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teen of the principal crops per





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tion decline.

FARM ER-OWNED ASSOCIATIONS

SUCCESSFUL.





HE farmer-owned terminal live



stock cooperatives are reported to

have had an unusually successful sea-

son. Excess commissions amounting

to $276,868 are reported bywthe Farm—

\ers’ Live Stock Commission Associa-

tions located at the terminal live stock

markets at St. Joseph, Omaha. and

Sioux City, for the first ten months of

1924. This is an increase of $22,799

over the excess earnings of the three

cooperative sales agencies for the first

ten months of 1923.‘





CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP

CHANGES.





 





HE passing of leadership in con-

gress from the east to the west

is given another forward step by the





to succeed the late- Senator Lodge, of

Massachusetts, as majority party floor

leader of the senate. The chairman-





are now- held by western men.

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RURAL' POSIOFFICE se'nvrcs

EXPANDED.





 





routes were establishes providing





service was afforded 59, 624 families.

The mail service on 176 routes was

increased from tri—weekly to daily, pro-

viding additional postal facilities- to

25 .696 families.



There are now in operation 44, 760

rural routes supplying 6,534, 960 fam—

ilies, or 30,060,816 individuals. The





expenditures were $86,162,930.

Forty-six additional motor routes of

fifty miles or mere in length were es-

tablished, making a. total of 880 such

routes in operation. The average an:

nual salary on motor routes was $2,549





‘ and on horse—drawn routes it was





$1,841.





’eEET SUGAR CROPS RUN HIGH.





 





, EPORTS from sugar associations



of several countries indicate that

the total production will show a con-

siderable» increase over the 1923-1924

crop. The greatest increase will be

in European beet sugar.



The importance of American beet

sugar production compared with that

of Germany, and the growth of the in-

dustry in this country is shown in the

following figures: The production of

beet sugar in the\ United States in

1922-23 was 711,000 'short tons; in 1923-

24, 927,000 short tons, and in 1923-25,

1,000,000 short tons. In. Germany the





 





1.000 in 1924-25.





HE composite production of seven- .

capita of the population this year is}

1.1 per cent less,than it was last year . . 1

and 4.1 per ‘cent less than the average ‘ '

1918-1922, according to figures issued ‘





short corn crop is undoubtedly respon— , _

sible for this per capita crop produce '





 





selection of Senator Curtis, of Kansas, '





ships of many important‘ committees, Z





URING‘ the year 390 new rural : 3





mailities to 56, 940 families. In 3

a 3 542 existing routes were ex- ..

tended, by which more convenient mail '





appropriations for the year for the ‘-

rural service was.$86,900,000 and the ,





production was 1.603333 short tons in: "

‘. 1922-23,1,264,219-in 1923-24, and 1.342:





 





 

   

   

   

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





 

   





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'long winter evening. _





ET’S look over”. our farm and piCk.

:out those places that we‘d just

as leave we didn’t have on the





place and plant them to black walnut





41:11:11; strip or corner that the railroad

cuts off. or that space along the fenCe,‘





‘ . or that steep bank that follows the





creek along.- A row of black walnuts

would‘iook (mighty nice along the road.

'- Black walnut theSe days is bringing

fancy~prices-$200 to $300 per thou-

sand board feet for logs twenty-four

It is used for many

purposes—furniture; gun stocks, aero-

planes, and numerous other uses. For

farm purposes, it has been used for

fence posts and fence rails. Also the

nuts have helped while away many a

‘ On account of

its many various uses, it is a wood

that will always be in demand. For

gun stocks, no satisfactory substitute

has ever been found. It is safe to say

that there will always be a market for

black walnut.



For those who w0u1d like to'plant





~ this favorite tree, the follbwing, plant-

. ing suggestion may help outziThe eas-





iest way to plant, of course, is to bury





, the nuts (husk on) in the fall, as'soon





as they drop from the tree. They





- should be planted to a'depth‘of about

‘ one and a half inches.





Put two nuts

in each hole _to make sure of getting

a tree, as sometimes they fail to germ-





. inate or they may sprout the second





spring. The chief danger from plants

ing the nuts in the fall is from rodents

—mice and rodents. Where there is

danger of this it is a good idea. to





‘ store the nuts over winter for spring





planting. It has been found byexperi—





1 mentthat cold moist storage has been

« most satisfactory. For this purpose a





box should be procured and a layer of

moist sand put in the bottom, then a

layer :of nuts, another layer of sand,

and so on. This is called “stratifying.”





 





 

 





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A Practical Journal for the Rural Family





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Foremy Specialist, M. A C.





 





What Would You Give to Have This Tree on Your Farm?





 





 





QUALITY

RELIABILITY

SERVICE.





NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR





 





 





alnut on the Farm





A Little Eflbrt Woald Enfiaace tfle Value of Maay Mieaigaa Farms





Place the box in a rodent-proof pit

outside or in a cool cellar. A freeze

or two will not hurt them any, but re-

peated freezing will. The sand must

be kept moist, especially towards

spring. Keep a close watch on the

nuts at this time and when signs of

splitting are seen, they are ready to

plant either in a seed-bed or in the

field. Where it is desired to plant in

a seed-bed they should be planted in

rows that are six inches or more apart





so that they can be cultivated when '-





necessary. One year in the seed—bed

is long enough as the walnut soon de-

velops a deep tap-root which makes

transplanting very difficult after the

first year



The usual spacing of black walnut

for general purposes is six by sixteen

feet. This causes the tree to grow

tall, producing the clean boles much

desired by the lumbermen. Where

grown for production of nuts, a much

wider spacing should be employed—

fifty to sixty feet. Even at this dis—

tance apart, the tree will usually have

one log that is merchantable. The

open grown trees also tend to produce

a bulging stump which is the best

part of the log and much prized by

veneer concerns. It is to be expected

that in close planting, many of the

trees will be thinned out before the

walnut reaches maturity. Thinnings

should be made when the tops begin

to “crowd—~usually in about thirty

years.



The best soil on which to grow this





tree is one that is rich, moist, and»





well-drained—the best agricultural

soil. However, walnut will do well on

the poorer soils, especially if thereis

no hardpan underneath and if there

is good drainage. A few black walnut

trees are an asset to any farm. They

have no enemies to speak of, and will

repay their care many times over.





011 Letter Contest Completed





[More Mzeézgaa farmers Attam Coveted Goal T £121 Year Tflaa Last





WENTY litters of pigs were fed

out to reach the weight of one

ten or more in the Michigan

Ton‘ Litter Contest this year Only

sixteen pasSed the ton in the contest‘

last year and as the enrollment was

no larger this year, a larger per cent





’ of those starting the contest reached.-





the gealm .



Several litters that would have ,

made the ton dropped out of the con-

test befOre they were 180 days old.





because market conditions were favor- .





able and owners wduld rather market

them at a good price at five months

of age than to take a chance on the

market, which actually did drop dur-

ing the latter part of the contest. ,

No spectacular weights were obtain-

i'i'ed in the Michigan Contest, but most

Trot the‘litters were fed. a good combi-





 

 





In addition Mr. McIlWain will re» bronze medal for producing the heav-

ceive $100 from the National Duroc- iest Duroc-Jersey litter in the contest.





Jersey Record Association and also a This litter is also the heaviest of all





 





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, H. M. Bursley, Charlotte ..... .12 Dun-Poland Cross 2,202

E. E. Withington, Montgomery. .9-Duroc-Jerseys ‘ ,1981A

--I. J. Bennett, Muskegon 9 Grade 0. I. C.’s 2,080 '

.7 A. Shett, Caledonia ,. . . . . . . . . .11 Grade 0. I. C.’s 2,053

Jesse T Fox, Prattville. . . . . . . . . . 10. Poland-‘Chinas 2,036

Ralph shoring. South Haven. . . .12 Duroc-Jerseys , 2,023

‘John Brcnkhorst McBai‘n . . . . . . .12 Grade 0. I. C. ’8 3,333





.Fred Ro’hifir,





T/ze 1924 Tea Litter Wham?





No. in Litter



OWner. .- and Breed. Weight.

H. M. McIlwain, Bath. ..... . .13 Duroc- erseys 3,074

Houseman Bros. Albion .12 Duroc- erseys 2,824

Ernest Barnard, Portland .. ...... 11 Poland-Chinas 2,686

W. R. Kirk, Fairgrove. ..... ..13 Chester-Whites 2,619

Dickey Bros, Coldwater . ..... mull Poland-Chinas 2,550

David Gibson, Deerfield ..... . I..10 Gr. PolandChinas 2,430

Harry Ward, Mc B.a.in ..... .10 Grad-e O. I. C.‘s 2,1118%

Perry 'I‘ift, Montgomery .......... 11 Duroc—Jerseys 2,359

Victor Wilson, Portland ..... .10 Poland~Chinas 2,358

Fritz H. Montey, Fairgrove.. .9 Gr. Ches.-Whites 2,354

Glen Macomber, Plymouth ....... 12 Duroc-Jerseys 2,318

D. W. Kelly, Gobles. ..... 13 Grade 0. LC. 2,21217é





 





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breeds and he will receive $25 in cash,

some bacon, ham and tankage.



Mr. Houseman will receive $20 in

cash, some ham, bacon and tankage.



Mr. Barnard will receive $15 in cash

and some bacon and tankage. .



Mr. Kirk will receive $25 offered by

the Chester—White Record Association

for producing the heaviest litter sired

by a. registered Chester-White boar and

produced by a registered Chester“

White dam, also $10 in cash, some has

con and tankage.



Dickey Brothers will receive $5.111

"cash, some bacon and tankage.



These prizes will be awarded by the

Michigan Swine Breeders’ Association

during Farmers’ Week at the College.

held the first week in February. The

ham, bacon and tankage are products





of the Michigan Packing Companies _'

and these prizes, as well as the gold

medals, were made possible through.



the donations from the packing com-i





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panics of Detroit and Pontiac. ,

Farmers owning good brood sows





- should plan early to take part in this

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Just are following Cool-

. A bout idge. or is Coolidge

. following the people?

Taxes Anyhow, tax reduc-





tion is a popular

theme nowadays. Witness the last

selection when a new state tax was

voted down, likewise a lot of “local

improvement" bills.





It is well that the public is becom-

ing the watchdog of its own treasury.

Every little while some public official

wants to enlarge the activities of his

department. This is natural, even if

the official is honest and ambitious.

Everybody wants to see the thing they

have anything to do with make a big

showing.



So, to keep the honest ambitions as

well as the dishonest ones within due

bounds, it is very fortunate that the

public is awakening to the fact that

'it .can not recklessly vote improve-

-ments without paying recklessly for





dency among farmers

in many sections to reduce their holdv

ings of live stock below the normal

level. This temptation is a natural

result of the present high prices for

grain. and relatively lower prices for

animals and animal products.





A few thoughtful live stock men,

however, advanced the opinion that it



. is unwise to follow this tendency. We

rather agree with them. It is unwiSe

since the slaughter of any consider-

able percentage of our domestic ani-

mals, particularly breeding stock,.is

~ bound to react as a bearish influence

upon the grain markets. Undue re-



~ striction in breeding operations'would

- bring the supply of live stock below

the normal demand, thus disturbing

-‘ the marketing program for both sur-

plus grains and live stock. ‘

'It is a well-known fact that on many

zfarms there is, this year, a dearth of

corn. If feeders attempt to put the

~ usual finishon their stock and retain

the normal amount of breeders, it will

be necessary to use substitutes. Some

. ‘ will do this by increasing the ration

‘ s of roughage. Others will lessen the

">1 amount of corn and add barley, dam-

aged wheat, or rye to the mixture. A

" Ilasge number of Michigan feeders will

we use cull beans to advantage. It

be be found prOfitable. Mat

* year when corn is atlts





 

 





‘ ‘ flttest’,’ is now playing its relentless.





them.

ROM observations

Don’t made during re-.

. cent trips over the

K!" The state, it would appear

Goose that there is a ten-





 





m as w as... »

hand. Many miners Will “kill the

goose that laid the golden egg” by





selling short on their stock", and fail.





Two years hence many of this class

will be clerking in some city grocery

store 0r doping up Second-build fliv-

vers. Other farmers, more resmrcerm,’

will overcome-the handicap. In this

particular case, they will locate-addi-

tional supplies of feed and continue to

carry on their live stock work in a

normal way. These men will undoubt-

edly be called "lucky’,’ by their short-

sighted neighbors. They are, however,

more than this, for they look ahead

in their work, being good managers; .,





HE judging of ex-





Michigan hibits at the In-

ternational at Chicar



5cm”. go has been delayed,



Again due to the very keen





competition in prac-





tically every class of live stockand _





crops. For this reason we have failed

to publish the full reports that we had

planned on giving in this issue.

However, enough of the winnings

have been sent in by the weary judges





,,_.to assure us that good old Michigan





is far from being relegated to the cold

corner. We give a single example. In

the hay section of the most successful

grain and hay show ever held, there

were twenty-five prizes offered by the

Chicago Board of Trade. Of these

twenty-five awards, Michigan took

twenty, giving the other five to Indi-.

ana, Wisconsin and North Dakota.





For the third successive ypar now,

Arthur W'. Jewett, J r., of Ingham coun-

ty has won~the grand sweepstakes in

this department. For the last two

years he has won this honor on tim-

othy hay. This season’s goal was at-

tained, however, with a bale of alfalfa;

L. H. Lylin, of the same county, was

awarded reserve sweepstakes. -





These consistent winnings rather

mark Michigan as the producer of

high-class hay, as well as the home of

other products requiring ideal condi-

tions and ,a high degree of skill on the

part of the farmer to produce them.





HIS country is





Bad Blank- truly becoming

efllclent. .It'.has re-.



3“ AI“! cently standardized

Farmtng-- befi blankets. The





department of com-



merce, in cooperation with manufac—

turers, has cut down the number of

sizes of bed blankets to be manufac-

tured from seventy-eight to twelve.



Now if this standardization will cut

down about six-sevenths the chances

of buying a blanket that will persist

on being kicked out at the bottom

this is happy news. There is really

nothing much more disagreeable than

a blanket that will kick out at the bot-

tom when there is ice on the water

pitcher. And, if these remaining twelve

sizes are graded in accordance to the

kickability or the users, the stand

zation can be hailed with even greater

delight.



One can readily see the relation of

sblankets to agriculture. Blankets help

to overcome cold feet, and there is

nothing much worse for agriculture

than cold feet on the part of the farm-

er. So with the psychological effect

that 'these new standardized blankets

will have on the farmer," we can see

prosperity ahead for farming.



Standardization really does have 'a.

psychological effect.

purchaser to buy with greater assur-

ance. And if any one can benefit

through the customer buying with

greater assurance, it certainly is the

farmer. Buying. or rather selling’ by





guess and by gosh has hurt the farmi





er’s market about as much as any-

thing else. So, if standardization in

farm products, in. assuming.“

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It enables the'





this down the styles

sixty-six to five,





standard lists of varieties of fruits’





community cooperation in potato varl- '





etles; breeds of cattle, hogs, sheep,

WHEY.

methods.



Even as these methods bring profit

to industry, so will they bring order

out of chaos and greater profit to ‘ag-

riculture.





, N a certain Michi-

' gan chmmunity an

M0151?” _ organization-~was de-.

e veloped and proper



Need equipment was pro-

vided for serving that



community. There was a real effort





made by those in charge to sensethe '





diverse needs of the locality and, as

far as possible, to serve these needs.

Later, through some miscarriage of

plans, this organization got into the

hands of a clique interested only in

one narrow subject. As a consequence

this promising and serviceable insti-

tution rapidly came to be, not a com-

munity asset, but the sole property of

a. small self-centered group.





This tragedy has occurred in many

a neighborhood. It is the antithesis

of cooperation. It develops gangs and

cliques, disinterest and distrust; it

raises suspicion where ”there should

be confidence; it dwarfs community

enterprise.





The only safeguard against such a

tragedy is for those in authority in

local community organizations to com

stanthr strive for a program that will

have interests touching the varied ac-

tivities of the neighborhood. Here, we

should. follow diversity as we have

found it necessary, or admsable, in our

farming program. The everlastingly

throwing out of the drag—net of inquiry

to discover every morsel on commu-

nity, interest, gand the constantly

weaving int9 the exercises of the local





organizations these interests will go a'





long way in keeping alive not only the

bonfire of community cooperation and

inspiration, but the home tires, as well.





_ T no time in the

A . history of the

world has there been

more interest in the

matter of efficiency

of public and private

enterprises than that taken in the so-

cial experiment centering in Russia.

There an attempt to direct the use of

wealth through public agencies has





Social '

Experiment





. been and is being tried upon a nation-





wide basis.



In industrial production, this at-

tempt is well nationalized. More than

ninety—five per cent of Russia’s indus-

trial output is from plants in the

hands of the government. But in egg

riculture; quite the opposite is true.

The peasants hold the land, operate





it and sell the products according to,





their own discretion.

The real test between public and

private efficiency, however, can be

seen in the distribution of the prod-

ucts of farm and factory. Here the

government agencies come in direct

contact with private initiative.

' .It was not theintention of the gov-

ernment to permit private traders to

become a factor in the‘Inerchandising

of RuSsian goods. The government

had powerful means at hand Which

officials believed would make ‘it im-

possible for private enterprises to sum

cessfully compete: First, it could





shape legislation to the advantage. of .





state-controlled distrihut - ’





types of files and

maps from 1.351 to 498, range boilersjf

from 130 to thirteen, and not forget-

ting the accomplishments in bed blank- ~ "

ets, so agriculture is concentrating- on ' " ‘ '





‘7 outs it fiso Rifle

and packing and shipping'





   

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 





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the state machinery;





increase of “lush; the failure to ten-





that real service; a poor credit equip- -





ment and the instability of currency.



Seine of these. means are funda-

.mental to , successful trading and

should - be given careful and commah

'ous consideration hymen everywhere





who are endeavorlng to pool their :

strength in an effort to give a super-





‘ distribution service.





Smfleth ’ . _' -

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around amongst folks where lectric





 





lights light, traffic cops cop, girls is





works 0' art. and-street cars is always

got room for one more. Consequently,

I got ta spuflle'a'round now for some-

thin' in say. The easiest thing is about

my own spufflein'.



Sofie just asked me what spuiflei'i’

is and I says it means ta hurry, bustle.

She says. “you ain’t never did such a.

thing, and as fer bustles, you just keep

away from them and mind your own

business.”





Well anyhow, I went ta the city 0’





bright-





hts ta 8. meetin’ on the con-

siderashun otffthe

outcome of the in-





   

 





guess the meetin’

was 0. K., but I

ain’t one 0’ them

fellers what set

around on a hard

chair listenin’ ta

folkses who is

tryin' ta;

their speechus what you call intelli-

gunt and comprehensuf.





 

   





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I‘m one 0' these regular tellers what .

