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Buick Factories : (comment to: to or added. Ad about the G. M. A. C. Purchau Plan, which provide: for Deferred Payments. 'o'of the ~ C030 as BUICK [builds ' it Everyone who has seen the Coach a: Buick build; it knows why t/zz'r Coach has received‘. such sweeping public approval. The Buick Coach is a real closed car—built to Buick’s high closed—car standards. Fisher body. Graceful lines. Two wide doors, hinged at the front, enable rear-seat passen ers to enter or leave either door without dist rbing people in front seats. Duco finish. Different colors for each of the‘two coach models. \ “WWW“."\\"\\\\lh\\\\\x\\\. ' ii ,-: it Willa _ \ The chassis! The identical chassis that has won Buick wérld—recognition for dependability and economy! Valve—in-head engine. Buick exclu- sive automati'c heat control for immediate all—weather starting. All driving units red/ed . in iron and steel housings to keep dirt out and lubrication in. Buick 4—wheel Brakes which function perfectly in any weather. And the price! Never before, a closed car of such fine quality at such low cost! There are the reasons for thepheno’menal success of the Coach as Buzcé out/d; zt‘! BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN Dii'irlon of Canard! filotorl Corporation Pioneer Builders Branches in All of Valve—in-Head Motor Cars Principal Clues—Dealers Everywhere Canadian Factories.- McLAUGHLIN-BUICK, Orhauu. Ontario in WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM . Write for my free Guide Books "How to Obtain a Patent" and “invention and Industry” and "Record of Invention" blank before disclosing inven- tions. Bend model or sketch of your invention for in structions. I’rompmcss assured. No (-liargo for above information. Clarence A. O'Brien, Regingred Patent Lawyer. 657 Security Bank Building, directly across street from Patent Office. Washington. D. C. NEW LAMP BURN 94% AIR Beats Electric or Gas A new oil lamp that gives an amaz-i ingly brilliant, soft, white light, even better than gas or electricity, has been . tested by the U. S. Government and 35 leading universities and found to be superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It burns without odor, smoke or noise—— no pumping up, is simple” clean, safe. Burns 94% air and 6% common kero- sene (coal oil). The inventor, J. 0. Johnson, 609 W. Lake 2811., Chicago, “L, is offering to send a lamp on 10 days’ FREE trial, or even to give one FREE to the first .user in each locality, who will help mm introduce it. Write him today for full particulars. Also ask him to ex- plainhow you can get the agency, and without experience or money make $250 to $500 per month. Reliable Fruit Trees Guaranteed to Grow Seeds, 3-4 ft. .Applc Trees 25". 34h Pouch Trees 200 ear-h Postpaid. Growers ol‘ Fruit Trees. Berry l‘lunts, Sln'ubbcry and Grape Yinos. Send for 1925 Catalog today. ALLEN'S NURSERIES 8. SEED House; Geneva. 0. SAW YOUR ,,OWN LUMBER with a Howell Portable Saw Mill. Turn your standing timber into high price building lumber at the mere cost of sawing. Big demand for lumber, lath and shingles. Keep your engine busy the year round makmg ' ‘ tor our nei hbors. ‘ Big Money In Custom Sawnng Ewing“ m 118m " made in sevora lsizea suitablelor tractors of any 81 e. Also Edgera, Planers. Lath and Shingle machines. Write [or free Cat: 9, 8-8. B. R_. HOWELL & (20., Mfrs. a... HAMILTON ‘ Blue 22 Calibre Sure Shot Hamlllon Rllld .isrtivoly givun for selling a few Beautllul Artfi lop: Pictures at 100 each. We mail you free initial order of 0 pictures. Send no money—Just name and address. GAIR MFG. CO. DEPT. 60-6l CHICAGO, ILL-i Minneapolis, Minn. r ”— TREiES from Kalamazoo DIRECT to you---at reduced prices Also shrubs. berries. and Roses. Beautiful 1925 . ’ catalog sent free upon request. Full of big ’l‘hgsrclore. you cannot afford to_be.w1thout this bargains rind tells a ut stock to be given or‘ pg. lthllrut your tree bill in two. Ask away. Everybody shou plant this spring. ' .t today--NOW--nghtaway. CELERY. CITY N URSERIES, Growe s of Good Trees for Many Years. Box 208, Kalamazoo, Michigan _ It is a patriotic as well as a profitable duty. . MAY'rMAKE LONG-RANGE WEATH. ER FORECASTB. A NOTABLE advance in long dis- tance weather forecasting was made during the past year. This is due to a better understanding of the correlation of the sun to"weather on the earth, according to Dr. Abbot, in charge of 'the astrophysical depart~ ment of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian scientists have been studying for a long time the the- ory that by the sun radiation method accurate long distance weather fore- casts could be made." The-"y have been led to believe that there is a direct re- lation between solar radiation and the weather, but the laws governing it are not yet sufficiently established to war rant definite conclusions. - TWO MWEATING TUBERCULOSIS. .. HE scientists report that two new ~methods of treating tuberculosis recently discovered give much encour- agement to those- who are studying ways of combatting this scourge. One is a. vaccine discovered by Dr. Ca1- mette, of the Pastuer Institute. It is administered to children of diseased parents as a preventative. The other is a serum discovered by a Danish doctor who reports a high percentage ' of cures. SUGAR, FROM JERUSALEM ARTI. CHOKES. ‘HE sugar industry may be revolu- é» tionized by an investigation con« ducted by Dr. Frederick Bates, at the , Bureau of Standards, which has re- sulted in the production of sugar from Jerusalem artichokss. This sugar, which is known as levulose, is much sweeter than cane sugar, and it is claimed that it can be produced at a lower cost. The one difficulty in pro- ducing this sugar in .3 commercial form is its propensity to gather and absorb moisture. If this disadvantage can be overcome, it is believed that lox'ulose sugar can be put 011 the mar- ket in competition with other forms of sugar. Artichokes yield enormously and when once planted are difficult to eradicate. ON MlCHIGAN’S DAIRY HONOR ROLL. NE of Michigan’s greatest produc- ing dairy cows root’ntly completed another record which gives her the honor of holding more state champion- ship butter records than any: other cow in the state. She is Traverse ;(Jolantha \Valker, a pure—bred Holstein, in the herd of the State Hospital at "ravm‘se City. By completing a'thii‘ly— day strictly official record roéently at eight years of age. with 3,148.9 pounds of milk containing 125.19 pounds of butter-fat, equivalent to 156.48 pounds of butter, this cow now holds eight of the highest records ever made in Mich- igan and two of the leading records in the United States. ‘ In addition to the thirty-day record finontioned, Traverse Colantha W’alker :holds the highest state records for seven days as a. senior two and senior it'our-year-old, for thirty days as a son- ior l'our-year—old, and’ for ten months as a senior two, senior three, senior four—year—old full-age cow. Her senior two-yoar—old production of 125.34 pounds of butter in thirty days and her ten months’record of 914.1 pounds of butter made at the same age hairs never been equaled by any cow in these classes in America. Memory is the treas‘urer to whom we mdst give funds, if we would‘draw the assistance we need—Rowe. 4 , 1 ‘fl WV‘ ' ' " “’1. \- -\ we, ."f: t": 2’ «a .._ .......,,m« ‘ ropean trip. MICHIGAN ’_ - I ' . I trauma cnxnx ' 1/ ~ . 957’ ED WEEKLY. A Practical Journal for the Rural Family “ICHIGAN SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS QUALITY RELIABILITY SERVICE NU MBER TWO ’Whata Michigaflder Secs Abroad Many T fling: Came to tfle Attention of One, in Mating His first 7%,!) Overseas By M. M. McCool .' S EVERAL years‘ ago while working on ‘my father’s farm, as is cus- tomary with most American boys, I had certain ambitions. Some of these have been realized, butt of course, the majority of them have not. One of these, however, was accom- plished recently. I had the desire at that time and have had since to visit . foreign countries and obtain first-hand information as to the way" other peo- .«w The writer and wife taking a turn about the great and interesting pyra- mids near Cairo, Egypt. One23 has a splendid View of the Nile Valley from the top of the great pyramid. The base of this one covers thirteen acres. It IS said that 100,000 slaves built it and some of the huge stones used in its construction were transported sev- eral hundred miles. The guide is on the camel to the writer’s left. The two Arabs in the foreground have charge of the camels. Riding a camel is not unlike riding in a row boat on a rough sea; however, when one learns the trick it is not bad. ple live, character of the land, meth- ods of farming, and other points of interest. Several months ago a good opportu- nity presented itself for making a Eu- Some years back, the soils workers of the world formed themselves into an international or- ganiiation. 'A soils congress was held ’, in Rome, Italy, at the headuarters of the International Institute of Agricul- ture during the month of May. Inas- much as I was privileged to serve as a delegate from Michigan, this afforded me 'an opportunity to meet numerous men from different countries, who are working in this line of agriculture, as well as an opportunity to make obser- vations that I desired to make. The countries visited include in order, France, Egypt, Palestine, Italy, Swit- zerland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, England, Scotland and Ireland. It is probable that each of these countries has one or more stories that may be of interest to the readers of this paper. Not Easy to Leave the U. S.,A. When one begins to-inquire as to the methods of procedure in leaving this country for foreign lands he is likelylto be surprised at the things he has to do, to board the ship on which he is to sail. It is not as simple a mat- ter as taking one’s baggage, going to the 1ailway station and boarding a tram One of the first things a person is obliged to do is to get in touch with his county clerk and explain to him Why the trip is to be made, and swear that he is not going to bring the U. S. A. into disrepute by any indiscreet ac- tions while abroad. Of course, part of the program is relatively easy. One is required to furnish a photo- graph- of himself and wife, if she is to accompany him, although, it is well to note that, the wife is not consider- ed ‘after the photograph has been fur— nished to the clerk. Officially, she is a nonentity but financially, such is not the case as we soon discovered. The county clerk makes application to the Secretary Of State, Washington, D. 0., who decides whether or not you this 4 are entitled to depart. Before leaving one is also asked to obtain what is called a Visa from the embassy of the country in which he is first to land. It is also a matter of proper procedure to determine when and on what ship the sailing is to-be made. One might be able to obtain a passage if he were to go to a dock at a seaport town on the same. day that he a1111 cs 01 he might be obliged to wait sev eia‘. weeks. Thus it is advisable to determine the date of sailing of several vessels and plan the trip to the seaport town ac- cordingly. After all these preliminary arrange- ments were made, the wife and 1 ar- rived at, the dock in New York City. Upon arrival We were somewhat sur~ prised at. the efficient way in which the passengers and baggage were handled. I obseiv ed that one s baggage was tak- en in chaige by 8111 ndants, placed up- on a moving stairway, which took it up several stories above the street level, and the passengers were con- ducted in another direction 'without confusion. When our passports were examined for the Visa, etc, we were permitted to go aboard the. vessel, be- ing conductxd to the stateroom which we were to occupy at intervals during the voyage. The steamship on wliich’weusailed was the Belgenland, a vessel of 27,000 tons. It was about 675 feet long and on this voyage. carried more than 900 passengers and in addition one hun— dred thousand bushels of wheat for Liverpool. w‘Some Larder Needed. Soon after we had proceeded on our way we were assigned places in the dining-room, by the dinin~room stew- ard, which we occupied at; meal time when we were in condition to do so. I was interested in the agricultural side of this voyage, namely, the feed- ing of this lot of people. I soon real- ized that this vessel was taking the equivalent of a medium-sized town without additional supplies for a. pe- riod of about nine days. I do not re- call the number of dozen cases of or- anges, the number of rolls and the amount of meat, fish, etc., that they had on board when the vessel left the harbor. One point; of interest to me was how they captured the fresh fish. Every Raily Station in the Nile Valley, Show- ing Latest Styles in Men’s Dress, Also the Type of Architecture. day fresh fish of various kinds were listed on the menu, and after one;- has been away from land for nearly ten days he begins to wondvr 311st what the term “fresh" means, (probably Einstein’s relativity applies here), and if they \Vtrl‘O taken enroute, j‘uet how this thing was accomplished. Fresh eggs were also included in the list, but inasmush as they were not fresh whm we started from the port, a week or two’s time did not make much difference. Rolls were served at. (Continued on page 34). Economic Prospects of the New Year 'Tée‘ Following 1': a Statement 0:00” tfle Grimm! Oat/oat for tfle Ymr1925 By Herbert Hoover ture must be simply a weighing of the economic and political forces in motion. The annual survey of the department of commerce shows that the New Year begins with the q FORECAST of the business fu- - economic structure of the weild upon more Solid foundations than at any time since the war. With the exception of a few spots of secondary importance there has been during the past year a real ad- vance toward “social, economic, and po- litical stability throughout the world. The only exceptions are Russia and China, which even before the war con- tributed less than three and one-half per cent of international commerce and, of course, a part of this contin- ues. Generally the world is producing more goods, there is fuller employ- ment, there'are higher standards of living, more assurance of economic stability for the future and more prom- ise of peace than we have seen for many years. The world is by no means free from liability to economic shock, . /" yet the forces today in motion all tendt to great promise for the forthcoming: year. " In our own country the outstanding economic development of the year has been the very large recovery in agri— culture after its two-year lag behind the recovery of industry. The farmers have a large measure of losses in the last three years yet to recover, but their outlook is encouraging. There are some secondary difficulties still re- maining, particularly in the cattle in- dustry and the effect of the sub—normal corn crop; but the prices of all farm products are gradually moving toward the general average of commodity prices. This improvement in prices of farm products has been paralleled with some decrease in the prices of many industrial commodities. such as fuel, building materials, metals, etc., so that there has been little change in the average of allkprice levels, and’ thus the farmer’s purchasing power is being remedied in both directions. While there has been a good deal of adjustment in prices of single com— modities during the year, the average wholesale price of all commodities has varied but three per cent as between the ends of‘the years 1922, 1.23 and 1924. It would thus appear that we are tending to the common level in prices of about fifty per Cent over pre- war, which swms to represent at least our present economic plane in prices. The average wage industry has been stable during the last year, and re— mains around 100 per Cent above pre- war, while the cost of living has in- creased almost exactly the same level at the end of each of the last three yeais, 1922, 1923 and 1924, about sev- enty- -two per cent over pre—war. Our labor, therefore, continues to enjoy the highest'real wage in its history. There was some unemployment in the middle‘ of the year but it has now been largely overcome. While there has been some slacken— ing of manufacturing production as a whole in the spring, due in part; to the uncertaintivs of election and in part 10 reduction of accumulated stocks, yet there was but little slackening at any time in 'consumption of major arti- cles as shown by the continued high levels of car loadings. of sales of wholesale and retail establishments and of construction activities. The end of the your finds us with a recov- ered industrial production at practi- cally the. same levels as a year ago. Two indust.ries—~textiles and north- ern soft coal~have lagged in :recov- ery. The textiles are suffering in part from sharp competition of foreign im- ports, and in part from shift in ma: tional habits. An improvement may be looked for in the forthcoming year. The condition of the bituminous coal industry in the northern states is un- satisfactory owing to the unusually (Continued on page 36). filhhed Weekly Established 1843 fke Lawrence Publishing C0. » Editors and Proprietors 163: ”Fayette Boulevard Detroit. In“ . Telephone Cherry 8384 NEW YORK OFFICE 1 20 w. 42nd St. CHICAGO OFHCE 008 So. Dearborn St. 1 1.1:v1;1-\.\n 011F111: 1011- 1013 Oregon Ave.. N. E PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 261- 263 South Third St. mTHIIB CAPPER ....................... Presi sidea: MARCO Monnow ....v1ue Presld . [PAUL LAWRENCE ............. Vice- President I“. a. NANCE ........ . .......... Secretary i R.WA'1'ERBURY .................. BURT WERMUTH ......... . .......... Alsace-hit! FRANK A. 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Under the Act of March 3,1879 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation NUMBER TWO JAN. 10, 1925 VOLUME CLXIX ' DETROIT, CURRENT COMMENT OW that our state Use The legislature is in session. we are be- Axe In coming a little anx- Taxes ious lest too many of the 111 in.) us may ovv el‘look the “31:0" in 12131.. If ever there was a time when those three middle letters ought to be written in the boldest type of the compositor's case, it is now. All possible. means should be used to make our legislators see “Axc,” not only in their conscious hours but also in thwir sloop. > That combination of lcttcrs ought to be so indelibly improsscd upon the minds of legislators that they should tremble at the thought of introducing any bill proposing to make new drafts upon thc state treasury. With the farmer forced to sell twice as many hogs, 0r bushcls 0f corn, 01' other farm products to meet his eve-1' increasing tax burden, it is not impossible that, if the axe does not cut/(aims in the leg— islature, it is likely to cut votes back home. A proper sense of proportion and propriety is most valuable in the c011- duct of state affairs. Such a sense rcc- ognizes in the superfluous, improvi- dent waste, and yet, it gives to neces- sities their proper place. By applying this sense to their work this scssion, our state law-makers are in a position to nurture hope in the breasts of the over-taxed farmer. LANS announced The by the stall 21d— . ministration call for H13. hway early consideration of Program the state highway program by the legis- lature, which meets this wwk. it is proposed to secure the» passage of a new automobile llCt‘llSt' law, the rev- enue from which will cover thc state highway building program and to givo the same immediate effect, so that it will apply for the current year. Wat that law will be, 01' whether such a law will be passed during the early days of the legislative session is, of yourse, problematical. In principle the plan is sound in that it is based on the “pay as you go” policy, and places the burden of permanent road improvement 011 the motorists who are most concerned in the program. Ccr~ tainly we have gone far enough in bonding future generations for im- provements which will be worn out before they are paid for. But in the Consideration of ways and ‘ 0011mm ms - ' this classification. means for ythe‘ifinancing‘ of "the state highway program, the legislatum would do well ‘to again «consider the~ gas tax as a fair method of distribut- ing this burden; ITnder such 9a levy every motorist would pay in the exact proportion of his use of the. improve-_ ments. Tourists from other states would also pay their just proportion. The tax would be more equitably dis- tributed in accordance with the bene- fits enjoyed than would be the case under any other plan which might be devised. The principle of the distribution of the 00st of an? public service in ac- cordance with the use made of therser- vice is well nigh universal. Improved highways may' properly be placed in It is both just and equitable that their cost should be dis- tributed on this basis. Then there will be a correction of the injustice of levy- ing a burdensome tax and the farms and other property of thestate for the continuation of the state highway pro- gram or the redemption of bonds is- sued for that purpose. The fact that the adoption of this plan, which had the unanimous approv- al of the farmers' organizations of the state, was blocked by the governor two years ago, should not stand in the way of its substitution for a proposed higher license tax at this time, if, as seems probable, it proves to be the most equitable plan advanced for the completion of the state highway pro- gram. VER $45,000,000 is This the price paid by the people of one state COSts To for their ventures in Mac}! poor investments last year. A high percent- age of these failures could have been avoided had those who let go of their money so easily, first conferred with their bankers‘ Your banker may lean to the con- servative side of things, but there are, nevertheless, hundreds and thousands of hopeless paupers who 110w would be enjoying more of the good things of life had they, some time in the past, takcn and followed the advice of those who are in constant touch with the financial world and with all types of investments. I ANY people in— Does sist that educa- . tion does not pay. 'l‘o Education then1,going to college Pay? and to high school is a waste of time. You will usually find that people who take this attitude can refer you to some un- lettcred person, or persons, who has succeeded financially. Such is usually the proof given for taking a position against, higher education. But, is this ploper advice to pass out to the ris- ing gencl ration? It would appear, from a recent study by Dean Everett \V. Lord, of Boston I‘nivcl‘sit)’, that education docs pay. From carcfully collected data, he finds that a four-year high school course has an average value. to the individual of $33,000, while a college or technical school training has a value of $72,000. Dean Lord’s figures show that the untrained man begins work at the av- cragc ago of fourteen and reaches his maximum earning capacity at the age of thirty. He receives on an average an annual income. of less than $1,200. lly the 111110 he is sixty he has earned a total of $45,000. During thc four years that the high school student; de- votes to school work, the average man earns not to exceed $2,000. The high school student starts to work at an average age of eighteen and reaches his maximum income at the age of forty when he is earning $2,200 a. year. By sixty, the high school graduate has earned $78,000. From this it appears that, while sustaining a loss of $2,000 in earnings by attend- ing high school four years, this person makes “a total gain over the untrained man of $33,000. : The manp’tz‘ained Inf «image. or in technical :schoolss-starts work, {131148.11 average, at’the age of twenty-two. He continues to increase his earning ’ca— pacity until theage of sixty, when “he is earning anannual income of $56,000. During his earning years he receives 'in all an average of $150,000, or $72,000 mere than the average high school 'man. The act of completing a. high school or college course by. no means, assures one the respective incomes mentioned. But, as the findings of Dean Lord show, .it greatly increases the chances of men and women to attain these higher returns because it better equips one to render to society a. larger ser- vice. NE of the big 'Religion things discussed In Rural at the recent confer- ., ence on rural life was Life religion, a most dis cussable subject in these changing times. There is no doubt as to the value of religion in life. It is an essential part of life. None of us cancscape it in some form or other, even though we be non- church goers or even non-believers. It is an experience, an emotion which belongs to living, but which is mania fested in various ways. Neither is there any doubt as to the church being the place where the re- iigious side of life is cultured and nourished. But it seems that with the changing rural conditions, many churches have ceased to function, or to fully serve the purposes for which they exist. Therefore, they present a problem. Church activities in general have changed in keeping with the other ac- tivities of lift». The modern church enters more into the social life of the community than it did. It takes part in all the wholesome activities which it: encourages to counteract the many evil inilut-nccs which modern life sup- ports. Thus to a great extent, it has become a social and recreational cen- ter as well as a home for spiritual de- velopment. Religion in its broadest sense is the essence of the goodness of life, so the church in its broadest sense is contributing to religion when it encourages and fostcrs those things which have. Wholesomc effects. Thus, it, was agrcvd at this confer- ence that, the minister should have qualifications as a social onginccr, as well as a spiritual counselor. 'The trend of thought was also that the in- dividual social message should be giv~ en preference. Religious drama was recommended to take a portion of the time usually given to the sermon, and discussion 011 the part of the congre- gation was suggested as a good thing. The rural church has a great field, a great, duty. but it must adjust itself to properly fulfill the requirements rural life places upon it. '1 ‘IE proposed child Child labor law has af- Labor fordcd quite 'a theme for discussion pro and Laws con. On one hand it is said that this amendment would enable congress to eliminate many evils in child labor which now exist \Vhilc 011 the othel, it is said that piohibiting a child to work until s1\lc< 11 01 ightet 11 yet-11s 0f ago would dcprivc him of 0110 of the best trainings he can procure The contenders fo1 this law are g1 eatly aggrieved ove1 the punishment that child lab01 brings upon childhood because of the laxity of law. They do not seem to mesh that timing the last ten or twelve years much has been done to alleviate labor conditions, es pecially with ieference to child labor. In 1912 only tWenty—one states pro- hibned factoay labm of ch11d1 en under fourteen years of age. Today all, the states have prohibitory laws with such age limits. Nearly all states prohibit am one» 111mm won: 111' dark gerous trades, and the states which put 'a limit of ecu hours on child la- ' her of any kind have doubled in the last few years... The famous smart; shop and coal mine evils have been almost-e ntirely done away With. ‘ Furthermore, the mopqsem of this law do not realise that its enforcement would rest almost entirely with state .and local authorities and local senti- ment, unless a very expensive govern- ment machinery was built up. .Then, too, if children are to be under the control of the government until eight- een years "of age, greater effort should be made toward vocational education Protection of mothers and regulation of adult labor ought also to 'be con— sidered. But, as so much of the enforcement of such a. law must be local it has been proposed that, instead of passing a national law, congress should give the District of Columbia what it deems a model child labor law for states to copy from. The President could also call a council of governors for the con- sideration of a minimum standard child labor code to be recommended by them to their states This would be an economical and sensible way to handle this matter. W'm‘er 2'72 ’ I ’M winterin’ to home this year while some 0' my neigthrs is'winterin' in Floridy and such places Jim Hud- son says his stgaw hat is good yet, so be guessed he’d go south to get the. wear outa it.’ I don’t know which is best, ’cause I ain’t never tried Floridy. But I un~ derstand you kin observe the beauties 0’ natshure down there. They do much, just lay around on the beach with nothin’ but their X. Y. Z.’s on, lettin’ the sun shine on them and the sons look at ’em. My neighbors says it's as cheap to winter down there maybe as it is up here. but if you gotta take your cows and chickuns down there, too, it. ain’t so cheap. Be- sides, there’s the workers 0’ the world, them what has ta do their daily duties ta. make a livin’ and ta help keep the world agoin’, they can’t go south and need buttcr’n eggs, and such victuals to keep agoin’. Besides, they say if you live where it’s always warm you get lazy, and I wouldn't get lazy fer nothin’. Sofie just keeps me up he1e in thp winter ta kc”. p me from gettin’ that way and she is talkin’ about goin’ llOIth in the summcitimc fer the same purpose. But, you know all the fun 0’ winter time ain‘t in the south. They don’t know down there what it is ta get under the quilts and sleep and sleep and slccp the sleep 0’ the just, a sleep so deep and comfortin’ that you don’t wanta get up in the momin’. They don’t know what it is ta. get Up in a. cold goose-pimply mornin’ ta stait the fire, so the rest 0’ the family kin dress around the warm stove. They don't know the briskness o' the cold or the comfort 0’ the fire. They don’t appreciate summer ’cause they ain’t had no winter. Seems ta me like life is what the perfcssor calls a matter 0’ contrasts. We gotta have the clouds ta appre- shcate the sunshine and we gotta have it so .hot and dry that we welcome the clouds and rain. So, I‘m winterin’ here ta get one o’ the contrasts 0’ life. I’ve .got the wood cut, the barn banked, the tatcrs cov— 61 ed and myself sewed in fer the win- tel, so Im settin’ pretty fer the win- ter. Me and Sofie and the kids is goin’ ta Set by the file and eat pop corn and apples. Here’s hopin’ the same ta you. HY SY’CKLE. Well, it is, don’t . ‘ . . . .1 . .. “swam“.Wm - . ' "cw-5 O ,~.MM “aim" ‘Z‘ -.4--~. ~_< Jame ‘ . 5‘ f t ,. r . . .1 1. i V i ' .- ”WM urn-15 ~ m-_¢,.n - . er . .a 'x A. ‘Quahty Production Pays v ‘17:: Morehouse Brat/zen Fmd It Doe: tipn of orcharding has been con- fined entirely to the haphazard system practiced by the average farm- ‘ er, a visit. to‘th’e' MorehOuse Orchard, situated on Hamilton Hill, southwest ' of Fenton, Michigan, will be a revela- ' 'dzion indeed. His attention will be ‘cap— titrated at once' by fifty acres of as thrifty, faultlessly-formed, abundantly- bea‘ring apple trees as only constant, ' skillful effort with spraying and trim- : magnitude. ming can produce. The Morehouse - brothers have attempted no innova- ; Ten Cents For Each Wormy Apple. tions in; orcharding, unless persistent, untiring effort along the tried and true lines could be regarded as such. “Our greatest objective during the present year,”, said Burt Morehouse, one of the firm,’ “has been the produc- ing of fifty 'acres of apples with no ,w0rmy specimen among them.” One of a party of visitors that were being piloted through the orchard at the time by Mr. Morehouse was strong- ly inclined to doubt the possibility of accomplishing an achievement of such The problem, he thought, of producing thousands of apples, among which not one sepcimen of fruit would be the abiding place of some home-loving, industrious ' wormlet, ‘would be beyond human accomplish- ment. _ “All right,” said Mr. Morehouse, “for ‘ every wormy apple that you will bring me I will give you a ten—cent cigar.” The doubtful one embraced-"the op— portunity with considerable enthusi- asm, exultantly asserting that a box of ten-cent cigars was just what he had the least of. But at the end of con— siderable search through the orchard { he was obliged to return empty hand- ? ed and ackn wledge contritely the in- ; fertility of his efforts. Later, he ven- 5 tured the opinion that he doubted con- ? is yet young. ‘ a clean, siderably finding an angleworm in the orchard. The Morehouse Brothers have not as yet been obliged to go thoroughly into the sales end of the orcharding proposition. The orchard The estimated produc~ tion of apples for the present. year be— ing about 35,000 bushels, and those will be fully absorbed by customers who will come directly to the farm. ln well-ventilated building the 5 apples are brought and distributed on O'the individual Whose observa-' the sorting tables where a number of women examine each specimen of fruit, carefully grade and polish those selected for the market. The market- able fruit', and there are few culls or seconds, is packed into baskets and stOred away until sold.. Practically all the] standard sorts of apples are being produced in the Morehouse orchard. Burt Morehouse states,,however, that he considers the Delicious superior to any other apple. The ‘ old standards, like the Spys, Greening and \Vealthy, always have a ready market. Mr. Morehouse finds the Ontario, a cross between the Wag- ener and Spy, a favorite with many. —Greeley Everitt. COLLECTION OF FRUIT MODELS. FOUR thousand specimens of fruit and vegetables, done in wax, have been placed on exhibition by the office of horticultural investigations of the department of agriculture. There is also being shown 1,000 free-hand water color paintings from life of fruits, flowers and vegetables, as well as pho— tograplrs, used in the identification, classification and descriptive Work of the bureau. Lantern slides are shown of the fruit and vegetable industry and of home plots before and after being beautified by landscape gardening. L. C. Corbett, senior horticulturist in charge, says the wax models and draw- ings represent products obtained in all parts of the [’nited States and posses- sions, and t'orm the finest and largest collection of this nature to be found in the country. GROWING PLANTS IN BOXES -EA.RLY HAVE had splendid success grow- ing tomato and pepper plants in boxes in the 'house‘ but I have had them prove of little or no value at other times, and it depends very much on the care they get. If we aim to grow them for a short time in the boxes and transplant direct from them into the garden harden them off very carefully they will not make a good start and we gen- erally gain but little, if at all. If we will start them in February, or even in January, and will pot them up or transplant to other boxes, gixing them good growing room, and then harden them some by putting outside night and day when the weather is not bad, they will make large plants by setting out. time that will bear for a long time before ordinary plans. I have had pot- ted tomatoes in full bloom when I set them out and they grew with hardly a lcheck.