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A STATEMENT prepared by the

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C. D. Enééeimr A pp/zes Big Farm Metéoa’: Eficz‘ivefiz to Hz: Ezgflty A ores

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





HAT may be all right for the



big fellows, but I never could



aflord it on my little eighty."

How often that alibi is passed about

when methods of farming are being

discussed. ' Such dictums don’t stop

C. D. Finkbeiner, however, even though

his landdescription only-reads a half

cf the northeast quarter—or some-

thing like thaf, instead of taking in a

grand section or two.



It was back in 1873 that Grandfath-

er Finkbeiner, with characteristic fore-

sightedness, picked out a. quarter sec-

tion of rich, black loam soil in south-

ern Washtenaw county. Out of the

walnut timber that grew on it, this

pioneer carved a farm whose virgin

soil yielded bounteous crops forhim

and later for his son, George Fink-

beiner. I



When 03D. Finkbeiner, born on the

place, took eighty acres of it over. in,

1911, it wasn’t quite so productive any

more. Careful seed-bed preparation

on the part of its pioneer owners had

kept the land clean, but forty years

of harvest took with it a heavy toll

in plant food and lime, and the land

no longer, produced as did those virgin

fields when wheat went forty bushels

to the acre in stumps.



But, as previously stated, alibis

don’t go with the present incumbents

of that Washtenaw eighty, and be-

sides, C. D. Finkbeiner married a.

school teacher. That ought to be a

big help to any man, and so it has

proved in this instance. Together, this

young ‘couple studied methods that





Y 0U will have to go west, Ed,”'





said the doctor after making a



careful examination. “Unless

you get a change of climate—-—”. Here

he paused and let Lincoln finish the

sencence in his own mind.



This was year ago. “Farmer” Ed.

Lincoln, of Montcalm county, went

west and he got a change of climate

but it didn’t do the trick. So he came

back home and plunged into orchard-

ing, a thing that he had always hank-

ered for. He got so deeply interested

in his work that he forgot about his

bad feelings and one fine day he 'came

to realize that part of them had van-





, ished. And today, as you go with him





through his thirty acres of orchard,

you are impressed with .his careful

observations and keen absorption in

his work. ’



Space will not permit me to sketch

anything except the high spots that I

saw on the Lincoln farm. An ade-

quate presentation of his story would

take several pages, but he uses some

principles that can be applied much

more than they are at present.



I haveseen a. good many apple or-

chards j in the Wolverine state this





'year', but none of them had a fuller





set of fruit on than Lincolns 'I call

attention to this because it would





’1 " seem t0“ add the witness of fact to his

,. ‘ System of orchard management. Ex-

‘ - roam: of, £16m culture have proven





were being used by the most success-

ful farmers. Here was one that used

tile, another got back his clover with

lime and‘phosphate, the leaders paid

close attention to blood in both live

stock and crops. “What's sauce for

the goose is sauce for the gander,”

Mrs. Finkbeiner probably said to her

husband, or words to that effect. Any-





'way, on the Finkbeiner farm, they be-





lieve that the application of the busi-

ness principles that make successful

big farms prosperous, will also bring

prosperity to their eighty.





George Finkbeiner, C. D.’ s father,

started the tiling campaign Today,

there are over two miles of tile drain

on the eighty. Mr. Finkbeiner esti-

mates that much of this work paid

for itself in two years, and all of it

had returned its original cost by the

time five years had passed.



Next came the reclaiming of soils

once sweet and productive, but now

sour and a little run down. Over half

the farm was limed with finely ground

limestone. Two tons per acre prob-

ably represented an average applica-





 





Mr. Finkbeiner Believes in Well Clean ed Seed of High Yielding Varieties for

Planting on His Farm and for Selling to His Customers.





Lincoln-Loves the Farm





He Recovers Hear/M Wflm Aésoréed 372 £56 Prod/ems of Growing Good Fruit

By Irvin J. Mathews





that their method secures the largest

crop of fruit and secures a crop reg-

ularly. But they will admit that they

must continually watch that the or-

ganic matter of the soil is not deplet-

ed. The sod mulch adherents claim

better coloring and much less expense

of maintenance, although they admit

shorter and more irregular crops. Lin-

coln believes that his combination of

sod mulch and clean culture secures

a good, regular crop and at the same

time keeps the ground well filled with

organic matter. ,





For two years after the trees are

first set, the orchard is clean cultured

until the middle of August, and then

seeded , to oats. The oats stand

through the winter, are disked down

the following spring and the operation

repeated. Then Lincoln sows alfalfa

and clover and leaves the orchard in

sod for two or three years, when he

gives it another dose of clean culture

for two years.



“Organic matter?”; I questioned.



Lincoln bit his lip thoughtfully.

“That is about ‘the' biggest problem

there is in orchard soil management.





'If you can keep up your organic mat-





ter, you can solve the rest of your

problem easily. The alfalfa and clo-





ver roots fill the soil with organic

matter and by going down into the

subsoil, they furnish a larger feeding

zone for the roots of the trees. , If we

need it, we use the alfalfa hay to

mulch the trees.”





There is room for many more Mich-

igan orchardists to cater to the home

trade. In the Winter I sometimes go

from southern Indiana to Michigan and

am amazed to find apple prices as high

in a real apple town like Grand Rap-

ids as in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Lin-

coln is one of the pioneers in market-

ing direct to consumers nearby, and

he’can do this because he has evolved

a storage house that keeps fruit.



Lincoln directed a new line of

thought when he called attention to

the many fraternal institutions and

colleges in Michigan where a large

order of apples can be sold. He has

a. standing order for a hundred barrels

of apples a year from one of the fra-





ternal homes and since they return





the containers, the transaction has an

added element of profit for both of

them. Lincoln, too, takes orders for





several bushels from various families





in Greenville. They pay him in the

fall and" he agrees to deliver the at);





pics to them in bushel lots just as





tion. Thirteen years ago there wasn't

a. field of clover‘on the farm. Today,

clover and alfalfa will grow luxuriant-

ly in any field.



Acid phosphate helped, too. Mr.

Finkbeiner sows 250 pounds per acre

of sixteen per cent acid phosphate on

his wheat, and 200 pounds on his oats,

in a four-year rotation of corn, oats,

wheat and clover. The phosphate has

undoubtedly been a big help to the

clover as well as the other crops.



To make most efficient use of rough-

age grown on the place, the Finkbein-

ers keep a. small herd of Jersey cows.

“I never sell any hay,” he told us. “I’d

rather buy stock than sell hay. I

don’t grow any timothy either. Clover

and alfalfa give the results we want

here, both on our land and in feeding

our Jerseys.” The Jerseys are among

the leaders in one of Washtenaw’s

cow testing associations.



This little eighty is a fine example

of the old adage, “Blood will tell."

Each member of the family has a hob~

by, and that hobby is a pure-bred.

Mrs. Finkbeiner manages the chick-

ens, pure—bred Barred Rocks, winners

in the 1923 egg—laying contest, and"

famous all over Washtenaw county.

Warren, the eleven-year-old heir to

this estate, has been routing all com-

petition at the Washtenaw County

Fair, even among his elders, with his

pure-bred Berkshire hogs. And C. D.,

himself—well, he just naturally runs

to pure-bred everything. Pure-bred

Jerseys in his stable, pure-bred Dun-



(Continued on page 262).





they are needed in the households.



His is an outside storage house with

a workshop overhead. Below the

joists is a covering of boards and just

above these, between the joists, there

is an inch layer of mortar so the ceil-

ing embodies dead air spaces. The

main factor in keeping the apples,

however, is an ingenious ventilator.

Inside the cellar and supported by a.

pier of concrete is a tile flue which

extends above the roof of the work-

shop. The foul air goes into a T about

four feet from the ground. The elbow

which rests on the pier drains the

moisture out of the flue. .



The intake comes in near the floor

of the cellar. Outside, it runs along

at the same level as the cellar floor

for about forty feet, then it comes to

the surface and is extended about

three feet above the ground. A steel

cone over it keeps the rain and snow

out. In the coldest days of winter,

the cellar doors and windows are

tightly shut, but the frosty outside air

is so tempered while traversing that '

forty feet of tile below the frost line,

that the cellar temperature is kept be

tween thirty-three and thirty-five de-

grees F. This ingenious ventilator

works until the outside temperature is





warmer than the inside. “I don’t want,_~“=





to keep apples after that ” says Lin- ..

ecqlii. “I want to get out and get into

the orchard war ” "
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VOLUME CLXII NUMBER THIRTEEN





DETROIT, SEPT. 27, 1924





CURRENT COMMENT

HROUGHOUT the





 





 





The Child country, in prac-



tically every town-

‘Labor A" ship, an intensive

mendment campaign is now be-





ing waged 'to elect

men and women to state legislatures

who are pledged to vote for the ratifi-

cation of the so-called child labor

amendment. Proponents of the amend-

ment are determined that enough

state legislatures will act favorably

upon the amendment to write it into

the constitution before the close of

the} legislative season of 1925.



In this connection readers will be

interested in figures from the 1920 fed-

eral census. These statistics show the

classes of children between the ages

of ten and fourteen employed in gain-

ful occupations. During the year of

1920 there were 378,063 children

thus engaged. Of this number 328,-

958, or eighty—seven per cent, were

employed on farms, and of these 301,-

937, or 79.9 per cent worked on the

home farm under the direction of par-

ents. Only 4.6 per cent were employed

in trade at waiting on customers, sell-

ing papers and the like. Less than

four per cent were doing domestic and

personal service work, while less than

two per cent were employed in cler-

ical operations.



From these figures, it is apparent





that by far the greater number of.





children to be affected by any action

of congress under this proposed

amendment would be those employed

on the farms and in the homes of

their parents, since only three and

one—half per cent of the whole number

are employed in manufacturing indus-

tries, transportation and professional

services.



It may be interesting to state that

an investigation of the sources of the

propaganda now being mailed out

from Washington in favor of this

proposed grant of power to our fed-

eral congress discloses the fact that

among its chief promoters are persons

employed in government bureaus who

naturally would be beneficiaries if the

amendment should be adopted.





HE farm value of





The horses at the be-



” ginning of this year



. arse was at the lowest

Srtuatwn point recorded during





the past fourteen



years. This was true in spite of the



fact that the hersc population of the

country has shown a marked decrease

during the samé «periOd. While the au-



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Here is the danger.

few colts have been raised. The great

majority of the horses new on farms

and elsewhere are old horses. Pos-

sibly, the average age would runbet'

ter than ten years. This means‘ that

the present horse population is going





to depreciate rapidly. But the present





price gives no incentive to raise. colts.

However, in.a. few seasons by reason

of rapid decline in the number and

the efficiency of the old horses, prices

will come back; then farmers and

breeders-will be without young stock

to meet the demand. We are wonder-

ing it farmers would not be taking the

prudent course by arranging the farm

work so that they Could breed their

mares this coming season?





READ pills have





Political been used from

Bread time immemorlal by

' doctors when they did



P 1118 - not know what else





to give their patients

but still wanted to [do something that

would satisfy them. Naturally, those

bread pills Seldom got at the source

of the trouble, but the patient in his

ignorance paid for them as if they

were really something which had cor-

rected the fundamental trouble.



We are now in the midst of a politi-

cal season, one which happens to oc-

cur at a time when many things are»

“apparently wrong.” To increase their

“practice” many political “doctors”

are offering cure-ails for these trou-

bles. Legislation of all sorts is being

offered, which if passed will make this

world a paradise, according to the in

ferences of these “doctors.”



Too often we voters are being of-

fered legislative cures which may be

about as effective as bread pills be

cause they do not reach the funda-

mental cause. Before accepting such

a course of treatment, we should make

sure that we understand the true caus-

es of the trouble. In politics, as in

disease, it is often best to give nature

a chance, for natural forces will usu-

ally bring a satisfactory cure. Many

diseases are cured in spite of the med-

icine offered. And time will undoubt-

edly prove that half of our present

political ills will be remedied without

legislative action.





VERY little while,





The when the produc-

er is getting little for



Market his goods and the con-

Dollar sumer .is p a yin g

aplenty, we hear of





wastes in the marketing of perishable

products. Both produccrs'and consum-

ers discuss, often indignantly, these

wastes and the Wide margin which ex-

ists between the producer’s returns

and the consumer’s expenditures.



The Georgia peach crop this year

was one of the wasteful affairs com-

mented upon. \Vomen were paying

twenty cents per pound in New York

for only fair peaches, while fruit was

rotting on the ground in Georgia. The

comments on this situation were so

numerous that the United States De-

partment of Agriculture has come

forth with an explanation.



Much of this condition was unavoid-

able, according to the government. For

instance, the peach crop in Georgia

was the largest in history. Other

southern states also had very large

The Georgia trees bore much

more fruit than they could develop to

market sizes. Thinning was neglected

and, therefore, many orchards went

about fifty per cent culls.



Another factor is the picking, pack-

ing. and marketing costs. With culls

they are the same as that of high-

grade fruit, and cull fruit does not

bring enough to pay these costs. .



In large cities the handling of per-

ishable products is complex. For in-

stance, in New York, the carlot re-

ceiver gets the first crack at the ship-





In recent years '





titles. The fruit resumes its Journey’

to the retail market, from which it is

often delivered to eons'umers’- hemes.



Each of these many moves entails a

cost. and each man who handles the

fruit is due a small profit above the

cost. Peaches, as well as otherlper-

ishable products, also suffer losses

through decay or injury while enroute.

This loss must also be accounted for

and charged against the consumer’s

dollar.





ISO, regardless of the abundance of .





«any product in producing centers,

there are certain fundamental charges

which the consumer must pay to get

fruit 11': a large and complex city.



Thus far no way has been devised

which will eliminate these packing,

transporting and handling costs. Even

legislation and cooperation will not

eliminate them. They are parts of the

costs of modern living. So both the

producer and the consumer must pay

the price of these barriers which mod-

ern civilization sets between them.



The farmer who sends only the best

to the market shows good judgment,

because the margin received above the

necessary costs in good products is

much greater than with poor stuff.

The truth of this has been demon-

strated time and time. again, even in

this state. ‘





, 0RDS of praise



A . of this year’s

Real , sessionof the W‘est



. Michigan Fair, are

Farr heard from every

side. A well-balanced

exhibit in which ‘every‘. department

showed quality products of the home,

stables and farm, together with an

attractive display of manufacturers

goods, and a. program of merit, won

a patronage that seemingly reestab—

fishes the Grand Rapids Fair as one

of the state’s leading agricultural

shows.



This fair is largely attended by farm

folks from the western and central

sections of the state. It has a real

field for aiding in the advancement of

our agriculture by crystallizing in the

minds of the people the highest types

of animals and plants useful in our

economics and social life.



For this reason, we are delighted





that the 1924 session proved so suc-'





cessful from the standpoint of patron-

age and educational value. Let us

hope that this is the beginning of a

new era of usefulness for this fair.





HE pie is an Amer-





Pity ican invention de-

The Poor signed originally by

. some ambitious cook



Pie to tickle the palate.

But it has done more



than that; it has proven itself one of





the finest things for indigestion ever

compounded. And when indigestion

is promoted most everyigood human

quality is likely to be demoted.-



It is hard to smile through a fit of

indigestion;

it is ha1d to be aggressive thiough

adverse conditions; because indiges-

tion takes the pep out of a fellow.



The pic has been commercialized.

We know one pic foundry which makes

thirty thousand pies a day and is

making so much money that the sur-

plus is becoming a problem. Slangily

speaking, at ten cents a. throw the res-

tauranteur also makes a nice piece of

change.



But from an unexpected source the

pie has gotten a knock-out blow. The

president of the National Restaurant

Association says it is unfit for the

human stomach and four thousand res-

tauran-t men cheered him. Incidentally

he said that eating ham and eggs in

the summer was like committing slow

su; ‘.cide



Probably the restaurant men have





i concluded that a man with a healthy





stomach can eat more of the fight

kind of food than a yspe carrot





 

 

 





 





‘_ digestion of the nation.





the retailer ibuys in‘ even smaller man. Incidentally, the farmer who rarely,





if is hard to be happy;-





patronizes a restaurant should take





Lthe hint and use care in his seating.





The farmer has strenuous tasks to.





perform and big problems to solve. ‘

His activities apparently enable him/

to digest “shingle nails, ” but .even '





then Nature takes a. toll when good





judgment in eating is violated. If his -

“innards” are all: right his tasks will"





be lighter and the problems become

more simple. Athletes have found that

what‘they do it the dinner tablegreat-

1y influences their ability. It pays to

keep fit. regardless of one’s activities.





 





Recently rains .along the Pacific

Coast aided in the control of fires that

have been raging in the forests of that

section. Just the extent of the timber

loss cannot now be determined, but it

has been large.

may be, the American people have

that much less timber to use. Last

year we cut twenty-five billion cubic





feet of timber and during the same





period grew but six billion cubic feet.



This discrepancy, together with the

unlimited uses to which wood is being

put, causes us to wonderewhat year it

will be when we shall be required to

go on short wood “rations ;” axi'd who

among our land owners will then.have

forest trees to supply an urgent need

at highprlces?





Shawn’s '



HAVIN’S is what we used ta get



from wood, but ~in the last genera-

shun you get- ’em from faces.



We was industrious folkses when

we used ta spend our energies; for

shapin’ wood for makin’ houses and

such useful things, even with our whis-

kers long. Them was honest days 0’

toil. But this generashun has got ma-

chinery ta do their work for them, so

all they gotta do is ta set around with

white collars on, 'ceptin’ we farmers

of course. But folkses nowadays has

inherited what you call the propensity

ta scrape somethin’, so, seein’ as they

didn’t have math

in else ta scrape,

they scrape their

faces.



