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‘A‘IS’elect The Right Analysis





For Your Crop





Through years of research

and actual field experiments,

the State agricultural col-

leges and experiment sta-

tions have determined the

analysis of fertilizers which

will give you the-best results

on each amp and soil.



For Michigan, the Michi-

gan Agricultural Experi-

ment Station recommends

the following analyses:

Corn—Sands, light sandy loams:

without mixed meadow, ma—

nure or green manure, 4-12-0;

with mixed meadow, clovers, a1-

falfa or soy bean or with manure

Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy

loams, silt loams, clay loams:

Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-12-12,

0—8-24, Potash.



Oats, Barley (with spring seed-

ing of alfalfa or clovers)~—Sands,

light sandy loams: without mixed

meadow, etc., 0-12-6. 4—8-6; with

mixed meadow, etc._. 0-14—4; with





manure, Acid Phosphate. Heavy.





sandy loams, silt loams, clay

loams: without mixed meadow,

etc., 2-16-2 ; with mixed meadow,

etc., or with manure, Acid Phos-

phate. Muck: 0-12—12, Potash.

Alfalfa, Clover—Sands, light

sandy loams : without mixed meao

dow, etc., 0-12-6; with mixed

meadow, etc., 0-12-6. 0-14-4;

with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phos-

phate. Heavy sandy loams, silt

loams, clay loams: without mixed

meadow, etc., or with mixed

meadow, etc., 0-14—4, Acid Phos-

phate; with manure, Acid Phos-

phate. Muck: 0-12-1‘2. Potash.

Potatoes— Sands, light sandy

loams: without mixed meadow,

etc., 3-12-4, 3-8—6; with mixed

meadow, etc., 2-16—2, 2-12-6,

Acid Phosphate; with manure,

0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy

sandy loams, silt loams, clay

loams: without mixed meadow,

etc., 3-12-4, 3—8—6; with mixed

meadow, etc., 2—16-2, 2-12-2,Acid

Phosphate; with manure, 0-14-4,

Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0—8-‘24,

Potash.



Sugar Beets—Sands, light sandy

loams: with mixed meadow, etc.,

3-12-4, 2-12—6, 4—8-6; with ma-

nure,0—12-6,3-12-4. Heavy sandy

loams, silt loams, clay loams:

without mixed meadow, etc.,

3-12-4, 2-16-2, 2—12-6;withmixed

meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 2-12-6,

2—16—2; with manure. 2—16-2,

0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Muck:

0-8—24, Potash.





As Authorized Swift Agent

for the sale of Swift’s Red

Steer Fertilizers, we are co-

operating with the Michigan

Agricultural Experiment

Station in recommending

and selling these analyses.



Come in and we will help

you select the analysis and

decide on the amount per

acre to make you the most

profit.





Authorized Swift Agent





 





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lan for more profit





Profit on crops is the difference between the

selling price and the production cost.



The selling price is practically controlled

by supply and demand. But the cost of pro-

duction is governed mainly by the yield per

acre and per man, which to a large measure,

you can control. .



Fertilizers influence the yield and the

quality more, probably, than any other fac-

tor, except the weather. Therefore, in plan-

ning for more profit it is of utmost importance

that you consider carefully who makes the

fertilizer you use and the analysis and

amount you should apply per acre.





Your guarantee of quality





Swift 85 Company’s extensive facilities afi‘ord

unusual opportunities to determine the agri-

cultural value of the different forms of plant-

food, and to make use of the findings of

Experiment Stations and other recognized

scientific authorities.



Only the most productive sources of plant-

food are used in the manufacture of Swift’s





Red Steer Fertilizers. Back of each bag is _





the 50—year-old Swift reputation of making

every product the best of its kind.



Twen ty-three factories, conveniently lo-

cated, are ready to serve you—special man-

ufacturing equipment enables us to properly

process and combine the carefully selected

fertilizer ingredients. Every pound of fer-





Swift’s





Red Steer





Fertilizers





“It pays to use them”





tilizer is thoroughly and evenly mixed so





that each plant will be supplied ‘with its

proper proportion of plantfood to make the

biggest yield of best quality product.



When you use Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizer

you know you are using the best.





See the Authorized Swift Agent





The A. S. A. (Authorized Swift Agent) is an

individual or firm in your community with a

reputation for square dealing.



His success depends upon your success.

He is pledged to co—operate with Swift 85

Company in supplying the farmer with the

fertilizer that gives him the most plantfood

for the money; the analysis that produces

biggest yield and best quality crops, and to

recommend the amount per acre that gives

the farmer the most profit. This Swift Serv-

ice is based on actual results secured by your

State Experiment Station and practical f arm-

ers, and is worth money to you.



Plan now next spring’s fertilizer require-

ments with the A. S. A. If you do not locate

him readily, write us and we will put you in

touch with him.



Buy Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers—“ It

pays to use them. ”





Swift 85 Company

Fertilizer Works Dept. 41, Hammond, Ind.





 

 

 





 





 





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The Tree Before It Was Pruned.





HAT orchard would be worth

more than the rest of your farm





if you’d have it pruned and

spray it every year,” said the county

“You know what

Sam Wilson got for his apple crop

last fall? An even $1,200, from three

acres."



“Yes,” Tom agreed. “But I haven’t

got time to prune the trees. And

what’s more, I don’t know how.”



“Get a young horticultural student

from the state college to do it. It will

cost you $3.00 a day and his expenses

and board. Hadn’t ought to take him

more than ten days or so to do it.”



The result was, Tom wrote to the

state agricultural college, and I got

the job. While I didn’t know an awful

lot about pruning—not so much as I

do now—Tom and the county agent

and I were all satisfied, and Tom’s or-

chard really is the best paying thing

on the farm now.



Would you like to hear how I pruned

Tom’s trees? Well, I’ll tell you a little

about it. Maybe you have an orchard

of your own that you want to prune,

and I hope these few pointers will help

you.



Some of the trees‘were old-timers—

thirty feet to the highest pointwand

had never been pruned; at least, they

had never been pruned enough to show

the effects of the work. It was neces—

sary to take out some limbs as big as

three or four inches in diameter, and

Tom looked skeptical when he saw the

first one come out.



“What’s the matter with that limb?”

he asked.



“It has a canker on it,” I replied.

“See there?” Tom examined the branch

carefully, while I explained that cank-

er was a disease that might kill his

whole orchard. The next big limb was

carefully examined, but he could find

nothing that looked like canker, and

so he asked again: “What’s the mat-

ter with that one?”



“That one had to come out because

it started on one side of: the tree and





 





After Pruning. Note How the Tops

Have Been Cut Down.





runed Smith’s Orchard





A Student Give: Some Good Pointer: 072 fiimmz'ng

By E. A. Kirkpatrick





Went right across to the other side,”

I explained. “Cross limbs are bad, be-

cause they make it hard to climb the

tree to spray or harvest the‘ fruit.”



“I’m not finding fault, understand,”

said Tom, “but I want to know all

about this so I can do it myself next

year.”



Thus it went—Tom asking for an

explanation of each cut as I covered

the first three trees. Then he remark-

ed that it was “kind 0’ chilly just

standing around watching,” and added

that if he “had one of the swivel saws

like yours” he would help me out. I

had two saws in my pruning outfit, and

so I set Tom to work, cautioning him

about leaving stubs, letting the branch-

es split down, etc. By the end of the

day he was as enthusiastic as any new

convert at a camp meeting. That was

the only day he helped, however, for

the next day there was a sale, then

the wood sawers came, and one thing

after another, until I had the job fin-

ished. When I went to the house one

evening and told him I was through,

he insisted that I tell him all the rules

so that he could do the work himself.





, Here are a few of the pointers I gave





him:



1. Cut out all dead branches.



2. Cut out,all diseased branches, and

before making another cut with the

saw or shears, dip the blade in a solu-

tion of corrosive sublimate, one to

1,000 (it’s poison, so be careful with

it). This prevents spreading diseases

to other branches or other trees.



3. Cut out all broken limbs.



4. Cut out the limbs going straight

up from a horizontal branch. Such

branches make spraying difficult,

shade the lower branches, reduce fruit-





 





 





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A Unique Poultry Business





A Part T z'me Proporz'tz'on Y/mt Pay: W 6/1





FRIEND of ours contends that



the busy farmer who likes clean



premises and freedom from an-

noyance in the garden would do well

to take up his plan of keeping chick-

ens only part of the year. He has

small fruits and vegetables for his

main crop and does not want his fowls

running wild in the garden, neither

does he think it pays to keep them

shut up.

young pul'lets in the fall when the

price goes off, or along in early Janu-

ary, put them in a warm coop, feed

them well and intelligently, skim the

cream off the flock by spring and then

sell the fowls before confinement tells

on them.



By careful watching he has been

able on many occasions to get fine

young hens as low as a dollar apiece,

for people know that he depends upon

the open market and in emergencies

sell direct to him. One family last

year had two kinds of chickens kept

carefully, but the man at the hatchery

refused to take the one kind of eggs

unless the other breed was disposed

of, so for a dollar each the friend of

ours got fine, pure—bred stock. Of

course, generally he must pay more

and get various breeds, but that is

overcome by the eggs and the greater

profits made occasionally. He aims to

make one dallar each on the hens and

can show that profit, and occasionally

more, on his b00ks. Now that may

seem a little matter, but he is nearIng

seventy, and the two or three hundred

dollars each spring when garden work

brings in nothing, comes in handy for

him and his wife It is not haId work

and there is a little return from the

fertilizer that he does not count. As

soonas the hens begin to fall off in

egg production by being confined they

go to the market and often he gets





His plan is to buy good.





more than he paid because they have

increased in size and the market is

better. -



It might not pay the average farmer

to follow this plan, but for the small

farmer or the lone woman it is a good

thing. A woman with a small farm

who rents out her little fields keeps

hundreds of chickens during the course

of the year but never raises one. She

is up in years and feels that the work

of caring for little chicks is too much

for her, but she buys from various

sources hens which she fattens and

sells to private customers, dressed or

alive, mostly the former. She aims to

make from fifty to seventy—five cents

on live chickens, with the eggs to pay

for the feed, and more on dressed

fowls. She rarely keeps them longer

than six weeks to fatten, unless some-

body wishes to pick out a small town

flock at a good price. Anyone wanting

to buy six or eight hens for pets for

a child is willing to give a fancy price

for good stock. Her best market is in

the spring when farmers will not sell

laying hens, and when in the fall the

spring chicken or broilers are bring-

ing fancy prices. She has people on

her list who have chicken of some sort

every Sunday of their lives and often

on week days, and they are Well-to-do

enough to demand and get fine, heal-

thy fat hens. -



Our own experience with buying

hens in the spring is that we have

found them quite as cheap, if not

cheapvr. than we could have raised

them, so often we replenish the flock

by watching the town markets. Never

at farm sales have we seen chickens

go at anything but a high rate, so we

have learned not to expect anything

from them, but from dealers one can

often get them when the market is off,

at very reasonable rates—H. R.





ing, and retard the color on fruits on

lower branches. These upright limbs

or water sprouts should be cut off

when they first appear.



5. Cut out the limbs growing down-

ward from the secondary branch, deep-

ening the shade.



6. Cut out the limb closely parallel

to its neighbor. The extra limb makes

the top too close. Sometimes there are

two or three limbs hindering a third

limb; cut. them out and give the best

one a chance.





7. Cut out the limb that starts at

an angle so narrow it does not form

a healthy crotch, but just presses

against the parent limb. In such a

narrow angle the bark squeezes so

closely between the two limbs dies and

becomes rotten, and thus disease en~

ters. The younger these narrow crotch-

es are cut out the better.



8. In cutting back a branch, always

make the cut just above a side branch.



9. Make all cuts sloping, so water

will drain off, and paint all wounds an

inch in diameter or larger, with white

lead, to which has been added a little

corrosive sublimate to check disease.



10. In sawing off a big limb, make

a cut an inch deep on the under side

of the limb first, then saw in from the

top and remove Ihe limb. The under

cut prevents splitting down into the

trunk or main branch.



11. Make all cuts smooth and close;

do not leave stubs. Use a swivel blade

saw with one cutting edge for large

cuts; a pair of long handled pruning

shears will help on small branches at

half inch or so thick. Be sure the

shears do not crush the limb or peel

off the bark. If they do, better use a

saw, even though it takes longer.



12. Don't butcher the tree; if you

don’t get enough out this year, take

more out next year. It is easier to cut

out an extra limb later than to put

one back after it is out.



Training instead of Pruning.



If young trees are handled right,

heavy pruning will not be needed later.

By heading back a small branch here

and removing another there, the tree

can be kept open and shapely with lit-

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NUMBER THREE





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VOLUME CLXIX





DETROIT, JAN. 17, 1925

CURRENT COMMENT





HERE are a few





 





 





. , A matters which we

ought not to forget.



Date To Those having a vital



Keep significance to us we





should make a special

effort to firmly anchor in our memory.

()no important item that may be used

for memory training is the date for





Farnn-rs‘ Week at the Agricultural

College at East Lansing, the greatest

week in all the year for Michigan

I‘ari'nt-rs. The dates are from Febru-





ary 2 to February 6. Read these

dates to every member of the family,

including the hired man. and then at

breakfast, time tomorrow. see how

many can accurately recall thcm.‘



Our reasons for giving unreserved

commendation to this annual event

are that the collv‘go program commit—

toe has made good on previous engage-

ments, and that unusual efforts are

being put forth to make the. 1925 ses-

sion the best yet planned for East Lan-

sing. If there is a class 01' farmers in

Michigan to whom the program has no

appeal, We feel certain that the class

is a very small one. and that the at—

tention of the program committee has

never been called to it.



The, profits from in-Xt month’s ses-

sion at the college will go to the peo-

ple who attend. 'I‘herct'ore. do not for-

get thc date—February 2-6.





llilL'F) in ‘Wash—





Coolidge ington attending

the third annual con«

On ({0' feroncr ol' coopvrativc

operation marketing organiza-

tions, delegates had





the pleasure of listening to some

wholesome thoughts upon cooperation

by President Coolidge.



The President said he wanted to

make it plain that he is no blind be-

licvcr in any magical attributes of the

cooperative proceeding. “A good deal

that is mischievous has been put about

in this regard. There is a school of

cooperators who Seem to believe that

the program can be started at; the top

and built downward. They want the

government, or the banks, or philan~

tin-Opists, or Providence to lay out a

scheme big enough to cover the coun-

try, set its machinery moving, guaran-



. tee it all needed capital, and then in-

vite the farmers to sit in the places

reserved for them and proceed to gar-



ner their profits. Let me say that I



offer no such Aladdin-like project. I



want society as a whole to help; but



I want the farmers to do their share,





 





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and I warn-them that. this” width the





lion’s share. ' Cooperation must start

from the soil. . It must haVe its begin-

nings in small units. It. must train

the people who are to use it to think

cooperatively.” '



It was the President’s belief that

the cooperative association which es-

tablishes grades and standards, encour-

ages the good. and eliminates the poor

varieties, increases the efficiency of

production, provides a. unified product

adapted to its market, organizes its

distribution, creates confidence in its

products and its methods—that kind of

an association is doing the best that

cooperation can do. It will serve both

the seller and buyer. Under wise lead-

ership, it will succeed. More than any-

thing else, he believes we need a gen-

eration of farmers trained to coopera-

tion; and to get that we need able,

courageous, determined leadership, and

meet of all leadership that will not

desert the farmer but will stay by him.



To all of which we wish simply to

say, “Amen,” and “Amen.”





HE country doctor

is almost a thing





The

C of the past. (At the

ountry present time the M.

Doctor D. who lives with the





rural people and

serves them is very rare. The doctors

have drifted cityward, as have other

peOple. They have gone to the ctiy

because of the prospects of more mon-

ey, more easily made than in the coun-

try. They have no long drives, and

besides have the convenience of; 110s-

pitals and laboratories which they do

not have in the country.



Statistics show that in the cities

there is one doctor to every 529 peo-

plc, while in the country the ratio is

only one to every 1,020 people. In

some of: the range states a doctor has

to cover a territory of. two thousand

square miles.



Where the farming sections are dot-

ted with small towns the situation is

not bad. In such localities the tele-

phone and the automobile bring the

town doctor in close touch with the

surrounding rural territory. But where

small towns do not prevail the people

are simply “out of luck.”



There the situation offers real difli-

culties. After a student has spent six

years or more at a school in city en-

vironment, and with all conveniences

for the study of medicine, he is not

usually inclined to look with favor up-

on the pioneering ways of the country

doctor.



Here the only hope for improvement

lies in the country folks themselves

studying health so that they will have

less need of a doctor. The medical

profession profits much through the

the masses regarding

right living. It is of fundamental im-

portance for the individual himself,

and the community at large, that each

person learn how to live right. Right

living means good health, and good

ln-alth needs no doctor.





ignorance of





I T has been difficult





The for Michigan grows

ers of fruit to accept



Twelve In stringent restrictions

A Bushel regarding grading be-

cause high quality





fruit has not been necessary to get

some sort of price for the products of

their orchards.



This trend of thought was indicated





at the recent annual horticultural

meeting. Many there contended that

Michigan should pack the common





grades rather than the extra fancies

because the workingman cannot af-

ford the better product. However, mar-

keting experience does not indicate

that this is true. The workingman pre-

fers quality products because the

choicest meats and the bétter grades

of fruits are in demand at the stores

which cater to the workingman. The

workingman usually thinks more of

“good eats” than the office worker,

because his physical activities give

him a better appetite.





 





 





 





 





makes ‘ moon "'1': .,

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Theflvillage, as we know it, is dis-

tinctly American. It is'probably the

chief means of preserving ..the original

Yankee type to posterity. The village

is stable, not static. It grows but «only

one third as fast as the country as 8.,





hating the discus ion at the new:

cultural] meeting, a. prominent restau-

rant man said that Michigan growers

would get as much for twelve good

apples picked from a bushel of 'ordiw

nary apples, as they would for the

whole bushel. And they would still

have the rest of the bushel left, which





S‘Di‘ing iron the





could be disposed of in various ways whole. Many of its people live in con-

so as not to hurt the regular market. tentmenty enjoying the simple things I

of‘life.





In Java they are educating the na-

tives to tea drinking in order to make

a. home market for the lower grades

of tea. Their purpose is to use the

lower grades at home and export only

the better quality product in order that

the reputation of Java tea. may be

kept up.



We, in Michigan, might take the hint _

from Java and keep at home the poor

quality products of our farms. We

ought to keep our grades up and our

inspection stringent in order that the

world may know about the twelve good

apples, but not of the rest of the

bushel. This may seem a hardship at

first, but it has paid out with others





The village is a. poor place for a.

woman seeking a husband, for women

are in the majority and over one-third

of the men are over forty-five years of

age. Restless youth does not stay in

the village, it goes where there is

something doing and, then, when the

forces of life have been spent, or life's

work has been accomplished, comes

back to retire.



Village people are not rusting out.

Their standard of education is high

and there is less illiteracy among

them than in the cities. These people

are interested in the good thingsmf

life, but in a quiet and calm way,





and there is every reason that it Which perhaps brings the greatest en“

should with us. joyment.

OME of our psy~

It’s In chologists, profes- D022 Day!

Tl! sional and amateur, , .

3 INT life funny? We’re just like





. have made the state-

Alr ment that thoughts

are transmitted, even

though they are not expressed, and are

received by those in tune with them.

“'0 ordinary individuals are not en-

tirely convinced as to the truth of

these assertions, but one thing we are

entirely convinced of is that there are

a lot of thoughts flying through the air

these days. All we have to do is to

tune in and we can get jazz thoughts,

serious thoughts. thoughts which edu-

cate, and thoughts which inspire, in

fact, thoughts on most any phase of

life.





dogs, cats,‘etc., ’cause they’re life,

too. Only most 0’ us think we’re bet-

ter’n dogs and cats, and maybe they’re

right. Only I’d like ta. know what

dogs and cats think about it. Anyhow,

there’s some dogs and cats I know

that I like bettern’s some folkses I

know.



But anyhow, dogs and cats and the

rest 0’ us skip and scamper around a.

hull lot when we’re young, but we slow

up considerabul when we get older.

Youth is the time for lots 0’ moshun

and little thinkin’; middul age is when

thinkin’ and actshun is supposed ta.

coordinate, like the perfessor says. But





The radio is making it less excuS' old age is when

able for any of us to be ignorant, and th e re ’5 lots 0'

it makes it more possible for all of us thinkjn’ and little

to be more broadly educated. And, as actshun. Age is





we become better informed we will the time ferthink-





become more democrat1c. Class sel- in’ about all the

fishness IS never due to knowledge, mistakes you’ve

but rather to ignorance. As we be- made ’cause you





come more broadly educated, we come

to a greater realization of the brother-

hood of man. The radio will, there-

fore, be another factor in the advance-

ment of civilization toward the ideal.



There are several things about the

radio which indicates that the thought

of: the average man is sound. One of

the best is that jazz music is not as

popular as the classic and semi-classic.

The radio, it seems, is bringing a wid-

er appreciation of good music, and is

making high—class concerts better at-

tended. Another indication of sound

thought is that scientific subjects are

listened to with great interest by the

radio public.



It is also interesting to know that

the radio is popular on the farm. Re-

cent Census figures show that one

farm home out of sixteen has a radio.

~.And, in these days of radio agricul-

tural courses, the ratio of sixteen to

one will be rapidly narrowed down.

We do not believe that it is far fetched

to say that the radio will soon be con-

sidered oncof: the necessities of the

home and farm,-as the auto, washing

machine, and other things now are.





didn’t think be«

fore. And most 0'

us is made enuf

mistakes ta give us plenty ta think

about.



Now, if I was one 0’ them efiichuncy

experts, I'd have life planned more

logicul like. Fer inst, I’d have youth

the time for thinkin’ and age the time

fer actshun. In that way youcould

think before you act, and make your

actshuns worth while. Then most :0’

us wouldn’t be wantin’ ta have our

lives ta live over again.



But Jim Hudson says the young

don’t think, ’cause they ain’t been liv-

in’ long enuf ta have anything ta think

about. You gotta know somethin’

about somethin’ before you kin think

about it, and that’s why experiunce is

the greatest teacher. Maybe that’s

why so many 0’ the young go after all

the experiunce they kin get.



Well, anyhow, my conclushuns is

that life is like a year. Youth is the

spring (I’ll say my kids is got a lot 0’

spring in ’cm), summer is the age 0’

productshun, fall is when the hairs

get gray and rhumatics is unpleasant

company, and winter is when the

hearse takes the remains and the un-





 





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The waxed enthusias- dertaker his profits.

Peaceful :1?tallizotilizilgeeqfillicuiii: Spring, summer and fall is the do

Village “t‘ 1‘ j) 0 days 0’ farmin’, while winter is the

moris b 1“” om- doze days 0’ it. And while I ain’t in





mentcd upon its scan-



dal—mongering, and from it the stage

has derived its “types and characters.”

The village may be described geo-

graphically as a settlement of people

surrounded by farm land. It is a trad-

ing post for those who work out in

the open. It is the resting place for

those who have tired of, or retired

from, the stress and strain of city life,

as well as those who have relinquished

their magic wand of hard work which



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the doze days 0' life, I’ve been dozin’

considerabul lately by the fire, and

between naps I’ve been thinkin’ about

mistakes I’ve made last year. Them

mistakes is so disagreeabul ta. think

about that I just gotta .go ta sleep

again. HY 'SYCKLE.





 





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HE ice crop is the only one the



farmer harvests that does not



rob his soil of fertility and, con-

sidering the advantages of a good

home supply of ice, no improvement is

more- satisfactory than a good stock

of ice.



“Keep cool” is exceptionally good

advice to the political spellbinder; it

is even better to the farm family on

hot Summer days when the glass reg-

isters around ninety in the shade and

the folks wish to preserve fruit and

vegetables, and when cool drinks are

so delicious. Then there is the milk

and cream to be cooled and kept cold

until ready for market.



Eighty per cent of the dairy prod-

ucts of the farm require artificial cool—

ing before they are ready for market

or home use, while thirty per cent of

the value 0 dairy products is lost

through the failure or inability to cool

quickly to a low temperatu1e.Abund-

ant testimony can be given by the

manager of the milk plant, cheese fac-

t01y or Creamery, as well as buyers of

cream and eggs.



Ice on the farm is not a luxury. It

is a money saver and at the same

time adds to the comfort of the living

during at least three months of the

year. Six months is a long time to

look ahead and these winter days do

not suggest the added heat of June,

July and August. But now is the time

to “can next summer’s cold.”



\Vhen Jack Frost snaps away in

January or February, it’s a sign for

the farmers to prepare for next sum-

mer’s 'heat and the ice season is at

hand. There is no crop that is pro





duced so cheaply and brings higher re-





The





A Peryoaa/ Message from 1/16 Prank/ml aft/16 zMI'cazgaa State Farm Bureau





MONG the many educational ex-

A hibits at the Michigan State



Fair at Detroit last fall, there

was one which impressed me in an un—

usual way. It was the display of an-

cient stage coaches, covered wagons,

buggies, phaetons, and all types of ve-

hicles of ancient vintage. These relics

'of the past had been gathered together

and placed on display by Hen1y Ford

To some who saw them they wele no

doubt meiely objects to excite cur-

iosity or provoke mild amusement, but

to me they were the cause of a train

01‘ thought which I have been unable

to get entirely out of my mind since

that time.





In my imagination I could trace the.





struggle of mankind to conquer the

physical things of this world and make

them contribute to his own comfort

and convenience. As I saw these early

and crude conveyances I realized

anew that everything which we pos-

sess today is the result of a develop-

ment from something which went be

fore and is the product of the struggle

and achievement which someone else

has made.





