeal $36; chop $35 per ton in
100—lb. sacks.

\

Apples.

Chicago. "Barrels, “A” grade Green-
ings at $6; Jonathans at $5; Grimes
$3. 5001 3. 75; Spies $4. 50@5. 50; Kings
$4. 50@5; Baldwins $4@4. 50; Spitzen-

be1 g $4@4." .10
WHEAT

Although there has been a fair vol-
ume of trading, prices have kept close
to the recently established basis.
While Liveipopl indicated strength at
the close of last week reports have it
that Fruich buyers cancelled some re-
cent ordtrs. Argentine and Australia
have shipped liberally. The clearances
from North America, on the other
hand, were somewhat reduced last
w< x’ek The buying power is generally
quickly satisfied, and any show of
sliength too quickly disappears for
those who have wheat to sell.

CORN

Receipts of corn were running a: lit-
tle stronger last week; reports indicat.
ed more liberal purchasing in feeding
sections Cash markets, however, were
easy, with the demand 1'01 spot goods a
little less active. Prices aie but little

changed.
OATS

This grain was left off last Saturday
101111111111; active profit- -taking by hold-
(12s The trade was also influenced
by liquidation in corn. However, com—
mission houses came to the support,
buying in on the breaks. Receipts
have been only moderate, with a fairly
active cash demand

RYE

This pioduct has continued to be a
close compainion of Wheat following
the changes in the market for the ma-
jor grain to a nicety.

FEEDS

An undertone of firmness prevails in
the market for mill feeds. The de-
mand, however, is somewhat quiet, giv-
ing the trade a slightly easier feeling
than otherwise would obtain. No
change of consequence has occurred
ir1 local prices. AY

While the statistical position of the
hay trade favors a firm tone, some of
,. the markets are being supplied to a
point where the recent strong feeling

'4 has eased off. Local prices, however,

remain steady.

    

BEANS-

F rther advances have taken lace
tean quotations. Receipts - ave
' comparatively litht, farmers haw

25c

ing held a considerable portion of their
crop in farm granaries, waiting for
better prices. The situation in New
York shows improvement and transac-
tions are being made at slightly higher
figures. Chicago reports a steady mar-
ket on light receipts and a‘fair de-

mand.
BUTTER

The trend of the butter trade the

’ past week has been upward. At some

points interrupted transportation ac-
counted for a little of this strong in-
fluence. However, tradesmen hold that
the higherfigures are here to stay for
a short time at least, basing their pre;
dic‘tions upon the supgly and demand
a short time, at lease asing their pre
situation. At Chicago extra creameries
92- -score, are bringing 52c; 90 to 91-
sc01e 501/2@51‘1/zc; firsts 48%@491,§c.
New York prices are: Above score
52174@53c; extra creamery 52c; firsts
50@51c. In Detroit best fresh cream-
ery‘ in tubs 50@510; storage 48@50c.

POULTRY AND EGGS

With the supply of eggs increasing
even the recent cold wave snaps were
not sufficient to stop the gradual down-
ward tendency in prices. The business
is, however, in a fair way, due to a
healthy consumption. At Chicago fresh
firsts were bringing 41@411;§c; ordi—
nary 37@’3SC. The New York trade
is holding fresh gathered extras at 48
@500; do. firsts 45@47c. Detroit

1 quotes fresh« current-receipts at 41 59 @

421/20; storage 27@28c.

The poultry is steady and unchang-
ed in Chicago and in New York young
stock as a firm course. This was
also true of turkeys, ducks and geese.
Small chickens and broilers are in a

strong way. The demand for chickens ,

is active at Detroit and prices are

firm.
POTATOES

The weather has been an important
factor in the potato markets during
the past week. Very few shipments
have been made because of impassable
roads and cold weather. The markets
generally have been steady, with the
demand fair and the prices unchanged.
At Grand Rapids the Russet Rurals

were bringing $1.12@1.25 per 100 lbs. .

