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' til he was a’temyeam'ild schoolboy in

that incredibly Dutch district south-

west of Chicago known as New Hol-

lmid and later as High Prairie. At

ten, by dint of fists, teeth, copper-





toed boots, and temper, he earned the ‘





right to be called by his real name,

' Dirk DeJong. Now and then, of course,

, the nickname bobbed up and had to be

r'subdued in a brief and bitter skirm-

ish. His mother, with whom the name

had originated, was the'worst offender.

When she lapsed he did not, naturally,

use schoolyard tactics on her. But he

sulked and glowered portentously and

refused to answer, though her tone,

when she called him So Big, would

have melted the heat of any but that

natural savage, a boy of ten.

. The nickname had sprung from the

early and idiotic question invariably

_ put to babies and answered by them,

with infinite patience, through the

years of their infancy.



Selina DeJong, darting expertly

about.her kitchen, from washtub to

baking board, from stove to table, or,

if at work in the fields of the truck

farm, straightening the numbed back

for a moment’s respite from the close-





set rows of carrots, turnips, spinach,





or beets over which she was laboring,

would wipe the sweat beads from nose

and forehead with a quick duck of her

head in the crook of her bent arm.

Those great fine da‘k eyes of hers

would regard the chil perched imper-

manently on a little heap of empty

potato sacks, one of which comprised

his costume. He was constantly de-

taching himself from the parent sack

heap to dig and burrow in the'rich

warm black loam of the truck garden.

Selina DeJong had little time for the

expression of affection. The work was

always hot at her heels. You saw a

young woman in a blue calico dress,

faded and earth—grimed. Between her

eyes was a driven look as of one who

walks always a little ahead of herself

in her haste. Her dark abundant hair

was skewered into a utilitarian knob

from which soft loops and strands

were constantly escaping, to be pushed

back by that same harried ducking

gesture of head and bent arm. Her

hands, for such use, were usually too

crusted and inground with the soil

into which she was delving. You saw

a child of perhaps two years, dirt-

streaked, sunburned, and generally

otherwise defaced by those bumps,

bites, scratches, and contusions that

are the common lot of the farm child

of a mother harried by work. Yet, in

that moment, as the woman looked at

the child there in' the warm moist

spring of the Illinois prairie land, or in

the cluttered kitchen of. the farm-

house, there quivered and vibrated be‘

tween them and all about them an

aura, a glow, that imparted to them

and their surroundings a. mystery, 3.

beauty, 21 radiance.



“How big is baby?” Selina would

demand, senselessly. “How big is my

man?”



The child would momentarily cease

to poke plump fingers into the rich

black loam. He would smile a gummy

though slightly weary smile and

stretch wide his arms. She, too, would

open her tired arms wide, Wide. Then

they would say in a duet, his mouth

a puckered pink petal, hers quivering

with tenderness and a certain amuse-

ment, “So-o-oo big!” with the voice

soaring on the prolonged vowel and

dropping suddenly with the second

word. Part of the. game. The child

became so habituated to this question

that sometimes, if Selina happened to

glance round at him suddenly in the

midst of her task, he would take his

cue without the familiar question he-





 





111g put and would squeal his “Sow-o

bigi’. rather absently, i’n dutiful solo.

Then he would throw back his head

and laugh a triumphant laugh. his op-

en mouth a coral orifice. She would

run to him, and swoop down upon him,

and bury her flushed face in the warm

moist creases of his neck, and make

as though to devour him. “So big!”

But of course he wasn’t. He wasn’t

as big as that. In fact, he never be-

came as big as the wide-stretched

arms of her love and imagination

would have had him. You would have

thought she should have been satisfied

when, in later years, he was the Dirk

DeJong whose name you saw (engrav-

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to have the effect of being starched

and ironed by some costly American

business process; whose clothes were

made by Peter Peel, the English tail-

or; whose roadster ran on a French

chassis; erose cabinet held mellow

Italian vermouth and Spanish sherry;

whOse wants were served by a Jap-

anese houseman; whose life, in short,

was that of the successful citizen of

the Republic. But she wasn’t. Not

only was she dissatisfied: she was at

once remorseful and indignant, as

though she, Selina DeJong, the vege—

table peddler had been partly to

blame for this success of his, and

partly cheated by it.





When Selina DeJong had been Se-

lina Peake she had lived in Chicago

with her father They had lived in

many other cities as well. In Denver

during the rampant ’.80s In New York

when Selina was twelve. In Milwau-

kee briefly. There was even a San

Francisco interlude which was always

a little sketchy in Selina’s mind and

which had ended in a departure so

hurried as to bewilder even Selina who

had learned to accept sudden comings

and abrupt goings without question.

“Business,” her father always said.

“Little deal.” ‘She never knew until

the day of his death how literally the

word deal was applicable to his busi-

ness transactions. Simeon Peake, trav-

elling the country with his little

daughter, was a gambler by profes-

sion, temperament, and natural tal—

ents. When in luck they lived royally,

stopping at the best hotels, eating

strange, succulent sea-viands, going to

the play, driving in hired rigs (always

with two horses. If Simeon Peake had

not enough money for a two-horse

equipage he walked). When fortune

hid her face they lived in boarding-

houses, ate boarding-house meals,

wore the clothes bought when Fer-

tune’s breath was balmy. During all





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both rural and urban interest.





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will be glad that you took our hint.





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seated alone in a hotel lobby or board-

ins-house parlor, would bend over her

in solicitous questioning.



“Where is your momma, ltitle girl?”

" “She is dead, ” Selina would, reply,

politely and composediy.

‘ .“Oh, 'my poor little dear!” Then

[with‘a warm, rush, “Don’t you wanttto

come and play with my little girl?

She loves little girls to play with.

H’M. 9” The “m” of the interrogation

held hummingly, tenderly.

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pathy. Selina had a beautiful time.





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Except for three years, to recall which

was to her like entering a sombre icy

mom on leaving a warm and glowing

one, her life was free. interesting, var-

ied. She made decisions usually de—

volving upon the adult mind. She se-

lected clothes. She ruled her father.

She read absorbedly books found in

boarding-house parlors, in hotels, in

such public libraries as the times af‘

forded. She was alone for hours a

day, daily. Frequently her father, fear-

ful of loneliness for her, brought her

an armful of books and she had an

orgy, dipping and. swooping about

among them in a sort of gqurmand’s

ecstasy of indecision. In this way, at

fifteen, she knew the writings of By-

ron, Jane Austen, Dickens, Charlotte

Bronte, Felicia Hemans. Not to speak

of Mrs. S. D. E. N. Southworth, Bertha

M. Clay, and that‘ good fairy of the

scullery, the Fireside Companion, in

whose pages factory girls and dukes

were brought together as inevitably as

steak and onions. These last were, of

course, the result of Selina’s mode of

living, and were loaned ‘her by kind-

hearted landladies, chambermaids, and

waitresses all the way from California

to New York.





Her three dark years—from nine to

twelve—were spent with her two maid-

en aunts, the Misses Sarah and Abbie

Peake, in' the dim, prim Vermont

Peake house from which her father,

the black sheep, had run away when

a boy. After her mother’s death Sim-

eon Peake had sent his little daughter





back east in a fit of remorse and tom--





porary helplessness on his part and

a spurt of forgiveness and churchly

charity on the part of his two sisters.





The two women were incredibly drawn.





in the pattern of the New England

spinster of fiction. Mitts, preserves,

Bible, chilly best room, solemn and

kittenless cat, order, little—girls-

mustn’t They smelled of apples—of





one Warning he had comp for that,

at Sight of him she had bash guiit2

the only fit of hysteria that .

her life, before or after the op,



so. than, , from wave” to nine "

she was happy. They had come to

Chicago in 1885, when she was sixteen.

There they remanied. Selina attended.

Miss Fister’s Select School for Young

Ladies. When her father brought her

there he had raised quite a flutter in





-the Fister breast—so soft-spoken was ,





he, so gentle, so sad-appeming, so

winning as to smile. In the invest-

ment business, he explained. Stocks

and that kind of thing. A widower.

Miss Fister said, yes, she understood.





Simeon had had nothingof the look i





of- the professional gambler of the day.

The wide slouch hat, the flowing mus-

tache, the glittering eye, the too-bright

boots, the gay craVat, all were missing

in Simeon Peake’s make-up. True,‘he

did sport a singularly clear white dia-

mand pin in his shirt front; and his

hat he wore just a little on one side.

But then, these both were in the male





. mode and quite commonly seen. For





the rest he seemed a mild and suave

man, slim, a triffle diffident, speaking

seldom and then with a New England

drawl by which he had come honestly

enough, Vermont Peake that he was.

Chicago was his meat. It was boom—

ing, prosperous. Jefl Hankin’s red

plush and mirrored gambling house,

‘and Mike McDonald’s, too, both on

Clark Street, knew him' daily. He

played in good luck and bad, but-he

managed somehow to see to it that

there was always the money 'to pay





'for the Fister schooling. His was the ‘





ideal poker face—bland, emotionless,

immobile. When he was flush they

ate 'at the Palmer House, dining off

chicken or quail and thick rich soup

and the apple pie for which the hos-

telry was famous. Waiters hovered

solicitously about Simeon Peake,

though he rarely addressed them and

never looked at them. Selina was hap-

py. She know only such young people

——girls——as she met at Miss Fister’s

school. Of men, other than her faith-

er, she knew as little as a nun—less.

For those cloistered creatures must,

if only in the conning of their Bible,

learn much of the moods and passions

that sway the male. The Songs of

Solomon alone are a glorious sex edu-

cation. But the Bible was not included

in Selina’s haphazard reading, and the

Gideonite was not then a force, in the

hotel world. '





Her chum was Julie Hempel, daugh-

ter of August Hempel, the Clark Street

butcher. You probably now own some

Hempel stock, if you’re lucky; and eat

Hempel bacon and Hempel hams cur-

ed in the hickory, for in Chicago the

distance from butcher of 1885 to pack-

er of 1890 was only a five- -year leap.



Being so much alone developed in ‘

her a gift for the make-believe. In a

comfortable, well-dressed way she was .

a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s

Marchioness and Sarah Crewe. Even

in her childhood she extracted from

life the double enjoyment that comes

usually only to' the ‘creative mind.

“Now I’m doing this. Now I’m doing

that,” she told herself while she was

doing it. Looking on while she par-

ticipated. Perhaps her theater-going

had something to do with this. At an

age when most little girls were not

only unheard but practically unseen.

she occupied a grown-up seat at the

play, her rapt face, with its dark ser-



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AST winter, the impressive ex-



pansion in the pOultry industry,

whidh had,» een under way since

ad deal of fear that





occur. .The annual estimate made by

the United States Department of Ag-





; riculture,’ placed the farm chicken pop-





ulation on January 1, 1924, at 474, 000,-

000 head. This was an increase of

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a gain of thirty-two per cent since





’ 1920, while the human population had





gained only about six per cent.

Not only was the number of chick-





' ens on farms estimated to be the larg-





est on record, but more atfention was

The

stage seemed to be set for a further

increase in egg production and in the

number of chickens that would be

Most people believed

that considerably lower prices would

be necessary to induce consumers to

absorb this increased output For two

seasons, dealers had suflered losses on

stered eggs and were disposed to be

very cautious as the new storing sea-

son approached.

An Official Warning.



The United States Department of

Agriculture shook a warning finger.

“The Agricultural Outlook for 1924,”

as prepared by its economists had this

to say:



“The situation in 1924 clearly indi-





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cates an increase in‘ production of both ,

poultry and eggs. The increase will

probably be such as to make an ac-

celerated rate of consumption of eggs

necessary. In view of the outlook for

the industry-in 1924, producers should

consider carefully the results of an

expansion of poultry production.”

Again it was demonstrated that the

disaster everyone is looking for sel-

dom happens. Producers themselves

probably took some note of the possi-

bility of overdoing their market. Then,

early last spring, when dealers allowed





 





 





 





 





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egg prices to drop to an extremely low

level, while poultry prices remained

rather attractive, producers responded

by selling their surplus fowls more

closely than usual. The average farm

price of eggs for a time was at the

lowest point since 1916. This stimu-

lated consumption of eggs in the coun—

try and in the smaller towns where

eggs at retail were'close to the price

farmers received. Protracted cold

weather throughout the spring also

tended to keep down the lay as well

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result was that the anticipated flood

of eggs never reached the large mar-

kets.



What the Records Show.



The records show that receipts of

eggs at the four leading markets dur-

ing 1924 were lighter than in the cor-

responding months of 1923 with-the

exception of April and July. For the

year to date, the shrinkage amounts to

eight per cent, which is the first time

in four years that receipts have failed

to ShOW a progressive increase.



Receipts of dressed poultry at these

same markets were heavier than last

year in each of the first seven months

of 1924. This period covered the wind-

up of the marketing of the large crop

of poultry produced in 1923 and the

weeding out of flocks during the pe-

riod when egg prices were temporar-

ily unsatisfactory. Combined receipts

since July have been less than in the

same period of 1923.



This shows how quickly accidental

conditions, such as the weather, and

the natural adjustments brought about

by price may take care. of a supply of

poultry and eggs that seems to he get-

ting out of balance with the demand.



Because of the corrections brought

about in this manner, prices of both

poultry and eggs are actually higher

than at this time a year ago. More—

over, the unweighted average farm



(Continued on page 560).





Farming





Some Men Succeed m Spite of Adverse Conditions

By I. R. Waterbury





OST farmers and many econo-

mists agree that a large part of

the difficulty encountered by

farmers as a class in every period of

depression is due to over-production.

Even the President voiced this senti-

ment in his recent talk to the live

stock men at the International Live

Stock Exposition. With an over—supply

of farm pr ucts, market prices are

bound to be low and the consequent

returns small. That there is a meas-

ure of fact in this contention no one

can successfully deny. Yet, there is

another side to the picture which is

worthy of more than our passing at-

tention, a side which is best brought

to our individual attention by the pow-

er of example.

The writer has in mind the case of





'- one man which is typical of similar





cases to be found in almost every

farming community. A young man of

ordinary attainments, but with the

habit of industry, went to work to





1 . earn a. competence after he had finish-





ed the course of instruction given at

the. country school. As soon as he was





"able to make a reasonable down pay-

‘ , ment he purchased eighty acres of





land right in his own community,as

was" the common practice of forward-

looking young men in those days.



> This was originally a good piece of

land but had been rented for some





'.,years and was not in the best of con-'





N dition, a. defect this young man set

’ to ' , While he had not





ture, he used good horse sense in the

handling of this piece of land right

from the start. A portion of it was in

clover which he proceeded to cut sev-

eral times during the season and leave

.it right on the land. The next year

the field was plowed and planted to

potatoes, with a big. crop of fine qual-

ity tubers as ‘a result. ‘



Similar success marked this young

man’s efforts in the production of oth-

er crops. He always grew good crops,

far better than the average produced

by his neighbors. ‘He sold these crops,

paid his running expenses and put the

rest of the money in the bank. In a.

few years when the adjoining 120 acres

was offered for sale he was a cash

buyer. He retired from active work

with an ample competence, having be—

come known as one of the best farm—

ers in the entire community.



This farmer operated through good

times and bad—including the extreme

depression of the late nineties. He

did not make his money from increase

in land values; as was largely the case

with the previous generation of farm-

ers. The fact is he left his farms in

far better shape than he found them,

both as to soil fertility and the extent

and value , of the imprOvements on

them. Yet he had made plenty of

money asidefrom that put back into





his business, and under exactly the

same conditions which were regarded

as a serious handicap by most of his





, contemporaries and which proved an





insurmountable obstacle to many of

them



This example has been duplicated in

a great many agricultural communities

of this and other states, while farm-

ers as a class have been suffering from

the evil of over-production. The indi-

vidual farmers who have prospered,

even under admittedly adverse condi-

tions, have always been farmers who

produced good crops, not occasionally,

but habitually. They have produced

these good crops not because of any

especially favorable conditions, but

largely because they have paid special

attention to the matter of soil fertil—

ity, and have kept their soils in good

physical Condition and well supplied

with plant food. Generally this has

supplemented by intelligently used

of leguminous crops as green manure,

supplemented by intelligently used

chemical plant foods.



Michigan is one of the leading po-

tato producing states of the country,

yet our average yield per acre of po-

tatoes is less than’ one-half of the av-

erage yield in Maine. The reason is,

in a large measure, to be found in the

fact that the farmers of Maine devote

a very much larger percentage of their

land to the production of leguminous

crops than do the farmers of this state,

or, in fact, any other state in the

Union.



Also, if he will note market reports

carefully, the reader may. be surprised

to find that the potato producers of





the state of Maine are suffering less

from the evil of over-production this

year than are the potato growers of

this state, due to the fact that their

product demands a premium on the

market. It is almost a. universal rule

that the man who grows good crops,

crops which yield considerably better

than the average, also produces a qual-

ity product, a product which is better

than the average from the standpoint

of sale ability.





The larger crops are also produced

at less cost per unit than are the small

or av eiage yields. Consequently when

low priCes prevail the farmer who pro-

duces a good crop will get by without

a. loss and may make a fair profit,

when the average farmer finds his

crop a losing p1'0position.





A lesson to be gained from this in-

controvertible fact is that while in-

creased total production along lines in

which there is already a large surplus

is neither advisable nor a sensible

course, better per acre yields are ab-

solutely essential to economic crop

production all along the line in this

state. It will pay to give more atten-

tion to building up the soil fertility

through' liberal use of leguminous

crops plowed down for green manure,

and the growing of better average

yields on the smaller acreage devoted

to the production, of cash crops. _ In

the last analysis, production per unit

of labor is the greatest factor in prof-

itable crop production, since labor is





._the most costly of the factors which





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DETROIT, DEC. 20, 1924





NUMBER TWENTY FIVE





 





 





CURRENT COMMENT





' F all the children

Our were entitled to a

Best vote in a referendum

_ upon the most popu-

Hollday lar of our holidays,

surely C h 1' i s t m a s

would pile up a remarkable majority;

and, while it makes its strongest ap-

peal to the boys and girls, Christmas

is not without a compensation to every

member of the family from grand

mother and grandfather down to the

mite that coos in its crib.





Of course, those

croppings of ill humor, those Scrooge-

'like bursts of temper at annoyances,

come when our digestion is a little off

and we are in the swirl of the Christ-

mas mob. The pushing, crowding,

twisting and squirming one is obliged

to pass through to get even a glimpse

of the face of some cheerful but over-

worked clerk is indeed trying. But

all this, when compared with the sum-

total of anticipation and realization on

the part of those within the family cir-

cle and among the close relatives and

friends, makes the joy of Christmas

time the greatest joy of all.



Then, too, as we look back over the

Christmas festivities of the years .gone

by and reflect upon the joyous family

reunions when we sort of cut loose

from the workaday world, gave free-

dom to the spirit of love and friend-

ship within us, got real close to those

of our own neighborhood and blood,

yes, and when this very spirit was

everywhere in the air, it had a com-

pensation that could not be reckoned

in dollars and cents.





And so, we feel strongly that the

"strengthening of family ties and the

actual building up of that bond of

brotherly love among folks make

Christmas really the best and most

valuable of all our holidays and the

one fullest of the real joy of life.





occasional out<





AMONG certain

Habits classes in China,

it is a thing of pride



‘3’: ‘ to have long finger-

Mlnd nails. These long

nails indicate that



one belongs to a class which does not

have to work and the longe1 the nails

the more a person of: leisure one is.

One man is said to have. his nails over

a foot long He keeps them encased

in wooden shields and is unable to





ered himself or even lie down, except





in certain positions, for fear of break-





‘ ing these 'marks of aristocracy.





One is led to say with Shakespeare,

“What tools these mortals be.’.’ But,





and this is a big but, are we not tools,





with much "scomt‘orf, and 16s 1





to '1"uts of thoughts and methods... ”hen

we could with some little- effort‘ get

onto the smoérther road of modern





~ progress?





May it not be that we do not con-

ceive that life is a constant process of

change and progress? Today is not

like yesterday, and tomorrow will still





V” mam . be different.





Fundamentals are always the same.

The whole universe is run on funds:

mentals.



w.hile But can we afford to sit help-

less with our fingernails of the past

and watch the world go by into a glor-

ious future? May it not be well for

each of us to _ask,~“Am I building upon

the paSt, or am I buried in it? Am I

willing or willful regarding the tasks

the modern world puts to me?”





HE human animal

is the only one

who likes to tickle his

appetite, and by and

, large, he uses much

time and many meth-

ods in doing so. Among the various

ways of tickling the palate is drinking,

that is, something besides water. Wa-

ter does not tickle the palate, it only

quenches the thirst. It’s the some-

thing put in water that does the tick-

ling, and most notorious in this respect,

is moonshine. Undoubtedly there has

been enough moonshine consumed to

turn night into day if its illuminating

qualities were used. But moonshine

has long inst its standing among self-

respecting folks, so they use a sub-

stitute.





This substitute is usually made of a

coal tar by—product, coloring matter,





What

We

Drink





sugar and a lot of water. We consume"





eight billion bottles of such a concoc-

tion in a year, and most- of us think

we are drinking fruit juices, the nectar

of the gods. In fact, there is more

fruit juice in a 110g running around in

an apple orchard than there is in all

of these drinks put together.





We have successfully legislated

against the use of the word butter in

connection with the sale of oleomar-

garine, but we still permit these drink

concoctions to parade around as fruit

drinks. They can be called any fruit

name under the sun as long as the

word “imitation" is on the bottle or

label somewhere, and usually this

word is so small and so placed that it

is playing hide-and-seek with the con-

sumer.



These bottles of bubbles lack the

vitamines, and all the other health—

giving qualities of fruit juices, in fact,

they lack everything but the palate

tickling qualities. Therefore, they are

spurious, and are deceptions foisted

upon the public.



, It seems, then, that for common wel-

fare, the laws should be such that they

will prohibit the use of the fruit names

in connection with any drinks which

do not contain fruit juices.





PRACTICE famil-



The iar to pioneers



. who had pork to cure

Community





and preserve was to

Betterment test the strength of





the brine by dropping

in an egg. If the egg floated the

brine was considered of the proper

mixture to keep the meat. This prac-

tice had one draw back. “Then the

egg was old it would float, even in

brine lacking the required amount of

salt to p1eserve meat So the value

of the test depends upon the condi-

tion of the egg.

