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NUMBER TEN





1924





VOLUME CLXI!





DETROIT, MARCH 1,_





 





CURRENT COMMENT





It takes a big man to live up to the

estimate of his youthful son.





As one rotten apple will spoil a

bushel, so will one scrub bull damage

the whole herd a decade hence.





We hear that dog meat is being

eaten in Germany. Maybe some of our

mutton-flavored canines could profit-

ably be exported.





When things look dark and discour-

aging in public affairs, please remem-

ber that the scum always comes to

the top.





Have the harnesses been repaired

and oiled, the wagons been greased,

and other tools put in repair? If not,

it is likely to be now or never. It will

pay to make it now instead Of never.





The wiseacre who said that it is

good for one to do something disagree-

able each day, apparently did not real-

ize that most of us fulfilled that un-

pleasant duty by getting up in the

morning.





HE .economy of





Quanti ,“quantity produc-

P d 0’ tion” in manufactur-

ro ac. ing enterprises is well

tron known to every Mich-





igan Farmer reader.





1: Henry Ford has shown the world that





its benefits accrue to all who are in—





'terested in the product at any stage





.I‘





from manufacturer to ultimate con-

sumer, including the workmen whose

labor is one of the large items enter-

ing into the cost Of the product.





It would be well for us to consider

whether this economic law, so clearly

demonstrated in the example cited,

has a general application in all busi-

ness, including agriculture, and if so,

how we, as farmers, may benefit by

its operation. It will be generally

concluded Without argument that its

application is universal in manufac-

turing industries. A similar assump-

tion regarding its application to the



agricultural industry would start a

heated argument. But a careful analy-

sis of the question as to whether it

applies, and if so to what extent, may

be both profitable and timely.





Agriculture is a manufacturing in-





dustry involving the use of a fixed





plant, raw material and labor and la-





~~borusaving machinery in the produc-

non of a marketable product.





It is

different from the industries generally

“classed as manufactures in that the





. turn-over is slow, and impossible to





speed up, there is a far less possible





'7' degree of control of the factors of pro-





 





duction cost and a wholly different





   





marketing problem. 7 There is no prac-





tical possibility or gauging production

to probable demand, as is. the case





with manufactures, and little possibil-

ity of stimulating greater consumption

by passing a portion of the benefits of

quantity production on to the consum-

er. The market for most farm prod-

ucts is always at the saturation point

and any seasonal increase in produc-





» tion in any line means OVer—production





and an over-crowding of the market in

that line, which is disastrous to the

producer. This is a fact so Often and

clearly demonstrated that niany farm-

ers have little patience with the dis-

cussion of production problems, partic-

ularly in connection with. the word

“Quantity.”



But there are important factors in

quantity production as practiced by

Mr. Ford and his imitators in the man-

ufacturing field, other than the quan-

tity of the output, which do apply to

the farm factory. Perhaps first among

these is an efficient plant, well adapt-

ed and equipped for the use to which

it is put. Not all of the units of the

great Ford enterprise are large. Some

of them are small and devoted exclus-

ively to the manufacture of a single

small' part. But they are so arranged

and equipped as to turn out that part

in the quantity desired at the lowest

possible labor cost, and the labor em-

ployed is highly skilled in a single op-

eration in the manufacture of that part

which is built on the same specifica-

tions year after year. Quantity pro-

duction in this case is measured in re-

lation to the labor unit, and in this

sense is just as applicable to the econ~

omy of agriculture as to any line of

manufacturing. ,



While the same degree of special-

ized production may not be possible

on the farm, the same general princi-

ples will apply in this phase of quan—

tity production. A careful survey can

be made of the farm plant to determ-

ine the line of production to which it

is best adapted. It can be improved

in potential fertility by a carefully

considered rotation of crops and judi«

cious fertilization. It can be equipped

with labor-saving machinery for some

special line of production at moderate

cost. The owner can develop a supe-

rior skill in that special line of pro-

duction which will insure a quality

product at a low labor unit cost'and

greatly simplify the marketing prob

lem. And adherence to this line of

production will in the long run prove

more profitable than continual chang-

es in production policy, if a wise

choice is made at‘ the outset.





Every farmer who has not already

given it consideration would do well

to make a careful study of the eco-

nomics of quantity production in this

sense Of the word and at this time,

giving due regard, of course, to a prop-

er distribution of available labor

throughout the year.





T the last meeting





Let’s of the managers

of Michigan fairs, the



Make It resolution passed pro-

Work viding for the elimi-.





nation of certain

types of objectionable shows was a

most commendable step.



The trouble will come, of course,

when managers attempt to put the

resolution into effect. Fairs, generally,

are not money-making institutions. Of-

ten directors are compelled to go out-

side for funds to pay premiums and

settle other accounts.



The question then is, will not some

distressed managers weaken when

some oily promoter of a tabooed type





.of show, comes in and offers real mon-





ey to admit- his feature? ‘These man-

agers are human, and we may expect

some of them, at least, to yield to

temptation.



But what of the patrons and pros-

pective patrons of these fairs? Have

they any respoiiSibility in the matter?





Can they aid in putting 'across what ‘





these managers are attempting?





perhaps the most effectual thing they

can do is the early preparation of." the

best exhibit possible from their re-

spective farming communities. -



Such exhibits and the interest 'at-

tending their develOpme'nt and prepar-

ation would, to some degree, at- -l,east

divert attention from the Objection-

able features to the very purpose for

which these long established institu-

tions were created.





FEW days back





i ‘ _ we had the pleas-

Algae)” ure of discussing farm

em' problems with one of

orandum the most methodical





and efficient farmers

of our acquaintance.



Among the various means this farm-

er uses to keep himself and his help

employed in season and out, during

good weather and bad, is to have al-

ways with him a memorandum book

in which he marks down any sugges-

tions that may come to him, or any

jobs that need doing. These jobs are

classified as winter or summer jobs,

rainy or fair weather jobs.





The real advantage coming to this

man through his system, is that he is

able to have present with him at all

times a reminder of the things needed

doing, and, also, the best suggestions

of the hours when his brain is in the

fittest condition to think clearly of the-

duties andvobligations before him.





With a vocation which must' meet

the many requirements and conditions

that farming must, some help of this

kind is needed, at least, for the aver-

age farmer. For it too frequently hap-

pens that we are called upon to do the

most serious thinking when we are in

the least favorable condition to do it.



We, therefore, suggest to our many





readers that they develop the memor— ,





andum book habit.





-VERY day there

comes to the Of-

fice one or more piec-

es of testimony to the

value of cow testing

associations in uncov-

ering information on dairy cows. Here

is a sample from ‘Genesee county:



In Association No. 2 of that county

there were sixty—one pure-bred cows

showing an average annual milk pro-

duction of 7,637 pounds, and of butter-

fat, 330.9 pounds. The 110 grade cows

in this association made an average

_of 7,582 pounds of milk, and 279.9

pounds of butter-fat. The thirty-nine

scrubs had an average of 5,731 pounds

of milk and 219.7 pounds Of fat.



With few exceptions, the pure-breds

were better cared for. But the feed

bill ran about the same, the chores

were no more difficult to perform, and

the stable room no larger for these

pure-bred animals. .



There is, however, a diflerence when

returns are inspected. The 1,906

pounds of milk increase of the pure

breds over the scrubs means, at"$3.00

.per hundredweight, $57.00, or, on the

butter-fat basis, the 111 pounds of fat

at forty-five cents, the .. average for

1923, means $45. 50. On five or ten

cows that difierence merits the atten-

tion of any farmer in Michigan.



So, again we say, “Hats off to good

breeding," and also to the cow testing

associations through which this con-

vincing evidence is brought within

reach of the men who pull teats.





More Light

On

Cows





‘ .HE northwest has





The b e e 11 receiving

considerable attention



Real lately because of its

Problem financial status which





. has caused consider-

able suffering. This section is due the

major interest it has received at re-

cent agricultural conferences since eve-





rything should be done tavalleviate the.





condition. It should be helped, not

only for the sake of the individual,

but for the good of the country as a





‘Whole. ' -\

These patrons can combat these '~





It seems that these wheat, growers





shows by not patronizing them. nut"





farming states.





   





 





had ”condoms-e





.The wheat yields of

these growers are only half of those

of Michigan. and other diversified

These farmers have

been accused of sinning socially. be-

cause their soil, while not exhausted,





has been drained of its. vitality by the





treatment it has received.





’ No person or class of people can be-

come careless and ineflicient without

sometime suffering the consequences.

And then, when it comes'to the time

of stress, whether it be in farming or

any other Class of personal activity, it

becomes diflicult to get help because





- of the misdeeds of the past.





Regardless of 'what the circum-

stances are now, we are sure this trial

and stress which the northwest is now

suffering will bring adjustments which

will mean a much more substantial

and profitable agriculture for that sec-

tion. It is but in keeping with human

experience that this “low” condition

should bring a reaction which will be

much better than that which existed

before. ‘-





 





Not/zin ’





KINDA have that nothin’ feelin’.

"You know what it is.





know how to say it.



You see, it’s this way: Sophie had

pickled pigs’ feet and sour kra'ut fer

dinner, and. that made me feel so full

Of somethin’ that I feel like nothin’.





The pigs’ feet is interfering’ with the





workin’ of my head.



I feel like a dogwith a full stomach

what would like to curl up and go to

sleep. Sleep is the easiest thing I

could do just now, but if I don’t get

this out there

won’t be nothin’

where this oughta

be. Sophie says

that’s what I get

fer waitin’ to the

last min u t e—

I ain’t even got

time ta go to

sleep.



Havin’ nothin’

ta say and ta talk about it, is what you

call the accomplishmunt ‘of great talk-

ers and writers. So I’m just keepin’ in

practus by doin’ this.‘ So, please ex-

cuse me while I practus.





If we was all ta. wait until we had

somethin’ ta say, this would be aquiet

and peaceful world. Most of the pa-

pers what is printed would go bust,

and the grass would grow under the

mail man’s feet. Sometimes I think it

does anyhow, spechully when I’m wait-

in’ fer letters.





But, anyhow, this sayin’ somethin’

is like the seeds 0’ nature. Nature

makes lots 0’ seeds but there’s only a

few what fall on fertile ground and

amount ta anything. Same way with

words. There’s lots 0’ them fallin’





 





around all the time, but most 0' them I





don’t amount ta. nothin’. I kinda gotta

contribute ta the supply, So here it

goes.



Spring is comin’, ain’t it?——with its

muddy roads and barnyards, and Soph-

ie tellin’ me ta, take my shoes off in

the woodshed. Grand and glorious

spring, what springs lots 0’ work on

you—what turns nice white snow inta

rivers of mud—what has winds what

go right through you—what gives you

a akin’ in the bones and makes you

take sulfur and molasses. Spring ain’t

what it used ta be, ’cause there ain’t

no fun takin’ spring tonics, ’cause most

folkses take them the year around

now.- The only kinda spring I’d like

now is a bed spring where I kin re-

pose in peace and quietness.



Well. I’ve said nothin’ about n‘othin’,

so I’ve accomplished my purpose. But,

if you wants, see what pickled 'p'igs





feet kin do to a. fellow, Just read this

, over again ,

try calf’s brains and see if that wgn’t

-‘do no better.





Next week I’m my to

HY SYCKLE.





less in the heyday 9‘ -:

of wheat growing and are now sufler- =

ing the reaction.





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ARMERS, like other men, are in



business to secure the means to.



provide" a living This involves

making a profit from their operations.





-. They want to know what practices





-will cause profit to increase and then





. follow them.

vquire into the nature of profits.

: is profit?





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What

Profit is the difference be-

tween .earnings and expenses. Any-

thing which increases earnings will

result in a greater profit, provided ex-

penses remain the same. Profit can

also be reduced by increasing ex-

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SenseSideof Farming





A Practical Dircnssion of Me Economics of Agrzcn/tnre





By Prof. J. T. Homer, of M. A. C.





factors which have an influence. The

simplest statement of the truth is that

price is an expression of value. If





- Neighbor Brown asks you the value of





that fo'ur—year-old. cow, you think in

terms of dollars. You think in terms

of what she could ,be sold for.



There is much confusion concerning

the cause of value. Why is that four-

year-old cow of yours valuable? Why

is your automobile valuable? Why

are shoes, hats, talking machines, dry-

goods, nails, fence posts, rat traps,

milk pails, lead pencils, washing ma-

chines, books, pictures, chairs, over-





 





 





Ernest Pettifor Finds the Tractor a Sensible Way to Save Dollars.





A bushel of potatoes, or a hun-

dred pounds of milk, is worth what it

sells for in the market place. There

is no measure of value except in terms

of money. The farmer is vitally in-





, terested in what causes his product to

p be worth so many dollars in the city,





or at the local country shipping point.

He wants to know what causes pota-





. toes to be worth $1. 00 a hundred this





month and $1.50 last month. This

whole- program of price is hard to un-

derstand because there are so many





coats and the numerous other articles

valuable? These things have value be-

cause someone will give up money in

order to get them. Why will people

give money to get them? Because

these things are desired to satisfy

wants and they cannot be secured for

nothing. This is the basis of value. A

thing has value because it is desired

to satisfy wants and cannot be secur-

ed for nothing.



Some things satisfy wants, but do

not have value, (that is, market val-





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ue), because they can be secured for

nothing. Fire-wood, in a timbered

country, can be secured free of charge

if one will gather it. Berries and nuts

in the forest are free for the picking.

In a pioneer country cattle are permit-

ted to graze at large and no charge is

made. Water from the springs in the

forest is free to all who wish to fill

their jugs. Berries, nuts, firewood, wa-

ter and pasturage is sometimes free.

Because it is not necessary to

give anything in order to secure them.

These things exist in such abundance

that there is more than enough to sup-

ply the wants of those who can use

them. Therefore, they are free.





The more abundant a certain. prod-

uct is the less important each bushel,

yard, or gallon of it is. If there were

only 100,000,000 bushels of potatoes

produced in the United States this

year, there would be such a scarcity

that potatoes would be very-valuable

”that is, they would be so hard to get

that each bushel of potatoes would be

of more importance than if there were

a greater quantity. If there were a

billion bushels of potatoes produced in

the United States, potatoes would be

so plentiful that each bushel would

not be of so much importance—would

be of little value.



Things do not have value unless

they are desired by people. People

desire things which will satisfy their

wants. It is very difficult to determine

why people want some of the things

they do. Human wants are, in many

instances, not'rational. There seems

to be no good reason why a man

should want a brightly—colored, taste-

less apple in preference to a juicy,

highly—flavored one with less color.

Nevertheless, most people in the City

market places prefer just such apples.

Because such apples are preferred,

they have greater value than other

apples.



The man who is attempting to in-





crease his profits by getting more





 

 





money forthe things he has to sell __ ,1





needs to find out what people want,





how they want it, when they want it. .





and how much of it they want. Stated

in another way, the successful seller

needs to find out what the demands

of the market are.



Anyone can make more money by

finding out what is wanted in the mar-





ket place and supplying that want in .~~





the cheapest manner than in any oth-

er way. It is a great fallacy to as-





sume that things which have cost '





money and labor to produce are valu-

able. Things do not have value be-

cause it cost money and effortto pro—

duce them. Things have value be-

cause someone wants them and is will-

ing to pay money in order to get them.



The farmer is attempting 'to find

out why he is not getting more for his

efforts. He wants. to' find out how he

can increase his profits. Before he

can effectively do this he must give

consideration to both ends of his bus-

iness—that is, his income and his out-

go. While it is important that a study

be made of the selling end of the bus-

iness, agriculture must not forget the

producing end and eliminate as much

of the expense as possible.





In the future, as in the past, the

successful farmer will be the one who

is able to produce at costs which will

return him a profit at, the prevailing

prices. It is probably hopeless to ex-

pect that in agriculture prices can be

secured so that every man will be

enabled to make a profit. Such a hap-

py state of affairs does not prevail in





any of the other industries or the pro:





fessions. There must be always that

ever- present watch on the outgo if an

enterprise is to be successful.



It has been the aim of cooperative

associations to so organize the selling

end of the farmer’s business that pros-

perity would result. I am inclined to

believe that any unbiased person will

conclude, after weighing all the evi-

dence, that cooperative endeavors



(Continued on page 357).





League Buys Out Big Distributors





T nan Re-re/ls Part to Me Borden Company—Most Important Move

Since Snefie/d Farm: Lefl Inn P001





By George Herbert





HE most important transaction

in the New York milk field, since

the Sheffield Farms Company

stopped cooperating with the pooling

policy of the Dairymen’s League Co-

operative Association, .was carried

through at the end of January, when

the Empire State Dairy Company, one

of New. York’s “Big Three” milk dis-





. tributors, sold out its. entire property





 





to the league, which in turn transfer-

red the city end of its new acquisition

to the Borden Farm Products Com-

pany



The deal is not only important, but

to the officers and members of the

league is highly gratifying, marking as

it does, a long step ahead in strength-

ening and consolidating not only the

league’s fluid milk market, but its fun-

damental policy of pooling.



The property conveyed includes fif—

teen country milk plants and six city

distributing stations, together with

292 milk routes in the boroughs of

Brooklyn and Queens, with their truck

and wagon equipment, etc.





ling suflicient country terminals of the

distributing system to insure “an open

road to the New York market for ev-

., ery member every day in the year.”

Two of these plants are manufac-

tories of condensed and evaporated





The coun-,

try plants are retained by the league"

in pursuance of its policy of control-.





milk. The remainder are shipping Sta-

tions, equipped with the necessary pas-

teurizers, etc., to comply with the full

requirements of the New York City

Board of Health for retail fluid milk.

All the plants, city and country, are

~modern and in first—class shape. The

consideration paid has not been made

public in either transaction.



The sale appears to have grown out





Empire State Company seemsto have

encountered on account of its opposi-

tion to the league’s

which it abandoned at the same time

with the Sheffield Farms Company. As

Vice—president Miller, of the league,

has said, that policy “has been praised

to the skies and damned to the

depths.” ‘ '



The “price war” described in an ear

lier article is only one phase of the

controversy. As there explained, the

trouble arises of the differing views

as to how to take care of the fluid

milk surplus, the production in the

New York territory being about tWice

what New York City will absorb in

fluid form at livingprices for the farm-

’er. Half of it must be sold in less

reniunerative forms, as? butter, cheese,

etc., and the league’s plan is to, dis-





pooling policy, .





tribute this loss to every producer

pro rata, since all add to the surplus.

This is done by pooling the entire net

return for milk sold, and returning to

each farmer his fair share, pro rata

to the quantity and quality of the milk

he ships, without regard to the par-

ticular form, as fluid, cheese, etc., in

which his milk is marketed.



The refusal of the “Non-pool” farm-





. of the increasing difficulties which the '





ers to cooperate is natural enough.

Located, as many of-them are, close

to the country shipping stations of the

non-cooperating milk distributors,

(who deal almost wholly in fluid

milk), they are able to get the higher

fiuid‘milk prices while avoiding the

burden of caring for the surplus. They

do not see why they are not entitled

to the full benefit of their favorable

location and of the highest price of-

fered them, especially since it is of-

(Continued on page 377).





 





 





 





The End of One of Michigan's Giants in Qtscgo County.
LATE AGRICULTURAL—News”





 





 





 





LESS FUNDS FOR AGRICULTURE.





 





HE agricultural appropriation bill

for 1925 just reported out by the

' appropriations committee, contains

much interesting information concern-

ing the expenditures of the United

States Department of Agriculture. The

prevailing impression appears to be

that the department is run wholly in

the interest of agriculture and that

the appropriations are made solely for

the benefit of the farmers. This, how-

ever, is far from the truth. Only a

small part of the appropriations for

the department are for the benefit of

agriculture. A large share is expend-

ed for roads and for regulatory werk

which concerns the consumers, per-

haps more than it does the farmers.

The total appropriation recommend-

' ed for the department proper is $39,-

058,513, a. decrease of $1,482,940, and

for improvement of highways $17,700,-

000, a decrease of $14,600,000, making

a total appropriation of $56,758,513 for

the next fiscal year, which is $16,082,—

940 below the 1924 appropriation.

The committee’s report states that

since 1917 federal appropriations to

the amount of $392,817,500 have been

made available to the states for high-

way improvement, of which $284,380,-

399 had been paid to the states prior

to January 1, last. Estimating that

expenditures are being made during

the fiscal year at the rate of $6,000,000

a month, the committee figured that

$72,437,160 would be available July 1

for expenditure in the coming fiscal

year in addition to the $17,700,000 car-

ried in the bill.





WOULD AID FRUIT GROWERS.





 





FROST-WARNING service has



been carried on by the weather

bureau for several years and has prov—

en exceedingly beneficial to the limit-

ed area to which it was given. A par—

agraph in the agricultural appropria-

tion bill for this service has been

amended to permit the weather bu-

reau to give advice and warnings to

fruit growers as to frost, harvest

weather, and fruit-spraying conditions,

and an appropriation of $20,000 is rec—

ommended.





TO REDOUBLE EFFORT AGAINST

JAPANESE BEETLE.





 





D URING the fiscal year. 1924 there

was available for the control of

the Japanese beetle the sum of $120,-

, 000. The committee recommends that

this apprOpriation be increased to

$237,500 for 1925. The bureau of en—

tomology is also permitted to cooper-

ate with the federal horticultural

board in establishing, maintaining and

enforcing quarantines promulgated un-

der the plant quarantine act. .



For preventing thespread of moths

the committee recommends an appro-

priation of $572,360 for 1925, which

represents an increase of $41,360 over

1924.





 





STATUS OF VARIOUS APPROPRIA-

‘ TIONS.





 





HE amount allowed for the bureau



of agricultural economics is $4,-

208,464, an increase of $196,511 over

the present year. Of this sum, $308,-

000 is recommended for the market

inspection of perishable foods, $33,000

greater than the approriation for this

,purpose for 1924.



In the paragraph appropriating for

.erop and live stock estimates. is rec-

. {amended 8. new provision that no

' ‘ part of the funds shall be available for

' reporting the intentions of farmers as

is; the acreage to be planted in cotton.

E0! the administration of the United

{States warehouse act the committee





 





 





 





recommends an appropriation of $163,- able and most defensible emergency us a continuous higher domestic mar-





.000, or $26, 600 more than the current





y ar.

The bureau of animal industry will

receive $7,468,916, or $623,916 more

than the present year, if the commit-

tee’s recommendations are followed.





FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS

ENCOURAGED.





 





UE mainly to the united efforts of



the [farm organizationsflthe budget

reduction of $19,843 in the operating

expenses for the eradication of tuber-

culosis has been restored by the com—

mittee, making the amount available

for that purpose $850,000, and in addi-

tion an increase of $400,000 over the

1924 appropriation of $2,027,600 for the

payment of indemnities is recommend-

ed. The committee believes that as

the states are appropriating large

sums of money to carry on tuberculo-

sis-eradication work, sufficient cooper-

ative funds should be provided by the

federal government, so as not to

hamper and restrict the activity.





SAY FARMERS FAVOR THE

McNARY-HAUGEN BILL.





 





A S the hearings before the agricul-

ture committees in congress pro-

gress, it is becoming evident that the

McNary-Haugen agricultural- export

corporation emergency bill is far in

the lead of the vast number of bills

designed to aid agriculture.



The proposed measure with the

emergency limit fixed at five years in-

stead of ten as provided in the origi—

nal bill, has been reported favorably

by the senate committee.



The bill is receiving strong support

from the farmers’ organizations. Tes-

tifying before the house committee on

agriculture, Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Wash-

ington representative of the National

Grange, declared that the McNary-

Haugen bill was the least objection-





measure of all the bills before the

committee. “The National Grange, af-

ter a thorough investigation of all the

. relief measures, is endorsing it as an

emergency proposition and is backing

the measure for all it is worth.”



That the McNary-Haugen bill will





, be worth a billion dollars to the farm-





ers of this country, and everybody will

share in their increased prosperity,

was the assertion of Gray Silver,





speaking for the American Farm Bu-‘





reau Federation.



The bill has two.powers, says Mr.

Silver: First, it determines what mon-

ey prices for agricultural products

should be in order to equal in purchas-

ing power the prices received by the

farmer for the same products during

the pre-war years. For example, if

five bushels of wheat would buy a pair

of shoes of a certain quality before

the war, the bill determines a price for

five bushels of wheat which will pur-

chase the same pair of shoes at the

present time.

these fair prices, the bill provides a

buying corporation to go into the mar-

ket at any time to purchase at the

determined price. This is not arbi-

trary price-fixing, but merely the in-

surance of farm commodity prices

equal in exchange value to the prices





of manufactured and other products.





A provision for the maintenance of

tariffs on the affected products at a

point high enough to protect the en-

hanced prices from forei competi-

tion makes secure the adju ted domes-

tice price levels.



Stating the proposal tersely, Mr. Sil-

ver points out that the McNary-Hau—

gen bill proposes to make the tariff

wall effective for agriculture so that

through a government agency the ex-

portable surplus which depresses our





home markets may be shipped abroad'





and whatever amount of money is lost

in the transaction will be allocated

back to the entire crop, thus affording





 





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‘ eight bushels per acre





ket and permitting agriculture to pros—

per on a parity with other national

groupswhen considered in the light cf,

conditions as they were ten years prior

to the war.



Those who have drafted the Mc~

Nary-Haugen bill say they have en-

deavored to so word it that the pres-

ent channels loftrade would function

as freely as possible.





FARMERS PROTEST INCREASE IN

‘ OCEAN RATES.





 





A N increase of ten cents per 100



pounds in the eastbound freight

rates on certain farm products has

aroused vigorous protestsin this coun-

try. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace

says the increase will be detrimental

to American agricultural producers,

especially at this time, and to busi-

ness in general. He believes the in-

crease wholly unwarranted.



The fact that lines in which the

American government is interested

were a party to the agreement to raise

rates, and intimation that the confer-

ence of steamship lines, practically;

dominated by British shipping inter-

ests controls freight rates on the North;

Atlantic has been brought to the at—

tention of government officials, and in‘

the form of a resolution, Senator King,

of Utah, has asked the United States

Shipping Board some very pointed and

embarrassing questions.





The farm organizations are taking'





considerable interest in this rate in~

crease. It is regretted that a shipping

organization which has received vast

appropriations of public funds to ena-

ble it to build up a large American

merchant marine should even permit

itself to be charged with having dis-





criminated against American farm.





products in ocean freight rates, and

against American ports in favor of

Canada. It will require more' than

blank denials to remove the suspicion

of unfair treatment of the American

shippers. '





WINTER WHEAT COSTS VARY I

WIDELY.





 





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duction, based on records obtain-

ed, by the bureau of agricultural e00<





, nomics in 1.920 on 467 farms in four.

' middle west states, emphasize the wide





range in costs that exist on different

farms.



The variation in net cost per bush—

el to owners operating their own

farms was ninety-nine cents to over

$3.00 per bushel. Onvrented farms the

variation to tenants was from forty

cents to over $10 per bushel. The

yield to owners having costs of $1.20

or under per bushel, ranged from

twelve to thirty-one bushels per acre.

Those having a cost of $4.00 or more

per bushel.had yields which ranged

from slightly less than three to seven

bushels per acre. '



The average yield for the 467 ~farms

was 14.3 bushels per acre. seventy

per cent of the farmers obtained

yields ranging from seven to nineteen

bushels per acre. Six per cent had

yields of less than seven bushels, and

twenty-four per cent had yields of ov-

er nineteen bushels per acre. The av«

erage total net cost to owners operat‘

ing their own farms was $1.80, and on

rented farms $1.83 per bushel.



These figures seem to indicate that





crop yield per acre has a very import"





ant bearing on cost per bushel. Noth-





' ing that the government now proposes





to do to aid agriculture {will save the

‘man whose yields are under seven or





yield farmer will have to improve his

methods or quit growtng wheat





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erse district.





,market for. United States





. HE season of 1923, especially

during the early part, was rath-





er dry. This condition was un-.





favorable for leaf spot development.

The diSease-did not at any time devel—

op to any appreciable‘extent, even on

unsprayed trees. Therefore, no com-

parisons could be made between the

various materials used in so far as

their ability to control leaf spot was

concerned. Fortunately, however, defi-

nite results were obtainedpfrom the





1922 experiments in the Grand Trav-~





 





What Leaf Spot Did.





A report of that work

was given a year ago but the essen-

tial parts will bear repeating.



In the 1922 experiments a compari-

son was made of lime-sulphur and Bor-

deaux sprays,. and sulphur and copper

sulphate dusts. The season was such





. that leaf spot] developed early and to





such an extent that unsprayed and

poorly sprayed trees lost‘so much of

their foliage before harvest that the

cherries were’wdrthless and in many

cases were not picked.

ment was planned to allow'for four ap-

plications as follows!“ First, just as

the 'shucks were dropping; second,

about two weeks later; third, ten days

to two weeks following the second,

and fourth, just after the fruit was





The experi—,





pray for Better Cherries





Practical Recommendations Rem/ting from Some Interesting Experiments





ByI-I. M. Wells and W. C. Dutton





Hortzcultural Sptria/irt: at M. A. C.





picked. The outstanding result of this

work was that lime-sulphur and Bor-

deaux mixture gave equally satisfac-

tory results in the control of leaf spot.

There are, however, other factors to

be considered which will now be dis-

cussed. . ,



Foliage Injury.



The question of foliage injury re-

sulting from the use of spraying mate-

rials was studied in all the experi-

.ments of 1923. Of the standard mate-

rials used Bordeaux caused the most

,serious defoliation. This injury first

appears in the form of small brownish

spots on the leaves, which soon turn

yellow with scattered green and brown

areas on the surface, giving it the gen-

eral appearance of leaf spot. Soon

after the leaves turn yellow, abscis-

sion takes place. This injury develop-

ed at various periods during the sum-

mer when atmospheric conditions

were favOrable. In the Grand Trav-

erse region it was much in evidence





‘ late in August. In the college orchards





at East Lansing, Bordeaux injury de—

veloped seriously. in September on

English Morello and Montmorency

trees which had not been sprayed

since June. This would indicate that

the danger from injury is not confined

to a short period after application.





In all the cherry spraying work of

1923, lime'sulphur solution was diluted

at the rate of one and one-half gallons

in fifty, and although no serious injury

developed, there was at Traverse City

a limited amount of injury at the tips

of the leaves, apparently where the

material had accumulated in larger





quantities than on the rest of the leaf.

This injury produced a white area,

from which the green chlorophyll had

been removed without serious injury

to the leaf tissues. This form of in-

jury seldom resulted in leaf fall. In

the 1922, experiments, lime-sulphur

was used'at "the weaker strength of

one and one-quarter gallons in fifty,

which gave satisfactory results in the

control of leaf spot without injury to

the] foliage. These results indicate

that, because of the danger of injury

at the one and one-half to fifty

strength, lime-sulphur should be used

on cherries at the rate of one and one-

quarter to fifty.





A Mixed Spray Schedule.





A very interesting but unexpected

form of foliage injury developed in the

experimental plots and in many or-

chards throughout the state. This was

prevalent on trees which were spray-

ed with lime-sulphur at one applica-

tion and Bordeaux at another, or when

sprayed with Bordeaux first and fol-

lowed with lime—sulphur at later

sprays. The time of season appar-

ently had no influence on the injury

as cases were reported when changes

were made following the second, third

and fourth applications. The early

stages of the injury gave the leaves

much the same appearance as that

caused by leaf spot that growers

would invariably call it leaf spot. The

trees were in many instances badly

defoliated.





There are indications that the direct

foliage injury is not the only undesir-

able result, as at East Lansing such





 





trees were affected late in the season

by leaf spot. This would indicate that

the fungicidal propertiesof the spray-

ing materials were destroyed or that

the material was changed over to a

soluble form and washed off by rain.

The method of preventing this injury

is very simple, if you start spraying

with one material, continue its use“

throughout the season.

Effect of Defoliation.



The results of poor spraying, or

none at all, is usually very keenly felt

at the time, particularly if the crop

cannot be'harvested, as in 1922, but ‘

greater losses may be in store in fu-~

ture seasons as a result of the defolia-

tion. Records obtained during 1923

show this very plainly. In 1922 at .

