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' _ _ Cities-LDealeroEvcrywhere Some Plamzmg Now HY not fix up the tarm home grounds I” " -' , “All right, but there’ s no money in it " I said.- “No, there isn’t,” Snyder, “but there’s satisfaction and pleasure that money wen ’t buy. That's ,why we went to the trouble to beauti- fy our farm home grounds.’ As I Jooked from where I stood across a ,smooth, Open, green lawn bordered by trees and sh’rubs,‘to a little white 3 house nestling among green leaves and flowers I couldn’t replied George . help remarking, “What a cozy home.” . 1 just knew there must be a happy little wife inside. There was. “But didn’t it take a great amount of time and money 2" was my next question. . George laughed. -“I planned it in a few winter evenings and carried it out one spring day. It did cost ‘a. little—— for everything worth while costs some— thing—but the amount was small. The only care it now requires is cutting the grass and spading about the shrubs and pruning them once a year." I asked Mr. Snyder to tell me how he did it, that I might tell the readers of the Michigan Farmer. Surely, I thought, there are farmers in'Michi- gan who are tired of bleak and barren farm homes and would like to do just what George has done but don’t feel ~ quite certain how to go about it. This is what he told me. “The first thing I did was to meas- ’ ure the house and grounds and make a sketch of them letting one-sixteenth inch on the paper represent one foot ' onthe ground. Then on this plan I marked the shrubbery beds.” "How did you decide where to put them and what size and shape to make them?” I interrupted. . “Well, yod see,” 'said’ George, “I took a short course in landscape gar- dening at the agricultural college. We were taught there that shrubs should ‘ begplaced next to the house. They may be grouped down each side of‘the lawn from the house to the street.‘ Nothing but trees should be planted in the middle of the lawn; . Shrubs and flower beds in the lawn are as out of place as the proverbial dress suit in a corn field. In width,fithe beds may be anything from three feet up. Lay out the beds in broad curVes, making them wide at some places and narrow at others. Make them wide and round-3 ed at the" corners. That’s the way I made mine.” George showed me his sketch and HEN 'Granger Whitney, a for- mer engineer, got his fruit farm at Williamston into productive- ness, he found that the commission, men ’were not paying enough for the duality of fruit he Was packing, so he. .’ sent some to friends in Detroit. These apples Were not packed in barrels, but arranged neatly and firm- ‘ly in bushel boxes Their appealed to ‘ the friends 1316 got them, and as a malt»: Whitney got a few orders ' 1' month. "that rowi) . 141711 EL] [”5 :wngKL'Y‘ ~ PU MICHIGAN SECTlON THE APractpcal Journal for the Rural Family CAPPER FARM PRESS * ' By Howard K. Menhinick oftered togive meacopyof it togeth- ’ or with a list of what he considered the best shrubs, indicating 'whether they were tall, medium, or, low.grow- ing. He was true to,his word, and a few’dayslater I received the sketch" shewn and the following list. The numbers on the sketch correspond to the numbers on the list. ' Tall-Growing. ‘ 1. Bush Honeysuckle (Lenicera mor- Fragrant flowers in the spring. 3 5. Winged Burning Bush (Evony- mous alatus). Interesting “winged” bark and red berries in fall. Medium-Growing. 6. Bridal Wreath (Spirea van hout- tei). A mass of white flowers in the spring. 7. Siberian Pea Tree (Caragana ar- borescens). Early yellow flowers that look like sweet ”peas. 8. Deutzia (Deutzia lemoinei). Creamy White flowers in the spring. DINIMG l LlVlH £00m I Krrcnm 6 Poem 3 PLAN .01“ HOME. (1120va?) MR. GEORGE 3(WDEB 5011.: ~ ° ( \- : 40 15 ton. Red berries later. . 2. Sweet Syringa (Philadelphus cor- onarius).‘ Very fragrant white flowers in the spring. 3. Golden Bell (Forsythia fortunei). Yellpw- flowers before leaves in the spring.‘ 4. Lilac (Syringa vulgaris). Well— known flowers about Decoration Day. _ 3- 3.. Selling App 9. Pink Weigela (Weigela rosea). Pink, trumpet-shaped flowers in the spring. , 10. Amoor Rivei PIivet (Ligustrum amurense). Fine, almost evergrgen foliage and black berries in thefall. 11. Snowberry (Symphoricarpos racemosus). White berries in the fall. 12. Coral Berry (Symphoricarpos 163 by Mail ' A Met/7072’ 7/241 Brmggr Extra Profi/r bushel- box to the regular customers. In the first and second zones, he sends by parcel post, but when the customer 13111 the third zone he has found ex- preSs the cheaper. ' Of course, there is much detail con nected with this business, especially in writing letters and billing, but this I paid for. 67le ter his collections .9139 good. .moderate or well~to—do circumstances. By the humoring of the customers and this extra. detail work, Mr Whit- ney has worked up a business in which he sets a regular and unvarying price for his fruit. This year he is getting $3. 00 for McIntosh and Spies, and $2. 75 for the other varieties. This is the way it figures out. The buyei: has been offering fifty cents a bushel for good stock, the commission man promised about seventy~nve cents. QUALITY RELIABILITY NUMBER NINE "cautly to Home Grounds 4777! 4 L7tt/e Wont I77 Sprmg W 7/] Produce Wonderful Rem/ts ' vulgaris) Red berries in the fall. 13. Japanese Brier Rose (Rosa rug— osa). Pink or white roses followed by large red fruit. 14. Red-stemmed dogwood (Cornus siberica). -Attractive red bark in the winter. One very similar to this grows wild in Michigan woodlots. Get this from your own farm. 15. White .Kerria (Rhodotypos ker- rioides). Single white flowers in May. Good for shady spots. Low-Growing. 16. Pink Spirea (Spirea anthony wai- terer). Pink flowers nearly all sum- mer. 17. Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergii). Red berries in winter. This shrub will grow in almost any location. 18. Slender Deutzia (Deutzia gra- cilis). White flowers in the spring. 19. Dwarf Mock Orange (Philadel- phus nanus). Fragrant white flowers in the early spring. 20. Hydrangea (Hydrangea panicu- lata grandiflora). I .mense white flower clusters in late summer chang- ing color in autumn. “You’ll notice,” continued Mr. Sny- der, pointing to his plan, “that I have laid out irregular shaped areas for each kind of shrub and marked the kind. I try to place no three shrubs in a straight line. It has been my ex- perience that it is better to group five or six of one kind together and use only two or three kinds in any one bed. The tall shrubs grow large so I plant them about five feet apart; the medium, four feet, and the low-grow- ing, three feet. Needless to say, I planted the tall- growing ones at the back and the lo-wer growing ones in front. “I did this planning during the win- ter and made a list of the shrubs that I needed. SERVICE - ' i‘ ‘ .1 “In the early spring, as soon as the ground could be worked, I marked out the beds as I had planned them. I spaded them up with a lot of well-rot- ted manure. Then I went to a local nurseryman, picked out the shrubs so I could see what I was getting, brought them home, and planted them according to the plan. “You see, after all there’s not very much to my landscape gardening but it’s pleasant to live with and my wife and I take a great deal of pleasure in our home grounds. I am convinced that it actually helps me to sell my thoroughbred stock for folks say, ‘He is successful so his stock must be good.’ It is.” while his mail sales net him about $1.50 for the apples alone. The other $1.50 to make up the $3.00 he charges is used up in packing, transportation. 3 ; boxes, etc. ' The varieties Mr. Whitney is using in this business are Wealthy, McIn— » tosh, Wagoner and Spy. They all take well with his customers. His crop of nearly a thousand bush”- els is being disposed of in this way. The question is, will the continued in- - , crease in the production of his young : ‘ orchard find such a market when it? totals several thousand bushels2 0. is led to believe that it win, for that far Mr. Whitney has more trade then As has fruit for. Wed Weekly Established ma : Commit me The Lawrence Publishing Co. ; Editors and Proprietors 1832 ”Odette Boulevard Detroit. menu-n ~ Telephone Chem 8384 w YORK OFFICE 120 w. 42nd St. caoo OFFICE 608 So. Dearbom St. _ CLEVELAND 0F“I¢I( E 1011-10i3 Oregon Ave" N. E ' PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 261~263 South Third St. ARTHUR CAPPER ..... .............. President MARCO monnow .................. Vice-President PAUL LAWRENCE .................. Vice-President ,F. H. NANCE Sec Associate Editors I. B. WATERVBURY ............. Business Manager TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ' One Year, 52 issues ........................... $1. 00 Three Years, 156 issues Five Years. 260 issues All Sent Postpaid Canadian subscription 50c 11. year extra for postage BATES Oli‘ ADI ER'I‘ISING 55 cents per line agate two m1 asurement or $7.70 per inch (14 agate lines per iw-h) per insertion. No adver- tisement inserted for less than $1.65 each insertion._ 1\o objectionable advertisements inserted at any time. Entered as Second (lass Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan” Under the Act of Martens 1879. Member Audit Bureau of CircalatiOn NUMBER NINE 1924 VOLUME CLXII DETROIT, MARCH 1, CURRENT COMMENT A fool and his money are soon spotted. It is said that competition is the life of trade. We thoroughly believe that compensation would inject much vigor in agriculture. 0 gain greater re- spect for, and sat- isfaction from agri- An Honor culture, is the pur- Roll pose of a state-wide .. campaign inaugurat- ed by agricultural leaders in the state ‘of North Carolina on Washington’s birthday. On’ that day meetings were held in the schools of the state to stimulate activity in a program looking toward an improvement in the farm homes and farms. This, the leaders hope to do by pledging individual farmers to perform definite things. Each farmer who signs one of the pledges agrees to perform at least seven ofthe follow- ing ten items. If he succeeds he will be placed upon the roll of honor and » be granted a certificate. The items are: 1. To raise enough corn and hay to carry him through 1925 without buy- ing any. 2. To raise enough meat to supply kgthe family for the year. ‘i 3. To have a garden. , 4. To provide milk and butter for the family the whole year through. 5. To keep at least thirty hens. 6. TO improve the orchard, 7. To work for richer land. 8. To enroll one or more of the chil- dren in club work: 9. To add some home conveniences. 10. To beautify the homestead either by painting the house, making a lawn, ’or planting trees or shrubs. Why not start an honor roll in Mich- igan? It, no doubt, could be worked .througb local farm organizatibns. Let’s Start IL and water will not mix. But oil and mud will. and cially when politics is Mud used for a paddle. 3 What a “grand and (glorious feelin’” it must give to cer- tain of our noble statesmen down at Washington to have fall into their rucibles, on the eved of a pro-election inpaign, a product so adaptable for ' ' ring up 'the reputations of their 1 rivals. e from politics there are really we vital questions involved in rioue naval oil leases of Elk Oil ‘7: te‘Mr. Doheny and Teapot Dome: ., :four years as compared with other eel: ’? vShfliclair. These questions are: Espe I ,, make a freight (11126th Second. Were the leases. as made, 7 to the best interests of the govern- ' ment? Notwithstanding the undoubtedly honest defense of the leases on this ground by Secretary Denby. the con- sensus of intelligent public opinion is almost unanimously adverse. Third. Did fraud, hush money or bribery play a part in the making of the leases? Enormous loans that are , uncollectable, fat salaries, highly prof- itable speculations’in stocks, and ex— treme" retainer fees look suspicious. Thorough investigations time decide this question, and if men are found guilty they should be made to suffer the full penalty of the law, regardless of rank, position or previ- ous governmental station. ‘ A great deal of imagination and ex- aggeration have found play in this so- called “Oil Scandal.” Politicians have found in “Teapot Dome” an ideal means of ruining one another’s repu- tations. Political mud has been spat- tered, not only upon those involved in the case, but upon those connected with those involved in the case, and upon those connected with those con- nected with those involved in the case.. So, if you have tanked up your fliv- ver on graft gasoline or rode with anyone who has, better not run for office this year. Your political oppon- ent will surely find it out and your reputation will be ruined. Such is the exaggerated state of present-day politics. It is bad, very bad, and worse during a presidential election year. The people can be de- pended upon, however, to size things up about right. Their intuition helps them to distinguish closely“ between political bunk or mud slinging and the facts. . That is the fine thing about this great country of ours.' The people back home, on the. farms and in the shops, are too intelligent to be led off into extremes of thought and action; they are the great balance wheel of our western civilization; the power is in their hands; they know it, and can be depended upon to keep the machin- ery of government tuned up and in order. 'T is well known that, due to the lack of orderly mar- keting, the Michigan apple crop does not bring the growers what similar crops do in other states which are in better position to market their crops throughout the consuming season. The lack shipping point storage space makes ~1t necessary for the Mich— igan grower to crowd his fruit on the market at harvest time, the period of the lowest prices, whereas New York and other apple states hold large Another Marketing Problem 4 portions of their crops in storage to be niarketeduas the demand indicates. Figures recently presented by the government indicate that there is a peculiar situation in the celery mar- keting activities of the state, one which perhaps parallels the apple sit- nation. These figures show that while Mich— igan grows the highest quality celery in the country, with the possible excep- tion of California, she gets the lowest - prices. ' .New York, a good celery state, got twenty-eight per cent more in‘ price than Michigam The report also says that New York had 118,806 crates in storage at Christmas time, while no mention was made of storage in Mich- 133.11, It is true that prices are cheaper to g1owers in sections where a commod- ity 'is freely grown beyond its con- sumptive needs, but Michigan has only about one-fifth of the celery acreage in the Country. Therefore, this factor" should in ‘ bushel. yielded 227.6 bushels perracreVat'a' untrue. Four-fifths of thee factor in the prices. The conclusion must then be that the Michigan celery growers Incl: the same facilities for orderly marketing that the apple growers, and it is very likely that further investigation would 1 reveal another good reason why Mich- igan should have more shipping point storage space. 0 the average'per- son much of the joy of living is lost by reason of uncer- Stabilizing Land _ Values I in values are one of these. Real estate prices are not lex- cepted from the list. Wide fluctua- tions, both generally and locally, have been’no small factor in the recent up- setting of agriculture. In certain cities an unique plan is now being tried; Men qualified and interested in real estate from its var- ious angles are called upon to, ap- praise the value of certain parcels of real estate in eachof the important sections of a city. These appraisals are then published" for the benefit of all. . Would it not be helpful to agricul- ture to have similar appraisals ‘madc of typical farms in various parts of a county? O~wners, buyers, sellers, ten- ants, landlords, and those stiiving to ‘ lcain what it costs to grow potatoes or any other c1op would have a very definite interest. Would not such an appraisal also aid in stabilizing land values and, by avoiding the wide fluctuations Of pric- es in transfers through such a stand- ard, discourage frenzied land specula- Uon? N these. days of , boys' ahd girls’ club work, we fre- quently find examples of how a junior mem- ber of the family wins out in farming contests with father through the use of methods adapted to modern conditions, rather than fol- lowing those practices useful in pion- eer farming. — . Here is an illustration taken fiom life: John Shutt and his son grew po- tatoes last year on adjoining land. The father used the same type of seed he had always planted. He applied ‘sev- enteen loads of manure and no fer- tilizer. The son used certified seed which was green and sprouted, the same number of loads of manure his father had put on, and 4'75 pounds of a 4- 8-6 fertilizer to the acre. - Son ‘ . ' . Shows Dad The results were astonishing, partic- ularly to the father. He secured from his field an average of seventy-five bushels per acre at a cost of $1.13 per The lot planted by the son cost of thirty-six cents per bushel. This shews how it is possible for one man to lose and another to make a profit under identical soil and weath- er conditions. To keep on the winning. side of the farming game it often becomes necessary .to figure on low costs per bushel or pound, rather than on low acreage costs. '1' is the general impression t h a t Bock ‘ to the ' leaves the farm' to go Farm to college, he gets so many new-fangled ideas that they' w‘ean him away from the farm. In other words, when the young man leaves for college it is thought to mean “good-bye” to the farm: The findings of the M. A. C. Alumni Association, however, preve this to be wh should not make the state hold the lowest place in prices during the" past . ' greatest part of this am:- tainties. Fluctuations . when a young man- gr ‘ _ agricultural epre‘ . ,; . cerns " i ’ Thus. in minus ways. these 56,012 farmers do farming much good some; do it by example, Others by teachings, and still others by contributing to farming through their agricultural re- search. _ p The degree to which these' college men help themselves and others do-. - pends upon their ability to use what their college cOur-se has given them. College werk is not the key to suc- cess: it just makes succch easier A college education furnises equipment; ones success depends on how he is able to use that eduipme‘nt. What col— lege graduates have accomplished in- dicates that most Of them know how to use what‘they get at college. The more young men we can get“ to go to college and then back to the farm, the better it will be for-farming. - ’ Ta/ém “ALKIN’ about talkin’, Jim Hudson says there ain’t nothin’ to it; all you gotta do is to open your mouth and let some noise out. I guess Jim is about right, ’causé I find that talkin’ is a lotta what you call unnecessary noise. Like a loose fender on your car, etc, it ain’t essenshul‘l for the well-bein’ of the’world, and beSides it’s irritatin’. Talkin’ is supposed to be the means of communicatin’ we human bein’s got given to us by the AllMighty fer the purposes of lettin ’other folkses know what we want them to know. But talkin’ has evoluted, so to speak, con- siderable since Adam was a babe, and my scientifick investigashuns Of what you call modern talkin’ shows it’s what you call a efflshunt floppin’ around of the tongue to keep the other folkses . from knowin" what ‘you don’t want them to w"know or to make them believe what ain’t. I think we ought to. rise and give the ladies a vote 0’ thanks for what they have done- fer talkin’. It’s since there was more womjn that talking has improved, or got worse, I don’t know Which. But, the fax is, if it wasn’t fer the womin there wouldn’t be much talkin’. The poets wouldn’t have nothin ’to rave about and there wouldn’t be no scandals nor stories you gotta tell in a whisper, if it wasn’t fer them. The womin of the world is responsible for most of the conver- sashun of today- _ , Now, talkin’ ain’t the only languige there is. Fer inst., there is the lan- guige of the eyes Which talks power- fully loud sometimes. Take Sophie, ‘ all she is gotta do is to look at me and I know right away she is wantin’ me to get to work. And there is that high school girl down the road, when she looks. my way when I meet her, I know right a’way she wants to ride to town in my oughto. And I guess my face says I want herto, ’cause all I gotta do is stop andshe gets right in. 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Winter wheat has suffered severely owing to. lack of snow cover and repeated freezing and thawing of the ground and in several states in the heart of the wheat belt the condition is low. FARM LABOR\WILL BE SCARCE. AN extensive shortage of farm labor- seems to be due when" spring op- ens. The industries and road work are calling labor from the farms and paying high wages that farmers are not generally able to meet. RADIOS MUCH USED ON FARMS. IN an effort to ascertain the extent to which farmers are making use of the radio market news service by installing radio sets in their homes, a qfiestionnaire was sent out by the bu- reau of agricultural economics in Oc- tober to 2,500 farmers whose names were furnished by county agents in every state in the Union. The result of this inquiry seems to indicate that, the farmers who own radio sets make practical use of them. In the matter of buying or assembling a. set it is found that the farmer folks are as much inclined to make their own sets as the city radio fan. . Of the 1,168 farmers reporting, 614 had manufactured sets, and 554 home- made sets. The average cost of the manufactured sets was $172.60, and of the home-made sets $83. Nine hun- dred and twenty-one farmers their sets for market 1‘,eports 931 for weathei reports, and 1,141 for enter- tainments The ave1 age cost of all the sets was $131 each. As there are 200,000 radio sets on farms in the United States this would mean on this basis, a total of $26,200,000 invested in farm radio for expansion in the radio field with outfits, and an almost unlimited field more than 6,000,000 farmers as pos- sible purchasers of radio sets and equipment. ELIMINATE MELLO‘N’S INCOME TAX REDUCTION RATES. g THE Mellon income tax reduction rates have been eliminated from tilm tax revision program by the pas- sage in the house by a vote of 222 to 196 of a substitute tax bill. The amended bill provides normal taxes of two per cent on incomes of less than $5, 000; four per cent on incomes be- tween $5,000 and $8,000; ,six per cent on‘incomes exceeding $8,000; a. grad- uated surtax scale beginning at one per ent'on incomes between $12,000 and§14,000, up to a maximum of forty- four per cent on incomes exceeding $92,000; and exemption of $2,000 for single persons and $3,000 for heads of families. HOLDS THAT TRUCKS AND AUTOS SHOULD NOT BE TAXED. ' I ‘HERE is much disappointment in evidence because of the failure of the ways and means committee to pro- vide for a reasonable reduction in the‘ taxes on automobiles, trucks and re- pair parts. In a letter addressed to congress, Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Washing- ton representative Of the National Grange, says that the automobile and _‘motor truck have become so neces- sary to agriculture and to reasonably agreeable life in the oeuntry; that the best figures indicate that one-third of the automobilest use are owned by used‘ farmers, while the l, coining indispensable _o agriculture. It, was the contention of Dr.’ Atke— son that the present tax on repair parts is unreasonable and every auto- mobile user should be relieved of it. The tax on trucks is a. tax on- neces- sary equipment, and should share in any plan of reductitm in a. bill when Other exeise taxes are being removed.- . WOULD MARK IMPORTED SEEDS.‘ AN effort is being made to secure amendment to the pure seed law providing for the dyeing 'with eosin red cloverseed imported from Italy. Tests by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture and a number of agricultural colleges have shown clo- verseed from Italy not to be generally adaptable in the United States. It has been sown with unsatisfactory re- sults in many areas. The amendment to the pure seed law would give the department of ag-' riculture authority to investigate the adaptability of seed from foreign coun- tries and when found not to be gen‘ erally adaptable to provide means of marking its identity. AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION Moves SLOWLY. PROPOSED agricultural legislation is making little progress in con- gress. The bill extending the time limit on the operations of the War Finance Corporation for another nine months has passed both house and senate, and is awaiting the President’s signature. The NOrbeck-Burtness $75,- 000,000 crop diversification bill is on the senate calendar. There is slight chance of the McNary-Haugen or the Norris-Sinclair marketing corporation bills getting through this session. Del- egates from the northwest are appear- ing before the house and senate agri‘ culture committees .in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill, but some of them insist that the wheat farmers of the northwest are not asking for loans to enable them to go into the dairy busi- ness. They have, no intention Of turn- ing to dairying. CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT PRO- POSED. AN extensive movement is being promoted in favor of a bill now in congress providing for an amendment to the Federal would prohibit the employment of children at manual labor. Originally the prOmoters of this pro- posed amendment were willing that it should apply only to children employ- ed in factories and shops. Now, how- ever, they are referring to the census - figures which show that of more than a million children between ten and fif- teen _years of age who were actively engaged at labor in 1920, more than half were rural children at work on their home farms, and they are also emphasizing the “horrors” of employ- ing children in sugar beet fields Of the west andpn the commercialized truck farms of New Jersey and Maryland. In hearings on this child , labor amendment bill representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federation told the committee that the Farm Bu- reau’ Federation was opposed to the exploitation of children, but was not willing to endorse any proposition that might give extremists among the anti-child labor advocates opportunity to secure or enforce laws that would affect the reasonable employment of . children on the terms. A vigorous ef- . _ fort. is beinximade to secure monas- I sage j this ll and have it. . to the to exislatutes at was m. s ' t truck is be“: Constitution which " . "9‘. 