In them old

days a. good beard

was a sign 0'

good, , mature

judgment, but

W/ now the man what

W/ /////// wears whiskers is

either a what you call a radicul or is

crazy, and some folkses say bein’ rad

ical and beln’ crazy is the same thing.



These little garden rakes they use

has made men want ta look like beard-

less youths until they is ready ta say

“how-de-do” ta St. Peter. It’s the age

0’ youth and safety razors.





Shavin's is O. K. alright ’cause whisk~

ers always used ta bother when a‘fel'

.low was eatin’ .soup, but it looks ta me

like there’s some 0’ these bald-headed

men what should let their whiskers

grow ta show they is mature enuf ta

grow hair.



I guess life is a smoother proposish-

on than it used ta be. The pile o’

shavin’s you kin make ‘ain’t no credit

_no more; instead, it's the number 0’

silk shirts you got and the silk dress

as and other things the wife has what

counts. Even wool and cotton stock-

in’s ain’t the style no more, ’cause

what's usually in them don’t look so

nice as with silk stockin’s.



And I tell you, there’s lots '0’ folks

what got by by close shaves now-a-

days, and some 0’ them is gotta shave

twicet a day to do it. Most 0’ them

don’t know where their next shave is

comin’ from.



But me and Sofie sin" t foolish like

lots 0’ them. seas likes woolen stock-

in s and I find red flannel undies comes

mighty handy sometimes. ~Yep, ”have,





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’ clean wheat.





 





of top 11th quality for market

purpOses, but 1t is well to know how

far a poultrymen can go in feeding in-





, ‘ferior grain withOut injury to the flock.

'. on several occasions ‘I have bought





smutty wheat at a discount from my

neighbors. This wheat is good poul-

try feed and the hens and growing

stock seem to relish it as much as

I have never found it to

cause any harm to the flock, and rec-

ommend it as a good investment Where

it can be purgbased for less than clean

wheat.



But it pays to be cautious, in buying

salvage wheat, which is the grain

sometimes marketed after. elevator



res or boat wrecks. This wheat is

frequently soaked and 'then dried.

SOmetimes it may be all right but if

you buy sour wheat or mouldy wheat

the poultry flock is in danger. I have

heard of instances where severe poul-

try losses have been caused by using

spoiled wheat.



Feeding screenings to hens may be

profitable if they can be obtained at a

fairly low price.





But - the screenings .





A Few Suggestzous 077 Eeouosmzmg [7: Poultry Feedmg





', ~Ponurnr will new that is not





By R. G. Kirby





should not be scattered over a wide

area of the poultry range or on lawns

'or in soil that will later be used for

vegetable gardening. The screenings





are apt to contain many weed seeds .





that the hens will not readily eat. The





soil is soon contaminated with a

choice collection of. weed seed that

_may require years of hoeing to de

stroy. .



There is a great difference in the

value of oats for poultry feed. Some-





 





One Method of Practicing Economy in Feeding is by the Use of Off-quality





Grain to Save on Grain Cost;





Ano ther is to Use the Feed Hoppers When-





ever Possible in Order to ave Labor.





 

 





times oats are light with a large per

cent of papery hulls for the amount

of food value in the‘ contents. Oats of

that type are little more than filler for

the hen’s crop and a lot of egg-making

material is absent. It pays to use only

plump oats in the poultry ration

whether they are used for sprouting

or as part of the scratch grain ration.

Poor quality cats can be somewhat im-

proved by soaking or boiling to

soften the tough bulls and swell up

the meat of the grain as much as pos—,

sible.



Every year some poultrymen have

rye vetch which they desire to use in .

their poultry ration. We find that

hens which haVe been eating wheat

do not readily take to rye. It is usu-

ally more profitable to sell the rye

and spend the money for wheat. Hens

must consume enough feed to keep up

their bodily requirements and then

take enough more to produce a sur-

plus of energy for egg production. If

you give them feed they do not like,

the reduced consumption will not pre-

vent them from starving but will sen-

iously cut down the egg production.





Farmers Entering a New Day





Now Demanding New Tests to Me Business of Selling Farm Products





OT ~many years ago farmers

N were farming by the moon or



almanac. Superstitions were

common among country folks. There

were certain times to do this or that.

Many farm practices were based upon

some superstition or lcustom handed

down from one generation to another.

Customs and practices which were

common in one section of the country

were carried to new parts by pioneers.

In many ' instances these/ practices

were not successful in the newer reg-

ions; but agriculture was borne down

by custom and could not change its

ways»





In the latter part of the last century

agricultural leaders turned their atten-

tion to' science. Superstitions, cus-

toms, and former opinions were

thrown into the discard. The results

of scientific experiments were to light

the way. Such experimental work

could be conducted only by govern-

mental agencies. This work has been

conducted by various divisions of the

United States Department of Agricul-

ture and the agricultural experiment

stations.





Many farmers had little or no faith

in this scientific work. It has been

very difficult to get the average farm-

er to substitute science for, custom.

The effort to acComplish this has fin-

ally borne fruit and it is only the

most ignorant farmers who discredit

science in their business.





> There will always be the skeptical

persons. They can’t conceive of any-

thing except what comes within range

of their own observations. There were

those Who said man could never fly,

or “make talk go over a Wire Strung,

along on poles,” and it was absurd to

think of such a thing as a "horseless

carriage.” Not many years ago if the

average man wanted to go anywhere

he would “rather trust a good horse

and buggy than one of these fool au-

tomobiles.” For one to think, until

just recently, that man could send

messages and reproduce the human

voice ,and, music hundreds of miles





away without even the aid of connect-. .

ing wires was the height of folly.





who; advancement and accomplish-





.”msnte of mechanical science have





 





By J. T.





people have about reached the stage

of not doubting the possibility of any-

thing; ,



Development of science is nothing

more than a man learning about nat-

ural laws and how to utilize the forces





of Nature. Nature is ever present in_





agriculture. It is the great force which

brings productivity. The farmer, then,





Homer





ed yet. This march of science will

continue to bring the farmer assist-

ance with his productive problems.





Thought has turned toward what.





has been called the business side of

agriculture—that is, problems of sell-

ing, buying, and financing. Most of

the emphasis has been placed upon

the problems of selling. This is true





 





power.





soft water.





realizes.

state, farmsteads





 





Electrifi/iug Rural -Pluees





0 lift and keep the farm on a par with the shop, desk and



counter, means that agriculture must progress. To progress,

it must absorb from civilization new ideas, new resources, new

Electricity, which has already been generally introduc-

.ed to the farmer as a part of his motor equipment,

to become a potent factor in the epoch just ahead.



Just now every farming community needs a model farm-

stead showing electricity at work at the regular tasks in the

farm home, the barns, and perhaps the fields.

such a model would show a. washing machine and ironer, a mot-

orized sewing machine, vacuum cleaner, toaster, heater, lights,

electric pads for sickness, a. pump, for furnishing both hard and

Outside, all the buildings would be lighted, motors

provided for furnishing water to the stock and lawn, for the

feed mill, corn sheller, fanning mill, milking machine, separat-

or, saw, grinder, and perhaps some of the larger machinery.



These things, of course, are not going to come at once; but

they will be here in a large way before the average person

Even now, as one passes along the roads of the

in which nearly all of the conveniences

named are enjoyed, are not uncommon. And before many years

are gone, there will be seen clustering around that mysterious

power—electricity—an ever-widening group of efficient methods

adapted to the rural home, the stable and the field.





is destined





In the home,





 





 





shouldlearn of the laws of this great

assistant and attempt to work in har-

mony with them.



’ Scientific agriculture has won its

initial fight. Science is no longer

scoffed at- byrthe intelligent farmer.-

The f‘book farmer” is not laughed at,

and the wise farmer does not discred-

it advice because it comes from a man

who wears aiwhite collar and has his





trousers pressed.





Science, in agriculture has broken





down the front ranks of superstition





and is nowsweeping across the field

abut there is much to be accomplish-





 





because most people think income is I





the only important factor of profit.



In connection with selling, or mar—

keting problems, farmers have been

the victims of superstition, prejudice,

and misconceived ideas the same as

they were with those of production.

However, there is a difference in the

mannerin which these problems have

been: attacked.





The productive problems were at-‘





tacked by the scientist in the research





laboratory or on the experimental





plot. The results of this study were

then given- to farmers In market





work no research was done in the be-

ginning. Men started out to tell farm-

ers and the public what was wrong

with the market side of their business.

Remedies were suggested. If these

remedies were criticized or questioned

the proposers turned to vilification of

the questioner in an attempt to dis-

credit him.



This turn to a. consideration of mar-

keting was so rapid and on such a,

large scale that our society was not

able to cope with the problem. There

were no trained market specialists.

There was no market theory or knowl-

edge. Those who knew most about

the market were in the business of

buying from farmers, and their coun-

sel was, therefore, considered too par-

tial to be considered.





There are certain people who are

always in the front rank in every

movement. 'They are agitators who

know how to gain confidence of the

masses by fine talk and abuse of oth-

ers. Many of this class went into

market work and made a big stir.

From Maine to Oregon market special-

ists appeared as if by magic. There

were hundreds of theories which could-

not fail to save the farmer and solve

all his problems. To this movement

came all classes, including the pro-

fessional agitator, the unemployed,

and the man of many words and few

deeds.



The farmer has just about reached.

the place where he is going to demand

the same scientific attitude toward his

market problems as he does toward

those of production. This campaign of

attacking other classes of society is

never in itself going to bring the farm- "

er the kind of relief he is entitled to.



What is needed to help with market-

ing prbblems is a program of scientific

economic research to determine the

underlying facts of. market procedure

and difficulties. The sound market im-

provement program will be based up-

on this market information which has

been scientifically gathered by sincere,

truthful and capable research men.

The hope that agitation, condemna-





tion, and mere enthusiasm will bring

market improvement is gone. Wears

now entering the day of science in

production and science in marketing

working hand in hand for a better ag—

ricultural and rural life.
Now is the

Time





LD man Pro-



crastination

never worries

the man who

acts in time.





Survey the con-

dition of your

buildings—and

if there’s need-—





Build—Repair—

_ Re-Roof now!





THE LEHON COMPANY





44th Street and Oakley Ava.

CHICAGO





‘MULE'HIISE





"NOT A KICK "

INA MILLION FEET





ROOFING





SHINGLES





 





_ ' GATHERING VALUAB'LE DATA.





 





‘HE International Institute of Ag-

riculture, according to Asher'Hob-

son, the American representative at.

Rome, will be able’ 7 to provide re-

search and extension workers, depart-

ments of agriculture and experiment





stations with information which they“





can assemble and put into form to be





1 passed on to the farmers.





The Institute is now engaged in de—“

veloping plans for securing a uniform

census of agriculture in all nations.

It is Mr. Robson’s opinion that with

all its mistakes and faults the Inter—

national Institute of Agriculture is do-

ing a valuable service to agriculture,'

with possibilities for a vast expansion

of its beneficial activities.





FOREST FIRE LOSSES SMALL.





 





CREST fire losses in this country



this year, have been small, being

confined to the Pacific Coast states,

where the approximate loss is estimat-

ed at $4,250,000 by the National Lum-

ber Manufacturers Association.





CANADIAN WHEAT IMPORTS ARE

SMALL. ,



MPORTS of wheat from Canada in-



to the United States on which duty



is paid, are increasing, but the volume



is small, 40,947 bushels for the week





 





 





 





 





 





 





Silver Black Foxes





Mr. Farmer. here is your chance to get in the fox

business right. Owing to leaving this climate I am

offering for sale 7 pairs of proven breeders and pups.

one pair or all, and 5 portable pens. at about 1A;

their value for quick sale. _\lv females averaged 4

pups to the litter this year. Come and see them. V2.

mile south of Pontiac, Mich., on Woodward Ave.





W. H. WILBUR, R. 6, Pontiac, Mich.





NEW LAMP BURNS

' 940/0 AIR





Beats Electric or Gas





 





A new Oil lamp that gives an amaz-

ingly brilliant, soft, white light, even

better than gas or electricity, has been

tested by the U. S. Government and 35

leading universities and found to be

superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It

burns without odor, smoke or noise——

no pumping up, is simple, clean, safe.

Burns 94% air and 6% common kero-

sene (coal oil).



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

Lake St., Chicago, III., is offering to

’ send a lamp on 10 days" FREE trial,

or even to give one FREE to the first





user in each locality who will help A





him introduce it. Write him today for

full particulars. Also ask him to ex-

plain how you can get the agency, and

without experience or money make

‘ §250 to $500 per month.





, ending September 6.





WHEAT MOVES lN LARGE

3 VOLUME.





 





EPORTS from leading grain mar-



kets indicate that the farmers are

rapidly marketing their wheat, prefer-

ring to accept present prices rather

than speculate on the future.



A new high record in the number

of cars loaded with grain and grain

products was established during the

week ending August, according to the

American Railway Association. Load-

ings during that week totaled 68,837

cars, an increase of 7,224 cars over the

previous week, and 4,122 cars over the

previous high record of 64,715 cars

for the week ended July 19, 1921.

There is no car shortage in sight.





 





 





 





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Wheat exports are large. During

theweek “September 11a total of

5,862,000. bushels of wheat were ex-

ported, compared with 3,215,000 bush:

éls during the same week last year.





FOREIGN BUTTER COMPETITION

, KEEN.





 





S a result of heavy importations



of butter from Denmark the price

of butter in this country has dropped

below the cost line; American— butter

and cheese producers cannot meet this

competition unless the present tariff

is increased from' eight cents ‘to ten

or twelve cents a pound. President

Coolidge was told by a committee of

northwestern dairymen, headed by

Pierce Butler, son of Justice Butler,

of the United States Supreme Court.





GRAPE MARKETING SERVICE.





 





SPECIAL grape marketing report-



ing service is being carried on for

New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan

grape growers; It is conducted co~

Operatively by the New York State

Bureau of Markets, Pennsylvania

State Bureau of Markets, and the

Michigan Bureau of Foods and Stand-





 





:cultml Emmet. .

"issued ’ Simulbanéoiply from 'BllfhflO»





Bureau I31





   





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EGG-LAYING CONTEST.





 





HE" week ending September 16

shows the leading pen belonging

to W. C. Eckard with a total produc;

tion of 2,352 eggs. The next _high pen

is that belonging “to L. I. Hensley,

which has produced 2,162 eggs thus

far. Mlowing Closely behind is the

other pen of ”White Leghorns belong-

ing to Mr. Eckard with a production

of 2,144 eggs. , '

The Leghorns far outlay any other

breed in the contest. The five highest

pens are LeghOrns, and usually the

high-producing pens for weekly 'pro-

duction are also all Léghorns. _ ‘

Among the heavier breeds the

Rhode Island Reds belonging to the

Milan Hatchery shows the best pro-

duction. They have 1,893 eggs to their

credit. The Reds belonging to L O.

Dunning come second with a produc-

tion of 1,724. Thevaergreen Poultry

Farm White Wyandottes are next on

the list with 1,702 'eggs. They are fol-

lowed by the Anconas belonging to

C. M. Beckwith, which have produced

1,698 eggs. The Rocks belonging to

J. V. Sheap follow with a. production

of 1,626 eggs.





 





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CONTRACTS TO SELL WHEAT.





Inclosed is a contract. Do I have

to deliver the 200 bushels of wheat at

$1.05 per bushel? Wheat is worth

about $1.20, at thepresent.——E. D.



The contract contemplatesdelivery

of goods at a future date. Such con-

tracts cannot be enforced where no

specific goods were in contemplation

of the parties, and especially Where

goods of the same quality can be

bought in the open market. The only

remedy of the buyer on the contract,

if not performed, is recovery of the

damages from the seller tothe extent

of the difference between the pur-

chase price and what the buyer has to





 





 





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pay in the open market to fill the or-

den—Rood.





COW ' FAILS EXPECTATIONS.





 





A. sells B. a cow before she fresh-

ens. B. asks if the cow will give five

gallons of milk per day, and A. an-

swers that she did give five gallons

last year. After the cow freshens,

she does not give five gallons of milk.

Can B. collect damages ?—G. S.





The seller of personal property is

liable only to the extent of warranty

given. If the cow gave five gallons of

milk last year it does not follow that

she would do as well this years—Rood.





PROBATING OF WILL.





 





Father lived with one child and paid

board. Two months after his death,

this child probated the will. The rest





The reports are ‘





of the family knew nothing of a will. '





Is this within the law? If not, what

can be done about it?——Subscriber.





There is no rule requiring wills to

be published before the death of the

testator nor preventing him giving his

property to the child with whom he

lives. Any objections to the validity

of the will should have been raised

before probate, and after time for ap-

peal has expired no objection could be

made to it, except the provisions were

in themselves void.





A BOY’S WAGES. ’





 





' If a boy is working for himself and





buying all his clothes, would he have’





to give his wages to his parents? The

boy is willing to give his parents half

of What he earns, but they want $20

of his $32 a month. What is the law?

——Reader.





The father is bound to support his

infant children, and is entitled to their

wages for that purpose unless he has

emancipated them—Rood.





VERBAL LEASE.





I have rented a farm on share rent

on verbal contract. Landlord prom-

ised to do certain things and if'he

doesn’t do them it will be a damage

to me. What can I do?

crops for damages?—-H. M.