~Agnes Hilco. Timothy ‘McCann bought some pop in Port Huron and started for Canada. On the way he suddenly screamed he, The porter said to neverl was blind. mind, they were just going through the Grand Trunk tunnel. —Sunshine Hollow. unless we want 10, SAN l <--—~——————— TEAR HERE -4—————————- 'ssgnsg: _ ’ .lBrnnpmseuilhnumunil 7/10 Leading Amel'imn Seed Catalog THIS is the catalog that tells the plain truth about the Best Seeds That Grow. It describes the Burpee Quality Seeds. Market growers and florists use Burpcc’ s Annual as a rcfcrcncc book, and still it is so interesting and easy to read that a million amateurs use it as their ga rdcn guide. Burpcc 8 Annual 13 the most popular sccd catalog. Every variety of seed oflcrcd 1n Burpcc’ 8 Annual is grown on the Burpcc Seed Farms, or by our experienced growers in other‘parts of the world. lurch variety of seed lS grown where it matures most nearly to perfection. And all sccd sold by Burpcc is tested twice in our famous Ford- hook Trial Grounds. Burpcc’s Seeds are tested and Guaranteed. If you are interested in gardening Burpee’s An- nual Will be mailed to you free. We want you to sow Burpee’s seeds. FREE SAMPLE. First write for a free (.opy of Burpce 5 Annual; then look through the book and sclnt a rcgulrr101 pac Let of :1nv tractable 01 Son (‘1' seed entirely free, and we will mail it to you postp ritl. 771i: free oflér 1: made to gel new automerr for Euchre J‘ 15?ch and 1: good only until dizzy 1,1925. VV. ATLEE .BURPEE CO. Seed Growers Philadelphia. Send me a copy of Burpee’s Annual with order sheet good for a free 10c packet of Burpee’s Seeds. ‘ p-21 ' Name 50......-IIOIIIIOaaoooloun ....... g..g..... R. D. or Street PO State.................. 1 ~ \- ' ~--.very bad TRESPASSINQ. -':i-"A:.has his farm alongside railroad. £3 [has farm on other'side of railroad abreast of A.’s land. B. has pasture on his landalongside the railroad. Railroad company keeps the fences in ‘ shape. B.’s cattle break ‘éthrough and bother A.’s crops. Does B. have to pay damages?—J. S. K. " B. .is- liable for any trespassing done by his stock on the land of any per- .son other than an adjoining owner .with'_whom he has a line fence of which his part is in good repair. The 'duty of the railroad company to keep vup the fence is no defense to B.’s lia- tbility.—R00d. CONVERTING A CELLAR INTO AN ICE HOUSE. I have an old beet cellar under my barn floor, which I would like to turn into an ice house, it it would be prac- ticable. On one side is a stable and .on the other side a halt—basement, ~ex—, tending about three teet below the 7floor. The pit is about ten feet square and nine feet deep, with solid stone :wall. The sub-soil is light sandy, grav- elly ground. How could I arrange ventilation and 'how far ‘up into the barn would ventilators need-to extend? C. In such a cellar as you have describ~ ed, with a light sandy soil, the drain— age problem is already solved. A fill of six inches ol‘ gravel or Cinders would be advisable to insure against a possible puddling directly beneath the ice cakes. Had water ever stood in a cellar of this type, it would be neces- sary to provide tile drainage. Materials used for insulation may be straw, sawdust, mill shavings or cork and fiber sheets. Straw is the least efficient and should be chopped. Saw- dust, il' kept dry, is a good insulator and usually is easy to get. Mill shav- ings are more porous than sawdust and hold more air to a given volume, but are not so easily secured. For the above mentioned. a tWelve to eighteen- inch pack around the sides is neCes- sary with one and one-halt to two feet on top. Commercial insulation, such as cork 01' fiber sheets are eilicienl‘ and easily handled. The initial price is greater but they are ot‘ a more perma- nent nature, and in a small storage would take up much less spaCe which could be used for ice. The ice pack should exclude all the air possible. It is only neCessary to have a circulation of air above the it.- when heat is conducted through the root. Under your conditions the air above the ice would not be warmed, and conseqm‘ntly no need exists to remove it. However, should the neces— sity arise, a small screen opening from the. outside on each endVol~ the cellar under the sills would give the neces~ sary circulation, or an iron grate, two square feet, in the floor above the crl lar would ansWer the purpose. Allowing a foot of pack on four sides and two feet on top, a 9x10x10-Tom storage would hold approximately eight tons of ice. Thirty to fifty per 'cent is usually lost. due to shrinkage, which would leave tour to six and one- half tons for use—A. J. tlalligher. A DAIRY RATION WITH CULL BEANS. I would like your adViCe on_a ration for my cows. 1 have corn silage, al- l'all'a, and bean pods tor roughage. I will not feed many bean pods. For grain I have ground oats, barley, and want to brind cull beans. How many parts of each must I take. Is the ra- tion rich enough in protein. or wound it pay me to add cottonseed or_01l meal at the present price of butter—tat? “—«Il‘. M. B. / _ If you feed thirty pounds of silage. twelve pounds of alfalfa and five pounds of bean pods for your rough— age it will giVe you 1.85 pounds of pro- tein in the roughage part of the ra- mq umes Igned Letters tion. It youmix oats, barley and cull beans in equal parts you will «get .13‘ pounds of protein in every pound of grain you feed. A cow givin‘g forty pounds ofrthree and one-half per cent milkdoes not require more than ten pounds of grain. That would give her over/three pounds of protein which is aliberal supply. If you haven't sufficient alfalfa to feed that amount, you could cut down on this a little with no particular det- riment. Or you could put less beans into your grain ration. It would not seem to be necessary to purchase any cottonseed Br oil meal. One thing, however, must be consid- ered; while this ration furnishes the required amount of food nutrients the cows like oil meal better than they do the bean meal and it :might pay to cut out some of the beans and substitute a little oil meal to make it more pal- aftable. RENT FOR WHEAT GROUND. A. rents his farm to B. for One year and L'. puts in thirty-five acres of wheat that he harvests the next year. Does he have to pay for the use of land that he uses the second year? There was no wheat on the place when B. rent-3d and nothing said in the con- tract in regard to it. I rented the plaCe the next year and we want to know about the land that was in v:heat.~-—S. A. Due to the fact that 13. has sown and harvested the wheat crop, and that the thirdparty did not have the use of the land, he should not be liable for the rent of the wheat ground. The landlord should have made this clear at the outset. If the third party rented the farm with the understanding that he was to have the wheat ground he can bring claim against the landlord for not allowing him to take posses- sion 01‘ such property—~F. T. Riddell. FARM CORPORATION. I am thinking of going in a corpora- tion ot‘ l'arms for the purpose of own- ing and operating a dairy farm. Can you give me any information on the subject. What is the first step? Is it better than a partnership? I have been told that it was. Would we be any more iliable to an income tax in a corporation than we would in a part- nership?—F. C. L. . ' One of the "big distinctions; between the corporation and partnership or- ganizatiOn is the degree of liability one would have to assume. In the case of the partnership each- member is responsible .t‘or the other’s- actions relative to' the business, thus making liable to the full extent of any claims against the business. That :is, the liability is unlimited, while with the corporation the liability is limited to the extent of the stock one holds‘in the corporation. Undoubtedly the corporation would be the most satisfactory and as to Ithe ,tax thedifference will be negligible.— F. T. Riddell. GETTING TAX EXEMPTION. I bought eighty a res of wild land in 1921, paid taxes 1 1921, got exempt— ed in 1922 and 1923. I built on the land and am living on the land, got thirtysfive acres cleared, and plowed it and cropped it this summer. Can use a binder on any of it. Supervisor did his best to get me exempted from taxes this year. What will I do to get out of paying them?—’W. D. If the taxes have been assessed they will have to be paid. The supervisor is the person who makes up the roll and if it was not exempted he is the one who refused to do it.——Rood. ' NOTE SIGN ER’S LIABILITY. -r A— man signs a note for $200 for one year, and doesn’t hear from either party for eighteen months, and then gets first notice of yearly note that is six months past due. Then both part- ies get together and ‘fix it up between them, with a little paid on the note. After another year he gets notice for the same note. How long is a signer holding good on a matured note? How much property is a man and his wife allowed in this state of Michigan which cannot be sold nor taken by judgment?——M. S. A person assuming a secondary lia~ bility on a note is discharged, unless he is notified of the non-payment at the time it was due, but the person “Ill/1%; Him Carin/ea] Let’a‘ Load to 0227‘ Fewer” F "THESE coouoee FARM RELEASE ‘ NAILS ARE TO sow THINGS ism..- . lerTHER " T“ ‘ I j i. I“ ~ g. ~ = ~ s T ‘ fl §r :- .\ TT N I t m x. gri‘“ all ."” .\\\, ""ll 53“ ~§ " \ . .. .. \ \ \ \ \ ‘ ' . fl ‘ ‘ ‘ \ \ “ \ h“ ' '4 A\\ \ ‘I V \ 1 sent would be readily given.~Rood. ‘ assuming primary liability ”on the note is discharged only by payment or a. lapse of six years after maturity and Ialst :payment or written recognition. The head of a familst allowed house- hold goods to the value of $250, team, tools of trade to the value~of $250, ten sheep, two cows, five'swine, fuel and provisions sufficient for six month, and hay, grainand feed to keep the ani~ mals six months, and a homestead not exceeding forty acres to the avenue of $1,500.—vRood. H O‘MEESTEAD L‘AWS. Kindly .give ~me some awormaiion relative to homestead ilww‘s orgranting of ‘ land to citizens :for "agricultural pur< poses. What is 'the procedure to ob« tGaliii any such land in this state'?—~ Write the Public ‘Domain 'Commis~ sion .at Lansing, "Michigan. It is my opinion that the state is not offering iland-s for homestead at the present time. The United States government land in Michigan still open for home stead is for the most part not adapted to agriculture nor worth owning at the price asked—Rood. C'AU‘SE FOR SLANDER. A? finds that he has some beans stolen. A. gets a warrant out for ,-B., charging that he broke the lock, enter- ing the granary and carrying away four bushels of beans. B. is absolutely innocent of the charge, and has proven it was a wrong charge, and also went to the trouble and expense to show that A. was guessing at the thieving or stealing ot‘ the beans. “'hat action can B. take against A. for the slander- ing of his name‘.’—~B. M. In ‘order to obtain any action it is necessary to show that the complaint was maliciously made, without any probable cause.~——Rood'. FAILURE TO MAKE PAYMENTS. August 16, 1924, I sold my farm on a contract. Party has failed to make a payment of $100 which was due 'on December 13, 1924. Contract state-e that I may at my option declare all money unpaid immediately due and payable and enforce collection. As he has failed to pay, would I have to take the matter up in court if the sec- ond party refuses to forfeit the con- tract?——H. K. The second party has no choice in the matter. The option is entirely\— with the seller if the payments are not made. If the purchaser is in pos< session and refuses to deliver, the sell‘ er will have to take legal proceedings to get possession. Even after forfeit- ure a court of equity will permit the purchaser to redeem by paying the bal- ance within a reasonable time. No definite rule can be stated—Rood. some MORTGAGE QUESTlONS. I have given a mortgage on the farm which I bought. If I pay the in— terest on the mortgage, must this be recorded in the courthouse, or do I just get an ordinary receipt? Must it be endorsed on the back of the note which is secured by the mortgage‘? Is a mortgage made, out withoutany interest legal and binding? If a mortgage is made to run five years and the owner of the farm can pay off the mortgage sooner than the required five years, is it all right to do so, provided the mortgage-holder will cancel the same?—-A. M. It is not necessary to record pay— - ments of interest nor to have them en- dorsed on the back of the note: but it is very desirable to have such en- dorsement, and the maker must see the note in order to see that it has not passed into the hands of some? other party. A mortgage without in- terest is legal and binding. .Payment of ‘the mortgage before maturity can be made only with the consent of the mortgagee, but ordinamynosfuch can- ..‘ o 0U should have this valuable book in your home. You should know the right price to pay. You, too, can save money on everything you buy. And what an opportunity f6r saving this book brings to you! In appearance it is a book. Ac- tually, it is one of the largest general stores in the world brought right to your door. Thus you have before you the most complete assortment of goods and can select exactly what you want. How the Lowest Prices are Nlade for You Our goods are bought for spot cash. Cash always buys cheapest. They are bought in the largest quantities—taking. even the whole output of a factory. Our buyers search the markets of the world for you. East, West, South, they_ go—to Europe, wherever there is a possibility of buying standard reliable merchandise, at lower than market prices. Sixty million dollars’ worth of merchandise has been bought for this book. Bought in quan- tities that compel low prices. Bought so that whatever you need, the merchandise is ready for immediate shipment to you. “Ward Quality” Means Reliable Goods Only But in our world wide search for bargains, we never lose sight of Quality. We do not believe I ’ _ 'Montgo This Big Catalogue is Your hm 'n'ojn'fi‘ . portunity For Saving you want “cheap" goods. We do believe you Want good goods, sold cheaply. 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Please mail my free copy of Montgomery Ward's complete Spring and Summer Catalogue. Name .................................. .. StreetorR.F.D. ....... ........... . P.o...’ .............. ......... .. StatC.-uo....-.....u...o....... ooooooo 0.. CONGRESS 'RESUMES. its Christmas recess on December 29.' The house is making good pro; ,gress in pasSing the annual supply « . 'bills‘, but the senate is apparently no 1, dearer the solution of the Muscle " *‘.Shoals tangle than when it began. ENEQURAGING TO DRYS. HE large farm organizations and their leaders generally have been outspoken and aggressive in demand- ing rigid enforcement of the prohibi- tion amendment. Friends of law en- forcement are expressing much grati- fication over the information that Wil~ liam Green, the newly elected presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor is not only a total abstainer but a proponent of prohibition. FULL-WEIGHT LOAVES URGED. BILL introduced by Senator Cap- er provides for standard weights and sanitary wrapping for loaves of bread. In speaking on this bill, Sen- ator Capper said that consumers of bakers’ bread pay hundreds of thous- ands of dollars daily for bread that they do not get. "While, not. all bak- ers practice short-Weight selling, evi- dence is that the practice is altogether too common amongr the large baking corporations where state laws do not prohibit.” WANT A STANDARD HOG, NGLISH bacon factories are ask- ing the swine raisers of that coun- try to standardize their hogs, accord- ing to reports to the department of ag- riculture. ' They say that too many breeds are a handicap to the bacon in»- dustry; that; the elimination of several breeds is essential to the. production of bacon for the lritish markets in competition with Denmark. ‘ FOR THE INSPECTION OF CANNED GOODS. EDERAL inspection of all manufac- tured canned foods under rules and regulations to be promulgated by the secretary of agriculture, is provided in a bill introduced in the house by Rep- resentative Barbour. of California. DISCOVER NEW METHOD OF FIXING NITROGEN. N achievement which promises to have a far—reaching effect upon ag- riculture is an improved method Used in the fixation of nitrogen from the air, which was developed at the Fixed Nitrogen Laboratories of the Depart,— ment of Agriculture. It, is believed that it will reduce the cost of fertil- izer production. POTATO EXPORTERS HAVE TROU- BLES. FTER an investigation of world markets an outlet. for the surplus potatoes was found in the British Isles, where last season‘s crop was unusu- ally short. But when the cargoes of American potatoes began to reach the English ports, the British government put an embargo on American potatoes, thereby closing the foreign markets to them. The Maine potato growers immedi- ately protested against the embargo, and Senator Hale took up the matter with the Federal State and Agricul- tural Departments. As a result. the . American embassy at London has been instructed to make representations to o .r I I ONGRESS went back to work after' the British government against the em- bargo, which prohibits the importatio l of American potatoes into England and 'VVales on, account of the potato bug. , The .‘British government has been asked to accord American grown pota- toes the same treatment as is given shipments from Canada, where the Col- orado beetle, or potato bug, is found everywhere as in the United States. The American potato growers de- clare that the British embargo is de- 6 signedfto- give .pre tions of Canadian ‘ potatoes. .1 ; ~"s'wovgla'MERjI-dlénffipt Erin" . . j ENGLISH LEMARKETS.‘ . ' DWINV SMITH,iof. the depithhent, . ‘of agriculture, Who is in England ‘studying the marketing of fruits and ' vegetables, has made ~ arrangements with J. Forsyth Smith, Canadian trade commissioner .at Liverpool, to condust a two-months.survey of fruit values. The investigation will include a com- parison of interior markets with the port markets where the larger part of Canadian and American apples are sold at'auction as soon as discharged. Mr. Smith will also work on some in- spection problems that may aid the American fruit and vegetable growers. NO MORE DIPHTHERIA. ONE of my children shall ever have diphtheria!” * Sounds like a rash statement, doesn't it? But you can say the words and make them good, nowadays. it you wish. There is a way to protect those who are. susceptible to diphtheria. It has been on trial for about twelve years. New York and other large cities have protected hundreds of thousands of school children. Thousands of Michi» gan children were protected last year. This method consists in giving a Child a series of three injections of a substance known as “Diphtheria Tox— in-antitoxin.” After these three injec- tions the child begins to develop pro- tective substances in his blood, and six weeks after the commencement of the treatment he is usually well protected against. diphtheria. . Children seldom experience. anything but the most favorable result from this preientive treatment; rarely is the arm more than slightly swollen and rarely are there any constitutional symptoms. Adults, however. do not always react so favorably. If an adult, thtu'et'oro, desires to be protected in this way, he or she must be prepared to suffer a moderate degree of disabil- ity for a day or two following the in— jections. liven this year a great number of our children died of diphtheria. In view of this httavy and unnecessary mortality, I. urge parents to consult their family physician or health otlicer and have their children protected against. this serious disease. So many children under seven are susceptible to diphtheria that the safe way with them is to go ahead with the toxin-antitoxin treatment. A fair percentage of children ovttr seven have already developed immunity to diph- theria. Front seven years up it will pay to have the child given the Schick test first. DOES ORRIS ROOT INJURE THE EYES? . I use orris root as a dry shampoo for my hair. Is this injurious to the t‘)'L‘S'.'—~N[. H. B. I suppose this inquiry is prompted by the fact that orris root is prepared from the Florentine iris.I I know of no reason why it should be injurious to the . eyes. HAS LOW BLOOD PRESSURE. “hat is good when the blood pres- sure is too low? Does such a state give people mental delusions or make them crazy ?—X. Y. Persons with low blood pressure us- ually reduire extra rest, very nourish— ing food, and general building up of the body. This may mean a prolonged period of treatment in a sanatoriu’mf as occurs when the low pressure is due to tuberculosis. Persons with mental delusions may have low bLood pressure but there is no reason why those having low pressure should nec- essarily have mental delusions. TRACHOMA A DISEASE. What about disease trachoma? How does it spread and can I cure it ?'——L. L. Trachoma is the disease commonly known as granulated lids. It. spreads from person to person by actual con- tact or by the use of infected linen. The patient feels an irritation in the lids as if from sharp particles like grains of sand. It is a veiy chronic ferénce'to impala: I airmail the ”patient binaries? tact-.3 That is ,why,my only recent» ,“ ‘L; « doCtor; , \ . mendation’ for eczemajis a first-class--. THE GREATER THE CLAIM, THE ‘ .‘ GREATER THEI‘HUMBUG. ' > . x : . )' Ht . - I wonder if you ‘could give meany“ information concerning the ,————— company,~of Detroit, Michigan. They claim to cure tumors, ulcerations, lac- erations, adhésions, .etc.; in fact, there ’ is nothing but cancer they ,cannot cure. It is strictly a. home treatment and is very expensive. Their testimon— ials do not‘ give full name, but initials only. They saywyou can get the full name from the company if you wish to write to any of them.~—B. V. D. In such matters you may feel quite sure that the greater the claim the, greater the humbug. From a very long experience in caring ‘for sick people, I can say positively that such short cuts to health do not exist. Don’t be fooled by “claims.” VACCINE .TREATMENT FOR 'ASTHMA. Please tell us about vaccine treat-’ ment for asthma—M. B. Giving vaccine treatment against asthma is work for a, specialist, but you will find one in almost every large city. The doctor first applies various ‘ tests to find the particular weed pollen or "other substance that excites your asthma; then he makes a vaccine from that pollen. It is usually given hypo’ dermically in doses a week apart. In some cases it seems to cure, but oth« ers get only temporary relief, and it is by no means a sure thing. HOW TO TEACH A BOY TO EAT. Tell me how to get my boy to eat: ‘ things that are really good for him. He hétes milk and most vegetables. — 1 This was not a serious question in the days when parental discipline . as a crop. rough or too sterile for tilling, now use. now an immeasurable loss. hands. busy, population. magnitude. Praia/em C oo/z'a’g‘e Speaés 072 Forestmt TRANGE as it may seem, the American people, bred for generations to forest life, drawing wealth from the forest, have not yet acquired the sense of timber These. immense stretches of cut-over have, not awakened us to their vast potential worth as growers of wood. Fully one-fourth of our’land area ought to be kept. in forest~~not poor, dwindling thickets of scrub, but forests of trees fit for, bridges and houses and ships. Handled by the best timber-cropping methods, lands could be made to grow eve But much of our cut-over land, lying idle or half-productive, is It pays little or no taxes, it keeps few it turns few wheels, it builds no roads. land has scrapped schools, factories. railroads, dotted the land with abandOned farms; it has Our fore’st problem is a land problem of the first 11 more timber each year than we many no small measure of their land, mostly too our present forest Idle forest and towns; it has created a migratory disease, hard to cure, but not usually very quick in progress. It is not likely that the infection ofone year could not be cured. can be handled through home treat- ment. It is work for a specialist in eye troubles. WANTS A BLOOD PURIFIER. Please tell me a good blood purifier that will cure eczema.~—B. J. The medical profession is not united as to the cause of eczema but. "blood purifiers” are not likely to help. Prob- ably different cases come from differ- ent causes. It is believed that most eczemas are due to contact with some substance that is an irritant to the patient, though perhaps quite harm~ less to other people. This irritant may be in diet, it may be in some external substance, or it may be a sequel to some old disease. “Varicose eczema” comes from old varicose ulvers. Other forms may come from articles of food that disagree, or perhaps things wig This is not a disease that ‘ insisted that the child eat the food offered or go hungry until Willing to yield. Many parents solve this prob- lem by stirring up the child’s ambition to be strong and athletic, if a boy, or to be beautiful and of good complex- ion, it’ a girl. Then, too, there are ways of making a despised food attrac- 'tive by special cooking or other prep- aration. For example, a child who “hates milk” will drink cocoa, eat cus- tard, or enjoy a milk-shake. Many a child who objects to certain foods will dispose of them- if he understands tint there will be no dessert until his plate is cleared. Most of these objections to foods can be traced back to the baby days when you made too much of the little ohe’s likes and dislikes. / A farmer’s scientific training is now judged by the-length of the aerials to ’his radio. .. - Happiness becomes complete only when it; is shared. \ . ’ external chi», Tl: “ l Q$W»‘x u‘_ n1< “ ‘L a , X'RWLTU . ' L< I" «W‘W r «M, w ”A__ h...’ ,~. ‘ f"1~s&<_; - W». ‘Mmmfi, w 0 ml effort has been made by the farm- ers of Michigan to keep quail on the "list of pretected birds in this state; _ . The sleet which at present covers ’ this section is affording an opportu- nity to prove the genuineness of our " affection for this pleasing field bird. The ice‘has sheathed almost complete- 137, all sods, winter berries, and stub- bles‘,w were the quail find their winter fecd, making it next to impossible for them to exist. \ Present indications are that we are going into a protracted Cold spell, per- haps for the duration of. the winter, accompanied‘by’ deep snow,_with this seal of ice still on the ground That means that unless human friends come to the rescue, hundreds of thousands of quail must starve in this stateials. most at once! This is our chance, we who have plead to keep this gallant fence-row songster on the songbird list where he behings. If we want him to whistle to us from the corner post of the wheatfield, some dewy morning next June, we must feed him right now! If you know of a covey of quail on your own or neighboring lands, put out grain for them at once, and keep on till the sleet is melted, and the weed heads uncovered again. If you don’t love Bob—White enough for this, do it ' as a business proposition. The covey will repay you ten-fold, during the bal- ance of winter and next summer, in the weeds and insects they will de- stroy.—-Ben East, of Outdoor America. While Fred Cornair. of Chesaning, is an EnthUsiast on Good Seeds, the Twins New Occupy First Place in His Attention. INDIANA POTATO GROWERS LIKE- CERTIFIED SEED. HE gospel of certified potato seed is being rather generally accepted by growers in Indiana. For several years they have been comparing certi- fied seed with the average home-grown seed. 111' practically every instance the certified seed has produced a sub- stantially large yield. One farmer in- Clark county obtained such excellent results, from his certified stock this past year that he was able to secure orders for a full carload of seed for himself and neighbors for the coming year. ' GET THE BUDGET IDEA. M ANY testimonials could be gath- ered to demonstrate the advan- tage of a budget. Our federal govern- ment has found it an effective ~means of cutting down expenses in various departments and branches of the gov- ernment. The budget has been found equally effective in keeping farm and home cost on a reasonable level. By it, a more reasonable use of one’s money is made. Also, it is .less difii- cult to know how much one may in- vest in new undertakings. -It is cer- ‘tain that the time required to go over one’s accounts and work out a budget for the home and the farm, is time well spent. This is the best season of all the year to undertake such a pro- gram. —~ . Apoor apple crop should cause us to spray. more and cuss 195$. OR a number of years past, a de- , termined and gratifyingly success- , , , [fin/1%,“ "I .1 HIM/nun 231%? :1 1%]! ‘ ' / 7 I it‘ Two ropes bought at the same time usedjust alike. One is ruined; the other -H. 6" A. “Blue Heart" Manila-is still strong. It pays to buy good rope ‘When a few extra Cents means dollars saved IT’S easy to think that when you pay a few cents less for a rope you’re saving money. But more and more farmers are coming to realize that cheap rope is most expensive in the long run. Not only does it. wear out much sooner than good rope, but it costs time and money to replace. The only way to save money on rope is to buy good rope. Naturally, it costs a few cents more than inferior rope at first—but it gives you dollars’ worth of extra service. And here is the way to tell good rope when you buy. Untwist the strands. If you find a thin blue thread marker —-the “Blue Heart”-—— run- ning in the center between the strands, then you may be sure of these facts. I' H 3 A “Star Brand” Binder Twine evenly spun from the best fibres, isoffull yardage,ample strength, and is used from coast to coast by farmers who claim it is never cut by insects Special Offer! This coupon with 30c will en- title you to our special Halter Lead made from H. 85 A. “Blue Heart" Manila Rope. It is % inch in diameter, 7 feet long, and is fitted with a snap at one end. It is offered to ‘ introduce to you .the great \ Untwist the 1 strands- \ \./ ‘ ' l j . «('13 thc“Bluc Heart”shows What the “Blue Heart” signifies The “Blue Heart” market means that the rope is genuine H. 85 A. “Blue Heart” Manila spun from high grade, pure selected manila fibre by rope makers with over half a cen- tury’s accumulated experience. It means also that in any size, on any job, the rope will wear longer and deliver with- out fail the strength you have a right to expect. For the selected fibres of H. 85 A. “Blue Heart ” Manila Rope are drawn, spun, laid and properly lubricated so as to insure the smooth working of every fibre, yarn and strand. Buy rope scientifically. Know what you are getting. Untwist the strands and look for the “Blue Heart”—our registered trade mark that as- sures you of dependable rope value. Guarantee H. 81; A. “ Blue Heart ” Manila Rope is guaranteed to equal in yardage and exceed in tensile strength the specifications of the U. S. Governo mcnt Bureau of Standards. Any H. 86 A. ”Blue Heart" Manila Rope found not to be as represented will be replaced. The Hooven St Allison Company “Spinners of fine cordage since 1869" . Xenia, Ohio For sisal rope Forother jobs where high-grade sisal rope is wanted, use the best—H. 86 A. “Red Heart” Sisal Rope—espun from selected sisal fibre by the same skilled rope makers H 811‘ ‘Blue Hea Manila Rope © 1924. The Booven & Allison Co. If your dealer does not carry H. at A. “Blue Heart” and cannot supply you with this special Halter Lead, fill out the coupon and mail it to us With[ 30c coin or stamps, and your dealer’s name. A Halter Lead will be sent you prepaid ing qualities of H. 85 A. “Blue Heart” Manila Rope. 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For three years hand running, I have had poor luck with my timothy, and I bought what appeared to be good seed— high test purity and germination, etc. If the rest of my crops had been poor, I might have blamed myself or the weather. As it is, I know it can ’t be anything but the seed.” Dave Wants to Know 0" course, Dave will try a different brand of seednert, and he’s hoping he will be luckier. But he would feel easxer if he knew just what has been wrong in the past, so he could be on his guard against that sort of thing In the future, not only 1n buying timothy but other field seeds. Believing there are a good many farmers who feel just like Dave, the Albert Dickinson Company has published a little book entitled “7 Lessons in Judging Seed, which explain the important points to consider in buying seeds, and contains practical information of value to every farmer. This booklet 1s :3th free on request: a post- ' card will bring it. Write today. 