1“ 'ms article .'f-:;:_ eniiig” sandy loamL of south- western. phigan that are heavy enough so they do not blow, and level e‘nbugh so there 13.110 serious danger , of washing. During the last seven- or ,eight years I. have had personal ”knowrnge of many seedings of alfalfa put in on these lands. when they were in a more or less “run down” condi- tion._ They have been made at all times ”of the rspring‘and summer, from the latter part of April to the middle of September; preceded by periods of‘ preparation varying from a few days to two months in length. Some have been made with s allgrains, more of them have been seeded alone. Results obtained have varied from pronounced successes to total failures. The object of this paper is to describe with some detail the method” that usually has pro~ duced desired results, and to point out some of the practices that experience has shown are not desirable. Given a piece of typical sandy loam, ' one of many thousand fields that may be found in these southwestern coun-' ties. It no longer grows clover and the good wheat crops it once produced are only a memory. The land is not profitable and will not be until an ef- fective process of soil building has been given it. Without the use of ma- nure or fertilizer, a good stand of al- falfa can be established on this field, and in four years the hay produced by it will pay for the cost of seeding, pay a good rental value on the land, and generally a profit besides. After four years in alfalfa, the land will again produce old-time yields of grain, and at the end of a rotation; of two or more crops, it can be reseeded to alfalfa with wheat, rye, or oats, as we used to seed clover. In order to secure a satisfactory stand of alfalfa on the land referred to, it should undergo a period of prepara- tion lasting five weeks or longer. The lime should be applied at least four weeks before the alfalfa is sown. The field should he'seeded after the first .7 , son Woodman '—good,1'ain in June. If these require- ments are met, itis necessary to plow. ; applies only to the. ;« naturally tinder-drained “oak op- in April unless the land .is fall pIOWed which, if convenient, is desirable, and the lime. should be app-lied not later than the first week in May. The lime should be ordered early enough so that it will. be certain to be on hand when needed. If finely.,ground limestone is purchased, store it" where it will not get wet. Before liming, roll the field with. a» heavy roller. If ground lime stone is used, apply it when the sur- face of the ground is dry, and harrow in immediately. Rain will cause it 'to_. form little lumps, and it will not dis- solve as readily as when the individual particles are thoroughly distributed through the soil. If marl is used, go over it with a plank drag before har- rowing in. The plank crushes and spreads out the lumps, making possi- ble a much more even mixing of the marliwith the dirt and it will go into action more rapidly. It should not be forgotten that lime must dissolve be- fore it can act on the soil, and some weeks must elapse after its applica- tion before enough has gone into solu- tion to make it safe to sow alfalfa. Ex— perience has shown that the lime should be in the land at least a month before seeding. After liming, barrow with a spring-tooth drag at least once every eight days, or oftener if neces- sary, to prevent weeds from getting a start. On June first, the seed- bed should be compact, moist, and absolutely free from weed growth. After the first good shower in June, harrow the ground lightly, and sow the seed shal- low. Many a thin, weak stand has re- sulted from too deep cultivation just before seeding, or from sowing too deeply, or from both causes combined. One of the best seedings I ever saw was put in with a shoe drill. The shoes were raised above the ground, and the seed covered by the chains only. A cultipacker followed the drill, pressing the seed firmly into the shal- low covering of dirt. No rain fell on (Continued on page 308). Cow Testers ’ Meeting IFTY-TWO Michigan cow testers were present for the annual cow-test- ers’ meeting held at the Dairy Building, East Lansing, Michigan, on Feb- ruary 1-2. Various topics of interest to the cow testers in their association work were presented during these days. Prof. O. E. Reed, head of the dairy de partment‘, M. A. 0., spoke encouragingly regarding the work of the testers. He'mentioned the fact that it was clearly unto the testers for the suc- cess or failure of this project, and that he felt the work that they were doing was going a far way toward improving the general condition of dairy- ing in the entire state of Michigan. Mr. J. E; Burnett, also of the dairy department, M. A. 0., brought in some very timely feeding hints for the testers in their association work. Dr. Hall- man, of the veterinary department, M. A. 0., pointed out that the cow tester can help to bring about a new understanding among stock raisers in regard , to'the care to be taken of the cow at‘calving time. All of the extension specialists, H. ‘E. Dennison, J: G. Wells, Jr., J. G. Hays, R. H. Addy and A. C. Baltzer, had occasion to talk to the testers along some of the phases of their werk. Mr. Carl Huffman, of "the experiment station, gave some in- terest‘lng facts regarding mineral feed and its relation to the diary cow. The annual election of officers resulted in H. E. 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The soap itself is a for ten minutes on the face. cosmetic. No Germ—laden Mug The drying soap in the old fashioned shaving mug lost its freshness of lather and soothing qualities, and gathered germs which, skin specialists say, infected small cuts and scrapes on the face. Scientists thoroughly approve the sanitary tube and the soothing quick shaving quali' ties of Palmolive Shavmg Cream. 'PALMOLIVE gSHAVING CREAM Follow with Palmolive After Shavin Talc. An invisible way to that wellvgroomc look. © P. Co. 193% 1 10 SHAVES FREE 51.1.1, 1...... me . , and address and mail to THE PALMOLIVE COMPANY ‘ . Dept. 8652 360)}. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Ill. ”07 ‘._- “AA QUALITY” Fertilizers have brought profit to three gen- They have been a constructive force in Amer- erations of farmers. ican agriculture for oVer half a century. _Their crop-producing records have never been excelled. They represent the best thought i and efforts of an organization this seeding for sixteen days; When it * did come, the young plants were twat inches tall,- strong and vigorous. Generally, it will pay to clip the- youug seeding in August. Frequently _ the alfalfa plants will turn yellow and- small dark spots'appear on the leaves. ' The spots and consequent yellowing of , the leaves are caused by a fungous; more or less weed growth also devel- ops, shading the young plants. The mower checks both troubles. Close clipping often is injurious to the young plants, so it is desirable to set the mower bar three or four inches high, the bar remaining level, or with the points cf the guards tilted slightly downward. , ' The somewhat lengthy period of soil preparation is necessary fer several reasons. First, to provide the “com- pact, moist seed-bed essential to a prompt and vigorous germination of the seed. Second,'to make active the supply of nitrogen needed to keep the young plants growing until the bac- teria supplied by the culture have mul~' tiplied sufficiently to ' supply fixed nitrogen from the soil' atmosphere. Third, five weeks or more of cultiva- tion is needed to kill weeds. A short period of preparation only stimulates their growth. A longer period kills them out sufficiently so that the young alfalfa plants will have the first use of the plant food in the soil. Why seed in June instead of later in the summer? June is the best time to escape injury from insect enemies, of which there are at least four species that have occasionally proved destruc- tive to new seedings. Another reason is that we are dealing with a. “run down” sandy loam. The young alfalfa plants will not develop as rapidly as would be the case on well-manured soil. A June seeding gives ample time for the growth of a satisfactory top before cold weather. All the steps are taken that have constantly striving to increase I its usefulness to the ‘American I farmer. Insist on fertilizers bear- ing the “AA QUALITY” Trade Mark. ‘ THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL CO. Oflices in 22 Principal Cities “Worth. more per dollar because they produce more per acre - - ” non suns, Grown From Select Stools -Nono Bettor— 54 years .5 selling good seeds to satisfied ' 15‘ customers. Prices below all ' . sothers. Extra lot free in all. i~ '8aws15cordsanay! -Easy with the OTTAWA Log Saw! Wood mfutiliunh usnIuonsoursoil-étmustbnvelime. ggorcrops. Guaranteed to handle lime in any form, fertiliser. phosphate, wood sshesor crushed shells. hamster“ mm ‘ about your wilt-your ? Witt: sturdy unfit ey , d out “today with our itive porn—by All W '.._ at ”a". 1mm 1 - I”. 7‘ v: ;‘ .. . . ”77" 1 maintain the organization. saying that we should buy nothing but - . farm bureau seed. that we should take no chances. been recommended; Octobe1 comes. The new seeding looks fine, the stand, is good, the top is well developed, ‘there are plenty of nodules on the ’ioots. The field of young alfalfa is a source of pride and satisfaction to the ‘ owner Then it winter- kills. The plants me not heaved out, but spring finds a large part of them dead and many of the rest sickly and weak. It is mown for hay a year or longer, but the plants are small and the stand thin and spot- ted. ! have seen this happen many times, although less often in recent years. What is the trouble? Sowing southern or foreign-grown seed that is not adapted to our climatic conditions. Northern-grown seed of known origin and approved varieties is as essential to success as proper preparation of the soil, a sufficient amount of lime, and the use of cultures. If the Michigan Farm Bureau performed no other ser- vice of value for the farmers of the state, the fact that it supplies us with alfalfa seed on which we can rely, is worth many times what it costs ‘to I am not I do say, however, Mil- orm ontd.hrinclownetmfldty Una lions, of pounds of seed are imported flifials over 700 grew "'sfiééflgfigh‘hhfinmfifi every year, more millions are harvest- vegetables and flowers Send sum ””1"?“ ° same—w ed in the southwestern states. We yourandneighbors’addresses. mgnmmunmmmg.“ never hear of “Turkestan,” or “Ari- II. II. SIIIJWAYJIOWI .22! uni-ammo m“- . 20113.,” or other similar. seed on the- ' market, and yet somebody buys it and sows it. To many readers, this article will 1 seem 'a rehash of what every. farmer ‘already knows, but numerous drives through our southwestern counties :during the last two or three years have shown me many poor seedings . and not a few failures mixed .in with the good seeding: to be. seen on the lands referred to. ’ last summer. .1 next summer. ‘Ws have plowed, timed, fitted and sowniieldsto alfalfa in periods of tea I saw a number I expect to seatinore‘ Why the failures? (Continued from" days or two weeks Others have sown too late in the summer and same in. ' ‘ 'sect pest has destroyed the new seed— lugs, or a large part of the little plants 7 a are heaved out by frost the following winter, or poor seed has been used. Occasional failures are. caused by not using enough lime, more often the seed .. is sown too soon after the lime is ap- plied. Occasionally some farmer tries to make a first seeding with a “nurse crop” of small grain. ‘Such an'attenipt on our depleted sandy loams is fore? doamedfito failure. Only a small percentage of our oak opening farmers are raising alfalfa. There will be many new beginners among ‘them this year. Hoping that a. recital of the lessons learned from the experiences of many farmers may be of value, I have prepared this paper. ILLUSTRATES MUSKRAT FARM- ' ING. ICHIGAN farmers owning wet lands may be interested in a b'ul- letin recently revised and publishedby the United States Department of Ag- riculture. It presents the muskrat as a fur-bearer, and sets forth the eco- nomic value, as well as the destructive characteristic, of this little animal. The results of muskrat farming are illustrated by several examples. While under certain conditions the muskrat is destructive to gardens, field-cern and fruits growing close to the water, Where land crops are not put in jeop« ardy, considerable income has been derived from the muskrat, both from his fur and for food. It costs nothing to raise and maintain the muskrat, which feeds on water-plants for the most part. IS FULLY SOLD ON THE SILO. IN the early spring of 1923 my silage gave out. I had been feeding sil‘ age, alfalfa hay, cut corn stover, oat. straw, and a grain ration consisting of ground corn and cob, ground oats, ground rye, bran and cottonseed and oil meal. The first week‘I was able to keep up the milk flow by feeding more of the alfalfa, in fact, all they would eat without waste. The second 'week there was a falling off of milk flow. The third week there was still a furth- er decline, and also the fourth week. And the cows were hardly satisfied. Along about that time the snow had gone and I had a sod field that 1 later planted to corn. On nice days I turn- ed them on that where they could pick at the green grass that was trying to grow, and kept up the regular feeding, all they would eat. There was an in- crease in the milk flow at once. .We have had a silo on this farm a. dozen years or more, and there is al- ways a feeling of satisfaction when we start the Winter with it full to the top. For ‘we know there is a mighty nice lot of feed there that has cost us very little, and after the pasture gets short in the summer and you are lucky enough to have silage left, the cows are home on time after you have started feeding again. "I stand for the silo every‘time. My plans are set for another one as soon as possible—Edward ~P. Jensen. TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES STILL I POSSIBLE. ' ‘ THE defeat in the house of the prev posed a endment to the Constitw tion to prob bit tax-exempt securities was encouraging to friends of the farm loan system, which is dependent upon tax-exempt securities for thefunds it must lame to finance the farmers. Butter scoring ninety-two per cent. brings from seven to nine cents more a pound than butter sco eighty..- glut? pgr cent. Why not . -' better: n or . - , ‘ , d 22' , I. . — ~w...»...~ ’ sure that each A plant gets its proper proportion of plant food " An application of 300 pounds of fertilizer per acre is equivalent to about one ounce—a little more than a apoonful— to each‘square yard of land .‘ . EEO "‘\\\‘ V\“\\\\‘\“ \\ RED STEER BRAND '1 Swift’s Red Steer Ferti- lizers are so carefully mixed that each plant gets its full share of each plant food element con- tained therein. This re- sults in even growth, even maturity and maxi— mum yield A spoonful of fertilizer to each square yard of ground! Each plant gets so little that it is of the greatest importance the fertilizer you apply shouldbe thoroughly and evenly mixed TRADE M‘AnK Home a a o ~-u- Fertilizers for Michigan It pays to use fertilizers—high analysis fertilizers. This 13 the message which goes out to the farmers of the land from the agricultural colleges and ex- periment stations in many states—with definite recommendations, based upon years of research and experiment, as to the fertilizers which will give best results on individual soils and crops. For Michigan, the Michigan Agricultural Expe’ riment Station recommends the following analyses: ‘Feed your crops a balanced ration HE successful livestock feeder kn'oWs that in order to get best 1 results, each’ head of stock must get ‘a properly. balanced ration. The same principle applies to crop feeding. Your crops need bal- anced rations just as your livestock , does—fertilizers that are carefully and scientifically compounded from the best sOurce of plant food ob- tainable, so processed and thor- oughly mixed that each plant is sure of its proper ration. ' Why Swift’s is preferred Swift 85 Company considers the manufacture of fertilizer from the balanced ration viewpoint. Twenty- four large factories, equipped with the most efficient machinery, in- sure thorough processing of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers. . Swift 85 Company, with its access to important sources of raw mate- rial,.with its expert chemists and agri’culturists, is enabled to manu- facture fertilizers which supply plant food in the proper propor; tion and availability. Every bag of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers is backed by the more than fifty-year-old Swift reputa- tion for making each Swift product the best of its kind. Swift 81. Company, with its 45 ,000 shareholders, with its investment in, factories and lands, with the good- will of the public which has been built up during more than half a century of Swift 86 Company serv— ice, could not afford‘to jeopardize its reputation by manufacturing other than a superior product. Where to get service Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers are dis— tributed and sold by an organization of more than 7 ,000 Authorized Swift “Agents—successful merchants who are pledged to co-operate with Swift 8; Company in giving to the farmer quality fertilizers, plus a worth- while service. Talk over your fertilizer problem with the Authorized Swift Agent in your town. If you do not locate him readily, write us and we will put you in touch with him. SWif t -85 Company Fertilizer Works, Dept. 43 Hammond, Indiana P ALY ; S ‘T o Corn ——Sands, light sandy loams: without mixed meadow, manure or green manure, 442-0; with mixed meadow, clovers, alfalfa or soybeans or with manure, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0- 12 12, 0- 8- 24, Potash. Oats, Barley (with spring seeding of alfalfa or clovers)——Sands, light sandy loams: without mixed meadow, etc 0— 12— 6, 4- 8— 6; with mixed meadow, etc. ., 0— 14- 4; with manure, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc. ., 2- 16- 2; with mixed meadow, etc., or with ma- .nure, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0—12-12, Potash. ‘ Alfalfa, Clover—Sands, light sandy loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 0—12-6; with mixed meadow, etc. ., 0— 12- 6, 0— 14- 4; with manure, 0 14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy learns, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., or with mixed meadow, etc., 0- 14- 4, Acid Phosphate; with manure, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-12—12,Potash. Potatoes—~Sands, light sandy loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 3-8—6; with mixed meadow, etc., 2—16-2, 2—12—6, Acid Phosphate;- with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 3-8-6; with mixed meadow, etc., 2-16-2, 2-12-2, Acid Phosphate; with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-8—24, Potash. Sugar Beets—Sands, light sandy loams: with mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 2-12-6, 4-8-6; with manure, 0-12—6, 8-12-4. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12—4, 2-16—2, 2-12-6; with mixed meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 2-12-6, 2—16-2; with manure, 2- 16- 2, 0- 14- 4, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0- 8- 24, Potash. As Authorized Swift Agent for the sale of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers, we are co- operating with the Michigan Agricultural Experi- ment Station by handling the brands recommended above which apply to local conditions. , Come in and let us select the analysis that meets your own soil and crop requirements. Authorized Swift Agent rift f jourr now run 111, '., 0‘: l ' 1...... . . A > _‘i . i Here‘s The Tracrto Plow You Have Waited For ! VERYWHERE Fordson owners are adopting the Ferguson Plow—thousands are m use. it is the plow Fordson owners have waited and hoped for. draft, its ability to penetrate and stay in the hardest ground is excep- , tional. Simple, short and compact. Has only I lever; only 3 adjustments required to prepare it for plowing. Only 5 7 inches long—operates as a part of the tractor—easily backed in the furrow -~enters and leaves the soil instantly. ENTIRELY to pull in the ground, but because FLEXIBLE -- always plows at of its close hitch and application of even depth. See Your F ordson Dealer He has the Ferguson Plow or can get it for you quickly. Write us for descriptive folder. Address THE RODERICK LEAN MFG. C0., DEPT. 24, MANSFIELD, OHIO ' Builders of the Famous Roderick Lean Harrow: since I 868. lts working advantages are tremen- dous. it weighs only 300 pounds, ' yet is actually far stronger than plows twice as heavy; built of ALLOY STEEL— tough, strain-resisting steel 'of super strength. lts lighter weight means lighter draft—and a consequent saving of fuel expense and tractor wear. No dead weight Mention Michigan Farmer When Writing in Adveriisers “And l’Can Pay for It All Out of the Earnings?” That’s it exactly—your J amesway Equipment costs only a part of the extra earnings it makes for you—and is spread over small .. monthly payments. . ' For example, Jamesway Drinking Cups are guaranteed to increase milk yield two pounds per cow per day. In a herd of 20 cows this means 40 - pounds extra milk yield per day. If milk was selling for only $2.50 per hun- - dred pounds, the extra income amounts to $27 per month. Whatever equipment you need—whether stalls, pens, carriers—drinking cups, or ventilation—can be installed in your barn-immediately—today on the J amesway Co-operative Plan “Pay from Earnings” .A small down-payment is the only from Earnings”will take care of that. investment you make—your earnings Remember, Jamesway Service too. \_take care of the rest. In many‘cases, We dig deep into your cow, sow and ‘(ltly a Pf?" 0f your 91"“ 30"""8" i3 hen problems—apply common-sense, ‘ ‘ ' all that 18 needed. ‘ . 97m knowledgegf farm mm. . , ‘ Write Today . merit—try to show you how and where . .' and tell us what equipment you need. to make more money. It costs noth- ‘ You have no excuse for waiting. ing‘ to find out; Write right now .Don't worry about money. on; "Pay whileyou are thinking about it. Ask for BookletNo. 75. ' ” ameswa)’ in. ”mm“ mac-WSW ‘ . , ~ . . (Av-11"” ”an a- bored Cubs... , 's'u'LL GETS KILLED.‘ \ highway to railroad and up tracks until killed by train. There is an old siding and yard at this point, but the gate is always open. and there are-no cattle guards at tracks—J. H. L.. Compiled Laws 1015, Sectkm 8304. provides that while cattle guards are not maintained, the company operat- ing the road shall be liable for all the damages that may result from such Meet—Rood. ,maHTs 0F VENDOR ON DEFAULT. ‘ I bought a farm on contract. If, through no fault of my own, I fail to meet obligations and interest, can they hold my unsold crops and per- sonal property which the contract doesn't cover?—G. H.- , If the payments are not made as re- quired by the contract, the vendor has the right to elect whether he will on that ground declare the contract for- feited and recover his property or in- sist on the performance of the con- tract. He may affirm the contract and sue the vendee for the defaulted pay— ments, take out execution, and levy on any property not exempt, including the crops on the property sold; or he may give notice of his intention to for- feit, and sue before a justice of the peace or circuit court commissioner for the possession of the property sold. If he elects the latter course he can— not recover any' further payments on the contract—Rood. - USUAL RENTAL. The man I rented my farm to says I should furnish horses, tools, feed, cows, pay all threshing bills, silo fill- ing, feed grinding, horse shoeing, all breakages, etc., that is an expense there; then give him one-third of eve- rything that is sold and then buy his share of corn, hay, oats and. all rough feed. I find after doing this that 'I lack $50 of having money enough to pay the taxes and insurance on the place.~—E. A. H. The common rental practice under the one-third stock lease system i. e., when the landlord furnishes all the live stock and machinery, is for him to get two-thirds of the proceeds and the tenant one-third for furnishing the labor. The expenses, such as thresh- ing, silage cutting, corn shredding, grinding feed, feeds, fertilizers, twine, fuel for threshing if purchased, and -. veterinary services (except for horses if tenant owns them) are usually di- vided in the same manner as the pro- ceeds. . A very satisfactory way of dividing the proceeds is to sell the product and divide the money rather than the crops, providing said parties can agree on a. satisfactory time to sell produce. ' The tenant should market the pro- duce. ‘ The farm income not only includes crop and stock produce but live stock increase as well.—F. T. Riddell. GETTING CLOVER STARTED. I would like to inquiry about sowing red cloverseed in the spring. When IS the best time to sow? Will it injure dressed to sow it the latter part of February or the first of March if the ground should be bare so the seed would get in the ground?—E. S. W. Under- very faborable conditions good seedings of clover are frequently secured by seeding the latter part of February and during March when the ground is freezing and thawing. This practice is‘ not as successful on sandy soils as on the heavier soils,’neither- does it give as good'snccess whenthe Hollis somewhat depleted in. organic matter, due to the factthat the ‘seed . frequently is not “well gamed, The , "practice of seeding atla time ,when the - seed: can .becaretully covered is be- Bull breaks out of yard, goes édG’Wfl' ducks, coming more prevalent each; year; [j . When wheat isused as a. nurse crop, the. clever is usualty seeded when git can be covered with a spike-tooth drag. When oats or barley are used as a nurse. crop, the clever seed £13 usually sown with a small grain. The customary amount of clover seed to sow per” acre is approximately eight pounds. When alsike is included in the mixture, 3 little less seed is used. The lack- of lime and of available fertility is causing many failures of clover. The method. of seeding will not overcome these deficiencies. Poor- 1y adapted seed is also causing a num- ber cf failures, and is likely to cause quite a few this coming season. Last year the cloverseed crop was about forty-five per cent normal in the Unit- ed States. Large quantities of seed is being shipped into the country, and much of this seed is poorly adapted. Farmers should insist on home-grown seed, since none of the imported seed has been found to equal the domestic. —-Megee. HARD-MILKING COWS. I have two good cows that are hard milkers. They give their milk in a. very thin stream, especially in the start. Would there be any remedy for this?—L. A. B. The condition of hard milking can be overcome to a considerable extent. It is caused by the failure of the mus- cles at the end of the teat to properly relax at the time of milking. These muscles extend around the teat. When they contract they close the teat duct. and when they relax they do not do so sufficiently to make the opening of sufficient size to allow the milk to flow out freely. ’ Sometimes when the cow first‘fresh— ens, a very strong. milker can, by us- ing his strength, force the milk through in such a large stream that these muscles are stretched, apparent- ly, and the cow afterwards milks more freely. You can purchase hard rubber plugs, made on purpose, and by insert— ing them after milking and leaving them in, these muscles will become distended and remain so and the cow will milk fimore easily. If you can not buy these plugs, there is no good reason why you can not make some out of some kind of mate- rial that won’t break; say for instance, sole-leather. They must have an en- largement near the small end so that when forced in they will remain If they had a uniform taper they would soon work out. If you use any kind of plugs they should be thoroughly sterilized by boiling before using, andthey should also be well oiled with vaseline be- fore inserting. - ' VIOLATION OFICONTRACT. I rented a farm last winter. Ladd- lord to furnish everything and give me half of crops, live stock, eggs, poultry and butter. Contract was ver- bal between him and myself and my wife. We found out later that farm was in his wife’s name. In July they ordered us off the place, saying we could not have anything. Later the woman said we could stay. November 3 they again ordered us off, saying we could not have nothing. We have worked hard and can prove it by the' neighbors. Have eighteen geese, ten 150 chickens, 400 bushel of oats, 1,000 bushels of corn, and six- teen pigs, five lambs and a calf since we came here. Can they put us off without anything? What must we do to get our share?