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' which she wasn’t.





,‘the skull smallfa1idekdu1ifi§l 4





and luminous, were. unusuallydeep-s‘et





in their. sockets. The face,“ instead of





narrowing up" to a, "soft curve" at the

chin, developed unexpected strength in

the jaw line; That line. fine, steel-





, strong, sharp and clear, was of the





stuff of which pioneer women are

made. Julie, inexperienced "in the art

of reading the human physiognomy,

did not decipher the meaning of it.

Selina’s hair was thick, long, and fine,

I30 that she piled it easily in the loops,

coils, and, knots that fashion demand-

ed. Her nose, slightly pinched at the

nostrils, was, exquisite. When. she

laughed it had the trick of wrinkling

just slittle across the narrow bridge;

very ehgaging; and mischievous. She

was thought a rather plain little thing,





what you marked and remembered.

People to whom she was speaking had

a way of looking into them deeply.





Selina was often embarrassed to dis?





cover that they were not hearing what

she had to say. Perhaps it was this

velvety softness of the eyes that caus-

ed one to overlook the firmness of the

lower faCe. When the next ten years





' had done their worst to her, and Julie





had suddenly come upon her stepping

agilely out of a truck gardener’s wag-

on on Prairie Avenue, a tanned,weath-

er-beaten, toil-worn woman, her abund-

ant hair skewered into a knob and

held by a long gray hairpin, her full

calico skirt grimed with the mud of

the wagon wheel, a pair of men’s 01d

side-boots on her slim feet, a gro-

tesquely battered old felt hat (her hus-





- band’s) on her head, her arms full of





ears of sweet corn, and carrots, and

radishes, and bunches of beets; a.

woman with bad teeth, flat breasts, a





' sagging" pocket in her capacoius skirt





——even' then Julie, Staring, had known

her by her eyes. And she had run to

her in her silk suit. and her fine silk

shirtwaist and her hat with the plume

and had cried, “Oh, Selina! My dear!

My dear!”——with a sob of horror and

pity—“My dear.” And had taken Se-

lina, carrots, beets, corn, and radishes,

in her arms. The vegetables lay scat-

tered all about them on the sidewalk

in front of Julie Hempel Arnold’s great

stone house on Prairie Avenue. But

strangely enough it had been Selina

who had done the comforting, patting

Julie’s silken shoulder and saying, over

and over, “There, there! It’s all right,





Julie. It’s all right. Don’t cry. What’s

there to cry for! Sh! It’s all

right.”





ELINA had thought herself lucky to



get the Dutch school at High Prai-

rie, ten miles outside Chicago. Thirty

dollars a month! She was to board

at the house of Klaas Pool, the truck

farmer. It was August Hempel who

had brought it all about; or Julie, urg-

ing him. Now, at forty-five, August

Hempel, the Clark Street butcher,

knew every farmer and stockman for

miles around, and hundreds besides

scattered throughout Cook County- and

the State of Illinois.





To get the Dutch school for Selina.

Peake was a simple enough matter for

him. The High Prairie district school

teacher ‘had always, heretofore, been

a man. A more advantageous position

presenting itself, this year’s prospec-

tive teacher had withdrawn before the

school term had begun. This was in

September. High Prairie school did

not open until the i st week in No-

vember. In that region of truck farms

every boy and girl over six was busy

in the fields throughout the early au-

tumn. Two years of this, and 'Selina

would be qualified for a city grade.





‘- August Hempel indicated that he could





arrange that, too, when the time came;





. Selina thought, this shrewd red-faced





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of» the fact that..theeye's", dark, soft,





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mamas , .

.V'At “forty-seven, .. , , ,

was to " establish the. , famous. Hem-pol

Packing Company. ' At fifty he was the.

power in the yards, and there were

Hempel branches in Kansas City, 0m:

aha, Denverv At.‘sixty you saw the

harne of Hempel plastered over pack-

ing sheds, factories, ”and canning

plants all the way from Honolulu to

Portland. .You read:



Don’t Say ‘Ham. Say Hempel’s.



Hempel‘ products ranged incredibly

from pork to pineapple; from grease





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The deserting :school'master‘ had been!"





a second Ichabod Crane, naturally ;. the

farmer at whose’house she was to live ‘





a medern Mynhe’er, Van Tassel, pipe;





chuckle, and all: She and Julie Hem— -

pel read the tale over together on an ,.





afternoon when Julie. managed to

evade the maternal edict. Selina, pic-

turing mellow golden corn fields;

crusty cr'ullers, crumbling oly-koeks,

toothsome wild ducks, sides ‘of smoked

beef, pumpkin pies; country dances,





 





It often raised my ire, on occasi





then I’d planned to get away,





But oftener than not,

My Daddy’d put a damper on

.He would holler to me:

The grindstone I would have yo

Oh, those blasted mower knives,

And the grindstone I have often





How hard he made me work, ,h





Placed just beneath that grindst

And blow it up so high, that in all





But when I was just a boy,

Because I had to turn that





 





< THE ' GRINDSTONE

-' . By P. G. Weaver





Neath a gnarled old apple tree, in‘ fancy yet I see,

An object that has caused me mental p ‘ns.





Would. say, come turn the grindstone while it rains."

with some other lad to play,

The date I had to cancel with regret.

For often after school, Dad would sharpen every tool,

And to turn that grindstone, I would stew and sweat.

Along in haying time, with my tackle all in prime,





I would amble down the lane toward the run.

’ere I’d crossed the pasture lot,





“Jack, hurry up, and hustle back,





To edge up Granddad’s scythe, it used to make me writhe,





For he’d bear down on that stone, till he made the bearings groan,

And his feet would hang suspended in the air. _





I used to'wish to light, a pound of dynamite,





No track or trace of it would e’er be found.





Full many years have passed, since I saw that grindstone last,

I hear they run it now with gasoline. .



I missed a heap of joy.



derned machine.





one when my sire,





my fun.





u turn a spell.

saved a million fishes’ lives

wished in -——~!! ‘





e didn’t care.





one, on the ground.

the blooming sky,





 





 





to grape—juice. An indictment meant

no, more to Hempel, the packer, than

an injunction for speeding to you.

Something of his character may be

gleaned from the fact that farmers

who had known the butcher at forty

still addressed this millionaire, at six-

ty, as Aug. At sixty-five he took up

golf and beat his son-in—law, Michael

Arnold, at it. A magnificent old pirate,

sailing the perilous commercial seas

of the American 90s before commis-

sions, investigations, and inquisitive

senate insisted on applying whitewash

to the black flag of trade. ‘

Selina went about her preparations

in ’a singularly clear-headed fashion,

considering her youth and inexperi-

ence. She sold one of the blue-White

diamonds, and kept one. She placed

her inheritance of four hundred and

ninety—seven dollars, complete, in the

bank. She bought stout sensible

boots, two dresses, one a brown lady’s-

cloth which she made herself, finished

with white collars and cuffs, very neat

(the cuffs to be protected by black

sateen sleevelets, of course, while

teaching); and a wine-red cashmere

(mad, but she couldn’t resist) for best.

She eagerly learned what she could

of this region once known as New Hol—

land. Its people were all truck gar-

deners, and as Dutch as the Nether—

lands from which they or their fath-

ers had come. She heard stories of

wooden shoes worn in the wet prairie

fields; of a red-faced plodding Cornel-

ius Van der Bilt living in placid ignor-

ance of the existence of his distin-

guished New York patronymic connec-

tion; of sturdy, phlegmatic, industri~

ous farmers in squat, many-windowed

houses patterned after the north- Hol-

land houses of their European memor-

ies. ~ Many of-them-had come from the

town of Schoorl. or-‘near it": Others“ ,

from the lowlands outside masterdam.”





apple—cheeked farmer girls, felt sorry

for poor Julie staying on in the dull

gray commonplaceness of Chicago.





The last week in October found her

on the way to'High Prairie, seated be—

side Klass Pool in the two-horse wag-

on with which he brought his garden

stuff to the Chicago market. She sat

perched next him on the high seat like

a saucy wren beside a ruminant Hol-

stein. So they jolted up the long Hal-

stead road through the late October

sunset. The 'prairie land just outside

Chicago had not then been made a ter-



rifying and epic thing of slag-heaps,

smoke-stacks, and blast furnaces like

a Pennell drawing. Today it stretched

away and away in the last rays of the

late autumn sunlight over which the

lake mist was beginning to creep like

chiffon coverin‘g gold. Mile after mile

of cabbage fields, jade-green against

the earth. Mile after mile of red cabv

bage, a rich plummy Burgundy veinedw

with black. Between these, heaps of

corn were piled-up sunshine. Against

the horizon an occasional patch of

woods showed the last russet and

bronze of oak and maple. These things

Selina saw with her beauty-loving eye,

and she clasped her hands in their

black cotton gloves.





“Oh, Mr. Pool!" she cried.

Pool! How beautiful it is here!”





Klaas Pool, driving his team of

horses down the muddy Halstead road,

was looking straight ahead, his eyes

fastened seemingly on an invisible

spot between the off-horse’s ears. His

was not the kind of brain that acts

quickly, nor was his body’s mechanism

the sort that quickly responds to that

brain’s message. Hiseyes were china-

blue in a round red_face that was cov-





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all‘alight.‘now

the scene ‘11er ,. '

"elstionrat this new _

she was entering; an H

suchras sheiused‘t‘or w _ , .,

tain rose! with tantalising deli '

ness on the first .act of a play .

she was seeingwith her father: ‘

was well bundled up against thesharp

october air in hercloak and, mm

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dark, and bright.





pale blue eyes showed incomprehen-

sion. - ' “x ’





“Beautiful?” he echoed, in puzzled





interrogation. “What is beautiful?"

Selina’s slim arms flashed out from

the swathingsof cloak, shawl, and





, muffler and were flung wide in a ges— .

' ture that embraced the landscape on





which the late afternoon sun was cast-

ing a glow peculiar to that lake region,

all rose and golden and mist-shim—

mering.



“This! The—the cabbages.”



A slow-dawning film of fun crept

over the blue of Klaas Pool’s stare.

The film ,spread almost imperceptibly

so that it fluted his broad nostrils, met

and widened his full lips, reached and

agitated his massive shoulders, tickled

the round belly, so that all Klaas Pool,

from his eyes to his waist, was rip-

pling and- shaking with slow, solemn,

heavy Dutch mirth. ~





“Cabbages is beautiful!”_his round '





pope eyes staring at her in a fixity of

glee. “Cabbages is beautiful!” His

silent laughter now rose and became

audible in a rich throaty Chortle. It

was plain that laughter, with Klaas

Pool, was not a thing to be lightly dis-

missed, on’ce raised. “Cabbages-——” he

choked a little, and spluttered, over-

come. Now he began to shift his gaze

back to his horses and the road, by

the same process of turning his head

first and then his eyes, so that to

Selina the mirthful tail of‘his right'eye

and his round red cheek with the gel-

den fuaz on it gave him an incredibly

roguish brownie look.





Selina laughed, too, even while "she





protested his laughter. “But they are!” .





she insisted. “They are beautiful.

Like jade=and Burgundy. No, like——





uh—like—what’s that in—like chryso- .





prase and porphyry. All these fields

of cabbages and the corn and the beet-

tops together look like Persian

patches.”



Which was, certainly, no way for a





,new. school teacher to talkto 3. H01-





land truck gardener driving his team

along the dirt road on his way to High

Prairie. But then, Selina, remember,

had read Byron at seventeen.



Klaas Pool knew nothing of chryb‘o-

prase_ and porphyry. Nor of Byron.

Nor, for that matter, of jade and' Bur-

gundy. But he did 'know cabbages,

both green and red. He knew cabbage

from seed to sauerkraut; he knew and

grew varieties from the sturdy Flat

Dutch to the early Wakefield. But

that they were beautiful; that they

looked like jewels; that they lay like

Persian patches, had never entered his

head, and rightly. What has, the head

of a cabbage, or, for that matter, of a;





robust, soil-stained, toiling Dutch truck ,





farmer to do with nonsense like em-





with. Persian. patterns!“ 3 .

The horses" clapped down the





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and waist. . The usual cream’ypsllm‘. 1

of her fine clear skin showed an tin-fl-

wonted pink, and her eyes were wide,“

Beside this .‘sparb‘ "

ling delicate girl’s face Klaas Peel’s *3; ‘-

heavy- features seemed carved from.;.;

the stuff of another clay and race.“I{-is""5'
: OULTRYMEN generally find that

1- * the use of green feed in the hen’ s

a _ ration is a help in reducing diges- , . ’

’ 'igtive disorders during the owinter It leaves which will be relished by the

.5; ' ; ‘j‘ hefips cut dow‘n the food bill as the henS- I hear of one'roultryman who

u p ‘ ‘» m feed is one of the cheap items has used celery for“. poultry feeding at

s *T in the ration. Hens )vhich have access the rate 0f seven pounds per 100 birds

' ’ to green feed my more eggs and at every day and they have kept in heal-

1‘ the game time their bodies retain the thy condition and made a fine egg rec-

d .31.: . ' vigOr and stamina necessary to pro— ord. Some orchardists have a lot of

' 3 duce hatching eggs which produce vig‘ cull apples which can be worked into

01-0115 chicks ~ the winter poultry ration. I find that

3 I This problem of producing hatch- hens like apples andthey add a juicy

able aggs is very important because of succulent .feed to the ration WhiCh

I‘ ’ ’ ‘ tha large cost of reproducing the pul- seems to stimulate their appetiteS'and

E1 1: ” let’flocks each year. One of the great- help keep them healthy.

f I ‘ est complaints expressed by some I have always heard that sudden

" * ‘ ‘ poultrymen tells of the disappointment changes in a poultry ration should be

1‘ ., at having chicks die in the shell. Feed. aVOIded, but do; not believe that this

x ' ing green feed and sour milk seems to applies to green feed in every case.-

t ' help in placing a strong spark of life A change from one green feed to an-

in the eggs.

; On many farms where clover is used "

r for cow feed it pays to keep a tub

' near the mangers. Nearly every day a

i tub full of broken clover leaves and

! fine stems can be picked up for the

” 7 _ hens. This is a cheap feed that the

h ' hens appreciate. It helps to furnish

’ the bulk that is needed in the ration

l ' to balance up the more concentrated

f grains and dry mash. Watch the hens

. work over a heap of clover chaff on a.

; 0 cold stormy day and you realize it

t contains the bits of green food which

5 they crave.





Celery Leaves for Hens.

Certain types of, specialized farming

produce crops of value as poultry feed.

The celery farmer may have some cull





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1 ; HE Michigan Cow Testing Asso-

ciation Record of Performance i

. is receiving much attention this

V - month by cow testing association

members, cow testers and county agri— ed from the Oceana COW Testing As—



. cultural agents. To date four hundred SOCia-tion. L D Leisenring, tester



and twenty-two entries have been re- These entries were made by E M.

ceived by, the Dairy Department, Mich- Near Henry Meyers, R E Deymon,

igan Agricultural College. Many cow \Henry Henrickson, E. 0. Anderson,

testers are calling for further entry Leslie Brady, 'Carl R Rabe, Mrs. E.

blanks and many more applications for 13- Rabe, Ray Burke, Sam O’Dell and



.9 ‘ I entry into the Record of Performance F- 0- Sherman.



are expected. January 1, 1925, is the Four herds owned by Henry Meyers.

“g; final date for entry in the/ first year E0 Anderson, Leslie Brady and Sam

' book that will be issued by the dairy





Forty-four entries have been receiv-





 





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1ntcr Greens Mac Healthy Hens





It’ .1“ Only Inc Green Pan/trynmn W60 Doe: [Vat Feed Green Stnfi

By R.QG. Kirby





 





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;  Moch‘cncfits from Cow Testing Work





Arman/lions are T noting Advantage of Me New Registration Plan

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they will be cleaned up without being~

frozen. Carry a large knife with the

mange] basket and cut them into long

strips, possibly four to six strips to

each mange].

readily. Frozen mangels are not good

poultry feed and may cause bowel

trouble. Avoid all mouldy or decayed

vegetables as they are dangerous to

poultry.



Green Feed Produces Yellow Yolks.



Cabbages contain some green in

their leaves which I think makes them

of more value than mangels for poul-

try feed. Cutting the cabbages into

a few slices instead of feeding them

whole, helps to give all the members

of the flogk their share of the green

feed. I feed my hens' some carrots

and also use Golden Tankard mangels

which have a. very rich golden yellow

flesh. This seems to help in produc-

ing eggs with a rich yellow yolk and

such eggs seem to hatch better than

eggs with pale yolks. I understand

that some of the eastern markets have

customers which like eggs with pale





other seems ‘to interest the birds.

When they have been on a diet of

mangels for a few days they doubly

appreciate some cabbages, cull apples,

or fine clover. When hens have a bal-

anc'ed dry mash they seem in little

danger of acquiring digestive disorders

from sudden changes in green feed.

here is the reason. They always eat

enough mash so their appetites are not

ravenous for the green feed and they

do not gorge on any one kind of feed.



Mangels are a good source of suc-

culence and in general use by poultry-

men who must raise a quantity of bulky

feed on a limited acreage. In zero

weather I think it is best to slice the

mangels and feed them sparingly so





yolks. I find that my private egg cus-

tomers like eggs with rich yellow

yolks. I consider this fortunate as





the yellow yolked eggs seem to pro-

duce thrifty chicks. My only proof of

this fact rests 0n the good hatches or

thrifty chicks which have arrived

when the hens have been producing

eggs with firm rich yellow yolks.

Hens Like Sprouted Oats.

Sprouted cats are probably the best

liked and the finest source of green

(Continued on page 584).





listed in the Michigan Record of Per-





Baltzcr





formance. . .

Many other cow testing members

O’Dell will receive special recognition scattered throughout Michigan have





in the Year Book because more than

fifty per cent of the cows in the herds

-have qualified and been entered. These

are pure—bred Jersey herds. The first

bulls to be listed as proven sires in

the Michigan R. O. P. are Jerseys.

These bulls are McKay’s Lad and

Noble Sensational Lad owned by the

Owosso County Jerseymen. Each of

these bulls has five daughters or more





sent in entry blanks to the dairy'de-

partment. Michigan dairymen are re-

sponding whole heartedly to this new

department in the cow testing associa-

tion work. The requirements for en-

try of cows in the Michigan Record

of Performance are as follows:



a. Heifers starting record under

three years old must produce 280

pounds or more of butter-fat.



b. Cows starting record under four





 





 





department. Certificates of the Rec-

ord of Performance will be drawn up

after that date and mailed to the

’ Michigan Cow Testing Association

" members whose cows have been ac.

" - " ” dented for entry.

The Macomb No.1 Cow Testing As-

_ acciatio'n, Eldon Barclay, tester, has

.sent fifty-four Record of PerfOrmance

ens-1e: to. the dairy department. This

is thwargest number of entries re-

- roeived from one cow testing associa-

‘ '. ’ can Only sixty-one cows were eligible

' hotter in this association.

ow that qualified for the Rec-

‘ certificate in the





 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





years old must produce 310 pounds or



more of butter—fat.



c. Cows starting records under five

years old must produce 350 pounds? or

more of butter—fat.



d. Cows starting record when five

years old or over must produce 400

pounds or more of butter-fat.



I c. When age is not known cow is to

be classed as mature and must pro-

duce 400 pounds or more of butter-fat.



An entry fee of $1.00 accompanies

each entry blank. This fee is to cover



.thecost of issuing certificates of reg-

istration.



The aim of the Record of Performa

ance is to encourage more efficient

dairying. Certificates issued under .

this plan will establish a. system of .

recording superior cows—either grades '

or pure-bred—w’ith the Dairy Depart-

ment. Michigan. Agricultural College.





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NUMBER TWENTY SIX





DETROIT, DEC. 27, 1924

CURRENT COMMENT





 





 





I N times long past

What ' people hweref interg

ested in t e sa ety 0



Of The the highwaywsafety



Way from the highway-

man. On the comple-

tion, or the suggestion, of a journey

friends of the traveler never failed

to ask, “What of the Way?”



We are again sensing that same

question, Danger is in the Way. Dur-

ing the past year, according to public

rvcords, 22,600 persons were killed in

“an“: accidents on our highways.

These mothers and children and men

would make a single file thirteen miles

long. This number makes an average

of sixty persons every day of the year;

five every working hour, and one every

twenty—four minutes. This is more

than the number of Union soldiers.

lost on the great battlefield of Gettys-

burg and exceeds what General Mc-

Clellan lost in his much criticised pe-

ninsula campaign.



But that is not all; besides these

fatalities there were, during the same

time, over two-thirds of a million ad-

ditional people who sustained serious

personal injury from our highway ac—

cidents. In all, this thing is critical—

it is a national calamity, and drastic

means, if necessary, should be put for-

ward to reduce the life toll.



What can be done? Many things.

Perhaps we need wider main high-

ways; better protection along filled

stretches; more uniform road mark-

ings; grade crossings; cooperation of

the public and efficials; a public edu~

cational course on the use of high-

ways; and last, but by no means least,

a deepening respect for the laws which

society has established for its own

protection. This extends beyond obed-

ience to the ordinary traffic laws to a

rigid enforcement of the laws passed

under the authority of the eighteenth

amendment to the federal constitution.





tration program. It

is a slogan which has

appealed strongly to

every citizen, and particularly to those

who are on the federal income tax list.

The idea has taken such deep root in

administrative circles that President

Coolidge is said to be seriously con-

sidering the calling of a conference of

state executives to impress upon them

the necessity of tax reduction to states

and their minor municipalities.



- This is: suggestion which, if car-

ried out, might accomplish much good.





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AX reduction is!

lie of



ark For the keyno . .

gm, Re fill-e Federal Adminis‘





”misting bathed in all minor

polities. ‘





   





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in local governmental affairs.





tion.





If every reader of this editorial

,_ p. m .......:::::::'.::::::::.'::.' m m world write their representative and

- senator in the state legislature urging _

strict economy in state‘firopriations

and substantial reductions in taxation,





the result would be surprising as well

as most grati ying.





If every reader of this editorial

would take a more active interest in

his county government and would take

opportunity to talk with the supervisor

on of his-township regarding the neces-





- sity for economy in county adminis-

tration, like beneficial results would

follow. - .



If every reader would be present

when appropriations are made at the





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next town meeting similar results





would be secured in township admin-

istration.



“ Tax reduction is a constructive pro-

gram to the carrying out of which we

can all afford to lend a hand. There

is plenty of opportunity for everyone

of us to work along that line.





M





ICHIGAN is gain-





Kee The ing her rightful

G p (I place in the markets

ra es of the country. Her

Up potatoes are at near





the top prices, where-

as last year they had to sell at a dis-

count. In Detroit, the percentage of

Michigan apples consumed as compar-

ed with the western product, is greater

than for many years.





These improvements are without a

doubt, due to the improved packing

and grading, brought about by our

present grading laws and their en-

forcement.





Many are against these laws be-

cause they think them too severe.

They believe that we should have a

common grade which the average con-

sumer, the laboring man, can buy.

However, the facts are that the over-

head in handling poor fruit is as great

and often greater, than that of the

good fruit. Thus the saving to the

consumer is not very much, especially

as retailers often like to buy cheap

products and put good~product prices

on them. Moreover, the consumer, re-

gardless of his status, wants good stuff

and seems to be willing to pay the

slight extra price for it. .