A lease for one year is valid with-

out Writing. The only ground for a

breach of covenants in the lease is

suit for damages, can the ,breach is

so serious as to amount to an ;evic.

tion, the tenant may abandon lease.





 





 





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teachers now“ come 'from cities and

villages. -'





 





Eggs are improving in quality, ac-





I'cording to a United States Bureau of





Chemistry report. The oflicials of this





‘bureau say that this? is due’mainly to ,

‘ 'the‘candlin'g of eggs before shipment,





although better methods 0f raising





f‘pdultry are also responsible.





 





Corey J. Spencer, a prominent breed-





V‘ er of-Holsteins in Jackson county, has





given the Veterans of Foreign Wars a

472-acre farm near , Eaton Rapids.

This farm is valued at $40,000 and is





" to be used by the veterans’ organiza-





tion for the benefit of dependent vet-

erans, their widows and orphans. Mr.





”Corey is a member of the Caldwell





Clark Post at Jackson.





 





In the Ottawa county poultry center,

the poultry raisers are so interested





- in poultry clinics that County Agent





C, P. Milham will conduct the clinics





_ next year instead of poultry tours.





“Dr. H. J. ,Stafseth‘, poultry disease

specialist at the college, will conduct





. these clinics. ‘





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- i .«s to ur 1 News ,



M. A. AVG. warms a“ course for rural



laments, starting, in. September, 1925.



, Thisswill give} rope-year course, which



_j Will be fertile purp‘ose‘of giving pros-



: pective' teachers 'a knowledge of rural

' MBBYfOf the rural school





The—late Prof. Frank A. Spragg left





.his work ,in snob excellent shape that





his successor can continue'it without

a hitch. He kept a complete record

of each‘cross he made during the fif-

teen'years he spent at M. A. C. creat-

ing varieties. E. E. Downs, of his de-





partment, worked with~Prof. Spragg





for years and thoroughly understands

the projects this well-known plant

breeder had in mind. It is fortunate

for Michigan agriculture that Profes-

sor Spragg was careful in his work.





 





The state of New Jersey is planning

to “certify” hens. Poultry which

comes up to certain standards as to

egg production and health will be giv-

en the stamp of approval by the state

poultry authorities. These birds will

be certified in'order that the hatcher-

ies in the state may get eggs from

known sources.





 





It pays to fertilize red raspberries,

according to the experience of Don

Pennington, near Sparta. A year ago

Pennington applied 200 ’pounds of am-

monium sulphate to an acre, and also

applied some manure. That year the

fertilized part did not show results,

but this year it outyielded the unfer-

tilized part of the patch by 100 per

cent. .The picking season of the fer-





tilized part was also two weeks longer





than the unfertilized.





 





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PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED.





 





HE fifth annual session of the Tri-





State Congress will take place at .





Ashland, Wisconsin, on October 15-16.

This is an important gathering of men

interested in the problems of agricul-

ture and forestry in the upper lake

region of Michigan, Wisconsin ‘and

Minnesota. The papers read at this

congress will later be published for—

distribution.





PLAN TO SELL CERTIFIED POTA-

TOES. '





 





ICKINSON county farmers who



are raising certified seed potatoes

recently held a meeting at Iron Moun-

tain to arrange for the disposition of

this year’s crop and to make plans for

next year. The certified seed potato

situation in Dickinson is said to be

very good this season and barring ear-

ly frosts should bring excellent returns

to the growers. In Delta and School-

craft counties late blight appeared in

some fields, it is reported, calling for

drastic remedial measures.





BEES DO WELL IN CHIPPEWA.





 





HIPPEWA county reports 1,350



bee colonies and claims, on the

strength of a report by Mr. B'. F. Kin-

dig, state apiary inspector, the very

highest quality of honey produced any-

where. This quality is attributed to

the fact that bees can feed on clover

throughout the season without the ad—

mixture of other plants. It is estimat-

ed that during the past three years





* oVer fifty thousand pounds of honey





have been produced in Chippewa an-

nually.





 





CLOVERLAND’S LEADING HERDS.





 





HE reportof Mr. J. G. Wells, M.

1‘ A. C.“Da.iry Specialist in the Up-





‘ __'j‘ ”r peninsula: shows that Gogebic





gaunt? led in the E§§0ciations of; the





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-three grade Guernseys stood first





among.the high-producing herds, its

average being 1,010 pounds of milk and

56.7 pounds of butter-fat. In the Mar-

quette-Alger Association, twelve pure-

bred Guernseys of the Bay Cliffs Farm

made the high average of 1,152 pounds

of 'milk and fifty-five’ pounds of fat.

Seven grade Holsteins of W. Kraus

ranked high in Delta, with an average

of 1,399 pounds of milk and 46.2

pounds of fat. G. Cassagranda’s six

grade Holsteins produced an average

of 1,261 pounds of milk and 42.8

pounds of fat. In Menominee county,

A. A. Allgyer’s herd of twelve pure-

bred and grade Holsteins took first

place with 1,160 pounds of milk and

37.9 pounds of fat.





GET MANY PREDATORY ANIMALS.





 





WING to unusually favorable con-



ditions for the season, the July

kill of predatory animals reported by

the state department of conservation

was quite sizeable and amounted to

123 individuals. These included six

wolves, forty-six coyotes, four bob-cats

and ‘sixty-seven foxes. There were

also disposed of 618 porcupine, 125

woodchucks, seven badgers, two rac-

coons, (thirty-nine skunks, twenty—eight

weasels, four bears, 126 hawks, thirty-

one owls, 449 crows. The wardens re—

port indications that both deer and

partridge are on the increase.





LIVE STOCK SANITATION WORK.





 





OUNTY Agricultural Agent L. R.



Walker, of Marquette county, re-

ports that his county will be TB. test-

ed by the close of the season. It was

considered quite remarkable that Tur-

in township. developed not a single re-

actor. The Houghton County Board of

Supervisors has decided to lay the pro

posal to conduct a tuberculosis eradi-

cation campaign there indefinitely on

the table, because of‘ the expense in«

volved. The copper country is trying

to cut down taxes during the copper

depression.





 





 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 





, TREAKS of red stand out against the sky.‘

Tiny figures suspended in midair cover the

steel cables of the bridge with red-lead.



From the time the bridge is built, rust seeks to

destroy it. Lead is the shield that protects the steel

cables, girders, and beams from rust and prevents

the bridge from becoming a death—trap. It keeps

the bridge strong today, strong tomorrow, and for





years to come.





Nearly twenty million pounds

of red-leadare applied to metal

every year in this country. Yet

this is not enough. Rust still de-

stroys millions of tons of steel.

Between 1860 and 1920 the world’s

output of iron and steel was about

1,860,000,000 tons. Of this total

it was estimated that 660,000,000

tons were wasted through rusting

in use. Just as unpainted farm

houses decay and crumble, so

iron and steel, unprotected by

paint, rust, and are soon ready

for the scrap-heap.





Where red-lead saves metal





Onthe farm red-lead is an impor-

tant factor in prolonging the use-





 





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This painter is risking his life to give the

steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge paint

protection. He is putting on red—lead.'the

strotngest shield that steel can have against

rus .





fulness of machinery and tools.

Unpainted metal is an easy vic—

tim for rust. It is rust that causes

many a farmer to spend money

for repairs which could have been

avoided by the timely applica-

tion of red—lead paint. -





Red-lead is necessary wherever

iron and steel are. Railroads, gas

and water companies and ship

owners use red—lead constantly.

They have found from experi-

ence that red—lead protec-





and exterior ornamental work of all

kinds. It covers machinery, trucks,

iron pipes, and metal equipment.





Red-lead has been used for

generations as the standard pro-

tective covering for metal. Mixed |

with pure linseed oil, pure red-

lead makes a paint that dries to

a hard, tough layer and clings

tightly to the surface. It is in-

soluble in water. .





Red—lead should be and is usu-

ally used next to the metal in its

natural orange—red color. It is

tinted to dark colors for finishing

coats for the sake of appearance .

or for inspection purposes.





A hundred pages of paint facts





If you want to know how to save

the surface of metal, wood, or

masonry on your farm with paint,

write for our “Handy Book on

Painting.” This book is filled

with essential paint facts and

formulas and will be sent free at

your request.





Producers of lead products





Dutch Boy red-lead is the name

of the pure red-lead made and

sold by National Lead Company.

On every keg of Dutch Boy red-

lead is reproduced the picture of

the Dutch Boy Painter shown be-

low. This trade-mark guarantees

a product of the highest quality.





Dutch Boy products also in-

clude white—lead, linseed oil, flat-

ting oil, babbitt metals and solder.





National Lead Company also

makes lead products for practi-

cally every purpose to which lead

can be put in art, industry, and

daily life. If you want informa-

tion regarding any particular use.

of lead, write to us.





 





tion lowers the cost of

maintaining iron and

steel structures;





Red-lead keeps rust

from attacking metal





 





 





NATIONAL

LEAD COMPANY





New York, 111 Broadway; Boston, 131

State Street; Bufialo, 116 Oak Street;

Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincin-

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registers, pipes, fire es- 'Sm

capes, fences, iron gates ‘ - “W





California Street; Pittsburgh, National

Lead & Oil Co. of Penna., 816 Fourth

Avenue; Philadelphia. John T. 148‘?“

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to Pro-“tar Praces

Prices have hit rock bottom on RE!) TOP Steel

Fence POSts. They can go no lower. Its to your

gain to buy right now.



For a long time you ve wanted the prices you

pay out for goods to be an line with the prices

you get for your products. We have gone the .

limit to clOse the gap for you on steel fence posts.





- Your local RED TOE dealer is supplying RED

TOPS at this new low price. See him without delay.





 





Special Note: There is only one Genuine RED TOP. It’ is patented .

and trademarked for your protection. Insist on

getting it. Avoid imitations.





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-ANY gardenershave plenty of

hot-bed sash for spring use but





in hot-beds will make a welcome addi-

tion to the family salad supply as-the

weather becomes. colder and the Vege-





- table supply scarcer'and higher pric-

- ed, says 'F. C. Gaylord, of the Horti-





cultural Extension Staff of Purdue

University.





The old hot-bed soil will prove ad-

mirable if the weeds are removed and

it is completely reforked so that the

soil is loose and mellow. If the old

soil has been removed, fill the hot-bed

to within fifteen inches of the top with

rich loose sandy garden soil. The fall

hot-bed, if planted now, needs no for-





 





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A Sea! of Certainty

an an Insurance Policy for a copy,

HARTFORD

FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY

Hartford, Conn.

Gentlemen: ‘ '

Ioperatea ___________ a crefarm. INSURANCE

._ . Please send me a free copy ‘

. . of your inventory book——





Mail this Coupon

for the booklet. It is





 





menting manure.



1 If the space is not used until late

fSeptember it is advisable to place a

I foot of fermenting horse manure pack-

"ed down securely in first, and upon

this six inches of rich loose soil. Care





should be used not to use soil which





These two papers give full protection





One, is .a policy in the Hartford Fire Insur-

ance Company which covers all property

against the risk, of fire and lightning. The

other is an inventory showing the value of

buildings, contents, live stock and equipment.



The Hartford insures against practically

every risk the farmer takes. For over a cen-

tury it has promptly paid every honest loss of

its policy holders. The Hartford specializes in





a part of its’ service it





will send you a copy of the handy inventory

book called “My Property.” It is free. Send





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F all Use ‘Of Hot-Beds

A bond W av ta LengI/zm t/zé' Vegetaiye, Growing Semen





, . never realize the possibility of .

their use in the fall. Crops planted now





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Athe strawberry bed with this





. storage.





is full of weed seed or that will crust:

and become hard. -



After the ground has been thorough-

ly prepared. Crops such as leaf lettuce

early radish, kohlrabi. parsley, spinach

and beets ~can be profitably grown.

Varieties best for .fall planting. are

Grand Rapids lettuce, French break-

fast radish, any extra early small red

or button radish Purple Vienna, kohl«

rabi,pa1sley, spinach and Crosby

Ekyptian beet. -



To start OK the seedling, plant the

seeds thinly in rows four inches apart

and thin seedlings to an inch in the

row. Thin later again by using the

largest plants first. After the seed is

sown the hot-bed should be watered

thoroughly at least twice a week and

a light cultivation between rows given

occasionally as cold weather approach-

es the ,sash must first be placed on

beds at night and later both night and

day.



Lettuce, radishes and beets shown

in September or early October 'Will

produce a fine crisp supply of these

vegetables for the cool days between

Thanksgiving and Christmas. Eating

these vegetables from one’s own gar‘

den when the snow files is a pleasure

waiting the gardner who starts the

hot-bed now.





GARDEN NOTES.





 





.Hardy perennials, especially those

which bloom during the spring, will do

better if planted during September.

Do not delay any longer, as the new

plants must make roots this fall. Old

beds or clumps of iris, peony, phlox,

day lilies, golden glow .and the like,





' should be dug up, divided and reset~





now. It is also easier to tell where

bare or thin places exist in the peren-

nial border now than it will be next

spring,



Tender perennials should be dug as

soon as the first killing frosts have

occurred. Dahlias, cannas, elephant

ears, gladiolus and others must be

stored 'over winter in a coal cellar.

Conditions similar to those used for

potatoes and oinions will give satis-

faction. The cellar should not be al-

lowed to freeze. After digging the

bulbs or fleshy roots, they should be

spread out under cover for two or





_ three days to dry before storing.

Forcing bulbs should be potted or_





planted in flats of soil as soon as they

are received. They are then placed in

a cool, dark, moist, but Well ventilated





‘ cellar for six to eight weeks before

_ being brought into the light.





necessary in 'der to develop, roots

before the b is forced into bloom.

The strength and beauty of the flowers

will depend quite largely upon the

amount of roots, produced while in

The’plants, when removed

from the cellar should be brought into

full sunlight gradually.



Fruit Notes—Save all fallen leaves

and clippings from the lawn to mulch

fall.

Clean out the raspberry patch and

burn all the old dead canes. Tender

yarieties of raspberries, blackberries

and dewberries should be laid down

and covered with soil each fall. Old





\ ' canes of current and gooseberry bush—





Hartford, Conn.





FREE 1.





 





es should be removed to give room for

younger and more thrifty canes. The





' branches of grapes may be gathered





and hung in. a. cool place. Tomato

vines may be pulled and hung up in

the basement.





This is ‘





Thus the season may ».

,be somewhat prolonged. , 1 _'. '





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Jackie Ott is the world champion

five-year—old athlete and perfect





After a number of successful

for the American League 0

baby. . (Washington team), received congratulations from the President.





 





 





 





 





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Lieuts. Smith and Nelson, globe

fliers, will receive this bronze





games that put them well in the lead

trophy, three feet high.





ampionship of 1924, the “Senators”





 





 





 





 





The first prize-winning float in the annual roller chair parade on

the boardwalk at Atlantic City was “Miss Philadelphia.” as Betsy

Ross making the first Star Spargled Banner.





 





 





 





 





 





 





This shows the U. S. Army round-the-world planes, Chicago and

New Orleans, coming in at Ice Tickle Bay, Labrador. Note the

folks are Wearing overcoats on the thirty-first of August.





 





 





 





 





Something new in. life rafts is this sturdy

rubber pneumatic cushion that serves as a

mattress on a passenger’s berth.





As secretary to prime minister of

Great Britain, Rose Rosenberg

knows secrets of the Empire.





 





 





 





 





The Prince of Wales is being very much enter-

tained during his visit to this country. He

is seen here at the first formal party.





 





 





 





 





 





Missouri mules are being us ed in northern California to take care

of the fieat wheat harVest by means of the “combine,” a





Combine





harvester and threshing machine.





 





 





 





 





 





   





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At the aviation field in Boston, thousands stood for hours waiting

for the arrival of the two U. S. Army planes flying around the

world. General Mason M. Patrick welcomed the flyers.





   





 





 





Copyright by Underwood t Under-wool. New York
manure” "





fitsfeye's gleamed wickedly, “but "the

» miles that answered was unexpectedly.

‘ share and gentle. . ‘ '



“This boat, sport, is the Santa Clara,

Ins Fume! .Line, Captain Sigmund,

bound for San Pedro with a Cargo of

‘1‘, and from there to Valparaiso. Any-

Mug else you’d like to know?"



. Hilary missed the note of irony. His

jnlnd was busy with something else.

“The Santa Clara. Then (he crimps

,. have put me on board my own boat.”

. The jaw of the officer grew salient.



"‘Crimpsl Did you say crimps, son?”



“I’ve been shanghaied. I can tell

you this, my man, I’m going to have

this investigated. Someone’s going to

lose his job on account of i,” an-

nounced Hilary angrily. '



“You don’t say,” murmured the om-

cer. Then, sharply: “And who the

blue blazes are you?"



“Harrison Hilary, the owner of this

line.”



The big man glared at this disrep-

utable wharf rat. Clearly the man was

just emerging from a long debauch

during which he had been villainously

mauled. One of his eyes were closed,

his puffed lip was discolored, bruises

glistened red on the white face and

cuts disfigured it. Bully Blair had

seen sailormen in that condition be-

fore.



“So, Mr. Harrison, Hilary? Well,

you hump aft and clap a hand to them

sheets. Jump, you splay-footed son

of a sea cook!” The mate had begun

his words silkily, but the voice lifted

suddenly to a raucous roar.



“Don’t talk . to me like that,

idiot,” began Hilary querulously.



He got no farther. The fist of the

mate shot out and lifted him from his

feet. Harrison Hilary, owner, landed

in the scuppers.



A brisk voice out in with a ques-

tion. “What’s this, Mr. Blair?”