Traverse City the check or unsprayed ‘

trees were almost completely defoliat-

ed before harvest, while the trees in

the sprayed plots rlost practically no

leaves at any time during the season.



During the season of 1923 complete ..

records were obtained for trees which





 





 





Kept Healthy by Spraying.

were defoliated in 1922 and on others

which lost no leaves in 1922, to de-

termine what effect the defOliation

would have on blossoming, fruit set,

total production of fruit and growth of



(Continued on page 347).





The Progress of the Federal Land Bank





14 Glimpse fiom Me Inside, of It: Operations and Wooderfu/ Growté, or Told

53/ E. J. Van Leave”, Director from my, District





... HE Federal Farm Loan act was





approved by congress in 1916,

“To provide capital for agricul-

tural development, to create a stand-





ard .form- of investment based upon'





farm mortgages, to equalize rate of

interest upon farm loans, to furnish a

bonds. to

create government depositories and

financial agents for the United States,

and for other purposes.”



Twelve Fedeial Land Banks were

established. Let us see to what extent

the act has functioned in the short





Vspace of seven years, or a trifle, over, '





five years of actual operation.



The original stock was all subscrib-

ed by the United States government

aggregating $8,892,130. Already $6,-





457,745 have been paid back to' the





United States government, leaving

only $2,434,385 ; now. owned by. the

United ZtSates government, and it has





- created a standard form of investment

» based upon farm mortgages of $765,-





724,205 which represents the amount

of farm loan bonds issued; In other

words, 'by reason of the passing of this





. law it has sold to the investing public





nearly eight million dollars in long-

time bonds at a low rate of interest,

whiCh amount it has reloaned to the

farmers of. this land at a, lower rate





of interest than ever before—and for.





a' longer. period—Lit has fully perform-

ed the intent of the law. ‘

The Federal Land Bank of St Paul,

Minnesota, which serves the seventh

dfstriot, " composed of North Dakota,

W1 onsin “11d Michigan,



. .‘ uteri State?



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scribed and now has a capital of a

little over $5,000,000, all owned by the

National Farm Loan Associations of

this district, and they in-turn are own-

ed and controlled by the farmer bor-

rower. ‘



The Federal Land Bank of St. Paul,





control of the Federal Land Bank. No

one, seven years ago, ever dreamed or

hand an—y conception of the wonderful

growth of the Federal Land Bank. It

has been the means of getting money

to the farmer at much lower rates of

interest by all other loaning agencies.





 





igan farm product.





St. Paul.





tie for the Farm Loan System.





Bank Board.





 





He Knows .7723 Former





LTON J. VAN LEUVEN, the author of this artiCIe, is a Mich-

He was recently elected to represent -Wis-

consin and Michigan as a director of the Federal Land Bank, of

This position was tendered him by a very large major-

ity vote of the stockholders of those States.



Mr. Van Leuven knows the farmer and his problems as few

men know them; he owns a farm or two himself; he is Secretary

of the Isabella County Farm Loan Association and is very optimis-





The long and Close connection which he has enjoyed with a

'bank that has ever been loyal to the farmers’ best interests, has

given him a grasp of financial affairs that,, coupled with his farm-

er-mindedness, makes him an especially valuable man on the Land





 





since its organization in 1917, has paid

a dividend of six per cent to its stock-

. holders until the ,close of business

July 1, 1922, it paid eight per cent,

and for the close of business July 1,

1923, it paid a dividend” of ten per

cent, which amounted to $460,000. Do

you know, or have you ever heard, of

.any Vother'loaning agency ever paying

a dividend to the borrowers?

Every borrower is a stockholder in

this great Land Bank to the extent of





five per cent of his loan, so that the f





borrower is the owner-and in absolute





 





I wonder what rate of interest rarin-

ers would be paying were -it not for

this Federal Farm Loansystem.



Some of us have been highly cen-

sured for promoting this system, but

we have stuck to it, for we felt it was

one of the ways.out for the salvation

and continuancy of. a -prosperous

American- agriculture.





The Federal Farm‘ Loan act pro:

vides. that the temporary management

shall be vested in a president, vice-

president, secretary'and treasurer and

members of the. farm loan board,‘ until





such time as the majority of the cap-

ital stock shall be held by the national

Farm loan associations—~which time

arrived early in the year of 1923. At

that time, the seventh district was idi-

vided into three districts, namely:

North Dakota was designated District

No. 1; Minnesota, District No. 2, and

Wisconsin and Michigan as District

No. 3—and the associations of these





various districts were asked to elect ‘ ..





a director, which resulted in the elec-

tion of Mr._ Torgeson, of North Da-

kota, Mr. Erickson, of Minnesota, and

your humble servant as director rep-

resenting Wisconsin and Michigan.

The associations of the entire district

elected Mr. Ben F. Faast, Eau Claire,

Wisconsin, who is known as the. di-

rector at large. These four directors

are known as association directors

and all meet with the president, sec-

retary and treasurer at the Land Bank ‘

in St. Paul on the second Monday in

each month.



So you can see that the national

farm loan associations are fully repre-

sented. How well they may look after .

the interests of the association will be

determined by their acts. So far they

have associated in paying the associa-

tion a diVidendof ten per cent—and

the associations in Michigan who re-

quire the time, will have three weeks

in which to close loans instead of two

weeks as heretofore.



The thousands who are members of

local farm loan associations are, there’-

fore, stockholders in the biggest bank

in America, which is rendering a much

needed and very valuable service to

the farmer.
(Wen dbprmg (Were





A sure sign of spring is the barefoot, boy. With his appearance

come busy days on every farm—days when the farm equipment

is taxed to its capacity in preparation for bigger crop yields.





.Whatever your cultivating requirements, you can do better work _

with the new Oliver No. 32 Cultivator, A means of quickly and

easily making every needed adjustment for all conditions insures

ease of operation and thorough work in an exceptional degree.





If you haven’t examined this new Oliver Cultivator, see it at your

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' was field 'run.‘





He; Grew Spad-fsi 'x—TPrdfitably‘

A Wayne County Farmer Work: Out a Plan that 8777ng Rem/tr

By a Staff Member





I T is the fairies who do the unusual





and impossible things. We shall,



therefore, be regular by asking

what would you do if a. fairy would

increase by eight hundred dollars the

returns from five acres of potatoes?



And, fairy like, would add this

amount to the average income from

this potato acreage without requiring





that you add extra. expense, even mak-.





ing it a. little more Convenient in car~

ing for and handling the crop?



That is, however, the additional cold

cash which G. Schmidt, of Wayne

county, received from five acres of po-

tatoes during the season of 1923, this

coming to him withoutlthe accompany-

ing excitement of the fairies, but rath-

er as the result of fitting his farming

to market conditions as he found

them.



Through the kind offices of County

Agent Carr, of that county, it was the

pleasure of the writer to hear from

the lips of this farmer, in his own

home, 110w this most sensible plan had

w01ked out.



Until five years ago, Mr. Schmidt,

who is yet a man with plenty of youth-

ful vigor, and ‘a. head that cooperates

with his hands, had been a. market





‘ gardener operating near the city of





Detroit. The expansion of Michigan’s

metropolis tempted him to sell his

property to real estate men and buy

a 120-acre farm near Plymouth. Since

coming to this new location he, for

four years, has followed the practice

which has brought him many addition-

al dollars from his potato field.



Potato growers generally Will be in-

terested in the secret of Mr. Schmidt’s

success, in knowing just hOW this man

conducts his potato business. In 3.

b1 sad sense, one might say, that the

semet lies in using his head. This is,

howev er, an unsatisfactory answer, so

we shall go into details.



First, let us glance at the potato

markets. A study of supplies and val-

ues shows that during the month of

September prices usually rule high.

Then, old potatoes are gone, the bulk

of the New Jersey crop, not required

for near-by consumption, is sold,-and

the late crop is yet a few weeks off.

’Tis then that supplies 1un low and

prices make a jump.



This tendency of the potato market,

Mr. Schmidt had observed during his





years of trading on the Detroit city





markets. When, therefore, he moved

to his present location, he decided to

try, if possible, to grow potatoes eco-

nomically to meet this September de-

mand.



For four years he has succeeded.

Here is how he does it: His sandy

loam soil _is well manured and fertiliz-

ed to receive the early potato crop.

This past year the manure was ap-

plied at the rate of ten or twelve tons

per acre, and, of fertilizer, he added





300 pounds of a 3-8-10 commercial





product.



The soil was plowed about eight

inches deep as early in the .spring as

he could get to it. Last season it was

done arOund May first. Then the

ground was thoroughly worked down

with disc, roller and harrow. «t



The 1923 crop was planted on the

fifteenth of May. He did not choose

Irish Cobblers or other early varieties

which are commonly planted fer early

crops, but selected Rural Russets. His

experience has taught him that this

variety is well adapted to his purpose.

He intends, however, to try out a plot





of Irish Cobblers this year and com»

pare the results with the Rural Rus-'





sets»

' The seed was cut by hand and plant-

ed with a horse-planter in rows thirty-





six inches wide and the potatoes plac- .





ed eighteen in the row. This required

from eighteen to‘ twenty bushels of

seer per acre. The seed stock used





 





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continued until the end of June. The

field was gone over four'times—three

times with the two-horse cultivator

and the last with a. one-horse rig. The

vines were in full bloom about ~the

time other fields of late potatoes show-

ed the rows sufficiently to cultivate.





Mr. Schmidt practices Spraying. He

uses a. power sprayer which delivers

the spray at a. pressure of about 150

pounds. A combination of arsenic and

Bordeaux was appliedfour times dur-

ing the growing season.





.These Rural Rus’sets planted and

cared for as indicated, were ready for

harvest by the first of September? Dur-

ing the four years” experience, Mr.

Schmidt has started harvesting on the

day following Labor Day. This year

the first two loads dug were not fully

mature, but, thereafter they came out

Of the ground in good condition.





“We continued to dig and market

the crop as fast aswe could handle

them, finishing the last of September

just as the market started on its down-

ward .course,” said’this shrewd :grower.





“The range of prices received for

these potatoes,” said Mr. Schmidt,

“was from $1.90 per bushel for the

first load, down to $1.50 per bushel for

the last. I estimate that the average

price paid me for the whole crop from

that field was $1.70 perubushel.”



“But,” I asked, “Did not the lower

yield cut your income down to where

it would have been had you planted

the field to late potatoes?”



“No, it was quite the contrary,”

came back his reply. “These early po-

tatoes yielded moze per acre than did

a nineacre field of late planted tubers.

The early crop averaged 190 bushels

per acre, while the late ones gave me

only 180 bushels per acre. In all re-

spects that .late crop Was treated the

same, and had as good a chance, as

the early one. The price received on

the same market, however, was just

$1.00 per bushel instead of $1.70.”



From the figures given, a little men-

tal calculation will give one the added

revenue coming to this wide—awake

man by reason of his planting pota-

toes the middle of May instead of a.

month later:



While his markets are more favor-





ably located than those of the major-





ity of farmers, the fact remains that

throughout southern Michigan, at

least, a ready market exists for pota-

toes during the month when Mr.

Schmidt is busy selling his early crop.





RADIO HAS IMPROVED FARM

. LIVING..





 





CONFERENCE of state extension





directors was held at the depart-‘





ment of agriculture, recently, with Dr.

C. D. Smith, director of state exten-

sion work, in charge. The directors

from the various states gave hopeful

views of the agricultural situation.

Those from the range states said that

the radio was proving to be a useful

aid to the stock raisers on the large

ranches remote from towns and with

meager mail facilities. They receive

market reports sent out from the lead-

ing markets. It was also reported that

the radio was having a beneficial ef-

fect in keeping the farmer boys and

girls at home evenings, and enabling

them to have wholesome, high-class

entertainment and receive helpful in-

formation. Large numbers of farmers

and ranchershave installed radio sets.





Says Sam: Nowadays you see these

young sports driving with one hand.

They used to ride around in the buggy

with one feet hanging cut, '





Soy-bean acreage in the corn belt '

. has increased two thousand per tent





 





in the last five years.





pcdltivation started early and was '
I “LimaLegumes ,

A i I T Ize T liree L’: W fife/z are Real Soil Builder:

By. E. A. Kirkpatrick





“Lime, legumes and live stock,

Build up run down soil

Give the worthy farmer

Profit for‘his toil.”

HERE is more truth than poetry

in the foregoing lines, and real-



, izing that such is the case,

Michigan and Wisconsin farmers are

bearing down hard on these three

things—dime, legumes and live stock.



A campaign'is on to get farmers to

use more lime, so that the land'will

grow more legumes, so that more

stock can be fed, so that more manure

will be produced, and so on through.

the cycle again.



Progress is being made in this cam-

paign, too.‘ For instance, in Rock

county, Wisconsin, four limestone

crushers are busy the year round





and‘Lchstock





Onevof the most interesting develop-

ments in connection with the cherry

spraying work is the effect of certain

materials on the size of the fruit. This

was first noticed in 1921 when it was

found that the fruit on trees sprayed

with Bordeaux was noticeably smaller

than ‘that on unsprayed trees or on

trees sprayed with lime-sulphur. In

1922 records showed a reduction in

size of about’ten per cent from the

use of Bordeaux. In 1923 further rec-

ords show that lime-sulphur caused

very little reduction in size, while

Bordeaux reduced the size of the fruit

about thirty per cent. You may ask

why there was so much difference in

the results of 1922 and 1923. A partial.

answer may be found in the fact that





 





 





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grinding out lime right at the farms,

and; 20,000 tons have been applied in

the' last three years. The acreage of

soy-beans and alfalfa has trebled as

the result. .



Why don’tneighborhioods put on

lime campaigns? I have asked ‘quite a

few farmers, and their answer gener-

ally is, “l den’t have time”. My an-

swer to that argument is, “Do the

work in winter when Work is compar-

atively slack.”



There are other advantages to win-



ter liming. If your farm is up-hill

from the railroad station, winter haul-

ing, by sled, is desirable. With good

sleighing, you can haul a bigger load

on a sled than you can on a wagon

during the spring, summer or fall.

' If the weather is favorable and the

snow is not too deep, limestone may

be applied at any time during the

winter. If not needed immediately afv

' ter hauling, lime should be kept in a

dry place. Hydrated lime must be

kept dry or it continues slaking and

the bags burst open, making it diffi—

cult to handle,~ and causing some

waste. Further, it takes up weight so

there is more to handle when it comes

to hauling and spreading. This in-

crease in weight and bulk may well be

considered in spreading, so as to be

sure that enough is used to grow the

desired crop.



How much to apply? It is hard to

say exactly; the amount varies on dif-

ferent soils. As a general rule, though,

say a ton,or two to the acre.





SPRAYING CHERRIES.





 





(Continued from page 345%

leaves and wood during 1923‘.

Trees which held their foliage, com-

pared with defoliated trees show more





fruit buds per spur and more blossoms '





in each fruit bud. A higher percentage

of the blossoms on normal trees devel-

oped into ripe fruit, and each cherry

'was larger than on defoliated trees. If

you will 'consider the effect of all these

things you will readily see that the

trees Which were well Sprayed in 1922

would produce much more fruit‘than

defoliated trees. In this case normal

trees bore four and one-half'cases per

., tree while defoliated trees produced ’





91in. . trestle. . marinas .,ca§es-.





Thing.

the rain fall during the fruit growing

period of 1923 was much less than

during the same period in 1922. Much

work will have to be done with the

problem concerning the effect of

sprays on the size of cherries before

definite recommendations can be made.

It may, however, be safe to say that

losses of this nature may be largely

avoided by the substitution of lime-

sulphur for Bordeaux.

Conclusions.



The loss from defoliation is not con-

fined to the year in which it occurs,

but will seriously lower the production

and vigor of the trees in the following

years.



Lime—sulphur solution one and one—

quarter to fifty, will, if applied in a'

thorough and timely way, control the

leaf spot.



Bordeaux, even with an excess of

lime, will cause serious foliage injury

When the climatic conditions are fav-

orable for the development of such

injury.



It is unsafe to use Bordeaux or lime—

sulphur for part of the applications

and the other material for applica-

tions. This seems to be true for all

times of the season and regardless of

whichway the change is ‘made. ‘



Bordeaux, made with an excess of

lime, causes a serious‘dwa'rfing of the

fruit; this result is more in evidence

in dry than in rainy seasons.



Recommendations.



In View of the facts above stated,

the following tentative recommenda-

tions are made for 1924:



Applications.



First—As soon as petals have drop-

ped and not later than when “shucks”

have dropped.



Second—Ten days to two weeks af-

ter first. .



Third.4—Ten days to two weeks after

second.



Fourth—Just after fruit is picked.



Materials.



Lime-sulphur solution, diluted at the

rate of one and one—quarter gallons in

fifty gallons, plus lead arsenate pow-

der at the rate of one pound to fifty

gallons.



The use of lead arsenate is a neces-





sary precaution against ins’ect injury. ',





and will also increase the fungicidal





. value of the lime-sulphur.





:4.” ‘ ‘91..





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Will you kindly give me a little ad-

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plowed in the spring. What will be

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I thought some of sowing rape, .mus-

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You have the right idea,'that is, sow





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ver and timothy might come on and

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DISPOSAL OF wit-"E's. PROPERTY.





 





At death of wife, can husband hold

any of her real estate or personal

property by dower right? Who is lia-

ble for sickness and death expenses-—

heirs, husband, or both? If husband

said he owned half of real estate and

settled with part of heirs, and they find

out he never had a lawful claim, can

they tender him his money and let the

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SUNFLOWER SILAGE.





 





Would like to know the food value

contained in sunflower silage. I do

not seem to be able to find it any-

where. Am putting a cow on test and

would like to know as soon as possi-

ble soas to be able to balance her

ration. Also would like to know the

food value of the chaff and seed that

comes from timothy and clover hay.

——C. H. » -



At the Agricultural College in Mon-

tana, an exhaustive 'digestion experi-

ment was conducted with sunflower

silage. The percentage of digestible





_ nutrients, as determined in these trials





are given as follows: Total dry sub-

stance, 21.4; crude protein, 1.24; crude

fiber and nitrogen-free extract, 10.13;-

ether extract, .37.



It would be quite unsatisfactory to

attempt to give the food value of the

chaff and seed you speak of. Probably

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liay,'though if there is‘much clover

leaves these might be considered more

valuable on account of their contain-

ing many vitamines. However, in a

short test, these would have but little

effect, but in a yearly test they might

count on the health of the cow.



You will probably get no benefit

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may happen to be present, owing to

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LIME FOR} MUCK.





 





- Please let me know how much lime

it would requirefor an acre of muck

land for truck gardening, and I want

to get in-communicatlen with a good





fertilizers. etc? N .





 





 





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soils require lime for satisfactory crop‘

production. As a matter of fact, rela?

tively few mucks are in need of lime.

Lime, applied to muck soil, which ‘al-

ready has plenty of lime combined in

it, is entirely wasted, and, in some in-

stances, has been found to actually

decrease the crop yield. A muck may

be quite acid and still contain frOm

two to four per cent cf lime. It is

only when the'soil is strongly acid

that lime is Certain to be needed.

Then an application of from two to

eight tonsper acre of ground lime-

stone may be needed, depending ‘on

the degree of acidity and the crop to

be grown. If a good quality marl can





be obtained in the vicinity, it maybe _





used instead of the ground limestone,

with equally good results and usually

at a somewhat lower cost. I would

suggest that you send in a pint sam—

ple of your soil and have the degree

of. acidity determined. ,





In answer to your second question,

I would advise you to write to the

State. Department of Agriculture at

Lansing and secure a copy of their

latest“ “Michigan Fertilizer Bulletin."

In it you will find a list of the com-

panies having fertilizers for sale in

this state, as well as the number of

samples of each which were analyzed

in the department, and the number

which were found below guarantee.—

P. H. Harmer.





 





DOG TAXES.





 





I was assessed for my dog in April.

1-923. County officers say this is due

$3.00 in advance on male dog. In Oc-

tober I received a notice to appear at

our county. seat and settle for dog tax

and cost. They did not serve a war-

rant, but wanted me to appear on the

nineteenth of October. Did not go.

Then they said if I would send $3.00

tax and $2.50 for cost, they would dis—

miss the ease. I sent $3.00 for tax.

Can they charge that much cost on

that amount of tax? Is the tax uni—

form throughout the state, $3.00 on a.

male dog and $5.00 on a female.‘ Un-

derstand in. the cities they pay only

$1.00.—G. M. .



The tax is uniform throughout the

state: $3.00 for male dogs, $6.00 for

female, and $2.00 for unsexed dogs.

The costs are taxable in addition to

the tax if proceedings are taken to

collect. The justice’s costs alone

would be $2.00, without the fees of the

officer serving the process—Rood.





~ WHITE DIARRHEA CARRIER.





 





Yesterday I killed a hen for eating

which I thought was not a layer.

"When I came to dress her I found four

full-sized eggs—all soft shelled—in the

egg-sac, which looked like cooked

yolks. When opened the whole con—

tents was like egg yolk in color, but

watery. The egg next the vent was

ill—shapen, as though- the one from

above had‘crow-ded into it and growu

fast, the inside of the sac was inflam-





ed, all the other organs looked normal





and healthy, the hen was fat, and the

meat and skin were clear, though I

was told that it ‘would be all right to

use, I could not bring myself to cook'

it. Would it have been all right?

What caused the trouble? All the

small undeveloped eggs were little

hard lumps—F. H. M.





The hen was a. carrier of white

diarrhea, which caused the abnormal

condition and the diseased ovaries.

There is a. natural prejudice against

using poultry meat for food unless the

bird is in the, best of physical condi-

tion. However, if the bird only shows

she is a. carrier of the white diarrhea

by undeveloped eggs showing like

hard lumps- and the remainder of the

carcass seems in firSt-class condition

it is probably fit for food.





 





Says Sam: Destructive criticism

has its place. For. instance, I haves.

right to.-.say-an egg is. rotten. even if

I can’t lay a; mechanic myself.
.to this locality (Cass county).





NTEREST in art fiber work at Dag-





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This phase of club work includes bas-

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been projected to raise money to pay





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“An exhibition is also being planned.

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traveled in season by the resort tour-

ist, each individual being regarded in

the light of a potential customer. The

demand was not for the melon with a

heavy rind to withstand shipping, but

the most luscious, sweetest and finest

looking melon. As long as” his stock

of melons lasted, the road in front of

his house resembled a county fair.

Last year’s melon crop brought him

nearly $300 at his door. And the de-





-mand was greater than the supply.——-

G. Everitt.





LIKES WINTER SPELT.





 





HERE are two varieties of speltm



spring and Winter. The spring is

a. bearded kind, and, after four years’

trial, I have given it up as unsuited

My

soil is a clay loam.



The winter spelt, I have raised con-

tinuously for more than thirty years

and expect to continue it. It has yield-

ed from twenty-seven to sixty bushels

per acre, and in feeding value, is one

and a half times the value of oats. Its

protein content is from twelve to fif-

teen per cent. It is a splendid feed





.for horses, cattle, hogs and chickens.





but should always be ground. In the

dairy feed it takes the place of a bran.



In threshing, the concave should be

removed and a board substituted in

the machine. Cleaned grain, free from

shelled grain, weighs thirty-two pounds

per-measured bushel. Do not sow the

shelled grain. The young ‘plantlet

needs the hull for early nourishment.

7"}. H. Redfield. '





WHERE QUALITY COUNTS.





 





“ OME Michigan farmers have profit--





ed from the example of the mythi:

cal builder of the proverbial world’s

best mouse trap. They have found

that, in producing a commodity of

superior quality to that of any of their

neighbors, the public immediately

parks their autos at the producer’s

door.



One farmer makes grain raising a

specialty. There is not a detail in-





,volved in the preparation of the soil,





selection and application of the fertil-





’ izer, selection, preparation and sowing





of the seed, eradication of noxious

Weeds during the growing season, the

timely harvesting and threshing of the

grain, but what is to him of vital im-

portance.



The sequence of this rigidly pursued

program is that this man not only has

the highest grain yield of ‘the, plump-

est, weightiest berry, but a decal de-





,mand for his grain; to be'used by his





neighbors for seed at a. price often

above that oflere‘d by the local ele-

vators. ,1



Another farmer gives the samé care-

ful attention to the breeding and man-





. agement of high-grade cattle. He has





always a. local market for the young





.oalves at” a price considerably above ‘





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Believe in Farm Gardens





UT of the scores of letters com«



ing in reply to our announce-



ment (in “why a farm garden,”

there was only one who declared that

they had given up the garden and

would not go back to it again. Every

other writer stood firm for this ad-

junct to» the farm. Economy, health

and general inspiration seemed to be

the leading reasons given in the many

well-written letters, of which the fol-

lowing were chosen to receive prizes;

Others will~like1y be published in the

regular columns at some later date:





GOOD EVIDENCE H ERE.





 





[S often said that we never appre-



ciate a blessing until deprived of

it, and we surely proved the truth of

this saying when the grasshoppers de-

stroyed our garden just as the early

vegetables were about ready for use.

They came like a cloud, and as the





 





How Aéouz‘ Sweet Clover?





ARLY this week I was in-‘



formed by a leading county

agent that he planned to per-

suade every farmer belonging to

the cow testing associations in

this county to sow an acre of

sweet clover.



Why sweet clover? What ‘part

has this plant in Michigan farm-

ing? Will it add‘ to our agricul-

tural wealth, or merely take the

place of other crops having a-

value equal to the sweet clover?



In a letter we wish you, kind

reader, to tell what your experi-

ences have been with sweet clo-

ver. Mail this letter on or be

fore March 12, to the Handy

Man, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan. Each of the writers

sending in thefive best letters

.will receive a. dollar.





 





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garden was some distance from the

house, in less than a day it was totally

demolished; and then—think of eating

meal after meal without lettuce, rad-

ishes, green onions, young beets or

carrots, green peas or string beans.

Except when some kind-hearted neigh~

bors, whose garden was spared, would

share some green, to hima trifle; but

how good they did taste to us!



Nor was this all. We all lacked our

usual energy and seemed all tired out,

regardless of other conditions. Then

the following winter, when our little

boy complained of pains and weakness

in wrists and ankles—the doctor said,

“lack of vegetables in the diet.”



Oh. 'yes, though our garden may not

he a very paying investment so far as

dollars go, and perhaps not always

quite as free from weeds as we would

like, it surely is worth, in health and

pleasure, all that it costs—land, seeds,

and backacheEL—J. E. Srackangast.





 





STARTS HIS GARDEN EARLY.





 





S far as my own experience goes,

it has been decidedly worth while.

It has provided us with a ready source

of fresh green vegetables, both for our

own use and with' a surplus that pro-





vided no small amount of pin-money .





for the good wife. We have one pit

hot-bed, and several cold frames that

enable us to get "stronger, earlier

plants before the rest of our neighbors

have even planted their gardens. In

this. way we get top prices for our

surplus from the town people who- are

ever eager for early vegetables.





   





_ The labor, our own, and the cost. of

the seed rarely exceeds $15, and we

often realize more than $50 a.season_

from our garden, besides having all

the fresh vegetables we can use for

our own table. Any surplus that we

may not sell, is easily fed to stock,

and its value as food is not Wasted.



The-food value of fresh vegetables

is not necessary to emphasize, espe«

cially that of tomatoes. In addition to

the vegetables that we eat and sell,

we can enough to- last over the winter

months until the fresh ones are again

secured. '



I certainly think it has paid me to

have a home garden, and I would sug-

gest that a lot of the farmers that are

complaining of “hard times” try the

plan out for a_ while. They are just

lazy—W. R. Jack.





 





REDUCES THE GARDEN LABOR.





 





UR garden consists of a. plot of



ground fourteen rods in length,

and of sufficient width to permit .six

rows of vegetables sufficiently far

apart to be cultivated with a two-horse

cultivator, which is done, thoroughly,

in thirty minutes’ time, leaving the

work with the hoe, in cleaning the

rows, little less than a pastime. A plot

of grass, at each end of the rows,

gives a good place to turn horses and

cultivator upon.



The soil is mostly a sandy loam and

has been in continuous cultivation, as

a. garden, for many years. It is kept

enriched by a liberal coating of stable

manure applied in early winter and

plowed under in the spring. The gar-

den is reached by a few steps from

the kitchen door, and the amount and

variety of its products, which reach

our table, is truly surprising.



At one side of the garden is a bed

of asparagus and pieplant, and on the

other side a row of berries, one-half

of the row being red raspberries and

the other half strawberries, which are

cared for mostly by mulching, leaving

little work to be done with the hoe.

At one end of the row of raspberries

is a. Juneberry bush, Which bears

abundantly and affords appetizing

dishes of berries for the supper meal

and, as one has said, “We eat all we

can and can what we can’t.” Surely

the farmer who fails in having a good

garden is making a sad mistake—J.

T. Daniells.





GARDEN CONSERVES HEALTH.





 





PHYSICIAN, passing our home as



I was working in my garden, re-

marked, as he pointed to a flourishing

onion bed, “We medical men are sel-

dom called to homes where plenty of

those grow.” '



Possibly there is much of truth in

that statement. We have always had

a good garden and very seldom had a

doctor. Our children grew to man-

hood and womanhood without ever

needing medical attention. No head«

aches at our house.



It is hard, of course, to find time

to work gardens as they should.be,





especially where hired held is unob-

'tainable.





We rise early and call the

day‘s work in the field done at half-

past four P. M. Then the chores, milk-

ing, etc., are done'in time for a. six,

o’clock supper. After that, until too

dark to see, the time is usually spent

in the garden. Also a. whole day’s

work there is required occasionally.

We have strawberries. and other

small fruits. and also of‘ many varie-

ties of vegetables, more than is re-

- (Cpnfinued-m Pass. 354.).-





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GET.$9.28 .PER TON FOR BEETS.





 





HE‘ Menominee River Sugar Com-



pany—the only beet sugar .plant

in the«Upper Peninsula—recently dis-

tributed $175,000 to farmers of its ter-

ritory. This was the final payment in

settlement of its account with the

farmers. The total payments to farm-

ers thus figured out at $9. 28 per ton

for beets furnished the factory. This

February payment, represents the

bonus due as per contract on the basis

of the market price for sugar. Beets

came to the factory from Menominee,

Marquette, Delta, Oconto, Brown and

other counties in Michigan and Wis-

consin. The total cut of beets by the

factory amounted to about 60,000 tons,

it is stated.





 





URGING POTATO SEED GROWING._





 





RT LON SDORF, county agricultur-

al agent of Dickinson county, is

- advising his farmers to take more in-

terest in the growing of seed potatoes.





While it is recognized that there may ‘





be over-production in this line, as else-

where, it is well worth while to see

what can be done before this stage has

been reached. It is believed that cer-

tified stock will bring more even for

table use than ordinary potatoes, if

the worst should come. Last season

seven Dickinson farmers grew certi-

fied potatoes. Two of these farmers

received ninety-six cents per bushel,

which is considerably better than or-

dinary stock sold at in this territory.





 





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POSSIBILITIES.





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OUGHTON county farmers will

try out a new variety of artichoke

this year, under the direction of Mr.

L. M. Geismar, county agricultural

agent, announces the Daily Mining

Gazette, of Houghton. The variety to

be tested out is the Mammoth French

White Jerusalem artichoke introduced

. into America by J. C. Sibley, of Frank-

lin, Pennsylvania. This variety is said

to be excellent as food for man and

beast. It has already been demon-

strated that artichokes do very well in

this region. Mr. Geismar planteda

test bed of artichokes last season,

which grew to a height of eight feet

and had abundant leafage. The new

venture has very attractive possi-

bilities.





WILL FURTHER TEST CANNING

PEAS.





