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QUALITY

RELIABILITY ,

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conomics of Egg Production





A Bismuth}? of Some oftée Enema/I of Profitaé/e Poultry Raising





 





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RODUCTION efficiency is the key-



note of our most successful agri-



cultural and industrial enterprises.

Competition, fostered by the aggres-

sive spirit of the times, demands great-

er efiiciency of production in the race

of the survival of the fittest.



Profits from poultry, as in any other

line of production, are determined by

the margin or spread between cost and

net selling price. - The highest type of

efficiency, therefore, if measured in

dollars and cents, demands a full ap-

preciation of both the problems of pro-

duction and the economics of mar-

keting.



Fortunately, the marketing of poul—

try products is not a serious problem.

In fact, the difficulties seem to arise in

getting enough products .to market.



In analyzing the market reports of

egg prices over a. period of years, we

are confronted with the fact that dur-

ing six months in every year high av-

erage prices prevail. This period ex-

tends from September until March.

During the balance of the year, egg

prices are relatively low. Unfortu—

nately, “Biddy” does not recognize this

existing egg price schedule, if her ac—

tions are a. reliable indication, because

she does not show a great deal of in-

terest or ambition in the more import—

ant business of egg production until

the egg prices have shrivelled. The

dispute as to her knowledge of this ex-





By E. C.





isting price schedule is still unsettled,

as many farmers contend she is fully

aware of scarcity of her product with

its' corresponding high prices and that

her production reticence is due to a

very eccentric disposition. Other poul-

trymen, however, exonerate “Biddy”

and argue that this flexible price law

is controlled entirely by supply and

demand.



Admitting that “Biddy” is more or

less eccentric in the matter of fall and

winter egg production, ways and

means must be devised to induce her

to spread her production so that a

large percentage of her annual output

will come during the season of high

egg priCes.



Something is radically wrong either

with the breeding of the average Mich-

igan hen or our methods of winter

management, because the flock produc—

tion in March is six times greater than

it is in December.



The trend of egg prices is the bar-





Foreman





ometer of farm flock production. VVThen

eggs are high, farm hens generally are

not laying and the bottom drops out of

the egg market as the spring fever

takes grip of the flock. This Seasonal

variation in the scale of egg prices is

simply a reflection of a very inefficient

and indifferent system of poultry man-





agement.

The commercial egg farmer, as a

rule, is very successful in getting a,





profitable egg yield with flock averages

of fifty to sixty per cent production

during the winter months commonly

occurring.



The egg price schedule is not very

extensively influenced, however, by the

products of the commercial egg farm,

as the farm flocks contribute approxi—

mately ninety per eet of the nation’s

egg crop. This fact should erase all

doubt and worry concerning the likeli-

hood of an over-production of market

eggs, and moreover, is highly encour~

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Barnyard Queen. Which? Egg Basket Queen.

Monthly Price Monthly Price

Produc. Per Doz. Returns Produc. Per Doz Returns.

Nov. 0 $0.50 Nov. ..........16 $0.50 $0.66

Dec. ......... 0 .60 . . Dec. ......... 2 .60 1.15

Jan. .......... 0 60 . Jan. ........ A. .26 .60 1.30

Feb .......... 1 40 04 Feb .......... 22 40 .74

MaIch . .11 30 28 MaIch ........ 22 30 55

ApIIl ......... 14 24 28 ApIIl ......... 25 24 50

May ..19 24 38 May .27 24 54

June ......... 21 24 42 June ......... 28 24 56

July .......... 17 .24 34 July .......... 28 24 56

August 0 .30 August ....... 25 .30 63

Sept. ......... 0 .36 . Sept ......... 22 .36 6"

Oct. .......... 0 . .48 Oct ........... 21 .48 2

On 82 eggs ..... . . . . $1.74 On 285 eggs... . . . . . . . $8.67

Feed cost ...... . . . . 1.60 Feed cost ...... . . . . 2.00

'Net income $0.14 Net income . $6.67





Take your choice of. one 285—egg hen, or forty-eight eighty-two—egg hens.





The profit is the same, if you have

available.





lots of time to spare and house room





 





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Prof. E. C. Foreman has

more winning contest pens of a great-





er number of breeds than any other

man in America. These pens include

Barred and White Rocks, Rhode Island

Reds, White Wyandottes, White Leg~

horns and Anconas which have won in

Ontario, Connecticut, Missouri. Michim

gan, Illinois, New Jersey and other

contests. He has also trained judging

teams for three yearL, which have

either had high man or highest team

some in the InteIcollegIate Judging

Contests. Professm Phillips, of Pur-

due, said that Foreman~trained teams

are the best that ever appeared in the

contests.





 





 





who stands ready and willing to make

a business of egg farming



Michigan egg markets are among the

best in the country, and will return a

satisfactory profit; if the flock. prodde-

tion can be regulated so that. a. better

seasonal distribution of eggs occur.



Our chief concern after all, is eco-

nomic production. Eggs should always

be considered the most. important cash

crop, and the revenue collected from

broilers and market stock incidental to

the major operation of production.



Financial success is determined al-

most (“XOiuslVl‘ly by high or low flock

production awragr-s and not by the



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Zero Weather Chick Breeding





Some Practical Suggwtzom 072 Carmg for Early Cézclu , .

By R. G. Kirby '





OR the protection of the early

F hatched chicks the poultryman



must be prepared for zero weather

and high winds. If the equipment will

stand such conditions without injury

to the chicks there will be little to

worry about on the still sunny days or

the nights when the temperature is

not far below freezing.



These early hatched chicks are wor-

thy of protection. They are hatched

from eggs produced by winter layers.

The fact that they do hatch proves

that they are apt to come» from vigor-

ous stock. They grow into broilers

when prices are highest. The pullets

are fine prospects for Winter layers.

Most of the early hatched chicks will

be large enough to rustle on the range

when spring. conditions are good.

When everything is conducive to the

development of bird life the chicks

gather. an abundance of worms, bugs,





times.





If the early hatched chicks obtain

the right start, a lot of worry is taken

out of the poultry business for the en-

tire season. I find that coal burning

brooding stoves are the best. They

insure an abundance of heat at all

Some poultrymen have success

with oil burning brooders by operating

them in a room which receives some

warmth from a coal stove. In general

the oil burning brooders do not give as

gOOd satisfaction as hard coal burners

for zero weather.



I find that chestnut coal is the best

fuel. Coke gives a hot fire but burns

rather rapidly and there is danger of

the fire going out on a windy night. I

have used a mixture of coke and hard

coal, but did not find it as good as

hard coal alone. Some brooders are





“equipped to burn soft. coal, but. this





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fuel increases the risk and the stoves

require more attention to obtain a

uniform heat.



I find it pays to shake down the fire

both morning and night and keep the

stove free from clinkers. On very cold

days allow the fire to work down in

the afternoon until you can see the,

glowing coals. Then you know how

much fire you have in the stove and

whether it is burning evenly clear

across the grates.



At sundown there is plenty of room

in the stove for a large quantity of

fresh hard coal. \Vhen this is added

you know there will be sufficient fuel

to last until morning. This is import.-

ant on windy nights when the stoves

may burn more briskly than usual and

exhaust a. scant supply of coal before

morning.





 

   





Beginners with breeder stoves often

have good luck the first week, followed

by a dead fire some night during the

second Week. This is often caused by

allowing the ashes to accumulate

around th¢ «dgtsw of 1h >L.t0ve until the

fire is choked out. A long poker is

useful at times to stir tip the fire and

loosen any clinkcrs that. have formed.





Keep Chicks Near Stove.





\Vhen the chicks axe first placed

near a breeder store they do not un-

derstand the source of the heat and

may wander into the corners of the

brooder house and become chilled. A

piece of galvanized hardware cloth

about a foot high can be extended

around the stove about one foot from

the edge of the deflector. The ends

can be joined'With a bit of wire. After

three or four days the chicks will know’





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NUMBER SIX





VOI UME C IXIX





DETROIT, FEB. 7, 1925





CURRENT COMMENT

EARLY all of us





Ups have reconciled



A. d ourstdves to the idea



" that life is not stable.

Downs 11‘ it be calm today.

we expect that it will



be stormy tomorrow. Never in this





life do we arrive at a point where We

expect cur individual affairs of all suc-

ceeding days to move along perfectly.



But. it would seem that many per-

sons carzy the idea that, in a coopera-

tive ins’itution, it' they just, get by

some pr: :ent difficulty, all will be well;

then tiny can forget that. they are

members. except when dividends are

to be distributed.



True. vaccination wards ot't' small-

pox, the swine are immunized

against clzolera; but these facts do not

argue H.211 a human institution, like a

cooperaiivtucan be immunized against

llllSllltlllkiSrrlllt‘lll, or attacks from with-

out, or lack of funds. Some day insur-

anCe against those things might be

. had; bu: not. now.



i -‘ Like a healthy neighbor who. having

run through three score 01' years with-

out a sick day. took the position that

his strorz and lugg 1d constitution

could \‘t‘l‘l’lSltllld w halt \ol‘ came. But,

one day Eli“ doctor was called and this

man was advised to fix up his papers.



So. ii‘ you belong to a cooperative

that is having clear sailing, do not. be—

come can less in your membership re—

sponsibilities. Adversity creeps into

silent places. \Yhen least expected

every .~}“_(‘lt's of support, may be re-

quired to limp the institution going.



Too many SO-(‘lelt‘tl «(iofwt‘ative

members are like the llutch fisherman

.5‘ who, when the sea was calm, tied his

_ rudder, put. on a full sail, got, drunk



and wmn to sleep.



Everlasting vigilantw on the part. of.

members is the insurance

against cooperative ailments, for, while

it will rot avoid them entirely, the re-

sistance of an «active, well—informed

membership is high.





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potatoes no longer sell at a discount

as compared with spuds from other

1lroducing sections. The quotations ot’

the eastern market's show this.

ever, we have a local market which





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The figures recently issued by the

Detroit Municipal Bureau of Markets

are interesting. For instance, in the

year 1920-1921 the total receipts of po-

tatoes in ‘Detroit, including early po-

tatoes, were 2,451 cars. Of this amount,

1,226 were from Michigan. However,

in November, 1924, Detroit received

398 cars, of which only five were from

outside the state. In December, the

receipts were 280 cars, with the small

number of three coming from the out-

side.



Our state markets Want quality, and

if they can not get it at home, they

go outside for it. That is why there





the very 6101181193 of facing Q1. enemy,

and give up without’ a struggle. .A fear

possesses them that kills all ability to

fight.



But this is a. situation Where we

must do or die. Here is a place where

meditative action furnishes the food of

hope. If we resolutely go about the

fight to restrain this pest, it will, not

be many years before it will be looked

upon in the same way as we now

watch the potato beetle. But, if we

do not become militant at once, the

chances are that in a few years little

corn will be left to warrant a cam-





are so many western apples selling on paign.

Michigan markets. When apples, and The first fight is to secure needed

other fruit and vegetable products, are legislation. This legislation should





make it possible to clean up badly in-

fested places regardless of theshift-

less or obstinate person. It should

also provide the necessary working

funds.



The fellow whose fields are now free

of the pest, is, or should be, equally as

interested in fighting the pest as is

the other fellow, Whose fields are now

infested; while the consumer above all

others, ought to support the measure

out of his own personal advantage. Let

us hope, therefore, that there may be

no delay in getting eveiy needed

agency behind a campaign to control

or oust this menacing pest.





put under strict compulsory grading

regulations, we will find more native,

products on our markets.



Compulsory grading restrictions wit-

go a long way toward solving the mar-

keting problem which confronts Mich-

igan producers, for we will always

have people careless enough to put

up a nondescript package and get

Whatever the nearby markets will give

them.



Compulsory grading restrictions will

swallow. It seems autocratic. The

idea of somebody dictating how our

fruit should be packed; it’s our fruit

and we should be allowed to do what

We please with it.





It may seem autocratic but it is one 0 person of sense





of the beneficial autocratic things of 0 will deny the part

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democracy, for its benefits Will be I . Imagination has play-



greater than what is obtained under magmary ed in the progress of



the "do as you please” plan. There. [[13 the mag Over a cen-





tury ago Napoleon, at



the very height of his power, declared



that imagination rules the world. This



thing which is so delicate that words



often wound it, creates for us beauty,

happiness and justice.



But, there is another





fore, we feel sure that most of us will,

in due. time, come to realize the value

of good grading laws instead of chaf-

ing under their enforcement.





seems there is al.





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contend wltlL As soon 1mag1nat1on may also lead us into un—



Poultry as we ge[ one thing desirable ways. Doctors tell u3 that

Plague under control, anoth- many of the supposed ills Of the b0( )'

er seems to pop up. are merely the workings of the imagi-





native side of the mind. They tell us,

too, that these things are cured by get-

ting the mind centered on something

real.





“’13 have just been wondering, upon

reading from our \Vashington Corresv

pondent that “Congress Will do little

if anything at this session with the

various agricultural bills awaiting ac-

tion,” Whether possibly so dignified a

body as the congress of the great

American Republic might not be wax—

ing desperate with imagination.



Too well do we know that the world

of reality has its limits while the world

of imagination is boundless. Could it

be possible that our lawmakers step

too frequently from the realm of real—

ity to those boundless regions of the

imagination. President Coolidge is re-

ported to have said, that it is possible

for congress to dispose of some needed

agricultural legislation during the pres—

ent term. Possibly some of the much

discussed imaginary ills of the coun-





Just now it seems that the poultry

plague is going to rival the foot-and

mouth disease in seriousness, and will

be a c0-:<tar with the corn borer in the

present drama which might be called

“The Battle Against Diseases.”



Like the corn borer and many of our

other pests this new plague is an im-

migrant. lt: comes here and finds new

liberties. It is not hampered by par-

asitos which keep it. in check at home.

Thus, it goes to excess in this new

liberty and causes serious trouble and

loss.



The poultry plague will be a nuis—‘

anew for a while, like all of our other

But the mete fact that it is a

nuisance. makes it a problem which

will be solved. \\ e“ nt \et yet have had

a pest problem which has not been

brought into control. .



1n the meantime it is going to mean

embargoes; it will mean restriction

and loss, but these things are a part





Des ts.





of the price of war against plagues.



11' all Will be i-TOOd SOltlit‘l‘S and (10 try would disappear, if congress would,

their part. the battle will be short- for a short time, give itself over to the

curd considerably. Lt‘l'b‘ not be slack- Consideration of some of the real prob-

ors, in what the generals deem the lems of agriculture. At least, little





best campaign in fighting this plague. could be lost by the experiment.





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ANOTHER column LITTLE newspa-



Fight of this issue car- About per “filler” gives

rios an account of a the following informa-



The conference recently Int.er'}al tion: “Internal fric-

Borer held to Consider meas- FHCtlon tion rather than that

uros tor the control of due to impact with





the roadbed

bil‘e tires.”

That is interesting and to the casual

reader may seem absurd. But be that

as it may with referenCe to automobile





the European (,‘orn llorer in Michigan. wears out most automo-

The rapid spread of this immigrant

post within our state certainly calls for

the immediate inauguration of drastic

the individual, commu—





It idant's t. h a t measures by

the better grading the nity, state, and nation. tires, there is truth in the statement as

Pays To Michigan potato ship- Delay is the most expensive. course appled to other things of life.

Grade pets are doing is haV- that can be taken. Every time we per— There is internal friction in many

ing results. Michigan mit another generation of eggs to things. In cooperative organizations,

hatch we have, instead of one larva, for instance, it often raises hob with





the success of that organization. In

churches it exists Where peace, and

progress in the Christian spirit should

be the uppermost.





a hundred or more to deal with. If we

desire to cut expenses and save losses

in this fight, We should handle this

insect roughly from the first.



At the very mention of the depreda—

tions of this insect, hands go up in





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It is. frequently

found in granges, farm‘bureaus, neigh-

borhoods and in a great: many families.





tirely due to the fact that some o: f.

those concerned have allowed selfish t

impulses to blind them, to the greater,



the creative purposes of‘the organiza-

tion, be it a business or a. family. They ; ‘-

enlarge upon pretty things and thus

divert the atte'ntion from the real pur-

pose. '



.However, it isnot onlyin [organiza-

tions that there is friction, but it ex—

ists in individuals. In millions of hu-

man breasts there is strife because

petty selfish things seek expression. i

The battle of human hearts is greater

than any war ever fought. It is a bat-

tle which will continue to rage as long

as a human heart beats. Only those

who have gained the insight, or the

spirit, of the great purposes of life

know the calmness and harmony of

real living. Religion brings it to some;

philosophical thought to others, but

countless people die without know-

ing it.



Before any‘purpose, either of an indi—

vidiual, orof an organization, can be

brought to its highest u‘Sefulness, the

friction within must be replaced by

harmony. Then the full strength of the

purpose can be used in contact with

'the loads that the purpose has to

travel. _



The world is always in need of more

harmony specialists who will work to

conserve the human energy now wast

ed through friction and discord.





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OW, I don’t know what they ought



to Show, but I kin tell you what

they did. Well, the first-thing me and

Sofie had to do the showin’. They

made us show seventy—five cents a.

piece ta get in. Childrun was free,

and I had Sofie take me by the hand,,

but it wouldn’t work.



VV'enn, when you get in, you see a

lotta those gasoline go—carts settin’ on

platforms, like the King 0’ Spain, with

all the fumididles and everythin‘. And

them busses with glass windows What

look like show cases fer ta put in the

. f1eak3 what will be in them some day.

was just as shiny and slick as the

King. after his helpers has given him

a bath and put his clothes on.



There’s lots 0’ them slick young

salesman around what’s got. hair just

as shiny as them

oughtos, what en-

counters you. He

talks apple sauce

ta. you and you

act like youpun-

derstand all about

it. But, what got

me was the idea

0’ them‘ fellows

chargin’ me 75c

they could get a

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ta. get where

chance ta sell me. somethin’. I.

used ta. payin’ for ta be sold ta.



But anyhow, when I got through, I

just didn’t understand them new-fang-

uled buggies. Them salesmen tell you

so much you begin ta think‘you need

a engineer ta run one. ,



But, I’ll tell you this, I understand

Old Ironsides. And when I got back

home I just went into the barn just

ta. see the old boy. Me and Ironsides

is had lots 0’ times tagether. VVe’ve

covered many a mile tagether and

every scratch what he is got is a mark

0’ character. Vi’e’ve lived tagether, we

have; we’re friends. Those things they

showed ta the show is just oughtos.



There was one interestin’ thing at '

the Show, and that was the womin. I

don’t know whether they showed

more’n they oughto show or not, but

they showed cnuf. And they was all

polished and painted up like the ough-

tos. And no one explained them ta mo .

like they did the oughtos.



Sofie wasn’t in it with them for:

looks, but you know, me and Sofie has ’

traveled tagether some, too, not miles

but years, and Sofie’s wrinkles is from

our t1av elin’ tagether. They is marks

0’ chaiacter. We’ve lived tagether;

we have. Them things I see at the

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the Michigan Farmer, the much-



discussed gas tax and weight tax

have now been enacted into law. The

legislature ordered both measures to

take immediate effect, and Governor

Groesbeck lost no time in affixing his

signature to these bills and thus mak-

ing them the law of the state.



A week ago we related that the sen-

ate had passed the Atwood-Baxter gas

tax thirty to one, and the house the

Evans adjusted weight tax bill ninety-

five to three. Final approval was giv-

en to these two bills when the house

passed the gas tax eighty-eight .to five,

and the senate accepted the weight





, tax twenty-seven to one.

Now that these two extremely im- '





portant highway finance measures

have been ”finally enacted into law it is

well to pause and see what they pro-

vide and what is to be done with the

millions of revenue which they will

produce.



In its final form, the Evans weight

tax bill taxes passenger cars fifty-five

cents per hundred pounds. Commer-

cial vehicles are defined as “motor ve-

hicles used for the transportation of

passengers for hire and those con-

structed 01' used [or transportation of

goods, wares or merchandise,” and will

be taxed according to the following

schedule: Up to 2,500 pounds, $0.65;

2,500 to 4,000 pounds, $0.80; 4,000 to

6,000 pounds, $1.00; over 6,000 pounds,

$1.25.





These rates will probably bring in

approximately the same amount of rev-

enue as is raised by the present

license tax which is based on a com-

bination of weight and horsepower.

The additional revenue from the gas-

oline tax will make it possible to pro-

ceed 011 a “pay as you go” basis and

to retire- the present highway indebt-

edness without neglecting the con-

struction and maintenance 01’ the

state’s system of improved highways.



Out 01" the revenue flom the Evans

weight tax, $6, 000,000 per year will be

1etu1ncd to the counties, and 101 the

balance of the present. fiscal year $1,-

629,000 is set aside “to meet the de-

ficiencies in appropriations heretofore

made, for the payment 01' interest on

state highway bonds, and for the State

highway department.” The remainder

of the revenue will be appropriated as

follows” (a) Interest and sinking

fund for state highway bonds, not less

than $1,200,000; (11) Mainlenz‘ince of

state. trunk line, federal aid and 11011-

trunk line highways, $2,000,000; (C)

Building trunk—line, bridges, including

grade separations, $1,000,000; ((1)

Non-trunk line, highway maintenance

and non-trunk line bridges, $500000;

(e) The balance of the revenue is to

be used for opening, widening and im—





proving state trunk line and federal

aid highways. Three, hundred thou-





sand dollars per year is set aside for

operation expenses of the State. High-

way Department.

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HIV} revenmg from the Atwood—liar

ter two Cent gas tax bill will be

To apply 011

back highway rewards due the coun-





ties, $1,500,000 this year and $2,000,000

annually hereafter,

is paid;

state,

$3,000,000;

“the general

ment and

highways within the. state.”





until total amount

interest and sinking fund for

highway bonds, not less than

the balance will be used for

construction, improve-

beilerment 01" the public

the perplexing





Thus problems of





highway finance have been settled for

the present, at least, by the adoption

of the combined gas tax and adjusted

weight tax levies.

this legislation places the burden of-

highway support _directly\upon those

who obtain the chief benefits from the

improved highways—the motorists who

use the roads.





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their contribution through the gait tax.

Trucks and buses and heavy cars of

every description will pay higher rates

than the passenger cars and ‘other.

lighter and less destructive vehicles.

A definite program for retiring the

state’s highway indebtedness Without

general ploperty tax levies has been

put into effect.

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WITH the highway finance p1 og1 am



out of the way, the law- makeis

are tuining thei1 principal attention to

the financial needs of the va1iou3 state

institutions, boalds, commissions, etc.

On Tuesday evening, Januaiy 27, sev—

enty- -seven app1opr1at10n bills, contain-

ing budget requests totaling $70,000,-

000 were introduced. On the follow-

ing day, after settling upon the final

terms of the gas tax, the senate agreed

to take a ten- day recess in orde1 that

the membe1 5 might go on their junkets

and 1ep01t out the app1op1iation bills

from the institutional committees to

the finance and appropriation commit-

tee, which must pass upon all legisla-

tion of this type in the senate. Since

the total revenue of the state from its

proportion of the general property tax,

the 001p01ation tax, and 0the1 miscel-

laneous souices will be not over $50,~

000,000 for the next two yea1s, it is

evident that many of these requests

cannot be granted, at least in full. The

requests for the purchase. of land and

the erection of new buildings, which

two items alone total about $18,700,000,

will probably be the most severely cut.





* * *





ONCE more the motorists from the



northern counties and the Upper

Peninsula have demanded a three-

fourths auto license rate for licenses

issued between April 1 and September

1. A bill to carry out this purpose has

been introduced by Senator John E.

Gillett, of Rapid City, Missaukee coun~

ty. It is the contention of the repre-

sentatives from northern Michigan

that, on account of the heavy snow in

that part of the state, they are pre-

vented from using their automobiles

about half of the year and so should

not pay the full amount of the regular

license fee. ,



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ROM a particularly agricultural



point of View, three 111easures of

considerable importance have recently

been introduced. One is the appropria-

tion for paying slate rewards on con- 1

demned tubercular cattle. This bill. if

passed in its present form, will pro-

vide $500,000 for each of the next two

years for this purpose and will make

possible the carrying out of tubercular

eradication campaigns with vigor in

many of the. counties which are on the

waiting list for this work.



The promotion of grades and stand-

ardizat‘ion work for farm produce in

Michigan would be guatl) assisted by

the passage of two bills lllllOtluCUl by





m 11.1101 George LtltllHl, oi I‘ennvillt.

Um would put teeth 1'11 the old mar-





kets director act and bring the law up—

io-date and make it workable. The.

other would make the federal potato

grades compulsory for Michigan.

WANT GOODS PROPERLY

MARKED.





E NACTMENT of the Purnell bill au-



thorizing congress to increase the

appropraitions for experiment, sia

tions and truth-in—t’abrics legislation

which requires that specific statements

he placed on all woven fabrics and on

garments made from fabrics purport-

ing to contain wool, indicatingthe per-

centages of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton

and silk of which the ale made, is rec—

ommended. Passage of the agricultui-

a1 approp1iations bill, including the

maximum amount for market news ser-





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HE past few months the Michigan

Farmer has contained numerous

letters from farmers who are

meeting with success with sweet clo-



ver pasture. This. is evidence enough

that'sweet clover is rapidly gaining in

favor in this state as a pasture crop.