In Wisconsin, sacked round whites
were bringing $1. 10@1. 15 at shipping
points. Minnesota Triumphs were he-
in scld for $115 per 100 pounds by
sh ppers’ associations.

APPLES

The demand at Chicago for boxed
apples wasgood, but that for barreled
stock was 11 ht. 'The market is get-
ting firmer, ichigan grade A. barrels
of Spies were selling for $5. 50@6; Jon-
athans and Greenings $5@5 50; Bald-
wins $4. 50@5. Boxed stock from the
west was selling from $3@3. 25 for De-

licious, to $1.85@2 for Rome Beauties,“

all fancy stuff in bushel boxes.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Apples, fancy, $2.@2 25 bu:
$1. 25@1. 75 bu; beets $1. 50@1. 75 a bu,
cabbage $1. 50@1. 75 bu; carrots $1. 50
@2 bu; celery 50@750 dozen, parsley
50c@$1 dozen, $1. 75@2 bu; potatoes
850@$1 bu; radishes 70c@$1 dozen
bunches; turnips $1.25@1. 50 bu; ars-
nips $1.50@1.75 bu; horseradish 3.50
@5 bu; bagas $1.25 bu; kale 75c bu;
eggs, retail 50@700 dozen; old hens,
wholesale 280 lb; retail 30c lb; spring-
ers, wholesale 250 lb; retail 300 lb.

 

[ Live Stock Market Service J

Wednesday,

DETROIT
Cattle.
Receipts 499. Good grades are slow;
others steady.

Good to choice yearlings. $9. 50@10. 00
Best heavy steers ....... 00@8 8.05

Handyweight butchers . 7.00@ 8.00
Mixed steers and heifers 6.0001.) 6.50
Handy light butchers.... 4.50@ 5.50
Light butchers .......... .00@ 4.50
Best cows ............... 5.00@ 6.00
Butcher cows ........... 4.00@ 5.00
Cutters .................. 3.00@ 3.50
Canners ................ 2.50@ 3.00
Choice bulls ............. 5.50@ 6.00
Bologna bulls ........... 4.50@ 5.50
Stockers ................ 5.7561) 6.00
Feeders ................ 5.50@ 6.25
Stockers ................. 5.25@ 6.00
Milkers ................... $ 45@ 75

Veal Calves.
Receipts 180. Market strong.
Best .................... $15. 50@16. 00
Others . .. 6.00@14. 00
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1 ,.783 Market 250 lower.

Best lambs ............. $ 14. 00
Light to common ........ 7. 00@ 9. 75
Fair .................... 11.50@12.75
Fair to good sheep ....... 5.50@ 8.00
Culls and common ...... 1.50@ 3.00

Hogs.
Receipts 3,913. Market is

15@20c
lower.
Mixed. "t $720@ 730
Pigs .................... 625
Roughs .............. . . . 5. 90
Yorkers ................ . 7. 00

CHICAGO
Hogs.

Receipts 42, 000. Market fairly active.
Mostly 10@200 lower than yesterday’s
close.
325-lb. butchers $7; bulk of good 150
to 225-111. average $6. 85@6. 95; better
grades 150 to 17 O-lb average, mostly at
$6. 60@6. 80; packing sows largely $6.25
@640 killing pigs steady to strong;
bulk better grades strong weights at
$5. 50@5. 75. '

Cattle.

Receipts 10, 000. Market on better
grades. of beef steady to strong; desir—
able yearlings strong; top yearlings.
$11; some mixed steers and heifers at
that price. Larger beef steers, fat she
stock steady to weak. Bulls strong.

Vealers 50c lower. Shippers and stock- ,

ers at $14; packers $11. 50@12

Sheep and Lambs.
Receipts 7. 000.

shoe steady; feeding lambs strongto

igh‘sr; hull: of good to choice fat

Bulk of good and choice 250 to .