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Poultry mhigh pr1ce at: Great «In bies and‘ borvsav- On] One 11:11 Age 'Loola no . hoot complet- “rdon tool mode M II.- “It?!” COMPANV W's-war w “383.03 Ma. Pa. Stee , today for free catalog 1n colors "A, describing Farm Trucks andl 1'} Wagons, also steel or wood Electric Wheel Co. 3:; Elm Street take on board a suflicient amount of these. I am sure that this was done because of the change in the nature of these after several days out. With the exception of a few minor deficiencies, the dining-room seivice on board a modern ocean liner is satisfactory, and almost equal to that of a first-class American hotel. Considerable entertainment is pro- vided for the passengeis, consisting mainly of mild athletic contests on the decks, dancing and musical programs. These, however, are not so elaborate or so alluring as one might believe when he reads the literature sent out by the steamship companies. During the progress of, this partic- ular voyage, there were no stm‘ms, or unusual instances that occurred, with the exception of seeing a whale that spouted, and a New York City Judge, who was opposed to prohibition, as illustrated by his ability to partake of champagne and to converse in opposi— tion to prohibition. The judge was not , at all times logical in his arguments. Difficulties In Getting Off. The landing at the port of Cher- bourg from the vessel required more than four hours. It seems that it is easier to board a vessel than it is to depart from one. I was impressed greatly by the thorough lack of sys« tern and organization. (Obviously, af. ter a. steamship company has your money and the dozen 01' more stew‘ ards, your tips, they do not have much interest in you). Each passenger was obliged to go through the formality of a medical inspection and present the passport with its French Visa. The baggage was inspected from without. Questions were asked rela- tive to whether 01' not the passengers carried cigais, tobacco 01 victiolas It is evident that someone in the past has smuggled a victrola 01 two into be accomplished I was unable to de- termine. It is possible for one to can ry a few hundred cigarettes or several hundred cigars on his person, but the average American’s clothes are not cut in such a manner as to permit the Quincy, lllinols This Year Try Stahelin’ 3 Big Yield tra Wherry 3.15.22.11.13; zitPlan s Grow Stahclin’ s Straw- berries this year—they will make 1313 Money— ”up to $1200 per acre; the new varieties. The ATO O,N DELlClOUS. PREMIER, gOOPER and the MA STODON--wor1d’s greatest ever— bearing strawberry; are all robust, healthy, well-rooted plants readily adaptable to your oil. ‘1 91131111139 our customem oer high quality coiningbigmoney. STARTTHIS YEAR! Btock- EVOI‘Y I an t guaranv GRAPE Concord variety, at spe- and labsolutely . "'1‘ as» $18“; 3...... a“: " Plant 1 End, - m:::;reffmd$ Appdle, Peach,Pcnrp,Pl11m. Quince. ell Fm“: Tr” hard 1' northern Brown 11th be , Ralph Hie! Bixfgfiglogw aii‘i 11:332.”. main-u: met 3W £11m Ifim’fi d‘WaWT” 9131mm um mmco .m 45 Brldgmommkih. $ 3:0 r355- and 11:;1 Our prices are very low for Special P511011 0i concealment of a Victrola. After landing we found a special . . .'< “min; ‘and through train from Cherbourg to It is your “guarantee of quality. Write tParis. This distance of 250 miles was made in six llOlllS time, t1ain service being very good. We also obtained one of the best meals 011 cm trip, on the diner of this train f01 the equiv- jalent of about $1.00 American money. 83“ For Egypt. I shall not discuss the things I saw ,iu France at this time, but leave these to; another a1 tlcle We proceeded through France to Marsailles, which is .1 Mediteiranean seaport city. Here we boarded an English vessel, upon which we booked for Port Said, Egypt. he experiences on this vessel were different from those on the one on which we crossed the Atlantic. Here we found that all the servants were Hindus. I also noted that, although we were sailing on the waters of the Mediterranean, which is ideal for bath— ing, that it was not used for this pur- pose, except, possibly, at“ very _ rare intervals, by these people. There was a marked difference in the manage- ment of: this vessel from that of the Trans-Atlantic liner. Here things were conducted in a. more formal manner. similar to a military regime. Four and (one-half days were requir- Studies Agriculture Abroad (Continued from page 27) ' each of the meals daily. Evidently a :large storage space was required to France, although just how this could. ,- L f—‘i‘b-A k1 0 ed to make this voyage and the great or part of one day the only waves or, the sea were those made by the vesse. as it proceeded on its course. I had often heard and read of the g1 eat 111- tensity of the blue color of the water of the Mediterranean, but was unable to appreciate this until this trip. It ds several shades darker than that of the Atlantic, and is especially beautiful When the sun shines on the sway that is caused by the steamship as it plows through. I was also surprised and un- able to account for the fact that two quail landed on the vessel on the morn- ing of the second day out of Mar- sailles, as did doves and othei land birds. My first impression of an English- man away from the Island was not very fav01ab1°I sat opposite a gentle— man at the dining table on the voyage across the Mediterranean. The first morning we went in to breakfast, he was seated at the table and I spoke , to him in the usual‘ American manner, expecting that my greetings would be 1"etu1ncd in a similar fashion, but I was immediately disillusioned. The response I received was merely a stiained sort of g1 unt It may be need- less to state that I did not become ac- quainted with him during the voyage and we did not carry on a conversa- tion until we had left our ship and weie aboaid a lighter on ou1 way to the dock, when he remarked about the weather, and became quite agreeable. From my observations the Englishman at home is an entirely different sort of person than he is when abroad or away from home. My first» impressions of the east were far from favorable when I saw the Arabs coaling the vessel immedi- ately upon our arrival in the harbor. The coal was carried in baskets up a long gangplank which was made of two pieces of timber about eight inch- es thick and one foot wide. The dock and conditions about it were far from being attractive. Immediately upon landing we were met by a rush of porters of all kinds, who desired to carry the baggage, and perform other services for us. The tourists, how- ever, were protected as far as possible from these people and hurriedly taken into the Customs building. It is said that this city is the cesspool of the east. Conditions in some quarters are indescribable. It is reported that lep- ers sometimes wander about in this city and have the belief that if they can touch some well person that the disease will leave them and the other fellow gets it. If possible, it is advis- able l‘or the tourist, who is going to Egypt, to land at Alexandria rather than Port Said. On the other hand, one gets very quickly an insight into some of the eastern customs, methods of living, etc., by landing as we did. In the next article I shall describe some of the agricultural and other cori- ditions that were observed in Egypt. I do not doubt that most of the farmer’s problems are economic rath- er than political, and we.will make the greatest progiess toward their so- lution by applying sound business piincipies, such as have been used by other industries—President Bradfute, of American Farm Bureau, Federation. The wrong variety of soy-beans may get you in wrong with» the crop. Hard work is the best yeast with which to raise “dough " A-‘A—LM Ag. A-‘LLM ALA. , forest service, V . the Allegheny in northern Pennsyl- vania, was established during the year. \ SHIPPING POlNT INSPECTION IN- ‘ sula honey-producers for-the purpose satisfactory marketing system .' >“I . ./ NATIONAL roses-r ENLARGED. ’ HE enactment of the Clarke—Mc- Nary forestry act is regarded by Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief of the as the outstanding event of the‘year' in national forestry. - At'the'close of this fiscal year the : forest service had 157,502,793 acres un- , der its centrol. This represented an increase of 265,793 acres under its jur- ~ isdiction. One new national forest, This is Utility Alto Henger’i'leld of the ~ John Booth Herd. She Gave 19,474 Pounds of Milk and 686 Pounds of Butter-fat in One Year. CREASES. HE shipping point inspection work of the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics has almost doubled during the past year, 130,959 cars of fruits and vegetables having been inspected at shipping points during the fiscal year, as compared with 72,466 inspected dur- ing the previous year, according to W. A. Sherman, of ‘the Division of Fruits and Vegetables. Of the total of 130,959 cars inspected at shipping points, 239 re-insL-rciions were made at receiving markets and in 110 cases the findings of the orig- inal inspector were changed. WORLD SHEEP OUTLOOK PROM- ISING. HE present outldok for the world production of wool for 1924-25 is that there willbe an increase in Aus- tralia of 220,000 bales, or approximate- ly 53,000,000 pounds of scoured wool over last year; in New Zealand ‘a 2,- 000,000 pound increase is reported. The new crop in the southern hemis- phere is now ready for the market. While wool‘prices at the Wellington sales on December 13-15 were two to five cents lower; wool prices have ad- vanced in Australia. The long time trend in number of sheep, taking the world as a whole, is downward. CANNOT FIND A HONEY MARKET. NE Upper Peninsula farmer bee- keeper owning 500 swarms of bees, was reported recently to have on hand 34,000 pounds of honey and was un- able to locate a market for it. There is no question of the quality of this honey, which is mostly clover-made, but the trouble lies in a failure to link up producer and consumer. . This leads the secretary of the Up- per Peninsula Development Bureau to suggest an association of Upper Penin- of developing the local market through proper advertising. He suggests that consumers make a practice of asking for cloverland honey when ordering this delicacy. At present an inquiry shows‘ that local merchants are hand- ling largely foreign honey. The prob- lem is simply one" or “working out a. SURVEY ‘of‘ the .Jorestry work done by. the forty-three state leg- ‘ islaturés in session during 1923,.show’s that in twenty-two states forestry leg- islation was placed on the statute books; fire prevention receiving more consideration than any other subject. A N ew. EDACH. ‘ Recognizing the. demand for a truly com- fortable and economical car of the coach type, Dodge Brothers haveprov-ided it. The new Coach reveals a characteristic maturity of design—in the low-swung > , lines of the body; in the arrangement of the interior forgfive-passenger comfort, and in the exceptional dimensions of the doors and windows. The car is “lacquer” finished in Dodge Bro- thers blue with a body stripe of cartouche .. yellow. Fittings and fixtures are first ONTAQID quality throughout, and balloon tires are standard equipment. So far as riding comfort and dependability are concerned, it is only necessary to add \ that the Coach is built on Dodge Brothers sturdy chassis and cushioned by Dodge Brothers underslung springs. The price is $1095 f. o. b. Detroit DODGE Brawn-1 eras DETROIT Dense EQOTHE-QS (CANADA) LtMl‘l’E—D wALKE—RVlLLE. Steel Wheels 1' Chen than an other wheels. 9 figunlnegryenrs 0 service. Make 0031 any wagon good as new. Low 8 down-easy toload. No repairs. MPlflEfii‘Efiif’éo? man New Scales Saved Me $8722 011 One Deal Alone That's what Mr. O. Nudenu says the RENFREW did for him; Mr. H. Van de Slunt says it saved him 86.00 a month on butter products alone; Mr. Bunde says he made $6.00,extrs on 2 he by using the REN- FR . It Will save money 53: you. too. m: at; .v, -_.' I'fi~+r.—‘:=~=.*—‘~h iim V. 3 5 0 After so Days FREE —— Trial on the RENFREW Down Portable Truck Scales Don't send us 0 cent. Give thgrRENFREW 3 80-Day Free Trial. how one it s to wheel it to the things you want to wet: . Then keep it or send it back. Only $7.50 at the end of $0 dnys it you keep It. Easy monthly payments for balance. Big Illustrated Catalog FREE . erh'l’odnyllorthcbi .newcatnl hihtells all about this wonderful scales. og w c BABSON 3808., Dept. 31-01 W 19th Street & Blvd, Chicago, Ill. WEET GLOVE AT HALF PRICE of Red Clover—Cheap to sub-Superior (or fertilizing and pasture. Excellent hay. Es! to grow. Investigate this crop and our low nces be are bnym , any seed. Our Icarlfled Hulled see is the highest on ity. Guaranteed utisfactory. Our prices will save you big money. Write for in. catalog and samples. Have low prices on Clo- ver. Alhfln, Tlmothy and all Gnu Souls. American Hold em 00.. Dem. 103! calm. Ill. “lore Potatoes" ' ’ From ground planted secured by use of The KEYSTON E POTATO PLANTER than by any other method of \ planting. Work perfectly ac- curate, A simple, strong. , durable machine. Write ‘ forCATALOG,Drice,etc. A. J. PLATT, MFR. BOX J , STERLINGJLL THIS [M AND TREE SAW $2 1 .9_5 fittui with Atkins Spaclal Steel Guaranteed Saw 9 Cords In 10 Hours by one - It’s King of the woods. Catalog Y 44 . Established 1890. Eddie: S'viu Machine Co. 2633 s. State St. Clings. Ill. 1.06 a s W ITTE 'r a as aw Cutsdown trees and saws them up FAST-one man does the work of 10— saws 10 no 25 cords n day. Makes tree. A one-man outfit. Easy torun and trouble. proof. Thousands: u use. Powerffl lengine runs all other farm machinery. Uses Kerosene, Gasoline, Dlillllalmrsu. Easy “It, Pay only a ‘ '- few dollars Payments down and taken ear forbnlanceoflow , price. ake yourownterms. FREE Just send name for fulldetails, ictures andloyvprices . Nooh igntion by writing. WITTE ENGINE WORKS ”9| Wine Building, Kansas City. M0. 719] Empire Building. Pittsburgh. PI- @2371“, I \l Albion n V ed and wood Illa ' (p .“h . and powcvlul, One-third them: '1 . mg parts » A“- llnlnn Slut Ptoduci: to. m. \ Dept. 44. “Mon. llama. 0.“. g. .... “nun...“ 1~1u¢~1~m - l -t< U .u in" 2. \\ . . . . . fiold. Povpy. CATALOG 1&5. 'truck: menu-n."l Benz “.3 Manolo noun bleeryi field: “ 10 Pkts. Vegetables Canal (be t nrlotles: rndl h. 1.1%;ng :ucinpbeéfiégltn- on . Cum 'A’oom 'c pigggudo'n. e' [opp-chef... 26o. plantinlinnd gr: 1:" . old: wh- dam. _ . \ls, . ,...\ 2 g For 10 Pae . - C Flower Seeds , - varieties of favorite flower-5,11 3 fusion of blooms from 5 ring till fall Mari- ysium, 83mi1‘uft,§alsam, onette, nap Dragon dalendula Holly- ' agdwficalgiiosa,f1025t’ull size packages ,3 ' " ~‘ i}: lplondi_ ec on or cens _ FLOWERggzlgiggggég . CSPECIALSa $233535: tear-law"“accession S,lES 10c. ellthm £112?ch ONE: any (is: all of these unequalled speckle _ow . ASTUR’I‘K- Idt.vortlsemen K“ thJo hboroc " V , yam-1.1g} Engaging" again 1... a 11 you our £52321, 533°C 'i-Qfinxiuig, existedsgolors e / ” noufhI to 91.111 .2011. row, absolutely FREE our need catalog will open your e on to better see I that mean finer gardens an «more _fbennti ul flowers biggerylelda.Add1-e JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY Box 144 La Crone. Wisconsin . $ 1200 P1 ofit PerAcre \( it 0Y0“ Furnish the Land I’ll Furnish the Plan! I' ll show you how and PROVE you can get big crops and big profits even from land never profitable be- fore. On one acre George Beaudette, Mich- will co-operate with you. showing you how to turn your arden or back yard intoa “Strawberry old Mine." This club 1s con- ducted by the world’ a grdatest strawbez ry expert who has already showed members of a similar club how to triple their profits from their home card ens. Sen for your copy of our big FREE book which tells how you mav oin this big money-making club. This G.book is!“ E. I M.KELLOG G00. Three Rivers. Mich. Box 3619 fiend/bulges S. & ll. CATALOG FOR 1925 WE’VE learned a great deal about catalogs as well as growing in our 71 years of catering to the nation‘s gardeners, orchardists and nursery— men. The S. 8; H. 1925 catalog is cempletc, interesting, practical. Most of all it is dependable ! Write for'it.‘ THE STORRS & HARRISON C0. Nurserymen and Seedunen for 71 ymr: Box 608 Painesville, Ohio prices —-more garden profit; make moi-e money— —have healthier crops. bigger yield. finer produce. if you . USE ISBELL’S 5:505 ' ‘ Wh eriment—usetri proven ; ‘l'q yap have made good for 46 years . '1' ‘Wfltetoda £021925AnnuallT'5 FREI- . h’i - allabout varieties, soil. when “ to plant. etc. Post card will bring it. . 5. M. ISBEIJ- & CO. (76). 2mm: m Jackson. Michigan 1 due to lower wage levels. crablc exports, and 5101111) decrease in imports. The increase in export figures has been been due in activity in production lines at the mid- dle of the year, quirements for imports of raw mate- rial. Economlc ' large stocks accumulated early in the year as a safeguard against possible strikes; to the decrease in industrial consumption during‘the middle of the year; and to the increased proportion- al production of the southern states The difli- culties in this. industry created by strike stocks and mid-Year- dip in in- dustrial activity should soon be over- come. ‘ - The construction work of the coun- try has maintained high activity. While the shortage, 'particularly of housing and business buildings, due to the cessation of eonstructiOn during. the war, has been to a large degree overcome, yet continued high real wag- es and general prosperity create a de- mand in excess of that due only to in- creasing population, because of the in- sistence of a population of rising stand— ards of 111 111g, for m01e elbow 100m and better housing generally. Ode striking factor in maintenance of increased construction activities is the effect which the automobile is pro ducing in increasing the demand for road construction and in causing mi< gration of population in many of our towns to new housing in the suburbs. Another effect of these forces is to maintain rents out of line above the general priCc levels. Xl'ith our high real wages, and little unemployment there is no reason to expect any ma.- terial Change in the course of this in— dustry. Our railroads haw Shown continued increase in olllciwncy duringr the year, and have now provvd themselves equal to any burden which is likely to be thrown upon them. Motor transporta- tion continue-s to develop and to enter more and more into thx1 vital economic life of 1111* count1'y-—in fact, pcrcnptibly our road improvement pro- grams are new transportation systems. almost im- taking on the- complexion of Our foreign trade has shown consid- expansion during lllrf year in igan, made $1800; Forbes. Vermont , . . 51200-134 Hawley.California.31500 Sim— due 111 some degree to the higher prlo ilar successcanbeY R.S es of agricultural produCc. though KELLOGG’S chiefly to gem-ral expansion in all Spare Time Prgfit Club exports; the decrease in imports has large part to lessening thus reducing the re- The total of our "exports for the Cam‘mued from page 27. year will show about four billion six hundred milliOns and our imports about three billion six hundred mil- lions. The merchandise balance will be about one billion dollars.in our fa- vor. The net gold imports for the year in partial liquidation of this balance amounts to about two hundred eighty millions. . Our invisible exchange Will show larger balances against us than in 1923 because of the greater volume of tourist travel, increased freight charg‘ es paid. foreign shipping, and above all, the largely increased velume of loans and investments to foreign lands which.,will much as one billion, as against one- third ofthat amount for 1923. International trade in the world as a‘ whole shows a larger movement of commodities during the past year than at any time since before the war. But international exchange of goods, meas- ured in quantities, is probably; still ten or twelve per cent below prewar al- though the-United States is unique amongst the la1ge combatant nations in having 1 2001111 ed its fo1eign trade to a point fifteen percent to twenty per cent above pro-war on a quantity basis. One of the by-products hitherto of this lower 11101111111111, of commodi- ties has been the continued depression of shipping. \l'ith the general strength- ening of the economic fabric of the‘ world, with the gradual growth in the movement of commodities which is now taking place. together with the fact that. there has bt‘t‘ll but little new‘ ship construction during the last four years, and that the existing shipping is becoming more and more obsolete,L it is fair to expect a recovery in the shipping world. The usable surplus tonnage at the present time in the world is probably not 1'11 excess of two million tons as against four million tons a year ago. The your has again been marked by a d ‘Cl‘casc in federal taxation and by a large discharge of federal debt. which will amount for the year to something in execss of $900,000,000. Time and demand deposits in 11112111- bcr banks show an increase of about; two billion eight hundred millions, and bank clearings for the year were high- 111' than in 1923 The gold reserves have not increased despite imports be- cause of the larger circulation given to gold certificates. Savings continue at GAINS EXCEED LOSSES IN 1924 COMPARED VITN 1923 PER CENT DECREASE PER CENT INCREASE FLAX -91°/« RYE 66% WHEAT - - 54% ’ OATS 37% OARLEV 23% RICE 27% CALVES 10% CORN 9% CROP VALUEs- BASED ON BUTTER 8% TOTAL YIELDS AND DECEH~ SHEEP 6% SEN FARM PRICES CHICKENS 6% . HAY 3% LIVE STOCK AND LIVESTOCK APPLES 30/0 PRODUCT VALUEs -—aASEO ON CATTLE 2/0 FARM PRICES DURING YEAR FLUlD MILK 2% AND MARKET RECEIPTS OR WOOL, 1% VOLUME or PRODUCTION 1% ,. HOGS 2% SORGHUM GR. 3% SN. POTATOES COTTON 5% COTTONSEEO 7% ' EGGS » 9% - POTATOES 13% PEANUTS 14% CHEESE 15% TOBACCO 15% BEANS l6% SUCAR BEETS 22% HORSES me ONIONS «9/.- a-RDOM CORN This Chart Shows in Graphic Form the Gains and Thirty-one Farm ' i Losses Occurring in Crops of 1924. rospccts for ’7 9" probably amount to as "earthquake disaster. 5 avery high rate, as indicated by thd increasing savings deposits, the large . absorption of bond issues, and the ex- traordinary expansion in insurance. thus demonstrating that there has been maintained a high state of effi— ciency throughout industry and com- merce, With little evidence of waste, _ extravagance and speculation. In fact, the most fa1-reaching movement in our economic- life today is the larger un- derstanding of its broad problems, the better appreciation of the factors of stability, and the definite progress in the elimination of waste, through more stable employment, through better ad— ministrative methods and through the rapid march of scientific discovery. That we are able to maintain wares at 100 per cent above pie—war while the cost of living is seventy-two per cent, and the average wholesale price commodities about fifty per cent a-bove pro-war is the very definite proof of increasing efficiency in production and distribution and of the free flow of competitive action. In the foreign situation the settle- ment of the conflict over German rep- arations through the Dawes plan. with its stabilizatiOn of German currenCy and the German budget and the recup- e1ation of employment and production in Ge1many, is having, and will have, a far-reaching effect upon the whole of Europe, and it has favorable influ‘ ences reaching to our shores. Great- Britain shows considerable improve- ment in all phases of its economic life. The commoicial and industiial situ‘ ation in F1anco Italy and Belgium I shows steady improvement during the .l yeaI. Some p1 ogress is being attained . in these countries towards reduction of expenditure and increased taxation, dll‘PCtE‘d towards the better balancing of budgets and more stable currency. Poland has stabilized her cuirenCy Jugoslavia, Finland, Se1bia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Sweden and Norway show manifest stability in economic and trad1 conditions and steady progress over preceding years. The Nether- lands, Denmark and Spain Show some t1li11porary depression during the year due to local conditions which are im- proving. Austria, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey do not show, the rate of progress of some of the others. Russia makes no real advance. A large part of Europe, however, contin- ues dangerously over-armed and our- rencics are not yet upon that founda- / tion of stability which Will only be reached when they are placed upon a gold basis. The year has been one of steadily increasing prosperity for the whole of Latin America despite three revoluo tions. Our sales of export goods to this territory shows an increase over the previous year of about twelve per cent. “'9 now enjoy the highest trade with them in our history. The conditions in Egypt, South Af- rica, Congo and other parts of the continent show steady improvement, with increased productivity and trade. In Asia, the situation in Japan marks the courageous upbuilding from the China is much depressed by continued civil war. Con- ditions in India, in the middle east, have shown a steady economic im- provement and subsiding political and social agitation. It has been suggested in some press Quarters at home and abroad that the result of these favorable factors may be leading our country towards a pe- riod of inflation of the character of 1919-20 with its disaster of 1921. It can be assuredly stated that we are on the march of Wholesome recovery? from the’ war and there is no present indication of inflation. \Ve only so- cure inflation when undue expansion. of credit finds its outlet in bidding up (Continued on page 38). V”~ Inna:- ..~ “MN. dw«_;~.' )4. A. .. \ J . ,.._ v-—w “M" orgis, .4 mm" .r~ , . L‘. ‘ {passages TO consider: New ' .. MARKELTIVNGJB'ILL'. A NEW (flipper-Williams “federal ‘ marketing bill has been introduced in the house by Congressman Williams -‘of Michigan, and in the senate by Sen- ~'ator Cappér. The former bill contain- - ed forty-two pages, while the present measure contains only twenty pages. The abbreviated bill creates a fed- ' eral marketing board to consist of sev- en members, five of whom shall be appointed by the President; the other members shall be ex-ofiicio the secre— tary of agriculture and the secretary of commerce. The members are to re- ceive $10,000, except the‘ chairman, who receives $15,000 per year. The federal marketing board is to ' aid in establishing cooperative market~ ing associations, of producers, termi- nal marketing associations and coop- . eratilLe. clearing house associations, _ and to issue charters to all such as— sociations that apply and meet the necessary requirements. The board will’establi—sh a uniform system of accounts and audits for all chartered associations. \It will require each association to submit a ”sworn statement twice yearly as to its tran- sactions, inspect the books of associa- ltions, and have power to suspend: any charter" when the association violates any provision of the act. It will adopt or establish standards and grades for' agricultural products, and provide for and supervise the. in- spection of agricultural products for which grades have been established and where inspection serviceis not available by or under the authority of any other act of congress. State ex—. tension workers and state market in-gT spectors may be licensed as federal in-§ ‘ spectors. j A meeting of representatives or" the! chartered cooperative marketing asso-g ciations and terminal market associa—l tions is held once a year, at which: they will submit to the PrBSident a list of nominations from which he may ape f point the persons to fill vacancies onl the board. ! Any cooperative marketing assoc-ia-l tion, whether in corporation or associ—l ation form, with or without capitall stock, will be granted a charter if com-I plying with the requirements. 7 Membership in the terminal marketj association is'open equally to repre-l sentatives of chartered cooperativei marketing associations, chartered co-s operative clearing house associations,,l cooperative buying associations, whole: salers, brokers, commission men, and; other dealers in or large consumers} of agricultural products for which the terminal~market association is chart- ered. orderly shipment and distribution of: agricultural products, to prevent glutsl or famines in any particular market, and to reduce the waste and hazards - incident to marketing such products.” Each association chartered under the act may use as a part of its title 1118 word “Federal,” and may also use the term “Member of Federal Market- ing System” on its stationery. The bill calls for an appropriation of $5,- 000,000 to be used as a revolving loan fund and $2,000,000 for operating ex- DQDSCS. The new bill is more carefully ' drawn than the former \Villiams bill, having engaged in its development the best minds in the department or com— merce. It has the support of the ad— ministration, is favored by the Pacific Coast representatives, and is the most complete program of federal coopera— tive marketing now before congress. There are substantial grounds for the belief that With some further revision congress Will enact it into law. . It is the plan of County Agent 0. G. Barrett, the farmers and the bankers of‘Mason county,~to make that county 3. Guernsey center. The bankers are -co‘Operating to bring in some good . 8, .1 , - .. \ :L “l_ aggfiagggpggiffigfi‘;gcfé‘éii‘i5.333}Please Mention i The Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertise . Bird’s—eye View Of- thc I if McCormick—Deering Tractor ‘ lit? -—]ust about the View l the operator has as he ' steps up on the plat ' ' form and takes the seat. One day he may be sighting along the belt to the belt ma chine and the next day steering across _ his fields. KCORHICK ~ DEERING ‘ " momm- DEUIING NOTICE the clear .vicw ahead, the handy controls. Make note of the . roomy platform, the Wide protective fenders, the comfortable, seat, the autOrtype steering, the tool box, the brakes, the removable lugs, the draw bar with its range of adjustment, the Wide belt pulley and its sensible location. Then there are the many McCormick/Deming features you cannot see here—such as the crankshaft and main ball bearings guaranteed for life, the removable cylinders, the unit main frame, the ball and roller bearings at a points, the throttle governor, the perfected lubrication, etc. Everything is there, on top or inside. Remember this tractor reaches the farm complete with all the features named above. Note the little round plate in the center of the platform. That is where the “Power Take/Offattaches—the great new feature through which you can run the mechanism of grain binders, corn pickers, etc., by power conveyed from the tractor through a revolving shaft. One of the greatest of recent tractor improvements. -‘ , Write us for full illustrated catalog about the McCormickrDeering Tractor. Use your tractor for winter belt work and be well acquainted with it by spring‘s work. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY 606 So. Michigan Ave. (5:133:23! Chicago, Ill. MCCORMICK‘DE'ERING TRACTOR-S BARGAIN BOOK Write for my new cat; rice catalog b e i (I) e y c u . uy Fence, Gates, Steel Posts Barb Wire. Paints or Ranting, SAVE A LOT OF MONEY " My Factory-To. Farm I": 0th Paid Plan saves you fully 1-8. Send for (analog today and are for yownulf him money You can save. _ THE BROWN FENCE-f 8 WIRE CO... 2. Dept. 2801 Cleveland. 0m - ““ lief/usulafed American F ENCE WW lg, i P/ §~_ 3 .ll .7. Emma. (it-:uhMJch” says. ,1 .1 I. TH u §W HERE’S what you get when you ask your ' dealer for Zinc Insulated American Fence—- _ E 220.: 3 Rod.” Cutycur own ience costs. Buy U :‘n llllll //" "”c-jmugy direct from us at LQWt-st Fac- Superior quality steel, smoother, rounder t, H l l I I wmeifilypiéifcéfiellffi £21235? 583%; wires drawn by the most skilled wire drawers l/"/ %mfi,;gfi~_ _ £f;;2£.l§2.$%§3§3‘iflpll’it}? (fiéfihfifii in the world——and more zinc on the wires “ ll} «MER'CAN: 1| _ Amerlcwomegwem “mummy” nits-\I- which adds many years to service. These features mean better "looking, longer lasting fence and saving money in years of service. ,fl 5” Ask your dealer r Peerless Prices 6 we: PAY ALL FREIGHT I Peerless Quality the same. Before you buy, write ' , 7 -~=' ‘ its“‘Mrrsvwflsressmsa ‘- - ‘ e , . l AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE. mariwanmm'tmouc‘snrmn today. ave money. - . Chicm'u 'r '5"« ‘ Burnunulvun - . r " mmwuilfifimmm MWrom ’ r I» '5 ' mulch on tap—Ina - t: 8123‘ "W‘ IAND3$ECMS kl t needing-Em one operatlon. It makeafito IOMaheh i more per acre by rolll winter wheat orcther growlna in in ring, whether in la hard-ennui and cracked, avad, gale or unpack 'l'he STERN baa no equal for thla work, or hit mating aeedbed [new eat. com. a [mm or any other an”; clot covering alhlh. clover and graea aaed. d “I It above the maehlne and It L nun FREE clt‘loc work by photon taken la the tan noon on strotrnsbg,m.