There are a good many farmers in the

state who have tried sweet clover for

pasture and have'not secured as satis-

factory results as they should have.

This has largely been due to a lack of

appreciation of the rapidity of growth

and the carrying capacity of the crop.

_, There are several advantages, of



sweet clover as a pasture crop. One

of the outstanding of these,-is the fact

that growth starts quite early Vin/the

spring and continues throughout the

hot, dry summer months when June‘

grass and other pastures are likely to

be quite short. This advantage fre-

quently becomes a disadvantage when

sweet .clover is allowed to become too

rank before grazing.



Grazing should begin when the

plants are from six' to eight inches

high, and sufficient live stock should

be kept on the pasture to keep the

growth down to at least knee—high. If

the growth gets much taller than this

the plants become woody, the cumarin

content increases quite rapidly and the

quality of the pasture decreases. When

it is noticed that the growth is gaining

too rapidly on the live stock, it is ad-

visable to clip the pasture about eight

inches high.



'The carrying capacity of sweet clo—

ver pasture is exceptionally heavy.

This varies, of course, with the season

and with the soil, but as a general av-

erage, sweet clover may be expected

to accommodate one head per acre

throughout the growing season. Un-

der quite favorable conditions four or

five head of live stock may be pas-

tured on one acre.





One of the most frequent mistakes

made when pasturing sweet clover is

that of not having sufficient live stock

on the pasture to keep the growth

subdued. The pasture will last much

later in the season of the second year

if the growth is pastured fairly heav-

ily. This heavy pasturing prevents the

plants from forming seed. When seed

is allowed to form, the plants drop

their leaves and die. The cumarin

content of young, succulent shoots is

much lower than that of older, more

mature plants. When the season is

exceedingly dry and long, the cumarin

content sometimes gets so high that

the plants cease to be palatable.



At one time it was thought by a

good many farmers that sweet clover

would not be eaten by most classes of

live stock when“ they once become

accustomed to it. The best time to

start live stock on sweet clover is in

the early spring when the cumarin con—

tent of the young paints is quite low.



Cattle and sheep very seldom bloat

when on sweet clover pastures. If cat~

tle or sheep are very hungry and the

sweet clover plants are wet, there is

some danger of bloat. Sweet clover is

much safer than alfalfa or June clover.

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Cattle, when allowed sweet clover

pasture only, frequently crave some

dry roughage. This is much more no-

ticeable during a wet year, due to the

extremely succulent nature of sweet

clover pasture. This craving may fre—

quently be prevented by allowing the

cattle to have the run of a straw stack.

XVhen this is neglected the appetite of

the animal may become depraved and

the services of a veterinarian will be





. necessary. It has been the experience





of a few Michigan farmers ’that‘rock

salt is not readily enough available to

the “animal and should not be used

when pasturing sweet clover. ' The or-

dinary bulk salt'is quite satisfactory

and to be preferred. ~ .



The fact that sweet clover pasture

is succulent, however, is a decided ad-

vantage in the case of dairy cattle. A

high flow of milk can only be secured

when succulent feed is available.

When June grass pasture becomes dry,

it is necessary to feed ensilage .to sup-

ply the succulence. This is seldom

necessary with sweet clover pasture.





The bulk of sweet clover pasture is

produced the second season. If condi-

tions are at all favorable considerable

pasture may be secured during the late

summer and fall of the first season.

Owing to the peculiar b (1 formation

of the sweet clover plant the first sea-

son, there is little danger of over-pas-

turing. Some top growth should be

left for protection during the winter.



When sweet clover is grown in a ro-

tation, it may be used as a pasture

crop to a greater advantage than when

it is used as a permanent pasture.



There are several different strains

of. sweet clover. The one most fre-

quently grown in Michigan is the bien-

nial White clover or common sweet clo—

ver.. Occasionally a field of biennial

yellow is seen. The biennial yellow

is from ten days to two weeks earlier

in maturing and produces from two-

thirds to three-fourths as much growth

as the biennial white. The biennial

yellow is more decumbent and for this

reason, a. few farmers contend that it

will stand pasturing better than the

biennial White.



The feeding value of sweet clover

pasture is very high, due to the fact

that the plants contain a high percent—

age of protein as well as minerals.

Nitrogen, potassium, and calcium are

quite abundant in sweet clover. The

phosphorus content is low.



Sweet clover is especially well adap-

ted as a pasture crop for cattle and

sheep, due to the fact that it very

seldom causes bloat. Horses do well

on sweet clover and hogs may be pas-

tured on sweet clover to good advan—

tage. However, alfalfa is proving

more popular as a pasture crop for

hogs.





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A. wanted to buy an auto of B.

A.’s Wife refused to sign. B. told A.

that if he wanted the car, B. would

take the mortgage with only A.’s name

on it. A. got out of work and wanted

B. to give him longer time on it, and

wanted to give B. a chattel mortgage

on the car, and personal property, but

B. refused, when the mortgage came

due, could B. take the personal prop-

erty from A.’s wife? Could B. take

ginyxtfhilég from A. except the car?—





A mortgage on homestead or exempt

team and tools, without the wife’s sig-

nature is void, but the creditor could

nevertheless take anything for the

debt that was not exempt, by bringing

suit and levy under execution—Rood.





REOPENING DIVORCE CASES.





Can a divorce case be reopened af-

ter the decree is signed, when it is not

signed until after thirty days after

granted?—N. C.



A decree may be set aside at any

time before it is enrolled. The statute

provides that the decree shall be en-

rolled twenty days from the time it is

entered it no appeal has been claimed

within that time and no petition for

rehearing has been presented.——Rood.





USE OF PRIVATE ROAD.





The main road to my farm is block-

ed With snow. There is a private road





' ,running through three farms to mine





which has been used by the public for

over ten years. Everyone, else going

that way use the road across; but Mr.

G., one of the owners, on account of

an old grudge, says I cannot drive

across. As long as the main road is

blocked, can he stop me from driving

where the rest drive?—R. A.



When a highway is blocked persons

using the highway 'may lawfully go

around the obstruction on private

ground. But they cannot, on this

ground, go cross lots from one road to

another. In fact, that the owner per-

mits some persons to use his land does

not require him to permit Others to

do so. The fact that the drive has

been used for a number Of years by

the public raises the question whether

there has been dedication as a high-

way and acceptance by public authori-

ties. This is a 'question of facts.“

Rood.





 





A cow COLLISION.





On August 22, at dusk, I drove my

cows across the road to the barns.

They had all crossed the road but the

last one, which turned, and was hit by

a rapidly approaching car, with lights





‘on, injuring the cow so badly that I





had to kill her a couple of hours later.

The car hit the cow so hard that it

was also badly damaged. About two

months later I recrxived a letter from

a lawyer asking me to pay the amount

Of damage on the car. Am I laible for

damages? Have I a claim on the own-

er of the car for the value of my cow?

P. K.





Inquirer is not liable for the injury

to the car and is entitled to recover

the value pf the cow. Better see an

attor‘Iiey'.~vRood.





STARTING YOUNG CALVES WITH

LITTLE MILK.





Please give me a method for raising

calves without milk.-—H. C.



It is a difficult problem to start the

young Calves without any milk at all.

Milk is nature’s food for the. young

and there really is no substitute for

it. However, if you have a little milk,

you can get along very well, for milk

contains the vitamines that seem to be

so essential in the development of the

young. In pioneer days, when the milk

from the only cow was sorely needed

for the children, the calf, if it was

raised, was fed only a little milk, and

the balance of the ration was made up,

of hay tea. .These later years we have

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mines are found in varying amounts in

the grains, but that no one grain con

tains a sufficient amount in the right

proportion. The grains also, of course,

contain the protein, carbohydrates and

fat that are necessary to make growth

ifrthey' have the vitamines to make

them operative. If you make a miX<

ture of various grains, the more the bet-

ter, corn, wheat, buckwheat, flax, etc.,

and make a thin gruel by boiling, you

will have as good a substitute for milk

as you can get. The Wisconsin EX<

periment Station obtained as good re

sults with such a grain mixture as they

did with the commercial calf meals

found on the market. If you .have a

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BUILDING FENCES.





Is there a law that compels a man

to build a line fence through timbered

land? He don’t use it for pasture, and

refuses to build a fence—Vt". H. S.



If the land is inclosed, the adjoin-

ing owner may be compelled to build

a fence. It matters not whether the

land is cleared or forest—Rood.





GROWING LIMA BEANS.





I have read in the Michigan Farmer

about lima beans. I would like to

know on what soil they will grow best.

\Vill you also tell me the size, and

the yield of them per acre? What

kind of beans would you advise me to

rais'e on sandy loam soil?-A. H.



From two to three thousand acres of

lima beans are produced in southwest-

ern Michigan each year for canning

purposes. The crop does not ripen

safely for seed in Michigan. hence

nearly all of 'the seed is secured from

southern California.



Henderson‘s Bush Lima is the most

widely grown variety. As handled in

Michigan, the lima crop is on a con-

tract basis and I would suggest that

you correspond with the Roach Cau-

ning Company, of Grand Rapids.



The lim'as are best adapted to early

10111115 and fertile ,sandy loams in the

southwestern quarter of Michigan.



Red kidney beans should give you

the best results, as dried beans on

your land. Fromten to eighteen bush-

els per acre can be expected from Red

Kidneys, when properly handled. The

dark red kidney beans are in particular

demand at the present time. This

crop should be planted from May 20

to June 5 on a thoroughly fitted seed<

bed. The use of manure in the fall or

early spring, and 2m) to 300 pounds of

a high-grade commercial fertilizer,

greatly benefits the crop—J. F. COX.





HOLDING CLOTHES FOR BOARD.





I am a widow and board private

children. Two parties still owe me

two weeks’ board each. They both

live in Detroit, and the one party I

have lost track of. Can you tell me

how to locate him? They have taken

the children home, and promised to

paylater, and that was a year ago and

they have not paid yet. One party’s

children left part of their clothing at

my place. Have I a right to hold

their clothes until I get my pay, and

it‘ I don’t get my pay have I a right

to sell the clothes and keep the mom

ey? She wants me to send the clothes

and she would pay me, but I don’t

care to take chances, for if she were

honest she would have paid before——

Reader. '



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until paid, but no right to sell it. If

the collection is not obtained, turn it:





over to some collector.—Rood.
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PUPiLS CHANGE EATING HABlTS.





 





VER 3,000 pupils in the primary



schools of Marquette county—the

largest county in Michigan—were giv-

en instruction in nutrition, during the

year just closed, under the supervision

of their teachers ' and Miss Marian

Rider, home demonstration agent.

More than 200 teachers are enrolled in

this work. Miss Rider reports that





. forty-five per cent of the children have





formed the habit ‘of drinking a pre-

scribed amount of milk daily; thirty-

nine percent have learned to eat more

vegetables; forty—five per cent have

learned to eat more fruit daily; fifty-

one per cent have learned to eat

hearty breakfasts before going to

school; fifty-two per cent have ‘learned

to take the proper amount of~rest;

nineteen per cent gaveup drinking

coffee.





CLO'VERLAND’S HIGH-PRODUCING

COWS.





 





MR. J. G. W‘ELLS, JR, dairy spe—

cialist of the M. A. C. for the

Upper Peninsula, reporting on the De-

cember records of the cow testing as-

sociations of the peninsula, finds that

the Marquette-Alger County Associa-

tion took most of the honors for that

month. The herd standing highest in

butter-fat production was the herd of

fifteen pure—bred and high-grade Hol-

steins on the farm of the Branch State

Prison near Marquette. The average

production of this herd was 1,453

pounds of milk and 48.2 pounds of fat

for the month. A pure—bred cow in

this herd led the three-year—old class,

having produced 1,798 pounds of milk

and fifty—three pounds of fat. This

herd was milked thrice each day and

has had exceptional care and feed, ac-

counting for the high record reported.

Two pure-bred Guernseys from the

famous Baycliffs herd at Big Bay, Mar-

quette county, led in the two-year-old

and the mature classes, having an out~

put of 1,262 pounds of milk and fifty—

three pounds of fat, and 1,541 pounds

of milk and eighty-five pounds of fat

respectively. This last record led the

peninsula and was made by the cow,

“Rilma,” which was milked four times

daily. John Tassava’s pure—bred Hol-

stein lrom Gogebic county led the four-

yearoold class, with 2,021 pounds of

milk and 68.17 pounds of fat. The high-

est association average was made by

Iron county with 563 pounds of milk

and 23.1 pounds of fat per cow.

THOUSANDS OF ACRES HELD BY

GOVERNMENT.





 





RESPONDING to a request for in-



‘lformation regarding :the amount

of United States and Michigan land—

holdings still existing in the Upper

Peninsula, the State Conservation De-

partment has prepared a statement

which Will be of interest to readers of

The Michigan Farmer. This informa-

tion was wanted in conneCtion with the

conference on forestry held at Chicago

on January 22-23, which was attended

by several men from the peninsula in-

terested in the problems of forest con-

servation.



The state’s land-holdings are derived

largely from lands which have gone

delinquent for taxes. Just recently one

of our largest lumber companies turn-

ed back to the state 30,000 acres of

these lands, and others have done like-

wise. While it is undoubtedly to be

preferred that lands unfit for agricul—

ture shall be turned over to the state

for reforestation, the process of trans-





fer works hardships upon rural com-





munities which formerly depended; on





, these lands for a. portion of their taxes





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whatever is valuable, are ready to un-

load and thus avoid the annual drain

on their ievenues Which such owner-

ship affords. They have no incentive

to attempt reforestation on their own





account, for under our present taxing-





methods, as soon as reforestation

starts taxes advance and these will eat

up the entire increment of value at—

taching to these forest lands before the

timber crop is secured.



The conservation department’s fig-

ures show that in the state-owned for-





est lands of the Upper Peninsula there‘





are 35. 026 acres not under administra-

tion as a part of the state forest sys-

tem, while there are 75,787 acres in

the Superior Game Refuge, formerly

the Lake Superior State Forest before





total acreage in state forest and game

refuge lands in the peninsula 110,813.

The United States has 24,835 acres 'Of

national forest lands in the Upper Pe-

ninsula. Taking" all state lands togeth—

er, the state owns 234,614 acres in the

peninsula, which includes 123,801 acres

of tax homestead, school and swamp

lands. In the tax lists for 1922, 2,269,-

413 acres. of lands were reported as

delinquent for taxes in the Upper Pe-

ninsula, While a year later the quan-

tity was 2,583,205 acres.





‘GROWS'WOLVERINE OATS.





 





AST year, Mr. Fred, Erickson, a.



Gogebic county farmer, planted

two acres of W'o'lverine oats from seed

secured from the Michigan Agricultur-

al College. He produced 120 bushels

and is now in a position to sell pure-

bred seed to his neighbors. The offi-

cial weight of these oats ran 34.5

pounds per bushel.





 





DECEMBER WAS A COLD MONTH.





 





"HE United States Weather Bu-

reau’s December statement of the

weather conditions in Michigan, as was

expected, shows a mean temperature





. well below the normal for that month,





it being five degrees below the aver-

age. The lowest temperature, as is

likely to be the case, was reported

from Humboldt in the 'Upper Penin-

sula, with a maximum low of twenty-

seven degrees below zero on December

28, but in 1917 the extreme minimum

for Michigan was thirty-eight below at

Humboldt, which lies in a posiiton fav-

orable to extreme low temperatures.

Escanaba held the state record in De-

cember for low precipitation, 90

inches.





HOLDS. ANNUAL MEETING.





 





HE Cloverland Farmers’ Mutual



Rodded Fire Insurance Company,

organized in 1.921, held its annual meet—

jug-recently at Hancock. The member.

ship had increased by 190 during the

year, now standing at 2,340. The in-

surance now carried amounts to $7,-

354,100, the gain last year being

$700,000.





 





APPROVE T. B. WORK.





 





HE Houghton county board of sup-

ervisors, after a long campaign on

behalf of women’s clubs and farmers,

has voted in favor of a test for bovine

tuberculosis for the county. It is, now

on the waiting-list of the state. There





are now twenty—one counties in Mich- ,





igan on this waiting-list. The proposed

test will cost _Houghton county, it is

estimated ,about $18,000. Dr.,F. K.

Hanson, assistant state veterinarian,

appeared. before the board toexplanl

the plan. It may.be, impossible...to

reach Hougton county this year. '





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7 POTATO growers in Michigan, who





have dairy. cows and who make a

practice of feeding small and 0th



erwise unmarketable tubers, have

fOund cull potatoes a valuable addition

to-the dairy ration. This is especially

truexin the 'fall, at digging time, when

the small'potatoes can be fed and got

out of the way before they freeze and

before the siloshave been opened.



When potatos are fed as a supple-

ment to grain and hay, they, furnish a

very welcome and much-needed addi-

tion to the dairy ration and are con-

sidered equal in value to good' corn

silage. As silage is worth from $7.00

to $10 a ton, potatoes for feed possess

a value of thirty-five to fifty cents a

hundredweight.



An Example of Mislnformation.



In a certain farm paper published in

the east, at farmer’s question about the

feeding value of potatoes was answer-

ed by the paper’s feeding expert in

such a. way as to discourage their use.

This farmer, who said he had a great

many small potatoes, was told that

they were ninety per cent water; that

they were ill—suited to feeding farm an-

imals, except as an appetizer, and that

as much as six pounds per day might

be fed a cow with good results.



As a matter of fact, potatoes contain

more dry matter and have a greater





- feeding value than any other vegeta-





ble. Instead of having ninety per cent

‘water, the percentage usually ranges

\between seventy and eighty per cent,

the extremes being sixty—five and

eighty-five per cent, according to fig-

ures given by Professor Fraser, of Cor-

nell, in his, book, “The Potato.” Pota-

toes contain more dry matter than car—

rots, mangels or bagas, which have al-

ways been extensively used for feeding

farm animals.



Small dairymen in Michigan fully

appreciate the value of potatoes for

feed. The owners of one or two cows,

in small towns in the potato belt, buy

all the cull potatoes from potato deal-

ers and feed them with very satisfac—

tory results.



“A small pailful of chopped potatoes,

fed with a little grain and alfalfa hay,





gives ‘me more milk than any other-





combination of feed I ever used,” said

a one-cow city dairyman recently.



In Germany, where a billion and a

half bushels of potatoes were produced





annually before the war, forty per cent?





of the crop was utilized for live stock

feed. Authorities on feeding at the

Michigan Agricultural College say that

milk cows should not be fed more

than twenty-five to thirty pounds a. day

for each 100 pounds of live weight.

Larger amounts may injure the quality

of the butter. To limit the feeding to

only six pounds a day, therefore, is

utter nonsense.





A profitable outlet for cull and sur-





plus potatoes is very necessary during '





a season of over—production like the

present one. In Maine the starch fac-

tories get most of the surplus and culls

at a nominal priceybut in Michigan

we have a much more profitable outlet

in our farm animals. Full directions

for feeding potatoes to all classes of

animals may be obtained from Exten-

sion Bulletin No. 25, entitled, “Feeding

Cull andSurplus Potatoes,” published

by the Michigan Agricultural College,

East Lansing, Michigan.





THIS EGG REMEDY IS GUARAN-

TEED.





 





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during the first quarter of the moon,

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ers’ Week, :held at M. A. 0.,



February 2-6, was contained in

the program of speeches andpclasses,

probably the most interesting feature

of the entire week for the average

farmer, were the numerous displays

and exhibitions which greeted one at

every turn. The United States Depart-

ment of, Agriculture, the State Depart-

ment of Agriculture, many affiliated

organizations, and the college itself,

cooperated in making these shows a

vital part of the week.



The more important exhibitions were



the M. A. C. Horticultural Show, the

Dairy Exhibition, the Michigan Grain

Show, the Michigan Potato Show, the

Michigan Egg Show, the M. A. C. Farm

Mechanics’ Demonstration, the Michi-

.gan Soils Association, and the Bar-

Iberry Eradication campaign. .

p The various shows served the dou~

ible purpose of solving serious prob-

;lems for the visitor and also entertain-

Ling him during the process. That the

efforts of the organizers were well tak-

en was provedyby the crowds of peo—

ple who thronged the buildings in

which the exhibits were shown.





 





I AGRICULTURAL MECHANICS AT;~

TRACT LARGE CROWDS.





HE work of the, Agricultural En-



gineering Department at M. A. C.

was clearly shown to the many hun—

dred farmers who visited their display

in the Agi'ciultural Building and on the

college grounds. The purpose of the

department was to give the Visitors an

attractive and instructive week along

practical lines, and they succeeded, ii“

the number of spectators is any cri-

terion.

i The, demonstration was divided into

‘ three parts. In a room in the Agricul-

itural Building, the drafting and con-

;struction of farm buildings was illus-

;lrated by the use ol’ minature models.

fThe matter of blue prints was also

,gone into quite thoroughly by the al-

tendants who answered the queries of

the farmer.



Different types of [arm water sys-

tems, electric light, plants, and modern

methods of sewage were on display in

the main laboratory of the, departmi it.

Gas engines loaned by companies

around the state, a. miniature marl

bucket designed by Professor Mussel-

man, and a simplex limespreadei', also

a product ol.‘ the department, came in

for a good deal 01' discussion by the

farmers, and instruction by the care-

takers.



Tlie usual workout, ol' tractors i'e-

Ceived a good deal of attention and n

number ol‘ pertinent comments made

Eon tliu Several types present. A new

:feaiui'e was the demonstration in con-

1icrete mixing and testing. This was

imore in the nature 01' an instruction

period as was the, class in rope splic-

ing and belt. lacing. which was held

every morning.





 





 





 





THE HORTICULTURISTS SHOW

THEIR W'ARES.





HE Sixteenth Annual Horticultural



Show held by the students of the

college in the. old Library Building,

was one of the most popular places on

the. campus during Farmers’ \ank at.

M. A. C.



\V'hilo the show properly included

fruit, flowers, and vegetables, the bulk

of the exhibit was made up of the

Michigan apple, the finest, in the land.

The many plates of apples on a green

background, with a few other species

of fruit, served to present a pleasing

picture to the visitor.



-About fifty entrants sent in exhibits

from all 'over the state, and even as

Much of the fruit

came directly, from the Grand Rapids





 





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Hort. Show, having been kept in stor-

age at Lansing. , ‘

The horticultural section of the





State Department of Agriculture re— .





peated its demonstration of last year

on methods of sorting, grading, and

packing so as to conform to market

demands. This was with the idea of

increasing the demand for apples by

a more attractive method of selling

them. . .



Various cooked products from the

Home Economics Department, and can—

ned goods from East Lansing grocers

constituted an interesting exhibition

on the ultimate use of the apple.



On Friday, a fruit sale was held in

which the majority of the exhibits

were sold to the farmers.



The committee behind the Hort.

Show this year consisted of W. D: VVil-

lard, of Oak Park, Ill., chairman; J. A.

Porter, of Plainwell, fruit; R. E. Meek,

of Manton, premiums; John S. Stark,

of Midland, .store; Harold Hough, of

Almout, decorations.





GRAIN SHOW GETS MUCH ATTEN-

TION.





N OVING the Corn Belt Northward,”



was the theme around which the

Michigan Crop Improvement Associa-

tion built their program and their dem—

onstration during Farmei's' Vr’eek. By

this was meant that during the last

few years a crop that was commonly

attributed to Iowa, Indiana, and Illi-

nois, has also been successful in Mich-

igan and Wisconsin by the use of

adapted seed, the employment of prop-

er fertilizers, and the throughness of

culture. Proof of the profitableuess

of the crop in Michigan is seen in the

l'act"that last year it ranked second

among farm crops:



The success of this effort to move

the. corn belt to the north was shown

by a huge display ol? connected panels

covering forty—two lfeet of wall space.

Each of the panels depicted one of the

factors which make for the raising of

corn on a. profitable basis. In the

center 01' the display was '3 crib of

Michigan corn at its very best. The

demonstration was very effective in

visualizing to the onlooker the actual





factors which contributed to a. suc-

cessful crop. .

Another part 01' the. association’s





work was the grain Show, in which

400 to 500 entries 01' Michigan grains

were. exhibited on a competitive basis.

Many of these entries came from the

International Hay and Grain Show in

Chicago, in which Michigan products

ranked acehigh. In addition to corn,

red wheat, Rosen rye, oats, and barley

were on display. In every instance,

close competition marked the. award—

lugr ol‘ ribbons.



In a year that was acknowledged to

be an adverse one for grains, several

exhibitors came forward with a grade

of products which showed that the

proper selection of seeds and the nec-

essary cultivation al\ways produces

results.





OFFERS BOUNTY FOR WOLVES.





HE Chippewa county board of sup-



ervisors has voted to allow a, boun-

ty of $20 each l'oi' wolves and coyotes

and $10 1'01“ their pups. The supervis-

ors ol' Mackinac and. Lucecouuties,

which join Chippewa on the west are

being urged to take similar aetion.