A few weeks after the Detroit fair,

while these ideas were still fresh in

my mind, I saw that great educational

and inspirational movie, “The Covered

Vt’agon.” This film depicted in a. most

thrilling and graphic way the adven-

tures of those heroic pioneers who left

the comparative peace and plenty of

the more settled portions of our coun—

try and struck west across the un-

charted plains, endured hardships, ran

risks of attack from hostile Indians,

forded» turbulent and unbridged rivers,

and finally opened up the great west—

ern coast of this republic to American

civilization.



”The" achievements of these brave





 





turns than the ice crop.





By Eafle





Instead of de-

pleting the pocketbook it enriches the

farmer and makes life more attractive

to his family, because it Supplies a

wider variety of high-grade foods in

summer.



Cooperation in ice harvesting is

more important perhaps, than the

common community get-together at

threshing time. It is best that the ice

be cut out and hauled to the storage

house as soon as possible to permit

the ice to form while it is yet cold,

andiof preventing waste if freezing

weather is passing. Then, too, the

work can be done much more efficient—

ly when there are enough men and

teams to do all the operations at the

same time.



To harvest ice efficiently a few ice





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tools will be needed. A steel scraper

is desirable; some types of road scrap-

ers can be used for this work, or a

very good home-made scraper may be

fashioned of wood and faced with an

old crosscut saw. An ice-plow is al—

most essential if any great quantity of

ice is to be harvested. This facilitates

the removal of the. porous surface ice

and greatly simplifies cutting into

blocks. Half a dozen pike poles, bear-

ing vertical points and horizontal

hooks, are needed in floating the ice

to the loading platform. An ice saw

may be useful or an ordinary crosscut

saw may be used by removing one

handle.



Three Squads Work Best.

Ice cutting is best conducted by

three squads of men, each with a





 





 





 





 





 





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Scraping the Snow





Off Before Cutting.





team. The first squad removes the.

snow or spongy ice from the surface



of the field and plows, saws and cuts



the ice into blocks of a size most con-



venient to handle.

than twelve inches thick blocks two



feet square on the surfacewould be



most convenient; if it is thinner than



this, blocks three feet square can be



packed conveniently into the house.



But thick ice should be cut in proper



blocks so as not to call for undue



lifting.



The second squad of men cut loose

the blocks and float. them to the side

of the open water where they are

ready to be loaded on the sleigh or

wagon. Here a tramway with a pair

of hooks attached to a rope will make

loading a relatively easy task. Let

the ropes extend acmss the load from

the tramway; hitch a horse to it and _

drag the blocks 110m tlm water onto

the load.



The third gang (:1 men should be at

the iCe house to place each load in

position and pack sawdust. around it;

as rapidly as possible, Eight men with

three teams can work rapidly in bar-

vesting a crop 01 11» by this coopera-

tive method.



Where the. lCt‘ is not quite thick

enough to meet the need the snow

should be scraped off the surface the

day before, the cutting is started, if

indications are that the night Will be

severely cold. The snow acts as an.

insulation and retards freezing, and

when it is removed not only is the en—

tire mass of ice better frozen, but a.

few inches in thickness is added.



011 small ponds the snow may be



(Continued or. page 67).





Pioneer Spirit In 1924





By M. L. Noon





men and women of 1848 were, indeed,

a triumph of hope and faith and the

spirit of adventure which, when right-

ly directed, is characteristic of the

best in American life.



As I thought of the experiences of

these hardy pioneers and realized how

easy it would have been for them to

have taken the wrong turn and to

have been misled into dangers and

deserts, I was reminded of that ex—

ceedingly wise remark by my good

friend, N. P. Hull, who so often do-

clares, “It’s mighty easy to go down

the wrong road, but it will never get

us where, we want to go.”



These nation builders of 1848 had no

extravagant idea of sudden Wealth, but

merely sought an opportunity to build

homes and communities for themselves

in a new and fertile land.



\Ve today are inclined not to give

full Credit for all we owe to these men

who opened up the unknown assets

and territories of this great nation, but

because of their pioneer work 110w dif-

ferent are our conditions today! If

we desire to go to the Pacific Coast

it is no dangerous adventure. We can

board a great trans-continental train

and in much less than a Week reach

our destination. The passenger 011

such a train has no cause for worry.

The engineer must use his head a lit—

tle more, but even he has well-known

lights and signals by which he guides

the monster locomotive and its train

of cars along the glistening rails of

steel which cross the plains, tunnel

through the mountains, and bridge the

mightiest rivers. ‘



Or, if one wishes to be more inde-





pendent as he takes this trip whichv





required such heroism in 1848, he can

take his automobile and follow well-

marked and splendidly conditioned

trunk-line highways across the conti-

nent. If all of these means of travel

prove too slow. then there, is the aero-





plane by which our fiyers have raced

the sun from the Atlantic to the

Pacific.





Does not all of this early history of

our country contain a. 111arvelo-11s mes-

sage for 11s who are engaged in farm

organization work today? Is there not

yet much pioneer work to be done

which requires forefight, vision and

courage equal to that 01' the pioneers

of 1848? ls there not need today of

more successfully, KfllClF‘IIIly, and

cheaply bridging tln- gap between the

producer and the consumer? Are there

not new trails to be blazed in short—

ening the distance and lessening the,

handling charges which accumulate on

our produce betWeen our farms and

the. city kitchens or rating places?



In these great problems not only of

marketing, but 01' t1‘ansportation, leg—

islation and taxation which confront

us farmers today, is there not need 01'

that same spirit of team-work and co-

operation which characterized those

bands of pioneers who pooled their

earthly possessions and Welfare and

set out across the unknown miles sep-

arating them from the lands of their

dreams? As we realize that there is

thus much pioneer work to be done,

does it not challenge the heroic qual-

ity in each of us?



Pionee1ing which is done solely for

selfish motives olfen leads to healt-

aches and disappointments. It was so

with those gold seekers of 1849. Just





so in our farm organizatim1 work,

some grasping individuals have debas—

ed the cooperative principle by engagv

ing in speculative transactions which

have many times Ee-d to disappoint—

ment. But, year l:;v war it, is being

proved that those“ cooperative institu-

tions whlch are [owned on sound bus-

iness principles 111.1. havu able and

honest leadership ;.:'o succeeding and

giving splendid and satisfac-

tion to their membc 1's.



Already here in Midngan we are

reaping the benttits ct such an en-





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deavor. \\'ltl1 sonn- 320 local coopera—

tive buying and St‘lllllg associations





banded together in fivr great state—

wide commodity exchanges which are

all alllliated with the .fichigan State

Fal‘lll Bureau, it may truthfully be

said that no state surpasses Michigan

for the variety and effectiveness of its

agricultural 01‘gamzation.



Through the Sum- Farm Bureau and

its several departments, the combined

povver and inllut-nCe. not. only of the

individual members of this central or-

ganization. but of the members of all

of the, alliliated Commodity exchanges,

is headed up and made effective for

the solution of our great problems of

marketing, legislation. transportation,

taxation. seed servitm and the central

purchasing of farm supplies.



Nor should we overlook the real con-

tribution to agricultural progress

which is being made by the subordi—

nate, Pomona and State Granges, the

Gleaners and the Farmers’ Clubs, all

of which train leadership, develop

community spirit and lay the founda—

tion for suCCessful cooperative endeav-

ors. Thus much pioneer work has

been done, but certainly much remains

yet to be achieved. Let each person

do his part.





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[TH outward harmony, but with

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friction, bitterness, misunderstanding

and disagreement masked somewhere

beneath the apparently peaceful sur-





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nor’s regular biennial message were

the chief accomplishments of the first

week. A recess was taken from Thurs-

day afternoon until Tuesday afternoon,

January 13, to allow the newly elected

speaker of the house an opportunity to

make committee appointments.

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~ E'JT" . 1925 auto license plates has brought

‘ m ' " this matter to a focus. Among hou‘se





members, the feeling of bitterness

which still lingers because of the veto

of the gas tax two years ago is an

added factor to be reckoned with.



Senator Howard F. Baxter, of Grand

Rapids, has already introduced a two—

cent gas bill in the senate, but it is

included as a companion bill to a

» weight tax proposal and is not looked

upon with any great degree of favor

by leaders hot the gas tax bloc in the

house. Representative Joseph Warner,

of Ypsilanti, will introduce a gas tax

bill in the house early in the second

week. Representative Ate Dykstra, or

Grand Rapids, is reported to be work-



Market growers 311d HOFlStS “56 ing on another gas tax bill to be in-

BUFPC€,S Annual as a reference troduced in the near future.

book, and still it is so interesting as a:

and easy to read that a million HE election of Representative Fred

amateurs use It as the” garden B. \Vells,of Cassopolis, as speaker

guide. BUFDCC’S Annual is the by a vote of sixty-two to thirty-three

most popular seed catalog in the was regarded as the first victory for

world. the rural members. Mr. \Vells is a

practical farmer and throughout the.

past five sessions he has stood consist.-

ently for constructive legislation in the

interests of the rural districts. In his

race for the speakership, Representa-

tive Wells had the solid support of the

strongest gas tax supporters. All the

Wayne county delegation voted for the

other candida lt‘, Representative George

Watson, of Capac.



Because of his fairness, the election

of Mr. Wells to preside over the des—

tinies of the lower house is looked

upon as being a harmonizing factor.

The necessity for harmony and appli—

cation to duty was the keynote in Mr.

Wells’ speech accepting the speaker-

, _ ship.



It you are Interested in gar— a. .3

dening, Burpee’s Annual will be

mailed to you free.





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Every variety of seed offered

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all seed sold by Burpee is tested

twice in our famous Fordhook

Trial Grounds. Burpcc’s Seeds

are Tested and Guaranteed.





HERE is no question but that the



most unpopular recommendation

of the entire message was the implica-

tion that the auto weight tax should

first be passed and then the question

of a gasoline tax be considered, if it

should still be regarded as necessary

for desirable.



Many of the most influential repre-

1sentatives, and not. a few of the. sen-

ators are convinced that the reverse

,‘order should be followed. They an-

nounCe that they are ready to fight to

the last ditch for a gas tax first and

then later take up the matter of such

reduced license rates as should be

should be deemed advisable.





We want you to sow

Burpec‘s Seeds.





 





 





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WATIGE Burpee CO. in the short week’s legislative,

Seed Growers Philadelphia progress was reached when on Thurs-



, day afternoon the senate and house



Send me a copy of Burpee’s Annual, iconvened in joint convention and in

with order sheet good for a free 10c } the presence of the state officials and

packet of Burpec’s Sccds. Esupreme court justiCeS received the



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in popular interest.





matters. Much space was devoted to

the advocacy of: the desirability of a

weight tax’. One short paragraph side-

stepped the fundamental arguments in

favor of a gas tax.



Important subjefts treated by the

governor in addition to highway

finance concerned trunk line re-rout-

ing, conservation, apportionment, pub-

lic utilities, finance corporations, build-

ing and loan associations, state

finances, new buildings and codifica-

tion of the highway, election and crim-

inal laws. '



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HERE\ are at least two unique and



noteworthy features" about the

present legislature. In the first place,

both branches are 100 per cent repub-

lican. A second, and probably much

more interesting feature is that for

the first time in history the house of

representatives is graced by having a

lady member. This pioneer in fem-

inine participation in the legislative

councils of her commonwealth is Mrs.

Cora Reynolds Anderson, of L’Anse, in

the Upper Peninsula. The Honorable

Mrs. Anderson has withstood well the

somewhat trying ordeal of almost con-

tinual interviews with inquiring re—

porters and inquisitive and interested





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fellow members; From all present in-

dications she seems destined to prove.

an honor to her sex and to establish a

precedent which will no doubt prove





dangerous to the future political ca-'





reers‘ of some of the masculine law-

makers.

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HE fact that the senate had its



‘ committee appointed made it pos~

sible for them to commence the intro

duction of bills. Ten measures were

dropped into the senate hopper during

the first week’s sessions.



Secondonly in popular interest to

Senator Baxter’s weight and gas tax

bills is the re'apportionment measure

introduced by Senator Arthur E. Wood

of Detroit. This bill would double the

number of senators from Wayne coun-

ty and make corresponding reductions

in the representation from the rural

districts.



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HE process of organization is eas—



ier and simpler in the senate than

in the house. The membership is only

one-third as large, a much higher per-

centage of the members have had pre-

vious legislative experience and then,

too, they have their presiding‘officer,

the lieutenant-governor, selected for

them before they arrive, so there is no

delay in getting under motion. Lieut-

Governor George W‘alsh announced his

committee appointments on the first

day of the session.





 





 





COOPERATIVE MARKETING ON

INCREASE.





 





()(llsliltA'l‘lVFl community market.-



ing has made definite progress

during the past year. More farmers

are tied up in commodity cooperative

associations than ever before. There

has been an increa se in the volume 01'

business. The public mind has a bet.-

ter understanding of cooperative mar-

keting fundamentals. And progress

has been made in efficiency. Some as-

sociations are operating at from thir-

ty-five to forty-one per cent. less per

unit of product handled than two years

ago. This was the good news that

Carl \l'illiams, of Oklahoma, brought

to the third annual conference of the

Marketing Associations at the New

National Association of Cooperative

Vt'illard Hotel, W'ashington, on Janu-

ary 5-8.





THE SURPLUS DELUSION.





X—GOVERNOR LOVVDEN, of Illi-



nois, has come to the conclusion

that. the so-called surplus exists main-

ly in the minds of those whose interest

it is to depress prices. The hundred

million pounds of butler would supply

the American people about two and a

half w; t‘ks. Last summer a cargo of

butter imported from Denmark was

used to break the pi'ice of butter in

the “United States several cents per

pound, yet there was not. enough but-

ter in this cargo to supply the break-





fast tables of New York City for a

single day. Supposing the dairy in-





dustry was sufficiently organized. The

organization would have permitted the

New York City people to enjoy their

foreign butter for breakfast, but would

have. withheld their own butter from

the market and maintained their price.

SHOULD ADJUST AGRICULTURE

TO HOME NEEDS.





GRICULTURE should be so read-



justed as to produce our own food

supply. said Secretary of Commerce

Hoover. At present we are exporting

farm products equal ot the food re-

quirements of 25,000,000 people, and

importing food products sufficient to

support 19,000,000 people. If produc-

tion were properly balanced, the prod-





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ucts of our farms would supply the

food and fabric requirements of our

country, with little if any surpluses to

bear down prices.

FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE

MEETS.





 





HE President's agricultural fact

finding commission resumed its

sessions January 5 at the department

of agriculture. It, is the plan of the

commission {to make recommendations

within a week or ten days for relief

of the cattle industry, after which a.

short reCess will be taken to make

further outside studies, after which

the subject of cooperative marketing

will be given consideration. It is the

plan of the commission to complete its

investigations by February 1, in time

to afford congress opportunty to act

on its recommendations by March 4.

Northwestern congressional delega-

tions are urging the appointment of

Dr. John Lee (foulter, president of the

North Dakota Agricultural College, as

secretary of agriculture, to succeed

Howard N. (lore, who will retire from

the cabinet March 4] The President

has given no hint or indication as to

who of the many candidates for the po—

sition he intends to appoint.





 





BRITISH BAR AMERICAN SPUDS.

N spite of the action of the Ameri-

can government the British embar-



go on our potatoes is not only contin~

ued, but. has been extended to Ireland.

The Britishers claim that this action

was taken to prevent the introduction

into the British Isles of the potato bug.





INCOME TAX RETURNS LESS.





HE income and profits taxes, and



also the customs revenues collect-

ed in 1924» fell considerably below

those of 1923. The income taxes

amounted to $1,773,509,732, or $21,000,-

000 less than in 1923, and the customs

revenues were $504,912,472 as comparo

ed with $565,030,000 in 1923.





Secretary Hoover believes that agri«

culture and industry should maintain

a balance that would make us incl-\-

pendent of foreign countries for food

products. .- ' . T





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auction. sale when a grain drill



which had been in use for thirty

years sold for$41. A neighbor of the

family holding the sale bought the

drill. He had used it and knew that

it was still in perfect condition, and

well worth the money.



That machine had never been allow-

ed to stand around in the field‘ or in

the barnyard. It had always been

kept under cover.



At the same sale, which was held by

the widow of the late Charles Stein, a

twenty-four-year-old corn binder sold

for $99; a. two~bottom gang plow

which had seen fifteen years of ser-

vice brought $45; a ninete-en-year-old

farm wagon brought $80; a sixteen—

year~old fanning mill sold for $26; a

twenty-five-year-old side delivery hay





 





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By. Frank A. Make!





ers, completely out of the way.



Wagons which are not going to be

used during the winter months can be

just as readily stored by dissembling.

The boxes can be swung up overhead

in the barn and the removal of a bolt

or two will take the running gears all

apart. It’s just a nice rainy day job

to take a wagOn apart, grease the

skeins and put the parts away, and it

will be well worth the time, for many

wagons which would be stered away

in a dry place if taken apart are left

out in' the weather all winter long

simply because there isn’t space for

them under a roof.





It is much easier to keep bolts and

nuts drawn up tight if the implements

are taken apart occasionally, for in

this way one will encounter the loose

bolts, whereas, if the machines are





 





 





 





 





Weather Wears Tools Quicker Than





in Tool Conservation.





rake sold for $50; a twenty-seven-year-

old hay loader sold for $37, and the

old family car which had been in use

for nine years brought $100.



It is significant that some of this

machinery brought more at public auc-

tion and after many years of use, than

it cost Stein in the beginning. Most

of the machinery was purchased by

neighbors who knew what they were

buying. They knew that Stein always





'took the best kind of care of all his





equipment, and the principal care he

gave his farm machinery was shelter

and plenty of oil.





In these days of high—priced building

material it might not be advisable to

rush headlong into the construction of

an elaborate implement shed, although

it might very well prove a profitable

investment if there is very much ma—

chinery to be housed. But there are

a great many places where farm ma-

chinery can be sheltered if just a little

thought and consideration is given to

the problem.





Very few barns are so designed that

there is absolutely no waste space.

Much of this waste space might be





- utilized for machinery storage. A little





work in preparing the machinery for

storage may be necessary, but much

can be done along this line.





Aisles and alleyways in barns and

granaries are often used for storing a

grain drill or a mowing machine. Per-

haps only one machine is stored in a

space which might well accommodate

three to four if they were properly

stored. It isn’t much of a job to re-

move the tongue from a mower or a.

grain drill and then move them up

closely together. The space taken up

by the tongue of a mower will very

easily accommodate a grain drill and

a hay rake. The bolts for holding the

tongues in place can be replaced in

their respective places, the nuts turn-

ed on loosely and a tag, labeling from

which machine the tongue has been

taken slipped over a bolt-head. The

tongues may then be placed against

the wall or stored up among the raft-





Use. Tool Shelters Pay for Themselves





never given an inspection, bolts will

drop out completely and become lost

and sooner or later make their lack

known by a serious smash—up.





I recall a visit I made to a farmer

in Boone county, Missouri, at one time.

This man had no real implement shed,

but he took nearly all of his machin-

ery apart every winter and gave it a

thorough overhauling and a coat of

paint. He found it much easier to

paint the various parts than to paint

the machine intact, and he was using

old machinery which his father had

used years before.





He took all of his wagons apart once

a year and soaked the felloes and hubs

in hot linseed oil for several hours.

He painted the tongues and double-

trees with hot oil and stored them

among the rafters in his, shop. His

equipment was like new. The wagon‘

boxes were given an annual scrubbing

and a coat of varnish, and one old

wagon that he had used for nineteen

years still bore. the name of the wagon

and the dealer from whom he had pur-

chased it. That wagon would have

brought considerably more than he

gave for it nineteen years before. It

was worth more, and just a little care

and shelter had made that possible.

And the shelter had been nothing more

than a utilization of waste space in

several of the farm buildings.





Let us use more of this space on

which we are paying interest and rent.

We pay for the space whether we use

it or not, and that space can be made

to return good dividends in longer life

and more efficiency in our farm equip-

ment. Few of us ever get out of a

farm implement, all of the value that

the manufacturer builds into it. “’8

can easily .get fifty per cent more with

just about two per cent extra effort

That’s certainly worth while.





Uncle Oziah Filkins has invented a

hair tonic. Last night he spilled some

on his kitchen linoleum. Next morn-

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Which Costs More?





AY WHEELER decided to put the South meadow into Alfalfa last

year. He was feeling economical when he went to town to buy his

seed. Johnson’s store had some nice Alfalfa ~— purity 9967,, germina—

tion 967/0 —-— but "the price was $12.75 a bushel. Over at the Hay and

Feed depot they had another brand —— purity 95%), germination

91‘}, m for only $11.75. Ray thought that was a pretty big difference

in price when both brands tested better than 90%, so he “saved”





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in it and Ray began to wonder. lie got,

busy with a pencil and made a sur—

prising discovery. He found that the

cheaper seed was actually the more ex—

pensive and instead of saving $8.00 on

the 8 bushels, he actually lost $1.36.

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. Have I a right to go over land that

is not enclosed and cut down trees?

Land is owned by other parties.



Have I a. right to take white marl

.from the roadside where I can get it

without digging deep holes?

' Have I a right to go into swamps

that are not enclosed and gather dead

and down material for wood ?——G. L. H.

_ Each of the'acts mentioned is an

actionable trespass for which the own-

:er of the land may maintain suit for

damages and the cutting of trees on

the land of another is also made a

misdemeanor by statute. The absence

of the fence is of no consequence.—

Rood.





 





MERCHANTABLE TITLES.





 





A. is about to sell a piece of land

on contract, has secured an abstract,

but it is found that one parcel of, land

gives only a tax title. 13 that a mer-

ehantable title? 011 the other forty~

five acres, about 100 years ago, a man

whose heirs deeded the next record,

“is not proved dead.” Is there any

way of making this a true title with-

out chancery proceedings? The deeds

(gDivgn by these heirs are straight.~





A tax title would be a merchantable

title if all the proceedings were regu-

lar and foreclosure has been complet-

ed. Possession by the purchaser

under such title for five years cures

all defects. Merchantable title to the

other parcel appears to be made by

adverse possession, but title of record

could be obtained only by proceedings

in chancery.~~ -Rood.





LICENSE FOR TAKING ORDERS.





Do I have to have a license to sell

shirts in the country and smalJ towns?

I live in the country and have chance

to be a salesman for a concern to sell

shirts for them? Customers pay me a

deposit and I send order to company,

and they send shirt to customer and

customer pays postoffice.—C. D.

There are several statutes providing

for licenses to hucksters and peddlers,

but none of these have relation to or-

ders taken for goods to be shipped

from places beyond the state line di-

rect to the customer.——R00d.





TION.





 





\Ve have been feeding our cows on

corn silage and corn fodder, and soy-

?bean hay at noon, and a mixture of

1ground oats and oil meal.

gder was silo corn with ears on. “’e

1wish to feed husked cornstalks and

Isoy—bean hay and corn silage as much

as they will eat. For concentrates we

wish to feed one part barley and two

parts oats and some oil meal. In what

proportion ought we to feed this to

get a balanced ration?~~J. I). H.



The following combination 01' these

different feeding—stuffs is suggested:



Ten pounds of corn stover provides

.14 pounds 01' digestible protein; five

pounds 01' soy-bean hay provides .53

pounds of digestible protein; thirty

pounds 01' silage provides .42 pounds

of digestible protein, or a total of 1.09

pounds of digestbile protein in the

roughage, but the standardtis 2.5'

pounds for a cow giving a fair flow 01'

milk per l,()00 pounds 01' live weight.

Hence 1.4 pounds must be, provided in

the coxiCentrates.



If you mix barley and oats in the

proportion of two pounds 01' oats to

one of barley it. will furnish you a

grain mixture containing nine and one-

halt‘ per cent protein, and ten pounds

which is a pretty liberal grain ration,

would only provide .95 pounds of pro-

tein, yet it is still lacking nearly .5

pounds of protein to come up to the

standard.



If you will feed two pounds 01’ oil

meal per day, furnishing .63 pounds of

protein and then feed enough of the

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of four and one-half to five percent

milk, and One pound for everyufour

pounds of three to three and one-half

per cent milk, you will have a very

well-balanced ration.





If you can get your cows to eat more

roughage than the amount given above

do so and cut down on the amount of

grain. Every poundJou can cut off

of the grain ration by increasing the

amount of roughage will add to your

profits.





 





A RATION WITH TIMOTHY HAY.





Will you please tell -me how to make

a balanced ration for dairy cows out

of the following grains? We'

oats, barley and rye, good corn silage,

mixed hay (mostly timothy), bean

straw and oat straw. Bran will cost

$1.90 per cwt.; cottonseed $2.65 per

cwt—A. H. S.



You have poor roughage foods as a.

foundation for an economical ration.

Good timothy hay is a good filler but

being so poor in protein it does not fur-

nish a good foundation for a milk ra-

tion. Costly protein fe‘eds must be

purchased to supply the necessary pro«

tein, for a cow can not produce a pro-

tein product like milk without the pro-

tein food in the ration.





The following ration is suggested:



For roughage, thirty pounds of corn

silage, ten pounds of timothy hay, five

pounds of oat straw and five pounds

of bean straw. This will furnish .94

pounds of protein.



For concentrates, mix oats, barley,

rye and bran in equal parts by weight

and feed eight pounds per day. This

will furnish .81 pounds of protein, mak-

ing with the roughage, a total of 1.75

pounds, but the cow must have at

least 2.5 pounds.



Two pounds of cottonseed meal will

furnish .74 pounds, making a total of

2.49 pounds. or practically the neces-

sary amount.



If you had clover hay you could cut

out some of the grain which is more

expensive.





CROPS ON SHARES.





 





 





I would like to ask two questions.

