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THE sixty-eighth congressndjourn-

._ ‘ ed its first session ‘on June war-

ter having introduced and discussed

more bills for the ' relief of agricul—

ture, indulged in more political speech-





making, and passed less cimstmctiver





legislation than any‘of. its'predeces-

sors in recent years. ' ' ' ' ' .

The soldiers’ bonus law was enacted

but with no provision made for mak-

ing the bonus available to the veter-





ans. Nevertheless, President Coolidge





is determined that there shall- be no

delay in making arrangements for the

payment of the bonus or issuance of‘

policies, andhas ordered the various

departments to go to. the limit in find-

ing legal means for providing for the

necessary work.



A very satisfactory immigration law





‘was enacted. The new tax reduction ‘





law, while not meeting the desires of

Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, is

regarded by those who represent the

agricultural interests as an improve-

ment on the so-called Mellon plan.



The child labor amendment propo-

sition was adopted and referred to the

states for final acceptance. This

amendment would empower congress

to enact laws regulating and prohibit-

ing the labor of persons under eight}

een years of age. '



The department of agriculture was

given ample appropriations to carry

on its work: The federal highway pro-

gram was continued. A bureau of

dairying was created. While the‘

Ketcham bill providing for the exten-

sion of the foreign service of the de-

partment. of agriculture was left pend-

ing in the senate, there are fears that

sufficient sentiment in favor of the





-Winslow bill, giving the department





of commerce sole jurisdiction over all





agricultural agents in foreign coung





tn‘es, may be created between now

and the time congress convenes in

December to give it precedence over





' the Ketcham bill.





Many efforts were made during the





session to weaken and nullify the pro- »





hibition law, but they were decisively

defeated by large majdrities, and laws

were passed that should effectively

strengthen prohibition enforcement.

The brewery interests are well organ-

ized with abundant funds, and will

concentrate their efforts to defeat con-

gressmen who voted for law enforce-

ment, and replace them with men in

favor of so—called light wine and beer,

and who will oppose enforcement of

legislation.



Twenty-five or thirty federal cooper—

ative marketing bills were left pend-

ing in congress, and it is believed that

they will be given extensive hearings

next session. The cooperative market-

igig associations are studying the var—

ious bills and have given notice that

they want an opportunity to be heard

for or against them.



President Coolidge vetoed the postal

employes’ salary increase bill. In this

veto the President has run the risk of

incurring the displeasure of a large

number of postal employes, many de-

serving of more pay, but it is in line

with his demand for greater economy

in government expenditures. The

postal salary increase would have cost

the government $68,000,000 annually.”



The national reforestation policy bill

as it passed congress authorizes the

secretary of agriculture tocooperate

with state authorities in developing

the best methods of forest fire preven-

tion, to make a. cooperative study of

the effect of taxation onforest plant-

ing and maintenance, to procure and





distribute tree seeds for reforestation





purposes, ,and fluid. farmers in the

care of farm woodl‘ot's.





8lXTY-ElOHTH ' caucuses nix-+3., cut-overt or forested-i lands ,. whenever

—~———- necessary for the side! navigation on '





The federal-.-

Tgovernment is empowered to acduire:





streams. The law calls for an annual

appropriation of $2,700,000 to be used

by the secretary of agriculture 'in





matching payments of like amounts by '





the states.





. Among the minor bills that/were

passed was the extension of the power '





of the War Finance Corporation to ad—

vance credit to agriculture for 21 pe-

riod of nine months; a. resolution to

provide for an" investigation into the

losses to wheat growers because of





government price fixing during the-





world war; and the‘Hoch-Smith bill

providing for an investigation of





freight rates by the Interstate Com- 5





meme Commission with a view to a. re-

adjustment downward on farm prod-

ucts. ,





PRESIDENT CONSERVES FUNDS.





 





HE President’s insistent demand

for economy in government ex—

penditures has been effective to some





extent so far as the federal govern—





ment is concerned. The government

wfil close the present fiscal year on

June 30 with a surplus of more than

$350,000,000, according to Director

Lord, of the budget bureau.





ATTACK REC LAM ATION

PROJECTS.





 





HE agricultural situation was the

subject of several addresses and

much discussion at the recent annual

meeting of the National Association of





Real Estate Boards in Washingtonit





was' the conclusion of the committee

on taxation that reclamation projects

costing hundreds of millions of dollars

are unjustified when the present farm

area is capable of so much over-pro-

duction. The United States has al-

ready spent $150,000,000 on irrigation

projects that serve land occupied by

36,000 families. About 540,000 acres

of this land, enough to provide forty—

acre farms for another 13,000 families

is unoccupied. The wisdom of diversi~





fication by dairying was Questioned. If _





followed to its logical conclusion the

diversification propaganda in the

spring wheat states would transfer the

distress of the Dakota wheat farm to

the Wisconsin dairy farm.





ADVISES CHANGE IN TAX

SYSTEM.





HANGE in our system of taxation



1 so as to base taxation of farm

lands not directly on. their capital v3.1—

ue but on the net value from year to

year of the farm product was suggest-

ed by Dr. L. C. Gray, in charge of the

division of land economics of the de-

partment of agriculture. “Taxes have

come to take so large a part of the

total net income from farm lands that

under the hazards of modern farming

a searching re—examination of the





Awhole method of tax levy is needed in





order to mold the system of taxation

in accordance with the needs of Amer-

ican agriculture. Failure of states and

local communities to readjust taxes to

the conditions brought about by se

vere post-war depression in agricul-

ture'has resulted in a tax burden on

farm real estate that is excessive and

well-nigh intolerable,” said Dr. Gray,

who cited statistics showing that as

a lack of readjustment ‘of farm land

assessments to the actual changes in

market valuations, the average taxes

per acre on farm'real estate were rel-

atively higher in proportion (0 its mar—





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_ T is generally recognized by grow-

“ ers that careful ‘spraying is neces— .





sary in order to get good yields;





the effect that spraying has upon the

i quality of the potatoes, however, is

. not so commonly appreciated. As has

been previously stated, good quality

~ depends upon uniform and uninter-

. upted development of the tuber. Sprayr

'ing'with Bordeaux mixture and arsen-





icals ward off attacks of Colorado

potato bugs, leaf hoppers, flea beetle,





- late blight and "early’blight and thus





keeps the plants in a healthy, vigor-

ous condition, allowing the tubers to

develop normally.



Even where insects and foliage dis-

eases are not present, applications of

Bordeaux are beneficial to the plants

and during dry, ho‘t periods are a big





'factor in promoting satisfactory vine





and tuber growth.



Growers of certified seed are obliged

to spray at least five times with Bor-

deaux mixture, using a machine that

can maintain a pressure of 180 pounds

or more- This practice aids them in





‘producing good yields of good-type po-





tatoes. It is one of the reasons Why

the average yield per acre last' season

for nearly 2,500 acres of certified seed

was 191. 6 bushels, compared with 114

bushels, the average yield for the

state. Spraying was one of the big

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SECTION THE CAPPER





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praymg fer Qual1t‘y Spuds





Better Qua/1(3) as hVe/I a3 Insect and Diseare Control Result from Thorough Spraying





By H. C. 'Moore





bers of the 300 Bushel Potato Club to





obtain an average yield of 353 bushels

per acre. The quality of the club

members’ potatoes was as satisfactory

as the yield. Fortunately, methods

that make for good quality make‘for

good yields and economical produc-

tion.





The first spray should be made

when the plants are four to six inches

high; other applications should be

made at intervals of ten days or two

weeks throughout the season. In pe-

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so; more frequent spray applications

are also called for when late blight

threatens the crop.





To do effective work all parts of the

covered. Machines

equipped with three nozzles to the row





so that both the upper and lower sur-y





faces of the leaves will be covered

with Bordeaux are the kinds to use.

When the plants are large approxi-

mately 100 gallons of spray material

will be required for each acre.





Spray rings were organized last sea-

son in a few counties and the results

secured were very satisfactory. The

spray rings are composed of several

growers in a community who have an

aggregate of about fifty acres of pota-

toes. They join in buying a. good

spraying outfit and use it on a cooper-

ative basis. This plan has proven very

valuable to the grower with only three

or four acres who may not feel justi-





fied in buying a sprayer for his small .





patch. Detailed information on organ-

izing spray rings can be secured from

county agricultural agents or from the

Michigan Agricultural College.





When the quality crop is finally pro—

duced the good work should not be

undone by careless methods in har-

vesting, grading and storing. These

factors will be discussed in a subse

quent article.





High Quality Makes Marketing Easier





The Solutzoh of the Marhetmg Proh/em Start; with Productzoh





AST winter I clipped a news

item from a western Michigan

daily paper which told of plans





to improve apple marketing conditions. g





The heading of the articlewas, “Seek

Better Apple Market Conditions.” Up-

on reading this item I found that

plans were already being made to im-

prove the market conditions of the

next crop. The plan, which was being

furthered by the county agricultural

agent and the manager of a local co-

operative marketing association, con-

sisted first, of an analysis of the difli—

culties of the market conditions, and,

second, of remedies.



This story did not contain anything

startling. There was no new plan of

marketing suggested which would

eliminate all the abuses of our pres-

ent “inefficient marketing system" nor

prevent “middlemen from robbing the

farmer.” In fact, this plan was. so

simple and sensible that it did not at-

tract a'great deal of attention. .



These men, who were familiar with

the marketing of apples, discovered

that poor apples could not be sold at

a profitable price. Apples coming to

the local market were small, not uni-

form as to size or color, and some

scabby or wormy. Buyers did not want

such apples because consumers did not

like them. .. There weretoo many va-

rieties being grown. ,Some of these

varieties Were desirable and com-

manded. a. good price, while others—j-

which cost just as much to produce

and prepare for market—did not bring

a good price because people did not

want them. Too many varieties made

So the conclu-





vmotion.





By J. T.





quality, there were too many varieties,

and many of the varieties grown were

not desirable.



The plan they outlined to improve

these unsatisfactory marketing condi-

tions included proper trimming of the

trees and the elimination of undesir-

able varieties by grafting in those va-

rieties preferred by the market. When

the apples come to market next fall

only good marketable varieties will be

handled,, The inferior fruit will not

be sent to the central markets Where

it would have a. depressing influence

on price.



A good lesson in market economics

is contained in this news item. It in-

dicates that agriculture is turning its

attention to those practices which will





.render a real service to farmers rath-





er than merely create a lot of com—

This sort of a program will

not stir up a lot of enthusiasm and

prejudice; but it will bring more dol-

lars into the pockets of the farmers

and better fruit to the table of the

city consumer. The better the quality

of the fruit the more desirable it will

be and the greater the consumption.

Increased consumption will be bene—

ficial to the fruit industry as a whole.

'In this program there‘was no call

for someone to help. The job is going

to be done by the farmers themselves





assisted only by the scientific special-

.ists from the agricultural





college.

Nothing is being asked from the gov-

ernment. No price guarantees are be-





"ing requested. No claim is made of

dishonesty or uselessness of any mar-"v

On the other hand, had





Homer.





conditions Were discovered which were

recognized as problems for agricul—

ture to solve.



Many of those who feel called upon

to solve the farmer’s problems by

some sort of magical system are con-

stantly telling us that we have had

too much attention given to produc-

tion; that we no longer give attention

to production problems. They want

nothing more of this “two blades of

grass business;” but want to know

“how to sell the one blade already

grown.”



Such persons cannot recognize that

there is a. difference between produc~

tive practices to bring about quality

and low costs and those to increase

production. To them, all preductive

activities mean increased production.



Such is not true. These men in

western Michigan recognize that in or-

der to marketvgproperly one must pro—

duce properly. They recognize that

no constructive marketing program

can possibly bring about the desired

results unless good produce is grown

and offered for sale. They know that

if good produce is to be grown the

right productive practices must be fol-

lowed. They recognize that the job

of production and marketing is a con-

tinuous process and must be consid-

ered as a whole.



Another great truth brought for-

ward in this .newspaper story is that

profitable marketing can result only

when market demands are known. _ If

the'farmer is to sell apples at a profit-

able price he must know what kind of

apples are wanted. , His job then,'as





a sensible farmer, is to produce the

kind of apples consumers want wheth-

er they are the kind he likes best or

not, and produce these at the lowest

possible cost. The farmer must real-

ize that, in this day of commercial

agriculture, he is not producing things

for himself but for consumers in dis—

tant markets. If suCCetss is to come

the desire of the consumer, not that

of the farmer, must be the guide to

production. This is the policy follow-

ed by the successful manufacturer and

trader.



There have been decidedly too many

people chasing to the end of the rain-

bow to find some mysterious and all-

healing power or scheme to solve all

the economic ills of the farmer. Plans

have been submitted by the score

which seem right in theory, but in

practice have never been of- any value

because they would not werk. Coop-

eration in agriculture is going to be a.

great aid in improving marketing con-

ditions if the impossible is not .de-

manded of it. The cooperative mar-

keting association in this apple com-

munity is going to be of value because

it will be the agency through which





productive improvement work can be.





conducted. Such organizations permit

group action to do those things which

could never be accomplished individ-

ually.



Farmers have been misled by many

enthusiastic and misinformed theor-

ists who would solve economic prob-





lems by the complete introduction of m‘





a new marketing system. They have

been greatly disappointed in the tails

ure of cooperation to bring the prom-

ised benefits. CooperatiOn has been



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,l)ETROIT, JUNE 21, 1924

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HE delegates to





 





 





Coolidge the republican na-

And tional convention held

in the city of Cleve-



wwes land last week, nam-





ed Calvin Coolidge, of

Massachusetts, and Charles G. Dawes,

of Illinois, as the standard bearers of

the party in the coming campaign.

There was no contest in the selection

of a. nominee for president, for after

the masterly presentation of President

Coolidge’s name by Dr. M. L. Burton,

" president of the University of: Michi-

gan, no other names went before the

convention as candidates for this, the

highest office in the power of the coun-

try to give. \.



The first choice of th convention

for second place on the ticket went

to Frank O. Lowden, former governor

of Illinois. But maintaining his former

position that he. would not consider

the nomination, Mr. Lowden refused

to accept. Sentiment of the delegates

then swung to Colonel Dawes,‘ who

was nominated upon the third ballot.





N a quarter of a





3A 8 century, or possi-

Thofg‘ bly less, the whole

country will be tied



Power together with a net-





work of high voltage

electric lines. From giant stations lo

cated near coal mines and from rest-

less turbines revolved day and night

by rapid streams, will shoot forth over

copper wire held aloft by stilted tow-

ers, that mysterious and powerful

electric something which now prom-

ises to_revolutionize our whole civil-

ization.



Steam made the great cities; but,

according to modern students of hu-

man- affairs, electricity will dot the

country-side with mammoth manufac-

turing institutions around which will

dwell on spacious lots, the workers

therein employed. This will come, in

the opinion of these men, because it

‘will make for cheaper production, and

it will combine in such industrial com-

munities all the advantages of living

in the modern city with those of the

country, and without the drawbacks

. of either. The change, too, should re-

sult in the development of a sturdier

race of men and women.



Under such a regime, farming, par-

ticularly in a state like Michigan,

where industrial development is bound

‘It'o be large, will be called upon to

:wmeet the changed conditions. Mar-

" tats will be local; a variety of prod-

i“ucts win'be in demand; transportation

;-~will not enter so largely into the cost

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use in farm operations.





While this change will be gradual,

it is no myth, since evidence of it is





already at hand. . It is the direct road

to greater efllciency, better, health and

more happiness.





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N recent issues, we





Funda- have published a

t I A ‘number of articles by

men a 3. re Prof. J. T. Horner,

Essentlal touching upon some

fundamentals of co-



operation. His thoughts are espe





cially timely, as cooperation in Mich-

igan is now going through a process

of refinement and readjustment. This

change will be a healthy one if the

bare facts regarding cooperation, in-

stead of emotional effusions, are

thoughtfully considered.



Over seventy-five per cent of man’s

convictions come through his emo-

tions. Salesmen have found that it is

the emotional appeal which puts their

propositions across. Also, in politics,

or in any of our great public move—

ments, such as cooperation, the emo-

tional appeal has beenthe' outstanding

one. Promises of greater profits with

less responsibility, etc., always “listen

good.” But the working out of these

promises often] “is something else

again,” as Potash and Perlmutter

would say.



In Professor Horner’s last article,

he hits a most fundamental fact in

saying that quality production must

be accomplished before quality prices

can be obtained.



We believe that the experience of

our potato cooperators proves the

truth of this statement. A big cooper-

ative organization was formed with

the hope of gaining greater profits and

cutting expenses. A brand name was

established and everything was on the

highway to success, but it didn’t get

there because for the one reason, that

quality goods were not put behind the

quality name. But now, after expen-

sive experience, it has been learned

that good goods put up in the right

way will gain recognition. Michigan

potatoes are now establishing a repu-

tation for quality on the markets of:

the country.



Professor Horner takes the position

that cooperation, like many other

worth-while movements, is not a cure-

all, and that it will not succeed with-

out work along those fundamental

lines which for ages have been deem-

ed essential for success.





ARMERS in Mich-





Beans A igan take to beans

L when, for one reason

“St or another, they have

Resort failed to plant other





crops on time. Plant-

ed as late as the first of July, beans

give a reasonable promise of maturing

a fair crop. This accounts for its pop-

ularity in a season like the present

when wet, cold weather has delayed

from two to three weeks the time of

sowing spring crops.



This popularity, however, is a little

out of line with the usual practice of

planting heavily of crops which sold

high during the last marketing year,

and lightly of crops which then met

with poor demand. Bean prices have

not measured. up to growers’ expecta-

tions during recent months. Largely

as a result, many farmers had early

planned to reduce their acreage of this

crop, but, when the cold weather con-

tinued they gradually realized that the

season was too far along for the prop

er maturing of other drops. So beans

are now coming into the breach to»

round out the annual planting.



This may not prove amiss. It is

better to plant that which will natur-

ally mature than it° is to sow a.

crop out of season. Then, too,

having the ground plowed, as is true

of the large majority of thosewho

will sow extra 'beans,vit is more prud-





 





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Still another condition may mflfyn





farmers in growing a good acreage of





the crop. Labor may not be so closely,





employed during the months ahead

as it has been the past year. People

with deflated incomes, and beans de-

sirable because they get much for

their money. Hence, the demand may

be increased. 80, all in all Michigan

farmers may have reason for congrat-

ulations upon the fact that they have

a cash crop like beans to resort to.





OR many years



the relative as-r

sessments of farm

and city property

have been a mooted

question. Recently

several county farm bureaus of the

state have undertaken an examination

of the conditions in their respective

counties. lit a recent conference of

these representatives at Lansing, it

was reported that gross inequalities

existed in, at least, those counties

where an examination of records had

been made.



It appears that these studies were

not superficial. The agents Conduct-

ing the investigations based their com-

parisons on the {tax rolls and the rec-

ords of property transfers from the





Arc Farm I

Assessed

'Too pHig/t?





various offices of register of_deeds, and '





not upon mere estimates of property

values. The same method was used

for both farm and city property.



Where this condition obtains, and it

will not be surprising to find itgen-

eral over the state, it becomes not

only a duty of the boards of super-

visors of the counties affected, but a

matter of pure loyalty to their con-

stituency, to the state and to the na-

tion to rectify the injustice.





'HE failure of the





Political .. sixty—eighth Con-

gress to enact much



V3 Natural legislation designed

Law to relieve agriculture





is viewed by many

thoughtful farmers as not entirely a

loss to the country. Congress might

have produced more laws than it did,

and done worse. Anyhow, there is a.

steadily growingsentiment among the

electorate for less legislation, espe-

cially that which requires additional

appropriations from the public funds

with the consequent increase in taxes.

It is altogether possible, too. that

the defeat of some of the proposed

relief measures may leave the farmer

in quite as' favorable a situation as he

would have been with this legislation

on the statute books. For instance,

the present promise of a two—hundred

million bushel reduction in our wheat

crop for 1924, a substantial cut in the

hog population, and other trimmings

may bring the supply of some staple

farm products to a point where they

can be marketed at a profit to the

grower.

If the desired results come through





natural sources, we shall be more hap—"





py than we would by getting those re

sults through class legislation.





UNE, and the out





The of doors—they go



C I well together. There

Gantry n is a subtle something

June about the great open





country in the month

of June that gets inside of one. If

there is a spark of appreciation in his

make-up for the innumerable parts of

the big natural world, it can not help

making, its appearance at this time.

Nature in all her loveliness is at her

best. I think it must have been in

June that the poet wrote his Thana-

topsis, for it is hard to conceive of

anything that can enter one’s very

soul and stir up poetic sentiments

like nature in the month‘of June.

It is at this time that the new year





pared to turn in a good account in:

days that are to come. Her stocks:





 





quoted high, they are in Strong do— ‘

mand,10r on all sides there is. ”visible, ‘





living evidence that the increase will

be sure





her.





Regardless of the political situation,

all nature in June is attuned to the





Strikes, hard times, or preal—~ I

dentlal elections have no effect upOn ‘





beautiful. The sun shines the bright





est, the grass grows the greenest, the

birds sing the sweetest, and whether

congress accomplishes anything worth

while, or the compensation is high or

low makes little difference. She puts





her best foot foremost, dresses up in.





fresh new verdure, assumes a happy

frame of mind and does her best each

day, each hour, each moment, to make

this great, wide, wonderful world of

ours habitable for man and beast.