——J.l, C. A married woman. may make such contracts personally or ~through ~ an agent, and the husband may ._be the agent. The facts indicate acont-ract. Unless satisfactory settlement-is , 10b- r’ miner’s. lawy‘er should be employed. ‘i'wfiood."- . , 1 ' , 5" March 4- -5 -At this two-day session, I u. secretary to take the place now held 01 . winter meeting at Bentbn Harbor on subjects of interest to lines of fruit g1:9wing will be discussed. There will also be a special election to elect a; by Prof. R. V Gardner, whé was ap— pointed by the executive committee to the secretary’s office, which was left ’ vacant by the death at T. A. Farrand, last DeCember. «The pregramv of the sessions‘ is as follows: " ' ' Pear Pruductlon. Tuesday Morning—Address of Wel- come by Fred Hobbs, acting mayor of Benton Harbor; response, A. J Rogers, of Beulah, president of Michigan State Horticultural Society; “Dealing with Pear Blight,” Prof. H. A. Cardinell, M. A. 0.; “Pruning the Pear for "Heavy Production," Prof. Roy E. Marshall, M. A. 0.; “Pear Psylla and its Contro,’ L. W. Strickland, Lockport, New York. Peach and Grape Production. . Tuesday Afternoon—Address, “Dead Arm of Grape and its Control,” 0. W. Bennett, of M. A. 0.; “Experiments in Concord Grape Pruning ” N. L. Part- ridge, M. A. 0.; “Cultural Methods in Peach Production,” W. S: Perrine, Cen- tralia, 111.; “Peach ‘Yellows,” 0. W. Bennett, M. A 0. ‘ Natrition and Fertilization. Wednesday Morning—Lecture, “The Intake, Translocation and Use of Min— eraLNutrients in the Tree,” Prof. F. G. Gustafson, University of Michigan; “The Manufacture, Translocation, Stor- age and Utilization of Carbohydrates in the Tree,” Prof. H. D. Hooker, Jr., University of Missouri; “The Relation of Nutrient Conditions to Fruit Bud Formation,” Prof. V. R. Gardner, M. A. 0.; ,“Bearing Habits of the Apple as Influenced by Nutritive Conditions,” Prof, F. 0. Bradford, M. A. 0. g Spraying and,Small Fruits. ; Wednesday Afternoon—Lecture on ”Spraying for Scale Insects,” Prof. W. 0. Button, M. A. 0.; “The Making and Use of Oil Sprays,” Prof. A. M. Bur- ioughs, University of Missouri; “Rasp- .berry Pruning Experiments," Superin- tendent Stanley Johnston, South Hav— en Experiment Station. PORK RIND REMEDY WORKS. IN reply to J. J. Hillman, in the' Michigan Farmer of February 16, I will say that the pork rind remedy has proven . effective - this winter. Early in December, rabbits be’gan girdling the trees, so I whitewashed them, hoping that the whitewash would do for the winter. HoWever, as .. soon as the whitewash were away, the rabbits started their destructive work again. Then I applied the old German rem- edy which I mentioned in the Febru- ary 2 issue of The Farmer. No more trees were girdled until we had a bliz- zard which caused the snow to bank upon a pear tree. The next day that tree was girdled. I greased it to the top right after that and it has not been touched since, although there have been rabbits in the orchard near- ly every night. ' If Mr. Hillman knows of rabbits eat- ing grease, he has something new un- der the sun, as the rabbits up here are strictly vegetarian. However, if he doubts that any good could come from Germany, I would suggest that he come here and see for himself.— Henry Drier. . PACK APPLES IN CABTONS. EW York state fruit growers were urged to take steps to. put their . apples- on the retail market in less V than. bushel sealed and trademarked; at home econdmics o: : W; Federation or : Drawn by FRANKLIN BOOTH for The Electric Storage Battery] Company "I Do your battery thinking early The time to think about your battery is when you . 1 buy it. The more real thought you give it then, - ' the less you’ll have to worry about it later. It’s the fellow that buys “any old battery” who sits by the roadside ten miles from nowhere and thinks and, thinks. ' " Pick out a battery that has a worldwide reputa- ‘ I tion among motorists for long, dependable service and you can’t go far wrong. Any Exide owner will glhdly tell you that Exide Batteries live a long time and give splendid, ample service during their entire life. The first cost of Exides is low and their last cost is kept remarkably low because of mini- mum repair bills and unexpected months of use- . fulness. You will find them truly economical. were EXIDE PRICES are from $17. 65 FARM POWER AND LIGHT. A up, according to size and geograph- great majority of all plants have ical location. There 18 an Exide for Exide Batteries. Make sure that every car—and for your radio. yours is a long-life Exide. . THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY Manufactured in Canndl by Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd., 133-157 Duffel-in St., Toronto ” 1 “ are: \ L...— -4 .. 5‘ DIRK. Cur-1.5.0.12” AT MAIL ORDER RATES or y m lent 11 d b ' grown p. “a“ on some, tJifty, Micki-gun:- ollrubl. Raine In Kalamazoo County-- Jamaal [or hardy, well rooted stock true h more. Buy In your MSW and insure prompt mm! in vi : one ’condition. Special prices on orders sent m. It. for on: 11mm catalog 0! depenmie- treeeu -it'e tree. NW5, 3131mm". . ' ‘ , if When the water is on the fields and the rivers creep up and out Q - of their banks' 13 no time for work. It is a good time. however. to consider whether your farm equipment is ready for the work { days ahead. . Quickly penetrating and easy to operate, the new Oliver DH ~Harrow, made entirely in Oliver factories, possess all features . desirable for proper discing. Special soil and crop requirements are most adequately met through use of the new DH and the reversible and orchard disc barrows. For full information and name of your Oliver dealer write the nearest Oliver branch. Oliver DI-I Disc Harrow «' OLIVER OLIVER CHILLED PLOW WORKS SOUTH BEND, 1ND m =5 Mention the Michigan Farmer When Writing tnithnnrtisnnsf This tiny, destructive insect causes dwarfed fruit and culls and is one of the great foes to or-a chard profits. "Black Leaf 40, " the “old reliable" nicotine spray, rids you’r trees of Aphis, Red Bug, Pear Psylla, Thrips, and other ruinous insects. Equally effective in combina- tion with other standard sprays and save. labor by combining two protective measuress Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stationl‘ ~recommend it... . Your Deal" has “Black Loaf 40" and now loan-ta. touceo av-mourcrs a calm GORP. podrow LOUISOVILLE, KY. 40% It Mcoflne ed at the various influences 11181111 19:14 dollars for the growers. In a general; way, there is no o'verosupply to bear the price. the price ;is lowered because the trade cannot handle them. . All these facts were discussed at a recent meeting of a committee at Lan- ‘ sing whose purpose, in plain language, is to prevent the market sags which take the dollars out of the grower’s pocket. There is a strong feeling among the bean dealers that the farmer is not given the full value for his crop, and, by reason of conditions partially which - he may control and partially matters of dealers’ control, when ’the bean market goes to high levels,~it benefits a few at the expense of many, and over-stimulates acreage. The Whereabout of the Profits. There has been no knowledgeof the actual car-shipments out to check up on the crop estimates. strong feeling that the disparity be- tween acreage yields, upon which pric- es are made, and actual shipments of marketable stock depresses the mar- ket. There will be made an effort to ascertain carload' shipments, to be used‘ as a check on crop estimates. , To the general public mind, the re— turns for the bean crop is misleading. Take a fairly average yield of fifteen bushels per acre. The public con- founds the $4.50 price per hundred pounds with bushels and neglects the factor of pick 01‘ loss, which this year will average close to eight pounds. The total public view is a return of $67.50 per acre, or fifteen bushels mul- tiplied by $4350. The actual facts are, with a pick of eight pounds, there are only fifty—two pounds of beans per bushel, which at four and one-half cents per pound gives $2.68 per bush- el. This is further reduced by a pick- ing charge of seven cents per pound, or fifty-six cents, or finally $2.12 for each of the fifteen bushels off an acre, , or $31.80. During the war the basis of beans was changed from the bushel of sixty pounds to the 100 pound limit. general public has not kept them- selves apprised of this change. The Storage Problem. The partial bear influences on the market by farmers is storage in ele- vators and short-selling by joboers. Storage, at first glance, looksllike a harmless affair, but it is in reality crowding the market. Most elevators are obliged to sell their stored beans to avoid cungestion, and the beans are replaced frOm other incoming stocks. From a trade standpoint, these stored beans are “on hand,” While, as a mat- ter of fact, they have been sold. There have been cases where the temptation on the partof the elevator has been too great, and the stored stock has been sold; speculated with, or pledged as loans, to the loss of the grower.’ To, sell sto1'ed,stock when ' the market is advanced and replace it when it sags, results in the beangrow- er’s own stock being used to depress the market in order to replace sold storage stock. During the current year, elevators have made a profit of fifty to seventy-two cents per hundred by this very method. “Short selling” is the sin of the ele- . vator operator who “pegs” the market- and expects to buy below“ the We. There is a saying among professional market operators .“tbist he who sells short is wishing book hick on some- body. There shoand be a test sum of mm selling in excess at stocks . owned. oitbor under the state statute; Wellington-restraint Way: of Prevmtmg M aria: Sags, . ‘ by Committee y'Prodhcer: . . HE Michigan bean crop has so; , man-y different angles of spa, .1 preach that. one becomes smaz-t which. At specific times» " beans are crowded on the market, and . There is“ a , The. e Coaudmd of trade acts at the United States. One of the most strenuous opponents of future selling was the late W. J. Orr, when president of the Michigan. ‘ Bean Jobbers’ AsSOciation. ’ How to Raise Advertising Fund. Nearly a million bushels of Michi.‘ gan beans go into cans, and these are advertised in the most exciusive pub- , Jications, but no-mention is made of their being Michigan beans. One cent a bag of one hundred pounds weight would create an advertising fund of around $50, 000 which, judiciously used would create a demand for Michigan beans many times the cost. There is every" reason for belief that this one ~ cent invested would return twenty-five cents to the'grower. _ If each grower who reads this arti- 'cle were to ask his neighbors if he would allow the elevator to deduct one cent per hundred pounds for an adver— tising fund, it would be interesting to know their attitude if he would write to the editor of the Michigan Farmer. The lima bean growers of California have advertised extensively, and found it very profitable. Beans are a protein food not supplanting other farm pro- ducts in that line. Suggests Cooperation of Seller and Buyer. One of the ideals of the bean pro- ducers is stabilizing marketing. Grow- ers have this in their power if welded into a compact organization. For ex- ample, the best knowledge of the ex. tent of the crop and general price level would allow the market to be started, for example, at $5.00 per hun- dred, with a sixty-day advance to a summer or spring market of, say, $5.50. When the monthly quota, which the market would absorb, was reach- ed. let the producers’ committee ad- vise withholding beans. There is prac- tically no time when a declining mar- ket would not be sustained by a. cos-I sation of marketing for ten days or more. Also with the knowledge that the next period would advance prices, buyers would place their commit- ments. In this way, both buyer and seller would aid, in stabilizing. the market. ' No new Machinery Needed. Contrary to general opinion, there is no real bear interest in the'bean mar- ket, but rather a desire to make the crop profitable to the. grower. The difl‘iculties of the market are rather easily ironed out by coordinating ex- isting agencies rather than the creat- ing of new machinery. There is a general agreement of the necessary steps to' accomplish the ends sought; viz., more profit to the grower if co- operation in sellhng can be carried out. This cooperation asks. for no or— ganization fees or pooling agreements, or any of the expensive selling of stock or construction of buildings, or the visitation of solicitors, but merely the delivery of beans no faster than the market demands Those who co- operate in such manner are really co- operators in spirit and in truth. Choice hand-picked beans ought to be staple in every store in the United States at three pounds for twenty-five cents, with a5 fair profit to grower and handler. With a proper understand—‘ ing, and an advertising campaign, the Michigan bean grower might plant with an assurance of $5.00 per hun- dred for his crop when sold.. Instead of asking someone to contract to pay this price, he has it in his control to write this price himself and it will be paid him—J McB. Wheat prices are low because. the world wheat acreage for 1923 was the largostonrecordandthoyield forall countries was better than ten per cent above the avenue at the mucus M m .__, Mun-n, . w~.er"' - -—m.... «n... .. “.mwxfiv. "Oi“w. \W'M. 4. 1 t 1 t: i on“. v~m .. ._...b...._ . ' . the assOciation members. , year thirty-eight unprofitable cows head of grade Holsteins, _ E VERYTHING pays on the farm or A. H. Brown, of Freesoil, He knows what he receives from the var— . ious lines included in his system of _ farming, and what is paid but in labor ' 7 and materials in each. His books, in Other Wards, have guided him to an ‘ efficient system of managing his farm operations. . Cows form the hub of the system. He markets his farm crops through them, retaining thereby much of the fertilizing elements of these crops. His milk checks last year totaled '.$1900. Besides, he has added several animals to his young herd of pure- bred Guernseys- Flocks of hens, tur- . keys and geese also add to the ex- chequer more than they take out. In the latter, Mrs. Brownfhas a particu- larly keen interest. TESTER SUMMARIZES A‘ YEAR's WORK. IN the annual cow-testing associa- tion summary drawn up by H. J. Schaner, tester in the South Kent As- sociation, he shows a total of 246 cows were tested, averaging 7,301 pounds \of milk and 280.7 pounds of fat. Mr. Ivan Smith, of Caledonia, Mich- igan, with six pure-bred Jerseys, had the high herd for_ the year,__av‘eraging 465.4 pounds fat and 8,907 pounds of milk. The high herd in milk produc- tion was owned by Mr. Joe N. Wen- ger, of Caledonia, Michigan. His nine pure-bred and g1ade Holsteins aver- aged 10,920 pounds of milk and 367.4 pounds of‘fat. The high cow in but- ’ ter-fat production belonged to Mr. Orlo (Good; of 'Caledonia, Michigan. This eight-year-old threequarters Jersey produced 13,109 pounds of milk and 616.5 pounds of fat. A pure-bred Jer- sey, five years old, owned by Smith, made 600.57 pounds of fat and 10,451 pounds of milk. The high cow in milk production belonged to Joe Wenger, producing 15,952 pounds of milk and 481 pounds of fat. ‘This cow was a pure-bred Holstein; Ernest Ruehs and J. J. Luneke, with pure-bred and grade Guernseys, re- spectively, had the best production in . Guernseys. Mr. Ivan Smith’s pure‘bred Jersey herd was the only herd averag- ing better than 400'p0unds of fat. Ten other herds averaged above 300 pounds of fat for the association year. Two cows made better than 600 pounds of fat. Fifteen cows made between 400 - and 500 pounds of fat, and eighteen cows made 365 to 400 pounds of fat in the association year Some interesting comments were made by. Mr. Schaner in summarizing the year’s work. Seven members out of the twenty-four in the association are feedingalfalfa hay, and five have started new seeding. All members are either using or owning pure-bred sires. Five pure-bred )ulls were purchased during the years as follows: va0 Guernseys, one Jersey, one Holstein, and one Brown Swiss. All Kent coun- ty herds in this association. are tuber- culin tested. . Four members are without silos. There are fifteen stave silos, eight tile _ silos and one cement silo in use among I were sold to the butcher. Two mem- , bers sold, out during ,the ,association year—Mr. William Blake, with twelve averaging $1.03 75 per head, and Charles Ward, . with twelve pure-bred and grade Jer- I seys averaging $105. 46 per head. II Grade cows in this 10¢ality without ‘ cow-testing association records are ' selling feeabout $85.. TH; some oF ETHEI cow-MAN. ' II T HliiN pretty see one cow is done, nether on, and Ivan ' During the and that runs fairly want one that gets all fat dewn to the last drop and that runs so easily that a turn it. In addition, you must get construction that makes many years of good service possible. In recent tests, the Illinois Cow Testing Association found it a common occurrence, on average farms, for out-worn, poorly con- structed, poorly cared- or separators ask to waste $25 worth of butterfat every month. Think of it, $300 wasted in a single yearlI If the machine you are usin you in such a manner, you can- not afiord to operate week longer, regardless of the so-called I“bargain price” you may have paid for it. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY. of America (Incorporated) 606 So. Michigan Ave. ’ Itis not enough to buy a" cream separator that skims fairly clean easy-_—you the butter- child can ing Cream g is failing it a single It is unnecessary for you to sufier such butterfat losses. You can escape them by throwing out the wasteful machine now and replacing it with a new, efficient McCormick-Deering Ball-Bear- Separator. These modern, easy-running separators represent genuine economy. From the viewpoint of long life, easy-turning, and close-skim- ming, they outrank all others. You need one on your farm! If ready cash is not plentiful, our dealer for his liberal terms. Let a McCormick- Deer- , ing Primrose earn bigger cream profits for you and apply the extra dollars on the easy pay- ments the McCormick- -Deering dealer will offer you. There are five popular szzes—all of standard McConnick- Deering ball- bearing design. fish the McCormick-Deming dealer abodt the size best suited to your herd. Chicago, Ill. ‘1; a] No. 1 (35011». No.12 (450151. No. 3 (6501b. .No. 4 (55015:. No. s (1100 lbs. . cap-city capacitor) . capacity capacity) capacin) 1 CERTIFIED N. DAK. seed. GROWN GRIMM ALFALFA lWIIIICBIOIIO‘ direct from grower. fields registered and stage inspected. F. UM BACK. LEMMON. S. EVERGREENSM lllll’s '11.", Fine (or windbreaks. hedges and“: lawn "lant- .All hard. vigorogiste a1’1d oell [(éot We everywe or rec vergreen boo Beautiful Evergreen Trees at modern mpdoeo. Lulu-mmlummll EXCAVATORS for DIGGING MARL S. 0. NAFZIGER Kalamazoo, I_Mich I .30: 434, ET us ship you direct from our mill all the Limestone Pulverizel from Factory 10 Farmer ’ a Price two Ton $250 3 - -- .:_ Reasonable terms. Capacity two :C tons per hour. Also three ton ’ $295. 00. Why pay more when you can buy direct. Write us for tree literature. Knoxville Pulverizor Co. Knoxville, Torin tiallly I“guiinlt; :33 lasting. 8:!- action Guaranteed or Your Money Book! - Buying Direct Saves ‘I: ABOV Iiiprices ilnclude) ever-went”. 11?“. comp h“aw-ml“. Ml“. windows. doors flooring Idiot. é mug;- "at“ minds" ulna-m Ind moi-dad "amine Wk“; : 111mm 11a; 1111:1111. Concretin on the farm pays. Put down fi’ 1:011:3ch oon, sidewalks, foundations, etc. ‘ k-Mix. it turns out a wheel- t”£11‘rfull‘h of concrfete “nature. Do aw: wi t :11de o mixmg y - hand. Trya wilc- Mix Mixer. on 30 days’ Trial. You will like I it and nuke extra money con ‘ acting for your neighbon. The ‘ l \ new Kwik- is the he's: farm . mixer on the market. Works\ ° ‘ as good as a 3200001111112: »' ‘ Price Reduced 1? on] $34.00 afutJOIhyt' "Manual” 00. Wilt KWIKKIX {01:11:}?EJC! - Unhuilod. Grow Swan 1:.Clovor Cheaper 11nd better than Re (1. rows anywhere. Best ’ our im-mo ooh-loll. fol pasture andh hly‘. 1““ Bmch Dd Bigm man ey maker “Hg 11. 10min Groom ofteen worth $60 Eouy'monos 11.90?” over,m Sowo Invader. scuttled omd ALSIKE 3: AND TIMOTHY Contains 10% 15V?"6 111%"; contains 20% to 25 Alsi e, 511;: ' , Agreat hay and pasture combir, , , an ridiculously cheap. Se ed M... we... 1.2. were, a... ... B wsrlan" W Hum-111m! 1° Olarlnda. low. 1"?“ _;"T , _ cannons 1-! 1' co“ I . \ , . - l . ;/ 1, Down“ “AMONG 3mm . . Cm: and grind all the grains that 3mm, in honor reoarseru for cattle leading, every effective 111 adjustment. Lu '1- lIING lIFE '- -8IIAPEII wanes—amass. P.or am It pays wentoinvostinu. “a 11.11.153.111» 'Royster’s “(Cur-ed” fertilizer is certified fertiliZer \ YOU can ’t look at the ordinary bag of fertilizer and tell how good It is. You have .to risk the time and It 1311 l: money of a season 8 work before you KNOW. known to be good until you get your money! “”37 Certified Fertilizer But Royster's "cured" fertilizer is like a certified check. it Is certified by the forty years we have spent in learning the needs of the soil you work. It is certified by the experience of successful farmers all about you, who say ”Royster's fertilizer increased my earnings." ' “Cured” Fertilizer is better plant food It 18 certified by the" curing —a feature of Royster s fertilizer which Increases its value because of a more complete chemical action. making the plant food' readily available to the plant. (Royster's goods age in great bins for 'four to six months. They are then re-milled and bagged). Ask for “Royster’s” Stop guessing about fertilizer. Look for the name “Royster” on your bags cf fertilizer and you have , found the assurance that your crops will have proper feeding from seed time to harvest. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO 'CO.. TOLEDO, OHIO ROYST ER .fiS/o' listed Err/7m}: F3 ‘Pléa‘se Mention The Michigan Farmer When Writing Advertisers 1 Don’t let * this happen to your apples A pith-stung apples Kill the aphids before they have a ' chance to do serious damage to fruit or trees. Spray with Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate. It contains 40 % pure Nico- tine—the deadliest aphie~poison known. Being a vegetable extract, it does not harm blossom, fruit or foliage; but it does kill aphids every time. A ten-pound tin makes 800 to 1100 gallons of spray. The cost is less than 20 a' gallon. ’VVhen spraying for scab, codling moth, etc., mix Hall’s Nicotine Sulphate with the solution and make one spray do double duty y. Buyfrom your dealer. If he cannot supply you, send us your order along with his name. Note——Hall’.s Nicotine ' Sulphate is also deadly efi‘ective against thrips, red bugs, leaf hoppers, psylla and many similar insects on' fruit trees and truck crops. . khan. ii Jambotfiu, a \ ‘ pared with prices received for - hundred pounds. i a tendency for the consumer to asso- ii i ii lem it was brougKt wt M Mr; .50 on. «1P0: é its , .\. in HE meeting of the Michigan P9- tato, Producers’ Association whichfiwas held at the College , duringFarmers' Week was a very in: teresti‘ng and instructive ones ’Men iv interested in various phases of grow- ' ing. marketing and standardization made addresses. Mr. R. H. Shoemaker, Grand Rapids representative of the department of markets, Submitted a very interesting paper entitled, “Lessons Learned From Market‘ Reports.” This paper explained in detail how to read the re- ports wisely and obtain from them the most information possible. The . point was-emphasized that the grow- ers by means of the daily market re- ports oould obtain as much informa- tion concerning market conditions as could the‘dealers and shippers. Mandatory Laws Improve Prices Paid for Our Potatoes. , W. P. Hartman, of the StatesDepart- ment of Agriculture, stated that due to the mandatory grading laws which vpent into effect in this state last Oc- tober, that the margin between price received for Michigan potatoes com- pota- toes from other states was gradually becoming less and less. It is fully expected that the grading laws will prove a. most effective means in enabling Michigan potatoes to com- mand top-notch prices on the big mar- kets of the country. Since there are seventeen other states in which ,the potato—grading» laws are now manda: tory it is essential that Michigan pre- pares herself to compete with these states on the markets. Mr. Hartman emphasized the point that public sent‘ iment was back of the grading move- ment and that. the potato inspectors were getting the very best of coopera- tion from growers and shippers. Hollow Heart and Color Affect Marketing. Dr. J. T. Horner, iof the Economics Department of the Michigan Agricul- tural College, reported on the results of investigations made on potato mar- kets. Michigan potatoes commanded a. lower price than potatoes from some other states this year because stock ' from here had a. large percentage of hollow heart, and many lots of Michi- gan potatoes were ofIdark color. It was thought that on many mar- kets there was a discrimination against the Michigan potatoes because of color, to the extent often cents per There seems to be ciate dark color with poor quality. Mr. Horner stated that the matter of ' color was not due to variety alone, but - might be caused by poor growing con- ditions, poor handling methods and It seems that the Detroit and "Toledo markets do not discriminate against dark color. To encourage bet- ter grading, Dr. Homer stated that warehouses should be better equipped with grading machinery and well light- ' ed so that the operators could do ef- ._ fective work. Mandatory Grades Nececcary. Mr. G. V. Branch, Director of Mu; nicipal Markets, Detroit, gave an 111.1- 'teresting discussion of potato market j requirements. He stated that' while the premium in‘price commanded by well-graded stock over that of poorly graded potatoes was quite an incen- ‘ tive for good grading, yet it was nec- essary to have the mandatory grades if the most effective work‘was to be accomplished. He deplored the fact that quite a portion of the potatoes placed on the Detroit market Were brought in on trucks and were unr . graded How to Reduce Amount of Hollow » ‘ ' = Hcart. 1n disousslng we producersf prob- H C Specie/iris Urge Improvement 171 Cultural Practice: ‘ Gradmgvand Marketmg .' V ,_ .. igan Agricultural cellege, that careful - ‘ cultural methods employed in the field ‘Weuld largely eliminate many of the, .gradingand marketing problems. To; ' lessen the percentage of hollow heart . it was lecommended that the follow-- ing practices be carried out by grow- . ers. First. Closer distance of planting. Second. Early fitting of the seed-bed. Third. Earlier planting for the more northern sections. Fourth. Turning under plenty of organic matter in the nature of alfalfa or clover sod. Fifth. Liberal use of stable manure and com‘ mercial fertilizer. Sixth. The plant- ing of “high-quality seed, preferably certified seed. To ove1come the general dark color it was suggested that the Russet Rur- al potatoes be planted only on the sandy loam types of soil and that on the‘heavier soils the White Rural po- tatoes be substituted for the ‘Russet Rural; section of the state where the grow- ing season is short, be planted earlier so that they will-mature before dig- ging time; that more care be used in harvesting, grading and storing pota- toes, sincc bruised and mechanically injured stock turns dark colored and, under favorable storage conditions, be— comes moldy. Winners Farmers’ Week Potato Show. Ribbons and approximately $100 in cash prizes were'given by the Michi- gan Potato Producers’ ASsociation to those showing the best samples of po- tatoes. While the number of exhibits was small, yet the quality was very good and competition keen. The following were the winners in the Russet Rural Class: First, E. Sut< ton, Central Lake; 2d, Clever Brudy, Wolverine; 3d, Wm. Shaun, Wolver- ine; 4th, Frank Wyrick, Alanson; 5th,‘ Olaf Nelson, Aloha; 6th, E. M. Moore, Mason. 