Therefore, there seems to be no ex-

cuse for wanting leniency in grading

laws. In fact, they should be tight-

ened and more rigidly enforced.



This, of course, will leave on hand

quite a little low-grade stuff. .Then

the matter becomes one of production.

With severe grading laws, we will turn ..

our attention, as a manufacturer

would, to evolving methods which will

give us a smaller percentage .01 low.-





grade stuff, and also find means for .

making’use'ot what mightbe produwdr





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But the effect “this programwould"

be small as compared with the results

which would be attained if every citi-

omon. menu-i zen would take a more actiVe interest

Last

month we elected members of the state

cmanAND OFFICE nil-1m 0mm. ml legislature “7111911 Will meet in Janu-

ary. These members will very gener-

...................... :President ‘ny carry gut the will of their can;

. PAUL'IA‘VgllENCE 122121222222IIIIlzg-mfi stituents in the votes which they cast



' “NOE 3°" on measures which will affect taxa-





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New Year ’3 Greetings





T/zat t/ze New Year, wit/z it’s open door of

Opportunity, may hold a full .r/zare of Prosper-





zty and Happzozerr foryou, 1': our sincere coir/z.





 





 





When our “tests equal or b-j_.el_l'

thesis of ourgcompetltors,we wt 1 have

little competition because of-ournat- ,

ural adVantages of néarness tofm'ar-

kit, and quality production, Other

sections only invade our rightful mar-

kets because of our own carelessness;

And carelessness profits the other





 

 





sitar . em} .5 ' or wit-or

the bulk of parcel postage;

' Wm " mans. where“ it -- hf

thrpugh the improvement ‘of





higEWaysi-a't great expense to the. tan;-





(allow. payers. 1t,doesr..not seemjsstwlto

. * for the balk-or this 1mm;

can is a. dull employee ‘0! (the post ones de’pam

As metal. It h as ment, the larger portion of whom

nothing to the work in the cities, to come from the

' My ' eye. to add“ to the pockets 0‘ farm folks: ‘ ‘ ' "

A8 Lea glitter or glory of the





world. .In fact, lead

is such a dull, and so‘apparently ide-

pressing a metal in the popular con-

ception, that, to; feel “leaden” or ”as

heavy as lead," is about the last stage

of depression that one cares to expe-

rience. ' .

One is likely to think of lead as used

for only such plebelan purposes as a"

part of paint, or to be used in better-

ies. But we are iflformed through our

advertising columns that lead adds to

the glitter and gloss of milady’s silk

dress, it puts the sheen and finish to

the finest of china, which is nothing





raised in some manner. - The chances





of our farm folks can stop it. ' For this

reason, it is suggested here that wires

and letters be forwarded layout :98-

pective congressmen and sorrows,

protesting this plan for the raising pt





additional post oflice funds. ‘ ',





 





Happy New Tear ..





Y is too full for utterance: so i’li

have to utter for him. You know,

men celebrate their holidays different-

ly than women. They set around and

do nothing but eat and then get so

full that they are wheezy. However,

we women have to hustle. for several

weeks before Christmas, and then at

Christmas time have to make an ektra.

rush to prepare the viands for the com

suming males of our mansion, and are

supposed to act cheerful through it all.

Hy makes a specialty of celebrating

holidays because it involves his three

favorite pastimes, doing nothing, eat-

ing and sleeping.

If it is as they

say, that one be-

comes proficient

in the things in.

which one has the

most practice and

greatest interest,

Hy certainly is

proficient in those

three lines of non-





productive activities, these specialties

of his.





Perhaps, you think I spend too much

space talking about my husband. I

rather think that I agree with you, but

when one has a husband, he is on

one’s mind so much that it is difficult

to think of anything else.





/ Writing for publication is new to

me, but in as much as Hy is still in-

disposed ._from his “spiritual celebra-

tion" of Christmas, I will have to ex-

tend the New Year’s Greetings. You

know that Hy does not believe in com-

mercializing Christmas by giving pres-





T/ze Editors





but common clay until the lead finish

is put on it. It thus makes handsome

many things which the lauded metals,

gold and silver could not.





Does not this indicate that there is

beauty and purpose in all things if we

will but recognize them? Does it not

suggest that there might be beauty

and joy in even the drabbest of

farm life if we but seek_ and make

use of it?



Does not this lesson of lead make

it possible for us to draw the conclu-

sion that life is what we see and

know? And if, unfortunately, we know

more of the dreariness and dullness of

life, it is because we do not know

enough about life.





 





Life truly has happiness for all of

us if we will but tune ourselves in to

the happiness wave length, and there-

by tune out the static and discord.



Is this not worthy of a New Year’s





thought? cuts and stufling ourselves, but when .

~ it comes to eating, .he partakes pro-

T is a. most natural digiously. I am happy that he has no

Farmers and commendable desrre for intox1cat1ng liquors.

M t N t thing for floor leaders I suppose that Hy would have had

as o in congress to have a something to say about “Sloppy New

Sleep program. It would be Year, and etc., etc.” and would make





reference to passing resolutions 80-38

to have some to break later on. Well,"

I’m not going to say anything of the

kind because I don’t have to pass res

olupions as I am resolved all the time.

I still have in effect my resolution to

make Hy an up-and-doing sort of man.

Hy’s resolves dissolve so quickly that

,I might call him an absolute irresoiute.

But themeach of us have a husband

to take‘ care of, and each presents in- ’

dividuai problems. Therefore, -I' extend.

to the wives my sympathy and wishes

for a better outlook, next year. It is

my hope that each of you will make

‘your husbands resolve, and then. sue-:-

ceed in making him keep his messin-





out of the question

for that body of men. to render any

sort of legislative service to the coun~

try without some plans of procedure

mapped out at the opening of the ses-

sion. Further, we know that such a.

program is of great assistance to

those Whose interests are cared for in

the scheme; but it is hard on the fel-

low who is out in the ’cold. It is about

a cold “child” that we wish to speak.

The situation is this. A raise in

wages has been allowed postal work-

ers, which we think they deserve. but

which fact raises a question. The.

question is, how are we going to raise

the money with which to meet this

raise in wages? on this question the

leaders'have agreed on sonogram for.

securing the. 1W5“, ‘3? “a“ “159' .“m

and theirs“!!! is .;W‘f§g”eulse . l .

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mom is amounts am out





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“handling methods, securing of correct





W pins a cooperative spirit, will





enemas and value of the farm.



. Spray painting is apparently un-

imam Warmers. It has been esti-

ted ;that 96.1 per cent of the farm-

re use brushes for painting. Three





 





A nun nine-tenths per cent apply paint

‘” With a spray to some extent "





 





In a recent survey of farm districts,





it was found that 54. 9 per cent of over





a thousand farmers interviewed, do

their own painting, either entirely or

partly. A particularly/large propor-

tion of the farm painting is done by

the farmers themselves, when the own-

er operates the farm.



x The painting is done mostly by

labor. Much of the

structural > surface is clapboarded.

Many of the surfaces” are of rather

rough lumber, with many craCks.

Spray painting“ has been suggested as

a. method ‘for reducing the cost of

farm painting and for overcoming the

shortage of farm labor. Spray paint-

ers can be developed in a short time;

The spray machine is ‘well suited for





‘iAf causes rapid, and'.‘

The recently de-





this condition, save millions

repairs mead healthier buildings

lixe‘ stock and will imprOve the





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painting barns and outbuildings on

rough lumber. There are many broad

expanses. f of unbroken surface , .and

comparatively little _ fine work or

change in, colors. Little, if any more

paint is used than by hand methods





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Painter





and a better piece of work results in

half the time. The spraying machine

is Well adapted to roof work because

there is a. wide expanse of surface, no

sharp lines to be cut and the paint

that should be used is thin in consis-





 





The Cost of Applying Paint to Farm Buildings to Enhance Their Appear-

ance and Give Protection Can be Redduced.





 





at Time and Money for Me Farmer - \





tency, all combining to make an ideal

spraying combination.



' Mechanical painting can be done in

a fraction of the time required‘for

hand brushing, the paint is spread

more uniformly, the coating is heavier

and 'the work more durable, provided

properly chosen paints are used and

surfaces suitably prepared. During

the past few years there has been a

very great growth in cooperation.

The United States Department of

Agriculture reports approximately 12,-

000 farm cooperatives with 500,000

membership. The managers of local

cooperative associations could handle

the business end of a spray painting

outfit. Farm boys could be trained

to operate the machine and do all the

painting for members of the organiza-

tion. An equitable charge could be

made for the use of the machine and

pay for the operatives. Each farmer

could assist in moving scaffolding, and

mixing paints, so that labor cost

would be very small.



Another plan whereby the advan-

tages of mechanical painting might

be realized by farmers would be for

a small number of them to buy paint<

ing machines, and do custom work,

as is the practice with motor trucks,

threshing machines and the like ex-

pensive, less frequently used machines.



In some localities progressive paint-

ers operate a portable spraying outfit

and go from place to place painting

dwellings, barns and other buildings.





What Do You Think About Them?





Here 13‘ tfie Report of Prof. Homer, our Agricultural Economz rt, on 1 mo Large

Farming Marketing Imtztutzom





URING the first week in Decem-

ber, the farmer was the guest of

Chicago. The main attraction

was the International Live Stock

Show. This show brought many farm-





’ers and those working on farmers’





problems. The occasion afforded an

eXcellent opportunity for these people

to have meetings to consider and dis-





ACuss their special problems.





At the meeting of the National As-

sociation of Marketing Officials, the

work of the large cotton and grain co-

operative organizations was explained.

The American Cotton Growers’ Ex—

change is an organization of over 250,-

000 cotton farmers and expects to han—

dle about 1,000,000 bales of cotton this

season. It maintains sales offices in

the main cotton markets of the south,





.flNeW England, and Europe.





This organization of farmers is ena-





; bling the grower to learn about mar—

ket conditions and hopes to do the job





of handling the product from the field

to the mill in a more efficient manner

than is now being done. It is not the





‘ sole aim to bring to farmers the profit





which dealers make on handling this





_ business; but rather eliminate certain





of the evils which now exist in the

marketing processes and bring to the

farmers a knowledge of what they

must do to bring about better market

conditions.





Among the specific services which





(f'this‘ «organisation intends to provide





are better credit facilities to farmers

elimination of





onset grading and weights, bring—

shed more direct and efficient





fundamental cooperative principles. It

a' farmers’ organization is to succeed,

it must secure theconfidence of its

members, the banks, and the buyers of

the product. This is a job for the

management and upon how well this

is done depends the success of the en~

terprise. Officials of this association

believe that one of the fundamentah

essential to securing confidence of the

members is a straightforward, honest

policy toward them. There should be

no secrets between the officers and the

members. The only specific informa-

tion about the business which is not

given out fully is that about the buy-

ers of the product and the prices paid.

Confidence of the buyers of the prod-

uct is gained by honest, square, and

business-like dealings. The banker has

confidence in farmers’ organizations

when there is efficient management

and financial responsibility.



The officers of the cotton growers’

organization do not believe there is





anything magic about cooperation. It

is merely a form of business organiza-

tion which will enable farmers to do

things collectively in a better manner

than could be done individually.



Mr. J. W. Coverdale, secretary of the

Grain Marketing Company, told of the

work of. his organization which is not

yet owned by the grain growers, but

which is controlled by them as to pol-

icy. There are already about 70,000

members in this association which is

doing business with some 300 farmers’

elevators in addition to private dealers

in grain.



This cooperative effort of farmers

is, also, a business deal. It aims to

market grain for its members to the

best possible advantage on the prevail-

ing markets. There are no intentions

of attempting to control price. It is

not a price—fixing organization; but one

which sells grain for all it can get in

the world markets. The same busi-

ness practices which have been found





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





anGratlot One of the Leading Angcultural Counties





 





to be safe and successful by private

dealers are being followed by this new

company. It eliminates the risks of

price fluctuations by hedging its pur-

chases just as private dealers do.



This is not a new system of market-

ing grain, but merely the transfer of

the ownership of the marketing agen-

cies from the private dealer to the

grower of the grain. The central

thought in the minds of the managers

is not how to make money out of their

operations but how to return to the

farmer the highest possible price for

his product. Just how well this organ-

ization gets along will depend upon

how the farmers support it and how

well the managers perform the duties

assigned to them.



The birth of these large cooperative

organizations marks new era. in agri‘

culture. There is going to come to

the farmer more knowledge about the

process and practices of getting his

product from the farm to the consum~

er. Through such organizations, the

farmer will learn about the things he

must do during the productive, har-

vesting and handling stages in order

to put into the market the things con-

sumers want and will pay a remuner-

ative price for. Such organizations

will, also, if they are properly handled.

bring to farmers as a group informa-

tion about market conditions so they

will be on a more nearly equal plane

in bargaining. Such organizations

ought to provide for farmers facilities

of credit, storage and service which

will make it unnecessary for them to

sell at the harvest time, regardless oi

the condition of the market.



Cooperation in itself is not going to

solve all the problems of the'farmers:

but it will, if it is properly conducted,

bring to them a better position in the

market place

These associations of producers who

' .(Continued on page 572).





an.
'E'M PLOYE‘R's LIABILITY. 3’





I have a brother working in: a bak-

ery. This bakery employ-s three men

and has no insurance for the men.

This man bakes part of the time and

the rest of his time he (hi

and delivers bread. He delivered

bread to a store and the proprietor of

the store had a plank laid across the

walk because his walk was damaged,

and this man caught his foot on the

plank and was thrown. His right arm



' is injuredlso he has to have a doctor’s

care. And he had an X-Ray picture

and had all this to pay. He has a wife

and four children and only gets $25

per week and it is hard to bear all the

expense. Can his boss or the man in

the store where he was hurt be made

to bear the expense ?—J. H.



The employer is liable under the

employer’s liability act if he has elect-

ed to come under it, and would also be

liable at common law if he has not.

Whether the owner of the store would

be liable would depend upon the ques—

tion of contributory negligence by the





person injured.——~Rood.





 





 





GETTING PAYMENT ON NOTE.





 





A' man gives his note for three

months and does not pay, then leaves

the state for five month, then returns

and pays no attention after being noti-

fied again. We want our money. He

has no property here. He owns an

auto. Could we put an attachment on

auto” and get pay? Machine is clear

from debt—H. M.



No ground for attachment appears





 

 





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, as Salas a or ’ Sumac-I

in, the statement... The remedy would

be action on the note and .levy on the

auto under execution—Rood.





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VTRESPASS’ING or CHICKENS. '





 





 





What right have my chickens on my

neighbor’s farm and what is the law

regarding them ?——F. P.





The owner of domestic birds or an-





imals is liable to any person on whose,





premises they trespass for whatever

damage they do.——Rood.





SUBSTITU'I'ING DRIED BEET PULP

FOR SILAGE.





 





Could dried beet pulp be substituted

for silage for feed for much cows?

What is; the best method of feeding

and what amount should ‘be fed ?—M.



An experiment at the Michigan Ex-

periment Station a few years ago,





shows that fresh beet pulp can be sub- .





stituted for corn silage with about

equal results. In drying the pulp moth-

ing is lost but the water in it and by

carefully wetting, it will almost as-

sume its former appearance and con-

sistency. More than that, the cows

seem to like it as well as they did the

fresh pulp.



By having a special bin for the pur-

pose where it does not freeze, it is no

great task to wet the pulp and feed

it in that condition. When in this

wet, or in fresh condition, it should





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be fed in about the, same quantities as

you ‘woxildvcorn silage. It mustbe wet





a‘day ahead of feeding, otherwise'it





will not have time to absorb the prop '





’ or amount of water. ~ . 4.

. However, nearly as good results can





be obtained by feeding it dry. There





is nothing gained by wetting any of

the food for a cow if she has all the

water she wants‘to drink.





It can hardly be said that dried beet

pulp will take the place of corn silage.

It is much more expensive, It lacks

the vitamines that the'green leaves of

corn contain. But if you haven’t got

the silagey dried beet pulp will help

make a better and more wholesOme

ration, even though you feed it dry.





 





A BALANCED RATION WITHOUT _

CORN. -





 





Would you kindly give me a bal-

anced ration for my. dairy cows with-

out corn,,as corn is out of the question

this year. [have barley, rye and oats

and good mixed hay, clover and ‘ tim-

othy and corn stover, but no silage.





Ground barley is an excellent sub-

stitute for corn meal in a ration. Per-

haps not quite so palatable, but you





_will have no trouble in getting good





results with it in place of corn.\ ,

With your roughage ration of mixed

hay and corn stovergwhich are low in





protein was muetfeed we filters:

and expensive min reticulum to

get the requiremamountof protein



The 101mm moon. is suggested:





Twelve, pounds of clever and timothy





hay, which furnishes“ .812 poumiser





protein,'and* ten pounds of corn stoves-,4; ,

which furnishes .14 pounds of proteins... .





making a total of .762 pounds.





Mix barley, oats and rye equal'par‘ts "I -

and feed six pounds, furnishing .5768va





pounds of protein. , g . .

As you have no silage or other sue;





cin‘ent food, oil meal is to be recom-- ’ I





mended in preference to cottonseed

meal and it will, take four pounds. of





oil meal to furnish sumcient pertain; _





 





FoaacLosmc 0N FARM Pea -

NOTE PAYMTNT.





 





A man and wife held a joint deed to

a farm which is mortgaged for about

one-fourth of its‘ value. Man owes a

few hundred dollars for which he has

given his note. Wife’s name does not

appear on note. If the holder of note





presses collection of note and the man:

is not able to pay and enters plea in .





bankruptcy, can they enforce foreclos-

ure on the farml—C. p. M. ‘





The farm is liable only for such

debts of the, husband as were con-

tracted before title was so taken, and

then only to the extent that he furnish

the purchase price—Rood.





 





LATE AGRICU





LTURAL





NEWS





 





 





 





 





 





 





FARMERS? . APPROPRIATION BILL

PASSES.





 





THE agricultural appropriation bill

‘ was passed by the house after less

than two days’ consideration and with

only a few minor amendments. It car-

ries upwards of $124,000,000, of which

$80,000,000 is available for roads.





FIRES UNUSUALLY HEAVY.





 





OREST fire losses have been unus-

- ually heavy. Complete figures for

1924 are not compiled, but up to Sep-

tember 30 a total of 7,179 fires inside

of the national forests had been re-

ported, and over 500,000 acres of fed-

eral land had been swept by flames.





 





THE POTATO TARIFF RATE.





 





PECULIAR situation has develop-



ed in the potato trade between the

United States and Canada. While our

tariff on potatoes of fifty cents per 100

pounds prevents the exportation of

New Brunswick potatoes to the United

States, American potatoes pay a duty

of thirty-five cents per 100 pounds on

entry into western Canada for sale at

Winnipeg at from seventy to seventy-

five cents per bushel, and are satisfac-

tory. Canadian potato dealers now

want their tariff equal to the American

rate.





HOW WILL THESE HIGHER

WAGES BE PAID?





 





HE proposed increase in salaries



of postal employes will mean a

raise in rates of postage. It will add

approximately $68,000,000 to the an-

nual expenditures, and as Postmaster

General New says, it is at once ob-

vious that the money to meet this in-

crease must come from somewhere.

Postmaster-General New recommends

increases in parcel post rates amount-

ing to $12,000,000, and on second-class

mail, consisting of newspapers and

other periodicals, $10,876,000. and the





 





postal rate increases provided in Chair-

man Sterling’s post ofl‘lce committee’s.

bill are those recommended by the

postmaster—general.





NO RULE ON BUTTER MOISTURE.





 





DELEGATION representing the

creamery butter industry headed

by Dr. G. L. McKay, of Chicago, has





arrived in Washington for the purpose

of working out a plan to settle the un-

certainties due to the supreme court

over-ruling the long established regu-

lation allowing sixteen per .cent of

moisture content in butter. Since the

court action, it is said, there is no rule

by which the Internal Revenue Bureau

can designate the moisture content of

butter.





 





 





_ Now Let: Go!





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





LEGISLATION WANTED BY FAI‘lM

BUREAU. .





 





THE Washington omce of the Amer-

ican Farm Bureau Federation is





busily preparing to urge upon con- I





gressi the necessity of taking such ac—

tion in legislative matters as the fed—

eration endorsed at the Chicago con-

vention. This includes opposition to

placing any addithnal burdens on the

parcels post system to meet increased

salaries of postal employes and to

branch banking as provided for in the

McFadden bill, and in favor of action

on the‘Purnell bill increasing approp-

riations for experiment stations, the





(Vestal standard container bill, p hib-





iting the local banker from ch rging

more than two per cent in addition to

what he pays for federal reserve mon-

ey, amending the intermediate credits

act so that it would be possbile to lend

money for a shorter period, making

the minimum four months instead of

six months, and that a higher maxi-

mum loan be allowed on warehouse

receipts. , i

M "1'





WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM?‘





(Continued from page 571).

are attempting to improve their mar-

ket conditions should receive the best

wishes of all who are interested in

rural welfare. This country should





 





 





 





 





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I}? a recent issue of the Michigan

'5 1 War, I noticed where a certain

' county agent urged every farmer be-

h longing to cow testing associations in

hideounty to saw one acre of sweet

clover. If they try this, I am sure it

‘7 will not be difficult in the future to

‘pé’rsuade each to sow five acres.



Five acres of sweet clover will pro-

duce as much pasture as ten acres of,

- any other" grasses, excepting alfalfa.

" It is as good as alfalfa. for producing

- milki’and will grow where alfalfa will

not. You'do not want to let sweet

”Clover grow more than six inches be-

fore turning the stock in; otherwise,

the crop will grow faster than the

stock will eat it; Another good feature

is, that I never knew of any kind of

stock bloating when pastured on sweet

clover.



Some say that one must teach stock

to eat sweet clover. I had a field of

this clever in which there was a small

* area, of red clover. After the stock

I observed that the

sWeet clover~ was eaten close to the

ground, while the red clover grew up

and blossomed out. I pastured horses

and cattle on that field.



The first cutting of alfalfa makes

good bay. The second growth I plow

under. Itlcannot be beaten for fer-

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~ Farmer that you print articles on

curing meat. Here is how I do it:

For each hundred pounds of 3work I

weigh out seven pounds of good salt,

two and one—half pounds of sugar and

two ounces of saltpeter.‘ These in-

gredients are mixed and then boiled in

four gallons of water. The scum that

gathers on the top is skimmed off. The

brine is‘cooled' before it is poured over

the meat.



Iallow the meat to remain in the

~brine according to the size of the

pieces. A satisfactory rule to follow

is to keep it in three or four days for

each pound in'a piece, unless the piec-

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be "shortened. It is advisable to over"~

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HE above picture shows A. W.

Jewett, Jr., of Mason, Michigan,



winner .of the grand sweepstakes

award in the hay classes at the Inter-

national Hay and Grain Show, with

his champion bale of alfalfa hay.



Great interest has been manifested

in this bale, which has been pronounc‘

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in competition ere. So impressive

was Jewett’s victory that his winning

bale of hay was bought by the Blue

Valley Creamery Institute, for the pur-

pose of demonstrating to the average

farmer how gobd alfalfa looks.



Jewett’s entries have become noted

for the ribbons they have a habit of

carrying off. He has successfully ex—

hibited every year since the grain

show was opened, six years ago, but

this year he outdid himself in spite of

the stiff competition attending the

good hay year.