Market is active. '
Fat woolod lambs mostly 259. higher;

January.30.

wooled lambs $14 14.25; early tops to
city butchers $14. 0; good fat ewes at
$8; feeding lambs $13.5
BUFFALO
Cattle. ’
Receipts, one ear. Market steady.
Calves at $16.50.
Hogs.

Receipts 25 cars. Market is steady;
Heavy and yorkers $7.75@7.85; pigs
and lights $6. 50@7. 25.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts three cars. Market strong.
Top lambs at $14 50; yearlings $12@
12. 50; wethers $9. 50@10; ewes $8@9.

No.1,;

GRAND 15.111105

This city was virtually iyi"£i:esh,egg

less” early this week. Drifting snows:-
blocked many country highways last
-week and the railroads furnished the . '
only means of deiivering eggs. Inland ' ' '

points were caught with stocks on '1
their floors and chant the only way. ‘

they could get them to ket was to f ‘
haul by sleigh to the 11‘s rest railway ~-
station. The short supply

feet on prices, which ranged from 350
38c per dozen. The pOultry m
was steady at 18@20c a po (1

live fowls.

beans, hay and buckwheat. GrOWers

mat
a for. *-
Weather cons tio'ns also v '
influenced the markets on potatoes, 1

had it’s he»: i3

able to sell potatoes at 65c pgr“ bushel '.

and paying prices for beans advanced

to $4. 35 with some country elevators

paying $4. 50 per cwt.

No 1 timothy. .,.
hay “was firm at $23 a ton, and buck- .

wheat was strong at' $1. 75 per cwt. ‘5 V
Dressed pork was 41.1111 at 10¢ a pound. .. 1 ‘1'
Calfskins advanced one cent a pound

to 10@_1Zc a pound.

COMINGLIVE STOCK SALES.-

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. Holsteins. _
Feb. 4.~—Michigan State Holstein As-
sociation, East Lansing, Mich. ,
8horthorns.

Feb. 8. —-Michigan Shor'thorn Breeders—1",“,

Association, East Lansing.
February 19- 21—American Sli‘orthorn
Breedeis’ Association. J. L. Tormey,
Secretary, 13 Dexter Park Avenue,
Chicago, Ills.
Durocs.
Feb. 20. —-Detroit Creamery Farm, Mt.
Clemens, Mich

February 11—H. Cramton, H. B.

Kelley and w. H.’ Schroy, Hillsdale ' '

Fair Gr-dunds. .
Poland Chinas.
Feb. 5.—Detrolt Creamery Farm, Mt.
Clemens, Mich.
Feb. 20. ——-E. A. Clark, St. Louis, Mich.
Chester Whites.
March 6.—-—A1exander & Bodimer, Vas-
A, CALL TO ORGANIZE FINE WOOL
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ELIEVING that the fine wool sheep
industry can begreatly benefited
by an organization of the breeders of
this class of sheep, it is desired that

all who can possibly do so meet at the -

Michigan Agricultural College, Wed-

-nesday morning, February 6, during

Farmers’ Week, for conference and or-
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Tuesday, February 5th

We will sell the greatest lot of yearling sows and gilts everofi'ered 111 this
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llO-Acre Michigan Farm. with
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Furniture. hogs. poultry. full implements. tools.
beans. potatoes. hay, oats. straw. winter’s wood. etc:
on improved readinear RR. town: 90 acres loamy
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over. in Subaru township. Alpena County. This
land is free and clear and is in one parcel. one-hall
(1/4) mile from the D. & M. Railroad. and on high-
way known as M-10. Considerable timber left. and
the land itself is above the average for this section.

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of‘ 110 a. in Livingston CO., 6 miles from Howell.
Good buildings. orchard. small fruit. near church and
school . . . With or without equipment. Write
for pdrticulam. n. a. news. FMerville. iiiicb.
, AND WEARY of the severe win.
Y5" ‘73 rm tore up there. COME. TO STUART.
You will be delighted with the climate here. A haven

for farmers. For information Write CIVIC COM-
MITTEE. STUART. FLA.