Those claiming the bounty are requir-

ed to bring the carcass to the county

clerk and make affidavit. that the ani-

mal was slain in Chippewa county.

Pelts will not be accopted for bounty.





HE Houghton-Chassell Farm Loan



Association has 125 members and

loans amounting to 378,300, .it .was re-

ported at its recent annual. meeting.





 





 





 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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HIS time I want to write about

my neighbors. You see, when-

ever other topics fail we can

always talk about our neighbors. On

one side I havea-neighbor who is an

old, gentleman. - I did not raise any





small. grain last year, so I had no





straws» After this neighbor threshed

he insisted that I bring over my wag-





- on and load on all the straw I could.





get on one load. ‘He even did not like





' it because I refused to come back for





another load. No, he did not want any

pay and would not take any. Straw

sells here for $15, a ton if baled, and

$10 if loose. It is hard to get even at

that price. ~ , "



Across the road I have another

neighbor. When I had a tough piece

of plowing to do he brought over his





A, big team and.heavy plow, helped me





make two rounds, then handed over

the lines and told me to bring back

the team when I got through. We bor-

row each other’s tools and help each

other Whenever we have an emergency

job. On the other side I have another

neighbor. These folks are younger and

have passed through the same struggle

wife and I are passing through to get

a start. He gives me grape plants,

strawberry plants, and a lift whenever

I need one. Naturally I try to return

these favors Whenever possible.



.A short distance down the road I

had another neighbor. He took sick a

year ago before he had his corn





husked. The men gathered at hiS‘





place, husked the corn, tied up the





 





 





There is no Question of the Advantage

ofrTal'king Over Farming Problems

With Our Neighbors.





fodder, cribbed the corn and hauled in

the fodder. The poor fellow died a

week later and the funeral procession

was so long the services at the grave

were over before the last car got to

the cemetery.



Late last fall another neighbor was

killed in an automobile accident. His

children were too small to do the farm

work. The men gathered at his place

a couple of weeks ago and trimmed

every bit of fruit on the place. Acres

of grapes and hundreds of trees were

trimmed in..0ne day. The women came

with great baskets full of good things

and served a fine dinner at noon. Not

one of the men there that day had his

own trimming done.



When I was a boy at home, the folks

lived for a time in a third story flat.

One day I looked out of the window

and saw a hearse drive up and stop.

They carried away the body of the

woman in the flat beneath us. We did

not even know that she had been sick.

There were no services at the home,

no funeral procession, they simply

loaded her in and drove off while the





weeping family followed in the rear. '





I never knew her name or how she

died.



This isn’t a. fairy story; there is no

moral attached. There is only this

resolution. Me, I think I stay on the

farm a while longer. Me, I like neigh-

bors. If you think your’s are good, just

come and take a look at mine. Me, I

got good neighbors, I like them. .





Cows ’are better natured and better

producers when. furnished a variety





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“Z" Engines

Over 400.000 farmers use thin

enginebecauseitislow mom

cost. low in operating cost,

and lsabsolutely dependable.

It is simple, stur and pow-

‘eriul. Has high tension bat-

tery or magneto ignition:

auction fuel reed: positive

lubrication; renewal,” die-

cast'bearings: parts subiect

to wear are hardened and

ground: crankshaft. con-

necting rod and camshaft are

drop iorgings. More drop

forgings and specially heat

treated parts are used than in

any other engine or this type.

Highest quality obtainable—

at the lowest price possible!





Prion





“A h. p. bat. equiot. 3 48.50

IV; is. p. mag. equipt.. 58.50

3 h. p. bat. equipt.... 83.50

3!). p. mag. equlpt.. 98.50

6 h. p. mag. equips..153.50





Mos quoted are cash I. o. A.

factory: add/r9611“ to

your town





Why over a million farmers depend upon Fairbanks-Morse Products





greatest manufacturing institutions-





OUR money, when wisely spent, will ’ g

with the best modern facilities for manu-





buy for you the greatest amount of

value and service.



One way to get this result with the least

amount of efiort is to rely upon the name

Fairbanks-Morse. Over a million farmers

know this is true. And more are learning





it every day.





Fairbanks-Morse stands for over 60 years

of association with the American farmer





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Home Light and if“





Power Plants





Both electric light and en-

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atone cost. Engine power is

available at belt pulley while

battery is belngcharged. En-

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light alone at any time.

Double utility atoneiowcost.





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N0. 11/; Plant ................ 9325-00

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Windmills

All parts are completely en-

closed and run in oil. Cue

pinion and worm gear elim-

inate many parts. Crank-

shaft isdrop forged. All work-

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construction—builtiorallie-

time of service. Self— regulat-

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Fairbanks scalar. electric motors. to complete lino of (sacral

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Fairbanks. Morse 8: Co. has a new sales plan

that ofiers greatly increased opportunity to

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Grind grain mixtures as well

as any single grain. When

grinding plates are worn on

one side they can be turned

and used again. Non-bridg-

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cutting knife adiuata-ble

from outside—extreme lim-

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Prices





No. 4...

No. 8. . .. 40.00

No. 10... 55.00





Cash f. o. b facing!

Home Water Plants





At an extremely low cost you

canhavewater under pressure

-—hot or cold—in bathroom .

kitchen ,laundry.bam.water-

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wantit.The Fairbanks-Morse

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120 gallons per hour capacity



pump, (lo-cycle motor. s-gal.

galv’d tank, complete..384.75

200 gallons per hourcapacity

pump.60-cyclcmotor,35-gal.

galv'd tank,complete 3115.00

Also larger sizes, for engine

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Prices quoted are cash

f. o. b. factory





facturing quality equipment at lowest





your money.





prices. That, in simple terms, is the rea-

son why Fairbanks-Morse farm power

equipment ofiers you better value for





Read the descriptions and prices and





make your own comparisons. See the local

Fairbanks- Morse authorized dealer, or





check and mail the coupon. We will gladly





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juices. Feed 1 pound Colonial Special Farmer’s Salt:

to each 100 pounds dry feed. Keep another supply

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cns; free from gritty substances. Insures the animal

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farmers through‘ their farm loan associations.





Thus the twelve Federal Land Banks, with their more than

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To provide funds for loaning, the Banks issue Federal Land

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a standard investment security.





Every farm family can share in the benefits of this mutual

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Federal Land Banks are located at





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' ful Looking worm crawl through

the walls of ~:a. wooden box ters-





irified a feminine post office clerk. The





box was mailed. to the entomologist of





’the Agricultural College at East Lan-





sing. The worm she saw was a heal-

thy specimen of the European corn

borer, which had tunnelled through

the wood and gotten free. This inci-

dent reminded the Experiment Station

Entomologist that tin is the only safe

container for mailing these borers in,

since they quickly eat through card-

board and wood, and even the corks

of bottles are readily pierced by their

strong mandibles.





This indicates the voracious feeding

habits of‘this European corn borer,

which insect is now knowu to beac-

tive in ten eastern counties of Michi-

gan. Farmers are worried, especially





« those who have witnessed the work of





the pest, and its ability to destroy

corn and some 206 other plants.





Last week a conference was called

at the editorial rooms of the Michigan

Farmer to learn what could be done

toward controlling the pest. Repre-

sentatives of the United StatesDepart-

merit of Agriculture, of the Michigan

Agricultural College, the State Depart-

ment of Agriculture, the State Farm

Bureau, the State Grange, county

agents, farmers, and field men of com-

mercial concerns, together with press





, agents responded to the call.





Gives Life History of Borer.





At this conference the habits and

the known methods of controlling the

corn borer were presented by L. H.

Vi'orthley, expert in charge of Euro-

pean corn borer control of the United

States Department of Agriculture. He

told his interested listeners that the

insect passes the winter as a full-

grown larva in corn, stalks, stubbles,

cobs or other vegetable refuse. This

larva is nearly an inch long and about

one-eighth of an inch thick. It has a

dark brown 01' black head, with the

color of the body ranging from light

brown to dark brown and pink, and

each segment marked with a row of

dark spots. The underside of the

body, however, is flesh colored and

free from markings.



When warm weather arrives, the

borer cuts a small openng from its

winter quarters to the surface of the

plant, preparatory to the escape of the

moth, when hatched. Then the borer

covers this opening with a thin sub-

stance and, remaining in the old tun-

nel, proceeds to spin ifs cocoon in

which it changes to a pupa. It thus

remains for nearly three weeks, when

it emerges as a moth early in June.

The moth sleeps during the day and

goes forth in the evening and morning

laying masses of eggs on the under

side of the leaf or on the stock of the

host plant. In about a Week the eggs

hatch, the young larva 01' borer being

about one-sixteenth of an inch long,

with a black head and a pale yellow

body marked by the rows of dark spots

mentioned above. It feeds a few days

on the surface and then enters the

plant, where its development is com‘

pletcd. It lives and cats in the plant

tunnel till cold Weather, and hiber-

nates there throughout the winter.



This" borer attacks any part of the

corn plant above the ground, and every

sort‘ol' corn. The stock, leaves, tas-

sels, ears of dent, flint, sweet and pop

corns all suffer; and, where it is well

established, the extent of the damage

is appalling. ‘



Methods of Control.



A number of things can be done to

restrain this pest. These consist of

cultural and artificial practices. As yet





- no dependeiiCe can be placed upon par-





asites or other natural enemies, since

these are not now in sufficient num-

bers to be of consequence. It may re-





 





 





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unnecessary. . '



So control practices are necessary.

It is, of course, of the greatest import—

ance that all the farmers, in an infest-

ed area practice these restraining

methods: since, during the moth stage,

the fields or one farmer may suffer by

moths flying from the fields of' his

neighbors. Here are” the suggestions:



(1). Cut the corn early and as close

to the ground as possible, for as the

season progresses the borers go down

in the stalk where there is more mois-

tui‘e.





(2). In the case of sweet corn, cut

and remove stalks promptly after the

corn has been harvested. Put the

stalkan the silo, feed to live stock,

or burn. , .



(3). Field corn should be cut as soon

as mature, ensiloed, or fed to live

stock, and all uneaten parts destroyed

before the first of May, following.

More of the fodder will be consumed

by the animals if it is run through a.

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(4). All the crop remnants, such as :





stalks, cobs, stubble,

stroyed before May 1. Corn stubble

can be broken off easily when frozen.

Cornstalk \butts should be kept sep-

arate from other barnyard refuse to

permit burning. It would be well to

include the crop remnants from the

garden and weeds about the premises.

Burning out fenca rows, field borders,

roadsides, etc, is also important.



(5). Late in the autumn, preferably

in November or December, the com

field should be plowed thoroughly to a

depth of six inches, at least.





(6). Since late planted corn is less

likely to become infested, growersfind

it effective to plant a small patch of

early corn in which the moths la)r

their eggs. This crop is harvested

early and fed or ensiloed. The main

crop is then planted later than usual.

Here caution should be exercised, for

unless the trap crop is harvested at

the time the corn is mature, or prefer-

ablebefore, it becomes a menace to

the main crop rather than’an aid.





(7). Quai'antines have helped mate.

rially in slowing down the spread of

the borer. In Ohio last year, 934,466

automobiles were stopped, and from

them 34,867 cars of corn containing

hundreds of borers, were taken. Some

of these cars would have carried in-

fected corn hundreds of miles from

the quarantined districts. In this con-

nection an honor system. was satisfac-

torily established, which reduced to a

minimum the inconvenience to which

the traveling public was put by these

measures.



Must Work TOgether.



In such work, community effort is

essential. Success depequ upon every

person in the infested area cooperat-

ing. The unwillingness of one farmer

to properly care for his premises will

put to naught the work done by his

neighbors. This led those at. the con-

ference to believe that mandatory com-





pliance must, be. provided for. Such

compliance requires legislation.

1.1711111191111019, repressive measures





successfully carried out in Michigan

will be of benefit to other states. This

makes the problem a national one, and

justifies cooperation with the federal

government. The United States De-

partment of Agriculture already has

its agents on the job, and appropria-

tions for fighting the pest have been

made by congress, conditional upon

the financial cooperation of affected

states. That no duplication of work

result, perfect coordination of effort,

betweeu the state and federal govern-

ment is desired. If this is done, it will

insure the maximum of good from the

minimum of cost to state and nation.

These facts, coupled with the urgent

need for immediate action to stay the

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' . 0 one who is interested in agri-

culture and ‘making the trip by

train from Michigan to New Or-



leans in mid-winter, nature greets the

traveler with some old friends and, of

course, with many new ones.



One friend that may seem curious to

many, visible throughout the entire dis-

tance, is the sycamore, or cottonwood.

The white gleam of the barkmade the

tree conspicuous even from a through

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ricultural product—corn. Standing

stalks were visible all the way, for the

southern harvest the most of the crop

on hoof—a practice becoming more

common in Michigan. Corn may be

well named the King of Crops. Hun-

dreds of 196-pound sacks of corn were

stacked on the wharves of Mobile, New

Orleans, for shipment to other coun-

tries. In fact, one ship was loading

corn for Cuba on a Wharf at New Or-

leans. “What do the people of Cuba

want with our corn?” wasmy ques-





tion. “Why, Cap," replied a grinning

negro stevedore, “they make corn

whiskey.“ Perhaps he .is right. I





learned that hundreds of thousands of

bushels of our principal crop has been

shipped from our southern ports. This

is a large factor in boosting the price

of corn.





Here are some brief notes observed

from the windows, gained from talking

with a native who happened to be on

the car.



In Ohio, barns appeared older, and

smaller than in Michigan. A sight of

some of the barns in Gratiot county, in

Michigan, would make these people

“sit up and take notice.” Farm houses

appear good. Cornstalks standing in

nearly every corn field.





Kentucky—Barns still smaller than

in Ohio; cornstalks standing and

Small, not like the Ohio corn; mules

and more mules; negroes and “most”

negroes; limestone outcroppingifarm

houses small and battered; tobacco

drying, and storage sheds on most

farms. ‘F—Yes, boss, we raise lots of

tobacco,” remarked a Kentuckian.

“Yes, those are tobacco drying sheds.

We fire (dry) them eight days with

logs, and two to four weeks with saw-

dust (smoulder). \Ve plant tobacco

in May, using a. planter, used to do it

by hand about as you row potatoes.

We cultivate about as you do potatoes.

AOur yields are 700 to 1,000 pounds per

acre. The best tobacco area is

around Lexington, where they raise the

Burley tobacco. It cures lighter in

color and is thin leafed. Excuse me,

boss, I just took a chew before you

came.” Here he gave a demonstration

of an art which, thank God, we have

lost in the north. I had noticed that

all coaches were liberally supplied

with spittoons in all cars.



Tennessee—~More tobacco, less corn,

houses smaller, and some on posts,

lots of standing timber—birch, syca—

more, oak and pine in evidence——

mountains.



“Cold, yes, sah,” remarked a native.

“You know, we can’t stand cold like

you northerners.” Leaving Michigan

on December 29, with bitter cold

weather on, it was expected that it

would be warmer towards the south.

However, the cold continued in Ohio,

Kentucky and Tennessee. There in no

use" of going to these states to avoid

the cold.



Northern Alabama—Mountains, lots

of trees; houses on posts; every house

has one fireplace, many have more

than one; houses whitewashed; all

farm land curiously terraced, crops

rowed around the hills, standing cot-

tonstalks more noticeable.



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Disk Harrow is a simple and

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boxes, the oscillating disk scrap-

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feet. -All sizes can be equipped

with tandem attachment. Double

disking more than pays for itself.





 





Heavy Yields Follow Good Tillage





and Here Are Three Profit-Making Implements





The McCormick—Deering

Leverless Disk Harrow is a

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tractor automatically sets the

angle of both front and rear

gangs. When the tractor starts

forward the gangs hold that

angle until released by a pull

on the rope. In 5 to 10-foot sizes

to fit your power.





The Dunham Culti—Packer

shown above with the leverless

disk harrow has no equal as a

seed-bed finisher. It pulverizes

the soil, fills out air spaces, and

saves moisture content. Follow-

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plants to get a quick start, firmly

set in finely mulched soil. Use

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wheat; to rejuvenate meadows,

etc. It is far ahead of a roller

for small grains. Made in eight

sizes, for horse or tractor use.





Mc Cormick—Deering Tillage Tools combine these essentials —— good work,

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ANY farmers’ ask. this Question

after they have tested their herds





completed his second year in the Ma-

comb Association No. 1 during Septem-

ber. One cow in the herd, a four-year-

old grade Holstein, produced the first

year 7,502 pounds of milk and 239.8

pounds of fat. The last six weeks of

the first year she was well fed and

put into good coudition. After fresh-

ening she was fed according to produc-

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14,184 pounds of milk and 484.3 pounds





of fat. The increase in the second





year over the first was 6,682 pounds

at milk and 244.5 pounds of fat. The

increased return over feed cost in the.

case of this one cow more than paid

the testing fees the second year.





CURB THE CORN BORER.





(Continued from page 158).

further progress of this pest, led those

present at the conference, unanimously

to adopt the following resolution:





Whereas, the European Corn Borer

has heavily infested southern Canada,

and has made its appearance to an

alarming and serious extent in the

states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania

and New York, and



\Vhereas, the United States Depart—

ment of Agrciulture, in cooperation

with Michigan agencies, has conducted

certain limited control measures dur-

ing the past four years, and



Whereas, not only the corn crop, but

also other crops in Michigan are

threatened by the invasion of this ser—

ious European pest, and



Whereas, the congress of the United

States has appropriated certain funds

for the control of the European Corn

Borer, said control measures to be con—

ducted cooperatively with state au-

thorities.

Therefore, be it resolved, that we,

in conference at the ofi‘ice of The

Michigan Farmer, in the City of De-

troit, this twenty-sixth day of Janu-

ary, 1925, hereby approve, recommend,

and petition the legislature, 110W in

session, to appropriate not less than

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Michigan State Department of Agricul-

ture, to be spent cooperatively with

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ITH grapes we have a local prob-

W lem. This crop is raised mostly

in two counties, Van Buren and Ber-

rién. , This crop has assumed a size of

importance both in velume and man-

nor of transportation. With grapes,

we meet the truck proposition at its

peak. It is hard to obtain an accurate

figure on just how much was moved

by truck in 1924. Some sources claim

as high as seventy"per cent moved out

of Berrien county by truck. My best

guess Wauld place it at forty per cent





in Berrien and less than ten per cent“





in Van Buren. Be that as it may, it

is of sufficient consequence to cause

apprehensive thoughts along this line.

I am not against the truck movement,

but as the logical hours for moving

their loads are between eight in the

evening and four in the morning, you

can readily see that some means must

be devised to inspect this forty or

more per cent being shipped by truck.

Perhaps some of the grape men will

speak of this, so I’ll pass on.



The Market News reports over 4,000





would have proven Michigan’s claim

to the best table grape on the market,

but the danger of approaching frosts

made all plans fail. We did the best

we could, and that’s the very best any—

body can do. The first sales of four

quart cases reached the unexpected

price of thirty-five cents per case and

continued for some time? Under ordi-

nary normal climatic conditions, it

would have been a record breaker.

Potatoes.



Michigan rolls on an average of

20,000 carloads per year. It is a. big

deal. I11 October, 1923, seventy per

cent of this crop was being shipped

under-grade and our potatoes were be—

ing discriminated against in most

large-markets. There remained but

two things to do; either grade them

or leave them at home on the farms.

This was a forced condition. About

the fifteenth day of October, 1923, the

potato grades were being made effec-

tive through and by the State Depart-

ment of Agriculture’s Inspection Ser-

vice. Six» men were assigned to the





 





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cars shipped by rail and boat. Van

Buren county claims 2,400, which

leaves 1,600 for Berrien. If ferty per

cent of Berrien county grapes went by

truck, and ten per cent of Van Buren’s

the same way, adding to that what

was sold to the juice plants, makes a

total of close to 6,000 mm for Mich-

igan.





We should make some changes in

our present grape law (let me say here

that I am still expressing others’

thoughts). Our four-quart Climax bas-

ket grade, now called the “Choice Ta-

ble Grape Grade/”should be changed

to “Fancy Table Grapes.” Every sales

agency inlthe deal will tell you so, and

where can you get a better criterion?

Change this tolerance and make it

more practicable; have five per cent

on berries and ten per cent on bunch-

es. Five per cent on berries would

permit thirty-five undersized, green

berries; that’s enough. Ten per cent

on bunches would not mean over two

bunches less compact in construction,

and that is not too many to make it

practicable for proper packing.





Your “Choice Grapes” or “No. I Jum-

bo,” should call for just as good a pack

or grade as the “Fancy” grade, with

an increase in tolerance. Growers are

packing it that way now to save time.

It should be sold on its merits; if you

tighten up on your “No. 1 Jumbo” and

put the balance of the crop in “No. 2

Jumbo,” you will force a distinction

between the tWO.



Michigan should require the variety

name on the basekts, also exclude rot

in the “No. 1 Jumbo.” By this, I mean

it should not be included in the toler-

ance. Keep your four-quart “Climax”

basket in the lime-light; the Eight-

eenth Amendment does not, nor never

will, affect this package. Last year’s

supply is not a consideration in‘this





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task of inspecting between 400 and 500

loading points, with from one to seven

buyers at each place. Before ten days

had been spent on this work the rec—

ords at Lansing showed why our po—

tatoes were not wanted in the mar-

kets. As high as seventy pounds to a

bag of cull stock was being shipped

out by some loaders, from twenty to

thirty pounds under-grade was consid—

ered a fair bag of potatoes. Think of

it—we were asking the housewife to

throw away one-half of the amount she

purchased. They do not enjoy this;

neither do they want to spend any ex-

tra. time in the preparation of scabby

or ill—shaped stock. They want them

smooth and clean, and have a right to

expect them.



The potato is a wholesome, nutri-

tious food product when properly pre?

pared; it is a well—known article and

requires no introduction, only as to

well—graded quality. Grading, be it

through voluntary or compulsory meth—

ods, is the keynote here; it alone will

produce the quality. In this field there

seems to be a long-standing bond be

tWeen the ISO-pound bag package and

something cheap. I believe the sooner

we sever this bond the quicker we

shall establish the potato as an article

of appreciation and value. A smaller

bag would permit the dealer to dis-

pense with one man in the handling





thereof, and they would be handled





with more care. Smaller and more at-

tractive packages, such as a twenty-

pound box or a ten or twenty-pound

white cloth bag, Would get away from

the old-time peck measure (which also

reminds of something cheap), and they

would find their place in the modern

kitchenettes Quality is the main

thing. Compulsory inspection has, in

part, put us back in the running, and;

continuing this, we shall soon be re-

instated. It is safe to say that with-

out the inspection service of 1923, the

big 1924 crop would not find a. market.





 





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





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ILL the farmers ever be able to

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beans grown in Michigan and, if 100,-

000 acres of these beans had been put

to beets, the beans would have shrouait

at least $2.00 more per hundredfibe—

cause the Michigan crop of beans in

1923 produced about one-half of- the

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declined. The farmers did not receive

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they would have received, if 100,000

less acres of beans had been planted.



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instead of 568,000, would have brought

the farmers in the state of Michigan

as much, as $3,000,000 more than did

the extra large surplus crop bring

them. ‘



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for the year 1923. Farmers this year

should beware lest they sow too many

beans, following the present attractive

prices. I



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which seems like an absurd idea. if

the acreage of crops grown could be

stabilized each year in connection with

our tariff, the farmers, as a whole.

would only occasionally meet with ser-

ious losses. I believe this canfland will

be done some time in the future, and

the quicker the better. L



Beans are a good fair price now and

Michigan can keep them so, if the

farmers Will plant only a normal

amount, which is about 450,000 acres

in the state of Michigan. Beets are

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the mills can handle.





URGES LAW OBEDIENCE BY

OFFICIALS.





MOVEMENT to secure better err



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was started at the White House a few

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law enforcement presented resolutions

commending to the people, and partic-

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the attitude of the President in his

conscientious obedience to the provis-

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the hope that the example of the first

citizen of our country may induce

those who are now violating the pro

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supremacy of the law.





SITTING IN THE LIGHT.





NCLE EZRA remarked the other



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this world will go forward on high.

For there is no use arguing that a.

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A cow giving 600 pounds of butter-

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Congressman Everett Sanders, of

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{wide the schOol, next to' Bout’s

“place. I could start for you the fire,

I.mornings, in the school. And thaw the

pump and bring in a pail of water.

This month, and January and February



and part of March, even, now I don’ t

m to market on account it’s winter, I

could start you the fire. Till spring.

And I could come maybe three times a

week, evenings, to Pool’s place, for les-

sons." He looked so helpless, so hum-

' ~ble, so huge; and the -more pathetic

for his hugeness.





She felt a little rush of warmth to- .





‘ ward him that was at once impersonal

‘ and maternal. She thought again,

“Why, the dear thing! The great

helpless big thing! How serious he

is! And funny.” He was indeed both

)serious and funny, with the ridiculous

cup cake in his great hand, his eyes

wide and ruminant, his face ruddier

than ever, his forehead knotted with

earnestness. She laughed, suddenly,

a gay little laugh, and he, after a puz-

zled pause, joined her companionably.