From the wheel house had stepped

a heavy—set, middle—aged man, evident—

ly the captain. In the doorway stood

a young woman.





“New hand impudent, sir.

ting over a long jag.”



“What’s he doing up here?”



The mate grinned. “Came to tell

me he was the owner of the line. Said

he’d been shanghaied. Gave me some

of his lip.”



“Send the man aft, Mr. Blair.”



“Just what I was doing, sir.”





Hilary got unsteadily to his feet.

“Let me explain, Captain. You don’t

understand. I’m Hilary. I‘ve been

shanghaied. I—-”



“What’s his name on the books?”



“Joe Butts. Brought on board last

night still sleeping off a spree. Guess

he’s got a touch of the jimmies.”



"That’s a lie,” interrupted the vic-

tim.



.The captain nodded ever so little to

the mate, who whirled Hilary round

and kicked him down the steps to the

main deck. The millionaire lay there

groaning. He was sick in body and

mind. The world that had always ac-

cepted his will as law was quite an-





you





Just get-





and! tanked .. ,





Hillary over from head tonoot. ’, .





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.mu'mmm :wywwm.»¥ _“my’mmr «g.





other one from this: one he was. in.





prompter. Hilary shut his mouth and ,





lopkeddown. “Git a move on you, or

I’ll base you till youfion’t know what

end you’re standing cuff .

Hilary picked himself up, cast one

appealing look toward the wheel house,

and limped way. He envied, away

with him a picture .of a girl standing

in the doorway. slim and erect. Was





ing pin on the head is a forceful.





prompter. Hilary shut his mouth and

obeyed orders. He fetched ' and car-

ried, said “Sir” to his superiors, ate

poor fare, worked hard, and slept like





‘a log on a mattress hard as Oregon





fir. The soft flesh of his hands be-

came torn and ragged, but his flabby

muscles began to harden and develop.





He stopped bemoaning his hard luck





 





De campy/alga Side!

By Mrs. Ida Budd





 





i’sc done teed dc man, in dcgco’se ob mah life,

Wat crpeah to not hab any spine;



Wat spend all 'is time an’ his briins», too, to keep

On dc merjority tide ob dc line.



'E doan’ hab no moshun nor strenf ob ’is own,

But ’e jes’ drif’ erlong wid do tide;



An’ he couldn' considah er minnit or less,

Bein’ on de onpopyolah side.





But let dat same cause come de fashion jes’ once,

An hisse’f in its colahs he’ll tog,



An' prance an“. parade in percessions an sech,

An' shout hisse'f hoa’se ez er frog;



'Till cr pusson to’see ’im mought nach’elly tink

.(Erassle eroun’ wid sechlbim)



Dat he hab to be dere or de hull ting done sink,

An’ dat all kep’ it up was jes’ him.





Well, hit ain't berry pleasant to look at de sneahs

0n de faces of folks wat goes by, \



An’ hit cut kin’ ob deep wen dey says “Hit erpeahs

Dal: ’e’ll likly go crazy blme-by; .



So dar’s lots ob folks reckons dey’d bes’ trus’ to luck

An’ den let dc hull business slide.



Oh! it don tck er man wid consid’able pluck

To be on de onpopyolah side.





But sometime, mah bredren, (we doan’ know ’jes w'cn,

An’ we kain’t jes’ edzac’ly tell whar),



Dar’ll be a great suppah, an’ wimmen an’ men

Dat we knows ob will likely be dar.



But I reckon ’mongs’ dem wat’ll be settin’ down

To do feas’ of de Lamb ankde Bride,



Dar'll be mighty few dat sometime in deir lifes

Wasn’t on de onpopyolah side.





 





 





she laughing at him? He could not be

quite sure.

‘ a): ll: ll:



Harrison Hilary had known the

seamy side of life only in books. All

the rough corners had been padded

for the heir of his father’s wealth.

From his birth he had been guarded

against discomfort. The feet of this

young prince of commerce had trod

only primrose paths.



Under Bully Blair he learned les-

sons, hard, bitter, and humiliating. For

the first time he had to stand on his

own feet. At first the thing was un-

believable, but the impact of a belay-





A L ACREb—Look W flo’: Here, Mir: Sweet 2: Back.





and actually found himself enjoying

the experience. -



Barefooted, he swabbed the forward

deck one day under the direction of

Frona, who took charge of him with

a calm impersonal disregard of his

feelings that stung.



“You’ve got the poorest idea of how

to go to work,” she told him with

candid contempt. “Lots of good that

A. B. from Harvard has done you. I’m

going to help Mr. Blair give you a

postgraduate course free, Mr. Hilary."



His face flushed, Sometimes he

did not notice him at all, but when

she did it was always for the purpose





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the shin militias Riemann.” he core " - ‘

rected. 4 . ' ' ‘ " ‘ ‘





. .She thing a as»: 1661: ‘at'i'h‘lm. "I?





distinctly heard you «y it my





Hilary.” " I , - . .



“Lapse of memory, ma’am. Mr. Blair

explained it at the time.”



“So he did. He argued it with you

in his own forceful way. I hope you’ll

be careful. how you talk back to him.”



“Yes, ma'ain. Thank you, ma’am.”

Hilary touched a forelock humbly.



, “If you give up your bad habits Mr.

Blair will make a man of you",



“I’m very,grateful, ma’am."



“Because you’ve had things easy all

your life you are a softy, » I suppose

you were a waiter or something of

that sort.”



She flung this last at him carelessly





V as she went aft to join her father.





Hilary grinned sardonically. She

had come pretty near to putting the

right tag on him. A softy! He had

passed current because‘he had his

father’s millions back of him,» but now

that he had bumped up against Old

Man Hard Luck he had to stand the

acid test like the other men. .



His jaw amped tighter as he

watched her walking beside Captain

Sigmund with the light buyoant

tread that made of her movements a

sort of poetry. Her arm was tucked

inside his and she was looking up

into the rough, weatherbeaten face

with a smile adorable and delightfully

provocative. The girl’s beauty was

like the flush of a' flame, born of the

kindling of the ardent spiritwithin

her. Hilary resolved to show her

whether he had the stuff in him to

stand the gaff of adversity-



It was the custom on board the

Santa Clara for the ship’s bOy to do '

the washing of the captain’s cabin.

Soon after leaving San Pedro the boy

sprained his ankle badly. Frona wash-

ed her own things and then sent for

Hilary.



“Have you ever washed clothes,Mr.

Hilary ?” she asked.



“No, ma’am. And my name is

Butts,” he corrected.



“Very well, Butts. Mr. Blair says

you’re not much of a seaman and he

can spare you. So I’m going to teach

you a new trade. Take those clothes

out of the boiler and put them in that

tub. Rub them clean on the wash-

board. Not that way, stupid. Hold

your hands like this. See!”



Inside of ten minutes Hilary had

rubbed the skin from his kunckles but

was making progress in his new trade.

Miss Frona stood over him and scoff-

ed while she gave directions and cen-

sure. He humbly did his best, even

when Blair joined the girl and asked

the washerman ironically why he did

not introduce a scrubbing party as a

new social diversion when he got back

to his friends.



Hilary shut his teeth on his annoy-



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owner of the line. .



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had been soomful ofhis Work and

rather sharp in criticism. But evi-

' dently she felt quite able to handle

him without any help from the mate.



“You’re so kind, Mr. Blair," the girl

told him smoothly. .“If I think he

needs to be hit over the head with a

handspike I’ll send for you."



A dark flush swept the face of the

mate. More than once ‘ Frona had

come to a disagreement with him





about his methods of handling the.





crew. But since he was a candidate

for her hand he could not afford to

quarrel with her.



“I know my business, Miss Frona,

and I know these wharf rats that ship

on American boats. .

a. bit of roughing I’m the man to do

it,” he answered sulkily. I



“I’m quite sure you are, Mr. Blair.”

She looked directly at him with cool

steadiness. “And, as I said before,

when I need your help I’ll be sure to

send for you.”





Frona turned her back pointedly on

him and gave Hilary directions how to

wash the feet of socks. Blair stood

in the background glowering in sullen

anger. After a minute he moved

away. Presently they heard his rau-

cous voice flinging oaths at the head

of the. first sailor he saw.



* ll *





Hilary was scouring brasswork on

the upper deck with one eye upon his

task and the other upon Frona and

Blair. They were moving slowly along

the lower deck toward him. The mate

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the upper deck. , Before Hilary could



Knotify them with a little com of his

presence Blair had given the situatioxn

away. " ,



“Why not? That’s what I want to

know. Ain’t I good enough for you?

Spit it out, if that’s it.”



“I’ve told you a dozen times that I



' don’t Care for you, Mr. Blair. 1' wish

you’d let me alone.” , .



“Look here”, He caught hold of her

two wrists and gave her a little jerk

towards him. “I’m the man you’re

going to belong to. Put that in your

pipe and smoke it, girl.”



“Take your hands away.

hurting my wrists,” she

angrily.



“You answer my question first.





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What’s the matter with me? Why

don’t you like me?” .

“Because you’re a brute. Let- me





go, I tell you.” Her eyes blazed. She

stamped passionately on the deck.



From above came an exclamation of

dismay. Blair started to look up. At

the same moment a. bucket, half full

of warm water and suds, descended

bottom side up and extinguished the

mate. He stamped around like a blind-

folded Bull of Bashan, streams of wa—

ter pouring from him on all sides.





The bucket was a tight fit and it

was some moments before Blair could

free his head from the enveloping hel-

met. In that interval the eyes of

Frona met those of Hilary. She did

not need to ask him whether he had

done it on purpose.



“Sorry, sir. Accidents will happen,”

explained Hilary as the mate flung the

bucket into the scuppers.





Blair took the steps‘three at a time.

Hilary was standing at the top of the

stairway. The mate struck at him as

he came up. The young man flung out

a forearm in defence. It caught the

officer under the chin and lifted him

backward to the deck below.



(Continued next week).





Christianizing America -

Our Weeé/y Semzan~By IV. 14. M chme





URING the past three months



we have covered thirteen les-

sons, all dealing with the early

period of Christ’s ministry. We have

listened with the shepherds to the

angel choir announcing His birth and

proclaiming peace on earth, good will

toward men. We saw one picture of

His boyhood, and we stood beside the

fast~flowing Jordan, as He was bap-

tized by John the Baptist. We wan-

dered about with him in the desolate

region called the wilderness, as, for

forty days, He battled with tempta-

tion, and thought out'what was to be

His line of future action. We saw

Him select twelve men who were to

enjoy the priceless boon of being His

private pupils for three ‘years. We

joined those disciples as they went to

l a wedding at Cana and witnessed

a, first miracle. We entered the

court of the huge

and gorgeous tem-

ple at Jerusalem,

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righteous wrath

expel the confi-

dence men and





the sharpers from

the holy place. We secreted ourselves

behind the curtain and eavesdropped

on the conversation between Christ

and Nicodemus, and heard those un—

dying words fall from undying lips,

“Except a man be born again, he can-

not see the kingdom of God.” We

thrilled with joy (as we stood beside

the nobleman when he learned that

his dying son had been restored to





life. . We looked on in amazement and





horror as we saw the bigoted citizens.





. of‘lftazareth seize thewh’itest soul and





the greatest mind that has yet visited

our earth, and attempt to plunge Him

headlong over the cliff, because His

teachings were too lofty for them. We

arose before dawn to find Him, and

came upon Him in the act of prayer

to the Father of whom He taught so

much.





HEN all has been said, when we



have seen the ground traversed,

the question will not down———why do

not the teachings of this Master-Teach-

er, why has not the example of the

Lord of Life, made a greater impres-

sion on the modern world? Why must

we still talk of Christianizing Amer-

ica, and England and France, where

the Bible has been known so long?





Now, it is not easy to talk about

this topic without being charged with

pessimism. Save us from the croaker,

we say. And yet, it is a choice be-

tween blatant talk about progress, and

getting at the truth as it exists. We

all want to be boosters. We cannot

all be boosters all the time, unless we

are dead certain we are boosting some-

thing. Jonah was not boosting a big—

ger, busier Ninevah when he went up

and down the streets crying. that in

forty days it would be overthrown.

Jeremiah was tried for preaching dis-

loyalty to the government and proph-

esying its overthrow. Even Lot had

to admit that talking big business in

Sodom did not stop the coming of fire

and brimstone. What we allneed is

to know the truth, vision to see the

right, and courage to follow it.





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not make it so. We are ”the largest

republic, unless it be Brazil, and the

oldest unless it be "Switzerland. We

have more wealth than any other peo-

ple, more natural resources, more rail-

roads and manufacturing. Gladstone

was right when he. said the United

States had'the possibilities of becom-

ing the greatest empire ever created

by man. We have all ranges of cli-

mate, all varieties of products. Our

population is young and vigorous with

the blood of almost every nation and

tribe. We are coming, not going. We

are climbing the hill. We have not

yet started toboganing on the other

side.





And yet it is a commonplace that a

nation is great only in proportion to

its moral standards. Nature. will not

be fooled and God is not mocked. Oth-

er nations have attained to a marvel-

ous degree of strength and influence,

whose dust is now blown about the

iron hills. “Is not this great Babylon

that I have builded?” has been said

by others long ago, but no one says it

about them now. They failed where

failure was fatal. They were weak at

the vital spot. A man may lose a

leg, an arm, an eye, or both arms and

legs and eyes, and-still live. But he

cannot live when his heart. gives out.

A nation may continue to live if it is

small. Switzerland has. It may exist

when it is large and poor, and with

vast numbers of struggling masses.

Russia has. But someway, when the

moral underpinning gives way, there

is not much left to build on. The ten

commandments are as necessary for

politics as they are for the church.

They are essential for farmers and

city folk as they are for high schools

and colleges.





OW there are some factors in

America that make one uneasy.

Call it pessimism if you like, we are

not afraid of names. For instance, it

is very hard for the church to flourish

in a pagan society. You cannot have

saints with the church sinners in bus-

iness. They are one or the other all

the time. Is our modern glorification

of success Christian or not? Economic

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us pray. How to get there, how to

reach the top, and let the men we

have passed on the road take care of

themselves. “The real enemy of Chris-

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not ignorance, nor apathy nor indiffer-

ence—~thc rcal enemy is a virile and

militant creed, which aflirms that the{

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creed which affirms that all men are1

brothers; that humility and poverty.

are blessings, and riches a dangerous

misfortune; that the way of service

and self-sacrifice is the way of happi-

ness. What surprises me, however, is

that in your practice you erect into a

system the duty and happiness of prac-

ticing precisely the opposite. The nor-

mal condition of your social order is

an economic civil war which you hard-

ly take the trouble to conceal.” And

so on. Hits pretty hard, doesn’t he?

Right where we live, too. He found

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“With all my goods I thee endow,”





The marriage service ran,

That William blithely chanted;

And was made a. happy man. .

And he really thinks he meant it,

Long With “better and for worse.”

But it’s down in William’s pocket

That you’ll find the family purse.





He’d be very much insulted, -

And he’d rant and rave and tear,



If you hinted that his helpmate .

Really ought to have a share;





“Pay her wages like a servant

Hired to do her'little task!

Everything I have is her’s, sir!



' All she has to do is—«askf’





“And she has the butter money,

Buys what groceries she thinks best.



And I never think of asking



* What she does with all the rest.”





“All things else we have in common,

All is her’s as well as mine.”



But its down in .William’s pocket

That those family dollars shine.





 





 





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A Unique Way to Develop Cowmunity Fun





DELIGHTFUL country social I



have in mind is called the Hum-



ble Herb Social, and is to be car-

ried out when a way to raise money

is the country church’s problem.



Decorate the church or hall to rep-

resent the attic of an old New Eng-

land farm house. Hang the rafters

with bags and bunches of every kind

of herb procurableflcatnip, lavender,

dried clover blossoms, thyme, penny-

royal, sage, celery, peppermint, mullen,

pine needles, cat tails, etc.



The ladies on the receiving and en-

tertaining committee should be dress—

ed in old—I'ashioned calico or “print”

dresses with tight basques and be-

ruffled skirts, (with “hoops” if avail-

able), with old-fashioned breastpins,

collars, “half-hands” and hair-dressing.



At the booths everything offered for

sale should be made of or contain

herbs—packets containing herbs for

culinary use, for medicinal use, catnip

for the family pets, little sachet bags

filled with sweet scented herbs, such

as rosemary, mint, balm, rosegeranium

leaves, myrrh, rose petals, lavender,

etc. Prices range from five to twenty-

five cents each (seldom over).



Muslin slips measuring 20x20 inches

may be filled with soothing herbs and

sold as invalids’ pillows—they may be

decorated or not, and will sell well

and at a good price. ‘ Mint jelly, neat

bath bags (with fragrant herbs to give

perfume), herb relishes, recipes, etc...

may be offered for sale and will be

'elassed among the “best sellers.”

Serve tea, anis cookies and cakes,

mint sandwiches, (meat or chicken

paste filling seasoned with herbs),

home—made mint candies and various

other dainties that will suggest the

“herb” idea at the refreshment booth,

charging at least thirty cents for the

complete menu.



The committee in charge will ar-

range for a moderate amount of mu-

sic, games and recitations. Afternoon

will be the best time to hold this kind

of social as, in winter, both men and

women, old and young, will be able to

attend and a fine sum netted for the

church, aside from the refreshment of

spirit to be gained by these simple

little social gatherings that'tend to-

ward keeping alive not only the little

country church, but neighborhood in-

terests as well—Mrs. G. S.





 





GROWING TULIPS IN WINDOWS.