 





OUGHTON county farmers will



continue the test plantings of can-

ning peas, begun last season under

Mr. L. M. Geismar’s direction. One

canning firm will distribute to Hough-

ton county farmers, it is stated, 600

bushels of seed peas among forty or

fifty farmers. No. charge will be made

for these seed-peas but farmers re-

ceiving them will be- asked to replace

them with an equivalent amount from

their own crop. Although conditions

last Season were adverse,'the 'results

were regarded as highly encouraging;

and if this season’s efforts continue

the good showing a concerted effort

is to be made to establish canning fac-

tories in the copper country, it is an-

nounced.





SET FAIR DATES.





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T the recent meeting (if-the Clo-

verland Association of County





Fairs, Mr. Pat O’Brien, of Iron River-





was elected as its president, and Mr.

. E G. Amos, .of Marquette, its secre-

tary Mr. O’Brien is editor of theJron





Riversstambaugh Reporter, and Mr. 1,





Amos is assistant State leader of coun-

1 ts in the Upper Peninsula. The.





next meeting of the association will

take place at Iron River in October.

The county fair secretaries have fixed

the dates of the county fairs for this

territory as follows: Alber county,

September 1-4; Chippewa, September

1-6; Houghton, September 23-27; Iron,

September 1-4; Luce, September 9-13;

Mackinac, September 15—17;- Mar-

quette, September 9-13; Delta, Septem-

ber 16-19; Schoolcraft, September 22—

25; Gogebic, September 9-12.



In talks by delegates at the ssocia—

tion meeting, Mr. L. F. Livingstdh, of

Marquette, advised closer cooperation

with farm implement dealers; A. G.

Kettunen urged increased promotion

of boys’ and girls’ club work; G. E.

Bishop presented the topic, “When is a.

Fair Successful?” and Attorney J. J.





- Herbert discussed gambling devices on





fair grounds. This last point will be

controlled by the individual county

fairs.





WILL FIGHT HOG CHOLERA.





 





CONCERTED effort is to be made

to rid the peninsula of hog chol-

era, according to Dr. F. K. Hansen,

assistant state veterinarian, located at

Marquette. Hog cholera is said to be

especially destructive to hogs main-

tained at lumber camps, where they

are fed On the waste from the cook

houses. Indeed, all the outbreaks of

hog cholera reported to the veterinar-

ian, the past year, were, with one ex-

ception, in lumber and mining camps.

One lumberman is said to have lost

$7,000 worth of hogs from this cause.

The cause of hog cholera is found to

be in scraps of pork thrown out un-

cooked in the garbage at the camps or

in manure from stock cars brought

into the district. Refuse pork is by

far the commonest source of hog chol-

era, says Dr. Hansen. This arises from

the slaughtering of hogs in the early

stages of the disease and the subse-

.quent use of this meat as food. The

curing of the meat does not destroy

the disease germ which is readily com—

municated to well hogs through the

garbage fed to them at the camps.

Dr. Hansen states that there is a

new serum which, when properly ad-

ministered immunizes hogs perma-

nently against cholera. This is work

for a veterinarian. Pigs from thirty

to forty pounds in weight and from

six weeks in age can be thus perma-

nently rendered immune from cholera.

The cost is low. Raising hogs at lum-





ber camp is profitable if disease can





be eliminated. Dr. Hansen has pamph-

lets relating to the detection and treat-

ment of hog cholera for free distribu-

tion.





COLLEGE FURNISH ES FORESTRY

STOCK.





 





HE forestry department of the



’ Michigan Agricultural College will

supply Gogebic county with trans-

plants of white pine, Norway pine and

black walnut for a reforestation plot

of twelve acres located at Waters-

meet. This tract of land was donated

for this purpose by Mr. Ted Kelly, of

Watersmeet, and adjoins the new

state fish hatchery there. Arrange-

ments for this effort' at reforestation

were made, it is‘ stated, by Mr. C. E.

Gunderson, agricultural agent of Go-

gebic county, during his recent attend—

ance at the county agents’ conference

at East Lansing.





 





\Vhat counts is the working togeth-

er of our whole mind. Any deficiencies

can, through earnest enthusiasm, be

compensated for by the cooperation of

other facilities.





The sum total of our habits“ tell

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When you buy rope, you pay for the ac-

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cheapest in the end.



On the contrary, buying two or more

cheap lines where one good rope would do

is mighty expensive in the long run. But

how can you be sure of getting good rope?



Here’s a way to tell. Untwist the

strands of the rope you plan to buy.

See that a thin, blue thread marker—

the “Blue Heart”—runs between the

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a rope that in the end will cost you less.





What the “Blue Heart” signifies





The “Blue Heart” marker means that

the rope is genuine H. 85 A. “Blue Heart”

Manila Rope spun by skilled rope makers

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It means also that in any size, on any

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For sisal rope





For other jobs where a high-grade sisal

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Whatever may be your use for rope you

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meet your requirements.





GUARANTEE





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guaranteed to equal in yardage and ex-

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Standards. Any H. &A. “Blue Heart”

Manila Rope found not to be as repre-

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Special offer

The coupon below with 25c will entitle

you to our special Halter Lead made from

H. 85 A. “Blue Heart” Manila Rope. It

15 % inch in diameter, 7 feet long, and is

fitted with a snap at one end. It is offered

to introduce to you the great strength and

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“Blue Heart” Manila Rope.



If your dealer does not carry H. 85 A.

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with this special Halter Lead, fill out the

coupon below and mail it to us with 25c,

coin or stamps, and your dealer’ 3 name.

A Halter Lead will be sent you prepaid

at once. ‘





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ries of named varieties at Whitesbog,

New Jersey. Whitesbog is located

near New Lisbon, New Jersey, in the

central part of the state. It includes

six hundred acres of cranberry bogs,

besides many acres of wild land cov-

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wild blueberry plants. In fact, the

country greatly resembles certain por-

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the climate is not as severe as in

northern Michigan, but more closely

resembles the climate of southwestern

Michigan near the lake. The land

near Whitesbog is of very little value

for general farming, but no doubt has

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A great deal of credit isdue Miss

Elizabeth White, a. daughter of the

owner of Whitesbog, for- her work in

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1910, after studying some work all

ready done by the United States De-

partment of Agriculture. MiSs White

realized the possible future in the im-

provement of the wild blueberry, and

especially its application to the vast

tracts of land in New Jersey, which

were hardly suited for anything else.

She furnished all of the natives of the

district, who were picking the wild

blueberries for the New York market,

With metal rings five—eighths of an

inch in diameter, and agreed to pay a

Certain sum of money to any picker

who would locate, and properly label,

a. bush that was producing berries as

large as the ring. These plants were

then dug in the spring and transferred

to a prepared piece of land near the

buildings. Selection then began and

although most of the plants were dis

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Dr. Coville, of the United States De—

partment of Agriculture, had been

working with blueberries some time

prior to the work at VVhitesbog. Nat-

urally, a cooperative agreement was

made between the two parties in order

to more efficiently carry on the blue-

berry improvement work. To date

more than sixteen acres have been

planted, with 27,000 different hybrid

seedlings. Eight or ten varieties of

real merit have been selected and sev-

1"al more hold considerable promise of

being valuable. .



The soil on which the blueberry

-p1ants are growing is a grayish-White

sand containing some peat. , It is very

acid, as blueberries will not thrive on

a sweet soil. One portion of the field

had at one time been used as a. dump-

ing ground for the plaster from a.

wrecked house. On this particular

spot the plants had died out two years

in succession, while nearby were vig-

orous plants three and four feet in

height. Besides being acid the soil

must have an abundant moisture sup-

ply, although very poor drainage is

injurious.



The Commercial Type.



The plants were largely of the high-

bush type, although in the breeding

plots there were many plants of the

low-bush type and many hybrid be-

tween the two. The high-bush berries

are considered of the greatest 00m-

mercial importance at the present

time. The recommended planting dis-

tance is eight feet by four feet. After

the plants get very large every other

one in the row can be removed, leaving

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wood which was used for cuttings.



A succession of varieties extends

the season through July and the first

few days of August, a period of about

five weeks. Attempts are being made

through breeding and selection to ex-

tend this season both early and late.

It was a. wonderful sight to see the

great bunches of large berries hanging

all over the bushes. Each bush bore

fruit exactly like its neighbor of the

same variety, similar to the manner in

which all Elbertas or all Northern

Spys resemble each other. The great

differences found in the wild blueber-

ries were entirely missing. It seemed

almost a miracle that there could be

such a. difference between the ordinary

small, rather unattractive wild blue-

berries and these great luscious ber-

ries produced as the result of long and

patient effort. Almost needless to say,

the berries sold readily and had aver-

aged fifty cents a quart on the New

York market all season. Not nearly

enough berries have been produced to

supply the markets in the New Jersey

district. '



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Apparently blueberries are rather

difficult to propagate. Young plants

are rather capricious but once estab-

lished they seem to cling to life with

great tenacity and thrive exceedingly

well. Budding and grafting cannot be

used as new shoots are sent up each

year from the roots. Almost every

form of propagation has been tried at

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They are then placed in boxes of saw-

dust with the butt ends up and stored

in cellars. As soon as they callous

they are removed in_ the boxes to cold

sheds where they go through a. chilling

process. In the spring they are plant-

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these young plants are potted in three

inch pots. When the plants are sold

they are taken from these pOts and

put in durable cardboard pots of the

same size as it is necessary to ship

and transplant blueberries with earth

on the roots. The expense of propa-

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so many handlings. Also only about

fifty per cent of the cuttings live and

make plants, according to the propa-

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method of propagating blueberries is

comparatively new, and better results

should be obtained in the future. '

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plants were killed by a temperature

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HE peaches are frozen again, ac-



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ty Oh, la, la‘, ain’t that too durn bad!

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sappy. No doubt some buds did freeze.

.Last spring I could not see many live

buds but we had so many peaches that

it was hard to get rid of them for

enough to pay expenses.

‘ No doubt the fierce January bliz-

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were a number of dead leaves clinging

to the limbs. Apparently the wind had

wrapped the leaf around the twig. I

pulled ofi a leaf and it had about a

thousand bug eggs snugly wrapped up

in silk quilts under the leaf. Those

innocent dead leaves came off from

the trees as fast as I could reach them.





So far Ihave been too poor to build

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a little shiplap last fall and built a

temporary scratching shed. The front

is made of my hot—bed sash, stood on

end and screwed fast to two-by-fours.

It answers the purpose as it makes a

warm, dry place. Every day I cook

up a stew of table scraps, potato par-

ings, half-rotted apples, ’a little oyster

shell grit and a little out hay. This,

with wheat and whole corn, is all I

feed, yet the egg basket fills up every

week although I am not getting a 100

per cent yield nor anywhere near it.





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pullets, of which I still have a few,

lay better than the Jersey Giants. The

Giant pullets are sure slow about ma-

turing, but those big, black, lumbering

hens and pullets do climb on the nest

occasionally. Please do not write to

me for breeding stock or eggs, as I

have none to sell. ‘ When I do have

some to sell you will sure see my ad

in our paper.



I have one old sister of a Light



Brahma hen. I brought her from home

when my mother died. She is Over

five years-old and weighs about twelve

pounds. We call her Betsy Ann.

About five times a year Betsy lays an

.egg, and she sure does come .to the

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'will not end in the stew pot as so

many of her sisters do, but she will

have a home as long as she lives, eggs

or no eggs.



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day he was alive,)but he was a sick

rooster. I doctored him up and now

he is all right again, except that he

lost about three pounds in weight. He

is an outcast now, as the other roost-

ers make life miserable for him. If

you want him, come on over and I will

give him to you. '





I have a few thousand Dr. Burrill

strawberry plants which anyone may

have for nothing if they will come and

dig them next spring. We raise the

Gibson strawberry to sell, but let the

other fellow eat them. Dr. Burrill is

the best canning berry I_ ever tasted,

but not much for a market berry. .





I hustled my trimming when the

weather was nice and have it all done

and brush all picked up and hauled

out. These winter days I hole up like

a woodchuck and spend my time read-

ing and helping take care of the new-

est baby. We named him Calvin, I

give you one guess as to my politics.

My oldest boy was born a Hoosier and

he sure was one cantankerous kid, this

last one has the regular Michigan

weather disposition, lots of fine days

and some squalls.





Buckwheat pancakes for breakfast,

corn beef and cabbage for dinner, fresh

bread and fruit for supper, and be-

tween times a warm stove, a pipe, a

table full of magazines, and a few

chores for exercise. Have pity, I pray

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have about, provided that he does not

lead us into the false security of a

fool’s paradise.”



He pointed out that commentators

on the agricultural situation who use

total figures of the department of ag-

riculture crop values are misled by

them and reach wrong conclusions.

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891,000 in crop values, $505,796,000 is

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thus holding up the price, and that he

is thus spreading the terrific and con-

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igan Milk Producers’ Association





27 for the purpose of considering the

question of handling milk from those

.who have, from one cause or another,

failed to sign the new milk contracts.



The new contracts authorized at the

last annual meeting of the organiza-

tion have been accepted and signed

by over ninety 'per cent of the mem-

bership. This agreement, which has

been in use in the Flint, Grand Rap-

idsand Ann Arbor areas, and which

makes the organization the selling

agency, has a strong appeal to the

members because through the contract

the organization guarantees payment





«Ifo'r the milk delivered.





To reach the membership, meetings

have been held by the secretary and

field men of the organization in every

nook and corner of the area. But, in

spite of this contact, many men, for

one reason or another, have not been

reached. The Detroit meeting was for

the purpose of authorizing the direc-

torate in relation to milk coming from

men not yet signed up on the new con-

tract, and, also, from those who are

still working under the old contract.



In the talks it was emphasized that

the common sense, forbearance, and

cooperative spirit so fundamental to

the practical working of these mutual

organizations, were ever needed to

make for service and efficiency, but

particularly in time when changes

were being effected.



A compact like this organization is

for thoughtful and intelligent men.

The short-sighted, thriftless and ignor-

ant can have little real part in such a

scheme. It was contended that moral

responsibility, a sense of loyalty, a

willingness to sacrifice for the benefit

of the whole, for the good of the cause,

are essential for the ultimate success

of such an organization as the Mich~

igan Milk Producers’ Association.



After due discussion it was voted by

those present that the matter of hand-

ling milk from those not yet signed up

be left with the director and the sales

committee, with power to act. .





SH RINKAGE IN CLOVER.





 





Please let me- know how many

pounds of unhulled sweet clover it will

take to make sixty pounds of hulled

seed—R. A.





ty-five to forty per cent in hulling un-

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depend, however, upon the way the





of the seed will be hulled in threshing,

while if the hulls are tough practically

' none of the seed will be hulled. '



It will require from ninety to 100

pounds of unhulled sweet clover seed

to make a'bushel, or sixty pounds of

hulled seed.





 





BELIEVES IN THE FARM GARDEN.





(Continued from page 350).

quired for our. own use. There is 8.]-

ways a ready sale for these. So the

garden is a source of revenue in a

dull time of year, beside solving the

“What to Eat” problem in our own

home for all the year around.



I start many of the plants in the

hot-bed or in boxes in a. sunny window

so they are ready to transplant early.



All vegetables taste better fresh

from your garden, and if you plan to

buy them I notice you seldom have

them. We think a. garden pays, and

pays well, both in a. financial way and

as a. safeguard to health. A half-acre

devoted to a, good garden is the best

half acre on the farm—George H.

Harper.





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N the eastern part of my county

I lives John Bronson, a-grain farmer



who, for twelve years, was handi~

capped by poor marketing conditions.

His nearest elevator was nine miles

away, and Bronson was compelled

either to take any price the buyer of-

fered, or to drive six miles farther on

with team' and wagon over a badly-

kept dirt road. At the height of the

marketing season, this elevator often

became overstocked, and shut down,

leaving their patrons to market. the

remainder of the crop among the

neighbors. ,



But in 1921, Bronson determined to

change.matters and bought a motor

truck. Since then he has solved his

problem, and by a well-planned sched-

ule he is making his investment pay

dividends.



“I bought the truck with the idea of

bringing the market closer .to my

farm,” Bronson explained to me re-

cently. “But before long, I found my-

self within range of fivedifferent buy-

ers, and I was in position to state my

rights. ' Instead of‘hauling in a load

of grain and trusting to luck, as I for-

merly did, I now step to the telephone

and if the price at the first elevator

does not suit me, I call another. ~





“I sell occasionally to a dealer twen-

ty miles distant and can make the trip

by truck and be back home for dinner.

This formerly required one and one-

half days with team and wagon. A

haul of this kind can be made without

the usual exposure, and during the

busy season, I often drive it at night.

That’s why I can market my total

crop while the other fellow is getting

his fist load in. This is especially

noticeable in the pocket-book at a

time’when the market is changeable,

for sometimes a load' in the morning

will bring $10 more than one delivered

in the afternoon.



“And as to the running expense: I

find the first cost much greater than

team and wagon, but I prepared for

this by making it a point never to





rchinery, repairs, fertilizer, and other

farm necessities are purchased in ad-

vance, and are hauled back to the

farm from the town I happen to be in.

This eliminates the cost of an extra

trip.



‘fWhen my own needs are small, I

make up, a load _of supplies for my

neighbors. It saves them extra bother,

and my rates gives me a fair profit

over the cost of‘the‘ trip. When farm

work is slack, I am offered more com-

munity hauling than I can do.



“When labor is scarce at harvest

time, I sometimes use the truck as a





tractor, pulling mower, transporting ~





machinery, hauling an extra wagon

from field to_ barn. While not designed

exactly for that purpose, it_ has saved





$100 worth of grain for me on one .





occasion. .



“A great deal of trucking can be

done while the fellow with the team is

idle. That’s why my fertilizer and

field supplies are ready at the shed

whenlvthep planting season opens, and

also why,rwhen selling time comes, I

can market my. crop while the other

fellow is waiting on the local elevator

to make an offer.” -





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will be held at either Cadillac or Pe-

toskey the first week in April, the par-

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The stock of. certified seed under

the control, of the organization is mov-

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‘ ‘ M any Addreu Leader; of Cooperative: 2'72 Annual Senior: .





' HE second annual conference

called by the National Council

of Farmers’ Cooperative market—



»ing,.AssociatiOns met in Washington



with a large attendance of delegates.



Acclaiming the first achievement of

the council to be the enactment of the

intermediate credits banking act, Rob-

ert W. Bingham,,of Kentucky, chair-

man of the conference, said that the

organization was opposed to any

schemes of price fixing; to any

schemes of" government subsidizing;

to any sort of schemes which attempt

to favor the farmer as a. class.





Senator Capper said he was an op-

timist over the rewards which will

come to farming from the increasing

ability to work together which the pro-

ducers are developing. He declared,

however, that men in congress must

approach the farm problems from dif-

ferent angles from the leaders of co-

operative marketing associations. “We

have all kinds of proposed bills pre—

sented to us with urgent appeals that

they be converted into law. We send

for representatives of farm organiza—

tions, and many witnesses come them-

Selves voluntarily to testify. We hear

all kinds of opinions and judgments,

and receive all kinds of suggestions

and criticisms. We note that the evi-

dence and statements made are fre-

quently contrary, criss-cross, and at

variance with each other. We are

surprised at this lack of unity, not

merely in solution of problems, but in

the point of View on which the testi-

mony is based. Only a small-part of

the problem can be solved by legisla-

tion, but congress will go just as far

as possible. The farm movement will

never be able to secure the type of

legislation needed to encourage agri-

cultural progress until there is some

kind of unity of viewpoint as well as

unity of problems among farm leaders

themselves.



At the time of the, panic of ’73 and

’93, prices of steel products and man-

ufactured goods generally declined as

much as did the prices of products of

the farm. Why is it that in this period

of depression we are now going

through, farm products have declined

While labor and manufactured prod-

ucts have maintained a high level of

prices? Ex-GoVernor Frank 0. Low-

den, of Illinois, answered this question

by the fact that labor and industry

are organized, while farmers are not

well organized.



“Agriculture finds itself with its mil-

lions. of members freely competing

among themselves while it is obliged

to Sell in a highly organized industrial

and commercial World. The farmer

must organize for the purpose of mar-

keting his product,” declared Mr. Low-

den, “if agriculture is to be saved

from bankruptcy.”



While he had much confidence in

the ability of the management per-

sonnel of the cooperative marketing

associations, 0. M. Kile, of Washing-

ton, pointed out that one weak link in

the cooperative chain was the lack of

local community activity among the

membership.



“Have you ever stopped to think

that, without exception, the first suc-

cessful producers’ cooperative market-

ingenterprises, taking one country

With another,” said Mr. Kile, “have

been among dairymen? Why has this

been the case? There are several very

good reasons. In the first place, milk

is a perishable product and requires

considerable skill to market it prop-

erly togdistant consumers._ In the sec-

ond place, some of the machinery re

quired for processing milk in the early

days was secured through cooperative

effort. But I am convinced that the

most important factor in this early

cooperative success of dairymen: has

been“the’ fact that the nature all his

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"ganization to be active lOcally.





 





“The ,dairyman is reminded every

day that he belongs to a live, active

organization. He can see the wheels

go round. He meets his neighbors

and talks organization matters over

on his frequent trips to the creamery,

'or if his milk is collected he sees an

agent ofpthe association almost every

day. There is someone close at hand

to answer his questions, to chat with

him or to makecomplajnts to. He gets

his milk check monthly, and in a doz~

en ways the member of the dairy co-

operative has brought to his attention

constant tangible evidence that his

organization is on the job. . Contrast

this situation with that of the wheat

grower who sells his entire crop per-

haps in'a single day. About the only

inticate contact he has with his organ-

ization is when he delivers his crop

and again when the final proceeds'of

the pool are distributed.” ‘





About the most important job be-

fore the cooperatives today, concluded

Mr. Kile, was to complete their organ-

izations by going out into the field and

either directly, or in cooperation with

other organizations, putting under

them this foundation of local interést

and loyalty, not only in évery county,

but in every community in the terri—

tory covered by the association.





Officers elected were: Judge Robert

W. Bingham, of Louisville, Ky., re-

elected chairman; Carl Williams, Ok-

lahoma City, re-elected vice-chairman.



It was decided to maintain perma-

nent offices of the Council at Washing-

ton, as well as to issue a national pub-

lication in the interest of the Sapiro

organizations.





REPORTS‘OF POTATO CROP.





 





HE estimated quantity of potatoes



available for sale on January 1 in

the thirty-five producing states is 108,-

000,000 bushels, as compared with 129,-

000,000 one year ago, and 90,000,000

two years ago. The amount still in

the counties where grown that were

available on that date for shipment

out of the county by rail, boat, truck,

etc, is estimated at 70,000,000 bushels,

as compared with 91,000,000 on Janu-

ary 1, 1923. An inspection of the offi-

cial figures for the important produc-

ing states, indicates that the stocks in

the cast are larger than one year ago,

but are considerably less in the cen-

tral and western states.



The estimated stocks in the leading

States available for shipment after

January 1, together with comparative

figures for the previous year, are giv-

en below.





State. Bushels. Bushels.

Maine ...... . . 13,117,000 10,085,000

New York . 8,343,000 7,351,000

Michigan ..... 9,665,000 10,409,000

Wisconsin . . 6,253,000 12,724,000

Minnesota . . . . 9,576,000 13,434,000

North Dakota... 2,098,000 4,309,000

Nebraska ..... 1,154,000 2,189,000

Colorado ..... 3,653,000 6,424,000

Idaho ......... 3,986,000 6,127,000





The total Michigan shipments by

rail from the 1922 crop were 19,830

cars, of which approximately 12,000

moved after January 1. As the stocks

this year are about seven per cent

less; it is expected that about 11,000

cars should move after the correspond—





ing date,.a1though this may be reduc- ,





ed somewhat if the. movement by

truck should be relatively greater than

last year.





God bless him who pays visits ahd

short visits—Arabian Proverb.





 





Ordinary shelled corn is'the best

supplement to skim-milk for calves.





 





These are the signs that indicate

poor diet: Low vitality and suscepti-

bility to disease; wrinkles and crows’

feet; early stgns‘of age;hair.loses its





luster, fans out, is, unevengand‘; easily

brokenr'digestlvesmem out 0! order

and inefficient. ‘ , _ r, . »
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It 2': life T we W lze72 T 001:, Implements and Machinery S/zou/d

' Be Made Ready for the Bury Sew-072 ' ~





By]. B. McMurtry





iNTER time is usually the rest

time for the great majority of

farmers—these take their sum

mer vacation in the winter. Too often

.this “vacation” is continued until the

spring work drives them to the field.



Tools, implements and machinery



are all too often just as, and where,

:they were unhitched from last year-

Many less careful farmers have left

’ most of their implements out in that

, tool shed which has the sky for a roof

and possibly one or more barbed wire

fences for sidewalls! Such imple-

ments have depreciated approximately

seven per cent since last year. Pretty

heavy tax, isn’t it? And they are cer-

tain to receive no attention until the

. day next spring or summer when the

_ rush of work demands their immedi-

ate use. For the type of farmer who

abuses his implements this way there

is little hope of improvement. This

story is not written so much for his

benefit as for the farmer with a good

enough business head on him that he

wants to develop more efficiency in

' his business as a rural gentleman.



, Put Workshop in Order.



It is high time now to bring that

vacation to a close. The first thing to

be looked after—4f it needs it—on the

well-regulated farm in preparation for

putting the implements in A-1 shape

for spring, is to have a workshop and

have it in order. Frequently I go into

the workshop on a farm and find that

it has become a catchall—just a junk

shop, having the accumulations of

scraps, and broken things for the Lord

knows how many years! The first

thing that should be done in such a

shop is to clean house. Load all of

the scrap and junk onto the wagon or

truck and haul it to the junk dealer.

He needs it in his business. You

don’t. I need notsuggest that perhaps

there is enough .other scrap around





after you have taken out bolts, etc.,.





which may be useful, to make'a full

load. '



Get all of the working tools togeth-

er and fix them up, getting every tool

’* good working condition—file and

set saws, grind drawshave, axes and

chisels, draw out cold Chisels, pinch

and crowbars, get a rasp and some

new files, etc., and have a regular

place for every tool. Get a stove in

and have a floor space large enough

to hold a tractor clear—in short, make

your shop a real business unit in your

farm business.



Overhaul All Implements.



As you think it over you will recall

that several of your implements need

repairing, or worn or broken parts

need replacing, or the implement

needs a general overhauling. One day

in harvest time last year I called on

a good farmer friend. The kn‘otter on

the binder was causing a lot of trou-

ble. He had monkeyed several hours

with it and then had to stop the har-

vesting and drive fourteen miles to

get a new part. Said it bothered last



* year. He would doubtless have been

$20 ahead of the game if he had over-



- hauled the binder last Winter and re-



‘ placed the part which his memory said

had caused trouble before.



Many an implement is allowed to rot

or rust down just because some part

has failed and the farmer thinks only

in terms of what it would cost to load

the implement, haul it to town and pay

the blacksmith and woodworker good

high fees for doing the job.



But, with the exercise of a. little in-

genuity and a small outlay for parts,

the work can be done at home with

the farmer actually earning mechan-



= ics‘ wages! You can pay yourself fifty





cents to $1. 00 per hour for good, faith-V





.- ful Work .and thus get the tools and

.implements all ready for the season ’3





   





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stay right at home where you can

stick your legs under your own well-

loaded table and tuck yourself into

your OWn woolen blankets at night!





Well, pull the tractor into the shop I





the first thing. If you are inexperi-

enced get a neighbor who knows how

to do it, and learn by acting as his

helper. Overhaul the tractor, replac-

ing piston rings and all other parts

that are not giving 100 per cent ser-

vice. Grind, valves, etc. Go over the

gas engines with the same care. Every

engine should be overhauled annually

if it has much work to do. Don’t neg-

lect the truck and pleasure cars.



Then get the disc. More than likely

this tool would be fifty per cent more

eflicient if well sharpened. See that

all bearings are in good shape. Go

over all of the tools and implements

with the greatest of care. Be as rigid

in your service requirements as if you

were a government inspector.



Profitable Use of Paint.



After all of the working and wear-

ing parts of the implements and ma-

chines are fixed up properly, go over

them with a heavy coat of good paint.

Maybe some of them have gone so

long without paint that two coats will

be highly advisable.



Choose thoughtfully the color you

want for wood and the one for metal

work. Get good quality of paint. You

may be surprised to be informed that

you can sell good quality paint to your





implements and machinery, when they.





need it, at ,more than $24 per gallon!

What do I mean? Just this: Good

painting of farm implements, when

care is taken to get an ample supply

of it into all joints, and especially

where wood and metal work join, will

prolong the life and usefulness of the

implements sufficiently to repay at the

rate of more than $24 per gallon for

the paint. Then the added pride and

self-respect which well-painted imple-

ments give the farmer are of greater

value than the actual increase in in-

trinsic value of implements.





DOLLARS AND SENSE SIDE OF

FARMING.





 





(Continued from page 343).

have been of great benefit to agricul-

ture. While there have been many co-

operative business failure and some of

the desired aims have not been ful-

filled, agriculture has accomplished

much through its cooperation.



Cooperation is, relatively speaking,

a new thing in our economic life. We

know less about it than we should.

There has been much false informa-

tion spead about it for the purpose of

retarding the movement. There has

also been very much false praise of

its accomplishments and possibilities.

What we need is an impartial study of

the accumplishmen’ts, possibiltie s, pur-

poses and limitations of cooperatiou.



Every ’farmer who is interested in

the welfare and future of agriculture

should study this problem of agricul-

tural cooperation diligently. The in-

formation which is obtainable is very

inadequate. '



In the following series of articles,

attempt will be made to present in as

clear and simple a manner as possible

just what cooperation has done, and

probably will be able to do for agri-

culture. . ,





 





DAMAGE BY PlGEONS.





 





Neighbors say that

or eat

Is that





, I have pigeons.

if my pigeons fly on their land

any crop they can shoot them.

true. ‘7.———F B.





The owner of the pigeons is liable ~





in an action in-trespass on the case





for all damages done by them. Iut ,





persons on whose land they trespass





 





 

 

 

 

   

   





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“Paper-soled” shoes and genuine leather

shoes look much alike when new. So does

ordinary asphalt roofing and genuine Beaver

Vulcanite roofing.





There’s a way to.prove the difference.





Test it.





And then you can be sure that when you





put Beaver Vulcanite roll roofing over your

old roof, that it will last you for years—a fire-

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the quality standard for twenty-five years.

It’s thick, tough and non-fading. You can

put it right over your old roof. You don’t

need experts to apply it. Simple, complete

instructions are contained in each roll.





To make these important, telltale tests,





ask your dealer, or mail coupon to us for

free sample of Beaver Vulcanite slate-sur-

faced, roofing. Then put it to the six daring

tests listed on this page. They will prove to

you that Vulcanite will give you longer serv-

ice for less cost.





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DARING

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you should make

before you buy

£72: roofing





Heat test: Lay



sample of Vul-

canite Slate Surfaced

R ofingonhotradia-

tor for 12 hours. See

if it will melt or dry

out.





I ca test: Lay



sample on ice for

12 hours. Then pour

boiling water on it.

See if extremes of

temperaturcnlfectit.





Water test: Soak



sample in water

for 12 hours. See if,

by weight, it absorbs

any water.





A cid test: Im-



merse sample in

hydrochloric acid.

See if it is 'afl'eotod

in any way.



Fire test: Lay



white-hot cool

of fire on sample.

See ifit sets the

roofing on fire.

6 “Scufl”test: Lay



sample on‘floor;

scuff it hard with

your shoe. Seeifany

of the slate-surfacing

will come ofl'.





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\
Monet: son THE

. A .2 noose ,

REGARDING the treating of con- _ l

crete floors for dairy barns and .. -



stalls, I know of no' special way or ,

cept by different methods of laying. l,

.There are two‘ quite different ways of ‘

placing concrete 'fonzthis‘ purpose and

in doingeither it is necessary to avoid

two evils. :. . .. . ‘



One evil is to get the floor so

smooth that the animals slip badly on

it; the other, to get it so rough that

it is: dimmtito clear and has a. wear-

ing effects 1.? :5:



A very satisfactory floor can be

made of concrete by what is known

as;_the one-course method of construc- .

tio'jn. -By’ this: method the concrete is '

laid “of the desired“ thickness, wet

enoughfi‘ssOLthat. it. Will quake when

struckuwl'th a shovel. Itiisthenscreedg .

ed, with a two-by-four Sawed back and ,v 3.:

forthf-across the surface; and settled ‘ l

by “striking'gently and rapidly on the

‘ top" 10f~this-_,Itwo-by-four. It-may then

' béhpatedwithza Wooden trowel which

gives an‘even__i=1urface and one which

can be Cleaned reasonably well.