1n the Any Other Variety Class, Jos- eph Drake, of Sagola, took first priCe with White Rurals; George Harrison, Man'ton, second with White Rurals; A. F. Kipfer, Stephenson, third; John Mosser, Weadock, fourth; C. R. Miller, , Manistique, fifth; John Wester, Che~ boygan, sixth. Beside the White Rur- al in this class, othe1 varieties were Eaxly Ohio, Irish Cobbler and Green Mountain. ~ In the Boys’ and Girls’ Potato Club exhibit, which included all varieties, Edward Domke, Ocqueoc, won first place with Russet Rurals. Second prize was awarded Clinton McDonald, of Millersburg. Robert Click, of Pe- ,toskey, won third place. Joseph Drake, Sagola, and.Stanley Procter, Salem, won fourth and fifth prizes respec- ’tively. The State Boys’. and Girls’ Club Championship is decided on the four- point basis, quality, yield per acre, re- . port and profit. On this basis, the state championship was won this year by Joseph Drake, Sagola; Michigan. Mr. Drake receives for the state cham- pionship the silver cup which is award- ed by the Michigan Potato_Growers’ Exchange. LIKES. THE OAT CROP. WAS always quite strong on rais— ing oats as a cash crop. I always calculated that we can produce two bushels of oats where'we Could'one bushel of wheat, as two bushels of cats will usually bring as much as one bushel of wheat, and a little more sure of a crop. This year my wheat averaged thirty- four bushels per acre, and cats sixty- "two bushels. that potatoes in the northern Lt costs me about $2. 00 « per. core less for ’ I " Amiga...” ‘ Mr. Reed’s opinion, a myth. , ‘ Wwe’ll as, other , northern counties of the state, need. more dalrrcattle; sugmis the opinion of Prof; 0. E. Reed, of the ’ Michigan Agricultural College. ‘ ‘ “In ‘the dairy, business,” says Mr. ‘Reed, “the farmerVfin‘ds employment ‘ for himself 3% or more days of the ' year- Whete a farmer fails to find work for; this number of days he is not .a gotxi manager. That is the present trouble with the wheat farm- ers of the northwest. "In“this respect - ' dairying is unequaled.” ' The. fear of over-production is, in There has been no. over-production of dairy» products 'in seventy years. With health crusades being conducted on all' sides, the consumption of dairy products it being urged upon all peo- ples. Our present knowledge of the requirements of the human diet shows the" necessity of a generous use of milk and its derivatives. So long as a high percentage of our population continues to consume oleo, the’oppor- tunixty of serving the race through the expansion of the dairy business is open. One farmer upon joining a cow—test- ing association found that he was realizing a profit of $31 a month from - thirty cows. After talking the matter over with the tester, he was persuad- ed to purchase some supplementary feed, with the result that during the following month his cows showed a profit of $190. \ Generally, however, farmers in the northern counties should depend al- most entirely upon home-grown feeds. Through the generous use of legume hay, silage and grains it becomes pos- sible for the farmer outside the whole milk areas to compete in the central markets in the profitable sale of but- ter and cheese and cream. _ The best results are surest to the man who knows what his cows are doing. To get that knowledge he needs to belong to a cow-testing association. Today, over 2,500 farmers in the state are members of such organizations. The farmers of Genesee county’ who belong to theSe organizations are find- ing that they now can produce milk profitably at a profit, which before would have brought a loss. Better rations to better cows get better re- sults—M. F. Parker. I SELLING MILK INSTEAD OF CREAM. -. We are separating milk at present. Have bee offered a good price for the wholemil , $2.40 per hundred at cult; door. Would semi-solid buttermil take the place of the skim-milk we are feeding our chickens and pigs ?~H. H. The quality of the milk not being given one can not give an opinion as to the better plan of disposing of the milk. If your milk tests only three per cent fat, then $2.40 per hundred» is a fair price, but if your milk 'tests‘flve per cent fat or better, then the price is not very good. Condenseries and creameries are paying fifty-five and sixty cents at the present time for butter-fat, and this, with the skim—milk to feed at home, makes rich milk worth more than $2.40/per hundred. The buttermilk will probably. take the place~of the skim-milk for hens and pigs. But for young calves sweet skim—milk is much to— be preferred. (F WeIJaIIded Km aR’W , Hundred Dollars Ibward" 1116 Cost ofaNewBam~ we would not be helping you half so much as we do in sending you This 112-page book shows how to save hundreds of dollars on material and labor in building But of greater importance, it shows how to arrange it the Louden Book of Barn Plans free. a barn. most conveniently, so as to save you hundreds of hours of time an labor every year as long as you use it. can be made even though you merely remode your ”old barn. Here’s a Book It Will Pay You to Have It has been written by bam building experts who have planned more than 15,000 modern, labor-saving barns for American farmers. Every plan—every recommend- ation it contains is practical and economical. 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Pyrox, a smooth, finely milled paste, is a perfect blend of deadly poison and powerful fungicide that does three things at once: Kills leaf-eating insects and re- pels flea beetles and leaf hoppers; controls disease; invigorates plants. Ideal for home gardens. You can now buy all your spray materials from the complete Bowker line. Bowker’s Arsenate of Lead—Dry powdered and aste. Bowker’ s Calcide—Highgrade calcium arsenate :quick-agting. Bowker’s Bodo—~A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. Bowker’s Lime Sulphur—Concentrated liquid and dry. Bowker’ s Dusting Materials—Sulphur, Copper, etc. Nicotine Sulphate, BOWKER CHEMICAL COMPANY 49 Chambers S; New York NEG-US.PAT. "9. Tuna: Hahn RCGISTEI‘O i. We POWYflll'Mpk-duly spray Kills bugs—controls diseases—stimulates growth" Besides being a slow, Extra high RHODES DOUBLE CUT PRUNING SHEAR Cuts from both sides of limb and ; ; doesb not bruise ' / ark. Made" In all STYLES & SIZES All shears deliver- ad free to yo_ur deer. 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A‘..‘ and illustrated seed and nursery castles free? with every order. ‘1' MORRILL & MORLEY WAY, Benton Harbor. Mich. 1 HAYE S More and. Better 97/021143 grown/721112 to eat and preserve. Ulowers to beautify the grounds. Oisr New Catalog Illustrated in natural colors from a‘ctuai specimens, is yours for the asking. CHASE BROTHERS COMPANY Tbs Rochutcr Nurrrriu ‘ Service Dept. D Rochester, N.Y. Sixty-seventh Year Fruit Fog Sprayers Mechanically perfected—not only guaran’ teed to deve on 300 pounds pressure year in year out. but so simply in construction that there is little to get our. of order. Every part is eaglly accesaible.1he pump is corrosion- proo Pay No More Than You Want 5 You can pay whatever you want. forHe es Sprayers. We quote them in sizes ranfing (mm 3% to 16 gals. per minute. with orw th- out trucks. on ines or special equipment. Hayes Power 'prayers \ary in cspwlty‘ ‘only. The slim] st maintains same pm— sure and is as efficient and satisfac- tory as largest size. SEND FOR CATALOG showing ' power Sprayers. for ever spraying need. A full line of barre s. bucket. w heel barrow and other hand Sprayers at prices that are right. Distribution and deeIsrs' in all princi- paJcities. , Invests-renamed Dela. 63 ‘ o ,apples in New York state. 1 land. .. '-D~Iscuss1NG the possibilities of 111: f creasing the cost of apple produce , tlonand ’marketlng'. Professor G.‘_ ”F. ‘ Warren, of Cornell University, suggest- ed that it Would be well for the man in debt to get his debts in federal land ples, he thought, is to take all the. food and feeds possible and sell them~ to yourselves at city prices. .There’ .never was a. time when it paid the ,farmer larger dividends to raise his own home supplies for his table and , stock. RASPBERRY MOSAIC.. N around-table conference on small fruits, Dr. W. H. Rankin, of the Geneva station, spoke of mosaic, a dis- ease which has practically ruined rasp- berry growing in parts of New York state. “Four points are essential in the ef- fective control of mosaic in’New York plantings,” he said. “First of all, the diseased plants must be recognized, and this requires some experience. Second, two roguings are necessary, one in June and another in August. Third, the diseased bushes and' all the roots must be dug and carried out of the planting carefully and destroyed. Only in this way can clean plantings be maintained and reliable planting stock obtained.” He believed that fruiting plantings of red and purple raspberries containing more than twenty per cent mosaic are not worth the expense of roguing. Plantings less than three years old and containing less than ten to fifteen per cent mosaic . may be made reasonably free from? mosaic by roguing out the diseased plants. TOO MANY VARIETIES. T is the consensus of opinion of growers and dealers that there are far too many varieties of commercial President Wilson said there were thirty-eight varieties in his orchard, and he would be better off if there were only four, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Northern Spy and McIntosh. Ralph W. Rees, of the Western New York Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Packing Association, said that the association was called upon to pack 150 varieties of apples last season, and that the lim- itation of packing to not more than twenty-five of the old standard varie- ties would be beneficial to the packers as well as to the farmers. (SUTWORMS. Can you please tell me What makes the cutworms get on my corn every year, and it looks as though the light— er the ground the worse they destroy the crop.—-D. B. Cutworms breed in sod land. They are very apt to attack spring-plowed sod if Corn is planted on such land, and not only will they work on crops : planted in newly-plowed sod, but they will travel from sod land quite a long distance to. reach cultivated fields and destroy them. As they travel at night, they are apt to pass unnoticed. I would advise the use. of bran bait, broadcasted plentifully,~ > not. only through the corn fields, but especially around the edges and between the vicinity. Following are the directigns for preparing bran bait for this purpose: Twenty pounds of bran; half gallon of cheap molasses; a little water; one pound of white arsenic (not arsenate of lead), or one pOund of ‘Paris green, and scent with a small amount ,of acetate (acetic ether), and broadcast. bank form as soon as possible. One ~ way to reduce the cost of raising ap- . - ‘ -'-§!!_DSOII MFG. a.“— corn and sod that may be in the: amyl acetate (banana oil), or ethyl- This is sufllcient‘for an acre area of : M11, very thoroughly—all. y 1?. j You can do it Liv-111...». that he - and life—that are of higher: e‘i'é 1111*“ on and mitigated to the so: tiresome w mags“ lead and "“53 Merci-fills tendouhlor emu” gingivitis-nosing. “wakes-gown. 1.1m- seeds. .45Years of - Better Seeds For. nearly a half century Isbell’ s have been devel . lug yield. vitality and 11.31: essni uses elesse wiimenting, car 11 select on. ,sertingosndcleenihzmethods have 112129.131 t8. bum]. 000 swimmers have mire seeds year after yiEr-gnd git—hm m? We grow our own seed:- dir saving money and eliminating oellbgk «mm This Valuable Book— The 1924 Isbell's Seed Annual tells how to FREE selectseedshowto pre- pare! soil. canes c turn! one. {Notes gimct T-hfr0'm- ”pr-.3131? °§.'rr..°. °°“‘ S. M. ISBELI. 8: COMPANY.“ I ll) Mechanic 3t. Jackson. Mich. Send your 1924 Seed Annual quoti trons-grower prices on Quality See Name Address ........ Sprayers DO Spray Beware the low pres- sure sprinkler-«good spraying demands high pressure. The extra capacity HUD- N pump and the sturdy tank riveted like a steam boiler, - insure the typeset this Free Book , The H1gh Pressure Sprayer Equipped with a combination nozzle for ligiit or heavy mixtures. Lubpr‘oof shut-off. Can be furnished with an ewrtension forsprsyingfruit trees. Free Book--“\V hen. What and How to spray. " Write today for your copy or ask your Home Town Hudson er. The Hud- son Misty does f' 1 n e work on small jobs. Thousands in use. Strong. double seemed, leakp roof. ' Dept. 4132 M mneapolis Minn. 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HOUGHTON. county farmer re- cently found on his land a product not usually assbéiated with Michigan ' agriculture. This Was a. “head” of na- _‘ tive copper—a “flOater”-——weighing 483 , pounds. th__was forty.two inches in height, thirty-two inches in width and about three inches thick. The nugget shows Signs of glaciation and is re- ported to also exhibit the outlines of an Indian’spxhead wrought in the soft metal by an Indian artificer of the distant past. The specimen was sold to the University of Michigan at the current market price of copper. RESUL'T‘S OF GQITRE SURVEY. HE superintendent of schools of Escanaba, 'W. E. Olds, has made public the results of a survey of school children of that city, to determine the presence of goiter among them. It appears from figures given out by Superintendent Oldsf that, of 1,357 children examined, 621 children were found to have enlarged thyroid glands. It is estimated that among girls be- tween the fifth and twelfth grades, more than sixty per cent have enlarg— ed thyroids. The actual percentages are 67.5 for girls and 38.5 for boys. In the high schools of the city only I those pupils were examined who pre- sented consent-cards signed by their parents. SOME FACTS ON CLOVERLAND O the farmers in the mining sec tions of the Upper Peninsula, the taxation of mining property is of great importance. How taxes run in these mining counties is revealed by figures recently made public. The average per capita tax in these mining counties is put at $4.07 as com- pared with $5.05 in the industrial coun- ties; $4.00 in the semi-industrial; $3.86 'in the agricultural counties, and $2.32 in the unclassified counties. In Ke- weenaw county, which is rich in min— ing properties, and rather few in pop— ulation, the per capita tax is $7.88. In Gogebic, the per capita tax averages $5.90. 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S. forCes retreated before the federal ”OOPS the U. S. Shipping Board. , naval oificials, paid a visit to that country, . , r . . r i -;. ; ,.. _ a v1. . . .. M... .4. When theSt. Lawrence freezes solid, the road to “the hills” is clear This remarkable hunting picture shows a coyote at the end of a. and.j0y.reigns_-lin the hearts of ski and snow—shoe enthusiasts long and desperate unsuccessful race for his life, turning his ' " in Montreal. ' . , . . , — bared‘ fangs upon his enemy. , Copyright by Underwood 5 Underwood. New York I knowr you’ll pardon me for ‘ it, Barry, but they like to have ‘ .3. man come to them with clean- hands. ,, Diet that you haven’t got them,” he in- inflected, “but—well, you know bank« em. KWhat's the money for; running f expenses ?” : "The mill burned down, you know, "without insurance. We have a make- shift thing setup there now—but it’s nothing to what will be needed. . got to have a good, smooth-working ' plant—otherwise I won’t be able to live ,0 up to specifications." . “You’re not,”. and the 'old lawyer - smiled quizzically, “going to favor your . dearly beloved friend with the order, are you?” Ifwho?” “Worthington.” “The district attorney?” “That was. Plutocrat now, and mem- ‘ber of society, you know. He came' into his father’s money, just after he went out of office, and bought into the East Coast Machinery Company when It was on its last legs. His money was like new blood. They’ve got a good big plant. He’s president,” again the smile, “and I know he’d be glad to have your order.” Houston continued the sarcasm. “I’d be overjoyed to give it to him. In fact, I think I’d refuse to buy any machinery if I couldn’t get it from such a dear friend as Worthington was. It wasn’t his fault that I wasn’t sent to the penitentiary.” “No, that’s right, boy.” Old Lawyer Mason was quietly reminiscent. “He tried his best. It seemed to be in those days he was more of a perse— cutor than prosecutor.” “Let’s forget it.” Houston laughed uneasily. “Now, to go back to the bankers—” “There isn’t much for us to do but try them, one after another. I guess we might as well start now as any time.” Late that afternoon they were again in the oflice, the features of Mason wrinkled with thought, those of Barry Houston plainly discouraged. They had failed. The refusals had been courteous, fraught with many apolo- gies for a tight market, and effusive regrets that it would be impossible to loan money on such a gilt-edged prop- osition as the contract seemed to hold forth, but-.- There had always been that one word, that stumbling-block against which they had run time after time, shielded and papped by courtesy, but present nevertheless. Nor were Houston and Mason unaware of the real fact which lay behind it all; that the bankers did not care to trust their money in the hands of a man who had been accused of murder and who had escaped the penalty of such a charge . by a margin, which to Boston, at least, had seemed exceedingly slight. One after another, there in the office, Ma- son went over the list of his business acquaintances, seeking for some name that might mean magic tothem. But no such inspiration came. ‘ “Drop back tomorrow, boy,” he said , “ ,III,l ling-1'} ll' I’ve _ By Courtney Ryley Cooper " .msmmwsmsssmwmsnxammmmwmww at last. “I’ll think over the thingto~ night, and I may be able to get a bright idea. It’s going to‘ be tough sledding—400 tough, I’m afraid. If only we didn't have to buck up against that trial, and the ideas people seem to have gotten of it, we’d be all right. But—— ‘ There it was again, thatone word, that‘immutahle obstacle which seemed to arise always. Houston reached for his hat. ' “I’m going to,keep on trying, any-i way, Mr. Mason. I’ll be back tomor. Hospital. There he sought the execu- tive offices .and 'told his story. Five minutes later he was lacking at the books of the institution, searching, searching-at last to stifle a cry of ex- citement and bend closer to a closely written page. “August second,” he read. “Kilmane Worthington, district attorney, Bos- ton, Mass. Acc. by Drs. Horton, Mayer ~ and Brensteam. Investigations into ef- fect of blows on skull. ers ” With fingers that were almost fren- PULL TOGETHER‘ By James E. We are helped by helping others; If we give, we always get; Seeing others as our brothers Is life’s safest, surest bet! If we give what folks are needing, It will pay us in the end, And we just can’t help succeeding In the game of life, my friend. Cheerfulne‘ss is always catching Certain cure for ev’ry rile; Happiness is always hatching In the sunshine of a smile! Banish gloom, by being cheerful; Blaze the trailpand set the/pace!— And you’ll see expressions drearful Swiftly fade from ev’ry face! H un gerford Life gives back just what we give it; Give it smiles—and smiles we get; lf we learn this rule, and live it, We will never know regret; I Give a cheerful word—we’ll reap it; It will come back multiplied, And will linger—we can keep it In our “treasure chest,” inside. Get together! Pull together!— ls the spirit that will win! If the gales of life we’d weather, We must buck ’em, with a grin! Help yourself,_ by helping others; Grab an oar and joint the crew! Pull together with your brothers, And they’ll win the race—for you! 1 row. I’m g'oing to get that money if I have to make a canvass of. Boston, if I have to go out and sell shares" at a dollar apiece and if I go broke paying dividends. I’ve made my promise to go through—and I’m going!” “Good. I’ll be looking for you.” But half an hour later, following a wandering, aimless journey through the crooked streets, Barry Houston suddenly straightened with an inspir- ation. He whirled, he dived for a cigar store and for a telephone. “Hello!” he called, after the long wait for connections. “Mr. Mason? Don’t look for me tomorrow—4 believe I’ll not be there.” “But you haven’t given it up?” “Given up?” Houston laughed with sudden enthusiasm. “No—I’ve just started. Put the date ofl a day or two until I can try something that’s buzz- ing around in my head. It’s a wild idea—but it may work. If it doesn’t, I’ll see you Thursday.” Then he turned from the telephone and toward the railroad station. “One, to New York,” he ordered hur- riedly through the ticket window. “I’ve got time to make that seven-forty, if you'rush it.” And the next morning, Barry Hous- ton was in New York, swirling along Seventh Avenue toward Bellstrand zied, Houston copied the notation, clos- ed the book, and hurried again for a taxicab. It yet was only nine o’clock. If the traffic were not too thick, if the driver were skilful—- He raced through ,the gate at Grand Central just as it was closing. He made the train in unison with the last drawling cry of the conductor. Then for hours, in the Pullman chair car, he fidgeted, counting the telegraph posts, checking off the stations as they flip- ped past the windows, through a day of eagerness, ~of excited, racking an- ticipation. It was night when he reach- ed Boston, but Houston did not hesi- tate. A glance at a telephone book, another rocking ride in a taxicab, and Barry stood on the veranda of a large house, awaiting the answer to his ring at the bell. Finally it came. “Mr. Worthington,” he demanded. The butler arched his eyebrows. “Sorry, but Mr. Worthington has left orders not to be——-” “Tell him it is a matter of urgent business. That it is something of the utmost importance to him.” A wait. The butler returned. “Sorry, sir. But Mr. Worthington is. just ready to retire.” ' “You tell Mr. Worthington,” answer- ed Houston, in a crisp voice,- “that he either will see me or regret it. Tell / AL A C RES -—A/ Speed’ 5 Up 112'; Egg Plant 6}! Power of Suggertzon. Eight cadav! _ never again to see. _ ' ”nothing in the morning papers that . will be, to say the least: extremely dis- tasteful to him. ” .- “The name, please?” “It deesn’t matter.” ‘ “Are you from a newspaper?” “I’m not saying. ; Whether I go to one directly from here, dependsen'ttre— ly upon Mr. Worthington; -Wlll you please. take my message?” ' - “I’m afraid—1’ “Take my message!” “Directly, sir!” Another wait. Then: “Mr. Worthington will see you in the library, sir ” “Thanks. ” Houston almost bounded into the hall. A moment. later, in the dlmness of the heavily furnished, somewhat mysterious appearing libra- ry, Barry Houston again faced the man whom, at one time, he had hoped Kilbaue Worth- ington was seated at the large table, much in the manner which he had affected in court, elbows on the sur- face, chin cupped in his thin, nervous hands. The light was not good for ‘ recognizing faces; without realizing it, the former district attorney had plac- ed himself at a disadvantage. Squint— ing, he sought to make out the fea- tures of the man who had hurried into the room, and failing, rose. “Well,” he asked somewhat brusque— ly, “may I inquire—~” -“Certainly. My name’s Houston.” “Houston—Houston—it seems me“), “Maybe your memory needs refresh- ing. Such little things as I figured in probably slipped your mind the minute you were through with them. To be explicit, my name is Barry Houston, son of the late William K. Houston. You .and I met—in the courtrOom. You oncedid me the very high hondr to accuse me of murder and then tried your level best to send me to the pen- itentiary for life when you knew, ab- solutely and thoroughly, that I was an innocent man!” to ‘ , CHAPTER XVII. HE former district attorney start- ed slightly. Then, coming‘closer, he peered into the tense, angry fea- tures of' Barry Houston. “A bit melodramatic, aren’t you?” he asked in a sneering tone. “Perhaps so. But then murder is always melodramatic.” “Murder? You don’t intend—” “No. I simply referred to the past. I should have said ‘reference to mur- der.’ I hope you will pardon me if any inelegance of language should offend you.” “Sarcastic, aren’t you?” “I have a right to be. Knowing what I know—I should use more than sar- casm. ” “If I’m not mistaken, you have. The butler spoke of some threat.” “Hardly a threat, Mr. Worthington.” Houston was speaking coldly, incisive- ly. “Merely what I have heard you often call in court a statement of fact. (Continued on page 323). .. \ By. Prané R. Lee. u: lT WORKS w) ALL BE RICH! \W / ’/. IT'S ONE OF in??? DAILY DOZEN RECORDs. SUM AN' EVERY HEN Is _ TRYING??? MAKE I FAIRn . Red Clover F armers': ‘ _ l Professor J. F. Cox, of the Michigan Agricultural College, and other prominent agricultural authorities, strongly recommend INCREASED CLOVER ACREAGE. We give below the summary of a special report on Red Clover prepared for The Albert Dickinson Company by Professor Cox. We urge you to read it and be guid- ed accordingly. No. 1.—Italian Clover Seed is worthless for seeding purposes under Michigan con— ditions. No. 2.———Domestic Red Clover grown in the Northern States or in Canada and the . “Corn Belt” area, is well adapted to Michigan, but Oregon seed is un- adapted. ' No. {are—Imported Red Clover actually grown in England, Northern Europe and ' Northern France, is acceptable in case. properly adapted Domestic Seed is not available. No. 4.——Farmers who wish to sow Red Clover should buy seed of Known Origin and from thoroughly dependable sources properly labeled. No. 5.——Professor Cox definitely states that the matter is.not one of germination, but of adaptatiOn and productiveness. No. 6,—Last, but not least—Professor Cox and other prominent Agricultural author— ities, urge farmers to increase their Clover acreage this Spring thus helping to prevent a still shorter Clover acreage in Michigan next year. 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She was of the type that brings forth exceptional sons. dinary intellectual and Spiritual keen- ness, and St. Augustine’s mother is' the explanation of St. Augustine. , mother loved poetry The littwwy. Samuel, hearing the voice of the Lord at night is one of the indelible pictures of the Bible. Childhood is the period when the unseen things, the beauties of imagination, are» unspoiled by bad conscience or‘foolish philosophy. Fair- ies, heroes, giants, are real. people, and—God is a real PersOn: 11313 as easy fora little child to" talk about God, as it is for his grandfather to talk about the priCe of wool. “Trailing clouds of glory do we come from God who is our home.” He was to be a prophet. Many life issues are decided when we are too small. To get at life-decisions one must begin before college, and very ' often before high- school. One night a tiny French lad attended the Christ- mas service with his parents. 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OwnEurOWIIllolmer Push back the table, produce your pocket orchestra and surprise your “guests with the snappiest dance music of their bright younglives. AFTER DI N NEE HARMONY Be ready with a Hohner, the monarch of mouth organs, for the after dinner dance, the impromptu party. You can easily learn to play it in an hour. Ask your dealer for Hohner Free Instruction book; if he is out of them, write “M.- Hohner, New York” for a copy. Ho‘hner Hermonio'esaresoldeverywhere—SOcup. OHNBR Humorous for many years in England. He devot- l ed his life to attempting to better the icondition of his people. When the ¢soviet government gained control {Kropotkin ventured to go back. In iwhat manner he died is not known. 