Let us not look down always at the

clod beneath our feet, but lift our

eyes and enjoy nature’s ' treat. The

air, the woods, the fields, are full of

things these days to bring pleasure

through our' senses of hearing, sight

and smellhltpl these things no legal

deeds are given, nor—thank God—are

any taken away. They are free for

all of usvand limited only by our abil‘

ity to drink them in.





 





M y Acquz'sz'tz'om and

Dz'spematz'om





I WAS readin’ in a very excitin’ part



of Mr. Webster’s dictshunary on

the page where there was pictures of

acerose leaves, acolytes and acroteria,

when I come across the word acqui-

sitions.



Well, after I read about that word,

I found that it was just what I was

doin’, but not very much. There is

another word what is opposite of ac«

quisition what I’ve been doin’ more,

and that is dispensation. A acquisi-

tion is what you get, and a dispensa-

tion is what you

give or dispense





with. I’ve been

doin’ both lately.

Fer inst. the





other week I told

you about acquis-

itin’ a invitashun

to see the jedge

and makin’ a dis-

pensation of five

dollars after I see him. But that’s the

way it is; you can’t acquisit no priv-

iledges without payin’ or dispensin’

somethin’ fer them. Fer inst, if you

get a invitashun to a weddin', you





 





‘gotta buy rice ta dispensate in the





what you call proximity of the wed-

din’.



That just goes ta show that life is

.mostly give and take. Fer inst, if a

man makes a acquisition of a wife he





makes a dispensation of a whole lotta -





priviledges.



This acquisition and dispensation

principal of life is O. K., ’cause if it

didn’t work some of us would have

nothin’ and somebody else would have

everythin’. And sometimes' it looks

like some folkses kin make their ac—

quisitionator work faster than their

dispensationator. But I guess it ain’t

so; they pay in some way. With us

farm folks it looks the other way. Our

acquisitionators looks like they have

been havin’ the sleepin’ sickness, but

our dispensationators is got what the





M. D.’s call insemnia, which means ~





they is been workin‘ overtime.

' Now, if it wasn’t fer me. believin'

that acquisitions and dispensations

come out even some way, I’d quit

farmin’. ,But I’m sure the ’day’s cOmin'

soon when we farmers is goin’ to have

our acquisitionators ‘workin’ better.

I’m hopin’ so anyhow, ’cause [gotta

have anew Oughto by 1928. Other-





wise Selle says she'll like walkinf'bet-





tor.





 





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‘ ers?





- Lumbering is at its height.

. areas tobe cut off will be limited and

become more and .

‘ more





the Upper? Peninsula.





1”" DST people, who are unfamiliar

7 with this great Northern Penin-





mining area in which agriculture plays

a very minor:- part; and it is very true

that lumbering and mining have been

in the past the principal occupations

of the area.



But, if a glance is taken at the 1920





census report it will be noticed that





the value of all farm property, includ-

1113 land, buildings, implements, and

live stock was worth $69, 226, 850. When

one further‘considers that of the 10,-

702, 240 aores of: land in the area only

4,,221 240 acres is left of standing for-

est and that appfOximately one and





‘ a Quarter million acres of the area are 1





now in farms,lhe "understands that





,. what is really happening here now is





‘what happened to the, northern part

of the Southern Peninsula forty or

fifty years ago. ,Lumbering had. its





. day and close in the wake of lumber-





ing came the pioneer farmer with his

few acres of cleared lrnd;

We, who are interestedin the agri-





' culture of the Upper Peninsula see in





onward trend.

Soon the





this area the same





agriculture will

important as

takes place.





In 1920 there were 12,317 farms in

What do they

do to make a living? What is their

program of work? Are they real farm-

These questions would require

a‘Very careful survey in order to an-





this tran sitioh





3'111'a, have the idea that it is a ' .~

-_ vast wilderness of timber land and.





ByG.VV.





swer them in every detail. But, if one

has been in touch with the develop-

ment of these 12,000 farms during the

paSt five years, he is in a. fairly good

position to know what they are doing

and how they are doing it.



These farms can be grouped .in

classes that would ‘include, first, the





? new settler who has just recently lo-





,cated in. an area where a big percent-

age of the land is either standing for-





Or’ How; Clover/mid ‘Farmers are W orémg Out a Self- Supporting Agriculture





Putnam,





Supermtendmt of (Matam Experzmmt Station ‘\





est or cut over, and where he and his

neighbors are building farms and farm

homes under the very strictest of

pioneer conditions.



Then there is another classpf farms

that passed through this pioneer stage

some fifteen or twenty years ago.

They still have much of the pioneer

conditions abOut them, and yet, on

their own farms, if they are progres-

sive, they have most of the land clear-





 





 





 





A Big Pull Toward More Efficient Farming.





’Ste. Marie.





 





ed, usually reserving a part to meet

their pasture requirements and many

are saving sufficient standing timber

to form a nucleus of future woodlots.





Then there is a third class of farms.

which were cleared and settled during

the earlier days. Many of them are

forty, fifty and sixty years old. Some

of them are among the oldest farms in

the state Particularly is this true on

some of the areas around the Sault

Menominee, Delta, Luce,,

schoolcraft, and Marquette counties

have areas that have been cleared and

farmed sufficiently long to resemble

in many respects old-established south-

ern sections.





The Program of Work on These Var.

ious Classes of Farms. '





The settler who is just establishing

himself in a newly cleared area has

before him the problem of clearing

his land, building a home, and making

both ends meet while he is doing it.

In order to do this he resorts to all

sorts of schemes. we. find that many 1

of them are what would be considered

“summer farmers.” During the sum-

mer months they clear a small area,

put in a few potatoes {round the

stumps and usually mana, to get

enough feed crops in on the farm to

carry a team and a cow or two

through the winter. Then, in the fall,

they go to the woods with their team

and work in the lumber camps, save

sufficient money to carry on their

small clearing operations, and enlarge

their live stock holdings for the next



(Continued on page 814).





Nothing to Crow About





507726 85011“ at Séootmg Our Featflerez/ Friends

By Harv Hess





WAS reading in one of the papers-



a few days ago, where some am—



munition manufacturer was spon-

soring a nation-wide crow shooting

contest, with something like $2,500 in

prizes to the individual or club, which

at the end of the three months season

had crowked the greatest number of

crows. The article also stated that

90,000 people had already signed up

and were soon to- begin this bird

slaughter.



Well, after giving that proposition

3. think, I’m sorry to say that I can’t

hand it three rousing cheers and, if

you’ll pull over to the side of the road

for five minutes, I’ll tell you why.



In the first place, this concern pro-

duces shooting material. They are

what you might call. a “bang-up” af-





; fair, making all kinds of powder, ex-

? cept talcum and, as there hasn’t been





a good war for several, years, they





,have a lot of surplus ammunition on





...





hand that they wish to dispose of.

Now, if they’d just selected rats,

which are twenty times more destruc-

tive, they’d be promoting a contest

that was really meritorious. ~But rat

hunting would be too tame. All a





, person would have to do would be to

, stay in their own basement or barn

: and use traps, and it isn’t the idea of





. to shooting but,





 





 





, birds.





fed up pro and con.





merely exterminating a pest that this

powder outfit is starting else they

might have suggested roaches.

they want to do is to get the people

personally, I wish

they had picked the jail birds instead

of the crow. .



In my opinion, this company knows

more about birdshot than they do

As far as old Jim Crow is con-

cerned. there’sfitwo sides to his ques-

tion with reputablerrnithologists lin-

If you were to

1:, 1:12; Ldo 't believe the old boy is





 





 





What





that autopsies conducted over the re-

mains of the vast majority of our

birds, including the crow, reveal the

stomachs containing such delicacies

as cutworms, weed seeds, June beetles,

boll weevils and, very rarely, corn,

beans or other vegetables.



However, we hay-shakers are fond

of alibis. If we don’t get a good yield

of corn we blame it on the crows,

blackbirds or pheasants. To hear us

tell it, corn shouldn’t be more than

deuce high. Yet, it’s still King. Some

of our little chickens disappear and

we immediately shove the responsibil-

ity on the shoulders of the “pirates of

the skies.” I have raised chickens and

turkeys for several years and I never

had them bothered any by birds ex-

cept at Thanksgiving time, but those

birds were the kind that walked. We

lose more young poultry by our own

carelessness than we can ever expect

to feed the birds. A year ago this

spring our local fruitvgrowing element

was all agog on account of the ap-

palling destruction wrought by blue-

jays, chicadees and partridges on the

fruit buds of our apple trees. It actu-

ally sounded like there wouldn’t be

enough left for a geod jag. Yet, ask

any fruit grower in this county if there

was an apple shortage last fall and

you run agood chance of needing a

trained nurse. I suppose we’ll next

be accusing the cow birds of tapping

our Jerseys.



Of course, there are places and

times when birds need killing, just

like bootleggers or bandits. If they

get to bothering a farmer and he

wants to shoot a few, why, fair

enough. That’s his business, not a

city manufacturer’s. What r mostly

object to is theidea of trying to im-





bue a lot of people, half of whom

don’t know the difference between a

crow and a gnat, with the idea of ex-

terminating the former. No telling

what’s liable to happen. I know that

when ninety per cent of the nimrods

begin leaning against the rear end of

a gun barrel they’re liable to shoot

anything but craps. Not only that,

but how long do you suppose the rest

of the birdies are going to hang around

with a lot of hanging going on on all

sides.



Old Frederick the Great, erstwhile

king of Prussia, liked cherries, and so

did the little English sparrows that

used to spend their summers over in

Prussia. Well, this riled old Fritzie

to such an extent that he passed out

orders to kill all the sparrows. In fol—

lowing out his instructions, the mighty

Prussian hunters not only wiped out

the sparrows but drove all the other

birds away and, in just two years’

time, the cherry and other fruit trees

as well, were so badly infested with

insects that they bore no fruit at all.

Then the emperor, seeing his mistake,

imported birds at a great cost, and I

don’t blame him, for I'd sure hate to

be without cherry pie.



Each spring, Pine Lake, which I call

my front yard, is dotted with floCks

of water fowl. They are perfectly

harmless, interesting to watch, and

everyone likes to have them around.

Less than ten minutes ago I saw a

man, who kills for the fun of killing,

shoot five times into a flock of wild

ducks. He killed two. This, in itself,

is againstthe law, which makes it bad

enough, but here’s the part that really

gets me all steamed up. There won’t

be another duck, loon, hell diver or

grebe that will give us a look—in on





their way north this spring.

it happen yeai after year



In 1892 in a certain locality in Si~

bcria, nea1ly all Thf biIdS were killed

for their feathers, which were sent

abroad for the millinery trade. In a

year’s time the foliage of all the trees,

all the grasses and other crops had

been destroyed by cutworms, locusts

and other insects. This precipitated

a famine and the people had to pass

laws forbidding the killing of any

birds.



A few years ago the tent caterpillar

and forest froz- calorpillar struck our

territory and, I’m telling you, they

were here by the billions. I saw en—

tire orchards and whole strips of firm

ber that didn’t have any more foliage

left than a whiffletrcc. But by the

following year, thanks to our feathered

friends, they had practically disap—

peared and the vegetation was saved.

Now, did the birds get any of the

credit? You bet they didn’t!



You can’t get along without birds,

I don’t care whether you’re a farmer

or a hair dresser. Maybe that’s one'

reason why the good old state of Mich-

igan, after bringing the crow up be-

fore. the crow bar of justice, discover-

ed he 'was of some benefit and, conse-

quently, lifted the twenty-five cents

bounty. '



If that gunpowder company wishes

to conduct that contest somewhere

else they have my consent, and I hope

they put- it across with such vigor that

they drive all the birds up our way.

And you can tell any old crow you

happen to meet that there’s one hun-

dred and twenty acres of land right

near the top of Michigan with a “Wel-

come”vsign hanging on the uppermost

limb of a good big hemlock. I’ve al-





I’ve seen





ways got room for the bird that never





complains, without caws.

That’s all. '
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ERE are five satisfied producers



of soy-bean hay and forage. In



the Whole list of answers re-

Ceived there was not a kicker. The

fact that these men have succeeded in

nearly tevery section of the state leads

to the belief that ‘soy-beans will in the

near future, be a. crop of‘importance

on Michigan farms.





MAKES A DE Luxis HAY.





 





HAD seven acres of soy-beans last



year which I cut for hay. I never

had a roughage that looked nicer or

was relished more by the stock. All

kinds of animals appeared to enjoy it,

even the little pigs.



I planted the beans in rows twenty-

eight inches apart, cut them with a

mowing machine and loaded with a

hay loader. I harvested fifteen loads

from the seven acres. The hay was

fed to milch cows, calves and pigs. I

‘had part of the same field planted to





 





How Did You Get

t/zat Marl?





ARMERS these days are be



ginning to know the value of

marl. They are aware, too, of

the abundance of marl in many

marshes and lakes over the.

state. But how are they to get

that gooey stuff out of the lake

bottom and onto the fields where

it is wanted?



That is the question upon

which we want light. We want

the experiences of those who

have tackled this job. Tell us’

in a. brief letter how you suc- .

ceeded. Mail your letter to the

Handy Man, Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, on or before June 25.

To each of the writers of the

five best letters I will send One

Dollar.





 





 





 





silage corn. When I plowed this field

after the crops Were removed, I found

the ground much looser where the

soys had grown than on the portion

growing Corn. They are a little hard

to cure, but by putting mine in differ-

ent mows on top of some sweet clover

hay, it came out fine—A. G. Suther-

land.





BECOMES A BOOSTER FOR SOY-

BEANS.





 





HE winter of 1922 was very hard

on clover and alfalfa. Our crops





 





 





were nearly all killed out, meaning a

shortage of hay, especially of legumes.

Late in the winter I began to study

the situation. Millet‘ and Sudan were

good, but, like timothy, were hard on

the land and would not add to my sup-

ply of legume hay.



The next choice was soy-beans. I

bought ninety pounds of the Ito San

variety, inoculated the seed with a cul-

ture secured from M. A. C., and drilled

one—half bushel per acre in rows twen-

ty—eight inches apart. The seed was

planted June 20. Beans were cultivat-

ed three times.



By August 10, the crop covered the

ground and stood thirty inches high.

A finer looking crop one nevensaw.

By September 4, the pods had formed

at which stage I had been told the

crop should be cut for hay. I used

the mowing machine, leaving the crop

in the swath until wilted, when it was

raked, bunched and left to cure.



From slightly over two acres, we

drew six big loads of the finest hay





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that could be found. Cows and sheep





‘ 80y , Bean BOOSters





 





 





ate this with much relish. This ven-

ture saved us from buying six tons of

hay, besides leaving the ground in bet-

ter shape than it was before. As- a

result, I am a booster for soy-beans. —

C. Ward.





 





HAS FAVORABLE EXPERIENCE.





 





IN 1922, I mixed some soy seed with



our corn. It failed to make a uni-

form stand, but where the plants came

a good many pods were matured. Th2}

next year I planted an acre of new

ground, sowing broadcast and harrow-

ing them in. This was the last of

June. In September, just as the bot-

tom leaves began turning yellow, I

mowed them and, after a day or two,

bunched and, when well cured, drew

them to the barn. From the acre I

harvested two big loads. The cattle

relished them much better even than

they did clover hay.



For a quick hay crop, they have no

equal. The protein content is almost

as great as alfalfa. Stock eats the hay

readily and, when the crop is properly

inoculated, it becomes a splendid soil

builder. They will grow without inoc-

ulation, but better results follow the

practice—R. Carroll.





IS ENTHUSIASTIC FOR SOY HAY.





 





FTER four years of experience in



raising soy-beans for hay and seed,

I have found three things essential in

growing them: First, plow early and

keep the ground well worked to kill‘

the weeds; second, plant as soon‘as

you get the corn in, in order to 'cut

and harvest the crop during the hot,





 





 





sot-wed Cannot ‘0 Cry-Is





When pods are formed, cut with a





‘mowing machine, rake with a side de~'





livery rake, and, when partly cured,

put in small bunches and let stand a

few days. Then open the bunéhes to

the air an hour or two before you

draw them to the barn. This will give





you a hay that in every respect is .'





equal to alfalfa.



Would advise the Manchu variety.

Ito San is also very good. One may

also mature seedwhich can be thresh-‘





ed with‘a regular grain thresher. The“





bean straw makes a. good feed. The

beans may be ground with corn, oats

or rye as a feed for cows or horses.—

E A. Thorne.





 





uses cnop FOR FORAGE.





 





W HILE I have grown soy-beans a

number of years past, I have '





not cured it for hay. But I have used

it as a forage crop for horses, cattle

and hogs, with good results.





I grow it mostly with silage corn,

using four quarts of beans and eight

quarts of corn to the acre, drilled with

grain drill thirty-five inches apart.

Beans sown alone are drilled twenty-

eight inches apart, using three-fourths

bushel to thegacre. These are harvest-

ed with a regular bean puller. I' have

tried the mowing machine, but the

loose soil is hard on the knives.





Soy-beans cure slowly unless the

weather is favorable. On the other

hand, they do not spoil or deteriorate

much in wet weather. I have allowed

them to stand in the double windrow

as pulled, until ready to.feed them

over the fence to the cattle and horses

as late as the last of November. I

like them better than corn as a forage

crop. The pods or fedder from thresh-

ed soy-beans are relished by cattle.

horses and sheep—G. S. N.





 





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AUTO LICENSE.





 





A man owns land in Florida and

property in this state. He spends

about six months in each state and is

in Florida when the new auto licenses

come out, and gets one in that state.

Is he obliged to get a Michigan auto

lAicefiseFon his return to this state?—





Ownership of land is of no conse—

quence as to license for motor-vehicle.

Residents of the state are not allowed

to drive cars without license by this

state. Residents of other states, pass-

ing through the state, and here for

only a few days or weeks, are allowed

to ride on their license issued by the

state of their residence; but if they

remain for any considerable time, they

must get license from the secretary of

state of this state—Rood.





DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY.





 





Can a man who married rather late

in life, and who had accumulated some

p1operty, will it otherwise than to his

wife? Can a wife hold a share regard-

less of husband’s will or deed? Can a

husband will or deed property away

from his wife and to a. person who is

in no way related to him? Can a hus-

band hold one-half or any share of

property a wife had before the1r mar-

riage?——R. F



A man can dispose, during life, of

any of his personal estate and all of

his real estate except the homestead,

without any consent by his wife, and

the buyer will take the title to the

land subject only to possible dower

for life, in one-third being assigned to

the wife should she survive him. The

relationship of the grantee is of no

consequence. \The husband has no





 





control of any property of the Wife in

this state at the present time. And

unless she dies, without disposing of

it, and without issue, he takes no in—

terest in it, after her death—Rood.





FIRE-BLIGHT.





 





Are the specimens of Transparent

and Steel Red apple twigs which I am

sending you, affected with fire- blight?





I find no evidence of fireblight, but

am of the opinion that the killing-back

is due to winter injury. On some of

the limbs there is evidence of a minor

canker which under some conditions

becomes severe with apple trees grown

in northern Michigan. This canker

shows itself by killing strips along on

the under side of the limbs and the

bark breaks off in checks or square

patches. ' Where the trees are making

rapid growth the penetration by the

fungus is slight and the injuiry is

sloughed off. Where new growth is

slow the fungus may kill clear to the

wood and large, unsightly cankers‘ are

formed. Wooly aphids commonly come

into these cankers and make the les-

ions more unsightly. Great success

has come from stimulating the growth

of the trees and enabling them to out—

grow the injury caused by the fungus.’

With young trees I would advise that





you makemvery effort to stimulate the ' A





growth by fertilizers and‘by cultiva-

tion. The trees that show the dead

wood arising from winter injury may-

perhaps be put into shape by pruning,

or it may be that it will be necessary

to ‘replace the injured trees. Where

the bark is dead clear to the wood,





 





various moulds will enter and the i '

canker is likely. to get worse





 





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at the rate of one-half bushel per ,

‘ acre; cultivate shallow as soon as the .

‘ . plants come up, A





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fit! and dirty; but} wa-

ried in, and'heated be-

. 911mb into‘the wash tub

ana'takssipamz-z ., ‘, '



’ ,_ ff! ish‘fitov'goodness we hadda‘ hot

'mter._,system,and 'avfb‘ath‘ tub,” com-





 

 

 





l l * water to heat. ‘fDOn’t suppose we can,

l y; ' 7, thbugh, until we get a'furnace in.”

l I ' _. ‘fW‘hy don’t you write. to the agricul-

l ‘tural. college and see if they have any;

‘ " ‘ihformation on water systems, Dad?"

'ff"'-a‘sked fourteen-year—old Ned, who at-

‘ tended the agricultural school in the

neighboring town.

. , “Do you suppose we could get any-

! j , thing there, Ned?”g ’

. ‘ "I think so; we could try it any-

. i . way.” \ .

~ .. " ‘ ~ That night John wrote to the Exten-

1 sion Department at M. A. C. and in

l due time received -a bulletin entitled,

"Simple Water Systems Adapted to

.‘ FarniHomes Without Furnace Heat,"

' ‘ by O. E. Robey, extension specialist.