“Three evenings a week,” repeated

Selina, then, from the depths of her ig-

norance. “Why, I’d love to. I’d—«

love to."





HE evening turned out to be Tues-

days’ Thursdays, and Saturdays.

Supper was over by six-thirty in the

Pool household. Pervus was there by

seven, very clean as to shirt, his hair

brushed till it shone} shy, and given

to dropping his hat and bumping

against chairs, and looking solemn.

Selina was torn between pity and

mirth. If only he had blustered. A

- blustering man puts the world on the

defensive. A gentle giant disarms it.

Selina. got out her McBride’s gram-

mar and Duffy’s Arithmetic, and to-

gether they sta1 ted to parse verbs, pa-

per walls, dig cisterns, and extract

square roots. They found study im-

possible at the oilcloth-covered kitchen

table, with the Pool household eddying

about it. Jakob built a fire in the par—

lor Stove and there they sat, teacher

and pupil, their feeting resting cosily

on the gleaming nickel railing that en-

circled the wood burner.



On the evening of the first lesson

Roelf had glowered throughout supper

and had disappeared into the work-

shed, whence issued a great sound of

hammering, sawing, and general clat~

ter. He and Selina had got into the

way of spending much time together,

in or out of doors. They skated on

Vander Sijde’s pond; together with the

shrieking pigtails they coasted on the

little slope that led down from Kuy-

per’s woods to the main road, using

sleds that had been put together by

Roelf. On bad days they read or stud—

ied. Not Sundays merely, but many

week-day evenings were spent thus.

Selina was determined that Roelf

should break away from the uncouth

speech of the countryside; that he

should at least share with her the

somewhat sketchy knowledge gained

at Miss Ifister‘s select school. She,

the woman of almost twenty, never

talked down to this boy of twelve. The

boy worshipped her inarticulately. She

had early discovered that he had a

feeling for beautyvbeauty of line, tex-

ture, color, and grouping—that was

rare in one of his years. The feel of

a satin ribbon in his fingers; the or“

ange and rose of a sunset; the folds

of the wine-red cashmere dress; the

cadence ‘of a spoken line, brought'a

look to his face that startled her. She

had a battered volume of Tennyson.

When first she read him the line be—

ginning, “Elaine the fair, Elaine the

lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Asto-

lat—” he had uttered a little exclama-

tion. She, glancing up from her book,

had found his eyes wide, bright, and

luminous in his lean dark face.



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Since the gathering at Ooms’s hall

he had been moody and sullen; had

refused to answer when she spoke to

him of his bid for her basket. Urged,

he would only say, “Oh, it was just

fun to make old Ooms mad.”

Now,,with the advent of Pervus De-

Jong, Roelf presented that most touch-

ing and miserable of spectacles, a

small boy jealous and helpless in his

jealousy. Selina had asked him to





and head a certain roseate glow. . He

was Very grave. His brow wore a

troubled frown. Selina. would go over

a problem or a sentence again and

again, patiently, patiently. Then, sud-

denly, like a hand passed over his face,





his smile would come, transforming it.





He had white strong teeth, too small,

and perhaps not so white as they

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His future looked dreary——



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join the tri-weekly evening lessons;

had, indeed, insisted that he be a

pupil in the classround the parlor

stove. Maartje had said, on the night

of Pervus DeJong’s first visit, “Roelf,

you sit, too, and learn. Is good for

you to learn out of books the way

teacher says.” Klaas Pool, too, had

approved the plan, since it would cost

nothing and, furthermore, would in no

way interfere with Roelf’s farm work.

“Sure; learn,” he said, with a large

gesture.



Roelf would not. He behaved very

badly; slammed doors, whistled, scuff-

led on the kitchen floor, made many

mysterious trips through the parlor up

the stairs that led oh that room, as-

cending with a clatter; incited Geertje

and Jozina to quarrels and tears; had

the household in a hubbub; stumbled

over Dunder, the dog, so that that

anguished animal’s yelps were added

to the din.



Selina was frantic.

impossible amidst this uproar.

never been like this before,”

sured Pervus, almost tearfully.

don’t know what’s the matter.

awful.”



Pervus had looked up from his slate.

His eyes were calm, his lips smiling.

“Is all right. In my house is too still,

evenings. Next time it goes better.

You see.”



Next time it did go better. Ro‘elf

disappeared into his work—shed after

supper; did not emerge until after

DeJong’s departure.



There was something about the

sight of this great creature bent labor-

iously over a slate, the pencil held

clumsily in his huge fingers, that mov-

ed Selina strangely. Pity wracked her.

If she had known to what emotion this

pity was akin she might have taken

away the slate and given him a tablet,

and the whole course of her life would

have been different. “Poor lad,” she

thought. “Poor lad.” Chided herself

for being amused at his childlike ear-

nestness.



He did not make an apt pupil,

though painstaking. Usually, the top

draught of the stove was open, and the

glow of the fire imparted to his face





Lessons were

“It has

she as-

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her. She would smile, too. He was

as pleased as though he had made a

fresh and wonderful, discovery.



“It’s easy,” he would say, “when you

know it once.” Like a boy.



He usually went home by eight—thir—

ty or nine. Often the Pools went to

bed before he left. After he had gone

Selina was wakeful. She would heat

water and wash; brush her hair vig-

orously; feeling at once buoyant and

depressed.



Sometimes they fell to talking. His

wife had died in the second year of

their marriage, when the child was

born. The child, too, had died. 'A girl.

He was unlucky, like that. It was the

same with the farm.



“Spring, half of the land is under

water. My piece, just. Bout’s place,

next to me, is high and rich. Bouts,

he don’t even need deep ploughing.

His land is quick land. It warms up

in the spring early. Al'ter rain it works

easy. He puts in fertilizer, any kind,

and his plants jump, like. My place is

bad for garden truck. Wet. All the

time, wet; or in summer baked before

I. can loosen it again. Muckland.”



Selina thought a moment. She had

heard much talk between Klaas and

Jakob, winter evenings. “Can’t you do

something to it~—fix it—so that the

water will run off? Raise it, or dig a

ditch or something?”



“\Ve—e-ell, maybe. Maybe you could.

But costs money, draining.”



“It costs money not to, doesn’t it?”



He considered this, ruminatively.

“Guess it does. But you don’t have to

have ready cash to let the land lay.

To drain it you do.”



Selina shook her head impatiently.

“That’s a very foolish, short-sighted

way to reason.”



He looked helpless as only thestrong

and powerful can look. Selina’s heart

melted in pity. He would look down

at the great calloused hands; up at

'her. One of the charms of Pervus De-

Jong lay in the things that his eyes

said and his tongue did not Wlomen

always imagined he was about to say

what he looked, but he never did. It

made otherwise dull conversation with

him most exciting





'_- erence.





- 7 mhsi rev—

But he had this adVantage:

he had married a woman, had lived

with her for two years. She had borne

him a child. Selina was a girl in ex-

perience. She was a. woman capable

of a great deal of passion, but she did

not know that. Passidn was a thing -‘

no Woman possessed, much less talked

about. It simply did not exist, except

in men, and then was something to be

ashamed of, like a violent temper, or

a. weak stomach.

By the first of March’he could speak

a slow, careful, and fairly grammatical

English. He could master simple sums.

By the middle of March the lessons

would cease. There was too-much





work‘to do about the farm—night work

as well as day. She found herself'try-

ing not to think about the time when

She refused





the lessons should cease.

to look ahead to April.





One night, late in February, Selina.

was conscious that she was trying to

control something. She was trying to

keep her eyes away from something.

She realized that she was trying not

to look at his hands. She wanted,

crazily, to touch them. She wanted to

feel them about her throat. She want—





~ ed to put her lips on his hands—~brush





the backs of them slowly, moistly, with

her mouth, lingeringly. She was ter-

ribly frightened. She thought to her-

self: “I am going crazy. I am losing

my mind. There is something the

matter with me. I wonder how I'look.

I must look queer.”





She said something to make him

look up at her. His glance was mild,

undismayed. So this hideous thing did

not show in her face. She kept her

eyes resolutely on the book. At half-

past eight she closed her book sud-

denly. f‘I’m tired. I think it’s the

spring coming on.” She smiled a little

wavering smile. He rose and stretched

himself, his great arms high above his

head. Selina. shivered.



“Two more weeks,” he said, “is the

last lesson. Well, do you think I have

done pretty good——well?”



“Very well,” Selina replied, evenly.

She felt very tired.



The first week in March he was ill,

and did not come. A rheumatic afflic-

tion to which he was subject. His

father, old Johannes DeJong, had had

it before him. Working in the wet

fields did it, they said. It wafs the

curse of the truck farmer. Selina’s

evenings were free to devote to Roelf,

who glowed again. She sewed. too;

read; helped Mrs. Pool with the house-

work in a gust of sympathy and found





'zstrange relief therein; made over an





old dress; studied; wrote all her let—

ters (few enough), even one to the

dried-apple aunts in Vermont. She no

longer wrote to Julie Hempel. She had

heard that Julie was to be married to

a Kansas man named Arnold. Julie

herself had not written. The first week

week in March passed. He did not

come. Nor did he come the following

Tuesday or Thursday. After a terrific

battle with herself Selina, after school

on Thursday, walked past his house,

busily, as though bent on an errand.

Despised herself for doing it, could not

help herself, found a horrible and tor-

turous satisfaction in notllooking at

the house as she passed it.



She was bewildered, frightened. All

that week she had a curious feeling—

or succession of feelings. There was

the sensation of suffocation followed

by that of emptiness—of being hollow

——boneless~—-bloodless. Then, at times,

there was a feeling of physical pain;

at others a {sense of beingdisembowel-

led. She was restless, listless, by

turns. Period of furious activity fol-

lowed by days of inertia. It was the

spring, Maartje said. Selina hoped she

wasn’t going to be ill. She had never

felt like that before. She wanted to

cry. She was irritable to the point of

waspishness with the children in the

Schoolroom.





On Saturday—[the fourteenth . of

March—he walked in at seven. Klaas,

Maartje, and Roelf had ,drived ofl.’ to' a.
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them, and was in the midst of it when

his knock ”sounded at the kitchen door.

All the 'blopd in her body rushed to

her head; pounded there hotly. He

entered. There slipped down over her

a comp’léte armour of Calmness, of self-

possession; of glib how do you do Mr.

DeJong and how are you feeling and

won’t you sit down and there’s no fire

in the parlor we’ll have to sit here.

. He took part in the taffy pulling.

Selina wondered if Geertje .and J ozina

(1 ever have done squealing. It





woul

was





half-past eight before she bundled





them off to bed with a plate of clipped

lozenges between them. She

heard the scuffling and scrimmaging

about in the rare freedom of their par-





taffy





ents’





“Now, children!” she called.





absence.





games at Low Prairie leaving rSe-i

llna With the pigtails «and told rakes;





“You _





know what you promised your mother

and father.”



She heard Geertje’s tones mimicking

her mincingly, “You know what you





promised your





Then a cascade of smothered giggles.



Pervus had been to town, evidently,

for he now took from his coat pocket

a bag containing half a dozen bananas

w-that delicacy of delicacies to the





farm palate.

brought them in to the pigtails.





mother and father.”





She half peeled two and

They





ate them thickly rapturous, and drop-

ped off to sleep immediately, surfeited.

. Pervus DeJong and Selina sat at the

kitchen table, their books spread out

before them on the oilcloth. The sweet

heavy scent of the fruit filled the

room. Selina brought the parlor lamp

the kitchen, the better to see. It

was a nickel-bellied lamp with a yel-





into





low





glass shade that cast a mellow





golden glow.





“You didn’t go to the meeting,” prim-

ly. “Mr. and Mrs. Pool went.”





‘ON





0. No, I didn’t go.”





“Why not?”



She saw him swallow. “I got through

too late. I went to town, and I got

through too late. We’re fixing to sow

tomato seeds in the hotbed3> tomor-

row.”



Selina opened McBride’s Grammar.





“Ahe





In!” a school—teacherly cough.





"Now, then, we’ll parse this sentence:

Blucher arrived on the field of Water-





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nslaught of Napoleon. ‘Just’ may





be treated as a modifier of the depend-





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lause. That is: ‘Just’ means: at





the time at which. Well. Just here

modified at the time. And Wellington





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This for half an hour. Selina kept

her eyes resolutely on the book. .His

voice went on with the dry business

of parsing and its deep resonance





struc





k a. response from her as a harp





responds when a hand is swept over

its strings. Upstairs she could hear

old Jakob clumping about in his prep-

arations for bed. Then there was only

stillness overhead. Selina kept her





eyes

saw,

them





resolutely on the book. Yet she

as though her eyes rested on

, his large, strong hands. On the





backs of them was a fine golden down





that





deepened at his wrists. Heavier





and darked at the wrists. She found





herself praying a little for strength—





for strength against this horror and





wickedness. This sin, this abomina-r





tion that held her. A terrible, stark,





and





pitiful prayer, couched in the





idiom of the Bible.



“Oh, God, keep my eyes and my

thoughts away from him. Away from

his hands. Let me keep my eyes and

my thoughts away from the golden





hairs





on his wrists. Let me not think





of his wrists. . . . “The owner of

the southwest 14 sells a strip 20 rods





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along the south side of his farm.





How much does he receive at $150 per.

aere?”



He triumphed in this transaction be;

gan the struggle with the square root;

of 576. Square roots agonized him.

She washed the slate clean with her-1:





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sponge. He was leaningclose in

flort to comprehend, the fiendish

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that they would never get in any Other BUT He also prays for friends He

way. -- \ asks that they may be kept from

Now, this is what Christ did with his wrong, and that they may be united as

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‘ (Continued from page 165). .

little figures that marched so tractably

under Selina’s- masterly pencil.





She took it up, glibly. “The remaind-

ed must contain twice the product of

the tens by the units plus the square

of the units.” He blinked. Utterly

bewildered. “And,” went on Selina

blithely, “twice the tens, times the

units, plus the square of the units, is

the same as the sum of twice the tens,

and the units, times the units. There-

fore”———with a flourish—“add 4 units to

the. 40 and multiply the result .by 4.

Therefore”—in final triumph—“the

square root of 576 is 24.”



She was breathing rather fast. The

fire in thekitchen stove snapped and

cracked. “‘Now, then, suppose you do

that for me. We’ll wipe it out. There!

What must the remainder contain ?”





He took it up, slowly, haltingly. The

house was terribly still except for the

man’s voice. “The remainder

twice product . . . tens

. . ' .units ' A something

in his voice—a note—a timbre. She

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the whole house were gently rocking.





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arms, down her legs, over her spine.

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the tens . .

His voice stopped.



Selina's eyes leaped from the book

to his hands, uncontrollably. Some-

thing about them startled'her. They

Were clenched into fists. Her eyes

now leaped from those clenched fists

to the face of the man beside her. Her.

head came up, and back. Her wide

startled eyes met his. His were a

blaze of blinding blue in his tanned

face. Some corner of her mind that

was still working clearly noted this.

Then his hands unclenched. The blue

blaze scorched her, enveloped her. Her

cheek knew the harsh cool feel of a

man’s cheek. She sensed the potent,

terrifying, pungent odor of close con-

tact—a mixture of tobacco smoke, his

hair, freshly laundered linen, an in-

definable body smell. It was a ming-

ling that disgusted and attracted her.

She was at once repelled and drawn.

Then she felt his lips on hers and her

own, incredibly, responding eagerly,

Wholly to that pressure.



(Continued next week).





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HERE is only one arml‘ul of

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Bruin sat toasting his big toes by

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said Bruin as he yawned and stretched

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So right after the noonday meal

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“1 can see you are a little browu

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‘e‘ ‘Brownie’ is all my mother ever

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~“VVhero is your

Bruin.



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ever happened. I did. It was the

Hunter Man with a big bang bang gun.

I saw him point the bang bang right

at my mother. There was a “bang"

and she fell. Then the Hunter Man

dragged my mother away. I wanted

to run after her but I promised her I

would stay in the bushes whatever

happened. And now I don’t know the

way home.”



“\Vell, little Brownie, your mother

will never come back so you must

come home with me,” said Bruin.



“You are so kind, sir. Iliank you,”

sobbed the little Brown Bear.



The wood forgotten, Bruin started

home with his little new friend. Be-





came very tired. He had walked so

far that. day that he just. couldn’t walk

any more. Brownie was so small that

Bruin picked him up in his arms and

carried him home,



And thai was how Brownie came to

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Dear Aunt Martha:



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BROTHER’S GOAT.

BY L. n. THORNTON.

My brother Henry bought a goat,

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lint, in her diary, sister wrote;~

I very much mistrust the creature.





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The radio keeps us up so late,

There’s no time any more

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and cooking. Cafeteria style of ser-

vice is always acceptable. Limit the

variety of foods to be served. City

folk have learned this lesson before

We farm people have. Perhaps they

have done so through necessity be—

cause foodstuffs were so .high, but it

seems that most of us strive to serve

too great a variety of food. One com—

munity I have visited purchased a

large number of cheap tin trays at the

five-andien—cent store. These are used

on every possible occasion. As there

is a tray that can be filled for each

person it simplifies serving consider-

ably.





Country School Affords Opportunity.

If there is a lack of social get-t0-

gethers, and no Parent-Teachers’ Asso-

ciation in your vicinity, there is an

ideal opportunity to combine good

times and help out the school. There

is scarcely a country school anywhere

that is not in need of equipment of

some form. And if the patrons of the

school Will form an association, they

can raise small amounts of money in

combination with their good times.





A social gathering should not drag.

Try to have some definite means of

mixing the crowd no matter how large

or small—some small stunt that can

be carried on While guests are arriv-

ing. One way is to supply everybody

with ten beans. They are cautioned

not to say a certain word—~perhap3 the





 





noes, jack straws, par-

chesi, tiddledy winks,

etc, are good. The two winners at each

table move up to the next table each





time as a signal is given or a bell is .





rung. Or_ perhaps each game 'will

count so many points. In this case

tally cards of some kind must be used.



Another progressive party method is

to procure a. number of different games

that people of all ages can play. Pin—

ning the tail on the donkey, ringing a.

pole, throwing bean bags into a basket,

carrying beans 011 a knife, and guess—

ing farm advertisements, are all good

examples. Each game should count

for a. given number of points. For in-

stance, for each bean bag that a. per-

son threw into the basket, he might

receive five points. These points would

be punched on a tally card as illustrat-

ed. At the end of the evening, points

should be counted and a. prize given.

Patronize the five—and—ten—cent store

for prizes. Spoons, oil cans, shoe pol-

ish, etc, make good prizes.





There are humerus ways and means

of entertaining. The main thing is to

get together and have a. good time, for

no radio, cross w01d puzzle or moving

picture can give the pleasant human

fellowship that these social gatherings

give—Mrs. E. M. Clark.





CANNING PUMPKIN AND MAKING

SAUSAGE.





 





HEN I want a batch of pies I

stew all the pumpkin I can get

into one of my large kettles. When it

is ready for pics I take enough for a.

baking, and to the remainder I add

sugar, salt and spices. Let it stew a.





little longer to be sure the sugar is

well heated through. Have your cans

Well sterilized and air—tight. Fill with

the-hot pumpkin and screw tops on

tight. When you wish [to use a can

all it needs is the eggsand milk._ I

have canned pumpkin this way for sev-

eralyears and never have any spoil.



This sausage recipe has been used

in our family for y.ears



To five pounds of meat, add three

tablespoons of salt, two of sage, one

of pepper, two of sugar. Mix well. For

summer use I pack it in pans or basins





 





IME is painted with a. lock



before, and bald behind, sig-

nifying thereby, that we must

take time (as we say) by the

forelock, for when it is once}

past there is no recalling it.—

Swift.





 





and place in an oven, baking slowly

until it is cooked through. When it

gets cold, if it is not thoroughly cov-

ered with grease, put‘ 011 enough to

cover, and set in a. cold place. Mine

I keep in the basement. When wanted

cut in slices and heat through slowly,

always covering the remainder with

grease—Mrs. C. L. T.





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new home or remodeling your old

one, “The Small Home” will carry a.

wealth of' suggestions to you. This

book discusses many of theproblems

that face the amateur builder and

gives sixty plans and illustrations for

modest homes. Blueprints of these are

furnished by the author, William Drap-

er Brinckloe. The book is published

by Robert M. McBride Co, New York.





CAN MEAT NOW FOR SUMMER

USE.





 





ANY a farm housewife has longed



for a. supply of fresh meat to give

variety to the menu in summer. Fresh

meat is expensive to buy in small

quantities the year round and many

farm homes are situated a considera-

ble distance from the butcher shop.



The discovery of the canning proc«

833 for meats has solved this problem

for therfarmer’s wife. Now, by killing

in the winter when the possibility of

spoilage is small, a. supply can be can-

ned for summer use to be ready to

serve at a, moments notice.



Directions for canning all kinds of

meat, and also preserving it by various

methods, are given in. our bulletin,

“How to Preserve Meats at Home."

For a. copy send five cents in Istamlps

o1 coin to Martha Cole, Desk M, Mich-

igan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





ONE NIGHT OUT FIXES THE TEA

KETTLE.





 





ERE is the remedy to get the lime



out of a. tea. kettle with little

trouble: Empty the kettle, removing

the top. Set outside over night during

hard freezing weather. The moisture

in the lime will cause it to freeze and

become brittle. Thus, early the follow-

ing morning, ~it may be taken off the

sides in large chunks, depending on

how hard it is frozen. This method

has been used several times with 'suc-





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Do Housework by Radio

By Our Reader:





musical comedies, enjoy popular songs,





HE rural bottles are fast becom-

ing modern in every way, much

more so than austere Grandfath-



ers ever dreamed a home could be

Our whole back yard has been full

of music for some time, but until re-

cently, we missed the greatest source

of knowledge and entertainment of the

age in letting all the wonderful things





_ in the air pass us by unheard.





We heard President Coolidge so of-

ten, during the recent political cam-

paign, that we learned and knew his

voice, as. soon as we heard it.



\Vhile sewing, one evening recently,

I sat in my comfortable chair and en-

joyed a wonderful program given by

a noted evangelistic party several

Instead of

life being a hum-drum, monotonous af-

fair, with norift in sight except per-

haps a few auto trips to town, the

meeting of monthly Ladies’ Aid Soci-

ety and The Thimble Club, we are con-

tinually looking forward to the speech

we want to hear, to the opportunity of

“tuningin” on the world famous sing-

ers and artists of the type that only

those fortunate enough to attend the

great opera houses could hear.





If one so arranges her work wash-

ing the dishes, churning the butter,

sweeping, dusting, mopping or baking

can really be‘ executed under the

“spell” 01' a musical radio program.



On Sundays, if unable to attend

church, we have a choice of a number

of stations broadcasting sermons.



The farmer’s Wife, along with the

rest of the world, has entered into the

radio era and I believe the day not far

distant when the radio will be consid-

ered indispensable—Mrs. F. K., New

Lothrop.



Keeps Young Folks Home.



There should be a radio in every

home, where women spend most of

their time. I find it a helpful influ-

ence in educating and training the chil-

dren and in keeping them at home

nights. To my farmer husband, the

weather reports, markets, sports, etc.,

are a source of both pleasure and

prolit. I listen in while sewing, mend~

ing, preparing meals, ironing, and find

it a boon to any of the family who is

ill. to speed the dragging hours. I

copy the- recipes, listen to the talks on

style, and interior decorating, go to

church, attend grand opera, listen to





Make Winter





ill] very generous response to

E- the “\Vinter W'ashing Contest”

brought a wealth ol‘ valuable

suggestions 011 howlo 111ak1- the l'amily

“Wishing easier. It is said that no two

women do their work alike, and this

rumor was well bolstered up by these

letters. Every letter told how the

housewife did her Washing just a little

dih‘erent.

But one oi." the prize winning letters

apgiwars here, the other four will be

111111ch next. week. The Willllt'l‘s were:

M124. D. 8., Nashville; Mrs. J. 1)., San

dusky; Mrs. C. N., llronson, and Mrs.

‘ .M., Berrien Springs.

Washing Fluid Helps.

\Yash day, any time, is no dread to

me. A few years ago I clipped from

the Michigan Farmer instructions for

making “Snow \Vhite Vi'ashing Fluid,"

as follows: ' Take a large earthenware

bowl and empty a ten-cent can ol‘ pot-

ash into this, also a quart ol’ Willl‘l

Stir until 'the potash is all dissolved,

then set aside until cool. Dissolve ten

cents worth ol? carbonate of ammonia,

half-pound of powdered borax, and one

pound of washing soda in two quarts

01' water; Add to the dissolved potash.

Add enough cold water to make five

gallons. Strain through muslin. Keep

in corked jugs.

I purchased a. tow —sided gratei and

§licer at the ten- cent store. Using the

- ricer side it is Only a few see-





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recitals, lectures, banquet speeches,

readings, and all the surprises which

the genius of man has brought to us

through his skill to harness the invis-

ible and still unknown powers of the

air, which the Almighty Creator in the

beginning of time, placed there for our

use—Mrs. A. D., Saranac, Mich.