-5:,.m, n, ”"2293 ' etion‘ wh it doe. tt’er not w t eaa horne- :33 fixhrgne-thlm aged: why“ In the roller that leavea a mulch on top of the packed eotl. It come as letters from mats! uaere, proving our eta ementa: and much other valuable En - ation. "Worth its eight in Gold. Write TDDAYlor ata- F‘ delivered price (ram nearest ahippina point. . N "UNI! ROLLER 00., Berlin "Bill‘s. “*- Reduce 151d Engine ’ Walton r-zr— Slap that shakind that loosens nuts, screws and bolts, and that ialt'lrd over nadir spat: that breaks crankcase arms. Pioneer En ine Support saves repairs. all can lram olds endine firmly in linear: dives that even flow of news ‘ S that makes (Inger-:1 a Flimsy-ed at our er a or tr 2 .50 $255 w”: of Roam. Pioneer Engine 5uppart Fits Passcnder Cars or Trucks. Permanently repair: oken crankcase arms. Easily attached in twenty minutes. No holes to drill. pt. G. The Brewer-Titchener Corp. Cortland, N. Y. TAKES TO THE WORK SHQP. FIND that my activities in the work I shop are not only the most profit- able, but, too, the most pleasurable manner of spending the cold. bleak. wintry days. For from the time I was able to understand the first rudi- mentary performance of a jackntfe I loved to tinker. But. I sure dislike to tinker with cold, numb fingers. Howover. with a warm shop there is nothing I like better than to bring in some farm tool, and in this age there is a lot of them, go carefully over the mechanism and adjust it to as enact nicely as my mechanical knowledge will permit. if some of the *braces or rods have. becomebent, take them out and straighten them. Replac- ing worn, broken or lost parts.a Apply ta gooll coat of paint where necessary. ; Then when you have tin1 tractor and la“ the remaining machines in perfect order, as the old saying goes. raring to go. when the activities of sowing and ,harvest are at hand. there are count- less other things in which’ you can employ your forge and Woodworker’s bench. Ag conveyor spout from the granary to the basement may save five or ten minutes and a number of steps, both of which are precious commodi- ties through the. summer months. In‘the house, too, are many oppor« tunities for the construction of time and labor-saving equipment. as well as the erection of window seats, flower racks, book-cases and things ofthat kind that make the farm house look homey and appealirig.-G1‘eely Everitt. NOW IS THE TIME. OW much one is likely to benefit from the selection of vigorous seed cannot be measured positively. It is certain, however. that the benefits are sufficiently large to make the prac- tice an attractive one to progressive farmers. Tests prove this beyond a doubt. Most farmers recognize the fact that it pays to put in the best Seed procurable. The New Idea Model and details of construction have been advantages built into it. To get The coupon will bring you the Perfect Spreader ! Never before has greater value been built ingo a farm im- plement! Never before has a farm dollar bought greater quality! The new Model 8 New Idea gives ya; a spreader built for a lifetime of honest serwce. ed by twenty-five years of development—and today the c‘cientJVew Idea stands as the world's foremost spender. ‘ l . ‘\ e l \ , T wenttj ~five¥or Record . of Highest Quality OR a quarter of a century the New making on thousands of farms. won for the New Idea unques farm community as the world 's best Spreader! 8 Is the Its design improved and refin- ldea Spreader has done a steady job of profit- Its day in and day out serVice. year after year, has tioned leadership —and made it known in every “ Special Features that Add Extra Value to the New Idea! Every single, desirable feature for efficient a reading is built into this sturdy. new model New Idea. 3a easy loading —anl and rear wheels track—Auto steer or pivot axles—Can be driven into barn or shed for loading ——-Unil steel n'veled frame reduces weight and increases strength—Strong, simple feeding and distributing mechanism insures perfect shredding and wide, even spreading. Insist on Getting the Original and Genuine NEW IDEA SPREADER The New Idea has patents on its exclusive features and you can find no other spreader with the same definite these advantages insiston the original and genuine New Idea Spreader. Complete literature on the New Idea Spreader or New Idea Transplanter will be sent you upon request. k fastener ask your dealer to show you these two fine farm implements. The New Idea Spreader Company, Coldwater, Ohio .3 . .1 5. . 3W5”, 19235.1 ' ,- “ To gain 'the advantage that accrues « to one Who plants seed of high quality " and germinating capacity, it is import- ant to secure and check up On their supplies or purchases early. While germinating tests can be made, and the general appearance of the seeds noted, it» is diffichlt often to assure oneself that the seed is adapted to the climatic conditions under which it is proposed to grow the crops. As a rule. seed corn cannot be moved more than fifty miles north of where it was grown without seriously injuring the chances of maturing a. crop. other seeds show a similar tendency. It is not too early. 1 ,t I therefore, to urge upon every farmer ~ to take a full inventory of the seed re- quirements and--- supplies for 1925 at this time. Any deficiencies can, there fore, be supplied. This work cared for now will clear the way for more timely duties later on and go far toward in- suring good harvests for 1925.——J. C. RECOVERS MARL EASILY. ‘ I AM more fortunately situated than . most farmers in having a marl bed within driving distance and which is high and dry. It is the bottom of a. lake which has been IOWered by drain- age so that there is from four to.six feet of the marl above the present lake eveL In the winter time one can drive onto the marl with a team and. after breaking the crust of the frozen marl. it is only about a forty minute job to secure a load of one and one-half to two yards, for which we pay thirty cents a yard. We have. observed that in taking the marl from such a bed it can be hand- led be’tter with a manure fork than with a spade or shovel. A potato scoop is also good. But‘thc shovel sticks too much to work to advantage. Since it takes a long time for frozen marl to thaw out, it is best to pile it in the fields in small piles, if one ex- pects to spread it early in the spring. It will also dry out much better if left that way. in spreading 1 find mat the manure spreader is about the best thing to handle marl. One will have to experi- ment at little to see, how best to load the spreader and adjust the. machine to get on the right amount. I put on about four yards to the acre as ad- vised by our county agent. Our marl tests from eighty—five to, ninety-seven per cent lime, making it a quality material for the correction of acid in our sol-ls, and for bringing about ‘better stands of alfalfa and sweet eleven—R. Carroll. ill low for “Spreader Specialists for Twenty/Jive Years" D. JECONOMIC PROSPECTS. FOR 1925.I (Continued from page 36). = prices after the plant and labor ca- pacity of the country is employed to the maximum. We have reached no such stage because there is still a margin of labor capacity for enlarged output in the form, however, of more full time employment than from peo- ple out of work. As a nation our bus- iness men, bankers and public officials have gained enormously during the, past four years in understanding of the basic factors which create healthy prosperity as distinguished from over- expansion as well as in understanding of their responsibilities in the matter. Our informational services are now upon such a basis as quickly detect l———_—_—'——_——_—_l The New Idea Transplanter I THE NEW IDEA SPREADER co. Here is another big achievement of the New Idea organization—a new ' l Coldwater, Ohm and better transplanter that takes the guess-work out of plant-setting. New Idea is the first and entry transplanier with the driver's seat I ’ (lile’planlaetfen. All the work is under the direct centre] of the driver. e engineer: l job. 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Economy is half the battle of life; it .is not ‘sdhard to earn money as. it is ,. 9“,.-- __.....L.-. to spend it well.—Surgeon. -. )»_ ,J depression. .. ”Manwm .._. (7 Robert L. Pearson holds the rec- . 0rd of 343 feet of under-water , swimming. ' At annualan1v9nfion of National Insecticide and Disinfectant AS- DQYS at Columbia Vargity had a 4_ sociation, experts tested a new compound to exterminate roaches JOHY time making: up as girls for i and other pests which are believed to cause cancer. the show. "Halt Moon Inn.” ' .. n." “K" .. Here in the Elks’ club building,‘(B. P. O. E., Lodge No. 1), of New This is the Horseshoe stadium at, Lake \V‘orth. F‘Erir‘da, Where the York City, Samuel Gompers, president of American Federation national contest, will be. staged in February by the National Horse 3': of Labor, laid in state after his death. Shoe Pitchers’ Association. A dozen pairs can (:rsmpeu- at once. ; When this auto plunged into Long Island Sub- Mrs. Helena Normanton. 9f Lon- Mr' and Mrs.Ralph“Lewis‘s-(titer;forBermuda on way it short-circuited the third rail and halted don, is the first woman In Ef‘g' honeymoon “I” 1* "‘1‘ 1‘ d “5"“ to the a, train, saving three lives. land to be “called to the bar. late Presulvnt Hamlin: H ~ ' Tsuneo Matsudaira who has just been gazetted d ‘ t 11 d . .- - - ., , / t . . _ an 1113 a e as Thes - ~ fl_men of the 1. S‘ A. won Japanese Ambassador to the United States, is shown here with thee EQ‘GEEL‘I Bfigufidfi’flfififignsrfii; at the. Pan-American rifle Madame Matsudaara and their two children. chanlpionship tourney at Lima, pem Oopyflaht lull-demo“ & Underwood. New York ......._ W __,- My. -_Mx _ 40—16‘ 5 ; ELL,” she thought, “it’s going to j ".. . - ' , a ,"be different, that’s certain. This ’is a vegetable farm, and they don’t eat vegetables. I wonder why. What a pity she lets her- self look like that, just because she’s a SO I B I G--—By Edna Herder (.‘OPYithHT, 1924. B1.' DOUBLEDAY. PAGE & COMPANY " _farm woman. Her hair screwed into "that knob, her skin rough and neglect- ed. That hideous dress. Shapeless. She’s not bad-looking, either. A red spot on either cheek, now; and her eyes so blue. A little like those wom- en in the Dutch pictures Father took me to see in—where?———where?——New York, years ago?—yes. 1A womanin a kitchen, a dark sort of room with pots of brass on a shelf; a high mul- ,Geertje and Jozina were absorbed in some game ’of their own behind the stOVe. Roelf, at the table, sat reading, one slim hand, chapped and gritty with rough work, outspread on th cloth. Selina noticed, without know- ing she noticed, that the fingers were long, slim, and the broken nails thin and fine. “But what’s in it?” she said back to Roelf, gingerly. Dried blood? She stared at the two men. does it mean by dried blood?” Klaas answered stubbornly, “Dried blood is dried blood. You put in the eld dried blood and it makes grow. Cabbages, onions, squash.” At sight of her horrified face he grinned. “Well, cabbages is anyway beautiful, huh?” “What lioned window. But that «woman’s face was placid. . This one’s strained. Why A SONG OF need she look like that, f“; ysy, har— ried, old! The boy isf‘fii‘ mehow, foreign looking——Italian. Queer. They talk a good deal like some Ger— man neighbors we had in Milwaukee. They twist sentences. Literal transla- tions from the Dutch, I suppose.” Jakob Hoogendunk was talking. Sup- per over, the men sat relaxed, pipe in mouth. Maartje was clearing the sup- per things, with Geertje and Jozina making a great pretense at helping. If they giggled like that in school, Selina thought, she would, in time, go mad, and knock their pigtailcd heads to- gether. I sing a song of the grand old farm I like to think is mine, With a woodsy road and brook and lake inviting hook and line. The top of the hill with wide expanse Of fields and knolls and tree Seems, as I breathe the moming air, Like the top of the world to me The orchard, grandfather planted there On the hillside facing the sun ls filled with the mem’ries of child- hood, “You got to 11a {0 rich bottom land,” Happiest days I have known. Hoogendunk was saying, “else you get little tough stringy stuff. I seen it in market Friday, laying. Stick to vege— tables that is vegetables and not new- fangled stuff. Celery! “hat is ccl- ery! It ain't rightly a vegetable, and it ain‘t a yerb. Look how Voorheis he used as much as one hundred fifty pounds nitrate of sody, let alone reg- ular fertilizer, and what comes from if? Little stringy stuff. You got to have rich bottom land.” Selina was interested. She had al~ ways thought that vegetables grew. You put them in the grounduseeds or something—and pretty soon things came popping upmpotatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots, beets. But what was this thing called nitrate of soda? It must have had something to do with the creamed cabbage at Mrs. Tebbitt’s. And sho had never known it. And what. was regular fertilizer? She lean— ed forward. “Whal’s a regular fertilizer?” Klaas Pool and Jakob Hoogendunk looked at her. She looked at them, her line intelligent eyes alight with interest. Pool then tipped back his chair, lifted a store-lid, spat into the embers, replaced the lid and rolled his eyes in the direction of Jakob Hoogen— Through meadow, woods and fruitful field Winds Waubascon brook, And'little fishes dart and leap As in its depths i look. The woodchuck’s hole and killdeer’s nest Are secrets that i find As i try to trace the COWS that strayed Over the boundary line. The clover makes A goodly place to rest, But i mustn’t stop to enjoy it sweet in the meadow again. Suddeth life in the kitchen hung suspended. The two men frown.— cd. Maarlje hall“ turned from her dish- pan. The two little girls peered out from behind the stove. Roelf looked up from his book. Even the collie, ly— ing in front. of the stove half asleep, suddenly ran his tongue out, winked one eye. But Selina, all sociability, awaited her answer. She could not know that in High Prairie women did not brazenly intrude thus on men’s weighty conversation. The men look— ed at her, unanswering. She began to dunk. l'loogcndunk you,“ his slow feel a little uncomfortable. The. boy gaze j” 1,11,, direction 01- Klaas pool. ltoclf rose and went to the cupboard in the kitchen corner. He took down a large green—bound book, and placed, it in Selina's hand. The book smelled Then both turned to look at this au« dacious female who thus interrupted men‘s conversation. Pool took his pipe from his mouth, terribly. “5 “0"”5 WW9 greasy With blew a thin spiral, wiped his mouth handling. 0” the page margins a with the back 01‘ his hand. “Regular brown stain showed the imprint of feritlizer is—~regular fertilizer." fingers. Itoell‘ pointed at a page. Selina lollowod the line with her eye. ' Good Basic Gard 3n Crops. Then, below: Nitrate of soda. .\nn'noniuin sulfate. Dried blood. Selina shut the book and handed it Jacob Hoogendunk nodded his sol~ emn confirmation of this. “What’s in it?" persisted Selina. Pool waved a huge red hand as though to waft away this troublesome insect. He looked at Maarlje. But Maartjc was slamming about .her work. Fertilizer for Market- ' THE FflRM‘ For the weeds are growing their best. ' I love the cornfield's rustling leaves, But love i can’t pretend When the July sun is on my back And rows seem with no end. Cattle upon a thousand hills Are treasure fine to own \ Till, “Fence is down,” an irate voice Calls me o’er the phone. I love to care for high-bred stock, l liketo see them grow, But when my stock is fit to sell The price comes down, you know. I like to work in haying time if i need not hustle 3: But weeds grow fast. in cornfields green And wheat is ripening, too. At last, at last I stop to rest, But no, the hogs are out, And in the neighbor’s oatfield fine They’re wandering about. So here i give the arguments On both sides of the question, Whether or no i quit the farm— Perhaps you have a suggestion. \ He rolled a facetious eye around at Jakob. Evidently this joke was going to last him the winter. Selina stood up. She wasn’t annoy- ed; but she wanted, suddenly, to be alone in her roome—in the room that but an hour before had been a strange and terrifying chamber with its tow- ering bed, its chill drum, its ghostly bride‘s chest. Now it had become a refuge, snug, safe, infinitely desirable. She turned to Mrs. Pool. “I—I think I’ll go up to my room. I’m very tired. The ride, I suppose. I’m. not used . ” Her voice trailed off. “Sure,” said Maartje, briskly. She had finished the supper dishes and was busy with a huge bowl, flour, a baking board. “Sure go up. I got my bread to set yet and what all.” “If" I could have some hot water—” “Roelf! Slop once that reading and show school teacher where is hot wa— ter. Geertjo.’ Jozina! Never in my world did I see such.” She cuffed a convenient pigtnil by way of emphasis. A wail arose. - “Never mind. It doesn't matter. Don’t bother.” Selina was in a sort of panic now. She wanted to be out of 11L A C REb—“S/mz B67199}; é] fll’r .lrzc/z'J/wrz'z‘z'mz, ”7142137)” flux! 1': the‘flroom. .1» Bug-a , ter on the little wash-stand, and had ‘ . , ‘e barges-ittffwnh’ .-‘ quiet ‘swiftness'; hair takenefa'batterad- ' . tin pail from its 'i‘hook 0n the magma; ' ' lifted an iron slab atthe back or" the kitchen stoVe, A mist of steam arose. 3’ 'He dipped the‘pail into the tiny reser~ i voir thus ,revealed. Then, as Selina, made as though to take it,~he walked j past her. She heard him ascending. the wooden stairway. 'She wanted to be after him. But first she must know - ' the name of the book over ‘which he _ . had been poring. But between her ‘ and the book outspread'on the table i were; Pool, Hoogendunk, dog, pigtails. Maartje. She pointed with a determ- ined forefinger. “What’s that book Roelf was reading?’_’ ‘ . Maartje thumped a. great ball of dough on the baking board. Her arms . were white with flour. She kneaded” ‘ 3' a and pummelled\expertly. “Woorden ‘ ' . boek.” Well. That meant nothing. VVoor— , den boek. Woorden b Dimly the . a meaning of the Dutch words began to ‘.-‘ come to her. But it couldn’t be. She f" brushed past the men in the.tipped- l back chairs, stepped over the collie, ‘l reached across the table. Woorden-— ll word. Boek—book. Word book. “He’s reading the dictionary!” Selina said, aloud. “He’s reading the dictionary!” She had the horrible feeling that she was going to laugh and cry at once; hysteria. Mrs. Pool glanced around. “School' teacher he gave it to Roelf time he quit last year for spring planting. A. word book. In it is more as a hun- dred thousand words, all different.” {l Selina flung a good-night over her shoulder and made for the stairway. l He should have all her books. She. would send to Chicago for books. She ‘ .1 would spend her thirty dollars a month buying books for him. He had been reading the dictionary! Roelf had placed the pail of hot wa- " aw vi Jr“: .-~. lighted the glass lamp. He was intent on replacing the glass chimney within " the four' prongs that held it firm. Downstairs, in the crowded kitchen, he had seemed quite a man. Now, in j‘ the yellow lamplight, his profile sharp— ly outlined, she saw that he was just ‘ a small boy with touseled hair. About his cheeks, his mouth, his chin 0110. i could even see the last faint traces of i l soft infantile roundness. His trousers, absurdly cut down from a man’s pair . by inexpert hands, hung grotesquely about his slim shanks. “He’s just a little boy,” thought Se~ , lina, with a quick pang. He was about to pass her now, without glancing at her, his head down. She put out her hand; touched his shoulder. He looked up at her, his face startlingly alive, his ' eyes blazing. It came to Selina that until now she had not heard him speak. Her hand pressed the thin stuff of his coat sleeve. “Cabbages—fields of cabbages-~ what you said—they are beautiful,” he stammered. He was terribly in ear- . nest. Before she could reply he was . out of the room, clattering down the l stairs. ‘ Selina stood, blinking a little. I The glow that warmed her now en- l ’ durcd while she splashed about in the inadequate basin; took down the dark ; (Continued on page 43). ‘ LOOK AT THE. 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I afi'w. w.“ .- . v-Mwwmw MW 3‘ '5" ” ’ ““‘mmmwawfiwrcfi"“ 7'." "'"" ”he’s-to; .. . .‘ ‘ .r '\ (,Gontinifed' from page 40). soft'masses of ,her hair; put on the 'voliiminous long-sleeved, high-necked ‘nightgown. ‘ Just before she blew out the lamp her last glimpse was of the black drum stationed like a patient eunuch in the corner; and she could smile at that; even giggle a little, what with weariness, excitement, and a gen- ‘eral feeling of being awake in a dream. But once in the vast bed she lay there utterly lost in the waves of terror and loneliness'that envelop one at night in a strange house amongst strange peo- ple. She lay there, tensed and tight, her toes curled with nervousness, her spine hunched with it, her leg mus- cles taut. She peeked over the edge of the covers looking a good deal like a frightened brownie, if one could have seen-her; her eyes very’wide, the pn- pils turned well toward the corners with the look of listening and distrust. The sharp November air cut in from the fields that were fertilized with dried blood. She shivered, and wrink- led up her lovely little nose and seem— ed to sniff this loathsome taint in the air. She listened to the noises that came from belowstairs; voices gruff, unaccustomed; shrill, high. These ceased and gave place to others less accustomed to her city-bred ears; a dog’s bark and an answering one; a far—off train whistle; the dull thud of boots stamping on the barn floor; the wind in the bare tree branches outside the window. Her watch—-a gift from Peake on her eighteenth birthday—— with the gold case all beautifully en- graved with a likeness of a gate, and a church, and a waterfall and a bird, linked together with spirals and flour— ishes of the most graceful description, was ticking away companionably un- der her pillow. She felt for it, took it out and held it in her palm, under her cheek, for comfort. She knew she would not sleep that night. She knew she .would not sleep-— She awoke to a clear, cold Novem- ber dawn; children‘s voices; the neigh- ing of horses; a great sizzling and hissing, and scent of frying bacon; a clucking and squawking in the barn- yard. It was six o’clock. Selina‘s first day as a school teacher. In a little more than two hours she would be facing a whole roomful of round-eyed \Geertjes and Jozinas and Roelfs. The bedroom was cruelly cold. As she threw the bedclothes heroically .aside Selina decided that it took an appall- ing amount of courage—this life that Simeon Peake had called a great ad— venture. VERY morning throughout Novem- ber it was the, same. At six o‘clock: “Miss Pea‘ke! Oh, Miss Peake!” “I'm up!” Selina would call in what she meant to be a gay voice, through chattering teeth. “You better come down and dress where is warm here by the stove.” Peering down the perforations in the floor-hole through which the parlor chimney swelled so proudly into the drum, Selina could vaguely descry Mrs. Pool stationed just below, her gaze upturned. That first morning, on hearing this invitation, Selina had been rocked be— tween horror and mirth. “I’m not cold, really. I’m almost dressed. I‘ll be down directly.” ‘Maartje Pool must have sensed some of the shock in the girl’s voice; or, perhaps, even some of the. laughter. “P001 and Jakob are long out already cutting. Here back of the stove you can dress warm.” Shivering and tempted though she was, Selina had set her will against it. A little hardening of the muscles around her jaw so that they stood out whitely beneath the fine—grained skin. “I won’t go down,” she said to herself. shaking with the cold. “I won’t come down to dressing behind the kitchen stove like a—like a peasant in one of 4 cent. . Simeon .those dreadful Russian novels. That sounds stuck up and horrid. The Pools are good and kind and de- But I won’t come down to huddling behind the stove with a bundle of under-Wear in my arms. Oh, dear, this .corset’s like a casing of ice.” Geertje- and ‘Jozina had no such maidenly scruples. Each morning they gathered their small woollen garments in a bundle and-scudded briskly to the kitchen for warmth, though their bed- room just off the parlor had by no means the degree of refrigeration pos- sessed by Selina’s clammy chamber. Not only that, the Misses Pool slept snugly in the woollen nether garments that invested them by day and so had only mounds of woollen petticoats, woollen stockings, and mysterious grimy straps, bands, and l'astenings with which to struggle. Their intimate flannels had a cactus quality that made the early martyrs hair shirts seem, in comparison, but a fleece-lined cloud. Dressing behind the kitchen store was a natural and universal cus- tom in High Prairie. ’ " By the middle of December as Se- lina stuck her nose cautiously out of the covers into the midnight black- ness of early morning you might have observed it, if it had been at all light, that the tip of that elegant and erst- while, alabaster feature had been en- carmined during the night by a mis- chievous brush welded by that same Wight who had been busy painting fronds and lacy ferns and gorgeous blossoms of silver all over the bed— room window. Slowly, inch by inch, that bedroom window crept. down, down. Then, too. the Pools objected to the icy blasts which swept the open stairWay and penetrated their hermet- ically Sealed bedrooms below. Often ‘the water in the pitcher on her wash- stand was frozen when Selina awoke. Her garments, laid out the night be- fore so that their donning next morn— ing might occupy a minimum of time, were mortuary to the touch. \Yorst 015 all Were the steel-stiffened, un- wieldy, and riduculous stays that en- cased the female form of that day. “But I won‘t dress behind the kitch— en stove!" declared Selina, glaring meanwhile at that hollow pretense, the drum. She even stuck her tongue out at it (only nineteen, remember;). For that matter, it may as well be known that, she brought home a piece of chalk from school and sketched a demon facw on the drum’s bulging front, giving it a personal and horrid aspect. that afforded her much satis- faction. , \N'hen shr- thought back, years later, on that period of her High Prairie ex- perience, stores seemed to figure with absurd prominence in her memory. That might well be. A store changed the whole course of her life. From the first, the schoolhouse stove was her bete noir. Out of the welter of that first year it: stood, huge and menacing, a black tyrant. The High Prairie schoolhouse in which Selina taught was a little more than a mile up the road from the Pool farm. She came to know that road in all its moods~-ice-lockcd, drifted with snow, wallowing in mud. School began at half-past eight. After her first week Selina had the mathematics of her early morningr reduced to the least common denominator. Up at six. A plunge into the frigid garments; break« fast. of bread, cheese, sometimes ba- con, always rye coffee without cream or sugar. On with the cloak, muffler, hood. mittens, galoshes. The lunch box in bad Weather. ['p the road to the schoolhouse, battling the prairie wind that whipped the tears into the eyes, ploughing the drifts, slipping on the hard ruts and icy ridges in dry weather. Excellent at nineteen. As she flew down the road in sun or rain, in wind or snow, her mind‘s eye was fixed on the stove. The schoolhouse reached, her numbed fingers wrestled with the rusty lock. The door opened, there smote her the schoolroom smell (Continued on page 45). til V 1 A .____-—9— .via \hl ' a challenge and a responsibility The problem of electrifying the farm is a challenge both to scientific agriculture and to electric engineering. With agric culturists and engineers joining forces in solving this problem, the possibilities of farm electrification are limited only by man’s 1ngenu1 ty. This splendid opportunity to serve the farm and benefit the entire country is not being overlooked either by the agri- x culturists or others interested. A committee composed ot eight great organizations has been studying and carrying on experiments seeking solutions to these problems. This general committee and local committees in twelve states have before them, among others, the problems of: The lowering of farm production and marketing costs by the whole- sale application ol electric power. The raising of the farmers’ standards of living by the introduction of electrical conveniences. The closer relation of the farmer to industry and transportation through the interconnection of electrical distribution systems and the wider use oi electric power. These studies and the solutions which are expected to result must have a profound effect upon every community. Write for the attractive booklet on farm electrification ' which will be mailed to you without cost. it on to your neighbor. The committee mentioned above is composed ofthe American Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange, American Society ongricultural Engineers, U. S. Read it and pass Departments ongriculture, Commerce and Interior, Farm Lighting Manufac~ turing‘ Association and the National Electric Light Association. NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ASSOCIATION 29 West 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Welcome to . d 1 8h fiefifiloridsa ' . “‘ Where wonderful climate and rich. ‘ ‘.\ soil combine to form a perfect con~ \ dition for the growing of early vege- tables and all sub—tropical fruits, such as oranges, grapefrultwavocados, ba- nanas, pineapples, etc."I‘wo railroads new opening up thousands of acres ~ (\R of rich,new land.Citrus soils and rich est muck. Many opportunltlcsto make big profits on modest investment. For information and booklet write: 3- C. Burch, Secretary Highlands County Chamber of Commerce, Sebring. Florida. } a Volles. Llnonos. } 0f the fine textiles we get from. /’/, 7*) the bi mills. many pieces are too small or out) wholesale garment: “3; [1/ manufacture. At lowest celery (9/ price—% on My whatyoulwou d ordi- narily pay—you can have loveliest. selection. or neweat. most. durable patterns. Assorted colors. Full 17 yards,- 4 to 6 yard pieces. Splendid Material for Dresses. Aurons. ICC sums. Eac Pubsci'mt' "c'hi d‘ h loco h. l . r m t d 4 Yards mu agnd ykmcmu Flo: - sill. 2.13.35.33 - Collu- and Cu“ 80!. or More m sumo no money— k orrl "o 1.551131.th :fgw cohii‘l‘ggggm . 'fifion are not entirely utisfupd we Towollng m entire purchase once. ”ER 0" .307!“ as...“ RINLE me. 100 lbs. Large Round Herring .................. $3.50 100 lbs. Largo Dres‘scd Herring ................. 45') Package rhargo 30c. Send for complete llrl. Consumers Fish Co., Green Bay, Wis ill)” parking charges 35c per 100 lbs. > ,, der today or send for eompletc price list. . lat once. Badger Fish Co., Dept. 5, Green Bay, Wu. Large Round Herring $3.50, l)l‘t‘~ I l '1 1 I) \ , l /' . 10$ .9119. Doings In» Woodland HE animal folks in Woodland were tired ot' playing the old games in the snow. They want- ed to .play a new game, something ditf~ ferent. “But what will we play?” asked Willie Woodchuck. “VVe’ve played “Fox and Geese” and “Dog and, Deer” so much. Who knows a new game?” They all scratched their heads to \think of a new game but could not. might and they could Think as hard as they scratch their heads harder, Rolly Rabbit'Tagged Sammy Squir’rel. not think of a new game. Vt'hen they were all puzzling themselves for some— thing new to play, along came Jackie Rabbit. “What is troubling you this bright winter day?” he asked. 4 “We want to play a new game and can’t think ot' any,” said little Sandy Squirrel. . . “Why don’t you play A. B. C?” sug- gested Jackie. “But that sounds like school and we don’t want to play school,” said Billy Muskrat. “But it isn’t like school, and you play it in the Jackie Rabbit. “Tell us 110W to play it,” chimed in together. “First you print A. B. C. in the snow," began Jackie Rabbit. “You make great big letters. ever so big. Then you make a circle away out around the letters." Jackie-Rabbit started to tramp down the snow to make the letters and the circle, and behind him trooped all his ‘Woodland friends. “Now,” said Jackie Rabbit, “we will have three'goals and only two players can be on one goal‘at the same time. One goal is at the peak ot' A. and 0111- at the middle ot' B. The other is at the end of C.” He marked the with sticks. “Bruin will be ‘It' first. He can tag you if you are not on one ot' the goals. Vl'hen all the goals are full you can go to any 'goal and one 01‘ those on the goal must leave. You can’t go out- side tlfe circle or inside letters,” said Jackie Rabbit. it wasn’t long before Bruin agged Rolly Rabbit and then Rolly tagged Sammy Squirrel and Sammy tagged Jenny Rabbit. So they all played A. B. C. until their mothers called them home to supper, and had heaps ot‘ i‘un. SO BIG. it’s a game snow,” said they all goals in the snow (Continued from page 43). —‘a mingling ot’ real ashes, kerosene, unwashed bodies, dust, mice, chalk, sto-vewood, lunch crumbs, mould, slate that hasbeen washed with saliva. Into this Selina rushed, .untying her muffler as she entered. In the little vestibule there was a box piled with chunks ot' stove~wood and another with dried corn-cabs. Alongside this a can of ker- "The cobs served as kindling.’ ' Aadozenzor, more ot‘rthese'you soaked ‘ . . , ' 1726 Woodland Folk? Play A. B. C. with kerosene and stuffed into the niaw ol' the rusty, iron pot-bellied stove. A match. Up flared the' corn- cobs. Now was the moment for a small stick of wood; another to keep it, com- pany. Shut the door. Draughts. Damp- ers. Smoke. Suspense. A blaze, then a crackle. The wood has caught. In with a chunk now. A wait. Another chunk. Slam the door. The school- fii'e is started for the day. As the ’i'oom thawed gradually Selina remov- ed layers ot' outer garments. By the time the children arrived the. room was livable. Naturally, those who sat near this monster baked; those near the wiri~ dows l'roze. Sometimes Selina felt. she, must go mad belioldifig the writhings and contortiorts ot' a rooml'ul ot' wrig- gling bodies scratching at: backs, legs, and sides as the stove grew hotter and flesh rebelled against the harsh con— tact with the prickling undergarments ot‘ an over-cautious day. Selina had seen herself, dignified. yet gentle, instructing a rooml'ul 01‘ Dutch cherubs in the simpler elements ot' learning. lut it; is diilicult; to be dignified and gracious when you are suffering l'roni-cliilblains. Selina fell victim to this sordid discomfort, as did every child in the room. She sat. a! the batter“ pine desk 01' moved about, a little ice-wool shawl around her shoulders when the wind was wrong and the stove balky. Iler white little l‘ac'e se1’1medavliit1-r in (onlra 1t with the black folds of this sombre gar- ment. ller slim hands w'1'11 - Mil h and chapped. The oldest child in the room was thirteen, the youngest tour and a half. From elgl'it-thiriy until i'our Se- lina ruled this grubby domain; a hot- and-cold roomful of sneezing, couglr ing, wriggling, shuffling, dozing chil- dren, toe seaming on and heel scrunching on agonized toe, in a frenzy ot' itching. " Sijde, parse this ground is Wet because ggie Varirler seiiteiiC“: 'l'lit- it has rained." Miss Vander Slide, eleven, arises with a switching ot’ skirts and a toss- ing ot‘ pigtzifl. “ ‘(lround’ the subject; ‘is wwt,‘ tha- piedicate; ‘becatise’ Selina is listening with school-teach- erly expression indicative ot' encour- ag1,1iii1-iit. and approval. "Jan Snip, parse this St.’lll.('llCt'I The tlower will wither it it is picked." Brown lady‘s-cloth: ice-wool shawl; chalk in hand. Just, a phase: a brief chapter in the adventure. Something to remember and look'back on with a mingling ot' amusement; and wonder. Things were going to happen. Such things, Willi lite and life and life stretching ahead ot‘ her! In five 31-2113~thi~it'\’t'li one, perhaps, who knows but, that. she might, be lying 011 lat-y pillow .1 on just, such a bleak win- ter morning, a satin ('ovei'let, over her, the morning light, shaded by soft r0511- colored hangingu. (Early intluenCe ol' the Fireside Companion). “What; time is it, Celeste?” “It is now eleven o‘clock, Madame.” “is that all!” ““‘ould madame like that her bath now, or later?" i prepare “Later. Celeste. My chocolate now. My letters.” “. and it is the conjunction modifying . . ” Early in the winter Selina had the unfortunate idea ot’ opening the ice{ p locked windows at, intervals and giving; ‘ the children five minutes ot w h i l 1‘- atid room at once. Arms waved wildly, heads wobbled, short legs worked vigé ‘ week tweii- l,’ l orously. At the end‘ ot' the agon 121-11 heel,‘ ty ,Hi'gh Prairie parents sent protests by note or word of mouth. Jan and Cornelius, Katrina and Aggie went. to school to learn l‘it‘ldlllg and writing and numbers, not to stand with open windows in the winter. ‘On the Pool farm the winter work had set in. Klaas drove into Chicago with winter vegetables only once a week now. He and Jakob and Roelt' were storing potatoes, and cabbages underground; repairing fences; prepar- ing frames for the early spring plant- ing: sorting seedlings. It had been Roell‘ who had taught Selina to build the schoolhouse fire. He had gone with her 011 that first. morning, had started the fire, fillet] the water pail, initiated her in the rites ot' corn—cobs, kerosene, and dampers. A shy, dark, silei t boy. She set out deliberately to woolliiiii to friendship. “ loell’, I have a book called ‘lvan- Iioe.’ Vt'ould you like to read it?” “\\'1-U, I dofl't get much time." “You wouldn’t have to hurry. Right there in the house And theres’ an- other call'ed ”i‘Iie Three Musketeers’ ” He was trying not to look pleaSed: to appear stolid and Dutch, like the people from whom he had sprung. Some Dutch sailor ancestor, Selina. thought, or fisherman, must touched at an Italian port 01' Spanishl and brought back a wile whose eyvs. and skin and feeling for beauty had‘ skipped layer on layer ot' placid Nethw erlanders to crop‘ out 110w in this wist? t'ul sensitive boy. ((‘ontinued next week). SUNSHINE HOLLOW ITEMS. . lma Knutt, who has taken reducing tablets [or six months, is still strong} and well and has gained tWenty' pounds. Harrison Snyder wanted to join the Bank‘s Christmas Club and get $51) hand/1d Iiini next I‘1eCenibei'. 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"7’1” 9.. . ,...,. ”,1 4.. ._ 5.3m.“ n’ , 11‘. “Aswan.” ,«;, .. PUMPKIN PIE! By James Hungerford We may, sing o’ the cake That our mothers can make, An’ the cookies they bake, an’ the tarts. ” ' ' An’ the doughnuts divine, An’ the puddings—they’re fine, An’ they fill a warm place in our hearts! But’now honestly, boy, When it comes to real joy, An’ your appetite’s soaring “on high,” . _\Va.s there ever a. treat, Among good things to eat, That could equal, or beat—pumpkin pm. When you see your Ma roll Out the dough from the bowl, An’ then pick up the old’ rollin’- An’ revolve it about, ~ 'Till‘the dough’s flattened out pin. On the board, ’til it’s razor-blade thin; \Vhen she cuts it to fit The pie pan, doesn’t it Sort 0’ make you feel funny inside? , When it’s ready to bake, Would you rather have cake?— Or a slice of that pie, big an’ wide? When you sniff the sweet scent 0’ the cinnamon blent W'ith the pumpkin content, ’neath the crust, An’ the smell 0’ the juice ‘ On the air is let loose, Don’t you feel you could eat ’til you bust? . You may sing o’ the cake That your mother can make, An’ the doughnuts divine, she can fry, An’ 0’ cooky an’ tart, But down deep in your heart, Could they ever replace—pumpkin pie? . Hot Breads in Variety I f Homewz've: F/z'rt wit/z Baking Powder ‘I/zey will Make I Friend Huréamz’ Smi/e OT breads! What a tempting vision those two words call to mind! Hot biscuits, griddle Cakes, muffins, rolls, and johnny cakes, and at no time do they taste quite so good as on cold days. And they may be just as practical, as wholesome, as dainty and as attractive as anyone may desire. As corn is such a heat— producin‘g food, breads made with cornmeal are especially desirable for cold days. Cornmeal Griddle Cakes. Mix together one cup of cornmeal mush, tWo cups sour milk or butter. milk, one beaten egg, TWO teaspoons of salt, and tWO tablespoons of sugar. Add a rounding teaspoon of soda and stir till dissblved. Mix in enough flour to make a thin batter, and three ta- blespoons of melted fat, and fry in the usual way. Mashed potatoes or cold oatmeal or rice may be used instead of the cornmeal mush. Cornmeal Muffins. Dissolve a. level teaspoon of soda in a cup of sour milk. Add a teaspoon of salt, a. well-beaten egg, two table- spoons of melted fat, and two table- spoons of syrup. Mix thoroughly and add half a cup of flour sifted with a rounding teaspoon of baking powder, and a cup of cornmeal. Half fill well greased muffin tins and bake in a quick oven. Bran Muffins. Sift together one-half teaspoon of salt, one cup of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder (rounding), and one rounding teaspoon of soda. Add two cups of bran. Mix well and add one and one—half cups of sour milk, one well—beaten egg, three. tablespoons of melted fat and One-fourth cup of mo- lasses. Half fill well greased muffin A. G. Wagar’s Daughter, of 'Clarksville, is Ready for a Canter. “MN. fl- ....._._.---_. W . . tins and bake about twenty-five min- utes in moderate oven. Half a cup of raisins may be added before the liq- uids are put in, if desired. Corn Bread. Dissolve a rounding teaspoon of soda in two cups of sour milk or buttermilk. Add a well beaten egg, a tablespoon of salt, two tablespoons of sugar, and one-fourth cup of cracklings that have been warmed in the oven. Mix thor- oughly and add one—half cup of flour into which two rounding teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted and mixed. Mix in enough cornmeal to make a batter stiff enough to drop from the spoon. Bake in a shallow pan for twenty minutes, or until well browned. ‘ Cheese Biscuits. ' Mix and sift together two cups of flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one rounding teaspoon of salt, and a little sugar if desired. Rub in a. round- ing tablespoon of lard with the finger tips. Gradually add enough sweet milk to make a soft dough. Roll out to one-fourth inch in thickness, cut in rounds and sprinkle half the biscuits with grated cheese. Over each biscuit that is sprinkled with the cheese, place one that is not sprinkled, press together lightly, and bake till brown in a quick oven. Sweet Rolls. Scald one cup of sweet milk and allow it to cool. ‘When just lukewarm add a teaspoon of salt, a cup of mash- ed pmatoes, one-fourth cup of melted .I‘at, one-fourth- cup of sugar, and one cake of yeast that has been dissolved and mixed with one—fourth cup luke~ warm water. Mix well and add the grated rind of a lemon, and flour enough to make a dough. Allow to rise to double its bulk, knead well and allow to rise again. When light, roll out to onethird inch in thickness. spread lightly .with melted butter, sprinkle with raisins and roll tightly. Cut in inch slices and place together in a well greased pan. When light bake in a moderate oven. KEEPING CANS IN CONDITION. USE the screw top jars with the porcelain-lined tops. In the past I have had considerable trouble sealing cans and keeping fruit from coming unsealed, until I hit upon this method. When I open and use a can of fruit, I empty the jar and wash, scald and wipe it dry, put in sun or in hot oven to dry out and air. The top is washed .Vu ...... - around. manner. a well and sterilized for several minutes. Then I screw the top back on the jar and see that it touches the jar all If it has been bent any place in opening the jar, I press it down firmly with the back of a. heavy knife; I go all aroundathe can top in' this If I have any rubber rings worth saving, I wash and scald and wipe them dry and drop one in each can, and then I wrap each can in newspa- per to exclude all the dust, and when I want-to use a can, I don’t have to stop tdwash and sterilize it. I always wipe them out before us- ing them, and I most always set mine in the hot oven to heat before filling. I always use the same fitted top on the can it fits. I am not troubled any more with spoiled fruit—Mrs. W. G. AN EXPERIMENT IN COOKING. 1 I CALL it that because I never have heard of anyone’s roasting pig’s legs. But I love to hunt out new ways of cooking and baking. Hence the experiment. First I took four pig's legs, scraped and washed them well, placed them in the roaster, seasoned them with salt and pepper, surrounded them with wa- ter to a depth of about one and one- quarter inches, and put the roaster in a hot oven. , Next I went to the Sauerkraut jai‘ and forked out one and onehalf pints of kraut into'a granite pan. Into this I put soda the size 6f a bean, covered it with warm water and boiled it brisk- ly for ten minutes, then drained it well. I turned the legs when half done, slit the skin in several places and ad- ded the kraut In another half hour four slices of bread, crumbed and soaked, were dip- ped in around the legs. I now left the cover off and continued the baking until the skin on legs was browned. I served the legs on a platter, the Home Eco HE most fundamental problems facing the thinking home wom- an today involve decisions of what to do, Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home Economics ’of the. United States, Department of Ag- riculture says in her annual report cov« ering the first year of the bureau’s existence. Many agencies are telling the housewife how to do the various household tasks, but it is equally im- portant ‘to give her motives for doing them and to attach to the various dut- ies such clear—cut standards of value in relation to all the aspects and con- tributions of home life" that she will be helped in knowing what to do and what may be left undone. Careful weighing of values is needed by the housewife in organizing her working time, in apportioning thema- terial resources of the family, and in all choices she constantly makes that bear on the material and social well- being of her family and hence of the nation. In considering the develop ment of the Bureau of Home Econom- ics, it is essential to keep in mind not only the practical and material prob- lems that confront the home-maker, but also the relation of these separate problems to the whole task of home- making. The growth of the research work of the bureau based on these problems viewed broadly, must neCes- sarily be gradual. The main efforts during the past year have been toward working out the organization, follow- ing the lines laid down by the com- kraut as a. garnish. The dressing I stirred in theistock-and used it as gravy for the ”baked potatoes-411‘s. B. o. R. » ‘ , , . "VMEDITATIONS FROM THE , Kl'l'CH EN. UNT MAUD says ethe winter is .- . half gone before Hiram gets the stove up: and that summeris nearly. over before he gets it down again. - When the Browns gave a big party in the barn the other night; Ma. Brown took all the chairs out of Pa’s office so that the mencouldn’t all-congregate , there to talk “cow” and forget all The Smile Expresses this Woman’s Appreciation of Farm Life. about the party. But her scheme didn’t work at all. They all stood in there and discussed milk records and cow testing and never knew the chairs were gone. I! Hi Johnson says he wouldn’t mind cross word puzzles so~much only his ,wife always stops him when he goes to using some of the words he wants to. ' ' ' Some folks have such short memor- ies. When we drove over to see‘ the Millers the other night they. just couldn’t see how we could stand to ride in an open automobile. They seemed to have forgotten that they had always ridden in one until this last summer when .theygot a neW’ closed can—Mrs. E. M. C. nomics Progresse‘s mittee called by the late Secretary Wallace, in June, 1923. The six divisions of work recom- mended by this committee, it may be remembered, were: Food and,nutri~ tion, clothing and textiles, eéonomics, housing and equipment, home relation- ships, and art in the home. A large proportion of the workalready estab- lished was in foods and nutrition, and this has been continued and the sec- tion organized directly under- the sup-' ervision of Dr. Stanley. Since the announcement of the. plans of the bureau more than 5,000 letters have been dictated in response to in- quiries from and other professional workers who are looking to a federal bureau'of home economics as a clearing-house for information on many phases of this subject. Assistance in planning good proportions in the diet is frequently called for, especially by institutions and organizations concerned with the problems of child feeding. Two department bulletins have been issued, one giving the results of a ser- ies of experiments on the digestibility, of raw starches and carbohydrates with women as subjects, and the other entitled, “Family Living in Farm Homes,” reporting. the first: of the stan- dard of living studies of farm families under theDivision of Economic stud- ies. The revision of four farmers" bul- letins and a-circulanhhs been com.- pleted a ‘ ' ‘ ' others. ‘ - U homemakers, teachers, ’ ml is, under, way on Beyer“ ,‘a'.»1 A? Use this department to help solve y'oui household problems. Address 1 , , your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan " ' I‘a1mer, Detroit, Mich. REMOVING INDELIBLE PENCIL ., ,‘.' , ‘ MARKS. - 1‘ " . What will remove indelible pencil ( . ' marks from children’s clothing?— . Mrs. I. .R. 3 . Soak the stains for a few minutes 3 _ in alcohol or until they are dissolved. but can be removed by washing With soap and water. ”F‘— HOW To CARVE FI‘SH. Please tell me' how to carve a large fish at the table.———Mrs. 0. E . 'When carving a baked. or broiled fish, a silver knife and fork should be used. The- head of the fish should be removed first. Next 'cut down the length of the back as near as possible to the bone and cut the nearer half of the fish into thick slices. The same Suggestions are followed with the oth- er side of the fish after it has been turned on the platter., COOKING STRONG JUICED VEGE- TABLES. { Should cabbage be cooked in a cov- > cred kettle 01 in open kettle?——Mrs. B. Strong juiced vegetables, such as cabbage, onions, cauliflower and tur- nips, should be washed in cold water, and cooked in boil'ng water in an open kettle until they are just tender. The uncovered kettle allows the vola- ‘ tile oils to pass off in steam. In this way the flavor is more delicate and The graphite marks may then remain, ’ the color better.. If these vegetables are overrcooked; they become dark, strong, and hard to digest. 'WHAT’S WHAT IN DESSERTS. Will you please tell me the differ- ence between Bavarian creams, char~ lottes, frappes, sherbets and ices?— Mrs. R F Bavarian creams are made from gel: atin flavored with fruit juices. After the jelly has become stitf,‘it is beaten. Then beaten egg whites or whipped ,.cream is added and the whole beaten together. Charlottes are a combina- tion of cake with whipped cream or Bavarian cream. Frappes are ices made of fruit juice, water and sugar, and frozen to the consistency of mush. Sherbets are water ices to which have been added a small quantity of gelatin or beaten “egg whites. They may be made from one fruit juice or a combi. nation of fruit juices. Water ices are fruit juices sweetened and diluted with water and frozen. CUT SUMMER MEAT BILL. HE supply of fresh meat on the » farm in summer is limited because of the warm weather and the infre- quent trips to town. But if the house- wife anticipates this need in the win- ter the family may have fresh meat at any time. The numerous-ways of canning and preserving meat are described in our bulletin, “How to Preserve Meat at Home.” For a copy send five cents in stamps or coin to Martha Cole, Desk M, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. Use More Milk and Cream OME years ago a woman, 'who had ,’ kept house for twenty years, work- ed for me. She had never heard of - using milk when stirring up thicken— i"11g for gr'avies and she had never - made a cream pie. Many of us could serve more appetizing meals if we used more milk and cream. Toast served with hot milk to which salt, pepper and one-half cup of cream has been added, is very palatable and nutritious as a breakfast dish. To one can of salmon add one pint of milk and one—half cup of cream, thicken with one tablespoon of flour. . O OUSES are like the human beings that inhabit them.— Victor Hugo. Boil and salt and pepper to taste. Delicious with new potatoes 01' toast, or both. Creamed Cabbage.-—Such' a small head of cabbage fine and boil in salt water until tender (about twenty min- utes) not soft and slippery. Drain, add One cup of milk and one cup of cream and a little more salt if needed. Bring to a boil. Serve hot. Creamed Onions—Quarter medium- sized onions. Boil in salted water until tender. Add equal parts of milk and cream, a little salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. These are delicious. Cream Pie—One egg: half cup sug- ar;- one pint milk; four heaping tea- spoons of corn starch. Beat egg well, add sugar and beat again. Dissolve in milk and bring to boiling point. Add cornstarch well dis- . solved, in half cup of milk. Boil about five minutes, cool, add one-half tea- spoon of vanilla and pour into crust previously baked. Before serving, cov- er- with whipped cream which has been slightly sweetened and flavored. Custard is made in the same way, with only two teaspoons of cornstarch. it may be served alone or poured over different kinds of Truit previously sweetened, such as bananas, oranges, pineapple, fresh or canned strawber< ries and peaches, fresh 01' canned cook— ed prunes, 01' fresh raspberries. Pour in individual dishes when serving with fruit. A lump of jelly placed in the top of each dish makes it very attrac« tive as Well as m-t‘reshing.—~Mrs. B. R. INEXPENSIVE FLOOR STAIN. _.___... ARE floors are much better than worn' carpets, especially in bed- rooms, and need not be unsightly. After the carpets have, been taken _ up, and the boards thoroughly cleaned, get seal brown dye for cotton, three packages will be required for an ordi- nary floor, dissolve in hot water and apply with a paint brush. After the dye has dried rub in oil with an old woolen cloth, wiping off all superfluous oil with a second cloth. Treated in this way the floor looks well, dust and lint are easily swept up, and there is no menace of flying \iust. I am not recommending any particular kind of oil, but I used a cupful from a can found in the garage, and which my husband later informed me was engine oil and not floor oil. The 11*- sult, however Was unquestionably good and the expense insignificant.— L. M. '1 Our hired man doesn’t think much of bobb’ed hair since his wife has had hers cut. Whenever their Ford gets out of commission along the road now his Wife never has a hairpin so that he can fix it.——Mrs. E. M. C. Take the pretty, fluted paper cups from the hon—hon boxes and use them as cups- to catch the wax from candles. :and 46 inches bust measure. A 38- inch ‘size made with long sleeves re< 2344",! Michigan Farmer Pattern Service 'Frocér 77ml Prop/wry of Sprmg For dress without tunic, and with long sleeves 31/1, yards is required. The \. Our Fashion Catalogue contains 500 designs of Ladies’ and Misses’ and Children’s Patterns a comprehensive article on dressmaking, and other sew- yards.‘ Price 12C. 1112; hints. For a copy send 151 cents to ' Michigan Farmer Pattern Dept, De. ' trait, Mich. For any Of the patterns illusttated here send twelve cents in stamps to Pattern Department Michigan Farmer Be sure to state size wanted, and write address plainly. No. 4990——Ladies’ House Dress. Cut in--seven sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 4t quires 4% yards of 36-inch material. With short sleeves 4% yardswill be required. The width at the foot. is 17/8 yards. Price 12c. _No. 4973—«Ladies’ Slip. Cut in four Slzes: Small, 311—36; medium. 38-40: large, 42-41.: extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 27/8 yauls o1 361nch material The 'det’h at the foot is 153 yards Price Apron. Cut in large and requi res Price No. 4992—111 Pretty four sizes: Small, medium, extra large. A medium size 23;; yards of 36-inch material. 1 c. NO. “19851 _ ' ‘ thdlts' House Dress. Cu”. 111 eight. hl’b‘fi 361/ 3141.3, 4111/2. 421/1. 4l1/2 46‘ “‘4 511‘ with correspond- ing bust 1111111 ure 411, 43 4t 16. H, 51.1. 52111111 .3! inches , and corr mpm‘rding’ waistmeasure.31213.37. 1‘1 £1.43 and 17111111115. AJG-inehbust 1'1 (111111 13 ’,3 ya: is or 06111011 mat11inl tor the 11111111 (il'1>\ . 'lhe Width at the tool, 0:? the (il‘a‘ss is 1173 yards. Price 13? No. 4984—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in 311v- en sizes, 34, 36. 38, 411, 42 Ill and 46 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 41,11. yards of 40—inch mate1111 The width of the dress at the foot is 13/4 yards. Price 12c. N0. 49RS—Misses’ Dress. Cut in three Slzes, 16, 18 and 20 years. An size requires 41/3 yards of 40- The width at the foot Price 120. 18—year 1nch material. 1s 1% yards. N0. 49f1l—(‘t1ild‘s Dress, ('111 in to 11 sizes. 4, 6, R and 10 Mars A wlxylt'd ' size requin s 3“, yards 36 incln- 5 wide if made 01 one man rial and with long sle1ms.x\e"11h sho1t shuns 3., 11m. less is 1w (11111111 Price 12c . N0. 40517—Girls’ Dress. Cut in [our sizes, 3, 10, 12 and 1-1 years. To make the dress as in the large view, will re quire 335,, yards 01: 33-inch material 101' a 12-ye:'11 size. It made with long sheen-s 1133,3145 are requiu -l Prim ._c. No . 437 .‘1—~ One piece Romp1 rs.’ Cur. in low six :1, 2, 4 6 and 8 years A. four )1 211' size, it made with s'lee1e:: revquin .4 two yards 01“.! 7— —inch material. N0. 4993——Child’s Dress. Cut in four Without .‘1‘ ‘ ‘03 1L requires 5’9 ‘ 1" ‘ less. P11011126. sizes, 4, 6. 8 and 10 years. A six-year Sth‘ lequires 1% yards of 36-inch plaid or fl gured material and '91, yard of plain, if made as illustrated. Price 120. No. 4R43—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 8.111 12 and 14 years A 10-year size requires 31/1, yards of 40 inch ma- terial Price 120. _No. 4835—Ladies‘ Drses Cut in eight Sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 inches bust measure. A 38—inch slze requires 4% yards of 40-inch ma— . " terial, if made of one material. The Edth’ at the foot is 21 yards. Price c No. 4987—Ladies’ Dress. Cut in six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38~inch size made as illustrated in the large view requires 4% yards of 40-inch plain material, and No.1530191—fi1/ieln4’f/ SliISrit.5%Cut in 11 sizes, 2. 2, 1 16,161 17,171/2, 18 and 181/2 inches neck meal:- ‘ _ ' ure. A 15- inch size with long sleeves 34 yard 01 contrastmg tor fiounce and requires three yards of 36-inch mate- sash end. lVlth short ,sleeves 4% rial. With short sleeves 2% yards will yards of plum material is required. be required. Price 120. \ width of the dress at the foot is 11/2 ~53: W'r‘ .1. wt" ._'—. 513,51". .3 .. ., . Dear Uncle Frank: This is Sunday evening, the rest of the family have been in bed for a half hour, I have spent-that time “hugging” the stove and dreaming. The letter written by “White Amaranth” has set. my brain to thinking. “My Burning Ambition” is to be a teacher, and has been since I was in the third grade. To some it may be a means of making money; it is to a certain extent with me. I have often heard the remark, “Why don’t you teach school?” To some it may seem easy, but I wonder how much they think of the responsibility of a teach- er? A child’s character is molded in school, at least “given its finishing touches,” and this, to a certain extent, depends 0n the, teacher. I often think of the teachers I have had and what they had to do with me. The first one I can remember was my third grade teacher. It seemed she had a great influence over the stu- dents, they were all eager to do some thing for her. It was there I learned to love my teachers and from then on desired to be a teacher. The numerous questions confronting me are these: lVill I be able to please the mass of students and parents? Can I keep from showing partiality? I think this is one of the hardest things to do, for who can help feeling kinder toward a person that is always trying to please, always have their lessons and, above all, show respect for others in their conduCL? I wonder, as I sit here still “hugging” the stove, how many teachers are criticised for this and that little thing which can hardly be helped? How many parents T he Teacher’s Influence ‘ I ByaPupz'l . ‘ take their children’s “tale” of a. hap- pening in school, which is always en- larged upon each time it is told, and tell it to their neighbor until the whole neighborhood believes the “gossip,” and from it form their opinions of the teacher, without even visiting the school to find out? Perhaps this so- called “gossip” is largely in the coun- try and small villages. I cannot speak of the city because I have lived most. of my life in the country and small towns. However, I hope to become something more than a “gossiper” that always stands in the way, ready to make a big story out of anything, no matter how “little” it may be. I hope to become a teacher in the public schools and help mold the char- acter of a small number of the great mass of people. To stamp upon their mind that such things as cheating,. falsehoods, swearing, etc., only tend to make wrecks of them. To make them realize the part they play in the progress, preservation, etc., of our great nation. To teach them that truthfulness, love for their neighbor, and cheerfulness, are among the-things that count. And may God help me. I have just started to read “Our Boys’ and Girls” page, and so do not know how to become a member, but anyway, I think it a wonderful thing, and may its good work continue—A Silent Reader (heretofore). You have a good foundation for be- ing a good teacher, because you know the fundamentals necessary to teach to make worth-while men and women. One is fortunate in knowing an indi- vidual who is an inspiration and de- termining factor in life’s ambitions. I hope you, and many other M. C.’s will, in due time become inspirations to oth— ers because of your personality. Dear Uncle Frank: This is not the first time I took the time to write a letter and try con- tests. I didn’t only write letters and try contests, I also sent them away. But I didn’t get any wages. Gee, I got mad many a time because I didn’t get paid for my work. But I hope I don’t have to get mad this time be- cause I won’t be, paid—Your niece, Lorno Gruber, Frankenmuth, Mich. | I am sorry that you are disappointed at not getting rewarded for your ef- forts. You must get over that, for there are many times in life when we all do things sometimes of real worth and get no reward for it. When the reward is the chief object in doing a thing, the results are often disap- pointing. Dear Uncle Frank: I reCeived my pin and card way last spring, but I’ve been busier than a one-armed paper hanger, so just neg- lected writing. I thank you a million times for it, though. I love music, especially the violin. I like books, too. “Just David” is my favorite, I guess. It is so “pretty.” -I also like Zane Grey, E. H. Porter, Gene-Stratton Porter, James Oliver Curwood, H. B. Wright and Jack Lon- don. Did you ever read “For Cat’s Sake?” It’s just a short story, but I enjoyed it. I think it would be fun to have a. “name scramble.” What I mean is, it would be just as a “correspondence scramble” except, instead of letters just send our name and address and whose ever name we get just send them some five 0r teneent present. “What da ya think about it?” - My M. C. correspondent (girl) friend says she got a -"pug” nose and doesn’t like it. I should think it would be nice, though, ’cause it wouldn’t be so hard to turn up your nose at any— one. Ha! Ha! Do you think the reason the boys don’t Write so often is because they have so much to do? I’ve had to work like a man all summer and that’s why I didn’t write. It’s so cold I’ll close and go hug the stove for a while.~With best regards, I am Edith Kingdom, M. C., Traverse City, Mich. No, I never read for the cat’s sake, always for my own. Our cat doesn’t like reading. I hardly believe it is to advantage to turn up one’s nose at Looks lee‘ 'a‘ Horse Full of McKenzie Children, of Marcellus. ' Must be a Family Horse. anyone. Pug noses are rather cute sometimes. -I am' surprised you think boys .work harder than girls. Most girls think otherwise. Dear Uncle Frank: f I was asked to tell more about my butterfly business last time I wrote. That would be a long job, although if anyone wants to ask questions about butterflies, I will answer them if I can. Well, I must close my “mouth- piece,” and enclosed is a quarter for the Merry Circle Fund—Charles W. Shipman, Jr., Corunna, Mich. Here is a chance for other boys and girls to get information about the but-1 terfly business. I understand that it is an interesting and profitable busi- ness, . . Dear Uncle Frank: I like to ride horSe-back, don’t you? I will tell about the time I fell off. I had a paper bag with some grocer- ies in it. As I got on I swung the bag over the horse’s back and the horse (Ned) got scared. He ran under a low telephone wire that caught me under the chin and threw me off. I have both bobbed hair (because I am only ten years old), and knickers, to ride horse-back in. So I have noth- ing to say against them. ' . I think I know how old you are. You are thirty-five years old; aren’t you? I hope the W. B. chokes if he gets this letter. I will close—Your niece, Lauretta Elizabeth Fraser, Gregory, Mich. That’s the time you got it in the neck; wasn’t it? No, I “a.ren’t”‘thirty- five. Guess again. . Dear Uncle Frank: « I. sure do enjoy reading our pages. I like to read the letters about the flappers and, “are boys rude to girls?” Let’s start a new argument, and each one give an opinion. I have a sugges- tion for you: “Do you like to see boys smoke cigarettesW—Your ever-tabe- niece, MarciaRowe, Otsego, Mich. I am glad you like the page. Your suggestion is a good one... It would be nice to have the opinion of girls on that subject. Do girls like the breath of a smoker? Dear Uncle Frank: . When the ones that are picked out as prize winners in the contests, do the neatest and most correct papers get first. prize? If there are some that are correct and not as neat as others, would they get second or third prize? I think that neatness should count, as I do not like to see a paper that words are crossed out and written above the crossed—out word. In my school we get an A if our papers are neat. Before I wrote my first letter to you, I never looked at the paper. I didn’t realize it was so interesting to have a letter box. One day when I went: to school my “pal” asked me if I ever tried working out a cross word puzzle? She told me to' look in the Michigan Farmer. It happened as I looked I saw the letters, which I began to read. I found them very interesting. Our mail box is about a half-mile from our house. I get the mail nights It Certainly when Ix come- from school. I am so . excited to read the letters that some-_ times I read them on the way. Well, I must clase or W. B. _ wearing. glasses. Thanking you again for the candy, I am your want-tube niece, Emma Sellen, Olivet, Mich. \Neatness is considered becausepcare-r less papers are not considered. Usu- ally the neat papers are all put to- gether and the winners picked out blindly.