“ That night they all drew their chairs

around the library table and began to

study the bulletin. '

They found that two-very satisfac-

tory water systems could be installed

at a cost of from $80 to $100 each,

depending on: the quality of the fix—

tures used. The first system describ-

ed, could be installed in small units,

but in the second, the entire system

must be installed at one time.

, ; Nearly every farm home has

l foundation for the first system.

consists of a cistern pump at

kitchen sink. By substituting a cis-,

tern force pump for the pitcher pump.

and installing a range boiler and a

range water front, running water can

be obtained at the sink. This elimi-

nates the carrying of water, which is

a very decided advantage.





The operation of this system is sim-J

ple. Water is pumped into the range-

boiler, circulates through the range ,

g . water front and becomes heated.’

‘ - , When hot water is wanted at the sink,



the faucet on the pump is closed and

‘ cold water is pumped into the range

boiler; this forces the hot water out

of the pipe at the sink. If cold water

is wanted at the sink, open the faucet

and pump. Cold water will flow out

of the faucet into the sink. The hot

water pipe is left open at the sink at

all times to take care of the steam

and hot water which will escape there

when the water is heated. The range

boiler must be full when the fire is

started in the range; otherwise the

cold water coming in contact with the

.red-hot water front might cause an

explosion. ‘ ‘

’ . If a bath tub is desired, one can be

easily installed either on the first or

. second floor. To do this, add a faucet

at th sink and run two pipes, one for

cold ater and one for hot, to the

bath tub. If the tub is placed on the

first floor, a loop one foot high is made

in the hot water pipe. This loop pre—

vents the water from running out at

the bath tub when it is desired in the

sink. If the tub is on the second floor

this loop is not necessary, as the

height to which the water must be

raised prevents it from flowing out

when the faucet at the sink is open.

In either case the hot water pipe at

the tub is left open at all times. The

cost of this system is approximate-

1y'$100.

‘ _ A Better Qne for _Less Money.

The second system has many advan-

’ tages over the first: The entire outfit

' can be placed in a. small room, one

six by six feet being sufficiently large;

item; be installed without tearing up

the fioors“‘or’ walls; the heater that

11,9?! $155 water» also heats the room;

' , Wat’s: front,” which some-





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range, is not necessary; and the cost

is slightly less, about $85.

.The bill of material is as follows:





A 30-gallon range boiler; a range boil- _ .





er‘stand; a bath tub, 5 flat; or more,

with' waste pipe and connections for

41,4,‘inch pipe; a‘ lavatory with spud

and iron pipe connection for Dig-inch





r h'filaineQ-d 'Jolin‘w‘hile‘li‘e'waitéd for the! iron pipe; a kerosene heater; “a cisé





tern force pump; seventeen iii-inch,

galvanized ells; threesfi-inch galvan-

ized tees; a 1x1-inch byes-inch tee;

six 1-inch by 974-inch bushings; two

%-inch compression bibbs; six %-inch

unions; a :34-inch gate valve; twelve

2x%-inch nipples; forty feet of iii-inch

galvanized pipe; twenty feet of J742-inch





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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.This Diagram Shows the Arrangement

of the Pipes in the Second Water

System Described. The Loop Shown

at (E) is Very Necessary and

Should Not be Omitted.



galvanized waste pipe; twenty feet of



1-inch galvanized suction pipe; two



1—inch ells.



The heater, range boiler, and lav-

atory are placed along one side of the

room, in the order named, and the tub

along one end. ‘



The cold water pipe leads from the

pump to both the range boiler and the

bath tub. The one that leads to the

bath tub is fitted with a compression

bib. The one to the range boiler must

extend down into the boiler to within

one foot of the bottom. To install

this pipe, thread one end for about

21,5 inches and screw on a 1-inch by

34—inch bushing. ’ A 1/é'iflCh hole is

bored in the pipe about two-thirds of

the way down to prevent all of the





water siphoning out with subsequent -~





injury to the coils in the kerosene

heater. To locate this hole, measure

down from the top of the boiler to a

point three or four inches above the

top of the‘heater. After the hole is

bored, insert the pipe in one of the

openings on top of the range boiler

and screw the bushing down.



The heater is placed close beside

the range boiler and a pipe connected

from the bottom of the heater to the

suction pipe. This pipe has a gate

valve placed in it to allow the water

to be drained from the heater in cold

weather. Another pipe leads from the

top of the heater to the range boiler.



The hot water pipe is attached to

the other opening in the range boiler

and leads to the bath tub. The loop,

one foot high, is made in this pipe,

which is left open at the bath tub, the

same as in the first system. A tee is

placed in this pipe directly over, the

lavatory anda pipe, fitted with a com-

-presion bibb, is installed to carry hot

water to the lavatory.





To operate this system, pump the

boiler full of water, light the kerosene

(Continued on page 814).





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" . summer. will be held in conjunction '.

with the tour of the American P01110-

_logical- Society. The tour of the nas-





tional organizatiou will cover eight

states, but the Michigan society will

only travel with the American pom-

ologists during their trip in,_this.state.



The tour starts‘at Benton Harbor

on July 21 and will make its way up





tions of southwestern Michigan, after

which it will turn eastward, where

some of the important orchards in the

south central part of the. state will be

visited. Some of the stops scheduled

for this section of the state are at

Farley Brothers’ orchard, near Albion;





Manchester, the Huron farms, near

Ann Arbor, and the orchard belonging

to E. J. VerDuyn, near Novi. The last

day of the tour, which is July 23, will

be spent in visiting the Detroit city

markets and the nurseries at Monroe.



Those wishing further (information

regarding this tour should correspond

with Secretary H. D. Hootman, of the

Michigan State Horticultural Society,

at East Lansing, Michigan.





 





GETTING OUT OF THE WOODS.





(Continued from page 811).

year. This is the real pioneer step

and is one that has been iollorwed in

practically every well cleared area in

the Upper Peninsula '



The Next Class Has Different



_ Problems.



The second class of farms—those

that are beginning to be self-support-

ing, have a somewhat different pro—

gram than has the new settler. They

are just in the t1 ansition stage. They

have been making money in the lum-

ber woods, on load buildi1g, or from

some other source, with which to clear

land, and many times to build homes.

He is now ready to make the farm

pay an income. What kind of a pro—

gram is he going to follow to do this?



Similar to every other area where

there are well established farms, he

has a choice of several lines of en-

deavor. If he is inclined to live stock

he will find that dairying and sheep

raising are probably the two most

profitable classes of live stock enter-

prises for the Upper Peninsula. If he

is a cash crop man it will depend

somewhat upon his location as to what

he can grow. If he happens to be in

the sugar beet producing area abOut

the Menominee sugar beet factory he

will find this crop a profitable cash

crop to grow. If“ he is located any-

where in the Upper Peninsula on the

sandy loams to loam types of soil he

will find that he is ideally located for

the growing of potatoes. If he is by

chance located on one of theheavy

clay areas of the Ontonagon valley or

in the vicinity of the Sault Ste. Marie,

he will have to look to some other

form of cash crops, usually turning to

the production of wheat and in the

last few years many of the farms in

these particular areas have found that

they were particularly well located for

the production of various kinds of

farm seeds, and these, when properly

handled, make a very desirable cash

cxop to grow ‘





farmer who would classify in this

group of farms is really a combination

farmer who has a few cows, who may

or may not have a few sheep, depend-

ing upon his personal inclination and

who, in practically every case, grows a

few potatoes for a cash crop and many

times he is producing some wheat or

some field crop for seed purposes. .



The third class of farms as we have

outlined them, that is, those of the

older, more fully developed sections,

have as a rule, already established

themselves in their communities as

dairy farmers, general farmers, or in-

a few instances, as cash cropfarmers.

Their program of work is very similar

to what We have discussed underthe





 





through the grape and small fruit sec- -





the farm of L. Whitney Watkins, near '





We, however, find that the average





 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





have made the real successful farmérs ,

of these areas. In some instances, the

failures are due to the fact. that the

farm operator was never intended, by

habit or inclination, .to be a "farmers

He is not adapted'to farm life. In

some cases the failures are due to

poor judgment in buying live stock ‘

and in attempting to go it on tOo large 3:; I

a scale. Other failures have beén -.

caused by the Unavoidable things that ~.

”come to any location.





Inlinterviewhing some of, the success-

ful farmers of these. areas, we find

some things that could.,well be taken

note of. In the first place, they are

usually what we would call business

men—-m'en of-keen judgment. They

have worked with, and_developed the

right- kind of live stock—live stock

that will pay for the feed ‘they eat

and show a profit at the end Of the

year. They are men who have been

able to hit the proper balance between ‘

their live stock work and their crops ,

work. Usually, too, we find they are

men who have seen‘the necessity of

making the farm prOduce the feeds . }

necessary to carry on their live stock

operations.





In the developed areas we find con-

ditions 117) different from .those in any

other well established, agricultural

community. of our northern states. The

farmers have sufficient cleared acres

to grow their crops, have developed

judgment in choosing the right kind

of live stock, and have realized the

necessity of a proper rotation of crops

and the economical use of fertilizers. .





 





   

   

   

 





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CRAMPED IN A BATH TUB.





(Continued from page 813). - 1, l

heater, and allowthe water to become ' 1.

hot.





When hot water is desired at the

bath tub, close all cold water faucets

and the hot water faucet at the lava—

tory and pump. This will force hot ‘

water out at the tub. If hot water is

desired at the lavatory, open the

faucet at the lavatory and pump; then

operate the pump and cold water will

be delivered at the lavatory, If cold

water is desired at the ‘tub, Open the

cold water faucet at the tub and close

the one on the pump, now when you

pump, cold water will be delivered at .

the tub



When only a small amount of water

will be required at one time, it will

not be necessary to pump the hot wa—

ter, simply open the cold water fauc-

ets, (either A or Din diagram) and hot

water will be siphoned from the boiler.



One tank of water is sufficient for

at least two baths. .



This system is readily drained and §

is, therefore, admirably adapted to

farm homes without furnace heat, and ,

to summer homes.





1

HIGH QUALITY MAKES MARKET. ,’

ING EASIER. ’ i

M... ’f l ‘ 3

(Continued from page 809).

discredited in many localities. How-

ever, the future looks bright. The ,2

farmer and those working with him

are taking a saner and more intelli-

gent view of economic conditions.

They are recognizing that the cooper- 5

ative organization is a very~ effective -,

and beneficial institution if properly L

managed and that by itself it won’t ’

assure success in agriculture. ‘

The western Michigan apple market

improvement program, while it receiv~

ed very little newspaper publicity and 1

attracted very little attention, is the ,.

type upou which the economic im-

provement of agriculture ‘ is to be '

builded.





 

   

 





Cod liver oil is not only good for

chidren but it puts strength into the

legs of little chicks as well.
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A Little 5110 Talk





By Prof. O E. Reed





4 .HE silo is not a new thing to Michigan dairymen because there

" are nearly 50,000 silos in use in the state at the present time.

The very fact that there are this number in use proves their value

in economic dairying and live stock farming.

dairymen and cow owners in the state who do not have silos at

the present time. These men could produce meat or milk more

economically if they had silage to feed. -





Briefly the advantages of silage are as follows:





1. *The silo saves feed. A large per cent of the- food value of

the crops ordinarily used for silage goes to waste on the farm. If





this food is saved, productiOn costs of live stock and live stock





products can be reduced.



2.. More cattle can be kept per, acre where silage is utilized

efficiently. .



3. Silage furnishes. a green juicy food for the cows in winter.

This kind of food aids digestion and keeps the digestive tract in

good condition.



4. Less labor is required and it is by far a more pleasant job

to feed the crop through the silo than— when the same crop is fed

inlcured form.



5. Silage saves on the hay bill. A ton of good silage is worth

about one-third as much as a ton of mixed hay.



This is the time of the year to plan for yoursilage for next

winter. Build your silo before the‘ “rush work” season begins and

have it ready to fill when the crop is ready. Silos are built out of

a variety of materials. Regardless of the kind. of material used in

construction the silo must be’made air tight at bottoms and sides!

A succulent .feed should be provided for the milk cows if the best

results are to be obtained. If the herd is not large enough to

. make‘the use of a silo practical the next best thing to do is to

grow roots for'the cattle, sugar beets, mangels, rutabagas, carrots

and other roots give good results. ,



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appreciative of the work being done

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Otto Wenger, tester of No. 3 Asso-

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tion. 'Albert Greiner, of the No. 4

Association, reported that his associa-

tion year would be completed June 11

and that there were fifteen men wait—

ing to come into his association at

that time.



J. J. Hill, tester in Genesee No. 5

Association, indicated that there

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to come into that association at the

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Harold Pine, tester in the No. 2 As-

sociation, showed that there were sev-

en men waiting to coméjnto his asso-

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year and has more than twenty men

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bership, wanting to come into the as-

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CCASIONALLY there are a few

. members of a cow testing associa-

tion who have been members for the

first time, who talk of dropping out of

the association. Some do drop out at

the end of their first. year. Men who

have continued to test their cows for

a period of years have found it profit-

able. Mr. Raymond Kempf, president

of the Newaygo County Association,

has been a member of that association

since it was organized in 1906. His

continued membership .is' evidence of

,his belief in this sort of work.

‘ it is impossible to get the greatest





good out of an association in one year.





‘Continuous records one year after an-





other are valuable. Some cows do not

do so well one year as another. When

their records are kept for several

years it is possible to really judge

their value. Such records set a value

on the cows and their offspring. Heif-

ers should be tested out with their

first calf. It is possible to judge quite

accurately the future production. of a

cow by the record she makes with her

first calf. Without definite knowledge

of what really is going on a dairyman

is likely to get careless in his feeding

or some other detail in the manage—

ment of his herd.



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ord on the herd. He was surprised to

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feeding and was able to cut down his

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lowing month simply because he had

a definite record of what was going

on. He feels that the tester has al-

ready paid his way for the year.





There is only one method to fairly

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his offspring. Proven sires are always

at a premium and many good sires are

sacrificed because there is no attempt

made. in many cases to really prove

their merits.





There is no more effective way to

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the cow testing association.



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Butter prices have taken a drop.

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; “Just four; three women, one man ”

“Much express.”



, “A few small packages; no unusual

_‘ . weight”



“How was visibility there?”



“Good at live o’;clock and reported

clear over Channel. "



“That’s why it’s so annoying, Fres-

noy not showing up, Cailson. Our six-

teen checked in on the clock this af-

ternoon; Airco’ s four-thirty bus was in

two hours ago. Handley,Page and "In—

stone had no delay with their last

crossings. What do you think hap-

pened to us?” .



“You mean, are we crashed or are

We in the Channel?” Callson replied a

bit tartly; for he, too, was annoyed.

“You can call the card as well as I.

If Fresnoy was forced down this side

the Channel, he’d have given ine a

ring; he ought to have rung you, if he

made a landing in England.”



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made a landing * * * Isay, Call-

son, should I give Dover a ring and

ask them to look over the Channel

for us?”



. “Peach of an advertisement for us

that, when we’ve not had a smash in

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shouting we’ve asked for destroyers to

fish us out of the sea. No one will ever

read we were quite snug all the time

in somebody’s sheep pasture in Kent.

Ten to one we are, you know, DOwse.”



“I’ll wait a bit,” Dowse decided.

“But hold the line for reports.” He

handed the telephone'instrument to

his secretary, and stepped impatiently

and anxiously out of the oflice to the

green sward 0f the airdrome.



By all 'right and reason, 011 such an

evening as this, Number Twenty

should have been in from Paris an

hour and a quarter ago; for almost a

year, in storm and calm, Glosten Air

Services had maintained its scheduled

flights to and from Paris and never

lost a passenger. They had made such

a record, indeed, that recently their

agents had become bold to boast of it.

“Never Lost a Passe11ger”'had become

the popular phrase describing their

line. ‘



Dowse passed the idle Imechanics

and groundsmen, sitting about and

gazing at the eastern sky while they

awaited Number Twenty. Long ago

they had put away big Nineteen, which





had brought over its score of passen- ‘





gers precisely on time at four o’clock;

they had put away Twenty-four and

Twenty-six, back from local flights in

England. The pilots of these machines

were home at dinner long ago. In the

hangar was Thirty also—the little two-

seater special for stunts and errands

of sudden importance, flowu more for

love than for money by young Eric

Keddlesley.



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now 'with his brown head bent under

' the airscrew of Thirty.





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“Will you?” Dowse accepted grate-

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‘ “Wanted on the telephone, Mr

»D0wse,” a boy from the Office called.

“Local wire, sir; not from Paris. ”

“One minuté, Eric, ” Dowse said, and

hastened to the instrument. . ~ »

“Lord Trundall,” a man’s voice in—

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that your last machine from Paris has

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with no personal inclination to be

reckless; but the page of the Glosten

booklet which mentioned terms for

hiring Thirty was carefully excepted

from this general assurance.



“Flown by ex- -fiight Lieutenant Ked-

dlesley, V. C., formerly Royal Air

Forces,” was all that the booklet guar-

anteed about Eric, “who will under:

take any special commission by ar-

rangement.



The booklet also cautiously exclud-

ed Eric’s flights from the schedule of

regular services, so' that no mishap of

his should endanger the record, “Nev‘

er Lost a Passenger.” As a matter of

fact, Eric had never lost anyone; in-

deed, no one in the service of the line

was more jealous of its record than

he, who lived, dreamed, and ate aero»

utilities, and invested every penny of

his own in Glosten shares.



The air was so much his element

that he simply could not consider it

dangerous, and he objected to the ad-

vertisement, “Never Lost a Passen-

ger.” “It sounds as if we expected to

lose people and are hanging medals

on ourselves because we haven’t. Why

should an airline ever lose anybody?”





Upon hearing Dowse approach, he

straightened and hailed his superiOr

cheerfully. “Hello; ' still blanking

about Twenty?. There’s absolutely no

reason, Dowse;“ but if it’ll ease your





past seven. It is most inconvenient to

his lordship; he will speak to you

about it himself, sir.”



“Inconvenient!” Dowse breathed to

himself, as he waited for the noble

reproaches. He recalled from his

morning’s reading of the “Times” that

Lord Trundall’s son was this evening

marrying the daughter of Sir Edward

’Allenstone.”



“It is now twenty minutes to nine,”

Lord Trundall said. “At five minutes

to five Froissard’s in Paris entrusted

to your pilot a package to be delivered

to‘me not later than half past seven.”



Dowse felt himself stiffening with

strain. “What was in that package, if

.you please, my lord?”



“Pearls—the necklace which was to'

be my wedding present to my son’s

bride.” ,



“How valuable are they, Lord Trun-

dall?” '



“They were the pearls which had

been Lady Trundall’s; Froissard was

to make some additions. He valued

his work at ten thousand pounds. The

string was insured for one hundred

thousand.”



“What’s all of that?” Eric asked as

the manager put down the instrument

in his hand and reached for the spe-

cial Paris line.



“CallsOn!” Dowse cried. “Fresnoy

was carrying the Trundall pearls to—





Maybe fifty; stout, talkative. ‘. 4

train Continental Hotel{ here. Then





‘ man





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4 Eric.





   





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there was a girl, about tyrent‘y-two;





good-looking; well-born sort. Passpmt

- said she Was from Louisville, Ken— 5 I,” M

tucky. Simply impossible to associate - " /





them with much wrong, Dowse. The

looked up to nothing. Louis

Evard, French, registered twenty-

eight years, tram Paris.





'a clerk. ”

“That all you know, Callson. 9”

“Froissard’s after the police, who

are here now’. * * * Hold the line

The police haVe

brought a photograph of Emile Ger





cux, who worked the big diamond haul ‘





at Mentone. The French depart in-





spector here says he’ s Evard, undoubt- '





edly.”

“What? That means—” .

“What do you think it means,

Dowse?"



“My heavens!” said Dowse.

can you do now?”





He thrust down the telephone, and

hardly had time passed for the break-

ing ‘of the connection when it rang

again; and, seizing it, Dowse heard:





Wh‘at





‘ “St. Leonard’sbn-the-Sea has been».





trying to ring you for several min-

utes, sir.” '

“Yes,” said Dowse.

“This is a resident of St. Leonard’s,”

a gentleman’s voice said. “Has your

machine designated Number Twenty





’—on your Paris service, I believe—-





arrived safely at your airdrome?”



“No. Why?”



“This evening at about twenty past

eight,” the resident of St. Leonard’s

related, “I observed a large biplane

flying over the sea about a mile alti-

tude; eccentricities of its course at-

tracted us, thinking that a pilot might

be doing ‘stunts;’ but finally we saw

.that it was not under proper control.





Itcame near enough once, after a long,

drop, for me to make out through a‘





glass your line mark and number; it

then swooped over the sea, but ten

minutes later returned and some pa-

pers fluttered down, one of which I

recovered. The message, evidently

written by a woman in extreme agita-

tion and upon most uncertain support,

is: ‘Aboard Glosten No. Twenty from

Paris. The Lord knows where. We

are three women; ‘our pilot was shot

dead.at seven o'clock. No one knows

how to fly. Pray for us. Mrs. W. C.

Pickett, Kansas City ”



“Which way did it go?” Dowse de-

manded.



“Toward Heathfield, the last we saw

or heard.”