It may be a bit far-fetched to go

from brine to community critics; but

that egg pretty well symbolizes the





influence of those who criticise efforts 1

to build up and improve our "commu-





nities and the folks who live therein.

If the critic is a person of good





They make the past worth, ‘





4‘





ere "improvement. But, should there be an





attempt to follow the leadership of the ;





person lacking in character, then like ‘

[the bad egg, .it may lead us- to dee





pend ‘upon a« "solution” that is too





'weak to make for betterment, with the





result that conditions, even worse than

those at first obtaining, may prevail.





S we look over



the public hori-

zon, we note many

self-appointed emis-

saries to the ’comnion

weal. Without them

the clocks would stop, the sun .would

quit its job and the moon would prob-

ably be‘full all the time. They deem

themselves the essentials of the nec-

essary in keeping the world from go-

ing fiat.



In talking they are great, but in

doing, well, they always have mani-

cured hands and clean shirtafronts.

There is occasionally some question as

to the condition of the rest of the

shirt.





In the last political campaign we

had a unique Occurrence. A president-

ial candidate kept his mouth shut and

let his record speak for itself. The fe-

sults of the election make us feel hap-

py, not necessarily because that man

got in, but because it showed us that

the public in general was not always

attracted by a. lot of noise and bla—bla.



Men of true w01th never spend time

footing their OWn horn. They are too

busily engaged in useful work.





F or

The ,

People





HERE is no line



of activity which

requires as varied dut~

ies as agriculture. In

industry each has his

set line of work. The

production department, the selling de-

partment and the cost department of-

ten have work so distinctive that they

might well be called other businesses.

Even in~the various departments each

man has distinctive work and often

knows little of what the other man is

doing.



But the falmer is supposedly requir—

ed, in orde1 to farm successfully, to

know how tp produCe a product, the

process of which is constantly changing

because of the vagaries of nature. He

is supposed to know the cost of pro-

duction, which is also constantly

changing because of the vagaries re-

ferred to above. And he is supposed

to sell to the best advantage.



However, this is an age of special-

ization. By devoting ones’ time to the

study of selling, one becomes more

proficient in‘selling. To devote one’s

time to the study of production one

becomes better'enabled to produce. In

specialization one learns the little

things which are big factors in the

final results. '



It is difficult to specialize on the in:

dividual farm because of the multi-‘

plicity of duties. Specialization

must'come by conferring many of the.

special duties to others outside of the

farm. The agricultural colleges and

experiment stations have numerous

specialists who delve into the intricate

problems of production, and are ready

to serve the man next to~the ground.

They should be consulted when prob-

lems of production present themselves.



Sales methods most always present

problems. A faimer is rarely a good

salesman. Even if he is, he has not

the time to devote to proper selling.

Cooperation with an efficient salesman

in charge of the cooperative selling is,

without doubt, the solution of the

problem. It is true that cooperation





Doing

» Doubl

Duty





has failed in many cases but that was





not the, fault of cooperation but of the

inefl‘iciency in the use of cooperative

methods.



__ Keeping costs are also hard for the

farmer.-





As in industry, it seems that





‘ trend in farming Should be t"





simplification. The efficient farmor

will try to keep from doing double“

duty, but .vflll endeavor .to. get others

to do as much as possible so that. To,

can devote himself to the linmediavo

problems on the farm. He Will make .

use of, all possible public agencies. to

help him in his work, and will thus

tend to make himself a. specialist in.

stead of an all-around man.





Merry Cbn’rtmm

DON’T need no calendar ta tell me i;



~ that Christmus is around. I kinf

tell by how Sofie and the kids acts. "





The kids is got the “wants” and Sofia 1





is got the “buys” and “sews. " Every

little while the kids is sayin’ I want

this or I want that fer Christmus, and

Sofie is always sewin or buyin’ some-

thin.



When you see dust around our house ,‘

there is somethin’ the matter, and I

see dust. Sofie just eats, sews and‘

buys, and sleeps once in a while. She

is makin’ a pair of what-you-call-’ems

fer Mrs. Johnson, who gave her a nice



pair 0’ pink ones

last year. She

ain’t never wore

them pink ones,

’cause she is past

the pink age, but

she is gotta pay

back Mrs. John-

son, anyhow. I

says ta Sofie ta.

give back the

pink ones and call it square, and she

just looks at me with one 0’ them

kinda looks marred men know about.



Christmus is gotta be a regular race,

a race fer the womin'. Even the city

newspaper starts about Thanksgivin’

tellin’ you how many days there is be—

fore Christmus‘, ’til, when you get ta.

only one or two days before Christmus,

everybody is breakin’ the speed limit,

and you gotta be awful careful how

you talk ta your wife, ’cause she is

awful busy tryin’ ta figure out who

gave her presunts last year so she

can give them some this.





You know, the other day when I was

settin’ there watchin’ Sofie sewin’, and

not darin’ ta say anythin’, I picked 'up

a anchunt history and in it I found

that Christmus was ta celebrate the

birth 0’ Jesus. Maybe that’s some-

thin’ most 0’ us don’t know. I just

wondered if Jesus would like ta have

His birthday made sue? tradin’ time

like it is. I kinda thi k he’d like ta.

have it celebrated in good fellowship

an’ holiness instead 0’ makin' it a

endurance test fer nerves“ "



The other day I went down ta Bloom.

stein’s store fer Sofie, an’ he had a

dozen clerks instead 0’ tWo, an’ the

way Ike was rushin’ around there, I

kin bet he was glad that Jesus was

born. 4





I like the things that Jesus taught.

“Peace on Earth an’ good Will toward

men” means a whole lot.' But-there

ain’t goin’ ta be much 0’ that ta home

until after Christmus.



Looks ta me like if we’d spend mere

time tryin’ ta learn the lessons Jesus

taught instead 0’ at Ike Bloom'stein's

buyin’, the 'world’d be better. -



Well, anyhow, here’s wishin you a

real Merry Christmus, the kind what’ll

last you through the year.



HY SYCKLE





A good conscience is a continual '6'



Christmas. ——Franklin.

This day shall change all griefs and-

quarrels into love. —Shakespeare. ‘ ~ . '

It. is good to be children sometimes. ‘ '

and never gfiétter than at - ‘

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: ems ; work through my stables

manure :1 [:eonsmuently, I have

out {35,131,136 amount of straw





 

 





‘ _ .I’mean‘s’of encouraging clo-

.- _ ”batches and to ,prOtect the wheat

mm adverse weather conditions dur-

mg the-,.winter‘ and spring. , I find this



tactics profitable andshall this com-





 





 





 





 





3‘ arearofmheat land. .



. .g-LfL‘ I begin top-dressing wheat with the



A , 'i'l'stiiaw as soon‘as the land is frozen

hard enough to hold the wagon. I

have tried spreading the straw with



‘, the ordinary ,manure spreader, but I

' ‘ ‘ find that _I can do it much faster with



L forks." As I always stack my straw

\ it does not wet in badly, and, if care



is'exercised'not to, uncover too much

of theistack at once, very little trouble



will be encountered with freezing.

‘. I find it a. good practice to throw

. the straw off in small piles on each

" side of the wagon, 'just enough to cov-

er a space thirty feet wide. After the

straw is unloaded I go along and

spread it evenly and lightly upon the

. wheat. Here care should be exercised

l to spread the straw as lightly as pos-

sible.

to* smother the wheat. Frozen bunches

of straw ‘should be broken up or

thrown back upon the wagon and



hauled to the barnyard.



I consider top-dressing with straw

during the winter a great protection

to the wheatcrop. it helps to catch

'the snow and furnishes a covering for

the wheat. It helps also to prevent

"» freezing and thawing in the spring." It

7: _ also furnishes a mulch for the wheat

during the growing season and assists

in securing good clover catches.





 





 





 

 





 

 

 





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CARE OF THE WINDMILL.





 





ON a great many farms the wind-

'. mill is the source of power de-

ded upon to supply water for the

live stock during the winter months.

We depend quite largely upon the mill

/ because it is a cheap source of power





\





‘~ the day it‘was put up.





his finite; “WM; 011 my farm ,





”8;. winter, and . tap-dressed .





fling winter tapedress a' considerable .





Too heavy spreading is likely .





"the asthma. "ity windmill has“





beenin operatiOn‘ for/over thirty years

and is giving ‘as'good servicetodaywas





I have been very careful to keep, the

millwelloiled. I think with the wind-

mill, as With any other machinery,

proper lubrication is very-~ essential

andgquite largely upon it depends the

life and service of the mill.



‘ During the winter frequent oiling is

very important. The older type of

windmills, like mine, do not possess

a reserve from which the oil is

splashed over the hearings or working

parts. So, during cold weather when

lubrication is much more difl‘icult than

in warm weather, this Work must be

watched closely. I endeavor to oil my

windmill every two weeks winter and

summer, with a. good quality of medi-

um oil. ,



One of the great causes of short-life

to windmills is failure to keep the

joints and adjustments tight. During

the winter the windmill is subjected to

heavy winds. The braces on the tower

should be kept tight. The wheel also

should be gone over carefully and all

bolts and braces adjusted and tight-

ened.—~—R. L.





 





PRODUCES OVER FOUR TONS OF

HONEY.





 





R. THOMAS J. DAVIS, of Bud—



yard, has built up his bee indus-

try until he at present has 140 swarms

and expects eventually to have 300. He

finds local conditions ideal for bee-

keeping. His experience indicates that

the Carneolian bee is best adapted to

Upper Peninsula conditions. The av—

erage product the past season was

sixty pounds of honey per colony. This

is a low average, Mr. Davis states, be-

cause of certain conditions the past

season that will not exist normally.

Normally he expects a yield of 100

pounds per colony. Mr. Davis advo-

cates the formation of an Upper Pe-

ninsula bee-keepers’ association, which

will do much to keep Upper Peninsula

colonies free from disease and will

facilitate marketing of honey—L. C.





We make it a point to use our

horses as regularly as possible in win-

ter. It keeps them in better health.—

R. 0. Brown.





 





 





 





   





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,i’ _ . R. H. G.- MEYER, who owns a.

- - _2_40-aacre farm, has built up quite



a reputation in-hisvneighborhoodas a



* feeder eighteen: and hogs. Here is

shown .the’way‘he’loads his hogs for

, .g . . market inwjhi's. One-ton truck. '





   

 





 

 

 





 

 





   

   





He Ends Track a Big Time Saver





minutes, as against a two-hour trip

each way by horses and wagon. Re-

cently. he hauled 194 hogs to town in

,less “than two days. In the old days

of’ wagon transportation, the item of

shrinkage had‘to be considered and as

much of the hauling as possible had»

to be done before seven in the morn-

ing. Now, with his truck he gets to





 





 





. Lead gives to chinaware

its beauty and lustre





LAZED china is nothing



more than clay shaped in

various forms and covered with

a thin skin of glaze. It is this

thin coating that transforms the

rough, porous clay body into a

beautiful, smooth, lustrous china

plate or cup or saucer. And in

making this glaze, lead has al-

ways been one of the most essen-

tial ingredients.





Any one of the three lead prod-

ucts— white-lead, red-lead, or

litharge—can be used in making

lead glazes. IVIakers of fine china—

ware will use as much as 80,000

pounds of white-lead a year and

only 1,000 pounds of red—lead.

Others in the industry use large

quantities of red-lead. They will

reverse the above figures and use

80 times as much red-lead as

White-lead.





Where most lead is used





Although lead in pottery is con-

stantly serving and helping to

beautify your home, the tonnage

of lead used in this way is not so

great as that used in paint. Every-

where you go you see white-lead

paint protecting houses from the

attacks of weather.





There is no finer paint than

pure white-lead and linseed oil

for protecting exterior wooden

surfaces from rot and decay. And

nowhere is such protection so

needed as on farm buildingse Ex-

posed to the full sweep of wind

and storm, all houses, barns, and

other wooden structures _should

have adequate coverings of white-

lead paint.





In these days when building

costs are so high, the far-seeing

farmer protects with white—lead

paint the money he has invested

in his property. In other words,

he believes in the slogan, “Save

the surface and you save all.”





Ask any experienced painter

what you should do to save your

property from the attacks of the

weather. He will tell you to keep

it coVered with white-lead paint.





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He and his fellow craftsmen have

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know its qualities and have con-

fidence in it.





Red-lead for metal surfaces





Red-lead paint is to iron and

steel surfaces what white-lead is

to wood. It prevents rust and

rust is just as sure to destroy your

unpainted machinery, your tools

as rot is to destroy your unpaint- .

ed house or barn. Save wooden

surfaces with white-lead paint,

and the metal with red-lead.





 





 





 





 





 





Thin man is giving thefarm house white-load

protection agamat the attacks of the weather.





A hundred pages of paint facts

If you want to know how to save

the surface of wood, masonry or

metal on your farm with paint,

write for our “Handy Book on

Painting.” This book is filled with

essential paint facts and formulas

and will be sent free at your

request.



Dutch Boy White-lead and

Dutch Boy red-lead are the names

ofthe pure white-lead and red-lead

made and sold by National Lead

Company. On every keg of these

products is reproduced the pic-

ture of the Dutch Boy Painter

shown below. This trade-mark

guarantees a product of the high-

est quality.



National Lead Company also

makes lead products for practi-

cally every purpose to which lead





 





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want information regard:

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When Ephraim Crosby made a clearing far out on Valley

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an independent life, producing on the farm practically all that

his family ate and wore. Emergencies-sickness and fire and

protection of his homestead from prowlers—he met for himself.

Later he had neighbors, one five and another eight miles away. .

Sometimes he helped them with their planting and harv‘bsting,

and they helped him in turn. Produce was marketed in the

town, twenty miles along the cart-road.





Today Ephraim Crosby's grandchildren still live in the

homestead, farming its many acres. The next house is a good

mile away. But the Crosbys of today are not isolated. They

neighbor with a nation. They buy and Sell in the far city

as well as in the county-seat. They have at their call the

assistance and services of men in Chicago or New York,‘ as

well as men on the next farm. '





Stretching from the Crosbys' farm living-room are telephone

wires that lead to every part of the nation. Though they live

in the distant countryside, the Crosbys enjoy the benefits of

national telephone service as wholly as does the city dweller.

The plan and organization of the Bell System has extended

the facilities of the telephone to all types of people. By pro-

ducing a telephone service superior to any in the world at a

cost within the reach of all to pay, the Bell System has made

America a nation of neighbors.





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‘ -ples during ”the 1924-25 season is en— ‘





situation is encouraging expansion in





American wool grower has in the last

few months not been getting the full

benefit of the tariff, he has benefitted

substantially from it in the last few

years.

most of the wool imported into the

United States pays a. duty of thirty-

one cents per pound clean content.

the last few. years the price of fine

territory staple wool in Boston has at

times been as much as thirty-two and

one-half cents above the price of a

comparable grade of wool in London.





. ‘ _1TH something less than a. dozen





headquarters in the capital, it was?

. thought that 'the far '





   





smears ..

unanimous- _ tiliéf’

organization is‘vtof' e ta '

'ters in Washington. ‘It is thegFarfli

thConsumer League’s: national .

partisan association ~ifor-7 the fibre ‘

or I agriculture through = ' cooper

marketing. . ' ‘ ’ ‘

Members 70f» the league-a? ’

to help farmers: to obtain-"Mr

legislation at the present session

congress. ;The relief legislation this

Organization is

tis—Aswell bill,

cooperative. " marketing

scheme, to be financed by





, fitment: migrant econ; , -





 





 





nation, the bureau ’of agricultural

ket- for] American and Canadian ap-





couraging. Improved economic 'condl-

tions in European markets, with reduc~

ed production in the United States and

Canada,_are reflected by the general





by American applies in the United

Kingdom since the openQng of the

season. , '



British markets have no special pref-

erence for boxed apples as against bar'-

reled apples. The leading varieties

are York Imperial, Yellow Newton,

Jonathan, Baldwin and VVinesap. The

preferred box varieties are Delicious,

Yellow Newton, Jonathan, Winesap

and Spitzenberg. It is reported that

~ninety per cent of the 1924-25 ship-

ments of American apples has gone to





of eleven members. ,





headquarters in charge, are B. 'F.‘

Yoakum, J. W. Batchelder, Col. Ike'T.

Pryor, D. O. Lively and J .H. Kimble.

The only real farm organization that

appears to be backing this scheme‘is

the National Farmers’ Union.





 





the United Kingdom. ~ M

_ NEW SECRETARY OF AGRICUL- _

COOPERATIVE WOOL GROWERS TURE' ’ "





 





PROFIT,





 





T ination of Howard M. Gore, or

West Virginia, to be secretary of agri-

culture for the term ending March 4.

Mr. Gore is the first real farmer to

occupy the position in the President’s





'I’HE Pacific Coast cooperating wool



growers have made an investiga-

tion which shows that during the last

five years the members have been paid

$450,000 for their wool more than‘non-

members received for a similar quan—





tity of wool from the same territory. Wilson. Secretary Gore has been "a





farmer all his life, having been engag-

ed in general farming and raising beef

cattle. Until he came to Washington

two years ago to become assistant to

Secretary of Agriculture Walla‘ce, he

had never left his farm, except for the

four years spent at the University of

West Virginia. He is said to have'

been the originator of the 4-H clubs

for farm boys and girls, which are now

established in every state.



Among the recent aspirants fOr Sec-

retary Gore’s place when he leaves

the department to become governor of

West Virginia, is John Fields, of Okla-

homa. Mr. Fields occupies a strong

position as a candidate for the secre-

taryship, having behind him his entire

state delegation in congress, and sew

eral farm organizations.



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COUNCIL ON MANY SUBJECTS.





 





CAPABLE MEN NEEDED.





 





’1" HE importance of having men with



business capacity to head up co~

operative marketing organizations can

not be over-estimated, said Chris L.

Christensen, in charge of the Division

of Cooperative Marketing in the de-





from an inspection of western cooper-

atives. Efficient management and the

attitude of the members toward the

fundamental relation between produc-

tion and marketing are the two factors

which determine more than anything

else the success or failure of coopera-

tive organizations. Cooperative organ-

izations are beginning to realize more

than ever before that production and

marketing are inseparable, and that

very often the solution of a marketing

problem may be found to originate in

production practices.





 





D ELEGATES to the annual meeting

of the State Association of Farm-

ers’ Clubs had occasion to give expres-

sion to their views on many issues.

They held that the department of

justice should control.the enforcement

of the prohibition amendment and that

no modification be made in the present

tolerance of alcoholic content; the

principles of the ’McNary—Haugen, bill

be approved and endorsed; the opera.-

tion of Muscle Shoals be urged; the '

federal government duplicate‘to each

state for school purposes an amount

of funds equal to that raised in each

as primary school fund, and that all

federal cooperative projects be with-

held from states refusing concurrence

in the enforcement of federal laws.

They disapproved issuance of ‘tax

exempt‘securities, but indorsed the gas

tax; an equitable income tax; the de-

lay of reapportionment of state rep-

resentation till 1926; the present pro-

hibition enforcement statutes; conser-

vation projects to be administered by

experts; the non—ratification of the:

child labor amendment’fthe movement

to eradicate bovine tuberculosis, and

a. state statute providing for the pub-

lication and distribution at “state‘ex-

pense of arguments for and against all





 





SHEEP MEN IN FAVORABLE

POSITION.





 





COMMENTING on the live stock



situation, the secretary of agricul-

ture said that sheepmen were in a

much more favorable position than

cattle or hog producers. Today world

stocks of both sheep and wool are be-

low normal. Wool prices are advanc-

ing in world markets and there is an

excellent demand for both fat and

feeder sheep and lambs. The price





the production of wool and lambs. , i





It is worth noting that while the





Under the tariff act of 1922





In





' proposed amendments~ to the State

FARMER REPRESENTATIVES AT constitution. '

CAPITAL.





The following ofl‘lcers were. elected

for the year: President, S. J. Skinner,\

of ' Belding; vice-president, W. L}. Eek .'

loge.” of Lansing; secretary-tr. um.



rail. R- Johnatan; 7‘





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farm organizations maintaining





     

 





 





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promoting is "the Can

which ,is the Yoakum, :..

corporation: '

the'gov'erm ‘ ' "

ment, but to-be controlled by“ a‘ board



_ Officers of the a .

committee, having the Washington -,





HE senate has confirmed the non- ‘





cabinet since the days of “Tama Jim” -.





 

   

 





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i““\,n_n~--‘-""""““ .
itsformative ‘peflod,

ithe‘h it wouldbe a»

e baffle the; growers" would i

érépmrtfinity t0. cooperate





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x'rbshiipl'héhch BLIGHT. "





 





m California peach blight which

as been prevalent in the west‘

1900 was found in Mason county,

is state, thissummer.

*fihe chara’ctari'stié markings of the

fuse, on the fruit is a white spot

"a reddiscoloration around it. On

leaves it has the same markings

in time these spots dry up and

. ‘ lacut, as in the case of shot-hole

f” '. ,_- f gus. ~ I

' r‘ n. the young shoots the character-

” sharks are also found, and on the

p : er, limbs the‘trouble shows itself as

blipk open cancers in due time.

Scab. blackspot and other peach dis-

eases are somewhat similar in appear-

ance tothis blight, but none of them‘

have the white center with red discol-

oration around it. It is thought that

the‘trouble will not be serious in this

" state. ’ '

in California they spray in the lat-

; terj'part of November, or December,

,‘i-v ~ and that controls the disease for the

‘ » coming season. But here, it is thought

1' several sprayings in summer will have





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 

 

 





to- be made to keep the trouble in .>





check. The'difference in the probable

control measures here, and those used

in:the,west, 'is due to the difference in

the weather.





 





‘ .FRUIT csowsns NEED BUSINESS

- ‘METHooa





 





IR. CARROLL SWEET, a promi-

nent Grand Rapids banker, told

the. fruit growers that they needed

modern business methods in ‘ their

farming. p' ‘ 7, ' ' ,

'in no business does the producer

pretend -to be a salesman, as sales-

manship and production are two en-

tirely separate activities. Only ,, in

farming does one man perform these

two duties. 'Therefore, the. selling, at

least, is not done successfully.

