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VOLUME CLXll NUMBER FOUR

DETROIT, JULY26, 1924

CURRENT COMMENT
HE intermediate

 

 

Loan credit“ banks last
year loaned to farm-

Rates er marketing associa-
Reduced tions more than fifty-

eight million dollars
at an interest rate of five and a half
per cent. This rate has been in effect
since the banks were organized under
the Agricultural Credit Act of 1923.

The Federal Farm Loan Board, un-
der which the intermediate credit bank
operates, now announces a reduction
in the rate to five per cent. This not
only means that the system is perma-
nently established as an institution
for financing the movement of farm
crops, but that, in the total, a consider-
able saving to the farmers who. are
members of cooperative marketing as-
sociations.

HE farmer feeds

our the world. At the

P I . present 'time each
Op" atton man engaged in pro
Prospects ducing food is taking

care of not only his
own family, but two other families and
a. guest or two besides.

The American farmer is a very cap—
able individual. He does not object
to this responsibility. Recent devel-
opments would indicate that he can
take on another family or two and
still keep the larder well filled. The

. prospect of extra mouths to feed is
encouraging to him, as it means an
increased demand for his products
and, he confidentially hopes, better
prices. Star boarders are not wel-
come.

At the present time population in-
creases in theUnited States are at the
rate of 1,500,000 yearly. This rate,
large as it may seem, is not station-
ary, but increases in a progressive ra-
tio from year to year. At that fixed
rate of annual increase, it would take
about seventy years for our popula-
tion to double, but the census figures
tell us that within a like period just
past we have mutliplied nearly four
times in numbers.

In 1920, with a population of 105,-
000,000, and an annual increase of
1,500,000, the rate of increase would
be one in seventy. Here is a nice lit-
tle problem for our readers who are
good in mathematics. We only had
time to calculate roughly up to 1940,
when we find that, with this rate of
increase maintained, we will then have
140,000,000 of people and will then be
"increasing that number by 2,000,000
, each year.

The annual farm to city movement
is still going on at the rate of about

1,000 000, or nearly double the estimat-
ed natural country increasie in popu-
lotion.
food producers are actuafly growing
less while the number of mouths to
feed constantly increases. It would
seem that the farmer who takes a
long look into the future has reasons
to feel encouraged. .

Y making avail

Readers . . able to the, read-'
ers of the Michigan

Meet Mr' Farmer the latest de-
Mede - velopments in farm

mechanics, the man-
agement calculates to still further in-
crease the usefulness of these pages
to the farm reader. To this end a
capable agricultural engineer has been
added to the staff. He is Frank A.
Meckel, a. graduate of the Ohio State
University,.several years a manager
of a large farm where power farming
was followed, exclusively, and an ex-
tension man who gave his undivided
time to the solution of farm engineer-
ing problems. Since 1920 he has been
the capable agricultural engineering
editor of the Capper Farm Press.

In adding the experience of Mr.
Meckel to those of the men who are
andhave been contributing farm en~
glneering matter, and answering sub-
scribers’ questions on farm mechanics,
we have planned to bring to our read-
ers all the mechanical advantages
available, to'the end that our big fam-
ily may the more successfully com—
pete in the agricultural markets of the
nation and world. In doing this we
are merely carrying out our long es-
tablished policy of leaving nothing un-
done in our effort to render to our
subscribers and readers the greatest
possible service.

Those having mechanical and other
problems to solve should not hesitate
to make them known to us. The sim~
plest as well as the most difficult will
receive most respectful consideration.

WOOL grower of

A Big Help this state who

In took the course in

wool grading recently

given at the Michigan

Agricultural College,

explains that the instruction he re-

ceived saved him $75 in marketing his
wool clip this year.

Here is how he figures his saving.
A grader employed by an eastern brok-
er classified twenty—three of the twen—
ty-five fleeces offered by the grower as
fine clothing instead of fine strictly
combing wool. The grower, recogniz-
ing the injustice of this classification,
presented the wool to another grader,
who placed all but one of the fleeces
in the fine strictly combing class.
Thus graded, the wool brought $75
more than would have been received
under the first classification.

This illustration points clearly to
the advantage farmers have when well
informed on market grades. Perhaps
no one thing will go farther in ironing
out many of the difficult wrinkles in
our marketing program than a definite
knowledge of market requirements by
the men who produce the goods.

Marketing

E hear much

The these days about

M C diversification. Farm-
any '0’” ers everywhere are
Fad being advised from

most every conceiv-
able source that the only safe way is
to diversify. Every farm paper and
most every other paper says so. Most
lecturers and politicians say so, wheth-
er they know anything about it or not.

What started it all? The fact that
a lot of single croppers plunged, in a
few of the northwestern states, and
run amuck when crops failed and war
time prices disappeared.

There can be no question but that
general farming is sound farming. The
Michigan Farmer has always taught
it Our farmers hardly know what
single cropping is. Over much of the
country diversified farming has always
been extensively practiced, but it is

 

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not, not-should it be,
in the same manner that it was in the

days" of ourtorefathers. In those days .

the farmer had to be self-sufficient, he
had to produce and manufacture most

of the food and the clothing, and that.

impleinents he worked with:

Today, he is on a cempetitive basis.
The economic trend of the times has
put him there.
He must produce his goods, whatever
they are, at a. profit, and the. extent of
that profit will be determined largely
by his ability to produce more cheaply
than do his neighbors.

~I-f wheat sells for one dollar, and it
costs the average man ninety cents,
but by putting all available knowledge
into practical use he can produce it
for eighty cents, then his profits are
twice as great as his average neigh-
bor’s. ,

‘The problems of economic produc-
tion today are many. They do not end
with the simple task of operating.
They include, adaptation of the prod-
uct to both the man and the land, the
proximity of the market and the de‘
mands thereof, and an encyclopedia of
knowledge about each product, and
those kindred to it.

Take dairying, for example. After
you have mastered all the delicate
problems of the breeds and breeding,
feeds and feeding, selection, testing,
marketing, care and management, etc,
that are essential for successful com-
petition, you may be too old to start
over again on something new. T0 at-
tain the highest success one must
know his business well, and, in order
to know any one branch of agriculture
well, he must have the courage to be
ignorant of many other branches.

There are several other things that
fit in with dairying to advantage, and
some of them should be there, but life
is too short to become proficient along
all lines and have any time left to op-
erate them.

The successful farmer of this gen-
eration is the one who has mastered
the intricacies of a few adapted lines
and makes them his specialties. He
gives them the major position among
his farming operations and looks to
them chiefly for his income. Other
things are fitted in‘ as seems advan-
tageous without detracting from the
leading business.’ They are the side
lines and’ do their bit, butare not
allowed to interfere with the main
attraction.

RADUALLY we .

are getting back
to earth. Unbalanced
by the easy money
and the excitement of
the war and post-war
period, we have been trying out all
sorts of organizations that promised
more pay and less work, and following
the fantasies of politicians and spell-
binders about laws and rights and
price fixing. We have indulged in
much faulty thinking, even in more or
less self—pity, and have entertained nu-
merous schemes recommended to save
agriculture. We have traveled ahead-
long pace and have climbed upon any-
one’s band wagon if it made noise
enough. Naturally, there has been
small chance for clear thinking.

But now we are. asking to see the
results of all this commotion, of all
these laws and schemes and promises,
and, strange as it may seem, we find
that there are no satisfying results.
The good old natural law of supply
and demand has been the most de-
pendable. Our faith in it steadily
grows. It continues to function
through thick and thin. The epidemic
of wild theories has about run its
course.

We, you and I, are going to place a
higher value on. steadfastness, econ-
omy, old-fashioned honesty, thrift, and
hard work. We are going to demand
these homely virtues in our public ser-
avnts as well as practice them more
ourselves. We may not make much
ado about it, but we Will go to the
polls and vote for the men in whom we-

Wild
Theories
and Sense

carried? on today -

He must make money. -

‘ 0’ us stay the same?

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Why do we bay we Will‘do' these;
things? Because we sense a change in '

the wind, and gradually the public
mind is turning from a blind following
of wild theories to the euroise of com-
mon sense.

LET the meat "mak-

Comg or take Courage.
Back The indications are
. . that the products he
A801" works with are com-

ing back. The hog

surplus of last year has been wiped
out. Brood sows and light pigs have ’

trooped to the shambles by the thou~
sands.
than for a longtime.

The process of liquidation is still
going on. When such a movement
startsit continues until the relative
prices of corn and hogs are favorable
to the hogs. Then we are up against
a shortage again and prices are good
until that shortage can be overcome.

The beef cattle situation is much the
same. When the price of beef cattle

‘at the market registers a loss to the

producer, he soon takes steps to stop
that loss. The ups and' downs in the
cattle trade do not follow each other
so quickly as with hogs, but the evi-
dence is convincing that the long con-
tinued beef cattle liquidation, has
brought us to the point where a short-
age of beef is approaching.

Men who are in a position to judge
fairly are predicting higher prices and

a better demand for beef stocks, and a,

ten cent market for the spring crop of
pigs that are now growing to ho-ghood.

Tz'méer

HERE we was campin’ and en-

joyin’ the rain, there was some
nice trees. They was fine, great big,
straight up and down pines what grew
straight, even with all the winds and
storms tryin’ to make them crooked.

When I see them pines, I thought
they was a good sermon. There they
was, so straight and nice, and the
older they get the straighter they get.
It just kinda seems to me that there
ain’t many pines among people. The
storms of life
make us grow
crooked. Cuttin’
us up would make
boards that would
be full of knots
and knot holes.
Most 0’ us would
make about third-
grade lumber and
some of us ain’t
much use, ’cept for fire wood.

Them trees, straight and tall, tOok
about two hundred years to get that
way. And here we insects, about twen-
ty-five ta fifty years old, come along
and take a few minutes to cut down
two hundred years of work. We build

 

houses with the lumber, so our houses‘

is the result of about two hundred
years’ work 0’ man.

Pine is nice, ’cause it stays ever
green. It’s the same in the summer’s
sun as the winter’s clouds. How many
The weather
seems to affect us too much, so we’re
always complainin’ about the weather.
There is only one way some of us
stays evergreen. There’s lots 0’ us
what never learn enuf to get over
bein’ green. Sofie says I’m a regular
evergreen in that way.

They say pines is healthful ’cause
the air around them is so nice. But
to me the spirit 0’ the pine is the most
healthful. If we kin grow straight, be
evergreen, and make things sweet
about us, it would help a lot.

Sofie just read this and says I kin
preach bettern’ I kin act:

.. HY SYCKLE.
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~have no berries for sale.

HE difficulty of moving marl
from the uncertain footing of
marshes and lake beds has set

mechanically-minded men at werk on

various kinds of equipment for mak-
ing this material more available to
farmers for the correction of acid
lands. The result has been the devel‘
opment of two types of power equip-
: One employs the centrifugal
pump and the other the scoop.

A successful marl pumping plant

was described in former issues of this .
journal.

This plant was the product

 

The Phalen Scoop Dumping.

of the Carnes’ Brothers, of Ceresco. It
provides the agitator which mixes the
marl with water and then pumps the
mixture from the lake bed to dry land
forty or more rods away.

The Phalen scoop has also been rec-
ognized in these columns. This scoop
is controlled after the fashion later de
scribed in this story. The principle
around which this» plant was developed
was to force the scoop into the marl
as it was pulled out into the lake or
marsh. It is then returned to the
dump where the marl tumbles out
from the end of the scoop opposite
the cutting edge.

Now comes Professor Musselman,
of the Michigan Agricultural College
with a scoop having ‘certain advan-
tages not yet attained in other styles.

' A dozen or more demonstrations are
'being put on'in the southern coun-

ties of the state. In these demonstra-
tions. the Phalen and Musselman
scoops will be given thorough trials
under as many combinatiOns of condi-
tions as there are places for the sets.

The first of these demonstrations
was held last week on the Krause
farm near Hartland. Larry Living<
ston, of land-clearing fame, was in
general charge, while preliminary ar‘
rangements were made by County

. Agent Bo-lander, of Livingston county,

and Mr. Lee, manager of the Krause
Farms. Since we have previously de-
scribed the other diggers, we wish in
this story to give special attention to
the college equipment.

It being base ball season, the reader

, will more quickly grasp a working

ushy, Oozy Marl 

T fie Edztor Seer How Sé‘riom Mma’ea’ Mada/flier T ant/e tfizs Mzry Proporztzon

knowledge of the Musselman marl dig-
ging machinery by outlining it on a
base ball field. . True, a boggy, marshy
marl bed is no place to play ball, but
we will forget that phase of the game
and talk only of the position of the
players.

Imagine the diamond laid out so the
fielders are in the edge of the lake or
marsh where the marl is imbedded,

and the battery just nicely on the

shore.

First, two anchors are established-—
one where the Catcher stands and the
other out in the lake near the center
fielder, A strong cable extends from
one of these anchors to the other. It
passes just above the power plant or
tractor, which occupies the batter’s
position, and over a lift some twelve
feet high, erected at the pitcher’s box.
This cable may be loosened or tight-
ened by means of tackle at the end
by the catcher.

The scoop is suspended from that
portion of the cable between the cent-
er fielder and the pitcher. The bulk
of the excavating is done in the neigh-
borhood of the second baseman. The
scoop is carried on the cable by means
of grooved pulleys, the same as a hay

’ carrier moves along its track in the

peak of the barn.

To pull the scoop to and fro along
.this track, a second cable is used. One
end of‘this second cable is fastened to
the front of the scoop. It passes from
there to the top of the lift at the pitch-

~box scraper.

track by means of pulleys. The cutting
edge is located the same as on the
In front of this edge is a
guage which regulates depth of out.
Just behind the cutting edge inside of
scraper is fastened a New of leather
belting wide enough to reach from one
side of the scoop to the other, extendé
ing to the top of the rear end. A steel
bar about five feet long, with a wheel
on each end_to carry it along on and
parallel to the/cable track, works free-
ly through a hole in the forward verti-
cal arm. To the rear end of this bar
is fastened a rope which passes for—
ward to a pulley in this same vertical
arm'and then backward to the loose
end of the leather belt.

This contraption enables Mr. Mus-
selman to make a clean hit every time
to bat. He fastens a block to the
cable track right above the spot where
he wishes to deposit the marl. When
a scoopful of marl is brought from the
lake along the suspended track, the
forward end of the steel bar hits this
block, forcing the bar back, which
pulls on the rope and lifts the leather
belting from the bottom of the scoop
with all the marl that may have gath-
ered thereon. This force dump worked
perfectly at the demonstration.

The method of applying the power
of the tractor to the cable is also sim-
ple. On each of the rear wheels of
the tractor is fastened a narrow drum
like the one shown in the picture. The
cable from the scoop goes over the

 

 

 

General View Showing Lift in Center and Tractor in Foreground.

er’s box and on to improvised drums
bolted to the rear wheels of the trac-
tor. From there it goes to a third an—
chor established in the vicinity of the
third baseman, thence to the middle
fielder’s anchor, and finally to the rear
end of the scoop. At all these places
the cable works through pulleys. _
The scoop is simple. It resembles
an old box scraper with the handles
removed. It is suspended from a frame
having two vertical arms fore and aft,
which hold the scoop to the cable

lift at the pitcher’s box, passes back
to the drum on the right rear tractor
wheel, goes around it and forward to

a pulley bolted to a frame at the side‘

of the front wheels, then back arou'nd
the drum again, then forward to an-
other pulley at the side of the front
wheel, across in front of the tractor,
through a. pulley, back to the drum on
left rear wheel, forward again to a
pulley by the side of the left front
wheel, back around the drum once
more, then forward through another

pulley and out to the anchored pulley
at third base, thence on around to
center field and back to the scoop.

If the reader has followed this de-
scription closely he will see haw’the
scoop can be pulled back and forth
along the cable track by the simple
means of running the wheels of the
tractor backward and forward.

All this equipment is provided for
the simple purpose of filling the scoop

 

How the Drum is Attached.

with marl from the bed where the sec-
ond baseman works and dropping it in
a pile just about on top of the um~
pire’s head. (In this respect~throw-
ing mud at the umpire—base ball and
marl digging seem to be quite sim-
ilar).

So much for base ball and mechan-
ics. Now for digging marl. The empty
scoop is pulled out near the center
field anchor. The tractor is then re-
versed, which pulls the scoop toward
the lift. As it moves forward the cut-
ting edge takes off a slice of marl.
This marl collects in the scoop on top
of the leather belting. When full the
scoop automatically runs out of the
marl. Continuing to move forward up
the inclined cable toward the top of
the lift, the steel bar finally hits the
block on the cable and dumps the
marl out as described above. This op-
eration is then repeated over and over
again.

The marl pile grows rapidly. On an
average, it takes about one and one-
half minutes to make a complete
round trip with the scoop. This par-
ticular scoop brought in about a third
of a yard at a trip. At this rate the
equipment would remove about a hun-
dred yards in an eight-hour day, pro-
viding everything went along as it
should, which, of course, is seldom
true on a job of this character.

Professor Musselman calculates
that this mud-slinging outfit can be
constructed for not more than three
hundred dollars, including everything
but the tractor. Anyone interested in
getting out marl should make a close
study of the plans, which can be seen
at the Agricultural College, or, better
still, attend one of the demonstrations.
the dates of which were given in_ last
week’s issue of'this journal. As stated
above, the Phelan scoop is also in op-
eration at the demonstration points.

.‘ Who F ixcs the Price?

T fits [Wyrlerzom 86mg Has Little to Qualify Him for Umverm/ Favor

NE week strawberries sell for
O thirty-five cents a quart on the
Michigan growers
The next
Week the price drops to twenty cents.
Only the earliest fruit is ready for
market and the quantity which can be
offered at this price is limited. The
following Week when the harvest is in
full swing-the price drops to ten cents

local market.

‘ a quart at retail.

It seems that priceis alWays work-

‘ ing to the detriment of the farmer

When he has nothing to sell the price

isihi'gh' “When there is an abundance

. . By J. T.

What makes price? This is a ques-
tion which it is difficult to answer.
We pay just as little as possible for
the things we want to buy. The man
who sells demands the highest possi-
ble price. Prices are made by bargain—
ing between the buyer and seller. The
one trying to force price low and the
other attempting to increase it. The
needs, or desires, of the two are im-
pertant factors in determining just
where the price will settle. If the

buyer must have the product and the

supply is very'limited, the price is apt

Homer

to be high. If, on the other hand,
there are many sellers trying to se—
cure the trade of a few buyers the
price will be low.

In early spring there are many per-
sons who would like to have strawber-
ries. There are few sellers of this
fruit. The Michigan crop is not ready
for market and the supply to satisfy
the strawberry appetite of Michigan
must come from southern states. With
a limited supply and many consumers
desirous of having strawberries for
breakfast the price can be set at a

 

high level. There are enough persons
who are willing to pay thirty-five to
forty cents a quart to exhaust the sup-
ply on the market.

By the time Michigan berries come
to the market in full force the supply
is so great that it can not be disposed
of at the thirty-five, or even twenty
cent rate. The only .way to'get rid of
these berries is to sell them at a price
which will enable them all to sell.
This price is usually around ten cents.