A more .expensiveimethod of floor

construction is laying the concrete in

two floors somewhat in the same man~

ner as sidewalks are usually construct-

ed. A thickness of floor is put in and

a surface coat of richer material, usu-

ally one of cement to two of sand,

1 - mixed wet, is placed on top. It is then

* leveled by means .. of the twoby-four

. used as a sereed. and a weeden float

for leveling.



It is generally advisable to use the

steel trowel very sparingly on the sur-

face as it has a tendency to pull to-

ward the surface and to produce at





McCormick Deering

Tillage   ’   W

Implements





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“M. “gm““d1





 





The McCormicltchering Disk Harrow is a '

simple and efiicient implement. built and W

like a steel bridge. to serve many years. You will like

the details and conveniences—the du‘st- -proof bear

ings and the bearing oil cups set above the frame.-

the built-in angle-steel weight boxes. the oscillating ,

disk scrapers, the forecarriage,etc. Made" 111 sizes for '- '

evefybody—4 to 10 feet. All sizes carrbe equipped

with the tandem attachment which” 13 shown aboVe.

Double disking is popular—farmers know that it

more than pays for itself.





A..._.





The McCormiclvDeering Leverless Disk Hora

row 18 a genuine tractor “paternally-over horse

harrow. It is built for heaviest duty. It is controlled

entirely from the driver' 9 seat without levers. yet it

is very simple. Merely backing the tractor automati-

cally sets the angle of both front and rear gangs. When

the tractor starts forward the gangs hold that angle

until released by a pull on the rope. In 5 to 10-foot

sizes to fit your power.





BED-bed making will call for last and.

thorough work this year as always. The

planting season will roll around in a twinkl-

ing, but no matter how few the days between

plowing and planting you can have a profit-





building soil by using efficient equipment.





McCormick- Deering Tillage Implements

combine the three essentials—good work, long





very smooth surface-7 which is also ' ‘;





likely to crack if too much cement is

drawn to the-surface. Where concrete

floors are used' in the stalls for ani-

mals; it is advisable to keep plenty of





bedding in the stalls.



Cork floors or creosoted wood block

floors are sometimes used for stalls.

Perhaps the principal advantage is

that these floors conduct less heatso

that the animals are kept somewhat

warmer. These floors are, however.

more expensive than concrete. —H. H.

Musselman, M. A. C.





life and convenience. They are of practical de-

sign, their construction being based on ninety

years of farm and factory experience. They are

priced on the basis of economical quantity

production, and as an investment they ofier

you attractive returns.





man-1'. “an 11

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«Mull!HHHI'tllIlllm-





The Dunham CultioPaclter has no equal as _a

seed- bed finisher. It pulverizes the soil fills outair

spaces and saves moisturecontent. Followingthedrill.

it helps the little plants to get a quick Start. firmly

set in finely mulched soil. Use it to prevent winter-

killing of wheat; to rejuvenate meadows. etc. It 1s far

ahead of a roller for small grains. Madeineight sizes.

for horse and tractor use





To Fill All Your Tillage Tool Needs See





the McCormick-Deering Dealer. It Pays! POINTS OUT PRESENT FARM





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N its resume of agricultural condi-



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ture of economic relationships it is

glikely the whole community would

.1 fi . ~ - give earnest attention to the farmers’

" ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' situation this year» Unless a number

lPlease Mentlon The Mlchlgan P armer When ertmg to Advertlsers of favskhted men are mistaken m,

l ’ distant day may find agricultural buy-

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It is inevitable'that there should-





12 Months Pays for be radical shifts from one enterprise



to another. The weight of production

Porter Equipment ' swings from feed crops to the animals

We have worked outaSheet 0f ' that eat them; from animals to direct





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Herrin, Illinois, was under mili-

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Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks.





 





“Roses that bloom in the snow—American beauties all,” was the

scheme for one of the floats in the annual winter carnival at





 





 





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Labor, [loyalty and_ Republicanism sat side by side at a recent ban-

quet in London In honor of the new U. S. ambassador to court

of St. James, and new British ambassador to the United States.





 





 





 





   





This famous old cathedral in Glas-

gow, Scotland, was constructed

in the year 1175.





 





Controversy.

er Pachich, at his left Ministe





Italy and Serbia recently signed a treaty of amity ending Fiume

At head of table is Mussolini, at his right Premi-





 

 





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cian, and Lida Heyman, vice-prcsi





 





Dr. Anita Augsberg, Germany's leading physi-





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G. .F. Mara is arranging the Na— Two leading

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These well equipped Mexican troops in a strategic move against

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Ramsey .MacDonald, first labor prime minister, enjoys a. stroll

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. » u
REE with you there. But to re.



urn to the original statement Am



right, or am I wrong, when I say



i: you were striving very hard for a



rd that would aid you in the



motion?”



j“Every oflicial tries to make the best



ssible record. Especially at election'



me.”



“No matter whom it injures.”

',“I.didn’t say that.”



“But I did—and I repeat it. No mat-



L’ter whom it injures! Now, to be plain





. land frank and brutal with you tonight





as you were with me in the courtroom,

_;Mr. Worthington, I have pretty con-

ivincing evidence that you knew I was

innocent. Further, that you knew it





almost at the beginning of the trial.





But that in spite of this knowledge,

you continued to persecute me—~notice,

I don’t say prosecute—to persecute me

in ahope of gaining a conviction, sim-

’ ply that you might go before the vot-

ers and point to me in prison as a

recommendation of your efficiency as a

district attorney.”

"Oh!” Worthington threw away his

cigarette with an angry gesture and

came forward. “You fellows are all

the. same. 'You’re always squealing

about your innocence. I never saw a

[man yet who wasn’t innocent in one

way or another. Even when they con-

fess, they’ve got some kind of an alibi

for their act. They didn’t know the

gun was loaded, or the other fellow

-hit me first or—”

“In my case I have no alibis.





 





And





this isn’t simply my own statement. I .





have sufficient witnesses.”

“Then why didn’t you produce them

at the trial?”





“I couldn’t. You had them.”





‘61?’!

“Yes. I don’t mind giving you the

names. One of them was Doctor Hort-





on. Another was Doctor Mayer. A

third was Doctor Brensteam, all phy-

sicians of the highest reputation. I

would like, Mr. Worthington, to know

why you did not make use of them in

the trial instead of the expert Hamon,

and that other one, Jaggerston, who,

as every one knows, are professional

expert witnesses, ready at all times to

testify upon anything frOm handwrit-

“ ing to the velocity of a rifle bullet,

‘ providing they are sufficiently paid.”



“Why? Simply because I figured

they would make the best witnesses.”



“It couldn’t have been,” and Hous—

ton’s voice was more coldly caustic

than ever, “that it was because they

. would be willing to perjure themselves,

while the real doctors wouldn’t?”



“Of course not! This whole thing

is silly. Besides, I’m out of it en-

. tirely. -I’m—”



“Mr. Worthington,” and Houston’s

tone changed. “Your manner and your

,words indicate very plainly that you’re

not out of it—that you merely wish

you were. Isn’t that the truth? Don’t

you?”



“Well,” and the man lit a fresh cig-

arette, “I feel that way about every



, murder case.”



“But especially about this One. You

are not naturally a persecutor. You

don’t naturally want to railroad men

to the penitentiary. And I believe that,





 

 





 





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as a general thing, you‘didn’t do" it.

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coming on, you had just run up against

two or three acquittals, and you had





made up your mind that in my case.





you were going to run the gauntlet to

get a conviction. I don’t believe you

wanted to send me up simply for the

joy of seeing an innocent man con-





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





perfect one. I, was persecuted when

the official in charge 'of the case knew

that I was not guilty. To that end I

can call the three doctors I’ve men-

tioned and put them on the stand and

ask them why they did not testify in

the case. 'I also can call the oificials

of Bellstrand Hospital‘in New York

where you conducted certain experi-





 





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By James E.





Today is the day that your tasks should be done-—

You’re living right now, and this day is the one





This Second, this minute is all that you’ve got;

The future’s a myth, anyhow,





The better—so do it right now!





You number your days from the day ydu were born,

And count them with sighing and tears,





In spite of the calendar years;



Each day, you start life with a viewpoint that’s new;

The past is a dream that has fled;



You cannot go back to the you that 'was’ you, .





Nor can you go forward one day in advance,

And glimpse what the morrow may hold;



You can’t change the future, or one circumstance,

Except as the minutes unfold;



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fined in prison. You wanted a convic-

tion—~wasn’t that it?”





“Every prosecutor works for that.”





“Not when he knows the man is in-

nocent, Mr. Worthington. You knew

that—~I have proof. I have evidence

that you found it out almost at the

beginning of my trial—August second,

to be exact—and that you used this in-

formation to your own ends. In other

words, it told you what the defense





'would testify; and you built up, with





your professional experts, a wall to

combat it. Now, isn’t that the truth?”





“Why——” The former district attor-

ney took more time than usual to

knock the ashes from his cigarette,

then suddenly changed the subject

“You spoke of a suit you might bring

when you came in here?”





“Yes. Against the city. I have a





ments on cadavers on the night of

August second; also a doctor who saw

you working in there and who watched

you personally strike the blows with

a mallet; .further, I can produce the

records of the hospital which state

that you were there, give the names

of the entire party, together with the

number of corpses experimented upon.

Is that sufficient evidence that I know

what I’m talking about?”





Worthington examined his cigarette

again.



“I suppose it’s on the books down

there. But there’ s nothing to state of

what the experiments consisted.”



“I have just told you that I have an

eye-witness. Further, there are the

three doctors.”



“Have you seen them?”



Houston thought quickly. It was his





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“You’ vs made arrangements for

Worthlngton’ 5 color





had changed. Houston noticed that





the hand which held the cigarette





trembled slightly.



“No, I haven’t. I’m not here to brow-

beat you, Mr. Worthington, or to lie to

you. , It came to me simply as a ruse

to. get in to see you. But the more I

think of it, the more I know that ’I

could go through with it and possibly

win it. I might get my million. I

might not. I don’t want money gained

in that way. The taxpayers would

have to foot the bill, not yourself.”



"Oh, I guess I’d pay enough,” Worth-

ington had assumed an entirely differ-

ent attitude now. “It would hurt me

worse in business than it would if ‘I

were still in office. , Whether it’s true

or not.” '





“You know in your heart that there’s





[no doubt of that.”





Worthington did not answer. Hous-

ton waited-a moment, then went on.



“But personally, I don’t want to file

the suit. I don’t want any money—-

that way. I don’t want any .bribes, or

exculpations, or statements from you

that you know me to be innocent.

Some might believe it; others would

only ask how much I paid to have that

statement given out. The damage has

been done and is next to irreparable.

YOu could have cleared me easily

enough by dropping the case, or mak-

ing your investigations before ever an

indictment was issued. You didn’t,

and I remain guilty 'in the minds of

most of Boston, in spite of what the

jury said. A man is not guilty until

convicted—under the law. He is guilty

as soon as accused, with the lay mind.

So you can't help me much there; my

only chance for freedom lies in finding

the man who actually committed that

murder. But that’s something else.

We won’t talk about it. You owe

me something. And I’ in here tonight

to ask you for it.”



“I thought you said you didn’t want

any bribes.”



“I don’t. May I ask what your mar-

gin of profit is at your machinery com-

pany?”



“My margin of profit? What’s that?

Well, I suppose it runs around twelve

per cent.”



“Then will you please allow me to

give you twelve thousand dollars in

profits? I’m in the lumber business.

I have a contract that runs into the

millions; surely that is good enough

security to a man”—he couldn’t resist

the temptation—“who knows my abso-

lute innocence. It isn’t good for the

bankers, who still believe me guilty,

so I’ve decided to come directly to

you. I need one hundred thousand

dollars’ worth of lumber-mill machin-

ery, blade saws, crosscuts, jackers,

planers, kickers, chain belting, leather





belting, and everything else that goes ,





to make up a first-class plant. I can.

pay for it-in installments; I guaran-

tee to give you every’ cent above my

current running expenses until the bill

(Continued on page 365).





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is” disposed of. My. épntragt is with the

Mountain, Plainsiand Salt Lake Rail-

road. I don’t even ask a discount, or

for you to loée any of your profits. I





. don’t even ask' any public. statement





by you regarding my innocence. All

I want is to have you do what you

Would do to any reputable business

man who came to‘you with a contract

running into the. millions of dollars

-—to give me';credit for that machin-

ery. It’s a fair proposition. Come in

with me on it, and we’ll forget the

rest. Stay out—and I’ll fight!”



For a long moment, Kilbane Worth-

ington paced'the floor, his hands clasp-

ed behind him, his rather thin head

low upon his chest. Then, at last, he

looked up.



“How long' are you going to be in

town?” ,



“Until this matter’s settled.” p



“Where are you staying?”



“The Touraine.” .



“Very well. I’ll have a maChine

there to pick you up at ten o'clock

tomorrow morning and take you to

my office. In the meanwhile—I’ll





think it over.”





CHAPTER XVIII.



T was a grinning Barry Houston



who leaped from the train at Tab-

ernacle a week later and ran open-

armed through the snow toward the

waiting Ba’tiste. ‘



“You got my telegram?”

it almost breathlessly.

“Ah, oui, oui, oui!



are the wizard!”



“Hardly that.” They were climbing

into the bobsled. “I just had enough

sense to put two and two together.

On the train to Boston I got a tip

about my case, something that led me

to believe that the district attorney

knew all the time that I was innocent.

He had conducted experiments at the

Bellstrand Hospital of which nothing

had‘ been said in the trial. Three fa-

mous doctors had been with him. As

soon as I saw their names, I instinct-

ively knew that if the experiments

had turned out the way the district

attorney had wanted them, he would

have used them in, the trial against

me, but that their silence meant the

testimony was favorable to me.”



“Bon!” Ba’tiste grinned happily.

“And he?”



“It just happened that now he is in

the mill machinery business. I,” and

Houston smiled with the memory of

his victory, “I convinced him that he

should give me credit.”



“Eet is good. In the woods there

many men. The log, he is' pile all

about the mill.

already theyare stack up.”



“And the woman—she has caused

no trouble?”



“No. Peuff! I have no see her.

Mebbe so, eet was a mistake.”



“Maybe, Bt'tiste, but I was sure I

recognized her. The Blackburn crowd

hasn’t given up the ghost yet?”



“Ah, no. But eet will. Still they

think that we cannot fill the contract.





He asked





Sacre, and you





They think that after the first ship--





ment Or so, then we will have to quit.”



“They may be right, Ba’tiste. It

would require nearly two thousand

men to keep that mill supplied with

logs, once we get into produCtion, out-

side of the regular mill force, under

conditions such as they are now. It

would be ruinous. We've got to find

some other way, Ba’tiste, of getting~

our product to the mill. That’s all

there is to it.”



“Ba’teese, he have think of a way—





that hevhave keep secret.~ Ba’teese,’





he have a, what-you-say, hump.”



“Hunch, you mean?”



“Ah, out. Eet is this. We willnot‘

bring the log to the mill. We will

bring the mill'to the log. We have to

build the new plant, yes,voui? Then,

bon,'we shall build eet in the forest,

where there is the lumber." ” '





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a railroad switch that can negotiate

the hills to the mill?” ‘





“Ah!” Ba'tiste clapped a hand to

his forehead. “Veritas! I am the

prize, what-you—say, squash! Ba’tee‘se;

he never think of eet!” A moment

he sat glum, only to surge with an-

other idea. “But, now, Ba’teese have

eet! He shall go to Medaine! He

shall tell her to write to the district

attorney of Boston—that he will tell

her—”



“It was part of my agreement, Ba’-

tiste,’that he be forced to make no

statements regarding my innocence.”



“Ah, but—” .



“It was either that, or lose the ma-

chinery. He’s in business. He’s afraid

of notoriety. The plain, cold truth is

.that he tried to railroad me, and only

my knowledge of that fact led him

into doing a decent and honorable

thing. But I sealed any chance of

his moral aid when I made my bar—

gain. It was my only chance.”





Slowly Ba’tiste nodded and slapped

the reins on the back of the horse.



“Ba’teese will not see Medaine,”

came at last, and they went on. _



Again the waiting game, but a busy

game however, one which kept the ice

roads polished and slippery; which re-

sulted, day by day, in a constantly

growing mountain of logs about the

diminutive sawmill. One in which

plans were drawn, and shell-like build-

ings of mere slats and slab sidings

erected, while heavy stone founda-

tions were laid in the firm, rocky soil

to support the machinery, when it ar-

rived. A game in which Houston hur-

ried from the forests to the mill and

back again, now riding the log sheds

as a matter of swifter locomotion, in-

stead of the thrill, as he once had done.

Another month went by, to bring with

it the bill of loading which told that the

saws, the beltings, the planers and

edgers and trimmers, and the half

hundred other items of machinery

were at last on their way, a month of

activities and—of hopes.





For to Ba’tiste Renaud and Barry

Houston there yet remained one faint

chance. The Blackburn crowd had

taken on a gamble, one which, at the

time, had seemed safe enough; the

investment of thousands of dollars for

a plant which thy had believed firmly

would be free of competition. That

plant could ,not'hope for sufficient bus-

iness to keep it alive, with the rail-

road contract gone, and the bigger mill

of Houston and Renaud in successful

operation. There would come the time

when they must forfeit that lease and

contract through non-payment, or

agree to re-lease them to the original

owner. But would that timerarrive

soon enough? It, was a grim possibil-

ity~—-a gambling wager that held forth

hope, and at the same time threatened

them with extinction. For the same

thing applied to Houston and Ba’tiste

that applied to Blackburn and Thayer.

If they could not make good on their

contract, the other mill was ever ready

to step in.





“Eet all depen’,” said Ba’tiste more

than once during the snowy, frost-cak-

ed days in which they watched every

freight train that pulled, white-coated,

over the range into Tabernacle. “Eet

all depen’. on the future. Mebbe 'so,

we make eet. Mebbe so, we do not.

But we gamble, eh, mon Baree?”





“With our last cent,” came the an-

swer of the other man, and in the

voice was grimness and enthusiasm.-

It was a game of life or extinction

now.



March, and a few warm days, which

melted the snows only that they might

crust again. Back and forth traveled

the bobsled , to Tabernacle, only to

meet with disappointment.



(Continued next week).





 





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They would be quiet and docile from

that time forth. A message was sent

to the young king, to see what he

would do in defense of his people.

“His anger was kindled greatly,” he

sent outa call to war and defeated

the Ammonites overwhelmingly. His

stock was high from that day. His

magnanimity was finely shown in his

refusal to punish the base fellows who

had despised him. If he only had con-

tinued the way he began! Kingship

is hard on a man, seemingly. It was

said by the Romans, “Of the emper-

ors, Vespasian alone changed for the

better after his accession.” Perhaps

that is one reasonwhy there are so

few kings left. Humanity feels that

kingship is too great a strain.





 





I‘OP and think. Suppose some



young man of your acquaintance

should he suddenly elevated to a place

of authority where he had the power

of life and death. Suppose he were

the most dependable, the most level-

headed- young man of your acquaint-

tance. Having exchanged his farm

clothes for a royal uniform covered

with gold lace, his ability to toil for a

dozen body—servants, and his herd of

Holsteins for an army that awaited

his command, Would he make no mis-

takes? Would he not make some very

serious mistakes, that people would be

slow to forget? That partly explains

Saul.’ ..



But his training was good. It was

the discipline of real life—the invig-

orating out-of-doors, companionship

with herdsmen and shepherds. The

present king of England was trained

in a similar school. .King George was

not the oldest son, hence was not ed-

ucated for the throne. He was a sail-

or. “He has reefed the sail and swab-

bed the deck and fed the fire. He has

stood at the helm through the tempest

and the night. He knows what it is to

be grimy and perspiring, to have blis-

tered hands [and tired feet. In short,

he knows what it is to be a working-

man. It is his unique merit as a

king." Thatis something worth say-

ing. Evidently the best training a king

can receive is not to know he is to be-

come one. That would fit Soul and

David, but not Solomon. And there

are kings who do not wear royal pur-

' Such are the kingly men who

have become presidents ofqthe Amer-





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though he fell as suddenly as the

rose, but he probably did not. Men

may rise suddenly, but they have been

laying the foundation for that rise

long'before. 'And when they fall it is

the same. They appear .to go down.‘

with a. thud, but in reality they have

been slewly declining for a. longtime.

There are two final scenes in the life ,

of Saul, on which we ought to look,

for they are like the'red lights at a.)

crossing that warn of an approaching

train. The first is When hewent to

seek advice of a. necromancer, the

night before a battle. A man has fall-

en'low when he seeks a fortune-teller,

a witch, as his only sourceof counsel

and comfort. I have always thought

of that night as black and wet. 'At

least it was black for Saul. The old

witch cannot do him much good. The

other scene is on the day of battle.

Let First Samuel tell it: “Then said

Saul to his armorbearer, ‘Draw thy

sword, and thrust me through there—

with; lest these uncircumcised come

and thrust me through, and abuse me.’

But his armorbearer would not, for

he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul

took a sword and fell upon it.”





Saul began the descent when he did

some things he knew were not exactly

right. They were not. so bad in one

way. He did not hold anyone up, kill

him and take his money, nor steal an-

other man’s wife. But he did not fully

obey the voice of God. He violated

his own, conscience until he arrived at

the place where his conscience was no

longer sensitive. It was not a quick

plunge over the cliff. He was practic-

ing for the' plunge for years. Most

men do. I think of two instances. They

are as far apart as Saturn is from the

earth. But in principle they are close

together.





LORD Bacon was the most learned



man of his. day’. He was one of

the fathers of modern science. His

head contained that rare substance

called brains. But he lived a. dual life.

Dual-purpose cattle are good, but dual:

purpose men are bad. On one side

Bacon was high-minded, pursuing

truth. On the other he was self-seek-

obsequious, always looking for ofl‘lce.

His letters to the Duke of Bucking-

ham are like a puppy licking one’s

boots. Bacon fell, and it was a ter-

rific fall. He was charged with re-

ceiving bribes while in office. fined

forty thousand pounds and sent to pris-





»on. He said, “I am old, weak, ruined,





in want, a very subject of pity.” But

he had been falling for years.

The other is that of the Bootleg

King of California. His name was——

or J's—Harry Brelaski. In four months

in 1920 this brainy young man made

California the wettest state in the Un-

ion. People forgot there was a Vol-

stead Act. The state was drenched in

a. tidal wave of liquor, and Brelaski

and his pals made barrels of money

out of it. One liquor transaction be

negotiated amounted to $200,000. He

was convicted of violating the law and

sentenced to two years in prison and

to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars. .

Two facts show that this extraordi-

nary young man, for such he is, did

not experience any quick fall from

honor. During the trial he threw dice





at $300 a. throw, indicating that he





had done it before. Further, a. saying.

frequently on his lips was, that he

“always took a gambling chance.” But

one cannot gamble with right and

wrong, in Saul's day or ours.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR.

MARCH 9. , . .





 





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Sam. Cha 8 8 to 15.



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Doings In Woodland





Bruin I: T naked Again ' *,





ET’S build a little house out in



1 the old maple tree for Lady

Wren,” said Rolly Rabbit to

Bruin one morning.

singer in Woodland, and if we can get





her to build her nest in that tree we .





will have music all summer.”



“Ewe,” said Bruin, “and I’ll help

you. Yesterday I saw her fluttering

aromid out there just as if She were

looking for a place to make her home.



And so the two set about their car-

penters task. Bruin whittled and

shaved the boards, while Rolly fitted





was going well until just as Rolly’s

hammer came down on the biggest

nail, it slipped ri ht onto his biggest

finger, y



“Ouchie—ow, ouchie—ow,” he cried.

“That hammer is so hard,” and ran off





 





 





 





 





 





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“I Have something that will Cure the

Pain Right Quick," said Dr. Fox.



to the house to get some medicine for



it. Bruin followed on the run, too,



for he had pounded his finger lots of



times and knew just how badly it



hurt. ‘





 





When the bruised finger was all

' bathed in some clear water,





Bruin

went for the “Sooth-all.”



“Oh,'dearie me! The bottle is emp-

ty‘,” called Bruin from the bedroom.

‘Wh'atever shall we do?”



' “Run over to Willie Woodchuck’s

house,” said Rolly. “I’m sure he’ll

have some.”





~“She is the best '





Everything 1

:is the money,” said Bruin, reaching





But when Bruin was Only out by the

front gate, he met Mr. Fox.



“Good- morning, sir,” said the fox.

“Why the hurry and the sad face this

fine morning?"



“My friend, Rolly Rabbit, has just

hurt his finger, and I am on my way

to get some medicine for him,” said

Bruin. “Sorry I can’t stop to talk.”



“But wait, sir. I am Doctor Quack





.Fox, and I have something here that





will cure the pain right quick,” he

said. “You may have it’ for twenty-

five cents.”



“Oh, thank you, kind friend. Here

into his pocket. “It will save me so

much time.’



Never looking at the bottle the doc-

tor gave him, he ran back to the house

and the doctor Went hurrying down

the road.



Explaining to Rolly how he got the

medicine, he started to put some on

Rolly’s injured finger.



“But what do the directions say?”





- asked Rolly.





Then Bruin began to read. “For

coughs and colds, take one teaspoon-

ful every hour.”



“Ah, ha! A sly fox has tricked you

again,” laughed Rolly.



“Tricked again,” admitted Bruin. “If

I only hadn’t been in such a hurry.

But I’ll run as fast as I can to Willie

Woodchuck’s for the Sooth-all.”



And on his way-he resolved to be

more careful after this. He had learn-

ed again that “the more haste the less

speed.”





 





THEY ARE TWINS.





 





Deai Aunt Ma1tha:



My birthday was yesterday. A

neighbor boy’s birthday is the same

day as mine.



Well, I guess this is all for this

time.



From a little reader of your wood-

land stories, Ida Farnsworth, Wayland,

Michigan, R. 1





Springtime Recollections





HE melancholy days are wan-





ing. Already the sun’s rays-





shine bright and warm, glad-

dening the heart of both man and

beast. The huge snowdrifts that are

always a. part of the winter landscape

of this Northland, are shrinking per-

ceptibly as though to hide themselves

from the gaze of Old Sol.





Mother, who has been hibernating,

so to speak, during the storms and





. blizzards of the long‘winter, ventures





forth on one of these bright sunny

days to call on Mrs. Neighbor.





The boys are shining the sap buck-

ets and getting everything in shape

for tapping as soon as the snowr settles

a little more.





Father is pounding on something in

his workshop, and actually whistling.





“Dad used to whistle a great deal in

his younger days,” mother recalls as

she‘walksalong the still drifted road-

way, leading from her modest home to

that of her neighbor. “Let’s see, it’s

fifteen—no, it’s seventeen years ago

this spring that dad and I first kept

company (that term has now become

obsolete, but not for mother). Funny,





I had always known John, but" I never~





had thought of loving him till we went

on that picnic,” mused mother. "‘Lat-

er, when I got to know him better,





much better, in fact, I learned that he

Shared 11 like inditerenee toward me.





 

 





meme, 1 had been a little gltl of





l: and he a big boy of percolation"





when my folks settled here. My! How

quickly time flies, ” thought mother to

herself. “Then, like most boys enter-

ing young manhood he went away for

several years “to see the world,” only

to return and find me grown up and

in the early twenties. But it was that

picnic that did it, and by the time

John had taken three helpings of salad

I had made, I knew he was more than

casually interested in me. Well, by

going-home time We were what you’d

call badly smitten. That summer, John

settled down on the home farm to

earn his fortune, and in the fall I set-

tled dowu with him. In the eyes of

the world our fortunes may not be ac-

counted large, but taking all in all,

there have been more fat years than

lean ones.”





Here mother came to an abrupt

stop. She had walked a few paces

past the neighbor’s gate. A blush

stoleover her countenance to think

that she had become so engrossed in

those past courtship days as to forget

where she was going. _



“Must be those sun’s rays going to

my head,” chuckled mother. «



“Just the same, I hope there will be

more such picnics this very spring,





and with like results, too,” mother





thought Secretly to herself as she tap-

ped on her neighbor’s door. —Mrs. G. S.





_ If combs freeze, get more air into

the henhouse

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Put You in Jail

for That!”





“Can t, eh?” said





Im here!”





the man, “Well,





, After your sleepless night from

coffee drinking and your friends say

it’s all imagination, remember the





sleepless night.





Also remember





that Postum, the





pure cereal beverage, Contains nothing

that can interfere with sleep.





It has





every desirable quality of a mealtime

drink—cheering warmth, delightful

flavor and wholesomeness that makes





for health.





Postum





for Health





“There’s a Reason”





Your grocer sells Postum in

two forms: Instant Postum

[in tins] prepared instantly in





the cup by the addition of I





boiling water. Postum Cereal

[in packages] for those who

prefer the flavor brought out

by boiling fully 20 minutes.





The cost of either form is





about one-half cent. a cup.





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manufactured hero. sold by anyone.



My Bargains spook”. lor themselves. My

Direct- from- Factory - woF'annm Plant” of selling mean.

asaving of Mllllono myc ustomen.

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CREAM SEPARATORS EN-

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Cabbage. onion' and tomato plants. $1.00 thousand.

Northern farmers grow vegetables fifteen to twenty

days earlier with our plants. Safe delivery guaran-

teed. Catalog free. CARLISLE SEED &. PLANT

FARMS. Valdonta. Ga.





--FISH--





New Winter Caught Frozen Pickerel. round 8891 per

lb: headless and dressed. 10%(3: Bayfish. largo. 7c;

Pike.14c;SalmoIr. 14c: Flounders.10c:Golq l‘yes.

10c Packing charge. 35 lbs.. 250.; 50 lbs. 30c.: 100

lbs. 35c. Smoked Tullibee White. 10- lb. basket,

.82. 00; Smoked Bluefins. 81.0. Write for complete

price list JOHNSON FISH 60.. Green Bay. Wis.





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...PAY N0 ADVANCE F. E: don't. give option or tie

real estate for o“any of contract without first

om crowning. with are absolutely

honorable .fresponsivblo





F‘OR BENT—Jami 120 acres 20 miles south De~-

trolt. good buildings- 1111 electric line. Mfor infor-

mation address. Miller I". Bentwood. le-h





Will Seller“ Etch”!!! '°" oefm‘lla.r'1§""w:‘





acres. IRS. TI LAVELL. Homo loll .





 





 





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$900 Gets Money-Making Farm

7 Cattle, 3 Horses, Tools





Flock poultry. bees. rabbits. cider press. incubator.



cream separator. vehicles. implements. etc.: 145 acres

near village. city markets: 80 acres tillage, creek-wa-



valuable timber and wood. apple or-



chard; line 2-story 9—room house, beautiful maple'

shaded lawn, 54- ft. barn. basement stables. runnm

water, poultry houses. -To settle immediately, $4500

gets all. only $900 meded. Details and how farmers

sold 7 head tattle for $20, 000, page 49 Big Illus.



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United States. ('opy free. STROUT FARM AGENCY.

20580 Kresge Bldq., Detroit. Mich.





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' 200 acres in fine fruit and



Ill-u" EQUIPPBd Farm resort section, Manistee 00.:

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pasture and wood lot, 42 a. nuadow 18 a. wheat.

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place bath; large stone basement barn: plenty out-

buildings; complete watuwoxks: 8 arms full bearing

err-:liard apples, pt '11 box thirties, plums. 0d





team. 18 (Wattle 60 IHIIS, farm tools and feed. Only

Will take house and lot or





811. 500. 00. Ham terms.