Here is ‘his secret of his successful





 





"leave better appearing} roughage to





have a good food from the sweet clo-

ver pile. l have cut it with a binder

and fedAt in the sheaf With good re-

suits. l'l‘hen, too; is you wish to get rid

of it,- there is no trouble, and the

mete are not tough, as 9.3 the alfalfa





“meta—S. 0 l3igler.





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hay raising. In early spring, plant only

good hardy northern-grown Grimm a1-

falfa seed of known origin alone, with-

out a nurse crop, in a well prepared,

fall-plowed seed-bed. Do not cut the

first year for hay, but clip and allow

to lay as a mulch for winter protec-

tion. Curing is one of the difl‘icult

problems in successful alfalfa produc-

tion, for sun and moisture. impairs

both the apeparance and feeding value

of alfalfa. Cut in full bloom. Rake

and bunch as soon as the bulk of the

moisture has left it. Shock in small

cocks for further'curing and then get

under cover in the barn as soon as

possible.





The winning bale is fromatwoyear-

old stand—the second of three cut-

tings. It is the pick of forty acres and

was baled by hand. It weighs fifty

pounds, is of real green color, and

smells good enough to tickle the palate

of the most fastidious cow.





N otcs frOm a Michigan Farm

By L. B. Reéer





HOSE doughty Nimrods who



have paid a stiff price for a li-



cense, drove hundreds of miles

to the north woods and took chances

of, being shot by mistake, just in hope

of getting one deer may read this af-

ter' they get home. An old settler,

talking of times, in 1842-43, says that

deer were so plentiful that venison

Tbecame distasteful as an article of

food. He tells of counting twenty-

seven deer within sight of his door

step and, from the top of a tree, count—

ing fifty-two feeding in his turnip





apatch. When settlers cut down trees





in the winter time deer came and eag-

eriy browsed .‘the 150115;, paying little ’if





"any attention to the men sawing at





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one man reports gains but





after venison and coming back in less

than an hour with six deer.





Wolves were even more plentiful

than deer. Two young girls went after

the cows and found them running for

life from a. fierce pack of Wolves. The

girl’s screams seemed to reassure the

cows and scare the wolves so that

each‘girl had time to grab a. cow’s»

tail and fly for the safety of home.

Robert Nesbitt tells of coming home

from Kalamazoo when he was attack-

ed by a pack of ravenous wolves. He

climbed a tree and could see the fire-

light in his cabin but had to stay there

in the tree. Finally he'became so cold

he get desperate. Cutting a big club

he suddenly leaped down among the

astOniShed wolves and clubbed them





 





' poor pioneers.





' of caps.





to

.. to stop frequently with

his Lhaclt to a tree and fight off the





‘wolves. ' . .,





Don’t waste any sympathy 0n those

They really had a bet-

ter time than we do. When some old-

timer sawed off “Old Dan Tucker” or

“Pop Goes the yeasel” and the whole

neighborhood, oung and old, hoed

down some fancy buck springs, they

did not think of hard times. Just think

of wild turkeys and deer so easy to

shoot that they were comnion fare.

Even those long trips to the mill with





 

 





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ox cart were times of real enjoyment





as men swapped yarns while waiting

for the grist. “Nowa—days the auto has

just about ended social visits. There

hasn’t been a real get-together meet-

in’ in this neighborhood fer years.

As a sort of Christmas present our

board of supervisors increased the





road levy only 110 per cent. That sure





was kind of them.





The bang bang of rabbit hunters is

all around. Reminds me of the“ old

army musket we youngsters used to

cherish. It was a muzzle loaderand

either we loaded it too light so the

shot just rattled out of the barrel, or

we loaded too heavy and got kicked





a rod when the old thing went oiT.‘





Those days a man carried .a shot

pouch, powder horn, wadding and box

Some few had doublel‘bar-

reled guns but the durn things most

often went off both at once and the

gunner also went off his balance. I

shot at many a partridge but the only

one I ever killed was too old to fly.

Mother cooked him for supper but.

law me, we couldn’t make a dent in

him so the dog got him and chewed

half the night.





There isn’t much farm news now.

We are holed up for a few days and

outside work is at a standstill. The

old pancake griddle is smoking again.

which is a sure Sign of winter. Come

on over folks, and set your teeth in

some hot ones swimming in butter and

syrup. '





Passing the Winter





INTER days are not without.

‘1» their pleasure-able features, even

for those of us with the dryest

skin and the hardest arteries. They

bring with them a certain freedom

from farm cares, tasks and worries.

The tired nerves that may have

been put to severe strain, on account:

of risk of loss of valuable crops, have

a chance to relax. The season’s crops

are all safely garnered and stored

away in shock, stacks or crib, or may—

be tumed into cash and spent. The farm

animals are all securely sheltered and

fortified against discomfort. The wood

house or coal bin is well supplied

There. are long evenings and many

afternoons that can be given over to

pure enjoyment. Games with the

young folks, neighborhood visitations,

community dinners, good books and





magazines, great pans full of pop corn, '

and baskets of Northern Spies, all lend '

their support in reducing the dread of"





winter days and filling them with com

fort and happiness and cheer.





They will not last long. None too

long, if we make the best use of them

We are reminded that when winter

once comes in earnest, spring cannot

be far behind. Almost before we know

it, the young folks will have laid aside

their skates, forgotten their snow

balls, and will be digging ditches a

sailing ships in back yard pools. Then

we will be getting things in order,

teams and tools and tractors, cleaning

seeds and buying fertilizers, preparap

tory to carrying out with plow and

planter the farming program that we

will have so carefully figured out these

cold winter days.——P. P. Pope-





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The echo fading from the chime—-

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IN the final session of the State Hort-

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years if present waste continues. “We

have left about 745 billion cubic feet

of timber,” he said. “From this the

annual drain is twenty-five billion

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ward offsetting it, we have an annual

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feet—and even in our young forests, ‘

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ting has already outstripped growth.

We must face the situation that at

this rate we are not far from timber

exhaustion. ’5‘, * * We are paying

a yearly freight bill of $250,000,000

which could better be used for grow-

ing timber than for transporting it.”

The President said he believed that .

one-fourth of the American area. l

should be kept in forest.





To bridge the gap between timber

consumption and timber growth calls l

for thrifty and economic measures by

the wood~producing, manufacturing,

and consuming industries, concluded

the President.



Chievaorestér Greeley declared that

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can be saved each year by more effi-

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the New National Museumanditonum,

was attended .by nearly .400 delegates





 

 

 

   

   

 

   

   





 





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Tangier, the little North African seaport, with its 200 square miles

of hinterland, has passed under control of a legislative assem-

bly, making it in effect an international state. .





 





 





 





 





 





Men are being replaced by women ‘

as dog catchers in New York

as they are more sympathetic





   

   





 





 





 





 





The opening of the last session of the Sixty-eighth Congress of

the United States, with Chaplain Montgomery delivering the

opening prayer and Speaker Gillette presiding.





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The battleship Illinois as she appears now. transformed from a bat-

tleship to a house—boat. This mighty fighter was scrapped under

the disarmament treaty.





 





 





 





 





 





 





The V—1,theNavy’s newest, and [one of the

world’s largest submarines, is in Washing-

ton for inspection by naval oflicails.





 





 





 





 





 





 





Society girls of Ogden, Utah, acted as baggage

smashers at the ceremonial opening of the

new Union station in that city.





Viscount Cecil of Chelwood has

been awarded $25,000 prrze or,

Woodrow Wilson’s foundation.





 





 





 





 





 





 





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This group of Americans attended the International opium confer-

ence inGeneva. andare actively engaged in the field for world:;‘r=-

wide control of opium poppy growmg and coca raismg. . {-1



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42 Bus/id: per Acre





0 NE at our good centraI‘Mich-

igan farmers this year grew

‘ forty-two bushels of hand-



" Kicked pea beans per acre in a

‘ old of ten acres. This farmer

is a good husbandman. The



story of how he raised this



bumper crop of beans is to be



related in the columns of this

ionrnal before bean planting

me. .





 





 





v H .ArtiCIgS Dealing WifiPraerze





years. In his cheerful and philosoph-





men, we have arranged with Professor

George H. Brown, who for many years

has headed the Live Stock Depart-

ment of the M. A. C.,‘for'his views

on the outlook for the sheep industry

in this state.

readers of the findings at the college

experiment station. on the feeding of

steers in Michigan.

Edwards, of the same department of

the college, is conducting some 'most

interesting work along the line of pas-





 





 





Handle: .500 T on: of Beet:





OT a company of soldiers, nor a

, community sugar beet-hauling

“bee," but a single farmer during one

season hauled from his own farm to

the weighing station 500 tons of sugar

beets. The story of how he did this,

and of many other unusual things in

connection with the handling of the

sugar beet crop on this farm, will be a

feature for readers who are interested

in doing things economically.





Feeding Market Topper:





N the Kellogg farm, in central



Michigan, have been fed a num-

ber of loads of steers that have topped

the market.- For some reason, the Kel-

logg’s .seem to know how to select

their feeders and care for them in or-

der to win the attention of cattle buy-

.ers on our eastern markets. HO_W this

is done and a description of their

substantial labor-saving equipment will

be told in an article for 1925.





Developing Heavy La yer;





ONE who produced the pen which

made the highest record in any

egg-laying contest east of the Rocky

Mountains, and who, during the past

year had five hens which produced

over three hundred eggs each, has

shown by results the value of his

methods of poultry management. Mr.

\V. C. Eckard, the owner and producer

of the pens which won first and third

places in the 1924 Michigan Egg-Lay-

ing contest, knows hens and how to

make them produce eggs. In his arti-

cle he will tell the details of his meth-

ods, so that you can’get heavier pro-~

._ duction from your own flock.





Woman Are/liter! Plane Home





AN-PLANNED houses are not al-

ways convenient. But When wom-

en—planned they meet many of the

step-saving requirements so essential

- in the construc-

tion of a modern

home. Elizabeth

A. Martini’s arti-

cle with illustra-

tions, “Building a

Farmer’s Home,”

may be just the

plans you .have

been looking for

for the new house

or for remodeling

the old home-

stead. Miss Mar-

tini is the only licensed woman archi-

tect in, Illinois and ,has spent a year

studying her work abroad. She has a

. double interest in rural architecture

because of a farm down in southeast-

ern Michigan which she owns and

manages.





 





Elizabeth Martini





G Our Live Stock Program





M ANY Michigan farmers are debat-

ing as to the plans to be followed

- in. their live stock work. To aid these





...........





turing hogs. The results of his work

will form the basis of an article that

should prove of peculiar value to Mich-

igan hog raisers.





W lzat a Community ”Can Do





S INCE’ his election to the presidency



of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield has

been studying to interpret Michigan

' farm life. Being

a former Michi-

gan man, and hav-

ing had unusual

opportunities for

observing agricul-

tural practices

a n d tendencies

throughout t h e

country, and par-





 





ticularly in the



,s .

. older agricultural

Pres. Butterfield communities 0 f

' the east, he is





convinced that many of the farmer’s

problems can be solved, in part at

least, by improving our farming com-

munities. The advantages of a for—

ward-looking community in being bet-

ter able to cooperate in the production

and distribution of farm products, in

social and educational matters,“ will be

the central theme of a series of con-

tributions which he will write for the

Michigan Farmer in 1925. He will also

contribute on other current themes.

\Ve bespeak for Dr. Butterfield the

closest interest and consideration of

the 85,000 farm families of the state

who read this journal.





A Nz'nety- Year Feud ’





F OR nearly a century a struggle has

been going on in a rural district

of Cass county. This community affair

isnow believed to have been brought

to a satisfactory end. How it was ac-

complished will be told in an interest-

ing story by P. R. Miller, Who has had

an unusual opportunity to study the

characters about whom he writes.





 





Mic/zégan, t/ze Rye State





HY is it that Michigan rye



leads the world? One of



the reasons undoubtedly is

the Hutzler farm on Manitou

Island where all the parent Ros-

en rye seed is grown for the

various rye breeders belonging

to the Michigan Crop Improve-

ment Association. This hundred-

acre general farm is a most in-

teresting one, but no more so

than George Hutzler and his son,

who, besides being unusually

well located for the production

of a pure grade of Rosen rye,

have ability far beyond that of

the ordinary farmer. Their story

will be told to Michigan farmers

this next year through these col-

umns.





 





 





 





Why I am a Granger





T HERE is probably no granger bet-



ter known and more beloved than

W. F. Taylor, who has been a promi-

nent and consistent worker for the

grange audits principles for many





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He will also, tell the.





Prof. W. E. J.‘





ical way Mr. Taylor Will tell of the

helpful influences of gauge activities





in ruralnlifem He knows of these in-"





fluences from 1 first htnd as well as

through observations made during his

broad grang‘e experience ' '





 





'Horrelem Farmmg





To farm by machinery entire-

ly is the hope or the future.

Feeding and caring for the

horses is much harder and more

expensive than making gasoline

do the work for you through the

medium of the tractor. The

. horse tires out, the tractor nev-

er does. The tractor works-

faster. The question is; will the

' . tractor do allathe work that the

horse does, and do it as well?

This question will be answer-

ed by G. L. Burnham, who has

farmed for five years without

the use of a horse. Mr. Burn-

ham’s experience has taught

many ways and means of et-

ting the most out of a trac r.

He has also kept cost records

which are very interesting. Some

time before spring work opens

up Mr. Burnham will tell us how

he does it.





 





 





 





 





W /zy M zcnzgan Lead:



Tis a mighty interesting story,



Michigan’s climbing into the lead as

an alfalfa-producing state. In the short

period of five years, her acreage has

increased 357 per

cent, while the

acreage of Minne-

sota made a gain

of 137 per cent,

a n (1 Wisconsin

much less. Why-

is this? There is

a big and import-

ant reason. back

of that record.

The man who

took the leading

part in this pro-

gram, Prof. Joseph F. Cox. of the

Farms Crops Department of the Mich-

igan Agricultural College, is going to

tell the “why” to the readers of the

Michigan Farmer early in 1925. Don’t

miss it. The big reason has the same

advantage to the individual farmer

that it has had to the state as a Whole.





A T r21) Aéroad





T HERE is not a farmer in Michigan



who would not like to know how

their brother farmers in Europe, Afri-

ca and Asia carry on their work. Be-

ginning early in 1925, the readers of

this journal are going to have just

such a treat. The stories will be told

by one who is thoroughly familiar with

agriculture. He is Doctor M. M. Mc-

Cool, of the Soils Department of the

Michigan Agricultural Cdllego. The

stories are written from observations

made by Dr. McCool in his recent trip

through France, Egypt, Palestine,

Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark,

Belgium, England, Scotla’nd and Ire-

land. They will be illustrated, full‘ of

action and information on old world

methods of farming.





How T/zey Do It





IT has been a puzzler to the writer.



Time and again he has wondered

how these men we call‘ scientists find

out so much about so little a matter.

And he has ‘wondered, too, howit is





 





Joe. P. Cox





that they can dig upsovmany new ,





problems and new complicationswhere,





wrong.





to the layman. nothingaphesmftp be,





 





 





 

 

 





 





opmrthnity to so 4?“) ‘8’ ”stew?





and have explained “it. {2167'va





how' ‘of this and oi." . that. nae; radii? .

the big help to his questioning ma

“me with revelations made by a'modal} _

ost,,retiring individual who has been. )





able. to spend much time with the ex-





perimenters in the various laboratories; .





of our‘own Agricultural College. ' i

. These stories 'are gripping; - They





tell of the wonderful .fldelity andlsac-

riflce these men of science are con-'-





stantly making in . their search "tar

knowledge to ,-

Some' of the stories, outdo, it seems,

the vivid imaginationsofburromafitic

story tellers. Tens of. thousandsvfof

Michigan Farmer readers are going. to

be delighted and informed, because

during the year ahead we are to have

_these stories for. publicatibn. Many,

of them will be illustrated. I S





IZO'TonJ ofA/faZ/a





HEN one undertakes ‘to find a

- better farmer than Mason Par-m-

elee, he has set about a most difficult

task. Besides being a hardworker,

with his hands, Mr. Parmelee never

allows his head to lay down on the

job. As a result, he has developed

some very interesting practical con-

veniences upon his farm and has also

made his soil highly productive. This

past year, he secured 110 tons of al-

falfa hay from twenty acres. You will

not want to miss the story of this

success.





Plane Fun for Farm W onzen





AN active community life is a nec-

essity in every rural neighbor-

hood. To stimulate this‘activity, each

one must continue to do his bit and

search for ' sug-

g e s t i o n s for

furthe ring it;

Emma Gary Wal-

lace, a writer of

distinction, will

draw upon

long experience

as a teacher, club~.

woman, commu—

nity worker and

mother, for her

contributions on

community enter-

tainment. Her article, “Fun For the

Farm Woman,” will carry a wealth of

suggestions.





 





Emma G. Wallace





A Burz'neu Survey





PEOPLE like things summed up. /_

It gives them a perspective. From

a survey we can Often get our true

bearings. This is more true of general

business tendencies and market condi-

tions than of other branches of life’s

interest. If the reader is like most

people, he will be pleased to know that

during the coming year Prof. J. T.

Horner, specialist in agricultural econ-

omy of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege, is going to give a monthly sum-





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T/ze Bert Cam'Ever .





'l‘HIS is what one purchaser

_ of seed corn frompPaulClem— ,;.

ent remarked after 31'!) n8

successive crops from Mr. ‘ ' lemw _.

int’s sieedi Tm, breeder

asr, so an " ‘ mm

. corn than any otherig " ' L

rthegstate. There are 7', ‘é’

teresting hinge about his





 





 





 





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are the





   





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ing. He is taking more Stock in the,

.work of scientists eyery time. he has





enlighten mankind. ~ *





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Agricultural College, and H



' - Rather, secre-

tary of the Mich-

, ' igan C rop Im-

i .provement Associé

' ation, has appear-

ed in these col-

umns The series

will continue. No

tWO men are bet-

ter fitted by train-





nity to give to

Michigan f 01 k s

these 3 t o r i e s.





1-1 "c." seem





._ Time and again they ha‘Ve been over





this state from Monroe to Keweenaw





‘ Point, inspecting the farms of thou-





Sands of good, bad and indifferent

farmers. Certainly if any person

knows a successful farmer, these men

do. And the fine thing about it is that

they can tell the story truthfully and

most interestingly. There Will be a

score of these for the good readers of





‘ the Michigan Farmer to add to their





scrap book of 1925.





Bmz'ner: Met/20d: In Farming





HE Need of Business Eficiency in

Farming will be discussed by Mr.

Carrol VF. Sweet, a prominent Grand





‘Rapids banker who has made a spe-

cial study of this subject in connec-





tion with the farm loan business. Mr.

Sweet compares industry and agricul-

ture and shows how changes in meth-

ods turned failures into suCcesses in

business, and how the same procedure

would make similar changes in farm-

ing. From a dollar and cents stand~

point this article will pay big divi-

dends on the reader’s time if he will





'_ fellow the suggestions given.





32 Cow: on 28 Acre:





UST mark off twenty-eight acres on

your farm and then figure out how





- you could keep thirty-two head of cat-





tle on that land and grow all the

roughage necessary to supply them

throughout the year. We have a Mich-

igan farmer who is doing this. His

farm is more wonderful than the fa-

mous Dietrich dairy farm of a quarter

century ago. He is not a wealthy man

seeking to make a plaything of his

dairying, but the business is making





, him profits. His success reads like a





 





 

 





Expenenee Stone:

«HEORY is good, but practice

isbetter, and when the ac-

' practice is demonstrat-

rural home it becomes of

. frost to rural home

12%. CirCii‘mstagcei: thavg

us ge ouc

‘realfiomey stories in

.. en of Michigan





 





 





 





ing and oppbrtu-t’





announce





 





Actwe Rural G/mrene:



M ANY rural churches have



gassed out of existence.



g‘ahsere are others, however,

which are going on and accom~

plishing big things for their re-

spective communities. Besides

his regular weekly sermons,

which will 8. er in these col-

umns during t is coming winter,

the Rev.- NA McCune will tell

Michigan Farmer readers what

has been done by some outstand-

ing rural churches right here in

the state of Michigan





 





 





 





* romance. You will not only enjoy it,

but no doubt get some valuable point-

ers on keeping dairy cows for profit.





Marketing T endeneie:





BESIDES the regular market ser—



vice, a series of contributions

pointing out the general tendencies of

various farm markets will be given by

our market ad-

viser, Gilbert Gus-

ler. Mr. Gusler is

a farm boy who

graduated from

the Ohio Univer-

sity and took his

Master’s degree

from the Univer-

sity of Illinois.

Later he became

associated with

Dr. Herbert Mum-

ford, formerly of

the Michigan Agricultural College, in

a study of the marketing of live stock,

at his alma mater. He has also made

a study of prices of live stock and

meat, and of methods of reporting

markets in the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture. This training es-

pecially fits Mr. Gusler to interpret

market tendencies for the safe guid-

ance of our readers.





 





Gilbert Gueler _





Improving the Dairy Cow





WE have come‘ to believe that



there is no limit to the produc-

tion of the dairy cow. Scarcely a

month passes that a. cow does not step

into the lead with world record pro-

duction honors. But the great bulk of

our milch cows improve slowly. Re-

cently. a movement has become more

or less general which has for its ob-

ject the breeding and development of

a superior performing cow. This

movement will be explained and its

Significance emphasized to the farmer

in a contribution to appear here soon.





T In: Crop Grow! in Popularity





WITH better varieties of barley



available, this crop is meeting

with increasing favor on farms Where

live stock is kept. Cattle, hogs, sheep

and horses all do well on this grain

where it is fed in proper proportions.

Being suited to a cool climate we find

the stock farmers of the central and

northern counties of the state making

the most progress in the production

and consumption of the crOp. The

story of the northern farmer’s success

will be told by Larry Kurtz and pub

lished at an early date.





Feedirg Lama:





0ND ‘ OS are favorable over a

ids bl ‘ area of Michigan for





a Few of There





to give,yat an early date, a resume of

the practices generally followed by

these sheep men. Methods of handling

and the equipment used play a part

in making the feeders prime at a min-

imum of cost. The story will tell all

this and more. ‘





Fz'na/zng t/ze Potato Nt'ene





HE potato in many sections has



gotten out of its place. We are

just .now coming to learn that this is

the case, and, until farmers get and

keep it into its proper niche, distribu-

tion and other potato tioubles are cer-

tain to abound. How one prize-win-

ning grower has fitted the spud into a.

well—balanced farm program is told in

an article to appear in this journal

during the winter season. From the

story you can get an idea how he pro-

duces potatoes of quality, not only oc-

casionally, but year after year.





 





W/zat to Eat





T is said the way to a man’s



heart is through his stomach,



and Nelle Portrey lights that

way by her unusual tested reel—

pes, food hints, and cuisme

helps. Have you ever had com-

pany come in on you unexpect—

edly when it seemed there was

nothing in the cupboard to sat:

isfy their hungry appetites? Of

course, you have. Every house

wife finds herself in. such a. po

sition sooner or later. Nelle

Portrey’s “Dishes For Unexpect-

ed Company” give-s many tasty

culinary concoctions to be made

from the cupboard’s staple sup—

plies. “Feed the. Farm Fam1ly

for Health,” and other articles

will be of interest to every

woman.