Prices are reasonable.

 

Lansing, Michigan.

 

 

102-acre Farm in Monroe
For Rent County. Ash Township. nine
miles north of Monroe. 25 miles from Detroit. on
good roads (telegnph road). Good land and build—
ings. Inquire 0. VI. Grew. 739 Waterman Ave.. Detroit.

 

Ba ‘ In choice farm and corn land in North
rgins Dakota. Sold on small annual payments
or on amortization payment plan. with small cash
payment down. Lands are owned by this company.
no commissions. FARGO LAND 60.. Fargo, N. D

40—acre» farm. in Otsego County. good
For Sale soil. water. orchard. and fair build-

ings. Near railroad. Some timber. Price $l.200.00.
Harry Gastow, 8722 Gooruia Street. Detroit.
By owner. 320-acro‘- farm. An ideal

F0! Sale place, fully equiDDed. Write for de-

 

 

crate, all only $0.300 if taken now. Part cash. De- '

tails page 35.l~llus. Catalog Bargains—many states. COLLIES—Tri- color female puppies. Natural work-
Copy free. STEWT FARM AGENCY. 20530. Kreeae ers. l’cdisrccd. $5 each. Clare V. Dorman. Snover.
Bldg" Detroit, Mich. . . Mich.

\ ‘ ' "W I! the time to b“! REGISTERED COLLIE I’UI’I'IES——Natura1 heelers.
M3WFM NOW a firm in Virginia. both sexes.

Silvercrest Kennels, Gladwin. Mich.

 

THOROUGHBRED White
Albert Emmons. Big Rapids.

Collie
Mich.

puppies. Write.

 

 

 

TOBACCO

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Five pounds chewin‘. 31.78:
tea. $3.00: twenty, $5.25. Smoking, five pounds.

$1.25: ten, $2.00; twenty. $3.50. Pipe and recipe
free. Send no money. Pay when received; Ken-
tucky Tobacco Company. Paducah. Ky.

 

TOBACCO—Extra Fancy Smoking. 10 pounds. 32.50:
Good Smoking. 5 pounds. :1: 10 pounds. $1.50: 20
pounds. $2.75. Chewing. 5 pounds. 81.50; 10 pounds,
$2.75. Quality Guaranteed. O’Connor Smokehouse.
8133, Mayfleld, Ky.

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs” $1.75: Ten.

$3.00. Smoking. 5 lbs. $1.25: Tm. $2.00. Pay when
received, pipe and recipe free. Farmers" Union Pa-
ducab. Ky.

 

 

BABY CHICK S

 

PURE—BRED BABY CHICKS~Barred Rock. Bun'
Orpingtons, White Wyandottes. lihode Island Reds.
February 15th to April 15th. $16.00 per hundred.
After April 15th, $14.00 per hundred. 98 per cent
Live delivery guaranteed. Brookdaie Poultry Farm,
Box 522. Paw Paw“ Michigan.

 

BABY CHICKS—Finest quality, Barred Rooks, White
Wyandottes. Buff Orpingtons. . (‘. Reds, Light
Brahmas, White Leghorns, $15.00 per 100. $8.00 per
50. Hatch every Tuesday. Order from ad. Member
International and Illinois Baby i‘hicli Associations.
Earlville Hatchery, 60 Ottawa St., liarlville. Illinois.

ROSE COMB Rhode Island. Reds. be
state cup. 1924. April-hatched Cockerels. $3.00. $5.00
and $10.00. A few Hens and Pullets. Red Aura
Poultry Farm, Battle Creek. Mich.. R. 0. Box 195-A.

“’HITE WYANDO’I‘TES from my
heavy-laying strain. Males 33 and $5.
each. 85 pair. David Rey. Ypsilanti, Mi

Winners of t

  
         

prize-winning.
Females 83
ch. ’

  
  
    
  
 

 

 

THOROUGHBRED Barred Rock Cor-kercls and eggs
for sale at reasonable prices. Write for circular. Fair
View Poultry Farm. R. 3, Hastings. Mich.

