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VOLUME CLXII





DETROIT, SEPT. 20, 1924

CURRENT COMMENT





E wish again to





NUMBER TWELVE





 





 





A call the atten-

. tion of our readers to

serious the seed corn situa-

Srtuatzon tion which is likely





. to confront them an-

other spring. It may be that, during

the season of 1925, conditions will be

ideal for the development of a bumper

crop of corn. If, however, farmers are

obliged to plant inferior seed, no

amount of care or ideal weather will

produce the good crop expected. Good

seed is an absolute necessity in suc-

cessful corn growing.



Right now is the proper time to

Overcome, in part at least, the handi-

cap that is almost certain to be faced

next May. Many farmers are already

going through their fields searching

for ears sufficiently matured to make

good seed. This they are planning on

drying carefully in order that it may

not deteriorate through excessive

moisture and winter freezing. Perhaps

there is no one cause that reduces the

vitality of the germ in seed corn more

than does slow or imperfect drying.

A freezing temperature, when the

grain still continues a high percentage

of moisture, may practically destroy

its germinating capacity.



It should, therefore, be counted as

good management for the farmer to

allow some of his regular duties to

stand by for a half day or so while he

gathers seed from the standing corn

and thereby does his best in providing

sufficient seed corn for the 1925 crop.

If he finds his own crop too immature

for seed, then at once he should find

a neighbor who has better corn and

there secure the necessary supply.





IT was Shaw who





A stated that the



N . greatest thiefthe

atorlous world has ever pro—

T’llef duced is procrastina-





tion, and he is still at

large. There can be little doubt of

the truth of his declaration, not only

for his day but for ours as well.



In no line of human affairs has this

tendency to “put off” been more char-

acteristic than in the matter of keep—

ing up the premises. We humans will



~ persist in holding out tomorrow as the

happy day to put the poultry house in

shape for the winter, to get the quart-

ers for the swine so the cold will not

chill them too badly, to rehang the

doors on the barn, to cover the house

with another layer of roofing, to do, in

tact, fifty other repair jobs which

should not go over another day into

the future.



' There would be no purpose in men-





financial was As a consequence of

putting off, fewer eggs are laid, pork“





' anges, there has been a five per Cent





 





becomes more eXpensive to produce,

the cows give less milk, and above all,

one’s whole time may be constantly

burdened by the consciousness that

he should be at these repair tasks. in-

stead. of having for his next duty the





enthusiasm and buyoancy that comes





of a job fully completed.





' HE September es-





The timates place the

Pét'a to potato yield for this

year at practically



Crop the same amount as





the bumper crop pro- -





duced a year ago. Geod growing

weather brought forth an unusual

crop from an acreage somewhat below

that planted in the spring of 1923.



_ This heavy production means that

again it is not going to be easy to





market the crop. There will be glutted,





markets, light demands, and prices

that are none too high. However, it

appears that there will be a couple of

advantages not enjoyed a year ago. To

date there have been 70,040 cars of

the 1924 crop marketed, as compared

with 58,641 to this date a year ago.

Then, too, higher prices for other raw

foodstuffs may increase the demand

for potatoes.



The whole situation offers, however,

an opportunity to grade the Michigan

crop closely this year. Paying freight

on dirt and objectionable specimens,

and then after reaching the market

having this material keep buyers

away from the good stuff, is not sane

marketing. Growers understand this

and will undoubtedly realize larger net

returns from the crop by keeping on

the farm the potatoes that will influ-

ence sales disadvantageously. '





HE unusual sea-





The son has rather

upset the regular or-



Alfquh der of things upon

Smile the farm. In feeding





stock, for instance, it

will be necessary this winter to learn

how to get along on the minimum of

corn, perhaps, in many cases, on no

corn at all.



Various substitutes are sure to be

brought forth. Small grains will, in

general, be fed to make the reduced

supply of corn stretch out as far to-

ward the 1925 crop as possible. But

the fact remains that the farmer hav-

ing mews jammed with good alfalfa

hay is going to solve his feeding prob-

lem easier than he who lacks that

health-giving roughage.



The alfalfa smile will not come off.

In almost any feeding situation that

might develop, alfalfa can be advan-

tageously used. As a result, there is

every reason to believe that next

spring the votes for alfalfa will be reg-

istered more numerously and enthusi-

astically than at any time in the past





HERE are a few





Rate things which are

f certain in this world.



0 Some of them are

Increase death, taxes and an





increase in popula-

tion. There may be doubt in the minds

of some people as to the latter, in

view of the fact that modern “fam-

ilies” chiefly consist of man and wife

who live in two or three room apart-

ments where dogs are allowed, but not

children. However, the fact is that

there is an average increase in popu-

lation of 1.4 per cent per annum.





This increase means more food, for

there are more mouths to feed. The

increase in food production should

keep up with the increase in popula-

tion. In some cases it has, in others

it has fallen behind.



In the case of fruits it is interesting

to note that apples have increased one

1y 6 per cent, or less than. enchant as

feet as the population. But with or-





,_ half times as much; as thei'ncrease in

population. '





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This increase in orange production,





is being overdone and is already nec-'





essitating forced sales, high advertis-

ing costs and other strenuous methods

to get everybody to eat oranges. These

are reasons why we find oranges

everywhere in the foreground and ap«

pies relegated to the back shelves.

The over-enthusiasm of the orange

grow-er'has not only put his business

on a low profit basis, but has made it

hard for the apple groWer to market

his fruit profitably.





It seems that this peak in produc-

tion and depression in profit in the

orange business will certainly bring a

reaction and offers the apple grower

an opportunity in the future. This sit-

uation will, through its unprofitable-

ness, bring a gradual decrease in or-

ange production. Therefore, the man

who is looking to the future in the

apple growing sections will take ad-

vantage of the situation by now ‘plant-

Apple produc-

tion should keep up with population





increase, and apple growers should





use, at least, a modest publicity cam-

paign to let consumers know that the

apple also has many of the good qual-

ities claimed for the orange, and then

some.





T the recent De-





Would troit meeting of

B T]! the Michigan bean

00'“ e jobbers, a resblution

Bean , was adopted favoring





the raising of funds

for advertising to the consuming pub—

lic the merits of Michigan choice

hand-picked beans.



The resolution proposes to raise

this‘ fund by asking the growers to

subscribe one cent for each hundred

weight of beans sold, to which the

jobbers would subscribe a like sum.

If such a schedule is fully carried out,

it should give a fund of between fifty

and sixty thousand dollars.





The crop reporters estimate the pres-

ent Michigan crop at 5,492,000 bush-

els. By reason of reductions in acre-

age and unfavorable weather in other

states, Michigan will have over seven-

ty-five per cent of the commercial crop

of white beans this year.





This places her in a commanding

position, and makes the present a

most opportune time from the stand-

point of the farmers of the state, to

undertake this publicity program. In

the hundreds of replies from farmers

as to their attitude on such a program,

not a single one opposed the move—

ment. Jt is to be hoped that nothing

will interrupt the progress of this

work.





T is interesting to





The read what the boys

and girls, the ones



SChOOI who actually attend

Question the schools, have to





say regarding the lit-

tle red school and the consolidated

school. In a contest recently held in

our Boys’ and Girls’ Department this

question was discussed. The opinions

expressed were about equally divided,

with a slight margin in favor of con—

solidated schools.



A great many boys and girls did not

have experience in the consolidated

schools, but still favored them as of-

fering greater advantages in educa-

tion. Only one among those who were

attending consolidated sChools, was

against them. In her school where

country‘ and city boys and girls stud—

ied together, the rural children were

to a disadvantage because they had

to spend so much of their time on the

road.



One paid great tribute to the teach-

er of the small school. This writer said

that she was more than a teacher; she

was a substitute mother. She got to

know the children intimately and





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that the consolidated school did not-if.“





permit the teacher to come in centsact:

With, and to understand the students

thoroughly. _



The contenders for the consolidated

school said that it altered greater edu-

catio’nal facilities; gave the country

children the same advantages enjoyed

by the city young folks; provided bet-

ter sanitary conditions, and afforded

the country boy and girl an opportu-





nity to mingle with a. larger number of





young folks, which has usually proven

beneficial



These varied opinions indicate that

there are pro and con sides to this

school question. It also demonstrates

that the ne.w.may not take on an the

good features of the old. In every

change we leave behind something

worth while. But in most cases the

new has so many advantages that the

old, with all its good points, should

be discarded. We believe that the

school question will gradually work

itself out in this way.





 





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H ERMAN GOOSEBERRY says ta.



‘ me the other day, “Say, Hy, why

don’t you run fer sheruff?" And I says,

“Herm, what should I run fer him fer

when I ain’t got no use at all fer a

sheruff."



“What I mean,” says Herm, “is you

should try ta be a sheruff. You’ve got

the shape of a politishun and you kin

talk about nothin' about as easy as

anybody I ever see, so you got all the

qualificashuns and kin get the job if

you’ll just show them. . All you gotta

do on the job is ta ride around in

your Oughto and oncet in a while ar-

rest folkses you don’t like.”



“That’ll be a nice job fer me," says

I, “But Sofie don’t like living at the

jail and she’s so

strong fer prohi-

bishun she ain’t





 





got no use fer

men behind bars

or in front 0’





them. And then

sometimes if I

was ta break the

silunce of a still

\and have to cap-

ture the booze and take it home, she

wouldn't let me have the stuff around.

So I’d have ta consume it and I ain’t

built fer runnin’ on alkehaul.”



Now, maybe Herm thinks I got all

the qualificashuns fer running fer the

sheruffs offuce, such as bein’ abul ta

take care of a nice salury, ride around

in a oughto, bein’ nice ta the ladies

and hurtin’ nobodies’ feelin’s so I kin

get the job again next time, but I don’t

know. It’d be a nice soft job, alright,

'speciully ’cause Sofie wouldn’t know

nothin’ about it. When she’s say

somethin’ about gettin’ ta work like

she does all the time now, I’d just tell

her that I was fulfillin’ one of the nec-

essary requiremunts of :my oifishul

posishun.



It would be nice alrighhbut there’;

so many men now runnin’ fer office,

’cause the salury is big and the work

is little. There’s too many now tryin’

ta. feed at the public trough Without

me snortin’ around tryin’ ta get there

myself.



If I was built accordin’ ta the speci-

ficashuns of a. sheruff, it would be 0.

K. But I ain’t the kind what’ll con-

sider public booty before public

duty.



Now I thought I spoke ta Herm in

my refusal speech just like I was Dan-

iel Webster, Henry Clay and Abe Lin-

coln all together. But when I was

through, Herm says, “Hy, I was only

foolin’. You’d make a. better under-

taker than a sherufl." “Well, any-

how, “I says. “de have plenty to do

. ’cause there’s lots 0’ dead “ones

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attening Lambs in the Corn Field ,





.4- C'fie'ap Metflod of Getting Money Out of T 51': Crop





' mm the favorable weather of





, the past week or two'has ena-

bled our corn crop to make

wonderful progress, there are still

“many fields that will not mature suffi-

ciently for'producing marketable corn.

To the owners of such fields who

are cansidering ways and means for

best utilizing the crop, one can sug-

gest that. soft and immature corn can

perhaps be used for every feeding pur-

pose on the farm for which corn is

ordinarily used.

Many farmers have found the prac-

_tice of fattening sheep and lambs in

the corn field an economical and prof-

itable way of harvesting their corn

crop during recent years. These corn

growers who are in a position to use

sheep and lambs for harvesting all or

part of the crop will be able to convert

a larger percentage of the entire corn

plant into a marketable product than

is possible by any other method ex-

cept in the making of silage.





In this connection, it will be inter-

esting to note the results of some ex-

periments in “Iambing” down the corn

at the South Dakota Experiment Sta-

tion. These experiments run through

a period of two seasons. The lambs

used in 1922 averaged sixty-two pounds





, at the beginning of the experiment,





and those selected in 1923 averaged

fifty-two pounds. Twelve lambs were

used in each lot in 1922, and fifteen

lambs in 1923.





One lot was given free range in corn





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alone. A second lot had both corn

and rape pasture, while the third lot

had freedom to corn and soy-beans.



During the year 1922, the lambs eat-

ing corn alone made an average daily

gain for the first thirty days of .49

pounds, and for fifty-one days an av-

erage of .37 pounds. During 1923, the

average gain for those getting corn

alone for the first month was .42

pounds, and for the sixty-oneday feed-

ing period .37 pounds. '





The lambs receiving corn and rape

made an average daily gain of .53

pounds for the first thirty days, and

.35 for fifty-one days. For 1923, the

average gains for the thirty-day period

was .53, and for sixty-one days it aver-

aged .43.



Those receiving the corn and soy-

beans in 1922 made the highest aver-

age gain amounting to .54 pounds for

the thirty-day period and .42 pounds





Huhlman





for the fifty-one—day period. In 1923,

however, the gains for this group were

but .46 pounds for the. thirty-day pe-

riod and .33 pdunds for the sixty-one-

day period.





Since feeders of market lambs usu-

ally consider a gain of .25 to .33

pounds, a satisfactory daily increase

in the feed lot, the results obtained in

this experiment indicate that lambs

can harvest corn in the field and pro-

duce very good gains in weight.





Several other advantages were ob-

served during the course of the ex-

periment which help to make this a

profitable method of harvesting a crop

of corn. The lambs were turned into

the corn fields as soon as the corn

was beyond the milk stage. As the

lower leaves of the corn plant were

still green at that time the lambs

stripped off all leaves within their

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weeds which were growing in the field

before they began to eat the husks and

grain from the cobs. Many of the late

fields of corn are often in that back—

ward condition on account of the

heavy growth of weeds. Sheep will

eat most of the weeds and their seeds

that are commonly found in our corn

fields and thus help to turn these

pests into a cash crop.



After lambs have consumed most of

the weeds and the lower corn leaves,

it would be advisable to furnish rape,

soy-beans, sweet clover or other good

pasture near the corn field, in order

to avoid losses from over-feeding on

corn which are sometimes reported.

Water and salt should always be avail-

able. As the season advances and

vegetation becomes scarce, oilmeal and

alfalfa hay are used by some feeders

but the use of hay is not considered

good economy as long as roughage is

available in field or pasture.



Since lambs will consume a larger

portion of the corn plant than is saved

for feed by any other method of har-

vesting except in the making of silage,

and lambs will eat most of the weeds

found in our corn fields and prevent

them from maturing seed, many sheep

0Wners should consider the advan-

tages of disposing of part or all of

their late corn in this manner. While

early maturing varieties of corn are

usually preferred for this purpose, this

practice may be adopted to good ad-

vantage for handling some of our late

corn this year.





Twenty Years Out of the Stumps





T éir Open-minded Pioneer of [Vortéem [Wick





HE Pines,” of Schoolcraft coun-

ty, in Michigan’s Upper Penin-

sula, represents the lifetime





’ achievement of Mr. C. R. Miller. A





beautiful home and a farm in splendid

condition, wrought from the stumps in

twenty years, is an achievement any





man may be proud of.





When Mr. Miller moved from Illi.

nois to Schoolcraft county twenty

years ago, the stumps were so thick

on his land that he had difficulty in

driving in with the first wagon. When

he moved into the brush they called

him the “sandhill farmer.” Today, he

has the best herd in the cow testing

association of Schoolcraft county. He

is milking seventeen registered Hol-

steins and marketing high quality

milk in Manistique. Most of the feed

is raised on the farm. He is also one

of the leading growers of certified

seed potatoes of the state.





Beginning with stump land, rather

light in texture, Mr. Miller has had an

uphill fight to success. He is farming

one hundred acres, of which sixty is

cleared on the home farm. In addi-





V'tion, he" has forty acres in another





block some distance away. Though

he originally left soil worth $300 an

acre, Mi‘. Miller states that he can





' beatthecorn belt soil with everything

but gem—ma. barley, potatoes, and





11 .sivies- highsrrields. per acre.





he had, .





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By J. F. Cox and H. C. Rather





seemed mighty good to be back again,

for, as he expressed it, “we like it

here in northern Michigan and things

grow well.” There are many others

who have tackled the proposition of

clearing a farm out of the stumps in

northern Michigan Who have not fared

so well. . -



Mr. Miller’s success is based on a

keen study of crop adaptation and lo-

cal market needs and on the use of

practices which are most efficient. He

believes in certified seed potatos be-

cause they produce more per acre at

a reduced cost. The resulting crop is





of better market quality. He grows

Wolverine oats because he finds they

outyield other varieties. Three years

ago his Swedish Select gave him a

yield of eighty-seven bushels per acre,

a most satisfactory performance, but

in a test with Wolverine, arranged by

Mr. Putnam, of the Chatham Sub-sta-

tion, he found that at threshing time

the acre of Wolverine gave apparently

sack for sack the same yield as the

Swedish Select. In handling the Swed-

ish Select sacks, he could lift them

with one hand and throw them over

his shoulder, but it took two hands to





 





 

 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





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swing a bag of the Wolverine to his

back, and he had to brace his legs to

do it. This convinced Mr. Miller of

the worth of this great variety con-

tributed to Michigan agriculture by

out late plant breeder, Professor

Spragg.



Though clover does well on his land,

Mr. Miller is getting into alfalfa since

he believes it to be an even better

hay and soil—improving crop. From his

first two and one—half acres of Grimm

he took off four tons at the first cut-

ting. This two and one-half acres fol-

lows a seeding of Hubam the year be;

fore which made splendid growth and

was turned under for green manuring.

The conditions were right for an ex-

cellent catch of alfalfa. He used farm

bureau Grimm seed planted in early

June, at the rate of twelve pounds

per acre on a firm seed-bed.





For twenty years he has grown seed

potatoes for a seed company and is

now growing several acres of radishes

for seed for the same company. For

silage corn, Mr. Miller is growing Wis-

consin frost-resistant Golden Glow.

His field would, if carried 200 miles

south, fit in as a creditable corn field.

He uses from 200 to 300 pounds of

acid phosphate per acre with each

grain crop.



No matter how good his own meth-

ods, his own varieties of crops, or in—.

dividual cows, Mr. Miller has always

been ready to try out others for the

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_, 9adaptable have failed. Like most susc-

' bessful farmers, Mr. Miller is occupied





by county, township, and. general com—

munity service. He is a leader in

grange and farm bureau work. Mr.

‘ Miller moved to northern Michiganfm





tom, some a “arias; ”and" methOtk '





st'rong manhood and graduate from ,_





the university of Elohim They also

have a daughter now attending me

University, and one in high school.

Mr. Miller is an misleading example

cf the. success that atterids- a man

with an open mind Who couples good

judgment with hard work.





 





 





   





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”a". "So'rma‘ Cup-t ‘d Ctr-Is





CHANGE OF NAME. .





 





7’



How would one proceed to have a.

child’s given name changed? The child

.in question is nearly one year old,

was named at birth, and name was re-

ported by the family physician.

Should the parents have all children’s

names and dates of birth recorded in

county ?—Mrs. F



I find no provision in the statutes

for change of name other than on di-

vorce, adoption of children, or change

of names of adults (C. L. 1915 Sec.

14138-14144) but except that the name

would not correspond with the birth

records, there is nothing to prevent

the change of given name by custom

from that given at baptism.—~Rood.





RIGHT TO STRAW.





 





Has a person that had bought a

farm and had to leave it because he

could not make the payments and tax-

es the‘ right to sell all the straw off

the place before he goes ?—A. G.





Straw, the same as other farm prod-

ucts, can be disposed of as owner sees

fit, unless some agreement has been

made to the effect that it shall not be

removed from farm—F. T. Riddell.





NOTE OUTLAWED.





 





Is a note outlawed when no interest

or principal has been paid on it for

ten years? I have been told it was

outlawed after seven years.«-I. G.



Statutes of limitations vary in each

state. In Michigan simple notes are

barred in six years from the last pay-

ment of interest or principal, or last

promise to pay, being not less than

six years from the date of maturity.—

Rood.





CATTLE FINDER’S ADDRESS

WANTED.





 





In our August 2nd issue a subscrib-

er with initials J. 0., stated that nine

young cattle and a dry cow came to

his place on June 6th. Another sub-

scriber has since written that he has

lost nine young cattle and is anxious

to get in touch with J. C. Will J. C.

please send his name and address to

the Michigan Farmer so that we can

forward it to said subscriber?—eEds.





SEEDI‘NG SWEET CLOVER IN

WHEAT.





Can sweet clover seed be sown in

wheat in the fall at time of sowing

wheat, or would you advise waiting

until spring Also, how late in the

fall can vetch be sown and insure a

crop? I want to sow rye and vetch

after soy- -beans are harvested if it is

not too late. —-H. M. D.