I. ls there any tenant rules in this

state? I rented a field for corn, I to

get two—thirds of the crop. I furnished

seed, labor and everything. I cut and

shocked the corn. Did I have to husk

and haul in landlord’s corn and t‘0d«

der?—~B. l'}. K.



A farm lease is an agreement be«

tween two or more parties involving

the duties and obligations of the ten-

ant and landlord. The, basis of agree-

ment is founded on common practices

in the various regions.



In your particular case you have

contracted to perform certain services.

A crop half taken care of certainly

wouldn’t be. completingthe job. Much

will depend on the agreement at the

outset.





 





CHANGING CONTRACT.





 





Nine years ago I bought eighty acres

01' wild land on a contract. I bought

it on ten years’ time at six per cent,

interest, and the bankers drew it. up

for five years instead of ten years. I

wanted to renew the contract when

the first five years were up, but the

man I bought 01' said we should let it

go as it is until the next five years

are up. I have one year yet, and he

wants to make out a new contract for

the year and get seven per cent 1nter-

est. Can he raise the seven per cent

on one year, or will I have to_make

out a new contract? I have paid the

interest and taxes—O. M.



Neither party can vary the contract

without the consent of the other after

it has been operated on for such a long

period. It appears by the contract as

written, that the entire amount is due,

and any additional time that can be

obtained is only at the grace of the

seller.——-Rood.





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‘ "removed to the shore. but on large '





fields, especially-if the snow is deep,

'it is impractiCable to scrape the snow

entirely off the field. It becomes nec.

essary, thereforeL-tg pile it in wind-

rows. ,

Keep the Cakes Uniform.

After the snow is off the field is

ready to be marked for cutting. The

marking must be done carefully so

that all” Cakes will be rectangular,

which aids in economical handling and

packing in the ice house. If the proper

start is ‘made in marking off the field

no trouble will be experienced, but if

not, subsequent cuttings will be diffi-

cult.

Success in marking depends largely

on getting the first line straight,

which may be done by placing a stake

'at each'end of the proposed line to

serve as a‘guide. ‘

A straight-edge, consisting of an or-

dinary board about fourteen feet long,

is then aligned with the two stakes

and the cutting tool or hand plow run

along its edge, after which the board

is pushed forward and again aligned

with the stakes. This is continued

until the entire distance between the

stakes has been covered. Another way





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Cutting the Ice Into Blocks After

“Plowing.”

is to stretch a line between the stakes

and do the marking with a hand-plow,

though this is not so satisfactory, as

the hand-plow can not be operated in

so straight a line with the board. After

the first line has been cut it can be

used as a guide for the horse marker,

if this implement is used.



After the ice field has been lined off

in one direction, the cross-lines should

be made. Care should be taken to

have these at right angles to those

first drawn, which is accomplished by

use of a square. A suitable square

may be made easily by first nailing the

ends of two boards together with a

single nail. Measure 3. distance of

eight feet on the outer edge of one

board and six feet on the outer edge of

the other board, then nail a. third

board diagonally across the two, ad-

justing it until the two marks are ex-

actly ten feet apart on a straight line.

Nail the boards together securely,

forming the desired square. If the

first cross is drawn with care it is

easy to draw the remaining lines par—

allel. "-



How to Estimate Quantity Needed.



To calculate the amount of ice need—

ed on a dairy farm, take the number

of cows kept as the basis. If the av-

erage cow produces 3,500 pounds of

3.7 per cent milk per year, which is

equal to 431 pounds of thirty per cent

cream, it will require 431 times 1.16

pounds, or about 500 pounds of ice, to

cool the cream produced by each cow

and keep it in good, sweet condition

until delivered to market. In additien

it is best to store 500 pounds addition-

al ice, or a total of 1,000 pounds per

cow. This is sufficient. to cool the

cream needed for household uses and

allow for reasonable waste. There-

fore, the twenty-cow dairy should have

100 tons of ice stored. These figures





 





   





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You know that you get longer service from “Ball-Band”

Footwear. But, do you know why? Six men in our factory

will each give a different answer.





The Designer:



This man has been with the company



for _over 25 years creating sh s and

planning styles. He is responsible to the fit

and the comfort that you always find in

‘Ball-Band ” Footwear. He will tell you that

a boot that fits right will outwear one that

wrinkles and slips. He is right. His part in

More Days Wear is an important one.





The Mixer :

Ifyou have been wearing“ Ball-Band ” you

know that they are made of good rubber.

We wish you could talk to the man who is

kneading the raw rubber, mixing it with the

proper amount of sulphur and other materials

to make it tough, live and strong.

He would tell you that the proper mixture

is what makes quality, which is most impor-

tant in More Days Wear.





Themanwho preparesthecottonlining:



This man is proud of the fact that the



cloth is so thoroughly impregnated with

rubber that it shows through between every

thread. Look at your own “ Ball—Band ” Boots

and see this for yourself. He will tell you that

many boots start to wear out at the linings,

and that “Ball-Band ” linings cannot wrinkle

or separate from the rubber. This means More

Days Wear. Yes, he is right, too.





The Bootmaker:

He has before him a hollow aluminum

last and a pile of rubber sheets cut into





pattern pieces. He lays these pieces of rubber

on the last: and builds up the boot, piece by

piece. Layer after layer of these soft elastic

sheets are laid on in exactly the right places

and cemented with pure rubber cement. They

must not be drawn too tight or allowed to

wrinkle or a weak spot will develop. This is

good workmanship and that also means More

Days Wear.





The Vulcanizer:



While still on the hollow aluminum last,



the boots are put on a rack, each last

connected to an iron pipe and rolled into an

immense oven.





Then the vacuum pump is started drawing

the air out of the lasts. The rubber and fabric

of the boot are sucked down to the last under

great pressure while the heat performs the

miracle of vulcanizing.





This is the Vacuum Process and was first

used in the “ Ball-Band ” plant. It is one more

reason for More Days Wear.





The Inspector:

“Good enough will not do—it must be

the best.”





If a boot or shoe does not measure up to our

best it is thrown out. The inspector is the last

one to look over the work and he knOWS that

he is responsible for the quality which means

More Days Wear.





So you see it is not: any one feature that makes

“Ball-Band” Rubber Footwear so good. It is because

every step of the making is done as well as we can.





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" ecoled, itwill take between two and , _ - '

cubic fact of space when the ice is





three times as much ice, or ‘ about

thirty tons for the fifteen-cow dairy.





It is necessary to store more ice

than is seemingly needed, as there is

sure to be a waste, even in the best

houses. Sometimes this averages twen-

ty-five per cent of the whole amount

of ice put up.





The number of square feet of ice re-

quired per ton of ice in blocks twenty

two inches square, and of various

thickness, is shown in the following

table:





Inches Cakes Sq. Ft.

Thick. For Ton. Per T011.

4. 31.3 105.4

6. 20.9 70.2

8. 15.6 52.8

10. 12.5 42.1

12. 10.4 35.1

14. 8.9 30.1

16. 7.8 26.3

18. 6.9 23.4

20. 6.3 21.1





Not only will you save much space,

but ice as well, by properly packing

the ice in the house. You can get only





 





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thrown in at random, while about fifty

pounds can be packed in the same

space with a little care. This means

that the air cannot circulate

through the ice and melt it, so pack

carefully.



About a foot of sawdust slfould be

placed on the floor of the ice house,

with less in the center to permit the

cakes to lean inward. The sides of the

ice should be smooth. Any projecting

pieces should be trimmed off before

insulation is put on. If sawdust or

mill shavings aroused a space of at

least twelve inches should be left be-

tween the outer walls and the ice

stack.



It is easy to calculate how much ice

the house will hold. Allowing forty-

five cubic feet per ton, an uninsulated

house 18x12x20 feet high, with one

foot around for insulation, will hold

about thirty-eight tons, While the same

sized house, if insulated, will hold

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STUDY FORESTRY PROBLEMS.





HE forestry department of the



Michigan Agricultural College has

a. considerable number of forest dem-

onstration plots in the I'pper Penin—

sula. Two or more varieties of trees

are planted and these receive atten-

tion from the forestry department and

the county agent. Such plots exist at

Crystal Falls, Ewen, Newberry, VVa<

tersmeet, Marquette and Manistique.





ORE BY THE MILLIONS.





L'RING the year just closed, un-

official figures recently tabulated

show that the Upper Peninsula of

Michigan produced 128,000,000 pounds

of copper and approximately 11,500,000

tons of iron ore on its three ranges.

TESTING ASSOCIATIONS MULTI-

PLY RAPlDLY.





 





[RING the past year the number



of cow testing associations in the

peninsula, has increaerd from two L0

clown. it is estimated that the num-

ber of cows on test have increased

from about 600 ) about 3,000. ' Lie

herds on test now amount to 279. The

associz-uions are named as follows:

Chippewa. Schoolcrai'l, l\l“ckinac, Mar-

quette-Alger, North Doll South Delta,

North .‘IIt‘llOilllllt’l‘, South Menominee,

Dickinson, Iron, ()ntonagon, (logebic.

It is stated that the average associa—

tion cow produces from 100 to 150

pounds more olf butter—fat than cows

the association, attributed to

better care and feeding, for the farmer





fknows where he is at and hopes to





get to. L'nproiitablc cows are discov-

ered and eliminated. Thus last year

in Gogcbic county, forty—two cows

Wore got rid of after tests in the asso«

ciation showed they were not worth

keeping. in Delta county fifty-five

cows were disposed oi‘ from the same

cause. in all, 13.9 per cent of the

cows in the associations were sold as

unprofitable.





ONTONAGON AGRlCULTURE lM-

PROVES.

BRING the past season, few new





farms have been opened up in

Ontonagon county, reports County

Agent \K'. M. Clark, but the farmers

on the land have made notable ad—

vances in spite of the falling market

for those products that are chiefly do

pended on for cash—dairy products,

hay, potatoes and beef cattle.



The farmers already there have

cleared much new land—456,000

pounds of war-salvaged explosives be-

ing consumed there for that purpose.





 





 





 





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This is said to be a larger quantity

than was consumed in any other Mich-

igan county, and much larger on a per

capita basis.



Twenty-five farmers in Ontonagon

county have been raising pedigreed

Scotch green peas under the super—

vision ol' the Michigan Crop Improve-

ment Association, and twice this coun-

ty has taken first place in this crop at

the International Hay and Grain Show.

Considerable pedigreed barley, oats

and wheat are likewise being raised

for seed purposes under the same sup~

ervision.



The number of registered pure—bred

dairy sires has been doubled during

the past year in this county, and these

are from dams having a high record.

All cattle in the county have received

their second test for tuberculosis,

showing only 1.1 per cent of reactors.

The cows in the County Cow Testing

Association awragcd for the year 246

pounds 01" butter-lat per cow.



An ()ntonagon county boy was call?—

club champion at the Chatham round-

up, last August. Ontonagon county

apples at the Grand Rapids exhibition

l'l Deccmbcr look thirteen first places

and clown second places~onc sva )-

stakesvr and in all, twenty-seven prizes.

:70 if new fans are not to be opened

up in ()ntonagon county to any great

extent the 11.1111ch already there have

done much of which they can be

proud, and the whole county is ulti-

mately ‘thc gainer thereby.





POTATO ES ROT.





FARMERS and dealers have en-



countered some trouble this winter

with rotting potatoes. This is attrib-

uted L the conditions undcr which po-

tatoes were grown last season, which

was cold and backward. Much of the

trouble is attributed by one county

agent to black-leg, whilo immaturity

and host may also be responsible to

some extent. Farmers are. advised not

10 select seed from present stock

which shows a tendency to rot, but to

go out and got clean seed, preferably

certified.





SHOULD GROW MORE FORAGE.





PPER Peninsula farmers who pro-





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duced too little forage and grain-





last season, and too many potatoes,

are said to be having difficulty in win-

tering their stock. The report comes

from Delta county, but this condition

may exist elsewhere. County agents

are said to be attempting to arrange

a stock diet consisting of skim-milk

and potatoes, of which there is a. sur~

plus. How general this situation is,

does not appear at the present writing.





 

 





 

 





   





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You are hereby notified that the

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Meeting to be held on Jan. 21, 1925.

That said proposed Amendment is

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CANNERY INSPECTION HELPS.





HE Michigan growers, as well as



the consumers, are benefiting by

the compulsory inspection of the can-

neries in the state, according to Wm.

Mcli‘ving, president of the Michigan

Canners’ Association.



Mr. McEwing says that the better

quality product which is being put on

the market as the result of this in-

spection, is bringing Michigan canned



goods a. reputation for quality, and

higher prices are resulting. When the

canner gets better prices for quality

goods he is willing to pay higher pric-

es for good fruit to can.





 





MAKING A GOOD CHEAP HQT-BED.





IHAVE always wanted my hot-bed

for early plants, and one year I

made a three-sash hot-bed and planted

it very early to radishes and sold

enough to pay for it before I needed

it for tomato plants, planting the

French Breakfast radish and selling

them at ten cents a dozen, with a de-

mand that never let them get larger

than big gooseberries. I make the hot-

beds Without extra expense—digging

a pit eighteen inches to two feet deep,

filling it. with stable manure, fresh,

piled and moistened and pitched over

a few times to get to heating evenly.

The manure is well packed in the pit,

for success depends much on this.

Deep beds heat slowly and last long;

shallow heat fast and hot and are

soon done. Cover the manure with six

inches of good garden soil and plant

in this. The bed should be a little

larger than the frame, which is set on

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to give you complete infor-

mation on any of these





items. Mail the coupon,

properly checked, and we

will send you complete

literature.



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electric motors. Fairbanks

scales. acomplcte line of gen-

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Branches and Service Stations Covering Every State in the Union





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'Lake States. This thing has im-

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for instance, there is a less per cent

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of wood growing on our farm. It seems

to be a part of our nature, to be more

satisfied with our land ownership

when at least a. small wood—lot breaks

the horizon of our acres. This pull, or

J whatever one chooses to call it, had

been so strong in a few farmers that

they have gone to the trouble of plant-

ing trees; and, we are pleased to

note that, this number is increasing.

It is a very sane tendency. Such a

desire has back of it sound business

sense. More attention to the growing

of wood, which is bound to be in great-

er demand throughout the life of gen—

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ARKET GARDENERS

recognize three requi-

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growth and early maturity.





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Compare this cost with feeding cow’s

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A new oil lamp that gives an amaz-

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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—

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

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or even to give one FREE to the first

user in each locality who will help

him introduce it. Write him today for

full particulars. Also ask him to ex-

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without experience or money make





 





F the average farm kitchen is fif-

1 teen by eighteen square feet it con-



tains a surface of' 270 square feet,

which requires about thirty minutes

scrubbing every week. This means

that one woman spends twenty-six

hours a. year scrubbing one floor.

There are over 6,000,000 women in the

United States doing housework on

farms, which brings the total number

of hours spent scrubbing kitchen floors

well over 156,000,000. It has been es-

timated that the saving in time alone

cleaning floors which have been paint-

ed or varnished. and over which a

mop slides easily, is twenty— —five per

cent. This would mean a. saving in

hours alone of 39 ,0003300 hou1s fo1

more important matters.





The hours of drudgery thus saved

give no hint of the improvement in

health the saving of such labor would





Saves Labor In the Home

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HE week of February 23 to



28 has been designated as

machinery repair and replace-

ment. week. Before 01‘ during

that week every farmer Should

inspect, his tools and farm ma-

chines to learn what repairs are

needed and what new machinery

may be required to carry on the

farm work during 1925, most eco-





nomically.

To help in this movement we

want short letters from our





readers telling about their meth—

ods of getting the farm equip-

ment in shape for a summer’s

campaign. The letters should

tell when, 110w and why you pro~

ceed to do this work. To the

writer of: each of the five best

letters we shall send one dollar.





 





 





 





Address them to the Handy

Man, Michigan Farmer, Detroit,

not later than January ‘30.



mean. And further, 1.11111'1- is tlw added





attractiveness and the sanitary condi«

tions, which paint and varnish bring,

to be taken into account.



Considering the fact that every

housewife must take into account the

cleaning of walls and ceilings as well

as floors, and that there is a total in-

side surt‘aCc of 39.659.940.492 square

feet in farm houses in the United

States, a fair idea may be gained ol'

the hours wasted cleaning rough, bad«

ly finished surfaces.





Paint and varnish are, among the

foremost, in the ranks of man’s labor-

snving inventions. A great many peo-

ple think of paint and varnish solely

in terms of beauty. They consider

them luxuries, not necessities. V’Vhile

paint and varnish arc beautificrs of

great importance, they save more than

they cost in preventing repairs and

in safe-guarding the health. They do

even more. They reduce, house, clean-

ing labor. Freshly painted surfaces

—~walls, floors, woodwork—are easily

cleaned. They show that they have

been cleaned and are a source of sat-

isfaction to the housewife.





. Farm women are finding how much

easier it is to clean painted or var-

nished floors than carpets. Only a

comparatively small proportion of

farms are equipped with electricity,

so that electric vacuum cleaners are

of no use. Hand-vacuum cleaners

and the good old carpet sweeper are

helpful, but not so thorough, and they





 





‘ 8250 to $500 per month.





are very tiring to use. A mop slides

quickly and easily over a painted or

varnished floor, leaving a clean sur-

face behind it, whereas, a rough floor

requires the hardest kind of scrub-

bing and never shows the effort (3'):-

pended on it.



Shabby spots, the outcome of time





and wear, creep unnoticed into the

house. Their presence means extra

labor. They make cleaning harder.





A housewife feels irritation when

after cleaning she sees the scratched

spots on the baseboard, the worn spots

in the doorway, or the mark on the

window-sill where potted plants have

stood. Such things reflect on .her zeal

and ability as a housekeeper. The cure

for these marring spots may be found

in a. paint can. Furthermore, in well

painted surroundings there is not the

tendency to allow cast-offs and rubbish

to cotlcct. Fresh paint is an incen-

tive to keep surroundings clean.

Painted ceilings and walls are Clean

bz‘cause they are washable. They can

be,- quickly wiped down with a moist

cloth. Painted or varnished wood-

work and furniture can be kept glist-

ening with a dustcloth. A pot of paint

transforms a shabby, hard-to—keep

house into a bright and cheerful one.





ONE WAY TO SAVE ENERGY.





OR a number of years I used the



strong-arm method of keeping Can-

ada thistles in check. The old plan of

keeping their heads under ground until

their bodies shriveled up, was follow-

ed. It worked, but demanded more

energy than one was in a position

often to give, especially when thistles

were thriving most.



Now, I conserve this energy for

more productin- uses. This I am able

to do through the use of alfalfa. Can-

ada thistlcs and alfalfa are not con—

genial companions. The former can-

not continue under the treatment re-

quired 0f the alfalfa crop. They give

up in despair. What with the root ac-

tivity of the alfalfa, the dense shade

of the leaves and the frequent cutting,

the poor thistles have no Show. So

while the hoe hangs in the woodshed

with the blade rusting, the Canada

thistle; are having even less of a

chance to get a foothold on my farm

1111111 [he-y did when I sWeat and wor-

ried my temper into repeating words

we do not like the Children to hear.—

R. J. Smith.





KEEP THE DRILL IN GOOD ORDER.





O\V many times while motoring



through the country do you see a

field of grain where the drill went

wrong? Each time I see this, I am

impressed that the owner of that farm

is careless.



These observations have led me to

a practice which may not be justified,

but, which has gotten to be a sort of

habit. To make sure that the drill or

the corn planter is doing its work as





we expect it to, each winter I jack

them up on the barn floor so the

wheels can be turned easily. Then I





can note just how the adjustments are

working, and how each hole is deliver.

ing its portion of the seed. The plates

in the planter can also be studied so

that when I go into the field next

spring with these implements I am

pretty certain that they will do the

thing I want them to do.——S. A. Pratt.





ETTERS from the following are



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Henry Gretz, Ransom Smith, George

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Pure Breed Records

By W. A. Freehoff





~ FTER being under partial eclipse



for several years, the pure—bred



live stock business is again

emerging into the full view of the sun.

At some recent public sales, many fair

and some very good ayenages were

made, and bidding on the whole was





’brisk, with buyers showing a tendency





to pay live and let live prices.



One of the things which has discour-

aged farmers from engaging more free-

ly in the business of breeding pure-

bred live stock is the record “nuis-

ance.” If they buy an animal from

some breeder it may take many months

to obtain the proper pedigree record

and transfer sheet. Whenever there





 





 





 





 





lThis Tester Resorts to the Old Cutter

when Snow Becomes Too Deep.





is a long delay, there is always the

possibility that in the end the seller

will not be able to supply papers.



It remained for several mid-western

railway companies to give an impetus

to keeping better records. They are

giving reduced rates for pure-bred live

stock when shipped by freight in less

than carload lots provided the proper

papers are attached to bill of lading.

The saving is large enough to spur the

seller into getting the papers into

shape.





There is only one safe policy to fol-

low when engaged in the breeding bus-

iness, and that is to keep prompt and

accurate. records. A herd register is

almost indispensable, where breeding

dates and 'birth reports may be enter-

ed. All these entries should be made

at onCe, as delay means guesswork lat-

er, and guesswork is never safe.



I talk from experience here, as I

have been both careless myself, and

suffered from the carelessenss of oth-

ers. But experience is a good teacher

and after a man has been stung once

or twice, he tightens up on his meth-

ods. I like the system used by some

of the cattle clubs, which permit birth

reports to be sent in, to be kept on

file. When this is done registration

may be delayed. Then it the calf dies

or proves a cull, or if for any reason

it is thought best not to register, no

money has been wasted and the herd

books of the club are not burdened

with a useless record. By getting a

duplicate birth report book, a dupli-

cate sketch and duplicate data is al-

ways at hand in convenient form, and

registration papers may be secured at

short notice.





_The most successful breeders make

it a. point to apply for the transfer pa-

pers the minute an animal is sold, and

to rush it to the buyer. That is ser-

vice of a kind the buyer appreciates,

and will encourage him‘to Come again.





’Once a- ,breedergets the general rep-





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utation of being slack in his methods,

he loses many sales he might other—

wise have made.



Whenever you get a transfer paper

be sure and compare the sketch of the

animal with the animal itself. Other-

wise in case you lose the registration

certificate, and apply for a duplicate,





.you may find it impossible to do so,





because the sketch of the animal you

submit in order to obtain that dupli-

cate does not check with the sketch

0n file in the ofl‘ice of the recording

club. When making sketches with

your registration applications, he care-

ful to get the drawing accurate, or lat-

ér the whole pedigree may be called

into question.



Nearly every recording association

has bound duplicate books for making

these various reports and applications,

and in the end a man is money ahead

by buying them and using them, as

they are especially designed to help

keep the' records straight.





HANDLING YOUNG CALVES.





HE dairyman who plans to havt

his cows freshen during the fall

and early winter months finds himself

confronted with the problem of stab-

ling a number of young calves. The

common practice among dairymen is

to stable a number of calves in one

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Eeis Minute





If some one scraped the butter left over from your table into the garbage can

after each meal you certainly would put a stop to it immediately. ,,



Left-over butter must be saved for another meal, but how about the f‘left-over'

butter-fat which your present separator leaves. in the skim—milk? It 1811 t at all

unusual for a new De Laval to increase the yield of butter-fat from the_milk of

just a few cows by a quarter to a pound or more a day. Think what this would

mean to you in the course of a year. '

The new De Laval is the best cream separator

ever madc—skims cleaner, runs earner and lasts

longer. Among other new features and refinements

it has a self-centering bowl which eliminates Vibra-

tion, causing it to run smoother and easrer. It

gives you a rich, smooth, high-testing cream, and

skims cleaner under all conditions of use.





$66.9. to $1439

I) OWN

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Old ctntrifugal cream separa-

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end of the test period.





Split Silk of Edgmoor, Twice Grand Champion, Brockton

Fair, Brockton, Mass., Owned by Atamannsit Farms.





Atamannsnt Farms, East Falmouth, Mass.

The Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, Ill.





Dear Sirs—In regard to the Sugared Schumacherl must say the results from its use are very gratifying.

I admire its remarkable palatability. In a herd as large as Atamannsit there would usually be several

animals that do not care for a feed but I have yet to see one that is not keen for Sugared Schumacher.

We have 30 yearly heifers, which due to the very dry weather, came in from pasture quite thin this fall.

We have fed them Sugared Schumacher alone with silage and clover hay and the way they have picked

up is a splendid testimonial to your feed—much better than I could write.



We have used Sugared Schumacher according to your directions for our milking herd and it has

proven to be more satisfactory than any other feed we have used. It is the last three months on a test

cow’s record that count. They are pretty well filled up then and they must relish their feed or they will

not keep gomg. For that reason I think Sugared Schumacher is the ideal carbohydrate basis for the

test ration as it keeps the cows at maximum production right to the end of the test period.





There are ManyGood Reasons Why Sugared Schumacher Feed Pro-

duces Such Gratifymg Results. Mr. Clark Touches on Three of Them:





FIRST the way the 30 heifers “picked up” in flesh

and vigor—a result of the right kind of car-



bohydrates which puts animals in tip top condition.

SECOND the way the “milking herd” proved it

to be “more satisfactory than any other

we have used” — showing that it meets the need of the

milch cow ideally and helps her to produce MORE MILK.

THIRD its great PALATIBILITY as proved on

their test cows by keeping them EATING

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Whether you are developing Grand Champions,

keeping pure bred or grade cows for milk, cream

or butter production, the following letter from

Atamannsit Farms will interest you. It brings

out three important points in dairying all tending

to greater profit for the man who keeps cows, i. e.





Developing better young stock-—~

Producing more milk—

Feeding test cows for higher records.





November 15, 1924





—Yours very truly, HORACE M. CLARK, Herdsman in charge.