He suggests that cooperation be





 





made more therough and then a. real, .





salesman? hired at a worth-while sal-‘

ary to sell Michigan apples to the

world. He said that twenty-five thou-

and- dollar salaries seem high, but of-

ten itis economy to pay Such a. salary

to the right: man. .

‘Mr. Sweet also said that the right

kind of advertising was one of the

‘best investments 3. business man can





1, a farmer's cooperative organization



. . ' should not find it a part of good judg-

_ I”) ment. to advertise in a business-like



L g . way The western fruit grower has

eroven- that it pays.



.In all lines of business, they are cut-

tingwdown the number of models they

make. A furniture factory which fail-

ed recently had 249 styles on its list.

In, reorganisation this was cut down



' :«to‘about‘thirty and. the factory was

, . put" _ a paying basis; In fruit there

‘ ‘ are’i.”,7_ma_ny varieties. 3A half dozen

of apples would - be all- that

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, gsamu thatabmtyplus, infest-l" ""ty Spells

assault was, water has them



_ qualifications referred to he should



“credit. ,



- E‘ffoi-“éi-edit, provided he‘ has the quail-’



" flcflfiglfla,wqfihy of credit. In fact, he



‘ should? demand it if he wants and can





‘ make, and that there is no reason why ‘





much.





 

 





 

 





in,“ it .





and no diflic‘filty to get" reasonable





"Afarmer-.31“?denotlhégmteto ask. E " ;: NITRATE OF





qualify for it. Bankers are as human

as other people and sometimes a bank-

er refuses credit‘to a worthy man be-

cause of the banker’s inability to see

the worthiness. That is the banker's

fault and the would-be borrgwer’s mis-

fortune.





it is most needed for'bcst and quickest growth.





realize.





information please add the number 1526





 





. The 'white’ pines are best (for

community and church Christmas

trees as their size is more adapted to

larger spaces. The spruce is one of

the most common of Wisconsin Christ-

mas trees.





Please . Mention The Michigan F anner





Hurt Building. Atlanta, Ga.

701 Cotton Exchange Bldg" Magnum» Tenn





 





 





 





'1'. Farmers that??? use? {0:6





enough. Most of them use 7

tea little. ‘ ' '





Ir Phys TO use





p '100 to 300 pounds per acre . .'

early in the spring. because. it supplies immediately available nitrogen at thcrtimc





Nitrogen starvation is a far more common cause of poor crops than most farmers.





If your local dealer cannot supply you with the Nitrate you require or if

you desire specific advice about its use, write our nearest office. For our





Chilean Nitrate of Soda—souéxnomu. BUREAU





Dr. William S. Myers, Director





55 But State Street. Columbus. Ohio

. Hibernia Bonk Bldg" New Orleans. La.

5 Madison Avenue. New York





When Writing to Advertisers





new or them use





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You Can See. Some of the

Reasons for More Days Wear





Old Man Winter is a bully. He gets outside your windows and dares you to

come outdoors. And when you venture out, Winter doesn’t run away.

He attacks. -



He blocks your path with snow. He puts ice beneath your soles and blows

a freezing blast at your ankles.



He uses ”every weapon from a slip and fall to a frozen toe. His little guns

cause discomfort and pain. His big guns are colds and pneumonia.



He is tough. One of his tricks is to wear out and destroy any footwear

but the strongest. .



When you walk out to meet Winter on his own ground, go well shod.



Your father before you doubtless wore “Ball-Band” Boots or Arctics

when he fought his way to barn and field and town; and the same high

quality, the same protection against cold and snow and hard wear is built

in the “Ball-Band ” Arctics you can buy today.





Examine a “Ball— Band” 4—Buckle Arctic





Take it up to the window. Put your hands in it. Feel the smooth

woolen lining-not a wrinkle or a loose spot in it—the rubber and

the lining are one—they cannot be separated.



Now look at the tongue or gusset that comes up over the instep

and protects the front doubly. It is not a separate thing like the

tongue in your shoes but it folds, leaving no crack, crevice or scam for the

water to get in. , — ~



The strong "heavy sole will attract your attention. See how neatly it is

joined to the upper without a seam. You know it will never break away.

The thickness, toughness and flexibility of the sole assure you of long wear.



_ See the reinforcement at every bend and wherever the strains come. No

wonder “Ball-Band” Arctics wear so long.





‘r Every “BallvBand” Arctic passes

through 33 skilled hands





You realize when you examine one of these arctics what

skill is required to put together the many pattern pieces

of rubber and cloth that make an article of footwear so

warm and so durable. ' _



Each of the 33 workmen does his work by hand and

he is expert at his particular part of the work.



Over ten million men and women are careful to look

for the Red Ball—the “Ball—Band” Trade Mark, for

they know that it means comfort, warmth and More

Days Wear. .



We make nothing but footwear and we know





MISHAWAKAWRUBBER & WOOLEN MFG. Co.

328 Water Street Mishawaka, Ind.





“The House That Pays Millions forQuaIity”





“BAL.L@BAN o”





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' Look forthe

RED BALL

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Look for the Red Ball. '

It is on every pair of

“Ball‘Band” Rubber and

Woolen Footwear. If your 1

dealer does not handle

“Ball-Band” write for

dealer’s name and the free

booklet, “More Days

Wear.” It: shows many

kinds of Boots, Arctics, :

LightRubbers,WorkShoes, ‘

Sport Shoes, Wool Boots

and Socks— something for

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latent market news. shipping tags. etc. all

sent FREE. For quick action. till one and

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To MoMIllAI FIR & WOOL 00.

“INNEAPOLIO, "INN.



Old Reliable (47 yrs) and urgent Dealers In the Northwest.



Pay High Prices. Quick Returns. Satisfaction.



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‘ DIRECT 1'0 "1'5

[RS THE VVEgVRW’S

LARGEST FUR MARKET



You'll Get Better Grading and BIGGER





o PAY FOR YOUR CATCH.

SHIP QUICK~WE NEED ALL or YOUR FURS.





- Treuure Boolu oI Supplies at Lowell Cosl, Guaranteed

FREE Prire Lists, Shipping Tap, Market Reports, etc.





”rue to W. IRVING HERSKOVITS FUR C0,. Inc.

' 109 West 24th Street, New York-Dept 229 I





 





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“\I

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1 .000 .000 shippers ’





in North America and

eech one can

satisfied!





mend: chip lo us every year. Do you '

ehinte DORMAN? onere mining j ‘\ .

eendpnc W01! 5

ohm enioy. They know that they can

on top market pricee. cor-

rect grains. and quick returns.

Wepey uproar. and ”redundancy

eel deduct no com-intone. .

‘He nmiriend. WriieNOerr our.” _«.





'w FURS, Gin-sews, are.

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. HYDHAULIcsau’fifisrknfinsox





I I USE best investmcnt is a water





system including” a hydraulic ram.





4‘“ “A short dis’tance'ifrom our barn is a





spring-fed stream. " .In this stream, un-

der an. eighteen-inch fall, we. installed

the ram. From there a pipe carries





f the water to a tank in the barn, where ,

g the how is controlled by a float.





Just

outside the barn, another pipe is com





' nected with the first and leads to an-

other tank in the attic of the house.





When the flow to the barn stops, the

water must go to the house. Both of

these tanks are usually full. The attic

tank and a. range boiler furnish hot





' Land cold water in abundance for bath-





room and kitchen. This saves labor

at the house and the live stock does

much better when supplied with an

abundance of. good frgsh water above

freezing temperature—Fred Ellison.





PICKS THE SILO.





CONSIDER the best investment I



have made on my farm to be the

silo. It enables me to take care of

the'corn crop early before the fall

work ison, and also makes possible

the handling of the corn at less ex-

pense. Silage is an excellent feed for

cows, and when fed with oats or bar-

ley and a. little cottonseed meal, brings

good results. It is also a first-rate

feed for wintering horses, and I use it

to feed the chickens. In all, I consid-

'er the silo my best bet—L. G. Bush.





PINS HIS IFAITH ON THE MANURE

SPREADER.





0 select from the varied equipment





of a modern farm, any one article.





and say “that is my, best investment,”

is not an easy task. However, what

little success I may have attained as a.

farmer, I think can be attributed to

the purchase of a. manure spreader.



Spreading from a wagon more than

125 loads of manure annually is no

small job, and was the bugbcar of the

live stock business to me. Consequent-

ly, to my financial loss and to the

detriment of the soil I tilled, I hold

closely to a cash crop system with his

attendant depletion of the soil.



With a spreader I can now do in

half a. day what required fully at day

before, and with the expenditure of

much less energy on my part.



Without a spreader the job was post-

poned, because the wagon was not

ready, or it wouldn't pay to get it

ready to haul only one load or two.

This, of course, resulted in the loss of

Much fertility.



Further, a wagon soaked up periodi-

cally with barnyard seepage must de-

teriorate more rapidly than if cared

for and properly used. -



To the purchase of a spreader must

be attributed my change of farming,





which, in turn, has brought many com- '





forts and conveniences (not mention-

ing the better condition of the soil due

to the growing of legumes and the con-

servation of fertility), which we other-

wise would not have had.





ELECTRICITY HIS BEST INVEST-

MENT.





N the operation of my farm of sixty-



five acres I endeavor to have the

tools and equipment that make for

profit and efficiency. The one invest—

ment, I believe, that combines profit,

efficiency and pleasure to the greatest

degree is the installation of electricity.



Several years ago I arranged with

the electric company supplying cur-

rent to the nearby village, to extend

their line to my farm. Our home,

barns and outbuildings are wired. The

turn of’ a. switch fills any room in the

house from cellar to attic with abund-





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t "front."





of a lantern.“dolng chores” unneces-

sary. In fact, the horse and cow bkrns

being electrically lighted, and , lights





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My Mort Prafltaé/e

' Winter foé ‘





I GOT such a satisfactory thrill

from the response to our last

contest, that I am going to try

another. Finding winter work"

is a real problem with many; So

let us hear from those who have

found worth—while tasks for the

cold months. Simply tell in a

letter what your most profitable

winter job is, and mail to The

Handy Man, Michigan Farmer,

Detroit, Michigan, on or before

December 24. To each of the

writers of the five best letters



one dollar will ‘be sent.





 





 





 





in the .barn peaks filling the mows

and lofts,with plentiful light, “chore

time” is reduced one-third.





A motor operates the milking ma-





 





» ' ma ‘ lights asst-sums“

conveniently placed outside lights the

iiawn and barnyards, making thouse .





These-”systems pump

quired for the house,





chine, iron, vacuum sweeper,'ian afih

curling-iron! From arising to Red



there is scarcely an hour that clots

tricity is not used on our farm every

day in the year and it is equally avail

able any hour of the night. '





The monthly bill is about $5. 50, $2.25 .





for milking; lights





31 50; pumping?





$1. 25; washing, ironing, “cleaning, hie... ’ '





fifty cents

Electricity certainly makes farm

work and life lighter, and instead ofa

luxury is a luxurious necessity. -—-—A. 0.

Howard. ,

WATER SYSTEM lNSTALLED

THIRTY YEARS.





HAVE running water in the house.



This system was installed thirty

years ago. I use wind power, which

is working as good today as when put

in. The first [cost was about $150, and

$1.00 a year would cover the upkeep.

There is also a spring located in the

center of the .«farm so I have little

worry in keeping the house and the

live stock supplied—George W. Rice.





 





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CONDEMNING LAND.





' The cemetery wishes to buy land of

my father’s, which he does not want

to sell. Can they condemn the land

for that purpose ?——E. E.





Land cannot be condemned for bur-

ial purposes—Rood. -





TRAPPING 0N ANOTHER’S

- PROPERTY.





A. is a man fifty-five years of age

and B. is a young man about twenty-

three. A. owns property—a farm hav-

ing a creek running through it. He

has a good fence, but there has been a

wash-out and he built a fence around

the wash-out. B. sets traps on A.’s

property and A. pulls the traps, as

you said he could. Yesterday A. met

B. and B. gave A. a beating. B. swore

at A. and called him names. What

can be done, if anything?——\V. D.





An action for damages 1ies,for as-

sault and battery, and B. is liable crim-

inally for breach of the peace and

assault and batterwaood.





SKUNKS AND TAXES.





Must. a person secure a license to

raise skunks? Can a law be passed

at a township meeting. to the effect

that a man must pay double the

amount of his assessment who does

not work out his road tax?—VV. R. N.





No license is required to raise

skunks. But a. private game preserve

may be established by the state game

warden on application. The person

who works out his road tax is credited

the agreed price for his services. The

person who pays" cash pays the face

of the tax and no more, unless he

allows it to go to default—Rood.





CAPACITY OF A WAGON BOX.





Would you kindly tell me the num-

ber of bushels of com a box fourteen

feet long, seven feet wide and fifteen

inches high would hold?——C. McK.





Multiplying the length, width and

height of this box infect, and the

product by 1,728, the number of cubic

inches in a cubic foot, gives 211,680

the cubic inches in this box. Since

there are 2,747.7 cubic inches" in a

bushel of shelled corn, by dividing the

211,680 by this 2,747.7 gives 77. 04 as





the number of bushels of shelled com I.





in the box. If it be ear corn then \de-

duct one-third, the weight of the cobs.

One-third of 77.04 is 25.68; subtracting

this from the 77.04 leaves 51.36 the

number of bushels of ear com the box

would hold. These figures assume that

the box is filled level full.





KEEPING PLOWS IN SHAPE.





Every year the moulboards of our

plows get rusty and it takes much

time to get them well scoured again in

tho spling Is there any easy way of

preventing this ?——Reader.



Merely greasing these surfaces with

axle grease or a heavy oil will prevent

this trouble.





A LAND DISPUTE.





We bought a farm eighteen years

ago, previous owner living on adjoin-

ing faInI The second year we were

there there was some dispute as to

our line, so he finally had his sur-

veyed, which brought the line fence

about five feet over on the frontage

and about twenty-five feet at the rear.

He has laid his plot into lots now, and

some of the buyers of the lots claim

still more of our ground. Can we

trust the man who surveyed for him

to survey for us, or is there any

chance of them being dishonest?—

IV. C. I)



If the original survey was made by

agreement between the parties to de-

teimine the lino, and they then agIeed

to the line as. fixed by the surveyor,

that survey determines the line wheth

er it is right 01' Wrong—Rood.





A’ BINDING CONTRACT.





My deceased wife's father and moth-

er owned eighty acres of land, forty

acres was joint deed and forty acres

with deed wheie three children had to

sign off in order for father to sell.

Father agreed to give éach a share,

which was $225 and father had chil-

dren sign an agreement to pay him

six per cent interest on their share as

long as he lived. Was this legal? nI

also signed the agreement to, please

wife. Am I obliged to continue to pay

her share of interest as she died six

years ago? Have paid it, until this

year—M. L. - '



The promise of oneis sufficient con-





‘ sideration to support the promises of





the other. It looks like a binding con-j





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I? nicipal farm produce market

tor the display of farm produce will





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3. j time 189 scrubs have been got rid of.





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. to indicates that

his. there has been

" 3' per cent in the num-

“two years old and





HE Sault Ste.- Marie city commis-

sign has voted to establish a mu-

Stalls





{be prayided but at present a building





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' .SPRAYlNG INCREASED YlELDS.' ‘





 





SPRAYING test for apple trees



Was undertaken in Iran county,

’the past season, which demonstrated

that sprayed trees yielded 24. 3 pounds

of sound fruit more than came from

the unsprayed trees, out of every 100

pounds produced.





 





‘ RUSHING ouT; THE SCRUBS.





 





.0 date, it is reported, 118 pure-



bred sires have heen placed on the

dairy farms of the peninsula pursuant

to the better sire campaign sponsored

the past season by the Upper Penin-

sula Development Bureau and the Ex-

tension Department of the Michigan

College. At the same





 





CLOVERLAND FIELD PEAS AT

INTERNATIONAL.





 





N exhibit of field. peas was sent

from Ewen, Ontonagon county, and

won prizes at the International Grain

and Hay Show at Chicago, Nov ember

29 to, December 6. Over fifty farmers





I. in southern Ontonagon county have





been growing pedigreed field peas of





L the Scotch Green variety, the county





agent reports.





 





HOLDING SEED POTATOES.





 





ICKINSON county farmers who



have groWn certified seed pota-

toes this year have decided to hold all

their output for spring delivery rather

than accept the rather low price ob-

taining this fall. The prevailing price

is reported to be seventy-five cents for

certified stock and it is believed that

advance to nearly $1 by

spring. The farmers will therefore

store their‘ potatoes through the win-

ter. They have Green Mountain seed.





ALFALFA FEVE‘R SPREADS.





 





OURTEEN farms in Houghton

county, it is announced, will plant

alfalfa next spring. Four carloads of

lime for- the treatment of the soil is

already on hand. A special test of





_ dairy cattle in the Oskar and Liminga





districts of Houghton county has been

carried out by the Division of Animal

Industry of the State Department of

Agriculture, County Agent L M. Geis-

mar having arranged for these tests.

Cattle to the number of 121 were test-

ed without disclosing any reactors.





EXPLOSIVES.





 





’ I HE pyrotol that has been delivered

to Upper Peninsula farmers has





if?“ then: $8. 25 per hundred pounds





past spason, as against $6 23 for.





 

 

 





Spurchased a year ago. Pyrotol

it 1 SW??? from rpm to

(m ‘ta 9Ehe hundred

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E‘Za‘bout as much Icicle in it.“ There is

. ' saidf to have been a fifty per cent in-





credits: in the use of explosives for

land-clearing the past season. Much





of this is government war salvaged -





eprOSiVes.





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MRS. LANG HEADS TESTING

‘7 ' ASSOCIATION.





 





 





'« .Rs. MAE LANG; of Blayney,



S'choolcraft county, has been

elected president of the Schoolcraft

Cow Testing Association. This is be-

lieved to 'be a unique instance of a

woman holding such a position in

-northern Michigan. Mrs. Lang has

been active in securing the establish-





'"‘ment of the new Schoolcraft Associa-





tion and is herself a well—established

dairy farmer. There are twenty-three

members in the association. An Enga-

dine banker assisted a group of farm-

ers in his territory to finance the en-

terprise and accompanied the farmers

to the organization meeting at Manis-

tique.





START snow-INS CERTIFIED

SEEDS.





 





HROUGH cooperation with the



Michigan Ag1‘cultura1 College Ex-

periment Station at Chatham, a. num-

ber of Iron county faimers planted

pure certified seed grain, the past sea-

son, and now, as then reward, have

certified seed to dispose of to their

neighbors. This seed includes Wol-

verine oats, Wisconsin pedigreed bar-

ley and Rosen rye. It is believed that

there is also an advantage in securing

northern-grown seed which has become

acclimated to this latitude. A few

farmers have grown certified seed po~

tatoes in Iron county which also will

be disposed of locally to the mutual

advantage of grower and purchaser.





SHORT COURSES AT MAR-

QUETTE.





 





HROUGH a cooperative arrange-

ment between the Northern State

Normal School, Marquette, and the





Engineering Department of the Michi— .





gan Agricultural College, a short en-

gineering course for farmers will be

offered at the Normal School next

January



The Michigan Agricultu1al College

will furnish the technical staff and the

Northern State Normal School will

provide rooms and equipment, and to

some extent the, instructors of the Nor—

mal School will be called upon for

assistance. It is estimated that $25





‘will cover the expense for those who





take advantage of this opportunity.



Instruction will be given in the oper—

ation of gas engines and tractors, in

machinery investment, repair and up—

keep, and in farm buildings and silos.

This is the first thing of the kind so

far attempted in the Upper Peninsula

and its results will be watched with

much interest.





TELLS How To USE SALVAGED

TIMBER IN BUILDING.”





 





HE Engineering Department of the

Michigan Agricultural College has

published a bulletin relating to the use





' E I-ISE INCREASING QUANTITIES 0F of salvaged farm timber in construct-





ing farm buildings. The bulletin was





prepared by Mr. George Anderson, of





the college extension staff, located at

Marquette, and is based on his study

of Upper Peninsula conditions. The

material for this bulletin was gathered

locally and is based on the experi-

ences of our farmers. The bulletin is

being distributed through the Mar-

guette office of the M.‘ A. G. Extension

Department, which has charters in the:





Ma uette county" court house.





 





 

 

 

 





 

 





 

   

   

   

   

 

 





   

   





 





   

   

 

 





 





   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 





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p .e'theateryhinrsef‘ '

ceasing the dramatic quality necessary

to the successful following‘of“ his-pm

tession. . . - -‘

‘ “In this. way Selina, halffhidden in

theidopths of an orchestra seat, wrig-

. gladin estatic anticipation when; the

" curtain ascended on the grotesque

‘ rotvs of Haverly’s minstrels. She. wept



(as did Simeon)) over theasonies of

The TWO Orphans when Kittyz'Blanch-

ard and McKee Rankin came to Chi-

. ‘cago with the Union Square Stock

Company. She witnessed that start-

ling innovation, 8. Jewish play, called

Samuel of ,Posen. She saw Fan-

ny Davenport in Pique. Simeon even

took her to performance of that shock-

ing and delightful form of new enter—

tainment, the Extravaganza, She

thought of the plump creature in tights

and spangles, descending the flong

stairway, the most beautiful being she

had ever seen.



“The thing I like about plays and

books is that anything can happen.

Anything! You never know,” Selina

said, after one of these evenings.



“No different from life,” Simeon

Peake assured her. “You’ve no idea

the things that happen. to you if you

just relax and take them as they

come.”



Curiously enough, Simeon Peake

said this, not through ignorance, but

deliberately and with reason. In his

way and day he was a Very modern

father. “I want you to see-all kinds,”

he would say to her. “I want you to

realize that this whole thing is just a.

grand adventure. A fine show. The

trick is to play in it and look at it at

the same time.”



“What whole thing?”





“Living. All mixed up. The more

kinds of people you see, and the more

things you do, and the moreJthings

that happen to you, the richer you are.

Even if they’re not pleasant things.