 





HAVE often had inquiries about



growing tulips in the house. They

,will not stand forcing and seldom do

well in pots, but you can grow some

Ask for

forcing sorts. I never try growing

"them in pots, but have excellent suc-





.;cesa with them in 'window" boxes

"“where they are planted ”just the same;





as outside—three to five inches deep.

If the box is set in a cool dark place,

so much the better, and it can be left

there until mid-winter. If placed in

the window at once, keep as cool as

possible by not letting sun shine on

the soil, and keeping moist. I have

had them make good thus and would

never hesitate to plant any hardy

bulbs thus. The deep planting serves

to prevent premature top growth, and

buds seldom blast if the room is not

too warm.—A. H.





DON’T WASTE GREEN TOMATOES.





‘ OON Jack Frost will place his car-



essing touch on our gardens and

then the problem of green tomatoes

or none at all, will confront many

farm wives. ‘



If your family is found of a “spread”

or “sweets,” here is a palate tickler.

Wash and quarter large, green toma-

toes and put them through the food

chopper. Drain off as much juice as

you can easily. Cook for, thirty to

forty minutes, then add as many cups

of sugar as there are of tomatoes and

boil slowly for-' two hours. One sliced

lemon to each gallon gives a very sat- '

isfactory flavor also. Pour in jars and

seal hot.





 





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When picking green tomatoes for

pickling, take the medium and smaller

sized ones, leaving the small '- ones

whole and cutting 1 the others. in

halves. Cook in ”salt water until part-

ly tender. Place in jars and cover

with hot vinegar in which sugar and

spices have been previously boiled.



For mince meat, prepare tomatoes

as for preserves. To'each galion add

two-thirds cup of vinegar, two tea-

spoons each of salt and cloves, three

teaspoons 'cinnamon, one package of

raisins and six to eight cups of brown

sugar, according to taste. Boil slowEr

for two hours, one cup of suet chopped

fine, or one cup nut meats to each

gallon may also be used if desired.—

Mrs. B. O. R.





THE SECOND DAY OF THE ROAST.





 





S OMETIMES when we have a good-

sized roast, we wish to serve it hot

the second day before we commence

on it as cold meat. An excellent way

to vary the roast slightly from the

first day, especially if it is veal, or

lamb, is to follow this method:



Put the roast into a covered recep-

tacle, standing it on a wire rack with

feet. Put water in the bottom of the

container and steam the roast briskly

for half an hour. This may be done

on top of the stove. Then uncover,

set in a hot oven,‘and dry off for ten

minutes more. In putting the meat

above the hot water, it does not lose

its juices, and remains moist.



If the wire rack is not at hand, the

meat may be put into a steamer or





set upon an open wire plate support— .





ed underneath by a bowl.



While this process is going on, pre-

pare a portion of delicious dressing.

Put a minced onion and a couple of

tablespoonfuls of sweet fat into a fry-

.ing pan. Toss until a golden brown.

Be careful not to burn. Set aside for

‘a few moments. Take any pieces of

dry bread, crusts, or cold, buttered

toast which may be on hand. Dip

quickly into a basin of cold water. As

soon as moist, remove, squeeze out the

water, and chop up fine in the same

chopping bowl which has been used





 





 





Tm Commandment: to Parent:





HE school year is just opening. With all the enthusiasm and eagerness

of :1 child, several thousand youngsters are beginning their first Or a





new year of their school life.





It often develops that this enthusiasm





and interest in their school work becomes a strain that may tend to cause

the child to be nervous and irritable, and eventually rob .him of health and





the enjoyment of his youth. ,

Dr. Park J. White-child specialist,





says in Hygeia that the best cure for





. \ . . .

this nervousness is prevention, and gives these ten commandments to parents





to help their children.





1. Be sure that the child is in good physical condition.





should be the last diagnosis made.

2. Never let the child hear you or

3. Make few requests and have th

that are not followed up.





Nervousness





anyone else talk about him.

em obeyed, instead of many requests





4. Remember that a child always knows more than the proudest parent





thinks he does. Keep him occupied.





5. If you must worry about your child, don’t ‘let him see it.





you for strength, not weakness.

6. Never say, “Boys will be boys.”





He looks to





It covers too many sins.





7. Never hire anyone to do the actual bringing up of your child. Try to





fit yourself for the task.





8. Enter into your child’s fun just as much as into his discipline. Other-

w1se, you will scarcely know each other: ’

9. Know all about your child’s teachers and his friends without seeming





to interfere.





10. At the proper time, talk to your children—~fath‘er to son, mother to

daughterflof sex, as naturally as you would of digestion.



“Once a child has developed one or more of the great catalog of nervous



symptoms,” says this specialist, “the greatest hope of cure lies in correcting





the physical trouble that may be responsible.





Failing this, the child’s envir-





onment must be changed, either by purging the house of nervous adults, by

sending the child away for a visit, by providing new companions, by putting





him in a new school if the old one

him in bed for a rest cure.” ‘





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for the onion. Ifliked, an egg may be

blended ~With~the bread mixture?



' Now put the 'se‘asoned’dressing into

the“ frying pan with the’oni'on and fat,

and mix through ,thoroughly. .After





the'mass becomes hot and inelinedto





be a little dry,” add "tWo cr'jthree table-

spoonfuls of the thiCk'eneid'meat gravy





leftfrom the day before. ’Heat very -





slowly, and when the dressing is smok-

ing hot, pat into 'a smooth cake, fry

lightly. on, one side, and fold over,

omelet fashion. v'

By this time the meat will be hot,

and may be transferred to a warm

platter with the dressing at one end.

With the hot gravy and mashed potato

and ;a little jelly to give zest, the meal

will be quite as good, if not better, as

on the first day when the roast was

served. '





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’TIS SAUERKRAUT TIME.





 





 





T seems when I survey the bursted



heads of early cabbage, as though

I should have heard a very loud noise,

or a. volley of them. It is just as good

however, if used at once, and the one

and only way to do so, is to make it

into kraut. _



When shaving the cabbage do not

make the common mistake of throw-

ing the heart and the part around it





 





At Sixteen This Girl is Wearing Her

Mother’s Wedding Dress. Uncom-

fortable Looking, to‘Say the Least.





away, 'but cut straight across each

head until it is all sliced. You will be

surprised how nice those thin pieces

of heart will taste when the kraut is

served. _



When .the kraut has reached the

proper stage of fermentation to taste

well, put it into preserving kettles,

bring to a still boil, can and seal as

you would fruit. It will keep indefi—

nitely.



Here is themway I preserve it so

one who has a ’trdfiblesome stomach

may safely eat it.



I put the desired amount in a gran-

ite pudding pan, add a. pinch of soda,

a spoonful of salt and plenty of water.

Boil for about ten to fifteen 'minutes

and drain. It; may then be fried in

park or bacon fat, or put'in a pork

roast for an hour it will impart a most

delicious and appetizing flavor to both

meat and dressing—B. O. .R.





 





A bundle of small rubbers costing

only a'few cents, are much better

than twine or pins for holding par-

cels. Put pieces of a. kind together,

roll and slip a rubber round it. The

work of ‘untieing to find any particular





piece is dispensed 'with and .the'froll





takes up but little room. _
j with their family of little Hickory Nut





”basketétull at nuts and, eaten as many





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BRIGHTENING KID 'GLOVES.





 





I have a pair” of black kid glOves

that are quite good yet, but the fingers

are worn white at the tips. What

could I use to dye them?—Mrs. F. W.





Brush the fingertip and seams of

your gloves lightly witha feather that

has been dipped in a teaspoon of salad

oil to which five or six drops of black

India ink has been added. The worn

spots will scarcely show.





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APPLE SAUCE CAKE.





 





Please send me a recipe for apple





sauce cake—Mrs. F. A.



2-3 cups of butter or 2 cups raisins

shortening 1 tsp. cinnamon

1% cups sugar 1 tsp. cloves

2 cups apple sauce 4 cups flour

mixed with 1% tsp. soda



1% tsp. of soda





Cream the butter and sugar togeth-





er. Then add other, ingredients in the

order given.

for one hour in slow oven. Frost with

'boiled frosting, made as follows:



1 white of egg 1 cup sugar



Cook sugar in half cup of water un-

til soft ball stage. Beat into it the

beaten egg white. Flavor. Beat until

ready to go on cake.





REJUVENATING THE FELT HAT.





 





Will you please tell me how I can

color a white felt hat red?—Mrs. Y.





It is quite a difficult problem to dye





 





a. white felt hat red, to prevent it from

streaking. Remove all cleaning pow-

der that has been worked into the felt

and use a good wool dye, testing on

a small piece of felt to be sure you

have the desired shade. Immerse the

felt hat in this dye solution, prepared

according to directions, and let stand

for one hour. Rinse only enough to

‘keep from streaking, and shape over

a bowl to dry. This will put the crown

back’ into shape, but it will be neces-

sary to pull and press, the brim with

a cold iron to the desired shape.





 

 

 

 





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tical labor—saving devices which

she puts into every-day use. I use the

“no rub” method for washing clothes.

The night before I wash, I put my

clothes to soak in cold water, soaping

the badly soiled spots. In the morn-

ing I wring out. Having my boiler

ready with about two pails of cold

soft water, one bar of good laundry

soap (soaked the night before), and

one tablespoon of kerosene oil. Add

white clothes, moving them around

occasionally. Let come to a. boil slow-

ly. As soon as they start to boil re—

move, rinse and blue.

By using this method all stains dis-

appear. Clothes wear much longer

than by constant rubbing. There is

plenty of time to tidy my house while

the clothes are coming to a boil.~—

Mrs. M. M. H.





 





   

 





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T he Nuttz'rzg Party





S Old Sol went to sleep each.



night behind the hill farther and



farther to the south, Mother

North Wind blew the news about that

Autumn was coming. To the animal

folks in Woodland the Autumn was a

welcome time. It meant nuts, and

best of all, a nutting party.





And so- a party was planned one

crisp coolday. The animal folks met

on the Village square in Woodland

early in the morning and trooped off

to the nutting ground in the Big

\Voods. Each one carried a basket.



Frankie Fox called this place where

they gathered the nuts the “Nutting

Family” because there were two big

trees close together whose branches

every year were bountifully dotted





 





Sammy Squirrel 'Was Nimble at Tricks

and Was Soon in the Lead.





with, hickory nuts and beside them

were several smaller trees with nearly

as” many nuts. Frankie Fox called this

Mother and _Father Hickory Nut Tree





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as his tummy would hold, they were

ready for their fun.



The first game they played was a

race by \Villie \Voodchuck, Bruin and

Sammy Squirrel to see who could get

a hickory nut from a hollow in the

trunk of one tree and put it in the 1101-

low of another. But this nut had to





be balanced on their nose and they ’





could not touch it after they started.



With their right toe on the starting

line and the nuts all placed on the

tips of their noses, off the. started.

How funny they looked, and all the

other folks of Woodland stood back

and laughed at them. Twice Willie

Woodchuck’s almost rolled off his nose

and once Bruin almost did it. It should

have been easier for Bruin to balance

the nut because his nose was so big.

But little Sammy Squirrel was so nim-

ble when it came to doing tricks that

he soon was in the lead, even if he

couldn’t take as long steps as Bruin.

So it was nimble little Sammy Squirrel

who reached the goal a whole minute

ahead of the others and won the prize.



When they were all busy playing

“Blind Man’s Bluff,” Jackie Rabbit

scampered up the tree under which

they were playing. Quietly he climbed

out on a big limb and gave it a quick

shake. How the big hickory nuts did

rani down!



One hit Rolly Rabbit on his ear and

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By Zona L. Amos, M. C., Owosso, ,

Michigan.



Who is more faithful than the mail

man? Rain or snow he will deliver

your mail. Sometimes the mud is ,up

to the middle of his wheels, and again

it is so dusty he can hardly see the

road ahead of him. But he comes

just the same.



Many .times he is later than usual,

but stop to think that he may have

had a blowout, or trouble with his en-

gine. There are often people who are





 





Sylvia Schomaker Drew This, and

Called it “Bobs.”



expecting letters. If they do not get



them, they blame the mail man. But



is he to blame? I should say not. If



a letter for them had been at the post





office, he would have delivered it to





them.



How many times does he do a favor

for you? For instance, in the cold

winter weather you are out of stamps.

Can you imagine how cold his hands

get just counting out a few stamps

for you? Many times he brings you

invitations, happy messages, and some-

times death messages that make you

sad,'but he is the mail man, and has

to do it.



The next time he is a little late,

stop and think of something that may

have detained him, or if you are ex—

pecting a letter, and don’t get one,

don’t blame him. ‘



The mailmen are generally good fel-

lows, and it is nice to be on friendly

terms with them.





 





By Mildred E. Merritt, M. 0.,

Ypsilanti, Michigan.



Who is the most popular man in

Washtenaw County Ypsilanti R. D.

No. 1? Listen good! I’ll tell you. It

is our mail carrier; The ladies don’t

make any secret of it, in fact, they

even telephone to each other and ask,

“Have you seen the mail carrier go

south? I am watching for him now,





' as I want to see him this morning.”





Our mail carrier comes through all





,kinds of weather and never grumbles.





He has a car so well trained that it

can jump any mud puddle and go

through any snow bank.



Sometimes the mail carrier brings





1 messages of love and sometimes of





sorrow, but both should be expected.





H «I He brings packages to me and théy

. .lmeke..me happy.





If we did not have a mail carrier

we would have to drive a long ways

after our mail, as it is, we have him

and we ought to be glad.



The coldest day last winter was

January 6, and it came on Sunday.

We were glad because our mail car-

rier did not have to come that day.





We try to show our appreciation to





our mail carrier by little acts of kind-.





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By Helen Dunvar, M. 0., Beaverton,

' Michigan.



Our mail man is a very brave man,

indeed! In summer he never misses

a day. With his automobile he travels

Route No. 4, from Monday until Sat-

urday. For over seven years he has

traveled this same route. He has often





taken pennies from the box and nearly

froze his fingers doing it. Poor fellow!

Last winter in stinging cold weather-





V and when the snow was piled several





feet deep, nothing was seen on the

road but Mr. Mail Man’s cutter. >When

he reached a snow bank too big to

get through he was not afraid of a

shovel. He would jump from,h.is’cut-





'ter like a jolly Santa Claus and dig'a





road through the great hills of white

snow.



When people got ready for town

they would say, “Oh, well, wait till the

mail man comes, then there’ll be a.

track broken through." Well, of course,

he was the mail man and had to go.

I guess they think he is stronger than

anyone else.



There, are many- mail men just as

brave as this one, who help to carry

on the good work of great old Uncle

Sam. They certainly don’t, receive

thanks enough for, their kindness.



I say thanks to the good mail men

who work as our humble servants.





 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:





I have been a silent reader of the

boys’ and girls’ letters and the worst

of them all is the one that Claud W.

Mitchell wrote. I hope it will be the

last letter of the kind to be printed in

the Michigan Farmer If he had left

out a few words, it would not have

been so bad. No doubt Miss Margaret

Gravelle is a nice girl, but is full of

fun, and why shouldn’t girls be full

of fun?



No doubt this Claud is a young man

who tries to grow long hair so he can

comb it straight back on his head.

When he gets it there, I hope he will

not write a letter and use the words

he did in the last one





I say, girls, bob your hair if you

like, and have a good time. —Wi11ard

A. Jones, Marlette, Mich., R. 1.





That’s right, Willard, defend the

girls when you think it necessary. It’s

a gentlemanly thing to do.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





Speaking of hay—I worked in the

hay field for half a day, and I’m here

to tell the world that was enough. I

got three blisters on one hand, and

talk about sunburn—I was so red I

looked as though I had been murdered.

I’m one girl, though, that says she can

work in the field Without knickers.

Although skirts are a bother, knickers

are just as bad along the main high-

way, as everyone looks so hard at girls

in knickers.





Girls who rouge remind me of this:



He—You are not a very good

painter.



Shes—How do you know?



He—~I can see it in your face.



Well, anyone who paints has my re-

gards.





Uncle Frank, you haven’t much over

us in the puncture line. Five of us

went to Carp Lake, a town about

eighteen miles from here, to’ a movie

one night. We had three punctures

in just about eight hours, and you had

all day to get five in. The last punc-

ture was a real for sure blow-out“ We

girls were left alone with our chap-

eron about two miles from nowhere,





 

 

   

   

   

   

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





while the men folks went for a tire.

While we sat in the car and waited,

there was a cow came along and

frightened us. We got home about

morning—tired but happy.





I have a good reason for not an— I





swering contests, and if everyone was

like me, there wouldn’t need to be any

prizes given. First, I have a fountain

pen. Second, I’d rather be in the dark

than carry a light, ’cause if someone

was going to steal me they couldn’t

see me in the dark and in the morn-

ing they would bring ‘me back when

they did see me Third, I just have to

look pretty, and I get all the candy I

want. Now if anyone is more lucky

than that, let’s hear from them.



I will close now so you can give this

to Mr. W. B , as he probably has his

mouth wide open for it, poor fellow.

——Mary Ethel Conner, R. 2, Alanson,

Michigan.



I suppose your haying experiences

are just like Sammie’s. Sammie play-

ed in Sousa’s ‘band once, but only

once. I’ve seen a lot of girls whose

faces show they are poor painters, and

that they have poor judgment. I’ll

say you are lucky, but why not try

for a prize anyhow, just for the satis-

faction of trying, and possibly win—

hing?





 





Dear Uncle Frank: »



I just had to write and tell Harold

Coles a little about history. Now

listen, Harold. Why did the men of

long ago cut off their hair? For com-

fort, of course. And now that it has

grown to be a habit, you would think

it terrible to have long hair.