Surely these ARE sufiicient reasons for any owner of cows

~grade or grand champions to decide to try Sugared

Schumacher Feed. But these are not all. It‘keeps cows

healthy—satisfied and in good flesh. It is an ideal main-

tenance ration and when fed with Boss Dairy Ration with

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Sweet Clover Makes Good





How One Farmer Learned It; Value





N the spring of 1922, I had a field



'of nineteen acres fitted for alfalfa.



1 put 1,000 pounds of hydrated lime

per acre, worked the ground goodytill

the. first of June. I had bought $42

worth of alfalfa seed from a local

store in Keeler. I drilled in the seed

in good condition and it came up nice-

ly and looked very thrifty. The next

spring, 1923, it started growing and

soon I noticed some plants darker in

color and much more thrifty and four

to six inches taller. I had the county

agent come to take a look at the field.

As soon as he saw it, he said it was

over halfpsweet clover. The white

blossom sweet clover is the best.





This field made me forty-seven acres

of alfalfa. I cut it when it was in

blossom, and it was a. field of blossoms

and a sight to see, from four to six

feet tall. The. honeybees were so

thick that when I was riding the mow—

er I was afraid of the bees at times.

I tried to sell some of this out of the

field for $10.00 per ton, but could not.

I hired the use of a barn to put the

sweet c10Ver hay in. Early last fall,

people began looking for hay, and I

offered it to the first at $12.00, then

$13.00 and $14.00, but could not sell it.

The last week in December a man

from the fruit belt came for the sec—

ond time. I sold him thirty-five tons

of alfalfa at, the barn, bailed, at $25.00;

and twenty tons of SWeet clover, bail-

ed, at $24.00. On December 26 I start-

ed bailing, and commenced on the

sweet clover, as I wanted him to take





that first. He had paid me only $5.00.

He Came with his truck, the day I

commenced bailing, and when he saw

the sweet clover bail-ed, he gave. an

excuse of wanting. alfalfa first. He

never came again. The sweet clover

looked too coarse for him.



Then I had some bills printed and

posted them in the fruit belt near

Benton Harbor. The first load I sold

was three tons of sweet clover to a.

Russian Jew, delivered, at $26.00. He

said he. knew the feeding value of

sweet clover. I told him I would give

him fifty cents per ton for all he could

sell of either kind. Some came after

alfalfa and took from four to ten bales

of sweet clover to try. The next load

they got was sweet clover, as their

stock liked it so well. Soon the sweet

clover was gone. I received several

phone calls for sweet clover after it

was gone, and when I still had four

tons of the alfalfa left.



This seed I bought was. mixed by

some dealer for the profit he made in

the price of the sweet clover seed.

This is one of the ways we learn what

to use on our soil. There is justoue

farmer in this locality who has grown

sweet clover 'for pasture, and he tells

me that it is the best of any for cow

pasture and a soil builder. I do be«

lieve it is the incoming clover for hay.

pasture, seed ten bushels per acre,

and soil builder. Inoculate the seed

and use plenty of lime and the result

will be a sure catch and a soil builder.

——V\'illlam Klett. "





Advice on the Corn-Borer

By R. H. Patti! .





HE corn-borer is spreading grad-





ually in Michigan and has al-

ready reached Sanilac county.





It seems to spread along the water-

ways and I would expect to find if in





Huron county soogi. That is, next

year or perhaps the year after.

It is a small naked caterpillar that





bores in all parts of the corn plant. and

in many other crops, weeds. etc.

“'hen it first appears in a district the

damage is comparatively slight for sev-

eral years, although the damage with

each successful year becomes greater

until finally it develops to a point

where most of the profit in corn grow-

ing disappears.



()n farms where the owner is carv-

1955,11 may co1n1 to a. point where

(-0111 is g1 own ata loss. The creature

is capable of hi ing caiiicd in cars of

corn. both in 111111-11 corn and in seed

corn on the car. It. can also, 111111011111,-

odiy. be transported in the sucks in

which grm-u corn is shipped.



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b11115 and cut flowers are also likely

to conceal larvae 11‘111‘11 shipped or

Iraiispoi‘li‘d from infested districts.



'J‘lu‘ writer would urge 1111 (‘1'1'1‘yon1-

in districts 1111111‘ regions win-1‘1) ,11111

pvsi is known 11) oxiu, to cut the com

as low as po:‘:sibl+,‘~~11) put as much as

possible of the corn in the silo and 11)

run the rest; through a shredder. All

COI'llHiillkH that are not uscd up by 1111.1

first: of June should b1» burned or oth-

erwise effectively disposed of. Fall

plowing is holpfui if the, plants and

parts of plants are buried evenly and

deeply. Such plowing should be 110111-

in Michigan from 1111‘ middle, of No—

vember on until the ground frowns.

Plowing done before this date, or that:

done in the spring, is not effective,

since larvae may find their way to the

surface and establish themselves if

the. plowing is. done too early.



Furihcrmore, get behind the quiiran-

tine and boost all you can. Every

year that the coming of the pest is. put

off. is just so much money in the pock—

et of the farmer. Furthermore, bear

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in any plant or weed, having a fleshy

stalk that is not too hard to tunnel in.



\l'eeds are nearly as good breeding

places as are crops, and the destruc-

tion of Weeds along fence corners,

111011,:r i‘oadsidcs, and in fact, anywhere

weeds exist, is good insurance. It is

also good practice. after the pests be-

come established in a district.



The danger from this insect is real

and in no sense a myth. To be sure,

we will have it sooner or later all over

the state, and probably in time over

most of the country, but every year we

can put off its coming, is just so much

gain in ability to raise corn and some

other crops at a profit rather than

at; a lOss.





DISCOVERS THAT CORN DOES NOT

GROW.





NO‘XING that corn matured poorly



last fall, we started early to learn

if ours would grow. So we got. out the

“rag doll ‘ and tested it. V\'ell, we were

disappointed. It certainly would have

1n111l1‘ 11 mom hopeless stand. had we

gone on 11nd planted it without. know-

ing ils gurniinzition capacity. There

11'111‘1‘ sczii'm‘ly one seed in four that

gave us any kind of a sprout. The

result. is that we must go elsewhere

for our seed.



As I said. We are disappointed in

our corn. for W1: had an idea that it

might do fairly well. But, in another

way, 1114 are glad that We took the

pi't’CttIlllOll early to find out what it is

worth. if good corn seed corn is avail—

abl1‘,,w1‘ may have a real good crop

next year just because we took the

trouble to inspect the seed; whereas,

if this had not been done, we surely

would have suffered a heavy loss, since

our corn acreage will run about thirty

acres—S. D. \l'aters.



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Detroit, writes back he is surprised

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ugly, but it had served.





endunk about a shelf for books and

photographs. He had put up a

rough bit of board, very crude and

She had come

home one snowy afternoon to find this





S ELINA had spoken to Jakob Hoog-





shelf gone and in its place a smooth





and polished one, with brackets in‘

'tricately carved. Roelf had cut, plan—

ed, polished, and carved it in many

hours of work in the cold little shed

off the kitchen. He had there a work-

shop of scrts, fitted with such tools

and implements as he could device. He

did man’s work on the farm, yet often

at night Selina could faintly hear the

rasp of his handsaw after she had gone

to bed. He had built a doll’s house

for Geertje and Jozina that was the

black envy of every pigtail in High

Prairie. This sort of thing was looked

upon by Klaus Pool as foolishness.

Roelf’s real work in the shed was the

making and mending of coldl'rames

and hot- beds for the early spring

plants. Whenever possible Roelf neg-

lected this dull vs 01k lOl some fancy

of his own. To this Klaas Pool ob-

jected as being “dumb.” For that mat-

ter, High Prairie considered Pool’s boy

“dumb like.” He. said such things.

When the new Dutch Reformed Church

was completed after gigantic efforts—

1‘ed brick, and the first brick church in

High Prairie~~bright yellow painted

pews-—-a red and yellow glass window,

most handsome—the. Reverend Vaar-

Werk brought from New Haarlem to

preach the. first. sermo1r~Pool"s Roelf

was heard to hint darkly to a group

of High Prairie boys that some night

he was going to burn the church down.

it was ugly. It hurt, you to look at it,

just.



Certainly. the boy was different. Sc-

lina none too knowledgeous herself,

still recog 111/.1 d that here was some—

thing rare. something precious to be

fostered, shielded, encouraged.



“Roelt', stop that. foolishness, get

your 111a once some, wood. Carving on

that box again instead finishing them

coldframes Some day, by golly, Ishow

you. I break evmy stick dumb

as a Groningen .



itoell did not sulk. ile seemed not,

to mind, particularly, but, he came

back to the carved box as soon as

chance presented itself. Maartje and

Klaus Pool were not cruel people, our

unkind. They were a little bewildered

by this odd creature that they, inex—

plicably enough, had produced. it was

not a family given to demonstration of

al'l'rction. Life was too grim for the,





flowering of this softer side. Then,

too, they had sprung from a phleg-

matic and unemotional people. Klaas





toilt‘d like a slave in the fields and

barn; Maartje's day was a treadmill

of cooking, scrubbing, washing. mend—

ing from the moment she arose (four

in the summer, live in the winter)

until she dropped with a groan in her

bed often long after the others Were

asleep. Selina had llt‘\t‘l se t 11 her kiss

(itilfl'ijt‘. 01 Jozina. But, once she had

been a little startled to see Maartje,

(111 one of her countless trips betwt ‘en

stove and table 11111 llt'l hand thiough

the boy’s shock of black haii. down

the side of his face to his chin which

she tipped up with an indescribably





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tender gesture as she looked down into

his eyes. It was a movement fleeting,

vague, yet infinitely compassionate.

Sometimes she even remonstrated

when Klaas berated Roelf. “Leave the

boy be, then Klaas. Leave him be,

once.”



“She loves him best,” Selina thought.

“She’d even try to understand him if

she had time.”



He was reading her books with such

hunger as to cause her to wonder if

her stock would last him the winter.

Sometimes, after supper, when he was

hammering and sawing away in the





 





“Oh, Roelf!”



“Sure. Already I have gone five

times with Pop. Pretty soon, when I

am seventeen or eighteen, I can go

alone. At five in the afternoon you

start and at nine you are in the Hay-

market. There all night you sleep on

the- wagon. There are gas lights. The

men play dice and cards. At four in

the morning you are ready when they

come, the commission men and the

pedlers and the grocery men. Oh, it’s

fine, I tell you!”



“Roelf!” She was bitterly disap-

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THROUGH WINTER DA YS





By Martha S. Lippincott





It is not spring, the air is cold,

And winter winds today

Will scatter snowflakes through the

air

To block the traveller’s way.

it's beautiful to look upon;

But nicer to be home,

And cuddled round the cosy hearth,»

Than in the world to roam.





Love whispers there its sweet content,

And dreads to go outside,



Where on some icy walk you might

Be taking a bad slide.





80, in the cosy, little home

We'll gladly rest today,



And wait till balmy springtime comes

Before we go away.





We’ll find no comfort anywhere

Like in home’s paradise.



There’s warmth and sunshine always



there,



No matter'how the skies,



Just so the hearts are tuned to love

And its sweet melodies.



There is no other place on earth

That can, the heart, so please.





 





 





little shed, Selina would snatch

Maartje‘s old shawl off the hook, and

swathed in this against draughty

chinks, she would read aloud to him

while. he carved, 01‘ talk to him above

the noise of his tools. Selina was a

gay and volatile person. She loved

to make this boy laugh. His dark face

would flash into almost. dazzling ani-

mation. Sometimes Maartje, hearing

their young laughter, would come, to

the. shed door and stand there a mo—

ment, hugging lltl arms in her rolled

apron and smiling at, them, uncompre—

hending but companionable.



“You make f,11n 111119” .



“Come in, 311s. Pool. Sit; down 011

my box and make fun, too. Here, you

may have half the shawl.”



“()g IIeden! 1 got no time to sit

down.” She was off.





Itoelf slid his plane slowly, more

slowly, over the surface of a satin—





He stopped, twincd

a curl of shaving about his finger.

“When I am a man, and earning, 1 am

going to buy my mother a silk dress

like I saw in a store in Chicago and

she should put. it on every day, not.

only for Sunday; and sit in a chair

anti make little- tine stitches like

\l'idow‘ l’aarlenberg.”



“\\'ltat. else are vou going to do

when you grow 11p. ’ She waited, (zen

lain that he would say something de—

lightful.



"Drive the team

market.”





smooth oak board.





to town alone to





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“Here. Look.” He rummaged around

in a dusty box in a corner and, sud—

denly shy again, laid before her a torn

sheet of coarse brown paper on which

he had sketched crudely, effectively, a

melee of great—haunched horses; wag—

ons piled high with garden truck: men

in overalls and corduroys; flaring gas

torches. He had drawn it with a stub

of pencil exactly as it looked to him.

The result was as startling as that

achieved by the present-day disciple

of the impressionistic school.



Selina was enchanted.



Many of her evenings during No-

vember were spent thus. The family

life was lived in a kitchen blue with

pipe smoke, heavy with the smell of

cooking. Sometimes-though rarely—

a fire was lighted in the parlor stove.

Often she had school papers to correct

-—grubby sheaves of arithmetic, gram—

mar, or spelling lessons. Often she

longed to read; 'anted to sew. Her

bedroom was too cold. The men sat

in the kitchen or trainped in and out.

(‘reertje and Jozina scuttled and play-

ed. Maartje scuttled about like a har—

ried animal, heavy-footed but incred-

ibly swift. The floor was always gritty

with the sandy loam tracked in by the

men’s heavy boots.



Once, early in DeCember. Selina

Went. into town. The trip was born of

sudden revolt, again.~:t her surround-

ings and a great wave of nostalgia for

the dirt and clamor and crowds of Chi—

cago. Early Saturday morning Klaas





drove harm the railway station five





miles distant. She was to stayuintil

Sunday. A letter had been written

Julie Hempel ten days before, but

there had been no answer. Once in

town she went straight to the Hempel

house. Mrs. Hempel, thin-lipped,.met

her in the hall and said that Julie was

out of town. She was visiting her

friend Miss Arnold, in Kansas City.

Selina was not asked to stay to dinu

ner. She was not asked to sit down.

When she left the house hertgr’eat fine

eyes seemed larger and more deep-set

than ever, and her jaw—line was set

hard against the invasion of tears.

Suddenly she hated this Chicago that

wanted none of her; that brushed past

her, bumping her elbow and offering

no apology; that clanged, and shriek-

ed, and whistled, and roared in her

ears now grown accustomed to the

prairie silence.





“I don’t care,” she said, which meant

she did. “I don’t care. Just you wait.

Some day I’m going to be—oh, ter-

ribly important. And people will say,

‘Do you know that wonderful Selina

Peake? W’ell, they say she used to

be a country school teacher and slept

in an ice-cold room and ate pork three

times a .’ There! I know what

l’m going to do. I’m going to have

luncheon and I’ll order the most dev

licious things. I think I’ll go to the

Palmer House Where Father and I



no, I couldn’t stand that. I’ll

go to the Auditorium Hotel restaurant

and have ice cream; and chicken bioth

in a silver cup; and cream puffs. and

all kinds of vegetables and little lamb





chops in paper panties. And orange

pekoe tea.” '4

She actually did order all these





things and had a group of amazed

waiters hovering about her table waff-

ing to see her devour this meal, much

as a similar group had stared at David

Copperfield when he was innocent of

having bolted the huge dinner ordered

in the inn on his way to London.





She ate the ice cream and drank

the orange pekoe (mainly because she





loved the sound of its name; it made

her think of Chrysanthemums and

cherry blossoms, spices, fans, and





slant-eyed maidens). She devoured a

crisp salad with the avidity of a can-

ary pecking at a lettuce leaf. She

flirted with the lamb chops. She re-

membered the size of her father’s sgen«

erous tips and left a sum on the table

that temporarily dulled the edge of

the waiter’s hatred of women diners.

But the luncheon could not be said to

have been a success. She thought of

dinner, and her spirit quailed. She

spent the time between one and three

buying portable presents for the entire

Pool householdo—including bananas tor

Geertje and Jozina, for whom that far-

inaceous fruit had the fascination al—

ways held for the farm child. She

caught a train at four thirty~flve and

actually trudged the five miles from

the station to the farm, arriving half-

frozen, Weary, with aching arms and

nipped toes, to a great Welcome of the

squeals, grunts, barks, and gutturals

that formed the expression of the Pool

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kitchen stove, to the smell of frying

pork, to her own room with the walnut

bed and the book shelf: Even the grim





drum had taken on the dear and com- -





forting aspect of the accustomed.





[GI-I PRAIRIE swains failed to find



Selina. alluring. She was too small,

too pale and fragile for their robust

taste. Naturally, her coming had been

an event in this isolated community.

She would have been surprised to

know with -what eagerness and cur-

iosity High Prairie gathered crumbs of

news about her; her appearance, her

manner, her dress. Was she stuck up?

Was she new fangled‘? She failed to

notice the agitation of the parlor cur-

tains behind the glittering windows of

the farm-houses she passed on her way

to school. With no visible means of

communication, news of her leaped

from farm to farm as flame leaps the

gaps in a forest fire. She would have

been aghast to learn that High Prairie,

inexplicably enough, knew all about

her, from the color of the ribbon

that threaded her neat little white cor-

set covers to the number of books on

her shelf. She thought cabbage fields

beautiful; she read books to that

dumb-acting Roelf Pool; she was mak—

ing over a dress for Maartje after the

pattern of the. stylish brown lady's-

cloth she wore (foolishly) to school.

Now and then she encountered a team

on the road. She would call a good

day. Sometimes the driver answerer],

tardily, as though surprised. Some-

times he only starcd. She almost, nev—

er saw the High Prairie farm women,

busy in their kitchens.



On her fifth Sunday in the district

she accompanied the Pools to the

morning service at the Dutch Reform-

ed Church. Maartje seldom had the

time for such frivolity. But. on this

morning Klaas hitched up the big farm

wagon with the double seat. and took

the family complt'tw-rMaartje, Selina,

Roelt‘, and the pigtails. Maartje. out

of her kitchen calico and dressed in

her best black, with a l'unereal bonnet

made sadder by a sparse and drooping

feather whose listless fronds emerged

surprisingly from a faded red cotton

rose, wore a new strange aspect to

Selina’s eyes, as did Klaas in his

clumsy sabbaticals. loelf had rebelled

against going, had been cuffed for it,

and had sat Very still through the ser-

vice, gazing at, the red and yellow

glass Church window. Later he con-

fided to Selina that. the sunlight filter-

ing through the crude yellow panes

had imparted a bilious' look to the un-

fortunates seated within its range, af-

fording him much secret satisfaction.



Selina’s appearance had made quite

a stir, of which she was entirely un-

aware. As the congregation entered

by twos and threes she thought they

resembled startlingly a woodcut in an

old illustrated book she once had seen.

The men’s Sunday trousers and coats

had a square, stiff angularity, as

though chopped out of a block. The

women, in shawls and bonnets of rusty

black, were incredibly cut in the same

pattern. The unmarried girls, though.

Were plump, rcdcheekcd, and not un-

eomely, with high round cheelebones

on which sat a spot of brick-red which

imparted no glow to the fame. Their

foreheads Were prominent and mean-

ingless.



1n the midst of this drab assemblage

there entered late and rustingly a tall,

slow-moving woman in a city—bought.

cloak and a bonnet quite unliktgthe

Vintage millinery of lligh l’rairic. As

she came down the aisle Selina

thought she was like a full—sailed frig-

ate. An ample woman, with a flllt‘ fair

skin and ripe red mouth: a high firm

bosom and great thighs that moved

rhythmically, slowly. She had thick,

insolent eyelids. Her hands, as she

turned the leaves of her hymn book,

were smooth and white. As she enter-

ed there was a little rustle throughout

the congregation; a craning of necks.

Though she was bustled and flounced

and panniered, you thought, curiously

enough, of those lolling white-fleshed





and unconventional ladies whom the

sixteenth century painters Were al-

ways portraying as having their toe

nails cut with nothing on.



“Who’s that?” whispered Selina to

Maartje. .



“\Vidow Paarlenberg.

like anything.”



“Yes?” Selina was fascinated.



“Look once how she makes eyes at}

him.” ‘





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“At him? Who? ‘Who?”





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“Pervus DeJong. By, Gerrit Pon he

is sitting with the blue shirt and sad.

looking so.”



Selina craned, peered. “The——oh—~

he is very good looking, isn’t he?"



“Sure. Widow Paarlenberg is stuckl

on him. See how she—Sh—sh-shl—J

Reverend Dekker looks at us. I tell

you after.”





Selina decided she’d come to church

oftener. The service went on, dull,

heavy. It was in English and Dutch.

She heard scarcely a word of it. The

\Vidow Paarlenberg and this Pervus

DeJong occupied her thoughts. She

decided, without malice, that the wid-

ow resembled one of the sleekest of

the pink porkers rooting in Klaas'

Pool's barnyard, waiting to be cut into

Christmas meat.



The Widow l’arlenberg turned and

smiled. Her eyes were slippery (Se-

lina’s term). Her mouth became loose

and wide with one corner sliding down

a trifle into something very like a leer.‘



\\'ith one surge the Dutch Reformed

congregation leaned forward to see

how Pervus DeJong would respond to

this public mark of favor. His gaze

was stern, unsmiling. His eyes were

fixed on that extremely dull gentle-

man, the Reverend Dekker.





 





“He’s annoyed,” thought Selina, and:

was pleased at the thought. “\Vell, ll

may not, be a widow, but l’m sure that

is not the way.” And then: “Now I3

wonder what it's like when he smiles ’2”?



According to fiction as Selina had'

found in the Fireside Companion and}

elsewhere, he should have turned at:

this moment, irresistibly drawn by the:

magnetism of her gaze, and smiled at

rare sweet smile that lighted up his:

stern young face. But he did not. Hel

yawned suddenly and capaciously. TheI

Reformed Dutch congregation leaned‘I

back feeling cheated. Handsome, cer-

tainly. Selina. reflected. ,iut then, prob-l

ably Klaas Pool, too, had been hand-‘

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The service ended, there was much

talk of the weather, seedlings, stock,‘

the approaching holiday season.

Maartje, her Sunday dinner heavy on.

her mind, was elbowing her way up?

the aisle, Ilt‘l't‘ and there she intro-E

duCed Selina to a woman friend.‘

“Mrs. Vander Sijde, meet school:

teacher."



“Aggie‘s 1'nothe1"."’ Selina would be-

gin, primly, only to be swept, along by"

Maartje on her way to the (1001'. “Mrs.

Von Mijnen, meet school teacher. 15

Mrs. Von Mijncn.” They regarded her

with a grim gaze. Selina would smile

and nod rather ncryously. feeling

young, frivolous. and somehow guilty.



\\"h<-n, with Maartje, she reached the

church porch Pervus De .long was un~

hitching the dejected horse that was

harnessed to his battered and lopsided

cart. The animal stood with four feet

bunched together in a drooping and

pathetic attitude and seemed inevit-

ably meant for mating up with this

decrepit vehicle. DeJong untied the.

reins quickly, and was about to step

into the sagging conveyance when the

\l'idow Paarlenberg sailed down the

church steps with admirable speed for

one so amply proportioned. She made

straight, for him, skirts billowing,

ilounces flying, plumes waiving.

Maartje clutched Selina's arm. “Look

how she makes! She asks him to eat

Sunday dinner I bet you! See once

how he makes with his head no.”



(Continued next week).



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HE Last Supper was held prob-



ably on Thursday night of Pas-



sion Week, the day before the

passover feast. The word passover

bulked very large in the vecabulary ot‘

the Jew. For it was an annual festival

recalling the deliverance of the Heb-

rew people out of the hands of the

Egyptian king, in the time of Moses.

The last of the plagues inflicted on

the stubborn monarch was the one in

which the angel

through the land, taking the life of the

first born of every Egyptian family,

and the first born of all kinds of live

stock. But the homes of the Hebrews

were passed _ over, and none were

touched. Hence the meaning and sac~

redness of the feast. People came

from all parts of the ancient world. It

has been estimat-

ed that as high as

a million visitors

came to Jerusa-

lem during pass-

over week. It was

just before this

feast was cele-

brated in the year

30 A. D., that the

Savior held the

Last Supper. The place was some up-

per room in Jerusalem, and may have

been in the home of a man named

Mark, the father of John Mark, after-

ward the writer of the second gospel.

It is supposed that it was he who was

seized at the arrest of Christ, and who

got away. The Mark family, to all ap-

pearances at least, from What we know

in the New Testament, was a family

of some means. In Acts it is stated

that “Many were gathered together

praying,” at the home of Mark’s moth-

er, and besides that she had a maid

whose duty it was to answer the door-

bell, so that it must have been a home

of some. spaciousness.





 





HRIST said that he greatly desir-

ed to hold the Last Supper. Very

likely He had looked forward to that

quiet time with His disciples, when He

could speak to them out of His heart

in an unhurried atmosphere. The main

steps in the passover feast were: 1,

each drinks a cup of wine,‘ over which

the master of the house pronounces a

blessing. 2, hands are. washed and a

table is carried in on which are bitter

herbs, unleavened bread, and the pas-

chal lamb. 3, the father dips a morsel

of bread and bitter herbs in the char—

oseth (a dish of dates, raisins and vin-

egar), eats it with a benediction, and

distributes a similar morsel or “sop”

to those present. 4, a second cup of

wine is poured out, and the youngest

person asks the meaning of the serv—V

ice, which is answered by the father.

5, parts of two psalms were sung.

6, grace is said, and the bitter herbs

and unleavenvd bread are passed, dip—

ped in the charoseth. 7, the paschal

lamb is eaten, and a third cup of wine

is handed around. R, another thanks—

giving and a fourth of wine is drunk,

called the cup of joy. 9, the remainder

of psalms 115-118, or selections from

them, is sung.