They get nice.





does a lot 0' lobbyln’.

soft‘chairs in them hotel lobbies and

I set there talkinf to travelin’ men and

other prominent folkses. '



Just ta show you what kind 0' a.

teller these folkses think I am, one 0’

them wanted ta sell me stock in a coal

mine what is run entirely by oil. An-

other said he would put me on the

board 0’ directors if I’d buy one thou-

sand dollars stock in the. Heaterless

Stove Co. Well, I just told them fel-

lers they’d have to see my flnanshul

secretary, Sofie AbigaiI,Syckle, on

such small matters. 7





While I was settin’ there them bell

boys’d call fer “Mr. Jones," etc. I





just gave one 0’ them boys 3. nickul'





and told him, ta call fer “Mr. Syckle.”

I did that five times while I was there

and I never got so much fun and free

advertisin’ fer a quarter in my life.



You know, it’s nice ta eat at them

hotel lunch rooms, with girls tuckin’

the napkins under your chin, putting

sugar in your coffee, and etc. It’s dif-

ferunt than eatin’ at home, with. the

coffee pot and ’the' corned .beef and

cabbage bowl on the tabul. and .your

kids decoratin’ both sides 0’ the tabul

and .your wife the other.



It‘s diiferunt _all right, but it costs

lots. They say them girls is nice just

ta get a big tip. Well. anyhow, the

'nickles what I tipped them with was

'enuf ta- knock them over. Maybe our

wives‘d’bo nice, too. if we’d tip them

'onceiuawhile.soIMug Sense.





.of private ca 1.:





state system for

this failure are The iuemciency of. l



the abuse of; . 5'

their monopolistic position; the undue **





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ublish series of index numbers to; in-

dicate the changes in price levels

The series meet commonly used is

that constructed by the Bureau or La-

bor Statistics of the United States De

partment of Labor. These index num-

here are published monthly to show

the change in price during the past

'month.



Fries index numbers are very valu-

able to show the trend of business con-





" ditions, but they are sometimes used





in the wrong manner. During the past

few years these index numbers have-

been used to show how had 0133- the

farmer has been. To prove this some

persons have taken the price level oi

all non-agricultural products and com-

! pared it with the price level of agri-

cultural products to arrive at what

has been called the “purchasing pow-

er" of agricultural products. Consid-

ering prices 01! the year 1913 as 100,

.the . purchasing- power of agricultural

products. was eighty-seven in Septem-

ber, 1924. This meansthat the quan- ‘

tity of all agricultural products which

would buy $1. 00 worth of all commod-

ities in 1913 would buy only- eighty-





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seven cents worth in September, 1924.

.' Therefore, it is reasoned that the

. farmer is relatively in a. Worse posi-

; tion (to the extent of thirteen Cents

on the dollar) than he was in 1913.





such reasoning Can be applied only

There are





There, is the wheat farmer, the tobac-

co farmer, the cotton farmer, the dairy

farmer, the fruit farmer and many

other kinds off-farmers. Each individ-

ual farmer is not Concerned with the

prices of agricultural, products of

which he has none. ‘An increase in

the price of, cotton, while it will in-

crease the index number of farm prod-

ucts, does not help the Michigan farm-

er——in 'fact, it is to his detriment be-

cause it increases the cost of his cot-

ton cloth.



Another mistake is made in applying

such general terms to the condition of

the individual farmer; The “all com-

modities” index is made of many dif-

ferent products. Some of these the

individual farmer might not buy at all.

House furnishing goods and building

materials are high and these prices

tend to decrease the general purchas-

ing power of agricultural products;

but if the individual is‘not buying

these things, the high prices have very

little influence upon his outgo.



The true way to get at the relative

condition of any group of farmers is

to compare the purchasing power of

the things they have to sell with the

things they have to buy. “All com-~

modities” and “Agricultural products”

are too general to give specific infor-

mation concerning the exact financial





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possibilities of any one individual.

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LECTRIC power farming in Mich-

' igan is one step nearer realiza-

tion as a result of the meeting of

some twenty-five men—representing





Michigan’s farmers, the Michigan 'Ag-

‘ licultural College, and the public ser- .





vice companies of the state—with



' members of the Public Utilities Com-

mission in Lansing last Friday.



Sherman T. Handy, chairman of the



commission, in opening the meeting,





,'_ stressed the need for a rapid solution





, of themany problems confronting the

farmers and the utilities which must

be disposed of before power farming





‘ " can ever become a reality in Michigan.





into,” Mr. Handy explained.





1g ' t to Electrify Michigan Farms





Committee Emir téut Quuutity Consumption 13 u Stuééoru Prod/em wézcé, If Solver],





' - would Clear the Road for Progress





comes, not from the field, but from the

kitchen. ” '



Mr. Handy suggested that the Mich-

igan Agricultural College, through its





engineering department, ought to lead '





the way in showing that the purchase

of electricity is worth while. These

experiments, he said, should be con-

ducted in cooperation with the farm

bureau, the grange and the power

companies. '



“The farmer wants to see what he

is going to have to put his money

“You can

talk to him until you are black in the

face about theories, but you show him





and you have sold him. A practical





demonstration of the feasibility of

electricity on the farm is necessary.”

George W. BiSsell, dean of engineer-

ing, Michigan Agricultural College, re-

plying to Chairman Handy, said that

" tel study to educate farmers





 





“The Michigan Agricultural College,

I am sure, would welcome the oppor-

tunity to experiment along these

lines,” said Dean Bissell. '



The present’committee on the rela-





tion of electricity to agriculture was ,





continued by Chairman Handy, with

instructions to “boil down” some rules

which will serve at least temporarily.

“You have one of the greatest op-

portunities for service that has ever

come to you,” Mr. Handy declared.

The cOmmittee which was appointed

two years ago by the Michigan Public

Utilities Commission to study the

question of farm electrificiation in

Michigan has done considerable work.

It assembled'data on. this question

frOm all over the United States, which

would shew what methods were em-

ployed in the building of lines, what

contracts ‘were made with farmers,

what machinery was available for farm





"'work that} could be electrified, and hour"

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Wool ........ - ....... “H.143.



. Com OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO . I...0.;'I;I.12\“-

Cotton oooooeeopooglzafv‘f

Eggs oooooooo n o oust-Ion... 111‘ ‘

Wheat oooooooooooooooooo ......Q.' 98.7.1"

Butter 0-. uuuuuuuuuuuu scoop-00.0.. 95.: 1")"

Potatoes ............ oooooooecaooa 84’

Hay .............. .‘O.....‘..‘... 77 V;

Swine ............ ............... 6.

Beefcattle ....... 63





 





   





ics of the United States Department 111'



Agriculture, showing the relative pur-

chasing power of different farm prod-

ucts in terms of different groups of

other products as follows:





 

 





 





   

 





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By-examining the charts and tables

it will be noted that the individual

farmer does not get a true indication

of his condition by using the “all farm

products” purchasing power. The pur-

chasing power ranges from sixty-three

for beef cattle to 124 for corn. The

purchasing power of cotton, corn,

wheat, butter, eggs and wool is above

the general, while that for hay, pota-

toes, beef cattle and swine is below.



The purchasing power of any one

product—butter for example—~depends

upon What products it is exchanged

for. The f0110wing table shows how

this varies.





 





 





Table II.

Metals, etc. ....................... 111

All commodities . . . . . . . ..... . . . . 95

Fuel, etc. ............. 85

Building materials ...... . . . . . . . . 83

House furnishing goods . . . . . . . . . . 83

Cloths, etc. ................ . . . 76





 





 





,So in comparing the status of agri-

culture, care should be taken to get

the data as specificas possible. The

general purchasing power for all agri-

cultural products is too high in some

cases and too low in others. Index

numbers are very valuable tools when

properly used; but improper use of

them can bring about much misunder-

standing.



The indications are that there is go-

ing to be a revival of business. This

ought to increase the purchasing pow-

er of city consumers and strengthen

the market for dairy products, fruits

and vegetables. Increased buying pow-'

er in the city ought to have a good

effect on beef prices. In view of the

supply and the price of corn, hogs

ought to bring a relatively good price

during the coming year.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   





ious types of operations. .

The committee learned from its re-



searches, that Michigan has an ayer- ’1 »

age of three farm houses to two miles

of highway, which is the first difl‘iculty ..

in construction of. lines, because. so

much construction must'be undertaken

to reach so few people. , The cost of

construction and maintenance, there-

fore, cannot be absorbed by a large

number of consumers, as is the case in

the city, and in up-keep, a greater

amount of expense is necessary owing

to the fact that comparatively light

construction is exposed to every cli-

matic condition.‘

The report which the committeeding

ally made, aimed to equalize; "1

possible, the service rendered

er and city consumer.’ in the; ,- ,

vice district, electricity is brought

the premises of a. househOider: . "

his being obliged to pay any _

first cost, in sections where sorviioefi

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In t/zé Enlarged Hay





ICHIGAN’S claims to leadership



as an. alfalfa state were estab-



‘ ,tlished, and A. .W. Jewett,’.lr.,

farmer at'Mason, Michigan, held his

place as the “Jack, Dempsey of the

hay field” when his hole of alfalfa hay

won the National fHay Association

trophy awarded to'the best bale of hay

at the 1924 International Grain and





‘Hay Show. This is the third time in





succession that Mr. .Jewett has won





the International Hay Championship.





In addition to his prize alfalfa,‘Mr.

Jewett won first on Red Clover hay.

and timothy—while his nelghbors, L.

H. Laylin, \1eserve champion with a

bale of mixed hay; L. T. Lasenhy,

Lynn Jewell, and another Ingham

county grower, Charles Laughlin, of

Dansville, carried away nearly all of

the rest of the hay prizes. While there

were seventy entries in the hay class-

es, the quality of the Michigan hay

was so outstanding that only four ex-

hibitors from other states were able

to place at all. _



President Interested in Exhibits.



National recognition was given to

the great crops industry of America

and much interest added to the Inter-

national Grain and Hay Show when

President and Mrs. Coolidge visited

the grain exhibits during their trip to

the International Exposition.



President Coolidge was keenly inter-

ested in the great display of grains,

seeds, corn, and hay. He examined

prize exhibits closely and,,farmer-like,

started chewing a sample of the grand

championship wheat of the show. Mrs.

Coolidge commented on the unusual

size and luster of the sweepstakes soy-

bean entry and both noted features in

several of the educational displays, in-

cluding that of the Michigan Agricul-

tural College.



The great crowd of farmers who fol-

lowed the presidential party as it ex—

amined the best of the agriculturalists’

handiwork expressed keen satisfaction

in the interest of the chief executive

in their work and in their problems.



Wheat Prizes Go to Wolverines.



Second only to the record in the

hay classes was the showing made by

Michigan growers in Soft Red Winter

Wheat. In this class, C. D. Finkbeiner,

Washtenaw county Red Rock wheat

grower, won first, an honor which was

his two years ago. John C. Wilk, of

St. Louis, won second, and A. W. Jew-

ett, J1‘., of Mason, won third. Other

Michigan growers followed in order,

giving this state the fi‘rst sixteen

awards, except ninth, and a total of

twenty out of the thirty prizes offered.

Over one hundred entries competed in

this case, one of the large classes of

the show.



The rye championship of the world

again went to George and Louis Hutz-

ler, famous rye growers of South Man-

itou Island. These growers own one

of the ten farms on this isolated is-

land in northern Lake Michigan and.

produce the purest and, best quality

Rosen rye knowu. This is the fourth

time the rye championship has gone

to South Manitou Island and the third

time it has been won by the Hutzlers.

Michigan growers in all exhibited four-

teen samples of rye and thirteen of

them placed despite the keenest of

competition.



In the corn class from the region

composed of sections of Iowa, Minne-

sota, \Visconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Penn-

sylvania, Ontario and New York, the

Michigan record was something of a.

setback as compared to 1923, when the

first nine places went to Michigan

farmers.

Wortley, of Rushton, Michigan, placed

second to H. T. Drahemi—a Wisconsin.

grower. Seventh to eleventhlwent to





A. W. Jowett, of Macon: Ora Hoopin-

garner, of Bremen; Milo" Robinson, of-





 





nlon Clty‘ LR. Wilma -





and Gram Department a tfié Great

. Infimatzmal W alumna Ezekifiz'tar: T a

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(and John 0 W111. of St. Louis. 111:

all, Michigan farmers won eleven of t





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the coveted ribbons in this class—four

more than Were awarded to any other

state and a remarkable recOrd despite

the fact that first prize went to the

Badger state? _ ‘



While their fathers. were finding the





going rather rough in the corn classes, ‘





Michigan’s junior corn growers took

up the race with unusual success. The

Duncan corn grown by L/ynn Wortley,

andrhis brother Clair, and that of Har-

old Goetz, of Blissfield, placed first,

second and third respectively, in the

largest junior corn class of the show.



In the bean and pea. classes, farmers

from Michigan again hit their stride.

They took the first four out of five





honors awarded in a class of nearly a.





hundred bean entries, and first in field

peas. - J. A. Wilk, of Alma, won the





bean honors, while Charles Konnot,-





of Ewen, Ontonagon county, carried





home the blue ribbon in peas.





Other placings of unusual interest

were a. first in Region 2 soy-beans,

with reserve soy-bean championship of

the show won by John C. Wilk, of St.

Louis, Michigan; first in Flint corn,

won by R. F. Jewett, of Mason; the

placing of nineteen Michigan growers

in a very large oat class, and firsts in

White wheat, and flax, won by A. W.

Jewett, Jr.





The great winnings of farmers from

the Wolverine state at the Interna-

tional Grain and Hay Show has ceased

to be a novelty and is more like a.

fixed habit Noteworthy this year has

been the wide range of territory from

which the exhibits have come and the

new names on the list of exhibitors.

Charles Konnot, of Ewen, and Connors

Bros,

field peas, while Mr.

also placed.



W. A. Wortley, of Rushton, with a

second on corn, made this unusual

showing on his first attempt and out-

classed all other Michigan exhibitors.

Ora Hoopingarner, of Bronson; Milo

Robinson, of Union City; Fred Schil-

ling, of Goldwater, and I. C. Moody,

are other new exhibitors to win in the

corn classes, while lVarren Finkbeih-

er and Harry 'M, Martin,’ of Clinton,

and Sebastien Finkbeiner, George W.

Ernst, and Fred Mohrhardt, of Saline,

are new exhibitors who contributed to

Michigan’ s great showing in Soft Red

Winter wheat and oats.



From Ontonagon and Luce counties

in' the north, to Branch and Monroe

in the south, came Michigan’s entries,

representative of the best her fields





Konnot’s wheat





had produced. Ranking with the great '





spring wheat exhibits from Canada,

the great seed exhibits from Idaho,

and the great corn exhibits from Indi-

ana, is the greatvariety of exhibits

from Michigan. While growers from

these great states and provinces, "fa-

mous for some one crop, are crowned

kings of theh specialties, Michigan—-

with awards in hay, wheat, rye, corn,

oats, barley, field beans, field pgas,

soy-beans, red clover, alsike clover and

flax, might well wear the crown of

“King of Diversified Agriculture.” ’





Note ——The complete winnings of

Michigan exhibitors the Hay and





,Gréin Department of the great Inter—





national appear on page 539 of this

issue.





THE LIVE STOCK SHOW.





RESUME of the big International]

Live Stock Show, with a general 3





survey of the winnings and a list of

Michigan successes, will be giVen next

week. While not posing as one of





the big live stock states, Mlchigirin’s .



showing is anything but discouraging ' '



to breeders and feeders who have, as ‘

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‘ing- erlodas quickly as possible”. a maximum amount of- straw through

ceding will turn the; trick with the stable as an absorbent. My cow

.{good hbiis. some tallkage, milk, meat .stable is cement with gutters six inch-

89% tPGether with green stuff like es deep and eighteen inches wide be—

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l and poison. All of: them have been ground to reseed. I am plowing down

more or less effective If our neigh- ripe sweet clover for beans, which will

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5 , that we could keep the number to the without Plowing: then fall Plowing 01’

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__'_.____'_'__.___.__‘ a ., brings the sweet clover seeds back to

INCREASES THE MANURE SUPPLY the surface and seeds the oats. I am

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i 7 ' ing the winter when the field work is It is made. I have cut it when It I”

, -, , not urgent, manure can be appli€d to four or five feet high, with lots of ripe

the land a great deal cheaper than at seed on \it’ but the COWS and horses

. any other time of the year eat 1t with much zest, and did well on

' ‘X. . I always thresh my straw m the it._ ljdo not say that such hay 1s as

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possible. As soon as I thresh, I litter .but it serves a pulpose and the stock

T . my barnyard a. foot deep with straw do not hesitate to consume it. They

' _ For years, I followed the practice of even seem 1'0 relish the straw from

. . keeping my barnyard clean so I could which we threshed seed. I think more

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Elvin Stardust. for it gave to the

fruit growers something regarding

their product. we apple. which they did

not know before. The mayor told of

the healthfulaess of the apple, of how‘





' its free use would help prohibition,as





the apple furnished the will the hu-

manrrbody needed. which we usually

roots: to supply th 4 the use of

liquor. He also gave good insight

into the apple's place in history and

mythology. He claimed it a misnomer

tolaythe downtallotmantotheap—

pie. for the apple was not mentioned

until the time of Solomon;



President Rogers, in his reply nee

terred to the status of fruit growing.

Thus far, he said, the man who has

started in the raw, setting the orchard,

has not made a success. There was

need for greater income to put the in-

dustry on a staple basis.



The first subject on the program

was the California peach blight, by

Mr. C. W. Bennett, of M. A. C.. a

fungus disease which was found in the

west in 1900. In 1921 it was reported

in the east and this year it was found

in Mason county of this state. It is

distinguished by characteristic dark

red spots with white centers in the

peach and shot-hole appearance on the

leaf. It is controlled by spraying but

it has not been determined whether

the present western schedule would

work here, or not. It will, probably not

be a serious disease here, Mr. Bennett

thought.



', Mr. 'C. E. Bassett, former secretary

of the State Society, appeared before

the society for the first time in years.

Since leaving th society activities, he

has had considers e experience in co-

operative marketing work. He said

that orderly marketing was a great

essential in successful fruit growing.

The idea of “each one for himself"

would never solve the problem. Cut-





 





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HE Horticultural Society’s third an-

nual apple show was a big success.

it was unique in that all the expenses

were paid for before the doors opened.

There was no admission charged so

many city people joined the fruit grow~





‘ers in viewing the very high quality





and well colored Michigan fruit. Both

quality and color were remarkable, es-

pecially considering the backward sea-

son.



One of the chief attractions was the

center stand on which there were

small packages of fruit packed for re

tail purposes. The public voted on

these packages, which ranged from

thirty-five cents to nearly $4.00 in

price. The contest was to decide

which package the. public wouldvpre-

fer for a “take home” package. The

results were not available at time of

going to press, so will be published

later.



Boy Makes Record.



One outstanding feature in the

awards on fruit is the record of Russel

Braman, a twenty~year~old boy, who

won twenty-seven bluelribbons, eight

second prizes, two thirds and one

fourth. And besides, six sweepstakes

prizes. Young Mr. Braman won'a to-

tal of $210,190 apple trees, a traveling

bag and a. cord tire.



Great credit for the success of the

show is due Treasurer J. P. Munson,

Secretary Don Hootman, R E. Mar-





house orchards, near Ensign; where;





ting. firs stat of production»





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had the possibilities of success la. ms.

mm; as Hickman. It was up to the

growers to make it “a success by so

missilon. standardislug and stirs:h

using.