It seems to the farmer that a high' I

price does not benefit him as he has
nothing to sell then, and when he has
-produce to place on the market the

price is low. This is true. The price»

 

 

  


   
   

    

mt below/fin order to attract buy-

 

iaintained at thirty-five cents a quart
, e quantity produced could not. be
' posed of

There are a few persons who are
'rwilling to pay a very high price for
things they want. If the supply offer-
ed on the market is just sufficient to
I .meet the ,demand of those who will
pay a high price, then prices will be
high. As the quantity offered on the
buy. When supply decreases price
,must be lowered in order to bring
more people into the market who will
buy. ‘When supply decreaces price
must increase to shut out some of the
buyers so the supply will be sufficient
to satisfy the demand. Price is, in the
last analysis, the means of keeping
demand within the limits of supply. If
supply is short, price must be high to
cut off demand If the supply is great

   

  

. price must be lowered to increase the ’

demand.

When the supply is great, sellers
are more anxious to sell than when
there is not such a great quantity
available. This great supply stimu-
lates competition between sellers and
increases the number of places where
‘buyers can buy. In other words, a
large supply increases competition be-
tween sellers and decreases competi-
tion between buyers. ‘When the sup-
ply is short many people want to buy
There is competition between buyers
for the supply. In the early spring
there are only a few strawberries and

Next

072 Mat Day Me M

1TH a number of new and at-
RIKI tractive features included in

the program and the events
which have become recognized as in-
variably popular extended and elabor-
ated, the 1924 Farmers' Day, which is
scheduled for Friday, August 1, at the
Michigan Agricultural College, is ex-
pected to break all records for attend-
ance and interest shown.

A major feature of the program will
be the “Hay Day” events, which are
scheduled at ten o’clock in the morn-
ing and will continue until noon. The
purpose of the M. A. C. “Hay Day,”
which is the first event of its kind to
be held anywhere in the country, with-
in the knowledge of Prof. J. F. Cox, of
the farm crops department, chairman
of the committee in charge, is to show
in operation the best and cheapest
methods of making hay with modern
haymaking machinery.

A twenty-five—acre field of alfalfa
Will be available for this purpose, in
which equal areas will be assigned to
each of the leading manufacturers of
mowers, rakes, hay-loading machinery,
etc., who have been invited to partici-
pate. Both horse and tractor power
will be in operation.

A special event in connection with
the “Hay Day” program will be an
old-timer’s “Scythe Contest,” open to
Michigan pioneer farmers who used
this method in their younger days.
The event will be an elimination con-
test, judged by five judges whose ex-
perience carries back to the time when
hay was cut with scythes. Form and
skill in execution, rather than the
amount cut, will be factors in judging.
Suitable prizes will be offered for the
winners ofthe contest.

Where Grandfather Will Shine.

Among the judges who have been
invited for this event are Eugene Dav-
enport, former dean of agriculture at

: the University of Illinois; Jason Wood-
: man, of Paw Paw, former member of
, the Michigan State Board of Agricul—
..ture, and I. H. Butterfield, father of
Dr. Kenyon L Butterfield, who will
rassmme the presidency of M A. C. on

. 88er

If the price of strawberries was '

 

many'pe‘ople who. want them. The.
competition in buying causes price to
be high. The price will be placed at
the highest point at whiCh the seller
thinks all the berries will sell.

‘Price ‘is'low when, Michigan farmers

have strawberries to sell because they

have many to sell, The great quan-
tity makes it necessary to lower the
'price "to a point where all the fruit
will be sold. The fact that this price
is not sufficient to cover Cost of pro-

duction has no bearing on the matter.

This is a competitive age in which we
are living and if free competition is
maintained our prices must be the re-
sult of competition. 1

If'the prices which are the result
of competition are too low to pay _the
costs of producing strawberries, some
farmers will go out of this business.
This will reduce the quantity available

    

‘ scathat "price. will mana- “atim' 'xiiaké _

the business profitable. It might be

possible to increase the consumption

of berries so that therewill not be an
excess of supply, and an increased
price result. However, if.the price of

strawberries should be increased and

the business made more: prdfitable
there is the danger of an expansion of
the business. This would cause an

increase in the supply, and a Cause:

quent decrease in price.

If low prices are the result of too
great a production, it seems that the
price situation might be improved by
decreasing production. This is true,
no doubt, if it could be accomplished.
But what is a feasible way to control
production? Many plans hat'e been
suggested for controlling production

‘so that the price could be maintained

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T/ze Good Farmer Ware/2e: Every Field

FARM is not conducted on a basis of piece work. The cost of
every individual operation cannot be figured out and the prof-
itableness of doing it thereby determined. The farm is a business
Those things should be done which provide
for the best utilization of labor and equipment.
which contribute to the net income of the farm as a whole, should
be done, whether or not, the enterprise as a unit would afford a
profit if it were charged with all the different items of expense.
profitable farm, as a whole, and a wholesome farm life is the goal

All those things

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plan as been
Brought forth and made to W( oil: so
that the production of competitive
crops could be regulated. If the profit~
ableness of a crop is increased there
is the incentive for other farmers to
go into this line. ,

Agricultural cooperation has accom-
plished many: things of real value for
farmers; but limitation of production
is tooimuch to expect from this form
of organization. Farmers, through
their cooperative associations. should
learn about market conditions and de-
mands. With this information farmers
should attempt to guide their enter-
prise in accordance with market oon<
ditions and requirements. '

There are some crops on which
farmers say they never make any mon-
ey; but production continues just the
same. The reason for this, no doubt,
is not‘that farmers want to lose mon-
ey. but because they find this crop
works well into their scheme of farm-
ing and makes possible a better utili-
zation of labor and capital. It might
be that this crop would not yield a
profit if it were charged up with all
the items of labor, rent, interest, and
other expenses. However, these items
of expense might be just the same,
whether the crop was producedon the
land. left idle. That is, this seemingly

unprofitable crop might be produced

without any additional expense. If
this is true the total income would be
gain.

riday Is Farmers Day

14.6. Tum: Imzde Out to Séow 71511021 Me Hundred and Om:
Tflmg: Kept 272 Me SteM/es, 072 Me Experimental Grounds, 272 Me Woody, Etc.

By B. V.

Old-time “scythers” who enter the
contest will be guests of the College
for the day. Another feature of “Hay
Day” will be special booths placed
along the lane leading to the fields,
which will be in charge of the farm
crops, agricultural engineering, and
other departments. Seeding methods
with alfalfa and other hay crops will
be shown, as well as curing and feed-
ing of hay, and the care of mowers
and other machinery. Hay wagons are
to be'used to transport visitors from
the campus to the fields.

Besides prize-winning horses, the
breeding herds and flocks of beef cat-
tle, sheep and hogs, together with the
young stock being fitted for the fall
shows and the International will also
be shown.

A number of experiments in pork
production are now under way. One
of these has to do with the utilization
of alfalfa pasture. One acre of alfalfa
is pastured by fifteen hogs which have
access to a self—feeder containing corn
and tankage A Second lot of fifteen
pigs on one acre of alfalfa receive a
daily feed allowance equal to three-
fourths of that consumed by the pigs
in the first lot. The object is the de-
termination of the cost of,pork pro-
duction, and the effect upon the stand
of alfalfa when the difierent amounts
of grain are fed.

Another experiment which will be
under way on “Farmers” Day” is a
comparison of corn, barley and rye as
a feed for hogs on rape pasture. Three
acres of rape are being used. On one
acre, seventeen pigs are being fed
corn and tankage in a self-feeder; on
a second acre, barley and tankage are
fed in a self-feeder; and on the third,
rye and tankage are fed in a self-
feeder.

A field trip through the experiment
station test plots will be included in
the day’s program. In the sections de-
voted to alfalfa, extensive plat tests
of seed from all leading commercial
sources,‘will be exhibited. These ex-

Halvstead . .

O
periments show why alfalfa fails with
farmers who buy seed carelessly from
sources of unknown dependability. Al-
falfa breeding and seed production
plats will also be open to inspection.

The clover seed tests comprise fif-
teen acres, and include clover seed
from the leading commercial sources.
Michigan and northern-grown seed,
the tests show, gives three or four
times the yield of Italian, and is much
better than. the French seed which is
largely sold in this country.

The corn breeding work occupies
forty-five acres for selection, selfing
and increase plats. The College has
developed, in its experimental work,
several highly improved corn varie-
ties. Seven acres of cultural experi-
ments with beans, such as the time
and rate of planting, various methods
of cultivating, etc., will also be ex-
hibited. I

Four acres each are devoted to po-
tato and fiber flax breeding work.
Breeding and cultural experiments and
seed tests with beets occupy nine
acres.

Specimens of leading varieties of all
crops adapted to central Michigan will
also be seen and studied as growing
in the field. These include Robust
Bean’s, Ita San and Manchu Soybeans,
Hardigan alfalfa, M. A. C. corn varie
ties, Wolverine oats, Berkeley Rock
wheat, American Banner wheat, Mich—

igan Two—row barley, and new potato

varieties. The educational plats in-
clude nearly all adapted grasses, clo
vers, and other plants ‘of agricultural
value.

Forestry Demonstrations.
The thirty-five-acre forest nursery,

in which about 1,000,000 trees are
growing, will also be visited during
the day. Thirty native varieties are
being produced here on an extensive
scale, for forest and wind- break plant—
ing over the state.

Last year about 160000 trees, vary-

ing from two-year seedings to nine-,

year. transplants were sold at cost by

. previous records. ,

the forestry department of the College
to the citizens of the state. Spruce,
white pine, black walnut, Scotch pine,
and Austrian pine are the varieties
used costly for this purpose. The bulk
of them are used for sand~dune plant-
ing, Christmas tree plantations, wind-
breaks and highway planting.

In addition to the native varieties,
experiments are in progress with many
varieties from foreign countries. The
work is mainly to determine their vale
no for sand-dune fixation.

. There are a number of permanent
plantations that have been thinned,
and are now attaining a fair size which
are also of interest. It view of the
enactment of the wood-lot tax act,
farmers are interested in forest plant-
ing as never before, since it gives
them an opportunity to reduce taxes
0t some extent.

A Program Scheduled.
The speaking program in the after—

noon will include talks by G. I. ChriS<
tie, director of the experiment station
and of extension work of Purdue Uni-
versity; Prof. J. T. Horner, of the M.
A. C. Economics Department, who has
made an extensive study of the mar«
keting problems of Michigan, and who
will talk on “Effective Marketing;”
and A. M. Brown, former secretary of
M. A. 0., who will discuss “Progress
in Agriculture,” in relation to the Old-
timers’ scythe contest. .-

Acting-president R. S. Shaw, dean
of agriculture and director of the ex-
periment station, will act as chairman
of the day. The speaking program,
which is to be held outdoors on the
College campus, will be transmitted
through an amplifier which will enable
all to hear the entire program without
interruption.

“Farmers’ Day” in the past has been
avery successful event at M. A C.,
the average attendance having been
about five thousand people. The at<
tractive nature of the program to be
presented and the interest of Michi<
gun farmers in the problems of agri
culture are expected to make the 1924
occasion one which will surpass all.

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HE harvesting of the wild buck-
leberry found on the plains and
in the swamps of Northern
Michigan, begins on a commercial
scale about the first of September. In
August berries are ripe, but many
green berries are still on the bushes.

,From Bay county across the state, tak-

ing‘in Clare, Lake, OsCeOla and then
nerth, the wild hucklebérry is found
on low bushes as a rule, but there are

some high bush berries in swamps

south of these counties in more or less
of all the counties of the state.

The bushes of Northern Michigan
grow very low, in many cases not over
six inches high. There are several dif-
ferent kinds, the blue, the black and
the “crackle” berry which grows to
two feet in height, and is very hard
and black. This latter is a kind of
huckleberry. It is impossible to pick
huckleberries by hand‘ and make any
wages at it, that is, big pay, as it
takes too long to pick them, hence the
Indians of the Huron shore,-Saganing,
also up on the west part of the state
in Emmet, Charlevoix, Otsego, and all
through the Upper Peninsula, use box-
es. They move right on the ground
with their families. Many “whites”
go also. Many of them are buyers,
taking the berries right there at so
much per bushel. ‘

It would be a conservative figure to
say that at least half a million dollars
are paid annually for this, Michigan’s
best wild fruit crop. The crop goes
to New York City and other large cit-
ies of this country, at prices ranging
around $4.00 and up per bushel. The
berries are geod keepers and can be
shipped long distances. A regular
“picker” who goes in for the money,
in picking uses a small rectangular
box about one‘ to two feet in length,
with stiff wires arranged like a sieve,
into which the berries are shook into
the box, or scooped up as we scoop up
cranberries. . .

In some places in the Upper Penin-

sula and in the Lower Peninsula the.

manner of picking the berries is dif-
ferent. They sometimes use a trian-
gular box about three or four feet by
each dimension, and four or five inch-
es deep. This box is carried in front

of the picker, and suspended around

his neck by a strap or cord. The bot-
tom is often made of canvas, or some
other strong, coarse cloth. Others use
a commonvwashtub. Branches of the
fruit are bent over the tub and a smart
rap given them with a stick. This is
called “ batting off” the berries. Into
this box will fall dead leaves, insects,
stems, and refuse of all kinds. These
are taken out by a specially construct-
ed fanning mill and the berries are
passed over screens. The fan removes
the leaves and insects, and through
the screens drop the small green ber-
ries accidently knocked off. Crushed
berries and those over-ripe are carried
away over a moving apron.

Huckleberries follow in the foot-
steps of our lumbermen, and especial-
ly thrives in our “burned over” lands.
The Indians say, “when Indian want
plenty huckleberries he set fire to the
woods. The old berry bushes burn up
heap plenty bugs burn up. New bush-
es come up and plenty berries andbig
berries."

The wild blackberry cannot be suc-
cessfully domesticated, it is said, al—
though a species of blue berry can
now be bought of the nurseryman and
is warranted to survive the tame life

. .of the garden. Experiments in improv-
“mg the blueberry by cultivation have

3 refthe past few years

Harvesting Huckleberrles
By M. F. Parker ._

  

August.

 
  

or four times as large as the wild ber-
ry have been produced and the yield
increased to 3,000 quarts per acre.
Huckleberries are eagerly bought 011
any public »markets, by commission
houses, and by canneries. Prices to
the pickers vary in different localities,
according toW distance from market,
running from twenty cents down to
four or five cents a pound. A good
“batter” will knock off 100 to 200
pounds a day. The worker puts in a
strenuous day, as days are short, and
fear of rain goads the pickers to speed
up their efforts. Berries are often
frozen and placed in cold storage by
buyers. Big bakeries and hotels buy
thousands of bushels through the year.

FEED THE TOMATOES.

 

FLORIDA tomato grower back

from the south gave us some
pointers on making our tomatoes bear
with greater surety and make the fruit
larger and earlier. He told us to get
a five-pound sack of nitrate of soda,
which would cost but a few cents, and
when the plants were growing health-
ily to sprinkle a line of the fertilizer
around each plant a. couple of inches
from the stem and stir into the sur-
face. When the plants begin to bud
give another treatment with a wider
band of the nitrate. It is immediately
available and makes for a strong heal-
thy growth and the setting of fruit
buds—A. H.

FRUIT.TREE SUCKERS.

 

I dug suckers that sprang from old
trees’ roots on apple, cherry and plum
trees. Will they bear fruit without
grafting over; that is, good fruit, or
do they have to be grafted?-—W. K.

Sprouts which have come from the
roots of fruit trees are of very indefi-
nite parentage. One thing is certain,
and that is that the sprouts will not
produce fruit similar to what the tree
has borne, as all nursery trees are
grafted stock; that is, the roots are
different from the tops. Usually these
roots are wild crab for apples, wild
plums and wild cherries for plums and
cherries.

We doubt very much ~whether it
would be worth your time or the
ground that they would occupy to
grow these sucker trees, unless you
graft them later to some standard va-
rieties. This latter method would be
profitable if you have good success in
grafting.

SOME NEW FLAVORS HELPED ME
SELL.

 

WAS building up a honey business.

My bees did not keep the trade
supplied and I found it necessary to
buy honey. I found that there were
many different flavors to select from
and I figured that it might be good
business to try something new for a
change. I sent for a can of raspberry

~’honey from Michigan, and it was so

well received and brought me so many
new customers by the advertising the

other patrons gave it, that I decided to '

try another flavor next time. I bought
California honey this time. Some of
my patrons from the east wanted
buckwheat honey and I tried that. Old
customers enjoy the change and I
gained many new ones—A. H.

Turnips for fall use may be planted
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‘ spur talk' Abundant told manhunt - fl ..
Italicimortgage and all,”btrt it did-hot ~ Y -'
‘ wem to worry ”her. -s_h'e said Jed 1 7 i
had expected to take in enough from .
{cave-seem that. season to pay up all ‘
the; interest and something on the
principal, and that he would have done
Cit‘ before but that he had spent so
‘ much repairing the house and out-
’ " buildings .
For two or three days after the 'i'un-
. em! I walked around that farm like a
‘ ' lost soul trying to think of something
" I could do for Abundant. and Rance
Titherweight bothered me a lot. He
came to the farm every day, driving
* up in his glossy car and telling Abund-
ant that she must not worry and hold-
' ing her hand longer than necessary
’ when he came and when he. went, the
lat snake! I could see she hated to
have him touch her hand. After he
was gone she would rush to the kitch-
en and scrub her hands as if he had
left slime on them. .

It couldn’tgo on for long as it was.
I kept the key to the cave in my pock-
et but it stood to reason that a cave
couldn’t be kept closed very long on
account of a death in the family, but
it I opened the cave everyone would
know the echo was dead, and that
would be the end of Abundant. Either
she would have to marry that fat liz-
ard of a Rance Tetherweight or let
him foreclose the mortgage and turn
her adrift in the world without a. cent
or any experience with the world or
any way to make a living.

I took my torch and unlocked the
cave and went in and sat down near
where poor Jed had passed away. I
tried the echoes but they were only
100 dead. While I was sitting there
wishing I was a millionaire or a sec-
ond Hermann the Great, a name sud-
denly came into my mind. It came
so unexpectedly afid clearly that for a
second or two I thought some one had
shouted it—“Bare—lip Bill.” It seemed

   
  
    
   
 

  
   
  
 
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
  
  
 
 
   
       
   
  
  
 
 
   
  
   
   
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
   
      
  
   
 
 
    
    
  
   
   

And a good one, too. _ I mean
not his moustache. , \

on the other knee. My idea—”

cackle.

something.

“It will be a riot, Salim”.
but no matter about that.

Just put me in the country
Where the cattle chew their cud;
Wheresnow and thaw in winter
Bring the sleighing and the mud;
Where copious showers of April
Bring the lovely flowers of spring;
And the robin and the meadow lark
Swell up their throats and sing.
Where bees feast in the clover
As the heads burst into View,

‘ By E/fir'Paré‘er Butter
. Am" or ‘
lip,” .being able to throw his voice
without moving a muscle-of his face,
thus doing away with his moustache.
Bill and

“Sam,” he‘said to me, “the public is
dead tired of the old stunt. It is sick
of the ventriloquist sitting with Little
Jimbo on one knee and Little Samba

His idea was to havea dummy dairy-
maid and dummy cows and chickens
and ducks scattered around the stage,
and he would come on with a hoe and
whiskers and the cows would moo and
the dairy-maid talk and the chickens
Then, maybe, he would slap
the cow on the side and she would
talk back to him, and the chickens
and \pigs and ducks and dairy-maid
would all join in—regular ventriloquist
back-talk stuff—and the act end with
the wooden pig singing a song or

Bill said,
Here was

‘Plgt 1: Ha,“ a.