Sweet clover sown in wheat at the

time of sowing the wheat is likely to

winter-kill badly. For best results,

sweet clover should be sown by the

A

few farmers make a practice of sow-

ing sweet clover very late in the fall,

just. before the ground freezes. When

this method is followed, however, the

sweet clover does not germinate until

spring; If the sweet clover is sown a

little too early, the seed will swell and

a large number of them be killed.



If you have a medium early variety

of soy-beans, it is very likely that you





 





* will be able to harvest them in time





to sow rye vetch. this fall. Soy-beans

usually leave the ground loose and





‘ » . mellow and very little dimculty should

«be experienced in preparing the seed-





ernot this, system. will .





 





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.. a...“ ”1:172? “"1?“

work will depend upon the earliness

of the variety and whether the soy-

beans are to be used for' hay or seed.

-—C. R. Megee, Associate Professor of

Farm Crops.





CORN FAILS TO EAR.





 





Please tell me what is wrong with

my Evergreen corn. It looks fine, is

all tasseled out, but not a sign of an

ear on it. Had the same trouble last

year with the same seed; it grew fine

but no corn—W. K.



Without knowing more about local

conditions as to soil fertility, etc, it is

difficult to say just What may be the

trouble with this crop of corn. There

is possibly a lack of phosphorous in

the soil. When preparing the field for

next year’s crop try broadcasting acid

phosphate at the rate of 250 to 400

pounds per acre. It also might be well

to secure another strain of seed—G.

E.‘ Starr, Associate Professor of Hort-

iculture.





DESTROYI NG POISON IVY.





 





Is there anything that can be spray-

ed on poi80n ivy that will destroy it,

or any other way to get rid of it?—

A. J. P»



A brine solution consisting of three





pounds of salt to‘a gallon of water is





 

 

 

 





If there are a few vines along fence

posts and upon trees, these Vines may

be out below the ground and saturated

with the brine solution. In case a few

of the root stalks put forth a new

growth, it will be advisable to treat

again in about two weeks.





Probably the most effective way to

deal with isolated clumps of ivy is to

grub them out, taking care to remove

thoroughly the underground root



‘ stalks,.slnce pieces of these left in the



ground will produce another crop of

plants. Also small isolated patches

may be killed out by covering them

~with heavy paper on boards so that

the light will be excluded—C. R. M.





enowme SUD-AN SEED.





 





I am raising some Sudan grass and

am wondering if I should let it go to

seed and thresh it. Of what value is

the straw? Would it keep if put in

the barn? What kind of a machine

should I have to thresh it with? About

what yield could be expeBcted and the

price per bushel?—J. B.



Sudan grass is not usually grown

for seed in this state. In Oklahoma,

Kansas and Texas the weather con-

ditions are quite favorable for the pro-

duction of an abundance of seed. How-

ever, if conditions are'favorable for a

good crop of 00m, Sudan grass should

set a fair crop of seed in this state.

The average yield is from 300» to 500

pounds of seed per acre. The seed

may be threshed with an ordinary

grain thresher. However, care should

be used not to blow the seed over

into the straw. The straw would have

much the same feeding value as oat

straw, except that the stems are some—

what coarser and a smaller amount

would be eaten by live stock—C. R.

Megee.





 





MAT E‘AGRICUIT





BUTTER TARIFF MAY BE LOW-

ERED.





 





ARMER representatives who are



inclined to favor protection for ag-

ricultural products fear any move on

the part of the tariff commission look-

ing to tariff revision. Instead of an

increase in the butter tariff, as was

asked for by the creamery interests,

it is being predicted by those who are

close to the commission, that the pros—

pects now are that a reduction will be

recommended.



There is already a growing demand

for the repeal of the flexible tariff act

of 1922. Instead of taking the tariff

out of politi-cs, it has been the means

of keeping the country agitated and

business in uncertainty, proving ex-

pensive to producers without any com-

pensatin-g benefits.





THE TRADE COMMISSION MAY EN-

FORCE TRUTH-lN-FABRIC IDEA.





 





OMPLAINT has been made by the



federal trade commission against

a New England mill manufacturing

blankets, and its New York selling

agent, because of its alleged practice

of labeling its blankets containing no

wool whatever, “Wool Finish,” with-

out indicating on such labels the whol-

ly cotton composition of the materials.



The commission charges unfair

methods of competition in the, mis-

branding of blankets, in that the label-

mg is false and deceptive, and mis-,

leads a substantial part of the pur-

chasing public into the belief that the

respondent’s cotton blankets are com-

posed wholly or in. ”that wool.



The case suggests a possiibie lead

whereby wool growers night by es:

Wishing the fact that the general

“new m‘u’ 3m ‘ "





 

 





'5,000 dairy cows.





the led-g _.





 





eral trade commission in part, at least,

the results they have sought to obtain

through truth-in-fabrics legislation.





WASTEFUL FEEDING IMPOSSIBLE.





 





VERFEEDING, whether it be live



stock or land, doesn't pay. When

a steer is given too much feed per day

he fails to make enough extra gain to

pay fer the extra feed he consumes.

When too much fertilizer is put on

potatoes the last units of fertilizer do

not increase the yield enough to pay

for their cost, and so on through the

line of stock feeding or crop produc-

tion. It is necessary that farmers be

on the watch to see that they are us-

ing the right quantities of feed or fer-

tilizer or spraying material to give

them the largest profits.





DISCOVER NEW METHOD OF LO-

CATING BAD FARM PRACTICES.





 





NEW bulletin, “Input as Related



to Output in Farm Organization

and Cost of Production Studies,” Soon

to be issued by the department of ag-

riculture, describes a. method that spe-

-cialists in the bureau of agricultural

economics have discovered to measure

diminishing returns under farm condi-

tions based upon actual experience of

farmers. -



In a recent farm management sur-

vey records were obtained covering

farm results. for milk production by

The'analyzing of

these figures by the “input and out:

put” method revealed facts which

would have taken years of experi-





. mental and many thousands of dollars





to find out by old methods, facts worth





   





 





"'costs and increase profits. , .‘ I;

W

EASTERN APPLE GROWERS T0

' FEAST THIS FALL. ' ‘





 





PROSPECTS for the eastern apple 1»-

growers are exceptionally rosy" '

this season. That prices for wall "





packed barrel apples will maintain a





higher level than for some years is a .

fwegone conclusion, providing noth-'





ing serious comes to interiere with

the time honored Iaw of supply and

demand.



The eastern barrel apple area shows

a slight decrease of three and one-half

per cent from the 18.508.000 barrel

total for the 1923 crop. The western

box area estimate indicates a decrease

of twenty-three per cent from last

year’ s 15, 795 000 barrel crop, assumhg

that three boxes equal one barrel tor

purposes of comparison.





 





FARMERS APT STUDENTS IN:

ECONOMICS.





 





ARMERS are making remarkable



progress in adopting modern busi-

ness methods, according to H. M. Dix-

on, in charge "of the farm manage-

ment extension work of the bureau of

agricultural economics, who has re-

turned from a. trip through Ohio, Min-

nesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas.

’ The more important lines of exten-

sion activities in this area is centered

upon farm accounting on the whole

farm business, cost accounting on par-

ticular enterprises, development of

material to aid in better correlation of

extension programs, and dissemina-

tion of timely economic information.

Mr. Dixon Worked with a committee

composed of R. F. Taber, of Ohio;

Lyman Robertson, of Indiana, and W.

Y. Calvert, of Minnesota, in bringing

the extension program for the corn

belt up to date.





HAY RECEIVED AT CHICAGO TO

BE FEDERAL INSPECTED.





 





ALL. hay receivers in Chicago are



now having federal inspection

made of all hay received by them.

The Chicago Hay Exchange was or-

ganized in the fall of 1922, by_six

large dealers in that city to cooperate

with the Federal Bureau of Agricul-

tural Economics in providing federal

hay inspection in Chicago. On May

1, 1923, these dealers agreed to have

all of their hay inspected in- consider-

ation of a. slight reduction in the

charge for inspection. Since then oth-

er dealers have made similar agree-

ments, and word has been received by

the hay inspection service office in.

Washington that several other deal-

ers have signed agreements of this

kind.





IRONTNG OUT GRAIN TRADE DIS.

PUTES.





 





URING the fiscal year of I924gthe





D grain division of the bureau of agri- ~





cultural economics, handled 24,905 ap—

peal under the United States grain

sta dards act, of which 16,946 were on

wheat, 5,260 on corn, 1,357 on oats, and

1,342 on rye. The licensed inspector’s

grade which was appealed from was

changed by the grain supervisor in

44.3 per cent of the appeals, thirty-

nine per cent of the grades being rais-

ed, 51.6 per cent lowered, and 12.6 per,

cent changed in color, class or sub-

class. For the fiscal years 1917 to

1924, there has been turned into the

United States Treasury as nusoellan-

eous receipts, $223,468, representing

fees for handling appeals and dis-mites.





' Switzerland um prleeof mm ‘





land hasbe'come mum higher than

Its productive value Mina, ..





   

 

   





   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





   

 





   

 





 

   

 





 

 

   

   

   





._ .V...,4~ \._-
HAVE come to _.tb;e conclusion that -

. *5 it, paysfto ”sell fat poultry. even? if

:. ; " the; cost of ,‘fattening- is equal ftp

] " the increases} returns. Buyers like

, . moderately “.fat“‘poultry. When; you

"7 soil that". type"of birds "you make

means with ydur dealers and they are

' dniious~tolbuy your stock. But the

fattening process also increases the

cash returns for the‘fowls and makes

a profit for the poultryman. So there

__ is a double reason for fattening peni-

; try and not trying to market fowls

7 With backs like washboards.





A ration consisting of six parts corn

meal and four parts oatmeal mixed

with buttermilk forms a very satisfac-



. tory' fattening ration. .A sloppy mash

of cern meal and sour milk gives“ good

results. Poultry must be confined to

fatten readily. This reduces the exer-



, ' else and soft meat is produced in the



‘ ,- place of tough muscular tissue. Young

cockerels on the range are always run-

ning and fighting and developing their

muscles. The fattening proceSs great-

ly improves the quality of the meat,

whether they are sold as broilers or

roasters.





I raise both Barred Rocks and White

Leghorns and find that both my pri-

vate customers and local dealers pre-

' l fer the plump Barred Rocksrwhether

they are selecting broilers, roasters

or old hens. My local dealer who

i handles the bulk-of my poultry meat

I ‘ will not take the Leghorns when he

can obtain other stock. He will not

buy thin Leghorns at any time but he

will» occasionally take fat Leghorns.

1' He says that thin ’Leghorn broilers

' have a tendency to develop a blue car-

cass after hanging in the market re-



‘1 I frigerator for a few days.





 





 

 

 





This year we have used quite a num-

ber of Leghorn icockerels for fryers

and broilers and have found them very

fine in quality. But they were plump

Leghorns which had- grown rapidly be-

cause of a growing mash and all the

scratch grain they would clean up: We

have sold these plump Leghorns to

private customers who ' have liked-

them as well as the Rocks.





I now feel that much of the preju-

dice against LeghOrn broilers has been

due to selling too many skinny Leg-

horns, just' to get rid of them. I do

not know exactly how much profit can

be made by the general fattening of

Leghorn broilers but it would make

their sale much easier. It would also

give city buyers a more friendly feel-

ing toward the Leghorn cockerel broil-

er. Even ,if the cost of confining and

feeding the birds for ten days was

equal to the increased cash returns,

there might be some profit in the fact

that buyers would enjoy eating the

product. I find plump White Leghorn

broilers almost like frogs’ legs, and a

great treat. But no one can be blamed

for not buying skinny Leghorn broil-

ers. The carcass is not attractive and

the buyer feels there is too much

head, feet and bones for the amount

of edible meat.





With all kinds of market poultry it

costs money to build the bony frame

and decorate it with head, feet and

feathers. But it is the drum stick,

thigh and the meaty breast that looks

good on the platter. If those parts are

not of high quality the carcass does

not rank high as poultry meat.



As long as eggs are the most profit-

able feature of the poultry business it



(Continued on page 234).





j i ‘ Agriculture Turns Corner





Dr. Friday Gi've Hir Opinion on tile Farming Situation





l : N his return from the sixth an-



: nual meeting of the American.



‘ Association of Joint Stock Land

} Banks, in Chicago, Secretary W. W.

l Powell reports that the joint stock

land banks are developing along safe,

conservative lines, giving satisfaction

to their farmer patrons and proving

to be a useful factor in the farm loan

system.



The leading feature of this meeting

was the discussion of agricultural

. prices and values by Dr. David Friday,

‘1 of Washington. It was the belief of



{‘5 Dr. Friday that the men who know

} history are not inclined to hysteria

3' because of such agricultural depres-

* sions as we have just‘ passed through.

l, 'He believes that American agriculture

'3 has just turned a corner, and is now

I started on a long period of prosperity.

; : In 1879 and again in 1896, agriculture

4 . and agricultural prices took the same



turn which cotton took last year and

which wheat, corn and hogs are taking

this year. The revival, both in the

farmer’s prosperity and in general

' business which came with the turn in

-', prices in 1879, lasted for five years.

After 1897 it continued for seventeen

; years until 1924. ‘

f The general trend of prices was up-

, 4.; ward from 1897 until 1910, and held

l the level reached in that year. “Farm

1

l





. 1,





prices,” says Dr. Friday, “advanced

more rapidly thrdughout these years

than did the prices of other commod-

ities at wholesale. During these sev-

enteen years American agriculture at-

.itained a position of quite unusual

prosperity. The standards of rural life

reached a level never befOre enjoyed

over any [extended time by any large

body of agricultural producers. ‘





 

 

 





 





{porters are of the same mind.





EKW





phenomenal rise in the price of cotton,

wheat and corn. It is a hopeful sign

for the future of. agriculture that this

increase has not come about as the

result of any political action, but of

more fundamental causes which are

likely to continue for some years.”





Dr. Friday bases his predictions as

to the coming prosperity of agricul-

ture on the grounds that the number

of farms and the people engaged in

agriculture have declined since 1910.

The number of acres of improved land

is only slightly larger. The farmers

who fed 60,000,000 city folks fourteen

years ago must feed 80,000,000 today.

There is no likelihood that the supply

of their products will outrun demand.

The likelihood is rather that it will

increase barely as rapidly as the

mouths to be fed. We Will, therefore,

have a duplication of the situation

which prevailed from 1897 on, with

rising prices for farm products.



Comments on Dr. Friday’s address

by Washington farmer representatives

are not all so highly optimistic con-

cerning the future of agriculture. As

one points out, a reduction in number

of farmers or in domestic agricultural

production will not solve the problem

of profitable farming, unless a tariff

wall is maintained that will protect

our farmers from ruinous fereign com—

petition. Manufacturers who are de-

manding cheap food for their workers,

areyopposed to agricultural tariffs. Im-

It will

require the most strenuous efforts of

the farmers and those who represent

agriculture, to retain the present tariff

rates.



With the farmers in possession of

the home market, and a cessation of

farm land expansion. by irrigation and





. drainage, it is believed that Dr. Fri-

s might be realized in ‘





day's prediction





 

 





 





It,





 





 





Try one, ,

Kelly Commercial Cord

on. your car or truck





So far as we know, there never

has been built another pneumatic tire

with the;_wearing qualities of the

Kelly Commercial Cord.





First developed to meet the need

for a dependable truck tire, it gave

such amazing service that people

who were using it demanded it in

passenger sizes, too.





It is now made in sizes from

30 X 3V2 to 40 X 8 and in every size

you will find the extra strong side-

walls, the tough, massive tread and

the reinforced shoulders that have

plaCed the Commerical Cord in a class

by itself. ,





Whether your driving is done over

good roads or bad, if you want a sturdy,

rugged tire that will outwear any tire





mercial Cord on our recommendation.





, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co.





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L! luL 'l's...l|"vl. y» .:
DETERMINEs PEAR Fromm-o

TIME. , , ' ‘





 





NE of the' horticulturists at. the



Oregon Experiment Station has

developed a new method of testing

pears to determine the proper time

for picking.



The device is a .“pressuretester"

which is inserted in the pear at its

largest diameter; The pressure regis-

tered by the tester indicates. if the

pear is ready for picking. The greener

the pear, the greater is the presSure.





It has been determined that a reg-_





istered pressure of thirty-five pounds

is about right‘for picking Bartletts,

and the lowest pressure at which it is

safe to pick them is twenty-five

pounds, as below that the pear is too

soft for shipping purposes.



In a practical way the tester is used

on a dozen or more pears in an or-

chard, or section of it, and the aver-

age of the tests taken to indicate the

picking time. .



This method is now being used in

the pear growing sections of Wash-

ington and Oregon, and' it is thought

that the practice may be extended to

determining the picking time of other

fruits.





HORT EXHIBIT'AT STATE FAIR A

CREDIT TO MICHIGAN.





 





CEANA county runs first in the



county fruit exhibits at the Mich-

igan State Fair of 1924. In eleven

years at‘ Detroit, Oceana has Only

been defeated twice. These defeats

were by Oakland county in two well-

remembered contests. The veteran

fruit show man, Mr. James H. Billing,

of Hart, is responsible for the exhibit.

‘Their design was a rug pattern of 150

boxes and 180 plates.



Kent county was a close second in

the ’24 contest, losing by three points.

Their design was a liberty bell of ap-

ples, bordered by apples in flats. Mr.

Charles McCarthy, of Grand Rapids,



. put up the Kent county exhibit. Mr.

McCarthy has graduaily risen in eight

years from a minor exhibit to a. Close

contestant for first: '



Other counties winning are as fol-

lows: Allegan, third; Van Buren,

fourth; Ingram, fifth; Isabella, sixth.



The farm exhibits consisting of

fruits borne on a single farm was won

by Ray C. Newton, 013 Hart, son of an-

other veteran frui’t exhibitor and for-

mer head of the horticultural depart-

ment of the fair, Mr. H. S. Newton.



In another important class, the fif-

teen—box exhibit of commercial apples,

Farley Brothers, of Albion, won first.

This place was won by Hall Orchard

Co., of Belding, last year, and has be-

come a closely contested class.



The plate and box exhibits of single

varieties occupied the usual space. All

winter fruit was small and poorly col-

ored. The prominent winners are:

George E. Chatfield, of South Haven,

showing especially well in pears; Mr.

J. P. Munson, of Grand Rapids, won

largely in grapes: Farley Brothers won

many prizes with superior apples. The

exhibitors from Kent and Oceans. took

most of the prizes.



Although fruit is late, the ’24 en

hibit was a credit to Michigan’s place

in the horticultural worla.-—~Uobb.





KEEPING THE KEIFER PEAR.





T HE Keiffer pear goes down rapid'ly

if stored in a warm room. A tom-

peratuse of from thirty-three to thirty-

eight degrees F. is the best for winter

pears. ~ A cellar that is a little damp

‘wili make a good storage place for

pears and help to keep the skin from

.xbecoming too tough and leathery, as





A 7 rune case whenlthe fruit-is wilted“ ‘.





 





 





Muse 'of a dry storage "mom.



Itpays to pick pears about ten. days

before they are thoroughly ripe. After

ripening, the starch in the fruit chang-

es. to sugar and this process must be

held back as long as possible by the

early picking and the cool moist stor-

age. Avoid all bruises and mechanical

injuries in picking pears if they are

to be placed in storage;



Pears that ate individually wrapped

in paper will keep better than pears

that rub against each other in crate-s

or baskets. The wrapping keeps fun-

gous spores from one specimen which

may rot from rapidly spreading tokthe

other fruit. It also keeps the pears





 





he f f In 1" ,

Ian r115 e .,.u§’e‘.,‘





N iCely- wrapped pears 2m, a





 





ankle





 





 





in} storage. In, my mesfiwhcsefthe

pearshav‘e been picked and dumped

in the editor for storage their keeping

qualities can be, greatly improved by

resorting and wrapping ail, of the best.

fruit in separate papers? ~





 





an) or: CABBAGE





GETTING

,, ‘ ' WORM’S.





 





S EVERAL times the question has

been asked as‘to how to get rid of

cabbage worms. My way of getting,

rid of worms is safe, and sure to get

the worms. Mix equal parts of wood

ashes and table salt. Then early in

the morning, while the dew is still on,

the cabbage, sprinkle this (m the cab-

bage with the fingers. The worms will

disappear.—Mrs. E. R. Robinson.





 





NEWS





 





LEVERLAN I‘





FRDM





 





 





 





ESTABLISH Es FOX FARM.





 





FOX farm has been established



by Chippewa business men four

miles out from the S00. It was re-

ported that about $35,000 was invested

in the enterprise. The object is to

care for and house foxes for the com-

pany, as well as for individual owners.





WATCHING THE POULTRY BUSI-

NESS.





 





MONG the many duties of County

Agent McMillan. of Chippewa

county is the supervision of several

poultry demonstration farms where

records of egg production, feed, equip

ment, costs, egg and meat sales are

being kept. When these records are

completed, they will be assembled

with reports from other poultry farms

in the state for the purpose of getting

first-hand information on the cost of

producing poultry products.