$3"and $5.
'1‘. E. Chesnut. R. ll. Lansing. Mich.

  
   
     
      
 
 
  

ARISTOCRAT—Bmed Rock Cockcrcls,
Pullets $2.50.

 
    
      
 

WHITE WYANDOTTE choice ceitkerels “ bullets.
O. B. Shotey, Plymouth. Mich, B. 4.

or v‘smn'rms of Fine pure-bus chickens. ducks.
geese, turkeys. fowls. eggs. baby chicks. Large catalog

 
 

 

  
      

 

50. A. A. Zlemer. Austin. Minn.
WHITE LEGHORN COCKEBELS—Chicks. Else from
best fleck in country. Catalogue. Oak Dale Farms.

   

Box Y. LeRoy. Minn.

 
  
 
 
 

BARRED ROCK—Cockmls.
Winners. Great Layers.
Box Y, LeRoy Minn.

Chicks.

Eggs.
Catalogue.

J’.A.S

Chico go
chneider.

           
   
 

s. 0. BROWN and English White Lenoms, ass—egg.
’I‘rapncstc-d. l’cdigreed. “Free Offer." Stock Eggs, $1
to $3. i‘atalogue. Vera Fulton. Gallipolis. Ohio.

    
   

 

 

GIANT BRONZE Turkey Toms and Barred Rock
(.‘ockei'cls. ('hoice Stock. Mrs. Geo. Robinson. Lake
Odessa. Mich.

    
 
 
   
  

MUSCOVY DUCKS—Br
and ducklings. G.

Mich.

 

eeders. drakcs. hatching eggs
E. Heneveld, It. 1. Grandville.

  
    

 

 

SILVER LACED and White Wyandotte Choice Cock-
erels. C. W. Browning. Portland. Mich

SINGLE—COMB Ancona Ceckcrels.
$5 to $3. H. (‘ecil Smith. Rapid C

 
 

    
 

Sheppard's b .
ity, )Ilch.. R. .

    
  
  

MAMMOTH bronze turkeys from best

breeding stock.
Mrs. Eugene Ramsdell. Hanover, Micl

i.

     
  

 

BABY CHICKS—20 leading varieties hatched from
heavy laying strains. Lire delivery guaranteed any-
where in the U. S. Lowest prices ever offered. Write
for catalog and price list. Miller Hatcheries. Box
061, Lancaster. Mo.

 

BABY CHICKS-100J900 Hollywood-Barron S. C.
English White Leghorns. Vigorous. Free range. 100,
$14.00; 500. ($7.50: 1000. $130, postpaid. Live Ar—
rival, Bank Ref. Liberal discount on early orders.
Catalog. Highland Poultry Farm, R. 9. Box
Holland. Mich.

 

scription. Elmer Beiden. Whitney. Mich.

w ld you Buy a Home? With our liberal terms.
0|] White people only. good land. healthy pro-

gressive country. Write for list. Mills Land 00..

Booneville‘. Ark. '

For Sale

$5.600.

 

Muck farm. 45 acres. all buildings.
One mile to town. High school.
Aug. Mitas. R. 3, Decatur, Mich.

in California write Kings

H: You WANT To LIVE County Chamber of Com-

merce. Hanford. California. for free booklet.
Bil-acre dairy farm near state

For sale road, 2 miles from Wixom.
LEWIS HARMS. Milford. Mich.

 

 

BABY (‘H'I(‘I{S~—Ban'on S. C. W. Leghorns. 312 per
100; Park Strain Barred Rooks, $10.00 per 100. 100
per cent live delivery guaranteed. Liberal dismount
on early orders. Waterway Hatchery, It. 4. Holland,
Mich.