That’s living. Remember, no matter

what happens, good or bad, it’s just

so much”——he used the gambler’s term,

unconsciously—“just so much velvet."



But Selina, somehow, understood.

“You mean that anything’s better than

being Aunt Sarah and Aunt Abbie.”

“Well—yes. ‘There are only two

kinds of people in the world that real

ly count. One kind’s wheat and the

other kind’s emeralds.”





“Fanny Davenport’s_ an emerald,”

said Selina, quickly, and rather sur-

prised to find herself saying it.



“Yes. That’s it.”





“And~—and Julie Hempel’s father—

he’s wheat.” '



“By golly, Selel” shouted Simeon

Peake. “You’re a shrewd little tykel”



It was after reading “Pride and

Prejudice” that she decided to be the

Jane Austen of her time. She became

very mysterious and enjoyed a brief

period of unpopularity at Miss Fister’s

owing to her veiled allusions to her

“work” and an annoying way of smil-

ing to herself and tapping a rumina-

tive toe as though engaged in visions





   





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Now, that day you. were telling me

about the young man in your .father’s

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"Selina .Peake, if you dare to put

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“All right. I won’t. But that’s what

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onions and baked tomatoes. .And for

dessert, apple roll.” '



Selina snapped the elastic holding

her. high-crowned hat under her chig—

non of hair in the back. She uttered

a. final an‘d~quavering groan. “OnMon-

day nights‘ we have cold mutton-and '

cabbage at Mrs. Tebbitt’s. This is

Monday.”





“Well then, silly, why not stay?”



“Father comes home at six. If I’m

not there he’s disappointed.” '



Julie, plump, blond, placid, forsook

her soft white blandishments and tried

steel against the steel of Selina’s de-

cision.



“He leaves. you right after supper.

And you’re alone every night until

twelve and after." ~



“I don’t see what that has to do with

it,” said Selina, stiffly. ‘



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Julie. Now Julie, fond though defeat-





ed, kissed her friend ghodnbye; , ,

Selina walked quickly the short dis-





tance from. the Hempelfhouse to Tebm





bitt’s, on Dearborn Avenue. Up in'her'

second~floor room she took off her :hat





and called to her‘ father, ‘but he thud - -





not yet come in. She was glad of that.





She had been fearful of being late.‘





She regarded her hat now with some

distaste, decided to rifi off the faded

spring roses, did rip a stitch or two,

only to discover that the hat’ material

was more faded than the roses, and

that the uncovered surface showed up

a dark splotch like a -wall-spot,when

a picture, long hung, is removed. So'

she got a needle and prepared to tack

the offending rose in its accustomed

place. .. ‘

. Perched on the arm of 'a chair near

the window, taking quick deft stitches,

'she heard a sound. She .had‘never

heard that sound beforckthat peculiar

sound—the slow, .ominous tread of

men laden with a heavy inert, burden;

bearing with infinite care that which

was well beyond hurting. Selina had

never heard that sound before, and

yet, hearing it,» she recognized it by

one of those pangs, centuries old, call-

ed woman’s instinct. Thud~—shuffle——

thud—shuffltFup the _ narrow stair-

way, along the pass‘age. She stood up,

.the needle poised in her hand. The

.hat fell to the floor. Her eyes were,

fixed. Her lips slightly parted. The

listening 100k. She knew. ,

She knew even before she heard the

hoarse man’s voice saying, "Lift ’er

up there a little on the corner, n‘ow.

Easy—~e-e—easy.” And Mrs. Tebbitt’s

high shrill clamor: “You can’t bring

it in there! You hadn’t ought to bring

it in here like this!” - .. ,

Selina’s suspended breath came

back. She was panting now. Shebad

flung open the door. A flat still bur-

den, partially cdvered with an overcoat

carelessly flung over the face. The

feet, in their square-toed boots, wob-

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“The Child, the Wise Men and the

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, away to fellow after superstition.” But



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then, that ye who deny Christ have



“built no hospital of your own to which



to send your sick?" But the Great

Thinker was silent. Then she told

,1 what Christ had meant to her; how

He had stilled her fears, forgiven her



sins, helped her to bear her load. Just



‘, . then when she needed. Christ most,



' . the book of the Great Thinkers was



put into her hand. She said she felt

instinctively that its teaching was

false, but when she wanted to believe

in Christ again, she could not, and in

her agony of spirit she had sent for

the Great Thinker to come and offer

her something in place of her Christ.

“What hast thou to give me, a dying

woman,” she cried, “in place of the

faith I have lost?” “But the Great

Thinker was silent, and when next I

looked he was gone, and 'the woman

lay dead:"



— . ' The fact of‘Christ is what holds the

world ’together. All varieties of the

church held by‘ Him. When you enter

a Roman Catholic churchyathere He

hangs upon the cross. When you enter

a Protestant church, there is the Bible

on the pulpit, telling of His life, death

and resurrection. When you read of

some national political convention, or

international convention, some one op-

ens it with prayer in the name of

Christ. Bethlehem is the greatest fact

‘in the world. We might get on with

out London, if we had to, or Paris, or



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to be his son’ 3 grave,

whére he had fallen.



I. In the same way- the Bethlehem

manger leads men to the land of

heart’s desire, if they will but go in

that direction. There is peace and

mutual understanding, and the solving

of doubts, the assuaging of fear.





"AVE you ever looked into a hymn

"book to see the number of hymns

on/the birth of Christ? “It came upon

a midni' ht clear,” “Joy to the world!

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But why did He come? N0. event

like this could take place that did not

have its basis in the deepest of rea-

sons; And the answer is, love? “For

God so loved the world.” Notice that

He'loved- the world. Christ did not

He came

not to Jews only, or Greeks, or Amer-

icans, but to the whole race of man-

kind. Thebook of Revelation is right

when it speaks of “a great multitude,

which no man could number, of all na-

tions, and kindreds, and people and

tongues.” It requires a man of might

to fulfill such a mission, but Christ

fulfilled it to the last letter. He left

nothing unsaid or undone. When it

was all over He could say, “I have

finished the word which Thou hast

given Me to do.”





Bethlehem, How still we see thee _





lie!” “Holy Night, peaceful night,”

“HarkL the 'hearld angels sing,”

“While shepherds watched their flocks

by night.” There are many more.

They are among the most familiar

songs known. The singing of them

brings joy to the heart.



It is a pity that most of the Christ-

mas greeting cards on sale have no

reference to the religious nature of

Santa Claus is worked

pretty nearly to death, and reindeer,

fireplaces with stockings in a row, and

so forth, are the principal subjects. It

is a pity there is no mention of the

Royal Birthday. Such greeting cards

with a religious sentiment can be had,

and if there were a demand-for them,

they would appear in larger numbers.

Dear old Santa Claus ought to be giv-

en. a well—earned rest. He is a poor

substitute at best for the Babe that

the wise men came to see.





ODAY’S lesson is from John, and



is the deepest and most philoso

phical description of Christ’s advent,

of an‘yjof the gospels. John does not

describe the birth as do the others,

but begins before that, saying that the

Word (that is, Christ) existed before

the creation of the world, that it was

Christ who created everything. Then

he adds that this Word, this God who

had existed always, came into the

World and dwelt among us. The word





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SUBJECT:—God’s gift to the world.

John 1:14-18, and 3:16-21. : j

GOLDEN TEXTz—For God so loved

the world that He gave His only

begotten Son, that whosoever be-

lieveth on His should not perish,

but have eternal life. John 3.16.





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(Continued from page 552).





bled listlessly. Selina noticed how

shiny the boots were. He was always

very finicking about such things.



Simeon Peake had been shot in Jeff

Hankin’s place at five in the after—

noon. The irony of it was that the

bullet had not been intended for him

at all. Its derelict course had been

due to feminine aim. Sped by one of

those over-dramatic ladies who, armed

with horsewhip or pistol in tardy de-

fence of their honor: Spangled Chica-

go’s dull ‘80s with their doings, it had

been meant for a well—known newspa-

per publisher usually mentioned (in

papers other than his own) as a bon

vivant. The lady’s leaden remonstrance

was to have been p100f of the fact

that he had been more vivacious than

bon.



It was, perhaps, because of this that

the matter was pretty well hushed up.





The publisher’s paper—which was Chi—1





for Christmas





Very W art/z W /zz/e





“There is no frigate like a book

To take us miles away.”



The many and. delightful excursions

one can take with travel books can

bring release from the too narrow con-

fines of our daily rounds of work, no

matter what that work may be. Travel

books widen our boundaries, lengthen

and deepen our viewpoint and sympa—

thies and understandings of the peo—

ples of other lands.



Travel books I have suggested will

prove good enjoyment and fascinating

company. They are all well illustrated.





The Spell of Egypt, $1. 75, by Robert

Hichens.



The Mountains of California, $350;

The Yosemite, $3.50, by John Muir.



The Adirondacks, $3.50; The Cats-

kills, $3.50, by T. Morris Longstreth.



Vagabonding Down the Andes,

$5. 00; Roaming Through the West In-

dies, $5.00; Tramping Through Mex-

ico, Guatamala and Hounduras, $3.00;

Afoot in Spain, $3. 00; A Vagabond

Journeia Aron n’d the World, $5. 00;

ZOne olicemen, (Panama Canal

Zone) $3.00, by Harry Frank.



White Shadows in the South Seas,

$5.00; Mystic Is es of the South Seas,

$5. 00 by Fredei ck O’Brien



Abroad at Horne, $5. 00; American

Adventures, $5. 00, by Julian Street.

All of the above named books are

gublished by The Century Company,



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‘ Lanterns. $3.50,

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Empire in the Making, ‘ $3 00

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scream), Dorraine Co., Philadelphia,

Penn.



Letters from a Distance, $2 50, (Af-

éiica), Thomas Seltze1 Co., New York





1A0. Little Book of the South Lakes,





A Little Book of Brittany, $1. 50.

Finland and Its People, $1. 50.

A Donkey Trip Through Spain,

$4.00.

Dining in Paris, $1.50.

The Lure of the Riviera, $2.00.

Rome in Seven Days, $1.50.

Picture Tours of Europe, $2.50.

As it is in England, $2. 00

Finding the VVorth- while in Europe,





0.0

The Great White South, $3.00.

N01 wegian Towns and People, $1. 50.‘

London in Seven Days, $1.50.

Paris in Seven Days, $1.50.

The above named books are publish-

ed by Robert McBride Company, New

York City.

Lure of the Mediterranean, $4.00.

Pictures que Sicily, $4.00, Harper

Bros, New York City.

A Vision of Morono, $4. 00.

Carpenter’s World Travels, $4. 00, (a

volume).

Sea Tracks- of the Speejacks, $5. 00,

Doubleday—Page Co., New Yory City.

A Palestine Notebook, $3.50.

Belgium, by Brand Whitlock, $5. 00,

D. Appleton Co., New York City.

Travels in East Anglia, $3. 00, Har-

court Brace Co., New York City.

The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick,





$2.





Dickenson Inns and Taverns, $2. 75,

gigs. Scribners’ Sons Co. ., New York





herself the trouble of trial by bums

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_ Simeon Peake left his daughter Se-

lina a legacy of two fine clear blue

white diamonds (he had had the gum

ble1’ 5 love of them) and the sum 6





 





 

 





 

 





in cash. Just how he had managed to

have a sum like this put by was

mystery. The envelope containingi

had evidently once held a larger Sum."

It had been sealed, and then slit. 011'

the outside was written, in Simeon

Peake’s fine,_a1most feminine hand:

For my little daughter Selina. Peake in 'v

case anything should happen to me."

It bore a date seven years old. ¢that

the original sum had been no one ever

knew. That any sum remained was

evidence of the almost heroic self-com '

trol practised by one to whom money

—ready money in any sum at all——





 





his gaming fevei.



To Selina fell the choice of earning

her own living or of returning to the

Vermont village and becoming a with-

ered and sapless dried apple, with

black fuzz and mould at her heart, like

her aunts, the Misses Sarah and Abbie

Peake. She did not hesitate.



“But what kind of work?” Julie

Hempel demanded. “What kind of

work can you do?” Women—that is,

the Selina. Peakes—did not work.



“I——well. I can teach.”



“Teach What?”





“The things I learned at Miss

Fisters.” l



Julie’s expression weighed and dis-

credited Miss Fister. “Who to?”

Which certainly justified her expres-

sion.



“To children. People’s children.

in the public schools.”



“You have to do: something first—-

go to Normal, or teach in the country,

don’t you?—before you can teach in

the public schools. They’re mostly old.

Twenty-five or even thirty——or more!"

with nineteen’s incapacity to imagine

an age beyond thirty.



That Julie was taking the offensive

in this conversation, and Selina the de-

fensive, was indicative of the. girl’s

numbed state. Selina did not then

know the iron qualities her friend was

displaying in being with her at all.

Mrs. Hempel had quite properly for-

bidden Julie ever to see the dead dis-

solute gambler’s daughter again. She

had even sent a note to Miss Fister

expressing her opinion of a school

which would, by admitting such unse-

lected ladies to its select 011'c‘ie, expose

other pupils to contamination.



Selina rallied to Julie’s onslaught.

“Then I’ll just teach a country school.

I’m good at arithmetic. You know

that.” Julie should have known it,

having had all her Fister sums solved

by Selina. “Country schools are just

arithmetic and grammar and geogra-

phy.”





Or





(Continued next week).





THE PATHS OF DUTY.





 





Br ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH.

The paths of duty climb

The rugged ways of life;

Along their many miles

Are days with labor rife.





No glory crowns the end,

No glory cheers the way,



Each walks his path alone

From dawn to ending day.





 





\Ve cannot see afar

Some gleaming goal in view;

The corners turned, we find

No vista fair and new.





But with the closing day

When toil and labor cease,



We know who walks these paths

Comes home at last to peace!





 

 

 

 





 





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HRIST'MAS Day is only four new appearance.

days away and there is sure to zef streaking or





be a houseful of company, both





‘ grown folk and little folk. After they





haye enjoyed the bountiful dinner You

have been planning and preparing for

weeks, your guests will welcome some

active games. These will create real

fig}. for all the family.



Snow Ball.



When all the guests arrive have the

little host, or hostess draw into the

room a gayly decorated sled, filled

with white snowballs. These balls are

easily made by taking a piece of cot-

ton, the size and shape of a real snow—

ball and covering it with a strip of

white 'crepe paper nine inches long

and five indhes wide. Paste edges to-

gether and gather at the top and bot-

tom. Stretch the paper in the middle

to fit around the cotton. Roll the ball

lightly in gum arabic water and then

in diamond dust, or what is called

“snow.” Hang a large wreath of holly





 





AN is the will, and woman



the sentiment. In this ship

of humanity, Will is the rudder,

and Sentiment the sail; when

woman affects to steer, the rud-

der is only 'a masked sail.—

Emerson.





 





 





 





in the doorway and let the children in

turn throw their balls through the

wreath, the reward being a small

candy cane for each successful at-

tempt.



Christmas Candles.



Place a wee tree brilliantly lit with

tapers on a firm table just the right

height, blindfold a child, turn him or

her around three times and let them

.blow hard to see how many candles

they can blow out. The prizes for this

game may be candy~filled stockings.



’Twas the Night Before Christmas.



This game is played exactly like

stage coach only all the children have

names of things mentioned in the

well-known lyric, for instance, roof,

chimney, pranCer, dasher, etc. , At the

words St. Nicholas—all change seats.

’Tis best to have an older person name

the children for this game and then

read the poem to the little ones.



On the table for the centerpiece

have-a huge snowball “Jack Horner”

pie. Take a wire shaped like a bell

and leave an opening at the top, large

enough to take in the favors. Cover

with sheet wadding, then with white

crepe paper. Brush with liquid glue

and sprinkle diamond dust plentifully

over it. \Vrap thegifts in white pa-

per, tie with red ribbon, and run one

ribbon to each plate. Have a wreath

of holly'around the base of the snow-

ball.





use SOAP BARK 'To CLEAN DARK

WOOLS.





 





INTER is here and with it will



come '- the washing of woolens.

Members "of-the home economics de-

partment at State College state that

a Soap bark solution is more satisfac-

tory than soap or soap flakes for

washing dark wools. It is easy to use

and has good cleansing qualities. The





K , material retains that soft, feel. and





 





 





There is no ’dahger

spotting which “ire;

quently results when soap is used and-

when the rinsing is insufficient. ‘



Purchase a ten cen‘t package, or

about one ounce of soap tree bark

from the druggist. Place the barkvin

a kettle, pour one quart of boiling wa-

ter over it and allow it to simmer for

one-half to three-quarters of an hour.

Strain through cheesecloth. Use this

liquid as a soap solution.





 





shaped: balsam that is! bushy and/tap-





Vetting makes the best appearancelt





is well to have it reach lewer than





' the ceiling in order that ‘at the top





may be placed a single gold star in

memory of Bethlehem. The children

always wait for it to crown the whole

for then it is truly‘“Christmasy."

The. tree may be effectively potted

to resemble a large house plant. If it

is planted in a pot of soil and kept





. watered, it will last over New Year’s





 





 





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Yuletide





Martha Cole.





 





 





 





H OME is a precious place in winter. In the warm glow of the



fireside families grow closer together in love and happiness.

Winter brings Christmas, the season of cheer and good will to all.

And so it is, I wish you and each member of your family circle

greater joy, health and happiness throughout the coming year.—





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Prepare the lukewarm soft water for

washing and proceed in the usual way.

The soap bark solution will give a

good suds but will not feel soapy.

Rinse in water of the same tempera-

ture. Squeeze the water out of the

material but do not twist in wringing

as this mats the wool fiber.



Extremes of temperature in drying

are to be avoided, the college special-

ists say. Freezing or extreme heat

shrinks the material and makes it

harsh. Press on the wrong side be-

fore dry.





THE EMERGENCY DRAWER.





 





HE busy housewife always enjoys

the Christmas spirit, but with the

many household duties one usually is

in almost a panicto know what gifts

to prepare and how to find time for

the extra work, therefore, the gift

emergency drawer is of great help.

Into this drawer is placed all\ the

good tissue paper, bits of ribbon, pret-

ty scraps, for making small gifts; fin-

ished bits of handiwork, and many a

small article picked up when this

drawer is in mind. Its aid is invalu—_

able when birthdays and other special

occasions draw near.——Mrs. F. K. ‘





CHOOSE CHRISTMAS COLOR

SCH EME.





 





HOUSE trimmed in many colors

. is not, necessary to revail the

Christmas spirit.





Good taste in Christmas decorations.





for the home often depends upon the

soft colorings of winter foliage with

bright red native berries. The use of

colors that harmonize with [winter

gives a feeling of satisfaction and com-

fort to the family groupas well as the

guests, according to the Wisconsin

department of home economics. .



The Christmas tree is always the

main center of interest, even if. there

are no children, in the home.’ A well-





 





 





 





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Day without drying out and“ losing its

needles. The base may be covered

with a strip of green crepe paper and

tied with red ribbon. It may be well

to repeat the same color scheme on

the flower pots of Christmas bulbs and

pepper trees which are blooming in

the house at this time.





 





MISTLETOE HAS LEGEND.





IN olden days, as the story goes, Loki



had Baldur killed by a dart from a

mistletoe. To satisfy Frigg; the moth-

er of Baldur, the plant was dedicated

to her on the condition that it Would

not be allowed to touch the earth. In

memory of this, the mistletoe is now





 





Christmas Candies for Kiddie





WE grown-ups might'say, “what is

Christmas without kiddies," and

the kiddies probably think, “‘what is

Christmas without candy.”

The following are some recipes to

satisfy the sweet tooth:





Fruit Caramels.





at .... raisins as lb. nutmeats

115 lb. dates 3% lb. candied citron

1,5 lb. figs Juice of 11$ lemon





’25 lb. grated cocoanut Juice of % orange



Stone the dates. Put the raisins,

dates, figs, cocoanut, nut-meats and

citron through the food-chopper, add

the lemon and orange juice and mix

thoroughly. f Roll into bars three-quar-

ter-inch in diameter,( or pack into a

three square-cornered can and cut into

cubes. The balls or cubes may be

rolled in grated or povidered sugar.



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READING is one of the’greatest'joys

of childhood. The boOktess home

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No money sp’ént fer toys will stir-up

the imagination or yield as’ much

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One of the loveliest of children’s

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translated into many languages, is

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Seltzer, New York, at $3.00. This book





»will inculcate in your children the fine





unities of a rich heart and mind.





The “Land of Mulsehliew,” publish- “ 5





ed by Rand McNally, of Chicago, at

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volume of Mulsehliew and it will oerh

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heart as well as grown-ups who enjoy ‘ '





beauty, and also like to read the much

worth-while fairy books—I. W.’





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’5 Creamed. Peas Baked Squash

,.Home-made Brown and White Bread

I ~ .' and Butter

Mixed Pickles Cabbage Salad





., Red Raspberry Jam.

Cranberry Sauce . Jelly

. Coflee ,

Vsuet Pudding Pumpkin Pie with

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I escallop the oysters because it

saves an extra course. My pudding

and cranberry sauce I shall make a

couple of days before Christmas so

as to have them out of the way. The

children crack the walnuts, hickory

and butternuts and pick out the meats

to be used in the pudding and candies.





. After dinner the dishes will be

“stacked,” as I have three grown-up

daughters who will be home from

school and college to help “mother,”

and we will have the Christmas tree

shorn of its inexpensive little gifts for

every one, “listen in” on the radio,

music by the youngei ones, and last of

all, we older ones will sing the songs

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l Tomato Bisque ‘

N Gi'OWn Roast 61! Pork Spare Ribs

Dressing 2' Baked Apples

Mashed Potatoes .' '

Buttered Carrots and Peas,

Pickles

Beet Salad on Lettuce Leaves

Bavarian Cream and Wafers

Partly cook the spare ribs, then saw

the bones through the center. Stand

on the larger end and fasten in a cir-

cle, cutting part way down between

the bones so it will spread slightly at

the top. Put the dressing in the cyline

der thus formed, and bake. When

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Mashed Potatoes with Gravy Roast

Turkey

Souffled Squash

Goldenglow Salad ’ Cranberry





Marmalade .