It is expected that this work will

tend to increase the percentage of





 





good poultry in upper Michigan, to

improve housing facilities and feeding

methods, and to reduce cost. It is be-

lieved by exports that one-third of the

hens on the average farm do not yield

sufficient eggs to pay for their feed.





'CLEAns HALFNSECTION EACH

YEAR.





 





T the Triangle Ranch, in Dickinsor



county, around 300 acres of lam

are cleared annually. Dynamite and

tractors are employed in the clearing

operations. Beef cattle are being fea—

tured on the ranch, there now being

350 Herefords, which will be augment-

ed by 600 more this fall. The ranch

consists of 10,000 acres. -





DAIRY BUSINESS GROWS AT

RUDYARD.





 





HE farmers about Rudyard are in-

creasing their dairy herds. It has

been necessary for the creamery at

that place to increase its capacity to





 





 





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RANK H. BENNETT, or Hancock.

."has‘ been. mined as 'a. state dole

salute the National:- Dairy Exposition

to be held in. Hflwaukeefiexfiexhber

27 to October 4. Mr. Bennettflwho is

much interested in the dairy industry

in the copper country; has been a reg-

ular visitor to the dairy exposition for

many years. . ‘





 





GROW CERTIFIED sEEo.





 





OF the. thirty-two growers of certi-

fied seed potatoes in the Upper



Peninsula, eighteen live in Dickinson.

county. Following the first inspection,



only three of these fifteen fields were



rejected. -The largest of these fields



is one containing thirtyeflve acres on



the farm of A. E. Braun, near Men“

riam. ' County Agent Lansdorf reports



that 1,200 bushels oi certified seed



were planted in the county last year.





BLUEBERRY BUSINESS -WAS

GOOD.





 





HILE this was a backward sea-



son for harvesting blueberries.

about the usual quantity was taken

out of the eastern section of the penin-

sula. Railroad companies added facil-

ities this year which gave shippers

better service than has been enjoyed

heretofore.





WANT CATTLE TESTED.





 





F ARMERS of Houghton county are



petitioning the board of supervis-

ors to make provision for an anti-bo-

vine tuberculosis eradication cam-

paign. This work is now being push-

ed in other counties of the peninsula.





Farm News Items





The use of power and automatic





machinery is responsible to .a very ‘





high degree for the higher standards

of living prevailing in America.





 





The Poultry Producers’ Association

of California are finding a gradual. but

substantial, increase in the sales of

eggs at local points, the per cent thus

sold in 1921 amounting to 9.4, while in

1924 it had grown to 21.9 per cent.





 





Butter is growing more popular on

farms. The' per capita consumption

has jumped up two pounds since 1913,

to thirty-eight pounds. The average

for the country is seventeen pounds

according to figures gathered by the

department of agriculture.





 





Frank Oberst, manager, shipped 177





(decks of live stock valued at $230,000





for the Cooperative Live Stock Ship

ping Association of Breckenridge, last

year. i





In a survey made last March, Mich-

igan had 420 active farmers’ business





 





organizations.





 





There is one advantage in scrub

cows—you can milk them quicker than

the purple-blooded variety.





 





The court of appeals of the fourth

district of Ohio upholds thetobacco

growers in pooling their‘output, and

'contends that the contracts between

the growers and their associations are

binding. ‘ '





 





The head of the house who finds

himself'uneasily situated between the





' requests of the, womeni'olks for an in-

' door water Supply and “a, flattened

"pocketbook. .Would dOIWeII to ‘ ‘





 





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important ,job,”

Tawn, dairyman

_of Montcalm-county. “When the cow

tester was here, we tested the strip-

pingslfro’m one cow and feund that

they contained eleven per cent of _but—





says Chauncey





teréfat. This, further impressed us





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vof the customers.

,. Jacked in co

s and





with the importance of milking the





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cows clean.” »





'BLANK Is suns CRANK.





 





R. R. "C. BLANK, of Gratiot coun-



ty, is a sure enough sire crank.

"I tried to farm with ‘just live stock’

but found that profit can’t be secured

that way,” he said. He laid aside the

birch rod some twenty years ago. Four

years later, he bought his first Hel-

stein bull,'a year later he bought a





foundation herd‘of thirteen Blacktop-





Merino sheep, and a year later, he got

a start with pure-bred Duroc—Jersey

swine. Now all the live stock on the

farm are of pure breeding. _



Even now the sires of his various

herds and flocks are exceptionally out-

standing. Rams that head the sheep

flock have to show length and weight

of staple before they attain this pin-

nacle. The senior ram in the flock

last spring sheared twenty-nine pounds

of five-inch staple and the 203 sheep

sheared 2,150 pounds of -wool. The

boars at the head of his sow herd are

long, stretchy fellows, with unusual

depth- of side, and standing right on

the tips of their toes.



If you look over the dairy herd out

in the field, you first notice an animal

that towers away above the others.

This later appears as a 2,500 pound

bull, recently acquired. He combines

dairy type, extreme size and docility

in a mixture seldom seen.. Blank al-

ways uses a sire that someone else

has tried and found satisfactory, if he

can. Most dairymen steer clear of an

aged bull but Blank wants them, for

he can see whether they have made

good. '





 





CH EAPEN 'THE RATION.





 





P RESENT indications point to high



‘grain and forage this fall and win-

ter. Corn is already mounting and

with a short hay crop in many sec-

tions, we can look for high-priced for-

age. This means it will be necessary

.to practice economy in feeding. The

live stock keeper, as a rule, loses or

gains according to his knowledge and

method of feeding.



Silage is the best substitute for both

hay and pasture and it should be used

to the limit. The cheapest forage is

in the form of silage and as it is a

bulky ration it should be grown on

the farm and supplied in liberal quan-

tities. ‘



Silage will lower the cost of the ra-

tion, make sure a profit from the live

stock and greatly increase the value

of the crops. As a rule, a silo will pay

for itself the first year. What other

farm investment will pay one'hundred

per cent? Competition now demands

economical feeding—Al. H.





ST. LOUIS CREAMERY smps su-r.

TER PARCEL posr.





 





THE Cooperative Creamery at St.

Louis, Michigan, did a half million

dollar business last year, according to

the annual statement made by F. C.

Pernert, the manager. The bulk of

the butter made in this creamery is

shipped direct to consumers in Detroit,





.Toledo and Cleveland by parcel pest.





Shipments are made weekly; fortnight-

ly or monthly, according to the wishes

Pound cartons are

rrugated “cardboard con-



181199, 91111119. steamer-y.





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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Consumers who buy more than twenty





" pounds in one shipment, get the but-





ter at wholesale price. The price on

smaller shipments is graduated ac-

cerding to the amount taken.



This one creamery alone manufac~

tures the cream produced by about

2,600 cows and the local banker is au-

thority for the statement that the live

stock shipping association and the

creamery have combined to improve

farming about this point. "It used to

be beets and beans and decreasing

fertility,” he said. “Now it is cows

and live stock, increasing fertility an

better homes.” "





HURON COWS GIVE GOOD-

ACCOUNT.





 





- R. C. M. WAGNER has finished a

' year’s testing for the Bad Axe-

Huron Cow Testing Association, and

reports that 275 COWS averaged 278

pounds of fat and 7,313 pounds milk

for the association year.

~Sunlight, a four-year-old pure-bred

Holstein, owned by A. B. Pangborn,

was the high cow in both milk‘and

butter-fat production for the associa-

tion. Sunlight made 13,163 pounds of

milk and 495.7 pounds of fat. William

Stanton’s herd of grade Holsteins

comprising fourteen cows,- averaged

372 pounds of fat and 10,418 pounds of

milk. This was the high herd in both

milk and fat production. \



Nine herds produced better than 300

pounds of butter-fat, while the three

poorest herds averaged 5,955 pounds

milk and 211 pounds fat.





MEMBERS ARE STRONG ON LEG-

UMES.





 





HE Cass County Cow Testing As-



sociation held a re-organization

and continuation meeting at the farm

of Jones & Aldridge at Cassopolis.



A beautiful silver cup was presented

to the owner of the high herd in fat

production for the cow testing associ-

ation year and the proud possessor of

this cup for the first year is Mr. Jones.

This cup was donated by a Cassopolis

bank. The Jones & Aldridge herd av-

eraged 423.8 pounds fat and 8,789.3

pounds milk for the association year.

It is composed of grade and pure-bred

Guernseys.





A similar cup was furnished by an-

other Cassopolis bank and was won by

Charles Bonine. Mr. Bonine had the

high cow in butter-fat production. His

cow Blossom, a grade Guernsey seven

years old, made 11,168 pounds milk

and 529.7 pounds of fat.



Henry nylie, the cow tester, gave

his annual report and indicated that

450 acres of alfalfa were in use among

the twenty-six association members.





, Two hundred twenty acres of new al~





falfa were sown this year. Likewise,

165 acres of soy—beans are being grown

this season, and twenty-five acres of

sweet clover are being used for pas-

ture. Sweet clover is being seriously

considered by many of the other mem-

bers and 100 acres of new seeding

have been put in.





The association decided to continue

for its third year and hired Mr. Albert

Morley as tester. A. C. Baltzer, dairy

extension specialist, was present and

gave some facts regarding the 100

cow testing associations operating in

the state.





 





Data just compiled show that the

average consumption ‘of milk and

cream on. farms ten years ago was

seventy-two gallons, as compared with

the present use of eighty-one gallons

per year per person. In cities this

consumption is much lower since the

average for the‘whole country is but

fifty-three gallons per capita.





 





 

 





 





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LAST CALL





ment land.

16,000 feet or _more to the car.





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I This startling ofi'er is made he-





. . . cause we must vacate Govern-

Prlce is for good sound seasoned lumber in carload lots of

. . Includes flooring, ceiling, dro siding,

sheathing, 2x4 2x6, 2x8’s 111 lengths up to and includmg 8 feet. ‘





   





 





air pro-





portion of each length guaranteed. No orders accepted for specified lengths





at the $9.00 price.





This price good only while present surplus stock is on





hand. Orders filled promptly as received. Suitable for all sorts of farm, out

buildings, elevator cribbing and general repair work.





Along with the Remarkable Value Above





We offer lumber In regular specilled lengths at the lowest prices. All sound, season-

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14 ft. lengths, per thousand ft.. . . . 17.00

16 ft. lengths, per thousand lt.. . . . 19.00





18 it. lengths, thousand-ft“ . . . 20.00

20 It. lengths, 3 thousand lt.. . . . 22.00





These Prices are for Carload Lots of 16,000 feet or more to the car.





for mixed ’carloads.





guaranteed freight prepaid prices.





Include Some of These Bargains with Your Carloadl





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Dept.-—CF—~ 42 , I

Box 1468 Columbia, South Carolina





 





. hree or four small orders loaded in same car——

.each order kept separate. Freight rates very reasonable. Approximately 89.00 or $10.00 pays

the freight on 1000 feet, nearly 1000 miles in any direction from Camp. '





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Flooring spoclolly selected, per thou-

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Timbers,4x4 and 6x6, per thousand it. 15.00

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Don’t take our word for it,

but compare the Embur with

any other lantern and ju ge for

yourself.



No. 160for.$1.50, (except in

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and is wmd-, dust-, dirt- and

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There’s an Embury for every

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ORDER FROM YOUR DEALER

If, he has none in stock, we

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Even hogs on pasture are subject to

Worms, Necrotic Enteritis and Stomach

Troubles. All hogs, sick or well, need:





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to keep them healthy, thrifty and profitable. It can be

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of my fall pigs had died from Necrotic Enteritis. Since I

commenced feeding Semi—Solid 1 have not lost another pig,”

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, .HE writer lives on a gravel road,-

a state. reward road which is





much appreciated. There are a ‘





lot of farmers living on similarfroads.

But a situation has developed which}

ought to be remedied. Every summer

there are dry times when the roads

are very dusty. Next summer the sit;

nation/will be the same, and that is

why this article is written.



On Sundays, holidays and pleasant

evenings the auto traffic on main line

roadsis very heavy. It means that





.the farm yard and the farm home are

”drenched with dust so that it is im-





possible to remain outside. and the

house must be entirely closed to keep

out the dust.





When the wind is blowing in your

direction you and your live stock are

about asphyxiated during the periods

of heavy traffic. When the wind

changes your neighbor across the road

has the same experience. When there

is no wind the dust hangs in a dense

cloud over the road asit is constantly

churned into the air by passing speed-

ers. The careful drivers at a moder-

ate speed scarcely make a ripple along

the road, While the speeders churn up

the dust like a dense smoke.



A farmer on a main highway with a

gravel road cannot invite friends out

to spend Sunday until he knows the

direction of the wind. You do not wish

to subject them to unhealthful.condi-

tions. You had much rather lock up

the house and hurry to town and visit

with some friend on a quiet street who

does not have to eat and breathe the

contents of a dirt road all day.





Here is the situation. Dirt roads in

the country cannot be sprinkled like

city streets but they can be salted

down so that the dust menace will be

reduced. While the state is thinking

of spending more money for roads it

might be well to lay aside a fund that

will guarantee less dust on the main

traveled roads. If the entire road can-

not be treated it would help to use

salt, at least in front of farmers’

homes, for at least a few hundred feet.





If present methods of laying the

dust are all too unsatisfactory it will

pay to make more experiments along

that line. I have talked with several





Jay-R. G.“Ki§5y '





.road men who say that they cannot

.keep the dirt .in' sections of many





roads because it is blownout so, fast

by motorists. My farm is not large,

but must contain several barrels of

dirt that really belong in the main

highway. I think I have eaten nearly

a nail keg full while doing my chores

around the poultry houses on dusty

Sunday evenings.



It seems as if it‘is about time for

farmers living on these dirt roads to

make a complaint to the right parties

and see if something cannot be done

about the dust problem. If a large

number ,kick it may do some good.- It

seems as if the complaint is just.



The writer does not like to be a,

kicker. He likes country life and a.

home on the farm and expects to stay





.if he has to wear a gas mask to keep

from choking. However, I think the





problem can be solved so that condi-

tions will be better next year. But a

lot of us must not be satisfied just to

learn that nothing can be done about

it. Something can be done on every





' main traveled state reward road if the





farmers get under way and make de-

mands strong enough. Otherwise the

farm atmosphere'will be unhealthy in

summer on the dirt road and the dust

nuisance will _ become worse every

year.





FARMERS’ ELEVATOR SERVES

“ COMMUNITY.



HE Farmers’ Elevator at Brecken~

ridge did $780,000 worth of busi-

ness last year. They shipped 249 car-

loads of beans alone. This elevator,

organized in 1913, has lost money but

one year of its operation. One year,

in order to give its old stockholders

an equity in the property that had

been accumulated before ,new stock

was issued, it declared a 100 per cent





 





. stock dividend. Counting this, in the





ten years it hasbeen operating, it has

paid back 222 per cent on the invest-

ment. M. W. Muscott has managed

the elevator since it was organized.





 





The practical schools of cow-weed-

ing, the testing associations, are mul-

tiplying in numbers and in the volume

of milk produced by the tested herds.





Hall of Honor m Testing Association:





The following tables show the ten high cows in the respective age classes in the Michigan Cow' Test.





ing Associations reporting for the monthy of July.





These are the highest





butter-fat producers in the





respective classes in eighty—seven associations reporting.

Mature Cows—Five Years and Over.





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





Assoriation and Owner. Brecd. Date Fresh. Lbs. Milk. Lbs. Fat.

North Van Buren, T. C. Tidebolll ......... . ........... (PB 11) 3—23-24 2,480.0 99.2

(‘alhoun, Lakewood Dairy .................... (PB 11) 0-30-24 2,310.0 95.8

Sanilac N0. 2. Glen Clarkson.. ........ (GB. 11) 7- 4-24 1,000.0 94.4

Marquetthlger, J. B. Deutsch (PB G) 4 19—24 1,071.0 87.0

llillsdale No. l, M. Spear ..... (P1511) 3—20-24 1098.0 85.7

Ilillsdalo No, 1. M. Spear... (PB H) 4-20-24 1,770.0 83.5

Iron, Wills Brothers ............................. (PB 11) 6-15—24 2,191.7 83.3

Oceiimi, E. 0. Anderson .............................. (PB 1) 5- 0-24 1,220.0 82.9

ulonia-Bclding. State Hospital .......................... (GR. H) 4—25-24 2,309.0 _ 82.4

Jackson—Partner, Charles Smith . ...................... (GR H) 0- 1-24 1,803.0 80.1



Under Five Years.

Gratiot~N0rth, George Davis ......... . ................ (GR J) 5-16—24 1,553.1 82.3

Kent-West Alpine, George Kaber ..................... ,(l’B H) 0—10-24 1,038.0 81.5

St. Clair N0. 1, H. Stableford & Sons ............... (PB 11) 0—15-24 1,018.2 77.7

Osceola, Ray Plxley .......................... J ...... (GR H) 12—22-23 1,027.0 74.9

lIillsdalo No.1, W. Hayward .................. .. (PB J) 4-18-24 1,2(‘40 73.9

Kent—South, W. R, Harper .................. (PB 11) 3- 4—24 1,804.0 73.1

Livingston No. 2, Armstrong Brothers . (PB 1-1) 4-18-24 2,120.0 71.4

Gogebit', H. Olson ........... .. (GR G) 5-30-24 1.4-9.1 70.0

Macomb No. 1, Frank Wilcox . .. .. .. (G11. 11) 5- 6-24 1,542.0 67.8

Genesoo No. 1. F. B. Harris .......................... (GR H) ...... .. 1,052.0 67.7



Under Four Years.

Berrien, D. L. Fisher & Son ............ (PB H) 12—18-23 1,820.0 74.6

St. Clair No. 1, Mollun & Dunning ................... (PB H) 5-18—24 2,470.7 74.

Lancer, A. Iteek ........................ .... .......... (PB H) 6- 7-24 1,671.0 71.8

Eaton-North, J. B. Strange .......................... (PB H) 6—22-24 1,980.0 71.2

Montcalm. W. Hansen .................. . ............. (GR G) 5- 1-24 1,006.4 69.3

Van Burch-North, T. C. Tiedobohl ................... (PB H) 4- 4—24 2,027.0 68.9

Washtenaw-Ann Arbor, H. J. Forshee ................ (GR H) ........ 1,104.0 (30.2

Montcalm, Town Brothers ............ . ...... .. (PB H) G— 4-24 1,608.0 66.0

Kalamazoo No. 2, C. Osterhouse ............ (GR H) 1,528.0 65.7

Tuscola No. 1. A. Rawson ......... .......... . (PB H) 6—10—24 1,851.0 64.8



Under Three Years.

Ma heme-Alger, J. B. Deutsch ....................... (PB G) 12-17-23 1,283.0 58.0

Iro , George Jayne .................................. (Mixed) 7- 2—24 1,4322 57.3

Van Burch-North, '1‘. C. Tiedebohl .............. (PB H) 3- 9-24 1,732.0 57.1

Livingston No. 3. N. H. Chestnut ..................... (PB H) ........ 1,860.0 55.8

Livingston No. 3, N. H. Chestnut ..................... (PB H) .. 1,897.0 gig

Calhoun. Lakewood Dairy ............................. (PB H) 0‘- l-24 1,630.0 2.

Genesee No. 2, 0. Clutch ........................... (GB D) 6-21-24 1,032.0 51.6

Lancer-North. W. B. Wilson .............. . ............ (GR H) 5-24—24 1,170.0 50.6

Marquette—Alger, J. B. Deutsch ...................... (PB G) 4-19—24 1.:100 20.0

-Kent-South. W. R. Harper ............................ (PB H), 3-11-24 1, 07.0 9.7





High Cows in Milk Production.





The following table shown; the ten high cows in milk

sociations reporting in Michigan for the month of July





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-' ti n nd, Owner. Breed. Date Fresh. Lbs. Milk. Lbs. Fat.

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St. Clair No. 1. Mollan & Dunning . . . . . . . . . . . . (PB H) 31221 2,4“.0 .

Calhoun, Lakew Dairy ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3 {I}; 2:18:24 2.‘ 6‘0 _

Hillsdale No. 1.1)..Spear .......... ............--..... (PBH) 5' 5‘24 .921,





Calhoun, Lakewood Dairy



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F f ANY farmers have recently- dis-





> tion specialists. They have said,

K“Wev know‘how to produce. Tell us

how 'to sell. The two blades of grass

‘ ~ ~ theory has been wrong. We want to

know how to sell the one blade.”

I trust the time Will never come

,' when farmers earnestly desire to dis-

card the science of agriculture. Scien—

tific production is essential to prosper-

: . --.ous‘agriculture and a wealthy nation.