Don’t Want To Go Away.



I can think of no greater blessing

for the farmer’s family than the radio.

We live quite a ways from the city

but now we get music, lectures, mar-

ket reports, etc., from any city.



I do not get to go away very often,

as I have twin babies four months old

to care for, but I do not mind staying

at home. I can‘tune in and get what

I like best. I wash dishes, iron, in

fact, do most of my work to music, as

we have a loud speaker. When the

babies are to bed, Friend Husband and

I sit there with a big dish of pop corn

or candy and listen in. Then, 011 Sun-

days, when the roads are blocked so

we cannot get to church, we just tune

in 011 church services.



There are. no lonesome days for my

husband and I any more. Then the

neighbors all come to hear it as we

have the only radio in this neighbor-

i1ood.»~—Mrs. A. L., Dorr, Mich.



Provides Family Entertainment.



“'e have had a three tube radio for

about a year, with a loud speaker, and

we certainly enjoy it. Mornings we

can tune in and get tonight’s dinner,

the Weather, and the latest news.



in the afternoon and evening all

kinds of concerts, speeches, basket. and

foot ball scores, also prize fights,

round for round, market reports, and

almost any we would care to hear.

Mrs. P. L. l\I., Tekonsha, Mich.



Shortens Winter Evenings.



The long winter evenings don‘t seem

half so long when you have the radio

tuned in. You will be surprised how

splendid it is to sit and listen to some

nice music, and rest at the same time.

The whole I'amily has enjoyed it day

and night, since we have had it



\\ 0 live [Wt iv e and a half miles lrom

our church, so just, imagine Us sitting

in our warm home and listening in 011 a

good sermon in Detroit. 1, lfor one,

would not like to be without a radio.

—Mrs. 11‘. A. 13., Midland, Mich.





Washing Easy





onds work to “sliave fine" a bar of

soap. i use a Cupl‘ul 01' the fluid to

two-thirds of a boiler of water.



i place the table and bed linen, white

lingerie, and all finer whiIo pieces in

my machine, then shave one—halt bar

01' any good laundry soap on them.

Then pour the boiling water (he sure

it is boiling) into which the fluid was

put, over thmn. -\l'1er running my ma-

chine ten minutes, i use a vacuum

poundcr (which cost me siny cents)

for lite minutes. Then i wring and

wrinse through three waters, the last

one slightly blucd.



Towels and heavy underwear go in

the .111achine next and the process is

repeated.



The colored clothes are given fresh

water, warm but not boiling, and the

remainder ol.‘ the bar oi.‘ soap and proc-

essed the same way. i rub the collars

and Cliffs of men’s shirts and any spots

that have not yielded to [he machine.

Before putting the boiling water on the

clothes I remove l'ruit stains in warm

soapy water to which a little kerosene

one slightly blued



l hung a line in my attic, and my

clothes are away from all coal dust.

and soot, and white as anyone could

wish. I made some laundry mittens

from old white wool under-Wear, as it

is cold to hang up the clothes, even in

the attic When the weather is around

zero—Mrs. F. C., Ravenna, Mich.





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Cooking heat that goes:





Straight to the point





The burners of this Oil Range focus

the heat right under the cooking

HEAT from any fire radiates out, and much of its





strength 13 lost. But the Florence burners fpcus

the heat right under the cooking utensil.





lhe flame rises clear and intensely hot straight to

the point Where 1t Will do the most wood—the bottom

of the pot—instead of escaping into the kitchen.

This 15 the way the best cooking results are obtained.





Control of the heat





To lirrht the l‘lorcnce Oil Range turn a is vu and

touchb a match to the asbestos kindler——that's all. By

turning the lever you can adjust the flame to any

degree of heat required.





This flame is a gas flame, produced from kerosene

vapor. It IS not a wick flame, such as you sec in an

ordinary oil lamp. T he 1‘ lorcncc1s a v c1v economical

stove and there 1s no smoke or unpl asam odm.





“Vith its blue or gray porcelain cnamcl and sturdy

black frame, any woman would cons1dcr the l‘ lorence

an ornament to her kitchen





A unique feature of the Florence ()il Range is the

Levelcr, an ingenious dcvicc attached to each leg to

adjust the stove to uneven floors. A spirit level on

the feed pipe Will Show you when the stove is level.





Drop into a department, furniture or hardware

store, and convmcc yourself that this 1s the all-round

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POTATO PANCAKES AND GRAHAM

BREAD.





Will you please tell me how to make

potato pancakes with either raw or

cooked potatoes? Also, how to make

graham bread? ‘How much ingredients

to use?—Mrs. G



.Use two cups of cold mashed pota-

toes; half cup of flour, two—thirds cup

of milk, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls

of baking powder, salt and pepper to.

taste; stir the beaten yolks and milk

into the potatOLthen the flour and bak-

ing powder sifted together; beat thor-

oughly, and lastly, fold in the well-

beaten whites; bake on a. well—buttered

griddle.





Graham Bread.





1 cup milk 1/5; cup warm water

1V4 cup molasses 1 tsp. salt

2 tb. butter 2% cups graham





1 cake yeast 1% runs White flour



Melt the butter in the scalded milk.

Cool to lukewarm and add the remain-

ing ingredients, the yeast softened in

the water. Beat thoroughly and set





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long narrow pan, and when again light

bake about an hour in, a. moderate

oven. Do not let the dough” become

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CAN DY RECIPE.





Can you ,tell me how to make sea

foam fudge? Could nuts and fruit be

added? Is thereany way to make

marshmallow candy?—~Mrs. J G.

~ To make seafoam use;





Brown sugar. 3 cups Egg whites, 2

Water, =54, cup Vanilla.‘ 1 tsp.

Salt. 1.4, tsp





Cook sugar, water and salt together,

stirring until the sugar is dissolved.

Continue cocking, without stirring. un—

til the syrup forms a. hard, but not

brittle, ball in cold water.



Remove from the fire and gradually

pour it over the egg whites, which

have been beaten until stiff during the

latter part of the cooking of the syrup.

Beat while pouring. Continue beating

until the candy will hold its shape

when drOpped from the spoon. Add

vanila. 'Drop by teaspoonfuls on waxed

paper. Nuts may be added just be»

fore the candy is dropped.



Marshmallows.



2 cupfuls sugar 1 tsp. vanilla.



14; eupful hot water 2 tb. gelatin



1A cupful cold water .



Soak the gelatin in the cold water.

Cook sugar and hot water nearly to

the soft ball stage. Add gelatin, pour

into a. large bowl and beat until stiff.

Add vanilla, beat thoroughly and pour

into a. tin. Let stand until stiff. Cut

in strips, pull out of tin, cut in squares

and roll in equal parts of cornstarch

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CHLORINE TREATMENT FOR

COLDs





UR grandfathers knew colds as



ailments that came from sitting



,in a draft, or going without one’s

rubbers, or taking a long, cold drive in

the rain, or some similar indiscretion.

Only in recent years has it been

agreed that the way you “catch cold”

is more likely to be from sitting next

to a sneezing, coughing passenger on

a. crowded street car than sitting by

an open window. Ones the “germ the-

ory” of colds is accepted, however, the

mind of man immediately turns to a.

study of possible methods of killing

the germs and thus ending forever the

disastrous annual invasion of “colds.”





The germicidal effect of certain gas-

es is so well known that it was natural

enough to think of the possibility of

inhalations of gas that might render

sterile the breathing apparatus, so that

the germs would be killed before hav-

ing a chance to settle down and raise

a. family.



Two\experts of the Army Medical

Service reported that inhalations of

chlorine gas would keep any cold on

earth from getting as far as first base,

and President Coolidge himself, after

sitting in their gas chamber for an

hour, declared they had the right dope.

But now comes the New York City

Health Department and says, “Nothing

doing.” Their doctors have tried it

out, gave the treatment 671 cases and

only 6.5 per cent got any good.



It is my opinion that chlorine gas

would be effective against a. “cold” if

the inhalation was taken in the very





» first stage of the attack. After heavy

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cold and the wire can be rolled up

until needed for another brooder stove:

I find that a strip of hardware cloth

thirty or thirty-six inches wide can be

cut into three chick protectors. As

they are only needed a few days, they

can be moved from one colony house

to another as newly hatched chicks

come from the. incubators.



Chicks need plenty of clean scratch-

ing litter. It gives them exercise

hunting for scratch grain and absorbs

the manure. Bright yellow straw hides

the feet of the chicks and reduces the

danger from the

which exists when litter is scarce and

their feet are plainly visible.

idle chick that learns bad habits.





An ideal floor can be made of fine.

straw litter over a half—inch of sand.’

The sand furnishes an abundance of





grit of the size the chicks need. It

furnishes good material for scratching

and absorbs a lot of manure. If sand

cannot be obtained, I do not, believe

garden loam is a. good substitute and

would rather use the straw over the

board floor. The garde-n soil soon

changes to dry dust because of the

heat from the broodcr stove. A dusty

air in the broodcr house increases the

dangers from colds and eye troubles. .

Chicks Need Sunlight.



Success with curly hatched chicks

depends on giving Llw chicks condi-

tions as near like the, range as possi—

ble. Sunlight through glass windows

has been woven unsatisfactory by

scientists because the violet rays are

filtered out. Log weakness is found

less prevalent. in houses whore chicks

obtain the dirch sunlight. So have

the broodor house Windows arranged to

swing and give Lho chicks diI'ch sun-

light. on the still sunny days.



Chicks with the mothcr hon are apt

to have their foot on the moist, ground

at least paI'L of the time. Such chicks

usually have sturdy legs and the skin

on the legs is not dried ouL by brooder

heat. I find it pays L0 cuL moist sods

and place Lhom llL’Lll‘ Lhc deflectors of

broodcr sLovos. The lwat. soon sprouts

a certain amount of gl‘l‘Oll growth The

chicks scraLch in tho moist soil and it

seems Lo help in preventing log weak-

ness. ' \thn the soda bucomo dry, they

can be tossed back in the same spots

011 the I'angc whore Llon wc‘rc cul out

and fresh earth used in their place.

Cod Liver Oil Prevents Leg Weakness.



Poulll'ymon have had good luck in

preventing lv-g wouknvss by funding

cod live-1' oil. About omx pm‘ from in

the ration at l‘rvquent, inlm‘vuls seems

to give satisfaction. 11, seems host, L0

add this crudo cod ll\'(‘l' oil Lo small

quantities of tho mush at, :L Limo so

that iL can be led fresh. lepoI'iIInuIls

seem L0 indicate that. 1'1 losvs some- ol~

its power to lll'i‘VL‘llL rickets if it, is

exposed to the all l'oI many days The

liLLlc chicks do not H lisll (od livm oil,

so iL should be} 1111M (l (lelt‘lllll) with

the mash and not, I’ml Loo lilwl'ully.



Do not noglch g“ l n it ml in lho win-

tel chick l‘dllUll as it, holps lo balance

up the mole COIIClIllllllMl mush.

Sprouled oats are fine for chicks. They

also like ground or chopped v<,:gclublcs

01' cull apples.



A good growing mash insures (:Vcl'y

chick the clcmcnls for rapid groleI.

The commercial dl'icd buLLcl'mllk

meshes givcx good suLislacLion. Some

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and have good results. 01' course. the

oaLs must be ground into flour and the

beef scrap sil'Lod Lo rcmovc pic-cos Loo

large for the chicks.



HEAD LICE TROUBLE CHICKS.



Head lice sometimes weakens Lhc

chicks, especially hen-haLchcd chicks,

A light smear of lard rubbed on the

head of each chick will desLI‘oy Lho

head lice. Raise your chicks as much

as possible on clean ground and the

risk from gape worms and all poultry

troubles will be greatly reduced.





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ped to market. An illustration cf this

point is found in the poultry demon.-

stration farm’s summary conducted by

the M. A. C. Extensio'nlDepartment. A

White Leghorn flock consisting ‘of' 301

birds averaged 184.9 eggs per hen and

returned a net income, or. labor in-

come, of $5.35 per hen. The 'egg in-

come from each hen averaged $4.62,

which leaves a. balance of seventy-

three cents representing'market sales.

A White Rock flock, evidently of in-

ferior breeding, and consisting of 167

hens, averaged only 99.5 eggs and re-

turned a labor income of $1.49, of

which fifty-two cents represented the

egg profits. As would naturally be ex-

pected, a higher meat value per hen

was realized on the heavier type of





 





Barnyard Queen Shows Poor Laying

Qualities in Body and Head. _

fowl, such as the White Rock, but this





did not make up the deficiency created

by the low flock production.



In drawing conclusions from the re-

ports of these two farms, one should

not be too hasty in condemning the





regardless of the breed maintained.





ed many false impressions as to'the

laying qualities of many breeds, and

this riddle had been definitely solved.





recognized as the most efficient egg

machine and the most practical fowl

for specialization in market egg pro-

duction, the so-called general-purpose

breeds, including the Rocks, Reds and

\Vyandottes, frequently capture indi-

vidual and pen honors. The breed is

not nearly as important as the strain,

because high and low producers exist

in all breeds and production quality is

largely a matter of selection for early

maturity, vigor, capacity and nervous

organization.





stration farm work in Michigan re-

turned a labor income of $2.59 per

bird, which is very satisfactory and

proves that the poultry flock can be

made the most profitable unit in the

entire farm organization if properly

managed.



Unit efficiency and uniformity of

breeding are fundamentaLto heavy and

profitable production.



The accompanying table of two hens

having identical care reveals the im-

portance of breeding in relation to sea—

sonal distribution of eggs, intensity of

production, and net income.





‘ Barnyard Queen is typical of the





great mass of farm hens. In fact, she

has laid twelve more eggs than the

average Michigan hen. Note how she

limits her production to the spring and

summer months. Egg Basket Queen,

with an official record of 285, repre-

sents the highest type of producer.

She is a generous type of layer, stick-

ing to th’e_job the full twelve months

and revealing unusual efficiency in con-

verting feed into the more concentrat-

ed egg product.



Many hens are both structurally

and functionally defective and under





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quality-of poultry, old‘or young, ship-





VVhite Rock as a practical farm fowl,

but the importance of a high average

production should not be overlooked





Our egg-laying contests have correct-





While the White Leghorn is generally





The 29,400 hens enlisted in demon-





a





appreciation, therefore, of this great

variation- among individual hens, and a.

knowledge of what constitutes the

highest type of production, efficiency

would be -a valuable asset to every

poultryman. J _



A hen laying six dozen eggs per

year consumes twelve pounds of feed

for each dozen eggs laid. This repre-

sents the lowest strata of producer

that can be quicklyculled by systems

to be described later. ‘



The mediocre or average hen will



produce about twelve dozen eggs per

year at the rate of one dozen for every

seven pounds of feed consumed. The

heavier type of layer is capable of pro-

ducing eighteen dozen eggs a. year,

which will average twenty-four ounces,

or one and one-half pounds to the doz-

en on each four pounds of feed con-

sumed. This .wide variation in func-

tional efficiency is determined largely

by the purpose and methods of breed-p

ing adopted. ‘

‘ At this point, it might be well to

mention that feeding and general

methods of management may retard or

stimulate production, and proper care

is as necessary as careful breeding.



The limitation is, however, controll-

ed by breeding, and now is the time

to plan on next year’s crop by assemb-

ling those late moulting old hens, or

early maturing pullets that have laid

consistently all winter, and mating

them to a strong, ‘sturdy male of

known 200 egg breeding. The eggs

have got to be bred into the stock be-

fore they can be fed out, and breeding

represents the first link in the chain

of economic production.





POSTMORTEM N EC ESSARY.





 





I have a flock of 150 White Wyan-

dotte pullets. The most of them are

well. One or two a week get lame

and lie over on their side and will not

eat. \Vhat do you think causes it?

They live for a few weeks—Mrs. J. G.





Perform a postmortem on some of

the sick birds that die, and note the

condition of the internal organs, espe-

cially the liver. If the hens rapidly

emaciate and spots are found on the

liver, there is danger of tuberculosis.

Sometimes losses similar to your de-

scription are due to leg weakness or





 





Egg Basket Queen Shows Good Laying

Conformation.



a form of paralysis. This is difficult

to cure, but can usually be prevented

by providing the hens with a. balanced

ration which includes dry mash, green

feed and plenty of exercise in a. house

that is not overcrowded.





PROBABLY TUBERCULOSIS.





 





The first trouble with our chickens

is lameness, then they dump around

and finally die.‘ We find they have

sores on their bodies, and even the

joints become honey-combed— H. S.





Lameness, "rapid emaciation, bowel

trouble and the greyish spots on the

liver are symptoms of tuberculosis, al-

though a laboratory examination is

considered necessary to definitely de-

termine the presence of the disease.

It will be best to have a veterinarian

make an inspection and make recom-

mendations.

M. A. 0. Experiment Station for the

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DEAN in the Poultry Industry (‘olli-Lvo. We own and opcrate :1 rcal P

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. . . v . . 1 1 .. . l - j ., “'liitc- l' Mix. Black Minorvns ................ ‘3' 8.50 10.00 77.00 150 .

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Door Uncle Frank:



I think the boys are mean. Ono do.

I was absent from school, and when

returned the next dog I asked a boy

in in class who sits ehind me, what

tho vics lesson was for that do . He

told mo tho lossou and I stud ed it.

There was a. lot of writing to be dono

and I also did that. When I got to

class i quickly discovered I had made

a terrible mistake. The teacher asked

why I had a poor lesson. I told her I

studlod tho wrong losson. Well. to

mnko a. long story short. I got a. cutting

for not. asking what the 988011 was.

01‘ course. I didn’t want to be a. "tattle

tnlo“ so i did not tell that tho boy had

givon mo. the wrong lesson, and I glut.

tho culling when I was not in t 6

wrong.



As said boy might am this it it is

rintod. I'll sign myself, “Against the

Joys.”



Oh. my! I didn't. think ‘you would

judgo nil boys by what ono did. And

mnybo ho ntndo an intontionnl mistakc.





 





Door Unclo Frank:



I um sonding you my words mmlu

from tho. words Work-to-Win. Say.

iot's tilscuss—~s0tttotltittg about cows,

Ibulls. um. um! not bobbed lmlr. Woll.

lot mo mnko n guoss 01‘ your ago. it

is bolwm‘n sixty nnd sovont



\\'cli. i must closo for I

to «Honor. - ~\'our nophow,

llox 2'5, llvpubiic. Mich.



Do you mean we should discuss tho

“bulls" wo innko in this dopnrtmoni?

.Sny, do I rvuti nnd sound like it mun

svventy yours old?





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FDcn r Uncle Frank:



i Here goes my third letter and you're

iniwuys on tho job aren't you, W. B.?

3 Say. we had ll. discussion in class

;t.ho other day on. "If a true foil in the

,woods and not. a person or animal

giieur to hear it. would it make a

Lnoiso‘?‘ I think it. would not. because

'it‘ there was no our to catch the sound

there would be no sound produced.

~Lct‘s hear some M. C's opinion on it.

.6 This letter is long enough so will

,ciose for this lllllt‘.—~AYOUI‘ niece, Olive

.Weuvcr. Melvin, Mich.



That is quite a question for debate.

fit seems that the sound or noise vibru~

'tions would be produced but no car

would record them. It is just 9.3 if a.

radio sounding station sent a. wireless

and there were no receiving instru—

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Dear Uncle Frank:





Yes! I’ll say let’s talk about. some-

thing else besides knickers. I know

two girls that wear knickers and I

don't think you can find any nicer girls

than they are. Some other time I will

tell about them.





Let us talk about traveling. I just

came home from a. trip to Sweden with

my father and I had a very nice

time. On my trip I saw many girls

smoke, and I think that is worse than

knickers. \Ve left Sweden on the S. S.

Saga for England. We traveled

through England, and stopped in Lon-

don a day. Here they took us in a

rubber-neck wagon to see the sights

.of London. “'9 left England on the

R. M. S. Majestic, and on the way to

’New York we stopped in Cherbourg to

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Several Intending T/ng: Downed





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On the way from New York I saw

the beautiful Niagara Falls. I could

toll you a lot more things I saw. but

let us’hosr something about some oth-

or M. 0. traveler or hikoerour M.

(154.! glephew. Carl Rohl. Jr., Sawyer.



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You cortsinly must have had a nice

trip. It was very nice that you could

go. Yes. and I, too, know girls who

woar knickers and are very nice.

Knickers are very common among the

skaters in Detroit.





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Doar Unclo Frank:



Girls. listen! Harold Is sick in bed!

His worry about bobbed hair has made

him sick, queer isn't it? But Just let

himgo it. about this stuff he has been

writing about. I have bobbed hair and

um Just as much powder and rouge,

01.0., as any other girl. Does he say

anything? I'll any ho docs, but it

dovsn’t do him any good.



This subject about. bobbed hair is

gutting so old. so I better stop it bo-

l‘oro i got an angry look from someonv.



Well, i gonna l butt better close my

cltniior, tutti lot nontoono olso clmt for

uwhilo.



From ono of your bobbed hair niocos,

Birdono 1.. Colon, Montgomory. Mich.





Yos, you'll probably got an angry

look from Ilnrold. I’m sorry that tho

muttcr has sickened him.





 





 





This is Station W I L L I S Michigan,

Routo No. I: - '

The first number on our program is





 

 





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A Couple of Men Circlsn Out For

a Goo Time.



a letter from Madelyn Staeblsr to Un-



cle Frank and Mo Circle cbusins.



Hello. Marry Ciro e cousins and Un-

cle Frank. .



My! but it's been icy, hasn't it? The

first confide of mornings after the ice

storm w on you went: out if you'Wero

not protty careful you would be doing

pthysticnl culture or physical torture

H on .s. "



I can boot Lostor Anderson's record

for reading books. about 160 is my

record for the» your 1924.



The authors of tho books I like boat

are Eleanor Portor Geno Btrsttcn

Pox-tor. Zane Grey. Mar arct Widdo—

mor Carolyn Wells. and orothy Can-

flold. Ilium any of‘you read “The

Homvmttkvr." by Dorothy Omfleld. or

“80 Big," by Edna. Forbcr? I would

like to recommend them to you.



Well, nod-bye for this time-«Madc-

k'nMG. Stneblor signing of! at 10:00





Well, you haw n‘omo reading roc-

ord, you must. have a. ferocious appe-

tite for books. 'l‘hnre'n no excuse for

M. C.'s not rmdlng “So Big,"becauso it

is running in this papornow. It's

good. I rocommond it, too.





 





Bangor High School Fruit Judging Tea m which Won the Judging Contest at





the Apple Show at Grand

Hay, Louis Abbott and R. J.





a ids.





Left to Right:

artin, Coach.





Norman Huff, Cecil





Still Another Ambition





Alto “fl Frz'mdly Criticirm"





Dear Uncle Frank:



I have been a. silent reader of your

page for some time, and have enjoyed

it. This week’s issue has aroused my

ire. As for burning ambitions, why,

mine is simply to get married and

keep house. Not a. very lofty one, is

it? But rest assured, friends, it is

just as burning as any of yours. That

is, I think, all that a. girl need ask of

Providence.





Someone suggested in a. letter that

we discuss the Ku Klux Klan, and you

said that such a. discussion would get

us nowhere. If you can think of an

argument less sensible than “Bobbed

Hair and Knickers,” I Wish you would

tell us about it, and we’ll argue about

it. Where did that discussion get us?

Absolutely nowhere. I think that an

argument on the K. K. K. would be

much more valuable from an argu-

mentative standpoint.



I suppose you have all pictured me

as a. dignified prude, with glasses

n’everything. But I’m not.‘ I’ve got

bobbed hair (Buster Brown style), and





I don’t wear glasses. And I’d- rather,"





have a good time than eat. But the

old questions for discussion seemed so

futile. Why not discuss the K. K. K.,

or “Should the President of the Unit-

ed States be elected by direct vote, or

as he now is?” Something with an

atom of sense to it!





I am not trying to criticize you, Un-

cle Frank, nor your method. of con-

ducting this department. I am merely

offering a friendly criticism to the

Merry Circlers, ere they sink into the

depths of despair. And if you’re just

awfully mad at me for this, I won’t;

write any more “articles.” If you’re

not mad, may I write again? Shall I?



I am not going to sign my real name,

for someone might annihilate me. I

will sign myself by what I am usually

called in Our Gang—"Sweetheart?



“Sweetheart,” I have cut the heart

out of your letter, which was your dis-

cussion of the K. K. K. There is one

difference between discussing bobbed

hair and K. K. K. K. K. K. discussions

would arouse

while B. H. discussions provide enter-3





tainment and amusement." Como 83311:.

when you can. ‘ ‘ ‘ -





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Directions.¢--The numbered squares

are starting points for words extend-

ing horizontally. vertically or both

ways. One letter‘should be allowed

for each: square. Words and at first

black square or at border oi? puzzle.

Example: “The horizontal word start-

7 ing at number one is four letters long;

the vertical word starting at eleven is

five letters long.



The list below gives descriptions of

words which start at the numbered

spaces designated. One list gives the

horizontal words and the other the

Vertical words.