“Fine!” I said, “you’ll do.”
‘fYou bet I'll do!’_' he Said.
to do And, oh! ain't the

thing man ever saw!"
“Who?" I asked. . ’
‘“‘I‘hat Kiss Abundant,” he said, and

the loveliest

that. '

“You‘re a farm hand and lecturer on
the wonders of the cave,” I said, “and
you’ve got to know your place and
keep it.”

' “Oh, sure!" he said “I know that.
Sam. I was just gassing. Don’t get
sore at a. joke.” ,

“I don’t stand any jokes about
Abundant,” I said, and we let it go
at that. '

The summer moved along pleasant-
ly enough. Bill kept the key of the
cave and nobody was allowed in it
without Bill in attendance, and nobody
ever guessed theecho was dead, least
of all Abundant. Two things worried
me, however. One was that fat turtle
of a Rance Titherweight, who kept

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CO (/ka Y L ORE
Lillian Flanders Overhalt

And everything in nature wears
A garb so fresh and new.
Just put me in the country
Where the fields of waving grain
-Give employment to the reapera
And the gleaners once again.
Where everything’s luxuriant .
And gay with bursting bud; ‘
Just put rive in the‘country,
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to settle every trouble Abundant had.
I went back to the house and told
Abundant I must go up to New York
for a couple of days to see my lawyer
or something and that I would bring
back a farmhand for her, and she let
me go.

his chance .to get down on a real farm
and study the voice of the pig and the
cow at first hand, and catchwthe man-
ner of the real rustic and be paid for
it! He came back with me on the
first train. -

“But, mind you, Bill,” I warned him,
“nobody is to know you are a ventrilo-
quist——not Abundant or anybody. You
are plain farm-hand.” _

W'hen we reached the farm we found
that Abundant had picked up her chap-
erone. She was a Mrs. Droby from
the village, and a pleasant old lady
enough. We all gotintroduced to each
other and then I took Bill out to show
him the farm and the cave. He
loved it.

He was good, too. Once through the
cave was enough to teach him every
feature of interest~—“You now see on
your left, ladies and gentlemen, the
Giant’s Jewel Box. Observe the rubies
and diamonds, all true crystals, form-
ed by Nature just where they lay. To
your right——” and so on. Then we
tried out the seven echoes. “Hello!"
I shouted, and Bill echoed it back to
me seven times, just as good and a
little better than the original echoes
had ever echoed it. As an echoer Bill
was a wonder and no mistake.

I did not have as much trouble get-
ting Bill to come to Carter county as
I had feared. It was summer and noth-
ing doing in his line or any other
vaudeville line, and he jumped at the
chance.

“Sam,” he said, “it suitstme! It
surely suits Bill Saggerty. You could
not have come at a better time, old
pal, because I’ve been wondering
where I could go to be among the cows
and the pigs and the chickens. I’ve
got the greatest idea for a new stunt."

Enthusiastic, you understand. You
know how a two-a-day man is when
he thinks he has caught hold of a
great idea. Sam figured that if he
went to the agents with a stage set
showing the dear old farm yard with
its cows and chickens and dickybirds
and ducks he would be dated up for
about ten consecutive years in about
ten minutes. He was a. ventriloquist,
you understand, and a good one, that
being how he got the name of “Bare-

AL A C REb—u4/ Giver Fm! Hand Information fléouz‘ Milt

house I saw Abundant on the side

pestering Abundant, and the other
was the knowledge that in the fall
Bill Saggerty would be going back to
New York to put on his act.

About the middle of August I slip-
ped up to New York again, claiming
I had to see my doctor, and hunted
round to find another ventriloquist to
take Bill's place when he left, and I
found an old man named Simeon Dear-
born who was willing. He said he
would come on the first of September,
which was the day I understood Bill
had set for leaving. When I reached
our station in Carter county I .picked
up my grip and walked out to the
farm. I cut across lots and went in
the back way and as I neared the

porch, her hands clasped on her breast
and her eyes raised to a tree there.
My, but she was a pretty picture!
But that was not what stopped me
short. A little bird—a sparrow, I
guess—was hopping around on a
branch of the tree, and every time it
hopped it cocked its head on one side
and looked at Abundant and said
“Sweetheart! Sweetheart!” which is
something a. sparrow don’t say. I
wasn’t fooled. I looked round the end
of the kitchen and there was Bill Sag-

 
  

“I’ve got?

I told him there would be‘none of

said dryly.
this whole business away. Miss Abund.
ant is liable to come on him any time.
Just now he is out there making the
ducks and geese tell each other what
they think of you and of Rance Tither‘
weight, and what a lovely person Miss
Abundant is.”

None of! thief"
pared. and‘l motioned'nim‘
barn to’ talk it over and h

ave a 9
oer-standing. f g ‘ nun
ml:‘Well, What?” he asked me, defiant.

e.

“I can’t help what the little birds
say, can I? If they think she is so
sweet and lovely they
peep up and say so,
.that, Sam? . r
.* “You’ll 'help it,” I , said sternly.
“Abundant isn’t for the likes of me
and you. She’s a real girl. You get
your pay this evening and you leave
Carter county, Bill. That’s the ulti-
matns with the bark on it.”
I “Why, no, Sam.” he said.
ain‘t. Because .I don’t go. Because I
stay right here. My "act ain’t ready
yet and} don’t care if it never is
ready." I may settle down here for
good and all, with a farm and a cave
and a wife—a wife. Sam—amongst the
cows and the chickens and the little
dickybirds that say what they mighty
well please without any blue—glued.

how can I help

.“No, it

back-number sleight-ot—hand man but-

ting in. You get the idea?"

“So that’s how it isfis it?” I asked, '

getting red in the face.

“Just like that,” a chicken answer-
ed, sneering-like, from where it was
pecking seed on the barn floor. “Just
like that, ain’t it, Bill?”

“Seems- so, chicken,” answered Bill.

"Oh, well, if you’ve got all thelive
stock talking for you!” I said scorn-
fully, and I turned away. “Only,” I
said, “I’ve hired a man to take your
place down here, and you’ll kindly
hand me the cave key and go up and
pack your trunk.” .

“Give him the key; what do you
care?” grunted a. pig, and Bill tossed
me the key. I' caught it on the fly
and went on up to the house. Abund-
ant was still there, looking at the lit-
tlebird, and when she saw me she
started and blushed.

“Why, Sam!” she said. “I didn’t
expect you!” I walked,” I said.

Bill did not go. When I thought it
over I saw he was right in one way,
he had never said he meant to go be‘
fore the flrfi of September and I had
no right to send him away; that was
Abundant’s business. Old Simeon
showed up on the first of September
and I gave him the key to ‘the cave
and explained the points of interest

and tried him out on the echo. He did

well enough. He was an old-styler

and had a moustache to hide 'his lips
but he echoed as well as need be and
I was glad to see that professional
jealousy made him sort of offish to
Bill.

They didn’t mix.
“I thought Mr. Saggerty was goin’,”

Simeon said to me.

“Well, he Said he was,” I answered.
“Then he had better go,” Simeon
“If he don’t he will give

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(Concluded next week).

I Testing the Soul ‘

Our-Weekly Sermon.—-By N. A. Mchze

HERE are two very short state-
ments in the book of Hebrews
'which give the secret of the
poWer of Christ over tempted man-
kind. “For in that he himself hath
suffered being tempted, he is able to
succor them that are tempted.” * *
“but was in all points tempted like as
we are, yet without sin.” In other
words, Christ has been through the
mill. "He knows the game- He has
had the experience that comes only
through hard and bitter trial.

Following the Civil War, a southern
general, I think it was General Hood,

I was candidate for congress in a south-

ern state. In the same district 3. man
who had been a private was also a
candidate. At a mass meeting of citi-‘
zens one~night, General Hood stood up
and said, in a booming, spell-binding

voice, “Fellow-cit-
izens, twenty‘
years ago, I bi—

voucked in yon-
der grove of trees,
and tonight, fel-
low citizens, I am
asking you to
comm e m o r ate
that incident by
voting for me for
congress.” When he had finished, the
former private stood up and said “Fel-
low citizens, I stood guard over Gen-
eral Hood the night he bivoucked in
yonder grove, and it rained all night.
Now all you generals and colonels
vote for General Hood for congress,
and all you privates vote for me.” It
is not necessary to state who was
elected. ,

'That is the power of Christ. He
knows the experiences of ordinary
men, the privates and corporals, the
burden bearers of the world, the
tempted and battered souls.

 

HE republican nominee for the

vice-presidency is Mr. Dawes. In
1912 Mr. Dawes lost his son by drown-
ing. He had just graduated from
Princeton, and was a most promising
young man. When the funeral was
held, a eulogy of the boy was read,

. which had been written by the father._

Here are some sentences: "‘The truly
great character must unite unusual
strength and determination with great
gentleness. My boy was imperious.
He recognized no superior on earth,
and yet he was the tender and inti-
mate friend of the weak and humble.
He commenced early in life to set him-
self against the crowd, for no man
rises to real prestige who follows it.
Of his arm initiative he joined the
church. For a long time he taught a
Bible class at Bethseda Mission. He

did not smoke, nor swear, nor drink?’

He was absolutely clean. Yet in his
stern opposition to the drift, he ming-
led tolerance, in just that quantity
which contributed to real power to be
used in opposition, and for that pur-
pose alone. He died suddenly in the
midst of happiness. He died with all
his ideals unlowered. But, dear young
friends of my boy, he had already
climbed the high and rough ways
which lead up the steep mountains of
character.” This shows that young
Dawes had been a person who had
made .a practice of resisting tempta-
tion, that is, of repelling the seduc-
tions to easy ways of living, ~low stand-
ards, slack ideals.

ERE is another instance of similar
nature. Every one knows of Wil-
diam Allen White, who made Emporia,
was, launch: He has written “A

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read fiction. White’s daughter, Mary,
died at seventeen, and he wrote an
article on her which appeared in his
paper, the‘ Gazette, the afternoon that
the funeral took place. It is a rare
bit of writing, full of courage and joy.
Grief is there, but it is kept in the
background. “The last engagement
she tried to make was to take the
guests at the county home out for a
car ride. And the last endeavor of
her life was to try’ to get a rest room
for colored girls at the high school.
She found a colored girl reading in
the toilet, because there was no better
place for a colored girl to loaf, and it
inflamed her sense of injustice and
she became a nagging harpie_to those
who, she thought, could remedy the
evil. The poor she had always with
her, and was glad of it. She hungered
and thirsted for righteousness. She
jOined the Congregational church With—
out consulting her parents; not partic-
ularly for her soul’s good. She never
had a thrill of piety in her life, and
would have hooted at a ‘testimony.’
But even as a little child she felt the
church was an agency for helping peo-
ple to more of life’s abundance, and
she wanted to help. She never want-
ed help for herself. Clothes, meant
little to her. It was a fight to get a
new rig on her; but eventually a hard-
er fight to get it off. She never wore
a jewel and had no ring but her high
school ring, and never asked for any-
thing but a' wrist watch.”

MENTION these two instances of'

character in American young peo-
ple because they reflect the struggle
there must be if one is to get any-
where in‘soul development. Tempta-
tion- is not something that suddenly
blobks your path, as Apollyon held up
Christian. It may be that, of course.
But it is the steady drag, the dowu-
ward pull that must be fought off.
Christ’s temptations were not over
when His experience in the wilderness
was at an end. “The devil departed
from Him—for a season.” We may or
may not like the idea, but the contest

   

Well, such '

is one that is never over until the end
of life.
Habit comes to our rescue, natur-

  

ally. The man who does right, thinks.

wholesome thoughts, falls into the way
of acting and thinking thus. But even
so he will never get away from the
moral gravitation that drags at one’s
heels, and attempts to slow one’s
progress.

WHEN sudden temptation comes
to a. soul, his past is what tells.
All the resources of past development
are called in, and if those resources
are slender, the chances of victory are
that much smaller.
story, “The Master of Man,” Victor
Stowell contemplates suicide. It is
suicide or giving himself up to the oili-
cers of the law. Looking up he sees
his old father sitting in his chair, as
in years past he had looked. “My
son!” cries the apparition of the old
man, “My son! I know what you are
thinking of, and I warn you not to do
it. No man can run away from the
consequences of. his own sins. If he
flies -from them in this life, he must
meet them in the life hereafter, and
then it will be a thousand fold more
terrible to be swept from the face of
the living de‘.” Next day Stowell con-
fessed.

Is there anything in this of a practi—
cal and every-day aspect for the man
living in the country, and his wife?
What of the attitude of many farmers
who make complaining their breakfast,
dinner and supper, with snacks of the
same dish in between? Some people
are unhappy unless they have some
one to listen to their complaints-«the
low price of farm products, the decline
in the price of Holstein calves, the
late cold spring, the terrible slavery
of the farm, and the dishonesty of
commission house. This keeps every-
one in a stew, makes conditions worse,
multiplies unhappiness, and gets no—
where. Of course, if one is determin-
ed to wear black specs, that is his
business. But the world. is not as
black as‘. he thinks it is. This is a
temptatiOn that comes to many, and
may well be fought off. Things might
be worse.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
JULY 27. '

 

SUBJECT:-—-The Temptation of Jesus.
Matt. 4.1 to 11.

GOLDEN TEXT:~In that he himself
hath suffered being tempted, he is
able to succor them that are tempt-
ed. Heb. 2:18.

 

 

 

MADE IN AMERICA.

 

HE prosperity of any country

depends upon its people. They

,must be enough in number to
develop its resources. They must be
of the quality to make good citizens.
Few of us are more than a few steps
removed from foreign ancestry, yet we
are concerned, very properly, about
maintaining for this country a certain
standard of citizenship; a standard
that calls for equality, liberty and
decency; an ill—defined standard, per-
haps, yet one that we ourselves easily
recognize as that of the United States.

Under the new immigration bill we
shall cut the yearly number of immi-
grants that may come to our shores,
to the comparatively low figure of
161.990. But the’newcomers to the
United States do not all come via Ellis
Island, and the established lines of
travel. There are other routes. Two.
million six hundred and twenty-five
thousand new Americans arrived via
the justly celebrated Stork Line in
1921. Of that number, 671,248 were of
foreign parentage.

 

The new immigration bill says that
only 3,909 may come in one year from
Italy, but more than forty times that
number will be born-of Italian par-
entage next year in our land, if the
same relative rate obtains as in 1921,
in which year 179,798 little Italian
Americans arrived. Immigration fig-
ures for Hungary only allow 588 for a
year, but birth increase may give them
26,370. For Austria the quota is 1,090
but birth increase may give 76,714 in
a single year. Russia is supposed to
send only 1,892, but the fruitful Rus-
sian mothers already here will prob
ably add 86,303 to that number. And
thus will one country after another
add its increase by birth from foreign
parents already established in our
land, until the year’s immigration
quOta of 161,990 will be multiplied
more than four fold. All of which goes
to show that the new immigration act
gives us no warrant for lifting the
melting pot from our patriotic fires.

.We admit a certain concern about
the fact that mothers of native birth
do not have such large. families as are
raised by foreigneborn women. In

         

In Hall Caine’s.

      

 

  

trian stock have 4.4; Hungarian, 4.4;
German, 4.8; and Italian, 3.9 per cent.

Throughout the registration area of.

the United States, census figures show
that whereas women of native birth
have a family averaging three; chil-
dren, the average family for women of

Michigan the ,average‘number of chili
dren born to a mother of native birth-c
is 2.9; but Michigan mothers of Ans:

foreign birth who bear children in this 1 ‘

country is four children.

The increasing vogue of the restrict-
ed family is more of a menace to this
country than any problem of immigra-
tion. Two children to a family will
not keep the world going. Remember
that of all children born, one in ten
will not live to marriageable age; one
in ten will be deterred from marriage
for various reasons; one in ten will
fail to have a fruitful marriage, and
thus three-tenths of our prospects for
increase are destroyed. Three chil-
dren per family is barely sufficient to
keep the race alive, and an average of
four children per family is no more
than necessary for healthy growth.

We find that the average family
born to a foreign mother in this coun-
try consists of four children. Let us
suppose that the mother of native
birth follow this example and see

Ahow this disposes of the question of

desired increase in our population. In
the 1921 report of the United States
census, birth figures show approxi-
mately 2,397,314 white births. Of this
number, 1,726,066 were born of native
parents, and 671,248 of foreign par-
ents. If the average family born of
native mothers is brought up to the
same basis as the family born of for-
eign parents, the increase from three
to four children will mean an increase
in the native white birth rate each
year of thirty-three and one-third per
cent. This will give us approximately
577,355 more white children of native
parentage each year in this country.
The problem is solved when American
mothers bear an average family of
four children instead of three.

WHY REMOVE FRECKLES?

 

I should like to know a good treat-
ment for freckles. I am troubled with
thém every summer and they serve
to disfigure a complexion that is 0th-
erwise rather pleasing—J. T. O.

Freckles are a misfortune rather
than a disease. The r)nly way to get
rid of them is by some method of ex-
foliation of the skin containing the
pigment. This can be done by the use

of corrosive sublimate, but it is a. dan- ~

gerous poison and I do not recommend
fooling with it. Freckles can be pre-
vented by wéaring a brown or red
veil, for they are caused by the actinic
rays of the sun, not the heat rays. But
wouldn’t you rather have the freckles?

WANTS TO INCREASE WEIGHT.

 

Can you tell me how to flesh up a.
little? Am a. man of thirty-one. Feel
well and do my work in good shape.
But never weighed 130 pounds in my
life. Am sixty—eight inches—T. R.

It is hard to give directions for put-
ting on weight without writing a book
about it. In general you must live in
a normal way. If you work too hard,
quit. If you don’t work enough, take
exercise. Sleep a good deal. Get your
digestive organs into such shape that
you can assimilate your food. Have
your teeth repaired so that you may
masticate thoroughly. Get an easy
conscience. Eat. Feed yourself roy-
ally. Use cream and milk and choco-
late and cocoa for fattening drinks,
and cut out tea and coffee. Eat meats,
eggs, potatoes, beans, peas, cereals
of all kinds, puddings, honey, syrup,
cakes, all the nicest things of the land,
if you can both
them. Eat heartily but not rapidly,
for a very essential aid to digestion is
the thorough mixing of the food with
saliva. If your stomach will digest. it
take an egg in a glass of milk midway
in the afternoon. Don't weigh too of-

ten and don’ t be anxious about it, but

just follow instructions for six months
and see what you gain.

afford and digest '


  
  
 
  
   

  
 
  

Hour talk- Abuntiant told ‘me About

y‘i‘eem to worry "her. She said Jed
had expected to take in enough from
cave-seers that season to pay up all
.5 the interest and something on the
‘ T principal, and that he would have done
~~ I it bptore but that he had spent so
, much repairing the house and out-
' {buildings » , »
For two or three days after the fun-

eral I walked around that farm like a >

, ‘ lost soul trying to think of something
“ I could do for Abundant, and Rance
Titherweight bothered me a lot. He
came to the farm every day, driving

" up in his glossy car and telling Abund-
ant that she must not worry and hold-

‘ ing her hand longer than necessary

, when he came and when he went, the
lat snake! I could see she hated to

' have him tench her hand. After he
was gone she would rush to the kitch-
en and scrub her hands as it he had
left slime on them. ‘ -

It couldn’t.go on for long as it was.
I kept the key to the cave in my pock-
et but it stood to reason that a cave
couldn’t be kept closed very long on
account of a death in the family, but
if I opened the cave everyone would
know the echo was dead, and that
would be the end of Abundant. Either
she .would have to marry that fat liz-
ard of a Rance Tetherweight or let
him foreclose the mortgage and turn
her adrift in the world without a cent
or any experience with the world or
any way to make a living.