 





 





 





For Good H ea/t/z





HE health department of the Mich-



igan Farmer has proven very pop-

ular with our readers. The health

articles as well as the answers to spe—

cific questions

from readers have

been featured in

every issue dur-

ing the past year.

These regular fea-

tures will contin-

ue during the com-

ing year, as well

as Dr. Lerrigo’s

assistance in an-

swering the prob-

lems of young

folks in connec-

tion with the Open Door in the Boys’

and Girls’l Department. Dr. Lerrigo

will also occasionally write special

articles on health and sanitation.





That Dr. Lerrigo is well qualified is

indicated by his professional history.

For seventeen years he had a large

country practice. He was a member

of the Kansas State Board of Health

for nineteen years. He also had two

years in army medical service, acting

as Major of the Medical Corps in

France. He is the author of two nov-

els and four books for boys.





 





Dr. c.‘ H. Lerrigo





Agricultural Engineering





N past years, the Michigan Farmer



has given its readers more or less

information on various lines of farm

engineering. The splendid coopera-

tion of our college engineers has made

much ,of thisvmaterial available. These

men will continue to be of help to

Michigan farmers through this journal.

In addition, we have the advice and





__ counsel of Frank A. Meckel, who has





recently become 'a member of our staff.

£1an agricultural en-





gineering and been affiliated with ex-

tension work along this line.

Meckel will supplement the work of





the colle'ge mechanics, giving a variety .





of special stories on successfully in-

stalled home conveniences, other me-





chanical aids and up—to-date machinery.





on Michigan farms.





C at: Clothing Cort:





VERY woman is interested in



clothes, and the problem of cloth-

ing a family in this day of high priced

textiles is not a simple one. “Clothing

the Farm Fam-

ily,” by Gracia

Shull, may aid in

solving some of

t h e s 6 problems

for you. Mrs.

Shull was born

and raised on the

farm, and her as-

sociations with

farm women in

this and other

states gives her

a fund of practi-

cal information on this subject.





 





Gracia Shull





Regular Service a1 Urua/





N announcing the foregoing articles



we do not we nt the reader to get

the idea that the regular established

depaltments and services will in any

way be 1est1icted. In every issue these

will appea1 as usual.



D1‘.Le11igo vsi ll continue to talk to

readers about then health



Rev McCune will go on with those

helpful and popular weekly sermons.



Ml. Rood will answer the legal quer-

ies put to him.



Hy syckle has Sophie’s permission

to. continue his philosophic discus-

sions.



That resourceful Al Acres is sched-

uled 1'01 his 1egular runs



Dr. Fair will advise regarding the

ailments of the stock.



The market 1eports will be kept as

up- --to date and accurate as it is possi-

ble to make them.



M1.Ki1by will furnish his prompt

service on poultry perplexities



Washington news and state rew’ews

are to be featured.



Cloverland items will

place.



The Handy Man will appear at least

every other week.



Besides, there will be the regular

Boy and G11] pages under the direction

of Uncle flank the Household, Dairy.

Poult1y, Lixe Stock, Horticultural and

other 1cgular depai tments.



As soon as the M. A. 0. radio pro-

grams t‘or farmers are ready they will

be published in these columns for the

guidance of those who wish to tune 'in

and secure agricultural college exten.

sion service at their own firesides.



In all, it. is the ambition of the edi-

tors to make the good old Michigan

Farmer bigger and better than ever

before. )





have their





 





A Woman Farmer





WHEN a woman goes into

. the market and secures



seed corn for all her neigh-

bors in order that her own crop

may not become mixed, you can

well imagine that she is making

a success of her farming. How

Mrs. Reinach, on her thirty-two-

acre sandy farm, has grown and

marketed successful crops of

seed corn is a feature that is

bound to inspire hundreds of

others to undertake ' greater

things. ,





 





 





 





Mr. ‘
3,9. Ana inelietween thegskildea,

~ has :the stubble card she; would





«hear. '





could not have been offended at any-





liness, the terrifying thought of this

new home to which she was ‘going,

among strangers, she was conscious of

‘ ' a warm little thrill of elation, of ex-

' citement—of adventure! That was it.

“The whole thing’s just a grand adven~

ture,” Simeon Peake had said. Selina

gave a little bounce of anticipation.

She' was, doing a, revelutionary and

daring thing; a thing that the Vermont

and now, fortunately, inaccessible

Peakes would have regarded with hor-

ror. For equipment she had youth,

curiosity, a steel-strong frame; one

brown lady’s-cloth, one winered cash-

mere, four hundred and ninety-seven

dollars; and a gay adventuresome

spirit that was never to die, though it

led her into curious places 'and she

often found, at the end, only a‘ track-





less waste from which she had to re-.

trace her steps, painfully. But always, ’





to her, red and green cabbages were

to be jade and Burgundy, chrysoprase

and porphyry. Life has no weapons

against a woman like that.



So now, as they bumped and jolted

along the road Selina thought herself

lucky, though she was a little terrified.

She turned her gaze from the flat

prairie land to the silent figure beside

her. Hers was a lively, volatile na-

ture, and his uncommunicatives made

her vaguely uncomfortable. Yet there

was nothing glum about his face. Upon

it there even lingered, in the corners

of his eyes» and about his mouth, faint

shadows of merriment. '



Klaas Pool was a school director.

She was to live at his house. Perhaps

she should not have said that about

the cabbages. So now she drew her—

self up primly and tried to appear the

school teacher, and succeeded in look-

ing as severe as a white pansy.



“Ahem!” (or nearly that). “You

have three children, haven’t you, Mr.

Pool? They’ll all be my pupils “.7”



Klaas Pool ruminated on this. He

concentrated so that a slight frown

marred the serenity of his brow. In

this double question of hers, an at-

tempt to give the conversation a dig-

nified turn, she had apparently created

some difficulty for her host. He was

trying‘to shake his head two ways at

the same time. This gave it a rotary

motion. Selina saw, with amazement,

that he was attempting to nod nega-

tion and confirmation at once.



"You mean you haven't——or they’re

not?——or——?”



“I have got three children. All will

not be your pupils.” There was some-

thing final, unshakable in his delivery

of this.



“Dear me!

won’t?”



The fusillade proved fatal. It served

permanently to check the slight trickle

of conversation which had begun to

issue from his lips. They jogged on

for perhaps a matter of three miles, in

silence. Selina told herself then, stren-





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a gay little sound that flewx'like the

whir ofa bird’s wins on the crisp au-

tumnal sunset air. And suddenly this

rumbling that swelled and bubbled a

good deal in the manner of the rich

light sound was joined by a slow

glubby sounds that issue from a kettle

that has been simmering for a. king

time.‘ So they laughed together, these

two; the rather scared young thing

who ”was trying to be prim, and the

dull, unimaginative trucklarmer- bee

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probably." At any rate, it was going to

be interesting; fit was going to be

wonderful! Suppose, she , had gone ; to

Vermont and become a dried apple!





THE Klaas Pools lived in a typical



High Prairie house. They had

passed a score like it inthe dusk.

These sturdy Holland-Americans had

built here in Illinois after the pattern

of the squat houses that dot! the low-

lands about Amsterdam, Haarlem, and

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By James E.





Time to turn the old page over,



And begin a brand-new year;

Future's bright, and we’re “in clover,”

Lucky, friends, that we are here!

“Life is short, and time is fleeting"—

So a famous poet said;



Here's a better, brighter greeting--

Life is long—just forge ahead!





Leave the old “dead past” behind you;

Put aside the stress and strife;



Don't let woes and worries bind you—

Take a fresh, new grip on life!



Banish riles and frets and troubles;

Oust the shadows from your heart;

Let them fade away like bubbles—-

Smilel—and take a whirlwind start!





 





’ HAPPY NEW YEAR





Hun ge‘rford '





Prove yourself a “rod~blood" fighter!

Chase old demon “gloom"- away!

Sun was never shining brighter,

Than it is this blessed day!

Darksome clouds may drift before it,

And obscure It from your View,



But no clouds can ever “floor lt"~

Old Sol’s light will soon break thru!





Look with hope unto “tomorrow;"



Do your level best, today;



Rout the past, and banish sorrow—-

Grinl—and clear the rlght-o’—way!

Life is smiling on you brightly;



You were made to live and thrive;

“Play the game!"—-and play it rightly,

And you’ll win—in ’25!





 





on seat beside him had tickled his

slow humorous-sense.



Selina felt suddenly friendly and

happy. “Do tell me which ones will

and which won’t.”



“Geertje goes to school. Jozina goes

to school. Roelf works by the farm.”



"How old is Roelf?” She was being

school teacherly again.



“Roelf is twelve.”



“Twelve! And no longer at school!

But why not!”



“Roelf he works by the farm.”



“Doesn’t Roelf like school?"



“But sure.”



"Don’t you think he ought to go to

school ?”



“But sure."



Having begun, she could not go back.

“Doesn’t your wife want Roelf to go

to school any more?"



"Maartje? But sure.”



She gathered herself together; hurl-

ed herself behind the next question.

“Then why doesn’t he go to school,

for pity’s sake!”



Klaas Pool’s pale blue eyes were

fixed on the spot between the horse’s

ears. His face was serene, placid,

patient.



“Roelf he works by the farm.”



Selina subsided, beaten.



She wondered about Roelf. Would

he be a furtive, slinking boy, like





M:

in at the yard Selina's eye was caught

by the glitter of glass. The house was

many—windowed, the panes the size of

pocket-handkerchiefs. Even in the

dusk Selina thought she had never

seen windows sparkle so. She did not

then know that spotless window-panes

were a mark of social standing in High

Prairie. Yard and dwelling had a

geometrical neatness like that of a toy

house in a set of playthings. The ef-

fect was marred by a clothes-line hung

with a dado of miscellaneous wash—a

pair of faded overalls, a shirt, socks,

a man’s drawers carefully patched and

now bellying grotesquely in the breeze

like a comic tramp turned bacchanal.

Selina was to know this frieze of neth-

er garments as a daily decoration in

the farm-wife’s yard.



Peering down over the high wheel

she waited for Klaas P001 to assist her

in alighting. He seemed to have no

such thought. Having jumped down,

he was throwing empty crates and box-

es out of the back of the wagon. So

Selina, gathering her shawls and cloak

about her, clambered down the side of

the wheel and stood looking about her

in the dim light, a very small figure

in a very‘ large world. Klaas had

opened the barn door. Now he re«

turned and slapped one of the horses

smartly on the flank. The team trotted





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clean, but. disorderly, , with. th .,

order ”that "comesot pressure of W: "

There was a not. unpleasant, .-

oooking. {Selina sniffed it} h

The woman turned to face the

line. stared. ~ ' " " “

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other—an ' old woman~his mother. pets:

“th19, here is school





haps. But:

teacher,” said Klaas Pool. .. Selina 931

.out'her hand to meet the other won:

an’s hand, rough, hard, contained..- as

own, touching it, was like satin agains





a pine board. Maartje Smiled, and you.

saw her broken discoloredteeth. She U ,

pushed back the sparse hair‘frmr'elier 5

high forehead, fumbled a little, all)”. .





at the collar of her clean blue calico

dress. , . ‘ x

“Pleased to meet you.” Mmtjofltid.

primly. “Make you welcome." Then.

"as Pool stamped out to the yard. llam-

ming the door behind him, “moi he

could have come with you by the front

way, too. Lay off your things.” Selina

began to remove the wrappings that





swathed her—the muffler, the shawl,-





the cloak. Now she stood, a slim, in-

congruously elegant little figure in that

kitchen. —The brown lady’s-cloth was

very tight and basqued above,’ very

flounced and bustled below. “My, how

you are young!” cried Maartje. She

moved nearer, as if impelled, and iin-

gered the stuff of Selina’s gown; And

as she did this Selina suddenly saw

that she, too, was young. The bad

teeth, the thin hair, the careless dress,

the littered kitchen, ’the harassed

frown—above all these, standing out

clearly, appeared the‘look of a girl.

“Why, I do believe she's hot more

than twenty-eight!” Selina said to her-

self in a kind of panic. “I do believe

she’s not more than twenty-eight.”





She had been aware of two pigtailed

heads appearing and vanishing ingthe

doorway of the next room. Now

Maartje was shooing her into this

room. Evidently her hostess was dis-

tressed because the school teacher’s

formal entrance had not been made by

way of parlor instead of kitchen. She

followed Maartje Pool into the front

room Behind the stove, tittering, were

two yellow-haired little girls. Geertje

and Jozina, Of course. Selina went

over to them, smiling. “Wlhich is

Geertje?” she asked. “And which Jo-

zina?" But at this the titters became

squeals. They retired behind the round

black bulwark of the wood-burner, ov-

ercome. There was no fire in this

shining ebon structure, though the

evening was sharp. Above the stove

a length of pipe, glittering with polish

as was the stove itself,~crossed the

width of the room and vanished

through a queer little perforated grats

ing in the ceiling. Selina’s quick

glance encompassed the room. In the

window were a few hardy plants in





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win-“specie; with a wrinkled cal-

rl. 2mm; three rocking chairs; some

ark morons of incredibly hard-fea-





. med, :Dutch ancients on the wall. It





gas all neat, stiff, unlovely. But Se-

‘ ' had known too many years of





A hoarding—house ugliness to be offended





.' at this, , .





“A ‘ Maartje'had. lighted a’ small glass:

7 bewled' lamp. The chimney of this

i ' sparkled as had the window panes. A





‘ steep, uncarpeted stairway, enclosed,





'led off the sitting-room. Up this





Maartje‘ Pool, talking, led the way to'

“ Selina's bedroom. Selina was to learn

that the farm woman, often inarticu-

late through lack of companionship,





’ becomes 0. torrent of talk when oppor-





tunity presents itself. They made

'quite a little procession. First, Mrs.

Pool with the lamp; then Selina fill

The satchel; then,‘tap—tap, tap-tap, Jo-

z‘ina‘ and Geertje, their heavy hob-nail-





ed shoes creating a great clatter on





the wooden stairs, though they were

tip-toeing in an effort to make them-

' selves unheard by their mother. There

evidently. had been an arrangement on

the subject of» their invisibility. The

procession moved to the accompani-

ment of Maartje, “Now you stay down-

stairs didn’t I tell you!" There was

in her tone a warning; a menace. The

two pigtails would .hang back a mo-

ment, only to come tap—tapping on

again, their saucer eyes at once fearful

and mischievous. '



A narrow, dim, close-smelling hall-

way, uncarpeted. At the end of it a

door opening into the room that was





' ”to be Selina’s. As its chill struck her





to the marrow three objects caught

her eye. The bed, a huge and not un-

handsome walnut mausoleum, reared

its sombre height almost to the room’s

top. Indeed, its apex of drapes did

actually seem to achieve a meeting

with the whitewashed ceiling. The

mattress of straw and cornhusks was

unworthy of,this edifice, but over it

Mrs. Pool had mercifully placed a

feather bed, stitched and quilted, so

that Selina lay soft and warm through

the winter. Along one wall stood a

low chest so richly brown as to appear

black. The front panel of this was

curiously carved, Selina stopped be-

fore it and for the second time that

day said: “How beautiful!” then

looked quickly round at Maartje Pool

as though fearful of finding her laugh-

ing as Klaas Pool had laughed. But

Mrs. Pool’s face reflected the glow in

her own. She came over to Selina and

stooped with her over the chest, hold-

ing the lamp so that its yellow flame

lighted up the scrolls and tendrils of

the carved surface. With one discol-

ored forefinger she traced the bold

nourishes on the panel. “See? How

it makes out letters?“ ~»

Selina peered closer.

enoughir This first one’s an S!"

‘Maartie was kneeling before the





. chest now. “Sure an S. For Sophia.

, . It is 8. Holland bride’s chest. And here

1 is K. And here is big D. It makes

' Sophie Kroon DeVries. It is anyways

.- two hundred years.





My mother she

gave it to me when I was married, a/nd





her mother gave it to her when she .

,1.“ married, and her mother gave it ‘ . =





to, haffwhon ‘she was married, and

new» ‘

”I Md think so!” exclaimed Se-

", r‘: meaninglessly; but stem-

torrent. “What’s in it? Any-

‘h There ought to be bride’s

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vaartie Po’ol thrust

laid, raised. the

, ' expertly into its

. is . {restrooms or old

139%sz f and emerged red-faced

with a Dutch basque and voluminous

skirt of silk; an age-yellow cap whose

wings, stiff with embroidery, stood out





 





 





 





 

 

 





en "shoes, ‘sta'ingéd ‘terra-cotta like the

sails of the Vollendam fishing boats,

and. 'carved frem_,toe to heel in a del-

icate :and intricate pattern. A bridal

gown, a bridal gap, bridal shoes.

“Well!” iald Si‘eli‘ha.with the feeling

of a little girl in .a rich attic on a rainy

day. She clasped her hands. “May I

dress up in it some time?”

(To be continued).





. . »./

”,Thosc Questions

Our Weekly Sermon—By IV. A. Mchme





. Nthe'iss’ue of September 28, I 'put



> down a few questions that I thought



might be interesting teathose living

in the country. It was, of course,'a

busy season for farmers, and the num-

ber of letters received was very likely

However, a large

bundle of letters accumulated, from

various parts of Michigan. Counties

represented in the replies are, Barry,

Montcalm, Wexford, Osceola, Cass,

Eaton, Clinton, Branch, Washtenaw,

Kent, Kalamazoo, Emmet, Giadwin,

Wayne, Alepna, and Huron. Some of

the post oflices I have been unable to

locate on the map, but the letters were

highly interesting. About half the re-

plies were from men. With the ex-

ception of a very few, the correspond-

ents are church members.



All in all, I should say that the folk

who took the trouble to reply to this

questionary are about as optimistic



« and contented a

group as one

could find in the

state. Semen crit-

icise local condi-

tions pretty se-

verely, but for the

mos t part the

church, s ch 0 oil ,

community, f ai r

very well at the hands of these de-

scribers.





 





S a class, the rural ministers are



getting on handsomely, holding

the respect of their people, and, no

doubt, are the recipients of many fat

roosters and spring chickens, from

time to time. “The minister," says

“one, “is a cqnmunity leader, and his

sermons are interesting and he is call-

ed on to speak at many patriotic and

farm gatherings.” “Yes,” says Kala-

mazoo county, “our minister is a com—





munity leader. His sermons are inter-

esting, and he hits our faults and mis-

takes, showing us where we can do

better.” And Kent county echoes,

“here too.” Wexford county is not so

certain of theefliciency of its preacher

and thinks he will have to improve

some, if he is to be a leader of strong

qualities. The general tenor of these

letters is enough to make one yearn

to be a rural pastor.





I wonder if some of these communi-

ties have any land to sell? By the

glowing words of praise, bestowed on

them, one would gather that, next to

paradise, some of these spots are the

places to build one’s hearth-stone. “All

community relations are exceptionally

harmonious,” writes one enthusiast;

“all sects and creeds living in a friend-

ly, neighborly fashion. All our young

people attend high school, eighty per

Cent graduate, and forty per cent at-

tend college. Our community is called

ideal by all who know us.” If all the

residents have the same loyalty that

this lady has, it ought to be ideal, and

nothing less.





LL the writers agree that the



church is a very important piece

of community furniture, and most of

them declare emphatically that it is

the greatest moral influence. I sup-

pose it is funny that such a question

should be asked. But sometimes the

church is so reduced by competitive

tactics, or by blind management, that

other organizations march past it in

their actual grip on the daily life and

thought of the people.





The church grounds of these cor—

respondents seem to be in attractive

condition, although a few confess that

burdocks are still preferred for land-

scape purposes. This latter condition





 





 





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grounds and other public places are

improved. The church- w'm siniplyxbe

shamed into keeping up. But, of.

course, it odgho not to keep up. It





ought to lead. - .





About the honking, hilarious tourist.

He gets a very good name. Not many '





hard things are said of his keeping

folks away from chm‘ch—becaus





.these letters are chiefly from localities

The . women - '





where few tourists go!

have an advocate in one man. He

says, “I believe that a good many peo-

ple are kept away from church by

summer tourists, although people here

try to come to church just the same,

and bring their company with them,

which seems the best way out. But it

is very hard on the housewife, and

there is a very general lack of consid-

eration (underlined) for the farm

housewife, by the summer tourist.

How the farm women are tormeet this

thing is a big problem.” Says another,

“We do not live near any lake, so the

summer tourists are very few. I enjoy

my company from the city, and they

seem at home, and they help me with

my work.” If you want tourists, pick

a farm near a lake. If you don't want

them, be content to go fishing only

once or twice a year.





FROM what has been said about the



optimism of the correspond’ents, it

w0uld be expected that they are con-

tent with farm life. Only one 61‘ two

are planning on beating it to the city.

The sons of several, however, have not

absorbed the rural philosophy of their

sires, and are much impressed by the

coal dust, clamor and good clothes of

the city. May they find the fullest

satisfaction there. “I don’t want to

be anything but a farmer, and if my

son is a farmer I shall never be asham-

ed of him. The farmer has to carry

a big load; we have to work long and

hard, and we get tired and worn, both

mentally and physically. I do not want

to be a mere automaton. I want to

think things through; originate things,

go ahead, but no man can think

straight in a tired body. I like farm-

ing because the farmer is almost the

only man who can look God and his

fellow man in the face knowing that

he has played the game square. He

does not have to do the little un-

worthy things that men in other walks

of life do—not even excepting minis-

ters, with their petty wire-pulling. And

yet I believe that as a class farmers

are decidedly dishonest.” We regret

that the writer did not give reasons

for his last statement. Says another,

“I like it here, and have tried both

city and farm life. I have two little

boys starting in school and I thank

God they have such good influences,

but our community is exceptional. Too

many good Americans are leaving the

farms for the cities for bigger pay.”

Clinton county is not so highly pleas-

ed. “I get rather bitter at times. Too

much work for small returns. I can’t

see the beauties as I used to, when I

was in the city.”





Kent county is incorrigibly optimis-

tic. “Our feeling about the. country is

that it is a free, healthful life, a good

place to bring up children. With the

telephone, automobile, rural mail de~

livery, daily papers, etc, the country

is much different from What it used

to be. Two of our girls are married

to farmers.”





The dance—hall has a hard time of it,

in these letters. It does not get a

look in. They are all against it, and





‘ say so, with much underlining. The





grange and farmers’ clubs are fre-

quently mentioned, and in the highest

terms. "





May I express my appreciation to L

all those who took the time and trou-





ble to Write, during the busy season?





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

DECEMBER 28. .I





SUBJECT:———Review.

GOLDEN TEXT:———“He that.hath seen

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whole world loves them. All except

He doesn’t

like them because they are entirely

like the





the pessimist, perhaps.





too optimistic; he doesn’t

cherry pies "cuz they ain’t punkin.”





' Your «children—are you giving your

This does not mean





“best” to them?





giving of yourself to the point of ex-

haustion by the washing .and ironing

of ruffles, frills and starched articles

—nor does it mean attaining a spot-

less house, a rendezvous of spic—span-

ness.'



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each day you may have a playtime, a

storytime with those children of yours.



The stories and the inauguration of

your games will forever be engrossed

on the golden screen of their memor-

ies. But, oh! those heartaches and

backaches of yours, those stiff, starched

dresses and suits of theirs~they are

bitter thoughts for children. No pleas-

ant hours of play or sunshine are there

for either of you to remember. Oh,

no, you simply couldn’t work all day

like a slave and “Come smiling thru”

like a newly washed window.