The London manager put down the

telephone and turned about to face

A minute later Eric Keddlesley,

(V. C., formerly R. A. F.), ran out the

door. “Artie! Oh,A1t!” he yelled to





the mechanic who frequently flew with

him.





“Som)thing on; shake up!”

(Continued next week).





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and no tools. ‘ He whirled a stick. and

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throttled a deer and skinned it for

clothes. Made a bear pit and caught

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and caught trout, gathered berries,

built a but of bark and boughs, fought

"off loneliness, and after many weeks

emerged from his wild, prehistoric ex-

istence, brown as a last year’s leaf,

and sound as the hoot} owl that

screamed at him every night. Clothed

in the skins he had trapped, and hold-

ing aloft his bow and arrow, he rode

through the streets of Boston, amidst

cheering thousands. This was a sure-

enough» adventure, one that most of

us would hesitate to undertake, lest

our deer-catching,

bear-trapping ‘ex—





be so successful;

lest also the mos-

quitoes which we

have known of

old might return

and find us most

delicious and de-

- fenseless meat.

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Nehemiah were scarcely less desper-

ate than the adventures of this hardy

New England cave-man. They were

willing to take a chance. Yet they did

so in the spirit of faith and hope.

They held. that a good God would

make all things possible. That is the





 





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' the gambling sense and taking a





chance on God. One may win and

may not. The other believes that he

It is the differ-

ence between twelve o’clock midnight

and twelve o’clock midday. The dif-

ference is utter and complete. And

yet the element of adventure, or going

into the unknown, of running risks is

not absent from the man of faith, any

‘more than it is absent from the wild

strikes of ,the gambler.





ZRA and Nehemiah were willing



to venture, for God. Some one has

said, “What is wanted is not orthodox

churchmen, but adventurers for God.”

That is right to the point. Hedodotus,

who wrote the first history, says this:

“It is a law of nature that luxurious

countries produce faint-hearted men;

for you never find the same soil pro-

ducing delicacies and heroes.”





And Carlyle cries, that life is not a

May-game, “but a battle and a march,

a warfare with the principalities and

powers; no idle promenade through

fragrant orange groves and green flow—

ery spaces, waited on by the choral

Muses and the rosy. hours: it isa

stern pilgrimage through burning

sandy solitudes, and regions of thick-

ribbed ice.” We like to read such sen-

timents, but living them is a different

matter. Being a hero in the movies

is not synonymous with being one in

real life. But surely our modern brand

of Christianity is in sore need of the

heroic element, the element of sacri-

fice and abandonment to a cause. Not

that it isn’t there, for it is, but that it

should be mol‘e common. Dean Inge,

of England, declares that “We are los-

ing our Christianity mainly because

Christianity is a creed for heroes and

we are harmless, good-natured little





- people, who want everybody to have a.





good time." Notice the adjectives—

“harmless,” “good—natured,” “little.”

We may not all be able to escape be-

ing little, but at least we do not need

to be harmless, and if we can lose our

good nature in grim earnestness, it

will be a- wholesome exchange.





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in distancejand requiring four months.

That is pretty nearly as good as ven-

turing naked into the Maine woods,

especially as "they almost certainly

would have a brush or two with the

desert nomads. The reformer was

much disconcerted to find at Jerusa-

lem that his fellow countrymen. had

married with heathen wives, and thus

the holy religion of the Hebrews was

in danger of: dying out. With Baby-

lon stealing the hearts of the vast ma-

jority of the exiles, and with heathen

wives relaxing the emphasis on relig-

ion at the holy city itself, Ezra felt

that something should be done. What

he did may not appeal to our easy

ways of thinking and may offend our

sentiments. But we at least admire

the audacity and desperate sincerity

of the man who dared make the pro-

posal. He persuaded the Jewish hus-

bands to put away their wives! Would

you like to have tried that? Getting

mixed up in one family quarrel is bad

enough. Save us from several thou-

sand!. But that Was his propositidn,

and he put it through. Ezra, don’t

come to Michigan. Keep away. We

have one divorce to six marriages

now. But in actual deed, it did not

work much hardship on the grass wid—





ows, as they returned to their heathen





families with their children, taking

their dowries with them. It is a good

lesson now. Young women marrying

young men with no religious belief,

or the other way around, is liable to

result imdisappointment and divorce.

The per cent of divorces among the

church-going people is quite small, did

you know that? That is, where both

husband and wife are members. Re-

ligion makes a difference. The rea-

son we have so large a per cent of

divorces is because so large a per cent

of us are pagans. Pardon the frank-

ness of my speech, but this is written

on Memorial Day, and candor must

cut. ’





EHEMIAH arrived, a different



tyye of man from Ezra, although

he was fully as religious as his col-

league. The first thing Nehemiah did

-was to make an investigation of the

wall. It had been broken down in

large part, when the long siege by

Nebuchadrezzar’s army took place. He

went secretly, and made his recon-

naissance by night. With a few de-

pendable companions he looked over

the scene of desolation.

tugged at his patriotic heart, to see

the heaps of ruins, the long breaches

in the walls, the piles of stone ma-

sonry, gaunt and ghastly in the moon-

light, where once had stood the pride

and beauty of Zion. But he had not

come'all the way from the court of

Artaxerxes to waste time in regrets.

He was a man of action, and at once

organized the community into an effi-

cient body of workers. His enthusiasm

was infectious. Everybody got it and

the work went forward. So great was

the pressure of outer enemies, that

all the masons and hod-carriers had to

be armed. Spears and trowels, swords

and mortar boxes were side by side.

“So we built the way,” he says; “for

the people had a mind to work.” No

union hours, there. No beginning at

eight and quitting at quarter to four,

with time and a half for overtime. It

was all overtime, because it was a

labor of love, and love does not watch

the clock. “So we labored in the work;

and half of them held the spears from

the rising of the sun till the stars ap-

peared.” Such a spirit.is unconquer-

able.





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JUNE 22.





 





SUBJECTz—Reforms under Ezra and

Nehemiah. Ez. Chaps. 7 to 10. Neh.

Chaps. 5, 8, 13.



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The Auto-oiled Aermotor has behind it_9

years of wonderful success. It is not an experiment.

The Auto-oiled Aermotor is the Gen—

uine Self-Oiling Windmill, with every movmg

part fully and constantly Olled.



Oil an Aermotor once a year and it is always

oiled. It never makes a squeak.





The double gea‘rs run in oil in a tightly enclosed gear case. They

are always flooded with oil and are protected from dust and sleet.





The Auto-oiled Aermotor is so thoroughly oiled that it runs‘in the

slightest breeze. It gives more service for the money invested th

any other piece of machinery on the farm. -



7; - You do not have to ex riment to. get a Windmill

that. Will run a car With one 011mg. he Auto-Oiled Aermotor 18

a tried and pe ected machine.



Our large factory and our superior equipment enable us to produce economically and





 





 

   

 

 





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AERMOTOR CO. "
* -Ro7zdeau of a Hot Stove .

. , “When winter cemes,” says Ma, “I’ll go

' To where the summer’s overflow

Of all» the things our garden grow;

- Our berry patc ; our orchard too;

' Stand waiting in a shining row.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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“Atop my pantry shelves. You know,

They’re pretty, even as they grow,

But prettier, I’m telling you,

When winter comes!





“But stoves are hot in summer, so

There’s many hunts the portico,

And fans themselves, ahd takes the





view;

(I understand their feelings, too)!

"The same hot stove’s a blessing,





though

When winter comes!”





‘wu-Iv AM I, AS A FARMER’S WIFE,

INTERESTED ,IN LEGISLATION?





 





BECAUSE of the fact that I am in-

terested in everything that affects





the prosperity of our business. Out





 





Big Sister Tries to Teach Baby Broth





of our profits comes the money to buy

the necessities and comforts of our

home, modhrn conveniences, the priv-

ilege of sending son and daughter to

college, good magazines, daily papers,

things to beautify our outside sur-

roundings, money for a trip to the city

that we may come back to the farm

Twith a broadened viewpoint of the val-

ue of cooperation as exemplified in the

great business interests of the city.





Legislation can and has done much

to help us, but we have grasped the

idea that we, as farmers, must work

out our own salvation, that our prob—





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Caflm'ng Time is Here





HE busy canning season is



well upon us. Are you de~

hating Whether you had better

can some of those peas, beans

or corn for winter use?



Our canning bulletin, “Canning

Fruits and Vegetables in the

Home,” will perhaps answer

some of the canning difficulties

_ , . you had last year.‘ For a copy,

2 send five cents in stamps or

coin to Martha Cole, Michigan

Farmer, Desk M, Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





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er, ignorance is weakness. Then let

us arm ourselves with the power

which knowledge gives—Your Farm

Sister.





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CHEESE IN A} DIFFERENT WAY.





 





ECAUSE .of the texture of cheese,



and because it is such a concen-

trated food, it should be served with

something crisp or something which

necessitates chewing, such as crackers

or toast. .



Bake the mufiins, split them open,

and sprinkle each half with grated

cheese. Return the mufiins to the

oven until the cheese has melted.



An open sandwich may be made by

placing a slice of cheese on either

bran or white bread, next a slice of

tomato, and then a strip of bacon.

Place the sandwich under the broil-

ing flame and toast until the bacon is





er to Build Church with His aners.





crisp and the cheese has been melted.

—Mary Barber.





 





SEPARATE LETTUCE QUICKLY.





 





F you wish to separate a head of





lettuce, so that it will be attractive -





rather than torn apart, try this plan.





. ed cavity. Put the head under the





 

 





Take a sharp knife and trim outtthe-

little hard stalkfrom- the stem enact

the head. This will leave a. cup-shap-





cold water faucet, and let the water

run. The water will separate \the

leaves without the lea'steffort on your

part, and the lettuce will heelean and

cool at the same time. Dry with a’

fresh towel and, Presto! The work is

all done in a minute—E. G. W.





 





‘ FINE FOR SUPPER AFTER A

WARM DAY.





HEN there is a small quantity

of canned salmon or other fish

meat left from a meal, a delicious'

luncheon dish may .be made of it in

the following manner: Take a cupful

of medium thick white sauce. made

with two tablespoonfuls of butter, two

tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup of

scalded milk, and salt and pepper.

Free the remaining salmon from the

skin and bone and separate into flakes.

Have ready two or three chopped hard

boiled eggs}. Add salmon and eggs to

the white sauce and season with a

little paprika .and onion salt. Serve

upon half slices of buttered toast. Gar-

nish with a half a slice of lemon, and

,a little minced sweet pimento and

green pepper. The dish is delightful

to look at and delicious to eat.——E.IW.

_._.__.————-— .





TESTED RECIPES.





 





 





Best Ever Potato Salad.



6 cold (diced) potatoes 1 medium-sized cu-



5 eggs (more or less) cumber in thin quartered

Quarter—inch slices slices



1 or 2 red radishes 36 dos. tender radish-

sliced very hin seed-pods or nastiturtium



2 (or more) green on: seeds. . and

ions out fine, using part few ‘ .

of tons and ripe pepper or pl-

3 lettuce leaves rolled mento

and sliced 1 tb. salt.





The dressing, which I

"makes” the salad, is:





35 cup vinegar (some 1 tsp. butter ‘(more if

ream is not used)





consider





water if strong)

% cup sugar blended 1 tan. 5 t

with 1 tsp. celery seed





1 tsp. flour‘and added 1 tsp. paprika,

while vinegar

After removing from fire add one





beaten egg, and when cool half cup of





 





,From Six Month, to Six Years





HE child’s first school is the family.” says Froebel. and so it is that

with mother as teacher, the child’s training cannot begin to early.





“Just look at the little dear,

is often the comment of admiring friends when they first





perfectly sweet! ”





he is sucking his little thumb. How





see little three-months-old. But habits that are so pleasing in a little baby





look stupid if the child continues to





or three years to his life’s calendar.





make them his own as he adds two,

What may seem to be nature’s pacifier





for the nervous baby will only be the cause of shame and deformity when





the child grows to school age.





Of the deformities caused by the thumb~sucking habit, the modern





mother is usually aware.

this habit.





But it is often a. difficult task for her to break





Physicians say that as soon as the baby is .old enough to suck his thumb,





he is old enough to be broken of the habit.





The most common among the





methods of preventing this habit is paintingthe thumb or finger with some





bitter substance, such as quinine or quassia.





Another measure that is ef-





fective is the mitten. But when the determined little finger feeders Will

even suck through the mitten, mother may resort to the card—board method

that prevents the child from bending his arm. The card-board is wrapped

around the elbow and help in place with a bandage. The elbow should be





padded with cotton when this method is used.

The same is true when baby first begins to talk. The half intelligible





 





 

 





“baby talk” he first learns is taught him in many cases by his mother.

“Does muzzer’s little snooky-ookums want a d’ink of wawa?”





“Baby





 





- on juice. sugardissolved in the re- .





 





 





 

 

 

 





lems must be solved through coopera-

tion—that only sound principles of co-

Operation are an economic remedy for

our economic ills. We farm wives are

.vital members of the farm firm. We

work with our husbands, do essential





work, that binds us each to the other, '





‘and is one of the most beautiful parts

of farm life, one that you must live

to appreciate.



Then tell'why we would .not be in-





” ;.terested in everything pertaining to

farm legislation? Knowledge is pow-





 





 





see ze‘ titty tat?” is his first impression of talking, and first impressions

are lasting.



When he begins to talk, he combines his own lisp with this erroneous

pronunciation and construction. It sounds so irresistibly cute that no ef-

fort is made at home to correct it. But later, when the child enters school,



_ this becomes a serious prOblem. The child’s progress in reading is serious-

ly retarded. Reading is‘ doubly difficult for him, for beside putting forth

an effort to grasp the idea of the words and acquire new words, he must

overcome his baby talk.



How unnecessary for a child to launch upon his scho‘ol life so seriously

handicapped. Let the baby habits and baby talk he so thoroughly mastered

by early training that theta“! ways of the six-months-old will not be stumb-

ling blocks for the six-year—old. . .





 

 





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cream (sweet or sour): » The mustard





I and black “pepper, are conspicuous by





their absence; We believe what would





9 irritate'tli'e outside‘is not good inside.





a





~--—Mrs. B. R. " .





, Strawberry Pudding with Fruit Salad.





limb; ofpowdored cel— % cups of mar -; ,

tine, .' 1% cups of mulled

. 1 cup hot grater strawberries ' >



‘ Juice of 36 lemon ,. Some seasonable frui





Dissolve the gelatine in one-half .,

cupful of the hot. water, add the lem—





mainder. of the hot water and straw;



berries rubbed through a, sieve. Turn . .

into a wet ring, mould and allow to .

become firm. Serve with cream.





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FIGHT TH E F‘LI ES.





 





E best thing I have ever heard



of for the fly pest is to use about



a small spoonful of, formaldehyde in a



saucer of water. Set it in the room



and keep it closed if possible, but re-



member, it is poison: It has a sweet



taste, therefore draws the flies—Mrs.

S. P., Alpena, Mich. , -



In spite of all precautions, if there

are flies outside they find their way

into the house—especially if there are

children. This is a most effective

means of exterminating them after





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Well Fitted Screens Keep Out the '

. Flies.





they get into the house. I have a bak-

ing powder can. nailed to the end of

a broom handle. I set a glass filled

to within a half-inch of the top with

warm soapsuds. in the tin can, and' in"

the evening after the flies have gone

to the ceiling, go around and catch

them. The jar of the glass against

the ceiling startles them and when

they try to fly they drop into the glass

of soapsuds. The room should not be

brightly lighted. This is much easier

than it sounds, and is quicker and

more sanitary than a swatter.——Mrs.,

R. R. B., Benton, Harbor, Mich.





 





 





Household Service

RE-SIZE YOUR RUG.





 





I have an inexpensive rug in by bed-

room that is not worn badly, but it

wrinkles and does not stay in place.

——Mrs. B. A. '



If you will re—size your rug, it will

stay in place better. To do this, dis-

solve one pint of powdered glue in

two quarts of boiling water. Heat

slowly until the glue is dissolved.

Turn the rug wrong side up on the

floor and tack to hold in place. Paint

this solution on the wrong side, cover- _

ing every inch. Let stand for twenty-

four hours then turn back.‘





 





GREEN SHADES CAN’T BE MA'oE

. WHITE .





 





I notice Mrs. H. E. asking about

painting green window shades. I am

wondering if the green ones could be

painted white, using the same method.

——Mrs. K. -



Would not advise painting green

window shades ,white, for in places

where it did crack off, they would look

streaked» and spotted. . » _
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. prevention of‘ goiter;





' tered





‘ PREVENTING conga





 





BEAT advances have been made

'within the past five years in the

The fact‘that

certain regions in the United States





‘formed a “Godter Belt” hasbeen known

"for a' long time, but only in recent





years was the discovery made that

there was a marked deficiency of io-

dine in the water supply of the goiter

belt territory. It has been found since

that, even within the confines of the

saine state, districts may differ mark-

edly as to the liability of their people

to goiter, and always is there- acor-

responding difference in the iodine

content of their diet. The more iodine

in food and water the less tendency

to goiter is the rule.



You may remember that a test was

made by the Michigan State Depart-

ment of Health, under Dr. Richard M.

Olin, Commissioner. Fifty samples of

water were colleCted, of fifteen gal-

lons each, and four counties were

chosen as showing the greatest divers~

ity in iodine in the water supply. In

each of these counties six samples of

water were collected and analyzed. In

Maco'mb county, with an average of





.8.7 parts of iodine per billiOn of wa-

ter, it.was found that a quarter of the





10,000 school children examined were

goitrous; Midland county, with 7.3

parts per billion] showed a rate of

thirty-two per cent among its 3,645

children; Wexford county, where the

iodine sank to 0.5 parts per billion,

had a goiter rate of 55.6 per cent of

its 2,216 children; and Houghton coun—

ty, with no trace of iodine in its water

supply, a rate of 66.4 per cent of its

13,725 children



The solution of the problem is ob-

vious. ,In districts in which iodine is

markedly lacking it must be adminis-

systematically. The times of





Am» .H 1mg.





‘speclal need are the growing ages.





' He is getting very nervous and i1ri-





' write again, giving full name and ad-





Thus the pregnant mother should take

small doses of iodine throughout her

pregnancy, for the sake of the devel-

oping child. The next most important

time is the age of puberty, so especial

attention should be given from ten to

eighteen years of age, small doses of

sodium iodide being given at regular

intervals. In addition to these precau-

tions people living in the goiter belt

should remember that the deficiency

,of‘ iodine may produce varied symp-?

toms, and any chronic ailment should

suggest the possibility of its need.





HAS STOMACH TROUBLE.





A man, nearly forty—five, has been

troubled with stomach for a long time.





table lately. His stomach feels heavy,

like a stone, and when lifting it gets

worse. and no matter what he eats it

seems to hurt him Have tried several

kinds of patent medicines. ~'—-P. J.





Why should one waste money on pat-

ent medicines? This patientmmy have

a prolap-sed and dilated stomach. Pat-

ent medicines will do no good. He

must have a careful examination, in-

cluding‘an examination of the stomach

contents. Perhaps the best means of

cure will be found in special diets and

in eating very small meals. But no

one can tell definitely until after the

examination.





FURTHER INFORMATION

WANTED.





 





Mrs. L. R. M., G. K., and others: ~I

shall be very glad to reply to your'

inquiries by personal letter if you will





dress and enclosing stamp for reply.‘

The subjects about which you write

are perfectly proper but not such as

can be answered in this column.





 





 





 





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T was a queer looking fellow that



stopped at Rolly Rabbit’s house.



He was so tall and thin, with sharp

eyes and ears, and behind him he

dragged a big bushy tail, almost as

big as himself. Of course, you have

guessed that this visitor was Sir Fox.

Sir Billy Black Fox was his real name.

In his hand he was carrying a small

black box.



“Rap tap, rap tap, tap,”

Rolly Rabbit's door.



“Well, well, good morning, Billy

Black Fox,” greeted Rally Rabbit.

“Won’t you come in?”



“Good morning, Rolly. A fine morn-

ing this,” said Billy Fox.



“And what have you there in that

funny looking

box ?" a s k e d

Rolly.



“That’s m y

picture - making

machine,” said

Billy. “With it

i can make a

picture of. you.”



“Fine, fine. If

you can make a

good picture of

me,"_ said Rolly.

“Really. can you





echoed on





 





 





 





 





 





take pictures with that black box?”

“I can take real pictures with it



that will look just like you," answered



. Billy Black Fox



take yours?”



_ ”Perhaps I: will," consented Rally.





“Will you let me





 





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Rial/y R4562} Ha: Hi5 Picture Taken





“That will be a fine surprise for Bruin

when he comes back from the woods.”



So Rolly brushed his hair all sleek,

put on his stiffest White collar and his

primmest bow tie and was all ready

to have his picture taken.



As Billy Black Fox started to get

the big black box ready, it looked very

scarey to Holly. It reminded him of

the time when Mr. Hunter had pointed

his big bang bang gun at him and he

had'dodged behind a bush just in the

wink of time.



“Will that go off, Billy, like a bang

bang gun?” asked Rolly trembling.





“Oh, 'no, no, don’t be afraid, Rolly,”

consoled Billy Black Fox as he ar-

ranged the picture machine at just

the right distance. But all the time

Rolly’s heart became more faint.