I took my torch and unlocked the
cave and went in and sat down near
where poor Jed had passed away. I
tried the echoes but they were only
too dead. While I was sitting there
wishing I was a millionaire or a sec-
ond Hermann the Great, 3. name sud—
denly came into my mind. It came
so unexpectedly and clearly that for a
second or two I thought some one had
shouted it--“Bare—Iip Bill.” It seemed
to settle every trouble Abundant had.
I went back to the house and told
Abundant I must go up to New York
for a couple of days to see my lawyer
or something and that I would bring
back a farmhand for her, and she let
me go.

I did not have as much trouble get-
ting Bill to come to Carter county as
I had feared. It was summer and noth-
ing doing in his line or any other
vaudeville line, and he jumped at the
chance.

“Sam,” he said, “it suits~mel It
surely suits Bill Saggerty. You could
not have come at a better time, old
pal, because I’ve been wondering
where I could go to be among the cows
. and the pigs and the chickens. I’ve
got the greatest idea for a new stunt."

Enthusiastic, you understand. You
know how a two-a-day man is when
he thinks he has caught hold of a
great idea. Sam figured that if he
went to the agents with a stage set
showing the dear old farm yard with
its cows and chickens and dickybirds
and ducks he would be dated up for
about ten consecutive years in about
ten minutes. He was a ventriloquist,
you understand, and a good one, that
being how he got the name of "Bare—

 
  
 

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lip,” being able to throw his voice
without moving a muscle ‘of his face,
thus doing away with his mbustache.
And a good one, too. I meanBiil and
not his moustache. ' ’
“Sam,” he‘said to me, “the public is
dead tired of the old stunt. It is sick
of the. ventriloquist sitting with Little
Jimbo on one knee and Little Sambo
on the other knee. My idea—”

His idea was to have a dummy dairy-
mald and dummy cows and chickens
and ducks scattered around the stage,
and he would come on with a hoe and
whiskers and the cows would moo and
the dairy-maid talk and the chickens
cackle. Then, maybe, he would slap
the cow on the side and she ‘would
talk back to him, and the chickens
and and ducks and dairy-maid
would all join in—regular ventriloquist
back-talk stun—and the act end with
the wooden pig singing a. song or
something.

“It will be a riot, Satin”. Bill said,
but no matter about that. Here was

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.

“Fine!” Issid, “you'll do.”

. ‘onu but I’ll “lithe ma; ‘ “I’ve got
to do. And, oh! ain't the the loveliest
thing man ever s‘awl” 4, .

"Who?” I asked. '

“That lliss Abundant,” he said, and

I told him there would be‘none 01'

“You're a. farm hand and lecturer on
the wonders of the cave," I said, “and
you’ve got to know ”your place and
keep it." - ‘

' “Oh, sure!” he said. “I know that,
Sam. I was just gassing. Don’t'get
sore at a. Joke." .

“I 'don’t stand any jokes about
Abundant,” I said, and we let it go
at that. '

The summer moved along; pleasant-
ly enough. Bill kept the key of the
cave and nobody was allowed in it
without Bill in attendance, and nobody
ever guessed theecho was dead, least
of all Abundant. Two things worried
me, however. One was that fat turtle
of a Rance Titherweight, who kept

 

COUNTRYLOIBE

Lillian Flanders Overhalt

Just put me in the country
Where the cattle chew their cud;
Wheresnow and thaw in winter
Bring the sleighing and the mu'd;
Where copious showers of April
Bring the lovely flowers of spring;
And the robin and the Meadow lark
Swell up their throats and sing.
Where bees feast in the clover
As the heads burst into View,

' Arid everythlnd in nature wears

A garb so fresh and new.
Just put me in the country
Where the fields of waving grain
vGive employment to the reapcrs
And the gleaners once again.
Where everything’s luxuriant
And gay with bursting bud: ‘
Just put rfie in the'country,
Where the cattle chew their cud.

 

 

his chance ‘to get down on a real farm
and study the voice of the pig and the
cow at first hand, and catch the man-
ner of the real rustic and be paid for
it! He came back with me on the
first train. -

“But, mind you, Bill,” I warned him,
“nobody is to know you are a ventrilo—
quist—not Abundant or anybody. You
are plain farm-hand.”

When we reached the farm we found
that Abundant had picked up her chap-
erone. She was a Mrs. Droby from
the village, and a pleasant old lady
enough. We all got introduced to each
other and then I took Bill out to show
him the farm and the cave. He
loved it.

He was good, too.\ Once through the
cave was enough to teach him every
feature of interest—~“You now see on
your left, ladies and gentlemen, the
Giant’s Jewel Box. Observe the rubies
and diamonds, all true crystals, form-
ed by Nature just where they lay. To
your rightw” and so on. Then we
tried out the seven echoes. “Hello!”
I shouted, and Bill echoed it back to
me seven times, just as good and a
little better than the original echoes
had ever echoed it. As an echoer Bill
was a wonder and no mistake.

pestering Abundant, and the other
was the knowledge that in the fall
Bill Saggerty would be going back to
New York to put on his act

About the middle of August I slip-
ped up to New York again, claiming
I had to see my doctor, and hunted
round to find another ventriloquist to
take Bill’s place when he left, and I
found an old man named Simeon Dear-
born who was willing. He said he
would come on the first of September,
which was the day I understood Bill
had set for leaving. When I reached
our station in Carter county I‘picked
up my grip and walked out to the
farm. I cut across lots and went in
the back way and as I neared the
house I saw Abundant on the side
porch, her handsclasped on her breast
and her eyes raised to a tree there.
My, but she was a pretty picture!
But that was not what stopped me
short. A little bird—a sparrow, l
guess—was hopping around on a
branch of the tree, and every time it
hopped it cocked its head on one side
and looked at Abundant and said
“Sweetheart! Sweetheart!” which is
something a sparrow don’t say. I
wasn’t fooled. I looked round the end
of the kitchen and there was Bill Sag-

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, . momma out: to the
barn to‘ tell: it over, and have an un-
derstanding. , '

“Well, what?” he. asked

say, an I? If they'think she is so

  
 

sweet and lovely they lust have to

peep up and say so,
M. 8m? . .
“You'll help it,” I, said sternly.

how can I help

”‘Abundant isn’t fer the likes of me F

‘ me, ,de'fiant- ’y
“I can’t help what the little birds

i

and you. She’s a real girl. You get '

your pay this evening and you leave
Carter county, Bill. That’s the ulti-
matus with the bark on i ” .

, “Why, no, Sam,” he said. "No, it
ain’t. Because I don’t go. Because I
stay right here. My act ain’t ready
yet and “I don’t care if it never is
ready.‘ I may settle down here for
good and all, with a farm and acave
and s wife—a wife, Sam—amongst the
cows and the chickens and the little
dickybirds that say what they mighty
well please without any blue-gilled‘
back-number sleight-of-hand man but-
ting in. You get the idea?”

“So that’s how it isfis it?” I asked, 5

getting red in the face.

“Just like that,” a chicken answer-
ed, sneering-like, from where it was
pecking seed on the barn floor. “Just
like that, ain’t it, Bill?”

_ “Seems' so, chicken,” answered 'Bill.

"Oh, well, it you’ve got all the live
stock talking for you!” I said scorn-
iully, and I turned away. “Only,” I
said, “I’ve hired a man to take your
place down here, and you’ll kindly
hand me the cave key and go up. and
pack your trunk.” .

“Give him the key; what do you
care?” grunted a D18. and Bill tossed
me the key. I' caught it on the fly
and went on up to the house. Abund-
ant was still there', looking at the lit-
tle bird, and when she saw me she
started and blushed.

“Why, Sam!” .she said. “I didn’t
expect you!” I walked,” I said.

Bill did not go. When I thought it
over I saw he was right in one way,
he had never said he meant to go be-
fore the ilrsl of September and I had
no right to send him away; that was
Abundant’s business. Old Simeon
showed up on the first of September
and I gave him the key to ‘the cave
and explained the points of interest
and tried him out on the echo. He did
well enough. He was an old~styler
and had a menstache to hide "his lips
but he echoed as well as need be and
I was glad to see that professional
jealousy made him sort of offish to
Bill. They didn't mix.

“I thought Mr. Saggerty was goin’,”
Simeon said to me. .

“Well, he said he was,” I answered.

“Then he had better go,” Simeon
said dryly. “If he don’t he will give
this whole business away. Miss Abund«
ant is liable to come on him any time.
Just now he is out there making the
ducks and geese tell each other what
they think of you and of Rance Tither
weight, and What a lovely person Miss
Abundant is.”

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asked her to marry me.
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the Soul I v-

Out Weekly Sermonr—By N A. M chme

HERE are two very short state-
ments in the book of Hebrews
'which give the secret of the
poWer of Christ over tempted man-
kind.
suffered being tempted, he is able to
succor them that are tempted.” * *
' “but was in all points tempted like as
‘we‘ are, yet without sin.” In other
words, Christ has been through the
mill. ‘He knows the games He has
had the experience that comes only
through hard and bitter trial.
Following the Civil War, asouthern
general, I think it was General Hood,
4 was candidate for congress in a south-
ern state. In‘ the same district a man
who had been a private was also a
candidate. At a mass meeting of citi-

zens onesnight, General Hood stood up'

and said, in a booming, spell-binding

voice, “Fellow-cit-
izens, .twenty‘
years ago, I bi-

voucked in yon-
der grove of trees,
and tonight, fel-
low citizens, I am
asking you to
comm e m o r ate
that incident by
voting for me for
congress.” When he had finished, the
former private stood up and said, “Fel-
low citizens, I stood guard over Gen—
eral Hood the night he bivoucked in
yonder grove, and it rained all night.
Now all you generals and colonels
vote for General Hood for congress,
and all you privates vote for me.” It
is not necessary to state who was
elected.

'That is the power of Christ. He
knows the experiences of ordinary
men, the privates and corporals, the
burden bearers of the world, the
tempted and battered souls. »

 

HE republican nominee for the

vice-presidency is Mr. Dawes. In
1912 Mr. Dawes lost his son by drown-
ing. He had just graduated from
Princeton, and was a most promising
young man. When the funeral was
held, a eulogy of the boy was read,
. which had been written by the father.
Here are some sentences:
great character must unite unusual
strength and determination with great
gentleness. My boy was imperious.
' He recognized no superior on earth,
and yet he was the tender and inti-
mate friend of the weak and humble.
He commenced early in life to set him—
self against the crowd, for no man
rises to real prestige who follows it.
Of his own initiative he joined the
church. For a long time he taught a
Bible class at Bethseda Mission. He

did not smoke, nor Swear, nor drink."

He was absolutely clean. Yet in his
stern opposition to the drift, he ming-
led tolerance( in just that quantity
which contributed to real power to’be
used in opposition, and for that pur-
pose alone. He died suddenly in the
midst of happiness. He died with all
his ideals unlowered. But, dear young
friends of my boy, he had already
climbed the high and rough ways
which lead up the steep mountains of
character." This shows that young
Dawes had been a person who had
made a practice of resisting tempta-
tion, that is, of repelling the seduc-
tions to easy ways of living, ~low stand-
ards, slack ideals.

ERE is another instance of similar

_ nature. Every one knows of Wil-
11am Allen White, who made Emporia,
‘ He has written “A

 

“For in that he himself hath

"‘The truly I

read fiction.
died at seventeen, and he wrote an
article on her which appeared in his
paper, the‘ Gazette, the afternoon that
the funeral tookplace. It is a rare
bit of writing, full of courage and joy.
Grief is there, but it is kept in the
background. “The last engagement
she tried to make was to take the
guests at the county home out for a
car ride. And the last endeavor of
her life was to try. to get a rest room
for colored girls at the high school.
She found a colored girl reading in
the toilet, because there Was no better
place for a colored girl to loaf, and it
inflamed her sense of injustice and
she became a nagging harpie_to those
who, she thought, could remedy the
evil, The poor she had always with
her, and was glad of it. She hungered
and thirsted for righteousness. She
joined the Congregational church with-
out consulting her parents; not partic-

ularly for her soul's good. She never .

had a thrill of piety in her life, and
Would have hooted at a ‘testimony.’
But even as a little child she felt the
church was an agency for helping peo-
ple to more of life’s abundance, and
she wanted to help. She never want-
ed help for herself. Clothes meant
little to her. It was a fight to get a
new rig on her; but eventually a hard-
er fight to get it off. She never wore
a jewel and had no ring but her high
school ring, and never asked for any-
thing but a wrist watch.”

MENTION these two instances of.

character in American young peo-
ple because they reflect the struggle
there must be if one is to get any-
where in(soul development. Tempta-
tion- is not something that suddenly
blobks your path, as Apollyon held up
Christian. It may be that, of course.
But it is the steady drag, the dowu-
ward pull that must be fought off.
Christ’s temptations were not over
when His experience in the wilderness
was at an end. “The devil departed
from Him—for a season.” We may or
may not like the idea, but the contest

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White’s daughter, Mary,

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is one that is never over until the end
of life.

Habit comes to our rescue, natur-

ally. The man who does right, thinks.
- wholesome thoughts, falls into the way

of acting and thinking thus. But even
so he will never get away from the

- moral gravitation that drags at one’s

heels, and attempts to slow one’s
progress.

HEN sudden temptation comes

to a soul, his past is what tells.
All the resources of past development
are called in, and if those resources
are slender, the chances of victory are
that much- smaller.
story, “The Master of Man,” Victor
Stowell contemplates suicide. It is
suicide or giving himself up to the offi-
cers of the law. Looking up he sees
his old father sitting in his chair, as
in years past he had looked. “My
son!” cries the apparition of the old
man, "My son! I know what you are
thinking of, and I warn you not to do
it. No man can run away from the
consequences of his own sins. If he
flies from them in this life, he must
meet them in the life hereafter, and
then it will be a thousand fold more
terrible to be swept from the face of
the living de‘." Next day Stowell con-
fessed.

Is there anything in this of a practi-
cal and every-day aspect for the man
living in the country, and his wife?
What of the attitude of many farmers
who make complaining their breakfast,
dinner and supper, with snacks of the
same dish in between? Some people
are unhappy unless they have some
one to listen to their complaints—the
low price of farm products, the decline
in the price of Holstein calves, the
late cold spring, the terrible slavery
of the farm, and the dishonesty of
commission house. This keeps every-
one in a stew, makes conditions worse,
multiplies unhappiness, and gets no-
where. Of course, if one is determin-
ed to wear black specs, that is his
business. But the world is not as
black as'. he thinks it is. This is a
temptation that comes to many, and
may well be fought off. Things might
be worse.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
JULY 27. '

 

SUBJECT:—The Temptation of Jesus.
Matt. 4.1 to 11.

GOLDEN TEXTz—In that he himself
hath suffered being tempted, he is
able to succor them that are tempt-
ed. Heb. 2: 18

 

 

 

MADE IN AMERICA.

 

HE prosperity of any country

depends upon its people. They

,must be enough in number to
develop its resources. They must be
of the quality to make good citizens.
Few of us are more than a few steps
removed from foreign ancestry, yet we
are concerned, very properly, about
maintaining for this country a certain
standard of citizenship; a standard
that calls for equality, liberty and
decency; an ill-defined standard, per-
haps; yet one that we ourselves easily
re'cognize as that of the United States.

Under the new immigration bill we
shall cut the yearly number of immi-
grants that may come to our shores,
to the comparatively low figure of
161990. But the newcomers to the
United States do not all come via Ellis
Island, and the established lines of
travel. There are other routes. Two.
million six hundred and twenty~iive
thousand new "Americans arrived via
the justly celebrated Stork Line in
1921; Of that number, 671,248 were of
foreign parentage.

 

The new immigration bill says that
only 3,909 may come in one year from
Italy, but more than forty times that
number will be born of Italian par-
entage next year in our land, if the
same relative rate obtains as in 1921;
in which year 179,798 little Italian
Americans arrived. Immigration fig-
ures for Hungary only allow 588 for a
year, but birth increase may give them
26,370. For Austria the quota is 1,090
but birth increase may give 76,714 in
a single year. Russia is supposed to
send only 1,892, but the fruitful Rus
sian mothers already here will prob
ably add 86,303 to that number. And
thus will one country after another
add its increase by birth from foreign
parents already established in our
land, until the year’s immigration
quOta of 161,990 will be multiplied
more than four fold. All of which goes
to show that the new immigration act
gives us no warrant for lifting the
melting pot from our patriotic fires.

.We admit a certain concern about
the fact that mothers of native birth
do not have such large. families as are
raised by .foroigneborn. women. In

 

In Hall Caine’s.

Michigan the .average'number of ch11?

dren born to a mother of native birth

is 2.9, but Michigan mothers of Aus-

trian stock have 4.;4 Hungarian, 4.4;
German, 4. 8; and Italian, 3. 9 per cent.
Throughout the registration area of
the United States, census figures show
that whereas women of native birth
have a family averaging three- chil-
dren, the average family for women of
foreign birth who bear children in this
country is four children.

The increasing vogue of the restrict- I

ed family is more of a menace to this
country than any problem of immigra-
tion. Two children to a family will
not keep the world going. Remember
that of all children born, one in ten
will not live to marriageable age; one
in ten will be deterred from marriage
for various reasons; one in ten will
fail to have a fruitful marriage, and
thus three-tenths of our prospects for
increase are destroyed. Three chil-
dren per family is barely sufficient to
keep the race alive, and an average of
four children per family is no more
than necessary for healthy growth.
We find that the average family
born to a foreign mother in this coun—
try consists of four children. Let us
suppose that the mother of native
birth follow this example and see

'how this disposes of the question of

desired increase in our population. In
the 1921 report of the United States
census, birth figures show approxi-
mately 2,397,314 white births. Of this
number, 1,726,066 were born of native
parents, and 671,248 of foreign par-
ents. If the average family born of
native mothers is brought up to the
same basis as the family born of for-
eign parents, the increase from three
to four children will mean an increase
in the native white birth rate each
year of thirty-three and one-third per
cent. This will give us approximately
577,355 more white children of native
parentage each year in this country.
The problem is solved when American
mothers bear an average family of
four children instead of three.