 

STURDY CHICKS—.l’urc
flocks, 'cullcd by experts.
i'i'cc. Single (‘omb White
Reds, White Wyandottcs.
Hillsdalc, Mich.

b1-cd~to-lay and exhibition
Reasonable prices. Catalog
Leghorns. Ami-ones. Rocks.
Sunnybrook l'oultry Farm.

 

(’HILSON BARRED ROCKSiHmr‘hing eggs and
Baby Chicks. Winning pen all beaiy breeds Michigan
International Egg Contest 1923. Michigan's greatest
egg and color strain. Write for price list today. Mr.
& Mrs. W. H. Chilson. R. 1. Grandville, Mich.

  
 
 

MICHIGAN'S BEST GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS
-—Amcrica‘s best strains. Vigorous breeders, both
utility and fancy. Extra good values in young toms.
' Evelyn Ramsdell. Ionia. Mich.

   
       
     
  
   

PURE-BRED Bourbon Red Ti

irkcys for breeding onl .
0. Buggies, y

Milford, Mich

 

 

    
   
 
    
     
  
  
    
  
     
         

GEESE—Ducks. loading varieties.
John Hess, Bettendorf. Iowa.

GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS

Free Circular.

from prize winning
stock furnished.

 

 

birds. Large. healthy, unrelated

Mrs. La Verne Brownell, Belmont. Mich.
BOURBON RED TURKEYS—Pure-bred. large strain.
learlmg toms. $9.00: two-year toms, $13.00. Hens

all sold—Ernest E. Rea. Hillman. Mich.
MAMMOTH BRON
lbs... $12: hens, 12

ZIiIb TURKEYS—Toms. 20 to 23
5..
Walter Dillinan. Dowag‘lac.

37: good markings. Mrs.
Mich.

GIANT BRONZE T17RKEYS~GOId Bank Strain.

 

l'lioicic, vigorous birds. Unrelated stock. Write for
prices. Mrs. Perry Siebbim, Saranac. Mir-h.
l’URE-BRED Bronze Toms. Large Size. While they

last, $0 and $7. John Buchner. Morley. M

MAMMOTH Bronze Toms, large,
bust breeding.

ich.. R. 1.

hardy birds of the
Mrs. Ralph Slierk. Caledonia. Mich.

 

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BABY (“HICKS—Write for our new free catalog and
price list. Eight years' experience. H Pierce,
Jerome, Michigan.

 

 

 

”r ' 3f” Toimfg‘“ Tami ”my film it“? §°lzf“’§'
‘ ‘ 1 ve artcu r a owest e. e . a. .
v Ills}. GRAPE PLANTS—with order of Strawberry Capper Si), Chippezva Falls. Wis? c c
11 Ed$§%ssliéborry llgzgrbeifirer plants. Concord Grape
’ an '. . per . a state-inspected and guar- .
teed. Free booklet. i _ . Well imp. 55 acres bottom. well lecated,
aSHERY, Sawyer, Michigan. WESTHAUSERS "UR 1“ was 33.500. Jenkins A. Jones. Ave. Mo.
a . l
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Small advertisements bring b
tising miscellaneous articles
at classified rates. or in d

Rates 8 cents a word
consecutive insertions 6 c
display type or:

Real estate

OMlaimum charge,

for sale or exchange.

eats a word.
llustrations admitted.
ed live stock edvertieln
to words. ,

 

g department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers

est results under classified headings.

Poultry advertising will be run in

EDI” 00111111113 at commercial rates.

. each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions; for four or more
Count as a word each abbreviation. initial or number.
Remittances must accompany order.

u have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.