UILD. Bear Lake. Mich.





small farm in tradc. M. C. G





‘ 80 Acres, tiled. fenced



FOI‘ QUle Sale in 10 A. fields. clay

soil. 12—room house, hardwood floors, basement, 3

porches, shade. Big cement basement barn and other

buildings, windmill and Orchard, 0 miles from town.

schools and churches. $5. 500.00 with good

t.onns For particulars address. 0. H. RIDGLEY.





Whittemore. Mich.



- inside the corporation of

Cthken Ranc Evart, Michigan 10

some. good loam land. good 7-1-oom frame house with

basement. excellent soil for fruit and chicken raising,

price for immediate sale, 8900. 00 cash. lots of work

for laborer in Evert. Write W. F. UMPHREY.

Evert. Michigan. .





HOMESTEAD F0“ sM-E Price attractive. 120

acres on state road. 1

mile from Tecumseh, Michigan. Big brick 'houso

suitable for Overnight Inn. Fine looation l’or Rood~

side Stand. Land will grow anything Write In. .

c. A. Payne, Watkins, N. Y.

would you_ Buy a Home?

White people only. good





gtossive country. Write for list.

Booneville. . Ark. ‘





' ' To buy your farm. and own your

"OWN “”me home. Let me prove this to y.ou

Write for list. 86 to $100 per acre. 1. H. Strain.

Lakoview. Mich. .





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particulars and lowest price. John

Copper St. .. Chippewa Falls.





For Sale or'l'mle ”0"“? ggmmgw
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Dress the School Girls Appropriately





Scdoo/ Gzr/ Céarm I: Lost 53/ Expemzve Cloth; mm’ Accessorzes





T0 expect the modern high school

girl to revert to the simple

modes of dress of the days of



their grandmother's, is quite unreason-

able. But to permit her to dress as a.

woman of fashion is also unreason-

able. It is this latter impression one

often receives of the pupils when visit-

ing some of our modern high schools.

It is true that the standard of dress

of the whole nation has advanced rap-

idly during the recent years. Women

in every walk of life spend more

thought, time and money on clothing

than ever' before. But this tendency

is often found in an exaggerated form





 





 





Little Anna Dell is Washing Her Dog’s

Face for Breakfast. (Prize Winner).





 





in the dress of modern high school

girls.



In many cases these girls are not

even well dressed, for society de-

mands that to be well dressed, our

clothing must be suited .to the occa—

sion. For the school girl the simple,

practical frocks are more appropriate

than the fancy expensive ones and

add much more of the real school girl

charm.



Here are some suggestions of a

home economics specialist on approp-

riate dress for the high school girl.



“Dark colored tricOtine, serge, or

poiret twill, which will not readily

show soil, are all good materials for

school dresses. They should be made

with removable linings which may be

washed frequently. The lining is a

protection for the dress, and if laun-

dered regularly will wear as long as

the dress. Washable collars, cuffs, and

vests will make one dress look like

several. The dainty summer frocks

in any material that washes well are

always appropriate for warmer days.



“Avoid extremes in style; medium

length and width skirts are far easier

“A plain straight sleeve

103323 well, is warm, and slips under a.

coat smoothly. Evening dresses should

not be worn to school. Girls’ evening

dresses should be made on youthful

lines, not with elaborate drapings.”



“Fur coats are not appropriate for

high school girls because they tend to

create petty jealousies and leave noth-

ing for a girl to look forward to when

she gets older. An expensive fur coat

for a young girl is not wise because





» she is often careless with it, and ward»

Jones at school are generally inade-

quate.





A cheap fur coat is shabby in

its second year, while a good cloth





 





material will be warm and will look

well for at least’two years.



“Plain oxfords or some similar shoe

should be worn, not low-cut sandals

which furnish no protection for the

feet in bad weather. A medium mili-

tary style of heel is best for all times,

but consistenCy in height is the main

point to keep your arches strong.”

Wool hose should be Worn in cold

weather. but it is 'better to wear silk

or cotton every day than wool one day

and silk the next.



Avoid Vulgarities.



“Gaudy‘ jewelry and strong per-

fumes are out~ of place at all times

and most decidedly at school. Powder

and rouge should never be used so one

can detect them.”



,Some cities insist on a uniform

dress, middy or some similar costume

for school girls. Their greatest advan-

tage is in creating a better feeling

among the students.





TESTED RECIPES.





 





These recipes are from readers anx-

ious to pass on their good things.

Delicious Buns.

1 lame cup of bread l’ini-h salt

dough be cup sugar

1 (up lukewamx Water Lard size of egg

Mix enough flour to make a nice

dough and set aside in a warm place

to rise. When light pinch off in bis-

cuit size and place in a well-greased

baking pan. When light bake in a

moderate oven—Mrs. E. C.





Dropped Doughnuts.





Eé cup milk 1% cups flour

1/; cup sugar I- 3 tsp. scalt

Grated rind of one 1- 'i tsp'. nutmeg

lemon 1 luaping tsp. baking





1 film powder

Mix together and drop in hot fat.

Hold the teaspoon-of batter close to the

fat so the dough will come up in'round

balls and will not spatter—Mrs. E. S.

Layer Fruit Cake. '





1 tsp. soda





1011p sugar

1,5 tsp. nutmeg





My cup butter





2 tb. molasses 1/5; tsp. cinnamon

1 cup buttermilk 1,4 tsp. cloves '

2 cups flour 1% cup rhopped raisms





Bake in three layers. We like the

following filling for this cake. It may

be kept in fruit jars and used as





needed.





3 lbs. finely

pears

23/4, lbs. sugar





Cook the pears





2 lbs. raisins

2 cups nut meats





chopped





until tender, add





sugar and boil until it is thick. Add

raisins, ground, and bring to a boil.

Add nut meats just before putting in

fruit jars. ——Mrs. F. E. L.





Hand Lotion.





3,3 pint rainwater 5c worth ground quince

see.





Let stand twenty-four hours and

strain through cloth. Add five cents

worth of benzoin and fifteen cents

worth of glycerine. Keep in bottles

well corked—Mrs. R. E. M.





EASY WAY TO'FILL RESEFiVOlR.





 





USE about six feet of round eave



trough and one elbow in filling my

reservoir. I attach the elbow to the

mouth of the cistern pump and the

trough carries the water. directly to

the reservoir. It can all be done in

a few minutes.——Mrs. A. M.





WHEN IT’S TIME TO GET UP.





 





Y little girl ten years old, was in

no hurry to get up mornings, but

would wait for the second, and some-

times the third call. With my help





. she usually got to school on time.





I thought it'was time she learned to

plan her 'own mornings, so when one

morning I called and she didn’t get

up, I determined to let her remain as





long as she‘Wished and suffer the. con- .





sequences. It was eight o’clock when

she arose and found she had fifteen

minutes to dress and eat breakfast and

allowthirty minutes to walk one mile

to school, She made it, but it was a.

warning against oversleeping in the

future.





USES FOR A CHILD’S GARDEN

' RAKE.





 





FIND a child’s garden rake pur-



chased at the ten cent store, is

a very handy convenience for my

kitchen. I use it to draw the hot pics

out of the oven, or hot baked potatoes

and other dishes. It saves me many

burns. When the fruit jars are placed

at the back of wide shelves rather

high up, I can use my little rake to

draw them where I can reach them.

When anything rolls under the stove

or the cabinet it is an easy matter to

“fish” it out with this little rake——

Mrs. H. M.





To Be Beautiful





" VERYONE ought to be interested

I L in an appearance which is attrac-





tive and pleasing to others. Why.





should we presume to be a blot on a

landscape of so much natural beauty?

It is a personal satisfaction to know

that we are making the most of our-

selves.



To radiate a truly beautiful spirit,

and to be sure of a sincere manner

and charm of presence, we must be

kindly in our thoughts as. well as our

words. The beauty which lasts must

be more than skin deep.



No one can be beautiful or interest-

ing who does not get sleep enough.

Scientists have proved that the brain

cells possess a vital element which is

exhausted during our waking hours,

and renewed during sleep.



The brain cells of an individual kill-

ed, or who dies after suffering greata





 





 





 





Mrs. L. L. 8., of Onondaga, Found Her Time Profitably Spent in Raising

these Motherless Lambs.





 





(A Prize Winner)._





 





fatigue or strain, are so lacking in this

vital element that they cannot be

stained different colors readily by lab-

oratory work; whereas, the brain cells

of a rested and alert individual will

take on a bright stain or tint readily.

Students and other workers who fail

to get sleep enough are short-sighted

and stupid. They are trying to make

bricks without straw or clay, and it

cannot be done.



The individual. who is decidedly ov-

er—weight or under-weight has sacri-

ficed symmetry and beauty. Health is

not at par, and efliciency and enjoy-

ment of life are both lowered. The

person of determination and strong

will, will keep watch of his or her

weight and will use safe and logical

means to keep it at normal.



One important element of personal

att1activeness, is what may be describ-

ed as “trigness” in a woman, or “care-

ful glooming.”





There are two sisters who are twins,

and naturally almost identically alike

in form and feature. One has stringy

hair which always looks ragged and

poorly cared for, sallow skin, stubby

nails, and collar awry. Her clothing

is of good quality, but inclined to be

mussy, and often to lack.brushing.

Shoes and gloves show the evidence

of neglect. This woman’s social posi-

tion is an indifferent one, for people

do not value her for what she real-

ly is.





_ The other sister is “trig” from head '

. to foot.

ways beautifully combed. Her skin is _





Her hair is shining and al-





clear, her eyes sparkling, her hands

and nails in good condition, and her

garments becoming and beautifully

cared for. As a matter of fact», this

sister accomplishes twice as much as

the careless one. Her social position

corresponds to her appearance, be-

cause her mental processes keep step

with her culture and painstaking na-

ture. She is frequently described 8.8





“a very beautiful woman. ”—-—Emma G. U





 





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-¥ .‘ HAT roaches have a gypsy ena-

- 'ture is declared by R. L. Web-

ster, entomologist.



“Invtowns roaches may move‘from

house to house,” said Mr. Webster.

“They- have even been known to leave

one house in large numbers and mi-

grate to' another. But whether they

enter in. bands or] singly they are a

pest that is especially repulsive;



They are probably the most annoy-

ing of the common insects, according

to Mr. Webster, and some time in the

history of nea every heme they

make their app rance and cause the

heusewife no end of trouble. , ,



~Damp localities, such as the neigh-

borhood of the kitchen sink, is their

favorite. habitat. They are night prowl-_

ers and usually remain hidden during

the daytime. Roaches may be recog-





f nized by their brown or black color

andi’their size, which is usually a half





inch. or more in length. Their flat bod—





.' ies are well fitted for hiding away in





cracks under baseboards.



Roaches reproduce by means of eggs

and the young roach is similar in ap-

pearance to the mature forms, except—

ing in size and in the absence of wings

that indicate the full grown insect.



“Probably the most effective method

of controlling roaches is by the use of

sodium fluoride," Mr. Webster explain-

ed. ' “This is a white powder that may





' i be purchased at almost any drug store.





The powder should be dusted in lib-

eral quantities into all lo'bations in the

house frequented by the insects, es-

pecially in pan‘tries and under sinks.

Sodium fluoride should never come in





_ coutact with any. foodstuffs, however,





since it is poisonous.”



“On the market there are a number

of preparations for the control of

cockroaches. Many of these contain

borax or boric acid, which may be

purchased as'such from the druggist





' and applied in the same manner as the





sodium fluoride previously mentioned.”

Any treatment for cockroaches must

be continued for several weeks, if suc-





cess is to be attained. Persistence is





necessary, regardless of whatever

measure is 'used against these trouble-





some‘insects. Special care should be

taken never to allow bread crumbs or

other food of any description to re-

main exposed about the house,’since

this encourages the insect.





CHRONICLES OF A FAaMER's

WIFE.





 





5:30 to ~6:00——Preparing breakfast.

6.00 to 6:20—Eating breakfast.

6:20 to 6:30~—-Clearing table.





6:30 to 7:00—Putting up school

lunches for four.

7:00 to 7:30—«Reviewing lessons





for the day at school.



7:30 to 8:15—Getting the children

ready for school.



8:15 to 8:30—Getting car out and

taking children one and one—half miles

to school. -



8:30 to 8:40—Sorting clothes to

wash. .



8:40 to 8:50—Getting first boiler

full of clothes on to boil.





8:50 to 9:10—Washing breakfast

dishes.

9:10 to 9:15—Sweeping kitchen





9:15 to 9:30—Putting dining—room

and living-room in order for the day.



9:30 Started to wash.



11:00 to 11 : 15—Getting vegetables

on for dinner.



11:15 to 11:45—Hanging out

clothes. .



11:45 to 12:00—Putting dinner onto

table.



12:00 to 12 : 20—Eating dinner.



12:20 to 12 : 30——Washing dishes.



12:30 to 1:30—Finishing washing.



1:30 to 2:15—Scrubbing woodshed

and porches.



12:15 to 4:00—Washin'g





some





windows





4:00 to 4:15—Going after children.



4:15 to 5:00—Dampening clothes



5:00 to 5:15——Entertaining caller.



5:15 to 5:50—Preparing supper.



5:50 to 6:20—Eating supper. ‘



6:20 to 6:40—W’ashing dishes.



6:40 to 8:00——Spent with children.



'8:00 to 8:15—Putting children to

bed.



8:15 to 9:00—Reading.



9'00 To bed, and ready for





it.—Mrs. E. W. W.





 





 





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FEW days ago I drifted into one of the large book stores in this big

city. My attention was immediately drawn to the number of people





crowding around a certain department.





Instinct told me there must





be a bargain, and a woman’s inclination toward bargains led me directly to





I .that part of the store.

This large book store was promoting a sale on children's books.





The





eagerness and thoughtfulness with which these mothers, and I grant also

grandmothers and aunts, were selecting books to develop along construc-





tive channels the minds of the children in which





were entertaining.





they were interested,





I' paused by one of the counters with more than ordinary interest in





the situation.

kindly saleslady, said, “I want a book

to read.”





One prospective customer, drawing upon the opinion of a





that is easy for a ten-year—old girl





This mother undoubtedly did not make this specification because she,

was afraid of giving the child something hard to do; but rather to instill

in her youthful 'mind that reading is a pleasure.



It is essential also, that the books we select for children be interesting

to them, as well as easy to read. Stories within the child’s sphere of expe-





rience in life are most appreciated and leave their impression.





Stories of





imaginative happenings and unusual incidents are always entertaining and

have their part in developing the imaginative nature of the child.

' Mother and father may do much to lead the little folks to love the right





kind of books.





ing the reading habit in her young son.





One mother recently told‘me of her experience in develop-





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insects and vermin. -.





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TO PREVENT LEATHER CHAIRS

FROM STICKING. .





 





‘ Could you tell me how to keep leath-

er upholstered chairs from sticking in

Warm ‘weather? Have tried soap and

water, also gasoline, but thisdoes no

good—N .



If you have used soap and water on

your chairs, it may be hard now to

prevent_them from sticking. ‘,



However, if the soap has not been

strong enough to injure the leather,

rub them well with gasoline and then

apply neat’s-foot Oil. Rub this well

onto the leather, and do not wipe Off

for a day or two.



Apply this treatment every three or

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GRAHAM BREAD FOR HEALTH.





 





I would like a recipe for making

raised graham bread—«Mrs. C. O. B.



Put one cup of molasses and one

teaspoon of soda over fire and stir

until it foams, then add one pint of

sweet milk, one teaspoon of salt, four

cups of graham flour sifted with two

teaspoons of baking powder.‘ Stir

‘well. Put into greased tins. Let stand

two hours to raise, and then bake.



It makes a good proportion for gra-

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half graham flour with the regular

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CHILI CON CARNI.





 





Please send me; a recipe for chili

con carni.——Mrs. C. R. H.

The following is a recommended





recipe for chili con carni which one





‘ of our subscribers says is very good.





Chili Con Carni.

1 lb. hamburg 1 can red kidney

Salt, pepper ns

3 nicdiumsizcd onions

1 of. tomatoes





Fry the onions until straw-colored.

Add the hamburg and fry until brown.

Season to suit the taste. Put toma~

toes, kidney beans and peas into a ket-

tle, then add meat and onions. Allow

to simmer about an hour. Chili pow-

der may be added if desired.





1 can peas





REMOVING. PRINTING FROM

CLOTH.





 





Would you please tell me a good

way to take the advertising stamp out

of the cloth flour sacks. I have been

washing them after soaking

soda, but it takes several washing

before it disappears.——Mrs. D. J. D..



To take the advertising stamp out

of flour sacks, -it' you will soak the

sacks first in kerosene before wash-

ing, the stamp will come out easily.





RECIPE FOR WASHING FLUID.





 





I AM anxious to pass on my recipe



for washing fluid because it has

helped me so much to overcome Blue

Mondays. To make this fluid I use

one can of potash, ten cents worth of

salts of ammonia, and salts of tartar.





ter. DO not have this near the paint

or varnish and -do not inhale fumes

when the water is added. When this





. liquid is cold pour into large bottle.





This is wonderful to whiten clothes

and takes the dirt out easily. I add

one cup of this fluid to the water in

the boiler before boiling—Mrs. W. M.





A tasty salad which nearly every-

one likes -is the banana and peanut

salad. For this salad the bananas, af-

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rolled in the ground'peanuts, placed

on a lettuce leaf and served with

dressing. Sometimes I vary it a little

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DON’T PUT PINS IN THE MOUTH.





 





NE of the very first calls I re-

ceived after hanging out my

shingle was from a frantic moth-





er whose baby had commenced a sav-





ings account in an irregular manner

by swallowing a penny. All that I

had to do in her case was to ask her

to give it time to pass into currency

again, but that was only the first of

my experiences with wrong swallow—

ings on the part of babies, and some

older persons. .



Usually a foreign body that is safely

swallowed should be left alone; even

Open safety pins often pass through

the entire‘alimentary tract without do—

ing any harm. The anxious parent

must please refrain from giving castor

oil or any other purgative, as that in-

creases the action of-the intestines

and makes it more likely that the pin

or other object will cause damage. So

long as no evil symptoms show, the

only thing to do is to wait.



In my experience pins, both plain

and safety, have been the chief trouble

makers, but the trouble has not come

after they have been swallowed, but

when they have been drawn into the

respiratory passages. Several times I

have managed to locate the pins in the

upper passages, so located that I could

remove them with my fingers or a

long-handled forceps. But there have

also been times when it was quite im-

possible to reach them without a sur-

gical operation. ‘ .,



The ordinary doctor has no business

making experimental efforts at the re-

moval of a foreign bedy that has dis-

appeared from sight in the larynx or

bronchial tubes. It is a job for a spe-

cialist equipped with special instru-

ments and special skill. Such foreign

bodies can be located with efficiency





, by the combined use of the X-Ray and





a special instrument known as the

Bronchoscope. Through this inStru-

ment a skilled operator can remove

such an object as an open safety pin

without doing any cutting or causing

any great damage to the tissues.





CIGARETTES.





 





My husband smokes too many cigar—

ettes and would like some help to ena-

ble him to_quit.—B. S. T.





He will get much help by using as a

mouth wash a solution of silver ni-

trate in the strength of one-eighth to

one-fourth of one per cent.



He may use this frequently for two

or three days, being careful not to





'swallow any. Then use it once daily,





after a meal. Chewing gentian root

isalso helpful in overcoming the to‘

bacco habit.





. ROUND WORMS.





 





I believe that I have worms, “round

worms," as I passed one. And some

times I have pains or itching. Do

worms cause one to cough? I would

like to know what to do to get rid of

them.,.—O. S.





‘Round worms often invade the lungs

and create a .cough. They may be

driven out by taking santonin or oil

of chenopodium. One must take great

care about cleanliness of hands and

nails, and avoidance of uncooked fruit

and vegetables, to avoid recurrence.





CARE OF HAIR.





 





My hair is long and quite heavy, but

it is. a great deal lighter on the ends

than it is on my head. My hair is

black, but toward the ends it is red-

dish-brown. Is there anything to do

for that?—'A~ Reader. .. _



It is not unusual for hair to, be light-





.er inshade toward the ends and not a

..matter that needs any’attention. Some

gwomen. Who feel that it detracts from

their attractiveness, . try to use dyes





 





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ence in color more conspicuous; for

dyed hair never has the exact hue and

luster of naturally tinted filaments.





DIFFERENCES IN HEART TRoU.

BLES.





 





What is the difference between val-

Tull? and organic heart disease?——K.



Valvular heart disease is always or-

ganic, but there are many forms of

organic heart disease that are not val-

vular. Any organic heart trouble is

serious, yet with careful attention to

habits of living may help the patient!

to get along very comfortably through

a long life.





 





 





GASTRIC ULCER.





 





I have been told that I have a gas-

tric sore in my stomach. What is a

gastric sore and what can be done for

them? I am too poor to go to a doc—,

torn—Mrs. L. A. H. ’



Such sores are generally termed gas— i

tric ulcers. They are usually the re!

sult of acid dyspepsia. Treatment con-1

sists in giving the stomach as com-l

plete rest as possible, so that the ulcer}

may have a chance to heal. A gastricl

ulcer is too serious a matter for home:

treatment. ’

that doctors will not treat poor peo—

ple,who are unable to pay. In my

twenty-three years of practice I ven~





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TROUBLED WITH PIN-WORMS.





 





Would you please tell me how to rid

my children of pinworms, and what

causes then? My children range in

age from sixteen to one year. Baby

has them quite badly—C. J. J. .





Sometimes pinworms demand the

use of internal medicines but quite of-

ten they can be treated by the use of

rectal enemata, as they are principally

found in the rectum. First use a plain

enema of water, or salt and water, to

empty the rectum of recal matter, and

then inject several ounces of a demo-

tion of quassia chips. This must be

repeated twice a day for several days.

I think it will pay you to ask your

home doctor to supervise the treat-

ment,

many infected. It is not such an easy

process as it may seem.





HAS NUMBNESS IN ARM.





 





I have a sort of numbness in my

left arm. It does not bother me while

at work, but awakens me at two or

three o’clock in the morning, and to

relieve the unpleasant feeling I lie

face downward with the arm hanging

over the bed rail until it feels natural

again. It does not bother, me doing

‘ordinary work, but work like handling

a pick, and shoveling gravel, digging

ditch, is what gets it. A local doctor

told me that a chronic poisoning was

coming from some source. I had my

tonsils and adenoids removed three

years ago, had my under teeth all out

last October. My upper teeth seem

all right, except one back one, and

that might not be.—J. P.





Such symptoms in a person of mid-

dle age or older, are common enough

and as you have done everything in

your power to clear up the sources of

infection that might be the cause, I

think you need feel no apprehension.

There is nothing that need make you

fear paralysis or such results. You

should finish your job by having the

one suspected tooth removed.





Bandalene Jones has won the village

beauty contest.

of the ballot counters and is accused

of stuffing the box. She has already

changed her name to Priscilla Throck—

mortonand bought a one-way ticket

to Hollywood.





slowest dishwashers that our town

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Vapo is to the ordinary oil stove what

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Vapo. Everywhere, people proclaim it

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the question for ordinary oil stoves.

Any Vapo will duplicate these tests.





Burns-gas made from kerosene





Each Vapo burner is a miniature gas

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Vapo has lever valves like a gas stove

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Variet

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L. yandotte, White Orpington, S. 0. Blue

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Prices on 50100 300 500 . 1000

Leghorns (S. C. White and Brown) ...... $7.00 813 $38 $62 $120

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Dcpendabilityy Production '





Our chicks are from flocks selected for their early maturingm habits. This means high-

producing individuals These flocks are headed by cockenels

ulled by experts. Each flock .

and up. We have a. limited number of superior grads chicks from spsci

230- 302 cu strain. .3. P. Boeks.R .





from high-producing blood

10.00 per

matings.

P. Rocks. W. Wyandottes. W. Leg-





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CULLING AND SELECTIVE BREED-

ING.





average farm flock usually has about

thirty hens which cannot produce

more than eighty-five eggs per year.

They have one Rhode Island Red hen

picked out of a farm flock which has

laid 280 eggs and is still producing.

This hen has not moulted up to Feb-

ruary 7 and will be used to establish

a. strain of high—producing Reds.



Cold weather is not a handicap to





be a. heavy feeder.

essary to stand up under the heavy

feeding and make a good record for

the year. The average hen of the

heavy breeds goes broody four times

per year and sOme may go broody nine





 





Their First Peep at the World.





times. A hen loses twenty days, or

about a dozen eggs, every time she

goes broody.



The four-finger spread means that

the ovary of the hen is functioning.

The two-finger spread indicates the

bird is not laying, but may produce

later. The Hoganizing of flocksmnst

be supplemented with other tests.

Some crow-headed birds will lay at a

profit, while others lack constitutional

vigor. The skull of a good layer is

flat on top when the bird is viewed

from the front. Hens with masculine

heads should be culled out. Professor

Foreman says he has handled close to

one million hens and never found two

heads alike yet.



Good layers are flat- backed, with

deep flat ribs and they are close feath-

ered. The close feathered birds are

apt to be late moulters. A hen may

moult a primary feather for, each

broody period. Up to September first

you can count the new feathers and

determine the times the hen has been

broody.



Crow-headed birds may be caused

by close breeding, over—crowding, or

poor feeding. They throw slow feath-

ering chicks, which means low winter

production. That means low annual

production.

weight rapidly, they often lay profit—

ably, .but mature too early. An early-





college plant began laying when a. little

over three months old. The first sixty

eggs she produced were without mar-

ket value and weighed about an ounce

each.



A good producing hen will have a

waxy skin on the face and the eye will

show femininity and character. An

age of from five to six and a half

months is about right for laying. The

active busy hens have the laying temJ

perament. The hens shouldhold the

pigment, showing that they are receiv-

ing plenty .of feed and do not have to

draw on their reserves to produce the

eggs—K.





 





HENS WITH BOWEL TROUBLE.





matter with our hens. —We aiw

have one or two with bowel trouble of,

some kind, usually old hens.





 





BEFORE the Michigan Poultry Pro-

ducers’ meeting at the College, ,

Prof. E. C. Foreman stated that the,





egg production as it stimulates the a.p-,‘ .

petite and a hen, to lay heavily, must"

Endurance is nec— "





Over-refined birds 1086.





maturing Barred Rock puliet at the,





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winter lagersc' of large white eggsfl-lollywood and Tom

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Brown Leghoms. Park' 3 strain Barred Rocks.

Carefully selected and rated by experts and csrtlflod

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1 Our chicks are the kind that

make good.. Every flock is carelully

culled and mated. We have been

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been building carefully and con-

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offer chicks more than worth the

money we ask. SINGLE COMB,

ENGLISH STRAIN, WHITE LEG-

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live delivery guaranteed. Investigate our proposition

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STAR HATCHERY,'Box 22. Holland, Mich.





QUALITY CHICKS AT

REASONABLE PR] IESC



English White Leghorns, Parks’ Strain

Barred Rocks, 8. C. Black Minorcas.

Reds and Anconas. My pen (16)

at [118.1923 Mich. Contest finished

third among all heavy breeds. four

hens making records over 200 eggs

each. and one with a record of 254

eggs was seventh highest indixidual

(or the entire contest. 990 birds com-



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Shipped postpaid. 100 permi cént.1 live delivery guarand

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Homer, Mich.





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Lees Quality Chick

Eight varieties. all from pure-bred.

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Postpaid to your door. Guarantee 100 per

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.. 37:100. 513. Barred Rocks. Reds, An-

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and Columbian Wyandottes. White Rooks,

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50. $9: 100., $17.

GOOD CHICKS?

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prices. RAELI BLE HATCHERY AND FARMiS. 74

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Allegan Hatchery on Highway3 No. 89 Send



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DAY OLD CHICKS





S. C. White LeghormDay-old Chicks (Eng-

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F. Miller, Osborn, O. Diarrhoea

and other chick diseases rarely

attack the batch that 18 fed Semi-

Solid Buttermilk.





It builds vitality and disease re—

sistance. Your flock grows faster

and makes cheaper gains.





is buttermilk teurlzed and condensed



under our specfiB recess to point of great-

est food value. For poultry. best results

are obtained by feeding just as it comes in

the package. Containers vary from one

gallon cans to EGO-pound barrels.





Look for the Semi-Solid label. It as-

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For smaller capacity get my 80—egg Chum ion Belle

City lncubatorfor S9. 95,- my «BO-chick 02 Water

Belle Cit Bar odegor 8 4 95: or both ordered together

foranly 12.95- spreJJPrepaid Bane/Rockies.





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.of feeds. ‘





and it is thin and watery and sticks to

the feathers They are that way a

long time before they die. What can

I do for them?——Mrs. J. S





Digestive disorders among certain}





hens in a flock may be due to a variety

,of troubles, but the ration is a com—

mon cause. Hens that receive only

hard grain but no dry mash or green

food seem the most subject to bowel

trouble. The bran and easily digest—

ed ground grains in the dry mash are

a great help in preventing digestive

disorders.





I would suggest that you give the

hens a pound of epsom salts per 100

birds. This can‘be given in a moist

mash. Then keep dry mash before

them at all times. Also provide a hop-

per of charcoal and give green feed,

such as sprouted oats or cabbages

once each day. Perform a. postmortem

on any hens that die and none the con-

dition of the internal organs, especial-

ly the liver. That may furnish some

clue to the cause of the losses.





CAPON PRICES.





 





Why is the price of capons only

three cents above the price of com-

mon chickens? Has the buying public

gone back on them, or is it because

the market is g1utted?—F. L. H.





I think the low premium on capons

in most cities is due to the fact that

the general public have not been edu—

cated to Ordering capons, and conse

quently it does not take a large num-

ber to supply the market. In talking

with buyers of poultry meat I find that

nothing is easier for them to sell than

heavy hens. Most buyers for home

uSe are well satisfied with plump hens

for their chicken dinner and do not

feel that anything superior is needed.



The best market for capons is un—

doubtedly in the east where they have

been sold for many years on some of

the best markets, and more buyers

have learned to like them. I would

suggest that you write the New York

State Bureau of Markets, New York

City, for their list of reliable commis-

sion men who would be in the market

for capons and high-class poultry

meat. You might also address G.

Verne Branch, Municipal Director of

Markets, Detroit, for information con-

cerning the demand for capons in that

city.





 





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We have 300 S. C. White Leghorn

hens, two years, three years, one year,

and pullets, all in one big coop. We

keep a laying mash of equal parts of

bran, middlings, cornmeal and ground

oats with meat scraps in front of them

all the time, also oyster shells and grit

and charcoal the most of the time. We

feed them wheat and corn nights and

mornings in litter. Now, at noon they

will all eat of a wet mash I stir up

with sour milk and by night they may

be two or th1ee will be sitting down,

seemingly unable to stand up, eyes

closed, mouth open to breathe. There

is no discharge from the nose. Combs

will be just as red. We catch the

dumpy ones and put in another coop,

and maybe by the next morning we

are unable to tell which one was sick,

and then again, it will take a day or

two to recover. They all get well but

it stops them from laying. The hens

that act this way are all the older

hens TMhe pullets all seem to be 0.

K.——M ..M



The ration you are using for the

hens, is first-class, and many farm

flocks do not receive as good variety

It may be that the use of

the wet mash at noon causes some of

the old hens to overeat and the result-

ing dumpy condition is caused by in-

digestion. When the birds are isolat:

ed on short rations their condition





soon returns to normal.





I would advise cutting out the wet

mash at noon and feeding green feed.

Sprouted oats are the best, with cab—

bages as second choice. Any vegeta-

bles like mangels or carrots, help to

furnish succulence and balance up for

the more concentrated feeds. Some

form of green feed during the winter

is..always necessary- for the best re-





 





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Raise .111th

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Raise them the PAN-A-CE-A way.





Start them right—keep them growing

right along without any backset.





 

 

 

 

   

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





PAN-A-CE-A gives chicks good appetite

and good digestion—helps them develop





rapidly—gives them vigor to resist disease.





PAN-A-CE-A prevents fermentation of

the food; fermentation is where most of the

bowel troubles start.