WHY REMOVE FRECKLES?

 

I should like to know a good treat-
ment for freckles. I am troubled with
thém every summer and they serve
to disfigure a complexion that is oth-
erwise rather pleasing—J. T. O.

Freckles are a misfortune rather
than a disease. The only way to get
rid of them is by some method of ex-
foliation of the skin containing the
pigment. This can be done by the use

of corrosive sublimate, but it is a dan- .

gerous poison and I do not recommend
fooling with it. Freckles can be pre-
vented by wearing a brown or red
veil, for they are caused by the actinic
rays of the sun, not the heat rays. But
wouldn't you rather have the freckles?

 

WANTS TO INCREASE WEIGHT.

 

Can you tell me how to flesh up a
little? Am a man of thiity- o—ne. Feel
well and do my w01k in good shape.
But nevm weighed 130 pounds in my
life. Am sixty- eight inches. —~T.

It is hard to give dn ect1ons for put-
ting on weight without writing a. book

about it. In general you must live in
a normal way. If you work too hard,
quit. If you don’t work enough, take

exercise. Sleep a good deal. Get your
digestive organs into such shape that
you can assimilate your food. Have
your teeth repaired so that you may
masticate thoroughly. Get an easy
conscience. Eat. Feed yourself roy-
ally. Use cream and milk and choco-
late and cocoa for fattening drinks,
and cut out tea and coffee. Eat meats,
eggs, potatoes, beans, peas, cereals
of all kinds, puddings, honey, syrup.
cakes, all the nicest things of the land, .
if you can both

for a very essential aid to digestion is

the thorough mixing of the food with '

saliva. If your stomach will digest. it
take an egg in a glass of milk midway
in the afternoon. Don’t weigh too of-
ten and don’ 't be anxious about it. I)
just follow instructions for six months
and see what you gain.

 

 

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A Sweet Problem 0f Canning

Beet or Cam, I t Daem’ t Matter

 

Good Equipment Makes Jellymaking
Jolly.

Y jelly just won’t jell, and some
M of my fruit spoiled. What is

the reason? I believe my groc-
'e-ryman gave me beet sugar when I
asked for cane.”

When I receive such requests as
these it reminds me of the story of
the little boy who was late for school
one morning. As he took his place
several minutes after the last bell had

called his companions together, hiS”

teacher asked, “Johnnie, why are you
late for school this morning?”

Johnnie’s hesitating reply was, “Fido
wanted me to stop and. play with
him.” So the housewife, like the
schoolboy, is anxious to place the
blame elsewhere.

Because our berries spoiled; ‘br our
apple sauce failed to keep, or our jelly
would not become firm, it is a relief
to our tired nerves to place the blame
on the kind of sugar used. But by
tests made at the California experi-
ment station, it was proven that beet
and cane sugar “were equally valuable
for canning, and identical in their be-
havior when of the same fineness of
crystallization.” That is to say, you
can can one can of fruit with cane
sugar and one with beet sugar of the
same grade and as far as the sweet is
concerned, the product will be preserv-
ed for the usual length of time.

When fruit spoils the reason can

‘usually be traced to something other

than the kind of sugar used. Either
the jars were not thoroughly sterilized
or the fruit only partially processed,
or perhaps it was not in the preper
condition to can. Complete steriliza-
tion needs at least ten minutes in
boiling water.

When it comes to making jelly, the
problem is somewhat different. It is
not the kind of sugar that makes the
juices jell, but the amount of pectin
in those juices. The right proportion
of this pectin, together with the prop—
er amount of sugar, if added to any of

' the fruit juices makes jelly readily.

This pectin may be made from either
oranges or apples. The orange pectin
is not practical in the rural home, but
apple pectin can be made and canned

' for later use by processing thirty min-
utes in the hot water bath.

To make apple pectin use one pound

' of fresh apples, eight cups of water
i and the juice of one lemon.
3 thirty minutes and press through a

Boil for

cotton bag until pulp is quite dry.
Strain juice through a well sterilized

flannel bag. Used with equal parts
(or less) sugar this makes a splendid

. ieuv

If combined half-and-half with

~.and afterward all

 
 
 

other fruit juices it gives real snap to
the flavor of the jelly.

After the fruit juice is extracted
from the pulp, boil for fifteen minutes
to make a bright, clear jelly. Add heat-
ed sugar and boil for five minutes.
longer. If the juices boil too long
after sugar is added, the jelly will be
dark. Jelly made in the proportion of
four cups of apple pectin, four cups of
juice of other fruits, and six to'eight
cups of sugar, is sure to be a source
of joy and pride to the maker.—-'—M. C.

ROOTING ROSE PLANTS.

 

F you have some nice roses, either
hardy or ever-blooming, that you
want to increase you can easily root
some of them. If you are wanting a
climber rooted, about the best way is

 

Pz'cé/e Contest

HE right kind of pickles

served with the proper kind
of foods adds real spice to any
dinner. And now is the time we
should be making our plans to
fill the pickle shelf. Perhaps
you have a recipe that another
reader is anxious to try.

So this week our contest will
be on pickle recipes. Send in
your favorite recipe for any of
the various kinds of pickles, pic-
alilli, relish or chow chow.

To the writers of the five best
letters we will send handy black
leather shopping bags, just the
thing you will need on your next
trip to town.

Address your letters to Martha
Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan, before August 1.

 

 

 

to lay a long cane on the ground ina
trench, first cutting it partially through
in a place or so along it, and cover it
with soil packed well to make it keep
moist. This is layering. You can

layerianyhardy rose by bending down ’3

a cane and covering thus, provided
you bend it sharply where you want it
to root, or cut it partially in two, let-
ting the cut spread ,when bent. To
root the everbloome'rs, either tea roses
or the polyanthas, you need only to

break off a blooming stem where it

attaches to, the main stem, having a
heel to it, and plant this in the 'soil
beside the bush it is, taken. from, so
you will knowth‘e varieties that you
root. Turna glass jar over the cute

ting and leave it there until you see it .

is growing. While. roses have been
rooted in water and in sand from out-
tings this method is much easier and
simpler when only a few are wanted.
Hardy'hybrid perpetuals and hardy

climbers do not root easily from cut- ,

 

tings—A. H.
A DAY’S RATION IN JULY.
Breakfast.
Berries and Breakfast Food
Cream
Scrambled Eggs
Toast Coffee
Luncheon
Soup
Vegetable Salad
Bran Muffins Cookies
Mirth
Din er.

Broiled Beefsteak
New Potatoes with Butter
New Peas in Cream
Cucumber Salad
Graham Bread Fruit Gelatine
’ ——Mary Barber.

MlD-SUMM ER EATS.

 

Tomato Toast.

4 tb butter 99 cup scalded cream
3 tb. flour Salt. pepper

1% cups tomato pulp Eight. slices tosst

14 tsp. soda

Melt butter in a saucepan and add
the flour and seasoning. Gradually
pour in the tomato in which the soda
has been dissolved. Add the scalded
cream and pour the hot sauce over
toast and serve immediately.

String Bean Vingrette.

1 tb. fat 1,5 cup liquor

1 lb. flour 2 cups string beans

1,4 cup vinegar ' Salt. pepper

Melt fat and add flour and season-
ing. Use the liquor in Which beans
were cooked, blend with flour and fat

Keep the Baby Cool T

HE only time during a person’s

life when he can be dressed

without due regard to the con-
ventions, is during the innocence of
babyhood. Let’s make our babies com-
fortable! In the summer time, a cool
baby is a happy baby. Throughout
the hot day‘s of July, August and Sep-
tember, the baby should be dressed
with as few clothes as possible. The
fewer, the better.

For the out-of-doors baby, a light
weight one—piece coverall is most com-
fortable. These are thin enough to
let the air cool the little body and at
the same time are thick enough to pro-
tect the tender skin from sunburn.
They are also easily laundered, which
is an item that all farm mothers try
to save on durihg the hot days.

If rubber pants are used, great care
must be used so that the tender skin
will not be scalded. The baby should
be washed off every time he is chang-
ed during the day, and all parts dried
thoroughly by patting with a soft tow-
el. A good unscented powder used,
surplus
brushed off so that it will not collect
in the creases and cause soreness. Un-

powder ‘

der no consideration should the baby
be put to sleep with his rubber pants
on. Take them off; rinse them in cold
water; and then dry them while baby
is sleeping that they may be fresh
when he awakes.——,—S. Morrish.‘

        
       
   
     
     
     
       
     
      
 
     
     
      
 
 
      
     
     
   
   
     
      
  

  
 
 

Enema a. quarter. Cup of vinegar with

one teaspoon oi sugar... Boil for two
minutes and pour over beans. '
Stuffed Green Pepper's.

Remove the ends from large green i

pepper arid parboil for ten minutes.
Drain, and when cool fill with creamed
potatoes. Sprinkle bread crumbs over
top and bake in oven for fifteen min«
utes.
Huckleberry Shortcake.

3 cups flour 2 well-beafi eggs

:3; 11:31am- “ ' i cups Milk

Chop shortening into salted flour
and add eggs and soda to milk. Put
all together and handle as little as
possible. Roll 'out lightly into two
thin sheets. Place one in a greased

 

‘Fisher’s Luck, ” Second Prize Picture,

Won by Mrs.E E. R., Stambaugh.

baking pan, cover generously with

huckleberries, and dust with sugar.

Cover with upper crust and bake for

twenty-five minutes. Serve with cream.
Tomato Bake.

Slice thin tomatoes, sweet peppers
and cold roast beef and place in layers
in a baking dish, leaving a. layer of
tomatoes on top. Season with salt
and pepper and cover with buttered
bread crumbs. Let stand for one hour
and bake for thirty minutes.

 

 

Household Service

Use this department to help solve
your household problems. Address
your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan
Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

TASTY DILL PICKLES.

 

Have you a good recipe for dill
pickles? I have no luck with them.
They have always spoiled I have had

‘ them in a fifteen-gallon jar. ———Mrs.

This recipe was sent to our depath-
ment and thoroughly recommended by
one of our readers. I have also tested
it personally, and the pickles keep
splendid.

Wash medium-sized cucumbers and
place in two-quart can with two or
three sprigs of dill, and two grape
leaves added when the jar is full. Boil
one quart of vinegar, two quarts of
water, and one scant cup of salt for
five minutes. Pour this over the pick-
les and seal.

TO CLEAN A. MATTRESS.

 

I have a mattress which has become
badly soiled. Please tell me how to
clean it. —Mrs. G. A.

I wish you had stated the kind of
mattress this is, but I judge it is an
ordinary bed mattress.

To clean the soiled covering, take a
strong solution of soap flakes, made
with warm water, and with a soft
brush - scrub the mattress well. If

there are stains, it would be best to . .

remove these before soap is ,applied.
After. the mattress has, been thorough-
ly scrubbed, rinse with lukeWarm wa-
ter. Do not attempt this task until
there comes a bright, hot, sunny day.

’ The mattress should be left in the sun
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Dear Uncle Frank: _ _

I see by your column that the boys
seem to' be standing back and letting
Harold Gales do. their fighting for
them. I have written a little poem
which, if it is worth publication, might
start some of the ,boys on a mad-car—
eer to conquer the talkative feminine
sex. «-

I’m hoping the waste basket has had
a square meal when. you read this; if
he hasn’t I’ll have to try again.
I think the modbrn flapper

Would look better in a flower bowl.
So you all know I’m sidin’

With our friend, Harold Cole.

Bobbed. hair and knickers
Are very bad for the eyes.
And this He'. He!. and Ha! Ha! -
I surely do despise. '

Harold probany doesn’t want sympa-
h .

y.
For what they say of him.
Neither do they need any
For what he says of them.

Boys, write a few more letters,
And stick up for your part.
And then those cigarette girls
Won’t think they’re so gol darn
”smart. . _
———Andres S. Hicox, Rhodes, Mich.
I don’t know if that poem of yours

will start the boys talking or not, but

 

Marie Suntken’s Idea of W. B.

I am quite sure it'will get the girls
ageing. Of course, you know it is
much easier to start girls atalking
than boys.

 

Dear Uncle Frank and Cousins:

I don’t suppose this will get to the
cousins, the Waste Basket being in
its road.

I have been an M. C. for about two
years, and I think it is a dead club for
business. Why not do some club
work, more than writing letters? I
enjoy reading the M. C. letters. We
must have quite a number of M. C.
members now. Why not get busy? _

The trees’are in bloom now. It 1s
the most beautiful time of the year.
The air has lots of fragrance these
days.

I would like to hear from some M.
C.’s. I am sure they would get an
answer.—Your niece and cousin, Eathl
Carncross, Clare, Mich, R. 1

Maybe, Eathl, this club is dead, but
it is quite alive for being so dead.
Perhaps we will do some other club
work when we find some purpose in

doing it. Make suggestions, please.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: _

Seeing all the boys have said that
“girls are rude to boys,” I really must
agree. Ha! Oh, no! Boys are never
rude. Don’t they work hard to buya
car to take the girls in? Then do the
girls thank them? I’ll say not.\ Whats
the matter, boys, are ybu really begm-
ning to think that you are the ones
who are rude? Well, I don‘t._

The other day I was walking down
the street when ’I met a. rather fat
girl: "I. upgd my hatubut instead of
Speaking, 3 e laughed In my face and
then bluebed me of! the walk. That 5
what} can, Y _ polite—Your. nephew,
Cf {.0’Dellp, .- 0 ~. -_

an ‘ don‘t thin

 

  

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dress, for, as Harold Coles would ex-
pressit, I would probably have a lot
of bobbed heads on my neck. Ha!

Let’s give another Ha! It would be
a disadvantage to have so many bob-
bed heads on your neck at one time.
I bet that girl felt tickled pink be—
cause you tipped your hat. That’s
why she pushed you off the sidewalk.
It doesn’t pay to buy cars to take girls
in. There are better uses for money.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: '

Why don’t you have a. contest on
“What I would like to be when I grow
up?” I would like to be a naturalist.
This year I found 192 cocoons. Three
of. them have hatched. Some of the
moths were a dark gray with marke
ings of red, purple, yellow, orange,
black, green and white. They average
about seven inches across. their wings.
The others were . brown with large
spots of black and blue on their wings.
I also collected other things, such as
birds’ nests, leaves, pretty stones, etc.

Hoping to see this letter in print,
I am, your niece, Maxine Walker, Les-
lie, Mich., R. 4.

' We have had a “What I want to be”

contest. Your ambition is an interest- '

ing one. There is nothing more whole-
some than a good appreciation of na—

. ture.

 

Dear Uncle Frank: '

Say.don’t you think the Merry Circ-
lers are getting so they are quite able
to write letters? They make them so
interesting. Do you know, I like just
plain letters, not ,those that sound
“made up” so that you will print them,
and I don’t like the arguments in the
letters either; do you? Of course,
some arguments are interesting, but a
good share are not.

Now, I can hear you say, “I’ll. bet
she is a fussy old maid.” Well, you
wouldn’t be far out of the way at that,
only the Old Maid question will be
settled later. Ha! Ha!“

Can you play a violin, Uncle Frank?
I am trying to, but make a poor stab
at it.
donkey bray. Well, that’s the way 1
sound when I play, or try to play,
“Melody in F,” and the like.

Oh, there are so many things I
would like to write, but I know you
are disgusted by now with this, so will
close—Your niece, Evelyn Brooks, M.
C., Clarksville, Mich.

I don’t like made-up letters either.
It seems that some boys and girls
write letters just to have them print—
ed; others write because they have
something to say. “I like the “Melody

 

 

 

 

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T lie Vzrz'z‘ to Old Mat/167* Coon’r H awe

T was the bright rays of the morn-
ing sun as it peeped through the

leaves of the trees of the Big
Woods that first awakened the three
little Woodland boys, Jackie Rabbit,
Johnnie Muskrat and Wh‘llie Wood-
chuck. They stretched themselves on
their bed of leaves, gave a. big yawn
and sat up.

“Where am I?” asked Willie Wood-
chuck rather sleepily.

“You tell me and I’ll tell you,” an—
swered Johnnie Muskrat.

“You haven’t forgotten that ducking
we had last night, have you Willie?”
asked Jackie Rabbit. “I don’t believe
I shall ever climb on a log again.”

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bath last night,” said Willie. “But
now that we have learned our lesson
I’m hungry. I Wish I had some of
mother’s cakes,” he said, rubbing his
stomach.

“Such luxuries,” said Johnnie Musk-
rat. “You will probably get more than
that when you get home for running
away.”

“We. didn’t run away, we just drift-
ed away,” corrected Jackie. “But I
feel like I would get the spanking all
the same.

porridge in sight?”

   

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VVOodlan—d

“I think if we go right in that direc-
tion we’ll find home,” decided Johnnie
Muskrat, pointing to the east. “We
can find some berries in the woods for
breakfast, and maybe we will be home
for dinner.”

“Maybee-ee—ce,” said Willie Wood
chuck as they started off through the
woods.

Soon they came to a. berry patch
with just heaps of big fat juicy ber-
ries,“ and the three little Woodland
boys ate their fill. But in wandering
around the berry patch they soon lost
their way. The path in the woods
was gone and they were really lost.

It was three weary, hungry and
homesick little boys that slowly plod-
ded through the woods, hoping to find
something that would tell them the
Way. Late in the afternoon as Jackie
Rabbit was hopping wearil'y in the
lead he spied a path.

“Hip, Hip, Hurrah,” he called, as
Johnnie Muskrat and Willie Wood-
chuck ran up very much out of breath.
“But which way shall We go?” asked
Johnnie.

“Let’s see, the last tracks go this
way,” said Jackie Rabbit. So. off they
started to the right.

They walked nearly a mile through
the briers and brambles before they
came to a little log cottage hidden in
the bushes. After many whispered
pleadings. with the others, Jackie Rab‘
bit summoned courage to- knock at the
door. .

“Hello, boys!” smiled at big motherly
Coon as she opened the door. “What
can I do for you?”

Her friendly smile gave Jackie more
courage and he said, “We are lost and
hungry. .Can you tell us the way
home?”

So in her motherly way, she told
them the direction carefully, gave
each two sugar cookies and a glass of
milk and sent them ontheir way.

I presume you have heard a-

  

in F” but even the donkey’s bray is'
music in itsplace. ' _

UNCLE FRANK’S ASSlSTANT.
__,__
By a Farmer’s Wife.
Good morning, Dear Children,
your scissors and glue.
Am writing a few lines, especially to

with

you. .
And when you have read them, please

don’t feel so blue;
If your letters have met me; a time
or two.

I belong to your Circle, how’s that?
you don’t know my name!
Why I’m the basket that started for

fame.
But often I weep with grief and pain;
The way some children taunt my
’ name. '

My home is an office, I don’t know
which tlooz;

But I stand in a corner, not far from
a door. ‘

the assistant to Dear

Frank.

He loves little children; and enjoys
their pranks.

I am Uncle

I‘ count myself lucky, to have such a.
task.

And performing my duties, I love to
bask, '

In the fun and the frolic, and send
forth good cheer,

To Uncle Frank's children, both far
and near.

Well, I'm not much good, at verse or
prose.

So I better be drawing to a close.

Perhaps none will read this, just the
good father knows.