. l The scientific; specialists can show

,farmers how to reduce costs and how

to secure guality.

Conditions in the Michigan potato

v. industry illustrates this point. I am

sorry to relate that our potatoes fetch

. the loWest prices in the markets where

.1 ‘ they compete. ’ This is due to a defect

'1 in the potatoes. The quality is not

what the market wants. These pota-

toes. are often hollow-hearted. The

markets do not want hollow-hearted

1 potatoes. The improvement of this

‘ ‘ market depends not upon the market

' specialists but. the-production scien-

tist who can show the Michigan farm-

, er how- to grow sound potatoes. The

,x - best farmers’ market organization in

' the. world would not make it possible

' to sell these hollow-hearted potatoes

/ at top prices so long as better pota-

‘ toes could be secured elsewhere.

Profits in agriculture, it must be re-

membered, are the result of earnings

" being in excess of expenses. Or, we

' might say, it is the result of expenses

being lower than earnings. Profits can

be increased just as effectively by de-

creasing costs as by increasing in-

come. The'production specialists can

assist in this cost reduction. They





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? able farming can not result if all em-

' phasis is placed exclusively upon

either production of marketing. It

would be diastrous to agriculture if

the progress which has been made in

productive science should be discard-

ed while we are attacking the market



‘ . problems.



' The farmbr must know about mar-

kets. He should know whether he is

selling in the best market, and wheth-

er he' is producing the things which



{' will bring the best returns. In some



instances you may be overlooking a

very profitable local market and grow-

ing things which must be shipped to

distant markets and sold at world



i prices. Freight rates are high. In the



I interest of consumers and farmers

alike, produce should be grown as near

the place of consumption as possible

and thereby reduce the freight bill.



\ Our agricultural college can assist

by making studies of markets.

demands of markets, market processes

and practices, consumers’ preferences,

the most effective manner of prepar-

ing produce for market, or the fac-

tors which enter into price determina-



,-.’ \i tion is the type of information which

sound economic research ought to

make available for Michigan farmers.

It is time for the market program of

agriculture to be guided by facts in-

stead of theory. The sooner this pro-

gram is based upon facts gathered by

scientific and unbiased research the



N sooner market conditions will be im-

proved. '



Marketing has been . receiving a

great deal of attention during recent

years. This has been a fertile field in

which the propagandist has been

working. Much of the work of the

past has been based upon false theor-

ies and been sweptalong bygprejudice.



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mists to- give farmers real information

about theirwmarketing problems and

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peal to prejudice and ignorance for

selfish ends.





Real. market improvement is not go-

ing to come until the farmer really

knows about markets. This necessi-

tates the gathering of real informa-

tion, its dissemination, analysis by in-

dividual farmers, and then sound ac-

tionbased upon knowledge. The in-

dividual farmer will not-be able to do

these things by himself. This is a job

Farmers must

accomplish this through some sort of

cooperative effort. Agricultural organ-

ization is essential to the stability and

prosperity of the mass of farmers.

Only through good strong cooperative

effort which is in harmony with sound

business, social and educational prin-

ciples will agriculture ever live up to

its possibilities. And cooperation in

agriculture is not in-the least radical,

or inclined to‘ tear down our present

social structure, nor to be used as a

means to fight other classes of society.

It is merely the means whereby farm—

ers as a group can accomplish things

which they could not do individually.

It is a/constructive movement, not a

destructive one.

aged wherever and whenever there is

probability of it accomplishing good.

Those persons who point out the limi-

tations, weaknesses and mistakes of

cooperative endeavors are better

friends of the movement than those

who claim it will do everything. You

need to know about all phases of this

movement. '





We need to become better thinkers.

When the American farmer'gets to

thinking more clearly on social and

economic problems there is going to

be improvement in these fields just as

there was in the. field of mechanics,

plant and live stock improvement, and

other sciences when the torches of

thought and reason lighted the way.



The hope and future of American

agriculture lies with the farmer. I

have faith that the clean, sturdy, con-

servative mind of the farmer is quick-

ening under the impress of the active,

rapidly changing world and will re-

spond in a manner to the honor of ag—

riculture .and the welfare of the na-

tion.





NO.-QUACKING AFTER SUMMER

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HREE acres had become pretty



well seeded With quack,” says Will

Moyer, of. Midland county. “One morn-

ing the hired man and I took the wag-

on down and dug roots all the fore—

noon. The grass really grew better

than it had before. But the next year

I summer~fallowed the piece with a

solid frame cultivator, and kept the

grass from forming a single green

leaf and since then, there has been

no quack in that field.”





 





Foreigners purchased over a. million

bushel more wheat from the United

States during last month than they

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Fall plowing in November, followed!

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""3§'Hilary, mindful or" the mock flirta-

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fobuld hate you.” His glance swept

~ {the deck and reached a full stop upon



‘ a girl standing by the rail: “By jove,

‘where did she come from? Looks like

(a. Norse goddess. Sorry, but I haven’t

the pleasure of knowing her.”



- “She'll know you again," laughed

Mfrs. Cardigan with the 'quiet prova-



‘ cative insolence that distinguished her.



"Looks as if she’d like to sweep'us



all into the sea. She must be the



captain at least.”

“May be the captain’s daughter.



Ever see anything more spirited and





untamed? I’d like to paint her just

as she stands. ‘The Daughter of a

Viking.’ Gad!”





Frona Sigmund looked the part. In

her pose and bearing were the ele-

mental vigor of the sea, the buoyant

strength of a young race ,just coming

to its place in the sun. Her hair was

of _a lustrous copper, thick and wavy.

It fell in two thick ropes across the

shoulders to the waist. Something

savage gleam‘ed from the flashing eyes

that met the amused ones of Hilary

so stormily. In spite of its slender-

ness, her young lithe body promised

power in every line. Contrasted with

the group of people taking tea under

the awning, in. whose faces was writ-

ten the Twentieth Century quintes-

sence of'worldliness, this girl breathed

the note of the primitive. She was

what the wind and the sea and a life

of freedom had made her. .





Hilary guessed only vaguely the

cause of her anger. It was plain that

she resented their presence on board

the freighter. But why? Their visit

to the Santa Clara had been born of a

whim, the passing fancy of one of the

young women who had been his guests.

His man had telephoned a caterer, and

they had motored down to the wharf.

Though he owned the line of which

this ship was a unit, he had never be-

fore set eyes on the vessel. But sure-

ly he had a right to have an awning

rigged and give a little tea on the

deck of his own boat. What matter

if he did delay the sailing till next

tide?



It cannot be denied that Hilary was

rather a spoiled favorite of fortune.

Most of the good things of life had

been his without effort. At college he

had been popular, and ever' since had

been the focus of attention. It was

put the fault of capable mothers that

he had as yet escaped a dozen matri—

monial snares. No doubt he wore,

unconsciously and always amiably,

the manner of a monarch of all he

surveyed. He could not, for instance,

understand Why this young Norse

beauty should boil with rage merely

because he enjoyed his own.



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make arrangements for the affair with





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recurred, how ‘ her frank. contempt

came to him as a sort of reproach: '-



Some arrant fancy drew his 'foot-

steps toward the waterfront _ through

that lower part of the town beneath

the deadline where the derelicts‘ of

the city floated without a rudder. A

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YOU 0ng DO IT!





' By James E.





You've got your work in life to do—

‘Thc tasks that have been set for you,

And so, my friend, it’s up to you—-

Don’t let old doubting “get” you!

Erase the worry from your face:



The job—just sancly View it,



Then buckle down to win the race—'-

And know that you can do it!.





Don’t tackle something you despise,

For money, or position:



You’ll do the work, if you are wise,

That rouses your ambition!



The thing that's closest to your heart,





Hungerford





And your whole soul is in it:

The thing that's of your self a part

Is your life work—begin it! V





It may entail some sacrifice



To find the trail, and keep it,



But “go the route," and ‘pay the'price—

And keep your reward, you’ll reap it!

And when you’ve won your rightful





place,

Look down the past, and view it:

You’ll tell yourself, with smiling

face—-





“I knew that I could do it!"





 





it lacked conveniences. The careless

apology of Hilary to her father for

putting him to so much trouble had

been entirely inadequate, and the cool

negligence with which the women had

left Captain Sigmund and his daughter

out of the picture was intolerable. Did

they not know that on his own deck a

captain was supreme and an owner a

mere nobody?



Frona crossed the deck toward the

cabin, her eyes deliberately ignoring

the party under the awning. Mrs.

Cardigan stopped her. She held up an

empty plate for the girl.



“Will you bring me some more of

these biscuits, steward?” ‘



The eyes of the woman and of the

girl met. Frona read in those of Mrs.

Cardigan a hint of piquant amusement,

of malicious audacity.



The anger of the girl had been a

banked fire. Now it blazed out. She

took the plate and with one sweeping

gesture sent it sailing across the rail

into the dirty waters of the bay.



Turning on her heel, she 'walked

quickly away, the supple, erect figure

and the little clenched fists eloquent

of fury.



* It i





It was late~—or early if one counts

time by the clock—When Hilary came

out from his club into the crisp night

air. After hours of poker in a hot

room the light cool breath of wind

was refreshing.’ He waved aside the

taxi starter and strode down the

street. His rooms made no appeal to

him. Never had he felt less sleepy.

And a vague but urgent impulse was





 





bay and enwrapped the streets so that

the lights showed like blurred moons.





He could hear the distant cough of

a tug as it fussed across the bay, and

as he drew near the big Transcontin-

ental wharves the black bulk of a Jap-

anese liner rose out of the gray fog

shadow. Hilary leaned on a pile and

let his imagination people the harbor

with the wandering children of the

earth dawn from all its seafaring corn

ners to this Mecca of trade. Here he

knew were swarthy little Japenese

with teas and silks, dusty Kanakas

with copra, and adventures bound for

the distant fields of enterprise. No

doubt there was brigs from Buenos

Aires and schooners that had nosed in

to Robert Louis Stevenson’s magic is-

lands of the South Seas. Before him

in that dim fog was the romance of

the nations, and deep in innocent

sleep lay Frona Sigmund, a child of

the Vikings, who was a part of it by

inheritance from her roving ancestors.



The sound of a stealthy footfall

warned him of impending danger. He

whirled, to face two men advancing

upon him.





“What do you want?” he asked.



At the same instant Hilary caught

the gleam, of a revolver and closed

with the man holding it. The attack

was so sudden that the surprised ruf-

fian gave ground, tripped on a cleat in

the wharf flooring, and dropped the

weapon as he fell.



Though flabby from lack of exercise,

Hilary had been an athlete in his

school days. He gave to the footpads





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.. when one of the men, thumped his}





head down liar-don: a heavy iron chain

and Hilary- 'lapsed into. unconscious-





ness.





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from a long distance.





Voice~fl0ated many to Hilary is if





"Might as well go through with it.

He’ll never know who shipped him,"





one was saying.





“Learn him not to, be a blyme fool,





next time he’s held up." ~ , -





“He’s coming to,” a third voicesaid.

Hilary opened his eyes. He had just

time to see that he was fin a small,

cheap room back of a saloon when





someone thrust a bottle to his lips.

“Drink this, pal,” he was ordered.

He drank obedientl‘y.

“That dope’ll' hold him for a. while.





We’ll get him right .. out to Bully





Blair.”





This was the last that Hilaz'yheard





before he fell asleep.

* * *





When Hilary awoke it was daylight.





His head throbbed painfully and when

he turned on his side he groaned from





the discomfort of sore muscles.





It





took his surprised mind some mo-





ments to identify the vile hole in

which he lay as the forecastle‘of a

~ship. Gradually the facts sifted back

to him, the fight with the footpads and

the drink in the saloon. They must,

of course, have drugged his whiskey.

But Why? They had his money and

his watch. What more did they want?

Stiffly he‘rose from the bunk where

he lay, and came to a new surprise.

He was dressed in sailors’ slops, a

dirty and greasy outfit that offended

greatly his fastidious taste. His un-

derwear was coarse and foul. The

rough, cheap boots hurt his feet. Holes

gaped in the trousers and the shirt.

A self-respecting tramp would have

scorned such a garb. '

Evidently the ship was on the high

seas, for it rolled a good deal. By a

succession‘ of tacks Hilary reached the

scuttle and climbed to the deck. Under

a wintry sun he clung miserably to

the hatchway, acutely aware that he

had never felt so wretched in his life.

The steamer was plunging forward

into choppy‘seas. He tasted on his

.lips the salt tang of flying spray. The

singing cordage and the creaking

blocks would have told him they were

driving along fast even if the heeling

of the boat and the smoke pouring

from the funnel had not made it plain.

A long, lank figure paced the upper

deck, occasionally bellowing an order

in a tremendous voice like the rear of

a bull. Hilary tested his sea legs and

moved toward the oflicer, who chewed

tobacco and paid not the least atten-

tion to him.

“What ship is this?”

Hilary. -

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to select the twelve apostl'es, He pray-

(Luke 6.12). He prayed

before and during His transfiguration.

He prayed for Simon Peter. He prayed

These are

all recorded in Luke. Today’s lesson

speaks of Him as rising before day-

light to pray. Why the Son of Man

and Son of God should thus devote

himself with such assiduity to prayer

it is bootless to inquire. We do not

know all the reasons. One thing we

do know, that he emptied himself, to

use Paul’s phrase, and became man.

That alone will explain most of the

questions which rise in our minds in

One fact stands out

like a mountain: Christ prayed.





Would it be correct to say of the

modern followers of Christ that they

do not pray, to

the extent they

should? There

are many unex-

plained things

. about prayer. But

Christ made all

his teaching on

this very simple.

He told the story

of the widow who

came repeatedly to the unjust judge,

until she pestered him almost to death‘,

and he said he would have to do

something. In other words, Christ

says we must keep at our praying, and

not pray a bit and stop. Further, he

teaches that if a corrupt judge can be

appealed to ,at last, how much more

can a just and loving heavenly Father

be appealed to, to listen to our needs?

In the lesson for this week Christ

prayed before starting out on an im—

portant missionary tour.





 





HE reason why so few people pray



to any extent is because it is not

easy. There are difficulties and bind-

rances not easily surmounted. VVan-

dering thoughts are a hindrance. While

you pray, your thoughts are speeding

in a dozen directions

My words fly up, thoughts remain be-





low

Words Without thoughts

heaven can go





Another difficulty is' lack of time.

And still another, that we are not in

the mood of prayer, when we wish we

were. Again, there is the problem of

unanswered prayers, which disturbs

many good people. And once more,

false ideas of God keep many people

back from satisfactory prayer.



The following words on prayer are

helpful: “We do more for ourselves

by entering into the mood of prayer

than by entering into any other mood

whatever. For in the mood of prayer

we desire to come into contact with

God, to hear Him, to offer ourselves to

Him. The mood of prayer always sets

your heart going. From a real prayer

we always rise with a deeper love in

our hearts for other people. And it

sets our souls in action. It gives a

new inspiration, a new desire to do the

good works which God has prepared

for us to walk in.”



“They say unto Him, all are seek-

ing Thee.” They probably did not

know exactly why they were seeking

him. But the something we call life

was in Him, and the hungry souls

sought it, as animals go miles for wa-

ter in time of drought.





never to





ET us go into the next towns.”

Jesus was an evangelist. He went

from place to place preaching. It was

well said by someone: “God had but

one son, and He made him a minis-

ter.” The preaching profession is not





_thought of as highly as it was once.





Time was, when godly parents dedi-

cated their son to the ministry at





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would some day enter the pulpit. Not

so. now. There isn’t enough money

in it! The pressure of the modern

ideals of success and,getting ahead, is

not favorable to leading young men

into the ministry. And ‘yet the best

ministers come from farm and village

homes. And, of course, there is defi-

nite antagonism to Christianity .. and

the church, among certain classes.

The letter below illustrates this. Rev-

erend J. J. Parish, of Minnesota, has

five sons, all ministers. He has been

congratulated by people from coast to

coast, on the fact that his boys have

all devoted themselves to the Chris-

tian ministry.





Along with these letters of felicita-

tion came another, from New York,

which runs as follows: “As a produc-

ing American, it is with much chagrin

that I learn, through the New York

Times, that another American has

given to his country five big, husky

sons, all of whom are non-producing,

grafting parasites, known as ‘minis-

ters’, or ‘preachers,’ worse than noth-

ing at all. What a'detestable contri-

bution you have made to society, Mr.

Parish—five big, husky, non-producing

parasites, living off the sweat of a lot

of gullible and ignorant dupes. Better

one tiller of the soil, one builder, one

teacher, one miner, one rancher, than

five big, lazy, non-producing bums,

otherwise known as ‘men of God,’ or

preachers! Mere consumers of what

others less dishonest and less lazy

produce.” This evidently is from the

pen of a red of some sort. There are

not a few atheist Sunday Schools in

different parts of the country which

teach the children that God does not

exist, Christ was an impostor, immor-

tality is a hoax, and so forth.





Over against this Christ said that

He came to preach. He was a mis-

sionary. He did not feel that to be a

wholesaler of religious truth was to be

a “big, husky, non-producing bum.”

The preaching which issued from His





‘ lips has changed the face of the world

to a very large extent, and it has as;





yet only begun to function. Chris-

tianity is young, not old. It is getting

its hold, not losing it.





BUT to return to preachers and

preaching, which so offends the

highsouled idealism of the bolshevist

correspondent. Preaching looks fool-

ish. (Some of it is). Paul speaks of

the foolishness of preaching. But that

is very different from the preaching of

foolishness. When Paul died, his life,

ended by the executioner, looked like

failure. But it was not. He had scat-

tered germs of life and truth which

ate their way into the heart of the

Roman world.





When Wesley died, he left two sil-

ver teaspoons and some books to his

heirs. N0 contesting that estate. But

he left more. Besides the thousands

of individual lives touched and chang-

ed by his message, on the heels of his

life work, came the reforms of the

century: Prison reform, the employ-

ment of children in English factories,

and the fight against slavery, which

ended first in the abolition of the slave

trade in Great Britain, and later in

America. Not much advance had been

made in the war against drunkenness.

But it was coming. The church had

no missionary consciousness, any-

where. People seemed to be content

to get their own precious souls saved.

But soon men were looking to the

far fields of the Orient, and planning

to go there, in the name of their

Christ.





 





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Dept. No. 3. P. 0. Box 1207. Lancaster. 1'11. ..
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Last time the cow tester came to

our farm, ten cows reacted. I was

‘ ready to cry. When he. came in for

dinner he had the nerve to say he

always did enjoy coming here.



Mary Jane who lives in town says

she’d give anything to live on a'farm,

because then she wouldn’t have any

neighbors.



“What’s the matter with neigh-

bors ?” I inquired. ' .



“Well,” said she, “Our new neigh-

bors have a boy just Sonny’s age.

Whenever her son gets into mischief,

she always says, “Why Joel never ev-

en thought of doing things like that

until we came here to live.”





 





Our hired man says he has at last

figured out why they show fur coats

in the summer time. It’s to give the

women plenty of time to start teasing

for them.





 





When-Sue had a sick spell lately,

and had to go to a hospital her hus-

band thoughtfuly installed a radio be-

side her bed. When I went to visit

her, I remarked that it must be a

great comfort to her. .



She looked around to see that no

one was listening and then whispered,

“I hate the thing and if a chance came

I’d throw it out.”



‘ That seemed funny to me until she

explained. It seems that the doctor,

nurses and all her visitors are more

interested in the radio than they are

in her. She doesn’t even get'a chance

to describe her pains. She says the

nurses take her temperature “listening

in,” that her husband tunes in all the

time whenever he comes to see her,

and that the last time she asked the

doctor how she was getting along he

said, “All right, but really your set

needs amplification.”





 





We owe the Howard Smiths a num-

ber of Sunday dinners but it seems

that they aren’t ever able to leave

the farm. If Howard thinks its going

to be a nice day they can’t come be—

cause a bull buyer might drive over,

and when its rainy they can’t come

because a bull buyer might not be able

to work on his own farm and might

.come over.





WHEN MOTHER IS COMPANY.





 





'HIS plan I find works well in get-

ting the children to do their part

of the housework. First, I do not com-

mand, for I find they had rather feel

they are doing a favor. So I ask them

if they will or would like to do so and

so for me.

Each week one of them takes over

.. house-keeping so as to give my mind

i . a rest from household worries. The

(rest of us are hired help and do the

Work, with the housekeeper’s direc-

grams and help. The next week let

someone else be housekeeper.

A 'The feature enjoyment will be that

one day of their running the house

they can give a company dinner, I and

the rest of the family to be the com-

perry. Of course, we are hired help





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until the dinner is ready, and get the

dinner according to the orders from

the housekeeper. .



You will be surprised how readily

each girl takes her share of the work.