Mr. Edward House, who has made

a great success with roadside markets

gave an interesting talk on the sub-

ject. He indicated that math-side

stands have become such a factor in

marketing that some state regulation

of them was deemed essential. Non-t

grower operators who charged abnor-

mal prices were detrimental to. the

stand business. Convenient parking

place and attractiveness of the stand

were important factors. It is best to

locate the stand where autos had to

slow up to make a turn. or for some

other purpose. Mr. House was also

strong in his denunciation of the arti-

ficial carbonated fruit drink. Eight

billion bottles of that stuff was used

in a year. If the unfair methods of

selling these drinks could be stopped.

a great demand for good fruit bever-

ages would develop.





Two talks on the latest development

in spraying were given by W. C. Dut-

ton and H. A. Csrdlnell. both of M. A.

0., on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Dut-

ton’s subject was, “What is the Best

Material for Spraying Apples?” The

results of some interesting tests be

made indicated that the 'best results

were obtained from the sprays most

popular now. Lime-sulphur. one to

forty, and arsenals of lead, two pounds,

are the best summer sprays.





Mr. Cardlnell in discussing “Pres-

sure, Quantity and Method of Applica-

tion in Terms of Control,” also said

that the present strength of material,

well applied, was the best. ' Both Mr.

Cardinell's and Mr. Dutton’s talks will

be given in greater detail in future

issues.





Dr. Porter, of the United States De-

partment of Agriculture, told of his

experience with lubricating oil emul-

sions. These are a necessity in the

south where the scale has a longer

season and where lime~sulphur will not

keep this insect in control. He pre-

ferred the hot‘mlxed fish-oll—soap oil

emulsion. It required more Work and

made storage necessary, but it gave

better results than the cold mixtures.

He did not recommend the use of oil

emulsions for summer use, as even

though they did have fungicidal effect,

they caused an objectional Collection

of dust on the fruit and foliage.



Shipping“ point inspection in the

west was told of by George F. Waldo,

of the Oregon Agricultural College.

This inspection was well organized and

gave satisfactory results.



In his talk, Wm. H. Essinger, of the

State Department of Agriculture, in

“Fruit and Vegetable Inspection," said

that we had not nearly reached our

possibilities in the inspection work.

The law was still too lenient and some

control over the trucker was needed.

Details of his talk will be given later.



Mr. F. W. Sinks, of Detroit, who is

interested in a chain of restaurants,

told in a few words why he bought

western apples. The reason was be-

cause he could not get Michigan ap-

ples. For baking he needs about eight

bushels of very uniform apples per

day. He can’t find any among the.

Michigan packs to fill his requlr‘b—

ments. Michigan fruit, he said, was

already sold as people wanted it for

its flavor and Michigan growers would

come up to the standard of pack that

the west had it“ would not have any

dlfilculty in making easy sales. His

judgment was that the red apple was

the only one worth growing



Mr. Sinks referred to the Moore-





cram Rapids south throwh

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sum was: ” 2

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more interesting by opening ten boxes

or insist-n apple's res rm. or also

serving samples of their baked apples.





Mr. Carrol Sweet, Grand m

barrier. made one or the most inter-





eating talks the society has board. We 1





will téll more about it next week.

Thursday morning‘s program was

opened by an interesting talk by W.

H. Upshsll. of tho Horticultural Es-

periment Station, at Vinslsnn, Ontario.

Mr. Upshsll explained how they de-





tected mixtures in varieties in the .

nursery rows by the foliage. His‘im





vestigatlons have shown definitely that

varieties "can be told by the character-





istics of their leaves. Borne nurseries





showed over fifty per cent mixtures.

By an inspection service based on this

work, the mixtures in nurseries would

be out to almost nothing.



Mr. Henry Kraft and V. H. Mathews

discussed the farm aincooled storage.

Mr. Kraft has been able to keep ap-

ples in his storage from November to

June without shrinking. He has also

made good profits from his plant. The

first crop stored in 1914 paid for the

cost of the building by increased re-

turns from holding.



Mr. Don Button gave his experience

and observations on the Detroit Mu-

nicipal Market. His paper will be giv-

en in a future issue. Some discussions

of varieties of peaches, plums and

apples, a talk on grape insects, and

President Butterfield's address consti-

tutes the rest of the program. Lack

of space makes it necessary for us to





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ACH year horticultural students at

M. A. 0. take part in the Horti-

cultural Soclety’s program. The soci-

ety offers prizes in a speaking contest

as well as in a fruit judging centest.

Each year short talks are given on

practical horticultural subjects. The

audience are the Judges and the prizes

are awarded according to their vote.

This year the fruit growers voted L.

H. Kelly, of Conklin, for first prize,

who spoke on successful operating a

storage plant; the second was E. M.

Berry, of Hopkins, Mich., who talk-

ed on putting color on apples. The

third choice was Richard Rosa, of Pon-





- tlac, who told of the value of statistics





to fruit growers.



In the Judging contest Don Stark, of

Midland, proved tobe the best judge.

A. H. Teske, of South Haven, made

the second highest score, and George

Compton, of South Haven, came third.





The Business Seasicn.





At the business session, George Fri-

day, of Coloma. was elected president

of the State Horticultural Society to

succeed A. J. Rogers, Jr.‘ Herbert

Newton, of Hart, was reelected on the

executive - board, and Mr.

Whitney, of Williamsburg, was made

the new member to take‘tho place left

vacant by Mr. EridaY’s election as

president. Secretary D. H. Hootman,

and Treasurer J. P. Munson, ' were

unanimously re-elected.



The society passed resolutions “urg-

ing better crop estimated by the gov-

ernment. Usually the reports aregover-

optimistic,‘which is always a bearish

factor for the farmer who has to sell.

The society also opposed higher postal

rates and the child labor law. It urged

in resolution, a law which would pro-

hibit the sale of imitation fruit, drinks.



The mid-winter meeting ‘in March

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We are about to sell some of our

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Weuld the mortgage stand law

Fm his wife’ s signature wasn ’t on mort-

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file wife to sign on such a mortgage.

He bought some land in this locality

and now the parties are worried. If

party should be taken away, could we

hold land if his wife’ 5 signature wasn’t

there?——A. G.



By statute a deed of a homestead

by a married man is void if the deed

is not signed and acknowledged by

the wife. if the title is held by en-

tirety the same is true. In any other

cases the husband can sell subject to

the possible dower interest of the wife

should she survive—Rood.





ELECTRIFYI‘NG MICHIGAN FARMS.





(Coutinued from page 521).

available. The investment, however,

averaged about $50, which the service

company absorbs. This order as sub-

mitted to the state commission, would

make the same deduction to the farm-

er, so that whatever share he must





in excess oil-that amount.



Another feature of the rate struc-

ture whichvthe committee recommend-

ed in its report, was to isolate the

costs of .up-ke‘ep and overhead, and

make a separate schedule for power

which would be approximately at city

rates or lower. A “steprate” so-called,

was suggested, which would be de-

signed" so‘ as to encourage the farmer

to use the greatest amOunt of energy

commensurate with his work. By do-

ing this,he would reduce the unit cost

on his entire‘service.



The committee consists of the fol-

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WELL, here’s the close oi another year. It

hasn t been the best kind of a year, but

neither has it been the worst. And the out-

look for the future is the best the farmers

have seen for several years.





In the meantime, all your farm machines have

another season’ s work to their credit. It’ s time

to check them all over, now, while you remem-

ber just what they can do. Which machines are

worn out? Which ones are losing you money?

Which methods are behind the times?





Important changes have come to pass in

ten years’ time as every man knows.

farming has had to change along with the rest,

to a faster, more efiicient, more economical

pace—and that has been largely a matter of

change in farm machines. Farm machines to-

day must save more valuable time and take the

place of more expensive human labor. Many

of the old, small-capacity tools, made for a time

when labor was cheap, are Wasting profit.

Sometimes they eat up the cost of new equip-

ment in a single season. e time for slow

work is past. Now is the day of lO-ft. binders,

2- and 3-furrow plows, 2-row' cultiVators, me-

chanical power and motor haulage. You can’t





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beat down the price of labor but you can make

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labor. Increase your crop yield per acre. Cut

down your labor costs. Diversify. Plow more





furrows as you go along, cultivate more rows, ’





cut wider swaths. Plant every hill full—the

missed hills in a field have a big effect on the

yield. Save extra pounds of butter fat by effi-

cient cream separation. Spread manure by

the load instead of by the forkful. Let tractor

and engine power help you.





Never was there a better time for the use of

good judgment, combined with practical vis-

ion. Put the right pieces of modern equip—

ment on your farm, handle them well, and you

can't avoid a profitable year.





The law of supply and demand 18 swinging

back to the sunny side of farming. Let’s be

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“SI-did.” ofled Jocelyn, with eyes

e" ,“I’ d- not be in your debt, young

eYou are walking‘on my father’s

. Ask your father why! Yes, go

k to the city and hunthim up at

his millionaire’ s club and ask him why

on are driving Tom. Jocelyn off his

d land!”



" “My. father died three years ago,”

said Gordon, between his set teeth.

“What do you mean. 9”



,. -. Jocelyn stood quite still. Presently

he looked down at the fish on the

ground and moved it with his foot.

: Then Gordon asked him for the third

time what he meant, and,.Jocelyn,

raising his eyes, answered him: f‘With

the dead all quarrels die.”-



“That is not enough!" said Gordon,

,harshly. “Do you believe my father

wrenged you?”



“He’s dead, ” said Jocelyn, as though

speaking to himself.



Presently he picked up the fish and

walked towards his house, gray head

bent between his shoulders.



For a moment Gordon hesitated,

then he threw his gun smartly over

his shoulder and motioned his dogs to

heel. But his step had lost something

of its elasticity, and he climbed the

hill slowly, following with troubled

eyes his own shadow, which led him

on over the dead grass.





At first that inert oppression which

always came when the memory of his

father returned to him touched his

fine lips with a gravity too deep for

his years. .No man had ever said that

his father had dealt unfairly with men,

yet for years now his son had accum-

ulated impressions, vague and indefin~

able at first, but clearer as he grew

older, and the impressions had already

left the faintest tracery of a line be-

tween his eyebrows. He had known

his father as a hard man; he knew

that the world had found him hard and

shrewd. And now, as he grew older

and understood what the tribute of

honest men was worth, even to the

dead, he waited to hear one word: But

he never heard it. He had heard oth-

er things, however, but always veiled,

like the menacing outbreak of old man

Jocelyn—é—nothing tangible, nothing

that he could answer or refute. At

times he became morbid, believing he

could read reproach in men’s eyes, de-

tect sarcasm in friendly voices. Then

for months he would shun men, as,he

was doing now, living-alone monthiaf-

ter month in the great, silent house

where his father and his grandfather’s

father had been born. Yet even here

among the Sagamore Hills he had

found it—that haunting hint that hon-

or had been moulded to fit occasion

'when old Gordon dealt with his fel-

low-men.



He glanced up again at the butcher-

bird, and rose to his feet. The bird’s

cruel eyes regarded him steadily,





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 





 





 

 





 





Gordon, "I’ll give you a charge of shot.”

‘ But before he could raise his gun,

the shrikc, to his amazement, burst





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“You wholesale murderer,” thought»





into an exquisite song, sweet and pure

as a thrush‘s melody, and, spreading

its slaty wings, it sail-ed 03 through

the sunshine.



“That’s a new trick to me,” said

Gordon, aloud, wondering to hear such

music from the fierce feathered crim-



Iinal. But he let it go for. the sake of

its song, and, lowering his gun "again,

he pushed into the Wdemush.



The yellow beech leaves illuminated

the woods above and under foot; he

smelled the scent of ripened foliage,

he saw the purple gentians wistfuiiy

raising their. lands which neither-sun

nor frost could ever unseat



In a giade where brambles covered

a tiny stream, creeping through layers





the very best we have ever run,





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THIS most fascinating and gripping story of real life by that



inimitable story writer, Edna. Ferber, takes you, boots and all,

into, not only the homes, but the very hearts of the farm folks of

High Prairie, the shrewd traders on one of the busiest market

streets of the world, and the veneered, as well as the true, who

lived in palatial homes in North-side Chicago, we believe one of





for the best letter about the story after it is finished. The first in-





end of the build; um and in‘a’jfew?





minutes he found it. It Was a dead-

fail; set and baited with winter





Noiselessly he deStrdyed it, settings.

the heavy stone on the moss withOut a

Sound; then he searched the thicket





for the next "line, ” and in a few mo— " ‘77





church " was s





ments he discovered another broken





, twig leading to theieft...





He had been on the trail for some

time, losing it again and again before

the suspicion dashed over him that

there Was somebody ahead who had

either seen or heard him and who Was

deliberately, leading him astray with





ing. He listened; there wasno sound-





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of jewel-weed and mint: the white set->





ter in the lead swung suddenly west,

quartered, wheeled, crept forward and

stiffened to a point. Behind him his

mate froze into a silvery statue. rBut

Gordon Walked on. gun under his arm,

and the covey rose with a roar of

heavy wings, driving blindly through

the tangle deep into the dim wood’s

depths.



Gordon was not in a killing mood

that morning.



When the puzzled dogs had come

wagging in and had been quietly mo—

tionsd to heel, Gordon steed'still and

looked around at the mottled tree-

trunks glimmering above the under-

brush. The first beechnuts had drop-

ped; a few dainty sweet acorns lay

under tll'e white oaks. Somewhere

above a squirrel scolded incessantly.



As he was on the point of moving

forward, stooping to avoid an ozier,

something on the edge of the thicket

caught his eye. It was a twig, freshly

broken, hanking downward by a film

of bark. ,



After he had examined it he looked

around cautiously, peering into the

thicket until, a few yards to the right,

he discovered another twig, freshly

broken, hanging by its film of bark.



An ugly flush stained his forehead;

he set his lips together and moved on

noiselessly. Other twigs hung dang-





ling every few yards, yet it took an

expert’s eye to detect them among the "





jangles and clustering branches. But

he knew what he was to find at the





either of steps or of crackling twigs,

but both dogs had begun growling and

staring into the demi-light ahead. He

motioned. them on and followed. A

moment later both dogs barked

sharply.



As he stepped out of the thicket on

one side, a young girl, standing in the

more open and heavier timber, raised

her head and looked at him with

grave brOWn eyes Her hands were

on the silky heads of his dogs, from

he1 belt hung a great, fluffy cock-par-

tridge, outspread wings still limber.



He knew her in an instant; he had -

seen her often in church. Perplexed

and astonished, he took'o’fl’ his cap in

silence, finding absolutely nothing to

say, although the dead partridge at

her belt furnished a text on which he

had often displayed biting eloquence.





After a moment he smiled, partly -

at the situation, partly to put her at .





her ease.



“If I had known it was you,” he

said, “I should not have followed those

very inviting twigs I saw dangling

from the oziers and moose-vines.”



“Lined deadfalls are thoroughfares

to woodsmen,” she answered, defiant-

ly. “You are as free as I am in these

woods—but not more free.” -



The defiance, instead of irritating

him, touched him. In it he felt a

strange pathos—-the proud protest of

a heart that beat as free as the thud-

ding wings of the wild birds he some-

times silenced with a shot.



“It is' quite’true,” he said, gently;





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surprise. The use tam his eyes





deepened. “I did not new: you were





Neither spoke for a’ Wt. Puss-

ently Gordon raised his head and found

her brown eyes on him





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you?!)

“I am going home,” she said, coldly.

She turned away,- moving two or

three paces, then the next step was

less hasty, and the next was slower

still. As he joined her she looked up

a trifle startled, then bent her, head.

“Miss Jocelyn,” he said, abruptly.

“have you ever heard your father say

that my father treated him harshly?”

She stopped short beside him. “Have

you?” he repeated, firmly.





“I think," she said scornfully, “your '





father can answer that question.”



“If he could, ” said Gordon, "I would

ask him. He is dead. ”



She was listening to him with face

half averted, but now she turned

around and met his eyes again. ,



“Will you answer my question?” he

said.



“No,” she replied sowly, “not if he

is dead. ”



Young Gordon’s face was painfully



white. "I beg'you, Miss Jacelyn, to

answer me,” he said. “I beg you will

answer for your father's sake and—4n

justice to my father’s son.”

" “What do you care—” she began,

but stopped short.

her Own bitterness seemed farce'd. She

saw he did care. Suddenly she pitied

him.



“There was a promise broken,” she

said gravely.



“What else?”



“A man’s spirit.”



They walked on, he clasping his gun

with nerveless hands, she breaking

the sapless twigs as she passed, with

delicate, idle fingers.



Presently he said, as though speak-

ing to himself: “He had noquarrel

with the dead, nor has the dead with

him——now. What my father would





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yet___n

Under her deep lashes her brown

eyes rested on him pitifully. But; at

his slightest motion she turned aWay,

walking in silence.

As they reached the edge of the

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. physician“ the first

’ traveling 1n the Near East. In

y he runs across a strange case,

he reports. to his old medical

A letter. The case is that

Iew who c13.1ms’ to have been

, ,s‘ed from. the dead mby a wonderful

teacher, ; now dead. Karshish, of





' course, does not believe it; says it is





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T-‘has brought on the man th1s strange

' hallucination.





And yet the physician

cannot get away from the strange con-

sistency of the man’s story. Nor can

he escape from the conviction that

Lazarus exhibits a marvelous cpmbina-

tion of good qualities; a degree of





' sainth‘ood that he’has never seen be-





fore. He cannot believe that the One

who raised Lazarus Was really God, as

Lazarus says he was; that he came,

taught, gave his

life for mankind.

And” yet the calm

confidence of Laz-

arus’s attitude to«

ward t h e n e x t

world, his beauti-

ful equilibrium of

soul, almost con-

Vince him.



He begs pardon

of his famous teacher in medicine for

introducing such a fantastic idea as

this, and talks about the curious min-

erals he has seen; and the plants he

has discovered, in his travels. But he





 





- cannot get away from the subject and





comes back to it again. Suddenly he

cries out, that perhaps Lazarus is

right, that the aILpowerful God is also

an all-loving God, and really cares for

his human children. “The very God;

think, Abib'; dost thou think? So, the

All-great, were the All-loving, too. So,

through the thunder comes a human

voice saying, ‘0 heart I made, a heart

Face, my hands have

fashioned, see it in myself!”





HE question has been asked why



it was that the raising of Lazarus

was not told in the other gospels. Two

other raisings to life are recorded in

the others. And it may be that to

tell the Lazarus story as early as the

date of the first .three gospels, would

have stirred up hatred and persecu-

tion. For the leaders went away from

the miracle. at Bethany determined to

slay the Christ. It must be remem-

bered that the gospel of John was

written the last of all» the New Testa-

ment books, when the author was a

very old man, and when all, or nearly

all, the persons to whom he refers

were dead. The reasons for believing

that this gospel. was tten so late

are many, and we c not enter upon

them now:



The story of the raising of Lazarus

is so natural, so full of circumstantial

details, that it bears every mark of

genuineness. It would be very, very





- hard to 'make'up' a story like this. It'

1”is too simple, too minute in its details,





to have been fabricated. Like the

face of a child, it bears the stamp of

sincerity and truthfulness.