It was a feast such as this, which

our Lord observed and which has been

called the Last Supper. “For I say

unto you, I shall drink henceforth of

the fruit of the vine until the kingdom

of God shall come.” “'hen He dis-

tributed the bread He said, “This do

in remembrance of Me,” thus institut-

ing a new kind of service with a new

meaning, which Christians were asked

to observe. W’hen passing the cup He

said of it that it was a new covenant.





1‘ is, therefore, not surprising that

Christians of all communions have

always been particular to observe the

Last Supper. It came early to be

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of death passed





 





be a happy custom if the service were

more commonly called by that name.

«In the early church the EuchariSt

meant brotherhood. And it was a. gen-





uine brotherhood. Each Sunday morn!

ing (at that time called the first day). '





the believers in Christ in the commu—

» nity met together for a common break-

fast. Each brought wliatever he could

afford—meat, milk, vegetables, honey.

fruit, bread and the like. The richest

shared alike with the poorest. All sat

down together and, after a blessing,

ate the common meal. At the-close

of the breakfast, a prayer was said





over the bread and the winebwhich’





was then partaken of, in memory of

the Savior, in obedience to His com;

mand, “This do in memory of Me.”

Later, abuses crept in and the poor

were discriminated against, while the

well-to—do ate their flll. Paul Wrote

some vigorous words concerning this,

in I Corinthians.





Nothing was said about the exact

manner of celebrating the Eucharist,

or the frequency of it. Some churches

celebrate it every week, some month—

ly, some quarterly. Some receive the

elements sitting. some kneeling. The

meat significance of it. to the modern

believer is, that he thereby shows that

he believes in the Savior, and he again

consecrates himself to live a life of

brotherly kindness, of charity toward

all. The idea of fraternity is still dor'

mant, and of a common acknowledge-

ment of Christ as Lord and Master. It

is well to remember that He made a

particular request that‘this should be

done in His memory. Thus it has the

stamp of the solemn request of a dy-

ing man.



But let us turn back for a moment,

to the Last Supper itself. He said He

would not drink again until the king-

dom of God should come. One coming

of the kingdom was at the resurrec-

tion, another at the outpouring of the

Spirit of Pentecost. and in this case

He probably meant the "marriage sup-

per of the lamb,” celebrated at the

great festival of the redeemed.





E also said something about this

being a. “new covenant” If this

was a new covenant, what was the old

one? It was the promise made to

Abraham and renewed to Moses that





the Israelites should have possession. '





of the land of Palestine so long as

they observed the Ten Command~

ments. But the new covenant is not

external but inner, an inner obedience.

The old was necessarily more or less

temporary. The new was permanent

and would not pass away. It was

broad also, and reached'out to all na-

tions and races, while the old referred

more particularly to one people, the

Hebrews.



Another aspect of the Last Supper

was the humility it enjoined. Christ,

so John’s gospel states, humbled Him~

self to the point of doing the work of

a slave, and washed the disciples’

feet. He then dried them with a towel.

But while this was going on, the

Twelve were discussing who of them

was to be the leader. The Master

showed them that the path to power

was the path of humility. The com-

monest duties of life have thus their

noble, even their sublime side. As Sir

G. A. Smith puts it, “It. is not merely

the devotion of your heart which He

wants today. He wants your common

life, in its sin, its hunger, and its dut-

ies, that He may show you how His

grace is its daily food, and how His

Example is its highest standard.”





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

JANUARY 18.





 





SUBJECTz—The Lord’s Supper. Luke

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GOLDEN TEXTz—This is my body

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develop. In a young person the joint

may get back to normal by the simple.

matter of removing the irritation. A4

bunion protector or “reducer” is ad-

visable, however. You can buy one

at any good shoe store for seventy—five;

cents. If any difficulty, send me a

stamped, addressed envelope.





 





 





 

 





 





Doings in





T /26 szz‘for Caééage





HE snow was very deep in Vt'ood-



land and there was not a cab-



bage leaf left uncovered. In

fact, everything was covered with a

thick white blanket of snow. Only

now and then could any of the Vt'ood—

land Rabbit family find a green bite.

Sometimes it was a tiny bud and some-

times the Merry .Vt'est “'ind would un-

cover some plants on tho'ground. But

these were frozen and the Rabbit fam-

ily didn’t like them so well.



Every Rabbit in Woodland longed

for some cabbage leaves, for that was

what they liked better than anything.



One day Rolly Rabbit and little

Jackie Rabbit started out to find some





 





: Jackie and Rolly Rabbit Thought it

Was the Weather Cock.





cabbages. f‘Perhaps Farmer Brown

has some by his house. He lives at

the edge of Woodland,” said Rolly.

So off hopped Rolly and Jackie

through the woods. By and by they

could see Farmer Brown’s house as

they peeked through the bushes.

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“Oh, me! oh, my! Farmer Brown

has a dog!" said Rolly. “We must be

very spry.” But he did not intend to

go back without a good feed of cab-

bages and some in his pockets beside.



“W'e’ll wait here until it is dark and

Farmer Brown and his dog are asleep.

When the Big Man in the Moon comes

out to light the way, we will go for

cabbages,” said Rolly Rabbit.



So they t’risked about in the snow

until the Big Man in the Moon showed

his face above the tree tops. When

all was quiet, they hopped up out

across the snow, close to Farmer

Brown’s house.



“The cabbages are in this barn,”

said Rolly Rabbit after he had sniffed

around the door of the barn. “A big

cock sits on the. peak, but he is so

still I think he is asleep, too. VVe’ll

just tip—toe up to the front, there is a

little hole in the door. Quiet now,

don’t wake the dog or the cock, or

there will be no cabbages tonight," he

cautioned Jackie.



When they were ready to hop into

the little hole,



“Cock-a—doodle-do!"



“Pitty pat!" went Rolly’s heart, and

Jackie's, too, as away they ran.



It was really the cock in the hen

coop nearby crowing because he

thought the big round moon was the

sun and that it was time for the hen

family to be up and about.



But Rolly and Jackie thought

the weather cock on the peak of the

barn had spied them and wanted

to awaken Farmer Brown’s dog. Any

way, they ran to hide themselves in

the brambles by the edge of Woodland.





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RE we interested in the vital



problems which affect our well-



being as we should be? Were

you thoroughly acquainted with the

income tax amendment as proposed

last fall? Do you believe in taxation

in accordance with ability to pay?



A 'state income tax is inevitable in

Michigan. Be posted on -all sides of

the question so that, when called on

to vote regarding it, you may do so

intelligently. I firmly believe we did

more than our share to kill the amend-

ment through ignorance of the facts.

The word “tax” holds terror for us,

but this tax would go a great way to

remove the terror.



A great woman has said: “Our hand-

icaps are the problems of the three I’s

-—indifference, ignorance and ineffi-

ciency. And the greatest of these is

ignorance.”



Are we familiar with the facts con-

cerning re—apportionment? It is a prob-

lem soon to be settled. Why not agri-

culturists stand solidly behind the fed-

eral plan or a similar one? The fed-





 





XPERIENCE teacheth us

that resolution is a sole help

.in need—Shakespeare.





 





 





eral plan provides on senator or repre-

sentative for every county and the oth-

er representatives apportioned accord-

ing to the ratio of registered voters

with an educational qualification for

citizenship. These principles should

be used when reapportionment. comes.



What do you know of the child labor

amendment which will be, transmitted

to our legislature this coming winter

from congress? \Vho is backing the

amendment? Mrs. Stockman, a mem-

ber of the State Board of Agriculture

says:



1. Consider what it will mean to the

club work of the girls and boys of the

nation.



2. Consider the,

for enforcement.



3. Consider what ideals wou are giv-

ing your children.



What do you know of the “Winslow

Home Bill” and the “Jones bill” and

the “Cappcr-lVilliams Bill?” Are you

backing Congressman Ketchain with

his bill?



At the present time industry is ask-

ing for more taXes on agriculture. This

in face of the. fact that real estate is

already paying eighty per cent. of the

taxes, with 35 per cent of wealth.



We farmers must familiarize our-

selves with facts and learn to express

ourselves in language strong enough to

be heard where it will accoxnplish

something for us.



Let us be stepping stones instead of

stumbling blocks in the path of agri-

culture. These few lines are apt. I

have forgotten the author.





cost of machinery





“Isn’t it strange. that Princes and

Kings



And clowns, that caper in sawdust

rings,





And common folk like you and me,

Are builders for Eternity?





“To each is given a bag of tools,



A shapeless mass and a book of rules;



And each must make, e’re life is flown,



A stumbling block or stepping stone.”

~A Farmer’s W'ife.





SEX EDUCATION IS A_SUBJECT

FOR HOME.





0R much of the well intended but

_ nevertheless sentimental slop





Asleep? ..

Matter:





known as sex education I have a de-

cided distaste. The only satisfactory

form of sex education I have ever en-

countered for the boy is a fine, normal,

natural relationship with his father or

some older man whom he likes, re-

spects and trusts. Social hygiene

should come after puberty and not be-

fore,” says Dr. Borden S. Veeder, pro-

fessor of clinical pediatrics at Wash-

ington University, St. Louis, MissOuri.



“The gist of sex education,” said Dr.

Veeder, “is a happy,,normal relation—

ship between parents and children

which must have its beginnings long

before puberty. The most important

thing for parents to understand in re-

gard to adolescence is that their child

is undergoing far—reaching fundament-

al physical changes and that there is

a physical basis back of all of the pe-

culiar and usually irritating changes

in temperament, disposition and atti-

tude toward the family and life which

is so prone to develop at this time.



“Growing boys need nearly half

again as much food as a farmer work-

ing in the fields. “In studies made at

one of the eastern preparatory schools

it was found that boys of thirteen to

sixteen years actually took approxi-

mately five thousand calories of food

daily and apparently required this

amount. This amount is nearly half

as much again as a farmer at his daily

work requires.”



“The picture of the ungainly awk-

ward adolescent child so familiar to all

of us is the result of failure of control





and coordination to keep pace with the

rapid muscular growth combined with

the tendency of the muscles to grow in

length more rapidly than the bones.

For this reason muscular exercises and

training are essential.”





MAKE PARLOR IN OLD-FASHIONED

HOME SERVE A PURPOSE.





F you have never tried using the



largest, pleasantest room in the

house for the family bedroom, you

don’t know how much more you Will

enjoy it in that capacity, than as a.

parlor, used only occasionally.



I livein one of those old-fashioned

houses in which a parlor was added

to an already larger number of rooms

than is needed by the average family.

This company room was the largest

room in the house, and so pleasant,

airy and sunny with its south and west





 





HOME.

BY ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH.

Heaps of faith in one another

O’er the years what’er they

bring,

Memories and not one bitter;

Each for all in everything!





 





windows and the sash door opening to

the east upon the end of a south porch.

So delightfully situated it was a ’shame

to use it so little. Such an abundance

of sunshine went to waste in it and

the finest view we had was from its

seldom-used windows.



I tried using it as a living-room, but

it was too remote from the kitchen

and dining—room, and an air of made-

to-be-used-only-on-state-occasions clung

to it so persistently that the man in-





]azzing Up The Ironing





Come Join T /ze Context!





HE radio is fast becoming a. permanent fixture in the rural home.





As





one passes through the country, here and there one sees the antennae





that links the rural family with the farthermost parts of the





 





Wireless Waves From the Air Shorten Ironing Hours.





we will send handy rubber kitchen aprons.

Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan, before January 23.





 





country. There

is no need for rural





folks to drive to

town for an even-

ing’s entertainment.





The very air we

breathe is full of mu-

sic, g r a n d opera,

1 r a m a s , lectures,

narket reports and

maps of other things

worth listening to. It

is there for the “tun-

ing in.”





I am wondering-{o

just what use you,

as a housewife, put

your radio. Do you

utilize it as the

housewife at the

left is doing? Do

you do your mending

and sewing to the

tune of modern mu-

sic? Do you go to

church at Detroit,

Pittsburgh, New

York or elsewhere

when zero weather

or snow banks keep

you from attending

your own church on

Sunday? Tell about

these and the indi-

vidual benefits you

and your family have

received from the

radio. I





 





To the writers of

the five best letters

Send your letters to Martha





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variably stopped in the “‘middl " room

to lounge and read, leaving. my cher-

ished living-room to the isolation that

the habits of years had'. banished it.



I reflected one day what an attrac-

tive bed-room it would make, and how

convenient the smaller room' opening

from it would be as a nursery. The





, idea so capitivated me that I promptly





planned to rearrange it for that pur-

pose and soon had my erstwhile use-

less parlor fltted up as a bedroom and

private sitting-room.



A fair-sized bedroom~ opened from

the middle room which was also a

large room, and both having a. south

exposure. I had a. very wide doorway

out between the two rooms, neariy'

eliminating the partition, and so com-

bined them into one delightfully long,

sunny living-room. It was so enjoy-v

able to have the piano and books and

all the most useful articles of furniture

out where we would use them every

day. Our living-room became one, in

a. sense that no other room ever had,

while my parlor never afforded me the

pleasure and satisfaction that my big,

sunny bedroom does with its accom-

modation for a fire in the winter and

plenty of fresh anr and sunshine dur-

ing the summer.——Mrs. E. C. M.





 





PAIINT MAKES OLD FURNITURE,

NEW.





N speaking of the possibilities in a



can of paint in redecorating furni-

ture, Miss Susan Z. Wilder, home eco~

nomics extension specialist at State

College says that the furniture to be

painted should have the following es-~

sentials: Good wood, well built, Sim“

ple lines, and plain design. Cheap fur-

niture, poorly built and thinly veneer~

ed is not worth redecorating.





“The furniture must be thoroughly

cleaned before painting,” she adds.

“Paint will not stick on greasy wood.

A thorough washing with soap and wa-

ter, followed by a good rinsing and

drying is one method of preparing the

furniture for painting. Another is to

wash with gasoline but care must be

exercised in handling the gasoline. It

should not be used in a. room where

there is a fire.





“It is not always necessary to re-

move the old paint or enamel but the

old finish must be sufficiently broken

up so that the new finish will pene—

trate the wood. Sometimes a. sand-

papering will be sufficient, but if there

is more than one coat, the old finish

will have to be removed entirely. Sand

paper, lye solution or chemical varnish

may be used for this purpose.





“The room where the painting is

done should be clean and free from

dust and should be heated to a temper-

ature of about seventy degrees. Paint-

ing, enameling and varnishing are next

to impossible in a cold room. If the

materials have been stored where it is

cold, they should be allowed to stand

in a warm room until they are of the

right temperature to flow easily.”



Directions should be carefully fol-

lowed, Miss VVilder insists, because

every manufacturer of paint has cer-

tain rules which should be followed to

get the best results. If the paints are

home-mixed, it is necessary to experi-

ment a number of times to get the

proper effect.



Proper drying is very essential, the

specialist adds. Chairs will require

four or five days in a warm room. Oth- ‘

er pieces of furniture may be used.

somewhat soonere .





Some men never think to see if they





need gasoline until the [car won’t go.





any more. .. . y .
Use this department to help solve.

your household pioblems Add1es.s

your letters to Maitha Cole, Michigan

Faimer, Detroit, Mich.





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BEEFSTEAK FOR SUMMER USE.





 





Please tell me how to fry down beef-

steak and pack in a jar for summer

use. With what do you cover it to

keep out the air?—L. S.



You may fry down 'beefsteak as for

serving rat ‘the table, and pack in

earthen crooks and cover with hot

fresh lard. Cover with a plate and

weight down with a small weight. The

steak may also be packed in glass

jars after it is fried and the jar filled

with hot water. Process these ja ‘3 in

a hot water :bath for three hours. Seal

and store in a. dry, cool place. When

beetsteak is packed in glass jars it is

best to only sear the outside in the hot

frying pan. Pour the hot water into

the pan and use this pan gravy for

filling the jars.





OXFORDS LOSE POLISH.





 





I have a. pair of calf-skin, expensive

oxfords. The first time they were

worn l stepped into the snow and the

brilliant shine went away. What can

I do to regain it ‘.’——M. \Y.



It would be best; to have your slice

dealer supply you with a clear polish,

or one for your special color of show.

So many diffeient chemicals are Usul

in this that it is difficult to (lttt rmine

how they react to simple is medics.





 





BRIGHTEN UP THE OLD WALNUT

BUREAU.





 





Please tell me how to do over an

old walnut bureau, how to take off the

old stain, and what to put on after

that is accomplished—~Mrs. F. It.





It is necessary to first remove the

old finish to get the best results. Two





Preparing the





.~ [SS RUTH T. LEHMAN, nutri-

IVl tion expert. has made a table

for the use 01‘ members who pre‘



pare school lunches for their children.

The school lunch must be certain to

include the.“factors of safety in the





   





 





 





tine makes a good varnish remover.

Rub the furniture well with this mix-

ture and then with a stiff brush.

Sandpaper the surface until smooth,

and apply a varnish stain of the color

you desire. Two or three coats may

be necessary to give a good finish.

Sandpaper each down before applying

the second.





parts ammonia and one part turpen-j





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KEEP THE STEEL TOPPED STOVE





.SHINING.





 





What can be used on a. steel top

range to keep it polished? What will

take that coating off of baby—bottle





nipples when soap and scrubbing do;





not?———Mrs. R. W. A





If you Will sprinkle a soft cloth with





melted vase‘line and leave it rolled up

tightly for a day and polish the steel

top of your stove while hot with this,

it will leave it bright and shiny.





 





Rubbing the baby’s bottle nipples.

with a cloth dipped in alcohol may r-3e:

move the coating, but may also injure‘





the rubber.





HOME- SPUN HlNTS.

Charity. the sweet l;11d, that comes

direct from the healt, is not so rate

as some 01? us may think. However,

it is sut 11 a kindly thing, and the1e is





not the least dangei 01 ev 91 being an”.





oven supply





It the hands become chapped and

tender during the cold weather. a little

melted tallow rubbed in

W'lll make The

over-night and leave the

lightl‘ully smooth.





while warm'

“chaps" heal almost’

hands de-





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Wool blankets should be rinsed in.





a clean waini suds else they will not

be sott and fluffy 11 he 11 diy.



The mme tattle the less speed. ’1 his

peitains to housework as well as to

flivversH—G S.





School Lunch





diet” (mill: and f1ui1 01 vegetables)

and must not be monotonous, Miss

Lehman declares in .hex Janua1y a1 t1-

cle in Hygeia, popular health maga—





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Choose





and Sandwiches





Jam or jelly





and Fruits or Vegetables

Raw fruit



Apples



Oranges



Plums, etc.

Fruit sauce



(fresh or dried fruit) ‘

Stuffed prunes or dates

Celery

Lettuce

Tomato





 





Fillings





Bread



White But te r



Oatmeal Egg



Graham Peanut butter



Raisin Nut pastes



Prune Salmon

Baked beans

Cheese





Chopped raisins or dates





Meat (sliced or chopped)





Milk





As a beverage



In cocoa



In cream soups



In puddings

(See desserts)





or Bread and Butter

and

Such Foods as





Hard cooked egg

Nuts



Dish of baked beans

Piece of Cheese

Sliced meat, etc.





and Simple Sweets.

Gingerbread



Peanut cookies



Date cookies

Oatmeal cookies

Sponge cake

Custard



Fruit tapioca pudding

Cornstarch pudding

Bread pudding

Creamy rice pudding

Fruit





 





 





 





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Handicaps to Ambition





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have never written to you and the

Merry Circles before but I have been

a. constant reader of your page for

some time. I have seen many corners

in papers reserved for young people;

but never a corner so full of fun and

good-fellowship as the Merry Circle is.



I enjoyed “White Amaranth’s” letter

very much. As ”W'hite Amaranth

says, one ought not to ignore the silent

call which everyone at some time ex-

periences; nor had we ought to be

ashamed to state these ambitions to

others.



What is my secret ambition? Oh!

yes! I have One, but to me the end

seems impossible, for my parents are

poor people and as yet we cannot face

the expenses which my ambition would

call for. They are putting me through

high school and are sacrificing many





things now for which I can never re-

pay them.



To return to my subject; I would

like to be a successful singer. I love

to sing and am either humming or

singing snatches of songs most of the

time. When I hear music, good music,

it makes me fairly tremble. There is

something so fascinating about itthat

it seems to hold me in a tight grip. I

believe that music is one thing that

keeps peace and harmony in this

world.



Oh! if I could only succeed. I am

going to work hard towards that end.

To start with I have only the compli-

ments of my friends as encouragement,

who say I have a good voice if it could

be developed.



1, too, Wish to join the Unknown and

here take the liberty to wish “White

Amaranth” success—“Just Peggy.”





 





 





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Dear Uncle Frank:



I wonder if some. of the M. (l. mem-

bers would send me a list of sewing

club names. Last year our club’s name

was “Needle Pierce,” but this year we

haven’t any yet.



Uncle Frank, did you ever play has—

ket ball? It sure is fun, especially

when there is hair pulling. Ha! Ha!



I am taking up English Literature

this year and I sure like it. We have

to make ten book reports, and I have

eight done. Adam Bede is a good

book, written by Eliot. Most of Eliot’s

books are good, anyway.



Oh, yes, I wonder how many M. C.

members haVe had the experience I

had Friday in our school. I took

charge of the primary department for

half an hour, and had one great time.

How many M. C’s are going to be

teachers? 1 am either going to be a

nurse or a leaclwr.—Edna E. Richerd,

McMillan, Mich.



Yes, I have playvd basket ball, but

I never knew that hair pulling was

part of it. George Eliot’s books are

all good. I am glad you liked the

teaching. It indicates that you will

probably make a good teacher.





Dear Uncle Frank:



Say, Uncle Frank. we smaller boys

and girls don't have such a good

chance to win a prize as ll. (f. and

other big boys.



I think it would be nice it We could

have a. contest for littler boys, and

then for the bigger. Don’t you think

that Would be niCe, M. C’s? I do.—

Harold (,‘ampbell.



I would like to follow your sugges-

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do so. The way it is now, the smaller

boys will get a chance later when they

get older, while the bigger ones will

get too old to try. Even as it is, the

younger ones sometime: win.





Dear Uncle Frank:



Edna Federspill wrote a good letter.

Her suggestion to celebrate was a

good one.



If I may, I am going to make a sug—

gestion. I know it’s been discussed

before; but here it is. Can, or may,

the Merry Circlers elect a president.

and vice—president? I think any club

ought to have them. Don’t you? And

the M. C. is a club. Uncle Frank could

pick out about six of the most popular

M. (1’s and print their names in the

Michigan Farmer and also put in a

ballot to be cut out and the name of

the M C. each wants to vote for, and

send it to Uncle Frank. Uncle Frank

makes a good secretary—treasurer. I

hope someone thinks of a good way to

celebrate. .



I read Alida VVester’s letter. Yes,

girls work hard. But, I don’t think

they work any harder than boys. Of

course, there are some boys who do

not do much, and there are also some

girls.



I would like to know where she got

the idea that girls are brighter than

boys. I have gone through the tenth

grade, and I haven’t seen that girls

are brighter than boys. I’ll say it is

about fifty-fifty. Don’t you, Uncle

Frank? Why, Alida, did you know

that some ‘boys are so bright their

mothers call them “son” or “sonny?”

Ha! Ha! You never heard of a girl

being called “son” (lid you‘?e~Your

nephew, Reginald Hodges, M. C., W'y~

andotte, Mich.



W’e’ve discussed the election of offi-

cers and it seems that we cannot gain

much by doing so, and it will make a

lot of work besides. We can’t cele—

brate the starting of the Merry Circle,

because it is past time now. January

6 was the date. Maybe next year.





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have bobbed hair, but I don’t wear

knickers, and I don’t think it makes

me bad because I have bobbed hair.

I think we ought to talk of something

useful, such as the K. K. K., or “Is the

radio beneficial?” instead of “bobbed

hair,” and “Are boys rude to girls?” I

think the radio is beneficial, first be-

cause it affords enjoyment for the fam-

ily, second because it broadcasts edu«

cational speeches and other things

that are useful.



Well, I must close to leave room for

the rest. Hoping to receive a prize, I

remain, Violet Stables, M. C., Traverse

City, Mich., R. 4



Yes, we can discuss the radio, but

the K. K. K. will be left undiscussed,





because a discussion would get us no-

where. I agree with you on the radio.

No, bobbed hair has nothing to do with

badness. It’s what is inside that makes

a difference between goodness and

badness.





Dear Uncle Frank:



My cousins and you will think I am

never going to write, but the trouble

is I don’t like to write letters, and I

guess that is because I am a “lazy

bird.”



You see, I was in the hospital for

two months of last year, and had to

have an operation for plural pneumon-

ia and could not go to school, but my

specialist says I had better stay home

again this year, as he doesn’t want me

to get pneumonia again. Now, to make

this long letter short, staying home

with nothing to do except roam around

outside in the fresh air accounts for

me being a “lazy bird.”——Winifred

Seeley. Farmington, Mich.



You have a good reason for being

lazy. I hope those lungs of yours will

get back to normal soon. You ought

to be a good student of nature, being





outdoors so much.





Dear l'ncle Frank:





Say, Uncle Frank, where did cross—

word puzzles come from, China? I





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Are Boys Rude to Girls? Asks

Florence Ryder.





Ella Engelhard Showing Her First

Year’s Club Work.





was up all night (just like Slim) try-

mg to get that puzzle. But I didn’t

get it anyway.



Well, I have some pin-money coming

in, since I am a correspondent for The

Cheboygan Tribune, our town paper.



That poem of Miss Laura Swatrz’s

is pretty good, so the author of it must

be ditto.