Even, my boys want their share of the

work, carrying water, setting table and

emptying slops, and really enjoy it.—

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human family. It only remains for

you to select wisely the diet of your

child, and he cannot develop rickets.





Needle Art Exhibits F illed.‘





Better Baéy Context Draw: Crowd:





Y SYCKLE said the fair was the



best place he knew to get tired,



and as usual Hy’s philosophy is

quite correct. With the many exhibits

which demonstrated years of honest

effort of agricultural folks towards a

greater agriculture and better homes,

and the numerous sources of amuse-

ment, to say nothing of the) opportu-

nity for the study of human nature in

the great crowds that surged up mid-

way and through the exhibit buildings,

one returned home with weary eyes,

weary brain and weary limbs.



The exhibits in the woman’s build-

ing did exceeding credit to every wom-

an’s art. One could but pause and

consider the number of hours spent

in the completion of this great collec-

tion of needle art. Everything was

there, from kitchen aprons to cro-

cheted window drapes. Stamped em-

broidery of every variation held high

favor. One work of needle art which‘

stands out in our mind showed that

even in needlework the old is ever

new. It was a bedroom set consisting

of a spread, pillow, scarfs and pin—

cushion in patchwork. To apply this

art modernly, pink lawn was used as

the background and patterns of quaint

little colonial girls applied in various

colors.



In the room booths there was the

new in furniture and room accessories.

To describe the many classes of

needlecraft would take Columns of

space, but the amount exhibited would

fill many a hope chest for the June

bride.





 





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vitamins bearers. Among the vegeta- large size, even if the miniatures were -

. for

It is sunshine itself After the bulbs ‘break up it will take

There is ,no several years for the bulblets to make"

kind of vitamine, so far discovered, blooming sized bulbs.





bles, the once lowly c‘arrot stands in not better

the frontrrank.

brought to your table.





that the carrot does not possess.





 





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HE backs and tails of the men’s

cast-off shirts will make dainty

and durable bloomers, bibs, rompers‘.

and aprons for the little folk, thus t1

saving the price of yards and yards of

new material.——G. S.

WHY I PLANT DUTCH MINIATURE

HYACINTHS.





 





 





I HAVE planted the‘ first size hyar,



‘cinths and the Dutch miniature. Smother

The latter is but younger bulbs of the closing all

same varieties as the former. Hya-

cinths break up into bulblets after a

few years’ growth and if the largest

_ bulbs” are planted often they will break

up after blooming the one time, while

the miniatures will keep on blooming





is wanted.





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the best varieties. inthe miniatures

and I generally buy separate colors in

mixture of shades.—-A.‘ H.





 





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In making salad dressings add a lit-

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proper “tang.” ‘



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time" when a garment is snagged, a.

holder loses its hanger, a dish towel

is torn or a dozen and one daily slips '

that require that aforesaid stitch.





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or coal and shake down when the fire





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extra work of kindling a fresh.fire.





 





for several years. There is not so

very much difference in the size of

blooming spikes, and the additional

cost more than balances this. I would





One of the great attractions of the





with Dr. E. P. Mills in charge. With

a staff of four assistant doctors, two

trained nurses and three clerks, be-

tween thirty-five and forty-five babies

were examined each day of the fair.





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rendered and each 'baby judged ac;

cording to the standard of the Amer

ican Medical Association.



Francis Myron Farley, of Pleasant

Ridge, and Hope Eleanor Denison, of

Washington, won in the twelve to

twenty-four month class for rural bab-

ies, with a score of 97.2 and 98.3 re-

spectively. In the twenty-four to thir— n

ty-six menth class, Girard Keil, of

Pleasant Ridge, and Gladys Illen. Wag-





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Rice with Cheese and Bacon

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were city babies, George Alfred Banks,

of Detroit, with 99.5, and Mary Mae

Perrish, of Detroit, with 99.6 points

for health. This fact bears out men-

tion made recently in these columns

that, according to Dr. George Palmer,

Director of Research Division of the

American Child Health Association,

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the health race, but city babies are

gaining. In 'nine states, the baby





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Our school is planning to piece a

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terns for blocks ?-—Miss'E. S.





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Paper has stuck fast to my polished

table. can you tell me how to remove

it without injuring the polish? There

‘are also a few mars. What will cover

them up?—Mrs. O. S. ,





Put a few drops of oil on the paper

and rub gently until it disappears. To

cover the mars, rub a little iodine

over the light spot and polish. It will

scarcely be noticeable.





HEADLESS.





 





Please tell me how to dry-clean fine

silk lace, also light colored fur.——Mrs.

D. A.





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magnesia over it liberally. Fold cover

and let stand for a few days. Rub

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, WHAT CAN I DO?‘





 





ONE of the best things I have found

to help keep our children busy is





our scrap-book. I got a large sample





 





 





book from a tailor’s shop in town, and

after removing the samples, we paste

in it, pictures cut from magazines.



They,like to'. make dolls of corn

husks, the end serving as head, part

of the husk separated on each. side for

arms, and the rest tied with a sa’sh

forms a skirt. ,



In the fall poppy heads make tea-

pots witlr twigs stuck in for spout and

handle; acorns make cups and sauc-

ers; milkweed pods are turned into

parrots and other funny forms.



'VVhen winter storms keep them in-

doors, small potatoes with toothpicks

make all sorts of animals; peas soak-





ed over night, with toothpicks stuck





in them, form buildings of all sorts,

vehicles of every sort, from bicycle

to airplane. Just now all three are

busy making cucumber boats—«Mrs.

E. V., Bowling Green, Ohio. '





 





I have brought up four children, the

youngest one now eight. My oldest

boy bothered me most and I _tried

everything I couldthink of to amuse

him. Finally, I told him he must sit

up in a chair in the room where I was

and sit there until he thought of some-





thing he would like to do.





I have used the same method on all

four, they don’t sit around long. And

I seldom hear, “‘What can I do?”



They all seem happy, healthy and

contented, and usually don’t have time

to get their play finished.—-—Mrs. G. H.,

Dryden, Mich.





SEWING ROOM SUGGESTIONS.





 





Instead of pinning a pattern that is

to be used many times, lay it on the

cloth to be cut and fasten down with

weights. Mark an edge with white

crayon and cut by the mark after

lifting pattern.





 





 





 





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Doings In





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OW Bennie Fox did chuckle tocalled to him, but from the sound of





H himself as he scampered toward

home with Bruin’s blueberries.

“That was a good one I played on

Bruin that time,” he thought to him—

self. “What a fine lot of jam these

berries will make, and I’ll have a blue-

berry pie, too.”





If we could have looked.over on the

other side of the woods, we would have

seen Bruin going home with a very

heavy heart. He had no berries, and

not even any pails to pick more in.

He had promised Rolly Rabbit to bring





 





“Kersplash” Into the Water Went

Bennie.

him a nice lot of berries, and now he

would have to go home without any,

all because he had been careless again.

' He "knew not why someone had





 

 





in ,fagay from the blueberry

the Wed elm {tries He

‘ '1 ' 13.





   





 





things by trickery.





W’oodland





the voice he rather thought it was

Bennie Fox. Bennie had played tricks

on him many a time before.





With a pailful of berries in one

hand and the basketful in the other,

Bennie Fox was hurrying home as fast

as he could go.





“I (It-Sift see what is the use of pick-

ing berries all the morning in the hot

sun when you can go to the patch and

find them all picked,” chuckled Ben—

nie to himself. “Easy work, that was.”



On his way home Bennie had to

cross a little creek. There was a nar-

row bridge across it. This bridge was

only a big heavy board and it had

made a bridge for the folks of Wood-~

land to go back and forth across the

creek for a long, long time. Bennie

Fox could even remember fishing from

it when he was a very little boy.





But this time, when he was right

in the middle of the bridge, the basket

and pail of berries, together with him-

self, was too heavy, and it broke.





“Kerplunk, kersplash,” into the wa-

ter went Bennie, berries and all. A

little bird up in a tree sang, “chee,

chee,” but Bennie thought it was “kee

kee," just as if he were glad it hap—

pened. '. - ‘



So Bennie Fox didn’t have any ber—

ries after all, and .that is often the

way it. turns out when we ‘try to get





 





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By sweetening hog-swill with lye hogs

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Michigan Farmer Patterns





Send your orders for these patterns

to Michigan Farmer, Pattern Dept, De~

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wanted.



The new Fall and Winter Catalog of

fashions is now ready. The price is

fifteen cents.



No. 4793~4760~Ladies’ Costume.

Waist 4793 cut in seven sizes, 34, 36,

38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches inches bust

measure. A 38—inch size requires 21/2,





 





 





yards of 40-inch material. Skirt 4760

cut in seven sizes, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35

and 37 inches waist measure, with cor-

responding hip measure, 35, 37, 39, 41,





 





43.‘ 45 and 47 inches. The width at

the foot is 1% yards. with plaits ere

tended. To make the skirt for a 29-

inch waist size requires 3% yards of

Two separate pat-





 





 





‘ terns. 12c for each pattern.





 





terial for the guimpe, and 1% yards;





No. 4810—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in sev-

env sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46

inches bust measure. A 38-inch size

requires 4%; yards of 40-inch material.

The width at the foot with plaits ex-

tended is 11/2 yards. Price 12c.



No. 4815~Girls’ Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12—year

size requires 3% yards of 32-inch ma—





 





terial. The guimpe of contrasting ma-

terial requires 1% yard 40 inches

wide. Price 120.



No. 4415 A Comfortable “Smock.”





Cut in four sizes, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years.

A 10-year size requires 2% yards of

Price 120.





 





32—inch material.





 





 





No. 4647~Ladies’ Coat Dress. Cut

in six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, Hand 44

inches bust measure; A 38-inch size

requires 614 yards of 40-inch material,

if made with fiounces. ll.’ made with-

out flounces 47/8 winds will be requir-

ed. The width at the foot is 11/; yards.

Price 120.



No. 4079-—Misses’ Dress. Cut in

three sizes, 1.6, 18 and 20 years. An

18-year size requires five yards of 32~

inch material. The width of the dress

at the foot with plaits extended is

2% yards. Price 120.





 





 





N0. 4656—Child’s Play Suit.

four sizes, 3, ‘4, 5 and 6 years. A four-

year size requires 3% yards of 27-inch .





Cut in ,





material. Price 120.





No. 4664—Child’s Dress. Cut in four

sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. .

size requires 1% yards of 27sinch mite





 





for the smock. Price 120.
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By Myrtle Walker, Woodland, Mich.

There are still many‘who maintain

that the country school is as good as

a consolidated one, and that the pupil

has a better opportunity to get the

full value out of his school work. But,

broadminded, far-seeing, [educated men

see it is not.

There are several reasons for this.

First, when one teacher has eight

grades to teach, and several studies

for each grade, she hasn’t the time to

spend on each'she should have, and

she will take ten or fifteen minutes

for a class, when forty-five minutes

would not be more than necessary.

Therefore, the pupil does not have

time to cover the lesson thoroughly.

Then, too, there will not be many

, pupils in each class and, hence less

competition among pupils and less in-

terest in receiving high marks. ‘



Second, when one teacher has pupils





 





Eathel Fay Sharp’s Pet.





of such' varied ages it is hard to find

a topic that will interest all for morn-





ing exercises. This develops into a

lack of interest in the school work

generally, and is one great reason why

so many pupils do not finish their

education. '



And third, a great many of the dis-

trict schools are not properly equipped

with libraries, maps, etc. This pre-

vents the pupil from using them for

reference when he should, and he does

not get the full value out of the les-

sons. Also, many of the district

schools are not properly heated, and

the lighting system is poor, which is,

of course, detrimental to the pupil.



0n the other hand, with the consol-

idated school, the building is up-to—

date in every way, and properly equip-

ped. The best of teachers are hired,



'and each teacher has but one or two

grades, hence, they can spend a great

deal more time on them. There are

more pupils in each grade and more

competition between pupils. The pu-

pils under one teacher are of a more

uniform age and they can be inter-

ested in the same subject, which

makes it more interesting for both

pupils and teacher. Then, too, when

the pupils are brought to school in

busses they can attend more regularly,

which, of course, benefits the pupil.

And the cost of maintaining the con-

solidated school is not as great as that

of the district school, which makes it

doubly attractive.





 





I By Helen H. Leonardson, Pittsford,

‘ . Michigan.



' What does the consolidated school

_ Stand for that it is possible that it is

little red school

house? Are its morals and standards

" higher? Are the ideas developed such

that the, answer to the question may

betas-affirmative one?





he SChOol Question ‘





By Me Prize Winner:





 

 

 

 

 





 





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I think the consolidated school’s aim

is, “Equality to All.” I think that they

contain a good set of morals, high





_- standards and high ideals.





In a consolidated school teachers of

much learning are engaged. The city

‘boy or girl and the country boy or girl

have the same opportunities. They

learn the same methods prepare the

same lessons, have the same material

with which to work, and in securing a

position the country pupil is not held

back for these reasons._



The teacher is so Well trained, she

uses her time to such good advantage

that she can well do away with exten-





Again





 





 





sive individual attention.



The parents who send their children

to a consolidated school expects‘them

to return with high standards, morals

and ideals. In short, the sum of that

school’s aim. The teacher has that in

mind and it serves as a background

for her endeavor. _ ‘ '





I think the days of the little red

school house are at a close. ‘We will

remember our dear teachers, pleasant

times, and a little of our education.



In remembering the consolidated

school we will remember it as an in-

stitution of learning with a good time

.thrown in. _



“Opportunity knocks but once.”

When the opportunity of attending a

consolidated school knocks at your

door open it and receive her, for you

will be well repaid, in my estimation.





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have some suggestions to make.

Let’s vote for president and vice-pres-

ident. Uncle Frank should occupy the

offices of secretary and treasurer.

Treasury money to be put in “Merry

Circle Fund.” I also suggest that six

of our most prominent letter writers

and debaters be nominated by Uncle

Frank. Then we M. C.’s should all

vote for any two, on separate slips,

which Uncle Frank could have put in

the paper.



Perhaps we could have a meeting

soon and at that event the two lucky

persons could be named. (Uncle

Frank, if you don’t approve of my

plan, please don’t print this).—Loving-

1y yours, Marian Pickup, M. C., Pon-

tiac, Mich.



What do other M. C.’s think of Mar-





ian’s plan? Let’s have a discussion

on it. '





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



When you went on your tour up

north you said you went on M-42 till

you came to M-ll and then west, but

instead of your going west you should

have gone east a quarter of a mile and

had supper at our house on Monday

night, and stayed for the next day and

helped pitch hay. I would enjoy see-

ing your twin boys.



In the debate, are boys rude to girls,

bobbed hair and knickers, I will give

my opinion. It isn’t what a girl wears

so much, but how a girl acts. I have

a sister who has bobbed hair, freckles

and tan. She romps outdoors and has

a good time, and never thinks of pow-

der aind paint. I don’t mind seeing a.

girl with bobbed hair, but knickers

makes them look too much like a boy.

I prefer seeing them in plain dresses,

1 will agree with Harold on that.



This is getting pretty long, so I will

close—From a want-to—be nephew,

Marshall Thompson, R. 7, Traverse

City, Mich.



I am sorry that I ,did not know

about your place, because we were

ready for supper that, night. But I

don’t know about the hay pitching the





 





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next day. I could have worked up

an appetite anyhow.





 





Dear Make-up Uncle:



I don’t know if I dare call you that

or not. You might have a temper the

way I have. But anyway, I’m just a

plain country girl, with blond bobbed

hair, and I wear knickers. ~



0, yes, my sister is quite a horse-

back rider. We only have one horse

and when I want to ride I have to sit

in back and when she makes the horse

run I tickle her and that makes her

laugh, and then she says, “If you don’t

quit I’ll get off, and she has to get off,

and then I have the fun to myself.



Well, I’ll have to close, so love to

all. I’ll not give any love to W. B.,

because he gets enough love from

Uncle Frank—Marian Schneider, R .2,

Farwell, Mich.





I don’t know just what you mean

by “make-up uncle.” I don’t make up

at all. Perhaps you meant make be-

lieve. If I didn’t give W. B. any love,

he wouldn’t get any.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:-





Just a few words to let those flap-

pers know that I am hand in hand

with Harold Coles about bobbed hair

and knickers.



You see, Harold and I went to

school together and we were called

the old men of the class, because we

hated bobbed hair and knickers. I

think they are perfectly ridiculous, and

so does Harold.



Now girls, it is your turn to ex-

plode, Ha! Hal—Your want-to-be

nephew, Carl Strunk, 116 West Kala-

mazoo, Lansing, Mich.





Carl must be a. lieutenant in Har-

old’s “army.” I bet that Army wouldn’t





wear riding breeches for anything be-

cause the commanders are so against

knickers. '





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

Perhaps I am a little old to write

you, as I have just turned eighteen.





 





 





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. While I was in high school the boys

used to come to school with the most

absurd comb to their hair, but no mat-

ter if it was becoming to them, or not,

nothing was said. But just let a. girl

come to school with her hair combed

different somebody was sure to remark

about it.



In all sincerity, I say that bobbed

hair does not hurt a girl. Does a dif-

ferent part to. a boy’s hair hurt his

morality? No! Then why must. bob-

bed hair hurt a girl? Just because it

hag been the custom for years not to

ha e bobbed hair, must the young

women of today be bound by it? Men

used to wear powdered wigs and

knickerbockers. They changed, and

the change Was for the better. I sin-

cerely believe that bobbed hair has

not, and will not, hurt the feminine

youth of today—Gerald S. Richards,

Lake Odessa, Mich.





Here is one boy, anyhow, who stands

up for the modern girl. Girls are like-

ly to'call him broad-minded; Perhaps

he is. . -





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

Will you please make room for a





Merry Circler who hasn’t been with .





you for some'time, that is, I haven’t

written, but I have been a very inter-

ested reader.



By reading each week, I could detect

that our Merry Circle is becoming less

“Merry.” I am sorry to say this.



Now, cousins, let’s not quarrel over

bobbed hair, or knickers. I believe if

we could see each other we would not

think about those things, but would be

interested in planning some plan by





 





Looks Like a Smoky Village. .lt’s by

Helen Griswold.



which we could better our circle. We



do not gain anything by arguing. Dif-



ferent ones perhaps have formed un-



gleatsant feelings toward eacri other



y 1 .



Now, cousins, if we have a brotherly

feeling, or rather cousinly feeling to-

ward each other, our little circle

would be happier, I’m sure.



If you feel like I do after an’argu-

ment,,there is always a feeling of un-

happinessthat surrounds me that was

not present before.



We all remember that old saying,

“United we'stand, divided we fall.”

Do we not? Let us stand by that,

and not only that, but by each other.

What do we care if the girl has her

hair cut or not, or if she wears knick-

ers? She can wear a smile and make

the world “Merry” just as well with

long hair or short, with knickers or

skirts, just so she goes at her task

with the spirit of a real “Merry

Circler.”





Excuse me, Uncle Frank, for writ-

ing such a long letter, but when once

started it was hard to quit—«Your

niece, Marjory Hillman, Six Lakes,

Michigan.



A sensible letter, it seems to me.

But, I don’t believe all this arguing

has caused unpleasant feelings. It

was all done in a good-natured way, I

think.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I agree with Lydea Haas in saying,

“Why judge a girl by her clothes? It

isn’t that; it’s what she is.” The bob-'

bed hair question is being very widely

discussed now. Earl Miller seems to‘

know a. lot about thegirl he met on

the street. Evidently he has met her

on the street before—Another M. 0..

Pearle White, Edmore,’ Mich. '





You didn’t finish. your quotation. It”

shouldrend..“it’s" what she is that

counts?! Er . p;
" f Read-and Win ¥

' HIS. week’s’contest is a regular





most M. C.’,s seem to like. ‘ »

' You will 'find the answers to the

ten qubstions in this issue. After you

find the, anewers write them as short

l as‘possible consistent with good sense.

Do not repeat the question, but use

the same number for the answer as

' ,. was used for the question. Also give

. the page number on which you found

the answer. Write on one side of the

paper only and put your name and ad-

dress in the upper left-hand corner of

the. paper. If you are a Merry Circler,



put M. C. after your name.



'Ail the papers which have all an-

' swers correct will be put into a basket

and mixed up. The first‘two drawn

out will entitle their writers to nice

nickled fountain pens. The next three

will get flashlights and the next five,

neat little boxes of candy.



Send your papers to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan,

before September 25, as the contest

closes then. '





1. What was a lustrous copper,

thick and wavy?

2. What may entail some sacrifice?

3. Who is the world’s greatest polo

player?

4. Chicks lose feathers, but have

, no lice. What may cause the trouble?

5. What is the chief item in reduc-

ing weight?

6. How many city folks must the

farmers feed now?

7. Why do they show fur coats in

the summer time?

8. What will give salad dressing a

"tang?” .