‘Enaturally wish that the descrip-



tion of this miracle were longer.

We crave more facts, more details.

Did Lazarus remember the four days

he lay in the grave? What were his

ekperiences, those four days? Was he

glad to come back lo earth, or would

he have preferred to remain where he

was? All this we cannot know—now.

We must wait. It argues the perfect

genuineness of the story, that it is so

sparing of all such matters. It leaves

much-unsaid.011rious and morbid





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‘We begin the immortal life now, if we





’living in eternity now.





questions are unanswered. Suppose a V





‘ are very impressionable and are easily

; influenced by the right kind of ex-





 





From every house the neighbors met,

The streets Were filled with joyful

sound:

A solemn‘ gladness even crown’d

The purple brows of Olivet.





Behold a. man raised up by Christ!

The rest remaineth unreveaied;

He teld it not; 'or something seal’d.

The lips of that Evangelist.





Why did Christ not come hurrying

to the scene of the dying man when

he first heard of his illness? Why did

he continue two days where he was?

Lazarus was his close friend. The

two sisters were his friends. He had

stepped there many times. The home -'

‘was evidently a home of some means.

They were not poor people‘They were. _

folk of some influence. But He made

no haste to come.





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never in a hurry. His life was

one of intense activity, but he hurried

not. He was always calm. Everything

came in its time, even as He came in.

the fullness of time. He who works ‘

with God ought also to be calm. Rush

avails nothing, except to beget ner-

vous disorders, sanitariums and under- 1

takers’ bills. “Now is for dogs and

apes; man has forever.” We are told

that in the Far East this is the atti-

tude now. Reading the life of Gandhi

recently, I was impressed with the fact

that Gandhi, the most talked of man

in the Orient, and one of the world fig-

ures of the present time, has never

been in a. hurry. He has said that if

a reform did not take place now it

would some time, and he would work

and wait. This is hard for us occi-

dentals to understand. We feel that

we must organize a movement tonight

before going home; get a committee

of strong men, a full-time secretary,

office equipment and stationery all ar-

ranged for, or the thing wont go,

whatever it is. Being unhurried is the

only impossible virtue on the calen-

dar for us.



But when he did get there, the time

was ripe, and—he was ready! There

is no false step, no heSitancy. There

had been a. purpose in his deliberate-—

ness. '



HESE orthodox Jews believed that

the resurrection was coming. But

Christ utters a startling and amazing

statement. The resurrection is not

only a far-off event. It is here now.

“I am the resurrection and the life.”





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are in Him. Eternity is here, now. It

is coming, but it is also here. We are





This is a. thought that ought to

make life mean a thousand fold more. >

Eternity is not simply a matter of '

endlessness—going on and on and on,

and still on. That might become very

wearisome. But there are qualities of

eternity. .Not all eternitles are alike,

any more than all lives are alike. But

the eternity that is lived in the life

and the strength of Christ, surely that





is the kind of endlessness that will. ~





never stale.





It is strange, is it not, that this mir-

acle did not convince everybody?

Some went away more set than even

in their fiendish conspiracy of death.-'

Miracles do not make converts, neces-

sarily. As was said to the rich man

in torment, “If they believe not Moses

and the prophets, neither will they be-

lieve, though one rose from the dead.”





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FO’R

DECEMBER 14.





SUBJECT—J‘The Raising of Lazarus.”

John 11.1 to 44.



GOLDEN TEXT—I am the resurrec-

tion and the life. John 11. 25. l





 





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. Sec’yafComme-rca

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Secretary of Commerce Hoover m a talk





rad1ocast to five million people thus defined





superpower:





“Supt er means interconnection of

(electrical 1; systems and larger central sta’

tions, coal and water, scattered over the

whole union . . . . It implies no gigantic





' exploitation, for that is impossible under





state regulation of rates and profits.”





This interconnection is in daily progress

before our eyes.” -





But it cannot reach its full development

or attain the remarkable economies assured

by engineers if American initiative and em



terprise are hampered by what Secretary

Hoover calls the deadening hand of the

government.”



“If we have not the capacity as a nation

to regulate these great tools in the public

interest,’ ’it is Secretary Hoover’ s conviction,



“we much less possess the capacity to operate

them on behalf of the FederalGovernment."





Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas in a

talk which was also radiocast to five million

people, likewise expressed his confidence in

these regulated companies. Because of their

record he expressed the belief that the

application of power to agriculture for the

mutual benefit of the farm, electric light

and power industry, and the nation as a





' whole, is in hands that may be trusted to





find a mutually advantageous solution.’





And because so many consumers of electricity

own Securities of the companies Senator Capper said

that the electric light and power industry“ is become





' ing in an increasing degree a great community enter‘





prise. This, in my Opinion, is public ownership at

its best.”





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29 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y.



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N-this day of tours and tourists, I



find an outing pillow appreciated.



From ’a burlap sack, cut a square

the size desired for the pillow. Draw

two threads one and a half inches

apart each way to form squares. Draw

bright ‘colored heavy work floss

through this open space. Line the pil-

low with contrasting cambric. Sew a.

loop in the corner so that it may be





carried on the arm.—Mrs. C. B., Reed _.





City, Mich.





 





With four youngsters to sew for I

have had to think of something differ-

. cut that I could send several friends

and relatives for Christmas. The chil—

dren and I have cracked and picked

out the meats of butternuts, walnuts

and hickory nuts. The small Christ-

mas boxes we purchased at the store

we filled 'with these and tied with gay

ribbons. In some we put homemade

candy. For the friends I wish to send

a larger gift to I plan to parcel post

a. dressed chicken with a roll of home-

made butter and a glass of jelly.—

Mrs. E. E. M., Custer, Mich.





 





Christmas was a burden in our fam-

ily until we tried this plan. ,At one

of the family get-togethers before

Christmas, we make out slips of paper

with each one’s name on them. All are

put in a box and shaken up well. Each

member draws a slip from the box and





 





MAN who in the struggles



of life has no home to retire

to, in fact or in memory, is with-

out life’s best rewards and life’s

best defences—J. G. Holland.





 





he must buy a Christmas gift for the

person whose name he has. With our

big family of daughter-in~laws and son-

in—laws and grandchildren, the scheme

Works splendid—Mrs. L. A., Kent City.





 





A lunch basket cover will be. just

the thing for the family who goes on

a picnic often. Cut a cover of white

linen or unbleached factory large

enough to cover a lunch basket well

and come down on the edges about

three inches. Notch it in to fit around

the handles. Face around the edge,

running a tape through the facing at

each end to tie around the handles. A

simple applique design will make it

more attractive—Mrs. E. H., Parma,

Mich





 





A knitted rug makes a very pleasing

and useful gift. Use four needles, cast

twenty-five stitches on each of three

of these and with the fourth knit back

and forth with carpet rags which have

been torn rather fine. Knit contrast-

ing stripes at the end. A blue and

white one is most appropriate for a

bath-room.—.Mrs. B. M.,_ Deckerville,

Mich.





 





A practical gift for a very new little

friend would be a Humpty Dumpty doll.

With a sutiable piece of soft white

flannel, cut the shape of an egg after

folding double. Stuff with cotton and

‘sew up the sides. With embroidery

floss, make eyes,,mouth and nose, rosy

Cheeks and hair. Little feet with bells

attached may be placed at the bottom

of the doll. ——-Mrs’. A. G. Suttons Bay,

Mich





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What to Make for Christmas





A: flmwc‘rea’ 5y Our Reader; - -





as the width of a comforter, three

comforter protectors can be made.

Hem and put a narrow edge of crochet

or contrasting binding on' one edge.

These are hosted onthe comforter and

can be easily removed for laundering.

Mrs. J. B., Traverse City, Mich. '





 





AFTER THE LAST BLOW-OUT, OLD

INNER TUBES HAVE MANY-

uses:





 





N old inner tube has many uses



in the household after it has seen

its last days on the automobile. If

rubber bands of various widths are

cut from it, they will find many uses

around the household. A paper-wrap-

ped package is quickly fastened with

one or two of them. The parcel-post

package secured by these rubber

bands arrives in good condition. Par-

aflined jelly glasses, if they have no

tin covers, can be covered with circles

of paper held in place by these rubber

bands. Little daughter may use them

as garters to hold bands in her bloom-

ers.





If whole sectidns are cut, fringed

and laced together, they make handy

bags. The large size can be stretched

down over the broom and saves much

wear on‘ the edges. Baby will have no

end of fun rolling a ball through a

piece of inner tube a foot long.





AVOID cnowome THE wmoows.





 





FEW well-grown plants are more



beautiful in the window garden

than a compact mass can possibly be.

I like to have every plant I grow show

its individual beauty, which it cannot

do when crowded by others. Then, if

we have to divide our attention too

much no plant will get the personal

care that is so necessary to success.



If you want to feel the greatest

pride in your flowers aim to grow

splendid specimens rather than a. not-

able collection. I would rather grow

one fine Thurstoni begonia and have

it so perfect that it would compel ad-

miration than grow a couple of dozen

begonias, all co monplace except the

variety. .



I would rather grow one fern that

would fill a window with its filmy

fronds than a. half dozen smaller ferns

of different kinds.

thrill with me over the one while they

would give the collebtiOn but a pass-

ing glance. —-—A. H.





ARE WE PLANNING ‘A RECREA-.

TIONAL PROGRAM FOR OUR

YOUNG PEOPLE?





 





ATHERS and mothers, have we

grown so old that we have forgot-

ten the pleasure which used to be

ours anticipating a social gathering?

Do you remember the sleigh rides

in the old, straw-filled sleigh, under a.

bright moon, the frost glinting on the

snow and the happy voices [raised in

song? It’s so much easier for us to-

day to say, “Don’t do this,” .and “Don’ t

do tha, ” than it is to furnish the right

kind of recreatiOn for our young

people.



An immense amount of vitality is

the hertiage of every normal boy and

girl, and the answer to “thou shalt

Let us use this en.

thusia-sm Mid vitality in building, up

the proper kind 0100mm oommhnity spirit.





My friends would . '





Where a grunge is established this is





easy, for all members of the family

are eligible to membership, and a pro-

gram at each meeting is part of the

routine work. We can have a. farm-





ers club with a Glee Club in connec-»_





tion, made up of our young people. We

can have so many“ kinds of clubs for

these same young people—baby beef

clubs, sheep clubs, pig clubs—in fact,

any kind of stock club, grain clubs,

sewing and canning clubs. Or just a





good old-fashioned social time where

father and mother, son and daughter





learn to play together and be "pals”

in earnest.



“With the ropes of today we ring

the bells of tomorrow,” and we fath-

ers and mothers cannot escape our re-

sponsibility along this line. The fu-

ture of our land depends on<the pro-

gram you and I put over with our





This Farm Woman ardent?





your: people. May w fiocfiw

fit themtoassume thieves .



Our. boys and girls ‘ _

asset Let us make this winter '

happy Vinter on the farm for 91w“





 

 

 





member of the family, remembermg





that "All work and no play makes





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Don’t melt paraffin to pour eve

your jelly, but scrape enough into the

bottom of each glass to cover the top,

pour the hot jelly on it, and the par-

aflin will rise to the top and make'a

perfect cover,

1-1.0.



If you have baking or cooking to do

after you are dressed up for the aftér-

noon, protect the sleeves of your gown

with the tops of a pair of discarded

white stdckings. A rubber band at

the top will keep them in place.





munity Asset





HE‘opportunity which the farm



woman has to exert a leader



ship, not only in her own home

but in her whole community, is well

illustrated by Mrs. Dorothy Kunzel-

man, of Baraboo.

famous Skillett Creek community,

which has become well known through

that veteran horticulturist, William

Toole, the present president and an

active worker in the Skillett Creek

Farmers’ Club.



Mrs. Kunzelman'is active in the

work of this club. She states: “Club

meetings are held at the homes of the

members every two weeks, and topics





She lives in the‘





ii! i

As a reward for this interest in the

taming business the husband has pro-

vided a modern, new home. Perhaps





the destruction of the old home by fire L

hastened the home somewhat, for it ,





was built in 1919, when costs were

extremely high. Following is a de-

scription of the house.



“Basement under the entireihouse,

which is 30x32 feet; adriveway into

the cellar for the car in the winter.

We also use this driveway for various

other things—mighty handy. All the

water used at the barn goes through

a large range boiler; around this is

built a cooling box for milk, butter,





 





The Kunzelman Home is





of interest to the farmer are discussed,

Outside talent is being constantly

brought in. We have learned to know





the good of our neighbors through‘





these meetings.”



In nearly every rural community the

school board has a hard time to find

anybody to “boar ” the teacher. Mrs.

Kunzelman has volunteered to provide

a home for the teacher of her school

districtgand on occasion when the

teacher cannot attend her classes, she

has even taught in her place.



The lgunzelman farm consists of

sixty act-m. Holstein cattle and Ches-

ter White hogs are kept, and Mrs. Kun-

zelman finds time to, help ,her husband, 1

She writes: “We'have been raising

prize winning Cheaters. Last spring

our eight sows furl-owed seventy-three





pigs, raising sixty-four of them. TI ‘





 





Modern in Every Respect.

etc., which is almost as good as ice .in'





the summer. It saves a lot of hard

work packing ice, and bringing it to

the ice box‘ in summer. This cooling

box is between the kitchen and dining-

room, so no dange; of freezing. and

always a _,good cold drink to be had

from this fresh supply (if water.- .



“An open fireplace is a great com-

fort cool evenings. _.



“Maple floors upstairs and down.

Plenty of sunshine. My kitchen has





two east windows and two south win- .





dows. When just four or less, we eat

in the kitchen for it is so. pleasant and

saves just miles of g he. '





 





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dermal .madfidfio H. K.

- " ‘Toncan pumpkin, cutthe raw pumps

“km in White sizes, Munch in boiling

water for ..three "minutes, and pack

‘ trader: in sterilized jars. Season with

0 ‘ ”10nd 1111 the hr with boiling wa-

‘ ter.’ Process in hot waiter bath for two

‘ hours, or in Steam pressure cooker for

' I", forty "minutes’at ‘ ten pounds pressure. ,

You may cook the pumpkin down to

, y ; . _-« Ithe desired consistency for pies and

-' then cun‘and process in hot water

' '~ bath for" the same length of time.

hSome housewives say that cooking

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SAUSAGE RECIPES.





Please send- me,recipe for bologna

and liver usage—Mrs. O; E. ,5

Bologna- Sausage.



To eight pounds of lean beef use one

{7: . _ pound of fat pork. ‘Put‘ the meat

through a food grinder; spread it out

, y ' - on a flat surface and sprinkle with the

.. seasonings. For every nine pounds of

_ meat allow two .and a quarter ounces

, - . l . of? finesal-t, three quarters of an ounce

0 of black pepper and quarter ounce of

. ground mace or coriander. Mix the

seasonings with the meat and regrind.

Stuff into casings, dry one hour and

smoke eight or ten hours. Dry before



. putting away. ' -



Liver Sausage.



Add five pounds of well cooked» pork

/ 7 or beef. liver and one pound of flour to





 





 





eight pounds of wen‘coohed park from

boned hugs' heads or‘j0w1s. Cut the

\meat into small pieces, mix thoroughly

with flour and put thrash- a food

grinder. Spread out and sprinkle with

six ounces of fine salthtwo ounces of.

finely ground black pepper and one

Ounce of finely grou‘nd'sage. Regrind,

adding one union if thevonion flavor is

desired. Stun" the meat into round

casings or hogs' bugs and cook in

“boiling water ten minutes. .Cool in

ice and hang in a dry, cool place, 7 ‘





 





' CH 513m... RECIPES.





Cranberry Salad.



Soften a half box of gelatine in one-

balf cup of cold water, add two and

onehalf cups of boiling cranberry

juice, one tablespoonful lemon juice,

a dash of salt, and sweeten with sugar





“ to taste. Stir until cold and beginning





to thicken, add one cup of finely cut

celery and one cup of finely cut meats.

“Turn into small wet moulds and set

"=‘aside to harden. Serve in nests of

lettuce leaves with a garnish of may—

onnaise—H. A. L.



Baked Carrots—Boil until tender.





Cut lengthwise. Lay out in pan, dot

with butter and bake lultil brown.





 





HOW TO PRESERVE MEAT.





OPIES of our bulletin, "How to





Preserve Meat for Home Use,” are





now available to all our readers. It

contains tested formulas for preserv-

ing meat in various ways and gives

rules for canning meat at home. For





stamps to Martha Cole, Desk M, Micht





igan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





 





 





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fl . fl .. - Happy Squire! Mow: Hi: Cupéoard





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' , ‘ ' HEN the Old Owl saw Sly



' Frankie Fox sneaking up to the



‘ Hollow tree where Happy Squir-



rel stored his winter supply of. food,



he hooted: just as loud as ever he



:could. Even though he was a bird and



couldn’t talk the language of the ani-



. male in Woodland, he knew that Sly



[I Mr. Fox was doing something that



was not right. ‘



. “Whooohoo-oeo! Whoo, h‘oo-oo-o!"



1*}; ' he screeched, and away ran Frankie

”$7 1 £1001: very much frightened».



’ Happy Squirrel and Mrs. Squirrel





 

 





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”weresound asleep in their warm little





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his trousers as fast as he could and





Mrs. Squirrel hurried and dressed, too. :





“You were right,” said Happy to

Mrs. Happy, as she hurried up to the

old Hollow tree. Happy had gotten

there several minutes before her.

“A sly fox has. been here. See his

tracks right up to the Hollow tree.”



“He must have found your memory

book on the piece of birch bark or he

never would have been able‘ to find

our winter cupboard. You hid them

so well,” said Mrs. Squirrel.





The Old 0W1, winked at these two





little squirrels as they chattered to

him in their animal language to thank

him for what he had done.





“We must move our winter cup-

board tonight,” said Happy Squirrel,

after he had thought a minute. f‘That

sly fox was frightened away by the

Old 0W1 but he will be back.



“Can't we wait until morning?” ask-

ed/Mrs.‘ Happy? “I don’t like the woods

when it is dark.”



“Morning may be too late and I

know a. very good place to hide the

,food not far from here,” said Happy.



All night long the two little ‘Squir-

rels worked and the sun was just

peeping eyer the hill when the last

basket was carried.



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Dear Uncle Frank:



Here’s another country heard from,

and I guess you will think I “skipped”

school when you look at the date. I

haven’t, so you can't accuse me of

that. There is 'a teachers’ meeting to-

day and tomorrow, so that accounts

for me not being in school. I think I

heard'someone 'say that I was a “lucky

person.” I am far from it, because I

will probably have to pick up potatoes

this afternoon.



If I remember right (which I seldom

do) someone wrote and said that there

were too many “old—fashioned” girls

that belong to the M. C., or something

I. am wondering if they did





 





Kenneth Dean Had Lots of Fun with

His Bicycle Last Summer.



sign their name as an “old-fashioned”



girl because their hair was long, and



they did not go joy-riding all over the



country at unearthly hours of the



night. Am I right?



Well, I must close before I say too

much about “old-fashioned” girls or

begin to give my opinion on bobbed

hair.