Try it for want ads and for adver-
this department

. ‘ dairy farm near Detroit. .lIouse. garden, milk and
BABY 01;“va and Custom Hatching. Bred-to—Lay potatoes furnished in addition to salary. Permanent .
English White Leghorns. Also Barred Rooks and Dmitlon- Stale fully me and aims of family: also

, Reds from good farm flecks. Booking orders for Farm-9 0" “'hli'h .YOU. have worked for the last ten
March delivery. Goret's Poultry Farm. Corunna. wars. together With Information concerning your ex-
Mich. perience. Apply to M. Lillie, 303 Huron Bldg. Detroit.
QUALITY CHICKS. eggs: fifteen standard bred inrl— l ‘3‘“) MIN” FOB SALI‘JS—‘I‘CNwNeW ”W‘mim 1*
cties; best winter laying strains. Free delivery. ltca— l "”_"1’]F‘t“ (“"flt- “3511359 and dl‘les Wlndmi'fl. sweeps,
sonablo prices. Catalogue i‘rcc. Missouri Poultry; ‘ ’.”h~‘- "10"“- etc. (0819 less than brooms. Over
‘Farms, ('olumbia, M0. l 1““ lI(_'r (-rnr profit. Greatest year-'round seller. Write
I i llarpor Brush Works. 173 2nd St. li‘llll‘llt‘ld. Iowa.
"BABY CHICKS from heavy-laying strains. All lead—

No

 

 

Rates in Effect October 7, 1922

 

 

One F0“? / One Four

1; Words time times Words time time-
10........$0.80 ‘140 26........$2.08 $6.24

ll........ .88 2.84 27.. ..... . 2.16‘ 5.48

12........ .96 2.88 284... . 2.24 8.79.

13.........1.04 3.12 29....... 2.32 3.90

Y‘ 14......“ 1.12 3.38 30........ 2.40 7.20

gal 15........ 1.20 3.00 1........ 2.48 7.44

." 16........ 1.28 3.84 launuu 2.56 7.68
17........ 1.36 4.08 ........ 2.64 7.93

18......” 1.44 M~~ ........ 2.72 8.16

19. .... .52 4.“ ........ 2.80 8.40

, - 20. . 1.60 4.80 2.88 8.34
91. ...... 1.63 5.04 87......“ 2.9. 8.88

-_ 22 1.76 5.38 .-...... 8.04 9.13

l 23 .. .... 1.84 5.53 9...”... 3.13 9.38

,,’ 24 ........ 1.92 5.15. . 3.20 9.60

.- if 25 ........ 2.00 6.00 41...”... .28 9.“
l- O . All radon-tiring to):

f : Specml tic dlmntimmna order:

or disarm of am hi

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BARGAINS—in horse blankets. Genuine Army wa-
terproof tan duck wool. double lined Horseblankeis.
strong sewed straps and buckles. All brand new and
have passed rigid Govt. Inspection. Easy worth $0.
for quick disposal $2.95 each. Satisfaction guaran—
teed. Order to—day. Army and Navy Dept. Store.
17 West Jeiferson. Detroit, Mich.

 

OLD MONEY WANTED—Do you know that C in
Collectors pay up to $100.00 for certain U. S. Ce ts?

And high premiums for all rare coins? We buy all
kinds. Send 40 for large Coin Circular. May mean
much profit to you. Numismatic Bank Dept. M..

Fort Worth, Texas.

 

TREES. Plants. Shrubs. guaranteed direct from grow—
er. west prices. New—Dr. Worcester hardy peach
and Ohio Beauty Apple. Planting Book Free. Wood~
lawn Nurseries. 951 Garson Ave.. Rochester, N. Y.

LEARN MECHANICAL DENTISTRY—Day or night
course. Equipment free. Write for information. De—

 

 

 

 

GLADIOLDS’ BULBS—Order now for April lst de-
livery Mixed colors; $5.00 per 100. ‘ 110m
. . .~ ve.

 
 

rmdaifor cu Clarified Detaflmt‘rnun mdi woman... trolt Dental Mechanics' Institute. 1248 Griswold St.

5 éyriu adum (Mites lien dati. \ ' Detroit. Michigan- -

1 . FR PLANTS. Prices Right: Stock Guaranteed.
_, . MISCELLANEOUS ‘ ' Stre tries. 88.00 per 1.000 and up. Raspberries.