Where is there a girl who has not

at some time or other climbed fences

and apple trees so much, or slid down





 





 





IF this be a happy new year,



a year of usefulness, a year

in which we shall live to make

this earth better, it is because

God will direct our pathway.

How important, then, to feel our

dependence upon Him!—~Bishop

Mathew Simpson.





 





 





 





banisters, that mother did not vow,

“She’ll be a perfect Tomboy?” Then

when coast-time came, mother was

sure of it.



Where is there a boy who has not

at some time seemed so superlatively

lackadaisical, with no apparent inter—

est in anything worth—while, that moth-

er did not vow—“He’ll never get past

the fifth grade, if he gets that far?”



Where is there a child who has not

at sometime or other in his or her

career chewed a piece of gum so long

that it should have been pensioned?

Perhaps we would get a stick of gum

at noon. We would chew it after lunch

——then park it under the desk until





" school was dismissed. We would chew





it going home from school, from then

till supper time. After supper, when

we went about our lessons for the next

day, we would still be chewing it. Fin-

ally, would come that awful moment

when mother would say, “Don’t you

think you’ve chewed that gum just

about long enough?”



Then wewould have to throw it into

the stove and let the fire hold a post

moi-tom of it. .

"Everyone of us. have done these

same‘juvenile tricks. Perhaps we hate





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The seasoning should“ be sprinkled





per the

amount of salt is to be used if sausage

is to be dried. and cold smoked as for

sausage. ,_ , ‘ “

' “Little pork sauSages” may be. suc-

cessfully canned in glass jars all'ready

for use. They should be cookedin the

same manner as for the table, and

then packed in hot jars. Melted lard

is poured over them before- seeding.

The cans are labeled and later stored

for future use.

Our bulletin, “How to Preserve Meat

for Summer Use," contains many other

,recipes and directions for canning. For





to admit it. but nevertheless, We are

all guilty. ’It sounds as if we had a

poor upbringing; it sounds-as if there

had been a lack of sophistication in

our homes. But.it‘ is those episodes

and simultaneous ones that go to make

childhood the treasured part of life

that it is.



Childhood is the hour for play. Long-

fellow knew it; Whittier knew it;

Mark Twain was sure of .it. Their

writingsare filled to overbrimming by

the mirth. of children out in God’s

“great, wide, beautiful, wonderful

world.” Even when their bodies had

lost their flexibility and suppleness of

youth; their days of neuralgia and

rheumatism were upon them—they

could still look upon the old halcyon

days when they, too, were children.



Where are “dem young uns" of





coin to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer,

Desk M. Detroit, Mich.





 





SLEEPING BAG FOR BABY.





 





A 'sleeping-bag if warm and pretty is



expensive, but an ingenious moth~

er made one that was'charming and

cost nothing:



The sleeves of a white sweater were

so worn that the garment had been

cast aside. They were ripped out, the»

arm holes were crocheted together

with white yarn and the bottom closed

in the same way. The result was a.

decidedly pretty sleeping-bag and

when buttoned up the garment kept

the restless little hands from getting

uncovered while baby took his after-

noon nap on the porch—L. M. T. .





yours?

their little hearts are yearning, their





I bet right at this minute





little lips are pleading: “Tell me an-

other story, please”——or, “You go it

for tag,.mamma.”

Those days of play are as the poet

wrote:

“You may break, you may shatter the

vase, if you will,





But the scent of the roses will hang

round it still.”





 





 





 





CHILDREN’S EYES NEED WATCH-

ING.



M OTHERS and teachers, especially,



should be vigilant in safeguard-

ing the eyes of infants and children,

shielding them from injurious light

and against use under improper condi-

tions. It is frequently in the earlier

years of life during the period of de-

velopment that eye troubles have their

start. Early correction and protection

are most important, for if the eyes of

youth are cared for, the eyes of ma-

turity and old age will be stronger

and brighter and better, and coming





generations will be free from many

discomforts which are so common.





PORK SAUSAGE IS coon WINTER

MEAT.





 





OW is the time when "pig” be-



comes “pork” and the thrifty

housewife turns her thoughts to such

things as “little pork sausages” stored

in "home—rendered” lard.



The present-day farm woman can

profit by following the old-time recipes

of preparing pork sausages andtlard,

according to the University of Wiscon-

sin Department of Home Economics.

She may surprise her family with var-

ious food combinatins with pork sau-

sage as a base.



To make pork sausage, the following -

process is used: To every . three

pounds of lean pork, allow one pound

of fat. Grind the meat and fat through

a meat chopper. W'eigh the meat and,

spread it out in a thin layer and sea-

son with the following mixture, allow-

ing to every ten pounds of meat, two

and one—half to five ounces of fine

salt; one and one-quarter ounces of

black pepper; one and one—quarter

ounces of ground sage (or leaf sage,





 





MEDITATIONS FROM THE

KITCHEN.





 





ART BROWN had his flivver stolen

the other day. He said he wouldn’t

have minded so much. if he hadn’t-

just paid two dollars to have it washed

and polished. He didn’t seem to like

it much when his brother told him

that if he hadn’t had it washed and

polished nobody would have stolen it.





 





Nellie Heaton was wishing that she





 





 





NE W YEAR ".9 COMING





By Jamcs_E. H un gerford





New Year’s coming

Down the line.



Just a-humming,

Friends 0’ mine!

Bringing good things

In its van,



On swift wings



To ‘ev’ry man!





New Year’s coming .

Down the line;

Bringing fortune—

Yours and mine;

Bringing good times.

And good, luck, '

And good crops,‘ ,

And garden truck! ’





 

 

 





 

 





 

 





 





New Year’sco ’ New Year’s coining, '; . ‘

Bringing" peacefuw' Bringing, “' ~‘ }

And from-ev'ry * * .



Woe,vsurceasel-v And 0





Bringing have

And happiness”





Healing sorrow _

Anddistressi '





 

 





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“Come Smiling Through? Eififififigggégmssgkmmgmyaa

By Hazel B. szrd . -'





.9 .

HILDHOOD days have been told

about in verse, in song—and

many are the books that have

been made beautiful, made life-like by

those innocent, mischievous pranks of





“over the meat and the two mixed to-

gether and run through the meat chop-

second time. ‘ The larger





a copy send five cents in stamps or“





glasses and cover with





sized Hubbard squash; .

steamer, and cook3 over. 1‘

for thirty Minutes. Mug: _





   





 





 





er time tév'hér‘ children.

that if- she , had that 111%ch It

be getting a nursegifl 'L

be giving the ehudren‘snyteta

at. all. __ ..

The only nice thing row seeabout

. beihg sick is that it gives nine '3 change





' to have nice fingernails.





 





Eliza Smith bells and storms”?

everything her baby touches. seem ,9

hardly let the rest of 'us look athef..

So I had to laugh when I saw an old '

gray cat sleeping in the baby's buggy

as contented as you please.‘—’-—Mrs’. E.



M. C.





 





YOU'LL LIKE THESE TESTED

ONES.





 





Holiday Hash. .

nut I rind pm“

$5 cup citron 1 mm mm

1 lemon . fl .-

Combine these fruits, and let stand

«a while before serving. May be served

in glasses or halved grapefruit cups.

Cocoanut Macaroons.





2 egg-whites 1 dusertspoon com- ‘

cup. sugar starch

1, heaping cup shredded Vanilla

cocoanut





Stir into the, sugar and corn-starch

the whites of eggs beaten very. stiff.

Set over steam of kettie and stir until

sugary around edges, which requires

about twenty minutes. Then take 01!

and add gradually the shredded cocoa:-

nut and vanilla. Drop on buttered pa-

per.’ Bake in rather quick oven. _





2 tb. sugar 1 finely chopped

gig“:- 39:“ Dimmio



- sp. pepper 2 cu s o

55 cup D canned c 11:





Fill greased ramekins one-third full.

sprinkle with layers of bread crumbs.

then put in another layer of corn. Con-

tinue until the dishes are filled, having

crumbs on top, about one cup of

crumbs being used altogether. Dot

with butter, using half teaspoonful in

each. Bake in a. moderate even about

forty-five minutes.



Steamed Pudding. _



Here is another recipe in which car-

rots are used. I learned it from an

experienced cook. ‘



One cup raw potato, one cup raw

carrot, one cup suet, ene cup raisins,

all ground; one large cup of either

brown or white sugar, one teaspoon of

cinnamon, one level teaspoon of salt,

one rounding teaspoon of soda, sifted

with enough flour to make a very stiff

batter. Dip into a buttered pan and

steam for two hours. .



Serve warm with any good pudding

sauce. Also fine served with milk

sweetened and flavored with vanilla— "

Mrs. B. O. R. 1 . ' = '



Cranberry Marmalade. >



To three quarts of cranberries, add

four good cooking apples paired and

cut in small pieces, two pounds seeded ‘-

and chopped raisins. Boil until tender:

in two quarts of water, then add juice

and grated rinds of four oranges. and

six pounds of sugar. Mix. together,

coats-until, thick, and went: mm into

, Mn :

Souffled Squash.-

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Good looking, I’ Twearing,

' Scotch grain all lea er upper”.



choice of black or brown, popu-

lareunpue last, Brogue style,

. soft ti ..',Heavy9013withwater-

proof, er to give good service.

‘An extra good value, high grade



oxford at a medium price. Ask

'- ' your shoe store to show you

Herold-Bertsch fall special- No.

983. ‘





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





, ' H-B dependable footwear have



been favorites with farmers for

30 years. Easyon the feet, easy

on the purse.





 

 

 

 

 





' "HEROLDf-BERTSCH SHOE co.





 

 

 





 





 





 





100 lbs. Large Round Herring .................. $3.50

100 lbs. Large Dressed Herring ................. 4.60

Package charge 300. Send for complete list.





Consumers Fish Co., Green Bay, Wis.





 





Finest Fresh Frozen Fish



' Large Bound Herring

' $3.50. Dressed $4.50

per 100 lbs.; Round

Perch 6c: Round

Pickercl 8c. Dressed





10c: Flounders 8c per

1b.. packing ch ges 350 per 100 lbs. Mail your or-

.{lter today'or





 





for complete price list. Can ship

once. Badger Fish 00.. Dept. 5. Green Bay. Wis.





 





 





 





Costs Less!





Make your own syrup with





. .MAPLEINE





The easieetsavin you



can make! Rea y in



a jiffy! A rich old-



fashioned syrup for



onlyaboutZanquart,



‘ Ask our grocer today

' for apleine.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





, worth of ordinary

. fuel will keep this

Sonraylamporlan- 7

terninoperationfor . —’_ ',

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' your hausehold problems.

our letters to, Martha Cole,





Address





 





APPLE DUMPLINGS ARE coon.





 





Please send me a recipe for apple

dumplings.-s—Mrs. E. A. D. »





To make apple dumplings you will

need: '





1% cups mm-

1 cup mar



it, tsp. cinnamon

IA tap. nutmeg

as tsp. salt ~





2 tsp. baking powder

4 tb. shortening

as can cold water



2% cups apples



Mix the flour, salt and baking pow-

der together thoroughly and work in

the shortening, using either butter,

lard or a mixture of these fats. Add

the water and roll a half-inch thick.

Sprinkle the dough with chopped or

sliced apples, the sugar and spice. Roll

like a jelly roll, out off two-inch pieces

and place in a pudding dish, cut side

down. Pour a part of the apple syrup

on them and bake twenty-five minutes

in a hot oven.





AS I DO IT.





 





housewives ever canned

ham and had it keep for

months.



I canned some cold—packed and after

when it was cold, to be water settle

when it was cold, to be water setlte

in the bottom of the can. I kept a can

for five or six weeks and it seemed as

good as that that I opened in _a few

days. Processing makes the lean smok-





several





‘* Use this department“ to‘ghelp' solve

Michigan





AM wondering if any of the sister

smoked





ed ham more tenders—Mrs. H. C.





RECIPE F‘on BUCKWHEAT CAKES.





I would like a recipe for buckwheat

cakes—Mrs. C; C.





 





There are many ways of making

buckwheat cakes but, I believe you





will like this one.





1 cup buckwheat flour 1 tb. shortening



% tsp. salt 3 tsp. baking powder

1 tb. salt 1 cup cold water a



1 tb. sugar 1% cup milk





Sift the dry ingredients together two





times, add the other ingredients and

mix. Bake at once on a hot griddle.





DO YOU KNOW





 





HAT if fresh fish are soaked for



a half hour in a moderate solution



of cold, salt water, they will scale very



easily and lose nothing of their flavor?



That six or seven drops of either



lemon or vanilla in a pumpkin pie,



give a most creamy, delicious flavor?

-——Mrs. B. O. R.





Add a cup of boiled cider, a cup of

mince meat and a. fourth cup of melted

chocolate to the regular Christmas

cake recipe. It will be extra fine. A

cup of raspberry or strawberry jam

and a half pint of watermelon pre—

serves may be added, also, and will

take the place of Citron. The cake

will fairly drip with goodness—G. S.





‘Parents usually appear infallible in

their children’s eyes. And that is as

it should be.





 





 

 





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Doings in





IP HURRAY! It’s vacation,” yell-

H ed Jackie Rabbit as he hopped

out of bed. “No school for one

day.” ' .

He dressed in a hurry and was right

ready for breakfast when Mother Rab-

bit sat the bowl of steaming porridge

at his place at breakfast. He was anx—

ious to don his big wooly sweater and

go out to play in the snow. It was so

nice and white and fleecy and made

the best snow balls. His morning

chores were finished in double quick

time and soon he was calling from his

front yard. _

“Woo—hi! VVoo-he! Woo-hi! VVoo—he!”

In answer, Willie W'oodchuck and

Sandy Squirrel came running. This

was’their call when they had time to

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“It Looks Like a Bang Bang Gun."





-play.’ For some time they played





games in the flow and did marks-

man’s tricks with snow balls.





“Let’s make a snow man,” said





Jacki’e’l‘Rabbit when he grew tired of

_ -piaying_jgames. j .





“That-Would be fun." said ‘Willl





 





 





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Frankie Fox Play: 4 Trick





now they . were afraid of their snow

new “





 

 

 





   

 

 





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Woodland





Squirrel. “Then it will be a white

bear, just like the ones teacher told

us about that lived up north.”



“Oh, goody, goody, that will be fine,”

they agreed.



First they started with just a little

snow ball you could hold in your hand.

They rolled it and rolled it in the

snow, patted it here and patted it

there and soon had one leg finished.

Then shey shaped another just like the

first. They rolled a big round snow

ball for the body and a smaller one

for the head. Sandy Squirrel brought

small pieces of bark for the eyes and

nose and for the buttons on the snow

bear’s sweater. Willie VVoodchuck

pressed shiney little stones into the

snow where the snow bear’s teeth

should be.





"Ha, ha!” they shouted when their

snow hear was finished. “He looks

like Bruin. He does, he does.”

“Bruin is a snow bear

With big black eyes and snow white



hair,”

they sang as they danced about him.



In the midst of their fun along came

Frankie Fox. In his hand he carried

a. short, stubby stick.



“Ho, ho! children, what have we

here?” he asked,



“It’s our snow bear,” they,chimed

together. ‘ ‘ ' .



He chuckled to himself. “Now I’ll

have some fun,” he thought. Into the

snow bear’s hand he thrust the short

stubby stick he ,was carrying.



“Oh, me, oh, my! That looks like a

bang bang gun, and it’s pointing right

this way,”.said Jackie Rabbit. _



"Oh, oh!” the rest cried and off they

scampered to hide behind a tree, for





 





 

 





   





 





a Farmer Patterns





 





   





No. 4935~Misses’ and Juniors"

Frock. Cut in four sizes, 14, 16, 18

and 20 years. A 16-year size requires .

3 .yards of plain material 40 inches

Wide, and 1% yards of embroidery or

lace, 9 inches Wide, if made as illus-

trated. The width of the skirt at the

foot IS 214 yards. Price 12c.





No. 4917—4628—Ladies’ Costume.

Blouse 4917 cut in 7 sizes, 34, 36, 38,

40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure.

Three and threequarter yards of 40-

inch material will be required for a.

38—inch size. Bodice Skirt 4628 cut in

four sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-

46; large, 42—44; extra large, 46-48

inches bust measure. A medium size

requires 41/3 yards of 40-inch material.

If bodice is made of lining or other

contrasting material 1% yards 32 inch-

es is required. The width of the skirt

at the foot, with plaits extended is 2773

yards. Two separate patterns 120 for

each pattern.





 





 





 





 





 





N0. 4947~~Boys’ Suit. Cut in four

sizes, 2, 3. 4 and 6 years. A four-year

size requires 2% yards of 27-inch ma-

terial. Price 100.



No. 4945—Child’s “Party” Dress. Cut

in four sizes, 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. A

four-year size requires 1% yards of

36-inch material. Price 120.





 





. No. 4952—Ladies’ Rain Coat. Cut in

six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 32 and 44

inches bust measure. A 38—inch size

requires four yards of 40-inch mate-

rial. Price 120.



No. 4953 Ladies’ Dress. Cut in five

sizes. 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust

measure. A 38~inch size requires 47/8

yards of 40-inch material. The width

of the dress at the foot is 56 inches.

Price 120.





 





 





No._ 4964—-Juniors’ and Misses’ Dress.

Cut in four sizes, 14, 16, 18 and 20

years. A 16-year size requires 4%

yards of 36-inch material. If bodice

is made of lining it will require three-

quarters of a yard. Price 12c.

No. 4961—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in six

sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches

bust measure. A 38-inch size requires

3% yards of 40-inch material. The ‘

Yzldth at the foot is 1% yards—Price ’

c. ‘
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, ,. ,  A Twoi‘ccnt Stamp’s Worth

.' T ‘ J I 60m? ’Mmz'ng Menage: from Merry Ciro/en

Dear Uncle Frank:





I am not going to try to guess your

age, Uncle Frank, for I am sure it Will





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had is'i’the "Correhpondent scrambles.”

It is avery interestingto correspond

With a person. that urea in a differs 1:

part of. the state,

than you do.

respondence is with a~~girl in France,

but, of course, gas has to be. able to

read and write, ench to do that. -



-I am very glad that I go-





outgrow. I am a “dignified” senior

this year in high school. I suppose it

sounds like it, too. I am studying





do me no good. Still, I would love to English IV, American History and school instead ofaconsolidated schOOI,

know. It'would be so much eas1er to Home Economics. ‘ '- * because I knew now. that (my girls are

.write if I only knew if you are in your





We are certainly having fine weath-

er up in this neck of the woods. It

rains about all the time, and snows the

rest of the time. I am afraid if the

W. B. swallows this nonsense, he will

'die of foolishness, so if he knows what

is good for him, he will leave well

enough alone. Isn’t that so, Uncle

Frank? Please guard him carefully

for his sake and mine.





I bet, Uncle Frankfl can guess what

' your name is, it is and according

to your facial expression, you, are

about thirty years old. Will close fer

this time, hoping nobody receives any

bad effects. I am your niece, Edith

E. Chew, Bay Shore, Mich. .

Am glad to get your specifications,

but you leave out the most interesting

part. Age is always interesting, or

rather I should say, youth is. You are

good at guessing names, but not ages.

W. B. is enjoying good health, thank

you.





human. Before I thought they were

all ."snobs" or “toughs.”

\ If this letter is‘ not, worthy\of Mr.

Waste Basket, why just print it, be-

cause I won’t care.-_—-A Lenaweeian

girl, Ellen Hoddinott, Adrian, Mich.

,Yes, we have spent a. long time on

the short hair question. I “don’t sup-

pose you have to use a fine comb oo-

casionally.’ When we open our minds,





thirties or eighties. _

,Let’s write about school clubs in-

stead of bobbed hair.

May I come again?——Helen L. Lin-

coln, R. 4, Saline, Mich.





I am neither thirty nor neighty, but

‘\ _





 





be so, wasn’t. City folks are “just

folks” like the rest ofus. I know from

experience. ,





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am another one who loves to read.

I have read "Main Street,” by Sinclair

Lewis; “The Seven Pearls of Shandi,”

and some of the “Rover Boy” series,

and many others. I think Robert Cham-

hers is a good author.



I don’t intend to be an author,

though; I would like to be an artist.

But my ill health prevents me from

going to school to learn.





 





 





Ralph Neteree Raised These Twin

Lambs on a Bottle After a Farmer

Refused to Bother with Them.





Dear Uncle Frank: »

I have never had the time to com-





pete in any of the contests, but the __us catchy read-and-win puzzles.





I’ve

. . . , last Michigan Farmer has made me .- ~ '



I like to read the klnd ot letteis the . . tiled four times and never got a prize

M. C.’s are writing. The more spirit lay down my Latin,“ physrcs, etc., for yet. Bl“; I don’t intend to stop till I





a while.





By the reading of the prize letters

on “The Value of Bobbed Hair,” I see

that they all seem very Willing to let

the question drop; but they are not

willing to drop it, because it is a fool-

ish question, but because they think

that bobbed hair has beaten the long

hair so badly that they are willing to

be merciful. Kenneth Dean seems to

know, as well as several others, that

bobbed hair is more sanitary and clean

than long hair. My hair hangs to my

hips, but it doesn’t happen to contain

any species of lice, bedbugs or sheep-

ticks. There are several girls in Ad-

rain that are growing their hair out,

and many others that would look bet-

ter if they did. I am glad that I don’t

live in Owosso, like Zona L. Amos, as

the women there must be very vain.

When women in Adrian meet, they

talk about more serious things than

bobbed hair.





The best thing that this page has





The ~Goldcn Circle





S we look back, we realize that

the Merry Circle has made ‘some

progress. It started with con-



tests, the first appearing March 4,

1922. Uncle Frank came on the job

two weeks later, and the first Letter

Box appeared in the April 1 issue of

the same year.



The Merry Circle name was ofi‘icially

announced January 6, 1923. At the

same time the M. C. button design and

the colors, blue and white, were given.

The Circle motto was announced June

9, 1923. It was picked by popular

vote, the choice being “Work to Win.”

A little later, August 25, we picked

' some Merry Circle songs. These songs

are “The Merry Circle,” by Myrtle

Feltis; “Keep It Up,” by Doris Truex,

and “Work to Win,” by Rex Ellis.



The Merry Circle Fund made its»

bow August 23, 1924, and “The Open

Door,” a service for personal problems

of young folks, in the December 13

issue.



'And now the next announcement is

with reference to the Golden Circle.

You have probably noticed some let-

ters' which were given special space,

such as "A Friendly Criticism,” by

Wilma’ Fry, in the October 25 issue;

"Young Folks and'C-hurch Going,” by

Caroline Cook, December 6, and “Our

Burning Ambitions,” by “White Amer?

~ anth,” in last week’s Michigan Farmer.





do win a. prize.



Well, I must stop now, and attend

to my candy, as I am making taffy.—-

Your ambitious niece No. 2, Barbara

Paul, M. C., Capac, Mich.



You made taffy and didn’t hand me

any. Why, I’m surprised. I’m glad

you are a reader, but hope your health

will permit you to go to school. Make

health a specialty.





of youth in the letters, the better I

like them. No, I am not old. Sure

you may come again.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





Hello, Uncle Frank, I suppose you

think I have evaporated since you

haven’t heard from me for so long.

But I have been a silent reader and

certainly have enjoyed some of the

lively, snappy discussions which have

taken place. I just read and let those.

things soak in what would. It isn’t

very often that anything gets through

my shell unless it hits very hard and

in the right place. I suppose you

would like to know what kind of an

animal is displaying its ignorance.