I am inclosing a dime as I wish to

do my bit for the fund—From an M.

0., Nina Parrish, Ypsilanti, Mich.



Even at that your vacation must

have been a rest, as back~work isa

change from head-work, and a change

is a rest, they say. I am glad you

follow the “early to bed, early to rise”

maxim. Thanks for the Fund contri—

bution.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



How old is the M. C., and what is

the date of its birth? I think this in-

formation would be interesting to

nearly all of the M. C.’s so that we

may celebrate the anniversary of its

beginning.



Why not; let “HOW we shall cele~

brate the (number) anniversary of the





Merry Circle” be a topic for discussion.





or for a contest? .



Perhaps you can suggest something,

Uncle Frank. I believe I can remem-

ber when it began, but not the exact

date. ’Member what a time we had

to get a name for it? Wouldn’t it be

splendid to keep a sort of record or

history of the club? I imagine the

names of Rex Ellis, Harold Coles and

others would stand out in that history

as George Washington and Abraham

Lincoln would stand out in American

history. I believe the M. C. will some

day make a great showing among the

various clubs of this nation. Then

how nice it would be to have a com-

plete record of its past work!



Oh, yes, I almost forgot to thank

you for my flashlight. I have it on the

table in front of me, right now, and it

sorta inspires me to write such a lingo

as this.——Well, good-night, Edna Fed-

erspiel, Sterling, Mich.





The first of the present contests





was announced March 4, 1922. Uncle





Frank appeared on the scene March





" 15, and the first‘Letter Box was in the





April 1,-1922, issue. The Merry Circle





.was announced January 6', 1923. Your

5 suggestion to. celebrate is. a good one.





Iiet’3‘discuss it in 'our letters. . I have





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What‘the MailmanBrought’





Some IntendingM. C. Lettér:





ger right along. "If it keeps on, it will

surely amount to something.





 





Dear Uhcle Frank:



This is the town thatl am spending ,

my vacation‘in. What do"you think

of it? I' get the Michigan Farmer here ‘

and read the doings of the M. C.’s just

the same as if I still~lived in Michi-

gan. You are far from here, but not

forgotten—Your M. C. Nephew, Carl

Rohl, Jr., ‘Orby Villastead, Alvjo,

Sotckholm, Sweden. .



Thanks very much for sending the

card from Sweden. You must tell us

about your vacation some time. ,





 





Dear Unc1e Frank: '





I received my box of candy and M.

0. card and pin. I thank you very

much. You know, Uncle Frank, it

sometimes pays to try.



I am twelve years old. I am three

years in this country. When I first

came over, they.put .me in the first

grade, and here in Michigan they put

me in the third grade, and now I am

in the sixth grade. I can talk German,

English, a few words of French, and

other different languages. How many

languages can you talk, Uncle Frank?



I never agree with girls that‘think

bobbed hair is all right. I have long

curly hair, and I am never, never go-

ing to be it.



I can milk.





I help in the field arid

do housework.





I have to go to school





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every y'mérni‘né.‘ Wis-have" to‘ 1' go to





school about one and one-half miles. .

—Your niece, Hedwig Stegmull‘er, M.’





c., a 5, Stockbridge, Mich. .

When I was young I could speak

German, but my German friends say

'that my, tongue has gotten too thick

since. English is about all I can han-

dle now. I would not be so positive

about bobbed hair. One can never tell

what they will do in the future. '





 





 





Dear Uncle Frank: I ~



Say, Uncle Frank, don’t you think

girls work harder than boys? All boys

have todo is work out in the fields

and do chores. In the winter days

they do their chores morning and

evening, and the rest of the day (out-

side of school and study) they have

to do nothing. Girls and their moth—

ers are always on the go. Even on

Sunday girls have to help get dinner,

and if you ask the boys to just get ‘a.

half a cup of water or get some wood,

they grumble. Girls have to do out-

side work at that, besides. Girls are

brighter than boys, too. Boys hardly

ever are at the head of their class. It

is usually a -girl.——Your niece and

cousin, Alida Westers, R. 8, Grand

Rapids, Mich. - ‘



Yes, girls work real hard—that is,

some of them do.

that “Man’s work is from sun to sun,

but woman’s work is never done.”

Somebody must have thought that

true, or else he wouldn’t have written

it. Perhaps it was a wOman who

wrote it. This question ought to bring

discussion.





en Door





Something New for Merry Circfér:





Dear Uncle Frank: ‘



I want to thank you for printing my

letter. In regard to your comment

that I prefer modern fiction, I must

say, decidedly so. I have read novels

that are considered great English and

French (translated) classics, and there

is not nearly as much. truth back of

them; by this I mean truth that can

benefit us in this day: Right now I am

reading “Ivanhoe,” Scott,rand although

it is very‘interesting, I cannot apply

it to modern life and its problems. On

the otherlhandf modern wri-ters nearly

always have some'great truth back of

their novels and if you read it closely

you will discover it. I also read the

M——~ publications, especially T

S and T——— R If you have

ever read these, you will not wonder

when I say that I have derived more

benefit and got more common sense

and judgment out of them than the

other things I have read. ’



As to the marks I received this last

month, yOu may be right. Our school

goes by the standard mentioned, but

when I tell you that last year I're-

ceived A in all my studies for the last

semester, you will understand why I

say I must improve, and I honestly

feel that I am. '





I‘ print this letter because it brings

out a thought regarding modern prob-

lems which each one of us have to

contend with, and of which we are all

seeking information; I print it, too,

because it is from a wholesome. ser-

ious minded, thoughtful Merry Circle

girl.



The mystery of sex is one of the

greatest attractions of every normal

individual, and in the' age of youth

there is a constant searching for in-

formation regarding it. Information

will be found by everyone through

some source, but it is most essential

to the welfare of the individual that

the right kind of information be found.



,I have read some of theuconfessional

type of magazines refenred toih the

letter above. \The stories are. neariyf

all regarding. the mistakes otthe going.





 





 





 





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ignorance .or ' of wrong 7'infdrmation,

which 53'3““53fi Md“ iflbmaevmy ‘

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not teach wholesomely the matters re-

garding sex. I believe that it is better

to learn of sex matters from standard

books on the subject than to read of

the intimate experiences of those who

have fallen in the gutter.





The books that I' refer to are such

as “What a Young Woman Should

Know,” by Mary Wood Allen, and

“What a Young Man Should Know,”

by Dr. Sylvanus Stall. These cost

$1.35 each, and should be ayailable to

every young person. Most publica-

tions have them.





In the past, sex was a forbidden sub-

ject,ibut now the greatest doctors and

religious instructors realize that there

is no better foundation for a useful

maturity than an honest and whole-

some knowledge of sex life. They fa-

vor a wholesome discussion of it. It

is with this thought in mind that I

have used the above letter as a. means

of introducing the subject. This is

not a note of warning to the writer of

that letter, as I am certain that she





-—is wholesome minded and, because of





being so, may gain some helpful in-





formation from the stories she reads._





but she would gain much better, more

essential information from such books

as I have suggested, and still be free

from the possibilities of evil influences

of such stories. ,



While considering this matter, I

wrote Doctor Lerrigo, our health ad-

visor, regarding it. Below is the letter

he wrote in reply:





Dear Uncle Frank: _

.Perhaps you do not know that deal-





ingfw‘ith young people has been a very .





special hobby of mine ~- for at least

twenty years. ,



I shall be very glad to assist you in

the line of work that you mention. I

agree that it is quite. 03:31le to say,

too much. on sex sub sets, but it is





terribly im ortant. thatwe say enoush;

danger of e .





andthere‘ s much‘more

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Margaret .thaxléoct‘or'éinaushtsr. In?



girlstwelve to fourteen." . rev : '1' . ~.

Life's Problems, for girls fifteen to



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to ansWer any letters "





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Sincerely yours, .7





you send, or cooperate in any other

,way. * ‘





tue toward life, and with the informa-





tion to help them go through life

For that reason we Will- opem I ,





right.

this department to young folks who

want information orwwho have prob-

lems to solve. We also open this ser-

vice to parents who wish help in start;

ing their children right. ’





’ All letters will be held in strictest

confidence and will be answered by

Dr. Lerrigo or myself, most of them

by Dr. Lerrigo. They will be answered

by mail, not through the columns, and

even though references are made in

the columns,

vulged. - ,



This service will be known as The





Open Door, and is dedicated to better -





manhood and womanhood among Mer-

ry Circlers; for that reason we want

you to feel perfectly free to use it.——-

Uncle Frank. ‘ .





 





Eve lemrzg Lzmerzcé:

By Margaret Henry, M. c., Birch Run,

Michigan. ,

Two M. C.’s have a calf.

They lead it half and half.

One takes the lead,





 





 





The First Limorick,Was Written with

This Picture as a Subject.

To check its speed,

The other hangs on aft.





 





By Margaret G. Beckwith, Ovid, Mich. . ‘





I try‘ in each contest’ \

I do my‘ very best.



May lose or win,



Don’t care a pin,

The fun gives me more zest.





 





sy. Isabel Woolley, Br‘ethnn, Mich.’

A Merry Circle boy named Chase,

Got bugs in the limerick race,



But his Dad got sick



Of so much limerick,

And kicked him all over the place.





 





By Frances Wilson, M. c., Harbor

Beach, Mich. . '

That old waste. basket’s size,

Let me put you wise. '

If we could See,

I’m sure ’twould be

A giant in disguise. 1 '





 





By Laurence McNamara. M. 9., Harbor:





 

   

 

 





 





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(Continued from page 528).





woods in a burst of sunshine he look-

ed up at her and she stopped. Below

them the smoke curled ' from her

weather-racked house. ,“Will you have

me for a guest?” he said, suddenly.



“A guest!” she faltered.



A new mood was on him; he was

smiling now.



“Yes, a guest. It is Thanksgiving

Day, Miss Jocelyn. Will you and your

father forget old quarrels—and per-

haps forgive?”



Again she rested her slender hands

on his dogs’ heads, looking out over

the valley.



“Will you forgive?” he asked, in a.

low voice.



“I? Yes,” she said, startled.



’ “Then,” hewent on, smiling, “you

must invite me to be your guest. When

I look at that partridge, Miss Jocolyn,

hunger makes me shameless. I want

a second-joint—indeed I do!”



Her sensitive lips trembled into a.

smile, but she could not meet his

eyes yet.



,"Our Thanksgiving dinner would

horrify you,” she said——“a pickerel tak-

en on a ganghook, Woodcock shot in

Brier Brook swales, and this partridge

—" She hesitated.



“And that partridge a victim to his

own rash passion for winter grapes,”

added Gordon. laughing.~



The laugh did them both good.



“I could make a chestnut stufling,”





‘ She 'said timidly.





6





11;. on,

, '. slanting ls



- . [looked back twice The third time she

’ looked he was gone heyond the brown

’hill’s crest. » ,_,





"Splendid! Splendid! ”



“Are you really coming ?” she asked.



Something in her eyes held his, then

he answered with heightened color, “I

am very serious, Miss Jocelyn. May

I come?”



She said “Ya/'3 under her breath.



So young Gordon went away across

the hills, whistling his dogs cheerily

the s ht glimmering on the

ot- his gun. They





 





'the table and the three chairs caught





-', also'which you lost with it willbere—





She came to her own door all of a.

tremble. Old man Jocelyn sat sunning

his gray head on the south porch, lean

hands folded over his stomach, pipe

between his teeth.





“Daddy,” she said, “look!” and she

held up the partridge. Jocelyn smiled.



All the afternoon she was busy in

the kitchen, and when the early even-

ing shadows lengthened across the

purple hills she stood at the door,

brown eyes shearching the northern

slope.





The early dusk fell over the alder

swales; the brawling brook was sheet-

ed with vapor.





Up-stairs she heard her father dress-

ing in his ancient suit of rusty black

and pulling on his obsolete boots. She

stole into the dining-room and looked

at the table. Three covers were laid.



She had dressed in her graduating

gowu——a fluffy bit of white and ribbon.





Her dark soft hair was gathered simQ





ply; a bunch of blue gentian glim-

mered at her belt.





Suddenly, as she lingered over the ,





table, she heard Gordon’s step on the

porch, and the next instant her father

came down the dark stairway into the

dining—room just as Gordon entered.



The old man halted, eyes ablaze.

But Gordon came forward gravely,

saying, “I asked Miss Jocelyn if I

might come as your guest tonight. It

would have been a lonely Thanksgiv~

ing at home. ”



Jocelyn turned to his daughter in

silence. Then the three places laid‘at





his eye.





“I hope,” said Gordon, “that old

quarrels will be forgotten and old

scores wiped out. I «am sorry I spoke

as I did this morning. You are quite

right, Mr. Jocelyn; the land is yours

and has always been yours. It is from

you I must ask, permission to shoot."



JOCelyn eyed him grimly.





“Don’t make- it hard for me,” said 4





Gordon. “The land is yours, and that-





drew him outside to the porch.





gently, “with





Garden, still holding his hard hand





“How much did you have in the:

Sagamore & Wyandotte Railway be-’

fore our system bought it?” asked

Gordon.



“All I had—seven thousand dol-

lars—" Suddenly the old man’s hand

began to tremble. He raised his gray

head and looked up at the stars. _



“That is yours still " said Gordon,

interest. My father

wishes it.” -



Old man Jocelyn looked up at the

stars, They seemed to swim in silver

streaks through the darkness.



‘fCome,”. said Gordon, gayly, “we are

brother sportsmen now—and that sky

means a black frost and a. flight. Will





you invite me to shoot over Brier





Brook swales tomorrow?”



As he spoke, high in the starlight, a

dark shadow passed, coming in from

the north, beating the still air with

rapid wings. It was a woodcock, the

first flight bird from the north.



“Come to dinner, young man,” said

Jocelyn, excited; “the flight is on and

we must be on Brier Brook by day-

break.”





In the blaze Of a kerosene-lamp they '





sat down at table. Gordon looked

across at Jocelyn’s daughter; her eyes

met his, and they smiled.



Then old man Jocelyn bent his head

on his hard clasped hands.



“Lord,” he said, tremulously, “it be-

ing Thanksgiving, I gave thee extry

thanks this A. M. It being now P. M.,

I do hereby double them extry





thanks”—his mind wandered a little

—-— “with interest to date.

THE END.





Amen.”





. out his hand. Jocelyn leer,

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Reup Causes





. A LTHOUGH mini is an all—year-





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ics come with the shifting weath-

er conditions of fall and spring. The

disease causes considerable loss and

appears to be increasing from year

to year. .



The term roup covers a nuniber of

ailments. It includes colds, bronchitis,

catarrh, canker, diphtheria, roup prop-

er, and perhaps chicken pox.

ally comes with colds ‘which start

when the birds have been exposed to

dampness, drafts and phill. Thegerms

seem to be everywhere and anything

which tends to ldwer a bird’s vitality

and resistance may start an epidemic.

Most forms of poultry are subject to

its ravages.



The first symptom! are sneezing,

coughing, watery eyes and running

nostrils. Sometimes it ends with this

stage, but oftener it goes on till the

characteristic roupy stench develops

and the nasal sinuses fill with a. thick

mucous and puff out near the eye or

angle of the jaw. Canker may show





up in the mouth and throat as yellow- ‘





ish white masses which may invade

the wind pipe and strangle the bird.

When this condition develops, the bird

breathes with a wheeze and with the

mouth open. In the later stages, the

comb and face turn purple from lack

of air. In bad cases, a stringy mucous

cOllects in the throat and forms a sort

of diphtheretic membrane which also

strangles the bird. In other cases, the

external symptoms are not alarming

but birds will suddenly collapse from

the internal absorption of the disease

poisons.



There is no sure cure for roup

known and when the disease gets a‘

good start or is of a virulent nature,

no remedy but the axe seems effective.

Vaccines‘have been used and in some

cases seems to get results but on the

whole have not as yet been very sat-

isfactory for the ordinary poultry man.

Correct the wrong conditions which





stopping drafts from blowing on birds

on the roost, provide good ventilation

so that fresh air may come in and the

damp foul air may escape, and keep

quarters sanitary by thorough cleaning

and disinfecting. If it is possible, re-





‘ move and, isolate all ailing birds as





soon as they are noticed. In most

cases, it would be well to dispose of

such birds rather than turn them into

Often the disease be-

comes chronic or the bird becomes a.

carrier of the germs and although it

appears well, it may infect the whole

flock again.



Give all exposed birds 3. physio of

epsOm salts, using one pound to one

hundred birds._ Dissolve the salts in

warm water and stir into a mash feed.

Distribute the mash well so that all

birds will have an equal chance at it.

To prevent the spread of the disease

through the drinking water, potassium

permanganate is used, dissolving the

amount that will stay on a dime for

each gallon of water. If the hen house

can be closed rather tightly, good re

sults are lobe had from boiling off

disinfecting vapors, like oil of euca-

lyptus and ordinary sheep dip, or burn-

ing pine tar. Some benefit is often de-

rived from dipping the heads of the

birds in boric acid solution or salt

water but if these solutions can be

squirted up the nostrils or in the cleft

in the roof of the mouth or in the eyes,

results are better. If eye ‘sw'ellings

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FEEDING RICE.





 





Is rice 8. good feed for laying hens,

and how much should I feed to 100

hens?——C. K. F.





Rice is not liked by poultry and it

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used for poultry feeding, even in the

south where rice is grown. Some com-

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contain a little broken rice but 11 does

not add to the“ value of the feed. I

would not advise feeding rice to laying

hens, considering the present price of

wheat and fresh eggs.





DUCKLINGS, POULTS AND

GUINEAS.





 





Will you tell me how long it takes

to hatch duck, guinea and turkey eggs,

and if hatched in the incubator, at

what temperature should I also keep

it? Also advise me what to feed these

different kinds of birds. Have had no

expgriesnce with any of these.—~Mrs.





The eggs from all but Muscovy

ducks will hatch in twenty-six to twen-

ty-eight days. Muscovy duck eggs re-

quire from thirty-three to thirty-six

days. Guinea eggs take from twenty-

six to twentyeight days to hatch Tur-

key eggs hatch on the twenty-eighth

day but it varies on an egg hatch on

the twenty-seventh day and the hatch-

ing continues until the twenty-ninth

or thirtieth day. 1





Duck eggs in an incubator require a

temperature of 102 degrees. This is

aléo satisfactory for turkey eggs. The

guinea. eggs will hatch at 102 to 103

degrees. Incubators are very satisfac-

tory for duck eggs, Turkey eggs are

seldom hatched in incubators. Neither

are guineas. I think you will have the

best success with your turkeys and

guineas if you hatch with hens. ’



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crumbs and rolled oats, and a sprink-

ling of about three per cent sand is a

good starting feed for ducklings. Bread

and milk is also satisfactory. Stale

bread soaked in milk and squeezed





nearly dry is a. good first feed for.

When three weeks old they ,

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fine ‘chicks’ scratch feed, and large-r

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Two thousand three hundred and

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8.011 or Herd owners whose herds av-v

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Ior cash cow in the herd and on yearly





record in a cow testing association.



A Minnesota owner writes: “I think

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A. J. Cramer, United States Bureau.