PAN-A-CE-A is a gentle tonic to all the

little-chick organs—keeps the system in

order.





PAN-A-CE-Acontains the Salts of Iron,

so essential to early chick life, and during:

the rapid growth of feathers.





 

 

 

 

 

   





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PAN-A-CE-A prevents and cures gapes,

indigestion, diarrhea and leg weakness.





PAN-A-CE-A your chicks and then watch‘

them feather! A Pan-a-ce—a chick will out-

feather a non-Pan—a-ce-a chick every time.





Tell your dealer how many hens you have.

There’s a right-size package for every flock.

100 hens. the 12-lb. pkg. 200 hens, the 25-“). pail



60 hens, the 5-“). pkg. 500 hens, the 100-"). drum

For fewer hens, there is a smaller package.





GUARANTEED





DR. HESS 8: CLARK Ashland, O.





 





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years in perfect-

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en'orztr over other make:

5:: Illncnbatol' discovery

. all me“ cResult o! 80 years study and manho-

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endorse It hiske- goodgustantee





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the famous

and Hollywood strains of

itc Leghorns. Order

these chicks from pedi—

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Barred oaks and other popular

breeds. Satisfaction guaranteed

Write for FREE

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our customers report.



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We have been carefully devel-

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YERSI That’s what you want.

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Chicks with Pep





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- My Club ”Experience





Success I 72 T wo Year: of Clué Activity

‘ .By Beatrice Marie Miller





0 state that I like .club work,

.think it“ a. very educational and

constructive pastime, is putting

it very mildly, indeed. It makes the





- farm life more attractive, because the





boyor girl whobelongs to a. club will

strive to Win a, prize, and in later

years they will never forget that

prize. Therefore, it will serve as a





 





Beatrice Marie Miller, Club Champion.





charm, to lead them on to be success-

ful farmers or farmerettes.



I have completed four terms of club

work, two of canning and two of sew-

ing. I wouldn’t part with all the

knowledge I’ve gained in these two

years for a great deal. I’ve been pres-

ident of the club for three terms and

certainly enjoyed the work. Last year,

out of canning, we cleared $17.50 and

this year $22. This was prize money

won at the state and county fairs. Our

club has six members.



Two years ago club work was new

to our community then. I was asked

to join a sewing club and certainly I

am very, very grateful to the people

who made it possible for me to enjoy

all this, and in time I hope to be in-

strumental in helping others to enjoy

club werk. .



That year I won first in the club and

second in the county, in sewing. The

next summer we had canning and I

won first in the club, third at the

Washtenaw county fair, and a. five

year subscription to the Michigan

Farmer. "



As our first year was such a suc-

cess, we decided to have second year

work. That winter I was ill, so did

not complete my sewing until the last

week, and didn’t finish - my report.

However, .I won third in the county.



As yet, the second—year canning

champion has not been decided. I

won first at our fair and my club also

won first. We had fifteen jars in the

Washtenaw county canning exhibit at

the Michigan State Fair, winning sixth

place there. ‘



Every girl is a potential home-mak-

er, therefore these clubs help her to

learn the household arts in a. pleasing

and scientific way. I now do all my

sewing, even to my tailored dresses

and suits. The canning is also all

done by myself, as I keep house for

my father on his farm.



Last summer my local leader, Mrs.

Iva Wheeler, and myself were invited

to M. A. C. during convention week.

I couldn’t help but notice the devotion

these county leaders had to their

work. If every club worker had the

opportunity to see their county leader

at that convention, I am sure they

would ork even harder to please

them. 9 have a. very congenial lead-





er, Mr. Watt, and he is thought much

of in his county. ,

One event which makes our club

work so enjoyable-and attractive, is

the club’s camp. We have so many

attending now that we have a week for

boys and one for girls. It certainly is

a. big success. It is called Camp Brink-

ett, after the man who gave it to the

Y. M, C. A., of Ann Arbor. We slept

in tents, but had a club house for eat-

ing and cooking. It is a pretty build-

ing Containing kitchen, pantry, “ball-





, I.

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room,” with a pretty stove fireplace





and a screened-in porch with tables

and benches for eating. We have reg-





ularhours for rising, exercises, eating, .





swimming,_ instructions, etc. Every

night we enjoyed a camp fire, with

songs and stunts, sometimes we had

marshmallows to roast. Among the

most interesting things we did was to

weave reed, baskets, judge canned

fruit, enameling, sewing,

things too numerous to mention. For

enjoyment We had the lake, hikes, lec-

tures‘, movies and a Victrola. for danc-

ing. We had one jolly good time‘.



All in all, I pity the young persons

who are not 4-H workers. I undoubt-

edly will enjoy club work for many a.

day in the futurHt least, I hope to

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Dear Uncle Frank:



.Oh, dear, Uncle Frank, I wish those

.dishes that are looking at me would

wash and dry themselves.





Uncle Frank, did you ever have to‘





help your mother do dishes before you

went to school?



.Wlll close my jabberbox.—~Your

niece, Verda Haase, R. 10-A, White

Cloud, Michigan.



You bet, drying dishes was often a

daily duty for me, because there were

no girls in our family. I dry them even





now because there are no girls in my .





family.

you do.





I often Wished the same thing





Dear Uncle Frank:



‘We have a dog called Capie, “some

dog,” I think.~ In the summer, if you

should look down our lane about five

o’clock you would see Capie coming

up the lane with the cows. He knows

that it is his job, and starts off with-

out being told. Sometimes whenl go

after wood he keeps jumping on me





 





The One with the Straight Face-‘is

Bernice Sting, of Gagetown.

until I give him a, stick. After he has

put it in the woodbox, he goes to the

cupboard and looks up at the 000le

jar and begs for a cookie—Your niece,



Pauline Richards, ,R. 3, Milan,'Mich-





Dogs do learn, don’t they? It seems.





to me almost as quickly as some chil-

dren. I think rewards help a. lot in

learning.

wood interestingto your dog.





Dear Uncle Frank:



My school is different than any of

those I have read aboutin “our page,”

so thought you would enjoy hearing-

about it. .



I went nearly through the ninth

grade in high school, which was eight

miles away. But the tuition and other

expenses were too much.





Last fall I started at a. new school."

It certainly is fine,

and I enjoy it so much. You have to .

be a real good student, though, for the





which is great.





passing mark is ninety. I’ve never

had to do any lesson the second time,

but I did get ninety once.



It is a correspondence school and I





am taking the Complete commercial-





course.





If there are any of my cousins whom . '

you know are taking any kind of a





correspondence course, wish you





would give me their names and ad—,;





dress. ‘ ,





"Then I am’not entirely devotedt‘o”





That cooky made carrying ’





business, but have some thoughts for

domestic things, for I also take a.

course in dressmaking and tailoring.

Then my mother teaches me to. cook.

Well, this letter is so long you will

never be able to get through if I don’t

stop soon, 'so will stop now.~Your

mece, Dorothy L Sowles, M. C., R. 9,

Kalamazoo, Michigan. ‘





In correspondence study‘ you have

to recite every lesson, and that is a

good thing, but you lack personal con-

tact which the regular school pro-

vides. I wonder how many M. C.’s

are .taking correspondence courses.





Dear Uncle Frank:





I have “long” nut-brown hair and

haven’t dreamed of donning a pair of

knickers. I live on,a farm but I don’t

care a lot about farm work.



0! you said to ”quit” the knicker

question and discuss if most boys are

rude to girls. No, I really don’t think

most of them are. Some do throw

some awful hard snowballs. In high

school they don’t have' very many

chances to do that, although my head

smashed one ball this fall before I

quit school. I was a “Soph.”—'Yours

niece, Ida Yoder, Ashley, Mich.





It’s a good thing the snowball was

smashed. It at: least showed your

head was harder. I wonder if girls

like “rough stuff” from boys?





Dear Uncle Frank: .



I wish you would have the ad-read-

ing contest in the paper more often,

as I think it’s like studying some les-

sons. That’s what I like, as I really

love school. . '



Please have your picture put in the

Michigan Farmer sometime, as I’d like

to see just what you look like, Uncle





Frank—I remain, your want-to-be—

niece, Tygne Kauppela, Ishpeming,

Michigan. '





, Once in a while we do find one who

really likes to study, don’t we? My

picture has appeared in the Michigan

Farmer, so most of you know what I

looklike.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





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THE WASHINGTON CONTEST . the place we go to is about three miles '



__ away. We also took some firewoOd



FIND that most of the Merry Circle for our stove, which we had to heat

boys and girls are good at straight- 0011‘ house _ . -



_ ening out jumbled messes. Hundreds We would Sit in our house till we

had the answer correct, but lacked in 53W a fiSh'Come through then we let

neatness, but even so, the competition _our spear dO-WD SIOW1Y toward the un-

was very keen. lucky fish. When'about a foot or less



The correct answer to the jumbled we gave the spear a. push and the fish

. was ours.

W9$203;:'Washington, Farming. The fish we are allowed to spear





u in ton, the father of are bluegills, sun fish, perch, calico

George Wash g . . bass, rock-rye bass, mud-bass, suckers,





red horse, carp, and pickerel- $10 00 PER

The place we put our fish house on 7 50, 000 CHICKS 100 AND UP



- - S l t, ulled no ks, of heavy layers on free range and. properly a ed to to oduc



,was in a sharp bend of the river, a $1330“; Sturdy 51111-115 C T r Dr 0





 

   

   

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   





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Our Leghorns are long, deep-bodied. wedge- SEND FOR FREE CATALOG

shaped birds. with Wide backs and low spread it describes our wonderful breedingestablisllment.

tails, big lopped combs and alert ey.es Birds it tells what and how to feed your chickens for;

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- banks. At the far end of the bend the White 461V Balg'cd Roclléshltgds, Black Minorcas . :33 g 15 g 140 :-

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We can save you money on Ancona and White Le

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insure your chicks for one week.





M. D. WYNGARDEN

R. 4, Box 80 Zeeland, Mich.





 





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First Prize, by Albert Alfredson,

Whitehall, Michigan.

our. country,- considered farming man’s

most noble occupation.”



I suppose many of you thought the

title is rather peculiar. It is. It should

have been “George Washington, Farm-

er,” but in the mixup “Farming” got Fourth Prize, by Mary Wert, Laings-

in instead of “Farmer.” burg, MIChlgah-



. . to the far end of the bend with a pole,

THE MESS CONTEST WINNERS. and drive them down and the fish

i - —— ‘ would come down very thick through

I, . HERE was nothing messy about the houses. We only speared the larg- . .

. the papers of the winners in this est, and every Saturday we brought Early Maturlng Baby Cthks

contest. They were just as neat as home our limit of bluegills and several





. - __ Early mniiliing means that 0111' stool: has been selected and mated to produce fowls capable of make

.they could be and were, of course, COI‘- Othel klnds' Kenneth Munson, M' C" ing high 1'e11111' records. Great winter layels from pill-o bled flocks under our own personal supervision.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





~ ' ' ' _ Thev are tarefully culled and mated 11nd trom 1101 M 111 011011 b1'1-01-kcrcls of high prodil-‘n' bl 0d 1'

rect They had to be that way In conSta’ntlne’ MIOhlgan Our best quality1V1ll‘iIcksl have Kecord blcisding oil bath sides. dB. P. Rocks, it. I. Reds.l 'W'. (1)! 110212:

- W. W1'andottes. V ion lorlls. 11(011218 ‘1nt prcpai to your 001'. 100 per cent live (11111111;- « [19¢

order to Win out in the Strong (30111 Write for illustrated (atalog and plicc list. LOW prices on quality chicks. $12.00 per'huniirgtlimziixd'up.

petition. Bank References. .

h k i ' w re: ' ‘ ’

T e 1110 ngirhtgilns $212: 6 CorrgJ-pafidencg Scramé/g The Keystone Hatchery and Poultry Farms, Lansing, Michigan

Helen Miller, R. 2, Alle an, Mich. REi another of those Cor- . .

MMM M M g. E . HUNDERMAN’ 5......

Michs . respondence Scrambles for $10 AND UP

Flash Lights you to take part in. Join in and 100 We arethfivy Ilg'rtitliucersqof firstt-gassoggicks. d Flocks on free range. Called by prnnrt.

Joe W. Wilson, 421 Charles Street, get a good Merry Circle boy or “magma?“ ‘e 9 my “am” 8" 9’ ‘0 W from this Ad and set Chicks W111- .011

. - Prices on 50 100 300

Easi’ LaDSing’ MiCh' glrl t0 correSpond Wlth‘ English S. C. White Leghorns .......... $6. 50 $12.00 $36.00 £52???)

Here is the way to do it‘ .1 Barred. Rocks. S. C. Red ............... 8.50 16.00 48.00 77,50

. . . Single (‘omb R I. Redss ................ 9.00 17.00 50100 82 50

Write a letter, addressmg 1t glixedrrchielIis——s10 per lgofstraigh-tz a s '

._ ‘ _ , 110 on ncuntms. e c'rence eelan tate Bank. Order td . Y '

. ‘Deal Merry CerleI‘.” 01' “Dear Free. HUNDERMAN snosn POULTRY FARM, Box 25. Zee1an3.aiwichi);ianfak° no Chances' catalog





 





Unknown Friend.”





Address an envelope to your-

self; that is, put your own name ‘

and address on it. Also put a FREE CHICK OFFER

two-cent stamp on it. 0“ 'r B



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one in another envelope. which 1:11.0151211‘1'1111. 81:11: 211:: Gate: 0:21:12 15:19::





' will surely Day you. PROGRES IVE i>o _ ‘ 1.?

should b'e.ad.dressed to Uncle Hm. Mgr" Iceland Mich 8 ULTRY FARM. P v41-

Frank, Mlchlgan Farmer, De<

troit, Michigan.





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Reed City, Michigan. letter belonging to somebody Large,HUSky CthkS





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" OWOSSO M10h.. Varieties. lrices on 50 0

, 100

f; Clarence H. Knapp, R 5, Owosso sent out. 8. c. White 11: Brown Leghorns$3. 50 $0.75 $13. 00 m 50 $120.30

’ . o o A

- Mich. Thls scrambhng Will be done Btiié‘i‘nais'hinge; """" 4:53 523 1333 0:23 {3803

. Fl H 1 (Dang-y.2 La M“ h March 14, so be sure to get your Asi'irttref scéiéf'issieei"1'2'00 ..... 10.0751 11 @1501 h 1113.00 50 00 ....'..

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‘1 Gertrude Verdéin, Samaria, Mlch. “ ’,

’ Merle Brunt, amaria, Mich. . . ‘ :l OVERI EAF

l Helen Shelby, Coleman, Mich. GOING AFTER PRIZES AGAIN.

lg, THE WINTER SPORT 1 LIKE BEST. ANISTEE county boys are again S. C. W. Leghorn Chicks

' T'T—T" taking cons1derable interest In . From carefully selected trap- nested stock that has years of good breeding back of it.





 





The kind that produce the winter eggs. From highest producing shock. at r

{851 (gm aggiduto 131171. Why pay meg? Is313uyl‘Clorerleaf" and see tunnelling-($31:

er cc ve eivery guaranee arce Post aid

ca a.talog cial discount on early order D to your door. Send for

CLOVERLEAeF POULTRY YARDS. R. r2-M.Zeel11nd, Mich. '





 





HE winter sport I, like the best is live stock club work and are looking

spearing. In winter, when the wa- forward to .as successful a year as

ter in the river is frozen about a half they had last, when one Of their num-





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





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HREE years ago the members

of the West Allegan Cow Test-

_, ing Association became disheart-

ened and discouraged; dissolution of

the organization seemed probable on

account of the lack of interest.

For the year 1923 this same associa-

tion, through its official tester, Leslie

A. Wilcox, turned in the highest asso-

ciation average ever achieved in Mich-

igan cow testing annals, according to

A. C. Baltzer, dairy extension special-

ist of MichiganAgricultural College.

Learning of the difficulties facing

the Allegan County Association, Prof.

O. E. Reed, head of the M. A. C. Dairy

Department, and Mr. Baltzer journeyed

to that county. They soon discovered

the source of the trouble to lie in the

way the association work was being

handled. A new tester was placed on





 

 

 

 

 

 





This Fve- year-old Grade Jersey Led

the West AIIeSQan Association by

Producing 601.5 Pounds Butter-fat.





the job and was given assistance for

a. day or two on the actual work, be-

sides. his two week’s course in the

work at the agricultural college.

Steady progress from that time

through a. succession of testers has

been the path of the association, With

the making of the present record as

the highest honor.

City Man Leads.



The average figures for the associa-

tion during the last year were 7,170

pounds of'milk and 335.9 pounds of

butter-fat on an average of 253 cows

for the entire year. A curious fact is

that the owner of: the high herd in but-

ter- fat production, C. S. Methven, of

Saugatuck, is a newcomer in the dairy

business, having been forced to leave

Chicago some years ago on account of

ill~hea1th. Mr.. Methven’s herd of sev-

en high—grade Guernsey, Jersey and

Holstein cows averaged 436.5 pounds

of fat and 9,340 pounds of milk for the

year, with a 4.67 butter-fat percentage.

Mr. Methven also owned the high cow

in butter-fat production, Bessie, a five

year—old grade Jersey, who checked in

a. record of 601.5 pounds of fat and

11,544 pounds of milk for a. butter-fat

percentage of 5.21.



Mr. Frank Lane, with a. herd of

twenty pure-bred and grade Holsteins,

took high honors for milk production

with an average of\ 10,357’ pounds,

while his cows also averaged 395

pounds of butter-fat. Lucille, a pure-

bred Holstein also owned by Mr. Lane,

was high cow in milk prOduction, with

a record of 16, 504 pounds of milk and

546.8 pounds of butter-fat. -



The standard reached by the asso-

ciation is shown by the fact that while

the average per association cow was

7,170 pounds of milk and 335. 9 pounds

of butter-fat, that of all Michigan cows

as shown by the 1920 census was but

3, 700 pounds of milk and 160 pounds

of butter-fat. . '



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Baltzer, also is well above the average





figures for Michigan cows, the figures

being 6,700 pounds of milk and 252

pounds of butter-fat. _ ,



The averages of the four poorest

herds in butter-fat in the Wést Allegan

Association, ranged from 231 to 286»

pounds, with an average of 257.3

pounds, as compared to the ISO-pound

average of Michigan cows, while the

milk production for the same four

herds was 5,218 pOunds as compared

to the 3,700-pound production of Mich-

igan cows.



A considerable amount of credit is

given by members of the college ex-

tension staff to the testers who handle

the work of the associations. Very

difficult conditions are often encount-

ered by them, which in the majority of

cases they surmount satisfactorily. An

incident frequently recounted has to

do with one tester, Merrick Johnson,

who happened to be forty miles from

his next appointment at the time of

the recent heavy snowfall which halt-

ed railroad and automobile transporta-

tion. Appreciating the necessity of

“being on the job,” however, the test-

er walked the forty miles through the

stormy weather and the drifted roads

in order to fill his appointment. .



Men Well Trained.



These official testers are carefully

trained by members of the college ex-

tension staff before taking positions.

They are taught that they must be of

the most possible‘service to the asso-





ciation members, that they must have ‘





a. keen interest in their work and in

the upbuilding of the dairy herds of

the state, and that these things, rather

than the actual record- keeping, are the

parts of their work of prime import-

ance.



They also aid the farmers with

whom they come in contact in matters

of feed and rations, help them in more

efficient /crop production, encouraging

the growth of alfalfa and other legum-

inous crops which serve the double

purpose of providing excellent feed

and at the same: time renew and en-

rich the soil, and they attempt to im-

prove dairy conditions in all possible

manners. Besides the records which

they keep of actual milk and butter-

fat production, they also compute the

amount of food used in relation to pro-





' duction, the value of the products, and





the returns on a cash basis from dif-

ferent methods of'dairying.



Work Shows Remarkable Growth.



Only eighteen years ago, at Fremont

in Newaygo county, Michigan, the first

cow testing association in the United

States was organized. On January 1,

1922, there were eight associations in

Michigan with a. total of 162 herds and

1,827 cows.

twenty-five associations with a total of

609 herds and 6,877 cows. On January

1, 1924, seventy-five associatibns were

Operating with a total of 1,562 herds

and over 22,000 cows under test.



In the West Allegan Association,

seven purebred bulls were purchaSed

during 1923, according to L. A. Wilcox,

tester, while one scrub bull and nine—





' teen cows were sold for beef purposes.





These “visitor” animals were slaugh-

tered because the testing work had

shown them unprofitable and undesir-

able.





These improvements in the Alleganl





,county herds are paralleled by the re

ports for all the associations in the

state, in which thirty-eight pure-bred





’ sires were purchased and 153 unprot- ,

itabl'e cows were sold out of the seen-p





ciationsgdurmg the year:





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care for that lower-priced surplus, the





C e observatibn of the methods





used {by} the association“ members

vwho‘ are making the best records;





is securing valuable data as to proper

1mm and methods of feeding, as -a





‘corrfllary to the testing work Rec-





ommendatiOns of the, M. A. C. exten-

sion staff based upon such observa-

tions are that 100 pounds of water, or

125 gallons, daily are neceSsary for

cows in milk,- and often larger quanti-

ties for high producers. About three

pounds of water are usually required

for one pound of milk. The use of

some means of heating the water, and





'of individual drinking cups has been

’_ found profitable in

~ among members.





several cases



It has also been found that one

pound of grain should be fed for each

three or three and one-half pounds of





‘milk produced per day, depending on





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"roughage used. Ground





limestone,

wood ashes and steam bone meal are

recommended as good sources cf min-

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. ume roughage is fed, about two pounds





of mineral mixture per hundred pounds

of grain mixture Should be used. ‘ Mix-

ing one pound each of wood ashes or

ground limestone, plus one pound of

salt in the grain has been found to

make a good home-made mineral mix-

ture.



As an evidence of the commercial

value of the cow testing association

work, the extension men point out that

at the fourth annual state sale of the

Michigan Holst’ein-Friesian Association

held February 4 at M. A. C., the cows

with cow testing association records

sold in every instance at higher prices

than other cows without these records.





League Buys Out Distributors





(Continued from page 343).





. fered them at their natural shipping'

. points.

. should share the burden for farmers





Nor do they see why they





whose natural outlet is to more re-





. mote cheese and butter factories, etc.,

The non-cooperating.





at IOWer prices.

distributors likewise think themselves





justified in making the most profitable

. arrangement





which. .the market af-

fords, which is that of non-cooperating

fluid milk.



The Dairy League, howevel, consid—

ers that these are both short- sighted

Somebody must





butter, cheese, etc., which if dumped

into New York as fluid would swamp

the market and bring disaster to the

entire dairy industry at the farming

end. The distributors could sit easy.





. They can take their toll, whatever the





farmer gets. The farmer bears the

brunt. The league farmer, therefore

is often somewhat bitter, (though less

so than formerly), at his Non-pool

neighbor who, while adding every day

to the surplus, refuse to help share

the cost it entails in lower-priced prod-

ucts. Under the circumstances the

officers of the league feel that they are

fully justified in invading the field of

the non-pool distributors, and estab-

lishing country shipping stations in

their territory, so as to provide league

fluid milk outlets for farmers who will

cooperate on the surplus.





All this has an immediate bearing

on the recent purchase by the league,

the Empire State Company being one

of the non—cooperating distributors,

(the most powerful in the field, in





i fact, next to Sheffiefd Farms), and one





of those into Whose territory the

league has “carried the war” by buy-

ing or building country shipping plants

in competition. This policy has crip—

pled the Empire State Company rather

severely, some country plants of the

latter, which formerly shipped a hun-

dred cans a day and upwards, being

reduced to ten or twelve. The com-

pany has, in fact, been obliged for a

considerable period to buy an import-

ant percentage of its supply from i11-

dependent outside sources, at advanc—

ed cost.



At the city end the Empire State

Company has suffered likewise through

the keen competition of the Borden

Company. The Borden Company, it is

to be remembered, has cooperated in

the league’s pooling policyfrom the

beginning, believing it to be the most

practical solution for the problem of

surplus, with justice to all concerned,

producer, distributor ' and ' consumer

alike. There can'b‘e little doubt that

in these circumstances the Borden

Company has increased its competi-

tivepressure on Empire State to get

it into line. The latter has thus been





. quite evidently suffering from unusu-

ally severe

both. at the city and country ends, and

.cin. each case from rivals far more pow-'

.erful than itself. .There would seem

- to be ample reason, thereiore. why it

fisht find it financially profitable to,





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sell out. In fact, it is reported that

the league could have bought the Em-

pire state property as far back as two

years 'ago, had it been so disposed. At

any rate, the sale has at length been

made, and to the company’s two most

powerful rivals.



A suggestive sidelight is thrown by

the fact that a day or two after the

sale, a restraining order was sought,

to stop it, by F. W. Fiske & Co., a

New York City concern having con-

tracts with the Empire State Com-

pany. Quite naturally, there are peo—

ple who infer that other forces beside

the Fiske Company are concerned in

the action. It is not believed that the

restraining order can be of serious

effect.



Another important point needs to be

made, in that the transaction indicates

quite plainly that the league has no

present intention of invading the field

of retail milk distribution in New York

City, as Cincinnati dairymen did’in

their field recently. The directors say

that they are not able to do this as

yet, for financial reasons. No doubt

this is true. But there can be little

doubt that they realize, in a way which

many league members who favor such

a step do not, what a tremendous,





giant’s job retail milk distribution in,





New York City is, on the scale the

league would need to embark on, to

make the more count. As it is, the

league appears to have taken a long

and sure step forward, which will put

new energy and confidence into every

member.





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NEW .contract plan has been



adopted by the board of directors

of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-

change. The plan includes five~year

contracts between growers and the 10-

cal cooperative marketing organiza-

tion, and, in turn, these local market-

ing agencies appoint the exchange

theii selling agency





The plan was worked out by Hale -





Tennant of the M. A. C. It will, in the

belief of its author, give the exchange

a definite basis 011 which to estimate

the supply of potatoes for disposal,

and further, it can release cars as fast

as favorable markets can absorb them.





The population of the world is in-

creasing about twenty million a year,

and of America about a million a year.





 





Price statistics indicate that it takes

about as much money to equip a farm

today as it did to buy the farm twenty

years ago. ‘





Rats fed meat, bread and potatoes

in the laboratories of the Ohio State

University, languished, lost thepower

to rear young, and died. But when fed

milk and vegetables, containing min-

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thrived. The same thing holds for





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LARGELY attended meeting of

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ganizations was held at the Tem-





' ple of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,





The American farmer must look be-

yond the three-mile limit for solution

of our agricultural problems, said Sen-

ator T. H. Caraway, of Arkansas, who

asserted that .the national position of

isolation regarding intercourse with

Europe should be abandoneduand that

the United States should aid Europe,

if only for the selfish purpose of estab-

lishing a world market. He declared

that the world was at war now just

as much as in 1918. France and her

dependent nations could put into ac-

tion the biggest army ever assembled.

Andwith this power she is determined

to control the destinies of Europe.



National Grange Plan.



The cooperative marketing plan now

being considered by a National Grange

committee was described by A. C.

Goss, of \Vashington State Grange,

who stated that the plan did hot con-

template putting the government into

business, but proposed an enabling act





that would aid the farmers to get to-.





gether and solve the cooperative mar-

keting problems themselves. .



A pooling system, a- method of

finance, and crop control are the three

prime objects of the plan. \Vhen per-

fected it would include a nation-wide

system of local cooperative marketing

associations, and state marketing

boards all correlated under a Eederal

Marketing Board, the aim being to se-

cure and maintain the even distribu-

tion of farm products, thereby Prevent-

ing dumping and glutted markets.



'The present plan provides for financ-

ing through the intermediate credit

banks. The committee has alSo decid-

ed that the Federal Marketing Board

lshouldw be separate and distinct from



the department of agriculture.





Cooperative Marketing Requires Ade-

quate Credit.



Declaring that any cooperative mar-

keting system will fail unless it in-

cludes a. credit system of its own, Sen-

ator Smith W. Brookhart, of Iowa, said

that there' is no law in the United

States that allows the esablishment of

a. cooperative bank that receives de-

posits; In fact, the government has

built up a banking system that pro-

hibits the organization of cooperative

banks. He advocated the Norris—Sin-

clair government financed government

corporation bill, but urged that itvbe

amended so as to make the corpora-

tion an agency through which farm

cooperative organizations could mar-

ket their crops. ' '





organization that ever marketed any-

thing by commodities, Secretary A. C.

Davis, of the National Farmers’ Union,

told the delegation. The union was

the pioneer in the cooperative market-

ing-of live stock, and is now doing an

immense business in commodity mar-

keting. In Kansas City alone the

Farmers’ Union does a livestock and

jobbing business amounting to more

than $7,000,000 annually.

Commented on Various Bills Before

Congress.



Senator Arthur Capper gave his

views on a number of important pro—

posals now before congress. The com-

mittee of agriculture, of whom he \is

a. member, has had an interesting ex-

perience, more than 200 representative

farmer leaders having appeared before

it. All conceded that something was

wrong with agriculture, but the out-

standing feature of the hearings was





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thé confusion of ideas, many at direct

variance. . . ‘



Of the several bills now before con-

gress for the reliefof agriculture, Sen»

ator Capper said the Goodlng price-

fixing bill was losing ground upon in-

vestigation. Some who once favored

the measure now doubt its wisdom.





There is a fair prospect that. the





_Norbeck-Burtness bill to encourage di-





versified agriculture in the northwest

may be passed. The Norris-Sinclair

bill providing a $100,000,000 corpora-

tion to enable the buying and selling

of farm products, Senator Capper

thought‘had more; merit than any of

the other proposals, and would come

nearer to working odt a, practiCal plan

for benefiting both producer and con-

sumer.



The McNary-Haugen bill has some

merit and strong support. Senator

Capper said there were some who fav-

ored the incorporation of the two bills

into one system. Congress, he said,

is going to try to work out with the

aid of the farm organizations, a work-

able measure that will establish a fair-

er relationship between what the farm-

er receives and What he pays. It was

disappointing to find farm organiza-

tions taking antagonistic views. If

there could be unity of point of view

it would help greatly.



Senator Capper said there Was go-

ing to he a .tax reduction program

enacted by this congress. Taxpayers

should have relief. He was in sym-

pathy with Secretary Mellon’s plan of

cutting down taxes to the extent of

$325,000,000. But he would not go as

far as Mellon in reducing the taxes of

millionaires. Reduction of surtaxes

from fifty to twenty-five per cent was

unreasonable. There can be reductions

all along the line. There is still some

sales tax talk in congress, but Senator

Capper thought it would be a long

time before. advocates of a. sales tax

can put it over on the people.



Furnishes Round-table Opportunities.



It was the purpose in forming the

National Board of Farm Organizations

to provide opportunity for all farm or-

ganizations to sit around a common

table and thresh out their differences

and thereby be able to present a unit-

ed front to congress, said John Mc-

Sparran, masterof the Pennsylvania

State Grange. There never will be a

real voice of agriculture until it comes

from the farmers themselves, and is

presented by the cooperating repre-

sentatives of federated farm organi-

zations.



Resolutions were passed favoring

legislation providing for the creating

of such agencies for marketing the

exportable surplusin such a. way as to

give returns to the producers on a.

pre-war basis, and an amendment to

the tariff act of 1922 relative to the

flexible provision, so as to require the

Federal Tariff Commission to base its

findings of facts on information and

recommendations on information pre-

sented only at public hearings.



Changes in the farm loan act to

raise the loan limit on permanent im-

provements from twenty to fifty per

cent on insured valuation, to restore





‘the election of six directors to the





board of each of the twelve land

banks, and to limit intermediate credit

banks’ margin on debentures to one-

half of one per cent and to put all

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chased by various members in the

cow testing associations.



~ Holsteins predominate in the high-

herd records and in the high-cow rec-

ords. Mr. v. C. Wilkinson, in the sm-





-had' the highest herd in butter—fat pro

duction for the state for the month of

January. His herd of six pure-bred

Holsteins averaged 58.6 pounds of fat

and 1607 pounds of milk.