‘I am glad you like the letters» I- Dear Uncle Frank: Two years'ago my grandma gave my sister, brother and myself each a dollar for Christmas. With this we, bought a pig. About six months later we sold it for $9.00, then we bought three pigs from daddy. These we sold for $27, giving daddy $9.00 for feed. This left us $18k Then eight months ago we bought six pigs,- which we sold a month ago for $53. Daddy says he hasn’t room for so many pigs, so we are going to buy a steer With our money—Your loving niece, Elnora Wilson, Harbor Beach,- Mich. You certainly put that Christmas money to good use. If you could just i z o Violet Barton, Spratt, Michigan, W‘ho‘ Won Second Prize in the Essay Contest at the Top 0’ Michigan Po- tato Show this Fall. keep on multiplying your money in that way, you might be able to buy out Ford when you get grown. Any— how, you showed very good judgment in using your money in that way. IDear Uncle Frank: Well, Uncle Frank, Winter, the blessed old saint, has again appeared on the scene. Say, do you know that I Wish-you and your Wife, (of course, ere is one), Were out here for a sleighing party when it gets enough snow. But, of course, you couldn’t be able to do so. \Now, please, Uncle Frank, tell me. Is or isn’t your name I. R. Waterbury? If you don’t tell me, I’ll ask the next Michigan Farmer agent that comes along.- . Did you ever try to write sonnets for a cranky old English teacher when you went to school? I expect it’s wrong to speak of any human person that way, but I can’t help it. Oh, she really isn’t so bad as I express it, but I suppose she has her reasons ’for, be- ing cranky. By the way, do you ever get cranky when things don’t go just right? Now, don’t say “no,” because something tells me “yes,” because you are a man and all men get cranky. That’s why I’m going to be an old maid!——Sincere— ly, Evelyn Brooks, M. 0., Clarksvjlle, Mich. . You bet, I would enjoy' that sleigh ride party. You see, I left the name in, so you’ll have to ask the next M. F. agent that comes along, although he may not know. So you think men are cranky by nature. Well, I hope-you won’t stay single because of that, be- cause being an old maid is a good way for getting cranky. Yes, I am cranky sometimes. ' ' " will be - " .i L"? ’ 1 Enample: , coops. mecuonsw'f'he numbered squa1 es ”are starting points for words extend- ing horilon‘tally. vertically or both ways. One letter should be allowed for each square. Words ends at first black square or at borderoof puzzle The horizontal word start- ing at numbei one is three letters long: the vertical word starting at four is three letters long. The list below gives descriptibns of ‘Words‘ which start at the numbered spaces designated. One list gives the horizontal words and the ether the vertical words. Cross word puzzles are fascinating and educating. They are so popular 1.1; (/5 3 3 ":2? ., / A) l / la .22 2 - ‘27 -- 2 I a Name ............... . ............... Address ........................ . . ‘now that most everybody is doing them. And so many people have found them interesting, I am sure the Merry Circlers will also find them. The ten usual prizes will be given and Merry Circle buttonsand member~ ship cards will be given.t0 all who send in correct answers and are not already members. All correct and neat . puzzles Will be mixed in a basket and ;the prize winners picked out. Clip the diagram shown and send it to l'nclc Fran‘k, 'care Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, after you have filled it out. Be sure to put your name and address in the spa'Ce-s provided. This contest “closes January 16. Horizontal. 1. A rodent. 4. A groove. 7. A farm animal. 10. Negative. 12. One’s self. 13. PeisOnal pronoun. gamer Cross Word Puzzle ‘ 115,-? ‘ 7 44‘: E491 One for t/ze Boy: (ind Gm 14. Girl’s name. 16. To place 17. Sick. 18. A busyinsect. e 19. Part of foot. 21. To increase in quantity. 22. Over. . 24. Mead-ow ‘or pasture. 26. In like manner. 27. Leguminous plants. 29. A lentil that makes good soup. 30. A lair. 2. Like. 3. One of the articles. 2. Name. of automobile. 6 8 Vertical. . Above. .‘A single unit. '. “hat a hen cackles about. 9. To permit. 11. A strong vegetable. 13. lTndesirable plants, ' 15. A drink now prohibited. 16. A alrge body of water. 19. The upper end. 20. A vegetable. 22. A domesticated animal. 24. Guided. 25. A. conjunction. 27. Exists. 28. Point of compass THE DRAWiNG CONTEST WIN— NERS. HE drawing contest brought a good response from our M. C. art- is-ts. What made me feel so good was that there seemed so much less trac- ing or other unfair methods used in this contest than in others. It was hard to decide on the winners because the character of the drawings was so different. But with the help of three other people I finally picked the ten whose drawings won them prizes. The prize-winning drawings, and oth- ers, will be printed as soon as we can find space for them. The prize winners are: Fountain Pens. Virginia Wiley, R. 6, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Harold Brink, R. Michigan. ' Flashlights. Harold Coles, M7'ontgomer, Mich. iioris l-lay11s,R ,Box 119, Traverse City, Mich. Virginia Richardson, R. 5, Hastings, Michigan. Cand He lini \l'irtancn, Michigan M11111 Arntz Vickeryiille, Mich. Ariel 1111111011, Saianac, Mich. Mae liatzer, Lake City, Mich. Dorothy Motry, it. 2, South Haven, Mich. ‘ 4, Byron Center, y. Box 25, Winters, DELOUSING MACHlN ES. I have a large number of hens and find that some have body lice. 1 would like to know if anyone has a plan 01" machine .to delouse chickens, that could be done easieI and faster than by catching and sprinkling the111’~— ~ Mrs. W. S. C. I. do not think you will find a dc— lousing machine for treating lice that is as good as the blue ointment ticat ment. Placing the fowl in a machine and re\ 011mg it in a cloud of powderx dust saves little time and (101 s fright- en the biid and retard egg pr.oduction If hens cannot be caught and imit- ed at night, a good plan is to lift them from the roosts and confine them in the poultry house in crates 01' brood The\next morning the birds can be'removed one at a time from the crates and freed after treatment. This saves the confusion of catching the hens during daylight. 'But it permits applying the louse remedy in the day— time. Mix blue ointment with equal parts of low-grade v.aseline "Apply a. piece about the size of a‘ pea beneath the vent and rub it into the skin Place a small dab under each wing and rub .it, in.” Applying. sodium fluoride by the pinch method is wery good but I find it takes :1 good many pinches per bird to apply powders thoroughly. The blue ointment seems effective for about six months and can be very quickly ap- plied lNCUBATlNG GOOSE EGGS (‘an goose eggs be hatched in an incubator? Also, what food should be given goslings‘flri}. S Goose eggs can be hatched in 3‘1 in- cubator but most poultrynien find it best to incubate the first goose eggs lllllli‘l‘ hens and giro the others to the mother geese. The length of time 1'11- (11111'11d to hatch goose eggs and the moisture requirements make artificial hatching rather dillicult Dry bread that has been soaked in milk and squeezed rather dry is a good first food for goslings. . A mash com— 11051111 ol~ two—thirds middlings and one— third corn meal is also used with good results. it can be moistened with milk or water. Some breeders add chopped boiled eggs to the broad and milk mixture and find it gives the goslings a good start. A little chopped grass or other fine cut green feed and a sprink- 1111M? sharp sand should be added to e 'ei'y type of moist mash that is used for goslings. Make 1925 your biggest egg year through scientific feeding Feed Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter first six Weeks for strong bones and swift growth Fee d Ful-O—Pep Fine Chick Feed from second to sixth week Feed Ful-O-Pep Growing Mash from sixth week throughfive months Fee d Ful-O—Pep Coarse Chick Feed from the sixth week to the fifth month Begin feeding Ful- O—Pep Egg Mash at fifth month and feed all Year round Feed Ful— 0—Pep Scratch Grains from sixth month on — one quart to each twelve birds ' throughout the country today are reaping . , the practical results of Ful-O-Pcp Feeds .1, 1.1,. ‘ 1 2 . -37.; Only five dozen eggs at year is about the annual yield of the average hen, according to government reports. Your own flock will easily produce ten or twelve dozen eggs per hen, and even more, through proper feeding alone. Thousands of poultry keepers and farmers in greatly increascdmash returns. This user of Ful—O—Pcp Egg Nlash . gains a clear profit of $2.40 per hen! f “I have fed your FUL—O-PEP Chicken Feeds exclusively ll, for five years to my flock. and would like to tell you of the excellent results I have had. From our records this year from 104 laying hens, we received 1794 eggs during Jan- uary} and .1699 eggs during February and realized a clear profit of$89.92'ar_1d $59.57 respectively during these months. We included every item of expense. feed, straw, and new 1 boxes for eggs taken out for hatching in February, and all i i similar incidentals. Our records Show that during 1923 each laying hen realized aclear profit of $2.40. I would certainly ' 1 advise everyone who wants the best results from his poul- l try to feed FUL-O-PEP Feeds exclusively.” Max A. Marschner, Willow Grove, Pa. 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"- ILF .Neubert 00., Box 814,Iankato. Minn. “9%???me mmgccoTIvm LAB-1815A. IOWA HOW TO START . HENS ' LAYING Here’s a New Way to Get Eggs in Winter. Coats Nothing to Try. A letter from Miss Dama \Vright, Veronia, Ore. ,hasa real idea for chick- en ra1sers who are not getting plenty of eggs. She says: ”Late in October, our fifteen hens were not laying at all. I started giving them Don Sung and for ten days they still didn’ t lay. But on the eleventh day, they laid thirteen eggs, and it is wonderful what Don Sung has done for our egg basket.” Don Sung, the Chinese egg laying tablets which Miss Wright used, are opening the eyes of chicken raisers all over America. The tablets can be obtained from the Burrell-Dugger Co, 844 Allen Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Poultry rais- ers whose hens are not laying well, should send 50 cents for a trial package (or $1 for the extra large size, holding three times as much). Don Sung is positively guaranteed to do the work or money promptly refunded, so it costs nothing to try. Right now is the time to start giving Don .. Sung to your hens, so you will have a good sup- ply of fresh eggs all winter. - 0MPARE the weight of a bushel C of dry poultry manure with the weight of the fresh manure and the difference represents the moisture that you remove from the poultry. house by frequently cleaning the drop- ping boards instead of neglecting them. Under the best conditions it is hard enough to keep poultry houses clean and dry without allowing heaps of moist manure to accumulate under the ~ roosts. Mark the water pails and use the same pail for each section of the lay- ing house. -' In this way a. few colds that might start in one section are not so apt to spread to other sections when the pails are’returned after re- filling. 'Keep the water pails clean and it helps to keep the flock healthy. A stiff solubbing blush hung near the wall is handy to remove the scum that gathers on the pails. Clean corn cobs make the next best scrubbing brushes. Keep a tub in the barn where you feed clover or alfalfa to the live stock. Occasionally gather up a tubful of the broken leaves and fine chaff which may be wasted. This makes great feed to keep the hens busy on a colo day and supplies them with bulky green feed to offset the more concen~ trated feeds in the ration. Hard coal ashes are relished by the ‘hens and can be placed in a. pail in the poultry house after they are thor— oughly cool. Scrap bones can be thrown into the stove and turned into fine bone ash which;hclps to furnish the mineral elements needed for health and winter egg production. Never throw pins or other bright bits of met- al in the stove if the hens have access to the ashes. Tlmy are attracted by the bright material and may eat pieces that will clog the digestive system. Mating the Farm Flock. New roosters should be with the flock about three weeks before eggs are saved for hatching. This will usu- ally insure fertile eggs and eliminate the influence of previous There is no set rule to follow and a fair per Cent of the eggs might be for- spend alternate days with the flock. It pays 10 mate the best cockerel you can raise 01' buy with about ten of the best hens and save all of their eggs for hatching. The use of one special breeding pen is a great help in increasing the number of good individ4 uals in a farm flock. Isolate this pen until you have obtained the necessary number of hatching eggs and then turn them loose with the free range flock. N0 fancy homes or special breeding yards are necessary to do this amount of special breeding work. When new cockcrels fight until sor- ious injury may result, it pays to sep— arate them and allow the birds to spend alternate days with the flock. A brood coop placed 1'11 the laying house can be. used to separate the male birds and an exchange made each night. This is a nuisance but may in- crease the fertility of the eggs enough to pay for the trouble. If the male birds are not placed with the flock until about three weeks be- fore saving hatching eggs it seems to result in a larger per cent of fertile eggs. As early hatching is necessary for fall layers it means that the Janu- ary and February eggs must be fertile . or the cost of producing chicks is very g1 eatly increased. Bally hatching for the home, flock enables the poulu'yman to use the eggs produced during moderate weath- er for shipping to other breeders. It is difficult to ship hatching eggs in zero weather but they can be gathered often and. saved in a warm room for the reproduction of the home flock. A temperature of about fifty to fifty-five degrees is satisfactory for hatching eggs. If you store them in. the cellar, keep a thermometer handy and know the exact temperature of the cellar. January Poultry ByR.G.Kzréytvo‘ . matings- otes " It is handy to buy commercial lay- ing mash and I think most of. the standard brands give good results. But if you are located near a. feed mill or ' farmers’ elevator it is cheapest to mix your own mash. I recently purchased bran at a farmers’ elevator for $2.00 per TOO pounds. Middlings were $2.20; ground corn $2.60; ground oats $1.90 and. meat scrap $4.00. i At that rate an order of 500 pounds of laying mash amounts to $12.70. On the same day that I mixed my laying mash the dealers in a. nearby market city were charging $3.75 per 100 pounds foricommercial laying mash. The home mixed mash cost $2.54_per 100 pounds plus the labor “of shoveling over the materials until thoroughly mixed. Undoubtedly the home-mixed mash cannot be as well mixed as commer- cial mash. But this is no excuse for allowing streaks of corn meal or other MLA’AE .1CQAF9 Are fie1tte:~.~ . -cbo Mulzoum kWh“ 31%.... m1... “Feeding Seer-etc” err-now published in 1 Eifb."§r “i“‘mi filmed... one-3a ovum 0.3.1.199 Boot-I “has material to show in the mixture. If you have a large bin and a scoop shov- el it is possible to do quite a. thor- ough job. My plan is to dump the bran and meat scrap into the bin first and mix them thoroughly. Then add the other materials 100 pounds at a. time and work each addition into the mash be fore throwing in more This is better than stacking the pile too deep before starting to mix the materials. When buying ground oats for laying mash it pays to have them ground as - fine as possible until they look like oat ‘ flour. This grinds the hulls so finely that they cannot be sorted out by the birds. The corn meal should also be ground quite fine. If salt is added at the rate of one pound to 100 pounds of mash, it pays to use fine table salt and work it thoroughly into the mash. Then the hens will not recover too much salt. in one hopper of mash and possibly none in the next. If you have any doubt as to the quality of meat scrap it is best to test a. small dishful with boiling water. If it produces an odor like decayed meat there is danger in using the scrap. Of course, any meal; scrap gives ofi an odor like glue but there is a. difference in the odor of good and bad scrap which is not hard to detect. It often pays best. to use high-grade meat scrap rather than risk using an inferior product. The same is true of tankage. Do not confuse high-grade tankage with low-grade material that is really intended for fertilizer. ‘ Gooo HOUSING NEEDED FOR EGG PRODUCTION. F ARMERS who want their egg bas- ket filled with high- priced Winter eggs should see that their flock is com- f01 tably housed. The temperature of a poultry house, or its type, is not nearly so important as to have it free from drafts and dampness. Good results are often so cured in cold houses but the most eco- nomical production obtains where in- side conditions approximate those of springtime. In short, hens should be protected from low temperatures as much as possible without recourse to artificial heat or excessive cost for house construction. It is a very. easy matter to make the cost of the housing so great that the hens can nev er lay enough to pay their house 1e'11t. ‘ “aimth is desi1able but it should never be sought at the expense of good ventilation." Exercise generates heat and promotes health so that the birds should be made to work for their grain . by feeding it in a deep, clean litter of str.aw The pullets will appreciate a good dust bath to work loose the scurf and keep down the lice Artificial lights, if available, may be used to lengthen the working day for the hen and thus enable her to gather in more 30 Dogs Trim 1961 1m r5 ' L? 140 mu 0 1 13 rue-1 0t ' . patients—double wall - . . . . 1 cl: spec's—double glass doors lbargain at $18.25. shipped complete. act up ready to use-- 140 Egg Incubator and Broodor - «7.75 180 Egglncubator Alone - - - ' 5 180 Egg Incubator and Brooda'r - 22.00 250 Egg Incubator Alone - . o 5 850 In Incubator and Broodcr - 340 E: Incubator Alone - - - 30.7 Medea! Ifornin Redwood. Order directfranthlcad. 80 days trial—money back if not pleased. If not ready toordor now don’t buy until you at out ehchowa urge: sizes up to 1 one. ”880'!" lIcIII‘I’OI 00. 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You are hereby notified that the Amendment of Article III of the Chart- er of the above named Company as adopted and approved by the Board of Directors, Dec.‘23, 1924, will be voted on by the membership at the Annual Meeting to be held on Jan. 21, 1925. That said proposed Amendment is for the purpose of creating an Emer- _ gency Fund. . Michigan Mutual Windstorm Insurance '- Company, ' E. A. Parker. Secretary-Treasurer. raw . materials fiodti of wh'ichl‘to' build ‘ 6.1925. more eggs. This forcing process will not be'advisable if the .pullets are to be used for breeders the following spring. ANNOUNCINGV THE FIRST ANNUAL MICHIGAN EGG SHOW. Time—Farmcrs’ Week, February 2— Place—Poultry Building, M. A. C. Purpose——To' stimulate an interest in regg quality in Michigan and other states. ~ Classes~—‘1. Experiment Station and College Class. 2. Student Class, open to any regularly enrolled student any- where. 3. (a) Commercial Class, open to hatchcries or commercial farms; also handlers of eggs. Sub—class for any contestant in Michigan Egg-laying Contest or any Michigan party participating in any other official contest. 4. Demonsu'u- tion Farms Class. 5. Producers’ Class, open to farmers, breeders and fancicrs. 61 Boys ’and Girls‘ Club Class. Premium List-AA handsome promi— um list is now being prepared, and will be ready for mailing by January tenth. Prizes—A generous list, including poultry equipment, cups, ribbons and {medals ‘ .. Informaliou-~—~All correspondence lo be addressed to (l. I). Quiglcy, Box 923, East Lansing, Michigan. Remarks—There is to be an attrac- tivezcducational exhibit; in connoction with the show to promote boiler egg grading, packing and marketing; also to demonstrate lho health-giving qual— ‘ities of eggs: (b) the FEATHER PULLING. l l I My hens are picking the l'calhm's out ’ of each olhcr‘s necks. Is there any-1 l l thing I can give them that will stop il‘?——W. C. S. Feather pulling usually starts by finement and lack something in tho1 ration for which they crave. The best, cure is to turn the hens on free rangc. terestcd in other things. VVhilo they are confined in the. laying—house, hang a piece ol' raw bccl' whom thcy can peek at it. Make them cxcrcisc in deep straw litter for their scratch. grain. Provide a. balanced dry mash, and plenty of green l‘ccd. Try and 10- cate the principal offenders in the flock and isolate them until the birds can be on range every day. DAMP POULTRY HOUSE. My Chicken coop is damp. Have two l ventilaiors’ 12x12, which extend four feet out 01' the. Pool, and within l'our- teen inches l'rom the floor. The coop is 14X3‘ feet and has it peaked roof on 4 ebb cause the birds are idle, while in com} ‘ so they will separate and become in-r ‘ puts hens O O O m laying trim Put your hen in laying trim ——then you have a laying hen “\YOU WANT music in your poultry yard—song, scratch, cacklc. You want an industrious hen— a hen that Will get off her roost winter mornings, ready to scratch for her breakfast. A fat, lazy hen may be all right for pot-pie, but for egg-laying— never ! e, Add Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a—ce-a‘. to the ration daily, and see the change come over your flock. See the combs and wattles turn" red. See them begin to cheer up and hop around. See the claws begin to dig in. That’s when you get eggs. Costs Little to Use Pan-a-ce-a The price of just one egg pays for all the Pan-a-ce-a a hen will eat in six months. every flock. 101'} hens the 60 hens the 200 hens the " 500 hens the "‘ There’s a. right-size package for 12-“). pkg. 5-“). pkg. . 25-"). pail A??? 9.537% . lOO-Ib. drum ‘ *‘ ». ”drawn“. ‘7 For 25 hens there is a smaller package" REMEMBER—When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our responsibility does not and until you are satisfied that your ziwestment is a profitable one. Otherwise, return the empty container to your dealer and get your money back. DR. HESS &> CLARK, Inc., rA'shlamd, tha WOLVER 15Years of Breed- ” ing to lay Whito Ll-uhorns' cxclusiwly. Foundation stock is Tancred‘s Best, Backed by lix'u unnerutihus of Rim—cu; iii-us. Three Great Matings Sand for free catalog which gives l'uli pil'ln'ulurs. Wolverine Hatchery, ZCeIand, Mich. Box 97 GUARANTY 10!le I.i\ n I)l‘ll\t'l)' lllll'Xb Good Condition, which is seven feet from the groundl to the peak. Roofing paper covers the outside. The foundation is two rows of concrete blocks. Also have five wall ventilators on tho south side ovcr windows. Still the lionsc is damp.—~ A. H. R. The house you describe may be BABY CHICKS FROM ZOO-EGG HENS. (‘liivks from \vima-r inium, Inrm ruisud, unnum- sloi-k S. 1‘. \‘l' IA‘LZIlUllh, ll. 1. llrils, llui‘rwl Illrr'ln‘. \l'liitvs Iim‘lo. Whi'w “Random-x. Minimal» “Vim" Ul'hinulon». 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Overcrowding makes a house damp as the straw cannot, readily absorb all the manure produced and the birds throw off considerable moisture in breathing. A (house is sometimes damp when tho floor is loss than a foot above the outside soil. Painting a con- crete floor with asphalt paint has been orno . - . . 1ted " ‘ Accred cnrcxsv Sui-own“ Popular and Rail-u Bl'l‘(‘(l\, ham-hold by an (”ll l’iSlilIHlSIH‘lI Iluh-liu'l'y llmh’l' S’I‘Iill'l‘ SI'I'I'IIH'IN INN as umllorizcd In‘ The Ohio Sinro l'uiwrsuy. l'l-dr 1 iii-m Mnlz- find l_’rilit,\' Marines. I)l$i'l'llvllllillill.§' I)Il,\* up. should anstiunlo. lerc is :L (lill’olw'u'wn Gambler Hatchery, Box 6-10, Gambler, Ohio l {Barron White rm,“ /S 5 IEPFEIL‘ZE . 2(1 Leghoms . {kit/4‘6] Anconas \K’ ‘ ' / ~ ~ ./ 1' While anthem: I Wyandoites All from i‘lll't‘lvlllll' muted Mock with lizfl. ii'l m»- H. ""“(H‘llN Scull for minim: whh lull :i.;n'z:.i‘ l". mt ‘J'i, \our ordor in l‘ll'l‘v'. RELIABLE POULT?: FARM, Zecland, Mich.. R. R. 1. Box 47. 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By looking carefully after the comfort of these key organs you can add many Unobstructed Milk Flow This famous healing ointment, clean and sanitary, has Wonderful power Quickly clears up any congestion of the udder tissues, Bunches, Caked Bag, chapped teats, cuts, bruises, etc. , This big lo-ounce package costs only 60c and a little goes a long way. feed dealers, general stores and drugglsts. Order direct if dealer Is not supplied. Dairy Association Co'., Inc., Lyndonville, Vt. Sold by w...» FARMING , REA COWS ARE CHEAP PRO- ' DUCERS. PRODUCING butter-fat at a. feed cost of twenty and one- fourth cents a. pound and Guernsey milk at ninety- nine and one—fourth cents a. hundred for feed is the testimony T. L. Rea. offers' to substantiate his claim that the way of efficient dairying is by us— ing old bulls and growing alfalfa hay. Rea has a herd of thirteen grad-9 Guernseys that are bringing him 111 $300 a month. He is now "starting on his fourth year with cow testing asso- ciation work and finds that the rec- ords have enabled him to” rid himself of cows that worked harder at the feed trough than at the milk pail. “I use nothing but old bulls,” said Rea, explaining that even with a. grade herd, he has proven that it is, well worth while to use sires that have proven that they can beget daughters that are an improvement over their dams. The little added expense and bother of keeping a tried bull is well justified by results in the experience of this dairyman. “Our records show us,” said this cowman, “that the last three generations of cows on this farm are better cows than their dams.” Last year the Rea herd averaged 402 pounds of butter-fat per cow. This calcula- tion included several heifers with first calves. This dairyman makes alfalfa the- backbone of the ration. True, he has to lime to grow it, he must fertilize it but at that, he finds it the cheapest feed he can provide. “The freight’s off,” he commented, “and that’s a. big item these days.” He gives a. pound of grain to each three pounds of milk produced and feeds largely home- grown feed, including split soy-beans. His mixture is 400 pounds of ground com, 200 pounds of ground oats, 150 pounds of cracked soy-beans, and with each 100 pounds of this, there is added 100 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of a twenty-four per cent dairy ration. WINTER DAIRYING PAYS BEST. ECORDS kept on 18,000 cows in sixty-four cow testing associations show that fall-freshened cows excel those freshening in the spring from the standpoint of total milk produc- tion, butter—fat production, and income over cost of feed. \Vinter milking also distributes the farmer’s labor more evenly throughout the year. TWO OR THREE MILKINGS, WHICH? 0138 it pay to milk and feed three times a..day? Many dairymen are interested in this question. Opinions differ widely. To get a line on it, dairy specialists at the New York Ex- periment Station set out to get defi- nite facts. The station herd is comprised of reg- istered Jerseys that, when milked and fed twice daily produced on an aver- age of 375 pounds of butter-fat in eleven months and a calf in thirteen months. For purposes of testing the possibilities of three milkings and three feedings per day as a means of increasing production, the herd has been divided into two parts, one part to be fed and milked twice daily as usual, and the other to receive three feedings and to be milked three times per day. The cows in this last group are milked for twelve months and are bred to freshen every fifteen months, while the other group is milked ten months and is bred to freshen in twelve months. To date only small increases in av- erage butter-fat production have re sulted from the increased feeding and ‘\ — purchasing pure-bred .‘Three of .his members recently pur- milking, say-the station specialists. In- ' dividual animals, however, have shown a. marked reaction favorable to the practice, and it is thought by those in charge of the experiment that it may be a means of discovering high-produc- ing animals for breeding purposes and thus raise the entire production of the herd to a. higher level. “The immediate effect of three milk- A ings and feedings per .day is not of much importance to dairymen,” says a. statement on the test issued by the station authorities. “It is the long— time cumulative ;effectof this treat- ment that is so vital to profitable milk and butter-fat production, as well as to the development of the high-pro- ducing strains of cattle for the ad- vancement of the breed.” DO NOT BE T00 GENEROUS WITH CORNSTALKS. ~. A LARGE number of cattle die every year' from cornstalk disease for which veterinarians say there is no treatment. They suggest that overly hungry cattle should first receive some hay before they. are turned into corn- stalks. MEMBERS BUYING BETTER COWS. OW testing associations do en- courage the keeping of better dairy cows. Casper Blumer, tester in the Macomb No. 2, Cow Testing Asso- ciation, reports that his members are dairy stock. chased ten heads of purebred Hol- steins. Four of these animals were yearlings, five of them coming two- year-olds, and one a two-year-old. Herbert Owen, Martin Montgomery, and William Ball are the new-comers in the purchasing of these pure-bred dairy cows. Another member of this association, Sherman Hale, bought a pure-bred heifer calf from one of the other members of this association. An- other member, John A. Adams, pur- chased five pure—bred cows and one heifer calf from the recent PostdaJe sale at Durand. One of these cows holds a state record as a. three-year— old in milk production; all ofgthose animals hold either an official or a C. T. A. record. Mr. Blumer has been active among his association members in encourag- ing better dairy production. Good sires are emphasized, good care-taking and feeding methods are suggested and the keeping of better cows, espe- cially pure- -bred cows, when the mem- bers are ready for them, are encour- aged ——A. C. B UTILIZATION OF ENERGY IN MILK PRODUCTION. ILK production in cows takes place normally and principally from the feed, and not by the trans- formation of body tissues, experiments conducted by the United States De- partment of Agriculture in cooperation with Pennsylvania State College indi- cate.‘ aimed to determine the relation be— tween the amount of feed that goes into milk production and the amount that goes into tissue, have just-been published by the department Those who wish to familiarize themselves with the data collected‘should write the department for Bulletin 1281, Re- lative Utilization of Energy in Milk ‘Production and Body Increas’e'of Dairy Cows. It may be had free, as long as the supply lasts, by writing to the De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D.-.C The results of the studies, which. b—v—u Ma .V«-—~..~_._- ,..e..~..w.'_. 1mm IwVv—sw (pa-firwnml: "'5' (P W H'I' b—v—u MA. ,V«-—~._-E_._- ,.. _ c.“ .. ,. .‘ JAN. 10;"11125. Hs’nbs .SHow IMPROVEMENT. ow Tester H. 11' Frank, 01 the Nerth Eaton Cow Testing Associa- tion, reports this year that ten herds gpro'duced better than 300 pounds of ~ Clever" hay, butter-fat, While the association sum- mary in 1923 showed five herds pro- duced above 300 pounds of butter-fat. 'La'st year 323 cows averaged 264 p0unds- of butter-fat, while this year 301‘ cows, averaged 275 pounds of but— ter-fat. The high herd showing the most, economical production was owned by H. W. Burns. This herd was fed a. balanced grain ration made up of corn meal, ground oats, bran, linseed oil meal or‘ cottonseed meal. Further, 'thESe‘cO‘WS were fed some grain while on pasture. The roughage used was silage, corn fodder and bean’straw. These four grade Guern- seys owned by Mr. Burns averaged 394.5 pounds of fat and 8,366 pounds of milk. Other herds that averaged bet- ter than 300 pounds of fat production were owned by John Chaplin, R. H. ,Bu1ton, Elmer Lundbe1g, G. S. Mc- Mullen; C. F. Brunger, L. W. Cole, Clair Backus, J. Pray, and Jesse “’3’ the. These herds are all Holsteins _ -——either pure-bred or giades. ALFALFA RESPONSIBLE. HE efficient production of the cows of the Cass County Associa- tion, over 324 pounds of fat, can be attributed to the large quantities of alfalfa hay grown and fed by the mem- bers. Balanced rations were also em- phasized by the tester. Three cows produced tetter than 500 pounds of butter—fat. and forty-two cows produced about 365 pounds of butter—fat. There were fourteen herds - that averaged above 300 pounds of but- ter-fat. Seven of the fourteen herds were Guernsey's, five herds were Hol- steins and two herds were Jerseys. WEEDING AND BUILDING IN CASS COUNTY. AlfililD progress has been made in the Cass County COW Testing As- sociation, according to Henry Wylie, tester. The Cass County Guernsey Breeders’ Association was organized through the cow testing association. Every member 01' the Cass County Cow Testing Association is using a purebred sire. During the year ten pure-bred sires were sold as desirable breeding animals. Eight pure-bred bulls were purchased by the members. Further, the association members pur- chased fifteen pure-bred cows and dis- .posed of twenty-one undesirable, un- profitable females. Two sales were held during the association year and animals consigned sold at bette1 than average prices. STRIPPING PAYS. LARENCE MULLETT cow tester of the Charlevoix Cow l‘esting As- sociation, emphasizes one item that has proven to be a money saver to cow test members. Some of the mem- hers were not stripping cows after the milking machine. Mullett stripped out cows following the milker and deter— mining the amount 01' fat found in the strippings. In one large herd the amount of milk and fat not milked out by the milkers was sufficient to go a far way toward the purchase of a milking machine. This act 011 the part 01' the tester demonstrated to the cow test members in Charlevoix county and many other dairymen who were not in the association, that it always pays to follow the “milker” and strip the cows clean. HOLSTEIN ERS ADOPT NAMES. EN Michigan breeders of Holstein TFriesian cattle have recently re- - scrved prefix names for their exclusive use, ‘with the Holstein—Friesian Asso- '.Frank J. Bordeau, Standish: "’I ciation of America. Following are the prefixes reserved and the names and addresses of the breeders making re- servationsz. “Hardinghur'st,” Dr. J. H. Harding, Scott; “Maple Gem,”'James T. Smith, Kingston; “Maplelm,” Orin R. Ash, Three Rivers; “Benaldi,” Les- lie Carr, Bad Axe; “De Bois,” Charles De Bois, Fremont; “Hidden Jewel,” “Target,” Loyal Grassley, Azalia; “Beaver Spring,” Vt‘m. P. Vreeland & Son,-Mo- line; “Allenola,” Robert Locklin, of Brown City; and “Spotcrest,” Thomas Bordeau, Standish. More than 5,000 American Holstein breeders have adopted prefix names and are using them to advantage in naming their cattle. They give the breeders the use of all names in new, combinations,‘make the selection of names less difficult, and once they be- come well knowu serve as distinguish- ing and valuable trade-marks for the owners. gmwummuuuuImwmmumwnmmm11111111111111 EVeterinary. EWWWWWWMIHIIWIHIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII? CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR. " Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib- cn. Letters ohould Itatc fully the history and symptoms of each we and give. name and addrcls ouhc writer. initials only are publicised. When a reply by mail is requested the mice become. private practice and 31 must he anew-ed. ‘ i a 5 Liver Trouble.