To start the ball a rolling, I am

short, (five feet one and a half-inches),

not very fat, (102 pounds),lnot very

old (?)-. I have bobbed hair (shingled).

I also wear “specks” of which I never





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



I am so busy nowadays that I hardly

have time to look over our page and»

the very important letters about mod-

ern styles. But, being a girl who

wears her hair Indian fashion, and pre—

ferring over-alls to knickers, I am not

much interested. .However, being an

M. C., I thought it about time I was

doing something for our fund. _



I think it will be real nice to help

a poor little boy or girl who is not

cared for by the state. In schools and

churches one is always called upon to

give for the poor in Europe and we

give without thinking of the opera-

tion the little cripple next door needs

but cannot afford.



If I went to school yet, I would

work up some story and have all the

boys and girls bring money for the

fund. My sisters sent the nickles and

I sent the rest.



I am another book-worm, my favor-

ite authors being Gene Stratton Porter

and Zane Grey. Well, here’s best wish-

es to the fund and you—An M. C.

niece, Ann Mulder, Grand Rapids,





Thanks for your good words for the

fund. I hope it will grow to do some

of the good you mention. Also, thanks

for the money, that helps the most.





These letters were picked because

of special merit. They were not sent

in with the hope of winning a prize,

but were just expressions of opinion

that were worth while.





To encourage those who do worth-

while work without the hope of win-

ning prizes, I am going to confer the

honor of the Golden Circle whenever

I see fit. It will be conferred upon

those who send in worthy work either

in expression of original opinions, ex-

cellence of language, poetry, or any in

Merry Circle activity which I may

deem worthy of the Golden Circle

honon





 





Dear Uncle Frank:



How is W. B.? Waiting for a let-

ter?



We went on a trip this fall to Spring-

field and Lincoln,.Illinois. 'I was born

near Lincoln and have seen the old

court-house where Abraham Lincoln

practiced law. My great-grandfather

was personally acquainted with Abra-

ham Lincoln. .



I could write much more about my

trip, but it would take most of the

boys’ and girls’ page. .





We have had a special Golden Circle

pin made for this. It is a regular M.

C. design with a real circle of gold

around it. The clasp is a modern one,

similar to those on fraternity or lodge

pins. It is a pin such as one will want

to treasure and will be proud to show.





PVVorthiness or excellence, of work or

deed, only will ,count in the awarding

of this henorfi Some weeks none, per-_

haps, may be conferred, whilein oth-

ers, one or more maygetgtheGQlden

Circle pin. These pinsf‘will never, be

giVen in connection;withflthe contats,’

as prizes are provided‘sfofuthem',‘ " .'



I would like. «5399 — many; Merry Dear U

Golden,





letter comes by, and also my contest.

Hi, W. B.‘~—Your loving nice, Leonilfa

Alderman, M. C., Daggett, Mich. . I





 





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Circlers get in'sidelg e





country or W9? a; ‘

My most interesting'cor. _





to a city '





we often find that what we thought to}





Say, Uncle Frank, you certainly give '





hope W. B. is napping when my« -‘





Let’s have some interesting facts re- .. "





 

 





 

 

   

   

 

 





   





 

 





 





 

 

 

 





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This is *h‘owiLsieicms', ‘

Like "Arabian Night'dreams,

But I’ll tell you how, - "

And, then you camallow

For this foolish thing.~ . , .

It’s get 'up’ear‘ly- in the morning

Eat breakfastrgo to—school. :1 j ,. . ;,

' Come home at night, mourning, , z. .

0r feeling like a fool. \

And that’s the grand school life

They all say is such “fun, .. . '

The only kind of any life, . _, .

Is when the monthly test is begun,: .

I know that lots of Merry Circlers “

Will not agree with me, , ,

But what’s the use of living

If others opinions you cannot see.

-—-Aletha Church, Holton, Mich.





 





     





 

 





   

   

 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 





 

 

 





 

 





 





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have thought of a few I think it would ,

be well to discuss. Topics for discus-



sion would be “Travel an. its advan- ‘ " ‘

tages,” and “What the erry Circle .

has done for me.” I think a. good trav-

el topic would be “See, America First."

I will send suggestions for other top-

ics later.—Your loving niece, Bernice

M. Ball, M. 0., Charlotte, Mich. ‘ ‘,





Thanks for your suggestions, Ber-'

nice. I will use (them later. Hope you

will send others as you think of them. ,





 





Dear“ Uncle Frank: ,-

I go to school every day. We play » " a



quite a few games. Today we played '



tug-of—war, the boys on one end of the



rope and the girls on the other. The



boys won, but don’t you think they



ought to? Because they are stronger



than we are. One of the bye is a.



great big fat boy, and I believe he



could take the rope away from us girls



alone. —

Well, I guess I will have to close my



chatter-box. Well, good-bye letter, I



hope I will see you again—Marguerite



Taylor, M. 0., Flint, Mich.





Size does not always mean strength.

Perhaps that big boy would be-a hard

one to pull around, but when it comes

to doing some pulling himself he might -.

be N. G. Of course, the boys ought to





Win, 'unless there were so many more 1

girls than boys. '





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





Although I am a Virginian I feel ,I ' I

really belong to Michigan for I .Was‘

born there. Do you accept nieces or

nephews from different states? I hope .

so, for I want to be a niece of yours. 1

I think I, have a sister that belongs to

your Circle. '



I am a. sophomore in high school this '

year and am having a fine time in”

Caesar. Michigan sure has Virginia

beat for schools. . , . _



Hello, Waste Basket. Hope you are 1' , ,

full when this gets in Detroit—Your ‘

Virginian want-to—be niece, RoseBrick-

ley, Lyndhurst, Va. ~ . , . .j



The Michigan boundaries are not the

Merry Circle limits. Its limits are the

circle of the earth.
stories written by the following were





the best. .





Fountain Pens s.

LaVendee Adolph, Union City. Mich.

Kalb Estonia, It.





1, Hamburg,

, Flash" hts.

Dorothy Rake,R . ,Mears, Mich.

Julia Wojnarheme 2, Box 18,





Niles, Mi lob.

Burr. 833 West Prairie 81;,





Bonfire

Vicksburg, Mich.“a





Cady

Donna Ball. Oak Grove, Mich.

Goldie Kleinhardt, 3253 Meldrum

Avenue“, Detroit. Mich.

Andrew Kuiphof, R 1, Grand Bap-





'1ds.u





Nora Fairbank, Milan, Mich.





I I Omltreuble With these drawing con-

tests ii that thehe is quite a little copy





work done. That, or having someone





i else do your drawing for you, isn’t;





‘ I will leave the subject to be drawn

to your choice and i will leave it~ to

your honor that the drawings are

made by yourself.



The usual prizes will be given. The

two selected as the best will win hand-

some nickled fountain pens; the next

three, flashlights, and the next five,

little boxes of candy. Please be sure

toput your name and address on the

drawing and if you are a Merry Circ-

ler, put M. C. after your name.



All who send in good drawings will





get M. C. membership cards and but-





tons, if they are not already members.



Send your drawings in before Janu-

ary 2, as the contest closes then. Ad-

dress them to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer. Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





MY PERSONAL AILM ENT.





 





LETTER from a. much worried



young man reminds me that I



have promised the editor one of

my photographs for publication. When

you see the picture you will at once

see thatin spite of being a health ad-

viser, I am myself a victim of one

malady.



The disease, for it is a. disease. is

common enough to have a name of its

own. “Alopecia Premature. Idiopath~

ion." The last word signifies that the





cause is not clearly known. The com—





mon name for this common disease is

baldness, the subject on which my

young correspondent asks advice. The

chief cause of early baldness (prema-

ture alopecia) is the dandruff which

usually precedes it. This dandruff is

the result of a disease of the oil glands

that lubricate the hair. Every reader

of this column has seen the whitish-

gray scales that so persistently form

a top dressing to "the collar of the

coat. It does not necessarily mean

that the wearer is hastening on to

premature baldness, but it is a danger

signal not to be ignored.



This young enquirer has taken al-

most all of the usual measures of cure.

He has massaged the scalp, he has

Worn loose head coverings, he has

used Ishampoos. I feel that in his

case, the trouble not being hereditary,

thereis still some hope for local treat-

ment. He should use a stimulating

shampoo 'composed of equal parts of

glycerin. alcohol, and tincture 'of green

soap, once a week. Every night rub

into .the roots of the hair with the

fingers a stimulating lotion; use

enough vigor to make a decided sen-

sation in the scalp but do not wound

or irritate.



Young men and women who have a

minture of dandruff and falling hair





._to contend with, must bear in mind





that early. treatment is required if they

" t‘WiVsh to be bald. Every scalp

' I. the hairs are Ming re-

' gentle, systematic fric-





a personal standpoint.





are already matured.





utes annually—a full working week.





The polished crown adds much to the

If a fairy god-

mother put wishes at my disposal I

would waste none of them on a hairy





dignity of appearance.





or own.





TUBERCULOSIS AND CONSUMP-

TION.





 





Will you please explain what is the

difference between tuberculosis and

consumption? I thought they were

the same but some of my neighbors

say they are two d1ffe1ent diseases. A

young lady friend of 01118, a school

teacher, had to give up her school on

account of throat trouble. The glands

were swollen and hard. The doctors

sent her to Detroit twice to take the

radium treatment. She was getting

worse again after coming back, so

changed doctors. The one that is now

treating her says she has tuberculosis

in the glands of her neck and that he

can cure her. He has Denver mud put

on every day and she is taking medi-

cine eveiy hour or two. ——P. P.





Tuberculosis and consumption are

different names for the same disease.

I’m afraid your friend has fallen into

incompetent hands. She needs the





same treatment as other forms of tu-





berculosis. Absolute rest, fresh air,

nourishing food in plenty. Sun treat-

ment, if properly and cautiously used,

is very helpful in gland tuberculosis.





HAS PAIN IN LEFT CHEST.





 





-Four years ago I stooped and then

straightened up quick. A sharp pain

hit me in my left chest and has been

there ever since. I have seen doctoxs

but get no relief. Am thirty~eight

yeais old. —I. H. J.

. Your symptoms suggest the possi-

bility of an internal hernia, but a care-

ful examination is the only thing that

will tell.





NURSING BABY.





 





Is there any harm in continuing to





nurse 9. bab —I.’..L after a woman is again





pregnant?—

Yes. It is harmful to mother and





babe alike and may do harm also to





the unborn infant.





V, get their pencils,





There are

worse things than losing the hair, for

an adult man whose matrimonial plans

The saving in

time has been figured to be 3,650 min-





   





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Can , you please tell me why my

chickens do not feather out? They

moulte'd In September and about a.





ers; .They were ifw l~~fedandl continr

nod to lay during the Insulting period:

I have not' seen any signsofr f ether

eating. ,. The hens have been 8 ut’in

the house only about two weeks. They

are covered with pin feathers but the

feathers don’t grow. They have a dry

mash consisting of cats, corn and bran

before them afternoon, are fed wheat

in the morning, and chopped up corn

at night, with some green food such

as cabbage, beets, etc. They have al-

most entirely stopped laying now.—

Mrs. H. ‘0.





and I think feather development will

be encouraged if you use twenty per

cent meat scrap in the mash. A better





- method .is to use ten per cent meat





scrap and give the birds all the sour

milk or buttermilk they can drink.

About two per cent linseed meal in‘

the mash will help in producing sleek

feathers.





Some hens are naturally slower than ‘





others in developing plumage but the

birds noylr covered with pin feathers

will undoubtedly take on a. normal ap-

pearance'rapidly. Any birds that re-

main denuded of feathers through the

winter are apt to be devitalized by

the constant chilling and may not

prove useful as breeding stock.





MOVING BEES FATAL.





 





I would like to know if I could move

a. swarm of bees. They are located in

the side of a. barn. If they are moved

they would have no comb to live on.

Would they be all right without the

comb, if fed?——A. L. D.





The ‘bees should not be disturbed

before the latter part of March or first

of April, and preferably not until in

May. Disturbing the bees at this .time

would certainly mean the death of the

colony. I do not believe there is one

chance in a hundred that you can

move the bees from their present loca-

tion andhakc them live through until

spring—B. F. Kindig.





RABBIT BREED COMPARISONS.





 





I have been having trouble with my

Flemish Giant rabbits. _W_hen the

young are from three to SIX weeks

old they become thin and weak and

Very few die after they are

weaned. I am feeding alfalfa hay and

oats. Is this too heavy a. rat1on for

young rabbits, or what do you think

could be the cause? Is the Flemish

Giant more susceptible to disease than

other breeds? How do New_Zeala.nd

Reds compare with Flemish Giants for

meat producers ?—Mrs. L R.



The young rabbits may have died

from digestive disorders caused by eat-

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' MUSKEGON ‘seres POULTRY

' SHOW. ‘





 





THEIargéstand best poultry show

in the state this year,” was the





manner in which J: A. Hannah, poul-

try extension specialist for the Michi-

gan Agricultural COllege, appraised

Muskegon’s Fifteenth Annual Poultry

Show, held at the Muskegon Armory,

December 10—13. _ '



There, were nearly 1,200 entries of

all kinds, 748 of these being chickens

and the remainder being made up by

turkeys, geese, ducks, rabbits and

canes.



Ten silver cups "are coveted trophies

awarded inconnection with the Mus-

kegon show. Some of these have been

the object of competition since 1918

and bear the names of many of Mich-

igan’s most prominent pultrymen as

winners for the different years.



A poultry institute was held in con-

nection with the show. Interestedand

appreciative groups attended the meet-

ings which were held on the last two





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GREEN FEEDS son POULTRY.





 





, (Continued from page 569)."

feed for-theirs. * The only objection is





quired to sprout them. Many poultry-





men find it cheaper to‘subs‘titute mane; '

gels, cabbages’ and cull .vegetables for” . I



succulence and use what oats they ,-‘ ’

raise or. buy to compose athird-‘br. * ~





fourth of the scratch grain ration. ,n

Potatoes are used by some poultry-





men when the. crop is bringing Ea 10W - .' I





price. There are always somecull‘po-





tatoes that can be boiled‘_and mixed.-





with bran and given to the hens rather

sparingly once each day. I find: the





hens like raw potatoes although:they ‘-

seem to like mangels better. Potatoes -





contain more food value than mangels

and I do not believe; their food value

for hens has ever been fully determin-

ed. Considering the low cost of pota-



-' toes in Michigan a thorough experi-

ment to find their value in the poultry

ration might preduce useful informa-

tion.





 





NEWS





 





GET READY FOR THIS BIG

MEETING.





 





AN important dairy round-up will

take place at Escanaba, January

9, as the culmination of the pureobred

sire campaign that has featured the

agricultural advance in Cloverland

during the past year. At this time the

$1,000 prize for the best showing made

by any county in this campaign, will

be awarded. ' I .

The principal speaker at the meet-

ing will be Mr. Frank O. Lowden, of

Illinois. Other addresses will include

the following: “The Escanaba. Plan”

for the distribution of the primary

school interest fund, by O. I. Bandeen,

secretary of the Escanaba. Chamber of

Commerce; “Cash from the Tourist,"

by G. E. Bishop, of the Upper Penin-

sula. Development Bureau; “Money in

Poultry,” by J. A. Hannah, of the

Michigan Agricultural College; “Pro-

gress in Land-clearing," by L. F. Liv-





.ingston, land-clearing specialist; “Re-





sults in Calf-club Work,” by A. G. Ket—.

tunen, assistant state leather of club

work; “Cow Testing Association



Wor ,” by J. G. Wells, dairy specialist



of the M. A. 0.; “Results- of Pure—bred



Sire Campaign,” by E. H. Amos, assist-



ant state leader of county agents;





 





'ALL SET ON. CENSUS ENUM-ERA-

TION.





 





HE farm census of the Upper Pe-

ninsula, which has been arranged





fistics, is now under way. Mr. E; C.

Sackrider, formerly instructor in agri-

culture in the Escanaba. High School,

is in charge of the census for the pe-

ninsula. Local enumerators have been

selected in the townships of ’m9,.d13'





   





announced, will be regarded.





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farm, but which, when assembled, will

afford an idea. of the agricultural situ-

ation in each county of the peninsula.





 





FIVE SECTIONS CLEARED.





 





IN Iron county, the past season, 3,200

acres of land have been cleared un





der the supervision of the agricultural I





commission of the county. This has

required 60,000 pounds of sodatol, ‘60;

000 feet of fuse, and 39,500 blasting-

caps, says an Iron River report on this

work. - -- '





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WILL LIGHT THE" WAY.





 





 





HE Gogebic County Highway Com«



mission has awarded a contract, it

is announced, for the lighting of state

trunk-line No. 12, between» Ironwood

and Wakefield. This seems to v‘ be

about the first effort to light up rural

highways in northern Michigan, but it

may not be the last.

rior District Power Company,has,:the.

contract. There will be placedalong

the highway 140 lighting unitsof925o:

candlepower each. There will be-fourr

teen lights per‘mile for ten miles of

the road. The lights are required not

to give a glare that will trouble motora

ists on the road. The lights are-to be

in commission from April 1 to Become

her 1, and will burn from dusk to 1:00

A. M. ~ '





 





sovs GET eoLo MEDALS.





 





'or': Iron

county, Francis Pelletlpr, of Luce





county. and Richard Johnson, ’of-Delta. . : a





county, members of poys’ agrl’c ‘-

clubs in this district, wares



first honors at the Nations: ”

positions at Milwaukee. Th

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the cost 'of. the oats and the tune rev-é]





The Lake- Supes : .
‘ callers of this paper who have

' come to know Francisco Farm,

either by personal visitation er through

, thesecol'umns, will knowthat it is not

.maintained as a show «place, but purely

" Ass opracticat farm enterprise. ,

' like the dairym’an who said he did

A not, keepxcovws, the cows. kept him, so

with Francisco Farm: we do not main-

' stain-it. it; maintains “us, from one to





three‘families of us, and has since it





"f came into the possession of our fam-

ily more than twenty years ago. That

is not saying that there has beenmuch

.f luxury ,spioadaround lately either, al-

thth the three generations that at

present get their sustenance there-

from are surely all looking healthy

a‘nd well fed. g .



In {the face of continuous reverses

we ‘ have each day found three

“squares” to sit up to, and been able-

to enjoy them. We have learned the

significance of the statement that “the

farm is the only concern that can con-

tinue to lose money year after year

and still: keep on doing business.”



At thevbeginning of the year 1920

the farm looked like a flourishing and

presperous institution, according to

the story told by the annual inventory.

The next year it was sort of laid up

for repairs, but was supposed to be

soon going strong again. January 1,

1922, found it looking like a sick cat

with hopes for its early recovery wan-

ing. One year more and there was a

stone tied to its neck and it was ex-

pecting most any time to hear the

splash that might mark its consign-

ment to ioblivion.



But the splash did not come. When

the inventory was completed that

showed what there was to work on for

the year 1924, there was a rag of hope.

Only a Slight'indication, to be sure,

but enough to'show that the fever had

broken, and, if no complications set

in,'oomplete recovery could confidently

be looked for in'time. The season of

1924 has shown a marked improve-

‘ment, especially the latter part of the

year, and 1925 opens up new and

promising vistas of plenty and pros-

perity in the not too distant future.



The annual inventory is used in our

case as a barometer to gage the con-

dition of the farm business from year

to year. It furnishes a very accurate

measure of the progress, or retrogres—

sion, of the business and although we

have ceased to look upon the farm

purely form a business standpoint,

still we know that it can not continue,

permanently, to furnish the most con-

genial job, or the most ideal setting

for a home, or the most satisfying

kind, or manner of living, unless at

the same time it is a proven business

success. We like to see the farm pay

dividends. ' We like to see the assets

as measured in dollars, grow and in-

crease from year to year. There are

many and various compensations con-



’ nected with country life and work on

. the” farm other than those that‘cause

the bank account to swellybut if the

financial balance is on the right side

ofthe. ledger, somehow it causes the





mm ' “5m 8. little stomach-the





' breath, wanton a little sweeter, and

, this steppe be .more arm. ,, You can

‘ 1g man‘s whistle, you know,



' ‘ j; whistling its—keep up his

. because it is _Just;naturally

hmiimn'mdrflmuins out





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drawn until the year is up.





Under separate headings we invoice

“Real Estate" and “Personal Proper-

ty.” “Personal Property” is subdivid-

ed and listed as horses, cattle, hogs,





poultry, farming tools, farm produce,.





miscellaneous items, household goods

and supplies, stocks, bonds and notes,

bills receivable and cash on hand. All

our resources come under some one of

these headings, and it is gratifying to

watch the list grow. But the summing

up does not stop here, for there are

liabilities also, in our case, and, as





the list of things we owe goes down

our interest.





in its proper column,

grows intense to get the footings and

learn the, size of the figures that must

be on the line called “Net Balance” in

order to equalize the resources and

liabilities. ‘ '





We have a small leather-bound ledg-

er in which these annual inventories

are kept. In it they are carefully pre-

served. and the book is nearly full.

There are fifteen annual copies to

date. From 1910 to 1920 the spread

between resources-and liabilities grad-

ually widened, and, except for three of

those years, in an ever-increasing ra—

tio.

two opposing forces kept drawing

nearer and nearer together and there

stood ‘little _“I" between, straining

every nerve and muscle to keep them

well apart, for when such p0v'verful

forces come together there is usually

an awful crash and those who stand

between “go up." To date we have

not “gone up,” but by main force and

awkwardness, hard work, fair weather

and favorable markets we have suc-

ceeded again the past year in persuad-

ing those two great and

functionaries to part company a rea-

sonable distance and each to stand a

little farther back and give me and

my net balance more room.





These fifteen little stories that these

fifteen inventories tell are more inter-

esting to me than to anyone else in

the world. They tell me which way I

am going and how far, and they are

the only stories that tell me those

facts.





ANNUAL MEETING H ELD.





THE annual meeting of the Branch



County Farm Bureau was held on

Saturday, December 13, at the Cold-

water Grange Hall, and was attended

by about 140 members and their wives.

A fine dinner was served at noon by

the grange ladies. The election of

officers for the coming year then took

place, with the following members

eletced: President, V. B. Stout; vice-





president, M. E. Echtinaw; board of





directors, Glen Gruner, E. A. Water—

bury, Fred Shilling, David Kinyon, and

H. A. Gowdy.





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SCHOOLS.





A TWO days’ poultry school will be



conducted at several points in the

peninsula during December by the

poultry department of the Michigan

Agricultural College. Housing: culling,

breeding, incubating, brooding, and

poultry diseases will be presented by

the college experts. Such schools

have already been arranged for in Go-





zoom ”and. Menominee counties.» Twen-





‘ waive“ farmers must enroll in Order

_ secure a school for [their county.

The schedule” of ”work has. been ar-



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RANGER. our new Herd s hum a.



0. record 9301' When

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Camden. Mlelm .I. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adina. MlelI.





FOR SALEM Ryea rs old R





531 lbs. in. Fro We. Robeon. Room '3oa'III.”n c.

R. R. Depot Bulldlno. Detroit, Michigan.





Guernsey Bull. May Alicea breed-





Sn ringing cows. bred

Reg. Guernsey: For Sale heifers Bull calves.