"I must have my ears up straight,”

thought Rolly to himself, for Rolly

Rabbit was very proud of his big long

silken ears, all pink inside.



“Now are you ready?” asked Billy

FOX when he had the picture machine

all fiXed.





“Yes,” answered Billy in a tremb-

ling voice. But as Billy ducked his

head behind the big black curtain on

the picture machine, Rolly was so





scared that he forgot all about his





long ears, and down they went, just as



you See them here in the picture.

And that’s why'rabbits most always



have crooked ears when they have





The switchboard





Zero hour approaches.

for the "cut—over"





being. ,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

   

 





Comes to Life 2





Wire chief and assistants areset ‘ a»

that will bring a new central office into





In the room above operators sit at the new switchboard.





Two years this equipment has been building.





It embodies the





. developments of hundreds of engineers and incorporates the





scientific research of several decades.





Now it is ready, tested . 3





in its parts but unused as an implement of service.





In the terminal room men stand in line before frames of ,

myriad wires, the connections broken by tiny insulators. é





Midnight comes.

are ripped from the frames.

becomes a thing alive.





A handkerchief is waved. The insulators

In a second the new switchboard





Without their knowledge thousands '





1; ..-.. m... ~03





Of subscribers are transferred from the old switchboard to die 5

new. Even a chance conversation begun through the old _ ‘

board is continued without interruption through the new. i

The new exchange provides for further growth. ‘





This cut—over of a switchboard is but one example, one of ‘

many engineering achievements that have made possible a .’

wider and prompter use of the telephone. "





To—day, in maintaining a national telephone service, the

American Telephone and Telegraph Company, through its

engineering and research departments, continuously makes

available for its Associated Companies improvements in

apparatus and 1n methods of operation. i





   

   

 





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“‘ ; ”46 AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

' ' AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES





BELL SYSTEM





One Policy, One System, Universal Service. ‘ J





 





 





“W T. Greathouae writes:

Fence received eaterda . I

saved $30.00 In dying rom



. you." Our now out prices are

ny below whore—In





o and paints. -

Ill ENOUGH 'ENOE & WIRE CO.

.1,»sz Chev-land Ohio





 





 





 





their pictures taken.





   





 





 





Is materially afi’o'tnd hv your location.

why

larun profits.

MIGRATION COMMISSION. University Bldg.. 001- }

iege Park, Md.





Find out if

Southern Md. poultry-mixers make unusually ‘

Address the Southern Maryland II-





 





l

/ Between trips

to the harbors





A pair of Brdwn 8L

Sharpe clippers will

keep the children’s

hair trim and tidy.





Let us send you our Head

Barber’s booklet that

makes hair clipping easy.





‘.





/ Brown s. Sharpe Mfg. Co.

A Providence, R. 1., U. S. A.

Brown 81. Sharpe Mfg. Co.





Prov: DOC, .





 





Please send me a free copy of your

new booklet, "How to Use Clippers.”





 





 





 





 





Advertlsmg





that Pays





RY a Mich gan Farmer

Classified Ad to sell

your surplus poultry, or





to get that extra help.

They bring results with little

cost, sec rates on page 825 Of

this issue.





The Michigan F





Detroit, Miclr
From Michigan's best ”flocks. Bog-n tested 200 to

280-egrcstrain. Personally culled .-and rated by ex-

perts and~certifled by Michigan Baby. Chick Associa-

tion. English strain‘ White Leghorns. large co be,

deep bodies. and Sheppard’s strain Ancom. I

‘from selected stock. 50‘ chicks; $5.00: 1. y

3104 500 chicks. $48: 1000 chicks. 300:. Clicks from

,extra selected stock two cents higher per chick. White

" .Wyandotte chicks 15 cents each. Broiler on mixed

chicks» $8.00 per 100., Postpaid. 100 per cent} live

Satisfaction guaranteed. Catalogue free.

Order direct from this advertisement to save time and

get stock you are looking for at the lowestpossible

prices. quality considered. from the heart of the poul-

try industry. RELIABLE POULTRY FARM ls

HATCHERY. Paul De erect. Men. 3.1. Iceland.

Michigan. Dent. - .





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

 





For Persistent Layers--'-

.. Raise Wolverine Baby Chicks





Bred for heavy egg production since 1910. Specially priced for June

Delivery, June 3-10-17 and later. Shipped by parcel post, prepaid,

up to your door. 100% safe arrival guaranteed.





S. C. English Type White Leghorns

‘ 50 100





 





500 1000



Chicks. Chicks. Chicks. Chicks.



D Selected mating .$450 $ 0.00 $45.00 3 90.00



50 100 500 1000



W Our-best mating ................... $5.00 $11.00 $52.50 $105.00

I 250/. with Order and wan Shin c. o. o. for the Balance.



L Order direct from this Ad. to save time and get your chicks at





'- once, or first write for our free 32—page catalogue.





'1'; WOLVERINE HATCHERY





i: H. P. WIERSMA, Prop. R. 2, ZEELAND, MICHIGAN





KEYSTONE QUALITY CHICKS





From Early Maturing Stock. Bred In ‘Mich.-Hatched In Mich.

All Pure Bred Stock From Carefully Culled And Mated Flocks,





Full Live Delivery Guaranteed -





 

   





 





Prices on 100 '500 1000

Extra Select B. P. Rocks & R. I. Reds ................................ $0.00 $11.00 $50.00 , $100.00

Foreman Strain B. I’. Rocks ........................................ 8.00 15.00 70.00 130.00

R. 1. Beds, from Choice Matings ..................................... 8.00 15.00 70.00 130.00

W. Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons as W. I’. Rocks .................... 7.00 13.00 00.00 ......

Utility ls Eng. S. C. W. chhorns .................................... 5.50 10.00 45.00 90.00



C. W. Leghorns .................................. 0.50 12.00 55.00 110.00





Mixed, all heavies. $9.00 per hundred.

Send P. 0. Money Order. Bank Draft or Certified Check.





Box 8, Lansing, Mich





O N E G G B R E D

Certified CHICKS





Mixed, all varieties, $7.00 per hundred.

Order direct from this ad. and save time.

Member I. B. C. A. Bank Reference.





The Keystone Hatchery 8: Poultry Farm,





PRICES SLASHE





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Late May. June and July delivery, Shipped postpaid, ' 100 500 1.000

100% live delivery guaranteed. Barron Improved Eng- 8. C. White Leghorns dz S. C.

lish Type and Hollywood American Type of 8. C, Anconas ......... . ........... $12.00 $57.50 $110.00

White chhorns. Sheppard: Strain of S. C. Mottled Extra Selected Chicks. S. C.

Anconas Direct. Dark Brown S. C. Brown Leghorns W. Leghoms. S. C. Br. Log,

and Barred Rocks. Scientifically batched in New— & S. C. _Anconas .......... 10.00 47.50 90.00

fawn Incuabtors from Pure-Bred Free Range Flock. Selected Chicks. 8. C. W. Leg.,

which have been carefully culled and mated by ex- 8. .. Br. Leg. dz ,8.

perts and rated and certified by the Mich. Baby Chick Anconas .................... 8.00 40.00 75.00

Ann. Our Birds are winners at leading shows and Barred Rocks ................ 12.50 60.00 115.00

Egg Laying Contests. Also hundreds of 8-wk.~old Mixed or Broiler Chicks ....... .50 35.00 70.00

pullets ready for shipment. Prices: Special Star Terms 10% with order, balance a week before ship-





Mating chicks from flocks of one and two-year—old merit.





hens mated to 270-200 E09 strain Males.

Townline Poultry Farm,





“Egg-Bred” Pullets





S. C. White Leghorns Exclusively





Eleven years' experience in raising pullets and breeders. All stock on free range. Let OTTAWA Pullets

make money for you. Get our free. circular below you order your laying stock, it will save you money.





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BABY 0H|0KS---SPECIAL PRIBES JUNE





White Leghorns. $10 per 100. Barred Rocks and R. I. Reds. $12 per 100.

All flocks culled and inspected. Our own breeding flock of large type American White Leghorns. Laying

and standarduiualitics combined. 13 years' brccding, hatching and marketing experience. Modern plant.

Live delivery guaranteed. Order from this advertisement to insure prompt shipment.





DEA EGG FARM&HATCHERY,BigBeaver.

Mail Address Birmingham, Michigan, R. 4.





Reference, Zeeland State Bank.





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BABION’S QUALITY CHICKS

Varieties. Prices on: 25 50 100 500

White. Brown. Buff and Black Leghorns ......................... $3.00 $5.00 3 9.00 $44.00

Barred Rocks. S. & ll. (‘. Reds. Anconas. ltlinorcas ...... 3.50 0.50 12.00 58.00

White & Buff Rocks. White Wyandottcs ....... | .......... . 3.75 7.00 13,00 (33,00

Si]. Wyandottes. Buff & White Orp'mgtons ..................... 4.25 8.00' 15.00 72.00





Mixed Chicks, Light, $8.00; licaiy. $0.00 per 100.



Prices quoted are for chicks hatched from OUR GOOD UTILITY FLOCKS. Chicks from

of BLUE RIBBON PENS will be $5.00 per 100 higher. Postpaid. 100% live delivery

Order from this ad. Thousands satisfied. Ten years‘

not the cheapest the best. Also hens and pullets





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live delivery guaranteed. Flor-ks on free range. Culled by an expert.





 





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Varieties. Prices on: 25 50 100 500 1000

English White Leghorns ...., ........................... $2.50 $5.00 3 9.00 $42.50 $ 85.00

Brown Leglioms, Ilcavy Type .......................... 3.25 0.00 11.00 50.00 05.00

Barred Rocks, R. (‘. & S. C. Reds ................... 3.00 0.00 11.00 52.50 105.00

Mixed Chicks ................ 2.00 4.00 7.00 35.00 ......



Reference: chland State Bank. You take no chance. Order TODAY with full remittance





HUNDERMAN BROS. POULTRY FARM.





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COMMENCING JUNE 23.





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1:. 3. .1. Beds .. .. ........................ . ........................ 10.00 47.50 90.00

a ‘.,............... ............................................ 9.00 42_5o 30.00

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Dear Uncle Frank: _, ‘

I don’t, agree -' with ' P013.

boys being rude to, girls.

to tease the girls sometimes, but I

guess the girls like to tease 9 boys,

too. But as forthe :boys being rude





about 311





to the girls, lots of girls are just as

rude to the boys. ' ’ '

I am seventeen years old, have blue





 





Margaret Gravelle’s Free-hand Sketch

of the Modern Girl.





eyes and brown hair, which is bobbed.

It won’t be if it will ever grow out

again. Lots say they like bobbed hair

because it’s easier to take care of and

isn’t near so much bothe‘r. Itis easy

to comb, but it has to be combed about

every little (while or it doesn’t look

like it had been combed at' all. I think

it’s more bother than long hair.—Your

niece, Zetta. Graves, Billings, Mich.

So you are one of those who are

sorry they had their hair bobbed. It

will grow again in time if you will let

it. Yes, some girls are rude, too. I’ve

known some myself.





Dear Uncle Frank:

I think a M. C. aid fund would be

nice. I don’t agree with Polly, though.

I don’t think boys are rude to girls,

at least Ihave never seen any that are

down this way and live: My older

sister thinks the boys are right, es-

pecially one.~—Your niece, Emalene

Barlow, R. 5, Quincy, Mich.



I think Polly had better take your

suggestion. It seems odd that your

sister should think that way,





doesn’t it?





Dear Uncle Frank:



Tonight daddy came home and told

me if I would go over to our neigh-

bor’s and get a little pig I could have

it, so as soon as I get this letter writ-

ten, if my daddy will go with me, I

will go over and get the little pig.



I have tried five times to have my

letter printed in the Michigan Farmer

but each time it has taken a header

into the waste-paper basket, but I

hope this one won’t.



Well, my letter is getting pretty

long now, so I guess I will go and get

the little pig—Your

FranCes M. Ehinger, N. M. C. .





I suppose you have your pig by this

time. I hope he will grow fat fast.





 





Dear Uncle Frank: , ,



I’ve been reading Harold Coles’ ap-

probrious letters for a. long time in

silence, but now my sensitive, girlhood

rises in righteous} indignation to meet

his unjust attacks. Although this let-

ter»~.m_ay net convince him,.other M.

C.’s (especially girls) may indulgein

wee giggles of satisfaction. '1 :hope





 





   

 





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I ' take pleasure in- introducing , my-

self as one of t“th'ose” bobbed-haired

flappers with her teeth shoving}? who

seem to send poor, timid, little Harold

into such , inane " qualms of terror.

Bashful mus boyl. I wonder if he’s

the kind that'jhides behind .mamma’s’ _

skirts when company comes. Obvious- ’ ‘ r

15’, he 1833.. 'f « u .. “ ’



Now, Harold, just overcome that

petty prejudice. ,You may, not like

girls, but let me tell you, young man,

Silly boys and carbolic acid " have the

same definition for me. . c“



I have bobbed hair,--but,1_do not use

rouge or powder, for every good rea-

son. I already have “that school-girl

complexion”, and “the skin you love to

{33:h, so you see, cosmetics are use-



'I do wear knickers'out campin and .

hiking. I’d like to see any boy grin a

fifty-yard dash or high-jumping conteSt

With skirts twisting around his legs.



Of course, I don’t approve Of knick-

ers on_the street, and the average sen-

sible girl doesn’t wearithem!



I warn you, Harold, you had better

be friendly to girls who bob their hair

and wear knickers for comfort, or you

may .end by marrying either a Mack

Sennett, bathing beauty, or a chorus

gllil from Ziggfeld’s Follies! - . ‘

_ .. am sen ng a. ree- and picture,

which I drew, of the modern gin, so i

that Harold can see how, charming . I

and attractive she really looks in her :

out-of-door costume.——Yours very sin-

cerely, Margaret Gravelle, Rapid

Biver, Mich.





After Margaret has handled her sub-

ject so well, the best thing I can do is

to say nothing. Must be Margaret

reads the movie magazines and ads.





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

I sure think the Merry Circle Aid

Fund would be a. very nice thing to

have. _I am a. Merry Circler and I will

be willing to send a dime every month

and I am sure that every Merry Cir-

cler would be willing to do the same.

And I am sure that the poor orphan ‘

children need all the help they can





ge .



This is the fourth letter I have writ-

ten. Mr. W. B. always got the others

before they could be printed. He will

no doubt-get this one; if he does, I

hope it Will choke him—Your nephew,

Clarence Miller, M. 0.





Another good sugg‘egtion. Perhaps

we will make use of one of these sug-

gestions this fall. To save W. B. from

being choked I use this letter.





Dear Uncle Frank:



_Well, .last Friday was our examina-



tions (eighth grade), and my! I’m glad .



they’re over with. I have tried a few



of.the contests and haven’t won any- '



thing, but I will “Try, Try, Again.” * <

Here are a few questions: Does it



matter whether you answer the con-



tests in ink or pencil? Why don’t you ‘



put your picture in the girls’ and boys' -



page again? There are more M. C.’s ’



coming all the time who would like to ’



see what you look like. -

.Well, my fingers and arms are so



tired from writing exams that I will ,



have to ring oft—From another M. C., '



Frances Sheridan, Flushing, Mich. ' I





‘ I’m glad you are the “try, try, again”





kind. It” makes no difference whether i "

you use ink or pencil. Maybe some



day my picture will appear again. I



hope you passed those exams. ~



Dear Uncle Frank 2‘ ‘





You asked if boys are rude to girls.

Most of them are not. Some girls are

rude to boys, and I know it, because

we had some rude girls in school last

year. _They slapped the boys’ faces

and did every mean thing they could

think of. When one of them got slap-

ped back, they began to .bawl and Jan

in and told the teacher.



.The other day I climbed a tree in

the woods and got a. half-grown crow

out of a nest, and brought it home.

Every time it wants something to eat

it opens its mouth and I feed him——

Well, Good-bye, Leon Nieb, Niles.



The mean things, those slapping

girls. And boy's, being gentlemen, can

not slap back. _I don’t like tattle-tales,

do you? 'Isn’t it funny that the‘crow

should open his mouthwhen he, wants



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No other non-poisonous

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MAY AND JUNE CHICKS





THE KIND THAT PAYS BIG PROFITS.

l’lNE BAY FARM CHICKS are

backed by our 20 years’ experience in

the poultry business and a. reputation

for fair dealing with thousands of

satisfiw customers. Our

protects you.

CHICKS FROM 6‘/2c UP FOR

JUNE DELIVERY.

Rocks. Reds. Minorcas, Ant-ones and

chhoms. . We breed and own Inter-

._ national Egg Laying Contest Winners.

‘ 4.2,. Free Catalog. Get full prices before

ordering elsewhere.

PINE BAY POULTRY FARM, HOLLAn. MICH.





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HOLGATE CHICK HATCHERY.

Box 0. Holoate. Ohio.





Cockerels and Pullet





Moms. Rocks. Reds. Wyandottes, Orpingtons. An-

conaaBMinorcas. Also Geese. Turkeys, Ducks. All





 





 





send (or complete Circular with mu description of

stock and price list. ’

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Kalamazoo. Mich.

“nub" International Baby Chick Auociah'on



‘ umber Kiclu'qan State Farm Bureau

{OII'I ks sniv" MLL‘CB

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0. ‘1); 1001: live chicks. postmidf‘ from pure-bred.

stock. we Bro -





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M.10c;/Whlte a. Burr nooks.





. always been popular.





"written and arranged, will be put to—





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T must be fun to look through the

paper to hunt answers to questions

for the -.Bead-and—Win contests have

For that reasdn

here is another of our old-time Read-

and-Win contests. . -



Please make your answers to the

questions as short as possible. Put

the number of the page on which you.

found the answer after your answer.

Do not write out the questions, as

that is unnecessary. Put your name,

address and age in the upper left-hand

corner of your paper. If you are a

Merry Circler, put M. C. after your‘

name. ‘



All papers which are correct, neatly





 





gether in a basket and the first ten

drawn will be given prizes, which in-

clude fountain pens, flashlights and

candy. All .the rest, who are not M.

C.’s, will be Merry Circle buttons and





cards.

Send your contest papers to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

Michigan, before June 26. .

1. How many farms were there in

the Upper Peninsula in 1920?

2. Who claims that some girls slap

boys’ faces? .



3. W'ho has room for the bird that

never complains without “caws?”

4. How many cases of eggs did

New Jersey market in New York last

year? _

5. How many silos are there 1n





. 6. Is raw cod liver oil useful in

preventing leg weakness in chickens?

7. How" many members of the 300

Bushel Potato Club averaged a yield

of 353 bushels?



8. At what cost can a satisfactory,

water system be installed in the farm

home? .



9. How many gallons of spray are

necessary to thoroughly spray one

acre of potatoes when the plants are

large?



10. What bitter substance should be

used on the thumb to prevent thumb

sucking?





 





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Selected Ma'tm/gs . Extra Selected Maths: K.





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$35 per 500 $45 per 500





Odds and Ends, (Broilers) $6.50 per'100; $30 per 500 ‘

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ONE MILLION No Culls but ‘BETTER QUALITY CHICKS’

‘ $7.50 Per 100 and Up





Varieties. Prices on 50 10 300 500 1090



\ American. Tom Barron. Wh. Leghorns. .3450 S 9.00 $25.00 840.00 S ’I .00

S. C. Brown. & Buff Leghorns. Ant-cuss 4.50 9.00 25.00 40.00 18.00

Barred & Buff Rocks, Blk. lllinorcas.... 5.75 11.00 32.00 48.00 95.00



B. C. & R. C. ltliode I. Reds .......... 5.75 11.00 32.00 48.00 95.00

White necks .......................... 0.25 11.50 34.“ 53.00 105.00

White VVyandottes .................... 0.75 13.00 38.00 00.00 115.00



S. L. Wyanrlottcs, Bufl' Minorcas 850 1000 40.00 75.00 ......





Mixed Chicks. Light Breeds, $7.50; Heavy Brecds. $9.00 per 100 straight.

. From flocks wonderfully developed for midi egg production and beauty of type

Our chicks are properly hatched and shipped and this is the reason they are STRONG,

HEALTHY. and HUSKY, and satisfy our customcrs from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the

far West. Postpaid. Order right from this ad. with full remittance and they will reach you in safety,

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EAGLE NEST HATCHERY. Box Bl. UPPER SANDUSKY. OHIO.





o N E Ml LL10 N GOOD LUCK CHICKS $8.00 PER 100 AND UP





Varieties. Prices on . ‘50 100 300 500 1000

Brown & But! Leghoms. Ancqnas ...... $4.75 5 9.00 $25.50 $42.00 3 80.00

Barred Ron-ks, R. C. «I: S. C. & Rhode l. Reds. 0.00 33.00 52.00 100.00

White Rocks. White Wyanclottes 30.00 02.00 120.00

Black Minorcas. Bufl' Orpingtorts ................ 7.00 30.00 02.00 120.00

L. Wyandottes. But! Minorcns, lit. Brahmas 9.00 48.00 80.00 ......

Mixed Chicks. Licht Breeds. SR; Heavy Breeds, $9.50 per 100 straight Postpaid



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SPECIAL REDUCTIONS FOR JUNE

Highest Quality Certified Baby Chicks





From Michigan's Old Reliable Hatchery, the best equipped and [do »

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WORD CONTEST WINNERS.





as this contest “went over big.” I find,





I asked that the name be put in the!





upper left hand corner, so many just,

put their names there and left their!

addresses off entirely. I can not blame:

the contestants for this, as it was

really my oversight.