9. In what form is the cheapest

3 forage? .

5’ 10. What was the daily average gam

r for the first thirty days of lambs fed

‘ corn and rape?





WINNERS AT THE FAIR.





 





HE young exhibitors showed up



,1 well at the fair again this year.

They took their usual number of priz-



es in the open classes, besides having





Young Winners at State'Fair





T he Rz'ééon T aéen at Bog/5'





DUBOC JERSEY PIGS.



Junior Boar Pigs.

Laurel Bailey, Hillsdale Co.

Robert Bailey, Hillsdale Co.

Harold Kelly, Hillsdale Co.



Junior Sow Pigs.

Laurcl~ Bailey. Hillsdalo Co.

Lauren Ash, Hillsdaie Co.

Robert Bailey, Hillsdalo Co.





POLAND-CHINA PIGS.



Junior Boar Pigs.

Kenneth Clark, Hillsdale Co.

Milton Gress, Washtenaw Co.

Robert Fox, Hilludnle C0.



Junior Sow ,Pios.

Kenneth Clark. Hillsdale Co.

Robert Fox, Hillsdaie" Co.

Robert Fox, Hillsdale Co.





BERKSHIRE PIGS.

Junior Boars.

l. Marten Garn, Eaton Co.

Marten Gum, Eaton Co.

Mart/en Garn, Eaton, Co.

a Junior Sow Pigs.

1. Marten Garn, Eaton Co.

Gerald Rumsey, Hillsdalo Co.

3. Glen Bumsey. Hillsdale Co.





HAMPSHIRE PIGS.

Junior Boar Pigs.

Heath Holden, Oakland Co.

Paul Tendrill. Oakland Co.

Heath Holden, Oakland Co.

Junior Sow Pigs.

Paul Tcndrill, Oakland Co.

Heath Holden, Oakland Co.

Heath Holden, Oakland C0.

..< CHESTER WHITE Plus.

Junior Bonn.

;. 1. Clifton Lyon, I-iillsdale Co.

‘ z. Theodore Kirchner. Saginaw Co.

Junior Sow Figs.

1. I. C. Blade. Tuscola Co.

2. Lama Bough. Tusrola Co.

3. Mabel (fr-andel. Tuscola Co.

SPOTTED POLAND—CHINA PIGS.





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our use





Junior Boar.

1. Helen Coilman, Branch (‘0.

. . Junior Sow Figs.

1. Helen (‘ol'l'man, Branch Co.

Helen Coflman. Bram-h Co.

SIIROI’SIIIRE SHEEP.

I’ ‘ Yearling or Aged Rani.

., l. Shaman Potts, Lenawee Co.

‘3 2. Glen Armstrong, Livingston 00.





3. Edward Speakman, Hillsdale Co»

Ram Lamb.



1 Sherman Potts, Lenawee Co.

2. Dean Lyon, Hillsdale Co.

8. Claire Brunton, Eaton Co.



Ewe Two Years Old or Oldfl'.

L Glen Armstrong. Livingston Co.

2. Sherman Potts. Lenawec Co.

8. Dean Lyon. Hillsdale Co.

1.

2.

3.





 

 





Yearling Ewe.

Glen Armstrong, Livingston 00.

Helen Crandell. Hillsdale Co.

Sherman Potts. Lenawee Co.

. - Ewe Lamb.



1. Jackson Brothers. Eaton Co.

Glen Armstrong. Livingston 00.

Donald rand Hillsdale Cot



. HAMPSHIRE SHEEP.



Yearlis or Aged Ram.



-1.= Oliver Gordon. ranch Co. .



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spirited contests in their, own Boys’





and Girls' Live Stock Show. The re- ‘





suits of the Boys’ and Girls' show are

given elsewhere. ' .





Prominent among the winners were

several Merry Circlers. Helen Colf-

man: of Calhoun county, who won out

over prominent breeders in the open

classes and took everything in the

boys ’and girls’ contests in the Spotted

Poland-China contests, is an active

Merry Circler.





Oliver Gordon, a Branch County

Merry Circler. won first with Hamp-

shire sheep. Raymond Corey is a

Merry Circler from Hillsdale county





 





Merry Circle F and





HE Merry Circle Fund is



growing slowly but surely.

All big things grow slowly, but

don’t forget that it needs your

nickels and dimes to make this

fund do its full duty. Here is

the chance for every Merry

Circler to buy a nickel's or a

dime’s worth of happiness for

somebody else. Send your con-

tributions to the Merry Circle

Fund, care Uncle Frank, Michi-

gan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan.





 





 





 





who won first in the Jersey heifer calf

class, and Harold Kelly, from Hills-

dale, who got third place in Duroc

Jersey boar pigs can write M. C. after

his name. R. S. Spotts, another Hills-

dale M. 0., took third place in the fine

wool yearling ewe class.





The high man in the general live

stock judging contest, Willard Grim,

of St. Joseph county, is adVIerry Circ-





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ler. He heads the team which won

out in the contest and which will

therefore participate in the judging

contests at the International, Live

Stock Show at Chicago this fall.





and Gz'r/J’ Livestock Show





Yearling Ewe.

Delpha Patrick. Hillsdale Co.

Oliver Gordon. Branch Co.

Hubert Park. Branch Co.



Ewe Lamb.

Hubert Park, Hillsdale Co.

Deipha r'atrlck, » ilillsdale Co.

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FINE WOOL SHEEP.

Yearling or Aged Ram.



Edward Smith. Washtenaw Co.

. Edward Delamatu. Hillsdale Co.

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Burton Holcomb. Ilillsdale Co.

Edward Knapp, Wushtenuw Co.

Edward Delamuta. liillsdalo Co.



Ewe Two Years Old or Over.



Burton Holcomb, ilillsdale Co.

Edward Delamata. Hillsdalo Co.



Yearling Ewe.

Edwin Knapp. Washtenaw Co.

Edwin Knapp. Washtenaw Co.

R. S. Spotts. Hillsdale Co.



Ewe Lamb.

Merrill Holcomb, Hillsdale Co.

Edward Delamata, Ifillsdale Co.

Acil Hendee, Livingston Co.





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Senior Yearling Heller.



1. Keith Williams, ilillsdale Co.



2. John Williams, Hillsdale Co.



3. Gladys Lister, Hillsdale (.‘0.



Junior Yearling Heifer.



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Senior Heifer Cali.



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Richard Gross, Wilshtcnaw (‘0.

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JERSEYS.

Senior Yearling Heifers.

Wm. Hoest, Hillsdalo Co.

. Roland Stein. Washtcnaw Co.

. Mary ll'ord, lIillsdule (.‘0.

Junior Yearling Heifers.

Alton Hoopingarner. Hillsdale Co.

. Floyd Anderson, Hillsdale Co.

Wm. Haulmuist. llillsdale Co.

Seniorxfleifer Calves.

. Warren Goss, Washti-naw Co.

. Laurel Bailey, Hillsdale Co.

Edmund Shuart. Washtvnaw Co. 3

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1. Raymond Corey, Hillsdale Co.

Champion Jersey Female, Warren Class.

3 II Cl." FHIOLSn’flI'l‘IItl: Fll‘l‘ES’lAN.

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Neal Brown. Ilillsdala Co. 9 '

Gerald Wells, IIillsdale Co.

G. M. Beckington, Washtenaw Co.

Senior Yearling Heifer.

James Mac'l‘avish. Tuscola 00.

Robert. Clement, Hillsdale Co.

. Carl Rich. Hillsdale Co.

’ Junior Yearling.

Ronald Craull, Hillsdale Co.

Charles Monroe. Hillsdale Co.

Senior Heifer Calf.

_Gerald Wells. Hillsdale Co.

-Al. Emens. Hillsdale (‘0. . ,

Francis M‘fibm'h-Hgfmmw Co.

~ unlor er Calf.

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FEEDING CREAMERY BUTTER-

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I would like to get buttermilk from

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that is so ?— .





I have not heard of any acid used to

sterilize cream which would destroy

the value of the buttermilk as a feed

for poultry. I would suggest a visit





his method of handling the buttermilk.

Follow this with a test on a. few of

the hens and if they seem to keep in

good condition the buttermilk will

probably be all right to“ feed your en-

tire flock.





POSSIBLY POISONING.





 





I have a. large flock of poultry, tur-

keys, geese and chickens, and have

been losing a large number of them.

I believe they have been poisoned.

The geese and chickens seem to be

all right, when all at once they will

run for a drink of water, sit down and

gasp for air, and in about ten minutes

they are dead. We have cut them op—

en, but find nothing wrong. The tur-

keys seem to choke and mouth fills

with chunks of blood. —H. J. D.



I cannot explain the cause of the

losses from the symptoms you de-

scribe. It may be due to poisoning

from spoiled feed or spray dope or

some other foreign material on the

range. I would confine the poultry for

several days and see if the losses stop.

Inspect the range carefully for any

material that might cause poisoning.





CHICKS LOSE FEATHERS.





 





My young chicks are two months

old, some three weeks old. They don’ t

seem to have any lice that I can see,

but they are losing all their feathers;

the heads of some are nearly bare,

also their bodies and wings, and what

feathers they have are very ragged.

They eat good and have the range of

the farm I have 250 chicks and near-

ly all are affected —R.



The chicks may be troubled with

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the skin at the base of the feathers

and cause irritation which results in

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the mites will be killed. Washing with

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ier method.



Chicks that lack a. balanced ration

may deveIOp plumage very slowly.

This causes some of the feathers to

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and hhey should be culled out and not

used for breeding stock. Slow feath-

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FATTENING. MARKET POULTRY.





 





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seems that the Leghorns will rank





cockerels hatched and- raised, along

with the necessary pullets. I believe

it is time to try and find a. way to

market the Leghorn cockerels to bet-

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high and there will be thousands of .





Producers gain mus .





against Leghorns unless they try, to

soften up the muscles of their market

birds and develop a little soft meat'in

place of the tough muscular tissue. If.

that. can be profitably done then it will

help to make Leghorn broilers: more

attractive to the meat dealers. If it

cannot be done I believe Leghorn

breeders will have to be content to

take less per pound for their birds and

make it up by obtaining a. heavy egg

yield.





Some of the discrimination against

Leghorn hens is due to forcing them

for eggs and then selling the wornout

birds for meat when their bodies eon-

tain very. little fat. Naturally such

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as well as the plump Wyandotte, Red

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family of about five péoflos . .— -

-Possib1y it does not pay to fatten





many Of the highest class meat dosh, “‘fi -‘

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' is anything else on the market. I

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if enough soft meat cannot be devel—

oped to replaces little tough muscu-

lar tissue and make the carcass more





‘ edible.





Even old roosters can be improved

in quality by penning them up on a

fattening ration for about ten days.

Such birds are gallant in feeding when

among the hens and they are apt to

be half fed all the spring and sum-

mer. Isolate them from the flock on

an appetizing ration and the meat is

sufficiently improved in quality to be

appreciated at home, even if the mar-

ket strongly discriminates against

them. If you have a. steam pressure





cooker these old cock birds can be

made quite appetizing to serve in

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OBESITY.





 





HE human body has many uses

I for fat. When properly distrib—



uted it serves to relieve the

sharpness of our bony angles and

make us more beautiful. It is an ex-

tremely helpful agent in keeping our

heat in our bodies, serving as insula-

tion in that way. It acts as padding

in‘ our “insides” and helps to keep the

kidneys, spleen, stomach and intes-

tines in their proper locations. It fills

in the chinks, generally.





But as we reach middle life the dan-

ger comes that we shall accumulate

more fat than is good for our health.

Without giving a. long table of weights

and measures I will just say that the

average weight for a man of sixty-nine

inches is 159 pounds, and for a woman

of sixty-six inches is 137 pounds. You

can judge how far you are from stand-

ard. If you are more than ten per

cent overweight give the matter care-

ful consideration.





The chief item in reducing weight is

to reduce food. If you are only trying

to cut down some ten or fifteen

pounds you can do it by restricting

the fats in your diet, such as butter,

oil and fat meat, and by severely lim-

iting the sweet stuff that you eat.





But it is the folks in the 200 pounds-





and better class that are chiefly in

need of reducing weight. Many a man

and woman with no definite symptoms

of ill health, yet a general feeling of

wretchedness, would clear up wonder-

fully by a. reduction of thirty to fifty

pounds in weight.





There is only one definite way to‘ do

it. Reduce your intake. Don’t try to

do it too rapidly. Be content to take

off three or four pounds a week. Cut

the amount of your food ten per cent.

When you have become accustomed to

that, cut it another ten per cent. If

that does not do the business the fat

person is generally pretty safe in cut-

ting it yet ten per cent more, a few

weeks later. After you havereduc‘ed

the weight thirty or forty pounds you

will be glad to‘ discover that you have

regained your old efficiency.





‘PROLAPSUS OF STOMACH.





 





Will you please explain what pro-

lapsus of the stomach is? What caus-

es it, and can the trouble be cured?

An old woman sixty—eight years old





ha‘gh beg; troubleéic»i gr aboug. a. {cg .

w w seems asnn ext-so ~ _»

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a. heavy uncomfortable sensation, and

the stomach seems to have fallen or .

disappeared on .the outside so there

is a hollow. What can be done for

this? Also very obstinate constipa-

tion is present which will not yield

to correct laxative diet. ~——A. F. W.



Prolapsus of the stomach is a sequel

to chronic indigestion. The stomach

fails to digest and pass on the food,

fermentation and dilatation, follow,

and with this is a. loss of muscular

tone. The flabby, enlarged stomach

sinks down in the abdominal cavity,

but may readily resume its normal

positionwhen emptied. Home treat-

ment doesn’t promise much. It‘is too

difi‘lcult a job for home care. Gener-

ally the stomach must be siphoned

out, and possibly this treatmentmust

be repeated many times. Small meals

must be taken, of carefully selected,

nourishing food. Perhaps five small

meals instead of three large ones. Ex-

ercises to strengthen the abdominal

muscles are helpful, and in many

cases an abdominal bandage or sup-

porter must be worn.





REMITTING FOR FUMIGATION.





 





On December 6 of last year my old-

est girl was taken with scarlet fever.

Our doctor notified the county health

officer to fumigate on December 29.

He did not come, so I 'phoned him

myself for three succeSsive days. On

January 1 he said to have our doctor

do the fumigating, which he did. Now

our town board refuses to pay for the

fumigating. Has a country doctor a.

right to keep a family. in four days

after being notified ?—J. I...



Perhaps the county health officer /

thought that your doctor was releas-

ing quarantine too soon. ' Personally,

I think that a. disease so serious as

scarlet fever should: have a quarantine

of at least four weeks, and I think, ‘

too, that the patient‘should‘be inspect

ed personally by the health officer to'~

see if ready to release. I suspect that

your county does not have a health

officer who is paid enough to give his ‘ .

full time to the work, and therefor-0'

you get poor service, for I quite agree

that the service was poor. The rem-'

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a health officer who does not have to

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privately, but is able to give all at

his time to keeping disease away from

your community. I think that the

county doctor should be able to ar-

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E VERY owner of breeding ewes

. will be interested in a method of

handling the flock that will bring an

increased number of good lambs. This

method is a simple one. It consists in

just feeding the ewes a little extra

during. the breeding period to keep

them in Weight. The idea is not to

have them in high flesh, but to keep

them gaining. English flockmasters

call it. “flushing.” _



In seventeen groups of ewes, those

not fed during the breeding season

gained an average, of 1.7 pounds and

delivered a 129 per cent lamb crop.

Those getting extra feed, some one

kind and some another, gained eight

pounds and broughtforth a 147 per

cent lamb crop. The amount of grain

fedawas only one-half pound'per head

each day. .



'Apparently, it made little difference

what the ewes were fed so long as they

gained. Some got extra pasture, some

were fed corn and oats and some oats

alone. Other lots received various mix-

ures of corn, oats, bran and linseed

meal.





 





LET THE HOGS HARVEST THE

CORN.





 





HE amount of soft corn produced

careful experiments have shown

that hogging dovvn corn is the most

economical method of turning the corn

crop into pork. Neither is it wasteful.

The hogs in doing their own harvest-





. ing will clean up the field as thorough-





ly as can be done by man power, pro-

viding, of Course, that weather condi-

tions are not too unfavorable.





Some interesting data have been

gathered by various experiment sta-

tions on this method of harvesting

corn. In Minnesota, for instance, pigs

turned into the corn" field and fed

tankage made more rapid gains than

those fed ear corn and tankage in a

feed lot, and required less concen-

trates by six per cent for each 100

pounds of gain. This was the average

results of six different trials, so the

data can be taken as fairly representa-

tive of what a farmer might expect

when following this method of produc-

ing pork. 6





Tests in Ohio indicate the value of

supplying the animals in addition to

the corn, some supplementary feed

rich in protein. There, in five trials,

pigs fed tankage while hogging down

corn alone made average gains of 1.82

pounds daily, requiring only 417

pounds of the corn and eighteen

pounds of tankage for each hundred—

weight of gain. In the same trials

other lots turned in the corn in which

soy-beans had been grOWn were fed

no tankage. These lots made an av-

erage daily. gain per head of 1.31

pounds, and required 574 pounds of

corn for each hundredweight of gain.





Further corroborative evidence was.





recently furnished through tests made

at the Michigan station. One lot of

hogs turned in corn and given a sup-

plementary ration of oats in a self-

feeder,-returned an average of seven-

ty—four cents per bushel for the corn;

another lot having soy-beans substi-

tuted for the oats, returned 70.5 cents

for each bushel of corn; while a third

Io‘t receiving tankage instead of oats

and soy-beans increased the returns

to eighty cents per bushel.



Many Michigan farmers have alfalfa

fields available. It might prove more

economical for them to give the pigs





gaccesshto such afield in addition to

.: theucorg‘flot, instead of supplying tank-





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alfalfa might otherwise go to waste.





' tions‘ over $8,000,000 of stock.





 





If this is not done, it will be advisable

to furnish tankage. Other experi-

ments at the Ohio Experiment Station

prove this. Pigs fed three-tenths of a

pound of tankage per head daily in-

creased the average daily gains from

1.28 pounds to 1.81 pounds. After de-

ducting the cost of the tankage the

return per bushel of corn was increas-

ed eighteen cents through adding this

moiety of concentrated protein feeds.





Careful work has been done at the

Minnesota Experiment Station to de-

termine the number of hogs required

to clean up one acre of corn. Twenty

pigs weighing 125 pounds will clean

up an acre yielding forty bushels in

fifteen days, one yielding fifty bushels

in nineteen days, and sixty bushels in

twenty-three days:



The best results, in hogging down

corn have been secured when pigs

weighing from ninety to 130 pounds

are used. Where small pigs are turn-

ed in, feeders have found it advisable

to also add a few heavier hogs for

breaking down the cornstalks. It is

also recognized as good practice to

turn sows and their pigs in a field





 





after the shoats have been removed.





 





FEEDING SOFT CORN.





 





VERY business has its drawbacks.



The developing fox industry is

unusually large, and it will be a prob-

lem for many farmers to properly

utilize this portion of the corn crop.

Soft corn may contain as high as fifty

per cent water. With so much mois-

ture, it is impossible to keep such a

product in storage.



Soft corn is best utilized by feeding

as soon as it can be harvested or, if

possible, it perhaps is better to allow

the stock the freedom of the field and

perform the labor necessary to get

the grain.



Pound for pound, the dry matter in

this soft corn is equal in feeding value

to that in mature corn. This was

proven in trials made at the Iowa sta-

tion, where one hundred pounds of

dry matter in corn containing 21.3 per

cent of moisture showed equal feeding

value to the same amount of dry mat-

ter in old corn.



It is advisable to plan on using the

soft corn in the fall and during cold

weather. One's feeding operations

should be so conducted that it will not

be necessary to carry any of this corn

over into the spring. It will then cer-

tainly spoil and become unfit for the

live stock. '





 





FOXES HAVE WORMS.





 





ONTRARY to the usual opinion,



in the country this year will be

now confronted with one that must be

met or owners will find themselves

without profits. This obstacle is noth-

ing more than the common round

worm.



The pests, according to veterinar-

ians, hatch from eggs taken into the

body with drink and food. These lar—

vae migrate from the alimentary canal

into the blood system, thence to the

lungs and up the windpipe, when they

are swallowed and carried back to the

intestines to their place of birth.



To avoid losses from this source,

fox breeders are advised to rid the

females of the worms before breeding,

and keep fr'ee by submitting their food

to treatments of scalding water dur-

ing the entire pregnation period.





Michigan is now reported to have

eighty-two live stock shipping associa-





tions-with a‘membership of 173.466 who





sell annually through these... ' associa-





 





 





1' For Quick gm. Box 3. ,B-“M'nl' Mich.





 





Get a pail of





Dr. Hess Sto ck Tonic





’ARE YOUR shoats putting on their pound or

more each day?