W. W. BURDICK. Wllllamston. Mich.



Reg. GuernseyA Cows,





For Sale Bull Calves.

Rose Breeding. 'JOHN EBELS. R. A2, Holland. MlMch.





Wallinwood Guernseys

Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale.

r. w. WALLIN. Jenleon. men.





 





Bulls and





 





A Son at Traverse Echo Sylvia Ilaaslra





Born: March 81, 1924. A very nice calf.





nearly all white.



Sire: Traverse Echo Sylvia Kaastra, grand-

champion st the 192-1 West Michigan State

Fair and a bull of wonderful type and

quality. A son of EchoSylvia Kins Model

from a 24.9-Ib. 3-yr.-old daughter of a

31-11). cow with a'305vday record of 989.7

lbs. butter and 23,0205 lbs. milk.



Dam: Reformatory (‘entury No. 534192 at

5 yrs. Butter. 7 days. 20.13; Milk. 501.0;



butter, 305 days, 803.39; Milk 20,7857.



slie carries 3 crosses of Pontiac Korndyke.



A handsome calf with straight top and

level rump, soon ready for service. -

Send for pedigree of No. 373 and list of

bulls for sale by MICHIGAN STATE lIElLDS.





Bureau of Animal Industry,

Department C. , Lansing, Michigan.





Matador Sylvia

Concordia





His sire, Matador Sesis Walker, 100 A. R. O. daugh-

ters, ten from 30 to 34 lbs, seven with yearly records

of from 1.000 to 1,280 lbs, he a brother to Seals

l’jeterjv Prospect. the world's greatest cow. 37.381 lbs.

of milk and 1.448 lbs. of butter in a year. His dam.

a 32.33-1b. four—year-nld daughter of Avon I’onlian

Echo, 03 A. ll. 0. daughters. one with a rword of 41

lbs, three over 34 lbs. live over 33 lb.~. and ten over

30 lbs, and he a. son of that wonderful producer.

May 150110 Sylvia, with a record of 1,005.80 lbs. of

milk and 41.01 lbs. of butter. Send for our list of

' young bulls.





HlLLCREST FARM,





Kalamazoo, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





WINTEnlNG‘hEE‘F‘COWé-A A, '





HE beef cattle industry has been

very greatly depressed these past

war years. Pedigree beef. stocks have

suffered in consequence. Perhapsthey

have been the slowest of farm prod-

ucts to come back. Theirweakness

causes discouragement to producers

and encouragessthe process of liquida-

tion. Liquidation in turn swells the

supply at the market and keeps the

prices low- We are apt to run up

against a. shortage with a bump one

of these days, and then th/o raiser of

beef stocks will have his inning.

In the meantime about the most en-'





couraging thing for the man who

sticks to the good beef cow is the

ease with which he can stick. The

country is full of cheap grass for sum—

mer feed, and the cost of wintering a

reasonable number on many farms is

almost nil.



A neighbor reports the cost of car-





 





FOR SALE





SOME YOUNG BULLS old enough for seniors:

by our 33.58-lb. Bull, also some fine young (‘ows

(all In some Bull; some Cows just fresh



All at a \my low DI‘ltP; «hoile \lOVk ior sale at all

times E. A. Rohlf, Akron, Mlch., R. a, Box 6,

Telephone 48-R3.





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Holstein Bull Call, 2

Sired In" 33-lb. Bull: Dam

retord of 1,002 lbs. mill: and

CHAS. RADFORD, At—





Reg. mos.





For Sale 01...

has (‘0va Testing Assoc.

90.7 lbs. butter in 30 days.

kins. Mich.. St. Clair Co.





 





Bull valves. th-irly. rugged

Hereford fellows, Fairfawaarmer—

Anxiety blood. priced moderate. E. J. TAYLOR.

Fremont. Mich.





MICHIGAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB





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

nn indiiiduals 0r carloads. It. (If M. an 00w Test.-

Ing lAssmiation rec or read



H. .DENNISON. Field \lan.





 





East Lansi ng , Mich





 





BUTTER BRED ”garage”

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County, Michigan





 





Bulls ready for service.

alsoafew females. All from



Accredited herd. Smith & Parker,

Howell, Mich.





Jerseys For Sale

at of M. dams.

R. D. No. 4,





 





l Cows. 4 bulls from R. 0! M. Cows. Chance to

select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred

for fall freshening. Colon C. Lillie, Coopersville, Mich.





 





- of bctl milk Shortlu'rns offers

Falrland Herd young lows and lued heifers.

Also heifer and bull calves from .5 to 10 nmmhs old.

just right to ship. 1. J FOSTER 8. SONS, Nile.

Michigan.





 





Thigistered Milking Shorihom bull

For sale (-alms from our great “Count

Lickiord," out of record dams. Also low heifers.

Prices right. I. W. Sullivan, Augusta, Mich.





Milking Shorthorn Bulls





ready for service. Best Clay breeding. llerd te ted.

IRVIN DOAN &. SONS. Croewell. Mich. a





F‘ n F Shorthormr—now offering a few

....' ml Eli.” are an: threatens:





SHORTHORN BULLS





reds and mans. W. E. Morrish, R. 5. Flint. Mich.





 





 





Best ordmliaii‘ty stud breedirgz. D

cows an e ers or sale I WEL”.

STOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumleh. Mich. L





HOCS

Large TYIIG Berkshires Choke bears. Gilts bred 6r





open. Reliable stock ri

reasonable. W. H. EVERY. Manchester. Michp ced





 





flying a small herd of dry beef cows

ithrough last winter at $4.00 per head.

fThe ration was mainly bean pods and

corn fodder. We saw these cows in

June, looking very good, and every

one with a. big lusty calf at side.

This beats our record all to pieces

for cheapness; our object being not

how cheap but how good. Yet it is

surprising how cheap cows can be

wintered and yet how good, if the

calves come in the spring and are

weaned in the fall. The cow that has

a. calf dragging at her all winter will

require much better feeding to keep in

smooth flesh. Most of our cows are

suckling calves. They will get one

feed of alfalfa hay per day. The rest

of their ration Will consist of heel: tops

and corn fodder while the tops last,

or until about the holidays, and bean

pods and corn fodder from then on.

Note that, with the exception of the

alfalfa, the food they will consume has

practically no'market value; at least,

its selling value would be less than its

value to plow under for fertilizer.

Feeding such roughage to beef cattle

is like eating your cake and still hav-

ing it, for after the cows get what

good they can from it there is still a.

very high percentage of its fertilizing

value left to go back upon the land.

It is this well recognized fact that

accounts in large measure for the

prosperity of live stock farms and the

very commonly expressed belief that

live stock is essential to permanent

agriculture—P. P. Pope.





ANOTHER COOPERATIVE LIVE

STOCK ASSOCIATION.





HE Producers’ , Live , Stock Commis-

sion Association will. open for bus-

iness on the Cincinnati market‘as soon





as arrangements can be completed its





 





dianapolis,l _ ant; and r. 0... Kate.

ner, of Columbus, is, secretary and

treasurer. Market specialists in the

Bureau of Agricultural. Economics say

this will be the fourteenth farmer-own-

ed live stock farm emulated with the





of care Sort the old ewes 3611

put them In a rim by thefise '

giv9 them a little extra. en



ti: ' are worth keeping 41.60 0

‘nolds.; , ..





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National Live stock Producers A1330“ ‘ °°°PERATIVE SAL“ OFMVF





elation.





WINTERING OLD EWES.

N. sorting my dock I found I had





I several old ewes that were well

along in years. My record shows that





four of these old ewes are past seven .





years old. They are rather low in





The Grand Champion Load of Steers at the International.





flesh caused partially from suckling

lambs the past season, and old age,

but I find these old ewes have been

very profitable, each having reared

from one to two lambs each year for

the past six ybars.



I had planned to sort out all ewes

over six years of age, but when I look-

ed up the records the temptation to





_ retain some rather got the best of me





and I let a. few old ewes pass by. It

is pretty hard to tell how old ewes are

profitable. -I have kept them until

they were eleven years old and raised

a fine profitablelamb each season.





AS a rule, however, I think it a. good

plan to keep selling off the old owes,

a. few each year, replacing them with

younger stock. It is hard sometimes

to see profitable ewes go to the block.

They might be likened to a. neighbor

who is seventy-two years old. He chal-

lenges any of the boys in the com-





STOCK INCREASES.-





W ITHIN‘ the past seven years there-



have been established in meow

one of the large terminal live stock

markets twenty-seven

sales agencies for handling live stock

on a. commission basis, says a live.

stock specialist in the bureau of agri-

cultural economiCs. .



These sales agencies are cooperative

in that they are owned and controlled

by the farmers who produce the live

stock which‘ris sold, and that such of

the commission charges as are not

needed to pay the expenses of. opera-

tion are returned to the producers at

stated intervals as patrOnage- divi-

dends. /



The cooperative terminal market

sales agencies handled approximately

10,000,000 animals in 1923, Which were

sold for nearly $200,000,000- The ex-

cess commissions returned as patron-

age dividends amounted to more than





' $800,000.





A MINERAL. MIXTURE FOR HOGS.





0 make the best use of the feeds



given the hogs, every favorable

condition should be present. It has

many times been demonstrated that

minerals of certain kinds constitute

one of these conditions and are neces-

sary to secure the maximum of hog

development The following contains

these needed elements in about the

proper proportion, and is recommend-

ed by the Iowa station. Use common

salt, twenty per cent; finely ground

raw bone meal, or spent bone black,

forty per cent; finely ground high cal-

cium limestone, or finely ground pow-

dered oyster shell, or. lime thoroughly

air-slaked, forty per cent; total, 100

per cent. To every hundred pounds of

the above minerals add from one-half

to one ounce of potassium iodide, mix-

-ing all ingredients thoroughly.





A representative of the Michigan

Agricultural College recently conduct-

ed a test of the fine herd on the farm

of the county infirmary of Ontonagon

county. The cows are being milked

four times daily.





First Prize Aged Cow at t/ze National Dairy” Show





division, National Do

ning on. year. test it ’





 





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,. . , ., #1 - 1's

LOQV'short‘ the finimal will be cramped

and uncomfortable. On the other hand,

._ ‘- _ . , 3 _ . . if too long the animal will lie down in

_' EBICAL ”gang. 1,, this and 0th: its own droppings. Care should be giv-

" "got" countries have proved con- en to .see that each stallflts the cow

Mohair flint at lea-at one-third of the that 0001111195 i‘t- '

£5:an human tuberculosis are the ' Cold drafts through the stable

‘ Mt otdr'ln’klng mm; infected with should be avoided. , On cold windy

.. germs of bovine’tuberculOsis. Dr. days the stable should be closed. If

3,“, 01m, head of the Michigan State there are, cracks in the siding they

'Dephrtment. of Public Health said in a should be covered. Good ventilation

,rmtfldregs; “seventy.fl‘ve per cent [in the cow stable is vital, but should

7 wisland cases in children is bovine. be arranged without circulation of

Sixty bet cent of generalized tuber- cold air. Cows, to derive all the ben-

”culosis in'chlldren is bovine. Eighteen out from their food. must be made

to twenty-sixper'cent of deaths from happy, comfortable and contented—~—

_ tuberculosis in children ‘is caused by Leo 0- Reynolds:-

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)f ' - 311153, Association had twenty-four herds

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I, FEEDING DRY COWS. were producing milk during Novem-

n, — ber. Ten cows porduced from forty

1. ‘ D RY cows should be well fed. No to fifty pounds of fat. and six produced

. animal on the farm works harder above fifty pounds, while fifteen gave

,1; ’ than the large producing cow that between 1,000 and 1,250 pounds milk,

y ‘ gives twenty-five pounds of milk con- and three over 1,250 pounds. The av—

o taining a. high per cent of butter-fat. erage production for all cows was 531

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upon her entire system that calls for the list. His herd of twelve cows of

.. a few weeks of rest and recuperation. mixed breeds.pi‘0duced an average 0f

l . The dry period with cows is the 756 pounds of milk and 33.33 pounds

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. velopment of the unborn calf. Milk than tWO pounds of. fat per day.

~ productiOn is a heavy tax upon the 'Daisy, a grade Holstein three years

’. digestive system. To prepare the cow 01d. owned by E. L. Stauder, headed

’ ‘ for another year of labor she should the association in milk production With

‘ be allowed to rest and regain strength. 1.374 pounds of milk.——I. Q- Kitchen,

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9 ~ 3 to eight weeks rest between milking highest 111 milk production, averaging alidssavg Sign”? figwygfilgwgy that-.113)“- Sgsgie'élulhggi ill: 55%.“.

s ,' periods It‘ is my experience that 393 pounds, and 30.21 pounds Of fat, Colats. Rvgbes' Glokyes agdsiiételiliSJOP {Floilzrsdferflloivrwlgellt’s‘oai'nll‘ici‘xl‘otfl?l.mwry

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NOTHER notable official test has

been completed in Michigan and

this time the honor goes to the Jersey

cow, Princess Verle 455102, for in 365

’days she produced 775.39 pounds of

- butter—fat and 13,319 pounds of milk.

' ILCH cows occupy the stable the She carried her calf for ”260 days of

greater part of the time during this time, and fulfilled all the require

the winter months, and unless consid- ments for a gold medal which had

erable thought is directed to make been awarded by the American Jersey

them contented and comfortable, not Cattle Club.



only is much valuable feed wasted, but The record of the test indicates the

a ’marked reduction in milk flow re- ability of this cow as a consistent pro-

sults. I believe environment has a. ducer, for in all but two of the months

great influence upon milk production 0f the tost she Yielded more than



and in order to secure the largest sixty pounds of fat.

measure of. returns from feeding the Verle is a daughter of Leda’s King





fed a well-balanced grain ration while

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’ Spring pigs. Six-rd by "Giant Bo "

0'1. C 3 "Jumbo Bell Boy." also Browny 8:1”:

bulls. MILO H. PETERSON. R. 2. lonia. Mich.

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' . t‘fi-Vmilch cows they must be kept in well« 96707. a sire that has sixteen daugh-

" ,‘ lighted, comfortable and properly ven— ters and one son in the Register of

tilated stables. ‘, Merit. Her dam is Verle Laroy 325-

My- cow stable is along the west 394, and she is owned and was tested

and south sides of my basement. I by Bascom & Smith. of Montgomery.

3 I have plenty of windows in my stable. Michigan. Her test is their first ven-

It' is nearly as light anywhere in my ' ture in Registerof Merit work, and as

stable. as aloof-doors. When the sun it was made under ordinary farm con-

shines during the day it is sure to ditions, and with homegrown feeds it

- come into the, stable. I think cows reflects great credit on. both the cow

« Jam}; the .mlight as much as”, and her owners. . ,

3 ' though the! do not possess a. voice to ‘ ,

. $811113. Wt it. I know I “would not_ THE'gross pool price of the Dairy-

” a I \Wmm . in 11 Wk» ' men’s League Cooperative Associ-

ueo. say nothing of having 5.57m, Inc, for November milk is $2.35

all day long. . , per 100 pounds (three per cent butter-

thomd have Nontrioi fat) at the 201-210-mile freight zone.

My stabl'e’lsplaum 8.0 Expensed’amounted to nine cents per

3‘ has :thm » £911! , 310.0 pounds. making a net pool price of

. tofifim 55.259" *1) etiona for certificates of

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hides. Send for few sows. Sam Buesohler. Elkton, Mich.

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‘Jonathans $8@8.50 bbl;





GRAIN QUOTATIONS

Monday, December 22. 0



~ Wheat.

Detroit—No. 1 red 'at $1.80; No. 2





v“ red $1.79; ,No. 3 red $1.76; No. 2 white





$1.80; No. 2 mixed $1.79.

Chicago—December at $16814; May



$1.72@1.72%; July at $1.47%@1.47%.

Toledo—Cash $1.79%@1.801,§.





Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow at $1.35; No.

3 yellow $1.30.





ago—December 31.22%; May





Oats.



Iggtroitr—New, No. 2 white 65c; No.

, C.



- Chicago—December at 580; May at

627/80; July 61%c.

Rye.



Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.43. .



Chicago—December at $1.44; May

$1.51; July $1.335.



Toledo—$1.40.



Barley.



Detroit.-Barley, malting at $1.05;

feeding 99c. '



Beans.



Detroit—Immediate and

shipment $5.45@5.55 per cwt.



Chicago.——Navy,. choice $5.90; kid-

neys $9.25.



New York—Choice pea at $6.15@

6.25; red kidneys $9@9.25.



Buckwheat.



Detroit—Milling grade $2.30@2.35.



Seeds.



Detroit—Prime red clover cash at



$19.40; alsike $12.90; timothy $3.25.

Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy $18.50@19;

standard and light mixed $17.50@18;

No. 2 timothy at $16.50@17; No. 1 clo-

ver mixed at $15@16; wheat and oat

straw $10.50@11; rye straw at $12.50





@13.

Feeds.



Detroit—Bran at $38; standard mid-

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 $7@8 bbl; Baldwins $6@6.50;

Kings $660

6.50; Greenings $6.50@7 bbl; Grimes

Golden $5@5.50; \Vageners $4.75@5 a





prompt





bbl; Snows $4.50@5; \i‘inesaps $7@

7.50 bbl.

WHEAT

Strengthening cash markets at





home, due to smaller primary receipts,

and a firmer tone abroad ’because of

lighter world shipments and falling off

.in stocks afloat, pushed wheat prices





into new high ground last week. The '





speculative flame, which has been an

important factor in all previous up-

swings, burned with increased fury.

The final estimate on the last wheat

crop was raised to 873,000,000 bushels,

but the 1923 estimate was revised al-

most an equal amount, so that the in-

crease ,in 1924 over 1923 was only

76,000,000 bushels, against 70,000,000

hitherto. A more important develop-

ment of the week was a further de-

cline in primary arrivals, which are

now running only half as heavy as two

weeks ago, and one-third as heavy as

two months ago. The visible supply

has shown two consecutive weeks of

decrease and it is believed that the ac-

cumulations have passed the peak.

The acreage planted to winter wheat,

according to the official estimate, was

6.5 per cent more than a year ago.

This increase was offset by a decline

in the condition.





RYE





Rye made a greater advance than

any other grain. Moving out of rye

delivered on Chicago December con-

tracts reduced the visible supply and

foreign demand has shown distinct 1m-

provement Six weeks ago, stocks on

ocean passage amounted to. 7,000,000

or 8,000,000 bushels, with importing

countries absorbing about 1,000,000





'bushels a week. Since that time, ex-





ports, which are coming chiefly from

the United States, have averaged only

about half of the weekly requlrements

and stocks afloat have been reduced to

but'little. more than a two weeks’ sup-

ply. The fact that Russia bought rye'





last week is an indication of the‘strongl





situation





[CORN





The final estimate on the corncrop

was reduced to 2,437,000,000 bushels,

which isthe smallest yield smce‘1903.

the" abundance of roughage w1ll help.

Opinions are sharply divided, however,





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will bring 'the demand Within the

bounds of the supplyrs . 3

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~ The final estimate 011.»;th6 oats crop

was raised to 1,542,000,000 bushels,

which is the third largest on record.

Oats are being consumed rapidly on

farms,_however, and an unofficial sur-

vey indicates that 46.4 per cent of the

crop had been disposed of by Decem—

her 1, compared with 45.9 per cent last

year, and an averaged 43.9'per cent.

Exports are rather small but the short-

age in the European crop and reduced

yields in Canada,and Argentina, the

other leading exporters, lead to expec-

tations of sales abroad later on. Oats

prices advanced to a new high point

on the crop during the general flurry

on the grain markets in the last week.





SEEDS _ .





The final estimate on the clover seed

crop was 977,000 bushels, or 160,000

bushels more than the estimate a

month ago. The estimate for 1923 has

been revised, however, so that this

year’s crop remains 25 per cent less

than a year ago and the smallest in





recent years. .

FEEDS 7





Offerings of feeds by flour and oil

mills are light at present and prices

have scored further advances. Demand

is less active, however, as consumers

are taking only for immediate needs.





HAY





Firinness is the rule in the hay mra—

ket as increased consumption, because

of bad weather, is offsetting the ten-

dency to dullness before the holidays.

Timothy prices are about $4 a ton

lower than last year and both alfalfa

and prairie hays are slightly lower

than at this time in 1923. Total re-

ceipts are moderate and the cheapness

of hay compared with feed grains is

expected to increase consumption. The

final estimate of the hay crop was 112,-

450,000 tons, compared with 106,611,000

tons in 1923.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Fresh eggs were in more plentiful

supply last week. Pribes declined





tions may» curt

mate futur





from“. til; he ’

son, reached:

weather thro,





 





which usual ‘mflu".its-Iapmmge' in

December, is class a ‘- hand. Pricesfon'

heavy live fowls. at Chicago dropped

to a new low for the year lastweek.

An embargo; in the New York City-

market' on all live ,fowls from Illinois,

ndiana,,Iowa, Missouri,. Kansas, Ne-

raska, North and South Dakota has

resulted in an: overflow of receipts 'at





this market; ' - _, ,

‘ Chicago-eEggs, miscellaneous .50@

55c; dirties 32@~33c; checks.31@32c;

fresh firsts 50@56c; ordinary firsts '35

@40c. Live poultry, hens 210; spring-

ers 220; roosters 15c; ducks 23c;-geese

20c;-' turkeys 34c. ' -

Eggs, fresh candied and graded 51 .

54c; storage 38@39c. Live poultry,

heavy springers 23@24c; lightlspring-

ers 19c; heavy hens 23@24c; light

hens 15c; roosters 15@16c; geese 16@

17c; ducks 21@22c; turkeys 34@35c.





BUTTER I



Butter prices have been unable to

advance from the low point of the

sharp decline a week ago. Receipts at

the large markets are in line with the

increase “in production and the supply

of fine butter has been ample. Hold-

ings of butter in {torage on December

1 were 100,743,0 0 pounds. While the

surplus over ayear ago was cut down

during November, there remains more

butter than ever before to,be moved

into consumptive channels before May

. The movement since December has

been larger than a year ago, however,

and the surplus _has been reduced

further. Price on 92-score creamery:

Chicago 40@401Agc. In Detroit fresh

creamery in tub-s sells at 37 @390. -





WOOL





The approaching holidays have slow-

ed down wool trade to some extent,

but inquiries are'numerous and a fair

volume of sales is reported from day

to day. Prices are as strong as ever

and slight advances are‘evident in

some of the choice offerings. Boston

quotes fine delaines, three-eighths and

quarter-blood combing as high as 70c.





 

   





 





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Monday, December 22.





CHICAGO

Hogs. ‘

Receipts 72,000. Market is unevenly



strong to 100 higher. Big packers bid—

ding steady; bulk heavy butchers at

$10.25@10.35; tops $10.40: bulk good

200 to 225—1b. weight $10@10.20: 175

to 190—1b. $9.50@9.90; 130 to 160—lb.

kind $8.75mv925; heavy packing sows

$9.65@9.90; pigs steady, bulk at $7.50

and up.



Cattle.





Receipts 20,000. Market active to

higher. Weighty fed steers 250 up;

stots more; shipping demand broad;

yearlings $14; weighty steers $11; big

weight at $10.60; bulk $8@8.50; she

stock strong to 25c higher; ve-alers 25

@500 up, mostly on shippers’ account;

girtsiders upward to $11; packers to



Sheep an Lambs.



Receipts 18,000. Market is active.