—-I have‘ a five-year— old horse that has been ailing for about six weeks. he perspired freely, acted stupid, and held head low with eyes closed. Appe- tite for food not good. I gave him one quart of oil, also gentian, soda and nux vomica twice a day, and at noon some saltpeter, arsenic, and sul- phate of iron, but I failed to get good results. His bowels are sometimes very loose, but just at present the feces are in round balls and not very large in quantity. He seems to uri- nate freely. O. R. K., Mosherville, Mich—Give him ten grains of calomel and one ounce of baking soda at a dose three times a day for te1’1 days. Feed him well-cured clover and roots. Feed him enough salt to create thirst and give him plenty of wate1. ‘ Don’t forget to exercise him daily. Lice. ——My horses are troubled with lice. What had I better apply? S. C. B., Hastings, Mich—Several remedies will kill lice. For horses one of the most valuable is gray mercurial oint- ment. Apply some where the lice are. most numerous. Stavesacre seeds boil- ed in water—one ounce of'seed to each quart of water, makes a very effective lice killer. Nothing any better than vinegar to destroy nits. it is perhaps needless for me to‘ tell you to clean your stable and apply kerosene to their hiding places. Remember that lice are blood-sucking animals and ought to be killed. Snagged—Nail colt that went lame last August wound at top 01' hoof, found punctuie, or cut with baibed wiie We ha1e poulticed it and applied othel healing remedies. The foot is swollen and suppurates. I dislike to shoot her for she is only two years old. R. H., Rapid Fiver, hvlich.——Discontinue using any kind of poultices, they are unclean and usually do harm. Apply equal parts of oxide of zinc and boric acid freely to foot twice a day. The foot should be covered with oakum and a; cloth boot. Open years old that got cut at fetlock joint, wound heals, but opens, and a yellow fluid escapes. \N'. S., Bothwell, Ont. Apply one part iodoform and six parts strictly pure bicarbonate of soda to joint daily. ‘Cover the joint with oak- um and tar bandage. The animal should be kept; quiet. Pustules '(Impetigo).—I have a belt-i 1, two years old, that will freshen in the spring. She seems to be in good ll(2tltl1, but 011 her neck and shoulders she has small bunches "o1 gatherings about the size of a small pea, which have pus in them, then a hard scab forms E. E C. Ionia, Micl1.—-—Dissolve two drains 01' carbolic acid in one pint 01 sweet oil and apply some of it to sore spots once a day. Tuberculosis.—-V\*e recently butcher- ed a cow that had spots on her liver; would the meat of such a cow be fit for food? This cow was tested for “tuberculosis, only a short time ago and failed to react. A., \Vaters, Mich.— Even if this cow had tuberculosis and the liver was the only organ affected, her carcass would be. fit for food; however, as she failed to react to the test you need have no fear about it. .I 1.; EEE‘ M 1 EM IEAM EA EMEE When first noticed I Conservatively fig- ured, a De Laval Milker will make at least $20 per cow per year in saving time and in- regular, stimulating and soothing make y ou in profit . In addition, you have the answer why so many people are installing De Laval Milkers—and especially when it is borne in mind that a De Laval Milker can be bought on such liberal terms and such long time that it will actually pay for itself ,as it is being used. Trade Allovgance on Old Cream Separators for New De Lavals De Laval Agents are now making liberal allowances on old centrifugal cream separators, of any age or make, as partial payment on new improved De LavaIs—the best cream separator ever made. I creased milk which usually comes as a result of its use and because of its Multiply this by 10, 20,30 or the number of cows you are milking by hand and you get a very con- servative idea of what a Do LaVal Milker really will when it, is considcmd that cleaner milk can be ploduccd that the drudgery and dislike of hand milking are eliminated, and that d: drying is made more pleasant for owner, son or hired man, action. Sand for Hoof Troubles _So confident are we that CoronaWool Fat heal- ing compound is better than anything else to qu1ckly end hoof troubles that we want to PROVE to everyone by sending a big Samdple for only We post- ?aid. For cracked hoofs, hard an contracted feet, mud ever, grease heel, sore teats, caked udders and every flesh hwound on man or beast. Doea ,. not blister or smart. A wond - ' ' ful time-tested remed for " household and farm. all size at drug stores or by mail 65c post aCorona Man acturing 00. so Kenton. Oh hio Holmes, Sluwe Co.,2429 Riopelle St. Commission Merchants. Dressed Beef. Hogs. cakes. poultry Li1e&Dressed. l’1~-.mlnions en. (‘urrespon denco Solicited. Ref. “I111 ne County Ar Home Savings Bank. Bradstreet. Det1oit. Mir-.h (‘herry 7&34 I Will Condition a Horse of Cow in Twelve Days ' Put flesh 011 11» Imnes. Gm: it 111’" and vigor. (‘an add titty p-er rent 01 looks and mine. Sutlsl'nvtion guaranteed or no pay. Send postal for free offer. ,P. M. FAUST, BRYN MAWR. PA. ELEEEGAN s(-1-v..v.=_5110$ The Inst word in a permanent silo. Write for In- ' ; terestinp: true Illustrated in ct- pmlng catalog. Tells how we 111-1: 1111'. toturo the em under the best known prove 95- —and not atomrlng at that-how we cm 1. them for y)11 in a few days from ground to pe .1k. Special Terms if you order Now! Agones want-d In opon torrltory. MICHIGAN SILO COMPANY. KAI-mnzoo, Mlchlw Factories at, Kuhn-aloe. Mlch.. Peoria. II|.. Bloomflold Ind. 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And any one of the -many thousands of users will tell you these reasons why he prefers the John Deere It’s easier to load—box is 6 to 10 inches lower than others. It's easier on horses—because of higher driVe wheels and roller- bearing apron. It. does better work—because the beater is lower down, and the revolving rake prevents bunching. It. lasts longer—because of its greater simplicity and more rugged construction. Ask for a demonstration. See your John Deere dealer about it next time you are in town. Write today—for free booklet' ‘Soil Fertilizers”. Address John Deere, Moline, Illinois. Ask for booklet SH622 'lJOHNspEERE NE TRADE MARK O5 QUALITY MADE FAMOUS 9V C1000 IMDLEMEN’YS SAVES time and money Put 1ts simple, aanitan , efficient. safe milking features to work {01; “Seethru” you. Equ1pt with teat cups. En- gine or electric power operated. Sensational price. VIKING Cream Separator Close skimmer. eas washing discs. Sizes 100 to l pounda. Strong, durable. Over million used. 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B 11 u 201 .-> ‘ v cautw”! ahovge thuutveibpatiou ‘ "W o! the bowl causes cream wactc‘l 801111 'free trial — then oats ed, only87. 60 and a flew a” ypaym en“ .- and .. ' wonderful Belgium Melotto Sop- 4 mulls cumin. ' CatalogFREE " buybackc «$2911.:m1uli dogeription. 0011': 5"” “in" .bom‘i'é 1153:. £223?“ our 15 ”at cum-1mm 1L ‘ . ' 4. 1...‘ 34.3.41: LEADS lN MICHIGAN’S TON LIT- TER CONTEST. HE accompanying pictureds of the thirteen pigs of H. M. Mcllwain, of Bath, Michigan, which led in the recently closed Michigan ton-litter con- test. The dam of the litter, a. pure- bred Duroc, was, herself, from a large litter, states Mr. Mcllwain in a letter to the editor. In turn, she has far-' rowed large litters, the last four being of fourteen pigs each. . During the gestation period, this sow was fed ground oats, ear corn and some tankage. On April 24 she farrowed fourteen pigs. Four Of these were immediately taken away from 1 her to be bottle-fed. After one week, one died, leaving thirteen. When the pigs were about three weeks old, We began feeding them on ground oats and middlings with milk. close proximity, which showed ’jthfit “exceeding even the wartime top for the other. lot which received its feed in a. muddy pen. These pens were‘in ,no infectious disease was responsible for the difference. LAMB MARKET SKYROCKETS. SOARING lamb market rose to a. top of $19.25 at Chicago last week, the month of December. Such action was beyond conjecture based on avail- able evidence as to production. num- bers of lambs on feed and consump- tive demand. Receipts..- have been light, although the magnet of extreme- ly high prices has been in operation long enough to attract shipments, sug- gesting that the supply of fat lambs is- not excessive and is in strong hands. Holiday demand and the eastern em- bargo on poultry undoubtedly were. They were weaned at two months of ago. From this age on they were fed ground oats, shelled corn, tankage, and a. mineral mixture, and also had the run of a. clover pasture. At three months they aveiaged 1 about seventy—five pounds. From then on they were fed from a self-feeder. At four months they weighed 1,690 they weighed 3,074 pounds. Seven days later eight of the largest were sold and weighed 2,220 pounds, making a. gain of 128 pounds in the seven days. Although Indiana had fifty-six ton litters in this year’s contest, as com- pared to our twenty, it is interesting to note that the best litter weighed but 2,775 pounds as compared with 3,074 pounds for Michigan’s leader. “MUD-HOLES VERSUS HOGS.”. HERE is a common belief that hogs having the freedom of mud- holes, 'thrive better than do those lacking this common convenience in hog-dom. Just why we have cred- .ited a generous supply of mud as a necessary factor in the production of superior porkers is difficult to say. Our veterinarians tell us, however, that this observation is not true. When hogs are forced to eat more or less dirt with their feed they do not make .as rapid gains as do, hogs fed on clean floors. It is true that during warm weather these animals suffer less when they have access to water, the evapor- ation of moisture from their skins aids in keeping their bodies cool; but this does not argue for the mud-hole, which is often found detrimental to the ani- mal’s health. At the Ohio Experiment Station two lots of pigs were selected to demon- strate the value of feeding on a. clean floor. The lot fed on a. clean cement fl"! 51511.1 ' g 1.61% . platform gained twice as much as did Mr. Mcllwain’ s Bunch of Thirteen Pigs which Led in the Michi an Ton Litter Contest this Year, by Weighing 3,074 Pounds when 180 pounds, and at 180 days from birth 4 ays Old. connibuting factors. The full advance is hardly likely to hold, but the fact [hat the market can do such a stunt» seems to mean lofty prices for lambs all winter. SMALL RUN LIFTS THE STEER MARKET. ECEIPTS of cattle for the week ending December 27 were the smallest experienced in 1924, and bare 1y half as large as during the glut of two weeks ago. The market; gained fifty cents over a week ago with fed steers mostly $1.25 -to $2 higher than on the recent demoralized market. De— mand for choice beef continued after Christmas trade was over, with a few heavyweights selling as high as $11.50. Yearlings are quotable up to $14.50 at Chicago, but practically none are ar- riving good enough to sell over $12, and many orders have not been filled. The worst of the liquidation of short- I'ed cattle is probably over, althovirh January usually brings another wave of it and no shortage of that kind is probable for some time yet. The ex- cessive supply 01' weighty bullocks is about all in and receipts of finished cattle of all weights are "down to about the smallest total since last May or June. The calf -ma1ket gave a stellar. per— formance last week under the stim- ulus of small receipts, and eastern buying on the midwestern markets because of the ' embargo on poul- try, which is turning demand in other meats. Prices are fully $3 higher than a Week ago on most kinds. The situa- tion is abnormaland is not likely to continue long. . Feeder cattle are strengthening slightly, in' line with higher prices for fat cattle and fewer suitable arrivals. Demand is slow, as is usual during the Chance of Copy or Cancellérions market ”for better -G\1 ”may Camden. Mloh.: I. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adam. FOR SALE sey bull. 14 months old. FAlso. cows. terms. FOR S ALE Guernsey’egrgllhgwAMi hm 531 lbs. Reg. Guernsey: For Sale mm. 11111110338? ma” m 1m; . ‘TWelve Dav; before date of 11W 1‘ :- Registered Guernsey Bull Calf ' 6 months old. His 8111011580 Grandson 64m “1110 May. price $50. 4 MIND-M31118 lager caI'v'es. '1‘. B. tested. E. A. BLABK. Howard giggstered Guemso s RANGF'R our new Eterd 1mm!!!“ LIOEE 8% g: loll. Two Registered 1:110er Heifers: one register-HI Gum three No. 1 Guernsey three years o.ld rmer’a prices Cash or Address Box No. F278; Clio, Mich. 4 fat. Frank 3E. R0 Mon. Room 803 M. G. R. R. Depot Building, Detroit. Michigan. - 4 Wallinwood Guernseye Young bulls from A. surf sale. F. W. WARLLIN,8 unison. Mich. 89mm cows. bred Bull calves. W. W. BURDICK, Williamaton, Mich. Reg. Guernsey Cows. Bulls m For Sale Bull Calves. A. Rose Breeding. JOHN EBELS. II. 2. Holland. Mich. Matador Sylvia Concordia. His-sire. Matadm Segis Walker. 100 A. no . dough. . ters. ten from 30 to3 libs. seven with yearly record: of from 1.000 to 1.289 lbs. he 'I. brother to 8081! Pieterje Prospect. the Wo1ld's greatest cow. 3?. 381 lbs. of milk and 1, 448 lbs. of butter in a year. His (lain. a. 32 33~lb. four- 1cm old daughter of Avon Pontiac Echo. 63 A. 11.0. daughters. one with a record of 41 lbs. , three 0191‘ 34 lbs. . five over 33 lbs. and ten over 30 lbs.. and he a. son of that wonderful producer. May Echo levia. with a. record of 1 0'05. 80 lbs. of milk and 41. 01 lbs. of butter. Send for our list of young bulls. HILLCREST FARM Kalamazoo, Mich. ft January Discouni Sale‘ Our printed List of Bulls for sale by MICHIGAN STATE HERBS includes a. choice selection of excellent lines of breeding with wonderful recurd ' backing _ , 0,.) Dlscount . 4 from the regular quoted price for orders . taken during January. SEND FOR OUR LIST m ' Bureau of 111111 "Elms Animal Industry Dept. C all" "ma- MOIJY‘IIO can“ Lansing, Michigan $900 BUYS six Two- sear— —old Heifers; Three soon fresh: other Three milking: all from our 33-111. Bull; we can take a. Egood note as part moment Akron, Mich. .HRO LFS, Holstein Friesian Cows and Bulk for sale. Cows mostly high record A. R. 0.3 with 7- day records above 30 lbs. butter. Bulls from high- record A. . dams. Sire’s two nourrst dams av- erage 34 lbs. butter. I. A. Kidney, Brant, Mich. Bulls ready for service. Jerseys For sale alsoctew females. All from B. of M. dams. Accredited herd. Smith 8. Parker. R. D. No. 4. Howell. Mich. CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM. Silver Creek. Allegan County. . Michigan 15 Cows. 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance to select from herd of 70. Some fresh arsbrad for fall treshenlns. Colon C. Lillie. Coopexaville, ”Mich. Registered Milking Sher-them bull For Sale valves from our great "Count 'Eickford." out of record dams. Also few heifers. Prices right. I. W. Sullivan. Augusta, Mich. Milking Shorthorn Bulls ready for 5111110. Best Clay breeding. Herd tested. IBVIN DOAN & SONS. Croswell. Mich. FA i II F I E Lnfisfiifiafinflw 1:: at: vice. Priced right. H. B. Peters 1. Son. EIue,_M1cII. 5 be r i h o r n s CURTISS, Bay City. Mich- SHORTHORN BULLS reds and maps. W. E. Morrish, B. 5, Flint. Mich. Two 11 BM for Service. I; O V'illagei Shonhom Bull one year old. Sired ne by Villager Elmdale by vmagmcnoyal. Price Parmenter, Durand, $100. A. & F. Shortho Best of quality and breeding. Buns, m3 cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL' STOCK FARM. Box D. Tecumseh. Mich. Parshail’ s Herefords fi‘lwm Bun, 13%?"5322 1. B. PARSHALL. a. 1, Oak Grove. Mich. . HOGS . " ' ll bredor Large Type Berkshires 3.41:?" 9&‘2‘Mfi. p.162; reasonable. W. H. EVERY. Manchester. Mich. Service Boats and 81118011: headquarters for Colonel bred holidays. 11111111113111 rim BUTTER BRED JEggmAgLL. A low sons and daughters of Super Col. Midda- Doreen. ' .- i'i'fii l‘ I I '- I‘H‘I’C I Tl'l. yr".- I Ffill Ir-‘JEI 1-, s. I! E'- to “F9 53!“. "I a I l‘EEIP‘SS‘l UH r‘l FHI F 5' I “I m an ii ; m or; calouov‘ys‘wsfieschews; .‘ . THEM. pig- Sure-9' 'lby the United States Department of Agriculture showed... thirty- per. cent fewer sows . farrowing in the corn belt'than in the ‘fall’ or 1923, and a reduction of twenty.- . four per cent in the number of pigs raised. With'seventeen per cent fewer pigs. ra‘ised last spring than a year ; previous, the total pig crop of 1924 in the corn belt‘\ was nineteen per cent c "less than in 1923, which meanswa re- duction 'of eleven to twelve million head. Still more significant of supplies in the future was the report showing that the number of sows bred or to be bred ‘for furrow in the spring of 1925 would be ten per cent less than the number actually farrowlng last spring. All the sows bred do not produce litters. 'Bas- ed on the results of previous surveys, At no time‘ in therlast fifteen 'years has the ratio between mm and hog prices been as unfavorable, or'contln- ued unfavorable, for as long as in the presen‘t instance. This means propor- NEWS. "‘ . i 19".” ftionately drastic curtailment of pro- - duction and 'a correspondingly long pe- riod of favorable prices compared with corn when the shift in levels betWeeh the two finally occurs. ' FRDM -POULTRY INTEREST GROWING. . * , HE Gogébic County Poultry Asso- ciation=~will hold its exhibition at Ironwood, January 29-30-91, 1925. This has becdme an importantannual event in the peninsula. Professor Hanna, of the Michigan Agricultural College, will judge the exhibits. A prize cup will be given the exhibitor showing the‘reduction‘ 0f ten per cent means a ‘ the best bird hatched from an egg laid decrease of fifteen to twenty—five per cent in the number of sows that will farrow next spring, as compared with the spring of 1924, and, nearly a third fewer than in the spring of 1923. Leading markets received only about sixty per cent.as many hogs for the week ending December 27 as in the preceding week. Bad shipping weather was a factor, but, apparently, the flood of the first three weeks of December has spent itself. In each of those three Weeks, receipts were larger than ever before and total supplies for De- cember will set a new monthly record. Probably a million of the hogs sold during the month were disposed of prematurely and the late winter and spring supply will be reduced accord- ingly. l Prices are up to the highest level since October, showing that the de- mand has tremendously absorbing power. only questions being as to the rate of advance and the ultimate Objective. \i’ith hogs selling up almost to $11 on the winter movement, the forecast that there will be a lot of $12 in the late distribution for Gogebic county. Winter and early spring appears rea- sonable. The market shows unmistak—’ ' able signs of being headed upward, the in Gogebic county and raised therein, and there will be another cup for the best bird regardless of where it was raised. Poultry is an increasing in- dustry in Gogebic county URGING LOCAL SEED PRODUC- TION. HE crops grown the past year in Gogebic countyvthe most wester- ly county in Michiganminclude clover, alfalfa, oats, peas, barley, wheat, corn for ensilage, rutabagas, mangels and potatoes, according to the annual re- port olf C. E. Gunderson county agri- cultural agent. In cooperation with the M. A. C. Department, four demon- stration and test plots were planted ill the county. These will be devoted to a five-year rotation of crops to de- termine quantity and quality of yield. Pure seed was used on these plots and the farmers owning them are, in sev— eral instances, saving the yields for further cropping. In general the object is to create local centers of seed production and Sev- eral new silos have gone up in the county, and Mr. Gunderson believes situation in his district. Michigan leads District No. 7, quents. diversified agriculture and liVe loans. consequence. 7 are two paramount features.” North Dakota and Minnesota. other states. of the country. through, as in normal times.” Micflégcm Leads Tam/z All ARIETY of crops plus variability of soil have once more given to Michigan an official place in the sun. wreath has been placed on Michigan‘s agricultural brow by President E. G. Quamme, head of one of the twelve Federal Land Banks of the United States, and tacitly acknowledged one of the greatest financiers and one of the leading agricultural authorities affiliated with the United States Treasury Department. , “Michigan has no problems ill comparison to other states,” President Quamme declared, summariflng the 1923 agricultural “District No. .7, of the Federal Land Banks of the United States, leads all Land Banks of the country. having the least number of. delin- SO it’s agricultural prosperity is obvious. Michigan—the maximum rating ill the district/«is attributable to Michigan has no one crop and no entire crop failure ill Other banks of the country show approximately a. sixty per cent interest collection, while the Federal Land Banks show better than ninety~five per cent.‘ leads all Federal Land Banks and that Michigan leads District No. Mr. Quamme’s statement was made at St. Paul, headquarters of District No: 7, Federal Land Banks, at a meeting of the apprais— ers of his district which includes the states of Michigan, “’isconsin, L. W. Oviatt, of Bay City, Federal Land Appraiser for North- eastern Michigan, and in this capacity States Treasury Department, was present at the meetin" in St. Paul at which Mr. lQuamme paid his tribute to Michigan. "Mr. Quamme’s statement,” Mr. Oviatt said, “was surprising—r almost amazing—because of Michigan’s showing ill Comparison with The statement seems to me to be a definite substan- tiation of the claims which have been made, particularly for this district, during the last dozen years or so. Bureau and individuals have been’emphasizing the fact that North— eastern Michigan lands produce an astonishing variety of crops and that live stock can be raised more cheaply than in any other section If there is a moral to be drawn, perhaps it is that crop diversity is as pecuniarily profitable and as economically im- portant during a reconstruction period, such as we have just passed This time the laurel The record of! stock operations and to careful The fact that District No. 7 attached to the United The Development LquRLAN that local results indicate that Wis~ cousin No. 25 corn is best for en- silage in that section. Twelve farmers used ce1"'fied Grimm alfalfa seed and a fine stand of alfalfa resulted from these seedings. In cooperation with the forestry department of the Michi- gan Agricultural College a forestry demonstration plot has been estab- lished at ’Watersmeet and a good start is reported. BUILDING THE DAIRY BUSINESS MARQUETTE. / HE most practicable means of in- creasing milk yield, according to County Agent \Valker, of Marquette, is through use of pure-bred bulls. In- crease on this account he put at from seventeen to twenty per cent, as a long series of tests had shown. The cow testing association, of whichfthcre are now eleven in the Upper Peninsula, is doing much to eliminate the unprofit— able cow. For the first time the dairy farmer discovered that he owns cows that are not paying for their keep. There are farmers, however, who, while they keep track of their milk in- come, do not study their outlay for I feed. This is also an important item. When Mr. \Valker came to Mar- quette county, ten years ago, there were five pure-bred bulls in the coun« ty. During his time farmers have ac- quired 100 of these animals, and there are fifty now in the county. The, tu— berculosis eradication campaign is do- ing much for the herds of the county, although the perCentage ol,‘ reactors is low. Human ailments can occasionally be traced to tuberculous cattle, so that this campaign is helping people as well as cattle. Mr. Walker noted that farmers are getting ten cents more per hundred for hogs shipped to Chicago market, when they come from counties testing less than one-hall” per cent of tuberculous cattle. TO UNDERTAKE PRACTICAL RE- FORESTATION. THE president of the Northern Hem- lock and Hardwood Association has appointed a committee of S‘W’Qll to cooperate with the Lake States Forest Experiment Station ill working out plans for the more efficient work of this station. Three Upper Peninsula men are on this committee. They are: G. E. Bishop, secretany-manager of the Vpper Peninsula Development Du- reau; E. A. Hamar, president of this bureau, and a prominent l‘ppcr Penin— - sula lumbermall, and G. N. Harder, of W'clls. They will consider particularly the operation of the Clark-McNary bill which provides federal aid for refores- tation. Dr. Raphael Zon, director of the Lake States Forest Experiment Sta- tion, estimates that the proportion of federal aid accruing under this law, that will be devoted to work in the northern lake states will amount to $10,000,000. The committee just ap— pointed by the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Association will assist in locating suitable reserves for this re- forestation work and they will deter- mine upon a plan of cooperation be— tween the association and the forest experiment station. It is anticipated that suitable lands for forest reserves in the lake states will be acquired by gift or purchase in the same manner in which such lands have hitherto been acquired in the eastern mountain area. ' (“PM") identifies this copper— bearin g, longer lasting Ga/Vffifiéfiled Deal Fence So that you may always know this good fence, we've marked it withva Red Strand. If the fence you buy hasn’t the Red Strand then you are not gettlng “Galvannealed” Square Deal. Our patented “Galvannealed’ ' process welds an extra heavy coating of zinc into and around the copper-beming slut wire. The ordinary, galvanized method used by. others puts on only )4 or )5 as much zinc. Because “Galvannealed”. Square Deal has 2 to 3 times more zinc than the galvanized kind, it lasts 2 to 3 times longer. This longer lasting fence Is sold at no extra price A postal brings official Proof of Tests from Indiana State Universit , Bur- gess Laboratories and Hunt aBora- torios They show you that “Galvan- nealed" Square Deal mus! outlast all other farm fences. We'll also send Ropp's Calculator, figures interest, gram, and answers thousands of farm questions — and — the Square Deal Catalog. Write today, all tllree sent free to landowners. KEYSTONE STEEL & WIRE CO. 4949 Industrial St. Peoria, Illinois No, ‘ Extra Price ! HOGS Sons and ullfa br-d to Laurel lapel-lull ltllll, greatest living Berkshire boar. \Vo also have Hm-u l‘K'l‘J good boars rually for Si'l’Vlt‘l‘. Our Berkshire» Won 21 .rlllbrlns a: Michigan State Fair iIlH year. I'In'il'u llurll vllolom ilnulnne. I'I‘Il‘i‘S reasonable. Write for llll‘orlnzl‘lon. COREY FARMS. New Haven, Mich. Berkshires DURUC JERSEY SWINE. ii); if?"n.Ifii'xy’xiq'iifllo1321i. wants. W. E. BARTLEY, Alma, Mich. B . C ‘. Us. ' "z Large Type Durocs ..‘.’.‘:f.‘i...i.’l§. “my “f‘. Lil; Clyde A. Kcrshaw, Plaimyell, Mich. 5 Rl'gistrrcd and ilnlllunvll. Breed- O. l- c 5- ing stowlt 01' all was for sale at. all times. Bmlrs. bred sows. Open gills and plus at Farmer! prlwm. ('lllno and see my herd at Morrish Crossing on D. U. R. Atherton Road. F. D. 6. Flint, Mich. EARLE R. MORRISH. O I C93 Fall pigs, .irml by “(.‘illllt Boy" 0 ~ and ".Illmlm's llvll 2m," IIIN.‘ Irou’n Swiss bulls; "ELMHURST FARM." Milo H. Peterson, Ioni.l. Mich.. R. 2. wanting: to buy (Illlll'l‘ 0. l (‘, Scr- Anyone vim hours or Ill‘l'll gill. plan! your order before Jan. 2!). I. R. VanEtten. Clifford, Mich. 0.0.5 last spring pigs, either sex. not allin. from ' - big strong stock. recorded free. OTTO SCHULZE 84. SONS, Nashville, Mich. Gilts bred to still at Lengthy CheSter Whltes Prince, i‘own Ql'ullll champion, also tall and summer pigs. (. l). ALBERT DDRR, Clinton, Mich. Francisco Farm Poland Bhinas Now offering some wonderful bred gills. Hranddaugh- lers or National Grand (,‘llampionw-at prices you can pay. P. P. POPE, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Poland China Hogs for sale. 5 p O tte d Boar Ready for Service. and. a Il'W sows. Sam Bueschler, Elkton. Mich. ' Spring Boats for sale. Place your Hampshires nrdcr rol- Gilts Bred to order. 11th year. John W. Snyder, R. 4, St. Johns, Mich. Big Type Poland Chinas (‘Iloil'c gills bred tor Mar. & April furrow. for sale. WESLEY HILE, Ionia, Mich. ° either sex. by the great, Boar. The Fall PlgS Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best of dams. W. E. Livingston. Parma. Mich. P C Choice Boats and Gilts that will please you. '- 'Sircd by Peter A. l’an & Model Clansmtm. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rapids, Mich. large Type Poland (‘hinas either F 0 l‘ s a '6 sex. Also Brown Swiss Bulls. A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester, Mich. SHEEP Bred Ewes For sale. in lots of 50 or more. telephone Newport, telegraph Rockwood. P. 0. So. Roc . ALMOND B. CHAPMAN & SON. W I I Delame Breeding Ewes Lamb. March and April. Highest price wool in the WUl'ltl. Millie 150% in lambs and wool. Two cars 0qu lambs, both cross—bred and Delainm. 50 Pure~ bred Delaine ewe lambs, (unregistered). Geo. II. Wilbcr. Oaklands, Marysvillc, Ohio. ' 200 Black Fat-ed Ewes. all yearlings mud For sale two's, bred to Lamb May 1st. 300 com- ing yearling Ewes, Dclaine type. C. H. SHURTE. U. S. Yards. Chicago, or Cantonolis. Mich. ._ Thoroughbred Horned Dorset Rams G. J. Dunnewind. Comotock Park. Mich.. R. I. :- «x GRAIN QUOTATIONS Tuesday, January , Wheat. Detroit—No. 1 red at $1.88; No. 2 red $1.84; No. 3 red $1.87; No. 2 White $1.88; No. 2 mixed $1.87. Chicago—May $1.777,g@1.78; July at $1.54§'g@1.541,§. Toledo—Cash $1.91@1.92. Corn. Detroit—No. 2 yellow at $1.30; No. 3 yellow $1.27. Chicago—May $127513; July 331.28% 0 631.2814; September $1. 7%. Oats. ‘ Detroit—New, No. 2 white. 63c; No. 3, 62c. Chicago—May at 611/3; July 60%@ 610; September 57@57%c. Rye. . Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.46. Chicago—May $1.53§/§07_1.53‘.é; July 1 . 6. Toledo—«$1.44. Barley. Detroit—Barley, malting at $1.01; feeding 95c. Buckwheat. Detroit—Milling grade $2.33@2.35. Beans. prompt kid- \ Detroit.—~Immediate and shipment $5.85@6 per cwt. Chicago—Navy, choice 3;» .35; neys $9.75. New York.—~Choice pea at $6.15@ $6.25; red kidneys $9@9.35. Seeds. Detroit.~Prime red clover cash at $19.50: alsike $13.25; timothy $3.35. Hay. ~ Deti‘oit.-—No. l timothy $18,506 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 $10.507j11; rye straw at $12.50 @1113. Feeds. Detroit—Bran at $39@40: standard middlings $40; fine do $44: cracked corn $54: coarse cornmeal $46; chop 38 per ton in 100-lb. sacks. Apples. Chicago prices on apples: Northern Spies $7018 bbl; Baldwins $601650; Jonathans $3.5ml9 bbl; Kings $66} 6.50; tireenings $6.50@7 bbl; \‘x‘agen- ers at $5715.25 bbli’ Snows at $4.50m‘ 5; “'inesaps $77} 7.50 bbl; Grimes at, $503“ 550; Starks $573 5.50. WHEAT \‘\‘heat. prices charted a highly er- ratic course in the past week. After advancing. to a. new high point for the season. and reaching a level about 7th higher than when the rise started last June, the market experienced a sharp reaction of about, nine Cents a bushel, in two days time. regaining two-thirds of it in short order. only to sag off again. An analysis of the world posi— tion of wht at still shows an extremely strong situation. lligh prices normal— ly would ex«:rt some retarding effect on European consumption but the pos— sibility of substitution for wheat is quite limited, owing to the shortage oi other grains. Moreover“ the rate.at which import wheat is -disappearing does not suggest that high prices are reducing foreign requirements notice— ably. . * CORN Corn prices are in much the same position as a Week ago. They have fluctuated with wheat. although over a much smaller range. Primary re- ceipts have fallen off in the last two weeks, partly because of unfavorable weather for delivering grain to elevat- ors, and partly because of the small surplus available. In spite of the small arrivals, however, the. visible supply is gaining steadily. and is twice as large as a month ago. This indicates the. narrowness of the commercial demand for corn and the difficulty the .market seems to be experiencing in its pro- gress toward a higher lexel. OATS The visible supply of oats decreasui slightly during November. but accum- ulation occurred again during Decem— ber, and present stocks of 71436000 ‘ bushels are the largest on record. In the middle of last. August. there. were only 3,373,000 bushels of cats at term- inals, showing how rapidly the supply has piled up. Last year. in the cor— responding period, only 13.000000 bushels were added to the visible. sup- ply. Primary receipts since last liar- vest time have been larger than in 1923. but the increase is only aobut 37,000,000 bushels. SEEDS Clover seed prices have advanced to a. new high point for the season dur— r ’3 z. t . . - . ..i....