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h ., used a;.number of farmers to

cons er culling'more closely so they

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year 1:



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Wisconsin follows with 365 herdf

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ed 400 pounds.



Pennsylvania comes next with 338

herds over 300 pounds and forty-eight

over 400 pounds.



Minnesota, 221 herds with nine over

400 pounds. ,



Ohio, 204 herds with twenty-five ov-

or 400 pounds and three over 500

pounds“



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be on record for the full time she is

in the herd and the herd must exceed





. Slates reporting ten or more herds,

averaging 300 pounds or over; ("also

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300 lbs. 400 lbs.

‘ . , or Over - or Over.

.MlChlgafl euro-coo.- 386 ' I 38

_Wisconsin 365 14

Pennsylvania. 338 .48

Minnesota 221 9

Ohio 204 .29

Iowa 174 9

Maryland 134 ..

~IIlino-is 108 9

Virginia 65 6

Idaho.............. 59 6

Indiana............ 56 4

Oregon 51 15

New York 38 .1

New Hampshire 24 3

New Mexico 18 ..

North Dakota 18 ..

Missouri 17 ..

Georgia........... 16 13





EVERY‘ DAY MILK IS USED AN-

OTHER WAY.

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clicks off its twenty-four hours we

find a new'use for milk or some of its

by-products. Now, according to Prof;

S. S. Sommers, of Wisconsin, skim-

milk powder is used in the manufac-

ture of sausage, as’a filler. In this

work the milk powder replaces the cer-

eal starches that have been employed

to prevent the fat of the sausages

from collecting. Naturally, the milk

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Newaygo county, the home of the

first. cow testing association in the

United States, has three associations,

includingthe original one started in

1906.

tion the milk production average was

545 pounds, the butter-fat average, 215.

In 1923, this same association in its

twelfth year, showed an average of

6,755 pounds of milk and 321 pounds

of fat. The association did not func~





 





five cows. The herds vary in size tion during the war because of the

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ELOW are tables showing the ten high butter-fat producing sows in the

respective age classes in seventy- seven Michigan Cow Testing Associa-





tions reperting for the month of October.





crating during October.





Association and Owner.



'Kent-Wcst Alpine, J. C. 1311 ......... . ......

Kent- Grand Bapids, C.‘ Patterson ....................

Allegan- Conu- 'al. Leon ......................

Kcnt- Grand Ba ids, C. Patterson .........

Innis-Balding. 011111 State Hospital ..

Livingsto No. Hugh Manna .......

Mecosta- mus.3Jol1n Bell

Allegan- -Central, Leon Godfrey .............

Berrian- -Cass. Joe Caters. ...........................

Leelanau. D. E. Day..., ...........................





 





There were 101 associations op-





Maturc Cows—Five Years and Over.





U nder Five Years.





Clinton- Eagle, Allen Eaton

Benin-Cass. Joe Catara ..... ' .......................

Oceans, Sam 0'!) Deli ................................

Van‘ Burch-North. Sherman Dairy ............. . .....

Livingston Km 3, N. H. Chestnut

Allegan- -North. George Nowell .

Ingham- Janie. George Higdon .

Osceolo, Arthur Fleming

Macomb No.1. Otto Melts .....

Deacon!) No.1. William School.





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KaleimazobNo.1,Kalamazoo state Hospital ........

Charlevm,1)au Swa annso ...........................



Kent-West Alpine, J. L. Wilson. . ................

IonLLeBeldins. Michigan Itetonnatory ...............





 





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, Kat-Wegmggalr‘ta, H. A. Fisk .......................

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Eaton-West; 1.. E. Campb‘el ........................

.George Atwell .. ............................

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Breed . Date Fresh. Lbs Milk. Lbs. Fat

PB 10 -2-24 2,646 0 100.8

PB H 1.0 -l—24 2,151.0 88.1

Gr. J 9-25—24 1 361.0 80.5

PB H , 10 4—24 2 086.0 85.5

PB H 9-17—24 2,065.0 82.6x

Gr. H" . ...... 2,062.0 82.5

Gr. H 1,320.0 81.8

Gr. J 9-25-24 1,218.0 81.6

PB H —..-24 1,789.0 80.5

PB H 9-11-24 $588.0 80.21.:

Gr. 11 9-25—24 1,863.0 89.4

PB H -. .-2 1,509.0 79.9

PB J 9- 1-24 1,278.0 79.2

(31‘. H 9-24-24 1581.0 71.0

PB H 2,288.0 68.5

2.1790 67.5x

1,566.0 65.7

2,043.0 65.4x

.’ 2,077.0 64.4

1,990.0 63.7

Gr. H 9-30-24 1,689.6 70.91:

Gr. H 0- 9-24 1,289.0 70.9

PB H 8-18-24 1,646.0 67.5

PB H 9—25-24 u' 2009.0 64.3“

PB II 9—14—24 1,714.3 63.4

RB 8-25—24 1,547.0 63.4

PB H 9-27—24 1,074.0 60.3

PB H ' 9-24-24 1,621.6 60.2:

PB J 9—10-24 1,094.0 60.2

PB H 9-30-24 1,919.0 59.5x

Gr. 9—26-24 973.0 67.1

PB H 9-20-24 1,600.0 65.6x

PB G 10— 5—24 1,203.0 64.01x

PB 9-22-24 . 1,300.0 63.7

. H 10- 7—24 1,221.4 63.5

PB H 9-10-24 1,727.0 60.4

PB 9-21-24 1,156.0 60.1

PB G 12-17-23 1,153.0 60.0:

Gr. H . . . . . . . 1,370.0 58.9

1:! 9-23-24 1.1190 58.2





 

 





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So says a prominent Holstein breeder

who Is always careful about his milk-

ing. This is not an exceptional in-

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coming from De Laval Milker users,

such as the following:



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we find that the cows

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this is due to its uniform.

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23 cows by hand, I can just watch the

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ellbred to my herd bull. Blackcap Enlate S. Price

10 cents per lb. One bull (all. valved April 12.1924,

priced for quick sale. MARSHALL KELLY. R. W.

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A Son oi Echo'Syivie King Model

Bred by Traverse City State Hospital.





Born: February 27. 1924. A well grown. nicely

marked cell. 60% white. His seven nearest dams

averse 81.78 lbs. butter and 605.9 lbs. milk in

us.



His Sue: A grandson of May Echo Sylvia from

a 86- lb. Jr. 4- -yr. daughter or a, twice 87-lb.

cow. He now has 42A R. daughters. in-

cluding a 3.-231b. Jr. 3-yr —old.





Nit Dem: At yrs. Butter 7 days. 80.93:

Milk. 6833.. Butter. 305 days. 8001.18: Milk:

18.071.1.Her dam is a 20.8-lb. 4-yr. -old





daughter of a 24- lb. cow

A good bodied cell with straight top line and

level rump.





senator pedigree of Ear Tag No. 643. and list

of sendbulls for sale by MICHIGAN STA TE HERDfi.

Bureau of Animal Industry,

Department C. ,' hissing, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





Matador Sylvia

" Concordia





sire; [Matador Beale Walker. 100 A. B. 0. douch-

teul mto30 to!!! lbs" seven with yearly words

. from 1.000to 1.289 lbs. he a brotherto tII'Sesis

Pieterie Prospect. the world's greatest cow. 87. 881 lbs.

or milk and 1.448 lbs.- of butter in e veal-.1115 dam.

a 32.88- lb. four-year-old daughterof Avon Pontiac

68A. B. 0.deughters.onewith-lareeordol4

lbs..threeo‘verlulbs.. fiveoveraalbsendtenovee

so lbs. and be a son of that wonderful ucer.

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HE lucky tumor in the ton-litter

contest of Indiana" this year was

W. E. Parks. His ten pure-bred Pol-

and-China pigs tipped the scales at





. 2.774 pounds.





Here is how he fed the sow and

pigs. The mothervgot corn, some tank-

age and a little skim-milk, and the

run of a. mixed clover and timothy





' pasture while. she carried her litter.





After farrowin‘g, a thin slop of bran

and shorts was fed for three or four

days. Corn was added on the fifth

day and tankage when the pigs were

9. week old. Feed was gradually in-

creased until the sows were getting a.

liberal feed by the time the pigs were

two weeks old.



Pigs were started to eating on a





slop of shorts and skim-milk, and were





fed by hand in a “creep.” Corn was

added a couple of weeks before wean-

ing. After weaning the pigs were fed

corn, shorts and skim-milk and had

the run of a clever pasture.



“The pigs did exceptionally well

from the start,” said Mr. Parks. “One

big reason was because I kept the

sows and their litters out of the old

hog lots. The pigs were always thrifty





and healthy; none of them were runt-





ed. It pays to keep young pigs where

there is no danger of them becoming





infected with parasites and disease.”





 





JUDGING CONTEST A GREAT SUC-





CESS.





A NEW feature of the farm program





of the Central Michigan Normal

School’s Agricultural Department is





the judging contest recently inaugurat-

ed. This contest is held in connection

with the Annual Boys’ and Girls’ Club

Round-up, and promises to become a.

very popular affair at this institution.





The contestants were divided into





three groups, one consisting of rural





school boys and girls, one of high

school students, and one of farmers.

Silver cups, contributed by local insti-

tutions, were given as [prizes in each





Spotted One Got C/zarcoa/ But His Mate Did Not





last.





 





Judging.





In grain judging, four samples snob ‘





of corn, wheat. eats, beans and pota-





.toes were arranged for the contestants; ’

topass on. 'A class of four "draft'





horses was brought together at the





school and for the other classes of live ’ ,;

stock the contestants moved 111- see- ‘

Dairy cows '





tions to nearby farms.

were judged at the Ray Heyl farm;

dual-purpose cows and swine at Fran-





cisco Farm, and baby beeves and sheep





at the Maple Hill farm of George

Wheeler.



The final placings were made, in

grain, by Professor Duncan, of the

Michigan Agricultural College; horses,

by Robert Wardrope, a. ‘--prominent

judge of horses at leading fairs, and in

the other classes of live stock, by Mr.

Allen, of Alma, a. member of M. A. C.’s

crack judging team 0 last year. There

Were upwards of .100 0 try their hand

in the contest. The winners are an-

nounced below. They must repeat their

good work twice more in succession

before the silver caps they now hold

become their permanent property.



High School Contest.



Grain—St. Louis wins first place and

the cup. Mt. Pleasant takes second

place, with Midland third, and Evart

fourth.



Live Stock—The cup goes to Mt.

Pleasant, with St. Louis standing in

second place, Midland third, and Evert

fourth.



High man in grain, C. Zliet, of St.

Louis. High man in live stock, Lan-

son Thayer, of Mt. Pleasant.



Rural School Contest.





Grain cup goes to Rosebush. Live





stock cup to Forest Hill.

Farmers’ Contest.

Both cups to John C. Wilk, of Alma.





Considerable liquidation has occur-

red in the beef cattle industry, but it

is possible that when the turn comes

it may disclose relatively short sup-

plies and that prices will rise vigor-

ously. Estimates are that the corn

belt will feed out about twenty-five per

cent fewer cattle this season than





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THERE has been much discussion among scientists about the possible



virtues of wood charcoal in animal nutrition; some think it has a value,

We are in the former class. ’

And there are a great multitude of hog men who believe in charcoal





and others think it worthless.





feeding.





The Iowa. Station tried out charcoal this year in apreliminary test, and

Where eighty pounds of charcoal was mixed with twenty pounds

of salt, and self-fed as a. mixture in place of straight Salt, the results were

apparently beneficial under the particular conditions of the experiment. - i

The basal ration self-fed “free-choice” style to both lots consisted of I '

corn grain, mostly yellow, soy-bean oilmeal, and salt. When eighty pounds,

of the salt out of 100 pounds was substituted wtih wood charcoal the pigs

made larger gains, they making 166 pounds while the salt-fed pigs were “do- -«





it did well.





ing” 189 pounds.





The charcoal and sait~fed pigs ate more feed than when just salt was

supplied, and the feed required for the hundred pounds of gain made was





just slightly less.





The charcoal and salt—fed pigs developed more uniformly than the “salt

It took the salt-fed pigs 112 days to go to the 225-p0und weight,

starting at seventy pounds, but the charcoal and salt-fed pigs made the mar-

ket goal in ninety-four days.

Perhaps our farmers are right in regard to charcoal as in regard to





feds. ”





yellow corn.





7 1t noes not my. intellectually or otherwise

”matte about If these motile fie





tale: aha tiling “





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one yearling awe... three two years old: due

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E. A. ROHLFS. Akron. Mleh.. Vol. No. 48 ms.





Hereford meshes.“ mo. mood"





Mar-{germ arm?-

Anxiety blood. priced moderate.‘ E. 1. AVI.

Fremont. Mich.





 





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own price. Name it.

Jersey Farm, Goldwater, Mich.





calves in your

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Glenside Dairy Kins. Duh Also a 11%“ Roe-

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SONS. Croewell. Mleh.





Jerseys For Sale





1:. or M dams. ccredited herd. III Parker

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Also boiler and bull calves from months old.

greghrgfit to ship. 1. J. FOSTER“, d: OSONS. Nile.

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Pricedto sell. Comemlook him over. H1 no room,

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Shorthorn mm ”‘1“. 13 me. “am 11mm.





right. W. B. Medallion. Nowell.- Mich.





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Wednesday, Dec. 17,1924, -





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v'
greater mortality





coking in “ “Improvement in

the save a

kept pace with the increasing richness

. the milk. As a result, a call it al-

trod free access to the cow for the

11174151: two weeks will often overeat.”

- ffl‘he difficulty here is, that there are

not was calves allowed to suckie

« 1 dentin mothers fer two weeks to war-

_ 7, fjranth conclusion as to what the gen-

*" ‘ an effect would be. The other state-

1.5+“, "ment, which cannot be substantiated;

is to the enact that the cow has in—

creased greatly in the richness of her

,' milk. We have been breeding for milk

production, quantity ‘and not quality.

~ The safest bet would be that there

is. the smallest mortality in calves

where they have been left without

restraint and continuously with their

mothers. This reminds us of the man

_who swallOWed two lobsters, two





 





 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





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quarts of, champagne, and a small

glass of buttermilk, and then blamed

: the buttermilk for his headache.

“5111‘: .It cannot be proven ,,that a cow’s

2:... milk is too good for a’cow’s baby.

mind What does kill ‘ the calves is found

WV essentially in the unbalanced ration

.2... N that follows weaning. Not too much

fl“; ._ cream, quite the reverse. Over-feed-

3% ing on cold, frothy, skim-milk. and

~ ' milk substitutes, is depleting the calf .

m ~_ , . population. “Think on these things.” '

B ' , ' —-—George H. Glover. . "

33°35 , J DAIRY NEWS FROM CLOVERLAND.

A a . .

.....;. ' ’ I COW testing association has been

m' ~ . organized in Dickinson county.

m. l \ The" initial membership was twenty-

.A. . l six. A tester has been secured.

3’53 The annual meeting of the Danforth

a l Holstein-Friesian Association was held





at Escanaba recently. This is an as-

sociation participated in by farmers





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:1“: 1 and business men jointly. The founda-

mim- tiOn stock of this association was ob-

tained in the Lower Peninsula at a.

loll. , cost of $3,556, and consisted of sixteen

3: pure-bred cows and one bull. Eleven

1113:. cows of the original purchase are still

bill; the property of the association. The

>___ . 1 calves accruing to the association dur-

ing: ing the year have for theomost part

m... been retained locally. These include

t... seven bulls. The pure-bred sire owned

w by the association has during the past

-_ year become the parent of forty-four

'7; . calves. This means much to the future

_‘ ‘3 ~ of the dairy industry of Delta county.

--- All the farmer members of this asso-

IE . elation are reported to have expressed

;__ ‘.' full satisfaction with the results of the

a first year of the organization.

Onton‘agon county has completed its

Ear" " ' second test for bovine tuberculosis. Of

#4.: i “8.754 cattle examined, there were 111-

:0: "reactors, amounting to 1.1 per cent.

' , The last car of reactors was recently

‘9‘. ’ . shipped out of Gogehic county for

5 - . ‘ slaughter in this county, 7,600 cattle

'm = ‘ 1. were tested the past season, and these

a ’ ; 1 yielded 28!; reactors. A re-liest of in-

;___ ’ fected herds will take place next

nn- 7. 5. sprin. ’

m , The arquette county test has been s

a " completed, and resulted in finding 369

* reactors out 'of 11’, 000 examined. The

“'9 fl reactors have been shipped to a pack-

M ing plant for slaughter. -L. A Chase.

W ‘ Toarrme my son 3111‘ con.





 

 





VENTION AND SALE.





 





 





 

 

 

 





 

 





‘ through *the mill”+he having been an





, e

i1 och. _. classes of live -





ity of the calf has not ,





'ment.





. parts of powdered licorice, ginger, gen-





; _ of a committee of three to

militate (311%th of the meeting





active member of the committee that

handled the entertainment of the con-

vention held in Detroit in 1916. .



~Dudley E. Waters, of Grand Rapids,

and Horace W. Norton, Jr., of Lan-

sing, ' were the other. two members

elected. Mr. Waters—a life-long resi-

dent of Grand Rapids—will be well

suited to handlellocal arrangements in

that, the convention city. Mr. Norton





, has been a director of both National





and State Associations for years; con-

sequently he is in a position to facili-





tate handling of, the business of the ,





National Association attendant at the

1925 convention. ‘



» J. G. Hays, state secretary for the

Michigan Association, will, of course,

function as chief assistant to this gen-

eral committee.



No plans have been given out as yet

except that two whole days will be de

voted to the delegate meeting instead

of one as formerly. .This should make

for an orderly transaction of business,





‘ with opportunity for each delegate to





assist. As to the sale—plans include

selling only sixty head in a one-day

sale, the ofierings to be of such high

quality as to insure an average,sale

price of $1,000 or better.



Suggestions will be gratefully re-

ceived" by the committee in regard to

the convention and sale to be held the

first week of June, 1925, in Grand Rap-

ids, Michigan.





 





CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.

Advice through this column in given free to our subscrib-

Lctterl should state fully the history and symptoms of

each one and give. name and address of the writer. initials

only are published. When a reply by mail in requeetcd the

“nice becomes private practice and 31 null be enclosed.





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Diseased Udder—Bloody Milk.———We

have a very good cow that gives

bloody milk from one quarter of bag.

At times it will clear up and be about

normalp Part of time a bunch can be

felt in udder, occasionally clots of

blood comes with the milk. The udder

is not tender. has not been injured in

any way ‘I can see She has been in

this condition for the past six weeks.

About a yea1 ago she gave bloody

milk, but her bag was free of bunches.

J. B. S., Curran, Mich—Apply equal





parts of tincture of iodine and cam-





phorated oil to bunches once a day.

Rough milking is a common cause of

cows giving bloody milk. Gentle-milk-

ing is one of the home remedies for

this ailment.





Brood Sow Kills Chickens. —Will

you please tell me how to stop a hog

from eating chickens? I have a brood

sow that eats chickens. What can be

done to prevent it without injuring

the sow? F. A.. Eau Claire, Mich.—

After a hog contracts the habit of kill-

ing chickens the animal can never be

trusted; therefore, I know of no bet-

ter plan than to protect the chickens

from occupying the same lot or pen,

with the sow.