Here’s how you can tell:





Or are they worthy}





Start in to give double the regularly

prescribed dose for a week or ten days,

until the bowels move freely (physic) .





Make sure that each hog gets its share.

Mix it with the feed, or swill, or drinking

water. That will bring the worms. ’





Then give the Tonic regularly as di-

rected—two tablespoonfuls to every 500

pounds weight twice a day. This will tone

up your herd and put them in a fine, thriv-





ing condition.





 





More?





Costs Little to Use

The price of one pound of pork pays 3

shoat’s Tonic bill for thirty days.





25-“). pail, $2.25; 100-“). drum, $8.00

(Except in the far West, South and Canada)





Honest Goods—Honest Price. Why Pay,





REMEMBER—When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our

responsibility does not and until you are satisfied that

your investment is a profitable one. Other-wise, return the

empty container to your dealer and get your money back.





DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc., Ashland, Ohio





I Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfectant





Kills Hog Lice





 





 





Barron-ms DIREC'NRY





 





Change of Copy or Cancellations 'must reach us

Twelve Dave before date of publication





0

Re lstered Guernseys

LONE Pl .} RANGER our new Herd SIRE has a

Dam with an A. R. 0. record 936 fat. When in the

market for better Guernseys. write GILMORE BROS.,

Camden. Mich.: J. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.

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Thirtcen Registered Guemseys

2. A. R. Cows, one fresh, one Bull. ready for ser-

nr-c. 4 Cows and 2 Heifers served: 4 Calves. Tuberculin

Tested. Dr. Baker. 4800 Fort St. West. Detroit. Mich.





Wallinwood Guernseys

Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale.

F. W. WALLIN. Janina. Mich.





 





 





bull





For sale, Reg. yearling heifers.

ENNIS”: calvem hfny R066 breeding, prices Department 8- Lansing, Michigan.

very monablc. W. W. Burdlck. Williamstoh. M'lch.





 





Echo Sylvia King

Model 266177





Senior sire in the Traverse City State Hos-





pital herd.

This hard stood 2nd as breeder and tied for

3rd as owner of rows on the l924 Honor





Roll.

A wonderful producing herd of 200 head.

Echo Sylvia King Model has 42 A R.

0. daughters and as many more in the herd

as yet untested. Ills highest record daughter.

to date. is a 3133—”). Jr. 3-_\'r.—01d. His

sire is by the host son of May Echo Sylvia.

His dam is a 3641). 4-yr.-old daughter of a,

37-“). cow. His full sister is a 3l.77«lb.

Sr. 3«_\'r.-old.

Sand for our list of bulls for sale from the

great herd.





Bureau of Animal Industry,





 





 





 





or Sale





Eight P ure-bred





‘ Holstein Cows





A11 due by October 15. Good

ones—young. Choice if you

do not want all.





HUGH G. ALDRICH,





Phone 68F6. FOWLERVILLE, MICH.





A Great Opportunity





We are ofi'ering a. young Holstein bull ready for ser-

vice m a 32.05%“). son of Matador Seals Walker, a

brother .to Seine Pleterie Prospect. the world‘s greatest

cow. Dam of call by a 35.73-1b. bull Kins Segis

breeding.





Hillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.





Address replies to F.LB. , 25 ..

Chi. ' m Lay 25 Clybourn Av.





Holstein: For Sale d3:





 





 





Males. One

Will sacrifice





   

 





 





 





 





"kl ' Bull Calf. sired by a. 30-11). bull, dam’s

0 emwt. over 1,600. 80 to 70 lbs.. 2 mill-tings per

day. $40., reg. 9 rug. Cows for Sale. B. E. KIES.

Hillsdale. Mich.



$400 Buys four richly bred Holstein heifers: Two





reg. All 2 yrs. old. due to freshen in No-

vember. B. B. REAYEY. Akron. Mich.





HEREFORD STEERS





00 Wt. around 880 lbs; 86 Wt. around 620 lbs.





30 Wt. around 800 lbs. : 94 Wt. around 550 lbs.

78 Wt. around 725 lbs. ; 50 Wt. around 500 lbs.

80 Wt. around one lbs; 58 Wt. around 450 lbs.





Deep red. dehorncd. good grass flesh. Some hunch-

cs fair flush account short pasture. Real quality

Herefords lire usually market toppers when finished.

Will sell your choice one car load or all. Give num-

ber and weight preferred. VAN B. BALDWIN. El-





 





don, Wapello 00.. Iowa.



, Hereford bulls, one cow and

T“, Young heifer calf by side. also some

cllOlcO heifers. Ward W. Dunstan. Clarknton, Mich.





 





For Sale Jersey Bull .

Dropped May 13, 1923. Sire. Brookhurst's 8. Ton-

mentor 163258. He is by Sophie 13th Tormentor out

of Sophie's Cora. Dam, Jacobo P's Loretta 288889.

combining the blood of Jacobo Irene and Loretta. D.

A. H. DONALDSON, Fenian. Mich.





BUTTER BRED Jags“: no...





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM

Silver Creek. Allegan Count , Mlchl all Y,





15 Cm, 4 was from n. of n. Cows. Ch to

sobct‘ from herd of to. Some man. othen ,





for fall munching. Colon C. Lillie; mule. . ' .





LEROY '3 EV. Alt ’ Hm -

Mittens! Stock M8. on Page 237 ‘





Jerso'xs For Sale ”await... 2°83...

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Wednesday, September 17.

Wheat.





Detroit—No. 1 red at $1.32; No. 2

red $1.31; No. 3 red $1.29; No. 2 white

$1.33; No. 2 mixed $1.32. .



Chicago—Sept, $12634; December

$1.31%@1.317/3; May $1.38@1.38%.



Toledo—Cash $1.32%@1.333§.





Corn.

sll‘ggtroit.—No. 3, $1.27; No. 4 yellow

. Chicago—Sept, at $1.14%@1.14§4;

. December $1.07%@1.07%; May $1.08

@10854.





Oats.

ligtroits—New, No. 2 white 51c; No

c

47 34c; December





’ Chicago—Sept,

51%@51%c; May 56c.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.02. ,

Chicago—September at $1.02; De

cember $1.03%’@1.03%; May at $1.08

@108 .

Toledo—1.03.





Barley.

Barley, malting 89@94c; feeding at

85@89c.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.80@5.85 per cwt. .



Chicago.-—-Navy $6.50; red kidneys

exhausted. .



New York—Choice pea at $6.35; red

kidneys $9@9.15.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$14.25; alsike $11.50 (new); timothy

3.55.





Hay

New Hay—No. 1 timothy $19@20;

standard and light mixed at $18@19;

No. 2 timothy $17@18; Wheat and oat

straw $11@11.50; rye straw at $12@





12.50

Feeds.



Bran $32; standard middlings $34;

fine do $38; cracked corn $56; coarse

cornmeal $54; chop at $46 per ton in

100-1b. sacks.



Fruits.





Apples, Duchess $1.25; Golden

Sweets $1.50; Wealthies $1.75; Jona—

thans $2.25@2.50; huckleberries $2.50

@3 per 16-qt. case; pears, Bartletts,

$2.50@2.75 per bu; plums $1@1.25 per

bu; peaches $2.50@3 per bushel.





' WHEAT





After virtually marking time for two

weeks, the wheat market has advanc-

ed sharply in the last two days. The

official estimates showed an increase

of 10 per cent in the spring wheat

crop in the United States and Of three

per cent in Canada. The increase in

the latter country was less than gen-

erally expected, and did not take ac-

count of frost damage in the last ten

days. *



European crop conditions seem to

have grown worse as Poland has pro-

hibited exports, Rumania has doubled

the duty on exported wheat, the esti-

mates of French needs have been dou-

bled, and Russia is said to be threat-

ened with the worst famine on record.

In addition, wet weather throughout

Europe has interfered with harvest

and reduced the value of the grain.



The large volume of export business

combined with expanding operations

by domestic flour mills have been suf-

ficient to offset the tremendous move-

ment to primary markets which has

not yet abated. Receipts of spring

wheat have made up for the shrinkage

at winter wheat markets.





CORN





The'September corn forecast was

2,513,000 bushels. The final outcome

remains quite uncertain, as some frost

damage has already occurred and a

large fraction of the acreage will be

susceptible to injury up to October 1.

Corn prices advanced in the‘last few

days along with other grains. Cash

demand has been hard to satisfy, the

discount on Argentine corn has dimin-

ished and the continued cool weather

causes more or less speculative appre-





hension.

OATS





The movement of cats to primary

: -markets in the last ten days has been

at a record rate, and rapid accumu-

lation at terminals is under way. glfie



e

» , extreme discount below corn has at-

, tracted much attention and the re-

' sumptiOn of export sales in fairly

large volume for the first time in sev-

eral years has added strength. The





51. cats forecast was raised to 1,486,000

..bushels, which is 14 per cent more





‘ than last year’s harvest. The Canadi-

an crop forecast was increased to 288,-





 





 





   





000,000 bushels, against 217,000 000

bushels a month ago. ince the an-

adian returns were gathered, consider-

able frost damage has occurred.





SEEDS





Both clover and timothy seed prices

advanced sharply last week. The

strength in grain prices was helpful

and reports indicate that wet weather

is spoiling much seed not yet harvest-

ed, so that the percentage of high-

grade seed in this year’s crop prom-

ises to be extremely small. In addi-

tion, foreign inquiries for timothy seed

are showing up and it is probable that

rainy weather in Europe will reduce

the amount of good clover seed avail-

able for sale to the United States.





EEDS





Demand for by-product feeds from

consuming districts is unusually dull,

while supplies of wheat feeds are lib-

eral and the output of both linseed

and cottonseed meal is increasing.

Prices are about the same as a week





ago.

HAY



The September forecast of the tame

hay crop was practically the. same as

on August 1 and nearly equal to last

year’s final estimate. New England,

the southeast and the far west have

rather light yields, while a fairly good

crop was produced in most of the

middlewestern states. The condition

is excellent over most of the corn belt,

the unfavorable spots being distribut-

ed about the same as in the case of





ayPOULTRY AND EGGS





The egg market has slowed down

perceptibly. The steady advance of

the last three months has carried

prices to a point which largely dis.

counts the shortage in receipts and

storage stocks as compared with a

year ago. An insufficient quantity of

high grade eggs keeps prices steady.

Although reports from the country

indicate further falling Off in the lay,

receipts at the large markets are hold-

ing up. This is probably the result of

storage eggs being sent in as fresh.

This practice will eventually react un-

favorably on the producer, as the pur-

chases Of storage eggs at fresh egg

prices may substantially reduce the

number of customers. .Supplies Of

poultry arriving at the large markets

are quite liberal. Spring chickens

make up a large share of the total and



. .





I Live Stock Market Service





prices on them are lower. Ferris are}

in smaller proportion, and prices are -





higher with premiums being paid in ‘





many.,cases for prime quality. . . .

Chicago—Eggs, extras “@436 .

dozen; miscellaneous 33@35c;’ . es

26@27c; checks 24 25c; fresh firsts

37c; ordinary firsts 1@32c. Live poul-

try, hens 24c; broilers 29c; springers

24c; roosters 16c; ducks 19c; geese



19c; turkeys 20c.



Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied." and

graded 32%@360. Live poultry, heavy

springers 30c; light springers 28@30'c;

broilers 24@27c; heavy hens 28c; light

hens 20@26c; roosters'16c; geese 18

@200; ducks 18@20c.





BUTTER





Fractional advances occurred on top

scores Of butter last Week. Consump-

tive demand is not very active but

the daily surplus added to storage

stocks is shrinking and it is probable

that the current will begin to run the

other way before September is over.

Production is steadily decreasing from

week to week and the percentage of

increase over corresponding weeks a

year agois dwindling.



Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 36@37c; New York 38%. In

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells





for 35@36%c.

BEANS





Bean prices are higher than a week

ago, with C. H. P. whites quoted at

$6.10 for either new or old crop offer-

ings f. o. b. Michigan shipping points.

The tone is firm, trade sentiment is

bullish and even the buyers are be-

coming convinced that there is little

hope Of materially lower prices. Nu-

merous reports of crop damage and

low yields are coming forward. New

beans will not be available for two or

three weeks, as the weather is unfav-

orable for curing. The crop est' ate

as of September 1 was 5,492,000 ush-

els, or more than a million bushels

less than last year. Owing to the late

maturity and the' prevalence of. blight

and anthracnose, the pickage will be





rather heavy.

WOOL





Wool trade has been slightly less

active but prices are quite firm in all

lines and asking prices on some of the

choice lots are higher. Sales of goods

for the new light weight season re-

main rather unsatisfactory, so that the

mills are more cautious in buying raw





 





Wednesday, September 17.





CHICAGO

. Hogs.



Receipts 18,000. Market slow, most-

ly 100 lower; light lights and killing

pigs dull, fully 250 off; big packers are

bidding active; tops $10.40; bulk of

choice 150 to 230—lb. average $10.10@

10.30; good 250 to 325~lb. butchers at

$9.75@10.05; better 140 to 150-lb. se-

lect $9.50@9.85; packing sows $8.75@

9; good weighty slaughter pigs $8.75

@925.



Cattle.





Receipts 17,000. Market for weighty

fat steers is demoralized by liberal

supplies, including many held over

from early in the week. Bids were

few and lower; yearlings and good

handy steers steady; she stock dull;

stockers are 25c lower; stots more;

western grassers to killers show less

decline; other are steady; bulk Of

vealers are $10.50@11.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 24,000. Market is slow.

Early sales of fat lambs are around

steady, sorting moderate; early fat na-

tives $13@13.25; few to butchers at

$13.40; choice ldaho $13.40, some held

higher; sheep are steady; fat ewes

$4.75@6.50; feeding lambs strongto

$13@13.25.





DETROIT





Cattle.





The market is very dull and around

steady. .-

GOod to choice yearlings





quotable . . . . . . . . . . .$ 8.50%1000

Best heavy steers ..... . 7.50 8.25

Handyweight bu(t1clileris’3 25533 $1.33



i ed teer an e ers.. . .



x S s ‘ 3175@ 4.50





Handy light butchers . ..





'14; ewes" ‘ssosso.’





Best cows ............. . .





. 4.50@ 5.00

Butcher cows ........... 3.25@ 4.00

Cutters ................. 2.25@ 2.75

Canners ................. 2‘.OO@ 2.50

Choice bulls ............ 4.50@ 4.75

Bologna bulls ........... 4.50@ 5.00

Stock bulls ............. 3.50@ 4.00

Feeders ................. 4.00@ 6.25

Stockers ................ 4.00@ 5.75

Milkers ................. $45.00@90.00



Veal Calves.



Market 500 lower.



Best .................... $13.00@13.50

Others .................. 4.00@12.50

Sheep and Lambs.



Market 250 lower.

Best spring lambs ...... $ 13.00

. Fair ..................... 10.50@12.00

Light to common ....... 7.00@ 8.00

Fair to good sheep ..... 500@ 600

Culls and common ...... 50@ 3 50

Lambs . . . . . ............. 1

Hogs.





Market is 25c lower on mixed.

Mixed and heavy workers.$10.65@10.70





Rpughs . . . . . ........... . 8.25

Pigs . .. ............. . . . . . 9.50

Light lights 10.25

BUFFALO

H 093.





Receipts 3,234. Market is closing

slow; heavies $10.90; medium $10.90;

as assesses“. Marta“;

ing sows $8.50@9. ’ pgs $ '



. Cattle.



Receipts 450. Market slow.



. Calves.



Receipts~300. Tops at $13. ,



Sheep and Lamb's. . _ ‘



Receipts 500. - «Best-giamb's 413.500- '.





 





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.. W &2‘ 6?





wooia'asf-v_purchasés already made T11:

videaime'share of their needs.





strength or prices in the face of sins-,-

gish goods trade is an indication of '_





the strong position or wool due“ to

world Shortage. All eyes, ars’centered





on the sales at Lendongldvefllool and





Sidney which are scheduled for the





present week. Foreign weels' heldpin





this country. have advanced. abbut .10

per cent in the, last ten days. Ohio

and Pennsylvania Delaines have sold

as high as 59 cents and some lots are

held one to two cents higher.





POTATOES ‘





The September forecast of the white

potato cm was 413,000,000 bushels,

against .41 ,000,000 bushels harvested

last year. Most of the leading late

potato shipping states are credited

with larger yields than. in 1923. P0-

tato prices have been relatively firm

in the last week. .Carlot shipments

from producing districts are increas-

ing, however, and are likely to,reach

double or treble the present daily vol-

ume in the next four or five weeks.

Minnesota.Early Ohios U. S. No. 1





are quoted at. $1.25@1.35 per 100 lbs; ,





in the Chicago earlot market; North-

ern whites are bringing $1.40@1.60.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





The markets are active. Recently

over 1,150 loads of produce were sold

on the two markets. Buyers bought

moderately heavy. The supply of to-

matoes continued heavy and the move-

ment was a little stronger. Sweet

corn had ready sale, 'while cucumber

pickles were in good demand. Plums

were taken readily. The small offer-

ing of St. John and DeWey peaches.

brought fancy prices. Pears were in

heavier supply and sold fairly well,

With Bartletts bringing about 250 pre-

mium over Clapps and other varieties.

Apples sold well with fancy Wealthies

topping the market. First-class canta-

lopes were quick sellers. Peas and

beans had a good demand, while fancy

cauliflower was cleaned up early.

There was a fair demand for celery,

cabbage, carrots, onions and cucum-

bers. Green peppers moved rather

slowly, while red ones were scarce and

in demand. Most greens were slow

selling, while bunch stuff had a good

sale. Poultry Offerings were moderate

and demand fair. Eggs had easy sale.



Prices were: Apples, fancy $1.60@

1.75 bu; No. 1, $1.25@1;50 bu; No. 2,

$1@1.20 bu; beans, fancy $2.25@2.50

bu; fair at $1.50@2 bu; local celery,

large 75c’@$1 dozen; medium 50@60c

dozen; cauliflower, fancy $3@4 bu;

No. 1, $2.25@2.75; cantaloupes, fancy

$3.50 bu; NO. 1 $2.50@3 bu; carrots

40@500 dozen bunches, 75c@$1 bu;

cucumbers $1@1.50 bu; lettuce, leaf

75c@$1; green onions 60c per dozen

bunches; {dry onions $1.50@1.75 bu;

potatoes 850@$1 bu; peas $3@3.50 a

bu; peaches, fancy $4 bu; No. 1, $2.50

@350 bu; plums, large $2.50@3 bu;

medium $1.75@2.25 bu; small at $1@

1.75 bu; pears, fancy $2.75@3 bu; No.

1, $2.25@2.50 bu; No. 2, $1.50@2 bu;

sweet corn 17@25c dozen; summer

squash $1.25@1.50 bu; tomatoes, red

$1.25@1.75 bu; pink $1.50@2~ bu; tur-

nips $1 bu; eggs, wholesale 400; retail





45@6‘Oc; hens, wholesale 26@27c lb; '





retail 25@300 lb; springers, wholesale

300 lb; retail 30@35c lb.





EGG LAYING CONTEST.





 





T HE International Egg Laying con-

. test at the agricultural college fin;

ished its eleventh four-weekly period,

with Mr. Eckard’s pen of Leghorns

maintaining a nearly 200 egg lead over

its nearest competitor. This pen shows

a production of 2,307 eggs, or an aver-

age Of 230 eggs for each hen in the

pen. Its nearest competitor is the

Leghorn pen belonging to L F. Heas-

ley, with-2,118 eggs to its credit. Mr.

Eckard’s other pen of Leghorns fol-

lows a close third with a production

of 2,104 eggs. . '



The high pens in the last four-week-

ly period were Mr. Eckard’s leading

Leghorns which produced 156 eggs in

the four weeks; the Arnold E g Ranch

pen next with 156 eggs, and 9 Royal

Hatchery Leghorns third‘ with a 152

egg production. .





LIVESTOCK sALEs.





 





 





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NEW LAMP BURNS

- 94%“





-A new m hoop that gives an m2-

1m Wt edit, white; fight even

better than gas or el‘ ,has been

tested by the U. S. Government and 35

leading universities and: found to be

superior to 16 ordinary oil lamps. It





burns without'edm', smoke or noise—

no pumping up, is simple, clean, safe.





 





 





 





Burns 94% afrandmwmmonkefo‘





sene (coal oil).





The inventor, J. 0. Johnson, 609 W.

Lak o as, it.” is uttering to

sondalampomlcdoyr‘FfiEEtrfut

or even togiveonemtothe first:

Bar in: each locality who will help.

him introduce it. Write him today for

tall particulars. Alisa ask him. to en

plain how you: can get the agency. and

withmt experience or Dorsey make

$250 to 3500 per moath.