Ice Cream Apples



Jelly Filled Doughnuts



Coffee



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Clean and p'are three medium-sized

carrots, put through food chopper and

mix with two cups of chopped apples

and two cups of cele1y. Mix with a

.little mayonnaise dressing. Arrange

on crisp lettuce leaves and garnish

with a spoonful of dressing on each

portion.





Pickles

Lemon Pie





Ice Cream Apples.



This is a pretty way to fix ice cream.

Use a small cup to scoop the cream

out of the freezer, shape it roughly

with a silver knife in the form of an

apple, sprinkle this thickly with coca-

nut, stick a clove in each apple for a

stem. Stand each one on paper doily

on a. pretty plate.





 





 





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" T "-’Twas the night before Christmas

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The pretty green tree at Woodland

Corners that was to hold the presents

for the Christmas party needed little

trimming now. It was trimmed from

top to toe in crystal sheen.



“Oh, me! 011, my! Merry Christ-

mas,” sang each one as they danced

up to the tree to put their present on.



There was a little jointed doll made

of hickory nuts for Sally Squirrel, a

toy house of willow twigs for Jackie

Rabbit, and a big puff ball from the

oak tree for Sandy Squirrel. For little

Canny Coon there was a brand new

'sled. Right in the tip top of the tree

there was a pretty rabbit 'doll with

pink eyes for Jenny Rabbit. And ever

so many more things. Every animal

in Woodland from the big bear, Bruin,

to little Molly Meadow Mouse, was

there and each one had a present.





“Merry, Merry Christmas," they

sang when all the presents had been

taken from the tree. -



“Let’s have a sleigh ride,” suggest-

ed little Canny Coon. He was So anx-

ious to try his new sled.





‘ So off the scampered for their,

sleds. They met at the Old Frog

Pond Hill and soon Woodland was

ringing with their merry voices as

down the hill they flew. /



Long into the night the fun went

on until the Old Man in the Moon be-

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Some Interesting Letter: fimn Young Folk:





Dear Uncle Frank: ‘



. I notice that several of the boys and

girls are giving their choice of au-

thors. ‘ My favorite author is James

Oliver ,Curwood. It may be that his

books are interesting to me because I

am a great lover of all. outdoors, but

I also believe that his books have real

lessons behind them. I also enjoy the

works of Zane Grey and Peter B. Kyne

very much.



If this letter appears 'in print, I

would like to ask all the Merry Circ-

le‘rs who care to, and who have Chi-

nese Ring-necked pheasants on their

farms, to write me their (or their par-

ents’) opinion of the above-mentioned

bird; that is, whether or not they con-

sider it destructive—With all best

wishes, your sincere friend, Gerald S.

Richards, Lake Odessa, .Mich.



I am glad to know that you are a

lover‘ of the, great out-doors and like

wholesome books. Here is a chance

to start a pleasant pheasant discus-

sion.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am so busy learning to wash, bake

and keep house just now, as mother

is in Chicago on a visit. It seems a

privilege to take time to write.



Say, Uncle Frank, why can’t we

have a self—denial week? Think what

good the returns would do some less

fortunate children.



Do you know where I can find more

about the life of King C.‘ Stuart? I

think his history would be interesting.



Guess I had better ring off now, as

I am going to a box social in three

hours, and must get supper, wash the





 





lleta and Nelda Brenot Riding their

“Two-seated” Pony.





dishes, “wrinkle”

powder my nose.





bobbed hair.





‘cut it up for

belonged to his radio.





M. C.

M C.





mas.——Un cle Frank.





DEDH‘DINDDEDIDE





there may have been similar occur-





rences.





You certainly are bashful about your





guess.

You are between thirty and thirty—five,





you are a good one to





age, aren’t you? Let me make a





dark hair, and

tell a secret to.





I think I have contributed enough to

time.—-Yours for more

1, Mears,





W. B. for this

M. C.’s, Dorothy Rake, R.

Michigan.





I know nothing of the writer you

mention. You must have had to hurry

to get all those things done in three

hours, especially the powdering and

You are a poor guesser

The only thing

I’ll admit is that I think I can keep a

I bet there was some loud

speaking when you took that radio

wire. Your self-denial week is a good

idea. What do the M. C.’s think about





curling part.

when it comes to me.





secret





having one after the holidays?





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





In the letters that were on the boys’

I noticed a girl men-

When I was





and girls’ page,

tioned a horse—back ride.





about ten years old, my friend, my





sister and myself went back in the

My brother





When

we were all on and ready to go on our





pasture to get a horse.

went with us to lead the horse.





way home,





we had to go down a hill.

The horse





wanted to run and my





Our Burning Ambitions





Dear Uncle Frank:



To endeavor to repress my earnest

and sincere interest in this delightful

page, would be to commit a deed at

once both iniquitous and insincere, and

the significance of my letter may only

receive a mild ratification from its

readers, nevertheless, I pray that the

suggestion I am about to state will

meet the approval of its readers, and

will pass unheeded the recrements of

the less interested cousins.



The discussions on the much fav-

ored subject, “bobbed hair and knick-

ers” has long been “worn out,” and

though some apparently never seem to

tire of the debates on this subject, it

should be considered as a subject of

the ast, as various opinions have a1-

rea y been stated.



Why not each of us state our secret

ambition in life, Uncle Frank? Ah!

readers, every one of us have an ambi-

tion in life, and, yes! the tenants of

neglected graves once wrote on high a

name they deemed would meet no

death; the dreams and ambitions of

their lives are buried with them.

Would it not be interesting to know





ulary broad and well used.

accomplishments you have

mentals of making your burning ambi-‘

tion show its

literature.





of the one burning ambition our cous-

ins have in life? .



It is absolutely unfeasable to ignore

the secret calling in our life, and

therefore I do not hesitate to state

mine. My burning ambition in life is

to succeed as a writer! Always from

a child, I have been made conscious of

its pressure in various ways, and the

mere sight of birds, flowers, moonlight

suggested so strongly of my ambition,

that I would have acted injudiciously

to ignore it. Under the soft, effim‘inate

veil of delicacy that shrouds the most

beautiful writing can be concealed a.

world of agony and melancholy, simul-

taneously the wildest of rapture and

pleasure. 4



Does the M. C. demand one to sign





their name at the bottom of a letter?

Cannot I silently withdraw into the

dim vista ofthe Unknown and merely

sign myself as





“White Amaranth.”





Your style is exquisite, .your vocab;

With such

the funda-





light in the "world ‘of'





 





my hair, and (shh)





. Say,_Uncle Frank, I just thought of

a reason why boys might not like

I took some “old wire I

thought my brother had discarded, and

curlers, later finding it

Who knows,





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is the symbol of happiness and good cheer. 'It means

both Merry Christmas and Merry Circle.

.symbolizes the goodness of life.

the year but it should be anticipated rather for what can be given

than for what may be received.

happiness we can help them to

tion of the goodness of life is also a gift that will help others. It

is with this thought that I wish you all a big and bounteous Christ-





 





 





 





 

 





 

 





 





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be niece.

ter, Mich.





Your horse experience is interesti





Dagmar





When something gets beyond our c





' to You





Christmas

It is the most anticipated time of





Our greatest gifts to others is the

get. Our oWn best exemplifica-





never let go of the good things of li





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





many children have for pets.

cow.

is always into something.

how I trained her.





It is





ear of corn for her.

back, which is just

riding horseback. If anyone has a p





I can ride on h





R. 1, Olivet, Mich.

That cow. of yours must be one





she is also good for snooping.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I have an important question to ask

Our school has organized what

We

But





you.

is called the “Student Council.”

have had pretty good luck so far.

this is the puzzle. One person has

spite against another, and natural]





that person watches the other one real

.Then when he has a chance,

puts the other person's





close.

that person





name in the box for some little thin





that is not necessary. Then that per-





son is brought up before the council.





There are certain persons in this

school, Uncle Frank, that do that Very





thing. Now, what would you do?





Well, good-bye, and hope I can come

0., Byron,





again—Helen





Sheldon, M.

Mich.





I think spite work is one of the

smallest things a person can do. In

this life we’ve got to be good sports,





we’ve got to play fair and square.





should think your council members

would soon recognize the petty spite

work and not pay any. attention to

it. Have the complainer sign his name

That would stop

many. Then the council could chas-





to the complaint.





tise the complainer.





 





CLUB MEMBER STUDENTS AT

M. A. C.





 





The State Board of Agriculture has

for the past few years awarded schol-

arships at M. A. C. to club, members

who ,won “State” and “All County”

This recognition on "





championships. _

their part has been rewarded by an





ever-increasing number of former club '





members enrolling at M. A. C. as

students. . --





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we hit the ground insteadof the horse;

‘ know about it until

about three years ago—Your want-to-

Thomsen, Pentwa-





It is similar to many things in‘ life.





trol, we never know where it is going





to land us. ‘To stay on top, We should





I’ll bet I have something that not





I call her “Snoopy” because she

I’ll tell you

Every night when

I went after the cows, I would take

three or four ears of corn, until every

time she sees me she thinks I have an





like mine, I would like to hear about

it—Your loving niece, Emma Eellen,





those dual-purpose animals they talk

about, as she is good for milk, petting

and horse—back riding. And, I forgot,





 

     





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Whose members are. bright as (38,113,301?

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By. Edith Kingdon, M. 0., Traverse

City, Michigan.» .

Our Uncle Frank sure. is a dandy,

So generous with pens, flashlights and

’ candy; ' ‘ . '



He just laughs atthe kickers



That don’t approve of.knickers,

Because he knows they are handy. '





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





By Rex Ellis, Richland, Mich. ' y

A “knickerty-flicker,” called “Bob,”

Went out to hunt her a job, ’ .

Said the “knickerty—flicker,” ‘ - ~ 1,

fe, It sure makes me snicker, " '

The boss of the job’s such ‘a snob.





 





By Emma Sellen, Olivet, Michigan.

There was an M. C. they called Winnie,

They say she was terribly skinny,



She jumped in the tub .



And pulled out the plug

And went right on through

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Of 113-freshmen, thirty-one are for— "

mer club members, or 4.35% of the

of enrollment. -

Of 412 sophomores, fifty are former

club members, or 12.11% of the en-

rollment.

Of 3,692 juniors, twenty-seven are

former club members, or 7.31% of the





enrollment. .



Of 293 seniors, twenty-five are for- .

mer club members, or 8.41% of the ‘ ‘T 5

enrollmw. '





a Of the entire student body, number-

Y ing_1,791, 133 are former club mem-

bers, or 7.43% of the total enrollment.

It is of interest to‘ note that the 133

g former club members now e‘nrolled as ‘ 1

students at M. A. C. is the highest . ,

number who have enrolled during any ' ' ‘

given year. It is also of interest to

note that of the fifty-seven club mem- '

bers who enrolled as freshmen last, 2

year, fifty have returned as sopho~ ‘ .j "

mores for this year. The entire twen~' , ' -< i





ty—seven sbphomores of last year have

returned as juniors this year.





I Twenty-five per cent of the first- -~ .

year short, course men, and twenty- ' (

three per cent of the second-year short ~.

course men who enrolled during the

past college year were former club‘

members.—-—R. A. Turner, State- Club

Leader. -





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which were right. Some ofithe con-

testants lost ‘out because they did not

put their namesin the upper left hand

corner of the contest paper, and others

missed a chanCe of Winning by; not

putting their‘names on the contest pa-

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:ycdfrectpapers. .‘ . , .

‘ The lucky ten-"this Week were:

, , .. Fountain Pens.

.. Josephine V‘ander Mey,

' Michigan. '*

» Gladys .Coon, .R.~.2._ Clinton, Mich,

' Flashlights.



Laura Rose',R1, Marquette, Mich.

ward Glenn Stoerk‘; R. 1, .St..'Johns,

"Howard Glenn ’Stoerk,‘ R. .1, .St.

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BELOW are the correct answers t7)-

. the twenty mixed words in our

Word Puzzle, which appeared in our

DecemberG issue: '





,1. potatoes 11. barley

- 2. carrots 12. timothy

3. cauliflower 13. strawberries

4. peaches 14. raspberries

5. clover 15. celery

6. spinach 16. lettuce

' '7. onions 17. turnips

8. apples 18. cabbage

9. wheat 19. horseradish

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WHAT IS A COLD?





. LL of: us have colds,” writes a

‘ A subscriber. “What is a cold,

anyway?” '



It is hard to say, excepting that in

all likelihood it is not what you think

it is. In their early stages you may

expereince'watery eyes, running noses,

aching, sneezing, slight fever and a

general feeling of cussedness from

acute catarrh, influenza, measles, be-

ginning pneumonia, sinus infection, or

a dozen other things.



Some doctors advocate classifying

all such symptoms under the name of

“catarrhal fever,” simply to do away

with the miserable diagnosis so often

made, ”A bad cold.”



This diagnosis has been responsible

for hundreds of deaths. A man de—

cides that he has “a bad cold.” Of

course, it won’t do to give up work

,just for a. cold, so he stays on the job

. until pneumonia comes and a diag-

‘ ‘ nosis is made that he can’t get away



from. Meantime he has suffered tre—

mendous damage through being up and

active when he should have been rest—

ing quietly in bed. Had the diagnosis

of f‘catarrhal fever” been made, in-

stead of “bad cold,” he would have

gone. to bed and stayed there until

’, . well. ’

‘ I am not trying to make business

for the doctors. All the good ones

have plenty to do, anyway. But I be-

lieve that altogether too many lives

are lost' every year because “colds”

. , are‘considered a light matter. I insist

that every cold that has associated

with it a rise of temperature is en-

titled to rest in a comfortable bed

until "all trace of fever has disap-

peared- * *

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~ #:1131118 I_‘f.bfid Colds” or “a touch of the



'Dé’f as diseases of a. sufficiently

' ; rousiype to reduire isolation and

rest 31 ”$1.15de am, sure that if all





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





 





 

 

 





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infested by bed-bu 5?

know what it is.— . S





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and will defy ordinary insect powders.

it yields most readily to gasoline. Boil





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everything that can be boiled. Strip

off the old wall paper, and, in putting

on thenew, mix “bitter apple” in the

paste. Take all the beds apart and

squirt gasoline into every corner and

along every crevice. Treat the wood-

work of the room likewise.





MAY REQUIRE YEARS.





Is inherited syphilis contagious?

What is the better treatment for it,

medicine or the needle? How long

does ittake to overcome a case of in-

herited syphilis ?—Subscriber.



1. Yes. 2. Sometimes medicine by

the mouth is helpful, but quicker re-

sults and more beneficial come by in-

jecting the medicine. The time needed

varies and the patient may'be under

observation for several years.





HAS CHRONIC HIVES.





We have a boy with chronic hives.

Our doctor says it is caused by a weed

pollen and if he finds which pollen

he call-II vaccinate against the trouble.



Your doctor’s explanation may be

true. We are finding many such things

of late. Asthma, eczema and other

mysterious and stubborn diseases have

yielded to treatment such as your doc—

tor proposes. Hives in chronic form

is a disease that does not yield to any

local application. Prolonged rest and

avoidance of all nerve strain is advis-

able. Ordinary “blood medicines” are

of no value.



PERHAPS OTHERS SHOULD GET



THIS LETTER.





I am a. young girl of eighteen and

am bothered very much with halitoms.

Have a heavily coated rtongue each

morning. and usually the coating re-

.mains all .day. My teeth are in good

condition, eat regularly, and am, as far

as I know, in perfect condition. Can

you tell me the cause of this, and a



. remedy ?~—-.‘R. 'D. .



I. have a special letter about hali-



tosls prepared tomeet the many lin-





q'uirteswabout that subject. Astamp'ed.





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Albion Evening Record .......... .. 5. 3.50 2.75 B’Iodem loultry Breeder . .50 1.25 .25

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Bay city Timon Tribune. 4.00 (4.50 3.75 1:011"? Success 1.00 1.50 .50

Goldwater moor-tor 4.00 4.25 .50 10w” Tribune ------- .00 1.25 .30

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Lannieucapitol News ............ 4.00 4.50 3.75 American Bo ~90 5-00 4.30

Monroe Now ............. 3.00 3.50 2.75 American Rigid-é;- 2.00 2.50 2.50

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Toledo News-Bee ................ 2.50 3.00 2.25 Christian Standard ---------------- 2.00 2.00 1.05

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Fort Wayne News Sentinel ....... 4.00 4.50-~ 3.75 come“ Weekly --------- 100 2.75 1.85

Fort Wayne Gazette ........ .. 4.00 4.50 3.75 Chm Life ------------ 2~00 2.50 1.75

South Bend Tribune (7 lane . 5.00 5.50 4.75 Country we ------------------- 3-00 3.00 2.50

Chicano Herald Examiner .5.00 5.25 4.75 Current Events -------------- 5-90 5.00 4.50

Chicago Daily Drovcrl' Journal .. 5.00 6.00 5.00 current Opinion """""""""""" "'0 1'50 ’ '55

Chicago Tribune ..l.............,.. 5.00 5.25 4.75 Cosmopollmu """"""" 383 3%: 3(2):;

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Chelsea Tribune ............ ......s2.00 52.50 51.75 ”“519“,“? and “man's annzinvn 1.50 2.15 1.25

Mason County Enterprise 2.00 2.50 1.75 Detoctlrc Story Magazine ----- “-00 “40 550

WEEKLY Igdlgatlonal Review ......... 3.00 3-25 3.00

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Almont Herald ,, , $1.50 $2.25 $1.50 lgVerl'body’s ...................... 2.23 333 222

Bellevue Gazette .. ..... .150 2.25 1.50 lgl'erl- (‘lllld's ................... 1.50 200 1'00

Bloomfield Advance ........ .50 225 1.50 Mm Fun ....................... 2.00 240 1'50 ‘

Carmel-'5 Week , .......... 1.00 150 .60 Forest and Stream .............. 2.00 2'10 1'25

Clinton County Republican ........ 1.50 200 1.25 Gentlewnman ..................... .20 1'15 '15

Chesanlug Argus .......... .. . . 1.50 250 1.50 Good Stories ............ . ....... .25 1‘15 ‘15 ’

Charlotte Leader .......... .. . 1.50 175 1.00 Good Housekeeping .............. 300 3'25 3'00

Central Lako Torch .............. 1.50 200 1.25 Household Magazine (Capper‘s) '25 1'15 '

Cedar Springs Liberal ....... 1.50 2 25 1.50 Harper's Bazaar .............. III 4'00 4'00 4'0:

Clare Courier ............. . ..... 1.50 200 1.25 Hearst‘s Magazine ............... 3'00 3'00 2'00

Elk Rapids Progress 2.00 2.50 1.75 Hunter. Trader. and Trapper-n. 2'00 2'25 2'00

Gratiot County Herald ........... 1.50 2.00 1.25 Hunting and Fishing ......... '50 1'20 “'3

L'Anse Sentinel .................. 2.00 2.50 1.75 Indevvndent 5200 5'00 4'53

Lennox Standard ................. 1.50 2.00 1.25 Jlldéle's kali‘ .................. 5.00 500 4'00

Lowell Lodger Jr Alto Solo ........ 2.00 2.75 2.00 JllmOI‘ ”("118 Magazine . 2'50 200

Millington Herald ................ 2.00 2.50 1.75 Dove Story Magazine ' 0'40 000

Missnukee Republican .. 1.00 1.75 1.00 life .................. 5'10 425

Munising News ........ .. 2.50 3.00 2.25 Literary Digest ......... 4'90 3'90

)innton Tribune Record .......... 1.50 2.00 1.25 IN?!“ l’OlkS' Magazine 2'00 175

Noble County. Indiana. Democrat 2.00 2.50 1.75 M“(1111's Magazine .............. 1'50 '60

Portland Observer ................ 1.50 2.00 1.25 31(‘(7'11U‘0'S Magazine ........... 3 25 2'50

Schoolcrnft Express .............. 1.50 2.25 1.50 Methodist Adlocate ........... 250 1'00

St. Johns News .................. 1.50 2.00 1.25 Metropolitan ..................... 2.50 2'75 200

SW" Sm Mum News ma U Modern Priscilla ................. 2.00 2'00 115

P. Farm 10mm] .............. 1.50 2.00 1.25 Mother‘s Home Life ............. .25 1'15 '15

Sanilac County Republican ...... 1.50 2.35 1.40 Mllllb'PVS Magazine .............. .3.00 3'75 2""; I

Toledo Weekly Blodo ............ .75 1.40 .50 National Sportsman .............. 1 00 1'50 '00

Ypsilanti Record ................ 1.00 1.50 75 Outdom' Life .................... 2'00 2'50 1'75

‘ Ohio Tcm~llcr 1225 1'80 190

CATTLE, SHEEP, SWINE. POULTRY. ETC. (0)132??? i'l'reat'i ............... ... 5.00 5.10 4:50

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Alcona World 5 .50 51.25 s .3 Pathfinder ....................... €33 fig 2'03

American Bee Journal ........... 51.50 $2.00 $1.25 I’vovln's Home Journal 1'00 150 '75

American Fruit Grower .......... .50 1.25 .30 l-mnir's l'npulnl‘ Monthly " '25 1'15 '15

American Swine Herd ......... .50 1.3. .45 Pit-lure Play Magazine 2'50 3'10 225

American Sheep Breeder and \Vool I’Wular Magazine ...... 4'00 4'50 3'75

Grower ........................ 1.00 1.75 .85 1’0001ur Svienve Monthly... 2'50 3'00' 225

American Poultry Advocate ...... .50 1.25 .25 Presbyterian Banner ........... 2'50 2'50 200

American Tllreshcl'mnn ........... 1.00 1.50 .50 Pictorial Review ............... 1'50 2'00 115

American Hereford Journal ...... 1.00 1.125 .75 J‘hl'SiI'HI l'ulture ...... . ....... 2‘50 2‘50 225

Breeders" Glizcltc ................ 1.00 1.50 .00 RBVit‘W 0" Reviews -------------- 4'00 4'10 300

Bec-kcepers' Review .............. 1.00 1.50 .00 Radio Broadcast. ......... ...'.'H 400 4'50 3‘50

chesier Wllilo Journal ............ 1.00 1.50 .00 St. Nivhnlas ............... ..'.'Z 4'00 4'25 575‘

(‘amler’s Farmer ................. 25 1.15 .15 School “"ll'ld '50 1‘35 '40

Porn Boll Farmer ................ .25 1.15 15 901mm and Inn-mien 2'50 2'70 2'00

Duroc Swine Breeders’ Journal ...... 50 1.25 .30 SITHmHY'S Magazine ............. 400 4'15 .300

Everybody’s Poultry Magazine ..... .75 1.40 .50 Sl‘ii‘mm“ American ........... 4'00 {'50- 3'76

£23m; grighamps ________________ 1.00 1.57) .50 1:1”)qu School Times 2.00 2:50 175

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Game Breeder ................... 2,00 2.00 1.25 Today’s Housewife ............... f1'23 :53 1'03

Glcllninlzs in Bee (‘ullum ......... 1.00 1.85 .90 True SINK ---------------------- 2'50 2 50 2'00

Guernsey Brccdcrs' Journal ...... 2.09 2.50 1.75 Travel ........................... 4:00 400 350

Holsiolnrrleslon Register 1.00 1.50 .00 T00 leh ........... 3.00 370 9'75

Hoard’s Dniryxuun ................ 1.00 1.75 .85 Trotter and I’ill'l'l' -- 400 4'10 550

international Plymouth Rock .50 1.25 .30 Unilvd l'l'wln'rvrian 250 3'20 2'25

Inland Poultry Journal ........... 1.00 1.50 .00 Violinist ............ 2.00 2'25 T75

Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World.. 2.00 2.00 1.7 WBSWI‘D Story Magazine G 00 6'40 550

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lYéti WAN’Fhiusic in your poultry

yard—song, scratch, cackle. ‘ -





You want an industrious hen—‘

a hen that will get off her roost“

ready to scratch \





winter mornings,

for her breakfast



A fat, lazy

for pot-pie,

never! .