Cross word puzzles are fascinating

and educating. ,As so many people

have found.them interesting, I am suro

the Many Circlers will also find

them so.



The ten usual prizes will be given

and Morry Circle buttons and mcmbcr-

ship cards will be given to all who

send in collect answers and aio not

lilii‘ildy numbers. All correct and neat

puzzles will be mixed in a basket and

the prize winners picked out. Clip the

diagram shown and send it to Uncle

Frank, care Michigan Farmer, Detroit,





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Name .......... . ................ ..

Address ........





Michigan, after you have filled it out.

Be sure to put your name and address

in the spaces provided. This contest

Closes Fobruary 12.





Horizontal.

1. Hard particles.

4. A suggestion.

7. A public notion.

8. Open (poetical).

10. A conjunction.

11. A fruit.

13. An elongated fish.

15. Support of a building.

17. A note in tho diatomic scale





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18. Son Of the god Nut.

19. A company of musicians.

1. "The first garden.

3. Revolvcs.

5. A proposition.

2”. A boy’s name.

2.. A preposition.

29. A part of the face.

3 . Transgressions.

. Vertical.

1. A sport. '

2. Rural delivery (abbr.)

3. Parts of the feet.

4. Medicinal plant.

5. Negative.

6. To cut away.

9. Father.

11. To put in the ground for growth.

12. A fertilized ovule.

14. An epoch.

16. Part of the verb “to be.”

19. The broken coat of grain.

20. A hill of sand.

21. Conclusions

22. Seeds of cm [dill trees.

24. In regard.

26. A preposition.

28. One of the articles.





:Hoiw‘ To BECOME A MERRY

CIRCLER.





 





EVERALhave written lately want-



ing to know 110w they could join

the Merry Circle. Some have even

sent money with the request that I

send them a. Merry Circle pin and a

membership card. Others have sent in

drawings and poems requesting a M.





AC. membership in return. They must'





be new readers of our department. For

their benefit I will tell again the re

quirements for membership.



lfil‘hera ”is only. one way in which a

boy or girl cangbecome a member, and





 





 





A Cross Word Contest





Another Puzzle For M err y Czrb/er: to Solve





that is by taking part in‘ some of the

contests. If a person sends in a good

answer to the contest, even though he

does not win a prize, he will got an

M. C. card and pin. Any boy or girl

betwcen the ages 01' eight and ulghtoen

are privileged to try thoso contests,

and thus bucomo Murry Clrclo mem-

bers.

M. C. Notice.



Because 01’ tho rush of oiilco work

thc Merry Circle nu-ambcrshlps for the

last crass word puzzle contest. and the

recent IloaIl-and-Win contest have not

boon mm out yet Wu, hopc to have

thorn in tho malls in o. few days.





WINTER SPORT WINNERS.





HE ruturns i got from tho Sport



Contest show that many young

folks onJoy Illi‘. grout out-doors during

the cold and crisp wintnr days. i am

glad it is so, for thcrc is nothing

which stimulates health and vitality as

do activities in; tho sports that winter

affords.



All of tho pupcrs sent in wurc lntcr-

outing and for that. mason it was hard

to pick tlm wlnm-rs. llut after careful

considcratlon l ilnally plckud tho fol-





lowing:

Fountain Pens.



JUIIIIic A. Kok, It. 3, chland, Mich.



Russcll (Jartcr, it. i, Middicvllio,

Michigan.



nivcs.

Juno ’i‘ripp, Kibbio, Mich.

licrnard Aliudson, Whitchall, Mich.





Ellis (.‘linc, it. 2, itichiand, Mich.

Candy.

Lt: Roy MacKI-ilar, Decatur, Mich.





Mary Heath, Moi-sick, Mich

Dorothy M. Smith, It .i,





Mich.

lIJvolyn Baitr n, It Gallo n, Mich.

Esther Wonscr, Muiiiken, Mich.





MY FAVORITE WINTER SPORT.





By Jennie A. Kok, Zecland, Michigan. .

()1 all the winter sports, I like the,





old lashionc (1 one be st,

down hill.





There: arc





that of riding





many diffcrcnt ways of

getting to the bottom of the hill. Some

like the indian runner best, because it

has great spI-od. Others like to go

skimming or whirling ov«»1' the crust

in a large- buttcr bowl. it is great fun.



i like the community bob—sled. It

will hold about two. if properly guid-

ed it will unariy r<‘-ach the top of the

opposite hill, about forty rods from

where we start. Then we all race to

the top of the hill again, or perhaps

we ride from the opposite hill, which

is not as long or as steep.



Sometimes We get nicely started, or

perhaps nearly to the bottom of the

hill when, oh: we go tumbling head

foremost into a large drift, or make a

rough heap of humanity at the bottom.

No one has ever been hurt. We all

scramble to reach the: crest of the hill

first, blaming the guide for the over-

turned sled.



I like this sport bI-cause it creates

a friendly spirit in the





also is a good, clean sport. and the

bracing winter air makes our cheeks

rosy. and our bodies strong and

healthy





Come and [13' a tiip down one ofI

these rugged hills oi northein Michi-

gan. You will surel3 want a good sup-

per When you arrive home.





 





THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.





 





HE Merry Circler who originally,

sent in the “Work-to-Win" motto:

has been given the Golden Circle hon-

or. He is Kenneth Dean, of Ada, Mich. "

“White Amaranth" has also sent in

her name and has received her Golden

Circle pin. T. Norman Hurd, of Port

Hope, will receive the Golden Circle

honor for his letter in the issue of

January 24.



I still am waiting for the names and

addresses of “A Silent Reader " and

“Just Peggy” I would also like to

hear from “Halcyoae,” whose letter

appeared in the January 31 issue.





 





 





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' HEN the Cass County Guernsey

Association had its annual meet-

ing in Dowagiac the other day



they traded a pure-bred bull for a

scrub. The venture proved successful

beyond their expectations. '



The association had previously an-

nounced this intention of trading a

purebred bull for a scrub brought to

their annual "meeting. They had no

idea that this scrub would be a super-

scrub or a sort of elite speciman of its

The scrub bull was to be the

one brought in by any farmer of the

county which, according to the judg-

ment of the Guernsey Fieldman, Mr.

H. C'. Burrington, would make for the

least improvement in a dairy herd.‘



The animal shown in the first illus-

tration was awarded this distinction,

if we may call it that. The picture

flatters him. He had qualities for this

position way beyond the ability of the

photographer to reproduce. Should

one attempt to state what his breeding

was he would be sure to discredit

some breed, so perhaps it is best to

call him just. a scrub. _



The trade was made possible by the

cooperation of the Dowagiac Chamber

of Commerce, merchants and business

men 01' Dowagiac, who contributed for

the purpose of the pure-bred bull. The

only rules of the exchange were that

those exhibiting scrubs had to have

been the owner for at least two

months, had to signify their intentions

of building up a Guernsey herd and to

agree to let the pure-bred animal,

should they win him, be used for ser-

vice at a reasonable charge in their

neighborhood.





In all, five bulls competed for the

honors. I suppose we would not call

this honors, but the consolation prize;

however, in this instance it was a prize

soughtal'ter by five entries, three of

which were brought in over fifteen

miles to compete for the Guernsey bull,

Arbutus King of Elk Park Farm.





 





 





 





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The Scrub of Scrubs Brought 31/2 Cents

Per, Pound in Chicago.





Guernsey breeders to the number of

over one hundred attended this meet-

ing, there being representatives pres-

ent from several other counties.



After a forenoon spent in th elec-

tion of officers, and an afternoon with

addresses by Mr. H. C. Burrington,

Guernsey Association Fieldman, mem-

bers of the High School Agriculture

Class, and Mr. Jack Pollock, of the

Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce, the

meeting adjourned to watch a parade

of “bulls.” The parade proceeded

through Main street with a pure-bred

leading the five scrubs. It attracted

considerable attention, both as a par-

ade and also because it showed that

there is still work to be done in the

elimination of scrub sires. At the close

of the parade the judging was done,

there being little question which ani-

mal would receive the prize,

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The Scrub of Scrubs ' 3

How He War T tuned to Good Account .272 Oné Néigfiéor/zoodl

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is that, one hour after the judging, the



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reports show’th'at he brought three and



one-half cents a pound in Chicago, a 5



total of $15.65 net. -

Not secondary, in importance is the 4.



fact that Mr. Ned Carter, a Porter '



township farmer who won the'pure‘



bred bull and is thus starting the



Guernsey business, comes from a coma



munity where a" pure-bred Guernsey . ,



bull was not yet owned. By the rules



of the contract he has signified his ins i



tention of starting a Guernsey herd



and there is little question but that it



will interest others in the community.

These exchanges often times have



doubtful value, do not work out as they





   

   

   

   

   

 





 





   

 

 





 

 

 

 





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Arbutus King of Elk Park Farm Was

Exchanged For the Scrub.





but, at least from the stand-1

point of the publicity of the pure-bred

sires in general, and Guernseys in par

ticular, this exchange proved excep-





 





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tionally valuable. This is only a start.

A bull association should be the after-

math and, naturally, the Guernsey As-

sociation of the county has, by its own

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EMBERS of the Macomb County

'Cow Testing Associations grew ‘



422 acres of alfalfa last year. Two ‘

members Were without alfalfa a year

ago. One bought alfalfa hay for six«

teen cows and the other bought addio ‘ I

tional grain with an equivalent feeding l

value. The grain buyer spent $200

more for feed than did the hay buyer.

They ranked third and fourth for milk \

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production in the association. Now

each has a good SIand of alfalfa.

Fifteen members of the association

have electric lights. two acetylene

lights and ten use central power. Eight

have installed drinking cups in their

stables, seventeen bare and use milk

coolers during the summer, and twen‘ l,





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are not necessary for getting the best 5

results. One really feels better when “

he is fully meeting all the require-

ments for the sanitary. production of

good dairy products at the lowest in.

yestment consistent with permanency;

for then it is possible to get from the

exacting business of dairying the larg— .

est net profits. On the other hand, it

is important that one provide housing -

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LARE FIGG, of the West Eaton

00w Testing Association, is the



owner of, the high- cow and high herd

in both butter-fat and milk production.

Elmer 'Dobson, the tester, reports that

“Pauline,” a. pure-bred Holstein owned

by Mr. Figg, made 15,144 pounds of

milk and 496.8 pounds of butter-fat.

Figg’s herd averaged 407.8 pounds of

butter-fat. Vern Barnes had the high

cow in the age class under three years

old. E. M. Bacon & Son had the high

cow in the age class under four years

of age. Diller & Miller had the high

cow under five years of age class.



The following herds averaged better

than 800 pounds of butter-fat produc-

tion during the association year: Clare

Figg, C. V. Baldwin, ‘Vern Barnes, C.

Vincent, owning pure-bred and grade

Holsteins; E. W. Stevens with eight

Shorthorns, and H. D. Burroughs and

Roy J. Schott with mixed herds.



Twelve pure-bred sires were pur-

chased during the association year.

Twenty-four unprofitable cows were

sold for beef, and fifty cows were sold

for breeding purposes to outside buy-

ers. Dobson, the tester, is continuing

the testing work.





CLINTON-EAGLE GO|NG ANOTHER

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HE Clinton-Eagle Cow Testing As-



sociation, Victor Ornstrup, tester,

has completed its first year’s work.

Mr. Orn‘strup is continuing the testing

work for a second year.



John Henning’s four-year—old pure

bred Holstein cow made 14,225 pounds

of milk and 465.4 pounds of butter-fat.

This is the highest milk and butter-fat

record in the association. Henning’s

nine pure-bred Holsteins averaged

11,658 pounds of milk and 430 pounds

of butter-fat. This is the. high herd

in butter-fat production.



Twenty-two cows made better than

400 pounds of butter—fat. Ten herds

totaling sixty-nine *’ cows averaged

above 300 pounds of butter-fat produc-

tion. Ornstrup, the tester, reports

that 186 soil tests were made. with the

soiltex method during the association

year. Twenty cow testing association

members have alfalfa seeded on their

farms. The high herd owners are as

follows: John Henning, J. J. Maicr,

James Lowell, George Gall, Herman

Bliss, Allen Eaton, Claude Ainslie,

George Bateman, King Lee, and Al.

Drayton. All of these herds are com-

posed of either pure-bred or grade

I—Iolsteins.





THREE ASSOCIATiONS FINISH

KENT.





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HREE cow testing associations in



Kent county finished their year‘s

work with December. They Were the

two groups in the “'est Kent and the

Grand Rapids Association.



In the Alpine group of the West

Kent, the average production was 7,694

pounds of milk with a 4.23 test, and

325.5 pounds of fat. The, herd 'of six—

teen pure-bred Holsteins owned by

John Buth~& Son, carried off honors

again for the second year. They had

honors for high herd in milk and fat,

with a milk production record of 14,824

pounds of milk, 3.17 per cent test, and

470.4 pounds of fat. The .high cow in

fat had 18,300 pounds of mlik and

603.7 pounds of fat. There were eight-

een herds producing over 300 pounds

of fat. These eighteen herds averaged

' 8,684, pounds of milk and 355.7 pounds

offlfat. There were seventy cows hav-

ing dyer 365 pounds of fat to their

_'_ creditl’ These” were located on twenty





K ."different farms. _





'g‘n’é’spartagroup of this association

had ain’average‘ production of 7,891.9





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.‘pounds of milk, a 4.12 test, and 3253;"

pounds of fat. High herd in fat pro-:

duction'went to G. s. Felt, with fifteen?

grade and'pure-bred Holsteins. Theyi

averaged 10,6424 pounds of milk and





387.7 pounds of fat. High herd in milk





production went to the herd of grade .





and pure-bred Holsteins

Lynn Bradford.





owned by

This herd averaging

10,6603 pounds of milk and 385.2

pounds of butter-fat. High cow in but-

ter—fat was a grade Shorthorn owned

by Carl Bradford, producing 12,542

pounds of milk and 593.5 pounds of fat.

This cow in four years has produced

just a few pounds less than a ton of

butter. This association continues

with one group. Leo VVoodhams is

the tester.



The Grand Rapids Cow Testing As-

sociation finished its year, December

10. The average production was 8,993

pounds of milk, 3.6 per cent test, and

325.38 pounds of fat. Three hundred

cows were on test. The high herd in

fat production was owned by Elden

Hunsberger. This herd of six pure-

bred Holsteins had an average produc-

tion of 12,677 pounds of milk, a 3.4

test and 434.6 pounds of butter-fat. The

high herd in milk production was own-

ed by John Buitendyk with twelve

pure—bred Holsteins averaging 12,866

pounds of milk, a 3.08 per cent test,

and 396.3 pounds of fat. The high cow

in fat production was owned by Robert

Patterson. Shewas a grade Holstein

producing 14,055 pounds of milk with

a 3.64 per cent test and 511.6 pounds

of fat.



There Were nineteen herds produc~

ing over 200 pounds of fat, and sixty-

l'our cows on twenty farm producing

over 365 pounds of fat. Owney Han-

sen is the tester in this association.—

K. K. Vining.





GOGEBIC MAKES DAIRY PRO-

GRESS.





REPORTING on the agricultural. ad-



vance in (logebic county——the

most westerly county in Michigan——

Mr. C. E. Gunderson, county agricul-

tural agent, calls attention to the fact





 





that five years ago there were only

seven pure-bred bulls in the county,

and about the same number of pure-





bred cows. while at present there are

seventy—nine pure-bred bulls distribut-

ed in every township of the county,

and from eighty-five to 100 pure-bred

cows, with many additional high-grade

cows and pure-bred calves.



Five years ago there Were perhaps

two or three cows capable of produc~

ing 400 pounds of butter-fat in a year,

one pue SMOD punod-og',» euros ‘snoo

pUROtl-ng .(nmn on: mom moo onqm

501-pound cow on test last year. There

are several heifers now producing

forty~five pounds of milk each day. It

was not like this flu» years back, The

farmer who 11.4! d a pure—bred bull five

years ago is now reaping hi; reward.

For one thing, he is riding in an auto

mobile and has a good house and barn.



Twenty—seven members of the COW-

testing association are now feeding

balanced rations, weighing and testing

the milk of their cows, using pure—bred

bulls, cooperating in the purchase of

feed, raising the calves from their best

cows or selling them to calf club mem-

bers. Farmers ought not to let an

opportunity slip to purchase calves lo-

cally from parents having a high rec-

ord. Calves from dams with high rec-

ords are sometimes permitted to go to

the beef market when they ought; to be

kept at home in the county. These

calves come from city dairymen who

cannot afford to raise them.



Two years ago through a cooperative

arrangement with Ironwood business

men, a car of pure-bred and high-grade

animals were brought into Gogebic

county and the results, for the most

part. are satisfactory. This is surely

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» months to be patient and persevering,

' that prosperity was around the corner.





But, those who have been dependent

upon the farm for a livelihood, are of

one accord in thinking that it has been

a. rather long corner. There is little

to indicate, at present, that the turn

will be anything but slow, and more

or less painful, although we feel sure

that some sweet day that corner Will

be safely and surely turned, and pros-'

perity will be, no longer, only a.

promise. ' ‘

We have somehow managed, with

the help of the ever faithful “BOb,’_’ the

foreman, to keep the good herds of

pure-bred hogs and cattle intact, and

the numerous affairs of Francisco

Farm flourishing in the usual manner.

The winter’s work is very well center-





T It! fincimt: Early L‘eamed 1‘01Underitandiz/zéflflei‘ré’

' By‘P. P. Pope "





“That the groom may 5 put on the

bridle properly, let him first approach





the horse on theelef‘t side,7a.nd then,





throwing the reins over the horse’s

head, let~hlm suffer them to, rest on;





’tllepoint of the shoulder;'and next let





him take' the headpiece in his right

hand, and apply the bit with his left;

If the horse takes the bit into .his

mouth, the man has nothing to do but

to put on the headpiece; butvif the

horse will not open his mouth, the

man, must hold the._bit 'to his teeth,

and insert the middle finger of his left

hand between the horse’s bars; for

most‘horses, ’when this is done, open

their mouths. Should the horse, how-

ever, not even then receive the. bit, let

him press the lip against the dog—tooth

or tusk, and there are very few horses

that, on feeling this, will not admit it.”



There is always room in this world'

for any of us to learn from others,

and when we have leisure, whether it

has come from deliberate planning 01'

been thrust upon us, there is always

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ed about the big barn with its roomy

basement, and Bob is pretty much

alone with a. barn full of horses and

cattle and big hungry hogs.



Personally, we have “gone south for

the winter.” (The whole of two hun-

dred miles from Francisco Farm, that

being as long a. ticket as we could pay

for), and are enjoying the snow and

the ice and the zero weather of damp

and foggy Ohio. W'e climb the silo

for exercise and occasionally milk a

Jersey cow, or two; but, for the most

part, we occillate between the dinner

table and the easy chair, and as a con—

sequence we are getting fat and flabby.

Buckwheat pancakes and beefsteak, a

cellar full of vegetables and fruit, and

the best cook in the world to prepare

them, doesn’t sound bad, does it? \Ve

were not born to hibernate, however,

and sitting'still is hard work—espe-

cially as we have never learned to

smoke a corncob pipe~so we find our-

selves digging around to find some—

thing interesting. Yesterday, wc were

delving into some old Greek transla-

tions, and look what we found in one

of Xenophon’s essays on horsemanship

written 2,800 years ago.



“When a horse is shy of any object,

and reluctant to approach it, the rider

must try to make him feel that there

is nothing terrible in it, especially to





' the horse of spirit; but if he can not





succeed, the rider must himself touch

that which appears so alarming and

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blows in such a case they merely in-

spire the animals with greater terror;

for they imagine, when they suffer any

pain at such a time, that what they

look, upon with alarm is in some way

the cause of it.”





There are many present-day men

who know less about horses than this

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HAVE fattening at Forest ,Grove



Farm twenty-one hogs that will av-

erage around 225 pounds. I am going

to market these hogs the first week in

February, or thereabouts. These hogs

were sired by a thoroughbred male on

high grade sows of the same breed.



For several years past I have been

keeping my hogs until they averaged

300 pounds, but I have come to the

conclusion that the market does not

want hogs of this heavy Weight, so '1

am going to sell my hogs when they

average around 235 pounds.



Two years ago I marketed my hogs

when they averaged 310 pounds, and

when I got my returns I discovered I

did not get within a, cent and ahalf

of the top market price. Some years

heavy stock is in demand, but taking

it year after year I believe the lighter

hogs are the ones that. top the market.



I have been fattening my hogs this

winter principally on corn, ground bar-

ley and skim—milk. This is not quite

as balanced a ration as I would like

to feed, but I have the grain on hand

and» skim-milk so I am going to mar-

ket it in this way. I have given these

hogs plenty of range, supplied them





with charcoal and salt and What bright .





clover hay they would eat.

It is difficult to tell the best time to





market winter fattened hogs, but my ,

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any of them over which they have any

influence. _,

Sufficient studies have not been

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the demand for milk can be definitely

stated. “However, there are some

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1. Price.—It is not known just how

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pints in some cities in the United

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.consumption is found in those places





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City; ' Consumption. Price.

Hartford, Conn ....... 1.04 . 6

New York City. . . . .70 .15

Balitmore, Md ........ .48 .14





The price of milk is not the sole fac-

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2. The Buying Power of the Consum-

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cannot buy. During times of industrial

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families buy the same quantities of

milk and economize on other things.



3. Quality of Milk—If the milk

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quality, thgconsumption will be great-

er. Dirty milk of a low butter—fat con-

tent is not “good.”

things because they taste good. A

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like things which "taste good.” Cool,

sweet milk with a relatively high but-

ter—tat content tastes good.



Health authorities, dairymen and

distributors should make every effort

to improve the quality of the milk

coming into the market. Thus will the

health of the community be benefited

and the milk business improved. In

substance, the following statement was

made at the \Vorld‘s Dairy Congress,

1923: “\\'e have fully demonstrated

through the educational work of the

quality control department of the dairy

council that careful production insures

satisfied customers and better market

conditions for the producer‘s milk.”





4. Faith in the Equity of the Price.

—\Vc do not buy things freely it We

think the price charged is not equita—

ble. \Vhenever We tool that. we are

getting full value for money expended

Ve buy more readily. Confidence ol‘

the public in the price and quality of

milk sold is one ol‘ the essential re-

quirements of a stable market and

heavy consumption.



The dairyman should be interested

in preserving the confidence of the

public in all those connected with the

milk-business. Short-sighted produc-

ers often attack the distributors as

“profiteers.” Sensational newspapers

denounce the. “milk combine" as a

'lnenace to the community. The milk

distributor is pictured as an octopus

robbing the baby of his daily portion

of milk. One distributor attacks an~

other as being unfair. All such things

tend to cause the public to think it is

being" treated unfairly in the matter of

milk.' Confidence is lost and the con-

sumption of milk decreases.



' {The agency which distributes milk

to"the“:t30Iisume1' is working for the





‘haixyma‘n’ljust as much as the man





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of the distributoris hurt there is a re-

action upon theimilk producer. The

distributor cannot buy'-'milk from the

dairyman if he cannot sell it to the

consumer. From a selfish standpoint

the milk producer cannot afford to





7, have the public lose confidence in the





milk distributor. From the standpoint

of public welfare anyone, who causes

the public to lose confidence in the dis-

F-tributor is a detriment to society, for'

by such action the public is caused to

consume less of an essential product.



Milk producers should take every

legitimate action possible to increase

the consumption of milk. Such action

is good from the standpoint of all con-

cerned. The confidence of the public

must be secured and maintained. This

confidence can be secured by making

the public know that the price of milk

is just and that producers and distrib-

utors as a class are not unscrupulous.



Whenever a dishonest milk distrib-

utor is discovered he should be treated

as all dishonest persons deserve. The

dishonest individual in any line of bus-

iness should be punished; but it is

detrimental to society that any busi~

ness tall into disrepute merely because

some unscrupulous persons are engag—

ed in it.



The distribution of milk is just as

honorable as theproduction of milk

and is just as necessary. lt is just as

honorable as the publishing of news-

papers or selling shoes. The persecu-

tion of milk distributors does an in-

justice not only to this business, but

also to the producer of milk as well as

the public.



Dairymen should realize that the in-

tegrity of the milk distributor is an

essential factor to the success of their

business. This integrity can be main-

tained by never attacking any distrib-

utor unless he is found to be dishonest.

At such times the individual and not

the milk distributor, as an agency,

should be attacked. Dishonest individ-

uals and unfair dealers should be elim-

inated by refusal to do business with

them; but the milk distributor is an

essential economic agency and its in-

tegrity should be maintained.



The milk business is of such a na-

ture that it should be considered pri-

marily in its relationship to the public

health and welfare of the community;

and not merely as a means of making

money. if this most essential business

is to continue and contribute to the

health of the nation it must be remun-

erative to those persons engaged in it.

The costs of production and getting

the product: to the consumer’s door

must be met out; of the price paid by

the consumer. These costs are those

of the producer and the distributor.

The public’s lack ol’ faith in the fair-

ness of either 01' these will cause a re-

action which will be detrimental to all.