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333.“:1-33-3 rose





 





 

   





 





 





 

 





‘ llnlcn Steel Products (in. Lid.

$0.11. u, m. mum, 0.3.x.





   





 





 





 





USED MACHINERY F08 SALE





6-12 Allis-Chalmers Tractor; 2Fordsons:.

8—16 and 30—60 International; 1 Sampson;

20—35 Flour City: 18—30 Avery. Also

17122 Ann Arbor Belt Power Press. and

14x18 and 117122 Wolverine Presses. You-

’can sure m' on these items. Writs

for used “marshy. fist





THE m $3., Toledo, Ohio





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m, the U. S. Col-45

RLRiflh-Barrelacuthu221nch





Barrels interchangeable, same length :2. 00 extra.

Bird shot Cartridges tar these guns, $3.00 hundred.

Boll rum dires...-......- .ovhundrsd’.

I Semi for Catalan.





W. STOKES [(181, 1607-115. M most Phat. Pk





 





 





 





 





 





CATTLE

M For 5“! Bulls ready for service.





alsoufewfemales. All from

g; of M. dams.





 





Accredited herd. Smith G. Parker.

D. No. 4. Howell. Mich.





Milking 513me M ma Grandson of





menslde Dairy King. Dark Red. Also a light Roan

bull 12' 1110.. of best Clay breeding. IRVIN MAN 81.

80“ M Itch.





EST ESTEP.‘ mud. Mich.

Best ct quality and breeding. Bulls.





ows dheif

oTocK roan. cm I: thwart. B'Dwn"





5 RED PGLLED CATTLE 3%





Hard. '

I'm m. limit. hill. 0'“ 50%





 





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Bulls. heifers, cows.

Prices right. FOR-





 





‘ ? 7 “ so:

"reflecting the corn Thu

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’1: tieus from excessive rainiall.





'- , at these diseases to some extent.





   

 





'moi'stm'e has been ample in most sec-





, rent season.





hutfih..3eboredsmoofllf0131rdsh.m r





some is an increase



bushels Since last month.

_ 'nt fox-eel“; hast been exceed-L

fed? by the or s 0:101!” four years.

Although

states, the generally cool season has

been. favorable and large yields

afet expected in most of“ the important

8 a es.





 





 





 

 





 





Potatoes. —-—Late potatoes in the

6-qu A have tapered by

them .. ~ Theta“! to

crop is new W at 412, 61,900





bushels mum than prom on Aug-



1131:] utmostmesumeostheerogeg

1923, and about 2291214000 bus

gre ter than the five-year average.



one Ray at.





and a crop of 88,454,900 tons in esti—

mated. It has been exceeded three

times; The leading state is New York.

with. on Wed crop of 6 614 000

tons, folicwoi by Wisconsin with 5,-

4542600 torts.



. m:—~_m W tor applies,

pears, needles 11‘ grapes are all

slightly lower than they were a month

ago. Apple prospects. declined m prac-

ticality on important states except.

Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas Kan-

sas and Oregon. In the country as a

whole, nearly the usual number of

bushels is still. expected but in the





'eastern- states quality averages for





lower than usual on account of wet

weather at the time when spraying

was most needed, and the portion. at

the crop available for consumption as

fresh fruit h correspondingly reduced.





MICHIGAN cnop EEPORT.





Corn—The condition of corn is rat-

ed at 64 per cent, 20 per cent below

that of one year ago and 17 per cent

below the ten-year average. The size

fan-1d tummy er the crop is now chiefly

dependent upon a. snfiiclent amount of

warm weather to mature it, the entire

month of September without a. killing

frost. being needed for this purpose.

The forces-sized production, based upon

the. present condition, is 46,322 bussh-

els. As about one-third of the crop. is

generally cut for fodder and silage,

the grain will scarcely exceed 30,000,-

000 bushels.



Beans ——-Since the August report,

the crop has sustained considerable

injury in some of the heavy land sec-

Bligzht

and anthrocnose are quite prevalent,

although fair weather late in August

arrested the development and eftreltlzt2



e

condition has declined to 68 per cent,

representing a crop of 5,492,000 bush-

eh. or 1 little over a. million bushels

less than last year. The crop is slow





. gin maturing ”which with the prevailing





diseased condition, will cause a. rather





heavy pick.





Potatoes—The September 1 forecast

shows a. gain- over the previous month,

the prospective crop being 33,110,000

bushels. There have been local at—

tacks by leaf hoppers and blight, but





tions and the outlook is for a good

yield. The crop in 1923 was estimated

at 35,796,000 the acreage having been

somewhat larger than that of the can





The nation’s potato crop now ap-

pears to be about the same as last

year, the estimate bemg 412,761, 000

bushels.





 





YOUNG WINNERS AT STATE FAIR.





(Continued from page 233).





2. Jacob Richter. Washtenaw Co.



3. lashes-t Laser. Hillsdale Co.

BIOLSTKlN—FRIESIAN SPECIAL.

33‘ Seven Head From One County.





Grand. Champion Holstein female J'as. Mac'I'avish.

SIIORTIIORN CATTLE.

Bull, Any Age.

1. Schuiord Kirk, Tuscola. C0.

2. Edwin Knapp. Washtenaw Co.

Heifer Two Years Old or Carer.

Harold Stewart, Tuscola Co.

Edwin Knapp. Washtenaw Co.

. . Mauomb Co.

or Yearling Halter.

Edwin Knapp. Washtenaw Co.

Senior Heifer Calf.





9°92“ g-I - term-I





Earl Mann. Washmw Co.

m W Golf.



1. Hamid Stewart rascals C.



Champion lcmale. Harold Stewart,





heifer).

First Prize lolly Ecol.

‘1. Haw ns Brothers. Macomh Co.

RES 'TS 013‘ GENERAL LEVE STOCK.

Judging Coat“! September 4. 1924.

Willard Grim, gh man; Couch. L. R. Binding.

1. 81.. Joseph Co.. Score 986. Howard Start. County

Amt. Centerville; James Finisher. This team goes

to International at Chicwo.

2. Saginaw Cox. Score 98.4. Belch. Nowsrk. Coach.

C. E. Reed; Forrest New. County Club Agent;

Albert Gabon-no. Saginaw.

3. Eaton 90.. Score 982. (mam-d Smith, Coach.

R. W. Tenny: Vernon. Wheaten. County Agricultural





Agent: Floyd” Cans-d:

Dal “M 11.1924.

1. Calhoun” 00.. arose as. I’m Adams. Coach,

W. C. Bunion; Donald “M, County Club Agent;

Daniel Streamline momma.

Francis Farrell.





Wash‘benmr Score 903.

Coach. F. Essick; eWaImr Maier. County Club Agent;

Anna; Mich.





(two-year—old





 





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’1”. Ann

3. Jackson Cm. Sears 89. Carlton Warner, Max

Foster John. Foster.

1. Carlton Warner. lichens. 3M.

.Vlctor Baal. Lenawee. 336.

Wayne Adams. Calhoun. 332.

m





4. Wosirssoow. .

These boys will represent Michigan at the National:





seating was late in some.





 





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5.0.1 C‘ .mfipgmbymaisntnoy





mus Ills: H. PETERSON. I. 2. IIIIIII. Illoh.





 





Now offering herd Boats with the best of

Also- Mtllss akin “than no

right. P. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





I

F all P183 ed reasonable. Best

ct dams. W. E. Livingston. Puma. Mich.





Extra Fine bunch of Poland China. slits.

Priced t such”. f k

delivery. m w. Dunstan. outfit-.1." (mic





FaPchndChG‘ib g; to“: gas m:





moons 3809.. R. 3| Fowlomlr. "Nu





Reg. Smttetf Nomi China pigs and Russ.

can. A. IoFATE. “comm-3.11;!“ mm “‘5'





LARGE TYPE,d Pm“ Chm Mn: nus.





sex from Michigan's

Chanson bard. A. A. Edits-1p. lanohutr. Mich.





Bred Gilt:Mm mtg; “flag."

1'

your onto Mk I. Sud-I. 8.4. 81. Joins. Mich:a





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sum

Pure- bred Shropshire

Rams and Dunn: Hogs

Lsxm nuns,

chess-on, Mich.





Shropshire Rams 33mg]? .lambspffi

Booher. R. 4. End. Mich.





 





“I The Maples Shropshire.





Framisea' Farm Poland on nas»





elther‘ sea. by the great Bear. The '

Waterloo. Pris





 

 

 

 

 





Fir Sale—Choke yearling” ms





and o .0:

nonunion stock can Also lat-perm ”m '

LELAND. Ann Arbor. Iliob. Phone 7184F13 l





Sheep For sale





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Rams. Ewes & 1.11th

wolds. Tunis. fl

LEROY KUNEY. Adrian. M





 





ShrOp hires 0:32am on'ermz 11 show a,





tits!!! at

prices. c. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Mich.

Registered Shropshire “$333? $23de as...





ity. Also a few ewes. 0. LEMEN OLSONS.

tor. Mich.





 





‘ Registered Oxford Rams and Ewes.

F‘ 1' sale Satisfaction gnorunteed. Geo. T

Abbott. Palms. Mich. Phone 78-3: Dockervllh. R. 2.





oxro RDS m “gage-rs a}





MAN M. Dansvllle. Mich.





Oxford Rams and Ram Lambs For So"e





EZRA VIIBTH. R. 3. Ewart, Mich.





30 Bag BMW Rams ‘°’ “1‘3 0“” m





two years old. bred

for wool and mutton. A. &. F. Parmenter, R. F. I.

No. l. Durand. Mich.





 





 





 





 





and Ewes. Best of

Breeding. VI. V.





Ruggiered Hampshire Rams





ER Md. Mich.





B di E

For sale; in lots of 50 or more, telephone Newpmt.

telegraph Roekwood. P. 0. So. Rocliwood. “No.0

3. CHAPMAN. «ft. SON.





DOGS

An rextru fine nt-





Scotch Collie Yuppie t p_ n,

WELL. B. 3. Wake-Ian. Ohio.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Small! mom bring

tlslng Melanoma:





t cents a word. each insertion.on

consecutive insertions 6 cents a word.

display typo- or Igldustraticns admitted.





Omntmum cams. 111 words.





 





CLASSIFIED ~ ADVERTISING





This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan formers



arti I R) relsults midgr dmfifdl'flheadMgsm

cos 1 see or on once 0 try adve ing will be run in this department



at classified rates, or In display columns at commercial rates.



orders for less than four insertions: for four or more



Count as a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No



Remittances must accompany order.



live stock advertising have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.





'Fry it for want ads and tor adVEr-





 





 





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All advertising my

peci slice m...

or change of cm in

tmdzd fir tin Clarified Departmmt must» read) thil "fit-'1‘"

day: in advanc: quublira film dots.





 





 





 





‘ crops. etc. .





L‘ over lands well





 





Dairy ‘Show.





 





berstive Farmers. Psducsh, ”Kentucky.





MISCELLANEOUS





CORN HARVESTER cuts and piles on harvester or

windrows. Man and horselcuts and SHOCKS equal

(,‘orn Binder. Sold in every state. Only $25 with

bundle tying attachment. Testimonials and catalog

FREE showing picture of Harvester. Process Har-

vester Cc.. Salim, Kansas.





 





 





DELCO LIGHT and Power Plant, including meters:

water pump; as good as new; can. be seen running;

3100. Warren. Idle Hour Anglers' Club, St. Clair

Flats. .‘III'II.





NOW' DRYING I’llUNlJS-Specia] Price this. month:

(‘ho'u'e Oregon Prunes, 100 lbs. $7. Sample 6c.

Ringwood‘ Orchards. Salem. Oregon.





 





ALL. WOOL YARN for sale from manufacturer. 75c

to $2.00 per lb. Free sample. H. A. Bartlett,

Harmony. Maine.





 





WANTED—Single bottom plow for Fordson. Carl

DeWitt. Wheeler, Mich.





 





 





REAL ESTATE





MICHIGAN FAJlM~J1~irk House. Stock. Tools.

Crops: $1.000 Cash. (hour with distant interests.

Sacrifices 1111 for amount. insurance; 80 acres in far





 





tile district. fine (‘OOIN‘I‘BILIVO creamery, splendid high

school; rinse 2 depot looms. 3 noted lulu-s; 38 acres

loamy fields. 10'i'()\V past-1111!. woodlm. 55 fruit ll‘I‘t’S.





grapes, berries: exw'llt'nt 2—stm'y. 9~room brick house.

porches. 2!):11'115. granary. windmill, t'tl'. $3,000 gets it,

horses. 3 cows. poultry, tools, implements. vehicles,

int-lulled if taken now. l’nrt cash. Pic-

ture and details page. :34 lllus. Bargain Catalog mon—

ey-mnking farms. (‘upy free. Strout Farm Agency,

205BC Kn'sgn Bldg” Detroit. MICIL





ONE DOLLAR PER ACRE D0\VN~—3.000 acres cut.—

lovuted in ()lad‘win Co.. Mil-h.

Tracts of 40 to 1.0 .1. rm $8. 00 per arm, long time

to pay, interest 5%. Ililty well improved farms $35

to $50 per acre bt 11d tor circular at once U. G.

Reynolds. Gludwin. Mix-h





BEAUTIFUL HOME in Country Village. Northern

Ohio Splendid house, garage, poult1y house. garden.

shrubbery. fruit, em. Five minutes of High School.

Station. Stores. Church and Post Office. Particulars,

Box 333.1ilit-higun Farmer.





 





FOR SALE—“200 acres of rich Iovvl land. 190 ill‘l‘t‘S

under cultivation; 10 acres of timber; splendid build-

ings; finely loco one mile west of (‘mswell on

state reward road. $60 per acre. James Hagen,

(,‘roswell. Mich.





AUCTION SALE OF‘ FARM—Sept. 21;. 28 miles

from City Hall, Detroit. Rich Blot k soil. Well

Equipped for Dairying. Will positively be sold to

highest bidder. For particulars address. A. L.

Cornelius. 1358 Pembscot Bldg. Detroit. Mir-h.





MICHIGAN STOCK FARM for sale. Good buildings.

Sell or sent. 200' acres. Mt. Pleasant. Mir-11.. B. 1.

Box G—A.



FOR RENT~Qeed 400— Acre Farm— 140 acres produc—

ing Hay and Alfalfa—Largo Barns—4(— Room House.

C. E. Coup. Port Hope. Mich.





40 ACRES—Crops. tools. team. cow. $2.500.

Martin, R. 4. Leslie. Mich.





 





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HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing five pounds 81. 75;

ten $3. Smoking five pounds 31. 25: ten 82; pipe free.

received. Co-cn-





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO. Chewing 5 lbs. $1 T5;'1'l~n

$3. Smoking 5 lbs. $1 25: Ten $2.1’ay when retclvcd.

pipe and recipe free. Farmers” Union. Paducah. Ky.





PET STOCK '





FOR SALE—High- (lass Foxhounds: Bea



gle hound

('oonhounds; Blondlmunds; and Setters: partly angi-

well—brolier1;(pl1ppies of all breeds; no money in mi-

vamt- 9 1p ‘. D. Stump for book 1 —

Kennels. Molmton, Pa. 1%. Iandis





 





BROKEN RABBIT IIOUNDS and Coon -

amwd. Lame Russian Wolf Hound Doupflzltrllrd (£10133:

Dogs. 1101 Terrier Dogs and I’ups.\VI1ite Spitz amd

Collie l’ups Aixvdalcs. Spanit'ls Poodles. We buy

sell and txchange. Detroit Bud Store, Detroit. Mich:





FERRETS. 1' specialize in raising ferrets.

years experience Sept.





$2.25. One dozen $24. 00.





Thrifty

prites females $2. 75. males

Yearling females spmai





 





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outfit less than brooms.

'Brush Works. 173 3rd St.





, 116m

pletlon of 3 months‘ home study course or menu's-





rat catchers $5 00 oath.





lion book free. ‘Vill Ship C 0 D 1’15th-





Leli Farnsworth. New London. Ohio.





AIR‘IIOHIILI‘ $1I' I‘S-6\thlped Julv 14.01lglbl‘e in A.

. ., :1. no 101111110 POIIIG pup wolf



Sati fart . .. . gray.



and: MIL-)1? gumantttd. Iv. II. Aldrich R. 4. Sar-





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FOR SALFHFIVQI pups four mo

nth. ol 1

Hound and '34 English Il‘nx Hounds:g N3. 133%





at 6 dz. 7 mointhe old. ’

3' Hurxisvillc Mith. Write Donald Anderson. R.





FOR SALE (‘ Illa 1"\I’—A o Airedale 3

112110 (ollio A1 ' t " pups months Old

La once. Mich. made a months old. \Vm. Valent.





FERRETS ~111Mb“ and hunt :

Sellars. New London. Ohio. em Booklet free. Thus.





RAC(‘OONS extra. (lull m o

[In-bland it‘nr I‘urm. L1I111;,H.\1‘Ifllql. for sale, Write the





IIUNDIU'. D Hunting Hounds Cheap.





Betkonncls IIUI‘M” Ilexrhk,1“s Trial C. O. D.





 





POULTRY





BREEDING C O(‘ KFRIC LS~IInle wood

blram Single (‘umb Whitt- Loghmrm. “arch and

April butt-bed. liive 01 less, $2.00 ('iu'll. Five to Ton.

$1. 75 0.“ I1 'l‘t-n or more. $1. 50 9.11 h All raised

from our Special Star Mating. ()1111-1- (lirmt or write





[01 (7. r 1

Mi‘chiglgloaue. Townl nline loullry I',u.rm Zecland





and Barron





(PENNSYLVANIA Poultry F'nmi Stork direct. Single

‘mnh wnm- Leghorn I'm-kert-Is from trap nested stock

of 22'0— .lUO elm stluin Triple A mating. Iawrol



H111n1x>rt,llcosc. Mull 1 co





 





EIGHT HUNDRED White Icghom P 11

‘ n . A t8. FWB,

Right and Iwelve Weeks old. Al u e

Milliken, Ftnton, ZUile so cockerels Grace





FOR ss1.1«:.—s (3 Bufl‘ Le .

\Vi‘bsu’l‘. Bath. Min-.11 churn cockem Wilhrd





WHITE WY\NDOTTES exulusivel

cinch. Rmmond blush Shipshewangl' It’d‘oebu'els $1.75





AGENTS WANTED





AGENTS—4111 independtnt. make bi

K prom

soap. toilet arm 1m and household neceslizgh 3;





free sample case ofl'e

Louis, M0 1'. Ho— Ho (30., 2701 Bodier, 8t.





BIG MONEY selling new household clam.



and dries windows. Sweeps. scrubs. mm 031335:



Over 100% moat: Hillier

Folsfleld‘. Iowa.





AGENTS WANTED with Ford. firs cosh -

Michigan. Can moire $10 to. 820' a M. coJuoxllitny ll: .

Love. 602 Ken: m. Domit. Mich. l





 





 





111m WANTED—MALE ' ’





EARN 81-10 to $250 monthly. expenses mid as It‘l-

ay'l’nufllc I Position Minn-mood after com~





 





funded. Excellent opportunities. Write for PM .

fmlo 1615; 19:42} Stand. Bus Training I not '

s , .
George, Lott, 17-year-old Chicago

school boy, won high honors in

U. S. national tennis tournament.





/ ' .

“Rebecca at the Well” is picturi-

eBQue, but not enthusing to the

modern housewife. ;





Ten thousand folks listened to General Dawes’ s eech ru



. . a B -



chk, Me, regarding the Ku Klux Klan, which vyas mad: againlgt

the adv1ce of party leaders and has caused much excitement.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





The organization of, these Hindu Girl Guides at Fern Hill, Otta;

camund, southern India, is equivalent to our girl scout organizaé





There were close finals in the National Mixed Doubles Tennis

tion. They are being inspected by Viscountess Goschen.





Championship at Boston. Vincent Richards and Helen Wills,

first, With Mrs. Molla Mallory and W. T. Tilden, Jr., runners-up.





 





 





 





 





 





 





     





After Thomas Gibbons, of St. Paul, knocked out

Jack Bloomfield in London, he came home

to see his twin sons, seven weeks rid.





James R. Sheffield, prominent New

York lawyer, is the new United

States ambassador to Mex1co.





Thousands of acres of Wheat in Pacific north-

west 1s “as high as your head,” and Wheat

pl‘lceS are rising steadily every day.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Pat Carney, Liverpool fireman, suffered a possible broken spine. in

rescuing a child when the White Star Liner, Arabic, narrowly

missed being wrecked in a hurricane on the north Atlantic. _





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Devereux Milburn, of New York, captain of American polo team,

is the world’s greatest polo player. He is the only player on 1924

team who originally helped to win 1909 cup from England.





 





Copyright by Underwood l Underwood. New York





 





 





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