AddDr. Hess Poultry Pane-a-ce-a'

to the ration daily, and see the

change come over your flock.



gee the combs and wattles turn

re .



See them begin to cheer up and

hop around. See the claws begin



. to dig in.

That’s when you get eggs.





Costs Little 'to Use Pan-a-‘ce-‘a



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for all the Pan-a-ce-a a hen will



eat in six months.



There’s a right-size package for

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60 hens the



200 hens the





500 hens the 100-"). drum

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' hatched April 29,,





and increasing dang. .

many of them bloc ing ,

. Ilooksas though‘they pick-themselves.-

Somje haves. small tore; some are

Just bruised black and blue, which ex-

_ tends along the abdomen. A couple

of, hens I ’locked‘ by themseIVes lost

that bruised appearance in "a couple

’ of days.‘ I‘nGVer see them pick them‘

selves or see other hens do it. They

are a nice healthy looking fleck of

hens. I feed wheat and corn and a

standard mash'which I mix myself,

fifteen per cent meat scrap, plenty of

mangels‘ and cabbage. I cannot see

any lice on them—W. A. D.

The fact that'the’ isolated birds soon-

recovered indicates the trouble must

be due to conditions in. the flock. A

Condition of torn and injured backs is

sometimes due to the activities‘of the

male birds. The wounds are caused

, by sharp toenails and not by the spurs.

Possibly too many males with the

flock may result in much interference}

at mating time. If feather pulling, ex-

ists in the flock it can be determined

by quietly watching the birds for a

few "minutes. If the trouble is due to

the male birds it may be best to iso-

late them until about three weeksbe—

fore the eggs are saved for hatching.

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FEEDING CULL BEANS.





 





Could you give us a balanced ration

for laying hens and pullets, using cook-

ed beans. We have a lot of discolored

beans and would like to use them if

possible. We have fed some and the

hens clean them up quickly.——F. J. H.





Beans are not used with any of the



poultry feeding formulas with which I

" am familiar and they‘are not exten-

sively used as poultry feed. I think

it will pay best to keep the flock on

the same balanced dry mash and

scratch grain ration that you are now

using. Then feed the boiled cull beans

once a day at noon. Feed them mod—

erately so it will not cut down the

consumption of dry mash too much

and reduce egg production. Mixing

the boiled beans with a little bran will





 





 





 





 

 

 





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Boiled b’eans contain a lot of protein

and starch and very little indigestible

fiber. They are highly concentrated

and it would be fine if the cull beans

could ‘be worked into poultry rations

in a profitable manner. At present

there is little definite data on the

value of the beans for poultry feeding

and I cannot locate any poultry feed-

ing experiments Where they have been

used. If your birds like the beans,

keep in good health and lay eggs, you

will be able to demonstrate at first

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FUTURE OF POULTRY BUSINESS.





 





(Continued from page 543).

price of chickens for the first nine

months of 1924 was the same as in the

corresponding period of 1923, standing

at 19.5 cents a pound. The farm price

of eggs averaged 25.6 Cents a dozen

against 25.8 cents in 1928. These com-

parisons are all the more significant

in view of the fact that urban buying

power has not been quite as broad as

last year.





Receipts in 1924 Below Normal.

The accompanying chart gives a hint

as to why both poultry and egg prices

have held up so well during the rapid

expansion in production since 1920.

Judged by the long-time trend of re-

ceipts at the six cities, New York, Chi-

cago, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco

and Milwaukee, 1920 was farther below

normal than in any year as far back

as 1891. Fully half of the increase in





 





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looking fine, and laying lots of

But last week

the roost dead.

and they are heavy and don't look

sick~just simply

ground mash

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a reboundifrom. a period -.0£‘?~VW

oduction. Part 013,930 romaine

take care of thegrowth'in‘fl ,

. of these cities.» Them Emily". .

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measured by the long-time trend

ceipts in 1920 were below it: Part}!

more, the de'crease’in





.line. Viewed with a perspecthe'. of





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The absence of

rind of diminishing receipts, as shown

by this chart, indicates that periods of

unsatisfactory prices for eggs are not

very severe or long-lived ' '





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branches of agricultural production.

The whole period from 1911 to 1920 is

probably the most pronounced case as

egg production was retarded because

grains advanced more rapidly when

the war broke out than such commodi-

ties as poultry and eggs which are.

produced almost exclusively {Ordo-

mestic consumption. Commercial peni-

trymen who were obliged .to buy a

good deal of their feed had a difficult

time during this period and many" of

them were forced out of business.

Looking forward from the present

stage, there appear to be no extremely

large clouds on the poultryman’s hor-

izon. The danger of severe over—pro-

auction, if it ever existed, seems to

have passed for the present without

the necessity of any long-draWn period

of liquidation of flocks. More attrac-

tive prices for corn, wheat, hogsand

other farm products may eclipse the

popularity of the hen for a while. It





is possiblelthat, allowing for the sea-

sonal fluctuations, poultry production

may become stabilized during the next

one or two years at somewhere near

the present-volume. .

change in demand, prices should hold

close to the levels

the last three years.





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9883.

they began to drop oil



Their combs are blue





drop dead.





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and boiled oats. "





When hens die suddenly it is often





due to apoplexy. This usually occurs

to hens that are over-fat, and follows

excitement or the strain of laying. jA

postmortem on the birds that‘die‘may'

locate the exact cause of the trouble.

Such losses can usually be prevented,

by making the hens exercise for their

scratch grain, and feeding plenty of.

green feed. .

dency to" become heavy, with fat, even

with the best of management.

birds are apt to be poor layers} 4

culling them out will cut down the

losses in the flock from such diseases

as apoplexy and liver trouble. '





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will put the supply below the normal.





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5 ENorth A'ntrim Cow TestingAs-

sociation has completed two years

is eating work. C. G.» Mullett, the





. , tester, states that the association will

continue for another , season.





Two herds averaged above 300





I pounds ofibutter-fat'. These herds are

owned by Ernest Loehne (pure-bred

~;;,_and grade Jerseys), and

~ (“cDrenthtgrade Helsteins). Mr. Loehne’s

’ pure-bred Jersey bow, Ruby, seven





George





years old,“ was high cow in [butter-fat

production. Loehne also had the high

There

were five cows that made 400 pounds

of butter-fat and. nine cows that pro-

duced .better than 365 pounds of 'but-

ter—fat. Peter Welland had the high

cow in the two-year-old age class. .. His

grade Holstein made 293 pounds of

fat and 6,635 pounds of milk. In the

three-year-old class Robert Watson’s

grade Guernsey stood first. In the

four-year-old age class E. Loehne’s

purebred Jersey stood first.



In'thls association much alfalfa hay

is grown and fed. Rations have been

balanced with this roughage as a basis

and economical production has been

possible through the heavy use of a1-





_ falls. hay.





 





HERE IS TESTER SERVICE.





 





N 1923 the Traverse-Antrim Cow



Testing Association was formed.

Robert Kaiser was hired to do the

testing work. Mr. Kaiser had a full

association and reports many interest-

ingitems. -



Twenty-nine members out of thirty-

three have silos. Two new silos were

built during the year. Fifteen of the





thirty-three members fed grain the

year around. Twenty—two separators

were tested. Four new separators





were purchased during the year. Twen-

ty-tWO members’ soils were tested and

found lacking lime. Two Ocarloads of

lime were bought~by the association.

All members grew alfalfa hay. Every

member is using a pure-bred'sire. A

bull association was organized among

\the members during the year. Every

herd in the association was tested for

T. B. during the year. Twenty cows

were sold for beef and in addition

eighteen cows were sold on the

strength of the cow test record.



The high herd in butter-fat produc-

tion is owned by Clarence Selkirk. His

six cows averaged 387.7 pounds of fat

and 7,652 pounds of milk. Other herds

averaging above 300 pounds (if butter-

fat production were owned by the fol~

lowing: Wm. J. Hoopfer, Edgar Fox,

George Fox, C. M. Larsen and John

Campbell, owning 'Guernseys; Harry

Fouch, William Selkirk, D. F. Hoxie,

with Jerseys; and H. F. Hagan and

Clarence, Selkirk with mixed cows.

This association is continuing for an-

other testing year. , ~





HIGH FEED COST OFTEN' MEANS

,« LARGEST PROFITS.





I T is significant that in a certain

cow testing association the herd

rwhose feed cOst bill per cow was low-

est, returned the lowest amount of

milk perTcow, the lowed amount of

,buttersfat and the lowestreturn above

feed_cost. In the same association the

herd, that» had the highest feed bill

per cow made the most milk and but-

ter-fat and returned the greatest re-





 





' turn above feed cost. ,In the first herd





thevieed'flOst per cow was $33.41 per





‘ railroad the income above feed cost

'1 was $15.36.“





ln‘the second herd the

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owner received "more/than six times

as much, net income. .



The cost of feed is a"irery important

factor in the cost of producing,mi1k,

but often it is more economical in the

long run to not watch this item too_

closely, but instead watch the item

0 lied “Return Above Feed Cost.”



he cow testing associations are



contributing largely to a more com-

plete and definite understanding of the

true meaning of economy in feed costs.

H. R. Iascelles.





 





TESTING ASSOCIATION POPULAR.





 





HE study of cow testing associa-



tion records, including 61,200 asso-

ciation cows, show an average produc-

tion per cow of 6,274 pounds of milk

and 257 pounds of butter—fat. This is

more than fifty per cent above the

estimated average production of all

dairy cows in the United States. All

association records available over a

period of five years of continuous test-

ing show a constant gain each year.

From the information at hand it ap-

pears that there are approximately 730

active cow testing associations in the

United States as compared with 627 a

year ago.





 





'r. B. WORK 'PROGRESSES.





 





IN his annual report, Dr. J. R. Moh-

ler, chief of the Bureau of Animal

Industry, says that in the cooperative

campaign to eradicate tuberculosis the

results continue to be highly satisfac-

tory. The number of herds officially

accredited as free from tuberculosis

increased from 28,526 to 48,273. The

total number of counties which have

completed area testing or were con-

ducting such work at the end of the

fiscal year was 318. A number of pack-

ers are paying a premium of ten cents

per hundredweight for hogs originat-

ing in “modified accredited' areas,”

which is a designation for areas con-

taining less than one-half of one per

cent tuberculous cattle.





 





THIS MEANS BETTER HERDS FOR

THESE MEN.





 





THE North Kent Cow Testing As-

sociation, Herbert Hansen, tester,

reports that twenty-six unprofitable

cows were sold during the year and

that there are at least an equal num-

ber remaining in the association that

the members expect to sell soon.

Twenty—three of the tWenty-flve mem-

bers mix their own feed, and twenty-

three of the twenty-five members have

one or more silos. Eleven herds have

one or more pure-bred cows and all

herds are tuberculin tested. There are

nineteen pure-bred sires owned by the

association members, seven of them

Holsteins, six Guernseys, four Jerseys

and two Shorthorns. Harry Williams’

cows carried all the honors in the as-

sociation work. His pure-bred Hol-

stein cow, Piney Grove Segis Elzevere,

five years old, was high in both milk

and butter-fat production. Mr. Wil-

liams’ herd. of seven pure-bred and

grade Holsteins was likewise high in

both milk and butter-fat production.

Twenty-nine cows made better than

365 pounds of butter—fat during the as-

sociation year. This association has

reorganized and Mr. Hansen is con-

tinuing on the work.





 





Barley appears to be growing in fa-

vor as a feed on Michigan farms. And

in those sections where it can be

grown to advantage the dairy cows

are getting an increased amount from

year to year. When'mixed with about





equal rpartsofi oats, and ground, this ..

,grainhas been foundfia good feed for _





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Dry winter feeds are harder to digest, harder to assimilate (man the.

tender, green food your cows enjoy in summer. The added strain on 3

the milk-making function naturally reduces the milk yield in Winter-

unless something is done to invigorate these important organs.





Row-Karo accomplishes just what is needed. It is a wonderful

builder of natural vigor in the genital and digestive organs. A table-

spoonful given with the feed twice a day, one week out of each month,

will pay for its slight cost many ting over in increased milk-flow.

Besides, your cows will not become t prey of such ailments as Bar-

rcnncss, Abortion. Retained Afterbirth, Scouts. Milk Fever. Cargct.

Lost Appetite, etc.. all of ,.which result from sluggish digestive

and genital organs.



If you are troubled with any of these diseases in the herd; Row-Karo

will correct the trouble. For over twenty~five years it has been

"The Home Cow Doctor" to many thousands of cow owners.





Let Row-Kare work for you this "winter. Start now: your feed

dealer, general store or druggist has it—in $1.25 and 65c sizes. Or we

will send by mail. postpaid on receipt of price.



Send for valuable free book. "The Home Cow Doctor". Cow own-

ers use nearly one million copies of this book yearly. Thousands say

they could not get along without its help.





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. of events are of greater import-

ance than the most sublimo and com-

prehensive speculations.” ' .



On this basis we are not likely to

over-judge the tWenty-ilft‘h anniversary

of the International Live Stock Show.

In every respect it was wonderful. De

Luxe products of stable and field filled

every department. And it was big.

There were 254 carloads and thou-

sands of individual cattle, hogs, sheep

and horses, competing for world hon-

ors. In fact, at this, the supreme

court‘of live stock quality, fully 11,000





VENTS are the grail manhood: - ,

Beaconsfield once said “The3led8t.





and grand championship on Pervenche.

Here, too, the OWosso Sugar Company,

of Alicia, took first and reserve chain:

pionshlp honors in the twoyear-old

mare class with Jeanne Braille, while

the Agricultural College was awarded





the same [lines in the threeyear-old ~





mare class on Betty-de-Camille. Other

winnings by the college were second





place on three-year—old stallions with '





Range Line Phoenix, and fourth in

tWO-year-old mares on Margelotte. The

Owosso Sugar Company was also

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For Sale Fire Registered Aberdeen Angus (lows

all bred to my herd bull, Blackcap Enlatc S. Price

10 cents per lb. One bull calf, calved April 12,1924,

MARSHALL KELLY, R. l0.





 





priced for quick sale.

c_harlotte, Michigan.





Registered Guernsey Bull Calf

6 months old His Sire is Glandson of Imp. King of

The May, price $50. Also 4 Big. Bcows and some

heifer calves. T. B. tested. E. A. BLACK,





City. Mich.

Nfiggs stared Guernseys

RANGER our pogo;6 Herd“ SIRE annual:

D NEwith an A. R. 0.1'0c0rd a

mil-Illa for better Guernseys, write GILMORE BROS"

Camden. Mich" ' l. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adamo. Mich.





FOR SALE Guern4oey Bull, May ARose breed-



ing, IeaIs old. A. R. Dem.

631 lbs. fat. Frank E. 4Robson, Room 303 M. C.

R. R. Depot Building, Detroit, MichIgan.





Reg. Guemseys For Sale

W. W.





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Springing cows. bred

heifers, Bull calves.

BURDICK. Williamofon, Mich.





For Sale





Rose Breeding.





Reg. Guernsey Cows, Bulls and

BullC Calves A.





mm, “as. R. 2. $0.13,.“ “WM“, This is Deacon, the Grand Champion





Hails from Colorado and was

fleshed, smooth to the tail, bred and

fed in Colorado, was crowned grand

champion by Judge Walter Biggar, of

Scotland He was sold at auction to

the Book- Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, for





 





 





I Grandson ol Echo Sylvia King Model

Born: February 29, 1924. Well Marked.

50% white.





His three nearest dams average 841.27 lbs.

butter and 21 101.5 lbs. milk in a year.





Hil Sire: Traverse (‘olanrha E(h0. is a son



of Echo Sleia King 3Modcl and a 271(1))0 $1344 The two-year-old Shorthorn

4- -y.r old ow with a 05 day rcrord of 9 _

lbs. nude; and nearly 20. 000 lb.- milk Spark lug, “0m Iowa was given re

Hie Dam: Dolce of Eden No. 2507117. At serve ODOI‘S





7 yrs. of age: Butter. 7 days. 30. 09; milk,

659. 6: Butter, 365 days, 748. 93; milk 20, 954. 9.

Her dam is a. 24- lb. cow with a 365- day rec-

ord of 874. 97 lbs. butter and 22. 750 lbs. milk.





Send for pedigree of Ear Tax No. 130 and

new list. of bulls for sale by MICHIGAN

STATE HERBS.





Bureau of Animal Industry, .

Department C. (Lansing, Michigan]





For Sale MAPIEHURST HOLSIEINS





Our Herd is built on the Blood of our former herd

sire “dGol mine Korndyke Fame.” 3. son of the

$100, 000 Bull. The most popular Blood because of

Best ripe. and natural 4‘” o testers. We offer 4 two-

yr.— Holds two are fresh and other two will be fresh in

April, and one three- -yr.- -old that is due now. She

gave 10. 000 lbs. ofi n4% milk as a two Ir -old. in 10

mos. on two milk



WHITNEY nBROS. Onondaga. Mich.





SOME YOUNG BULLS old enough for senice: sired

by our 33. 58- lb. Bull. also some fine young Cows in

Calf by same Bull; some Cows just. fresh.



All at a Ier low price: choice stork for sale at all

Rohlf. Akron, Mich.. R. 3, Box 6.





The Carlot Winners.



In the car-lot classes, E. P Hall, of

Illinois, carried away grand champion

award on his Angus yearlings. This

is the sixth time Mr. Hall has won this

grand prize. These fifteen steers, av-

eraging 1124 pounds, sold for $6,574.40.

To Homer Waters, also of Illinois,

went the grand championship on his

carload of 338-pound Berkshire bar-

rows. These sixty head were finished

on corn, tankage and bluegrass. The

unusual practice followed by Mr. Wa-

ters was the giving of tankage but

once a week, which was cleaned up at

one feeding.



The champion, load of lambs was ex-

hibited by Robert McEwen & Sons, of

Ontario, who have been consistent

Winners at former shows.



The best carlot of calves were An-

gus and came from South Dakota, be

ing the property of A. M. Mitchell;

while the champion yearlings were

Herefords and hailed from the ranges

of Colorado.





Michigan Takes a Hand.

Exhibits from the Wolverine state

had a few conspicuous places in the

live stock winnings. This is particu-

larly true in the equine department.

Outstanding was the defeat of the 1922

and 1923 champion aged Percheron





 





 





 





 





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Telephone 48- R3.



Reg. Holstein Bull Calf. 2 mos.

For Sale old. Sired by 33—11:. Bull: Dam

has ( ow Testing Assoc. record of 1.9021139. milk and

907 lbs. butter in 30 days. CHAS. RADFORD, At-

kins, Mich. St. Clair Co.





H e r e i o r d

Anxiety blood. priced

Fremont. Mich.





Jerseys For Sale

1!. of M. dams.

Howell. Mleh.





R. No. 4.

15 Cows. hulls trunk 0111.



sclectfmm fromth of 10. Semen-och fresh. otha-s hm

(or fall fmhcmco 0010!: C. Lillie. Coopersvlllc. Mich.





of beer— milk Shorthorns odors

Fairland Herd young cows wand bred heifers.

Also heifer and bull calves tolo months old.





 





 





Bull calves.

fellows.

moderate.





thrifty. rugged

Fairfax~Farm merr—

E. .l. TAYLOR.





Bulls ready for service

usoefew!





Allfm

D Accredited herd. Smith CI Parker.





Cows. Chenoeho





 





jurist” rim to ship. I. 1. scenes. asous. NIIoi mare, Carnona V by Maplegrove Leila,

'° ”3'“ l of the Michigan Agricultural College,

Red POI] Bulls wasted; mum" 'g which entry was also made reserve





8. CARR. Homer. MM.





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vce. Prlcodrl H. 3. Pet tore E. San. ElIio'. Mich.





SHMOR'I'HORN KBULLS





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champion in the Percheron class. In

addition to this honor, the college took

second place in the four-year-old mare

class on Dunham’s Marie, while first

place on Percheron four-year-old stabl

lions went to J. G. Stevens. of Breck-

1 enridge, Michigan. A 7





 





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head passed before the various judges.





Tenherneulemede III-Inna. The Grand Champion.

.‘i‘:‘l§t."a"'ia."d3;:fl’.:d“h.gtg m” m a" Deacon, an eleven months old Here-





.ford steer of 950 pounds, typey, evenly





,sows; fourth on junior yearling sows;





on Garibaldi, fourth place on two-year-

sixth in

yearling stallions on Joe-de-Cappe‘lle;

sixth and seventh on stallion foals;





old stallion on Tarl Tuffe;





 





Steer at the 1924 International.