We (us girls) want comfort, too,

and “bobbed hair’ gives comfort. Now,

please think about this Harold.



With best of wishes for all the cons-

ins, I Will close—Marian Boge, M. 0.,

R. 3, Rosebush, Michigan.



You went a long ways back in his-

tory to get a bobbed-hair argument,





but it’s a good one.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:

I have never written before, but I





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





always read the boys’ and girls" page.



Talk about girls doing most of the

talking, I guess they do, all right. I’m

quite that way myself.



The boys have kind of backed down

on writing. I suppose they don’t feel

very much like expressing their opin-

ions, since they read the “knOcks”

Harold has got. There Won’t be much

of an argument at all after the girls

quiet down.





I agree in every way with Fern '





Chamberlain about this "flapper stuff.”





Girls don’t bob their hair just because »





they are ‘too lazy to comb it.



And, Uncle Frank, if you ever want

to punish a My good, just put girls’

clothes on him. —Your want-to-be

niece, Verna Hillman. . ’



I don’t think the boys are afraid of

the knocks Harold got. They are nat-





 





Boééea’ Hair Contest





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bed hair question for a

long time, and we have had

some real lively discussions.

Often letters come in saying ‘

that we should discontinue this

discussion. These letters have

led me to wonder what value

came from all these discussions.

So, to find out what the Merry

Circlers think about it, I will

make the contest this week on

the question, “What Value Comes

From Discussing Bobbed Hair?”



Write your opinions on one

side of the paper only and put

your name and address in the

upper left hand corner of the

first sheet. If you are a Merry

Circler, put M. C. after your



’ name. Make your discussion

about 250 words long.



The best papers will win priz-

es: The first two, handsome

nickled fountain pens; the next

three, handy flashlights; the

next five, cute little boxes of

candy. All who send in good

papers and are not Merry Circ-

lers will get M. C. buttons and

membership cards.



Send your papers to Uncle

Frank, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, Michigan, before October

3, as the contest closes then.





 





 





 





urally more quiet than girls. You’d

have some job putting girls’ clothes

on some boys. I agree that girls di)

not bob their hair because they are

lazy.





 





Dear Uncle Frank.





As I have never written before, per-

haps I had better express a few of my

ideas. I’m nota “flapper,” nor “an

old-fashioned girl.” I have my hair

bobbed though, and I wear knickers

when I go to camp, but I wouldn’ t be

seen on the street in them. I don’t

think girls should try to look like

boys. If God had wanted them to, He

would have made them so. What a

funny world we would have if we all

looked like men. It would get kind of

monotonous, don’t you think so?





I missed both Margaret Gravelle and‘





Harold Cole’s letters, but I have a

pretty good idea what they contain. I

don’t believe Harold is quite so shy as

he is made out to be. '



That slam Earl Miller gave Margar-

et Gravelle, gave me "wee giggles of

at1sfact10n ” Won’t she laugh and

term me a. “goody-goody” as I gel:

sometimes from the flappers at high

school, if Mr. W. B. gives her a. chance

to read this letter?-You.r want—to—be

niece, Bernice Blakie, Marine, Mich,

Michigan.





It would be monotonous if every-





. body looked like a man, wouldn’t it?





Harold has written several letters on





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BIT-1rd? mood in the'hrs‘t ten pages

1' order hang offSephember 13.» She did

‘ nothnd thefii’sspeliing of “technique"

on page three. . .



:1. Year “ended" June 30. page 2.



'2. An an'mml total of 25,398 pounds

of milk and 256.8 pounds of "milk,"

page 3.



3. If, there “were” no tresspass, page

6. (Not a mistake). , .



4. Didn’t grow “any” more, page 6.





 





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page 8.

6. Buy good trees and “and,”

page 8.\ - ' .

. 7. They managed‘to “pit” the table

over, 8 8. ~

8. ound-trip rates for one and one-





half “far,” age 9.





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page 10

10. It





MISTAKE CONTEST RESULTS;





'is the “re-action,” page 10.





 





 





HE Mistake Contest was a mis—

take, all right. Perhaps I asked





too much in asking the reading of ten. M





‘ pages, especially at this time when

school is just starting and fall work

at home needs everybody’s attention.



But, whatever the cause may be,





 





duly rum- answe‘red the contest. This

baby a large margin the lowest num-‘

“her who ever answered a contest. 'We

have had as high as fifteen hundred,

and sometimes as low as twenty-five,

with the average between two and

“three hundred. So you can see that

this was a mistake contest in several

senses of the word.





‘Joycie E. Purdy was the first one

to send in a,“ paper for this contest.

She found ten mistakes and all except

one was an actual mistake. But she,

also the other three, failed to find the

most noticeable mistake of all. That

was on page three in the sub-head of

the article entitled, “Keeping W’atch

of Plow and Mart.” The word tech-

nique was speued wrongly.



Joycie did so well in working out

this contest, and was so prompt in

sending her paper in, that she is going

to get first prize, and also a box of

candy. The four prize winners are:





Fountain’ Pens.

Jolycie E. Purdy, R. 2, Fowlerville,

IC .

Violet Stables, R, 4, Traverse City,

Mich.





Flashlights.





Iva Crandall: Bellaire, Mich.

Mabel G. Teal, R. 1, Hartford, Mich.





 





 





 





 





POSSIBLY BLACKHEAD.





 





Would like to know what is ailin

my turkeys. I had good luck wit

them until a few weeks ago. They

droop around a day or two and then

die. I feed them whole wheat twice a

day and curdled milk until they are a

few weeks old. They have free run,

and are beginning to show the red. I

drove them in over night until about

three weeks ago—Mrs. R. W.





Perform a postmortem on the tur-

keys that die, and note the condition

:0f the liver. Blackhead can always be

suspected when they droop around and

then die. From all I can learn from

experimental reports on blackhead, I

can find little in the way of remedies

that seem to give much satisfaction.

I would advise you to write to the

M. A. 0. Experiment Station, East

Lansing, for the free circular on black-

head, by Dr. Stafseth.





 





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My old chickens eat hardly any-

thing, and have a pasty diarrhea. They

seem to linger until they are nothing

but skin and bones and then they die.

In some cases, some chickens even

lose the use of their feet—«Mrs. H. M.





Perform a. postmortem on the hens

that die and note the condition of the

liver. Greyish spots on the liver, com-

bined with rapid emaciation and bowel

trouble are symptoms of: tuberculosis.

This disease in fowls cannot be treat~

ed. If you have a large and valuable

flock it: will pay to have a veterinarian

inspect the birds and make recom-

mendations. It is necessary to kill

and burn the sick birds and give the

house a good cleaning and spraying. ’





CHICKS LOSE FEATHERS.





 





My chickens lose their feathers.»

Some are absolutely naked. Others

are not, just dump around for a day

or a few hours and die. They range

in size from robins to crows. They

ha e no diarrhea. I have opened some

an they are as clean and healthy as

any chicken should be. They were

fed buttermilk, mash, oatmeal, and



. bran while small. Now they get

ground corn and ground cats. I also.

boil whole oats and add poultry pow-

der. They have had thick sour milk

every day and the brooder house is

cleaned twice a. week. Their troughs

and dishes are cleaned. I have Rocks,

Leghorns and Wyandottes. The Rocks

of my last hatch are the ones that

die—«Mrs; J. R. R.

”yThe loss'of feathers may be due to

depluming mites’which bite the skin

‘atflhe‘base “of the feathers and cause

~ ' habitats ' rts‘with an oint-

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If the birds are confined on a narrow

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something in the ration which they

crave. Free range is the best cure.

Sometimes growing chicks feather

very slowly. I have noticed this ten-

dency among certain finely barred ex-

hibition Barred Rocks. Selecting the

breeding stock that feather early helps

to eliminate that fault. The last hatch

of Rocks which are dying may be re-

duced in vigor because of trampling

of the older stock. Keep them isolat-





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Is being used in the Traverse City State

Hospital herd on the daughters of his half-

brother Echo Sylvia King Model.



Both of these bulls are sired by Champion

Echo Sylvia Pontiac, best son of May Echo

and sire of 14 daughters rom 30 to

37.5 lbs.



The dam of Prince Echo Rauwerd produced

34. 05 lbs. butter and 688.6 lbs. milk as a

Sr. 3- —.yr o—ld.



His sire has ten daughters from 30 to 37. 69

and her dam is a 30 lb. cow with a 365- day

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HIS will be another year when

many farmers will find it profit-

able, or at least convenient, to feed a

portion of the potato crop to the pork-

ers. ”In this connection, the summar-

ization of trials made at the South

Dakota Station should prove helpful

to those having a. surplus of this crop.

Here are the conclusions from this

work:





1. In two trials when new raw pota-

toes were fed in connection with tank-

age, 513 pounds replaced 100 pounds

of yellow corn, but when old potatoes

were fed in the same way it was nec-

essary to feed 962 pounds of potatoes

to replace 100 pounds of corn.





2. Raw potatoes are not palatable

and it is difficult to get pigs to con-

sume large quantities of them.





3. Cooked potatoes are palatable

and in three separate trials during ear-

ly summer, early fall and early winter,

pigs receiving cooked potatoes With

corn and tankage 'made very satisfac-

tory gains.



4. In three trials 326, 305 and 386

pounds of cooked potatoes replaced

100 pounds of shelled corn.



5. For best results cooked potatoes

should replace not more than one-half

of the corn in a full corn ration, or

for each pound, the proportion of cock—

ed potatoes to corn should not be any

greater than four to one.



6. If cooked potatoes are fed during

the winter months when there is little

sunshine and pigs are forced to re-

main under cover most of the time, it

may proveadvisable to feed alfalfa

hay in addition to corn and tankage.



7. Whether or not farmers can af-

ford to feed cooked potatoes to hogs

depends on the market price of pota-

toes, etc., facilities for cooking on the

farm, the availability of cheap fuel

and the cost of labor.



8. No farmer can afford to grow po-

tatoes as a feed for hogs, but under

certain conditions hogs will furnish a

home market for potatoes that are not

saleable and yield a small return from

what would otherwise be a total loss.





WILL THE HOG BREEDER GET

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RICES of market hogs have been



low compared with feed costs for

the last year and a half. The incen-

tive to produce better market hogs by

increasing the tincture of improved

blood in commercial herds has been

lacking.



Farmers have been curtailing pro—

duction so that the number of pure-

bred males wanted by them has been

below normal and they have not been

willing to pay good prices. Because

of the temporary lack of profit in the

pure—bred hog business, there have

been few beginners added to the list

of breeders. The established herds

have not had the benefit of demand

from such beginners for foundation

stock.



Pure-bred Hogs Are Cheap.



Under such conditions, bargain days

in pure—bred hogs have been inevita-

ble. Sale prices covering the five prin—

‘cipal breeds compiled by the United

States Department of Agriculture

show a reduction in 1923 compared

with 1922 of from thirteen to forty per

cent, depending upon the age and sex.



As adversity in the pureébred hog

business inrthe past has always been

followed eventually by prosperity, it

is logical to expect a. similar sequence

at preSent. Already, market prices





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two years than in the last two.



When higher. prices for hogs begin

to stimulate increased production

agaih, the demand for improved blood

to use in commercial herds will in-

crease and pure-bred values are bound

to advance. Breeders probably will

have marketed their surplus closely so

that a. moderate shortage of breeding

stock may appear. As hog growers

get into easier financial circumstances

new breeders will come forward, men

who desire to launch into the produc-

tion of pure-bred hogs on their own

account. Demand from this source,

which is an important factor in, all

prosperity periods in the pure—bred in-





dustry, is decidedly limited at the





present time.





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How rapidly such a. change will take

place no one can say. Unfortunately,

the poor corn crop in prospect which

is prolonging the period of an unfav-

orable feeding ratio compared with

hogs, will also delay the time when

growers will desire to expand produc—

tion and the return of a. broader de-

mand for pure-bred hogs. It seems

probable that enough change will take

place to help the brood sow sales of

next spring and, if 1925 returns 3. nor-

mal corn crop, pure-bred hog sales

next summer should be much more

remunerative to the breeder than

those held this summer.



Ifrom the standpoint of the investor

in pure—bred hogs, it is doubtful if

there will be another opportunity for

several years to buy at such extremely

low prices as those now prevailing.—

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MATINGI FOR EARLY LAMBS.





 





HE flock owner who is so situated



that he can provide his flock with

adequate protection. against adverse

climatic conditions will find mating

for early lambs profitable. Lambs

dropped during the late Winter and

early spring months require extra

care, but under favorable conditions

have the advantage of getting a good

start and, coming to market maturity

early in the fall, command a higher

price than lambs dropped later in the

season.



Ewes generally will mate as soon as

cold weather arrives. Some breeds of

sheep, for instance, the Dorset, will

mate much earlier in the fall than

other breeds. However, the flock own-

er who wishes to have his lambs drop

ped during the months of March and

April will find, if his ewes are in good

breeding condition, little trouble in

mating. Failure to breed at first mat—

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not being in good condition.



For lambs to be dropped during the

months of March and April the ewes

should be mated not later than the

first of December. The gestation pe-

riod cf ewes varies somewhat, but on

an average it is 152 days. Ewes that

are in good flesh and gaining are

more sure to take the ram and become

pregnant at the first service than if

low in flesh or over-fat. It has been

my experience in handling sheep un-

der. average farm conditions that to

mate the ewes so as to have the lambs

come a few weeks before time to turn

the flock to pasture is most. profitable.

L. C. Reynolds. ‘





 





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15 Head Pure-bred Jersey Cows. 5 Yearling Heifers.

7 High Grade Jersey Cows, all TB. tested. of

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This herd of





secutive years.





“Some herd.”





son-in~1aw, W. Kenneth Booth, with





whom he has entered into a partner-

ship. That .Mr. Booth, though young

in years, is a good dairy man is shown

by a comparison of the records of the

herd for the past year with those of





the two years previous.





The first year’s cow testing associa-

tion work, (May, 1921-Ma'y, 1922), in

which this herd participated, showed

that Crystal, a grade Jersey, was high

cow for the herd and association with

9,005 pounds of milk and 488.6 pounds

During this year there were

‘103 cows in the association that pro-

duced over 300 pounds of fat.





of fat.





entire sixteen cows





The

comprising the





--P. J. F. herd averaged 360 pounds of

fat, and every cow went dry and fresh-

ened during the association year. It

must ,be borne in mind that no cow





on. th'eParma Jersey





Farm is ever





milked more than twice daily.





The second year’s work, (May, 1922-

23), shows some real achievements for

this herd which averaged for the year

24.5 cows, many of them heifers with





first or second calf.





was 390.3 pounds of fat.





The herd average





Ten of these





cows averaged 457.8 pounds of fat, and

fifteen of them averaged 432.4 pounds

of fat per cow. Over fifty herds were

enrolled in the two associations oper-

ating in the county during this year,

'and the‘average of this herd gave it

second place in the county with Nita,

one of its members, placing as second

high cow of the county with 1,055.4

pounds of milk and 555.7 pounds of





fat as a three—year-old.





Of the thirty-





nine cows in the local association pro-

ducing over 380 pounds of fat, foul--

teen or more than one-third, were own-

ed in this herd. Five of the ten high





cows of the association

Jersey Farm as home.'





The last year’s work,





claimed Parma





covering May.





1923—May, 1924, not only brings added





.laurels to this splendid herd and its





managers, but demonstrated the value





of consecutive records





in building up





a herd. Three associations, including

over seventy herds, were operating in

the county this year, and the P. J. F'.





herd of twenty cows





came through





with the highest average for all herds

milked twice daily, their average be-





lng‘ 410 ,‘pounds of. fat.





In the local





association, this herd again boasts five

of the- ten high. cows, the individual

places and recordsheing as follows:

High cow with 518.9 pounds of fat at

four years; second high cow with 510.7





pounds of fat at four years; third high





cow with 492.8 pounds

years; fourth high





some real records made





in his herd for three consecutive years.

Dona. of Farm No. 459292, the high

cow for the past year, has three rec-





ords at two, three and





age" that average. 405.6 pounds of fat.

Dictator’s Belle No. 437421, the second

high cow for the past year, has three

consecutive records at two, three and





four; years ‘ that average





of ta‘t‘.‘ Dictator’stlgra No. 385171..-





of fat at two





cow with 461.8

pounds of fat at three years, and tenth

high cow with 430.9 pounds of fat.





M1". Sedgwick also calls attention to





by individuals





four years of





445.4 -pounds





full. sister zoIEuBoile. has an average for

thre ‘





e. cdnSécutive rim of 413.1

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condensory prices.





The Town herd had its origin in a.

small incident but it must be said

that the owners have given the herd?

constructive thought since then.

neighbor visiting with the Towns one

day back in 1911 incidentally mention-l

ed that he had more cows than feed

and that he had a two-year—old heifer

that he would sell for $40. Mr. Town

asked him over three times and then





' ' Some Jersey Herd »

NE of the outstanding herds in

Michigan is that owned by the

cow- testing association work in



Parma’. Jersey Farm, of Parma, Jack-



son county, Michigan.



twenty grade and pure-bred cows of

milking age is owned, and, until Jan-



uary 1, 1924, was managed by Mr. L.



A. Ledgwick, now living in' Jackson.



Upon his retirement, temporarily, Mr.