The dairyman, the mill; distributor,

the public oliieial, il(.'W<[)‘(lDL.‘l‘S and the

consumer should all strive to improve

the conditions in the milk market and

maintain the integrity of the business.

Milk consumption depends upon this

l’aith. Public health depends upon

milk consumption.



An electrical engineer spoke recent-

ly as follows regarding the idea of ex-

tending electricity to t'arms:



“You must: show the farmer that

electricity is more than a luxury~

show him how it will reduce the cost

of running his farm. If it can be

shown that, electricity is a good buy

for him, the problem of rural electrifi-

cation will be in a great degree solved.

It may be possible to show the farmer

that use of power in his work may

make it possible [for him to farm his

land with one less hand than before.

If you can show him economies such

as this, we will see a new day in

farming.”



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‘ ADEQUATE preparation should be-





forehand be made for handling‘the

early lambs, as they are very sensitive

and readily succumb to adverse con-

ditions. 'Lambs dropped during the

severe winter weather are out of sea-

son, and to insure success natural con-

ditiongmust be provided. Early lambs

are profitable, but demand attentive

care. ' '

The-stable should be warm, light

and dry. My experience has been that

there is nothing quite‘equal to a. base-

ment stable with a, wall on the west

and north side and having a south ex-

posure. A wall of either stone or con-

crete completely shuts out the sharp

cutting winds from the north and west

and aids in keeping the stable at a

more uniform temperature. If a. wall

is not available a. double matched sid-

ing with an air space between is sec-

ond best.



Half the battle of successful man-

agement of early lambs depends upon

having a place where it is warm and

where a uniform temperature can be

maintained. The stable should be well

ventilated, yet, at the same time, free

from drafts and never so cold as to

chill the lambs. “latter should never

freeze in a. stable where early lambs

are being raised until the lambs are at

least sixnveeks old.



Much of the trouble encountered in

handling early lambs may be obviated

by giving the ewes extra care so that

the» lambs will come strong and full

of vitality. Weak puny early lambs

are a discouraging proposition, and .es-

pecially in cold weather. I have found

that by feeding the ewes well they

drop healthy, robust lambs, come to

their milk readily and cause but little

trouble at; lambing.——Leo C. Reynolds.





HOG POPULATION SHRINKS.

H 0G production in 1925 will be be-



low normal, with an acute shdrt—



age of hog products in 1926. This

is indicated by the recent pig survey

made by the department of agricul-

ture. There was a decrease of 28.2 per

cent in the number of sows farrowing

in the fall of 1924» throughout the coun-.

try from the number farrowing in the

fall of 1923, but the decrease in pigs

is only 22.2 per cent. For the corn

belt the decrease in sows farrowed

was 30.6’per cent, and in pigs saved

23.4 per cent. Based upon the results

of previous surveys, the present sur-

vey indicates a. reduction of from fif-

teen to twenty—five per cent in sows

that will farrow in the corn belt in

the coming spring, from the spring

of 1924.



The total number of pigs raised in

the corn belt in 1924 was about nine-

teen per cent less than in 1923, repre-

senting a, reduction from 1923 of be-

tween 11,000,000 and 12,000,000 head.



These figures indicate that the trend

of prices of hogs and pork products

will take an upward turn before long,





‘ and that those farmers who have kept





their brood sows will be able to re

gain the losses due to the past period

of large produption and low prices.





WORLD SHEEP PRODUCTION.





:AN analysis of the production of





sheep in various countries indi-



cates that the trend over a, long

period of years is downward in most

countries. In all countries the number

varies from year to year and fluctuc

ates with changes in prices and other

conditions that affect the industry gen-

erally. The total sheep population of

the United States, Australia, New Zea-

land, and the United Kingdom in 1904

was 142,922,000 head. In 1914 it was

176,342,000 head, and in 1924 it stood

at 157,355,000 head.



Large accumulations of wool, with

consequent decline in prices shortly

after the war. caused many countries

to reduce their flocks, particularly in

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at record heights.



A noted British authority on wool

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of wool during 1924 would amount to

approximately 2,840,000,000 lbs. The

world supply for 1924, according to

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Registered Guernseys



LONE P NE RANGER our new Herd SIRE has a

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Calf. Well Bred. old enough

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Reg. Guernsey Cows. Bulls and

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PROD CTION PRODUCTION

We usl Have Production





We arebanking on such sires as these for

production in our future herds.



Echo Sylvna King Model, a. grandson of Mav

Echo Syliia from a 36-lb. daughter of a

twprc 37—lb. cow.



Grahamholm Colantha Lad. whose sire has 2

.‘dauuhtors with World‘s records, one with

1:400 lbs. butter. and H.000 lbs. milk in a.

ycar. and one with 1,200 lbs. butter and

32,000 lbs. milk in 2:05 days.



Marathon Bess Burke 320. son of “Fobcs

0th." His st-ycn ncarcst dams art-rage 1.108

lbs. butter and atom; lbs. milk in a year.

Bell Farm King Sylvia, a, grandson of May

lit-ho Sylvia out of “White Susie" tho t'amous

show cow with 1.113 lbs. buttcr and 28.000

lbs. milk in 305 days.



Send for our list Of bulls from high produc-





ing dams.

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$1000 B U V 5 ton nlt'd Holstein



Helfcrs from one

month to one year old. all sired by our 33.58—1b.

Bull; young Bulls all sold. E. A. ROHLFS. R. F.

D. 3, Akron, Mich.





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> ‘ 4 c u . am's record 31,20 1b.".

aunts: 00-! {lbs M111; Siro’s dam 004 lbs. Butte-1' III

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Spasrn of Larynx.—What is the trou-

ble. Wltll my three-month-old pigs,

whlch are seemingly in good health,

but when they commence to eat they

are suddenly affected by spasms.

However,- after struggling a few min-

utes they get over it, commence to

eat, and act as if nothing had hap-

pened. R. H., Brighton, Mich.-—The

cold food causes spasm of the throat,

or else the animal fills the mouth too

full, causing choking. Warm their

feed, make it more sloppy and spread

it out thin.





Chronic Cough—Heaves.—I have a

twelve-year-old horse that has been

coughing some for the past three

months, and he also has mild case of

heaves. I feed mixed bay, a, few oats,

and the glands of the throat are en-

larged. R. T. C., Columbiaville, Mich.

—Feed timothy or straw, no clover

hay. Grain and roots is the best win-

ter feed, grain and grass best summer

feed; also apply equal parts of tinc-

ture of iodine and camphorated oil to

enlarged glands daily, and give him

a hall-ounce of Fowler’s solution at a

dose two or three times a. day.





Abscess.—My cow first went lame,

an abscess formed on hip, which op—

cued, then it soon healed. Now she is

seemingly stiff in joints of leg. She

is due to freshen in February, and

does not seem to be sick. E. B., Mil—

lersbul‘g, Micl1.-—Apply camphorated

oil to stiff joints twice a day, give her

two drams of acetate of potash in feed

or in drinking water twice a day.



Eczema—Have cow which will soon

freshen, the skin on hind quarters

itches, causing her to scratch. A. N.,

Anchorville, Mich.——After washing the

parts with soap and water, apply one

part oxide of zinc and five parts vas-

eline daily. It will not be necessary

to wash her often, but keep her clean.

Brushing twice a day might prevent

itching.



Unprofitable Dairy Cow.-—I have a

cow six years old that gives a good

flow of milk, but after being with calf

for five mOntlis she drys. What can

be done for her? She has never been

sick at day. Mrs. B. C. McC., Leslie,

Mich—Good care and proper feeding

is the best remedy for a case of this

kind, but it is a mistake to keep an

unprofitable dairy cow.



Ringworm—Cow Ate Afterbirth.———

Do you consider iodine and lard as

good a. remedy for ringworm as io-

dine? A neighbor of mine has a. cow

that ate her afterbirth and she ap<

pears to be in good health. I have

been told it might poison a cow. E.

T., Silverwood, Mich.—~No, apply tinc-

ture of iodine. It depends upon the

cow's power of resistance whether it

will do her harm to eat the afterbirth.

We all know that it is a mistake to

allow her to eat it. The writer has

known many valuable cows to die from

the effect of eating the placenta.



Sore Teat.—The end of my cow’s

teat is sore, which makes milking difli-

cult.—F. R. M., Fenville, Mich—Touch

sore with carbolic acid lightly daily,

use a milking tube.





 





 





 





 

 

 

   

 

 

 





 

 





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GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday February 8.

heat





Detroit—No. 1 red $2.14; No. 2 red

$3.13; No. 2 white $2.13; No. 2 mixed





Chicago—July at_§1.675/8@1.68; Sep-

tember $153174; May $1.977/g@1.98.

Toledo—Wheat $2.09%@2.10%.





Corn.

Detroit—No. 3 yellow $1.30; No. 4

yellow $1.25; No. 5 yellow $1.20.

Chicago—July $1.375/g@1.37%; Sep-

Ztlegiélljéer $1.371,§@1.37%; May $1.36@





Oats.

Detroit—No: 2 white 631/30; No. 3

white 621,50.

Chicago—July 641,43c;

6054c; May 68@6814c.





September at





' Rye.

Detroit—Cash No. 2, $1.67.

Chicago—July $16155; September



$1.291/2; May $1.77.

Toledo—$1.60.

Beans.

Detroit.——Immediate

shipment $6.30 per cwt.

Chicago—Navy, choice at $5.50@6;

red kidneys $10.35@10.50.

New York—Choice pea at $7@7.25;

red kidneys $10@10.50.





and prompt





Barley.

Detroit.—Malting $1.01; feeding 95c. -

Buckwheat. .



Detroit.——$2.30@2.32.

Seeds. ~





Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$19.60; alsike $13H60; timothy $3.20.





ay.



Detroit—«No. 1 timothy at $17@18;

standard and light mixed at $16@17;

No. 2 timothy at $150116; N0. 1 clo-

ver and No. 1 clover mixed $15@16;

Wheat and oat straw $11@11.50; rye

straw $12.50@13.





Feeds.



Detroit—Bran at $36@37; standard

middlings at $40; fine middlings $44;

cracked corn $56; coarse cornmeal at

$52; chop $41.



Apples.



Chicago prices on apples: Northern

Spies $7@7.25 bbl; Baldwins $6@6.50;

Jonathans $9@9.25 bbl; Kings $650611

7; Greenings $7@7.25 bbl; Wageners

$5.25@5.50 bbl; Grimes $5.50@5.75;

Starks $6; Ben Davis $5@5.50.





WHEAT





A feature of the advance in wheat

has been the foreign demand from sev-

eral countries, including those which

normally are in the exporting list.

France, Italy, United Kingdom, Bulgar-

ia, Roumania, Hungary, Russia and

Egypt all have been reported as buy—

ers of wheat and flour during the last

week. Altogether, large purchases of

cash grain were made by importing

countries in the world’s market. The

urgency of this buying seems to be

over for the time being. however, But

clearances in the week ending January

24 were the smallest since last July

and total exports for January will prob—

ably not exceed 15,000,000 bushels.





RYE





In spite of reports of fairly large

sales of rye nearly every day in the

last month, actual clearances have

been relatively small. Importing coun-

tries have reduced their weekly tak-

ings decidedly, as compared with what

they were when rye was 50@75c cheap-

er. Stocks, while large, are in strong





hands.

CORN





Speculative attention turned to corn,

after leading operators came to the

conclusion that wheat was on unsafe

ground. The movement to terimnals is

falling off slightly. Feeders are buy-

ing little, and both industries and ele-

vators are unwilling to take the low

grades, except at much greater dis-

counts than a week ago, although a

little improvement in the demand from

these quarters has been noticeable in

the last day or two.





FEEDS





Prices for all by-product feeds are

weak, reflecting the decreased demand

from feeders and dairymen. Conces-

sions of 50c per ton and more are be

ing made to stimulate demand for mill

feeds in transit. Canadian and Buffalo

mills are quoting bran about $2 lower

than western mills. Both linseed and

cottonseed meal prices are the lowest

in several weeks. Sixty per cent feed-

ing tankage at various markets is quot-

ed around $65 a ton.



Chicago—Bran $32.50; standard

middlings $36; flour middlings $40;

cottonseed meal, 43 per cent, $45; hom-

iny feed $48; gluten feed $40; old

process oil meal $47 ; tankage, 60 per

cent, $65 per ton in 100-11): sacks.





   





' OA'PS





Oats are still accumulating atvterm-

inal markets. The visbile supply of

74,000,000 bushels is morevthan four

times as large as a year ago. Primary

receipts have increased about 25 per

cent in the last two weeks, and are

considerably heavier than usual at this

season. Demand from consuming dis-

tricts continues slow, although cereal

interests have bought more vigorously

in the last day or two. Canadian oats

at the seaboard are said to be nearly

all cleaned up, so that foreign buyers

may soon begin to take American





grain.

SEEDS





The seed trade is rather slow, as the

cold and stormy weather tends to

make buyers indifferent. Prices show

only small changes. Foreign clover

and alfalfa seed is being offered more

freely. It is reported that France has

about 10,000,000 pounds of red clover

seed available for export and that

about 5,000,000 pounds have been

bought in Europe to come to this coun-

try. The movement of soy—beans out

of growers’ hands is slow in the corn

belt, but the eastern states have sold

a larger fraction of the crop than a





year ago.

BEANS





After advancing early last week,

bean prices declined and closed slight-

ly lower than a week previous. C. H.

P. Whites are quoted at $6.50 per 100

pounds, f. o. b. Michigan. Demand is

only fair, as buyers are uncertain as

to the permanency of prices, and are

not providing for distant needs. De-

liveries are rather light, in spite of

the advance of prices since the first of

the year, and some of them are being





stored for producers who are looking





for considerably higher prices later on.

I





They are anticipating a” market that

will pay $6.50@7 “to them at. the ele-

vator. Speculative activity has been a

factor in the upturn recently, as the

Pacific Coast interests have been op-

erating and the high prices, for grains

tend to influence sentiment as to bean

values. If‘ prices advancemuch above





Detroit—4Eg’gs, fresh candied and

graded 52@53c; storage 11469460. Live

poultry, heavy springers 28c;, light do.,

7@28c; heavy hens 28@30c; light (10.. .

27@28c;1 roosters 16@17c;i geese 200; '

ducks 30¢; turkeys 20@35c.~». ‘





Burrsnw'i





the. present level; purchases of foreign , After holding at an unchanged level





beans will probably begin, as prices in

Japan are on a much lower bassi. In

spite of imports, however, it would be

possible for the domestic market to go

somewhat higher than at present. The

market for Pinto beans is rather quiet,

with quotations around $6.95@7, f. o.

b. Colorado.





__ HAY





PriCes for both timothy and alfalfa

hay are slightly lower, with liberal re~





‘ceipts and only a fair demand. Great





pressure is required to move the low

grades. Timothy, prices are about $5

lower than at this time a. year ago,

while alfalfa is in about the same po-

sition as last year. Dairymen and





feeders ha'Ve been fairly active buyers. '





POULTRY AND EGGS





Fresh egg prices are behaving in an

irregular fashion, dictated largely by

receipts from day to day. An increase

of four cents a. dozen at Chicago

brought prices up half way from the

decline a week ago, but they have set-

tled back again. Increased arrivals of

fresh eggs are to be expected from

now on, so that the lower prices may

not hold. Receipts, although increas-

ing, are still below seasonal volume,

however, and prices will continue at a

good margin over the corresponding

period last year.



Chicago—Eggs, checks at 42@43c;

fresh firsts 49V;@500; ordinary firsts

46@47c. Live poultry, hens 24@28c;

springers 28c; roosters'lSB-fic; ducks

0@32c; geese 22@23c; turkeys 25c.





 





 





Live Stock Market Servicej





 





Tuesday, February 3.





CHICAGO





- Hogs.



Receipts today were 41,000. Market

is steadily strong at 15c higher. Hogs

250 to 280-1b. average $10.60@10.85;

early tops $10.85@10.90; bids on bet-

ter weighty butchers of 170 to 220 lbs.

average $10.35@10.60; most 140 to 160-

lb. kind $1001>10 35; bulk strong weight

slaughter pigs $9.25@9.75; few pack-

ing sows $10@10.20.



Cattle.



Receipts were 4,000. Fed steers and

she stock steady to strong 25c high-

er; unlimited fresh steers and desir-

able light heifers, killing quality year-

lings, odd lots at $12.50, carload $13;

few are conditioned; heavy offerings

of fresh steers $8.25@9.50; vealers un-

even, higher quality offering upward

to $16.50; bulk to packers $11@13.50;

few at $14.



Sheep and Lambs. _



Receipts were 17,000. Market slow;

few early sales of fat lambs to outsid-

ers at $18.75@19; early packers’ mar—

ket low. Mostly 250 lower. Early bulk

$18.25@18.50, some fully 500 lower.

Fat sheep and feeding lambs steady.

Fat ewes mostly $9.50@10; feeding

lambs $17.50@18.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Receipts 350. Market closing slow

at 25c lower; all others steady.

Good to choice yearlings

dry-fed ................ $ 9.25@10.00





Best heavy steers, dry-fed 7.75@ 9.00

Handyweight butchers . 7.00

Mixed steers and heifers 5.50@ 7.50

Handy light butchers . . . . 5.50@ 6.50

Light butchers ..... . . . . . 4 50@ 5.50

Best cows 500@ 5.75

Butcher cows 350@ 4.25

Cutters ........ 60061) 6.50

Canners 225657275

Choice bulls 4.50@ 6.00

Heavy bologna bulls . . . . 4.7561) 5.50

Stock bulls 3.25@ 4.25

Feeders ..... . . . . . . 5.00@ 6.50

Stockers ...... . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 6.00

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

Veal Calves.

Receipts 614. Market steady.

Best .......... . .. ....... $16.00@16.50

Others ............ 6.00@15.00





Sheep and 'Eanibs.



Receipts 1,636. Market steady.

Best lambs . . . . . . . . . ...$18.25@18.50

Fair to good 'shee . . . . . . '7.55.@ 7.75

Light to common . . . 8.75@13.75





Fair to good sheep ...... 7.75@ 7.601





Culls and common . . . . . . 4.00@ 5.50

Buck lambs ........ . . . . . 7.75@ 9.00

Hogs.



Receipts 1,788. Market is lower to

steady on everything but roughs, which

are 150 higher.





Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$ 11.50

Pigs ............ . . . . . . . 10.00

Yorkers ...... . . . . . . . . 10.75@10.90

Little yorkerS o o o a o e o e a e 10.50

Roughs 9.55

Stags .................... 5.50@ 6.00





BUFFALO





Hogs. .

Receipts 5,510. Market is closing

steady. Heavy sold at $11.40@11.50;

medium $11.25@11.40; light at $11@

11.25; light lights $10.25@10.75; pigs

at $9.50@10.25; packing sows and

roughs $10.

Cattle.





Receipts were 200. The market is

steady. Steers 1,100 lbs. up, at $763

10.25; steers 1,100 lbs. down $6@9.50;

heifers $5@7.25; cows $2.50@6; bulls

$3.50@5.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 1,000. Best lambs sold at

$18.75; culls $16.50 down; yearlings at

gig@l6.5o; wethers $12@13; ewes at





Calves.

Receipts 2,350. Top at $17.





for. several/days, butter prices advanc-

ed two cents a pound. Receipts, while

smaller than for the week preceding,

were more than 11 per cent larger than ,

in the first week in January. rWhile .1

bottom has probably been reached in .

the effort to find a level at which val-

ues are more stabilized, there is little

chance of prices scoring any decided

advances. .. . »



Prices on 92-score creamery were:

Chicago 391;“; New York 39c. In Do-

troit fresh creamery in tubs sells for

41%c; Philadelphia 41c.





———t— t

COMING LIVE STOCK SALES. t





Holsteins. ‘

Mafi'clil 5—Musolff Bros, South Lyons.

1c .





 





 





 





 





Notice ,ol- Adjourned Annual Meeting

10 AMEND CHARTER





The adjourned annual meeting

of the Citizens’ Mutual Automo-

bile Insurance Company of How-

ell, Michigan, was held on‘Feb-

ruary 6, 1925, at one o’clock P.

M., and adjourned until Febru—

ary 20, 1925, at one o’clock P. M.,

at its home office for the purpose

of amending Section 14 of the

charter of said company or strik-

ing out said section, in which

case the balance of the sections

to be renumbered. Said Section

14 now reads as follows:





Section 14.——All assess-

ments levied by the Board

of Directors of this Com-

pany shall be a lien upon

the property insured in the

nature of a chattel mort-

gage, and in case said as-

sessment shall remain due

and unpaid for a period of

sixty days, then and from

thenceforth it shall and

may be lawful for the said

insurance C o m p a. n y,

through its authorized

agent or attorney, to enter

upon premises of the party

or parties insured, and on

any place or places where

said property and chattels

may be and take posses-

sion thereof and be author-

ized to sell at public auco

tion, after giving ten days’

notice of the sale by post~

ing up written notices

thereof in three public

places in the City or Town-

ship where the property is

found, and to retain out of

the proceeds the amount -

of the assessment and rea-

sonable expenses, the over-

plus or residue, if any. to

belong to and to be re-

turned to the party insured.





WILLIAM E. ROBB, Secretary,





Citizens' Mutual Auto Ins. Go.

of Howell, Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





 

 





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IRON AGE Drills and Wheel Hoes include special and combined tools to suit every

grower’s need. Iron Age Seed Drills sow so accurately that thinning IS unnecessary, if

you have confidence in your seed. The operator can always watch the dropping seeds





Our N o. 306 Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Single and Double Wheel

Hoe is known to thousands of Iron Age users as The Complete Gard.

ener." It sows all kinds of garden seeds; can be quickly changed

Seeder to Wheel Hoe, single or double wheel style. .

ridges and furrows. Takes all drudgery out of gardening: mul-

tiplies the pleasure and profit. .



Write forfqlder describin Hill and Dull



Seeders. Smgleand Do le





 

 

 





Cultivatee,’





Wheel Hoes.



Fred. H. Bateman Company

633 So. Washington Square ’



Philadelphia. Pa.





 





 





 





 

 





 





 





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\.From the first days of the gasoline

bugg to the present day automobile

o . Oils and Greases have been





, leadershin the lubrication field. Thirty—





: Council Bluffs.) Iowa.





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:five years making motors run smoother

andtlast longer! _

You buy thirty-five years of-.qua11ty

reliability in each quart 0

MM Oil. ‘

11 :Ill: 1' 1:11 in Go. .

nonarc and no r Tgoledo, Ohio'





 





Kane Goinbeul'teCeuntid B. um In





you barn—ready tor emergenciee. For

11 year. I reliable and ell'ective remedy to!

Splvin. Capped Hock. Qurb. S lint. Laryn-

itio, Thoroughpin. Quittor. ind Gallo.

oll Evil. Spraine. Fistula. Grease. Barb

WireCutl. Celk Wounde.

Treat these thin“ with Gombault'e Caustic

Balsam. Directions with every bottle. Won't

ecer or discolor hair. $1.50 per bottle at dru‘

ltoree. or direct on receipt of price. The

Lawrence-Williams Co.. Cleveland. Ohio.





GOOD FOR HUMANS; TOO





GoMIBAUL'r‘s‘





Caustic





BALSAM





Save the Udder





if there be caking. congestion or in—

flammation of your cows' udders





Use Antieake





This takes the cake out of the bag.





 





 





 





17ml. r d wasc is a dairyman's constant worry. Be-

cause a Itllilitll'ill'y affliction means immediate loss;

a llcl‘llliilll‘nl disability may mean loss of the Whole





animal. Protect your invostiimnt and save the udder

by providing in your barn AN'I‘lt‘AKL‘, the Wondrous

healing oiiitiiiciit. The minute you notice the least

soreness in the Uddcr. apply ANTII‘Ale and be

safe. CURES MANY (‘ASES 0F (‘IIRONlt‘ UDDluli

TROUBLES. Wise dairymen always_u.se it: contin—

ually before fresliening. particularly With heitors hav-

ing flrst‘calf. SOLD ON POSITIVE GUARANTEE-—

if it. shouldn’t help there is no charge. One pound

box $1. {hive boxes $2.90, five boxes $4.50. All pre—

paid. Dairy Specialty 00., Box F, Elyria. Ohio.





THE Merritt





 





Winsome-roams

, _, .y; PROTECTION. -4





 





‘ misbranding ‘

1925, Which has been reported out

of the House Interstate and \FOI'.‘



eign Commerce .Committee, legalizes

the use of the term “all wool” when ap«-

plied to fabrics composed of wool

shoddy. - Its other provisions relating

to the branding of" fabrics are mean-

ingless and there is some question as

to whether they may do the wool

grower more harm than good.



It_ is the opinion of E. B. Reid, of the

American Farm Bureau Federation,

that in reporting out this bill the com-

mittee has set out to kill the Capper-

French truth-in-fabrics bill. As it is

a. general branding bill, it will act as

a red flag signal for all manufacturers

to fight the proposal, thereby increas-

ing the opposition to the truth in fab-

rics principle. The farm bureau has

persistently favored a real branding

bill, but this proposal does not reach

the truth in fabric situation, for as

long as shoddy is used it can be label-

ed and sold as “all wool.”