But if you should meet me, little wom-
en and men, ~

Just count me a friend, ever true to
the end.

And now, Merry Circle, with your
scissors and glue,

Perhaps you will saw me, If you think

I will do.
But maybe you'll say, I'm only wasting
my glue, .
To fill up my scrap-book with such
as you.

WASTE BASKET.
The first poem I ever wrote
So 11' W. 15. gets it, I hope he chokes:

It’s an awful way to talk
About Uncle Frank's friend,
But if he ever begins to balk
The M. C. will come to an end.

But I hope it never happens
After it has got such a start,
Ant? if he gets this little scrappin’
He will think he‘s very smart.

I am not an M. C.

But have answered a contest,
And \\'. I}. got that, you see,

So I think I will do what is beste~

'i'l‘y, try again.
. Welly Leta L. O'i)ell.

You did bl’ttt‘l‘ than I did at a first-
attempt at poetry. Perhaps you are a
poet and don’t know it. I didn’t give
this to W. B., because I didn’t want
him to choke.

W. B.
By Theodore Hartwick, Standish,
Michigan.
W. B. is a clever old thing.
He sits as proud as any king,
By your side, Uncle Frank, I’ll wager;
Chewmg his letters with leisure

I’ve sent three letters, Uncle Frank,
to you,

And other I know have sent a few.

But W. Iii, though they looked pretty
we ,

Chewed them up, so no news could

’ they tell.

At W. B. I am rather sore,

As. others have been before;

But I’ll forgive him, for now, at least,

As many goOd letters have passed in.
peace.

I’ll not make this poem longer, "

As I wish to say something stronger.

It is——to you, W. B., and all that are
living,

I hope you will have no misgiving.

   

      


    

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POULTRY HOUSE FLOOR LITTER.

 

Will you please inform me about
cleaning out the poultry house? I
ha ’a two-apartment house, and there

as four or five loads of dirt which I
hauled out. The floor is cement.
Would it be necessary to haul new
dirt in, or would just clean straw put
on the cement be enough?—F. S.

I have found it is satisfactory to use
plenty of straw for scratching litter
ona concrete floor without hauling in
any dirt to go under the straw. If any
dirt is used on a poultry house floor I
think sand is best; Garden loam soon
changes to a. dry-dust and this is kick-
ed into the air by the scratching of
the birds and soon sifts over every-
thing. A dusty poultry house is un-
healthy, both for the caretaker and
the hens.

When plenty of straw is placed on

a concrete floor the birds are far.

enough from the cold floor to avoid
any uncomfortable feeling. Of course,
the floor must be raised high enough
from the outside soil to insure good
drainage. I think clean sand between
the concrete and the straw makes a
fine poultry house floor, but in many
sections it requires a long haul to ob-
tain sand. And the use of sand in a.
large house requires a lot of work
shoveling it in and out. Plenty of
straw litter on a. dry floor seems to’
give good results.

FEED FOR DUCKLINGS.

 

Would you give me a good feed ra—
tion for my ducklings?—A. J.

Equal parts of rolled oats and bread
crumbs by measure, plus three per
cent sand, makes a good starting feed
for ducklings. When about four days
old the ration can be changed to equal
parts of bran, rolled oats, cornmeal
and bread crumbs. When ducklings
are a weak old the mash can consist
of one part cornmeal, one part low-
grade flour, and three parts bran. To
this mixture stir in about ten per cent
green feed, five per cent beef scrap
and a. sprinkling of three per cent
sand. The amount of fussy work nec-
essary in preparing rations depends
a. great deal 0n the size of the flock
and the amount of feed they have on
the range.

POSSIBLY COCCIDIOSOS.

 

Can you tell me what is the trouble
with my chicks? They stand around
with feathers ruffled up and wings
drOOped, and sleepy. Some have a
little diarrhea, whitish in color. They
are six weeks old. Can you tell me a.
remedy for them?-—Mrs. C. G

A postmortem on some of the chicks
may ShOW that the walls of the intes-
tines are thickened and inflamed and
filled with a cheesy material, which
would indicate coccidiosis. This is
caused by a. parasite and the trouble
is easier to prevent than to cure.

I would cull out the sick chicks and
give the brooder house a thorough
cleaning and spraying with commer-
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the chicks to clean ground so they
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Then continue to clean dhe broader
house often so dirt containing the par-
asties will be less apt to infect more
of the flock.

Teach the chicks to roost at ones
so they will not be devitalized at night
by ov.ercrowding Protect them from~
red mites by painting the meets with
old- engine oil. Red mites reduce the
vigor of chicks and 'make them sus-
ceptible to disease. or course, the
trouble you describe may be due to
eating spoiled feed, a general lack of
vigor or faulty brooder management,
which has frequently injured the
chicks by chilling or overheating them.

out their eyes when drinking. Irrita-
tion of the eyes may be caused by

sloppy feed sticking to: them. The
f lids may stick shut because of the .
inflammation *reaused by a cold. Reg -
move‘any mucous or gummy aboumu- ‘

lations" with tissue paper. Then bathe
the eyes with warm water, a mild solu-
tion of‘ boric acid or witch hazel to
help reduce the irritation.

Growing early potatoes will be wel-
comed by the potato bugs sincE‘this
gives them more seasonable pasture.
Arsenlcals, however, will spoil their.
sport.

 

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PRIZES GIVE iNCENTIVE TO CLUB
. ACTIvrrv.‘

 

HE boys’ and girls’ club members

at the John A. Doelie Agricultural
School, Portage township, Houghton
county, are being encouraged to .do
their best this year, by special prizes
of $100 and $25 offered for the best
exhibit at the Copper Country Fair
this year, by Mr. R. R. Goodell, for-
merly of Houghton, and now of Cal-

ifornia, and by the Worcester Lumber ’

Company, of Chassell. The club mem—
bers are already laying their plans for
the fair, this fall. The calf club con-
nected with this school recently pur-
chased pure—bred Guernsey calves from
the Glover farm at Kanee.
tion with L. M. .Geismar, county agri-
cultural agent, the club plans a tour
of the best stock farms of Houghton
county, this summer.

WOULD FORM COUNTY AssoCIA.
TIONS.

 

GUERNSEY cattle men of Gogebic
county have taken steps towards
the organization of a county associa-
tion. By such an organization it is
anticipated that increased knowledge
regarding the Guernsey breedwill be
secured, the merits of the breed can
better be advertised, calf club work
can be encouraged, cooperative owner-
ship of pure-bred sires can be secured,
the market for Guernsey milk and cat-
tle can better be developed. Similarly
the Holstein breeders are planning the
improvement of their stock and a. clos-
er linking up between the county and
national Holstein associations.

Calf club work is active in Go-gebic
county. The county agent reports an
enrollment of fifty calf club members
in Ironwood township, and Erwin
township reports an interest in club
meetings exceeding that of former
years. Stock-judging teams and Calf
club fitting and showing teams are be-
ing prepared for the Chatham round-
up contests, August 4-9. Gogebic coun-
ty is re-testing its cattle for bovine
tuberculosis and among 700 tested,
nine reactors were discovered. The
agent reports that where premises on
which infected herds were formerly
located, were not cleaned up and dis-
infected, the disease re-appears in

' spite of the former tests.

MENOMINEE HOLSTEINERS CO-
OPERATE.

 

WENTY Holstein cattle owners of
Menominee county recently‘met at-
Stephenson and formed the Menomi-
nee County Holstein Association. The
declared objects of the associatiouis
the purchase of better bulls, the prep.

oration * of a' Holstein gamut for the; f.

In co'nnec- h

county fair, and the organization sale
of surplus stock. Menominee county
calf club members are getting ready
for the Chatham inter-club contest.

TRACTOR SUPERIOR FOR LAND-
BREAKING.

 

N June 28, two hundred Ontonagon

county farmers stood in the rain
near Ewen to witness a demonstration
of land-breaking by several types of
tractors and breaking plows, and by
horses. Careful note was taken of the
effectiveness of the machines employ-
ed and of the relative merits of small
and large tractors and horses for this
work.

It was demonstrated that the'tractor
is superior to the horse for land-break-
ing, both as to the quality and the
speed of the work done. The demen-
stration was under the direction of the
Michigan Agricultural College experts.
A moving picture record was made of
the tests. It is considered that some
alteration in the plows used is desir-
able to meet the requirements of the
heavy clay soil of this region.

GROWING A TYPICAL WINDBREAK.

 

N these columns we recently re-

ferred to the planting of trees for
windbreaks in this territory. The
United States Department of Agricul-
ture has brought out a, pamphlet en-
titled, “The Windbreak as a. Farm
Asset,” prepared by Carlos G. Bates,
forest examiner of the forest service.

The typical ' windbreak, says Mr.
Bates, is a belt consisting of from six

to eight rows of trees and usually from-

a quarter of a. mile to a. mile in length.
An ideal windbreak has the contour of
an earth dam. In the central rows are
planted the tallest trees, such as cot-
ton-woods, with rows of shorter trees
on each side, such as ash and locust,
and then low bushes or cedars. such
a wind-break is not readily “penetrated
and it diverts the air pressure up-
wards and reduces the pressure of the
wind. .

The wind-break is most valuable in
protecting grain crops and Orchards.
Mr. Bates shows how windbreaks prev
vent the breaking down of corn and
sometimes saves the crop from partial
destruction. The wind—breaks also pro-
tect the house in winter and saves fuel
thereby. The wind-break conserves
soil moisture by retarding evaporation.
In the growing season, the air ad-

‘ jacent to the windbreak is warmer than

that farther away. This is especially
good for corn.

The wind—breaks should be .con-
structed so as to stand alt right-angles

   

no how to; ‘

. Duckiings sometimes have sore eyes} " "5 -.
because the drinking dishes are not“
'deep enough to enable them to wash

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cnowmc UP A HERD.

 

IT was‘only a. few years ago that the

herd of Reed Shultx was started.
He took a liking to the hornless white

face and sent to the well-known breed-

er. W. H. McCaru, of Huron county,
for acouple of thers.

He called for good ones and was
very much pleased when the express
company turned them over to him. A
little later he joined with a. neighbor
and purchaSed a pure-bred sire to go
with them; Today the herd numbers
around twenty females, and there is
aanew herd bull, an exceptionally good
individual of the Polled Hereford va-
riety.

It is examples such as this that we
like to hold. up before our readers.
These cattle have had just ordinary
farm care, plenty of pasture in sum-
mer, and good roughage with a little
grain in the winter. Aside from the
few extra dollars placed in the original
investment, this herd has cost very
little, if any, more than would a. herd
of nondescripts.

It has simply been given a start and
then allowed to grow and multiply.

. It is only a step from the ownership
of a herd of “just cattle” to a pure-

'bred herd, but it often takes demon-
' strations like this to help us visualize

that step. It is ordinarily the cheap-
est and the safest way tonake the
change and the way is open to anyone
who will make the start and stick
to it.

' We may also say, without fear of
contradiction, that it is the surest
way to profits in the cattle. business.
The breed, of course, matters not. It
should be '01 the owner’s choice. But
the thing that counts is the strict ad—
herence to the breed chosen—Pope.

FEEDING FOR DAIRY PROFITS.

 

HE importance of scientific feed-
, ing as a profit-making factor on
the dairy farm is well illustrated
by a test conducted on the Larro Re-
search Farm, in Wayne county, Mich-
igan. This practical test is cited be-
cause of the lesson it holds for Mich-
igan dairymen who might increase»
their profits, by using better feeding
methods.

This test was inspired by the pub—
lication of production statistics for
eighty-five farms in a. typical New
York dairy county. These statistics
showed an average yearly production
On these eighty-five farms of 5,000
pounds per cow. There was, of Course,
9. wide variation in the reported re
sults secured on these representatiVe
farms. Thirty-one per cent of these
herds averaged around 6,000 pounds
per cow; seven per cent averaged
above 7,000 pounds, and only one per
cent averaged above 8,000 pounds of
milk.

As recently reported, a man was
sent to Chenango county, New York,
to buy a herd of cows for a test on
the above mentioned farm. He pur-

chased twenty-four cows for this test,

on his own judgment of the individu-
als, at an average price of a little less
than $175. or these cows sixteen were
pure-bred Holsteins and eight. were
grade Holsteins, and several were dry
at the time of purchas

These cows were run under test for
one year, producing an average of
8, 891. 28 pounds 0! milk per cow during
the year. The average feed consumed
per cow in this test was 3,156 pounds
of proprietary and experimental feeds,
eighty-tour pounds of dried beet pulp,

3.504 pounds of hay and 10, 992 pounds
.of silage. The cows were kept and
filed in the barn

  

W the entire year.
WW execpt when dry.
' that, the cows selected

 

hished ‘by the hostess.

were of the same average quality as

those included in the eighty-five herds
for which the statistics were publish-
ed, the increased production resulting
from scientific feeding would cover the
entire cost of feed for the year, reck-
oned at the average market milk price.
Making due allowance for expert se-
lection of the cows, the“ increased prof-

its resulting from scientific feeding are .

still obvious, and. hold a. valuable les-
son for, Michigan dairymen, whose av-
'erage production is far below that re—
ported for Chenango county, as is also
the average productioh for the state
of New York.

While the obdect of this test was
primarily to emphasize the superior
value of a proprietary dairy feed, the
results secured illustrate the import-
ance of scientific feeding as a factor
in'dairy profits in such a striking man-
ner that it is here noted for the ben—
efit of Michigan dairymen who can get
a large measure of the same results
through a careful study of the feed
requirements of their individual cows
and the balancing of such require-

ments with the feeds available to, or '
preferred by, the individual dairyman. .

BREEDERS UNBUCKLE
BELTS.

HOLSTEIN

 

ARLY in the morning of July 1,
farm folks began gathering at
the'vDetroit‘ Creamery Farm in Ma-
comb county to attend the annual
Field Day of the Holstein breeders of
the state. The crowd kept growing
till the middle of the afternoon when
there were nearly a thousand present.
A regular picnic dinner was enjoyed
with free ice cream and free milk fur-
Then, in a
straw shed, temporarily remodeled for
a. movie, with bales of straw for seats,
these enthusiastic visitors watched
eagerly the government film entitled,
“Clean Hearts and Clean Herds,”
which argues strongly for the anti-
tuberculosis program.

At the speechifying which followed,
J’. G. Hayes, secretary of the Michigan
Holstein Association, acted as master
of ceremonies. Two matters, he said,
are of special interest to Michigan
Holstein men at this time: Securing
for Grand Rapids the annual associa-
tion next June, and the addition to
Michigan herds of sixteen head of the
famous Erickson herd in exchange for
$24,600.

D. D. Aitken, ex-president of the
National Association, and a prominent
breeder of Genesee county, opened up
the program by urging farmers to re-
juice that they were farmers. D. D.
pointed out the serious financial condi-
tion at present of the'city worker;
and, while admitting that ruralites
were not any too well off, neverthe-
less, he contended that farm condi-
tions are as they are in countless in-
stances because the farmer didn’t
use his head overtime.

“The Outlook for Holstein Breed-
ers” was presented by C. ,M. Long,
manager of field work for the National
Extension Service. Mr. Long thought
there was little danger of over—produc-
tion of milk when the human popula-
tion was increasing relatively faster
than the bovine. There is but little
chance of overdoing the raising of
pure-breds as the pure-breds of all
breeds constitute only about three per
cent of the cow population.

Prof. 0. E. Reed, head of the dairy
department of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, pointed out that the
program of work for his department
called for not more, but more efficient
production of milk. In “barnyard”

'dairy campaigns during the last three *

(Continued on page 71).

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MICHIGAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB

Pure- bred or grade settle for sale. Can note prices

 

 

Change 0“ COD." 0? Cancellations mus“ reach “5 on 1nd111duals or car-loads . of M. an Cow Teet-
Twelve Days before date of publication .133 “swung”; re co ”(L

II. I“. DENNISUN, Field Man. East Lansing. Mich.

Chance to

Wallinwood Guernseys

You bulls from A R. cows for sale.
112 F. W. WALLIN Jonison. Mich.

Two Guernsey cows and a
bull. W. SMO MER.

FOR SALE

Mich.

 

Choice Bull Call 10 mo. old.
out of a good A. R. 0. cow.

. WILLIAM-S. North Adaml. Mich.

 

For sale. Reg. yearling heifers, bull
GWI’IISBN calves. May Rose breeding. prices
very “enablew. w. Burdick. Williamcton. Mich.

 

Remstered Guernsey Bull Call. seven
For salemonths old. FRANK E. ROBSON.
Room 303M C. R. R. Depot Bldg.. Detroit. Mich.

 

FOR SALE

Son of; Michigan’s Grand
Champion Holstein BuII

A son of Count Veeman. Segis
Piebe, Grand Champion at last
year’s State Fair, out of a 25-lb.
three-year-old. Over three quar-
ters white. Born April 28th, 1924.
Priced at $125.00.

Also a splendid son of Dutchland
Kon’gcn out of a 18-1b. two~ycar
old dam of Dutchland breeding.
Born Feb. 11th, 1924. A real sire
for some Michigan herd. Priced
at $150.00.

Write OSCAR WEBBER,
THE. J. L. HUDSON. CO.,

DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

A PONTIAC BULL

for service 1n~DocembmtA good

Read)
niualy marked about half white

straight calf,
llis dam is a 24— 1b four ylar— —old tuning
direct to Pontiac Korndyke. Hengerveld De—
Kol and (‘olantha Julianna lad.
, Ills sire. College Butter Boy. is a wonder
in); 1ndivuiual now at the head of the fa-
mous l'ontlar' Stan Hospital herd. His dam
is a 32— lb. row with a record of 1.112 lbs.
butter and 25,000 lbs. milk in 3155 days.

PONTIAC BLOOD WILL TELL.

Bureau of Animal Industry.
Department C..Lnnsing, Michigan.

 

 

Send for pedigree. L

 

 

 

 

Hereford Steers

60 wt. around 850 lbs. , 74 wt around 775 lbs.
88 wt. around 050 lbs; 44 wt. around 1300 lbs.
40 wt. around 550 lbs; 50 wt. around 500 lbs.

Deep reds. good grass flesh Some bunches just
£11.11 flesh account of short pasture. Real quality
Herefords are usually market toppers when finished.
Will sell your choice» one can load or all.
number and weight preferred. VAN B. BALDWINe
EIdon. Wane“. (10.. Iowa.

HEREFORD BULLS”

W 011's 1 some exceo nalb
lla'de<1:'all:e WIMHA ARW”! mI'IEIHJ RI
shew of“ an M43.

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PARIS-

 

 

15 Cows. 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows.
select from herd of 70 Some fresh. others bred

for {all treshening Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvllle. Mich.

1 . .
BUTTER BRED JERBIEYSA 131333“
LRYS'] AL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek. Allezan County, ; Michigan

 

cattle young bulls for
RegiStered Jersey sale. Tuberculin tested
.11. CARTER. Lake Odessa Mich.

 

Fresh Cows, Heifers. Calves
Jerseys For SaIe and 1 Bull 18 Months 01a.
LeROY KUNEY. Adrian, Mich.