Exhibited by the Ken-Caryl Ranch.





He





fourth on mares three years old on

Carlonche; fifth on mares two years

old with Ermyth Florabel, and fourth

on fillie foals, and seventh on yearling

mares. William E. Scripps, of Orion,

was awarded second on fillie foals;

fourth on yearling mares; fourth on

five—year 01d mares with Mary Mar—

garet; fifth and eighth on yearling

stallions with John Henry and William

Henry.

Capture Many Swine Ribbons.

No less honorable -were Michigan’s

placings in the swine department. In

the Yorkshire class, the Michigan Ag-

ricultural College took first in 150-250

pound barrows; fourth and fifth in

250—350 pound barrows; third in 150-

250 pound pen of barrows; second in

250- 350 pen of barrows; third in get

of sire, and reserve champion.

In the Tamworth class, the Michi-

gan Agricultural College was awarded

third in get of sire; second in pen of

350- 450 pound barrows; third in pen of

150-250 pound barrows and fifth in

250-350 pound barrow. In this class

W. S. Adams, of Litchfield, Michigan,

took fourth on 250- 350 pound barrows

and third on pen of 250—350 pound bar-

rows.





In the Berkshire barrow class, the

college was awarded reserve champion

on 350450 pound barrow, and first and

second in the same class. It also took

fifth on 150-250 pound barrows; sev-

enth on 250-350 pound barrows; sev-

enth on pen of 150250 pound barrows

and third on get of one sire. , *



In the Chester—White class Andy

Adams, of Litchfield, Mich” broughtn

home third and fourth on aged boars;

fourth on junior yearling boars; sec-

ond and fifth. on senior pigs, fifth on

aged sows; fifth on senior yearling





 





 





 





 

 





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’ allege—was also awarded

50 pound Dumb-Jersey

I .‘fifth on pen of 160-250

, Mpshire barrows.



.. , Sheep Prizes Also Taken.



.. The Agricultural College was a con-_





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 

 





 





 

 





 

 





crass. taking third on ram lambs; sec-

and on pen or lambs; third on year-

ling ewes; third on ewe lambe; secOnd

‘ i on pen bf ewe lambs, and fifth on

,~ 5 uses; The college then knocked down

I With and fifth on yearling wethers

in the Hampshire class and third on

pen of lambs. In the Oxford wether

class, the college carried home second

and fifth in yearlings and third in pen

of lambs. The Crandell Stock Fa1m~

was awarded fifth place in aged Cots-

wold ram.

-Ancue Exhibits Take Bulk of the

State’s Cattle Awards.



' W. E. Scripps, of Orion, was award-

ed first on steer; fourth on bull calved





 





 





 





 





production is the basis for value has

led to much unsound economic think-

ing. The persistence of this theory of

value has delayed for some time the

arrival of a rational economic thought

among farmers.



Not only, should the farmer know

about the economics of agriculture;

but he should know about the services

which other classes 'of society per-

form. :The school is not performing

its full duty 11 the idea persists that

the’farmer is the only one who works

and renders an economic service, and

that ’all other classes are merely para-

, _ sites living off the labor of the farmer

5‘ and manipulating markets to his dis-

advantage. The merchant, the banker,

the manufacturer, the broker, the

wholesaler, the railroader, the laborer,

all these are essential parts of the

great economic machine which brings

us the satisfactions needed. Farmers

should know about industry.





There are many problems before the

Michigan farmers today. He is pro-

ducing things to sell in the market.

Therefore he must follow the first es-

sential to successful business, which

is a knowledge of what the market

1 ' ~ . wants. No man can successfully sell

I anything unless people want it; be-

cause things ‘are not valuable unless

theyare wanted, and the consumer is

- 1 . willing to give up something in order

‘ , to get them. Farmers should make an

' I V I analysis of the market in the same

manner that manufacturers do. With

a; knowledge of what is wanted, the

farmer is On the way to a profitable

market. '



The most active imagination cannot

conceive of a market system which

‘will bring profit to farmers—or any

other claSs—unless efficient methods

of production are followed. Profit is

, I the difference between income and out-



go, and can be just as effectively in-

oreased by decreasing outgo as by in-

creasing incOme. In orde1 to have a

profitable agriculture, there must be

careful consideration of those scien-

tific productive pradtices which have

been proven; It is the height of folly

and absurdity for farmers to reject the

scientific production special-

“we not work together to

to the farmer a regard. for





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Cher 3;1 fifth on bull: calves between

the Sande dates, and fifth on bull calv-





prefect winner in the Rambouillet.





They Bring Better Things





(Continued from page 550)’.





California citrus fruit growers and the





ed between January 1 and June 30,

1923; fifth on group of three bulls;

fourth on heifer calved between July 1

and September 30,1923; sixth on heif-

er calved after July 1, 1924, and sev-

enth on cow calved before 1921.

Dwight Cutler, of Detroit, Michigan,

Was awarded sixth on bull calved in

19.21 The Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege got third on steer and third on

held of three head.



In the Shorthorn class, the entries

of the Gotfredson Land Company, of

Ypsilanti, Michigan, was placed first

on cow calved before 1921 with calf

by side calved after. October 1, 1923,

and ninth on bull calved in 1922.





Junior Live StockJudging.



The'Kansas nonecollegian team was

declared first in judging all classes of

stock among twenty similar teams

from other states and provinces. The

Michigan boys ranked tenth, but tied

with Kansas for first in judging cattle.

In the college co tests, Nebraska team

won the coveted rst place.





to knowr how to conduct his business

profitably. This can never be done

unless careful consideration is paid to

scientific and/economic productive

p1actices. No maIket man in the

world wilfever be able to bring pros-

“peiity to the farm where economy is

a stranger.



If a product is to sell to the best

advantage it must be prepared in ac-

cordance with the demands of the mar-

ket. Careful grading and packing are

necessary if the highest returns are

to be received. The success of the





northwest apple groyvers is due, first

of all, to good quality properly pre-

pared for market.» Proper preparation

does not necessarily mean fancy pack-

ages and extreme fancy stock. It

means preparation in accordance with

the demands of the market in which

sale is to be made.



No one can come into a market and

get the best results unless he has a

knowledge of market conditions. The

great handicap under which the farm—

er has been laboring for years is due

to an utter lack of market informa-

tion. He has not known anything

about market conditions or what his

goods ought to bring. He has been

going to the market place and taking

what was offered without any idea

whether he was getting what his goods

were worth or not. To sell effectively,

the farmer must have as much knowl-

edge about the market as the buyer.

The great spread of cooperative or-

ganization in recent years is bringing

to farmers this needed market infor—

mation. It is also bringing a knowl-

edge of the importance of the middle-

man and the value of his services. The

profit which the farmer once thought

common in business has not been

found.



A knowledge of market demands,

scientific and economic production,

proper preparation for market, a

knowledge of market conditions coup—

led With efficent business methods are

going to bring to farmers more nearly

the measure of return which is neces-

sary to give to agriculture the needed

stability.



ese things will come only through

proper education. The whole problem

is one of education. Teachers have the

opportunity and responsibility for a

sound-thinking agriculture,

the lamps to throw out the light of





truth and dispel the fog of ignorance - ‘

‘ .which'is keeping the farmer frOm real-





has; his milest- possibilities.





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Better cattle means better milk. Better milk means better

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Transporting milk from the farms to the city has come

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Recently a “Better Cattle Train” operated in cooperation





Department of Farms and Markets,





Breeders’ Associations, Farm Bureau, Grange, Dairy-

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and lectures on the care and feeding of herds, and on

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GRAIN QUOTATIONS

' Tuesday, December 16. .

-Wheat.

Detroit—No. 1 red at $1.76'

red $1.75; No. 3 red $1.72; No.

$1.76; No. 2 mixed $1.75.

Chicago—-December at $1.657/3;

$1.701/g@1.70%; ‘July





Toledo—Cash $1.76@1.77.

Corn.





 

 





 

 





3 yellow $1.31.

Chicago—December

May $1.31@1.31%O; July



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Rye.

Detroit.——Cash No. 2, $1.41.





$1.49; July $1.35 1,4.

Toledo.-—$1.38.





ley.

malting at $1.05;





Beans. -

Detroit.—-—Immediate and

shipment $5.35@5.40 per cwt.

Chicago—Navy, choice $5.75;

neys $9.15@9.25.

New York.~—Cll

kidneys $8.65@8.75.





Buckwheat.





Bar

Detroit—Barley,

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Seeds.

$19.10; alsike $12H60; timothy $3.20.





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‘ Detroit—No. 1 timothy $17.50@18;

éfl - standard $16.50@17;

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

16; wheat and oat straw $10.50@11;

rye straw $12.50@13.

. Feeds.



Detroit—Bran

dlings $39; fine do $44; cracked corn





$52; coarse cornmeal $48; chop $43

per ton in 100-1b. sacks.

Apples.

Chicago prices on apples: Northern

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

:1} Jonathans $8@8.50 bbl; Kings $663

‘3: 6.50; Delicious $4.25@4.50 per bushel;





‘T_ Greenings $6.50@7 bbl; Grimes Golden

' $5@5.50; Wageners $4.75(a)5 per bbl;

. Snows $4.50@5; Winesaps $7 bbl.





WHEAT





The wheat market finally left the

trading area it has been covering since

mid—November while the large stocks

on passage for Europe were being di-

gested. Prices reached new high

ground for the season, thereby giving

a mechanical signal that the bull mar-

ket was being resumed. The fact that

stocks of wheat afloat have been cut

dOWn sharply and that the foreign sit-

uation was strengthening seems to

confirm this technical sign. Primary

receipts are showing the sharp reduc-



l' tion which was expected whenever

.- stocks at interior elevators and in

transit began to clean up.



The statistical position of Wheat re-

mains the strongest known in a num-

ber of years and indicates that still

higher prices are ahead.





RYE





After declining for several weeks,

clearances of rye increased last week.

The amount put afloat from this coun~

try, which is practically the only ex-

porter this season, remains below the

average weekly absorption so that the

stocks on ocean passage are being cut

down steadily. They still remain

slightly above normal, however, so

that foreign demand may be a little

slow for a while longer. Germany was

reported as a buyer in the last day or

two, but rye prices have not been as

strong as wheat





CORN





Corn prices were decidedly strong

most of last week and advanced about

five cents over the previous high point

of the season. Speculative activities

played a substantial part in the up-

turn, although primary receipts drop—

ped off in the last few days, whereas

they usually increase rather steadily

at this season of the year. Practically

all sections report that husking re-

turns are disappointing and private es-

timates of the size of the crop are

being reduced. Producers appear in;—

clined to hold their surplus in antici-

pation of still higher prices later on.



Sensational reports on the Argentine

crop also have been a factor as drouth



Lhas been severe and locust damage is

' said to be the most menacing ln .fifr

teen years. If the Argentine situation

'is as bad as it is painted, growers





 





 





, No. 2

2 white

$1.49%@1.49%.





Detroit—No. ‘2 yellow at $1.35; No.

$1.25%@1.26;





Chicago—December at $1.44; May





prompt

kid-

o‘ice pea at $6.25; red





Detroit—Milling grade $2.30@2.35.





Detroit—Prime red clover cash at





No. 2 timothy at





at $38; standard mid-





there will hold tenaciously-‘to gths' bal-

ance of their Oldaflm surplnsand ain~

crease the chances-o ~ _

from the United Statcs. The advance

in this country wassopronounCed,

however, that we are , .

e foreign market, in spiteof a. sharp

upturn at Liverpool. ‘ - '





OATS ‘ '





.Oats prices have advanced along

with other grains. Primary receipts

are gradually becoming lighter and the

visible supply has ceased to increase,

while the demand from conSuming sec-

tions shows signs of improving. Ex-





a s' . ports are small but there swms’ to be

3,13§§T°“‘*New’ No. 2 White 660’ No. a fair chance that Sales will be made .

Chicago—December 60%c; May at during the Winter and spring.





.





SEEDS





Most divisions of'the seed trade are

quiet at present, as supply conditions

are fairly well known and spring de-

mand from consumers has not assum-

ed much breadth. Prices are in about

the same position as in the last two

or three weeks. ' .





FEEDS





Prices of all by-product feeds have

become quite firm. Strength in feed

grain markets, colder weather, declin-

ing production and speculative buying

of some feeds were the influences at

work. Consuming trade is more ac-

tive but the volume of demand is not





very large.

HAY





The hay market is stronger than a

week ago, because of less favorable

weather in some sections. The de-

mand has been equal to the receipts,

which are of only moderate volume.

Alfalfa hay has advanced over $2 from

the low point several weeks ago. Oth—

er kinds have made small gains.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Egg prices climbed to a new high

for the season last week. Receipts

are light, as a whole, and recent se-

vere storms are likely to be reflected

in smaller collections for a while long-

er. Some slight increase in receipts

of fresh eggs from southern points is

being noted and this will become more

pronounced as the month progresses.

A dowuward trend of egg prices is us-

ually the rule in December, but deal-

ers fear a shortage and are not push-

ing sales to any extent. Poultry prices

were slightly stronger last week, with

turkeys apparently feeling the effect





for hand d‘e‘

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. . Lu

. ~ ,_ man_.,.1l‘or several-.ggeeltsfj

receipts; ve; been much rheaviergthan . -

last year, and sto’chsgin storage spring 24::

rather lar With more than“ a. Inch ,

of accum stinusilil ahead.

‘ Chicago.¢.—.Eg‘§ "miscellaneous 48'@

52c; dirties szgésc; checks amaze;

fresh firsts 48@ 40; ordinary firsts 35

@400. . Live poultry, hens 1854c per

, , roosters 1439(5)

due“ 1513; geese 14c; turkeys 26c. = ?

.Detroit' eggs fresh handled and

graded 50@540; storage 36%@88c per

dozen. Live poultry, heavy springers

230; light springers 19c; heavy hens

230; light hens 15@20c; roosters 15@’

16c;.geese16@17c; ducks 20@21c;~

=tory » season- Activity at»¢thi's «_





turkeys 32c.

BUTTER - .makes it appear that their..stocks





Butter prices are fast getting back run low... ,_ p

to the point at which they rested be- WOOL ,

The Wool mate is a little“- more





fore the recent spectacular advance

started. A decline of 41,430 a pound ..

was last week's loss. The make is quiet than it has been, largely because ’

showing an increase and, while storms of .a. lack of oflerings. Prices‘remain . 4 .

in producing sections mayycut into the quite firm with the upward tendency

supply temporarily,.production is‘ ex- still in evidence. British, Australian

pected to show a'gradual gain from New Zealand, South American and

now on. 'The,_.ou{)let for high-grade East Indian wool markets all are re"- .

storage butter is,‘ roadening so that ported strong and slightly higher in

the excess over a year ago is being some instances with some American -

steadily reduced. The output in the buying in evidence. Consumption of '

first half of- December was nearly as. wool the world over seems to be out-

running production and there are no “

post-war reserves to draw upon, while





heavy as in the entire month last year.



Storage holdings in the entire country

production cannot be expanded quickly

to catch up with the demand. Some





on December 1 totaled 100,743,000 lbs.,

mills are believed to be anticipating





as compared with 51,508,000 pounds on



December 1, 1923.

their wants to some extent, in spite of

the fact that prices average nearly 50





Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 410; New York 44150. In De-

per cent higher than they were six

months ago. .

market, Ohio and





troit fresh creamery in tubs sells for

In the Baston





37@40c.

POTATOES Pennsylvania fleeces are quoted at ’68





. @69c, grease basis, for choice delaine

fish: as; assassinate: woos. .half-bmod comb... at was

son’s low spot. The carlot movement three-eighths blood combing at .68@69c

is showing less fluctuation from week . 2313 three—eighths bIOOd 019”!ng at





to week and more stability in the mar.

DETROIT CITY MARKET





ket is to be expected from this time

on. Exports of Maine potatoes to Eng-

land have been started in the hope of The market was well supplied with

widening the market for the big crop. all kinds of produce. Warmer Weather

Usually, foreign trade in‘ potatoes is brought out a large number of ped-

negligible, owing to the costs of ‘ship— dlers and buying was active. Apples

ment. Low prices this year may per— were good sellers, with best Spys, Jon-

mit fairly large exports for a while. athans and Northwest Greenings mov-

Prices at Maine shipping points are ing readily. Lettuce, tomatoes, cauli-

'running about 55@60c per 100 pounds, flower, horseradish, celery and small

compared with $1.10 last year. North- white turnips were easy sellers. The

ern whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at market for parsnips and onions was a

900@$1 in Chicago with New York little stronger, but for potatoes, car-

whites at $1.10@1.25 in eastern cities. rots. cabbage and parsley unchanged.

Rutabagas, squash and pumpkins were

slow. The demand for live and dress;





 





. d: .lsloyemb‘er.’ 4' j



bullish on the , situation -. and _



will. sell more leis. ly. {ironc-



on. In afifew Wee s more .

general beliefithat-Michiganawilt

very- little competitibn‘ as . 630 ,

m-fornia crop has been malted n.

Theupturn was expected locum

little later as distributors calmly

not buy freely just before. their!





 

 





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Live Stock Market Service I





ed poultry was farily active.’ Veal and

hogs sold slowly. . .



Apples, (fancy $1@3 bu; beets 75c@.

$1 bu; cabbage 50,@60c bu; carrots





 





Tuesday, December 16.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 60,000. Market.fair1y ac-

tive, steady to 100 lower, mostly

steady. Tops $9.75; bulk good 250~lb.

average and up $9.65@9.75; bulk 200

to 240-lb. average $9@9.40; 150 to 170-

1b. average $7.75@8.50; bulk strong

weight $6.85@7.15. ,_





65@75c bu; cauliflower, No. 1, $1.50@

2 bu; horseardish $3@5 bu; dry on- ..

ions $1@1.50 bu; parsnips $1@1.25 a 4 i

- bu; pears 50@75c bu; potatoes 55@.





Cutters ................. 2.5067) 2.75 650 bu; pumpkins 60@75c bu; spinach . '

Can'ners .................. 2.00@ 2.25 $1601.50 bu; Hubbard squash 75c@$1 ’

Choice bulls ............ .50@ 3.75 bu; turnips $1.50@3 bu; kale 50c bu; -

Heavy bologna bulls 4.25@ 4.50 honey $1.25 per 5-lb. pail; shelled corn

Stock bulls ............. 3.00@ 3.75 $1.40 bu; eggs, retail 65@850;’ henS.

Feeders ................ 4.50@ 6.00 wholesale 24@25c; retail 25@26c lb;

Stockers ................ 4.00@ 5.75 swingers-wholesale 24@25C; retail 25

Milkers .............. -. . .345.00@75.00 @26c;_ ducks, wholesale 24c; retail 250





lb; geese, retail 25c





Veal Calves. hens 30@329;





Receipts 528. Market steady to 500





; dressed poultry,

springers 30@350 per





Q Cattle higher lb; diéiks5300;hgee§e 30c: Ismall live



' - l s eac ; '



Receipts &000_ Fed Steers more ac- Best .................... $12.00@12.50 39%] 15¢?) ’ ressed .ogs 14C,

tive, steady to 250 higher, mostly 25c Others .................. 5.00@11.50





up on better grades; all weight of fat"

killing quality rather plain; best year—





lings $13; choice handyweight $12.65; Begfiilfi’ifs 3’418' Market $162335??th _Wheat early this week was at the

bulk fed steers $8.75 down; she stock Fail. lambs 1300691475 hlghest'prlce of the year in Grand

mostly steady; bulls weak; choice Light to 0015.55,; """"" 7'50@11'25 Rapids. growers making sales at 81.54

vealers higher, mostly $9@9.50 to the Fail. to good sheer; """" 7 75@ 800 per bushel. Farmersnot pressed for

packers; grassers selecting up “to Culls and common """ 3'50'@ 4'25 cash tovpay taxes. and meet fan obliga:

$10.50 and above. Buck lambs """ 7‘50@15'25 tions are not selling at‘present prices,

Shee and Lambs """""" ' - . ' feeling that Still higher quotatious are

R - t 18 0‘30 M k ti 1 H°95- in store for them before spring.

E {30911115 f t -1 If" e V13”; S gg’ Receipts 4,417. Market is 15@25c Beans. after jumping 400 per cwt. last" .. .

1 al‘ y. 83 9‘51 ab lkam1357v5vea16' 0 1° lower. week, sagged back this week with ele- , ’-

owcr. can 1,1 $ - @ .l 931‘ Y Mixed hogs .................... $9.25 vators paying around $4.65@4-75 per

tops $1525» 0110109 grassers at 513-40, Pigs ............................. 6.50 cwt. Other prices were: carrots 650

bteady' fat Sheepfluu and weak» bum Roughs ....... - ........... 8.25 @1 bu; onions 750 bu; celer 20@£co ... ’

0f eves 36-25638, ”it lambs steady, bunch; spinach $1.25@1.50 gu;pars~

bulk $14@15.50, feeding ewes $7. BUFFAL nips 75@90c bu; cabbage 40@‘60c bu}, f ,.

DETR IT Hogs. potatoes 40@50c bu; butterdatllolb; ,2- ,.

O . . , .7 . eggs 55@60c; poultry, turkeys-:24 32¢ .

Receipts 5,700. Market is closmg lb' chicke 15@2201b' f » l .13" ~

Cattle. slow. Heavies $9.60@9.75; medium at ’ ns ’ ' »’ W8 c





Receipts 521.. Market very dullrand

grades.





 





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at s9.50@9.75;

light lights $7.75@8.50;





Sheep and Lambs.





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light weights ”@150; _lb; ducks 18@20c.lb; geese 180; ' .