Well, here’s hopin’ W. B. doesn’t get

this letter.——I remain. your nephew,

Joseph Schramm, M. C., Cheboygan.





No, China cannot get the credit for

the cross word puzzle. I understand

that it was originated by a New York

newspaper man. Too bad you lost

sleep over that puzzle.





Dear Uncle Frank:





I am not an M. C., but I thought I

would write you a line.



I do not agree with Alida Westers

in two ways. One, that I do not think

girls work any more or harder than

boys. Boys have to do chores morn-

ing and night, and do other things,

while a girl helps her mother morn-

ings, then reads or plays the rest of

the time.



As to girls being brighter than the

boys is just trying to make us believe

they are bright. Some girls are bright,

but they are very rare. If girls put on

knickers and go out and barrow all

day, at night they will want to quit

playing boy.



Well, I guess I will stop before I

run out of paper.——Your nephew, Arth-

ur, R. 1, Quincy, Mich.





Here is the other side of the ques-

tion. I am glad, Arthur, that you ex-

pressed your opinion. Of course, there

are two sides to every question. We’ll

probably hear some more from the

other side. .





The Golden Circle





Special 1107mm~ fl‘wam’ed Some Merry Circler:





THE Golden Circle, announced a

few weeks ago, is a special hon-

or conferred upon Merry Circ-

lers who have done especially good

work.



This honor pin, which is a regular

Merry Circle pin with a real gold cir—

cle around it, and has a nice pin clasp

on the back of it, is given to reward

special effort in original thought, or

excellence of work in prose, poetry,

drawing or anything else connected

with Merry Circle activities. It will

not be given as a prize in any contest,

but will be awarded whenever I be—

lieve a Merry Circler is due this spe-

cial honor.



I believe it is due those who have

done good work in the past to confer

this honor upon them. So I announce

the following who are to receive it:



Rex Ellis, Reed City, Mich., for his

poetry, thoughtful letters, and Merry

Circle song.



Harold Coles, Montgomery, Mich.,

for starting the bobbed hair and knick-

er discussion and being the most talk-

ed of Merry Circler.



Myrtle Walker, Woodland, Mich., for

her thoughtful letters on school and

education.





Wilma Fry, Ithaca, Mich., for her

interesting letter of friendly criticism.



Caroline Cooks, Tecumseh, , Mich.,

for her letter on young folks and

church going.



Myrtle Feltis, of Sault Ste. Marie,

Mich., for her Merry Circle song.



Doris Truex, Cornell, Mich., for her

Merry Circle song. .





Alfred Alfredson, W’hitehall, Mich.,

for his excellent work in drawing.



Margarette Gravelle, Rapid River,

Mich., for her thoughtful letter on the

modern girl.



The following will also get the G01-

den Circle honor if they will send in

their names and addresses:



“\Vhite Amaranth,” whose excellent

letter on “Burning Ambition” appeared

a short time ago.



“A Silent Reader (heretofore).” for

her interesting letter on teaching.



“Just Peggy,” fOr her letter in this

issue.



I hope that many other Merry Circ-

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into the Golden Circle in the future.

It is open to all who do worth-while

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the old reliable Read-and—Win contests

have been pushed into the background.

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will produce as good results as the

newer contests, so we'll have one

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As we have not run a Read-and-Win

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newly interested in this department.



Below are ten questions. The an-

swers to these questions can be found

in the reading columns of this paper.

After you have found the answers,

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after it. Do not rewrite the question.

per left hand corner of your paper.

it‘ you are a Merry Cii‘cler, put M. C.

after your name.



Send your papers to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer,





es then.

All the neat and correct papers will





The first two prizes

the





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the next five cute little

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1. Who supplies green food to his

hens by feeding roots ‘3



2. Who says the radio is beneficial

because it l'ul‘nishcs enjoyment and

broadcasts educational speeches and

other usclul things? .



3. What is charoScth?



4. Who sold a nineteen—year-Old

farm wagon for $80?



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6. Docs it pay to buy pullets in the

fall and thou b‘l'll them below confine-

ment tells on them?



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go down the wrong road, but it will

never get us Wllcl‘c we want to go?”



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farmer’s soil of fertility?



9. How much iCc should a twenty-

cow dairy store?

10. What effect does feeding too

much soy-beans to cows have on the

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THE WORK-TO-WINNERS.





N worked to win by making words

from the letters in the words in the

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seventy and eighty words were looked

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Helcn York, Portland, Mich., 73.

Helen Wclch, Marlon», Mich.,





Ann Mulder, R. 6, Grand Rapids,

Mich.,65.

Florence Brown, R. l, Hillsdale,

Mich., 65.

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Joe Jutzio, R. l, Pigeon, Mich., 7],.

Laurinc Jarvis, R. 8, Caro, Mich., 70.

Olive Harris, 49 West Eleventh St,

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lichard Carpenter, Sparta, Mich.,I66.

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OR the past three years at Forest

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To accommodate our flock which this

fall numbers 120 well-grown pullets I

have remodeled our poultry house,

making it 14x50 feet I put in 13. ee-

ment floor. To insure dryness I raised

the floor about ten inches above the

outside surface.

We are not what some would call

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well-bred and well-fed hens pay. We

find also that it takes a great deal less

work to care for poultry than cows

and they both go together splendidly.

Taking care of the poultry on our

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old chicks in the spring, put them in

little colony brooder houses that are

warm and dry, supply them with feed

in a. self-feeder, grit and water, and I

have splendid success in rearing a. fine

bunch of pullets each year. Of course,

they must have regular and good care,

but I do not find it a difficult task to

raise young stock in this manner.





This fall I have a fine bunch of pul-

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has a splendid source of farm income.



I do not crowd my laying stock for

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scraps and skim-milk. I sapply green

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MICHIGAN POULTRY TEAM WINS.





HE poultry judging team from

the Michigan Agricultural Col-

lege carried off first honors at

the mid-west poultry show, held De-

cember 9—14, at the Coliseum, Chicago,

in competition with teams from nine





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of Clyde Norton, of East Lansing;

Frank \Villiamson, of Pontiac; Ralph

Meek, Montrose, and Richard \Veine,

of Alpena, as alternate, was coached

by C. G. Card, of the M. A. C. Poultry

Department.



Team standings were as follows,

with a possible 4,000 points:





Michigan Agricultural College. . 3,336.7

Ames, Iowa 32767

Illinois ....... . . . . . . . . . . ..3,205.0

Purdue ...... 3,260.



Missouri ..... .1..........3,199.O

Oklahoma . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 3,040.0

Kansas ....... . .. . . . ........ 3,022.5

Nebraska ...... 2,887.0

Ohio ............. . .2,871.0





The contest consisted of three per ts:

production and exhibition classes for

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class was made up of Rhode Island.





Red, White Leghorn, White Wyan-

dotte, White Rock and Barred Rock

hens, with trap nest records. These

birdswere furnished by several of the

colleges. In this part of .the contest,

with a 1,500 point score possible, M. A.

C. placed first with a. score of 1,410.

Purdue second ..................1,320

Missouri third ..................1,290

Illinois fourth ....1,230

Iowa fifth ...1,230

The exhibition class was made up

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Michigan Team—Left to Right, Richard Weine, Ralph Meek, Frank William-

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Barred Rock pullets, and White Leg-

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These birds were picked from the

show room and represented in every

case, very warm competition, as was

indicated by score. A 1,500 score was

possible, and Ames, Iowa, placed first

with 1,060; M. A. C. second with 1,045;

Oklahoma third, with 1,030, and Illinois

fourth, with 1,020.



In the examination, first place was

won by the mes Team, with a. 986

score out of a possible 1,000. High

honors in this section of the contest

went to Rosenbaum, of the Purdue

Team, who wrote a perfect paper.



Individual honors went to J. D.

Sp1'i11ge1, of Ames, Iowa, who made

1,146 points out of a possible 1,333;

second place to L Stark, of Missouri,

with 1,145; thi1d to Frank \Villiamson,

of Michigan, with 1,125.



In production judging, first place

went to Clyde Norton, of Michigan,

with a 458 score out of a possible 500;

second place to Ralph Meek, of Michi-

gan, with 470. In exhibition judging,

J. D. Springer, of Ames, placed first

with a score of 390.



The Michigan Team received the"

large cup donated by the mid-west

poultry and egg shippers, for best all-

around team. This is not a. permanent

cup, but must be won by some college

three times before becoming its prop-

erty. This cup was won in 1920 by

Missouri; 1921, Oklahoma; 1922, Iowa;

1923, Missouri, and 1924, Michigan Ag-

ricultural College.



Michigan also won the large cup for

best all around production judging. In

addition, each Michigan man won two

medals as a reward for individual

standings.



All who took part in the contest feel

that many thanks are due Mr. Charles

G. Page, president, and Mr. Theodore

Hewes, secretary and treasurer of the

Coliseum show, for their splendid co-

operation, as they made the contest,

ants feel at all times that they were

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What are the dimensions of a stand-

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would like to make some? Which is

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honey? E. J. B.



For the production of comb honey,

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The hive body should be made of

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ENLARGED LIVER.





I have lost two cockei'els within

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of mixed feed. I am feeding wheat

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died.~ L. C; R.



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LINER ADS PAY.





Having more pullets than we have

space for, would like to dispose of a

dozen or so at $1.50 each f. o. b. They

are R. I. Reds, nice healthy stock so

far as I know, and I think are about

ready to lay.———J. S.



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My chickens seem all right one day

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will curl up their toes and are not

able to walk, by night they are dead.

I have lost six this week. / I feed them

chick feed and corn, give them warm

milk or warm water when it is cold.

This is our first year for poultry.—

L. E. S.



The symptoms indicate food poison-

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corn. Perform a postmortemeon hens

that die, and note the condition of the

digestive tract and the liver. It will

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middlings, bran and beef scrap. If

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I desire to commence raising tur-

keys, and thought it would be cheaper

to get: a setting of eggs and set them

with a hen. My neighbors have the

Bronze, therefore, in order not to get

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Bourbon Reds. What is the best time

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to use with a lien, and how to: feed

the young stock. Do you think the

White Leghorn makes as good a moth-

er as the heavy breed: ’ What breed

would be Dl'E’l-Gl'abler‘AJ. b. L.



April and May are probably the best

times to start the, young turkeys, as

the natural conditions are then very

favorable to young bird life.



You can place :the eggs under an old

lien of the American or Asiatic breeds

but White Leghorns will not be sat.—

isfaclory. A Plymouth Rock or Brah—

ma hen usually makes a fine mother.

The first feed for poults can be bread

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finely chopped hard—boiled egr mixed

with the crumbs from corn bread. Af-





ter a few days they will be able to use ,





fine chick feed. Young poults thrive,

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supplied with insect life and green

feed. Turkeys are seed eaters and in—

sect eaters. They do not thrive on

sloppy mashes.



A Plymouth Rock lien will cover

nine or ten turkey eggs. Be sure the

hen is satisfied with her nest before

giving her the turkey eggs. Then the

management of the hen during the pe-

riod of incubation is about the same

as in hatching chickens except. that it

takes about twenty-eight days.





WHY HENS EAT FEATHERS.



\Vill you please tell me what is the

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feathers ?~~ Mrs. A. (_‘.



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other cause.



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er things. Hang a piece of raw beef

in the laying-quarters for the hens to

peek at. Provide plenty of straw for

scratching litter. Feed a. balanced

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pen, stanchioning while feeding, "and

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pens is necessary, and, in case of bad

odor, the use of powdered lime keeps

the pen clean and sweet.



For the first few weeks during the

winter months, I like to keep the

calves in a warm part of the stable.

Young calves are tender and sensitive

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the calves get older, they will stand

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TUSCOLA HOL‘S'TE'lNERS MEET.





HIRTY-FIVE breeders of

TBlack-and-Whites braved the 6231?

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In the Court House at Caro, Michigan.

The meeting was addressed first by

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. agent of Tuscola. county. Sims spoke





briefly of the workaccomplished since

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.(Jounty Holstein Breeders’ Associatir’m

along dairy lines.(~He commended the

members for cooperation, especially in

creditable showing‘at the Caro Fair

and in furnishing calves at reasonable

prices for members 'of the Cass City

Calf Club. He urged that as a. special

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The breeders enthusiastically en-

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to help Sims form several clubs.



.Other action by the assembly con-

SlSted of the unanimous passage of a.

resolution deploring the untimely





death of Oscar Wallin, of Unionville. '





Mr. Wallin was president and sales

manager of the association. He was

always a. steady worker for the breed

—h1s death means a. real loss. .

Wilhs Campbell, teacher of agricul-

ture in Cass City High School, explain-

ed the work of the Cass City Calf

Club. This club consists of twelve

members——one of whom, Jimmy Mc-





Tavish, showed a heifer at the State '





Fair that was adjudged grand cham

pion club female, and the highest

M1chigan heifer in the open class.

Campbell served warning on the breed-

ers that two new clubs would soon be

ready in his locality for about sixteen

ca. ves. ' »





The breeders appointed V. J. Car-

penter, of Cass City, to help Mr. Camp-

bell in calf club work, and Ed Rohlf,

of Akron, to assist Superintendent

Klein, of the Akron High School, in

forming a Holstein Calf Club around

that town.



The state secretary, J. G. Hays, of

East Lansing, talked to the breeders

on matters of interest to Holsteiners

from national, state and county view-

pomts. One matter of great local in—

terest touched upon by Hays had to

do with the relationship between sale

of cattle and testing for tuberculosis.

Hays stated that the great bulk of

Holsteins sold, particularly grades,

went to eastern buyers to replace the

dairy cattle that had reacted to the

tuberculosis test. The buyers then in-

51st that the replacement be reason-

ably free from tuberculosis; that is

why they come to Michigan because it

1s the cleanest of the dairy states.

The counties favored by the eastern

buyers are those that have cleaned

up under the area plan. One county,

that is a modified accredited area,

sold, according to its county agent,

last year 110 carloads of Holsteins.

The grades of Tuscola county, because

they are superior in type to those of

several counties most frequented by

eastern buyers, will find a. ready sale

when the county has gone under state

and federal supervision for eradica-

tion of tuberculosis.





Another interesting point of Secre-

tary Hays’ talk concerned the plan for

the annual convention and sale of the

Holstein Friesian Association of Amer-

ica. to be held June 2—3—4, 1925, in Grand

Rapids. >

Officers of the Tuscola Associati0n

were elected as follows: V. J. Car-

penter, Cass City, president; Wm. Tur-

ner, Akron, vice—president; George Eos~

tcr, Fostoria, secretary—treasurer;

sales manager, Thomas Kimmel, of

Caro; board of directors are Charles

Schnell, Vassar; E. A. Rohlf, Akron;

Elmer Chapman, Deford; Thomas

Kimmel, Caro, and George Walls, of

Kingston.





 





Light receipts of cheese, the steady

reduction in the storage stocks and

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cheese are keeping cheese prices firm.

Demand is rather slow but is expected

to improve after the turn of the year.

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YEAR ago the Upper Peninsula



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tension Department of the Mich—

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a campaign to rid the peninsula of as

large a number of scrub bulls and

scrub dairy cows as possible.



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bulls eliminated that year.



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of county agricultural agents; J. G.

Wells, M. A. C. Dairy Specialist; G. W.

Putnam, director of the Upper Penin-

sula Experiment Station of the. Agri-

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Reed, of M. A. C., and G. E. Bishop,

manager of the Upper Peninsula De-

velopment Bureau, had general super-

vision of the campaign, and has de‘

termined the relative standings ol' the

counties participating in the effort.



The returns show that Ontonagon

county is winner, having eliminated

ninety-two scrub sires during the year.

The county will, therefore, be entitled

to a reward of $500.



In regard to some other counties of

the peninsula there are special circum-

stances affecting the result of the con—

test. Gogebic county already had a

large percentage of its dairy cattle

pure—breds and hence had little oppor—

tunity for expansion. LUCe county,

while not showing a large aggregate of

purt-breds has, in fact, only one dairy

sire in the county that is a scrub, with

only five or six beet cattle sires in the

same class. That is a remarkable

showing for a county which is not as

well developed as some others ot' the

district. It is said that the presenCe

of a. very fine herd of pure-breds on

the farm of the Michigan State Hos-

pital at Newberry has assisted Luce

farmers very much in building up their

dairy herds.



The prizes to the counties partici—

pating in the dairy sire campaign were

distributed during the dairy meeting

held at Escanaba, January 9, and are

designed to be used by the local CQLlll-

ty committees to continue the promo-

tion of the dairy movement in the win-

ning counties. In the campaign just

closed, Marquette county made second

place, having got rid ot' seventy-six

scrub bulls. Chippewa county won

third place, replacing seventy scrubs,

while Dickinson placed fourth with

sixty-nine scrub bulls eliminated.



A corrolary ot’ the elimination of

scrubs is the addition of pure—breds to

the herds of the county. Ontonagon

placed thirty purebred sires; Mar-

quette added sixteen to its pure—bred

sires, while Dickinson added thirty-six.

In Alger county ten scrubs were dis-

plaCed; in Delta, 24; in Gogebic, 18;

in Houghton, 6; in Iron, 15; in Luce,

20; in Menominee, 33; in Schoolcral't,

5. Gogebic county has the largest per-

centage of pure—bred dairy sires and

cows in its herds of any county in the

peninsula. At the county fair last

fall, the county had 276 dairy cattle

on exhibition. ’ -



During ”the year 1925 this campaign





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reau. Itis probable, however, that a

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as the scrubs eliminated. This is real

work and means much to the agricul-

tural interests of the peninsula.



Not only has this work gone forward

during the past season, but the organ-

ization of cow testing associations has

made a notable advance. There are

now eleven ot‘ these organizations in

the peninsula; and tabulations made in

the ofllce ot‘ the M. A. C. Extension

Division, Marquette, indicate that

while Wisconsin has 3.5 per cent of its

dairy cattle in cow testing associations

the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has

six per cent in testing associations.

During the past year about 450 pure-

bred cattle ot‘ all kinds—bulls, cows

and calves——have been added to the

herds of the peninsula. '



The anti—tuberculosis campaign has

been actively promoted in several

counties with excellent results. Goge-

bic county has had its third time over,

and while numbers of reactors have

been discovered, these are found al-

most exclusively not on the farms of

that county, but around the mining

locations, and there is evidence that





'many of these have been brought in





surreptiously from the neighboring

state of “'isconsin in violation of the

Michigan quarantine.





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ICHIGAN will begin 1925 with a



larger percwntage 01' its cows in

test than any other state. Three and

one-half per cent in this state are 'un-

der test, while the average for the

country is only one per cent.





MICHIGAN LEADS IN COW TEST-

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HE Livingston County Cow Test-



ing Association, located at Howell,

1t. G. POWeIl, tester, had a successful

annual meeting and is re-organized for

the fourth year's work. This associa-

tion has in it some of the most suc—

Cessi'ul dairymen in Livingston county.

These men are becoming \ery much

enthused over cow testing astociation

work.



Mr. POWell, the cow tester, mention-

ed that the results obtained during

1924 were better than those of any

previous year. One ot' the outstanding

things mentioned at the meeting was

that eighty-five to ninety per Cent 01‘

the past year‘s members Were contin-

uing in the association for the coming

year's work. Mr. Gehringer, secretary

ol.‘ the association, gave .his annual re-

port and County Agent C. L. Bolander

mentioned about the good feeling ex—

isting in the association.



A. C. Baltzer, Dairy Extension Spe-

cialist at M. A. C, mentioned some

facts regarding Michigan‘s standing as

a cow testing association state. The

point was made that Michigan leads

in the per Cent of cows under cow

testing association test. 3.79 per cent

of all Michigan dairy cows are at pres-

ent in cow testing associations. Gen-

esee county, Michigan, is the fOremost

cow testing association county in the

United States, having 14.3 per cent of

its COWs in the testing work. Refer-

ence was made to the record of per-

formance work recently instituted by

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LONE PI E RANGER our new Herd SIRE has n

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- Aberdeen-Angus. six bulls from

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E. A. ROHLFS,





the winter and spring months. Sheep

to produce a good quality of wool must

never be allowed to become run down

in flesh—Leo C. Reynolds.





WINTERING BROOD SOWS.





IKEEP from three to four brood



sows. During the winter I allow

them to run together in a large pen

with adequate shelter to protect them

from the cold weather. I do not be-

lieve in housing brood sows too close—

ly, but rather, making them take plen—

ty of exercise. I think it is a. mistake

to house brood sows in too warm

quarters without imposing upon them

the necessity of taking exercise in the

open air.



It has been my experience in winter-

ing brood sows that the most satisfac-

tory results are obtained from feeding

as much roughage as possible. Brood

sows, bred to farrow in the spring,

should be kept in good flesh, but not

allowed to become too fleshy. The

feeding of too much grain, especially

corn, is very apt to cause the sows to

take on flesh rapidly, and produce a.

sluggish condition of the system. Fat-

tening grains should be fed to brood





 





 





sows very sparingly during the winter

season. ‘



A good ration for brood sows is all

the clover or alfalfa hay they will eat

and from two to three pounds of corn

and plenty of skim-milk. I like to

feed my brood sows plenty of skim~

milk along with the grain and rough-

age ration, as it assists digestion and

helps to balance up the ration. I know

of no other way of disposing of the

surplus skim-milk from the dairy to

greater profit than feeding it to preg-

nant sows during the winter when suc-

culent feeds are difficult to obtain.



In feeding my brood sows I want

them to get as much of their suste-





A Corner of the Barnyard on the Reed Shultz Farm, Calhoun County. This

Herd Started with Two Heifers and a Half Interest in a Pure-bred Bull.





names from roughage as possible just

as they do during the summer from

pasture. If fed liberally during the

winter with the right sort of feeds the

sows will produce a pig crop upon

which profits can be made—R. C. '*





NEW RECORD RECEIPTS AT THE

CHICAGO STOCK YARDS.





DURING 1924 the Chicago Union



Stock Yards added to its suprem~

acy as the leading live stock market

of the world by establishing several

new records for numbers of receipts.

The total number of animals of all

species received during the twelve

months surpassed last year’s high

mark of 18,501,883 and set a. new rec-

ord of 18,653,539 worth nearly twenty-

five million dollars more than those

marketed in 1923.



More calves were received than ever

before, 794,350 arriving at Chicago dur-

ing the year, against the previous rec-

ord of 771,489 made in 1922. The larg-

est number of earloads of all species

ever unloaded in a single month came

to the Chicago market; during Decem-

ber, a. total of 34,440, as compared

with 33,430 the former high mark set

in January, 1919.



The run of hogs in December smash-

ed all existing records. The week end-

ing December 6, witnesses a. total of

384,295 received, surpassing the old

mark of 334,279 established during the

week ending January 8, 1916. On De-

cember 15 the stupendous run of 122,-

749 hogs arrived, shattering by more

than 25,000 the record of 96,964 that

had stood since November 29, 1918.

By the end of December the total hog

receipts had mounted to a new month-

ly mark of 1,436,029 against the pre-





vious high figure of 1,273,587 made in‘





January, also of this year, which in

turn excelled the total of 1,227,508 es-

tablished in January, 191.6. .





If all men should bring their misfor-

tunes together in one place, most

would be glad to take his home again,

rather than to takea portion out of

the common" stock.—'—Soldn.





 





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January 28, 1925





I have more cattle than I can possibly keen and am

going to sell at auction 8. bundi of Good Young

cows and heifers that are fresh or will soon freshen.

More particulars next week.





.Shorman F armH%3‘;2§,Y,,'

Fowlerville, Mich.

F O R S A L E





Five Pure-bred Holstein Heifers, 3600. Due to freshen

in Jan. and Feb. Two from Adv. Registry dams.

Four from (3. T. A. tested dams. Excellent breeding.

T. B. tested. Sidney Trolz. Gran Lake. Michigan.





Holstein Friesian Cows and Bulls





for sale. Cowa mostly high record A. R. 0. 3 with

7-day records above\30 lbs. butter. Bulls from high-

record A. R. 0. danis. Sire’s two mares dams av-

erage 34 lbs. butter. I. A. Kidney, Brant. Mich.





Bulls ready for service,

Jerseys For Sale also How funnies. an from

R. of M. dams.





Accredited herd. Smith G. Parker.

R. D. No. 4. Howell. Mich.





Cows. I bulls from R. of M. (2's. Chance to



select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred

for {all treshening. Colon C. Lillie. Comnme. Mich.

For sale calves from our great “Count

Eickford." out of record dams. Also few heifers.

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





FAIRFI'ELD





vice. ,Priced right.





S h o r th 0 r n s

CURTISS. Bay City. Mich.





SHORTHORN BULLS

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

O Villager Shorihorn Bull one year old. Sired



ne by Villager Elmdale by Villager Royal. Price

$100. A. & F. Parmenter. Durand, Mich.





Best of quality and breeding. Bulls.

Shorthoms rows and heifers for sale BIDWELL‘

STOCK FARM, Box 0, Tecumseh. Mich.





R‘géiste‘ed Red Foiled Cattle. For Sale.





Heifers and Bull Calves. Also

some Young Cows. Prices right. Royltnn stock Farm.

Will Cattle, R.





I, West Branch, Mich.

lied Polled Gallic ”“us'

shire Swine. DON P. CARR. Homer, Mich.

Two Young Husky Re»





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Parshall’s Herefords

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82 Shorthoms, weight 565 lbs; 110 Ilereiords, weight

640 lbs: 2 leads heavy feeders.





A. M ACY, Monmouth, Ill.

HOGS





Large Type Berkshires 35.31“" wlbsGéifiib’Sficgi

reasonable. W. H. EVERY. Manchester. Mich.





Service Bears and Bred Sows





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LAKEFIELD FARM, Clerksion, Mich.