The grade JerSey herd of L. Steig,

in the Ravenna-Muskegon Association,

follows with 5,802 pounds of fat pro-

duction. William Hoopfer in the Trav-

erse-Antrim Association has one of the

high-producing Guernsey herds. Other

high Guernsey herd owners for the

month of January are: Earl Heming-

way, of the Berrien Association, Mel-

vin Lyle, of the South Van Buren As-

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son-Parma Association, and J. O. Dob-

son, of the Leelanau Association.



A newrule is going into effect re-

garding re-test on high-producing cows.

Testers are requested to notify the

dairy ofiice immediately whenever a

cow is credited with more than ninety

pounds of fat in a testing period.



Other high butter-fat producing

herds are as follows: I. Koenings-

knecht, of the North Clinton Asso‘ciaa

tion, with purebred Holsteins; Wm.l

Curtis, of the Ionia-Lake, Odessa Asso—Li

ciation, with pure-bred Holsteins; C.

W. Johnson, of the Kent-Alto Associa-

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gan Association, with grade Holsteins.

Holstein cOws head the list in indi-

vidual high cow butter-fat production.

Four pure-bred Holsteins are credited



. with more than 100 poundsot‘ butter—

fat production for the January testing





J. Bowlby, of the Clinton-Shiawassee

Association; J.. E. Post, of the Gene-

, see No. 7 Association; William Schoof,

of the Macomb Association, and I.

_ Koenigsknecht, of the North Clinton

Association.

John Buth, of Kent-Alpine Associa-

tion; W. Rundel, of the Washtenaw-

- Saline Association, and D. D. Aitken,

of Genesee No. 3 Association, had high

producing pure—bred Holsteins, and P.

S. Jones, of the East Allegan Associa:

tion, had a high producing grade H01-

stein. C. W. Johnson, of the Kent-

Alto ASSociation, and Alvin Balden, of

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CCORDING to the report 'of Man-

ager Currie Christensen to mem-

b'érs at the annual meeting held at

Onekama, February 31, the Onekama

Farm Bureau local did business in

1923 amounting to $137,000 at a cost

of only seven per cent. This, accord-

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bureau, is among "the lowest costs of

doing business in Michigan.

Unfavorable conditions in the rasp«

berry season caused a slight drop in

the total business as against 1922.

Fred Bradford, of Arcadia township;

John Gould, of ‘Manistee township, and

Edward Laisey, of Brown township,

were re-elected directors from their

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Dam—A 25.7-11). three-year-old daughter

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22,445 lbs milk in 365 days.



A well grown. dark colored bull. His

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terest." One freshened November 12 and one is due

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Masonic Temple,





Registered Durocs





FOR SALE—«Young hours and gllts bred from the

best herds in Michigan and Ohio. at reasonable prtc~

es and fully guaranteed. W. E. Bartley.._A|ma. Mich.





C JERSEYS Spring pi'gs either sex of March



DIAJESI and May ran-ow, sired by ttil:reel“outcasts?hers

. It on want siz ty e an qua l ycom n



(1:108:11):i 23:2; or finite us 'Fr'g. lhod‘t. Monroe. Mich. R. I





i 1 Extra choice bred gilts

Duroc Jerseys]... mm... m...

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings, Mich.





Bred Sows. July and September gilts

Uuroc Jerssys at prices that leavo.no excuse for

breeding Scrubs or grades. Reg. and guaranteed.

JESSE BLISS 8t SON, Henderson. Mich.





UROC fall and spring boars of the best breeding

D and quality. 'at prices to sell. Fall pigs at. bar-

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



' Chester White bred sows and gilts.

Bl‘g Type Sircd by and bred to State Fair

prize winners. Lucian Hill. Tokenshs, Mich.





0 I C 9 15 spring pigs. pairs not skin. from

' ‘ ° 5 8 good sires. also fall pigs, recorded

free. Otto Schulze 5: Sons, Nashville. Mich.





‘ Stric Bi T with

0010C. & Chester Whltes QUAngfig 2yp8hoica

gilts with extra length. Bred for last March. Also

a few. Choice Sept. Pigs. NEWMAN'S STOCK FARM.

Mariette. Mich.





25 Reg. 0. I. C. Sows. Bred for April and May

Farrow. All StOck Shipped on Approval. Priced

Right; Fred W. Kennedy. B. 2. Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





Oil C’ Sept. pigs. Sired by "Giant Boy." Senior

-. - 3 Champion at West. Mich. State Fair. 1923.

Milo H. Peterson. R. 2. Ionic. Mich. "Elmhurst Farm."



3 choice bred gilts for sale





9

O- 1' C's at $30 each. Registered free.

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, Mich.





 





o l c 5 young service. boars. 8 gilts for April far-

. u . row, and Buff Rock eggs, $1.00 per 15 eggs.

Clover Leaf Stock Farm. Monroe, Mich.. R. I.





Hile’s Good Polands





Big, easy feeding. quality Polands. That's the kind

we like and sell. Bred gilts and sows for sale. A

hundred years of constructive breeding back of them.

WESLEY HILE. IONIA. MICH. . .





SPOTTED POLAND China yearling gilts. sired by

our 1923 blue ribbon winner Chicago Int'l. Bred to

son of Spotted Ranger. Boers and gilts all ages. High

quality. low prices. Keller 3. Jackson. Ohio City, 0.





 





 





Hereford Steers





78 Wt. Around 775 lbs. 84 Wt. Around 675 lbs.

86 Wt. Around 550 lbs. 102 Wt. Around 625 lbs.

(4 Wt. Around 600 lbs. 48 Wt. Around 500 lbs.



All dehorned. dark reds, good stocker order. One

farm practically out of . You can buy your

choice from either bunch. Real quality IIerefords

when finished are usually market toppers. Give num‘

her and weight preferred. VAN V. BALDWIN.

Eldon. Wappello Co.. Iowa. ,





HEREFORDS





lls, Heifers and Cows with Calves by side.

ular strains.

Kalamazoo,





Most

Weltnedge 8!"





Allen Bron. 6l6 s.





Mich.





HEREFORDS





Registered Breeding cattle. T. 8. Tested

. at practical prices for production of

. 5 Hereford Baby Beeves profitably. all ages.

.3 T. F. B. SOTHAM & sons

' ' Hercforda since 18.79)





(

St. Clair, Mich.





9 a o



. Thumb Hereford Breeders Assocnhon

can supply your needs with outstanding. well—bred

registered Herefords. either sexes. polled or horned

at reasonable prices. .Inqulre of E. E. WING. 8co-

‘lreao.. Bad Axe. Huron 00.. Mich. ,





B|BWEL SHORTHORNS





Revolution Jr. 573938



heads accredited herd

”17. Now ofl’ering 2 January roan bull

excegéional merit reasonablficpriced.





 

 

 





calves of

BID ELL Brook FARM. x 1). Tecumseh,Mioh





‘ ’ ' Milking Shorthorns. An accred-

Wildwood Famned herd bred for beef and milk.

:1 Headed by King Sales, grandson of Glenside, Dairy

Kins. Fresh ccws and heifers priced reasonably. Vis—

ltors‘welcome. Beland a Boland. Tecumseh. Mich.





Paved Road No. 50.

i of Red Polled Bulls,

"7-! Whgn In Need cm 01' Heifers, Bu

8“ Michigan's leading herd. owned by Westbroo

., Mg “Ilia-"Mich. ~ . ..





. fi‘ .Polled Shorth‘u'ns $5.13





as r”:

. . . IIOG .

“all Ste. Marie. Mich. ‘





Bred gilts‘. Fall pigs. either sex.





 





 





L0 T- P' C0 Brown Swiss Bull, Calved 4-29-23.

A. A. Feldltamp, Manchester. Mich.

‘ either sex, by the great Boar. The

Fan PIES Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

of dams. W. E. Livingston. Parma. Mich.

Four bred Hampshire Sows and

For Sale Herd Boar. Wonderful individ-





uals from excellent breeding lines. Morley E. 00-

borne. Sun Haven Farm, Howell. Mich.





. - Brod gilts, spring and fall'boars.

HamP hll'e at bargain prices. 12th year. Write

your,wants. John W. Snyder. R. 4. st. ‘Johnl, M$lh





' 0! Best Blood lines: 100 Bred Gills

Hampshire: and flows. some fine Boers. Luck-

hard’l Model Farm. Bach. Mich.





 





 





SHEEP

Choice Bred Ewes





400 for sale in cariots. yearlings to solid' mouths.

black-faced, in good condition, bred to lamb April

10th. Located 25 miles south of Detroit on Detroit

& Toledo Electric, and on Dixie Highway. Telegraph

Address, Rockwood. Phone Newport. Post. Office.

South Rockwood. ALMOND B. CHAPMAN It SON.





Cotsvvolastred Ewes





at farmer’s prices. A. M. BORTEL. Britten. Mich.





10 Head Registered Shropshire ewes of excep-

tional quality. Bred for last of

March and April. C. Lenten &.Sons. Dexter. Mich.





 





 





 





'* Houses





0komou. (Inoham 60.). Mich.

FOR SALE—One imported Black Percheron 8%;





lion, sound in every way. and a gore Breeder.

Bickel. Frankemnuth. Mich. q.





TRY a Michigan Farmer

Classified. Liner. = They

bringresult's." -” ‘





 





 





 





 





Kalamazoo. Michigan





Reg. Percheron Stallions .‘32. 23”; "ii 333?; '4





DUAL-QUALITY CATTLE.





, HERE has not been a. period in

‘ the twenty-odd years of our ex-

perience with beef cattle when thede-

mand for milking ability has been so

insistent. ,

We attribute it mainly to the fact

that the farmer generally is in need

of ready money and wants something

that will provide a. quick tu’rnover.

The cow with the big milky udder

helps to provide a regular income and

at the same time plays an important

part in sustaining the family. She has

been a life-saver for many during the

past few years.

The strictly

some time .to turn her feed into cash.

She requires little attention and de-

mands little food, but withholds the

returns until her calf grows to market-

able age. Nevertheless, there are farm-





 





 





beef cow must have-





between hogs and feed may be much





different. ‘ - '

Remember the essentials for strong

pigs—exercise, some. bulky feed, a bal-





anced ration, and minerals. Give them'





alfalfa, clover or corn silage; let them

work over the stable waste-s for bulk

to keep the bOWels in a healthy con-

dition and for the needed voluntary

exercise; add a little ~tankage, not

over half a pound per day, and keep a

mixture of minerals, consisting of

ashes, salt, sulphur, lime, and acid

phosphate or steamed bone if no bet-

ter is available—Pope.





-GETTING COWS 'TO EAT WHAT

' THEY SHOULD.

OWS, like people, are creatures of

habit. They eat most of what they

like best, if they can choose their diet.

It is very natural for them‘to consume





 





 





She Gives a Tolerable Flow bf Milk‘ and’Raised a Good Calf.





ers all aboutus who prefer to stake

their future largely upon beef produc-

tion. It is well that this is so. It is

not easy to preserve the proper bal-

ance between beef and dairy products.

Beef cattle at the present time are too

plentiful for the “good of the industry.

The greatest. danger to the future of

the dairy industry isoverproduction.



As a. compromise to changing times,

and as a means of . playing .safe

through all vicissitudes; comes the

wide demand for good, big, beefy cows

that are capable of producing prime

steers, and that swing quality‘udders

full of milk. - -





Skim-milk calves with beef quality

bred into them, raised largely upon

rough feed and pasture, and flniéhed

in their twoyear—old form, make beef

that commands high prices and the

production of it is economical. ’



Dual-purpose cattle should not be

confused with no—purpose cattle. They

should have records of 6,000 to 8,000

pounds of milk, and look well, before

they are worthy of ' the name. The

country is full of the no—purpose kind

and they are responsible for keeping

the state’s average annual milk pro-

duction down around 4,000 pounds.

They make no profits for their Owners

but their production, in the aggregate,

if both beef and milk, is so great as

to create the surplus that holds the

market down. Economic conditions

will eventually force-both them and

their owners out Of business and the.

sooner the better for all concerned.

-—Pope. '





 





DO NOT NEGLECT THE BROOD

. SOWS.





AKE care of the brood sows now



and the pigs will take care of

themselves next Spring. '4 Prices are

not such as to encourage much inter-

est in the hogs .now, to be sure, but

the crop of pigs that is ‘how rin‘the

mking‘will‘not-be”ready*forvp‘iarket.





 





' until next fall when the.price“r§fli§tibni





 





first the food that is most. palatable.

In searching for the finest morsels,fa.

delicate feeder often throws her feed

about in. the manger until it hashe-

come soiled or mussed up, and then

refuses to eat the amount necessary

to produce her maximum flow of milk.



The appetite of a cow depends upon

the condition of the digestive tract.

Often the digestion becomes sluggish

from’an excess of food low in digesti-

ble nutrients. The way to overcome

this condition is to feéd something

that will keep the digestive organs ac-

tive.» Silage will do this. So will

"roots. Succulent food is,

important when teaching the cow to

consume the required amount of the

foods she should have—L. R.





GIVE THE BREEDING ewes

FRESH AIR.





HEEP like fresh air and sunshine.



It allowed to run at will they sel-

dom seek protection from chilling

winds and cold weather.

their fleeces are kept dry, they ’enjoy

freedom.



My experience has been that there

is danger of housing breeding ewes

too closely during the winter months.





,Like many other flock-owners, I have





on. cold stormy nights closed the doors

and neglected .to open windows for

ventilation. The following merning

the air would be ‘distressingly foul.

This, 1am thoroughly convinced, is

not for the best health of the animals.



Breeding ewes need every advan-

tage. Fresh air is not only essential

to their well-being, but it costs little

or nothing to provide. Opening the





windows from the direction opposite.





to the prevailing winds generally will

give the result sought. This arrange-

ment prevents draughts. which caus

colds—L. C. R- ~





Those wmy and 1.1.3...

lectual ., power speed 11911193}? " i '

WWW! chassis: catch 'm

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Here’s what you get when you buy





Guaranteed lyngarden

BABY cIlIGKS





(1) Pedigreed stack. sired by

males whose dams had records of

260 to 289 eggs per year. and grand«

dams 298 m3 304 eggs (2) 100 per

cent live delivery. (3) Chicks guar-

anteed to be healthy. (4) Absolutely

pure- -bred. (5) Absolutely no culls.

(6) Stock that withstands winter. cold

as well as summer heat. (7) Free

entry in our annual flock perform-

ance contest. whereby you may ob—

tain 200 of our best Barron Eng-

lish White Leghorns free.



We know the duality of our

stock because we maintain 42

hatchery farms of our own. instead

of buying eggs wherever available.



Sired by Hollywood and Funk



Far Males

White and mBrown Lephorne.

Anconae.

- Send for our catalog and read full

particulars of the Wynoarden‘ strain.





‘3 Wy n Jardefl zssLAND.MIcH.





NA 71‘”! RV 5 PARKS





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





 





 





Breckenridge Chicks





Are Winners

Da -old chicks from strong. vigorous

110ng which haIe been carefully culled

and extra selected standard male birds

~Barred Rocks. R. I. eds and White

Leghorns. We guarantee 100 per cent

safe carrival. Write us for price list

BRBE6I(ENHIDGEc NATGHERY. J. c. Borneo. Prop.

x35i. Breckenridge. Mich.





   





 





.... .. “flog p ~ .

mend. “as %

Rhoda mlehn‘ndm Whites ammgs'

e bred.

elm sleek. mgmlly culled and

“toluene your tingchiekltbat

willbeoooylo robe. ievelop





 

   

 





 





 





100.000 Highest Quality Cerium Baby

Chicks. Improved Sheppard Strain S. C.

Auctions—hard to beat. Winter and Burn-

mer, English Strain S. C. White Leghorns - . ~

All our Leghorns mlted with kaerels -

lromE . E. Shaw Champion winning son at M. c.

I923 laying contest“ Personally culled and rated by

experts and certified by Michigan Baby Chick Asso-

ciation. Guaranteed I00 per cent live delivery. Cat-

alog Free. Take no chance with just as good. but

got your best foundation pure- -bred stock from The

Reliable Poultry Farm d. Hatchery. Paul De Groot.

Mon. R. I. Dept. P, Iceland. Mich.





Certified Chicks





at popular prices. We won 1st and 4th prize

this year on English strain White Leghorn

- Hen at the National Poultry Show. Chicago.

- she first at Zeeland Poultry Show Other

breeds have had same careful supervision in

developing and breeding. Pue- bred stock

carefully culled. 100 per cent Iive arrival guar—

chitks are money makers and

will improve your flock Write for catalog and prices.

A trial will convince y.ou A311 flocks certified.

AMERICAN CHICK FARM..B ‘. Its-A. Iceland. Mich.





BEST CHICKS





 





 





 





. pasturing it with hogs.





STURDY CHICKS





 





at Low Prices





Candles-{meshing describ-

chicks in the





 





Euler ~i‘red'erlchu Poultry Earl. Box 20 Holland. lick





FREE FEED “Just-Rite”

mu CHICKS



"Vli‘x‘ Most Profitable Varieties.

- s Tragpest- Exhibition. Pedi ee.

utNevr fleet let's":

Sun Eflnliayinng Contests: mason;

, gcflgw'nd 91 per Lean: 'llv:arrl m, use-3%

m1 mecisted.





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PURE BRED CHICKS





Real producers. Flocks culled by

breeding stock.





 





 

 

 

 





 





100. $15; 600, $72.50. Wh. Leg-

horns. Anconas. 50. $7: 100. 813;

500. 862.50. ughorns are Barron

stock. None better. 100 per cent

live delivery guaranteed Order from

this ad and get chicks when you

want them You take no chances.

Rue! McLachlin State Bank, this city.

Petersbursb Hatchery. Petereburch. Riel.





Whitaker’ s Reds Choirs '1





And eggs for hatching. Rose S cm



Inchigsns greatest color and egg strainin‘lBred from

cancer-Ma fwinter layers. Write for free



catalog incomes Fawn. Box 38. Lawrence. Mleb.





 





 





 





”mm ROCK. Inglleh Strain Whit. Lel-





 





. I . van l.‘ nr '9’" B. .2. 8- Fe "‘"'“I '-E





Barred Rocks. 11. l. Beds. 50. 88;,





" Lseuumous'romcs‘.





behooves us to look well towardthe





. economy of production. We are think-





ing especially now of the hog busi-

ness. We people who grow hogs as

a. part of our yearly program do not

quit just' because the price is low,

neither do we like to produce them at

a. loss. '





Fortunately, it happens that the

most economical methods of pork pro-

duction, are very closely allied to the

practice that keeps the hogs in the

best health and condition. Perhaps

there is no one thing that means so

much to the hog'and‘to the hog grow-

er, to the hog’s health, and cheap

pork production, as fresh leguminous

forage.-



It is doubtful, also, if there is any

way in which such forage can be made

to yield a. greater net return than by

/A friend of

mine found by keeping careful records

some ten years ago, that after taking

off the first cutting of clover and turn-

ing the hogs into the second growth





tober, they gave a net cash return for

the clover of $24 per acre, and left

the field exceedingly rich besides.





Alfalfa is without a. peer as a satis-

factory forage for hogs. We shall

make the greatest possible use of it

this year. Clover is a close second.

We try to plant a year or more ahead

so that we will have available a. fresh

seeding of one of these choice forage

crops that we can turn over to the

hogs as early in'the spring as the

growth is well started. It often re-

quires some extra. fencing, but it pays.





You will note we said “fresh” for-

age. More and more We are learning

the importance of sanitation in hog

lots and buildings. Worms and lice,

perhaps the greatest handicaps with

which hogs have to contend, flourish

exceedingly in filth. Worm eggs by

the million abound in old hog lots, and

they are fatal to young pigs. Two

years is usually long enough for hog

lots to stand without the plow—Pope.





KEEP THE ANIMALS COMFORT-

ABLE.





HE careful stockman will see to





able. It is not always an easy matter

with the mercury hovering low and

the wind exceeding the speed limit.



The man who has had his own best

interests in mind has looked well to

the little things that mean animal

comfort before the cold arrives. Nev—

ertheless, there are always plenty of

things around a barn full of live stock

that need- doing from day to day.





We talk a great deal about quality

in cattle, or hogs, or sheep, but it mat-

ters little what the quality may be if

the animals do not get quality care,

profits will be conspicuous by their

absence. The margin of profit is small

enough these days, even with a com-

bination of good care 'and good live

stock, but, of the two, good care is

most important. ‘





There are a thousand and one things

that may be considered under the

head of good care, but they may all be

summed up in the one word, “com-

fort.” The stockman who has a heart

and an eye for business will look well

to the comfort of his charges, and will

not himself rest in comfort if they are

not. In complete rations, damp beds,

drafty living quarters, are not condu-

cive to creature comfort. If you want

to know the effect these things have

on animals, try them yourself.~—O.

Dobbins.





If men understood domestic econ-

omy half as well as women do, then





tire consequent statecraft would not





"be the futile muddle which it. is. —-’Jas.

Stephens.





 





 





a.





N. these days of narrow margins it »





from July until marketing time in Oc-'





it that his live stock is comfort-'





their political economy and their en- '





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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DISPERSAL SALE

of Registered Holstein Cattle





at Battle Cr ek, Michigan

‘ON THURSDAY, MARCH 20th, 1924





The entire herds of 'l‘. W. Sprague and John Rolfe comprising about 75 head of well- bred registered

Holstein cattle will be dispersed at the John Rolfe farm near Battle Creek Michigan. on Thursdny.

March 20th.1924.



In this sale will be the 31- lb. cow. Princess Vale Pietartle-



The. 3l-lb. yearling bull, Wolverine Prince Echo.



The 30-1b. 3-year-old herd bull, Traverse Echo Sylvia King Segis.



A daughter of the 30-1b. bull, -King Korndyke llengerveld Ormsby.



Two daughters of the only Living (‘entuary Sire Maple Crest Korndyke Fengerveld.



Eleven granddaughters of King of The Pontiacs.



Iix daughters of the 3-0 lb. bull. Judge Walker Pietertje.



S 81st yearling daughters and six heifer calves, out of the 30 lb. herd sire. Traverse Echo Sylvia King

e s.



Also numerous well- bred animals that space does not permit us to mention.



If interested. write for a sale catalog to

JOHN W. ROLFE. R. F. D. No. 9. Battle Creek, Mich.

WILBUR SPRAGUE. R. F. D. No. 9. Battle Creek..Mich..

W. R. HARPER. Middleville. Mich.





Colonel D. L. Po ry. Auctioneer.





Columbus. Ohio

From World's





c H I c K Greatest Layers





If you want pure bred chicks that are bred right, hatched right,

and shipped right. that grow and will make you a profit, get our new

low prices and free catalog before you buy.





Tom Barron White Le orns Heavy Type Brown Leghorns

R. 0. 8: s. c. Rhoda sland Reds Park' _s Barred Rocks





Flocks are carefully culled and developed on free range. All chicks are

hand picked and' ms ected. nocripples or weaklings. Every one strong

and health. Satls action and 100% live delivery guaranteed. Post-

age paid. rite now for our low prices and free catalog. White

Leghorn and Barred Rock pullets after May 1. at low prices.





KNOLL’S HATCHERY, R. R. 12. Box M. HOLLAND. MIC".





Royal Egg-Bred Chic ks





S. C. English Type White Leghorns and Brown Leghorns





You want strong, healthy chicks that grow fast into heavy producing Leghorns. You can have these

chicks from us at a very reasonable prite.01d (ustomers took over 65 per cent of our Chl(k3 last ym

H. A. Burke, of Green Bay Wis” writes he had 70 per cent production during Dec. and Jan.. 22 below

zero, of chicks bought from us May lst. 1923 12 years of breeding for heavy egg production. Carefully

selected breeders. headed by large, vigorous males and many years of successful hatching and shipping

chicks. gives you chicks that will bring you suc cs.es 100 per mm live arrival guaranteed. Catalog price

list free. Write today. ROYAL HATCHERY AND FARMS. S. P. Wlerema. R. 2. Zeeland. Mich.





Better Chicks & More of Them





ell kept well fed. free range heavy laying flocks. Barred Rocks. 50. $7. 75: -

100 m$2lw5: 500, 372.5; Anionas 50. $6 75; 100. $13; 50. $62. 50 White Leghorns. 50.

35. 7:5 100. $ll: 500. $52. 50. Odtl‘ direct from ad. saving time and money. Our nine

years' experience hatching and selling Chicks. your best protection. 100 per cent





live delivery guaranteed. Good reference.

Holland, Mich.





.DlLlGENT HATCHERY,





orto





W. R. Harper. Sale Manager

Middleville, Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





   





 





 





 





Additional Poultry Ads. on Page 383
GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Wednesday, March 5.

Wheat.





Detroit..—-No 1 red $1.14 , No.2

red $1.13%,; No. 3 red -.$11 ; N02

white $114174; No.2 mixed $1. 131,4.

Chicago. ——May $1.11%; July $1. 11%

September $1.12 374;



Toledo ——Cash $1.14@1.14%.



Corn.





Detroit.—-——Cash No. 2 ellow at.83c:





No.4 yellow 800; No. , 73@75c, No

6. 70@720

Chicago. «811/80; July 81%0; Sep-





tember 81%0.





Oats.

Detroit. —Cash No. 2 white at 520;

No 2, 500.

Chicago. ——May at 48940; July 46%c;

September 42%0.





Rye-



Detroit. —-Cash No.2, 710.



Chicago. ——May 717/80; July 735/30.



Toledo. -—-70’1,éc.



Barley.

Barley, malting 76c; feeding 720.

Buckwheat.



Buckwheat—New milling at $2.10

per cwt.



Beans.



Detroit—«Immediate and prompt

shipment 4. 65m 4 70 pe1 cwt.



Chicago. —Choice pea $5. 40; red kid-

neys $7. 60



New York. —Choice pea at $5. 75@6;

red kidneys $7. 60@7. 45.



Seeds



Detroit—Prime red clover cash at



$11.75, alsike $8.80, timothy $3.85.

Hay '



Strong—No. 1 timothy $23.50@24;

standard and light mixed $22.50@23;

No.2 timothy $21@22; No. 1 clover at

$20. 500121; No. 1 clover mixed $20. 50

@21; Wheat and cat straw $11. 50@12;

rye straw $12. 50@13.



Feeds.



Bran $32; standard middlings $33;

fine do $34; cracked corn $33; coarse

cornmeal $37; chop $35 per ton in

.100-lb. sacks.





Apples:

Chicago—Barrels, “A” grade Green-

ings $5@5.25; Jonathans $5.50@6;





Grimes $3; Spies at $5@5; Kings

$4@4.50; Baldwins $4@4.50; Spitzen—





berg $4

WHEAT





The wheat price level has shifted

but little in the last ten days. Mean-

while, the process of merchandising

the remainder of the crop continues

and the conditions which usually bring

about a spring advance promise to be

operative in some degree later on.

With wheat showing no pronounced

upward trend, flour buyers see no rea~

,son to buy ahead. But, the current

demand is sufficient to maintain mill

operations at about the same rate as

has prevailed since early in December.

Choice milling grades of wheat are

commanding substantial premiums. If

the wheat market were to start up-

ward, flour buying‘ would probably

broaden. Growing weather will be

needed to show how well the crop has

wi'htered, although complaints are nu-

merous. Conditions in Kansas and Ne-

braska are reported favorable but east

of the Mississippi, and in Oklahoma

damage undoubtedly has occurred.





CORN





The corn market is full of uncertain-

ties which afford both bulls and bears

plenty of ammunition with which to

defend their faith. It is believed to be

holding back a lot of corn which will

be fed on the market during the spring

and summer.



0n the other hand, it is pointed out

that disappearance from commercial

channels in the last four months has

been so great that much less corn has

accumulated at terminals than a year

ago; that the heavy movement will be

over in two or three weeks; that the

cash demand is still absorbing all the

good corn without difficulty; that farm

disappearance has been heavy because

of so much soft corn and so much live

stock and that feeders are outbidding

terminals in many sections.





OATS





Oats prices are fluctuating with

corn. Disappearance of cats from

' commercial channels since August 1

has not been qbite as great as in the

- grevious year, ut farm disappearance



as been heavier, if private estimates

‘-' of farm reserves are correct. Heavier

feeding of oats would mean some sav-





ing of corn. Seeding of cats is mak-

ing slow progress in KanSas and Ok-

lahoma owing to wet weather and the

condition of winter oats 'in the south-

east continues unfavorable.





ANS





Bean prices declined further last

week as deliveries at elevators 'in-

creased moderately and demand was

light

not increased a great deal as buyers

were disposed to move their bids

downward. Dealers believe that the

market will not lose much further

gnound for the present, however.

Choice hand- -picked whites were quot-

ed at the close of the week at $4. 75

per 100 pounds f. o. b. Michigan, with

light red kidneys at $6.85 and dark

reds at $8.25. Pintos are quoted at

$4.25 f. o. b. Colorado shipping points.





SEEDS





The cloverseed market declined

further last week, but a more stable

undertone is apparent. Prices are

more than $2 a bushel below the high

point of the season and this fact, as

well as the arrival of the seeding sea-

son, has stimulated the cash demand.

Shipments of red clover and alsike

seed from producing sections were 25

per cent and seven per cent, respect-

ively, less than in the preceding year.

Timothy shipments decreased eight

per cent but sweet clover increased 98

per cent and alfalfa 23 per cent.





FEEDS





Feed prices are firme1 than a week

ago as lower prices attracted heavier

buying. While sp11ng l1ke weather has

ariiv ed in some sections, fai1ly heavy

consumption of feeds will continue for

another month. Stocks of most feeds

and the rate of p1oduction are ample

to prevent much advance in values,

however, and the general trend is very

likely to be downward





POULTRY AND EGGS





Egg prices declined persistently last

week as receipts expanded rapidly





Eggs will begin to accumulate in stor- ~





age in another week or two. Arrivals

will treble 'in volume in the next two

months, but the premium on fresh

eggs over the probable storing level

is so small that further declines in

prices Will be slight. Instead the mar-

ket may have a moderate rally or two

in the next month. At the low levels

prevailing toward the close of the

week, demand increased perceptibly.



Chicago—Eggs, extras 29fij30c; mis-

cellaneous 22'1/2@23c; dirties 22c;

Checks 211:; fresh firsts 231/2@23%c;





Even at the decline sales were»





ordinary firsts 21@220. Live poultry,

hens 24%c; springers 26c; roosters at

17c; ducks 27c; geese 16c; turkeys

20c a pound.



Detroit. ——Eggs, fresh candied and

graded 25@25%c; Pacific Coast stand-

ards 30c. Live poultry, heavy spring-

ers 26@28c; light springers 22@23c;

heavy hens 27@28c; light hens 22@

23c; roosters 16p; geese 19@20c;

ducks 26@30c; turkeys 25@30c.





BUTTER





Butter prices declined further last

week. The break was partly seasonal

but was accelerated by a lack of con-

fidence on the part of dealers. Pro-

duction reports show a substantial in-

crease over last year. Receipts at the

leading markets are rather heavy and





are increasing practically every week,





and further shipments of foreign but-





ter arrived with additional quantities -





on the way. Consuming demand re-

mains excellent but some reduction in

the price level probably will be neces-

sary to keep stocks- moving, although

there will be numerous upturns due

to over- -discounting the future. While

the trend is downward the decline

from this level should be an orderly

one. Prices of fresh creamery butter

were: Chicago, 92- -score 480; New

_York 481,40. In Detroit fresh creamery

in tubs sells for 47@471/zc.





WOOL





The mills are not buying wool with

freedom but are picking up occasional

lots to take care of immediate needs

and prices are fully steady. Appar-

ently manufactu1e1s will wait until





the new clip is pressing on the mar— ,





ket. Some contracting is reported in

the west at prices ranging around 40

@420 for fine and medium clips. Both

buye1s and groweis, however, are in-

clined to be conservative so that the

volume of trading thus far has been

small. Foreign auctions are still

stiong as a slight decline in the de-

mand has been offset by smaller offer-

ings in primary ma1kets. .