FOR SALE

A few choice young Shorthom bulls.
livcrcd prices. H. B. PETERS 81. SUN. Elsie.
{our Shorthorn cows ansd,

For sale ChGaP one hard bull

BABBITT. William-ton. Michigan.
B1 st of quality and brteding.

Shorthorns vows and hcmrs for sale.
STOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. Mich.

1; RED POLLED CATTLE mg

EBuy from Michigan's Leading Herd. Owned byL
FWESTBROOK 3803.. Ionia,Miel1. K

FOR SALEM One cow. two heifers. and‘

young bull of best
beet breeding. Young cattle sired by Revolution. Jr.
Cheap 1! taken soon. Also a few young cows of
strong milking inheritance. BELAND 81 BELAND.
Tecumseh. Mich.

YEARLI N G 5311.". $3.123. it'll 582.233°' APR?
F ELD KAM P, Manchester. Mich.

Write for do-
Mich.

 

 

HOGS

 

D0300 faucndwrtuboonolthobutbmm
and quality, at prices to tell. Fellhplgs at bar-

nin prices. W. C. Taylor. Milan, Mic

 

DU ROC We have Sons and Gr. Sons 0!
Great Orion Sensation. Twice In-
temational Winner. Buy your {all boar now and
save money. Let us tell you about our Sensation
Durocs J. M. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.

 

' Size, typo, quality and price
OIWSIBI WhIIB BORIS will please you. Registered
free. F. W. ALEXANDER. Vassar. Mich.

Francisco Farm Poland Chinas

Our spring pigs are the best ever. 75 head to choose
from. Outstanding herd Doors at 525: pairs $40:
tries. $50. $5. come and get them.
POPE. R. 03. Mt.“ PIealagt. Mich.

 

 

P. P.

either sex. by the creek. Boat. The
Fan P 1‘5 Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Belt
of dams. W. E Livingston. Penna. Midi

 

D U R 0 CS 822513322; 11 at; 3,2:
we or '
F. J. Drodt. Monroe. Mich., R. Nro. If” an '

 

FOR SAL A. Fine Bunch of Duroc Piss. the
. ' big. long kind. Registered and
1mmune. I’rn‘c $10 each. either sex. Write F. A.
LAMB 81. SON. Canopolil. Mich.

 

& Chester White Big time with DAL-
' ”'1'. All the Grand Champion, 00. I.

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‘ (‘. 's at Mulligan State Fair-.1922 8- 1923,1119" bred

at Newnwns sunk harm. Also a few Choice Snrin
Pigs Cheap Newman: Stock Farm. Mariette, Mich?

 

0 I (:’sScxrin1gJ pigs. uSilged' by‘ Giant Boy" and
Jun 0 e ' also B It”
bulls. MILO H. PETERSON, I. 2, Ioniafiowlgiofi.

 

and B0" Pigs, not

Hampshire Bled Gills
your wants. John W. Snyder. Rnfilnfilmflgzfi 31:11“

SHEEP
LAMBS ESHEEPn-LAMBS

Feeder sheep or lambs for Sept. and October delive .
m :trmmmrwldontammm? Dakota ranges to yard:
11 pay a t. k t
livered prices. write nigh As or our de-
NORTHWESTERI SHEEP 60..
Hammer. N. Dakota.

400 BREEDING EWES

For sale 1110:5091- Also 300 yearling.
IAug-0N D B. OCHAPMAN 1: SON. South Redwood.

 

 

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F03 8“ mi Knnknls. All on:—
corded. LoflGY K1111“. Adrian. men.

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‘; ~GRAIN QUOTATIONS
' 9. --. Monday, July 21.
' Wheat.
Detroit—No. 1 red $1.32; No. 2 red
$1.31; No. 3 red $1.28; No. 2 white
$1.33; No. 2 mixed $1.32.
Chicago.——Sept., $1.25%@1.25%; De-
(13%?12” $1.28%@1.28$§; May 1.335462)

Toledo—Cash c$1.30@1.31.
or".
Detroit—No. 3, $1.18; No. 4 yellow
31 13 -‘

. . . ' d
Chicago—Sept, $1.g3%@1.03%; De-
co \

cember 92540; May 9 1:6

Oats.
Iggtroit.—Cash No. 2 white 650; No.
I c- -: l
Chicago—Sept, 46%@46%0; De-
cember 48550; May 51%0.

lie/e. -
Detroit.—-—Cash o. 2, 870.

Chicago—September 841,430; Decem-
«ber 88%0.

Toledo—850.

Barley.
Barley, malting 900; feeding 850.
Beans. .

«Detroit—Immediate and prompt
shipment $4.70@4.75 per cwt.

Chicago—Navy $5; red kidneys $8.

New York—Choice pea at $5.35;
red kidneys $8.85@8.90.

Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover cash at
$12.40; alsike $10.80; timothy $3.80.

, Hay.

Strong—No. 1 timothy $23.50@24;
standard and light mixed $22.50@23;
No. 2 timothy $21@22; No. 1 clover at
$19@20; No. 1 clover mixed $20@21;
wheat and cat straw $11.50@12; rye
straw $13@14.

Feeds

Bran $34; standard middlings $35;
fine do $40; cracked corn $55; coarse
cornmeal $49; chop at $47 per ton in
100-1b. sacks.

Fruits.
Strawberries, choice $2.75@3.25 per
24-pt. case; red raspberries $3.25

per 24-pt. case; blueberries, cultivated
$4.50@5 per 16-qt. case.

HEAT

Wheat prices have had a sharp ad-
vance in the last week based largely
on deterioration in the Canadian crop.
Our winter wheat crop is past the
stage of serious damage and harvest
has been proceeding under favorable
weather conditions in most sections.
Spring wheat is at a rather critical
stage and some sections are in need
of rain, but most of the area will be
out of danger in a week or two. New
wheat is moving freely with primary
receipts in excess of the correspond-
ing time a year ago. Our prices have
not advanced as much as Winnipeg,
so that we are below the world’s level,
whereas during most of the last year
we were above a world parity. Com-
bined estimates of the yield of eleven
countries which produced twothirds
oi‘ the crop in the northern hemis-
phere last year shew a reduction of
286,000,000 bushels, or 13 per cent,
from their 1923 harvest.

CORN

Cash corn prices last week reached

a higher point than in the fall of 1923

- and the highest since the latter part
of 1920. Improvement in new crop
prospects has occurred in the last two
weeks in part of the corn belt, but
the western border is in need of rain.
The Iowa official report states that at
least one-third of the acreage in that
state has little chance to mature mar—

ketable corn.
OATS

Oats prices advanced again last
week, reaching a new high point for
the season. While a crop larger than
last year is indicated for this country,
the Canadian crop promises to be a
distinct disappointment, and a short—
age of corn will divert the demand to
cats. The market is influenced at
present, also, by the fact that stocks
available at terminal markets for de-
livery on July contracts are light and
the harvest is late so that new oats
will not be available in quantity before
the end of the month.

SEEDS

Prices of red clover seed advanced
sharply last week. The upturn was
partly in sympathy with the strong
grain markets as there has been but
little change in crop conditions. Tim-
othy seed shows practically no change.

Feed markets show a slightly easier
tone at present as buyers are unwill-
ing to make purchases for their future
needs at present quotations. Wheat

, and demand is only fair.

feed ‘production'ls on the increase but

the output of linseed meal and corn
feeds is light. Production of cotton-
seed meal will begin to expand within
a. few weeks.

, HAY .. ,

The hay market is dull and Weak as
the supply of new hay is increasing
8 are in-
terfering with the harvest of the crop
in some localities and high-grade hay
promises to be relatively scarce again
this year. Pacific Coast markets re-
main firm as a result of the continued
drouth in that territory.

EANS

Pea beans are moving out of deal-
ers’ hands slowly at quoted prices.
This is particularly true in the east.
There also red kidneys have hardened
considerably in the past few days.
While the weather has been fairly fav-
orable for the development of the
plant, insects are reported from many
localities. A firm tone hascharacten
ized local trading.

POULTRY AND EGGS

In spite of the continued large re
ceipts and light demand, a light sup-
ply of fine graded eggs kept prices un-
changed last week. A shortage of a
million and a half cases of eggs on
July 1 compared with a year ago, off-
set holdings which were larger than
the fiveyear average on that date.

, Cool weather has resulted in excellent

quality of receipts, on the whole, and
the range of prices is narrow for so
late in the summer. Fancy quality
eggs should advance within the next
few- weeks, however, and the medium
grades decline as the supply of them
increases.

Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 24%
@250; dirties 231,530; checks 231750;
fresh firsts 25@26c; ordinary firsts 24
@241/50.

Live poultry, hens 20%0; broilers 28
@290; springers at 350; roosters 14c;
ducks 160; geese 12c; turkeys 200.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and
graded 26@271,§c. Live poultry, broil-
ers 39@400; heavy hens 250; light do
18@190; roosters 15@160; geese 15c;
ducks 25@260; turkeys 250.

CHEESE ‘

Cheese prices strengthened last
week as storage buying increased and
trading for immediate consumption
was more active. Receipts during the
week were smaller than in preceding
weeks. Quality of a good share of cur-
rent cheese receipts is good, although
some summer defects are showing up.

Butter prices declined slightly last
Week with undergrades suffering more
than top grades which were stored
rather than sold at aloss. Production
reports indicate that the make is still
large and with continued cool weath-
er, there is little mimediate chance
for a material falling off. A surplus
of nearly 12,000,000 pounds of butter
on July 1 as compared with the same
date a year ago was shown by the gov-

 

ernment’s report. The‘movement into-

storage at the four markets thus far
this month‘ has been in excess of the
same. period last year, so that the stir,-
plus is steadily gaining. ’

Prices on, 92-score creamery: Chi-
cago 38c; New York 40340; ‘Boston
4055c; Philadelphia 41550. , Ninety-
score centralized: Chicago 380; New
York 39 $0. In Detroit butter sells for

41@45c. .
POTATOES

Potato markets are weak as carlot
shipments in the last ten 'days have
been at a\record» rate for this season
of the year. pemand is restricted by
the large supply of home—grown stock
and there is no buying for storage.
Shipments of old potatoes have ceased
in the last few days. Kansas Irish
Cobblers are quoted at $1.40@1.65 per
loo-pound sack for U. S. No. 1 in the
Chicago market. Illinois Early Ohios
are bringing $1.40@1.55. \

, PEACHES

The carlot movement of peaches in
the last two weeks has been the heav—
iest at this season in recent years, and
prices have declined sharply.

APPLES

New apples are. becoming more
abundant each week, but shipments
thus far have not been above normal
for this time of the year. Delaware
and Maryland apples, medium sizes,
are quoted at $1.50@2 per bushel bas-
ket in eastern cities. '

WOOL

The improvement in wool trade cir-
cles which became noticeable a short
time ago continued last week. Mills
are buying with greater freedom and
a large volume is changing hands at
the avance of five to eight per cent
over the recent .low spot. It is esti-
mated that around 85 per cent of the
new clip in the west has been sold by
growers, and buyers returning from
the west report less wool available
from that section than anticipated.
The goods trade is not yet brisk but
a much more healthy tone is apparent
than a few weeks ago. It is, generally
believed that business will broaden
next month. Prices on domestic wool
remain considerably lower than for
foreign wools duty paid.

GRAND RAPIDS

Prices on the Grand Rapids market
early this week were as follows: Po-
tatoes, new $1.25@1.50 bu; old 40@
500 bu; peas $2@2.75 bu; beans, wax
$4@5 bu; dry navy $4.15 cwt; carrots
and beets 15@200 dozen; turnips 30@
400 dozen; radishes 12%6D15c dozen;
spinach 75c@$1 bu; summer squash
$1.50 half bu; tomatoes $1@1.25 per
7-lb. basket; cucumbers $1@1.25 per
dozen; head lettuce 750@$1 bu; cel-
ery 20@75c dozen; cabbage 60@800 a
bu; apples, green Duchess thinnings
$2 bu; cherries, sour $1.25@1.75 case;
sweet $2@3.50 case; raspberries, red
$5 case; black $3.50@4 case; currants
$1.50@2 case; strawberries $2@3 per
case; gooseberries $1.75@2 case; dew-

 

, Live Stock Market Service

Wednesday, July 16.

CHICAGO

Hogs.

Receipts 57,000. Market is active,
generally 20@300 higher. Tops $8.50;
bulk good 150 to 325—lb. average $8.20
@850; good 140 to 150—lb. weight at
$7.75@8.10; packing sows $7.35@7.70;
good strong weight pigs $6.75@7.25;
130 to 160—1b. weight $6.75@8.30.

Cattle.

Receipts 20,000. Market on weighty
fed steers, corn-fed cows and heifers
strong to 150 higher; good steers are
scarce; most yearlings predominating;
top steers $11; handy weight $10.50;
bulk of steers and yearlings $7.50@
10; bulls strong to 100 higher; heavies
$7; vealers,$9@9.50, mostly; few at
$10 and above.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 22,000. Market slow. Few
early sales native lambs at 25@500
lower, $13.50@14; no action on culls;
bidding 25@50c lower on westerns;
no early sales; sheep and feeders are

steady.
. Monday, July 21.

DETROIT _

Cattle. ,

Receipts 1,178. Market very slow
and 25@500 lower. - ‘ ' ‘ - '
Good to choice yearlings.$ 8.50@ 9.50

 

Best heavy steers ....... 8.50@ 9.25
Handyweight butchers . 7.25@ 7.75
Mixed steers and heifers 6.7561) 7.25
Handy light butchers.... 6.00@ 6.50
Light butchers . . ........ 5.00@ 5.75
Best cows ............... 5.00@ 5.75
Butcher cows ........... 3.75@ 4.25
Cutters .................. 3.00@ 3.25
Canners ................ 2.00@ 3.00
Choice bulls ............ 5.26 5.50
Bologna bulls ..... 5.0.0 5.50
Stock bulls .............. 4.00@ 5.00
Feeders ................ 5.50@ 7.00
Stockers ........... _ ..... 4.50@ 7.00
Milkers . ................ $45.00@85.00
Veal Calves.

Receipts 64 . Market steady to $1
higher.
Best ..................... $12.00@13.00
Culls and heavies ....... 5.00@11.50

Sheep and Lambs. ,
Receipts 331. Market steady to 500
lower. -

Best spring lambs ....... $ 14.00
Fair .................... 11.00@12.00
Light to common ....... 7.00@ 8.00
Fair to good sheep . . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50
Culls and common ...... 1.50@ 4.00

Hogs.
Receipts 480. Market active.

.Mixed and heavy yorkers.$. 8.75@ 8.30

Ronghs ..... .
Stags" . . . _. .

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:

berries $4 case; buckleberries $4 4.50 V

case. ,A case on this market

1.14@1.15 bu; corn $1.10'bu pou

: It?!
essier; fowls 15‘@21c lb; broilers 18¢)“

250 lb; eggs 24@250.

'DETROIT'CITY'MARKET

Strawberries are now scarce and

cherries are'selling at a little higher .-

price. . Red and‘black raspberries have
easy . sale. -~-Tomato‘es move easily,
with prices holding firm. String beans

easy sale and cabbage a little higher. ‘ '

The supply of beets and carrots is
liberal and‘sell slowly at 40®500 per
dozen bunches. .Green'onions are'tak-
en readily. Peas have fair sale 'at

guarts unless-otherwise stated. Wheat

$1.25@1.50 per bushel and $2 a bushel "

4 for fancy ones. There is little demand

for lettuce, while other greens are
light sellers. Eggs are higher and
poultry is in fair demand. ' ’

 

new HIGH .m Hoe MARKET.

The summer rise in hog prices got
under way last week when the high
points of all previous advances this
year were passed. The week was fea‘
tured on the opening session by a
near-record run for one day at Chi-
cago, but this did not hold prices back
for long. Total receipts for the week
at leading markets were far above nor-
mal for this season of the year but
conditions in the dressed -‘rade have
improved, arrivals are boun ‘to dimin-
ish during the next two months, and
sentiment is decidedly bullish because
of the evidence of lighter production
and smaller receipts next year.

Export buying, particularly of lard,
has increased sharply and the latest

 

report on weekly clearances shows a '

gain of over 100 per cent compared
with the previous week. Speculative
buying of provisions also has forced
prices ,upwards and mid-summer de-
mand for smoked meats shows season-
able breadth. ' '

Growers are still inclined to- rush
hogs to market on account of high-
priced corn, but a bare spot is likely
to appear between the cleaning up of
the old ‘crop of hogs and the arrival
of large numbers from the new crop.
The marked improvement in the lard
situation is providing an attractive
market for finished packing sows
which usually take a downward trend
at this season of the year.

 

FEWER LAMBS ARRIVE.

 

Receipts of lambs were lighter last
week as shippers curtailed loadings on
the break in the previous week. The
supply of southeastern lambs is dwind-
ling and the movement of corn belt
natiVes and rangers is not expanding
’rapidly enough to make up the differ-
ence. The advance in prices is not
likely to hold, however, as receipts
during the next two months will aver-
age materially heavier than in the
past week. More feeder lambs are go-
ing to the country than usual at this
season of the year. The Chicago top
on feeding lambs last week was $12.25,
while breeding ewes sold from. $6.50@
8. Drouth in some parts of the inter-
mountain territory and 'Pacific Coast
states means an increase in the per-
centage of feeder lambs in the range
run.

CATTLE FEEDERS LIQUIDATING.

 

Cattle markets were crowded last
week with short-fed steers, shipped by
feeders who are out of corn and un-
willing to pay soaring prices for feed,
or who wish to reserve part of their
holdings of the yellow cereal to dis-
pose of via the elevator route. Re-
ceipts were heavy, the dressed beef
market weak and prices on the hoof
sought a. lower level. Steers are 25
to 50 cents cheaper than a. week ago,
while butcher cows and heifers as well;
as bulls are mostly 50 to 75 cents
lower. After a week of violent fluc-
tuations vealers, finished $1 to $1.25
lower at Chicago. '

It is the general belief that more or
less liquidation of cattle on grain. feed
will continue for another month, but
after that time some scarcity of fin-

. ished steers is likely to develop. The

supply of grassers and steers with
Only a brief acquaintance with corn.
has not yet reached its peak, however.
Kansas. pasture cattle are coming in
larger numbers each week and the

, vanguard of the western rangers is

scheduled / to arrive at «Chicago-within
<4 few days._ . emits
range settle Williep, 9 is
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continued. from-raise 69% . ~

in :W!’ ,dairy- county: of the
extension _ specialists have talked'
not more milk, but more profitable
milk through the use of better cows
and better bully. Boosting cow test:

  

ping association _work has resulted in

ninety associations to da e for Michi-
‘ gan, placing-her second i the United
States, in this respect. And the test-
ing associations resulted last year in
sending to the block approximately
2,000 fake dairy cows._ Cheaper feed
means cheaper production. The dairy
department has collaborated with the
. farm crops department in boosting al-
, falfa' growing; Michigan now standing
'as the greatest/ alfalfa-growing state
east of the Mississippi. The future
program of the dairy' department will
be along the 'same line—not more
milk production but more profitable
milk production.