'His, devotion to democracy and broth- erhood sprang from: childhood experi- ences. belonged to a noble family. One \day the birch rod, for some trivial offense. Little Kropotkin cannot eat his dinner When Makar returns he rushes out in- to a dark passage, catches his hand and tries ‘ to kiss it, but Makar snatches it away saying, “Let me alone; when you are grown up, will you not be'just the same?” And the little prince screams, “No, no, never!” The man Samuel is like the boy Samuel. “Speak, for thy servant hear- eth,” says the boy: “Prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only,” says the man. “And Samuel grew and the Lord was with him,” was said of the youth: “God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, in ceasing to pray for you,” were his words in old age. Impressions in childhood, de- cisions in boyhood, visions in youth, are making and unmaking manhood every day. . .. HREE men sat in a safe talking. ‘ They had finished their meal, but seemed not in haste. One was a bus- iness man of 'sixty or so, the second a superintendent of city schools, the third the minister in a. country town. Said the money- maker, “1 don’t take much stock in these new-fangled coun- try schools, these what do you call ’em, concentrated—~” (f‘consolidated,” put in the superintendent), “yes, con- solidated schools. All this money put into fine buildingswith gymnasiums, swimming pools, dining-rooms and so forth, is’ pretty nearlyaasbad fies Wast- ' ed. Give me’the old'fashioned country scthI with one, roomfevery ttlme: Wes? ' ley’ s mother was a woman of extract- Seott’s. the stove in the corner. After hearing the voice of the Lord, ' ' it was settled what Samuel was to be. has very little in it. 'He was the son of wealth, and' They produéed real. men The kids could sit 516d ..listen to the older ~ classes recite. and that made them .W- . bitious to go on. ” , ,; “Yes, but you forget,” said the sup- erinten’dent,‘ lashing forward and point- - ing with a long forefinger that bad 1 made many a boy sit up and go to. work, wasn’t the oneroum country school that made men’.~ The men were made- in spite of the one-room school with What made the men Were the chores that awaited them night and morning; the cows that had to be milked and the horses ‘that had to be fed and bedded down. , There isn’t any substitute to this day for some steady chores that have got to be taken care or every day in the year. If we hada few chores fer boys in the city. we would-havefbetterluck. . The modern country’sChool'WIth sev-'“ ' eral rooms: and several teachers "is simply adding ~that muchf'more’ of val— ue to country life, for buys, because they still have the chores. Onde you' " get a met-class school in a cominunity, the people wouldn’t go back to the old-fashioned school house if you masde them a present of one”, “Well, you've got the professional side of it down fine, of course, but I’m unconvinced This talk about improving country life Keep the land up, raise good craps, and rural life will take care of 1tself ” ' HERE is more to life than a liv- ing, said the country preacher. “You wouldn’t want to live in a. city where there we no theaters, no churches or hospitals or lecture cours- es. Once rural fathers enjOy living in the country, and they will teach their boys the same philosophy. That’s what I’m trying to do—to make living in our burg so worthwhile that the people won’t want to move away. Did you ever read Wilson’s book on .the ‘Evoln- tion of the Country Community’ ?” The ' business man admitted he didn’t read much but the papers. “Here’s a copy in my grip. I was reading it on the train this morning. It's the kind of book you like to take to bed. Take this: “Farmers will attend an ”auction, and go a long way to a horse—race or a household servant, Makar, is ordered la fair, Without any intention of buying whipped with one hundred lashes with tor selling. The fundamental service rendered by ‘the county fair and the auction is an ,opportunit-y afforded to converse.” That wouldn’t go very well with the auctioneer, but it’s true. The other day a man-was making a. survey of a village in” Illinois frOm which most of the best f ’lies had moved. “What would. make farm life more attractive?” he asked. “A com- munity center, with diversified amuse- ments. You can’t raise boys on corn and alfalfa, like you can‘hogs. They require a; more mixed diet.” “Well,” said the money-maker, “You fellows seem tohave conspired against me. You’ve got the facts and figures, and maybe you’re right. I never thought of it that way. I presume the rural lifein America is pretty bare in many localities, and ought to be improved. But it does cost a lot of money.” “Not nearly sonmuch as candy, face powder ‘ and cigarettes,” 'said- the preacher. “But of course,” put in the schodl sup- erintendent, “candy, face powder and cigarettes are . necessities. while schools and churches—— ,“That’ll do,” said the business man. ‘ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR MARCH 2. SUBJECT. -—The Revival Under Sam- uel I Sam. chaps 1 to 7. . GOLDEN TEXT: ——Dlrect your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only, ? ISar’n...73 A man can have more friends than, he needs” it as has ittle _ “You forget, Gha'rles, that it : ' jRab‘bit as he came near. fixes Doings In ~qu Rial/y Rabbit Changed 0/4 Grumpy Fax HERE goes old Grumpy 'Fox,” said Rolly Rabbit as he saw him pass on his way to the Wood- land post omce one fine morning. -“That old fellow hasn’t smiled in so ' long, I’m afraid he has forgotten how.” “Has he always been like that?” asked Bruin. “Ever since I can remember,” an- swered Rolly. But it was right then that Rolly resolved to see what he could do to- make old Grumpy Fox smile and be happy like the other Woodland folks. And so it was when old Grumpy re- ,, turned from his morning trip to the "post oflice’ that Rolly was out by the front gate fixing its broken hinge. “Good morning, Mr'.‘ Fox; said Rolly ' “A fine day it’s going to be.” . Old Grumpy Fox snorted and glar- . ed at Rolly, and looked even more _— » '4' ..__ . .‘ H J“ “Good Morning, Mr. Fox,” said-Rally. to shake a little, but‘ [he said again, with a broad- smile on his face, “Good morning, Mr. Fox. A fine day it’s go- ing to be.“ ' “Bah,” said Grumpy Fox. “I can’t see anything fine about this day. The bright sunshine hurts my eyes,” and he went on down the road, his cane poking the sand at every step. The 'next morning Rolly was fixing the latch on the gate when Old Grumpy passed. “Good morning, Mr. Fox. It’s a beau- tiful morning, don’t you think?” he said. . “Oh, it’ll do,” said Grumpy, and his voice was almost gentle. This surprised Rolly so much that he decided to car- ry his plan further. ‘ The next afternoon, Rolly knocked at Old Grumpy’s door, and in his hand he carried a big sack: “Come in,” said Old Grumpy Fox, as ugly as he could. But when he saw it was Rolly his expression changed and his voice was gentle. ‘ “I have brought you some of my sugar cookies,” said Rolly, placing the . big sack in Grumpy’s lap. Right then a strange thing happen- ed. Big tears began to roll down Old Grumpy’s cheeks. “No one has ever been so good to me before,” said Grumpy between sobs. ,, “Perhaps you haven’t been good to them,” said Rolly. ‘ ' “Well, I guess I have been rather cross,” admitted Old Grumpy Fox. “Since you have been so kind to me, I can 'see' what kindness means to others.” ' Soon after that Old Grumpy Fox be- came known in Woodland as Old Smil- ‘ey Fox; because he did so many things to make others happy that he was al- ways happy himself. A NOTE FROM. AUNT MARTHA. Dear mm Folks: . Thepostman brought me a nice lot _ of letters from You this week. Mar- ”elite ewes-1.8 is”... that. when she ' “3’ new» “1" in the. LEaFQLxs ring Woodland chair‘ and rolls his eyes and looks at her. I wonder [if a scolding affects Marguerite that way. From Grand Rapids comes a letter . from Henrietta Westers, only five years old, and says she walks one mile to school every day. That’s quite a long walk for a big girl. Floyd‘Mackley wants to know how to play a new game. Here’s one, Floyd, called “Statue Tag” that I hope you will like. To make themselves safe when “it” is about to tag them, the players kneel with arms out- stretched. Each new one to be “it” has the privilege of changing the posi— tion required to make the players safe.- The more ridiculous the positions, the better the game. Sincerely, ‘ Aunt Martha. THE WHITE DESERT. (Continued from page 320). In case it wasn't repeated to you cor- rectly, I’ll bore you with it again. I said that if you didn’t see me immedi— ately, there would be something ex- tremely distasteful to you in the morn- ing papers.” “Well? I’ve seen you. Now—” “Wait just a moment, Mr. Worthing- ton. I thought it was only civil law- yers who indulged in technicalities. I didn’t know that crminal,” and he put emphasis on the word, then repeated _ it, “that criminal lawyers had the hab- it also.” “If you’ll cease this insulting—” “Oh, I think I have .a right to that. To tell the truth, I’ve only begun to insult you. That is—if you call this sort of a thing an insult. To get at the point of the matter, Mr. VVorthing- ton I want to be fair with you. I’ve come here to ask something—I’ll admit that ——but it is something that should ben- efit you in a number of ways. But we’ll speak of that later. The main point is this: I am thinking very ser- iously of suing the city of Boston for a million dollars.” “Well? What’s that to me?” Worth- ington sighed, with a bit of relief, Houston thought, and walked back to the table for a cigarette. “I haven’t anything to do with the city. Go as far as you like. I’m out of politics; in case you don’t know, I’m in business for myself and haven’t the least inter- est in what the city does, or what any one does to it.” “Even though you should happen to be the bone of conteiitiono-and the butt of what may be a good deal of unpleasant notoriety?” “You’re talking blackmail!” “I beg your pardon. Blackmail is something by which one extorts mon— ey. I’m here to try to give you money ——or at least the promise of it—and_ at the same time allow you to make up for something that should, whether it does or not, weigh rather heavily. on your conscience.” “if you’ll come to the point.” “Exactly. Do you remember my case?” “In a way. I had a good many of them.” “Which, I hope, you will not handle in the same way that you did mine. ,But to recall it all to your recollection, I was accused of having killed my own cousin, Tom Langdon, with a mallet." “Yes—I remember: now. You two had some kind of a drunken fight”, ' “And you, at the time, if I remember correctly, had a fight ~of your own. It was nearing election time.” “Current. I remember now.” Then, with ,a little smile, “Quite luckily, I was beaten.” " ' Continuea next week). t osnewer needs changed old-time methods of pack- 1 ing saltfso has modern form use made vital a‘ . salt that is Quick dissolving! . ITH native instinct the Indian and even man before him, sou ht licks and cliffs from which to chop his precious stores of salt. Generations following have solved the problem of getting salt supplies. And with the great developments that made those supplies possible there hascome ’ a new and scientific understanding of salt and its uses. Now it is known that there are amazing differences. ORDINARY SALT The sides of ordinary Cuba salt are so smooth and flat that they fit closely together. Mois- ture in the air joins these and forms lumps tlzalare wasteful. Ordinary salt is Cube shape. Like a block of ice such salt is of a hard and comparatively non-porous form, slow to dissolve—slow in penetration. The second looks like Crystals of glass—flaky but hard. It too is slow dissolving and of low penetrative value. Colonial Special Farmers Salt is a soft, porous Flake—- not unlike a snowflake. Salt MUST DISSOLVE TO ACT! That’s why any salt for satisfactory general farm use must first be a QUICK DISSOLV- IING SALT! _ ORDINARY FARM SALT Under the microscope these flakes are shown to be like crystals of ice-— hard and non-porous. That is why they are slow-dissolving and form lumps. Cheap Salt Is a ‘Dangerous Economy Compared with the finished value of the meat to be cured or the butter to be made or in baking or table use, the difference in salt cost is only a fraction of a cent. ‘ Yet on the action of the salt depends the final quality and value of the finished product. You avoid all dangerous risk by using Colonial Special Farmers Salt. Always packed in a branded 70-pound bag. The linenized material makes fine toweling. Send for “Meat Curing and Butter Making an the F arm," a valuable book of information. THE COLONIAL SALT COMPANY ‘ COFIACkMsRsSgELT Akron’ Ohio There an no hard flakes Chicago, Ill. Boston.Mass. Buffalo, N. Y. Atlanta, Go. or cubes in Colonial . “album Pa. Special Farmers Salt to form lumps. Note that they are like flakes of snow—soft. filmy and porous. You use less of Colonial Special Farmers Salt because it is all salt —pure salt with all the moisture removed. And it does not form in wasteful lumps. A 70-pound bag is as big as a lOO-pound bag of ordinary salt. COLONIA SAL Colonial Special F armors Salt beats Block Salt for cattle feeding. I! is pure, evaporated Salk-never causes sore tongues or sore mouths —-always insures animals getting enough. TheWINDMILL with aRECORD The Auto-oiled Aermotor has behind it 9 years of wonderful success. 'It is not an experiment. 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HE handy 'little medicine or emergency kits now on the mar- ' ket are handy in emergency cas- es, and one should be found in every household. But most housewives wait until an accident happens or some member of the family is suddenly tak— en sick, before they think abdut being prepared. Only a little forethought and attention is necessary to have your medicine cabinet supplied so that you will be prepared for any ordinary emergency, and it will also come in handy when any of those little trou~ bles occur, such as sonny cutting his finger, or sister burning her fingers while baking bread. A cut finger is only a small matter, but a little infec- tion may make a serious thing of it. Blood poison often results from a. pin prick that has not been given proper. care. Thoserlittle white enameled cabinets are convenient, but lacking. one , of Mrs. L. G. and daughter, of Cole- man, Mich, know how to dress to pick berries. Mrs. L. G. says she is glad the berries are back in the field in- stead of by the road. (A prize Winner). these, a satisfactory and attractive one may be made at home. But do not make the mistake of getting it too small. Any home medicine cabinet should contain the following :‘ A jar of carbo— lated vaseline, a. bottle of turpentine, a. bottle of iodine, a jar of some standard dry surgical dre‘ssing powder, a. bottle of carron oil, one of wood alcohol, one of carbolic acid, a. good laxative, a good gargle, and a. box‘of boric acid. Cai‘bolated vaseline is expensive, but may be made at home, with a. very small expenditure of time or money. Equip Yeoman...gm...~ It W111 Heal meaning; .7... Cut 2/2., Dactor Biz/i" ‘For a smallest sizedjar of vaseline, five drops of carbolic acid is used. Set" ‘the vaseline in a vessel of very hot' water until it is melted. Then add the five drops of carbolic acid, and stir until the vaseline has hardened. Carron oil is a mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and lime water, and is the finest treatment for burns that I have ever used. The correct way to use this is to quickly bandage the burned parts tightly and then pour the carron oil over the bandage. Sterilized bandages may be bought at the drug store, or made at home. and they are just as good. Any old, soft white goods that has already out-' worn its original usefulness, may be used for bandages. Tear them in strips varying in width from one inch to three inches. Sew enough of each width together to make a. roll an inch and a half through. Do not make a harsh seam where the bandage is join- ed, but lap the edges and sew. After the bandages are tightly rolled they should be put in a sterilized quart fruit , jar and a..sterilized lid set lightly on. Then it should be put in pressure cock- er and heated for ten minutes, or for half an hour in a. hot oven. They are then ready to seal and put in the med— icine cabinet until needed. Boric acid is a splendid disinfectant and 'a wonderful drawing agent. A level teaspoon of the powder is used to a pint of hot water. If the afflicted part is a hand or foot, it may be plac~ ed directly in the solution, just as hot as the patient can stand. Otherwise, wool cloths wrung out of the hot solu- tion may be applied to the wound-or sore. In case of an angry looking wound that looks as thought it might turn into blood poison, the solution should be used about every forty min- utes during waking hours. For bolls, carbuncles, etc., use the solution every time the sore becomes painful. PASS IT ON. Cut old stockings in strips and as they are good black they make such wonderful carpet rags for crocheted or braided rugs. , To mothers whO‘have babies enter- ing the creeping stage, this suggestion means less work over the Washtubs. I discovered this by accident. Put baby into a. round cake tin, on the floor. 'Mine was about an inch high, and place toys just out of his reach. He will soon learn to hitch along in his tin and wait on himself, thereby saving mother’s back and baby’s romp— ' ers and stockings. They soon enjoy skating over. the floor and amusing themselves. ,, When” Masseuse“... LikeThia, his? his: .snp'ot‘ogufik lode Out- in 'the Bahamas. . (A! slim m = .of. M. lWWla ‘ and about three inches deep. p1313s cf heavy pasteboard to fit, and “ n‘ww‘ua-wwuww ""—'—l'|‘|' ,consi or their children’ s eyes. 5 .1. T HE thing that I call my chief con- 1115mm .4: a recipe me, made I 4mm an ordinary box of light wood, ' ”four inches wide, twelve inches long Imade a large letter on a proiecti'ng cor- , ner of the card- in red ink—much as P - for pies, etc I out two dozen pieces of heavy writing paper to go with each ‘ ca1d naming the recipe for each kind' of cooking. Then I arranged the large index cards and their corresponding recipes in alphabetical order and put the box. in a drawer in the kitchen cupboard. Now I . can bake without wasting ‘precious time turning leaves and read- ing clippings—Mrs. G. R. ' HINTS TO HOME-MAKERS. Window Cleaning Bag—Make a bag of several thicknesses of soft cloth and fill it with pulverized pumice stone. Stitch several times to keep powder tram sifting through, dampen In Paper orz'n Bee/é N some of the letters I have \ - received recently there has been some discussion about the buying of food in packages. The time has come when the house- wife can buy everything from dried corn to sugar in sealed pa-. per packages. I would like an expression of our readers as to whether they prefer this method of buying food or of buying it in bulk, as in the past. For the five best letters on this subject we will give each 'writer a three—piece kitchen knife set. " Address your lettersto Mar- tha Cole, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Mich., beforef,March 6. pad, wipe window pane and polish. _ Sand Bag for Sick Rroom.—F0r the sick room make a hot sand bag by drying clean sand in the oven of the range for at least twenty—four hours. Fill a flannel bag_with the sand, and heat in oven as often as it cools. Make several cotton covers to slip over the bag when it is taken from the oven, as these launder easily. Lemons and Prunes—Adding a sliced lemon to each pound of prunes when they are cooked, is a decided improvement. Picking Up Glass—The safest way 151 'over the glass. cling to the wool. ' Lfine pieces of broken glass to wot a woolen cloth and brush it, The particles will Wrap cloth in pa.- por and burn. -——L. M. T. THE INTERRUPTIONS. NE of the hardest conditions that some .busy housewives have to contend with is that of being constant- ly interrupted in their daily work. A stream of unexpected happenings, es- pecially where there are little chil- dren, wears away in large portions the precious time. It is hard to keep patient, serene; hard not to feel ner- vous, werried, and drive1f in the face of this ruthless upsetting of our plans. We think that all these distractions make life very difficult, but there is another way of thinking about it. It is better not to figure time too Closely lest we become helpless slaves of the clock. We should always allow largely when reckoning with minutes, just as we have to make up our minds that there will be an unforseen amount in our cash accounts which 'come under the head of incidentals. The efficiency experts when econo- mizing time and strength, divide work so that there are short shifts with in- tervening spaces of time for muscle rest or mental change by a different occupation. \ Now, why can’t we view our daily round of varied duties in the same way and make up our minds that, when these interruptions occur, we will not be distracted, thereby, but will think of them only as grateful changes between shifts of work? And it may be that our efficiency, as well as our peace of mind will be in- creased.—~—A1ice A Keen./ EASILY MADE CLOTHES CLOSET. A SUBSTITUTE for a clothes closet may be made with two shelves the same size—twelve inches wide and the length desired. The first one plac- ed at the top of baseboard—the other above it’at a convenient height. Then a narrow board is fastened to the under side of the lower shelf where it joins the wall. Double clothes hooks are fastened to the un- ‘der side of the shelf, thus utilizing all the space. Fasten two curtains on rods at the top and bottom (opening in center). Other shelves can be placed .in lower—for hats, shoes, etc.—-Mrs. We think in groves, says the psy- chologists. These grooves may be channels to success or ruts to failure. Keep out of the ruts. Know t/ze Reason VERY parent follows .with g1 eat in telest each step of development in their children. Baby’s first smile, his first step, the first time he lisps “”mamma or “papa” are memories in every mother’s and father’s life 4 which time cannot efface. When that child first enters school, this interest in his development nat- urally follows. But, if the child enters this new period of his life handicap- ped by defective vision, disastrous consequences are sure to follow. In his class werk he is unable to see the work at the board clearly, and in his , reading the words become jumbled. By his extra effort to see more plainly, he soon becomes tired, both mentally and physically. Inattention will be the first impression the teacher will receive of him, and his fellow pupils will soon consider him stupid” dull or lazy. As the child continues to be outclassed in his schoolroom and his playground activ- ities, a reaction detrimental to his progress is evident. aged, sullen and- oftimes rebellious. He becomes discour- On the teacher’s list he is placed as a. stupid' child. His parents, if they do not place\the blame of his’lack of progress with the teacher, try to make amends for this condition by de- manding that he do more home Study. This second course may cause even more trouble by creating a greater ~ strain on the child. But in it- also lies the means for the solution of the problem. If this home-work is carefully supervised by one or the other of the variants, they are given the opportunity to study the child when he is working, and, to discover, if possible, the cause of the trouble. Because no member of the family has ever worn glasses is no reason to . cover iii! the needs’ of; the children We would then urge every parent to If there is any reason to suspect that they 1e with them, it is a great injustice to fail to ’have them " Neglect in this, as well as in other cases, is sure and at. .. . She does not dread getting supper, for it is quick and easy with the Florence Oil Range How much of your time do you spend in the kitchen ? Qdickness and comfort in cooking are two of the assets of the modern oil stove. There’s a third—- 0 woman wants to stay in the kitchen a fninutelonger than is necessary. It depends upon the stove whether getting mealsisslowdrudgeryorwhether it IS done quickly and 1n comfort. When you have :1 Florence Oil Range, you have no long wait for the stove to get going—there is no shaking to be done, no coal to carry, no uncertainty. You merely turn a lever, touch a match to the Asbestos Kindler and in a few mo- ments you‘ have an intensely hot, clean blue flame. The flame is Close up under the cooking. The heat keep the flame goes into the food, :Elfii‘fifizldeffl: not into the iron 36:3 economy ofthestoveorinto ' the k1tchen. You can cook every dish for the biggest dinner on this modern range. And you use :1 Florence only when you need it: for cooking. This means comfort, and it means some- thing more—- I t means economy Add to the quickness of a Flor- ence Oil Range and its great con- venience the fact that it cuts down expense, and you realize that there 18 every reason for your owning one ofthese modern stoves. The flame in the big burners is a gas flame. It 18 not a wick flame. What you burn is the vapor frOm kerosene, and kero- sene 18 both a cheap fuel and one you can always get. An object of beauty With blueorwhiteporcelainenamel, ink- black frame and nickel tr1m- mings, the Florence Oil Range makes even a dingy kitchen look bright and modern. You Will appreciate, on'ce you examine :1 Florence, the many re- finements ofthis range. An ingenious device on each leg makes it eas to set it level on an uneven floor. he metal reservoir is li ht in Weight and non- -breakable. he movable oven, for use on any kind of stove, . has the “bakers arch” and the patented heat- spreader, which take most of the guess out of bakmg. Seeing is believing The Florence Oil Range will quickly convince you, when you examme one critic ally at a hardware or fur- niture store. lfyou don’ t knew the name of the nearest store Where the Florence is sold, write us for the address. .8 e n d u s y o u r name and address so we can mail you our booklet “Get Rid of the ‘Cook Look’. ” There is no charge and you will find 1t full of useful information. 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Aspirin is the- trade mark ' 30f Bayer Manufacture of Mononetid. v‘aoidester of Salicylicacid. ’ as follows: USe this department’to help solve your household problems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. PREPARING FOR KALSOMINE. My husband caught a coon. Can you tell me how to tan the hide for a. coat collar? The wall in my dining- room is very rough. How should I smooth it so as to kalsomine it?— Mrs. A. B. If you will write the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, of Washington, D. C., for their tanning bulletin No. 1055, they will give directions for tan- ning the coon hide. Regarding the walls in your dining- room, if you would dress the surface with a. thin coat of plaster to cover the roughness, it would then be ready to kalsomine and would give a smooth surface. POLISHING THE STOVE TOP. Please tell me how to care for a. pol- ished top stove—Mrs. H. L If you will rub your stove top with a. cloth to which has been added one tablespoonful of melted vaseline, it will take off the spots. Rub the stove while it is yet hot. If anything is spilled on the stove, it may be scraped off with a. blunt knife before rubbing, Add a. small amount of the vaseline to the cloth from time to time to keep it well oiled. Roll the cloth up tightly and keep in a. tin can to avoid fire. TO WASH WOOL. Can you tell me how I can wash wool so it can be used in making com- forters? The wool I have is from western sheep and is very fine and perience in this line—Mrs. This information has been previous: . 1y published but if Mrs. E. L. B. will send stamped self-addressed envelope, I will be pleased to help hen-Martha Cole. _ ~— WATER-PROOFI NG LEATH ER. Can you tell me what to put on my shoes without injury to the leather to keep them from soaking water.