 

.M Home. as Einstein

  
 

      
 

     

Grapes. Gooseberries. Currants, Dewberries. Catalogue
Free. Hellenga's Nursery. Three Oaks. Mich.

BIBLES ON APPROVAL—Examine two days then
pay curator-rs; Write- or catalogue. Harvey M.
Georgetown. Kin. _. pt. A.

 

 

‘ red Rocks.

  
   
   
   
      
     

 

HELP WANTED
FAllMER WANTED—Mani

ed man for general and

 

 

 

 

lng pure breeds. Low prices.
Catalog Free.

Prepaid. Live delivery
guaranteed. Smith Bros.’ Hatcheries.

Mexico, Mo.

 

BRED-TO-LAY CHICKS from my own flock of Bar-
Write for description and prices. Deliv-
ery Guaranteed. Kruepcr Poultry Farm & Hatchery.
Milan. Mich, R. '.

 

BABY CIIICKS—Anconas. Barred Rocks. from puree
bred, heavy-laying. free—range stock. Reasonably
priced. Prepaid. live delivery guaranteed. Howe's
Hatchery, Esst'nlllv. Bay (‘ountiz Mil-h.

 

BABY (‘IIIL‘KSWRemarkable. for size and strength.
Reasonable prices. Leghm-ns, Anconos. llocks, Reds,
Wyandotti-s, ()rpiugrons, Minorcas. Spanish, Brahmas.
Tyrone Poultry Farm. Fenton, Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS and eggs. Superior Ringlct Barred
Rocks. II. C. R. I. Reds. Whine Leghorns. Circular.
Wyndhem's Ideal Hatchery. Titlin, Ohio,

 

BABY CHICKS—White Leghorns, Anconas. Barred
Rocks. Low Prices. Catalogue. Oak Dale Hatchery.
Box Y. LeRoy. Minnp

 

BABY CHICKS—S. C. W. Leghorns. mated to Holt \visc. Experienced in dairy and ener f ’ .
lywood Pedigree Cockerels. 250»egg strain. Send for Chas. Ellett; Reese. Midi. 8 Bl arming
catalogue. Snowflake Poultry Farm, R. 5. Middle-

i‘llle, Mich.

74 VARIETIEs—Cb'mks. Eggs, Turkeys. Ducks. Low
Prices. Catalogue Free. Jas. Houck Co.. Timn. Ohio.

S. C. BUFF LEGHOBN Baby Chic-ks from good lay-
ing strain. Willard Webster, Bath. Mich.

 

good home, year—round work. F

Try. one.

      
       
   
   
  
  
   
 
   
    
 

 

WANTED to hear from prac
operate equipped farm on
went-cs required.
Michigan.

tical farmer (married) to
_shares, or will rent. Ref—
S. L. Bigf'ord. Gcnesce Bank. Flint.

 

AGlCN'l‘SfiMason sold 18 (‘omct Sprayers and Auto-
washcrs one Saturday. Profits $2.50 each. Particu-
lars irie. Established 30 years. Rusler CO., Johns—
Iown. Ohio. Box 020.

 

SALESMEN~for lubricating oils and paints.
lent opportunity. Big returns. Jed 0
3701 Burwell Aie.. Cleveland. Ohio.

‘ Excel—
il & Paint. (30..

MEN WANTING forest ranger,
and other government positions.
\Iokanc, B33, Denier, Colo.

WE l'AY $200 monthly salary.
penses to introduce our guarant
powders. Bigler Company,

railway mail clerk
write for particulars.

   

furnish car and or
eed poultry and stook
X683. Springfield. Illinois.

WANTED—Single. farm hand at once. good wages.

. Austin. Bourbon. Ind.

   

 

sr’run’rions WANTED
WANTED——Work on farm by

  
  

Year. manager or other-

  
   
  

 

 
   
  

CHIGAN FARMER
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