Those who only made out a few

words from the letters in the words

“Waste Basket," will be surprised at

the large number that the prize win-

ners got



The prize winners. and the number

of words they made out are as follows:



Fountain Pen.

Julia E. Hibbard, R. 3, Sturgis, Mich.





—175 words.

Howard Haight, R. 7, Allegan, Mich.





~171 words.

Falshlight.





Josephine Tucker, R. 5,

Mich.——~154 words.



Ella Sessions. 903 State Street, St.

Johns, Mich—453 words.





Holland,





Rober Harpham, Bloomingdale,

Mich—1 0 words.

Candy.





Ruth Galbreath, Fennville, Mich.—

147 words.





—-146 words.

Eathl Carncross, R. 1, Clare,

#143 words. '





Mich.





Dear Uncle Frank:





like to adopt a niece from Deckerville?

I am just a plain country girl and

have been reading the M. C. letters in

which I enjoyed very much and would

like to join your happy band. ,



Now for my looks. I am a darkish

‘yellow (please don’t fall over), I am

fifty-nine inches tall, and eleven years

old, and in the fifth grade. eYour want—

to-be-niece, Margaret E. Phillips, R. 3,

Deckerville, Mich. ~



Yep, we are glad to have you join

our happy hand. If you will answer

the'contests, before you know it you





will be an M. C. Plain country girls





 





may ox a. silver Lake. Ind.





 





are the kind we want.

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T seems as tho-ugh boys and girls“

especially girls, like to make words, i





too, that many young folks follow di-!

rections, for in writing up this contest 1





David Kurtz, R. 3, Holly, Mich—i

146 words.



Oliver Gordan, Quincy, Mich—«146

words.





Dorothy Draper, Montgomery, Mich.





Well, Uncle Frank, how would you‘





cones. Barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. Stron , - ‘

from tested Hoganized free-range stock that make wonderful swirtilrl ?:;g::d 3323

sent by Insured Parcel Post, Prepaid to your door. 100 per cent live delivery gufir.

unwed. Sixteen years 0! experience in producing and shipping Chicks giving absolute

satisfaction to thousands. Writefor \aluablo illustrated free caulog'and price list.

Get lowest price on best quality chicks before placing Your order.





w. VAN APPLEDORN, R. 7, Holland. Mich,





 

 





 





 





Postpaid. 100% Live Delivery





Strong, Sturdy. Northern-grown Chicks. Selected ure-

free range insure strength in every Chick. ’ p bred stock. Healthy Flocks on





f Varieties. Prices on: 50 00

..... . . “3"“; 13111. 61. Iltkrolwn{II‘nglmrns C(r‘adg A ................ $0.00 8110 00 “570(00 $ 1‘92030

arrw o-(s rismcrut) 1 ii i A ............... ‘- I ' -

Mixed Chicks, i N F i 7 00 12.00 57.50 112.00





Light Breeds. $8.00; Heavy Breeds. $10.00 per 100 eif '

82.00 pcr 100 higher than above. Hatched under best conditions. | ramht.

State I‘ommercial Savings Bank.





l‘ve l' 1 {Double A grade Chicks,

' . . . ,rv ('lli‘i care ully inspected. Referenco‘

Order right from this ad. With full . 'tt . ' ' ~. .

GREAT NORTHERN HATCHERY. Box 50. nmi anie. TgaEmEljthl?) I.LI‘II{IICl-Ilh‘ullil





V

English Strain 8. P. White Legho

lthode Island Reds s c. at ........ “13.0.31: """""" $10.33 w 100

tliode Island Iii-Ii»: “use c, at. """"""" “'00 M 100’ ' '

Barred lid-ks at .. .......... “.00 per 100

Anconas iii ..................... 1000 091' 100

Broiler (‘hiki at ........ . ........ fixiggigg



Order from Ad. Smlsf'ivlinn Illlllraningd ) , '



above varieties for sale. PROGRESSIVE POIIJLIIIiI apt/KRIMIS‘? {2’33}





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Class A Chicks Only;





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The BIG SAVING in prices gives you an opportunity that you cannot aflord to





 





 

 





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bring splendid development.

November.

let pass by.



Chicks that are strong, peppy, tram high production, egg— —bred stock. are the chicks that

pay. We have sacrificed on price but the same standard bf supreme quality is always maintained

regardless of price. Our breeders are producing heavily, our incubators working to full capacity,

and this enables us to give these high- grade chicks at such extremely low prices.





EXTRA SPECIAL FOR JUNE AND JULY





'4





Varieties 25 50 100 500 1000

Extra Selected Barron or Hollywood 5. C White Leghorns sired

by 250 to 280 egg males .................................. $2.75 $5.25 $10. 00 $45.00 $ 90.00





 





Selected Barron White Leghorns ......... . ......... 2.50 4.75 9.00 42.50 80.0

Extra. Selected Sheppard Mottled Anconas . .. 3. 00 ’5.75 11. 00 52.50 100.00

Selected Mottled Anconas ................................. 2. 50 4.75 9.00 42.50 80.00

Selected Perk' s Bred-to~Lay Barred Rocks .................. 3. 75 7.00 13.00 62.50 120.00





Broiler, Mixed (1111 ks Seven Cents Straight.





PULLETS AND BREEDING STOCK FOR. SALE



After June Ist we offer Selected White Leghorn Pullets. 8 to 10 weeks old, at $1.10 each:

lsggppard Ancona I‘ullets at $1. 30 each and Barred Rock Pullcts at $1..50 Prices reduced for



or more.



After July 2I5th we haie 700 choice Tom Barron and 400 Sheppard Ancona breeding hens for

disposal *t SI.2 each. Also, selected cocks of same breeds for SI. 25 each. These must. be sold

to make room tor our growmg sto<k. Our space is limited.



ORDER AT ONCE from this ad. We can make immediate shipment. Cash with order or sent

C. O. D. if desired. All chicks sent to your door by parcel post prepaid, 100% alive delivery

guaranteed. Pallets and stock shipped by express, charges collect. Catalog FREE.





SILVER WARD HATCHERY, Box 29, Zeeland, Mich,





BHUBERsRELIABIECH ICKs gig





I924 YEAR





 





 





 





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Special Summer Prices-13y Parcel Post Prepaid





Do not fail to take advantage of these prices for they will include our number one chicks and specials.





Our stock is bred for quality and heavy egg production. Flocks culled by experts and they will be money





makers. Will ship any number chicks from 25 on up. -

. C. Ancones. S. C. Wh. and Br. Leg ......... 10c Silver Laced & Colombian Wyandottes .......... 150

B. C. & S. C. Rods, Barred and Wh. Rocks.... 12c S. C. White Minorcas & light Brahmas. ......... 20c

C. Bf. Orpingtons & Wh. Wyandottes ........ 14c S.(. .Black Minorcas ........................... 130

Odds and Ends ..................................................................................... 100





Order direct from this ad.

furnish you a valuable hook on how to raise chicks and poultry.





HUBER’S RELIABLE HATCHERY. East High St,





ROYAL Egg" CHICKS





Bred

S. C. Eng. Type White Leghorns and Brown Leghorns

For Prompt Shipment





$9 per 100; $45 per 500; $85 per 1000





Mixed (Odds pand Ends) ,7c Each





Less than 100 chicks 10¢ each. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Order direct

from this adv. Cash with Order or C. O. D. We pay postage.





Royal Hatchery & Farms, S.‘ P. Wiersma, R. Z, Zeeland, Mich.

From World’s





c n 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. 5 C. Anconas

Tom Barron White Le horns Heavy Type Brown Leghorns

R. c. 81 s. c. Rhode sland Reds Park's Barred Rocks



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

hand picked and inspected, no cripples or weaklings. Every one strong

and healthy. Satisfactionand 100% live delivery guaranteed. Post-

age paid. Write 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, MICH.





EARLY MATURING BABY CHICKS





From Carefully Culled Pure-bred Stock





Buy your chicks by comparison. Try our chicks and compare them with others for

Early Maturity, Quality. and Livability.





FOSTORIA, OHIO





 





 





 





 





Prices on 50 100 500 1000

Extra Select B. P. Rocks 8:. II. 1. Beds ............ $6. 00 $11.00 $50.00 $100. 00

Foreman Strain B. P. Rocks .................... .. 8.00 15.00 70.00 130.00

It. I. Reds from Choice Matings .................. . . 8. 00 15.00 70.00 p 130.00

W. Wyandottes, But! Orpingtons & W. P. Rocks. . 8. 00 15.00 70.00 ......

Utilitv & Eng. S. C. W. Leghorns .................... 5.50 10 00 45. 00 90.00

Special American S. C. W. Leghorns .................. 0.50 .00 55. 00 110.00





Mixed all varieties $7. 50 per hundred. Mixed. all varieties, heavies $9. 00 per hundred.





Full Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid.

Order direct from this ad. and save time. Send P. 0. Money Order, Bank Draft

or Certified Check. Member I. B. A. Reference. Milan State Savings Bank.





MILAN HATCHERY Box 4, MILAN, MICH.





BIG REDUCTION NOW SELLING





Pure Bred Big Value Chicks. Prices After June 20th





£332.1223333???.f'f.P‘f‘i.::::::::::::::::::::::::::} 9c each





 





 





Banhg‘rioaigzIt‘thR.e $0. It. 1. Beds. .. . . 11 h

m... Wyandottes .....::::::1:::::::::‘.::::::::::.: ....... 0 63¢

Bull a White Orpingtons .................................



Broiler Chicks ........................................... So each





5, Wolf Hatching 81 Breeding Co., Dept. 5, Gibsonburg, Ohio





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OHIO POULTRY MEN. sruov THE

, ' . MARKETS





FARMERS who go in‘ for quality



production and who, by strict con-

tract grading establish ,a reputation

for their product, need not bother

seemingly, about a. good market, no

matter how far they are away from





. ' the center of consumption





Three Ohions, one representing the





* state farm bureau, One the college of

’ agriculture, and one the Ohio Poultry





Producer's’ Cooperative Associati n,

brought back this word from ‘ew

York where they went to inspect the





tablished by Pacific

coast producers.



“Pacific coast poultrymen sold co-

operatively in New York' last year

751,000 cases of eggs, or five times the

number that they sold there in 1921,”

reports L. L. Rummell, of The Ohio

Farmer, appointed by the Ohio State

University as representative on the

committee.



“However,” he adds, “since New

Jersey poultrymer. marketed 1,783,000

cases in the metropolis last year, it

would seem that the New York mar-

ket approaches glut.” ' .



Accordingly, he advises extreme

care in packing and grading for the

metropolitan market, and advises

Ohio’s rapidly developing egg market-

ing association to follow Virginia’s ex-

ample and create nearer: home a. de-

mand for highly graded eggs, counting

on New York less and less as this

home trade is developed.



Entrance into the new Ohio cooper-

ative will be under a three-year con-

tract. The association will begin ac-

tive work when the owners of 300,000

Ohio hens have signed up. '





and Atlantic





CHICKS NEED MOIST SOIL.





I received 200 chicks lately. They

became lame and the skin dries on

their feet and then falls off and they

soon die Was wondering if you could

give me a. remedy for this. —E. R.



I think the chick troubles may be





due to faulty brooder management.

Have a. small fenced enclosure near

the brooder house so the chicks can

run in and out even in bad weather.

Give them free range'on sunny days.

Place green sods near the brooder can-

opy so the chicks can work in the

moist soil. Raw cod liver oil is useful

in improving the vigor of chické’ and

preventing leg weakness. It can be

used at the rate of a pint to each 100

pounds of the growing mesh.



The conditions in a'brooder house

are not natural for chicks. The brood-

er stove furnishes a hot dry heat. The

floor under the stove is hot and dry.

All this tends to dry out the chicks if

they have to remain inside nearly all

the time for two or three. weeks. If

your chicks have a grassy range and

the weather improves, I think the

losses will stop.





DUST CHOKED CI-IICKS.





Had some little chicks a couple of

days old. Kept them from hen till all

were out, then dusted with talcumized

sodium fluoride, and in about four

hours after found one dead and three

others which seemed to be gasping

for breath, and frothy stuff coming out

of their mouths. All died a few hours

later. Will you tell me what the trou-

ble is?——-A. B. M.



I think the fine dust from the sodi-

um fluoride probably choked and

strangled the chicks and clogged the

nostrils. I am not sure .that this

would kill chicks, and the one which

died may have been trampled by the





I always treat the hens with blue oint-

ment mixedrwith' equal parts of. low

grade vaseline. A small dab is placed





beneath the vent and under each wing.





 





It is rubbed in so thoroughly theta





cooperative egg terminals lately es»





hen. Before placing chicks with hens‘





_.=air is: fresh.





barely shows. I have never tound this.





treatment to injure the chicks with-5...... 2 5





setting hens, and believe it is better

than using dusty powders. '





 





POULTS DIE SUDDENLY.





 





I am having trouble with my young.





turkeys. They seem strong and heal-

thy, go blind and die in a day. Could

yep“ tell me what to do for them?——I.





L

11,?”





I would perform a postmortem on

the young turkeys that die, and note

the condition of the internal organs,

especially the liver. Also examine the

contents of the crop.

may be caused by map. I can give no

definite information from your descrip-

tion of the trouble. It. might pay to

send‘a specimen to Dr. H. J. Stafseth,

Veterinary Division, M. A. 0., East

Lansing, Michigan, for a. laboratory

examination. He is an expert along

that line and the laboratory examina-

tion is really needed for definite in-

formation. 2





OVERFEEDING WEAK DUCKLINGS.





Would you please tell me r"bat 3113

my ducklings, also a. remer ‘ "‘bcv

get weak and cannot Walk. “"7 ,1 set

over it for a. while, then get again

in about a week or ten days' and then

die. They are on clever for green

feed, in a good—sized pen, and get a

wet mash twice a. day, of bran, corn

meal, a poultry regulator as directed,

and oat meal once a, day. They eat

well, and have shade if they; want it.

I have lost two about seven weeks old,

atnd Iriow have three younger ones with

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I think that overfeeding may be a.

cause of the losses.

have big appetites but they should be

fed rather sparingly as this will in-

duce exercise on the range, which

helps to develop vigorous bodies. Five

or ten per cent ground beef scrap in

the mash will give them the animal

feed required for a. normal growth.

Five per cent coarse sand should also

be added to the mash. I would reduce

the corn meal in the ration. As a.

starting feed for ducklings I would

prefer equal parts of rolled oats and

bread crumbs by measure, with a.

sprinkling of about three’ per cent

sand.





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FEEDING RABBITS.





We have been trying to raise rab-

bits for some time and we don’t seem

to succeed. When they get about six

weeks old they begin to die. Is it in

the care or feed? We have lost five

already. We feed them corn, oats,

hay, dry bread and water. —G. S. S.





You do not state any symptoms, but

probably the rabbits died from indi-

gestion due to sudden changes in the

feed. Too much green feed may cause

losses among young rabbits. Possibly

a. lack of vigor in the breeding stock

may be responsible. Try feeding small

quantities of bread and milk with a.

little hay, oats; and occasionally a.

piece of carrot. Keep the hutches

clean and‘free from any feed that may

become sour or mouldy. Spray them

every few weeks with a hand potato

sprayer filled with commercial disin-

fectant.



See that the hutches are in a. shel-

tered place where the rabbits are pro-

tected from strong winds, but try and

get plenty of sunshine in the hutches.

It is a valuable disinfectant. Feed

regularly. Do not skip one feeding

and attempt to make it up by stuffing

the hutches full of feed. This often

makes rabbits sick.





 





It is bad -that women who, because

of poorly arranged kitchens and lack





of conveniences have to walk about





fifteen miles per day, do practically

none or the journey out where‘- the





The blindness ‘





Ducklings often '





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_. . .3 m The, particulariiin‘d Qf.‘





mineral, mixture, however, is not so

7 .lmpdrtant.” It is the certain funda-

* mental ingredients- that the body re-

. quires: for normal growth and ‘the





building of healthy tissue that should

be supplied. ‘ They are (1) sodium,

found in common salt; (2) calcium,-

found in ashes, lime, or ground limes

stone; (3) phosphorus, found in bone

meal, raw phosphate rock or acid

phosphate; and (4) iodine, found in

potassium iodide. .



Crops grown on land rich in these

elements, especially fresh leafy leg-

uminous forage, may supply the ani-

mal's most insistent demands. They

will! get some minerals also from di-

rect contact with the soil. in winter

when the ground is frozen and forage

dry, the mixture of minerals is most

important—P.





 





are‘scr OF SUCKLING UPON

' DAIRY CAPACITY. .





 





HE opinion has been quite gener-



ally prevalent that cows are spoil-

,ed for dairy purposes after‘they have,

for a season or more, been allowed to

raise their calves in the open pasture.

" The theory seems to be that the fre—

quent suckling of the calves does not

allow full development of the udder

and if, guring later periods of lacta-

tion-.‘i““';.t;calves are weaned and the

co... .i-milked twice a day, udder

troubles are apt to develop.



It is’also a commonly accepted no—

tion that cows, accustomed to having

the milk drawn in the natural way,

are averse to giving it down to the

manipulation of the hand.



During these times of cheap beef





"and cheaper beef breeding stocks,





these theories are being tested out in

beef breeding herds. Good prics for

dairy products and next to no demand

at all for beef calves, are leading





many cows that have formerly run -





free in the pastures with their calves

toward the milking stables, and the

calves are either going to swell the

blatant wailings of the stock yards,

or growing up into skim-milk beef.



On the farm of E. B. Salisbury, near

Shepherd, Michigan, we have a good

demonstration now being carried out

along this line. There are some sixty

pure—bred Shorthorns on the farm.

They have always done more or less

hand milking, but this year they are

doing more than usual and raising the

calves on skim-milk. One of the older

boys who works the farm told me

recently that they are hand-milking

for the first time some big«uddered

cows that have raised in the open

their first three or four calves.



He says the cows very soon accus-

tom themselves to the change and af-

ter the first three or four days very

little trouble is experienced with the

cows holding up their milk. Likewise

their trouble with udders failing to re

spond normally has beén confined to

one individual. It is these occasional

cases that have no doubt given foun-

dation for the above theories.



The Shorthorn is primarily and nat-

urally a dual—purpose breed. One of

the best known breeders in the coun-

try told me several years ago that all

you needed to do to make good milk-

ers out of Shorthorns was to milk

them. That this statement is true is

proven in the Salisbury herd where it

only takes six of these big beef cows

to fill five twelve-quart pails full of

milk—Pepe.





 





HOLSTEINERS HOLD ANNUAL

' CONVENTION.





 





M ICHIGAN seated a higher percent-

age of eligible delegates at the

annual convention of the Holstein-

Friesian Association of America than

any other state, having (fler three.

.. Eight Michigan Holsteiners out of a

po‘ssible nine sat as delegates at Rich-





. mend, Virginia. qn June 4.





' the .1325 gathering will be held





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'B-ierce, secretary cf the Grand Rapids





. swering Lowden’s statement that he





mm out June: The dele-





, We assisted . in; seem the.

in ,ng for next year‘ by dyeinall

bunch of Michigan breeders who at-

tended the convention, and by Mr. Mo-





 

 





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Chamber of Commerce.



The Richmond convention was mark-

ed by good feeling on the part of. sev-

enty-eight delegates representing twen-

ty-three states and Canada. Business

transacted was largely of a routine

nature and will be reported in detail

in breed papers.



One provision adopted that will be

of general interest todairymen and

breeders was the establishment of a

yearly or ten months’ test division in

which not over three times a day milk-

ing will be allowed, except for the first

forty-five days. It is expected that

many breeders who find it commer-

cially profitable to milk three times

daily, will avail themselves of their

new test division.



'Ex-Governor Frank 0. Lowden was

unanimously re-elected as president of

the National Association. D. D. All;-

ken, of Flint, nominated Governor

Lowden in a very clever speech, an-





 

 





 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





could give but little time to the pres-

idency another year, by saying that

he knew of “no other man who could

giVe so little time and yet accomplish

so much good for the association as

could Governor Lowden.”





The annual consignment sale follow-

ing the convention found Michigan

represented by eighteen head. These

were all sold at fair prices, mainly in

the south. The highest-selling Mich-

igan entry was Traverse En Train, a ‘

four-year-old cow from the Traverse'

City State Hospital herd. This cow

brbught $430. She had previously been

selected out of 143 head as most do

sirable animal to use in a true-type

demonstration. _



Michigan Holstein officials are al-

ready laying plans for the convention

and sale next year at Grand Rapids.





PROPER COMBINATION OF OATS,

BRAN AND COTTOSEED MEAL.





 





I have oats and would like to buy





 





F ARM E' R i 51.;

'M.I.C-H-1-c-A-N.





MADE

TWINE





 





PRISON

BINDER '





 





 

 





 





Made In YOUR OWN FACTORY at Jackson, Mich.