-eT. R To water-proof your shoes, apply the following: Melt slowly four ounces of raw lin- seed oil, five ouncos of boiled linseed 011, four ounces suet, four ounces beeswax and apply to while warm. TO SWEETEN RA'NCID LARD. Can you please tel me if lard has become rancid if anyt ing can be done to sweeten or improve it‘l—«Mrs. M. F. Boil rancid lard in equal amounts. of water, allowing it to cool in the same kettle. The lard can no remov- ed when cold. Any sediment or water scrapedlfrom the under side should be thrown away. If necessary. repeat this operation two or three times, us ing fresh water each time.——M_rs. M. To clarify lard use white lye made with wood ashes or the concentrated. Use one tablespoon of concentrated lye dissolved in one-half cup of water for half a kettle of lard. Watch carey Skim. fully as it quickly boils over. and drain after boiling one and one- half hours. When a. little cool, you will be surprised to see how sweet and white it will be. when it is boiling you have soap, but it will become clean—Mrs. M. C. ‘ Salads“ to Tempt the Family ND what kind 211 a. salad shall we A serve?” Thus spoke the chair- man of a committee on "eats,” and no one could tell. Cabbage salad was finally decided upon alth'bugh it has been served for—Oh! I don’t know * how many times. And so it goes. The same old kinds of salads served day after day. And is it any wonder. we get tired of \them and ask for new ones? When I came home from that committee meeting I sat down and be- gan to think, and look up salads that have proved favorites with my family. The first ones are vegetable salads and are splendid fillers in this time of the year.’ The first is the tomato and string bean salad. Besides being appetizing in flavor and appearance, this salad has the advantage over some, in that it can be made of either fresh or canned vegetables. To pre- pare the salad, place a. tomato, fresh or canned, in the center of a. plate, garnish with a lettuce leaf,‘and around it place several piles of three or four canned string beans. Over this pour salad dressing. The dressing was made One cup of vinegar brought to the boiling point, into this pour a. sauce of twb tablespoons of flour, two tablespoons of sugar, 3. little salt, and one beaten egg“ Another attractive as well as appe- tlzing salad is found in the water lily salad. This salad is excellent when a. light meal or lunch is desired. One hard-boiled egg for each person, re- move the shell and cut the egg into halves lengthwise. Remove the yolks, mash and season with salt and pepper, and vinegar. Cut the halves of the whites into three or four- pointed piec- es, sitting from end to end of the 113.1f. Place these in a star’— Bhope‘bn sided plates garnished with lettuce leaves. Form the yolks into a. ball and place in the center over the ends of the egg whites. Serve with the dressing men- tioned above. Perhaps the favorite salad of all is the “Humpty Dumpty Salad,” consist- ing of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs gam- ished with pieces of stuffed olives. From the center of a. tomato remove enough of the tomato to accommodate the end of an egg. Place the tomato thus prepared, on a. lettuce leaf. Cut the eggs into halves, crosswise, re- move the yolk and mash and season with salt, pepper, and vinegar. Re- place the yolk in the white and force this into the depression in the tomato. Place the pieces of olive on the yolk and serve with dressing. The date and English walnut salad proves to be 1a. salad of high food val- ue. Choose whole dates, wash and dry between a. clean towel. Remove the stones and place half an English'wal- nut meat inside and press the date'to- gether. Serve five or six 'of the dates in a star shape on lettuce leaf, and in- stead of serving salad dressing my family enjoy it more if; served with a. spoonful of Whipped cream. This salad is a. special friend with the young folks, although the old ones seem to appreciate it too. There are many more and many ways to fix them up so they will be a little difierent—even cabbage saladsm'lnc may be varied, and celery may be cut into thin pieces, diced green peppers ‘or pimentos added And just at this time of the year it seems do though. our appetites need. a sort 0 “sharp- nice and I never have had anyBex- the leather- You Will ' think T .Eiig'ijsm wlieism you nuts '..l°1.a.lfy :3 eanrtartyOuto‘ 1‘ , .. 11's.“... 1...... some“ 1mm swimmiimm humor to nosedtllsgeodjobsor toashrli business“ CemeteMt—‘lhemcenteo Git“ Ida'Iichizan ndtrslnsing (bytn ml.“ M)“ eggs“ mutui“§?$°ei ‘ « mJ tiresome. 361. u! noon 0‘11. testeq fluent, Newpomnl Find out what was: ritetodsy «School» Catalog‘ 1116 _ (fiance. l unawar- . ngyour tions. $11 both 37 State Automobile School “rem... * Get the FA CI Met In glss. Va Crimp, Corru- ated, Standin Seam, Painted «Galvanised Roof- angs Sidings, allbnard '. Paints, etc., direct to you oc-k Bottom Fa ory ces. Save money—get better quality and lasting satisfaction. Edwards “Ileo” Metal Shingles have great durability—many customers re rt 15 and 20 ars'usrsnserv‘icefi teed fire and light n'g proof. Free Roofing Book Get our wonderfully , low rices and free . sam es. Wec'ell direct to ouand save youall in etween dealer's Ask ' w. ":5 $0.167 _ ,_ ' ’ GED OIIIES ' < prices on Reedy-Made Flrwe-PrOOIStee tesl.‘Garagss Set am any place. Send postal for stage Book, showing styles. SMFG. 00. 317.367 mom. Muesli. 0. lESampIes <82 ; ilRoofing Book! Color Your Butter “Dandelion Butter Color” Gives That Golden June Shade which Brmg' a Top Prices Before churning add one- -half teaspoon- ful to each gallon of cream and out of your churn comes butter of- Golden Juno shade. “Dandelion Butter Color” is purely vegetablefilarmless, and meets all State and National food laws. Used for 5, years by all large creameries. Doesn’t color buttermilk. Absolutely tasteless. Large bottles cost only 35 cents at drug or grocery stores. Wells & Richardson 60., Burlington, Vt. to " Lille FREE Trial 0.3} 'l‘rylt 30yDa yr FREE. Write at once for special Int roductory— low price oilersnd free trial op- No rhhm No obllgx- . Berlin; .3129 Woodward AveaueJelreitJlchiins ‘ CTS ~Write TODAY “Send . “snow; ‘83" 533 tum-Stunt. “tenth. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“. 120 Samples 7 FREE £31um11 I 4%c‘ to Me was BewblwI-i lksnd ofteolors “mm“ngrut 4 141/2 ¢ Wuh- BWMG. m oz. WAM.R:% , I: '4 g . l I If. 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SirIIIG'Lt623mI. Mn... ml. Over'd 4..32ml. :1 your sari is not ‘mentionodnlmu or rtion are out ourguaro oar so paws FRE You can drive any ear in Eefimgyfixgg‘owishg‘: nears tar‘ '5 n h" . 8 .e of! on idrklnz whens}? lemora ' are. c eabng ' “I m ”m” ”a“. “has a "swam: money back if not entireyen is . o ARE THE JUDGE. AnyOnn our gunnntee. YOU0h eon attach it. No {fag who one handle 0 ' ti h . new holes or chen Inf 0011‘ WIS moo OWO. Rr-FRI aggzhnAylmond Bldg. Dayton. Ohio, U. S. A, zoo DOLLARS IN szcs For best reports on lasting quality of our EMPIRE Fence, compared with other kinds in use on the , same form. NONE but thoroughly reliable state- ments count as we have records of all sales for 2.0 years. Write for conditions. ‘mussrrnmmslnesmaumm DON’T WEAR A TRUSS B E COMFORTABLE— Weer the Brooks Appliance. the modern scientific invention which clves rupture sufferers immediate relieflt has no obnoxious springs or pads. Automatic Air Gushlons blnri‘lsenfildrslw together the brcflten _. pa . one see or p asters. ur " able. Ghee Bent on-u‘lal to prove "r'c' 5- .mfl“ ts werth. aware of imitations. Look for trad9mark bearing portreit end slur-shine! C. 3. Brooks which appears on every Appliance. None other genuine. Full informs- !) sealed envelope tlon end booklet sent free in plnl . IROOKS APPLIANCE 00.. 323 Sill. Slufllnhall, Mich We Tan and make to your order from your Cattle, Horse and all I‘llldS of . Hides and Furs, Men’s Fur Coats, 1 Robes, Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Ladics’ Fur Coats and Fur Sets. Repairing and remodeling latest styles. Ship usyour work and save one-half. New Galloway Coats, Robes. Gloves and Mittens for sale. We are the oldest Galloway tuners; 16 years continuous business. Free Style Catalog. prices and samples. Don‘t ship your hides and Inn elsewhere until you get our proposition. HILLSDALE ROBE & TANNING CO. Hilbdale, Mich. Sell. TIRES -DIRECT FROM FACTORY ‘ We went one unto ownerln each locality - ‘ to use and advertise ur Cords. You on mete higmoney end getyou own tirssrres by'sun send worsen rem ends and No Capital or Experience needed. We deliver and collect direct. Pay you dolly. Mos lLIIIers ”in Gusrsnlee Ever Written :- or are on e a. must cos c to] . our and Tm, Tr Separation, Blis- ng. Blow-Outs and Rim-Cutting for mm%gu'to¥° sire aetuzlsmenuf tun- . s or res. ill to Kmts sud lov’r Factor Pry“ .’ Her RU RAL H EALTH By Dr. 0. H. Lm-ign |l GETTING CURED AT HOME. ,- 0ST people are very credulous about cures for the ailments of the body. They believe almost every claim that is made in print even though the printed matter is admit- tedly an advertisement inserted for the purpose of, getting dollars from their pockets. And they believe any- thing that any neighbor reports. If the neighbor declares “such and such a thing cured me,”, they are eager to try it regardless of the fact that they have both a different trouble and a different personality. Such innocent unthinking faith is pathetic; doubly so because it often grows from a great need. Today, I have a letter from a wom- an reader in whiéh she asks three things. She desires something to rub on a’cancerous growth which her hus- band suffers—something that she can use at home. She would like some medicine to put in her ears to cure catarrhal deafness. And she quotes an old advertisement of several years back and asks if I feel pretty sure that the material advertised will cure her kidney trouble. You may judge the kind of answer I was obliged to write and how sorry I was to write it. Yes, I was sorry for the woman’s delusions. Yet how many of you are cherishing like delusions on a. slightly different scale. You go along neglect- ing your physical welfare until calam- ity is upon you and then you ask for some “home treatment.” Please let me say once more that it was never the intention of this department to supercedo the family doctor. The best service I can do for you is to tell you how you may keep your health, how you may prevent illness, and urge you to go to the doctor while your ail- ments are in their first stages and thus save yourself from these incur- able things that are beyond any form of treatment. HANDS SLEEP. My hands go to sleep every night. Can you tell me the cause of it and ’ what to do for it?——A. S. The trouble is either with the cir- culatory apparatus or with the nerves that control it. Such a condition is not necessarily an indication of dan- ger, but anyone having this trouble should certainly have a careful test of heart action and blood pressure. This will determine the cause and af- ter that a plan of treatment may be worked out. * BLOOD PRESSURE TOO HIGH. What can I do to reduce my blood pressure? It is now 200 and I am forty-31x years old, in general good health otherwise. Can’t stand any ex- citement, and am very nervous.— Mrs. C. 'A blood pressure of 200 at the age, of forty-six is not a mere happening. There is some real Source of underly- ing irritation, probably a hidden in- fection. The only sensible thing is a very searching examination to discov- er what that is and clear it up. ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS NEEDED. I am seventy—three years old, other- wise in good health for one of my age. Have never had any disease of urinary organs, yet when I urinate it is pain- ful. Can retire at ten o’clock and do not need to arise until five. But there IS always more or less pain present and frequent urinating during the day. Would you advise some operation in my case?——W. H. S.’ In spite of the fact that you are not troubled thrOugh the night it is yet possible that your trouble” is due to an enlarged prostate gland. But it may be from some‘other cause, such as stone in the bladder. The first 1 curate diagnosis. . '_ ._ . look for the “Gold Seal" ? thing for you to do is to get an ac- As Good NOW'as In Grandfather’s Day-— RANDFATHER' was hard to satisfy: But it is a noteworthy fact that hes will; ea n Grandfather’s buying judgment fifty years 'ago, and “Gold Seal” extravquality, formed the solid foundation u . on which our steady growth has been bu' t. There has been no change in the extravqu’ality . that made “Gold Seal” rubber footwear famous When you‘ buy “Gold - Seal” rubbers or boots today you get exactly the same quality goods that grandfather got— ' the utmost in wear, comfort, and snug fit. Ask for and insist on being supplied with "Gold Seal" ” identifies the genuine. Look for it.“Ournearestofiice will be pleased to direct you to the Gold Seal” store in your town. GOODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY satisfied with Goodyear “Gold rubbers and boots. half a century ago. rubber footwear. The Gold Seal" label General Offices: 787-789 Broadway. New York ' Bunions: \ Mllvmukee,WIs. ,380-82 E.WeterSt. St.Louis,Mo., llOBWnshlnxtonAn Portland, 01-0.. 61-67 Folzrth St. KnnsusCity.Mo..80’l BaltimoreAve. San Francisco. 031.. 539 MiselonSt. St. Paul. Minn., 871-77 Slble'y St. Canadian Representatives : The Allied Footwear Co. of Gen. Ltd" 29 Temperance St..'l‘oronto.0nt. / /\ I , dSe- /: / ' H hoe ; eg-- i" t 7 uses 'Emd E no "Gol heavy grey sole. points of wear Iy re-inforced. prov ed shape. a!" HalFCyclone Mud Rubber puck 03 In run It re (2'0. “135 WW-MW RUBBERS‘ BOOTS OVERSHOES \ When Writing to Advertisers Please Mention The Michigan Farmer “‘5": Srequa Deal, Fence Leads New “Galvanneeling” Inven- tion stops destructive rust. Square Deal’s stiff, picket-like stay wires that make fewer posts necessary; '1ts well crimped line wires that Spring back intoplace after every shock and ,strain and its famous Square Deal knot guaran- teed never to slip ——-all these facts make Square Deal the fence that stands tight and trim, looks better ~\ .. .\';‘ ”.4. . rag-l: \ '\ NE 5,——\N_m—— r - Rust "Galvannealed” newly discover- ' ed rust-resisting fence Wire, is uaranteed to est 2 to.3 times longer in any standard test ' - than ordinary andrflsesthtfaval galvanized 118 0 YQUI arm- wrre, therefore, 2 Books FREE WM give Y°“' . ' m a n y y e a r s more service at a much lower -cost. Fence this time with "Gal- v a n n e ale d .” Specify “Gal- vannealed" Square Deal Fence or the Ropp’s New Cal- culator tells you your gram and livestock profits; measures capacitieoof cribs, wagons, silos: ‘ figures interestmages; contains, commercial law. reel trates, . etc. Sim wllg'ls uare gigglart 17,11 , Deal catal . m " books FRE to Land Owners. Write today 3. how toedcut fence costs “stemmed-«t Wire Co. ‘ . as}, Industrial 89.1mm mg? ,. 657 IT man THE, tg‘e‘ZCTORYD/RECT' declares (. ’ Ponce, Indiana. You too can eevo men on Fence, G'ates,l’osts and Berbodmlre by buying direct from our great mills. ‘ - Lowest Factory Prices. Prompt ship- "vl merits. Every article guaranteed satisfactory. Better Fence-«Greater Savings New Fences have been added to our big line; man present styles have been made heavier. from which to choose. Every rod made to give you longest service at lowest cost. Direct from Factory to Farm We Pay the Freight catalog filled wit ues 'in Farm. Poultr Gates, Steel Posts an and Barbed Wire. America’s Oldest Fence Manufacturers on 150 Rods,” says William J. Heft, R 2, Wynndotte, Mich. ‘Sovod ‘23 on I 26 rode' hurries Renvule, ore than 100 styles and heights Write now—todaK—for our Free loo-page real mone -saving val- awn Fence, KI'I‘SELMAN BROS.,Dept. 278 MUNCIE. INDIANA \ urn x\ mr n n 2," 1'? K WK‘A - smug 1: 303 My Big NEW catalog is filled from cover to cover With E ger. Better values than ever this season. _ ou'll be glad you sent for my New Bargain _Boolewhen you see. the big savings 1.8m lying my customers. My plan of selling irect From Factory cares ou 1/310r more. YVrite today for my 1 page cata 03 giving ow * FREIGHT PREPAID one on Fencing. Gates Steel Wire, Rooms and é’lflh var! ' I page o! no hes-gems. unwell m satisfaction teed. ’ tos- ceteloc today. Jll BRO . pence W & WIRE C0. , Dents.” - Cluck-Ilia. New Low Pn see 011 Miller WI] Baby Chicks Season 1924 ' Buy your clinch the season from an established hutchgry. MILLER HATCHERIES a one III the finest In Ainerica. We batch twenty popular varieties from stock whichb ave been culled and bred for heavy egg production. 1.500.000Wch1cln via prepaid parcel poet at the following low prices: B nedvlloelrieo R d S 0 Beds A R. C 50 chicks 100 chicks 500 chicks 1.000 chic]: arr s. an n onus, . 8. homs".........°..... ......szso $14. on moo 8125.00 Winnie and Bufl’ Rocks, \V. W. and Black Dan shuns . . . . . 10.00 15.00 140.00 8 It. yandotte, White Orpington, S. 0. Blue Minorca. . . 9.00 17.0! 87100 159‘. But! rpingtons ............aoo 15.00 10.00 135.00 Golden Wyando tte . ................ . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 20.01! 95.00 115. N! Light Brahmas and F. Black Spanish. . . . . . . . . . .18.00' 0,0 116.00 29“. .C.Whiteand S. .BrownLeghorns........ .......1.00 18.00 :3: 110.00. Assorted 0.1.. .dli. t. f tlilnliwrtiunt ..... d. .f. 0. EE2.80,]P G. 0g1~t 100.!" - ALO a 8651's rec romiauson.soavei'el 250138npleglsedflcluswgergm in United States and anada. Member. 8Missouri State. Mid— West and International Baby Chick Assoc ations. Ill-LEE HATOHERIES BOX 651 LANGLSTER. MISSOURI PURE BRED BIG VALUE CHlCKS Best paying standard varieties \from healthy free range utility flecks. carefully inspected, culled, and Hogan tested. Quick maturing. High Egg Porduction. th 25 50 100 500 1000 Chicks. Chicks. Chicks. Chicks. Chicks. 8. C. White L., B. In. Buff L ..... $3.25 $0.25 $12. 50 $60.00 $120. 00 S. C. B. Minorcas. S. C. M. Ancon— . as. Barred Rocks, S. C. II. 1. Beds 3.75 7.50 15.00 72.50 140.00 White ROIks, R. C. R. 1. Beds. .. ' ' . White Wyandottes ............... 4.00 8.00 16.00 77.50 150. 00 C. White, S (‘ Buff Orpingwns 4.25 8.50 17.00 82.50 160.00 Mixed. All 15m 5 ................. 2.50 5.00 10 00 50. 00 100. 00 Wolf llaIching II Breeding 00., Dept. 5, Gibsonburg, Ohio gig!" 'lPure Bred Selected Flocks d by 100% Live Delivery Healthy Flocks 1;! yr?! Vb?!" l‘l 'eat No Strong, Sturdy, Northern- grown Chicksbl Skelecgdi. ppre- brag crack. i t in every lie 1‘ er mm s on free range nsure s rength Prices on 50 100 300 500 1000 Leghorns (S. C. White and Brown) ...... 7.00 :13 . $38 $02 $120 Barred Rocks .......................... 8.00 15 43 72 140 White Rocks ......................... 9.50 18 53 85 105 ii ed B oiler Chicks, 10 per 100 straight. . . llafched runder best I-oiditions in Newtown Incubators. Every (”hick carefully Inspected. 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. Reference, State (ommercial SaI‘Inxs Bank. this city. Write for prices on special matings. GREAT NORTHERN HATCHERY. Box 50, Zecland, ‘Michigan. Early Maturing Baby Chicks Quality Type Dependability Production hicks are from flocks selected for their early maturing habits. Thisimeans high- prodSIltllngc individuals. These flocks are headed by cockerels from high—producing blood lines. Culled by expcits. Eth flOIk personally superiised. Pure-b red. From $10. 00 per hundred and up. We ham 3. limited number of superior grade chicks from special matings, 230 302 egg strain. B. 1’. Rocks. It. 1. Beds. W. P. Rocks, W. W,5andottes W. Leg— horns. AnIon nsa ' Writ e for description and prices. Ioo per cent live delivery. Re!” Milan State Sav- ings Bank. MILAN HATCHERY, Box 4, Milan. Mich. Highest Quinn eerIiIIeII Baby chicks Michi an' 3 01d Reliable HatIhery, the best equipped and most modern Hatch— grrymlln the State. Pure- bred Tom Bairon English and American White Leghorns‘ An— conas. Barred Plymouth ItoI ks and Rhode island Reds. Strong, ‘wcll- matched (‘hiI-ks rom tIstId Iloganized free -1ange slack that make wonderful WintI-r layers. Lhicks sent by insured Parcel Post. Prepaid to your door. 100' per cent lIve delivery guar- anteed. Sixteen years of expel-lame in producing and shipping Chicks, gIving absolute satisfaction to thousands. Writefor valuable illustrated free catalog and price list. Get lowest price on best quality chicks before placing your order. R. 7, Holland, Mich CHICKS ou money on Ancona and White Le - Wayne . HOttANDMICHlGAN . »W. VAN APPLEDORN, We can_ save .. horn ChIcks. insure your chicks for one week. . M. D. WYNGARDEN R. 4, Box 80 Zeeland, Mich. Early MattIring Baby Chicks Early maturing mums that our stock has been selected and mated to produce lowls capable of mak- Ing high yearly reIords. Great winter laycIs from pure- bred flocks under our own personal supervision. They are carefully c-ullId and mated and from flocks headed bI (Ockemls of high produIlng blood lines. Our best quality chiIks have round breeding on both sides. B. P. Rocks, R. l. Reds TV. P. Rocks. W. Wyandottes. W. Leghorns, AnIonas. Sent prepaid to IoIIr door. 100 per cent live dcliIcry guamntecd. \Vrite for illustrated catalog and price list. Low prices on quality (“lll(l{s, $12. 00 on hundred and up. The Keystone Hatchery and Poultry Farms, Lansing, Michigan First-Class Chicks HUNDERMAN’S ...AND cpl We are heavy producers of first-class Chicks. Flocks on free range. Called by expert. 100 per cent LiIe Delivery Guaranteed. Order today from this Ad. and get Chicks when you want them. Prices on 50 1000 300 500 English S. C. White ILeghorns .......... $6 50 $12.00 $36.00 $57.50 Barred Rocks, S. C. ............... 8.50 16.00 48.00 77.50 Single Comb R I. BledsS ................ 9. 00 17. 00 50. 00 82.50 ‘ Mixed Chicks—$10 per 100 straight. Blue Hen Incubators. Reference. Zecland State Bank. Order today. You take no chances. Catalog Free. HUNDERMAN BR08.’ POULTRY FARM. Box 25, Zeoland, Michigan. FREE CHICK OFFER Our Tom Barron Strain White chhorns pay his dividends. We breed and hatch only one kind—the best. Our p-ure -bred chicks are strong. husky and easy to raise. Get our circular and FREE CHICK OFFER before ing on chicks or breeding stock. . It will surely D you. GBESB E POULTRY FARM. P. Ver Hays. Mon. seland. Mich. CHIX BABION’S QUALITY CHICKS Varieties. Prepaid Prices on 25 50 100 1000 PureEnglish White. Browrrd: uflLegborns . $..4. 00 $7.00 $13. 00 $62 000 ' $120. . ' Barred Rocks. Reds. Anco conns ............ .. .25 8.00 15.00 72. 00 140.00 & Buff Rocks. W11. Wyandottes. Minorcas ... 4. 75 0.00 7.00 82:00 ‘160.00 Sil. Wyandottes. Orplnxto ens ............ 510.00%:900 92.00 180.00 .“ ' ‘ Pricesq noted are for chicks batched l'ro OUR GOODUTI obs from ., , DUB EXTRA SELE CTED LOCKBWI ll-be 00W 100 mailer and Chicks from our Fancy _ j? w of BLUE RIBBON PENS will be 55.00 per 100 bibher.Postnaid.100 cent guaranteed. , ' _ references. You canno otgo gII.wI-ons -er0rd from this Mi.- Thousands satisfied. Ten years madame. .,» i" 1 Our Sloan. cks’ are cheapest. the ‘ thetbes "'8 FRUIT WARD POULTRY FARM \ -‘IIAsIoII rs ; , - , _‘ 'v end at once for catalog and prices. e . night lights. Keeping the perches fold- ”I . . FEEDING FOR 7 ices-f"Pnoouc‘rlon‘; ‘ Yer R. e. KIRBY. . value in the care of the farm flock- Wheat and cracked corn, equal parts by weight, make the best scratch grain. Oats and barley are not so good, as they are bulky feeds with heavy hulls. About fourteen pounds per day of scratch feed is necessary to keep up the bodily weight of 100 birds so their weight can govern the -feeding. Besides the morning and night feed of scratch grain, it often pays to scat- _ es. This helps to keep the hens busy. A good dry mash consists of equal parts by weight. of bran, middlings, ground ‘oats‘. corn meal and meat ; scrap. hens should eat about fifty per cent mash and fifty per cent scratch grain, but it is found that hens which are producing heavily may eat more than fifty per cent mash. It is the mash that contains the ma- terial for manufacturing eggs. Bran furnishes the bulk in the ration. Ground oats are often hard to get with- out too much hull. They should be ground as fine as possible. Meat scrap is better than tankage for feeding the ' poultry. Semi-solid buttermilk is used in feeding the contest pens at the rate of two and one~half pounds per day per 100 hens. Mineral matter is essential in the hen’s ration, and the charcoal is useful as a. tonic. The oyster shell furnishes lime, but is not a substitute for grit. Green feed helps to increase fertility and keep up egg production through- out the year. Sprouted oats or sprouted barley are a fine source of green feed. They should be fed when the top develop- ment is short and the root growth large. A square inch per bird per day is about right. Alfalfa meal is not ad“ vised as there is too much bulk for the price you pay for it. If alfalfa is raised on the home farm, it is all right of use as a source of green feed for the hens. _ Cabbage is second in value to sprout- ed oats, and with plenty of cheap cab- bages it might not _be necessary to sprout oats. Silage is not recommend- ed for poultry feeding. Potatoesare all right if cooked. The use'of a wet mash is not advised in‘ the spring when nature naturally stimulates egg production, but it is sometimes useful in the summer when production falls and there is a. need of stimulation“. The wet meshes are not advised for Winter feeding. Noon is the best time for giving the wet mash if any is used. A fresh supply of water must always be kept at hand. It is found that the drip system of supplying water at- tracts the attention of the hens so they will drink a. larger quantity. Clean litter is always necessary for the best results and wheat straw ;is the most satisfactory, as oat straiw breaks up more readily. The hens like to work in clean litter, and a change is advisable every 'ten days or two. weeks. 'Do not use mouldy straw for poultry house litter. The only value in artificial lights is due to the increased day. . Morning lights are advised at 4:30 or 5:00 a. m. A dimming device is needed if you use ed up during the day encourages ex- ercise. Changes in feed should be made gradually over a. period often days to two weeks to prevent a. reduc- tion in egg production. :2 , MARKET POULTRY- N his discussion of me before the Michigan Poul/cry 9113’ Association, D E.’ Hate R. c G. CARD brought out the 7 following points at the institutew . - poultry program which are of ter a. few handfuls in the litter dm‘ing _ the day when going through the hous- -- It is a. general rule that the 3H" ”5314.55.53! CERTIFIED cmcn BREDTC! Immms Best Quality Certified hChlcks ply MI- 0081 wn-m Our hicks are from Range nooks of Sheppard'wne Famous 33l we strain of Anconas. heavy winter layers of me white eggszflollywood and Tom Barron. 8. 0. its Leghorns: and Everla'y S. C. Brown Leghorns Park's straln Barred Carefully alumni and rated by experts and urtlflod by Michigan Baby Chick Ass' n. Bred for quality and blob can yield for 11 vears on our own farm. Strong vigorous, full of Vltallty. 100 per cant live delivery ranteed. PM Illustrated onttlloo Free. Towullno Poultry arm a Hatchery. Dept. u. Zena la'ml. Web. Member Mitd-Wss and International B‘avahl ck‘w II V . Free fln ' careful]. y culled Rock-.All «33-5 ’5: :90". Indbrod m but 'l".u°:r’ggw¥0‘;§ . ostreiiie e mil."- nn in Elicia ’I log 3 contest. bee $11.00 per 100 Postpaid .Extra Selected Stock. 318. 00 per 100. any p.aid 100 per cent Live Arrival m“crammed. Hatched from heavy lay- ocks. Free range. It..qu you tof buy our Ens-Brod Chicks. Cir- TTAWA HATCH ERY d S'OUL'ERY FARM. Route l0, Holland. EGG BRED CHIX 200w” Strum 8. O. and Broom Lenhorns. led dupe. 12y Carefully “lgtads Large looped-comb. deep -IIoII- sot‘ breeding tor Moll ooo- -IIroIlIIotlolI. breeders. beaded edby 15m. vigorous with many veers of hishly success- you success. I00 9.5213333“? chic? till“ Iran Ive arr . Write for cavtalozuea " 0“ t“ no LHATCHEIIY AMI)a yI-‘AIIIII R. 2. Iceland. Mich. 8. P. Wlonu‘a} sdw'ner. aQuality Leghorn Chicks ‘ ' HCHAMEIEIONW LAYERS Barron strains ofD 250— 287 lines. The most profitable hen?