Following the talks, Robert Haeger,
well-known Holstein judge, gave a
demonstration, not only on true type
cow, but also pointed out the main
and fine points in judging bulls, year-

ling heifers, and calves of both sexes“

The huge Holstein herd of the Detroit
Creamery Company furnished plenty
of specimens for these demonstra-
tions.

 

ATTAINS SILVER MEDAL CLASS.‘

 

R; c. E. GEORGE, of Union‘fi'fir,

- Michigan, is the owner of Sue’s
Oxford Amelia 471745, a senior three—
year—old Jersey that recently qualified
for a silver medal on her production
record. '

Amelia started on this test at three
years eleven months of age and in 305
days produced, with calf, 548.86 pounds
of butter-fat and 9,521 pounds of milk,
'on two milkingsa day. Her milk av-
eraged 5.76 per cent butter-fat for the
ten months. In the first complete cal-
endar month of test her yield reached
85.50 pounds of butter—fat.

 

TOP. 0’ MICHIGAN POTATO SHOW
ENLARGED.

 

A T the recent meeting of the board
of directors 'of the Top 0’ Michi-
gan Potato Show, several important
changes enlarging the show were
made. The most important of these
was the addition of a machinery show
which will be composed of a few sam-
ples of representative up—to—date ma-
chinery such as each potato grower
must be acquainted with.

It was also decided to let the young
folks (if the northern counties in on
some of the good things. Sixty dollars
will be awarded in prizes to the boys
and girls of the seven counties who
submit the best essay on the subject
of growing potatoes. They W111 also
be the guests of honor at the annual
banquet which will be held on the sec-
ond night of the show. The rules will
be published later.

The premium list will be enlarged
somewhat over last year and some of
the special features will be retained.
Among them will be the sale of a car-
load or more of fancy potatoes at fifty
per cent above the market price, by
the winners in certain classes. Also, a
sweepstakes prize will be awarded for
each county. The total premiums W111
probably amount to over $700.

It also receives considerable finan-
cial assistance from the State Depart-
ment ("if Agriculture, the Michigan
Central Railroad, the Northeastern
Michigan Development Bureau, and
the Cadillac Exchange. The quota for
each county is based on the potato
production of the preceding year and
the distance from Gaylord, the seat of
the show.

, The following counties have sub-
scribed thus far, or have given assur-
ance of doing so: Cheboygan, Alpena,
Montmorency, Crawford, Otsego and
Antrim. No doubt, Presque Isle will
also join the ranks, thus completing
the potato family in Northeastern
Michigan. Growers from those coun-
ties making appropriations are allow—
ed to compete for the premiums.

M. c. R. R'. PUTS IN NEW FEEDER
' RATE

F BEDERS of liye stock in. southern

Mich will be interested to
know the. the Michigan Central Rail-
road has instituted rates for stopping

- ' in transit of cattle and ‘sheep originat:

be-

ing? Incormadpu - at Chicago: or B
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. :haveiigm

  
 

., "Wedat some t‘ in
Michigan, graze them or .feed. ’ 7» cm
for a period
and then reship them. on to Detroit,
Buffalohor other markets, with only a’

 

charge, of $6.30 extra. over the through

rate“ between the western point and
the eastern destination. Only points
on the main line‘and the “airline” of
the Michigan Central Railroad are cov-
ered by this new tariff. The Mackinaw
Division from Bay City northward has
had similar rates fer a year or more.

Since it is not practicable to pre-
serve the identity _of the animals re
ceived at the stop-off point, the out-
bound car may show a greater number
of animals. than the inbound as long
as the total aggregate at the end of
the season balances. The substitution

'of one kind of an animal for another

is not permissible.

This tariff institutes quite an aid to
the feeder business in Michigan and
should prove an incentive for an ex-
pansion in that direction. Care should
be exercised in complying with the
rules of the tariff, however, in order
that the-advantage of these reduced
rates may not be lost—E. J. L.

COUNTY CROP REPORTS.

 

 

Kent 00., July 16.——-Cutworms and
maggots have bothered the beans.
Corn is small on account of the cold
Weather. Potatoes are looking fine.
Fall apples are fair. Labor is more
plentiful. Insects are not troubling
much this year. A good crop of chicks
has been raised, but turkeys died off
quite rapidly. Hay is yielding better
than farmers anticipated. Eggs 250;
301%? 45c; beef cattle 80; pork 100.—~

Leelanau Co., July Iii—Winter
wheat and rye are fair to good. Hay
is about 75 per cent of a crop; corn
much less. Potatoes look fine. Cut-
worms damaged corn and beans. Po-
tato bugs not as bad as usual. More
people are engaged in poultry busi-
ness, and the crop of little chicks was
good. The season is late, and much
will depend on our fall. Wheat 90c;
corn 75c; rye 50c; oats 50c; eggs 22@
24c; butter 400; butter-fat 41c; broil-
ers 350.———J. W.

Hillsdale 00., July 17.—Corn. is in
need of cultivation, and the stand is
rather poor. Potatoes are good, as is
also wheat; oats are fair, and beans
poor. Fruit is abundant. Labor con-
tinues to be scarce. More poultry is
being raised. Farmers are encourag~
ed with the improvement in prices.
Wheat $1.10; rye 70c; oats 50c; eggs
23c; chickens 18c; broilers 30c. Wool
market closed. Haying is about half
done, and a fair cropr—B. R. G.

Isabella 00., July 16..—A11 cultivated '

crops are late, otherwise their condi-
tion is favorable. Wheat is a good
crop, while oats and hay are below the

average. Labor is scarce and of an
inefficient grade. The fruit crop is
small. Eggs 22c; butter 450. Both

corn and potato acreage is below the
average, while beans are 25 per cent
above—W. H.

Lake 60., July 16.—Whi_le beans are
a little late, they look fine. Corn is
small, but has good color. Potatoes
look fine. Fruit will be an average
crop. Prices for crops are improving
which is encouraging to farmers. Po-
tatoes 950 per cwt; eggs 210; butter
350; fat hens 18@22c. We are having
a good rain here now, which is need~
ed.——G. B.

Cheboygan Co.-—Grimm-alfalfa is
getting a fair test here and thus far
shows fine. Eleven acres will be cut
for hay on our farm this year. I have
been sowing from seven to nine
pounds of seed per acre, but my stand
seems too thick. I shall try to reduce
the rate to six pounds this year. I
believe the thinner stands will with-
stand winters and drought better,
though it may require more work to
keep the June grass out—L. E. B.

Oscoda 00., July 16.—Haying has
begun, and the crop will be from 60 .to
75 per cent of a normal one. The
work, however, is about three weeks
later than usual. Fall grains are not
up to par. Spring crops are looking
very fine. Farm help here is plentiful
to meet the demand at fair wages.
Butter-fat 390; eggs 22c. Fruit doing
nicely, especially wild raspberries.
blackberries and huckleberries.—M. S.

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VETERINARY.

 

Bloody Milk.—-I have a young heifer
which has been milking for about four
months. Lately one quarter gives
bloody milk, so much so that I have

‘ to throw the milk away. The quarter

is not sore. F. D., Plymouth, Mich.—
Draw the milk with a clean milking
tube, apply cold, or ice water to that
quarter after milking. Rough milking
is a cause of cows. giving bloody milk.

Remedies for FIies.——I have a bunch
of beef cattle that I have on pasture,
graining them with a self-feeder. The
files have become very troublesome,

of. nine .months or less, ,

I

I

and i Wouldlike to find some fly dope‘
. which would be easy to apply and

which would last at least a. week at a
time. J.
remedies used for the protection of
files have to be applied frequently. At
the Minnesota. Experiment Station
rancid lard, one pound, and kerosene,
one-half pint, mixed thoroughly until
a. creamy mass forms, then applied
with a cloth or with the bare hand to
the backs, would keep the flies off
the cattle for two or three days. Jen-
sen (1909) recommends the following
formula, which is said to protect cat-
tle for a. week: Common laundry soap,
one pound, in four gallons of water;
crude petroleum, one gallon; powdered
napthalin, four ounces. Cut the soap
into thin shavings and dissolve in wa-
ter by the aid of heat; dissolve the
napthalin in the crude oil, mix the two
solutions, put them in an old dasher

- churn, and mix thoroughly for fifteen

minutes. The mixture should be ap-
plied once or twice a week with a.
brush. It must be stirred well before
being use.

 

ANNOUNCE DATES OF ANNUAL
MEETING.
HE sixth annual meeting of the

T Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-
change will be held in Cadillac, Aug-
ust 20-21, according to Fred Smith,
vicepresident and acting manager.

  
 

Don’t let anything interfere.

 

 

 

     

R. P., ‘Howell, Mich—Most ,

, ”the PERFECT f'
: CORN HARVESTER ‘

  
   
   
 

   

Worksin any kind“ of soil.
Cuts stanza, doc-u't pull
liheothercuttou. Mmlynodangcr.
' Cute Four to Seven .Acm a day With can
mandonohorse. Hereuwhatmfmm
NEVER SAW ITS EQUAL‘. >
Gentlemenz—In regard to Com Harvester I
bought from you, I can truthfully say that I nor.
cr'saw its equal. I gave it a fair trial‘through I
a quarter of a mile of poor light corn. right arm
a rain. and only pulled one bill.

Respectfully.
'I‘. M. DOUGLAS. Coultervllle.. 13.1.
SOLD DIRECT TO THE FARMER
Sand for booklet and circulars telling all about this Is-
bor-savmg machine; also testimonials of many um ‘
LOVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Dept. 36 Linda. Illinois

 
 

   

 

BABY 89a 100 and up. FREE
. FEED with order. Post-
CHICKS age Paid. Live arrival

guaranteed. 300 Egg
Stock. Qualitv Supreme.Catang free.

NABOB HATCHERIES
GAMBIER, onto

. 20,
Member Int. Baby Chick Ass'n.

LOOK

 

NOTICE TO

Alfalfa Growers

Alfalfa Hay Profits are made or lost in the curing.
Recognizing this the

Michigan Agricultural College
East Lansing
Will hold 21
FIELD DEMONSTRATION

On Farmers’ Day

. FRIDAY, AUGUST lst

To demonstrate modern methods of handling Alfalfa Hay---
several thousand interested farmers are expected and

You Are Invited

Arrange to come to the college.

 

 

tising mlscellarmous articles for sale or exchange.

consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. (‘ount as

display type or Illustrations admitted.

°Mlnimum charge. In words.

 

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This clhslfied 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-
Ppultry advertising will be run in this department

at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.
Rates 8 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions; for four or more

a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No

_ Remittances must accompany order.
Real estate and ”vs stock advertislnu have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.

 

Rates in Effect October 7, 1922

One Four 0n. Four

Words time times Words time ti
lo ........ 0.80 82.40 26 ........ 2.08 86.24
11 ........ .88 2.84 2'! ........ 2.18 0.4!
12 ........ .96 2.88 28 ........ 2.24 8.72
13 ........ 1.04 3.12 19 ........ 2.32 0.06
14 ........ 1.12 3.36 30 ........ 2.40 1.20
15 1.20 3.00 31 ........ 2.43 7.44
. 3.84 32 ........ 2.56 7.08
I 4.08 33 ........ 2.04 7.92
4.32 84 ........ 2.72 3.10
4.56 35 ........ 2.80 8.40
4.80 36 ........ 2.88 3.64
5.04 37 ........ 2.90 8.88
5.28 38 ........ 3.04 9.12
5.52 39 ........ 3.12 ’ 9.36
5.76 40 ........ 3.20 9.80
6.00 41 ........ 3.20 9.84

 

. . A” advartifinl to},
peel otlce dilunxinuanre 0rd":

or (hang: 0/ top} in-
tznded for 1h: Clouded Dcparxmmt mm: rmch thil aficn m:
do]: in advance afpublira tion date.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

IIARVICSTI‘ZR cuts and piles on harvester or
Man and horse cuts and shocks equal
Sold in every state. Only $25 with
bundle tying attachment. Testimonials and catalog
FREE showing picture of Harvester. Process Har-
vester Co., Saline. Kansas.

CORN
windrows.
Corn Binder.

FOR SALE—All machinery and equipment of Pom-
eroy Creamery. used three years. In first class condi-
tion. An unusual bargain. I’omoroy Cement Block
£0” Pomeroy. Ohio.

 

FOR SALE—Bean and pea holler, also two-row har-
vester. almost new. 8100 takes both. J. G. Wheeler-Ir.
Mankaw. Minn. '

I BUY old American Pictures published by N. (‘urrier
and Currier & Ives. Send description to F. J. Peters.
384 Broadway, Flushing, N. Y.

 

REAL ESTATE

MICHIGAN FARM—Modem House, lO-Acre Orchard.
6 Cows and Horse. gas engine. full implements. sol.-
sou's crops. money-making city e-milk route: 80 acres
on improved road edge progressive city; 60 acres till—
age. 20-0" pom woodland. Io-acn

orchard, berries. grapes; buildings insured $4.500;
attractive 2—swry 8—room house and bath. electric
lithtl. grand view boy; .3006 64-01. baseman. barn.
silo. his garage. m'ansry. poultry house. etc. Owner
called away. $5.000 ' gets all if taken now. etails
and how 8100 ms is productive com and

house page 37 Illus. Bargain Catalog money-making
farms. Copy free. saw: Farm Agency. 20530

Bldg" Detrmt. Mich.

 

'l-I'oon Immediate!

$400 SEPURES Improved Farm. «lo-Acre Money—
}.lakcr. (Tailed away. will sacrifice less than value
raw land. you get fertile loamy soil in prosperous
community; mnvnnlcnt school. store. hustling RR vil-
lage; home use fruit; pleasantly situated cottage. tine
outlook, barn. Security and good income assured a.
hustler. Full price $500. if you come now. Half
cash. Druid \V. Smith, Twining. Mich.

 

FOR SALE~40 acre ostutc. 5 milcs cost of Charlotte,
Eaton County, Michigan. li‘inc clay loam land, nico
orchard, terms. for prfcc. of buildings. 11. E. Depcw.
23 Third St., Pontiac, Michigan.

 

FIRST-CLASS grazing or farming land for sale at

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reasonable hriccs. Geo. R. limerick, Harrisville. Mich.
TOBACCO
IIOMESI’UN TOBAl‘(‘O——('huwinc. fivo pounds, $1.75:
ten, :53; smoking. live pounds. $1.25; ten. $2: pipe
rrw. pay when received. Tobacco Guaranteed. C0-
opcratlve Farmers, l’aducah, Kentucky.
PET STOCK

 

GERMAN SHEI’HERD—Alredllcs. Collies. Old Eng-
lish Shepherd dogs, puppies. 10c Illustrated instruc-
tive list. W. R. Watson. Box 35 .Macou. Mo.

REGISTERED Collie puppies, natural healers. also
English Beagles. Silvcrcrcst Kennels. Gladwln Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS

l’Ulllc-BIIED CHICKS—reduced prices. Barred Rocks.
White \Vyandnttcs, Reds, Buff Orpingtons. Light
Brahmas. 100. $10; 50. $5.50. Postpaid. 100% deliv-
cry. Member International Chick Ass'n. Earlvillo
Hatchery. Earlvlllc, Illinois.

QUALITY CHICKS—Postpaid. 100, Imghorns, Ancon-
as. Lurcc Assorted, $8. Rocks. Beds. 39. Owing-
tnns, Wyandottcs, $10. Lt. Brahmas. $15. Assorted.
fl]. {‘[atalog Free. Missouri Poultry Farms. Colum-
no, . o.

POULTRY

PULLETS—Jhrron S. C. .W. Leghorns. 7 c mob.
reduced price on 100 lots. Henry Waterwasy. R. 4.
Holland. Mich. -

S. C. RUFF LEGHORN Cockerels and Pallets
lard Webster. Bath. Mich.

ELP WANTED

ALL MEN, women. boys. girls. 17 to £5. willing to
accept Government Positions. $117-$25CL traveling:
stationary. write Mr. Ozment, 167. St. Louis.

W11.

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WANTED—single man for tam work. 3.035220.“

 

 

   

 
  
 
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
  
 
   
   
   
  


 

 

ELDOM has there been a
greater demand for high qual-
ity wheat than at present. In-
creased yield of high testing wheat
is the key to a profitable wheat
crop. Why then be content merely
to grow Wheat when you can grow
the grade that brings a premium of
several cents per bushel?

To secure a large yield of good
quality wheat, three things are very
important —-careful preparation of
the seed bed, a good variety of
seed, and a liberal use of Swift’s
Red Steer Fertilizers.

Of these three, fertilizers are per-
haps the most important. The
wheat crop must be fed; it requires
a balanced ration.

Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers are
so combined and processed as to
give each plant a balanced ration
—-the right amount and proportion
of available plant food to produce
a maximum yield of quality grain.

Moreover, a liberal use of Swift’s
Red Steer Fertilizers practically
assures a good catch of clover and
increased yield of hay following
wheat.

*
Outwit the Hessian fly

Wheat’s worst enemy is the Hes-
sian fly. To escape its ravages, your
Experiment Station advises late
planting. By using Swift’s Red
Steer Fertilizers liberally, you can
plant late and still put your wheat
crop into the winter in good con—
dition.

Quality Wheat

decides the market price

Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers sup-
ply available plant food that gives
the crop a quick start, a heavy top
growth, and a strong root system
to enable it to withstand winter '
freezing and heaving. '

\

The fertilizer you select is most
important. Swift’s Red Steer Fer-
tilizers are made from the best and
most productive sources of plant
food. They are evenly mixed and
thoroughly cured. They are backed
by a reputation, maintained for
over 50 years, for making each
Swift product the best of its kind. '
Use a high analysis brand of Swift’s
Red Steer Fertilizers and you can
be sure you are right.

Look for the Red Steer on the
bag. It is your guarantee of high-
est possible quality.

A Red Steer Service Station

Where you see the sign of the
ASA. (Authorized Swift Agent), «
you will find a dealer with a repu-
tation for square dealing, a man
who is not engaged merely to sell
you fertilizers. The A.S.A. is
pledged to give you a real service,
to co-operate with your County
Agent and Agricultural College in
giving you the latest news of better
farming methods. 'Get acquainted
with him; it will be worth your
while.

Ask the ASA. how you _can
make a profit by growing more and
better wheat through" a liberal use
of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers.

Swift. 8; Company

Fertilizer Works, Dept. 46
Hammond, Ind.

    

 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
  

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A. S. A. says:

Our Agricultural College and Experiment
Station have made definite recommenda-
tions as to the; best analyses of fertilizer .to

use. The Michigan Agricultural Experi-
ment Station recommends these analyses
for wheat and rye:

S'and, light sandy loams, heavy sandy
loams, silt Scams and clay loams—With no
mixed meadow, manure or green manure in
rotation, 2-16-2 or 2~12-2; with mixed mea-
dow, clover, alfalfa, Or soy beans, or manure,
in rotation, acid phosphate.

Muck soil-0-12-12 or muriate of potash.

. Swift 8r. Company is co-operating with the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
and heartily endorses these recommenda- *‘
tions, and is giving the farmer full plant food

valuebysellingsuch analyses.

You are invited to call
and discuss your fertilizer
needs. Let us tell you how
others are making a good
profit‘by a liberal use of
Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers.

a;

A alluring Simft Agent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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