Stomach Worms in Sheep. ——Will you

please tell me how to prepare and

give the copper sulphate t1 eatment for

stomach worms in sheep? E. L. M.,

Grass Lake, Mich—If you will dis-

solve four ounces (quarter pound) of

copper sulphate in one pint of boiling

water, with cold water added to this

solution to make a total of three gal-

lons you will then have a one per cent

solution. Th1ee fluid ounces, or per-

haps a little more, is plenty f01 a me

dium-sized sheep. It is good practice

to give a dose of this worm medicine

to sheep! that have stomach worms

every four, or five weeks during the

year. Fast the sheep for twelve or

fifteen hours before commencing treat-

Most sheep will take this med-

ici'ne in their drinking water.



Cough.—I have a pig four months

old that seems to be in good health,

but she has a cough. Please tell me

if she will be all right for butchering.

A. S. L, Pullman, Mich. -—Mix equal





 





 





 





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him. inf soft deed;





   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

   





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prove when you feed the “Old Reliable”





SUGARED





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Boss Dairy Ratibn





Sugared Schumacher Feed (composed of Com, Oats,





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balanced with Oil Meal, Salt and Molasses, it makes a

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fits them for long and heavy milking periods.





Boss Dairy Ration with its 24 "% PROTEIN CON-

TENT furnishes abundant protein concentrates

and increases their milk yields.

two feeds a trial—you will soon see a marked

improvement in your herd and also in your

Read this letter:





Just give these





“We have been feeding your feed to our large

herd of pure bred Guernseys for about three





months.





In addition to a big improvement in





the condition of our cows. they have also shown

a large 1ncrease in milk flow.’





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The Oaks F arm, Cohasset, Mass.





Your dealer can supply you.





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ii” Oats Company





1658 Railway Exchange Bldg.

Address Chicago, U. S. A.





 





 





 

 





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'I'nmand cleans easily. Shims warm





or cold thoroughly. Prom t ship-

ments from stock nearest you. rite for

Mental and” Payment Plan.





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BIG TYPE Chester Whites of show quality. Spring

hours and Ellis. also fall pigs. Priced reasonable.





not akin. from

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either sex. by the neat Boar. The

Fan Pigs Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

of dams. W. E. Livingston. Par-ma, Mich.





 





Franciscom Farm Poland Chlnas





Now ofl'ering herd Boats with the best of

breeding. Also‘ gllts not 1111 to them. ‘ Prices are

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





 





P C Choice Bears and Gilts that will please you.

' ‘ Sired by Peter A. Pan 8; Model Clansnun.

C. E. Garnnnt, Eaton Rapids. Mich.



Poland China boars and gilts.





FOR SALE Best of breeding and choice in-





dividuals. ,. Immune for cholera. Registered free,

WESLEY HILE, lonia. Mich. ’





Large Type Poland Chinas either

For Salem Also Brown Swiss Bulls.

A. A. F ELDKAMP





sManchester, Mich . _.

Poland Clfim E‘oifimizs ”Witt:

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Tuesday, December. 9.



. . 7 Wheat. _

Detroit—No. 1 red. at $1.70; No. 2



red $1.69; No. 3 red $1.66; No. 2 white



$1.70; No. 2 mixed $1.69. .

Chicago—December at $16094; May





1.65 1.65 ; Jul 1.4 1.46

$ Tolédaer—Cjaésh $136935 @611’?7%)%. %





orn.



Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.30; No. 3

yellow $1.27.



' Chicago—December I$1».24@1.24%;



”fiaggil28%@1.28%; July $1.28%@





. Oats. ' .

lggtroit.—-New, No. 2 white 63c; No.

c, , . ,

Chicago—December at 58% @581AC ; '

May 637/8@64c; July 621740.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.34.

Chicago—December at $1.367/8; May

$1.41; July $13114.

Toledo—$1.32.





Barley.

Detroit—Barley, malting at $1.02;

feeding 960.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and prompt

shipment $5.30@5.35 per cwt.

Chicago—Navy, choice $5.75; kid-

news $9.15@9.25.

New York—Choice pea at $6@6.25;

red kidneys $8.75@9.





g. Buckwheat.





Detroit—Milling grade $2.30@2.35.





Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$19.15; alsike $12175; timothy $3.25.

a





. Yo

Detroit—No. 1 timothy $17.50(a;\18;

standard $16.50@17; No. 2 timothy at

$15.50@16; No. 1 clover mixed $15@

‘16; wheat and oat straw $10.50@11;

.5 rye straw $12.50@13.

Feeds.



Detroit—Bran at $36; standard mid-‘

dlings $40; fine do $42; cracked corn

$50; coarse cornmeal $47; chop $40

per ton in 100-"). sacks.



Apples.



Chicago prices on apples: Northern

Spies $7.50@8 bbl; Baldwins $6@6.50;

Jonathans $8.50@8.75 Bbl; Kings $7@

7.25 bbl; Delicious $4.25@4.50 per bu;

;_ Greenings $7.50@8 bbl; Grimes Golden

j‘ and Wagners $5@5.50 bbl; Snows and



Winesaps $7@7.50 bbl.





WHEAT





For three' weeks, wheat prices have

been advancing and declining over a.

fairly wide range, never getting far in

either direction, and showing a broad

sidewise movement. The market is

still in an uncertain mood, but shows

symptoms of being about to leave the

range it has covered so thoroughly,

and of entering higher ground. Diges-

tion of the large amounts of wheat

put afloat in October and early Novem—

ber seems to be the explanation of the

market’s behavior. The Argentine har-



. vest is just getting well started and

shipments of new crop can not reach

Europe much before the end of Feb-

ruary. In the interval of nearly three

months until that time, importing

countries Will need around 150,000,000

bushels of wheat, depending on the

short voyage countries, chiefly the

United States and Canada.



Domestic demand is gradually taper-

ing off as the peak of the grinding

season has probably been passed.

Flour buyers are buying only from

hand to mouth. The new crop of

wheat needs moisture in many sec-

tions but forecasts of rain and snow

have allayed apprehension on that

score. Comprehensive surveys indi-

cate an increase of about five per cent

in the acreage.





RYE





While deliveries of rye on December

contracts were heavy, they went into

strong hands and they are being mov-

ed east forexport during the Winter

and spring. New export sales have



' been small in the last week. Prices

have been showing weak tendencies,

but are stiffening up again and the



underlying statistical strength will



, probably prevent any decline of con-



- sequence. As soon as stocks on ocean

passage become smaller, larger export

sales may be anticipated.





CORN





Corn has shown more strength than

any other grain in the last week. Re-

ceipts are moderate, the cash demand



,' rhas improved, and thegnegligible de-.

liveries On December contracts have,

' tendedfto enthuse Speculative-semi»





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Buyers are invites darkas to the. kind

of :winter ,mov‘ei‘nenb‘of coin that ..

occur. The; grain disposal or hogs

means that «re ng requirements will

be reduced, but, in spite of such econ-

omy, other live stock :pwlll take all the

corn in many sections. This may mean

a fairly broad feeding demand, both

locally and at distributing centers. At

present: receipts at primary markets

are not up to the average for this sea-

son of the year; * . , ’

, OATS



oats prices have shoWn no inde-

pendence but have been rather strong

with corn. Primary receipts have

changed but- little in the last two

weeks while primary shipments are

lighter.





   





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export sales are

seldom mentioned. ’ , ‘





SEEDS '





Seed markets are about the same as

a week ago. Distributors show more

inclination to wait and see how keenly

consuming demand will develop for

seed at the advance in prices over

those prevailing during the past three

years. Receipts of cloverseed are still

light. Imports have been small thus

far, although some French seed is said

to be on its way tothis country. Tim-

othy seed has had a fair recovery from

therecent low point. Alsike clover

has not held up as well as red clover

because of large imports from Canada.

The department of agriculture reports

that about 50 per cent of the red clo-

ver and 70 per cent of the alsike had





been sold by growers up to November~ ‘





24. The tendency seems to be to hold

seed as growers apparently expect the

advance in prices to continue.





FEEDS





The millfeed market is stronger

than a week ago and the decline in

oilmeals seems to have been checked.

Speculative interests are the largest

buyers as the consuming trade is hold—

ing off. Mixers also have been con-

tracting for delivery after the first of

the year. The output of all kinds of

feeds is rather large and the storage

stocks are fairly heavy.





HAY





The hay market is practically un-

changed from a week ago. The de-

mand shows slight improvement but

trading is slow and timothy prices are

slightly easier. Alfai'fa_ prices are





will, .enougi'i to ““0328





Exports have bedome very ..

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am; vala‘. Open , “first as rod .

hay consumptienqn host Sections ~ - d

pasturag'e hash

'cently' inf'many”

ions. ' Drouth; however, has been a

factor, particularly in New . England,

Mississippi. and, Louisiana. In the

southwest,“

ually good fall‘pasture. _ ._

POULTRY AND EGGS ~

A decline of three cents a dozen in

’one day featured the fresh egg market

last week; The active holiday'demand

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ers. The resulting weakness .culminat-

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to slowly decline with occasional





of , fresh eggs are





swings.upward as cold weather cuts,





down receipts temporarily.

Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 48@

53c; dirties 32@33c; checks 31@32c;

fresh firsts 48@550; ordinary firsts 35

@400. Live poultry, hens 210; spring-

ers 22c; roosters 14%0; ducks 16c;

geese 17c; turkeys 210.

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and

graded 49@52c; storage 36@380. Live

poultry, heavy springers 22@23c; light

spi‘ingers 18c; heavy hens 23c; light

hens 15c; roosters 15@160; geeSe 18

@190; ducks 20@210;. turkey-s 30c.





BUTTER .





Butter prices“ last week lost over

half of their recent gains of around 12

cents. The Chicago market has been

above a parity with New York for two

weeks, which has induced shipments

back from the east; Consumptive de-

mand is showing effects of the higher

prices. Many dealers believed that

prices had advanced too rapidly and

were slow to buy ahead of actual

needs, so that the reaction in' the 'mar-

ket was not unexpected. Demand for

medium and undergrades is restricted

by the use of storage butter. With-

drawals at the four leading markets

are almost twice as large as a year

ago so that the surplus over last year

is being more rapidly reduced.



Prices on 92-score creamery were’:

Chicago 43@431,§c; New York 450; In

Detroit fresh creamery in tubs sells

for 37@41c. j





 





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Tuesday, December 9.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 50,000. Market is mostly

!5@250 higher than Monday’s average.

Best lights and slaughter pigs largely

500 up; big packers are inactive; tops

are quoted at $9.85; bulk 210 to 325-

lb. butchers $9.25@9.75; 170 to 190-lb.

average $8.35@9; bulk 140 to 150-lb.

$7@7.75; strong weight killing pigs

steagiy 8to $6.50; bulk of packing sows

7.8 @ . ’ ,





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Cattle.





Receipts 14,000. Mostly killing class-

es, moderately active and steady’ to

strong compared to Monday’s close.

Stots are higher; short-fed steers and.

she stock are predominating kinds;

finished yearlings are very scarce,

someheld around $15, several $12.50

@13.75; vealers are strong; stots are

higher at $9.50@10.\



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 13,000. Fat lambs are most-

ly 15@250 higher; early bulk $15.25@

15.50; early tops.$15.75; best are held

higher; clipped lambs $12.50; .fat

sheep and feeding lambs are steady;

handyweight fat ewes at $8.25@8.50;

feeding lambs $14.25@15.





DETROIT





Cattle.





Receipts 285. Market steady. ' ‘

Good to choice yearlings " ' ‘





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dryfed..'.............$.9.50 10.75

Best hell??- Steers, dryvfed . 7:50 9.50

Handyweight butchers . . " .8. 3.50

Mixed steers and heifers _ 5. 6.25

Handy light butchers . L 4; , 5.25-

Light butchers o o .41. a o o ‘3‘ ' 4.25

Best cows -4; 2.5.50

gfiutcher‘gows, ; .‘~. . 3,. ' 3. - 4. .

13.91787} .‘ifsiu‘y ‘ f 3'





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. weights ss.5oe9.25;





Receipt. 400.. 4'ch "a 3172:."





Canners ................

Choice bulls . -, ....... . . .

Heavy bologna bulls . . .

Stock bulls ........ . . .



Feeders ..........

Stockers ........

Milkers . .





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. . .............. $4

Veal Calves. ,

Receipts 412. Market slow.

est ........... ‘. . , . . . .$11.50@12.00



Others .................. 3.00@11.00



Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2,058. Market 500 higher.



Best lambs . . . . . . . .$15.00 15.50





0-1500





Fair lambs .............. 11.00%1350

Light to common ....... 8.00 9.25

Fair to good sheep .. . ; . . 6.00@ 7.50

Culls and common . . . . 2.50 4.00

Buck lambs «7.00 14.25

‘ H ogs. ’ ‘ .

Receipts 2,610. Market is 25@50‘c

higher. ' g . - ‘ ' '

Mixed~ hogs, heavy y’rkes.$ , ,’ 9.50

Pigs ..... . .4 ........ . . . . 6.50

Light yorkers . . . ‘. . . . . . . . 7.50

R‘oughs ............ . . . . . 8.25

Good yorkers............ 9.25

Stags ..' . . . . . 5.00@ 6.00

BUFFALO ,

* - Hogs. g . ,

Receipts . 7 .030. Market is closing





steady. Heavies . $





9.25@9.50; few at

$9.60; medium





$9.25 9.50:1" li t

11.8 m. #5

8.50; pigs $6@

roughs $7.50@7.

' ‘ igattie. . "

Receipts 150. isza‘rket steady. " Z ‘





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.nly.available* in; producinee’c,,,,...‘,i .

Prices. areamd‘ns. the lowest 1 L. ..

enced in recent years, .yhowevergjj q,

some further recovery: com-ye

take place. . Northern roundlwhitefi 4

s. No. 1, are quoted at_’9-0c@,$l.lq.gper .

1102 pounds in, the Chicago cuisines-s i

e. . ‘ ' ;





WOOL . , ,

Wool prices continue to advance al- “

tho, h the mills are confining their,

pure as’es chiefly to immediate needs. V.

The limited supply of wools available

tends torestrict the volume or trading. ' "

markets are strong asEuro-

pean spinners are ready‘to pay more

than the American market will permit '

when the duty is taken into account.'

so that the quantities purchased to

come to this «country at recent British

and Australian sales have been small.





 

 

 

 





 





 





   

 





 

 





 





More\has been taken by American,

buyers in Australia 'than elsewhere.

Contracting wool on the sheep’s beet

in the west has taken another spurt

and prices up to 48 cents have“ been

paid in Montana and Wyoming. Est}





BEANS



Lack of cold weather has been a ’

bearish factor in eastern, bean mar- «

kets.' The weakness, however, is not ,

sufficiently pronounced toforce sellers,

to cut prices. At New York pea beans '

are quiet and easy ataround $6 per

cwt. In Chicago, the jobbers report

the trade firm and favorable, due to a

somewhat better consuming demand.

The ‘demand for canned beans appears

to be on“ the 'increase- ‘to the disad- .

vantage of the dry .beans. -Thisgmay

be an argument in'favor of advertis-





ing.

GRAND RAPIDS





The turning point in the eggmarket

was believed near this week. Produce

dealers were nervous early this week

and there was a wide range in their

paying prices. Quotations as follows:..

Eggs. 52@55c; by retailers 55@65c;

poultry, weak; light demand for fowls,





' ducks and geese; heavy springers in.





'of potatoes, but buying was





' Veal bad ready sale a





' slowly.

. . ‘ Apples.





- onions $1 dozen bunch





‘ ungr-





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15c.»

@s‘l lam-turnips Slfll-Se'bn: kale 50!: " .

qbu; honey. $1.25 per 5-ib. pail? . ? 3.3 l

retail 70@85c; 2inane , wounds 35(6)





good demand at 18@22c.lb‘; light in- ,

quiry for turkeys around 280 lb; pork; , '

easier, mostly at ’12%@13c ib;; veal-

weak at- 11@121,§c;. carrots higher.~ :

mostly 75c bu; onions 75c bu; .celery, _

unsettled at 20@500 dozen; spinach '

$1.50 bu; beans white $4.65@4.75_cwt:



red kidney $7.50@8.25 cwt; wheat at . ,

$1.47 bu; 'buckwheat.$1.75 cwt. - t;





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Offerings were liberal but buying

was not, very active and prices were a. .

little lower. A large supply of Green- ‘

ing apples found slow sale, while red ‘,

apples were'more active. Hothouse .

radishes, lettuc and tomatoes were

cleaned up rea 11y. Cabbage, squash. -.

carrots, turnips and parsnips moved

slowly, even at out prices. f Spinach

and other greens were almost at ‘3' ,

standstill. There was a heavy supply _

tlig

mostly at 60@65c a bushel. Thor-3‘,

was a fan- demand for litre poultryrr'

, nd small dressed ‘

pigs sold quickly, while hogs moved





fancy, $1@3 bu; f‘beets 506; L.

750 bu; cabbage 5'0@60¢ bu; red 60@

65c bu ;- carrots 60@'i5,c bu; cauliflower .

$1.50@2.25 bu; . rec ’celery 50@'l5cf

dozen; dry onions Oc@$1 bu; green ‘

3 g , es; rootuplarsley

65@75c:j‘bu;—;. early 50c dozen b 'che‘s; .

parsnipsL;75c@$fl bu; pears 50c@$1 bu;

potatoes,~%gz'1, 6062650 bu; No. 2 and

ed, @60c bui.Dumpki'ns 606

rd .





:1 bu; Hubbard squash





4





75¢ "bfi‘

ach' 90c@





255,315; retail ' so. crisps

wholesale :20@25'c; retail 22‘

ducks .28@-800; dressed? '

realistic; dressed smelt





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‘I' n E rs Junib'r Corn Regions

. First, IfynnW ley, ”Rushton; 2nd,

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._‘ G9et‘z, Blissfleld. .

' i-‘llnt 06111, Region 2 '

"' ‘ F‘l‘iést, R. F. Jewett: 2nd.- A. W. Jew-

ett, Jr.; 3rd, L. H. Laylln; 5th, A. E.

Hilliard; 6th L. T. Lasenby;,9th, Lynn

Jewell, Leslie; 13th, John C. Wilk, St.

Louis, 14th, IrC. Moody, Forest Hill;

15th, J. A. Wllk, Alma.





Soft Red Winter Wheat.



First, C. D Finkbeiner, Clinton; 2nd,

John C. Wilk; 3rd, W. Jewett, Jr.;

4th, Lynn Jewell; 5th, L. T. Lasenby;

6th, A. J. Lutz, Saline; 7th, Warren

Finkbeiner; 8h R. F. Jewett; 10th,

L. H. Laylin; 81iu1, Harry M Martin,

Clinton; 12th ..A Wilk; 13th, Ted J.

.‘Wilk; 14th, A. .Hilliard; 15th, Ralph





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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, ,Finkbeiner, Saline; 19th, Everett

In," Lindsley, ’Saline; ’20111, Fred Mohrs

wk hardt, Saline; 21st, Charles Konnot,

m Ewen; 22nd, Frank L. Houghton, Alto;

,3. 23rd, David E. Hanson, Berlin. ’

53. Hard Red Winter Wheat.

Twenty-fifth, John C. Wilk .