“ 1000 7 130 discount on m1: 110 per cant live ar- ‘0 IIIeII uxfilbounnv ¥Aafii§$ Holland. loin. II. , n.‘ - Engllsh Tyne White bubonic ' W Men—MW- ...», .~,...mw<§ ‘MV ... m”... . . I : form size. ber of birds weighing two pounds they ‘ , do not want birds above that weight “IT ;Fll.|.8 IIIE BILL” The “SELF-SERVE” dry mash feeder, design- ed 'by a practical poultry- man; sold at a price you can afford to Non- cl ,ho s y3i bu. Fow 3 cannot roost on cover nor touch teed with feet. Price no F. o. 113' ‘Eekford. CNCk size SI. 50. Sand for free WNW red by _ . Efiérl, Man mum notes? $19.11 no can Monroe. 1191:. our-.21.“ m m mm; mm name's 12.90 ' .3.“er_ til-ck” Ind?! Ram *W 0°C 1!,“ more! through _ 13$ MINCIIBATCRW 1‘“ m mm lectures that {new mm Hallo.” cellulose nun-fin with . found that cooperation failed because: ‘a poultry journal he had producers . sign blanks telling of the eggs‘ and; , poultry they could supply direct. After ’ they promised to be customers. container was devised for parcel post 1' shipments. .customers wished to pay the first of :the month instead of receiving the shipments, and because of other mis- _ . understandings due to a lack of con- 1 fldence between buyers and sellers, the , the large cities want their market poul-r ‘ the producer is willing to give it to ; cording to weight and quality. ‘ teed eggs on short notice. ' demand governs the market price. Egg I of the bird goes into the soup kettle next come the Rocks, Orpingtons and . machines and there is not enough meat . Wanted that producers pay .111th . . or our attention to production and .asflectjmarkéting. , In an .enpa'ience in Chicago With direct marketing ahe; they would not cooperate, the human factor was lacking. In connection with giving talks to certain ladies' clubs. These lists were exchanged and a_ Due-to the fact that Ithe plan .wasnot a success. The buyers for clubs and hotels in try exactly theweights they require for serving certain portions of a uni- If they wish a certain num— even at the price of the lower weight. They have to serve even portions and will not take what they don’t want if them for nothing. Chicken graders receive $110 per week because they are expert in rapidly sorting fowls ac- Hotels like to buy of dealers who can furnish large quantities of guaran- Supply and cases must be uniform in size and quality of the contents. It is suggest— ed that some breeders of Leghorns might use their equipment for brood- ing chicks of the heavy breeds early for. broilers and then raise the Leg- horns afterwards. In some of the best hotels only the breasts of four-pound broilers are .broiled, and the remainder for the help. -That is one reason Why wealthy buyers have to pay $1.00 or $1.50 for one small portion. The large hens are used for club sandwiches and chicken a la king. In fattening poultry the confinement in crates breaks down the muscular . . tissue and produces soft meat in its; place. A good fattening ration con- sists of sixty per cent corn meal and forty per cent oatmeal mixed With but— termilk. The big hens are the easiest to sell. Among the meat breeds, Mr. Hale prefers the Light Brahmas and other heavy breeds. Leghorns are egg on them. so they go to the low-priced restaurants. People become tired of turkeys and geese :soouer than they do . of chickens. But the turkeys and geese are in demand at the time of the holiday market so do not try to ship all the chickens for the holiday trade. The stewards of the hotels know, the market and predict lower egg pric- ’ es because of the quantity of cold stor— age eggs which are held in Chicago. The middle west will dominate the egg market because we are near to the grain and milk supply and should be able to produce eggs cheaper than some other sections—K. RHODE‘ISLAND REDS VIGOROUS. Can you tell me if Rhode Island Red chickens are more susceptible to dis—' ease than any other breed of poultry? Mine have tuberculosis, or at least, all signs of it. White lumps appear on the liver and heart, they become lame and finally die. I have a mixed flock of Barred Rock and Rhode Island Reds, the Reds seem to be affected the most. —-Mrs. S. S tisements last month that Sciencehad at last discos'o cred a preventative for leg weakness in baby chicks-— I When we told how we had successfully combined this latest Scientific discovery with Ful-O Pep Chick Starter and that this feed that would greatly reduce leg weakness and death losses was now available to all poultry raisers, the immedi- ate and hearty response from poultrymen was convincing proof that we had supplied a very urgent need. 3.!" $52 will solve your baby chick problem. Ful-O Pep Chick Starter with its Cod Liver Oil Content' IS extremely rich in A and D Vitamines and this combined with the other health- giving ingredients that compose Ful- 0-Pep Chick Starter. produces such strong bones and healthy vigorous growth that leg weakness and other diseases are greatly reduced. Ful --O Pep Chick Starter—Science’ 5 latest gift to poultry- men is now available to poultry raisers everywhere—your feed dealer has it or can get it for you. Just as Ful- O Pep Egg Mash has helped poultrymen to greatly increase their egg production, so will Ful -O- Pep Chick Starter enable them to raise more of their hatched chicks. Write for Free Illustrated Circular Write today for big illustrated circular telling all about Q this new and important discovery, how and why iwill greatly reduce your baby chick losses. Just .- fill out coupon, mail to us and this valuable circular will be sent you by return mail. 6/ h‘uhbh \ 1HICK STARlIK The Rhode Island Reds as a breed! are usually considered vigorous and thrifty as any other breed, and I think l your losses are due to the disease: among certain individuals and are not ' a. reflection on the stamina of the breed. If you suspect tuberculosis in the flock it usually pays to have a vet- ' . erina-rian inspect the birds and make "“ I 1 recommendations. ‘flsommsowummmy Poultry Service Beat. 1628 Railway Exchange uflding Chicago, U. S. A. L POUl Producers of High Grade Certified Chicks From CEREIUlgED 260- 290 Egg Pedigreed Hollywood and Barron English White Leghorns S. C. Brown Leghorns, Anconas and Barred Rocks. Pullets reported laying at 4 months.Fine.inst1-uctiye catalog FREE showing pictures of our birds. breeding establishment. etc. investigate. RURAL POULTRY FARM, Dept. 110, R No. I, If you want the most: for your money ZEELAND, MICH. DON'T LOSE BABY CHICKS, Baby Chick Feeders and Fountains omocfioul, {0:25 years the roll-bk remedy, will rid lhem oIRoup, Cold3. Bowcl‘l‘rouble, etc" and keep 1 hemboolthy. 'A wonder worker.‘ 'Usedby hundreds olthousands. Get it It drug or mdetom. or order of III by cud—75c 1111113150.“... delivered. Postman will collect. No extra MM 1- today. an. ll- LEI 130. Omaha. Nobl- 11» Old Reliable gs» .m.:.“.‘.“'"'°" ,adnermr woo, mm. mm bodyllooth and such "13530 ' mm, mrooete. etc. No dust dipping. muIXIT-hhuwcflm gr.“ 111 or seed store, or write new! particullre and velnab mm ll. LII 00- Omaha.” Whittaker s Reds Chicks And eggs for hatching. Rose and Single Combs. Michigan’s greatest color and egg strain. Brad from fourteen generations of winter layers. Write for free lnterlakes Farm. Box 39. Lawrence. Mich. catalog. Simple—Sanitary—Automatic Used and Endorsed by the larg- est liatxheries and Poultry Farms in the United States. We want to send you our Catalog or POULTRY SUI l’LIES. —IT S FREE—— THE McCURDY MFG. CO. DEPT. B. ADA, OHIO. CHICKS-S”°“g-H"“‘h’- 0 From Hemy Layers. S. C. Tom Barron Eng. White Leghorns. Brown Leghorns. 12¢; Shepherd's Aprons. . 131-; Assorted Chicks. 10c. Class A flocks . therefore we sell no Class B, but Class A chicks only. 100 per cent safe delivery. Postpaid. No mom-y down with order. Catalog free. 303 HATCHERY, Iceland. Mich.. R. No. 2 M. . Just think of it! This fine. California Redwood Wisconsin 140-15“ '. Incubator, with double walls.dead air space between, hot water heat. copper tank and boiler, double glass door, nursery, self- regulating— , everything com lete. set up ready to run, for only $13. 25. freight ‘ paideastof es. With Ito-Cluck hot air brooder, only $17.75. I 80 Egg“ slzo, manly 8 l 5.15 with Brooder. both 322 You “keno yin‘ Whoop-Ins. We give to days trial—$51.11? back I! not pleased. I! you fl“prefer arger machine. we have them upto 30 Days Trial W119 Pay Mme ' Wisconsin aria: Colony Brooders market, Wilf- Il them lent on I" “Pout—curt A!!! study by" 101.2. MMWI— & m fink“... lack-tune. 11M”. 24111.11...” 125.51.33.95 . 32 hula”, m 111111.1st c; . 42 in. Guam!“ chick. 11. 75 ' Write for our New 19%| {9:}; \ ad. . Infill!“ IICIBI'I‘CI a". lo: 110.. Room. Wis. y . , § "115......1111... 2.2:ch Tana-ed. pedigree-sired Wiigmfmkbi i" _ orns . . . ., g] R.I.Rtidiio:]a‘r'ks'Bsri-ed “ . ' mos s. ‘ ”‘ “Ti... 11-311 1.1.111 1" 1.23121 e. close you . inspects ‘an eppro . y Idle igan Baby Chick Association. Every birdie healthy, has size, type and color.» Hatched In World’s Best Incubator Our chicks are stron , sturdy nnd healthy. They live and grow anse ey ere batched in the best in< cubstor made. 1001 liv delivery to your door. Illus- trated catalog sent FREE. mmsw POULTRY FARM, s a, Box 5.1mm, nu. PIONEER POULTRY FARM '1ch dr- EXCLUSIVE ENGLISH ANCESTRY. CHICK“; CHICKS Tom Barron Strain Highest quality English White Leghorn chicks. de— riving their notoriety from their ancestors, which were imported direct from Enn- Iend. Prices right. liberal discount on early orders. Write tonight for free illus— 'trated circular. PIONEER POULTRY FARM, Box A, R. In, Holland, Mich. IfIIII . BABYCHICKS The season of 1924 opens with some fine breeding pens in the 10 varieties of PURE-BRED PRACTICAL POULTRY. Barred Rocks Anconas White Rock: Leghorn—White, Rhode ls. Reds Brown. Buff Orningtonl In the White chhorns 3 Superior Egg Quality in the D. W. Young American type and in the English type. It is now time to be looking after your Chicks for this season. Send for our descriptive matter and price list. You will be interested in the egg records our customers report. Cookerels~A tow unsold in Barred Rooks. and White Wyendottes. STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Masonic Temple. Kalamazoo. Michigan. PURE BRED BABY CHICKS We have been carefully devel- oping our floeks for eight years. ‘Every chick pure-bred and from stock carefully culled. for type and production. Our chicks give satisfaction. Order today and get chicks when you want them. 50 “)0 500 Wh. Leghorn: .............. $7.00 $3.00 $62.00 Bd. Rocks. R. I. Reds ....... 8.0 I5.00 ‘ .00 Wh. Wyandottcl. Wh. Rocks 8.50 “5.00 77.00 Postpaid. 100 per cent live delivery. You take no chances. Ref” Farmers' & Mechanics’ Bank. this city. No catalog. Order from this ad. WASHTENAW HATCHERY. R. 5, Ann Arbor. Mich 7 WORLD S CHAMPION MYERS Hollywood and lmprovod English 8. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS. The ‘1» IS PRIZ American Business Hens: 230— k I 300o bred lino. Large White eg 3. innoro at National Shows on Egg-Laying Contests. HIGHEST QUALITY CHICKS from certified tested hens mated to igh power pedigreed sires. Blo- eount on early orders. Valuable lnotructlvo CATALOG FREE. "0128‘ GRANDVIEW POULTRY HRH. 3.11.6. Zulu-Lilia. Baby chicks 8. G. W. legnnrns ———OnI Pedigreed yCertified Michigans Largest S. C. W. Leghorn an. over 2000 Birds. Hutch our own eggs only. Supply limited. Order early. One trial will convince you. Free Circular. SIMON HARKEMA and SON, In. srngrrs EGG LAYING cos [1:911 I‘) 4 1i” z 2 R. 1, Holland, Michigan BETTER CHICKS MORE OF THEM Barred Rocks. 50. $8: 100, $15: 500. $72.50. Anconas. 50. $7.50; 100. 3141’ 500, $67.50. White Leghorns, 50. $43.50: 100, $12: 500. $57.50. Chicks from well-culled, vigorous, high— producing, free range flocks. Ordcr direct from this ad. and avoid disappointment. Prompt Delivery. Our 9th year. Good Reference. DILIGENT HATCHERY. Route 11 Holland, Mich. ' . Wishbone Hatched « CHICKS The finest day-aids money can buy. Strong, big from free-ranged stock. All popular varieties. gripped by parcel post.‘ Write for moderate price t. . WoIlI’s Hatchery, R. 11, Holland, Mich. Chicks with. Pep Try our lively and vigorous chicks from bred-to-lay and exhibition hem. They will make you money for they lihve the quality and egg—laying habit bred into them. A trial will con- vince you. All lesdln varieties. Sale deliv- ‘ .. ery. Prepai . Prices right. Bonk . . -1 reference. Big, illustrated catalog ‘ ’ I r . 11,1...“ Chick rI-eleatchory, Box M, Holgoto,0iho '- ‘ ' - 12.00 100 d . w, gibnghICk: l‘isting firvarietigs olfmpurefbgg for ultry Forum Dear Uncle Frank; School has started again. just awful, for it just sp‘oiled my vaca- tion. 1 There are no clubs around here, so a. group of us girls gottogether and formed a. sewing club. My father gave me a calf to raise about four years ago, and a. year ago I sold it for $100. That wasn’t so bad. I have bobbed hair and do not wear knickers and do not use powder. I guess Harold wouldn’t have‘so much to say because I have only my hair bobbed. . Uncle Frank, how do you like sleigh riding? I think winter is the best sea.— son there is. It is just the time of year your cheeks get red.——Your niece, Laura Wager, M. C., Trenton, Mich. Douglas and Clifford McArthur, Cous- ins, Lachine, Sunning Themselves.» not get too cold. The trouble is that my nose gets red instead of my cheeks. I hope you get another calf to raise. Dear Uncle Frank: This is my semi-annual. about every six months. . We have lovely weather. The ther- mometer has been as low as thirty below .in the Wind, and there’s just snow and snow and more snow! I think Clarissa is a pessimist. Where did she ever get such horrid ideas regarding this thriving circle. I Wish she’d let me know for I laugh so much I would like to know,of some- thing to sober me for a while. I’m going to raise some crop this summer to supply me with money for my junior year. Aren’t I ambitious ?— Your M. C. niece, Polly Livinicky, Stephenson, Mich. You are apparently one of those semi-occasional writers. Clarissa. is not a pessimistfishe just "has good imagination. I judge you are one of the Ha-Ha girls. I write just circus, due. s and sinus: Send ri . ‘ siren! Clinton Hatchery 8'0. Po p 06‘ _ _ olnton. 0M0. - .Dear Uncle Frank: I was the last one home from school as I got in the house, they all burst clean the school house and build the fire every morning. My sisters and brothers come home first, and as soon as. I get in the house, they all burst out, “I bet you don’t know what you got.” After guessing a while they told me I got a button and a membership card. I tell you I was awful glad. I am very much pleased with them both. I thank you very much. I think I’ll give up the janitor busi- ness and get home first to find out what I get. Don’t you think so, Uncle Frank?—Yours very truly, ,I. A. Sail, R. 2, Bangor, Mich. ’ I am glad you all enjoyed the arrival of the button and card so well. No, don’t give up your janitor 'job. A job is always worth keeping. Besides, if you quit you will come home and be disappointed in not getting anything. Dear Uncle Frank: Say, cousins, are. you disappointed. because Uncle Frank is only thirty? I am not. I think that a club for young people should be led by a. young per- ~ son. How many agree with me?———— Your niece and cousin, Myrtle Dupont, R. 1, Allegan, Mich. , Because somebody said I was thirty doesn’t make me so. I'feel like twenty because I think I can still run like sixty. But I am neither twenty nor sixty. ‘ - « « Dear Uncle Frank: . ’ ' What do you think about v-chaln let- ters, Uncle Frank? ~ ld-on’t think there is any sense in them. ’In my way‘of ' 7A FeW LuckyLetters 1 1W5” Some IMW’D’ Czrcilem’Haw to Say , That is - Winter is O. K. as long as it does' " prize winnersndo’not write telling me- ought (to, don't ysnz “mi-1. 3;. 1m thinking, you are just wasting postage stamps. - - ‘ ‘ - Are you interested in basket ball games, Uncle Fran-k? ' /.. ' I think it is. great fun to see the quick action of the players as they shoot the ball from one to the othen The game also makes them think and act quickly, and develops sportsman ship and respect for the other fellow. as well as developing theqmusclesof the body.——From your niece, Elva Mc- Clintic, M. 0., Homer, Mich. I agree with you about chain let- ters. The threats and promises they contain are worthlessand harmless. Yes, I like basket ball but I have‘not played it for years. ‘ - Dear Uncle Frank: Did you ever snowball when you were smaller? It’s lots of fun. We had a. snowball fight in school. Boys against. the girls. We fixed them. We showed them that girls are just as smart as boys, so far as that’s con- corned. With all good wishes, good-bye, an~ other niece, Rose Sasek, M. C., R. ,4, Owosso, Mich. '. . ’ It was some accomplishment forryou girls to beat the boy at snowballing, as usually girls‘do not- hit what they aim at. Oh! Oh! Uncle Frank: I just read “Clarissa’s Vision.” .1 hope that it will never happen, and let the “Merry Circle” drop. Say, Merry Circlers, let us keep it up. Don’t let it drop, for we want something to do evenings. And, oh! just think, never to hear from our Uncle Frank any more. . Sister and I took the map of Michi- gan and located the cities from which the letters come. Ardis L. Bisbee lives the closest to us‘ of those we found. Will close, from your niece, Leota, Ray, M. C., R. 6, Paw Paw, Mich. Yes, that “vision” was sort of a. shiv— ery affair. If I .read many like it I really "would think I was getting old. The M. C. is going stronger than ever, so don’t worry. ‘ ——_'_ Dear Uncle Frank: I want to thank you very sincerely for the lovely fountain pen you sent I had no idea that I would. win so you can imagine how I am writing me. first prize, great my surprise was. Birdcne Gales (Harold’s Sister), Mont- gomery, Mich. Notice Her Hair. 'with my pen now, and it 'is indeed a. pleasure to write with. Another thing, Uncle Frank, which makes me‘ oppre- ciate my lovely pen so much, is that .I received it the day after my birth- day, so that, it seems like a birthday present, too. . . » We are having very cold Weather up here now. ‘iFtuc ks Thanking you again, I am, sincerely yours,. Mildred Miller, R. 2, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. " . ’ , Thanks for. your thanks. Sol-often they received their: prize, I think they It is; nice 31.9111. you received " the ' pen. so mes‘r' birthday time. ' ~ * its wa’ ; h it. : 2... ms. “9mm . and to. ‘ 1,- , g ni’nloh music 1 contest P ‘ ‘ .- mace .._: “Wig jam 95cc best oundstiouW “ .1 . “n . - I ‘ P ultry' Fin-rm tuna , Phil 1? Dept. P, .zmana,_“n"re'%w§> y- mw ‘ " 1~ ‘ . Improved, Bred for egg production lines 1910. CHICKS from profits. and absomte satisfaction. ing direct possible .time. _ _ , - , , You are benefited by our. 13 .yesrs' experience in hatching snd'shipping chicks. great Vitality and grow up uniform in size. cent safe arrival guaranteed. - Hare us mail you a catalogue with prices. 100 per C t'f' d Ch' “k at popular prices. We won lst and 4th prize this year on English strain White L Hen 'at the National Poultry Show. Chicago. s also first at Zeelsnd Poultry Show. Other breeds have had same careful supervision in ’ developing and breeding. Pure-bred stock carefully culled. 100 percent live arrival gust- 1 anteed. Our chicks are money makers and. will improve your flock. Write for catalog and prices. A trial will convince you. All flocks certified. _ AMERICAN CHICK FARM, B. ”ii-A, Zesland, Mich. Baby chick ties combined. 18' years' experience in breeding. hatching and marketing. Also high quality. Barred Rocks and R. I. Reds. All flecks culled and inspect- ed. Modern hatching plant. 2 hatches weekly. Qual— ity chicks at commercial prices. Write for prices and circular. DEAN Ea Farm, 8; Hatchery. Big Beaver. Mal address Blrmlngham. Mlch.. R. 4. ~ BIG MONEY IN POULTRY Our own breeding flock of large pe American White chhorns. L s. y i n g and standard quali- .B.OZ FER HEN PROFIT Government » report on pen of our stock. Bred-why . Rocks. Wysndonos. Le horn‘IReth High record breeding male-‘36 to 2. BABY cmcxsszoeouom 100. HATCHINO 1 3665331085 isSlztompg-loo.‘ (No duty to .SA.) 30,000 illustrated £011le and incubator cuologues REE. é . R. UILD a. SONS. 30: A. Redwood .1 Om. c!"- 300,000 CHICKS Eggs, Pullets and Breeding Stock Aristorrat Strain Barred Rocks. both light and dark matings. Sheppard Strain S. C. Mottled Anconas. 250-280—egg strain. Tom Bench 8. C. White - horns, heavy layers. Write for catalog ,giving details as‘ to breeding. Special — discount on early ordered chicks. Can fill orders promptly. FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM. R. 2. Box E. Zooland. Mich. BEST CHICKS at Low Prices Sol-d for froo catalog describ- ing hoot bud eoun . Tom Barron endan- crod W I00 horns, Mich ' 30:33:? in lard s. 5531. . 1 11.2.3111" 1 ‘11- ::mssos .22: gout-In oollyory gulf-Mood. " - . human-Freight!“ Poultry Pun. Box 20 Holland. Ilici. FREE FEED “Just-Rite” ‘ With CHICKS /""'V a‘ Most Profltoblo Varieties; . - . finest-Exhibition Ped' , . tihty Listings direct rpm v-wluuoroq New harmonica“. & 2 Losing Oon "nigh. fa. “mm'ufisa e“ :1‘ “.23- L . 2;.o , m as. . . hilt. Ohio UALITY CHICKS AT EASON‘ABLE PRICES English White Leghorns. Parks' Strain Barred Rocks. 8. C. Black Minorcss. Reds and Anconss. My pen (16) at the 1923 Mich. .Conteet finished third among all heavy breeds. four 2315 making records over 200 eggs , and one~with a record of 254 . .,_ eggs was seventh highest indixidlal :. ~'.- - {or the entire contest, 990 birds com- “ . noting. Catalog free. PINE BAY POULTRY. FARM. HOLLAND. MIC-IL of flocks. Our strain of Supreme Loyo. lug white Leghom is the result of on: may years experience. brooding out so shaped bodies again” ho lilnd you will to" 3 "1n ends-ices. 11- m 33A. 5 sous-s: Mich. . ‘ ' ' ' ' .' - ' l- ~ a Highest Quality Chicks gen-March prices. Heavy'broilsr chicks 120. Barred. or nods 17c: Alison's; Black Minorcas 10c; White or Browanghorns use: While Rocks, Wysndottes. ~ Bus Omissions 1m , ‘ chicks. built, , from scum. . o {mick more. 1 Add 2?: ifless thaw. waning. Ho 11 -P . . “, 4, ‘ " ‘ nitm't‘y'fwr; aim suns mlqc'fli koen y ivor mused. , ’srn’inno "ATOM“. moon I a W?- S.’ " C.5 White Leghorns? i 41 this high-grade lasing strain will give you bigger , They have 13 years of"csreful selecting and breed- behind them. aind 'Insture in the shortest These chicks messes ' WOLVERINE HATCHERY. Zssland. Mlch.. 3,-2.7 Box 20. ' . . eshorn ’ .‘ h . l l dlou— won 1' ,eyIu-e orpoozo 'oleli‘ tool address on your contest paper. I- think it will be worth -wille.‘ because it gives you“ a chance- to and fault and thus bring to your mind the errors and good points in contest papers as I receive them. It ,will likely help you write better pa- pers in the future. Here are copies of four letters which I received from the last A'd Contest. a Mafia , kill 50 I‘M .47, w MW W” «1" M ”M A» Mite/M away a"??? waft/“ma . aéeéw Mul- M w- 1" WW” «ta 9125?: J No. 1. l The names and addresses have pur- posely been left ofi but the letters have been numbered to help identify ‘ them. Your part in this contest is to tell what you think of each letter. For example, you might say of letters No. 23 and 24, (which are not here), as follows: “No. 23—Well written and neatly ar- ranged, but the answers are too long, and the spelling is incorrect.” “No. 24~Carelesslywrltten but ar- rangement is good. The answer to Question No. 8 is incorrect.” You can find out if the answers are correct by looking at last week’s paper. Besides making the criticisms as above you should place first on your paper the criticism of the letteryou like the best. For instance, if you like number three ‘best write about that {I \) gratuitous? “as. \10 -\§ :3. m MW W 33-91 is. elm-1W 341-111 ‘W mamas. 1M- 1:. 8. mm W m.- w o. W _ 15-101 '1 \11 Wow “I. 3- W W 3‘00‘. 1w W Us.“ “at“ "l'l‘i {umbwuu3 w No. 2.’ first, then if you like No. 1 best, place that second, and so on. The neatest and most correct criti- cisms will win the usual prizes. The first two prizes are fountain pens; the next three, tubular‘flashlights, and the next five, little boxes of candy. ’ Don’t forget to put your name and Also, put M. C. after your name if you now are a Merry Circler. ’ All whosend in good papers and are not M. C's will get buttons and cards. This contestfcloses March 7. Address your letters to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. THE DRAWING CONTEST RE- SULTS HAVE no doubt .now about the M. C.’s liking drawing contests. The drawings came in large numbers each day, in-all sizes and shapes, and show- ing all kinds of artistic ability. When it came to picking the win- ners I had my desk and. table covered with pictures; the outlay making 9. THIS is a new one—I hope you will .llke it. that is why you M. C.’ 13 do not put your names and addresses on your contest papers. I believe I had to write this information 011 about half the drawings that came in. Hereafter please put your names and addresses on your papers, even if you send a letter with them. Some of these days you aré going to get left if you fail to do this, because it takes too many lead pencils and time for me to do it. One girl lost a prize and an M. C. but- ton because she did not send her ad- dress. Someof the prize-winning drawings will be printed next week. The others, and other good drawings received in this contest, will be used as I can find the space for them. The prize winners. the lucky fifteen this time, are as follows: Fountain Pens. Albert Alfredson, Whitehall, Mich. Mabel Zimmerman, R. 2, Reed City, Mich. Flash Lights. Marjory Hillsman, Six Lakes, Mich. Mary Wert, R. 2, Laingsburg, Mich. Rosaline Linderer, R. 1, Newaygo, Mich. Candy. Mildred Helfer, Ithaca, Mich. No. 3. MAfin Mulder, R. 6, Grand Rapids, lC . Maurice Peterson, Bear Lake, Mich. Ariel Denton, Saranac, Mich. Leahbelle Gilbert, Memphis, Mich. Caroline Wallen, Ewen, Mich. Evelyn Gordon, R. 1, Cassopolis, Mich. Henry W. Abshagen, R. 3, Decatur, Mich. Paul Harris, Dryden, Mich. Herman K. Hoffer, Ashley, Mich. HOW I use MY‘ SUNDAYS. By Thelma McMahon, Beaverifon, Michigan. I am always glad when Sunday comes around because it means sev- eral important things to me. I am attending school in town, and Sunday means a day with the home folks and friends, Whom I miss dur- ing the week. Then often on Sunday afternoon the children are bundled up, and all pile into the sleigh, and to Grandmother’s we go. She is an old lady,onearly seventy-five years old, but quite strong and active still. She lives I. Varfw W amp [90-1, , LMW WW 2!. ’97- .iDsX’mL MW or- 1H. ' yamwmotk I'll-I1 ' ,. 47% W W [IL/f s. W Hr.” ’- WWW rfmu. 1‘“. u. amen-Mel M». an- or VrM W JM. 1). (r, 10..“ 1.73"“ 6‘. /77 No. 4. with her two bachelor sons in a large stone house about a mile from our home. She is always glad when some of her children drop in to spend the day with her. nice art exhibit in itself mwe great house echoes with the was some job. There were so many good ones that it was very hard for me to make a selection, and after I had picked out ten there were so many other good drawings left that I _ dedid'od to break the custom and give " in extra prizes. » . (loathing I can... account for, and merry laughter of the children. . And Grandmother might be seen in the easy chair with the youngest child on “with her very much and realize that she may not be with us long. * Insure I your CHI and PROFITS Blue Hen 5338325115 Save them both. by supplying perfectly- controlled warmth—automatic regulation which is automatic. Su- perior from the beginning in reams p mother hen's only rival” is further ahead than ever TODAY. duo to 1924 improvements. ' Fresh air—without ‘ ' drafts. Extra large lire , of stove, makes keeping a fire doubly easy. Larger and Hmler '12.; ‘_ . --yel Cheaper " t h a n o t h e r 1 brooders, because 1ooo shirt annuity sadngs Help/cred) oil'ected by quan- tity production. flclency. capacity D co. the Blue Hen is to- day the best buy in colony brood— era. Blue Hen Mammoth Incubators —-prompt delivery—1f you act promptly. Lancastef Mlg. 00. 