. Sediick'“ turned the active manage-



ment of the farm and herd over to his





324, beginning at nine years, has an

average of 372.5 pounds for three con-





Folks will say, “Some average," and

But these Jerseys and

their remarkable showing are the re-

sult of good sires and proper methods

of feeding and management.

brains, that’s all.-—-H. E. Dennison.





 





DETAIL AND VOLUME ASSURE

coon MILK PRICE.





' FARMERS who are selling their milk



to condensories have not been very

well pleased lately. At the same time,

the Town Brothers, who keep a herd

of Holsteins in Montcalm county, find

that by giving a Gr‘eenville milkman

an assured volume of milk at exactly

the time he wants it, they can get a

price which is a. dollar more than net





said, “Bring on your heifer.”





The next year that $40 heifer. made

an official record of twenty-one pounds ,

of butter, an unusual accomplishment

The, present herd is

largely descended from this diamond





in those days.





that sold for $40 in the rough.





, In order to get the dollar extra for!

milk, the

Town Brothers agree to have the milk-1

ing all done by six in the merning and

More than this, they

must have a regular volume.

secure this volume, they commenced

to grow alfalfa hay so they could sup-

plement. the short pastures of summer.

Then, ‘too, they feed grain the year

Chauncey Town

when they did not feed grain in the

summer, it took them about half the

following winter to get the cows back

Now they keep their

cows going at top speed the year

around with a pound of grain for each

three and one-half pounds of milk.

Being in a bean'country, they find cull

beans a cheap source of protein, since

they can buy them for $15 a ton.

present they are feeding a mixture





each hundred pounds





seven at night.





around.





into condition.





composed of one part





one part ground oats and two parts of

cent





a twenty-four

dairy ration.





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They invariably seed their alfalfa

with oats and they say that if there

is one seedling on each square foot of

soil, they have what will amount to a

full crop of hay the next year.—I. M.





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R. H. T. STANTON, tester for

the Genesee No. 6 Cow Testing

Association, reports in his annual sum~

mary, that Ed. Woolfit had thelhigh

cow in both fat and milk production.

This cow, Topsy’, a grade Holstein ten

years old, made 12,3196 pounds milk

and 498.2 pounds fat. '





Only five herds averaged better than

300 pounds of fat, and eight cows

made better than 365 pounds of fat

for the association year.



Fred Boyse, with a mixed herd, had

the highest butter-fat average.

six cows produced 350.9 pounds of fat

and 8,343.8 pounds of milk.

Powers’ eleven pure-bred and grade

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$1. 38; No. 2 mixed $1.37.



. Chicago—Sept. $13134; December

$1.34%@1.34%; May $1.4'0%@1.40%;

Toledo—Cash $1.361;§@1.37 1,4.





cm.

, Detroit. —-No. 2, $1.20; No. 3 yellow

$1.19; No. 4, $1.1



Chicago. -—Sept4 at $1. 071,4; Decem—

1%14321' ..021/1@1 02%; May at $1.04§4@





Oats.

Detroit—New, No. 2 white 49 $40 ;

No. 3, 47 34c.

Chicago—Sept. at 47140; December

50940; May 54%@54%c.





Rye.

Detroit. —Cash No.2,





$1.10.

Chicago. —Sept $1. 091,45;/ December

$1.11%; May $1. t15%@1-1

Toledo. —-$1.11





Barley.

Barley, malting 89@94c; feeding at

85@89c.

Beans.





Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.70@5.75 per cwt.



Chicago—Navy $6.50.



New York—Choice pea at $6.35; red

kidneys $9@9.15.



Seeds.



Detroit. —-—Prime red clover cash at



$154.20;a1sike $11. 75 (new); timothy





H'ay

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 $33; standard middlings $35;

fine do $40; cracked corn $55; coarse

cornmeal $53; chop at $46 per ton in

100-lb. sacks.



Fruits.



Apples, Duchess $1@1.25 bu; Golden

Sweets $1.50; Wealthies $1.50; Jona-

thans $2.25; Delicious $2.50. Pears,

Bartletts $2.50@2.75 bu; Keiffers at

$1.25@1.50; plums 75c@$1 per bu;

peaches $2@3 per bushel.





WHEAT





Wheat prices averaged higher last

week, in spite of the decline in corn.

Broad demand from mills and large

export sales on all declines have fur-

nished the sinews of strength. World

crop news continues to favor higher

prices. The total amount of wheat

sold for export in the last three weeks

has been enormous although there is

no accurate way of checking it up.



Spring wheat is flowing rapidly to

terminals in the American northwest,

but a large fraction is going to Duluth,

. furnishing another symptom of large

' sales for export. Milling demand is

broad with indications that the Sep-

tember and October grind will be as

heavy as usual.





CORN





Corn prices broke sharply last week,

largely on liquidation of speculative

holdings accumulated in anticipation

of ea11y frost. The crop is slowly edg-

ing forward toward matul 1ty and most

of September will be over without ser-

ious f1ost damage.



A small amount of injury has al-

ready occurred, however, only a minor

part of the c1op is out of danger and

killing frosts by the average date will

find a third to a half of the acreage in

an immature stage The cash corn

market is in a healthy state. Receipts

have increased as they usually do in

September, but the demand has been

broad enough to absorb them and a

small amount from the visible supply





in addition.

OATS





After maintaining a record move

ment for two weeks, primary receipts

of oats have fallen off sharply‘in the

last three days. Heavy selling direct

from the threshing machine is prob-

ably over. This grain remains at more

than the usual discount below corn

and considerable export business has

been reported recently because of

cheapn'ess compared with Canadian

grain. In spite of rather broad de-

.mand, a large share of recent receipts

in primaries has been added to the



- visible supply.





- SEEDS





- , The size of the red and alsi e 'clover

«seed crops this yer 81;; his Ygluncen

'itain, according to United States



Department of Agriculture. The acre-





age of red clover intended for seed is

about 15 to 5 per cent larger than last

year and e fields show a luxuriant

growth in most sections. The crop

is late, however, and rains in some of

the important producing sections have

tended to delay the formation of seed

so that there is a possibility that a

large percentage of the heads may not

fill at all, or the seed may be injured

by heavy frosts.





EEDS





Feed markets are reported quiet

with prices generally lower than a

week ago. Jobbers were active buyers

for a few days but have withdrawn

bids because of indifferent demand

from consumers. Flour mills are not

pressing offerings of wheat feeds, al-

though the output is large and stocks

are accumulating. Linseed meal is

firm as a result of demand from mixed

feed manufacturers and exporters, but

cottonseed cake and meal declined

about $1 per ton under lighter buying

for both domestic and export trade

and increased output from mills.





HAY





All classes of hay have declined

slightly at central markets because of'

ample receipts and only a fair de-

mand. Low grades are extremely hard

to move even at large discounts. Pre-

vailing prices in most cases are lower

than a. year ago. The hay crop in the

northeastern quarter of the United

States, or from Minnesota and Mis-

souri eastward to New England, is

about 18 per cent larger than a year

ago. New England has ten per cent

less than last year, and the combined

crop in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala-

bama, Georgia and South Carolina is

a third smaller than a year ago. The

timothy hay crop for the entire coun-

try 'is 11 per cent larger than last

yeah





POULTRY AND £663





With the number of strictly fine

eggs continuing to decrease, prices on

them were higher again last week.





The strength was not reflected in the‘





Live Stock Market Service.





 





medium and ordinary qualities, how-

ever, as there is a constant surplus of

these grades.

although not as fast as reports of

diminished country collections would

indicate.

stock coming in as fresh accounts for





this apparent discrepancy. ’A smaller





egg production this fall than last is

898131113112 anticipated.

ca





 





pounds {.0

stock and $6 25 1111' new beans for first





Receipts are declining half of October "shi €319,111?- Buyers are





undetermined as 0 Whether to buy

old beans at the discount as new





The fair proportion of held beans may not be of uSual good qual-





ity owing to weather damage. It is

generally believed that buying will





broaden in the next week or tyre and '





the market will maintain a more set-





o.——Eggs, miscellaneous 3463 tied state unless weather conditions





36c; dirgties 26@27c; checks 24@25 (1,... continue unfavorable.





fresh firsts 35@38c; ordinary firsts

@33c. Live poultry, hens 231/50; 3 ring-

e1s 22c, roosters 15c; ducks 19 20c;

geese 19@20c; turkeys 20c. -





WdOL





Wool prices show a rising tendency

the world over. Recent sales at Lon-





Detroit. —~Eggs, fresh candled and don, Liverpool and Sidney show ad-





graded 34@38c; storage 31@33%c.

Live poultry, heavy springers at 25c;

light springers 21 22c; heavy hens

27c; light hens 18 19c; roosters 16c;

geese 18@20c; ducks 18c.





BUTTER





vances of eight to 15 per cent over

previous sales. South American prices

areqmte firm and‘both domestic and

foreign wools at eastern seaboard ma?-

kets are tending upward with both

mills and speculative interests buying.

Domestic wool prices remain below





Heavy holdings of storage butter the level of foreign wools after the

throughout the country, and generally duty is paid”





favorable conditions for a good fall

production have shaken confidence in

immediately higher prices. Short sup-

plies of fancy butter last week held

prices steady for a while, but they

finally declined in line with other

scores. The surplus of

pounds of butter on September 1 over

September 1, 1923, as shown by the

government’s report was quite gener-

ally expected and it was believed that

prevailing prices discounted the excess

to a large extent. A declining butter

Prices for 92-score creamery: Chii-

cago 370; New York 37%0. In Detro

fresh creamery in tubs sells for 34034:





@ 35

BEANS





The bean market _has shown an un-





POTATOES





Carlot shipments‘of potatoes have

increased about 65 per cent in the last

lng late potato states have more than

doubled. The movement is due to ex-





53 000 000 pand still further, as the records of





the past five years show that the peak

is reached anywhere from the second

week to the last week in October.

Prices have ,. declined recently with

Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1,

quoted at $1.15@1.25 per 100 pounds

in the Chicago carlot market.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Produce of all kinds overflowed the

markets. Tomato prices dropped.

Cantaloupes were in moderate demand





settled tone during the past week. with prices varying according to qual-





Price's declined on the first few ses-

sions under a minor rush to sell, but





rains at the close of the week caused Spinach





ity. First quality plums were ready

sellers and pears had a fair demand.

lettuce and other greens





an upturn as they will add to the crop were taken 9381132 While bunch stuff





damage that has already occurred and was in moderate demand.

C mand for squash, cucumbers and on-





increase the amount of pickage.

H. P. Whites are quoted at $6 per 100





.I





Wednesday, September 24.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 312. Market is slow and

about steady.

Good to choice yearlings



dry- fed ................ $ 8. 50@10. 0%





Best heavy steers dry- fed 7. 50@ 8.2





Handyweight butchers . 625 @ 6.75

Mixed steers and heifers 5.00@ 5.75

Handy light butchers 4.50@ 5.00

Light butchers .......... 3 50@ 4.25

Best cows .............. 4.50@ 5.00

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

Cutters ................. 2.50@ 3.00

Canners ................. 2.00@ 2.50

Choice bulls ............ 4.25@ 4.50

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

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

Feeders ....... . ......... 4.00@ 6.00

Stockers .......... 4.00@ 5.50

Milkers ................. $45 00@90. 00





Veal Calves.





Receipts 417. Market steady.”



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

Others .................. 3.00@12.00

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 2,009. Market steady.





Best spring lambs ...... $12.75@13.00

Fair ..................... 10.50@12.25

Light to common ........ 7.00@ 8.25

Fair to good sheep 5.00@ 6.00

Culls and common ...... 1.50@ 3.50

Buck lambs ........ . . . . . 7.00@ 12.00

Hogs.



Receipts 2, 396. Market steady to

50 higher.

Mixed and heavy yorkers. $ 10.70_

Roughs ................. 8.50

Pigs ..... . . . . . ......... . 9.25@ 9.50





CHICAGO





Hogs.»





Receipts 62,000. Market is uneven,

mostly steady with Tuesday’s average.

Tops are $10.45; bulk of good 160 to

225-111. average $10@10.50;‘ better

weight butchers $9. 85 .10; bulk of

good 140 to 150-111. kin 39. 50%9. .90;

packing sows $880@8.0 etter

gté'gng weight slaughter pigs .38. 75@





Cattle.

Receipts 12, 000. Market fed steers





The de-





ions was slow. Poultry and eggs sold

fairly well at retail.



Apples, fancy $1.75a 2 bu; No.

$1. 25@1. 60 bu; beans 2.@2 50 per bu;

beets 40@50c dozen bunches; local

celery, laige 65c@$1 dozen; No.1, 50

@600 dozen; cabbage 50@65c per bu;

cantaloupes $2@3. 50 bu; carrots 40@

500 dozen bunches, 75c@$1 bu; cu-

cumbers $1@2 bu; small pickles $6@

10 bu; leaf lettuce $1@1.25 bu; 'dry

onions $1.50@2 'bu; potatoes 8-0@$1

bu; sweet corn 208,350 dozen; sum.-





steady to strong. Good beef cows and mer squash 50@75c 1)“ tomatoes, red





heifers moving; in~between grades



mostly grassy offerings are dull and

uneven; fed yearlings upward to

$11. 50; several strings at $11@11. 40;





heavies $10. 50; vealers steady to 25¢ 3 bu' NO- 1. $2@2 75 bu; pears, fancy‘





lower, bulk $11@11. 50, few at $12;

packers and feeders steady.

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 25,000. Market early sales

fat native lambs steady at $12.50@13,

few $13.10; sorting moderate; good

Montana lambs $12.50@12.75, around

150 lower; bidding 25c lower on bal-

ance of fat range lambs, best held at

about $13. 25; sheep and feeding lambs

steady; few fat ewes at $4. 75@6 .;50

good to choice feeding lambs $12. 75@

13, 7sréme held higher, breeding ewes





$6.75

BUFFALO“

Hogs.

Receipts 3,420. Market is closing

strong; heavy $10 90@11; medium at





$10.90@11;

one deck $11.10; light lights $10@

10.90; pigs $9.75@10; packing sows,

roughs $8:50@9.

Cattle.

Receipts 300. Market dull.

Calves.

Receipts 300 Tops $13@13. 50.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 800. ’Best lambs $13.75;

ewes $5.50@6.50.





light V Weightma $10.90@11;‘ ~





1.@1 50 bu; eggs, wholes 1e 45@55c;

retail 45@600; old hens, re ail 28@30c

lb; springers, retail 30@38c lb; ducks,

retail 24@28c lb; plums, fancy $2. 75@





$3@3. 50 bu; No. 1, $2. 25@2. 75 per bu;

peaches, fancy $3@3. 75 bu; No.

$2.25@2.75 bu; grapes $3@4.50 bu.





APPLES





Carlot shipments of apples are still

running'below the average at this sea.-

son, during the three preceding years.

The movement is gaining, however,

and arrivals at consuming centers are

becoming heavier each week. Midwest-

ern Jonathans and bringing $1. 75@

2.50 per bushel basket in Chicago.

Exports of apples for the season to

September 6 total 48, 668 barrels and

281, 824 boxes.





LIVE srock SALES.





 





' 'Hdlstelns.





Oct. 7.——E. M. Stewart, lnkster, Mich.

October 24—Complete dispersal sale.





Spring Valley Stock Farms, Elisha.





Bailey & Son, Pittsford, Mich.





Oct. 16—C. S. Heeg & Son, Howell,

Mich.

Jerseys.





Oct. 7.—-—B. W. Pardee, Big Rapids,

Mich. ‘





 





 





 





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Had, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen

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Pure-bred or grade cobble for side. Can note prices

on individuals or «attends. B. of M. a. Cow Test~

lug Association neon



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Best of quality and breeding. Bulls.

Shflflim cows and heifers for sale. I! BVIELL





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a RED row CATTLE. it





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HOGS





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D Edogu'lity. at to sell ran Dill at‘bar-





prices .

gain prices. W. C. Taylor. Milan. Mic .





Two

Grand

son of

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FOR SALE OR TRADE—Cheater W'hites.

extra ' good spring boars by Reserve

Champion. Saginaw. 1923. Also a great

Prince Big Bone. John C. Wilk. St. Louis.



Size. type, quality and price





ilhesler While Boars will lease you. comma

tree. 1’. W. ALEXANDER. user. “loin.





 





O I C9 Spline Dbl. Bis-ed w “Giant Boy" and

0 ' '3 “Jumbo III! Boy.” also brown Swiss

bulls. MILO M. PIETEMN. l. 2. lama. Mich.





Francine Fain Piling .5}th





breeding. Also slits not akin to them. Prices are

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





Fall Pigs





of dams. W. E.





 





either sex, by the great Boar. The

Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

Livingston. Parma. Mir-h.





bunch of Poland China. gilts.





EXtra Fme Priced at $29 each for quick





 





delivery. Ward W. Dunstan, Clamston, Mich.

For Poland China Gill: 3; 233; 3;,“ Am?

STRONG BROS.. R. 3. Fowlerville, Mich.





 





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.been. plenty of rain- Plowing for

wheat is Well under way. - Corn will

be late, but most fields show good car-

lnx. ~..Beaas are well ed, but rains

inter-totem curing. he beet crop

is average, , the same with pota-

toes. Paaturcs are good. Many are

posturing the late. crop of clever. Al-

though there are many men out of





help on the farms. Market prices

show little change—E. R.



Calhoun 00., Sept. 12.-——A large acre-

age of beans were planted here, but

at resent indications are for a. rather

‘lig t crop. Unless We have lots of

warm weather; corn will not mature.