Fat lambs 25@500 higher; early bulk

fat natives and fed westerns $16.25@

17; tops to outsiders $17.50; no clipped

sold; fat sheep are 250 higher; handy—

weight ewes $8@8.50; fat ewes early

50@75c higher; prime93-lb. weight at

$15; fed lambs 15‘fiv25c up, early sales





 

 

 





 

 





$15.50@16; tops $16.10. $11; htm%%%ué)nlo 431035310315; £1811;

, weig s ' . ; 'li'g lights ,, 9.2

DETROIT - @10; pigs: 9.2.5; packing sows and



Ca’ttle. «www— rOllghS $8.7 9. 1m:- . "



Receipts 576. Market is strong and . Cattle. , .

250 higher. Receipts 1,875. Market, 25@50c 111' 11--

Good to choice yearlings ‘ er. Steers 1100 lbs. 1up4$6.'510” 10’ ,1

dry fed ............... s 1 - steers 1100 lbs down -$5 ..





Best heavy steers, dry-fed ‘

Handyweight butchers . .

Mixed steers and heifers





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Light butchers; .. ..... . . .

Best 00ws

Bu ch'er cows ftp .". . ,,, . .'-.

Cu ters .'. . 3 . .".A . .

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Stock bulls . . . .- ....... . 3.2561) 4.00





Feeders ................. 4.25@ 6.25

St'ockers ........ . ....... 4.25@ 6.00.

Milkers .................. $45.00@75.00





, Veal Calves.



Receipts 312. Market $1 higher.

Best .................... $14.50@15.00

Others 6.00@13.50



.‘Sheep and.Lam\bs.



Receipts 1,142. Lambs are 85c@$1



higher; sheep 500 higher.





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Best lambs ............. $17.00@17.15

Fair lambs .............. 14.00@15.00

Light to common . . .. 8.50(a‘)12.00

Fair to good sheep ...... 8.00@ 8.50

Culls and common . . . . . . 4.00@ 5.00

Buck lambs . 7.50@16.00



Hogs. ~-



Receipts 1,306. Market is 50c@$1

higher.

Mixed hogs .................... $10.25

Pigs............. ................ 6.50

Roughs ............ . . . ..... . . . 8.75

Good yorkers ........ 10.00

Light yorkers ...... . .......... 9.00

BUFFALO

' Hogs.





Receipts 5,130. Market is'closing

strong. Heavies $10.50@10.75;,few at





. . , .. .500“. 0

choice yearlings ,. here ‘ .. boilers“-

, 7.55; culls $1.-75@5;50 ’

. ,,==-;-r.8h¢‘er a

.; , Race 1‘. 2:49.90

. culls 11$, 6§down

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no, bare

I :86? £19613" ’

prising. ow of

prices. ~1— Some

recent- Austr , . ,

lax-rive in thiéreouhti'yi‘s .. 7,

- firstotfthe rears .Qentr

wools ion the sheep’s has

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. pounds, 1’. ~o. b ‘ Michigan . "Mp“

points. Deliveries to the elev‘atni-S‘aro

igh-t and; there seems tops some spec-



Iative «buying by shipfipe's in anticipa-





tibn of the usual improvement in trade. .

.Jobbers .





after the first of the year. .

report that sales to wholesalengro‘cers

and retailers" are light as is usual at

this season of the year, but January

generally is a big month. .Stocks're-

maining in Michigan are believed to

be lighter than last year. as the small

crop and larger movement from the

state offset, the heavy carry-over and

small loss in pickage.





~ POTATOES





Carlot shipments of potatoes are

running less than 400 cars daily, com-

pared with about 800 cars a month

ago. At present, they are only equal

to the average at this season during

the last five years, in spite of the fact

that the crop is of record size. Potato

prices are slightly'weaker with north-

ern round whites, U. S. No. 1, at 85@

95c per 100 pounds in the Chicago car-

lot market- New York round whites

are bringing $1.15@1.25 in the eastern

markets. .





‘ APPLES-





The estimate of the apple crop was

raised 1,500,000 barrels in the Decem-

ber returns. Most of the change was

in Washington and Oregon. In spite

of this increase, the crop. remained

about one-fifth smaller than that. of

1923. The export. movement is active

for this time of the year. Total ex-

ports of barreled apples for the sea-

son to date are slightly less than last

year, but exports of boxes are twelve

per cent'heavier





DETROIT CITY MARKET ; _





The cold snap materially. reduced.





offerings on the markets and put a de-





cided crimp in selling. Peddlers were





,doing little and grocer buying was

very limited. There! was a fair demand

for the better grades of apples. The

supply of potatoes was very small but

there was practically no demand. Car-





rm... bean market is a... vitae. ‘H. j;

P. whites quoted at $5-W5456; 1, 3100 :2





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rots and parsnips were fair sellers,





while celery, cabbage and greensiof'all -.





kinds were taken slowly as buyers





feared frozen stuff. The movement of '





squash and horseradish 'was' very

light. Light and dressed poultry had





practically no sale and there was little“





demand for dressed veal and‘vhogs.

Apples $1.25@4 bu; cabbage 50@_

600 bu; red 75c bu; carrots .§60@75o

bu; local celery 50@75c. dozen; horse‘-

radish $3.50@4.50 bu; dry onions $1@

1.25 bu; roots parsley at 65@75c bu;

parsnips. 750 (1.51 bu; potatoes, No. 1,

60@650 bu; o. 2 and ungra‘ded 55@-





60c bu; pumpkins 75c bu; rutabagas, 4‘





50@750 bu; Hubbard squash “(Stealth .,





bu; turnips $1.25@1.50 bu; root celery,

$1@1.25 bu; honeyssl. 5 per Mb. Dull;

eggs, retail 70@800 ozen; ;hens,»re-

- tail 25@27c lb; springers. remix 25@'

27c; ducks, retail 25c lb; geese, retail





250 lb; small pigs $4 each: ‘_dgqggedf .. _.

*f 14c- ., dressed 3 .,

3:3-‘éuck8,





Digs 13@14c lb; 'v

poultry, spring‘ers '30 369:1

30@32c lb; geese 30@350 'llx’.





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est states. in the two years, and upon

states estimates made from reports of





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lathe corn belt the reduction in

feeding is about the same both east





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“Imam flattery, 8 1.. maul-and Rapids. Mich.

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Reliable Fruit Trees





WtonSeeds,8-4ft.AppleTrees25c .

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vu- Sul for 1925 Catalog today.





ILLEI'S IURSERIES 5L SEED HOUSE. Geneva. 0.





., Self Thawing! Radiator





The ECLIPSE ”F6. 6 8. Michioan Am

“me. Ill.. announces the perfection of a wonderful

In Radiator, which eliminates every dreadof (rose:

01': in winter driving. This lreeae proof. self-

m Radiator is automatic iaAits action. operates

with no attention or cost whatever, even with no hood

«or mine. Write them before buyin: any radiator

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Agents WW

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The B in One Wrongs“ Co.





 





 





 





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i ' we percentages are as follows: Ohio,

> "80; lnidana, 30.





Illinois, 85; Michigan,

95; Wisconsin, 100; Minnesota, 90;

Iowa, 80; Missouri, 85; South Dakota,

90; Nebraska, 85; Kansas, 95.



The shipments of stocker and feed-





er cattle into the corn belt states from '





August 1 to December 1, this year

were 1,547,000 head, compared to 1,-

858,000 head for the same period in

1923, 1 ,962, 000 in 1922, and 1, 260, 000 in

1921. The greatest falling off this





' year was into the states west of the

river, especially into Iowa and Mis-

' sonri.





The reports of feeders as to the

character of cattle on feed indicate a

larger percentage than last year of

cattle weighing over 1,000 pounds

when put on feed and a considerable

reduction in the percentage of feeder

calves. Reports as to the probable

time of marketing show larger per-

centages for December and January

than last year and smaller for the fol-

lowing v' months, especially for April

and later.





NUMBEFs OF LAMBS AND SHEEP>

N





FEED SHRINK.





HERE were around 40,000 less



lambs and sheep on feed for mar-



ket on December 1 this year than

on the same date last year in the corn

belt and in the feeding areas of the

western and Pacific states, according

to the estimate of the United States

Department of Agriculture, issued re—

cently by Verne H. Church, agricul-

tural statistician, and L. Whitney Wat-

kins, commissioner of agriculture. The

estimated numbers are 5,200,000 this

year and 5,240,000 last year, and the

decrease is less than one per cent.



Both the corn belt and western reg-

ions showed small decreases, the for-

mer from 2,903, 000 head to 2, 893, 000,

and the latter from 2,332 000 to 2,:

307,000 individual states in both reg-

ions however, showed considerable

changes.



Of the corn belt states all east of

the Mississippi had fewer on feed than

last year, except Wisconsin, and there

were 60, 000 head less in feed yards

adjacent to Chicago, only 22,000 this

year, 1,724,000 this, and 1 H613 000 last.

of states as a whole had 122,000 head

less than last year.



The corn belt states west of the riv-





   

 

 





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December and January and more

utter February, with belt a

plies moving a little es and



em supplies somewhat later. Last year

the slaughter in December and Jana:-

ary was the largest in repent yearn.





VETERINARY. -

Tuberculosia—J five





have pig

months 0111 that breathes much the

same as a horse which has heaves.





 





She is short of breath, been in pasture '





with three other pigs, they are fleshy,

she is thin.

might have tuberculosis? And do you

believe she will ever be well? L. E.

P. Harbor Beach, Mich. -——She might

perhaps have tuberculosis affecting the

throat, or bronchial glands; however,

you had better keep her in separate

pen, feed her well, and if at the end

of thirty days she does not grow and

lay on flesh—destroy her.



Contagious Abortion—Stifle Lame-

ness. —-—I have a fine bull that has serv-

ed cows which had aborted. Do you

believe breeding him to my sound

heifers likely to infect them? I also

have a. fine three-yea1-old colt that has

stifle trouble, for some time I could

hear the joint snap, but up to lately

he showed no lameness. . C.

Yale, Mich. ——It was formerly thought

that the chief mode of transmission

was through the services of an infect-

ed bull or by a healthy sire serving

an infected dam, and later covering

a. healthy cow; however, recent ex~

periments discredit this method of dis-

semination. The most dangerous

source is through the digestive tract,

the feed becomes contaminated and is

taken up by susceptible animals. The

writer believes you will run little risk

in using your bull for breeding pur-

poses, but of course, don’t knowingly

allow him to serve diseased cows, then

shortly serve your heifers and cows.





SAVE YOUR MAPLE TREES '





Earn money by making maple syrup. -

Great demand for quality product. .





CHAMPION EVAPORATOR





Produres finest;

quality. Saves

fuel and

Pays for

itself in n 001191.

of seasons—lasts

for many years.

Sap Spou t

Tanks. Full "Line

of sum Ilsk- .

er'a Supplies.





Champion Evaporator 1:11., Hudson, Ohio





 





 





 

 

   

 

 





, for tree ill.



catalog and

m e n t i on

how manp

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For Best Results, Ship Direct to





DETROIT BEEF CO.,

Detroit, Mich.





DRESSED CALVES

DRESSED HOGS

SUCKLING PIGS

LIVE POULTRY



DRESSED POULTRY





 





Write for Free Shippers’ Guide





 





t‘lsinz miscellaneous articles {or sale or exchange

It claimed rates,





mtive insertions 6 cents a word.

display type or illustrations admitted





Minimum charge. 10 words.





 





CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINdfl





This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers.

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.





or in display columns at commercial rate‘s.



ates 8 cents a word. each insertion, on orders for less than four insertions; for four or more

Count as a word each abbreviation,

“Remittance must accompany order.

Real estate and live stock advertlslng have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.





Try it for want ads and for adver-

Poultry advertising will be run in this department





initial or number. No





 





will «rite ,

idifferently thitn- last year’ s, with fewer





 





. * f ‘ 'ronacco. Che 11-1115.

. citing 5.111141% 'ren . Pay

. ‘ mend recipe tree. Farmer-3’ Union.P





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SEEDS





film-New Crop "KansasW'Alflifl-S



M... inc Sweet Clover, Bed Clover. CAlslk

MI. Cane, Katrir, Millets.



Cu has.t,P1-ices 1311 Free.

«he and samples and Save easy.

00,. Salomon, Kansas.





CERTIFIED Wolverine Oats. Certlil w ”o

A. .Cook. 0wosso.Mi 0‘





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PET STOCK

FOB WEI-ole- lama-d1” We,





Bloodhound:

w-hmkn: puppies of all Needs: no m

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vanes. data C. 0. D. Sta-1p r .

Knack. Hm Pa.

FERRETS—I specialize in raising ferrets Thi





years' experience. November prices. females $3. 50 each:

males :2. 75 each. One dozen 830. Yearling females

special rat catchers $5. 00 each. Will ship C. 0. D.

astruction book free. Levi Famsworth. New



NO





 





PEDIGREED AIREDALES~Tw0 dnoioe male Imps 5

mo. old. One female 16 mo. old. Frank Aldrich.

Saranac, Mich.





HUNTING BOUNDs—Feeds. Medicines.





Supplies.

Catalogue. Kennel Journal, Herrick k. Ills.





POULTRY





PURE- BRED utility Light Brahma (‘ockerelshbred

to lay, $4.00 each. Satisfaction guarantocd. The'

first order for two or more cockerels will l‘t‘lt‘lifl one

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

before Jan. 1. Milfoni K. Davies, Ceresco. Mich.





WANTED—every week





 





 





10. 000 broilers and fryer-s.

weight 1% to 21bs. Also fat hens Will my good

price for these birds. Write for partiullars to East

(cast Poultry CO., 700 Alfred St” Detroit, Mich.





 





I’FKIN. Rouen. Muscovey Ducks, $5.00 Trio. All

leading varieties geese.turkeys.(h1(kensbantams.

Polish Guineas. Bull 8: Fox Terrier Pups & Old





Dogs. J <>P Burnside, Judson. Ind.





 





CO(.‘ REBELS-Hens, Geese, Ducks, Turkeys; all prin-

31111111: breeds. State Farms Assooiation, Kalamazoo,

1c





 





“TAN( RED” WHITE LEGHORNS—Bufl' Orpingtons,

Barred Rocks. State Fair Winners. Geese. Guineas.





Fenner Bailey, Montgomery, Mic.h





 





\VHI'N‘

direct.

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YVY. iNDOT’I‘E C0(‘ le' R] LSHRegal Dorcas

Range raised. Guaranteed. $3. 00 and $5. 00.

H. Conboy, Cheboy gan, Mich.





 





BARRED ROCK (‘OPKERELS—Thompson Strain, $3

to $5.11ar1v Goodfellow. Sparta. Mich.





 





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t k “'l'ANDOTTE COCKERI‘ LSEHigli quahty

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Howard Grant, Marshall, Mich





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FOR SALE—S. C. Buff Leghorn cockerels. Willard

Webster. Bath, Mic h.





TURKEY'S





MIC IIIG. \N’S Bl ST Gilnt Bronze turkms. Strong.

health} birds. 10 years brooding from America's best

strains. Satisfaction guaranteed. N. Emlyn Rams-

dell, lonia. Mich.





 





 





TURKlle—«M. Bronze B. Red, Nairagansett, White





 





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

early “alter Bros. Powhatan Point.



PUlll‘J-BRED Giant. Bronze Turkeys. Big-boned.-

young tlloroughbreds. Mrs. Millie Dillsworth. North





Star, Mich.





 





PURF- BRED Mammoth Bronze Turkeys.

birds from choice stock. Mrs.

donia, Mich.





tins largo

Ralph Sheik, Cale.





PURII- BRID Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Unrelated.

Some like birds from choice slim ted StOCk. Nelson

Snider, 802 l’ctoskey St. Pctoskty, 1111.11.





 





 





PURF- BRICD Mammoth Bronze Turkeys.





toms and

hens. luarl 8: Male l’hclps,D0wuxl.11-,





Mich.





1 PURE- BRED Giant Bronze Tu1keys.





Largo. Vigorous

Birds, choiw .117 11‘. J. Love,





Blomningdult‘, \Ilch.





*MAMMOTII BRONZE TURKIJYS —'3”\11) line stock.

1 Mrs. Eugene llamsdell, Hanmer, Mich.





" NARRAGANSlC’l‘T Turkeys.





 





Prices right. higher after





 





 





'Jan. 1. Erna-st, ("lenu-nt. loniu. Mich.

FOE SALIl- luxe hrcd Bourbon Red Turkeys. H. O.

Ruggles, Miltorrl, \lllh.



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* PURE— BRED large White Holland tu1keys.’1‘0ms $8.





and hens $7. Darwin Dean, Milford Mich.





 





 





One Four 0110 Four

times w times

82.40 as. . . . . 53.0! 50.24



2.64 2'! ........ 3.15 5.48

3.58 28 . . . . . 8.24 5.12

3.12 :9 6.95

3.88 7.30

8.00 l.“

8.“ 1.58

4.0! 7.98

4.3! 5.15

4.56 I.“

4.80 8.64

5.06 8.58

5.35 9.12

5.5! 9.36

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dlmntiauana order:





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- REAL ESTATE





 





 





8500 SECURES mm FARM and B

.Eome—Here you get good team. cows owsto turmsh

milk and butter. sow and 10 piss for pork and lard.

Gus from poultry, oats. corn. bu, potatoes.

tables. etc. to heap your table with wholesome tend:

flmnurSnood 18acresrlchleveltlllage,

-m. notes wire Lenses woodland.





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





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“meanest ‘-

8500 needed. Scenic-





(‘ALIFORNIA STATE LAND BOARD has a. number i





of desirable irrigated farms of twenty and fortv acres

in San Joaquin Valley for sale to hona fldc farmers

on 30% years’ tinie.‘ Complete irrigation system. Price

per acre varies amording to location. F116 per cent

of purchase priue payable when deal is made: re-

mainder in semi- -annual installments extending mer

period of 36% years, with 5 per cent interest annuallx,

Your opportunity to munire a farm in wintcrlcss Cal-

ifornia. All deciduous fruits profitably grown: alfalfa

is a paying crop. Ideal conditions for stock and poul—

try. Good schools and unsurpasscd roads. Fruit

associations market your crops, relieving you of mar-

keting problems. You can farm all year in California.

Splendid opportunities here for the man of moderate

means. State Board's pamphlet, also Santa. Fe illus—

trated folder describing San Joaquin Valley. mailed

free on request. C. L. Seagraves. General Coloniza-

tion Agent. Santa Fe Rm. 912 Railway Exchange.

Chicago, Ill.





 





FOR SALF—220-ac1'e farm in Jackson CO., on state

101111.100 acres heavy loam sell 40 acres heavy oak

timber, remainder mowing Fmarsh and pasture. Ad-

dress Box 405, Man Farmer. .





MISCELLANEOUS





HUNTEB- TRADER- TRAPPEB. an illustrated month-

,tranplng and fishing lore. written

by the rulersth selves. To introduce it. a regular

25 cent copy willm be sent for only 10 cents. to cover

1119. i.ling Aisoth reesood outdoor books, The Coon-

hcuml, ” "Wilderness Trappcr" and “ 'Cooning With

W.” 81. 00 each postpaid. Hunter-Trader-Trap-

per, Dept. 53. Columbus. Ohio. U. S. A.





 





 





THICK—4338 101319.13. em

Self- starter. Electric Limits, Closed .Cab. Platform

.‘ Good tires and in good mechanical condition





~. free sample case odor.





 





 





INCUBATORS

"SWAP” your little old incubator 1‘01 “New Ohio"

quality hatcher. Hutch bigger hatches—hatch better





('llltkfi. Get a. bigger, better machine. Unusually low

prices now and liberal allowance for y'.ouis 1131.250.

400. 000.800.1200 1800 81:8 sizes. No bettoi ma.

chines—few as good Best guarantee. Big illustrated

folder [rises full particulars. Geo. J. Wettschurack.

Lafa1'.ette Ind.





 





AGENTS WANTED





 





OPPORTUNITY to make money during winter. Farm-

er with rig in each county wanted to advertise and

sell our well known products to homes. Interesting

work, big pay, ex<lusivo territory. Good chance for

promotion to our regular traveling sales force. Klein

Chocolate Company, Inc. Ellzabethtown, Pa.





AGENTS—Be independent, make big profit with out

«can, toilet articles and household necessities.

lo—Ro-Co.. 1161 Dealer. 8:.

Louis. Mo.





BIG MONEY Selling New Household Cleaning Set.

Washes and dries windows. Sweeps. Scrubs. mops.

All complete only $8. 95. Over half profit. Write

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





 





 





 





HELP WANTED





 





I WANT a middle-aged, honest. practical w

impaled l to operate 801. ram.



cum required. W111 give as" share. a. 11. 313111118.

Gene-see B11nk.Fllnt, Mich.





 





 





'7!!an “I“! horses5oo

mammal we. Mowing;





 





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EXPERTTTNPED mung man on 80-11ch farm. Work

the r-eai round. Non- cigarette smoker prderred. For

particulars write Box 305. Michi nan Farmer. Detmit.
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7 29'

£323





timergy





e Largest Operator of H ”





' oUsANDs of'jobs are open, paying from $10520 to ,s

" $5.00 a month on salaries---and the sky is the limit





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if you go into business for yourself.





McSweeny Trained Men

Are in Demand





A man who has completed my training





‘ finds the doors of the automobile, tractor and





battery business open to him. ' “McSweeny

Trained” means a real job at real money.

Thousands of my former students who now

own their own business won’t hire any but

McSweeny Trained men. They know!





Be an Auto Expert





Ordinary garage mechanics make good

money. After 8 weeks in any of my schools

you’ll be in a position to make more money

than you ever dreamed of before you read

this announcement.





FREE Railroad Fare

and FREE Board! _





In order to fill the openings that now exist,

I am making an offer no one has ever made

before—FREE RAILROAD FARE to my

nearest School. Free Board—and that’s not

all either. I’ll tell you about the rest in my

letter.





Decide TODAY

The right decision today will start you on

the road to Success—to big pay jobs—to be-





ing your own boss. The wrong decision will

leave you in the ranks of the underpaid!

Make the right decision now—today. Fill

in the coupon and mail it'at Once.





McSWEENY





 





 





 





 





$86,000 Made Last

' Year By a McSwee'n

Trained Man ‘





A. J. Beall, Jr., ,Morgantoyvn, _ ‘

$86,000.00 last year With his garagezandser-

vice station. . .



McSweeny Training.

George W. Smith, of W. Alexandria, Ohio,



makes over $800.00 a month. Thousands "of



others are making from $50 to $150 a week.





Aren’t You as Good as They Are?





Would you admit to anyone, even to your-

self, that these men are any better than you

are ? I know them—and I’ll bet they aren t—





the only difference is that they know how.





Spend eight weeks in either

of my two big training shops

and I’ll teach you the same

things that have made these

men big money makers. ”





“Get This Big Book





FREE!





My big illustrated training book

tells how others are succeeding.

Write for it and my special offer

NOW. Write to the nearest School.





Now Is ,the Time





Right now during the Winter months is the

time to start. This Spring will show more

automobiles to be repaired—~more jobs;—

real “bossing” jobs than ever before. The

first step is to send the coupon.





Special Home Study

Course





If you can’t come into my school right now,

you’ll be interested in my Home Study

Course—Abe only one backed by years of ex~ x.

perience operating THREE BIG SCHOOLS!





 





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