1133 Janet 1n. PA-RKER‘TVOSS COs’. 111cm EGGS 11 BABY CHICKS from Heavy White Laying- Trap Nested S. C. White Leghorn Stock Hollywood and Wycoff Strains 'Write for Price: Dimondale, Mich. CHICKS PROFIT MAKERS Breeders of high egg production. combined withltu sturdy freerunge stock ' , of exhibition quality assures you of fine ’ = 1 ' 1 success with Ovie ’IHealthful Chicks. .. gm BLOOD TESTED ' ‘ Tested tor White Diarrhea and elim- lnation of infected birds assures Profit Makers. lfleading mono masking breeds. aegidm and live elivory guaranteed. Write FrceCatalog. 80.000 chicks weekly. OVII'S POULTRY FARM a: HATCHERY lancaslor, l‘a. POUTLRY Here’s what you gel when you buy Iuaranloed Wyngardon BABY [IIIIGKS (1) Podigreed stock, sired by males whose dams had records of 260 to 289 eggs per year, and grand— doms 298 to 304 eggs. (2) 100 per cent. live delivery. (3) Chicks guar- teedto be healthy. (4) Absolutely pure- -bred. (5) Absolutely no culls. (6) Stock that withstands winter cold as well as summer heat. (7) From entry in our annual flock perform- ance contest. whereby you may ob- tain 200 of our best Barron Eng- lish Wh its Leghorns free. We know the quality of our stock because we maintain 42 hatchery farms of our own. instead ' . of buying eggs where1er mails lo, Sirod by Hollywood and Fun arms M.nles White and Brown Leohorns. ~ Ancontu. Semi for our catalog and read lull particulars of the Wynnarden Strain. gyardeg ZEELAND. MICH. ”Arc/(tors mms Box M ' English White Leghorns. Bl"; 5 To 6 Lb' Larger hens. better win— ter layers. Chicks. hatching eggs. scribes them is full of practical money—making poul- try information. gend for it. A. Wauchck. Goblet. Michigan. Free catalog de-’ 218M Street Marion. Indiana BUY DUNDEE Bred-To-Lay Chicks and Get The Right Start Best utility and exhibition matings. Barred Rocks. 230 to 302 egg strain. R. I. Reds. Liddicoat's best Anconas direct from Shes)- pards. White Leghorns from Michigan Agri- cultural College. 100 per cent live delivery. erence. Dundee State Savings Bank. Write for our 1924 catalog and price list; it will save you money. THE DUNDEE HATCHERY. Box A. Dundee, Michigan. Breckenridge Chicks Are Winners Day-old chicks from strong. vigorous flecks which have been carefully culled and extra selected standard male birds ~Barred Rocks. R. 1. Beds and White Leghorns. We guarantee 100 per cent solo carrival. Write us for price list BRECRENRIDGE HuATrCl-IERY. .l. 0. Burma. Prop. Box 35l. Breckenridge. Mich. layers. HOLLAN - . M, "M" . w 100‘ livedellvery guaranteed. Catalog'cu‘ RROW CH FOR SUCCESS WONDERFUL PRODUCERS——EARLY LAYERS I0 THORrOBRED VARIETIES. Lowelt prices. go fr ree catalog. Write to- dav D. T. FARRrOW CHICKERIES, Dept. O. yPeoria, Ill. 100 per cent li1e arrival Guaranteed. CHICKS White and Barred Rocks. " White Leghorns English Strain White Wyandottes. Buff Orpingtons.’ Reds. (Postpaid. Order from this ad and get the best. Durand Hatchery. Fenton. Michigan. Wishbone Hatched Chicks From high- grade heavy egg producing English strain 8. C. White Leghorns. Strong and vigorous from free range utility flocks. Catalogue free. HONO OR-1 BILT POULTRY FARM. Iceland. Mich. wck GOOD LUCK CHICKS 1,000, 000 $10Per100ANDUP‘ o This, season at our b’ig. flufl'y healthy “GOOD LUCK" Chicks and REAP PROFITS. Varieties Prices on 50100 300 White. Brown and Bu! Leghorn. .......................... .8 2 SB $38 $62 Barred and White Rocks. R. c. (1. 8. C. Reds. Aneonas.. 3 I5 44 72 White Wyandottes. Black MlnoBrcan. Bull Orplngtonl ...... 3. l6 47 77 Sil. &P Part. Wyan., LLBra Bank references. Orde er rightl- take no chance on “GOOD nal Baby Chick Association. NEUHAUSER CHICK0 HATCNERI in Mixed. all varieties. 8l0 per "300, straight. Bull Minorcaa. Speckled Sussex ll 20 53 95 full live delivery guaranteed. Postpaid. from ad. Get them when you want them. You LUCK CHICKS.”. Catalogue free. Member Interna- Box 72 NAPOLEON. OHIO vigorous. sturdy ch i.cks Postpaid. eferences. 750,000 CHICKS Select. culled flocks of heavy layers on free range and properly cared for to produce Bull Minorcss. Silver Laced Wyaudotts ...... .. ‘ Mixed .......................................... 3. 50 62100 100 permoelniirllve arrival guaranteed. Order right from this ad $10.00 PER 100 AND UP Varieties. 50 100 500 1000 White. Brown a Bull Leghorns Anconss ........... $3 575 87 813 $62 $120 White & Barred Rocks. Rods Black Minorcas ....... 425 8 15 72 140 White Wyandottes. But! 0 rplngtons . 82 . 11 20 .1100 ..6.00 11 ”0'80! 633 ARCHBOLD, OHIO BABY onlox§ Hollywood and Barton English Single comb w 250-300 EGG-IRE!) LINE FROM STOCK—THAT l8 DRE” WITH Til! MYIIB HABIT hm Leghorn: STRAIN IATIIBS Careful breeding. typctesting and trapncsa'na has produced our world-famous Karaten' a Quality Laying Hen—A Utility Bird With Standard Requirements Our leshoms are long. deep-bodied. weds e- wlth wide backs big looped combs and tails. that lay those large white eggs that bring the highnrlces on the New York Market. flBflEI'S Hill 8E ND FOR FREE CATALOG it. describes our wonderful breeding establishment. tellsi twhat and how to feed your chickens for nodal twill pshow you how you. too. can double ZEELIIII, Nlflfllfllll ‘L. Thoroughbred Alfalfa-Sees! I _ f _ ’ as well as Thoroughbred cattle Pure bred alfalfa seed is as important as pure bred.stock. Scrubby stock costs more than it earns. The same is true of inferior alfalfa seed. - . . 1 7 Blackfoot Brand Genuine Grimm Comes from registered fields. It is field—inspected and is certified and guaranteed Genuine Grimm by State Pure Seed Commissioner of Idaho. Each of the three sizes of sacks, 30, 60 and 150 pOunds have the Blackfoot label and are sealed.‘ Insist on seeing this ‘ label and seal before you buy; ‘the justaogood brand is like a grade boar or bull; you get the same poor results. Ask our seedsman for Blackfoot Brand Genuine Grimm, the pure bre Grimm alfalfa seed. If he cannot supply you, write us direct. IDAHO GRIMM ALFALFA SEED GROWERS ASSOCIATION . BLACKFOOT, IDAHO GRIMM ALFALFA SEED l; locks 50 Cows Instead Of One " (@afiefld .‘I'I' . ,. 7 :— "if-v’|—_ :7"‘d'bl"1'!'l" . 1 ‘ .Titf-Z-‘V "" 'T"~srap"—'—'-"""-"- ‘ ‘ ' ‘3' B \l‘ \' squall-5‘ '15", ‘ A _ " ‘ ~ ~ . 7 ~ \, - we‘l" 7-" a’» “ a”; l ~‘. L ("ninja ' EC) L l l ’51 l. \ l 1' ‘l . ) - I“ Hill/"V/ West Bend Automatic sum», . ~99 : 1‘ i/ equipped with our wonderful locking-re- / : y _ li'h ‘44" leasing lever save you time and labor-and 7/ / ~ I / .1. “EV mimnresdetyinlocktingrwgrell’easingd tg‘ecows. . " a4 you pay no more or n M I l. l ! I v than for ordinary stanchion. that mmcboog‘enod‘and - closed singly by hand. The West Bend lever controls from nose WestBendAntomatleS Stanchiona. The entirerowofcowseaube locked on or reused , y by one throw of the lever. Cow stops are operated at same time. and when set guide cow Into _ g the stanchion. Emma-says it's the ‘ ids-ever brought out in modern barn equipment. You - - Certainly want it in your barn. Write today for catalog showing completeline of West Bend Barn Equipmwt. Writs TODA Y. West Bend MEG!“ Corp.,Wsst Bond. Wis. Syracuse, N. Y. Wn‘u nearest dice. Dept. 3‘ ‘- ’ :7.— $4” /;if/,—:«< [’Z/A/A’Z y/I/M”//”/.///’/‘/”/[I/nr’/‘//x/u- g“, . - . «below our our ASlloeBoil,Capped Hock or Bursitis FOR A B SOPBINE will reduce them and leave no blemishes. “JADE MARK in; u 3 PA? .crr Stops lameness promptly. Does not blis- ter or remove the hair, and horse can be worked. $2. 50 a bottle delivered. Book 6 ll ms. ABSORBINE. JR.. lot mankind. the antiseptic Iinimenl for Boils. Bruises. Sores. Swellings. Varicose Veins. Allan Pain and inflammation. Price 81.25 a bottle at drug- (lsts or delivered. Will tell you more it you write. . W. F. YOUNG, INO., 468vlyman St. Springfield, Mass. ‘ i L“ \muuuumuumnunuumuul“ $1.25@1.50 bu; cab- bage $1.50@1.75 #1111; red '$2.50@2.75. a. bushel; carrots $1,756.12 ,per‘ bushel; celery 20@50c per dozen; onions" $1.50 a ~ .Iilf'; .Q‘bédeh‘lll‘lbiteb.‘ - March newsreader clam ' MWMEQ” ‘ " in. .~ bu; potatoes 950@$1.10 a bu; winter squash $2.50@2.75 bu; turnips at $2@ 2.25 bu; parsnips $1.25@1.50 bu; horseradish $3.50@4.50v bu; bagas ,$1 bu; vegetable oysters 75c per dozen bunches; root celery $1.25@1.75 a bu: eggs, retail, ,65@75c per dozen; hens wholesale 27@28c31b; retail 28@326; veal 180 lb; hogs 11@120‘ lb. comma ‘LIVE STOCK sans. . Hampshire Hobs. - March 4..——Gus Thomas, New Lothrop, ~Mich.‘ — ' Shel-thorns. - ‘ March ,Ddroee‘. 383 7 quoted at $3.50@4.50‘per ' Other , Car— . “"" ~m,m:.m m. . ADV ‘03”! Market steady. "Mich; 7. ,.~ __ _ . r; it? 35' econofidlos' 0n 1 'c.‘ . ".gfilfienltllrdl o4; .. .P‘ ‘» ing- .,.$_2;20. while New York state r- .2 . Show the highest cost per: bushel; , his, ’ eluding ,. "8,181wécres. 1h, ._ enters. “the average cost. .of pro. footing; where: rota-thesis 1923.. was seventy-eight cents: .. uMaine} Kalli the highest per acre cost, reach, potatoes. In Monroe county, Ne York, the cost per bushel was $1.069 and per ‘am 8117, while in Steuben. county the bushel cost was sixty-eight cents and acre cost $96. In Montcalm county, Michigan, the acre cost yak $84 and the bushel cost seventy-eight cents. and in Grand Traverse county the sore cost was $90 and the bushel " cost ' seventy-two cents. Man and herse labor was the most linportant item of cost except in Maine, where fertilizers are extensive- ly used. ‘ ' REDUCES TOLERANCE IN CELERY ’ anDEs. THE tolerance provided in the Unit- ed States celery grades has been found impracticable, and it has been decided by the Federal Bureau of Ag- ricultural Economics to do away with the provision that “not more than one- half of the total tolerance should be permitted for any one defect ,and sub- stitute a ten per cent tolerance, but not more than two per cent to be per- mitted for decay. LEADERS AGREE ON MUME SHOALS. OUSE leaders have agreed that . the bill providing for the leasing of Muscle Shoals power (lid sale of the nitrate plants to Henry Ford shall be taken up for action when the tax reduction bill‘is out of the way. It is- confidently predicted that the bill will pass the house by a considerable ma- jority. ‘ Wool. OUTPUT iNcREASEs. L AST yea'r’s wool production in the United States was 223,610,000 pounds, according to estimates of the United States Department of Agricul- ture. This is an increase of 1,050,000 pounds over 1922, partly due to a larg- er number of sheep and an increase of three-tenths ofa pound in the av- ' erage fleece, which’reached 7.3 pounds ‘last year. . Texas leads with 19,700,000 pounds, mohair olipais in Texas. f The: mohair-clip: rea hed'8.651,000 pounds for. 1923]. as compared with 8,532,000 pounds 31.1924?- Most of the BREAD CHEAPER AND WHEAT ‘ ' HIGHER IN FRANCE. -' _ astigatlon made by the de- , ' ,t ‘of agriculture at the re- ”df the American Farm Bureau \ 7M7. . . Federation, itwas found that the re- »,tail' sale price of bread in Paris was three cents ‘a pound loaf, although : wheat is higher in France than in the United States. At the time the inves- tigation was made wheat was selling at 31.10 in this country and $1.40 in France. In Paris there is a. bakery in every city block, and-the city regu- lates the price of bread according to the cost of wheat. EAT FRESH VEGETABLES AND FRUIT EVERY DAY. I am twenty-nine years old” and am bothered with jaundice about every other week lately. Water is brown colored with settlings. I take some- thing for it. It’clears up, but in about a week it comes again. Am nursing a six—months-old- baby. Am quite heal- thy other ways. Would it help to have bladder washed out?—L M. S. Having the bladder washed out is not a simple matter as it may produce an infected bladder unless very care- fully done. I do not advise it. Have your urine and blood pressure care- fully tested. Eat some fresh vegeta- ~ bles and fruit every day. Drink plenty of fresh water. DIVORCE LAWS. Can you tell me where I could se- cure the divorce laws of the different states of the Union. Wish to prepare a paper on the subject, and thought there might be a government bulletin on the matter. Also, what department .would one address to obtain bulletins on art topics ?——M. F. A compendium of the divorce laws will be fOund in Martindale’s Legal Directory, in other legal directories, and probably in other books to which you might be referred by calling on a local attorney—Rood. Ship Your Cattle, Hogs and Sheep to Warns, lies and Dankert Union Stock Yards. Toledo. Ohio. For Top Prices- - B'ig Fills-«Quick Returns. Correspondence solicited. .sm ' to the 0H) RE- ...‘I Hay and Glam u... nous: oso. ’r. room, a 00., Pittsburgh, Pa. 'SWEET' CLOVER: ALFALFA. SOYBEANS. ETC. Priced right. lnoculating Bacteria for ‘ bushel any legume. (30c postpaid. E. E. BASIL. LATTY. OHIO. mine miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange; Beta 8 cent! a. word. each consecutive insertions 6 cents a display fine or ill Minimum charge, I0 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers. Small advertisements bring best results under classtded headings. or classified rates. or in display columns at commércial rates. insertion. .on orders for less than four insertions: for four or word. Count as a word cachhnbbrcviutlon, initial or number. ustrations admitted. Remittances :Rosl estate and live stock advertlllng have separate departments and are Try it for want ads and for adver- Poultry advertising will be run in this department more No must accompany order. not accepted as classified. Rates in Effect October 7. 1922 Four Ono Four » times Words ' time I 82.40 28. . . .. .. .82.“ 80.24 ,2.“ :7 ........ 2.18 8.48 2.88 28. . .. . . . 2.24 8.72 3.12. 29...... .82 8.98 has , u...-.-- A" 1.” 8.80 ........ 2.40 7.44 8.84 82. . . .. .. . 2.88 7.08 4.08 ........ .84 7.82 4,38» 84......“ 2.72 8.18 4.88 88..... 2.80 8.40 £00 . 2.88 8.84 8.04 87..."... 2.88 8.88 h28 . 88......” 3.04 8.12 . . 5.82 8.12 9.88 24... ..... 1.92 878 40...;.... 8.20 0.80 25 ........ 2 00 41 ........ 8.28 0 84 Al! dimming «Ii dlmrlnrmuu mien u: change of “’1. In- Specigl Notice on“ fir Nu WW Doormat-mus mullnlmanus (an In advance 11'wa mu m. MiscsLnAnsous . ”A Home m,m sop-m Near Pensacola on. the‘ Gulf Coast northwestern .Flor- ids, duo south of Chicago on beautiful nay. Cows. Boss. gens. traceable. y re cost 0 led. umber, . . I , , on Good Florida. land. ' ons and Elite all do ‘ ‘ and ‘ {uneven nonos'r FOR SALE—by owner, 40-acre form. with or without equipment. Write for price and description. Earl Marks, Bellaire. Mich. Also stock and tools if Milo Whited, Owner. ~80 ACRES for sale. $3.700. desired. Terms if interested Stockbridgc. Ingham 00.. Mich. STATIONERY when printed. demands attention. 100 envelopes and 100 bond letterheads. size 017. with your name and address printed in blue ink. mailed prepaid, for $1.00. Send money order or currency. The Press. Ellsworth, Michigan. PRINTINGdPoultrymon.‘ Hatcheries, Farmers, Busi- ness .men. get our prices on Stationery. Catalogs, Etc. Samples. Stamps Please. Mendel‘s Printing House, Grand Rapids. Mich. , Corn 1922 crop. calico corn. Chas. Seed EARLY Golden Surprise also 00 per cent Germination. Freed. Lancaster. Ohio. FOR SALE—Second Hands to IO-M Capacity Saw Mill. Good ‘Condltlon. Price $175.00. Hill-Curtis Co.. Kahmsaoo. Michl ' TREES. plants, shrubs. grapevfins. Catalogue free.‘ Laurie's Nurseries. St. Joseph, loll. CERTIFIED soon Potatoes. 'nuasm and Raleigh's. E. Weeks.» Locke. N. Y. . v' BEANS—Heaviest yielding ox- Amoultun toting variety an}! latest improved £38015? NI - our com. . _ - E %—' W. six do ‘ 50ml H Bum“ ring. ""‘omérshhtm. ., Wa'lfifi'mrmkfin mm.moh. SEED momma Canton" Dent. Field selected. dried‘on rocks. ear tawdrwith a mentored germination. This was one of the heaviest yielders in the State the past year in a test made by The‘Fsrma crop Department of the Michigan Agricultural College. Write Paul. Clement. Britton. Michigan. for catalog'and cos. - TREES. Plants. Shrubs. guaranteed direct from grow- er. Lowest prices. New—Dr. Worcester hardy peach and Ohio Beauty Apple. Planting Book Free: Wood« lawn Nurseries, 051 Garcon Ave. Rochester. N. Y. 30 GLADIOLUS BULBS—new colors, including rare purple. 81. postpaid. Send for 20-page illustrated catalog of 125 beautiful varieties. Howard W. Gillet. New Lebanon, N. Y. mount]. 6‘; G82“: 5W1 'w'3'1t0m‘ “1 .. . .- 55 per : per ': i ' ' 100 Pmpaidbypomelposhfiatgf-l. Bio Chicks per . Kirby. to 1, East Lansing. CHILSON ‘BARBED ROCKS-Hatch m .m- Bnby Chicks. Winning pen all heavy lugs Michigan International Egg Contest 1923. Michigan's mutant egg and color strain. Write for rice list today. Mr. ls Mrs. W. H. Chllson. B. 1. randville. Mich. BABY cmcxs—s. c. w. Leghorn. mated to Hol- ood Pedigree Cockci-els. 280-0“ Send for . Snowflake Poultry Farm. 8. 5. Middle- BABY CHICKS and Hatching E838? Sell! for C $11113.“Gibbs” Wlnwrlay Ancona Farm. Breast}: FRUIT PLANTS. Prices Right. Stock Guaranteed. Strawberries. 83.00 per 1.000 and up. Raspberries. Grapes. Gooseberrlu. Currants, Dewberries. Catalogue Il‘ree. Hellenga's Nursery. Three Oaks. Mich. BABY CHICKS—Tamra! and Barron Strain S. C. 100 MIXED Gladiolus Blooming Bulbs, 200 bulblets. $3.50; prepaid. Cream of 12 years’ experience. mom cost $1.00 each. 4-inch flowers. Geo. S. Barnes. Battle Creek, Mich. BERRY BOXES—Our Berry Boxes will carry your fruit to market safely. $4.50 per thousand. Write us: Central Basket Co.. Berrien Springs, Mich. GLADIOLUS BULBS—Blooming size, Le Morechal Foch, “Beautiful Pink New Variety,” also mixed col- gll'h 83.150 9per 100. Write G. Lubbcrs, Holland, c .. . . . STRAWBERRIES—Plnnts and all kinds of small fruit plants. thousands of n . Get our list for out prices. Sawyer Nurseries. Sawyer. Mich. Box 81. GLADIOLI—Zl bis plump bulbs. fine varieties. and catalog. postpsid. 81.00. B. F. Kindig, Box 637. E. Lansin . Mich. CERTIFIED Wolverine Oats. Order now. C. D. Fink- lzta—iner. Clinton, Mich: PET STOCK AIREDALE PUPS-Sircd by half-brother Ex. Pres- ]Iarding's Laddie Boy. From registered stock. Pod- igrees furnished. Males 815. Females $10. R. G. Kirby. Route 1. East Lansing. Mich. GERMAN SHEI‘HERD—Airedales. Collies. 01d Enz- lish Shepherd dogs. puppies. 10c Illustrated instruc- tive list. W. R. Watson. Box 3") , Macon. Mo. PURE-BRED Scotch Collie Puppies. 0. B. Robbins. R. 2. Mishavnika. Ind. ___L COLLIE PUPPIES»~Sable and white. ers. Chas. A. Beatty, Milford. Mich. TOBACCO Natural heel- TOBACCO—Extra. Fancy Smoking, 10 pounds, $2.50. Good Smoking, 5 pounds. 81: 10 pounds. 31.50: 2 pounds. $2.75. Chewing. 5 pounds, 81.50; 10 pounds, $2.75. Quality Guaranteed. Smokehouse, S133. Mayilcld, Ky. O'Connor NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO: Chewing, Five pounds, $1.75: Tell. $3: Smoking. Five pounds, $1.25; Ten, $2: Twenty. $3.50; pipe and recipe free, pay when received. (Io-operative Farmers, Pndlil-ah, Kentucky. $2.50. Good Fancy Chew- O’Con- TOBAC(‘0!Fancy .Smoking. 10 lbs.. Smoking. 5. $1.00; 10. $1.75: 20, $3.00. ing, 5, $1.75; 10. $3.00. Quality Guaranteed. nor Growers. 0—129. Mayfleld. Kentucky. HOMI-ZSI‘UN TOBACCO—Chewing, 5 lbs. $1.75: Ton. $3. Smoking. 5 lbs: $1.25: Tell. $2 Pay when re- -ceivcd. pipe and recipe free. Farmers' Union, Pa— ducah. Ky. BABY CHICKS In CHICKS—White chliorns $12 per 100. $0.25 for 50, and $3.25 for 25; Barred Racks, Rods $10 per 100, $8.50 for 50. and $4.25 for 25; White Wyandottes. White Rocks $17 pcr 100, $8.75 for 50, and $4.50 for 25; Buff Orpingtons $18 pcr 100. $0.25 for 50. and $4.75 for 25. 85 on each 100 chicks with order will book your order. Balance two weeks before delivery. 100 per cent. live delivery guaranteed. Reference. Bank of Mt. Morris. Meadow Brook Hatchery, Mt. Morris. Mich. STURDY CHICKS~Pure bred—to-lay and exhibition flocks. cullcd by experts. Reasonable prices. Catalog free. Single Comb White chborns. Ant-onus, Rocks. Reds. White Wyandottes. Sunnybrook Poultry Farm. Hillsdalc. Mich. WRITE for free catalogue and prices on good. sound, thrifty Baby Chicks. Four lending varieties of T. B. S. C. White Leghorns. Barred Rocks, Shepard An— conas and Rhodc Island Reds from thoroughly culled flocks, to the Summit Hatchery, Byron Center, Mich. 100 per cent live delivery. College Bacteriological Dept. Pedigrced males high-record hens used. Circular free. L. W. Asel- tine, R. 1, Grand Rapids. Mich. ,. I v BABY CHICKS—Seventeen p0plilar varieties. High egg production and standard qualities combined. Michigan State Fair winners. No better chicks avail- able at same price. Write for prices. Hatchery, Litchfleld, Mich. White Leghorns, bred from Imported Stock, M. A. C. Barred Rocks. Write for our quality stock circular. Hillside Hatchery Farm. R. 3. Holland, Mich. BABY CHICKST—Writc for ollr new free catalog and price list. Eight yl-ars' experience. II. H Pierce. . Jerome. Michigan. 'BRED T0 LAY Barred Rock chicks, hens, all blood tested for White Diarrhea by Michigan Agricultural rom thcl'ifield CHICKS—-Genuine Tom Barron English Strain S. («3 on low price BABY CHICKS—English strain White Leahorns. Brown Leghorns And Anconas. Booklet free. East Saugatuck Hatchery. East Saugatuck. Mich. ‘ WRITE LEGHORN chlx and eggs from best stock Michigan International Egg-laying Contest. Omie Thompson. Allen. Michigan. ‘ BABY CHICKS—Bred to lay Rhode Island Reds. Barred Rocks & English White Leghoms. Also Broiler Chicks. Gorct’s Poultry Farm. Corunna, Mich. S. C. BUFF LEGHORN Baby Chicks from good lay— ing strain Willard Webster, Bath. Mich. —_—-—————-—-———————-— M POULTRY SINGLE COMB REDS~SeIectcd 8388 from strong matings. Win M. A. C. Silver and Bronze Medals. Birds under Ribbons in both exhibition and utility classes. Postal card request brings free circular. Sat- isfaction guaranteed at let live prices. Harry J. Theis, 283 Hunter St... Battle Creek, Mich. STOCK and Eggs by 100 or 1.000 lets, all leading Varieties Chickens. Ducks. Geese. Bantams. Guineas. Turkeys. Fox Terrier Pups. Write your wants, Jesse BumSide, Judson, Ind. ROSE COMB REDS—prize winning stack, lst cock- erel': 2nd. .young pen. Michigan red meet. A few chOico cockercls left. Order batching eggs now. L. B. Hendrickson. 81 Frisbie Ave, Battle Creek, Ilch. STOCK & EGGS—Buff & W. Leghorns. Orpingtons, Beds 8: Anoonas, $1 for 15; $5 per 100, parcel post. Turkeys. Ducks & Geese. Indianapolis winners. W. C. Jackson. It. 3. South Bend. Ind. "RINGLET" Barred Rock Cockerels, also hatching Eggs. Mfttlsfaction Guaranteed. Earl Murphy, Brit- . C . S. C. R. I. REDS—Purebred eggs for setting, 15. $1.25; 100. $8.00. Louis Morris. R. 1. Mt. Morris. Michigan. PURE-BRIE) S. C. Minorca cockerels and pullets for sale at reduced prices to close out. Vesta Mills. Saline. Mich. SILVER LACED and White Wysndottc Choice Cook- crcls. C. W. Browning, Portland. Mich. WHITE ROCK (‘OCIiERELS—Cholce stock. $3.00 and $4.00 each. ~ Wesley Hile, lonia, Mich. SINGLE (‘OMB Ant-ona Cockerels. Sheppard's hes $7 to $3. II. Cecil Smith, Rapid City, Mich., B. 2. t. 68 VARIETIES fine pure-bred chickens. ducks. geese. turkeys. _fowls. eggs, baby chicks. Largo catalog 5c. A. A. Zicmer. Austin. Minn. \VHITE “fYANDOTTES Exclusively. Eggs $4.50 per 100, Prepaid. Raymond Bash. Shippewana. Indiana. $3.00. PRIZE WINNING Rose Comb Red Cockenels. Chas. Beicr, Dundee, Michigan. GIGI~ISE~Ducka loading varieties. John Hass. Bcttendorf. Iowa. Free Circular. WHITE (‘IIINA GEESE, excellent layers. $10.00 trio, Eggs 40 cents. Mrs. Alice Bonow. Mattawan, Mich. WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS—Silver Wyandottes. Big Winners, Lansing. Chicago, 1024. Hardy. produc- tivo stack. “'orld’s richest breeding. Four toms left. $10.00 each. (‘ockcrela $5.00. Alvnli Stegenga. Port- land, Michigan. NARRAGANSETT TURKEYS—Get something differ- ent from your neighbors. Express paid on trlos. Ernest, Clement. Ionia. Mich. PURE—BRED Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Big boned goiing Mthohroughbreds. Mrs. Millie Dillsworth, North or, ic . MICHIGAN'S BEST Giant Bronze Turkeys. Extra good .values in young toms. N. Evalyn Rainsdell, Ionia, Mich. - PURE-BRED VVthe Holland Toms for sale. Young toms. $10 each; your-old toms, $15 cacli.~~Mrs. Ed. Polling, Fostoria. Mich. MAMMOTH BRONZE liens $5 and 8f}: toms $8. I'urc—bl-«l. (-lioice. l’eter Douma, R. 2, Holland. Michigan. WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS—chs. $8: Toms, 12 ; Trio, 925. Mrs. Don Ross. R. 6. Mariette. Mich? FOR GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS-Toulouse Geese. Buff Orpingtons. write to M._. B. Noble. Saline. Mich. Prepaid. ing pure breeds. Low prices. Smith Bros.’ Hatcheries. guaranteed. Catalog Free. Mexico. Mo. Live delivery , WHITE HOLLAND K1! ' QUALITY CHICKS. eggs: flftccn standard bred vari- Ella Cleveland. Milleglglligrg, mach-Pay“ price. Mrs. eties; best winter laying strains. Free delivery. Rea- sonable prices. Catalogue free. Missouri Poultry Farms. Columbia. Mo. HELP WANTED BABY CHICKS from heavy—laying strains. All lead- MASON sold 18 Comet Sprayers and Autowashers one Saturday. Proms $2.50 each. Particulars free. gullib‘lishgd 30 years. Ruslcr Co., Johnsmwn, 0mg, ox .‘-:.. BRl-IDJI‘O-IAY CHICKS from my own flock of Bar- red Rocks. Write for dcsvriptlon and prices. Deliv- cry Guaranteed. lirueper Poultry Farm & Hatclicry, Milan. Mick. 1!. 3. I WANT hustling man in each county to establish dealers for Hopkins Fertilizers. Create paying business at; lyourself. George Barker, Union Street. Hillsdulo. i Cl. mo and three—year—old hens. ma ger‘s Hatchery and Loghom Farm, Ionia. Mich. Reasonable prices. Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton. Mich. HA! LOOK! ties. From in hit 6888. Circular. 7.. Grand Rapids; Mich." ghost producing canted . aha. 8161‘ per 100. Mich. ‘ 3m onions and em. Rocks. R. C. R I. Beds. Whte Leghorns.¢ . hm‘m5 runs—c mm; greed Yield aoo assas- ’- mt“ FmgLupton. mum. Wyndham-i ideii, -Hltch¢n'. rum.- Dino. SINGLE COMB White Leghorn chicks. hatched from ted with pedigreed males from the Michigan Agricultural College. Kruc- BABY CHICKS—Remarkable for size and strength. ghoriis. Anconns. Rocks. Reds. Wyandottes. Orpimztons. Minorcas. Spanish. Brahmas; 100.000 chicks 120 and mums varie- winmrs Hatch- Lawrence Hatchery. Box 1. B. nrcmwsows agony. amen pure Parks strain Barred Rock may Chi Hanover. v Superior Ringlet names Circular. WE PAY $200 monthly salary. furnish car and ex— penscs to introduce our mm poultry andstock powders. Blgier Company. X883, Springfield. Illinois. WANTED—Experienced dairyman in hand ' herd and, milk production. Married. with smallnnl'amily. Jolin Swigu't. No. 41. Scottwood Apt., Toledo, Ohio FIREMEN, BRAKE)IEN—-$150-$250, r llrosds every- Nye-Yo llway Association. Desk MEN wanting forest ranger and railway in il lat msl‘tignls: Write for. particulars. :1 c Vel‘. 0 0. railway puss. expenses paid. his Institute. B. 6. Columbus. Ohio. WANTED—Married farm hand. write Service change. Merrill. 'Michlgan. ‘ White ms. trons. sturdy. profit producing . stock, $15.00 per 100: 135.00 1.000. Bekk Hatchery, Holland, MIL-hf m m- -1. Brooklyn. . Moknnr', B28. Dm- , ‘ "RAILWAY POSTAL CLsnKs—smt 81's! iuphill: Questions. (root ' Golan-I o p. This Book Offers a Saving on Everything. ...... for the Home, the Farm and the Family Are you using this book? Do you look through it every week to find the right price, the lowest price for everything you want to buy? 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