DUHOC JERSEY SWHIE 1., on. .im. wm you.





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portant relation to agriculture and the

tithe probably will never come when

horse power will become eliminated

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. farm and both should be developed to





their highest efficiency.



At Forest Grove Farm for years past

I have been raising from one to two

colts each year. I can not conceive

how the general farmer is going to

get along without good horses, even

though he finds the tractor can be

utilized to a profitable advantage.

There is a great deal of work on the

farm that can be done with horse

power much better than with tractor





' power.





I like to drive good herses. I can

take much pride and” comfort in driv—

ing a good, well matched and trained

team. By raising a colt or two each

year I can keep up my horse power on

the farm at a low cost, besides getting

a great deal of enjoyment out of rais-

ing and handling horses.



I do not find that raising colts con-

flicts in the least with my farm work.

I breed my mares to fold during the

month of June just following the heavy

spring work. I then turn the mares

to pasture for a few weeks then put

them back into the harness. During

the spring while on heavy work I turn

the mares to pasture for a little while

each day. 1‘



At present I have two fine teams of

growing colts. They seemingly have

cost me very little. I shall have plenty

of cheap horse power to replenish my

teams as they wear out. I believe

more farmers should be raising a colt

or two each year. Good horses weigh-

ing around 1,500 pounds are in good

demand at fair prices, and will soon

to be on a still higher basis—Leo C.

Reynolds.





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Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms or

each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initial-

only are published. When a reply by mail is requested the

ncrvice becomes private practice and $l must be cncroued.





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Loss of Appetite-*1 have a cow

about twelve years old that does not

eat much hay or corn fodder, but she

is fond of corncobs left by the hogs in

the yard. This cow is failing in milk

yield and growing thin. I have good

hay and fodder but she refuses to eat

it. C. D. T., St. Johns, Miclr-Give

her one dram of fluid extract of nux

vomica, one dram of fluid extract of

cinchona, two drams of Fowler’s solu-

tion at a dose in one pint of water as

a drench, or give the medicine in

drinking water three times a day.

Feed her plenty of roots and the kind

of food she craves.



Shy Breeder.——I have a young cow

which dropped her first calf in Octo-

ber, 1923; veterinary took (lead calf

from her. Commenced breeding her

in January and kept it up every three

weeks until August, but she failed to

get with calf. T. C. S., Buchanan,

Mich—Give her one ounce doses of

bicarbonate of soda in feed or in

drinking water three times a day. If

site has any vaginal discharge, flush

vagina daily, using one part lysol in

one hundred parts tepid water. Use

clean fountain syringe.





Constipation.—I have a bunch of

lambs that I have. had shut up in the

barn for two weeks. Have been feed-

ing them clover hay and oats, but they

do not seem to care for it, they have

access to salt and water. E. F. K.,

Byron, Mich—If you will exercise

them some twice a day, also feed plen-

ty of roots, and if necessary give each

one an anema of soap and water. Add

some bran to their ration.



Warts on Teats.—I have a two-year-

old heifer which freshened a few

weeks ago. She has numerous warts

on teats of various sizes, has a large

wart on one teat, and when milked it

pains her. 0. P., Ann Arbor, Mich.—

Warts which are slim and lengthy

should be clipped or cut off, then apply

boric acid to "sores. After each milk-

ing, if you will freely apply olive oil

the wartswill gradually reduce in size

_ and cease .to grow. Give her two drams





 

 





.. mama HORSESQNH'HE FARM. ”of rowers Solution in feed or in the





.taste.





drinking Water twice a day.



Paralysis of Throat—[have been a

reader of'your paper for many years,

and have never bothered you until

now. About ten days ago my cow was

taken sick, ate her feed all right at

night, but refused to eat in the morn-

ing. ,H'er tongue hangs out of mouth

and she does not seem to suffer pain.

Had, three different veterinarians ex-

amine her, one used a probang, as he

thought her choked; he also found one

tooth missing. She is twelve years

old. L. M., Plaineville, Mich—The

writer is unable to make a diagnosis

in this case.



Weak Cali—My cow was bred on

March 14, had calf November 30, 'but

the calf is weak, cow gives very little

milk. She cleaned all right; will she

again breed? C. H., Freeland, Mich.—

Doubtless the calf came two weeks

early, therefore it is not unusual for

such a calf to be weak; besides, the

cow is likely to give less milk than if

she carried her calf full gestation pe—

riod. Mix equal parts of powdered

gentian, ginger, bicarbonate of soda,

common salt together. Give her two

tablespoonfuls at a dose in ground

feed two or three times a day. She

should be well fed and kept in warm

stable. -



Strong Milk.~-—“’e have a cow due

to freshen in about four and one-half

months. Two weeks ago she had an

attack of indigestion, with loss of ap-

petite, but she has seemingly recov-

ered from it. She eats well and has

about the usual flow of milk. When

milk is first drawn it seems all right,

but after standing for a few hours it

has a very offensive odor and a bad

W. F. A., Owosso, Mich—Clean

hind quarters of cow, also clean udder

before milking. It is also important

for the milker to have clean hands and

use nothing but clean milking utensils.

Your cow stable should be kept very

Clean and be supplied with fresh air.



Cantagious Abortion—Can contagi-

ous abortion of cows be carried from

one barn to another on a person?

Would a bull be likely to become in-

Iected il‘ bred to a single cow which

was diseased? H. C., Everett, Mich.

e—lt is possible, but, not highly prob-

able that contagious abortion is spread

in the two ways you suspect.



Teat Stricture.—»\\’ill you please tell

me how to enlarge the teat canal

through teat of my cow? The stream

is small and milking difficult and ted-

ious. H. K., Fremont, Mich.—~Have

your veterinarian dilate the teat can-

al. Perhaps, if the external opening

was enlarged by cutting, this would

make milking easier.



Shy Breeder.~l have a heifer eight-

een months old that has been served.

by three different bulls and she fails

to get with calf. This heifer seems to

be healthy. A. C. 13., Springport,

Mich—She is perhaps barren and had

better be sold to the butcher. Your

veterinarian might be able to tell you

why she falls to get with calf, the

writer could tell if he had made a phy—

sical examination of her.





CROP PRODUCTION AND SOIL

MANAGEMENT.





HIS 500«page well-illustrated vol-



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Michigan Agricultural College, has

just come from the press of the pub-

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York.



After covering the major require-

ments of profitable crop production,

Professor Cox gows into some detail

on the necessity of selecting those

crops adapted to the conditions obtain-

ing in any farming locality. The selec-

tion and testing of seed on the farm

is urged to the end that a farmer may

discover and utilize them» varieties

which give the highest yields upon his

particular land. The latest available

material on proper soil preparation

and on the planning of crop rotations,

looking always toward the mainte-

nance of soil fertility, is here given in

a clear, concise manner.



Information on the time to plant and

the quantity of seed to use, as well

as on the best methods of putting the

seed in the soil. makes up an import-

ant chapter in the volume. The con-

trol of Weeds, and the protection of

crops against pests, not only by the

ordinary means of fighting insects and

diseases, but also through the devel-

opment of resistant varieties of plants.

The time of harvest, and advice on

storing and siloing and marketing

complete part one of this practical

book.



Part two is devoted to Special crops.

In it are included, corn, wheat, oats,

rye, barley, buckwheat, flax, sorghum,

potatoes, sugar beets, cabbage, field

beans, soy-beans, clovers, including

sweet clover, alfalfa, grasses, and

emergency crops.



We particularly recommend this

book to Michigan farmers who are

looking for a complete volume cover-

ing the matter of crop production and

soil management, since Prfessor Cox

has in no place neglected Michigan

conditions and requirements. The

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gets nothing but the ‘ society” of the animals and their manure. The

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WILL SELL—'AT PUBLIC AUCTION





January 20, 1925 at 12 o’clock





the following dairy herd at farm located 2 miles west

on Midland Road and 1% miles north of Bay City,

or 2 miles south of lx’awlrawlin.



19 head of IIolstein-Friesian Cattle.



10 2-yr.~old heifer calves by side.



3 2~yr—old heifers due soon. ‘



1 ti-yr.—old (-ow, calf by side.



2 l-yr—old heifers.



1 bull 2» yrs. old.



1 bull 4 months old.



1 heifer 2 months old.





WEISMILLER BROS.





R 3, Bay City, Mich.

Fred. H. Cotton JohnTC. Harris





 





 





 





Auctioneer Clerk

. HOGS

! Registered and immuncd. Breed-

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all times. Boat-s. bred sows. open gilts and pigs at

Farmers’ prices. Come and see my herd at Morrnh

Groulno on D. U. R. Atherton Road. F.

Flint, Mich. EARLE R. MORRIS“.





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, January 13.

Wheat.



Detroit—No. 1 red at $2.00; No. 2

red $1.99; No. 3 red $1.96; No.‘ 2 white

$2.00; No. 2 mixed $1.99.



Chicago—May $1.85%(«11.861/3; July

$1.56%@1.57; September $1.46%.



Toledo—Cash $2@2.01.





Corn.

Detroit—No. 2 yellow at $1.32; No.

3 yellow $1.29.

Chicago—May $1.30%@1.301/é; July

8.31%; Septembgr $131134.

ats.

Iggtroit—New, No. 2 white 630; No.

, c.

Chicago—May 6214c; July 62%c;

September 5994c.





Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2. $1.51.

Chicago—May $1_105,;,@1.10§4; July

$1.40; September $12514

Toledo—$1.50.





Barley.

Detroit—Barley, inalting





at $1.02;

feeding 960.



Buckwheat.

Detroit—Milling grade $2.27@2.30.

Beans.



Detroit.-——Immediate and prompt





shipment $6.05@6.25 per cwt.

Chicago—*Navy, choice at, $6.50; kid-

neys $9.50.

New York—Choice pea $6.75;

kidneys $9.75.

Seeds.





Detroit.~—Prime red clover cash at

$19.80; alsike $13.25; timothy $3.35.





red





- Hay.



Detroit—4N0. 1 timothy at $17.50@

18.50; standard and light mixed $16.50

@1750; No. 2 tiomthy $15.50m16502

No. 1 clover and N0. 1 clover mixed

$156016; wheat and cat straw $11@

11.50; rye straw $12.50@13.



Feeds.



Deti‘oit.~—Bi'aii at $37@38: standard



middlings at, $37; fine do $43: cracked





corn $54; Coarae cornmeal $50; chop

$43 per ton in 100-lb. sacks.

Apples.

Chicago prices on apples: Northern





Spies $811110 bbl: Baldwins $6706.50:

Jonathans $9709.50 bbl; Kings at $6@

6.50; Greenings $7.50 bbl; \Vageners





$6 bbl; Snows $4.50m'5; “'inesaps at

$7.50@8 bbl; Grimes $6; Starks at $5

@550.





WHEAT





\Vheat prices had a good rally last

week as the decline of about 10 Cents

from the extreme high point, ran into

some export business and milling de-

mand has improved distinctly since

the first. of the year. In the last few

days. the market has moved sidewise,

as foreign prices did not. follow the

rise here very closely. Clearances of

Wheat from Atistralia, India and Ar-

gentina in the last Week were about

6,500.000, which is much larger than

a year previous. showing that those

countries are rather willing sellers at

the present. level of prices. The great-

est change has come about in the mill—

ing demand. Stocks of flour are said

to be rather light, in spite of the fact

that mills have been grinding more

wheat than a. year ago. The. status of

the new crop is rather uncertain, as

much of it is under a pack of ice and

snow. In general, the condition is

much below last year, although that

fact is not receiving much emphasis





right It 0W.

CORN





While corn has shown considerable.

strength in the last week in line with

wheat, the market supply and demand

situation is not very encouraging. In

spite of the small crop, primary re—

ceipts are running considerably heav—

ier than a year ago, while shipments

are much lighter, so that corn is stead-

ily accumulating at terminals. Dur-

ing December, old corn, for which the

demand was fairly good, made up a

large share of the arrivals. At pres~

ent, receipts of low—grade new corn are

heavy and much of it must go to the

elevators for conditioning. With space

largely filled with wheat and oats. The

elevators have not been particularly

keen buyers, and discounts on these

low grades are extremely large. Coun-

try offerings are.”said to be quite small

so that the movement to primary mar-

kets may shrived up soon.





OATS





The decline of about seven cents

from the high point. in the cats market

seems to have improved the demand

for this grain. Both the dairy sec-

tions and the south seem to be buying

more freely and a, little export bus1-

11983 has been reported. Receipts are

ample and, with the large v1s1ble sup-





 





recovery, but it is possible that they

will hold above the recent low spot.





SEEDS





Seed prices are about the same as a

week ago, but a. firm tone is apparent.

Some buyers are inclined to hold back

because of high prices for red clover

seed, but the supply is small, with only

limited offers from producers. From

July 1 to December 31, only 509,000

pounds of red clover were imported,

compared with 4,736,000 pounds in the

same period last year. Alsike is sell-

ing at an extreme discount below red

clover and demand for it is improving.





The amount of high quality alfalfa.





seed moving out of first hands is small.

Timothy seed prices are much below

their usual parity with legume seeds,

as the demand is slow. High prices

for grains will probably have some

bearing on the price consumers of

grass seeds will be willing to, pay dur-

ing the sowing seaso .





RYE





Rye importing countries have allow-

ed their stocks to run extremely low

and were active buyers of United

States rye during the week. Norway,

Denmark, Finland and Germany all

were reported as buyers. Clearances

have. not. increased much as yet, how.

ever, and the accumulation at. term-

inals is at the high point of the sea-

son. Mast of the distress rye at the

atlantic seaboard has been disposed of

and remaining holdings are in rather

strong hands. In some cases, owners

of stocks of rye in position for export

have stated that their holdings are not

for sale at the present time.





FEEDS





Prices on most byproduct feeds are

steady in line with the strength in

coarse grains. Consuming demand is

rather slowfwith buyers reluctant to

pay the prices asked. Cottonseed meal

is easy, although stocks at mills are

slightly smaller than a year ago, in

spite of the increase of 30 per cent in

the cotton crop,





HAY





Activity in the hay market increased

after the first of the year as colder

weather stimulated the demand, and

many buyers had delayed purchases

until‘at'ter January 1. Receipts are

light at most markets. No big change

has occurred, however, and there are

signs of quieting down again. Reports





ply, prices have not staged much of 3.





upon country loadings indicate contin-

ued light receipts.

hay has improved and prices are about

25 per cent higher than at the low





point during the





week ago.





districts.





of their recent





light for this season and





conditions in '





fresh firsts





Prices





fall.





BEANS





The statistical position of the bean

market is generally strong, with prices

occupying a better position than a.

Deliveries were not as

heavy in December as usual, which

leads dealers to believe that farmers

are taking a somewhat bullish attitude

toward the market.

has stimulated cons





POULTRY AND EGGS





Egg prices have gained back some

Supplies are

the weather

largevproducing areas

give no expectation of any material

increase immediately. Consumption of

eggs generally is good and prices for

may hold above the 50

cent level at Chicago a while longer.

on April storage packed firsts

opened at 30% cents which is about

six cents higher than a year ago, an-

other sign of the optimism as to fu-





105888.





ture prices in the egg market.





Live poultry receipts are still mate—

in eastern markets

where abnormally high prices prevail.

Middlewestern markets are more liber-

ally supplied as the embargo does not

affect shipments within the states cov-

ered. There is no reason for alarm as

to the possibility of controlling the

disease which necessitated

bargo, according to recent word from





rially curtailed





the Bureau of Animal Industry.





Chicago—Eggs





, miscellaneous 51@





520; dirties 39@40c; checks 37@38c:





fresh firsts 53@54c; ordinary firsts 45

Live poultry, liens 22c; spring—

ers 23c; roosters 15c; ducks 27c; geese





@500





200; turkeys 23c.

Detroit—Eggs,





200: heavy hens





roosters 15c; geese 15@18c; ducks 26





fresh





27c; light hens 18c;





@280; turkeys 32@33c.





BUTTER





An increase in receipts, added to the

trading policy dealers

have been following for the past fort-

night, depressed; butter pricesearly in

the week, but a. part of the loss has

already been regained.

butter market frequently occurs in Jan-





conservative





] Live Stock Market Service





 





Tuesday, January 13.





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Today’s receipts were 52,000. The

market averages about 150 higher, but

is less than early bids. Big packers

holding back. Most. weighty butchers

$10.90@1l.l5; tops $11.25; bulk of 180-

220-lb. average $10.30@10.80;.140-170-

lb. kinds $9.50@10.20; bulk pigs $7.50

@850: most packing sows at $10.35

(a 10.60.



Cattle





Receipts for the day 11,000. Market

generally slow. Quality considered,

most killing classes steady to strong;

sliOit—t‘ed predominating; she stock in

liberal supply: best fed steers $7.50@

9.50; best matured offerings at $10.50,

some held higher; yearlings $12.75;

vealers steady to 250 higher; bulk at

$10.50@11.50; shippers $12@12.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



ReCeipts today were 14000. Market

is active; fat lambs were generally

250 higher: bulk fat natives and fed

westerns $18@18.50; few early sales

to shippers unevenly higher at $18.75

@19, but latter price is no criterion on

the market. Clippers brought $10.50@

16; fat sheep strong; good ewes $9.50

@1025; feeding lambs are very scarce

and around steady at $16.50@16.75.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 507. Canners slow; all oth-

ers 250 lower.





Good to choice yearlings





dry-fed ............. . . . .$ 9.25@ 9.75

Best heavy steers, dry—fed 7.50@ 8.25

Handyweight butchers 6.75@ 7.50

Mixed steers and heifers 5.00@ 6.25



.Handy light butchers 4.25@ 5.50

Light butchers ........ .. 3.50@ 4.00

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

Butcher cows ....... . . . 3 50@ 4.00

Cutters 3.00@ 3.25





 





Canners 2.25@ 2.75

Choice bulls ...... . . . . . . . 4.25@ 6.00

Heavy bologna bulls . 425(6) 5.25

Stock bulls 3.25@ 4.25

Feeders ....... . . . . . . . . . . 4-75617 6.00

Stockers ........ . . . . 4.25@ 5.75

Milkers ................. 45.00@70.00

Veal Calves.





Receipts 4,908.

Best ............

Others





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1,568.

Best lambs .....

Fair lambs ......





Light to common . . . . ....

Fair to good sheep ......

Culls and common . . . . . .

Buck lambs .............





H





Market steady.

........ $14.00fi14.50

.. . 4.00@13.50





Market 50c higher.

$18.00@18.25

14.50@17.50

9.00@14.00

8.00@ 9.25

2.50@ 4.25

8.00@17.25





ogs.





Receipts 645. Market; was generally





steady on

250 higher on othe





pigs and roughs, but 10@





PS.





Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$10.85@11.00





Pigs .....

Yorkers .. . . . .





. . . 8.00

10.50@10.70





Roughs................. 9.25





Stags





6.00





BUFFALO





H

Receipts 6,770.





ogs.

Market is steady.





Heavy sold at $11@11.50; medium at





$11 @1125; light





lights $8.50@10; pigs at





packing sows and





$10.75@11.10; light

$6.50@8.50;





roughs $9.50.





Cattle.





There arrived

here today and

steady.





125 head of cattle

prices continued





Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 1,600.





Best lambs sold at





$18.50@18.65; ewes '$9.50@ 10.50.





a

Receipts were 2





Ives. .

00, with top at'$15.





emand for alfalfa





The cold weather

umption in many





the em-





candled and

graded 52617540; storage 44((1‘450. Live

poultry, heavy springers 27c; light do.





A declining





 





uary, but prices are already on a lower

level than usual. Taking the country

as a whole, production of fresh butter

has not shown any material gain as



et. Satisfactory reductions are still



eing made in storage reserves, al-

though the movement slowed down

somewhat last week. Consumption

during December, as measured by dis-

tribution at the four leading markets,

was the largest for any month on rec-

ord. This delay in production, negligi-

ble imports, and the disappearance of

butter probably offset the remaining

large stocks of butter and the possibil-

ity of increased fresh output as soon

as the cold weather breaks.



Prices on 92-score Creamery were:

Chicago 39%0; New York 41c. Fresh

creamery in tube at Detroit sells for

85@40c per pound.





POTATOES





Carlot shipments of practically all

fruits and vegetables have increased

sharply since the passing of the holi-

day season. Daily loadings of potatoes

are running nearly three times as

large as during Christmas week.

While the demand has broadened, the

increase in shipments is affecting pric-

es, and part of the holiday advance

has been wiped out. U. S. No. 1, north-

ern round whites, are quoted at $1@

1.15 per 100 pounds in the Chicago

carlot market.





WOOL





The wool market shows a strong

tone, although the total quantity

changing hands is not large. In some

cases, dealers have advanced their ask-

ing prices. The weakness evident in

foreign markets before the holidays

seems to be disappearing, although

most. of the sales in Australia and New

Zealand have not ydt reopened. South

American wool prices are rising, partly

because of higher exchange. Contract-

ing the new clip in the west is pro-

ceeding less actively, as buyers have-

already signed up about one—third of’

the total demesti‘c clip. Growers" idea-3

seem to be strengthening as time pass-

es, and the amount of wool still in

their hands diminishes. It is believed

that the majority of the wools in

Wyoming and Montana are under con-

tract, and a rather large fraction of

the Utah, Idaho and eastern Oregon

clips also has changed hands. The

goods trade is now looking forward to

the heavy-weight opening to come in

another month or six weeks.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Produce was in moderate supply and

forced some price cuts. Good apples

were fair sellers but small sizes went

at lower prices. Potatoes moved slow-

ly in small lots, while cabbage and

root crops were lower in price. The

supply of celery was small and sold

readily. Poultry was a. moderate; mov-

er. Eggs were a little lower.



Apples, $1@3 bu: beets 75@9OC bu;

cabbage 75c@$1 bu; carrots 75061731

bu; head celery, large, 25c@$1 dozen;

horseradish $4@6 bu: leaf lettuce

$1.50 bu; dry onions $1.75@2.25 a bu;

parsnips 75c@$1 bu; potatoes, No. 1,

65@75c bu; Hubbard squash $1.50@

2 bu; turnips. No. 1, $3 bu; No. 2, $1.50

@175 bu; vegetable oysters 60c'per

dozen bunches; honey $1001.25 per 5-

1b. pail; eggs, wholesale 60c; retail 65

@70c; hens, wholesale 27@28c,; retail

30@32c; springers, wholesale 26@28c;

retail 28@300; geese, retail 23@25c;

hogs 141,5@16c; veal 180.7190; dressed

poultry, hens 35@38c; springers 30@

380 pound.





GRAND RAPIDS





The pork market was temporarily

eas1er in Grand Rapids early this

week. Heavy receipts last week from

farmers who were making sales to

raise tax money are respOnsible for

the unsettled condition of the market.

Farmers are finding it advisable to

contract their pork before slaughtering

as there seems to be a tendency on

the part of butchers to take advantage

of those who butcher their hogs first .

and seek a market afterwards. Veal

and beef are slightly stronger in tone

and poultry is in good demand as a

result of the furniture season. Fresh

eggs are holding their own around 50

@550 dozen. The demand is improv-

ing as the supply of storage eggs is

gradually exhausted. Beans were firm

at $5.35@5.50 per cwt. to the farmers

and $6 to jobbers. All home-grown.





vegetables are higher with potatoes





selling at 50@600 bu; parsni a $1.25@ '

1.50 bu; carrots $1@1.25; base 1% . .

chGIb; leagvgittttice 17c:h lb‘i‘ladisthe;

cpozen. . earrings;~ 6 es 0

the year at $1.74 per bushel. .
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beads "in thissiacalitv outside

the dairy 'erds. Wat is «bringing

: bogs, iire Weight, 9c. The poul-

interest has .devel . ed 1. consider-

ably in our locality. ;,Mil is sold to a

local condensing plant. ~The chief ac-

tivities of farmers at the present time

is paying'their taxes—.0

Lenav'woe. 60., Jan. 7.—‘—-‘Farmers in

this locality are not teeding as many

lambs this winter as usual. There are,

however, "about the average number or

steers and hogs «on feed. The poultry

business shows. some development.

Eggs bring 540 for brown and 570 for

white; butter 4‘5c; wheat $1.75@1.77;

oats 550; barley $1.70 per cwt. The

ground is covered with heavy ice,

which may cause damage to wheat and

clover seeding. The local grange has

been revived and is now one of the

largest in Lenawee county. "The farm-

ing business looks brighter for 1925.—

L. ELL.





 





Jackson 00., Jan. 5.-—-—The farming

outlook is some brighter, but not good

enough to keep the young men at

home or call other young men from the

city. The rise in price of farm grains

came after a censiderable portion of

the crop had been sold. However, the

farmer with ten or more good cows

and a flock of poultry is in the best

shape, except where it is necessary to

buy grain. On account of the poor

corn crop, there are fewer lambs,

steers and hogs being fed than usual.

Certainly there will be little leftover

feeds on the farm at the end of the

feeding season—G. L. Ix.



Ontonagon 60., Jan. 4.—-l_\lot.m_uch

feeding being done outside of dalrymg.

We have a cheese factory that takes

our milk. Farmers are selling some

wheat at $1.60; oats 500; beans $5 per

cwt. rFarmers are a little more op-

timistic over the coming year. The

church is about the only social organ-

iaztion in the community. No farmers

organization of any kind have been

organized—N. N.



Charlevoix 00., Jan. 2i.—Very little

stock is being fed for market. _Dalry-

ing is the principle source 01: 1ncome

for our farmers during the Winter.

Butter-fat is bringing 42c: ’eggs 500;

corn $3.10 per cwc.: cats 6th per bu.,

and other feeds in proportion. Not

much doing in the line of social activ-

ities since our roads are blocked with

snow. The lumber company who own‘

ed much of the land in our township

has deeded this pi'Opeg-rty to the state,

which makes it appear that taxes in

our locality might still continue to

climb—\V. H. B.