 

 





   





 

 

 





 

 





   





 





 

 

   





 

 





 

 

 





0 lower on all . Digs "@7775; ~ . _~.. ~ '

Gog: tfgdchoice yearlings $ 9 50@150 25" packing sows angartzllfhs $8. - - ' . bugi'hagsfshiscgillyNgE'rtgs

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 7.50@ $8.75 Receipts 1,000, Market is eXtrcncelv 3,? ‘ahalgngidgmgme

Handyweight butchers 6.00@_g.«75 dull. ' - . " ‘ .. -' mafia 3115.593 mm

Mixed ‘steers and heifers 5.00‘@ .50 ; . ~ . . Calves. , - « 7mg“; "at at $140. 1395! 5

Handy light butchers r . . . 4.038 4.75,, ; Receipts 590,». 1711035.”.31‘359' :v ,mng 1. are ’ "1.135;“

Light butchers ..~', 3.5 3.75.; - Sheep‘addtam _ . _.; ’ Q .53 '* -

Best cows -.~‘ . . . . . . . I. . . . 4.255.1435' Rec tsjfi .Ohoi “ ' ' ‘

Butcher cowsW-i ~ 3.2 - ' 3.75 ‘ ?£50Qg





   

 

 

   

 

     

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 





 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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another‘uueeting was held at Whéfilel account of 51'! w or.





"remnant organization willbe





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formulate a: true national policy.



' n appreciation of the need



tnth!s pmblem in the

insurer. To this group



conferences came. others in-



~ seen practically all see-



‘ f occuut-ry were represented.



In «Chicago, on December 4,1924,





 





 





erfeoted what is known as ,

“Add can Institute of Cooperation.





per-

_ noted as soon as pessihi.

ofp this institute is to





 





 

 

 





The

toach the science of cooperation with

particular reference to the economic;





sociological, and legal phases thereof.





 





 

 

 





I ‘ IThe men who are fostering this organ4





infation recognize the import oo-

ration and the necessity s es-





 





 

 

 





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1- university or college.





' poses,





I Battle Creek,





‘Leslie, took second at $16 per hundred





: fexhibitors were well pleased.-





giflishment on a sound basis» so that

e course in the future may bé guid-

ed by wisdom rather than be left to

chance. . _ .



A four weeks school is planned for

the ceming summer to be held at some

These will, no

doubt, come from the ranks of univer-

sity and college faculties, government-

al Officials, business men and those en-

gaged in cooperative management and

organization.



This school will be attended by col-

lege students, college teachers, cooper-

atlve managers and officers, and others

who are interested. There will be a

full and free discussion of cooperation

in all its phases.





This is a marked step forward in





'the development of cooperation in this





country. If this institute accomplishes

what its founders hope, the business

side of agriculture will receive great

benefits; The time has come when a

definite stand must be taken on the

matter of cooperation and an attempt

made to bring leaders, teachers and

workers more in unity as to its pur-

possibilities, limitations, and

practical procedure.



With the development of many small

local cooperatives and the organiza-

tions of large central associations, this

earnest ort to study cooperation in

a full an scientific manner augurs





well for the future of agriculture.





DETROIT SHOW A SUCCESS.





T HE third annual Detroit Fat Stock



Show opened at the stock yards on

Monday with a liberal supply of good

Christmas cattle and lambs on show

from all points in the state, and a

large attendance of farmers, feeders

and old-time shippers present.



3 The sale took place on Tuesday and

the work was done in a most satisfac-

tory manner by Colonel L. W. Love-

Well, of South Lyons. Judging was

by Robert Matheson, of Swift & Co.,

Chicago, and Tom Murray, of Murray

& McDowell, also of the Chicago

yards.



The grand champion single steer of

the sale was an exceptionally fancy

Shorthorn yearling, around eleven

months old, from the Charles Prescott

Ranch at East Tawas, and was sold to

Semon Lowenstein & Sons, at eighty-





" 3 mm “it...“ 11:11 3:13:11“ 1 do la. Wh t did

i 9- ng- s 11 ea

out it to enable not germinate very well, on account of -





 





11er section and





dry weather after sovving. Most of

the present crop has been marketed.



Price $1. '45. The farm bureau is giv-

ing a series of motion pictures and mu-

sical program in most parts of the

county. -—A. 0.



Kent 00., Dec. 61~Grain went into

winter quarters in our condition on

Farmers are

busy hocking corn. Pretty cold. Quite

a lot of snow. Some potatoes were not

dug. Help is very scarce. Potatoes

are 45c per cwt.; wheat $1. 45 per bu ;

corn. old $1.25 per bu; Oats, 50c per



beans $5.15 per cwt.; butter 50c;

eggs 60c. Many are selling their poul-

try on account of high feed. ilch

cows are high and scarce. Pigs are

very scarce. —~W.



Huron 60., Dec. 6. ———Farmers market-

ing farm products and shredding corn.

Winter wheat and rye condition not



good. The farm folk are interested in

the stock show at Chicago. A number





of students went from Bad Axe high‘





school.—C.





Partial Loss of Power.—I have a pup

six months old, which shows no symp-

toms of sickness, but he seems to have

lost the use of his hind quarters and

is unable to stand or walk. T. Mil-

lington, Mich.~Give pup a tablespoon-

ful of castor oil to open bowels, also

give half a grain of quinine at a dose

three times a day, hand-rub back and

hind quarters three times a day. He

met with an injury.





 





 





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THE POSTMAN





GENUINE

MOCCASIN





FARM WORK SHCE





Absolutely the (W longest wearing and most condon-

able Farmer's Work Shoe ever made. Positively waterproof.

SPECIALLY TREATED TO WITHSTAND BARN-

YARD ACID. Moccasin vamp. Ushdc role. Whole

mbhcr heel. Sole leather counlcr. Grain leather insole.

First quality lei!!! upper. Made 10 wear like iron. Once

you try 0 pair you'll never be satisfied will any other shoe.

You cannot buy these shoes elsewhere for less than $4.95.

Our direct—Io-you price saves you one third.





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the money you have ever seen. send them back at out upon»



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five cents a pound, the highest price

ever paid on this market. The grand

champion load was a load of Durhams s

from Ezra and August Lesser, of Dex- .

ter, and they were bought by The New- ,

ton Packing Company at twenty- one

cents a pound. The second prize steer

from The Crapo Farm at SwaitzCreek

went to Hammond, Standish & Co., at

fifty‘cents a pound, the third prize,

“Tom Newton,”, from the same farm to





‘The‘ Newton Beef Co, at twenty-five





cents, and the fourth. a fancy steer

from Don Shepard, of Charlotte, to





The Star Beef Co. at twenty-five cents





Other prices obtained were $11. 50 for

fifteen white faces to The Michigan

Beef 00., from The Binder Ranch,

who had several other!

loads at the sale.



The prize load of lambs went to The

Michigan Beef Co. at twenty-five cents





. a pound. They were from T. Barnett f





8: Son, near Pontiac. J.'Barber, of‘

pounds, and the third from George H.

Mayer, at Munith, bought by Harry

Conley, of Marshall, at 15. 6 cents.

Everything on sale was from Michi-

33.11 and the show was a great success.

Although there were not as many cat-

fie here as there were a year ago, the

prices averaged much better and all





COUNTY 630—: REPORTS.





 

 

 





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craps

ABSORB'NE unsure:





from 3 Bone Spavin, Ring Bone,





troubles and gets horse going sound.

It acts mildly but uickly and good re-

sults are lasting.

or remove the hair and horse can





 





each bottle tells how.

delivered. Horse Book 9 R free.



ABSORBIN E JR.. the antiseptic liniment

for mankind, reduces Painful Swellings, En-

lugcd Glands ,chn, BruiscaVuicosc Veins;

heal: Sores. Allays Pain. Will tell you

more if you write. 01. 25 a bottle at dealers

«delivered. Liberal U12! bottle fol 100 081000.



VI. £10000. I06“ 4081mm $1.. Springfield lMass.





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 





Remove- the after-birth of '



cows and heifers without ‘

injury and without force.

Anni afterbirth retained will

.' ruin your cowfor the season. Assist nature

‘ by giving Dr. David Roberts Cow Cloannr





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Rates. 1.. Effect October 7. 1922





One Four Ono Four

Words time time. Words- that:

ll)........00.00 02.40 20.'.......0 .00 00.24

1 . .00 2.04 21...”... 2.10 0.40

.00 2.00 20......“ 2.24 0.72

10...... 1.04 0.10 20..."... 2.02 0.00

1.12 0' 1 0. 7.20

15........ 1.20 0.00 1.44

10 ...... .20 0.04 1.00

1 .06 4.00 1.02

4.02 0.10

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”All adrenal»; a):

peei“ otice dlmrlumu order:



n- :hann of up] lu-

funded for 1h: Clauifird Dam-mun! must reach thin 125:: an

day: in advance oftublim rim daft.





COCHIRELS—Ecm. Geese. Ducks: Turkeys' all. prin-

rigs! breeds. State Farm: Association. Kenna-co.





 





"TANCRED" WHITE LEGHORNSv—Bufl 0mm-

Barred Rooks. State Fair Winners. Geese.

Former Bailey. Montgomery, Mich.





 





u



WHITE LEGHORN OOCKERELS from star met

from “King Ted." $3.50. Mrs. L. M. Pickford. , .

2. Adrian. Mich.‘





 





each. till Jan. 10th. Mrs. Claudia Betts Hi!

Mich.





ROSE COMB Brown Leghorn Chicks. $1. 50 to $2.50

106013.





 





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AN EXCEPTIONALLY fine lot of purebred. prize-

winning, laying strain White Wyandotte Cooker-e18.

Grace E. McFute. Horton. Mich.





\VHITE WYANDOTTE COCICERELS~Regal Dorcas

direct. Range raised. Guaranteed. $3.00 and $5.00.

W. H. Conboy. (‘hcboygam Mich.





 





 





MISCELLANEOUS





CHEVROLET TRUCK—1022 Model F. B. One Ton.

Self-starter, Electric Lights. Closed Cab. Platform

body Good tires and in good mechanical condition.

3000. Will trade even for good team of horses 5 to

10 years old. weighing 2.800 or over. People’s Milling

00.. Muskegon. Mich.





BARRED ROCK (‘OCKERELS—Tllompson Strain. 33





 





 





to $5. Harry Goodfellow. Sparta. Mich.



FOR. SALE——-Whlte Wyaudotte quality cocku'els.

Frank l’erkius. Oak Grove. Mich.



PURE-BRED, S. C. R. I. R. Cockerels. W. L.





Rundel. Saline. Mich.





 





SKUNK~—Highest prices for all kinds of Raw Furs.

wanted for manufacturing. Write for Price List.

J. I. Gleed. East Aurora, N. Y.





PURE CLOVER HONEY—5 lb. Doll $1. 25. by parcel





 





 





post. A. R. Kirkman. “alballa. erh.

_



REAL ESTATE

80-A. FARM ONLY $2.200—0 Cows and Calves.





All Com. Wheat. rye, beans, potatoes. horses. poul-

try. machinery, tools included; on improved road.

good community, near lake; 00 acres productive fields.

wire-fenced pasture. woodland: apples, pears. plums.

grapes. berries; warm 7 room house. pen 11 barn 11032

and poultry houses. Ase forces low price $2. 200. half

cash. Details pg. 141 big Bargain Catalog. illus,

money-making farms and business changes. Free

Strofiit Farm Agency, 20580 Kresge Bldg, Detroit

Mic .





 





FARM FOR SALE—180 acres situated in section 29,

Clayton Township. Genesce ('o., Mich. Splendid nat—

ural drainage and well tiled. Twontymcre wood-lot

with about 15 acres of standing timber. This is one

of the best farms in what is considered by many to

be the best township for farm land in the state of

Michigan. Good buildings. Located on state reward

road two miles from the village of Lermon. and 10

miles west of the city of Flint. Inquire Peter B.

Lennon. Lennon, Mich.





 





FOR SALE—«2209.019 farm in Jackson (10..

road, 100 some heavy loam soil. 40 acres heavy oak

timber. remainder mowing marsh and pasture. Ad—

dress Box 405, Michigan Farmer.





on state





 





EASTERN WASHINGTON wheat land at. half value.

Write. I'll tell why. Wm. 0. Lewis. Ritzvllle. \Vash.





 





 





TOBACCO





HOMESPUN TOBAC (‘O—(‘hewing, five pounds. $1.75:

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

$1.25: ten. $200; twenty, $3.50. Pipe Free. Money

back if not satisfied. United Tobacco Growers.

Paducah. Ky.





 





 





TOBACCOv—Three—year—old leaf. 8 lbs. chewing $2.00; 3

smoking $2.20; 8 second smoking $1.40. Pay for to—

bacco and postage when received. Old Homespun

00.. Hawesvllle, Ky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs., $1.50; 10.

$2.75. Smoking. 5 lbs, $1.25; Mild, 10. $1.50. Pay

when received. F. Gupton, Bardwell, Ky.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO. (‘huwing 5-1115. $1.50: Ten

$2.50. Smoking 5-lbs. $1.25; Ten $2. l’ay when receiv—

ed, pipu 11nd rwlpo frm’. ll‘armurs’ Union. Paducali, K3".





SEEDS





SEEDS‘NOW (.‘rop “Kansas" Alfalfa $7.00 and $0.50

bu., also Sweet Clover. Red Clover. Alsike, Timothy.

Sudan. (Jane, Kaflir, Millets. Seed Corn. Soy Beans.

Cow Peas. Lowest Prices, Bags Free. Send for cir-

cular and samples and Save Money. Solomon Seed

Co.. Solomon. Kansas.





 





 





CERTIFIED Wolverine Oats. Certified Robust Beans.

A.





B. Cook. OWOSSO. Mich.





FOR SALE—B. C. Butt Leahom cockerels.

Webster. Bath. Mich.





Willard





TURKEY'S





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 TURKEYS—Gold Bank 'Btrain.

Choice heavy birds. large bone, well marked. Satis-

faction guaranteed. Mrs. Perry Stvbblns. Saranac.

Mich.





 





 





 





TURKEYS—«M. Bronze. B. Red, Narragansett. White

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

early. Walter Bros. Powhatan Point. O





 





l'URE-BRED Giant Bronze turkeys. hens $7. toms $8.

Unrelated. Until Dec. 15. (1a Davey, Ellsworth.

Mich.





 





MICIIIGAN'S BEST Giant Bronze Turkeys. Strong.

healthy birds. 10 years breeding from America's best

strains. N. Evelyn Ilamsdell. lonia, Mivh.





l‘URli-BRED Giant Bronze





 





Turkeys. Big‘bcned.





 





 





 





young thoroughbreds. Mrs. Millie Dillsworth. North

Star. Mich.



l‘URI-LBRED Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. fine large

birds from choice stouk. Mrs. Ralph Sheik. (.‘ale‘

donla, Mich.



GIANT BRONZE Tl’lllx’l-EYSw—W’Vell Marked. Large

Boned. Healthy Birds. Mrs. Howard E. Lexitt (“ros—

woll. ilk-l1.



I’Ulll'I—BIII'II) Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Unrelated.

Some 111m birds from l‘llOlN‘ M‘lt‘l'lt‘tl stm'k. Nelson





Snider. 802 l'vtoslu-y SL, I’rmskey, Mich.





 





TU RKICYS

’l‘enllaw Farm, It. 2.





»-.\l:1mnmrh Bronze. Hens $0. toms $8.

llollullll. .‘lli‘ll.





 





l’URl'Z-BRICD Mammoth Bronze Turkeys, toms and

lions. l‘lfll‘l & Merle Phelps. Dowaglac. Mil-h.





 





l'Ulll-I—BlIl-ID Giant Bronze Turkeys. Large, Vigorous

Birds, choice stack. ll). .1. Love, Bloomingdale. Mich.





 





MAMMOTH BRONZE

Mrs. Huge-no Ramsdell.





TV It K EYS . W~Vcry fine stock.

Hanover. Mich.





 





NARRAGANSETT Turkeys. Prices right. higher after





 





 





 





 





 





 





.Inn. 1. Ernest. (,‘lomom. Ionin. Mil-h.

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. FOR SALE '«l’lll't‘rlll't'd Bourbon Red Turkeys. H. O.

tlluggles. Milford. Mich.

l’l'llli-BRED larlzc‘ll'hitc Holland turkeys. Toms $8,

and liens $7. Durxy‘m Dean, Mill'ul'd. Mich.

AGENTS WANTED

OPPORTUNITY to make money during winter. Farm;





er with rig in 011111 county wanted to advertise and.





sell our well known products to homes. Interesting

work, 1115.: pay, exclusive territory. loud chance for

promotion to our regular trawlingr sales force. Klein.

Chocolate (‘0:111121113‘. [11.2. I'llizulmtlltmvn. l’ll.





 





PET STOCK





FOR SALE—High—class Foxhounds: Beagle hounds.

Bloodhounds; and Setters; partly and.

well-broken: puppies of all breeds; no money in ad-

vam'c. ship 0. O. D. Stamp for booklet. Landls-

Kennels. Mohnton. Pa.





 





Thirty

years‘ experience. November prices. females $3.50 each:

11121161: $2.75 each. One dozen $30. Yearling females

special rat catchers $5.00 each. Will ship C. 0. D.

Instruction book free. Levi B‘arnsworth, New London.

Ohio.





BREEDER AND TRAINER of English and Fitch





 





Wl‘) “11.1. PAY YCT' $8 00 “01' barrel selling Quality

Oils and Grease (“roof in autunmhile and tractor cwu~





erg. .raraglx‘. :md smru < in small towns and rural

districts. All pr-udm lx 1:11-11 llllt‘t‘d b3 11 40-yearold

Venn-1.1113: 1“":qu 11* tuw is Oil .\ Gleasu Company.





Dept. 25. (ll*3l~.la11d.0‘m)





 





AGENTS—Be independent. make big profit with our

soap. toilet articles and household necessities. Get

$139 sample case offer. Ho-Ro-Co., 2701 Dodler. fit.

:nlis. Mo.





 





BIG MONEY Selling.r New Household Cleaning Set.

Washes and dries windows. Sweeps. scrubs. mops.

All complete only $2.05. Over half profit. Write

Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairficld, Iowa.





 





 





 





Ferrets. Price. quality andflsafe deligery filiaaantfeed.



Choice yearling females .0) eat: . 00 ree.



Thus. Sellers. New London. Ohio. HELP WANTED



HUNTING HOUNDs—«Feeds. Medicines. Suwlies MEN WANTED for auto work. The auto repair bus-





Catalogue. Kennel Journal. Herrick, Ills.





POULTRY





PURF- BRED utility Light. Brahma Cockerels—bred

to lay. $4.00 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. The

first order for two or more con kerels will l'fialvt’l one

free. Special rates on orders for day- -old chicks placed

befow Jan. 1. Milford K. Davies, Ceresca Mich.





WANTED—every week. 10.000 broilers and fryers.

wei'ht 1% to 2 lbs. Also fat hens. Will pay good

price for these birds. Write for particulars to East

Coast Poultry Co.. 700 Alfred St., Detroit. Mich.





PEKIN. Rouen. Muscovey Ducks. $5.00 Trio. All

leading varieties geese. turkeys. chickens. bantams,

Polish Guineas. Bull 81 Fox Terrier Pups & Old

Dogs. Jesse Fluoride. Judson. Ind.





   





mess pays 1mm $50 to $150 a week. steady work. no

layoffs, up strikes, plent3 of big jobs open. You can

train for a big 11213 job in 8 works. Two his: training

shops—send toda3 for n13 04 page free book and spe-

cial offer. including free board and free railroad fare

to my nearest 51-11001. Write now. Address school

nearest you. McSweeney Auto. Tractor and Electrical

Schools. Dept. 3011 McSweeny Bldg.. Cincinnati.

or McSweeny Bldg. Cleveland.





 





WANTED~—Industfious. clean farmer. single man to

take charge of ladies' farm on share. Some means and

reference required. Address Box 369. Mich. Farmer.





SITUATIONS WANTED





WANTED—Position as foreman on Dairy farm. Ex-

perienced. with lots of references. Box 708 M10111“

Farmer.





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





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Club No. 22.

Michigan Farmer, 1 yr.

Farm Mechanics, 1 yr.’

Capper’s Weekly, 1 yr.

Household, 1 yr.





Total value $3.25.





 





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. Michigan Farmer, ‘1 yr. ‘ ' . »

Youth’s Companion, 1 yr. “'wa ‘_ .

Household, 1 yr... ‘ ’ ‘ ' $3.25

Capper’s Weekly, 1 yr.‘ . g y * ‘ ~



Total value, $4.25.





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$1.75





   





 

 

 





Club N o. 23.





Michigan Farmer, 1 yr. ~

McCall’s Magazine, 1 yr. Aura"





Woman’s World, 1 yr. $2.25

Poultry Success, 1 yr.





Total value $3.50.





   





Club No. 27.





Michigan Farmer, 1 yr.

Today’s Housewife, 1 yr.

Household, 1 yr.

Woman’s World, 1 yr.





Total value $2.75.





 





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$1.70





 

   

   

 





Club No. 24.

Michigan Farmer, 1 yr.

Christian Herald, 1 yr.

People’s Home Journal, 1 yr.

Household, 1 yr.





Total value $4.25.





 





 





Club No.28.





Michigan Farmer, 1 yr. \-/\?

Farm Mechanics, 1 yr. ”W” - 4‘ rig-£75 _

American Poul. Advocate, 1 yr. $1 .9 . .

Ckapper’s Weekly, 1 yr. ' :5. .3? _ _ é '

I 1 Total value $3.50.





 





 





 





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$2.70





   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





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Club No.29.

Michigan Farmer, 1 yr.





 





greediI/l’s gazette, 1 yr- $1] F35 fizciiléfgri’rllgillgrllyl’r i ‘ ‘2"“5 ‘ l.

arm ec anics, 1 yr. . ’ ' ’ 1

Household, 1 yr. Poultry Success, 1 yr. $ .3 ,





Household, 1 yr.





Total value $3.25. Total value $4.25.





Club N o. 19.





Michigan Farmer, 1 yr. ‘

McCall’s Magazine, 1 yr.





Total value $2.00.





Club N... 30'. ‘ V]

Michigan Farmer, 1 yr. , luau... p

People’s Home Journal, 1 yr. $1 .50



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different addresses. Write for prices on any other clubfyo‘u desire. : ‘ §

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Michigan Farmer





Capper’s Weekly

Household





Total Value $2.25

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