-.1 ;-/.~,4...~ .. ... .\ . .... .. “....“ . STH§.L ARKET ing the past week. There is little pressure from shipments from the seed-growing districts and higher pric- es for grain will undoubtedly raise the price level at which users of clover seed will be willing to buy in volume. HAY Cold weather and light country load- ings during the holidays h e strength- ened thehay market and e' arrivals are. being taken readily at steady pric- es. Both timothy and alfalfa are in good demand and the latter is at. the highest point reached thus far. on the crop. The United States Department of Agriculture reports that only about onethird of the marketable surplus of the 1924 crop of timothy hay had been marketed to December 15. More than half of the alfalfa and 40 per cent of the prairie had been moved to the same date. FEEDS Feed prices have been firm recently, because of light offerings and sustain- ed high prices for feeds grains. All markets have been affected more or less by holiday dullness and the pe— riod of inventory taking. Demand for i'eedstuffs is confined largely to imme- diate requirements. Export demand for oil meals recently has been fairly broad. \V'heat feeds for future ship- ment are now quoted at a premium of 50 cents to $1.50 over prompt ship— men t. BEANS Bean prices advanced to $6 per 100 pounds f. o. b. Michigan shipping points at the close of last week. This is the objective dealers have had in mind for some time.’ Demand from distributors has not broadened much, but supplies in elevators are light and more or less speculative buying has been going on. If demand develops the usual January proportions, the market should hold the higher level without much trouble. A comprehensive survey indicates that slightly more than fifty per. cent of the .Michigan crop had moved out. R 5" v of the state by the middle of D'ecem-"Hor higher fer another month or two. ‘ ber. Stocks of white beans in ‘Cali- fornia. are the lowest in many yfiam White beans in other states seem to have' been sold more closely than in Michiagn. POULTRY AND EGGS. Egg p ices have easéd slightly from the season’s high ofxa week ago, but are still higher forthe season than in several years. Cold weather has delayed production and fresh eggs are slow in ‘coming forward from the southern sections. Prices may sag further, but any severe decline will probably be deferred until the weather moderates. Live hens in the New York market are 10c a pound higherp than immediately prior to the embargo on live poultry shipments about two weeks ago. Receipts of dressed poul- try on all markets are holding up as * producers are killing poultry in order to avoid the embargo. Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 51@ 521/2c; dirties 37@38c; checks 35@36c; fresh firsts 51@531/éc; ordinary firsts 45@48c. Live poultry, hens 23c; spring- ers 24c; roosters 16c; ducks 260; geese 210; turkeys 260. - Detroit.~—Eggs, fresh candled and graded 5301570; storage 40@420. Live poultry, heavyspringers 27@280; light springers 20c; heavy hens at 27@280; roosters 16c; geese 21@22c;' ducks at 28c; turkeys 44@45c. BUTTER 'lflutter prices hold around the level which has prevailed for more than two. weeks. For two months, dealers have been predicting a heavy winter make which would depress prices. Gains in production since the turn in the make have not been large, however,'and pro- duction is consistently running behind corresponding weeks a year ago. Con- sumption since the holidays has equal- ed the pre—Christmas demand and shows no indication of easing off. The rapid distribution of storage stocks such as occurred throughout Decem- ber is likely to be maintained. Alto— gether, there is strong likelihood that prices will hold near the present'level Live Stock Market Service I Tuesday, January CHICAGO Hogs. Receipts 76.000. Market generally 10th 25c lower, lighter weights showing most decline; 200 to 250-lb. average 311050011055: choice $3.60; hogs at $10.50@10.55; choice $13.60: hogs at 10.50; 170 to 190-lb. kinds $9.90@10.15; 140 to 160-lb. average $8.75@9.65 most- ly: bulk strong weight slaughter pigs $750419; mo:t packing sows at $10@: 10.25. Cattle. Receipts 1.000. Market moderately active on most. all killing classes. Beef steers and yearlings strong to 15c higher; carloads handyweight butch- er steers $12: prime weighty steers at $11.50; bulk beef steers and yearlings $80710: she STOCK steady. Calves op- ened steady. upward to $12 to out.- siders, now talking lower; bulls weak; stockers and feeders 15@25c higher; top l't‘t‘dti’l‘s $7. Sheep and Lambs. leceipts 10.000. Market active. Fat, lambs 2561500 higher; bulk at $17.50 (1‘18: tops $13.25; fall-shorn lambs at $14.50; fat sheep 25c higher; fat ewes $8.50@9.75; feeding lambs are strong, supply limited, few at $16@16.50. DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 375. Market, on iii—between cows 25c lower; other grades slow but steady. Good to choice yearlings dry—fed $ 9.50@10.00 Best heavy steers. dry—fed 7.75@ 9.00 Handyweight butchers 6.2 Mixed steers and heifers ._ 625 Handy light butchers... 4.25@ 5.50 Light butchers ..... . ..... 4.00@ 4.50 Best cows ............... 4.75@ 5.50 Butcher cows ........... 3,25@ 4.00 Cutters ................. 3.000; 3.50 Canners ................ 2.25m 2.75 Choice bulls ............ 4.25@ 5.25 Heavy bologna bulls . 5.00@ 5.75 Stock bulls .............. 3.25@ 4.00 Feeders ............. 4.75@ 6.25 Stockers ........ 4.25@ 6.00 0.00@70.00 Veal Calves. Receipts 556. Market slow. Best .................... $14.00?) 14.50 Others 5.00@13.50 .................. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 1.309. Market is 50c higher on lambs: sheep strong. Best lambs ........... . . .$18.00@18.25 Fair lambs .............. 15.00@17.00 Light to common ....... 9.50m 13.75 Fair to good sheep ....... 8.00@ 9.00 Calls and common ...... 3.50@ 4.50 Buck lambs ............. 8.00@17.00 Hogs. Receipts 3,955. Market.25cllower. Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$ 10.50 Pigs .................... 8.25@ 8.50 Light. yorkers ........... 8.75@ 9.00 Roughs ................. 9.35 Good yorkers ........... 10.25@10.35 Stags ................... 5.00@ 6.00 BUFFALO Hogs. Receipts 7,410. Closing is steady. Heavies $10.90@11; medium $10.75@ 11: light weight $10.50@10.75; light lights $9@10; pigs at $8@9; packing sows and roughsl$9.25. Cattle. Receipts 175. Market steady. Sheep and Lambs. , Receipts 1,000. Best lambs $18.50; ewes $9@10. Calves. Receipts 200. Top at $15. Prices on.92-score creamer-y were: .‘Chicago 41%c; New ~Y’ork 4434c. In . Detroit fresh creamery in tubs is sell- ing for 35@40c in Detroit. POTATOES The holiday season and extremely cold weather have reduced earlot ship- ments of potatoes and prices have ad- ded slightly to the gains recorded a. week ago. Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $1.15@1.35 per 100 pounds in the Chicago carlot mar- ket. New York round whites are bring- ing $1.40Kn‘.1.50 in eastern cities. Early reports on planting of new crop ,pota- toes in Florida point to a. decrease of about 25 per cent as compared with last year. WOOL World production of wool in 1924 is estimated at about 2,660,000,000 pounds while consumption was around $2,840,- 000.000 pounds. The difference was made up out of reserves on hand. Pro- duction is increasing, with indications that the. world clip in 1925 will be ap- proximately 100,000,000 pounds more than in 1924. Consumption continues at a high rate, with prospects that it will be fully as large in the coming year as it was in 1924. This will mean that reserves will be reduced still further. . Wool trade has been more or less quiet fl because of the. holidays, but some sales are being‘made and prices show a strengthening tendency. GRAND RAPIDS Leaf lettuce prices climbed to 12c early this week and still were pointing upward with the prospect of 15c let- tuce before the end of the week. The advance was attributed to a freeze in California, injuring the iceberg crop. Beans were higher at $5.25 per cwt., and fat springers were scarce at 2403. pound. Otherwise prices in Grand Rap- ids were mostly unchanged i'rom last week. Country roads were badly block- DETROIT CITY MARKET Offerings of produce were moder- ately heavy. There was a moderate demand for first-class apples, while the poorer stuff moved slowly. Kale, spin- ach and other greens moved slowly. Carrots, parsnips, cabbage, carrots and squash were in moderate. demand. Of- ferings of potatoes were moderate and the movement fair at 70@75c a bushel. The fair supply of live poultry was in moderate demand, while dressed offer- ings moved off readily. Apples $1.25@ 3.50; beets 75c@$1 bu; 1 @$1; red $1.25@1.50 bu: local celery N0. 1, 50@600 dozen; horseradish $3 (a 4.50 bu; leaf lettuce 90c bu; dry on- ions $1.25@1.50 bu; root parsley 75c@ $1 bu; curly 40@50c dozen bunches; parsnips $l@1.25 bu; potatoes, No. 1, 70@750 bu; rutabagas 50@60c bu; spinach $1 bu: Hubbard squash $1.25 ((71.75 bu; turnips $1.25@1.50 bu; veg- etable oysters 750 per dozen bunches; leeks 50@60c dozen bunches; root cel- ery $1@1.25 bu; kale 50@750 bu; hon- ey $1@1.25 per 5-lb. pail; mint 50c dozen bunches; live roasting pigs $5 each; eggs, retail 65@750 doz; hens, wholesale 26@28c; retail 2762300; springers, wholesale 26@280; retail 27 @300; geese, wholesale 26@27c; retail 28@300; dressed hogs 15@151,§c; veal 190; dressed poultry, hens 30(51350; springers 35c; geese 30@350; turkeys 35c pound. For Best Results Ship Direct to DETROIT BEEF COL‘,‘ ' Detroit, Mich. DRESSED CALVES DRESSED HOGS SUCKLING PIGS LIVE P OULTRY DRESSED POULTRY Write for Free Shippers’ Guide iThe WILBUR BIGFORD DI‘SPERSAL SALE 40--Pure-Bred Holsteiil Friesian F eludes-~40 at the farm 1 mile East of Ovid, Mich; "THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1925. 19 heavy springers or fresh'cows. bred to a 31-lb. grand-son of Spring Faun Pontiac Cornucopia- 18 daughters of this Herd Sire in the sale. The herd is strongly bred in the blood lines of such noted sires as Maple Crest Korndyke Hengerveld (the only living Century sire of to-doy), King of the Pontiacs. Hengerveld De Kol"and others. This herd is fully Accredited and will be sold subject to the 60 day re-test conditions. Credit terms wrll be gwen on good bankable paper, bank refere‘nce must. be furnished. For catalogues write GUY E. DODGE. Sales Manager, Clio, Mich, ' ‘ cabbage 75c. V. . '. ‘ J.gan pohts'zfromdifly 2010 August 14,; l AWE) mean. for a any " - transnational at ‘least’ ten Michi-. hesitant, been announced. 'The'agr-P cultural .nénrunsent' of the Michigan Central Wad has taken the bride: ‘ - tive in this educational work. The no... tion'ai mi state dairy associations, the‘ . ' United states ‘Department of Agricul- ture. the Michigan'Agr-icultural Col- loge andState Farm Bureaus, the var—‘ - ions breed associations, ' agents. together with various local or- .the county ganizations. ' will cooperate 'to make this almost effective means of bringing to producers and consumers alike, im- portant information on dairying. 'While a. number of dairy experts will accompany this train and speak to those .who attend; the demonstra— ' tion method of instruction will be very largely used. For example, the types of dairy animals to select will be showu by having present at each meet- ing a number of animals of the differ- ent dairy breeds. The use of dairy products in the human diet will form another important feature of this pro- gram. Hundreds of investigators are constantly learning new things about the various phases of the great dairy business. These new findings will have a place in the programs of these meetings. So far the following points have been determined upon: 'Niles, July 20; Kalamazoo, July 22; Grand Rapids, July 24; Sherlock, July 27; Jackson, July 29; Owosso, July ‘31; Standish, August 3; Gaylord, August 5; Caro, August 7; Lapeer, August 10; Adrian, August 12; Toledo, August 14. Un- doubtedly other places will be includ~ ed before the plans are complete. SHIPPING POINT INSPECTION. HE growing popularity of the fed- eralistate shipping point inspec- tion service is demonstrated by the certification of large numbers of cars of fruits and vegetables. The Wash- ington State Horticultural Society has recommended that all shipments of ap- ples and pears from within the state be inspected at shipping point. COUNTY CROP REPORTS. c lngham Co., Dec. 30.—-Farmers are now devoting their time to marketing , grain. In this locality the yield was good and prices at the present time are encouraging. There is very little feeding being done. The poultry bus- iness, however, is attracting more than the usual amount of attention. Farm; ers are attending their organization meetings and there is more cheer among them than there has been for the past four years.~A. H. , . St. Clair Co., Dec. 30.—The 1ce storm has so completely covered eve— rything that farmers in this section can do little but their chores. Our wheat went into winter quarters with a small top. .On account of the lack of moisture. Not many cattle are on feed, due to the shortage of the corn crop. Besides, the price of corn is too high to feed economically. Eggs are selling here at 500 per dozen; but- ter-fat 400 per pound; best live chick- ens 18c. Farmers are not marketing any. live stock at this time.——W..K. Leelenau Co., Dec. 26.——The chief oc- cupation of our farmers here is cut- ting wood to keep warm. It is very cold. Four weeks ago when our first snow came on, the winter wheat was looking fine. Farmers are doing no feeding outside of their regular stock animals. The corn crop here was very poor and seed corn is going to be very scarce. Poultry is in good} shape and many turkeys were raised here last year. These turkeys generally sold at 25¢ per pound. Chickens brought 15@ 170. The potato crop, which is one of our cash crops here, is not bringing in a great deal of the cash this year, which is "making it somewhat difficult for many farmers to make ends meet. A community club was recently organ- ized in our community with meetings once a month—J. W. . Ben-ion, Co., Dec. 21.——Very little feeding is being done here. Chores and a little pruning of orchards is tak- ing up mob of the time of the farm- ers: T ere was more wheat sown this st to than usual. The grain brings 155 at the present: time; corn $1.10; potatoes 59c; butter 40c; e svific. At this time help is plentiiul. e grange and lodges are quite ac ive.——-J. F. B. Boschlgnition; no_cranking; fly-wheel and working parts - enclosed, no danger; two cylinders; mechanically. o ratedvalves;remov- a .le die-cast bearings ; Wide speed variation; remarkable per- f o r m a n ce a n d economy :rugged a n d d u r a bl e ; rfect balance; light weight ; op- erates with ker- osene or gaso- l i n e . S e n d for FREE booklet. or wood saw. She also Edwards is a 1% H. “”r» EDWARDS .4... ENGINE The imprOved 1.925 model Edwards Farm Engine is out. This marvelous power plant which has been hailed by farmers as “the greatest farm engine in the world , " has been improvedand refined. It compares favorably with the highest automobile development of today as against the old time Single cylinder automobile of twenty-five years ago. The im roved Edwards Farm Engine has a world 0 power. She purrs like a klt- ten on every job—doesn't backfire or spit, but responds instantly to sudden load changes. Starts quickly even in cold weath— er, and delivers a steady flow of power when asked to fill a silo, run a feed grinder economically when asked to run the wash- ing machine, churn or pump jack. The P. engine when 1% H. P. is wanted, and a 6 H. P. engine when 6 H. P. is wanted—or any power in between. Don’t buy any other engine until you get the facts about this efficient power plant that will do practically every power job on your farm. Write today. TRIAL Here is my straightfor- ward offer. Send me your na me a n d a d- dress. I W111 give you all of the facts about this remark- able engine —- my rigid guarantee of sat— isfaction—and tell you how you can have it on your farm for a 30 dzws trial. You risk nothing. “'rite NOlV. operates just as "9 Main St” Springfield, Ohio VAN WERT EXCELS 10R wonx CLOTHES Send or 361': main] Booklet Itwill help you get more J value than ever before for the money you spend for work clothes. F It describes Van \Vert Excelsior Work Clothes. illustrates many differ. ent styles, shows you how to select garments to meet your particular needs and describes features that you can obtain in Van Wert Excel- sior Work Clothes that are not found in any other garment. We want this booklet to be in every farm home in the Middle West, be- cause it will enable you to obtain bet- 1: :- work clothes than you ever had ofore, at the moot moderate prices. Send a Postal Today! This valuable booklet will come to you by return mail. After you select the Sll'lts and fabric you want. your own dealer can supply you. Write today. Let us help your work clothes dollar buy bigger value. Van Wert Overall Mfg. Co., 203 E. Main St.. Van Wert. Ohio ,A J We’ll Rebuild —— 7 , Your lamp ” with 3 Coleman Match Lighting Burner Send your old torch-generating gasoline lamp to our nearest factory branch by parcel post and let us rebuxld it Into a light better than new and which will five years ofservxcc. To make the change eco- nom cally for you, we must have th8_entlr_8 lamp, all Bax-ts Without the shade. Cllle QUICk-the Burner ights Wltll Ordinary Matches. Does away entirely with the old atxle lighting torch. For the average make of lamp t coast to only §3.60. We also clean and test your-lamp tree. Occasionally lamps of other manufacture require special machine work and extra meter-isle. Thle means additional cost. Before re- building,1ve notify you of the exact cost 9nd await your acceptance. Address nearest Dept. MF-31J THE COLEMAN LAMP 00.- ' Vl'ichita. Kansas Philadelphia. Pa. Chicago, Ill. J.ns Angelcs, Cut The Edwards Motor Co. 0 mat l WARE—dilammolh. 1-y'r. [whole roots. 29.) 31:" ‘. Giant Crimson, lane divisions. 8. $1: Antietam _ Roots. so. 51. Dam-rod 9mm anywhere. Weaver Gardens. Wichita. Kansas MILLIONS Strawberry Plants 82.95 per 1,000. Rasp- berries. Grapes. Bulbs. Flower Seeds. Chicks. Illus- Sfitede-atalonue Free. Mayors Plant Nursery, Mer- . . I(‘I. ' FOR SA ”174:0 tons first and 20 tons second cutting alfalfa. Richard Kull. Newport. Midi. ll TOBACCO HOMESPUN TOBACCO. Chewing 6-lbs. $1.50: Tm $2.50. Smoking 5-Ibs. 81.25; Ten 82. Pay when receiv- ed. pipe and recipe free. Farmers" Union. Paducah. Ky. IIOEIICSI‘UN. TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs. $1.50: 10. $2.15; Smoking. 5 lbs. $1.25; mild. 10 $1.50. PM when received. F. Gupton. Bax-dwell. Ky. HOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Chewing. five pounds $1.50: ten, $2.50: twenty. $4.50. Smoking. five pounds. $1.25: ten. $2.00; twenty $3.50. Pipe Free. Money back if not satisfied. United Tobacco. Paducah, Ky, SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK SEEDsa-Vcw (‘rop "Kansas" Alfalfa $7.00 and $9.50 bu.. also Sweet (‘Iovers. Red f‘lmer, Alsike. Timothy. Sudan. l‘ane, lian‘ir, Millets, Seed Corn. Soy Beans. Cow l’cas. Lowest Prices. Bags Free. Semi for samples and Save Money. Solomon Seed (‘0., Solo- mon, Kansas. FRUIT CI:OWI1RS AND FARMERS attention! Semi for I'ltl-.l-. vululm; on small fruits, containing actual Dhotos‘raplw of :1 new blackberry nearly two inches long. Also strawberry and raspberry plants. Reduced firm-c5314 South Michigan Nursery, New Ilull’nlo. Mich. ox . A NEW carnjest hard wheat. \Vill prndum a crop when other varieties fail. Adapted to all win-m grow- ing centuries. Send for bulletin. Greenback Bros. or H. S. Halverson. McHenry. North Dakota. CERTIFIED “'olvcrine Oats. Certified Robllst Beans. A. B. Cook. Owes-so. Mich. PET STOCK IFOR SAI.E~—High-class Foxhounds: Bangle hounds. ,Coonhounds: Bloodhounds; and Setters: partly and l well-broken: puppies of all breeds; no money in ad- .vnnt‘u ship l‘, 0. 1). Stamp for belvklet. Landis- Ilmnnolsg lllohnton, I’a. lFI'IRRE'I‘Si—I sper-ialize in raising ferrets, Thirty l years' cxpcrimma November prices, female. $3.50 each; mnlcs $42.75 each. One dozen $30. Yearling femnlm special rut catchers $5.00 each. Will ship 4‘. 0. D. {)nsltmction book free. Levi Il‘arnsworrh. New London. 110. FOR SAI.I-l~—I‘.:-gisll-.rc(l Collie I’nppir-<, natural ‘lll‘ll- ors. Slll‘l‘l'l.’lt‘>l Kemp-ls. Glndwin. Allwh. IVI'IllIlIC'I‘S Ior wild gmnu and rats. $5.“”. London, . . ('lloir-n fr‘nmllfi mm dehrmy guaranteed. 'Tlros, Scllnrs, New (NHL IIUN’I‘ING (‘ntulomun llOWNl)S—l“t~l'ds. Illi‘diclncy'. . Supplier. lxcnncl Journal, Herrick, Ills. POULTRY / PUlll'I—IHII'JI) utility Light Brahma (“ovlu-rt-ls-Almsl to lay, $4.00 cal-h, Satisfaction gunranhwl. The first (ll‘tll'l‘ for two or m 11* (*tn‘kvrr'ls will I'm-elm om free. Spwlnl rah-s on on ms for day—old ('Illl'lis plat-xi before Feb. 1. Milford Ii. Davie» (‘crcwm Mich. BABY (‘Illl'KR from heavy cm: producing strains. R. I. Ill-(ls. ll. llll'lifi, and White lmghorns. l“nnnraug;2 Cllll'li Hull-hen; ('lmrlotlo. Mich. zfifik Own a Flour Mill 5. \ ‘FI and make money milling the highest grade _ 4 1M. . tollerflourinyourcommunityonthewon— “W :3 derful, one'mun, self‘vconmined “Midget ‘ . \“Iarllll ‘ ,llllll Marvel" Roller Flour Mill. No milling . Hi" — experience necessary. Easy to operate " n with our simple directions. Seven sizes— fromuto 100 barrels per day. Prices from $1675 up. Write for our free book, “The Story ofa Wonderful Flour Mill.n Anglo American Mill Co., 52 Kcnnedy Av. , Owensboro, Ky. —uv _ ' Izvr- :4 (“g-31:22:...xtg. wvrxvvx . Tii’mfid‘h ("Cl'lClv)RI3I.S~~»HmL\', Geese, Dru-ks. Turkeys: “pull hrel'tls. State Farms Association. .' 1v . all prin- Kalamazoo. Will'l‘l‘l sunk. “'YA NDOT’J‘I‘I (‘OIYK ER 1‘] LS~Hi sill llowunl Grant, quality Marshall, Mich. S. (‘. 'llllll‘ll‘ LilllllullN l'llll‘lx’fl ”l-‘irrt hatch March .5. ('u'vulur. Willard \Vl'llrll‘l'. Bath. Mich. s_—-~._W~ .a. Mention Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers This classified advertising department, tlslng miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. consecutive insertions (invents a word. display type or illustrations admlt‘ed. ('ount as Minlmum charge, I0 words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISI1x15.“—1 is established Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. at classified rates, or in display columns at commercial rates. . Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion, on orders for less than four lllSL‘l‘llOIls: for four or more Remittances must accompany order. . Real estate and live stock advertislng have separate departments and are not accepted as classnfied. for the convenience of Michigan farmers. Try it for want ads and for adver- Poultry ndvt‘l‘llsillg will be run In this department a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No 0n Four Words time times Words time tlmu 0 r: ...... 0.80 52.40 6 ........ 82.08 56.24 11 ........ .88 2.64 ........ 2.15 5.48 12 ........ .98 2.88 28 ........ 2.24 8.172 13 ........ 1.04 3.12 ........ 2.32 5,95 14 ..... " . . . 1.12 3.35 30 ........ 2.40 .20 15 ........ 1.20 8.50 81 ........ 2.48 7.44 16 ........ 1.28 3.84 32 ........ 2.56 7.68 17 ........ 1.36 4.08 33 ........ 2.04 7.92 18 ..... . . ‘1.“ 4.32 34 ........ 2.72 8.16 19. n. ...... 1.52 4.56 35 ........ 2.8. 8.40 20 ........ 1.60 4.80 36 ........ 2.88 8.64 21 ........ 1.08 5.04 37 ........ 2.90 8.88 2" ........ 1.76 5.28 38 ........ 3. 9.12 23 ..... ,. . 1.84 5.52 ‘ 39. . . 9.30 ........ 1.92 5.75' 40. .60 95 ........ 2.00 8.00 41 ........ 9.84 . All admrfiu‘n: a” otlce diuonn’nuana ordarl or change of up} in- tmdtd for the Clamfifitd Department mun red-ch this ofltt MI day: in admin: ququa lion data. ~ REAL ESTATE $400 SECURE MICHIGAN FARMr—tio Acres and Equipment. Pack your grip now {or you surely Will .want this dandy producer: easy drive city. mile R. It. village, 34 acres fertile fields, awiro Fences. woodlot. 200 sugar maples. plenty fruit: good tl-room house. pleasant surroundings. barn. etc. Woman owner’s low price 31.700 (or :all, only 5400 required. Details and picture of beautiful home pg. 141 big illus. Bar- gain Catalog, money-making farms and business chances. Free. Strout Farm Agency, 205130 Kresge Bldg.. Detr’ Mich. CALIFORNIA STATE LAND BOARD lms :1 numln-r of desirable irrigated farms of twenty and Iortl‘ ill-rm in Sun Joaquin \';1llcy for solo to hum llxlp Inn-mun on 3‘”; _\(-:Irs' time. (‘omplvlv Irrigation System. Price per u-ro varies according to lru'ullhll. Fire. per mm, of purchase price payable when deal is made: rc— mainrlcr in semi-annual installments extending over period of 3(le years. with 5 per will interest annually. Your opportunity to acquire a farm in winlcrlcss (‘ul»- ifornia. All deciduous l'ruils~ profitably grown: ult'ull'h. is a paying crop. Idcul conditions for block and poul- try. (lflllll schools and IIIISIII‘IHISM‘ll roads. Il‘rulr associations market your crops. relieving you of mar- keting problems. You run farm all your in California. Splendid (mt-ortunitics here for the man of moderate means. State Board's pamphlet, also Santa Fe. illus‘ trutvd folder describing San Joaquin Valley. mailed free on request. C. L. Scagravcs. General Colonize.» lion Agent. Santa. Fe Ilr.. 912 Railway lixuhunge, (‘hicugm Ill. TURKEYS MH‘IIIGAN'S llI‘IS'l‘ (Hunt [lronm lerlm Strong, ng-olllly birds. I” )‘1‘lll‘.\ breeding l’ronv Anwrpu'x host ;slruins. Sulix‘l‘m'tion guaranteed. N. I‘Z'...l~r1 lizlllli‘ Llll‘ll, Ioniu, Mich. I’I’III", lllllu'l) (linnt Bronze Turin-rs, \luoxoiz- Birth. chop-r- Hllll'k. Mrs. (‘lmrlcs Boone, II. 5. 'I'rnu‘rE-l I‘M". Alp-I1. ’l'l'Illx’l‘IYS M'. Bronze. B. Red. Narragansett, Whitn llHl. llcm, 'I‘omc. Fairs and trim, xm Itin. Order only. Walter lire... I'owhatun Point. 0. I‘l'ltlI-lzlllvil) (:innt Bronze Turkew. ldx1ru value; 1n Hun large, Imullllv birds. .Mrs. llfll'l'l'lll" Brownoll. li‘lllmllf, Mich. I'l'lll-I Illlllll) Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Unrelated. Sumo nim- birds from choice selected stock. Nels-1n Snider. 802 l’t-lmlwl' St, I’ctoskey, Mich. FOR SAM-3 Purebred Bourbon Red Turkeys. H. O. ,llllgnlvs, Milford. Mlvll. l l'l'fltlv: much lill‘lll' \Vhito Holland lllzlu-y», Toms $8. and lug-11s $7. Darwin Donn. Milford, Mach. INCUBATORS “SWAP” your little old incubator for "New Ohio" quality llulrllvl'. llutch bigger hatches hutch Ixrtmr elm-Ls. um ;: higun‘l', better machine. Unusually low prices now and liberal allowance for yours. 100. 250. 400, mm, son, 1200. 1800 egg sizes. No hatter ma» chines low as good. Best guarantee. Big Illustrate! folder uives l‘ull partlcilars. Geo. J. \Vettsclmrack. Lafayette, Ind. AGENTS WANTED FARM. \VAN'I‘ICD within 30 miles Detroit. west side prcflemred. State full particulars. Hauler. Dcnrborn. . It'lllzllll. ' NlNl-Z»A('Rl'l truck. poultry farm. deal with owner. Clarence Townsend. St. Johns. Michigan. I. MISCELLANEOUS . HARDY FIELD GROWN—Chrysanthemums. sweet williom. daisies and all old—fashioned or hardy por- ennlel flowers. Iris, canons. Moles, and tuberose bulbs. Spine“. abrubbery. 011mm: vines. roses. or— namental trees. and noticing. Wherry plants. Rhu— barb and asparagus roots. Thousands of satisfied cus— tomers. Delivered prepaid prices. Send for catalogue. Weaver Gardens. Wichita. Kansas. BIC. MONEY Selling New Household (‘lcaning Set. ‘\V:lsll(’s and dries windows. Sweeps, scrubs, mops. All complete only $2.95. Over half profit. Write Harper Brush Works, 173 3rd St... Fairflcld. Iowa. WE PAY $200 monthly salary, furnish car and ex- penses to _introduce our guaranteed poultry and stock powders. Bigler Company X683. Springfield, Ill. ICHIGAN FARMER Classified Ads. pay wcll. {Fry one. ' I ° After in M s FREE TRIAL? ‘ ence Monthly. AWE...“ ‘ 5 .I I send you a set of my No-Buckle H5512 ' ‘1' send No money to try on‘ your own team, on your own. } farm, for 30 days without cost or obligation to you. Glad to send it—that’s my > lThen if you don’t think that the Walsh is the best 9 looking, strongest and handiest harness you everlaid . I, eyes on, slip it into the box and return it to me. You édon’t even have to pay the return charges. I urge ggou not to wait a day before you get my new, free _ 00k that tells all about my special free trial offer. My harness book describes in detail this double-wear harness that has no buckles to tear straps, no rings . , I AS USED IN mnness Every ‘ a . straphaa " ' l'lELD UPTO ‘ ,n7o POUNDS ‘ \ " PULL 360L8$.PULL \‘ New edition of my big free Harness Book just out—52 pages of inter- esting facts. Write for JAMES M. WALSH Presiden t BOOK COUPON MAIL IT NOW Buckles Weaken and Tear Straps. breeching strap holds over 1100 lbs. will break at the buckle at about 360 lbs. pull. Ordinary harness has §8 buckles. Walsh Harness has no buckles—easy to see why Walsh ls three times stronger than ordinary harness. Walsh “Special Test” Leather Users say that the leather used in Walsh Harness is the best they ever saw in Harness. I use only the choicest Packers’ Northern Steer Hide Leather—tanned by the old-fashioned six months bark tan process. 1 want you to send today for my free book and read ‘ No matter where you live—prompt shipment is made from -a warehouse ‘near you — No delay. b-~——_—-—-—_-—----—¢— June. M. Welsh, Prom; WALSH HARNESS ‘\ . co. , 434 Keefe Ave., Milwaukee. Wis. Plus: send me free of charge. Wallh Hamel. Team on Walsh Harness. ....o-ong..-u-o...~-uvuo.u--.o............-. Name Book. Free Trial Ofier and Liberal Easy Payment “ j. .....-co your [by Is Ready . ‘ " D............... State l'Q ‘51.? .995. E3 “is? any.» .. a i“: .5111. :4 illllfif) "if? W’E‘Ailf l5 liberal offer. Examine it, use it, test it in every possible way you can think of. to wear straps, no buckle holes to weaken straps. In a few years this wonderful harness has swept the country, making it necessary to enlarge my factory four times to take care of orders. A proven success on thousands of farms in every state. ‘ . Post yourself on this latest, most up—to-date way of making harness. Write for my new, big, free book now. » ... Three Times Stronger than Buckle Harness As an example, a Walsh 1% inch The same strap with the buckle about actual test in.steel testing machine—~it proves that Walsh Leather holds twige as much as ordinary harness leather. Ask me to send you at once my free book, full of interesting and valuable information—explains fully how my leather is tanned and tested. in harness making. Balance easy payments. 15 ’ to your friends and neighbors. SS I get a Walsh, rmgs. Why put up with this when you can' has no buckles—no - .- 5 i a. a I ARM v —.... .0... -- .r-.‘ .— . ., 9...; 'I'xl ,.."|"7,. - fari- mp: in . uv‘ which Over 20000 Satisfied Users Praise ' It: Thousands of farmers in every state use and praise the Walsh. Endorsed byAgricultural Colleges .‘ Government Experiment Stations and leading horsemen. Team with Walsh harness took first prize at Wisconsin State Fair 1921. 1922. Mr. G. G. Anderson, Aitken, an.,who bought his lst Walsh years ago and sets since for his other teams, says, “Walsh, has buckle her- neu beet airbus”. Easily Adjusted to Fit Any Horse In ten minutes a Walsh Harness can be adjusted to fit any horse perfectly, and it’s a comfortable harness be- cause it fits. It is much easier to put on and take off. No stubborn buckles to bother with when winter cold bites your‘fingers and straps are stiff. The adjustable strap holder, used exclusively on Walsh Harness, does away with all buckles and rings, and the harder the pull the tighter they hold: the world’s greatest advance No other harness ever made can equal it. Made in all styles, Breechingless, Back Pad, Express; etc., all shown in my big free book. Be Prepared for the Spring Rush .1 Send for your copy of the big, free harness book today. Post yourself on this wonderful harness, so you can make your decision and get your trial order in quickly as possible. Have your harness ready for Spring work when it comes. A delay at that time because of old broken—down harness will cost you dearly. ‘ s after 39 days free, trial Selling direct by mail to you enables me to give highest quality harness at lowest prices. There‘s a cop of my book waiting for you. Write today for book, prices, , terms and how to make money showing Walsh Harness James M. Walsh, Pres., WALSH HARNESS C0 ' 434 Keefe Ave" Milwaukee, Wis. Wrtie F° ’ \ Side Backer, Mr. E. E. Ward, Seneca Falls,.' 13., says, “I have used lum- i nee- for over 40 years. The Welsh is the best yet”. . . G Mr. John Froelich, Melville; ' ont., says, “I never new el harness with better leather l > that would compare within, ; Walsh". ‘: . . Hundreds of letters like these in ' my new, big, free book. Write! bought 3 new E; for it today ‘ > t " 4 r ,3, 1. l l b F our of the Ten Styles Shown in Free Book . ‘~ We“. new“ ‘ s ' ”Srw S fie. .. l .u . agmwmw_ , A, ..i.m_‘ . ... . r Free Book W__