Notwithstanding the objectionable

provisions, the Merritt bill is the first





attempt that has been made in con-V





gress to regulate falseand misleading

advertising. Confiscation ot‘ the com-

modity is the penalty for misbranding.





Unhealthy Skim—Several of my cat-

tle are troubled with a white scab on

the skin. H. F., Goodharlive, Mich.—

Apply one part salicylic acid and twen-

ty parts petroleum to sore parts three

times a week. Grooming will help

them.





 





 





Dressed Veal and Hogs





We are an exclusive meat house

and are equipped to handle to your

advantage veal and hog shipments.



Guaranteeing best results

and prompt returns.

Ship direct to





M. A. Nicholson & Co.





WHOLESALE MEATS

2460 Riopelle, Detroit, Michigan





 





   





 

 





ew Improved



, Martin Farm DIteher and Field

Terraeer. Turns water-soaked and

washed acres into producln land. All

uteel. Adjustable. reversible; one work of

100 men. Open Drainage. tiling. Irrifi‘etioni

ten-loin . sad gfrndire’s. llilow pricee ibera

berm. en or ran on . ,



h r 8- radar Co. Inc.,



‘ngtbg‘lfiguc 9 OSensboro. Ry.





   

   

   





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The S. 8:. H. free catalog for t925

the pick of I200 luxurious





list:

acres. Hardy fruit and shade trees,

‘ active fines and berry bushes.





sturdy perennials and oi'namcntals





A——in fact everything aiiiatour or

professional nursery men and or-

cliai'dists can want is here. Post—





card will bring catalog without





delay.

“B THE STORRS ‘1, HARRISON CO.

Nurserymen and Seedsmcn for 7|

years

Box 689. PAINESVILLE, OHIO.





' ' Iligh (‘aIi-iiiiii. Either

Agricultural lee lump or hydrated.

Also spraying lime in woodcn or steel barrels or paper

sacks. Price mailed on request. NORTHERN LIME

& STONE 00.. Petoskey, Mich.





 





 

 





a'ct of





 





Miscauumzous





 





 





indestructible. suit or slip~on.





districts throughout Michigan,

$12.00 per day.

week. Write for particulars.

240 W.





dust. spark and semi-waterproof.





IVEAR AND SELL a. $12.50 Tufl—Tex Utility. almost





Union made. grease,

In towns and rural

salesmen easily make





Part time men $12.00 to $30.00 per

Ogden-Aubert. Company.

Wesley. Jackson. Michigan.





 





did business.

flood location.

Hay to sell,





Will sell or tra

Invite inspection.

quote us prices





HAVE. RETAIL COAL YARD In Port Huron.





Solen-

de for good farm in



If you have Alfalfa

and state quantities.





Port. Huron Storage & Bean Co., Port Huron. Mich.





 





OLD MONEY WANTED. Have

or bill? It may be worth severii

Send 4c t'or Coin ('ll‘t‘lllfll'.

you. Send new

Worth. Texas.





Numismatic





you an odd or old coin

1 dollars. Get posted.





May mean much profit. to

M. Fort -





Bank. Dept.





 





CEDAR FENCE POSTS for 5:11

B. Crowley. I'Iillmaii, Mich.





 





NOTICEMSaIety Razor Blades





e in carioad lots. G.





lie—sharpened. 4c





 





 





SINGLE COMB White Leghorn runes for sale. Se '

Geo. Alien. Box 7. Redford}





lectied Stock. $2 each.





Mich. Phone Farmington 58-F3..





 





"T‘ANt-RE‘D" White Legiiorns~Bamd , Rocitsi‘s'i'tata

Fair Winners. But! Orpingtons. Guineas. Farmer

Bailey. Montgomery, Mich.





 





S. C. R. I. RED COOKERELS—Good color.





Set" t

stock. ec 8d





0. E. Hawley & Son. It. 3. Ludington. Mich.





 





BARRED ROCK (‘OCKERELS $3.

Lhtlersburg. Mich” Presque Isle Co.





 





COCKERELS—Ringlct Barred Rocks bred to lay.

weigh and win. Robt. Martin. Woodland. Mich.





 





GEESE. DUCKS—~Fourteen varieties.

John Kass. Bettendorf. Iowa.





free circular.





 





FOR SALE—large Toulouse Geese. liens $5: gander-s

$6. Satisfaction guaranteed. Don Bevan. Kankakee. Ill.





 





WHITE

st0ck.





“'YANDO'I‘TE

Howard Grant.





COITIIERELS—fligh

Marshall. Mich.





quality





 





BUII‘F OIIP. (‘KLS—flne stuck, well matured. guaran-





 





 





only

writes

sweet

today.

here.





$1. 00.

John Mosely.

and mellow.





Kentucky.





big sample packages and give you absolutely

a. line Italian Briar Pipe—regular $2 valueemall

“Largest dollar’s worth I ever bought.”

Finest tobacco

One big sample only

Kentucky Tobacco Company, Box 12. Owens-





free

for





world ._

Send





in the

30c.





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO.





Chewing 5 lbs.





$1.50; Tell





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

received. pipe and recipe tree. Farmers‘ Union,

I’aducah. Kentucky.





 





ten. $2.50: twenty. $4.50.





ten. $2.00: twenty. $3.50. Pipe





HOMESPUN TOBAt‘t‘Oert‘hewing. five pounds, $1.50;

Smoking. live pounds, $1.25;





Free. Money back if





not satisfied. United Tobacco Growers, l’aducah. Ky.





 





$2.50. Smoking, 5. $1.25:

Pay when received. F.





10.





normsrn’N roamed—chewing. 5





Gupton. Bardwell,





lbs.. $1.50: 10

Mild. 10. $1.50.





l( y.





$2.





 





TOBACCO—Select Chewing. 3

Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.00. (J. Sci)





Hist. $1.00; Fancy

it. S202. Sodzilia, i\'y.





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





 





HARDY FIELD GROWN~~PI

William. daisies and all

ennial flowers. Iris, cannas. g

bulbs. Spiracas. slirubbory,

namental trees and hedging. Rt

barb and asparagus roots.

tomei‘s.





Weaver Gardens. Wichita.





old—tasliioncd or





climbing vines.





ii'ysanthciiiuiiis. sweet

hardy per-

aiid tlibci-osc

i‘oscs. or»

Rhur-





ludiolus.





rawberry plants.





Thousands of satislicti cus-

l)elivercd prcpaid pi‘iccs.

Kansas.





Semi for catalogue.





 





 





 





 





CHOICE SEED CORN-v-1000 bu. 100vday liiipi'ovcd

Yellow Dent; 500 bu. Lancaster (‘ounty Sum (Top;

300 bu. Early “'liite (‘ap. nearly all 102.“. (Top. all

high germination. Write for price. Sample and (“u-—

culai‘. Order early to save money. Sliull Ii‘ai‘iii. Box

12. Tullytown. Bucks (Yo.. l’zi.



SI‘JI-II)SVA“I\'ansas” Alfalfa. $7.00 and $0.50 bushel,

Sweet I‘iovci's. Red Plover. Alsilto. 'l‘imotliy. Sudan.

(lane, Kalfii'. Milli-ts. Seed Porn. Soy-beans. (‘ow

peas. Bags free. Semi for siiiiiples. Solomon Seed

Company. Solomon. Kansas.



RIIUBARB-MAMMO’I‘II VICTORIA I—yr. whole

roots. 20. $1; Giant (‘riiiison 3-yr. divisions, 8, $1;

Asparagus Boots. 50. Delivered prepaid any-

where. Wcaver Gardens. Wichita, Kans.

EREEJNEW RED RASPBERRY v'l‘ip lrowcr. Very





 





llardy. Send for Literature. Strawberries 33,00 per

1.000. All Small Fruit, Plants. Dept. 11, Ilcllcrnga‘s

Nursery. Three Oaks. Mich.



MILLIONS Strawberry Plants $2.05 per 1,000. misp—

bcri-ics. Grapes, Bulbs. Flower Seeds, (‘hicks lllusv

[rated catalogue Ii‘i'cc. Mayors Plant Nurseiy, .‘It‘l'~

rill. Mich.





 





 





sood. $18.00 per

091/2021 pure. llctii'y Foley, .\lt

It. 5. Bags fi‘cct Samples on





ALEALEA SEED~I70 bushels. guaninttxyi hardy grown

bushel, all clean





and about

M icliigziii,





seed

. Pleasant,

i‘etiuosl.





 





REGISTER ED “'01.VER l N E 0A ’I‘S





Michigan’s- Best.





 





 





each. Mt‘Nitt. Breedsville, Mich. icod, $5.00. .l. E. St’t‘lilllgl'l‘, Manchester, Mich.

TOBACCO S. t‘. RHODE ISLAND RED cockci'els. Mahood

Strain. $4. Ali'rcd Dcicliinann. Pigeon, Mich.

TO INTRODUCE. quick, our famous old Kentucky II‘OR BIG TYPE Toulouse Geese try M. B. Noble.

(‘hcwing and Smoking Tobacco. we will send prepaid Saline. Mich.





 





FOR SALE—Tlim'obrcd Toulouse geese.

McAvoy. It. 4. Laingsburg. Mich.





$4. 00. Dan





 





 





BABY CHICKS





SUPERIOR QUALITY Barred Roek and Pure Ham

son White Leghorn (‘liit-ks. Stock Blood Tested sec-

ond. season. ilighost Barred Rock at Michigan and.

Missouri (‘ontcst.s. 1023—24. (‘ontcst winners 1921.

Discount for early orders. Satisfaction guaranteed.

(iii'culiir I‘VI'IVO. Ascltine Poultry Farm. 1827 Belden.

Grand Rapids, Mich.





 





 





“ILLINOIS ACCREDITED" pure-bred chicks. State-

inspected breeding stock. Barred Rocks. Single ('omb

Reds. $15400. W'hite Wyandottcs, Buff Orpingtons.

White Rocks, $10400. Postpaid, 100% live delivery.

Hatch every Monday. order from ad. Member Inter-





 





national and Illinois t‘hick Association. Eai‘li‘ille

Hatchery. 30 Ottawa St... Earlvillc, liliiiois.

OAKLAND HILLS QUALITY ('Ill(‘KS ~Stroiig. vlg-

oi-ous, true to breed. profitable. English Leghoriis.

Rods, Rocks, White Wyandott/es. etc. Safe delivery

guaranteed. (‘ii'culiir free. Oakland Ilills Poultry

li‘ariii. ll‘ai'inington. Mich.





 





BABY t‘lIlt‘KS Purebred S. (‘. Ant‘OlltlS. and Eng—

lish White chlioriis l'roiii tested breeders of utility





 





and exhibition matings. Send today for mating list.

and egg records. Special discount on t'ul‘ll' orders.

“Gibbs" Winterlay lltllt'lil‘l‘y. Bronson, Mich.





 





BABY t‘lllt‘KS from Aiiici‘ica's

littltl pleased over 25,000 custoiiici‘s.

hatch twenty popular vai‘ictics.

livery by prepaid parcel post.

log and tree premium offer.

750. Lancaster, Mo.





pioneer hatchery

22nd season. We



iiiai'antccd safe (10‘

V‘Vi'itc for dililliluti cata-

Millcr Hatcheries, BOX





 





B.\ BY

(lid l\t‘l'(‘tl

of “2.50

‘Illiil' Il'i-(L





l‘lllt‘KS Pedigree Sii'cd Eng.

loot; Iill\tl at your door at

per 100; 3'00 per 500; $110





Modcl Poultry I~‘;i.i'iii. R. I.





\V. Leg.

our low prices

per 1000. (fir—

Zceiand. Mich.





(‘hix.





 





BABY ('IIII‘KS S, (7. \V. Loglioi‘ns (Hollywood

Sti-iiiii). Barred Rocks tl'ai'ks Strain). Send for cat«

aloguc. Snowflake Poultry l"ti.l'lll, Route 5, Middle-

villo. Mich.





 





BABY ('lllt‘lv'S l'i'oiii liciivv egg producing strains. R.

Reds. B. locks. and \Vhitc Leghoriis. Fai‘iiii‘ang‘e

(‘liick Ilitlclici'y, t‘hai'lotto, Mich.





 





BABY t‘llli‘KS l'i-om tint-ks blood-tested for Bacillary





White Diarrhea. A ll llocks tcstcd rrrsa'ond test. on

Rocks and Reds. All popular varieties. Ask for

('tilzllOLllIt‘. l’iei'co Ilatchci'y, Jerome. Michigan.





 





BABY (‘Iilt‘lx'S A.\'l) EGGS ASIipci'itu' Ringlct Barred

Rot-its. Rose t‘onili Rhode island Reds. White LcflllOl‘fls.

\Vyiidliuiii‘s ldcai llatchci'y, ’l‘illiii, ()liio. L'ii‘culai'.





 





BABY t‘lIli‘lx‘S White Wyaiidottt-s, White and Barred

lilit'ltS‘, R. l Reds and S. I‘. While Loghci-iis. Ii'aco





 





Milliltcil. 880 North Imlioy 51.. I’cliioii. Mich.





 





S. l'. BI'I"I“ LEGIIORN l‘IIH'KS It‘ii'st hatch March





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





(. I). li‘inkbeiner, I‘Iilllon. Mich. .':. I‘iiu-uliti'. \\'ill:ii‘d \Vebstci'. Bath. Mich.



(‘ER'I‘llv‘lED Wolverine Oats. Certified Robust Beans. ‘



A. B. t'ook. Owosso, iiitii. TURKEYS



GENUINE GRIMM ALEALEA Sl-IEI) in.- pound. TURKH'S “WWW”! ”I'l‘nm- Bourbon Red. Nar-



Sani Bobci‘. Newell, South Dakota. '~'“.“-‘“”- “1“,!" Holland. “"1123 Tm”- Pain; and

ll'ltN. No hill. ()i‘dci' early. Walter Bros. Pow-

hatan I’o'inl. Ohio.



PET STOCK (HAX'I‘ BRONZE 'l'l'RKI'ZYS Goldbiliik Strain.



(‘lioico lit-my birds, Satisiaclioii guaranteed. Mrs.



THOROUGHBRED (‘()I.I.IE I’III’S Soiiio natural l'ci'i'y Siobllllis. Sdlkllltii‘, ,‘lltll.





Sabl

Duiiiicwiiid. II. 1.





Iiw‘lors. also grown Stock.

Stud. G. .I.





c and \Vhito t‘ollie at

t‘oiiismi'k. Mich.





 





 





 





 





   





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





\VIH'I‘E \V'Y.\.\'I)()’i"l'lll t‘tN'lx'lllilllN .iiiil Ill‘nS. I‘Ig‘gs.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





‘_ luiit’lc R, .\l|ll'i\ll. R. Ir, I’liu), .\l|\'il.

\VIII’I‘E I‘OLLIE A'I‘ S'l'l'l) t‘aptiiiii \Vhite A. K. (‘.

[N 424701. fee $12.00. \l’i'ilc l'oi' particulars. Iloiticstcud ll.\\lllt)’|‘ll BRONZE 'l‘l'Rhlns especially good

kennels. Siii'aiiiit‘. Mich. value in toms. .\ll'.\. I‘letlt‘llt‘ Ruivwlcll. Hanover. Mich.

. ' v -. FOR SALE chiiutil'ul “‘hitc t‘oliie puppics at t‘ai‘m- D . i g I I .- . -, , n ,, . v. . ,

' dc rtmcnt is established for the conveniente of Michigan farmers . _. , ‘ _ . _ ll ltl. l.l.l.l) Mammoth lililll/i luilo-is. loms and

Small?)lasdv‘ei-‘iisgciegiegntsub‘ifibtgls‘b‘gst ri-pszi‘ilts under classified headings. Try it for want ads and for ativer- ,ers’ prices, Iltllll“ll'zllllt'tl SIAlI'b. tau-m bud. llt‘Jllt'I lions. ““1 «K- M‘fl‘. 1.11pm., “tngigmi', Mich.

tisiiig miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. Poultry advertising will be run In this depfll'lmem iBl'Olhl‘l-‘H ”(“1 ‘11). MM).

_ ‘i 1 -olumns at commercial rat‘s. . ‘ . “” " """""‘,—"‘“‘" " ‘ "W! WlIl'l‘E HOLLAND 'l‘l‘l'l'lli 's " in... . .

M “1:22:20?! least: 31' dgrdlsgafii (insertion. on orders for lots than {our hiscrtioiis; for four or more 'GluRMAN SHEPHERD ll’t)lli't’l pups. ldcul t'ai-in \thhmnh’ “WI,“ “Pm“; \\1\h,h “mum ('H w “‘1‘“

consecutive insertions 6 cc'nts a word. ('ount as a word each abbreviation. initial or number. 1‘0 dog. Partners‘ [)I'li'<‘>. (In approval. cypress- prepaid. ' ' '

' 1 Ion dinittcd. Remittances must accompany order. _ .F‘ (‘lmpnmn & up”, \‘aiitialia. 311.3114 _

displaalugsttaljg 11.33503: Sigcka advertising have separate departments and are not accepted as classified. ; AGENTS WANTED

’Minlmum charlie. l0 words. AIREDALE 'l‘ERRll-IR l‘l'l’S 0110 Brood Matron, ‘ '

Best Breeding. .lohn Litwdlci', ltliiieii. Mich. l“l-IR'l'll.lZl‘IR S.\l.li.\‘_\l.\\' \\'.\.\"l‘l£l) Rcliiiblo (‘oin«

‘ . ' puny wants to dc" l')[) capable >;llt“Slill‘ll for Ohio. In-

One Four ' One Four FOR SAI.l‘l—-'I'Ill'(?e Ogemaw (minty hm“?.11“..i1."“';' lilt'lll FLASS‘ Registered (it'i'lllilll I‘olive puppies l‘i'oiii (liaiia. and )lli‘lllJIUI Il‘l'l'llOl‘I. Pi-ct'ci' uprio-dzito

.......$0.80 $2.40 26 ........ $2.08 $0.24 gig cleared4.0 4i; mulling.“ itiiipl‘ou‘nitmf- 11:05: 3500 i imported Slil'b. 'I‘Itcmlon» l). Hit-Its; Alll'gull. Hit-ii. humeral cxw'i'lcinwi selling tilt-tuner locally. Perma—

.. .. .8. 2.04 27 ........ 2.10 (5.48 ‘. acres. ('cai‘ct. .iiiim‘. i)‘ he. , .. - - item Sit at) [am oxllcllm-s‘ mm Wanton, if you mm

‘9'; 2.88 28 ________ 2.34 0.72 1‘o0’ acres pasture an(()l brusyb. (l'i'iceU 291.|lllll(1’).m‘illllst‘)ll{;* GERMAN pulp-(v Shi‘llhi‘l'tl ])11]i])i(>l\'. Milan Black, . lilith' good. " Address at oiicc.‘ giving full particulars

1'04 3” 29 -------- 33% :3: “35... M... *W

2 ‘.3(' 30 ........ xi . ~v f' ' ‘- ‘_' .-. . “- '

1.20 gm; 31 ........ 243 7.44 will prove this to be the best land in Michigan.

1:28 3:84 32 ........ 2,56 7.08 Price $10.00 per acre. Own your farm and be lngiu- INCUBATORS \\'.\\"ri:o l-‘ltl'l’l‘ 'i'itizi-r s.\I.i~:s.\iA.\' Profitable

13'; 4.08 33 ....... 2‘54 7.92 pendent. Write today. “est Branch Land (0.. “mt . _ pleiisulll. >lt':ltl\ “orig. (:ooul sitlc lino tor farms”,

1.44 4.3‘ ' . 8.10 Branch. Michigan. “SWAP" your little old incubator for “New Ohio” lt‘iii'llt‘l',~ iiiid lllllt'l'>. l‘ci'in.iiiciii job tor pond workers.

1.52 4.56 ' . ... 8.40 t. r _ . f .‘ .._ “1,, ., . . quality llalt'llfil‘. llutt-h bigger hatches hatch better Writt- loi- Il’l‘lll‘u I. E. llgciil'i'itz Sons’ (‘0., The

1.00 4.80 . ' . 8.64 llgigorgllirmulyfv Ahili?ft\iiii\ii11~int0311:“511:} lamilovvfiulggrd chicks. Get a bivgei‘. boiler nmchuic. l‘iiusually low Mom-on xiii-«iv Monroe, Mich.

1.08 5.04 :i7 -------- 2-9“ 8-88 etc. 1.11.1“(h.d:‘194 acres convenient. ”my depot town; lll‘ll'esll‘ltiw and liberal allowanccuoi- yours. lot): -Lill, . , . ‘ > . .

1.7:; 5.28 .58 ........ 0.04 9.12 100 211.63 101“le liclds mum”. estimated 15” 000 ft. 400, LOO, 800, lutlt), 1.900 egg tiles. 3o bellei mar um ,\lt)\l‘.l Sciliii: I\cw Household I'leaning Set.

1.84 5.52 39 ........ 3.12 9.30 ‘ p" ‘ . ' .' ‘1, r, '(7. cli'incsnfew as good. Best giiiiraiucc. Big illustrated “yup... “ml (11in. windows. Sweeps, scrubs. mops.

. . i p timbei. sugar bush, variety liuit, substantial .) lOOlll . -. ‘ . ‘. . . ., ,_ 1, .. , y .

1,92 5.70 40 ........ 3.20 9.812 house large bani 2nd barn, poultry “(m-w. Low folder gives lull paitu-ulais. two. .I. “cttst iuiatt, _\|1 mmpII-it- ivillV bills. ()H‘l‘ halt profit. Write

........ 2.00 0.00 41........ 3...8 9. price $2500 for all. only $750 needed. Details pg. Lalzuette. Ind. Il.ll'[|t'l' lru~li “writs, 1..) ..i'd .83., Fitll'llt‘ltl. Iowa.

04 Big lilus. Bargain t‘ataiog. Frt‘t'. Strout Farm “'1‘ l\Y {mo 1 I'll l f 'l (1

Ann 'v. 42"KH Mar licttc Bldg. (‘hica‘rth ll]. . 0 RY ‘1 '- g '— ”"1)l" 5” 4‘11"- lll'm-‘l l'fll' an ex-

REAL ESTATE 9’ 1“ ‘ u ° P ULT llt’llsr's to llllliitlill't' our guaranteed poultry and stock

440»A(‘RE FARM~2 hours di'ive from Detroit on iimwdcrx wh‘r Munozmy hosfil. Springfield. Ill.





TWO FARMS FOR SALE in Barry t‘ouiity. One forty

a'ci'mi. best in State. One 27—aci‘e l'i'uit form. For

pricesuand int'orimition write A. W. Reickard. 122 la.

State Road, Hastings. Mich.





FOR SALE OR TRADE 360 acres of Montana farm.

130 acres plowed. 200 acrcs can be plowed yet. This

is No. 1 wheat land and stock raising country, plenty

of open range for stock. Very healthy climate. Plenty

of good coal and natural gas on this place. also 011

rights go with it for $20 per acre. No debt. Take

part cost or trade for good farm and good buildings.

20 rods from school. Joe Martinehek, R. 2. Custer.

Mich.





*WRITE FOR LIST of Ohio farms. statinkg size and





kind wanted. Ohio Farm Sales (30., Box 244. Belle-

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Write'l'or our free list of good farms. DeCoudres.





Bloomingdale. Mich.





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FOR SALE—3 miles from Lansing. 121 Acres. good

buildings. Owner ill. 8. Hempy. R. 7. Lansing. Mich.





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Grand River Road. t‘an be bought witlror without

Stock and tools. Best land in Livingston county.

Buildings with latest improveiiteiits. ()wnci' will make

great sacrifice for quick sale. before spring work is on.

('an be bought in all or half of the farm. Apply

ROse Shapiro, R. 2. FOWlE‘I'Vllle. Mich.





 





250<ACRE FARM in Emmet (‘0. Iood buildings.

watci'. woven wire fences. Two miles lrom town. t‘an

be bought for less than cost of buildings and fences.

Will sell with or without stock and tools. F. W.

Prowl. Harbor Springs. Mich.





Bil—ACRE FARM For Sale by Owner, item clay loam,

tile drained. Modern buildings, on improved road 8 miles

from Lansing, Mich. Joseph J. Martin. R. 4, Yale,

Mich.





WANTED TO RENT on shares or work by month.

furnished farm by experienced stoekman. H. R.

Coons. 48 Lafayette. Mich.





WANTED—To hear from owner offarm for sale. for

spring delivery. 0. Hawley. Baldwm. Wis.





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lll~ll.l' \VAN'I'ED l'lxpeiicnccd couple for our modern

dam farm in Augusta. Mich. Man must. understand

iccding. milking :llltl cai’ oi" daiiv cattle. and be very

clcaii, and agreeable of disposition. (iood house and

liigli wages for right party. None but first class folks

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em tenant house. Man to be good milk-er. wife to‘

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nished. Apply Barley Stock Farm. Ypsilanti.

WANTED~~Married man by year on farm. Box 77.





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