Potatoes are looking good. Apples are

about fifty per cent of normal; pears

a. full crop. Farmers are'sclling their

hogs,on account of the unpromising

.outlook for corn. Butter—fat brings

39c; eggs 380; hens 19c; wheat $1.1Q;

rye 800; oats 40@4Zc; good wool 18

quoted at 850. Farmers are late with

their plowing,

of the wheat ground being prepared.





— . E. S.



iosco 60., Sept. 11.—Although beans

and com are hurt a little by frost,

many will realize a fair crop. Peta-J

toes are about ripe, so will not be

hurt; they are also. a. good crop. Ap-

ples. pears, plums and peaches are

a. fairly good crop, while grapes are

coming along nicely. Cranberries are

promising. Squirrels are laying in a

good supply of nuts, which indicates

a cold winter.-M. F. P.





VETERINARY.





 





Scours in Calves—Our veterinary

has been treating si-x calves for the

scours, but they are no better. D. F.

M., Grand Rapids, Mich—Give each

calf five grains of salol every four

hours. Disinfect your calf stable.



Chronic Cough—I have a, horse nine

years old that has been troubled With

cough for the past twelve months. C.

J. W.,, Palms, Mich—Give him one

ounce of gly-heroin (Smith) at a dose

three times a day, rub throat With

camphorated oil twice a day.





 





 





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HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing live pounds $1.75:

ten. $3. Smoking live pounds $1.25; ten 32: pipe free

satisfaction guaranteed. pay when received. 00-01)-

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Home-slum Tobacco. chewing. 5 lbs. $1.75: 10 lbs. $3.;

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FOR SALE—High—c-lass Foxhounds: Beagle hounds.

()oonhounds: Bloodhounds: and Setters: partly and

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Rams and Duroo Hogs





LAKEFIELD FARMS,

Glarkuon, Mich.





Shropshire Rams

Booher. B. ‘4. Evert, Mich.





The Maples Shropshires





For Baler—Choice yearling rams and a 2-yr.vold

Broughton stock ram. Also large ram lambs. C. R.

LELAND. Ann Arbor, Mich. Phone 7134-F 13. R. 5.





Sheep For Sale





fords Al: Karakules.





lambs of

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Rams. Ewes & Lambs—Cots-

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LEROY KUNEY. Adrian, Mich.





‘ ' Am offering 11 show and

Shrop hires breeding rams at reasonable

THOM PSDN. Rockford. Mich.





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yearling rams and ram





Registered Shropshire lambs of exgeptional qual-





 





man in your towns. Freight very small when

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Boston. Mass.





 





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NOW DRYING PHONES—«Special Price this month:

(IhoiI-e Oregon Prunes, 100 lbs, $1. Sample 5c.

Kingwood Orchards. Salem. Oregon.





 





 





ALL WOOL YARN for sale from manufacturer. 751'

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

Harmony, Maine.





 





AMAZING TRIAL OFFER! Any one Kodak Roll Film

developed; 1: {inc Glossy Prints; only 1.5c. Associated

Photo, Box nus-AB, Cincinnati. 0.





 





VVAN'I‘I‘ID VASingle

l)u\VirY, \Vlmvli'r,





bottom plow for Fordson. Carl





Mir-h.





tend“! for the Clauflitd Departmtm mutt rmch this afiu nu yam-c. ship 1.. . .0. Stamp for booklet. Landls-

SHEEP dry: in advance afyubli'm lion dart. K61111018- LIOhntOl’l. Pa.

I 0- . . . . . .

Pure-bred Shropshire M'lSCELLANE US FluRRLTS.. I spemallze in raismg ferrets, Thirty

GET MORE FOR YOUR EGGS—Let us sell them YWS *‘Xl’i‘nem‘e- firm Drives females $2.75. males

for you on the Boston market. Prices are higher 52-25- One 40'4"” $24-00 Yearling females special





rut catchers $5.00 car-h.





_ Will ship C. 0. D. instruc-

tion book free.





Lci'i Farnsworth. New London. Ohio.





 





AIRI‘IDALE l’UPS~-—\W18lp0d July 14, eligible in A.

l\. .“7 $10. $15. One female Police pup. wolf gray.

Satisiai-tlon Inlarahteed. F. H. Aldrich, R. 4. Sar‘

anac. Mich.





 





FOR SALE—Five pups four months old. l,d—Blood

Hound and ~34 English Fox Hounds. No. 1 trailers

at i. & 7 mmnuls old. Write Donald Anderson. R.

3. Harrisville, Mich.





FOR SALE~~Beautiful Sable and White (‘ollie pups

2 months old, special price $4 and $8. Why pay

more? Meadow Brook Farm. Stockbridge, Mich.





FldRRl'I'l‘SwRattcrs and hunters.





Bool’let i'

Sellers. New London. Ohio. ‘ roe. Thos.





RA(‘.(‘OONS~~0xtra dark raccoons for sale.





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livhlund ll‘ur Farm, Lucas. Mich. W is the





 





Free trial.





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For sale. in lots of 50 or more, telephone Newport.

telegraph Rm-kwood. P. 0. So. Rockwood. ALMOND

CHAPMAN & SON.





SOUTHEAST MISSOI'RIWWW-1'0 l‘ll'f‘l'fi'lllllll: Grows."

Population invrnusrd 5H"; llll>i your. .\ wonderful

valley of :lll|l\l;ll soil and unmlil Opportunity for the





{armor and iuwstm'. We sell our own land in any

size il‘ll'lh‘. Writ!- Dzm and Loo Ben'lll'i’, 5122!; South

Bi'mlllwzly, St. l.nul<, Mo” Dept. (‘.





 





' as good as grow. Photos

50 Dela!” Rams free. F. H. RUSSELL, n.





3.. Wakeman. Ohio.

Black top Merino Registered





 





Hampshire Bred Gflts akin. 12th year. Write

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





Dispersion Sale---Reg. Holstein Cattle





The Entire Herd of C. S. HEEG & SONS, Howell, Michigan





1 ' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16,

Sale Pavilion, Fair Grounds





IN SALE, Includes a Draft of Thirty Head '

. from Other Good Horde

ALI. Heaps ON THE accaeprren LIST-so—Day Retest Privilege





f SIXTY SIX HEAD





 





 





 





The highest mecca lot of cattle ever sold in Livingston County '

'lihefitSt’ldamsot - . , ' »

. “$.33" mm ,3 M43153: flute have massage: avenue we: 34 lbs. He is included in the sale.

. . - .. Manda-uni. . torch-em. . .

, .3,” mm.£_uw ., “a m coach. ékfih-r: cow and several daughters

“3 ~ ' . . Cw , . n 'ounty yea aw

. m We stock. or catalogs. address. ”a , u h mm“





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3.; risuancx, Howell, Mich. . .,





FOR SALE Rams. 30 ewes, lambs. J.





Meachams. Millington. Mich.





 





 





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(‘Inmtry Tillage, Northern

Ohio. Splvmliil lmusu,





llill':l‘,:t'. poultry house. lllll‘lll‘ll.

Sili'llbllul‘)‘. fruit, up: Fina Iuiuuivs of High School,

Station, Stores. ('lllil't‘li and l’Unl. Oil‘s-c. Particulars,

Box 333, lilt'lilflil'li I‘Vlll‘lllt‘i'.





FOR SAI.]C~—200 acres of rich lvvr‘l lamd, lill) m'ros

under cultivation; 10 acres of timber: splendid huilil»

inns; linvly located one mile west of t‘I'nswr-ll on

state reward road. $li0 per acre. Jami-S Rum-n.

(Tl'uswcll. Miz'll.





 





FOR SALE Snail stool: farm. 79 arm-s, unud build—

ings, 18 acres timber. tools, stock, and (-rnps, (‘huri'li

on farm, school 1 mile, market 3 miles. Fay \Viltso.

\Voodville. Mich.





FARM WANTEDvaill purchase a good going: i-lvnr

term. 180 acres or mom. Give location and describe

your farm fully with best cash price. Write D. C.

Allen, Room 412, 10 So. La Salli! St... Chit-ago.





 





MICHIGAN STOCK FARM for sale. Good buildings.

gen or‘xrent. 200 acres. Mt. Pleasant. Mich. R. 1.

ox (3-. .





FOR SATJC—SO-avrc farm. N6 dvht. Splendid soil

and location. Write quick for particulars. S. L.

Bigford. Box 46. Flint, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





, ' . ‘ _ TYl'lClVRl’l‘ERS $20 up. l-lusy payments. HUNDRED Hunting Hounds Che T“

:2, filth) a few ewes. C. LEMEN 8‘ SONS' Dex Payne (‘ompamz litmvdnlc, Ram. .Bt‘lflit‘nntfls. MFA-1.. Herrick. Ills.” al C. 0. D.

‘ Registered Oxford Rams and Ewes.

FC!‘ sale Satisfaction numeral-Iii. ll eo.R 2. , REAL ESTATE POULTRY

b‘bo ' . hone 78-3, ec ervi e, . .

A “' Pam" ”w“ P JUST OUT! (‘OI’Y FREE! Slmut‘s Bil: Farm Inn.» BREEDING (.mmmflfiWIMhWOOd and B r

S Rams, Yearlings and ”105'- 1§2_lllustrni«l “M” “twinned with “"‘“‘*3" Strain Single (‘mnb \Vliiiu lA-Irlmrns. Man-h 8:133

OXFO RD Ram Lambs. W. Hurling term bargains. Villa}!!! humus, stores. this sta— April hmphflL Fiw m' In” $.10” (“tr-h Fi‘ I T

MANN Damville Mich Hons. toa moms. garages. On page 133‘. see lull (lo— $1315 mph 'l'cu or more, p15” "0 '1 All 0 ,9"-

. I I tails oi" 4” “"1"“. “"“r. town “ml "i“‘r' I""’d”"”"“ from our SpIx-iul Star Malibu” dill‘iltfl‘f (liirvct (,,.r:;;fi(:

, de Poll Rattle. lipids: 50”.?TJS. wood, fruit; substantial blurs; tur: for gut/dummy 'l‘owuline 1.0m”), Farm. Zm‘ldlld.

of m Yi‘l'shlre Swine nmm, hoist, 300 pnultn. Implimims, mm, he). Michigan.

DON P CARR Homer Mich 0 ‘ * potatoes. em, invludvd, all for $1,400, easy terms,

’ ' ' Hundreds of mhul's, all grout bargains, (‘ull or write. l V

- _ . . . I

today [or limo Hwy. 1!. Will saw you time and money. 1 li‘lGll’l‘ lll'N'lHlli‘l) \Vhim L0 , ..

.4 .' . . .. m. . . . , .' t, .. . .L'hnrn Iullets, Pie.

0 X F 0 R D S §caaTiingql unhSImflg Stimit luum Ah.111}, .‘(lollL lumen Bldg. Dt‘ld'llll, ‘ 15mm and Twplve weeks old. A150 (01.1“.de Curve

to please. Wm. Van Sickle. n. 2, Dockcrw'lle. Mich. “1“” j MIIIIIu-n. mimn, mm.



. - and. Ewes. Best of MltlllGA). _ l.AI\l)S ()nu tract 1.28” Acres Svliool— l ZOO-LUG STRAIN \Vlillo Rm'k (J‘ovkerols, yg‘r (r

negISlered Hampshire Rams Breeding. W. W. "m” ”’w (“”1““1' m” “\“l'l‘h‘ 01' "Wm Nady for crop. Woodsmud l’lam'. ll. 3. Buchanan. )lir-liina‘ho m "a.

CASLER, Ovid, Mich, Iii) Avrm Timothy; on railroad; sutiivi’ent timber for ‘



lI‘llldlIWN. Tillie. Snap price. 3.9m; AI-rns Alia-r .

' . h . . - . . i . , . . - ‘l‘Oli. SALE .3. (V. 13113 va}0 . .) .1. - ,

' for 5“)“ One and (0., one tiavl nu state hicnwa), J Lllllt‘s from station; ‘ .~ . .. ‘ _ ; Ll m cm, {0.18 5. “Miami

30 Beg' hambomllel Hams two years old. hrod WW1 Still. 3: brooks, 1.000 or more A4'l‘l's meadow; . ‘\'|"‘t"' Bath, “1““-

for wool and mutton. A. & F. Parmcnter, R_ F. D Bargain priv-o, lulu: llllll‘ ii' ill-wired. vasu Grm-nnnm, ‘.

No. l, Durand. Mich. l’mnucr lililx” SI. l'lllll, MIIIII. VVIUTE,“'YANDOTTl-JS expmSjvply' (‘Ol‘kel‘t’ls $1.75

mull. .iiyii:(iiltl hush, Ships‘hcwana, Ind,





 





 





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AGENTS WANTED





\‘VANT El) ~F R U] ’1‘ TR l'IE SA LESBIAN—~Pl'oflta hie

pleasant. six-adv work. Good side line for fanmI-rs'.

teat‘llt’i's and others. Permanent. job for good workers"

Wm.» im- tvx'ms. I. Ic. ,llm-nfrity. Sons” Co. The

Monroe Nursm', Monroe, Mich. Established 13.47.





AGENTS Vin li'ltll‘llt‘ndi‘lil, make big profit with our

soup, llilli‘t ariII-lm and household necessities. Get

two szunplc case offer. llo~Ro-L‘o., 2761 Dodicr St

Louis, Mo. , ‘

—.





BIG MONEY selling new household cleaner. Washes





amlfldiiios windows. Sweeps, scrubs. mops. Complete

nuii, Ines Lian brooms. Over 100’?) profit. II 1'

Brush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fulrflold. Iowa. a per





 





 





 





HELP WANTED--MALE





EARN $110 to $260 monthly, expenses paid as Rail-

way'Traf’fic Inspector. Pesition guaranteed after com-

pletion of 8 months’ home study course or money re-

funded. Excellent opportunities. Write for Free

giggldng. {58121 Stand. Business Training Inst., But-





 





 





ALL MEN. womm, boys. girls. 17 to 65. willing to

accept Government Positions. $117-$250. traveling or

stationary, write Mr. Ormem. 167. St. Louis. Mo..

inunvdiatoly.





 





FOB BENT—Good Aim-Acre Farm—140 urea produc- ‘ - ICHIGAN FARMER





'ing Hay and Alfalfa—4.11mi; Bams-~7¥Room House.





(1. E. .C‘opn. Port Hoax: Mich.





DAT Y FARM—«Mountains. Other possibilities. Harry

Sail .‘ Comwallrille. New York.





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Sold by druggists, or warty parcel

pomm receiptofprice$1.50perboule.

AS A VETERINARY REMEDY

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“’THEsEEBOYs WILLT'WmT.





0 show how keen some of our

young farm boys are,rwe observed,

the other day, two with bags going to,

and fro through the corn field gather-

ing ears from a good stand on their

father’s farm. When “ asked about

their work, we were informed that,

they had been reading of the prObabil-

ity of a seed corn shortage this neat

spring and were getting ready to take

advantage of the situation by laying

in a supply now. First, they were set-

ting aside sufl‘icient to provide for the

home farm needs, and then whatever

else they could gather and cure would

be for sale to their less enterprising

neighbors. The business acuteness of

these lads should not only be simulat- '

ed by other boys, but by adult farm-

ers as well—D. S.





TAKE THE WATER OUT »‘OF CORN.





P ROPERLY curing their corn before

marketing it is one means where-

by the farmers of the country can cut

the cost of transportation, according

to the department of agriculture grain

specialists. They find that the Amer-

ican farmers are paying freight on

hundreds of thousands of tons of use-

less water in shipping their corn from

the producing centers to market; that

thousands of freight .cars could be

used otherwise.





“WHAT’S SAUCE FOR THE

GOOSE."

(Continued from page 241).

can corn, pure-bred Wolverine oats,

pure-bred Red Rock wheat—he is a

veritable world’s champion with the

latter.



In 1922 a bushel of Red Rock wheat

exhibited by him, took first in the soft

red wheat class in the International

Wheat Show at Wichita, Kansas, the

Mecca for all good wheat. At the Chi-

cago International, his Red Rock

won first that same season and on two

other occasions it won second. This

year, the Finkbeiner "' Red Rocx is

again after honors. It yielded forty-

four bushels per acre and. has been

registered by the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association as being the

most desirable Red Rock seed wheat

in the state.





By growing and exhibiting such

high quality products, the Finkbeiner

farm is gradually winning a national

reputation for seed. Last year, the

Michigan Crop Improvement Associa—

tion received scores of out-of-state in-

quiries and orders for seed wheat,

specifying C. D. Finkbeiner’s seed. Re-





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member, all this has happened to an

eighty—acre farm.



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keting methods. Spraying the ninety

trees in his orchard first brought ridi-





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effort to makebetter and more

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' ing were just as important and just as





cule. Second, it brought clean fruit,

and third, it brought customers—cus-

tomers from all over VVashtenaw coun-u

ty. Practically all of the fruit is sold

right in the front yard.



' Of course, that kind of farming and

marketing makes for a more comfort

able home, which, in the end, is What

we are all driving at.



The Finkbeiner farm home—it’s still

just an eighty—is completely equipped

with its own electric lighting plant.

Mrs. Finkbeiner has an electric wash-

er to do her washing, an electric iron

to iron it, and running water conven-

iences all through the house. Her

chickens wake up for early scratching

by electric lights, there’s electricity in

the barn, and C. D.’s pet fanning mill

that cleans up his prize Red Rock

wheat and Wolverine oat seed receives

its motive power from the same

source.



We couldn’t help but see that here

was one place that didn’t have to be

big to be good; that drainage, proper

soil and crop management, pure-bred

.stock and seed, and effective market—





possible on eighty acres as on the big-





 





 





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