BUY NOW and SAVE MONEY





We are first to announce Binder Twine prices for 1924 season. The

prices are very low considering condition of Yucatan sisal situation

which is serious. P 'ces may be higher. Don't wait. See the secre-

tary or proper official your organization or dealer today. They have

the prices. Do it today! Tomorrow prices may“ be higher. Prices

direct on request. If you cannot get our twine of them, we will ship

you direct. . V





 





HARRY LIHULBERT, Warden

MICHIGAN STATE PRISON, JAgKSON, MICH.





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MAIL THIS COUPON FOR FREE SAMPLE

and Prices on Michigan Standard Binder Twine





Harry L. Hulbert,





Manager State Industries,

Jackson, Mich.





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bran and cottonseed meal to feed to

milk cows. Please tell me how to mix

léhels‘e (grains and how to feed them.—





 

 





The roughage part of the ration

must be known in order to answer

this question. If you feed alfalfa hay

Containing 11.7 pounds of protein in

every 100 pounds you will not require

so much cottonseed meal or other pro-

tein feeds as you will if you feed tim-

othy hay with only 2.8 pounds of pro-

tein per 100 pounds.



‘A fairly good ration can be com-

pounded with‘cornstalks and straw for

roughage by using the right concen-

trates (grains) to give the right pro-

portion of food nutrients to meet the

cow’s requirements. But these con-

centrates should be different with the

cornstalks and straw for roughage

than they would if you were feeding

alfalfa or clover hay.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 





FOR SALE Jersey Abufllls readny for set—

_ . Vice. cows exists: of



Merit. Accredited herd. Would take a bankablo



note. SMITH AND PARKER, ll. 4, Howell. Mich.





Cows, 4 bulls from n. of M. Cows. Chane

15 select from hard of 70. Some fresh, otherscbretg

for mu freshemng. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville, Mich.





Registered Jersey cattle. young hulls, for

5 le. ’1‘ b '

J. L. CARTER. a Lakue 832:3: mfg:





Safe and

effective





Better than

firing or cautery





 





 





' BIDWEL

GOMBAULT‘s Caustic Balsam is bet— ESJE'JMXS'S. if as 739 3“

ter than firms or cautery, because 28917. Now ofi'ering 2 January roan. halli BORN/onsets}





exceptional merit, reasonably priced. .

UIDWICLL STOCK FARM. Box 1). Tecumseh.Mic-h





Real Milking Shorthoms As [Iliave sold my





' farm w'l .

entire Herd of cattle, 35 head of hand-mlllxaleltow-s!

pair fed calves and young heifers. CHAS. A. BRAY:





Okemos, Mich.

FOR SALE





A. few choice young Shorthorn bulls.

Ilvered prices. H. B.





it does not scar. or discolor the hair; it

grows back natural color. For 41 years

horse owners have depended upon

Gombault's for quick and dependable

results. Its use will keep your horses

sound and working. Directions with

every bottle. $1.50 per bottle as drug-

gists or direct: upon receipt of price.

good for human use, too. The Lawrence-

illiams Company Cleveland, Ohio.





GOMBAULT’S





Ca ushc





 





 





Write for do-

PETERS It SON. Ellie, Mich.





GRADE HEREFORD STOCKERS

and FEEDERS FOR SALE





Two ca rloads yearlings two 0

~ . . arloads two—year—ol

one carload thnxryvar—olds, also cows with calf d3





BALSAM





 





 





With timothy hay as roughage a

cow ought to have two pounds of cot-

tonseed meal a day and then a suffi—

cient amoiint of ground oats and bran

mixed hallT—and-half to make one pound

of. grain for every three pounds of

milk she gives in a. day if it is rich

milk (4.8'or five per cent) and one

pounds of grain for every four pounds





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us





Ileg. Guernseys out o! a good A. n. o. cow.

1. M. WILLIAMS, North Adams. Mich.





V617 unonable. W. w. Burdick, Williamston, Mich.





side. all female sleek of our own 1- "

‘ . 3.1 In .

make good breeding stock. 5 g would





SANILAC STOCK FARM.

Berkshire, Sanilac County,

Detmit Office. I422 Broadway.





Hereford Steers





64 Wt. Around 800 lbs. 70 Wt. Around 750 lbs.





For sale. Rog. yearling heifers, bull 23 a: Around “5" lbs, 44 Wt. Around 600 lbs.





calves. May Rose breeding, prices





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





Twelve Davs before date of publication





Choice Bull Calf 10 mo. old.





Around 500 lbs. 50 Wt. Around

Well marked and show splendid breedintlsfo tile?!)

reds, good stovker order. Horcl'ords are usually mar-





uernseys





 





 





of milk if it is not better than 3.5 per

cent.



But if you were feeding alfalfa hay

in place of timothy you could leave

out the cottonseed meal entirely and

still have an equal amount of protein

in the ration.





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





During the past forty years the pas

true land in thetUnited States has de—

creased about 3,000,000 acres a year

on an average, while crop land has in-

creased about 4,500,000 acres per year.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





ket tOIHN’ll ‘3 VI lli‘ll Illll‘sllk’d. AILXIOUS [0 Sell your

L II all 3d OI ll. GIVE number In W

I10 ‘6 0110 ( U a d (Malt





Van 3. Baldwin, Eldon, Wapello C0,, Iowa

FOR SALE One cow. two heifers, and





. one young hull of best

beef breeding. Young cattl ‘ ’

Cheap if taken soon. Algae sgedfegy Revolution, Jr.





“May Echo Sylvia Breeding

From Traverse City State Hospital

Bull calf, born September 15. .1923. two-





thirds white.

stron lel ' - .. you“ 0W8 0!

Sire: A. 34-Ib. grandson of May Echo Tecuxsuexhi, Jfihfmlemta‘nu‘ BELAND 3‘ BELAND-





Sylvia.

B RED POLLED CATTLE M





Dam: A 20.27‘Ih. Junior two-year—old, IIJB I

whose dam has three records in three suc- 1 “Y {mm Michinan's Leading Herd 0

cessive years of 30.05 to 35.5 lbs. butter in l"I‘VESTBROOK BROS.. lonia. Mich. ' med ML

seven days, and a 305-day record of 950.75 B . 4

lbs. butter and 21,146.1/1bs. milk. Her dam YEARLING 93m, 86mm 31.52:, ‘13; "1°- AA

made 33.27 lbs. butter in seven days. FELDKAMP. Manchester, Mich. ”8' '





His seven nearest dams average 32.04. _

Red Poll Cattle





sex, all ages. E. 8. Curr, Homer, Mich.





Bureau of Animal Industry,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Two«thirds of the increase in crop land

has come from pasture and the other Dowtmontc Lamina. Michigan HOGS

third from forest land. R . t d D m

‘ Maplehurct Holstein. W .fl (1 egls ere “1'06 . '1

Unless pastures are improved and F0 R SALE “8 “a“ about ten Res-efla- F0“ SALE—Yawn bom no mm bred oil a. ,.





 





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made to return larger volumes of \feed

they will slowly give way to crops.





 





 

 

 





stein Heifers, more than we care to milk next» winter. be“ herds In Mlchiun and Ohio. at reasonable





unis





he“ heifers m “M by ‘ 30-m Bull. m “mum. es and fully guaranteed. W. E. Bartloy. Alma,





and from tested dams. WHITNEY BROS" ..

nondaga. lion. ‘ ‘ Additional StockAdu‘on P130835
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Wednesday, June 18.





~ 2 Wheat.



Detroit—No. 1 red $1.20; No. 21333

1.21; No. 2 mixed $1.26.

Chicago—July $1.161,§@1.16%; Sep-



tember $1.17%@1.17%; December at



$1.19%@1.19%.

Toledo—Cash C$1.19@1.20.





orn.

. Detroit—«No. 3, 90c; No. 4 yellow'

85c;‘No. 5, 800.



Chicago.——July 8614 @86%c; Septem-

ber 86@86%c; December 77%@78%c.

Oats.



Detroit—Cash No. 2 white 56c; No.





' 2, 54¢.





. Chicago—July 4734c; September at

43%@43%c; Decgmber 45%c.





ye. .



Detroit—Cash No. 2, 78c.



Chicago—July 775/30; September at

777/3c; December 80c.



Toledo—790.





‘ Barley.





Barley, malting 85c; feeding 80c.

Beans.





l Detroit—Immediate

shipment $4.60 per cwt.

i Chicago.—~Navy $5; Red kidneys at

. $7.25@7.35.



New York—Choice pea at $5.15@

$5.25; red kidneys $7.75@7.90.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover cash at



$11.45; alsike $10.25; timothy $3.70.





and prompt





- ) Hay





standard and light mixed $23.50@24;

. No. 2 timothy $22@23; No. 1 clover at

: $19@20; No. 1 clover mixed $21@22;

; wheat and oat straw $11.50@12; rye

straw $13@14.





’ Strong—No. 1 timothy $24.50@25;





’ Feeds.



Bran $28; standard middlings $30;

, fine do $32; cracked corn $37; coarse

2 cornmeal $36; chop $30 per ton in

1 7100-lb. sacks.





WHEAT





The June 1 forecast of the wheat

crop was 693,000,000 bushels, or 93,-

000,000 bushels less than last year’s



: harvest, and 188,000,000 bushels under

1 the 1918-1922 average. The low esti-

mate coming on top of a strengthen-

1 ing world’s situation resulted in an

' advance of nearly nine cents a bushel.

, This is the largest fluctuation in so

short a time in many months and a.

setback is likely. The cash wheat sit-

uation is improving as demand for

flour has been stimulated by the ad-

vance in the market and foreign buy-

ers-have taken more interest in con-

tracting our new hard winters for lat-

er shipment. Large exports continue

from Canada and the Argentine with

prompt absorption by importing coun-

tries and consequent reduction in the

world’s available supply of old crop





wheat.

CORN-





. Adverse crop reports, coupled with

the sharp upturn in wheat have caus-

ed a rise in the corn market to the

highest point since March. Unfavor-

able new crop prospects have served

to strengthen the cash demand for

corn and tighten the grip of holders.

The June run is heavier than last year

but it has not been above the average

and it has not caused any accumula-

tion at terminals thus far. Exports

are small as Argentina is putting

afloat more than the average weekly

absorption by the international mar-

ket. The market is beginning to act

a. little strained and a setback is like-

ly to occur if wheat has a reaction.





RYE





The rye crop forecast was about the

same as a month ago. The outlook

for rye prices gains by the change in

the wheat situation. Demand for the

old crop reserves, most of which are

in the visible supply, has improved

greatly. Exports also continue at the

larger rate established a few weeks





m OATS





The unfavorable season caused less

~than the intended acreage of oats to

be planted, the actual increase over

‘last year being only two per cent. The

June 1 condition was the lowest

known for that date with one excep—

tion. The crop forecast was 1,232,000,-

000 bushels, against 1,300,000,000 bush-





‘2" sin harvested last year. The oats mar-





ket has been strong along with other

3.



’ ‘ BARLEY -



*~ Instead of an increase of nine per

cent in barley acreage as shown by





 





the‘intentio‘ns report, a decrease of 4.5

per cent occurred compared with" last

year. With a. low condition report,

the crop forecast is only 160,000,000

bushels against last year’s harvest of

198,000,000 bushels.



BE





ANS





The bean market advanced again

last‘ week, reaching $4.65 to $4.70 per

100 pounds for C. H. P. Whitest. o.‘ b.

Michigan shipping points. Demand

has been good 3for this season of the

year and California interests have

been buying again although it is. re-

ported that their purchases made sev-

eral weeks ago are still in stora e in

Michigan elevators. Deliveries ve

enlarged slightly on the advance in

prices which has been acco panied by

more favorable weather 01‘ hauling

and for planting the new crop.





EDS





Clover and grass seed prices have

been fairly steady during the past

week. Reports on the new crop of

clover2 and timothy are not favorable

either in this country or abroad and

the carry-over of seed from last year





2 is rather small.





FEEDS





By-product feed markets developed

more strength last week, partly be-

cause of lighter production and partly

in sympathy with the stronger grain

market. Demand from consumers is

slow. Stocks of wheat feeds in stor-

age at lake ports are reported large. ,





The condition of the hay and' pas-

ture crops on June 1 was estimated at

83 and 82.2 per cent, respectively, as2

against 84.4 and 84.8 per cent last year;

and ten—year averages of 88.7 and 90.6;

per cent. Rains in some of the dry.

areas and warmer weather since June‘

1 have been helpful but the crop pros:

pect remains below normal. Timothy.

hay prices have been rather firm be-

cause of light receipts.





POTATOES





New potato prices have been declin-

ing rather steadily for several weeks

as carlot shipments have been ex-

tremely heavy. Prices on old stock

have held quite well under a dwindling

supply. U. S. No. 1 Northern round

whites are quoted at $1.70 to $1.85 per

100 pounds with Carolina Cobblers at

$4.75 to $5 per barrel in Chicago.





POULTRY AND EGGS





With receipts of fresh eggs falling

behind the corresponding time a year

ago, an active trade, and reports from

many sections of production being re-

tarded by unfavorable weather,~ prices

advanced again last week. Holdings

of eggs in storage are smaller than

at this time last year, which was an-





” ing for storage increased.





 





 

 





other factor in the advance. Poultry

is being shipped. to consuming mar-

kets 'in ’. larger quantities... . Prices/cu

both broilers and hens were marked

lower during the week. , 22 '



Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 24% .





@25c; dirties 23%0; checks at 2334c;





fresh firsts 25@25%c; ordinary firsts

24@241,éc. Live poultry, hens at 23c;

broilers 35@38c; roosters 14c; ducks

25c; geese 120; turkeys 20c. -

Detroit—Eggs: fresh candied and

graded 24%@26c.‘ Live‘poultry, broil-

ers 38@44c; heavy hens 25@26c; light

hens 22c; roosters 15@16c; geese 15

@160; ducks 24@280; turkeys 24@25c.





BUTTER





After holding the market steady

throughout last week, butter prices

advanced slightly at the clOse as buy-

ln~spite of

the fact that the flush of production

is under way and the quality of re-

ceipts is excellent for storing, the

movement into storage Continues to

fall short of last year. Consumption

continues large so that although pro-

duction is increasing from week to

week and the amounts taken for stor-

age are small, receipts are not burden-

some. Prices for 92-score creamery

butter were. Chicago 40140; New

York 421,“; Boston 4234c; Philadel-

phia. 43c.



Ninety—score creamery, Chicago 400;

New York 40%0; Boston 41%0.





CHEESE





The cheese market was strong last

week although prices were unchanged.

The supply of full grass, cheese is

steadily increasing and heavier buying

for storage was a factor in the mar-

ket’s strength. Trading for consump-

tive demand was quiet, however, and

at the close of the week dealers push-

ed sales more freely. '





WOOL L'-





Wool prices were marked down

again last week. Demand ’ is very

light in seaboard markets and buying

in the country has slowed up. Most

sales on the range are being made at

35 to 38 cents, with 40 cents paid oc~

casionally. It is estimated that about

one-third of the new clip has been

sold. Foreign markets are slow with

a downward tendency. Boston quotes

fleece wools similar to Ohio and Penn-

sylvania grease basis as follows: Fine

strictly combing 50@520; fine clothing

400; %—blood strictly combing at 50@

52c; 1,é-blood clothing ‘at 44@45c; %-

blood strictly combing 500; %-bl

clothing at 44@450; lA—bIOOd strictly

combing 45@46c; 1A-blood clothing 42

@430; low 14—blood strictly combing

43@44c; common and braid 39@40c.

The better class of Michigan, New

York, Wisconsin and Missouri wools

are one to two cents less.





 





I Live Stock Market Service J





 





- Wednesday, June 18.





DETROIT





Receipts 316. Ma ket steady.





Good to choice year ings.$ 8.50@ 9.25

Best heavy steers ...... 8.50 9.50

Handyweight butchers 8.50@ 8.75

Mixed steers and heifers 7.25@ 8.00

Handy light butchers. . . . 6.2561) 7.00

Light butchers .......... 5.00@ 6.25

Best cows .............. 5.00@ 6.00

Butcher cows ........... 4.25@ 5.25

Cutters ................. 3.50

Canners ................ 2.50@ 3.00

Choice bulls ............ 6.00@ 6.75

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

Stock bulls 3.75@ 4.25

Feeders . . . . ............. 6.00@ 7.00

Stockers ................ 5.25@ 6.50

Milkers ....... . ......... $45.00@85.00





Veal Calves.



Receipts 843. Market opened at 500

lower; closed $1 lower. - 2

Best . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$10.00@11.00

Calls and heavies . 4.00@ 9.50



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 163. Spring lambs 50@75c



lower; others steady.





Best lambs .............314.00@14.75

Fair ......... 11.00@12.25

Fair to good 550@ 650





Light to common . .

Culls and common . . . . . . . 2.00@ 4.00

spring lambs O I O D I O I O Q I I 16l00.@15-50





* Hog. -

Receipts 1,654. arket is 5@25c

higher. ‘





MIXGd ..s......-.....-..‘ 7.60

Pigs ouuconooouoovoonloen‘ 6.60

Roughs aaaaaa ooh-.00.... 6.25



27.00





Light yorkers





 





Heavy yorkers . .' ...... 7.60

Stags . . . . .00@ 4.50





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Hogs.



Receipts 21,000. Market generally

100 higher; desirable grades selling,

others slow; bulk of good 250 to 325-

1b. butchers $7.45@7.50; tops $7.55;

majority of good 170 to 225-lb. weight

$7.20@7.40; packing sows largely at

$6.40@6.75; pigs steady; good strong

weight $6@6.25. .



Cattle. ’



Receipts 11,000. Best steers carry-

ing weight; market strong; yearlings

slow and steady; top matured steers

$11.10, some held higher; fed steers

and. yearlings at $8@10.25; she stock,

grain-fed, steady, others dull; bulls 150

lower; vealers 250 lower, selling at





am. ,

‘ Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 12,000. Market slow. Few

early sales native lambs 500 lower,

culls weak to $1.00 lower; no early

sales; sheep slow; good 'to choice na-

tive lambs $14.75@15; sorting about

like yesterday; culls $9 down.





BUFFALO





,7 Cattle.

Receipts live cars. Market is slow.





one.

Receipts 26 cars. .Market is strong.

Heavy and yorkers 7.75; pigs $6.75.

, ‘ Sheep and amb's. " "

Receipts two cars. Market is slow.





‘ Top lambs $16;- yearling’s,.,.$8. 13.50;'~





wethers '$8@8.25;

Calves at $11.-





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The conditionygof’ the iapple crop on , 2 , ‘

June. 12 was placed at 274 per sent, as '

er cent ayear'ago, and - 2

a ten-year av rage on June 1‘ of 70.1 - _ -

per cent. The market is dull, with i

prices in much the same position as-

they have been for weeks. Shipments 1

of old stock will probably cease in two! ‘

or three weeks. , ‘





-FRUITS





The peach crop estimate is 52,500,-

000 bushels against 45,700,000 bushels

harvested; last year. The yield is larg-

er. than expected. Carlot shipments

are increasing rapidly.



The strawberry movement is grad-

ually falling 0113. Illinois and‘Missouri

Aromas are quoted at $3.75 to $4.50

per 24-quart crate in Chicago.





DETROIT CITY MARKET 1





Buying was moderately brisk and

the liberal supply of produce offered .

on Saturday’s market moved easily.

Apples, No. 1, $1@1.25 bu; asparagus, t

No. 1, $1.50@2 dozen- bunches; No. 2, '

$1@1.25 dozen bunches; lettuce 75c@ 4

$1 bu; head lettuce $1@2 bu; potatoes

800@$1 bu; radishes 40@600 dozen

bunches, rhubarb 40@500 dozen bunch-

es; cabbage plants $1 per 100; tomato

plants $1.25 per 100; eggs, wholesale,

28@300 per dozen; retail 30@38c; old





hens, wholesale 27c lb; retail 28@30c

lb; broilers, retail 40@480; roosters





 





GRAND RAPIDS





Michigan strawberries were offered

here this week around $4 a case, 16

quarts. The first fruit came from Ber-

rien county. The local crop is late

but gives prospects of beginning to

move late in the week. canners are

contracting cherries at 4%@5% cents.

a. pound in western Michigan. Lower

prices asked for southern potatoes

caused old stocks to decline to 60@75o

a bushel. Quotations on other com-1

mo‘dities follow: Radishes 10@12%c

dozen bunches; leaf lettuce 8@10c lb; 4

head lettuce $1.50 bu; new beets 50@ ‘

600 dozen bunches; spinach 30@500

bu; rhubarb 500@$1 bu; parsley 40c»

dozen bunches; asparagus 75c@$1.25

dozen bunches; white pea beans $4.15

cwt; wheat 960 bu; hogs, higher, 7c

lb; veals 121;“; lb; poultry, lower and

weak, Leghorn broilers 18@2lc 1b;

heavy broners 25@28c lb; heavy fowls

18@20c lb; light fowls 14@15c; eggs

22c dozen.





HOGS NEAR YEAR’S LOW SPOT. '





Hog prices declined last week, al-

though a recovery'was setting in at

the close. From the high point on

May. 19 the June break thus far has

carried top prices 40 cents lower. The

average has declined 60 cents, owing

to the arrival of a larger number ‘of

unfinished light hogs and more pack-

ing sows, which are widening their

discount below the butcher and bacon

grades.