POTATOES





Stocks of potatoes available for ship-

ment on January 1, 1924, were 22 per

cent less than a year previous. Since

that date about 29 500 cars have been

shipped, compared with 33, 200 cars a

year ago. On this showing, present

stocks should be much lighter than a

year ago. Potato shipments have ex-

panded sharply in the last week. A

substantial percentage consists of seed

stock, however, and prices of table

potatoes have held fairly steady with

a little weakness in northern whites





 





I Live Stock Market—ServiceJ





 





Wednesday, M arch 5.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 29,000. Market fairly ac-

tive; steady with yesterday’s best

kind. All interest buying. Bulk good

225 to 300 lb. butchers, $7.40@7.50.

Tops $7. 50. Bulk 160 to 210-lb. aver-

age $7. 20@7. 50. Packing sows $3. 25@

66.5 Killing pigs unchanged. Bulk

strong weights $5.50@6.15.





Cattle _



Receipts 9,.000 Beef steers higher.

Live weights strong to 25c up. Practi-

cally all grades showing advance. Top

matured steers $12. 00. Bulk $8. 45@

10.50. Shippers demand for weighty

bullocks. Stockers and feeders 10@

15c up. Other classes steady. Vealers

tending lower.





Sheep and Lambs



Receipts 10,000. Market very slow.

Few early sales killing lambs steady.

Few early sales good fat wooled lambs

$15. 75(u>16. 00. Odd lots common to

medium lambs $14.00. Good and

choice ewes $9. 7 5@10.00. Choice shear-

ing lambs $15.50.





DETROIT

Cattle.

Receipts 448. Market Very slow.

Good to choice yearlings. $ 8. 50@ 9. 50





Best heavy steers ....... 8. 00@ 8.50

Handyweight butchers . . 7.25@ 7.75

Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 6.7

Handy light butchers. 5.00@ 6.0

Light butchers . . . . . . . . . 4.00@ 5. 0

Best cows 5.00@ 5.5

Butchercows........... 4.008 45

Cutters IOIIOOIOOOODOOOO. 300 305





Canners 2.50@ 3.00

Choice bulls 5.00@ 5.75

Bologna bulls ...... . . . . . 4.50@ 5.50

Stock bulls ........ . . . . . 4.00@ 4.75

Feeders ................ 5.50@ 6.25

Stockers .......... . ..... 5.00@ 6.00

.Milkers $ 45@ 80





Veal Calves.

Receipts 856. Market opened steady

closing 50c lower.

..$13 00@13. 50





. . . .' ............. 6. 00@12. 00

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,079. Market steady.





Best lambs .............. $16. 00@16. 15



Light to common ....... 10. 00@12. 00



Fair ................. . 1 . 12. 25@14. 50



Fair to good ............ 9. 00@10. 00



Culls and common . . . . . . 3. 00@ 4.00

Hogs.





Receipts 2, 863. Market steady to 50

lower. -





Mixed and heavies ....y..$ 7.60

Pigs-neo-eeeeueoeeeeeo‘o "6.25

Roughs‘..................





. 6300

Yorkers 7.25@ 7.60





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BUFFALO





Cattle

Receipts, five cars; slow.

Calves, $14 "

Hogs

Receipts, 25 cars; higher; pihgs and

yozékers, 7. 85@8; pigs and lights 6@

. Sheep

Receipts, 10 Cars; steady; top lambs.

:16. 4,0 yearlings, 14?

10 50@11; ewes,$9 7





. 2 hatches weekly.





 





which are quoted at $1.15@1.25 per‘





100 pounds sacked in Chicago for U.

S. No. 1 Bulk of round whites are

bringing $1. 25@1. 35.





DETROIT CITY MARKET .





Cabbage is becoming scarce. Car-

rots were ready sellers, while pars-

nips, turnips and beets were bought

sparingly. Buying of horseradish was

light. . Potatoes were in liberal supply,

but the movement was slow at 85@90c

a bushel. The liberal supply of apples

sold slowly. Poultry sales were most-

ly retail, and eggs sold slowly with

prices lower. There was little demand

for veal and hogs. '



Apples, fancy $2 w2.5 bu; No.

$1. 25@1. 50 bu; bees $1. 25@1. 50 bu

cabbage $1. 50@1.75 bu;

bu; carrots $1.50

dozen; parsnips

toes 85@950 bu; root celery $1.25

1.50 bu; rutabagas $1 bu; turnips

@1. 50 bu; vegetable oysters 75c d0zen

bunches; eggs, wholesale 40c dozen;

retail 40@500 dozen; hens, wholesale

280 lb; retail 30@34c lb; springers,

wholesale 26@27c 1b., retail 27@30¢

lb; veal 19c lb; hogs 11c lb.





22 bu; celery 500 a

25@1. 50 bu; pota-





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Holsteins.





March 20. —-—DiSpersal sale of T. W.

Sprague _& John Rolfe, at Rolfe farm

near Battle Creek. W. R. Harper,

Sales Mgr., Middleville, Mich.





Why Plod Along





When you can become independent by

’ raising DE L Prize Wnning

strain of SilverE Foxes. You can

produce more wealth on one



acre than from one hundred

acres by dairying or grow-

ing any farm crop.





Let Us Show You





‘- How Silver Fox Farm-

ing will ad to your financial independence in just

a few years. It requires only an initial investment

of $200 to $500





THE BIG SECRET OF SUCCESS



Don’t let the boys leave the farm or be-

come discouraged. We give full instructions for start.-

ins you or the boys in this simple but profitable line

or live stock farming and also offer consultation with

our practical fox experts of all times. We will be

glad to be best to you and your family at one of our

modern ranches at any.time Let us help start you

right. Write today for full particulars.





Manletee, Mloll.





 





 





 





 

 





 





De Luxe Silver Fox Ranch.

. Ship Your





DRESSED CALVES





Dressed Hogs and Live

Poultry to





DETROIT BEEF CO.





Oldest and most reliable commission

house in Detroit. Write for instruc-

tions how to dress calves. Tags and

market letter on apphcahon.





Detroit Beef Co.

1903 Adelaide. St. Detroithich.

gnocko ctr

American





Baby Chick $1,...“ mm





Laying and standard qualities combined. 13 years' or



parlance in breeding hatching and marketing. Also

high quality Barred Rocks and R. 1. Beds. All

flocks culled and inspected. Modern hatching plum,

Quality chicks at commercial

prices. write for prices and circular.





D E A "E a Farm G Hatchery.





B 9 Beaver. "all address

Blrmlngham. MIoh..R. 4.

. . , . .

Highest Quality Chicks

Fen-March prices. Heavy broiler chicks 12c. Barred

Rocks or Reds 17c; Anconas. Black Minorcas 16c:

White or Brown Leghorns 15c: White Rocks, White

Wyandottes, Buil' Orpingtons 17%c.

chicks. built directly from contest winners.

chick more. Add 30c if less than 100 weanced. Hatch-

ing Mtal Good referenc Beckmsnn

Hatchery, TMF. 26 lzLyon St. Grand Rapids, Mich.





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Our supreme quality Ens.‘ W. Lo. and Anconl

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Are from pure-bred flocks

cull y . A. C. grad-

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Books .23 to 302 egg

strain. B. I.

Liddicoat's best. Anconas

direct. Sheppard's. White

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Get 1024 catalog. price list.

Dundee State

Savings Bank. The Dun-

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Michigan. Box A.





CHICKS.Strong.Healthy.

0 From Heavy Layers.

S. C. Tom Barron Eng. White Leghorns.

Brown Leghorns. 12c; Shepherd's Anconas.

13c: Assorted Chicks. 10c. Class A flocks

~. therefore we sell no Class B. but Class A

chicks only. 100 per cent safe delivery. Postpaid.

No money down with order. Catalog free, BO

HATOHERY. Zeeiand. Mioh., R. No. 2 M.





 





 





 





1'" hr B" 1: Chicks

in this your and araistee your profits

Purchasers of our! stock rag: 95 per cent instead of

only 50 per cent. because we hatch only in tested

Mammoth machines. insuring husky chicks with vital-

ity. and because our decks are the busy and husky

kind that‘ know no disease. Order from this ad or

write for catalog which tells all about our wonderful





 





 





egg strain.



100 500

Barred Rocks .....................$16 $77.50

S. C. Beds . . 16 77.50

Selected . . 15 70.0

Eng. W. Leg. 13 60.00

Ahconas . . . . . . 14 65.00

Broilers





 





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Wolverine Hatchery



H. P. Wiorama. Prop. R. 2, Zaeland, Mich.





' Barred. White. Bud

1339:3125 l Setting Rocks: Silver & White

Wyandottes: R. 8: S. C. Reds; Buff Orplngtons;

Black Langshans; Black & Buff Mindrcas: S. C.

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Strong. Vigorous. pure—bred Heavy-laying.

English strain'fi. C. White Leghorns—the

kind that are his winter iayers.. Postpaid

100 5 live delivery guaranteed. Low prices.

Lake Bluff Hatchery. HI) I. Holland, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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A complete line of beekeepers' supplies ready for

Inner Over Coat Hive. Send for 32-page illustrated





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tising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. ‘





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as





display type or illustrations admitted.





Minimum charge. I0 words.





> CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





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

Small advertisements bring blast results under classified headings.





at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.

Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions; for four or more





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Rite. in Effect October 7, 1922





One Four One Four

e times

30.80 82.40



.88 2.



.96 2.88

1.04 3.12

1.12 3.36

. 1.20 3.00

1.28 3.84

17. 136 4.08

1.44 4.32

52 4.56

1 60 4.80

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day: In advance quublim lion daft.





Special Notice





 





MISCELLANEOUS





(A HOME IN THE SOUTH on good Florida land.

Near Pensacola on the Gulf Coast northwestern Flor-

ida. due south of Chicago. on beautiful Bay. Cows.

Hogs. Hens. Vegetables, Pecans and Fruits all do

well. Save cost of Feed, Lumber, Labor and Winter

Clothing. njoy Boating, Bathing. Fishing and Hunt-

lnl. 011me delightful summer and winter. 10 and

40 acres for $50 an acre. Easy terms. Write for our

Free Map and Descriptive Folder No. 12. Brown &

Sons. 5 N. LaSalle St.. Chicago. Ill.





ORANGE LAND now open for development. The

owners of a large Plantation In the Gulf Zone. where

the fine frost—proof Satsuma oranges grow, will give

you absolutely free. five acres. on condition that Sat-

sumaa be planted thereon. We supply. and cultivate

your trees for $7.00 per month. Your income. $1,000





 





 





annually. For particulars address Satsuma Develop-





:rrnent Company. 434 Morewood Building. Pittsburgh.





 





FOR SALE—Improved 320-acre farm. located 1%

miles east of village of Akron. Tuscola. County. Mich-

igan. on Trunk Line .101 31. with concrete read to

village affording good market for all farm produce.

Hag large apple orchard. wood lot, with all necessary

farm buildings. including two-story house. For

further information apply to F. A. Bach. Adminis-

trator. Sebewaing. Mich.





FOR SALE—40 acres, 24 acres first-class Concord

grapes. good buildings. Lawton. 1% miles. Paw Paw

2%, hunting, trout stream on place. Lakes near.

$1,900.00. half crop payment. deal with owner. E.

IL. 3. 8. Box 12. Lawton, Michigan.





 





 





FOR RENT—~290-acre farm. Wexford county. Stocked

with Registered Holsteins. Two sets buildings. two

silos. Farm suitable for brothers. Good milking prop-

osition. M. S. S. F.. care Michigan Farmer.





CHOICE GOVERNMENT LAND, coming under irri-

gation, aasy.paymeltts. (lo-operative Colony, Box C

M 787. Grand Junction. Colo.





BEST FISHING in Lapeer County, at Seven Ponds.

Beautiful grow. 28 lots. and one of the best 80—acre

farms for sale. Eli Rose. Dryden. Mich.





FARMS—40430400 acres. _ rent or sell.‘ House. 2

acres. village. Dryden. Mich. Small thresher. Foiled

3W Bulls. gFrank Bartlett. .Dryden. Mich.





~wmm hear in... owner of farm scenic. 0.

K. Hawley. Baldwin. Wisconsin. , ~

GOOD FARM'near center of Oakland county. Box

90. Michigan Farmer. ~,

HIKE!) Gladiolus Blooming Bulbs. 200 bulbleu.

$3950 v ’ . "Cream of 12 years' expel-lam; many

: 4-inch flowers. Geo. s. Barnes.





 





OLD MONEY WANTED—We paid $2,500.00 for one

silver dollar to Mr. Manning. of Albany, N. Y. We

buy all rare coins and pay highest (‘ash premiums.

Send 4c for large Coin Circular. May mean much

profit to you. Numismatic Bank, Dept. M, Fort

Worth. Texas.





 





FREE CATALOG of hish~cuality strawberry. rasp-

berry planta. Some kinds $2:75 a 1.000, Write to-





day. C. D. Thayer. Threcznivers. Mich. ~





 





'BERRY BOXES—F—Our Berry Boxes will carry your





fruit to marketsafely. $4.50 per thousand. Write us.

Central Basket (30.. Berrien Springs. Mich.





 





STRAWBERRIES—Plants and all kinds 01 smai

fruit plants. thousands of plants. Get our list to

cut prices. Sawyer Nurseries. Sawyer, Mich. Box 81.





 





GLADIOLI—ZS big plump bulbs. fine varieties. and

catalog postpaid. $1.00. B. F. Kindig, Box 637. E.

Lansing. Mich.





IF IT’S RUSSE'I‘T Rural Seed Potatoes you want.

write for prices. Twin Boy Farm, Alba, Michigan.





 





 





PET STOCK





3m onions—4;. 0. minimum. meiosis B?!-

iywood Pedigree Cockereis. 250-egg strain. , Send or

”iiimiauién Snowflake Poultry Farm, B. 5. Middir‘

v e. . ‘ .





BABY CHICKS and Hatching Eggs. Send for Cir-

riiiilatil'. "Gibbs" Winterlay Ancona Farm, Bronsen.

IC .





BABY CHICKS—Tapered and Barron Strain B. C.

White Leghorns. Strong. sturdy. profit producing

stack. $15.00 per 100: $135.00 per 1.000. Belrka’s

Hatchery, Holland, Mich.





 





 





BABY (‘HICKSwBarron S. C. W. Leghorns, 10c up.

Park Strain Barred Rooks from 14c up. Sent by

parcel post. 100 per cent live delivery guaranteed.

Waterway Hatchery. R. 4, Holland. Mich.





WHITE LEGHORN chi: and eggs from best stock

Michigan international Egg-laying Contest. Orme

Thompson. Allen. Michigan.





 





 





AIREDALE PUI’S—Sired by half-brother Ex. Pres-

Hardlng’s Loddie Boy. From registered stock. Ped-

igrees furnished. Males 315. Females $10. R. G.

Kirby, Route 1. East Lansing, Mich.





 





GERMAN SHEI’HEIiD—Airedales. Collies, Old Ens-

lish Shepherd dogs, puppies. 10c Illustrated instruc-

tive list. W. R. Watson, Box 3‘) . Macon. Mo.





 





 





BABY CHICKS—Bred to lay Rhode Island Beds.

Barred Rocks 8: English White Leghorns, Also Broiler

Chicks. Goret's Poultry Farm, Corunna. Mich.





 





 





S. C. BUFF LEGHOBN Baby Chicks from good lay-

ing strain. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich.





POULTRY





 





TOBACCO





TOBACCO—Extra Fancy Smoking. 10 pounds. $2.50.

Good Smoking. 5 pounds. $1; 10 pounds, $1.50: 20

pounds, $2.75. Chewing. 5 pounds, $1.50; 10 pounds.

$2.75. Quality Guaranteed. O’Connor Smokehouse.

$133. Moyfield. Ky.





 





 





TOBACCO—Fancy Smoking, 10 lbs., $2.50. Good

Smoking. 5. $1.00: 10. $1.75; 20, $3.00. Fancy Chew-

ing. 5. $1.75; 10. $3.00. Quality Guaranteed. O'Con—

nor Growers. 0—129. Mayfieid, Kentucky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs., $1.75: Ten.

$3. Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25; Ten. $2. Pay when re-

ceived. pipe and recipe free. Farmers' Union. Pa-

ducab. Ky.





 





NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO: Chewing, the pounds.

$1.75; ten. $3; smoking. five pounds 31.25; tun, $2;

twenty, $3.50; pipe and recipe free. pay when re-

ceived. Cooperative Farmers, Paducah. Kentucky.





 





KENTUCKY Natural Leaf Tobacco. Best Grade

Chewing lO-lbs. $3~—-20 $5. Best grade Smoking 10—

lbs. $2.40-—20 $1. Farmer’s Tobacco Union. Rt. 1.

A.. Sedalin, Kentucky.





 





SMOKERS' ATTENTION—100 High Grade Siogios

$2.75. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded.

Flack Cigar Company, South Bend, Indiana.





 





 





BABY CHICKS





 





CHICKS—White chhorns $12 per 100. $0.25 for 50.

and $3.25 for 25; Barred Ilm-ks, Reds $10 per 100.





White Rocks $17 per 100. $8.75 for 50, and $4.50 for

25: Bull Orpingtons $18 per 100, $0.25 for 50. and

$4.75 for 25. $5 on each 100 (‘iill‘ks with order will

book your order. Balance two weeks before delivery.

100 per cent live delivery guaranteed. Reference,

hulk of Mt. Morris. Meadow Brook Hatchery. Mt.

Morris, Mich.





 





STURDY CHICKSHPure brod—tolay and exhibition

flocks. pulled by experts, lleasonablo pi‘ii-os. (‘utulog

free. Single (Tomb “'iiite Leghorns. Ant-onus. Rocks.

Reds. White Wyandottos. Sunnybrook Poultry Farm.

IIillsdalc, Mich.





 





WRITE for free catalogue and prices on good. sound.

thrifty Baby Chicks. Four leading varieties of T. B.

. C. Whte Leghorns. Bari-ed Rocks, Shepard An«

cones and Rhode Island Reds from thoroughly culled

flocks, to the Summit Hatchery. Byron (Tenter. Mich.

100 nor cont live di‘Il‘v’i‘l‘)’.





BRED TO LAY Barred Rook chicks. hens, all blood

tested for \Vliite Diarrhea by Michigan Agricultural

College Bacteriological Dept. Pcdigrecd males from

high—record hens used. Circular free. L. W. Asel-

tine, R. 1, Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





HEMSTITCHING 8: Picoting Attachment: superior

device. Fits any sewing machine. $3.00 delivered,

With instructions and sample work. Saves many do!-

lars during year. Superior Attachment Co.. Corpus

Christi. Texas.





PRINTING-—Poultrymen. Hatcheries. Farmers. Busi-

ness men. get our prices on Stationery. Catalogs. Etc.

Samples. Stamps Please. Mendel's Printing House,

Grand Rapids. Mich.





QUALITY PRINTING for Business Farmers! Write

for our prices on envelopes and letterheads. ' The Pre-

mier Printers, Leck Box 20, Midland. Michigan.





 





INVENTORS— who derive largest profits know and

heed certain simple but vital facts before applying for

Patents. Our book. Patent-Sense. gives these facts;

free. Write Lacey 8: Lacey. 795 F. St., Washington.

I). C. Established 1809.





EARLY Golden Surprise Seed Corn 1922 crop.

99 per cent Germination. also calico corn. Chas.

Freed, Lancaster. Ohio.





BABY CHICKS——Seventecn popular varieties. High

egg production and standard qualities combined.

Michigan State Fair winners. No betwr chicks avail‘

able at same price. Write for prices. Litcliiiéild

Hatchery, Litchfield, Mich.





CHICKS—chnuine Tom Barron English Strain S, (‘.

White Leghorns. bred from Imported Stock, and

M. A. C. Barred Rocks. Write for our low price

quality stock circular. Hillside Hatchery Farm, R. 3.

Holland. Mich.





BABY CHICKS—\Vrite for our new free catalog and

price list. Eight years' experience. II. Pierce.

Jerome. Michigan. ' -





 





QUALITY CHICKS. eggs: fifteen standard bred Hiri-

ctics; best winter laying strains. Free delivery. Rea-

sonable prices. Catalogue free. Missouri Poultry

Farms. Columbia. Mo.





 





BABY CHICKS froxn heavy-laying strains. All lead-

ing pure br 5. Low prices. Prepaid. Live delivery

guaranteed. Catalog Free. ‘Smith Bros.’ Hatcheries.

Mexico. Mo. '





 





TREES. plants. shrubs. grapevines. Catalogue free.





Lando'a Nurseries, St. Joseph, ‘Mich.





CERTIFIED Seed Potatoes. Russets and Raleigh's.

E. Weeks. Loeke. N. Y.





 





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IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS—Heaviest yielding ex—

isting variety and latest improved Agricultural College

Strain. Ninety-four per cent germination. Not pol-

ished or hand-picked. Ninety-pound bag. six dollars.

Owosso. Will pick about three pounds to bag. A. B.

Cook. Owosso, Mich.





 





SAFETY RAZOR BLADES-Sharpened. Single Edge

Blades, 25c a dozen. Double Edge Blades. 350 a

dozen. Satisfaction Guaranteed or money refunded.

Flack & Company; South Bend. Indiana.





 





WILL BUY 1,000 galfons of this year's 1924 first run

maple syrup from maker only. Will pay $2.50 per

gallon . O. B. Detroit, by express. F. Krenz.

10347 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Mich.





 





SEED! POTATOES—Certified. Pedigreed. Yield 300

bushels. Butternut Farm, Lupton, Michigan.





 





“PATENT PARTICULARS”-—Free. Promptness.

Sterling BuCk, Register 7780, Washington, D. C.





GLADIOLI BULBS. Fifteen, labeled differently. 50¢.

Mixed. 15c dozen. Postpaid. R. Fast. Moscow. Mich.





 





SEED CORN—Clement's Improved White Cap Yellow

Dent. Field selected. dried on racks. ear tested. with

a. guaranteed germination. This was one of the

heaviest yielders in the State the past year in a test

made by The Farms Crop Department of the Michigan

Agricultural College. Write Paul Clement, Britten.

liliehigan, for catalog and prices.





TREES. Plants. Shrubs. guaranteed direct from grew-

er. Lowest prices. New—Dr. Worcester hardy peach

and Ohio Beauty Apple. Planting Book Free. Wood-

-lawn Nurseries. 951 Garson Ave. Rochester. N. Y.

30 GLADIOLUS BULBS w colors. including rare

purple. $1. postpaid.

catalog of 125 beautiful varieties. Howard W. Gillet,

New Lebanon, N. Y. _





FRUIT PLANTS. Prices Right. Stock Guaranteed.

Strawberries. $3.00 per 1,000 and up., 11- ‘fi‘ies.

Grapes. Gooseberries. Currants. Dewberrles. Catalogue

Free. Hellenga‘s Nursery. Three Oaks. M h.





Letty Spear. Mariette. Mich. ,





 





for till-page illustrated ?





osmosis—4100" varieties. 12 Bulbs $1.00. Postpaid. .





BRED-TO-LAY CHICKS from my own flock of Bar-

red Rocks. Write for description and prices. Deliv-

ery Guaranteed. Krueper Poultry Farm & Hatchery.

Milan, Mir-11.. R. 3. ’





SINGLE (‘OMB White Leghorn chicks, hatched from

two and tliroo—yoarrold hens. mated with pedigreed

males from the Michigan Agricultural College. Krué-

gcr's Hatchery and Leghorn Farm, Ionia. Mich.





 





BABY (‘HI("KS--Rcmarkable for size and strength.

Reasonable pi'iccs. Leghorns, Anconas, Rocks. Reds,

Wyandottcs, Orpingtons. Minorcas. Spanish. Brahmas.

Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton. Mich. '





$8.50 for 50. and $1.25 for 25; thitc Wyandottcs, :





SINGLE COMB REDS—Selected eggs 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 I.

'l‘hcis. 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. Jessa

Burnside, Judson. Ind.





 





ROSE (‘OMB REDS—prize winning stook, 1st cock-

crel; 2nd. young pen. Michigan red meet. A few

choice cockcrels left. Order hatching eggs now. L.

B. Hendrickson. 81 Frisbie Ave., Battle Creek. Mich.





 





STOCK & EGGS—Buff & W. Leghorns. Orpingtons.

Reds & Anconas. $1 for 15; $5 per 100, parcel post.

Turkeys, Ducks & Geese. Indianapolis winners. W.

(J. Jackson, R. 3. South Bend, Ind.





 





S. C. R. I. REDS——-I’ure-bred eggs for setting. 15.

$1.25: 100. $8.00. Louis Morris. R. 1. Mt. Morris.

Michigan.





 





PURE-BRED S. C. Minorca cockerels and pullets for

sale at reduced prices to close out. Vesta Mills.

Saline. Mich.





 





QUALITY Barred Rocks. some good cockerels for sale

for $5. A few pulicts. George H. Campbell. E.

Cross. Ypsilanti, Mich.





 





RUFF ORPINGTON EGGS—$1.50 setting. parcel post

paid. Sclcz-tvd was from strong. healthy fowls. Mrs.

Grant Szilvvziy. JOIII'FVlIIi', Mich.





 





BARREI) ROCK (‘OCKERELS-—(‘nllcge

Strain. (.‘ulli-il Iwil'f’, $5,

Michigan.





Egg-laying

Earl Sindccusc, Albion.





 





SILVER LACEI) and “mm: \Vyandottc (‘illlii'c Cock-

(‘I‘i‘lS. (‘. W. Browning, Portland, Mich.





 





\‘i'lIl'i‘iil ROCK (‘Of’KERiCLS—Choice stock. $3.00 slid

$4.00 each. \Vcslcy Hilc. Ionic. Mich.





RUFF ROI‘K I'Z(l(}Sw$l.25. 15: $7.75, 100. Peter

l’oi'tinga. Three Oaks, Mich.





 





 





R. C. RED EGGS. $9300 per 15. Parcel post. prepaid.

listal i’l’li'e, Gallon, Mich.





 





\‘i'irilTI-I MiNOill‘ASwSinglo comb, hatching eggs. H.

(3. Schrovk, Shipshcwunu, ind.





 





08 VARIE'I‘IICS fine pure—bred chickens, ducks. geese.

turkeys, fowls, eggs. baby chicks. Large catalog 5c.

A. A. Ziemcr. Austin, Minn.





 





WHITE WYANDOT'I‘ES Exclusively.

100. Prepaid.





Eggs $4.50 per

Raymond Eash. Shippewana. Indiana.





 





GEESIC~Ducks, leading varieties.

John Hess, Bettendorf, Iowa.





Free Circular.





 





WIIITI'] (‘IiiNA GEESE, excellent layers. $10.00 trio.

Eggs 40 cents. Mrs. Alice Bonow. Mattawan. Mich.





 





WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS—Silver Wyandotiiee.

Big winners, Lansing. Chicago, 1924. Hardy. produc:

iivo stat-k. World's richest breeding. Four toms left.

$10.00 each. (‘ovkerela $5.00. Alvah Stegenga. Port—

land, Michigan.





 





NARRAGANSl-ZTT TURKEYS—Get something differ-

ent from your neighbors. Express paid on trios.

Ernest (‘li-mont, lonia. Mich.





 





GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS from prize winning

birds. Large. healthy, unrelated stook furnished.

Mrs. La. Verne Brownell. Belmont, Mich.





 





MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS~TW0 years 0 .

Tom. 30 lbs. $15; 5) hens. 10 lbs.. $10 each. Flog.

$100. River View Poultry Farm. Beaverton. Mich.





 





MICIIIGAN'S. BEST Giant Bronze Turkeys. Extl'l

good values in young toms. N. Evalyn Ramsdsll.

ionia, Mich.





 





FOR SALE—Choice White Holland Toms, $8; Flem-

i\s{l_i lGlmll Rabbits. $2. Leonard Norton, Three Rivers.

. 101.. . .





 





VVIIITIC HOLLAND TURKEY'S—Addressed. stamped.

:~iiyelopo ll 1for quick reply. Alden Whitcomb. Byron

‘cnti‘i‘. . li'il.





 





PURE-BRI-ZD Giant. Strain Bourbon-Red Turkeys.

Mrs. Rona Meek, Belmont, Mir-h.





 





WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY'S—«bargain price. Mrs.

Ella Cleveland. Millersburg, Mich.





 





HA! LOOK! 100,000 chicks 12c and up. 15 varie—

ties. From highcst producing contest winners. Hatch-

ing eggs. Circular. Lawrence Hatchery. Box J. R.

7, Grand Rapids, Mich.





RICHARDSON'SIIOCKY RIDGE mire Parks Strain

Barred Rock Baby Chicks. $16 per 100. Hanover,

Mich.





BABY CHICKS and eggs. Superior Ringlct Barred

Rocks. R. C. R. I. Rods. White Legiiorns. Circular.

Wyndham’s Ideal Hatchery, Tiffin. Ohio.





BABY CHICKS—Rocks. Reds. Sili'er‘ L‘. Wyandottes,

White Wyandottes. Anconns, White and Brown Leg-

horns have been culled and inspected. We have real

quality at cemmercial prices. One of the oldest

hatcheries in Michigan. Write for prices. Shepard

Poultry Farm. Litchflcid, Mich. -





PURE-BRED baby chicks. Barred Rocks. Rhoda Is-

land Reds. $14.50 per 100: White Wyandottes, Buff

Orplngtons. $10.00: 98 per cent live delivery guaran-

t Bmokdale Poultry Farm. Box 522. Paw Paw,

Michigan.





BARRED, ROCKS—Park's best pedigreed stock. mated

with M. A. C. and Dennison pedigreed cockerels.

Hatching eggs $2 per $15; $5 per 50: $10 per 100.

Chicks $20 per 100. Prepaid by parcel post. R. G.

Kirby. Route 1. East Lansing. Mich.





STERLING QUALITY CHICKS—Our matings this

years are Superb, the quality of stock has won a

place in the hearts of our many patrons. Write for

new catalog and prices. P. F. Clardy. Ethel. Mo.





CHILSON BARRED ROCKS—Hatching eggs and

Baby Chicks. Winning pen all heavy breeds Michigan

International Egg Contest 1923. Michigan's matest

egg" and color strain. Write for price list today. Mr.





 





& Mrs. W. B. Chilson. R. 1. Grandville, Mich.





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IiUIlE-BRICI)‘ White. Holland Tur-kcys-~chs. $8:

Toms. $10. Mrs. Howard A. Gibson. Oxford. Mich.





 





BOI’RBON RED TURKEY'S—Hons. $8.00: Toms, $10:

trio, $24. E.- A. Dunham. Oshtemo. Mich.





 





 





HELP WANTED





MAN AND WIFE to work Poultry and Berry Farm—

Shares—Place Fully Equipped—Located 10 Miles from

Dctroit—S-rnom House—Good Ready-Good Oppor-

tunity for right party.——F. J. Goodell. 00 Van Alr

styne Boulevard, Wyandotte.‘ Mich.





WE PAY $200 monthly salary. furnish car and u:-

penses to introduce our guaranteed poultry and. stock

powders. Biglec Company. X083. Springfield. Illinois.





FIREMEN, BnA'KEMEN—siso-szso. railroads every-

ignore.Y 1Railway Association. Desk W-l. Brooklyn.

ew or .





 





 





 





 





MEN wanting. forest ranger and railway‘mail clerk

positions. Write for particulars. Mokane. B28. Den—

“‘1‘, ‘o 0.





04111. WANTED for general housework. three in fam-

ilv. Reference required. Apply Mrs. C. R. Lennaine

4000 Taylor. Detroit, Mich.





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WANTED—Middle-aged woman for housework. No

children. Mrs. Henry Jobse. Mt. Clemens. Mich. »





 





WANTED—Married farm hand. write Service 113‘

change. Merrill. Michigan.





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800,000 Farmers Buy from Jim Brown:





For years I have been saving my customers big money. tinue to send their Orders to Jim Brown whenever they

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