Soft White Winter Wheat.

First, A. W. Jewett, Jr.; 3rd, Lynn

1* Jewell; 4th, L. H. Laynn;.5th,’ .

ar- Lasenby. '

lot ‘ Oa ts, Region 2.

m“; Fifth, L. H. Laylin; 0111, A. w. Jew-

.” ett Jr.,; 7111, Lynn Jewell; 9th, A. 11

>3: Hilliard; 10th, Henry McCarty, Grand

9 ' Rapids;" 11111, R. F. Jewett; 12111, L.

"d‘. T. Lasenby; 17th, Roy L. Bow, Sagi-

a 'naw; ‘18th, Harry M. Martin; 19th,

a; Paul Clement Britten; 20th, Wlarren

5‘ 4 Finkbeiner, Clinton; 2131, n. v. Bow,.

3 Saginaw; 22nd c. D’ Fink’bemer; 23111:

G. P. Phillips, Bellevue; 24th, Farley

» Bros., Albion, 26th, Fred Mohrhardt,

Saline; 28th, Richard Wooden, Han-

over; 29th, L. E. Wooden, Hanover;

let 30th, George W. Ernest, Clinton. -

00 Flax, Region 2. -

91! First, A. W Jewett, Jr; 2nd, L. T.

Bil? -‘ Lasenby 3rdR L. H. Laylin; 4th, Lynn

. ‘ ~ “wen-11111, ..F Jewett; 7th, A. .E

c; , ; , Haunts:

ls, 7 t

in. 7 , . 4. First, G orge and eL. G. Hutzler, So.

n- '1 Manitou; n‘d L. H. Laylin; 4th, A W.

1‘. Jewett. Jr.; 6th, L. T. Lasenby; 7th,

a!" R. F Jewett; 8th, A. E. Hilliard, 12th,

’1‘.“ Melvin J. Smith, ringport; 13th,

Y. Lynn Jewell; 16th, Jo n C. Wilk; 19th,





1 " , ' . ~ J. A. was; 20th, Ted J. Wilk; 21st,

Verold Gormley, Newberry.



,4 , , Six Rowed Barley.



l Twelfth, R. F. Jewett; 13th, L. H.

~ Laylin; 19th, A. E. Hilliard; 20th, Fritz

Mantey, Fairgrove; let; Lynn Jewell;

22nd, A‘W. Jewett, Jr.



.. Alfalfa Hay.



First, A. W. Jewett, Jr., grand cham-

pion; 2nd, Lynn Jewell; 3rd, L. T. Las-

enby; 4th, L. H Laylin. ~



Red Clover Hay.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





. First, A. W. Jewett, Jr.; 2nd, L. T.

1. Lasenby; 3rd, Lynn Jewell; 4th, L. H.

Laylin. -

~ , Timothy Hay.

‘ . - First. A. W. Jewett, Jr.; 2nd, L .H.

. Laylin; 3rd, L. T. Lasenby; 4th, Lynn

. Jewell; 5th, A. E. Hilliard. '

2 ‘ - - Mixed Hay. o

First, L H. Laylin, (reserve cham-

‘ pion); 2nd, A. W. Jewett, Jr., ' 3rd,





 





* Charles La‘ughlin, Dansville;



E. Hilliard; A5th, L. T. Lasenby.



‘ Any Other Hay.

First, L H. Laylin; 2nd, A. W Jew-





: ,ett, Jr... .

~ Red Clover Seed. .

TWelfth, Albert Hagelshaw, Union





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Fifth, A. J. Lutz, Saline.

_ Yellow. Soy-Beans, Region 1 and 2.

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. ' excellent and' a large nifinber of farm-

. are sold direct to outside buyers. The

5 bay market is very slow and a num-





' Lambs. by





Arbogast, Union City; 16th, Sebastian





 





"overseed. Apple crop

Potato. crop





ber of farmers are baling and storing.

e train loads are begin-9

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Lamb eeders are a little uncertain as

to feed on account of the high price

of corn. A few cars of feeding cattle





have gone on feed. Farmers are be- ,





ginning to take more interest in win-





‘ 11111: dairying after three years at low





k,et and good cows are. in demand.





rmers generally are well satisfied





with returns from the sugar beet crop.

While the tonnage was not large the

testwas high.





 





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Colds. Give “ HN'S” to" be the sick





and en The stand rd remedy

for 30%;. Give “SPOHN’S” for Dog Dis—

temper. “ cent. “and $1.20 at drug stores.

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DETROIT BEEF C0.,

Detroit, Mich.





DRESSED CAI/V ES

DRESSED HOGS

SUCKLING PIGS

LIVE POULTRY

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SEEDS—New Crop "Knees" Alfalfa 87. 00 and 89. 50

ML. also Sweet Clover, Bed Clover. Alsike. Timothy.

Sudan. Cane, Kaffir, Mlllets. Seed Corn. Boy Beans,

flow Peas. Prices, Bags Free. Send for cir—

cular and samples and Sue Money. Solomon Seed

Co. .. Solomon. Kansas.





CHEVROLET.TRUCK-1922 Model F. B. One Ton.

Selfrstarter. Electric Lights. Closed Cab. Platform

body. Good tires and in good mechanical condition.

$4300. Will trade even for good team of horses 5m

10 years old. weighing 2. 800 or over. People‘ s Milling

(‘0. . Muskegon. Mich.





 





 





 





PURE CLOVER HONEY—5 lb. mil $1.25. by parcel

post. A. R. Kirkmun, Walhalla. Mich.





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MAKE MORE MONEY on a small farm in San Joa-

you can work outdoors

all the year. Splendid opportunities here for the man

of moderate means. Twenty and 40- -acre farms produce

alfalfa abundantly. Dairying, hogs and poultry make

good returns: and staple varieties of fruits yield depend—

able profits. a combination 01 these means a well— balanc-

ed farm with good inc ome throughout the year. W Inter-

less California offers mu<h to the man looking for a

country where he can get the most out of life. Cli—

mate is delightful with long growing seasons; wonder-

ful roads; excellent schools. Nearby markets and

cooperative marketing associations all'ord profitable

outlets for all produce A small one family farm.

cutting out high labor costs, insures suc<ess. There

are no winter handicaps. San Joaquin Valley illus~

trated folder mailed free on request. C. Sea-

graves. General Colonization Agent. Santa Fe Ry. .,

912 Railway Exchange, Chicago. Ill.





 





OREGON—Most Dependable Farm Conditions in Unit-

ed States. Fruits, grains, dalrying. livestoek, poultry,

hay—all do well in Oregon. A healthful well bal-

anced climate. Mild winters: cool summers no de—

structive storms. General crop failures unknown in

half a century. Hundreds of farm families settling

here every year Good, highly productive land at very

reasonable prices. Banking and business interests

united with farmers to provide markets and make ag—

riculture a success. It costs you nothing to get the

facts. Write today for FREE official bulletins to

Land Settlement Dept, Room 017, Portland Chamber

of Commerce. Portland. Oregon.





 





SO. MICHIGAN BARGAIN—Equipped Farm Near

Town: $1. 300. Every convenience at hand: 10 acres

assuring comfortable easy living from small farming.

poultry, fruit. vcgetables:.6 acres tillable. creek— water-

ed pasture. variety choice fruit grapes, berries; only

mile beautiful lake; elm shaded 0'- room house. sub—

stantial barn, poultry house, etc. Owner must sell.

$1.300 gets it, horse (ows.





poultry vehicles, tools.





corn, fodder. potatoes. apples. etc, included. Part

cash. Details pg. 135 big Bargain Catalog illus.

money making farms and business chames Free.

Strout Farm Agency, 205BC Kresge Bldg. Detroit.





Michigan.





 





FOR QUICK SALE—58 acres. or house. part at third

value: barn. fruit, high woven fences, joins Lansing

suburbs, sold for $500M: acre. Also flne home and

garage near M. A. C. for sale on your own terms.

Also 50 acres with good 7- -room house. fruits, etc.,

adjoining city 5.000 Ionia (‘o.. $3.750;ha1f cash.

Mr. Arnold. 251 Gunson St., East Lansing. Mich.





 





FOR SALE~220~ 8(1‘0 farm in Jackson (30., on state

road 100 acres heavy loam 3011,40 acres heavy oak





 





 





 





 





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Rural Poultry Farm, mill ”H11,"





PATENTS





"Record of Invention"

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Write for my free Guide Books

“How to Obtain a Patent" and

"Invade: and Industry" and

blankbelore disclosing inven-

or sketch of your invention for In-

Promptness assured. No char 9 for above

information Clarence A. O’ Brien. 39955th

Lawyer, 656 Security Bank Building. directly

across street from Patent Office. Washington. D. C.





Holmes, Stuwe (30.2429 Riopelle St.





Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Bogs. calves.

sonltry, Live It Dressed. Provisions. etc. Corres on-



once Snlicited. Ref. Wayne County a Home Savmgs

Det the“ Mich. Cherry 7&4





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Finely oPulverixcd High Calcium Limestone. eitherln

bulk bus. and: sold in Michigan.





€511,551 Stone” Co, Indian River,Mich.

massage... and Homes





a .SPLENDID B RGAINS.

a... GHAFHIR £60.. Ina, Rlcbmo Va.





- ‘ SHEEP





F e ' Shropshiros For Sale. Ten Bred Ewes.

WW Choice Yearling rams and ram lambs sired

by McKen-ow’s Senator‘s Double Grandson 3539- 480-

168. E. F. Goodfellow, R. l. Ovid. Mich" Phone 43-5.





tio‘ns. Bend

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. 9 . INCUBATORS

To ‘1; “SWAP" your little old incubator for "New Ohio"

E 1y 7.19 quality hatchet. Hatch bigger hatches—hatch better

. CHI CK chilccks. Get“?d bliigbgeer, b‘efiter machine. Unusually low

, ' pr es now 1111 owance or our 100. 250,

Buy or; CHIC 3'. 31101111114109.8110. 102:3M1800 egg sizes. yNos better ma—

— ew as g Bestguarautee. Big illustrated

Our monthly bulletins 9" folder gives lull particulars. Geo. J. Wettschursck.

feedin, housing, culling and Lafayette. Ind.

care poultry. Send name,





 





IOBACCO

HOMESPUN TOBACCO: Chewing five pounds 81 50:

ten $2. 50; smoking five pounds 31. 25: ten82. 00 pipe





free, pay when I',eceived satisfaction guaranteed. Co-

operative Farmers' Paducah lientutky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, five pounds,

ten, $3.00; twenty. $5.25. Smoking, five pounds,

$1.25; ten. $2.00: twenty. $3.50. Pipe Free. Money

if not satisflcd. United Tobacco Growers,

l’aducuh.





$1.75:





Ky.





 





TOB ACCO —Thrcc— year- old leaf, 8 lbs chewing $2. (10; 8

smoking $22018 second smoking 351.40.1’113 fox to

bamo and pest-age when IccciIed. Old ‘liomcspun

Co.. Ilawcsvillc, Ky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing,

$2. 75. Smoking, 5 lbs.

when received. 14‘.





5 lbs., $1.50;

$125; Mild, 10. $1.50.

Gupton, Bardwcll. Ky.





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PET STOCK





FOB. SALE—High class Foxhounds: Beagle hounds.

Coonhounds: Bloodh and Setters; partly and

"11- Jinks“: Bunnies of all breeds; no money in ad-

vance ship C. 0. D. Stamp for booklet. Landlo-

Kennels. Mohnton. Pa.





”BEETS—I specialize in raising ferrets. Thirty

you-3’ experience. November prices, females 83. 50 each;

males 82.76 each. One dozen. 330. Yearling females

noel-l rat catchers $5.0 (leach. Will ship 0. 0. D.

Wench book free. Levi Farnsworth, New London.

HIPS—dram a pm German Police male anda

pure bred Collie female. make excellent farm and

watch dog and Ideal Christmas gifts. Order now. I’ ll

ship for Christmas. Price reasonable. Ransom Peters

11.2. Ithaca, Ml ch.





 





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Mush wage

Rm ‘ boldest ma 1.1m POULTRY

Words the J In. WANTED-Levery week. 1 000 «broom sad mugs.

own...” “.8 weight 155 to 2 lbs Also m hens. won my and

........ .8. , 3.“ price for these birds. Writef particulars to last.

11........ a4 ‘ :1: Coast Poultry ('11.. 100 Alfred Sh. Detroit, 111m.

1........1. ,. .

t2 {'2’ :a COCKEBELS—Hens. GeSse. Ducks. mm; .11 pm-

1.. l.“ f.- clnal bleeds. State Farms Association. Kalamam

.. Ll .OI 7.9!

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{a 3': :22. 532111011 mmgnm Barred Rock. Cocks. (Barbuda.

1.“ l... .9.“ Prices Reasonable. L. Wyndham.

m :3 or........ us {'3 Tim. 01110.

“I ”g g: 4 222$: :3 {a 1wAN ood 111:1:de 3'1 C ted 11 13!:

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MISCELLANEOUS





 





“TANCRED” WHITE LEGIIORNS—Buff Orpingtons.

Barred Rmks, State Fair Winners. Geese.

Fenner Bailey, Montgomery, Mich.





 





BARRED ROCK COCKERELS—Thompson Strain. 82

to :5. Harry Goodfellow. Sparta. Mich.





WHITE LEGHORN Cockerels $4 each 815 for six.

Grace Millikan, Fenton. M11911.





“'HITE ROCK HENS and Pullets. Pure—bred. Lay—

ing strain. $1.50 ear-h. Jayne & Brown. Fenton. Mich.





PURE-BRED, S. C. R. I. B. Cooker-915. W. L.

Randal. Saline, Mich.





 





 





 





 





SILVER LACED and White Wyandotbe quality cock—

ercls. Browning’s Wyandotte Farm. Portland. Mich.

LARGE Barred Rock Cookerels. $5.00.

Union City. Mich.





FOB SALE—8. C. B“! Leghorn cockerelo.

Webster, Bath, Mich.





J. ‘Bsrnum,





 





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TURKEYS





FOR SAL E—Thoroughbred White Holland Turkeys.

toms $7. hens $5. Thoroughbred Flemish Giant Rab-

bits. $2 each. Leonard Norton. R. 1, Three Rivers.

Mich.





 





 





AMERICA'S BEST Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Blue

Ribbons from leading shows. Featuring one of Amer—

ica‘s largest toms. Write Johnson Turkey Farm.

Six Lakes. Mich.





 





GIANT BRONZE TURKl-IYsfiGold Bank

Choice heavy birds. large bone. well marked.

faction guaranteed. Mrs. Perry Stabbins.

Mich.





Strain.



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TUItIilIYS-\I. Bronze, B. Red. Narragansett, White





 





Ilcl. Hens Toms Pairs and tries. no kin. Order

early. Vi alter Bros. Powhatan Point. O



NARAGANSETT TURKEYS~T0ms $12; Hons 38.

White Wyandotte Coekerels. Mrs. Wm. B. Nowell.





OnstEd. Mich.





 





PURE- BRED Giant Bronze turkeys. hens $7, toms 88.

Unrfilated. Until Dec.15. Ida Davey. Ellsworth.

\Iic





 





EDGEWOOD BRONZE TI'RKEYSm—Pure-bred.

orous and lax-gs 2+pouml cockercls in Nov.

$10, hens so. For sale until Dec. 20. Mrs.

Case. Benzonia. Mich.





Vig-

Tome

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MICHIGAN‘S BEST Giant Bronze Turkeys.

healthy birds, 10 years breeding from America's best

strains. N. Evelyn Ramsdell Ionia. Mich.





I‘URIZ- BRED Giant Bronze Turkeys. Big— boned.

)Soung Lihogoughbreds. \lrs. Millie Dillsworth North

tar Ic





Strong'





 





PURE- BRED Mammoth Bronze Turkeys

birds from choice stock. Mrs.

damn, Mich. .





tine large

Ralph Sheik. Cale-





 





PURE- BRED Mammoth Bronze Turkms,





toms and

hens. Earl 8: Merle Phelps. Dowaglac,





Mich.





 





PURE—BRED Bourbon Red Toms.





$8.00 each.

Fausnnugh, (.‘hcsan'mg, Mich.





Fmed





 





PU RE- BRLD Giant Bronze Turkus. Large, \ igorous





 





 





 





 





Birds. choiu 5101-le J. [4,111 Bloomingdale. Mich.

MAMMOTH BRO\ZI£ ’lqlllfli‘lb‘ \en fine stock.

Mrs. Eugebe Itamsdell, Hammer, M'nh.

NARRAGANSETT Turkeys. l’rices right. higher after

Jan. 1. Ernest Clement, Innia, Mich.



FOR SALI‘ «Pure—bred Bourbon Red Tuxkcys. H. 0.

1tuggles.1\lilf01d. 311411.



PURE —BRE D large “'him Holland turkeys Toms $8.





and hens $7. Darwin 1):.111, Milford. “I: h





FULL BLOOD White Holland Turkeys for sale. Hazen

\V'elch, Elwell, Mich





 





AGENTS WANTED





AGENTS-Be independent, make big profit without

ioap, toilet articles and household necessities.

fine sample case otter. Ho— Ro- C0,.

Louis, Mo.





 





Get

27 (11 Dodier. St.





BIG MONEY Selling New Iloustbold Cleaning Set.

Washes and (llltF windows. Sheep.» scrubs. mops.

All (omplete only $" .95. OH r half profit. VVrita





IIurpIr Brush \\01k.~, 173 3rd St. Fairfleld. Iowa.





 





HELP WANTED





 





MEN WANTED for auto work. The auto repair bus-

iness pays from $50 to $150 a week. steady work no

luyoifs, no strike<, plenty of big jobs open. Youc can

train for a big pay job in 8 weeks. Two big training

shops—send today for my 64- p go free book and spo-

(is! 0891. including free board nd free railroad fare

to my nearest 3111001. Write now. Address school





nearest \ou. MI-Smcney Auto, Tra tor and Electrical

Schools. Dipt 3“10 M Swot-m Blng Cincinnati.

or McSwecm Bldg, (' levcland.





 





WANTED»Farmer and udl’e to take care of Driflm /

shooting 1111 some. Must be experienced in dqu and



Poultry raising as well as truck farming. Must have



knowledge of hunting on both land and water. When



writing state Irfcrem-s, also age. and salary expected.

Box No. 789. Michigan Farmer.





 





WANTED—Married man without children to run farm

gear Detroit. Reference required. Box .06 Micki son

firmer.





 





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SITUATIONS WANTED





WANTED-Position as foreman on Dairy farm.

perlenced. with lots of references. Box 708 Michigah

Farmer.





 





 





WANTEIFnght work around. farm or overseeing

duties. Understands farming themshly.’ Best_ 0!

references. Box 252. Michigan Farmer. .- .
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unusually durable. The materials and worktnan-





lship in Firestone Boots are the result of 40 years ~

‘of progress in manufacture. ‘ ' ,



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{you buy. from carries the genuine FirestOne line.





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