How soon the supply will let up

remains. to be seen, but the week cor-

responding to the present one as an

average of the last ten years has reg-

istered the peak of the June move-

ment. With a poor prospect for the

new corn crop and higher prices, pres-

sure to get out of hogs will be strong

and this tendency will have some hear-

ing on summer receipts. .In spite of

this situation, interest in stock pigs,

which are selling on an extremely low

basis, is broadening.





LAMB MARKET SLIGHTLY

LOWER.





 





 





 





The bare spot in the lamb market

in the latter half of May is definitely

over and- prices have declined sharply

from the peak of the season, especial-

ly for fed lambs, yearlings and sheeni

ChOice spring lambs are still on a.”

high level although they are lower

than a week ago. Top range lambs

have held above $17 at Chicago with

best natives at $16.25. .Culls are sell-

ing at a heavy discount. Receipts. will

probably double in the next three

months and, even though feeders will

take an increasing share, prices are

likely to work loWer, Breeding ewes

are in demand with few available on

the market. The Department of Ag-

riculture reports a larger 2 lamb crop

than in 1923 in-the states that furnish

the bulk of receipts in .ju17.;and Aug-

ust, but range and pasture conditions

are such‘ that there 1 some” uncer-

tainty as townsth * wen - "
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.ugsday.~;.liilyglo, a‘ marl excavat~





 





 

 





 





We Fame-"Mechanics ‘, Department,

with thohelp' ofthe county agent. The

work of the-department will be headed

by L." F. ‘Iévingstoln, who also has

charge a! the, land—clearing work of

the moo. ' "W » .



:A machine has been made by Prof.

Musselman for excavating marl right

from the lake. So far it has worked

very successfully. The advantage of

the machine is that it is built simply,

economically and at such a size that

an ordinary ' farm gasoline engine is





capable of furnishing sufficient power





to do the work. ‘



'Anchor posts were set in the lake

during the winter for tailholds, so

everything. is in readiness to hitch on.

“There will be two demonstrationsin

the county- where-work or excavating

man will actually be done. . The first

demonstration will be held on the farm

of R. J. Grouse, William Lee, manager,

where conditions are, ideal to handle

many hundred yards of marl.



The Second demonstration will be

held at Gregory, on Monday, July 14,

on the J; Potts farm adjoining Wil-

liamson Lake. T. H. Howlett, a hard-

ware dealer of Gregory. has taken an

active part in making this demonstra-

tion possible. At each demonstration

the noon hour will be occupied by a

potvluck dinner, followed by a short

program.



These are two of thirty-eight demon—

strations which will be carried on in

lower Michigan. Every farmer should

make an effort to take in, at least, one

demonstration to understand the coop-

omy of using this machine.





 





THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST.





 





HE eighth four-weekly period of

Tthe~contest closed June 11 with

the Leghorns maintaining a. produc~

tion of 62.9 per ’cent, the R. I. Reds

57.9 per cent; Anconas, 48.1 per cent;

Rocks, 46 per cent, and White Wynn-





. dottes 43 per‘cent.





Mr. W. C. Eckard’s White Leghorn

one pen still maintains a big lead in

the contest. This pen has a total pro-

duction of 1,609 eggs to its credit. The

second highest pen, also Leghorns, be-

longs to L. F. Heasley; it has produc-

ed 1.485 eggs.

comes third with 1,457 eggs.



The leading pen among the R. I.

Reds belongs to the Milan Hatchery;

it has produced 1,299 eggs. Evergreen

Poultry farm has the high White Wy-

andotte pen which has 1,295 eggs to

its credit. J. V. Sheep’s Rocks lead

that division with a production of

1,162 eggs, and C. M. Beckwith’s pen

has first place among the Anconas

with a production of 1,053 eggs.





 





COUNTY CROP REPORTS. ~





Osceola 00., June 12.—Our growmg

weather did not start until June 11.

Previous to this date frost had been

more or less prominent There 15 a

fair prospect for fruit. About the us-

ual acreage of potatoes wilkbe plant-

ed. Fewer beans are going in. Many

men are now drifting back to the

farm, but farmers are not hiring to

any great extent. Potatoes are bring-

ing $1 cwt; beans

Taxes are high—A. M.



Van Buren 60., June 12.——The sea-

son has been backward and much of

the acreage intended for oats did not

get sown. Corn planting is in pro-

gress. Old. seeding of alfalfa is look-

ing fine. New seeding not so promis-

ing. Timothy outlook is not the best.

Potato planting 'will soon begin, with

the acreage about n Beans will

not equal a normal acreage. The en-

amliber plantings will be normal——





Ontonagon 60., June Hrs—Weather

conditions have been somewhat unfav-

orable. Prospects for hay and grain

more not the best att‘hs time.

Fruit and berries look fine. T apple

trees are just beginning





 





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are about twenty days late.





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$4; butter-fat 44c. .





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% 24c; butter:

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R. T.--- -

Grand Traverse 00., June 10.—Crops

Wheat,

oats and rye are in fine condition. Hay

looks good, except that it is small.

The potato acreage will be about 100

per cent. Buckwheat is now being

sown; The big crop is below normal.

Hay is $16; wheat 900; rye 50c; oats

50c; potatoes 50c; butter 35c; eggs

18c. Farm help more plentiful than

last year, at $35 to $40 per month and

board:——F. M. H. ' .

Gladwin 00., June 10.——Wheat and

rye ar looking very good, but the

acreage i small. Oats were damaged

by the cold. wet weather, and will be

about 50-.per cent of a crop. Corn is

just coming up. Some is rotting in

the fields. There is good prospect for

fruit. Pigs and lamb creps good. The

grréiers are hiring but little help.—





Kalamazoo 00., June 9.—The season

has been cold and wet. Corn not all'

planted. Wheat is looking fair, but

will not be in full head for ten days.

Clover hay will be short. With the

exception of peaches, fruit of all kinds

is well set. The pig crop is only about

75 per cent of normal. Young lambs

have done well. Wheat 970; com 670;

oats 45c; hay 816@20. There is scarce

1y any labor in the country, the road

gangs‘having absorbed all available

men.——-L. F. H.



Bay 00., June 9.—Labor is now more

plentiful. The number of pigs and

lambs is less than usual. Winter

grains are very promising. The fruit

trees are now in bloom. Planting is

progressing. Prices are only fair and

farmers are not marketing much at

this season—J. N





Figures just gathered reveal the

smallest lamb crop raised in years.

heartily endorsed and





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postal. lows and regulations; what to mail. how to

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"Hotiso of quick action and a square deal."

Quotations and shipping tags fumlshed on request.

Eggs Etc—Small consignments from



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very sch-active prices NOW. Prompt re-



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llc:

”/30;

home. .'/20: Anson-o, . , .

9c: Barred Becki. l2c: Imxed broods (broil.

on, 7c. Discount lc per chick on LOGO lots.

V’. on 500. Telegraph orders accepted.





J! Special Prices on Pullets

loo certified White Leghorn; Io weak: old,





900 each. In smaller lots. 8| each. Large

illustrated catalog tree. .





POULTRY FARM

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0200 fall and spring hours of the belt brooding

D and quality. at prices to loll. Fall pigs at bar-

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Extra choice bred

reasonable prices.





Duroc Jerseys ,.

CAREY U. EDMONDS. Haltinln. Mich.





DUROCS





We have Sons and Gr. Sons of

Great Orion Sensation. Twice In-





ternational Winner. Buy your fall boar now and

save money. Let us tell you about our Sensation

Durocs. l. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams, Mich.





 





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Our spring pigs are the best ever. 75 head to choose

from. Outstanding herd boars at $25; pairs $40;

trlos. $50. $5.00 oli‘ if you come and got them.

P. P. POPE. R. 3. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





 





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Fa“ P138 Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

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





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anoxsrnnnn Scotch come Puppies mm mm

healers. [Silvercrest Kennels, Gladwin. Mich. ’





 





pies. A real cattle and watch dos. Make. 53;

males. $6. Milan Black. R. 3. Howard City. Mich.





COLLIE PUPS. blooded. 10 weeks old. Amun-

Bartel, Britten. Mich. .





 





 





 





 





when received. pipe and recipe free. Funnel?





 





Union.

HOMESPU’N TOBACCO: Chewing, five poumis. g3”:

Ten. .00: smoking. five pounds. 31.25: ten, .00:

pipe and recipe free. Pay whe received. CO-O

ATIVE FARMERS. PADUCA , KENTUCKY.





BABY CHICKS





 





\OHLS BIG VALUE BABY CHICKS at Reduced

Prices: White or Brown Leyhoms. $9 per 100 : Bu!

Leghorns. Ancouas. $10: Barred Racks. It 1. Beds.

311: Black Minorcas, White Rocks, Bufl' Rocks, :12:

White Wyandottes. Buff Orpinatons. 313:.Golden or

Silver Wylndottes. Partridge Rocks, White Orping-

bons. 314: Light Broilers. $6; Heavy Broilers,

5% discount on 500 or more. 10% discount on 10

or more. Or from this adv. Ohls Poultry Yards

and Hatchery. ept. 166. Mariou', Ohio.





 





BABY CHICKS~Bocks. Reds. Silver L. Wyandotteo.

White Wyandottes. Anconas, White and Brown Leg—

horns and Mixed. have been culled and inspected.

Reduced prices after May 20th. Slim Pantry

Farm. Lin-hum. Mich.





 





CHICKS—A Hatch every week of good strong chick].

White Leghorns $10 per 100; Barred Itock and R. I.

Reds. $14 per 100; White Rocks. :14 per 100; 100%

live on delivery guaranteed. Hatchery 4 Miles east of

Morris road one mile north and





Mt. Morris on Mt.

Meadow Brook





one mile east. Phone No. 14—5 rings,

Hatchery, Mt. Morris. Mich.





PURE-BRED CIII(‘I{S~reduced prices, Barred Rocks.

White \Vyandottes. “Reds, Buff Omingtons, Light

Brahmas, 100. $10; 50. $5.50. Postpaid. 100% dcliv~

ery. Member International Chick Ass'n. Earlville

Hatchery, Earlville, Illinois.





 





BABY CHICKS—Remarkable for size and strength.

Reasonable prices. Leghorus. Anconas. Rocks, Reds.

W ‘ 'M Olr‘ ‘ Minor-cos, Spanish. Brahmas.

Tyrone Poultry Farm, Fenton. Mich.





 





CHICKS~A1I Popular Varieties. Egg produ tion and

Standard Quality. State Fair Winners. 0 betta

chicks available at same price. Extremely low pricm

after May 20th. Litchfleld Hatchery. Litchfleld. Mich.





BLOOD TESTED STOCK—Rocks .‘o‘u Reds. all test-





 





ed for Buclllary White Diarrhea. Other leading

varieties. Our catalog tells all about them. Write

for it. I]. H. Pierce. Jerome. Mich.



QUALITY CHICKS—Postpaid. Leghorns. 10c. Rocks.

Reds. Orpimnons, \Vyandottes. Anconas, 12c. Lt.

Brahmas. 15c. Assorted, To. Catalog gives quantity

price. Missouri Poultry Farms, Columbia. Mo.





 





' Bred slits. shrine and fall boars.

Hampshu'e at bargain prices. 12th year. Write

your wants. John W. Snyder. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.





DUROC SPRING PIGS





Every Pin guaranteed satisfactory when you

it. Send for actual photo and description.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Kalamazoo.



Member Michigan State Farm Bureau





 





receive





Mich.





 





St k f l

D U R 0 CS wr‘IEe fogrbrseaegln’: 3213 1:31:32.





F. 1. Unit. Monroe. Mich" R. No. l.





 





Durors For Sale.

quality

ROBERT ANDERSON, R. 3, Bear Lake. Mich.





Spring pigs of





Rengtere and best of breeding.





 





 





 





 





BRED T0 LAY Barred Rock chicks of quality. Cullcd

by experts, $10.00 per hundred. D05l.p:\ld. 100%

live delivery. Order from this ad. Kruepcr Poultry

Farm 3: Hatchery. Milan. Mich.





 





CHICK BARGAINwJunc and July Barred Rocks. M.

A. C. Stock. 311; Tom Barron l]. S. White Leg, $8.

Circular. Hillside Hatchery Farm, R. 3. Holland, Mich.





 





REDUCED PRII‘ESHJuno 01111, R. I. Reds, $10.50

100: large mixed. $8.50. Ida I’muse. Maple City,

Mich.





 





S. C. BUFF LEGHORN Baby Chicks from good lay—

ing strain. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich.





MY HATCHERY will run until December.. Grace





Millikan, Box 453. Fcnton, Mich.





 





 





 





 





using miscellaneous articles for solo or cxchme





Rates 8 cent: a word. each insertion.





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as





‘CMlnImum' charge. I0 wont;





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING





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

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. Try it for want ads and for adver-





at clamifled rates, or in display columns at commercial rates.

on orders for less than four Insertions: for tour or more





display type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order.

Real estate and live stock advertising have morale departments and are not accepted as classified.





Poultry advertising will be run in this department





a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No





 





 





Elton in Effect (ktobor 7. 1922





   





. ' A” admrtmn‘r up}

Notlc dimntlnuant: "dc"



"Many: of to” {n-

tuldpd for the Clarified Departmmt 1»th roach rim of“ 1m

dun In Mvana of pubflca am dab.





lour Ion!

times

$3.40 86.24

2.64 6.48

2.88 8.12

3.12 8.96

3.36 1.20

3.80 1.44

3.84 7.08

4.08 1.92

. 4.31 m

. 4.56 8.40

. . . . 4.30 8.64

. . . in 8.88

. . 5.18 9.12

1.84 8.52 9.36

?4 ........ 1.9! 6.18 9.80

25 ........ 1.00 0.00 9.84

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PLANTS—Frost Proof cabbage. mmm a Pep er.

hardy field grown, best leading varieties, for early {Ind

labs crops, name choice varieties, 200-750; 300—“:

Mil—$1.50: LOGO-$2.50, mstpaid. 10.000 expressed

$15, good order delivery and prompt shipments guar—

antccd. J. T. Counclll & Sons, Franklin. Va.





2,000,000 CABBAGE PLANTS.



' and Iillk. l’rcpaid, 100 45c;

Express 5,000 $7.50.

Satisfaction guaranteed. List free.

Ill. 2, Blassillon. Ohio.





leading varieties.

500 $1.25: 1,000

Cauliflowc. 100 05c.

W. J. Myers.





 





ROBUST Navy Seed Beans. Purebred. In condition

to plant. Three dollars per bushel, bags furnished.

Will pay freight on ten bushels or over. A. R. Cook.

Owosso. Mich.





Ship Ha and Grain 10 "I! OLD RE

Your y LI‘BLE "003‘ o 1 (:08 Spring pins, Slrcd by “Giant Boy" and :EIUIId-AREOSCENg DROSIEYK RlagE vurfool’arks strain

- 0 “Jumbo B111 B 1.~ B s '..- arr? a y ‘ c a. pet . Hanover.

350- E- ROGERS &. 90-: Pittsburgh, Pa bulls. MILO H. Parsssou.ovn. {Ioniaiowwllscmm 3 MM *

POULTRY





 





m“...

BTOCK dc EGGS—Bull &

Beds 8: Anconas. $1 for 15: $5 per 100. parcel post.

Turkeys. Ducks & Geese. Indianapolis winners. W.

C. Jackson, R. 3. South Bend, 1nd.





 





BLACK MINORCA and White Leghorn Pullcts. Hem





and Chicks. Pullcts (30c. and up. (‘hlcks 0% and

up. liens 750 and up. Robert Chriswphol, Holland.

Michigan.





 





COMB Rhode Island Reds. Hatching Eggs $1.25

per 15. Postpaid. Mrs. Albert Harwood, R. 4.

Charlevoix, Mich.





 





SINGL‘E COMB REDS—Hatching eggs. Irom all pens,

will be half price. after May first. Harry J. Thais,

283 Hunter St.. Battle Creek, Mich.





TURKEY EGGS from our famous Mammoth Bronze,

Bourbon .Rcli. Narranarnsctt and. White

flocks. $4.00 for 12 9ch: $7.50 for 24, prepaid. Hens

either hrccd, $6.00 cal-h. two for $11.00. All orders

filled promptly. Walter Bros. Powhatan Point, Ohio.





 





PULLETS~P111I9ts—l’ullets—Tom Barron White Leg.

horns. Barred Rock, Reds and Anconas. H. Knoll.

Jr.. R. 1. IIO%Ild.5hIICIl.





 





 





FOR SALE—~30x40 Red River Special Thresher. 8—31

Blizzard Silo Filler. Very low price! S. D. Stover.

R. F. D. No. 2. Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





12-25 TRACTOR~24x42 separator.

3-bottom plows. Will separate.

Paw, Mich.





li-roll husker and

Leon Peacock, Paw





 





MISCELLANEOUS





 





VEGETABLE PLANTS. 10 Million fine field grown

plants for sale. 13 Leading varieties. (‘abhagc plants

300. The; 500. 81.25; 1000, $100: mailed prepaid. Ex-

pressed 5.000. 86.25: 10.000. $10 cash. Ttxnato

300. $1.00: 500. 91.50; 1.000. 82.50;

10.000. 320‘- Mniled prepaid. . 10.000. $15.

Sweet name 300. 31.00: me. $100: 1000, $3.50 past-

17 . 10. , cad; Most and oldest

growers in Virginia. Positively guarantee good order

delivery or money refunded. J. 1?. Council Company.

Franklin. Virginie. ~ .





 





CABBAGE, Collard and Tomato Plants. 300, 60c;

500. 90c: 1000. $1.40: prepaid. 10.000 Express.





finnwm. yum: Virgina. -





 





 





 





REAL ESTATE .





ISO-ACRE Michigan Farm, 000 fruit trees. 5 horses.

18 cows and’calves. sows. 130 poultry. complete fur-

»Jiiture, machinery, vehicles. 'crops included for quick

settlement: genuine money-maker near line RR. town:

broad loamy fields, bumper crops; trout-creek through

pasture, valuable woodland: 000 bearing apple. pear.

plum. cherry trees: attractive 2-stc'ry 7-room house.

cement cellar, porches. delightful shade: large base-

ment born. silo, MU. garage. poultry house. Low

price. $3.500 gets all, part cash. Details page 20

Illus. Bargain Catalog money-making farms. Cepy

free.’ scum Farm Agency, 20530 Kresge Bldg.

Detroit. Mich.





 





FOR. SALE—Old cut-over land. Sheep Ranch and



Farm Tracts on long time cash payments or on Al-



ana. Seed. Crop payment plan. John G. Knuth.

, Rescue Isle County. Mich.





HELP WANTED





WE WILL PAY YOU at the rate of $8.00 pa' barrel

selling quality lubricants to auto and tractor owners,

garages and stores. in small towns and country dis—

tricts. Best selling season of year at hand We have

been in business 40 years. The Manufar-turcrs' Oil 8:

Grease “puny, Dept. 18. Cleveland. Ohio. ' .





 





 





SELL (‘OAL in Carload Lots—Side or main 11m. Ex-

perience Unnecessary. Earl! week’s pay in u hour.

Liberal drawing account arrangement. Wa‘inswn

Coal Company, 886 Coal Exchange Bldg, Clicago.





HOUSEKEEPER WANTED~An elm malaround

fifty years. good wages. on (anti. Gonna- preferred;

John Buhl, Mnyvllle. Mich.





WANTED—Binnie. steady farm hand

stating wages. F. Austin. Bourbon.





: ICHIGAN , FARMER





 





 





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GERMAN Police and English Sheppard cross rap- '.





TOBACCO ‘ ' _

HOMESPU’N TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs.. 1.75: Sign.

$3.00. Smoking. 5 lbs. $1.25; Ten. .00. u-





w. Leghorns. Owingoons.‘ '





Holland .





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,Victor Herbert, composer—conduc— When the old floating dry dock at St, Thomas Virgin Islands, ' his th . w ‘ 7

tor of international fame, died came up lopsided it nearly wrecked the S. S. 'Catherine in the EBuflalJeBei-ltlogygiggfi-Ifigtgfiigfi

recently in New York. West India. mail service. -- win be unveiled July 4_ - -





 





. . . . . . The gowns worn by these Spence School coeds are actual wed-1""

Sergeant 01111 Brown, Wlth hIS Jumping balloon, intends to leap din “ _ ”_

. - - g costumes worn back in the days of Little Old New York



girirusutlos bleutgigldhghlgg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in the A“ The patterns are from fashion magazines in 1871. '





 





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Lieut. J. K. Noble, U. S. .A., “shakes hands” 1). W_ Mulvane was chairman of

with a. carrier pigeon which led a squad of





The oldest radio fan is Benjamin F. Keyser,of .

Committee on Arrangements for New. Jersey. ~ Tie was photographed tuning in

thirty-five birds in losing race against plane. Republican convention. ‘ on 1115 104th blrthday. . ~





This is the navy’s newest dirigible balloon, the J-1. being manipu- Washington Square, New York, will be turned into a. great open- '

lated by the ground crew in New Jersey, where it shares the air restaurant during Democratic National Convention, which ,

same room with the huge Shenandoah. WlH be opened in that city June 24. w





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