St. Joseph 00., Jan, 2.——Dairying is

about the same as a. year ago. There

is very little other feeding being done.

Poultry activity in this section is par-

ticularly noticeable. Eggs bring 56c;

butter-fat 400; wheat $1.74; rye $1.33;

corn $1.25; oats 600; hogs $9.50. The

farmers here got together at the

grange, and are taking interest in farm

bureau measures and cooperative or-

ganizations. O. J. B.





 





 





HOLSTEINERS HOLD ANNUAL

PROGRAM.





TUESDAY, February 3. at 6:30 P.

M., the annual banquet of the



Michigan Holswiu Association,

will be held at Plymouth Congregation-

al Church, Allegan Street, south of the

Capitol, Lansing, at which ladies are

especially invited.





Features will be, “Peddling Hol-

steins,” by John M. Kelly. Baraboo,

\Visconsin, ex-viCe—president of the





Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer-

ica; vaudeville ac: from Lansing

“Strand Theater.”



\Vednesday, February 4. at 10:00 A.

M, will occur the annual business

meeting, in the Agricultural Building

at M. A. C. At 1:00 P. M., in the Judg-

ing Pavilion, Agricultural Building, an

address, illustrated with experimental

animals, on “Relation of Minerals, Vit-

amines, and Light to, Nutrition of Dairy

Cattle,” will be given by Carl F. Huff-

man, M. A. C. Dairy Department. Bus-

iness meeting will be resumed after

the address.



Special attention is called to the ad-

dress by Mr. Huffman. Everyone in-

terested in dairy cattle. whether a

Holstein enthusiast or not, should plan

to take in this feature. Mr. Huffman

has been doing research, work at M.

A. C. for several years along the ad-

vanced lines indicated by his topic—

he rates among the best in this field.

He will demonstrate his points with

the experimental animals that he uses

in his researches. .



Holstein folks will be glad to hear

John Kelly at the banquet. Mr. Kelly,

in addition to being crevice-president

of the Holstein~Friesian Association of

America, a breeder of Holsteins him-

self, counsel .for Ringling Bros, etc.,

is a gifted, witty speaker. He talks,

also, at the general meeting of farmers

on Tuesday afternoon, on “Selling the

Public.”



The vaudeville act is captured be-

cause of the friendship between M. W.





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. “out . lax-pro , ,

Holstein Association, and Mr. Butter-

.ileld, mammal me ‘iStrand Theater"

circuit. The act will ”be brought over

to the banquet between playings at

the local theater. -



The whole meeting... will be of espe-

cial interest because of the role which

the State Association must assume

next June 2-8-4, when the annual sale

and annuag-.meeting of the Holstein—

Friesian Association of America comes

to Grand Rapids. Plans already made

for this big event will be discussed.

Every live Holsteiner should be pres-

ent to take a part in such discussion

and to give his views on how to bet

make the State Association an “idea.

hostess.”—-J. G. Hays, Secretary.





 





GUERNSEY BULL EXCHANGE!)

FOR SGRUB.





 





N January 14, at the time of the



annual meeting of the Cass Coun-



ty, Michigan Guernsey Association

a unique plan for advertising Guern-

seys in southwestern Michigan was

planned. In cooperation with the Do-

wagiac Chamber of Commerce arrange-

ments were made to purchase a pure-

bred Guernsey bull and exchange it

for a scrub bull. The owner must

have had the scrub bull in his posses-

sion for at least two months and had

to signify his intention of breeding up

a Guernsey herd. He must also allow

the bull to be used for service in his

neighborhood at a nominal fee.





60 Acres of Roses





THINK ol’ the choice you have when selecting from

our great rouo gardens. You are sure of gcttlng only

sturdy. prolific. held-grown rose plants. guaranteed to

bloom in three months. Our reputation of 71 years

is back of the rose offerings in our 1925 free catalog.

l’ost~card brings it immediately.



THE STORRS & HARRISON C0.



Nurscrym on and .S'ccdsmcn for 71 years

Box 635 Painesville, Ohio





 





 





 





 





Farm Wagons





,. Split Hickory

.513; farm w a u o n s.



1' buggies, harness,

trucks,

wheels.





 

 

 

 





, f a r in



truck

'. steel wheels. and

. milk wagons at lowest

rices. Big bargains also in all

nd paints. Send for blu free

book of mon-handlw bargains. Split Hickory

Factories. Dept 29, Lawrenccburg. Ind.





 

 





 





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ident or . the" (she.





White Leghorn:

I

Exclusively



. Pure Tailored cookers“

drum 225-299-su hm

hand our high oracle Royal

Breeders. This means 'hlulv

flock average and Wm!

profits. 75% of the chicks

we sell go to old customers. I

100% live arrival and good

condition guaranteed. All

orders have my persons! at-

. tr-ntlon. Write for catalog.

ROYAL HATOHERY AND ARMS.



8. P. WIornma. Zeal-ml, Mloh.. R. R. 2.





. Halchod on a Real Poultry

"Farm of Seventy Acres





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





Artnrrm FARM





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Our Ilo an In quality.

Clinic Our wa filament. mommy.

m or am on. no so.

a m or policy. I fair deal.

"ml! Our endowment. experience.

2.0.290 Brown Leghorns. America.

Barred Rocks. Catalog Free.

£53 S‘ll’llll Rural Poultry Farm. Box 009





Zoeland, Mloh.





 





Chicks for l925





Agnln we are ready to book orders for Baby Chicks:

Barrcd and White Rocks. Reds. White and Hllvcr

Laced “'l'andottos. White and Bnfl' Omlnmons. Black

Mlnorcus. Anconus, White, Brown and llnfl' Longhorns.

Send for l'oultry Circular with price list. 100 pot

ccnt delivery.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION.



Kalamazoo. Michigan. »

Active mcmbcr International Baby (.‘hlck Association.

anbcr Michigan State Farm Bureau.





EARLY MATURING





BABY CHICKS





From pure-bred stm'k which have all been blood test-

ed to eliminate the infer-ted birds and (loci-case tho

bar-llllnry whlto diarrhea troubles in the chicks. Wrin-

for prim-s on our it. i. lluds. 1!. l‘. Rocks, Whips

Wyandottes and W. Lcshorn».





Milan Hatchery, Box 4. Mllan, Mich.





ems“ CHIxe





ym‘n SUCCESS





Prom Makers—Early Layers

Leghorns. Anconas. Rocks. Reds, Wysndottes,

Orpingbons. Minorcas. Lowest prices. Cata-

alog Free. Address nearest office.



D. T. FARROW CHICKERIES

Peorll,lll., Des HolneaJL, Hilwnukee.Wls., lndlnnapclland. :





 





       





 





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' ' Lara-r hens. lwllv-r

Bug 5-Lb. English W. Leghornswmé‘... 1...... Hle

hatching: cuss. Fri-c catalog dcscnibcs lhcm and is;

full of practical, money making poultry information.

ficnd for it. A. W. WAUCHEK. Goblet, Mich.





10 chicks with advanced ordcrs: 9c

FREE and up. 20 pure-bred. tested vario-

tios. ('irculor I"rcc.

Beckmann Hatchery. 26 E. Lyon,arand Rapids, Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





Seed Corn) and Seed Oats





My drying hou~e is filled with Clement‘s Improved

White ('ap ycllow dent and Duncan’s yellow dent.

seed com. Fire. dried on rarlis, ear tested, guaranteed

Ilegiswred and

Dcrclopcd by the Michigan

. . lit-av} yieldcrs with a stiff

Write for orb-cs.



PAUL C. CLEMENT. Britton. Michigan.





POULTRY





germination from high yielding std-k,

ccrliflcd Worthy Oatx

Agricultural college.

straw.





"V'w pm You buy experience

- . a It with our chicks. For

I, fired "'1 Br years we have. bred



. for more eggs. 'l‘hc

.1 -' l I; — of“ , E ".i result is business

i ‘5 1%;3 :3 J; :53 5' chicks. Gct our cut-

211on and start even





BRED FOR EGGS Elli? NORTHERN





WHITE LEGHORNS





   

     





SHEEP





Bred Ewes





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

telegraph Bockwood. P. 0. So. Rockwood. ALMOND

B. CHAPMAN a. SON.





Delame Breeding Ewes

Lamb. March and April. Highest price wool in the

world. Make 150% in lambs and wool. Two cars

ewe lambs. both cross—bred and Delaines. 50 Pure-

bred Dclaine cwc lambs, (unregistered). Geo. M.

Wither. Oaklands, Maryavillc, Ohio.





' for sale. extra good

Breedlng Ewes young Delaines. V.

B. FUNESS. Nashville, Mich.





MULES





 





 





 





 





 





Ono pair brown mules. 7 and 8 ycnrs





For Sale old, w. ".700 n...





 





 





' .SEEDS—New





 





 





scans AND NURSERY srock





 





Crop "Kansas” Alfalfa 61:00 and ”:80

bu.. also Sweet (flours. lied Clover. Alsiko. Timothy.

Sudan. Cane, Kamr. Milieu. Seed Corn. Soy M.

Cow Poss. Lowest Prices. Bum Free. Send to:

samples and Save Money. ficlomon seed Cm. Solo-

Imon. Kansas.





 





CHOICE SEED CORN—1000 bu. loo-day 1mm“!

Yellow Dent; 1500 bu. Lancaster (roomy Euro Crop;

300 'bu. Early White Cap. nearly all 1023 (m. d".

hluh germination. Write for price, Sample and Cir-

cular. Urdcr early to save money. fihull Farm. Box

12. Tullytown. Bucks (10., I’ll.





 





l:llUBAllB-lllA.\l'.\lO’l‘ll vwronmwi- '1'. whole

room. 20. $1: Giant Crimson 3-yr. divisions, 8, $1;

Asparagus Roots, 50, . Delivered prepaid any-

where. Wcaxer Gardens, Wichita. Kans.





 





FRUU.‘ GROWERS AND FARMERS attention! Bend.

for FREE catalog on small fruits, containing will!

photographs of a. new blackberry nearly two inches

long. Also strawberry and raspb plants. Reduced

1’33”“, South Michigan Nursery. 6w Buffalo. Mich»





 





II‘REFNNEW RED RASPBERRY—Tip Grower, Very

Hardy. Fiend for Liwraturc. Strawbm-lw $3.00 per

1,000. All Now“ Fruit Plants". Dept. ll. Hellmllzli'll

Nursery. Three Oaks, Mich.





 





22 GRAl'l'IVlNES.-$1 postpald.





Il‘d. Whit , ‘ -

cord. 1 Week. ‘ e 20 Con





Gables. Mlch., Nursery;





 





CliRTlFlED W'olverlno Oats.

A. B. Cook, Owowo, Mich.





Ccrt med Robust Beam.





 





PET STOCK





 





FOB SALli—Hluhmlass Foxhounds: Bonnie hounds.

Uoonhounds; Bloodhoundn; and Setters: partly and

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

vance. ship C. . . Stamp for booklet. Landin-

Kennels. Mohnton, Pa.





 





l'l’Rl'l—Blllil) It‘lnmlsh Giant Rabbits, 3 mo.. welsh:

rule to .; lb'~., 5'2; 4 "10%.. 312.75. Leonard Norton.

'l‘hrw :lvmu, .‘llich.





 





l'lji’S~Homo natural Ills-lore, also grown Stock.

Hnblo- and White. (‘olllc at Stud. 0. J. Dunnewind,

1:, 1, l‘omurtwli l'zll'k, er'll.





 





l-‘Ol: SALE» Bu-umilul White (,‘ollio pupplv-j; at farm-

v-x-J prw . from rralncd stock, farm brrd. liens-r

lro'lwn, “N‘d Vii). Mll‘ll.





 





 





FD“ S.\l.l-)~ltcglstcrcd Coll‘u- Puppies. natural heel-





 





ltr... H;lrr-rvlv.t Kennels, Gladwln, Mich.





 





POULTRY





 





EllAllY (‘HH h’H-el’urc-bz‘r'd S. (I Ancona's‘. and ling-





li:h \l’hun lu-uhorm from {mu-d brw-du- of utility

and s-xnibirion matings. SI-ml today for mating 112-7.

and in": l"""ll"l‘. Spsv-inl discount on v-arly order»:

‘(jzbb—,” Winn-rhiy Hatchery, iron-on, Mich.





 





OAKLAND ”HTS Ql'AlJ'l'Y l'llll'KSr Strolm. all,“

ormn. mu :1; ;,,...,.,L proilrnbh-. Illuzll-l. Leuhonu.

limb, l:“"l\‘, “hm Wj.'.'mtlolu-~, Hr. Snip (ls-liver!

gluornnzwzl. (‘ircular free. Oakland .lllll: Poultry

Faun. Flu-Infusion, Mich. ’





 





('llOlt'l-Z IUVCHJT :mr-vl Row]; ('ovlmz‘l.

it :n'. Snr' -?.p-;L’ru L,’llhl‘:lll‘t‘4‘d.

(on, Alli hump.





xv-al “HK

linrlr- Murphy, “:23





BABY (‘lllt‘lCH from hl-a'n.‘ can: prorlumng grain-1 It.

lied» ll. ‘uwlxk, and “him lwuhorns. l-‘armrnnga

Cluck “u“ill‘l‘l’, Fluxrlutlc, .\ll"ll.





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SILVER l.\l'l-Zl) or White Wmndo‘w- ounliw ru’rlil'l"

I-l~, ibrw- to 23W flollar~ lla'll. l‘. ‘.\. Browning, l’or‘~

lnnrl. .\l' 3..





 





BABY I lllv'hH AND l;(;(;.\' fi'dlw‘ll’ll' minim 1'2!”th

l‘f’l'k‘. linu- ('omb llhodc lrlnnrl “4.41:, Whip: Longhorns.

\\\n«lh:u'.'- lllv'.:l lln'uhI-ry. ’l‘irfip, Ohm. (‘irwulah





 





FOl: S.\l.lv.~—200 l-Inzllsh Leghorn pullr-h. Bred to

lav, $1.25 each. A. J. Kane, ll. 7. Box 102. Kala-

mazoo, Mich.



worm-:1:mxemnxlnr Barred Pun-1;: brcd to lay.

wc-rrn and “in mm. Martin. ll’oodlnnd, Mich.





 





“'Ill‘l'l. \\‘Y.\Nl)()TTl‘I ('0"Kl-JRl‘Llflw—ngll quality

stock. Howard Grant, Marshall, Mich.





 





S (2 Bl'l'd" LEGIIORN ('UN‘KS—First hatch Mar-3h





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 





tising miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.





consecutive insertions 6 cents a word.

display type or illustrations admitted.





Minlmum charge. to words.





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

Small aalvcrnscmcnts‘ bring bcst results: under classified headings. '





Try it {or want ads and for adver- |





Poultry advertising will be run in this dcpnrlment 5

at classified I‘llNN‘. or in display columns at commercial rule‘s.

Rates 8 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for lcss than {our insertions; for four or more

(‘ount as a word each abbreviation, initial or number. No

_ . Remittances must accompany order.

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





 





 





All advnflfln: a);

dimmtlnuana order:

or change of top} In-

tended far the Clam'fird Dtpartmm! mmt ftdlh thil oflite In!

day: in admin” ofpub/im Xian daft.





 





 





REAL ESTATE





 





80—.l. AUCH. FARM ONLY $2,200~U (,‘ows &Ca.lves.

all corn, wheat. rye, bcnns, potatoes, horses. poultry,

machinery. tools. ererythinr.r complete for comfort. and

profit; on lmprmed road. near lake: 00 acres I)I'0d1M“

the fields: warm Teroom house, barn. hog. poultry

houses. Age fen-es low price $2,200, half cash. De»

tails pg. 141 big lllns. Bargain Catalog. money-mak-

ing farms and business chances. Free. Strout Farm

Agency, 20580 Kresge Bldg” Detroit, Mich.





 





ON LAKE AND STATE BOAD—280-acre~stock and.

dairy farm. 35 u'cres timber. 175 tillable land, 16‘.

head stock. crops and tools included. R. M.

worth. 322 East Cross St. Ypsilanti, Mich.





Charles— ‘





 





T0 RENT on shares or work by month, furnished

farm by experienced stockman. H. R. Coons. 48

Lafayette, Pontiac. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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W d tOne Elm" W G (1)1: Four FARM diVAlg'l'liD within 30 miles Detroit, west side

or 3 me mes or s t 0 6| prei'crrc . ‘tato full particulars. Homer, 1)». b



m ........ so $2.49 ........ :2. 86.24 Mil-himn. m 0m'



i; ........ .33 2.64 27 ........ ‘ 2.1 6.48



......... . 2.88 28........ 2.24 3.72



13 ........ 1 04 3.12 2 2.32 5.90 MISCELLANEOUS



li ........ 1.12 3.36 3 ........ 2.40 7.20



15 ........ 1 20 3,60 ........ 2,4. 1.“ HARDY It‘ll-11.1) GliOXVN-M(‘hrysanlln-mums. sweet



1§ ....... 128 3.84 32 2.56 7.68 William, (lnis‘lr. and all olddashioncd or hurdy per-



1. ........ 36 4.0! 3 2.64 7.92 cnnlnl flowers. Iris. cunnns, gluillllllls. and tnbcrosc



lg ........ 1;; 1.52% 3; ........ fig: :1: bulb». Splrucns, shrubbcry. climbing rinm, r-‘mw, or-

......... . .o . . namcntnl trees and hedging. Strawberry plilllla. lhn—



20 ........ 1.60 4.80 36 ........ 2.88 3-“ barb and asparamls roots. Thousands of satisfied ('lls-



‘2“1) ........ 1?? 23; 38 -------- 33: a}: lomcr.~. Dclivcrcd lm-buid mice“. Svnd for catalogue.



.. ......... .) . ........ . . ~... u...- '.



g4 ........ 1.63 2:2 39 ...... .. 3.12 9.26 \leaur (..mhn.. Whom, lxnnsas.



25:13:; :30 6'03 fimm“ 3%: 3ng 0H) MONEY “'AN’I‘I‘IDe—ll‘ill pay Fifty Dollars for





nickel of 1013 with Liberty chd (not Buffalo). “is

pay rush premiums for (all rarc ('Oins. Send iv for

111ml) L‘oin Circular. Mn}: mczm much profit in you.

Numismatic 21min. Dept. )1, Fort VVonh, Texas.





 





MILLIOXS Strawberry Plants $2.95 per 1.000. Rasp-

berries, Grapes, Bulbs, Flower Seeds. Chicks. Illus-

trated catalogue Free. Mays-rs Plant Nursery, Mer-

rill, Mich.





.\\'nxhc~ and (ll'l.'.~, windows.

‘All complete onll' $2.95.





~‘l':llus. Sa‘lsz‘i-tion gn.l:ll‘ltll"'v"l. I\.

dull, Innis. Mich.





litalyn Rams-





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BROWN ELGHORNS HAIBHEHY and true in every plow. For lumber" illalflllllll'al311:3}: k 0' (molar. “lllnrd “Cb’mr‘ Bath. Mich'

WH. & B D ROCKS Zeeland, Mich, B. 56 Ernst J. Maurer. Nashville. Mich. ‘=

TURKEYS

V

.‘xlll'lllGAN'S liliS'l‘ Giant Bronze turkeys. Strong,

SS F ED AD v ER I [SING lxcalvm him... 10 Mars brw-(imrz from America‘s best





 





 





GIANT liliONZl-Z 'J‘l'llh-IA'S *(j’rl‘llmll'ri Strain.

4'.“ku lz>-'a'.~ l),."l\. -'.lll~l21/‘lvlll L'-!.’iL‘ll‘v'~l. .‘slli.

l‘crsx Srclrb‘u‘, Snrunm, Mir-h.



’l‘l’lilx'liYS—».\i. Bron/c. B. Red. Narragirnv‘ , l'llim

llpl. lie-in. Tom». Pain and trips. no inn. Order





L'lll‘lf‘. Waller Ema, Powhatan Point,





 





l'lll:l¥l’.l‘.l~;l) Gian? Bronze Turkeys.

lim large, healthy birds. MN.

Bt’lmnllf, .\li~h. ‘





lixt-sa value; in

Law-nu.- limwncll,





 





 





 





l’l'ltl'Ielllil-Tl) (522m? Bronze. Turkvra Vigorous 'lirds,

chop-c sock. Mrs. (‘harles ioonc, ll. 5, ’J,'raver~io

('lll‘, Mix-h.



FOR SALli—l‘ure-brrrd Bourbon Red Turkeys. H. O.

Rugglr-s. Milford, Mich.



l’l‘RlC-llllldl) largo li'hite Holland turkeys. Toms $3.





and inch» .57. Damn: Dean, Milford. Mich.





 





l’l‘lil-I-lllllil) Bourbon Red Tonic, $8.00. Eva, Myers,





lonin, ll» 1:.





 





AGENTS WANTED





 





BIG MONEY Selling New Household l‘lcunim; Set.



Sweeps scrubs, mop-z.

Over half profit. Wm»

Harper Bruit Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairflcld. Iowa.





 





WI”. I’AY $200 monthly salary. furnish car and et—

pcnrrs to introduce our guaranteed poultry and stock

powders. Biglvr (‘ompany X683. Springfield. Ill.





 





FOR SALE—Litter Major sheep shearing, machine and

grinder. Jesse Loeklin, R. 4. Coldwater. Mich.





 





 





TOBACCO





 





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





 





$2.75: Smoking. 6 lbs. $1.25: mild, 10 $1.50. Pay

when received. F. Gupton. Bardwell. Ky.





 





HO’MESI'CN TOBACCO. ('hewing 5 lbs. $1.50; Ten

$2.50; Smoking 5 lbs. $1.25: Ten $2.00. Pay when

received. pipe and recipe free. Farmers' Union.

Paducah, Kentucky.





 





HOMESI’UN TOBACCO-Chewing, five pounds $1.50:

ten. $2.50; twenty, $4.50. Smoking, five pounds. $1.2“:

ten. $2.00: twenty $3.50. Pipe Free. Money back if

not satisfied. Unite Tobacco. I‘adncah. by.





 





HELP WANTED





WANTED. FARMER, married, best refmcnr-cs. Box

on, Michigan Farmer. Detroit.





 





 





 





 





SITUATIONS WANTED





 





WANTED—Farm managing job by mam-«l man with

life experience. Stock farm prefcrrcd. lit-1.! m' l‘HfN"

cnces. including bank reference. Box 801 .lllchign'i

Farmer.





, ICHIGAN FARMER

Classified Ads. pay well.

Try one.
can SAVE 31 lot of

Money this Year

if you will send for my new big CUT PRICE CATALOG. Don’t buy a rod of fence, .



barb Wire, gates, posts, roofing and paint until you get this money-saving book.

I’VE CUT PRICES to the bone on my 150 styles of DOUBLE GALVANIZED

Farm, Poultry and Lawn Fences —— Farm, Drive and Walk Gates; on Corner Posts, Steel

Fence Posts, and Gate Posts—Barb Wire, Smooth Wire, Grape Wire—Roofing and Paints.

Catalog shows a bigger variety than you’ll find in a dozen stores and at prices that save you

fully one-third or more. Send for this catalog today ——- compare my quality and NEW

CUT PRICES with what you have to pay elsewhere. You’ll SAVE big MONEY.





Jim Brown PAYS the Freight





The new low prices in my catalog are delivered prices. I pay the freight right to your freight

station. You know when you look in my catalog exactly what your goods are going to cost

laid down at your freight station. You’ve no extras to pay. You’ll find a big difference in

price and a tremendous difference in quality -- for instance —- my fence is made of Basic

Open Hearth Steel Wire and all double galvanized by the famous Brown process which

puts on twice the usual amount of galvanizing. That’s why it don’t rust out—why it lasts

two or three times longer than ordinary fence. My Gates have Carbon Steel one piece

frames—last a lifetime. My Steel Posts are bigger, heavier and much stronger; my Barb

Wire and Smooth Wire is the best ever; my Roofing is asphalt Roofing With wool felt

base—not coal tar and paper; my WEARBESTpaint With its big percentage of Pure

White Lead and Pure Linseed Oil is all that its name implies. Just read these letters:





 





"The 140 rods of fence you shipped me "I received my roofing in good condi- "Yours is the heaviest paint 1

seven years ago is as nice and bright to- tion. I feel that I saved at least $1.00 on have ever used. It covers bet-

day, with no sign of rust on it. [put up each roll by ordering from you and if I ter and it goes further. And

another make of fence about the same ever need any more roofing I sure will my_nei(hbore say It ie the

time I did yours, and it is very nearly send you my order for I know I would whitest paint they oversaw.

ruined by rust. The Brown Fence is by get the worth of my money. I certainly You saved me $1.304: (al-

far the best fence put up in this locality. ' will recommend your roofing to all m Ion. ” Harry Thomas,



John Bruce, Cauthron, Ark. friends. " A. 8. Ingram, Eton. Ga. Athema. N. J.





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Everything made in the Brown factories is so unusually high quality that'it always gives the

best of satisfaction as expressed in the letters above. Besides you take no risk in buying

from Jim Brown—my unqualified guarantee makes you safe. You have nothing to risk but



lots to gain when'you buy from Brown. I ship promptly from my 3 big factories at Cleveland,



Ohio, Memphis, Tenn., and Adrian,Mich., also shipping points at Kansas City, Mo., and

Davenport, Iowa. Fill out and mail coupon today and get my latest New Cut Price

Money-Saving Book before you buy.—-Jim Brown. é





The Brown Fence & Wire Co. 5‘ ROOF

Dept. 281 1, Cleveland, Ohio ' . o

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